-WINTER WHEAT SOWNJN STATE Dauphin County Has 31,192 Acres Out With 659 Sown With Rye Philadelphia. Dec. 19. Dauphin county has 31,192 acres In winter wheat and 659 in rye, according to the Philadelphia field agent of the United States Department of Agri culture. Statistics issued to-day show 'how other Central Pennsylvania counties rank in winter wheat and rye. They are: County Wheat Rye Juniata 19.305 1.522 Huntingdon 28,304 1.633 Mifflin 22.432 287 Montour 12.693 2,150 Northumberland 30,392 4.034 Perry 26.066 2,612 Snyder 26,857 2.440 Berks 83.004 15,103 I.ancaster 129,296 1,439 Debanon 31,662 1,901 Schuylkill 31,320 5.740 Adama 61.070 4.373 Bedford 35,584 7.222 Cumberland 63.1 18 6,208 Franklin 95,676 8.561 Fulton 21.331 3.957 York 109,512 8.507 ■ IRON ■MIIHIIHIIII 4 ana*—- It lias been a difficult matter to supply King Oscar Cigars in quantities sufficient to meet the ever increasing demands. Sustained quality and increased quantity insure your steady sup ply at the old Seven Cent Price J. C. Herman & Co. Harrisburg, Pa. fa trXEAR THF, YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SANTA SAYS— "BUY SENSIBLE GIFTS" V? We Cash ( / J All A-A * Dresses Skirts NO PROFITEERING AT , Robinson's Woman Shop OUR PRICES YOU WILL FIND ARE THE LOWEST IN TOWN FRIDAY EVENING, TWO WORKINGMEN WHO CHANGED WORLD THE liitcriMt'oiinl Sunday SrlifKil I-csson For DWCIIIIHT 28 Js "Tin' T: niiiliife of l'eter and John''—l John 1:1-9 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS I Upon tho clouded horizon of the restless world to-day the most hope ful sign is the fact that Jesus and most of bis apostles were callous palmed worklngmen. That portends peace. >v hen tno world's toilers turn from the shrill, harsh and hate-filled voices of pres ent-day "leaders," they will be ready to listen to the quiet, conn dent tones of the fellow v/orkinE nien, who, although tliey lived in Asia nearly two thousand years ago, stiN have *,• most modern messages for to-d. Most of what it, wrong with this old earth—its injustices, its eva sions, its ignorances, its prejudices, its selfishness —is due to plain mis understanding. Whatever peril there is in our own present situation arises from the lack of confidence of masses of people in the sincerity and sympa thy of lawmakers and executives. They feel that their viewpoint is not the viewpoint of the dominant few. Jesus and his ossoc'ates are not subject to this suspicion. They were plain people, workers with their hands. They experienced the lot of the poor. All their teachings re vealed <1 sympathetic comprehension of tho loads that the mass of man kind carry. One of lour modern poets, Sara N. Cleghorn, has strik ingly voiced this message from the Bible: "Thanks to Saint Matthew, who had been At mass meotings in Palestine, We know whose side was spoken for When Comrade Jesus had the floor. " 'Where sore they toil and hard they lie, Among the, great unwashed dwell The tramp, the convict, I am He; Cold-shoulder him, cold-shoulder me.' "By Dives' door, with thoughtful eye, He did to-morrow prophesy:— 'The kingdom's gate is' low and small; The rich can scarcely wedge through at ail.' " 'A dangerous man,' said Caiplias; 'An ignorant demogague, alas! Friend of low women, it is he Slanders the upright Pharisee.' "For law and order, it was plain. For Holy Church, He must be slain. The troops were there to awe the crowd, ; And violence was not allowed. ' "Their clumsy force with force to foil IBs strong, clean hands He would not soil. i He saw their childishness quite plaif. | Between the lightnings of his pain. ■ "Between tho twilight of His end, He made His fellow-felon friend: With swollen tongue and blinding ; eyes, j Invited him to Paradise. "Ah, let, no local Him refuse! comrade Jesus hatli paid his dues. .Whatever others be debarred, j Comrade Jesus hath his red card." Where It All Occurred Til's is the time for the long look backward. The International Sun day School I.esson Committee lias assigned for this review the topic "The Training of Peter and John." They were the two apostles who fig ured in the year's studies. So we are to take a broad, far survey of them, and of tho conditions amid which they lived. Perhaps we may catch a new glimpse of the impor tance to our own world of these two Asiatic workingmen of the long ago. That there is such a thing as a place-pro vidcnce, no reverent stu dent of history will deny. There i? a geography of God. He has cho sen certain lands as the scene of his major operations. A myriad preach ers have seen such a significance in the situation of this western conti nent. Anew, as of old, the shores of the Mediterranean are the thea ter of vast and world-transforming events. The Holy T>and has been the battleground of the ages and the living spring of waters from which world-encircling streams have flowed. Everybody who Is ordinarily In telligent should know where Pales tine is. The vagueness with which ail foreign lands are regarded as "over there" is not creditable to the general education. T once ask ed a classroom of college studenls to tell me how to go to Jerusalem: not one could do so: most of tliem got only as far as Paris. The men of the Bible will never be real to us unless the places of the Bible are also real. This Book is not in the same category with Mother Goose and the Fairy Tales; although Christian people not a few regard it with somewhat the same sense of unreality. A mair'will make clear why Peter and John were at a place of universal potency. Orange Trees and Men I have seen orange groves bear ing at the same time blossoms and ripe fruit, which is symbolic. [Certain lives, like those of the two Galilean fishermen who are at the moment under review, are bearing the blossoms of to-morrow's fruit, even while producing fruit to-dav. Peter and John have profoundly af fected human history: they are among the race's few shaping men; yet their greatest work is yet to be done. It seems as if the world to-day Is all of a sudden and all In the new, plastic and formative. We have como, as it were, to a time of uni versal social new birth. All the old forces and institutions are being re valued. Pome being rejected, after centuries of use. Others are coming into fresh power. The character and message of the great builders, like Jesus and his apos tles, are now entering into a remade opporunity. Bike a discovered die, they may sirmp tlieir impress upon the currency of humanity. In all the long stretches of time, has there ever been an hour so full of possi bility as this for fixing the character of the spirits of mankind? Aroused over all the world, the toilers are ready to accept the lead ership of such comradely heroes as Peter and John. These two toiler tenehers are the more welcome as leaders because they are men from the ranks. The callouses from the heavy sweeps of the Galilean boats are still on their palms. Their sim ple cloaks smell of the day's catch. Their eyes wear the understanding look of the laborer who has been tired and hungry. These are no book-laught theories. Their lingo is that of every-dny men; and not the shop-talk of seminaries. They know what they are speaking about, and the'r word has tlie eternal power [of the real. Whoever can introduce j Peter and John, and their Carpenter i Master, to the workers of the world I will be doing the most possible to I serve a puzzled generation. Soiling What lie Hadn't Because Peter and John had ex perienced all tliev tell, they get a [hearing* The simple explanation for much of the failure of the Church to reach the world is that it is offer ing people what it does not possess. Its advertised goods are not always found on its shelves. Ttecently, T was entering the Cos mos Clnh, Washington, when a pa thetic figure, unkempt and poverty marked, was trying .to get past the doorman, to call upon someone in side. The negro evidently thought the man was not the sort whom a member of the club would rare to see. At length, he ushered him into a I'ttle anteroom, where messengers wait, and sent for the P"rson want ed. T happened to be using the tele phone boo'h in that same room, and so was enforced witness and auditor of what followed. The seedy old man. who had none of the self-confidence or assurance of a hooka gent, waited nervous! v until the arrival of the one sent for, who proved to he a distinguished Episcopal clergyman of the city, Thep, with many preambles aiid vouch circumlocution and generaliza tion and not a. little assistance from the mln'ater. he stated that he want ed to give a courre of le"tures to the rrenchers of Wahinrtor nnon c'ocu tler, ''♦ delivery, vo'ee culture .wi -one"' 1 1 oT'elonc". AVheo the e'ergymen—'kn was a tactful gen t'a-inn and Christian throtihnnt —* pointed out the tmprnetlehhlltty of this, the visitor insisted tliat in a HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Mro i course of twelve lectures he could teach the preachers much, or 1611I 611 this one man alone. He did not know that the pastor addressed was himself the author of a book on preaching. . man was trying to soli some thing he did not possess. He had been unable to impress a negro oorkceper favorably; yet he aspired "> tell preachers how to impress hole congregations. He was a piti " e example of the man whose pre .".sions outrun his possessions. Some cprosentatives of religion are in the iS P n^ L . u Th,y try to tell 1,10,0 ! about God than they know. The 11 eligion they proclaim is far bevond | the religion they live. I Not so Peter and John. Thev ex per enced, then expressed. Thov ITr ti m Preceded their words. lim' hnntp h '!> era from the fish ihJin-hi r ,pfl fhein up the heights of Idealism, of training in | human service, and'of personal ac ! were s" Ce^' lth a I!vln *f God. They Ithe world's t CIP J eB, an<l 80 the worlds leaders. To-day. Peter iSpp We have made preparations for the biggest Xmas r we ' iave ever * c *° olu * ieart B°°^ j llst to see ie dazzling display of Beautiful Gift llSPfeigraro,_!BrS§ We may be a little "Out-of-tlie-way" but it will P a y y ou to ( *° J our ,nas Shopping here. Our IT LOW Expense is Your Big Saving. Bamboo Tabourets, 75c Strongly made of genuine bamboo. Mat ting covered. Japanese Flower Holders $1.50 Black lacquer or mahogany. Japanese Flowers, 15c a Spray up. 26-Piece Chest Community Par-Plate $12.98 6 Knives, 6 Forks, 6 Large and 6 Small Spoons, Sugar Shell and Butter Knife, Chest included. Silk Shade Floor Lamps $22.50 24-inch Rose Silk Shade, mahogany fin ished base with 2 lamps. Fiber Rockers $6.50 Well-woven fiber, finished brown. High back style Chairs to match. Cedar Chests $24.75 48-inch, Copper Banded. A well-finished Chest. jjdSjjhj ga Xmas Club Sale Stradivara Phonographs Makes You a Member of the yp^jM Stradivara Club *IV ""' "''l|l|||| I LARGE CABINET MODEL PICTURED. Finished 11. ' II z=== ===iE\^' ta 'i> including Record File. $105.00 Other Models Up to S2OO 1H 8 f| We Will Reserve Any Article Purchased For Xmas Delivery NfISHSi 803 WT.NT.O pqJ * £9 I selected the Stradivari in preference to """""""""""""'""""'■■■■■■■■■■■■■nsei Other similar instruments becauee of its MH •upertor tone, construction. design and fin- K3 Uh. And juat think, dear—we can play ALL BS ——— _____ _____ ____ puXl ,^,, - ?nou,Strac,i "—Of W W r? W Several Models from ICQ to iZiQ |B \ H IV I B I MTmL FURNITURE CO. S 1415-19 N. Second St. Carlisle Store—23 W. High Street S 5 OPEN EVERY EVENING and John are introducing Jesus to their fellow workingmen of all the world. Spain's Underground Railv/ay Is Rushed Madrid, Dec. 19.—Riding in the Metro, Spain's first underground rail way System, is the latest diversion lof the youth and old of Madrid. The | trains are crowded, every hour be j ing a rush hour, while on .Sundays 1 and holidays thousands go home dis appointed. Cotton Mill Strike of 4 Years, Settled Mlddleton, Eng., Dec. 19.—A cot ton mill strike which lasted four years has Just been settled. The employes of a spinning mill here quit work in October, 1915, owing to an alleged grievance. The plant has | remained virtually idle since. Another Religious Revival Hits Wales Aberaman, South Wales, Dec. 19. —Another religious revival is j spreading over Wales. It was started ' at a mission by Stephen Jeffreys, a : Wolsh revivnlist. !:eports of super- | natural visions ana instances of dl- | vine healing have be'en followed by I hundreds of conversions and people j are travelling long distances to wit ness the revival. EDUCATION NOTTS Physical training in schools! throughout the State of Michigan is provided in a recent act of thej Michigan legislature. The law re- | quires boards of education to en- j gage competent instructors and to 1 provide the necessary place and' equipment. Bamboo Sewing Stands $3.98 Genuine bamboo, matting covered. Square lid with tray. Parchment Shade Boudoir Lamps $8.98 Ivory or gold-lacquer bases. Parchment shades hand decorated. Doll Carriages $12.98 Finished White Enamel, and lined with white corduroy. Just like a big one. Per fect model of full sized type. High Grade Couches $37.50 Upholstered in genuine mule-skin or tapestry. Roll edge, large size. Utility Chests $3.98 Matting covered. Bamboo bound. Others up to SB. Library Tables $22.50 Mahogany finished colonial table. Oval or oblong top. Two pedestals underneath. DECEMBER 19, 1919. 1 BEAUTIFUL | I Christmas Trees | [''J Thousands of the same kind of magnificent Trees that | we have been supplying you with for years. Fresh from Santa s Forest in the Far North j ||j| All Sizes at Reasonable Prices jjji Tree Holders, Holly Wreaths, Gravel for walks llj v and drives, Popcorn and Poppers . I Schell's Seed Store Quality Seeds 1] | 1307-1300 Market St. ; j| 42-Piece Dinner Sets $7.50 Neat floral and conventional patterns. Mahogany Smoker Stands $2.25 Made of genuine mahogany with remov able glass ash tray. Also available in Jap anese lacquer finish. Dolly Madi&on Sewing Cabinets $22.50 Solid mahogany finished in brown antique. Muleskin Fireside Rockers $35 Large, massive rocker in genuine mule skin. First-class spring construction. Ladies' Writing Desks $22.50 Mahogany, fumed or golden oak. Colonial style. 8-Piece Aluminum Sets $10.50 Consisting of 8 big pieces of warranted aluminum cooking utensils. 11
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