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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.