6 RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Sstablisktd tSji PUBLISHED' BY I'HI niLEGKAPII PRINTING CO. X. J, STACKPOL.E, Prest and Treas'r. ». R. OYSTER, Secretary. SUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Xastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, I-lasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office. 12J Weet Madison street, Chicago, ill., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscrlberi at 11.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. ®The Association of Amor- ( 1 ican Advertisers has ex- <' •mined and certified to i 1 the circulation of this pub- / ! I Ucation. The figures of circulation i' l contained in the Association's re- i 1 1 port only are guaranteed. I 11 Association of American Advertisers \ Ne. 2333 Whitehall Bld|. N. T. City !' 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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 14 omil SERVICE AS an example of the manner in which the Wilson administra tion is attempting to keep its pre-election promises of politi cal reform, one need no more than quote the following "rider" from the post office appropriation bill reported to Congress by a Democratic commit tee dominated by Speaker Clark, Rep resentative Underwood and President Wilson: That hereafter any assistant post master to secure faithful perform ance of official duty may be ap pointed by said Postmaster Gen eral, who may require such bond without regard to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to regulate and Improve tho civil service of the United States, ap proved January 16, ISB3, and amendments thereto," and tho Postmaster Geenral shall have power to revoke the appointment of any assistant postmaster and appoint Ills successor at Ills discre tion without regard to the act, amendments, rules or regulations aforesaid. A more brazen attempt to eliminate the merit system in order to grab offices Tor greedy Job-hunters was never jna,de in Congress. The very language of the "rider" Is Indicative of Its de sign. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that it is the purpose of those who framed it to throw out of office hundreds of assistant postmasters who have attained their present positions as the result of competitive examina tions. Selected on account of especial fit ness and qualified by long experience for the work they perform, they are to be thrown out to make place for those who happen to be the political favorites of local Democratic bosses. There has not been a national Dem ocratic platform In a score of years that has not protested against the "spoils system" in national govern ment and that has not declared In vigorous language for the perpetuation and the extension of the Civil Service. Yet we find Democrats elected upon ruch a platform openly trying to jam through the most flagrant violation of Civil Service pledges that has ever been attempted by any party. President Wilson has been fond of telling visitors to the White House that he can do nothing that the Balti more platform does not endorse. We jtanay he will find It difficult to make the program of his lieutenants tally •with his own requirements In this re spect. At all events It is gratifying to note tfiat Republican Congressmen are fighting for the retention of the merit requirement# and it is to be hoped that they will find sufficient consistent Democrats to stand with them in pre venting the wholesale distribution of ■what Democrats used lo be so fond of describing as "pap" and "pic." Automoblltats should not rejoice too much over tne discovery that crude oil can be used as motor fuel. About the time it becomes popular some good ex cuse for raising the price will be found. COOKING DIPLOMAS FOR BRIDES A CERTIFICATE of proficiency In the domestic arts should be given away with each and every bride, according to H. L. Jones, r wealthy farmer of Geneva, 111., and that Is why he threw in a certificate for good measure when he gave his daughter, Millieent, in marriage to Merton Arniagast, of Jollet. Jones' idea is based on the old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and that bad cooks spoil happy homes. When Mr. Armagast asked the father's consent to the marriage, Mr. Jones replied: "You can have my daughter, but not until she learns to cook." Whereupon Miss Jones foreswore social life and went away to a school of domestic science. The other day ■he returned with a diploma in cook ery. Immediately the couple were married. There is more than the germ of a pretty little romance tucked away in this entertaining yarn. It contains «om« wholesotne lessons. In the first place it is evident that while Mr. Jones entertains some practical ideas of housekeeping and the duties a wife owes to her husband, his wife does not, else there would have been no need for the ftelated domestic course. Too many mothers are like her. Too WEDNESDAY EVENING I many daughters are the victims of over-indulgent parents. I Prom the time a boy is knee-high Ito his father the family looks for ward to and discusses a career for him. Preparation for work Is be gun with his first day in school. But while a large majority of girls are destined to become wives and mothers, very many of them—and this applies especially to those of families whose income Is more than necessary to meet the ordinary needs of life are en couraged to believe that household work is" menial and that the nurse girl is a proper substitute for the mother-care. Mr. Jones has the right idea, but it came to him a little late. No girl should marry who does not know how to conduct a home. If her prospec tive husband told her that he intended to hire an entirely Inexperienced man to superintend his business the aver age young woman would shy oft from him as a man scarcely fit to consider as a life-mate. Yet she thinks noth ing of offering hor own services as housekeeper without a knowledge of the first fundamentals of the art of housekeeping, for art it is. It re quires managing abilities of no mean order to successfully conduct the af fairs of a home and a reputation for fine cookery is more to be desired than skill in water color or ombroidery, and certainly of much more real worth to the family fortunate to possess such a one. Many a young man who tells his girl that he would gladly lay down his life for her is careful not to come In the front gate until he Is sure the dog is tied. EVERYBODY 18 INTERESTED THE Pennsylvania Good Roads Association, In appointing a State organizer and announcing its intention of making a State wide effort to popularize the good roads movement in Pennsylvania, is taking a course that will commend It to the friends of better highways. The good roads movement is, or ought to be, essentially a people's movement. To some extent this has been lost sight of in the perfectly natural effort of the farmer to oxert his utmost effort for ryral roads, the automoblllst to demand main highways and the city people to Insist on Im proved avenues of travel to and from their suburban homes. It Is un doubtedly a fact that the general bet terment of the roads In Pennsylvania has been retarded by tho pulling and hauling of conflicting Interests. These Interests need not conflict They will all fare better by taking the larger view of the good roads ques tion, as voiced In the announced policy of the Pennsylvania Good Roads Asso ciation, to the effect that better high ways have an economic and ethical value to all the people far more Im portant than any benefit that may ac crue to a particular class of road users. The man who never himself tra-| verses the public roads, If there be any such, Is vitally Interested In this matter, because of the Improvement to tho whole community that follows the improvement of Its highways. A piece of literature put out by the above-mentioned association contains the following pointed summary of the situation: "Everybody everywhere is all the time paying something for roads. Everybody everywhere is paying more for poor roadp than for good roads." It has been estimated that bad roads are costing the people of Pennsylvania at least 120,000,000 a year. Every citizen bears a part of this needless burden, and it is the duty of every citizen, from the standpoint of his own interest as well as that of the community at large, to lend a hand In the effort to "pull Pennsylvania out of the mud." ■ Those who have been "on the water wagon" since the first of the year will doubtless now take opportunity to get off and skate. QUEER ENCOURAGEMENT IN a long dispatch from Boston set ting forth the new spirit of opti mism which is said to have taken possession of manufacturers and businessmen in New England, a cor respondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger accounts for the alleged change of sentiment in this way: Ground for encouragement is found also In the reports from Eng land that the woolen cloth weavers there have been raising the price of their goods. They say the lower tariff will open our markets to them, and that the demand for their goods here is so great that they cannot afford to sell them at home at the old price. If the Eng lish woolen cloth men are doing this, they are doing only what the Canadian lumber men did when the duty on lumber was reduced a dol lar a thousand feet, and what the Canadian farmers did when the duty on eggs was cut down to re lieve the high cost of living. The price of eggs did not come down here, but ft went up In Can ada, and many of the Canadian lumber dealers added a dollar a thousand to the price of their lum ber. Surely this is peculiar "ground for encouragement!" We aro delighted to hear that industrial confidence and courage are improving in New Eng land, but we should like to feel that there is a more substantial cause for it than that ascribed by the Lodger correspondent. If, as a result of increased Ameri can demands for their goods, English 1 woolen cloth weavers are raising their prices, that must mean the sale of English goods in home markets pre viously supplied by American manu facturers. It must also mean that so long as the condition exists, there will be a reduction in the output of Amer ican mills and a corresponding reduc tion in the number of jobs for Ameri can wage earners. As one tariff expert pithily put it, "You cannot expect to get wages at home for work done abroad." Of course, it is not to bo supposed that the English manufacturer will raise his prices to our protective tariff level. To do that would be to build a wnll against himself. His chances of driving us out of our own market would be no better than they were before. If he Is to get In and stay in, he must sell Just a little more cheaply than the American manufacturer can afford to sell. He may go as cloSte to that line as he pleases so long as he Is on the right side of It. His prices may be and will be infinitely above the free trade, cheap labor level of the United Kingdom, but they will always be a shade below the standards of pro tection-paid wage earners. Such being the case, what is the "ground for encouragement" In the news from England? The only encour aging feature we can see in it Is that, although we are not going to have the free trade prices that were prom ised us, the British manufacturer Is reasonably sure of getting rich on our tariff law. It develops that a Democrat Is a first class reformer—when he Is not In office. Civil Service publications please copy. Secretary Bryan says he Is at a loss to understand "unseen and unsuspected attacks" made on him. May be they are some of his chickens cdmlng home to roost. A man may be perfectly straight and still follow his natural bent. evenina- cftar] Harrisburg's younger folks have taken to the hills. They have gotten out their bobsleds and chair sleds and other kind of sleds, including the kind on which you go down flat, and are huving a fine large time. The cold weather and the light snow flurries have caused the coasting to be very flno on most of the slopes and while the streets heading from tho "Ridge" are no longer used because of trolley lines there are still some good coast ing places for the youngsters at points where there are no dangerous cross ings. Allison Hill affords numerous fine coasting places and Reservoir Park Is a very popular place. Still, people do not have as much fun coasting as they used to years ago. Market street hill was the great place and one could start at Thirteenth and go to Tenth. Herr street Is still used, but tho trol ley cars in Cameron prevent long trips. Out in Twentieth and other streets in that section there is excel lent coasting. The fact that coasting has declined in the streets which slope from Sixth recalls how our fathers used to coast off the old reservoir hill which stood where the Central high school now stands. The coasters used to start away up high and go with a series of bumps for a distance of squares. But all those long coasting stunts have passed away. People who were fortunate enough to be up with the sun yesterday morn ing saw a beautiful sight in the skies. The sun was coming up with a wealth of gold and red and the moon was sinking in tho west. The moon was brilliant, as it was the night before and last night, too, but it shone In magnificent contrast to the glory of tho orb of the day. The State's new seed law, under which any person desiring to have seeds tested for private or Commer cial purposes can do so, provided the costs and a fee are paid to the State, is resulting in cleaning up of the seed supply in a rather unexpected way. Most people who buy seeds have com plained about the presence of thistles or dodder and they blame the man who sells them. Now the merchants, who get their supplies from whole salers, are looking after No. 1 and asking that the State examine their samples. The new law Is becoming a sort of revenue raiser. The meetings of tho City Council are commencing to attract much more attention than ever bestowed upon the old Councils, except when some big project was up. Every evening fol lowing a Council meeting there is a buzz of inquiry all over the city ana people ask whose tenure of office came to an end or what changes were made. The new Council is a real news producer, far better than anyone ex pected. And it is characteristic of the Harrisburg way of doing municipal business that the lawmakers have taken hold In a way that is winning attention from other cities where the operation of the new law has met some snags. Among people here for the Pro gressive conference is M. T. Stokes, 1 publisher of one of the Coudersport papers, who has been called the stormy petrel of northern tier Jour nalism. Mr. Stokes Is now defendant in an action for libel brought by ex-Judge Ormerod, who has held court .here several times and who is well known. They have had a bitter fight and the court trial will be interesting. The Rev. E. M. Mulock, who leaves Paxton Church next week. Is the thir teenth man to servo as pastor of the historic church. Incidentally, he is a Princeton man, and like the President, who was former head of the univer sity, he does not regard thirteen in an unfavorable light. Mr. Mulock's pas torate has certainly not been charac terized by anything that suggests what that much abused numeral is com monly supposed to stand for. O, FROTH, HOW COULD YOU J By Wins Ulnccr. Dear Froth, that wasn't nice of you To roast us as you did. Now I have never even thought Of trying you to kid. I've hied me to my Webster, For something nice to say, About you and your column You publish every day. But, my, the way that Noah Defines Froth Is a shame. He says Its foam and bubbles, With knowledge much the same. You really ought to be more kind About us when you shout, For if we didn't publish you'd Have naught to froth about. I know it makes you grouchy, When glory comes our way, But be a sport, and choke the sob —Perhaps you'll have your day. {"WFLUKNOWN PEOPUTI —Ex-Senator Tames L. Mitchell, of Jefferson, who is here for the Pro gressive conference, is living on his farm in that county and enjoying life. —John A. Kigg was elected head of Chester railways. —Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, is busy avoiding banquets. —Dr. C. D. Schaeffer, former mavor of Allentown, has given $30,000 for medical research. —Hugh E. Crllly, the Allentown Democrat, has been chosen to head the Lehigh Hibernians. —Joseph B. McCall, head of the Philadelphia Electric Company, Is one of the youngest electric chiefs in the country. '■ ■ - J HEADQUARTERS POR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH CONEHESSMEN TO PROD PIIIMR SOME Will Demand to Know What He Is Going to Do About the Governorship BERRY BOOM ANNOYS MANY Enemies of the Former Treasurer and Chronic Office Seeker on Warpath According to advices from Wash ington, colleagues of Congressman A. I Mitchell Palmer will interrogate him to-day or to-night as to whether he has prepared an answer to their re quest that he become a candidate for governor, and if he continues to dodge will demand to know whether ho is behind the boom for ex-State Treas urer William H. Berry, launched at Scranton last week by E. J. Lynett, the Scranton publisher who is close to the Monroe congressman. Folks in Washington believe that it will take President Wilson to induce Secretary William B. Wilson to be come a candidate for the uncertain Democratic nomination for governor and the President Is said to desire to keep the labor leader in his cabinet. It is also intimated that Palmer is awaiting a hint from the AVhite House that he would be more valuable in \\ ashlngton than as a. candidate for governor and then he is expected to say that he will not keep some more deserving candidate out of the guber natorial race, but will be a candidate for United States senator. Berry was the big speaker at a Jackson day banquet at West Chester last night and threw large floral set pieces in the direction of the Presi dent, but he laid low on State poli tics. Judge E. C. Bonniwell, the chief Ryun boomer, was also a speaker. ■ Democrats in this neck of the woods are asking if it is true that Milton O. Shearer, of Milton, has been named as a deputy revenue col lector. They had been given to unders tanit Democrat* that Collector Klrken- I/ooking dall would not start flr- For Plemuii ing those sixty Repub llcans to make way for hungry Democrats for some time. The folks In this section who have been carrying torches in parades and cheer ing whenever told to are commencing to wonder when the pie man is com ing around. There should be some nice appointments placed around here. Congressman Charles E. Patton, of the Clearfield district, has started things moving for the boom of Con gressman W. D. B. Ainey, of Susquehanna Alney Boom county for the Repub- WorrlOH a lican nomination for Few Bosses senator. Ainey is be ing boomed hard, but has not said whether he will be a candidate. The announce ment did not appear to worry Sena tor Penrose, although he said that he would make his own announcement in due season. The Progressives here to-day were sputtering over the Alney business and declaring that it was a Penrose trick. It is not liked at Dem ocratic State headquarters, either. The Democratic bosses are so busy that they get nervous over a move ment in another party. Scoutmaster Roland S. Morris is to be sharply interrogated by some of the Democrats of the State as to his failure to give a ruling on the question of elec tion of a State chair- Morris man. Everyone sup- Wants to posed last year that the Ilold on Democratic State com mittee was included in the committees which would have to elect new State committeemen and reorganize after the May primaries. But the reorganization gangsters want to hold on to the machine and are now claiming that Morris must serve out his term, which will run to De cember 31. In this way they hope to stave off an election which would re sult In Morris being dumped. | POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS | —William Flinn seems to be amused at that gubernatorial boom. —Roland Morris is certainly some expert in ducking questions about his tenure of office. —An effort is being made to get a bunch of local Democrats together to attend the Jefferson dinner in Phil adelphia Friday. Maybe Palmer will speak out on Friday in Philadelphia. —The Bull Moosers evidently do not think much of Democratic fusion. —Herr Kremp is going to resign as Democratic division chairman. One by one the picturesque Democrats are getting fat federal berths. —The Market Square organ does not play up the Progressives so much since they kicked fusion off the lot. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of .Inn. 14, 1864.] flu Plnen Kroirn A member of the City Council in forms us that many of the gas pipes In the streets are frozen up, and that this accounts for the failure to have the proper lights burning at night. Ef forts are being made to remedy the evil. Declare Dividend The Harrisburg, Lancaster and Mt. Joy Railroad have declared a semi annual dividend of 3'6 per cent., pay able after the 10th Inst. Last Week of Sale Tailored- to-Measure Garments For Gentlemen All winter woolens are being offered in this clearance tailored over your own meas urements, according to the Simms standard. Prices were S3O to SSO. This week, ONE-THIRD OFF . Sf TAILOR I 22 North Fourth St. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [Prom the Telegraph of Jan. 14, 1864.] Heavy Cavalry Fight Chattanooga, Jan. 12. Affairs in East Tennessee are very exciting. A heavy cavalry light occurred near Strawberry Plains on Saturday last. The enemy were repulsed with serious loss. Troops Croaa On Ice New York, Jan. 14. A special dis patch from Sandusky on the 13th inst., reports the arrival of General Terry and staff, with the First Brigade, Third Division, of the Sixth Army Corps. A portion of the troops have crossed on the ice to Johnson's Island. EDITORIALS Room For Repentance [From the St. Louis Post -Dispatch.] George F. Raker is a member of fifty seven directorates. William Rockefeller of forty-nine, and James StiUman of thirty-four. Is the J. P. Morgan house the only one that should make con cessions to the "spirit of unrest" and the new phases of public sentiment? One of