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THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1.
I know that there is nothing better
■for them, than to rejoice, and to do
good so long as they live.
Eccl. 3 : ' f S.
HEALTH INSURANCE
JOHN PRICE JACKSON, head 6f
the Department of Labor and In
dustry, addressed Labor's Open
Forum Sunday on health insurance,
touching upon a theme that has been
attracting widespread attention re- I
cently. The United States public
health service has issued a bulletin on I
the subject. It found that there are
30,000,000 wage earners in ,this coun
try, and that each one of them aver
ages a loss of nine days a year through |
sickness. Averaging the wages at $2
a day, and estimating that each will
spend $1 a day while sick for a doctor
and medicine, the total loss is SBOO,-
000,000 a year, the bulletin says.
Commenting on this, the Kansas
City Times says:
There Is a further loss due to the
percentage of the sick workers |
who die, and yet another loss to in
dustry by having each worker sick
nine days a year. Nearly all this
loss is pure waste. The greater
part of it might be prevented. The
Government found in its investiga
tions that in some parts o£, this
country BO per cent, of factories are
a menace to the health of those .who
work in them. No care is taken to
prevent poisonous dusts or gases
and fumes from being breathed by
workmen. Sanitation is neglected,
impure water Is drunk. No pro
vision Is made for fresh air. The
chance to become sick is aided by
the neglpct of the workman In
many cases. Often he lives in in
sanitary houses, and neglects the
ordinary rules of lifltlth.
It has been found by the New York
Association for Improving the Condi
lion of the Poor that 90 per cent, of
'"Aero destitute bc
cause of sickness or death of a wage
earner. This report says that the
average annual Income of heads of
families In the leading Industries in
this country is so small that when the
head of the household becomes sick
the tendency Is to try and get along
without tho expense of doctors, thus
prolonging tho sickness and so for a
long Jhe workman loses the
only thing wjy.ch enables him to earn
anything—-his health. Says the United
States health service bulletin:
The waste from disability and
death due to "preventable disease is
so tremendous that estimates mean
nothing to the averagu mind. The
suffering and sorrow due to these
causes should be sufficient argu
ment for a health insurance law
which will place adequate medical
relieyf within the reach of all ,and
provide for preventive measures on
a broad and comprehensive plan.
Such a law would prove to be the
greatest public health measure ever
enacted.
This kind of Insurance has been
worked out satisfactorily In Europe.
Such a law would go a long way to
ward Inducing employers to improve
living and working conditions and in
teresting themselves in tho welfare of
their employes, The Labor Forum
has opened up a very interesting line
of discussion in Pennsylvania.
KANSAS CITY AND US
KANSAS CITY, having attained a
largo measure of home rule
through State legislative enact
ment, has framed a charter and placed
It before the voters for approval, Here
are some of Its provisions;
A city manager,
A daylight city government,
The abolishment of ward lines,
A provision of supervised play,
Initiative, referendum and recall,
Only three saloons in any one
block,
Ten Councilmen in place of
thirty-two,
Home rule in salec>n control and
regulation,
Street cleaning department to
collect garbage,
Tax bill interest reduced from f
to per cent.
City engineer head of public
works department.
Councilmen and mayor to form
an administrative board.
' A plan whereby city can pay cash
for any public improvement.
City manager to name heads of
all administrative departments.
The city engineer to serve as
deputy city manager when neces
sary. . i
Only twelve plective officials;
mayor, ten councilmen and exelsd
commissioner.
Majority of resident property
owners may bar saloons from any
given district.
Only two city boards—civil ser
vice and city planning—instead ot
live boards as at present.
Street repair districts in which a
front foot tax Is levied for mainte-r
nance of all streets in the district.
The average,' good-thinking citizen
would run through the list and not
find serious objection tq any of the
features outlined. Indeed, pno and
all they appear to make for good gov
ernment. Nevertheless. Kansas City
will not get its new charter without
a fight. Professional politicians who
see their occupations disappearing,
contractors who have had "a good
thing oft the city" and saloon men
who fear the effects of the local option
plause arc opposed tq It. VCurtail
auent of personal liberties,"
THURSDAY EVENING,
by highbrows," "one man power," and
similar arguments are being used
against it.
Harrisburg is heading rapidly to
ward home rule. There Is a strong
undercurrent of sentiment In that di
rection in the Legislature. The first
steps will be taken during the pres
ent session. A few years hence we
shall be framing a new charter for this
city. The experience through which
Kansas City is now passing will be
repeated here. We would do well to
observe closely what is transpiring.
The same forces that oppose a rea
sonable, businesslike government for
Kansas City will oppose such a charter
for Harrisburg.
WILHELM, ARCH VILLAIN
THE Emperor of Germany stands
to-day revealed to Americans as
the arch villain of the world,
i If ever there was any doubt that
| the Entente Allies are fighting the bat
tles of America In their conflict with
i Germany, that doubt has been dissl
| pated by the revelations of the past
j twenty-four hours.
In a moment it becomes perfectly
clear that the power of Germany must
be crushed It we In America may hope
to live at peace with the world,
j There is no enemy so dangerous as
] he who pretends friendship while plot
ting mischief. Protesting' his ever
| lasting good feeling for this country,
! the Kaiser was at one and the same
I time endeavoring to incite Mexico
against us and trying to bribe Japan
into the greatest piece of International
treachery since the German invasion
of Belgium. There is but one sure
means of protection against such a
foe—the creation of an armed force
sufficient to render his plotting futile.
The publication of the Zimmerman I
letter leaves Congress no other course'
.
to pursue than to give the President
all the power he may need not only
to protect American shipping from
submarine attack but to arm the na
tion against assault by sea or land.
We are going into this war. That
much is certain. The important thing
then to do is to prepare for it and
to prepare at once. Even opponents
of armed Intervention In Mexico or
participation in the land operations
against Germany in Europe cannot
reasonably object to measures taken
purely for the protection of our own j
homes and firesides, from the Invasion j
of a power the watchwords of which (
aro ruthlessness and frlglitfulness.
The time has come when the whole i
resources of the country should bo!
mobilized for defense against aggres- j
slon from any source. Wo are
rich and prosperous. We have the
bulk of all the wealth.ln the world.
We are, as somebody has said, like a
countryman with both hands full of
hundred dollar bills walking down the
Bowery at midnight with no police
man In sight, But wo have the ma
terials from which to construct the
most gigantic and efficient weapon of
defense the world has ever seen. We
can erect In a year an impassible bar
rier across the path of this monster
who would be knocking at our gates j
the moment he would find Europe!
helpless at his feet, Or we can throw j
into the forces operating against lilm'
the weight that would tip the scales '
heavily in favor of his opponents,
We must act and act quickly, Con
gress and the President must work as
a unit, There is no room now for po
litical differences or personal bicker
ings. The safety of the nation is at
stake, and nothing else matters,
ET TU BRUTE?
FRIENDS of the Underwood tariff
law have pointed toward Great
Britain whenever Republicans
have raised their voices against the
near-free trade Southern Democrats
have foisted upon the United States.
The attention of these is invited to a
recent cable dispatch from London 1o
the New York Tribune;
The report by Lord Balfour of
Burleigh's committee on imperial
preference has created enormous
interest, as it shows unmistakable
divergence from all traditional free
trade ideas. The findings are the
more remarkable because I,ord Bal
four and the majority of the com
mittee were free traders before the
war. The members of the old Man
chester school are still ready to ad
here to all their former ideas, but
unquestionably the majority of the
public regard colonial preference
after the war as an accepted fact.
England, the great exponent of free
trade, is seeing the folly of the policy.
KIPLING—PROPHET.
TWENTY years ago Rudyard Kip
ling, touring the United States,
wrote some letters to a. paper in
India. In one of them he discussed our
military strength—or was it weakness?
He said that some morning therewould
be several million madmen in the
United States because there would be
occasion for them to fight and because
they would want, to fight, but there
would be no guns for them. That day
may now be near at hand. '
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The Boy Who Didn't Pass
I A sad faced little fellow sits alone in
deep disgrace.
There's a lump arising in his throat
and tears stream down his face;
lie wandered from his playmates, for
he doesn't want to hear
Their shouts of merry laughter since
the world has lost Its cheer.
He has sipped the cup of sorrow, he
has drained the bitter glass,
And his heart la fairly breaking; he's
the boy who didn't pass,
In the apple tree the robin sings a
cheery little song,
But he doesn't seem to hear It, show
ing plainly something's wrong;
Comes his faithful Utile spaniel for a
romp and bit of play.
But the troubled little fellow sternly
bids him go away,
And alone lie sits in sorrow, with Ills
hair a tangled mass,
'And his eyes are red with weeping)
he's the boy who didn't pass.
Oh, you who boast a laughing son and
Hpeak of him as bright,
| And you who love a little girl who
comes to you to-night
| With smiling eyes and dancing feet,
with honors from her school,
I Turn to that lonely boy who thinks he
Is a fool,
And take liini kindly by the hand, the
dullest in the class;
' lie is the one who most needs love—
the boy who didn't pass,
■ —Michigan Christian Advocate,
Silver Bullets
(Prom the Wall Street Journal)
Lloyd George once spoke of the "sil
ver bullet" winning the war, Our finan
cial arsenals are filled with those bul
lets, gold-plated at that, We can send
them to the Allies by the shipload so
long as the war lasts,
America can take upon itself a larg
er part of the task of feeding the
armies and civilians of the Allies, Where
Germany is hungry, we have grain.
Next spring we can increase the acre
age of cereals, potatoes and foodstuffs
in general, Governmental regulations
may even be directed to that end. We
have more than H'J million dairy cows,
40,000,060 head of cattle, 4S, 000,000
sheep and 67,000,000 swine. These ani
mals mean food, clothing and leather,
There are 25,000,000 horses and mules
ready for the battlefront, or the farm,
or wherever their labor is needed, War
calls for copper, steel, coal and many
chemicals, In the possession of these
military necessities we are the strong
est and best prepared nation of the
world,
! If tiie short-sighted kaiser sees notli
j ing but a mobilization of untrained men
behind our little army, he makes his last
and greatest mistake,
When an Actress Grows Old?
It is somewhat of a tragedy. In an
article on the age of stage folk, Wal
ter Prichard Eaton says in the Febru
ary American Magazine!
"Growing old is something of a
tragedy for all of us. Any woman,
looking in her glass and seeing the
telltale crow's feet, the duplicate
chins, the maternal sag, knows that
she has lost something precious which
she can never recapture, Any man,
finding some day that the glances of
girls pass him by. that tennis is no
longer his game, that he now says to
the ycying and idealistic; 'When you
are ias old as I am, you'll think dif
ferently—,' goes into secret session
with himself, and the session is not
a happy one. How much more tragic,
then—how really tragic, for to ( the
player charm is an essential asset and
a tool—is the fate of the actor or
actress who grows old, who loses that
allure of youth and beauty which is
so vital a part of stage charm. I re
member talking once with an Amer
ican girl who had just visited a fa
mous and now elderly foreign actress
in her country home in England. The"
actress talked of her life, of her past
triumphs, and as she talked she Pick
ed up a hand mirror, looked at. her
fact, and burst into tears of self-pity.
She was enacting a tragedy in real
life."
She Admits It
Gerjnany is fighting for the freedom
of the seas and the sanctity of inter
national law. This tho world knows,
because Germany admits it. Tho pres
ent. situation confirms Germany's po
siUon, as anybody can see, for:
Germany orders neutral ships to
paint themselves up like barber poles
In tho best style of German art;
Germany decrees how many heutral
ships shall sail from and for their
home ports each week;
Germany sinks ijeutral merchant
ships at sight, without stopping for
warning, visit or search;
Germany orders neutral ships not to
arm themselves for protection against
plrates;
Germajiy amends International law
over night in time of war, as suits the
exigencies of her own cause.
Plainly, therefore, Germany is tKe
defender of freedom of the seas, iho
guardian of international law.—fVew
York Sun. /
~...,, IIPMA;M WI Wm ) ,I. MUMI
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
By the Ex-Commlttecman
Judging from signs about the Capi
tol the "harmony" is not much
nioro than skin ileep. Some of the
leading senators and members are
talking' harmony, but there are evi
dences that it may be shattered at any
tiyie and the announcement of Sen
ator Penrose that when he gets
through at Washington he will devote
somo attention to Harrlsburg matters
has caused administration men to as
sume a cautious attitude.
The failure of the Senate to agree
with the Governor's request to return
the Long nomination appears to be the
handle of the hatchet sticking out of
the ground. Senators claim that they
returned Tener appointments at the
Governor's request but that they have
not acted on the request this year on
Long,
Meanwhile the superintendent is go
ing placidly along attending to the du
ties of ills department and apparently
much interested in the time some of
the attaches of the divisions of docu
ments have to spend about the legis
lative hails.
comments continue to
be made on the Governor's veto of the
"probe" resolution. The Pittsburgh
Dispatch and a number of other news
papers support the veto as a proper
move, but the Pittsburgh Gazette-
Times raps the Governor, saying:
"As a plea of confession and avoid
ance, Gov, Brumbaugh's veto message
can but whet the public curiosity as
to what he Is covering up and whom
he is protecting that might have been
dragged into the light would his con
science permit him to submit to inves
tigation of his otlieial conduct."
—The Wilkes-Barre Itecord also
criticises the Governor, but somo of
the smaller newspapers uphold him.
■ —Everyone is now sitting back and
watching to see what the Governor
will do with the deliclency bill which
is on his desk, This can generally be
taken as an indication of what the
Governor may think of early legisla
tion. Last session he cut out consid
erable money,
-—The Governor's attitude in de
manding to know why department
heads want so much money in the way
of appropriation estimates is creating
comment as the Governor wishes it
known that he must be shown, If is
an open secret .that some of the in
fluential legislators are lying in wait
lor chances to get at some of the de
partmental requests.
—The sentiment manifested in sup
port of the Walter resolution for ad
journment in May indicates pretty
conclusively that members want to
close up as soon as possible after the
recess. There is general relief that
the recess is coming because members
hope that the legislative program can
be made up, revenue measures drawn
and appropriation policy prepared
which will enable work to be done.
There will be hard work holding back
the House from fixing a date for ad
journment once it returns from the
recess.
—The Senate is likely to object to
fixing any date for adjournment until
the Governor shows his hand in re
gard to recess appointments and thus
far Governor and senators havo not
gotten together, The Senate may re
cess instead ol' quitting.
—The belief that tlie Legislature
could stop in May is general.
: —lf the Penrose people carry out
the announced plan of having some
inquiries made by committees there
will be investigation of the last year In
half a dozen departments. Some sen
ators are said to h; eager to do some
"probing" of a conple of departments
which have been much in the limelight
and if the United' States senator insists
upon it there will be investigations of
expenditures, political activity and
other things and Pennsylvania may
have a "leak" investigation of its own.
—The Pittsburgh Post declares that
there is not much chance of the suf
frage resolution getting by this ses
sion, but the suffragists • deny that
statement. They contond that the Leg
islature is In duty bound to give them
I a show because of the comparatively
! close vole and that the position that
a re-submission would be untimely Is
not fair.
.— Representative Cox received quite
an ovation when he presided yesterday
In the House during consideration of
repealers. He was the second member
called to preside.
• —John Robert Jones. former
Sohuylkill legislator, has been here
this week. There is some talk of him
as a gubernatorial favorite for judge.
First Family Note
It's lucky for some of us proud de
scendants of early colonial forebears
that they didn't run against a literacy
test on their arrival here.—Boston
Traveler.
MARK TWAIN HID IN PIGPEN
Rather Than Ride With Henry James, the Humorist
"Disappeared-"
SEVERAL weeks ago Col. George
Harvey made a most Interesting
address at the anniversary of the
Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary
College, says the Washington Times.
He did pot. touch on politcs and was
at his ftest. For an hour or so he
kept his brilliant audience on edge
as he told about some of the literary
lights he had known. The stories
about l-ienry James and IMark Twain
were particularly delicious.
According to Harvey, Mr. Clemens
and Mr. James despised each other.
James did not know that the world
was moving on; what had been was.
He could not get it through his head
that because letter postage in the
United States was three cents when lie
lived here and it was only two cents
when he came back, after he had been
living for years in England. Many
changes had been made, but he would
not admit it. His eyes could not see
them, and his mind refused to accept
other than the evidence of his eyes.
But the most amusing experience of
Harvey with these two high lights in
the literary heavens was when they
were both his guests at his country es
tate at the same time. He had some
work to do, and thought it over to
himself how he could get rid of both
/ \
j Rhymes From the Nursery !
*• J
Nursery Land
Oh, a wondrously line place is Nursery
Land,
Where everything's pleasant and
everything's grand:
The people who live there are busy as
bees,
They rest not a moment- —they build
on their knees
The longest of trains, that through
dark tunnels creep—
And they hammer and plane, and
build sky-scrapers steep;
Then they're dressmakers fine, and
milliners, too,
Bookmakers and singers—I'll venture
that you
With all of your learning and culture
so grand
Could ne'er fashion a place quite like
Nursery Land 1
And the languages spoken in Nursery
Lund!
You never could learn them nor yet
understand.
Baby talks Goo-Goo, and brother talks
slang.
The next to the baby, well, twinglty
twang!
His twaddle's a cross between English
and French,
The words seem to come with a sort of
'a wrench!
And big sister pulls off a new sort of
stunt,
She calls "piggy language"-—she says
with a grunt
"Oh, don'tski do—youski d' tliinkski
it's grand ?" —
Yet Harmony reigneth in Nursery
Land.
And they're quite democratic in Nurs
ery Land,
Though Ilabe tries to rule them with
heavy iron hand;
'Tis true they will bow to him once in
awhile,
And sometimes they kiss his weo feet
if he smile.
Yet the ruling of this most miraculous
place,
Is the voice of the people—the Vox
Populace.
The Presidents oft changes as one
may discern,
And whenever there's trouble Con
gress doth adjourn—
But though they may quarrel they
never disband.
But live on and prosper in Nursery
Land.
—By Edna Groff Delhi, Paxtang, Pa.
Were as Busy as Bees
(From the New York Mall)
One of the oldest assertions of the
bee-keepers has been that honey could
pot be adulterated with success, but
health department inspectors have
found a full blown honey plant in tho
basement of a private home In Manhat
tan.
There were no bees at work In the
plant when it was raided, but there
were half a dozen women and a maVj
as busy as bees with pots and pans
about a stove. They were boiling up
a concoction, the chief ingredients of
which were sugar and about 10 per
cent, of genuine honey. The plant was
discovered after honejr purchasers had
complained they were receiving adul
terated honey.
MARCH 1, 1917.
lof them for a brief space while he
1 went to his workshop, and he con-
I ceived the brilliant idea of sending
I them off together in his car to see
j how the town had grown since their
rlast visit.
if it had worked out the idea would
I have been little short of genius; but
:it did not. Henry James was ready
} for the ride, but Mark Twain suddenly
disappeared as if the earth had open
jed and swallowed him up. What had
j become of Mr. Clemens? He could
not be found upstairs or down, in the
| garden or at the kennels, and Mr.
j James was getting more nervous every
j minute. Ten minutes passed, fifteen
j minutes, and the whole place was up
set while Mr, James fretted at the
■ disappearance of the gentleman who
had been wished on him for a ride
which neither of them cared to take,
■ at least in each other's company. Hav
ing exhausted all the possible hiding
[places at the castle, further search
was made for Mr. Clemens in the ad
! jacent grove, and one of the searching
party in passing a pigpen was almost
| startled by some voice saying, "S-h,
I s-h, s-h!" Approaching the pen the
| searching party found Mr. Clemens
squatting in the corner of the pen and
j saying; "S-h, s-h; don't tell anybody
I you saw me."
Labor Notes
Canadian cigarmakers at Montreal,
London and Hamilton have secured
an increase in pay.
An eight-hour day and six-day
week may be granted all State em
ployes In California.
Improved working conditions have
been granted workers in Canadian
munition plants.
Frisco Municipal Street Carmen's
Union asks $3,40 a day for platform
men,
Road workers have been granted a
war bonus of f>o cents weekly by the
Middleton, Ireland, Urban Council,
It has been decided by Ihe British
government to take over the railways
of Ireland.
Little Rock, Ark., bricklayers ask
an increase from 75 cents per hour to
87' i cents, effective March 1,
On February 26, at Cleveland, Ohio.
International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employes of America will con
vene..
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first church of the Zion Luth
eran congregation was built by
Stephen Hills, architect of the old
State Capitol,
OUR DAILY"LAUGH
SOMETHING
i FINER.
The vine-clad cot
tage, be It
The one our
daddies used
Ca.iM / rnSl, ,0 know:
ll 1 / Is sc,dom seen.
\| [|f /V We have in-
C stead
The mortgage
covered bun
galow.
TOO LATE.
I'm going to
the ball game this
afternoon. I'm an
xlous to see our .
new ball player.
My dear, it vlßfe/
won't do you a bit f mm
of good to go. I Ml
■aw by the paper Uffl
that he died try- fflfi jB VLfr
lng to steal third. '■
FOR ECONOMI
CAL, REASONS.
4 Do you belliv
women ought to
J smok ®''
! / y 1 jjraff Indeed not. A
i box of cigarettes
r has enough hands
*° KFab trom
lEtoning QUfal
Approval by the Public Service Com
mission of an application tor a man
to operate a ferry across the Susque
hanna, near McCall's Ferry, calls at
tention to the fact that such enter
prises while numerous In the State, aro
among the fewest public utilities to b
Increased In recent years. The act of
1913 placed their control under the
commission and all new ferry propo
sitions must have State approval. In
all that time less than Ave ferry pro
jects have been before the commission
and that granted this week to a down
the-river man is the first for this sec
tion of the State since the act became
effective. There are probably a dozen
ferries operated on the Su&quehannu.
within a radius of fifty miles of Har
risburg and some of them, especially
beween the Dauphin and Perry towns,
are well-established enterprises and
pay fairly well, although once in a.
while the service is apt to irritate one.
The ferry companies granted charters
have been very few in number and
have been for southwestern Pennsyl
vania, especially along the Slononga
hela and Its tributaries. However,
ferry rights are among the things
which are pretty jealously guarded
and no one will give one up. There
are some old ferries which operate un
der charters that, are yellow with age
aid which maintain regular service
while there are others whose rights,
because of restrictions on bridges in
their vicinage, are maintained by run
ning of a boat once a month or even
less frequently. A ferry is a pretty
valuable thing even in these days of
gasoline and frequent bridges.
With the return of the Eighth regi
ment but one Harrisburg guardsman
remains at the border. He is Walter
F. Stroup, a member of the Governor's
Troop, Troop C, First Pennsylvania
Cavalry, and he is in the military
base hospital at the United States
army post at Fort Bliss, Texas, about
two and a half miles from the site ot
Camp Stewart. Trooper Stroup was
badly injured at drill with the troop
last August wheft his horse fell and
fell on his rider, fracturing his hip.
The horse was one of the "outlaws,"
of which the troop had several, and he
fell to young Stroup in the allotment
of mounts when the thoroughly
"green" animals were received from
the government remount station at
Fort Bliss. Trooper Stroup was taken
to the hospital and operated on at
once. The break was a serious one
and the army surgeons were afraid the
injured leg would be shorter than the
! other when the break knitted. In or
j dor to remedy that several other oper
ations were necessary and the hip was
enclosed in a plaster cast for several
weeks. In a letter written a short
time ago Trooper Stroup says he is
now walking about the hospital on
crutches and can walk a little with a
cane. He expects to be mustered out
at Fdrt Bliss in a short, time and re
turn home. Trooper Stroup is an ex
cellent cavalryman and his comrades
in the Governor's Troop were pleased
to hear that he is recovering and will
come home soon. Young Stroup says
he Is lonesome, now that all his com
rades have left Camp Stewart, and is
anxious to join them at home. When
Trooper Stroup returns to his home at
1337 Howard street, he will be greeted
by a daughter, now only a few weeks
old, whom he has not. seen.
It is astonishing the size and num
ber of the trains which are being sent
east through this city by the two big
railroad systems and if they contain
cars of provisions there would not be ,
much difficulty about feeding people in
the large cities. Some of the trains
passing through this city are as heavy
as the engines can draw and glances
at the cards tacked on the cars show
that they are going to tidewater. The
reports of shortages of coal in eastern
cities are hard to understand when one
sees the trains of coal that pass this
city and the same is true when one
sees the special fast freight trains
made up of cars of provisions that go
east at certain times each day. The
fact is that the materials they contain,
whether for fuel or eating, are all
bought. One of the residents of this
city who is posted on transportation
says that every twenty-four hours
shipments through Harrisburg contain
provisions and coal worth millions
and millions of dollars.
• • •
A scarlet cardinal was seen the
other day in Wildwood Park, and a
scarlet cardinal is one of the sure
signs of spring, according to one who
loves birds. Hundreds of very blue
blue birds likewise greeted strollers in
the country during the spring-like
days that lure the unwary ones into
shedding overcoats and adopting low
shoes. The more or less indefinable
unrest which seizes upon the youth in
springtime more familiarly known as
spring-fever, conjuring up visions of
long drives to center field and flashes
of lightning around the bases, as well
as inciting enthusiasts, from the aged
and infirm to the "boy in britches," to
physical gyrations suggestive of the
full St, Andrews swing, was present
last Saturday in great bunches. Cu
rious ones passing golf courses ex
amined the links expectantly, but the
ground frowned back uninvitingly and
the sticks were replaced In the bag.
Pretty soon, however, pretty soon!
* *
Vesta Furnace near Marietta which
is being rehabilitated by the Bavino
interests of Philadelphia to manufac
ture ferro-manganese was formerly
owned by Harrisburgors. It is one
of the old furnaces of the lower Sus
quehanna Valley and has changed
hands a good many times. The neigh
borhood which it occupies has been
making iron for over 100 years. The
sister furnace, across the river at
Wrightsvilte, used to be called Au
rora. Vesta is one of the few fur
naces left in the Columbia district.
I "You have been printing some in
teresting matters about foodstuffs;
now listen tq this," remarked a busi
nessman yesterday. "How do you ac
count for eggs selling by the case at
forty-five cents on Saturday and thir
ty-live to-day? Give me the answer.
I have to go up against changes in
price like that. Why a man came in
to my place and offered me eggs on
Saturday at forty-five and insisted
they were scarce and liable to go up.
To-day he came in and I bought the
same eggs at thirty-live."
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Albert H. Swing, the new mayor
of Coatesville, was formerly postmaa
ter. . 1
—Alexander McFadyn, the Pitts-i
burgher who wrote a new nattonal
anthem, Is a musician and pianist.
—General Charles Miller has taken
up the active work of the Galena Sig
nal Oil Company in spite of his age.
—Bishop Oarvey, of Altoona, who
has been ill, has gone to Atlantic City
to recuperate.
—W. A. Boyd, of Stoneboro, well
knownamong Western Pennsylvan
ia ns, has been chosen as president of
the Northwestern State Fair Associa
tion.
- DO YOU KNOW ' |
That Hnrrlsburg is making a ■
dozen or more lines of supplies fl
for the government?