6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bttablishtd ISJI PUBLISHED' BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. B. J. STACK POLE, Prea't and Tr«a«'r. V. R. OYSTER. Secretary. OtJB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published •very evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, tit Federal Square. Eaatern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, 121 West Madison street, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at slx cents a week. Mailed to subscriberi at s>.oo a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. 1 1 /fK The Association of Amer- ( 1 i' It/illJ ' c>n Advertisers has ax- < 1 i \VaW amined and certified to i 1 .1 the circulation eft hit pub- i 11 Hcation. The figures of circulation i' I * eontained in the Aesociation's re- 11 II port only are guaranteed. 11 Association of American Advertisers ; > J, No. 2333 Wbitehill Bld|. H. T. City / •wore dally average for the month of December, 1913 * 22,210 * Average for the year 1913—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21,175 Average for the year 1911—18,881 Average (or the year 1910—17,485 1 ■ TELEPHONES I Bell Prtvate Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 201. Editorial Room 685. Job Dept. 203. V TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27. > DIVISION STREET SUBWAY THERE can bo no doubt about the final outcome of the energetic campaign which has been started by the West End Improvement League in support of the movement to provide a subway under the Pennsyl vania Railroad tracks at Division Btreet. This organization of citizens of West Harrisburg is proceeding on the right lines and there Is absolutely nothing to be said in opposition to the subway proposition. With the west ward development of the city, which is more and more rapid with each year, the need for a subway at Division Btreet Is becoming so apparent that there can be no grounds for refusing to favorably consider the project. While no official announcement has been made by the railroad company, wo suspect that this subway must have been in the thought of responsible heads of the company for some years. It Is now up to the point where action is necessary, and it is not unlikely that a conference between the officials of the West End League and the railroad officials would bring to a focus the Important question which now agitates a large part of Harrisburg. Meanwhile the live organization in the upper end of the city undoubtedly has the support of all the civic asso ciations inasmuch as a subway at Division street is too big a question to be regarded as a local or sectional proposition. It is a matter in which the entire city is interested, especially in view of the fact that it contem plates a real entrance for the great Wildwood Park. It is well that the West Endera are concentrating their energy and effort upon a definite need and so long as this policy is pursued there can be no question about the benefit of their organization, not only to the western section of Harrisburg, but to the en tire community. What is of benefit to one section must be of benefit to all and this view of the matter is certain to increase and develop the civic pride of the whole of Harrisburg. Democratic bosses and newspapers are finding It extremely difficult to make headway In their weak defense of the administration at Washington against general criticism over the breaking down of the provisions of the civil service law. Nor do we hear very much nowadays of the arbitrary rule of Congress by Republicans in face of the secret caucus and parliamentary au dacity of the party now In power. In framing our criminal laws, how was it that the comic valentine artist was allowed to escape? STIRRING COMMUNITY THOUGHT THE little group of thinkers and students of philosophy back of the local Natural History So ciety, its various branches and activities, Is doing an excellent work of which tho general public hears lit tle except through an occasional newspaper report. Current social ideals and the trend of our civilization are not conducive to the stimulation of general study on scientific or technical subjects from the standpoint of the scholar. Men Interested in intellectual things are rare and those that are so interested are usually difficult to find and know. William James has said that: "A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all social mates." So, acting on this proposition, those back of the Natural History Association are bringing philosophy and science to the masses in Harrisburg. They are encouraging young men, in particular, to a line of thought that is not only good for them mentally and morally, but which in many cases changes their whole view point of life and in not a few instances that could be mentioned has started them out on careers that will take them much farther up the ladder of accomplishment than would have been possible but for those youthful asso ciations, exciting ambitions and as pirations. But, aside from this, the activities of the society and its branches are all in the direction of general education along lines of modern thought, and since he is a better lawyer, a better doctor, a better writer who is first of all a well educated man, the oppor- TUESDAY EVENING, tunitles thus offered for broader cul ture are of wide possibility for good in the community and should be made use of much more extensively than they are. "Huerta cannot possibly back out," says the Chicago News. We should say not, but it looks as though be might go out headforemost almost any minute. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP IT is not improbable that the social istic Alaskan railway scheme which is now being jammed through a Democratic Congress will prove the rock upon which that party will split. For an administration that promised all sorts of economies and the usher ing in of the millennium, the record of the past year in the matter of ap propriations and new schemes for spending money effectually closes the mouths of those who spent most of their days and nights a year ago in criticising the Republican adminis tration of affairs. A proposition to spend $40,000,000 for a government railroad in a terri tory with less than half the white population of Harrisburg is staggering, not only from the standpoint of gov ernmental ownership, but in the actual expenditure of public funds. If William Allen White were called upon to again tell us "What's the Mat ter With Kansas," he might write one word and let it go at that—"politics." The spoils rider got thrown. SECURING LiANGIJEY'S FAME THE offer of Lincoln Beachey to demonstrate the flying qualities of the old Langley aeroplane, which has occupied a niche in the Smithsonian Institution since it fell into the Potomac river, shattering some of its more delicate parts and incidentally breaking its designer's heart, is interesting. Professor Langley always held that he had solved in this contrivance, which antedated the Wright achieve ment by many years, the problem of the heavier-than-air flying machine. While newspapers twitted him on his failure and paragraphers dubbed him "Darius Green, the second," the dis appointed Inventor clung to the belief that his model required only a stronger engine and the proper guiding hand to make it soar with the birds. Beachey, who knows more about air craft than possibly any other aviator in the country, agrees with the dead inventor in this, and it will be Inter esting to note results when he hitches a modern motor to the Langley aero plane and attempts to fly. If his con clusions are correct, Langley's fame will be for/ver secure and his name will be linked even more closely than at present with the origin and de velopment of the aeroplane. The two Inmates of the Eastern Penitentiary who died after drinking hair tonic had evidently been away from the white lights so long that their stomachs had become unaccustomed to fancy mixed drinks. TAKE DOWN THE POLES CITY COUNCIL is quite right in ordering the removal of poles on all streets in which there are conduits of size sufficient to ac commodate the wires. Overhead wires are mere makeshifts at best. They are costly to maintain, dangerous to pedestrians in time of storm and unsightly. The same wire underground will give ten times the service, and it is out of sight and out of the way. In time even the trolley wire will come down. It is marvelous that more accidents do not result from falling wires. Hourly thousands of people walk un concernedly back and forth beneath these slender metal strings that carry a load potentially as deadly as the current that charges the electrodes of the death chair. The snapping of a joint or the slipping of a trolley might have dire results. Some day we will learn how to operate our street cars without the necessity of a clumsy pole to feed a motor that requires an extravagant amount of current for the work it performs, and then down will come the trolley poles. Meantime let us continue the work of clearing our streets of every over head wire with which it is possible to dispense. "Spend your winters in Florida," ad vises a magazine advertisement. Good! Also, never go out without having a thousand dollars in your pocket. Like wise make your boss give you a month's vacation in mid-winter with pay in full. PRESIDENT AND THE TRUSTS IT is good occasionally to refresh one's memory by reference to the old flies of the newspapers. While the whole country is ringing with praise for President Wilson's new at titude toward the trust question, few remember that the Republican plat form of 1912, on which Taft was de feated for re-election, outlined a course of procedure almost in perfect accord with the program laid down by the President in his recent message to Congress on the subject. For the benefit of Republicans who may imagine that the President has taken a step in advance of their own party In this respect, we herewith re produce the aforementioned plank: The Republican party favors the enactment of legislation, supple mentary to the existing anti-trust act. which will define as criminal offenses those specific acts that uni formly mark attempts to restrain and to monopolize trade, to the end that those who honestly intend to obey the law may have a guide for their action, and that those who aim to violate the law may the more surely be punished. The same certainty should be given to the law prohibiting combinations and monopolies that characterizes other provisions of commercial law; In other words, that no part of the field of business opportunity may be re stricted by monopoly or combina tion, that business success honor ably achieved may not be converted into a crime and that the right of every man to acquire commodities, and particularly the necessaries of life, In an open market, uninflu enced by the manipulation of trust or combination, may be preserved. It is little wonder, then, that Re publican leaders have lined up be hind the President for the enactment of the legislation he has outlined. In 'doing so they are merely supporting him in an elTort to have a Democratic I'ongress enact a Republican platform plauk, , evening cb&r With the passing of the poles and overhead wires from the streets In the business section of the city some In teresting bits of the history of the Installation of the overhead system are recalled. Some of the poles that have been razed are more than twenty years old; for instance, the towering chestnut that stood in front of the Dauphin Deposit Trust Company's building at Court and Market streets was nearly twenty-three years old. At I' ourth and Market and near the en trance to Union Station are a couple of poles which have a little history all their own. They were part of the great raft of thousands and thousands of pine logs that were brought from the shores of Nova Scotia to Philadel phia by sea years ago. Newspapers and magazines were full of the daring undertaking- which holds its place among the stories of the New England coast. The plan of building these logs into a giant raft and floating and tow ing it to the ports of the United States was conceived by a Canadian lumber man. Two attempts were made, the ilrst of which was disastrous. The Atlantic took a hand and kicked up a real tempest oft the coast of Cape Cod. Thousands of valuable pine logs were scattered to the seas. Most of these poles were made from Canadian pines, A few of this character are still in use in this section, although the Canadian trees now serving that purpose are usually cedar. The Harrisburg Light and Power Company specialized on great poles and its lines were often commented upon. While there are a few poles Imported from Canada, the chestnut trees, straight, tough and en during, are more generally used in these parts; as a rule they are cut on the northern slopes of the mountains n®ar by. Flfty-flve-foot heights are the more serviceable and more gen erally used. The chestnut are really remarkable for their endurance, as was peculiarly demonstrated when the big pole at Court and Market streets was torn down. The outer shell was rotted to some extent, but the heart itself was as sound and tough as if it hail never helped carry the burden of wires across tlie city's business section since 1890, Some of the drivers of laundry wagons in Harrisburg are men of re source and, while the manner of their handling their business may be a little startling to the average citizen, they nevertheless produce results. Every Monday is still "wash day" in Harris burg as it was 100 years ago. Conse quently the laundry wagons are plied high, especially those which make a specialty of family washing, by the pound. Yesterday two wagons passed along Third street which showed that the laundry business was prospering. One contained seven bundles to the roof, while the other, bulged with bundles from the rear, had its root with "things" were hung on each side. State officials are just now sitting up nights wondering how they are go ing to get home to play politics, be cause this is a year when everyone connected with State, county, city or any other kind of government, be he Republican, Democrat, Bull Moose, Socialist or Prohibitionist, is going to play politics this year because either the job he holds or that of his chief depends upon it. If they go home and play politics because either the job he holds or that of his chief depends upon it. If they go home and play politics the fellows who want their Jobs will say that they are doing it on State time, and if they do not their friends may be beaten and it might react on them. "What am I going to do about it?" asked one man yesterday when he was twitted about playing politics. "Why, I'm going home to vote. It's going to be a case of whether I hold on or whether a Democrat or Bull Mooser gets my job." Governor Tener gave even the golf enthusiasts of the city a jolt yesterday when he went out and played golf on the Country Club links at Lucknow. The Governor was accompanied by Secretary Gaither and also by Secre tary of the Commonwealth Robert McAfee, who is in danger of becoming a recruit. The Governor played golf the first week of the year and plans to keep it up. He says he TVould like to see Mr. McAfee start. Louis E. Houseal, a member of thej Citizen Fire Company, No. 3, has pre-1 pared a typewritten record of the work of the Harrisburg Fire Depart ment during 1913, which is a clever piec of work and a very useful one. It has thirteen pages, giving the names, numbers and location of the different companies and the date of organization of each; the apparatus in use in the department, with the number of paid men, (drivers, etc.,) and the number of horses and charac ter of apparatus used by each com pany. Qne section gives the amount of hose in possession of different com panies and in reserve. Chief engineers of the department since 1868 are given and following that comes a complete record of the 102 box alarms and 110 telephone calls during the year, with comparative figures for 1912. The character of the buildings in which the fires occurred is shown, as is also the number of box alarms on each day of the week for the twelve months of the year. At the end is a page containing the number and loca tion of the fire alarm boxes of the city. As a matter of record it will be exceedingly valuable. I AvehL-K obwn-'PeoPLe »} —H. R. Fehr, the Easton traction head, will speak at the American Rail way Association meeting in New York j this week. •—Colonel H. P. Rope, of the Car negie Steel Company, thinks that in a few months there wilt bo a big jump |in operations of steel mills. —J. R. Rider, general manager of the .Pressed Steel Car Works, has gone to Europe for rest and recrea tion. —James Mapes Dodge, noted Phila delphia engineer, will preside at the banquet of the Engineers of Western Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh next week. —Judge L. A. K. Mellon took an active part in the Knights of Colum bus exercises In Philadelphia on Sun day. —S. E. Cavin, prominent Philadel phia lawyer, was 62 Sunday and walked to Wilmington and home again to celebrate. SPARE TIIEIR FEELINGS [New York Sun.] Perhaps no one knows how un sophisticated Mr. Bryan can be, but we are loath to believe the story that to spare the feelings of the Spanish nation he urged that services in Ar lington Cemetery over the graves of the Maine dead on February 15, the anniversary of the tragedy in Havana harbor, be abandoned. INTERESTING AURICULAR DEMON STRATION [From the Raven wood Gazette ] We are told that there are 250,000 words in the English language, and we believe It. too, for most of them were used last Sunday night by a woman who discovered after coming out of church that her hat was adorned with a tag on which was written: "Keduced to |:!.76." AN EVENING THOUGHT Forgiveness is not a sudden sob of mercy in the propitiated heart of God, It is the perpetual slate of the divine heart, a divine hospi tality open to all. —G. Johnston Ross. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MIPIEYWUHISTO BE CM9RESSHUIII Would Like to Represent District, But District Does Not Seem to Be Willing BRODBECK PLAYS A GAME Makes Wasbers Postmaster at York—Focht Enjoys Start of His Campaign Congressman-at-large Arthur R. Rupley, of Carlisle, who is booked for the shelf by the leaders of the domi nant faction of the Washington party. Is said to be willing to run as the candidate of the party in the Eigh teenth Congressional district, but the men active in the affairs of the or ganization in the three counties would prefer that he run for Congress-at- j large again. The suspicion is gaining ground that the State leaders would like to wish him on the district and the district folks are busy getting ready booms for several favorite sons. Rupley is said to enjoy congress very much and when he can get any one to talk to he shows a grasp of af fairs that accords very much with what appears in the daily newspapers. ( His speech at the recent conference of the progressives In this city was pre faced by a cry of "help" from the audience and he cut it short, although In fine voice when folks started to leave the hall for lunch. It is said that Cumberland county Washingtonians will claim the nomi nation this time and will put up some one who will down Rupley if he runs In the district. The Democrats are grooming D. L. Kaufman for another round. Congressman Aaron S. Kreider's re nomlnation by the Republicans and his re-election in the district are fore-, gone conclusions. Ex-Congressman B. K. Focht, of Lewlsburg, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination, is entirely cheerful over the outlook in his dis- Seventeenth Is trlct and says the Teeming With more candidates Booms Nowadays the merrier. The former congress man has started his campaign and it looks like a merry light for the nomination between him and ex-Marshal James M. Yeager, of Mifflin county with possibly "Jerry" Light, of Greencastle, as a third candi date. Charles JF. Aiken, Splinsgrove; John Ritter, Liverpool, and Dr. W. Frank Skinner, Chambersburg, do not seem to be candidates In spite of pub lications to that effect. The Bull Moosers are trying to keep William H. Sponsler, of New Bloomfield, divi sion chairman, from being a candidate for congress and are trying to side track Frank B. Clayton, the angel of 1912, because State Chairman A. Nevin Detrich would like to run W. S. Iloerner, of Chambersburg, who is his personal appointee on the Bull Moose legislative program committee. The Democrats have promised to run Congressman Frank L. Dershem again, but the lower end of the dis trict wants a show. There are eight counties, all boiling with insurgency, In the district and the race Is going to be well worth watching. Congressman A. R. Brodbeck, who is facing all kinds of trouble for re nomination in the York-Adams dis trict, yesterday at- tempted to straighten Brodbeck out things by recom- Plays Sonic mending Senator Hen- Big Cards ry Wasbers, well known in this city. for the York postmas tership. Wasbers has been a candi date for renomination and it is said that Brodbeck figured out that he might shunt some of the opposition to him into a senatorial hunt by getting Wasbers out of the running. The names of George S. Kroil, backed by the Peeling faction of the Democracy; ex-Senator David Klinedinst and C. A. Geesey had been mentioned for post master. There will be a flock of can didates for Senator, among them W. H. Eppley, Newberry; W. H. Long, Hanover; W. W. Van Baman, J. C. Strayer and J. B. Kain, of York. William N. McNair, the former Mid dletown man, single taxer, reorganizer until he could not stand for boss methods any longer and chairman of one of the big divisions of McNair Is the Democratic State Worrying machine, is said to Reo-bosses have gotten into the way of the peace pro gram designed by the reo-bosses in the western end of the State. The appointment of Humes, Wilson and others to fat Federal places in the western counties, the flght between Bailey and Matt and the return to the Guffey fold of many of the men who gathered under the reorganization banner last year, has caused trepida tion at the Market Square windmill, and it was planned to hold a meeting to pass some more of the typewritten resolutions used in the East. McNair, it seems, would not stand for It. Mc- Nair went to Washington a few days ago and finding the meeting of Single Taxers in that city "loaded" in the in terest of the reo-bosses, withdrew. This is being strongly played up in Market Square as a great defeat for the young Plttsburgher. As long as anyone plays the reo-bosses' game he is a fine man. But when he asserts his independence a slap on the wrist is coming. State Chairman WllUam E. Crow yesterday started things moving at the Republican State headquarters In Philadelphia and arranged for a Crow Opens meeting of the Headquarters rules committee Tor Campaign this week. The State chairman says that sentiment throughout the State is for Stuart and that the former Governor is the logi cal man. Mr. Crow said that in his opinion fusion Is not to be thought of, and that he is preparing for a straight out three-cornered light. Reports made to him indicate that the Demo crats are embroiled In factional fights and that there are clouds on the Washington party horizon over the candidacy of State Treasurer Robert K. Young for Governor. To-day's Issue of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has this to say about the candidacy of ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart, who seems to be favored through- out the whole State for Air. Stuart the Republican noml- Remains In nation for the guber- Silent I4st natorlal chair: "All attempts so far to get a definite statement from ex-Governor Stuart as to whether he would con sent to be his narty's candidate on the ticket with Senator Penrose have [failed. l.ast night, at the Union league, Mr. Stuart declined to make I a formal statement, but would not say I that he would refuse to allow his | name to be entered at the primary election as a candidate for Governor. | The ex-Governor indicated that the I matter had not yet been put to him in decisive form and added that It was entirely out of place for him to make a public statement. 'There is nothing that I can say for publication,' said the ex-Governor, with a genial smile. 'All that I know Is What I have read in the newspapers.' " frPOLITICAb-SlPeUfthT^l —Of course, the promising of the deputy revenue place to A'ollmer is not slate-making. All parties except j the Democrats make slates, i —lf the Democrats could only get i rid of McNair and the Bull Moosers i get rid of Kelly all would be well. —Senator McNlchl now seems to think that the tide is setting in for Stuart. —West Hazleton will have a spe cial election on a J50.000 bond issue. ■ —People not connected with the Democratic machine fall tp see the difference between the decapitation of Moeslein and the throwing out of Re publicans to make room for followers of the reo-bosses. —The trouble is that McNair will not stay down, but bobs up to disturb the dreams In Market Square. —Scoutmaster Morris expects to be here to give the rules committee of the Democratic machine Its typewrit ten copy next week. —State Chairman Crow has given the State headquarters an old-time appearance. —A few more slates and Bert Fritchey will have a cinch for State committeeman. —Herr Moeslein is now being spoken of for the Democratic State committee seat from this city. —lt is said that Boss McCormick Is grooming a couple of candidates for tho House in the county districts. —The Lyliarger boom has been put back into cold storage. It's a pity, say some Democrats, that there is not a provision against it being put on the market again. —Slating candidates for Federal jobs is an act of civic duty, it would appear, according to reo-bosse3. If Republicans or Bull Moosers did that it would be a crime. —The cold water plank seems to have become too slippery for some of the Bull Moosers. —Congressman Grleßt warmly com mends McClain for Lieutenant-Gov ernor. —Democrats are very busy claiming congressional seats, when they had better look after some they now hold. —Congressman Palmer is strong on child labor Just now. —Some of these wild Democratic claims are Just tuning up for the for mal opening of the campaign next month. —Scoutmaster Morris has not ret Indicated whether a State chairman must be elected this year or not. I a-UTTLe-noixsenge I She overheard her brother say there was not a miss at the club social, and she thought he must have meant it was a stag party. THE SLAMMING OF THE DOOItS By Wine Dinger. 'Twas nearlng the hour of midnight, As the trolley car sped on its way. And the crew was about to welcome The close of another hard day. At Sixth and Division they halted, The trolley was turned, and the men Were waiting the moment to start on Their trip to the city again. When suddenly, out in the darkness, A deep, sullen voice was heard. "Throw up your bands," was the mes sage, And this was what quickly occurred. "How dare you," flung back the con ductor, "Commit such an act of disgrace?" And Just as the robber would enter The door was slammed In his face. The motorman quick was instructed To switch on his current full force. To his orders he promptly responded— The car swiftly sped on Its course. The bandits were -left In the back ground Abashed, and I guess they have sorter Been wondering liow tiie dear public Would get their slx_ faros for a quarter. The negro teamster had been arrest ed for using his whip too freely in the public street. "You are charged with cruelty to animals," said tho Judge. "llow do you plead?" , _ "Wtiv, Jedge, answered the prisoner, "I wa'nt crool to no animiles. Them beasts dat I wuz lickin' war mewls."— Buffalo Express. PROTECT THE CARLISLE SCHOOL! [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] If there is any mismanagement at the Indian School at Carlisle, or if ir regularities have been permitted among the pupils, there should be the fullest investigation. But the friends of this Institution will watch with Jealous In terest lest a Congressional investiga tion shall be made the pretext for the removal of the school to some point in the West. Past experience has made them distrustful of complaints against the Carlisle School, and while there Is not the slightest disposition to shield the guilty or to prevent the exposure of the whole truth about the affairs of the institution, it is doing too good a work for permit of its abolition to b» thought of or Its transfer elsewhere without emphatic protest by every true friend of the Indlanß. It was a matter of nation-wide knowledge that under the management of General Pratt the school at Carlisle Barracks rose to a position of conspicu ous efficiency and usefulness. Its wards are carefully selected from among the various Indian reservations, and the young Indians thus removed from the Influences at home which tended to re tard their development In the knowl edge and arts of American civilization are trained for useful citizenship. In the output of tho school there are doubtless Instances of misfit and fn 11- une. but the same can be said of any educational Institution. Carlisle Is striving to make useful citizens of the Indians committed to its care, and it should not be subjected to the wiles of the wire-puller and the pork-barrel politicians at Washington. JANUARY 27,1914. " Hart Schaffnei & Marx" Clothes for Particulc Men Suits and Overcoats $15.00 Former Prices $25, $27, $* S3O "Clothcraft Guaranteed All Wool Suits and Overoats SIO.OO Former Prices sls, $16.50, $18520 Furs—Shirts—Underwear—AH Reuced H. MARKS & SON 4TH AND MARKET STREET Will SOON RAISE t PRICE OF BOOKS Don't Delay as Great Educational 1 Offer Will Be Withdrawn in Short Time As announced several times during the last few weeks, we will be unable to pet another edition of the Panama book, and the great distribution must be brought to a close without a delay. In a few days the offer will be with drawn and you cannot get this big red book from the Telegraph for love or money. The publishers now declare they will put it on sale at the stores at the regular retail price. If you want one of these books now you will have to hurry. If our allot ment should all bo taken before the time agreed upon to close, we will be unable to furnish another book. The knowledge to be gained by a close reading ofi this volume will for ever after be a valuable asset to every man, woman and child, for this great waterway is destined to become an important factor in times of peace as well as in war. It will revolutionize the shipping of all the nations of the world; It will bring about changes in the trade and commerce of all the earth; it will open up new avenues of trade and establish new relationships between the various countries of the globe. A certificate Is printed on another page of this issue, and this certificate with a small expense fee, will give you the book, which you may be proud to possess. Present your certificate within a few days or you will surely be disappointed. INITIATE LARUE CLASS "Washington Camp, No. 639, Patriotic Order Sons of America, initiated a large class of candidates last evening at their hall, In the Flatiron building, Nine teenth and Derry streets. The degree work was done by Washington Camp, No. 102, of Steelton, under the direction of Joseph W. Bricker, degree master. Members of the order were present from Highspire, Steelton, Enhaut, Ly kens, Elizabethville, Lemoyne and Rosemont. A banquet was served. A spelling bee is planned by the lodge, which will be held on February 9. Prizes will be awarded to the best and worst speller. new«'DißPamf>es [From the Telegraph of Jan. 27, 1864.] To (iu tu Savannah t New York, Jan. 26. A letter from Folly Island to the Commercial, says rumors are still prevalent among the troops of a meditated expedition towards Savannah. Nothing of a reli able character was known. Burroughs Shot Norfolk, Jan. 26. Major Burroughs, the guerilla chief, was shot by the guard last night while atemptlng to es cape from the pest house, where he was being treated for the small-pox. LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE [From the Philadelphia Bulletin.] Former Attorney General Wicker sham makes no idle boast of the dem onstrated efficiency of the Sherman anti-trust law as it stands on the statute books to-day, but cites the plain record of what has been accomplished through Its application and Interpreta tion by his office, as sustained by the Supreme Court. The fruits of his ef forts are still being gathered by his successor in the administration of President Wilson. In homely phrase, his advice now is simply to let well enough alone, and permit the law to continue Its present effective operation. There is little serious doubt at the present time as to the meaning of the law. A few moro definitions will not serve to make "restraint of trade," ah prohibited under the law, an exact term, for each definition In itself raav call for further Interpretation by the Supreme Court, Inevitably will require the application of the rule of reason, and in the end we shall not be nearer the irreducible definition than we are at the present time, when, as the Presi dent admits, big business and the Gov ernment arc seeking to get together and co-operating- for tho working-out of the spirit of the law. It no longer Is necessary to plead for the insertion of teeth in tho Sherman law. The teeth are there, and business Is evi dencing a respectful regard for their biting powers. Even if the worst that can be said in criticism of the bill amending the law by further definitions of restraint of trade, Is that these amendments are unnecessary, that Is enough. Unnecessary law Is undesir able, because It is a bid for unneces sary, costly and obstructive litigation. RATIO OF SUCCESS [From Collier's Weekly,] As an Interesting by-product of the currency discussion there emerges the fact that five of the six executives of New York City's greatest hanks are self-made men, born to small things. Five to one is heavy odds, and banking Is supposed to be almost the one busi ness where success can be inherited. What Is the ratio in other lines where the struggle Is more Immediate? May Have to Raise It [From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.] The sufTragets are getting ready to make the Legislature earn its salary for the next sixty days. ' l"B STEAMSHIPS LARGEST STEAMERS To the Mediterranean ADRIATIC CELTIC January 24 February 21 March 7 CANOPIC i^ u c A H RY ?i WHITE STAR LINE 9 llmadytay, N. or Local Ant". POMy SOIETY HOT TO E SECRET None But Members f Local As sociation Can Jot State Organizatio Jr«f nl < lsy ii anla ?tata?oullry So chty met in the parlors < the Bolton y® sterda y afternodj with about " e members and t& temporary &■ Welmer, Lemon, presi nnr?'ri V Ko ° na v Treichle ». secretary, ana Charles F. Rosenow, tremurer, present, it was added early in ti e meeting to make the rganlzatlon Permanent. President Weii B r appoint i Ko °ns. Treichlers, '. E. Upde- ^ ,lnB r' a,ld S - c - fcbblo, New Lumlfcrland, a committee i prepare for « d °P ,,on lit a ueetlng to DO nefl in about six weeks t>ien a per organization will b effected, rue ty-laws committee alied that those present offer for thel guidance siigge«ions as to the spectfc work it was taught the society sould un- Five hours of Useusslon resulteoin agreement on theTollowlng points: . —that the organlzafon would not be ecret or semi-secret 2—that none bu members of a locs poultry organlzalon be eligible to mtibership i? . ato organization. J—tliat it will be tie purpose of the sciety to promote o-operatlon In the Hying of feeds and supplies, to expose fraudu lent transitions In the sale o poultry ft? l e ? grs - to work for legls.tion In •f-j I "\ e , re 4 of the local assolations fftid of the oultry Industry of tie State In general. Most pre»nt-day poultry oyanlza tions are orjucted purely in th inter 'ancier; the Pennylvanla State Poultry society will put te com mercial, poulryman on an equt foot ing with thefancier. It is the ilm of lt , 3 i Promoters, to make the Stte so ctety.the paret body of the mo» than one hundred toultry associates of I ennsylvanla, ringing them tcrother for mutual advntage BETTER - TYtE PROTECTION Lewlstown, R., Jan. 27. town, with it's >ie v lunteer fit, de partment, is to ave more protection for the Junctionand Lake Park su burbs of this prety little town. Work men employed bythe water comany have started into .he work of instil ing new water pigs, at tho aove points. The Junetjn has a goodflre company, made ui to well-traied men. ♦llVbAimifißUßfir-Mpy- ye-ARs- a&oTo-Dfly [From the Telegraph <f Jan. 27, 18641 The paymasters offlc« is the most a. tractive place In our city. It is almoe continually surotinded l>y large crowd of soldiers, Wio are at all times read; to receive a Ripply of spondullcs. Ready For Valentine Day Valentine iky is near at hand. "We notice numepus handsome pictures displayed In the show windows along our streets, j r„ Heathen Prognul l*rom the -ochester Democrato and Chronicle.] China is toting on the airs and graces of modrn civilization with won derful rapldltj The latest news Is tho organization t a Soap Trust. "Life i the assertive molecular ac cord." —MARSH. Life iniranoe is more easily und-stood, and if you have tu. the former need not trouble you greatly. PENN MUUAL LIFE 103 N. S»oad St, Isaac Miller, 1 i,opni F. O. Donalds*, } Ageils. UEADaDARTEg rOB SHIFTS SIDES & Sites ■ > j Removal Ntiice \ 'i We have removed our ip tical £ 'i offices from N. Marketiq. to a 'i larger quarters, at 807 arket 5 'i street. We want to a<ualnt ? 'i people with our new lo.tion, Ji 'i and for a short time onl.win V |i make the following exceional 5 ji offer: a i' We will examine your ey by ? i 1 our scientific method (wlout 2 i 1 use of drops) and fit you ith i i 1 the necessary spherical l%«s f i and a guaranteed frame orty« ( i glass mounting, all compte i i for $3.60. Our regular prlceor ( i this work is |6.00. £ i ground lenses at slightly hlgtr ' i prices. Lenses changed In y>r ( i J own frames at reduced prices. ij \ THE NORRIS-BOYD \ SPECIALISTS II Ryes Examined. Glasses Fitted <i Established la Harrlslrarc i({ 5 Years. J. 307 Market Street • J Second Floor ' Ji Over Pblla. Quick T.uncb. Hoars, BtSO a. m to R p. m. tVWWWVWWWWWWft
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