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HJISRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
To anted 1881
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New words to speak, new thoughts to
hear,
New love to give and lake:
Perchance, new burdens• 1 mag bear
For love's own sweetest sake.
—F. K. Havergal.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918
NEEDLESSLY ALARMED
SECRETARY' REDFIELD occa
sionally wanders far afield In
his speeches before trade bodies.
Yesterday in Atlantic City he ad
vised businessmen to go slow in
yielding to the temptation to "lay
rash hands on wages." Perfectly
proper! But we do not believe any
such warning was required. The wise
employer wants his men to be well
paid and contented. His last wish
is to reduce wages, for wage reduc
tions mean that business is poor
and profits going down; that em
ployes will be dissatisfied and leave,
or become discouraged and Ineffi
cient. Only the foolish employer
would attempt to "lay rash hands
on wages" at this time.
Reductions may be forced upon
some lines of work, but there is no
sign of any serious let-up at this
time and certainly the prices of com
modities must come down before
there could be considered any serious
readjustments in the rate of pay.
To be sure, some of the highly
paid war industry workers will find
themselves back at their old peace
time jobs with smaller wages than
they received in their temporary
places of employment, but they un
derstood that when they entered the
munitions plants. This, however, will
not be general. There is admittedly
a tremendous market for steel prod
ucts, which means "prosperity for
the railroads and the ore and coal
mines. For some years, at least,
America must feed the world and
our textile mills must clothe a large
part of it. These are factors of
fundamental importance and point
strongly to a prolonged period of
intense industrial activity, following
a brief interval of unsettled condi
tions while the nation adjusts itself
to the ways of peace after four years
of war. Good business and high
wages go hand in hand. The modern
businessman does not cut wages
when the balance is on the right
Happy New Year and likes his old
side of the ledger. Secretary Red
field is needlessly alarmed.
Out of tho, war-torn countries
which have succumbed to tl6 Allied
forces come persistent rumors of ef
forts on the part of the Kaiser and
his associate Emperor Karl, to re
store their upset thrones and resume
business on the old lines. The very
fact that the Germans have con
tinued in places of responsibility
such men as Hindenburg and Solf
and others of their stamp shows the
necessity of their conquerors think
ing straight and consistently In the
making of peace.
ACADEMY LEADS WAY
THE appearance of the smartly
uniformed students of the Har
risburg Academy Cadet Corps is
the first local manifestation of the
force with which the importance of
military training has impressed itself
upon the educators of the country.
Military training is not synonymous
with militarism. Quite tho contrary,
indeed. Military training makes for
good health, discipline and ability to
obey as well as to command.
Dr. Brown's students are one step
ahead of those of other institutions
of the kind In Central Pennsylvania,
but It Is likely that the Academy will
not long stand alone. There should
be a battalion of cadets In this city
made up from the high schools, the
parochial schools and the Academy.
They could All the place of the old
City Grays Cadets, a crack company
that once reflected credit upon them
selves and the city. This newspaper
for years has urged the formulation
of such companies, and now It seems
likely, where local authorities ars
•low to see the signs of the times, the
THURSDAY EVENING,
Federal Government will eome far
ward with a plan ot Its own. At all
events, the Academy is htovljig In
the right direction, and its manage
ment is to be congratulated upon its
forealghtednass.
Woodrcw Wlleon Is not the cueto
dlan ot the eonseienoe and spirit of
the American people. He will know
more when he returns from Kurops.
FAULTS AND BENEFITS
to-day the Tele
graph publishes a diagram ot
Market Square as it -would ap
pear with the proposed isle of safoty
ln the center. The diagram shows:
First—That by this plan tho road
way between curb and carllne around
the Square would be but twenty-nine
feet wide, ridiculously narrow for a
street of this Importance.
Second—That vehicular traffic
would have to circle the entire
Square, lnstctad of cutting across
through the center of the Square
along tho lines of Market street as
at present, thus increasing the con
gestion on the roadways along tho
sides of the Square.
Third —That pedestrians to get
on street cars or reach the comfort
station wouldliave to cross thorough
fares much more crowded than at
present, and the street car tracks, in
addition, to get to the isle of safety.
They would be perfecly safe once
there, but in mora danger than at
present while getting there.
These are some of the faults.
What are the benefits?
Nobody lias as yet come forward
with any.
The Telegraph is not opposed to
comfort stations for the public. Nor
is it wilfully standing in the way of
a public improvement. But it be
lieves the plans as presented for the
Market Square changes to be fun
damentally wrong and would not
only not remedy an already bad con
dition, but would only aggravate it.
The facts being known, it is for
Council to pass upon them.
Governor-elect Sproul Is showing
the wisdom of long experience In
his absolute refusal to be drawn into
! a controversy over the speakership
of the House. Of course, be wants
a presiding officer of the large body
of legislators who will be in sym
pathy with his declared policies, but
he is absolutely right In refusing to
be responsible for a hand-picked can
didate.
FAREWELL, DR. GARFIELD
DR. GARFIELD lias gone back to
his college, and we hope he may
have a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year and like his old
haunts so well he'll never hanker
again for Washington. Dr. Garfield
was honest and sincere. But he was
ever a square plug in a round hole,
and there are many who believe we
would have been just as warm last
winter without a Federal Fuel Ad
ministrator to make us hot under
the collar. His "fuelless days" were
a grotesque mistake and Ills restric
tions and regulations greatly In
creased the cost to the consumer,
while they did not apparently greatly
increase the supply of coal. Dr. Gar
field has gone, but he has left a few
reminders of his sojourn In the shape
of coalplles suffering from anaemia
and fuel bills that cause their pos
sessors to wonder If after all It
wouldn't be best to let the furnace
fire die out and end it all by slowly
freezing to death.
GREAT BRITAIN DAY
SHIPS in sufficiency spell victory,"
says Ralph A. Graves in a recent
issue of the Geographic Maga
zine, and to Great Britain's early
grasp of this truth tho world owes
to-day its freedom from the domin
ion of the Hun. In other words, the
greatest contribution of any nation
to the winning of the war was the
British navy and British merchant
marine. Without either or both, the
war probably would have been lost
to the Allies and America left open
to invasion.
So, for this reason, if for no other,
we may all join heartily In celebrat
ing Britain Day, next Saturday.
There are Americans whose lim
ited school-history knowledge of
Britain distorts their judgment of
the nation as a whole. These few
do not know that a majority of Eng
lishmen openly opposed the War of
1776 with the Colonies and had
no sympathy with King George, old
German kaiser that he was, in Ills
Hun-like attitude toward the liberty
loving Americans. That England
learned her lesson in colonial gov
ernment as a result of the American
Revolution is evident from a glance
at Canada, Australia and other com
ponent parts of the Aritlsh Empire,
a league of nations held together by
mutual respect, honesty and fair
play.
Which brings us again to Great
Britain's part In tho war with Ger
many. It was an English army that
| held the lluns until Joffre could mar
shal his forces to strike back on
the Marne. It was England who
forged an army while she fought.
It was Canadian troops who saved
the Channel ports, and Australian,
Scottish, Irish, Indian and Welsh
who held the battlellne In France
while America prepared. English
transports carried our men across
and kept communications open in
the face of the submarine. English
losses were greater than the total
of all our army lit France. England
fed and financed Belgium. England
helped save Italy, reclaimed the Holy
Land and thp Near East, smashed
the Hun scheme for a Mttteleuropa
and drove the Germans from Africa.
Britain's jiart In the war was a great
one, from the moment of her self
sacriflclng entrance to defend a weak
nation sorely beset to the day of her
glorious triumph. We do a gracious
and a just thing In joining her In
celebrating.
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Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, Dem
ocratic candidate for Oovernor, led
off the final day for filing expense
accounts In the recent campaign to
day by entering a statoment show
ing that he had expended $216.60,
practically all in traveling and per
sonal expenses, lie certified to re
ceiving no contribution and owing
no bills,
Owen J. Huberts, of Philadelphia,
treasurer of the "Lawyers' Commit
tee In support of Alexander Simp
son, Jr.," who was elected Supreme
Court Justice, filed a statement
I showing contributions of $10,678
and disbursements of $10,637.21
with about S2O of office expenses to
be paid. Justice Simpson was the
largest contributor, giving the com
mitted $5,000, while Qruliam and
Gilflllan contributed $2,050. A num
ber of prominent Philadelphia at
torneys contributed SIOO ench. The
expenditures were mainly for print
ing and postage.
J. J. Klntner, of Lock Haven,
candidate for Supreme Court, filed
iu statement showing $147. received
from the committee In his interest
and disbursements of $341.50 with
$126.36 in unpaid bills.
F. T. Gucker, treasurer of the
Town Meeting party, sent from Phil
adelphia, an accounting for S4OO.
The Btate Department has sent
back to treasurers of a dozen county
connhittees the statements of cam
paign expenses which they sought
to file here. County accounts, it was
stated to-day, must be filed at county
seats.
Warren and Carbon counties en
tered their official f.-turns at the
Capitol to-day and only two coun
ties remain to be heurd from. One
of them in Luzerne where there Is a
controversy over the soldier vote.
The otflcial count will probably be
started within a few days.
—John W. Kephart, of Ebens
burg, supreme court justiceeleet,
filed an expense account at the
Capitol showing no personal con
tributions, but all made to the com
mittee formed in the interest of his
candidacy. His own expenditures
were certified as $16,484.70, of
Which all but $1,500 used for per
sonal travelling and other expenses,
was paid to H. A. Englebert, treas
urere of the committee. Mr. Engel
bert filed an accounting for $23,-
954.08 received and disbursed, show
ing $931.07 still owing. The bulk
of the expenditures were for print
ing, postage and advertising. The
largest contributor was W. L. 11c-
Eldowney, who gave SI,OOO, while
SSOO contributions were made by
T. E. Murphy, M. Kendrick, Corne
lius Ilaggerty, Jr., T. J. Neagher,
and D. J. Smyth. State Treasurer
H. M. Kephart, brother of the jus
tice, contributed $660 and W. D.
Watson $635.
—Governor-elect William C.
Sproul has let it be knoWn that he
wants to attend to a few private
affairs and that matters connected
with appointments will be taken
up later in the month. He has caused
the word to go out ttyit no more ap
pointments are likely to be an
nounced soon. In Philadelphia it is
said no more will be made known
before Christmas.
—The squabble over whether the
Philadelphia Bureau of City Prop
erty or the Art Jury is to blame
for allowing paintings to lie neglect
ed in Independence Hall, seems to
have dwarfed even the charier re
vision discussion. The suggestion of
pay for councilmen is being rauch
discussed.
—Scranton is to have peace over
mine caves at last. The agreement
between the Board of Trade and the
operators has been signed.
—The teachers of half a dozen
of the big counties of the state
have started to agitate in earnest
for the salary increase bill and
there are signs that legislators will
commence to take notice. In Phila
delphia und Pittsburgh ministers
have endorsed the movement for
more pay.
—The Philadelphia Record in a
most sarcastic editorial to-day dis
cusses the issuance last week of the
Adjutant General's report for 1912,
and says this six-year-old report
should prove most interesting to
Junk dealers.
—gThe much-discussed question of
seniority between Justice Alexander
Simpson, Jr., and Justice John W.
Kephart, both of whom were elect
ed Justices of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania at the election on No
vember 5, was decided yesterday by
the two new members of the court
drawing lots in the private cham
bers of the Supreme Court in this
city and resulted in Justice Simpson
drawing the seniority. The Phila
delphia Press says: "Justice Simp
son has priority over Justice Kep
hart for the presiding position of
Chief Justice. Justice J. Hay Brown,
of Lancaster, Is the present Chief
Justice und the next in line of suc
cession are Justices Stewart, of
Chambersburg; Von Moschzlsker, of
Philadelphia; Krazer, of Pittsburgh,
and Justice Walling, of Erie, fol
lowed by the two new Justices,
Simpson and Kephart."
MY BOY IN FRANCE
Tom won't be home this Christmas.
He's somewhere oversea.
Part of the valiant millions who
tight to make men free;
But though we think and wonder
about him "Over There,"
And send across the waters ft. beni
son of prayer.
We shall be brave and cheery, for
ho would have it so—
And in the midst of Yuletlde he will
be glad to know
That though wo miss him always
and dream of him the while.
We, too, can act like soldiers who
do their part—and smile!
Tom won't be home this Christmas.
I shall not set his place,
And though my eyes may hunger to
gaze upon his face,
No moisture shall bedim them, but
rather they shall shine
With glory in the service of this big
son of mine;
And though he faces danger a
thousand leagues away,
Our hearts shall send a message
that nothing can delay—
A wish of "Merry Christmas" which
he will understand
Who tights for right and Justice
within a distant land.
Tom won't be home this Christmas.
But there's a thought that leaps
Triumphant, in his absence, across
the surging deeps,
The thought that he is giving, as
Christ himself might give.
His stalwart youth and vigor that
faith and truth may live.
With eyes that were a-twinkle, and
lips with laughter curled.
He sailed with our crusaders who
went to save the world—
Bo we shall smile our blithest until
his work is done;
But, oh, God keep and guard you,
my son—my son—my son!
—Berton Braley, in The People's
I Home Journal.
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A Globe-Trotting Government
[From the North American Review's
War Weekly]
The Constitution of the United
States contains no provision forbid
ding in categorical terms either the
President, the Vice-President, the
Supreme Court or the Congress it
self to leave the country during
terms of office, Bpth the Legisla
tive and the Judicial branches of
the Government stand in this re
spect precisely as does the Execu
tive. So far as any specific inhibi
tion in set terms is concerned, any
one of them, or all of them, remain
free as a bird to roam the world
over. If the seat of the Executive
may be transferred to Versailles,
the Supreme Court may hold its
sessions in Borneo, while Congress
sits in Siberia. The Constitution
plays no favorites. If its silence
gives consent to roam to one, it gi\*es
like consent to all. And, on the
other hand, if there is in its whole
tenor an implied prohibition against
one of the Governmental trinity ex
patriating itself, the same prohibi
tion runs to all.
To be sure, there are varying de
grees of inconvenience involved in
making the three great sources of
authority internationally peripatetic.
A Congress at Large whose general
address was "Somewhere on Earth"
naturally would entail some difficul
ties of transportation for so large
a body. Yet these difficulties are
by no means Insurmountable. As
a matter of fact the Leviathan
would easily accommodate the
Executive, Legislative and Judicial
branches simultaneously, with abun
ance of room to spare for Colonel
House, Dr. Grayson and even the
ladles of the Executive branch at
least. The families of the Supreme
Court Justices could easily go along,
and even the wives and children of
the Senators and Representatives
could be accommodated somehow.
There is no set provision in the
Constitution against it; and the
Leviathan is A large ship. Legis
lating, Judicializing and Executing
might be all at sea, to be sure.
Metaphorically speaking perhaps
there would be no innovating
novelty in this. Why be reaction
ary anyway?
It may be admitted that a globe
trotting Trinitarian Government
would be unusual. But the occasion
is more than unusual. Nothing like
the war that is over ever occurred
before. Never before was there
such a stage setting for so stupen
dous a drama. Why should the Gov
ernment of the United States get
into the limelight in driblets only?
Granting that the President and
Colonel House are, and of right ought
to be entitled to the center of the
stage, by what authority, under the
Constitution, might the Legislative
and Judiciary branches, with their
sisters and their cousins and their
aunts, be excluded? It is going to
be a big show. The audience is the
whole world. If we are going to
have one branch of the United
States Government and Colonel
House, in an impressive center stage
tableau when the curtain rises, why
not have all three branches?
Maybe the Government at Wash
ington would not still live. But it
would live Somewhere in Europe.
Besides, the Constitution does not !
say that the Government has got to I
live in Washington. It does not
even say Colonel House has got fo ;
live there. The Colonel and the
Government can live where they
have a mind to. They do not even
have to live anywhere unless they
choose. They can supervise Hu
manity from the Boulevards or
from the jungles if they like. The
President, the Vice-President, the
Supreme Court Justices, the Sena
tors and both Houses' —Representa-
tives and the Colonel—may per
ennially trundle on wheels if they
so elect. There is nothing hide
bound about the Constitution unless
you read it that way. Besides, it
is abolished anyway, and we all
stood by the President when he did
it to win the war. Why be back
ward Instead of forwar-looking men
just because the war is over?
LABOR NOTES
Arizona is importing Mexicans to
handle the cotton crop.
Unskilled laborers in Russia are
paid 84.12 a day.
Telephone girls in Oregon get a
minimum wage of 211.61 a week.
Eleven millions of our women are
employed in our industries.
Journeymen Tailors' International
has a membership of 14.000,
Poftsmouth (N. H.) metal trades
have opened a co-operative store.
School teachers of Rowley Regis,
Staffordshire. England, quit work re
-1 cently because of low wages:
What the Loss of Alsace-
Lorraine Will Mean to Germany
The Source of Her Iron and Steel Industries.
PRECISELY what would be the
economic meaning of surrender
by Germany of Alsace-Lorraine
and of her overseas coloales is a
question involving other iuijnsidcra
tions. The French people's"passonate
longing for "recovery of the lost
provinces" has been pre-eminently
a matter of national sentiment. It
would undoubtedly have been as
strong if the provinces wore only
mountain country or grazing land.
But Germany's angry unwillingness
to discuss restoration lias had a rec
ognized basis which was very dif
ferent.
When Alsace-Lorraine was torn
from France in 1871, the district cut
no paramount figure in industry.
Even as late as 1892, its produc
tion of iron was half a million tons
below that of Prussia. But when
this present war began, three-fourths
of the German empire's iron ore was
produed in Alsace-Lorraine; the
coal output of the province was one
fourth of the empire's total, and in
manufacture of Iron it surpassed
any state of Germany. It is not easy
A CHRISTMAS WALK
In silvery softness the anthem
closed
Like a slowly silenced bell;
The sacred calm of a peace divine
Like a benediction fell;
And out on the morning light that
spread
A glimmer of amber gray,
1 walked with Margery homo from
church
On an old, old Christmas Day.
A bland, mild day—for the rugged
month
Had chosen a kindly mood,
Like a wonderful mellow aftermath
From the Autumn's plenitude.
With scarcely a. tang of wholesome
cold
Did the Winter's breezes blow,
As Margery walked from church
. with' me
On a Christmas long ago.
The earnest words that had touched
our hearts —
The warnings, kindly and wise—
Had left a shadow of tenderness
In Margery's violet eyes;
The merry, hoydenish maid I'd
known
For a twelvemonth's flying space,
Had tuken, on that old Christmas
Day,
A new and womanly grace.
As through the tremulous opal
clouds
That shifted and swayed apart,
A sun ray lighted the rosy face,
The wish was born In my heart
That down the trail of the unspent
years,
whatever their trend might be,
The soft-eyed maiden beside me
then
Might walk to the end with me.
Absently watching the velvet flakes
By the white gale set a-wlng,
I breathe the spirit of other years
While the bells of Yuletide ring;
And near me, smiling with happy
eyes
At our children's romping play,
Is the girl who wulked from church
with me
On that old, sweet Christmas Day.
—Harriet Whitney Durbin, in The
People's Home Journal.
Chance For Every American
In no time in the world's history
has the word Democracy been more
significant than it is to-day, and
now comes the definition of what
the term means to Americans, by
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of tlje.
Interior. We quote from an article
in "Everybody's" for December.
"Democracy essentially means that
a man shall be given his chance—
first, his chance to get an education;
second, his chance to prove himself
In making himself by character and
by ability economically Independent.
Our competitive system betVeen in
dividuals must continue it' the race
is to Improve. We must make clear
that In democracy men do not fall
down to a common level, but con
stantly rise by only having to prove
that they are better In character
and ability than others; we must
make clear that in democtgcy there
can be no Interfering sovereignty
or race or caste or aristocracy, that
no wall shall be put up which a
man can not scale or overcome by
character and ability, and also
make clear that democracy does
not Vnean the abolition of all social
lines, because those are based large
ly upon common tests, ortlstlo, for
Instance, or social." \
to say just how the German iron
and steel Industry, the cornerstone
of the empire's industrial achieve
ment, would be affected by the loss
of this rich province. Power to con
duct a future war would at all events
be curtailed. What we do know is
that the German iron manufuctur-'
ers' association urgntly petitioned the
government last December not to re
linquish even the iron deposits of
that part of the district which was
not annexed in 1871, and which in
1917 was held by the German army.
Concerning Germany's colonies,
not much more need be said to-day
than that they represent a notor
iously mismanaged estate, in behalf
of whose future welfare, if the case
were one of a private enterprise, the
previous management would be at
once and summarily removed. For
this, as for many other factors
bearing on the future, we must await
the .verdict of the,V®ace conference.
Perhaps we shall then be able to
foresee more clearly what industrial
and economic future is actually in
store for Germany.—Alexander Dana
Noyes. in the Financial World of the
December (Christmas) Scribner.
THE WIDOW OF NATIONS
[From'.the Watchman Magazine]
The harrowing reports that con
tinue to come from Armenia and
Syria have led to plans for a nation
wide campaign to raise a relief fund
of $30,000,000 during the week of
January, 12 to 19, 1919.
The stories of suffering in these
regions could hardly be credited
were they not substantiated by men
and women who have seen the con
l dltions as they are. They tell of
cities like Teheran, with a popula
tion of 350,000 where two-thirds of
the people are starving.—the streets
dotted here and there with the dead
and dying. They tell of mothers,. —
mothers whose husbands were torn
from then! and murdered by the
Turks, mothers who were subjected
to humiliation and unspeakable tor
ture and driven out into the burn
ing desert, —now, after long and un
availing sacritlce to preserve the
! lives of their children, forced to
! sell them in order to save them
from starvation.
! So desperate is the hunger in
some districts that the blades of
wheat and barley are eaten as /ioon
as they appear above ground,
j Typhoid and typhus and dysentery
arid cholera are prevalent. The
emaciated forms of many of the
refugees are covered only by rags,
or pieces of gunny sacks.
The call for $30,000,000 is only
that the number of refugees access
ible, about 935,000 out of nearly
4,000,000, may receive an individual
appropriation of Ave dollars per
1 month, or seventeen cents a day.
The American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief regard
this as the smallest sum they could
1 name, barely to maintain the lives
■of these homelesß, starving masses.
We are sure that the sympathy of
the United States will be aroused
by the story of these unfortunate
people, most of whom are fellow-
Christians. As in every other call
that has been made to our nation,
let us once more "go over the top".
EDMOND ROSTAND
[From the Philadelphia Press]
The death of Edmond Rostand
leaves but one outstanding literary
figure In France —Anatole France.
And In the Judgment of the vast
majority, Rostand will be deemed
the greater of the two.
Anatole France, with all his erudi
tion and surpassing literary skill,
merely continued the classical
French tradition of brilliant cyni
cism, ironic raillery, wit, skepticism,
negation. But Rostand brought
something new to modern French
letters—sincerity, nobility of pur
pose, passion. He taught his
countrymen not to be ashamed of
their emotions. He planted Ideal-
Ism Where cynicism had grown; he
brought romance into the field
where only brutal realism had flour
ished; he even reaped religion from
the barren weeds of atheism.
8o much he gave to France, and
In hla lifetime was duly honored
for It. To the whole world he gave
literature that ranks high among
the best of dramatio poetry.
"Cyrano de Bergerae," the play
which Impressed his countrymen
more than any other play since
Victor Hugo's day, Impressed the
rest of the world scarcely - less
deeply, "L'Alglon" and "Chanti
cleer" complete the trio of dramatio
works which wfll be read and acted
as long, perhaps as the stago en
dures. ,
DECEMBER 5,1918. "
HARWICH, NOV. 1918
(Apologies to Kipling*)
"What are the whistles blowin' for?"
the little gunner cried.
."To line us up, to line us up," the
jolly Tar replied
"What makes you' look so bright,
so bright" tfie little gunner cried.
"I'm lovln' what I'm Koin' to watch,"
the jolly Tar replied.
"For we've waited many years for
to celebrate the day.
When Heinle and his sneakin'
submarines would com 6 our way.
Well, they're comin', sonny, comin',
and they don't look none too
Kay. ,
For we're takim' them to England
in the mornin'."
"What's that that's hovrin" over
'ead ?" the little gunner cried.
"W'y, that's a British alryplane," the
Jolly Tar replied.
"What's that they're throwin' over
board?" the little gunner cried.
"Oh, that's a bloniin' paravane," the
jolly Tar replied.
"Though their guns are fore and
aft and now the tlghtless fight
is done, ,
This 'cre's a minin' field we're In,
and though the war is won.
We don't take any chances when
we're dealln' with a 'Un—
But we're takin' them t England
in the mornin'!"
"What makes them look so black,
so black?" the little gunner
cried.
"They're dreadin' what they've got
to face," the jolly Tar replied.
"Why don't we cheer? Wh: don't
we cheer?" the little gunner
cried. •
"Oh, we ure British gentlemen," the
jolly Tar- replied.
"Though shootin' us in open boats
was one of Heinle's joys.
And some of us is itchtn' for to
'urt those yellow boys.
Still, it ain't no time for boasiin',
and it ain't no time for noise-
But we'll raise the roof off Eng
land in the mornin'!"
VILDA BAUVAGE OWENS.
AXOTHER SYMBOL RAZED
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer]
Antagonism to Germany has been
\ expressed in many ways by many
nations, and now China has just
' added its own peculiar example of
animosity. The impressive Von
Ketteler monument in Peking is be
ing taken down and its sections dis
dainfully curted away from the spot
where for many years it has been
a constant reminder of German
force and German arrogance.
In the Boxer uprising of 1900
Baron Von Ketteler, German min
ister to China, was killed, several
of the legation buildings In Peking
were destroyed, and 200 foreign
refugees were besieged in a struc
ture occupied by the British min
ister. They were rescued by an
Allied relief expedition. After the
amount of indemnity due from
China to the nations which had suf
fered loss from the acts of the in
surgents had been fixed, the Von
Getteler memorial was erected under
compulsion of the German govern
ment. It consisted of a marble
arch, which spanned Hatarna street,
a leading thoroughfare in. the Tar
tar, or inner city, and Is said to
have Involved an outlay of half a
million dollars. There its shadow
has fallen across the passing throng,
a symbol of inexorable power and
of haughty disregard for the feel
ings of a sister nation.
Now the hated reminder of an
unhappy and deeply regretted in
cident is coming down. With it
falls the terrorism that the Ger
man autocracy inspired in the
Chinese breast.
PROHIBITION DIVIDENDS
[From the Indianapolis News]
People used to glance at a stag
gering man and go on about their
business. There has been prohibi
tion in Indiana for several months
now, and men walk without stag
gering or reeling. Seeing a drunken
man now is seeing a curiosity.
Drunken women are still rarer.
Some intoxicating liquor is sold in
Indianapolis in spite of efforts of
the police department, but one
hardly ever sees an Intoxicated
person.
Surely these dividends from pro
hibition are worthwhile. Reducing
intoxication to the minimum means
more legitimate business und less
money wasted, it means happier
homea and better manhood and ,
womanhood. The lass of saloon I
revenue Is not an exoesslve price to I
joajr for audi results, J
Eimting (Efjat
Ravages of influenaa. and the
pneumonia which sometimes ac
companies It have caused mam
physicians and people who ire In
terested In following the history el
disease to voice the belief that In
stead of being the ailment which
Harrlsburg suffered in the late
eighties and early nineties as the
"grip" It is another and more
serious disease. Some go BO far as
to invest it with the terrible plagues
which swept Europe in the last Ave
hundred years. This city and Its 4|
vicinity have had outbreaks of sick- I
ness of quite severe character since
the city was laid out in 1785 and old
newspapers tell of those which oc
curred about 1790 and 1804. Both
were classed as yellow fever, as the
scourge of the tropics was not un
known owing to the extensive trade
between Philadelphia and Baltimore
and the West Indies, but whether it
was or n.ot cannot be said now as
no clinical histories of cases have
been preserved. We do know that
to get rid of one plague the citizens
demolished the dam in Paxton
creek about where Dock street is
located to-day and that in another
there was public nursing commit
tees named. A writer in the Car
lisle Sentinel, J. M. Reed, of New
vllle, gives some interesting facts
about.one of these visitations. lie
expresses a question whether they
were not the same as the present
and says:
"In September 1804, a malignant
epidemic prevailed in almost every
part of this county, under which
nineteen persons are said to have
died, and almost all business was
suspended. The editoiw of the news
papers in Carlisle account for the
non-appearance of their regular is
sues by saying that their workmen
were jail down witli the sickness.
Among the deaths which were as
cribed to this causo were those of
William Moore, one of the associate
judges of the country;' Thomas Gra
ham, of West Pcnnsboro; John
Hughes, a captain of the Revolu
tionary Army; Wm. Grcason, of East
Pennsboro; Joseph Coneliy, of
Frankford; Miss Jane, daughter of
Andrew Holmes, and Peggy Ram- • i
sey, of Middleton; George Line, of
Dickinson, and Andrew McAllister,
on a farm near Carlisle, A short
time before this (August 4) Col.
John Alexander, an active officer
in the Revolutionary War, and an
exemplary citizen, on his farm in.
West Pcnnsboro, was taken, prob
ably by the same disease, and died
very suddenly."
• • •
Giles Bowers, one of the city's
barbers, lias just received from the
battlefields of France photographs
of his own family and his residence
in this city, made last winter dur
ing the deep snows. Mr. Bowers
has a brother, Grover C. Bowers, in
the Marine Corps, who was among
the first United States lighters to
reach France. He got into the
fighting last fall and the pictures,
with a clipping from the Harris
burg Telegraph, were forwarded by
Mr. Bowers in a letter to him. Last
June the brother was seriously
wounded when the Marines drove
the Germans from Chateau
Thierry and has since returned to
this country and is in a hospital in
New Jersey, recovering. The other
day Mr. Bowers received a package
from Ralph D. Wolf, also a mem
ber of the Marines, enclosing the
pictures he had sent his brother ''
last winter, together with a letter
in which Wolf said he had picked
up a bloodstained coat on the
battlefield and looking through the
pockets had found the pictures and
the Ilarrisburg address. Not know
ing what had become of the owner
he sent them back whence they
came, thinking they may some
interest.
• • •
The close of the Brumbaugh ad
ministration is being marked by the
usual dining which attends the close
of a gubernatorial tenure of office.
In addition to the dinner which the
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh will
give next Thursday to the heads of
the departments and their wives,
the Governor will be the guest of
the members of his staff at dinner
on Saturday in Philadelphia and
later on of various commissioners
and others who have been his guests
at the executive mansion.
• * •
Farmer Shreiner's men In Capitol
purk are pretty busy these days get
ting things covered up against tho
time when the winter winds blow.
The tulip and hyacinth beds are be
ing covered over and also protected
from the squirrels as well. Some of
the coverings had barely been put
on yesterday when the snow squall
came to town.
"Right on time we are,'" an
nounced Morris Garvin, who is in
charge of some of the outdoor work.
\ It may he said that the squirrels
developed much interest in the pro
ceedings, which would bar them
from midday lun.ches on bulbs.
[ WEIL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Congressman J. Hampton
Moore, who will be host of Gover
nor-elect Sproul at a dinner in Wash
ington next week, did newspaper
work in Philadelphia when the new
governor was a newspaper corres
pondent Swarthmore.
—Mayor Heldenreich, of Hazle
ton, is naming a committee to have
chnrge of getting work for soldiers
in this city.
—Steven McDonald, well known
here, has again been chosen as head
of the Scranton Labor Union.
-—Dr. Charles K. Mills, one of the
well-known physicians of Philadel
phia, lias just celebrated a birthday.
—William I. Schaffer, who will
be the next attorney general, has
been getting telegrams and letters
of congratulation from many parts
of the state.
—George D. Porter, who is tak
ing a hand in the Philadelphia po
lice inquiry, used to be director o(
safety.
f DO YOU KNOW )
—That Harrlsburg typewrit
ing machines arc used In army
work? ' <
1 , HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Harrlsburg was flrat lnoor-.
porated as a borough in 1791 and
was one of thq flrat ot'the boroughs.
Removing the Iniquity
For behold the atone that I have
laid before Joshua; upon one atone
shall be seven eyes; behold I will
engrave the engraving thereof, salth
the Lord of hosts, and I will remove
the iniquity of that land in one day,
—Zecharlah 111, 9,