8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPAPER FOP THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.EGIIAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph tlullding. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYBTER, Business ifaiiflrjcr OVS M. STKIXMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive lloard J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBT, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 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 parer ana also the local news published hefein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishera' Associa ftion. the Audit | Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & : Finley. Fifth Avenue Building ; Western office. | Fin'ey, People's Gas Building. — Chicago. 111. ; Entered at the Post Office in Harris . burg. Pa., as second class matter, j Bv carrier, ten cents a | i 'Ghi week: by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, EM, 4, 1918 j Surely (joodn ss and mercy shall fol low me all the days of life And I shall dwell in t'.e house of th j Lord, for ever. —rs. 23: 6. ' =1 THE CZECHOSLOVAKS RECOGNITION by president wiu son of the Czecho-Slovaks is without precedent in the an nals of the nation, but it Was a very proper step taken at psychologically the right moment. For the first time ill history we have recognized a new government without definite capitol, governmental system or even a fixed place on the map. All that must j come later. The Czecho-Slovaks by their own initiative, earnestne-s of purpose under great difficulties and strength of character ha . e raised themselves during the war from an j nnwilling unit in the military sys- ' tem of the Central Powers until they have become a large and growing factor in the war on the side of the Allies. When Italy swept forward o i a wide front in the first years of the ! war thousands of Czecho-Slovaks, : unwilling soldiers in the Austrian j armies, threw down their arms and became prisoners. The same thing j happened on an even larger scale J when Brusiloflf and his victorious ; Russians were overrunning the East [ the year before the revolution. These j prisoners were transferred to France ; from Italy and to Siberia from Rus sia. There they have arisen to mill- j tary power as regiments on the J Western front under Allied com- ' mand and they have seized sufficient power in Siberia to prevent that j country from falling into the hands j of Bolsheviki leaders and are now ! co-operating with British. Japanese j and Americans in reconstituting [ what is destined to become a very formidable eastern front. They are a wonderfully people, who have been striving for | many years to free themselves from 1 the Austrian yoke. Their recognition ! by the United States government as- I feures for them a place at the peace j table and unquestionably means that i the Dual Monarchy will lose those ' states in which Czecho-Slovak influ- j ence predominates. "Americans fighting in Belgium." J Doesn't that sound good? DEMOCRATS HOPELESS THE Democratic party is a small' factor in Pennsylvania poli tics this year, interest in ! to-day's gathering being chiefly confined to the road-roller meth ods of which the Palmer wing will crush out the ambitions of the Bonniwell faction for control of the State Committee. Nobody is pay ing much attention these days to purely political quarrels or debates, particularly when they are between individuals or groups intent only upon their own advantage or aggran dizement. The Democrats have no thought of winning this year. The best they can hope for is to prevent Bonniwell and his Fair Play party from crowding the regular into third place. As a peace party the Demo crats never amounted to much In Pennsylvania; as a war party they are hopelessly divided, without com mon platform or policy and content to vent their energies in petty bick ering while the nation fights for its existence. It is a pretty spectacle. Maybe Hindetiburg wishes now he had remained dead. HOLIDAY GIVING THE decision of the Council of National Defense not to inter fere seriously with Christmas shopping this year is wise. No good would have been accomplished by a prohibition placed upon the mer chants and a public sincerely devoted to Christmas giving would have WEDNESDAY EVENING, tjfijl&k TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 4, 1918. found ways and means of circum venting it. The Council's request that the shopping season be spread over Oc tober, November and December and that only useful gifts—aside from toys for children—be given this year, ought to be observed by everybody. The useless Christmas gift always was an abomination. The airy trifles supposed to convey holiday regards without serving any good purpose represented nothing but waste, and the late holiday shopper is a ".uis ance to the store people and a trou ble to himself. Buy sensibly, buy early, but do not forget that extravagance along any line is wrong during this critical period, if ever it was excusable, Help yourself, help keep business going and observe the holiday season as nearly us ycj did in peace times as you now find possible. "Keep the home tires burning," including the yulelog. until "the boys come home." That is what they would want you to do. The quietude of last Sunday em phasizes the need of strict enforce ment of the cutout regulation within the limits of the city. We '-elieve that Mayor Keister and the police depart ment are disposed to suppress this nuisance, and we believe also that the people generally will commend their efforts in this direction. Bet the strong hand of the law come down on every motorcycle offender and upon every automobile culprit who im agines that the only joy in riding is the making of an infernal noise and the disturbance of all those who hap pen to be the victims of the cutout device. AS TO HOUSING THE attention of those who have been belittling the efforts of this newspaper to focus the attention of the public upon the necessity of im proving the housing conditions in Harrisburg is directed to the gov ernment order, issued yesterday, barring sixty towns and cities of the United States from further partici pation in war orders, due to lack of houses. Fortunately Harrisburg was not on the list. How long we shall be so fortunate can be only con jectured. We cannot hide our hous ing faults under a bushel. They shine at least as far as Washington and already have lost for us an in dustry that would have given em ployment to 5,000 workmen. The government is keeping a very watch ful eye on conditions in munition centers and does not mean to com plicate the already hazardous labor situation by placing contracts In communities that do not offer the working population decent abiding places. We must get our program under Way, and quickly. If we are to keep ourselves clear of the misfortune that has befallen other backward manufacturing centers. For the Chamber of Commerce, it may be said that the vacation season and inability to procure the services of a housing expert during August have delayed that organization's program, but the time is now at hand when vigorous and concerted action by all interested must be taken. Government aid has been sug gested and there is the hope that it may be extended. But the govern ment will do nothing for any city until that city has shown the need. Expert opinion and findings as to actual conditions are required by the Housing Bureau, together with a suggested plan of treatment. That done the government in many cases has voted from a half-million to a million dollars for housing develop ments in cities situated as Harris burg is, but it is for us to take the first step. City Council will take up shortly, through Health Officer Raunick and City Solicitor Fox, the model hous ing ordinance urged by the State Bureau of Housing, and this is a good move, as it is designed to force the repair and rehabilitation of many dwellings that have long since passed the point where they are fit for human habitation, but which car. penters, plasterers, painters and plumbers might restore, Every step toward betterment is in the right direction, but we must step lively and continuously. All credit to the Harrisburg Re serves for their admirable work in drilling the selected men who from week to week are joining the colors. This service is not only of great bene fit to the young men in giving them a knowledge of the rudimentary steps of military education, but it re acts favorably upon the men engaged in the work and upon the community at large. The Harrisburg Reserves and the Steelton Reserves are per forming a worthy and patriotic duty. A NAVIGABLE RIVER IT is natural that Major Gray's be lief in the possibility of making the Susquehanna river navigable should arouse wide interest in Har risburg. The future of the city lies along the lines of transportation. Whatever industries we have or may have in the future have come to us by reason of our excellent rail road facilities. If we add to these a waterway to the ocean deep enough to accommodate large vessels we shall make of Harrisburg and vicin ity an inland city that for popula tion and importance as a trade cen ter will equal any other in the whole country. Men have seen this from the ear liest days of the city. Theold time "ark" and raft were forerunners of the larger boats that we should have { had long ago but for the influence of the railroads against water ways I and the immense expenditures re- 1 quired to bring the contemplated river improvement to completion. But when this war is at an end we shall have new ideas as to what the coun try can do in the way of public works. Tho benefits to be attained, and not the initial investment, will be the basis for rockoning. Major Gray says that when the war is over and he returns to private life he will come back to Hafrisburg to urge the improvement which, as an engineer, he has decided can be made at a not unreasonable cost. The people of Harrisburg will be pleased to give him hearty eo-opet ation. fMUctIK By the Ex-Committccman While tne Democrats of Pennsyl vania hold the center of the stage because of the meeting of their state committee to frame a platform and decide about the chairmanship there is considerable t'oing in other parties to-day and the activity will not all be confined to the warring represen tatives of .he advertised as united and effective in the Keystone State because of the application of reorganization methods. At Phila delphia Senator William C. Sproul and Senator Edward E. Bejdleman, the Republican state candidates, afo addressing the Independent Amer icans and E. J. Fithian. the Prohibi tion nominee is making speeches up the state. The campaign may not have opened otflcially, but it seems to have opened. The Democratic meeting has at tracted much attention because of the efforts being made by the reor ganization leaders to effect a show ing. All of the heavy artillery is here and it is the idea, to make every thing impressive and to take advan tage as much as possible of the ab sence of Judge Eugene C. Bonniweli, the Democratic candidate for gover nor. and his managers. The third party movement will probably be de nounced and the judge made to ap pear outside the pale without re flecting upon thoso who went outside in 1910. —Plans to make the registration heavy are being made in every coun ty by the Republicans. All vote's must register to vote for governor and Congressmen in November. All previous t egistrations are void. Elec tors in cities in the state must reg ister on Thursday, September 5; Tuesday, September 17, or Saturday, October 5. Polls on each registratiort day will be open from 7 a. ,n. to 10 a ; m„ and from 4 p. m. to 10 p. m. None can register who has not ;>aii a state or cc-unty tax within two years. Poll tax receipts may be pro cured at polling places- Leaders of independents hope to induce thou sands of the stay-at-home eleiiient to qualify to do their duty. Registra tion "drives" are expected to offset in large o.irt the decrease arising from men serving the nation in camp and overseas. —Action on the final draft of the platform of the Democratic State Committee was delsfyed to-day by the tardine.-.i of some of the mem bers in reaching the city. Instead of coming in last night, as expected, *hey could not leave their homes un til the morning. Lawrence H. Rupp, of Lehigh, the chairman, was de tained in Allentown by engagements in court, and Charles P. Donnelly did not leave Philadelphia until to day. —Arrival of the Democratic state candidates at the headquarters was interesting as most of'the nominees for Congress-at-Large showed up. al though three of them are favored by the Bonniwell contingent. There was considerable speculation among the people gathered here as to how far congressional and legislative candidates would go with the Fair Play party. —The name of the Fair Play party was pr- empted at the Dau phin county co rthouse to-day for the Eighth Philadelphia. First and Second Cambria and Beaver county legislative districts. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says: "Mayor Smith has again been defeated in his efforts to turn over ,he care of the schoolchildren of to the control of ward politicians, V through the ap pointment of Senator Edwin H. Vare'e clerk as supervisor of play grounds for the Board of Recrea tion. The most recent obstacle to the appointment of the Yare agent came yesterday when E. J. Lafferty, a member of the Board of Recreation, hitherto regarded as a "safe" Vare man, resigned from the board. The resignation of Mr. Lafferty. which has been accepted bg Mayor Smith, again leaves the Board of Recreation without a legal quorum, as was the ease before the Mayor appointed Judge Raymond MacNeille, of the Municipal Court, to make up "a quorum." JUST AN INCIDENT [Kansas City Star] The agreement by which July 1, 1919, has been decided on as the date when national war time prohibition is to become effective was reached by congressional leaders almost without public notice. The leaders themselves appeared to make less fuss over it than we have known them to make over a motion to ad journ. If brewery stocks fell or showed agitation we didn't notice it. If busi ness was shocked no evidence of it was observed. The banks made no preparations to weather a storm and farmers were not heard wondering wheie they would be able to sell their grain. In fact, if we may judge from the plainest indications, booze will have no mourners when it passes and the country will go along w' h Its business, which is making war, with-| out even stopping to celebrate the event. The calmness with which we now contemplate these great changes in our national life is easily understood, of course. The war has so obliterated our former standards of comparison that things that before seemed large are now made very small to our vision. Tossing the whisky bottle into the junk pile is the merest incident to a people that has seen two or three million of Its population shoulder guns and march to war; that has one-quarter of a million miles of railroad i ass from private to government control overnight; that has spent fifty million dollars a day for more than a yerr without a protest from any quarter. The Nation has dedicated itself to the winning of the war. Nothing else counts. Whatever it does it does to help win it, and whatever it refrains from doing is with the same object. Public opinion had come to be con vinced that prohibition would help v. :n the war, and after that booze never had a chance |T Tom OF A WOMAN TRYING TO GET A LINE ON A PHONE CONVERSATION ~ By BRIGGS •i 1 1. /OH v r ~ N OH-HENRY!, BEL- LO • THERE- / ( YE-AH-I Telephone! ~c Hot* W V ' Wc/ 1 v vo --J & cv r,, jhn ' }r'' rvr> rSo v A3K You ; /Yp-am-\ BeASocJs i can'tl fay)*-) - \ ? Do I do I ;f. 7 • I Teu - tbu / MfA-HM- U IT? 1 VUHAT* DiFFORENCE _J/ 0"' P°'°" r UM-Hm-I get Me? / / TfA-TfA /\y \ ,r MAK6- ? Si Talk 5o I rt- / I -/ 3 \J>C*SJT MAKE y much A V y I. friend of/ 1 IT- I DOM'T i if Ok-, \ Muse J \ / vuftpJT To EDITORIAL COMMENT "Germany," admits General yon Ardenne, "faces dark hours." Yes. and they are not the* kind of dark hours that come jUst before the dawn, either.—Kansas City Star. Captured German officers are re ported to be admitting that it is now impossible for Germany to win the war with the sword. We ought cer tainly to make it impossible for her to win it With anything elke.—Col. Harvey's tVar Weekly. AN ALL-BOOZE TICKET -(Philadelphia Fress) In selecting the name of Fair Play party for the top of his exclusive booze ticket. Judge Bonniwell airs nis well-known leelings that the manag ers of the Democratic organization in this city and the state do not intend to play fair with the regular ticket. Perhaps be has reason for suspicion. Politics is a good deal of a eatch-as catch-can sport, and an attitude of hostility has been maintained toward each other by the candidate and the organization leaders ever since the nomination was made. Judge Bonniwell is altogether inj earnest in his old-fashioned Jeffer-i sonian notion that nobody ought to j have authority to interfere with a man's right to take a drink whenever j he wants it and wherever it can be had. Leaders of the party organiza tion took the other view and set up: a candidate declared for the prohiui-i tion amendment to the Constitution, j This was not done as a part of the| real light against booze. It was just [ a guess that the declaration Woull: bo populav with a majority of the party. But those managers didn't know their party. Their guess was wrong. Judge Bonniwell on a wet; platform, and with practically no or-1 ganization behind him, defeated the dry candidate. No matter what sort of platform the organization chiefs! may now cook up, the party by a ma- j jority vote is committed to booze. The real fight inside tho "Demo-j cratic party is not on the booze is-1 sue, however. Th.e present situation i is such that those in present control j of the party machinery could not af ford to have Judge Bonniweil elected, if his election were possible. The party organization, even in this great Republican state, has some value while there is a Democratic administration at Washington to con-, fer patronage privileges, and it can make a paiade and something of a noise at national conventions. Much or all of this would be taken out of the hands of the present manage ment if Judge Bonniwell were elected Governor. With the vast state pat ronage at hi 3 disposal, he would he able to create an organization of his own in which there would be nv> room for the leaders who have been thwarting him since his nomination. Understanding very well the nope lessness of his case as a Democratic candidate merely, and with knowl edge that he will not be voted for by thousands of his own party. Judge Bonniwell makes the issue, as far as he is concerned, distinctly one of liquor. 1-Ie fishes for votes from other than the Democratic party on that issue, and he provides a ticket for those who may be willing to vote ft>r booze, but who have scruples about voting the Democratic ticket. Perhaps there are some such; the Democratic candidate must believe there are, since he has gone to so much trouble to catch them. But the Fair Play ticket will fool nobody. Tne change of name does not make it a ticket of anything nut Democratic candidates with booze for the rallying note- Dropping a few minor candidates who are pro hibitionists only emphasizes the is sue. The chief gonfalonier of the new party is Eugene C. Bonniwell, and only those who want to elect him Governor will vote for it. LABOR NOTES Employes of the transportation motive po er, car and passenger de partments of the Grand Trunk have been given increases of wages. Among the possibilities of the fu ture is tho employment of women as railway mail clerks. Since joining the union movement the wages of the negro laborer has Increased 100 per cent. Wages paid in Germany in the leather and rubber industries average about $1.20 a day. The Argentine Federation of t<a bor controls 250 labor unions and railroad and maritime laborers. The production of copper in the United States has increased more thn 5L5-/cld since 1880. [From the North American Review's War Weekly.] A FRENCH writer in the Mer chre de France has got William the Damned's number. It is 666, and it means that Hun defeat and the Damned One's death are both due in this coming month of September. It is from the Book of Revelation that the inspiration of a good many prophecies comes, and this one is no exception. The French writer calls attention to Revelation xiii, 18, Which reads: "Here is wisdom. Let him that understandeth count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred three-score and six." So there 'we have the starting point. That William the Damned is William the Beast is axiomatic. Likewise beyond dispute he is the man designated by St. John as thfe Antichrist, as the one who in future years was to carry on a particularly frightful war against the Church of Christ—that is. against Christian Civilization. And 666 are the figures which in the year 79 A. D. the Well Beloved Disciple St. John, while an exile on the island of Patmos, picked out as constituting the Antichrist's, that is William the Damned's. num ber—-his Fate number. • Subjecting this number to the arithmetical operations "generally employed to obtain, by the product of the figures, solutions bearing on the notable events in the life of a personage," we find that this num ber, being made up of three figures, gi" -s us three elements—a number of years, a number of months, ahd a number of weeks. It also gives us three solutions relative to, first, the birth year of the personage; second, the year of his "manifesta tion," and. third, the year and the date of the end of that "manifesta tion," or, in other words of the per sonage's death. Adding 6 plus 6 plus 6 we get 18, and 18 stands for centuries —1800 to wit. Reading 666 in months, we have 666 months or 55 years and 5 months. Multiplying, for weeks, we get 6x6x6 equals 216 weeks, or 4 years and 2 months. This gives us 1859 as the total number of years, and 1859 therefore ought to be an impoftant year in the biography of the personage in question. And it happens that it LET THE SOLDIERS VOTE [N. A. Review's War Weekly] An announcement is made which should be incredible and impossible. It is that something like a million a"nd a half citizens of the United States are to be disfranchised this year. This is not because of any fault of theirs, but rather because of a great virtue. It is not because they are unworthy to exercise the franchise, but because they are, if possible, more worthy of It than their fellows. j No provision, we are told, has I been made or will be made for the casting and canvassing of votes by | our soldiers in France and elsewhere 11 on the battlefront. Even in the ! camps and cantonments here, the >! soldiers who have not yet gone s I abroad will be largely though not 'I entirely disfranchised. But "over I there" disfranchisement will be all i but universal. The soldier who Vol untarily or in ready response to his country's demand goes abroad to 1 1 risk and perhaps to give his life for ! the Republic, is denied the right to ( participate in the government of the country for which he is fighting. That, if realized, would, we sub mit, be a monstrous wrong. It would ' be not only a gross injustice to the very men to whom we most impera tively owe not merely justice but all possible generosity and considera tion, but it would be a potential and very serious detriment to the nation itself and to the cause of the great war. It must be remembered that 1,500,000 are a considerable part of our total electorate. They are many more than the average majority polled by either party in a national 1 campaign. Now we are quite Indifferent to the effect vghich such wholesale dis franchisement might have upon the i fortunes of either the Democratic or the Republican party. As a matter of fact it would have little or no i relative effect, since each party would lose proportionately the same. But we do care a great deal about the effect which it would almost cer tainly have upon the loyal vote as I distinguished from the disloyal. Bear in mind that while some of Its honest and patrlotle leaders have > got out of it and repudiated it, the > Socialist party under the direction Us aro-German leaders is venom 666 was precisely in the year 1859 that William the Damned was born. Now take the year 1859 and add to it 55 years and we get 1914, and this should be another important year in the Datnned's life. Whfch, as a matter of fact, it was. for it Was in that year that he began iris Far of world-wide brigandage, the wholesale slaughter being still in full swing after rour such yeurs of horror as, the civilized world in all its history has never known before. Rut his fate number is swiftly working out to the third and final event in his biography. We now turn to the sum total of the number of weeks we get by 6 x 6 x 6, and that sum total is 216 weeks, or 4 years and 2 months. Add these years and months to 1914 and we get 1918. This present year of 1918, therefore, is to see the third in the triad of momentous events in William the Damned's life. And what is that third and last eVent to be? Obvi ously, the end of his "manifestation" concurrently with the end of the war and with his Own death. But how do we kndw that it is in the month of September of this year, 1918, that the world is to be plunged into the gloom of an irreparable loss by William the Damned's demise? The answer to this involves an other plunge into the mathematics of mysticism. How old was the Damned on the year of his "mani festation"—l9l4? Now he was born on the twenty-ninth day of Janu ary. 1859. Hence on the twenty ninth of January, 1914, he was 55 years old. Just a little over five months following this, his fifty-fifth birthday. 6n the sth day of July, 1914, at that secret POtsdum confer ence, he reached the decision to launch this frightful war. The war was his "manifestation." The Damned, then, was 55 years and 5 months old at the time of his Uniani festation." How long witi k this "manifestation" last? The answer is given by taking 6 x 6 x 6 in terms of Weeks. That is 216 weeks, or 4 years and 2 months. Dating, then, from the Potsdam conference of July 5, 1914. the war will end at the close of 4 years and 2 months, in other words, in September, 1918. And with the close of the war will come the close of the Damned's "manifestation" and the close of his life. Q- E. D. ously disloyal, and is making extra ordinary efforts to elect as many Representatives as possible on Its in famous and treasonable St. Louis platform. The refusal of the Democratic Na tional Chairman to respond to the overtures of the Republican National Chairman for a fusion of loyal against disloyal forces, and the strange delay of the President to recommend such a course, Will pro duce, in almost every Congressional district, a contest between Demo cratic and Republican candidates. Assuming both to be loyal, the loyal vote will he divided, while the disloyal vote will be united upon a third candidate. There is only tQO much reason to fear that In such cir cumstances, and with the loyal vote diminished by the absence and dis franchisement of the soldiers, a number of the disloyal candidates will win. Let's Not Be Foolish [Kansas City Star] Justice Clark of the Supreme Court tells the American Bar Association that after the War "the Qerman peo ple, "chastened they will be in spirit and in purpose, shall be in vited to share in a just, even in a generous, peace." Let's not be foolishly senti mental. The German Ambassador at Constantinople told Ambassador Morgenthau that. Germany had lost this war and would at Once begin elaborate preparations for the next. It is quite possible to conceive of a "generous peace" that would im press the German people with the idea that the United States is an easy mark and that would invite them to get ready for another try at world domination. A Cyclone on the Way The attention of the German great general staff is once more to be called to the expressive" lines that lan Hay quoted as sung by the at tacking British a couple of years ago: We licked you on the Marne, We licked you on the Alsne; We gave you hell At Neuve Chapelle, And here we are again! —Kansas City Star. Carnegie's Cash Is Low [B. C. Forbes in Wall Street Journal] The most notable sentence An drew Carnegie ever wrote, one that, slightly twisted, has actually played a part in shaping the course and conduct of numbers of multi-mil lionaires. was this: "The man who dies rich dies disgraced." What Mr. Carnegie actually did write was: "The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available Wealth, which were free for him to administer dur ing life, will pass away 'unwept, un honored and unsung,' no matter to what u-c he leaves the dross which he cannot take with hint. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: 'The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.' " I hear that there is no danger of Mr. Carnegie dying disgracefully rich; indeed, it is gossiped that he borrowed money from one of his old "boys," now immensely wealthy, to pay his taxes this year! It is said that he has outlived the calculations he made, and that his liquid re sources now are limited. Certainly one never reads nowadays of any huge gifts being made by Mr. Car negie. He once declared: "1 would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty dollar." He has ho son, only one daughter. Hong ago he wrote an epitaph for his tombstone. It reads: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself." It contains more truth than do most epitaphs! OUR DAILY LAUGH ONE DEFINI- TlON ' /JV jByM What do you (** ) mean by revert l j4 lnß to ty P e - WvM. . Lu ** ln s a con -1 ' f troversy into the I I I newspapers. A REAL FRIEND. i - friend of the fam- | iL a•lf W Yes, ma'am. Iflj I'm guarding the V wedding presents ijK, ,1 for 'em while —TJ J| they're tak 1n g —lf If H ] *l| care of feeding I l| I ill the guests, 11 " 1 "■* A REGULAR BOOKWORM. Her Husband *FI —Well what 1 about it? Think I'm a low brow? (V\ No. Only I wish you were literary like Mr. Gay |VA sport. His wife told me he spends H all his money 'on the hand books. WHY, INDEED. _ Miss Starzon etripes—po y ou |}i\/ mean to say lftjjmty 1 the country were |k in danger you'd "IV •r'lmjk' refuse to fight Mr. Slacker — ■■ |r Certainly. ' Why 'i/A .V should I fight for ■ f \ the country when A \ I live in the city. Y 1 /Y/O [ what can you see lrfjr\~ in him? / |inS Ma, when & a IWq 'JiX' man tells you H SylM that you are the finest ever, and /[[ill I MjyT kegps it up day Hsjii I i %dr \ I after day, you m It 1 can Bee a S ool * frn deal in him. A DUBIOUS COMPLAINT. jffOn Mrs. Knagg— fij !{&LS Remember, like V*j Jacob, you wait- XTTA ed seven yoars to JSrWh Seven years! HM, \ A V'p I would gladly ill I'M 1 have waited Jsi Ik /M/J| seventy. ... i lamtittg (Htjat Combination of war time activity and the demand for every pair of hands and the opening of schoo.' hue caused more uncomfortable min utes for heads of various establish ments than any olle Imagines who has not had to deul with juvenile wage-earners. The iirst place that opening of schools lilts is the mes senger service whether it be in of fices, telegraph companies, mercan tile concerns or other points and it generally strikes hard. Then it affects the places where young hands are tilling in where men have gone to war and there are many of them, too. There were more men and wom en at their wits' ends in Harrisburg yesterday than one would believe- For weeks past they have been try ing to get people to take the places of the young folks who have gone back to their books an/1 as there were no others to bo had to make out the best they could and the go ing was bad. "I do not knoA' whut we are to do for messengers," said the head of one of the telegraph companies here. "We have been em ploying men and women and as fast us they get used to the job thoy are taken nway for something that pays better. The men can make more than the wages paid here and women sbon get otl.er places." In one big con cern where feet aro essential to the successful conduct of the business most of the feet being mostly young there were many vacancies and an affected output yesterday. However, the chances are that there will be many a youngster earning more in the hours between three and six this fail and winter than he or she did in whole days during the summer. A good war story is told about Roy W. Miller, a former member of Com-- pany C, of the old Eighth Regiment. He was one of "Captain Stine's boys" and came from Scotland, Franklin county. He was in the battle of the Marne and he came across a couple of German soldiers. He got the drop on them and marched them in arms and all for which he was given pro motion. He is a brother of Raymond G. Miller, lately appointed first lieu tenant of the new truck company of the Reserve Militia. ♦ • The windows of the buildings along Fourth street below Zion Luth eran Church which were burned out several years ago are serving various purposes. They have been much used lor display of advertising of various kinds and some of it is faded and antiquated. Certain posters recall contests which are part of political history of the state and there are some lithographs of shows which will never come aguin. But the oddest of all exhibits is a collection of chick ens which is housed in one of the windows. The window is covered with stout wire, as hard for any one to break in as it would be for the fowls to break out and the chickens are very carefully withdrawn to some hidden place after the electric lights commence to shine. * • * It is not generally known that the late Frank P. Pritchard, the eminent Philadelphia lawyer, who died while in the West, was one of the keenest oL servers of political matters in Pennsylvania. Mr. Pritchard, who was in the firm of which the late John G. Johnson was the head, paid many an unnoticed visit to Harris burg. His writings wero noted for their keen wit. Among visitors to Barrisburg yes terday was W. S. KirkpatriCk, form er Attorney General of Pennsylvania, who is practicing his profession at-* Easton. Mr. Kirkpatrick wus Attor ney General under Governor Beaver and appears here occasionally in public service cases. • • It must be confessed that Harris fcurg Is not any too cordial to the soldiers from the western states who get off and march about the streets to stretch their legs. The canteeh workers make the soldiers welcome, | but as they go along the streets there is not a cheer and hardly a hand clap. Certainly, Harrisburg with its hundreds of boys in the service should do more to speed the sturdy soldiers on their way than is being done by the people in the streets who show curiosity and that's about all. * Goldfish may be all very well as household pets, but when it comes to blackbass take a leaf out of a Har risburg family's experiences and serve the bass fried. The small boy of the family went fishing with his father not many evenings ago and upon their return it Was discovered that one of the bass in the basket was still very much alive and kick ing. "Let' me put him in the bathtub until morning." pleaded the small boy in the case and permission was granted. In the morning more pleadings re sulted in a respite until evening, and then the lad had formed such an .attachment for his friend, the bass, that he made strenuous objections to its being turned into a metal for the family. So for whole days, when artybody in the house wanted to, take a bath, the bass was fished out of the tub by the small boy and placed In the basin, and then transferred back to the tub when the basin was to be used. Finally, whil-one of the wom en of the house was bathing, the bass leaped out of its shallow pool and flapping about the floor almost frightened her out of her wits. That evening the bass appeared on the table at dinner. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE f —William G. Landes, general sec retary of the State Sunday School Association, says that forty per cent, of the people active in Sunday school work will be in the draft. —The ReV. John E. Flood, prom inent Catholic school official ol Philadelphia, says that German is fast dying out as a course in schools. —Secretary of Labor Wilson spent the week end at his old home in Northern Pennsylvania. —Dr. George K. Boyd, of Philadel, phia, has been ordered to Camj) Custer, as a surgeon. —A. B. Samuels, prominent in the work of the Summer Outing Asso. ciation. at Pittsburgh, will enter the ordnance department at Washing ton. 4 —Judge Joseph Buffington. of thi • Western Pennsylvania district, is making a series of addresses to pros pective citizens. —Auditor General Charles A. Shy. der was at the seashore over the weekend. —John H. Dailey, Pittsburgh coun. cilman and former newspaperman, is in the new draft and ready to go. 1 DO YOU KNOW ' —That every branch of Har rtsburg's railroad workers Is represented in army railroad work in France? HISTORIC HARRISBURG As early as 1756 Governor Morri) visited John Harris' ferry.
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