8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. 3. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor s » 11 Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21< Federal Square. Both phones. ■ 1 1 - jr ' • Member American New*pap«r Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ot Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed, to subscribers *t $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at tho Post Office In Harris burg, Pa,, as second class matter. fenorp dally average for tke three ★ month* ending Nov. 30, 1014, a^ 23,180 * Average for the year 1815—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,175 Average for the 7«-ar 1»11—18,851 Average for the year 191ft—17,41>5 THURSDAY EVENING. DEC. 17 IN TUNE FOR CHRISTMAS A MELANCHOLY disposition is a nuisance nt any timo of year. The grouchy man is merely en dured and the sorrowful man Is only pitied, while the morose man is detested. The worst nuisance in the world to himself and others is the man who is constantly complaining and nursing his woes. His woes may be mostly imaginary at first, but they become real in time from the mind's dwelling upon them. Some foolish women seem to think st sort of semi-lnvalldism Is genteel. They keep on hand a supply of little ailments that they put on or olt as occasion suggests. These are the chief topics of their conversation, and the moral malaria exhales poisonous va pors that chill and depress all who come within the atmosphere. The readiest cure for such Invalids lies in laughing. If they can iind nothing else to laugh at, let them laugh at themselves. Let them get out of the miasmic shadows into the sunshine of content. Most of lis take ourselves too seri ously. Our very solemnity over trivial troubles is very funny if wc only look at it right. Who can recall the little vexations and petty woes of yesterday, and re member the worry that was wasted over them, without laughing? The petty woes of to-day will to-morrow nppear as trivial as those of yesterday do to-day. The time to laugh over them is now. Laugh, and they will flee at once. We can't all laugh always, but we can laugh a good deal if we try. Wo can train ourselves to look on the bright side of things. The physiological benefits of cheer fulness arc too apparont to be doubted. The mental, moral nnd spiritual bene fits, though not so clearly seen, arc just es great. The hearty laugh that comes of wholesome merriment is the sunshine of life that, drives the creeping gloom shadows from the face and routs skulking cares from tho heart. Nothing costs so little and at the eame timo counts so much for happi ness and health as habitual cheerful ness. It is the best medicine, the best tonic, the best stimulant in tho world. This is a good time to try it out. ABBOTT WILL BE TALKED ABOUT 4(1% yfOUTIHNGS about collusion |\/| and Impeachment and the •* A like arc inock heroics," tersely remarks tho Phila delphia Evening Bulletin in discussing the tirades against the Public Service Commission voiced by one Edwin M. Abbott, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Abbott Is not unknown to Hnr risburgers, as a few years ago ho was « noisy, if futile, member of the Houso of Representatives. His recent course as counsel for objectors to tho pro poped Increases of passenger fares and j his action yesterday in telling Gov ernor Tener to throw out of office the whole Public Service Commission sur prise no one here. Yards and yards of matter will be printed about Edwin M. Abbott and when it is all over people will learn that the commission, which frankly admits that it extended what someone has called an "unfortunate courtesy," did not give Mr. Abbott a certified copy of Its findings by regis 4ered mall. A reasonable consideration of the whole subject will show that while tome incidents occurred which might arouse criticism, the Governor would not be justifiod in paying much atten tion to the Philadelphia barrister's re marks, letters, interviews, or opinions, unless he can produce something of a far more substantial nature than he I»as as yet indicated. SCHOOLS LIKE DENMARK'S THAT the Danish Folk high schools for "grownups," which have made possible the recent wonderful development in rural Denmark, can be successfully trans planted in modified form to the United States, is the conclusion reached by IT. W. Foght, of the United States Bu reau of Education. Mr. Foght has studied both the Danish schools and American rural conditions at first hand, and he believes that what the Folk hiKh schools have done for rural civilization in Denmark they can do for the United States. Ills conclusions ore highly interesting in view of the Browing belief that our schools are cot living up to their possibilities, es pecially in many isolated districts. There are already a few Folk high THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 17, 1914. schools In the United States, estab lished by Danish immigrants. While grave difficulties have been experi enced by these schools, Mr. Foght Is of the opinion that they are due to cer tain special causes that could easily be overcome in a real attempt to adapt the Folk high school to Ameri can life, especially in the mountain regions. The Folk high school spirit has emancipated the agricultural popula tion of Denmark. It has at least made country people the peers of their city brethren In education. They have be come leaders in affairs, in production, in distribution, in politics, chiefly be cause they have learned to think for themselves and to act independently of tho industrial classes. In tho United States, Mr. Foght be lives, there Is great danger of going to the extreme in the immediately practical und technical. The work of special schools is in danger of focus ing too much on making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, on teaching girls to cook and keep house according to sanitary regula tions, and the like. These things are all necessary and must he taught In the schools, but they are utterly insufficient to make us a really great agricultural nation. It was not the local agricultural schools and household economics schools that primarily made Denmark a great scientific agricultural nation, but the Folk high schools. It is true, as Mr. Foght says, that we need such schools in the United States; schools that would teach a greater love for the soil; that would help us to measure the good In life by spiritual standards and not by man-made rules; schools that would help us to rise above the limitations of locality and State, nnd teach an understanding of the national and even universal in the United States ONE MORE WEEK ONE week from to-day the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign for 1014 will be concluded, whereupon the accounts will be balanced and another page in the city's book of good deeds well done will be closed for the year. How large the investment will be the sales re ports will show; how wise the ex penditure only the years to coine will tell. For the measure of good that lias been and will be accomplished by the purchase of the tiny Yuletide stamps may be gauged by the words of the nursery rhyme which tells us that the mighty ocean and the bounteous land are, after all, just so many drops of water, so many grains of sand. Truly, every little Christmas seal that is bought and pasted upon the Christmas package is the grain of sand, the drop of water. One stamp in itself doesn't amount to much, seemingly; its one cent cost will rarely be missed. But there are five or six Christmas packages at least to be ex changed In every faintly; there are thousands of families in the city and the nearby towns. That the response to the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign appeal will be generous and whole-hearted this year goes without saying; tho reports to date of the sales in school and church, fraternal society, benefit en tertainment, booth and store and bank and office all indicate this. For while -Christmas-loving people aro substantially remembering tho homeless and the hungry of the weep ing countries that are choking in the mailed tist of War, they have not for gotten tho empty hearth, the broken life and the shattered hope of the victim of that dreadful plague of the ages hero at homo, and from day to day they are adding the drop of water, the grain of sand, that will bring the Red Cross seal fund to the vast pro portions that have made It an Instru ment for untold good in other years In the great fight, that Is being made against tuberculosis. THE RIGHT COURSE THE hearing being held this after noon at tho Capitol by the In dustrial Accidents Commission on suggestions for the proposed workman's compensation law will probably be the last to be accorded by Governor Tener's commission, which can now go ahead and present its pro posed law to the Governor and the next Legislature. This commission, whose members represent every element entering into tho framing of a liability law, has been probably less criticised than any hav ing charge of preparation of an impor tant bill in years. This is due to the fact that the commission has not only 1 gone out of its way to obtain the views of every one who might be interested, but has accorded organizations of I manufacturers and workmen, employ ers and employes an equal opportunity to present ideas. Hearings have been held in various places and the men in charge of the work have been accessible at all times to those desiring to discuss the propo sition. There has been no star cham ber work, but quite the contrary, mem bers of the commission being ready to go out and talk about the Ret at all times. This law is going to bo the big thing In legislation this coming session and the commission has taken the right course In preparing for it. GOVERNMENT CONTROL POSTMASTER GENERAL BUR LESON'S recommendation for government acquisition of the telegraph and telephone systems of the country, which is brought for ward again in tho postal appropri ations bill, is not causing any great excitement. Apparently there Is little thought of Congress giving it any seri ous consideration. Tho country is not now in a mood to hearken to schemes involving the expenditure of some hun dred millions of public money. It is far more interested in how to meet Its Individual telephone bills than it is in buying the entire system. Govern ment control of the phone and tele graph lines would be a doubtful way of avoiding the payment of "war" tax on meesages. Among tho Hnrrisburgers who re call scenes during the War of the Re bellion, just about fifty years ago, re ferred to daily in the Harrisburg Tele graph, is Alex. W. Bergstresser, 436 Market street. Mr. Bergstresser read In Monday's Telegraph of Sherman being near the city of Savannah. Mr. Bergstresser consulted his diary and found the statement correct. He said: "I remember December 14. The day was line. Our camp was located in a lovely wood of tall pines and great oaks. It was on level ground, carpeted by soft pine needles. There was no underbrush and wo were comfortably fixed. We learned later that tho rebel army was rather alose to us. Around the city of Savannah were many can non, in charge of the enemy. They objected to our presence. Wo did not know how near our wall tents were until a shot struck a tree near the car penter's headquarters. The carpenter, Henry Dustman, was sitting astride his tool chest. The cannon ball hit a tree nearby, glanced off, and struck the tool chest. Four of us were sitting around and sitting on the chest. None of us were harmed. We lost little time in moving the head quarters of the Third Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth -Army Corps, to a place of safety." Local newspapermen, as well as older residents of Harrisburg, will re member ex-Representative John E. Barrett, of Scranton, now postmaster of that city, who was a member of the House in tho eighties, and rep resented the Scranton Republican and Philadelphia Press during tho sessions. His literary talent is generally recognized and his poems possess much merit; one of his best, "Life's Journey," written espec ially for the Elks' memorial service, was recited by Fred C. Hand, past dis trict deputy, at the memorial services of Harrisburg Lodgo recently. This poem, which Is in great demand among Harrisburg Elks, received much favorable comment. The lust verse of "Life's Journey" follows: ' The absent friends we mourn, and vuinly look through our tears, Are bound to 11s by sacred ties through all the passing years; We may not see their faces, but their inem'ry cannot fade Till life and love and friendship in a common grave are laid, And the pulsings and the strivings of mankind are at an end, And the present with the future in one symphony shall blend, And the choirs of heaven proclaim, in anthems most sublime, Eternity's Kood-morning und the last gooU-night of time!" Governor-elept Martin G. Brum baugh will be the eighth State execu tive under which two of the oldest men in service on Cupitol Hill have served. They are I>\ F. Rohm, sergeant of the Capitol police, and E. M. House holder, who Is officer No. 1. They have been on the police force almost all of the time they have been on the Hill. Mr. Itohm having been trans ferred from the State Arsenal and Mr. Householder from the elevators years and years ugo. They have seen admin-' istrations come and go and have an extended acquaintance with men in public life in Pennsylvania. Air. Rohm has an interesting history as'a veteran, as ho was in tho Juniata cavalry and saved the life of General Beaver. Mr. Householder was appointed to bis place on the "Hill" In the days when Senator Quay was a State official. Friends of John S. Carroll, county school superintendent of Fayette county, will be Interested to know that he has been re-elected president of the Fayette Teachers' Association. Mr. Carroll was a member of the Legisla ture and had charge of the school code In the House. A good many people throughout the State have an idea that Harrisburg is spoiled with a final h just because Pittsburgh is spelled that way. Many letters reaching the Capitol are so spelled and it is astonishing how many letters addressed to municipal depart ments are spelled in that fashion. John M. Phillips, the Pittsburgh man appointed gome commissioner again yesterday, is one of tho most ardent sportsmen of tho State and a lover of game of all kinds. Mr. Phil lips spends much of his time on af fairs of tho commission, traveling all over tho State and knowing more about tho work of the commission at first hand than possibly any ono else on the board. Tie is a big frame hunter and collaborated with W, 11, Hornaday, head of the famous New York Zoo, in a book on hunting in tho Hockies. I WELL KNOWN PEOPOn ■—Dr. Samuel G. Dixon has been elected president of tho Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, for the nineteenth time. —-Director George W. Porter lias ordered a test of every piece of fire apparatus in Philadelphia. —John W. Dauglierty, formerly of Steelton, is president of the Midland Savings and Trust Company at Mid land, just opened. —F. C. Kloss, of Tyrone, is secre tary of the State Bankers again. —C. S. Hubbard, head of Rubllc safety in Pittsburgh, will have police censor some dancing. —Charles P. Weible is the new as sistant controller of Pittsburgh. Paintings by Mrs. J. W. Hail man, of Pittsburgh, aro to form part of the Panama Pacific art exhibit. f — PfIWKNbW^-1 Tliat Hnrrisburg manufactures miles of _gtecl pipe for Mexican mines? CI.P.IMNG ftl'T TIIK ASIIKS By Wing Dinger I don't object to going to The cellar morn and night, To raku the blooniin' furnace down. Then fill it up quite tight With fuel, so 'twill furnish beat Throughout tho house, but gee, To shovel out the ash pit is The job that gets to me. Sou darned near break your back to get Down low enough to re*ch The ashes that are in the pit. And, brother, you're a peach If you don't skin your fingers on The furnace frame as you Reach 'way baclc in the ash pit to • Get out the residue. And then you try to straighten up, But can't, because a kink Will get you.in your back, my boy, I know just what you think, your nostrils are filled up with dust, Your mouth is full of grit. By Jove, to clean the ashes out Would make Job throw a fit. AN EVENING THOUGHT Good maners ure made up of pet ty GOVERNOR-ELECT HAS CAPITOL GUESSING Not in Years Has Any Executive Been Able to Keep His Plans From Becoming Known EVERYBODY IN THE DARK —■— Appointments He Will Make Under Discussion, but Nobody Can Pick the Winners Governor-elect Martin G. Brum baugh has the Capitol guessing. Not in years has any incoming governor managed to keep his counsel so well about all of his appointments and not only the folks who have offices on Capitol IIUI, but the legislators-elect, the many people who came here to attend hearings by the Public Service Commission, the Hoard of Pardons, the State Industrial Beard nnd to attend to Stale tax matters and other things arc all asking what he is going to do. The new governor will take office In a month and not one single appoint ; ment lias been foreshadowed. The political guessers are all at sea and the new governor smilingly passes off inquiries. He is getting letters by the hundred and his mail has reached large proportions, but he Is not say ing anything. It is a rather unusual situation and somewhat embarrassing for some of the people at the Capitol who have always prided themselves on being able to pick the winners. Even the guessing is not good now. In spite' at the fact that the new Governor will not take up his resi dence here for some time mail ad dressed to him is already coming to the city. —Richard .1. Baldwin, the Delaware county man who Is leading in the tight for speaker now, was here last night to obtain some data from the State Insurance Department for the report of the Insurance probers of which he is chairman. "1 am very well satisfied with the way things are going," said he. "I have received muny pledges of support and members all over the State have written to ine telling me they \Vill v6tfe tor mo in Caucus. I ex pect to open headquarters here soon." —Governor Tener, Senator Penrose and otlidr prominent men gathered last night at Lancaster to do honor to Frank B. McCltiin, lieutenant-gover nor-elect. The dinner took place in the Hamilton Club. —Republican leaders will get to gether on the speakership at the end of the week and it Is expected that all of the cards will then l>c put on the table. —Democratic legislators-elect are commencing to come here to look things over. They will have a caucus the night before the session begins. —The Altoona Tribune prints the following: "George Hutchinson, of Warrlorsmark, Pa., is an aspirant for the position of State Secretary of Agri culture, to succeed N. R. Crltchtleld, the present incumbent. For twenty years Mr. Hutchinson has faithfully served as a member of the State board of agriculture, having had charge of the standardization of feeds and the elimination of impurities, etc. He Is also a prominent farmer and is highly respected In his own community as well as throughout the State. lie Is a staunch Republican and has been an ardent worker in the interests of that party. Mr. Hutchinson is well qualified for the position and his numerous friends in this vicinity hope that lie will be rewarded with the appoint ment." —At a caucus of the Allegheny county delegation to the next Legisla ture, to be held at Pittsburgh 011 Sat urday, a move will be made to pledge the delegation to a repealer of the act creating tho sin rteneil second class city council with its nine $6,500 a year members and substituting for the council elected at large one with ward representation, or a return to the old system of Common and Select Coun cils. That two and three members propose to introduce such legislation leaked out through activities of poli ticians close to council to head off the movement. Feeling, running high for weeks, touched white heat, last night, when the "big live" In Council, through President Jo city payroll to accept reduc tions in salaries. —Walter J. Christy, chairman of the Republican county committee, has Is sued a call for a meeting of the Alle gheny county senators and representa tives to bo held at headquarters Sat urday afternoon. The purpose of the meeting Is to elect a chairman and sec retary of tho delegation and to con sider any other business the members may have to bring before it. |' OUR DAILY LAUGH j How to Advertise , Why do you V'ree Advice formally retire Mr, Spongcniore from (he stage —I. wonder what cvory summer and you doctors do to return to it every avoid tho disease Fall' germs that are so T |, at ma i :r!S two numerous every- rrcsK items. old where fellow. The chap iseguy who merely takes That s easy. a vacation doesn't Whenever you see ffet any. coming Sis: So you'd Hlank Meter like to be b« a Who is that movio actress man over there when you grow the one counting up? his fingers'? Lulu: Yes. you That's Dobbs, don't have- to do the poet. But he much work you Isn't counting his let yer photo- Ilngers; he's graph do all the counting his feet. work. 25 to 50% Reduction On All gPgM FURS m Wm (WIE have decided to make our "o and Diener's quality delights every one who receives a gift from this store. Store Open Evenings Until Xjnas. J. F. Shorb DIENER 408 MARKETST. 300 A Market St. The Store of the Christmas Spirit years, and so I marvel at your won-. werfui progress. I trust the errors? in statistics, if any, are all in your favor. You inspire me. Would to God your I work had started fifty years ago.! Probably then the disease would havo missed mo." The letter contained a check for Red Cross seals, from the sale of ■ which the entire support of the Wis i oonsin work is derived. Every seal you buy is a bullet in the fight against , tuberculosis. i [From the Telegraph of Dec. 17, ISG4J I.rgrlalsture Meets Soon i legislature will meet here two weeks from Monday. Ini|io*4rr A Her Coin An impostor is working in the city getting subscriptions for the new band, lie lias no authority from the man agers of the hand. Hal" Kreesen in Stroma , The rain, which fell last night, froze, 1 glazing the streets and making wnlk ' ing difficult. i ■ .. TOILET SETS ' Silver Plated Comb. Brush and j Mirror, from $3.00 up. > JOS. D. BRENNER Diamond Merchant and Jorrclri 1 : I No. 1 North Third St. | V- ■ ■ . CHINA Hand painted, beautifully Jesign ed at reasonable prices. JOS. D. 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