8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Sitabluktd itji PtTBLIfiHEET BT TH« TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. X. J. STACKPOLE, Prea't and Treaa'r. F. R. OYSTER, Secretary. GTpS If. BTEIXMETZ. Managing Editor. Published every ei eritng (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 111 Federal Square. X'astsrn Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Haabrook, Story * Brooke. Western Office. 123 Welt Madlsoa street. Chicago 111., Allen & Ward. DeHvered by carriers at 4lßAn9B> six cents a week. Mailed to aubscribers at |S.M a year in advance. Xntered at the Post Office In Harria burg aa second class matter. i /fK The Association of Amer- ! 1 i (sfAISI icaa Advertisers kaa ex- < 1 Waif amksJ and certified te ,» tkaesrcalationef this pab- i 1 l Ilea ties. Tke (i|srse of ctrcalatiaa ( I contained in tke Association's re- < I > part only sura guaranteed. i I; AsswabM «f America Advertisers > | N». 3333 Whitehall Bld|. N. Y. City / ieein dally nnni* (or the month ol February, 1914 * 22,493 * Arernge for the year 1»13—-1.377 Average for the year 1513—21,175 Average for the year 1»11—18,831 Average for the year 1910—17,483 . j TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. Tatted Business Office. 103. JBditorlal Room 586. Job Dept. 103. j THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12 WHOSE FIGHTING WHAT IN a recent editorial review of the [ approaching campaign in Pennsyl-; vanla. the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin draws attention to the fact that the Republican party seems to be confining its attacks to the Democrats, whereas the Washington party leaders appear to be opposing only the Re-1 publicans. This analysis of the situation is only j too true. It is a lamentable fact that the men who have succeeded in re-1 laining control of the powerful army that once was Roosevelt's do not seem to be able to rise to the real situation confronting the voters of Pennsylva nia and of the nation. Through division tlie great major ity, which believes in a protective tariff, has lost control of the Federal government. Economic policies have , been put Into effect which have caused very grave apprehensions in business <lrcles. The political fox, which ran off with the bone when the lion and bear fell to fighting over it. has played havoc with confidence by making clear its intention to upset all established methods and safeguards of industry and commerce. We read with considerable misgiv ing that Germany, by appropriating | identical methods which we are seek ing to destroy here, has increased her exports from $835.000,000 in 1596 to $2,180,000,000 in 1912. Germany aids and applauds her "captains of indus try." In America it is worth a man's reputation to have the title applied to him. And in other particulars, the admin istration of Woodrow Wilson has been anything but satisfactory. The princi-t pies of civil service, to which he and liis party professed such profound de votion, have been ruthlessly overrid den. Capable and experienced men have been thrown out of ofllce for no : other reason than to make room for Democrats. Planks in the party's platform have been disregarded, ig nored or openly nullified in spite of Mr. Bryan's announcement to the last legislature in Harrisburg that the violation of platform pledges was the ■worst type of dishonesty. Our for eign relations have been badly tangled, and, while affairs liavo been going trom bad to worse in "Washington, our Secretary of State, our Vice-President and others who should be devoting their entire time to the service of the people, have been trotting around the ohautauqua circuit at so much per lecture. As though this were not enough, a system of most outrageous bossism has been introduced at the national capital. State parties and State affairs have been ordered about from the White House until it would seem that the fatal period feared by John Fiske j had arrived. Says Mr. Fiske in lils' "Critical Period of American History:" | If the day should ever arrive ' (which God forbid!) when the peo- ' pie of the different parts of our country shall allow their local af fairs to be administered by prefects sent from Washington, and when the self-government of the States shall have been so far lost as that of the Departments of France, or even so f»r as that of the counties of England, on that day the pro gressive political career of the American people will have come to an end. and the hopes that have been built upon it for the future happiness and prosperity of man- Kind will be wrecked forever. No amount of dust-throwing and issue-dodging should blind the pro tectionists of this State to the fact that the battle Is between Democrats and anti-Democrats. The interests of Pennsylvania are unquestionably bound up in policies with which the Democratic party has always been at war. Therefore, our first conceit) should be to do our part in the re storation of these policies. Any Republican or Progressive who repeats the stereotyped cry of the op position that "Penrose Is the only issue" gives evidence of a clouded vision and of a failure to perceive facts and conditions which should be apparent to the least observant. Pretty soon John Bull may find it il legal for the United States to pay sol diers to guard the canal. Tim breaking up of Kelley's "army" recalls what somebody said about an army "fighting on ils stomach." V THURSDAY EVENING, CONGRATULATIONS FOR TW® CONGRATULATIONS of the mem bers of the Chamber of Com merce and their guests yester- day were equally divided be tween John Lee Muhin, the expert in advertising publicity, and George F. Watt, president of the Elliott-Fisher ' Company, who was responsible for I bringing Mr. Muhin to Harrisburg as i the luncheon speaker of the central ! business organization. Of all the re ! cent addresses before the Chamber | of Commerce und its predecessor, the Board of Trade, none has been more I forceful or interesting than the talk | of yesterday noon. Mr. Mahin is the type" of publicity ' man who analyzes conditions and who j believes intelligent advertising is the i necessary prerequisite of successful ■ salesmanship. | These luncheons are growing in | popularity and there can be no doubt of their practical benefit to the busi- | ! ness community. Mr. Watt deserved | the compliments which were be stowed upon him f#r bringing Mr. | Mahin to this city. After looking: at the photographs of several English suffragettes, it has oc curred to us that possibly .the woman who slashed "Venus" was prompted by jealousy. OUR EXAMPIiK FOU years we of Harrisburg have struggled to preserve our River Front. The Telegraph lias talked so much about it and tlie neces sity of turning the full length of it into a park strip for the benefit of all our people that at times we fear we may have become tiresome. But it has been necessary, this talk and agitation, for few good things are at tained otherwise —especially when they involve much labor and the ex penditure of considerable sums of money. To-day we see the great river sewer complete, the river wall, the dam and the sunken park walk well under way. That the work has not been in vain and that it is appreciated elsewhere as well as at home is apparent from the following extract of a speech made by Major C. E. Gillett, army engineer of international fame, on the develop ment of New Haven, Conn., harbor, at a luncheon of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, February 21, last: Do any of you know of a city that has got a space on the water front but what it is a toil and trouble with no results to get down to look at the water? I know of only one town in the United States that fronts on the river that the space is not blocked off. That is Harrisburg on the Susquehanna river, which is the largest river in the world which is not navigable, so tlie railroads have not blockaded it. To go down to the river in Har risburg is to see beautiful resi dences with lawns going down to the water, and a big. busy business plai'e. It adds to the charm and attractiveness of that place very materially, and that is no mean asset. It is something to have wrought ;ui improvement in our own community which shall be of great benefit to our selves. It is even more to have done that which is an inspiration and an example to others striving for civic betterment. President Wilson's Mexican policy indicates that he believes that "they also serve who only stand and wait." 810 AM S AND MOATS WE have grown so used to find ing fault with the railroads and their methods that it gives us a start of surprise to learn that the city of New York is about to imitate the system of the Canadian Pacific in purchasing its supplies. The readiness of govern ment officials to charge extravagance in railroad management has been so marked that one is led to wonder, in the light of this announcement, if the thing has not been over-done. The city of Xew York purchases, that is, municipally, $22,000,000 worth of supplies every year. It does so through some fifty purchasing agents, many of whom are purchasing the same sort of supplies. The system, or lack of system, has become so waste ful that even the municipal authori ties are awake to its enormity. In looking about them they thought of the Canadian Pacific, which has a single purchasing agent for the whole system. Of course, the latter has as sistants. who take directions from him; but every order is given by him; there is no duplication; every item purchased has its own use and place; its own classification; its own rela tion to every other purchase. And, of course, the buying is all wholesale. In Xew York it appears that every thing Is bought retail, with the result that four prices are paid instead of one, as would be the case if there was any systematized method of buying. The idea underlying the railroad | system is that the purchasing officer 1 shall hold all the threads of interest j in his own hands; that everything i shall radiate from his office; that there shall be no doubling of orders; that the purchases, whatever they are, and wherever they are to be made, must | be first of all ordered by the head j official, who makes examination, un . derstands his wants, and buys always iin the best market. And always every article must be bought wholesale. The saving which the Canadian Pacific effects in supplies by this method of purchasing amounts to scores of thousands of dollars per annum. The president of the Board of Aldermen of Xew York says that the city is buying at retail millions j of dollars' worth of supplies which it I should purchase at wholesale prices. | All this by way of hinting that gov- I ernment officials might with profit first ( pull the beams out of their own eyes, j before trying to extract the moats | from those of the railroads. "The Federal League has caused a j big increase in salaries." says the New ' York Sun. Why doesn't somebody or ganize a Federal League for editors'." This weather lias put a sad crimp inlo jtlia.t "first violet ' story. leveranfrCbAf State Zoologist H. A. Surface is out with a plea for people not to bruise the head of tl\e serpent when he shows himself after the snows have ! disappeared beneath the warmth of the Spring sunshine. Dr. Surface at tracted much attention some years ago by his bulletin on snakes, in which he showed that the roptlle toward which man has shown ani mosity throughout the ages has a good many valuable qualities and that folks in the country who are prone to kill the snakes indiscriminately should confine their activities to extermi nating the rattlers and copperheads. "This thi HIP- of killing oIT snakes with out stopping to see what kind they are Is all wrong. The snake has a definite place In economic zoology," said Dr. Surface. "I have issued a bulletin showing in what ways the snake is useful to the farmer and the truck gardener and have supplemented It lately by writing letters to men who have gone around killing snakes and boasting of the size of their •kills.' This is the season of the year when many snakes are getting ready to come out and we may expect to bear about people finding snakes coiled up in big balls, in masses, in caves and about farms. Now I hope people will not go in and kill them unless they are sure they are rattlesnakes or cop perheads. I don't think people are justified in killing snakes unless they are sure they are nonpoisonous. Thw nonpoisonous varieties are friends of the farmers because they hold in check, in fact clean up, many pests in the fields." It is estimated that if the State De partment had complied with every re quest for nominating petitions made in the last few weeks there would have been about 2 0,000 blanks sent out. The requests have been made for thousands of papers at a shot, one let ter asking for 4,000. Requests for 506 have been common. Inasmuch as no I candidate requires over 1.000 signa. tures, it looks as though the rivalry to lilt- big papers which was so pro nounced in 1912 will be repeated. Statistics collected by men inter ested in the proposed meeting of the journeymen barbers of the city next week show that there are over -275 men in Harrisburg who follow that line and it is the plan to enlarge the local union so that all will be in- The barbers will be addressed by J. s. Slianessy, tlie national organ izer, who is making a tour of the State and it is expected to have a big ineet *s es t' ma t e <l that about one third of the barbers are in the busi ness section of the city, although there ire shops scattered all over Harris burg. For years this city has had a strong union, but efforts will be made .o increase the membership. In spite of the generally quiet con ation of business folks interested in local stocks and bonds sav that the prices of the securities which belong to this section are showing prettv firm and that very few shares or 'bonds have been offered for sale. The last sale held at the Courthouse showed new high prices for a number of stocks and the reason assigned is that the. concerns are now on a bed rock basis and people can judge very tuickly just what they are worth. The tine report of the traction company I has had the effect of stiffening up i shares oi the trolley companies here, j People who are connected with the I olltces of the county and the courts! are smiling over the installation of a! mail box in the rotunda of the Court- i .louse and are thanking Countv Treas urer A. H. Bailey for it. Such a box i has long been in demand at the Court- 1 louse because frequently letters have to be mailed in a hurry and it meant •i trip to the Post Office. For six months Mr. Bailey has been after it and he had the pleasure of using it first. b Among visitors to the city yesterday! iflernooik were Richard E. Cochran former Deputy Secretarv of the Com monwealth. and ex-Judge W. F. Bay Stewart, of York, two ol' the big law yers of the York bar. They were here for the session of the Superior Court People who have been observing the Susquehanna say that the ice that linds the river is thicker than usual and that in places it is almost as strong as in the hard freeze of ten years ago. In some places ice esti mated at twenty inches has been found and til teen-inch ice is common. The ice is so strong that it has been resist ing the warm rays of the sun and when it breaks it is going to be worth looking at. fortunately, the river was not high when the freeze came, and it is not regarded as likely that there will be a flood of much consequence. The snow on the mountains is re ported as melting gradually and unless there should be a hard rain and warm wave trouble is not anticipated. &<] —John L. DeSaulles. of Bethlehem, named as minister to Uruguay, is the old Princeton football star. —John F. Ancona. well known here, is taking a prominent nart in the discussion of firemen's matters in Reading. —Captain G. L. Byroade, of Johns town, has been appointed commander of cadets at Fort Wayne Academy. —W. H. Davis, postmaster of Pitts burgh. marshaled the big Masonic lodge parade in Pittsburgh a few days ago. —Mayor S. H. Walker has been asked by Altoona police to favor an tticrease of $5 in pay. —Bishop Courtland Whitehead, of Pittsburgh, has been visiting many of the smaller parishes in spite of winter conditions. irOLlTlCAbSlpefcl6f)T&l —The score in Philadelphia club en dorsements stands: Ryan, 1C; McCor mick. 11!. —lt is stated that there is no chance of Brumbaugh making an alliancu with the Dimmick forces. —Mr. Dimmlck's papers are ex pected here within a few days. —Oh, joy! Mr. Prizer, the stove manufacturer, who is candidate for the Democratic nomination for Con ! gress, is going to talk to the Central Democrats to-morrow. —The Washington party leaders will have a conference in Philadel phia next week on the campaign in the eastern end. —The Washington party men will have a smoker to-night at the head quarters. 225 Market street. —Congressman Rothermel appears to be having some trouble with the reorganized in his county. —Judge Trexler'H candidacy is be ing strongly boosted in this city. —The wise man will make a note to see that he is enrolled next Tues day. —The scheme to throw Congress men Donahue and Bogue out of tho Democratic Club of Philadelphia was rejected last night. —Three ward committees endorsed Ryan in Philadelphia last night while tho Democratic club was fighting over McCormick. ! —Senator Penrose spoke before the Young Republican Club of Philadel phia last night. —Dimmick men are in conference in Philadelphia to-day. —Palmer will now turn in for Carr and the Democratic congressmen are up in the air agaiu. HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH REUSE PIPERS 1 ARE FREELY SIGHED Senator's Nomination Favored by People Throughout Cumber land and Dauphin DEMOCRATS' ROW AFRESH Scrapping Over Spoils Growing Worse as the Days Go Along Senator Boies Penrose's nominating petitions are being freely signed throughout Dauphin and Cumberland counties and many men active in po litical affairs and in business life have appended their names to the papers. A number of the petitions were sent through the railroad shops and steel works, where men have been feeling the pinch lately, and the signatures have been offered to those who have had charge of the papers. A number of the petitions are in cir culation in this city and at Steelton, Middletown, Lykens, Dauphin, Hum melstown and Millersburg, in this county, and tho reports from those places show that people are inclined to line up behind the senator very strongly because of his Mexican and tariff stands. In the West Shore boroughs the Penrose papers are being freely signed. Papers for Secretary Houck and Congressman Krelder are in circu lation in this county and many names are being offered. The light in the Democratic State machine over judgeships as spoils of office appears to be waging at both ends of the State and bids fair to split the Democrats congressional delegation, in Serious Tn the western end there Row To-day is a battle royal on be tween partisans of W. H. S. Thompson, Paul H. Gait her and W. A. Griffith for Judge Young's place, with an element trying to smooth down the ruffled feathers of Robert E. Cresswell, of Johnstown. In the east there is a struggle under way which may in volve the President and which will make trouble no matter what Is done. The Philadelphia Ledger says in a dispatch from its staff correspondent at Washington: "The squabble over the federal judgeship for Eastern Pennsylvania has caused a split among Democrats in Congress from that sec tion of the State and has also laid them open to the charge of dragging the bench down to the level of petty politics. Incidentally, Representative Palmer's leadership has been repudi ated by Representatives Lee, Rother mel and Donohue by their indorse ment of Judge Bechtel, of Pottsville, in opposition to William A. Carr, of Philadelphia, who is supported by Mr. Palmer and Sir. Logue. As a result of yesterday's conference over the judgeship it has been charged in cer tain quarters that Mr. Palmer was a party to a deal by which he hoped to. gain the support of Lee. Donoliue and j Rotliermel in his candidacy for the United States Senate. Mr. Palmer to-day indignantly denied this charge. | He said he called his colleagues to gether in the hope that all would I agree upon a candidate to be recom mended for the federal judgeship." j The reorganization gangsters rallied in force at the Democratic Club of Philadelphia last night and evened up for their defeat in , the P h i 1 a de lphia Democratic city MeCorniickltcs committee by de- Liek Ryan In icuiing the Ryan Club Squabble men in a battle over the endorse ment of State candidates. Some time ago the club, which is a reorganization gang stronghold, voted not to endorse any candidates in advance of the pri maries. The McCormick people, smart ing under this defeat, tried to get the city committee to endorse McCormick, and that ended in Ryan being en dorsed. Then the bosses rang the bells and got in every one that could be reached and jammed through an en dorsement for McCormick last night. This action was taken against protests by a number of members, who gave warning that it would make the club a divided house. The Democratic warriors will start campaigning in earnest next week. McCormick will go into the northern counties and the Pitts burgh Dispatch says: Rivals Will "City Solicitor Michael lte Busy All J. Ryan, of Philadel of Next Week pliia, Democratic can didate for Govenor, will make his first campaign appearance in Pittsburgh on March 21 at a dollar dinner to be given for him. The reception and din ner that will be tendered Mr. Ryan will likely be held in the Kaufman & Baer Co. dining hall. This has not been definitely decided on and many of the details of the dinner remain incomplete. The speakers who have consented to address the diners are Mr. Ryan, Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, i Philadelphia, and Thomas H. Greevey, Altoona. Ex-Councilman William Ab bot Wlttman, of Reading, who is a candidate for the United States Sen ate, is expected to reach Pittsburgh some day this week and will be'the guest of William J. Brennen." The New York Sun prints an inter esting if unconvincing story of the political situation in Pennsylvania to the effect that Supreme Justice John P. Elkin may be a Republican candi- Xew York date for United States Talks of senator; that the Indi- Mr. Klkin cations are the filing of nomination papers for all the big offices will be delayed until the last day fixed by law. "As matters stand to-day," says the Sun writer, "no change is apparent in the standing of candidates for Governor and senator. It is a high compliment to Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, the schoolmaster of Philadelphia, that he is without oppo sition as the Republican candidate for Governor." Continuing, the Sun story runs on as follows: "For the Bull Moose nomi nation for Governor. William Draper Lewis has been slated by Bill Flinn, of Pittsburgh, and a protest is looming up from every section of the State that will manifest itself at the May primary elections against Lewis. "It Is not unlikely that with, or even without. Colonel Elkin's consent nomination papers may be taken out for him so that he may be put In the running by having his name placed upon the ballot for the primary elec tion. "And as Colonel Roosevelt could not under any pretext come into Pennsyl vania to proclaim against the election of such candidates as Brumbaugh and Elkin, Plnchot would be compelled to withdraw and the contest would then be between th Republican and Demo cratic parties, for or against the poli cies of President Wilson." The Philadelphia Record to-day says: "Henry C. Xiles, of York, for years prominent in independent poli tics in Pennsylvania, and who was BKIOBEIQIShr fc**e Ht alas* kwaue prices an tower, tat because qualities are bettcvj^BliaSEElQlSSElß I Announcement Extraordinary! 1 ! NEW— j «rop <n 0 ' m (rro-nfio 1 1*57 Sprig lllncry | A leading New York manufacturer made up for us at a price II | 66 Dozen of Ladies' i . B 3 New Spring Trimmed Hats fIHWf/ _., , I Q Copied from the newest French Pattern Hats, they represent V $ j=j | the last word of fashion in shape, color and trimming. The J |j | ribbon stick-up and pompon effects predominate, and have I 1 | been artistically employed in producing a variety of pleasing jf 3 H Every Hat is worth from $5 to $6, but on account of our I price concession you may take your choice I | At the Popular Prices For Which V < n ||j Our Millinery Department Is Noted V® &J f ii See various stvles on displav in our window. i'l i lc to 25c DEPARTMENT STORE | | Where Every Day Is Bargain Day II 215 MARKET STREET Opp. Courthouse! Q Mr ar Pi—■ —nn»^-r---=iFir====inF=^^=lFir : =----^-jn[~r--—imi-— ——u ,ni——»nt im ini =inr =inr==inr=si-*~^i^n active in support of President Wilson < in 1912, has accepted an invitation to speak at the dollar dinner of Demo crats at which City Solicitor Ryan will be the chief guest of honor on April 2. The affair will be a Jefferson day din ner and will take place on the anni versary of Jefferson's birth, reckoned by old style. The banquet will take piace at the First Regiment Armory and covers will be laid for more than 2,000 guests." A-urrLe-nonseqse I Bill Rooster told her ho was in the refining business, so she thought he must have started a school of etiquette. LOWGH WATER RATES By W Ing Ulngrr This water rate reduction Is bound to be a boon In living cost in many ways, As one will learn quito soon. For instance, dally milk bills Should shortly take a drop. It's cheaper now to make a lot Out of a meager crop. The fellow who would like to ride Upon the water 'bus, Can do so now—about the fare He can't put up a fuss. And companies who deem it wise (This isn't any knock), Will find it's not expensive to Add water to the stock. And what an argument it gives In Prohibition's war, "It's cheaper to drink water now Than it's ever been before." Aunty—Wouldn't you like to study languages, Bobby? ' Bobby—l can talk two languages now, aunty. Aunty—You can? What are they? Bobby—English an' baseball. —New York Weekly. lItVbARRMBURft MPT y- y&AR3 * Aft-orotiAy [From the Telegraph, March 12, 1864] Some Broadway There are now five places of amuse ment open In our city, and all doing a thriving busines. A sixth will be open In a few days. Who says Harris burg is not in a "flourishing" con dition ? ilarrishui'gers Exchanged The Harrisburgers who were cap tured at Bath, Va., in a skirmish with the rebels while members of the Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry have been exchanged and are at Annapolis. They are expected home daily. We hope the old First City Zouaves will meet them, as a number of them served creditably with that corps dur ing the nine months' service. After you die who will take care of your family? You can not afford to carry the risk. A SIO,OOO policy at age 35 requires but $129.90. Dividends reduce cost after first year. Assets $140,000,000. Organized 1847. Write for sample policy. PENN MUTUAL LIFE 108 X. Sectin* It, Isaac Miller, t Local F. O. Donaldson, J Affant* I - / ' \ > HUDQiiAnTcni rea SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES 1 V- . mJ MARCH 12,1914. > TO SMOKE OR NOT TILLMAN WINS; I Senate Decides Against Use of Tobacco in Executive Sessions After South Carolinian Warned Members by Telling of Weed's Dangers Special to The Telegraph Washington is still talking of how Senator Benjamin It. Tillman, of South Carolina, broke into the debate on Mexico, the other day, long enough to get the adoption of a resolution to amentl the rules so as to prevent Bmoking during executive sessions of the Senate. He made a brief speech, at times humorous and at others pathetic, | in support of his resolution in which \ he advised Senators to look after their : health. I Tlio Senator recalled that in the four : years since he was paralyzed and has I been struggling to restore himself to health twenty-one Senators and Vice j President Sherman had died, i The Senator reminded his colleagues i that he had read his own obituary in 1 the newspapers, a privilege not enjoy ied by man} men. Mr. Tillman intro duced into the Congressional Record i letters to him from Senators on the I merits of his resolution to forbid smok ; ing in the executive session. ; One was from Senator Koot, who I wrote to Mr. Tillman that he would bo ?;lad to forego the privilege of his cigar 11 the executive session if it would make Mr. Tillinau more comfortable. Senator Page, of Vermont, confessed his embarrassment in view of the fact that he did not smoke and might be suspected of "selfishness" if lie tried to prevent other Senators from smoking. Senator Tillman's resolution passed I viva voce, and there was not a voice | raised in opposition, Calla Smoking a Vleloun Ilnhlt ■ "A majority c£ the Senators are smokers," said Mr. Tillman in address j ing the Senate. "Unfortunately a vic ious habit has so mastered them that they are nervous and miserable when they do not get the nicotine poison to soothe their nerves." Vice-President Marshall, who enjoys a cigar almost as much as does ex- Speaker Cannon, leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily as Senator Tillman proceeded to castigate smokers. "I did not mind tobacco smoke for merly," said the Senator, "but since I was paralyzed four years ago the smell of tobacco nauseates me. Consequentlv I do not remain in the Senate during executive sessions any more than I can help. "I note that my Democratic col leagues are so Intent on gratifying their feverish desire to smoke that they light cigars in the caucus. I have al most had to leave that caucus or sit by VfT ONLY RIVAL The new Edison Mazda Lamp is rightly called the Sun's Only Rival. It gives a bright white light like sunshine— twice as much as the ordinary electric incandescent lamp that uses the same amount of current. New Edison Mazda Lamps, in all sizes, are strong enough for all prac tical uses when given ordinary care in handling. * Let us tell you how these lamps make it possible for everyone to afford electric light- ] ing. v Harrisburg Light & Power , . C i Company (^3 [XL t , _ . an open window, for my life depends upon a full supply of l'resh air. So I am beset with the danger of being driven out of my party and out of the Senate Itself by tobucco. "I have a feeling of being a nuisance , when I enter a place where Senators are smoking. I catch a glimpse from their eyes which I can only interpret 1 to mean 'Here comes Old Ben Tillman and 1 have got to stop smoking.' lllniirii Olil Familiar l''aceM "As I look around the chamber and see the changes that have come and miss the old familiar faces I feel as though I were serving with ghosts as well as living men. This gveat mor tality among us is due to the way we live in AVashington. "There is a continuous succession of banquets, dinners and receptions. Auto mobiles and street cars are used by Senators instead of walking, and pure air and sunshine are things of which wc get too little. We eat too much and too irregularly. "A fitting epitaph for most of the Senators who have died in service would be: 'He lived not wisely, but too well, and killed himself oating.' "The ventilation of this chamber is poor and when we increaso Its impuri ties by tobacco smoke, the air is very unwholesome and unhealthy, us stop smoking in the Senate chamber and have the doors and windows opened every night so that pure air can come in, wash out the chamber and make it habitable and healthy, and there will be fewer deaths among us." |newß-DißP&rcbes -OP-The--CIVIL*WA-R [Frpm the Telegraph, March 12, 1804] Rebel Foree Strong St. Louis, March 12.—Advices from Natchez to the 2d inst. say that re liable information had been received there to the effect that the rebel force in West Louisiana was between 6,000 and 6,000 men, under the command of General Dick Taylor, Colonel Rolignake and Colonel Harrison. Guerillas Attack Steamer Cairo, March 12. —The steamer Hill man was attacked by guerillas from the Missouri shore while working past tlie foot of Island No. 18 on Wednes day. One soldier was killed, seven wounded and two captured. The boat escaped.
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