8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 1831 PUBLISHED BT THIS TELGUIUI'H PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Yc-k City, I-lasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at slx cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn ilally average for the three ★ months ending Feb. 28.1915. 21,745 H Average for the year 1014—23,213 Average for the year 1018—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,175 Average for the year 1011—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17,405 THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25 THE PEOPLE WANT IT M3MBERS of the Legislature who have been thinking that the people would lose sight of local option in the discussion of workmen's compensation, highway improvement, child labor regulation and other big legislative problems of the day are commencing to change their minds and are being impressed more and more every day with the strength of Governor Brumbaugh with the people. Tho Governor has met the oppo nents of local option more than half way. Although backed by a clear majority of the committee in charge of the bill he has urged a hearing for the other side. The liquor interests did not want a hearing for a time. Then they did. Now the Governor has joined with them. Everything the Governor does in be half of local option is met by cries that it is not fair and discussions on the subject have been magnified into open warfare. The liquor interests are being fought by a strong-willed Governor, backed by the people of a State and they are "up against it" at last. The people of Pennsylvania want local option and they are behind the Governor in his effort to get It. HOME FOR THE BIIIDS ONE of the most delightful fea tures of life in early Spring time is the return of the song birds from their winter homes Jn the southland. Long before the first crocus ha# dared to push its sturdy stem from the half-Jrozen soil, the robin, the bluebird and tho black bird are heralding the approach of ■warm and pleasant weather. Stringent laws have been enacted to protect these cheery songsters who, unlike some human stars of the musi cal world, are useful as well as melo dious. They not only please us with their songs, but they go about freeing our gardens and our trees of millions of the insect pests that prey upon our flowers, our fruits and our vegetables. Hut while statutes have been provided and policemen have been hired to pre vent the Killing of the song and in sectivorous birds, little or nothing has been done to encourage their propaga tion and to attract them from the syl van glades where nature provides for them to the haunts of man. Here and there some thoughtful citi zen has erected a birdhouse on his lawn or in his trees. This occasional bird residence is never without a ten ant. The littio feathered summer boarders delight to occupy such well protected resting places as these, where their offsprings are not only safe from the weather, but out of the reach of marauders as well. One of tne most delightful memories that visitors to Harrisburg carry away with them is the squirrel-life and bird life of Capitol Park where the little lurry "bunnies" and the pigeons are so tame that they make ready friends with all comers. How fine it would be If this could be so enlarged as to take In all forms of wild bird life. Bird houses in the parks and about private residences would not cost much, but they would add wonderfully to the pleasure of summer days in Harris burg. THE 1910 CAMPAIGN SPEAKERS before the Union League in Phlladelphiaheralded ex-United States Senator Elihu Root as the foremost leader of the revitalized Republican party and tho one man to lead the party to victory in 1916. There can be no doubt about tho ability nor the popularity of ex-Senator Root. But as for him being the one man to insure Republican victory next year, that is putting the matter a bit strongly. Indeed, there are many who believe that a Republican President and a Republican Congress will be the result of the 1916 elections, leadership or no leadership. The country is so dissatisfied with the Democratic ad ministration that nothing now appar ent can prevent an overwhelming Re publican majority when the time rolls around for the election of a successor to President Wilson. Ex-Senator Root is right when he soys that business men should not bo called upon to endure the aspersions that have been heaped upon them and there Is no sign that they will choose to do so. If Mr. Root bo chosen to lead the Republicans in 1916, he will find behind him such a host of work ers and supporters from the rt.nks of THURSDAY EVENING, these as never a Republican manager had, but it will not of necessity require the services of Mr. Root or any other one leader to bring this about. Whether Mr. Root accept the tender of campaign generalship or whether he elect instead to stand as one of the advisers behind the throne, tho result promises to be the same, A mag nificent Republican outpouring is as sured and nothing less than a woeful mistake in tho selection of candidates, of which there at present seems little likelihood, could possibly withhold it. Even a mediocre nominee for presi dential" honors next time might be elected easily on the Republican ticket, but there are indications that the best tho party has to offer in both candidates and platform will be none too good to place before the voters at that time. LIGHTS ON BY JULY 1 PARK SUPERINTENDENT M. HARVEY TAYLOR makes the gratifying announcement that tho lights on the ornamental stand ards along Harrlsburg's "Front Steps" will be turned on by July 4. Might it not be well to make that a feature of 11 arrisbu rg's celebration this year? What could be more at tractivo than to turn the current into the great lino of river wall lights for the first time on the evening of July 4 ? When this improvement is com pleted it will bo unique among tho cities of the country. No other mu nicipality has anything just like It. Tho path along tho top of tho steps leading down to low water mark will form a promenade somewhat com parable to the seashore boardwalks and with an outlook as beautiful as that of any similar river front in the whole country. Not only that, but the lights which are proposed for it will give it a charm otherwise impossible and make it a place of popular resort by night as well as by day. THE BOYD MEMORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT that work on the John Y. Boyd Memorial building for men an.l boys will be started within t'le next few weeks brings to mind anew the thought that all too few Harrisburgers are as thoughtful and as generous as was Mr. Boyd iri their bequests. Scores and scores of Harrisburg men and women enjoy through their lives the incomes of fortunes founded, If not made entirely, within the bound aries of Harrisburg, yet but very few of them remember the city or its peo ple when they come to make their wills. A proper regard for the stew ardship of the talents entrusted to him ought to make any man who is the possessor of a large fortune look about for some public need on which to set tle at least a portion of his wealth. There are so many needs and the available revenues are so small that one wonders at the narrowness of vi sion that limits the bequests of those %vho in life are regarded as the big, broad-minded men of the community. This is true not only of Harrisburg, hut of the country at large. ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY THE plan underlying the two bills presented last night to reorgan ize the legal business of the State is excellent, and it is to be trusted that the measures will go right through. They are plain enough and the additional expense which ap pears to be involved is really a sav ing. For years the State has had a mul titude of attorneys. Most of the de partments or bureaus had their own lawyers, and attorneys' fees have mounted, the counsel expenditures of the Auditor General's department be ing extensive indeed at times. Now it is proposed to place all legal business under the chief law officer of the State, cutting out all extra law yers, centralizing the control and giv ing the best of advice for the Com monwealth. A DIGNIFIED CAMPAIGN WHATEVER may be said for or against woman suffrage, it must be admitted that those who are waging the campaign in Pennsylvania to be decided at the polls next November are preserving a conservative and dignified mcln. They have permitted nothing "freakish" to enter into their activities and in this they differ very widely from their sis ters In New York and neighboring States. Possibly that is one of the reasons why their resolution was passed by two sessions of the Penn sylvania Legislature with so little op position. This being true, the women in charge of State headquarters here no doubt were astonished a day or two ago to discover that an enterprising newspaper reporter had placed over alls on the suffragists who are to pre side at the casting of the suffrage Lib erty 8611 that is to play a prominent part in the campaign next Fall. The Telegraph Is pleased to quiet their fears and to set at rest the minds of male voters who might be consid ering a trip to the foundry upon the occasion of the casting by letting it be known that the suffragists who will pour the hot metal are men and that no women will have any active part in the ceremony. You see, there are some things that women do not pretend to do as well as men, and one of them is casting Lib erty Bells and another is wearing overalls. "SPORT ROYAL" THE war game o-f the present day is a costly pastime, even for kings, as statistics from Europe published from time to time have indicated. The climax came the other day, however, when the French warship Bouvet, valued at $5,503,850, and the English ships Irresistible and Ocean, valued respectively at $5,240,680 and $4,241,890, were sent to the bot tom within a few hours. A total loss of $15,163,420 In almost less time than It takes to tell It. to say nothing of the enormous damage inflicted on the Turkish forts during the same period, knocks bookkeeping balances about 011 a gigantic scale. War may be, as somebody has pro nounced it, "sport royal," but It is a mighty poor form of amusement for the rank and file who must provide the dollars. 1 EVENING CHAT 1 Tho terrors that cellar doors in street pavements have for x>edestrlans, especially portly ladles, is a subject for interesting observation to curb stone loafers. One of these said the other day that he stood for fifteen minutes on a crowded section of Mar ket street and tried to count the num ber of people who stepped aside rather than cross an iron cellar door, but after five minutes he lost count. Many persons would jam into the current of traffic in the opposite direction rather than risk stepping on the trap doors, which they seem to hold in a sort, of superstitious dread. A stranger in Market Square wait ing for a car was very curious to know the meaning of the destination letters on various street cars and asked other waiting passengers whenover a new car appeared what the initials stood for. When tho Elliott-Fisher Typewrit er workmen's special car arrived he in quired what the "T-W" signified, and was told by an employe the letters mean l "to-work." An illustration of the adaptability of human nature and the readiness with which a person will fall into new ways under necessity was given In a conversation the other day with a man who works mostly at night in one of the departments bf railroad service. This man, who lives in the west end of town, has his sleeping quarters in a part of the house that overlooks a series of back yards and is open to all tho variations of noise that can hap pen in a city. He says that when ho first started the night work he almost went crazy and was on the point of moving' to one of the suburbs before he got used to the annoyances. His chief trouble was a combination of rackets hard to describe. It consisted of a buzz saw in a neighboring plan ing mill, an ice cream factory two doors away, a schoolhouso in the same block, a profane parrot in the next yard and a shrill-voiced, gossiping woman who took in washing on an other side. After about two weeks' restless tossing and the loss of about ten pounds weight this suffering man finally got used to the noises and now says he gets awake if for any reason the bedlam ceases longer than ten minutes. Speaking of suburbs, the expressions of a real estate agent on the effect of the attractions of the semicountry resi dence districts on his business are worthy of note. He says the problem nowadays is to secure desirable ten ants for city houses and to prove to people that living in a suburb is not an unmixed blessing. "People do not seem to consider the advantage of liv ing near their places of occupation," he said; "they forget about the com forts of city life and long for a place just outside of town with a patch of garden, a chicken coop and muddy street in front, which, when it is not wet, is three inches deep in dust, or blocked with snow in the winter. The great change that is taking place now in the minds of Harrisburgers, 1 think. Is the desire to migrate to the suburbs, and it is going to have a marked effect on city property as time goes on." "What is all this full crew business about?" asked a passenger on a Hill car this morning. "I must have been sleeping, as I found out yesterday. I met a group of strangers who were discussing the bill and they were talk ing about airbrakes and extra men. What has that to do with a full crew?" The man's inquiries brought some laughter and several jokers began poking fun at the passenger, one man remarking "Don't you read the news papers?" The law was explained to him and information given as to why railroads wanted the law repealed. When the man left the car at Fourth and Market streets he remarked to an acquaintance: "I thought all along it was a law which punished a crew wltcn they got drunk; that they called it a 'full crew' law on account of railroaders drink ing. T hear so much about the Penn sylvania Railroad cutting out liquor that 1 supposed the full crew bill did it." There is a rumor of a persistently leaking spigot in one of the rooms of the High Bchool that has defied the remedial skill of plumbers, janitors, students and teachers for two months. Three times has the lead pipe artist come in to cure the constant trickle, and as the gossip goes, three times has he scratched his head in per plexity, and failed, and gone away muttering to himself to consult with his helper. The last attempt was made the oilier day by the"' master plumber himself, his assistant and two janitors of the building. They tink ered for 40 minutes and attracted teachers and students from the class work and when they went away the leak was still leaking, and its per sistence is starting an agitation to call in the engineering staff of Technical high to solve the mystery. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —The Rev. William Powick, who retires as a Methodist superintendent in Philadelphia, was formerly station ed in this part of the State and is well known here. —E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadel phia bapker, is homo from the South and is entertaining extensively. —Judge J. Q. VanSwearingen. of Fayette, just promoted, was the field manager for Josiah V. Thompson when he ran for Governor. —Magistrate Joe Call, who was here yesterday, used to be a Philadelphia legislator. —David J. Smith, who is handling the moving picture censorship ruction in Philadelphia, was formerly a direc tor of safely in that city. I DO YOU KNOW—^I Tliat Harrisburg Is noted for tlie skill and numlx-rs of Its lal>or and that It could supply many more factories? AX EVENING THOUGHT Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.—Horace Mann. Getting the Auto Ready Soon be Spring again soon time for those long pleasant spins over the roads. Time to have the auto looked over. Time to see whether anything 1r needed. Time to decide whother you want a new car. And an excellent season to read the advertising in the Tel egraph to see what tho auto men have to say. No use nf spending good monoy without the surety of getting a full money's wortli and that means buying with knowledge. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LEGISLATORS ASK PEOPLE'S PRAYER Requests Sent by Members of the House For Church People * to Aid Local Option SPECIAL DAY IS APRIL 4 State Grange Sends Its Proposed Highway Department Bill to the Governor Letters were mailed last night by a member of the House of Representa tives to men prominent in religlßus work in their home districts Uskimj them to fix Sunday, April 4, as a spe cial day of prayer in their churches in behalf of the Governor and local option. The movement originated among several of the men who have been active in religious movements at home and who have been working earnestly for local option and for all temperance movements. Several of the legislators asked as high as thirty or forty friends at home to arrange with their pastors for the special prayers. The idoa of selecting April 4 was that it is the plan to act on the local option bill in committee on April 'i, that date having been set for a hearing by the law and order committee yes terday. It is probable that the bill will appear in the House soon after. —Drafts of a proposed State high way bill providing for a State High way Commission of three were sub mitted to Governor Brumbaugh by the executive and legislative committees of the State grange. The commission ers are to be paid $3,500 per year and are to be appointed by the Governor for three year terms. They must meet at least once a month with a State su perintendent of highways who is to lie paid $5,000 per year. The bill classi fies roads as municipal, main and township. Township supervisors are to select county road superintendents and each county is to have a bqard of road commissioners, to be composed of county commissioners and the county road superintendent who will have au thority over main highways, when maintained in part by county funds. Each township's roads shall be in hands of supervisors. The main object of the bill is to do away with segregation of main highways from other roads and appropriation of State funds for dis tribution among counties or basis of mileage and divided between main and township roads in a definite propor tion. —Sheriff G. W. Richards, of Alle gheny county, was at the Capitol meeting old colleagues. —The hearing on the House election bills, sponsored by the committee of seventy, is attracting some attention owing to the men who are to speak. —James E. Barnett, former State treasurer, was among the legislative visitors. —William Wayne, former member from Chester, sat in the House for a time last night. —Ex-Representative Frank Gray, of Philadelphia, spent a short time hero yesterday. —The drugless therapy bill was made a special order for next Monday night, being the first bill to be so fixed this session. —*Some of the Democratic members of the Legislature are reported to have bucked on the proposition to put in some Democratic bills for the same objects as those presented by Repub licans, solely for the sake of making campaign thunder. It is declared that one man said that he would not want lo be charged with the cost of print ing. —The House had an informal con cert last night when the session end ed. Mr. Cromer, of Allegheny, gave proofs that he was some singer and •caused much comment among the leg islators because of the volume. —Representative Wobensmith, of Philadelphia, lays claim to have been a soldier in the United States engi neer corps in Porto Rico during the Spanish war. —A bill to appropriate $350 for the maintenance of Cliilds Park in Pike county appeared yesterday. The park was given by Mrs. George W. Chllds years ago and nothing has been done by the State to care for it. —Anthracite region people believe that there will be an agreement reach ed in regard to a bill that will give the districts producing coal a share of the tax. Another conference will be he'd next week. —Representative H. B. Shoop, of Cumberland county, is a Dauphin county man by birth. He was born and reared at Berrysburg and then moved to Cumberland county. —Representative W. H. Dell, of Huntingdon county, received his de gree from Juniata College, of which Dr. Brumbaugh was president. —Speaker Ambler put Representa tive R. P. Habgood in the chair last night and the McKean man handled it as though he was used to the job. A Washington dispatch to the Pub lic Ledger says: ".Vance C. McCor inick, who was the Democratic nomi nee for governor in Pennsylvania last November, one of the men who bat tled with A. Mitchell Palmer to re claim the Democracy of the State, will consent to be a candidate to succeO'i Mr. Palmer as national committeeman. This became known here to-night as the result of a conference participated in by Palmer, McCormlck, fourth As sistant Postmaster General Hlakslee and Joseph Guffey, of Pittsburgh. The entire situation in Democratic politicu was discussed by these men who fore see the move about to be made In the next primary to grasp control from the reorganizes. President Wilson, it wna asserted to-night, had informed the reorganizes that he did not expect t.h*m to compromise with Individuals who did not represent straight-out Democracy in Pennsylvania politics. Therefore, there will bo 110 attempt to win the Old Guard back." 1-- —■» are always aggravated during damp, changeable weather and ordinary treatments are often useless. Such conditions need the oil-food in Scoff'* Emalrion to reduee the injurious acids and strengthen the organs to 9xpel then. Scott's Emulsion, with careful diet for one month, often relieves the lamo muscles and stiffened joints and subdues the sharp, 9A unbearable pains when other remedies hare failed. Yflf NO ALCOHOL IN acorn. 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Followed by a solid day of Falling, melting, sloppy snow. Then came balmy air and sunshine, My Spring suit I donned at once. Now I'm hacking, coughing, sneezing— Bring the cap and crown me "dunce." THE CATUIHO It mimics the vlreo's song, Insistent and jerky and sweet; Dike a robin it ripples along, L.|ke a sparrow it rhymes witli the street. Its call is now llut.v and far, Dike a veery at sunset alone: Now sad as the wood pewees are. Now bright «s the oriole's tone. Now mocking the doughty chewlnk. Now bold In the call of the jay: Now matching the crazed bobolink, Or the meadowlark's brisk rounde lay. And all through the marvelous feat A something uncanny, untrue, A tang of the mockut the cheat, A hint of a petulant'mew! —Amos R. Wells, In Suburban Dlfe. IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, March 25, 1865] Bishop In California ; > < jyoti!^^£otter ; _of > Jh£ f 2'rotj! If you want to make a noise llko a fashion plate—get one or . tlio new Spring Ties. They're very cliic!—Just the thing for Master. to $2.50 Forrv's MARCH 25, 1915. estant Episcopal church of the Dio ?«o 8 i ° f , p . enn sylvania, has gone to California for a complete rest. Ex-Governor in City Ex-Governor Ritner was in the city to-day. t More Losses Reported Heavy losses, caused by the flood, imported ' ro| n the northern part of the State. [From the Telegraph, March 25, 1865] Hardee Reports Victory Richmond, March 25.—Gen. Hardee reports the repulse of one column of Sherman's army which is moving to ward Raleigh. Stop Newspaper Circulation Cairo, March 25.—Rebel General Slaughter has prohibited the circula- Help for Hoarse Throats When you're so hoarse It hurts to talk or swallow; when your throat Is all "fllled up." Goff's Cough Syrup will have an almost instant effect; removing the congestion, opening the clogged air passages and overcoming the danger of Bronchitis and Pneumonia. Get a 25 or 50 cent «bottle at your Grocer's or Druggist's and stop that Injurious hoarseness. Guaranteed satisfactory, or money back. Contains no opiates. L. California Expositions | "I have seen Beauty that will give jj the World New Standards of Art" This is what Edwin Markham said ' ' a ' 3oUt l^c Panama Pacific Exposition. Southern Pacific—Sunset Route I ~ THE EXPOSITION L,NE Direct through Service p\ New Orleans to Los Angelfs and San Francisco If mm ' "SUNSET LIMITED J No *r tlon of all newspapers in Texas. No explanation is given. ' Mobile Reported Captured New Orleans, March 25. —The cap ture of Mobile by Union troops is re ported in this city. ■ ■i St How You Can Quickly Remove Hairy Growths (Aids to Beauty) A well-known beauty specialist ad vises this treatment for the removal of hair from the face. Mix into a pasto some powdered delatone and water, apply to hairy surface and after about 2 minutes rub off, wash the skin and every trace of hair has vanished. This method is quick and entirely safe. To avoid disappointment, however. It <9 well to make certain you get genuine delatone. —Advertisement. EDUCATION All Harrisburg business College 329 Market St. Fall term, September first Daj and night. 29th year. Harrisburg, Pa. Begin Preparation Now Day and Night Sessions SCHOOL OF COMMERCE 15 6. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa.