6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded Itjl Published evenings except Sunday by | THE TELKGRAFH PRINTING CO., I Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 35. J. STACKPOLE .Pres't ana Editor-in-Cliief 2'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American syivania As9°ciat | rue Building. New 1 — cago, Illf' Entered at the Post Office In Harrfs burg, Pa., as second class matter. ..By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, |3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1 When you can't remove an obstacle, plow around it. — LINCOLN. A REPUBLICAN PROTEST HAVING just passed through the period of "peace on earth, good will to men," it is the hope of Republicans who have no ax to grind —just the plain, everyday voting and working Republicans—that the mis guided gentlemen who are doing their level best to permanently disable the party will hear above their own racket the roar of protest which is going up from every quarter of the State. If the party as a party, however, has no further good to accomplish, if its record of great usefulness is at an end, then there is no occasion to wor ry over the spectacle of factional dis sension which is arousing the anger and contempt of thousands of loyal party men all over the State. Letters received by the Telegraph heartily commend a recent editorial, published in this newspaper under the caption, "Party Foolishness," refer ring to the silly rumpus over the speakership of the House. "You never wrote a better one," says one writer, a stalwart Republican; "terse and to the point, every word of it true; others have been thinking the same things; others who have the good of their party at heart have been deploring this foolish quarrel." These letters are simply the expres sion of a deep-seated feeling among Republicans that the time has come to stop making a football of the party. Philadelphia is an important city find its large Republican vote is use ful in augmenting the strength of the party organization, but unless and until the factions in the metropolis of the Commonwealth learn that the party at large has no interest in set tling old scores there will be no peace. Let the Pliiladclphians shinny on their own ground. It is unfair to annoy the rest of tho State and involve in the scrimmage the great body of the,' party which has absolutely 110 interest in the unseemly wrangle. Skating at Wildwood is doubtless all Tight, but do you remember the de lights of skating to Clark's Ferry on the old canal? THE NEW YEAH WHEN the poet wrote of the New Year: "Ring out the old, Ring in the new; Ring out the false, Ring in the true,'' he did not have 1917 in mind. The New Y'ear promises little re lief from the abnormal conditions in which we lived during 1916. interna tional peace is not only nowhere in sight, but we as a nation, are closer to participation in tho great European conflict than wo were a year ago. The efforts of President Wilson toward a cessatyan of hostilities has been mis understood at every turn—perhaps in tentionally so In some quarters—and ir Germany launches the underseas campaign of which there have been threats wo shall most certainly be drawn Into the war. On the .other liand, if Germany or the Allies should suddenly yield sufficiently to offer peace terms upon which an agreement could be reached wo in America would be plunged into Industrial chaos at once, confusing and disastrous to labor and capital. Which ever way the cat jumps the United States, in all .probability, will be tho sufferer In a financial way, at least. But not alone with relation to the European situation does the govern ment find itself beset by doubt and uncertainty unpleasant to contem plate. The Mexican situation is bor dering 011 nn open break with Car ranza. Villa is becoming stronger tvery day. The maintenance of order along the border is a more serious problem now than it was when the troops were summoned to the Rio (Jratide last summer, and the details there arc being reduced gradually. While these things are transpiring with respect to our policies as they re late to foreign nations, domestic con ditions are not improving, to say the least. While wages are going up by leaps and bounds the high cost of liv ing keeps constantly a lap or two In advance, and it is a question if the average wage earner is not in worse condition now than he was when jirices and wages were both lower. Work, It is true, is plentiful, but the Industries of the country are feeding on a very perishable food supply. They are eating of the plentitude now *t hand, but what they will do when tho war manna is exhausted none can tell. The national administration is ilke an ostrich with its head in the •and, safe enough for the present, but MONDAY EVENING, * making >lO preparations for tho in dustrial tornado that is to follow the resumption of peace in Europe. We are even less prepared for peace to day than we were for war in 1914, and the President and Congress show no disposition to give tho matter the thought it deserves. Another serious prospect is that of continued disturbances between the railroads and the brotherhoods. As all thoughtful persons foresaw, the Atlamson law has not solved the eight hour dispute. What tho outcome will be nobqdy at present can foresee. The possibility of a railroad strike is as alarming a reality to-Gay as it was before the eight-hour legislation halt ed the trouble temporarily. On the other hand, there is encour agement in finding the people of the country thinking beyond their mere material prosperity and preferring I even the trials and tribulations that must be met in America, following a declaration of peace, to a continuance of the frightful tragedy in Europe. This is tho best tradition that the old year has left to tho new—that we in America have learned to think more in terms of love and justice than in those of the dollar, that we are living up to the principles upon which the nation was founded and that wo lay aside purely selfish considerations in resolving to stand for the greatest number, regardless of the boundaries of nation or of continent. The new year will bring its suffer ings and Its trials, but it will bring also its opportunity for service world wide in Its scope, and if we as a na tion live up to the high ideals in which a majority of the people earn estly believe and for which they would strive under any and all cpndi tions, wc shall approach its conclusion with more of satisfaction than we did the end of 1916. The Allies seem bent in serving up the dove of peace as a New Year's roast. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM WHEN the momentous question of who's who in the Legisla ture shall liavo been deter mined this week, the Republican lead ers who have been rapping each other and incidentally giving much hope and comfort to the political enemy might engage in the more profitable business of outlining a legislative pro gram that will appeal to the people. Their ears to the ground, they should 'be able to ascertain without great ef fort that there is no demand any where for more legislation. Two years ago Governor Brumbaugh and Lieu tenant Governor McClain clearly inter preted public opinion in their formal addresses when they declared that Pennsylvania was surfeited with laws and that instead of increasing the number the statutory indigestion should be cured by wholesale repeal of manj' acts now cumbering the legal volumes. Codification of some laws has improved the situation, but there is still room for improvement and real reform in tills direction. Those familiar with the processes of legislation would be doing the State a distinct service by placing the lid firmly upon the half-baked proposals thrown into the hopper at the beginning of every session and which should not even have consideration in commit tee. Many bills are introduced as mere fads without any popular de mand and with no justification what ever. Such measures ought never to find their way to the calendars, and negative committee recommendations should be the rule. In this way only can the deluge of legislative nostrums and panaceas be held back at the source. Also of primary importance is the short session. Unless and until the lawmakers realize tltat the real busi ness of the biennial meeting can be more efficiently transacted in a few weeks, instead of months, there will be the usual waste of time without rea son or excuse. Already the people have grown weary of tho factional controversy and they will not be pa tient with a prolonged washing of dirty party linen. The Telegraph believes much will bo forgiven should it be settled once and for all this week that the session shall be short, business-like and devoted en tirely to the people's business. Repub lican leaders In tho Legislature owe a duty to the party. Will they measure up to their responsibility? Keeping open house on New Year's Day is a mighty dry custom in the pro hibition States. IIISTOKY REPEATS ONE may suspect that King j George, Emperor William and j various other of the warring rulers, whoso disfcordant views occupy so much space in the newspapers these days, might be induced to agree at least on the old year sentiment of Robert Burns, written away back in 1788, but quite applicable from the standpoint of all of them to the year which came to such a noisy conclusion last night. Burns wrote at the year's end: O Eighty-eight, in thy sma' space. What dire events have taken place! Of what enjoyments thou has reft us! In what a pickle thou has left us. Working on a holiday is one of the joys of newspaper publishing. HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S JOB COUNCIL has cut out a big job for the City Health Department In voting to have it inaugurate itß own system of ash collections, but it has done about the only thing left to do under the conditions. The con tracting firm has failed lamentably. The city was on the point of open rebellion against# a system that com pelled householders to permit none but the authorized collectors to take away ashes and then found no way to compel these collectors to perform their duties. The task imposed upon the Health Department is not one that can be accomplished in a day. Dr. Raunick, under whose direction the work is to be done, must outline a system of routes, must hire teams sufficient to clear ud the accumulations now piled high in hundreds of back yards and must devote his first attention to bring ing the collections up to date before lie can undertake to keep them so. The likelihood is that tho differ ences between Council and the con tractor will end in a lawsuit. The ex pense of collecting the ashes by the city will be charged up to tho con tractor and it is extremely likely that a legal dispute will be raised on this score. However, whatever tho out come, Council was not only Justified in the radical step it took on Saturday, but compelled to act as it did in the interest of taxpayers. The only won der is that it waited so long. Happy New Year! fcK *ptivKOi|tca>uaf By the Ex-Committeeman The Meetings | Allegheny county caucus at 2:30 • p. 111. Democratic House caucus, Capitol, at 8 p. m. Republican House caucus, Capital, at 9 p. m. Senatorial caucus meetings, Capitol, 9 p. m. Both houses of legislature meet for organization at noon Tuesday. Whether the contest for the speak ership of the House of Representa tives which will meet at noon to-mor row for organization will be carried beyond to-night's caucus and whether the Democrats would get into a fight over their speakership nomination and stage a sideshow of their own were questions which were interesting the whole State to-day. Indeed, judging from newspaper comment, telegrams and telephone messages coming here and the numerous men active in poli tical lifo who throng the hotels, there is more interest in the speakership contest in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other cities than here. Harris burg is used to these battles, although the virulence of statements which has marked the present rumpus is some thing unknown in the State Capital since 1895. Underlying all the comment and discussion of the contest among men who observe politics and play it is general expression of the uselessness of the present row, while up-State men declare their weariness of being harrowed up every time there is a break in Philadelphia. —Following Saturday night's ex change of vitriolic statements between Senator Penrose and Attorney Gen eral Brown and Governor Brum baugh's sudden dismissal of Banking Commissioner Smith there was calm for a lew hours, but Harrlsburg woke up to find walls, fences, billboards, poles and even surfaces of streets plastered with placards assailing Bald win in terms that recalled the days when men considered verbal brickbats tho proper Weapons in polities. 111 the evening the Baldwin people did some posting of placards on their own hook. —Senator Penrose led off last night with a statement in which lie declared that instead of the State administra tion helping the Republican ticket the defeat of congressmen and legislators j by Democrats was due to the work of I certain people in the Capitol. It was a severe arraignment and also banged Congressman John R. K. Scott, field marshal of the Cox forces, and the At torney General. Senator Vare made a retort showing that Philadelphia had been true 1o colors, but the Allegheny county administration leaders were silent. —Governor Brumbaugh renewed l.is appeals to the people against Baldwin and assailed the management of the Republican party in this State by its titular leaders. —Some minor interchanges followed and people went to bed thanking their; stars that the end of the muss was in ! sight. The Philadelphia Ledger sum-1 med up the fight as "A war of epithets I —but who cares?" —Henry Gransbaclc, the "father of the House" has issued the Republican caucus call and expects to call It to order on the dot. Only members and accredited newspapermen will be ad mitted. —W. E. Tobias, the unsuccessful! candidate for Congress in the Clear-' field district, is going to' contest the election of Congressman Rowland. Rowland had a hard row to hoe ami there were charges made that he did not get loyal support. —Ex-Speaker George E. Alter rs here greeting many friends and look ing on. He is for Baldwin as the best fitted man. —Congressman S. Taylor* North, chairman of the appropriations com mittee in the stormy days of 1913, says the fight Is worth staying here to see. —"Good Roads" Jones, now a Sena tor, was a prominent figure about the Capitol and was greeted by many friends. —Congressman-elect T. W. Tcmpie ton, of Luzerne, says he is certainly enjoying things here. —The demand for the resignation of I Banking Commissioner Smith was the I theme of much conversation about the I hotel corridors and there was general I regret that he had been asked to go because tho place is desired for a younger and more active man. Sharp criticism of the Governor was voiced in many quarters, but his frionds de fended him by saying that in an emergency he was entitled to all the I patronage he could Ret. An offer of the place to Gabriel H. Mo.ver, of Leb anon, was reported, but it was turned down hard. —The Philadelphia mercantile ap praisers were reappointed Saturday except Edward Devlin, Senator Pen rose's friend, who was replaced by Prank J. Ryan. ■ —Major Merrick, former Senator from Tioga, is here and renewing old acquaintances and also having much entertainment as he always does. The major lias a fund of anecdotes of poli tics that makes one forget, work anil worry. —The contest lias brought to the city over a score of newspapermen, i some of them the best posted men 011! | politics in Pennsylvania. . | —News of the death of ex-Senator j E. 1. Phillips, of Newcastle, came as! a shock to many friends in the Legls- I lature. He was 65 years of age and' served four years, as a Senator. —Daniel J. Shern, an ardent Cox boomer, circulated among old friends in the Legislature who recalled the days when Shorn and Congressman Scott used to say things about each other on tho floor and then eat lunch together. —Numerous Delaware countians fame here to-day to greet Baldwin and to root for him. —Senator Penrose took dinner with I the Allegheny countians last night! and it created something of a panic among Cox men, who hurriedly count ed up their strength. Allegheny is in a strategetlc position. —William Dawson, of Scranton, former chtef clerk to the banking commissioner, is hero meeting his HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 When a Feller Needs a Friend . BVBRIGGS j many friends. Mr. Dawson is the father of Itcpresentative Hugh Daw son, the livewirc of the Lackawanna contingent. —The complacency of Herr Sarig, i the Temple squire who aspired to a smooth roud to the Democratic speak ership nomination, was jarred badly by other Democrats who were afraid Sarig, if named for speaker, would in sist on making speeches. —Leo N. Mitchell, the Punxsu tawney lawyer, will be the floor leader for the administration forces, it is un derstood. He is a nephew of ex-Sena tor "Jim" Mitchell. —Democratic State Chairman Guf fey made a great discovery this morn ing in his "news from Pittsburgh" and it furnished much amusement for the crowds. Guffey was going to carry Pennsylvania and do other things last fall and made other discoveries. —Ex-Speaker Clfarles A. Ambler, of 1 Montgomery, was busy about the Cox headquarters and his smile was as broad as ever. —Representative Miles A. Milliron, of Armstrong, claimed by the Cox managers shattered the story by a blunt statement for Baldwin. —Representative A. B. Hess of Lan caster, was a much talked about man to-day and seemed to have no objec ! tions about it. —The Anti-Saloon League used to be prominent in speakership contests in years gone by and its old-time men were trench fighters from the start of speakership booms. Dominion To the Invaders. (Josepliine Preston Peabody, in Harvest Moon.) Lords of disaster, waiting still to reap New glory for the dooms that you have sown, New glorv for the ruin, stone on stone. I And bleeding tribute wrung from them that weep; , _ Great is your faith, above the watch you keep. Till there shall spring some vistage of your own Out of the tilth of blood and teurS And trodden breath still crying from the deep! Yet, lords of famine, one gift late dis cerned, But still a triumph and a dwelling place- One master work of might Is surely done. Only your chosen way could so have earned _ , , The men and brothers of the Belgian race | Their everlasting stronghold in the sun, Making Better Americans (Kansas City Star) The assignment of a United States army officer to institute a plan of mili tary training in the high schools of Kansas City ought to he welcomed by every parent. Wherever the plan has been tried it has been a success ful aid to teachers and has overcome all opj>osition. In Washington, where there was opposition at llrst, it has soon shown that the emulative spirit among the boys in striving for drill honors made better students of them, for only the boys who stand high in their studies get the coveted places in the drill corps. Besides, parents wore convinced of Its all around help fulness in training their sons. Co-operation between the board of education and the parents in giving the plan a triul will quickly demonstrate its value in every boy who takes the Instruction. Its value to the country and to the spirit of nationalism and democracy cannot be questioned. H I'PV JfRW YEAR M y Wluk Dinger | Who e'er you be, where e'er you are ' I stretch my hand to you i Across the space that Ilea between For handshake warm and true— I wish for you and all yours, friend, A year of joy serene. And health and wealth that know* no bounds, Through nineteen wsstsen. PAPER HOPE HOW to conserve the paper supply is engaging some of the best minds in America to-ri jy. A few years ago it was the conservation of the forests; then it was the conserva tion of the soil and a few other things. To-day it is paper. The American Newspaper Publishers' Asociation lias sent bulletins to every State and city and town in the country urging tiiat everybody, old and yoang, save all the scraps of paper that come into their hands. A. Traub. manager of the Kansas City Waste Paper Com pany, says the situation can be saved only by the children. A children's cru sade, he says, should be inaugurated to see that not a scrap of any kind of pa per is wasted. "I mention the children," he said to day, "because they are not too old to be taught new tricks. Already there are hundreds of Kansas City school chil dren saving and selling waste f paper. They are learning to sort It according to grade, for they know that a single piece of low grade paper in a bundle of high grade paper is apt to qualify the entire bundle for the low grade price instead of the high grade price. "There is a wide difference between the prices we pay for the highest and lowest grades. There is a wide differ ence, too, in the prices paid for paper 10-day and that paid a year ago. Al though the price had begun going up a year ago, we are paying double to day wha>t we gave at this time last year. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 In our role of peacemaker we might induce Mexico to sign a treaty with herself. —Wall Street Journal. The Greeks appear to enjoy all the rigors of war without any of its moral benefits.—New York Sun. Roumania probably could be arrested for what it thinks ot the statesman who got it into war.—Kansas City Star. Texas is making sausage from jack rabbit meat and we expect to hear any time that food his taken another jump. —Boston Transcript. The Central Powers have subdued Roumania, Belgium, Servla and Monte negro, but San Marino stiil holds out. —New York Morning Telegraph. - If! If all who liate would love us. And all our loves were true, The stars that swing above us Would brighten In the blue; If cruel words were kisses, And every scowl a smile, A better world than this is Would hardly be worth while; If purses would not tighten To meet a brother's need, The load we bear would lighten Above the grave of greed. If those who whine would whistle, And those who languish laugh, The rose would rout the thistle, The grain outrun the chaff; If hearts were only Jolly, If grieving were forgot, And tears of melancholy Were things that now are not. Then love would kneel to duty. Then all the world would seem A bridal bower of beauty, A dream within a dream. If men would cease to worry, And women cease to sigh. And all be glad to bury Whatever has to die; If neighbor spake to neighbor. As love demands of all. The rust would eat the saber. The spear stay on the wall; Then every day would glisten And every eye would shine, And Cod would pause and listen. And l\fe would be divine, •—Washington Star. I * JANUARY 1, 1917. I hesitate to give out definite prices, be cause so many misunderstand. It Is true tliat we pay $1.50 for high grade magazine paper and even more than tiiut (or linen letter paper—a good deal more when it comes to us clean. We give on an average of fifty cents and a dollar for newspapers and magazines, delivered neatly tied, here. But when our wagons have to go a long distance for a small load of papers, the price is naturally cut in half. Papers are not easy to handle. AVe are a long way from a large paper mill, and tlieso things mililate against our ability to pay top prices for waste paper. But at that the collecting of waste paper pays. "I said there were hundreds of chil dren saving and selling waste paper. There ought to be thousands —a hun dred thousand in Kansas City, and there ought to be at least one in every home The Star goes into, whether It is a rural home or a city home, a large one or a small one. It has become a patriotic duty for every American household to save and return to the proper sources all the paper that en ters its doors. This can best be done by giving it to some child who is col lecting papers in each block or neigh borhood. If each child were to take The Star and Times to school the day after It is read at home, that alone would mean the conservation of all the print paper used In this one great news paper."—Kansas City Star. |QUR DAILY LAUGH LSSfc OXE GOOD turn, f-rfm | For a woman ,Vr ii " -~SSL to find ' ■ I If she marries a life is a grind. ' . .1. - .a m ATHANKBGTV- IrSS&dl J INO EXPERI ' Aft ENCE. 1 What are your I fowls, good | Dealer tell? •";/ Rut told, he \ glaring eye, O W I 1 must be ij^r - eagles that ■ you sell. ! I No turkey ever soared ■ o Fox's Reply to Burke (Kansas City Star) In 1796 Edmund Burke protested against peace between England and France on the ground that the French government had murdered a king. "What," he exclaimed in his "Let ters on a Regicide Peace," "you would treat with regicides and assassins'." To which Fox replied: "Assuredly "wo should treat with them. If we "treat with France only when she has "a government of which we approve, "good God! we shall fight eternally." That is inspU-ed .common sense as again a futile idealism. The prin ciple involved often comes up in in ternational affairs, where naUons every now and then are called on to deal with governments of which they hearUly disapprove, Etoning Qlljat The Pennsylvania general assembl: which will meet to-morrow at noon for the 122 nd regular session since 177 C will be the third to usemble 011 the second day ol January since the adoption of the present constitution in 1873. The sessions of 1877 and 1883 began on January 2, the latter being followed by the memorable extra session. The legislature has organized on New Year's iL>ay live times sinco the present cqusUtution became effective, the years being 1878, 1889, 1895, 1901 and 3907. OL' the legislatures meeting upder the present constitution two hak'e closed their work in March and eight have run into June, with one, tine session ofl 1897 when the Capitol burped, con tinuing into July. Four times ses sions have ended in April, the last time in 1909 when the date of adjourn ment was set the day of meeting. Eight times the legislators have gono home in May. There have l>een two extra sessions under the present con stitution. Under the constitution of 1838 the legislators met in January except in the year of the adoption of the constitution und the sessions gen erally ended in April or May. The lawmakers mot annually in those days and only three times did the sessions last beyond May. Under the consti tution of 1790 the legislators met the first, part of December and continued at work until March or April, having a. recess at the holidays only and sit ting at times on Saturdays. * • Miss Elizabeth M. Baker, assistant principal of the Camp Curtin school building, and one of tl.e leading mem bers of the committee of the Pennsyl vania State Education Association in the teachers' retirement fund bill, In licr talk at one of the recent associa tion meetings told of the objections that young women raise in opposing the pension bill. She said that many of them claim that they do not intend to become "old maids in the service," but gave a little quotation as a warn ing, "As we are, so will you be; as you are, so were we one day." • • Another interesting incident at one of the general sessions resulted from an attempt to have the educational association by-laws changed. One su perintendent of schools' claimed lhat the organizatipn was no longer delpo cratic, and that by listening to con versations in hotel lobbies, one could get inside information of the work ings of a "ring." Miss M. Katherino McNiff, teacher in the Central High School, Harrisburg, came to the de fense of the accused officials and said that she had been a member of the association since 1885; had been chair man at several section meetings; had read papers at other meetings, and knew nothing of the "political" part of the organization. The resolution to have the amendments changed was al most unanimously defeated. • • * There are more old-timers back for the organization of the 1917 Legislature than known for years, the strenuous contest for the Speakership having brought them to town. In strategy and bitterness the present contest goes back to ante-bellum days and there are many men in the throngs who recall incidents in ses sions which dated from the battle for the honors. The hotel corridors are tilled with reminiscences and there is as much talk of other fights as of chances of rivals getting this or that member. • * * Il* there be any distinction in being the first criminal to wear a new pair of handcuffs, then William Jackson Is going to be thus honored before the end of this week by Shferiff W. W. Caldwell. Jackson, who pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for the shooting of Charles Brown, a fellow negro, und who was sentenced to servo from eighteen and a half years to twenty years in the Eastern Peniten tiary, will be taken to the State's prison at Philadelphia before the dawn of the new year. Incidentally, within a few days Sheriff Caldwell's office will be furnished with a half-dozen pairs of new steel bracelets. And Jackson will try out a new pair. * * * The first number of the bulletin of the AVilliam Penn Highway, which Colonel H. W. Shoemaker says is "happy in name and happy in route," has just come out and contains a greeting from Texas to "Mr. Penn's Highway." It was written by Judd Mortimer Eewis, of the Houston Post, and halls the William Penn Highway because "our road runs right to that highway being built by Mr. Penn." The bulletin also contains the fac simile of the handwriting of William Penn and a statement of faults of the improved highway froni the type writer of Hiram G. Andrews in which he makes the "bum" road admit many things. Girard, otherwise Herman 1.. Collins, of the Philadelphia Eedger, contributes some additional informa tion on the subject of William Penn and roads. The Bulletin is unique, official and out exactly on time. A few days ago the State Depart ment of Agriculture issued some figures relative to the wages paid to farm labor in the State. In comment ing upon them at (he Chestnut street market Saturday a farmer said: "The figures are not high enough. I have had to pay more for help on some days than my net profit, and T own my farm. And some days I could not get help at all and I lost money again. The men say that they cannot afford to work for what is paid in the coun try because the cost of living is so high all around. The increase in pay does not begin to buy as much, some men tell me, as in the dollar-a-day days." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Mayor Smith' says his new year slogan is Greater Philadelphia. H. O. Wilbur, Philadelphia manu facturer, celebrated his 82nd birthday by working at his olllce. —Burgess J. M. Yeakle, of Bethle hem, has taken charge of arrange ments to receive the local company when it returns from the border. —Dr. David Grimm, elected presi dent of the Reading Medical Society, is well-known here. —William Decker, the Lycoming furniture manufacturer, has estab lished a profit-sharing plan. | DO YOU KNOW Thut Iliirrisburg distributed nunc automobiles last ><;ar than ever in Its history? HISTORIC HARRISBURG New Year's Day used to be cele brated in Harrlsburg by bonfires and punch bowls. The Purpose of Reading TK merson.] Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God direct ly. the hour is too precious to be wast ed in other men's trunscripts of their readings. Hut when the intervals of darkness come, as < onie they must— when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the east again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian pro verb says: "A fig tree, looking on % fig tree,, becometh fruitful,",
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