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8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1631 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELiIaRAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, * Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Butineis Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor iu R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager.. Executive Board ST. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUa M. STEINMETZ. Member 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 also the local nAvs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies.' Eastern office, Story, Brooks & Avcnuo_ Building, Western office. Story, Brooks & G^a 's 1 ' Bui lifng, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a CReK .VittKD week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. t When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. — MATT, 6:3. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1918 HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH the end of the war the necessity of real preparation for an accurate history of Pennsylvania's part In the struggle of the ages is emphasized. Gover nor-elect Sproul Is particularly In terested in this matter, and, as he has been identified with matters having to do with the history of the State, he may be trusted to give proper impulse and direction to the authoritative record of the achieve ments of the Commonwealth. This history, of course, will em brace every form of war activity. There has been so much that was important that each community will he requirad to aid in the work. It is going to be a great undertaking, but capable men and women should be commissioned to prepare a com prehensive plan which will give as surance of an accurate and abso lutely dependable history that will cover every war activity, however insignificant as compared with the bigger things of mobilization and or ganization of troops. Now is the time to begin this work and it ought not be permitted to drag over a long period of years. In fact, while the records are fresh and the memory of those who are familiar with what has been done is acute is the time to put into permanent and Imperishable form the story of the part of a great State in helping to save civilization and in safeguarding justice and lib erty throughout the world. But remember, while peace is here, sugar rations, coal restrictions and war bread are likely to be with us for some time. GERMANY IN CHAINS THE armistice terms as signed yesterday, leave Germany in chains. Once in effect the Ger mans must accept whatever peace requirements the Allies and America may decide upon. Prussianism has been stripped of its arrogance and is groveling in the dust. Kaiserism is dead. Even Von Hindenburg, seeing the handwriting on the wall, offers what is left of the German armies to do police duties for the new govern ment, once a new government is firmly in the saddle. The armistice is comprehensive and all inclusive. It is drastic enough to satisfy the most exacting. It re stores the lost provinces and guar antees the eastern front. It protects at the same time that it Restores, and best of all it acknowledges that the German armies have been ut terly defeated and wiped out of existence by tho Allies, for upon its armies Junkerdom based its bid for world dominion. There is an old man whose name is Bill, who used to live on top of a hill; if he hadn't been a fool he'd be living there still. THE RESERVE MILITIA THE crash of Germany has so occupied public attention that in these days when the State is coming out from the restrictions Imposed because of Influenza it has not been possible to accord com mendation fairly earned by the officers and men of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia. From the start of the organization • there were some •who doubted what it would be able to do. It did have somewhat of a lhard row to hoe. But when the time came Re servo Militia was ready. It was called upon at the very outset of the influenza outbreak to furnish tents and cots and other equipment and its members did not stop for trains. They loaded the equipment into trucks and started them across country. The new truck company TUESDAY EVENING, was in action before it was fairly launched. And then, when specially trained men were wanted, tho Mili tia's sanitary detachments went into service. And finally, when orderlies and workers were asked, the infantry and cavalry units volunteered. The medical and quartermaster's depart ments were in service to a man. It is a proud record that the Re serve Militia made in an unexpected and, if doctors' death certificates mean anything, a dangerous field. It met an emergency and it would have done as well with riot or iir surrection or invasion or active ser vice. Good evoning. Mayor Keister. You have the unanimous approval of .all the good citizens of Harrisburg in your prompt closing of the drinking places yesterday. The people of this city are pot going to stand for any orgy of drunkenness on the tliresh hold of a great peace and they ap preciate your gOod sense in directing the closing order. A PROPER ORDER THI2 order which Mayor Keister promulgated yesterday through the chief of police, closing the saloons of the city for the day, did not come a moment too soon. It was a very wise provision against dis order. The "lid was off" and those who look upon a celebration as in complete without booze were dis posed to go to extreme lengths. Tho time will come when the saloon will no logger mar the jollity of the holiday crowds, but until that tlmo is here conscientious executives will continue to do as Mayor Keister did yesterday. Again tho Chamber of Commerce has demonstrated Its great useful ness as a civic organization in the big way that the noon luncheon of to-day was made to serve a great movement—tho care of our soldiers until they come back. RUM INFLUENCE DEAD A WRITER for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, interviewing Governor-elect Sproul, said he gathered from the conversation that the new Governor believes the in fluence of the liquor interests in the politics of the state to be dead- Senator Sproul is in position to be very certain of that. In his fight for the Governorship the rum inter ests were lined up solidly for Judge Bonniwell, his opponent. They made boast of what they Intended to do to the Republican candidate. They threatened and they forecasted; they worked and they spent their money, but when the votes were counted the Republican nominee, who made his canvass on a distinctly "dry" platform, was so far in the lead that his election was conceded by 10 o'clock the evening of election day and his victory will now go down as one of the greatest in the history of politics In Pennsylvania. The Bonniwell defeat laid forever the old political bogey of the "liquor interests." The day of booze and politics hand in hand ia past. The people want none of the combina tion. Prohibition for the country is just around the corner. John Barley corn always was over-rated as a vote getter. To-day he stands as utterly discredited as the Kaiser himself. Of course, you observed the big new flag that floated to the breeze for the first time yesterday over the main entrance to the Penn-Harris Hotel on Walnut street. Some flag and some hotel. SOLDIERS' COURTESIES THE Technical High school athle tic association on Saturday dis tributed over town dodgers ad vertising its football team with the following paragraph at the bottom: NOTlCE—Soldiers, sailors and I marines, your uniform is your admission ticket. Pay the United States 4 cents war tax and enjoy the game with our best wishes. Thus the students paid tribute to their older brothers in the service. It was a kindly sentiment that prompted the act, which cost the school little and gave pleasure to a large number of lads in uniform who gave every evidence of having spent a most pleasant afternoon. We ought to extend more courtesies to our soldier visitors, who do so much while we do so little for the country we all love. President Wilson will have noted that the belligerents in Europe have an Intelligent conception of the poli tical currents in the United States. Instead of misunderstanding the overturning of a Congress amenable to tho President and dominated by him, the nations on' the other side of the ocean properly interpreted the election of many patriotio and loyal Republicans as a Bign that your Uncle Samuel was in for a vigorous prosecution of the war. Like Davy Crockett's coon the Hun criminals came down without delay and with a hard bump. The President will never cease to regret his partisan appeal for a Democratic congress and the people will always remember with gjadness that they maintained the principles of a free and untram meled government. Bet's make it a great thanks of fering for the welfare of the soldiers. Millions for the United War Work organizations will demonstrate to the boys in the service at home and abroad that the folks back home are going to provide everything for their comfort until they return. You will recall that the Kaiser said something to former Ambassador Gerard about "standing no foolish ness from the Untted States after the war." That was before our boys started on thelc European tour. The armies won't be home in a hurry; meantime, the soldiers must have their recreation and amusement. Give, and give liberally, to the War Work fund. And now, let's get ready for that glad day whon the boys como home. T> U "fiMUt^icCLKLd By the Ex-Commlttccman Ninety-flve of the commissioners sent by the state to take tho votes of the soldiers and sailors In camps and stations in this country have lllcd their return books and they are now being scanned so that the votes as recorded may bo certified to the proper counties, if required. There wero 126 commissioners nam ed to go to 109 places. People at the Capitol say that tho votes of the soldiers show the usual proportion as to parties as prevails in their homo counties, but that many of the commissioners report that soldiers did not vote. The great-i est interest is being shown in the soldiers' Congressional votes in the i-iuzerne and Lackawanna districts, but tlio scattering ligurcs received since Saturday noon have not made any substantial difference. Tho accounts of tho commission ers, who get ten cents a milo travel ed by a direct route and nothing more, wtl be sent to the Auditor General In a few days. It is probable that the next Legis lature will enact a law to put the taking of soldiers votes on a modern basis. The state is operating un der the act of 1864. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin last evening opened speculation regarding tho cabinet of the new governor and its article furnishes the basis for some Democratic specula tion in the McCormick morning newspaper to-day. It revives the reports that William I. Schaffer can be attorney general if lie wishes and the four-year-old prediction that W. Ilarry Baker, secretary of the Re publican state committee, is to bo secretary of the Commonwealth. Mr. Baker is stated by the Bulletin to be. an invaluable legislative official, how ever. The Bulletin declares that Wil liam 11. Ball, secretary to the Gov ernor. and Dr. B. F. Uoyer, acting commissioner of health, are booked to sever all connection with tho state government. >—Tho general belief at the Capi tol is that Harry S. McDevitt, special deputy auditor general, will become a deputy attorney general, a place he has long desired. ■ —The Philadelphia Press says edi torially to-day: "Some people arc now fixing up a cabinet for Gover nor-elect Sproul who must know that the Governor-elect is better qualified than anyone else for that job." —Richard W. lobst, of Emaus, just appointed to the vacancy in the office of district attorney of Lehigh county is the first Moravian to hold that office. He started in life as a telegraph operator. He has been one of the prominent younger Dem ocrats. —Ephrata borough, at the recent election, voted almost unanimously for its fellow-townsman, ex-Burgess Joseph T. Evans, one of the four Assemblymen-elect of Lancaster county. Mr. Evans is-a member of the Lancaster bar and a native of Montgomery county, where he taught school for a number of years. —E. N. Carpenter, < Republican, leads John J. Casey, Democrat, for Congress by eighteen votes in the Luzerne district. It will require the soldier vote to decide the election. This vote will not be tabulated for at least two weeks. Returns from fif teen military camps have been re ceived. Carpenter received 15,556 votes on the Republican ticket, 839 on the Prohibition, and 74 on the Washington, a total of 16,468. Casey received 15,082 on the Democratic ticket, 850 on the Socialist, 407 on the Roosevelt Progressive, and 111 on the Fair Play, a total of 16,450. —The Altoona Tribune says: "The sooner Republican leaders stop llirt ing with the liquor men the better will it be for them and the party." —Joseph F. Gorman, who ran on the Democratic ticket in the recent campaign for Congressman-at-Large, has been appointed by Federal Cus todian of Allen Property A. Mitchell Palmer as special appraiser of Ger man-owned breweries, and is in the West. —The computing board of the Lehigh county election returns has reported that Congressman Dewalt, Democrat, running for the third term, carried the county over J*. Wilmer Fisher, his Republican op ponent, by a plurality of only 88 5, polling 7,915 votes to 7,067 for Fisher. —Senator Sproul has attracted considerable attention by this por tion of his interview in tho Philadel phia Ledger: "There are many things to be done, so many that, as I said, I shall not adopt the attitude of a man with ambitions. I shall not seek leadership, I shall be the Governor. Look the field ovor. Here is a state with great departments of the Government which should be co-ordinated and put upon a co operative basis. They are great de partments. but their efficiency, their worth to the Commonwealth, can be immeasurably increased by the right sort of effort. Men teil me I have displayed some ability in or ganizing and handling my commer cial affairs. I have carried on my enterprises with some success, and with a minimum of constrained ef fort. Therefore I hope to be able to apply some of these methods to the business of tho Government of Pennsylvania." —An Allentown dispatch to the Inquirer says: "One of the reasons for the remarkable victory of State Senator Horace W. Schantz, the Re publican county chairman, who was re-elected on Tuesday, was the fact known to Lehigh people that if Senator Schantz were sent back he would bo a ranking and influential member. Few first termers achieved such standing us did Senator Schantz either in the Senate or at home with the people, and an idea developed in the minds of the voters that if he were returned, Lehigh would be represented by a man who would stand with the leuders in the high est lawmaking body of the state." THINK THIS OF ME Friends, I am no longer the carelesß lad You knew so well in days bf Peace. War brings Swift maturity and the selfish things And thoughts are mine no more. In stead there rings A nobler sense within and I am glad That it is so. For two years I have had The company of heroes, purple clad, Halted like eagles und prouder than kings. —Hy Anzac Tom Skeyhtll. Foolish Poem The bull-voiced Bulgars raise a shout And sing in wrathful chorus, "We threw our stupid monarch out, We'd not Ist lioris bore us." • —From the Now York Tribuno HARRISBURG qSSb* TELEGRAJPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING By BRIGGS L_ I MR. BftIGGS- "AND roo GA-z-E FOR OVWEETHCART IN FRANCE HOURS AT HIS PICTURE NOT THAT YOU IN AND You've weePiNGLY AND YOU CONTINUE 'NEED 'OF "IDEAS" FOR "AIN'T IT WRITTEN T<P HIM FOR WEEPING AND YOUR U <aRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'" MONTHS "NOSE GSTS A. >o^l BUT we GIRLS WOULD JUST LOVE jtiSPffltiSmi!? LL elc> / N To HAVE. You PRINT THIS ONE —, 'MEUE-RTHIRQ AND AT NIGHT YOU HAVE, ~ AND THEN ONE DAY You GET 011 .. , PERFECTLY * LETTER FRONI HIN\ SAYING?. UH H-H-M AWFUL j&rkJ I*Y V WAY EE ON GIRLS? Reaping the Whirlwind [From the New York World] Persons who hold that retributive justice demanded tho invasion and desolation of Germany will find that the law of compensation is working in that country in other ways. It was Germany that cleared tho path for Bolshevlkism in Russia. Germany opened its gates to Lenine and stood sponsor for him and Trot zky. German money and official in fluence sustained these extremists as against all comers, and finally It was Germany that used them and the choice band of brigands at their el bows to betray at Brest-Lltovsk their country and their cause. For a great deal of the crime and violence chargeable to the Bolshe viki Germany must assume respon sibility. Without its troops and money and the official countenance everywhere given by it to the worst combination of desperadoes that ever Assumed the functions of gov ernment, the murders, thefts and de vastations which have attended the rule of the Reds could not have been. Having gone into partnership with anarchy, it became necessary for Germany to receive In a diplomatic capacity various representatives of the masters of the Soviets. That its hospitality would be abused was a foregone conclusion. The Bolshevik ambassador in Berlin and various consular agents of the same fratern ity of assassination and pillage have been found carrying on the work of propagandists in all parts of Ger many, and by imperial order the whole embassy has been sent home by the shortest routes. Meantime the bloody instructions that brought about the Brest-Litovsk betrayal and for a time bolstered the power of Lenine and Trotzky have returned to plague the inventor. Germany itself is showing signs of upheaval everywhere and in places It is taking the hideous form of Bolshevikism. We hear of mutinies on warships, of officers slain, of naval bases seized and of mobs from the oarracks and .the shops parading the streets of the principal cities. Furth more, there are proclamations in the name of soldiers nnd workingmen led by newly developed Jack Cades, all grim reminders of the beginnings of anarchy in Russia. It has been said that the Teutonic race is too stolid and orderly to en gage extensively in lawlessness, which perhaps may be true. We are to remember, however, that almost up to tho hour when pandeihonium broke loose in Russia the writers of books and essays on tho people of that country were assuring us that anything like a far-reaching revolu tion, was impossible. What hap pened in Russia may happen in any country where the people, wronged and deceived, have been made des perate by suffering. In war-making the Germans have been taught that regard for the rights of others is an unworthy manifesta tion of weakness. It will be a sorry day for tho overlords and supermen of the empire if, recognizing enemies at home, tho people in their wrath apply to them the practices in which they have become so expert when operating on foreign soil. Deplorable as such violence always is, who is to say that the rulers of Germnny have not invited It and who is to deny that they fear it? In Russia brutish ignorance long oppressed produced its perfect fruit. In Germany frightfulness as a na tional trait may yet find tragic lllus-' tration at home. By these fiery paths democracies sometimes grope their way to freedom and stability. LABOR NOTES The bureau of labor statistics of the Federal Department of Labor hus started a country-wide probe of the high cost of living. Tho findings will be used as a basis In making wage adjustments. The Ohio State Building Trades Council will hold its annual conven tion in Columbus beginning October 10. The British Ministry of Munitions has ordered that the wages of wom en munition workers be Increased $1.25 a week. San Antonio (Texas) Typographical Union has secured a 10 per cent, wage Increase for its members employed in commercial shops. rallwaymen of Sarnla, Can., ask an Increase of 5 cents an hour. The present rate of wage is 30 cents an hour. The pearl divers of Ceylon are fre quent victims of paralysis, but the dlsraso does not Interfere with their work. Their work, in fact, cures them —— ■ The United War "Work Drive General Felix Agnus Gives Strong Approval of the Campaign Which Opens on Next Monday WHEN I think of the vast amount of good that has been done in that war-ravaged sec tion of my beloved France by the big war relief organizations and the tremendous debt of gratitude the world owes the Young Men's Chris tian Association, the Young Wo men's Christian Association, the National Catholic War Council, the Salvation Army, the Jewish Welfare Board, the War Camp Community Service, which has linked with the wonderful War Mothers and with the American Library Association, I feel that nothing should be al lowed to stand in the way of rais ing money needed to carry on the work. When France—the unfortunate France, but the brave and glorious France of 1870 sent her heroes against the Hunnish hordes and when, a few years before our own United States were rent asunder and brother was arrayed against brother in the cruel Civil War, in those days, when a soldier left his home he left it behind him. In this war which now is drawing to ft. close victorious for the when our soldiers bade good-bye to their fam ilies they were assured that the vital parts of home life the elments which safeguarded their physical moral and mental welfare—would follow them even to the first-line trenches. More than 15,000 uniformed workers of the seven big relief or ganizations form the great held army of men and women who arc so bravely ministering to the wants of our boys. They have braved death that our men might be cared for. Chaplains of all denomina tions have worked side by side, bringing spiritual comfort to those stricken on the held and dying in hospitals. A review of the tremendous work already done by the seven organi zations should convince any one that the money l.as been well spent. Soldiers have told me that 842 libraries are maintained overseas and at homo by the organization with 1,547 branch libraries; that almost every letter written home— and millions have been written— was on paper furnished by these organizations; that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sent back to America by soldiers using WORLD'S FOOD SURVEY [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] Following Colonel House's message announcing the adoption by the Versailles council of a resolution of fering co-operation with Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey in furnishing the necessities of life to the suffer ing peoples of those countries, it is stated that the American Food Ad ministration is making a survey of the world's food supply preparatory to formulating a new food conserva tion for the American people. Be fore the withdrawal of Austria, Bul garia and Turkey from the war, it had been announced that to supply our Allies and neutral Europearscoun tries alone, this country would be asked to export 17,500,000 tons of foodstuffs in the coming year. This would be an .increase of more than 5,000,000 tons "over what we did this year. As much more is estimated as likely to be needed If we take over the feeding of the three former en emy nations who have surrendered. Since It is also intimated that we may bo called upon to feed Germany if she surrenders, a demand for pos sibly double our shipments of food stuffs this year seems indicated, a prospect calculated to stagger even bounteous and generous America. The decision to have a world stock taking of food before asking the American people to attempt this feat is therefore wise. The Allied coun tries have reported a gain of 312,- 000,000 bushels of wheat over 1917. This Include* the United States. Can ada, France. Italy, Great Britain and British India, but does not Include Austria, which, according to reports, has a 'similar surplus of Its own available for export. The opening of the Dardanelles, the release of Austrian shipping and the return to the shorter route to India and Aus tralia are factors that should make the Indian and Australian crops available and unlock any supplies that may be. In Southern Russia. The argument that Europe must draw on America becayse of tho scarcity of shipping wlfl .not be so convincing as it was during the war. 4 the agency of the organizations as transmitting bankers and that half a million dollars is tied up in pos tage stamps alone. Miles and miles of motion-picture film have enlivened the recreation hours of the actives, and the dull and the pain-filled hours of the men in hospitals! And to further impress my read ers with the mammoth work done, let me quote from a report of the United War Work Committee that; "More than 500 tons of supplies for the boys leave our ports every week under the direction of these agencies. Individual items on the shipping lists run into figures that are astonishing; as for example, these figures taken from the ship ping lists of one organization, for the period between July, 1917, and August, 1918: Canned fruit, 1,959,- 15. cans; chewing gum, 14,510,000 packages; cigarettes, 848,785,802; cigars, 32,358,700; tobacco, 2,557,- 481 packages; cocoa, 463,824 pounds; condensed milk, 1,666,120 cans; flour, 31,279,020 pounds, sugar, 10,22 7,735 pounds; tooth paste, 561,520 tubes. In France and Switzerland two cracker factories and a chocolate fafctory have been entirely taken over so that the boys may have something good in their pockets between meals." It has been thought that now that peace is assured there will be no further need for great relief work. Let me warn the public against such a mistaken idea. It will be a year before our troops demobilize. During that time hund reds of thousands of Allied soldiers garrison the fortified cities of Ger may be used to police Russia and many and her accomplices. Deprived of the thrill of the great adventure of war these men will need, as they have never needed before, the guidance and help of each one of the organizations; they will need wholesome, clean recrea tloq; menial and moral training, lest there come back to our shores men less competent to take into their hands the rule of the nation. Give during tho campaign when it opens Monday; give, as asked by the United War Work Committee, at least one day's pay each month for six successive months. Even then we will not be able to repay our debt, but we can at least in this way show our appreciation of our men. FELIX AGNUS. SPROUL'S BIG MAJORITY [Philadelphia Press] However the figures are inter preted, the fact remains indisput able that the myth of the "liquor vote" is pretty well discredited. The fact that a man who had come out squarely and unequivocally against their interests and whom they had threatened with all sorts of ven geance, could be elected Governor of Pennsylvania by the largest maj ority in its history, and that in an "off" year, tends to discredit their political strength. It reduces them in the viewpoint of practical police*, from vote-producers to mere con tributors to campaign funds, a func tion they probably will be allowed to exercise by one or another political chieftain as long as they feel like doing it. The huge majority with which Senator Sproul goes to Har risburg will tend to strengthen his hands in every way. It seems likely that he led his ticket. This ques tion lends interest to the awaited returns from the Congressman-at- Large positions, as the average maj ority each receives will be taken us the average party majority. One report, whicch may or may not be true, had it that the highest vote received by any candidate for Con grcss-ut-Large was about 170,000. If this should be the case, it would show that Senator Spyoul ran any where from 50,000 to 100,000 ahead of his ticket. The larger Senator Sproul's per sonal triumph, the less he is bound to uny leader or faction. Ho may be in a position to show them by the figures that he could hive done without the majority they can claim as having bfcen instrumental in giv ing him. Why Not Now [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] There is to be a gas mask day on which everybody will be expect ed to come across with some fruit pits und nut shells.. There is no ob jection to beginning practice a,t once., NOVEMBER 12, 1918. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Lieutenant General Hunter Lig gett, commanding victorious troops in France, has acknowledged the greetings of his native city of Read ing. —Col. G. C. Rickards, who com mands the 110 th, went into the National Guard in 1878. ,He hails from Oil City. | —Admiral W. S. Sims comes from up the Juniata Valley. —Col. E. C. Shannon, who com manded the old Fourth, is a Colum bia man and went into the State Militia in 1889. —Col. Asher Miner, who lost a foot in the second battle of the Marne, sat in the Legislature from I Wilkes-Barre. [ DO YOU~KNOW —'That it's nearly time to put up that tablet to the Dauphin men In the war? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg has never spared ex penses in loyal demonstrations. FOUR DAILY LAUGH A JOB HE CAN'T LOSE. "Well at last he's got a steady Job." "That so?" "Yes, he's been drafted." — PATRIOTISM. "1 pawned all my jewels to buy Liberty Bonds!" "What did you do with the bonds?" "Oh, I sold them to get my jewels out." BUSINESS FIRST. "When Is their marriage to be lOlemnlzed?" "As soon as It has been financed." A SURE WAY. "How did you overconie your witc's objection to your taking up ■v'atlon?" "Signed all axy property over to her." lEimrotg €l}at While there Is no account thai anyone knows of regarding the man ner that the hamlet clustering about John Harris' ferry received the news from Philadelphia thai "Cornwallis taken", newspaperi give graphic accounts of the waj the people of Ilarrisburg rejoiced at the defeat of the British in ths war of 1812 and of the Confederal army under Lee in 18C5. Thess two accounts are taken from ths Oracle of Dauphin and Its descend ant, the Harrisburg Telegraph. Ths Oracle was a live old newspaper ol early days and very much in ths life of Harrisburg, while the flies oi the Harrisburg Telegraph of 1863 show that this newspaper was righl on the job when it came to a tims of joy, Just as it is to-day. • • The old newspaper accounts tell that in October, 1813, the people of this town, then the borough ol Harrisburg, went wild over Perry's victory on Lake Erie. The accounts say that "they manifested the high sense they entertained" of the vie. Tory by "firing of cannon, a hand some display of sky-rockets and a splendid illumination of the houses. From the lips of people who were living then we know that everyone put lighted candles in windows and that the citizens went about visit ing each other and banners and drum corps paraded the streets, while cannon were fired along the river front which had lately been dug full of rifle pits. So much for the celeltration of October 15, 1813. The next celebration, which was marked by much firing of cannon was on St. Valentine's day, 1815. It was the day that Harrisburg got word of the Treaty of Ghent when the War of 1812 ended. This peace treaty was signed, oddly enough, in December, but the news did not speed across the ocean in a few hours, as now, and the word came weeks later and the celebration of peace was soon renewed by the news of Jackson's victory at New Orleans. On each occasion the people lighted up their houses, thronged the streets, rang bells, shouted and fired guns. Harrisburg was a noisy youngster in the list of towns and its people as strenuously loyal as they are to-day. • • • ' Just the way Harrisburg carried on in 1865 can best be told in the language of the Harrisburg Tele graph's own files. FOr days the paper in the latter part of March and early April had been following the movements of Grant and Sheri dan and Sherman, thrilling its readers nightly with official dis patches from Washington, the re liable kind that the Harrisburg Tele graph furnishes to-day. These dis patches told of the rout of armies and finally the defeat of Lee and the downfall of the rebel confeder ation. It was a wonderful victory and the people of Harrisburg who had sent their sons and poured out their wealth to save the Union which their forefathers along the Susque hanna had fought from Cambridge and Quebec to Yorktown and Savan nah to found were on edge for a celebration. This is the way the Har risburg Telegraph of April, 10, 1865, tells the story under the modest headline of A Night of Rejoicing "Sunday night, April 9, 1865, will not soon be forgotten by the people of Harrisburg. The announcement of the fact of General Lee, the rebel leader, had surrendered his whole army to Lieutenant General Grant caused every loyal man, woman and child to rejoice and all gave full vent to their feelings by shouts for the Union and the Stars and Stripes. All the bells in the city were rung fpr an hour or more, proclaiming vic- to the people. An im mense bonfire was kindled in Market Square and the flames illuminated the whole city. The fire department with its appara tus turned out and headed by the soldiers and their excellent drum corps paraded the streets, the shouts of the men. the beat ing of the drums, the shrill whistles of the steamers, etc., etc., rendering the occasion one of more than ordinary rejoicing. Many of the prominent resi dences and the Telegraph office were brillantly illuminated —the beautiful lamps of the Republi can Invincibles adding to the brilliancy and beauty of the latter place. A most Interest ing scene presented itself at the Telegraph printing office. A large crowd soon surrbundgd the office when they saw the Illumineiion. Among the spec tators was the Rev. Jackson who was at once requested to address the assemblage and was hoisted for that purpose on the counter of the office. Before he commenced his address he proposed that 'the crowd should join in a thanksgiving hymn— "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" In which they all joined and the reverend gen tleman addressed them in a few patriotic remarks. After which cheers after cheers were given for the army and their brave commanders." • * • The same newspaper in another column also announces that the news of the victory was "officially" com memorated by the firing of a grand salute of 100 guns from the Arsenal on Capitol Hill and that in accord ance with orders from the War De partment a salute of 200 guns was fired "at this post." The "post" probably Camp Curtin or thV forts on the other side of the river or the army offices in the city. In any event one can imagine the worthy householders and housewives of Harrisburg scampering around to raise their windows so that the glass would not be broken by the con cussions of 300 guns being llred in their midst. Yesterday may have been a noisy day in Harrisburg, but Just think of what it would have been like if a battery of cannon had started .he celebration by barking from Capitol Hill and continuing at intervals during the day. • There are plenty of people living who can recall the way the city celebrated the battle of Santiago and the uproaring welcome home of ths Governor's Troop and companies D and I when the Spanish wai ended. The hot August, day when the protocol was signed in 1898 was marked by some reckless use of firearms and firewater and a series of impromptu purades. • • It is in keeping with the reverent feeling which Harrisburg feels to day in its rejoicing at the triumph over Germany to refer to these lines from the Harrisburg Telegraph ol April 10, 1865, which carried the news of Lee's surrender: War is Rnded < God 11ns Granted Victors ~J