6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEM'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 .Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.%;HAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKFOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS W. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circidotion Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, 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 paper and also the local ndbrs published herein. /II rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American ( Newspaper Pub - [p| Eastern office. jj* Avenue Building Chicago, 111." B " Entered at tho Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. ss.Ol'i a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1918 1 do not think tee have any right j to think of a heaven for others, much j less of a heaven for ourselves, in the tcorld to come, untiYve are whoily determined to make this tcorld a heaven for our fellotvmen, and are hoping, believing, loving, and work ing lor that, and for its realization not in a thousand or million years, but in a nearer and nearer future. — Stopford A. Brooke. THE LOAN SUCCESS THE Fourth Liberty Loan in the Harrisburg district was so suc cessful that there is "glory enough for all." There is always i temptation to pick out the generals j and the captains to the exclusion of] the men in the ranks in peace cam- ] paigns as well as in war, but In the ] present conflict in Europe the pri vate gets his distinction through the coveted war cross, and if the work ers in the ranks of the loan forces ! . here were open to such reward.there would be many a loan cross worn in Harrisburg and vicinity to-day. i Ap City Chairman Patterson said vesterday: "The thanks should go to j the workers as well as to the"Chair- ; men." Never was a more difficult j task imposed upon the citizenship of Harrisburg. A few years back we j debated for weeks the possibility of ; floating a loan of $1,090,000 for pub- j lie improvements and there were ] many who believed it would bank- : l-upt the city. in the last fort- ! night committees of our citizens I went out and sold to the residents of Harrisburg more than $6,000,000 worth of war securities. The job ap- j pearecl well nigh impossible at the outstart. especially in the tace of I the worst epidemic the community j has ever known, and that it was ac- ! compiished is a great credit to every- j body who had a hand in it. More and more the importance of prompt organization of those who will be charged with the duty of prepar ing an accurate history of Pennsyl vania's part in the great world con flict is being emphasized by the in creasing activities of the war. After the Civil War it required two years to collate the important facts, and with this experience in mind it is vital to prepare for the work now. It should be started in every section of the State and down to the smallest mu nicipal unit, so that no feature of the State's big share may be overlooked. SMASH THE HUN! THESE are crucial days for Ger many and her allies, but they ire no less crucial for the United States and those who are lighting with us for the suppression ol the Beast of Berlin. The weak and unsatisfactory re ply of Germany to President Wil son's note, proposing peace on im possible terms, trying to lie out of German atrocities on Sand and sea, forsaking the Gefrnan submarine murderers to trial by neutral gov ernments for carrying out German government orders, betraying Aus tria-Hungary and Turkey by efforts toward a separate peace to Bave Ger many, illustrates the point. The note is based on falsehood and consists largely of subterfuge. It is designed to prolong discussion with a view of peace by negotiation. It shows Ger many to be in desperate straits try ing to save her own skin at the ex pense of ours. The note should have no answer, unless it be summed up in the two words—"unconditional surrender." Germany is not only losing her men; she is losing millions of dollars worth of war munitions and sup plies and, staggering under the pounding of Marshal Foch and his splendid armies, the foe is showing everywhere signs of physical and mental distress. Germany can only hope now to destroy the morale of her oppo nents at home and in the Held through persistent peace discussion. An attempt will also be made by the Berlin government to bolster up the discouraged people of Germany by TUESDAY EVENING, | holding out a possibility of .peace, I or, failing in that, to arouse them to new cndeuvorß on the lighting | front.. First came tho peace pro posal which was rejected by the j President and we may expect that |.jhe note writing will continue so jlong as Berlin has any encourage iinent to continue that sort of an offensive. j It is to the interest of Germany j to prolong these discussions in the • hope of being able to withdraw her ! armies to a shorter line, with a view to a determined resistence on the ! bank of the Rhine. It is because jof this obvious policy of our enemy ' that the writing of notes shculd !<.ease and all the force of arms be i used to crush the German armies, j Again comes the appeal of those ' who have died that decency and humanity and civilization may live, in the wonderful poem of Lieutenant Colonel John McCrea, who gave his jlife in France. Some one has said I out of the thunders of Armageddon | has come this poem of three brief !stanzas' a call to realization and to iduty, clear and compelling: j In Flanders fields the poppies grow, Between the crosses, row on row, I That mark our places; while in the I v i The larks, still bravely singing, fly Unheard amid the guns. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow. Loved and were loved. And now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe. i To vou from falling we throw The torch. Bo yours to bear it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies blow In Flanders fields. We must not fail those who are watching from the bivouac on the | other side—the thousands of brave men who have made the supreme ! sacrifice —nor fnust we be deceived by the apparent breaking up of the Austrian empire. There is the fear of merited punishment and any ap parent reform of government should j be regarded with suspicion so long as it comes from the men and the j groups of individuals Responsible for ; the war. All through the invaded countries which have suffered untold agonies comes the appeal to give the Ger mans no peace that will permit them to renew their barbaric war fare at a later date. During the last week they have given us re newed evidences of their brutality ancf also that there has been no change of heart, as shown in their destruction of Belgian and French towns. A correspondent writing from Ostend says: "If I heard it once, I heard it a hundred times that phrase—You will not give them peace—tell us you will not give | them peace!" President Wilson if he heeds the unmistakable s lument of the | country, will promptly cease all nego tiations and all correspondence with Germany in view of the palpable | evasions and trickery of the Berlin 'group. Only a complete acceptance jof the decree of unconditional sur render will satisfy the American i people. Of course, Germany will at tempt to reopen the whole question J of submarine warfare on the score of war necessity, but the real pur pose will be a prolongation of diplo jinatlc fencing to gain time and strengthen the defense on the west ern front. It is manifestly the scheme of Germans to do every j thing within her power to avert the military disaster that is imminent. I She knows that victory is impossible and hopes to obtain some sort of terms for the bloodthirsty gang that | has precipitated the greatest war of 'the ages and now fdars just pun j ishinent. What is happening in Belgium I will certainly eliminate from any | future negotiations the independence ]of that country. It will be .estored [ by the armies of the allies, | and seeing this inevitable result Germany is naturally looking cjiead !ior some sort of a dicker elsewhere. | Events are culminating rapidly.. jWe may expect within the next few | days developments which will indi cate the final trend of the military !activities on the western front and j perhaps throughout the whole aica !of the war. We must not assume Jthat the war is over. It : s reason 'able to accept as a fact the domi | nance of the allied forces, but to [jump to the conclusion that the (struggle is over because of recent | victories is to refuse to see the po tential strength of the German i forces now being pushed backward ;to the Rhine. The kicking open of the back door in the Balkans and the rap'idly developing strength of the allied armies in that field have had much to do with the appeals of Germany for peace—on her own terms. It is by reason of the pressure on every side that military critics now be lieve the utmost force should be used to the end that unconditional sur render may be precipitated before the winter months slow down mili tary movements. Revolution in Austria is the sig nificant phase of the war Aat is now attracting most attention. The [sundering of the tie binding Aus tria with Germany will be the final (blow to the Kaiser's dream of world powers. He will then have to fight it out alone, and there should be no doubt in any mind as to the final (issue of such a conflict. Even should an armistice be ar ranged at the present time it would require months before the actual (peace settlement could be reached. (The history of all wars shows that (the time between the cessation of hostilities and the signing of the treaty of peace has run from a few months into a year or more. In the Franco-Prussian war jt was seven months between the date of the armistice and the final declaration. So also in the Spanlsh-Americap war. It is because of these facts that -the present Is regarded as the criti cal stage of the war. So much de pends upon the way in which the German peace offensive is met. Germany still prates of a "peafie of right, but not for a peace of j might" and such an attitude upon jthe part of the Berlin government .simply emphasizes the great danger jof negotiation with this obsessed ;and tricky power. Denying German | cruelties and insisting that the U j boat warfare is a necessity are sig nificant straws showing the direc jtion of the Berlin wind. | Everything that has occurred i since the recent peace proposal was | inaugurated demonstrates anew the I hopelessness of dealing with Ger , many on the usual diplomatic basis. jAn absolute unconditional surrender !is the only way to bring about a ijust and pffehteous peace. These j criminals must not be permitted to ! escape through negotiation .or by | the acceptance of terms of their own making. Indemnities, restor ation of stolen territory, readjust ment of territorial lines and ade quate punishment for the guilty must be the outstanding factors in any peace. \ Germany is tottering and her powers of resistence are failing on all sides. America and her allies will stand firm for a peace without compromise or subterfuge of any sort. Our own soldiers are forcing the military decision. j If the Bonniwell supporters have j any foolish notions that they are j going to gain votes by blaming the Republican party for a proper effort to reduce the danger of contagion in the epidemic that has been spreading over the country, they will probably get awake to the fact that Pennsyl vanians are not all fools. Also, that J the preservation of the public health is not a partisan matter, and that the | people have observed with satisfac i tion the decreased number of arrests j since the saloons have been closed. DUCKING THE STORM WE are assured in his own per sonal mouthpiece that "the business of the War Trade Board is of sych a vital and delicate character that Mr. McCormick will turn over the campaign to National Vice-Chairman Cummings, of Con necticut." -Looks like another effort i to avoid the cyclone. J Pch.Jt4iJfftK4.lua. By the Ex-Comniitteeman i Notwithstanding the announce ments from Philadelphia that Sen ator William C. Sproul will make no inore speeches during the canpaign and that the Republican state eam (naign will be conducted through the county organizations, it is believed I that next week the gubernatorial icandidate will make soiqe tours. Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the Democratic nominee, does not seem jto be held back by influenza or any thing else in arranging his tours. I Prominent Republican state lead ,ers have been going over conditions (in their districts and are sending re i ports to Philadelphia where W. (Harry Baker, the secretary of the 'state committee, is holding the fort I with about half his ataff. ! Democratic state headquarters j men are working on Congressional (elections, having apparently gi\en lap the legislative contests. ] —More or less comment has been j occasioned about the state by the selection of Lehighton as one of the official finding stations for the aerial postal service. Lehighton is the home (heath of the genial Jim IJlakslee. (assistant postmaster general. Last (week jt was said that Harrisburg, .the home of the Democratic national (chairman, was to be a station. New it is to be Lehighton, Bellefonte and (Clarion. i —The withdrawal of D. W. Phillips (as the Washington party candidate j fpr Senator in Lackawanna county, after having lost in the Supreme (Court contest for the Republican (Senatorial nomination, shows that he means to back up his successful | opponent. —The Philadelphia Inquirer rlints the following sidelight on the Sq-' (perior Court situation: "Supporters of Judge William D. Porter, of Pitts- ( burgh, who is a candidate to succeed i himself on the Superior Court, are (sending out word to his filends ; throughout the state that thay must i not take anything for granted and j hat while his opponent, Stephen J. 'Huselton, of Pittsburgh, has an nounced that he is not a candidate, (there is a secret campaign being (waged in his interest. At the recent (primary elction Huseltdn polled (162,797 votes to 338,338 for Judge | Porter." i —ln Commenting upon the condi ! tion brought about on the Philadel ' phia municipal court bench by the ( death of Judge Bernard Gilpin, the Press refers-to deaths i of pther judges and then remarks: ! "A fourth is .campaigning through i the state as Democratic candidate for governor while the taxpayers arq assessed $6,000 a year for his salary ( and perhaps $20,000 more for the j annual expenses of his court, al i though he is not within reach to give i any attention to the details of litl ( gation or to assist his colleagues In j reaching their decisions. As a mat- I ter of common knowledge, Judge ' Bonniwell hais never ceased his per ( nicious partisanship In politics since becoming a judge, and this has been | one of the crying s 'andals of the > unfortunate municipal court." j —The extent to which Influenza has been affecting affa'rs In Phila delphia is illustrated by the fact that the finance committee of council had to ask permission from Director of Health Krusen to have a second ses sion to consider the budget, wherein Krusen's own appropriation is listed. —F. M. Fishbaugh, Prohibition candidate for Senator in the York coun'ty district, has filed his with drawal. —Butler - Armstrong Democrats have nominated James E. Marshall for Senator in that district. A va cancy occurred there through the I death of Senator J. F. Graff. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can appears to have given the Pro hibition state leaders something to think about in the article in which ex-Governor J. F. llanley discusses the election in Pennsylvania. —Senator William C. Sproul, who has been behind every piece of legislation for the betterment of the roads of Pennsylvania in the last twenty years, has made a very plain statement in regard to the proposed $50,000,000 bond amendment which seems to answeV the argument of the Grangers and to silence the chirps from Market Square. "The voting of authority to issue bonds does not mean that the money is to be spent during these abnormal times," said Senator Sproul. "After TTAKJFIXSBTJRG TELEGRAPH 1 11 ■ ' \ SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OVT OF LIFE .;. . : . .... ... p ' —■—; 9K "" \ f VAJCLL SIMITH- i'e / HELLO Swjeer HEART - THIS IS (JES! \ GUESS ILL HAD MV eYe ow BILL— YSHT BEEN '"TRYINJ* TO | ST P| K P -TV,. OL r> „ / . Y OU - YOU HAV/EW T G6T YO(J POR ANJ HOUR —SAY MOM IAO ! / BEEIS) OFF OW PASS Lisxew Suoeene —RUE GOT A MFMVJ A- P\5S- / FOR TIMC AMD , HAVBN'T ASKCD FOR / .GA YOUUE * GOOD JO DAY LEAVE - W£T OAJ ONO INT A DOE'J A6E / SOLDIER, HOWD A , THE. H-4O- YPN You Be R \AJE LL V \ TEN DAYS FURLOUGH \ HAUE SOV>6 PARTY! 6BY —YAU ? \ F\C\. ~ " = " *T\ / SHOVU ev/eRY MIGHT- Bis EATS, j — H.EERV IM I |1 AND BvpRYTHiWG NOTHING / \ QUSRANTIMC FOR SJ lnc To Do BUT HAue A SuJSLL . \ EIGHT MINOYEs f LET HIM LIVE ' By F. D. Van Amburgh In "The Silent Partner" &• lonp as flowers their perfume si"^ n t s v and , * ln *} n ß and never done give edge of light to the set of sun. So long I-d let the Kaiser live— loan '"s * nd moaning and moaning wild— \ :mmj (U .... A taxaged trench girls bastard child! Live and live for a million „.'_^ a ' ' ~, . _ , And I would build him a castle by the sea, With nothing to drink but Bel- As lovely a castle as ever could be; gian tears, tyklr^t Then I'd show him a ship from over the sea, With nothing to quench his awful thirst As line a ship as ever could be. But the salted brine of a Scoichman's curse. Laden with water cold and sweet, Laden with everything good to eat; I would let him live on a dinner each day, Yet scarce does she touch the silvered sands, Served from silver on a golden tray— Scarce may- he reach his eager hands Served with things both dainty and sweet— Than a hot and a hellish molten shell Served with everything but things to-eat. Should change his heaven into hell, „ . . . . J * ... .. And though he'd watch on the wave-swept And I d make him a bed of silken sheen, shore, With costly linens to lie between. Our Lusitania would rise no more! With covers of down and fillets of lace, And downy pillows piled in place; Tl , ~-sr. AJq _,„ t . „ Yet when to its comfort he would yield, r , start * t i, e Kaiser'a nrivate hen- It should stink with rot of the battlefield, !■ f.,t him ih him JAlii' And blood and bones and brains of men jn ®, 8 J Should cover him, smother him—and then vi n Lrrt. hi!, n„ tw ti I i glass, Ills pillows should cling with the rotten cloy— of, t n/at ,be l.°t nJT 6 ys d,cd — Cloy from the grave of a soldier boy. ° ut " ttst the Uds they crucified. And while God's stars their vigils keep. And while the waves the white sands sweep, In the fearful gloom of his living tomb, He should never, never, never sleep. There is one thing I'd do before I was through: , . I'd make him sing, in a stirring manner, And through all the days, through all the years, The wonderful words of There should be an anthem In his ears, "The Star-Spangled Banner." this war is over we may find it very convenient in Pennsylvania to have a large fund to be used in giving work to the unemployed. At the last session of the Legislature I suc ceeded in having a law put on the books which* provides that during periods of extraordinary unemploy ment, caused by industrial depres sion, state money can be spent on necessary public works. Some peo ple have the impression that $50,- 000,000 is an enormous sum. They have not stopped to consider it in the light of present day expendi tures of the Federal government. It is costing $18,000,000,000 a year or about $50,000,000 a day to keep the machinery moving. It must be re membered that Pennsylvania is con tributing one-tenth of the cost of the government, so tharf. every 10 days the people of this state are tossing SSO 000.000 into the Federal hopper. With this in mind, the $50,000,000 bond issue scattered over a term of years is not much of an objigation for Pennsylvania to assume." Charles T. Hickernell, of Schaef ferstown, who has been chosen by the Lebanon Republican County Committee for the vacant place on the Assembly ticket by reason of the death of Dr. I. K. Urich, of Annville, is 40 years old and a son of the late Jacob F. Hickernell, one-time postmaster of Schaeffers town. He is a lawyer and graduate of Dickinson law school and has been practicing his profession for fifteen years. The Hickernell fam ily is prominently connected with families which for generations have been leaders in the lower tier of Lebanon county and for two decades the nominee has been teacher of the women's Bible cluss in the eran Sunday school at Schaeffors town. Names to Conjure With Chateau Thierry &nd Belleau Wood, where Americans fought, are new names to be writ in American history. They shall rank with Bunker Hill and Gettysburg, An tietam and San Juan. —Frazier Hunt, in the Red Cross Magazine for No vember. FREE TRADE? The Democratic Party is com mitted to a free trade policy. In the fourteen terms in President Wilson's peace program, stated to congress January Bth, the thirjl clause reads: "The removal, as far as possible, of all economic barriers and the es tablishment of an equality of trade conditions among all nations con senting to the peace and associat ing themselves for its maintenance." This is a positive declaration that the treaty of peace must guarantee to Germany free trade *. "ith the United States without .any tariff safeguards whatever to protect the American laborer, manufacturers, farmer and business man from for eign competition in his home mar kets. Under such a policy Germany will buy raw materials in the United States, manufacture these materials | in Germany, and sell the manufac tured products in American mar kets in competition with similar products "Made in A.merica," by I American manufacturers, without! the slightest tariff restriction for the \ protection o\ American labor, busi- ] ness and farming. No one doubts that in an open \ unrestricted American field Germany with her cheaper iabor, will be able to dominate markets for many man ufactured products in the United States, and will drive similar Amer ican products out of those markets, with the ruin of American manu facturers ai.d hurrfi to American labor swiftly following American labor will never agree, and quite properly, to wage scales on a par with the comparative pit tance paid to German labor before •the war, which undoubtedly will be paid after the war. The American manufacturer, with the higher wages that he must pay, cannot compete with German manufacturer In many lines, if the United States is on a free trade j basis. The greatest periods of prosperity I that the. Ur.ited States has ever I known hare been Republican ad-1 ministrations, with a protective tariff as the chief cornerstone. The Republican party has never been defea-ed on a protective tariff issue when it presented such an issue to the electorate. Free trade, absolute and complete, with all its tremendous ills, looms in the noar future, under a contin jn of Democratic rule. A Republican House and Senate, elected in November, would be a guarantee to the people that a free tariff disaster would be prevented. A Republican Senate would never agree to a treaty of peace giving | free trade privileges to Germany. Reconstruction problems after the • will tax the experience and the genius of the ablest men in the United States. It is well known that most of these men are Republicans. Red Cross Juniors Besides their special work as school auxiliaries, the juniors also devoted. part of their vacation to proving themselves good chapter members. Under the slogan "Boost the Red Cross at all Times," the children of Lynchburg, Va., collect ed current newspapers and pt-iiodi cals for the canteen, ushered at va triotic meetings. In many places where municipal spring hcuse-cienn ing had been postponed, the school children ran a clean-up campaign in their spare moments.—From the November Red Cross Magazine. Standing in Line I stood in line to join, and now I stand in line for mess, I stand in line for everything I get, almost, I guess. And when I do go back again. When old Bill's dream has burst, I'll stand in line to kiss my girl, Perhaps—and that's the worst. Spiker, France. Extending Good, Where Due Withhold not good front them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do It.— Proverbs 111, 27. OCTOBER 22, 1018. IN THE ARMY HUTS [From the Spiker, France] Six-day bicycle races are usually considered about the severest thing in the matter of endurance tests. But a 6-day bicycle race is an in fant's lirst walking lesson compared with Army Hut arguments that are staged by the boys in O. D. when they warm up to a subject. Take the recent Tomato-Motor Tire Argument byway of example. A brief outline only of that 11-day controversy is here given, as to (ell it in detail would take a phono graph or a recording angel: "Tomatoes are a vegetable be cause the gioeer says so.—Tomatoes are a fruit, because the dictionary says so.—Well, anyhow eggplants are plants.—What a fool argument! Electric light plants are plants too, when it conies to a question of literal interpretation. lnterpretation has nothing to do with electric light; interpretation is when a man knows how to talk both\ French and En glish.—An interpreter has to have a knowledge >of Egyptian, too, because they wear a Sphinx on their collar. — What has a Jinx to do with talking Egyptian? A Jinx is a symbol meaning that you know how to keep' your mouth shut at the right time.—■ It's a cinch you never wore a Jinx on your collar.—l bet on the races once and lost; there must have been a Jinx on the horse's collar. J-Ie was a thoroughbred, too—thor oughbred? Thoroughbred what; thoroughbred percheron, stallion, race horse, pacer, trotter, draft horse, or what?— Just plain thor oughbred. It's a special breed of horse that runs on a standard track. —lf you put a motor car on a stan dard trac.';, would it be a thorough bred, too? No. there is no such thing as a thoroughbred motor car.— Well, there are thoroughbred motor tires anyhow.—you're ' another.—So are you; here's the ad in this maga zine!" "OUR DAILY LAUGH WATCH OUT! \ Ist Bug— I That's a rela- IP yfcs YjpJ '.ion of ours. HA! Sow do you ifgr at\/ £ ft* Ist Bug—Why f i>//$1 Mr t's a tick, Isn't .Jreaaj2 ,aY slang at THE ZOO. are with PROVERBIAL. It's the early But don't forget., / 1 It's the I ' early worm That's caught by tho onrlv bird. bbyond thb He was ex jraHli W empted because of dependents. Ves, he had I JUk i ' our automo- I blleSi a steam JL-A \ .' mother-in-law. lammuj (Eljat || In view of the call by the Gover nor anil many men prominent In the affairs oi Pennsylvania that the people of every county arrange a celebration on Thursday, November 7, in honor of the anniversary of the landing of William Penn on the Delaware, it would be Interesting if the observance in Dauphin county could bo at the point where the Founder of Pennsylvania spent sev eral days and which is generally be lieved to have been tho farthest West ho traveled in his domain. This place was the confluence of the Susquehanna and'the Swatara.W presumably Middletown. While tho claims of Middletown to be the oldest place in Dauphin county have al ways been admitted it has not been generally known that Penn vis ited that point with the idea of selecting tho site for his proposed town or city on the, Susquehanna. His proposals for that city building project have come down to us and are intensely interesting because they show that ho intended to push civilization westward and to dupli cate Philadelphia iff various sec tions of the province. Several towns • dispute the honor of Penn's tenta tive selection. It has often been as serted hero that Penn was im pressed with the surveys which showed the valleys converging at what was later to be John Harris' ferry and then Harrisburg. That tho Swatara impressed him is a histori cal fact and then again because of joining of the Susquehanna and the shallowness of the stream anil probably because of the general ac cepted tradition that Captain John Smitli\ sailed up the Susquehanna as far as\the "great falls" Penn is saitl to have thought of the vicinity of Columbia or Wrightsville. In any event the fact that William • Penn visited Middletown and stood at tho meeting of the waters of the river and the creek in 1701 is well estab lished. Penn landed on October 24, 1682, (old style) at Upland, now Chester. The new stylo of dates makes this November 7. He was busy, according to records getting his affairs in order and after some troubles at home, made his excur sion into the province. He was at Lancaster and other places and Middletown has tho honor of being the point where he rested and then turned back to Philadelphia. Tho visit of Penn to Middletown was some tiftcen or sixteen years before John Harris came here and probably Peter Brezelion and his French and half-breed Indians were then occu pying the meadow about tho mouth of Paxton creek and trading with the crews of Charlier, who held the bills about the mouth of tho Yel low Breeches before Harris built his warehouse in Harris Park. * • An interesting story about Edwin A. Abbey and William M. Chase, two world-famous artists, has been going the rounds of the newspapers. Mr. Chase, as is well known, has always been great on red. He is said to have found that red paint helped a land scape in vicinity of Pittsburgh and to have used it extensively. The story as told by Katharine M. Rouf says that when Mr. Chase was. in England some years ago Mr. Abbey sent him an earnest request to come and see his Harrisburg decorations. At first Chase though it impossible but at the last minute he took a fly ing trip to Abbey's country house by motor. When he saw the decora- . tions his admonition sounded pro verbial, but it was. as Abbey realized afterward, quite right. "What your canvas needs is a spot of red." bey took his advee. • • • The scarlet sage which is always such a feature of Harrisburg gar 'dens is commencing to disappear and when the brilliant red flowers begin to droop it is the traditional time for Harrisburgers to start their | furnaces. The scarlet sage is one of I the most popular of the late flowers in this city and it has long been re j gai-ded as a good thing to steer by in preparing for winter. Tho time for cutting down the roses and tak j ing in the geraniums and the dahlias will soon be upon us. * * The influenza outbreak has been hitting where people least expect it. Many of the stalls at the mar kets have been vacant, not so much because farmers and their families have influenza, but because they are afraid of getting it, it is sus pected. Then again,, one master plumber reported Ave' of six men oft their jobs because of illness. One store had thirty per cent, ol ■ its clerks at work yesterday and dubious about to-day. One milk route has had three different driv ers this week. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. Howard M. Snyder, the new commandant at Camp Crane, has just come from Camp Greenleaf. —F. C. Penfleld, former ambassa dor to Vienna, is at the seashore for a short vacation. —Major W. G. Murdock, the state draft officer, is an authority on the history of Northumberland county. —The Rev. Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, prominent Pittsburgh clergy man, has issued a prayer for his city during the influenza outbreak when the churches are closed. —John W. Carrol, the new captain of the middle division police, is well known to many men here. He was lieutenant under the late Chal Port. —W. J. Richards, the Pottsville coal magnate, is giving all of his time these days to the coal produc tion work of the government. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg fought three serious fever outbreaks in the last century and got through them without much loss? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first inaugural parade was held in Harrisburg in 1814. Germany's New Stand Germany is becoming extremely solicitous about this town bombard ing business. It is her present desire that the Allies shall not bomb French* towns the evacuation of which is contemplated. At all events, Ger many would be glad to enter into n friendly and humane agreement which would permit a portion of the population cf Valenciennes to pass into the French lines. All this ac cording to a Berlin dispatch, byway of Amsterdam. What does Germany mean? Nothing In particular. What troubles her is that this bom barding business may be carried or. beyond the Rhine. And she hat reason to be troubled. —-Christian Science Monitor. The Better Course It is better to fight for the good than to rail at the ill. —Tennyson.
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