13 BARRISBORG TELEGRAPH \LANEWRPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 [Published evenings except Sunday by TBS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Jlekgrejk Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief STr. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor [A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board SJP.~ McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, P. R. OYSTER, ' GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and alao the local news pub lished herein. {All rights of republication of special dlspatchea herein are also reserved. t Member American syl^anhi^Associa- Eastern M c e. Avenue_ Building! I Chicago, Uding ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 4tAß,jweek; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1918 When you can't remove an obsta cle plow around it.— Lincoln - BY LAW, OR OTHERWISE ATTORNEY GENERAL PAL MER makes the amazing state ment that the Department of Justice has no means of stopping the flood of I. W. W. propaganda with which he hears the northwest is to be inundated, and adds that some "overt act" must be committed before he can act. In the name of all that is pa triotic, if the circulation of seditious literature designed to stir men to ] such acts of lawlessness as that at Centralia, where defenseless men j were shot down in cold blood by I. W. W. revolutonaries, is not an 1 "overt act," what is? But if it be true that our Federal 1 laws are so weak, then it behooves ' Congress to put into the hands of the Attorney General, and that quickly, such' an instrument as will enable him to stop these mission aries of frightfulness in their war fare against the United States gov ernment and society in general. We do not want a renewal in the northwest of the old Ku Klux (|kn •f the South following the Civil where men, goaded to the point of desperation by outrages of carpet baggers and other lawless elements which the government would not or could not reach, took the law into their own hands and meted out jus tice according to their own convic tions and prejudices. Many an inno cent man suffered at the hands of these self-constituted regulators of the community or of those who covered their crimes with the Ku Klux mask. But something like that is bound to occur where government is supine or law is lacking. When Americans cannot reach by legal means those who would destroy their government It has Invariably happened that they found a less de sirable, even if more forceful, way of dealing with them. Even now a secret society is form ing among members of the American Legion in the northwest to deal vio lently with the I. W. W.. and it may be depended upon to take the law Into its own hands if those who should be active in suppressing the plotters and assassins do not re spond vigorously and promptly to the challenge. However much we may desire to see I. W. W. mem bers punished or driven from the country, no good American wants to see it done outside the law. The American Legion is waving the red lantern on the Red radicals. • TAKE YOUR PICK NCLE JIMMIE" LATHAM. I J of Chestnut Ridge, Lancas ter county, who has been recognized as the official weather forecaster of that district since he t returned from General Sherman's march to the sea, now predicts an open winter, giving his reasons as the following: The squirrels have stored up only small quantities of nuts. The wishbone of the goose is thin. The fur of the fox is light. The woolly worm has no stripes. Far be it from us to cast discredit upon so venerable a weather prophet as "Uncle Jimmie," but we arise to ask what peculiar qualifica tion of weather prognosticating at tach to Sherman's famous march, and how does the woolly worm ex pect to ward oft the snow by neglect ing to put on his winter stripes? Also, we thought it was the color of the goosebone, not its weight, that counts with the weatherwise, and anybody knows that the squirrels liaven't laid many chestnuts be cause the blight has killed most of the trees. Beside, our good friend Grant Forrer tells us that in Wildwood Park the — Thornapple trees are unusually full of the fruit that the birds eat when the snows are heavy. The weeds are unusually tali, as they ordinarily grow when the 1 V' ; THURSDAY EVENING, snow Is deep, in order that their seed pods may stand clear of the drifts. And the muskrats have built their homes very high this year. All of which is respectfully sub mitted in rebuttal, but. viewing the matter from the standpoint of our diminishing coal pile, we sincerely hope "Uncle Jimmie" has the right end of the argument. Girl Scouts are opposed to the use of face powder and paint, and some of the young women who use both might take lessons from these good-looking, wholesome looking girls. THE SHIP OF DEATH ON SUNDAY, November 9, a com- i mittee composed of six sen ators and six representatives arrived in New York City to meet the steamer Lake Daraga, a ship which might better have been chris tened the Ship of Death. Upon this ship arrived the bodies of 111 American soldiers who were killed or who died in the ice-bound regions of northern Russia. American soldiers sacrificed upon the altar of internationalism! What argument beneath the heavens can be expounded to justify the untimely and unnecessary death of these men? Were we at war with Russia or any faction of that ka leidoscopic so-called government? Was the Congress of the United States consulted when these men were sent to their doom? Secretary Baker has never given a satisfactory explanation of the authority which prompted him to dispatch these troops. More than a year ago he promised they would all be returned to this country by June. 1919. They were not returned by that date, as is well evidenced by the trip of The Ship of Death. These 111 men, protectors of thej American flag, can never be restored to their places in the ranks of the American Army. Their death has | marked a crimson page in the his- I tory of this country. There is only one hope in the sacrifice they made. That is the indelible record, the "handwriting on the wall" which speaks against internationalism with all its attendant evils. What a story these men could have told if they could have spoken to the committee of men representing the people of the United States who met their last earthy remains! But their dead bodies spoke louder than words. Their bodies must have stood as if in a struggle to form a stone wall between this country and the danger of entangling alliances. Need the advocates of inter nationalism, those who would throw this country into the everlasting cauldron of European controversy, any greater lesson than this? What representative of the people could look upon the bodies of these sol diers and then turn about and vote for the similar sacrifice of thousands more? "Let the dead past bury its dead," hut let it be heralded from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to Canada that these "shall not have died in vain." WRONG, GOVERNOR BLACK GOVERNOR BLACK, of Ken tucky, blames President Wil son's coal strike letter for his defeat. "The miners voted for a Re publican," he says. Governor Black is right in placing responsibility for his defeat on President Wilson, but the coal strike letter had little bearing on the elec tion. Normally, Kentucky chooses Democratic Governors and doubtless had President Wilson been a popular President that would have had an important bearing on the Kentucky election. The President's stand on the coal strike has been more favor ably received than anything he has done since the declaration of war on Germany, but it could not overcome the general antagonism of the coun try against the administration. Mr. Wilson's determination not to per mit the soft coal workers to wreck the industrial fabric of the country for their own selfish purposes made more votes for the Kentucky Demo crats than it cost them. Make no mistake about that. Governor Black. A COMMANDMENT NOT long ago a noted economist, asked to give his remedy for the condition of unrest throughout the world, wrote out on a sheet of paper as his solution simply the Ten Commandments. He might have gone further and reduced his rules to one, which reads: "Honor thy father and thy mother." This is the most sweeping of all the Commandments, for if a man carry out that injunction to its final analysis he will have obeyed all the others, and when the whole world bows in obedience to this divine command the millennium will have arrived. "Rainbow sugar" casts its effulgent glow over a grateful city. WHY 18 CENTS? THE present crop of Louisiana sugar will be offered to the re tail trade at about eighteen and one-half cents a pound, officials of the Department of Justice inform the people through the newspapers. Why eighteen and one-hulf cents a pound? If cane sugar was worth only ten cents a pound several weeks ago, why is it worth eighteen and one half cents now? Are not the Southern producers being favored In the same way cot ton growers were during the war, when they were left to fix their own prices while Northern wheat grow ers were restricted as to what they could charge for their products? The Department of Justice will have to do some explaining to satisfy the public that the great increase in price is justified. ""Po&tCco LK "Hp IVCLHUL By the Kx-Committeeman Attorney General William I. 1 Schaffer's declaration that prohibi tion enforcement is a federal matter and that it is not a subject for State ! enactment coming so counter to the j assertions of Judge Eugene C. j Bonnlwell that the States must pre pare for such legislation establishes the situation as regards liquor for' the next general assembly, in opinion of many people. The attitude of the Sproul ad ministration during the 1919 legis lature was that prohibitory legisla tion was a federal matter and this was the reason why the Governor vetoed the Itamsey 2.75 bill which agitated the session for months be fore it was put over. The effects of that veto were felt in the primary and general elections and apparently the liquor forces are planning to in ject, it again. —The active gossip that Gover nor William C. Sproul is likely to recognize Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore as the Republican leader of Philadelphia in the matter of ap pointments caused no surprise here. Consultation with Mr. Moore, under the circumstances of his election, would be the most natural thing in the world. —The most cordial relations be tween the Governor and the mayor are anticipated, especially as the Governor was as keenly interested in the charter framing as the people who will live >and work under it. Some of the Philadelphia newspa pers, the Press, for instance, ex press the Idea that the leaders of the charter committee have some wakeful nights coming if they think they can run the new mayor. Hints of resentment of a "proprietary" at titude are heard. It seems to be pretty certain, however, that with Moore as mayor and the Vares in | control of some councilmen that ! things are going to be interesting, but not disturbing, and that the Sproul administration can count upon the same full support in Philadelphia as it can in Pittsburgh. —Politics in Pennsylvania are rapidly getting to the dinner stage, just as they are trending in the na tional game, and from now on there will be numerous informal affairs about the board which will settle various things in advance of the presidential primary campaign. The Republican State leaders are wait ing to see what the Democrats in tend to do before having some of their seashore conferences, while the Democrats are so busy watching each other that they are waiting word from Washington. -—The rout of the Democratic or ganizations in so many of the coun ties and the collapse of hopes to capture Fayette and other counties where "rehabilitation drives" were launched, coupled with the inroads made by the Republicans in such Democratic counties as York, North ampton, Berks, Columbia and Greene, have caused a recasting of the plans of the ringmasters. The iscouts of the Palmer presidential boom have reported things in good shape for the attorney general's presidential boom as far as the Democrats go, but there are not manyvof them left. The anti-Palmer forces failed to make much headway this fall and while they intend to make a noise next year, it looks as though Palmer will be in the lead when elections come around. —York county's Republican vote this year appears to have stunned some of the Democratic leaders in that county and they have had a hard time trying to figure out what happened. While the Lewis forces did not get the sheriff they came within a half a dozen of it and that in a Democratic stronghold like York means something pretty close to disaster. —The election of a Republican congressman from the York-Adams district next year and of the Repub lican legislators in the two counties seem to be possible more than ever. —Partisans of Senator George W. Sassaman, of Reading, do not take kindly to the plan of Representative Wilson G. Sarig to be a candidate for senator on the Democratic I ticket next year. Sarig has been bucking the Sassaman organization, which is a pretty stiff proposition •in Berk's county, and figures ont that he has a chance because of the defeat of the Democrats in the Reading election. —There is much mention of the name of Samuel S. Lewis, the York county leader, as a possible candi date for the Republican nomination for auditor general, but Mr. Lewis has never made any statement about it. He has considerable support throughout the State. Neither Philadelphia nor Allegheny county leaders have come forward with any candidates and the northeast and northwest have been busy with their own congressional and legisla tive fences. —Mayor Dan L. Hart's selection of Col. W. H. Zierdt, well known as an officer of the Keystone Division and Divisional Inspector of the new National Guard, as chief of police is attracting warm commendation in Wilkes-Barre. The new chief is praised by the Wilkes-Barre Record, the Republican organ, as "capable, energetic and upright." Represen tative Richard Powell, of Edwjirds ville, well known here, is to be chief county detective of Luzerne. —R. M. Ketser will be the next city treasurer of Wilkes-Barre. His election was conceded by the Mundy forces Tuesday afternoon after the' ballot box from the Thirteenth Ward, Fifth District, was opened and the ballots recounted. Accept ing the corrected returns from this and other districts, Mr. Keiser wins by ninety-five votes. When the ballot box was opened the evidence of fraud and juggling was so apparent that the court was asked to throw out the entire vote from that district. Republican party leaders plan to issue warrants for the members of that election board and also for the arrest of John Jay McDevitt. —District Attorney George W. Maxey, of Lackawanna, elected to the bench last Tuesday over the present incumbent, James J. O'Neill, will continue to serve as district at torney until the first Monday in January, when he takes his place on the bench. The appointment of a successor of a district attorney, who resigns during his term of office, under the State law, is made by the court. In this Instance it will mean that President Judge H. M. Ed wards, Judge E. C. Newcomb and Judge-elect Maxey will have the naming of Mr. Maxey's successor. , Although the time for the appoint ment is some two months away it is said that First Assistant Frank P. : Benjamin will be named as Mr. | Maxey's successor. Mr. Benjamin I has been first assistant since Mr. Moiv took office in 1914. HARRISBURG &&&& TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ByBRIGGS r^T-OM.ET vl uno . rT -STAY AT \ Vs/HA-T IS lT ?• JEWELRY- WhY g S( F°; 7 o £c'oe*- J oS^S" I toil'S ?y IT'S IN MY NAME/ '• if jIL C> WAHXuAHA^TJuhT-^ Yoo .SOMEBODY WITH ThimK UP THE f R / geueve ,T> mot- vm THINK f MY * I UR y J f <pf? Clear * I §£&-' #4if bf CARe- DOMmRt/ ft f J - not *7" t" Free Speech at University [From Philadelphia Public Ledger.] The action of the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania in can celing a meeting of the students which was to have been addressed by a certain labor agitator publicly branded by the Attorney General of the United States as an advocate of revolution und "a dangerous radical" will doubtless be hailed by many of his ilk as another unjust curtailment of free speech. But there will be no sympathy with this distorted view by the great mass of the American people, who in the present crisis of social and industrial unrest have plainly discovered that the real pur pose of those, who are most active in promoting it is defiance of law and the overthrow of government. While it Iu true that the world's history has proved that suppression is no remedy for heresy, either re ligious or economic, there are times and seasons as well as places when moderation of speech is a necessary condition for the maintenance of public order. The times are abnor mal. We have not yet emerged from the convulsions of war, nor have the processes of readjustment and restoration proceeded far enough to justify us in proclaiming the peace for which we are longing. And the Government has been compelled for its own safety and for the protection of the rights of the people to adopt many measures which under normal conditions would be open to just criticism. It Is one thing for a group of students at a university to seek to know all sides of current questions, to hear the arguments of the radical a well as the conservative, but quite another to make the search for truth the occasion—or the excuse—for a public demonstration by men who ( openly avow contempt for law and a purpose to overthrow, by force if need be, theT institutions upon which the national foundations are built. Searchers for truth at the University can find it without calling upon those who are unwilling to adopt the means provided by the constitution and the laws for the change of political poli cies to which they object and who seriouslv propose to enforce their own will, to use Attorney General Palmer's words, by terrifying a suf fering people into submission! That sort of guidance has no legitimate place in university research, especi ally when it involves a possible breach of public order and the tacit encouragement of those who would defy the laws and destroy the Gov ernment. Mother Goose Rhymes (A la Mother Jones.) Little Miss Muffet Stood on a tuffet Urging her hearers to strike; When up came a copper With orders to stop her, Arousing Miss Muffet's dislike. • • • A diller, a dollar, don't raise such a holler. We'll have a soviet soon; Instead of sleeping till 10 o'clock We'll lie in bed till noon. • * • Hey diddle diddl£, The cat and the fiddle, Trotsky jumped over the moon; All the Keds laughed When they heard of his craft— We'll do the same pretty soon. • • * Two wise men of Russia Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger My tale had been longer. • • • Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Plotting a murder or two; Said he: "The best game Is planning the same For somebody else to do." • • • Jack and Jill went up the hill. All primed to start a riot; The U. S. A. sent them away. And now the country's quiet —May Stanley, in New York Evening Sun. Communism a Menace [John Sparge, in the World's Work.] Revolutionary Communism is a menace to civilization. In country after country we find large masses of people ready to revolt against the existing social order, and to establish by the relentless and unscrupulous use of brute force a despot ism more formidable than anything ever attempted by Hapsburg, Ho henzollern or Romanoff. Like these' and all their predecessors, the crea tors of the new tyranny make fair promises of ultimate freedom, well being and happiness. But in their experiment upon the living body of human society they would destroy the institutions and the usages which alone can make possible the orderly development of humanity toward a self-chosen ideal. THE HALL OF COLUMNS . A SUBLIME MEMORIAL Architects, Sculptors anil Painters, Facing New Tasks Today, Turn to the Wonderful Ruins at Old Karnak in Egypt for Inspiration. A MEMORIAL monument,'if of a completely representative order, is the product of at least three factors: "I. Form, including scale and proportion. "2. I/ Tht and shade. "3. Color. "The result will be the realization of three minds of architect, sculptor, painter, interacting and collaborat ing. Form as expressed in line and mas will fall within the province of all three minds; light and shade as well, although they will be realized in more detail by the sculptor and painter. will fall within the special field of the painter." So spoke Edwin Howland Blaah field last May at the war memorial session of the American Federation of Arts In New York City. His plea for color in architecture focused at tention on Egypt, where the ancient architects worked in unison _ wltn both the sculptor and the painter, producing marvelous monumental temples and tombs whose noble pro portions, haunting lights and shades, and colorful walls and columns are still the delight and inspiration of the artist, although in ruins. Standing out like an obelisk amid these ancient ruins is the great hall of Columns of Karnak, one of the sublimest memorials in the history of architecture, and one of the noblest monuments that a son ever erected to the memory of a father. In this building, form, light and shade and color meet, making of it a completely representative me morial monument. ' The Hyperstyle Hall, or Great Hall of Karnak, was begun by Seti I in memory of -his father, but be fore it was finished he climbed the ! golden stairs of the gods to the Meadow of Reeds, leaving the com pletion of it to his son, -Rameses 11. The great pharaoh felt this work was a sacred duty for in an inscrip tion on one of the walls he proclaims his feelings thus: "The most beau tiful thing to behold, the best thing to hear, Is a child with a thankful breast, whose heart beats for his father." The story of his upbring ing follows and he ends by saying: "I will renew the memorial and clothe the walls of my parent." Karnak is the name often applied to the northern half of the ruins that lie on the east bank of the Nile at Thebes. It was one of the three cities built on this ancient site. The first was near Medinet Habu, on the western bank of the Nile, the second at Luxor, near Amenhotep's great temple, and the third, and oldest, to the north at Karnak. The ruins of Karnak, which oc cupy a space nearly a half a mile long and two thousand feet wide, comprise three great inclosurcs. The northernmost and smallest con tained the temple of the god Mont, built by Amenophis 111 and restored by Rameses 11. The southern in closure contained the temple of the goddess Mut. Back of this temple was the sacred lake in the shape of a horseshoe, around which has grown up many a weird legend. Even to-day the natives dislike this spot, which is ortly a crescent shaped pond, for fear of meeting an enor mous black cat which walks here on dark nights and whose eyes shine in the dark like two balls of fire. The hideous creature hypnotizes those on whom she fixes her gaze and drags them down into the water, where they drown. On moonlight nights the black cat is displaced by an Egyptian "Lady of Shalott," who casts her spell over the spot and lures by her beautiful voice the un wary to her castle in the watery epths. and there smothers them. The central Inclosure contains the greatest of all temples—the temple | of Ammon. which was reared by Seti for the priests who performed their professional bets of worship here. The great hall of the temple was one of the largest in Egypt. It was 340 feet long by 170 feet wide and eighty feet high, and covered fifty thousand square feet. The whole of Notre Dome could stand on ■ the ground floor. Its roof was mado of Stone slabs and these were placed on stone beams which rested in turn upon I*4 columns. Garrett Chat field Pier says that "the hall was originally roofed with gigantic flat sandstone blocks painted blue and dotted with gold stars on solar disks with outspread vultures' wings. It was lighted by the subdued light thai filtered through a sort of pierced stone grating or clere-story, remains of which may be still seen." Grandeur In Its Columns The grandeur of the great hall lies in its wonderful columns. Even to-day, a mass of broken bits, they glow with decorative color and awe by the suggestion of their immen sity. Twelve of them, colored and shaped after the form of a budding lotus, formed the central avenue and reached a height of 65 feet. They had a diameter of eleven feet, a cir cumference of 33, and one hundred men could stand together on the enormous surface of each bud or bell-shaped capital. The great hall has its legends, too. One, that recalls Irving's Head less Horseman, clusters about the monumental doorway of the south which closes the Avenue of Rams i and leads to the Temple of Khon-i son. At this place a dwarf, with a big head and crooked legs and wear- i ing a formidable beard, is snprosed to walk about in the mists of the evening, but takes to the air In the surrounding places. Seti I was not the first builder of the Temple of Karnak; he was one of many restorers of the building, which came into existence eleven hundred years before his time and was reared by Amenemliat I of the Twelfth Dynasty. During the reign of the Hyksos kings the temple met with disaster and for centuries was left uncared for. In the Eighteenth j Dynasty Thothmes 111 reared new doors and towers, and his son, j Amenhotep 11. had inscribed the j 'walls and the southern gate. The inscriptions found on the walls of the Temple of Karnak, es- | pecially the great hall, constitute, one of its charms as well as being the source of great historical and artistic interest. Many of these de scribe incidents in the life of its two great builders, Rameses II and his father, Setl I. One gives the text of a peace treaty, possibly the first of its kind in the world, which was made by Rameses II with the Hittites in the twenty-first year of his reign. It testifies to his hu manity and diplomacy, as do his monuments to his love of art and the immense wealth of his kingdom. Another is a prayer of Rameses II to his father: Awake, raise thy face to heaven, behold the son, my father, Seti, thou who art like a god. Thou restest in the deep like Osiris, while I rule, like Ra, among men. Thou hast entered the realm of heaven. Thou art joined to the sun and moon. When the sun rises thine eyes behold his splendor; when it sinks in the earth thou art in its train. But I obtain by prayer the breath of life at thy waking, thou glorious one. praise thy numberless names day by day, who love my father. I will be guided by thy virtue. Come, speak to the great sun god Ra, for me, that he may grant me length of days. My heart beats for thee, and so long as I live I will be guard of the honor of thy name. A Triumph of Art Rameses II had his prayer grant ed, for he lived to be more than 100 and built wonderful temples and buildings that were not only ;he glory of his own reign, but of all those that followed. As long as urt lives the name of the Pharaoh Rameses II will shed Its glory upon it. His tomb at Thebes, the Ra messeum which he built, holds, ac cording to Robert Hitchens, "first place among the monuments of Egyptian art for both dignity and beauty of mass and detail." The great hall which he completed in memory of his father Is considered by Breasted "the greatest colonnaded hall ever erected in the history of architecture." "No words," he continues, "can convey the sense of imposing, ever overwhelming majesty that over comes the beholder, who follows for the first time the forms of these soaring giants as they rise against the bright Egyptian sky, looking down through the vast and roofless architraves." Color, decorative, color, glorified the great buildings of Egypt; It warmed those of classic Greece, and made Italy and the Orient the ren dezvous of the painter—the man who loves the sun's paint spots and splashes them on canvas and on buildings. It sang at San Francisco because Jules Guerln had been steeped in the beauties of Old World NOVEMBER 13, 1919. architecture; and it beautified the World's Fair at Chicago because Ed win Blashfield, Mary Cassett, Cari M etchers, John Ra Farge and other painters had only recently copte from there. The great builders of the past did not work out their plans alone, but called to their assistance the painter and the sculptor, with the result that there came into being • St. Mark's, St. Sophia, Cliapelle, the Town Halls, the Alhambra, etc.— buildings that glow like jewels and overwhelm with their carvings and statuary. To-day, when the world is turning to architecture to express its appreciation for those who died on "Flanders Field," let the tocsin be the cry of Edwin Howland Blash fleld for a representative memorial monutjte.it —one that will be the realization of three minds, architect, sculptor, painter. Roosevelt News [From New York Sun.] On the same day came the two pleasing reports that Colonel Roose velt—"young Mas'r The'dore" —was elected to the Assembly from Nas sau county and that a new constit uent had arrived not only in the district but in his own household. On the fol'.owing day came reports from Cuba, the Philippines and Hawaii that active share was being taken in the campaign for a memo rial fund in honor of the Roosevelt we see no more. Triple immortality! His line in creases from generation to genera tion as the patriarchs used to pray for continuance of their names on earth. His own son begins a career of public service In the same Legis lature where he first learned to fight out public questions. And fin ally his fame sends back echoes from the islands of the sea. In Cuba, Ttoosevelt led in the ac tual contest for freedom. Tto pres ent status of the Philippines was part determined by his act as As sistant Secretary of the Navy in promptly sending the coal which was ready for our fleet in the crucial moment. So that recognition from these quarters is not without reason. We would add a word of congratu lation to the living Colonel, whose new honors and responsibilities he has earned in his own right. My Own Work This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Let me do my work from day to day In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring mg.rket-place or tran quil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the only one by whom The work can best be done in the right way." Then shall I see it not too great, nor small, To suit my spirit and to prove my powers; Then shall I cheerful greet the la boring hours, And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall At eventide, to play and love and rest, Because I know for me my work is best. —Henry Van Dyke. But I Have Lived Love is in my heart tonight as a bird is in its nest; I will build me a wall of song from the fragrance of thy breast. For some are wise, and some are not, and some will go their way; But I have rifled the rose of life, and I have had my day. It's many will lay their golden heads in the muck of Flanders clay, And many are quick and warm to night who will be cold in May; But I have lived and I have loved • • • a little song Is best— Love Is in my heart tonight as a bird is in its nest. —Willard Wattles in Poetry. Too Bad! [From Cartoons Magazine.] The grinder at a Picture show Is first too fast and Then too slow! On the Go! [From Cartoons Magazine.] Few married women are really happy. Even if she married a man after her own heart she is In mortal dread that he may, some day, be after another woman's heart. fainting <&lfat ' Roberts Valley, to which pretty spot the Harrisburg Natural His tory Society will make the mid-No vember pilgrimage on Saturday afternoon, is one of the interesting Places near the city. It is not mucn < of valley, but it is a location whose settlement goes back almost 150 years and which was laid out before th e Declaration of Independence and when Harrisburg ij k 1 n 'y and trading station. Roberts Valley was where men used to hunt when the settlers found it necessary to build Fort Hunter as an outpost against the Indians. The f ij u . K ita ™ from .Daniel < Roberts, son of a family which had w°ik® r from the British Isles with William Penn and had settled in what was known as Rising Sun. / uaniei Roberts was born in Mont gomery county and moved up to this "? ctlon . ot , which he hud heard through business dealings with friends of John Harris, whose ferry 1 enterprise was in its heyday of prosperity. Th ; s ear)y aettler dc _ IJ . lay out a tow n and it is said that he drew a plot about 1770. i k WUH the of Rockville, which was for a time known as Brushy Rock and then called by the name which it has given to the great railroad bridge. It is separate and distinct from Coxestown, which had an earlier beginning. The AlcAll's ter and Cox families were interested in the development of Roberts Val '®y an <J Plotted parts of it for sale. Daniel Roberts, who had a good bit of business with -the settlers and the Indians and was a man of sub- / stance and wide influence, was the ancestor of the Roberts family of this city and some of his kin' are buried in the ancient churchyard Luckn °w, the title to which Bishop Darlington says is vested in the primate of England. State Geologist George H. Ashley in a summary of the oil producing situation in Pennsylvania to-day, said that drilling for oil in eastern counties will never pay. "it looks to me as though the man who drills in eastern or southeastern Pennsyl vania has passed forty miles beyond the, station where the gambler gets off," said he in pointing out that while many tests had been made in Dauphin, Berks, Schuylkill and other eastern counties they had never produced oil in paying quan tities. The geologist, who lias been making a study of the situation, • said that there are undoubtedly some pools in the State which will be discovered, hut that they are in a limited area. All of the oil has come from certain western counties and it is safe to say, he. remarks, that the rest, of it will come from there. "Of hundreds of holes drilled in the eastern area not one has brought forth enough oil to pay the driller's board bill, or if it has, the, secret has never leaked out," says he. in pointing out the difference in the geological formation of eastern and western Pennsylvania. Hundreds of dollars are being paid to the State Treasurer by treasurers of counties for hunters' licenses, with the remark that the counties have been issuing permits without the licenses. To meet, the situation caused by a demand for licenses away beyond anything ex pected the State authorities said that men could hunt with treasurer's receipts. The treasurers in some counties have had to order extra receipts. App*; ;n c of some people who were traveling from Northern New York to Palm Beach in automobiles containing trucks that looked like a freight car attracted much atten tion from folks walking along Sec ond street. The cabins seemed to be very complete, but there was one thing that appealed to many. It was a Victrola or something like that placed beside the driver so that he can have music wherever he goes. • • The Capitol Hill policemen's new overcoats make them look like Held marshals. They are of a handsomo cut and attract much attention from the populace. The other day Super intendent T. W. Templeton was com ing along when one of the policemen saluted him. The policeman dis played the State arms in gold on nis sleeve and a strict military cut to the collar. This with the cap gave him a high rank appearance. "I feel like throwing out my chest when I 3ce that uniform," said Mr. Templeton. "Those fellows call me 'boss.' " * * ♦ Herman L. Collins, who writes un der the name of Girard in the Phila delphia Press, has this to say about roads and railroads: "Our Highway Commissioner, Lewis S. Sadler, told me recently that it costs $60,000 a mile to build our best State roads. But Mr. Plumb has it all figured out that American railroads are worth only $22,000 a mile. That is all they could be worth if the railroads have as much 'water' in their capital as he says they have. I shall allow United States Government engineers to answer Mr. Plumb. In the case of eight minor railroads—not big trunk lines, mind you—these engi neers working for Uncle Sara have found the average value per mile of road to be $76,000, or 245 per cent, above Mr. Plumb's guess. Moral: Hot air shrinks wonderfully when measured by a foot rule." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ Senator William C. McConnell, of Shamoktn, was here yesterday to visit friends at the Capitol. —Joseph R. Grundy was the speaker at the meeting of the manu facturers at Williamsport. —Senator William D. Braig, of Beaver, declares his county is going to show something in the way of roads this year. C. Laßue Munson, the lawyer, is to read a paper before the Lycoming county historical society on "The Everlasting State of Wil liamsport." Senator Albert Davis, of Scran ton, was among visitors to the Gov ernor's office. | DO YOU KNOW 1 Hi at Harrlsburg's park system has been the model for similar enterprises In a doxen States? HISTORIC HARRISBURG North and South streets formed thi boundaries of what was known as Maclaysburg. Near Beer Near Here , [From Cartoons Magaiine.] I People who have to put up with "near beer" will never be convinced that "distance lends enchantment."
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