8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOUB Pounded it 31 f. ■ __ Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldtns, Federal Square. i 18. J. STACK POLE, Prtt't &■ Bditer-in-Chirf V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. -QUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. .Member of the Associated Press — The Associated Press is exclusively en ) titled 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. I®" Member American Eastern office. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■ By carriers, ten cents a CrfißlJisStfsfc* week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. k THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918 Take your part with the perfect and abstract right, and trust to God to see that it shall prove the expe dient.—WENDELL PHILLIPS. TUMULTY WITHDRAWAL JOSEPH TUMULTY having found it convenient to withdraw as a candidate for the vacant United States Senatorship in New Jersey, •the question that naturally arises is, why did he ever get into the race if his real reason for retiring at the last minute was founded on the be iief that he can be of more service to the country at the President's elbow than on the floor of the Sen ate. No doubt, there is truth in this, but the suspicion persists that i Tumulty's relinquishment of the ambition to wear a toga is not en tirely without its political signifi cance. There are those who may even see in it an unwillingness of the administration to go before the people at this time in such a test of popularity as the candidacy of any man close to the President at 'this time no doubt woyld bring about. That this is not far beyond the facts is indicated also by the reluctance of the National Demo , cratic bosses to permit any man intimately identified with the fed eral administration to be a candi date for any of the big State offices )n Pennsylvania this year. The de feat of a White House candidate at this time would be a frightful blow to Democratic hopes in 1920. The Germans sec no joy in the Rus sian peace; probably because they can't trust the Bolshevlki leaders any more than the allies can. SPRING "HAS CAME" NO matter how cold It may get between now and April 1, we have proof positive that spring is here. We have not heard a blue bird song, nor seen a dandelion bloom, nor noticed any signs of budding trees, nor yet have we pick ed a hypatica bloom in Wildwood park. But Just the same we know that spring "has came," for yester day the Telegraph published the National League baseball schedules, together with a note about the •'teams getting ready to go South." The President wants no "patch work" peace, but if Americans ever get across the Rhine that's the only kind the Kaiser wil be able to make. Just now we begin to believe that there is a lot of fun even in mowing the lawn. BRINGING RESULTS SLOWLY, but surely, recent hap- j penings in House and Senate and before Congressional in vestigating committees are having their good effects. President Wilson begins to-day a series of conferences with the men of all parties in Con gress concerning the nation's war plans. No course more conducive to public confidence in the admini stration or likely to attract wavering Congressmen and Senators to the President's standardscouldhave been devised. So long as members of the legislative branches of the govern ment were left in the dark as to the President's campaign . plans and rebuffed every time they offered suggestions or aid. Just so long there was bound to exist a feeling of un rest, uncertainty and dissatisfaction in the lawmaking branches of the government that was rapidly spread ing throughout the country. No man worthy the name would play politics at a time like this. If ! the present war Is not a cause In which all Americans can sink all their differences in patriotic devo tion to the great principle Involved, ! then God help the country. What i all good Americans desire at this j time Is to be of utmost service to the government. This Is neither a I one-man nor a one-party war. All | have rendered excellent service up ! to this time, when opportunity af i forded. What we want and what ! we will have before we are through with it is perfect co-ordination of effort and union of endeavor from J the highest to the lowest office of THURSDAY EVENING, the government. Nobody can deny us this and expect to long retain popular favor. Fortunately, the President is swinging around to this point of view. He is coming to a better un derstanding of the temper of the people and that instead of reflecting upon Democratic ability or taking away from him or his party any of their prestige, he is furthering his own and his party's interests, as well as those of the country, by calling to his aid everybody able to be of as sistance. Republicans care nothing what the results in politics aie so long as quick and certain victory for the nation is assured, and no doubt Democrats feel precisely the same way. OUT WITH THEM THE school board is deserving of highest praise for its dismissal of the Technical High school teacher whose loyalty to the United States is in question. Either men are good Americans or they are not, and if they are not they are German sympathizers and their place is be hind the bars of a detention camp. If they are not for us they are against us. We are not Just now en gaged in wanning serpents in our bosoms. The teacher occupies a most im portant place in the community. Due to the intense loyalty and patriotism of our corps of school instructors myriads of foreign-born children In our country are being transformed into fine, up-standing Americans of a type that the nation may well be proud of. It is vital that this stream of patriotism be kept pure at its source. The American school room Is no place for the disriple of kai serism. with him wherever he exists. If there are any more like Leibig they should be discovered and dismissed without delay. OH, NO, NO! WITH the food administrator requiring "meatless Tues days" and "wheatless Mon days" and "porkless Saturdays" and the coal administrator ordering "fuelless Mondays," high heaven preserve us from the prospect of a clothing administrator such as has just been suggested at Washington. Pause for a moment to consider the awful possibilities of a "shirtless Monday" or "pantless Tuesday." Imagination totters in contempla tion of the spectacle. STOP IT PARK department officials have the support of the public in de manding that dumping of snow, ice and refuse along the River Front uark must be stopped. It is time for an investigation when one city department'must practically force another to co-operate with it in pre serving the work of ytears. That one branch of a city's government will apparently antagonize another, or even permit its employes to do so, all at the expense of the tax payer, seems wellnigh incredible, but apparently this is the situation existing between the pr.rk and high way offices. The few dollars that were saved by dumping snow in the park will be forgotten when the bill is presented for the clean-up that will be neces sary. One look at the piles of dirty snow and ice, broken bricks and other refuse will convince anyone that the park officials are not ex aggerating in any of their state ments. If highway officials did not know what the force of men who were hauling snow were doing, it indi cates that closer record should be kept. The fact remains that hun dreds of dollars worth of damage has been done to trees and grass in the parks; conditions unequalled now exist along the River Front i park, which is conceded to be one of the best in the country; and all because it was too much trouble to order teams and trucks to use two driveways and haul snow to the river, dumping it there Instead of on one of the city's lawns. PUT 'EM TO WORK RIGHT again, Mayor Keister! There is no place in Harris burg to-day for the chronic loafer. "Go to work, or go to jail," is the Mayor's order. With more work to do than there are men to do it, the idler becomes more than ever a supercargo. There Is no place in the life of the community for the drone, especially during such stirring days as these. A FORTUNATE ESCAPE N<Jw we understand more fully the peril we escaped when pub lic clamor demanded that the outrageous censorship bill of the early days of the war be killed. Eng land Is giving us a fine sample of the stupidity of such regulations. Colonel Replngton, military crltle and acknowledged expert on Eng lish military affairs, has been ar rested for the publication of an un censored article, telling some plain truths about conditions In the British Army. Instead of imprisoning him the government should have decorat ed him. Faults are not cured by con cealment. The public is entitled to know the truth. The English gov ernment failed to realize this from the start and the English public, when it learns the full facts, will demand Colonel Replngton's re lease. What an escape we in this country had from the operations of such a fool censorship law. By the Ex-Committccman Some of the possibilities growing out of the situation created in Penn sylvania as the result of the devel opment of sentiment in favor of the prohibition amendment and the dis position of the dry voters to concen | trate upon a candidate pledged to use all efforts to secure its satisfac tion are rather startling to Judge from the talk heard in corridors of the State House and hotels these days. Quite a number of Democrats, especially those who have become enthusiastic in their opposition to li quor interests, have gone so far this week as to suggest that the timfe might come when the Democrats would find it expedient to endorse a candidate from another party for governor. It Is needless to say that the dominant faction of the party in Pennsylvania would oppose such a plan and- that the wet end of the Democracy would light it. One of the leaders in the dry movejnent last night expressed the opinion that this was not going to bo a Democratic year and that thei men at the helm of the party in this state know it. He asserted that some of the big men in the Demo cracy felt that they could not win even if a Republican split would occur because of the manner In which the liquor issue has arisen. Another man equally well posted on the plans of the drys said that in, his opinion there would be a fusion worked out which would be broader I than party. On the other hand dry men who are Republicans and Democrats were insistent that party lines should be maintained and that while the prohibition amendment was the big thing in Pennsylvania politics this year, it was really a matter for the legislators to settle and that no man was greater than his party. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin in the course of a thoughtful review of the situation brought about in Pennsylvania by the liquor issue, urges that Senator Penrose, as leader of the Republican party, should take a leaf out-of the Quay book and make concessions to the opponents of liquor domination in; politics as did the man from Bea ver when he put through the high license law in the eighties. —The Bulletin sizes up the situa- ! tion this way: "The active forces of , a political nature that are now es pecially behind this amendment, circle chietly around Governor : Brumbaugh and the pugnacious lit- , tie candidate for the Republican ' bugernatorial nomination in the primary election of May next, High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neit. But the real strength of the Prohibi tion movement is believed to be di rectly among the people, and appar ently it is not confined to them in either faction of the Republican party or in the Democratic party. According to the best information that can be had from experienced observers, it seems to be so formid able as to indicate that it may de velop into a "wave" of unusually large proportions in many of the counties, especially if It shall be worked up along the lines of a pa triotic emotion." —The boom of Congressman John R. K. Scott for the Republican nom ination is to have what the Phila delphia Record calls "an airing" at j the banquet of the Native Sons of Pittsburgh. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that the candidates slated by the i Prohibition state convention are i pledged to withdraw in the event that it is found advisable to amalga- , mate with other parties. —State Chairman Crow will be in Philadelphia over the weekend to discuss the state ticket situation. He joined Senator Penrose on his way home from St. Louis. The announce ment of Senator Sproul will come , next week. —Johnstown people are demand ing establishment of a branch of the 1 United States District Attorney's of fice for that city. They have already set up the pins for James M. Wal ters as the attorney to be in charge. —The hiring and firing going on in Philadelphia just now is attract ing state-wide attention. Hampton E. Thomas, secretary of the regis tration commissioners, and a neu tral, lias been dropped to make room for a Vare man and the court officers are throwing out Vare men and putting in opponents. The nam ing of John Sloan, formerly in the Treasury Department here, to a place in the Philadelphia courts, means a war against Chairman Mackey, of the compensation board. Another interesting development in Phila delphia was a move to have W. D. Disston run for Congress against Congressman Edmunds. —One of the stories heard about hotels to-day was that Senator E. H. Vare had declined to indicate just what he was going to do about the gubernatorial nomination when visit ed by Frank J. Harris and other Ma free leaders. The Pittsburghers said that as far as the governorship is concerned they are "on the fence." —Councilman William J. Burke, of Pittsburgh, formerly a State Senator and active in the railroad brother hoods, is being boomed here as a candidate for one of the Republican nominations for Congressman-at- I-arge. It is said that the councilman has been approached and has taken the matter under consideration. Burke was a candidate for delegate at-large in behalf of the Governor in 1916, and has served on national committees of the Brotherhoods. I —"The active participation of prominent members of the Sons of Veterans' organization in the canvass in support of the nomination of Wil liam C. Sproul for Governor on the Republican ticket uas been one of the most important political develop ments of the last .twenty-four hours, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. "The enthusiasm with which a declaration lo that effect from John Sautter, of Pittsburgh, was received at the din ner of the Sons of Veterans' Club, was regarded as full of significance." Supporters of Senator Sproul said last night that a canvass of the State has developed that a large majority of the men who supported the prog reyslvo movement will be found vot ing for Senator Sproul and that the Plnchot boomers discovered this and saw no chance of his making any kind of a showing at the primaries," 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ It's rather quaar, tn View of all that'H been going on, to read an ad vertisement deolarlng that "Bakers'' are needed for the Navy.—Chicago Herald. i The scientist who has lieeH pre dicting that coaj S've out in :ii million years is in position to he 1 mussed t the rapid flight of time, | .—Jacksonville Florida Times-Union. H AR.RISBURG TELEGRAPH I SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS . n fHA-HA- Thats) You ESTII- 5< ?M VTLFLJ r e F \sUo Nevje ß ) TmkinJG The. COAL / TrtAW (3eT SEASICK -GET/ Boat FOR \ TrooBLSV TROUBLES j TtAe. ATL£N"nc- J 1 50 S)( _ K ThEY J 86RMUDA Ai\)D V TROOOLC.S./ fIwYHOUJ / -fnE BCATS E l \ MFARLY DIE- / The u/eyr WJ>ies- —S V__\7^ / ALT) AND V nc J AJO MO RE COAL. I } T • RAM SHACKLE / / y j CftßftlED OFP OM -/Do AS you PLEASe-DON'T JOME - STTR&TCHERS U/HEM [ LET MB INFLUENCE You- You CREP£ HAI^GERj They <set There - t onjly <sp£ak as a I'll Get* You OME FRIEND OP MIKJE I FR'ENt} \ YET STAVED THERE TEN _ " \ THE iVO SHORTAGE The Petroleum War Service Com mittee, of which A. C. Bedford is chairman, authorizes the following statement regarding the gasoline sit uation: "It is important that the American people understand fully the factors governing the supply of petroleum products in this country. The chair man of the petroleum committee of the Council of National Defense some months ago called attention | to the importance of conservation of gasoline. The situation at present may be summarized as follows: "There is no shortage of gasoline for use in this country. As a matter of fact, as a result of the light do mestic demand incident to the win ter weather the stocks of gasoline are increasing and will further in crease before the heavy summer de mand is encountered. "While there is an increasing de mand abroad for gasoline for use by our own army and navy, as well as by our Allies, the limiting factor there is shipping tonnage. All the gasoline is now being forwarded for which ships are available. Exper ience and inquiry make it clear that the petroleum industry in America can and will supply all the increased demand of oil products for the war, provided sufficient tank steamers can be obtained. Jt is estimated that in 1917 not more than 25 per cent of the gasoline produced in this coun try was exported. That fact should be reassuring to any one who doubts this country's ability to supply the war requirements of our own and our allied governments for this im portant product.' TO THE MEN OF AMERICA Men of America, you that march to day Through roaring London, supple and lean of limb, Glimpsed in the crowd I saw you, and in your eye Something alert and grim— As knowing on what stern call you march away To the wrestle of nations—saw your heads held high. And, that same moment, far in a glittering beam High over old and storied West mister The Stars and Stripes with Eng land's colors clear Sisterly twined and proud on the air astream. Men of America, what do you see? Is it old. Towers of fame, and grandeur time-resigned? A frost of custom? backward gazing thought? Seek closer, you shall find Miracles hour by hour in si lence wrought: Birtlis and awakenings; dyings never toiled; Invisible crumble and fall of prison bars. 0 wheresoever his home, new or decayed, Man is older than all the things he has made, And yet the youngest spirit beneath the stars. I see again the fabulous city arise, Rock-cradled, white, and soring out of the sea, Manhattan! Queen of thronged and restless hays. Of daring ships is she. O lands beyond, that into the sunset gaze! Limitless, teeming continent of sur mise ; I drink aealn that diamond air, I thrill To the lure of a wonder more than the wondrous past; 1 see before me ages yet more vast Rising, to challenge heart and mind and will. What sailed they out to seek, who of old came To that bare earth and wild un. hlstorled coast? Not gold, nor granaries, nay, nor a halcyon eaße For the weary and tempest-tost, They nought the unshaken soul, | possessed In peace—. What seek we now, and venture all on the aim? 1 In hearts-of men Is the undlseovev-, ed earth, ' Whose hope's our eompass; sweet > With glorious passloq Of men's Hood willi a, world to forge and fashion ■ Worthy the things ws liaifc seen i pud brought to birth, —From "The New YOFU World," by , Laurence Binyon, in the New York . Times. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM COMMUNITY SINGING To the I:ditor of the Telegraph: The interest taken in music lias never been so great as is now the ( case in our country. Concert halls are filled, artists report a full sched ule of engagements and the music studios have an increased number of students. In the midst of this war the public is turning music for comfort, relaxation and inspiration. ' One factor of comparatively re cent development has been the so called "community chorus." The idea itself is not new. The commu-. nity chorus in principle is an en larged con'ception of the singing school, and of the congregational • singing in our churches and evange listic meetings. The first requisite is the assembl age of the people, which under com petent direction will sing well. Con- j gregational singing is mainly depen dent on the number of people In the audience. Have a large congrega tion and the singing will take care of itself, provided, of course, that the organ is of sufficient scope to really lead and not merely accomp any the assembly. In order to interest the largest number of people in community singing, the project should have the interest and backing of the city of ficials, the various civic organiza tions, and the publicity that the press can always give to such an ob ject. Perhaps it might be advisable to have some one of the represen tatives of this sort of music come to Harrisburg and address a public gathering. Then as a nucleus around which this chorus could form, we have in Harrisburg, several well organized and highly efficient choral societies, that could form a central mass, by combining their forces. Added to the vocal societies, the aid of the orchestral and band play ers could be invoked. Harrisburg has splendid resources and a fine opportunity for this type of musical effort. If the city really desires it. the community chorus will I be forthcoming. FRANK A. McCARRELL. NOT ALL TRENCH LIFE There are always four soldiers be hind the front for every'one in it. You'll do eight or ten days, or may be even two weeks in the trenches, and then you'll move back for a rest and some other battalion will take your place. So don't get the no tion that it's one continuous round of shells and bullets and grenades] and cold dugouts. It isn't. The larger portion of every man's time j will be spent out of the line, in towns i and villages beyond roach of any i enemy except air-craft. Otherwise human nerves couldn't stand it. Speaking of nerves, did you know J that horses are subject to nerv4! shock much the same as men? The; veterinary hospitals always have bunches of horses suffering from "debility"—nothing but nervous strain. But they don't have any mules In that shape. No, sir! Whenever you find a hardtail in hos pital he's there from a shrapnel wound or cut or because another mule kicked him. No nerves in his Case! All of which merely goes to prove that it takes roughnecks in this game. The more I see of war the stronger I get for roughnecks. You can't do without them. Chau tauqua salutes won't win a war—you need 2-flsted men with hair on their chests, Another relief from strain will be "leave," Our men nre to get It every three months according to the present program; In fact, It will be obligatory for everybody in order to keep them (It, They will be given seven tdays with free transportation and their hotel bills paid. Special trains, with ft capacity of a thousand men each will run every week for this purpose, A Suggestion The Chicago News thinks that the Bolsheviki will proceed to abolish capital letters, too, Why don't they abolish all the Russian letters and print their papers in civilised type? —From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Actually Smells Fashionable In finells of esoessive cold, the real nrlstocrat Is the fellftw with a noiipis of coal oil stoves.—Marion StaP. MAYOR AND CLKAN-TJP To the Editor of the Telegraph: My attention has been called to an article which appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph on January 28, 1318, about the good work that our Honorable Mayor is doing in ridding the city of the worst type of criminals, the tinhorn gamblers. Too much praise cannot be given our worthy chief executive for the stand he is taking in this crusade for he has done an endless amount of good to date. The Christians of this city, hope that he will keep up his good work and that His Honor intends to make good his political promise to the people prior to his election that he would render them a clean administration and rid the city of all its undesirable citizens. We all hope that Mayor Keister will not close an eye or turn a deaf ear to the few houses of prostitution still operated openly within the city. The article says that it requires a certain amount of shame about cer tain houses in South Court street within the shadow of the court house. But I don't think it is as much shame as certain two houses on Charles street, operated openly right in the shadow of a church, where little school children pass every day making remarks about those houses, the only two In the neighborhood. I think that it is a shame to let houses of that kind operate right in the shadow of a church. Let us Christians hope that the worthy Mayor will see that those two houses are given a clean ing out, and the Christians of this city will be very proud of their Mayor and his good work and will stand by him in his endeavors to give them that which is best need ed in these times of war and econ- I omy, a clean and honorable city. ' A CHRISTIAN. LABOR NOTES Canada will establish Federal la bor exchanges. Bartenders at Staunton, 111., now get S2O a week. Helena (Mont.) retail clerks have formed a union. Barbers at Detroit, Mich., started a labor forward movement. Denver (Col.) Teamsters' Union [ has over 1,000 members. Gold miners at Jackson, <?al., have ! organized. Private employment agencies will be abolished in Canada. Concord, N. 1I„ has elected a union man as mayor of that city. Unions at Grand Forks, N. D., have started the North Dakota lia bor Deader. Laundry Workers' International Union has 0,500 members. The North Wales Miners' Federa tion liaa under consideration the question of running labor candidates at the next Parliamentary election, and a ballot of members on the sub. Ject Is to be taken, Kvery woman working around ma chinery In Now York state factories must wear overalls, according to a ruling by the State Industrial Com mission, In p.ddltlon her hair must be protected by cap or net, Figures Issued by the Bureau of I.abor Statistics show that the great est increase from October to No vember in the total amount paid to employes In any industry wan 13,26 per cent, In cotton manufacturing, Si* men and one (voman will form the advisory council that will assist in the administration of a war labor program intrusted to the United States Department of Dabov, John Und, former Governor of Minne sota, is chairman, FEBRUARY 14, 1918. t V Ouer tfte "Joja LK 'pwouu Many papers in Pennsylvania con duct an intimate question column which betrays some queer thinkers. What, for example, would you ad vise this young person: . Sir: I am a girl of seventeen, con sidered good looking by both sexes and entertaining. lam in love with a man three years my senior; have been keeping company with him about two years, and I love him dearly, but do not show it unwisely. He also loves me, I think his inten tions are serious, but he has not yet proposed. Here lately he is acting indiffer ently. He says I am the only girl that he keeps company with. I go with other fellows, but not to his knowledge, but only for the sake of their acquaintance. Meantime, I met another fellow who is very at tractive to my eyes, but I doubt* if we will become friends. My steady intends to tke a vacation in the mountains for the coming summer, and I know I will be blue. Do you think him worthy for mo to i stick to him ? BLUE EYES. • The instincts of a real newspaper i man perish only with life itself. I Major Joseph W. Yocum, editor and proprietor of the Columbia Spy had been seriously ill and was awaken ed the other night by a burglar in his home. Did the Major get hys terics? Hardly. He was just as calm as if the President's message had arrived three hours late. Un hooking the telephone receiver he reached the police station, and: "Send a strong man over here to get a burglar. I'll be up in bed and you needn't bother me if nothing happens." The burglar was so savage that he had to be knocked cold by the policeman making the arrest. [OUR DAILY LAUGH ! ALL THE MODERN IMPROVE MENTS. "Have you a fireless cooker at youi home?" "Worse than that. We've got • tireless furnace now." ANOTHER , day - -r ( ) x.We have our .7 \ usual beof 'J//L Ic.ta days /} (i '/ Our wheat _ ) *"■B less day J HH and toean •Qj-iB loss, And sometimes /nflfll soon I hope • I Vsss w ® may • I Have one that is nrdlne- JUBT LIKE CONEY, 1 i Bugs—Gee, this Is a fine bumpy hoot the shoeta, P ~~1 jjT t jga *2mm _ % f tOTtttug utijal It's remarkable the way people spruce up and take an Interest in life when a thaw comes after a hard siege of very cold weather. Not only are the stores and the cars crowded, but there seems to be an improvement in people's disposi tions and more work is done and better done. This is the way one of the city's big businessmen put it. "The recent cold spell cost the peo ple of this city a lot of money that they will never know about," said he. "To begin with the intense cold made people slack up. Everyone felt It and there was decrease of pro duction and activity. Now when the sun is shining almost every day and the snow is passing oft withput trouble, you will find people more cheerful and working better: I have seen this happen many times inHar risburg, but never in a more notice able manner than this year.' As a matter of fact, the weather condi tions this week have been as favor able to picking up as those of last week were unfavorable to anything outside. Builders have resumed operations, more automobiles are out, wagons are busy and there are more people on the streets and even the youngsters are not feelingso bad ly over having to go to school. We may be rejoicing a bit early in the month, but after what wo have gone through there is a reason. • * * Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny packer refers upon a number of oc casions in his autobiography now being printed by the Philadelphia Evening Ledger to the late Con gressman Marlin E.Olmsted. He paid tribute to his ability in previous ar ticles, but this week mentions him twice, saying he was "one of the very ablest men in the and in referring to the Ilarrisburg Old Home Week celebration, in which he took part, he mentions the speeches of General Horace Porter, Ex-Governor Stone, General Stew art and others and says: "Olmsted, always efficient, had general charge." In one of his recent ar ticles the ex-governor tells an in teresting story of how ho came to sell his famous library. The Even ing Ledger gives it as follows: "At this juncture I concluded to sell the greater pijrt of my library. It was the most complete collection of the early literature relating to Pennsylvania which any individual had ever possessed. Tt Is impossible that any man shall ever again hav one of like importance. To part with it was to tear up forty years of my life by the roots. I had made a secret covenant with the Common wealth unknown to the Common wealth, that if my future were pro vided for by a return to the bench or otherwise, this record of Us life should be preserved intact. One of the consequences of its failure to keep this unknown covenant is the loss which happened, greater to it than to me. I kept the faith for two years and a half. During that time •the books, 12,000 of them, had re mained in my house in town, a house which cost me $13,000. 1 could not rent the house, or sell it, because there were the books. They were ever in danger of fire. They were ever in danger of theft, and now the time had come when it became manifest to me that no dependence was to be placed upon the promises of the politicians, that the people were utterly indifferent and that it was necessary for me to be giving some attention to my own needs. Retaining two or three thousand books relating to the family and to the neighborhood of my home, the Mennonite books, the Schwenkfelder books and those of special Interest and affection, the rest were sold. I was too btisy with the affairs of the state to give the sales attention. The auctioneers were, more or less, care less and untrue to' their contract, and what I could have myself sold without expense, could I have given the time to it, for $75,000 or more, netted me between $27,000 and $28,- 00. Then I rented my house. • • * Manv men in Pennsylvania pub lic life are going to miss Col. Frank E. Ziegler, whose lamented death occurred a few days ago in Texas.' Col. Ziegler was chief official re porter of the State Senate and had not only a wide knowledge of parli mentary affairs, but such a splendid system that the Senate projeedings were ready in record time. For years Col. Ziegler had reported ses sions and he knew men from every fart of Pennsylvania. He was an authority on many matters connect ed with legislative affairs and always had the information. * • • While a number of members of the Ilarrisburg Reserves are discuss ing entrance into the new Harris burg company of the Reserve Mili tia, it is possible that a number of them will arrange to maintain their organization for the sake of military training and exorcise and also so that in event of trouble the sheriff would have an organized body to fall back upon before asking the aid of the soldiery. The Reserves will de cide to-morrow night what to do. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —-Senator Boles Penrose, who had been attending the meetings of the Republican National Commltee in St. Louis passed through here to-day on his way to Philadelphia. —Dr. Cyrus Adler, new head of the Jewish Historical society, is one of the prominent Hebrews of the country and widely known in Penn sylvania. —lrving Norwood, new secretary of the Bethlehem Chamber of Com merce, was formerly at Davortport, lowa. ■•—Arthur P. Townsend, who is well known here, is the chairman of the Bucks County War Savings Com mittee. —Senator P. C. Knox was a visitor to Pittsburgh this week and met many of his friends. | DO YOU KNOW —That Ilarrisburg Is making machinery for manufacture or many kinds of supplies for Uncle Sam? mSTOIUC IIARRISIIITRG Indian chiefs used to come here to discuss troubles with John Harris before going to Philadelphia. Some Relief [From the Ohio State Journal.3 No matter how wisely economical a wife may be In her effort to help her husband along In the stern en deavor to make ends ipeet, he al ways feels somewhat relieved on days when she doesn't go downtown. Goliath And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span, and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, —I Pamuel XVII, ♦ and 1,
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