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TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27.
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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.
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drawn and you cannot get this big
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love or money. The publishers now
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you will have to hurry. If our allot
ment should all bo taken before the
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The knowledge to be gained by a
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ever after be a valuable asset to every
man, woman and child, for this great
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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.
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STEAMSHIPS
LARGEST STEAMERS
To the Mediterranean
ADRIATIC CELTIC
January 24
February 21 March 7
CANOPIC i^ u c A H RY ?i
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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.
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molecular ac
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