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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"
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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.