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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1018
Cleave then to the sunnier side of
doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms
of Faith.-
She reels not in the storm of warring
words,
She brightens at the clast of "Yes"
and "No."
She sees the Best that glimmers
through the Worst,
She feels the sun is hid but for a
night,
She spies the summer through the
winter bud,
She tastes the fruit before the blos
som fells,
She hears Jhe Ic.rk within the song
less egg.
She finds the fountain where they
wailed "mirage."
* — TENNYSON.
CIVIC CLUB'S GLAD HAND
WHAT a fine thing the Civic
Club is doing in the entertain
ment of the soldiers on duty
in this section. Harrisburg has met
every expectation in all the activities
growing out of the war, but might
have done, perhaps, a little more in
the way of providing the home at
mosphere for the soldier boys who
happen to be in our midst. The
Civic Club is now supplying this
need. Many of these men have re
sponded to the call to the colors at
great sacrifice, and it is only right
and proper that the good women of
Harrisburg, through the Civic Club
and other organizations, should show
them every proper attention. Time
was when the man in uniform in
the United States was not shown
the courtesy which should with en
tire propriety have been extended to
one serving unselfishly his country;
but since our entrance into the great
war all this is changed and those
who had the narrow view of the
national service have in most cases I
changed their minds and now appre- {
ciate the importance of honoring the
uniform as well as the flag
Here and there, of course, some
thimble-brained individual will pro
test against social attentions which
are bestowed upon the soldiers, but
these persons are in such an insig
nificant minority that they are soon
dropped into the little niche to
which they naturally gravitate.
Harrisburg is a patriotic city and
its fame has gone abroad even be
yond the seas. In other wars it did
its part admirably in looking after
the comfort of the soldiers, so that
again w.e say the community is back
of the Civic Club in its determina
tion to still further bring the home
to the soldier who has left loved
ones to do his best in the suppres
sion of the Beast now 'ravaging
Europe and destroying the peace of
the w.orld.
Register to-day and be glad you
are young enough to do so. Many a
man would be glad to trade his
chances at the front to be again with
in draft age.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
SINCE the agreement at the
headquarters of the Committee
on National Defense with the
mercantile heads there will be no
interference with the usual holiday
business so long as it does not in
volve any increase of the working
forces, the merchants of Harrisburg
and elsewhere are preparing for a
longer holiday season, instead of
confining the gift buying to the last
month of the year. When it was
stated that the holiday purchases of
the average merchant were made
months ago and that the mer
chandise had already been deliv-
THURSDAY EVENING, iiariusbuko TijLEuRATit SEPTEMBER lyis.
ered it was shown that nothing was
to be gulned by cutting out the
Christmas giving. Then the agree-*
ment indicated was reached to per
mit the usual holiday business, with
the understanding that the mercan
tile forces are not to be enlarged as
has always been the case during the
last rush of the year.
In order to overcome these condi
tions, the merchants are preparing
to launch their holiday sales with
out further delay. This will be a
good thing, not only for the mer
chants, but also for their customers.
There never was any reason for the
holiday congestion, save that the
average Christmas buyer waited un
til the last horn blew to provide the ;
usual presents. The arrangement
for this year will probably set a
precedent for holiday operations in
the future.
Inasmuch as the merchants and
shopkeepers cannot enlarge their
forces to accommodate the ordinary
rush at the holiday period, it will
be necessary for them to begin the
season soon in order that there shall
not be any increase of employes
later. Of course, the public must
co-operate, so that there shall be no
inconvenience from the proposed
plan. /
Killing Germans seems „o be re
garded somewhat in the light of sport
by many of the young soldiers in
France, who insist that shooting the
Hun is about the same as shooting
rabbits. •
PATRIOTS REGISTER
SELECTIVE Service is the own
offspring of the American Vol
unteer. It has neither exiled
its sire nor silenced his voice.
Selective Service has but shifted
the burden Of the whole task of
fighting for our country from volun
teer shouldejs. and guided enthu
siastic patriotism in the right chan
nels towards the quickest and best
results.
No! The day of the American
Volunteer is not past; for volunteer
service is a matter of spirit—the
willingness to do.
It can still speak; it Is acting to
day—the Day of Selective Service
Registration.
The man. who, being between 18
and 46 years, ro§e early to-day and
hastened to place his name on the
Selective Service Roll, is an Ameri
can Volunteer.
He is as much an American Y'ol
unteer as the men who shouldered
a musket In 1776, or answered the
first call in 1861.
A man volunteers in his heart.
Selective Service opens the way for
him to serve where he is best
needed, and when. It safeguards
an over-zealous spirit from trying to
serve where it is of little use.
Our nation has set for itself to
day the task of registering thirteen
millions of men between the ages of
32 and 46, and 18 and 21 'years.
It will register them only if
America's volunteer spirit speaks
and acts.
The need of the hour is a double
quick response. Our country must
add more than two million soldiers
to the American Army of to-day to
bpat the Hun back into his den.
It will pick these soldiers from
the 13.000,000 men who register. If
you have not already done so, do
not delay.
Go prepared to give the vital facts
about yourself. Answer the ques
tions of the registering board. Don't
ask questions.
That will show a true volunteer
spirit.
Patriots will register promptly.
Others must, or pay the penalty.
Captain Walter Kilroy Harris, a dis
tinguished Australian soldier, journal
ist and author, will be the luncheon
speaker before the Chamber of Com
merce to-morrow. He has had a large
experience in the actual fighting and
the C. of C. is fortunate in having him
for Friday's luncheon.
THOSE GERMAN KNIVES
THE body of an American boy was
found in No Man's Land 'ho
other day hacked almost to
pieces by German knives.
Before the war we bought 'nearly
two million dollars' worth of Ger
man pocket cutlery each year.
A captured British officer was re
cently found with his throat slit from
ear to ear—by e. razor.
YVe used to import a half million
dollars' worth of razors from Ger
many annually.
Are we going to continue to
patronize these barbarians and their
j murder-tool factories after the war?
SOWING TO THE WIND
G 1 ERMANY continues to devas
tate utterly the towns and
countryside which the enemy
forces now occupy in France and
Belgium. Their retreat is marked
by desolation and ruin, and they
must be given to understand that
similar conditions will prevail
throughout Germany when the Allies
are through with their big Job.
Americans and their Allies every
where will never be content to ap
prove any settlement that will not
directly punish the authors of the
atrocities and the barbarous war
fare which has continued for more
than four years. They must be
whipped until there shall be no fight
left in them.
It is a common remark among
German prisoners that in the event
of final defeat their government will
surrender and save their own coun
try from the frightful destruction
which has been visited upon their
neighbors. It is on account of this
attitude that many American states
men and leaders believe the Prus
sian gang should be given full no
tice of what, to expect, so that they
will cease their constant prattling
about a "negotiated peace.
'fdUlct Ik
By the Ex-Commltteeman
Men connected with the Demo
cratic State Headquarters here now
regard it as a foregone conclusion
that while Judge Eugene C. Bonnl
well will not attend the meeting of
the Democratic State Committee
here on Saturday, his friends will
be here to make as much trouble
as possible for the managers of the
state machine. The big point now
being discussed among the leaders
of the faction which has titular con
trol is how far they can §o with
Bonniwell.
_ The way the matter stands now.
National Committeeman A. Mitchell
Palmer has repudiated Bonniwell,
although Bonniwell was nominated
by direct vote of the Democratic
voters and by a substantial majority
over the Palmer-McCormick candi
date, and Bonniwell has repudiated
Palmer, demanding that he get out
of the party. Honors seem to be
even and as usual when such a con
dition prevails among the Democrats
the machine is jingling in every
joint.
Secretary Warren VanDyke is ar
ranging for the meeting here on
Saturday and State Chairman Law
rence H. Rupp.wili be here to-mor
row to take up his burden.
—While this is going on Senator
William C. Sproul is going right
ahead with his campaign. Ho will
speak in Bucks county Saturday and
Roosevelt men. Flinn menn and even
Brumbaugh men are coming out for
him. Ex-Senator E. F. Blewitt, of
Lackawanna, a Democrat, is openly
for Sproul and it is expected his
lead will be followed by other prom
inent Democrats.
—Speaking at Philadelphia yes
terday, Mr. Blewitt said'i "As I look
at the gubernatorial situation, Sen
ator Sproul is without question the
man Pennsylvania needs in the Exec
utive Mansion at Harrisburg during
the next four years.
"As to my own party, it has been
'gassed.' The Palmer-Bonniwell
fiasco has disgusted the better ele
ment of the Democratic party in this
commonwealth. I am not in poli
tics and do not make the assertion
in a narrow, partisan sense. I am
merely stating what I regard as a
fact. My belief is that the think
ing, substantial men of my home
county, Lackawanna, are behind
Senator Sproul, and I am sanguine
he will be elected by a big ma
jority."
—Considerable comment was
caused here to-day by the attempt
of the Democratic National Chair
man's newspaper to belittle the Bon
niwell charges as "old stuff." This
is in line with the shrieks that aiose
a few days ago against the Demo
cratic Congressional candidates wno
arc claiming that the Palmer-Mc-
Cormlck course imperils the r
chances in November, which is
nothing more or less than an effa-t
to stave off the use of the time
honored demand for "a sincere re
organization" of the party which Is
rairing after the election this fall.
The Bonniwell people have been en
deavoring to taKe a leaf out of the
Palme! book and Palmer has been
trjing to prevent them from taking
it ly debouncing Bonniwell before
Fcnnivvell could denounce him. in
the midst of it all the silence of the
Dauphin County Democratic com
in'ttee is interesting to note.
—Deputy Attorney General W. H
Keller is considering the propor
tions presented in the War Depart
ments regulations against the voting
of soldiers in the field under state
,ov. r and it is probable that within
a few days he Vvill have his opinion
in the hands of Secretary of tile
Commonwealth Woods.
—Mavor Smith's new Board of
Recreation did not lose much time
in electing E. R. Gudehus, former
I luiadelphia newspaperman, as su
per,r.tendent of recreation yesterday.
Within an hour after the Mayor had
named Judge Raymond MacNeiiie.
T. .! Meagher. Edwin O. Lewis and
other pronounced adherents to take
the places of men who refused to
take orders, Gudehus had been
elected.
—Pittsburgh, councilmen are ha v
ing somewhat of a fuss over who
shall succeed President Kerr. The
president is in the army and there
is a question among members as to
who should be elected and how.
—Charles B. Lenahan. of Wilkes-
Barre, candidate for the Supreme
Court' nomination, has been swing
ing around the circle -in Western
Pennsylvania. Mr. Lenahan is one
of the half dozen Democrats aspiring
to the place and does not seem to
care whether his candidacy from
the home county of Major George
R. McLean matters or not.
Folks about the Democratic
state windmill are having more or
less of a busy time ducking#the
barbed inquiries of DemocraticMeg
tslative candidates as to whether
they must get off tickets. The head
quarters says that it has heard
nothing, but the candidates want to
know why. The Railroad Brother
hood men affiliated with the Dem
ocratic state organization are In
clined to have some opinions of their
own about the order.
Another Interesting problem is
whether the order will af&ect Wil
liam J. Burke, Republican candidate
for Congress-at-Large. Mr. Burke
is a Pittsburgh councilman, but is
one of the Brotherhood chiefs, be
ing carried as an active railroad
man.
Love as a Housing Problem
Sarah MacConnell, author of
"Many Mansions," just published by
Houghton Mifflin Company, is a
comparatively new writer, this being
her second book. Miss MacConnell
was born in Springfield. Ohio, but
has lived in New Y'ork for some
years. She was a designer of book
covers until she became associate
editor of Everybody's Magazine, and
since giving up magazine work she
has written numerous short stories
and given occasional lectures on
craft work. Of "Many Mansions,"
she says: "The book was written
because love appears to me a very
important housing problem, spiritu
ally, and rather more neglected
than our material housing problems.
Our fiction usually presents It as
something that may be ordered all
ready to put up, like a certain kind
of collapsible bungalow—no archi
tect needed."
JUDICIOUS CRITICISM
So far as candidates for Federal
place are concerned, the Maine elec
tion is a victory for Mr. Wilson and
the war. It is not a Republican or
a Democratic war. It is an Ameri
can war. The men who have held
up the President's hands, no matter'
what their party names, deserve to
be returned to Congress. A lot of
Democrats in Congress, Laodiceans
or pacifists, might well be spared.
From his political enemies Mr. Wil
son not infrequently gets Judfcious
criticism and indispensable help.—-
New York Times.
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REGISTRATION DAY
(A Paraphrase)
We are living—we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time;
In an age on ages telling.
To be living is sublime.
Hark! the waking up of nations,
Gog and Magog to the fray;
Hark! what soundeth is Creation's
Groaning for its latter day.
Ye'll not play then; ye'U not tarry.
With your music, with your wine!
Up, to it Jehovah's rally!
God's own arms hath need of
thine.
Hark! the onset, will ye fold your
Faith-clad arms in lazy-lock?
Up, oh up, and join your brother!
Worlds are charging to the shock.
Worlds are charging—heaven be
holding!
Now has come thine hour to fight.
Now the blazen cross unfolding—
On, right onward, for the r'ght.
Thirteen million brawny freemen
Hear the age-old call to-day,
Thirteen million brawny freemen.
Spring to bar the tyrant's way.
Thirteen million brawny freemen —
Join the throng and play your
part—
Thirteen million brawny freemen,
Arm to arm and heart to heart.
These shall constitute our answer
To the challenge of the Hun;
These shall win the world for free
dom—
Thank your God He counts you
one.
CAPTURED SOLDIERS
"It unlucky enough to get captur
ed, send your first prison camp pos
tal to the American Red Cross,
Berne." This in substance is the ad-1
vice which the War Department is
having officers give the men in the
American Expeditionary Forces be
fore they go to the front.
By sending this postcard to the
Bureau of Prisoners' Relief, Ameri
can Red Cross, Berne, Switzerland,
the captured man sets in motion ma
chinery so that his family will be no
tified as promptly as possible; and it
also enables the Red Cross to begin
shipments of twenty pounds of food
every week, as well as clothing, to--
bacco, toilet articles, comforts and
luxuries as needed.
Awaiting the arrival of such cards
or other reliable evidence that an
( American is a prisoner at a camp in
Germany, the Red Cross has at
Berne, Renens and Copenhagen
quantities of food and clothing
which it holds as agent of the Armv
or Navy for the relief of captured
men.
The Red Cross also has supplies
of its own for the care of captured
civilians, and comforts and luxuries
which it furnishes captured soldiers
and sailors.
Where the War Must End
There is increasing talk of clear
ing the Huns out of Picardy and
Flanders this fall, and of ending the
war by decisive victory on the west
ern front next year. It is Indulged
in by men of information and judg
ment, and in part is not injudicious-
The fine strategy of Foch and the
fighting qualities of all the Allied
armies make it by no means impos
sible that the first part of the pro
gram will be realized. The Allies
are out-maneuvering and out-fight
ing the Germans at every point, and
if our levies continue to be poured
in at the rate of the last few months,
they will soon considerably outnum
ber them. In such circumstances it
would not be surprising to see the
enemy driven out of Picardy and
Flanders in the next three months.
May it be so!— North American Re
view's War Weekly.
LABOR NOTES
Youngstown (Ohio) Typographical
Union has signed a five-year agree
ment with publishers granting a $5
a week Increase.
More than sixteen municipal tram
way undertakings throughout 'ho
United Kingdom employ women
drivers, Glasgow alone having 220 of
them.
The Swiss Federal Council has de
creed the adoption of 24-hour time
for railroads and other institutions
under government control at a date
yet to be determined.
In Germany in certain industries
the proportion of work done by wo
men has risen from slightly under 18
per cent, in 1914 to practically 60 per
cent, at the present time.
In Front of Prussian Guards
NOT long after, the Prussian i
guard was put opposite us anclj
we got ourselves ready for most:
anything. And sure enough a story
spread that the German miners were j
digging underneath us. Our miners]
were busy investigating. For a long
time they couldn't findanything. Then|
one evening came a sudden order to I
withdraw to a trench in the rear, audi
fifteen minutes after we had tiled out!
through the communication trenchi
came a crash and a roar and a body;
was tossed a hundred feet into the]
air—one of our men who had stayed
behind too long. A great black smoke
cloud rose up. Our trenches had been
blown to nothing, says Tommy Ke
hoe, England's veteran of the trench
es at 16, telling his war experiences
in Boys' Life.
That cloud of smoke had scarcely
disappeared when the Germans
opened up on us with everything they
had. Bullets and shells were dying
everywhere. The whiz-bangs tore
gaps in our wire fences and In our
sand-bag parapet. Showers of sand,
earth and pebbles fell over us and
half blinded us. We lost some men,
—how many I do not know, but I
saw two blown to pieces by a shell
that dropped right into the trench.
We four pals—Billy Clegg, Billy
Matchett, Bonesey and I—were
squatting in the trench in the dark,
glad it wasn't our turn on the tiring
step in all that fuss.
Just then came the gas mask sig
nal. I grabbed for mine. My hands
were shaking so I could hardly hold
it, but there wasn't any time to lose
if I wanted to live. As I fumbled
with it I kept mumbling to myself,
"Fifteen seconds! Fifteen seconds!
One, two, three, four—"
According to instructions, fifteen
"Uncle Remus" Returns
On July 3, 1908, In Atlanta, Ga.,
the creator of "Uncle Remus," with
a smile on his lips, went "to see
what is on the other side," to use
his own quaint words. • No longer
would the old darky uncle spin his
wonderful stories to the breathless
"little boy." Brer Rabbit and Brer
Fox and all the other friendly
beasts were dumb with sorrow and
would never speak again. The last
tale, reflecting the old plantation
life of the South, had been told, and
Joel Chandler Harris no more would
fill the Wren's Nest with laughter
which echoed all over the world,
j Now, just ten years later, a loyal
public, who have never forgotten
him, are amazed to hear the old
darky's chuckle once more, "for
Uncle Remus has returned! Ten
stories, scattered far ahd wide in
forgotten corners, have been found,
and are now published between
covers for the first time under the
alluring title of "Uncle Remus Re
turns." And they are as good as
the best that he has ever told, full
of his sly fun and homely wisdom.
One tells of "Impty Umpty and the
Blacksmith" and another is "Taily
po." Like all the Uncle Remus vol
umes, they portray the thoughts and
characteristics of a great race, rap
idly becoming a dream of the T-rst,
which, but for the labors of Joel
Chandler Harris would have been
lost to the world.
A SILENT TRIBUTE
Miss Jessie Rittenhouse, author of
"The Door of Dreams," a collection
of poems, has just received a touch
ing letter from a nurse with the
American Expeditionary Force in
France. The nurse found pasted
over the bed of a soldier who died,
one of Miss Rittenhouse's poems,
"The Wage," and sent it to the au
thor with a note of explanation.
"Over one of our hospital cots I
found this poem of yours pasted,"
she says. "After the man who loved
it so much 'went away' I took It
down and am sending it on to you,
feeling that this bit of paper will
have a special value to you now.
Isn't it strange that these soldiers
who have ceased to bargain with life
fail to realize that they who ask
nothing receive the most? I have an
1 idea that this is one of the first
things the good God tells them—
afterward."
Victory Over Booze
It has been officially determined
that a nation engaged in a great war
cannot demoralize itself and dissi
pate Its fighting power with booze.
A nation that has once experienced
the advantages of being rid of this
source of economic, social and po
litical disorganization will never re
turn to it when peeace comes.—Kan
, sas City Star,
seconds was about the time allowed
for a gas wave to arrive, and if that
mask wasn't adjusted properly by
the time I had counted fifteen, then
goodby to Tommy Kehoe.
I had got up to ten and was still
fumbling, when along came a fellow |
we call Welshie, who grabbed me and j
put the thing in place in my head.
Then we both jumped for the firing
step.
Not one hundred feet away a long,
low fog bank was creeping toward us
close to the ground. It was the gas
wave. Our rockets were shooting up
through the dark, and in their glare
the wave turned yellow and red and
green as it rolled on. Behind it all
was pitch black. By the light of the
rockets I could look along our line
of trench and see our lads in helmets
and masks, stiff as statues, with their
rifles pointing over the parapet.
My mask was warm and stifling,
and I felt like pulling it off for a big
breath of fresh air before the wave
should reach us, but I didn't dare.
I had heard of men who had taken
such a chance and who hadn't lived
to tell of it.
One moment the wave was spark
ling white, like phosphorescent surfi
on a sandbar, the next It gleamed
green and red, like the deadly thing
it was- And it crept toward us, oh,
so slowly! Perhaps it was only ten
seconds before it rolled over the
sand-bags, but it seemed like tell
times as long.
Then it swept over us. I gasped i
for air. I thought I was suffocating.
I was sure there was a hole in my I
mask somewhere and that it was all I
over with me But it wasn't as bad]
as that. I was half stifled, but there
was a lot of life left in me, though
the gas did get a few fellows —knock-
ed tnem flat.
UP TO TIIE PRESIDENT
(Colonel Harvey's War Weekly)
Out of the welter of incompetence,
waste of hundreds of millions of dol
lars and months of precious vime,
wanton sacrifice of priceless Uvci,
intrigues without number, graft
without limit, and crimes without
the pale of exculpation, emerges one
luminous and overwhelming fact:
It is up to the President to re
trieve the shortcomings and wrong
doings his subordinates, to re
solve order out of chaos and to get
for America equality at least and su
premacy if possible as a tighter in
the air. Nobody else can do it. He
can and he must, or his administra
tion will be discredited irrepuraoly,
the country will be disgraced and a
millibn lives may be lost through
prolongation of the war.
Bowed though our heads bo in
shame and disgust, except for the
lesson's sake, not a day, not an hour,
not a moment should be spared in
bewailing the past. The money is
i gone, the gallant lads who have
perished to no purpose cannot be
brought back to life; those chlifly
responsible arc already writhing in
the scorn of outraged public opinion;
punishment—swift and relentless, let
us hope and pray—awaits the evil
doers.
But we cannot stop for that. We
must go on. All eyes should turn to
the future. Every ounce of energy
should be applied in the present. We
cannot wait for the Hughes report;
we cannot wait for anvthing. With
in a year the great crisis will come
and America must furnish prepon
derance of force .in the air no less
than on the land if complete victory
is to be won.
There are two essential things to
be done, one at home, the other
abroad. Day in and day out we have
urged the President to find a man,
the man who can get results, as
Schwab is getting results, and who,
like Schwab, shall have absolute au
thority and bo responsible to nobody
but the President himself. There is
every reason to believe that he has
found the man needed in Mr. Ryan.
Good! Now full speed ahead!
Major Beith Has to Stand
Major lan Hay Beith, author of
"The First Hundred Thousand" and
"All In It," who has returned to
England, had an amusing experience
on his war lecture tour last winter
when he entered a barber's shop in
a small town to have his hair cut.
"Stranger in town, sir?" the barber
asked. The Major replied that he
was, and asked. "Is there anything
going on here to-night?" The bar
ber replied, "There's a war lecture
by an English fighter named Hay,
but if you go, you'll have to stand,
for every seat in the hall is sold
out," "Really now," said Major
Beith, "provoking, isn't it? It's al
ways my beastly luck to have to
stand when that chap Hay lectures!"
SCHOOL
[From the North American Review.]
His seat was by a window; so he
dreamed.
How he could study when the sun
light gleamed
In small, sweet shapes like wild
things tame enough
To dart to him and touch his hands
for love?
While there were profiles carved in
every cloud
To mark as grim or ludicrous or
proud,
And agile sliadowings to writhe and
crawl
Like ghostly spiders up and down
the wall,
He could not help but turn their way
to look.
His eyes, that would not follow down
his book
The muddy trudgings of deliberate
words,
Reflected blue and sliver flights of
birds.
You would not think that Just a
window space.
Could hold so much of loveliness and
grace.
But once, when a frail scrap of pa
per moon
Enchanted him from 10 o'clock till
noon, *
Ho learned his lesson then for very
gloom
Until, came • glowing to a nearby
chair,
A little girl with sunset in her hair.
His soul rekindled, and the pale
dreams came
To warm themselves once more at
this new flame.
He pushed aside the dusty Greek, he
had
A different way to read the Iliad.
While through cold ashes others
groped to learn,
Ho lit the towers of Troy. and saw
them burn.
WINIFRED WELLES.
OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
, PEACE AND
) ifO) pRO3PERITY -
I Mrs. K. —Think
.- there will bo
prosperity after
i Mrs - w-—c®r
talnly; I never
I V* malce U D "without
vxf. a handsome pres-
A NERVY
SUITOR.
Y"ou Just un- /""SSi*
derstand, sir, that r Kj
1 want my daugh- Hi )'£ ZM
ter to have as y
after marrlago as
break up house
keeping, are you?
MAY COME TO
ITHIS.
Is this a 10-
Jls/ cent store?
It Is, madam.
4nl I hear you have
f* ]1 wonderful bar-
■ gains. "Where is
I your automobile
I department?
AT THE RE
HEARSAL.
The Soubrette
—You're a con-dgjjKjJSjL /"" i
tortion act, ain'tyy',)
Why, no. What
made you think I v - *s,,sB
"tL
—Oh, I kinda Xu/ // /~ML
thought you /[jl' / '/ /■
might be when I y '"- '
heard you try to
sing.
A TRULY RE.
ggSfa . MARKABLE
•> wtW]r n I had a won-
J wf&y derful dream last
Ey' |||S night—lf it would
'fflLtffonly come true
W ° neVel "
I dreamed you
> were dead.
Signing (Eljai j
n—
,lnve been seeing: many
ruc ' ts Passing through Harris
," , B on r bo way to the camp at Al
,whero tri rck companies are
mobilized and prepared for the
movement to the lighting lines the
h t™S! v! ?' not one-tenth of i
svfL V Whfch B ° through Penn- *
evlrt , a c ? m * 8 lnto Harrisburg. For
', ® r , y r "? k th at rumbles over the
nni Ke and through the city
n!L S ° Ut . over tho Heading pike
?' n ® are Bo ' ns byway of Chambers
burgr and Gettysburg and York to
tidewater or being diverted over irt
franklin county to Baltimore. Still
°* re so'nk over the National
th™ uCumberland road which runs
through Washington, Fayette and
frJfn Bet oount| es. But the bulk aro
traveling over the Lincoln highway
and move from Pittsburgh clear
thiough to Philadelphia. One of tins
reasons why the Lincoln highway is
preferred to the William Penn is the
difference in grades, hut when parts
of Somerset. P.edford and Fulton
counties are considered there is not
"?dch to brag of. The section from
phambers'ourg to York gets more
traffic because there are portions of
highway near Harrisburg, notably
Camp Hill and Paxtang and some
other boroughs, over which traveling
even for an army truck is not a •
matter of undiluted joy. This city
could have many more truck trains
[' neighbors would buck up.
Highway Commissioner CVNeil is now
arranging to extend some help in tho
way of repairs to Paxtang, whose au
thorities will provide the labor and
material as soon as he can spare
Some road machinery. At present all
of the state's road-building machin
ery is concentrated on military roads
or the Lincoln highway, thirty road
rollers alone being on the Lincoln
and the state renting all of such ma
chines that it can get hold of.
♦ * *
The Capitol Park squirrels have a
new set of friends. They have al
ways had them, but lately they have
been coming around in increasing
numbers. They are the soldiers and
sailors. Every day or so squads of
men. who visit the Capitol while
waiting for trains or who stop in
Harrisburg to see the State House
call on the squirrels, or to be more
correct, the squirrels call on them.
The soldiers have a gorgeous time
feeding the furry denizens of Ihe
public domafn and the animals have
gotten so that, like some girls, they
will shake one In "cits' " clothing
for a- uniform without much time be
ing lost. But It is the sailors who
have the best time. They insist that
tho squirrels "wigwag," to them
with their tails and have all sorts of
fun letting the animals climb around
their shoulders.
• • •
Harry J. Myers, state compensa
tion adjuster, whose son walked into
his office after having been on the
firing line in France the other day
without giving him any notice, was
the most surprised man at the Capi
tol. Myers comes from McKeespart.
where he held several places, and
resides in Peffer street in this city.
His son had been ordered home as
an instructor so suddenly that he did
not have time to send word.
♦ *
A well-known citizen who talked
with the outgoing recruits at the
courthouse the other day has receipt
ed a letter from one of the draftees
at Camp Lee in which he suggests
that the speaker was not fully con
versant with conditions in the Army
inasmuch as he, the writer, had not
had any sugar since the morning of
August 26 and from that date until
the present time he and sugar were
strangers. He is strong for the Y. M.
C. A. however, as he says it is a god
send to the soldiers as it is possible
to go to tho "Y" and get stationery,
books, athletic paraphernalia and
hear good music.
* * *
The problems attending the abol
ition of the three Derry township
grade crossings where the Philadel
phia and Reading Railway goes over
the William Penn highway will be
cleared up late next month. The
pecple interested, the state, tho
county, the township and the rail
road officials and numerous property
owners have had five hearings and
the railroad and the State Highway
Department have prepared plans and
it Is now up to the point where an
agreement must be made or the Pub
lic Service Commission will step in
and mako one. The hearing Is
scheduled for October 23. The rail
road people are as anxious to got the
crossings abolished as anyone, but
whether they can get the material
is problematical now. The property
owners are socking to have Washing
ton speed up the required permission.
♦
State Librarian Thomas Lynch
Montgomery, who is to be speaker
at the September meeting of tho
Dauphin County Historical Society
to-night, will present'some of the
matters ho has discovered in a sum
mer vacation study of original doc
uments pertaining to the early his
tory" of Dauphin county. Mr. Mont
gomery, who is a Harrisburger by
brevet and inclination, has been giv
ing much attention to the study of
the early day 3 in this county, hr.ving
been fortunate to discover a num
ber of letters and papers of those
times-
• •
In regard to old-time papers
would bo very valuable contribution
to the history of this county if the
Dauphin County Historical Society
should be able to print the letters
and papers of the Rev. John Elder,
the "fighting parson," of Paxton
church. Mr. Elder was one of the
two men who loomed up in the co
lonial history of what Is now Dau
phin county and his descendants not
only reside here still, but are giving
their lives for the country which ho
helped establish.
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE
—Captain E. It. Mackey, of Wil
llamsport, # cited for bravery, was
long intere'sted in military matters in
that city.
—W. McK. Reed, well known
here, is in charge of the big housing
investigation in Pittsburgh.
—The Rev. Dr. W. H.
stated clerk of tho Presbyterian gen
eral assembly, is spending a short
vacation at the seashore.
—E. M. DuPont, general manager
of the Johnstown Railways, says it
is only a question of a short time
until women aro employed on trollcV
cars in that city.
—Samuel W. Gault, well-known
Pittsburgcr, was here on his way
home after a three-months' stay In
New Jertey.
[ DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg soldiers
have won places as noncom
missioned officers In every camp
Into which they have been sent?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—John Harris stockade is deciar-<
ed to have been the first fort erecte*
on the Susquehanna.