10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH / XEUSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE. Pfts't ana Editor-in-Chief - . R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper pub- Hi § fßp g nue Bulldl ? g ' c'ago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 21 Courtesy is the eye uhich overlooks your friends' broken gateway, but sees the rose which blossoms in his par gen.—ANON, THIO PRESIDENTS PEACE NOTE PRESIDENT WILSON'S note ask ing the various governments of the warring nations in Europe to state the terms upon which they are willing to make peace is a timely and statesmanlike document. It is difficult to understand how any of the powers will be able to make other than ] a friendly reply, whether or not they arc prepared at this time to state in I concrete terms the least they will | take, or give, in return for the pros- ' peets of a lasting peace. There are already indications that in some quarters the President's pro posals have been regarded as prompted by German influences, but this cannot be substan tiated and even though it were true nobody should object, since the note does not seek to make an immediate peace, but merely to lay a foundation upon which the conflicting interests may stand when the time comes for finally settling their differences. It is apparent that there can be no end to the fighting until each side knows pre cisely what the other isfightingfor.and the note is no more than a polite re quest for information. "What is all this row about?" asks the President. "And what do you hope to get out of it?V Roughly summed up that is the substance of his note. Beyond question, it will serve a use ful purpose from the standpoint of the United States. A belief has been abroad in Germany, and in some of the allied nations, too. how wide spread is not apparent. that the United States is willing that the war shall go on indefinitely; that we on this side have no other thought in mind than the trade we are getting out of it. The President's proposal j should do much to convince Europe of j the good intentions of this country. Peace will bring with it trials and trib- ' ulations greater for the United States. | possibly, than those of the war, but for all that Americans, one and all are for peace, and more than all else, a permanent peace. How strongly former President j Taft's League to Enforce Peace idea j has taken hold of the world is shown by the President's expressed hope that the war will be followed by some such alliance. He is sowing see<J on fertile ground. If ever, now is the time to organize the nations of the world for the prevention of war. Every govern ment in Europe is sick of fighting and every man in the trenches and woman at home would hail as a heaven-sent blessing, any guarantee against a repe- I tition of such frightful slaughter as! has swept the world since German armies first crossed the Belgian fron tier. "Eleven Belgians shot to death after courtmartial." Another evidence of the peaceful, humanitarian methods of the Germans in Belgium. After the war Villa might go recruiting among the officers in charge there. DANIEL S. SEIT3S THE death of Daniel S. Seitz re moves from the municipal life of the State one of its most skilled legal advisors and from the bar 9f Dauphin county a brilliant member. Few men in Pennsylvania I knew more of third-class city legisla tion than Mr. Seitz. His views were consulted by other city solicitors everywhere and he was in constant demand as a speaker at municipal gatherings. He served the city of Harrisburg well for many years and ' saved hundreds of thousands of dollars for the taxpayers in suits before the court. Mr. Seitz was a young man and had before him great possibilities. He had the mind and the training that would have made an excellent Judge of him. and had he lived it is entirely probable that in time he would have been ele vated to the bench of Dauphin county. His affable disposition and his readi ness to serve made for him hosts of friends both in Harrisburg and the State at large who will sincerely mourn his death. Do you remember the time when you searched about for a bit of spruce to decorate your desk on the last day of school before Christmas? RIVERSIDE'S WITHDRAWAL ALL those interested In the growth and development of Harrisburg will regret that Riverside has been discouraged in lis efforts to be come a part of the city. To be sure, there were expenses to be met and •banges to be raide and perhaps some THURSDAY EVENING, debts to be assumed, but so there were also when the Tenth ward came In and again when the Thirteenth ward was annexed. We must expect both to give and to take In mutters of this kind, and quite a lot of giving would have been justifiable in the case of Riverside, which from a tax-producing stand point is far superior to the Tenth ward when it was admitted or the Thirteenth ward when it became a part of Harrisburg. ! Our City Planning Commission has extended its supervisory duties to ! Riverside and beyond. Why? Because ! it was assumed that at no distant day j the suburb would be taken over by the city and now, when it comes knocking at our doors, having fulfilled I the requirements of the municipality and being one of the most desirable j residential districts in all the country i roundabout, we turn our neighbor i away. Eventually Riverside will become a ward of Harrisburg. It is that now in | everything but name. When it does i come in the cost to the city will be far greater than at present. I One of the most notable features oZ | Lloyd George's speech is that he has a full conception of the size of the job lie has undertaken. W. \V. GILCHRIST INTENSE application to a profession that is difficult at best unquestion ably was largely responsible for the untimely death yesterday of W. W. Gilchrist, noted composer, organ ist and chorister, at an Easton hos pital. Dr. Gilchrist was as much be- I loved and as widely known in Har- J risburg as in Philadelphia. His long I and excellent service as conductor of ! the Harrisburg Choral Society en- I deared him to all who heard the de ' liglitful concerts given under his I direction. Dr. Gilchrist was an untiring worker. How he accomplished what he did was a marvel to all who knew him. Of a sensitive, delicate constitu tion he placed himself on the rack of almost incessant and grilling labor, and the penalty was broken health and death at a time when many men j are in their prime. The eminent musician left his mark upon the musical history of Harris-! burg. Not only was the success of the Choral Society largely due to his I ability, but he taught the people of | the city a greater love for good music I and gave the first word of encourage ment and advice to many a discour- J aged young musician. President Wilson is thinking about j the advisability of a protective tariff. We suppose he thinks he dug the idea ; out all by himself. THE HOUSING PROTEST THE protest of the Colored Law and Order League against hous ing conditions in some of the dis tricts largely given over to the uses of the negro population is not without j very good reason. It requires no more than a casual examination of conditions to show that. Nor is Dr. Crampton, as spokesman of the lea gue in a recent newspaper interview, far afield when he says that over crowded houses and unhealthful | surroundings are responsible for much of the crime that exists in those districts. His opinions on this co- j incide most remarkably With an ad- j dress, delivered on the same day that j his views were published, by! Mrs. Booker T. Washington at Plamer { Memorial Institute in Greensboro, X. ; C., when she said: What is said of the colored peo ple and their homes in the country may a well be said of them in their homes in the larger cities. Those owning well-furnished and large, comfortable homes are the select few. If the authorities of the cities would take under con sideration the fact that we are really a part of the bodv politic, and although we are a distinct race with, perhaps, some distinct traits and characteristics, we have inanv things in common with all other citizens of the community, and une of these is a love for family life, a desire and yearning to bring our children up in a wholesome and clean atmosphere, a growing desire to create for ourselves an ideal which impresses itself more and more in decent living, and to en courage such we would have more and better homes In the cities. Colored people should not only be encouraged to build homes, but build them beautiful. I,et the au thorities of the Southern cities build the sidewalks and sewers in front of the colored man's hanie as well as the white man's, if they would encourage beauty and clean liness in colored homes. The white man of America is ahead of all other men in and out of America, because his devotion to beautiful homes, wife and children ever in spires him to greater and higher life. Then if the white man would help to further elevate the colored race, let him aid in the encouraging of greater respect for his family and the providing of comfortable and beautiful homes in the country as well as in the cities, with cleanli ness a guiding word in every step forward. Mrs. Washington is correct in the main and errs only in that the negro is no better situated than many a white man of far larger means, in that he is, for one reason or another, in no position to build for himself the kind of house he would like to have. It remains for the cities the big, broad men of the cities, we mean, with the time and the means at their command—to remedy this crying evil. The housing conditions of Harrisburg, for example, is a matter for public shame. It menaces the health and the contentment of the whole city. The germ trail of the slum leads everywhere. Disease bred In the quarters were families live more like beasts than men, spreads rapidly to more well-to-do sections, if you want to take a purely selfish view of it, and crime and anarchy are bred in such places. There is no bigger work before the State and the local gov ernment to-day than that of provid ing proper housing facilities for white and black alike. Every man and woman has a right to his or her share of sunshine. Every boy and girl has a right to his or her share of good fresh air. What ■boots it if we pay hundreds of thou sands of dollars to give all the people pure drinking water, and if we pay more thousands to protect their milk, and if we keep our streets free of dirt so that bacteria may not breed; what boots it if wo do all this and then let A GOLFER'S IDEA OF A REGULAR SANTA CLAUS : : : : By BRIGGS hundreds of those people live in wretchedness and squalor for the sake of the few paltry dollars the careless owners are able to wrest from them in rent? "JofTre Retires."—Newspaper head line. Maybe, but not enough to hurt much. Death is no respecter of seasons. *"po£tttC4. Ut | By the Ex-Commlttecman The name of Representative Aaron B. Hess, of Lancaster, turned up in the contest for the Republican nomin ation for speaker of the lower house of tho Legislature to-day when it was intimated that the Lancaster man in stead of being for either Cox or Bald win, would be asking support of friends among legislators for himself. Mr. Hess, who succeeded Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain as the member from the city of Lancaster, was talked of as a possible candidate for speaker months ago, and if the Baldwin candidacy had not made such headway it is likely that he would have entered the race. Mr. Hess has declined to say where he stands and the five votes of Lancaster are claimed by both Baldwin and Cox. A statement by S. R. Tamer, of Pittsburgh, prominent in the Order of Railroad Conductors, attacking Bald win's vote for the full crew repealer, came here to-day and was received with mixed feelings about the Capitol owing to the fact that Edwin It. Cox, the State administration's candidate, voted the same way. At the Baldwin headquarters it was declared that the attacks being made upon the Dela ware man by James 11. Maurer, mem ber from Reading, and various men connected with the mine workers' Or ganizations were being offset by as surances from individual workers that they resented being used in a fac tional scrap. —Attaches of the State government who will start to go home fpr Christ mas to-night are being given quiet tips that anything they can do to help line up their home members of the House in behalf of the Governor's speaker ship candidate and his legislative pro gram will be appreciated. There is nothing unusual in this. It has been done many times before when a fight was on. and it is to the credit of a good many men in the depart ments that they have voluntarily of fered their services. A number of •men from up State counties were call ed gn the carpet yesterday and told to get busy when at home and a spe cial drive is being made by the Ad ministration forces to secure at least one vote from Tioga for Cox. —Governor Brumbaugh's decision to retain Banking Commissioner Wil liam H. Smith, when it had been wide ly announced by his political advisers that the veteran chief would be asked to give way to a younger man, is said to .have been the result of energetic protests by mail, telegraph and tele phone from some of his closest friends in Philadelphia. Several of these men. who were personal friends before the Governor got Into State politics, strongly urged him not to permit the Banking Department to be even men tioned in the present fuss. In addi tion protests came from all parts of the State In such volume and from j such people that the Governor resisted [ the advice of political friends and did not ask the resignation as had been proclaimed he intended to do. Mr. Smith left for home yesterday after j noon. He has been 111, but every dav j has been in telephone touch with the department and all reports go to him. Whether he will be forced out later on is a matter of speculation. The Governor, however, Is standing by him now against considerable political pressure. —Representative Ed-win R. Cox. ac companied by ex-Representative Dan iel J. Shern, spent yesterday In Fay ette county endeavoring to get mem bers of the House to line tip for the Philadelphlan. Mr. Cox said that he was well satisfied with the outlook and that his election was a certainty. He will operate In other western counties while Congressman John R. K. Scott works in the anthracite region, where he is lining up the labor people against Baldwin. —An attuck upon the candidacy of Hlchard J. Baldwin for his course on local option Is said to be under way among HOIUO of the Governor's friends. An attempt to offset the candidacy of HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH George W. Williams, the Tioga county "dry" member, will be made by local option friends of the Governor. —Congressman W. S. Yare last night issued a blistering statement in reply to some Penrose and McNichol fulmi natlons against the Governor, es pecially the charge that the Governor is He charges 'that Pen rose an Miver brought about Hughes' defeat and says that Penrose is also an ingrate. The speech caused much comment in Philadelphia because it charged faclionul war to Penrose. —Newspapers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh contain protests tiled with the Governor against the removal of Commissioner Smith. It is not ad mitted at the Governor's office that any have been received. —Senator Penrose held a confer ence with friends in Washington yes terday and went to Philadelphia to day. He will be here next week. —null Moose legislators are de manding that the Governor name A. Nevln Detrich superintendent of pub lic printing and binding right away. The administration is holding off as long as possible, as it Is intimated that E. J. Lafferty, of Philadelphia, is be ing strongly backed. —lt is said that Representative Nel son McVicar, of Allegheny, has been quietly visiting members friendly to him in the west and that his name may go into the caucus. —The Baldwin headquarters were J visited by a number of legislators, anions: them Corbin, of Mifflin; Spang ler, of York, and Powell and Thomas, of Luzerne. Baldwin announced last night that he has gained one vote since Tuesday and now has 111, and lie ex pects to run it up to 120 before the week is out. To-day the 41 legislators elect from Philadelphia will meet in the head quarters of the Republican city com mittee and draw lots for their seats in the House. William E. Finley, execu tive director of the committee, issued the call for the meeting and William S. Leib, resident clerk of the House, will conduct the drawing. It is ex pected that efforts will be made to sound out the sentiment among the legislators as to their attitude on the speakership fight. Both factions have disclaimed, however, that any political ='s-'niticance was attached to the meet ing. bits ot the Out o' Doors Through the Snow! Are yuli longin' to feel like a thing made o' steel Full o' vigor an' snap an' go? Then ferget yer cold chills and the old doctor bills— Let's go out fer a plough through the snow! Yer growin' plain fat in yer steam heated ' llat — Go pull on a pair o' old boots. That tig, easy chair's a delusion an' snare! Old Age an' that seat's in cahoots! Get into yer coat—Shucks! why bundle yer throat?— Yuh act like it's fifteen below! Sure, the wind's gona bite—it's no warm summer night— We're off fer a plough through the mow! There's plenty o' light—it's full moon to-night— Through the lields! Let's pass up the road— Here gimme a lift! I'm stuck in a drift! It's not only snowed, man; It's blowed: Gone five miles anyway?—O, 'bout three 1 would say— Vhat! wnnta hit back fer the fire! O, sure, if yuh say—l was jest under way— (Pst! Between you and me I'm a liar!). Business Briefs i The location of a dozen farm loan banks will be announced In a few days. The peace move has had no effect on the d-mand for steel. A Philadelphia Stock Exchange seat sold yesterday for $3,500. Oklahoma announces another 10 per cent, rise in the price of Sinclair oil. Paper to the value of $40,000,000 was exported from the United States the past year. A Citizen's Obligation [From the Kansas City Star.] General Scott, chief of staff of the army, is not one of those patriots who think an untrained volunteer armv of Americans, drawn hastily from civil life, armed with anything handy and rushed to the country's defense could meet on equal terms the trained and disciplined armies of foreign military powers. The chief of staff says quite frankly that if the National Guard, I NEW MARK TWA THE following new Mark Twain stories have been dug up by Al bert Bigelow Paine, the famous humorist's biographer, anl printed here by courtesy of Harper & Bros. God KnouN Where One evening a few years ago Brander Matthews and Francis Wilson were din ing together at the Players' Club, of | New York, when the former made the j suggestion that they write a letter to Mark Twain. "But," objected Mr. Wil son, "we don't know where he Is," for it was at the time when Mr. Clemens was away traveling somewhere. "Oh," said Professor Matthews, "that does not make any difference. It is sure to ilnd him. I think he is some place in Eu rope, so we had better put on a 5-cent stamp." So the two sat down and com posed a letter which they addressed to MARK TWAIN, God Knows Where. In due time they received a reply from Mr. Clemens which said briefly, "He did." Then someone sent a letter addressed, "The Devil Knows Wherfi," which also reached him, and he answer ed, "He did, too." How They Start It is said that the first paragraph Mark Twain wrote when he began his editorial duties with the Virginia City Enterprise was this: "A beautiful sunset made Beranger a poet, a mother's kiss made Benjamin West an artist, and sls a week makes us a journalist." Mark Twain Drolleries Some maxims of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," that later creation of Mark Twain's hu morous fancy, deserve immortality. For quaint association of Incongruous ideas and shrewd insight into weak human nature, they are unique. For example: "The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and en during a nature that it will last through a lifetime if not asked to lend money." " 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read." "The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." "The truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't." "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." "It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races." "The English are mentioned Ih the Bible: 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall Inherit the earth.'" "April 1. This is the day which we j are reminded of what we are on the | other 361." "Why is it that wo rejoice at a birth i and grieve at a funeral? It is because! we are not the person involved." "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." "When in doubt, tell the truth." : The Original llnrher Story One <lay Mark Twain was being shav ed by a very talkative barber and was forced to listen to many of the barber's anecdotes. Stopping to strop his razor, and pre pared, brush in hand, to commence again, the barber said: "Shall 1 go over It again?" "No thanks," drawled Mark. "It's hardly necessary. 1 think I can remem ber every word." Doing TlilngK Wrong In bachelor days Mark Twain had heartily expressed the antipathy of bachelordom for all chambermaids be- | cause of their hostile Ideas of tidiness. trained under the provisions of the na- [ tiunai defense act, which requires only i seventy-five days' training In three years, should be employed in actual ! was service it would take six months' t firing line experience to make soldiers I of them. There is, of course, only one way to | avoid the dangers of this kind of elev enth hour training for the nation's ae- I fenders and that way, as General Scott ' points out, is to compel every Ameri can citizen of military age and physi- I cal titness to take a soldier's training lin time of peace. He owes that servico I to his country, the General says, quite |as much as he owes other forms of > taxes which he pays In money. It is the only fair and Just way of raising an army of defense. It distributes the obligation equally on all shoulders. Compulsion, which is always a reserved power of the Government, and which l would be exercised in case of necessity, ] would fall less heavily on civil society if Americans were prepared to perform military service than If they were hur ried, untrained, into camps of war. Perhaps It Is not generally understood that the Constitution and laws of the country already provide for compulsory military service. Every citizen capable of bearing arms may be drafted. But what is not provided for Is compulsory training, and there lies the futal weak ! ness of conHcrlptlon as now provided | for. Conscription without training is worse than any of the terrors of war which the pacifists have dwelt on. It means lives thrown away without serv- i Jing the nation's defense. DECEMBER 21, 1916. "They always put the pillow on the opposite end of the bed from the gas burner," he wrote, "so that while you rend and smoke before sleeping, as is the ancient and honorable custom of bachelors, you have to hold your book aloft, In an uncomfortable position to | keep the light from dazzling your eyes. I If they cannot get the light in an in | convenient position any other way, they move the bed. They always put your books into Inaccessible places. They al ways put the matchbox in some other place. They hunt up a new place for it every day, and put up a bottle or other perishable glass things where the box stood before. This is to cause you to break that glass thing. They always save up all the old scraps of printed rubbish you have thrown on the floor and stand them carefully on the table I and start the fire with your valuable MSS." Degrees and Degree* In ISBB Mark Twain received from Yale College the degree of master of arts, and the same college made him a j doctor of literature in 1901. A vear later the university of his own State, at Columba, Mo., conferred the same de gree, and then, in 1907, Oxford tendered him the doctor's robe. "I don't know why they should give me a degree like that," he said, quaint ly. "I never doctored any literature; I wouldn't know how." Getting Back nt Him Mark Twain once asked a neighbor If he might borrow a set of his books. The neighbor replied, ungraciously, that lie was welcome to read them in his li brary, but he had a rule never to let his books leave his house. Some weeks later the same neighbor sent over to usk for the loan of Mark Twain's lawn mower. "Certainly," said Mark, "but since I make it a rule never to let it leave my lawn you will be obliged to use it there." Mark Twain on Smoking In his speech on his seventieth anni versary, Mark Twain said: "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smok ing." "I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; 1 wake up in the ni&lit, some times once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times, and I never waste any of I these opportunities to smoke. This habit i is so old and dear and precious to mfe | that I would feel as you. sir, would feel ] if you should lose the only moral you're | got—meaning the chairman—lf you've j got one. I am making no charges. I will | grant here, that I have stopped smok | ing now and then, for a few months at | a time, but it was not on principle, it | was only to show off; it was to pulver j ize those critics who said I was a slave ! to my habits and couldn't break ray bonds. "To-day it Is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me. I have always bought cheap cigars—reasonably cheap, at any I rate. Sixty years ago they cost me $4 j a barrel, but my taste lias improved, latterly, and I pay seven now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes, it's seven. But that Includes the barrel. I often have smoking parties at my house; but the people that come here have always I just taken the pledge. I wonder why i.that is?" , I OUR DAILY LAUGH HIS COST OF Wry LIVING. What do you give for Christ - 1 give up and give In and my wife gives out SPECIALTY. i Jones doesn't vaX. M cut much ice as a skater, does *4-y wßj break* a lot of Ibemttg (Eljat Between the speakership contest and the meeting of tho State Educational Association Harrisburg will be a lively place next week, and If there are any vacant rooms in any of the hotels they will be at a premium. The big new hotel would be a mighty useful thing to have next week. There will be about 2,000 teachers and men and women interested in education hero next week for tho educational meeting, which will have an important bear ing upon legislation pertaining to school affairs, and the presence of ex-President Tuft will be an event of first importance. The speakership con test will bring many men here earlier 1 than usual for the opening of a legis lative session and there will be numer ous headquarters .staffs and plenty of men Interested in legislative affairs to see how the members line up. Then, too, Harrisburg will have its usual list of holiday week functions and there will be much doing. ♦ * ♦ It's remarkable how many people are buying Christmas greens and mistletoe despite the high prices be ing asked, in hundreds of windows throughout the city holly wreaths tied with big red bows are to be seen hang ing and on every street car can be seen from one to half a dozen men or women taking bits of green home. Prices this year are the highest ever quoted and for a really good looking holly wreath 40 cents is not an excep tional price to be paid. Christmas trees, too, arc selling at anywhere from 75 cents to several dollars, but they do not seem to lie going so fast, many people evidently waiting until the last minute, hoping they will come down in price. ♦ * • Not all the money received by Har risburgers from Christmas savings funds was spent for Christmas pres ents this year, according to a well known downtown banker. More than 60 per cent, of the money issued in Christinas checks has been placed in the bank at interest, he says, and more is expected after December 25, when folks know just how much they can afford to "salt" away after all the purchases have been made. * # • Harrisburg liremen for the second time this week had a pleasant (?) cold weather job after lighting llres at which they had to lay more than a thousand feet of hose in a single line to get a stream of water. On Monday morning after the lire at. the Central Iron and Steel Company plant some of the water froze in the sections of hose, causing the tlremen several hours' work thawing out the ice and drying the hose. The same thing occurred at Highspire when the Harrisburg boys were called there. On cold days it Is almost impossible to prevent some of the water from freezing before the hose can be taken back to the engine house and dried. "Every time I do this," complained one fireman as ho stopped to warm his lingers, "I wonder why in heck I'm opposed to a paid department." * • The fuss over ash cans which mark ed last week calls to mind a story told by one of the old-time residents of this city who "reminisced" of the days before the water works was built. In those days, said he, water was fur nished by wells, some of which were only filled up twenty-five years ago: from springs which have been turned into city sewers these many years and from the river which was not polluted by sewage and knew not the contam inating sulphur from tho coal mines nor the destroying wastes from fac tories. Certain men had routes for sale of drinking -water and one cranky individual who used to draw water from a place on the river near the big island got the cream of the trade. He finally got more and more arbi- • trary but because of the water ho supplied, which was supposed to come from some spring in the riverbed, he held his business. Finally he said that he would not permit any dipping from his barrels unless people did it with buckets which he offered to sell. Everyone owned a rowboat in those days and the monopoly went to smash in short order. • * * Dr. Clarence ,T. Marshall, the State veterinarian, whose humor is as joy ous as that of State librarian Mont gomery, Is out with a new form of much used proverb. We have all heard that "a whistling girl and a crowing hen will come to a bad end" and the converse "A girl that whistles and a hen that crows will make their way wherever they go." But listen to this new version designed especially for farmers which the learned author ity on cows, sheep and horses has to give: "Whistling girls and good fat sheep are the best property a farmer can keep." • * * Frederick E. Bower, of Lewishurg, who was here yesterday to secure a pardon for a client, which he did, created considerable amusement when lie remarked In opening his speech that the first and last time he had appeared before the board was in 1883. "I came to protest against a commutation, but it was granted, f am here this time to get a pardon," said he. rWELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Judge A. S. Swartz, of Montgom ery county courts, is ill with a heavy cold and his colleagues are also ill. -_E. T. Stotesbury is planning to act as Santa to a number of poor children. —N T . It. Turner lias been appointed United States commissioner for the Easton district. —N. A. Whitten, senator elect, who has been 111, but who will come here anyway, was a member of the last House. He is a steel inspector in the Pittsburgh district. —David ,T. Davies, city solicitor of Scranton. adjutant of the Seventh Di vision, will be home from the border in a short time to resume his work. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes special steels l'or baby coach springs? HISTORIC HARRIHBVRG The first church in Harrisburg was at Third and Cherry. "You Always Pay" [Kansas City Star.] "You always pay, you know," said the forger, Whiteman, who was cap tured last week in Cincinnati after years of liberty as a fugitive from Justice. Sure you do. Whether you violate man's law, or Nature's law, which Is another name for God's law, you al ways have to pay, and the full price, too. Some pay, as Whiteman did, In dodging and slinking through the world like a hunted beast, his mind worried, his face *radually taking on a furtive look, knowing always that somewhere ahead lay the steel-jawed trap all set and ready. Some pay with broken health: oth ers with broken hearts; some surren der friends.and love; some give all in life worth living for: some cast their conscience to be gnawed by the wolves of remorse: some not only pay their own share in full, but shift part of the burden to their children, and their children's children, even to the third and fourth generation: for the debt must be paid to the last farthing.
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