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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919
Education o the knowledge of Koto
to use the whole of one's self.
Beecher.
PLACE FOR YOL'R SAVINGS
THE place for your savings is
in Victory bonds.
Why?
Because you are receiving not
more than four per cent and for the
most part only three per cent, on
your savings bank accounts.
. This money invested in Victory
bonds would earn you four and
three-fourth per cent.
If you don't take advantage of
this condition the banks will, and
they will buy bonds with tho money
you have in savings accounts, pay
ing you three or four per cent, and
keeping the other three-fourths or
one and three-fourths per cent, as
the case may be, for themselves.
You can't blame the banks for
that.
Making money is their business.
They are bound to do it or fail.
But don't let them make money
which you can make and which you
ought to make.
Invest your savings in Victory
bonds.
PHILADELPHIA TROUBLES
HARRISBURG is the objective
to-day of a strong force of
charter revisionists from Phil
adelphia whose purpose Is to per
suade the lawmakers on Capitol Hill
of the importance and necessity of
passing a group of bills which have
been under consideration for several
weeks. The average legislator Is
usually indifferent to these munici
pal controversies, especially as they
affect the metropolis of the State,
and mainly because they Involve
political or factional disturbance,
but in the present Instance there is
a different attitude on the part of
representatives of districts outside
the larger cities. They begin to
manifest interest based upon the in
creasing demand of the people gen
erally for a change of conditions in
Philadelphia. Being the chief city
of the Commonwealth and its only
port and gateway to the outside
world—the cradle of American lib
erty and the birthplace of our most
cherished institutions—the men who
are entrusted with the making of our
laws believe that tho time has come
to intervene in behalf of better gov
ernment for this important munici
pality.
Men of great influence in business
and industrial life are leading the
movement for reform, but the re
grettable factor in the whole situa
tion Is the unfortunate injection of
a factional political squabble Into
the discussion. This has a tendency
to obscure the real purpose of the
movement and may prevent the fair
minded consideration which a mat
ter so vital to the welfare of a great
city is entitled to.
Governor Sproul is thoroughly
awake to all the issues involved and
will have the sympathy of the peo
ple in his declared purpose to avoid
being drawn into the controversy to
such an extent as to permit any in
terference with his constructive pro
gram, already ontlined for the In
formation of the legislative branch
of the government. However, the
Governor is not lacking in courage,
and should the interests of the Com
monwealth become Involved In any
action on the Philadelphia measures
so that he would be justified in tak
ing a more advanced position, none
who understands his desire to serve
tue State will doubt his readiness to
use the power of his office on the
side of the right. His large experi
ence In the public service, his good
sense and ability to sift the wheat
from the chaff in any legislative
proposal equips the Governor In an
unusual degree for the solution of
problems which are constantly aris
ing in tho administration of the af
fairs of a great State with its multi
farious interests.
Philadelphia's difficulties have be
come so serious as to require adjust
ment. To the extent that they are
the troubles of the metropolis, they,
"TOESDSY
likewise, become the troubles of the
State and Inasmuch as the family to
certain to suffer from the derelic
tions of the bad boy at the inter
section of the Delaware and Schuyl
kill rivers, the Legislature win
doubtless regard with the solicitude
of a guardian the developments of
the Philadelphia situation.
In tho correction of existing evils
persons and groups and tactions
count for little. If tho metropolis
or any other city requires a larger
measure of home rule for its nor
mal development, then the Legisla
ture should grant such relief with
out hesitation. On this proposition
Governor Sproul is absolutely right
and on solid ground. Too much of
the time of the law-making body is
taken up with the matters and things
which the municipalities them
selves should have the right to deter
mine.
CONCENTRATE HERE
SENATOR PENROSE added his
hearty approval yesterday to
Governor Sprout's plan to con
centrate all tho offices of the State
government in Harrisburg.
"I am one of those," said tho
Senator, "who believes that any man
in Pennsylvania ought to be able
to come to Harrisburg with absolute
assurance that he can transact any
business he may have with the State
government at tho Capitol."
That will meet the unqualified ap
proval of men In Philadelphia who
often must go all the way to Scran
ton or Pittsburgh to transact busi
ness that ought to be done in Har
risburg; and of Pittsburgh people
who have to go to Philadelphia to
get in touch with State officials
who might just as easily bo located
here.
Senator Penrose has always been
friendly toward Harrisburg and Its
Interests, but be speaks for tho whole
State and the efficiency of the State
government when he talks of bring
ing all State offices to this city. As
ho says, there should be no sub
stations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
or elsewhere. Convenience, econo
my and efficient performance of of
ficial duties all demand that Harris
burg bo made the capital of Penn
sylvania in fact as well as in name.
"THE DAY"
ALL over Pennsylvania—ln cities
and towns and hamlets; by
hltlsido and rillside, on the
mountain and on the plain, there
are houses, large and small, preten
tious and humble, on which a new
glohy has fallen. And in them thero
are mothers and wives who sing as
they go about their daily tasks. The
happiness radiates in Joyousness
from their eyes.
These homesteads are being made
ready for a great event. House
cleaning Is taking on added impor
tance. New furniture is being
bought. The curtains are being
washed. The rugs are being cleaned.
And HIS room Is being made ready
for his coming. HIS clothing is be
ing laid out. HIS favorite books
are being taken from their long
resting places in tho library cases
and placed within easy reach, and
HIS favorite dishes are being dis
cussed In preparation for HIS re
turn.
And out In the field, or in the
office, or the store, or the factory,
or on the railroad, men with gray
in their hair are smiling the
wrinkles of worry out of their faces.
They are carrying themselves Just
a bit more proudly, and there Is a
jauntiness In their carriage that you
would not have noted during the
trying hours when the old National
Guard of Pennsylvania was at grips
with the Germans before Chatteau-
Thierry and during the grim days
that followed. Hero and there ono
of them Is fixing up HIS fishing
tackle, or seeing to it that the "boy's
favorite buggy" is oiled and var
nished, or that "the car" is in first
rate order; and as ho figures over
his old bank-book he is telling him
self that the "lad has earned a
darned good time, and he's going
to have it if it busts the household.''
For THE DAY Is at hand.
The boys of the Twenty-Eighth
are on their way home. The Key
stone Division has sailed, and the
day—THE DAY—for which thou
sands of fathers, and mothers, and
wives have been praying for more
than two years, is about to dawn.
THE DAY—and Pennsylvania is
getting ready to do it justice.
THE REVISED COVENANT
THE revised covenant of the pro
posed League of Nations differs
In so many respects from the
original document that doubtless
most of those who opposed it will
now be found among its supporters,
or if not that, at least many of their
most serious objections will bo with
drawn. But for those who fear that
the league will be a constant irrita
tion in America by reason of the
pledge we take —if the Senate rati
fies the agreement—to maintain the
integrity of existing nations within
the protection of the league, the
main objection still stands. Sec
tion 10 of the covenant remains un
changed. If we go into the league
we go in with our armies as well as
our moral support. If the nations
do not behave we guarantee to help
make them behave, and so may be
stacking up for ourselves all the
troubles of a member of an interna
tional police force. But the league
is as nothing without some such
provision, so we must have it that
way or reject it altogether.
Unquestionably, both President
Wilson and those who have been at
work with him on the covenant have
made a number of important con
cessions to public opinion in Amer
ica. The Monroe doctrine has been
officially recognized and questions of
domestic importance—such as im
migration—are dropped entirely.
These make the covenant more ac
ceptable, and in all likelihood It will
master enough aotes In the Senate
to carry It through.
But the fact still remains that if
President Wilson had left his league
until after the making of the peace
treaty, we should now be at peace
with Central Europe and well along
In the reconstruction period. The
world Is still marking time and will
until peace is Anally negotiated.
Whatever benefits may come from
the Peace League would have been
forthcoming at all events. The thing
that Is pressing is not a league to
preserve a peace that does not now
exist, but peace itself.
"PavxoijCiKUua
By tbe Kx-Committeeman
Illness of Senator Edwin H. Vare
last evening prevented the Philadel
phia bills taking the center of the
stage in the Senate and may inter
fere with to-day's program and in
terest in the Legislature shifted to
the House of Representatives, where
the bill to increase the State Police
force by one troop to be located in
Harrisburg and reorganizing the de
partment was defeated. This meas
ure is an administration bill and
was beaten by a big majority. It
was the first check the administra
tion has had, but it was predicted
that a rebersal might be expected
very soon.
While the Philadelphia District
Attorney bills wore being passed by
the Senate, the House was reconsid
ering the defeat of the Willson bill,
repealing the nonpartisan elective
feature of the third-class city code
and paving the way for the defeat
of the Police bill. The Legislative
League, which opposed the repeal
of the nonpartisan elective provision,
turned in almost solidly with the
labor forces to defeat the Police bill.
—Governor Sproul let It be known
last evening soon after his arrival,
that he did not think that there
should be anything done on the
Philadelphia hills while Senator Vare
was ill and had a talk with Senator
William E. Crow, who also saw Sen
ator Penrose. Senator George Wood
ward. sponsor of tho bills, gave out
a letter he had sent Senator Vare
opposing any more delays. But the
Governor seems to have had his way
and tho charter bills rested.
—No more striking illustration of
the changes that have come about
in Pennsylvania politics in the last
few years, especially since tlie at
tempt of the Vares and their west
ern and central allies to capture
control of the State through the
Brumbaugh administration and va
rious local enterprises, is to be
found than in a two-column editorial
in the Philadelphia North American.
This newspaper, which has fought
Penrose consistently, energetically
and unceasingly for years, reviews
the appearance of tho Senator ad
vocating reform measures and con
cludes: "Many of our friends are
likely to bo perturbed by tho sug
gestion that credit be given to Sen
ator Penrose for any good acts or
intentions; commendation of such a
man, they believe, might he useful
to him later if he turned against
the public interest. Yet our judg
ment is that even if that danger
were obvious, it would still be our
duty to recognize present facts and
to commend him for whatever help
he is able to render to a good cause.
As we have stated many times, the
commendation of this newspaper is
not only earned, but compelled, by
a public servant who promotes tho
principles and policies for which it
stands. That wo have to say good
words for Senator Penrose under the
resent circumstances seems to lis
a matter for public congratulation,
rather than for alarm. After all,
the novel and conspicuous activity
of Senator Penrose is a secondary
consideration. The thins of chief
concern is that this city, which has
suffered so long and so grievously
from constractor misrule, is at last
to bo enabled to free itself from that
blighting power, and to become a
self-governing, self-respecting, genu
inely progressive municipalty."
—The Philadelphia Inqtilrer in a
discussion of the Philadelphia char
ter bills speaks of them with words
of finality, saying: "These reform
bills-—one and all—are the product
of independent thought. It is a citi
zens' movement. The only object
aimed at is to give Philadelphia a
chance to redeem itself—to govern
itself. It is impossible for any mem
ber of the Legislature who seeks for
tho facts to arrive at any other con
clusion."
—The following is printed, about
one of Secretary of the Common
wealth Cyrus E. Wood's appoint
ments: "Lieutenant Leon Metzger, of
Johnstown, who was appointed chief
of the new registration bureau at
Harrisburg, is the first Pennsylvania
soldier wounded in France to be se
lected for a place in the State gov
ernment under the new reorganiza
tion act. A German bullet tore off
a portion nf the heel of his foot, and
he is now in the Parkview Hos
pital. Pittsburgh. He expects to he
able to assume his new duties May
1. Lieutenant Metzger was gradu
ated from the Indiana Normal
school and the law department of
tho University of Michigan.
—Considerable interest is being
taken by legislators in reports that
Philadelphia labor people are urging
that the plan of William Findlay
Brown for more latitude in Sunday
sports in Fairmount Park bo allow
ed. Tho sentiment of the legislators,
especially from Philadelphia, has
been against any letting down of the
bars in regard to Sabbath observ
ance.
TRADE BRIEFS
An exhibition of British jewelry,
clocks, watches, silverware, etc., has
just been opened at the offices of
the British Chamber of Commerce
in Brazil.
Several engineers and mechanics
of an American company are re
ported to have arrived in Mexico to
set up certain agricultural machin
ery acquired by the Mexican Govern
ment.
At the close of the calendar year,
1918, there were 27,849 motor ve
hicles of all kinds registered in the
Province of Quebec. Of these by
far the greatest number were ve
hicles of 10 to 25 horse-power.
Both Sides of Controversy
PERSONAL*.
I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by my wife, Jenny
E. Wright, on or after this date.
JOHN FREDERICK WRIGHT.
John Frederick Wright never has
bought me any clothes and I always
pay cash. I will not be responsible
for any of his clothes, as I have
clothed him from head to toe.
JENNIE E. WRIGHT.
—Advertisement In the Springfield
Sun.
fiXKRXSBUKG TELEGKXPH
DAYS OF REAL SPORT tti By BRIGGS
'
FINISH THE BRIDGE
America's Cull For tho Fifth "Vic
tory" Liberty loan
Ho! finish the bridge that we started
to build.
The Victory Bridge.
Wake! workers get busy, your coun
try has willed
Freedom shall live.
Of its arches five, we have builded
but four.
Can we default?
No, our heroes are coming, Just one
arch more,
Will finish the bridge.
Up with your flags, down with your
dollars to build
The Victory Bridge;
Hear ye the cry that comes from
our maimed and killed,
"Freedom must live";
America calls to her millions of sons,
Can ye refuse?
Up! hasten the tread of your home
coming ones
And, finish the bridge.
Ye who have, dwelt in safety at
home must build
The Victory Bridge,
Ye who said. —your feet well shod
and stomachs filled,
"Freedom shall live,"
Up with your flags, down with your
dollars this day.
For, writ in blood,
—Wet with tears of the world is the
bill we pay
To finish the bridge.
Shall they of the future say we fail
to build
The Victory Bridge?
Shall our hearts and our hands that
are strong and skilled
Halt or delay?
When from hearts that are cold and
hands that are still,
Cometh the call,
Women and men of to-day you can
and will
Now finish the bridge.
Yes! dwellers in ocean depths for
you we build
The Victory Bridge;
Yes! sleepers in Flanders fields, ye
who have willed
We of your kin will cherish the
Freedom shall live,
trust you gave.
And should need be.
We too can die for all that you died
to save;
We'll finish the bridge.
—Arthur H. McOwen, in The Phila
delphia Inquirer.
Yonks Were Good Losers
Chivalry is a fetish to the Anglo-
Saxon. Wherever he is, and what
ever he's doing, he's always ready
to hand it to himself for being a
good sport. He prides himself on
playing the game square and giving
the other fellow his due. Whether
he's an American or Briton, he'll tell
you lie doesn't mind losing to a bet
ter man, and, lest you doubt him, his
applause will be loudest for the man
who beats him. Ho has a holy ter
ror of being called a "poor loser."
And so it was that the cheers of
a little group of American dough
boys drowned out those of the fellow
countrymen of Jimmy Wilde, Welch
boxer, as he stepped from the ring
in London the other night, after a
14-round bout in which ho had been
given the victory on points over Joe
Lynch of the American army.
And Jimmy Wilde's adherents had
been just as enthusiastic in their ap
plause for Lynch when it looked as
though the battle were going in his
favor earlier in the game. Lynch
was a trifle larger than his opponent,
according to a report in the London
Times, but tho doughty little Welch
man was a scrapper. The outcome
was in doubt during thirteen of the
fourteen rounds, and the Britons
vied with the Americans in their
cheers for the opposing camp.
When the Prince of Wales, who,
with his brother. Prince Albert, had
watched the bout, stepped into the
ring to congratulate the victorious
Welchman, ho paid tribute to the
gameness of / the American. And,
while Private Buck may have felt
regret at his comrade losing the
fight, none would have suspected it,
from the grin on his face and his
lavish praise of tho Welchman as
ho came from the hall.
A Great Difference
A noted physician, particularly ex
peditious in examining and prescrib
ing for his patients, was sought out
by an army man whom he "polished
off" in almost less than no time. As
the patient was leaving he shook
hands heartily with the doctor and
said:
"I am especially glad to have met
you, as I have often heard my
father, Colonel Blank, speak of you."
"What!" exclaimed the physician,
"are you old Tom's son?"
"Certainly."
"My dear fellow," cried the doc
tor, "fling that infernal prescription
in the fire and sit down and tell me
what is the matter with you."—From
Harper's Magazine.
What Germany Can y Must, Will Pay
[From the Literary Digest.]
WHEN the "Tiger" of France
told tho anxious deputies that
the question of reparations
and the Saar Valley had been "set
tled to our satisfaction," he appar
ently might well have been speaking
for the American press. The prin
ciple of "no indemnities" is not vio
lated, some of our writers hold, for
Germany is merely paying to repair
her damage; and the French occupa
tion of tho saar Valley is similarly
regarded not as "annexation," but
as the only practical way of paying
France for Germany's systematic and
thoroughgoing destruction of French
mines and French industries. Tho
reparation plan, as outlined in the
Paris dispatches, seems "just and
reasonable" to tho New York World.
"As a measure of punishment," it
may, the Washington Star thinks,
"be regarded as effective justice."
A twenty-five-billion-dollar bill of
damages does not seem in the least
unreasonable to an American paci
fist of German birth who had just
returned from a visit to the devasted
regions of France. Even this sum,
declares Mr. Oswald Garrison Vil
lard, will not make good all the dam
ago, but it is "a satisfaction" that
Germany "will at least bo asked to
pay a sum which can not in the least
degree be regarded as unreasonable
in view of the period of years grant
ed to them in which to make the
payment."
Writers of Paris dispatches to
American newspapers quote a pro
visional text of the reparation clauses
of the peace treaty which sets the
German indemnity at one hundred
billion gold marks, or approximately
$25,000,000,000, to be paid as fol
lows:
Five billion dollars in two years
without interest.
Ten billion dollars during thirty
years beginning in 1921 with interest.
Ten billion dollars to be paid at
such time as the Allied Indemnity
Commission shall determine.
This sum is only a minimum. The
Commission has wide powers to de
termine not only how the money
should be paid, but whether it is
sufficient to cover Germany's com
plete indebtedness. The payments
mentioned do not include "restitu
tion in kind in the case of property
seized or sequestered." The allot
ment of the sum among the enemies
of Germany has not been determin
ed, but one press correspondent
hears of a tentative arrangement
giving France about fifty-five per
cent; Great Britain between twenty
and thirty per cent; and the United
States between two and five per cent.
Allied troops, according to one dis
patch, will hold the left bank of
the Rhine for fifteen years, to en
force payment. The clause in which
Germany's liability is asserted will
appear substantially as follows in
the peace treaty, we are told:
"The Allied and associated Powers
affirm and Germany admits respon
sibility for all losses and damages
of the Allied and associated Govern
ments and their nationals from the
unjustifiable warfare waged by the
enemy Power against the Allied and
associated Governments."
Protests a plenty have come from
Germany against "an unjustly ex
torted peace," against "dismember
ing and paralyzing Germany,"
against "a mailed-list peace." In an
editorial appearing after the publi
cation of the reparation plan, the
Vorwarts says: "Tho indemnity could
Almost a quarter million lines more
Local Advertising in three months
That's the leadership in local advertising enjoyed
by the Harrisburg Telegraph during the first quar
ter of 1919.
Of this leadership—
-125,000 lines represent one store's advertising.
100,000 lines represent advertising of others.
And every one of them made
a GOOD INVESTMENT
not be extracted if we take the last
sheet from our beds and tho last
boot from our feet." But such elo
quence does not affect American
editors, who in general agree that
Germany must pay, and can pay, and
will pay.
Tho Germans are reminded by the
New York World that the Allies'
war-expenses are not Included in
this bill. A bill including the total
expense might have reached a figure
as high as $240,000,000,000, accord
ing to some calculations. Nor are
there any punitive damages such as
the Germans levied against the
French in 1871. The World reminds
the rest of us that the only guaranty
for the ultimate collection of these
$25,000,000,000 from Germany "must
lie in a League of Nations," which
"could settle all differences about
settlements and could immediately
enforce an economic blockade in
case Germany should prove recalcit
rant." Moreover, says the World:
"In order for the German govern
ment to pay either in full or in part,
it is evident that the blockade must
be lifted as soon as possible and the
German people allowed to go to
work. German industries must have
raw materials. German manufac
turers must have access to foreign
markets. To retard the economic
rehabilitation of Germany will be to
deprive the tens of thousands of in
dividual victims of German military
destruction of the compensation to
which they are entitled and without
which they will remain impoverished
for life. This is not a matter of jus
tice to the Germans, but of Justice
to everybody concerned; for $23,-
000,000,000 is not picked from the
bushes along the roads. It must be
earned by economic production."
The New York Sun agrees with
writers we have quoted that Ger
many has sufficient resources to set
aside two or three billion dollars a
year for payment on indemnity, tho
in the meantime it will be necessary
for her to shelve her own domestic
war-debt, amounting to some $3 5,-
000,000,000. But in the Sun's opin
ion, "the question is not, could Ger
many pay the $"6,000,000,000 or
more, but would she pay it?" The
Sun is confident that any one who
really understands the German nat
ure, who knows Germany's economic
situation, and can weigh her trade
future, "will conclude that Germany
will be very glad to pay the announc
ed reparation, will be very glad to
pay any reparation that she is able
to pay." Germany needs the world's
markets, and "until she signs the
treaty of peace, not merely accepting
its terms but fulfilling them," she
can not get into those markets
"either to buy or to sell." Indeed,
"Nobody knows better than Ger
many that the very peace treaty,
with tho gigantic reparation to be
paid, is going of necessity to put
Germany back into the markets of
the world. The Allies themselves
must put her there so that she can
pay them. Then, once she is back
in the markets of tho world, is get
ting her material from them, and
is sending it back again as the finish
ed product from her industries to
Great Britain, to France, to Italy,
and to other countries in payment of
her war-debts to them, Germany, as
she, thus cuts her International debts
lower and lower, will be rising year
after year higher and higher to the
economic power she possessed and ex
ercised before she went forth to war
""TXPRIU 29, 1919.
in madness and returned to expiation
in grim resolve."
But while economists "peculate
over the future effects of the Allies'
reparation policy. Frenchmen and
Belgians are calling for German
money to rebuild their homes de
stroyed by German shells. The "im
mediate, pressing, absolute need for
to-day" in both Belgium and France,
according to a correspondent of the
New York Evening Post, "is that
Germany should pay an amount on
the indemnity which she owes for
the devastation worked by her. not
for war, but to destroy industrial
competitors." On the one side, as
the French newspapor L'lnt ansig
eant vividly pictures it, is the Ger
man, with his huge debt to pay, it
is true, "but not a stone of his house
lias been tumbled down, not a win
dow broken, not a loom or a screw
wanting to his mills, his boilers hot,
his engines working, his wheat grow
ing, his fruit-trees all budding."
And—
"On the other side is the French
man, with his million and a half
of dead and as many maimed, with
$36,400,000,000 debt and $3,700,000,-
000 to pay on it each year, with
everything destroyed in his richest
and busiest working regions, mills,
looms, mines, and all, with his fields
ravaged and his fruit-trees cut
down—and two, five, ten years need
ed to set going again work in its
sacred order. Let those come for
ward and say who they are that pre
tend the first account to be settled
is not that of France against Ger
many."
Thus, as the Washington Post sees
it, "the recovery of France hinges
upon the collection of indemnities
from Germany." The people of de
vasted France want to rebuild—
"But their bare hands can not ac
complish the task. They must have
money and materials. Germany
must pay the cost of the renewal
work as far as she is able to pay,
and she must return the machinery
she has stolen, if she can be made
to return it."
APRIL, 1919
April again and the bluebird
And the chimes of Easter day:
And life awakes while April breaks,
And the lads come forth to play.
They doff their dusty khaki,
They take the bat and ball.
And the old days and the old ways
Come back to hill and hall.
And the old ways seem dearer.
And the old life more sweet,
1 And our hearts rejoice at the old
voice
And the tramp of familiar feet.
But when the wingß of darkness
Enfold the college wall.
Our hearts grow sad for the gallant
lad
Who comes not back at all.
April Is here with the bluebird
And the chimes of Easter-tide,
But gone is the lad who sprang up
glad
And tossed his books aside.
To folloyf the bugle's shrilling
And the stern drum's beat,
That for us' the hill might blossom
still
And the old life be sweet.
—Xenos in the Graduate Magazine
of the University of Kansas.
Some Curious Souvenirs
[From the Manchester Guardian]
Apparently M. Clemenceau's prac
tical mind and hate of show are
going to deprive his admirers of the
right of gazing at the famous per
forated coat and waistcoat in one of
the Paris museums, for this is not
to be Included among the relics of
greatness for a future nge, like Nel
son's coat and the Napoleon relics.
There have been some curious
souvenirs of the kind, apart from
the half smoked cigars of royalties
which are treasured by Americans
and others. Most curious of all un
doubtedly was T.ord Anglesc's "leg."
Lord Anglesey lost a leg at Waterloo
and it was buried in uic garutn of
the villa to which he was taken. In
alter years he used to recall how
parties of people visited the spot
"to view the grave." A relic of an
other kind was George ll's famous
coat, and it was a pleasant trait in
the fiery little king that he squeezed
himself at Dettingen into the coat
he had worn year before at Ouden
arde. Horace Walpole's "researches
after Queen Mary's comb, Wolsey's
red hat, the pipe which Van Tromp
smoked on his last sea fight, and the
spur which King William stuck In
to the flank of Sorrel" are famous.
Fate's Busy Day
Uncle Pete Hardin made a busi
ness trip to Booneville last Thurs
day. While in the city he was mar
ried to Mrs. Mary Manus.—Center
Point Correspondence Magazine Ga
zette.
lEbttting (ttljat
Formal steps to assemble the
colors of the units of the Keystond
division in Ilarrisburg for display ill
the rotunda of the State Capitol will
be taken soon after the Pennsylvan
ians are demobilized. Adjutant Gen
ereal Frank D. Beary to-day sent td
Governor William C. Sprout, a copy
of an order issued by the War De
partment that all colors, standards
and guidons of organizations shalli
be turned over to the custody of the
Governors of the States from which
the majority of the men in the or
ganizations came. The United States
will retain title to the standards
and present such data as should
accompany them. The circular sug
gests that the States take action tot
recognize the services and that
"every effort be made to assure pro
per care and preservation of thai
colors" and perpetuation of the rec
ords and heroic traditions of
units. The Governor is greatly in
terested in the plan to place tho
standards in the Capitol rotunda,
where the battle flags of the Civil
war are gathered and where thoi
Spanish-American war standards arm
also displayed. The idea is to pro
vide new cases for the flags of the
Pennsylvania organizations and,
when the various divisions hailing;
from Pennsylvania are mustered out,,
to have a formal ceremony for de
posit of the colors. Some flags have>
already been received here, being
colors carried by National Guard
regiments prior to the time they
were broken up and given Federal
| army designations.
Herman L. Collins, the "Girard"
of the Philadelphia Press, who has
printed some interesting things
about Governor Sproul and his
earlier days, contributes the follow
ing to his column: "I learn from a
friend that Attorney General Pal
mer, Governor Sproul and Congress
man Hicks, of New York, were
chums in their time at Swarthmore
College and that the intimacy of
student days has been kept up all
through the intervening years. Pal
mer and Sproul wero roommates
and Hicks roomed next door. The
trio were members of the same lit
erary society, the same fraternity,
the same student organizations.
Each took an active part in college
affairs and won distinction in ora
torical contests. Palmer's bend was
toward literature and ancient lan
guages: Sproul favored journalism
and managerial responsibilities;
Hicks was the athlete, playing on
the football, the baseball and the
track teams. They are all Quakers,
and they are of the same age, forty
seven. Here is one of the few points
of difference: Palmer is a Demo
crat and Sproul and Hicks are Re
publicans. But what is partisan af
filiation among such friends?"
Leon Lowengard, who runs the
Courier, heard somewhere or other
that raising rabbits is a popular
business. At Eastertime he man
aged to purchase several bunnies
and took them to his Briggs street
home, which immediately became
the center of attraction for the
neighborhood's children. Since the
time of his initial purchase he has
been laying in supplies of grass,
dandelion and such things as a rab
bit might be interested in consum
ing. But, strange to say, he sees no
profit in his purchase as yet. "What's
more," he says, "I've promised tho
available supply of rabbits for sev
eral years in advance. For heaven's
sake don't give mo any publicity, or
I'll be liable to have a small Bolshe
vik army of all my friends wanting
to beg, borrow, or purchase tho
creatures."
• • •
For the first time in years. It is
said at the Capitol, every county in
Pennsylvania has an appointee on tho
State lists. There were times in tho
last few years when it looked as
though this record might be reached,
but the other day men from two
small counties were placed in po
sitions and the State is safe.
• •
More cattlo raised in Dauphin,
Perry and Cumberland counties and
in some of tho districts up tho Juni
ata valley aro boing bought up now
for export to Europe than for tho
domestic markets, according to far
mers and cattle buyers who have
been in this city. The outbreak of
tho war in Europe caused a boom
in cattle raising in this section or
the State, which years ago furnished
many steers and the prices offered
for export buying have proved very
attractive to farmers. There will bo
more hogs sold this year in this
section of the State than for a long
time, as many farmers have turned
attention to feeding them, although
liog cholera has caused consider
able losses in parts of the Cumber
land valley. Dauphin county farms
have more livestock on them than
known in years, many being well
adapted to stock raising on a small
scale. A long time ago this business
was found quite profitable in this
county and in Perry.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j
—Senator Philander C. Knox, who
has a birthday on May 6, Is seven
years the senior of Senator Boies
Penrose.
—Representative Thomas C.
Whitman, of Latrobe, used to be on
the staff of tho Associated Press in
New York.
—The Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton, of
Bethlehem, has been elected presi
dent of the educational activities of
the Moravians in this country.
—Congressman Guy E. Campbell,
of Pittsburgh district, who is figur
ing considerably in the homecom
ing of troops at New York, started
in life as a railroad man.
—John Ililder, who is taking an
active hand in the Philadelphia
housing campaign, spoke here at a
conference recently.
—Judge Charles L. Brown ad
dressed the Central Y. M. C. A., at
Philadelphia on the work of tho
municipal court.
DO YQU KNOW
—That Harrisburg Is tho dis
tributing point of automobiles
for many inilos around this
section of the State?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—One of* the first conventions
held in tho State was assembled
here about 1800 to discuss up-State
legislation.
The Anchored Surgeons
With the deck* tilting to an angle
of thirty-eight degrees, two surgeons
on a troopship performed a delicate
operation requiring two hours, there
by saving the life of an American
soldier. The patient on the operat
ing table was held in position by
several sailors, while six more sailors
anchored the surgeons firmly against
the table.—From the Popular Me
chanics Magazine.