12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH J. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evening* except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH I'KINTI.VG CO. Telegraph l)ull<ltnx, Federal Sguara E. J. STACKPOEE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER. Business JLfaitiijwr aUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHKN'EK, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULiOUOH. BOYD M. OOELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEIN'METZ. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. . . in rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American ' Newspaper Pub llshers' Assocla r :_ ~ tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associ (£3 53 filS 111 Eastern office. Story, Brooks & KSSiESpy Finley. Fifth jfgg g J Avenus Butidir.g Western office. FCiIS Pinley, People's s Gas Building. - Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3o] 19IS AU thinking men and women get the main satisfaction of life. c-sidt' from the domestic jogs, out of the, productive work they do. — CHARLES; W. ELIOT. - i HOW FAR WILL THEY GO? HOW far the allies will go be- \ for the Germans can halt them i for the winter is a question that j Is puzzling the military critics, and ■ few of them will venture a definite guess, for the reason that there are so many elements of a doubtful or unknown character in the situation that an accurate forecast is next to impossible. General Foch prob ably knows more about the possi bilities and probabiliftes than any other one person, not excepting the German high command, for the Ger mans have been badly outguessed by the French generalissimo. But not even General Foch knows Just what turn the battle may take from day to day. Much depends upon the continued hitting powers of the al lied armies and the ability of the Germans to hold up the advance. So one critic's forecast may be quite as dependable as another's. This much, however, seems cer-i tain, that the allies will continue to throw back the Germans, capturing not only territory but countless pris oners and many valuable guns, in flicting frightful losses in killed and wounded on the fleeing enemy and battering down the morale of officers and men, to say nothing of the spir its of the peorle behind the lines. The Germans will be so badly de moralized when winter puts an end to the advance, that instead of pre paring for another great offensive next spring, the German command will find itself fully occupied with mending breaks and planning a de fensive against the spring drives of the victorious allies. Meanwhile, the allies will be consolidating their po sitions. training new armies and bringing up vast stores of supplies for next year's gigantic campaign to end the war. But just where the two forces will come to a stand- with horns locked for the winter remains to be seen. The advance has been so un expectedly rapid the past week that the possibilities are beyond conjec ture. PANTS' POCKETS AND now. in the interest of cloth conservation, they are talking of making boys' trousers with out pockets. What" an idea! Of whgt use would a pair of boy's pants be without pockets? As well make "em without legs. Where would a boy without pockets carry his mar bles. and tops, and fishing lines, and hooks, and kite string, and pocket knife, and keys, and pet hoptoad, and tame gartersnake, and sling shot, and whistle, and candy, and chewing gum. and cake, and ap ples. and all the other luxuries and necessities of youth, of which the foregoing are but a trifling few? Pants' pockets are one of the un alienable rights of the American boy. and they belong exclusively to him. Many a boy wouldn't know himself from a girl but for the fact that he has pockets and his sister has none. The first step toward the proud estate of young manhood is taken when a' lad thrusts his hands In his first trousers pockets and goes forth to bask in the admi ration of his lesser brethren. To go out into the cool of an early summer morning, barefoot, with toe 3 dripping the dewdrops gathered on the soft, short grass, to look into the blue sky. with brow uplifted and hands deep in trousers' pockets, is one of the experiences of a lifetime, but it would lack much without the pockets. A boy's hands take to pockets like a duck to water. There is a close relationship be tween a pair cf saddlebags and a pair of pasts' pockets. Neither FRIDAY EVENING, hangs right when empty and one should always balance the other with a cargo of freight heavy enough to make them sway com fortably back and forth against the body of the wearer. To be in per fect style th'cy should havs a bulge about the middle and should never weigh more, with cargo contents f. o. b., than a pound and a half each. If you take a boy's pockets from him he will have to have some sub stitute. The War Board can't elm ply rule them out as nonessentials without running the risk of causing a rebellion among the otherwise en thusiastically loyal and patriotic boys of America. What shall take the place of pockets? If we leave the choice to the boys themselves probably It would be divided be tween haversacks and knapsacks, with a few scattering votes for wheelbarrows and express wagons. WAR-TIME PROHIBITION WAR-TIME prohibition now ap pears to be a certainty. The Senate has adopted the meas ure with a proviso that it shall be come effective July 1 of next year and remain in force until after the demobilization of the American grmies following a declaration of peace. The President is then to issue a proclamation to the effect that li quor may again be sold. But the likelihood is that such a proclama tion will never be issued, for it now is assured that the national prohi bition amendment will have been enacted and enforced before that time, even though the war end sud denly. President Wilson's hope to stave oft the prohibition law until January 1. 1920. wiU not be realized. Con gress is unalterably opposed to it and he is too shrewd a politician to run the risk of passage over veto. John Barlecorn's death sentence has been passed. He will shortly go to sleep, never to awaken, and the American people will be rid of a monster as vicious and as demoraliz ing as the Kaiser himself. If the' war brought no other benefit It would be well worth while as the harbinger of national prohibition. , With the Congress of the United; States voting unreservedly to stop j the sale of all manner of alcoholic | beverages in this country. State leg- ! tslatures will be encouraged to vote "dry." that otherwise might have ; hesitated. The last excuse for hold ing back in Pennsylvania has been j removed. The general approval of j press and people should show the candidates of this year the folly of withholding their approval. If they; want to be on the popular side they j should openly line up with the ! "drys." To do otherwise is to link | themselves with a lost cause and to j go down on the public records as ! favoring booze when comparatively few outside the liquor business be lieve that booze should be continued. There is the moral side of the great issue, to be sure, but if prospective legislators find excuses in their own consciences to overcome the argu j ments of those who know that the i liquor trade is a gredt evil and j should be abolished that that reason. | how are they going to argue against I statistics which prove beyond ques j tion that the liquor trade is the most ! wasteful of any in the world? Sena tor Kirby, of Arkansas, voiced the | sentiments of millions of people i when he said on the floor of the j Senate, opposing the President's pro posal that the date for stopping the sale of booze be advanced from Janu ary 1 to July 1, that due to the vast i consumption of coal and foodstuffs i and the needless use of railroad I facilities, at a time when fuel, grain j and cars are at a premium, war ] time prohibition should have been ! put into effect long ago. j It is evident, without proof or i argument, that "war-time" condi tions in these respects are going to : prevail in America long after hostili i ties actually have ceased. During the reconstruction period in Europe and while we in this country are readjusting ourselves to the activi ! ties of peace, the intense demand for grain, coal and railroad transporta tion will continue and there is only one big bung-hole to be closed, and that can be accomplished by cutting off the making of alcoholic drinks which do no good and much harm. For many years we shall have to think seriously of our food and fuel, j and it is likely that we shall never get back to the old free and easy days of the ante-bellum period. Busi j ness and morals both cry out against the continuance of the booze trade. It is up to the legislatures of the several States to make prohibition ! permanent. The necessary number may be relied upon to do their part. Will Pennsylvania be among them? THOSE "GOOD TURNS" NOTHING is finer than the prac tice of the Boy Scouts who "do at least one good turn each day." It prompts the lad to be thoughtful of others and teaches him early in life that one cannot live for himself alone. But there are. occasions when those who receive the Scout's favor presume upon good nature. There comes the story of the Scout who, riding his bicycle homeward through a nearby town a short time since, spied two women and a man strug gling vainly in the hot sun with a stubborn automobile tire. Weary himself, he nevertheless remem bered his "good turn" pledge and of fered his services, taking the tire off, removing the tube, taking it to a nearby shop to be repaired (in which operation he punctured the tire of his bicycle and had to pay his way back on a street car), re placing the tube and the tire upon his arrival. Did those he assisted thank him effusively and offer to pay for his puncture and the street car fare he had expended in thetr aervice? No! they! Without so much as a word of appreciation they entered their machine and drove away. What do you suppose this Scout will be tempted to do next time he meets an automobile party In dis tress? What would you be likely to do under similar circumstances? When a Hoy Scout does you a Rood turn, show him that you appre ciate It. ' Don't otter him pay, for the Scout wants no reword. But If he has expended money in your service repay him. Don't by a dis play of thoughtlessness or pure sel fishness make him foel that a good turn Is not worth the doing. foliUe^U By the Ex-Commltteeman Elaborate precautions taken to day by the managers of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell's third party to safeguard the pre-emption of Its name were explained to-day by men connected with the latest political adventure as made necessary by what happened when some other names were pre-empted in state cam paigns. Under the law the men pre empting must have the name to be adopted for the banner on the paper they sign. The Keystone party came near be ing wrecked because some names which had been tentatively agreed upon were gobbled up and there was a Bkurrying around to get it down hard and fast. When the Roosevelt men found in 1912 that the Progressive name had been taken by people not in accord with their views for Pennsylvania they picked three names and had many papers signed that way. Out of the three they selected the Washington name and rushed it on record at 9 o'clock in the morning. —The Philadelphia Record says to-day; "Although candidates for state offices have been invited to at tend the special meeting of the Dem ocratic State Committee, to be held in Harrisburg next Wednesday. Judge Bonniwell will not be present, according to announcement made yesterday by his friends. The gub ernatorial nominee refused to attend the regular meeting on June 19. and nothing has been done by the Don nelly-Palmer leaders since then which has caused him to change his mind. The only business scheduled for the meeting is to discuss a plat form which has already been framed by Charles P. Donnelly and others, acting under orders from the lead ers. but it is practically certain that several delegates, who are unfriend ly to Judge Bonniwell, will denounce their gubernatorial nominee because of the sudden organization of the in dependent party." —The Greater Wilkes-Barre Cham ber of Commerce wilt meet in special session to rebuke City Council for Its decisions on the charges of graft pre ferred against Chief of Police Zoeller, Chief Detective A. Hergert and Po lice Clerk Nolan. Council will be. asked to explain how the decision.to discharge Hergert and only suspend the others could be reconciled to the fact that the same testmony was re lied upon in all three cases. It is said that the Chamber's attorney will in stitute criminal proceedings against the men in the hope of having pris on sentences assigned them in case the testimony of detectives be upheld by a court and jury. —There was some excitement about the Capitol to-day due to re ports that Governor Brumbaugh would return here for several days and would make some appointments which have been hanging fire, but no one seemed to know much about the matter. At the Governor's office it was stated that he was expected. —Judge Bonniwell held quite a series of meetings in the western part of the state yesterday, accord ing to Pittsburgh newspapers. He conferred with men who will run his campaign in the Allegheny dis trict and had chats with other West ern Pennsvlvanians, while he spoke at the Washington county fair and other gatherings. —Senator Sproul and Senator Beidleman received notable greet ings at York yesterday. The Senator was given assurances by his friends that he would be highly honored by Pennsylvanians in November. —Senator Sproul and his party leave York to-day for Uniontown to attend the big Republican meeting to-morrow. General Snyder will go with them. —Senator Penrose expects to be at Uniontown to-morrow. He will leave Washington late to-night if the Sen ate adjourns. —Democratic state machine lead ers will have a series of conversa tions at Washington and maybe visit Philadelphia to. decide what to do about Bad Boy Bonniwell. The plans for the state committee meeting are being very carefully laid. —Says the Philadelphia Press: "The reorganized Democrats didn't take kindly to Judge Bonniwell's suggestion f.hat Washington Logue get off the Democratic ticket and they have brought forward an idea of their own. urging that Judge Bonni well get off. If they expect him to do it they will have to show him how; he has never bad any experience in that line." —Aside from members of boards of trustees of hospitals and mem bers of commissions almost 100 ap-' pointces of Governor Brumbaugh will have to go before the next Sen ate. which will convene in January and if the precedent be established j by withdrawing all of the Tener ap pointments at the "opening of the session of 1915 is followed, there will be chiMy days for some folk 3. The position of some of the ap pointees vho must get senatorial confirmation after what has trans pired between the retiring governor and the senate will be uncomfortable indeed. —State Captioi officials who have : been hoping to get some plan worked out whereby the method of taking, the votes of the soldiers in Novem-j ber can be assured are no farther on i than they were a month and a half ago. The oniy thing that seems bo be assured is that there will be no troopship full of commissioners go ing to France Several times in the last few weeks state officials have endeavored to learn what the War Department wants., hut have been Unable to get a hint. They have adopted a waiting policy and _ will continue to wait. It is provable that whan the tfme comes the vot ine will oe in the hands of military officers. Datialion adjutants, for In stance. and lhat one or two men will handle all the returns at head-, ouarters and then bring them here. Steps were taken recently to a line on how many Pennsylvanians are in camps in this country by send ing 40.090 block powers of attorney for payment cf taxea, but no onfe will be able to say until October how many men v. ill be in this country so that there will be forty days anvwav before the Governor will be able to make his last batch of appointments, which wtlt tie commissioners to trJce votes in camps. SASIIUSBURO TELEGR'APft AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELW? By BRIGGS On T*e first YOU AE 010 Ths Fifth Yoo ars TH£ Tenth You are ALWArs <?cnTe COCKV - and HAPPV COUNTING EACH DOUUAR. AND oTROT WITH a OUSHFC AND WALK WITH A SPRING -t q .s e£ ,p- Y<,,JR ROLL. WILL OP pep iw Your step hold out CN "THE FIFTeeNTH You-Re Then The TwCMTieTW Co+MTS— ?7J^ AY '-- DAV ~ ReADY To HOLLER, - Bo V THr NEXT FtVC " „ —* szss&JS?* eAX ■ OH" GLORious"" 0 i FEELIN6 " !W*• hi OP. * e£delTe "Heroes' Day" in Sew York | (New York Times) Mayor Hylan of New York has Issued a proclamation setting apart I Sunday, September 1. as "Heroes' Day" in honor of soldiers of New York who have died in the war. The proclamation reads: "The last few weeks have been: weeks of battle and of victory for ■ our soldiers in France. They have' met and beaten the enemy, and have | covered themselves with glory an 4; added new renown to the great name j of America. "A victory so splendid could only) be obtained at a great price, and that' price many of the sons of New York have paid with their lives. "It is altogether fitting that we, should honor those brave men who j have died in arms for the cause of J human liberty by setting aside a day j on which to celebrate their valor j and their achievements and their | supreme sacrifice. "Now, therefore, I, John F. Hylan, mayor of the city of New York, do proclaim that Sunday, September 1, i be observ ed as Heroes' Day, in honor t of those soldjers of New York who i have died in France. "The Mayor's Committee on Na-! tional Defense and the Mayor's Com- ! mittee of Women on National De- j fense are hereby appointed a joint! committee or. arrangements to pre- j pare a suitable program for the day. I "I request that the clergy of all! denominations lend their aid to the' committee on arrangements, that the! officers and members of commercial, j social and patriotic organizations all I so assist in every way possible and that all good citizens do whatever' lies in their power to make this He- j roes' Day a solemn and impressive! public tribute to our gallant dead." Hoover and the Huns Mr. Hoover, in one of those fre quent visits he made to Belgium, visits that involved the uncomfort able and dangerous voyage across the North Sea, went to see the gov ernor general (Von Bissing) himself, I and came away outraged in feeling j and threatening to withdraw from the work and to leave the onus on ! the Germans (of the C. R. B.). That interview concerned pass ports—it was before the question i was settled—and hbout the same time he had an interview with a cer- j tain captain at the Pass Zentrale, ' who said to him, point blank: "What do you Americans g*t out of this. I should like to know?" I Mr. Hoover looked at him an in- 1 stant, and his eyes flashed, but he said only this: "It is absolutely impossible for you Germans to understand that one does anything with pure, disinter ested, humanitarian 'motives, so I shall not attempt to explain it to you."—Brand Whitlock in Every body's Magazine. Cyrus Restores Holy Vessels Oyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had forth out of Jerusalem and number ed them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. All these did Sheshbazzar' bring up with them of the captivity : that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. —Ezra i, 7to 11. < Looks Like a Rocket, O. K. If Senator J. Hamilton Lewis gets: too near the fighting front in France he may be mistaken for a signal for; a barrage. It is a danger the war de- j partment should have taken into j consideration. —From the Toledo' Blade. All She Seeds Is a Toothbrush Well, we see the movies have been declared an essential industry by the war industrial board, so we guess it will be all right to order some new vamp clothes for Theda Bara. —From the Grand Rapids Press. LABOR SOTES Rochester (N. T.) barbers have re ; ceived increased pay. This country has one woman deep ! sea diver. Molders at Wheeling. W. Va., de- I mand at eight-hour day. The present Congress has seven teen union labor members. The agricultural standard in Den jYnark is very high. , British railway unions have a membership ot 425.000. At the <cloee of 1917 Canada had 1,974 local trades union bodies. Brother Johannes' Prophecy—3oo Years Old [The Fantastic Allegory of Brother Johannes 7 How It Foretold the Present Struggle and What It Predicts Concern ing the Tide of Battle. Part of an extraordinary Latin prophecy made by Brother Johannes in the year 1600 is quoted in a re cent issue of the Figaro. In deciph ering the allegory, it must be re membered that France is represented by a Cock; England by a Leopard; Russia by a White Eagle; Germany by a Black Eagle; and Austria by the "other Eagle;" while the Lamb stands for Justice, Mercy and Truth:] Towards tho year 2000 the Anti christ will manifest himself. Hit army will surpass in numbers all that can be imagined. There will be Christians among his legions, and there will be Mohamme dans and savage soldiers among the defenders of the Lamb. For the first time the Lamb will be all red. There will not be a single spot in the Christian world that will not be red, and red will be the Heav ens, the Earth, the Waters and even the Air, for blood will flow in the domains of the four elements at once. . . The Black Eagle will throw him self on the Cock, who will lose many feathers, but will strike back heroi-' cally with his 6purs. He soon would be crushed were it not for the Leop ard and his claws. The Black Eagle -will come from the country of Luther, will surprise the Cock from another side, and will invade the country of the Cock up to the middle of it. The White Eagle, coming from the North, will surprise the Black Eagle and the "other Eagle," and will in vade the country of the Antichrist from one end to another. The Black Eagle will see himself forced to liberate the Cock, in or der to fight the White Eagle, and the Cock will pursue the Black Eagle in to the country of the Antichrist to help the White Eagle. TTie battle fought up to then will be as nothing compared to those which will take place in the country of Luther, for the seven Angels will together pour in the fire of their censers on the impious Earth, which signifies that the Lamb will order the extermination of the race of Anti christ. When the Beast sees that he is! lost, he will become furious and for! many months the beak of the White j Eagle, the claws of the Leopard, and 1 the spurs of the Cock will furiously l strike at him. They wall cross rivers over the' "Murman" Means "Norman" The name Murman or Murmansk is a Russian corruption of Norman, for the Norsemen at the time of their great expansion extended their power over the Lapps of this coast as they did over the people of France. England, Italy and Russia. (Lapland is that part of old Russia bordered on the west by. Sweden and Norway; Finland lies to the south of Lapland.) But the Norse pos session was challenged by the Russ of Novgorod, who were of the same Viking race, and the poor Lapps had to pay tribute to both sides. It was not until 1826 that Norway arid Russia game to an agreement as to the boundary, which was then drawn at Pethenga River, flowing into the Arctic Ocean at Varanger Fjord. This gave to Russia all the Kola or Murman peninsula to the east and to Norway all the coast line to the west, so Sweden and Finland were completely cut off from the sea though at some points only a dozen or twenty miles from it. This is naturally exasperating and we cannot blame the Finns for asking access to the sea, though we do not propose to permit it so long as Germany dominates Finland. That is why a force of six thou sand British. French, American and Italian troops have been landed at Kola prepared to resist the joint army of Finns and Germans which is said to he moving northward. — Edwin E. Slosson in the Independ ent. (N. Y.) • Argentina Wireless Station 'lt is announced that the Marconi Company will build the largest wire less station in the world near Beunos Aires. The contract for the Work has just been closed. The power of the new station will be 11,000 kilowatts, and three towers will be erected, each the sise of the Eiffel Tower.— From the Scientific American. bodies of the slain, and these, in places, will change the course of the waters. They will bury only the men of noble families, the leading com mandants. and the Princes, because to the carnage made by the armies will be joined the wholesale death of those who will die of hunger or the pest. The Antichrist will ask many times for peace, but the seven Angels who walk in front of the three animals defending the Lamb have declared that victory •will only be granted on the condition that the Antichrist be crushed like straw on the barn floor. The executors of the justice of the Lamb cannot stop fighting as long as the Antichrist possesses soldiers to fight against them. That which makes the decrees of the Lamb so implacable is that the Antichrist has pretended to be a follower of Christ, and to act in His name, and if he does not perish the fruit of the Redeemer could be lost, and the doors of Hades would prevail against the Saviour. The fight which will take place where the Antichrist forges his ar mies will not be in any way a hu man fight. (This may have reference to Es sen, where the Krupp works are, and many authorities believe that the decisive battle may take place in Westphalia.) The three animals defending the Lamb will exterminate the last army of the Antichrist, but they will be forced to erect on the battlefield a pyre as large as a city, for the bodies of the dead will change the aspect of the countryside, as there will be mounds of the slain. The Antichrist will lose his crown, and will die in solitude and madness. His empire will be divided into twen ty-two states, but none of them will any longer possess fortresses, armies or vessels. (Curiously enough, this number of German States). The White Eagle, by the order of St. Michael, will drive the Crescent from Europe, and will install him self at Constantinople. Then will be gin an era of peace and prosperity for the earth, and there will be no more wars, each nation being gov erned according to its desires, and living according to the rules of jus tice. ! There will no longer be Lutherans or Schismatics. The Lamb will reign and the supreme happiness of hu manity will begin. Happy will be those who, escaping the perils of that period, will be able to enjoy the fruit of the reign of the Spirit and of the purging of Humanity, which can only come after the defeat of the Antichrist. Sprout's Keynote [Philadelphia Press] Senator Sproul's opening speech in Lehigh county on Saturday put the campaign in Pennsylvania on a high plane, and forcibly and correct ly stated the loyal and patriotic serv ices of the Republican party in the war. All that was said had the en thusiastic endorsement of one of the largest gatherings of citizens recently brought together in that Democratic county. It is a grievous disappointment to scheming Democratic politicians that their campaign plans for the year to put the Republican party in a false position respecting the war and impeach its loyalty have dismally and deservedly failed. No party in any condition of the country ever rendered stronger support to the government than the Republican party has rendered in Congress and out, in its press and by all its peo ple. The first purpose with all is to 'win the war, and to strengthen the government in every way to that end. , IT GAINED Mess sergeants are just the same, whether they're in Kansas City or Chateau Thierry, France always suspicious that the whole army is trying to edge in on their company mess. The beans ran- low—which will indicate the gravity of the situation —in a company that was having its first hot meal out .of the lines. "Three hundred and seventeen men I've fed," finally exploded the mess sergeant. "Three hundred and seventeen! And when we went Into line we were only 250 strong. You'd think a company would lose when It's fighting, but it don't. It gains." —From the Stars and Stripes, Trance. AUGUST 30, 1918. Mother Goose at Sea Diddle, diddle, dumpling, our son John Goes to bed with his trousers on, i Campaign hat and hob-nailed boot— i Ain't his swimming costume cute? J Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, : And show me the way a lifebelt's worn, S Fasten my mattress fore-and-aft 1 And sing me to sleep on a bobbing raft. Hey, diddle, diddle, the fish showed his middle, Thj siren began to roar; The Soldier Boy laughed to see such sport ! But he put on his Ostermoor. —The Hatchet (Published on the I high seas.) Wanted Pin Sent to Mother In the midst of a battle one young ; lieutenant, running into a pal of his, i showed him under the flap of his pocket a little gold brooch, i "If anything phould happen to me," he said, "try to get hold of this | pin, will you, and when you get j time ship it back home to my ! mother." The other promised, and the lieu tenant went his way. He had not gone twenty feet when he was struck by a shell and killed instantly. The pin-is on its way to America—From the Stars and Stripes, France. OUR DAILY LAUGH ILLUSION. "Dodge Is an impressive sort of a person." "Yes. He's one of those people who manage to have a superior manner mistaken for a superior mind." NOT VERY. "He's as happy as a King." "Humph! How happy is a king •owudaye?" NOTHING TO "WORRY ABOUT. "The teller eaid I would meet with a fatal accident." "Mercy." "But she eaid not to worry; It wouldn't happen till the end of my life." HAPPY THOUGHTS. "What was uppermost in your nlnd the flrst time you went "over :he top?" "I seemed to hear some one aay ng. Doesn't he look natural.'" Aliening CQ^at While Berks and Lancaster and various other counties hereabouts are putting on considerable airs about having general officers on the fighting lines in France, in charge of camps or organizing divisions on this side, Dauphin has not fared so well. However, it is somewhat in clined to wish to share with Mifflin the honors of Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy, who has visited here a number of times, and would like to claim General C. R. Farns worth, who was detailed to Penn sylvania for National Guard instruc tion, and lived here for several years, as one of its own. Now comes the news that Brigadier General Frederick S. Foltz is in command of the Ninety-ffrst division, which is in training in France at present. Gen eral Foltz comes from, another coun ty, but he married a Harrisburger and we will follow his career with deep interest. This division Is com posed of men from the northwestern states and Alaska. • • • The Matterhorn has started to disappear from the landscape. The top of this historic affair has been taken off and it is only a short time until it is razed and the eye will sweep over stretches which have hitherto been blocked by its bulk. The Matterhorn is a house built of concrete in a fearful and wonderful way and named by its builder, H. Homer Matter, in such a peculiar way. It was the cause of much liti gation before the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania got legal title andthen possession and is one of the few houses in this part of the state which concerned the grave justices of the Supreme Court of the Key stone State. Matter built it some years ago on the site of some small buildings and it was about as long getting completed as it was in get ting into the hands of the state's officers after proceedings began to obtain the site for the extension of the Capitol Park. But when the conservatories began to disappear the wreckers started on the classic outlines of the Matterhorn and it Is • slowly being taken down. Its gray sides are visible for blocks be cause it is the only thing that looms up in quite an expanse of the park and when it is gone the general effect will be much improved. • • • From all accounts Harrisburg ia responding generously to the re quest for old rubber for national use, but there are signs that the call for the pits of stones of peaches, plums and similar fruits, which pos sess certain chemical properties making them valuable for manu facture of carbon for masks for sol diers will be answered. A couple oi inquiries have been made in various offices as to where the pits are tc be sent. One woman said she was undertaking peach preserving and . wanted to get rid of a bushel of th stones, and that right early. • • . The Harrisburg Public Library has been offered several places foi story telling for children. Some time t ago the library announced that ow. ing to the assembly room being given up to the Red Cross it would be necessary to take the story tell ing hours of Saturday to the chtl. . drer instead of having them come 1 to the library. A room in Pine | Street Church and one in Slbletows have been listed, together with a tentative offer of one from far uj town and one on the Hill. A dozet . or so are wanted. • • • Just exactly what some of the foreigners who are forced to giv up firearms to state gamewardeni do with the lethal weapons is hard to say. Some of those in Dr'. Kalb fus' unique collection in the Frank. 1 lin Building are as dangerous at one end as at the other and if they are llred the man who shoots must have little regard for his own safety. The great number of the guns when taken are rusty, show signs of nevei having been oiled and must be car ried, say some of the men, for dent onstration purposes. Most of them are of the convenient pocket size but once in a while some infernal thing like a knife, which shoots a .22 is turned up. One day a man brought In what looked like the hut of a small wheel. It was filled with holes and was made to explode charges under water to kill fish oi to lea%-e out in a woods with food around it to have slaughter of game. The larger guns confiscated are old time contraptions with occasionally a modern shotgun. The foreigners seem to like the large bore guhs, too. • • • A good story comes from Hunting don county, where complaints ol does killed have been made lately. Two does were reported down a well and Warren Rogers was detail, ed from Johnstown to round up the crooks. Rogers found the well and located the does. Then he started to fish them out. A man came around to help and was sa loud in his protestations of horrot at the killing of the animals and so vociferous that the culprits should be punished that Rogers locked him up. Finally he told him that it was up to him to pay a fine. The man paid $2OO without a kick. • • • Paul Littlefleld. secretary of the State Chamber of Commerce, gets the reflex of things which are print ed in the newspapers. Saturday the newspapers announced that certain changes in workmen's compensation rates were contemnlataed and im mediately manufacturers from all sections of the state began to write to him for complete Compensation is a subject alf its own and the secretary is doing some tall investigating. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator William E. Crow will be unable to attend the meeting of the Fayette County Republican county committee to-morrow for tho first time in years, owing to illness. —Major D. H. Gillette, in charge of certain training at Camp Hum phreys, is a Philadelphian. —Samuel B. Fares, secretary of the Philadelphia Sunday School As sociation, says that the draft is mak ing big holes in the ranks of Sun day school teachers. —John D. Cremer, one of the of ficial reporters of the lower house of Congress, used to be a reporter on the Philadelphia Press. —Rtissell Duane, of Philadelphia, is spending some time in the Adi rondacks. 1 DO YOU KNOW "] —That Harrisburg steel pro duction will show a material in crease both in tonnage and ca pacity within a few months? HISTORIC 'HARRISBURG —John Harris scoured the coun try round for supplies for Washing ton's Armies and made this settle ment a provision depot during the darkest days of the Revolution.
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