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FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23
A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o'
want o' sense.
WINDOW BOXES
IT is about.time to bo thinking of
repainting tho window and porch
boxes which added so much to
the beauty of Harrisburg last year.
Get them out early, you who respond
ed so generously to the TELE
GRAPH'S plea for flower planting,
and thereby encourage your neighbor
whose porch and windows were bare
last summer to go and do likewise.
Flowers and growing things about
a house add dollars to its valuation
from a sales point of view and great
ly improve its appearance. They are
to the front of a home what a well
fitting gown of attractive pattern is
to a woman. Florists say that already
there is a brisk demand for window
box quotations. Let's all co-operate
in making Harrisburg a real Flower
City during the coming months when
we spend so much of our time out of
doors.
MR. ITTNER'S ABILITY
WHATEVER arguments may be
brought to bear In the school
board controversy over the se
lection of an architect for the new
buiidings contemplated, the ability of
William B. Ittner, the St. Louis man
chosen by the special committee of the
board to do the work, cannot be ques
tioned. The endorsements the Mu
nicipal league is receiving from noted
architects and others qualified to
speak preclude the possibility of error
In his selection on that score. Those
who favor a local architect will have
to find other reasons for their views
The Municipal league is giving the
people of the city some very pertinent
and useful information, especially in
view of reports that have been pri
vately circulated reflecting on the wis
dom of the special committee's rec
ommendation.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF
HISTORY appears to be repeating
in Russia. The Czar and his
consort are in prison, the revo
lutionary government is in complete
control, despite occasional rumors via
Berlin to the contrary, and plans for
the prosecution of the war appear to
be well in hand.
This somewhat corresponds to the
situation in which France found her
self at the close the eighteenth cen
tury, when the nation, in the face of
an invading foe, overthrew the king,
put him to death and then turned
about and, under the direction of the
famous Carnot, so reorganized the
more or less demoralized military that
the army came through the trial
triumphant and France was saved
both v from foreign aggression and
royal oppression.
All that Russia needs is a Carnot
and such a Committee of Safety as he
had at his elbow, and there are indi
cations that it is not lacking in either.
THE LABOR DEPARTMENT
IT is to be hoped that the Appro
priations Committees will not
have to cut as deeply into the
budget of the State Department of
lAbor and Industry as reports from
Capitol Hill might indicate. This
branch of the State government is of
vast and growing importance. Its in
fluence for good is only to be under
stood after a careful and painstaking
study of all that it has done in the
past year or two, account of which
has not appeared extensively in print,
and much of it of a nature that pre
cludes the possibility of setting it
forth in the annual reports of Com
missioner Jackson or his assistants.
In the mediation of labor troubles
alone it has saved the people of the
Commonwealth many hundreds of
thousands of dollars in wages and de
lay and vexation in business. It is
easy to set forth the number of strikes
that the State's mediators have set
tled, but It is impossible to outline
in a public way the number of labor
disputes that have been brought to a
conclusion before they reached an
acute stage, and this has been one of
the mo3t important phases of the
department's work.
Another immensely useful service
the department is performing is
through the instrumentality of its
Bureau of Employment. It has been
said that tho bureau's ac
tivities are limited by reason
of the fact that labor is well
employed at this time and, therefore,
for tho present no increase of appro
priation is necessary in this direction.
This is not a proper conclusion. The
Bureau of Employment works both
ways. It not only finds a job for the
jobless man. but it locates a man for
FRIDAY EVENING, HARBIBBURO TELEGRAPH MARCH.23/1917.
the manleas job. In thia way it servea
both employer and employe, both cap
ital and labor. It may be capital's
turn just now. but nobody Knows
when labor will need'the bureau and
need it badly. Indeed, the number of
applications for work received and
the success of the bureau in finding
employment for a very large majority
of these seekers is ample proof that
even now, with prosperity at flood
tide, there is ample reason for in
creasing its possibilities for service.
These are only two of the very
many lines of activity in which Com
missioner Jackson and his assistants
are engaged and all of them have
their uses in the industrial life of to
day. Furthermore, the department is
doing a bigger work than that of New
York State at a little more than a
third the expense. It should be of
fered every encouragement the legis
lature finds possible to give.
NEW THIRD-CLASS CITY BILL
SENATOR BEIDLEMAN'S new
third-class city bill, which would
place the government of Harris
burg and cities like it largely in the
hands of an unpaid council of one
member from each ward, repeal the
present nonpartisan clause and restore
the veto power to the mayor, is an
interesting piece of legislation, both
from the manner in which the subject
is treated and from the fact that it is.
in addition, a most complete codi
fication of all laws relating to munici
palities of the third class in Pennsyl
vania. If it doep nothing more it will
provide adequate charter-making ma
terial when the Beidleman home rule
constitutional amendment is finally
approved.
Whether the people are prepared to
return to the old type of ward repre
sentation in Council is a question, but
in any case Senator Beidleman's bill
Is . "I'.v.-.V.ViV/ the result of popular
dissatisfaction with the Clark act and
a desire for change on the part of a
largo majority of the taxpayers.
Undoubtedly, as the Senator has
said, the salary system for councilmen
has resulted in a disgraceful scramble
for office on the part of those who
in view nothing more than the
money they hope to get. The result
has been inefficiency in government
and a gradual letting down of public
interest in municipal affairs. Perhaps
the very worst feature of the Clark
act is that the commissioners are a
law unto themselves; that they are
both a legislative and an administering
body, with nobody to say them nay.
There has been log-rolling and des
perate efforts to please this or that
class of voters at the expense of the
city as a whole. The law's nonparti
san clause has resulted In a condition
where politics play a larger part in
city government than ever. There lias
never been a moment since the enact
ment of the Clark law when either
Republicans or Democrats forgot
party affiliation in the selection of
councilmen. Party nominations cer
tainly could be no worse than this
nonpartisan failure and under proper
conditions might result in improve
ment.
The inference to be drawn from the
provisions of the Beidieman bill is that
under its Mis\'j3 the city depart
ments would bo run by superintend
ents selected by Council on the ground
of their fitness for the work. This
newspaper has observed the operations
of the city managership elsewhere. It
has worked well. It ought to be given
a trial here. Whether ®r not this
would be possible under the provisions
of the Beidieman measure is not clear,
but there appears to be no clause that
would forbid the hiring of a manager,
if Council were so inclined.
There are many features of the bill
worthy of consideration and it shows
much thought and careful preparation.
It is gratifying to those in Harrisburg
who supported him to note the in
terest Senator Beidieman is displaying
In the important affairs of the city
and that all his efforts have been in
the direction of improving conditions.
TWO GOOD BILLS
A BILL has recently been intro
duced in the State Legislature
which was prepared by the State
Affairs committee of the Scranton
Board oT Trade, providing for a single
collector of taxes in the second and
third-class cities and the boroughs and
incorporated townships of the Com
monwealth. The purpose is to do
away with the multitude of receivers
of taxes, thus making the payment of
taxes more convenient for the tax
payer, and, at the same time, reducing
the cost of this branch of the public
service. There is a general unanimity
of opinion that this is a greatly desired
reform in the ta> collecting methods,
and while Ilarrlsburg has worked out
the problem in a comparatively satis
factory way, there is no reason why
local legislators should not vote for
the measure.
In this class of legislation, also, is
the Beidieman county receiver of taxes
bill, which also should be reported out
promptly and passed.
CONSISTENCY
SATS Girard in his admirable col
umn in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger:
California fruit growers adver
tise their oranges in Philadelphia
magazines. No Pennsylvania farmer
has .anything to advertise in a San
Francisco magazine. That differ
ence is one sequel of the way in
which California and Pennsylvania
foster education for farmers. In
one year California spends on Its
agricultural school more than six
times as much as Pennsylvania
gives to the Pennsylvania State
College for agricultural purposes.
Yet Pennsylvania is richer and more
populous than California. We give
generously in a hundred doubtful di
rections and deny State College the
means of providing us with what
everybody agrees is a vital need—
greater efficiency In farming.
Consistent, is It not?
STREETS
NOW that spring is upon us, may
we not expect that some atten
tion will be given to the city
streets? The condition of unrepair
In which practically every important
thoroughfare finds itself to-day is a
blot on the city and is not only an
— ■ II I. -I III^
The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS I
V j
nfyy ' HOLDOUT '"'V
eyesore to the citizen who takes pride
in the progessiveness and efficiency of
his home city, but is considerably of
a body sore to the travelers who are
compelled to ride over the uneven sur
faces to which no attention has been
given for many months. The eyes of
the people are on Commissioner Lynch
at this stage.
Labor Notes
There are now five states with wom
en legislators.
This country has 3SO piano factor
ies in operation.
Nurses in every State hospital in
California will be organized.
Of 1,732,612 people engaged in ag
riculture in Bulgaria 87,406 are wom
en.
Women government workers In
England number 133,000.
Sweden employs over 30,000 wom
en in her clothing and textile indus
tries.
Railway carmen employed on Can
adian government railroads get a min
imum of 40 cents an hour.
Higher pay and more food were re
cently demanded by 17.000 workmen i
at the Krupp works at Essen.
City fire fighters at Victoria. B. C.,
demand the inauguration of the two
platoon system.
Georgetown (Texas) carpenters have
increased wages from 50 to 05 cents
an hour.
A Slate council of carpenters, repre
senting about 3,000 workers, has been
organized in Montana. Its purposes
are: To establish the State-wide
eight-hour day, minimum wage scale,
furnish information regarding condi
tions of employment and promote such
legislation as is beneficial to workers.
Not Used to Luxury
(From the New York World.)
It was much against his will that
Wiggie went along when John D.
Rockerfeller, Jr., and his family mov
ed into the senior John's one million
dollar house on Kyk-Uit Hill, Pocan
tico Hills, Tarrytown, recently. Wig
gie is a small, black Scotch terrier,
pet of the oil man's grandchildren.
Wiggie is fond of home life, but does
not go in much for great houses, in
consequence of which the new home
proved a lonesome one.
He shied at the Temple of Love,
with its Aphrodite: looked askance at
the Rainbow Pool, and strayed far
from the Sunken Gardens. There was
no charm for him outdoors, and when
he went into the house ho would get
lost —straying from room to room.
The climax came when the massive
organ in the music room began to
peal out music. Wiggie stood it as long
as he could, made a succession of
yelps which sounded like the name of
the hill on which the house is situat
ed, and darted out through the kitch
en door. Then, he strayed out into
Tarrytown, where he took up home
life with young Raymond Page.
The Rockefeller children bemoaned
the loss of Wiggie, so their father of
fered a reward of $lO and the dog was
returned. At the Rockefeller home no
one would music would
be tried on the dog again.
Zionists and America
(From the Maccabean, official mag
azine of the Federation of American
Zionists.)
The Jews of America share the in
terests of the American people, of
whom they are an integral part. Our
love and loyalty go out to America
not only because it has been a haven
of refuge for our oppressed people,
but because we have derived inspira
tion and strength from the ideals and
enthusiasms that are America's con
tribution to modern civilization. The
democratic education we have receiv
ed hero has strengthened our own
movement for self-emancipation, for
we have felt that American ideals
gave their sanction to the efforts of
any people to secure Itself against
the futuj-e by making such sacrifices
to-day as would render that future
avorthy. The Zionist movement runs
parallel with the idealism of this land
and is in fact a natural growth and
the normal consequence of thinking in
terms of democratic American ideal
ism. In this land we have the oppor
tunity for the first time in our history
to realize our national hopes, living
in a friendly environment. It is a
source of Jewish gratification to find
ourselves In perfect accord with the
ideals and the Interests of the Ameri
can people. We shall be among the
first to come forward prepared to
make our personal sacrifices for
American national interests should the
efforts of the President to avert war
be unsuccessful, just as we have done
In the past In moments of national
crises.
fdltic* U
By the Ex-Committeeman
According to stories which have
come to the Capitol, the folks back
home in certain Democratic communi
ties are somewhat inclined to be crit
ical of the attitude of various Demo
cratic members in the Legislature, es
pecially in the matter of the support
of the President, and to feel that the
Democrats should have been more
active than they were In the House.
The debate attending the Walter
resolution about a week ago has been
the theme of much discussion and
many copies of the Legislative Journal
showing the exact statements made
have been sent out from, the "HIU" in
reply to requests from men all over
the state. These statements and the
record of the vote have been coming
back to plague certain Democrats.
In Reading there have been reso
lutions presented at meetings denounc
ing tiro position taken by some of the
Berks county members in the Walter
resolution discussion.
—A meeting of the Democratic ring,
masters committee will be held here
soon to put some ginger into the
Democratic members who have been
making a sorry spectacle of them
selves. Some of the ringmasters are
said to feel that the minority has
played a part so totally out of keeping
with what might be expected that they
want the wandering sheep corralled
and told what to do. The Democratic
legislative campaign has been a series
of failures.
—The Democrats have not. even de
manded action on their much adver
tised measures and the fact that the
ringmasters were caught at some
bipartisan politics in handling their
corrupt practices act has not been
overlooked.
-—An interesting review of Luzerne
county politics sent from Wilkes-Barre
says: "While harmony prevails among
Republicans, affairs in the Democratic
ranks promise to be stirred up with
the return of William R. McLean, the
Democratic state chairman, from the
border, where he has been for several
months. McLean and his followers
will seek to retain control of the
county Democratic organization, but
Judge John M. Garman, who bosses
the other county wing of Democracy,
is already preparing to win over the
county organization. Garman accom
plished this four years ago when the
Garman candidates for prothonotary
and clerk of the courts were selected.
These candidates, vested with the
power of choosing a chairman, forgot
all about McLean and named A. W.
Betterly. the Garman selection, for the
office. Judge Garman is planning to
do the same thing this year. He will
have his candidates in the field against
the McLean entries, and this contest
is apt to become very lively. The
Democrats have control of most of the
county officers. McLean is credited
with the glory of these victories and
a defeat at tht! hands of Garman would
be considered a stumbling block for
McLean as county chairman and also
as chairman of the state."
—The Philadelphia Record to-day
says that there is going to be a grand
old row In the House of Representa
tives next Monday night when the Mc-
Niehol men will endeavor to have the
bill to take the police out of politics
put back to the calendar.
—The latest Democratic move, the
investigation of the election of Con
gressman Bleakley, has been under
taken by the United States grand jury
at Erie. The ringmaster is E. Lowry
Humes, United States district attor
ney.
—Pittsburgh people have started to
impeach magistrates as the result of
the vice probes.
—Considerable interest has been
aroused at the Capitol by the attack
made on the proposed bond issue for
roads by State Treasurer Young in a
speech at Altoona. "I am very earn
estly opposed to a bond issue for high
way improvement," said Mr. Young,
addressing the chamber of commerce
at luncheon yesterday, "because I re
gard the state revenues as ample to
provide all the money that can be
legitimately expended each year for
this purpose. In fact. I don't know of
any purpose for which bonds would
be necessary, unless it would be for
the improvement of the ports at Lake
Erie and on the Ohio and Delaware
rivers. If we improve these ports of
exit and entry, Pennsylvania can be
made the center of the commercial
activities of the world. If only men
of vision could see the possibilities of
this Commonwealth, every State in
the Union and the world at large could
be made tributary to Pennsylvania."
I , BELGIUM'S IN FA NT SACRIFICE
THE children of Belgium share in
the martyrdom of their par
ents. They aro like the young
boys and girls, baptized in water and
in blood, who stood with the early
Christians in the arena, before the
callous eyes of Rome.
They are feeble with privation and
sad with premature grief. Pope Bene
dict. has begged the children of the
United States to keep alive 1 *, million
of the little unfortunates by giving
them a cup of milk or chocolate and
a larded biscuit once a day. It Is not
too much to ask of prosperous Amer
ica which lias thriven on the calam
ities of Europe; but the asking is a
revelation of shame.
On Belgium's vast storehouses of
grain Germany fattened for a year. On
Belgium's harvests, garnered, but not
shared by Belgians, Germany feeds
Flowers
It is hard for me to understand peo
ple who have even one foot of land
and who do not raise any flowers.
Just as a back yard full of rubbish
always seems to me to suggest a rub
bishy soul, and a barren back yard
a more or less desolate character, so
a back yard running over with flowers
seems to cry out that in this house
dwell beauty and peace and content.
For myself, I have already planned
out just where the pansies are to be
thus summer, and the hollyhocks, and
the sweet-williams, and the nastur
tims, and the roses.
1 get out at'ter breakfast and by
nine o'clock the sweat is pouring
down every degree of my longitude. 1
rejoice. I say to my soul, "Surely,
soul, every drop of this sweat that
rolls out of your system lengthens
your life." I feel my neck getting
sunburned, and I do not care. It is
as if health were being poured into
me from the great source of all health,
as power is poured into a storage
battery.
And Sundays, after church, I take
a book and lie down In the midst of
my flowers, and look at the marvel of
their coloring*, and wonder how it is
that out of the little black seeds I
planted could have come such yellows
and reds and purples and greens.
And people go by and see me
stretched there, and I hear them tell
each other that I am a fellow from
New York who is sort of lazy, and
who must have married a rich wife,
as he never does any work.
And then I turn over and listen to
the much more satisfying conversa
tion of the flowers, who bend their
heads and whisper in my ear:
"Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they toil not, neither do
they spin; And yet I say unto you.
That even Solomon in all liia glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass
of the field, which to-day is, and to
morrow is cast into the oven, shall he
not much more clothe you, O ye of
little faith? . . . Take therefore no
thought for the morrow: for the mor
row shall take thought for the things
of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof." —Bruce Barton in Every
Week.
A Bad War For Prophets
Prophesying about the Great War
for a newspaper has been hectic enough
to call into play all the mental agility
usually granted to mortals. Prophesy
ing for a magazine has been even
worse. As, for instance, the Slavic
expert of the redoubtable "Nineteenth
Century" has this to say in the cur
rent March number of the political
situation in Russia:
"But there is little talk of revolu
tion, no real fear exists of such an up
heaval as that which occurred in 1900
during the Russo-Japanese war. . . .
The Progressive or 'Liberal' element,
by far the biggest factor in Russian
politics, sharply dissociates itself from
all thought of a revolution
What we must bear in mind is that
the Progressive movement in Russia is
national in spirit, constitutional in its
aims, and unmistakably loyal to the
Czar." i
Not even the German prophets who
fixed the day, hour and minute when
Verdun was to fall went further
astray. The only other English proph
ecy worth putting with it is that of
Winston Churchill, who saw the Galli
poli fight as good as won just when it
was a hopeless failure. The one suc
cessful prophecy by a public officer
of any country still stands to the
credit of K. of K. His "three-year
war" camo at a time when such a pro
longed light seemed preposterously
gloomy. It was a sound guess and a
bold one to utter, and sorely needed
by his nation. Now that his minimum
period is nearlng completion, the
other prophets of the war, major and
minor, may well take off their hats to
the memory of the one prophet who
made a colossal, affirmative predic
tion, in the teeth of popular opinion,
and guessed aright.—New York Trl
, bun*.
herself to-day. With the money wrung
from Belgian towns, Germany paid,
and pays, her army of occupancy.
With labor forced upon imported and
enslaved Belgians, Germany fortifies
herself against her enemies. The coal
dug from Belgian mines is Germany's
bait for the friendship of Switzerland.
And now the pope of Rome asks the
children of the United States for a cup
of milk to keep the children of Bel
gium from starving.
The forlorn irony of it, the ac
quiescence of the neutral nations in it,
shadows the civilized world; but the
soul of Belgium lives. In every wasted
little body this soul survives ill usage
and ill will. The Christian children
thrown to the beasts cemented with
their innocent blood the indestructible
edifice of Christianity.—Agnes Rep
plier in the Atlantic Monthly.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
jP HIS COLLEGE
EDUCATION.
How's your boy
getting on in col-
Not well. They
batted him out
ifin the box in tho
ADRIFT.
I hear you have ~A
a bungalow at the
jWY Inß
I did have, but \
there was an un- Ml i N
usually high tide JJ/ 5 |
the other day, | I
and now I've got f I f
a houseboat. J
§„ M A CRIMINAL
LAWYER.
<ft\® Crooke I? a
If criminal lawyer,
iT l\ lßn,t he?
HI * He's a lawyer,
but as to his be
ing criminal, I
think he's too
f \ IP*"*— careful to quite
overstep the line.
NOTHING f
Toung HUB- J
band Darling, _/s/v
I have a confes- ' *(fm Hn
s!on to make. M
My jplary is 30 yl
per cent, less v iJJM'Sflßf' •
than I told you /jfj j
before we were / >1 1
married! ijj !j
that's all right, //7T >•■ li
Arthur. I cal- it/ O
culated on fifty. *
-I !] 2*7? LOOKS FINB.
jfeu j ' A thing of beauty
V 4 is a joy,
II High in the
! '.I place the hand
-1 some soldier
„ —**- Seen on the
NOT GREATLT
AFFECTED. ViJ 'Sfjjito
The doctor says /f&jjmMßi
these clothes will \7 /■ / i5fWW®
ruin my health. P-~J'bfl \tlfnfcllj4
What of it, my W Tjli
dear? i) U Iftl ]jM
I didn't suppose fj/ij *3
the old fogy ever '), fl
noticed the styles. —v
fTHE AMATEUR.
Do you ever
hear anything ot
Smith, who re
tired from busi
ness last year and
bought a farm?
Oh, yes. He had
to go back to
work to support
the farm.
Ebpning (ftfyal
The busiest people in the Stato In
Hie rush of preparedness that has
taken hold of almost every line of ac
tivity are the commanders of various
units of the National Guard who aro
busy checking up their men so that
they will be able to turn out with full
strength on their rolls in the event of
n. call to active service. When Wio
organizations started for El Paso they
contained many men who were enlist- A
ed while tlio units were at Mt. Gretna *
or who were added to them after they
reached the border through the re
cruiting work that followed up in tlio
State. When they returned these men
scattered to their homes although car
ried on the rolls, and many of them
have been unable to attend drills with
their commands, although it is under
stood that qulto a few looked in on
tile drills of organizations where they
happened to be or else got transfers.
Now when things commence to look ns
though the National Guardsmen would
be called to duty again the comman
ders are getting into touch with these
men so that they will be able to sum
mon them when the time comes. In
this section most of the men como
from the immediate territory and
those who are some little distanco
away have been communicating with
their commanders.
One of the problems that, will bo
left for people of communities to solvo
in the event of war will bo the "homo
guards." The regulars and National
Guardsmen will go into the first lino
with reserve recruit establishments in
the Stato to keep tlio Guard regiments
up to strength. Then there will bo
a volunteer army which will be raised
independent of the regulars and the
Guardsmen. This army will probably
furnisli guards for such plants as
Steelton and the railroad bridges. The
protection of railroad stations, bridges,
factories, water works and the numer
ous other establishments will be left
to local authorities. In New England
what are called "Homo Guards" are
being organized for this purpose. They
arc auxiliaries to police forces anil
somewhat like a sheriff's posso. Citi
zens not going into the service make
them up and they are for emer
gencies.
• •
A man familiar with the scheme of
the Home Guard outlined it as some
thing like this: "Take Harrisburg, for
instance. You have a number of men
who know the city and its activities
and the kinds of people it lias. Well
there would be a meeting at which a
committee on home defense would
bo named and it would then proceed
to form units. Wen whose business
and residence made them familiar
with a certain section of the city
would be enrolled in the unit charged
with duty of turning out to protect
the important places in that part of
the city. These men would not be on
guard duty except when called. If
there should be an outbreak of vio
lence of any kind they would he called
to their stations. What they would
liave to do would be to hold meet
ings, learn their duties, engage in
practice and meet a couple of times a
week to be ready. They would be
armed and each man would be re
quired, if things go tense, to have
their arms handy. The Home Guard
is an organized force against emer
gencies. I look to see them formed in
every city in the country."
• •
An extremely interesting document
in support of teachers' retirement leg
islation has been sent to the State
Capitol for the edification of the mem
bers of the General Assembly. Thi*
document was prepared by a commit
tee which has given exhaustive study
to the subject. When it was distrib
uted among the legislators there was
more or less dismay. The reason was
that the proof of the statment was
made by algebra.
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Veterans of the Civil War are hav
ing the time of their lives just now
inspiring the younger generation in
the crisis with Germany. Some of the
veterans have been calling upon young
men of their acquaintance to ask them
what they are goinS to do about it and
they recall the lively days of the great
struggle when they marched to the
mustering offices. Harrisburg was one
of the big gathering points for sol
diers for miles around and many a
regiment was sent forward from this
city.
• • •
Men who work in the Lalancc and
Grosjean tin plate mills assert that
spring is surely coming to Harrisburg
and that it will not bo long until there
will be signs as indubitable as tlio
discovery of the first liver wort in
Wildwood Park by Dr. John H. Fager.
These men say that upon several oc
casions lately, along toward sundown,
they have heard the bullfrogs in the
marshy spots in Hoffman's woods.
Local tradition is bound to be vindi
cated.
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Harrisburg appears to have an un
usual number of bark and herb men
working this year and somehow or
other they have Capitol Hill on their
routes. Several men with fragrant
baskets of sassafras and other spring
tonic materials visited the Capitol
yesterday and to-day.
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] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Colonel H. C. Trexler, the cement
magnate, is near the age limit for
army work but says he Is willing to
waive all that.
—Senator W. C. McKec, of Pitts
burgh, is colonel of the First Artillery
and a. great advocate of proper train
ing of young men.
—Congressman O. D. Bleakley,
whose election may be attacked, says
he will fly to Washington to attend
the sessions if needed.
—The Rev. J. J. Boyle, prominent
Altoona clergyman, is spending a few
days at the seashore.
—Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Nor
ristown, who has been ill, has recov
ered and will be a candidate again.
1 DO YOU KNOW ~~
That Dauphin county steel is
being used for Russian railroad
work ?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In every war Harrisburg has sent
organizations for service on the first
call.
v
What May Be Said of God
(Thomas llobbcs.)
For as much as God Almighty is in
comprehensible, it followeth that we
can have no conception or image of
the Deity: and consequently all his at
tributes signify our inability and defect
of power to conceive anything con
cerning his nature; and not any con
ception of the same, savo only this:
That thero is a God, for the effects w*
acknowledge naturally do include ft
power of their producing before
were produced, and that power pre
supposetli something existent that
hath such power, and the thing so
existing with power to produce, if it
were not eternal, must needs havo
been produced by something beforo
that, till wo como to the Eternal, that
is to say, the first power of all powers
and first causd of all causes, and this
it is which all men conceive by the
name of God, implying eternity, in
comprehensibility and omnipotcncy.
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