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TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20
If joy and hope must die,
Still can I upward fly;
Love lifts my spirit to the sky!
— Theodore Winthrop.
DECISIVE ACTION
THE national government has
finally arrived at the conclusion
that "an emergency exists" and
Is, therefore, ready to hasten its naval
preparations. Sixty submarine chas
ers have been ordered —a ridiculously
inadequate number—work on the
naval construction program has been
ordered rushed and the two higher
classes of the Naval Academy are to
be graduated in order to increase the
number of officers immediately avail
able for naval purposes. There is much
talk of business and industrial mo
bilization for national defense.
That Is about as far as the Presi
dent's preparations for war have gone,
so far as he has taken the public into
his confidence. It is not enough and
it ought to have been done weeks ago.
Sixty to eighty days must elapse be
fore the submarine chasers can be de
livered. They should be in the water
at this moment. Everybody has real- j
isped that they would be needed, but at i
procrastinating government has been
blundering along watching and wait
ing until the inevitable and easily
foreseen crisis finds the country unit
ed and ready, but with few weapons
of defense or offense.
This with respect to the navy- How
long, it is to be wondered, will the
President require to get awake to the
needs of the army? It is true that
the National Guard units of the coun
try are now well trained and disci
plined, seasoned and ready for the
field at a moment's notice—first line
troops, if we ever had such —but their
number is insufficient. The longer we
wait the longer will be the period re
quired to put a large and powerful
army in the field. Possibly now is not
the time to call for troops, but plans
to that end should be made. The coun
try is ready to do its part, but it de
mands leadership of the most efficient
type. We shall go lumbering along,
very likely, until war has been de
clared officially, as it has been actu
ally, before attempting anything of
a very concrete character. Then we
shall try to do in a day what a wisely
administered government would have
begun many months ago.
v putting the cart before-the
horse to say that the people are back
of the President. They are in front
of him. They are leading the way.
He has done no more than follow
public sentiment. He it is who must
speak the word that sets the machin
ery of national defense in motion, and
he will find a responsive public quick
to do his bidding. Only, they hope
he will not be too long about it.
Even the most ardent volunteer can
do nothing unless directed and the
soldier is helpless without an organ
ized nation at his back.
Whether war comes or not. It's about
time for New Jersey to mobilize her
mosquito fleet.
THE STUDEBAKER ROMANCE
THE death of John M. Studebaker,
at his home in South Bend, Ind.,
removes from life the last of five
brothers who arose from poverty
to great wealth and to international
fame as manufacturers and business
men. The Studebakers are examples of
the possibilities for poor boys in
America, and their career is especially
interesting to readers of the Tele
graph, from the ract that they were
born within a few miles of Harris
burg, their father having been a
blacksmith near Gettysburg.
John studebaker's life story reads
like a romance of fiction. He was one
of thirteen children. In his youth he
moved with the family to Ashland
county, 0., and later to South Bend,
which became the seat of the Stude
baker corporation.
As part pay for the privilege of ac
companying an expedition across the
plains to California in 1853 Studebaker
gave the first wagon ho ever made.
This party set out westward from
South Bend with young Studebaker
driving the wagon.
When the wagon train landed him
at Hangtown, now Placerville, Cal.,
tho young man's capital consisted of
fifty cents. He set about making
wheelbarrows for a man named Hines.
He made them so well that he came
to be called "Wheelbarrow" Stude
baker. Whatever he did he did well.
That was one of the mottoes of his
life and is well worth remembering
and practicing. In these days of short
cuts and make-shifts.
Mr. Studebaker became so profici
ent In hi* work that in hla five yean'
TUESDAY EVENING,
stay In California he was able to save
three thousand dollars. With this he
returned to South Bend In 1858, pur
chased the Interest of one of his
brothers in a wagon shop and founded
the firm of C. & J. Studebaker. As
the years went on Mr. Studebaker ex
tended greatly the scope of his busi
ness in automobile building and also
became interested in banking.
In his eighty-second year he sUJI
was chairman of the Studebaker Cor
poration and said he expected to "re
main in harness" until he died. He
was down at the South Bend plant
virtually every work day of the year,
arriving there at seven In the morn
ing, two hours ahead of his clerks.
"It isn't what you do during work
ing hours that hurts," he used to say
when told he worked too hard, "but
what you do after work is done, and
I behave myself."
That was very largely the key to
the Studebaker success. What the
brothers did they did well. They
worked hard and lived simply and
wholesomely in their leisure. They
left a name mora enduring than their
millions. Wherever the term is known
Studebaker stands for sturdiness and
sterling worth.
"Can the Czar come back?" asks the
Pittsburgh Dispatch. May be so. but
our advice to him would be to keep on
going.
Temperance Preparedness
THE temperance forces of Pennsyl
vania at last are going about
their campaign for the elimina
tion of liquor in a thoroughly efficient
manner. Heretofore there has been
entirely too much effort toward im
mediate results and no careful pre
paredness for continued and systema
tic warfare over the period of months
between the biennial failure of the
local option bill in the Legislature and
the next State elections. At the meet
ing of those Interested in the move
ment in Harrisburg to-day plans will
be laid that will place the issue
squarely before the voters and keop It
there.
The outlook is not bright for the
passage of a local option measure at
this session. This is very largely due
to the fact that the proper kind of
campaign was not waged preceding
the primaries at which the legislative
nominees were selected last spring.
The voters of all parties were too
much interested in other matters at
the time to pay close attention to the
Legislature all except the liquor
people. They have only one issue at
stake. Party means nothing to them.
Democrats, Republicans, Socialists
all look alike to the liquor interests,
just so they vote "wet." So the anti
temperance forces nominated and
elected in many districts where there
is a distinctly "dry" sentiment, and
they will continue to do this until the
local optionlsts take some such step
as is now proposed.
The mobilization of the anti-saloon
forces of the State will bring together
under one banner in every voting dis
trict the friends of temperance legis
lation. Every legislative candidate
will be called upon to declare himself.
Not only that, but each Congressional
candidate, regardless of party, will be
requested to go on record as to how
he will vote on the national prohibi
tion amendment resolution when It
comes before the law-making bodies
of the nation periodically until suffi
cient votes are mustered to put it up
to the States for approval.
This is as it should be. The candi
date who is convinced that liquor
ought to be made and sold for public
consumption should not be afraid to
come out and say so. He should have
the courage of his convictions. He
should be ready to give his reasons.
Likewise, there should be no shrinking
on the part of temperance advocates.
The time has come when the two
forces must be lined up one against
the other In order that the people of
the State may know for whom they
are voting and decide the local option
or prohibition question freely and
openly according to public opinion.
May be the Czar can be induced to
nominate Emperor Bill for member
ship in the Down-and-Out Club.
WHEN WAR PROTECTION ENDS
FROM January, 1915, to Febru
ary, 1917, there were organ
ized In this country new
corporations for the manufacture
of dyes tuffs whose aggregate cap
ital amounted to $172,289,000. The
amount of new capital invested in the
same time in war munition enterprises
was $138,027,000. When the war is
over and the present unreal protection
to American dye-makers disappears,
it will be necessary to provide statu
tory protection for this Industry. Such
legislation can originate only ia the
MOVIE OF A PATIENT OLD PARTY By BRIGGS
*WH<^ > " BETTER NOT
House of Representatives—which af
fords another reason why that body
should be organized by the Repub
licans, who believe in protection not
only to the dye industry but to every
other American enterprise.
A Berlin editor says the American
people are war-mad. Well, hasn't Ger
many done enough to make us mad?
They should spell it Koamin'off.
What China Can Do
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
It's a long way from Peking to Ber
lin, but the officials of the Wilhelm
strasse will doubtless not be blind to
the significance of the severance of
diplomatic relations announced by
the Chinese government. Germany
has long cherished designs of con
quest in the Far East as in the Near
East. Twenty years ago she seized
Kiao-chau, using the murder of two
German missionaries as a pretext,
and thereby acquired one of the best
harbors on the coast, which has since
been a_ lively center of commercial ac
tivity. " Its capture by Japan earlier
in the war does not necessarily mean
that China will never regain it. In
deed, the action China has now taken
will g*ve the Allies so many advan
tages that her claims will have to be
considered when peace is made. It
may have been this consideration
which mainly dictated the action, for
Germany has given no such direct
provocation to China by the U-boat
warfare as she has given to other
neutrals. It would be well worth Ja
pan's while to respect the integrity
of her great neighbor. She already
has a treaty with Russia. If China
were admitted to the alliance on 1
terms that preserved her national
pride, the three powers would control
the destiny of Asia so completely that
the policies of the Western nations,
including our own of the "open
door," would rest entirely upon their
consent.
Canada's Title to Fame
(From the Detroit Journal.)
Canada's part in the war is one of
the most brilliant chapters in the
world's history.
In two years and a half a nation of
8,000,000, trained in tlve arts of peace,
indifferent to the maneuvering of war,
has become a big factor on the battle
field and in the financial operations on
which military success is based.
This peaceful, energetic neighbor of
ours decided to raise an army of 50,000
increased it to 4 00,000 and is now
aiming at 500,000, with certainty of
success.
A year before the war Canada's
trade balance was $4.10,000,000 on the
wrong side; its exports for the present
year exceed its Imports by $345,000,-
000.
Though not fully developed indus
trially, the Dominion has been able to
provide fully for its armies, to manu
facture munitions for its allies and
finance the payments, to raise millions
for war relief and to participate in
British loans.
Starting out with a loan from the
mother country, Canada soon found,
as the result of interior reforms forced
by the war, that she could pay her
own way, and this she is doing un
grudgingly.
Whiskers and Weddings
[Omaha Bee.]
Approaching the altar of Hymen,
a Chicago girl gave her prospective
lord and master an ultimatum; he
must shave or give up the wedding.
So there was no wedding. Several
morals might be drawn from this bit
of real life. First Is Una fact that
each has escaped an unhappy expe
rience. A girl who can think of her
husband's whiskers on her wedding
day Is not sufficiently centered on the
ceremony to promise well as a wife.
A man who prefers his beard to his
bride may not be expected to make
many of the sacrifices constantly es
sential to pleasing the woman he has
taken for better or worse. Eugenists
might get some consolation out of the
young woman's stand. Insisting that
the groom shall come clean in other
regards, why not include the modern
rite performed so expeditiously by
any skilled barber, or possible of
achievement by even a tyro equipped
with a "safety" razor? In the final
analysis, a man's whiskers continue
to be his own fault, while a bride is
something of personal selection—
sometimes.
Novelist Will Miss Them
Those famous men of action and
romance, the Northwest mounted po
lice, are gradually passing. So are
the predatory redskins and the white
horse thieves. How the novelist will
miss them!— Cleveland Plain Dealer,
HARRISBURG Sj£6&TE^GRAPII
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By the Ex-Committeeman j
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The latest piece of Democratic cam- !
palgn buncombe was whistled to slum- j y
ber in the House of Representatives I
last night when the members refused ] "I
to take seriously Representative Clem i J
Chestnut's resolution to command the I
Economy and Kftlciency Commission I
to tell the House whether the Legls-!? 1
lature really needs all of the people
on the payroll. •
The resolution was carefully ground P
out at the Market Square windmill and ?
the Fulton member was given charge 11
of it. He was successful in securing >"
a verification of a rollcall last week I''
and the Democratic ringmasters!
wanted to encourage him. He pre
sented the resolution on schedule time
and when it was being read the an- "
nouncement of each salary was greeted B
by an incredulous whistle. This kept K
up after every sum mentioned and
when the total of the salaries was !l
presented there was a loud whistle ®
from every part ot the house, even "
Democrats joining in. 0
Representative George W. Williams, v
Tioga, then rose and suggested that
in order to give the author of the 8
resolution time to prepare some fur- 0
ther information tho measure be laid
on the table. The members of the
House whistled again and the motion
carried. r
Another piece of Democratic strategy c
was laid over. It was a resolution to a
j force the majority to indicate its stand v
lon adjournment. It came from Rep
resentative L,anlus, York, and called 1
for all bills to be In hand by April 7 11
and for all committees to report by r
May 1.
The Democratic campaign is not go- t
ing well. Disappointed by the Repub
lican policy to allow things to go „
slowly in the matter of investigations, j
the Democrats tried to make noise by t
interviews, which got lost in the snows.
: Then they sprung the corrupt prac- c
tlces act, but as it appeared in the t
hands of a Progressive, too, no one
took it as seriously as the ringmasters f
committee. There are rumors that it ,
is the bill drafted with such great care ,
by Henry G. Wasson, Republican state
chairman in troubled times, and re
typed. The interest displayed in it by
the Progressives rather spoiled the
Democratic air of proprietorship.
—The name of Paul W. Houck, of
Schuylkill county, who has been men
tioned as a possible appointee for Sec
retary of Internal Affairs, is being
talked of again for Superintendent of
Public Grounds and Buildings.
—lt Is said that ex-Congressman
D:.niel F. Lafean, of York, is not to
be considered for the secretaryship,
but for something else. The appoint
ment will not be made for some time.
—Ex-Mayor Blankenburg appears to
be having some fun with Mayor<Smith,
but his debating thus far has extended
only to newspapers.
—Representative C. M. Palmer, of
Pottsville, won honors for brief de
bating last night in the House. A bill
came up and Representative William
Davis, of Cambria, asked the purpose.
"It changes a 2 to a 3," replied Palmer
and sat down. The bill passed, al
though It increased salaries of Phila
delphia port officers from $2,000 to
$3,000, Democrats voting for it.
—Among legislative visitors is John
S. Ritenour, former Pittsburgh news
paperman, now connected with Pitts
burgh humane societies.
—A Culver Boyd, of Lansdowne, has
a boom for orphans court judge if Del
> aware county gets such an officer this
year.
—A Bethlehem dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Inquirer says: "The appoint
ment of Allen 11. Bartold as postmas
: ter of this borough was a big sur
prise because It came unexpected. The
appointment marked the culmination
i of a long and bitter struggle between
t the political forces led by A. Mitchell
Palmer, former Congressman from
the Twenty-sixth district, and forces
led by his Congressman, J. Harry
Steele, of Easton. Mr. Barthold was
• the original Palmor man in Bethle
hem. The appointment is a complete
setback for the Steele forces, the Con
i gresaman having presented the name
i of Warren R. Roberts some time ago
. for the postmastership. The position
pays nearly $3,000.
—Things are not going to suit the
North American these days. The erst
while organ of Philadelphia Reform
movements thus criticises some recent
movements: "George D. Porter has
been selected by Senator Penrose to
corral independent votes for the Pen
rose ticket in the county tight against
tb Yarn next Xali, That JBprtejc m ay
STARVING IN SYRIA
By
MARY CAROLINE
IS it nothing to you, all ye that
pass by, that \ve in far off Syria
are starving? Are you cold these
winter days? You have warm cloth
ing, warm houses; heated cars to ride
in. Are you hungry? Were you ever
hungry because you had only a small
piece of black bread once every few
days—if some one remembered to give
it to you? Have you children? Did
you ever watch their little lives go out
in unspeakable torture and agony
from starvation, cholera and cruelty?
"We Syrians know what all these
things mean, and we stretch out our
hands to you, oh! rich America, beg
ging for bread—for at least one warm
garment to keep out the bite of win
ter from our emaciated bodies. We
beseech you to help us put roofs on
our broken homes, and tools Into our
hands that we may work and care for
our families. Give us a chance to live
we implore you."
This is what those starving thou
sands would say to us if they had the
opportunity. Their very silence and
impotence do soy it and more, for it
is extremely difficult to get news from
Syria. The censorship of the mails Is
rigid, the missionaries and even the
consuls cannot say what they might,
and communication with the outside
world is almost cut off.
But from time to time news filters
through from Egypt. Russia and the
j neighboring island of Arvad, which is
now a French possession, that reveal
be properly brought into the limelight
and bolstered into some semblance of
an "independent leader," he will be
banqueted "by his friends" at Scot
tish Rite Hall on April 12. William
Wunder, a Germantown florist, is>
chairman of the arrangement commit
tee, and Frederick S. Drake, another
of the Penrose reform contingent, is
one of the boosters, who are exerting
themselves to pull off a dinner that
will hove some "effect" and get
creditable notice in the newspapers."
Labor Notes
There are 252 army nurses that re
ceive a pension from the United States
Government.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company
lost in its tight to have the California
"full crew" bill declared unconstitu
tional.
The average pay of Lies Moines
(Iowa) school janitors is S7O a month.
The average pay for 350 grade teach
ers is s7l a month.
In the more advanced grades of the
schools in one Western city boys are
taught to work in concrete.
A bill has been Introduced in the
Michigan Senate to prohibit youths
under 16 from driving motorcars.
San Francisco Housesmitlis and Ar
chitectural Iron Workers' Unions have
won their fight for an eight-hour day.
Justices of the California Supreme
Court have decided that a "caddy" is
not a servant, but an employo of a
club.
The Submarine Failure
According to Information furnished
to the Associated Press, Germany's
submarine warfare between Feb. 1
and March 14 destroyed 78 British
vessels of a tonnage of 1,600 tons or
more. The vessels of this class in the
British mercantile marine at the be
ginning of the campaign numbered
3,731. The subtraction was 2 per
cent, of the whole. This is at the rate
of approximately 9 per cent, a year.
It would take ten years to wipe out
the Brltfsh mercantile fleet.
This computation allows nothing for
new construcUon, nothing for the fact
I that it Is easier to Intercept old, slow
going tramps than the faster new ves
sels, and nothing for the development
of a better defense. Taking these fac
tors into consideration, and the recent
decreaso In the number of submarine
victims. It seems almost possible to
say that the much vaunted submarine
campaign of Germany is a demon
strated failure—that Great Britain
will not be blockaded.—The New York
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MARCH 20, 191*
the worst possible conditions. It is au
thoritatively stated that fr,om 100,000
to 2 50,000 have died l'rom disease,
starvation and exile In the province of
the Lebanon alone. In Syria proper as
many more may be added to the death
toll. An eye witness tells of passing
through village after village where the
only sound he heard was that of his
own footfalls, and where the only live
things remaining were the sparrows
building their nests in the depopulated
houses.
The coast towns appear to have
suffered greatly, Beirut, Trablus,
Junieh and othem might be mentioned
where the estimate is made that half
the population has died. But then the
capital, Damascus, which is far inland,
has lost 120,000 according to the
Mayor, who said also that fifty wagons
were insufficient to carry away the
dead from the streets.
A letter to an American missionary
now in this country, written by a man
who had a prosperous business when
the war broke out and who vat a land
owner living in his own new tiled-roof
house, told of the starving conditions
in his town and begged for money to
save his family af six children. "We
have only you and God left. We are
starving. I implore you to send funds
to keep my children alive." The letter
was seven months in reaching its des
tination. and it is probable that he and
his were all dead before the relief
i reached him.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
—————
do you feel cold
sitting eu*, here / 8 llV_
with an adir'r- |i.
all —l'm used to
A GOO
\ < ~r23n ANSWER.
Why do you
MHB want five cents
Well, you see,
me father dlsln
herlted me dls
HI morning so I'm
■\ goln* in busl-
M| \ ness for mesself.
HOW sr.a _
DOES IT.
She is always '
finding fault /<y . . sPuf
with her serv- (V> JIA
ant girl and yet -•*?
she keeps her. /|T v^lT
That'a the \
reason. If she It\ if'
praised her to (I f/fj
her friends one
of them would iff
oon get her. (7(7
A TRCTB
M lis fir v[ PHILOSOPHER,
to bother mneli
about the futnre,
j No; that
ifPHr worries nio until
It becomes the
lEtentng (Efjal -
If uli goes well tho State will' start
planting the rows of red oak trees
planned for Capitol Park extension hb*
fore next fall. When the sale of build
lugs for the material they contuin 14
finished by the Board of Publics
Grounds and Buildings on March SI
there will be approximately twenty
four buildings left 111 the stone, includ
ing those in litigation. They will i>*
taken down as soon as the proceed
ings are closed and the Common
wealth obtains title. There will be
seven or eight buildings remaining
which tho State Is occupying, most of
them on Fourth street. Tho Idea Is to
start the grading as soon as tho build
ings to be sold are removed and lo
tear up the existing streets. Probatw
State, Fourth and Filbert streets will
be retained for some time. When the w
grading is undertaken it will be along
lines which will enable the planting of
tho trees. These oaks will be in four
lines and they will be started within
a short distance of each side of State
street.
• • •
.Tust what the State will do next
fall about the buildings it is using no
one seems to know. There are half a
dozen bureaus in old residences and
there is also the laboratory which is
in the old' Day school, while the Moor
head Knitting Company's building, is
used for the document division and
tho big Paxton warehouse is employed
for military purposes. The Governor's
Troop has the old A. M. K. Church
and two stables. The chances are that
there will have to bo some arrange
ment made for housing all of these
agencies. The State is obligated to
take care of the military and officials
are just commencing to realize what
the State must do. The Capitol Park
extension is now something In which
the average legislator, who was In
clined to fuss over it last session,
takes pride and several men have
been telling what a bargain the State
got and how unfortunate it is that it
did not buy down to the Susquehanna
river while it was about it.
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A good story is being told about the
Capitol on "Paddy" Gilday. Mr. Gil
day is one of the best known labor
leaders In the whole soft coal region
and had charge of the interests ol' the
miners of the big Central Pennsylva
nia district. Ho was picked as chief
of the bureau of mediation when the
Legislature authorized Father Penn to
go into the business of keeping busi
ness going by settling strikes and has
been somewhat noted for his success.
In fact, Mr. Gilday is noted as one
who can employ a soft answer and
over whom no one can pull any wool.
The other day he turned up with title
to an automobile. It seems that a
friend of Mr. Gilday won tho machine
in a raflle and ho did not know what
to do with it. So he hunted tip Mr. .
Gilday and told him his troubles and
also sold him the automobile. Mr. Gil
day was supposed to have won a bar
gain. Up to date he has had to build
a place in which to store the car, to
pay a man to show him how to run
the thing, to buy oil and supplies for
the contraption and to go around
apologizing to people for what the
darned machine hits while he is learn
ing how to steer.
Harrlsburg has never I)ceu known
as a very contentious place, in fact,
it has had a good reputation to tho
contrary, being more of a spot where
people gather to light out their dif
ferences. But the records of the Pub
lic Service Commission indicate that
it has originated more complaints in
the last six weeks than any place in
the Commonwealth.
The dinner of the Legislative Sons
of St. Patrick, which is to be held to
night with a galaxy of State officials
and legislators, past and present and
hopeful, in attendance, is the twelfth
to be held in Harrisbur??. The idea
originated when some members of tho
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, a famous
organization dating from revolution
ary days, were kept in Harrisburg by
press of business on the great day.
There have always been St. Patrick's
day observances here, but they made
it a real one. It has been kept going
ever since and they say that Lieuten
ant Governor Prank Ft. McClain and
George J. Brennan, the scribe, have
not missed any of them.
Col. Georgfl Nox McCain, who is
suggesting the purchase of the Penny
packer farm because of Its historic
associations of revolutionary days,
used to be a newspaperman on duty
here. He flourished twenty-five years
ago in the days of Col. William Rode
armel and was the staff representative
of the Philadelphia Press. Governor
Hastings made him a colonel on his
staff and he was also decorated with
the big order of Venezuela by one of
Castro's enlightened predecessors.
Colonel McCain became even mora
noted because of the lectures on for
eign travel, several of which he de
livered in Harrisburg to the delight
of many. Last time he came here he
declared he was more satisfied with
life than ever in suite, of his many
and varied experiences. "I'm a plain
farmer now," was his summing up.
However, It is to be noted that the
colonel heads a delegation to Harris-,
burg to ask improvements of roads
whenever he gets a chance and that
he is strong on marking of PennsyU
vaniu's historic places.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~|
• —J. M. Dreslbach, Mauch Chunk
banker, celebrated fifty years as an
officer of a bnnk In his home town,
j —Charles Q'Neil, the mine workers*
official accused of being a coal oper
ator, is vice president of No. 2 dis-r
trict which embraces Cambria and
other counties. He denies that he ig
an operator.
—Dr. K. H. Harte, prominent Phil
adelphia surgeon, is urging people In
his home city to organize base hos
pitals for the Red Cross.
—Congressman John R. K. Scott,
of Philadelphia, has been spending
some time at the seashore.
—William A. Law, Philadelphia
banker. Is prominent in the Belgian
relief committee.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg organized sev
eral hospitals here during tlio
Civil war?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first steamboats were used oa
the Susquehanna in the twenties SJM
ran to near Columbia.
Peanuts Replacing Cotton
Iist year Comanche county, Texas,
which until a lew years ago luid
frown hardly any commercial cirip
except cotton, made more than 500,-
000 bushels of peanuts. This year
there are a dozon counties west and
southwest of Fort Worth that will
produce from 250,000 to 1,000,000
bushels of peanuts. That section hasn't
any special monopoly on the peanut
Industry, for they are being grown
all over Texas and Oklahoma, but not
on quite an extensive scale as In tha
locality mentioned.
The peanut Is a drouth reslster, and
there Is hardly a summer so hot and
dry that It will not make a fairly good
crop. When the drs% hot days come It
will wilt and look as If it was going to
shrivel up, but whenever a rain comes
It starts to growing and putting on
nuts agafri. It may be planted from,
April until June, and Is usuaily har-*
veeted In October or Noven*ber<-J
taron Xun> bA raaMid*. ,