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out Of tn. dsrk--l know not why
OF the cold magnetic North come l.
Released from continental Ice
That holds the axis in Its vise
As fateful. ponderous, slow. serene,
slipped into the seas deep green.
Beneath tho white stars. shining white
sail the unbroken Arctic night.
And nash to Vega and Affair
Far prisms OF the polar light;
And naked. frozen. gaunt and hare
A-thirst for water and for air,
The blackened lunar peaks look down
In ever deepening despair
Upon the waters that crown.
only my shining head they Ne---
The searching skies that bend DER me!
For six times deep drift unseen.
Inert, unlighted, cold. serene,
Embedded in the seas deep green.
Yea. to myself unknown am !,
who six times deep must buried lie.
Impervious to the starry sky,
But sometimes in the quiet nisht
when crystal spheres are gitterng white
Upon unfathomed deeps below
There comes a phosphorescent glow
That speaks disturbance shown In light
Is Il more stormy than know
Down In that darkness inhnite?
u. Z. BuHLER.
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THE PASSENGER PIGEONS.
Was Their Sudden Extinction the
Work Of Man or Of an Epidemici

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: Any
information such as was contained in
your editorial Of January 4 concerning
tho passenger pigeons is deeply inter-
eating to those who remember these
beautiful birds and can recall the days
when they existed in countless numbers.
They were probably most abundant in
the middle West, but as late as the SOS
were frequently seen in New England,
where 1t was no unusual thing FOR
squirrel hunters to bring in n dozen Of
them with their other game.
As very small boy / once saw in
Pennsylvania SO large a flock of these
pigeons that 1t looked like a great cloud
and absolutely darkened the sky. and UP
TO about 1870 / occasionally shot them
in Vermont
Few phenomena in natural history
have been more widely discussed than the
comparatively sudden extinction of the
passenger pigeons. and. while II Is prob
IDLY true that their extinction was largely
due to the wholesale slaughter wrought
by so-called sportsmen and market
hunters, have never been able to con
vince myself that a species so widely
distributed and existing in such count
less hordes, could have been effaced 80
suddenly and so thoroughly from that
cause alone. Much OF the country where
they nested was unsettled and compar-
ati,ely wild at the time they ceased 10
exist. and II would be unreasonable to
suppose that hunters and farmers could
have seen and killed all of them.
Several theories have been offered to
account for their extinction that some
| terrible storm destroyed both the old and
the young on their nesting grounds or
blew them out to sea during their mig1'a-
! lions: that they sought a safer sanctuary
in South or Central America, or that the
| food supply absolutely failed them. But
Ia it not much more probable that they
were sinitten by some disease that would
be more virulent and deadly because OF
their gregariors habits and that thus
they met their doom?
1t Is a we'll known fact that such dis
| eases do affect bird and animal life. even
when the species are widely scattered
! in pairs or small groups. If l am cor
! rtctly Informed. the northern hares were
completely wiped out r. few years ago
| throughout a wide section OF Canada by
some disease that attacked them. Is this
| not the rational solution of the pas
/ scnger pigeon problem?
1t Is indeed encouraging to hear that
there probably remains a remnant Of this
bea utiful and interesting species but &c
| many cases OF mistaken identity have
occurred that the most convincing proof
would have to be offered to sustain the
suppositon. ARTHUR F. RICE
NEW YORK, January II.
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THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York--Fair aud cold
to-day; tomorrow partly cloudy ~
south; probably snow furries In north
portion with rising temperature. fresh
north winds
For New Jersey--Fal- and colder -.
day: Tomorrow fair with rising tempera.
ture; fresh north and northeast winds
For Northern New England--Fair and
cold to-day: tomorrow partly cloudy with
rising temperature; fresh northeast winds
cold to-day; tomorrow partly. cloudy win
rising temperaure fresh north winds
F1r western New iork.-Falr and col
hurrics and rising Temperature.
WAsHINGroS. Jan. 11.-A!r pressure I,
high generally east of tho Mississippi
Rocky Mountains and In the far Northvcs,
There has been decided fan in tempera.
tnre In ,hs region Of the Great Lakes. lilo
north OF Maryland New York. nor'S N
PennsylvanIa and parts Of the region o.:
TIE Great Lakes, The temperature is cor
sidsrahly above the normal over tho Mis-.
sissppi Valley, the Plains States and ~.
Northwest, There have been snow Nurrle,
within the last twenty -four hours In nor,'
fennsylvania, and rain in the PaIfs
states The weather will be unsr'tl,d
% Sav prG 9Ss rsv snow sqnday night Mon
with the exception OF this region Nh.
In the states east Of tle Mississippi Rive
Cold weather sunday In the middle
lantic and New England Sta,es. the upps-
ohio Valley and the region of the gro
lakes Will be followed by rising temper
lure In these regions Monday Mo-
crate temperatures will prevail throughou'
he south Atlantic and east Gulf states.
tennessee and the lower Ohio Valley Sun.
day and Monday.
observations at United States weather 81
reau stations taken at Z. NJ YESTERDAY
seventy fifth meridian iinr.
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MR.. RoOSEVELTS FAITH.
His Broadmindedness and the Prac-
tlce Of His Ancestral Church.

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PARCEL POST INSURANCE.
BEGINNING the Search for Man who
Has Collected.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: The
Post Office Department for special fee
insures packages going by parcel post,
I would like to inquire II any reader of
THE Sun ever succeeded in collecting
insurance for packages lost or !rrepar-
ably damaged In transit
have in mind cases where people
have tried to collect on such insurance
but failed to secure any redress. The
process OF collection Is 50 hedged about
with red tape that the patience of the
victims is worn out before anything can
he accomplished. Similar methods prac-
tlsed by private individuals or corpora
lions would be severely criticised
NEW YORK, January II. NJ, r. II.
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Theodore Roosevelt,

We cannot think OF him as OF the dead,
The ancient dead whose ghostly caravan
Treads the dim ages since tAe world be.
gan.
We cannot see that high srscted head
Lie in the dust whence all the dream has
fed:
Stern. mighty Death has neither power
nor plan
To rule the spirit Of tho valiant man
Who unto Immortality is wed.
ILfs IS the pu'S,nE, radiant victor here
For he and Life together held the day
Down MANY stern, heleagur'd road.
wherefore, as falls our unashamed tear,
We fame our greetings on his starward
wav
To IAte's unfading and supreme abode.
JoHS JEROME RooSEr
The sun., 1919-01-12

Inabiky to get tugs prevented the
removsi OF the United States cruiser
Albany from the dry dock OF the Morse
Dry Dock and Derrick Company. foot
OF Thirty-third street. Brooklyn. to-day.
Naval tugs were occupied with emer-
gency demands. The collier Ulysses is
waiting TO enter the dock. At the United
states naval base at the foot of Twenty
ninth street. Brooklyn. Captain LEuTzE
said he had been unable to get any
freight cars OF heavy machinery by wa
ter He is using trucks to carry sup
plies-The Evening Post.
How fortunate II Is that the harbor
unions did not feel impelled to call a
strike before the armistice was signed (.
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he followed with regard TO the men
who gave their lives in France unless
the kinsfolk Of the departed warriors
otherwise request.
In several cases the authorities have
been asked to depart from the rule
and permit the bodies of Americans to
rest where they now are. On learn
Ing Of the death in action In France
OF his son QUENTIN, Colonel RoosE-
WELT notified the War Department
that he and Mrs ROOSEVELT preferred
to have the body left undisturbed
where the enemy buried him. General
CLARENCE II. EDWARDS, who command
ed New England division, has
spoken in favor of establishing mill
tary cemeteries in France for the men
who fought to death under him, and
numerous other persons have Endorsed
this suggestion.
From the other side have come re-
quests that the graves Of certain Of
our men be intrusted to the care OF
Il. GRESHAM. THOMAS T. ESRIour,
and MERLE ID. HAY. the first Ameri.
cans to make the supreme sacrifice in
the trenches. were killed, the people
Of the district they were defending
sought as an honor and privilege the
perpetual guardianship of their last
resting place. Already monument
bought by popular subscription has
been raised in their memory on the
shell marked field where they were
killed. Formally and informally, the
French have taken upon themselves
the care of graves in many parts of
! France. On Decoration Day in sew
eral towns, the native populations
| Joined the army with high sentiment
and the greatest delicacy in memorial
| services held wherever conditions
would permit. This popular feeling
| finds expression in the note from the
French Government:
The French Government wishes tc
| itude TO the American families whose
sons have met a glorious death or
| French soil during the war
1T wishes to share in their mourning
The graves OK the young soldiers OF
America are as sacred in its eyes as are
those OF their French comrades, and /,
| will take the necessary measures to pro.
| vide that they shall be respected and
| tended with reverent and patriotic care"
1t Is plain that the Government
must soon decide what shall he done
with the bodies of the men in France
| The decision does not seem IL difficult
one Ia reach. The next of kin of the
American dead should be consulted
and their wishes should be followed
in all cases in which it is possible
, When transfer of the bodies to thie
country Is desired, the desire should
be gratified. When II is not, the mer
who fought for us should be allowed
TO sleep where they fell.
! The Government should establish
national cemeteries in France. as Is
| proposed in bill now in the Senate
10 be maintained as may be arranged
with the French Government. These
burial grounds would constitute last
ing monuments to our men. and ap
propriate objects OF the visits Of al
lovers Of honor and courage Better
than any arch or other formal struc
lure they would tell the story Of the
men whose souls were tried and not
found wanting.
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Our Men who sleep In France

1t has long been the custom Of the
United States TO restore to the soil of
their own country the bodies of our
soldiers and sailors who have fallen
fighting for us abroad. This tribute
OF respect and affection is dictated by
national feeling, and the practice15ill
The sun., 1919-01-12
POEMS WORTH READING.
The Uhlan Speaks.


Yes. / returned across the sombre Rhine,
With gray December lowering on its
flood,
And on my soul a heavier gloom i'm
posed
BY uttermost defeat and bitter hate.
The hallowed river where we kept our
watch
No longer rolled the Fatherland's vast
moat,
But had been crossed by our victorious
And must see their vauntings on our
hills.
But what was this?--instead Of mock
cry
OF our humiliation and crushed pride,
] found the soldiers Of America
Keeping their Christmas with our little
ones
Decking the weihnachtsbaum with tin
sci scraps,
Lighting some candle ends that they had
found.
/, And dancing with great laughter hand
In hand
With Deutschland's children round the
shining trees!
Oh. Christ, and what was IA man
OF blood -
Before my swimming eyes a horror
rose!-
The memory OF a night in doomed Lou
Four Christina mn, seslaso. when in my path
A baby of the helpless Belgians ran,
And in my blood lust and foul savag-
Oh. draw the veil. great God -. =
found. next day,
Inside my dark stained tunic must
tell?
Two tiny hands cleft at the clotted
And now my own child. how should
find her
Where this strange soldiery had made
their camp?
Breathless I stumbled forward to my
town
Beyond the Rhine shore heights. There
rose the spire
Cnharmed. and all the red tiled roofs
unframed.
| And from my chimney noated fair blue
smoke!
Then as neared the market place
heard
Great shouts OF merrlment and chill.
dren's calls:
| And bursting like a mailman on that
rout
OF Christmas revelry found my babe
| Perched like some angel of a belfry
| tower
High on the shoulder OF a brown clad
boy,
Who held her safe with strong upreach
ing aNns
And fingers twined about her soft white
| hands.
rushed to claim her mine. The reve
| ceased.
AS II aware some portent must befall.
I held my arms TO take her: Know
you not.
Mine Elsa. your own father, come from
war
To greet his little daughter" All. m,
eyes.
! them
With child's divine cla.rvoyance. tina
she turned
| From their wild gaze. ard hid her owr
blue orhs
Against the soldiers locks. and Spreat
her hands
Her hands. tell you her white, quiv
sring hands
To warn me from her. while she cried
Not YOU
You're not my father here my ~fathe,
stands.
Who came across The sea TO play wit,
me.
And bears me now so safe on Christ
mas Day.
broke in terror from the watchinI
throrg,
Like Judas selt-oonvicted. and remors
Like his consumed me. and must still
consume,
Until learn through all my stricke,
soul
That God returns a hundredtold man
deeds.
Vengeance Is mine; I y+fl repay" H
saith.
Ard on whom such Goals OF IRE ar
cast
While in my ears still rings the Christ
mas giee.
Confess His justice In hen's midmos
ELIOT WHITE
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The Federal Government is to be
benefited by suggestions from the
National Commission of Fine Arts as
to designs and designers Of "monu-
ments and other memorials comment
Grating heroes and events Of the war"
No one would object to the paternal-
ism of the Federal Government pass
ing that advice around to the States.
The sun., 1919-01-12
The Only P1ctlDa.

No image 90 hoy absent face
My eager eyes may SEE
Nor shat hnd again the place
She gave her love 10 me
Yet even though fate's relentless Will
Has driven us far apart,
Oh, night and day I carry still
Her p',ture in my heart
EDWARD fuller.
The sun., 1919-01-12

Some Prussians. We are forced 10
admit. seem not to be without a sen sc
OF fair play among themselves. When
Bolshevists drove Poles out OF one
town to another Prussians in the sec
ond town only disarmed the Poles be-
fore driving them TO a third town
where other Prussians robbed them.
One wonders at the forbearance of
the Prussians in the second town.
The sun., 1919-01-12

quite vexed when he was obliged to
interrupt his sympathetic contempla-
ton of the woes OF minority ma
tionallties in Europe to give thought
to the wrongs perpetratcd against a
majority of the people OF New York.
The sun., 1919-01-12

Director General HINES OF the Rail
road Administration has authority to
fix his own salary. II he breaks the
strike that now ties up New York he
can give himself any sum he wants
without arousing popular protest.
The sun., 1919-01-12
Maud Should Mcrry.

Maud Muller on a winter day
Read novels till shs hit the hay,
To fret and fuss she had no need,
Her winter wheat was guaranteed.
The sun., 1919-01-12

One advantage of Government
operation of public utilities appears
to be that when a strike paralyzes
the service the operators do not have
to break il.
The sun., 1919-01-12
Spreading Joy In Arkansas.
From the NcRde Progress.

Mr.. and Mrs W. A. Burrows were in
town yesterday. and they brought the edi-
tors family some potatoes, turnips and
peanuts, and also a beautiful bouquet of
roses. We thank you. Real friends are
better than money. y
The sun., 1919-01-12

Gen. DICKMAN's troops in Germany
are worried about their coal supply,
Icing almost as alarmed as arc the
residents of New York city.
The sun., 1919-01-12

One Congress district in. Mississippi
wants forty-two captured German
great guns for trophies. This is no
way to curb the militaristic spirit.
The sun., 1919-01-12

United States experts gather in Paris.
Newspaper headline.
The schoolboy OF Tomorrow will
quote It Government OF experts, by
experts, for experts"
The sun., 1919-01-12

Knicker-smith Is still wearing hi. uni
form cap and coat with civilian trousers.
Bocker-Ha must look like a railroad.
The sun., 1919-01-12

~ our friends ChO fQrOr ~ trHh mann
scrpts and illustrations for publication rish
n hare rejected articles returned fhep must
a. all cases send stamps for hdt purpose.
TELEPHONE. BEEKMAN ZOO
The sun., 1919-01-12
Watchdog Strange BIunder.


Sam Oberman was visitor here the
nrst OF the week. and had a mix with a
Watchdog who mistook him for another
party.
The sun., 1919-01-12

London Office. 40-43 Fleet streat.
Paris office, 6 Rue de la Alichodiere, on
Rue du Quatre Septemhre.
Washington Office, MunseN building.
Brooklyn Office, Room 202, Eagle Build
inE, 800 Washington street.
The sun., 1919-01-12

These days must be lonely for the
Lady of New York Iarbor.
The sun., 1919-01-12

THE EVENING SUN. Per Month So SO
THE EVENING sun, Fer Year 800
'THE EVENING sun lForeignl Per Mo. l.bO
The sun., 1919-01-12

Published daily, including Sunday. by the
Sun Printing and Publishing Association.
$50 Nassau Ct, Borough of Manhattan. y y.
President, Frank a Muns@N, 100 Nassau 81. ;
ce-President Erwin Wardman; Secretarv.
u. II. Titherington: Treas, VIM. 7. Dewart,
oil OF 100 Nassau street.
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All checks, money orders, SC, to be
made payable to TIVE SITS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
League Baseball Assured
For Cottage Hill Fans

Whoopee! Baseball at Cottage
Hill next year. That's the great news
to-day and Steelton fans were shiv-
ering with glee at the good news.
Word reached the mighty plant late
last night and quickly spread, giving
thousands of fans a thrill which act
ed like spring tonic.
Manager George Cockill expressed
the opinion month ago that Steel
ton would stage the game in big
league style but he had not authority
to make the promise. However. he
had been holding half a dozen of last
years veterans, expecting just such
a decision.
The information came directly
from headquarters vat Lebanon.
through George Fonda, in charge of
the Bethlehem Company's welfare
department. Charles S. Kelchner. in
charge of the Lebanon team. has
been Informed that, with possibly
one exception, the circuit will be
made up of the same clubs as during
the two years of the league, viz:
Lebanon, Steelton, Sparrows Point.
Bethlehem Wilmington and Fore
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
PYTHIAN KNIGHTS
IN STATE LIBERAL
Quota For War Relief Is
Nearly Raised, Re
ports Show

Philadelphia, Jan. 90 Pennsyl-
Nania's quota of 100000 in the knights
of Pythias drive for $3.50, ,O0J has been
subscribed. il was announced yester-
day during the convention at the
Bellevue Stratford of the Supreme
Lodge of the knights and representa-
tives of lodges throughout this state
Nearly 100000 of the grand total
has been subscribed in the entire
country. The s75O.O00 win represent
81 from each member of the knights
of Pythiass in the United States. 1t
will be used for the education of
wounded and crippled soldiers and
sailors. the care of the families OF the
members of the knights killed or dis
abled in the service and in any other
way that may ease the condition of
members.
The drive is being conducted exclu-
sively among the members of the
Knights, and, although three quarters
OF million has been set as the ma
tional quota. there is no limit beyond
which the members may go. The co.
600 members of the keystone state
are expected to oversubscribe their
allotment.
Members of the Supreme Lodge at
the convention. included Supreme
Chancellor. Charles S. Davis. Supreme
Chancellor John j. Brown. Grand
Chancellor Norval r. Dougherty, eX-
Congressman Thomas J. CARING. OF
Atlanta, Ga; Grand Keeper of the
Records and Seal Samuel Wilt .Briga-
der General Wilson a. Hilligas of
the Uniform Rank; Henry w. Fox.
banker. of Johnstown; Past Supreme
Master John j. Brown, and Mr.. Wood
4. Bode was chairman of the conven-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
At FickeS Alleys
I.EMOYNE
Stars of the West Will Inuade Us
SaturdaytoMeet Gordon Ford Team

Wilmerding of the West Penn
league that appears here this coming
Saturday night. will be the first bas-
ketball team that ever appeared in
this city from the western part of
the state. The Wilmerding Club have
in their lineup three former stars
of the eastern league Jackie Adams
who was known to the local fans as
the "Grayhead man of the Adams
express team" will play one of the
forward positions for the visitors.
Roy Steele. one of the greatest scor-
ing forwards in the cage game and a
running mate to Adams on the Cam
dem Eastern League team will play
the other forward position. At center
will be Eddie Dolin. who was part
owner of the Camden Eastern
League team and who was consider
ed one of the greatest centers in the
cage game.
The guard positions will be filled
by Ross Steele, brother to Roy. and
McAvoy, who was formerly of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29

additional legislation to regulate the
meat packing industry. Louis r.
Swift, of Swift & Company, told the
Senate Agriculture committee pres
ent laws We're adeuate to deal with
any abuses charged, and Edward S
Norris. of Morris & Company, testi-
fled before the House Interstate Com
merce committee, that any further"
legislation would just muddle things
up"
Some limitation of capitalization
of packing companies was suggested
by Senator Gronna, of North Dako-
ia, after Francis ]. Heney had cross
examined Mr.. Swift concerning Il
series of increases of his companys
capital stock.
Mr.. Heney said that by separating
the Swift concern into three organ
izations recently the market value
of the original stock had been in
creased more than $I0O,000,00O. Mr..
Swift denied this and agreed to in
form the committee as to the trans
actions dealing with the separation
of the one company into Swift &
Company, Swift International, and
Libby, McNeal e Libby.