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THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 12
LINCOLN
MORE has been written about
Abraham Lincoln than about
any other American, Washing
ton not excepted, yet there is a j
liew lesson to be learned from every
fragment literature that comes to
light on the subject. >
In a recent issue of the New York
JCvening Post there appears a well
written and interesting sketch deal
ing with that formative period of the
Emancipator's life "before he was a
great mail." Some of us may dis
agree with the title, holding that Lin
coln was from the first a great man,
although comparatively unknown, but
the article throws some sidelights on
the character of the young man before
and during his circuit lawyer days
that ought to be in the hands of every
ambitious boy that faces what may
eeem to him almost Insurmountable
obstacles to success.
To be sure, we are not all Lin
colns, but the problems he had to
solve and the hardships which ho had
to overcome were infinitely greater
than those which the average lad is
called to meet in these days of educa
tional opportunity.
What young lawyer of to-day would
dare face an audience in the garb of
a ploughman, bare of loot and un
shaven? Lincoln did it. Hear Mrs.
Jane Martin Johns, an eyewitness, tell
of the incident:
Lincoln liud come in from his
plowing to hear the speaking, and
is described as follows: "\ cry tall
- anil thin; wore a 'hickory shirt
With (tollar of same, turned back at
liis throat; a broadbrlmmed struw
hat with a piece fringed out at one
side, and a black string tied around
the crown to make it fit the head,
and very tight tow-linen pants,
much above his bare feet and
ankles." When the speaker fin
ished attacking the old-line Whigs,
Lincoln was so stirred by the at
tack on his party that lie jumped
up on the splintery stump of a tree
which had been blown down, and
won the cheers of the crowd with
his refutation of the charges. The
onlv sign that he gave of his dis
comfort was in constantly shifting
his position to ease his bare feet.
It is of interest that the square in
Decatur where this lirst speech
was given now bears his name.
In that incident is written the key
note of Lincoln's success In life —the
keynote, too, of any young man who
would succeed. Prepared for the
emergency, ready to grasp the oppor
tunity it offered, careless of the opinion 1
of others concerning liimself so long
as he knew he was In the right, firm,
yet gentle, a man in soul, a woman in
Jheart. In short, a sturdy, up-standing,
#elf-trained man who knew distinctly
(What he wanted to do and set about
tSoing it. Success comes to any man
■who follows that life lead in a meas
ure commensurate with his abilities
and his efforts. Luek is putting one's
feelf in the way of opportunity and
then laying a firm hold on oppor-!
(unity.
"The proper study of mankind is |
tnan," no doubt, and tho lesson of 1
X.incoln Is the lesson tho aspiring
fc'oung man must lcum if he would
go far.
Zion City lias put the ban on elbow
eieeves. What will the dishwashing
brlgado do now?
DANGER OF THE DANCE
THAT there Is grave danger in the
modern dance is recognized by
everybody, though bitter, if not
unreasonable, assault upon the
dance has often driven conservative
men and women into a defense that
has placed them In the position of ap
pearing to ignore such danger.
Unquestionably, the calm, Impartial
deliverances of Dr. McCuaig, scienti
fically based and appealing to reason,
will go a long way to bring those
most interested into a balance of
thought and a conviction of duty in
regard to the rising generation, out of
which the best safeguards will surely
come. Dr. McCuaig holds that "there
Is always in the contact of the man
and woman, discernible or undlscern
able, a sexual disturbance;" that "the
trend of the modern dance, In con
tact, position and motion, is to unduly
accentuate that disturbance;" that
"tho folly of woman in her manner
tjf dress adds force to this dangerous
tendency."
It is seldom that a speaker is so
frank in discussing tails that every
one of us down in our heart of hearts
realizes are facts —deny them as we
will and protest as we may—and they
THURSDAY EVENING,
are worthy of serious consideration.
But not evsry dance is productive of
evil. The old-fashioned two-step and
the minuet could hardly be charged
with vicious tendencies. It Is the
modern "wiggle" against which the
lecturer inveighs, and, after all, as
Dr. McCualg says, sound home-train
ing must stand as the final and
sturdiest safeguard against tempta
tion- This applies to more than
dancing.
Whatever may be the matter at Car
lisle it hasn't got as far as the football
team.
EXCITEMENT IN ELKCTtIOXS
INDICATIONS at this early date are
that we are going to have a rather
exciting election in Pennsylvania
next Fall, We already have begun
to make a noise about It. Indeed
there seems to be more noise than
anything else, and that Is one of the
hopeful signs.
It has been observed that a free peo
ple always make a great ado about
their elections. The fate of the re
public Is decided regularly every four
years In a campaign that would lead a
South American general to the belief
that a revolution was all a matter of
the defeated party being able to smug
gle in sufficient rifles to arm the in
surgents. But nothing of th«* kind
ever happens. We print an extra sup
ply of "Salt Hiver tickets," smile tri
umphantly or sheepishly, as the case
may be, and go on as before trying to
make a living, under conditions that
may be butter or may be worse, but
which we have no thought of attempt
ing to change oxcept at the polls when
voting time rolls around again.
It may be observed that England
also is fast getting Into the noise
making election habit. It has been
growing for years, but the din that is
just now arising over the course of
the government is ear-splitting. It
can mean but one thing—that more
and more the people and the officials
they elect are coming into power, and
that more and more the House of
Lords and the King are being rele
gated to obscurity. Even in Germany
the personal note of the voter is aris
ing to a pitch that must sound with
strange discord on the ear of the War
Lord, and Japan is raising such a dis
turbance that perhaps the ancient
emperors hear the echoes past the
portals of the tomb, and, stirring
wakefully, wonder what has transpired
to set the populace mad.
The voice of a freo people is always
loud and often discordant. Judging,
then, from the noise we in the United
States are making just now, the bird
of liberty is soaring triumphantly in
the heavens, and poor old trust
tlireatened "E plurlbus unuin" and the
"Star Spangled Banner" have taken
on a new lease of life. If so, let the
din continue. On with the racket,
let votes be unconlined.
"Evelyn Thaw Arrested." —Newspaper
headline. Thaw! Thaw! Where have
we heard that name before?
WILSON AND BRYAN
PRESIDENT WILSON appears to
look with disfavor upon the par
ticipation of woman in politics,
but he hesitates not to usurp one
of her prerogatives. He knows how
to change his mind.
It was not so long ago that he want
ed somebody to do things to Bryan
tliac would forever silence the erst
while "boy orator" and consign him
to everlasting political obscurity. That
was beforo Bryan procured for him
the presidential nomination at Balti
more by betraying his old friend,
Champ Clark.
It was not enough that Wilson
should pay his debt for this by ap
pointing the great chautauquan to the
head of his Cabinet, but he must needs
follow It with an uncalled for and un
deserved eulogy that reads like the
paid "reader" of an old-line politician
bidding for popular favor through the
columns of a country weekly. The
President wouldn't have spread It on
more thickly had he been spreading
a slice of bread with applebutter for
a hungry small boy.
This unbounded endorsement of
Secretary Bryan is confounding to
those who —in the light of recent
fiascos in connection with affairs of
state at Washington—had supposed
that the President was letting the
Nebraskan have his own way in the
hope that he would, by his own ac
tions, eliminate himself as a candi
date for the Presidency in 1916.
Tell your boy a Lincoln story before
he goes to bed to-night.
FRUITFUL MISSION WORK
EDUCATION of four boys for the
ministry in tho Lutheran Mission
School at Ountur, India, has
been undertaken by the Men's
| Brotherhood of Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, this city.
In no better, no saner, no more pro
ductive way could the brotherhood
spend its money in the cause of world
evangelism. It is in the training and
education of the rising generations of
heathendom in Christian truth and
principle that the hopes and aims of
the mission workers will finally be
realized and not in the work that may
be done to save the men and women
of the present who were raised in
superstition and idolatry. The winning
of the youth, the men and women of
to-morrow, is the most important
work of the mission field.
THE COLORED CITIZEN
REPRESENTATIVE FINLEY HAS
presented to Congress a memo
rial from the Legislature of
South Carolina favoring imme
diate action for the repeal of tho
Fifteenth Amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States, which pro
vides that "The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of
race, color or previous condition of
servitude."
Yet we have heard Democrats com
plaining because the 10,000,001) col
oted people of this country have been
i so persistent in their adherence to the
Republican party, which lias never, at
any time, or in any locality, favored
the disfranchisement of the negro.
feveranfr cr?dr
Lincoln's Birthday always recalls to
the minds of Horrlaburgera the visit
paid to Harrleburg by the great Presi
dent on February 22. 1861, This visit
aecame of national importance be
cause of the fuct that It became neces
sary for Lincoln to leave the city hur
riedly at night, but It lives yet in the
memories of people who saw the
President as he was driven through
the streets or who shook hands with
him at the reception given by Gov
ernor Curtin. Lincoln arrived at 1.30
p. m. and was driven to the Jones
House, now the Commonwealth, where
he reviewed a military parade and
saw one of the largest crowds ever
gathered in Harrlsburg from the por
tico. It was from the portico which
survives in a way at the corner that
the President made his short address
to the people, the speech in which he
expressed the hope that war between
the States might bo averted. Among
the events incidental to the visit were
the reception, the parade and the
raising of great flags at the old cotton
factory and at the Pennsylvania
roundhouse. According to many peo
ple who knew Lincoln, this was not
his lirst visit to Harrisburg, as ho had
been here while a congressman, al
though, of course, in thoso days he
was not yet a national llgure. It was
his last while alive, because four years
later, on April 24, 1865. the body of
the President was brought here on Its
way to Springfield and lay in slate In
the hall of the House until the follow
ing day.
Vice-President J. V. W. 'lteynders,
of the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
has been elected the vice-president of
the Bridge Builders' Society, the
biggest organization of structural en
gineers in the world. Mr. Reyudcrs
has spent much of his lifo In plan
ning and building bridges, as he came
here to head the bridge and construc
tion department of the Pennsylvania
steel works years ago, and it was
while he was at the head of it that
It won Its world-wide fame.
The Rev. John Mills Gilbert, former
rector of St. Paul's Church, has won
many friends already In his new
charge at West Chester and It Is
notable that at the banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce in that bor
ough a few evenings ago he was one
of the speakers.
W. S. Pursell, former district attor
ney of Montour county, who has a
number of friends among the fisher
men in this section of the State, has
united with some friends to plan some
good fishing places in his vicinity. The
line of the old Pennsylvania canal
passes through a very pretty country
in that section and the Danville people
have acquired a couple of stretches
and will make fishing ponds and pro
pagate various kinds of fish.
President Judge Kunkel and Deputy ■
Attorney General Cunningham had a
little interchange during the hearing .
of the Aron mandamus to secure tho
full pay of a legislator although he
served only a portion of the session.
In accordance with custom, the Legis
lature appropriated the money for the
full session, as had been done for
many sessions. The State objects to
paying the full salary, contending that
the Philadelphlan should be paid for
only such part as he served. (
"How about the parable of the vine
yard, Mr. Attorney General?" asked
the judge. "Did not those who went
to work at the eleventh hour receive
as much as those who bore the burden
and heat of the day?"
"Yes," replied the Western Penn
sylvania Presbyterian, who is first as
sistant law officer, "but that man
owned the vineyard; he was not dis
bursing public money."
"Western Pennsylvania is unques
tionably undergoing one of the great
est religious movements I have ever
seen and the temperance movement
is growing in every county. Business
people are taking it up most actively,"
said Robert W. Herbert, former legis
lative correspondent and head of two
newspapers at Greensburg. "X have
never known such interest in religious
meetings or so many people attending
them."
One of tho interesting sidelights on
the outbreak of trichinosis in Mercei
county is that it is the first time in
four years that this disease, due to
eating uncooked or not properly pre
pared pork, has appeared. And the
man who definitely ascertained its
origin and character happens to have
been the predecessor of Health Com
missioner Samuel G. Dixon as presi
dent of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface has on
his desk in the Capitol half a dozen
plaster casts of apples such as he
would like to see grown in every
orchard in Pennsylvania. They are
colored exactly like the real thing
and invariably attract the attention of
every one who enters the room. A
good story is told of one man who
was devoured by something more than
curiosity over the make-believe apples
and is thought to have believed them
tho real thing. At any rate, he made
a quick movement and a second or so
later drew one of the casts out of his
overcoat pocket with a sheepish face.
LINCOLN
By AVlng Dinger.
One hundred years and five ago,
In quite a humble way,
A mother gave the world a son
Whose memories live to-day.
And prompted by her Godly love
She chose for him the name
Of Abraham, and taught the child
Tho love that brought him fame.
No selfish motives guided him
In working out life's plan;
I-lis was a higher, nobler aim—
To help his fellow-man.
His wealth was not in worldly goods.
But something far above—
A lifo laid down for friends, than
which
There is no greater love.
Aye, well and truly may we give
The utmost thanks we can
To God for giving us ills life—
For Lincoln was a man.
A man whose country pays to-day
A tribute to his birth,
"Who lived and died in urging peace
And good will o'er the earth.
WHY DON'T HE COME HERE?
[Philadelphia Ledger.]
Mr. Hearst could probably be elect
ed a Senator from Arizona if he
wanted to, but it would be more con
venient for him to establish a resi
dence in Pennsylvania.
ONE RECORD WE DONT NEED
[From the Springfield RepubllcanJ
Andrew Carnegie's address on "The
Gospel of Wealth" was delivered by Mr.
Carnegie before a phonograph tho
other day, at Mr. Edison's request, it
being Mr. Kdlson's desire to proserve
for posterity the voices of famous men.
| tn this address Mr. Carnegie holds that
I it. is the first duty of tho man of wealth
to "set an example of modest, unosten
tatious living." and secondly, lo "con
sider all surplus revenues whfcli come
to him simply as trust funds," which
lie is strictly hound to administer so
far as to produce the greatest benefits
in hia country.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPg
STATE COMMITTEE
PRIZE OF CONTEST
Democrats in Furious Factional
Quarrel Already Over the
Machine Control
OUTBREAK AT PHILADELPHIA
Ryan Says That He Will Support:
Nominee of Democrats No
Matter Who
1
The fight all through the State for
control of the Democratic State ma- i
chine has been started in Philadelphia
with a blttornoss that promises to
make the contest the most Interesting
in many years. In every district In
Philadelphia candidates have been net
up by opponents of the present bosses
for the committee seats and the re
organization gangsters liavo retaliated
by having- charges brought against
Democratic congressmen and senators;
in tho Democratic Club of Philadel
phia. This club, by the way, occupies
even less of a position in Philadelphia
Democratic affairs than does tho Cen
tral Club here.
Senator TMchard V. Farley an
nounced himself as a candidate for
tho State committee on an anti-boss
platform, defying tho present bosses
by name and then a Democrat who
got a federal ,lob proceeded to put
Congressmen Donahue and Logue on
the grill.
City Chairman B. G. Bromley has
also decided to run for the State com
mittee in spite of the frowns of the
bosses, just as the Democrats who
will not bow the knee are doing in
Luzerne and other counties. In Alle
gheny county a whole set of candi
dates for the State committeo will be
set up against the reorganization
bosses.
Whichever faction controls the State
committee will throw out tho other on
contests, just as the reorganization
crowd did the Brennan people on a
dizzy contest a year or so ago.
While people of tho State were
reading Vance C. McCormick's dec
laration that he would not support
Ryan if he thought
there had been a deal,
Kyan Says Mr. liyan was saying
lie Will Be he would stand by th' 3
A Democrat ticket. The Philadel
phia Inquirer says re
garding it: "This is
what City Solicitor Ryan said: 'X am
a Democrat. The Democratic party
believes in the rule of the people; the
voice of the majority upon all issues.
When I consented to have my name
go before the Democratic voters at the
coming primaries 1 did so with an
absolute and abiding faith in my fellow
Democrats of Pennsylvania. I am pre
pared to concur in any decision they
may make as to the most available
candidate for governor at this time.
" 'I shall support the nominees of
my party. While I am confident that
I shall win this nomination, no mat
ter what shall be the will of my as
sociates In the great Democratic party
In our State, I shall loyally and ar
dently support the choice of the Dem
ocratic voters.' "
The Philadelphia Record of to-day
contained the following:
"Reports that Vance C. McCormick
might withdraw as a
candidate before the
primary election gain- Reports That
ed considerable local V. McCormick
circulation yesterday. Might Quit
II undr eds of letters
from prominent Dem
ocrats of all sections of the State are
reported to have been sent to Con
gressman A. Mitchell Palmer protest
ing against his support of McCormick
for the nomination for governor and
thus dividing the party into factions
on the eve of its great opportunity to
carry Pennsylvania. Many of these
letters are said to call to Palmer's at
tention the hopelessness of the Mc-
Cormick candidacy and to urge him
to use his influence with the ex-Yale
football player to have him quit the
race. Local reorganization leaders
were downcast yesterday over the
rapid progress of the Ryan movement
and apparently realized that McCor
mick would be up against a hard bat
tle should he continue In the race.
The reorganizers had expected that a
complete elate for the State ticket
would have been framed at the con
ference of Palmer, McCormick and
Morris in this city last Tuesday, bu*
this plan was abandoned, it has been
explained, in consequence of the gen
eral protest against the fight on Ryan.
Another conference is now being plan
ned to take place in this city either
next Saturday or Monday."
Senator Boies Penrose received a
notable reception at ltoona yester
day, having gone there to speak on
Lincoln before the P. O.
S. of A. The Senator was
Penrose tendered a reception at
S|»eaks at Jaffa Temple by the lo-
Altoona i'al camp of the Patrio
tic Order of America, the
women's branch of the
P. O. S. of A., and made a brief ad
dress, in which he commended the ac
tivity of the women members along
patriotic lines. A gathering that
packed tho hall assembled to hear the
Senator's address laßt night. Before
the meeting there was a parade in
which hundreds of members of the
P. O. S. of A. from Blair, Cambria and
other counties of this section march-
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THEN and --NO W
-
Fifty-five years ago to-day, when
Lincoln was celebrating his fiftieth
birthday and was within six years of
his death, ha was so little known to
fame that he did not uppeur among
tho biographical books of the day.
Two books of IS6O, surveying the field
of some fifty "representative living
men" named him only onco, casually
in connection with the Douglass de
bate. Beginning with his first presi
dential term some impromptu bio
graphical sketches appeared, mostly
In pamphlet form, but It was not un
til his assassination in 1865 that the
flood of Lincoln literature began. It
continued for half a century at the
rate of nearly a score of books a year,
Including every available word of
Lincoln's own writings.
ed. Senator Penrose was warmly*
greeted when he arose to speak. He ]
dollvered a patriotic address and made
no reference to politics. He dlscuesed i
at length the extension of the patriotic I
organization movement in Pennsylva
nia and outlined the history of tho
P. O. S. of A., concluding his address
with a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, :
His remarks aroused the enthusiasm j
of tho audience. Senator Penrose left i
for Philadelphia at midnight.
McKean county Bull Moosers yes- <
terday launched a boom for Guy B. ;
Mayo, of Smethport, for lieutenant
governor, and people
wonder whether the
northern tier progros- Guy Mayo
sives who are gen- Pushed to
orally pretty well in- the Front
formed as to what is
going on, mean to
tight Clyde Kelly for any honors at all.
The MclCean people expressed pref
erence for either William Draper
Lewis or Robert K. Young as candi
date for governor, which is taken to
mean that Young will not bo a candi
date and that the support will be
thrown to Lewis at the conference
hero week after next. Kelly's name
was not even mentl ned. and Mayo
is now to the front for second place.
He Is a formor district attorney, was
a member of the legislative committeo
of the Republican and Washington
State committee In 1912 and did not
get an office under Powell or Young.
In Philadelphia yesterday somo in
dependent voters' leagues endorsed
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh for the Re
publican nomination for
governor and there came
a recurrence of the talk Crow Not
about him as a possi- Making
billty. Senator E. H. a Slate
Vare said that hp was a
very fine man and that
as the Republicans must select a
strong man he was being talked of.
State Chairman Crow said that he did
not even know Brumbaugh, but had,
of course, heard of him. Senator
Crow then said: "Members of the
State committee have no candidate,
but we are interested whenever the
name of any man Is mentioned for the
head of the ticket, for wo want to see
what the people think of him, but the
function of this committee is to elect
the man the voters in the party select
at the primaries. We have not heard
that any of tho men thus far men
tioned as suitable candidates for gov
ernor will be willing to enter the pri
maries. There Is no slate and will be
none."
PpouriCAi
—The crossed daggers will be the
Democratic campaign sign.
—Gifford Plnchot is to speak to
Sons of the American Revolution at
Pittsburgh on Washington's birthday.
—Local reorganizers say McCor
mick will be a candidate to tho finish.
—Pittsburgh appointments appear
to be giving pain to the men who op
posed Armstrong.
—Suffragists are now saying things
about Wilson.
—Ex-Senator Dewalt In a speech
at Allentown said that the way for
Democrats to win was to get together
and fight Republicans Instead of each
other.
—Philadelphia will vote on a new
loan on March 31.
—Penrose found that Plnchot was
not regarded as much of a Pennsyl
vanian at Altoona.
—Hugh J. Sharpe, of Lansford, may
be a candidate for the House.
—Justice Mestrezat la still unheard
from about the slate.
—D. B. McCalmont, of Franklin, is
being boomed for office on the Pro
hibition State ticket.
—Penrose speaks at Bethlehem,
Alney at Wllllamsport, Palmer at Eas
ton and Pinchot somewhere else to
night. The campaign's surely on.
—Brumbaugh talk appears to be
coming to the front In Philadelphia
aS —The Hazle county project was
boomed last night at a dinner to Ex-
Senator Kline.
—Ex-District Attorney H. D.
Schaeffer will be a candidate for or
phans' court judge In Berks against
Busliong in 1915.
Peter E. Costello, former director
In Philadelphia, may run for Congress
against Donahoe.
Senator John O. Sheatz will
launch his congressional boom In a few
1 weeks. . _
The Philadelphia Democratic
• Club has appointed a committee for
the avowed purpose of slating leglsla
i tive candidates.
■ Words like "organization and
"slate" are no longer tabooed when
writing of Democratic affairs in Mar
ket Square. •
—Representative- J. J. Campbell,
Democrat, of Philadelphia, lias landed
a federal job.
—The Philadelphia Democratic
clubs appear as much a hotbed of
contention as does the Central here.
—Doc Kremp has quit as Berks
FEBRUARY 12, 1914.
To-day, if .Lincoln were granted
twenty-four years on earth to com
plete the Biblical allotment of three
score and ten he would have to de
vote most of his life extension to
reading if he sought to review all that
has been written of him. There arc
to-day nearly 1,000 books and pamph
lets which have appeared as distinct
issues relating to the life of Lincoln.
Scores of them aro in foreign lan
guages—French, German, Italian,
Japanese and modern Greek—which
Lincoln would never bo able to read
at all. There are also over 1,000 title
entries to articles in magazines, cov
ering every range of his life and char
acter, but he would search almost in
vain for traces of that hostile criti
cism which he read of himself In his
day, so great is the mass of apprecia
tion.
-'county chairman, having been ap
pointed to a federal job.
—Congressman Leo is spoken of as
a dark horse for the Democratic nom
ination for governor.
"frLnrLft-noraense I
rity, I»n't Nt
A woman has presented Cincinnati a
Painting worth $400,000. And think of
how many nifty Holders and star slab
artists this sum would buy, and how
much Cincinnati needs them. —Okla-
homa City Oklahoman.
.. „ Not HnlKy
Mother—"Well, Bobbie, J hope you
5 j a good lioy at Mrs. Hand's and
didn t ask for two pieces of pie."
Bobbie "No, ma, I didn't ask for
two pieces; I only asked if there wasn't
goln to bo any.'—Boston Transcript.
1
~Qp>The-civiL*vgAn |
[From the Telegraph, Feb. 12, 1864}
Newborn, Fob. 7, Tho enemy in
again threatening our communications
at various points. They made another
demonstration this morning on New
port Barracks, which point they will
evidently atempt to hold.
Hebcl* Shoot at Cavalry
Army of tho Potomac, Fob. 11.
Since the late movement fewer de
serters como in than previously. On
som© parts of tho line tho rebel pickets
aro unamlablo and shoot at our cav
alry videttes.
[ity f) ARRIS BURft-f-lf-ty-
L yeARs-Aft-orO'DAy*
[From the Telegraph. Feb. 12, IS64]
Sell Hotel Stable Roof
For Sale The roof on the stable
of the Stat© Capitol Hotel. Apply at
Hotel. ,
Gentle Swains to Celebrate
Sunday next will bo Valentine Day.
but we suppose all gentle swains and
maidens fair will celebrate it on Sat
urday Instead.
SENATOR OMVKII'S VINDICATION
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Senator Oliver chose a most striking
and unusual way of answering those
who misrepresented and aspersed him.
when he stood In the pulpit of the
church where the deflection upon him
was first made public. His response
was so convincing l and his answers to
the questions submitted to him were
so complete and conclusive that his de
fense became a vindication and left
his accuser witnout the shadow of a
support for his original reflection upon
the Senator.
PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE
[Philadelphia Bulletin.]
The President's January resolutions
to keep out of politics were too ideal
istic for practical purposes. lowa,
Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York
have been added to the original ex
ception of New Jersey. But if a Presi
dent is also to be his party leader,
lie must meet tho demands of his dual
position.
The man who lias made
no mistakes has not been
alive very long. It used
to he a common error to
defer taking life insur
ance. Inform yourself ful
ly by reading the free pub
lications mailed by the
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103 N. Second St.
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Better Than Firearms
A REVOLVER in the hands of a novice gives
very little protection at any time—it is par
ticularly ineffective against a burglar at night.
Any attempt to use it except for giving an alarm is
dangerous, because it exposes you to the return fire
of the intruder who may be a "good shot" and
"quicker on the draw."
Electric light is safer—you can turn it on with
out exposing yourself. By merely touching a switch
conveniently located near the head of your Ibed you
can instantly flood the house I with brilliant light.
No burglar ever lived who would dare to remain
either in the house or its vicinity exposed to the
searching rays of electric light. ■
Let us wire your house for electric convenience
and electric protection. We wil? do the work at
moderate cost payable on easy terms.
Harrisburg Light & Power Co.
L_ W-T
f^vgeujKix)wn--P6epi^N)
—George F. Baer, president otf the
Heading Railway, has resigned «s a
Reading city park commissioner^'
—David B. Mullen, well known in
tlie steel trade, has resigned from toe
Carnegie works and gone to tha«Can
brla company at Johnstown.
—A. S. Bollos, of Haverford Cd_
lege, wits one of the speaker# at tie
banquet of the Western Engineers et
Pittsburgh.
—J. H. Park is interested in th»
proposition to build a 1,000-roon
hotel at Pittsburgh to be named it
honor of William Peqn.
C. Z. Tryon, the presid«nt of the
Philadelphia hardware men, says that
business needs a rest from legislation
and needs it badly.
-~ J udge Peter A. O'Boyle, of
Wllkes-Barre, well known hero, ad
dressed Allentown Knights of Colum
bus at the big gathering recently.
_ C. F. Barclay, of
Cameron county, is now making hla
home in Washington.
IwiTOßlAbiCOMfflehtl
Cnllector In <ir«at Peril
Uiul?l Post-Dispatch.]
That Cleveland tax collector who is
to makn John D. pay on $300.-
000.000 of personal property had better
nil °r^h„ W n <S . wheu 1,0 meets the
fectos'e°f. D _' B a Srand « 1 '
Oau Notable tsvlo Victory
[From the Chicago Record-Herald.]
After a legal contest it has been de
him? J*,?* St Lou . l " Ja i J, ? ser than th *
billboard companies of the city, and
billboards are marked down.
BRYAN IN THE CABINET
[From th® Philadelphia I*dg*r]
A man who has made his office the
butt of jokesmiths cannot be said to
have lent dignity to it A diplomacy
which has been obviously uncertain,
indecisive and fluctuating, is not defi
nite, and the President's approval can
not make It so. Between the personal
character of Mr. Bryan and his ca
pacity as Secretary of State there is
a great gulf, which not even purity
of motive can bridge.
Tins WASHINGTON TICKKT
rFrorn the Franklin Repository.!
tJ'.°L un . i \ dulte . rn J t ,? a downright bosslsin
this meeting at Washington in entitled
«. In th .s t,rHt Place wo have
a President, a resident of New Jersey,
?i,°u a t I s S be Placed on the
ticket in Pennsylvania for tho Demo
crats of this btate to support next Fa.ll.
Then wo have the peculiar and egotis
tical spectacle of two of those present
assuming: that they aro the only two
rnen in the great Democratic party of
fj"> ns ¥ lvan,a n \ to tal " s these impor
tant places on the ticket.
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