6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE- TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tdexrapk Building, Federal Surt E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager 3US. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor I A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Exeentlve Beard J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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 I paper and also the local news pub- 1 lished herein. All rights of republication of special | dispatches herein are also reserved, j /Member American ; Pub- j Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris- j burg, Pa., as aecond class matter. 1 i By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, $2.00 a year In advance. When the power of imparting joy ; is equal to the will, the human soul j requires no other heaven. —Shelley. J SATURDAY, MARCH 15. DM9 STORY-TELLING AN ART I STORY-TELLING is an art more difficult than acting and as cap able of just as pleasing results, i The actor has at his back a stage j carefully set to reflect his message , to the audience. The story-teller j must make h'es own utinosphere. i The actor is supported by colleagues or assistants who share with him the j effort and the strain. The story- ! teller must depend upon his own 1 personality, magnetism and ability, j Story-telling is as old as human i experience. The memory of man j was for thousands of years the only page upon which the history of the race was recorded, and story-telling ! was the sole method of educating the young in the customs and achievements of their forefathers. Thus was tradition established and history founded. The first teacher was a storyteller; so was the first preacher and the first historian. But the art has been much neglected ■ii recent years. The printed page lias been so cheap and so easy of : access that story-telling fell into j disfavor until very recently it has j been rescued from its obscurity and j given an honorable place in the community* * In Harrisburg this work is being done very effectively by the Story | Tellers' League, which lias been go- ! ing along very quietly for a num- i her of years but persistently and ! with so much success that finally its members have been compliment- 1 ed by being asked to have a part ; in the public school activities of the city. Thfe work they have under- ! taken will be one of love and very ' arduous, it requires careful study and much preparation. But their ] reward will be in knowledge of i service rendered, for story-telling j can bo made just as attractive and i just as effective a means of edu- j cation as it was before it was dis- j placed by the cut-and-dry textbook j of which pupils see so mjrch that j any variation in teaching that elimi- J nates it finds immediate favor. Tay your Income tax to-day. or your Uncle Sam 'll git you if you don't watch out. AT WHAT SALARY? THE second member of President Wilson's cabinet to resign be cause he couldn't live on $12,- 000 a year is to travel to Paris with Mr. Wils.on as "general advisor and assistant at the peace conference." Now, we don't know just how much money Mr. (Tregory needs to live on. or how much more than $12,000 he contemplated making by his return to the practice of law, but it must be that lie will receive more as a member of the peace crowd than he did as Attorney-Gen eral or lie would as a plain everyday lawyer. • Strange how he just re signed and then happened to be ap pointed to this newly-made job. Looks as though we might begin to see where all of this $5,000,000 expense money is going. MR. LANSING'S SPEECH SECRETARY LANSING'S speech at Paris this week expresses the sentiment of thousands of people in America. He warns the commission that a treaty of peace is absolutely essential at once if Germany is to be sayed from an archy, which might spread to other countries. We do not imagine Mr. Lansing would have talked so force fully if President Wilson had been at hand to censor his remarks. In deed, the Lansing address is a dis tinct departure from the Wilsonian policy, which has been for a League of Nations first and a peace treaty afterward. The Secretary of State has sensed public opinion and the needs lot the moment much better than his su perior. He realizes the necessity of an early peace that- will enable • - ' SATURDAY EVENING. the Germans to resume their trade relations with the world and to get the wherewith to pay for the food and other materials they need. Mr. Lansing holds no brief for the Hun, but he knows that Germany In the grip of the debt-repudiating Bol sheviki would be neither able nor inclined to meet any obligations placed upon the country by the terms of a belated peace treaty. This is the common sense view of the situation held also by Senator Knox, Senator Lodge and others who have been censured by the President for daring to differ with him. It will be interesting to observe Mr. Wilson's attitude toward the Sec retary now that he. too. has shown a disposition to place peace before the proposed league. Is it possible that the Paris con ference has been discussing the peace treaty with the President away? THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW BY ALL means visit the Harris burg automobile show which opens to-day, not alone because it is the biggest and best that has ever been held here, but because of the inspiration it will give you to put heart and courage into your own work or business, for the associated automobile dealers have banked i heavily on the future and have based j their whole year's plans on a con tinuation of general prosperity. That is the secret of the great success that has attended the efforts of the automobile maker and mer chant. Always he is an optimist, glimpsing the bright side and mak ing the most of opportunities thadj less enterprising men have failed to see. The whole motor vehicle trade is founded on the principle that business is just what the business man makes it. The makers and; sellers of cars have created markets | where there wer- They have' built up an industry from nothing in j a few years that ranks among the i greatest in the world. But they be- j lieve they have only made a start and that the immediate future holds' big things for them. They are bas ing their season's campaign on the' text: "Business better than ever," j and have set out to prove that 1919 i is going to be a good year for every business man who wills it so and j acts accordingly. That's the biggest message the j automobile show has for the visitor, J but in addition there is the finest line of cars ever placed on display j in Harrisburg. Every man hopes to, have a car some day, and most of us eventually will, so the show has interest for everybody, and whether • or not you are the proud possessor of a machine, a prospective buyer or a mere spectator a visit will be' well worth while. "Laws throttle German Navy," says a news headline. But how a'boutl throttling a few German naval of- i fleers? BARKING UP WRONG TREE' THE TELEGRAPH has been and is a sturdy champion of Penn- I sylvania State College. It bo- ! lieves the institution one of the most helpful and useful in the country. It approves of State's efforts to keep its activities before the people, but when the college news editor uses up good space in the bulletin for which the taxpayers provide the | money to fight the daylight savirif law, the Telegraph takes exception. To be sure, the objections are raised as voicing the sentiments of the farmers, but there are more I townspeople in Pennsylvania than I farmers and at least as many more I city students as there are those from I farms at State College, and daylight ' saving is a blessing to thousands upon thousands of town folks with whom the law is very popular. The college has done a great work in the encouragement of agriculture and in promoting the home-garden as an auxiliary food producer, but without I the daylight saving law thousands j of homegardens could not be cuiti j vated. State's editor would do well ito let his hands off this issue. It | has nothing whatsoever to do with j the promotion of State College in- I terests and is likely to create hard ; feeling where only friendly senti j inent now exists. - PROBLEMS AT HOME JUDGE WESLEY O. HOWARD.of New York: "Will nobody give heed to America? Must the tangles of Europe absorb all our attention? Is the United States to become only a province of the lea gue of nations? Are we to sur render our sovereignty? While the American people are groaning un der confiscatory taxes, taxes which stagger their credulity and stifle their breath, are yet bigger taxes to be laid upon them to rehabilitate Europe? Are we to continue to fight In the snows of Archangel and the deserts of Arabia to 'make the world safe for democracy?' Are the unemployed Yankee soldiers to roam through the streets of America while abstract bureaus of labor are or ganized In Europe? Are the desert- Ed farming districts of New York and New England to go undeveloped while millions aro spent In exercis ing our 'mandatory' functions In dis tant lands? Aro we to devote our onergles to a system of 'tutolage' In the South Sea Islands while Bolehe vlsm lurks In the substrata of Amer ican society, and discontent prowls In the byways and alleys V' [I ■ LBy the £x-Committeeman ) 11 The State Commission of Agricul ture, the State Eoard of Agriculture and the State lave Stock Sanitary Board will disappear from the scheme of Pennsylvania's branch of 1 government devoted to farming and allied industries under the terms of the bill drawn by Secretary of Agri- j culture Frederick Rasmussen to re-; organize the department in line with j the ideas of Governor William C.' Sproul for greater usefulness and j efficiency. The measure will be pre sented in the Senate Monday night by Senator E. E. Jones, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, as an administration measure. According to an outline of the bill issued from the Governor's office I ! the measure would re-establish the | Department along the lines of the 'United States Department of Agri culture. Six bureaus will be created | —Animal industry, plant industry, I foods, markets, statistics and cheni ! istry. All authority will be central ized in the Secretary of Agriculture to whom chiefs of bureaus will be subordinate so that there will be nothing like what occurred the last three years in the matter of changes in heads of .bureaus and friction over policies. The secretary will also direct the farmers institutes which will be conducted more along the line of community gatherings for in terchange of views instead of mono logues by State lecturers, economic j studies ar.d special work and arrange I for co-operation with State College, the county farm bureaus and the Federal government, all of which have been running largely on their own plans without much regard for what the State has been doing. The Farm Bureau managers, the Stath Granges and various other organiza tions will Ke asked to assist in the farmers institutes. The problem of co-ordination with the Health De partment on dairy and milk inspec tion are apparently left to future agreement tinde - the Governor's | plan to get rid of overlapping. In all probability the farm advisors will I be linked up with State College and! fr.rni bureau workers so that one set of men wilt co> tr a district. j —ln a statement issued on the bill Governor Sproul says: "The State Department of Agriculture represents the great est of all industries in the State, the total value of the products of the farm last year reaching approximately J600.000.000. Ef ficiency in agriculture is import ant not only to the farmers and to business in general, but is necessary to provide sufficient food at a reasonable cost to the of the State. Really, what has been done is placing the department on a business basis, centralizing the adminis tration of the department and making the secretary respon sible: also we desired to give the Department of Agriculture a standing at the capital worthy of the great agricultural inter ests of the State. We know in doing so we are only meeting the wishes of the people. —Secretary Rasmussen in com menting on the abolition of the commission says: "It is the belief that the ad vice and counsel of the recog nieed agricultural and business | organizations ip the State, each organization familiar with its particular work, is to be more effective in solving the agricul tural problems of the State than an appointed commission." —The abolition of the Commission and Board of Agriculture have been i forecast. The Board dates from 18T9 and it is contended by some that it really ceased to exist in 1895 when the department was created. It consisted of sixty-four members who met here once a year for hear | ing of routine reports. It cost J2500 • a year and each county was sup ] posed to have a member, the Gov ! ernor naming some, while various j organizations had representatives. | The Animal Industry Bureau will ! take over the Live Stock Sanitary ; Board and enforce the dog license law. The plant, industry bureau i will succeed" the zoology division, i The food bureau will fail heir !to the Dairy and Food Division I which is not to be cut loose from ; the department and put under the | Health Department just yet. Other | bureaus Temain as they are with ; other power. The division of far- I mers institutes and the fertilizer and other control will be run from the office of the secretary who will also have power to call advisors. —The appropriation asked for the department is $1,319,500, an in crease of $404,500. LABOR NOTES Canada is to have an employment service council. South Jersey glassblowers are now working on half time. Of the 150,000 miners in the Sil esia district in Germany, over "0,000 j are idle. i There are still approximately 130,- : 000 people employed in clerical work relating to the war in England. None of the present strikes in Eng'and have been authorized by the executive of the unions involved. The Mlnets' Union has lost thou sands of members through their drifting into other industries. German Metal Workers, Federation and the general commission of the German Free Trade Unions recently submitted to the Imperial govern ment a petition requesting compensa tion for the male and female workers temporarily idle owing to lack of coal. Altogether there are 1974 local branches in Canada, 1702 comprising members affiliated with International organizations. 244 with 32,343 mem bers being connected with nonlnterna tional bodies and 2? with 7391 mem bers being independent units. HARRISBURG tOlQf TELEGRAPH THE TAX ON ATHLETIC GOODS; ITS POSSIBLE EFFECT ON GOLF By BRIGGS - r Ter A AJSToII) iS"\ C AHJM OUIOWY SACK I HANDLE ) ( \f • I A BEAUTYi [ I've IMPROVED MY / \ R6HT up M x|&§yTC- yt T CPj Boßßpvu Your : " oCl^ r Same Your old ~ umbrellas. The handles = ° —*■■. MAY ee OF VALUE IF THE HOM . W ooMa ETC. ShoouJ) S OCC C ,X> y PRICE OF CLUBS INICRLASSE , Thc PUTTER. "Adding the Final Honor" [Maude Radford Warren in the Sat urday Kvening Post.] A first class private with two wound stripes which he removed before the advance so that the Ger mans would not discover that they had done anything to him took it upon himself one day to interpret the psychology of General Pershing in , regard to choosing the divisions for j the occupation. "For invself," the private said, "I i want tout suite to get to home and j mother. Why, say, 1 want to get ' there before a returning soldier is an i old story. We don't want the fellows j that have been in the S. O. S. to get I there first and have all the best lies j picked out to tell. "Believe me, the men that have been over the longest ought to get home while folks still remember, that there was a war. Gosh, 1 don't want to bump into someone on the main | street that 1 haven't seen for a year and a half and have her say, "Why, where you been?" ,"1 figure this was why the best divisions got picked, and this is how ■ General Rershlng figured he'd better put it to us. He thought: "I've got to send the best troops I have to Germany so that if the Germans try to start anything they'll stop it be fore tlie.v start. I've got to have the fellows that have seen the most and best service, but these guys want to go home. Now when people are out of luck, poor or sick, or something, j they're always told for consolation i that in the next world they'll get all 1 that's coming to them, if not more. | It would be a good stunt for me to ofTer compensation to the doughboys. I'll tell them the greatest honor that ! can be conferred on the troops is i to send them to Germany to occupy \he territory of the enemy they have so bravely conquered. It will be the great finish to their achieve ment. It will complete their experi ence over here. They shall not be deprived of the honor'." . Creating Niagara Falls [From the New York Sun.] The project for control and storage of the waters of the Colorado where i that river roars through the Grand | Canyon had its origin with a woman j Mrs. H. W. R. Strong of California, i She points out three largo economic | values in her plan: it provides for, prevention of the "inconceivable i money damage" done by the annual floods of the river, the use of the con trolled water for irrigating deserts, "\yhich will grow anything," and the enormous hydro-electric energy which could be developed from "a succes- j I sion of Niagara Falls" to be created Iby her plan. Then she adds this thought: "The blasted rock is ready for the builder without cost of transporta tion. The dams will be narrow and high, tied to granite siues. The sur face of the river being raised to the top of the dams, it becomes a mov ing. living stream, life giving, and the project, when completed the cntiie length tft the canyon, would be more thai, the eighth wonder of the world, IV; miles of river from 2".0 to 1,000 feet deep, interspersed with water falls Tit'Jt the scenic va'ua of the canyon would he greatly increased." No mere man engineer could be more practical than Mrs. Strong when she is talking economics. But would any man have thought of foreclosing objections by societies for the preser vation of scenic beauties? She had them on her list of obstacles, and dis played feminine wit in dealing with them before they could deal with her, and showed woman's artistic touch at the same time. "Freak Dances Won't Last" [Raymond A. Eaton in the Rocky Mountain News] Pancaag was never as popular as it is today according to Denver danc ing Instructors, and the ending of the war and consequently the lifting of a load of worry from the shoulders of the people is held largely re sponsible for the increased popular ity. • The freak dances won't last long, in the minds of the instructors. Mrs. William Warren Hayden says, "a few foolish young people will take up a crazy dance for a while, but it can't last." and she added that there was slight danger of any of the freak dances remaining long in any of the schools or public dancing academies or in society. The one-step, waltz and fox trot promise to hold the boards for many years to come, for they have perfect rhythm, and only, dances with perfect rhythm can survive, in tiie opinion of authorities. Music is held by instructors to be largely responsible for dancing, and they say the fox trot has been kept alive by the pretty music yritten, and here's something maybe you didn't know: Music, not the dancing masters, created the fox trot that Is, the foxtrot was originated to fit music. i J The American Soldier Reads [From the Christian Sceince Moni tor] NOT only docs the Amerfcan sol dier, as a rule, read hooks, when he can get at them, but he reads books that are commonly accounted good. Notwithstanding the 3.500:000 j volumes at their disposal, camp librar ians of the American Library Asso- J elation are testifying that they have : never been able to supply the demand I for poetry, especially American and j modern poetry generally. Among the | soldiers of the United States, at home i and overseas. American books and i American authors were the most popu lar. In fiction, stories of the American . West, well filled with action, were the j most popular. During the progress of ■ the war there was always a large and constant demand for military works, but this demand ceased the minute the | armistice was signed, a circumstance characteristic of their country, which has little use for militarism before or I afterward. It is really not to the point now. 1 however, what books they read, or what particular k.ml of books they pre ferred ; what is interesting is that these apparently rather careless fel lows were fond of reading. Since the i shelves from which they were in the main forced to draw were supplied by the American Library Association, an organization .deserving o'f wider recog nition and warmer appreciation than it has thus far received, they could not liavo gone very far astray, even if they were disposed to choose thoughtlessly, and they were not. Observation rang j ing over many months, and applied to I nearly all divisions, lias convinced at | tendants that the average United States soldier lias a natural taste for j literature of the better class. He is j fond of books written in the lighter ! vein, but as already indicated, he is partial to poetry, while a well-told story, short or long, is certain to en list a share of his attention. But during the war he lias been a student as ! well as a reader, and European history, ; politics, and geography have taken up a i large part of whatever leisure time he l has had for the library reading room, j When the armistice was signed the ' American Library Asseoiation had 2,- | 407 libraries in operation in the Uni l ted States and France. Forty-three of these were full-sized libraries in build ings dedicated to their use in the can tonments and larger military reserva tions in the United States, each con taining about 25,000 volumes, while 143 were in hospitals, 315 of the lessor size in the smaller camps, and 406 Something For Nothing Naively admitting that he is a para site and demanding on these grounds of high morality and logic the support pf the state. Grand Duke Freldricb Au gust of Oldenburg, dethroned by n re cent revolution, presents a financial claim to the Diet—Oldenburg's parli ament. He demands an annual allow ance of one hundred and fifty thou sand marks for the grand ducal family over a period of fifty years. •That such a demand may receive serious, even respectful, attention from a body of lawmakers Instead of being laughed out of court is a keener com mentary on the psychology of German political concepts than the most accom plished satirist could hope to Invent. In America we would consider it thus: And incompetent old public ser vant, cast out of office because of his dishonesty, inefficiency and stupid arro gance, wants his pay to go on neverthe less. He does not pretend to be of use any longer, even as figuriiead, yet he haughtily demands that his former em ployers continue to support him and his relatives in luxury.—From the San Francisco Bulletin. v Saw First Whites in West Tom-O-Wah-Teet, who remembered the first coming of the white man to the Klickitat Valley. Washington state, has gone to the happy hunting grounds at the age of at least 110. He was known and liked by every one in the i region, and would tell vividly of the events of days when white people In vaded the territory of the Yaklmas and Klickltats. He was present at the Council of Walla Walla Plains ir. 1855, and was a warrior under Kamiakin in the Yaki ma Indian War that followed. He took part in the Block House battle and massacre of white settlers ;at the Cascades, where Lieut. Philip H. Sheridan was In command of the troops seht from Fort Vancouver to de fend the garrison. After the revolt was crushed, Tom-o- Wah-Teet was always friendly to the , whites, and his many services were repaid, for since he became nearly blind about five years ago and could no longer support himself and his aged squaw by working on farms, those he once aided had looked after his wants. —From the Detroit News. were branches established in naval sta tions and on board ships. The libraries had a personnel of 243 librarians serv- | ing in the main libraries and larger j branches. The books available for the I service would ordinarily supply ten ' libraries of 150,000 book capacity, and ! fifty of 10,000 book capacity 'each. j The lighting being over, there has! recently been some discussion in the | American Library Association over the I ultimate disposition of its great stock j of books, and a plan which has evi- j dently met with approval in the man- i agement is that of distributing the 3,- j 500,000 volumes among the smaller and more remote communities of the Uni ted States that still have no public libraries, or public libraries that are scantily supplied. In the midst of this discussion, however, came a cable mes sage from Dr. Herbert I'utnafn, librar ian of the Library of Congress, who is now in France in charge of the library work of the American Army, saying, in I substance, that 1,000,000 juore books ! of a miscellaneous cnaraeter, for the use of the American expeditionary force j during the next six months, were urg ently needed. The fact seems to be that the sol diers still remaining overseas have ex hausted their book supply, or are likely soon to exhaust it. The United States 1 Government and people will, of course, ! take pride as well as pleasure in replen ishing and freshening the shelves of the army libraries. The sudden and al most imperative call for books confirms what has heretofore been said con cerning the American soldier's bent to ward reading and study, and this will be most satisfying to the nation. Men who read, study, and think, as do i American citizens, as a rule, whether in civilian clothes or in uniforms, are i likely to disappoint those who have been counting upon sowing seeds of dis | content and mischief, j Librarians in the war camps say that . the need of libraries in all towns and | neighborhoods in the United States ! will be more acutely felt henceforth [ than in the past. The men returned ; from the army, when scattered over j the land, will, it is held, wish to con l linue their reading, and will be rest 1' less if denied the opportunity. Conse quently, although it may he necessary to postpone the book distribution" I scheme tentatively decided upon by the j American Library Association, the plan I Should be Kepf well in view, subject i only to the amplification as may be i r cessary to meet all the requirements jof the case. The returned American soldier who likes to read should be afforded the I opportunity always. Xew Diplomacy Concrete Diplomacy before this has con sisted in a nation's getting what it wanted out of other nations, no mat- j ter how other nations were going to feel about it in the next hundred years. The general idea of diplom acy was to get something out of a nation which the nation would be sorry afterward that it let you have. Diplomats were proud when they did this. The idea of what consti tutes* a gift for diplomacy now is precisely the opposite. We see now all diplomacy that proposes to con duct world peace as a kind of ele gant horse trading between nations being brought to a stop full head-on before all men's eyes. The new diplomacy seeks to pick out something concrete, dramatic and revealing for a nation to do to other nations, something revealing for a nation to say to other nations, which the other nations will like better from day to day and from year to year and will be gladder of the longer they have had it.— Gerald Stanley Deo In the Saturday Evening Post. Too Late Opportunity often knocks at the door when it is too late. Here is a New York man who is said to have just received a patent for a perfect corkscrew. Rochester Post-Ex press. Just Like Staff Officer General' Head -0 quarters insignia is a cfrcle two and one-half inches in diameter, divided into three croys stripes of equal width, and red, from top to bot white and blue torn. Its material is grosgrain rib bon. The idea underlying it is said to. have been derived from the red, white and blue-striped arrhband worn by staff officers when visiting the front. MARCH 15, 1919. Wings Old and New "Come, darling, lets put on the wings of a dove. And fly to the orb-studded regions of love: Where the sun-setting'splendor shall shine on our bliss. And we'll honor each star as we pass with a kiss. On, on, o'er the shadow-flecked plains of the night. We shall glide like the fleet-footed heralds of light: Till the morn from the darkness has set itself free. When we'll land on the shore of some roseate sea." So the poet of yore used to spin out his rhyme, Made his lovers disport through the airlanes of time. Though he knew that <hey could not use wings of a dove. He depicted the lightning-like flight of their love. But the lines of the present-day poet forsooth, Can to squared with the facts of our tip-to-date truth. So he sends valiant Paul to his ardent j oung May, And makes him, with perfect consist ency say: "Come, kiddo. I've tested eacli part of rny plane; It's motor is tuned to stand any old strain. So, get on your duds, and we'll fly through that cloud. And kiss In Its depths while we're hid from • the crowd. We'll do a few loops, cut a spiral and dip. And over the top of yon mountain! we'll skip. Then we'll plane home in time—if 1 j have enough gas- To dress for a table d'hote dinner, | my lass." By HOWARD MARKLH HO'.vE of Harrisburg. Fable of the Turkey Egg An old farmer and his son were at j work in the field near the roadside i when his son discovered a dead tur i key, which probably was discarded by another farmer who was on his I way to the market. Both were curi ous to learn the cause of its death. They brought the.turkey to the barn, dissected the fowl's body and ob tained an egg. Th e boy set the egg and the result was a tine turkey gobbler that was sold the next sum mer for $5.00. With this money the boy purchased a pig. The next sum mer th e young capitalist sold his sow and eight pigs for $5O. He then t bought two thoroughbred heifers, j The ensuing fall he had two milch i cows and calves which he sold for $2OO. His final investment was in two one-year old filly colts. After a lapse of five years the lad was the custodian of two good mares j and $l,OOO in gold which he procured in the sale of their colts. And today this farmer's son in studying agri culture and animal husbandry in a State University as the result of one turkey egg.—The Thrift Magazine. i Blue Worn By Roman Navy The blue color so prominent in the uniforms of almost all sailers Is of ancient origin. Vegetins, in his fifth book on military affairs of the Romans, traces the origin or this color to the Veneti, an ancient people dwelling near the coast of Biscay, and well versed in seamanship. It was customary among them to paint their outgoing ships, as well as the masts and sails, a blue color; also their soldiers and sailors wore blue uniforms. According to this author, the Latin ! voril "Venetus," wh'cli was both the j name of the color and that of the peo ple, points to its origin. Frcm tho Veneti the custom was adopted by the I Romans. Thus the son of Pompelus, J after defeating Caesar's fleet in a naval battle., wore the navy blue, although entitled to the purple,—From tho De troit News. New to Paderewski When Jack London first met Pad erewski ho said: "Mr. Paderewski, my performance on a piano on one occasion was tho means of saving my life." "How so?" inquired the master of the keys, politely. "It was this way. Father owned a plantation on the Mississippi. There was a flood. The water broke through the levee and tore the house from its foundations. "Father floated off down stream on the dining room table. I accompanied him on the piano."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Ebetttttg (Eljat Judging from the activity in the yards of the sand and coal fleets along the Susquehanna river in this city and vicinity there is a busy sea son in prospect for the rlvermea and industries which have grown up in river products bid fair to emt ploy many men. It is just about twenty years since the ilrst river coal was dredged from tho bed of the river in any quantity near this city and now thousands of dollars arc invested in steamers, dredge®, flatboats and wharf machinery with in ten miles of the State Capitol, tho "coal tleids" being between Kockville "falls" and Middletown, where tho "rapids" begin. Scores of flats aro being overhauled and a number of new ones being constructed, while a score or more of steamers and dred ges aro being overhauled. The river men say that while there will be an immense quantity of coal taken out owing to tho periods of high water which have brought down many tons, there is some uncertainty about what the prices will be and they are preparing to meet the demand for sand and stone for the exten sive bguilding operations projected lor Harrisburg and vicinity. Some of the firms will devote their time to sand and stone and wait develop ments in tlie matter of coal. The State Capitol, city water plant and various public utility and manufac turing concerns which have been .depending largely on river coal for their steam supply of late years, stocked up last fall in anticipation of another hard winter and there are impressive coal piles to he seen in many parts of Harrisbuurg, attest ing to tlie foresight of their owners and tlie mildness of the weather con ditions. The demand for sand and stone is already commencing and bids fair to be heavy as the quarries hereabouts are commencing work on stone supplies for State road con struction and maintenance which is expected to make a big business. • • The fact that tho State Game Commission has been able to get from Mexican highlands over 120b quail with loss of but one bird is being pointed to with considerable pride by men connected with the Commission as evidence that tho State plan works notwithstanding some ideas to the contrary lrcld by | federal otfleials. Tho State authori ties have always asserted that the right time to import quail was when weather and food conditions were in accord with the country whence the | birds came. The quail are being dis ] tributed in southeastern and soutli- I western counties by the wardens, j Tho plan is to get approximately 10,000 quail and ship them direct I to the wardens who are to distribute ] them, if this is carried out sue i cess fully it will bo a big feather in j the cap of lite Commission which will be able to demonstrate that it can i xpetul the hunters' license j money to advantage. This proposi ! tion was one of those most debated at the joint conference on game and lish bills held by the legislative I committees a few days ago. Tho ' Commission has also been very sue j cessfnl in co-operation with wardens j in distributing young pheasants. The deer imported from North Carolina, . New York and Michigan are also doing well. • • • Between weather conditions and . the closing of tlie period in which to make income tax returns this was an unpleasant day for many liarrisburgers. The Federal building was besieged by people who wanted to know to whom to make payment and some belated souls wanted to knlhv how to make out reports. The men at the stamp window were kept busy answering questions as to where i to iind the income tax men. ♦ Strenuous days are in store not only for tlie unlicensed dog, but for I the'constables of the State who fail to enforce the dog license code. Tho I I State authorities have decided that j there shall not be any amendments ! to the dog liconse code of lfll" and ! that all that it needs is a stiffening , up of County Commissioners and I through thorn the constables aro ! required to kill unlicensed dogs. • I Several bills are in hand to provide j changes ill the laws, including that f damage done shall lie assessed i against owners and that unlicensed animals shall be reported and own ers penalised. They aro not very highly regarded. , ! According to reports which have I been gathered by tlie Department a I there have been a number of count - Ics where tlie number of animals i licensed was low and the prosecu tions very few. The constables in s Allegheny and I,uzerne counties were - the busiest judging from the fees col lected for shooting dogs, home of the agricultural counties do not seem '• to have enforced the license law or - shot the dogs- ■ I \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 e Judge S. F. Channel, of Tioga " county, has been spending several s weeks in Florida. a j.- f stotesbury is home from his annual winter trip to southern states.. r col. Edward Martin, cotnmie i sionor of health, has been attending tlie industrial physicians conference II | in Pittsburgh. s —Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, o( 11 the Public Service Commission, snoke on tlie Pennsylvania law at - the American Electric Railway Gen ii ference in New York yesterday. e —Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the State Compensation board, made an address in Pittsburgh this week on the system developed for com / pensation in this State. I r DO YOU KNOW i. — ~ — ~~~~~ e That Harrisburg meats are be r n ing sent to the army of occupation! s HISTORIC HARRISBURG e . Indian chiefs used to hold coun cils here twice a year until well n along toward the Revolution. The Zoo B A pair of double eagles with Their wings and talons clipped, II Vnd every feather from their tougl 11 And scrawny bodies stripped; A draggled turkey that no more Will swell and strut about Because one eye Is closed for goo< And all his tail is out. I- A bear that drags a broken chain And packs an ancient trap e And leaves a trail of blood and ful o Behind him on the map; And goats for which Rumania 'f Is seeking pastures new. Lo! willy nilly. Uncle Sam a Is keeper of a zoo. e —MINNA IRVING, h PEACE ll Knicker—The round robin was a success. Bocker —Now for a round dove.
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