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SATTRADY, DECEMBER 8, 1917
We are tempted, not in order to
be ruined, but in order to be made.
Temptation is just moil's chance of
flying his coIors. — THOMAS PHILLIPS,
WAR wrrn AUSTRIA
CONGRESS lost no time in com
plying with President Wilson's
recommendation for declaration
of a state of war with Austria. There
was no other way out of it. Germany
dictates every Austrian move. Aus
trians are fighting our allies shoulder
to shoulder with Germans. If they
submit to the German yoke they
must submit also to the whip-lash of
the power that is destined to drive
German militarism and all that
stands with it into oblivion.
Every member of the Senate voted
for this just and necessary course.
Every member of the House support
ed the resolution save one—Meyer
London,• Socialist, whose speech in
his own defense sounds much like a
plea for clemency based on a con
fession of guilt.
ONE FLAG FOR COLORED RACE
ROSCOE CONKLING SIMMONS,
the noted negro speaker, said
something last evening, during
his address at the armory, that
should be food for thought on the
part of some white men. He pointed
out that there is but one flag for the
colored race, and that is the flag of
America. He might have gone on and
said that there never was a question
of negro loyalty and that in all the
history of the country there never was
a negro traitor. Colored men have
fought and died for the flag, but they
have never betrayed it. Some of the
foreign-born residents of this coun
try, who owe all they have to the
blessings of American government
and who cherish disloyalty in their
hearts, could take a lesson in patriot
ism from the nerroes of the I'nited
States.
THE WAR IN AFRICA
THE colossal magnitude of this
war is realized when one binder
stands that the very small part
of it in Africa is a far greater con
flict than the entire Boer war. more
soldiers involved, more casualties,
more territory- at stake, wider car
nage. The promise of President
Kruger, patriot Oom Paul, that the
price would "stagger humanity,"
sounds trifling in this cataclysm.
England loses as many men In one
day as she lost in the whole series
of Boer battles and skirmishes.
Curiously enough, Boer officers are
iri great measure responsiblo for
what has Just happened, the com
plete clearing of the Hun from East
Africa. The last remnant of German
force on the Dark Continent has now
taken refuge in Portugese Africa,
whence it will soon be driven.
This African campaign of the Brit
ish will go down In history as a
model for military enterprise. No
glaring mistakes were made. To be
gin with, England realized that the
Pocr is a natural strategist and
brave, so Sir Dorian-Smith was
quickly relieved and the Job given
to General Jan Christian Smuts. Re
cently General Vandeventer, another
Boer strategist, has been In charge.
Many ex-Boer soldiers are with the
English, and like the American
pioneers who learned how to fight
the Indians, these men know how to
inflict the most damage while little
endangering their own bodies.
That Germany earnestly desired to
hold her African colonies goes with
out saying. Each of them. German
East Africa and German Southwest
Africa are one-third bigger than the
State of Texas, and the first one, at
least, has extraordinary resources.
Impressing many thousands of na
tives, German officers, with a good
number of regular and powerful ar
tillery, invaded British East Africa
and here the bulk of the campaign
was fought. This part of Africa is
exceedingly wild and exotic, teeming
with disease and pests. The sting of
the tsetse fly kills all domestic ani
mals; malaria and sleeping sickness
are rampant. Yet despite these and
myriad other obstacles the British -
Boer expedition kept boring In ovor
almost impassable terrain. They
fought clear up on Mt. Kilmanjaro,
which rises to nearly 20,000 feet;
some of their encounters were semi
naval, on the chain of great African
SATURDAY EVENING,
lakes, Nyanza. Navassa and Tan
ganyika. The Germans were nearly
always on the defense, but with their
powerful artillery and 100,000 train
ed blacks accustomed to the climate
it was indeed a task.
In the Boer war Oom Paul's little
army had only four big puns, the
Long Toms. One was blown up In
Natal and the other three removed
to Pretoria and never used again. In
this campaign hundreds of high
centimeter guns thundered in the
dense forests, along the squdgy
creeks- and on the mountain tops of
Central Africa.
To one who has studied affairs In
the Dark Continent this turn of
events is of consuming interest.
When the British were about to cap
ture Pretoria a party of resolute
Boer generals took oath In General
Botha's front yard that they would
sieze the first opportunity to again
fight England. Most of them are
now with England. A reason for this
Is that the Boers lost confidence in
the Germans during their war for
survival. On his solemn word.
Kaiser Wilhelm promised Mr. Kru
ger to send men, artillery and ships,
then changed his mind. In the opin
ion of many statesmen this was Ger
man's stupendous blunder. England
was In no shape then to fight a great
power and, moreover, the world was
against her in sentiment.
Again, after Germany secured ter
ritory in the Dark Continent, she
immediately demonstrated that she
was not a good colonizer. In East
Africa the German Imperial officers
personally conducted slave markets,
and mutilation was not unknown.
Germany now does not possess one
square inch of the African continent,
when three years ago she owned
ovei one million square miles, with
a population of fourteen millions,
including 25,000 whites.
FROM THE CHRISTMAS FUNDS
THRIFTY men and women of
Harrlsburg during the next
week or ten days will reap the
fruits of eleven months of saving,
when the banks pay out the Christ
mas savings fund deposits.
There are many thousands of dol
lars In these funds—and perhaps no
single fund is under S2O, while others
are many times greater.
Harrlsburg has a heart—and a
heart that Is big as all creation. And
it has the dollars.
A heart and a dollar are all one
needs to become a member of Har
risburg Chapter of the Red Cross.
A heart and a single dollar!
Why not couple them —all of us—
I in our Christmas giving?
Let's all have Red Cross member
ships in our homes this Christmas.
HIGH SCHOOIi PROGRAM
THE suggestion has been made
that the School Eoard postpone
its high school building pro
gram until the end of the war. in
order that men and materials may
be concentrated upon government
contracts of a military nature. In
short, as Director Stamm put It, the
Harrisburg school district should
not compete against the government
for workers and materials at a time
when the nation is sorely pre'ssed
for both.
There is room for discussion here.
Certainly, the School Board has no
desire to hinder the country in the
prosecution of the war and there is
just now a scarcity of labor and
some kinds of materials in war in
dustries. Private and public work of
a local character must give way, in
large degree, to the more important
demands of the nation.
But there is something to be said
the other side. also. The rev
enues by which tliu country hopes
to finance the war are based upon
business receipts, and if private en
terprise is to be utterly discouraged
for the period of the war, ruin is
just around the corner and bank
ruptcy is not far away.
It is not an easy thing to draw
the line, but draw it we must, some
where. Not all new building should
be abandoned because of the war. By
the very fact of the war some busi
nessmen have found it absolutely
essential to the operation of their
establishments to carry on exten
sive enlargement programs, despite
the extremely high cost of all t>e fac
tors entering into construction work.
The Penn-Harris hotel may be cited
as an illustration. In this case the
plans were made and contract let be
fore the declaration of war. but even
so the hotel needs of the city are so
urgent that postponement could not
have been considered. Some busi
nessmen of the city found them
selves in like position and as a re
sult contractors have been busy all
year.
Perhaps the school district, if the
full program is not at once neces
sary at this time, may be able to
strike a "fifty-fifty" bargain with the
government; in other words, erect
the absolutely essential buildings
now, letting the others go to a more
pr.opltious time.
OUTLAW HUNTING
IT is to be hoped that officers of
the State Game Commission will
be able to run down and make
examples before the law of the
hunters who have been not only
shooting does, and even fawns, con
tuary to the well-established provi
sions of the State game code, and
against all the rules of sportsman
ship. There are some people who
can not resist the temptation to blaze
away at anything In the shape of a
bird or animal they meet in the
woodland. Mistakes occur, of course,
but the average hunter has enough
time to see what he Is shooting at.
The fellows who bang away without
thinking are not only the men who
will break the game laws, but endan
ger life, for the modern high power
ed hunting rifle in the hands of a
reckless hunter has powers of mis
chief that extend for miles.
Thx; State is spending thousands
ct' dollars to maintain game pre
serves and hundreds to buy- game
in other States to stock the sections
of woodland which have been cleared
[ of animals and birds by pot hunters
or flres. Representative sportsmen
are /(riving of their time and monoy
to help and the general public senti
ment supports the work of the com-,
mission. Yet in the face of this all
year provision for sport that lasts
two weeks there have been reports
of game killed out of season, and
from the Caledonia district alone of
seven does shot within a few miles
since the opening of the season. In
other sections does and fawns have
been killed and allowed to lie.
Prosecution and publicity is what
these outlaw hunters need.
fdUUt-U
Ry the Ex-Committoeßum ,j
Scores of commissions of men
elected to judgeships and various
county offices at last month's elec
tion are being prepared at the de
partment of the secretary of the
commonwealth for Issue the latter
part of this month so that they may
qualify the first Monday in Janu
ary. Some of the judges will also
be commissioned president judges
and in the case of Robert B. McCor
mick, judge-elect of the Clinton-
Cameron-Elk district, he will get an
other as he has been appointed to
fill out twenty-five days of the term
of tho late Judge Harry Alvan Hall.
Commissions will be issued to
twenty-six common pleas judges,
twenty-two associate judges and
three orphans court judges. This is
the largest number of judicial offi
cers to be commissioned for some
time.
County officers will be commission
ed as follows: Prothonotaries 20:
registers of wills 10; recorders of
deeds 11: sheriffs 23 and coroners
19. There are one or two vacan
cies among such officers and they
may be filed in addition, while com
missions as dedimus potestatum will
be Issued to recorders. The com
missions for the three classes of
court clerks will he issued as fol
lows: Quarter sessions 16; oyer' and
terminer 17 and orphans court 11.
Some of the county returns sent
here for the making out of commis
sions have been returned as Incom
plete.
—Filing of expense accounts con
tinues to attract attention generally.
The Philadelphia and Scranton state
ments being recorded, Pittsburgh is
now to the front. A dispatch from
that city says: "E. V. Babcock. elected
Mayor of Pittsburgh,' spent $122,-
421.60. and former Mayor William. A.
Magee, defeated candidate, spent
$57,531.39, in the November election
campaign, according to the expense
accounts of the treasurers of their
campaigns, filed here. Babcock's ac
count, showing contributions of $77,-
450, indicates a deficit of $44,971.60
to be made up. Magee's account, list
ing contributions of $35,068.48 with
a balance from the primary cam
paign of $4,023.40, shows a deficit of
$18,733.51. Large as the Babcock ac
count appears, the multimillionaire
lumber baron who will serve Pitts
burgh the next four years as mayor,
probably will find it one of the
cheapest of his many investments,
for his own contribution to the cam
paign is listed at $5,000. Other large
contributors were: Former Senator
George T. Oliver, $1,500; Henry Rea,
$5,000; F. R. Babcock, brother of the
Mayor-elect, $2,700; B. F. Jones, Jr.,
head of the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Company, $4,000. There were thirty
six contributors of over S3OO. Wil
liam Flinn, chief contributor to the
Magee campaign, gave $7,500 in two
contributions."
—The Philadelphia Record to-day
charges that the move by counsel
for the Vare organization in Phila
delphia courts to have the bond to
cover expenses of the contest in
augurated by the Town Meeting
party, is an effort to hamper and de
lay. The North American Also
charges a holdup. The Inquirer says
it is an attempt to "block."
—The Philadelphia Ledger is giv
ing considerable space to the move in
behalf of Highway Commissioner
O'Neil for Governor. It thinks that he
may make an announcement soon.
—Presence of Ex-Spealter George
E. Alter, of Allegheny, here yester
day on business at the Capitol stimu
lated talk of the former Speaker as
an available man lor Governor. Mr.
Alter is being much spoken of among
railroad men because of the position
he took in the public service law en
actment and in hearings on it. There
is considerable quiet sentiment for
him about the state.
—Philadelphia's politics have been
further affected by the arrangement
made to end free trolley transfers
and by the police protest against Di
rector Wilson and conditions in the
management of the force in that city.
Councilman James A. Garey says he
will champion the cause of the police
in council.
—Prof. Eugene Fellows, well
known to many here, is stirring up
things as a candidate for county
schools superintendent in Lacka
wanna.
—Coatesville lias cut down its po
lice force from thirteen to eight and
raised the pay of the eight retained.
—Altoona city fathers are strug
gling with demands for increase of
policemen's salaries.
—The ' Insider" writing In the
Philadelphia Press yesterday made
this observation: "The chance of
peaco in the Republican party in
Philadelphia is ended. The prof
fers for an armistice or even for a
permanent agreement were consid
ered by leaders on either side in the
last week, and even insisted upon
by some as a necessity for the safety
of the pnrtv in Pennsylvania. Sen
ator Penrose and the circle of Town
Meeting and Republican Alliance
leaders surrounding him considered
the terms and turned them down.
They had the alternative suggested
to them of leaving Philadelphia en
tirely to the Varea and doing what
they pleased throughout the state,
or of going into desperate battle In
this city, and they chose the latter
course. Action, of course, was de
cided on Friday at the two meetings,
one of the Kepublican Alliance, In
the office of Senator Penrose, and
the other a secret session of the real
leaders of the anti-Vare .movement
on that night. The decision of
those meetings was: Contest the
election and organize everywhere in
the city to wipe out Vare control.
The plans of these leaders do not
even end with the borders of "Vare
ville," that south of Sopth street ter
ritory regarded as the Vare citidal
of strength. Men have been named
to make the fight in every ward, or
elne will be decided upon shortly,
and they will gather forces to go on
the firing line immediately."
—Representative William Ramsey
Is anxious to return to the legisla
ture from Chester, says the Ledger.
He is a follower of the McClures,
and he will naturally be opposed by
potential forces. His opponent will
probably be William Ward, Jr., who
was recently defeated for City Coun
cil by twenty-seven votes. It looks
as though Isaac Sharpless, presi
dent of Haverford College, and V.
Gilpin Robinson, of Clifton Heights,
will be candidates to oppose Speak
er Hichiird -I. HaMwi" and Marry
Heyburn. Henry F. Miller, of Up
per Darby township, is another man
who is being groomed for the Leg
islature. I
HAKUfiBCRG fjfUßg TELEGRAPH
THE REAL BOGIE BY BRIGGS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Complaints are growing that Ger
man agents have too much leeway in
this country. The fact is, they haven't
been given enough rope.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
"Quiz Follows $2,000,000 Blaze,''
runs a headline. Yes; but isn't it a
pity that the quiz always follows and
never precedes the blaze? —New
York Morning Telegraph.
"Would Colonel House consider a
nomination for the Presidency in
1920?" asks an exchange. In all
probability not. The sentiment of the
country seems to be against threo
terms. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Kaiser shall not press down
upon the brow of labor his iron
cross.—Boston Transcript.
There are indications that the
German peace dove is about to
scream again.—New York Sun.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
••First. Don't lie; it wastes my
time and yours. I'm sure to catch
you in the end, and that's the wrong
end.
"Second. Watch your work, not
the clock. A long day's work makes
a long day short and a short day's
work makes my face long.
"Three. Give me more than I
expect and I'll pay you more than
you expect. I can afford to increase
your pay if you increase my profits.
"Four. \ou owe so much to your
self that you can't afford to owe any
body else. Keep out of debt or keep
out of my shops.
"Five. Dishonesty is never an ac
cident. Good men, like good women,
can't see temptation when they meet
"Six. Mind your own business and
in time you'll have a business of
your own to mind.
"Seven. Don't do anything here
which hurts your self-respect The
employe who is willing to steal for
me is capable of stealing from me.
"Eight. It's none of my business
what you do at night, but if dissi
pation" affects what you do next day
and you do half as much as I de
mand, you'll last half as long as
you hoped.
"Nine. Don't tell me what I'd like
to hear but what I ought to hear.
I don't want a valet for my vanity,
but I need one for my dollars.
"Ten Don't kick if I kick. If
you're worth while correcting you'ra
worth while keeping. I don't waste
time cutting specks out of rotten
apples."
The f.iregolng mandates are
framed and occupy a conspicuous
place in the office of a big Philadel
phia wholesale house.
AS HINDENBURG SEES US
In an interview with a corre
spondent of the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse Field Marshall von Hlnden
burjr is quoted as saying.
"It is certain that the United
States is making efforts to create a
big army, and the war is an oppor
tune pretext for this, as in peace
times the difficulties would be too
great. Japan too would not have
looked on with indifference."
The statement is interesting prin
cipally because it is so characteris
tically German and expresses so
completely the inability of the Ger
man load rs tn undestand the reac
tion of any other nation than their
own to the present world crisis.
That the United States needed a
pretext for the formation of a "big
army" and that it found an "oppor
tune pretext" in the war is the atti
tude of a military nation and an
autocratic Government. That the
army came as an inspiration from
the people themselves and that the
only pretext which was urged for its
formation was a defense of democ
racy and the rights of civilization is
incomprehensible to the men who
are wielding and directing the pow
ers of Hohenzollernism. —New York
Sun.
LORD PROMISED NOAH
And God spake unto Noah, saying,
go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'
wives with thee. Bring forth with
thee every living thing that is with
thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and
of cattle, and of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth. And
Noah wont forth, and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons' wives with
him. And Noah huilded an altar
unto the Lord. And the Lord said
tn his heart, I will not again curse
the ground for man's sake. While
the hearth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and sum
mer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.—Genesis viil, 15 to
22.
INTER VIEWSWITHEMPEY-N0.2
Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am
erican Soldiers "War Not Nearly So Bad
as It's Cracked Up to Be"
THE French are looking to the
Americans as the saviours of
their cause, and the Americans
must be careful to preserve that sen
timent. The French, are tempera
mental," said Sergeant Empeyj au
thor of 'Over the Top.' If a French
man, kisses an American soldier, the
American mustn't poke him in the
chin: he must kiss him back. And
the French are—the American must
Just remember this —exceedingly po
lite. Tou must never poke fun at a
Frenchman; that is a mortal Insult.
And the American must remember
that the careful French politeness
does not mean that the Frenchman
is afraid of anything in the world.
Why, a Frenchman will apologize to
a German when he sticks his bayonet
into him!
"But, after all the Americans are
going over there in the Frenchman's
backyard. They are fighting togeth
er to keep a common enemy from
climbing the back fence. But it is
the Frenchman's yard. And the
American must keep to the paths,
and not step on the flower beds.
"Not," he added quickly, "that
there are any regular customs or
ways of doing and saying things
that the American must adhere to.
That was the case before the war,
but things are changed now—both
the Frenchman and the Englishman
are changed with them; they are
good fellows together now. and they
excuse each other's mistakes. The
thing for the American to do In
France is to be and act always as a
good American. He'll get a wonder
ful reception if he is just a real,
straight Yankee.
"When he gets to his billet or vil
lage, the American soldier will find
that prices will slightly rise. He
mustn't consider that as an injury
or an insult, but really as a compli
ment. To the French people every
American is a millionaire; they set
the best before him and he is expec
ted to pay the price. The American
tourists in France have given that
impression. And when you throw a
hall against a wall, It is sure to re
bound. The harder you throw it,"
he remarked reflectively, "the hard
er it will hit you when it comes
back.
"When the American Soldier first
gets to France," he went on, "he
will have a fine time enjoying new
scenes for about two days. Then he
will begin to be anxious to get up
(lie line, to Investigate, to see just
what Is going on, to get into things.
He'll have to curb his patience for
awhile. But while he is going
through his training period he will
be an ardent souvenir collector. lie
will get all the souvenirs that he can
possibly buy and steal. He will load
(To Be Continued)
TROTZKY "REVELATIONS"
There must be a good deal of
drawing on the imagination b.v
writers of the cabled news dispatches
from Paris which depict officials of
the French government as "an
noyed" at Herr Trotzky because he
has seen fit to suppress the diplo
matic correspondence of Germany
while making pu'olic some of the
diplomatic correspondence of gov
ernments which have been trying to
aid Russia. Why should anything
else be expected of the Bolsheviki
agents of Germany than that they
work for Germany?
Why should anybody take Trotz
ky or his alleged revelations seri
ously, anyway? In these there Is
absolutely nothing new—nothing
that had not been known to the
world long before Trotzky and Le
nine appeared on the scene at Pe
trograd. No "official documents"
were necessary to show that France
expects the return of the provinces
filched from her by Prussia or that
the Russian people and their gov
ernment have looked forward to the
day when Russia would control Con
stantinople and the Bosphorus; nor
is there any news in the fact that the
government of her allies urged Rus- j
sla to stand Arm in this war.
If Herr Trotzky's act in making
public those documents proves any
thing at all, it Is that he and his
associates are willing to go to any
length to discredit Russia and that
their own subservience to Germany
is complete. Even that, however, is
not news.—New York Herald.
himself down like a camel —and he
won't realize that he can't take those
souvenirs home, and that lie will
have to carry them all about with
him for months and months and
months. When he has sweated
through a few route marches with
liis load of souvenirs, he'll begin to
throw away the least precious of
them; and pretty soon the gems of
his collection will follow the others
into the ditcli.
"Before he gets within the sound \
of the guns he will see a good many:
airplane fights, and this will in-!
crease his desire to get to the linej
itself. Then when he actually hears j
the guns he will be all enthusiasm,!
full of questions. By gradual stages |
the sound will get louder, until at|
last he sees the great flare in thei
sky, hear the tremendous noise j
right at his ear, and is close to thei
line. And then what he feels is noti
fear, but a strange, vacant, lonely
feeling, a restlessness and longing,
not for home, but to be in the front i
lino with the men who are in dan-!
ger, because what he feels most is I
a tremendous pity for them. It isj
the psychology of the soldier that I
what he is conscious of then is not |
any danger for himself, but an in-1
tense pity for the men who are on
the front line, the sense of their
danger and the wish to share it with
them.
"But sooner or later he will be
under shellfire "himself. And the|
lirst time that happens to the volun- j
teer he will feel a great regret tliatj
he didn't wait for the draft! It will
be only momentary, but for the in
stant he will feel a great desire to
run—not at the Germans! He will
want to run away, but somehow lie
doesn't; somehow he can't; and he
and all his comrades. BM feelinir thej
same way, go on steadily moving— ;
forward!
"It is when he comes to his first I
ruined village that the awfulness of
war will hit him face to face, and,
he will feel lonely and deserted him-1
self, and very small. He gets used
to shellfire very soOn, and he comes
to think that the German guns are
pretty rotten! But when, going into
the communication trench, he sees
his first wounded being carried out
on stretchers—well, you can't de
scribe the feeling it gives him. He
is pretty well unnerved at first, and
then he is flooded with a tremen
dous pity for these men. Then his
pity changes to admiration, and he
begins to feel a kind of envy of
theni; if he could go through it
without suffering all that they are
supposed to, he'd like to be one of
those wounded men himself; it's like
what the drafted man who has been
exempted must feel when he sees
I the regiments marching away."
LABOR NOTES
Musicians at St. John, N. 8., have
organized.
The Legislatures of Ave states pro
vided during the current year for
various lines of Investigation In so
cial insurance. The states taking
such action are Connecticut, Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In France a law >ia been uassed
setting up a special fund for pay
ment of compensation for industrial
accidents to men employed in indus
try who have been previously dis
abled in the war.
Lynn, (Mass.) coal teamsters have
raised wages $2 a week and secured
Saturday half-holidays throughout
the year. Nine h.ours shall consti
tute a day's work except on Satur
days.
Of the available water power In
Sweden, estimated at 0,000,000
horsepower, about 15 per cent is In
use. The number of plants In oper
ation or in process of construction
in 1915 was 453.
It will cost approximately $34,260
a year more to install tho double
platoon or two-shift system in the
Calgary (Canada) Fire Department.
For this reason the new project will
be shelved.
Electrotypors' Union at Spring
field, Mass., has secured a two-year
agreement. Wages are increased 12
a week the first year and an addi
tional |1 a week the second year.
DECEMBER, 8, 1917.
Over tfa
uv *~p&>v}uu
"How did I meet de bride?' grin
ned Joseph Coyne when applying for
a marriage license in Allentown the
other day. "Why it was jest two years
ago at Wheeling, West Virginia, after
a stiff tight in which I puts out a
gink with a left hook in de bread
basket. When 1 piped her off here
after two years I t'ought she was
handcuffed to that soldier boy, but
soon as we cross our lamps I knowed
the spark of love was all t' th' acety
lene, so here we are." Coyne is a mid
dleweight pugilist of some renown,
and his little speech so affected the
bride-to-be that she paid the license
fee.
No cloud without a silver lining:.
The adventures of Constable "Jim"
Martin, of Darby, near Philadelphia,
should comfort any soldier who con
templates losing a leg in the war.
Mr. Martin was currying a horse the
other day when the animal suddenly
uncorked an awful kick which car
ried the constable's wooden leg ten
feet away. It was somewhat dam
aged, but still sound enough to con
vince the horse that a one-legged
man is dangerous to fool with. Mr.
Martin has been inflicted in this same
leu with two gunshot wounds, been
bitten by a mad dog and endured
scalding by boiling water which give
whole legged persons intense suffer
ing.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
[/;;;• ; |L*
THE METHOD. WZ-
To write a m ./H ' \ s~~
Chr istma.o
On anything .]
Take any tale \\
date
&
IFEFPROBABLY
V ' A TIGHTWAD.
VjfSSSi ' et ' me
/gggglove to you if it
was hopeless?
I didn't know
less until I saw
I your method of
| Bass That ~
fisherman sent
i down a hook V
only half baited,
must be playing / ifjL
a Joke on us.
Well we can see,
the point all
' MISUNDER
SING STANDINGS.
I'/ With such a
#/V > " peculiar lan
guoge it must
§ be difficult for
' he i ' nese ,o
T understand oncv
another.
'(iP 1 Judging from
their numerous
■dP: revolutions they
!■' occasionally
lEtaratng ffllfat
i It is probable that in spite of th
war and its curtailment of much of
[the time of people to read that the
Circulation of books at the Harrls
burg Public Library will run close
to 5,000 more than In 1916. Last
year the circulation for the twelve
months was 130,000, which estab
lished a high water mark and was
notable for the fine work done
arooiig children. It was the year
when the school libraries were
opened. This year in spite of the
delays in opening the school libra
ries the demand for books has been
growing steadily. An interesting fea
ture is that the percentage of fiction
runs about seventy-two, showing
that people are devoting themselvcA
to the more serious reading. In No
vember the circulation at the li
brary was a few short of 11,000,
If the Harrisburg district is U9.000,
hLt ed '? y some . this means a
book for each nine persons, big and
lltt'e, native and foreign. There are
• i? s , which make the show-
Harrisburg when it is consid
ered that there are so many peopfc
from other lands.
The Pennsylvania Hailroad Com
pany has been having some difli
cuitj In getting laborers for the
shops and roundhouses, and just
now there are many working who
are far above the age limit of the
Pennsy for hiring men. Not a few
who are physically able to till a po
sition are signed up on sight. Not
a few pensioners who have been
retired within the past three years
are back at work. The same'rule
holds good with all local industries.
Experience is no longer necessary.
If you look good, a jot> is a certainty.
Some men are working who have
tak ' n Jf life for some time.
\Y bile not idlers In every sense the
word implies, they have not been up
against real hard work for a long
time. A story was told yesterdav
of one man who had not been up
real work for twenty years,
up to a week ago. He was num
bered among the employes of the
Puddling mill at Herr street and
the Pennsylvania Canal, which was
abandoned many years ago. It was
known as the "Hot Pot," and was
a part of the old Chesapeake Nail
works. When the puddling mill
was abandoned, this particular em.
ploye, who had saved his money and
had some property, decided to take
i./, aSV ', , B } n S* thflt tlme lie has
Tilled odd jobs, but only worked
when he wanted to. For some time
he has been living the life of a pen
sioner. The other tlav several
friends told him the United States
Government was hunting up idle
men. and. regardless of age. would
force them to Army duty. "They'll
not get me," was -the remark. On
the following- day lie applied for
work at a local industry and is now
on a regular job. "I am proing to
stay on that job as lon# as they'll
let me, *ho toM friend last night.
Mexican quail are to be tried
again in state game preserves next
spring by .State Game Commission
authorities under arrangements just
being made, and it is intended to
profit by former experiences and to
use only mature birds and to turn
them loose at a time when they can
stand the climate. The first Mexi
can birds brought here arrived in
the middle of winter and, being
?• , om tho w armer climate of
the Mexican highlands and changed
Y^ m *1" insect t0 a gram diet, thev
f,| d not stand " well. The new plan,
which is expected to result in some
successful propagation work, is to
buy mature birds in Mexico, where
they are abundant, durinir the win
ter and have them arrive here in tha
i spring. By that Jime the weatjUr
will be suitable and the birds will
find plenty of bugs, to eat and not
be dependent upon grain. Tests
have been made which it is believed
demonstrate the way to handle
n".',; >?ng-necked pheasants from
Pacific Coast states are to be intro
duced to the woods and fields of
Pennsylvania next spring. These
purchases have been arranged and
some prime birds have been secured.
In addition, pheasants have been
nought in New York and New .Tersev
for storking purposes. Wild turkevs
are being bought in half a dozen
states. While it is not the intention
to engage in any extensive deer
propagation because deer are plenti
ful, yet some Michigan bucks may
be bought for state preserves and to
replenish stock where there have
been many kills. The state has beer
very successful with northern buck"
at preserves.
Here is the prize story about a
public service complaint. A one
man concern up the Cumberland
v alley raised rates and objection*
were made nn the part of some con
sumers. When the man was askec
about it and attention was called to
the fact that he had not given no
tice as required, he said: "Oh, well
nobody kicked: thev paid."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—C. Laßue Munson who was her
yesterday attending a hearing at thi
office of the Public Service Commis
sion, has been named as a mem he
of the State Committee for Wa
Savine. •
—Postmaster A. S. Guftey, ofPitts
burgh, says people should sent
money to soldiers to help them bu;
things In France.
—J. P. Bryan, sheriff of Reaver
has mndp a census of all aliens ii
his county on his own account.
—Frank A. Vanderllp, the banker
is to be the speaker at the big Pitts
burgh meeting to-night.
—T. A. Wright, head of th
Wilkes-Barre railways, says that hi
company will be compelled to rais
rates.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That ITarrisbtirg soldiers
have l>cen among the first to
enlist In every war of the Re
public?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The courthouse was the recruitin
headquarters in the War of 1812.
theT newspaper
"I believe in the power of new
paper advertising," writes J. Ogd<
Armour. "The press has made itse
a great economic factor in the cor
merclal activity of this age. It h
demonstrated its worth to a poi
where I can say, without hesitanc
that newspaper advertising w
create, intensify and broaden bui
ness." This is a pretty convincii
statement from the president of
concern that does a business annul
ly of a half billion dollars. "f 0
tunate is that community which h
a good live newspaper," says IV
Armour, "for Its editorial and a
vertislng activities are second to ■
forco in tiuilding up and develop!
Un territory."—Newspaperdom.