8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eltabhthed ISJ: rVBUBHEtr BY THI TELEGRAPH PRIJTTIXG CO. ®. J. STACK POI.B, Prest and Treasr. 9. R. OYBTER, Secretary. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun da}-), at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office, ICS West Madison street. Chicago. 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at m lry TrIJPT■ six cents a week Mailed to subscriber! at IJ.OO a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Barrls b.trg as second class matter. ! 1 /ri!TS Association of Amer- ( 1 i Isfl'il ican Advertisers has ex- { 1 \IbV aminsd tad certified to i 1 ,1 the circulation ef this pab- i 1 i 1 Head*. Tho figarea of circulation i' ( i contained in tko Association's re- i 11 port only are guaranteed. •11 AssMiatiM «f American Advertisers ; i iNe. 2333 Whitehall BM|. HT. City ! • »»" dally average fer the moath ol December, 1913 • 22,210 * Average for the year I#tS—Sl.s77 Average for the year I#lS—*l.l7s Average fer the year 1911 IMSI A vera** for the year 1010—lt.4tB TELEPHONES! Bell PHrate Braneh Exchange No, 1040. rotted Business Office }OR. Editorial Room 586. Job Dept. 201. TTT-RDAT KVKVINU, JANUARY e ON* THK RIGHT TRACK CITY COM MISSION KR TAYL.OR Is on the right track In his decla ration that progress will be made more, rapidly by careful action now in the matter of the parks and ihe fire department than through ln < onslderate changes without a definite purpose in view. His announced policy of retaining Warren H. Manning, the landscape architect who has been the consulting expert from the iuception of the park movement, will be approved by all good citizens, as will also liis decision to Invite the Park Board to continue to serve the city in an advisory ca pacity. Mr. Taylor could not have done any thing that would more highly com mend him or more firmly install him as an official in the confidence of the people. Marrisburg has reason to be proud of its parks and the authorization of a further loan of SIOO,OOO to complete the park system is the best evidence of the general interest of the people in their outdoor recreation places. tt is also encouraging to observe in Mr Taylor's attitude a disposition to bring to the discharge of his duties conservative thought and action. He proposes to move slowly in the making of changes so that there may be no reasonable criticism on the score of undue haste. Economy, consistent with the best results, is to be practiced by the mem bers of the City Commission, and •while they believe that a nonpartisan government does not necessarily mean the retention in office of all 0f1'. ,- ials aud subordinates of a previous admin istration, they are obviously of the opinion that removals should be made only for the good of the service. After all, the people of Harrisburg arc going to judge the Commission on the results rather than upon unim portant changes of employes in one department or another. It is » curious fact, often noted, thai xknting does not have nearly so great Bttraction for the small boy after the Ice has hecomu thick enough to hold him safely. THE THRIFTIEST CITY THE Chamber of Commerce of Oil City, through its secretary, Ira L. Wales, asserts that mu nicipality is the thriftiest city in the United States. He challenges the American Society for Thrift to pro duce a more prosperous community. Mr. Wales bases his challenge on figures and quotes them. The per capita deposits of the banks of Oil «'ity amount to SS4S. This figure he obtained by dividing the figures rep resenting the total deposits of the banks by figures representing the total population of the town. With a population of 16.000, one V-ank alone had a total Christmas raving fund of $138,000. We imagine that Chicago or New York, with it 11 their boasted pros perity. would have some difficulty in showing anything like such material well' being of the masses of their population as is evident from these figures. "There are 750,000 people in New "Vork who are not married.'' says an exchange. And fully that number who are who ought not to he. poLi/rnv wit <;MM)I;\IM; THE day of the seed and poultry catalogue apliroaehet h. Already advance copies of the seductive booklets arc turning up in the morning mails. Many a man is now planning a chicken house that will never be built or laying out a garden that will never be dug. But for all thiit the chicken and the seed house catalogs serve a very useful purpose. They make us see the green plants beneath the snowdrifts and hear the plaintive peep of the downy chick above the howl of the winter winds. They speak to us in soothing tones of the balmy spring-time and they turn pur thought:-' from the lethargy of fireside lounging to the healthy activi ties of outdoors. To the owner of a harden there is no pleasatiter pastime than to 101 l of nil evening in an easv chnir and leaf the brilliant pages of his new cata- TUESDAY EVENING, j log. marking a favorite variety here, noting a new strain there and seeing In his mind's eye his flower bed or his rows of vegetables as they will look in the luxuriant development of mid- June. But let no ardent beginner pin his faith to the promises of the cata logs. The authors of these splen didly optimistic publications are ex perts in their lines and the pictures they present and the possibilities they outline are the results of years of ex perience and the very best that their poultry farms or their gardens pro duce. Think not that there is any royal route to the profitable hen or the productive garden. Hard work and discouragement there are a-plenty, and rewards, too. for the intelligent and the persistent, but only failure for the man who thinks that his responsi bility ends with the setting of the hen or the planting of the seeds. A CENTURY OF SERVICE I WE. as a city, are beginning to take on the dignity of years. To-night the Hope Fire Com- pan\ will conclude a century of service to the community and will very properly celebrate the even! with jubilation and good fellowship. With municipal organizations passing into the second century of their history Harrisbtirg may begin to cherish tra ditions and look back with some pride upon the antiquity of its institutions. The llope company Itself has num bered among its members many of the most distinguished men of the city. We look with a smile of kindly humor over the records of the company, to where S. Weln Forney, an editor of earlier days, WHS fined for not "run ning with the machine;" to the fact that William Kepner, first Mayor <>f Harrisbtirg. was a member of the "horse committee." and that a fee of 2 5 cents was exacted from Secre tary of War Simon Cameron be cause he failed to "help clean the hose" after n lire. Those were the good old days when citizens of all walks of life took active part in the affairs of the municipality, before the size of the town made it necessary for the work to be divided and delegated to specially selected persons or croups. Through it all it is remarkable to note that the organization of the Hope company has been maintained with scarcely a break and that it is doing as effectively to-day the work it was formed to do as it did a century ago. The Hope company is living up to a very brilliant past and it Is the hope of all its friends that the century to com® will find it as useful an influence In the community as it has been in tho days agone. The family of a Wilkes-Barre man. killed by cough niedicinp. threatens to sue the maker of the remedy. But It did stop the cough, didn't it? THF, FUTURE BRR.HTEXS THERE is no marked enthusiasm In business circles at the open ing of the year, but among all thoughtful businessmen there is a disposition to regard the future with conservative optimism. Reports from all sections of the country indicate that manufacturers are inclined to look upon the next few months as present ing a more hopeful situation than was the case during the last half of the old year. Getting rid of the tariff and cur rency uncertainties has, in a measure, relieved the situation of the elements of doubt which surrounded business and commercial activities during the past few months. It is believed more elastic conditions in the financial world will have a tendency to strengthen the business situation and encourage greater activity in industrial circles. Radicalism is disappearing some what from the political horizon, and there is less ambition on the part of those who have exploited business for political reasons to pursue that line of policy. Altogether the nation is preparing to go ahead, and even the political and industrial unrest will not alto gether hinder the development which is inevitable in a country with the tre mendous resources of the United States. SI.OOO FOR A HUSBAND WE suggest that it might be well for Miss Mary Chandler, who is considering the purchase of the husband of Mrs. Agnes Evelyn Jones Bedell, of Boston, for SI,OOO. to make sure she is getting her money's worth before she buys. Mrs. Bedell insists that her husband is worth SI,OOO and Mr. Bedell mod estly admits It. gallantly adding that a woman is worth twice as much as a man, and blonde women worth one third more than brunettes. It would he a pity to split a house hold that agrees so perfectly upon such a prime essential of married life as the worth of a husband. Likewise, when In the fullness of time the neces sity arises for employing an alienist to pass upon the qualifications of one or the other for admission to an asylum for the mentally deficient, a considerable sum of money might be saved by hiring the same physician to examine both at the same visit. The Wilkes-Barre Tlines-l.eader says that city Is in danger of a coal famine. Speaking of larrying coals to New Castle. I'RBSIDKM' ttII.SOVS fltC<«f>o>Sl iiii.iti I Kroin the Philadelphia Press. | It is high time that the responsibil ity for the acts of the administration was placed where it rightfully belongs. The place is the White House. The shoulders to hear the burden are those of the President. For the things that are done and the tilings that are left undone, there is one person responsible, and but nne. and that person is Wood row Wilson. Heretofore both people and press have been lenient. Happenings in gov ernmental affairs ha\e been laid at other doors than those of the White House. Cabinet officers have been criticised, minor officials have been been blamed. The arrow of reproach has been directed at other targets. In many matters the administration has been tried in the balance and found want ing. yet the President has been spared No longer should the criticism and the blame lie shifted irom where it rightfully belongs. The responsibility belongs to the mill in the White House. Each appointment is his up pointmnit. each office bargain is his bargain, each act of his official familv i« his own act. The man who i'; oil trial before the countrj Is Wootlrow \\ ilson. ! €bmng Cljat only commences to realize how many corporations have their homes in Harrisburg and how widespread ar» their activities In times when papers are filed at the State Capitol certify ing to increases In stock or debt or other corporate matters. Scores of such papers have been put on record In the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the data indicates that this city is the official business place of scores of water, gas. electric, traction and manufacturing companies. Jt is estimated bv men who are prominent In financial affairs that over fifty water companies have their home here and that they are en gaged in business in a score of coun ties. The same is true In a lesser sense of gas companies nnd they are conducted in probably a dozen coun ties. This city is the directing point of several railroad, trolley and lumber corporations conslderablv removed from Dauphin county. The above has reference only to corporations doing business within Pennsylvania There are scores which have enterprises throughout the United States and even in Canada and Mexico which have offices in this city. Harrisburg capital is not inclined to be idle and appar ently likes to work in distant places as well as at home. Dr. Joseph Kaibfus. the secretary of the Game Commission, is of the opinion that some of the arms of the throughout the State are either stiff In the joints or else that thev are not being worked as hard as they might be. The doctor's investigations, which never stop, show that in many places constables have not arrested people for violations of the game laws and that some indiscriminate shooting during the recent season cleaned out useful birds. The commissioner has just sent a letter to the judges calling their attention to this laxity on the part of officers and requesting that they be brought up standing and cither be made to enforce the law or be penalized for indifference or worse. Friends of H. E. Bodine, formerly with the State Bureau of Industrial Statistics and well known to many Harrisburgers, were congratulating him yesterday while he was in the city on his selection to be secretary of the commercial bodies at Winston-Salem. N. t. Mr. Bodine came here some years ago from Tioga county anil at tracted attention by the studies he made of Pennsylvania cities and bor oughs under direction of Chief John 1A Rockey. He made secretary of the commercial organization of Clear field He will have a larger Held In North Carolina, where he will take ui. his work at once. The Brelsford Packing and Storage < ompany is helping along a mighty good work which was started in Chi cago by the Swift Parking Company fj 1 . , w , hlch when yon come to think about it is not only based on humanity hut on common sense as , i - .. The slogan is "Throw away that club and the movement is to restrain the stock drover from hammering cattle wth clubs, poles, forks and ufL 8 which come to hand and "hioh men who are in charge of dumb beasts are all too prone to use. Now. ad ays we go after the man who heats a horse or stones a dog, but it has probably not occurred to the average man that when a drover pounds a cow with a club that, he is not only causing needless suffering, in many cases, but injuring our meat supply as well. The packers keep an account of a bruised animal and the seller is held to ac count for it. Cruelty to cattle, it is pointed out, is costly. The club in the hands of a hot-tempered drover when laid on the back of a steer means just that much loss. The advice given by the people who are back of this sen sible move is worth while reading by many city and country people because t Is ' Exercise care in handling your livestock at home: insist upon careful handling in transit and at market." Professor A. Duncan Yocum. of the University of Pennsylvania, who is in charge of the university extension work, is well known here, as he has often visited the city and ranks high among the faculty members. The banquet of the Hope Fire Com pany in celebration of its centennial to-night has attracted much attention from the tiremen of the State, and the officers of the companv to-day re ceived congratulations from a number of organizations in the central sec tion. Hhe Hope has been host to so many firemen in their visits to this city that the people who have enjoyed its hospitality are taking note of the fact. S. E. Eichelberger. of the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, was here to-day to cover the meeting of the Public Service Commission. Mr. Eichelberger has been legislative cor respondent for the Bulletin for several sessions, and during the Capitol fur nishing investigation by the Legisla ture covered that important work for the Philadelphia Telegraph. I AM I .NT OF THE DEMOCRACY By Wlnj; Dinger What's that rumbling 'neath the sur face <.»f the Democratic horde'.' Tis the noise of disapproval Of the clerk on their Poor Board. "We got out the votes essential Last election so we'd win. Now a btoomin' Socialistic • 'hap as clerk comes sneaking in. "All this talk about a system That will be nonpartisan is O. K. with other parties. But it shouldn't wreck our plan." But a slight misunderstanding Is the cause of this discord. I transferred him from MT paper To not YOl'K but to MY Board. | WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE I —'ieorge McCurdy. re-electod head of Philadelphia's common council, is an authority on real estate in that city. Robert Swan, new director of works in Pittsburgh, comes of a familv of engineers. Edgar way south. Sloiictnun Report.- to Grant Washington. Jan. «!.—The Star says j that General Stoneman, who lias late'lv' been relieved from the direction of I the cavalry .bureau In tbis city, has j been oMerefl to report to General ' Grant at Knoxville fur ilul\ in tlie I portion of his army In that v b-inily. | Letters to the Editor FIRST COURSE NEEDED To the Editor of Tkt T fit graph • What la the reason that the Harris burg Railways Company management has not provided its conductors with a tirat course In ventilation? I have (traveled in a good many trolley lines in the State and I do not know of any company where supervision of ventila tion is given so little attention. • On some of the big suburban cars 1 have ridden. along with sixty other persons, with every ventilator tight shut and the only change of air being when tho doors were opened for some passenger to enter or alight. The conductors are willing enough to open the venti lators when requested, but whv they are not instructed In the first princi ples of health passes me. The man agement might use some of the money It is putting by for hiring an in structor. DAILY RIDER. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of Jan. 6, 1864.] Snow Must lie Removed Attention is directed to the procla mation of the Mayor relating to the removal of snow from the pavements. Railroad Man Killed William Kunkel. an employs of the Pennnsylvanla Railroad Company, was killed yesterday near the roundhouse by a passenger train from the west. He had stepped on the track with his hack toward the train, which he did not observe approaching. His body was mangled and torn In a horrible manner. Deceased was a resident of this cltv. His family mourns his loss. AX ANTIDOTE FOR PESSIMISM [Editor and Publisher] It does one's heart good to road over the statistics presented In a bulletin Issued this week by the Department of Agriculture. If there Is anyone who thinks the country Is going to the dogs he ought to go into a quiet room somewhere and sit down and let the information it contains slowly per meate the Intricate chambers of his brain. When he frets through read ing it, he will, if he is honeat, feel like going out and spending real money. According to the Secretary of Agri culture the value of farm products for 1913 reaches the Incomprehensible sum of $9,750,000,000. Of this amount $6,100,000,000 represents the value of all the crops and $3,650,000,000 the farm value of animals sold and slaugh tered and of animal products. The! net farm Income Is $4,074,027,499, which, you will admit, is a tidy little sum to tuck away In stockings and other receptacles for savings. ASSAULTS ON BUSINESS [From the Philadelphia Public Lodger.] The great aggressive business enter prises of this country ask no favors: they ask justice and a respite from assault originating in hostility foment ed tor political buncombe. The power ful corporations are not only doing their own work but the nation's work, whilw they render the public a service In cheaper goods and high quality. The work which they are doing for the country consists in invading the marts of the world and in affording employ ment at high wages at home for tens of thousands of men. Their energy and successful efTort fills the channels of trade and enlivens the seats of industry at home; moves the wheels of the railroads, stimulates manufactures, pays labor and rewards the farmer. Great business has been under fire and it still has Its burdens to carry. Organized labor proposes If it can. to control industt-j», and that is a serious question which must be settled. Meanwhile if the Government has any duty with respect to business it con sists in permitting energy and capital to concentrate their attention upon the business itself and not upon an attack from the rear. EDITORIAL TIDBIT* A Prussian woman has invented a ga* bomb that will throw a man into a stupor for several hours; but it has nothing on the Christmas bill in that respect.—Columbia State. It's hard to blame the linotype which spoke of Huerta as "the veteran of many a hard-fought bottle."—Columbia fetaie. Atlantic City doubtless will accept it as a delicate compliment if her visi tors wear striped bathings suits next summer.—Washington Post. An expert dilates on the dangers in eating rare beefsteak and savs nothing about the danger of bankruptcy.— Louisville Times. - |«^BBBSC]BSBI3[in|KaC For Men, Women and Boys Wml I FIRE-SMOKED S g CLOTHING S ■ ■ ■ I One-Half Price and Less | y Remember this—there isn't a. single garment that is damaged in the I least. Everything as good as when we moved our new stock in our new If J store early in the Fall. But the smoke from the fire next door filled the ■■■ store and fumed the clothing. The smoke-scent will leave as soon as you H| Hget garments in the fresh air. ) Coats. Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Waists, Millinery and Furs for Women. LJj MM Suits and Overcoats for Men and Hoys. All priced at one-half and many BTO ■J™ tilings a great deal less. hJ n-a Sale Continues Daily Until All Garments Are Sold ; NATIONAL SUPPLY CO. g iM EVEMNGS 8 South Fourth Street JANUARY 6, 1914. Good - News One of the best pieces of news for you in this paper is the clearance prices now in force in this store on such world-famous clothing as the Hart Schaffner & Marx, Society Brand and Cloth-craft. Men's Suits and Overcoats $30.00 now $20.001 $20.00 now $15.00 $25.00 now $16.501 $15.00 now SIO.OO These prices de-vote exceptional bargains because of the remarkable quality for which these clothes are famed. ITT TDC For Women & Far-lined Coats H. Marks & Son Fourth & Market Sts. EDITORIALS II J CONTEMFORAKIBS Strug-glint? Author (who has J*«t rmni ■n %f _X. v j tJk his latest story to his wife) —Th«to! E] W m iVfS That's the best thing I ever did. ■1 a Jltß His -Wife—Yes. dear. Wh« man. zine shall you send it to flrstt—Puc I We're Sd Mkrly to Face Another [From the Indianapolis News.J * s ® All, cheer up, and quit worrying about hoodoos! There's only one 'l3 year to a century. HEADQUARTERS FOR He ( mn Support Her _ _ [From the Now York World.) M ■ H TJ '| * The young man who with a borrowed I I capital of $l5O earned J25.000 In six LJ B ■ 1 ■ 1 I a 1 months, as the condition of obtaining a bride, appears to have demonstrated cince jl cmro his qualifications for high finance ns oIDUo at dUUES well as for matrimony. mm^ Those Odd Sums I 1 * ■*"'* 1 which your little boy or girl puts lnif I pfittv th,s bnnk wl " K row *nd win go a lone way towards self-help as they get H yIL )W- r\ older. The day will come when tlioy \ will look hack upon their early saviug d a y<* with gratitude and delight. Start ma-ko a start. Your bank book is !■ First National Bank ° J A 110 c CIGARS |f\ Can you afford to smoke 10c Cigars? Is it extravagance to indulge in some thing that gives you a full return in pleasure and satisfaction. Moja 10c Quality Is Worth the Pri\ce Made by Jmhn C. Herman & Co.