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FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8
JUDGE KUNKEL'S CANDIDACY
BECAUSE Judge ICunkel's candi
dacy for the State Supreme Court
has been so well received in
Harrisburg and Dauphin county,
■where his splendid record on the bench
is naturally best known, his friends
should not lose sight of the fact that
there are other candidates In the field.
These other candidates have had more
time to devote to their contests than
Judge Kunkel has had for his. In
deed, so closely has he been tied down
by the steady grind of important court
business that he has had no oppor
tunity for anything else and all that
has been dono in his behalf has been
the result of the efforts of very devot
ed friends.
Wherever Judge Kunkel's qualifica
tions for the high office to which he
aspires are known, there Judge Kunkel
Is strong, but In some of the counties
where his opponents have been most
active there is need of missionary
work. Of course there seems to be no
question of hlf nomination by a hand
some majority, but in this respect it
should be remembered that the non
partisan judiciary law provides that
If any one candidate receives fifty-one
per cent, of all the votes cast at the
primaries his shall be the only name
on the ticket at the general elections.
Dauphin county people who know
Judge Kunkel to be by far the best
equipped man now in the field for the
Supreme Court Judgship should do
their utmost to make his vote so big
at the primaries that the election will
be only a matter of formality In No
vember.
John Lind says Huerta has killed
many Mexican Congressmen, but he
doesn't go to the length of advising
that he be invited to Washington.
A BLOW FOR EYE FAKIRS
THE day of the grafter is passing.
Particularly the mean breed that
preys on diseases, weakness and
suffering. The latest campaign
against the unlicensed privateer, the
fake "eye doctor," the cheap, so-called
optician, who plies his trade mostly
in the rural parts and the slums of
cities, is undertaken by the Pennsyl
vania Optical Society.
This society, together with optome
trists of many cities, is going to ask
the Legislature to put the profession
of treating eyes on the same plane as
the medical profession. The laws
asked for provide for boards of ex
aminers. This spells death to the
Ignorant, unscrupulous quack who
leaves only further suffering, and often
blindness, in his wake.
"Huerta's star is about to set," says
011 exchange. That's all very well, but
what we want to know is what is it
going to hatch?
REAL SERVICE
CHARLES S. CALWELL, presi
dent of the Corn Exchange Na
tional Bank, Philadelphia, an
nounces the formation of the
Philadelphia Agricultural Bureau,
which is destined to assist farmers to
make better crops and to work for the
mutual advantage of the farmer and
the Philadelphia market. Such an
organization for Central Pennsylvania,
with Harrisburg as its headquarters,
would be very useful in bringing the
farmer into touch with better market
conditions and the city into touch in a
helpful manner with the farmer.
Reading is headquarters for such an
organization in Berks county and
splendid results are being obtained
there.
It is the province of the agricultural
fervice bureaus, which, by the way,
are spreading rapidly throughout the
Central West, to supply information
of all kinds to growers and producers,
to place them in correspondence with
responsible distributors, and to assist
baaiks and trust companies to develop
the agriculture of their particular sec
tions by arranging for agricultural
meetings, supplying the speakers and
helping arouse a wholesome farm
spirit by arranging shows and contests.
In the West these associations,
which are not merely philanthropic,
by the way, for where agriculture
flourishes there the banks are most
prosperous, have done much to stand-
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARIkISBURG tiffing TELEGRAPH MAY 8, 1914.
ardlze farm products, beginning with
the seed, then harvesting, sorting and
placing in packages as best practice
demands. This work is of prime im
portance and is the keynote for the
farmer's selling his produce to his best
advantage. In these and many other
ways the service bureaus do good work
for tho farmer and for the community
in general.
The Philadelphia organization has
for one of its purposes the establish
ing of farm bureaus in every county.
Here is an opportunity for some Har
risburg bank to head a very pro
gressive enterprise.
This armistice mlx-up reminds us of
the famous doggerel of General Jack
son and his 60,000 men, he marched
them up the hill, and then marched
them down again, and when they were
up, they were up, and when they were
down, they were down, and when they
were In the middle they were neither
up nor down, which seems to be about
the way with our diplomatic relations
with Mexico.
HUERTA THE IMPOSSIBLE
THE impossibility of treating
seriously with a man of the
stamp of Huerta is well illus
trated by his complaint that
American activities for the protection
of our forces at Vera Cruz are in vio
lation of the terms of the armistice
agreed upon when mediation was un
dertaken. Apparently the Washing
ton government is giving some weight
to his arguments. This regardless of
the fact that ono American and two
British subjects were killed in Mex
ico yesterday and ten others are re
ported in peril of their lives.
Huerta is irresponsible to a degree
that makes it small business to at
tempt any practical settlement of
Mexican affairs with him. Eventually
the army will have to march to Mex
ico City. That, everybody seems to
agree, is inevitable. Meantime we
waste time in allowing the Mexicans
to prepare themselves for defense.
The blood of hundreds of American
soldiers may be on the hands of those
in Washington whose foolish policies
of delay and waiting threaten to make
the march from the coast to the cap
ital a flght instead of the frolic It
would have been had we pressed our
early advantage at Vera Cruz.
Nobody wishes for war, but since
intervention in the end must come it
would have seemed the part of wis
dom to do it while the doing was com
paratively easy.
MRS. ROESSING ABLE LEADER
THE election of Mrs. Frank M.
Roesslng, of Pittsburgh, to the
leadership of the woman suf-
frage forces in Pennsylvania
takes back into the campaign of votes
for women one of the ablest leaders
the suffragists have ever had. What
ever may be their opinions as to the
cause she represents, those who came
into contact with Mrs. Roessing dur
ing the last session of the Legislature,
when sho led to victory what looked
like a hopeless fight, will agree that
she possesses rare executive ability,
and is withal a very womanly woman
of charming manners and pleasant ad
dress.
AUDITING HARRISBURG PLAN
THE Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader
urges the adoption in that city
of what it terms the "llarris-
burg plan" of dealing' with the
abuse of public generosity which, un
der the guise of various "charities,"
is made to pay constant tribute when
the public has no protection such as
that extended by membership in the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce.
Says the Leader:
The city is honeycombed with so
many enterprises which contem
plate welfare work and so many
calls go forth to those in business
in any form that hundreds of indi
viduals as well as business houses
are being driven to the policy of re
fusing ail overtures for assistance
on the ground that they have no
way of discriminating between
what is worthy and what is with
out a basis of actual benefit,
Worthy enterprises are thus being
classed with those that are of
doubtful purpose and management,
and thus sources of income for even
the best established philanthropies
are being curtailed. The Times-
Leader has to quarrel with projects
that are necessary aids to a com
mendable modern tendency to feel
responsibility for those in unfortu
nate circumstances. Indeed, tlie«
belief obtains that supervising the
financing of these by a committee
of the Chamber of Commerce and
thus, partially at least, weeding out
the wheat from the chaff would
tend to strengthen the claims of a
list of enterprises which have
demonstrated their usefulness in
the community. To make these
more efficient and to save overlap
ping effort and expenditure would
be a prime purpose of a supervising
agency.
The "Harrisburg plan" is simple,
effective in restraining unworthy
projects and injures none of those that
are worthy of public support. In the
place of business or office of each of
its members hangs a little card bear
ing this inscription:
This is to certify that Mr. Blank-
Blank is a member of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce and
will not contribute, purchase
tickets, nor take space in special
programs or publications until full
information regarding the project
has been filed at the office of the
Chamber and the facts learned
from the Chamber after investiga
tion.
In this manner frauds are detected
and prevented from receiving money
that should go to worthy charities and
the giver is made certain that his con
tributions are falling Into proper
hands.
A motor car has been invented with
only two wheels, but what fun would
there be turning corners In a machint,
like that?
ONE MORE DAY OF CLEAN-UP
ONE more day for the Spring
clean-up! Health Officer Rau
nick and his corps of assistants
have been hauling hundreds
upon hundreds of loads of accumu
lated debris from the premises of Har
risburg people who would be Insulted
if you told them they are not as clean"
in their habits of living as they should
be. Dr. Raunick has warned neglect
ful citizens that he will send a police
man around to notify those who have
declined to pay attention to the clean
up proclamation. But there is still
one. mors day of grace and it Is to be
hoped that to-morrow evening will
find Harrisburg as cleun as the pro
verbial new pin.
1 EVENING CHAT I
Harrisburg will not lose the tower
of the Stato arsenal building from its
landscape and It will be pleasant news
to many to learn that arrangements
have been made for the tower to be
preserved and made a part of the new
arsenal just contracted for by the
Commonwealth. The tower of the ar
senal has been called the finest ox- j
ample of English architecture in this
section of the State and has been a
figure for over thirty-five years. It
was erected when the present arsenal
was put up to replace the arsenal of
Civil War days which stood in Capitol
Park about where the Mexican monu
ment now rears its shaft. The archi
tects who made a study of the arsenal
for the replacement of the building
with a modern fireproof structure
worked out a plan whereby the tower
could be preserved. It is the idea to
embody the tower In the structure
which C. W. Strayer, the contractor,
will build. This arsenal will be fire
proof along the most approved lines
and the baaement and one story will
be erected under the contract let and
the next Legislature will be asked to
make an appropriation to cover the
remainder of the project. The next
appropriation will include plans to
make the tower fireproof. In this way
it will remain as it Is to-day. The
warehouse at the arsenal is now a fire
proof structure, having been put up to
replace that burned several years ago.
Contracts for a subway between the
now arsenal and the warehouse are to
be let and a one-story flrepropf garage
for the motor trucks of tho arsenal
will also be erected. Meanwnile the
landscape gardening of the grounds
will be improved and it will be made a
more attractive place than ever. Prob
ably some day a Legislature with a
regard for the fitness of things will
provide additional land in that vicinity
for the conservatories which aro now
in Capitol Park and which will be re
moved when the extension to the park
is laid out.
It may be telling, but it is well
Known among real estate men that for
the last few days a representative of
the George M. Cohan theatrical in
terests has been looking Harrisburg
over. During the winter observations
were made as to the attendance and
accommodations for the people of the
100,000 Harrisburg district and lately
It has gotten down to the point where
the establishment of a new playhouse
has been seriously considered. The
only thing in the way appears to be
the price asked for sites which have
been inspected.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface is
sleeping only occasionally these days
because every person who has a fruit
tree calls him to ask about the way to
treat trees for this, that and the other
thing. This is the season of the year
in which the zoologist has been urging
people to get busy and they apnear to
have been taking his advice because
they are calling him up on the tele
phone and sending him letters about
the way to contest with the pests for
the fruit.
People who have been noticing auto-
J?«°PiL e tags » oin " around with the
90,000 mark should bear in mind that
there are not that many automobiles
In the State. When the automobile
list was started all of the numbers
between 20,000 and 40,000 were taken
out and marked for the solid tired
machines or trucks. About 4,800 of
that class have been issued, so that
the number of automobiles may be
estimated at somewhere about 75,000
Tho motorcycles are registered sepa
rately from the automobiles, but there
are over 9,000 of them.
Scores of blue buttons bearing a
white carnation were displayed about
the city this morning by people who
used that method of showing their re
gar4 for Mothers' Day. This day
comes on Sunday and Governor and
Mayor have proclaimed Its observance.
The buttons would take the place of
a carnation.
Among visitors to the city to-day
were ex-Judge H. M. McClure, of Lew
isburg; David Wallersteln, the Phila
delphia lawyer, and George H. Stew
art, the Shippensburg capitalist.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |
William R. Taylor, prominent in
the gossip about the next president of
the Reading, was formerly a vice
president. He is now in Europe
—General E. DeV. Morrell has re
turned to Philadelphia after three
weeks in Virginia.
—Colonel Frank G. Sweeny, in
spector general of the National Guard,
has been elected a member of the
board of directors of the Chester
Young Men's Christian Association.
—Mayor Biankenburg has donated
a handsome Japanese bowl to th»
Arion Society of Philadelphia.
—D. \y. Selbert was re-elected
county school superintendent of Som
erset by one vote majority.
—Ex-Senator Joseph A. Langfitt, of
Pittsburgh, was toastmaster at the
banquet of the Allegheny county bar
to the Superior Court.
lEPITORIAL COMMENTI
Merely the Pun ot There
(From the Toronto Star.]
Somebody lias observed that people
who exceed the speed limit usually
haven't anything to do when they get
there.
Ready to Serve In Upnulet*
[From the Houston Post.]
From the number of men who want
to raise regiments for service in Mexico
we take It that the future colonel sup
ply of the country is assured.
I A-LITTL&-OODtSenxSe"]
A USELESS
Cholly—What's the matter, Fwank?
Fwank—Oh, Cholly, Ethel tells me
she loves another.
Cholly—What hard luck!
Fwank—Hard luck! Why, Cholly.
in the last six months her father's
dog has bitten me nine times.
"Pa, you'd better hurry on home."
"What's the matter?"
"Some of ma's relatives are at the
house and they're giving you an' me
the worst of It again."—Detroit Free
Press.
Fred—What kind of a fellow is he?
Ned—lf you should tell him that see- I
ing was believing, he wouldn't look.—
Judge. I
DEMOCRHTS ROM
WHIM RIVILS
i Ryan Scores McCormick and Sharp
Things Are Said in Return by
Palmer and Others
FACTIONAL WAR IS BITTER
Story That Palmer May Get
McAdoo's Place in the Cabinet—
Campaign's Progress
Charges and denunciations echoed
from the rival Democratic campaign
parties yesterday, and both the Ryan
and McCormick ambitions were ripped
up the back In the most approved
Democratic stylo. The attacks made
by the candidates on each other were
decidedly personal and reveal very
clearly that no matter who may be
nominated as the Democratic candi
date for Governor on May 19, the
party will be hopelessly divided.
The McCormick party was In the
post office belt of Adams county and
found things anything but pleasant, so
that when the night meeting was held
in Gettysburg McCormick and his fel
low talkers were In prime mood to as
sail Ryan, the State administration
and everyone who did not agree with
their way of thinking. The Ryan
party was at Norristown ast night and
McCormick was made a. target and
Creasy battered with sledgehammer
' blows.
Most of the attacks upon McCor
mick were made by Ryan in retalia
tion for the assaults made on the
Bhiladelphian In Mc
cormick's newspaper,
Machine's and the Philadelphia
Candidates ' Ledger says of them:
Riddled "Michael J. Ryan and
the campaign orators
who aro supporting
him for the Democratic nomination
for Governor opened a broadside at
tack of personalities upon the reor
ganization forces while on a tour of
Montgomery county to-day. Vance
McCormick, the reorganization candi
date, was charged by Ryan with tak
ing unduo advantage of the mails in
sending copies of his paper, the Ilar
risburg Patriot, to voters. Represen
tative A. Mitchell Palmer, reorganiza
tion senatorial candidate, was accused
of receiving money from Senator J. K.
P. Hall during the last congressional
tight; while William H. Berry, Collec
tor of the Port of Philadelphia and a
stumper for Palmer and McCormick,
once received $25,000 aid from Colonel
James M. Guffey, according to Mr.
Ryan. As for William T. Creasy, re
organization candidate for Lieutenant-
Governor, he was literally riddled by
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell. In fact,
personalities and outside Issues were
the order of the day."
At Pottstown, Ryan opened fire
upon the labor record of McCormick.
He declared that the removal of the
union label from the
Harrisburg Patriot
and his veto of an or- Says Berry
dinance to increase Got ."(125,000
the wages of Harris- From Guffey
burg employes while
he was Mayor spelled
defeat for him at the primary election.
While touching upon the Patriot.
Ryan said that McCormick has been
mailing more than the maximum
number of free copies to persons not
subscribers.
In addition, the speaker said that
McCormick's Democracy was unsound,
as he had three times bolted presi
dential nominations, while Palmer had
bolted twice. Contining, he said:
"William H. Berry—Do you know
he received $20,000 from Guffey?
When he talks he only says Hall.
Brennen and Donnelly, and drops the
Guffey.' The rest of the singers say
Guffey."
A. Mitchell Palmer, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the
United States Senate, made public last
night, at a meeting
held in the Adams
Palmer Goes County Courthouse, a
After Budd letter from his oppo-
Witli Vigor nent, Henry Budd, of
Philadelphia, which
he read as substan
tiation of his charge that Budd was
not in sympathy with the Wilson ad
ministration and its purposes.
On the tour of Adams .county the
candidates strove to reach the man
with the hoe. They penetrated Into
rural districts. Their coming had been
well advertised, and farmers left their
plows to listen to the speakers.
"Farmer" Creasy continued to at
tack the "bipartisan machine," which,
he said, stood back of the Ryan can
didacy. The campaigners expressed
themselves as well satisfied with the
result of the day's work.
An interesting story printed last
night was to the effect that Congress
man Palmer is to become Secretary of
tho Treasury because
Secretary McAdoo, be
ing now a member of Palmer Is
the President's family, Talked of
will retire from the For Plaee
Cabinet and be sent as
Ambassador to France.
The story goes on to say that Palmer
was informed by his constituents that
he could not go back to Congress, and
the President, being appealed to,
thought that Mitchell had better make
'a real fight and see if he could do any
thing. Hence his slating for Senator
Even In defeat he will have some pres
tige, and then he can be helped to a
nice job. Thus runs the story, it
might be added that McCormick, after
the primary, will go to Europe.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I
—lt must be nice to be a Demo
cratic candidate this year.
—Bradford county Democrats have
taken their troubles to court.
—Erie registration shows the Demo
crats in the rear despite efforts.
—Penrose is visiting Monongahela
river towns to-day.
—Northampton and Easton figures
show that the Washington enrollment
has faded away.
—A speaker at Norristown last night
said the slating of McCormick was
"supremely impudent."
—Jim Blakslee joined the McCor
mick party yesterday. Another job
holder leaving his work.
—Ryan is in Carbon county, Blaks
lee's own, to-day.
—Trouble is said to be brewing
among Franklin Democrats.
—Perry reorganizes are frankly
disappointed at. the failure of crowds
to turn out for McCormick as ex
pected.
—Palmer will have a chance to tell
York countains all about the post
office matter to-day.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Search me, O God, and know my
heart:
Try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any way of
wickedness In me.
And lead me in the way ever
lasting;.—P». 139:23-2*.
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[ OUR DAILY LAUGH )
Whore He Draws KoiiKh
the IJue Jack—So Kitty
Mrs. B. Doei. pave you a Hat
your husband ob- refusal,
ject to the slit Reggy Yes;
skirt? she said she
Mrs. W. Only wouldn't live !u
on me. ' one nor with one.
'he " I'raetU'iil luvttntlun to l-'iini
Mnldeit Out
He Darling, George —• What
be mine and your would you say If
smallest wishes i W ero t0 klsa
shall ever be ful- you?
. Evelyn—l don't
She (coldly) know. That sort
I am able to do of speech should
that myself. What always be ex-
I want Is a man temporaneous.
who will gratify . .
m y biggest i f
fOut l''or the
Dough
"Jack ought to
IVew Kugenien suit you; he has
"Did Arthur ask dark hair and
your father last dark eyes."
night?" "Yes, but un
"No; he forgot fortunately he has
to bring his in- a light pockot
come tax receipt." book."
TIE KOII FIRST PLACE
By WIIIK Dinger
Now, see, I told you Yesterday
We shouldn't kick because
The home team lost the flrst ball gams
When they had It in their paws.
They- went to York the next day.
And before the Yorklte fans,
They smashed the ball and Heckert's
bunch
Became the also-rans.
And now the Cocklll boys are tie
With others for first place,
And you can bet his bunch will lead
The rest a merry chase.
So get in line, give them support,
And when a bloomin' game
Is lost, don't let it get your goat,
Keep boosting Just the same.
WORK A\l) WORRY
Worry never did a thing
That was worth the while—
All a world of worrying
Ever made a heart to sing
Or a lip to smile.
Worry wrays herself in woe,
Worry bows her head—
Worry never sees the glow
Where the lights of morning grow
In the sky ahead.
Work has won the victories
In the stress of strife;
Work has crossed the stormy seas,
Work has solved the mysteries
In the lore of life.
Work has never time for tears
While there's more to do—
Work, upon the path of years,
As the golden goal appears,
Sees some goal anew.
Worry 'sits with folded hands—
Work is on its way.
Worry lingers on the sands—
Work discovers larger lands
In the dawning day.
Worry weeps and worry sighs
Over broken toys—
Work looks up with beaming eyes
To the newer, bluer skies
And a path of joys.
Work and worry travel near,
You who seek the goal,
One with voice and visage drear,
One with heart and face of cheer
And unconquered soul.
Worry in her mourning dressed,
Work in garb of glee,
Walk beside at your behest —
Which of these upon your quest
Bhall your comrade be?
—Douglas Malloch, in National Maga
elne January, 1914.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
1 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
WANT PAVING STONE
[From the Telegraph of May S, 18G4.]
The street committee of the city
council advertises for proposals for
500 perches of stone, to be delivered
in the Third district of this city.
DEDICATED CHURCH ROOMS
The dedication of the lecture and
Sabbath school room of the Second
Lutheran Church, took place yester
day. The pulpit was filled by minis
ters from abroad.
The State Press
In the death of Lyman D. Gilbert,
Harrisburg loses a lawyer with a bril
liant mind a skillful practitioner and
the head of one of the oldest families
of the city. He was well known in this
section where he had made friends
who unite to mourn his loss. Carlisle
Herald.
A woman speaker of the I. W. W.
type at a street meeting in Now York,
advised her audience to kill a certain
millionaire. The only road to pro
gress is temperate speech. Truth will
have nothing to do with vociferent
anger. So it is in court, in church. In
the hustings, on the street. Truth is
as gentle and kindly as a sister. It
does not shake Its fist or gnash its
teeth. And the reason we have so
much of this sort of speech is because
truth is so scarce.—New Castle News.
Can it be that there is a world-wide
conspiracy against the comfort of the
fighting man on land and sea? Just
about tho time our new Secretary of
the Navy banished liquor from our war
vessels Turkey's new Minister of War
introduces the knife and fork into the
army, and the soldiers are rebelling
against being compelled to use these
implements of tho effete West.—Wash
ington Herald.
PITIABLE CONDITION OF SOUTH
CAROLINA
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The primary system in States where
there is practically only one party has
reached the pinnacle of absurdity in
South Carolina. It may bo doubted if
there, is any other State In the Union
which has fallen so low in its political
Ideals or presents so miserable a spec
tacle In political practice. The primary
is a substitute for the regular election,
yet it reeks with fraud. South Caro
linians do not deny it. Unless they
are in politics they admit it. Charles
ton, a city of about 30,000 white peo
ple, offers an enrolment of about 10,000
white voters. There is at least one
fraudulent name on the lists for every
legitimate name. The purchase of votes
has become a habit. The respectable
have let the situation get
away from them.
South Carolina is getting bv "direct
action as bad government as ever
existed in America in an ostensible
democracy. Another primary is to be
held in August. The State prepares
for it knowing that fraud will per
meate it. It is enough, as Senator Till
man once wrote. to make him despair
of the ability of the people to ti'overn
themselves.
be tJ'at South Carolina in her
plight Is entitled to the pity of pood
Americans, but the fact remains that
she is in little better condition politi
cally with the negroes disfranchised
tnan sili® was in the darkest davs of
the Reconstruction period. It may sur.
prise Phlladelphtans to know that in
another State there Is corruption and
debauchery far worse than that which
characterized the local machine in its
palmiest days. But South Carolina is
too busy recounting the glories of her
past history to do anything to save
herself from the miserable estate into
which she has fallen.
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[From the Telegraph of May 8, 1864. J
ENEMY CAPTURE TRAIN
New York, May B.—On the 25th a
train returning to Pine Bluff, Arkan
sas. was captured by the enemy, cori,-
sisting of 240 wagons, together with
escort, under command of Colonel
Drake comprising the 26th lowa, 77th
Ohio and the 43d Indiana, with four
pieces of artillery.
DRIVES BACK IEE
Washington, May B.—The govern
ment is in receipt of an official dis-
I patch which left the Army of the Po
jtomac at 11 o'clock to the effect thai
General Grant hurled his entire arm.v
against the rebels. Eee was driven
back three miles.
I l-ETTERSTOTHE-EDiTOR I
AMONG THE KlItE LADDIES
To the Editor of Tin Telegraph:
On Tuesday evening, May 5, by a
special invitation, 1 had the pleasure
of spending a most delightful and en
joyable evening at a banquet whicl
was being held in the large parlor at thi
! Good Will engine house. This setout wai
! given by my friend, John WiUlansor
(a gentleman clean cut), who lialJbfeer
elected and duly installed as
|of the company. He was assisted b>
the Ladles' Auxiliary. George Hut
man's West End Hand was there som<
thirty strong. Headed by the band, tlit
boys had a little walk-around. Whil<
they were out the ladies were bimj
Three large tables were strung along
the back part of the room. When al
was in readiness the members of tlx
company and others fell in line. Thei
the president delivered a tine address
to the boys who had elected him. H«
paid a high tribute to the Ladles' Aux
illary for the faithful performance o
the strenuous labors imposed upor
them. Then J. R. Miller, one of theii
oldest honorary members, was calle<
upon to make a few remarks, to whlcl
he responded by reading a poem, es
pecially dedicated to the old veterar
lire horses, etc., and exhibited a beau
tiful photo of old Joe, once the prldf
of the Good Will. He spoke of all th<
other old veterans. At the eoncluslor
of the entertainment the band renderei
one of their most appropriate pieces
to wit: "Hail, Hail, the Gang's Al
Here," which was answered by thunder:
of applause by all present.
Yours truly,
POXY GRANDPA.
IS TIIIS THE REASON WHY?
[From the New York Sun.]
At the annual dinner of the Canadiar
Society In this town on the 10th o:
last Docember Secretary Bryan said:
"We are determined that there shal
be no war between the United State:
and any other country. lam proud t<
be, connected with an Administrator
whose purpose is to remove the cause:
of war. We can't prohibit war, but w<
can create conditions that will malt«
war Impossible."
it this pledge or promise or boas
or Mr. Bryan's that now stands betweer
the administration of Woodrow Wllsor
and a candid recognition of the fact o
war?
EEADaUAItTKns ros 1
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