6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGnAPH PRINTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ■E.J. ST AC K POLE, Prts't 6r Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Entered at the l'ost Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as sjcond class matter. /ggessgjv. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. $5.00 "-sues®'-' a year in advance. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1017. Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! — John Quincy ADAMS. CONSISTENCY? CONGRESS and the President proposes to waste 11,000,000 loaves of bread daily In order that beer drinkers may have their daily "ration." Congress and the President have made it a penitentiary offense to sell a glass of liquor to a uniformed sol dier and propose to make a patriotic virtue of selling the same liquor* to a civilian, who to-morrow may be, and likely will be, a soldiei;. Consistency? SAVING SIOO,OOO YEARLY WHEN the Berks-Dauphin turn pike is dcelared free and open to the public about August 1 the people of Pennsylvania will be gin to save not less than sl-00,000 annually, because the $1.02 charged through travelers between Reading and Harrisburg totaled not less than that sum each year. The State, to gether with Berks, Lebanon and Dauphin counties, has bought the old pike for $70,000. The Investment, it will be seen, is a good one. The elimination of this toll road Is a monument to what can be done through concerted action on the part of organized forces. Opposition to the turnpike had existed for many years, but individual effort failed to free the thoroughfate. A number of months ago the Harrisburg Motor Club, through its efficient secretary, J. C. Myton, began a campaign against the pike, being joined by Lebanon and Reading motor forces. The pike company was haled before the Public Service Commission and ordered to improve the road accord ing to State Highway Department specifications. The William Penn Highway Association, organized for work about a year ago, Joined in the campaign against the pike peo ple. As a result of the force brought to bear the State will shortly possess this hitherto tollroad in its entirety; and travelers on the William Penn Highway will no longer suffer the $1.02 gouge which drove much traf fic to other sections of the" State. The William Penn Highway As sociation aided materially in the en actment of legislation of benefit to road users of Pennsylvania. It ob tained passage of a law intended to shorten the Penn way fifteen miles' between Harrisburg and Newport. Its influence was used in favor of the $50,000,000 bond issue, to which It stands committed. The same influ ence was used in support of the measures which permit State aid to boroughs, and which also enable counties and their municipal subdi visions to spend dollar for dollar •with the State in tho construction of permanent highways. FAIR PLAY THE President has promulgated his draft and exemption regu lations and a careful perusal of them will convince the reader that those who helped him frame them have made an earnest effort to deal fairly with the men of military age who come under the conscription act. The President includes a para graph of precaution to members of exemption boards, calling their at tention to the necessity of an abso lutely fair and Impartial adminis tration of the rules laid down. This was hardly necessary. The exemp tion regulations themselves are such as to safeguard 'n every possible way the Interests of the Individual and leave little to the discretion of those actually in charge of the work. But evfen without that, the cal iber of the men named for this im portant work is such as to warrant fair-dealing, notwithstanding the near-treason of those politicians who have been trying to make political capital out of the most sacred duty the citizenry of this Commonwealth has been called upon to perform in more than fifty years. These are the same character-assassins who for a decade have been murdering the reputations of decent men when ever opportunity offered, in the mis taken notion that In some myster ious way they might win public favor thereby. They have been re pudiated by the Bubllc so they might have acquired better sense, were they capable of It, and their present efforts do no more than bespatter themselves with the mire tn which they wallow. / The exemption boards In every (Istrlct know that the eye of the public is upon them. Doubtless, they TUESDAY EVENING, desire nothing more than to perform their work to the best of their abil ity, but even though here *nd there might be found one who would like to favor a friend, he knows that a single misstep would bring down upon him the condemnation of all who know him. There are few, if any, who would take such a risk. The President need not fear. The exemption boards will be as fair In the administration of the rules as he has been in fram'ng them, at least so far as Pennsylvania Is concern ed. THE FOURTH OF JULY WE COME to understand, in this year of fateful decision, more of what the Fourth of July, means to America than we ever knew before. Upon the threshold of another such conflict as that in which our forefathers risked their all for the cause of liberty upon this continent, we begin to comprehend the magnitude of their sacrifice and the high purpose that prompted it. All over the eastern and southern sections of the United States there are nameless, unmarked graves of those who stepped forth and bared their breasts to, the barb of death that we might inherit the blessings of freedom and liberty to a degree unknown elsewhere throughout the world. Harrisburg will have no public celebration to-morrow, but that does not mean It will not observe the day. If there be no booming of cannon, no blare of bands or speeches of the spread eagle variety, there will be many quiet little family reunions throughout this city and vicinity that will mean more than all the mass meetings and parades the city ever has held. In these family cir cles will be gathered the hundreds of young men who will go away shortly to face the hazards of war beyond the ocean with the high In tent of making world-wide t' 1 bless ings of freedom which their ances tors wrought foi them upon this continent. Somehow, across the long reaches of the years, we have caught the Spirit of '76. Washington, Lafay ette and others of heroic stature who forged the structure of American liberties, those heroes who made real the dream of a "government of th® people, by the people and for the people," have come very near to us. No longer are they mere figures in the realms of history, dimly dis cerned and little understood. In a moment they have become our fel lows of great enterprise. Suddenly they have stepped down from the pedestals of fame to be our com rades In the service of God and hu manity. There is no mystery about them now. We know why they left home and fireside and all they held dear; why they relinquished person al ambition and forsook riches and high places and pleasure to up arms against tyranny and oppres sion, for we have entered upon just such a duty; we too have heard the voice of the tyrant commanding freemen to don the chains of serfs; we too have heard the cry of Free dom for succor, and as wo draw our swords our answer Is, "We come." We have wandered, at times, far from the altars of our fathers; we have worshiped the golden calf; we have wasted our patrimony; we have lingered long beside fountains of folly and In the pleasant valleys of forgetfulness. But all that Is be hind us. We are back home again. Liberty beckons. We have "sounded forth ttoe trumpet that shall never call retreat." We stand where our fathers stood. We are as one with Washington. At last we know fully and com pletely what the Fourth of July really means. INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS CONGRESS should adopt the President's plan for the' Insur ance of soldiers. The men who go into the trenches ought to have the same right to insurance protection as the men who labor In munition factories or on the rail roads or on shipboard The thought is now, but with the backing of the government there should be no trouble In working It out. Very prop erly those back of the movement In vited the big insurance companies of the country to participate in it, and quite as properly these Insurance concerns declined. It -was right that private business be given opportun ity to take these risks if so Inclined, but It Is to the credit of those In control of the large life companies that they declined to Jeopardize their holdings by the assumption of possible losses, the extent of which nobody can estimate. This is a mat ter for the government and the whole country will unite in giving those who devised the soldier In surance plan the credit they deserve if they succeed in working it out. fetu: C* £*- By the Ex-Commltteeman Decision by Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh on a plan suggested for a general shakeup of the personnel of the State governmental offices is expected to be made within a few days. This plan was conceived after the Chicago convention last year, hut the Governor declined to agree to It and surprisingly few changes, considering the' developments at the convention, followed. The Governor also refused to go as far as his close supporters desired just before the Legislature organized, but It is now sairl that he is more of a mind to reward the followers of men who stood by him in the stormy days of the session Just closed. Just where the changes will be made no one can say just yet, but if there are any men not of admin istration leanings in departments whose chiefs were not confirmed by the Senate they may have trouble holding down their chairs. The At torney General's Department has studied the whole proposition of gubernatorial appointments and the Governor will He backed up if he re appoints men to positions for which they were rejected. Auditor General C. A. Snyder will demand authority for payment and may stand a law suit. Commissions for the men con firmed are being made out rapidly and most of them will be sworn in by the end of the week. Charles E. Patton, former Secre tarv of Agriculture, left for his home in Clearfield county. It is believed he will bo chosen as secretary by the commission which the Governor will name after he approves theWhitaker bill. —A. Mitchell Palmer was yester day called a plain liar by Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, in the discus sion of the exemption boards. Mr. Palmer was also given a dressing down by Congressman Griest, who said that as far as Lancaster is con cerned the charges are untrue, while Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading, said that In Berks Democrats predominated. Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, has quit the board In his city, saying that the Governor removed thirty four of his appointees, while Sherifl Buss, of Luzerne, resigned because of disagreement over a board. —Mavor Smith continues to shake up the Philadelphia magistrates. The Mayor has refused to accept resig nation of one magistrate and says all must serve, at tho central sta tion. —The Philadelphia Inquirer ex presses the belief that the Philadel phia factions will not have a row over the county offices in that seeth ing section of the state. It is gen erally believed that the danger of a split will get the leaders together. —Thomas J. Evans was yesterday elected clerk to the county commis sioners of Schuylkill county to suc ceed Paul W. Houclt, the new Sec retary of Internal Affairs. Patrick J. Brennan, of Shenandoah, succeed ed Evans as assistant clerk. —Berks and Schuylkill Republic ans are rather keen over the com pensation referee place which Mr. Houck will give up. The Governor will probably name a Schuylkill man, it is said. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Phil adelphia, came here yesterday after noon with Director of Transit Tweln ing and secured an advancement of the date for the hearing on the Chestnut street subway application from August 2 to July 19. It is said that the Mayor hoped for some ac tion on the whole proposition. —Frank H. Riegel has been ap pointed jury commissioner of North ampton county. —Reading Socialists have had their summer party. They have named a whole ticket with munici pal ownership and various other things. Now For Hard Coal Those ancient fictions that have been used by the coal operators ever since before the great coal strike, when one of their number sprung into notoriety by claiming that be and his srroup were especially dele gated by the Almighty to control the coal and to disburse it, aro still be ing used. But the food measure with a stringent coal clauso will sottla their cases for them. They now point with equanimity to an increase of fifty-five cents per ton over the price of hard coal last year and say it costs this much more to mine it. No one for a moment believes the miners deserve anything like this increase. Moreover, the prices of Isst winter were exorbitant and con ceived for wholesale robbery. Any extenuating of these prices or those now prevailing would cause a pro test throughout the country. Those prices have got to come down. The operators -have been oloso hitched in soft coal prices. And the.y will be close hitched in refer ence to the bard coal prices, For this is the coal for the people. The professionally predatory controllers of the coal output no longer may hopo to hoodwink the public by their ancient lies and subterfuges The price of hard coal has got to take a good hard drop—enough to make the operators feel the thud if they will not respect sentiment. — Baltimore American. Lincoln's Ghost Walks There are no ghosts, you £ay. To haunt her blazo of light; No shadows In her day. No phantoms in her night, Columbus' tattered sail Has passed beyond her hail. You'll meet In Salem town No silver-buckled shoon; No lovely witch to drown. Or burn beneath the moon; Not even a whiff of tea. On Boston's Khostly quay. • • • * • No ghosts where Lincoln fell? No gho3ts for Beeing eyes? I know an old cracked bell Shall mnke ten million rise, When his hnmortal ghost Shall call the slumbering host. Krom "Ohosts of the New World," by Alfred Noyes, In the Bookman. Next Excess Desired Registration estimate exceeded; Liberty Loan allotment oversub scribed: Red Cross quota more than raised. Now let's see if we can't get our share of recruits. —Concord Monitor, TTARHISBURG TELEGRAPH CELEBRATIONS HAVE CHANGED By BRIGGS SOME. WHERE SOMEWHERE IN '/ IM AMERICA FRANCE? TODAY / F' < FIFTEEN V LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks the TELEGRAPH To the Editor of the Telegraph: May I thank you for voicing 80 splendidly my own views on the liquor question as you did in your magnificent editorial of last Satur day. It ought to have been read from every pulpit in the State. There was a time, I will admit, when some of your critics in this city had me fooled. I thought they were everything that is virtuous and that you were, as they said, anything but what you pretended to be. That time is past. When I see you defying the bosses in your own party to fight for local option I rejoice. When I see those who have been trying to per suade me that you wore a cloven hoof displaying that same cloven hoof themselves' X know that I have been deluded. It requires trying times like these to bring out the truth. I almost shed tears for the man in the White House who has thrown aside the best chance for immortal famo since the days of Lincoln and I repudiate once and for all the little politicians who pre tend to be for the best interests of this community and who cast aside their angel robes and stand reveal ed for the imps they are because they have not the courage to go against their party. Don't be dis couraged, keep the good work up and rest assured that the people of this city know now if they never did before who is sincere and who is the false prophet in this neck of the woods. SINCERITY. "Keep Hammering Away" To the Editor of the Telegraph: I want to express to you my ap proval and congratulations upon your ringing editorial in Saturday evening's issue, headed President Wilson—Wet. The situation is so fuly set forth, that v comment Is hardly necessary, but effort must "not be abated if the outrage sought to bo perpetrated is to be defeated. So, keep hammering away. What "boots it" if the housewife is urged to join the National League of American Women for JTood Conser vation, If the brewer is- allowed to continue the manufacture of malt liquors? Ip other words, we are ask ed to do with so much less wheat or other grains, that the beer guslers may have their daily allowance of that which ruins body and soul, and too often puts them on the public charge. Shame on us as a Nation, if we permit the adoption of such a policy. So, again I say, keep ham mering away, and the sentiment of the thinking people may be so aroused, as to have some influence on the authorities at Washington. This, 'it least, is the hope of one who brieves in CONSISTENCY. Bread and "Booze" To the Editor of the Telegraph: You're right. "All hell's poppin' and no pitch hot" for the fellows who are trying to defend Congress and the President and are pretend ing to be temperance people while they are helping tt> rob the people of bread so that the lager beer swlll ers may "take a bath In beer," as you so well put it. The people are going to remember these hypocrites who have been telling the public they are ,for prohibition and who are wet to the core. Will they be lieve them the next time they start going around the State telling folks they are for local option and that they hate booze? No, No. They will give them the merry ha, ha, and ask them what they did when they could have used their influence with the President to help make the country dry. Don't let them fool you oven if they do, as you say, call you "hard names." Remember "sticks and stones would break my bones but hard words won't hurt me." And they won't hurt you. But they will make you friends. A. K. T. Labor Notes - N A wealthy native of India has given a fund of (5,000 a year for fifteen years to aid In suppressing ti)berculosls in Bombay. Barbers of Edmonton, Canada, have asked the c|ty solocltor to prepare a by-law limiting their working hours from 6 a. m. to 8 p. m„ dally, and until 10 p. m. Saturdays and days preceding holidays. Prestdent Gompers has issued a call to the forty-nine unions of Federal employes affiliated with A. F. of L to elect representatives to a convention which will be held in A. F. of L. Building, September 17, for the pur pose of organizing a national union. THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG and Some Personal Fourth of July ReminiscenQes Rev. 11. C. HoUowny, D. D, THE struggle between the legions <f Caesar and Pompey on the plains of Pharsalia was not more decisive of the destiny of Rome than was the battle of Gettysburg in de ciding the destiny of the Confederacy. Many bloody battles were fought thereafter between the Union and the Confederate armies before the war ended, solely*because the most earnest and the most heroic of all the peoples of the world were engaged in fra ternal conflict, and surrender was un thought of while battle could be waged. After all the bloody conflicts between the armies of Grant and Lea and Sherman and Johnson, in 1864, Appomattox was simply the ecno of ' Gettysburg. Mr. Pollard, in his "History of the Civil War," who was often tlie severe critic of Davis, but always the ardent supporter of the Confederate cause, states that Stephens, by verbal in structions, was "fully empowered In certain contingencies, to propose peace; that President Davis had sent him on this extraordinary visit to Washington anticipating a great vic tory of Lee's arniv in Pennsylvania, but the real design of the commis sioner was disconcerted by the fatal day at Gettysburg, which occurred when Stephens was near Fortress Monroe," and that it was "in the Insolent moments of this Federal suc cess that he was sharply rebuffed by the Washington authorities. Thus Is the evidence cumulative from every side that the Gettysburg campaign was dictated solely by the inexora ble necessity of gaining the recogni tion of foreign governments for the Confederacy. Much discussion has* been inspired and many conflicting views presented as to the considerations which decided the Confederate leaders to inaugurate the total Gettysburg campaign. The one paramount reason, no doubt, was the necessity for the Confederacy to gain the recognition of England and France, and the Gettysburg campaign was solely the result of that imperi ous necessity. Lee had then the larg est Confederate army in its history, but he well knew, as did the Con federate authorities, that the supply of men was almost entirely exhausted, and that the South could not stand the strain of a long-continued war. If the recognition of the Confederacy by France and England could have been accomplished, it would practic ally have ended the war, as the North would have toeen unable to maintain the conflict with such odds against it. The campaign was most carefully planned, and It was expected that Lee should cross the Potomac east of the Blue Ridge, defeat the Union army In battle, and thus open the way for the speedy capture of Baltimore and Washington. Could that have been achieved there is little doubt that England and France would have promptly recognized the Confederacy. I.nuked For Snccriw But, while the question of winning recognition from England and France made an aggressive movement neces sary on the part of the Confederacy, there were other reasons which. In the opinion of the Southern leaders, fully warranted the belief that the chances were largely in favor of the complete success of such a campaign. The officers and men of Lee's army firmly believed that they could defeat the Army of the Potomac wnerever they might be brought face to face In battle. They greatly underestimated the valor and fighting qualities ol tne Northern troops, who had been com pelled to fight Lee's army in chosen positions which often largely out weighed all the Union army's advan tage in numbers. In addition to tne confidence that the Southern leaders all felt in ths success of Lee's army liu.any battle with the Army of the Potothac, tnerc was, in the Judgment of most of them a strong incentive to a campaign of invasion in what they regarded as a divided sentiment in the Ndrth thai would be developed into revolutionary action by the success of Lee's army In a battle on Pennsylvania or Maryland sell. General Lee himself refers rath er vaguely to tilts condition that cer tainly was regarded as one of the strong arguments in favor of the movement in his official report of the Pennsylvania campaign. After stat ing the military reasons for the movement, he adds: "In addition to these results, It was hoped that other valuable results might be attained by military success." But military suc cess failed. what I have to say In a reminis cent way Is based on personal expe rience, for I was then a student In the theological seminary at Gettysburg and witnessed the. battle from the opening to Its close. L First Dny'a Fight On the morning of July 1 a few of us students were seated on the plazzn of thfc seminary building when two cavalrymen of the Union army came dashing up and reouested to be di rected to the top of the building. 1 led the way, &nd upon reaching the cupola these officers floated a small flag to the bree2e. I discovered later that one of these men was General Buford and the other one of his aid*. There was a good deal of picket fir- I ing and the music of the musket balls was unmistakable proof that the reb els were not far away. Then, in the distance,, on the Chambersburg pike, came to* view a brass cannon, and instantly there was the roar of a can non shot; and bang! goes crashing through the roof of the cupola In which we were standing, a large solid shot. My objective point was the irapdoor and without delay I made my way to greater safety. I crawled to the north gable window of-the building, but here I could not remain and hope' to live for shot and shell CHine thick and fast, crashing into the building. I hastened down to the first floor and found plenty to do. Pro viding myself with pitcher and glass from my room, I was soon busy in of fices of mercy, supplying the wounded and dying with water. While in a kneeling posture between two wound ed men, a shell struck the tree under which they were lying and exploded. The consequent concussion of air was so great that it threw me prostrate on the one man, while the other was pierced through his body with parts of the shell. My clothes were exten sively stained with the dying man's I continued my work of mercy, get ting my water supply from the pump in the rear of tiie seminary, which was on the firing-line. At this juncture a surgeon ap proached and said: "I admire your courage and gdbd work, but it is ap parent that we must retreat from this point, and, should you fall Into the hands of the rebels, you will not be able to explain to them wny you are here In citizen's dress; my advice Is, go over to town." Believing the surgeon's word well spoaen, 1 made the effort. And if one had seen me run for the town, he would have been constrained to wonder what the Psalmist meant when he said, "The Lord taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man," for I did. Shot and shell gave abundant Inspiration, even to a fleet-footed youth, and success crowned the effort. The strength and fury of the first day's battle were now on. Our little Spartan band being so hard pressed by fearful odds was about giving way on our right, when a portion of the Eleventh corps hurried through the town and came to the rescue. The re inforcements were two divisions under Generals Schurz and Barlow. By this support tlie tide or battle was stayed, but Increased its fury so that the very earth trembled. An hour later, however, the tide of battle turned and the Union army, overwhelmed by numbers, began to retreat to the south of Gettysburg. "That's the way we drive the blue beilled Yanks,'^exclaimed a rebel of ficer, with an air or triumph, to the writer. "Where are you driving them to?" I Inquired. "To Baltimore and Washington! and all h—l can't keep us from it," was his reply. Despair nnd Hope The painf:il fact had now settled Itself upon our protesting convictions that our ariny had retreated and we were under rebel dominion. We had no means of knowing how far our men had gone, but for the fact that the rebels did not continue their pur suit beyond the town we concluded our army was not far away. Our task wft£ at our doors and In our homes, public buildings and churches. The wounded and dying and dead were everywhere. The very atmos phere seemed impregnated with an guish and pain. Nothing that love and courage and a generous hospital ity fcould suggest was spared bv the citizens of Gettysburg In their devo tion to the wounded and dying. Many gave up their comfortable beds to the wounded soldiers and nursed them with tender cara as they wbuld a member of their own household. In our broken sleep on the hard floor we saw visions and dreamed dreams. The good angels seemed to have for saken us, and the best thihg to do was to continue our ministries of mercy among the wounded and dying. Until four In the afternoon there was not much fighting during the second day, save between the pickets. But before the day was over there were many bloody encounters. Leonl das and his three hundrd Spartans at the Pass of Thermopyle, In their at tempt to stem the tide of Persian invasion of Greece, deserve no greater celebrity for bravery than the hoys In blue on the heights of Gettys burg. The second day's battle con tinued until after nightfall. The storms of battle that raged over and through the town made day and night hideous. Hclirlfi Not Confident ' Our second ni?ht In the embracf of the Confederate army did not dif fer materially from the first. To us who were ministering to the needs of our heroes, the success of our arms seemed doubtful. This our new nelßhbors would have us believe. They were worse than Job's comforters. Rut now and then we could snatch from their subdued conversation words and expresslons'thnt save us some hope that not all was lost. "The Yankees have a good position and wo JULY 3, 1917. must drive them out to-morrow," they were heard to say. During Thursday night much dis quietude was manifest among the rebels. Their forces did not lie down to rest, but were marshaled; many changes were made and the battle lines were Improved. Commanders and men seemed to realize that the next day, Friday, would decide the fate of the mighty conflict. Before, the full dawn of the day the roar of battle was heai d in greater than-thunder tones, sc ighty hosts, inspired with mighty villa, were ar rayed against each ot'.ier. The con centration of nerve and heart and military prowess plead mightily for victory. The world long since has learned the result of that day's con flict. Pickett's charge closed the three-days' battle. The scones that followed proved that "war is hell." The tlrst day's battle was the day of the rebel's triumph; the second ended without securing them any decided advantage; it was rather ominous of disaster, yet they seemed in a meas ure hopeful; but the third closed leav ing them repulsed at every point and broken in heart. By 3 a. m. Saturday, July 4, all the enemy had withdrawn from the town. The morning dawned upon us with the rebels gone; and there, and every where, came the bluecoats marching and tilling up the streets! Bands were playing, people were praying, tears of jov filled the faces of all, and the shouts of victory and triumph tilled the air. The drenching rain ceased, the heavy clouds broke away, and the sun, as with renewed splendor, shone out of the eastern sky. Heaven seemed to smile upon the l changed scene, and with fervent prayer we thanked God that our flag, baptized and rcbaptized with the best blood that was ever shed in freedom's cause, floated over us again. There remains much more to be said, but this might weary. The world will never know the extent of suffer ing and woe that were endured on the lioiKlits and in the lowlands about Gettysburg that this nation might live. And now, how changed the scene of that once bloody fleld! Kind nature has covered the track of deso lation made by war. Science and art, with munificent and lavish hands, have beautified and adorned, in honor of the dead, *the heights where sleep our noble heroes. "Patriots have tolled and in their country's cause Bled nobly, and their deeds, as they deserve, Receive proud recompense. We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse. Proud of her treasure, marches with it down To latest time; and sculpture, in her turn. Gives bond in stone and ever-endur ing brass, To guard them and Immortalize her trust." 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH AN EXCEP TION. I Mrs. Knagg: \ "VN VA After all, I sup- *•>. y Jwgfli pose we're about ejjmS* as happy as atiy mafu bjjjwM married couple. IhWwK ■ Mr. Knagg: jf fllllWi itff. Just about. The M hH|[W (([ lJj SljV only married I mD|I Ml ll| |W couple I know ] Mill 1/ ill ft" that's any hap- / 111 U pier have lived ||j|j J | apart for the fGOOD ADVICE. Every time 1 tako a vacation I get lonesome for my work. What kind of work do you do? I'm a chlrop- Why don't you spend your va cation in a corn- A TOUCH NIPPED IN THE BUD. "Say, boas, I have seen better days." "I don't like the weather we ar Vkvln*. trivialf." ©fitting Qlffal Some idea of Pennsylva nia Railroad Is preparing: for may be gained by observing the construction work under way between this city and Philadelphia, where the im mense amount of traffic drawn from the many states tapped by the sys tem concentrates. Beginning at Highspire, where there is a new yard being laid out, there is work under way every ten or fifteen miles. Ex tensive changes are being made in the Lancaster district and at Parkes burg the grading is finished for a new yard. Additional facilities for handling what comes off the low grade are being constructed and right outside of Philadelphia a yard of vast extent is under contract and men and machinery are working to get it ready. The traffic on the Pennsylvania is assuming propor tions which would have been deemed incredible a few years ago and th<j company is getting ready to meet still greater business. All of this will add to this city's importance as a railroad center. When fall time comes and the boys of the city turn from outdoor life to Indoors for most of their amusements and recreations, they will find at their disposal a new boys' department at the Y. M. C. A. Secretary Reeves and Physical Di rector Miller are working out the details, apd it is likely that a large room on the second floor will be set aside especially for the boys and Mr. Miller already is planning spe cial classes for them. By next spring it is believed boys' work will be one of the best features of the local as sociation, which for many years past has had no boya' department worthy of the name. Mr. Reeves Is bringing: new life Into the local association every day. One of the best things he has done since his arrival has been to open the association privileges to every soldier in the city, free of cost. They greatly appreciate this and every day many of them use the shower baths, the reading rooms and the desks for personal correspondence. The little camps about Harrisburg do not have many accommodations and hereto fore the soldiers had to do their bathing as best they could. Now. however, the tubs, shower and nee dle baths of the association are at their disposal and almost every hour of the day sees some group of men in uniform taking advantage there of. • •' * Edson J. Hockenbury, speaking before the Rotary Club on Monday, bespoke the support of that organi zation for Mr. Reeves, and the good work he is doing here. "The time will come when Mr. Reeves will put on a membership campaign, when he will ask for men and for money," said Mr. Hockenbury, "and I hops when that times comes he will have the influence of this powerful or ganization as heartily behind him as those who planned the Liberty Loan, the Red Cross and the Boy Scout campaigns had behind them. I have known Mr. Reeves for many years. I had no hand in bringing him to Harrisburg, but I feel sure that the directors of the local association could not have got a better man, no matter where they might have look ed." • • • The venerable Dr. Thomas J. Fer guson, pastor of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, who presided at the flag presentation there the other day, has been for more than forty years head of this one congre gation. He accepted the call there as a young man just out of college and ever since has been laboring for the development and up-building of that community. "I am not one of those preachers who believe that a pas tor's work ends with ministering to the religious needs of the communi ty. X believe that the influence of the Church for good should extend into every activity of life. Acting on that principle I have taken part In almost every movement for public welfare in this vicinity for more years than I sometimes care to think about." At the moment he was su perintending a canning and preserv ing demonstration conducted by a State College expert in the chapel of his church, thoroughly comdnced that the place of worship was being put to excellent use thereby. The venerable pastor's people evidently thought so, too, for as they filed smilingly out almost every one paus ed for a smile and word with their minister. • • • Many of the roads in Dauphin and Cumberland counties are showing veritable hedges of wild roses in some sections. The roses are all in flower now as summer seems to have really come and they have been not only admired but gathered b visi tors. Flowers along the fences are an attractive feature In a number of counties and there is nothing pret tier than the wild rose of Central I Pennsylvania. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods, who has been ill, was able to come to the city to-day. He will spend the Fourth in Center county. —Senator J. P. McNichol is 53 to-day. •—Dr. F. G. Scharman, secretary of the Cambria County Medical So ciety, has started to enroll the doc tors of his county for war servlco. —Major John C. Qroorae has been giving New York state pointers on how to organize its state police. —Dr. Maltland Alexander, Pitts burgh minister, says future genera tions will bless the course of the United States In war. | DO YOITKNOW That Harrisburg is making more Iron and steel products f now than ever before? HISTORIC IIARRISBURG When Harrisburg became the state capital it had thirty taverns. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J- G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist CHICKEN LICE AND MITES POULTRY raisers must di .ln guish between lice and mites attacking their fowls. Control methods for lice do not affect the mites, and vice versa. Mites attack chickens on roosts at night, then crawl into cracks and crevices during the day. Thorough spraying of poultry houses, roosts and nesting boxes with kerosene is most effective. Follow with whitewash and llme sulphur application. Chicken lice, different from mites, suck the blood from the chickens and often harm young chickens seriously. A tiny bit of blue ointment mixed with equal parts of lard, should bp appMed to the chicken on the back of the head and near the vent.
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