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SATURDAY. JULY 14, 1917
Who steadfastly pursues his goal
Despite what winds prevail,
A'or loses courage from his soul
Can never wholly fail.
—Susir M. BEST.
PRICE OF PROCRASTINATION
THE government has taken over
one of the pieces of fire appa
ratus built f.or the Harrisburg
Fire Department.
If Commissioner Gross had pur
chased the Are apparatus last year,
when all manner of machinery was
lower in price and before the war
made government confiscation a ne
cessity, Harrisburg now would have
all its engines and pumps and the
government would be confiscating
the property of some othen city.
We are paying the price of pro
crastination.
THORNS OF DELAY
THE watchword, "Too late," which
has marked so many of Eng
land's contributions to the war
is plainly to be attached to the pro
posal to inaugurate a great naval
offensive against Kiel, Heligoland,
Zeebrugge and other German naval
bases.
If the British grand fleet had at
tacked Kiel at the outbreak of the
war, and before its waters were
mined and its land defenses strength
ened, there is no doubt that the Ger
man seapower would have been im
mediately demolished. That Is pos
sible now, but at a far greater cost
than would then have been neces
sary and to which the American
fleet—as Winston Churchill suggests
—will be asked to contribute.
In the event of such a proposal we
can hardly refuse. But we can make
sure that the laboring oar is taken
by our British allies. We imagine
that even Josephus Daniels will in
sist upon this.
IN FIRST LINE TRENCII
THE Republicans in Congress
have done themselves great
credit by the manner in which
they have disregarded partisanship
In support of every measure tending
to strengthen the administration in
the conduct of the war. Not every
measure has been passed in the
form requested, it is true. In fact,
most of the important bills have been
freely discussed and amended, with
manifest improvement as a conse
quence. By debating and perfecting
the measures Congress has helped
rather than hindered the adminis
tration in the ultimate winning of
the war.
The one piece of legislation for
which the administration made the
most persistant tight was the so
csl'.sd spy bill, which would give the
bureaucrats almost absolute power
over free speech and a free press.
Undoubtedly the enactment of that
law in the form desired would re
move many unpleasant features from
the management of the war, but it
would hinder rather than hasten
victory. With the censorship powers
established, we should have had no
exposure of the slaughter of nurses
on American ships by defective
American shells. There would be
no discussion of standardization of
munitions and guns with a view to
securing intercliangeability. There
would be no exposure and no danger
of exposure of neglect in providing
healthful shelter and food for the
eoldiers. There would be a complete
bar to disclosure of favoritism, sec
tionalism, and bad Judgment in the
letting of contracts. With a" law on
the statute books suppressing pub
licity, there wouid be encouragement
of carelessness or fraud. Neither
carelessness nor fraud can win or
help win this war.
When it was proposed in the Sen
ate to ask the War Department for
information regarding the sizes of
guns and shells used, defenders of
the administration protested that this
would be jeopardizing our interests
by giving information to the enemy.
Nothing could be further from the
fact. If Germany wants to know
what size of shells we use, she has
already gained tho information. But
that Information would be useless to
her, for our shells would not fit her
guns, and she has no means of get
ting possession of them until they
are delivered from the muzzles o.f
our guns. When a Republican Sen
ator asked for information regard
inr the lnterchangeablllty of Amer-
SATURDAY EVENING,
ican munitions he rendered a distinct
public service for which he should be
thanked rather than criticized.
An examination of the record will
show that Republicans have been
constructive, patriotic and effective
in their suggestions upon matters
relating to the war. They have some
times been the means of securing
legislation over the obstructive ef
forts of Democrats. Because tho
war places the President and the
members of his cabinet in the lime
light, th assistance rendered by
j members of Congress is frequently
overlooked. But history, when
written impartially, will tell a story
of efficient and patriotic service of
which Republicans will be proud.
TURN OUT
TURN out to-morrow and pay
tribute to the brave men of
Captain Stlne's company who
will leave for their mobilization
point at Chambersburg.
We who remain at home owe a
debt of gratitude to those who take
up the burden and the peril of the
soldier in our behalf. It is a small
thing to rise an hour early Sunday
morning to see these, our neighbors
and friends, off and bid them God
speed with our hopes for a safe and
triumphant return.
Captain Stine is an active and a
useful citizen. He lays down the
duties of business and official life at
the call of the country. Once be
fore he marched away on a some
what similar mission. Some of the
men who went with him then will
be in the company he will lead to
morrow. It is not often that such an
honor comes to any man —to take
part in two wars for the freedom of
the seas, for the great cause of lib
erty and the furtherance of democ
racy. Here is a man who well might
have said he had "done his bit," and
who would have been of great serv
ice at homo during the crisis, but
who has set aside all personal feel
ings and interests to take up the
duties of the man in the trenches.
Soon he and his men will be on the
fighting front in France. Some of
them may not come back. If we
are to do honor to the captain and
the men of Company C we must do
it to-morrow.
Turn out in the civilian corps if
you are not a member of one of the
organizations that will march, and
give the boys a rousing sendoff.
Make them understand that the
folks back home are with them,
heart and soul.
OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN
WHEN our new crop of lieuten
ants leave Niagara, Platts
burg and other officers' train
ing camps to take up their assign
ments with the national army, they
will be "officers and gentlemen" in
the best sense of that classic phrase.
And the second half of the phrase is
held as important as the first in the
United States army. There has been
much marveling on the part of the
public at the number of would-be
officers who have been weeded out
after two or three weeks trial In
camp. There Is a mystery story be
hind many a dismissal of a young
fellow with every indication of be
ing good physical and mental ma
terial. One was told the other day
b>\ a young training-camp officer on
leave.
There was a young man in his
company who had shown first-grade
qualities. He was a fine physical
specimen, a natural executive and
lAuier, and had done faithful
and efficient work. One day some
ladies were watching the drill. As
this man's file came past the drill
sergeant overheard him make a
joking remark about the lady vis
itors that was obscene in its nature.
He was hauled before the command
ant at the close of drill. Others who
overheard the remark were called
as witnesses. He was dishonorably
discharged from camp on the ground
that a man who could make such a
remark about a woman was not a
gentleman and so unfit to be an
American officer.
He might make an ideal colonel of
a Prussian regiment assigned to Bel
gian raid duty, but he won't do to
command Uncle Sam's "Sammies" In
France.
"We don't keep a man, either, who
expresses the slightest wish to go,"
said the officer. "No one is wanted
who Isn't consumed with enthu
siasm And bent on making the high
est mark of efficiency," and nearly all
are men of this caliber. The saddest
trip in the life of many a young
training camp officer is the trip home
attar being honorably discharged be.
cause of some minor physical defect,
and nine-tenths of the young men
who come back are in that class.
These should not be confused with
the few who are weeded out to keep
the morals of the camps u|j to the
high standards required physically.
It is to be hoped that the youngmen
who will be called to the colors to
make up the first great army will
be as well safeguarded as are those
In the officers' encampments.
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By the Ex-Committeemaii
The Democratic row over the re
appointment of Francis Fisher Kane
as United States district attorney
for Eastern Pennsylvania, is grow
ing acute. The people opposed to
him have marshalled quite an im
posing array of names and are said
to have made remarks which may
be forced to a hearing. One the side
of Kane there has lined up Roland
S. Morris, the former State chairman
and prospective ambassador to Ja
pan, who is quoted In the Philadel
phia Record to-day as saying that
he never said anything against Kane.
Morris also said that he would like
to see Kane named again.
The fact that Morris came out and
said that ho "desired" to see Kane
reappointed Indicates that the Dem
ocratic bosses have swung in for
Kane and his reappointment can be
expected. The reappointments of
Berry, Kurtz and others show that
they are still powerful with the
President. If the reappointment is
made, however, a row can be looked
for at the meeting of the State com
mittee next year and an antima
chine State "nomination ticket at the
primary would not be surprising.
—The Democratic Philadelphia
Recoctl to-day summarizes the situ
ation in the matter of the reappoint
ed officials: "Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder, .who was a visitor here
yesterday, persists in hi s determina
tion to hold up the salaries of the
eight Stats officials reappointed by
Governor Brumbaugh after their
confirmation had been refused by the
Senate. The Auditor General will re
fuse to sign the pay warrants of the
eight officials, and as State Treas
urer Kephart is unable to pay them
unless their warrants are signed by
the Auditor General It will be nec
essary for court action to test the
right of the Auditor General to with
hold his signature from the war
rants. In order to clarify his posi
tion on the matter Auditor General
Snyder made it clear that he does
not intend to hold up departmental
requisitions or warrants. Only the
individual warrants of the eight non
confirmed officials will be withheld.
This plan will permit the other em
ployes in the departments of the
eight officials to receive their sala
ries regularly as in the past."
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der, much to the chagrin of many
persons who have been hoping to
stir up trouble, has decided to defer
making appointments until well on
In the autumn. He has named only
a few men since he selected his
chief aids in assuming office and they
have simply been assigned to duty
as clerks without being formally ap
pointed. The Auditor General said a
few days ago that it was his plan
to keep things running and as to the
loyalty of men in his department he
was not losing sleep over anything
like that. There has been much in
quiry, especially among men con
nected with the State administra
tion, about when Mr. Snyder will
name a deputy and when he will do
a number of things with which he is
alone concerned. Without much fuss
the taxation bureau of his depart
ment is going ahead with settlements
and the receipts are expected to make
a fine showing for the first alx
months of the Snyder term. The Au
ditor General says he will make his
appointments "by and by."
—The manner in which nomin
ating petitions fbr associate Judg
ships are commencing to be filed at
the State Department is attracting
attention. The time for circulating
such papers started less than a
fortnight ago, and there are already
almost a dozen on file. The time
limit is August 10 by which time it
is probable that there will be a long
list. There are more associate Judges
to be elected this fall than for years.
—Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
has about 160 bills of general char
acter and probably 400 appropria
tion bills to dispose of before June
28. He has vetoed 106 bills. It is ex
pected that he will clean up appro
priation bills by the end of the com
ing week.
The Army as a College
I wouldn't my army
trick for a similar period- of time in
college, though I never went to col
lege, parttly because of my going
into the army. In truth, the army
proved to be my college. It enabled
mo to get most of what college
would have given and much more
which it could not have given.
In addition to travel, adventure,
physical development, it so turned
out that X obtained much from
books. When I enlisted I was un
educated; on discharge X was fairly
well educated.
The one thing individual soldiers
have in abundance is time. Even on
the firing line, time ofteh hangs
heavily. In camp it overwhelms.
There are hours and hours with
naught to do but await mess calls
and roll calls —those invariable, un
necessary, often senseless, linings up.
The monotony becomes more
fearsome than bullets. If a man
has any inclination toward the print
ed word, he cannot help reading—
provfded he can get anything to
read.
Ofter for \jveeks at a time I read a
book a day. How I obtained them
seems a mystery to me now. They
appeared to fall like manna—they
were mental manna—from the. sky.
Books, papers and magazines in
practice were common property,
each being passed along through a
system of loan and exchange untif
worn to shreds.. Some one sent us a
large supply of old magazines. I've
heard that it was Helen Gould, now
Mrs. Shepard; if so, God bless her!
—Aaron Hardy Ulm in Collier's
Weekly.
• 1917
We have heard the music ringing
From the camps of long ago;
We have seen the allied armies
Tramping forth to meet the foe;
We'll now take up the battle song,
That all the world may know,
That we are marching on!
We have heard the bugles calling
To the sons of other days;
With its stirring notes commanding,
There is time for no delays;
Let's Join with England's lion's roar,
The Yankee eagle's scream,
As we go marching on!
We have heard the voice of wailing,
Belgium writhing in her pain;
And our hearts grow cold with
horror.
At the tales of children slain;
We are marching o'er the sea to
help.
Her freedom to regain,
Old Glory's marching on!
Though half the world's between us,
And many leagues divide;
Our souls are intermingled,
And our hearts are side by side;
You have called to us, f) Belgium!
And the banner of the free,
For you is marching on!
—By W. T. Southwick, Auburn
Prison Convict —With Apologies to
Julia Ward Howe and John H.
Jewett
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"A Message Unto All Nations"
To the Editor of the Telegraph.
See Genesis Xl—ln the land of
Shinar, was Sh m the Son of Noah,
who lived five hundred and two years
after the flood, but during the first
one hundred years of his life before
the flood, his generation in the land
of Shinar began to build a city nam
ed Babel and it was within this city
they had started to build a tower of
brick, whose top was to reach heaven
for a Name of honor unto themselfs.
So God came down and said, they
go unrestrained to do what they
imagined to do and God therefore
confound their language that they
could not understand one another's
speech and not one other brick was
laid by them to further build the
tower or city when God did scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
likewise, Shall ye be visited with
the iniquities of your sins and the
prosecution of this world . war?
Wherewith ye seek to destroy my
works and annihilate the Soul-life of
my plantations? which God only
can give and maintain, until their
alloted time on earth was finished
without restrain, then God will re
claim them as his own.
And yet, this Soul-life is forced
across the Life-line to stand before
Him as evidence of your guilt Thou
Shalt Not Kill? It will not be neces
sary for the waters to give' up its
death nor doth God require the
graves to give up theirs in order to
prove your guilt Thou Shalt Not
Kill Nay, your Soul-life is all-suffi
cient for God to interfere with the
conduct of his own household where
in your action and the cdnduct of
your character are bis soul-consider
ations, as to the extended interest
each Soul afld Nation has taken for
or against War and participating
therein to release life from Earth
with a liesire of worldly honor and
wealth for the selected few, their
only aim in life is to subdue, Instead
of rearing and maintaining life unto
its maturity, the principal point in
the redemption of Souls from evolu
tion is to keep them in' line with
their own future Soul-development
and a further procrastination of this
principal is a direct violation of
God's evolutionary Soul-dellverance
from earth to heaven, r
While this world war is the cause
of God's cup running over, he will
no longer withhold your reward for
the damage ye have wrought in his
household as keepers of all Soul-life
which ye have slain, and this no
et-rthly foe can never reclaim with
justice as your reward towards God
or Man. Thus ye have earned what
God will give you within or soon
after (30) days of this writing, a
change equally to living in a desert
to feed your millions of people on
and your works or factories will be
useless on account of your mixup in
mind to prevent a further better
ment of your condition until the
second coming of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ who will then
rule the world so that all righteous
souls can live in peace as their only
salvation to build your future on,
and His second coming will be with
in less than one thousand years, yea',
less than one thousand months will
bring Him here, not to be crucified,
but to rule the world. So if ye now
lay down your arms and war no
more, then God only can stay this
awful change and mixup, but if ye
prefer to fight on using God's Soul
life for further material strife in Life
against God and Man, which is in
reality a direct hindrance to Mother
Nature, then God will cause this
change and mixup to come upon you
sure, so that ye will neither war nor
live as ye lived before, by a single
touch upon this earth with His right
hand can God bring this change and
mixup in less time than the two
words can be spoken. . And' should
it come to pass in less time than 30
days, then ye may say why I didn't
tell ye so, but to this-4 must say,
that I, could not have gave ye even
this much time to lay down your
aims, because war is a submission of
man to the devil who in this manner
after all his previous methods have
failed him to destroy all good Chris
tian civilization God's people have
accomplished here on earth for the
future welfare of all mankind.
This message must reach unto all
nations and If their leaders don't act,
then It's people must act.
So let us all act and pray unto
Christ to help us eve® now to stay
God's wrath.
God has told you in the Scripture
that he will not again des'troy his
world, but that he instead will elim
inate all wicked and self-future gen
erations to inhabit thereon.
Amen,
324 Hiimmel St., Harrisburg, Pa.
J. G. H. KOHLHAAS.
Occult Scientist.
July 14, :o::.
To Citizen, Steelton
If the correspondent from-Steelton
who signs himself "Citizen" will fur
nish this office with his name and
address a representative of this news
paper will call and take up with him
the matter about which be writes.
HOW ADVERTISING
HELPS THE
' No. 2—RETAIL ADVERTISING
By P. S. FLORE A, Secretary-Manager Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World
THAT advertising does lower the
cost of getting goods from the
maker to the final user finds
forceful illustration in the fact that
advertising, fcv speeding up the busi
ness of a retail store, brings sales
up while other certain fixed costs
of duing business remain the same.
That Is one of the thoughts which
were brought out by some of
the biggest businessmen of the
country at the ann.ual convention
of the Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World at St. Louis, June 3
to 7.
As every one who has thought the
matter over at all well knows, there
are certain costs of doing business,
such as rent, heat, light, insurance,
fires, general management expense,
etc., which go on constantly—which
exist whether busin.ess is plentiful
or scarce. All these costs must, of
course, be included in the gross
profit, or the mark-up, so-called.
It will be readily seen that still
more customers could as well be
waited on in a store at apy time
and this applies even to the busiest
store. The same storerooms would
accommodate more, so the rent
would not need to be increased.
The same insurance, taxes, light,
heat, general management expense,
etc., would cover the needs of a
considerably bigger business. It
would only be necessary that a feiv
more salespeople and cash girls and
delivery boys should be employed,
so that the increased cost of sell
ing more would be comparatively
trivial.
Advertiser Has Profiler Stocks
The growth of the business, bring
ing about the resulting economies,
has been more marked because the
advertising merchant, selling his
"German Press" of America
"I have found here a very active
I German press, which neglects no
opportunity to misrepresent and
distort whatever may be said by a
representative of the Allies," said
Lord Northcliffe at a dinner of the
Over-Seas Club, byway of apology
for reading a prepared address in
stead of making an impromptu
speech. It is not merely by dis
torting and misrepresenting the
utterances of representatives of
other governments that the "very
active German presg makes its
presence and its purpose known in
this land. This "German press"
shows its hand by constant attacks
upon the policies of the American
government and upon the vital in
terests of the United States.
The most flagrant instances of
offending appear in the columns of
newspapers which seek to disguise
their treasonable activities under a
camouflage of Americanism. A
newspaper which contends that
"conscripted" soldiers should not be
sent to Europe—where alone this
war can be won—comes perilously
near to putting itself in the Berk
man-Goldman class of patriots.
When a newspaper contends that
this country has no other war nim
than to bring about the democratiza
ton of the German people it shows
that its concern is for the German
people, not for the people of the
United Stifles. A newspaper which
seeks to "muddy the waters" of
embargo by crying out that we must
let n'eutral nations have all the sup
plies they seek —well knowing that
some at least of those neutral na
tions are acting as middlemen in
supplying Germany—is as pro-
German as it could be if published
in Berlin.
German language newspapers are
the lesser offenders; they do not get
far, at best. The most sinister pro-
German and an.ti-American cam
paign now being conducted in this
country is that of the portion of the
"German press" that uses the Eng
lish language.—New York Herald.
Perils of Tarpon Fishing
While fighting a large tarpon
weighing about 200 pounds at
John's Pass yesterday morning,
Miss Freda Solomonson of Tampa
came near losing her life when her
necktie became entangled in the
reel and tightened around her neck,
gradually choking her to llfeless
ness. If the line had not broken
Miss Solomonson would probably
have been choked to death. —From
the St. Petersburg Times.
Plenty of Both
The draft comes next, and men
will be given as freely as dollars for
the defense of the country.—Phila
delphia Bulletin
goods faster "turning his stocks
oftener" in the parlan.ee of trade—
has been able to have fresher
stocks, the best styles, etc. By
turning the blow flame of his ad
vertising on a certain department
whose goods might otherwise move
slowly, he keeps the stocks moving
in season, and so has new goods at
the beginning of the new season.
The public, knowing this, natur
ally prefers the advertising store,
and this feeling on the part of the
public helps keep up the bigger
volume of business which keeps the
cost of doing business down.
Buys Goods For Less
The merchant who does the big
gest business buys the most goods,
and It is the man who buys the
most goo*ls who gets goocit the
cheapest. Here, aigain, sd\
lng helps the public. The j bber
or % manufacturer, shipping in bigger
quantities to the bigger buyer, re
ceiving his mon.ey promptly and be
ing at a smaller expense in various
ways, is glad to sell for less to the
businessman who buys in big quan
tities.
Nonadvortlsors Would Win Out
Advertising men know, of course,
that if advertising were not a public
benefit, the advertising store could
not long survive, for nonadvertis
ing stores would soon rise on thd
busy corners of our great cities and
drive the great advertising stores
>ut of business. rf'V'llli
It is for the purpose of demon
strating the great truth that ad
vertising is a public benefit, as well
as a benefit to the businessman,
that the advertising clubs have ap
pointed a committee, headed by
Prof. Ralph Starr Butler, of New
York University, to gather eviden.ce
upon this subject.
Reviving Flying Wedge
Old football players remember the
flying wedge, how hard it was to
break up, and what a consistent
ground gainer it was. Well, he fly
ing wedge has been adopted by Ger
man airmen and they used it in their
recent destructive visit to London.
They flew goose-fashion, in a way
that may be described as the "goose
step of the air." A big machine flew
at the apex of an angle, with other
machines, regularly spaced, trailing
backward in two long lines, ten or
more 011 each flank. It is said that
this formation was, perhaps, the
cause of the failure of British air
men to stop the attack or to prevent
more of the German filers from get
ting back home alive.
The London raid and the severe
criticism it has caused to be aimed
at the British authorities lend new
interest to American plans for the
war in the air. The nation which
produced the inventor of the aero
plane should .certainly be able to
make as good flying machines as
other nations and should make them
not by hundreds but by thousands.
The war is going to be won in the
air, for the reason that the airman
is the army's scout nowadays and
without scouts an army would be at
its enemy's mercy.—Savannah News.
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CROP PEST LETTER
By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State
Economic Zoologist.
THE ARMY WORM
The army worm sometimes ap
pears in great numbers without
warning, devouring crops of sev
eral kinds, especially oats and
corn. Garden and truck crops
usually suffer severely at such
tlmei Since army worms appear
without warning, be prepared for
immediate control.
Army worms are a species of
cutworms with a habit of travel
ing in great numbers from field to
field seeking food. Two controls
are available. Poison bran mash
scattered before the moving
hordes, or deep, straight-sided
furrows tutned toward the on
coming, crawling caterpillars. At
intervals pf 10 to 20 feet dig post
holes in the furrow into which
the worms drop, to be killed later
by a light spray of kerosene.
Make poison bran mash by
mixing 20 lbs. of bran, and V 4 lb.
parls grcAn, moisten and mix to
a stiff mash with water, Juice and
pulp of three oranges or lemons,
and one quart of cheap molasses.
Broadcast thinly, where needed.
JULY 14, 1917.
Labor Notes
The Building Trades Council of
San Mateo county, California, Is
erecting a labor temple In San Mateo
which will cost f 10,000.
Membership in the United Textile
v\ orkers of America has increased
by over 16,000 since the 1916 con
vention.
At the request of the Imperial
Government, Australia is sending a
large number of laborers to Britain
for war work.
The town council of Ayr, Scotland,
has decided to grant additional war
bonuses to employes of the various
departments.
x. Pi P e f* tter s at the United States
Aa\al Torpedo Station at Newport,
R. 1., will form a union.
Piece workers in the textile trades
or Mexico have secured advances of
from 4 0 to 100 per cent.
, Ri Spain's 19,500,000 population,
4,000,000 or about 21 per cent are
engaged in agricultural pursuits.
A municipal day nursery has been
started at Stoke Newington, Eng
land, for the use of women muni
tions workers.
1 nnn W i or l c st . ate has an average of
1,000 industrial accidents a day re
quiring treatment from first aid up.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
l f\\ ' OUCH!
( ci J'j Dr. ( Am os
Skeeto—l think
n • I'll take that
fellow's blood
PreSSUre!
pm FROM AN
- _ ECONOMICAL,
C VIEWPOINT.
i ft V V Do you be
y lieve In early
sfj , marriages?
iM i Jwk a\ Yes ' With the
\ cost of living as
An iOn' [ I high as now I'm
™ jßr ' ,ncllned to the
I I ;i •/.,) belief that the
illllli fi !|[ l. 'T 80 <>ner he girls
lil WM-' I |f are married off
tbe better.
fj I know a man
who had a hun
(£ dred aurtain
•jl I ?>\ calls a week.
|;| /]• j I suppose he
> \ was a matinee
IIK No, he was a
till J house furnisher.
HIS so ,, OC.
OOPATJOH.
/ Reggry —win
ff lhiVM you marry me
li U ilil &S3 1 stop sm°k
| SjL |j| |lng cigarettes?
ilMi /■ Rem: i
-yTk V ' ■ couldn't think
VSJk i of marrying a
•;* W) JHH man who dlf
nothing.
rr^n
I V J \ FEMININE
J \ INTEREST.
J What do e b
/J your wife think
/ of the special
articles you are
rC j wrltlns?
V••( A I Oh, she's very
X *A\r *\f , much interested
fl —always asks
me, as soon as I
/ ? \Tget home, if I
f \ X/* have received
/ \\ the check yet.
lEtontng (Hljat
An interesting fact in connection
with tne announcement that Au
gusta, Ga., has been selected as the
place for the training camp for the
Pennsylvania National Guard is that
it was in a camp at Augusta, called
Camp McKenzie, in which a num
ber of Pennsylvania regiment* saw
their final service in the Spanish-
American war. The keystone state
organizations which were sent from
Mt. Gretna to Camp Alger and which
were later concentrated In the Sec
ond army corps camp at Camp
Meade " near Middletown, together
with organizations from a number
of other camps, were sent to the Au
gusta camp the early part of No
vember, 1898, and remained there
until March of the following year.
In the regiments which went to tha
Augusta camp were the Eighth,
Twelfth, since disbanded, and Thir
teenth, which made up the Third
Brigade of one division of the Sec
ond army corps and were command
ed by General J. P. S. Gobin, elect
ed lieutenant governor in that year.
The Sixth Regiment from southeast
ern counties and some of the west
ern regiments also went to the south
ern camp site which is to be occu
pied again.
• • •
An unusual application to be
heard by the Public Service Com
mission next Wednesday is one by
the Pennsylvania, and Cornell and
Lebanon railroad companies for ap
proval of the right of the Pennsyl
vania to operate aad maintain the
railroad and rolling stock of the lat
ter as agent. The application is the
first of the kind to come before the
commission.
• • •
A well-dressed, intelligent looking
stranger wandered into the Capitol
building last night, looked all about
him in wonderment at the beauties
of the ipterior as seen>from the ro
tunda, and then accosting an official
who was passing by said:
"Beg pardon, sir, but would you
please tell me what building this Is?"
Tableau and information.
• •
One of the new policemen at the
Capitol who has not yet acquired his
uniform, met up with a stranger
near the entrance to the big build
ing and they engaged in conversa
tion, in the course of which the
stranger remarked:
"Seems strange to me that be
sides- the police I see here to guard
this building there are not some
plainclothes men here. Uniformed
men can always be spotted, but a
plainclothes man cannot."
"Think so?" said the guard.
"Oh, yes," was the reply, "ther
ought to be some plainclothes men
here."
"Perhaps there are," said thw
guard, turning back the lapel of his
coat and showing his Capitol police
badge.
The stranger looked foolish.
• •
Thousands of dollars are going
into the formation of new coal com
panies which are applying for char
ters from the state government and
the number of such companies re
ceiving letters patent to do business
in the Keystone state since the first
of the year is probably greater than
ever before in any similar pei id.
As high as nine have been chartered
in a week and many of them have
authorized capital stock allowances
of $50,000 or SIOO,OOO. The coal
companies chartered since January
1 have almost all been for the soft
coal field. Only a few companies
have been formed to deal in coal and M
virtually none td mine anthracite.®
•
Men who are on the National
Guard reserve list will commence to
find out that it means active serv
ice if they are willing and able to
stand the test within the next few
weeks. The call of the Adjutant
General for the National Guard to
mobilize to-morrow contains refer
ences to the reserve for the first
time In such an order from General
Stewart's headquarters. Enlisted
men are to report to commanding
officers of the organization stationed
near where they are located and, if
convenient, to the commanding of
ficers of the organization from
which they were furloughed to the
reserve. The reservists are to be
considered as temporarily attached
to such commands and notice given
to the Adjutant General. The last
strength report showed the reserve
for the first time and on July 1 the
total of officers and men in such a
class was 677.
* * •
Dr. I. K. Urich, Lebanon county
legislator, was among visitors to the
Capitol yesterday. Dr. Urich came
to see how things have been going
since the General Assembly adjourn
ed.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^
—Paul H. Galther, named on one
of the district exemption boards, is
one of the leaders of the Westmore
land county bar and a prominent
Democrat.
—Judge O. H. Bechtel, of Schuyl
kill. who has been endorsed for re
election, is the son of a former judge
of the county.
—W. 11. Schwartz, the Altoona
editor, is very ill at his home in the
Mountain City.
—Dr. Russell J. Smith, active in
Philadelphia food conservation, is
making speeches on practical ways
to cut down what i not needed at
meals.
—Agnew T. Dice, president of the
Reading, in an address to employes,
assured those wh6 enlist that they
can have their Jobs back by prompt
ly applying for them when their
terms end.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg woolen
goods arc being used In the
navy? M
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first state arsenal built In
Harrisburg was in the Capitol
grounds.
Fallacy
"Germany's claim that she imports
nothing, buys only of herself and so ft
is growing rich from the war, is
a dreadful fallacy."
The speaker was Herbert C. Hoo
ver, chairman of the American Food
Board.
"Germany," he went on, "is like
the young man who wisely thought
he'd grow his own garden stuff. This
young man had been digging for
about an hour when his spade turn
ed up a quarter. Ten minutes later
he found another quarter. Then ha
found a dime. Then he found a
quarter again.
" 'By gosh,' he said, 'l've struck a
silver mine,' and, straightening up,
I he felt something cold slide down his
leg. Another quarter lay at his feet,
lie grasped the truth. There was a
hole in his pocket."—Washington
Star.