8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded it}l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH rRIXTIXG CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. • EiJ. ST CKPOL.E, Pres't 5- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press, is exclusively en title'! to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub- Ea st n office^ _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa,, as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a t "week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance, WEDNESDAY, FKBRVAKY , 1918 Joy is not in things, it is in us— Ciiables Wagxf.b. r 4 , THE WAR CABINET BILL EXA TO R CHAMBERLAIN, S Democrat; Senator Hltch?ock. Democrat, and Senator W ads worth. Republican, each has to . the Senate of the United States that America Is not playing the part in the war she is capable cf P' a >" ,ng Each has said that President W iUon and Secretary Baker have done b.g things in the face of Each has disclaimed any intent to take one iota of power from either the President or Secretarv. three have declared their one pur pose in criticising has been and is to make America 100 per cent, effec tive against Germany bv bringing to the administration's aid more of the big men of the country. Surely, the friends of President | Wilson will not rersist in their asser tions that the war cabinet Republican political scheme when its two leading exponents are in fluential Democrats. Surely, President will not dare to say that all these Senators are mistaken an that only he Is right, when the whole countrv realizes that these men ere in better position to know the truth concerning the things whereof they speak than the President himself .3. It lias came down to this that leading men, regardless of party, have reached the belief that this war can be successfully conducted or.ly by the united abilities and efforts of the whole country. It is not a one man job nor a one party job. It is bigger than men. Tt >s bigger than parties. We do not stop to ask the leligious coi victiohs ot the firemen who re spond home is ablaze. We have no right now to ask, is thh man a Democrat, or is that man a Republican, when rescuers are needed to save the very I'fe of the nation. The only question that should have any weight is—4s ho the best man for the place?" The President contends that the present machinery, designed when th? 'country was in its infancy, is adequate for the conduct of the war and that it's efficiency cannot be improved upon by Congress. He might with equal logic argue that the organization of the countvy general store of a half century back Is sufficient to operate -successfully a modern department store. The j problems of the Civil War were , simple as compared with those cf | to-dty, yet Lincoln found need of th> service of big men outside his > own political party. That he did j not under the circumstances deem a war cabinet necessary is no pi oof that he would be opposed to such a measure as is now before Con gress under present circumstances. In taking the stand he does Presi dent Wilson not only assumes a grave responsibility, but he is triflinf. with the support of Con gress and creating a measure cf doubt in the minds of millions who ha'* been standing behind him steadfastly in this war \nft who will continue as long as he will permit them to do so and still feel that the country is putting 100 per cert, into the fight for democracy. "Post office will not be opened be fore March," and for the benefit of Postmaster Sites we append this quo tation: "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." THE U-BOAT A FAILURE? IVJICATTONS are, notwithstand ing the War Department's warn ing of the possibility of a great U-boat offensive soon, that the great naval minds of Germany have lost faith in the submarine as an in strument capable of bringing Eng land to her knees and so winning tho war for the Central Powers. There i* more than a hint of this in the recent writing of Captajn Persiua, whose naval criticisms have had the,ear the German people since the very start of the war. Perslus frankly admits that the U-boat is Germany's last card and WEDNESDAY EVENING, # HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 6. 1918. that England can be put out of the lighting by no otfcer means, but he !s very pessimistic as to the abilities of the underseas craft to bring about this result. Captain Persius cleverly conceals his conclusions from the surface reader by a cairrouflage of statistics, an analysis of which is conclusive proof that while the U-boat may be a trump card, the destroyer is the joker in the deck and that the re cently improved defensive methods of the allies have balked Germany's ruthless game at sea. No war news has been so carefully censored ii Berlin as that concerning sub marines, and the fact that Captain Persius has been permitted a frank statement of his views not calcu lated to fit in with the forecasts of Hindenburg and his crowd may not be without its significance. And then the question m'ght be asked, if Berlin admits the failure of what has been declared there to be the only chance of German vic tory, what next will the enemy try in his desperation? Cheer up, folks. Florida also has freezing weather. WE ARE LAMBASTED THE Telegraph is in receipt of a jibing, not to say jeering com munication from one who signs himself "Goosebone Man,*' referring in caustic language to a recent edi torial in these columns under the caption, "The January Thaw," .of which letter we quote herewith a paragraph: And not only do you occasion -1 " P°ke fun at the Goosebone Prophet, but you have the nerve, without any authority whatsoever, save your own supreme nail, to predict a January thaw. Now, I knew at the start you were fak ing- What does a man be hind a roll-top desk know about the weather? If you had asked a Goosebone Man— any one of 'em—he would have told you right off that there would be nr. thiw this year until late in February, and maybe not until March. The Goosebone Men knew from the marks on the bone that January would be a rotten month, productive of nothing but death, pneumonia and hardships and that there is no hope for an early spring. Just like that he said it, and a lot more. We admit we have been properly lambasted. But are we flabergasted? Not us! Optimism is our middle name and we take' pride in getting a little fun out of almost every situation—even the oc casional funeral of a Goosebone Man, or some others we could men tion, but won't. That's the reason j we joked about the hard winter and I hoped for a January thaw. But dear| Goosebone Man. if you will pardon; us for being alive long enough to! explain, we didn't say tl\e thaw WOULD come. We only said we j HOPED it would come and were! careful, VERY* careful, Jo express 1 the belief that it would NOT come.! Our friend, -we fear, grows pessi-l mistic. The winter has got on his nerves. We recommend the follow ing stanza from the Washington Star as at once a seditive and a tonic: Cheer up, ehfllun, tho the weath er's mighty raw. Every time dar comes a freeze. dar's gotter coma a thaw. It takes a little patience till de freezin'-time is done. An' if you lose yoh temper, why, it doesn't help yoh none. That's the idea—"every time you git 9 a freeze, you gotter git a thaw," and so the thaw is coming one of these days, and the snow will melt, and the sap will run, and the blue birds will come, and the flowers will bloom, and our flannels will be laid away about a week too soon, and Bock beer signs will wax and wane and every sign of spring will appear, save only the little German band of yester year. You see, dear Goose bone Man, we're entirely hopeless. The thing is not that the thaw didn't come in January, but that it surely IS coming. And now let's all join in singing that appropriate little chorus which goes like this: So, cheer up. chillun, 'cause you sho'ly might as well; We all has our troubles, an* dar's nothin' new to tell. Each botheration seems about de worst you ever saw, But every time you gits a freeze, you's gotter have a thaw. Them's our sentiments. "By April 1 I shall be in Paris."— Hindenburg. Where' have we heard them words before? WHY NOT TAFT? WHY not former President Taft for confidential advisor in the i War Department, or for Sec- ! retary of War in case the President 1 changes his mind about retaining Mr. Baker? The country would j applaud such a move. Mr. Taft was . once Secretary of War. He is ad- j mittedly one of the biggest men in the world. He has the confidence of the public and he has been a per sistent and consisted supporter of President Wilson in all the latter's war aims. We humbly, but hope lessly, suggest him for the high place in his country's service for which hi* patriotism, experience and ability so amply qualify him. But it is not to be thought that he will be given it. Such a course would be too much along the line of hard busi ness sense of the type Washington knows so well how not to display. The best news we have heard for a long time is that thirty German edi tors went to Von Hindenburg to tell him that by May 1 there will be no more food left in Germany. Not that we love Germans the less, but that we love peace more. There was a time this winter when we were peeved because the trolley car was behind time, but it has gotten so we feel like giving the conductor an extra nickel every time his car is on schedule. There's one good thing about this weather; it has put all of the old "hard winter" liars out of business. There are indications that Mr. Kuehlman is not living up to the pro nunciation of his name T>o££t£cU By the Ex-Committeeman Western Pennsylvania Democrats appear to take it for granted that Vance C. McCormick, the Democratic national chairman, will not attempt to seek vindication in the Pennsylva nia gubernatorial arena this year and have started to erect lightning rods for favorite sons, although some of them are said to reason that the chances for a Democrat being elect ed iri the Keystone State even in the face of a serious Republican fac tional row must not be very good or else McCormick would surety be a candidate. According to Philadelphia news papers A. Mitchell Palmer, the na tional committeeman and other east ern leaders, have put the stop on any gubernatorial ambitions of Wil liam H. Berry, collector of the port of Philadelphia, and several other eastern men, and this morning Pitts burgh dispatches tell of the declara tion of Congressman Guy E. Camp bell. of Pittsburgh, for Acting State Chairman and Petroleum Adminis trator Joseph F. Guftey, public utility man, for Governor. At the same time United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes makes a noise like a recurrence of his gubernatorial hopes. All of the Democrats mentioned have long titles indicating connec tion with the federal payroll and it shows pretty conclusively that the Democratic bosses are longing for places on Pennsylvania payrolls In the name of patriotism or anything else that will do to cloak personal ambition. They promised Pennsyl vania if they got Wilson in 1912, but they have never been able to deliver. —Governor Brumbaugh said last night in regards to the report that the Republican state leaders had about made up their minds to declare for local option in' the state plat form, "The Republican party ought to go much farther. It should de clare for prohibition and woman suf frage." —The meeting of numerous relig ious and anti-liquor bodies here this week and the activity of O'Neil par tisans among them does not appear to be lost on men of all parties. The effect of the meetings Is being watch ed carefully, although Democrats do not like It. —Senator Sproul's announcement is due this week and is being awaited as the signal to start things moving. —The Vares seem to be about to begin decapitation of members of that committee who were for the Town Meeting ticket. This will prob ably speed up the proposed removals at the Capitol. The Philadelphia In quirer says regarding this Philadel phia committee plan; "The meeting of the committee may also be taken advantage of to inaugurate the plan of Senator Vare that the members from the several wards shall indi cate the preference of their constitu ents in the matter of the most avail able candidate for Governor. It is known that a majority of the ward leaders affiliated with the Vares are of the opinion that Senator William C. Sproul, of Delaware county, is the logical candidate for the Repub lican nomination for Governor. The situation may be complicated if at the same time there is a move to in dorse the candidacy of John R. K. Scott, the Vare favorite, for the Lieutenant Governorship." —Charles W. Kiser, of Wilkins burg, treasurer of one of the Pitts burgh trust companies, is to be the treasurer of the J. Denny O'Xeil campaign. Mr, Kiser has been prominent in the Pittsburgh chapter of the Institute of Banking and ac tive in civic and religious affairs in Wilklnsburg and vicinity. —Commissioner O'Xeil, who is addressing the Anti-Saloon League superintendents to-day and speak ing at the State Society luncheon, will go to Carlisle to-morrow to ad dress the businessmen of Cumber land county and on the following day he will speak at the same place to the Cumberland road supervisors. Saturday he will speak at Red Lion, York county. —Attitude of Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scranton, in the coming guber natorial campaign appears to be arousing much comment here. Mr. Connell was formerly aligned with the Penrose people, but he was named as one of the Scranton reg istration commissioners and also as a member of the commission on banking laws. —An appointment of interest from Scranton is that of Jerome K. Barrett, well-known newspaperman, as assistant city solicitor, lie be gan his career on a newspaper and is still actively connected with it. ■ —Says a special dispatch to the Philadelphia Press from Wilkes- Barre: "Republicans in this section are practically unanimous in their demands that the Penrose and Vare forces bury the hatchet and get to gether on a State ticket. There has not been a time in many years when the up-State party men have been more harmonious and when the chances for an old-fashioned party vote, loomed brighter, if the Vares and Penrose come to an understand ing." —Scranton newspapers intimate that the visit of Harry C. Hubler to see Governor Brumbaugh Thursday was to get State administration sup port for a fight against Congressman John R. Farr. However, Secretary William H. Ball said the visit was without political significance. —James S. Beacom, former leg islator and state treasurer, has shown the stuff he is made of by responding to the call of his neigh bors to serve on the Greensburg borough council. He is its presi dent and works at the job. —John Hartneady, brother of the sheriff of Carbon, has'lost his job as night watchman in the Carbon jail. —Friends of Oliver Burke Jr., says the Scranton Republican, are making an effort to induce him to become a candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for state legis lature against Patrick H. Wynne, who has represented the Plttston district for the past two years. The district is one of the Democratic strongholds in Duzerne county. Mr. Wynne is well known in Scranton, being employed by the Scranton Foundry and Engine Company. Dur ing the last session he was secretary of the Democratic organization in the House. —Representative Harry B. Scott, of Center, has been picked as one of the men to have charge of fuel arrangements In the central part of Pennsylvania. —Ex-Representative Frank C. Reese, of Schuylkill, Is suspected of having senatorial ambitions. City Manager Hinkle's action in chopping down the emoluments of the city treasurer of Altoona from $5,000 ot SI,BOO has attracted much .attention in other cities of the third class, which are having troubles ' over filling offices. OH, MAN! ... BYBRIGGS )5 A* harry VUILLI ( WHY SUREA I/ HARRY A I "THAT'S ALL RIGHTI ~r i atrp /You CA-SH ft CHECK. BILL- GIV/6 I THOUSAND „ BILL - Gt_AO -Tfc £0 IVSVO WTi " 1 FOR * l-r-CS In HfRE J T|M£S OBLIGED J IT- NO "TROUBLE AT CHECK I FOR FIFTY AND \ HtK 7 k To'VOJ \A" "TALL'. \ closes) \ ReTu RKJe -i> TLU call UP BILL- ) (He hasn'T BEEN] ~ HE'LV make, IT ( WITH FORt A ===7 *r & §) <5 GOOD- ME PROBABLV ) A KIDN'T ReAUZE HIS / \LOOKinJ6 FOR 1f S*®' A.! Account EDITORIAL COMMENT A cynic commentator on the re cent revelations of delay in war preparation suggests that as Mr. Wilson was re-elected because he kept us out of war, his Administra tion is now making good.—Chicago Tribune. When the Petrograd Bolsheviki refuse to light Germany and then threaten Rumania with war, the> must not expect the rest of the world to understand their mental processes or accept their theories as proof of exceptional virtue. New \ork World. A profit is without honor unless It is decently small. —Seattle Post-Intel ligencer. S TRENG THES PRE SI DES T [Elbert F. Baldwin in the Outlook.] ( Senator Chamberlain authorized me to make the following statement on his behalf in my interview with him: "From Washington's letters to the Continental Congress throughout our whole history, as revealed by Upton and others, from Bunker Hill to the present day, we have had neither a militarv organization nor a military policy." The need of the present day is specially evident. I have been a member of the Senate committee on military affairs for the past seven years, and keenly realize, 1 am sure, as much as any one realizes, our own deficiencies in what military es tablishment we have. "As to building up a military or ganization, I approve the efforts ofj Mr. Baker, Secretary of War. Their: good effect is apparent. But they do | not go far enough because they do j not centralize authority. Hence I; introduced a bill creating a director I of munitions, who, With definite legal powers, would have charge of the production and distribution of warj supplies. To aid the President in carrying out his war policy I also in troduced a bill creating a war cabi net of three members, t® be ap-| pointed by the President Kvith thej Senate's advice and consent. "Acting under the President, these men would be legally empowered to devise and direct a war policy, and, to this end, to co-ordinate the activi ties of the various government de partments. My criticisms of the government have been directed to the military side, and I and my colleague on the committee intro duced a war cabinet bill, in no way to diminish, but to strengthen the President's powers by affording him a new arm of power. "In the same way the director of munitions bill would help the Sec retary of War. I advocate the uni versal training, munitions director and war cabinet bills to aid the gov ernment: that is my whole motive. There is only one thing for an Amer ican to do, namely, to help win the war. I am actuated by that im pulse only." French Jewelry Populaa The wearing of French jewelry was accompanied at one time by a more or less apologetic attitude. Women liked the pretty and inex pensive little trinkets, but had a feeling that somehow they were not up to the standard and that it wasn't quite the proper thing to wear them. But that is over and done with. Nowadays one buys and wears un blushingly metal that simulates gold and stones that are far from precious, except in that they are very beautiful. There are metal bagtops*for in stance, in remarkable shapes and jeweled designs. And there are*any number of styles in combs, pins and barrettes for the hair. These are all resplendent with colored and scin tillating stones. Bead chains are to be had in such a variety of colors that one can find just the hue sought for almost any costume. Some of them have fancy pendants which give them quite a barbaric splendor. New York Evening Sun. All Allenby Myth l From the London Observer] A strange tale is In circulation at clubs where men from the East fore gather. says "A Club Member." It is said that, apart from General Al lenby'? unquestioned success, his name has had a remarkable effect on the Turks. For Allenby Is by them interpreted as Allah Nabi, which means the man from Allah, or the emissary of Allah. There fore, his triumph has been accepted as a direct divine interposition. This was a stroke of luck which never en tered the minds of the war authori ties when they wisely gave him his I command. THE PEOPLE'S VPTOWN SALOOXS ? To f/i<? Editor of the Telegraph: The killing at Verbeke and Capi-| tol streets at the all-night saloon Isj principally noted for the indifference; amounting almost to apathy of the' general public. The colored man who was wel comed in every saloon he passed,! finally landed in an all-night affair.l tilled with the worst men you could: tind in the city. He was tanked j tip, a knife was sold to him and' then he was thrown out. He felt I insulted and wanted to tight as nearly every man does who has thej rotten stuff poured into him. He! waited his chance and killed a man. j He has been landed in jail and if hei pays the penalty with his life it will i be said the Law, with a capital L.! has been satisfied. It isn't right if j the poor negro alone is punished. | That same Law was convinced by i testimony of citizens and pleadings! of the lawyer, that a rumshop wasi necessary at Verbeke and Capitol to accommodate the public, although! there are five or six saloons in thej immediate vicinity. I know what! an all-night saloon means from com-! ing in actual contact with it, andj the jitney men could tell a better j story of the toughs, male and fe-1 male, whom they haul there and] drag away: but the best story of; all could be told by the policemen. | if they weren't afraid ot losing their! jobs, they could tell you of disgrace- j ful "carrying on"—men pitched out j too drunk to walk, women being dragged put by men so overcome that they had to be lifted bodily to a conveyance and thrown in, or a free tight for all, attracting a more or less drunken crowd of fifty or hun-| dred cursing frequenters of this '.aw ful place. Of course I know of the farce enacted in court and the po-l lice force, spic and span, at every Kitchen Soldier's Code An army of kitchen soldiers is being called together for home ser vice by Good Housekeeping. Al ready enlistments are coming in from all over the country. Each woman who enrolls promises to live up to the following "Kitchen Sol dier's Code:" 1. I will faithfully follow every suggestion laid down by the Nation al Food Administration. Where the substitutes I am asked to use cost more than the food I am asked to replace. I will conscientiously use the substitutes, in so far as my purse allows, realizing that it is food and not money I must con serve for our soldiers across the sea. 2. I will conserve money by in telligent buying, by wise planning of meals, and by preventing waste both in the kitchen and on the din ing table. 3. 1 will take the utmost pains to provide ample growth foods for my children: to make sure that no sub stitute food is used in their menu where a similar food value is not assured. . , _ . 4 I will offer through Good Housekeeping to women of the country, all the help I can. realizing that it is only through the experi ence of trained housekeepers that many of the war problems can be met. 5. I will feel free to call upon Good Housekeeping, the official or gan of the Kitchen Soldiers, for spe cial help whenever I may need it, and I will pass that help along to the women of my community, form ing, wherever feasible, a local com pany of Kitchen Soldiers. In order to become a soldier a woman must sign and send to Good Housekeeping the following pledge: I the member of the household entrusted with the handling of food, do herebv enlist as a Kitchen Sol dier for Home Service, and pledge myself to waste no food and to use wisely all food purchased for this household, knowing that by so doing I can help conserve the foods that must be shipped to our soldiers and our Allies. Some Color Schemes Brown, which is one of the colors prevalent in Paris, Is not likely to be used to any extent in chis country. The very Rood reason for this di vergence of opinion about the color schemes between the two countries is probably due to the dye situation. In Paris most of the blue and gray dyes are used for the French sol diers* uniforms, Just as on this side of the water much of the brown dyes are used for uniforms of khaki. Gray, blue, green .oyster color and red will be, therefore, the most worn, and combinations of these with white or checked material are I very chic. —New York Herald. criminal court. They report that the city is immaculate. The police know it isn't true, unless they are blind, deaf, and dumb. I can't see how the court can believe it and I know the citizens laugh at the whole performance. This saloon, at the 'next license court, will apply for a permission to legally sell all day and all night. What will be the re sult? The Lynch .Hotel, where I have seen women pleading with their husbands to come home, where at 12 a. m., the other Sunday morning I saw two automobiles full of young girls and men leave the place with hilarity which could be heard at Third street: then a few doors be low. you have another saloon—then at Third and Verbeke another, then a little above James another, then at Verbeke and Williams another: that makes six saloons within a square. In some other cities damages done by a drunken man are paid by the saloon owner. It isn't fair to only punish that colored man. Our court, I think, say that drunkenness is no excuse, but that doesn't settle it. Common sense would teach that some person should be held responsible for poi soning a man to such a degree that he does what he wouldn't think of doing, normally. That saloon keeper should share in the jpunish ment. Doesn't it seem ridiculous that the people permit the licensing the saloons which are the cause of seventy-five per cent, of our crime. The court is the servant of the peo ple and it reflects the.opinion of the people. The voter who is not in terested in having the best adminis tration is likewise guilty in this case. It's a crime to punish only that colored man. J. H. FAGER. Miners Should Not Be Drafted The present coal scarcity felt in almost every section of the country, furnishes the very strongest argu ment in favor of favorable consid eration of the request which Con gressman John R. Farr made of Fuel Administrator Garfield in Washington. This request was that the Fuel] Administrator take action looking to the prevention of further enlist ment in the Army, the Navy, the aero squadron or the engineers' corps of mine workers who are needed at the collieries to help get out a record output of coal. The fact that weather conditions, recently, have greatly minimized the tonnage mined shows that the situa tion is one calling for action. What the mines need is more labor and not the taking away of experienced men who are invaluable in the work of getting out fuel. A miner busily cutting coal is serving his country just as effectively these days as the men in the trenches holding a part of the line in France. The fact is too clear for argument. It is folly to ask men engaged in thiy industry to leave their present duties to engage in any line of Army service. We have no doubt that the Presi dent and Secretary Baker will see this matter in a proper light when it is laid before them by Dr. Gar field.—Scranton Republican. LABOR NOTES The United States Employment Service will have the task of mobil izing 3,000,000 workers ( for agricul ture, shipbuilding and war contract plants. Jvngland's co-operative movement owns its own tea gardens in India arid Ceylon, palm oil plantations in West Africa and wheat fields in Can ada. As a result of the conference be tween the employers and the men, the striking funeral undertakers' em ployes at Dublin, Ireland, have re turned to work. Boilermakers, machinists, black smiths, car men and sheet-metal workers employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have formed a system federation. Dublin (Ireland) Master Carriers' Association has offered its men an increase of three shillings and six pence in addition to their previous war bonus. Eleven hundred and ten were killed in general industrial establishments | in Pennsylvania last year. 1,112 in mines and 448 In public service. Otfer tfte v ""peiuuu Woman down in York County, weighing over 400 pounds nearly lost her life when thrown into a snow bank. Perhaps she is not so badly off as Mabel Johnson, of Chi cago. who has been taken to St. Bernard's Hospital for treatment to stop her growth. She is 25 yea'"s old; 7 feet, 6 inches tall. Her di sjase ij aeromeglia and there have only teen one hundred cases of it in the history of medicine. • Read this and be happy, Mr. and Mrs. Coffee Drinker. Justus Liebig proved that, by taking equal lots of men, vorking in the salt mines, feed ing cue lot bread and met:, the other bread and coffee, the coffee sfluad could rio more work and come out in better shaps than the meat eaters. He says coffee has very considerable nutriment. • * Pennsylvania is one of the most important contributors to the cause of foreign missions, and the state ment Major General Hibiki, of the Japanese Army, shows, that, al though it costs $350 to bring in to the church each convert, foreign mission work thrives. There are over 180,000 Japanese mcmbetf of protestant churches. One Presby terian church in Tokio has 1,300 members. | OUR DAILY LAUGH | I MADE HIM MAD. Ist Book worm: Why so f*. ~— sad, Louis? ~ 2nd Book worm: After /~y boring all a3) through that /Qp volume 1 found /Ji it is a blank [% f 1 book. P CHANGE OF SENTIMENT. For coal I used I scorned to J I only wish I could. HOW IT g WORKED. jggV yftii&S' month ago agreed that we v j would point out each other's faults without nSK'/ J j&M And you are jmIKW J L& 1 Mill doing It? i|||r haven't spoken t?7[ [I j to each other J'.VV J/ij for twentv-nine vjk ~z:A days. ft i ADAS! Eriperlen.ee Is a teacher stern i Her lessons we cannot The trouble is, So many cannot use. Htaratng ©!pt Lafayette men here, and there are tt number of them, are taking a big Prtde in the appointment of Major General Peyton C. March to be chief of staff of the Army. This is tho place held lately by another Pcnn sylvanian. General Tusker H. Bliss a Lewlsburg man anil a brother of .Robert P. Bliss, of the State Library General March is one of tho six sons of the late Prof, Francis H. March, the grand old man of Lafay ette, all of whom have made good. In addition to the General the other members of this remarkable family are Thomas S. March, author and state high school inspector, who lives here; Aldan March, editor of the Philadelphia Press; Moneure C March, general counsel of tho Eijuitable; l'rt-4 John March, of Lnion College, and Prof. Francis C March, of Lafayette. ♦ • Harry S. Calvert, who was secre tary of the old State Railroad Com mission, was here this week on mat ters connected with state depart ments. • • • The claim that the United States lias a claim of about 13,000,000 against, .the State of Pennsylvania is nothing; new to people here. Such things turn up every now. and then just like great estates abroad and properties in the heart of every eitv, W hen the latest claim came up peo ple at the Capitol gave three guesses: New York, border claims and Washington. Most of them guessed Washington lirst. Jesse E. 13. Cunningham, for mer Deputy Attorney General ran up against the law the other morn ing, but seems to have survived and also gotten breakfast. Mr. Cunning ham dropped into a* luncheon place and after some thinking of boy hood days ordered sausage and wheat cakes. Hack came tho wait ress. "Sorry but this is a meatless and also a wheatless day." "It is, it is," remarked Mr. Cun ningham, "Well bring me what the law allows." • • * Dr. John H. Fuger isn't going to bo cheated out of his spring liypati ca. (For the benefit of the benight, the Telegraph pauses to explain that the hypatlca ;s a spring wild llower and that when Dr. Fager in years agone used to tind the lirst hypatica the w;eather man sat up and took note of the fact that spring had ar rived). But with winter " calcula tions all shot to pieces, the Ground hog prediction for six more weeks of cold weather and spring still hull down ip the offing, Dr. Fager can sit in his easy chair by the lire side these days and laugh—for on his window sill there is growing a clump of hypatica plants that are line and thrifty despite the zero weather and that are going to bloom on time, no matter how the blue birds feel about their northern trip. Dr. Fager said yesterday, in dis cussing his hypatica plants with a friend that the public lias destroy ed most of the hypatica roots in Wildwood park by too zealous pick ing and that he now permits a friend of his to tind the lirst blossom of the spring in a little glen the secret of which is not known to the gen eral public and whose llowers are watched and cherished by those who know how to take care of them. ♦ * # The thoughtless man has few friends even in a trolley car. This was rather strikingly shown the other evening when a citizen who wanted to go to about the top of Allispn Hill got on a Hummelstown car, which was already packed with people .who had to go from five to nine miles. Without regard for any one else, or himself, he took a place near the rear door, ignoring the in junction to "move up front." The car was delayed about three and a half minutes at Thirteenth and Market streets while the switch was cleared of snow and ice and when it did get under way the man called' out that he wanted off at Howard street and began to edge toward the front door. Why he did not get out white the car *was stalled at Thir teenth and Market, one block away, no one knows. At any rate the cat went on until it reached Vernon street and the man held it up half a minute more while he gave the motorman what he termed "a piece of mind" for not stopping at How ard street. "That's a skip stop and we don't stop there anyway," said the motor man.. • "And you deserve 4 to be carried to Derry," put in a passenger on whose foot the man had walked in his wild rush for the door. * SjJeaking of wild flowers a trio of West Shore people whose word cannot be. questioned, unite in as serting that Tuesday morning of last week they all lliree saw a big fat robin and heard him sing. The bird did not mind the snowdrifts, apparently, but was as blithe and as chipper as on a sumfner day. Naturalists commenting on its ap pearance at this time say that a few robins and other birds that ordi narily go South each winter prefer to spond the cold weather here and mr ge to stick it out despite the rigors of the climate. There is no explanation for this variation from habit. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dan T. Pierce, who was In charge of publicity at the Hog Island ship-building plant, will go to France to engage in Y. M. C. A. work. —Louis Dreake, of Philadelphia, Is at Palm Beach for February. —G. W. B. Hicks, former city statistician of Philadelphia, has been commissioned a major in the Army. —Dr. Henry W- Stough, the evan gelist, is preaching tA the soldiers along the Mexican border. —Delos Wilcox, trolley expert well known here, is sitting up nt nights trying to untangle the Beth lehem traffic situation. —James Neale, one of the ex pertfi on the Garfield board, has gone to Wilkes-Barre to see what kind of coal is being shipped these days. He is a coal operator him self. | DO YOU KNOW ~~ —That Harrlshurg at one tlmo Had kThouses along the river . lMink and everyone cut Ms own supply? HISTORIC HARRISRURG One of tho early signal corps com panies in the Civil War was re crulted here. The Perpetual Vision What lightens labor, santlflen toll and makes a man good and strong, wise and patient, Just and benevo lent, both lowly and great, ai well as worthy of intelllgenne and free dom, Is the perpetual vision before Ihlm of a better world beaming through life's shadow*.—Victor Hugo.
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