10 mSBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELUGttAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Squire E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor 4. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager ,■ Executive Board R. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. liember of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en iitlod to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local nihvs published herein. , , 4.11 rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Bureau of Circu lation and^Penn- En.stern £"' C & Avenue Building Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter, Bv carrier, ten cents a *'week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold that fhe owner knows not of. —Swift. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18,1018 r~ .. —= A FITTING MEMORIAL I -|-y ARRISBURQ is casting about I |~"I for a lltting memorial with I -Jvhich to honor the men of this city who donned the uniform at the call of country and went out to light the battle of liberty in France. There have been many suggestions, but no definite action. This is prop er, for there should be no hasty decision in a matter so important. A public meeting to discuss the mat ter would be helpful and It is to be hoped will be arranged. Meanwhile the thought of the community should )e given to the subject. "The American City Magazine" in t lengthy article in the December M offer* a number of suggestions ft very practical nature. Says "Writer: 'More than any other eRV fei history, this one has been 4MOM for a principle—for liberty IMl'ttW safety of democracy. Prin- IrtMtor nay be depicted in stone or jpAotorod on canvas, but such repre mtatldM, however beautiful and jpyaefconcal. will not have life. A frstnnlpl* can live only in the lives pf men. and If it is our purpose to | (perpetuate the cause for which the fcreat war was fought, we must con- IStanCly reiterate and teach the prin ciples of liberty and democracy to Raich succeeding generation. This BUggests that a memorial worthy of. the recent conflict be dynamic; it must be a building that shall honor the dead by immortalizing the prin ciples for which they made the su preme sacrifice; it must be a build ing commemorating the service of the living by giving service, rather than a statue or a shaft in which there could not pulse the life blood of a new day." This is in full accord with popu lar thought on the subject and is along the line of suggestions made from time to time by this newspa per. When the matter shall have been finally placed In the hands of a committee with authority to act there will'be no talk of a mere pile of monumental granite. The Har risburg memorial must be more than that. It must breathe the spirit of service and sacrifice. Europe wil have to give us some thing more exciting than the assassi nation of a Portuguese President if it wants to keep on the front page with the Legislature about to go into ses sion. A RIVAL TO THE COAST IF the figures compiled by the State Department of Agriculture showing the number and variety of commercial orchards in Pennsyl vania mean anything the time is approaching when the South Moun tain apple is going to chase the Hood River and other notable pip pins from the Pacific coast, and peo ple who have been paying a quarter for a fine piece of fruit from the Northwest will be able to buy one just as good, and very likely bet ter, than the coast product. And this Increase of the fruit raising business Is right In line with Penn sylvania destiny. There was no soil of all thh colonies that returned finer flavored or better looking ap ples and other fruits than that of Pennsylvania, and Just why the farmers of this State allowed the orchards on the hills and in the val leys of this State to run down is hard to say. But now we have somo of the finest orchards in the whole State growing right within fifty miles of Harrtsburg, and Adams county is looming up as an apple producer that is something worth while, with York, Franklin, Cumberland, Lan caster and other counties with numerous trees which have not be gun to bear. With a total of three quarters of a million apple trees WEDNESDAY EVENING. bearing, and almost as many coming along, Pennsylvania is growing to be one of the big fruit producers of the land and when one considers that there are over a million and a half peach.trees, too, it can be seen that Pennsylvantans have faith and cash to invest. These figures relate to the com mercial orchards only. There are thousands of fruit trees on farms and In yards which have not been included. Turkeys coming down in price? Well, that's what always happens when people refuse to buy when prices are abnormally high. TEACHERS' PAY PROF. SHAMBAUGH'S conten tion that a flat Increase of 25 per cent, in the pay of school teachers throughout the State would not be equitablo nor beneficial to the service in the highest possible degree, is well founded. The teachers of the larger cities, by the very nature j of things, are better situated with regard to pay than those of the smaller communities and the rural districts. Their salaries are larger by far and their school terms are longer, enabling them to earn more. This is no argument against a general advance for all teachers. As compared with other lines of en deavor requiring training and pro fessional skill, their salaries are pitifully small. Unless it bo the ministry, there is no other profes sion where the requirements are so great and the monetary return so little. But, as Prof. Shambaugh says, a twenty-five per cent, flat in crease would not cover the ground. An advance graded in proportion to tho pay, so that the country teach ers and those outside the metropol itan centers would get the bulk of the additional money would better meet the needs of the situation, and would do much to improve and stableize conditions in the rural lo calities where good teachers are difficult to procure for present rates : of pay, and even more difficult to | keep. School teaching, at half tho! pay of the ordinary farm hand, is not an occupation to attract the able or tho ambitious. "Poland quits Germany," newspaper headline. Quits Germany? What do you mean, Germany?. THAT STATE SONG GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGII has been hopeful that the war would bring out a great State song. So have all of us. But this song of songs has declined to come forth. That Is a painful difficulty ■ about patriotic songs. They cannot | be manufactured. The "song fac tories" of the country have been trying the experiment ever since the declaration of war, but with little success. Anybody may hammer out a rag-time jingle that will set the toes going, but the lofty sentiments of a great popular state or national anthem —that is only for the great occasion and the master hand. Our much maligned, but really very stirring, "Star Spangled Ban ner" was born amid the stir of bat tle and the "rocket's red glare." The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" re flected in a remarkable degree the spirit of the times that produced it. So the list might be lengthened by a score of illustrations. Songs of their type are not written in re sponse to proclamation or in compe tition for reward or faftie. They burst spontaneously from the heart of the people, or they do not come. "Date palms 100 years old will yield a gallon of alcoholic beverage a day," says the Kansas City Times, but what tank can wait a century for a drink? COSTLY BLUNDERS ' THE taxpayers of Harrisburg are about to reap in advanced taxes and increased expenditures the harvest of costly blunders so lavishly sowed by the school directors in their haphazard adoption of a high school building program and their delay In getting it under way. They had plenty of time before the war both to work out their problems and to have all the contracts let, taking advantage of pre-war prices and wages. Now, with more than half the authorized money spent, comes another survey, with recommenda tions for a revision of the original plans to a marked degree. Every change has cost the city money, and the board should make sure beyond doubt this time that it is right, else we may find ourselves with a high school system on our hands that I? not the best we could have procured for the money. With regard to the location of tho new high school building on the Capitol Park Zone, there can be no reasonable complaint, for the park is centrally located, easily accessible from all parts of the city, and the erection of a handsome school there would be in keeping with the inten tion of the city to locate a civic center about the extended capltql grounds. But tho proposed aban donment of the Technical High School, with Its excellent record, its high morale and its splendid organ ization —to say nothing of remodel ing a building especially built at the cost of many thousands of dollars for the purpose to which it is being put—for the doubtful experiment of co-education, is a matter that should be most carefully considered before it is adopted. There is no better school in the State than "Tech." For a number of years it has ranked higher than the Central school, excellent though that has been and is, and the boys have devoted far more attention to work and much less to social diversions since the separation of the sexes. They would vote almost to a man against the abolition of the school that is just beginning to come into its own in the way of reputation, school spirit and tradition. Tho great trouble with many so-called school experts Is that they do not recognise the dif ference between a school and a school building. There is a value beyond dollars in such a morale as Dr. Fager has developed in the Technical High School, all of which would be lost for years to como if it were abandoned. We have had blunders enough in our high school program. The directors have been sufficiently deliberate in the past to warrant them going a bit slowly with the present proposed changes. In, | By the Ex-Commlttccman "Governor-elect Sproul is being deluged with letters from persons who are interested in the selection of men to fill tho three court vacan cies in Pennsylvania," says the Phil adelphia Record. "Because of '.he election of Judge John W. Kephart to the Supreme Bench there Is n va cancy in the Superior Court; there J3 a vacancy on tho common pleas bench of Westmoreland county and a municipal court judge to be named in Philadelphia because of the death recently of Judge Bernard Gilpin." The Record points out that it has been always customary for the re i tiring Governor to permit his suc cessor to fill vacancies occurring at tno end of a term, as explaining why tho appointments aie being left to tho new Governor, and adds that friends of Judge John A. Evans, of Pittsburgh, is mentioned as a likely candidate for the Superior Court bench. Judge Charles D. Copeland, of the Orphans' Court, Westmoreland county, a Democrat, is the Record's choice for elevation to the common plcan court of that county. —Senator Augustus F. Daix, Jr., Philadelphia, yesterday came out for a genet a 1 increase for school teach ers and following this tha Philadel phia members of the Legislature were invited to meet a delegation of teachers, of that city to-day at the Hepubl.can headquarters to hear claims for higher salaries. —Governor-elect Sproul iott Phil adelphia yesterday to attend i con ference of Governors and Governors elect at Annapolis, Md., and before going announced that Lewis S. Sad ler, of Carlisle, had accepted his ten der of State Highway Commissioner, and that Dr. Edward Martir., of Phil adelphia, had accepted he Slate Health Commissionershlp, but ho de nied that Lieutenant Governor rtatilt I'.. McClnin, of Lancaster, either sought oi was offered the place of Sen entry of Agriculture, although there arc strong intimations, accord ing to reports from Philadelphia this inoiY.-ng that the Lancaster counly man will be given an important as signment in the state '.ervicc. i —-lore than 300 Will come front Scratc " for the inauguration, accord ing to State Senator-oieot Albert A. Dttvip, who is making the arrange ments, and the delegation will in clude i chorus of Hungarian choral singer". —The \ ares will make a drive for Representative Edwin R. Cox, of Philadelphia, for chairman of the House appropriations committee, but it is not believed here that he will get it. An up-state man may be chosen. —After two months of military duty Judge James B. Drew surpris ed his fellow jurists by walking into the Allegheny court and taking his former seat on tho bench of the county court. He announced that he had secured his honorable dis charge last Wednesday and that he proposed to resume his duties on the bench where he had left off. He made good by at once taking up a case that was all ready for Judi cation. —Appointment of a commission of representative citizens of the state to draft a new constitution to be submitted to n constitutional con vention apparently lias been agreed upon by all of the Republican lead ers, members of the new Legisla ture and the incoming administra tion, as a result of recent discussions of the need for a new constitution, says the North American. It is most probable that a bill will be introduc ed in the next session of the Legis lature for the appointment of such a commission, composed of perhaps twenty or twenty-five members. Scrantori has voted a $5 raise to policemen and firemen. —Reading people will memorialize the Legislature for a central tax office to take in all taxes. —An act of Assembly providing for the payment of county employes twice a month and which has been Inoperative since it was passed in April, 1915, is about to be put into effect in Allegheny county about the first of the year. Heretofore all county employes have been paid but once fi. month. —Ralph E. Smith appointed one of the Pittsburgh registration board to succeed the late William L. Mc- Cullagh, is an active Democrat and wns formerly president of the North Side Democratic Club. He is a mem ber of the Democratic state com mittee. The appointment places two Democrats on the commission which is commonly understood to be the intent of the law. The other is Da vid L. Lawrence. Mr. McCullagh was a member of the defunct Wash ington party. —The Philadelphia Press says edi torially: "With the approach of the Legislative session Lackawanna counly is preparing to put in a claim for another common pleas judge. The county whose population at the last census was some two hundred and sixty thousand, now has three common pleas judges, and an or phans' court judge in addition. It may need another judge, but the experience the state has had in the easy creation of new Judgeships when in many cases they were not needed, has made it desirable that there should be an impartial exami nation In each instance. This has been generally neglected in the past, and only the veto of a governor who has informed himself —as Governor Pennypacker did —has served to halt tho business of overloading tho ju diciary. A Judicial reapportionment of the" state.which, like all other ap portionments, has been neglected since the latest census was taken, would adjust the matter, and it is in that way it should be adjusted once in ten years, and not oftener, as the constitution provides." Loyal to the Last Reports of the former kaiser's at tempted suicide are not convincing. It Herr Hohenzollern is weury of life he has only to return to Germany, and he will find many to aid him in his quest for relief.—From Philadel i phia Evening Ledger BAJUUSBDRO SSFLSSW TELECHAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELW? ' I i I I ■ ■ * . ■ ' ' AFTER W EEKS ~ - AND WGGKS OF TH,S AND MORE WEEKS OF THIS - I . . ;;. , " C GOIM' RIGHT ; R JYTR <SOT~\ OV/GR Wis HC AD) l A -r eL £<3RFTM- () 0K *>+ \ O V ETC - ETC - -C*** I T H<? H N?GHT?Y • -AND THEN MORE THEM- ONE "DAT ~ - MUSTERED > - J) *"■* OH-H-K- DO* • ♦ A/AT * •2 >/?ZY ' - ■ AIN'T THAT A . /SAY KID HERE J GR-R-FAND AND / ARE V<SOR / GLORR-RLOO< RECEASE RPPLLH' V ORDERS R; ,' S > TO THE DEAD A Dedication [Maurice Hewlett, In the London Chronicle.] In days to come wheh husht the strife, And scab of rust aligns the blade Wherewith, to savfc, you ventur'd life And all the promise youth had made; When the red roads are all relaid And a man dares to leave his wife For his day's work, sure that his maid And she are safe from German knit'e; When all the kings are crown'd or dead, And ev?y general made a lord; When all the thanksgivings are said, Dealt every medal and award- —- Let there be one found to record Your deed who were content to tread The way of death, a nameless horde, Unrlbbon'd and unheralded. I think I see the bristled spills That stud the field where thick you lie; I know what heavy taint distills From countless grave# in'Picardy; I see the lioody crow and pie Preening themselves with sated bills There where a sick and leaden sky Hangs like a pall upon the hills; Then, if I stand on that gray plain j Where the seawind forover moans And low clouds fling the sheeted rain Over the sand that hides your bones, I think to.hear your undertones That say,- "Tell them there is no : gain To us in any churchyard stones To guard the bed where we are lain. "But say that what we had we gave So men should hold their heads j upright; And if no man need be a slave Henceforth, we were content to t fight. When the peace-beacon throws her light It may not warm us in the grave: Yet let them spare a thought that night To us who sleep beyond the wave." I who have learn'd your simple lore And gain'd by everything you lose, Chiefest to love that country more | Which breeds such men for such ■ a use, How should I falter and refuse What blood my heart has yet in. ' store. To write in it the holy dues Of you who fought the holy war? November i 4, 1918. Dominion of the Law Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?— Romans vli, 1. LABOR NOTES Oregon has a minimum wage for waitresses of $11.61 a week. Barbers at Toledo, Ohio, have se cured. $25 for a 56-hour week. Women freight-handlers are em ployed by the Hock Island Railroad. St. Louis (Mo.) plumbers demand $8 for an eight-hour day. Union teamsters at Peoria, 111., have secured union recognition. Coopers at New Orleans have or ganized and joined the international union. Muskegon (Mich.) street-car men were grnnted a minimum of 40 cents an hour. A retail clerks union has been formed at Phoenix, Ariz., with 200 members. British trade union membership increased 'over 250,000 last year. Salem (Ohio) Iron Molders Union has advanced wages $1.25 a day. The Women's Trade Union League of F.ngland now has a membership of ovei' 200,000. A wage increase of $2 a week has been secured by Hudson (N. Y.) Brewery Workers' Union. Nearly all the street cars in Eng land are being operated by women motormen. A Beautiful State Capitol (From the Philadelphia Record) IT is the good fortune of Harris burg to bo the capital of a state which, though too often sadly misgoverned, is still disposed to do the handsome thing by its seat of government. This fact is brought out strikingly in the sketches pub lished of the proposed improvement of the extension of Capitol Park, which presents a remarkable oppor tunity for the beautiflcation of the city on the Susquehanna. The ground embraced in this extension has been purchased by the Com monwealth at an expense of over $2,000,000, and cleared of tho very shabby buildings which long cov ered it. The removal of these gives a space of nearly thirty acres in the rear of the Capitol, a splendid opening for the best work of com petent architects and landscape gardeners. The plans prepared for the utilization of this area, including a fine memorial bridge over the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad, seem to be well designed und judici ous. It will fall to the Sproul ad ministration to see that these are carried out without any of that graft and scandal which made the construction of the new Capitol so painful a matter to honest persons. The location of Harrisburg is such that it ought to be made one of the most beautiful of the smaller ctties of the country, especially when back of it stands a Commonwealth ready- Bill For Damages and Losses Here are the enormous items in the bill against Germany, as care fully compiled by Paul Clay, the statistical authority: Houses and their fur nishings, $751,097,200' Industrial and manu facturing plants, ... 1,297,500,000 Equipment of such plants 638,754,700 j All materials and sup plies, 627,291,000 J Damage to government property 159,735,000! Animals taken or de stroyed 43,068,800 ; Crops taken or destroy ed 471,840,000 Farm equipment taken away 39,320,000 Damage to railways and equipment, ... 548,064,000 Ships sunk, 102,257,100 Cargoes destroyed, .. 152,789,000 Estimated fines and levies 100,0.00,000 Loss in coal and coal mines 352,480,000 Loss in iron and iron mines 322,800,000 Damage to forests, .. 46,719,400 Other miscellaneous items 065,371,100 Total - damages to France $6,219,088,300 Total damages to Belgium 3,042,659,700 Grand total property damages $9,262,748,0 )0 ] One of Sproul's Aims [Philadelphia Bulletin.] The Highway Department of Pennsylvania, important as it has become in its work, its expenditures and the number of employes who come under it, will be far more so in the next four years because of the special interest which the Governor elect has long taken In the develop ment of a great road system in this state, and because of the fifty mil lion dollars which the people, at the election last month, authorized as a loan for that purpose. In tendering the office of Com missioner. to Lewis S, Sadler, of Cumberland county, he has recog nized a lawyer and man of affairs who bears a reputation for clean handed und clear-headed judgment who may be expected to frame for this department a practical and substantial policy of betterment and advancement. The roads and highways in the Commonwealth should be surpussed by none In the entire Union,' and the ambition of the Incoming Gov ernor to accomplish that purpose as far as possible during his adminis tration should result in a splendid addition to the convenience, com fort, pleasure and welfare of the grent body* of the people of Penn sylvania. Be Patient, as Husbandman Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Be hold, the husbandman waiteth. for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.— James v, 7. to spend millions for improvements. | The frontuge on the Susquehanna, of which such excellent advantage has been taken in the parking of the river bank, suggests the extension of that work. Back of the city lie hills affording glorious views and available for residential sections of the best type. The lordly Susque hanna, so broad and so picturesque, with its islands and vistas of moun tains, is an asset of incomparable value. i-lappily for the good of the community, it has had municipal ad jmintstrdtors who have realized all 'these possibilities, and who have been glad to co-operate with the state authorities in bringing city and state improvements Into entire harmony. A continuation of such co-operation, as applied to the treatment of the Capitol Park ex tension, ought to produce the hap piest results. It is not too much to hope that as Harrisburg grows in beauty it will exercise a refining and uplifting influence upon the Bolons who gather there for biennial tink ering of the state laws. Amid such attractive surroundings they may in time attain to wisdom and political independence. Let us at least be lieve in such a possibility. In the meantime, the good people of Penn sylvania will be glad to see the Capitol improvements pressed as rapidly as possible and brought to a finish without a suspicion of any scandal. • , Not Sentiment But Business (From the New York World) When a concern in business has a good customer it will in its own interests do what it can to hold that customer. If the customer needs credit or time in paying for goods, the credit or time will be given in the certain knowledge that if it is not the customer will be lost. No one would venture to tell that [concern that it was giving an exhi j bition of finance" in [ granting credit under such circum stances, or say that it was walking "with its head in the clouds" or act | ing "as a Santa Claus," or cultivat ing its own ruin by helping along a possible future competitor in trade that is mutually profitable. If some| one should venture so to inform the concern he would be called stupid for i his pains. j But such things are being said in : Congress of Secretary McAdoo's | plan for making trade loans to i France, in its work of Industrial re construction from the ruvages of the German invasion. It is the same sort of case. France is the good 1 customer that needs time in paying for materials which this country has to sell and which will be required in the restoration of French indus try, And if France is not given time, France will have to and will go somewhere else for the goods. This is not a matter of sentiment. It is a matter of cold business. Carol Singing (From the Philadelphia Record) In the new movement toward or ganized carol singing on a large scale, the Middle West, as usual, makes the initiative. It was two years ago that Detroit began. The singers were children, up to boys and girls Just short of the adult; i and they banded themselves togeth er into a formal body known as the "Children's Aid Christmas Carolers of Detroit." Tho "aid" part of the movement in Detroit is typically American. These young carolers do not merely sing the Christmas hymns all over the city. In addition, they collect funds for the holiday of the poor children of the community. Four thousand children sang in the caroling there last year. Divid ed into groups of ten or so, they spread out over all the residential section of the city, till, it is said, there were four hundred miles of them. If any reasonable citizen of the big lake metropolis failed to re ceive the stimulus to Christmas kindliness and warmth which is in herent in tho hearing of Christmas carols sung by youthful voices in the frosty air, the fault undoubtedly lay with the citizen —not with the chil dren. A Empire to Let [From the London Mail! Asia Minor is an "empire to let," the oil€st and most historic empire in {ab world. It is now lying dere lict under Our eyes, waiting to be re j Juvenatcd and restored to the Garden of Edfn It once was. Tho Germans have kindly spent hundreds of mil lions of marks on it in railway build ing and other public worka DECEMBER 18, 1918. There Will Be Reparation In his address to President Wil son, President Poincaro told of the splendid wo#k done by the United States troops and how they had been witnesses of the deliberate destruc tion carried out systematically by the Huns. He added:: "In your turn, Mr. President, you will be able to measure' Witht youb own eyes the extent of these disas ters, and the French government will make known to you the authentic docipnents in which the German general staff developed, with as tounding cynicism, its program of pillage and industrial annihilation. Your noble conscience will pro nounce a verdict on these facts. Should this guilt remain unpunished, could it be renewed, the most splen did victories would be In vain." And President Wilson replied: "Never before has war worn so terrible a visage or exhibited more grossly the debasing influencfe of illicit ambitions. I am sure that I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies of the Central Empires with the same repulsion and deep fn dignatlon that they stir in the hearts of the men of France o|id Belgium, and I appreciate as you do, sir, the necessity of such actioh in th&'ilTnhl settlement of the issues of the war as will not only rebuke such acts of terror and spoliation, but make men everywhere aware that they cannot be ventured upon without the cer tainty of Just punishment." Thus is dissipated 'one of the doubts that England and France have been indulging in concerning Mr. Wilson's policies. Would he agree that Germany should be made to answer for her savagery? His' address to the President of the French Republic makes It plain that tho Huns must be called to account for their barbarities. If he can take this stand before he sees for him self the enormities of' their offense againt civilization, how much more will lif be impressed with the ne cessity of making an example of them aftorhe has visited the battle fronts and gone through some of the devastated districts! A Point For Potsdam (From the Kansas City 'Star) With the smoke of battle lifted we can now look with some closeness over the late theaters of war and see if there is anything out of the much that Germany set out so confidently to do that she has accomplished. At first there seems nothing. There is plenty of undoing to be seen on all hands, but no doing.' All results are negative. And yet. If we consider we shall have to admit that the Berlin conspirators evolved out of their heads one scheme dhat stands fulfilled to the letter. That Is the scheme of Mlttel Europa. They want ed a new middle Europe and they have got it. Nothing of th.e old mid dle Europe was to remain under their plan, and behold! nothing of it remains. Where the Austrian em pire once spread its bulk, which was to be the main buttress of the pro posed structure, nothing that even looks like Austria can now be dis cerned. A free Hungary, a Csecho- Slovak republic and a now Poland now make up that part of middle Europe. To the south the Balkan bridge over which the German Mittei Europa was to cross to Turkey and the East, presents a newness fully as striking and as foreign to the German plan of what that newness was to be. The South SlaVs are erect ing a kingdom there that lies right across the path Germany had mark ed for herself as a road to India. Thus i 3 the prediction of Nauman and the Pan-Germanists fulfilled. They spoke in their pride and satd there should be a new middle Europe, and here it is. The liberated races, so long held suppressed by the Hapsburg tyranny, owe a debt of gratitude H tho Potsdam plotters. But for them the freedom of those races might have been delayed many more generations. But the impntlent Hohenzoliern vanity was working in their favor. It couldn't wait any longer for the new Mittei Europa, and the new middle Europe is here! 7 A Japanese Print A curve for the shore, A line for the sea, A tint for the sky— Where the sunrise will be; A stroke for a gull, A sweep fdr the main; • The skill to do more. With the will fo refrain. —Ruth Mason Rice in The Forum. World Resigned The world bears with wonderful resignation the news that rioters are about to break loose in Berlin. — From the Washington Post. hunting (Eljat Mention the other evening of tha extent to which people In this state have been investing in commercial orchards' led to the discovery to-day in a prosaic looking state pamphlet of the fact thAt Dauphin county. " which is_ better known as a center of government, mining, steel making and railroad activity than anything fclse has no less than thirteen com mer ial peach qrchards and eleven devoted to the raising of apples. And the interesting part about it is , I that while there are about 3,600 bearing apple trees in these orch- . ards there are almost 6,000 knore coming along. Dauphin county hAs , thirteen peach orchards devoted to the commercial side of fruit raising with almost 10,000 bearing trees, " kvith over 5,000 not yet beAring. These orchards are scattered all over the county, the largest being that of Dr. J. W. Snyder, near this city, who has 2,000 peach trees. Cum berland county has over seventy or chards of various kinds, the biggest ones being the Fleitz and Sprout farms, in which the new Governor is interested, which have over 20,- 000 peach trees and about 6,000 apple trees coming in'. Dr. H. A. Surface, of near Bowmansdale, and D. W. Allison, of near Shlppensburg, have second honors. The Fleitz ami Sproul interests have big orchards near Benton in Columbia county and 1,000-tree pear orchards iri Wyom ing and Cumberland counties, too. Perry county has seven apple and seven peach orchards ranging from 500 to 1,000 trees, while Franklin, Adsftns, Fulton and other counties have big orchards. Indeed, the Dow er Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys are notable for the tremendous ex pansion of the fruit tree business. Fully a third of the trees planted are not yet bearing. • The state pamphlet gives in detail the various orchards, showing some figures which arc startling when con sidered. It says: "In addition to the 1,444 orchards reporting on apple and peach trees, there were 74 orchards bearing pears reporting 43,415 trees. The largest pear or chard is in Carbon county and con tains 2,100 trees. There were 80 orchards devoted to plum and prune culture and a total of 49,015 trees. The largest orchards of. this kind were located in Erie and Butler coun ties and each contained 3,000 trees. THe cherry .interests with 300 or more trees were represented by 100 orchardists with a total of 68,565 trees. The largest cherry orchard is in Adams county with other large ones in tefie county. From the suit vey there: appears to be but one orchardlsft' giving special attention to crabapples and he is located in Pike county with 1,000 trees. There are nine quince orchards of 300 or more trees with a total of 6,615 trees with the largest in Adams and Franklin counties. The bulletin also contains the long list of vineyards and shows eleven large growers of currants with one patch in Pike county conaining 30,000 bushes. The vineyards run as high as 25,000 vines." • • • Money is rolling into the State Highway Department for automo bile licenses at a rate never known in the Capitol since the automobile license system was established more than ten years ago. The certified checks, money .orders and bank notes are clogging the mall, of the automobile division and money is .being sehUtoJ 11 ® State Treasury at the rate of SS,OBtHo $40,000 a day. The belief is ftiat the revenue fftoin automobiles in advance of, the new year will run considerably over a million and break the record. The automobile division is now work ing night and day in three shifts of eight hours each and it is expected that shipments will be at a greater rate than usual. In two weeks the shipments have gone ahead of the • total of 25,200 licenses Issued dur ing the whole of 1908. For 1909 the state issued 34,351 licenses, which was considered a very creditable record. • Military units at the State Normal schools are being disbanded, accord ing to word received at state educa tional offices here. In some of the schools offlcers training courses will be considered. The normal schools had military training the first time this year, whlqh. was a shock to many educators, while more atten tion was also given to foreign lan guages. ... Water and gas rate complaints will bo heard by public service Blotters to Philadelphia and Pitts burgh to-morrow. There will be comparatively few hearings sched uled for next week because of the holidav as even public officials want time to trim Christmas trees, i "Chiefy" Gilner is about to begin ' his annual round of the public ser vice offices. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Charles M. Means in charge of ' bituminous production in the Na ; ttoral Fuel administration has re signed and will resume his engineer -1 ing business in Pittsburgh. ■ Herbert G. Tulley has been 1 elected vice-president in charge of welfare work for the Philadelphia I Rapid' Transit Company. —J6lin J. Casey declared elected ' to Congress in Luzerne, used to be,in , the Legislature. •• [ -—Chancellor S. B. McCormiclc has I established a course in reconstruc - tlon at the University of Pittsburgh. William Draper Lewis, who raq i for governor four years ago. Is now ■ urging a constitutional convention. ' DO YOU KNOW | [ That Harrisburg steel is bc i j,|g used for armored cars? ' HISTORIC HARRISBURG Some of. the French i and Germans who settled the Lykens Valley resided here for some years t before moving: on. i The Victors ! As we understand the speech made by Gen. von Einem in the evacuation of the Rhine provinces, this is what lie said to the inhabi tants* of the Rhlneland: "Our victorious army greets you. We have protected the Fatherland froth Its enemies. We are unde feated. We have snared the armies of the epjroy into the Fatherland so •that ypji jnfght have a look at them. We have broken the enemy's fist • with our loyal German noses. We have bruised the enemy's toes with the seatß ef.our loyal German pante. We have broken the butts of the erj -1 emv's rifles with our loyal German 5 skulls. We have outrun the enemy.. , 1 Remain proud and German. We are victorious."' —Cincinnati Enquirer,
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