6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Ettablishtd its' PUBLISHED BY TBI TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. B. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Treas'r. F. R. OYSTER, Secretary. OUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, 12S West Madison street, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers •t 13.00 a year In advance. Kntared at the Post Office In HarTis burg as second class matter. ®TFA« Association of ABUT- , 1 lean Advertiser* hu ax- / iminsd and certified to / the circulation of this pub- i l licetion. The figures of circulation < i eontained in the Association's re- ( 1 pact only are guaranteed. | 11 Assotiatwo ef Amerkai Advertisers i No. 2333 Wbitthill Bldg. N. T. City ![ Sworn dally average for the month of March, 1914 * 22,470 * Average for the year 1815—21,577 Avenge for the year 1012—21.175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year lolS5. Job Dept. -03. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16 "WATCHFUL WAITING" POLICY THERM is a general sentiment among the more conservative statesmen at Washington favor able to a firm stand with respect to Mexico, but. it. is the consensus of Opinion that the conditions in tho neighboring republic have been accen tuated by President Wilson's "watch ful waiting" policy. "If the President had recognized Huerta long ago there would never have been any occasion for t>-ls demonstration," was the re mark of one United States Senator, and another declared that "the firm ness shown now should have been shown long ago." These two quotations Indicate the attitude of many of the members of the Senate and House, and while the course of the President In demanding a salute of the Stars and Stripes has the approval of all good Americans, there Is much quiet criticism over his fatuous policy of waiting until con ditions became so intolerable as to make necessary some sort of armed demonstration to preserve our national respect. It is the belief of those familiar with conditions In Mexico that all that would have been necessary to prevent the bloodshed and pillage of the last few months was the prompt rec ognition of Huerta as the consti tutional head of the republic. Instead of taking this course President Wilson almost immediately after his inaugu ration announced a policy with respect to Mexico which amounted to a re pudiation of Huerta and encourage ment of the bandits who have since ravaged the country. There is no desire on the part of any citizen of the United States to be come embroiled in a war with Mexico, but the policy or lack of policy of the "Wilson administration has involved this country in no end of trouble, In addition to invoking the contemptuous sneers of all foreign governments. Secretary of State Bryan, with his Impractical theories of universal peace, has doubtless had much to do with the spectacle presented by the ad ministration before the nations of the world. But it was not possible to longer pursue the "watchful waiting" program and the sentiment of the country has forced a change of front only after the Mexicans have taunted Uncle Sam into a showdown. Senator Beidleman should know bet ter than to do anything to promote harmony, even in the matter of local appointments. Doesn't he realize how distasteful Republican harmony is to the Democratic machine. Tut, tut! LOUD MURMURINGS FROM every section of the country a mighty wave of protest against the continued harpooning of busi ness by the Wilson administration is rising and it must be evident to the theoretical gentlemen at Washington that the people are becoming aroused as they have not been aroused since the last Democratic experiment. The material prosperity of the country is at stake and, as stated in a dispatch from Chicago, antagonists of the Wilson regime may be placed in two classes. One, consisting mainly of corporation people and other business men who regard the present administration as the enemy of business and who won der how long the oppression Is to last, and the other a vastly more numerous class made up of the smaller business people who believe that their pros perity has been marred by the enact ment of the tariff law and who look to the future In a gloomy mood. In this class are the farmers who now realize that the idleness of great armies of industrial workers means a reduction of the buying power and consequently a loss of prosperity for the farmer. Perhaps the most depressing phase of the Wilson attitude in the matter of legislation calculated to disturb business Is the administration's obsti nate adherence to the mistaken sup position that the country In 1912 gave »o a minority party, accidentally elected to office, a mandate to subject the corporate organization of Industry to the oppressive exactions of om nipotent bureaucrats. This Is the view of the New York Sun and of other metropolltan newspapers which have been closely Investigating the con ditions throughout the country. There is disregard at Washington of all the signs of unrest and the THURSDAY EVENING, upset of business and the destruction of prosperity is treated as of no moment whatever by the accidental administration leaders. Business men and working men will hail with joy the adjournment of Congress and tho shutting down of the legislative mills. Instead of doing everything to create confidence and restore the country's equilibrium President Wilson and those under his thumb are doing everything within their power to complete the demoralization for which they are responsible. Not satisfied to wait the results of the new tariff and currency legislation, the President Insists upon more law making, and Congress proceeds to do his bidding. Republicans who left the party In 1913 are seeing the dire re sults of party division as demon strated by the work of the minority now In power and It Is not remarkable that the breech Is rapidly healing in every election district of the United States. We shall not be greatly sur> prised to see the next House at Wash ington overwhelmingly Republican, and while the damage that has already been done cannot be remedied until 1916, It Is possible through the elec tion nert November to stop further blundering. "These are glorious times In Pennsyl vania," declared A. Mitchell Palmer In his Harrlsburg speech the other night. Glorious for the Wilson twins, per haps, but how about the distracted business men and the Increasing army of the unemployed. A SHADE TREE COMMISSION MUTILATION of the shade trees of Harrlsburg under the guise of "trimming" has been worse this Spring than ever. On a number of Allison Hill streets, for In stance. well-formed, symmetrical trees have been cut off to hideous stumps, and even-where the man with the hatchet and saw is wielding his vandal tools. The time Is ripe for the appointment of a shade tree commission. We have had the law for It for seven years, but never the inclination In City Council. Overhead wire companies, as thlß newspaper well knows, have been back of the "sentiment" that has from time to time been worked up to prevent Council from passing a shade tree or dinance. That the people of this city are fond of their trees and that the old spirit of "Woodman, Spare That Tree" Is alive and militant In Har rlsburg, Is evident from the very fact that citizens have protested against the appointment of a shade tree com mission when they have been led to believe by selfish interests that their trees were to be endangered thereby. The truth is that a commission such as contemplated would do anything but order the cutting down of trees. Its whole business would be to protect them, to see that new ones were planted and old ones properly trimmed. A part of its duty would be to prevent the butchery that Is now so noticeable every Spring and Fall, and which results in the destruction of so many beautiful trees. Steelton Is preparing to place Its trees under the care of such a com mission, the act of Assembly having been accepted two years ago. The commission would include three per sons. FOOD AND THE TARIFF AN order of bread and butter will cost 10 cents henceforth on all Pennsylvania Railroad dining cars. Also, It is announced, meals on the aforesaid diners have been advanced to $1.25 each. Thus is It demonstrated that prices of foodstuffs are lower under the Underwood tariff and that the removal of duties from imports has materially reduced the high cost of living. THE BICHLORIDE PERIL A DISPATCH from Kearny, N. J., announces that William Davies, 23 years old, of Bolton, Eng land, died there of bichloride of mercury poisoning. Reports of the reckless use of tablets of bichloride of mercury for suicidal purposes—accidental or Intentional— staro us In the eyes almost dally. There Is no reason under the sun why bichloride of mercury tablets should be allowed a place on the family medicine shelf. There are many household remedies, such as boric acid, peroxide of hydrogen, alcohol and common table salt, which are almost equally efficacious as antisep tics and quite harmless. This old and time-honored drug is not a safe house hold antiseptic, as It may £auee poi soning by absorption when used lo cally. It is not a convenient house hold remedy, as It corrodes all metals with which it comes In contact and renders indelible any stains In Physicians and nurses are in a large measure responsible for the wide spread use of this corrosive poison as a local antiseptic; and, as a result, these deadly tablets are placed side by side with headache remedies, soda mint tablets, laxative pills, boric acid, bicarbonate of soda and other tablets or drugs for household uses. This familiarity robs these poison tablets of the proper consideration and ap prehension with which they should be regarded and renders them a constant menace to the safety of the family. The indiscriminate sale of bichlo ride tablets by the druggist is also an important reason for the increased j number of these bichloride suicides. ! The promiscuous sale of these deadly) but harmless-looking tablets should! be regulated and restricted. . The safeguard and protection for the public lies In stopping the sale of] these poison tablets, except by physi cians' prescription; in forcing the manufacturers to make them a dis tinctive color—blue being the color used in hospitals—to serve as an Iden tification; to have each tablet manu factured In a unique shape and have the container a bottle of unusual shape and the label of uncommon color. A bright orange-colored label with black lettering has been legally adopt ed in France and several progressive manufacturers in this country have made the tablets .-offin-shaped with skull and cross-bones stamped on each tablet. A triangular-shaped bottle with rough glass corrugations along the surface Is a suggested safeguard designed to be a warning for the hand that grasps and the eye that sees. Practically all foreign countries have adopted these distinctive shapes for bottles containing poisons or medi cines for external use only. The unusual shape of both container and tablet is desirable, because they are entirely different from those of bottles and tablets? In general use. An other protection might be the general use of the name "corrosive subli mate," In place of the technical name, "bichloride of mercury," which has a harmless sound to it. Should this older name be used more people would recognize it as a poison. I EVENING CHATI I'rienus ui uiiss Vioiet oaiviej, uie Philadelphia artist, who is painting the mural decorations for the Senate chamber and for the Bupreme Court chamber at the State Capitol, will bo Interested to know that the panels for the hall of tho senators are well under way and that when tho Legislature meets In January they will probably all be In place. Miss Oakley Is paint ing the works at her studio In Oak Lane. Philadelphia, having finished her studies some time ago. and is now engaged on the great 45-foot panel which Is to go across tho Bpace at the top of the alcove of the presiding officer. There are to be seven panels in the Senate chamber, symbolizing Peace and Liberty In Pennsylvania, and the big painting Is to' be the cli max, so to speak. This will contain a gigantic central figure representative of brotherhood and it Is expected to be a masterpiece of the artist whose work in the executive reception room at tracted such widespread attention. In order to handle the commission, which was originally given to Edwin A. Ab bey, and at his death given to Miss Oakley, who had studied under him. It was necessary for the artist to en large her studio and to make studies In this country and abroad and also to collect a great variety of costumes and articles for the warlike and group ing pictures which are to have a place in the series. She also had made a replica of tho front end of the Senute chamber in miniature, exactly propor tioned. and into this she fitted her studies for the panels, so that the whole end of the great chamber and all of the decorations have been re produced. The placing of Miss Oak ley'B paintings is being awaited with much interest In this city because of the interest in her paintings dealing with the development of liberty and freedom of conscience, popularly known as the Penn series. In the Gov ernor's apartments. These have been reproduced and are now In many schoolhouses. The series upon which she is engaged will be equally Interest ing, In the opinion of those who have looked ai the studies, and form the second or the great works from the brush of this talented as it will be recalled she is also com missioned to paint the decorations for the Supreme Court chamber, consid ered by many the stateliest of the rooms in the Capitol. National Guardsmen are much In terested in the general orders Issued by General Stewart announcing that the First and Fourth Brigades will participate in the Joint maneuvers with the regulars and militia of eastern States In the great campaign for the capture and defense of the national capital because the Eighth infantry will be included. This will be the first time that Colonel Hutchison's men have been sent out of the State in ma neuvers, although they have worked with regulars at Gettysburg and Mount Gretna. This year's proposition is the most extensive to be undertaken and more Pennsylvanlans will be engaged -than ever before. The First Brigade took part in maneuvers at Pine Plains, N. Y., a couple of years ago, being the first brigade to be sent on such work outside of the State. State Zoologist H. A. Surface Is of the opinion that unless people get busy now and band their trees for canker worms there will be trouble for many a fair tree this year. The wing less females are just about getting ready to go up the trees to lay their eggs on the twigs and these eggs will be a source of no end of annoyance next summer. Banding trees may not make them look very well, but it saves them. Some fishermen came back to the city yesterday morning as early as 9 o'clock with fine trout. One man started out to fish about 3 o'clock and at daylight got down to the sport in | earnest. In an hour he had a nice basket and marched up street showing his friends what the early angler could do on the first morning of trout sea son. He was considerably envied for his skill, or good fortune, as one man added with just a tinge of malice. Speaking of trout fishing, one of the city's fishermen was jollied yesterday by some friends. They knew that ho would be unable to get away and about noon telephoned to him that fish wardens were after him for catch ing fish under size. He insisted that ! he had not been out at all, but they said that the descriptions given tallied ; with him. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —W. D. Gerlach has been re-elected to Hazleton council after having been dropped owing to the fact that he could not take the scat before the end of hia term as postmaster. —The Rev. Dr. J. Calvin Mead, of Waynesburg, has accepted a call to the American Presbyterian Church at Berlin. —James I. Blakslee has arranged to get a court charter for the boys' band which he organized at Lehighton. —Daniel J. Evans, chief of the Dan ville fire department, is testing fire drills at schools by going into school houses and sending in surprise alarms —Nathan Miller, one of the city fathers of Johnstown, has cut the price of boarding city prisoners a quarter of a cent a meal. The attend ance is larger than ever. WILSON'S NEW FREEDOM Having read the dispatches from Washington, I suggest a new way to get things done better than you now have them done: Hire a blacksmith to do your cook ing Engage a doctor to try your lawsuit and a lawyer to attend your sick child. Employ a bootblack to point your portrait and a farmer to make your clothes. a photographer do the engineer ing work on your new landscape gar den. While your chauffeur takes your dictation and writes your letters, or der your typewriter to run the auto mobile. Have a broker build your new house and a carpenter conduct the health bureau. x Most Important of all. have the rail road trains to which you commit your family run by a political bureau In Washington. This last suggested plan Is very popular with legislators, on the theory that those who now operate the rail roads know least about them.— "Clrard." in Philadelphia Ledger. AN EVEXTXC. THOUGHT What the superior man seeks In himself, that the small man seeks in others.—Confucius. &ABRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bill MEN PUUM) BEAT THE BtNQDET Ryan Demonstration to Be Held on Saturday Night Is Ex pected to Be Big B. F. MEYERS WILL PRESIDE Prominent Men Named to Act as a Reception Committee For the Candidate Partisans of Michael J. Ryan, can didate for the Democratic nomination for governor, to-day opened their headquarters in the Wyeth building and announcing that the new Dauphin County Democratic League had over 800 members) stated that a demon stration that would throw the McCor mick-Palmer banquet and meeting In to the shade would ac held on Satur day night at Chestnut street auditor ium. Announcement was made that B. F. Meyers, former congressman and vet eran leader of the Democrats in the days when it took courage to be a Dem ocrat, would preside and that men were coming from nearby counties to attest their admiration for the Phila delphian who is exercising his right to run for office aaglnst national and State slate making. "It's to be a pro test against bossism and slate making In the Democratic party in Pennsyl vania. If the national administration does not think it should Interfere with the iuternal affairs in Mexico, by what right does It butt into the internal af fairs of the Democracy of Pennsylva nia? That's what we want to em phasize on Saturday night," said one of the ardent partisans of Ryan to day. The Democratic factional warfare «as carried on In half n dozen counties yesterday and the demonstration con ducted here on Mon day night in the In terest of the machine Factional candidates for the pri- Warfare in mary appars to have the State put the Ryan men on their mettle. Yester day Secretary of Labor "Billy" Wil son, the labor representative in the cabinet, joined McCormick at Scran ton and endeavored to overcome the effect of the Farley speech about the McCormick veto of the municipal la bor ordinance In Harrisburg. The re organizers declared that the demon stration for their candidates in Scran ton and vicinity yesterday was one of the most remarkable in years. The Ryan people held meetings in the vi cinity of Philadelphia and Ryan will go into Clearfield and Center counties to-day to follow up tn« McCormick trail. Mr. Ryan will arrive from Williams port on Saturday evening at 6.30 in company with the members of his speaking party an il will be escorted to the Committee Bolton House where a Will Tender reception will be held Big Reception In the parlors from fi.3o to 7.50. The meeting will begin at 8 and It Is expected to be a sizzler. The speakers will Include Mr. Ryan, Heiyry Budd, candidate for United j States senator; John F. Jenkins, can ! didate for lieutenant governor; W. K. j Meyers, of this city, candidate for con- I gress-at-large, and others, Including Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, the offi cial thorn in the side of the federal Candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for governor. The reception committee was to-day announced as follows: Thomas Anderson, ex-Councllman William H. Brlcker, William Butler, J. B. Buggy, Israel Brenner, Levi Brown, Patrick Craven, Harry Dett ling, W. J. Doyle, George W. Deiker, Jacob Hummel, William Chubb, John G. Elliott, Eugene Fogarty, Dr. J. Albert Frltchey, Dr. John A. Frltchey, Walter F. Fisher, William L. Frlck, James Flnnegan, Dr. V. Hummel Fa ger, Dr. L. K. Graber, William Good man, George D. Herbert, Charles H. Hlgglns, David Hershey, Thomas Hol lohan, H. George Hess, Howard Hol stein, Henry Hare, Irvln Johnson, 'Augustus H. Kreidler, Andrew Kerwin, Milton B. Knoderer. E. L. Kennedy, Thomas Leibrii*. Harry Mattis, John Mater, B. F. Meyers, W. K. Meyers, Charles W. Meyers, George Minich, John Morgan, B. H. Reishert, Milton T. Robinson, J. Edgar Roden haver, B. T. Putt, Charles Peisle, Da vid H. Reigle, George Seachrist, Rob ert Stucker, George Sourbeer, William Seel, George Stucker, Charles D. Stucker, George S. Sides, Frank Stew art, Bartram Shelley, John Shelley, Kirk Shelley, Henry Shope, P. T. Sul livan. A. Sylvia, J. W. Urich, Peter Vanderloo, W. W. Wallower, Milton Yetter, Solomon Zimmerman, William Poorman. Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, who says he has over 76,000 signers on his petitions and who is the White House candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for United Palmer Puts States senator at the His Papers first senatorial pr 1 - on Record mary to be held In Pennsylvania filed his petitions at the Capitol late yester day. Papers from only twenty-five counties, containing almost 4,000' names, were put on record. Seven other candidates for State wide nominations entered their papers as follows; Supreme court justice, Judge Em ory A. Walling, of the Erie county bench, papers from Erie, Venango,] Lawrence, Potter, Mercer, Blair, Mc- Kean, Clinton, Butler and Crawford,! each containing entered. Governor, Joseph B. Allen, Bryn Mawr, Socialist, 657 signers. Lieutenant governor, William T. Creasy, Catawissa, Democrat, 1,400 signers, and E. D. Powell, West Mid dlesex, Republican, 600 signers. Congress-at-large, Robert S. Bright, Philadelphia, Democrat; W. S. G. King, Linesville, and Dennis O'Brien Coughlin, Wilkes-Barre, Socialists. Other petitions filed included: Congress, Charles T. Alkens, Selins grove, Republican, Seventeenth; Guy E. Campbell, Crafton. Democrat, Thir ty-second; Robert F. Hop wood, Un iontown, Republican, Twenty-third. I [From the Telegraph, April 16, 1864] ] Rebels Protect Shad Newbern, N. C.. April 12. Thel rebels have appeared In large numbers on the Chowan river, probably for the protection of the shad and herring fisheries. This Beats Mexico Cairo. April 15. —Two negro sol dier?, who were wounded at Fort Pil low and burled by the rebels, after ward worked themselves out of their graves and are nmong those brought up on the Platte Valley. They are n«i\v in the hospital at Mound City. I ft-UTTLft-nonaenae i GENUINE GLASS Head of the House—Jenkins, Is that a real diamond? Jenkins Well, If It ain't I've been robbed of a dollar. THE GENTLEMANLY SNAKE By Wins Dinner We are told that of all snakes and rep tiles On which Ireland's saint placed the ban. There's one that Is polished In man ners And well may be termed "gentle man." It's the rattler, who always serves notice Whenever his liver's not right, By giving three shakes of his rattle. Which means that he's reßdy to fight. In walking, if you should step on one. Ask pardon as soon as it's done, And if he replies with a rattle It doesn't mean "granted," but "run." For a gentlenian snake is no different Than the man who I'm sure would attack, Regardless of all his good manner The boob that had stepped on his back. [The snakes, Just remember, have feel ings, And If you would make them your friends, Be kind to them, 'specially the rattlers, Who are manners from middle to ends. FPOLITICAL SIDELIGHTS ~1 —Wonder if any post office scandals will turn up In this county. —The excuse for Cabinet Officer Wilson taking part In behalf of a fac tional ticket before the primary will probably be that he lives In this State. —President Wilson Is likely to hear war in Pennsylvania before he does of war In Mexico. —Penrose is to speak at Butler on May 6. —Apparently Wilson Bailey is not the only man in the Democratic ma chine who has contributions on the brain. —John McClain, a Llgonler coal op erator, will run for the legislature. —Ryan is going to Greensburg on Monday to start-' a back fire against McCormlck. —Dr. Peters, of Boiling Springs, also refuses to play dead to let Rep resentative Barner have a. clear track. —Judge Garman appears to have disturbed some dreams. —lt's all right for a federal cabi net officer to come Into this State to make speeches for a factional Demo cratic candidate but when any judge happens to take a notion to talk against the hand-picked federal can didates its a crime. DEMOCRATIC HARMONY If half the things Democrats are say ing about Democrats are true, Penn sylvania can afford to let them fight their differences out In private life.— Exchange. B ° E CLAUDE M.MOHR.Mgn Centrally l cents, escept Friday j when Admission will he. Adults, 10 ! Cental Children. K Cents. APRIL 16,1914. JJQ LOW RATE Sunday Excursion 7 WASHINGTON THE NATIONAL CAPITAL SUNDAY, APRIL 26 The trip of a life time. New National Museum, An education as well as a Llbrarv of Congress Capi dellght An Ideal Sunday tol anil Corcoran Art Gal outlng. lory open on this date. _____ Special Train leaves Ilarrlshurg; 7.05 A. M. t stnpplnic n« New Cumberland, (•oldsboro. Yurk Haven,