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Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. 53.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. HMD I charge thee in the sight of God, tcho giveth life to all things, and of ' Christ Jesus, who before l'ontius ■ Pilate witnessed the good confes - j Hon; that thou keep the command-, •mcnt, without spot, without re- j proach, until the appearing of our I Lord. JCBUB Christ. —l TIM. 0:13,14. A REAL ARBOR DAY FOR the first time in years Har risburg will have a real Arbor Day to-morrow. Governor Sproul and King Albert will set the example for the re- ! mainder of the city by planting | a tree each in Capitol Park. Afterward, through the instru- j mentality of Park Commissioner Gross, a memorial grove of ever greens will be set out in Reservoir Park. Trees are essential to the beauty of any city. The more we have the better the town looks and the pleas anter it is, especially in summer. Let us all take lessons from the 'Admirable examples set for us by' the governmental authorities. Now watch Trotzky trotsky. WORK FOR THE LOANS THE civic organizations of the city are lining up behind the loans to be voted for in No vember. They want the bridge fund transferred, they want the bathing beaches, the bath houses, the street paving and the sewers which are to be provided through the bond issues proposed. The city never has turned down a loan that was clearly understood. The great trouble has been to inter est the public in such proposals, if attention can be called to them properly by volunteer workers, the newspapers and printed matter about the election polls their adoption will be certain. Our friends at Washington have) been so solicitous for the welfare of I Europe that they have permitted all our sugar to be sent abroad. We hope they'lKnot try any such course with cur shirts. ALTRUISM GONE MAD ACCORDING to Richard J. Ream-j ish, writing In the Philadel phia Press from Atlantic City, European demands on America ' behind the stage set for the Inter- ! national Trade Conference there embrace the following points: Action by the United States Treasury and American banks which would restore the British pound, tlie French and Belgian franc and the Italian lire to ure wnr parity of exchange. Lowering of the wall of Ameri can protective tariff against European products. Abstention by American manu facturers from exports into Eu rope of such finished products us would compete with European makes. More money in the form of a general European loan. Extension of credits to such time as European industries shall be restored. Coal to the limit of America's maximum export capacity. Food in greatly increased quantities at prices lower than it is sold in America. Raw, materials, such as cotton, wool, hides, metals. Machinery and tools. Petroleum. If we meet all these demands we shall be somewhat in the position one of these days soon of "Old Mother Hubbard, who went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone; but when she went there the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog got none." But by that time the poor European dog would be fut and well fed and we would be on the point of starvation. Compliance with this program would be altruism gone mad. / Americans are willing to do their part toward the re-establlshmerit of pre-war conditions in business so far as possible, but before we begin to restore the value of the pound, the franc and the mark we must de vote ourselves to the task of making the American dollar worth 100 ceata, instead of the half dollar's valu* it now has. And as to keeping THURSDAY EVENING. ; out of European markets with fin | ished products and lowering our ' tariff wulls while Europe dumps on us its cheap-labor products, the 1 mass of American people would rise ' up against any such suicidal pro ' gram. Equally preposterous is the proposal that we rob ourselves of 1 food to sell it to Europe at lower prices than it brings in America. We wonder what seeds of folly President Wilson and his Utopian | ideas have sown in Europe. Do the 1 people over the ocean think we are mad, or are they merely grabbing for everything in sight hopeful of j getting mpre than they would re -1 ceive had their requests been within i 1 cuson ? At all events, they must be ; made to understand that while I Americans are capable of any sacri j tice in the catise of right, they are I not a nation of "easy marks" to be j hoodwinked and robbed by any band jof business buccaneers who may : happen along. | The second hand dealer who pro nouneed the color of a last summer's ; Palm Reach suit he purchased as "darkirine" may find upon a little , investigation that the shade is caused j by "dirtirine." ROOSEVELT DAY GOVERNOR SPROUL has done an appropriate and a proper I thing in setting as'de Mon | day, October 27, as Roosevelt Day. J The anniversary of the birth of I this famous American should bo for • all time a national holiday. We did not begin to appreciate | the greatness of Theodore Roosevelt j until one day last January when the I world was startled by news that lie | had passed to his eternal reward, j His figure loomed so large in every j controversy, his nature was so com- J bative when the things he loved and | the principles for which he stood j were involved, his life so tense and j active that it was difficult to meas j ure his stature as man and citizen ! while he lived. Rut when the last ' light had ended and the courageous ; spirit hqd taken its flight, Americans ! | began to understand the service he I had rendered, the example he had ! set and the force his personality and • precepts are to huve in the future of ' the country. Roosevelt needs 110 shaft of mar'o'e 1 to mark his grave or to perpetuate ! , his memory. Thousands upon thou- j sands or people journey to that i modest mound in the old burying! ground near his home where he sleeps: they go not to see .a monu-j j ment but to pay respect to a man j whose life and works will live as' j long as the Nation stands. Rut we. do honor to ourselves when we give i to the Roosevelt memorial fund. | Doing so we ti .Jiute to u great j patriot, and acknowledge our own I patriotism. OUT WITH THEM THL l nited States Government ' should not rest a moment until it has probed to the bottom the j open charges of Senator Watson : that "Reds" and radicals hold con fidential positions.with the adminis-j trution at Washington. It is bad : enough that these plotters against ! democracy are permitted to remain ! in the country, but it is intolerable I that we should warm such serpents - in the bosom of our national insti- j tutions. If Senator Watson's state- i I ments are true, and he minces no 1 words and does not hesitate to name | names, bureau heads responsible for ! these deplorable conditions should be i called sharply to account and dis- i missed front tire service. There have been all too many rumors lately of radical influences in higlr places at .Washington, and ! now that the facts in at least one j instance have been brought to the I surface in the way of direct charges, there is but one thing to do—get : rid of the traitors and those j sihle for their appointment. If there are any "soft places" in the Government, which there ought not' to be, they should go to men who ! have served the country, and not to ! those who use their leisure, and it I may tie suspected much of their I working time, in the spreading of j | propaganda designed to turn the I I Nation over to tire Lenines and the i I Trotzkys who are hanging about in I the offing waiting with watering mouths for opportunity to feed on this fair country of ours. NOT AN ELECTION ELECTION this year," J\ observed a well known Democrat yesterday, "mere- j ly a ratification of the results of the i Republican primaries." And that about sums up the sit uation, so far as Harrtsburg and Dfluphin county arc concerned, at least. There has been no campaign to speak of this year. The candidates have been' getting around a little, but the usual speech-making and touring huve been for the most part conspicuous by their absence. On the eve of a Presidential elec tion the Democrats of this district admit themselves hopeless and are making no effort. Even the old time show of action has been omitted. So, us our Democratic friend put it, "there will be no election this year; merely a ratification of tiro results of the Republican primaries." That is because tire record of the party in office is good. Also, that the results of tire primaries are satis factory to the voters, who never swerve from their Republican ulleg iunce except when the candidates lack popular approval or when the leadership errs in the conduct of j party uffuirs. Neither is the case this year. The ticket and the party management both have the approval of the voters, and the result is going to be a spontaneous outpouring of Republicans in November that simply I will swamp the minority party. By the Ex-Oonimlttccmaa J Democratic tttlie gatherers are not having as easy a time to gather | in the shekels to keep the Deiuo- I cratic State wind mill running as 1 they had four years ugo. On the I eve of the last presidential election i the men charged with "shaking j down" federal jobholders and , those who wanted to .be jobholders i for "donations" for the operation of \ the machine had an easy time of it. All they had to do was to send a . note around telling a placeflller ! tjiat the Democratic State commit i tee needed cash and it came, j This year most of the Democratic ; jobholders realize that there is not j much ahead for them and they ure very weary of giving The letters sent out by the Democratic Stute ' committee to people in the postal j service, who had hitherto been ex ; empt from such assessments for the ' b< netlt of the machine, and which : wete published extensively in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, are said to not have been very produc | tive of cash. Some of the men ap ! preached are reported to have re j fused to contribute and some to 1 have dared one boss to test the ! power of public sentiment and the ! civil service laws. The Democratic j invasion of federal service on the I hunt for cash to run the Pennsyl ! vania machine has aroused all j kinds of feeling. People who did j not pity postmasters, got mad. Another source of revenue in off ! years, when the Democratic State ' windmill grows cobwebs and the , post office box is not taxed to hold I even the free copies of newspapers, I has also been cut off. it used to be the men who aspired to be leaders j or leaderlets in their districts. Most lof them have been affronted by the ways of the bosses, the appoint -1 nient of men they did not want to ! fat jobs and the general disregard of party traditions, while there arc some others who had been promr | nent and consequently liberal and who are in the way of the am bitious men now in the saddle. —State-wide attention has been attracted by criticisms of new bal lot laws ip the anthracite re gions. In Wilkes-Barre, in a set speech. Attorney W. A. Valentine as-ailed the recent election law. which permits the placing of a cross in the party square and an (X) mark after the name of any candi date or candidates on the other ticket. Such a vote, he said, was illegal under the old law. and the new law thus a'ds in ballot fraud To prevent "doctoring" of the bal lots. Attorney Valentine urgel the voters to put an X opposite the name o f each individual candidate for whom be wishes to vote. He also urged the loyal clt'zens to get an overseer for every susoected dis trict. who is to be on the job be fore 7 a. m. to see that the ballot box is empty, to see that the judge hands out one ballot to each voter and that the latter only deposits one ballot in box, to stay and watch the box so that there will be 110 substitution and to remain until the count is completed and signed. - —The Philadelphia Press evident ly thinks there is danger of some jockeying in eounctlmanie elec tions. It says: "The fact that some of the Vare candidates for the new Council, who were defeated for nomination at the primary, have been put 011 the so-called Charter party ticket, is notice that an at tempt may be made to secure a majority of the Council adverse to the new Mayor. No one believes for an instant that there are enough votes in the Charter party to elect one of thefte candidates in any district. Their only hope or success is in Vare organization votes. This creates a situation of concern to citizens who have unitcu to secure better municipal govern ment." —Politics is assuming a real live ly condition in Lackawanna county and the Scrunton Republican is charging the Scrunton Times with doing some "romancing" and "journalistic somersaulting." The Republican is out with an editorial backing District Attorney General W. Alaxey for judge and the Times is ardently backing Judge J. J. O'Nell. While the Republicans are holding regular meetings the Re publican says that the Democrats huve been forced to abandon some of them. Incidentally, attacks have been made before the Scranton reg istration commissioners against 400 democrats who are alleged to have been illegally registered. —This good old-time political fight between Republican and Democratic newspapers on party issues is being duplicated in Lu zerne county where the Wiikcs- Rarre Record is going after its Democratic rival's way of doing things. In Lehigh and Cambria counties there are also real nice political fights being waged in the newspapers and a revival of the old party spirit appears to be general. ' —John C.' Innes. of Pittsburgh, was appointed a special agent of the census bureau for Allegheny county. He will be attached to the Pitts burgh office as assistant to Super visor Lou's W. Liebert. Tnnes was named on the recommendation of Joseph F. Guffey and David 1,. Lawrence of the Democratic state and county committees, following a conference with officials of the cen sus bureau at Washington The ap pointment is effect've immediately. W. W. Campbell, of Pittsburgh, also has been appointed a special agent In the Pittsburgh office. —Luzerne Democrats are making a desperate effort to keep Ambrose West. John MacLuskie and Frank D. Thomas, Republican candidates for county commissioner, sheriff and coroner, from being substituted as the Prohibit'on candidates for these offices in place of George Renard, George H. Ros and Chas. 1.. Ashley, who withdrew, and County Solicitor C. R. Lenahan went so far as to state before Judge Woodward in court that he believed there is no Prohibition party in Luzerne, county. —Erie county has let contracts for 51.000 ballots for the election. There will be a big vote In Er'e city where the Kitts-Hess battle is commencing to assume proportions that attract attention in the State —The needing business men and Chamber of Commerce have endors ed the million dollar loan for pub lic improvements In that c'ty. Rig iietterments in the water system are likely. —There Is some comment that Senator E. H. Vare went on the bond of ex-Judge W. T. Wheeler, of the Philadelphia courts. —The usual speculation about the positions of d4rector in the MoTe cabinet are now being made. Ex-. I Senator E. L. Tustin Is prominently mentioned. t H3LFLRISBTTR.G TELEGRXFH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS Simple Rule of Finance ' [From Kansas City Star.] The mystery of Britain's impend ing bankruptcy has i>een solved. She has simply been spending more than she has been taking in. This explanation will give great relief to many persons who have been wor- , ried about their own financial con- | dition. Tlie.v couldn't understand why ends, failed to meet, and have been laying the blame on the war, on high prices and anything else that was handy. With the announcement of this i new financial discovery all hearts will be lightened. There is nothing reully the matter with the finances j of spendthrifts. They are merely ; spending more than they are earn- i ing. Of course, they are going , bankkrupt just the same, hut they , will have great sat'sfactlon in j knowing there is no mystery about j it. Some of us who don't want to i go bankrupt, no matter what the I reason may put this discovery to j better use. We may pull up on our spending until our income catches [ up. It is unfortunate that finance has I generally been regarded as too j deep for ordinary understanding. | Most of us take one hopeless look at it and give it up. As a matter of j fact it is rather siniple. Mr. Micaw her. who had ripe experience and j spoke with authority, put it all into , a single rule which it would he dif ficult to improve upon. "Income twenty shillings, expenditure twenty shillings and sixpense, misery: income twenty shillings, ex penditure nineteen shillings ana sixnenso, balance happiness." We can pay high prices and blame them for our ruin if we want to. There may be comfort in that, but it doesn't avert the ruin. We can limit our wants to our ability to satisfy them and come out whole. Governments and individuals alike have the choice. But if they choose to go bankrupt they won't have any luck explaining it was owing to the 'noperatlon of the ordinary laws of finnnce. In every case it will be owing to the operation of those laws, which always come out exact ly the same wav according as we spend more or less than we have got. Youth Youth breaks a trail with impatient feet, A trail that he thinks is new, And lifts his face to a breeze as sweet As the dreams that his fancies brew: The breath of blossoms it brings to him Which sways on an unknown slope. And it carries the strains of an anthem dim From the heights of the hills of hope. Age pauses out by the worn trail's end And, with eyes that are deep as truth. Looks back for a bit as he turns to send A wh'msical smile to Youth. He smiles and it seems to him once again. For a fruction of time, he hears The haunting lilt of an old refrain That is lost in the vanished years. —Wnlter Trumbull, in the American Legion Weekly. River Jordan Impure [From the Youth's Companion.] A plunge into the Jordan is not now the health-giving rite that it was when Elisha bade Naaman wash seven times and be cured of his leprosy. When American Red Cross physicians recently analyzed water from the river they found in It so many germs of skin diseases and other maladies that the local authorities for the lirst time in his tory restricted bathing in it. So the Poor Hath Hope I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause; which doeth great things, arid un searchable: marvelous things with out number. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. But He saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the ! mighty. So the poor hath hope.— 1 Job v, ft to Ift, Russian Soviet Government Furnishing Money For Bolshevistic Campaign in America (From Manufacturers Record.) FORMER Ambassador to Russia, David R. Francis was quoted in the Manufacturers' Record last week in regard to the methods adopted by the Soviet Government of Russia to transfer Russian money in American banks to Soviet agents In this country. Some additional light on this subect may interest our readers. Former financial officials of the Imperial and Provincial Govern ments who were personally known to Mr. Francis called on him while he was in Petrograd, and in a strict ly confidential discussion of the situ ation outlined conditions. They re quested him in the name of the na tionalized banks to communicate with all the banks in the United States having credits of these na tionalized Russian banks not to honor any cable or mail orders, even purporting to come from them, au thorizing them to pay such balances to any designated and Identified persons in the United States without first cabling their own Russian cor respondents for confirmation. These officials explained to Mr. Francis that if any bank officer de clined to send cable or written orders, even in cipher, when so ordered by the Soviet officials they would be imprisoned. All important Russian banks then had credits in American banks. They had been nationalized by the Soviet of Com munistic Government, and their of- The Burnside Paintings Cameron Burnside's eight decora tive paintings, depicting the Ameri can Red Cross relief work in France, are now hanging in the main build ing of the Red Cross National Head quarters in Washington, D. C. Re productions from photographs of three of the paintings arc presented on this page and like reproductions of the others of the series will be printed in early numbers of The Bul letin. These large paintings have been inspected and admired by hundreds of visitors to the Red Cross building during the short period they have been on view in this country. The artist, a lieutenant in the American Red Cross, was a prominent member of the American art colony in Pans before the war. His Red Cross ac tivities inspired in him the idea of perpetuating the work in France on canvas, and the tlnished task created a furore in the French capital. Rejected for army service when the United States entered the war, Burnside was assigned to work at the American Red Cross central ware house In Paris. There he unloaded camions, shifted cases, opened boxes and unpacked supplies until the diffi cult manual labor made him 111. Asked whaf else he could do besides warehouse work, he replied, "Paint pictures." Then he outlined his plan for a series of paintings which would illustrate all the phases of American Red Cross activities. Offlcinls of the Commission for France supplied him with brushes, canvases and oils, ap preciating at once the value of the idea. All the summer and fall of the German bombardment of Paris, Burnside kept at his painting. Once his models were panic-stricken by the explosion of a bomb in the street just outside his studio. Completed at last, the paintings were exhibited for a brief time in Paris and then ship ped for their permanent abiding place In Washington. Color Significances [From the Washington Star] "Autumn is a beautiful season." "I don't think so," replied the contradictory person. "The trees turn yellow and red and remind me constantly of the I. W. W." And Handkerchiefs Are High [From the Deepwater World] Roses red and violets blue. Milk Is scarce and sugar too; Got to eat our Toastles dry— i'Nough to make an angel cry ificials knew that credits paid out on these orders to men in America would be used for the Bolshevistic propaganda in America, as our Gov ernment had then established a cen sorship and only permitted remit tances when satisfied that such re mittances would not reach the enemy nor the Soviet Government, which Ambassador Francis had ad vised this Government was co-oper ating with our enemies. It has not been possible for Am bassador Francis to give the names of the bank officials who called upon him in this way to try to prevent the transfer of the money from their banks to Soviet agents in America, because it would jeopardize their safety. But he did comply immedi ately with the request and cabled the State Department to advise all American banks having credits to these nationalized Russian banks not to honor cable orders, even though sent in the private codes of the Rus sian banks without cabling to their own correspondents to secure con firmation. The suggestion made by Mr. Francis was followed by the State Department, but notwithstand ing this precautionary measure, Mr. Francis feels absolutely satisfied that the Soviet Government is even now sending money to our country for Bolshevistic propaganda. This information comes direct from Mr. Francis to the Manufac turers' Record, and is published by his permission. Chinese Gave to War Fund [From the Boston Globe.] That Chinese men, women and children contributed $1,200,000 in gold in the course of the united war work campaign in the United States last November is shown in a letter received by a member of the War Camp Community Service. The contribution was $1,100,000 more than the sum the citizens of the Celestial republic were asked to raise. When plans for the united war work campaign had been made, My ron T. Herrick, chairman of the na tional finance committee of war camp community service at the time ,and formerly Ambassador to France, suggested appeal for finan cial help to the people of China. At his request, the American Min ister to China urged the authorities of that nation to give their people the chance to line themsedves up in support of the war work cam paign waged in behalf of seven or ganizations which had-meen entrust ed with the task of attending to the welfare of Allied soldiers and sail ors overseas and in the United States. Response of the Chinese officials was immediate and appeal was made to the population for .SIOO,OOO. The people showed instant enthusiasm and the campaign extended through out the republic. Processions were held and meet ings assembled. One procession of Chinese students extended over a distance of three or four miles. The paraders carried gaily decorated ban ners, transparencies and marched to music furnished by many bands. When the excitement was over, it was found that the total of $1,200,- 000 in offerings had been reached. The Chinese had gone "over ,the top" and had registered their faith in the cause of. democracy. ' The Shirker in Politics [Louis Meeker in Twilight 'Hour.] "I am making it my job to get my relatives.and friends to see that, no matter what our attitude is, we are all in politics, either negatively or positively, and that the person who is in negatively is mve dan gerously situated than the person who is in positively. For, after all, shirking does not consist in the failure to attempt to understand and act in accordance with our political responsibilities at the same time that we are fulfilling our private duties. That is why a voter may j still be a shirker und a stay-at -home may be a patriot. ' OCTOBER 23, 1919. Beating Divorce Courts j [From the Atlanta Constitution.] 1 The stories of divorce court cases 1 that appear in Britain and America i are never to be seen in France. Yet | in France there are now 80,000 , cases before what are described as the "reconciliation courts." The work of these courts is to bring the unhappy couples together, to thresh out the causes of separa tion and to give advice in the hope that all grievances will be forgiven and husband and wife once more be restored to marital happiness. It is a long process through which the applicant for a divorce passes before he or she obtains a decree. The "reconciliation courts" follow one another in monotonous sequence until the exhaustion of funds or of patience. In the war period no woman mar ried to a soldier was permitted to apply for divorce from her husband. He, however, was at prefect liberty, should the exigencies of the military demands permit, to seek a divorce from an erring wife. It was, in fact, a peculiar form of protection that the French govern ment gave to its heroes in the field, but the practical result has been a torrential flood of divorce cases since the signing of the armistice. Sol dier husbands now are confronted with indignant wives. "No, I will never live with him again," the fair and young Parisenne exclaims, with a suspicion of tears in her eyes. "Reconciliation is ab solutely impossible." He, home from the wars, retorts with vindictive fierceness. "Now come, come," the reconcill ator adjures. "Why, he is quite a fine looking boy. You ought to be proud of him. And think how he has suffered with his three wounds for our dear France." Her face softens. The tears in crease. A slight toss of an imperi ous head. "No, never!" she exclaims with only slightly lessened convic tion. But the reconciliator merely smiles. He knows his couple;, "And you, too," he observes to the pqil, "aren't you ashamed of your poor judgment in making such a pretty girl as your wife miserable. Don't you think that every man in your regiment envies you? Mon Dieu.-what fools men are when they quarrel with a charming girl." The poilu smiles a sickly smile. He glances at her. Approval passes over his face. After all, she is a fine girl, and she begins to think he is a fine boy. "Oh run along and kiss your troubles away," the reconcilator ex claims. "I have no time for babies' quarrels." And the sorrowing couple depart. The reconciliator has achieved an other success. They never return to courts—well, seldom ever. Ordeal by Poison [E. Torday in the National Geo graphic Magazine] During my seven years of travel in the African wilds I have encoun tered few peoples possessing strang er customs and presenting more I curious contrasts than the Bambala tribe, who reside in numerous vil lage communities on the banks of the Kwilu river, a southern tribu tary of the Congo. In disputes where two people of the same village are concerned, a poison ordeal is employed as judge. Whether a man is accused of witch craft, parricide, or of some minor offense, he declares himself willing to take poison to prove his inno cence. The poison, which is derived from the bark of a native tree, is usually ground fine and mixed to a thick paste, from which are made five small loaves, and these are adminis tered one after the other to the de fendant. During the next fifteen minutes, if it is a case of witchcraft, the bystanders call on Molokl (the evil principle) to come out. The poison usually acts very quickly: it may kill The accused or cause purging or vomiting. The last named effect alone is regarded as a proof of innocence. In the second case the prisoner is compelled to dig a hole. He is then given a fowl to eat and enough palm wine to make him quite intoxicated. After this he is laid in the hole, or possibly goes and lays himself down, and is then buried alive in order to prevent Moloki escaping with his last breath. A large fire is kept alight on the grave for two days, and then the body is exhumed and eaten. An innocent man is carried round the village, decorated with beads, and his accuser pays a pig as com pensation for the false charge. Cannibalism is an every day oc currence, and, according to the na tives themselves, who display no reticence except in the presence of state officials, it is based on a sincere liking for human flesh. Enemies killed in war and people buried alive after the poison test, or dying as a result of it, are eaten; so, too are slaves. Why Do We Chew Gum? [From the San Francis<*> Chronicle.] Why do we chew gum, anyway? A short excursion among the ruminating humans discovers a va riety of answers, of which, perhaps, the commonest is, "I dunno, I just do." The smoker tells you he chews gum to keep down his daily con sumption of tobacco. The athlete says he has found the morsel of chicle useful to keep the cotton from his tongue through the long, hot grind of football or the killing mile on the cinder path. The stenographer excuses the wagging of her Jaw with the plea that she is nervous. The cynic, searching for some other motive than mere nervousness, suggests that girls chew gum for the same reason that some boys whistle in order to save themselves the strain of thinking. But the commonest of all reasons, where a reason is given, is that nervousness it at the bottom of the habit. Nine times out of ten the sapodilla devotee asserts a physical uneasiness without some monoto nous occupation for some set of muscles. Without doubt there is something'in this. This is the same desire for occupation that manifests itself in drumming on a table, in whittling a stick, folding a bit of paper, fiddling with any small article at hand, or in twirling the thumbs. No doubt, too, it is at the bottom of a great deal of smoking. Men continue to light cigars or eigarets or to puff on a pipe long after the desire for the narcotic has been sat isfied. Some men habitually smoke themselves past, the power to ap preciate or even enjoy tobacco. Generally children do not care for the gum after the flavor and the sweetness have gone out of It. This makes it appear that chewing gum is little other than candy to them. But they develop the habit and re cruit the army working for the chicle trust. Willie's Tact [From the Edinburgh Scotsman] "Say, mamma," said 4-year-old Willie, "let's .play I'm an awful looking old tramp. I'll come round to the back door and ask for a piece of pie, and you get scared and give >t to one." laumtng (Eljai Pennsylvania's observance of Ar bor Day, which is to be recognized this year in Harrisburg as never be fore, dates from 1885. However, the day has been more or less spasmodi cally noted and has been more hon ored by proclamations than trees. There have been miles of articles written about the day and enormous volumes of sound from platforms and school rooms, but the planting of trees has not amounted to much, although this year because of the suggestion of planting of native Pennsylvania saplings as memorials to the men who made the great sac rifice in the war there will be hun dreds of trees planted throughout Penn's domain. In this city the ob servance of the day will be unusual and it is expected that the formal planting will be an event long re membered. Arbor Day seems to have come from Nebraska. The records show that in 1874 the Legis lature of that State took steps to have the day celebrated, pointing out the urgent necessity of refores tation of some of the areas of the State for safeguard of water supply and general welfare. The idea was taken up in the West and then came eastward where the uwakening to the wasteful lumbering practices was beginning. In Pennsylvania there was discussion of the idea in 1880 and somp places had local ob servances and finally on March IG, 1885, the Legislature passed a con current resolution asking the Gov ernor to issue a proclamation desig nating a day us Arbor Dav. Thi,s was done by Governor Robert K. Pattison and his successors have followed the example of designating a spring Arbor Day. The autumnal Arbor Day has been designated by the superintendent of public instruc tion. It is of interest that Harris burg was among the first of the cities of the State to observe the day and it planted trees on the river front. The State, not to be outdone in its official home, had tree plant ings in Capitol Park for several years in the eighties and nineties. * • * Coming of the King of the Bel- Kians to Harrisburg* to-morrow is causing many interesting anecdotes of the visit of Albert Edward when Prince of Wales to Harrisburg be fore the Civil War. This story lias been told many times, but there are some incidents that crop out now and then. One is told of a promi nent citizen who insisted that he would not be awed by any sprig of royalty and who declared that he would shake hands with him Ameri can style. The Prince had been pretty well worn out by hand shak ing and had taken to acknowledging presentations with a bow. When the stalwart citizen came along the j Prince, who was pretty wise even jthen, must have sized him up be cause he shot out his gripped the man first, said "How do you do?" and passed him on. The other stcfry is that when the Prince had gone some young folks raided his room and romped on the bed, one pretending to take a nap and then saying with a great air that one per son at least had slept in the same bed that the heir to the British crown had occupied. Then they all jumped on the bed and no one had any edge on anyone else. Major John S. Spicer, of the State Department of Labor and Industry, who has been in Chicago attending the convention of illuminating en gineers, has presented to that na tional body some data regarding State inquiries in such directions made in the last dozen years. Penn sylvania's investigations in this line have been making precedents. Congressman J. Hampton Moore has this to say in the Evening Ledg er about men well known here: "When Edwin S. Stuart, formerly mayor of Philadelphia and Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, who recently added the presidency of the Poor Richard Club to his string of hon orary trophies, is called upon for a speech it's dollars to doughnuts the audience will receive a brief but elo quent reminder of "liberty and jus tice regulated by law." The presi dent of the Union League is a stick ler for the observance of the law. Hence his cordial support of Gov ernor Sproul in many of the latter's utterances recently about "Pennsyl vania, the law-abiding State." Gov ernor Sproul has been keeping his ear to the ground and so has the Attorney General, Mr. Schaffer. The Governor realizes that a certain restlessness prevails and that it is well to give heed to it. To a certain extent he is investigating it at first hand. He has discovered one irri tating factor—the housing problem —which, he thinks, should be cor rected. Complaints in this regard apparently are not confined to the city of Philadelphia." Joe Pyne, the official physician to the clocks on Capitol Hill, is getting ready to put his patients into shape for their long winter trip. Between Friday midnight and Sunday even ing Joe will turn something like 650 clocks back one hour. He turned them all forward last spring and now he is putting them on a winter schedule. While daylight saving makes work, Joe is for it. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. A. Monroe Hall has been elected president of the Lycoming County Sunday School Association. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, has bought a Monroe county farm for summer living. —Captain Frederic A. Godcharles, deputy secretary of the Common wealth, is to be one of the speakers at Williamsport's historical meeting Tuesday. —Joseph F. Guffey, prominent . in Pittsburgh politics, is said to he slated for an honorary federal ap pointment when he finishes Ills pres ent work. —Representative W. K. West, of Danville, spoke at the meeting of the poor directors of the State ut Butler. —C. H. Palmer has been elected head of the Monroe Resort Associa tion, composed of hotel men. [ DO YOU KNOW t " That Harrisburg used to make leather equipment for the army? -HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first Supreme Court sitting in Harrisburg was in the Court House over 100 years ago. An Argument For Winter [From the Dallas News.] One thing we like about winter Is that we don't have to spend it in looking for a man to mow our lawn. ' . i
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