12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TBJB. TELEGitAPH PRINTING CO. Tcltgrapk Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief 9. R. OTSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 1. 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 f It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Bureau of Circu Building, l Chicago, n"l!' dinS Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Fa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a cddli .^ week: by mail. 13.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919 I It is better only sometimes to br. j right than at all times to be wrong. —Lincoln. THIS IS THE DAY THIS IS THE DAY. It's been a long time while coming, but it's here. Back at the entrance of the old Armory this afternoon, the men of Companies D and I will complete, the long, weary circle they began when they marched out in columns of fours that day the Guard was summoned to the colors two years back. They have seen a lot since then. They went forth soldiers and they come back victorious veterans. Their ranks are thinner, but their step is firmer and their faces stamped with the record of their experiences and their life in the open. They are men of whom any city may be proud. They have vindicated the old Na tional Guard of Pennsylvania and justified its existence, for it was their training, year in and year out, their belief in being prepared, that made them one of the strongest arms of the United States Army when their turn came to fight. Few veteran divisions could have done what they did at Chatteau-Thierry. The French had not done it. The Knglish had not done it. Steadily the two armies were being pushed back when the Keystone Division and the marines met the onrush of the Hun, stopped it and threw back the best legions in the German army crushed, dis heartened and defeated. And then, for week upon week, these troops, who had just received their baptism of fire without previous training in the trenches, hammered the German line into fragments, and advanced mile after mile under grueling tire. Always forward they went, never counting the cost, never faltering, calm in the assurance of their own ' courage and ability, certain of the end and pushing steadily toward it. No division in France won mote glorious victories than that of which the Harrisburg companies were a part, and the thin ranks of the survivors are mute testimony to the price they paid. But they are back, and we are glad, and the mothers, the wives, the sweethearts; the fathers and the children who have worried over their absence and longed for their return, will feast them and pet them, and make them feel that the man who composed "Home, Sweet Home" knew what he was writing about. We, their fellow citizens, may parade for hours, we may wave flags and cheer ourselves hoarse, but the real welcome home will come this evening when the fatted calf will be served up in countless homes, when the table will groan with the re turned one's favorite dishes, when the vacant chair will be filled by a bronzed and grinning presence in khaki, when mirth—renl, honest-to goodness, unrestrained mirth—will reign and stories of the war and of France and the Hun will be. matched by all the amusing household happenings that will be recounted for the edification of him who has been away. Oh, it will be a great night, and it is difficult to say who will be the happiest—they who have just come home, or they who have watched and prayed these many weary C months for their coming. OVER THE TOP AGAIN •y yARRISBURG, to all intents, has f |""l gone over the top in the Vic tory Loan drive and we can look our returning soldiers in the i face to-day happy in the conscious ness that we at home have supported '■ them to the limit in every war activ- L ity undertaken since they went away, f ;The Victory Ix>an was the most I difficult of all to put over, for many I reasons. In the first place, the slump Bin business following the signing of Hthe armistice threw many persons out of work who had I .bought generously of other bond - • —v~v "f ' 4 —rv t— - T-w- *ia> • ™ T* 1-1.. uw.i Wli-u 1|III.IP'I' •! ki ■ . ■ lUI - HI auji i |,mii. WEDNESDAY EVENING, 111 111 l fißKlW~'l II 11l I iVI "V.V" " MAY 7,19T9. issues. Others who still had their positions were earning less money. Still others feared they might find themselves' out of employment at any time. Many had not completed payments on former issues of bonds. And then there was lacking the en thusiasm of the war drives, which may be ascribed chiefly to the long drawn out dickering over details in the preparation of a peace treaty. The heavy income taxes also took much money that otherwise would have gone into bonds and the uncer tainties of business made still other investors hesitate about tying up cap ital they might need in a hurry. Altogether it was a big job the bond salesmen had cut out for them in the Harrisburg district. Outside the city the conditions were more favorable. Farmers were never so prosperous and the crop outlook never so bright. Stabilized wheat prices and assurance of a good re turn on the present year's acreage, no matter what the crop, have given the farmer a confidence in the future that made the Victory bonds more attractive than they might have ap peared otherwise, and so he was able to do better than in some for mer issues. But the big thing now is, not how difficult the task the bond salesmen had to accomplish, but that they did accomplish it. There is glory enough for all in this and the cam paign in Harrisburg is all over but the shouting. SPEAK UP, MR. BAKER SECRETARY BAKER has repeat edly asserted that no injustice ! was done in the numerous court- Jmartials during the war, despite the charges of Colonel Ansell that many soldiers were brutally and unjustly punished. His attention is therefore called to the following letter of Charles Grassel, of Ohio, sentenced lo ten years imprisonment in the Atlanta penitentiary for no other reason than he was physically un able to obey the fool order of a| second lieutenant who should never I have been commissioned: In the terrible hot climate we Work at building roads in the broiling sun from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m.. and then for two hours drill in the sun with 75 pounds of stone on our backs. By that time we are so fatigued we can hardly get to mess. On the eve of May 21, 191 S. after a hard day's work, we were commanded to do double time to supper, a distance of about 800 yards. We being in that fatigued condition and not feeling physically good, were unable to obey the orders, and for the above and only rea son, we were court-martialed and sentenced to ten years in the At lanta penitentiary, where I am now ccntined. Speak up, Mr. Baker, was there or was there not any injustice done in this case, and if so what are you going to do about it? THE SHAFFER BILL THE Shaffer bill, now before the House, permitting boroughs to expend money for the erection of soldiers' monuments or memorials, would extend to municipalities the provisions of the law passed about twelve years ago granting such per mission to county commissioners. Many boroughs that desire to do something to commemorate the pa triotism of their- men in the great war have found themselves embar rassed by lack of authority. The old idea of raising a few hundred dol lars for the erection of a metal sol dier in the public square no longer prevails. Most of the boroughs want to erect memorial buildings, community houses or neighborhood buildings, and to do it they would have to sell bonds, which they have no authority now to do. The Shaffer bill would permit bor oughs to hold elections, at the re quest of five per cent, of the voting population, for the creation of bond ed indebtedness to run ten years, not to exceed two per cent, of the assessed valuation of the municipal ity, the money to he usfcd for the construction of such memorial as may be deemed best. • DESERVED PRAISE SENATOR PENROSE compares Harrisburg's streets with those of Philadelphia, much to the advantage of Harrisburg. The city, with Commissioner William H. Lynch in charge, does its own work here, while in Philadelphia the streets are cleaned by contract. The compliment' Senator Penrose un consciously paid to Mr. Lynch is well deserved. Harrisburg never had a better Highway Commissioner than he, and we point out for the information of the Senator that Harrisburg not only does its own street sweeping, but makes its own asphalt repairs as well at a saving to the taxpayers and to the satisfac tion of those who use our thorough fares. SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS SU PER IN T ENDENT SHAM. BAUGII'S announcement that there is a shortage of teachers in Dauphin county is another indi cation of the need of more pay for all teachers. By dozens and scores the teachers under Professor Shambaugh have dropped out to lake positions where pay is more generous and where the chance for advancement is greater. It is a shameful thing that most of our teachers, to whom we entrust the guidance of the boys and girls of to-day who will be the men and women of to-morrow, are paid less in most cases than the wages of un skilled labor. We require that these men and women prepare themselves for their work over a period of years and that they keep up their studies and show improvement from year to year. We expect them to teach the children under their care to believe that this is the best Gov ernment under the sun, to cherish our institutions and respect those in authority. And then this sume Gov ernment Axes a starvation rate of pay for the teachers and wonders that they do not stick to their Jobs. The wonder is that any of them remain, and few of them will if the Legislature does not make good the promise of larger salaries. ToUUct Lk By the Ex-Committee man Developments in the Legislature rather indicate that there was good ground for the remark of Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, to the effect that it looked as though Senator Boies Penrose could get any thing he wanted in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. The Sen ator scored in both ends of the Cap itol yesterday and wound up the day by taking dinner with the Governor, who is to have the final say on the bills. Indications, the Senator said last evening, were that the Philadel pha bills would be in the hands of the Governor in a week or so. If this is carried out it means that they will be promptly approved and that reporting out of bills carrying apropriations will be under way by the middle of the month and a date will be set for final adjournment. There are some men in the Legisla ture who are advocating final ad journment on May 29 and it is be lieved that, with hard work, that date could be made the day for closing up the work. There is little doubt but what the average legislator is hailing with the greatest relief the beginning of the end of the controversy over the Philadelphia bills. I —The Willson bill providing: for I the repeal of the third-class city nonpartisan elective feature is just now a matter of considerable im portance in the legislature. In spite of assertions by the Governor that it is not his bill and that he said that he did not want it to come to him, the plan is to put through the measure, which passed the House finally on Monday night. The men behind the bill say that the Senate will pass it. If it goes through, an effort will surely be made to pass the bill abolishing the system for; second-class cities. There have been ; Charges made that the Willson bill was a "pathfinder" for a second- i class city repealer. In any event, some of the most astute of the sec- ] ond-class city politicians are taking! a great interest in the Willson bill, j They have been here from both of' the second-class cities watching it. ; -T—The State administration plans! to push alons the State Police bill. I which is now in the Senate, and j legislation which will enable the State authorities to buy or condemn the land needed for the barracks near the State Arsenal is on fhe way through the upper House. The State Police will proceed promptly to or ganize the new troop after the bill is signed. —The Attorney General is getting ready his amendments on the anti sedition bill, which is to be the next big test of administration strength in the House. District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan, of Philadelphia, was in the House yesterday when the bills in creasing the staff and detective' force for his office passed on second ! reading without a chirp. - —Paul W. Houck. who retired j yesterday at noon as Secretary of Internal Affairs, was at work on compensation matters before night- j fall. He was appointed to succeed ! James W. of Ebensburg, as a member of the Compensation Board and took the oath a few hours later. He will eit with mem bers of the Board at sessions this week. Mr. Houck. who was ap pointed Secretary of Internal Af fairs by Governor Brumbaugh and received a salary of $B,OOO, was I named by Governor Sproul to suc ceed one of the officials who figured in the famous "recess appointment" controversy and will receive a sal ary of $7,000. —Secretary of Internal Affairs James F. Woodward will make no changes until after the close of the Legislature in his department. It is intimated that a new deputy will be named, hut the Secretary has declined to discuss anv possibili ties. John W. Thomas has been ap. pointed justice of the peace for Dorrance township, Luzerne county. t ■—John O. Bell, former Attorney General, was here among members of the Legislature and visiting State officials. He accompanied Provost E. F. Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania, to this city for dis cussion of legislation. It was his first visit in several years. —Representative George W. Wil liams, of Tioga, called to the chair in the House yesterday, was given a hearty reception by his colleagues. Mr. Williams is a stickler for par liamentary procedure and observes all of the forms. —lt commences to look, as a re sult of the hearing yesterday on the Seranton mine cave as though some thing in the nature of an agree ment would .be reached and that troublesome . subject would be cleared up as far as this session is cnccrned. Steve McDonald, one of the speakers, said that about three fourths of the city is undermined and that the best course would be to agree upon damages. The Philadelphia. Bulletin save editorially: "The Supreme Court of the State, overruling the action of the Board of Registration Commis sioners and rebuking those officials f ? r v.. dis / e earding the franchise rights of citizens, and the Senate, on the same day, passing a bill pro viding for the reconstitution of this board, form a most suggestive co incidence. • • • j n addition to the determination of the law a bit of advice is offered the Commis sioners. containing, between the lines, an implied rebuke for the practices which have brought the Board before the bar of the court " Return to "Circuit Riders" To solve the problem of needs in rural church fields in Michigan, the State mission board of the Michigan Baptist convention voted to return to the old "circuit rider" system of special workers, but will equip their men with motor cars. They will send them to several neglected parts of the State, where small churches find it hard to live. Capable young men, at good sal aries, maintained by the State con vention board, will be engaged to work at several points, adopting modern social methods in reaching the farmers. It is planned to hold schools for community service, to develop modern ideas foj- stimulat ing the latest farming methods, to give attention to questions concern ing recreation for young people and adults, and to combine Bible study and religion with practical programs for improving living conditions and making young people more interest ed in rcpiaining on the farms- From the Detroit News. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUIPT ..... .... ... ... By BRIGGS \*/ HBrJ IT'S HoOSC CLEANING . • " TiMf AMD THE WIFE is Too BUSY ""AND YOU HAV/6 TO CAT YOU* AMD YOU'HAUE TO SLEEP To CHAWSE HER HOUSE APRoN* FOR MEALS IW THE KLTCH EN-BCCAU.SE ON "THE DAUENJPORT "BECAUSE A DRESS OVTB 6Re£T A YOU WITA, THE DINING ROOM FLOOR IS YOUR BED IS BEING 'RE- BRASSED. A UMILE FRESHLY V/ARMI3 HET> . (^GU-'WHATA f( HERE I ) V ,T J -AND You CAN'T YOUR EASY CHAIR IS "AND YOU COME HOME OWE EUENYIMC, To FIND YOUR SUITS / BEING UPHOLSTEREY) AND YOU FIND* FRIEND WIFE" ALL DOLIED UP OR. Ties OR ANY- I • ST=>EN,I:> THE EOENIMC SITTING ON . AND THE HOUSE, IN ORDER 7HINJ6 YOL) WANT ' A PIANO STOOL WITHOUT A -BACK,' OH-H-H-BOY? AIN'T IT A R ° VAIEAR I MF/M GR-'R-'R-RAND AND 6LOR R RLOO-S | W / FEgUM'.? - fpp The Artful Mr. Burleson [From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] Postmaster General Burieson, with the acumen of a small politician playing the part of a big boss, tries to divert public attention from his own official delinquencies by charg ing the newspapers with a conspir acy to ruin him. This is the ready device of the narrow, seif-obsessed official mind to confuse the issue of wrongdoing and avert public condemnation. It is true, as he says, that the news papers opposed his postal zone scheme and severely criticised it. They condemned him for initiating and urging the project, and justly so. It was a foolish measure to make revenue out of the postal ser vice, regardless of consequences. In the most serious crisis in the his tory of the country, when the Gov ernment needed the widest newspa per circulation, this measure, de signed to limit circulation and to turn the postal service into a com mercial enterprise, was jammed through by Mr. Burleson. It was one of his worst blunders and one of the worst that a postal head could commit. To charge, however, that on ac count of this blunder the newspapers conspired to ruin him is ridiculous. As well charge a newspaper conspir acy against Congress because the newspapers condemn the mistakes and follies. What has the charged conspiracy to do with the charges of unfitness, official tyranny and folly and politi cal meddling and blundering made against Mr. Burleson himsellf? Their truth or falsity is the only question that concerns the public. If they are true, a newspaper con spiracy against him does not justify his conduct. It tends to justify the "conspiracy." Mr. Burleson is in desperate straits when he feels impelled to re sort to Aim flam of this kind to de fend himself. It ought not to fool President Wilson. It ought to strengthen the conviction that he is the wrong man for Postmaster Gen eral. Neither Mr. Burleson nor the Wilson administration can be saved from public judgment by such flimsy evasion. Interpreting the Omens In his youth Mark Twain edited a weekly journal in a small Western town. A subscriber wrote to him one day to remark that he had dis covered a spider concealed in the folds of a recently delivered paper. The writer wanted to know whether such an occurrence was a sign of good or bad luck. The young editor replied in the next issue as follows: "Constant Reader: The appear ance of a spider in a copy of last week's paper was a sign of neither good nor bad luck; that intelligent insect was merely studying our col umns in order to ascertain whether any store in the neighborhood had failed to advertise in our paper, in order that he might make for that establishment and there weave a web across the doorway, where he might dwell in undisturbed peace."' From the Youth's Companion. LABOR NOTES Women workers employed in the mines in Ecuador receive 30 cents a day for their labor. Masons in Atlantic City, N. J., are demanding $8 a day, and carpenters are asking that they be given $6 a day. The Cotton Manufacturers' Associ ation in New York has abrogated Its rule that any manufacturer who signs a union agreement must with draw from the association. Over 40,000 engineers employed by the United States railroads are asking for increases proportional to advances made to members of the four brotherhoods. The average yearly output of coal per person employed in the coal mines in Great Britain was 236 tons in 1918, contrasted with 252 tons in 1914. The average wages per ton of coal raised for the six months to June 30, 1918, was $2.96, as against an average of $1.52 for the complete year of 1914. The union of paper-pulp mill em ployes In Sweden has entered into an agreement with the employers which will be effective for two years. Eight-hour shifts have been substi tuted for 12-hour shifts and day laborers will work 54 hours per week instead of 57 to 59 hours as hereto fore. About 15,000 workmen axe affected by tl\is agreement. WEATHER LORE [From the New York Sun.] THAT the average person is in terested in the weather cannot be denied, in fact, it is the most talked of subject on the cal endar. On arising in the morning one usually goes to the window, glances skyward and makes his or her own observation and in turn prediction for the dav. Nearly all amateur weather pro phets resort to the old signs and do not depend on the barometer supplied by scientific study and pro duction. Kach has his own indi vidual idea or notion as to the at mospheric conditions and changes. Below are some of the simple "signs" that have been put into verse and handed down through many generations and which seldom go amiss: Red in the morning the sailor's warning: Red at night the sailor's delight. When you see a mackerel sky, 'Twill not be many hours dry. When the seagulls inland fly Know ye that a storm is nigh. A ring around the* moon Means a storm is coming soon. When it rains before seven 'Twill clear before eleven. Some other indications are: When standing on high ground and the horizon is unobstructed from all quarters, if the sky is ab solutely cloudless, look for a storm within forty-eight hours. If it starts to rain after 7 o'clock in the morning it will continue to "INVASION" OF SPAIN [From the I-tving Age.] The Barcelona journal Vanguardia sounds a note 6t' warning against the danger, very real in the writer's opinion, of the capture by foreigners of the natural wealth of Spain, and of her virtually becoming a colony of the United States. A commercial invasion from that country forms a frequent topic of conversation in Barcelona just now. This is no mere rumor. That the Americans intend to establish in Spain one of their most lucrative markets, and to work to their ad vantage the neglected wealth of its soil is proved by the recent estab lishment of a number of American banks, by the daily opening of leading New York houses, and by schemes for the construction of rail ways, to be manuged from the other side of the Atlantic. The Pizzarros and the Cortes of this conquest of Spain by America are affable managers, who are bring ing in their train an arm of com mercial travelers, foremen, engineers and clerks. With very few excep tions, Spaniards regard this invasion with indifference, if not with actual approval, arguing that industries once set up in the country will re main there, supply work, and cause money to circulate. Ret the Yankees come by all means they say. There is a tendency among the majority either to enjoy or hoard money made during the war and to leave the de velopment of natioanl resources to foreign capital. As a result of the influx of wealth due to the war may be noted the increase of the thea ters. music halls and luxuries of all kinds. WOODEN SHIPS They are remembering forests where they grew; The midnight quiet and the giant dance; And all the singing summers that they knew Are haunting still their altered circumstance. Reaves they have lost, and robins in the n^Bt, Tug of the friendly earth denied to ships. These, and the rooted certainties, and rest— To gain a watery girdle at the hips. Only the wind that follows ever aft, They greet not as a stranger on their ways; But this old friend, with whom they drank and laughed. Sits in the stern and talks of other days, When they had held high bacehan altas still. Or dreamed among the stars on some tall hill. ■—David Morton in the Bookman,; do so all day and very often it is | the indication of a three days' rain. When it is raining and it bright | ens and darkens alternately you can I count on an all day rain, with a chance of clearing at sundown. When the rain ceases and the clouds are still massed in heavy blankets one sure sign of clear weather is the patch of blue sky that shows through the rift large | enough to make a pair of "sailor's | breeches." Another sign of continued rain is when the smoke from the chim ney hovers low around the house tops. When it ascends straight into the air this indicates clearing weather. A foggy morning is usually the forerunner of a clear arternoon. : A thunderstorm in winter (usu ally in, January or February) is al ways followed by clear, cold weath ! er. It is not, as many think, the | breaking up of winter. People living near the seashore I say a storm is "brewing" when the air is salty, caused by the wind I blowing from the east. A red or copper colored sun or moon indicates great heat. A sil \ very moon denotes clear, cool I weather. j The old Indian sign of a dry month was when the ends of the i new moon were nearly horizontal j and one of them resembled a hook j on which to hang his pOwder horn. Many people troubled with rheu matism and neuralgia usually are 1 excellent barometers and can pre | diet changeable weather by "feeling it in their bones." And the advice of the old weather sage is "never go out during April month without being accompanied I by your umbrella." Fritz Wilhelm, Horse Doctor [Front the Riving Age.J Compilers of year books and ref erence books have been sorely tried by the kaleidoscopic changes of the past twelve months. The editors of the "Aintanach de Gotha" for 1919, however, must be given a place apart among the victims of unstable circumstances. Their difficulties are but mildly expressed in their apolo getic statement that "the dismember ment of Austria and the transforma tion of twenty-two German states into as many republics interrupted our labors as we were going to press." Now the least of these difficulties has been the choice of designations for the fallen potentates, which i should not offend foreign susceptibil ; ities. Thus in the French edition, j "Cldevant," has been found a bless ed phrase, and Gallic prejudices are further considered in the case of the all-highest and his first begotten by laying stress on their subsidiary qualifications. The ex-kaiser is referred to as doctor of law, medicine and science, and only in conclusion as grand ad miral and field marshal; while the ex-crown prince is given a claim to distinction as a veterinary surgeon. After all, things might have been worse. Frederick William Victor August Ernest of Prussia might, for instance, have been awarded a diplo ma for household removals. . Will Feed the World The story of the growing winter | wheat is that of an unprecedented acreage, never before equaled, and a condition so high as to be without precedent or parallel. It is, In fact, a monotone of perfection. It is known that Canada will large ly increase her acreage in spring wheat If the weather be propitious. It is, therefore, among the probabili ties, under favorable conditions, thut ithe United States and Canada may ! produce about forty per cent of all the wheat grown in the world and may have an exportable surplus of ! between six hundred and fifty and | seven hundred million bushels; far ! more than these countries have ever | exported in the past, and which will tax to the utmost the storage and | transportation, facilities of America and Europe, and more than suffice to feed the hungry world. Russia, the fprmer granary of Europe, will not be able to feed her self, much less have any wheat for export. Maybe She Could All this talk about alcoholic drinks Ito be made under the kitchen sinks, suggests that there are those who still think that a woman could keepj ia secret still.—Boston Transcript. J High Court For "All Highest" [From the New York Tribune.! According to Paris reports, the i peace conference, will bring the ex- I kaiser to trial. This decision has j been long delayed. It was opposed | by extreme national legalists and by I those morbidly tender souls who deprecate "vindictiveness" toward II hose responsible for Germany's i criminal methods of warfare. | The general run of munkind is not so easily affrighted by the shadow ■of justice. When the Germans were breaking the laws of war anfl over riding the restraints thrown about military harshness by humanitarian compacts and understanding, no I voice was raised to excuse the War I Lord, in whom the duty to prevent | such enormities was vested. Nobody j was arguing then, as Mr. Lansing and other American delegates in Paris have recently been doing, ac cording to the press reports, that "the head of a state is responsible for his illegal acts to the people j from whom he derives his authority and not to any foreign sovereignty." Nobody was saying then that mur derers of civilians, women and chil dren were immune because they wore the German uniforms and were I acting in obedience to duly consti tuted domestic authority. The kaiser didn't murder his own subjects. He' and they co-operated in murdering and despoiling enemy subjects. How can they be expected to bring him to justice for crimes in which they were enthusiastic ac complices? His and their offenses were committed against laws which all nations were pledged to uphold. The Allied powers, representing the collective authority of the world as fully as they do, are perfectly com petent to try the kaiser and his sub ordinates for these breaches of law and faith. If they haven't a tribun al ready made they may easily cre ate one, and they are also at liberty Ito establish a trial procedure which I they may deem suitable. They have j ample jurisdiction. All they need to do is to assert it. The legalistic sticklers at Paris recommended the conference to dodge the issue by devolving on Bel gium the task of prosecuting such German offenders as she could get into her courts. That was a counsel of pettiness. The powers have now | apparently rejected it in favor of j open and courageous joint action. A Senator Faces Trial This sketch of Senator Humbert of France, ex-dishwaslier, owner of Le Journal and political leader, now on trial for alleged complicity with 8010 Pasha in treason, is from a Paris correspondent of the London Times: Humbert manages to strike a note peculiar to himself. In the rough way which can onlv be ex pected from a very much self-mude man—he started life as a barman in a mean cafe—he meanders through long explanations of his past actions. At one time he is wheedling. "I*ll tell you, colonel. I'll explain that." When he is per suasive his hands wave to and fro ',?,u the ,nannor "f a shopwalker. When he is defiant, words less grammatical than forceful are hurled at the judge, while a finger of accusation is pointed at the per son he mentions. When he is stand ing and silent—very seldom he rests his hands on the clock rail and his rather prominent embon point against the corner post of the dock, his present lodging. Once seated Vulcan becomes extinct. His arms go up on the rails, and his sunlike physiognomy spreads rays of quiet interest in the direction of Judge Mornet or at his defending counsel. WOULD WF:? The population of the coastal strip of Dalmatia, according to the Austri an census, is made up of eighteen thousand Italians to tilo,ooo Slavs It may be as Dr. H. H. Powers sug gested in his article in The Star yesterday, the Italians are three times as numerous as the official fig ures show. They would still number not more than 10 per cent of the population. This land was to be awarded Italy under the treaty or I London, when Italian help was sore ly needed in the war. Suppose Italy gets Dalmatia, as is now expected. Suppose ten years hence there should be a Slavic up rising there and Jugo-Slavia should come to the aid of the rebels. Under Article X of the proposed league covenant, the United States would he bound to guarantee Dalmatia to Italy. Would the people who are sup porting the League, be prepared to send their sons abroad to tight in such a cause?— From the Kansus City Stan iEbmttg <2H|at Just as an illustration of the way people regard gardening since the war brought about a totally differ ent conception of community du> in that respect it may be mentioned that there are literally dozens ri gardens on the outskirts of Ha** risburg which are "farmed" by pee pie living blocks and in in some in- stances miles away. There are not as many gardens as there were tw® yeurs ago or as many as last year, but there are numerous plots being cultivated about the city. Some <w the- big tracts on the Hill turned over to gardeners are carefully tended and each evening the length ening hours of daylight are employ ed in making the plots look like prize affairs. An immense amount of time is being given to gardening in Harrisburg and often in the af ternoons women and children work at. them and the men take up the job in the evenings. The war seem ed to.have gotten many residents of Harrisburg either into the garden habit or to have awakened some recollection of other days when they worked in the gardens or on the farm. A group which attracted some at tention at the Capitol yesterday afternoon was Ex-Governor William A. Stone; Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scranton, and General Harry C. Trexler, of Allcntown. A few min utes later A. B. Farquhar, the York manufacturer, passed. He is one of the oldest and most active men in civic affairs in the State, being eighty-three and still very active. Major W. O. Murdock, the State draft officer, has sent telegrams to the officers of the Philadelphia com mittee in charge of the welcome home of the troops in which he urges that care bo taken to recog nize the members of the Philadel phia draft boards in the plans for the parade. He says that they in ducted into the service more than 54,000 men. • • • House cleaning at the office of the directors of the poor during the last few days turned up old records which hud been kept there for years, among them books showing ac counts which were kept in 1828. One of these is in ledger form show ing payments for various supplies and work at the institution. Some of the entries follow: for 70 gal lons of whisky. $17.50; for one bar- I rol of whisky, $5.25; for snuff, $4.40; two cords of wood, $10.50; five cof fins. $12.50; one bay mare, $80: two shad, 50 cents; one bull, $10.90; 100 bushels of wheat, $110; 7 bushels | potatoes, $2.81; 20 head of sheep, | $45; maid's wages, one month, $4; 1 steward's wages, two months, $33.35. In 1850 these were some of the en tries: 58 pounds of veal at 5 cents a pound: 3356 feet of lumber, $4O-,27; 104 yards calico, $5.93; 7 head of cattle, $118; cook's wages, one month, $3; nurse, one month, $2; laborer's wages, one month, $1.50; sand, four joads, $1; 45 tons of coal, $123.75; 361 pounds beef, $19.85. In 1840 these were some of the items: 16 steers, $330; 40 cords of wood. $6O; one sow and five pigs, $6; 17 barrels of flour, $4 a barrel. • ♦ • Deputy Prothonotary Henry F. Holler found a Hummelstown paper the other day which had been pub lished in 1895. In it was an ac count of his wedding, and also one of the wedding of Irvin Bicker. Tho other day Isaac B. Swartz, an at torney of the Dauphin county bar, walked into the prothonotary's of fice, and Mr. Holler said he had seen Mr. Swartz's name irrthc same paper. Mr. Swartz inquired about it and Mr. Holler told him that it was mentioned in connection with the Bicker wedding, at which Mr. Swartz was best man. • • A llarrisburger who recently went over the Sunbury and "Lewistown di vision of the Pennsylvania railroad tells a funny incident that came up during the trip. A woman who was exceedingly -attractive in appear ance, walked up to the drinking cup purveyor at the front of the ear. She was evidently unfamiliar with the mechanism of the apparatus and after she had inserted the necessary copper, did not know what to do. "You turn the knob," her compan ion, an elderly woman, reminded her. The first woman's face red dened. "You see, 1 don't know how to operate these here new fangled things," she declared, to the edifica tion of the entire car. . . . There are two kinds of visitors who never seem to tire of touring the big gray building and who are to be seen every day marching through the corridors and about the legislative halls. One group is com posed of soldiers, some of them Pennsylvanians who take advantage of stop offs in Harrisburg to look over the Capitol of their State which many of them have never een. The other are Harrisburg school children, taken through the Capitol by "Charley" Boyer in his series of outings. The youngsters march around two and two, just as they come from school and do not seem to be scared even of legisla tors. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I —Ex-Governor William A. Stone, now prothonotary of the Supreme Court, was among the visitors to the Capitol yesterday. He called upon the Governor. —Colonel John L. Spangler, of Bellefonte, widely known in Demo cratic affairs for years, was here during tho week, visiting the Leg islature and meeting friends. —Frank B. McClain, former Lieutenant governor, says that Har risburg and other manufacturing and railroad towns, will soon be booming again as he expects a re vival. —Judge Istlac Johnson, of Med!< is here observing the trend of legis lation in regard to the State Boar* of Public Charities. —James L. Adams, former Sen ator from Allegheny county, wj,; here in regard to motor vehicle leg islation. * DO YQU KNOW —That Harrisburg machinery wits used extensively to make, appliances for the manufacture of munitions? "HISTORIC HARRISBURG A hundred years ago Harrisburg had two ferries and one bridge all in active operation. Bold to Speak the Gospel For yourselves, brethren, know our entrunce in unto you, that it was not in vain, we were bold in our God to speak unto the gospel of God with much contention.—i Thessalonlans. 11, 1 and 2, -
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