6 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \AkItBWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by TH TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. | Telegrapfc Building, Federal Square 'I 1 ■ E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business Manager 2 08. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor .R. MICHENEK, Circulation Manager Executive Board BOYD M. OGEES BY,' F.. R. OYSTER, QUS. M. STEINMETZ. r ■ Helobars of ths Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches heroin are also reserved. ' t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assdcia ated Dailies. Eastern M c e. Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Poat Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second clasa matter. By carrier, ten cents a Capc&SßU week; by mall, 53.00 a üßpw year in advance. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1919 For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of satvaiion through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether tee tcake or sleep, we should live to gether with him. — I. THESS. 0; 9, 10. PUBLIC INTEREST FOR the benefit of "fans" who were compelled to attend court at Evansville, Ind., Judge Phillip C. Gould, presiding in circuit court, announced the world's series scores from the bench, inning by inning. There's a judge for you; a man with the milk of human kindness in his soul; a man who understands that public Interest these days lies more along the lines of the lighter, things of life than in dry court pro ceedings, Congressional debates or wild-eyed tales of Bolshevistic plots and plotting. He must be some such man as our own Judge Kunkel, who would adjourn court any day to attend a baseball game, and is all the better for that. The judge who has forgotten everything but legal procedure, established precedent and ' the contents of dusty lawbooks is a , poor stick and not fit to sit in judg ment on the doings, or misdoings, of real, live human beings. Give us j a judge who loves outdoor sports j and we'll take our chances entrust- , ing justice to his hands any time. And speaking of Judge Gould's understanding of what Interests the public most at the moment, brings us to the point of repeating that the i American people are a mighty sight more Intent just now on the out come of the baseball championship series than they are In so-called la bor disputes or the nonsensical threats and futile plots of noisy radi cals. When the people are deeply moved or thoroughly aroused to any public happentng the telephone bells in the newspaper offices jangle con tinually with the calls of those who want to know how the affair is go- j lng. Take last year for example. A j world's baseball series was played j while American troops were battling desperately In France, and not a call came to this newsaper office from those who asked for the scores, but hundreds of Harrlsburg people requested the telegraph for informa tion as to how the contest was go ing with American troops abroad. This year two operators In the Tele graph office are kept constantly busy answering baseball calls, and there Is not a request for strike news, or Congressional debate, or radical threats, or anything of the sort. How Is this to be explained? Simply, that the people are not taking these dis turbances seriously. They are think ing along lighter lines, and this is an excellent indication of the pub lic temper. If there ever was a time when the spectre of Bolshevism in America appeared In an aspect more fright ful than that of the cornfield scare crow It was last spring, when unem ployment threatened the livelihood of millions and when there appeared to be a serious breakdown of our Industrial system. But that crisis is long since past, work is plenty, wages are good and there is no general discontent, much as a loud- mouthed minority would have us believe. The people last fall were in terested In war, this year it is base ball, and when a man has his mind on a baseball game to the state of being argumentative and inquisitive, he Is not much worried over -the bickerings and disagreements of Which we hear so much these days. Wise Judge Gould! He "knows a -Jot," At Ragged Edge to-day Colonel M. C Kennedy Is entertaining three or four hundred distinguished guests from ail parts of Pennsylvania and nearby States. While he was absent With the American Expeditionary Forces, doing a good job for his country and the Allies in France, tho host of to-day was compelled to forego the annual Autumn entertainment at his picturesque country home. The SATURDAY EVENING, ' creation Is always unique In its en vironment and the fact that It brings together In delightful fellowship ! many of the leaders In the Industrial, commercial, professional, political and railroad world gives the function an j unusual character. BATHING BEACHES WARRSN H. MANNING, the famous park planning ex pert who designed the parks of Harrlsburg, has been Invited to come here for a practical study of j the river bath'.ng problem, with a view to submitting a recommenda tion as to the beat facilities to be provided under the proposed loan. With a river a mile wide, dotted , with picturesque Islands' easy of ac- j ceaa. It ought not to be a difficult matter to provide bathing beaches and bath houses for the thousands of Harrlaburg people who have been , urging that suitable facilities be ar- j ranptd for several years. The sug gestion that the loan should be util ised In conrtructing bathing pools In the city has not met with popu lar favor inasmuch as the amount of the proposed loan would not be sufficient to furnish such pools as would be necessary for a large population. Those who have been thinking most of the situation believe that proper bathing beaches could easily be prepared with gravel arffi sand with floating bath houses anchored j in such a way as to secure them in . the event of a flood stage In the j river. Mr. Manning has had large ex perience with such problems and will j doubtless be able to make a recom- j mendation which will be satisfactory | to City Council and all Interested citizens. The loan for th's purpose is perhaps the most popular of all the items to be submitted to the peo- J pie at the November election. It is certain to be authorized and I every man. woman and child who appreciates the Susquehanna basin will see to it that the voters place the X in the right place on election day. . GOOD-BYE HOUSE FLY THE fag end of the fly season Is here and the approach of colder weather Is driving them to the shelter of protected places. These last flics of the summer will bo the progenitors of the first files of next spring. An active fly eradication cam paign has been waged in Harrts burg during the past summer and the results have been most grati fying. Flies have been scarce where be fore they were numerous and there have been fewer deaths in propor tion to tho population from fly borne diseases than ever before in the city's history, according to those who have studied results. Next summer, if the plan of cam paign of this year be carried out, Harrlsburg will be almost, if not quite without flics. Now is the time to take active measures —everybody—all together; swat, kill, poison flies. Flies survive the winter in two ways. Females ensconce themselves in sheltered cracks or crannies in stables, garages, attlcks or other protected places and remain until spring in a state of hibernation. When warm weather appears th# deposit their eggs where they will develop to advantage, usually In a manure heap and a few days later the first crop of spring files make their appearance. The other way flies survive is in the pupal state. The larvae burrow, as is their custom, into the ground and change into pupae. The cold weather hind ers their further change and they remain in that state until the warmth of spring removes the bar and encourages the process of their development. Kerosene is fatal to most forms of insect life. So also is borax so ! lution. If either of these agents be sprayed into likely lurking places i for hibernating flies their destruc ; tion will be assured. All manure heaps should be re moved and the underlying ground saturated with either kerosene or borax solution—one pound to three gallons of water. The place upon which the gar bage can stands should be treated in the same manner. Now is the time to remove rubbish all over the city—everywhere —so that there may bo no protection either for hi bernating Hies or undeveloped pu pae. The better the cleanup this fall the less difficulty will be experi enced next spring. Judge Gary favors control of cap ital and labor through some national Plan that will be just to both. Inci dentally the party af the third part— the great public so little considered by either of the parties of the first or second part—will earnestly pray for deliverance from the intolerable suf fering which the innocent bystander must endure while the never-ending conflict goes on between capital and labor. It is high time that the guilt less third party should have consid eration. Inasmuch as neither of tho other two would have any hope on earth without tho third: fsiaicti* By the Ex-Committeeman It seems to be now taken for granted that the affairs of the titular wing of the Democratic party m Pennsylvania, which enjoys the sun shine from the White House, will bo conducted on a purely business basis for the next year and that every ef fort will be bent to corral national delegates favorable to Attorney Gen eral A. Mitchell Calmer for Presi dent. Recent developments have caused the cobwebs to be wiped from the windows of the Democratic state windmill In this city and the millers to get exceedingly busy in organizing the Federal officeholders, postmasters and other remnants of the old army into Palmer propa gandists. It may also be said thi3 activ ity lias also aroused the Bonntwell faction, although somewhat bent in the recent primary elections, is still in a position to do things. This crowd does not propose to al low Palmer and his pals to have an easy thing In the struggle for the collirol of the works. In p short time Palmer, James I. Blakslee, Joseph F. Cluffoy and various other practical men among the Democratic ringmasters will meet to plan the campaign. It Is understood that Palmer has made ninny Influential friends In recent years and that he will not have to worry about finances for any cam paign or be depenc.Vnt upon in dividuals who would want to run everything in return for contribu tions to the warche&t any longer. —Appointment of the commission I to study the revision of the consti tution and to prepare suggested I amendments for submission to the i legislature of 1921, is expected to j b>j announced by Governor William O. Sproul within the next ten a ays ior sc. The Governor has been gi\ • ting close personal attention to the selection of men for the commission so that every phase of life in Penn sylvania will be represented. The indications are that the commission will be called to meet in Harrisburg early in the fall and that most of the meetings will be held here, al though subcommittees may sit in other places. —Another commission to be named will be that of health insur ance upon which the Governor has been working for some tiino and which will likely be named about the same time as the constitutional re vision commission. This commission will be required to present a report to tho next Legislature when the Did Age Pension Commission is also to report. -—The Governor Is keeping in close touch with the movements being made in the Btate Forest Commis sion for the establishment of a new n ethod of handing contracts and in s'lrctton of State forests and also of timber cutting operations. There will be other developments in this line between now and the first of No vember. —State department officials are sending word to counties where tr.e election count has been lagging to here until the official returns are in the certifications can be made on time. Results arc known, but the official notices can not be sent from here until the official returns are in j hand. Much intetcst is being shown here in the progress of the official count In Philadelphia county, j —The high cost of being a candi date is disturbing some of the men in poltlcs in the State, many of whom say that it will keep business men from running fbr office and al low rich men with grouches to make disturbances. In I.uzerne county it is estimated that the primary cost over $lOO,OOO thnt people knew of,' while Scranton papers say that $37,- 000 was spent In the larkawanna | Judgeship campaign which has to go to the .November election to be set- I tied anyway. District Attorney I George W. Maxey spent over $lB,- | 000. IriV Philadelphia the cost of i the mayoralty eampnlgn was tre- I mendous. while no one seems to ] have counted up what was spent In , the Allegheny county battle. Schnyl i kill county, where politics is stren ! nous, comes out with n statement of j übout $7,000 spent, which is a low ] record for several years. | —Reappointment of Chief of ■ Mines Seward E. Button is due to be I made before the frost gets very much ! of a hold on the ground. —The Philadelphia Inquirer is of I the opinion that "a stampede among i the Republican ward leaders to get jon the J. Hampton Moore band j wagon Is about due, according to usually well Informed political ob -1 servers." The attitude assumed by ! City Solicitor John P. Connelly, who | supported Judge Patterson, that the I fight is over, that Moore will be the duly accredited Republican nomi j nee for mayor and that all Kepub | licana should promptly declare In favor of his election. It is predicted will be the stand which other ward | leaders who worked with the Vares twill take without delay. Other I newspapers say that the impression I prevails that the incoming adniiii ' istration will treat with the eounoil i men and the wai d leaders individ ually. I —Huntingdon county is very much I to the front with soldier candidaus. • The Republicans nominated soldiers {for prothonotary, county treasurer, ! register and recorder and surveyor, land the Democrats thought so much of them that they endorsed all. —Thomas W. Cunningham, the Penrose leader in Philadelphia, is Inclined to be humorous about the candidacy of the chief of the new Charter Party, whom he says will furnish more entertainment than anything else. In an Interview he said: "Joseph S. MncLaughlin al ways has been a kiss and tell kind of a politician und J do not think his now Charter Party will cause even a ripple. There can be no object in the MacLaughltn party so far as Mac Laugh lin is concerned that I can see," continued Cunningham, "beyond the desire of the head of the party to keep his name before the public. The party will not he of the slightest effect. I do not be lieve rumors in circulation that the I Vares are behind the MacLaughlin I movement in any way." —The Philadelphia Public Ledger says in its Girurd column:' "Senator Penrose has now served more tlinn 22 years in the. United States Senate. That is four years longer than his nearest competitor from Pennsyl vania. Simon Cameron, sat in that branch of Congress. Cameron, like Penrose, was elected Senator four times, but he did not serve out a full six-year term on each occasion. His Senatorial service, beginning in 1845, and ending in 1877. spanned 32 years, during all of which time he was his party's leader in this State, whether In or out of the Sen ate. But as a State and Congres sional loader, Henry Clay had as the strong phrase goes, Stmton oeatcn a mile. For 4 6 years, with hero and there a breathing space. Kentucky and Capttol Hill were his. If Pen rose Is re-olccted next year his Sen atorial service will he right up In the band wagon with a very small gi up of Senators who have been 'honored with five terms" HAWUSBDRQ TELEGICAPE AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS VOHCM You TMt The only _ AraD You That her ~A£ d "*£<?^jVbodv^'o^lo <oiue ni Tne world T 0 t h e seuecrioM is a 3o t 0 1 shot savs that anybody \loulo PAces AND vSHE P-cks out a a ES OLAR" mis YOU A WE horse Because it has a That the horss is a DoG and iVickcl on such a ska poexTV njame AMD "ain't (Sot a soomid leg ondei? Giues Tou A HIM- AMD CAM'X. RU,v) . A # I ' - *mti Vrtu Act OAGFY AND /\MD MJhEN ThET RC OPF - AND TheH vXOST BtFoRE Twf MAKE SCS to ho L t> her. HORSE JOMM imto A FINISH the OLD NAG CURLS UP THE set amd LAUGHINGLY six lemGth lead and holds JDies, Finishing cit3hth retußm IT Tb HER AFTER IT HALF WAY DOWN Tne AU-H"H- BOY. AIN'T ( T A "THE. RACE AND OOLLY HER A STrctCH AND You ARE ON d-d-K>ArslT> anD BIT ABOUT HER ABILITY TO THE VERGE OF APOPLEXV- G"R--R-tYAMD AND J PICK GLOR- R- RiOUS FE-ELIFJ . VNINNEW No Wonder Germany Quit liy MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of tin* Army lUx'riilting Station Our dear friend. Lieutenant Gen eral Fuchs, Commanding the Army Group holding the St. Mihiel Sal lent when we attacked the morning of September 12th got quite excited that morning and told the truth in his reports. "Late in the afternoon and during the night there was an entirely different tone to hia re ports. At tirst he admitted we were breaking through and had annihil ated the 77th Division, but in the j lutter reports all was rosy except j for one danger point. He made a : great to-do because the sth and j 192 nd Divisions had repulsed our | attacks with great slaughter. Now ; it so happened that those two dlvi- j sions were at the tip of the Salient' end r.o attack was made there. The ] French sent over some putrols to j see if the Boche had retired yet, j and from time to time they kept , lcoiing out the Boche. In his later | reports he carefully abstained from . mentioning that part of the front j where we reully were attacking oth- i er than to say that the situation was not quite clear. He was very much afraid that we were going to freak through the Michel Stellung and was so pleased because his de fense planB, carried out to perfec- J tion by the 31st und the 123 d Di * isions hud stopped our attack. The poor simp wouldn't state that on the r ght where he thought we were going to break through, that we had not moved.from nine o'clock that I morning as we were on our objec j tlvts. There absolutely wasn't a | thing in front of us except the rc j serve crfillery on the Michel Slci i iimg. It was alter 11a. m. before I any of his 123 rd division appealed lit" ironl of us and then it was only | s mall patrols. He reported that at I differ* nt points our attack had en tirely broken down and that tho | assaulting troops had been annl- I lillated in the barbwlre. As a mat > ter of fact at no point was the at | sack held up in the wire and at no point was' it even delayed for more than a few minutes. He reported that the 35th Austro-Hungarian al v'sion had entirely broken up our attack on their front, and I happen to l.now that he afterward cited that division for it wonderful de fense. Our official report shows that Wf took 2,596 prisoners out of that division and - had six men killed and forty-one wounded in all the troops who met the Austilanb Just think of that, a total of 47 ! casualties to take over twenty-five hurdrcd prisoners He repo.tcd I that as a result of their heavy and I accurate fire our batteries had been j silenced and "tho fire had com ■ piotcl- subsided on the entire front lof attack." If we wore held up j and annihilated in tho barbwirc it '.s vtry strange that the entire army lost a little less than 7,000 men kH'cd, wounded, and missing, and that wc took about 20.000 prison ers. That we could have done what he feared, penetrate the Michel Stellvng. there Is no doubt. A i uml or of my patrols went througn it the morn'ng of the 12th and did not pet back until late in the af ternoon. The Boche were at chat time Just starting to man the Slel l'U.t with wldelv separated combat | green.' Kven nt tbnt '.ate hour we could have broken through in forco and we were all perfectly fuuous , not being allowed to so on. AVe could see no reason why we should net have penetrated that poittlon end dug In on the north side of I: instead of on the south side. Of course we had no Idea the Mcuse- Argorn" offensive was coming two weeks 'ater. and would need every available man. whereas If we had broken through the Boche would bare mode such desperate efforts vo rirve up south of the Stellung as to Vrivp made Impossible tbe Mens-?- Argonne success Now on the morn 'nt of September 13th, General Fuchs reported tbat the casualties for the 12tb had been 4 7 killed, 139 wounded, and 1.153 missing. In tliis report be made no mention of the 77th and 10th divisions which bad both been practically Wiped out ot existence. He reported two guns bad burst and been abandoned, ctberwtse he lost no artillery as the retirement nnd evacuation had pro ceeded "according to plan" and yet my battalion alone took 21 perfect ly good, undamaged guns with oodles of shells for them. If he only hnd 1.153 missing where did we gel our 20.000 prisoners. If no only had 4 7 killed where d'd ve get' the 300 odd dead Boche we turled in one trench in my bat talion sector. I strongly suspect that General Fuehs reputation for tiuth telling is not of the best." Roosevelt's Western Friends [A few old timers who knew Theodore Roosevelt In the days when he was punching cattle In the Bad Lands of the Little Missouri came together at Bill McCarty's Custer Trail Ranch in North Dakota last June. There had been a "show" round up as a tribute to the Colonel's memory, and the old friends— Sylvane Ferris and Will Mer rifield, Roosevelt's partners of the Maltese Cross outfit; "Three-Seven Bill" Follls, Mc- Carty and Joe Ferris who took "the dude from New York" on his first buffalo hunt—were sitting on the ground swapping yarns of the times beyond re call. Hermann Hagedorn, in the Outlook, describes the scene \ at the end of the day.] There was a long silence as each of the "old-timers" stared at the green earth about them with dis tant, dreamy eyes. The glow had long faded from Picket Butte and from the long clay ranges that were its neighbors. The sage brush flat, where a few hours before had been the milling, bellowing cattle, the dashing horses and intrepid riders, was a deserted field of dusky lavender. The mess wagon had rat tled off long ago. Only a car or twc, lorty or fifty remained at the edge of the flat, waiting like a pa tient horse silently for its master, in the cottonwood grove, where close together the men were sit ting, cross legged oi* leaning against the straight, slender trunks or sprawling on the ground tearing dreamily at the grass blade, the dusk was taking possession. A steer mooed away ofT among the buttes southeastward. Bylvane looked up, and- there was a sad look in his eye. "It's been very nice, boys," he 6ald, "and I've enjoyed It, enjoyed every minute of it. But I can't help remembering that Mr. Roosevelt promised me on the train between Billings and Fargo last October thatfpie'd be out here himself this summer to go with me and Joe and Merrifield and some of you other boys over his old stamping ground. Well he won't be here. He won't ever be here again, and for some of us. I gusss, the Bad Lands will never be the same again. "He was like a brother to me. We were partners and we were friends. He's gone, and the rest of life will be mostly Just a-remem boring of the old days when he was here." Sylvane'e voice was husky. He c'ecitd it and continued: "Wo toys, we never had a better friend, and Dakota never had a better fr'end. and the American peoplo never l.ad a better friend. He was brave and square and on the Job as President, Just as he was brave and square ana on the Job as a cowboy. You couldn't bully him at any time. You couldn't make him afraid. You couldn't make him shirk his work or do anvthing that was mean. "Merrifield and Joe and I, we lived with him; we slept under the same blanket with him, we ate out of the same dish. We knew him so we could look clear through him, and, boys, there was nothing there that wasn't straight and clean. There never was a finer set ; of men anywhere, taken all in all. j than the boys you and I knew and lived with here in the Bad Lands In the old days. I knew them all. I knew them as I knew my old clothes, and. boys, I tell you that the finest of them all was Theodore Roosevelt. And I can't quite get used to the thought that now is the time he promised to come, and he isn't going to be here." His voice was low and a breath of the dusk wind carried away the last of his words. "If his ghost walks," said Bill McCarty, "and if I knew him at all, his ghost is right with us this minute." "No," said Joe Ferris, softly but decisively. "No. If It were, we'd have known it. With all us old fc-ilowo here he'd have ripped ater rity and . busted through." Daniels and Senior Officers [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] With naval officers resigning be cause of the impossibility of living on their pay, the action of the Sec retary of the Navy in opposing the bill for an Increase now pen<jlng In the House is bound to provoke criticism. This bill, whith provides for a uniform increase for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Public Heaith Service, is the product of ex pert opinion. The War and Treas ury Departments, nnd the chairmen of the Senate and House Naval com mittees. have approved It. Why should Mr. Daniels attempt to de feat it? OCTOBER Come out, boys, come out; Get all the troop together, The day Is great and the sun is bright. Say, it's October- •weather. Buddy Jones—Go get him quick, And Bill —there he's a-calllng. The burrs have burst, the wind is high. And the ripest ones are falling. Hurry them up; get all the bunch And bring them out—Where's Joe? Nuts on the ground are easy to get— The sweetest the highest grow. Scout or squirrel, which one will win? It's the first one there that lands But a squirrel's feet should never beat A scout with his head and hands. There's fun in the woods on a day •like this; Miss it? who ever dreamed mles. Nature's in love with the whole wide world, * For Winter gave her a kiss. Come out, boys, come out. It's a dandy sight to see The colors that Nature has wrought And splashed on every tree. —Tobias Martin Bray in Boy's Lifo. Princely Salaries [From National Republican] Fifty-nine officials of the Railroad administration, "princes at Wash ington who sit in upholstered fur niture and Bwing In swivel chairs amid luxurious surroundings," re ceive a much larger salary than General Pershing, Representative Thompson (Ohio) charged In the House the other day. "Seventy-two men on the staff of the Director General of Railroads receive sal aries aggregating $1,398,100 annu ally," Mr. Thompson asserted. "Most of them receive more than the Chief Justice of the United States, whose compensation is $15,000 a year; more than General Pershing, more than cabinet officers, senators and representatives. "The records will show that Ave of these officials are each receiving $50,000 per annum, two are getting $40,000, threo $35,000, two $30,000, eight $25,000, eleven $20,000, one $18,500, one $lB,OOO, one $17,000, six $15,000, one $14,000, one $13,- 000, one $12,500, four $12,000, one $lO,BOO, oqe $10,600 and twenty three $lO,OOO. None of these'large salaries were authorised specifically by Congress." Biscuits From Cattail Flour [From Christian Science Monitor.] Long ago the Iroquois Indians used to dry and pulverize the roots of the cattails that grow so lavishly in American swamps and make flour for bread and puddings; but the fact seems to have been forgotten until quite recently. Remembering this incident In Indian domesticity, a later American has made such flour, and United States food experts have tested It "Even 100 per cent, cattail flour," they report, "made blscultß that were not so different from those made with wheat flour," and "pud dings made with cattail flour in thorn in place of cornstarch proved to be entirely satisfactory. The flavor produced by this flour is pleasing and palatable." There are thou sands of acres of cattails in exist ence, capable of producing, It Is esti mated, more than two tons of flour to the acre. One digs and peels the roots, much as one digs and peels potatoes. It seems probable that a more expeditious way will be found to harvest the crop, and that gro cerymen will some day be weighing out cattail flour as they now sell potatoes. Unreconstructed Prussian [From the New York Herald] Field Marshal von der Goltz, hav ing been ordered by the Peace Coun cil to evacuate Baltic territory, re plied: "I desire to advise you not to address In future any such base demands either to me or to my subordinates." The message of the unreconstructed Prussian has been referred to Marshal Foch, who is the riglft person to deal with the situation. Why She Left [From the New York Tribune] Tillle Clinger says the reason she had to leave her last job was be cause the boss asked her if she couldn't come down a little softer on the keyboard, and she asked it he couldn't come down a little stronger on payday. OCTOBER 4, 1919. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES*]; Pen Picture of the King an<l Queen of Belgium The following extracts from Mrs. Larz Anderson's book, "Zigzagging," published by Houghton Mifflin Com pany, are taken from the chapter en titled "The Queen's Package," which describes Mrs. Anderson's visit to the Belgium palace: "Across the hall a door opened, and there stood the King and Queen in the center of a small sitting room. I courtsied at the entrance. The Queen put out her hand, and I courtsied again, and tilso to the King, as is the custom. Ho was in khaki with the black and red col lar and the stars of the commander in-chief of the army. She wore a i simple white gown cut V-shapcd In the neck, and no Jewels. They both looked extremely well, In spite of ; what they had been through, and both as young as I remembered them Ave years ago!" 1 "As 1 was leaving the palace, to my surprise, a little package "was handed me, in which I found a nightgown of the Queen's, a comb, a brush, soap, and several handker chiefs! It was thoughtful and kind of her Majesty to do this, and I ap preciated everything, especially the handkerchiefs, for I had a cold." (Mrs. Anderson had lost her travel ing bag and had been forced to dine, therefore, in her nurse's garb.) The Child Roosevelt William Roscoe Thayer's biog raphy of Roosevelt, just published by Houghton Mifflin Company, is filled with intimate scenes of the Roosevelt home-life which animates the book into more than the political volume it might be. "No wonder that in his mature years Roosevelt became an admirer of reformed spelling. His sense of humor, which flashed like a mountain brook through all his later intercourse and made it delightful, seems to have begun with his -Infancy. He used to say his prayers at his mother's knee, and one evening when he was I out of sorts with her he prayed the Ijord to bless the Union cause; knowing her Southern preferences he took this humorous sort of ven geance on her. She, too, had hu i mor and was much amused, but she I warned him that if he repeated such ) impropriety at that solemn moment, I she would tell his father." Daylight Saving [Altoona Tribune] The question of daylight saving will not become acute before late in May 1920. Before that time ar rives Congress may have been con vinced by popular protest and appeal that It blundered when it passed over the presidential veto the bill to repeal daylight saving. Voices from various sections of the republic may be so numerous and so strenuous as to convince Congress that there is nothing to be done but to murcti down the hill again. Notwithstand ing the heavy congressional vote favorable to a return to former practices, there is some reason to be lieve that a considerable majority of the people are not in favor of the abolition of the recently-adopted practice. The opposition to daylight saving arose chiefly among the farm ers, an amazing circumstance to those who recall the days when they were farm boys fifty or sixty years ago, nslng with the dawn and con tinuing their work in the fields un til twilight. They saved all the day light there was and even used some of the twilight, not to mention the dawn. The Work-Dodging World [From Los Angeles Times.] This eaae-nnd-comfort-lovlng ten dency to evade work Is playing Its very Important part In the high cost of living. The people who do the work are naturally capitalizing their supposed "martyrdom." If madame herself thinks housework such a dreadful thing that she Is willing to sacrifice home life for herself and family rather than do It, is It any wonder that the paid domestic worker does a little profiteering and strikes the hardest bargain to be wrung? If the white man regards farm labor with such contempt, is it any wonder that the industrious little brown laborer demands the utter most farthing for filling the breach? Somebody must do the work. Didn't Suit Her Either [From the Boston Transcript.] The Bride —Oh, Dick, you should't kiss me before all those girls. The Groom—l'm glad my little wife is so unselfish, and Just to I please you I'll kiss all those girls first lEirorouj (Eijat | One of the things about Harr.s burg that causes comment umoiig visitors to the city is its "passing up" of annlversnr.es. It has plenty of such occasions that other places would brag about, but just as it has neglected its historic sites it has failed to note the passing of tliu dates upon which events ot moment not only to the c.ty Itself, but to the State have fallen. In a recent mi dress B. M. Neud, president of tlio - Dauphin County Histor.cal Society, called attention to this instanc ing the anniversaries of the con stitution ratification and other oc casions which have unusual signifi cance for Harrlsburg. l,ost May the Harrisburg Telegraph called atten tion to the centennial of the laying of the cornerstone and it will ouly be some eighteen months until the centennial of its first occupancy comes around. That was a notable occasion in Harrisburg and the whole town escorted the Legislature from the courthouse to the Capitol. To-day is the thirteenth anniversary of the dedication of the present Capitol. That ceremony brought to Harrisburg probably the greatest crowd known here. It being esti mated that between 50,000 and 60,000 persons came The ora tor of the occasion was the lament ed Roosevelt and the ceremonies and parade, tho Illumination and the fireworks will long be remem bered. • • # Almost any morning nowadays one can see men standing along tho river front up above Mactay street watching the river as intently as though they were watching for In dians to slip down In canoes or Germans to slip up In submarines. They are earnest, preoccupied and stand for hours. They are duck hunters watching for signs of tho flocks which are commencing to ap pear In this section. Tho stone em bankment at Front and Seneca streets appears to bo the popular place for these lookouts and they have spotted more than one flock. Peter Williamson, gateman at the Maclay street station of the Penn sylvania railroad, is lamenting the great loss of fish through the pollu tion of streams. He is an authority of fishing, and has been one of the most successful duck hunters on the ; Susquehanna river. He spends much of his spare time fishing and knows where the real buss and salmon spend their time. The other day "Pete" as he is known, went to Liv erpool. It was his llrst visit there in a long time. He met with somo success, but when he returned with his boat to the Liverpool shore he waa surprised to find many dead fish, mostly sun fish. On Investiga tion he found that these fish had got too far Into the sulphur water. They tried to make the fresh water but did not have the strength, lie counted twenty-seven fish, largo and small, all on their sides too weak to help themselves. loiter he met a native of Liverpool who had a buck etfull of fish, which he had gathered along the Liverpool shore. Some of the sun fish were ten Inches In length. "Pete" was at one time a fish warden and he says the sulphur water In the Susquehanna river has killed thousands and thousands qf fish. He added, "It is a pity some thing cannot be done. There was a Mme when I could go out anywhero in the river and get a mess of sun fish, perch, bass and salmon, but you got to hunt for them now." • • • The automobile truck Is entering into the movement of Pennsylvania's apple crop this year more than ever known before and truck load* are replacing car loads from the South mountain apple section. When the peach crop began to assume the large proportions that ordinarily fol low a prediction of a short crop nu merous automobile trucks were used to get the peaches from Adams, Franklin, Cumberland and York counties to Philadelphia and various i shipping points which could only be used for trains heretofore. Now tho truck Is being put Into use to move . the apple crop without so much rail road assistance. Incidentally, a large amount of the picking is being : done by girls. W&L KNOWN PEOPLE George Deß. Keim. well known In Philadelphia business, has re turned from South America where he was looking up conditions. —General W. G. Price com mander of the new National Guard, is coming here for a conference next week. Ex-Judge W. K. Rice, of War ren, here yesterday, is one of the big lawyers of Western Pennsyl vania and an authority on its his tory. —Judge James B. Drew, here this week, Is a delegate to the American Legion cantonement, from Allegheny county. —Major -A. C. Abbott, of the University of Pennsylvania just home from Europe, is giving a aeries of lectures on sanitation les sons learned in the war. Ex-Attorney General John C. Bell, was congratulated upon a birthday yesterday by friends throughout the State. Major E. H. Mackey, the Wll liamsport National Guardsman, was greeted by a band and many friends when he reached home yesterday. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg's liberty loan record ought to be per petuated on a tablet In the court house or some public place? HISTORIC HARRISBURG. The first Cumberland Valley bridge was completed eighty years ago and the Legislature tried to pre vent its use for railroad purposes. Scriptural Warning [From the Week.l President Wilson, when he ex pressed the desire to hang on a gib bet as high as heaven the senators who are criticising his league, may not have recalled an old but in spired bit of history of the reign of Ahasuerus, which reads: "And Haronah, one of the cham berlains. said before the King. Be hold also, the gallows " cublta high, which Hainan hath made for Mordecal, who hath spoken good for the King, standeth in the house of Hl "Then the King said. Hang him thereon. . .. "So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mor- be recalled that Mr. Ha man had erected the gallows for one who would not bow to him.
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