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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.
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APRIL 16,1914.
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
POLITICAL FABLES
(Contributed)
A "Young Nation" was pursuing his
way in a contented and happy man
ner, seated upon the broad back of a
| large, patient and hard-working "ele-
I phant." He was met on the. road by
I a "Democratic Party," leading a
"Donkey," who stopping him, told of
, the many advantages to be enjoyed if
Ihe would chunge mounts and ride
upon the "Donkey."
While they were talking they were
overtaken by a "Progressive Party"
leading a "Bull Moose" and "Young
Nation" was Invited to pursue his
Journey astride the back of the "Bull
Moose," the owner claiming he could
get on so much faster, and pointing
out that if lie should be in danger of
heing thrown oft he could hold onto
the big horns, and thus maintain a
rapid pace.
Fearing the "Bull Moose" might
make a dash for the tall timbers,
"Young Nation" decided to continue
his journey on the "Donkey's" back.
A short distance farther on they
camo to an orchard, the trees of
\v v icli were full of that luscious fruit
known as "Offices." The "Donkey"
being very hungry, made a dash for
the fruit, greedily devouring all within
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
LFrom the Telegraph, April 16, 1864]
Many Soldiers Hero
A large number of soldiers have
been in town the past week. Many of
them were en route for the army. In
a week or two the brave men who
have enlisted in their country's ser
vice, will be in the field and our streets
will resume their former state of
quietness.
Seminnry Man to Preach
There will be preaching In the Pres
byterian Church to-morrow morning
and evening by the Rev. S. S. Mitchell,
of Princeton Theological Seminary.
SPEAKS FOlt THE COMMON
"KOI'LK
"As one of the 'common people*
whose Interests the politicians in
"Washington and the various State
Legislatures pretend to have at heart,
allow me to Insinuate in the most un
affected manner, if they don't let up
harassing business they will find their
damned seats knocked from under
them at the uext election.
"We, the 'common people,' are just
opening our eyes, and we think we
see things, but when our eyes are fully
opened and we know we see things.
Lord help the politicians.
"We are beginning to understand
that what hurts the railroads and
other public service corporations
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CLARK & BERGMAN GIRL ABOARD
with the Nautical Variety Act
rp • ltr BERT WIGGINS & CO.
lramedlNurses jack george
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Relkin Yiddish
Presenting " One Year After Marriage."
and NIGHT SATURDAY, APRIL, IS
CHARLES DILLINGHAM Preaenta
Montgomery and Stone
AND THEIR ORIGINAL COMPANY IN THE MUSICAL FANTASY IJC
THREE ACTS
The Lady of the Slipper
Book by Anne Caldwell and Lanreace McCarthy. Lyrlca by James
O'Dea. Staged by R. H. Bornalde. Mnalc by Victor Herbert.
See Montgomery and Stone In the old-faahloncd Song and Daaee (bnr*
lenqnlng the flint (rang and dance ever done by Montgomery and Stoae.)
The Six Little White Ponlea and The Wonderful Coarht The Claaale Ballet
"Sweet Sixteen"! The Palace of Maxlmlllani The Baron'a Cat, One Hundred
People; The Bornnm and Bailey of Mualcal Showa.
One Year at the Globe Theater, New York
PRlCES—Evening, Lower Floor, 92.00 and $1.50| balcony, $1.50, SI.OO
and 7Bc| gallery, B0 cent*. Matinee, lower floor, $2.00, fI.RO and $1.00) bat
cony, V 1.50. SI.OO and 73cj gallery KOc. Sent* oa aale
MONDAY and TUESDAY—Matinee Tuesday
NIGHTS 25c to $1.50 MATINEE 25c to SI.OO
William Morris presents his company of English
players from the Manhattan Theater, New York, in
The Blindness of Virtue
A Great Play, Unfolding a Great Truth Every Parent Should Ste
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reach and casting envious eyes upon
that beyond his reach. Seeing much
fruit In an adjoining orchard that was
guarded by "civil service" bars, the
"Donkey" kicked these bars to the
four winds and again did revel In ;<
feast of the fruits. "Young Nation,'
being anxious to proceed, used tlu
laah upon the "Donkey," whereupon
the animal started to plunge ant
kick, destroying entirely the 'Protec
tlon Bars" that "Young Nation" hai
spent so many year 3 in building, ant
making savage attacks upon "Panami
Canal," which had cost "Young Na
tlon" much treasure.
At length they arrived at a neigh
bor's Held where the "catUe" wer«
fighting and killing each other, am
also destroying everything in sight
whereupon the "Donkey" assumed i
"watchful waiting" attitude, ami
many times did "Young Nation" lonj
for his big strong, and patient "Ele
phant," to carry him on his journey
realizing now that he had excllangei
quiet, comfortable progress for ques
tionable activity.
Moral
The blossoms of promise do not at
ways produce the fruit of perform
ance.
hurts us eventually, and those chap
In Washington who have no other in
terest In the country than the $7,50
they draw each year should loo:
around and see If something is no
happening of which they know noth
ing, and which may vitally affec
them."—New York Sun correspond
ence.
FAITHFUI. STATE OFFICIALS
[From the Altoona Tribune.]
The positions at Harrlsburg are ei
ceptlonally well-fllled. No State In th
Union has more faithful or more com
petent public servants than Pennsyl
vanla. From the Governor down ever
man is rendering fine service.
AMUSEMENTS
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FAKNESTOCK HALL
Monday Evening, April 20
piano* Newell Albright