8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME —, Founded itjl > . = Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STACK POLE, Prist & Editor-in-Chirf V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republijation 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- Ilatlon and Penn- Eastern office. Story, Avenue Building, ginlejr, - s Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. ■rtjtTnrory- By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $6.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, APRHi 17, 1918 Weeping may tarry for the night, "but joy cometh in the morning.— Ps. 30:5. THE SERVICE PARADE NO MORE impressive procession j ever graced the streets of Har- j risburg than will be that of Sunday, when representatives of thej hoys who have gone away to fight for i our liberties will march, bearing the : little service flags that each home! and organization having a represent ative in the service is entitled to dis play. Harrisburg has sent a vast num ber of its sons to the defense of the country and to contest for the free- j dom of the world —more, indeed.! than most of us realize. So vast arc I our Armies and Navy that the sun] no longer sets on the uniform of the j United States soldier or sailor. On j a hundred seas, from Siberia to the j Philippines, from Honolulu to the | .plains of Italy, and along the crim-! eon rivers of bloody France they carry the Stars and Stripes as confi dently and as proudly as those at home will bear abroad the service flags next Sabbath day. And it is fitting that the ceremony should be accompanied by divine service, for we are faring foi;th like the "Israelites of old, to make the good fight for God and the right,, and our prayers should go out for the success of our troops and for heavenly blessings upon our devoted young men. Buy Liberty Bonds Just as freely as you would if you were a candidate for office. Perhaps you may be some time. THE RAT—POISON HIM THE Department of Agriculture, in sending circulars over the country urging farmers and others to poison rats as they appear about their premises, makes the astounding assertion that "while America is trying to feed the allies, this pest annually destroys foodstuffs in the United States worth $200,000,- 000." The statement is based on sta tistics compiled by the Bureau of Biological Survey, and doubtless is as nearly correct as estimates of the kind usually are. But whether the loss be more or less, the fact remains that it is staggeringly heavy and en tirely inexcusable, particularly at a time when thousands of human be ings are perishing for the lack of grain. The rat may be exterminated more easily than most household pests, and, once gone, sometimes does not return for long periods. Both the trap and poison may be used in rid ding grain bins and pantries of these filthy, disease-carrying robbers. Rats are excusable, perhaps, in old buildings, but with present-day methods of construction at his dis posal the architect or builder has no reason for erecting structures that are not entirely ratproof. Concrete is the answer, and it should be used liberally where there is danger of loss by rat invasion. We suppose the mothers of the dead German soldiers also celebrated with great glee the Kaiser's spring drive. RETIREMENT FUND - NO DOUBT the opinion of Dep uty Attorney General Keller in the schoolteachers" retirement act, limiting its benefits to those who cofne under its provisions with the full operation of the act next year, is in full harmony with the construc tion of the act. But, certainly, as Senator Beldleman told a convention of teachers here last Saturday, thei*e should be made some provision for teachers at or approaching the old age limit who would come under the statute did it go into effect this year, tut who may be dismissed by the boards employing them at the close of the present term. Senator Beldle man also was right when he said that the teacher, ;tnd not t4e admin istrator, should get the benefit bf the fund and SB,OOO out of the $20,000 appropriated appecfrn like a rather large slice for that purpose. The State is wealthy, 1 and, as the Spointed out, well able to care WEDNESDAY EVENING, for Ha 'veteran schoolteachers, who are none too well paid at best. It is shameful that scores of old teachers who must Btep down and out this year should see on the statute books a law designed for their benefit but Just out of their reach. Senator Beldleman's suggestion of corrective legislation should be Strongly appeal ing to the teachers, and no time should be lost in getting the move ment under way. Here is one more reason for buying a Liberty Bond: "It is better to be safe than sorry." NOW FOR ACTION A THRILL, of genuine thankful "*■ noss and" renewed confidence ran through the nation this morn- j ing with the announcement that' Charles M. Schwab has Joined the' Emergency Fleet Corporation as di- j rector and will be placed in full j charge of the steel ship construction program. Schwab is both thinker and doer, both dreamer and executive. He has a reputation for getting things done second only to his fame as a creator and organizer. He should have been at the head of the steel ship program from the beginning. Schwab knows the steel business jas few other men in the wor!d ( | know it. He is a pastmaster also ' in the building of steel ships, as the I success of his great yards proves. Many of the delays which have beset the Government shipping program will be ironed out by Schwab, who , lg the biggest figure in the business ! and who has a faculty of making , mills and men work well up to the < maximum of efficiency. The U-boat must be downed by i the shipyards of the United States. and the best fighter we have in the ship construction line is Schwab. ] Why he was not chosen for the post ' I long ago is difficult to understand. , The allies were not so slow as we ' 1 at home to recognize his genius. At the very outstart of the war he 1 was commissioned by the French, J the English and the Russian gov- s ernment to turn his big factories at Bethlehem and elsewhere into mu- ' nition plants for them, and the skill and speed with which he accomplish- ■ ed the task not only saved the Brit- 1 ish and French in the opening days of the war, but gave to the United i States gQvernment a gigantic offen- i sive weapon for the part we must now take in the fighting. Give us more Schwabs! Give us ' for every line of war work the big gest businessmen available. We are picking our officers and soldiers for field duty with greatest care; we will have none but the best Let us forget politics and political effects and conscript the greatest minds in the country for the task of main taining qual efficiency behind the lines. It has been proposed that April 6 be hereafter observed as Liberty Day— a legal holiday. The real Liberty Day will not come until the allies have dictated the terms of peace. That is the only day to celebrate. CHANCE FOR LANSING THE TELEGRAPH holds no brief for lynching under any circumstance, and it deplores deeply the hanging of Robert P. Prager by an Illinois mpb on the charge of pro-Germanism, but oven so it resents the hypocrisy of the German government offering to pro ' vide burial> for the victim. A few days ago Secretary Lansing received this message through Switzerland: The German imperial govern ment will bear all reasonable ex penses attending the burial of Robert P. Prager, lynched by a mob. Mr. Lansing might send back a reply something like this: Thanks for offer to bury Pra ger. Suggest, however, that money be retained to provide burial for some of the German soldiers driv en to death by the Kaiser whose bodies are now being turned into fertilizer for the farms of the German landlords. In case this is deemed against the best Interests of the military clique, the money might be used to buy coffins for Bome of the Belgian babies mur dered by German soldiers, or their older sisters, whose bodies have been left in dltch.es and trenches wherever the German armies have halted. Germany pretending consideration for the individual is like the wolf so licitous for the health of the lamb because he wanted a dainty bite for his dinner next day. Chairman Hurley asks 9f the peo ple's Representatives in Congress $50,- 000,0<W for the construction of con crete ships. The people ask of Hurley concrete performance, and they will give him the money for it. DAVY'S CAMBRIC TEA DAVID LAWRENCE hastens to assure pacifists that the Presi dent's promise of "force" as contained in his Baltimore speech does not mean that he will "renounce onoral force entirely." We are sorry that one who appar ently has borno, and still bears for aught we know, the duty of Inter pretlng the President's mind to the nation, should seek to dilute the most vigorous utterance which the Commander-in-Chief has made stnee the war came upon us. When the President begins to use the "five-fingered words," as Kipling calls them, we are sorry that anyone should seek to weaken their effect. We hope that Mr. Lawrence is wrong that Mr. Wilson means real "force"—and that we shall hence forward rely more upon weapons as a means of ending the war. Charley Chaplin having been drafted, It might be possible to turn him loose in front of the lines and let the Ger mans laugh themselves to death. T>o(£CCJK j "ptKKOljtotWvZa By the Kx-Oommltteeman Senator William C. Sproul is go ing to make a swing around the circle during the next few days and his coming to Harrisburg is awaited with much interest by his hosts of friends here and throughout Central Pennsylvania. There is a personal interest for many Harrisburgers in the candidacy of Senator Sproul be cause he has been in Harrisburg so much during his public career that this is regarded as almost a second home. He Is also interested in busi ness activities in this section and it goes without saying that his vote will be large in this part of the state. Many of his warmest supporters are Democrats, who regret that they can not vote for him in the primary, but they have no doubt that the opportunity will be presented in November. From the Harrisburg standpoint Senator Sproul is person ally popular because he has always taken an Interest in the city and its progress. Mr. O'Neil is not so well known and the fact that he comes from the western end of the state gives Senator Sproul the ad vantage of a neighborhood senti ment, if it can be stated in that way. —There is also a rapidly increasing ed favorably upon the editorial dec laration of the Telegraph against unreasonable partisanship and fac tional bitterness in the midst of the war. They agree that now is no time for that sort of political activity. It doesn't follow, they say, that party energy shall not be manifested in the proper way, but almost univers ally there is a sentiment that this is not the time for controversy and splenetic outbursts* —There is also rapidly increasing feeling among all classes of voters that the gubernatorial fight is elimi nated from the prohibition cam paign. All the leading candidates having declared in favor of the amendment and all being men of character, who will be taken at their word, the efforts of the temperance folk will now be directed to elect ing members of the Senate and House favorable to prohibition and to all other measures having for their purpose the elimination of the liquor traffic. —The heaviest enrollment of vot ers in recent years on a spring regis tration day is expected in Philadel phia to-day when the voters who failed to register for the election November will have their only op- ' portunity for registering for the May primary, at which candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secre tary of internal affairs, Congress and the Legislature are to be nominated. As prohibition is going to figure as one of the big issues of the coming campaign, a heavier registration than among tht church elements in the big independent wards of that city is counted upon. The two princi pal candidates for the Republican gubernatorial mftnlnation, Senator William C. Sproul and State Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, are both pledged to prohibition. In the Democratic ranks, however. Munici pal Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell is seeking the nomination on a liberal platform which protects against the domination of state affairs through the passage of Federal amendments. Joseph F. Guffey, of Pittsburgh, who is opposing Judge Bonniwell for th nomination, has declared for the rati fication of the prohibition amend ment. Political observers declare that the injection of the "wet" and "dry" issue into the fight for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina tion will bring a substantial increase to the Democratic enrollment in the city. They contend that the absence of a real "wet" candidate on the Re publican side will cause some voters who are "wet" to change their en rollment so that they may be en abled to register their choice foi- a "wet" candidate on the Democratic ticket. ' —The battle for .the political su premacy between the people of Dela ware county favoring national pro hibition and those who want rum continued in the nation is on in roal earnest. There can be no mistake as to the stand taken by the legislative candidates on the question. Senator William C. Sproul, Republican gu bernatorial candidate, who came out for national prohibition some weeks ago, is looked upon as the leader of the "dry" forces in the county, so far as the Republican party is concern ed. He also tjfs the hearty support of the Prohibition party, while the Democrats will follow the lead for the "drv" candidates for the Legisla ture. Naturally Senator Sproul lias caused the anger of the liquor Inter ests on the stand he has taken, but be made it plain several weeks ago that h<* desired a "dry" legislative delegation to go to Harrisburg. Ever since the Senator declared for na tional prohibition, the "dry" forces i In the county have become stronger. —ln one of the really sensational denouements of the Philadelphia vice situation Mayor Smith yester day stripped the Vare influence of pomplete control of the police de partment and placed its machinery on a. fifty-fifty basis. Tills coup was accomplished in two ways. The first was in the reorganization of the po lice trial board, the real great vital cog In the police machine, when lieu tenants who are admitted to be friends of the late Senator McNlchol were appointed to this tribunal. The i second was In the transfer of four i lieutenants, one of whom is Ben nett. cf the Third district, who gain ! Ed an unsavory reputation In the Fifth ward case. But another stroke . is said to be coming 'n the compul , sory resignation of Harry P. Davis, assistant director of public safety, a ■ Vare man. ' * HAHMSBURG FTMWLFR TELEGRAPH! SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OVT OF LIFE ... BY BRIGGS ) A ( HUGO T AM . \ IIT WAS <JUST LFT-ST "X -( J (^Zrj£ e ot H CL%E H AJOMT 5 \ UHST T PAL W E FEEUA/C \ TVA TVY I GSV~.RU/ ~SR J \ U Y?J * RE A9 J / V. V -? ~,V I > _ ' I THE BALL GAME, HP ) P °^ R BILL DIKD A" F \ -SOMEBOOR U ALWAY^ \ P SOV A^ \ EOT° £?£ - ™** W 0"OY \ CTUST THAT GWJCK; \ AM AUJFU( _ CHAA , CC . J . _ out OF ' EDITORIAL COMMENT Anyhow, the war has made an end of the complaint that all the profes sions are overcrowded and justified the sometimes dubious assurance that "there's always room at the frcnt."—New York Morning Tele graph. The Kaiser knows enough to claim the victory before all the returns are In.—'Philadelphia Record. Plan to save 100,000 babies —News- paper headline. Very simple; lick the Germans.—Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. English is good enough these days to say anything patriotic in. and nothing else needs be said.—-Chicago Daily News. Maybe Germany is closing the Dutch, Danish and Swiss doors be cause of the draft from America.— New York Evening Sun. Switzerland has bought 300,000 gas masks in eloquent answer to Ger many's latest assurance that it will respect Swiss neutrality. Boston Herald. Will Anything Come of It? [New York Times.] It will profit nobody if the report! of the Senate committee on military affairs about our failure to produce •airplanes for war service is.treated merely as a contribution to the files of the document room. The report reveals what the committee very temaerately describes as a "gravely disappointing situation." We need not dwell upon the details of the conditions the committee found to exist. The disappointment to the country will not be softened by any thing contained in the minority re port signed by three Democratic members of the committee. They merely set up in palliation of the shortcomings in airplane production the very great difficulties encoun tered in the work. In time of wai men must be found who can over come difficulties. LABORYOTES English war nurses are all com missioned officers. ( Chicago stockyards employ work-' ers of eighteen nationalities. An aircraft factory is to be erected! in Dublin, Ireland. Toronto unions have added 3,0001 members in three months. Over 2.000 boys will be recruited for farm work in Alberta, Canada. East St. Louis fill.) city flremeti have increased wages $lO a month. Arnprior (Canada) public school | teachers have asked for an Increase in salary. German peasant women in harness are now doing the same work as horses. New York state prisoners are be ing utilized to saw firewood for next winter. In Pennsylvania women in indus try are prohibited from working af ter 10 p. m. A delegation representing Ameri can-labor will shortly visit England and France to encourage, confer and co-operate in furtherance of the cause of labor and world democracy. Previous to the war there were barely 10,000 women on the payrolls of state railways in Prussia. Now there are over 100,000 in various capacities from section hands to rail road conductors. As an aid to fruit pickers, a Wash ingon inventor has patented a ledder so mounted on a wheeled support that it ran be raised and lowered and inclined at various angles to reach all parts of a tree. Holyoke. Mass., steam engineers anfl stationary firemen employed by the street cor company have been awarded an 18 per cent, wage in crease by the State Board of Con ciliation and Arbitration. The Lockwood bill Introduced at Albany, restricting •women's work to 48 hours a Week and prohlb'ting their employment after 10 p. m. Is strongly opposed by phone and trac tion companies and printers. Canadians are taking women with children into their homes to act as domestics, single women being la most impossible to.obtain. * Americans Are we a nation? Are we a peo ple? Are we a race? Are we the amalgamated progeny of the older people standing shoulder to shoulder a national unit? Or, are we a lot of sojourners, resi dential parasites as it were, tempo rarily lodged on the section of the North American Continent geograph ically known as the United States? Have we inherited or brought with us all the Old World quarrels and hatreds? Have we, under these blue skies, on these fertile fields and in our fair cities, bred out these social and po litical prejudices? Have we established as the off spring of the downtrodden and per secuted of the world, a race of free men imbued with the love of God and country, dedicating their Uvea to humanity, justice,and liberty? Offering equality and opportunity; under wise and just laws (made by ourselves, whatever their Imperfec tions) to all people, who come with clear minds, clean, strong bodies and willing hands to join us and share the great opportunities with which a beneficent Providtnce has blessed this land. The answer to these ques tions is,—Yes, we are a new nation, a distinct and new race: American's. We cannot believe that, seeing these things, feeling these things, en pjoying these blessings that in the The Spirit of the People The spirit of the people has been strikingly attested by a noteworthy incident in the Middle West. A con ference was held recently in a state famous for its popular authors and practical politicians, at which it was decided to declare a political truce during the Third Liberty Loan. During this conference George If. Dunscomb, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, remarked: "This meeting is one which will be memorable in the history of the country, because here the Republic an and Democratic parties have agreed to disregard all differences, in order that by united efforts they may obtain the greatest measure of co-operation and unity in the right eous cause for which our nation is fighting. "A subordination of party aims and ambitions at this time is an ex pression of the higher patriotism and an evidence of the loftiest ideals. With the great political pprties work ing as a unit In the Interest of the Liberty Loan, far-reaching results will be obtained that otherwise would never be realized." This attitude, which is general, will contribute immensely to the many factors that will lessen the I strain of the present campaign. An other important element is the strong position of our banks, which, of course, reflects the sound financial conditions of the nation. —Guaranty Club. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? They have given up everything— mothers, wives, children, sweethea l ts, homes, jobs— torn themselves up by the roots, braved the submarines, gone into trenches swimming in mud. alive with rats and lice, and sub ject to ceaseless hell-fire—bullets, gas, flame, shells, shrapnel, air bombs, hand grenades, every devil ish force with which the Prussian brute is attempting to coerce the world. That 's tfte "bit" that others are going for you. What a.'e you doing? IIa"e you bought your new Liberty Bonds (or War Saving Stamps) as it suited your immediate conven ience *o buy, or have you bought more '.han you can pay for without exercising self-denial? Have you you made a sacrifice? Have you sacri ficed enough?— Julian Street in this week's Collier's. Yours Is Coming, William! [Fr*>m Life.] Bad as things are, It Is impossible not to smile at William Hohenstbl lern. Of the Russian peace he said: "The complete victory fills me with gratitude. It permits us to live again one of those great moments in wljich we con reverently admire God's hand in history." Did a more sanctimonious scoun drel ever cut a throat? < Ah, William! Yaw rest on the knees of the gods, syid far from safe'y. Any moment, over you may go, face down, ond our turn will como to admire God's hand In his tory, applied with emphasis wliete it will do most good. hour when the ideals of the nation are assailed, when our rights and our liberties are threatened —that we will turn against the land that sup ports us, the country that shelters us, the flag that protects us. Why should we? What matters It from what country we come or from that country our fathers came—once citizens here, either by birth or by law, we are aliens in any other land. We are responsible to but one gov ernment, our own. We have but ona. government on whom we can call to defend us against all aggressors, our own. If we are citizens to this gov ernment and this country only do we owe allegiance. What citizen can breathe its pure air, drink its clear water, love its fair daughters, and not feel the pa triot love, the Spirit of '76, rampant in his veins? What of the Fatherland, what of the Motherland, it matters not; neither does our color or our creed; when Old Glory is flung to the breeze, when the Stars and Stripes pass down the street with the ring ing notes of the life and drum play ing "Rally Round the Flag, Boys"— "We will rally once again," and shout "We are coming, Father Abra ham, one hundred million strong." At our nation's call, Americans all. U. S. A. TIME EOR ACTION Commenting on Lloyd George's re cent speech and America's delay in getting into the war, the New York Sun says: "Lloyd George did not be wail the past. Nobody over there does. Nor need we. The mere smearing of blame, however much it is deserved, will not make amends for those things in which we were wanting when the Germans were ready to deliver their blow and did deliver it with all that was in them. But from th's on every one of us here is entitled to demand spe?d. The practical businessman, the suc cessful administrator who wants ft perfect instrument with which to do his work, doesn't do nothing at all until lie gets it. He takes the best instrument he can lay his hands on right, away and does the best he can I with' tliat until h# gets the bettarl thing. The railroad president doesn't | stop running his trains because lie! is waiting to find swifter and mori i powerful locomotives than anybody | else in the world has. All the while that he is hunting for those swifter and more powerful locomotives he pulls his trains and carries his traf fic somehow with whatever locomo tives he can obtain. "The year that we havfe let s!ip away while we were waiting for the perfect this thing, the perfect that thing, and the perfect other thing with which to got into the fight, is gone forever. Our delay has cost us fabulous sums of money. It may sacrifice thousands of American lives that might have been saved if w<*liad been driving ahead doing things, get ting somewhere as fast as we could get there. But the British, the French and all are agreed that, much as it has cost, this lost year has not been fatal if we now drive ahead at. full speed. This time we must not fall." THE STATE PRESS Secretary Baker is sold to have taken refuge 'n a Paris wine cellar during the air raid. Those higher ups always do have the luck. —Allen- town Chronicle. Establishing a naval base in the Azores should be a great aid in safe guarding our ships against U-boats. From these islands, which lie 1,200 miles southwest of France, our war ships can operate with splendid ad vantage in the ceaseless search for enemy vessels. They ore of the same relative Importance now that the Hawaiian Islands would be If the ivyir were in Asia and the flow of men and supplies was across the Pa cific.—York Despatch. The French premier would hardly have given out the letter from the Austrian emperor unless he knew and could prove that It was authen tic. The Austrian denial was to have been expected, because of the effect the letter would have on public opin ion in Germany and Austria. But despite the disavowal and its accept ance by the German Kaiser, 'he Teutonic allies will find that the let ter will make trouble between them. Germany will begin to question the loyalty of Its ally. It would be inter esting to know just what the Kaiser really thinks about Emperor Charles about this time. —Carlisle Sentinel. APRIL 17, 1918. QUIT the |o(o LK ""peiuvcu Altoona bartenders see it coming. Their local association is buying all the Liberty Bonds it can afford. '* * * It would appear that anybody can be a newspaper man. A Lebanon daily informs that, "Every reporter on the staff being sick in bed to-day, Sheriff Brunner was kind enough to come to the rescue, the managers deeply appreciating his service." ** * Frank Tice was the only single man in the town of Turnerville and when this was printed in the local paper he received fifty or more let ters from young women who told him he need not be lonely. Tice was so embarrassed that he is now try ing to get in service with Uncle Sam. * Moscow, April 9.—Russia's national flag henceforward will be red with the inscription Rossiskay Sotzial yiticheskaya Federativnaya Sovlets kaya Respublika (Russian Socialistic Federative Soviet Republic.) This was decided upon to-day, in a reso lution passed unanimously by the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Soviets. Come on now, comrades, lets rally round the Stxzbrstwqptghtski! "OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT TOO MILD. "Don't you enjoy lisCboing to the honk of the wild goose ?" "Not when he's driving an auto ! mobile." LUCKY PLAYER. While his wife is away Never lonesome is Bright, With h!s hands full by day And li>3 "full hinds" at eight. NOISES. "Do sudden noises make you nervous." "Not any more. There's nothing I'd like better than to hear a few tons of coal rattling into the cellar." DECEIVING. "The marriage gamo is like golf." "Indeed! In what way?" "It looks so easy to those who haven't trial U." lEtantttg tittpt One of the crop of stories which has come out since Rummage Sale ended is one in which two col ored women and an attractive mourning bonnet and veil figured. The hat and veil were real. They had some frills and fixings and the whole appealed very much to one of the women. "That certainly is a beautiful thing; I'se never had anything like it," said one. "Yes, 'tis. Tou goin' to buy it?" asked the other. "Oh, my," sighed the other; "Ise 'fraid not. X ain't got no use for it right now." • • • Death of Justice W. P. Potter pre vented ex-Governor William A. Stone from opening the trout season at his V preserve in Tioga county for the first time in many years. The justice and the former governor were law part ners years ago and instead of some enjoyment of the sport of which ho was very fond, Mr. Stone was called to the funeral of his life-long friend. • • Jacob R. Miller, who lives at 1316 North Sixth street, is now in his eighty-fifth year, but has a livelf recollection of the Ilarrisburg o other days. He writes the Telegraph regarding the recent winter flare back and reminds us of the night of April 23, 1862, when there was a snowfall of twenty-two inches. He tells of eatipg a hasty breakfast and starting for the new Pennsylvania Railroad shops in Pennsylvania avenue: he then lived in Filbert street belo\y State. Arriving at the shops he found only a few men on duty, but work was started, and the sun coming out red-hot the snow disap peared before noon. There were no paved streets then, he adds, but there was a lot of mud. Camp Curtin was full of soldiers in their dogtents and the snow was so heavy that most of the tents were crushed under Its weight. Mr. Miller says the soldiers crawling out from beneath their tents looked like rats crawling out from their burrows. It was only a short time until the tents were again pitched and the camp resumed its usual appearance. About the same time the weather tantrums were similar to those of last week, with snow, hail and wind and rain. Mr. Miller has been a resident of Harrisburg for seventy years, dat ing back to 1846, when the town contained 6,420 inhabitants. • * * | Blood will tell. During the Span , ish-American War lieutenant Frank R. McCoy, of Lewistown, a graduate of West Point, fell wounded leading his troops in Cuba. His career since that time has been a steady advance ment .and to-day he is Colonel Mc- Cpy, on the staff of General Pershing His sister, Miss ftannah McCoy, was ordered to France this week for Red Cross work with the American forces. Colonel McCoy and his sister look back with pride upon the bril liant military record of their father, the late General Thomas F. McCoy, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars. • • The reproduction of French lean posters in the Telegraph has been of widespread interest, and they have inspired many of our own people to do their best on the loan which is now before our own people. One of the posters, which is of peculiar in terest, is now exhibited in the Tele graph's window In Locust street, and shows an aged couple taking their savings from a stocking for the pur pose of helping their beloved France. These posters have been kindly loaned to the Telegraph by Mrs. Henry M. Gross, whosd husband. Lieutenant Gross, is now on tlio western front in France, and by George E. Ettcr, whose son is also 4 in £he service of his country on the western front. • • • Captain "Jack" Crawford, the famous old poet-scout, was fond of saying that the rain was sent to make us appreciate the bright and smiling skies which came afterward. If the old Indian fighter were to walk through Harrisburg's parks these days he would regard their present condition as a confirmation of his statement. After a week of ice, snow and slush, the green grass, the trees with beginning to show, and the clear blue sky above, is a delightful transformation. Thou sands of nature lovers are roaming through the woodlands. In the park along the River Front there are hun dreds who have braved the dangers of grip and pneumonia and who seat themselves on the benches to read a favorite book. • • • Three city departments were "un der the weather" last week and were compelled to postpone outdoor work because of the surprises the weather man kept handing out. At the city highway department office it WOJ planned to start repairs, but the rain and snow kept the men idle. City Assessor Thompson had planned to begin outdoor work on the tri ennial assessment, but Old Sol kept behind rainclouds and his assistants did not start until thin week. As sistant Park Superintendent V. Grant Forrer was another official who thought mean things about the weather and the weather man. His forces were delayed an entire week In the annual spring cleanup, road repair work and planting in the Darks. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "" —John Noll, former Democratic legislator from Center county, and a Democratic wheelhorse, is a candi date for the House again. —The Rev. T. W. McKinney, who was one of the candidates for mayor of Coatesville, is making a series of addresses for the "dry" amendment in Lancaster county. —Lieutenant Colonel B. M. Bailey, recently promoted in the Army, i 3 a Tioga countian and graduate of West Point. —A. W. Aucker, Democratic can didate for Congress in the Seven teenth district, is prominent in Sny der county affairs and a former county commissioner. —Walter Ludwig, forester in the Cambria district, has been made ad viser to Johnstown's city authorities in regard to shade trees. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg lias many or Its telephone people In the Army? HISTORIC HARIUSRITRG One of the first state conventions of the Federalists outside of Phila delphia was held here. Abandons Penny Price The New Haven (Conn.) Tiriies- Lfader has Increased its price per copy from one to two cents. Shun Ways of Oppressor Envy thou not the oppressor, and Iir > °31 none hia wa ys-—Proverbs
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