12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 NEWSPAPER FOR TEE HOME Founded ISSI ■ —• Published evenings except Sunday by TIIE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Te!ecrak Building, Federal Sqaere E. J. STACKFOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, B%uineat Manager BUS. M. STF.INMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager Exeeattve Beard T. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, OUS. M. STEINMETZ. fembers of the Aseociated Prese—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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 11l rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn- Assoc la- Eastern Building! Western office' l Chfcago, ?ii.' ld ' nS Entered at the Poet Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . By carrier, ten cents a .ff'.'fi/'iiy * week; by maii. $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919 Wealth takes into itself the qual ities by which it is won. — HOLLAND. THE LOCAL OUTLOOK THE outlook is for a great Re publican victory in Dauphin county at the polls in Novem ber. Every indication points in that direction. The Republicans never were better organized and the Dem ocrats never more demoralized. There is a reason for this lack of interest in Democratic affairs other than the mismanagement of the party's organization, bad though that has been. It lies in the ex cellent record Republican officials in the county have made in the past eight years. When it was pos sible for Democratic leaders to point out the faults of Republican administration or the shortcoming of Republican officials, the Repub lican ticket often faced a hard tight. But the county is normally Repub lican, and when the voters are con tent with the conduct of public af fairs and have confidence in the men elevated to office there is al ways a waning of interest in Demo cratic activities. That is precisely what has happened in the past six or eight years. Not even the most captious of Democrats has been able to find anything to criticise in the court house, but many betterments in public service and praiseworthy measures of administration have come to the attention of the pub lic and have been instrumental in establishing the favor with which the people now regard the Repub lican organization and the men for whom it stands sponsor. Honest, efficient conduct of pub lic affairs is the best advertisement any political party can offer. Postmaster Sites might utilize the big bill board at Third and Walnut streets to boost his grocery trade. "Curse the Kaiser," says the p. O. clerk and carrier. THE FARMER KNOWS THE farmer appears to be the only manual worker in tue country who knows that pro duction depends upon effort and that all wealth is based on the human capacity, or desire or ability to work. A Washington dispatch quotes one of the great agricultural author ities of the - Nation as saying that the farmer did his full part during the war; that he speeded up pro duction and thereby saved the world from starvation. This is absolutely true. The farmer knew that every thing we eat comes from the earth and that unless he labored indus triously and put into the earth more seeds than ever before he would not be able to harvest more foodstuffs. He has neither cut down his number of working hours nor decreased his efficiency. If anything, he has added to his efforts and increased his pro ducts. Correspondingly he has in creased his profits. But in many trades the workmen have asked for fewer hours and at the same time have cut down their productivity during the hours they do work. This means that less of the world's goods is being made now ( than before, and so long as this continues the old law of supply and demand will work to keep prices very high in all lines. Let us not try to fool ourselves. We must work, and work hard if we are to live. The way to get more of the world's goods is to work harder. We may not work so long as we used to think necessary—for the eight-hour day is an accepted principle—but we ought to work harder while we are on duty if we expect to earn more wages and get our own necessities at more reason able prices. Make no mistake about it. Cut tiug down the world's supply of those things which men need or de ore will never add to the wealth of trie world, either in profits to the employer or in wages to the employe. l.Vbor is determined to have a larger of the profits than formerly, THURSDAY EVENING, an*, this is as it should be; but no labor union in the world can in crease its wages beyond the power ot an industry to pay, and every time production is decreased in any line o£ trade just so often the ability of the industry to pay higher wages is lessened. Production is the life blood of industry- Take it away and the most prosperous business in the world will wither and die. The farmer is prospering not i alone through the higher prices he is getting for his products, but be cause he is growing larger crops, planting a bigger acreage and har vesting larger yields. The rest of lus must learn that lesson. We must ' plant more if we are to harvest i more; we must produce more if we : want to continue to get more pay. | Of course you are preparing to take ; a big part in the Kipona festivities. I It's a day for hospitality and friendly i exchanges. Everybody will be on the | river or at its edge on Labor Day. A GROSS ERROR WE INVITE that ignorant Paris dressmaker, who told an As sociated Press reporter the j other day that American women I were ashamed to show their ankles !in public because they are not i pretty, to come to Harrisburg and i learn the truth. Yes, sir. that's what I we said, right here in Harrisburg. ! Why any day. any hour, in Market ! street, with the highstep cars and j the tight, short skirts working over j time, we could convict that raah | French person of error on two j counts, as they say in court. Firstly, American women, or Har- I lisburg women at least, are not ' afraid to put their ankles on dis -1 play. Yea, they go even beyond that modest stage. And secondly, their ankles are not the kind of which any woman need be ashamed. Indeed, even bashful, circumspect persons, happily married and sup. posed to be far removed from the wiles ot' feminine charms, have so remarked to us. And no later than last week, when a windstorm scat tered the crowds and drove many fair visitors from the Island Park pageant to Valley Traction Com- I pany cars, a venerable minister of the gospel observed to us. a twinkle in his eye, that he could not fully understand how it was that a woman never learned to keep her ' skirts much below her knees while boarding a street car until she had j passed her fiftieth birthday. And as ! we searched our puny intellect i for a suitable reply, it occurred to us that even the half-century mark | has left some ladies, then moving rapidly across the landscape toward i the cars, with ample excuse for such ' display as the ignorant French modiste says ourwomen are ashamed to make. Maybe some of our ladies occasionally do feel shame, but it is not of the variety bred of skirts kept below shoetop height. No, in deed. ~ Children's welfare work is a God given privilege for all who realize the importance of getting the little peo ple started right. MUST PAY THE PIPER NOW that Congress has killed the daylight saving law the members and Senators who voted to override the veto must prepare to pay the piper. They must expect that when they come before the people next time friends of the daylight saving, and they are in great majority in the nation, will look up their votes on this question and act accordingly. President Wilson did admirably in the matter and keenly sensed the sentiment of the country with re spect to the repeal of this law, which was highly beneficial to mil lions of people. Those who voted to take away this extra hour of daylight may have pleased a few farmers, but they have robbed hundreds of home-gardeners of their opportunity to cultivate vegetables and next year many families will be deprived of their supplies because of this foolish fear of Congressmen to take issue with opponents of the day light saving plan, who are not in the main farmers, but owners of coal mines, electric light and gas companies. Congress, at a time when we should be saving in every direction, has repealed the only genuine con servation measure that has stood the test of the war. It saved mil lions of tons of coal every year and gave pleasure to millions of people who henceforth must spend an hour of daylight in sleep that dur ing the past two summers they have used to good advantage. It is such nonsensical conduct, such bold defi ance of the wishes of a great major ity of the people that make for discontent and give the enemies of our form of government food for their radical discussions. Governor Sproul is telling the other Governors in Utah to-day a few things about good old Pennsylvania which ought to open their eyes to the splendid character of this State and its tremendous resources. An exchange of news by these state leaders ought to be helpful and in spiring. Our own Governor has a great subject and none is more familiar with it than the present distinguished occupant of the guber natorial chair. State H'ghway Commissioner Sad ler should act as host in general for the thousands of tourists who will in- Ivade Pennsylvania next year. Why not have an invitation issued in be half of the Commonwealth to a selected list of a million motorists throughout the East. Thousands now accustomed to tour New England and elsewhere would be glad to visit I Pennsylvania once they learned the way. foOtlcoU Bj the Kx-Commit tec man Auditor General Charles Snyder will lay before the probers into the I collapse of the North Penn Bank I such facts as he is in possession of j that may throw light on the involve i ment of former State Banking Com missioner Daniel S. Lafean, of York, l in the matter. Yesterday afternoon State Treasurer Harmon G. Kephart | was quizzed by Assistant District At- I torneys Joseph M. Taulane and ! James Gay Gordon, Jr., as well as | Deputy Attorney General B. J. Myers. It was following Mr. Kephart's visit that the fact that Mr. Snyder had been summoned became known. ■ "I have sent to Harrisburg to get j the minutes of the meeting of the State Revenue Board at which Mr. j Snyder made his observations about i the efforts being made by former j Insurance Commissioner Charles A. Ambler to transfer the funds of the Pittsburgh Life and Trust Com pany, which he held as receiver, to a small bank in Philadelphia," said Mr. Kephart. "These minutes will show whether I Mr. Lafean was present at that , meeting. They will be given to the ! District Attorney's office. They asked me a number of things in j connection with the meeting and Mr. I Lafean, and I Ijave sent for the min ; utes so that there will be no mis i take." —Congressman John J. Casey, of 1 Wilkes-Barre, has informed Thomas ' Kennedy, president of district No. | 7 of the United Mine Workers, that ihe accepts the invitation to be the speaker at the Labor Day rally of miners at Fisher's Hill, in Hazle ton, on September 1. —The taxpayers of Wyomissing, at a special election, approved a loan of SSO,uOO for permanent street and sewer improvements. —Captain George F. head of the State Police, has motored to Maine where he will spend his va cation. —Postmaster Frank C. Sites has been summoned to Washington to confer with other members of a committee on pastmasters' salaries. He will be absent most of next week. —M. Harvey Taylor, who has been getting over the county a bit, says his candidacy is moving along to suit him and he expects a big vote. Peace, Then Stability [From the Journal of Commerce.] On the other hand, the President performs a needed public service by insisting that there can be no settled conditions, here or elsewhere, until the treaty of peace is out of the way and the work of liquidating the war .has become the chief con cern of our Government and of the other governments of the world. He presents his critics with a piece of stubborn economic truth when he says that until then business will inevitably remain speculative, sway ing now this way and that, with contingent gains and losses, both of which the consumer will be re quired to make good. It belongs to the category of the obvious, but it cannot be too often repeated, that there can be no peace prices so long as our whole financial and economic system is on a war basis. Equally necessary, truism though it also be, is it to push home the President's reminder that while there is any possibility that the peace terms may be changed or may be held long in abeyance, or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion among the powers concern ed, it is idle to look for permanent relief. "Dry" Era Booms Tobacco Prohibition is going to give an impetus to tobacco growing in Cuba, according to Dr. Luis N. Menocal, one of Cuba's most famous surgeons and brother of President Mario G. Menocal of Cunba. who was at the Hotel Majestic in New York yester day en route to his summer place at Lake Placid. "When people are deprived of liquor they naurally turn to some other stimulant, and tobacco is the most likely one," said Dr. Menocal. "For that reason the tobacco grow ers? look for a record-breaking sea son and are preparing for unprece dented demands in the tobacco market. The next crop has been calculated at about $60,000,000. ' Dr. Menocal declared that thou sands of visitors from Cuba, held rack by the war, were preparing to visit New York this late summer and fall and that New York hotels and shopping centers will do a rec ord business as a result. He said that the Cubans were very prosper ous just now and that many thou sands of dollars will be left here by visitors from that country during the next few months. A Creed So brave a man as Premier Clemenceau abruptly told complain ers in the French Chamber of Dep uties that it is harder to make peace than to make war, and in a somewhat similar vein the poets re mind us that it is not enough to memorialize those who fought and fell for the freedom of the world, but even more important so to live as to be worthy of their supreme sacrifice. In the Detroit Free Press this need is set down as an act of faith in these simple yet strong lines; Lord, let me not in service lag. Let me be worthy of our flag; Let me remember, when I'm tried, The sons heroic who have died In freedom's name, and in my way Teach me to be as bra%-e as they. In all I am. in all I do Unto our flag I would be true; For God and country let me stand, Unstained of soul and clean of hand, Teach me to serve and guard and love The Starry Flag which flies above. The Easiest Way [From Blighty, London, [ A vast and determined looking woman wore a very large hat one evening at the theater. "Madam," said the attendant po litely, "I must request you to re move your hat. It is annoying this gentleman behind you." The massive lady turned and haughtily surveyed the complain ant. "Do you mean that little weedy, undersized creature?" she asked. "This gentleman behind you," the attendant corrected her. The lady settled herself down in her place. "You will find it easier and plasanter," she said, de cisively. "to remove,him!" Call in the Junkers Erzberger says "brutal measures" are needed to bring out hidden money for taxation. Well, nobody knows any more about brutal meas ures than the German*. HAJRJRISBURG TELEGRAPH .WONDER WHAT A GIRL IN THE CHORUS THINKS ABOUE By BRIGGS X Ge_r S ° ,S ' CK oP THAT 5 A CUTE LOOKIM J HOPE THIS S --THE .SCCOND EWCORF THIS MVJKID IM PROMT- I GOT LAST TH-IC. - I'M 5° OF THS ROTTCN BUH-I-IEV£ ME HIS EVE A COOPU TIMCS, TIRED I COOLD FLOP FJOMBFR CEE-E-A | COOLD Do S'POSE HBU GOT A No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station "The American soldier differed from others, just as our boys differ from foreign boys. "Whether it is that we are Inher ently more ingenious, have more practical mechanical sense, or sim ply, in our normal boyhood, have greater opportunity to exercise such faculties, is hard to say. We know at least that for a century, our na tion has been famed for its inven tions. Perhaps we inherited inge nuity, or acquired it as a racial char acteristic because of the exercise of it, by our pioneer forebears, when necessity induced many improvisa tions. Why or how we got these at tributes matters little—the point is we have them. The manner jn which they showed in the actions of our troops was interesting—and to our Allies a constant source of sur prise. For instance, when our troops first took over a narrow gauge railway system, it was veiy short of cars of different types. Timber was next to nil. Our men scoured the battlefield, salvaged all the old, dilapidated, demolished German equipment, and soon turned out a number of staunch cars, proudly bearing in large letters, U. S. A. The engines used were of French and English make—and of course were of wholly different type than any with which our men were familiar. However, they soon be came acquainted with them—and the British headquarters sent fre quent inquiries as to why we were not sending engines lit whole or in parts back to the base shops for usual repairs. Our replies, that all repairs were being made by our men in our improvised field shop, did not convince, and a British ma jci came down to us —an the theory that 'seeing is believing.' Another tl.ing that astounded the Tommy operators—engine drivers and train ciews—was the disregard our men had for the rule of the road that maximum speed of trains would not et.ceed four miles per hour. Our mer. hit it up as fast as ths little dinkies could travel. Of course there were many derailments. ThooC dinkies would stub their toes and take pretty little headers. A dinky in the ditch, flat on her back, v heels in the air, would make the Tommys ruefully smile, and shake their heads over the 'crazy Yanks. But here again American methods astonished. In two shakes we would jack up and skid that dinky back onto the rails and be on our way Another stunt that brought us to official notice at British headquai te.rs, was our attempt to increase our comfort. We had to depend, for light, upon oil lamp, lanterns, candles * and sputtering, smelly acetyline burners. On the Thiexval Ridge we found a German airplane demolished, but with engine prac tically intact. The latter was im mediately brought in, taken down, cleaned, repaired and soon in run ning order again. Now, if you please, we were going to have o small electric light plant, and have a camp de luxe. But that engine had a voracious appetite for petrol, and our increased requisitions brought an inquiry as to the reason. The 'crazy Yanks' soon drew an of ficial veto of their scheme. When the French officers tried to teach our engineers how to build brush revetement materials fasciwe gabions and hurdles —they explain ed with great detail just how those things were made, and not content, e\en had the manufacture demon strated, by groups of French ex perts. Little did they realize that at some time in his boyhood, nearly every American kid builds caves, huts, robbers' dens —and in doing it uses brush of all kinds in approved l.iifket weave and in patterns no basket weaver ever heard of. So all that was necessary to teach us how to make this material was to tell us the measurements and givu us one look. The Germans accom plished a great engineering feat when they built the Leviathan formerly the 'Vaterland.' A wonder ful ship it was, with wonderful en gines and capable of great speed foi its size. Yet when we seized it our engineers found much piping in it for which they could see no use. They promptly removed it, did some more tinkering with the engines and got more speed out of them than their original makers could. Orders were that only minor re pairs to ordinance might be made in the field. For all other repairs thf guns must be sent to the shops. Our man couldn't see it, so made HUNDRED MILLION NEW BUYERS THE most important body in Rus sia to-day is the organization of Russian Co-operatives, which represents twenty million members or one hundred million customers. The foundation of the co-operatives is the Russian peasant, the back bone of Russia to-day. The co-operative idea is about forty years old and well adapted to Russian psychology. It is based on the village store or artel. The artels combine in turn into a union of stores, not of members, and' the unions combine into a union of unions. The co-operative institu tions are of three kinds—consum ers', purchasers' and credit. The very rich do not join and certain officials are excluded. To-day in European Russia and Siberia the co-operatives present the many repairs in the spot. Strictly against orders, our artillerymen rode the guns—loaded on the recoil —and so were able to fire last and furious. The French automatic rifle —the Chauchot —was demonstrated to us, and then we had a contest with the French demonstration platoon. Each was given a .certain number of targets and allowed to shoot for three minutes. Good work wuold be gauged by the number of hits, and proportion of targets hit. One of our Chauchot teams, upon taking its position to fire, found it self in a hollow so that it couldn't see its target. Time was flying: they wanted to score every second —so without hesitation the gunner picked up his gun, got off his tummy, and holding the gun by 'he legs that should be on the ground, tripod fashion, fired the gun from the shoulder, as if an ordinary rifle. The French thought he was crazy! To make it better the gunner no ticed his first shot ricochetting and tearing the target, so he con inucd grazing the ground and when lie finished the target was chewed .to pieces. Such quick solutions of problems; unhesitating remedies: got the job done, no matter how at titude, often led our Allies to think we surely were crazy, but also en abled us to amaze thein With re sults." At 'Er Boy Baron I The following paragraph from Baron Rosen's "Forty Years of a Diplomat's Life," appearing in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post, should make the hair of the Cali fornia prospectus writers curl with envy.' (At the time of which he writes the barn was Russian consul general at New York —during the late 'Bos and early '9os.) During the summer we made some little excursions, and also went on a week's visit to our Boston friends in their seaside cottage at Pride's Crossing, on the so-called North Shore, the summer resort of the wealth and fashion of Boston. I remember how, on one of those gloriously fine mornings when all nature seems to smile and quiet glad ness pervades the universe, we were lounging, our host and I, on the veranda overlooking the sea, com fortably stretched out on deck chairs, with a little table between us bear ing refreshing beverages and the finest flavored Havanas, listening to the soft breathing of the mighty ocean, our faces fanned by the gen tle breeze wafted across the waters, the bearer of life-giving ozone —in a word, in a state of as perfect bliss as is but rarely attainable in this vale of tears —when the morning pa pers from Boston were brought in." People Ask, "Will it Work?" [From the Kansas City Star.] The Plumb plan for railroad or ganization, is being characterized as "Socialistic" and as founded on soviet economics. But of course the name of the thing is a minor matter. The American people are practical. They aren't particularly concerned about theories. What they want to know is, will the plan work? They were pretty hopeful about the adventure into Government management of railroads two years ago. But in the school of hard knocks their hope has largely van ished. Even the moderate innova tion of Government management has failed to work. They can't begin to see where the innovation of Gov ernment ownership plus manage ment by employes could be a success. The hard headed American who finds himself digging into his pocket to make good the enormous railroad deficit, is mighty shy of a plan, un der no matter what name, that promises to continue or increase that i deficit. I strongest hope of reconstruction. I But they need American co-opera- I lion and credit. They fear the entry iof Japanese capital as being im- I perialistically inclined. They believe [ the spirit of American capital will I allow them to preserve their own i spirit and not threaten their social | and political institutions. They see j the influx of foreign capital as in -1 evitable and are desirous of enter- I ing into business relations with I America more than with any other country. ! They have now established a com- I mission in this country with head | quarters in New York, to explain | their organization to American busi i ness men, secure credit and co- I operation, and to study our methods, j They would welcome a mission from I the United States. The Nation's 1 Business for September. j LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I .> | He Likes the "Telegraph" Writing to the editor-in-chief of \ The Telegraph from Washington, an i experienced and brilliant publisher I and editor pays us this compliment: "I want to congratulate you on j the splendid paper you issue. It : ranks both typographically and in : handling of news with the best met ! ropolitan dailies. I have been sur prised to see what a remarkably j good paper you print in a city the size of Harrisburg. I am myself a | daily newspaper publisher and see ! from time to time nearly all the big 1 papers, but I think you have the j best paper, size of city taken into ] account, I have ever seen, and cer- I tainly one of the best in any city. I That it is appreciated is evidenced , by your excellent advertising • patronage." lli'jh Cost of Unprepared ness [Philadelphia North American.] We were absolutely unready for the colossal enterprise, a condition I in which President Wilson and Sec retary Baker took complacent satis faction, as an evidence of our un- I warlike principles. The first need ! was food for the military and naval ' forces, including an army of an in ! definite number of millions. The | Government, having utterly neglect jcd preparation, had to gather im -1 mediately prodigious supplies of | food and equipment. It plunged into j a veritable orgy of buying—not on the basis of fixed prices or with re gard to the general needs, but as a competitor of the public, of every housewife. Its agents had virtually no instructions except to get the needed goods; price was a secondary consideration. Staples were bid up to famine rates almost over night; and not only that, but 'the market was swept bare of many of them. President Wilson, intent upon his mission to reorganize the world and deeply concerned over the distresses of Europe, was only languidly Inter ested in the situation in the United States. In December, 1914, when the possibilities of national peril were already plain, he rebuked those who implored defensive preparation as "nervous and excited." "We have always found means," he said, "to J defend ourselves." With the same i unseeing neglect, just four years later, he dismissed pleas for prep aration to meet a swiftly developing crisis with the placid observation that "we must apply the wisest ac tion to circumstances as they arise," j and ignored the subject until it was forced upon his notice by the menace of a great industrial upheaval. Then his eleventh-hour solution was to raise wages again, raise railroad rates to pay them, and so raise the cost of living once more. Although many things have con tributed to starting and keeping in motion the "vicious cycle" which is testing the endurance of the Amer ican people, one of the foremost causes has been unpreparedness in its three manifestations unpre paredness before the war; conse quent inefficiency, extravagance and waste during the war, and unpre paredness for the necessary read justments after the war. Just a Metaphor [From Birmingham Age-Herald.] "They were married in an air plane." "The latest fad, I understand. How long was it before they got back to earth ?" "About six weeks." "You don't mean to tell me .they were up in an airplane that long?" "I was speaking figuratively. At the end of six weeks the average honeymooners strike terra flrma with !.a sickening thud." AUGUST 21, 1919. EDITORIAL COMMENT The landlord isn't exactly bring ing down the house.—Detroit News. The idea of the food-price prob ers should be to take the profiteer by the ear and shake the profit out of him.—Pittsburgh Sun. With hogs selling at twenty-four cents on the hoof there is many a silk-purse that isn't worth a sow's ear.—London (Ontario) Free Press. In Budapest a reactionary is any body whose conscience bothers hint after he has killed a property-own er.—lndianapolis Times. It seems another blow at the food-supply of the world when pro hibition steps in and blights the wild-oats c*)p of coming genera tions. New York Morning Tele graph. If Mexico could only be made safe, it might become a great winter re sort for Americans. And then the Mexican bandits could become hotelkeepers. Long Island City Star. If the trouble continues, it will be necessary for some one to march boldly into Mexico and read the League of Nations Covenant to the Mexicans.—Boston Shoe and Leath er Reporter. The German mark, which usually passed for twenty-five cents Ameri can money, was quoted this morn ing at six and one-quarter cents. 1 This is obviously a great mark down. —Boston Transcript. • Even the man without a dollar is fifty cents better off than he once was.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. "Superfluous Kings" [Alice Meynell in the Atlantic Monthly.] "Which had superfluous king 3 for messengers Not many moons gone by." —Antony and Cleopatra. As the kings lags, and then pass away from the stage of the world, many men will ask what there is to regret. Assuredly nothing, if not royalty, in the mind of Shake speare. Mankind will in time prob ably forget or deny that there was ever anything in the life of the world answering to Shakespeare's royalty in Perdita, or to his prince llness in Arviragus and Guiderius. or to his kindliness in ear, or to hiy j glory in Cleopatra. He confronts us with the utter most of pride of life in the royalty he sings; confronts us—no, rather brings us to our knees before the arrogant splendor he conceives: "\\ here souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand, And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze." j | It is the pride of life and the pride of death. Only hand in hand | with a queen does Antony ventuie on the prophecy of that immortal vanity. If to him are given the most surprising lines in any of the tragedies, it is only as the lover of a queen that he has the right to To him is assigned that startling* word, the incomparable word of amorous and tender cere mony—'"Egypt." "I am dying, Egypt, dying." That territorial name, murmured to his love in the hour of death and in her irms—l know not iii the rccorrs of all genius any other such august farewell. Saving SI.OO a Week (If Invested at 4 Per cent. Interest Compounded Quarterly) J >' ear $ 63.05 2 years 108.25 3 * years 225.4 7 3 >ears 287.67 >'eurs 63g G8 15 years 1,066.39 20 years 1,589.60 25 years 2,227 28 30 years 3,005.38 35 years 3,954.81 *0 years 5,113.29 50 years 8,251.07 75 years 24,546.45 100 years 68,620.89 $2.00 a week (or $26.00 a quarter) for 15 years amounts to $2,133.98, a sum of which would go far toward' securing a modest home, or putting a boy or girl through college, or furnishing a fund to take advantage of some other opportunity. SI.OO a week (or $13.00 a quarter) would provide the same amount in less than 25 years. Your invested savings work for you even if your other income stops. They always form a reserve to meet emergencies and also enable one to take advantage of unexpected oppor tunities. lEmutto.(Eljat j The Kipona Executive Committea proposes that there shall be a war canoe race in which teams repre senting the Chamber of Commerce, the Kotary Club and the Kiwanis Club shall be the contestants. Doubtless this will be one of tho features of the celebration, and it re-calls that in the early days of tho city boat racing on the Susquehanna was an event equal in importance and interest to the Kipona of to-day. Among the men who manned the eight oared shells in those famous contests were Ed. Kauch, Owen 11. Copelin, former city treasurer, and the late Charles Etter. The Harris burg Boat Club was the name of their organization and they had a boathouse on the island abutting on the piers of the llarket street bridgo of handsome design ju*t nearing completion in June of 18S9 when the big flood demolished the build ing. At the same time another club which had a handsome house with large storage facilities at Front and Maclay streets went out of business, i the tiood ruining the structure and [ its furniture. The place was never [ occupied after that, although large, well built and ot\ handsome design, it stood vacant until half carried | away by lumber thieves and was demolished when the city began Its river park improvements. In its day it was a noted landmark along" the Susquehanna. The boat races held under tho auspices of the Harrisburg Boat Club drew thousands of spectators a fid made a great holiday in Harris burg, visitors coming from as far as Philadelphia and Williamsport. Tho events were well staged and exciting. In addition to the four oared shell race, there were two scull races, duck boat contests, canoe races and tub races, the last attracting wide attention and causing much amuse ment. The course lay between the Market street bridge to the water house and return around a stake boat there, but the audience had no "front steps" on which to sit and the water was not so deep for there was no dam in the river at tho lower end of town. • * * Members of the old boat club rowed in regattas at Philadelphia, Newark, Seneca Lake, Columbia, Sunbury and other places where contests for national championships were staged and always made a good showing. Among the most enthusiastic club members were Thomas T. Weirman, Luther Gorgas, E. C. Kepple, Theodore G. Calder, Dr. C. Westbrook, Charles F. Etter, E. C. Raucli, O. M. Copelin, Charles E. Covert, William R. Denehey, F. R. Sites, J. Herman Knisely, Homer Harris, William Myers, Charles Schriver, John D. Lemer and E. Bergstresser, some of whom have since passed beyond. And they had accumulated a valu able lot of property when the big flood came down and gave rowing here a solar plexus blow from which it is only now showing signs of recovery. The equipment included two four oared shells, three double sculls and four singles, worth $2,500 at least. * * * Some of the others who were fa mous oarsmen on the river were Lyman D. Gilbert and Judge 51c- Phei-son, then young lawpartneis l in this city and both now dead. "Jack" McPherson was also a crack cricket and baseball player, cricket being a game then in vogue here. The cricket Held was at Maclay and Fifth streets. Gilbert and McPher son had a two oared scull on tho river and they took their exercise together even as they did their legal work together and it was not an unusual thing for them to go down the river as far as Middletown and back or up the river to Rockville and back in a single afternoon and still be fresh enough to attend a dinner party or dance in the even : ing. They were among the best athletes in the city in those times. 1 Still another who knew how to handle a scull was the late Osceola Daugherty, a well known engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, hut he took his pleasure alone, being one of the best single oarsmen in tho State. Almost any fair afternoon his boat might be seen on the river. The sailboat was also a common sight on the Susquehanna in those days. Perhaps the most daring of the sailboat navigators was the late Sam Knox, whose father purchased for him in Baltimore the "Joseph ine," a sailing vessel that carried twenty-three yards of sail, the largest amount ever used on a boat here. This boat made speed records for a number of years on the river and also went out of business fol lowing the 1889 June flood. The motorboat has superceded the sail boat, but there would be more sport than ever in sailing with the better surface offered by the dam and the increased depth, especially if tho Navy gets the channel through to Kockville, which now seems possi ble. One of the noted oarsmen of tho. Eighties, now residing in Harris burg, and who more than once con tested with Harrisburg talent for the supremacy of the Susquehanna, is John S. Musser, former president of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and head of the Dauphin! Electrical Sup plies Company. Mr. Musser waa then a member of the Columbia Boat Club, one of the most noted organizations on the river, and there was keen rivalry between the Harrisburg and Columbia orgaoiza-, tions. It was nip and tuck between, them and some good stories arA exchanged when he and some of the old Harrisburg four-oared experts meet to talk over old times. Mus ser got his early training as an ath lete on the top of one of the old fashioned high wheel bicycles, being one of the first to take up that sport in Columbia and he still has numer ous trophies he won in those con tests. He rode to Washington and made a tour of Canada on his high wheeler, feats to tax the endurance of any athlete when the type of machine he rode and the condition of the roads in those days is con sidered. Consequently when he went In for boat racing he was as hard as nails and soon won the position of stroke oar of his crew. Practical [From the Boston Transcript] The following composition on "The Angelus" was written by a New York schoolboy: "This picture was painted by a Malay, it contains a man and a woman, a pitchfork, wheelbarrow and a church steeple! The man and the woman are very poor and they have been digging potatoes because they need them to live on. The potatoes look quite small. Just at sunset they hear a bell ring, it is the Angelus, it means they must pray. So they bow their heads and pray for bigger potatoes." Saw It Coming [From the Albany Journal] One 1s inclined to suspect that Mr." McAdoo saw something coming when he resigned from the position of director of railroads*