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TUESDAY. JANUARY 16, I*lß
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The face is made every day by its
momino prayer and by its morning
look out of the windoics which open
upon heaven. — JOSEPH PARKER.
A SHIPPING CENTER
THE removal of possibly the old
est market street business
house to South Second street,
where it will engage more extensively
in wholesale and retail trade re
quiring large warehouses and the
best of shipping facilities, serves to
emphasize the gradual transforma
tion of that district. Years ago It was
a residence place for many of the
older and more prosperous families
of the city. it was given over
largely to rooming houses and retail
stores. But in recent years, as was
foreseen by those who gave the mat
ter attention, it has come almost
exclusively to be devoted to whole
sale purposes.
The future of Harrisburg does not
lie solely along manufacturing or
railroad lines, although railroads will
play a large part, but as a .point of
distribution for manufacturers whose
plants are located elsewhere and
for large local retail and wholesale
firms. This the railroad people realize
and they are preparing for the in
crease of local traffic that is already
In slgfct. Those who are advertising
the c!t should always remember our
' advantages and facilities In this line.
There are days when having a
home in the suburbs gives a man a
good excuse for not going to work.
THE "JANUARY THAW"
II'S getting 'round toward the time
for the annual "January thaw,"
but like as not it won't come.
The "January thaw" used to be con
sidered just and sufficient cause for
"cussing" the weatherman. Every
body but the doctors—who collected
vast sums from grip and pneumonia
victims—had a hard word to say for
the "January thaw." "Vile weather"
we used to call it, and it was quite
the thing for the newspapers to-print
column upon column about the
ravages of influenza and kindred
diseases. But that was before we
learned that It is better to suffer the
pangs and pains of grip than to
freeze § to death In a tireless house.
Back in the coal age, so to speak, the
"January thaw" was a thing to be
dreaded, but now, with even the
optimistic Dr. Garfield admitting the
seriousness of the fuel shortage, wo
would hail a general thaw as a provi
dential blessing.
That's the way with most things
in this life. 'When you want some
thing you can't get it and when you
have It you find most likely it is rn
everlasting nuisance. But most of us
would be willing to slosh around
in the slush and dodge falling icicles
and sliding snow in order to save a
bucketful of coal. The fellow who
V3ed to wish for an "old-fashioned '
•winter Is silent as the grave. He
would be about as popular did he
epeak out as the Kaiser would be In
Paris. What we want is spring and
even the harbinger embodied in- a
"January th'aw" would be welcomed.
Any kind of weather Just so the tem
perature is above freezing. Spring is
going to bring Easter and the spring
fashions to plague'married men, and
more Liberty Loans and other cam
paigns to tax all of us, but that
won't matter, for the coal bin will
have ceased to be the most lmpor
tant apartment of the house. Spring
didn't mean much to us previously.
We read the seed catalogues, plan
ned our gardens, bought some new
clpthes —If we had the price—took a
dose or two of spring tonic, began to
take notice of the sporting goods
stores where fishing tackle Is dis
played and observed casually to our
neighbor, "HI, ho, well, well, here's
spring again and it hardly seems any
time since Christmas." We used 'to
read with mere passive interest that
the first bluebird had appeared along
the river and that Dr. Fager had
found the first hypatlca blooming In
Wildwood.
But how different now. Spring's
going to be more important than the
Fourth of July this year and already
we are excited over its prospects,
inversely as the ratio of our coal
pile is to the demands of zero weath
er upon its fast fading proportions.
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TUESDAY EVENING, HAItRISBURG t£&&0. TELEGRXPH • 'JANUARY IS, 1913,
Let the "January thaw" come on,
we're ready for it, and as for spring,
why the Telegraph hereby offers a
reward of $5 for the first wi'.dflower
found blooming in the vicinity of
Harrisburg previous to St. Patrick's
Day. Brace up, Mr. Demain, and give
somebody a chance for the money.
It would be cheap at the price.
Mr. Hlckok thinks the United States
may take over all fuel, which, if ap
pearances would seem to indicate,
wouldn't be such a big job at that.
PENNA.—SOME FIGURES
WE have become so used to.
talking in millions In rela
tion to Pennsylvania's prod
ucts and natural resources that we
scarcely stop to realize" what a mil
lion means. TV'e produce coal by the
hundreds of millions of tons; steel
by tens of millions and oil, gas, stone
and other things taken from what.
Providence has given so bountifully
to the Keystone State or manufac
ture from the raw material In such
large amounts that we do not think
of the effect of such Imposing arrays
of terms of wealth upon people
across the seas.
We calmly read that the State of
Pennsylvania licensed 300,000 or
more motor vehicles and received
therefor $3,250,000 In round num
bers, all of which will be devoted
to maintaining, not building, but
just maintaining roads. If each
motor vehicle is worth, averaging
them up, about SSOO, that Is some
thing like $150,000,000 In motor cars
of varlo.us types.
The State Department of Agricul
ture says that the seven major crops
of Pennsylvania—wheat, corn, rye,
buckwheat, oats, hay and potatoes
—produced in 1917 were worth
$351,500,000 in round numbers,
\\hich was $119,000,000 more than
the same crops were ivorth in 1916.
And on top of that we raised tobacco
worth $11,000,000; apples and other
fruit, chickens, ducks and cattle;
gathered up eggs; clipped wool and
made butter and cheese worth tens
of millions more. These figures, like
those for the automobiles, are hard
to grasp.
And now comes Banking Commis
sioner who says that the re-;
sources of the trust companies, state j
banks and savings institutions under
State supervision, and that does not
include national banks, are $1,707,-
168,940.63. That is seventeen hun- ;
dred millions, over four times whnt!
all the crops above referred to were
worth in high-priced 1917. And
these same Institutions gained $159,-
000,000 more than the value of the
motor cars licensed for 1917 in re-j
sources in one year. The nutyber
of depository increased in one year j
by 255.634, making a grand army of!
people with money in ,the bank of
2,837,591, or more depositors in
banking institutions in Pennsylvania
under State control alone than there
are men in our army now. These
depositors have about a billion and
a quarter dollars in the banks, ac
cording to Mr. statement,
while the banking houses own over
$714,000,000 worth of stocks and
bonds. And most gratifying is It to
read that these same banks bought
for themselves or patrons Liberty
Bonds amounting to $243,005,000, al
most a quarter of a billion dollars,
and that they hold as investments
$55,000,000, an amount equal to the
total assessed valuation of Harris
burg.
The figures are dazzling. The In
crease of wealth is tremendous. If
the prices of the manufactured,
mined or piped products and the
wages paid our labor could be added
in the aggregate would be almost
beyond comprehension.
Is it any wonder, to use the words
of one of the speakers at the meet
ing at the Capitol the other night,
that "the United States was next"
on the Kaiser's program? Is it sur
prising that the German army offi
cers always liked to talk about the
rich country that the Pennsylvania
railroad system tapped?
It is a State which we have made
and which is our home. That is
why Pennsylvania youth is gird
ing up its loins to fight the preda
tory Prussian and why the folks who
stay at home are going down into
their pockets to buy Liberty Bonds
and Thrift Stamps and are going to
back up the government "Until it's
over Over There."
Secretary McAdoo picked' a dandy
'freight moving week," didn't) he?
STRIPPING GERMANY
WE havo hoard contradictory
stories as to conditions in
Germany—some to the effect,
that the country is stripped bare of
all materfals that can be used in the
prosecution of the war, and others
that despite the allied blockadfe Ger- j
many has plenty of everything ;
needed with which to keep up the
conflict. Probably we shall not
know the truth until long after the
war ends. But there are signs that
the Germans are getting well to
ward the bottom of their supply bin,
even if there is much remaining.
This is illustrated by announcement
from the city of Cologne that the
great "Kaiser's Bell," containing
56,000 pounds of metal, the pride of
the emperor and the dearest posses
sion of the city, has been sacrificed
to meet the metal shortage.
Not only was this bell named in
honor of the ruler of the empire, but
It was made from French cam\on
captured by the Germans In 1870
and 1871 and was dedicated on Wil
helm's birthday in 1877. By all the
rules of German preference it should
have stood inviolate. But German
need must have reached a sore stage
when by government order and pub
lic consent such a relic was torn
from Its place of honor and de
livered over to the melting pot for
the manufacture of war supplies.
The Russians appear to be keepfng
the Kaiser on the Trot-iky.
foIUUtU
C-KKO ICCLKUX
By the Ex-Committcemaii
From all accounts there is a
for the vacation which A. Mitchell
Palmer, Democratic national com
mitteeman and alien property cus
todian, is going to take from his
labors at Washington and for his pro
longed sojourn in Philadelphia. It Is
nothing more or less than the activ
ity of friends of Ex-Judge James Gay
Gordon in boosting him as a candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for Governor.
Some, time ago there was much
talk of Democrats opposed to ma
chine rule calling upon Michael J.
Ryan to leave the Public Service
Commission and lead his party In the
coming gubernatorial contest, his at
titude since the last election having
been such, in opinion of his friends,
as to test the sincerity of the dom
inant faction in its professions that
|it is for a united party. Mr. Ryan,
i however, Is said to have other ambl-
I tions than running for Governor, al
though he says he Is thoroughly in
terested in the work of the Public
Service Commission to which he has
been giving assiduous attention.
About two weeks ago the Demo
cratic bosses had scheduled a con
ference on the banks of tlife Potomac
to make a slate for the Democratic
voters of Pennsylvania. It was not
held and the bosses said that they
were awaiting the outcome of the
Republican scrap which the Demo
crats believe will give them the state
as occurred in 1882 and 1890. How
ever, about the time that the Poto
mac conference was called oft there
were reports that along the Delaware
and the Schuylkill there had arisen
a demand that James Gay Gordon
be called upon to lead a reunited
party, it being contended that if the
bosses were at all sincere In their I
profession of party unity was their]
sole desire they would take the fa
mous attorney over whom they had
run their roller In 1912 and who had
taken it with unusual cheerfulness
and lined up behind Wilson.
The bosses would like National
Chairman Vance C. McCormick to
seek "vindication." Such candidacy
would insure campaign funds.
—According to Pittsburgh people
Highway' Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil will not announce his candi
dacy this week, but will wait until
the twenty-fifth when a big dinner
is to be given in his honor in Pitts
burgh. For some days there have
been reports that Mr. O'Neil would
announce this week. The postpone
ment of the announcement is not
without interest. Senator Sproul Is
not likely to say anything until Mr.
O'Neil says something.
—Senator Vare added to the in
terest in his position last night by
asking why Senator Penrose, who
did not vote at the Republican pri
mary, should pick a slate. This is
in line with the Vare announcement
that Penrose and his forces can not
vote at the Republican primary and
means a tight to that end.
—The Philadelphia Senator said
last night that he was being bom
barded by friends of O'Neil with re
quests that he support him. He is
also being urged by Brumbaugh Ad
ministration men to line up for
O'Neil.
—ln this connection it is inter
esting to nbte, as was done yester
day, that Senator Vare has not said
he is against Sproul and that the
continued efforts by mail and other
wise to get him to declare for O'Neil,
shew he is not for O'Neil.
—The big dinner to David H. Lane,
Republican city chairman for years,
at Philadelphia last night, attracted
state-wide attention. Coming so soon
after the Armstrong dinner, with
which it Is said to have vied in elab
orateness. it was a sort of Vare rally
in Philadelphia. However, nothing
seems to have developed from it
except renewed proof of the solidity
of the Vare organization in Philadel
phia.
—Governor Brumbaugh continues
confident that he will be af>le to name
his own successor. The Governor is
building a platform on which he in
tends to go to the people. It is be
lieved as soon as O'Xeil announces
he will be for him.
—The Philadelphia Press In an
•dltoripl page review of t>i.' jiuber
natorial situation says: "The visit of
Colonel Roosevelt here on Wednes
day and his associations with Sen
ator Sproul have brought the ex-
President inVo prominence with re
gard to the campaign which he
mieht not otherwise have had. The
Progressives say his visit to Sena
tor Sprout's home and the Sun Ship
building plant, of which the Chester
senator is the head, were merely ac
tions of a social character which
have no political significance. The
Penrose men say. however, that such
an astute politician as Roosevelt
would not get himself into any situa
tion where his actions would acquire
political significance unless he were
deliberately trying to make the im
pressions his actions brought out.
Secretin-" of Labor William B. Wil
son is * mri.-rer being considered as
the pr.ff ▼ Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania in the
next campaign. It is understood
thnt several reasons exist why he
will not enter the primaries.
Neither Vance McCormick, Demo
cratic National Chairman, nor A.
Mitchell Palmer, Democratic Na
tion-il Committeeman. wtahM to
lead the fight. Both were candi
dates four years ago, McCormick for
Governor and Palmer for the Sen
ate. and they feel they have done
their duty by the party."
—District Attorney George W.
Muse, of Lawrence County has made
John B. Tinsel, former post office
inspector, his county detective.
- —Senator Elmer 'Warner, of Car
bon, is a candidate for re-nomina
tlon.
-—A Media dispatch says: "Al
ready there is talk of Senator
Sprout's successor in the State Sen
ate. It can be said that J. Lord
Rigby, of Media, will be a candidate
for Senator. It is true that there
are other men in the county who
would like to succeed Sproul, and
one of them is Wiliam Ramsey, of
Chester. a member of the legisla
ture. But Ramsey will not likely
be a candidate if Rigby is the can
didate for State Senator. Rigby
holds a berth in Auditor General
Snyder's office in Harrisburg. He is
a very popular man in Delaware
County."
—Pamphlets are In circulation in
the state, issued by a campaign com
mittee in the interest of Asa A. Wei
mer. whp is serving his second term
in the Legislature, as a candidate
for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination. He Is part owner of the
Weinier Machine Works, a member
of the Manufacturers' Club, of Phil
adelphia; the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, the Engineers'
Club, of Philadelphia; the Engi
neers' Society, of Pennsylvania; the
Elks, the Pennsylvania State Society,
the Lebanon County Historical So
ciety and the Berkshire Country
Club, of Reading
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT ...
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t* THE *, JMfL ■ _
V-S OF THE . - idTlff s
pond < • v i JU\ . H
YOUNG MEN DIE HERE ,
A woman said to me, "Are you not
glad
Your son is far too young to go to
France?"
Madame, I envy every youth who
goes,
And every mother of whose flesh j
they're made.
You say, "They may be killed, those!
tawny lads
Young men die here clad in the garb j
of peace;
Grim death respects not time, nor!
place, nor age.
But over there those lads in camp
and trench
Have laid youth's doubts aside; a
sacred cause
Thrills every heart; inspires them as
they stand
Together, facing the fierce hordes of
hell.
To fight with brothers for one's!
brother man,
To fight that women's tears may.
cease to flow,
To fight for safety of a little child j
Is life Indeed. Our soldiers arej
alive!
Death comes to all; real life belongs
to few, ' 1
Could any mother ask a greater
boon
Than that her boy may live before
he dies?
—The Living Church.
BUSINESS AND BOOZE
Is it true that there is less drink
ing by business men than used to be
the habit? Here is a bit of evl- j
dence: The entire liquor bill of all
the lunchers and diners at the Ad
vertising Club of New York for a
recent month was thirty dollars!
There was something like 4,000 reg
ular meals served in the club rooms
during those twenty-six working
days, not reckoning the dinner par
ties. This makes the average bill
for booze not over eight-tenths of
a cent per person per meal. In
other words, not over one diner In
forty took a drink with his meal.
We find these figures recorded in a
recent issue of a New York adver
tising Journal —not a professional
crgar. of temperance —we pass them
on to the young men of other cttie3.
who can be trusted to draw their
own conclusions as to the habits of!
the successful members of what is,
possibly the most modern and
progressive of professions.—Chicago
Advertising.
AS POOH-BAH DID IT
McAdoo Asks What Roads Need.
—Headline.
Mr. McAdoo, It Is assumed, Is
speaking now as Secretary of the
Treasury, Inquiring of Director Gen
eral of the Railways McAdoo what
the urgent needs of the roads are,
rind what they will cost. Perhaps
Director General McAdoo, before I
making his reply, should take Sec
ictary McAdoo away to one lde,
where liberty Bona Director .Mc-
Adoo can't hear. Otherwise objec
lions might be made and complica
tions might arise. —Kansas City Star.
Who Sells the Coal?
It is claimed that there are few
-0i crimes committed In Ireland than
In any other country In the world.
There's no liquor In the country and
everybody Is said to be honest. et
the Icelanders are paying SBO per
ton for coal. How would you like
to be the coal man In Iceland? —
Los Angeles Times.
Your Job
Try to l>e one of the ancestors to
be bragged about in the next cen
tury. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
HORSE AND FLIVVER
The final eulogy to Henry Ford
has been rhymed by J. P. McEvoy
In the Chicago Tribune In behalf
of our friend the unfortunate horse,
as follows:
Beside me on the curb you're rolled.
And warm fur robes around you j
cast.
While I. uncovered, shake with cold
In blinding snow and chilling
blast;
But I should be resigned', of course;
You are a flivver—l'm a horse.
And It Is right that robes of fur
Be wrapped around your fragile
form.
For injury you might Incur
If left uncovered to the st<Jrm—
While I will be immune, of course,
I'm not a car —I'm Just a horse.
And standing naked all day long
In wintry winds that cut like
i steel
Is good for horses, who are strong—
But I confess, some grief I feel;
' I was assembled by the Lord,
1 wish it had been Henry Ford.
f A\
A People G
Adelc N. and Russell Phillips in the Atlantic Monthly.
>J
IT was the German eagerness to
absorb the slightest report of
victory, whether verified or not,
and the elation which followed; the
malignant satisfaction evinced at the
tales of cruelty; the delight In the
extreme suffering of the unfortunate
people who stood in the way of the
desired end, which amazed and re
volted us. Living among them so
many years, we have always found
the Germans, and especially the Ber
liners, so mensehllch, so eager for
the good oplnTon of the ousslde
world ,and their home life so tre
mutlich, that we could not credit
this radical and amazing change of
character.
In the twelve long years previous
to ths outbreak of the war, during
which we had resided In Berlin, we
had not encountered this spirit. We
had been always kindly received and
had appreciated to the utmost the
hospitality extended to us, which, as
everybody knows who has resided In
the city for any length of time, is
boundless to the stranger upon
Of Course Animals Think
[E. E. Harriman. in Literary
Digest]
"I am surprised that any one
should still hold to the old theory
that animals do not think. That
theory is smashed completely by
the one fact that memory, which is
conceded to all animals by every
one who knows them at all, is de
fined as 'the conscious reproduction
of a previous thought.' If they do
not think, whence comes the pre
vious thought?" Either our scien
tific men who deny thought in the
lower orders must agree, thajt
thought is common with these ani
mals. or they must remodel the dfi
nition of theory.
"How about the mare that broke
through a barbed-wire fence and
traveled a mile and a half to the
home of my brother-in-law when
she was sick, waking him in the
middle of the night by pawing at his
door, because her owner had taken
her there a year before when she
was sick as now? How about our
own red cow with the lop horn, who
learned to carry her bell so the clap
per would not touch the bell while
she made her way into the cornfield?
How about that same cow, after
trying to reach a choice morsel
through the fence, stepping back to
look the situation over, then getting
I down on her knees to run her head
under the fence, which was on short
posts that keep it two feet oft the
ground, rolling •to her side and
kicking herself through below the
rails to the garden? How about the
mischievous horse of Henry Fergu
son, in Minnesota, that would tease
his mate to try and bite his knee,
then either bump the nose of the
biter with his knee or catch his rein
in his teeth and yank on it till the
mate threw his head up? Saw that
done myself at least a dozen times
in an hour.
"Think? I guess they do. Far
more than some of our Congressmen
seem to do. They not only think,
but they plan and scheme. I could
cite a hundred instances that have
come "under my own observation
which prove it. But Webster settled
the thought controversy by defining
memory, so now let the wise men
make a new definition or cry quits "
LABOR NOTES
The eight-hour day in the lumber
and shingle industry in the North
west is fairly established.
The productiveness of the indivi
dual Russian worker is 53 per cent,
lower than the production of the
American worker.
Carpenters at Scran ton, Pa., have
secured a wage increase of 10 cents
an hour.
A new union of iron molders has
been organized at Augusta. Ga.,
comprising nearly 100 per cept. of
all the members of that trade in the
city. It includes molders working
in both the railroad and contract
shops."
"Workers In copper mills, mines
and smelters are so important to the
Government at this time that a
strike is the last thing that should
be considered." says Charles H.
Moyer. president of the Internation
al Union of Mine, Mill and SmelteV
Workers, in an appeal to these
worklntrmen to assure a maximum
production and thorough co-opera
tion with the Government in fulfill
ing the country'* needs.
whom the burgher centers his affec
tions. * •
To minds so deeply Impressed as
ours the reaction was doubly great,
the awakening very bitter.
Hitherto It was only in military
circles that one heard the refrain
chanted of "Der Tag" and "Über
Alles," and all they Implied. But
with the outbreak of hostilities new
traits began to be perceptible even
In tho gentlest and most refined—
student, philosopher and the most
phlegmatic of burghers alike—that
abiding people suddenly imbued with
a lust for blood.
With the greatest sorrow we had
witnessed the orgies that followed
the sinking of the Lusltanla. Chris
tianity, even civilization itself, could
receive no greater setback than tho
mighty roar of acclaim which arose
fro mthe jubilant crowd on the oc
casion of the parade of the crews
of the submarines the
streets of Berlin to celebrate tHe re
sumption of Schrecklichkeit.—Adele
N. and Russell Phillips in the Atlan
tic Monthly.
POPULARIZING STAMPS
Returns from various cities show
that the public is beginning to ap
preciate the importance and th#
value of the War Saving Certificates
and Thrift Stamps. Sales have in
creased everywhere, and there is
reason for feeling that this "issue of
Government securities will be even
tually successful. But if this Is to
be so there must be no letup on the
part of those who are charged with
the task of exploiting these "baby
bonds." Mr. Frank Vanderlip, whd
has been touring the country, advo
cating the sale of the certificates
and stamps, says that every wage
earner should possess some of them.
He# is bringing the facts home to
the people in a manner that may be
understood by all. He says, In
truth, that the success of these, as
well as the other bond Issues, is
needed for the winning of the war.
The big bond issues, in a manner,
take -care of themselves. They ap- j
peal to the large investors, or at j
least to those who have more than
the average amount of capital.
They are frequently aided by syndi
cates organized for the purpose.
But this issue of certificates and
stamps c&nnot be a success without
the interest and co-operation of the
mass of the people.
In this city gratifying success is
being made with the sales of the
small securities. The same condi
tion is true of the state at large.
The state director, Mr. Cassatt, re
ports that each of the counties has
been organized and that he will soon
be in receipt of weekly reports from
all centers, which will show the
amount of work that Is being ac
complished in each community.
In Philadelphia the numerous busi
nessmen's "associations haVe taken
up the work and established agen
cies for the disposal of the stamps
and certificates. The organization
of the hotelmen has done the same
thing, so fhat now any prospective
purchaser may find it convenient to
get the securities in almost every
part of the city. Every letter car
rier has been commissioned as a
salesman, and every police station
Wouse Is an agency for the disposal
of these stamps.
With the advent of the new year
it would be a good thing if every
family would resolve to put its sav
ings in these Government issues.
They pay a higher rate of interest
than the savings funds, and they
are as safe and as reliable as the
Government Itself. They encourage
the habit of thrift and it will be a
surprise If they do not prove to be
the means of encouraging saving
among those who have never prac
ticed It before. • The next few
weeks will put the public to the
test, and it is earnestly to be hoped
that the results will justify the op
timism of those who were most earn
est in advocating the issue of thlA
popular method of raising money
which the Government needs at this
time. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
Germany's Chance
Wc might have lost the war at the
Marne, or at Verdun. Germany
might have won, had Russia gone
and the United Statfes remained neu
tfnl, but Germany cannot win now
unless the German really is a super
man, and the American, the Briton
nnd the French man inferior and
decadent people. And if this were
true the .Germans would deserve to
win.—Frank M. Pimonds tn the
American Review of Reviews.
• Otfer tta 'foja
Lk ""pMuuu
Is it any wonder tfiat German,
churches in Pennsylvania are elim
inating the language of the. Father
land when one reads such stuff as
this, quoted authoritatively as the
words of a German pastor in an ar
ticle he wrote called "Through Tlr
pitz to Jesus:" "Our Divine Re
deemer is a lover of peace. So are
we, but the peace that the Lord
wants must be a lasting peace, and
no peace can be lasting except one
that brings us Courland, the mining:
regions of Longwy apd Briey and
bases for our fleet to serve as future
starting points in any eventual war
with England. The latter our Tir
pitz, a man after Christ's own heart,
can assure us. He may be appro
priately styled the Warlike N.iaa
rene, whose ardent patriotism is only
equaled by his devotion to his Di
vine Master."
* • •
"My terms to guests without bag
gage are cash in advance," said the
landlord of the Petunia tavern.
"You're; a stronger, and—"
"Butll—ha! ha!" began the would
be lodger.
"Yes, I'll bet you're an easy feller
to get acquainted with, and all that,
but I'm not making any new friends
these days and am pretty durn shy
of the old ones."
* * *
On Friday, December 28, a two
j year-old Rhode Island red hen own
ed by Horace Musser, of Bellefonte,
laid an egg that was 8 % inches and
7!i inches around the long and
short ways. The eggs looked large
enough to make a meal for the own
er's entire family.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
t COMPLETE IN
Do they en
tertain you
not only served
a good dinner
coal enough to
■keep the house
comfortably
A COMMON
FINISH. Fulfil
Were you ever Ps/f
"In the street?" ■of
What do you
stock market f _
the
Street," as you I
-jsp make ® a
■ffyjiVV f i Ones feeling
about prices
Depends the
truth to tell
On whether one
'V*- desires to
_ | STMCTUY buy
=l] Or on® ha*
-=f things to
sell.
A SMALL >~&E3
WORLD. dy?'
WII, well, to
I think of meet
s !ng you here;
■ the world is not
• such a large
■ place after all!
ontuin uitiai
I The State Capitol 1B bothered with
too much money. There are SOT
eral branches of the government
which are strugßllng to get out from
under heaps of money orders and
certified checks and cash, which
keep coming in so fast that the peo
ple In charge are working at nights
to get It sorted out and sent to the
State Treasury, It Is estimated that
It will be the end of the month be
fore tho conditions become normal
and the money Is banked and all
books posted.
This rush Is due to the demand
for 1918 automobile licenses, which
is heavior than ever known before
and which is causing thousands of
dollars a day to be handled; the rush
for licenses to sell oleomargarine,
which Is also breaking records, and
for other licenses and papers which
the state hands out at the first of
the year. Clerks who are experi
enced in such matters say that they
have never known anything like the
rush this year. The money is all
in vaults and guarded.
The State Chamber of Commerce,
which recently named a committee
to make an inquiry into old age
pensions, which will keep in touch
with the State Commission on the
same subject, will also name com
mittees on revision of banking and
insurance laws, on which the state
has commissions. The data gathered
by the Chamber of Commerce will
be made available for the state au
thorities and the General Assembly.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge,
pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, told a good story before
the Harrisburg Rotary Club at
luncheon yesterday at the Y. M. C.
A. anent the propensity of manv
ministers to debate the meaning of
obscure passages of Scripture. He
said:
"Three preachers were gathered
together one day trying to find R
passage in the , Bible upon which
tliey would all agree absolutely.
They discussed the matter for hours
and were not able to find a verse
fhi " ,ea "t absolutely the same
thing to all of them. A friend
growing weary of the prolonged de
bate and hoping to end it, suuested
as a solution to their troubles that
passage which says, 'And David
danced before "the ark.'
♦fclVTt? 11 '' said the ,irst . '! take It
tnat the passage means that David
danced in the presence of the ark.'
.1 T 1 !? differ >' said the sec
ond. but I have no doubt that the
writer meant that David danced be
, arl< Wiis built.'
thi'rH°"r *£ e cont rary,' observed the
third, I have no hesitancy in voic
°P'n'°" that what is meant
danced.-? da ced before the ark
♦ • *
hiv? f i,i(° 5 H ter i f amlno appears to
have hit Harrisburg hard. People
to cetHni Ve been accus tomed
to getting the same succulent bi
rnl-ot S ll i at u the Philadelphia epi
seurs deViL/t " Baltimore connois
th = , aml to talk of, but
have cut " J'n' 1 w *ther seems to
nave cut off the supply. • Men -it
restaurants yesterday, who have
made it a rule to eat oysters on
Mondays because they generally tret
ri™ n? ne 2 the sh 'Pments that ar
-5 mor uinff, were growling
U?in^ ay TL a " klns * of dreadfid
eatinr rZ at th hea d of the
eatinf, places were In desnair and
do "abouT it ha h they wero to A
. a "®ut it, because ovsters are m
ana ■sjs-srsaprffflf.
SB : iwwvarjß.-Ba
ThJ o'„ ""■ "mT"
is not wanted Oniv* *
— >? *™
Hi
sSHtL--
S.'r" 'HvF'",
I things are lo ha
| store and candy plac" ® V6ry drUK
*
Capitol Park has regained it* am
Harrisburg al t \ t k® a £?, ungßter 9 ° f
Yesterday -
ssr
vasion of their precincts.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
at i ln "
thouSTAt the Wa V r B tvt stTmS
't^-st^te bookPd ">' some a fks™n
ferred tortile °New
from Ppnnsvivonin v division
a Commissioner. back as
—Congressman Henry A rio-i,
shores of Lake Erie ' me on the
I DO YOU KNOW J
That the new furnaces at
SteeJton are the largest in Cen
tral Pennsylvania?
JOH? S W OI^ IC H ABRISBURO
Ingratitude of Man
lifcSE ,
quest * a most ""natural're
xansa- '
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