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MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918 Ko one can ask honestly or hope fully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he 1 can to keep out of it. — Rubkin. GOOD BUSINESS THE statement that the newly organized bureau of collection < of delinquent taxes in the de- | partment of the Auditor General was able in less than six months to gather in half a million dollars due to the Commonwealth and that a million more is in sight is pleasant reading. There have been a good many people in the land of the opin ion that the State of Pennsylvania was not a good bill collector be cause the last three years or so the Commonwealth has had some hard sledding and several times payments had to be delayed because the money was not on hand to run the i government and to pay certain ap- 1 propriations at the same time. Not much was said about it then, but the fact remains that some of the settle ments, as the business of agreeing on what is owed for taxes and other things is officially called, were not pushed. This has been established by the investigations conducted by Auditor General Charles A. Snyder. But the new bureau is chasing delin quents and Is also going back over some old settlements to see that Father Penn got all that was coming j to him. And renewed activity is no ticed in auditing of accounts cf county officers. It may be said that in half a dozen lines the fiscal af fairs of the State have been braced tip and that there will be an Increase in revenues which should be perma nent. In event that the legislature de cides to give a greater measure of State aid to the school system it would seem that the Auditor Gen eral is finding a way to do It. We are glad that Murman has be come an ally, but up to the time of declaration we had forgotten its ex istence. LITTLE DEEPER, PLEASE THE Federal Food Administra tion has inserted its probe into! the price of cheese and has cut off quite a slice. That's very good. Profits on cheese have been beyond all reason since the war cut off all imports. But cheese Is not in a class by Itself in this respect. Other ar ticles of diet are selling at prices beyond all justification. A little deeper with the probe, please. With the Harrisburg Reserves fully | armed and drilled. Sheriff Caldwell is well prepared for any emergencies. LESSON OF THE PARADE PEOPLE In Harrisburg and in the towns around about are ■ still talking about the great patriotic parade held here on July 4. It was in accord with the call of the President to honor the foreign-born and it was on a scale greater than any procession ever attempted in the State Capital, while the crowd that saw it broke all records for size. It was a pageant to which to refer with pride and from which to date similar events. And this great manifestation of I the spirit of the people of a capital! district has two lessons. The city I has been doing well in everything) since the war began. It must do| more, but It occurs that there arcl two lines in which things could be speeded up. And both are in line' with the thought underlying the bigj demonstration. There should be more saving, more thrift born of war, more look ing to the future, more keeping back the nickels, dimes and quarters which are daily spent for things not needed. Instead, there should be systematic Investment in War Sav ings Stamps. They are not gifts to the Nation. They are your little bank account with Uncle Sam. This Is the first lesson. Let us hear no more of how much you or anyone elso is giving to the government. You re not. You are lending and lend- MONDAY EVENING, ! ing on security of which you furnish ] | a part. Now as to the other lesson. There are people in our city who are not in tune with the throbbing war spirit. They are men from countries with which we are at war and they are men from countries which arc not in the war, but whose thougnts are of themselves. They are dwell ing where they are not called for military service; where they are earning more money and living bet ter than ever before in their lives. And yet there are constant reports of evasion of food regulations; of sneers; of black looks at the loyal. They must be taught more respect. The critical period of the war Is coming. There must be no element here, whether Austrian or German. Russian or man from submerged country, not ready to doff his hat when the flag goes by, whether the motive be love, respect or fear. This is the second lesson and it is plainly expressed. Some folks And It hard to keep sweet-tempered while observing the sugar ration rules. JOHN PURROY MITCHELL THE death of John Purroy Mitchell, former mayor of New York, removes from the ser vice of the government a sallant sol dier and from the Democratic party a man who might easily have con tested with the strongest of its can- j didates for the Presidential nomi nation. As Mayor of New York, Mayor Mitchell made a record for honesty j and courage that marked him as, one of the leading political figures of j the country. Even at the time of his untimely death, he was being dis cussed as a gubernatorial possibility in New York State and a brilliant military career in France unques tionably would have been sufficient to assure him political distinction upon his return, after the manner political parties and the nation as a whole were wont to honor heroes of j the Civil War in the years imme diately following that conflict. That he realized the perils of the service which he had entered, was indicated by his letters to friends and his willingness to give up his life for his country is in line with the passion for patriotic duty that possessed him. He was an able man, a good man, and one destined to go far. It is a lamentable incident of the war that his life should have been snuffed out so soon, before he had opportunity of displaying his skill and fortitude on the field of battle. The Supreme War Council is to plan activities in Russia, and all advice may be summed up in one word — hurry. TAKING OVER THE WIRES IF government control of the tele graph and telephone lines of the country is necessary to keep them In operation, then, by all means, let us take them over. But if it de velops that the service can be main tained as it has been since the war started let us go slow. War should not be made an excuse for confisca tion of private property, or for com mandeering or for the assumption of unwarranted control. So long as privately operated business serves the government and the people well it should be encouraged. We have pile* up quite enough problems to be solved when peace comes with out adding to them. The desire of Postmaster General Burleson to make the telegraph and telephone lines part of the postal system should have no weight in the present deliberations. Burleson has far-reaching schemes of government ownership, but the people who naxe been handicapped by his mal-admin istration of the post office depart ment will hardly agree that there would be any benefit in turning well ordered, cheap and efficient public utilities over to an official whose every move in the conduct of the postal system has resulted in in creased expense, dissatisfaction and complaint. It would be sad to think that the telegraph and telephone systems were to deteriorate as rap idly as the postal service has in the past six years. The German Minister at Moscow has been killed, but we failed to note any nags at half-mast to-day. DANGEROUS ADVICE THE government conservation j agencies are thinking deeply! on the problem of saving clothes. Wool is scarce and becom ing more so. Cotton is needed in a thousand Industries outside of cloth and clothing manufacture. "Wear fewer clothes" is said '.o be a catch phrase under consideration. But the conservationists are likely to find themselves in trouble if the advice is taken literally. There are girls in this town who would be liable to ar-' rest if they tried it. They have beaten the conservationists to it, and some of them could give even the most radical clothes savers valuable hints. ONLY ONE OF MANY ON July 15 the Federal govern ment will compel the traction; companies of the country to make not more than eight stops to the mile in cities, six in the suburbs and four in the rural districts. ' This is a coal saving measure. Every time a trplley car starts and stops requires* increased power and coal is required to make the power. The new order Is not pleasant, but it must be obeyed. There is no ap peal. It is one of the hardships of the war. Nor is It the last to be ex pected. There will be others. We must expect to have our liberties re stricted until the Beast of Berlin is I I ■ 11l I I I I I I! fota Amerigo Vespuccio Dively, the Blair county lawyer who has been a stirring flgure in the affairs of the Democracy of Pennsylvania for more than quarter of a century, has the Democratic bosses all whirling around again. Mr. Dively last night announced that he was going to be a candidate for Supreme Court justice of Pennsylvania and sounded what appeared to be a war cry. It will be recalled that every time the Democratic leaders of the past had everything nicely arranged Mr. Dively would hop in and break the glass. When the Democratic State committee met here last month for Its reorganization Mr. Dively turned up as the member from Blair and fortune once more pushed him to the center of the stage. He was chairman of the committee which Invited Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the gubernatorial nominee, to ad dress the committee and was soundly berated for his plans. Incidentally Mr. Dively objected to the scheme of A. Mitchell' Palmer, Parke H. Davis and other bosses of "sew up" the Democracy for the election of Jus tice Edward J. Fox, of Easton, the Governor's appointee and naively let it be known that he has ambitions himself. He said that he had re tused to be considered for appoint ment by a Republican governor and joining hands with C. B. Lenahan, a Euzerne man, who is also a candi date, and some friends of Judge Bechtel, of Schuylkill, helped force the elimination of the pledge to Jus tice Fox. • Messrs. Bechtel and Denahan have been put out us full fledged candi dates and now here comes the stormy petrel from the mountain top to make more trouble for the Demo crats who can only vote for one can didate for the highest bench. —The Insider, , writing in the Philadelphia Press looks forward to an entertaining compaign. He writes: "Present indications are that the Pennsylvania Democracy will run a louring circus this fall. "Gene" Bonniwell, candidate of the "wets" for governor, h'as announced that he will hold his own meetings, provide his own speakers and he will run lor governor upon his own politics, the same being anti-prohibition and "out with Mitchell Palmer." "Wash" IvOgue, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, will hold forth with ring No. 2. He also will have a troop of speakers who will join with him in preaching prohibition. The upshot of course will be bedlam, and a licking the like of which even Pennsylvania democracy has seldom received. It is probable that Bonni well and his followers will make a determined effort to wrest control of the Democratic state committee from the Palmer-McCormlck faction. Present appearances are that this is all the Democratic fight amounts to. Senator Sproul, without doubt, will have one of the greatest majorities ever given to a candidate for gover nor of Pennsylvania. This assur ance is a mighty good thing for the state. It frees Senator Sproul's hands in the conduct of his high office. No faction can claim that it was neces sary to either his nomination or his election. He will not be tied by strings or promises. No clique can write his platform; no boss can hold him in check. The measure of his opportunity is the full measure of his power as Governor. Pennsylva nians of varying political faiths are looking forward expectantly to his administration as one that promises much for the welfare of the Key stone state." —Bethlehem has joined Altoona in the city manager conducted class. The new official has just been picked by Mayor Arch Johnston and his commissioners. W. L. Miller, lately city manager of St. Augustine, Flor ida, is the man uelected. He has for sometime been employed at Hog Island, Philadelphia. Mr. Miller was at one time assistant city manager at Dayton. Florida. It is said his salary will be SIO,OOO a year, al though the city will pay him only sl, 'he rest being made up by the com missioners and Mayor pooling their salaries. —Charges that large sums of money were spent in the last mayor alty campaign in behalf of Mayor E. V. Babcock and with his knowl edge and constant consent to se cure votes by buying the influence of members of the German-American Alliance and the Iron City Trades Council are made in a supplemental bill of particulars filed in quarter sessions at Pittsburgh by the ex ceptants to the expense account filed by the mayor and John A. Sharp, treasurer of the E. V. Bab cock ticket committee. It is also charged that money was expended in treating in clubs and in dissemi nating German propaganda. —Notwithstanding denials of any appointments at the State Highway Department, a Reading dispatch says: "Wayne M. High, contractor and architect, and son of the late Postmaster A. H. High, who was a close friend of Senator Penrose, has received notice of his appointment as superintendent of state highways for Berks county. He will succeed E. N. Burnett, who resigned last week. Mr. High has been promi nent in local Republican politics and in the recent primary he was elected state committeeman from Berks county. Mr. Burnett, who resigned, has secured a more lucrative posi tion with a Philadelphia contracting firm." —Lackawanna county politics is centered on the appeal taken to the Supreme Court by David Phillips from the ruling of the Lackawanna judges that Albert Davis won the Republican nomination for state'sen ator and in the threatened investi gation of wholesale election frauds at the primaries by the grand jury and District Attorney Maxey's prom ise to "go the limit" to place the bal lotbox stuffers behind prison bars., Tlie Supreme Court will act on Mr. Phillips' appeal on September 16 at Pittsburgh. —The Lehigh County Democratic Committee will open the campaign at a "dry" place. This was settled Saturday but Is due to proximity ot a United States Army camp. The date o£ the county meeting Is Au gust 17. The action of the Demo crats in being "dry" for once means that the Republicans, who had post poned decision, will again be opened in Lehigh, since Bonnlwel! will be commandeered to make the chief speech for the Democrats and Senator Sproul for the Republicans. For the nineteenth term Jonathan E. Frederick was chosen Lehigh's Democratic county chairman with out opposition and with him were re-elected Secretary Arthur R. Bollin and Treasurer Arthur J. D. Koenlg. There was an ovation for Joseph F. Gorman, the AUento\\n candidate for Concressman-at-Large. HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH! WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS I! T ' -- bj / \ j ARMY LIFE IMPROVING HEALTH From the Literary Digest THE beneficial effects of camp l training on drafted men are now pretty generally recognized. They are exemplified, we are told by Captain Edward J. Abbott, of Camp Qrant, by his own regiment, nick named "The Melting Pot," because it takes "the pale, sallow striplings, the self-indulgent weaklings * * whose wills were like rubber tubes bending in the line of least resistance." and melts them together, toughening them as the blast toughens the steel in the crucible. The commanding officer of "The Melting Pot Regi ment," Colonel Charles H. Howland, was formerly commandant of the Pacific branch United States dis ciplinary barracks and is an expert in the art of making soldiers out of unpromising material, but his meth ods and his results are only typical of those seen in the camps in all parts of the United States —"re-en- forcement of the minds and bodies of the men," as Captain Abbott ex presses it. He writes, in the Amcr lican Journal of Clinical Medicine (Chicago, May): "The draft was selective. The ex emption boards, to the best of their ability, chose men whom they thought physically fit. The selectives, in the main, were good representa tives of the manhood that cities and the 'piping times of peace' breed, "Those who saw the motley crowd detrain at Camp Grant and pant ingly drag themselves to the bar racks scarcely will recognize the same men in the sturdy soldier, straight and hardy, able to take a twenty-mile march in severest wir. ter weather, stand all day in the trenches, march through mud. slush and rain, return to the barracks and next day present the most convinc ing proof of efficient training, the lowest sick-call of months. "The problems of beginning train ing were purely sanitary. Their solu tions were found in the enforcement of reasonable sanitary regulations. The hardest work was to instil into A Brotherhood of Nations [Philadelphia Inquirer] A wonderful thing has come to pass. England has celebrated, in all earnestness and in all sincerity, the birtli of the American Nation. Cele. bvations in France—why, quite natural. Celebrations in Italy— yes. But England! Times are changing. Old ani mosities between nations are wiped out. To-day there is a brotherhood of nations bound together in a com mon cause —a holy cause. And that cause has bridged whatever gap of misunderstanding there has been between England and the United States. A wonderful thing, we have said. And yet, regarded from the proper viewpoint, the 'wonder Is that all dif ferences did not disappear lons ago. Back in 1776 there was a family quarrel. Against the protests of the greatest statesmen of England, a German king of England Insisted upon disciplining a high-strung daughter. English colonies fought against this German king, and out of the contest emerged the United States. IN HOSPITAL Hushed and happy whiteness. Miles on miles of cots. The glad contented brightness Where sunlight falls in spots. Sisters swift and saintly Seem to tread on grass; Like flowers stirring faintly. Heads turn to watch them pass. Beauty, blood and sorrow. Blending In a trance— Eternity's tomorrow In this halfway house of France. Sounds of whispered talking, Labored Indrawn breath; Then like a young girl walking, The dear familiar death. ! —Conlngsby Dawson. the men a sixth sense—the 'sanitary sense.' Until one comes into con tact with a large body of men sep arated from feminine iniiuence and the social restraints of civilized life, one does not realize how quickly the savage comes to the surface. No one who has not been at the inception of a camp can conceive of the enor mous task facing the company and regimental organizers. The men en ter upon a new world—'the old things have become new.' A new mental attitude must be taken, or, rather, must be instilled into the men. "An analysis of the mental atti tude of the selectives will reveal chaos. The whole edifice of their lives has crumbled, and for a more or less brief period they busy them selves in sadly contemplating the ruins of their hopes and take a mel ancholy pleasure in nursing their fears "The predominant physical ele ment is fear. Fear does not mean cowardice—possibly a better term would be 'apprehension,' which lias its inception in the lack of knowl edge of present duties and the fac ing of the unknown future. "Ignorance has always been n synonym for fear. So the first -effort in the education and disciplining of ! the new recruit is the impartatlon ol knowledge—military, personal and sanitary. His relation to the fighting force as a whole is explained. Hiii personal status, responsibility and duties are expounded and vividly il lustrated: and the sanitary details and regulations not only are issued and insisted upon, but are painstak ingly explained and shown to be not only reasonable, but for the good of the men, individually and as a whole. "The mental attitude of the re cruit is a raging battlefield. The hardest fight is against self-indul orence, not of vicious sort, but that kind in which we all indulged in civilian life, doing things when we liked, as we liked, and only when we liked. The recruit has to learn to obey unquestioningly." The Way to Win the War (Kansas City Star) Details are left to Army experts, but the general principle upon; which Americans expect the experts; to lay out the details were stated i i to a meeting of British business-; men In London by E. T. Merideth. of Des Moines, la., who is in Europe; | connected with the agricultural in i tere.sts of the Allies. "The only way to win the war," he declared, "is to go on through with it." LABOR NOTES Trade-unions in Wisconsin aim to secure a minimum wage of $13.30 a week for women employed in in dustry. Many Irish workers stampeded from England to Ireland when the new registration act came into force in England. New York State Legislature re cently passed a bill requiring a cer tain educational standard to be at tained in that state. Charleston (S. C.) Garment Work ers' Union has secured substantial wage increases. Industrial Ladies' Garment Work ers favor the erection of a consump tives' hospital In New York city on ground already purchased for the purpose. On July 8 at Coney Island, N. Y., International Union of Pavers, Ram mermen, Flag Layers, Bridge and Stone Curb Setters will convene. Memphis (Tenn.) Trades and La bor Council is promoting the candi dacy of George L. Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union, ior Governor. EDITORIAL COMMENT Piave is Italian for "it rains;" for the Austrians it means the de luge.—Springfield Republican. How different f/o are from Wil helm we are well content with a modest place in the shade. St. Louis Star. Say Reims to a German, during the next one hundred years, if you want to see him squirm. Spring field Republican. Considering that Foch has no re serves and there is no American Army, the Allies are holding well. The Berliners must wonder how they do it. Chicago Tribune. OUR DAILY LAUGH WITHIN REACH. Angelina—You said you were go ing to encircle the earth before you settled down. Do we have to wait so long before we marry? Edwin—lt won't take long. Yo.u're all the world to me. WARXEO OFF. Wlfey—l hear report* of German measles heing in the neighborhood. Hubby—Stick out our American flag. COMPARATIVELY NOTHING. "Hlvins, Mike! Are you alive afither fallln' free atories?" "Sure. Phwwat's t'ree stories whin It's a fcwtnty story buildin' 1" SYNONYMOUSLY SPEAKING. "Just what was the meat of your feat article?" "The meat of my last article was. How to conlerve beef!' " JULY 8, 1918. : THEODORE ROOSEVELT I To you, whose life is a mountain I stream, I That restless flows among canyon rock 3, | And gleefully jumps with splashing scream j The cragu, and snags its current! blocks; Whose forward rush goes heedless on With force that mighty nature lent, ! So were your battles fought and won J From cowboy years to President. j To you, whose life is a hurricane, ! Who sweeps the country far and 1 wide# Who never follows the trodden lane, ] I But goes trespassing by its side. With judgment guide and justice aim You ever shunned a shady deal, I And wrought a wreath around your name | For dauntless, patriotic seal. To you, whose life is a shooting J star Before eternity but a glimpse, ! That spreads its flashlight near and! far, The giants awe, the fear of shrimps; In year to come shall tales be told Of deeds of valor from your hand. Your crushing blows to criminals bold * " From Oyster Bay to Bad Man's Land. To you who charged with your | wild-west boys, The enemy on San Juan Hill, And now with eagerness would re joice To get a shot at Kaiser Bill; But then your yearning should be pleased, Among great trophies on the list, He is the only raging beast By fate your sure-kill rifle missed. Take all the heroes of the old | And sift their gilted rec6rds | through, i There was not one more brave or bold, And with more manliness than you. At their seputoners side by side. The world with admiration knelt, But we Americans point with pride To you, our Teddy Roosevelt. ONE WHO KNOWS Writing to the Editor of the New York Times, Stephane Dauzanne, says: One of my brothers, a major at the head of a battalion of Senega lese sharpshooters, has just had, on a sector of the front, American sol diers under his command. This is what he writes me regarding them: | "I have some American soldiers under my command. They have made a very good impression upon me. They are fine, brave men, young and vigorous. Their indivi dual training is excellent; their discipline under fire first rate. They are remarkable for their willingness, snd they haven't a cent's worth of arrogance. Their officers may still have a little more to learn, but they will soon know as much as any one. American regiments before long will be regiments that the very best of- I fleers' will be proud and happy to I command." The Senegalese troops are among the bravest lighting in the French Army; they are shock troops, and their courage is surpassed by none. The opinion above cited is all the more valuable, therefore, that it is expressed by an officer who has a knowledge of military values, and who is at the head of a picked troop. It reduces to their true worth, the odious calumnies and stupid judgments regarding the American troops that have been published in German newspapers, and which were recently remarked upon by The New York Times. There is a French proverb that says: "The dogs bark and the caravan passes." This may well be paraphrased as follows: "The German dogs bark and the (American Army passes." One Unchanged Purpose [Newark Times] The president was never happier in speech, never more visibly inspired by the greatness of his subject, never more forceful, and he never spoke with a surer sanction of eternal right and justice than in his brief but wonderful Fourth of July address to that small audience assembled up on the slopes of Mount Vernon yes terday, an audience which, with pe culiar appropriateness, was repre sentative of this nation and of the nations united with us in the war against the enemies of civilization. Mount Vernon is the holiest of our holy places; it is, as the president said, a "quiet place of old counsel," for there "in those great days long ago," General Washington held lei surely conference with the men who were to be associated with him in the creation of a nation. It was something more than a poetic fancy of Mr. Wilson that the air of that place carried with "a peculiar kind ness" the accents of the principles he proclaimed. For again, not only from those slopes where the presi dent stood but from every hill and plain and valley in this great land and in the lands of all the Allies, men see the world "with the? light of the future upon it," their modern eves are again "turned away from a past which men of liberated spirits can no longer endure." It is the old struggle, the old purpose. JERUSALEM'S PLIGHT How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how la she be come as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she be. come tributary!—lamentations i, 1. VICTORY [From Leslie's Weekly.] I could have prayed for peace be fore I heard Of little children lifted high In jest, A sword point through the white still pulsing breast. And women foully held —then anger stirred And all my soul rose up; since this could be I'd only pray to God for Victory. I could have waited for my sons to 'turn Same home; tout foul and gas out pouring shell, And liquid fire, and flendishness of hell, Set all my blood aflame and now I burn With holy zest, whate'er the cost to me. If soon or late God send us Vic tory. I could have weighed new days by old ideals Had I not known of death that hurtling went Beneath the waves to smite the Innocent; But knowing all, my startled spirit reels, Then springs to ask: "What will Ye, Lord, of me That to our arms may come sure Victory" I* M. Thornton. fEbettutg (jUjat It seems rather odd to realize that the scenes which are witnessed every day at Union station when long trains of soldiers pass through on their way to the front are the same except for color of uniform and de tails, of equipment and railroad en gines and cars that were being en acted here more than half a century ago. And it is stranger still to think that the very location of Harrisburg caused it to be a point of concen tration and stopping place for through movement of soldiers in earlier wars when there were no railroads. Back in the Revolution Harris Ferry was the place where half a dozen companies of men as sembled to join Washington; In the War of 1812 Harrisburg, soon to I become the capitol of the state, was I the uoint of concentration of con [ siderable forces on two serious oc- I casions and several times in the war for Mexico men were mobilized here before setting out for Pitts burgh, the Ohio and the Mississippi beyond. We all know the story of the First Defenders coming here on the way to Washington, of Camp iCurtin, of the Lochiel Grays and the I movement to stem Lee just before 1 Autietam. And that makes it in- I leresling to-day when men in khaki I are passing through this city on their way to the front of a greater war to read in the Harrisburg Tele graph of July 8, 1863, just flfty tive years ago, of the heavy move ments of soldiers in blue through Harrisburg. The railroad reporter of that day, who did not have as much space as his brother of 1918 and had a great many m,ore things to look after, was impressed with the sight of the men being brought here and hurriedly sent on and wrote something about it. Nowadays a troop movement is not news. It is not the desire of the military au thorities that we do more than speed the men on the way and that Ip enough for us. We wave our greet ings, congratulate the patriotic wom en who serve the soldiers with coffee and, give them things they need and if we chance to pick up the num ber of the organization, whence it came or whither it is bound we do not tell it. But Harrisburg was right close up to the front fifty-five years ago and the reporter of that byge>ne day probably thought it would make some people whose val uables had not been unpacked even after the retreat of Dee from Gettys burg four days before, feel more comfortable to know that men were being interposed between the rebel hordes and their admitted objective, the Pennsylvania State Capitol. So he sets downHhat "last evening" the heaviest troop movement of the re cently humming days had taken place and that long trains had been sent through Harrisburg and over the Cumberland Valley bridge. One I of these trains he says extended from the Dauphin shore to the Tsland and must have contained 2,000 men. He was probably a bit stirred up over that long train and not ac curate in his estimate, but he proud ly announces that the troop move ment will be continued until the state is cleared of the rebels. The files of the Harrisburg Telegraph tell of many incidents of a stirring na ture taking place in the capitol of Pennsylvania just fifty-five years ago, of school and churches filled* with wounded; fields back of the city covered by camps; troops in the forts across the river and a fire en gine being pressed into service to pump water to the men; colored refugees gathered in the farms which later became Sprlngdale; prisoners marching through and soldiers go-' Ing out after Tree's retiring army. Happily we have only the troop movement and have been spared the scenes which the reporters of that year found at every turn. There Is a very interesting fea ture of the July number of Tele nhone News, the publication which the long headed among the Bell telephone officials are using to build lip the Bell spirit in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and It is something which would not attract the atten tion of the average man. The News contains some articles about the splendid work of the men and wo men it has given to the service of the nation overseas, but there is a double page picture of "Telephone Families." Here in Harrisbursr we are accustomed to "Railroad Fam ilies" in which a couple of genera t'ons have worked with the Penn svlvania or the Reading or the Cumberland Valley and there are sonif- isolated Instances in other cor norations, but thte telephone is such a young utility, comparatively, that we have not realized the family tic that has been built up. A bunch of sisters in an exchange like boys in a gang makes much for efficiency. • • • It is the boast of Frederic A. God charles. deputy secretary of the Commonwealth, that his newspaper, the Miltonlan, has been published every Thursday except once in n century. That "once" was this spr'nn when the April snow tooK the roof into the printing office. There came near being a "once" again the other da.y when something toent wrong about the mailing, but the ex nert marksman, philatelist, histor ian and journalist, went out and at tended to that work himself. "I don't mind things, but I don't want to stand around and watch that 'human spider' do stunts again. Tf that man had fallen I'd have fallen dead" remarked Mayor Daniel T<. Keister after the performance of the "spider" on the Penn-Harrls. "Tt was bad enough when he went up the side, but when he got to the top and then proceeded to the tip of the flagstaff, well, tt was some show." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Senator William C. Sproul, nominee for governor, is taking a vacation by automobile trips throughout this section of the state. —Justice Von Moschzisker will spend part of July in Maine. ~ —Senator Penrose will remain In* Washington during the congressional recess. —Reed A. Morgan, Philadelphia banker, has enlisted in the T. M. C. A. service and will go to France. —Bishop M. J. Hoban, of Scran ton, will be celebrant of the mass at the enthronement of Archbishop Dougherty at Philadelphia. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg's dally output of iron and steel la double wfoat It was ten years ago? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG —ln 1790 Harrisburg people formed the Free Debating Society as an outlet for their fMltMgm.
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