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MONDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1918
Don't let us make imaginary piHis, '
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left en we know we have so many real
ones to encounter. — GOLDSMITH.
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FOR A CLEAN CITY
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WITH the opening of ash col- 5
lection bids by council to- s
day, It is to be hoped that
the beginning of the final chapter
•f the ash nuisance is being written.
It Is encouraging to note that fol- j
lowing the recent survey of condi
tions, city councilmen joined in say
ing that some means of relief must '
J>e found. To-day, Mayor Keister '
Officially asks the public to co-ope- '
rate with him in cleaning up the
debris of the winter and in keeping 1
the streets clean. This is an excel- '
lent move and no doubt will b$ pro- '
ductive of good results, for Harris- 1
t>urg people are proud of the city's !
reputation as a clean town and are j
always ready to do their part for its .
Improvement. But permanent re
lief must come from council itself.
A dozen or more years ago few (
Streets were paved and ashes dump
ed on them were sometimes useful j
In filling mud-holes, and at all
events were soon obliterated by ve-
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liicular traffic. People expected
dirty streets then, and thought (
little of them. With paved high- (
ways, and a most efficient street
cleaning department, under the j
watchful eye of Commissioner
Lynch, all that was changed and
Harrisburg became known far and t
wide, as Mayor Keister says, as the j
"cleanest and best paved city in the r
country." Even under the old hit-
or-miss private contract for ash j.
removals, this was true, but with the f
collapse of the entire system the j j
past winter, the highways again P
have taken on the appearance of vil- t
lage streets and the people are dls- r
gusted. The beauty of the city Is j
jnarred and the health of Its resi- ,
dents endangered. j
Councilmen realize this, and are
taking steps to remove the menace.
The more expeditiously they move,
the better. In the meantime it is
the duty of all of us to co-operate
•with Mayor Keister in the clean-up
lie has proclaimed.
"DRY" SENTIMENT GROWS
rIE State Y. M. C. A. delegates
have gone home, each one
pledged to work for the nomi
nation and election of candidates
who will support the prohibition
amendment in the next session of
the Pennsylvania Legislature. As
rapidly as they meet the great, virile
organizations of the State are lin
ing up In favor of this very worthy
measure. Before the May primaries
are at hand, the sentiment of the
people will have been so crystalized
In its favor that the legislative can
didate who dares oppose it villi face
a tremendous handicap at the polls.
Leaders of all parties must recog
nize the fallacy of any course that
runs counter to the will of the peo
ple. This year the voters want legis
lative candidates who will vote
"dry," and unless all the familiar
Bigns fail, they will have them.
THE FOOD SITUATION
EAT less wheat now'or you will
eat none next summer.
That sums up the whole
grain situation now confronting the
American people.
Eat less meat now or go meatless
In the coming months.
That, also, is a condition that
must be confronted by the Ameri
can public.
Make no mistake about It. we are
going to send over the ocean what
our Allies and our soldiers need,
even if we go hungry here. The
German must be held in check and
Ills armies broken, and hungry
men, with hungry people back of
them, cannot do, that. So, first and
foremost, we are going to feed those
In the war zone. If we suffer. It Is
our own fault. If we want to
greedily gobble up everything In
eight to-day. we must expect to go
; hungry to-morrow. But there is
Ino need for empty stomachs In
i America.
The situation is like this—lf you
I had one loaf of bread and one piece
) of meat in the house and you knew
WOKDAT ~EV IMS! 1 J?G. KOUUSBURO ISSBBe TELEGRAPH! FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
you could get no more for a week,
you would eat sparingly of both and
complete your meals with some pro
visions that were more plentiful.
You would regard it as foolish to eat
all your bread and meat at one time.
Yet that Is precisely what you are
doing, if you are not cutting your
usual portions of wheat and meat
at least in halves.
ATTEND THIS MEETING
CHESTNUT STREET AUDITO
RIUM should be crowded to the
doors this evening, when noted
speakers, fresh from the battlefields
of Europe and the halls of "govern
ment. come to tell us what we must
do to help win the war. They will
bring us a message of startling im
portance. They will paiiit conditions
in their true.colors. They will show
us that it Is very distinctly up to us
at home to do our part. If you
pose as a patriotic American, attend
this meeting.
A WORTHY INSTITUTION
UNOSTENTATIOUSLY, but very
efficiently, the Children's In-
dustrial Home, which last
week celebrated Its forty-second an
niversary, is performing a service
in the community that only those
familiar with its activities fully un
derstand. Last year it provided a
truly home-like refuge for an aver
age of ninety-three children who
otherwise would have been either
neglected in their own homes or
would have become inmates of the
poorhouse. And this, under diffi
culties that would have discouraged
any but a most courageous and con
scientious board of managers.
When the war, with its many de
mands upon pocket-books, time and
resources, is over, Harrisburg people
will be ready to contribute the
money for the fine new home that
should house this very worthy In
stitution.
SEED TESTING DAY
CORN is going to come pretty
near wearing a crown this year.
We are going to eat more pro
ducts of the splendid grain that the
Indians bequeather to us this year
than ever before, and a folks
who have grown away from corn
meal mush are finding it as delicious
as they used to in the days when
they wore short dresses or knew
not stiff collars. But in addition
to handing us a very large share in
a tierrible war, 1917 played hob
with Pennsylvania's corn crop. While
it was our best crop and was worth
$112,000,000, yet there were thou
sands of bushels frosted and many
that were never gathered. Early
winter well nigh ruined the crop
in a number of counties and seed
corn is away below par as a general
rule.
And right at a time when the Na
tional food authorities are vocifer
ously urging us to raise more corn,
and the farmers and seedsmen are
tearing their hair to get the seed
corn, comes an Adams county school
superintendent with a suggestion
that is a nugget for practical value.
Prof. H. Milton Roth, who has re
marked upon the interest taken by
boys and girls in raising corn,
has proposed that March 15 be
seed corn testing day. He would
have the farmers and their wives
show the boys and girls how to test
the corn to be planted for our
record-breaking crops next year.
He would co-ordinate the interests
of the farm, the school and the
home. If the seed corn is all tested
out, there will be fewer disappoint
ments, and it will serve to get the
youngsters primed for the big job
that is ahead ot them this year.
YOUR INCOME TAX
APRIL 1 is rapidly approach
ing and with It the end
of the period in which
you are required to report the
amount of your "Income to Uncle
Sam. Don't wait to be notified. The
government is not required to serve
notice on you that the tax is due.
The law makes it your duty to seek
out the federal agents and report to
them, giving an accurate account
of your income for the past year. If
you are in doubt let the govern
ment's own employes decide for you.
The original intention was to close
all reports March 1, and since the
government has granted an addi
tional month of grace it will go all
the harder with those who are not
in when the bookß close. You may
file your return any time before
April 1, but if you wait until April
2, you are subject to a fine of not
less than S2O nor more than SI,OOO
and an additional assessment of 50
per cent, of the amount of tax due.
Returns are required of every un
married person—man or woman
whose net income for the calendar
year 1317 was SI,OOO or more and of
every married person whose net in
come was $2,000 or more.
The rate of tax is at least two per
cent, on net incomes of unmarried
persons in excess of SI,OOO and on
net incomes of married persons in
excess of $2,000. Payment must be
made on or before June 15, 1918.
The estimated revenue to be col
lected this year under the War Rev
enue Act Is $2,500,000,000, of which
$666,000,000 Is In Individual income
taxes. Last year 500,000 persons
paid income taxes; this year It is
estimated the number will be more
than 6,000,000. If you are one Of
them, remember that your dollars
are for the support of the war. By
promptly filing your return and
promptly paying your tax you are
helping the Government to early vic
tory. Pay your income tax in the
same spirit in which you bought
your Liberty Bond. The proceeds
are for the same purpose—to keep
the Hun out of America and to
make the world safe for democracy.
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By the Ex-Commltteomaii
L - k
—That the Pennsylvania Democ
racy should be Having internal trou
bles over liquor is nothinr new.
There have been precious few years
In the last half century that It has
not and most of the time its man
euvering to avolfl a direct declara
tion have been marvels of dexterity.
It will be recalled that four years
ago the Democratic State committee
got into a fight on the subject and
while its standard bearer was "dry"
the party did not express Itself, al
though a few men were noisy in de
claring that it was "neutral." Dan
Hart told the Democrats what was
coming at that meeting of the state
committee when he predicted "twi
light" for the state ticket.
—This year it is very evident that
the machine bosses have not lost
their grip and as the bosses are
practical politicians, now, as con
trasted with six years ago, what they
will do will be something of inter
est. Some of the leading reorgan
izes are not clear on prohibition,
but inclined to local option, while
others are frankly "wet."
—Some of the Democrats around
the state are inclined to believe' that
National Chairman McCormick was
correct when he said in Philadel
phia Saturday that the conference
of the bosses was not to make up a
state slate, but to discuss issues and
party affairs. The slate is made up
to all intents and purposes, but the
issues are up in the air, while the
party affairs in which Mr. McCor
mick is interested along with Na
tional Committeeman Palmer and
his pals are financial in character.
The conference in Philadelphia is
regarded with more or less shud
dering by the federal officeholders
and the horde of men lately named
to Jobs because it is only a question
of a Bhort,time until the Democratic
state windmill on Market Square
will start grinding out letters call
ing upon the placeholders to "come
across" with the cash needed to
maintain the present bosses in con
trol. It should not be forgotten that
the Democrats will elect a state
committee as well as nominate can
didates at the May primary.
—While the Harrisburg Patriot is
very complacent about the results
of the conference of hand-picked
Democratic leaders at Philadelphia
on Saturday, the Philadelphia Rec
ord seems to think that there is
something lacking and intimates that
the -rank and file of the party will
not be satisfied with Acting State
Chairman and Petroleum Adminis
trator Joseph F. Guffey as the can
didate for Governor. The Record
seems to think that National Chair
man McCormick owes it to the party
to run. The Public ledger says that
the liquor issue caused considerable
trouble at the conference and the
Philadelphia Press does not by any
means regard the conference as hav
ing allayed the trouble in the Demo
cracy. The Inquirer says that the
plain desire of the men running the
show was for Guffey.
—The Harrisburg 'Patriot uncon
sciously tells the tale of the meet
ing of the bosses in these words: "No
i t solutions were adopted, and no
candidates were endorsed, but at the
conclusion of the meeting it deemed
the consensus of opinion that State
Chairman Joseph F. Guffey was the
man to lead the party next fall."
—The declaration of Thomas Rob-
Ins, the personal friend of Roose
velt, that ha is for Sproul for Gov
ernor and the statement of the ex
chairman of the late Washington
party committee about the enroll
ment of the Progressives in the Re
publican party, form an interesting
contrast to-day. Robins is one of the
biggest Progressives in the country
and his coming jut foi Sproul rather
offsets the declaration by Pinchot.
—The Philadelphia Ledger says
t> at Senator Vare will insist upon
Congressman Scott for Lieutenant
Governor to make a test of who's
who in Philadelphia, this contest to
be entirely separate from the (gub
ernatorial nomination. The North
American says that leaders of both
parties "higgled" over secondary
dominations Saturday. The North
American declares that the bulk of
the campaign" and then turning to
rather poor stick to lean on during
the campaign" and thten turning to
Republican afTairs says: "It seems to
be taken as assured that State Sen
ator William C. Sproul, of Chester,
will be the nominee at the primaries
over J. Denny O'Neil, of Pittsburgh.
Therefore, the big and little bosses
of both factions seem to think that
their job is to hang a lot of singed
cats on Sproul's back and compel him
to carry them through the cam
paign."
—Allegheny county's local option
elections, which are held in nine
boroughs and seven townships under
special acts which permit those
municipalities to determine whether
they wish liquor to be sold indicate
a tremendous "dry" sentiment.
—ln the First ward of Avalon the
"dry" forces rolled a total of 54
votes against six "Wet." Thirty-nine
votes were cast in the Third ward
against, while two favored it.
—ln Ben Avon the dry forces came
within one vote of winning unani
mously. One man favored the sale
of liquor, while 83 were opposed.
Members of the election board in the
First ward, where the lone "wet"
voter resides, said that only one
vote was east three years ago in
favor of the liquor question. The
"wets" polled four*votes to 70 "drys'
in Emsworth.
—The declaration of Representa
tive Robert S. Spangler, of York
city district, who is a candidate for
re-election, in favor of the "dry"
amendment is a very significant one.
Mr. Spangler says:
—"I believe that the majority opin
ion among the voters of York is fav
orable to the adoption of the amend
ment providing for nation-wide pro
hibition, and believing this, I shall
vote, for the ratification of the same.
If fleeted to the next legislature. I
shall also support local option and
the woman's suffrage amendment."
—Sunday dispatches say there is
a possibility that General Charles
M. Clement may be a candidate for
Congress after all. John H. Elass,
of Shamokin, and Albert W. Duy, of
Bloomsburg, will hardly run. it is
said.
A French "Big Bertha"
According to a correspondent of
the Washington Post in France, the
French have outbuilt the German
"big Bertha" of 42 centimeters cali
ber, and their artillery now includes
the 52 centimeter mortar. He states
that the length of the new gun is
such as to render this piece practi
cally a howitzer. The same author
ity states that one of these pieces
was used in the Verdun surprise at
tack last August, and also in the
Chemin des Dames attack in the
neighborhood of Laon, where its
projectiles wrecked the entrances to
the quarries and prevented the men
inside from re-enforcing the first
line troops engaged with the enemv.
Two shells from the "52" sufficed to
wreck Fort Malmaison.
EDITORIAL COMMENT' .
Whether Germpny Is fighting for
her existence or not, it Is clear that
the Kaiser is fighting for his.—Sa
vannah News.
The recommendation of a food
substitute usually carries a patriotic
rise in the price of the substitute. —
Ohio Farmer.
General Crowder savs # no spy has
been executed in the United States,
and much as we. hate to, we have to
believe him.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Through blizzards and bloodshed,
brutality and stupidity, muddling,
incompetency, delay and famine,
peace is coming.—-Washington Times
Senator Stone's denial that promi
nent Democrats tried to dissuade
him from making that speech is an
other blow at his party.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BOOMING DAUPHIN
Dauphin, Pa., Feb. 22, 1918.
To the Editor of the Trltgraph:
I noticed, in the Telegraph that
there are no houses for rent in Har
risburg. There are a few empty
houses here. I think it is an ideal
placo to live. Mountains and river
—beautiful scenery, two lines of
railroad, land to sell, but we need
trolley service. Why cannot Harris
burg help Dauphin; They have the
trolley lines to other places; why
cannot we have them here? A great
deal of the money from Dauphin, is
spent in Harrisburg. I wish there
was some one to "boom up" Dau
phin. y
Very truly yours,
Clara E. Bergstresser.
FALL OF JERICHO
The story of how "General"
Joshua obeying the commands of
,the Lord, captured the city of
Jericho is told in the second chap
ter of Joshua, as follows:
"And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of ramshorns before the
ark of the Lord, went on (about the
city) continually, and blew with the
trumpets; and the armed men went
before them; but the reward came
after the ark of the Lord, the
priests going on and blowing with
trumpets.
"And the second day they com
passed the city once, and returned
unto the camp; so they did six days.
"And it came to pass on the sev
enth day, that they rose early about
the dawning of the day, and com
passed the city after the same man
ner seven times.
"And it came to pass at the sev
enth time, when, the priests blew
with the trumpets Joshua said
unto the people, shout, for the Lord
hath given you the city.
"And the city shall be accursed,
even it and all that are therein to
the Lord; and only Rahab shall live,
she and all that are with her in
her house, because she hid the mes
sengers that we sent. * • •
"So the people shouted when the
priests blew with the trumpets; and
it came to pass, when the people
heard the sound of the trumpet, and
the people shouted with a great
shout, that the wall fell down flat,
so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city."
The spoils of Jericho, then a
Canaanitish city, according to the
Biblical narrative, must have been
immense. The hill Karanthal. north
west of the modern Erlha, Is the tra
ditional "high mountain" where
Jesus was tempted by Satan.
RUSSIA'S ONLY HOPE
Whether Germany demands an
indemnity of $4,000,000,000 from
Russia, or only $1,500,000,000, as
Trotzky is represented as stating it,
makes very little difference to Rus
sia. She ran pay neither one sum
nor the other. Germany's security
for the payment will be her power
to seize Russian territory, and ne
cessarily failing to collect In cash,
she will seize the collateral. Rus
sia's only way of scape lies through
the resumption of her former rela
tion with the Allies, a return to her
place among the Powers, fighting to
destroy German despotism. It may
be thought improbable that she will
choose that way, but it Is absolute
ly the only possible way for her to
escape the peril that confronts her.
Her re-entry into the alliance a
gainst Germany would give her the
moral right to aid and protection by
her allies, and It is conceivable that
important aid might be given by
Japan. Her right to assistance would
be undeniable, for she would ren
der a service to the Allies of the
west comparable to that she ren
dered at the beginning of the war,
which was in the highest degree im
portant. Forced to resume fighting
on the eastern front, Germany would
find her plans for the loudly trump
eted drive in the west much disar
ranged, to such a point even that she
might be compelled to abandon
them. Such a service, the mere
threat of military operations which
would necessitate the retention of a
large German force in the east,
would demand substantial recogni
tion and repayment from the Allies
for its value would be very great
New York Times.
OUR ENGINES IN FRANCE
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer)
Noxv that so many veils of cen
sorship have been lifted, it mav
be said that one of the great
achievements of this country in
France has been the construction
of a railway from the American sea
port base to the trenches and the
operation of it by locomotives made
in France by American mechanics
This was referred to In speeches In
the British Parliament and is a
fact much better understood in Eur
ope than here.
Germany knows only too well and
all too sadly that there are being
turned out weekly iu, France speci
mens of the locomotive art such as
Europe has never seen individually
nor collectively. The plain truth is
that most of this work is being (lone
by Philadelphia boys who learned
their trade in this city and who are
working longer hours than ever in
their lives for the smallest of wages
to make ready the engines which
will haul ten times as much freight
as any engine in France or Ger
many to-day.
More than this, we are building
there, as here, freight cars which
look colossal to those who have
been accustomed to cars with little
more capacity than a large motor
truck. This country has built en
gines and cars and has constructed
a railroad over which a train of one
hundred cars carrying fifty tons
each will transport supplies to our
boys. That is a feat of war on its
engineering side which will make
our enemies, as well as our allies,
sit up and take notice.
A Philadelphia railroad man In
the person of General Atterbury is
building and managing a railway
which Is being fitted up with every
possible equipment, and in our hum
ble opinion this will help mightily
in winning the war. This Is only
one of Philadelphia's contributions
to victory, but It will be one of the
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German Lies and German Liars
By PORTER EMERSON BROWNE
WHEN the Germans let loose
upon the world their poison
gas and their liquid fire, the
world, aghast, thought that the end
had been reached.
it had not. For since that time
have these same Germans found,
and brought to use, even a still more
lethal weapon—a weapon alike as
veiled as it is deadly, as noxious ap
is is effective, and quite in keeping
with the absolute negation of ethics,
or morals, of decency, of humanity
that has marke'd Germany's warfare
from the Belgian atrocities down to
the present date.
And this new weapon Is lies.
Throughout this country, as well
as throughout the countries of the
allies, Germany has flung her serri
ed lines of German liars. All kinds
of lies they tell, and In all kinds of
ways, from the 4 2-centimeter lie
that no one believes down to the
dumdum lie that makes a little hole
going In and a big one coming out,
and the chlorine He that you don't
even know is a lie until you find that
you are overcome to a point where
some friend has to giro you the
restorative of truth.
There is the direct lie, and the
richochet There is the nitroglyce
rin lie that explodes itself when It
hits: and the time-fuse lie that does
not go off for a week or so. There
are lies on the land, in the air, on
the sea, and under the sea.
And all these lies, effective and In
effective, big and little, are directed
against each of the allied nations to
confuse, to distract, to puzzle, to de
lay them in the successful prosecu
tion of the war.
"The life of an aviator Is only 30
hours in the air!"
And there are aviators who havo
been flying for three years!
"The Navy is rotten with disease!"
Maybe so? But you must admit
that when it comes to sinking sub
marines they do pretty well for a
bunch of Invalids.
"The camps are hotbed# of im
morality."
A lie on the face of It. If there
weyo the inclination, there Is neither
the place nor the opportunity.
"This is not America's war?" *
Whose war is it to defend the
rights of America and Americans
against submarines at sea and plots
on land to present Texas. New Mex
ico, and Arizona to Mexico? To say
nothing of blowing up American
ships in American harbors, and
American factories In Ajnerican
cities?
LABOR NOTES
Oregon has passed a law prohibit
ing women from acting as messen
gers.
Two hundred thousand women in
England are engaged in agricultur
al pursuits.
A delegation of British trade
unionists will visit this country In
the near future.
The poorest paying job for women
in Japan is that of elementary school
teachers.
Many Japanese girls are making
their living by work formerly done
exclusively by men.
The Dominion Atlantic Ballway
has increased wages of Its nlp.inte
nance-of-way men 40 cents a day.
What About Your Advertising
in War Times?
The merchant who WEAKENS in his purposes and effort to
keep war-time business active and prosperous is a shirker of the
national duty—quite as dangerous to the cause of the defense of
human rights as would be the soldier in the trenches who should
"flunk."
For the merchant SERVES. He is at a post of duty not less vital
than that of the man on the firing line. • „
The merchant must sec to it that the wheels of industry
here at home are not stopped through the failure of the processes
of distribution. He must strive, and strive mightily and always,
to keep business—not merely "as usual," but GRISATLY BETTER
THAN ÜBUAL.
Store advertising, in these days, la an Index of the faith and the
vision and the steadfastness of our merchants. Does YOUR store
advertising meet the test, and afford an Impressive answer to those
who would like to see American business impaired?
"All Germany wants is a jus
peace!"
That's all! A just peace that will
give her Poland, Belgium, Aisac-
Loraine, Austria-Hungary. Turkey,
Bulgaria, Servla, Koumania, control
of the Baltic and the Black Seas and
ports on the Mediterranean. A just
peace in whk-h she can coordinate
her new possessions preparatory to
taking another wallop at the rest of
the world! As her own people have
already announced that it is her in
tention to do!
' "England is making her colonies
do all the fighting."
England lost '120,000 men—her
entire standing army—in the first
few months of the war. And she is
now holding the biggest part of the
western front and sending troops to
Italy besides! •
"The Germans would never try to
conquer America."
Take the English Navy away for a
few weeks and see! Germany has
announced her dream of world
power. If America isn't in the
world, where Is it?
These are a few of the Type A
lies.
Of the other types are the follow
ing: Germany Is unbeatable; so why
go against her? We will never get
troops to Europe in time. We can't
equip our soldiers. We can't feed
our soldiers. Germany never in
tends to attack us here; so let's keep
our troops at home to defend us
when she does. If we must choose a
machine gun for our Army, let us
pick one that isn't invented yet We
must have free speech;, it is better
to have people talking than doing
things.
Germany undermined Russia with
lies. Germany undermined Italy
with lies. She is trying to under
mine America with lies.
Don't be fooled. America haa,
and is, mobilizing, equipping, and
drilling troops. She has sent and is
sending them to Europe. She will
give 'em plenty to wear, plenty to
eat, plenty to shoot, and plenty of
guns to shoot it in. She is building
a gigantic fleet of airplanes. She is
building a great fleet of destroyers
and adding to her battleships and
cruisers. ,
America is going to make the
world safe for democracy. The
President has said so. and the coun
try has said so, and they mean what
they say. *
Tag the German lies for just what
they are—German lies.
Use your head! Don't be fooled!
i HIS SMILE
He wasn't rich as dollars go.
He didn't have a pile of dough,
He didn't own a motor car.
He couldn't often travel far.
He couldn't dress in costly style,
He just possessed a kindly smile.
He had a happy sort of way,
Knew how to work, and how to
play,
And he respected women fair.
And dealt with men upon the square,
And people thought him much worth
while
Because he had a kindly smile.
You do not need a store of gold
The love of real friends to hold;
Be honest, boy, and kind, and true.
And do the work you find to do;
Win openly and not by guile,
And folks will like you for your
smile.
—Detroit Free Press.
STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's
early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the
twilights last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
thro' the perilous fight,
oer the ramparts we watch'd
. were so Kaliantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the
bombs bursting irt air.
Gave proof thro' the night that our
flag was still there.
CHORUS
Oh, say, does that star-spangled ban
ner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Oh! thus be It ever when freemen
shall Btand
Between their loved homes and
wild war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the
heav'n rescued Jand
Praise the pow'r that hath made
and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto, "In God is
our trust!"
CHORUS
And the star spangled banner in
triumph shall wave.
O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
OUR DAILY LAUGH I
DISREGARD.
7\ Don't you think
is an accom
\{ ' jPHshed musician?
Bwl \\ I No doubt he ia
AW At iS a muslclan . but i
fill ll' Can hard| y "ay ho
wMBM haS accompllßl>e( *
is agreeing -with , KP
I a man when It is r/fl'
too hot to arguo
the question with
TECHNICAL,.
pfeS, Don't you think
sisifk. 1 ' m losing
Mr. Stockson-
Bonds You've
MlVi'-i'-CTB fallen off about
my ™ three points but
1 H conditions are
Jefij favorable for a
tW . sharp recovery.
PERIODIC /
INDUSTRY. I
Now politicians ®
sweat and
1 n sunshine fur
and in rain; |MBKB Iky
But soon all labor
Until the next
campaign. I
DOUBLE
TROUBLE.
1, J&'&< Busy days for
,•7, Tt (\_ my wife.
" TaSKr; c^r How so ?
jgSftsSv Has to keep her
sffiPfZi white shoes pow
dered as w<*ll as
her face.
UNKIND. I
They say thai 1 J
Ignorance is bliss. I (4 tj fcs)
Ho w perfectly VY
blissful you V
Buntug (Hlptf
Once in about every dozen yeara
the Susquehanna river gives those
who live along Its banks, especially
below Northumberland, reason to tit
up and observe the stream and the
dwellers on the numerous Islands
which split up the waters furnish ex
periences that read like those under
gone by pioneers m the western
states instead in a long settled coun
try. Perhaps a score of islands ly
ing between the Junction of the
branches and the gorge like lower
reaches of the river are farmed,
some of the islands being of great
fertility, a few noted for tobacco and
others for the choice varieties of
melons raised on the river mud of by
gone days. These Islands range in
appearance from the altltudinoua
Hill island, near Middletown, to tlia
broad and flat Duncan's island,
which was such a fine possession that
the Indians used to fight over It.
The people living on these islands
are used to floods and when tlia
river gets to showing peculiarities in
spring they prepare to move upstairs
and to get their stock to safe places.
Occasionally they begin their '•treks''
too late and somo of them have un
dergone anxious days and nights anil
been rescued in the most hair rais
ing manner. The great flood of 1889
was marked by saving of people and
stock from moro than one Island
when the boom logs were battering
at farmhouses and barns, while the
"ice flood of 1904 will not be for
gotten by the people on the islands
near Middletown any more than it
■ I be by the people living in the
section of the town swept by the
great masses of ice. Ex-Governor
Pennypacker tells in his memoirs of
the rescue of people from islands
near Goldsboro in time of flood and
the stories of the last quarter cen
tury of rescues from Clemson's, Dun
can's, McCormlck's, Shelley's, Duf
fy's, and other island** come so close
to the traditions of saving people in
years back that they must be true.
This year, with its unusual condi
tions, will probably bring many new
tales of hairbreadth escapes.
One of the most interested of tho
observers of the river is Edmund
Mather, who served for many years
as a member of the old board of
Water commissioners. Mr. Mather
looked after affairs at the "water
house" in the days of 1889 flood and
has observed the Susquehanna for
more than half a century. Many
other people living along the banks
of the stream are watching to see
how it will behave in this worst of
recent winters and there will be
some interesting data to scan in the
spring.
• • •
Four women, a man and a boy,
comprising the family that rents
from the city, the farm on McCor
mlck's island, made the venturesome
trip over the jce from the island to
the city shore. They dared death
at every step, for nobody knew when
the great ice cakes piled up there
might break, but they laughed and
joked at- they climbed over the floes
and though' nothing of their jour
ney.
"I brought one of the girls over
in the basket we have rigged to the
ferry cable, a sort of aerial railway,"
said the farmer, "but the ice looked
good to me and when I went back
I found the rest of the family want
ed to go to* a church convention in
Harrisburg, so we set out and here
we are."
The girls and the mother laugh
ed over their e;y>erience and a
young boy In the party said "it was
good sport."
• • •
The ice between the island and
shore settled down to-day with the
falling of the river and It now looks
as though it might remain there for
weeks 7 slowly melting with the com
ing warm weather. The condition
is peculiar, all the river, for miles
being clear except this one stretch
of a mile. Some of the pieces are
fifteen to eighteen Inches thick, and
they are badly clogged and Jammed.
They have caught a coal fleet be
longing to the Harrisburg Light and
Power Company and another the
property of a coal dredger named
Weiner, badly damaging both. The
boats have been pinched or tossed
up on the banks on the tops of the
heavy ice blocks and will require
weeks of repair before being fit for
service.
• • ♦
Old rivermen are confident that
the efforts of the river coal men will
be amply rewarded the coming sea
son. Last year little coal was
brought down, and some of the beds
were well nigh exhausted at the
end of the season, but the exception
ally high water of the past week
has loosened" up the deposits in the
streams about the anthracite wash
eries and in the Susquehanna
above Millersburg and it Is be
liieved that thousands of tons
have been deposited in the beds
about Harrisburg. Some of the
fleets will be slow in getting into
operation, due to the loss of flats in
the ice and the damage to boats that
were not carried off. The floods this
spring brought down little drlftwooil
and not a single boom log. Old
rivermen say this is because the
lumber operations along the Sus
quehanna and its tributaries are few
and unimportant. A few years back
every freshet deposited thousands of
logs and millions of feet of smaller
timber all along the stream in this
section and the Islands were almost
covered after every period of high
water.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE \
—Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell,
president of the State Firemen's as
sociation, is busy with plana to help
the state authorities stamp out fire
bugs and plans a number of
speeches.
—Major B. W. Frazier, one of the
old Philadelphia CKy Troop officers,
has been assigned to one of the new
cavalry regiments.
—Congressman Thomaa S. Cfago,
of Greene county, was one of the
speakers at the Princeton Alumni
luncheon at Princeton.
—Dr. L. M. Gates is the presldept
of Scranton's new bank, Just abM>
to begin business.
—Powell Evans, well known heUt
Is arousing Philadelphia ovetf
numerous automobile thefts.
\
DO YOU KNOW
t A
That Unrrlsburß people ar
making a record for the syste
matic organization for their war
activities?
HISTORIC IIARKISRURG
When the first bridge was built
at Market street there were four fer
ries In eperatlon thereabouts.
Gobbler Was Beaten
Frank Llntemuth saved his turkey
gobbler from a one-sided fight re
cently. Hearing a noise In the barn
yard, he investigated, finding the
gobbler fighting its reflection In the
back of a mojor car. The car was
only slightly scratched, but the gob
bler was nearly exhausted.—From
the Detroit News.