6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSji PUBLISHED BY THB TELEGRAPH PRIKTINO CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Bditor-u+Chi*f F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building. 211 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Btory St Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at !<VA LX»tr> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average lor the three ★ months ending April 30,1915. a 21,844 it Average for the yea* 1914—23.213 Average for the year 1913—21,577 Average for the year 1919—31.175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the rear 19t0—17.495 WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 26. GOOD ROADS DAY WITH the Governor, it 1s not only do 85 I say, but do as I do. In the matter of better highways for Pennsylvania. He Is on the Job himself to-day and Is leading the forces of the State in actual physical ■work upon the roads which are the arteries of trade and Intercourse for the people of the State. "Good Roads Day" is a practical setting apart of the people to a united effort In behalf of modern and sub stantial highways. For several years increasing interest has been manifest ed in this subject and that element of the population which at first opposed the idea of scientific road building Is now on the side of the workers for better highways and Improved facili ties for communication between the urban and suburban communities. It Is no longer a matter of doubt that ease of access between the rural districts and the cities will figure largely In keeping down the high cost of living. A partial elimination of the middle man, who waxed fat under the old system of transfer of commo dities, will work a vast change in the relation of the city to the country. Farmers and city' folk must get to gether and the only way that this Is possible is through proper means of communication. The coming of the automobile has undoubtedly Increased general inter est in road building and the farmer at last has realljed that the Improve ment of the highways Is a distinct benefit to him. In the beginning he was hostile on the score of expense and antipathy to the gasoline rival of his horses. All this has passed away and there axe few farmers nowadays who do not use automobiles and trucks In their own business. Motor clubs and good roads asso ciations all over the State are active in boosting better highways and now that the people are co-operating in practical fashion the proposition of a large loan for this immediate work is more favorably considered. By the time 1917 rolls around the electorate will place its approval upon the Sproul amendment for a $50,000,000 loan for construction of highways. To-day the forces of the State High way Department are doing their level best all over Pennsylvania to instruct the local authorities in proper road construction. This will be of incalcu lable benefit to thousands of those who have not heretofore given- the matter much thought. Governor Brum baugh's discussion of the subject in his campaign and his consistent atti tude since his Inauguration, with the hearty co-operation of the organiza tions formed for the promotion of bet ter highways, have done much to change old conditions. A steady improvement In the style of architecture In the residential dis tricts of the city Is a marked feature of recent building operations. It is a good thing- when those who build the homes of any city realize the Import ance of attractive dwellings and sur roundings. It Is a good thing for the builder and an equally good thing for the city. WHEN THE LAW IS POWERLESS PECULIAR conditions surround the arrest of Ida Riehl, of Phil- adelphia, the 17-year-old girl who shot and killed the false lover ■who reviled her and spat upon her when she begged him to save her from impending disgrace by fulfilling his pledge of marriage. The policeman that arretted Ida Riehl said he was sorry he had to do It. The magistrate before whom she appeared said It w«i the most un pleasant duty of his life to hold her for the coroner's Inquest. The coroner hopes that the duty of holding her for the action of the grand jury will devolve upon one of his deputies. The assistant district attorneys said they did not want to prosecute her and each* said he was hoping her trial /would be durtag his vacation. The Judges do not want to try-tier case. Great difficulty Is anticipated Jn ob taining a Jury. Justice, blind, with scales in hand, must be tempted to tear the bandage from her eyes to see who is Juggling the balance. The old Anglo-Saxon re spect for law, which has held the na tion together and which la the strong apt'tie-among tlioa® that hoLd US JLS a_ WEDNESDAY EVENING HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 26, 1915. people, snaps beneath the strain of a] heart appeal like this. Certainly the formalities of the law must take their course, but we can Imagine that In the present Instance the word formal ities will define the conclusion. Crim inal law Is after all but a formal agree ment among men that certain acts shall be followed by certain punish ments, and when men and servants of the law agree in their minds that law shall not apply, there is no power left to enforce It. The present case prom ises to provide an illustration of this. City Treasurer Copelln is manifest ing a proper appreciation of the obliga tion of a public official to the community in notifying the taxpayer that his of fice will be open for the receiving of taxes from May 27 to 29. inclusive, at night and also next Saturday after noon between the hours of 2:SO and 5 o'clock. These little attentions in the interest of public convenience are al ways appreciated. Every town within twenty miles of Harrlsburg must be regarded as a suburb of this city. For this reason the road making propaganda should emphasize particularly the desirability of improving all the highways extend ing like the spokes of a wheel from the capital of the Commonwealth. FREAK LAWS PENNSYLVANIA Is not alone In Its possession of legislators whose minds are constructed along lines that would have made them successful as the proprietors of dime museums or exhibitors of freaks. Only In this Stat® sober-mindedness predominates In the Legislature at least sufficiently to prevent crazy bills from getting be yond the pigeonhole stage. The Brook lyn Times has made a collection of statutes passed by other States, a perusal of which cannot but give rise to a higher appreciation of our own Legislature as compared with those of some other Commonwealths, not a few of which have appeared from time to time In the ultra-progressive col umn. Among the freak laws enu merated are these: Minnesota-'-Law to prohibit the catching of frogs. Kansas —Law to prohibit the use of face powder, hair dye or bleach, the piercing of ears and wearing of earrings. Colorado—Law to compel chick ens to go to roost before 7 p. m. daily. Providing that bulls driven along the roads at night shall wear lights. Massachusetts—Prohibiting the wearing of whiskers by doctors and dentists. Nebraska—Law compelling the National Guard to do ninety days' work each year on the roads and bridges of the State. Texas—Compelling churchgoers to leave their artillery on the out side of church buildings. Illinois—Forbidding the giving of tips to barbers, porters, etc. Minnesota —Law providing that lumberjacks shall be furnished with individual bathtubs. North Dakota—Law establishing uniform thickness of sleigh run ners. To this collection *e may add that in Massachusetts a bill taxing: bach elors $5 was adopted, and Illinois saw and raised the levy to SSO per annum. It would he interesting to know just how successfully the laws tabulated in the foregoing paragraph are enforced and what the fate was of the persons responsible for them. We can imagine, for Instance, what would become of the National Guard of Pennsylvania if it was required to spend ninety days a year repairing roads and likewise what would happen to the farmer who attempted to tie a red lantern to the horns of a Pennsylvania bull, but what In the name of zero weather would a Minnesota lumberjack do with an indi vidual bathtub? Or would he know one when he did see It? One can un derstand how some accidental member of a Legislature might, to satisfy a whim of his own or the hobby of a constituent. Introduce some such bill as those enumerated, but the state of mind that permits a supposedly digni fied Legislature and a supposedly com mon-sense Governor to enact one of them into law is beyond comprehen sion, except on the score of perverted humor. Gradually the bonds of sympathy be tween the Latin-American countries and the United States are being strengthened through the wise media tion of representatives of both sections of the western continent. It is anoma lous in the development of this great continent that natural neighbors have been so long separated. One of the good results of the awful conflict in Eu rope has been the growing intimacies of the Pan-American peoples. Signs of prosperity are shown upon every side. Less than 10,000 furnace ovens were in blast in Fayette county at the beginning of the year. It is now predicted with the firing of additional ovens this week that more than 22.000 coke ovens in the county will be in op eration within the next two months. Contracts for road rails and locomotives and equipment by the railroad com panies running into the millions of dollars also indicate the rising tide of commence In better business. THE WILKES-BARRE SPIRIT SATS the Wllkes-Barre Evening News, commenting on speeches made at a recent Chamber of Commerce dinner In that oity: Very properly, much stress was laid upon the Greater Wilkes- Barre project at the Chamber of Commerce dinner held during the present week. It is the one big thing worth attaining that has not been attained in the way of munici pal progress. Attorney Frank flattery, in his speech as toastmas ter, called attention to the fact that by adding the contiguous municipalities to Wllkes-Barre this city would become the third largest In the State, the metropolis of Northeastern Pennsylvania and far more Imposing in rank in the State and nation than Scranton, which lays much stress upon its importance as a trade and indus trial center because of Its popula tion figures. Is such an attainment not worth ■while striving for? Since the de feat of the movement some years ago by the citizens of the contigu ous municipalities, no serious at tempts have been made to realize this metropolitan ideal. But the citizens of some of these munici palities have perceived the errorsof their ways and would gladly annex themselves to this city If they were offered the opportunity to do so. In fact, there is a new law extant that permits the smaller munici palities to express an annexation desire. This is the spirit that ought to pre vail in Harrisburg. The Capital City •will not reach the importance to which it Is entitled until it brings under one central form of municipal government Steelton. Paxtang, Penbrook, Progress ,*nd even tb» '«row river tows* of Lemoyne, Wormleysburg and Camp Hill. Eventually this will come and the advantages of city government for suburban localities to be taken in will be worth more than the cost. In former years the up-keep of streets, lighting, police and fire de partment, filtered water and sewer systems were the preventative factors. To-day the suburb must correspond to the city In public improvements if it is to amount to anything. The State requires that Its water shall be pure and the time is fast approaching when the small town will have to face State intervention in the disposal of Its sew age. Electric lights are demanded in even the smallest villages ar.d Are pro tection has reached the motor-vehicle stage In even boroughs of New Cum berland's size, while Camp Hill has established Its own very efficient high school and Is facing a 130,000 paving loan. Naturally, when the city shall extend its limits and its advantages to points beyond these suburbs the bur den of taxation still will remain on the business and closely built up sections, while efficiency will be gained In mu nicipal administration through a low ering of the overhead charges. Thus both Harrlsburg proper and the out lying sections will be benefitted. Be side, there is the always large factor of a larger population as a drawing power for new industries and busi nesses. Mayor Royal Is entirely right In his attitude toward the regulation of auto mobiles and other vehicles. Simply be cause a man happens to ait at the wheel of an automobile is no assurance that he knows how to drive the machine. He may be a postlve menace to other vehicular traffic and pedestrians. In deed, It may become a question whether the police department will not be com pelled to act as first aid to many of the reckless Jltneyltes themselves. Many of the most enterprising citi zens of Harrlsburg are natives of Italy. Those who have beoome citizens of the United States will regard with natural Interest the developments In the home land, but there la nowhere evidence of a lack of fealty of the naturalized Italian to the country of his adoption. What the average consumer Is Inter ested In with respect to the new tax on anthracite coal la not how long It will take to decide the appeal on the tax Imposed by the Legislature, but how long the anthracite coal barons will be permitted to soak the consumer with the higher fuel price. Local dealers declare they are helpless against the Imposition of the operator. It's the old story of the consumer pay ing the freight. Wonder how many of the busy little knockers on the public Improvement work and the heads of departments really know what has been accom plished by these same departments during the last year. These public of ficials are entitled to a square deal and It Is only fair that good citizens should Investigate before they criticise. Governor Brumbaugh has done very well thus far in swinging the veto ax, and we must believe that his experience as a youth In the woodlands of Hunt ingdon county has been helpful in fit ting him for the task that is now be fore him in disposing of a great mass of legislation upon his desk. What, Mr. Weatherman, we arise to ask, Is the use of having a new straw hat and linen suit during such days as this? Members of the Uttls German band about town for the past few days are the only persons we know who are able to raise money on bad notes. The way a trout rises to a fly has nothing on the way a baldheaded man does. The Locomotive Engineers having declared for prohibition, we shall await with eagerness one of the usual ex planations of the liquor press agents as to the necessity of alcohol as an ad junct to safety first In the operation of railroad trains. EDITORIAL COMMENT "| [Washington Star.] While not more friendly as yet, Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Barnes are better acquainted than they ever were before. [Rochester Herald.] If the war lasts months longer. It will take more money than there Is in the world to pay the bill*. As wars are fought on the Installment plan. It doesn't worry the Hohenzollerns bo much who bring them on. [Washington Herald.] Motorman Burns, of the Barnes- Roosevelt libel suit jury, might have become famous if he hadn't weaken ed. [Manchester Union.] It looks as if Great Britain might have as much difficulty in picking a satisfactory coalition minlstery as she would have had in going along with the old one. STILL, SHE PROBABLY WHjL TColumbla State.] *We certainly don't see how Italy will have the nerve to explain that war was forced on her. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE [Houston Post.] Colonel Roosevelt told a friend he was ready to return to the Republi can party. Now that his purpose is known, we suppose the smart old foxea of the O. O. P. will proceed to sue out a writ of Injunction. AND THEY BELIEVE FT [Cincinnati Enquirer.] When a girl has a fat mother and a thin father she always tells the | young men that she takes after her father. They Want to Be Shown Mr. R•taller, yoor eustomers are newspaper advertising read ers. When they see a manufactur er's product described In the pa pers their interest is aroused. They want to see the goods. If they have reason to believe your store is showing the goods thev will go there. That means business for you. It is good merchandising to co operate with the manufacturer's newspaper advertising. 'P ooto iftcanZo, By the Kx-Oomnvlttecman —Governor Brumbaugh not only proposes to build up an organization In the State that will bring about the election of a local option legislature In 1916, but one pledged to enact ad ministration measures as well. The chief executive has become aware of the fact that some of his predecessors have found legislatures not inclined to follow the lead of a governor In all things In the third year of his term and he does not propose to be In that position If he can help it. —lt Is the plan to have conferences of more or less Informal character here and at other places In the State where friends of the Governor can gather to talk over the situation and plan the work. Some of the new Pub lic Service Commissioners and their friends are expected to have a part In this general campaign plan. The Governor's appointments Indicate, es pecially In the case of Commissioners Magee and Alney, a desire to weld all elements of the Republican party and to have the party face the next cam paign solidified. —Close friends of the Governor In timate that he will not talk presiden tial affairs this year, but will content himself with traveling about the State meeting the people and making speeches every now and -then, renew ing acquaintances, ns It were. Late In the summer he will go to the Pacific coast, traversing a number of States where he is personally known. —That the Governor 1s in earnest about building up an organization Is indicated by the zeal of some of his friends who are leaving no stones un turned to take advantage of county contests this Fall and giving fair warning. —No date has been set for the meet ing of the State-wide committee, but it is expected that it will assemble the middle of June. According to some intimations the meeting will be held here with "annex" meetings In va rious places. —Prominent men connected with the State-wide committee will mak« speeches this summer in which local option will be the keynote. Some are planned for this section and a stiff fight Is In sight for Harrisburg. —lt is noticed that Congressman W. S. Vare has been named on the Inde pendence Day celebration commission in Philadelphia and this fact has been much commented upon at the Capitol as showing the close relations existing between the Governor and the Vares. Rumor credits the Vares with having endorsed four of the Public Service commissioners named, but this Is taken with shakings of the head in some offices. However, there Is no denying the closeness of the Governor and the two Philadelphia leaders. —James F. Woodward, chairman of the House appropriations committee, will be the guest of friends on a yacht ing trip along the coast next month. —Senator Charles H. Kline. Pitts burgh city chairman, will leave for Alaska next month. He says he wants to see the midnight sun. —David H. Lane, the Philadelphia city chairman, will go to Atlantic City to-morrow to open what he calls his summer headquarters. —E. E. Althouse, burgess of Sellers ville, well known to a number of east ern men, is a candidate for county treasurer of Bucks county. —Representative A. C. Stein, of Pittsburgh, has been appointed by th « Republican ward chairman of Pitts burgh to draft explanations of the election bills now pending. —Charles Thompson, of Philadel phia. who replaced Honus Wagner, the baseball player, on the State Fish eries Commission, had a hard time get ting to the meeting of the commission at Torresdale. He was in Chicago when named and hurried home to at tend the meeting. He got to Philadel phia the day of the meeting and his automobile broke down while he was speeding to the place of the session. "See Pennsylvania," Is Brumbaugh's Slogan "The Lincoln highway. especially that part running: through Pennsyl vania, must be put in first-class con dition." said Governor Brumbaugh at Lancaster. The Governor stopped on his way to Harrisburg to get a good Lancaster county dinner, and he took occasion to express himself on the question of good roads. "We must get the Lincoln highway east of Coatesvllle fixed.*' he said, "so we can get travel through here. "This conning autumn I am going to get up a series of tours to get the peo ple Into Pennsylvania. I want them to see the beauties of this State, and I want them to oome heee Instead of go ing through the New England States. It 1s my plan to get up tours partici pated In by thirty or forty automo biles." WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ENGLAND? Having preserved under a strict censorship a measured freedom of the press. Great Britain In the midst of war is undergoing a violent political upheaval. If the newspapers every where had been gagged affairs might have proceeded on the surface with the appearance of smoothness, how ever much the campaign on the Con tinent halted. But the British re pulse at Tpres and the slow progress of the Dardanelles operations have created an opportunity for bringing popular discontent to a focus. Under skilful handling the Are that has been smouldering so long has been fanned to a flame and the country not only faces a Cabinet crisis but Is torn into factions by partisan clamor.—New York World. BURNS' LETTER BRINGS $405 At the first session at the Anderson Art Galleries, Madison avenue and Fortieth streets. New York, of the fifth part of the John Boyd Thatcher auto graph collection, George D. Smith paid 1400 for a letter which Robert Burns wrote in 1789, bemoaning the cares of poverty. "My poor distracted brain is so torn," he writes, "so Jaded," so raclt'd and bedevll'd with the task of the superla tively damned—making one guinea do the business of three—that I detest, ab hor and swoon at the very word. Busi ness. though no less than four letters of my very short name are In It." TRANSIENTS "Do you keep any servants?" "No, of course, not." "But I thought I saw one In your kitchen?" "Oh, we have servants on the prem ises a day or tiro at a time; but we don't keep them."—Houston Post NEEPKD "Ma! Ma!" bawled Freddie as the usual morning wash was going on. "Do my ears belong to my face or my neck?" Ma temporized. "Why. what Is the matter" she asked. "I want it decided now. Every time you tell Mary to wash my face or my neck she washes my ears too."— fjtAiea,' Homo Journal ( THE CARTOON OF THE DAY "A UTTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING" —From Life. A WINTER-TIME THE following poem was written by Mrs. Mary Fleming Labaree, daughter of Samuel Fleming, of Harrisburg, now in Persia as a mis sionary, on the massacres of the Chris tians by the Kurds in the East. It was read last week before a meeting in Market Square Presbyterian Church: It was cold and barren winter, When the Kurds came down in Spring flood To hunt and harry, and fatten Upon our bread and blood. If It had been golden summer, The dead had not lain near and far On the road that leads from Urumiah, Up to the land of the Czar. If it had been golden summer, . IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AQQ TO-DAY ' [From the Telegraph, May 26, 1865J Man Hurt at Sawmill John Brinser, employed in the saw mill of Zimmerman & Lescure, Mid dletown, had his leg severely cut when it was caught in the shaft used for moving lumber. Phlladelphian Robbed Samuel Heiss, Philadelphia, was robbed of $75 while sleeping in a room in the United States Hotel. It is believed that the thief was hidden under the bed when Heiss entered the room. Prepare For Soldiers Preparations are being made for a reception of the soldiers who were mustered out at Washington this week. HOW TO BUY WINDOW BOXES One Woman Found a Shop Where They Could Be Had Complete "My husband asked me recently what I would buy as a bit of extrava gance, if he should give me $25. Economy has this year come to be so natural a mode of behavior that I thought he was joking. We sat silent under the trees along the Drive, watching the cars whirring past, and I said nothing. 'I mean it, Nell,' he repeated. 'Suppose I should give you $25; what would you do with it?' "Into my mind there came a flicker ing idea of clothes. I am getting so that I do not care how I look, but sometimes, especially if I happen to come across an empty perfume bottle or an odorless sachet bag, I think of the finery that I no longer wear. "My husband must have thought that I was going to 'sleep out there under the moon, it took me so long to answer him. At last I broke the silence. 'Henry, if you're in earnest, I'd like part of $25 for some window boxes. Edith has some and they make her livingroom so fresh, not to mention their effect against the outer wall of the apartment house. I thought at first I'd like some clothes, but I don't believe, after all, they'd satisfy me. Do you want to give me $lO, really?* 'Of course I do,' was his reply. And that is how I happened to be able to buy them. "If you are interested. I would ad vise you not to invest in your boxes at a hardware store and then proceed to plant them full of already-blooming plants from a passing wagon. If you do. you'll be doomed to disappoint ment. There is a shop downtown where you can get three-foot boxes complete for $2.50, and the plants are young and hardy, brought In fresh from out-of-town nurseries. I no long«r want to go to the park, I sit and saw beside by window boxes Instead." —The Shopper, in New York Post. WITH BARNES OUT OF IT [From the Brooklyn Times. 1 With the elimination of William Barnes, of Albany, as a candidate for United States Senator, which has been so thoroughly accomplished at Syra cuse, Republican attention anturally gravitates to other possible nominees. From the fact that Senator James W. Wadsworth represents a strictly rural section of the State, it is fair to as sume that the City of New York will contribute the next Republican can didate. This Is rendered the more likely because of the fact that Sen ator O'Gorman, the Democratic In cumbent, is a resident in the metro politan district, while from the point ot view of commercial prestige and In dustrial predominance, the argument for a city man is unanswerable. There will be no paucity of candi dates. The Borough of Manhattan alone has an abundance of candidates. Former War Secretary Henry L. Stlm son, Frederic C. Tanner, who ably maaacrad Mr. Whitman's canvass for Governor, and former Mayor Seth Low may ba taken as excellent examples of what tha City of New York can offer. THE "OTHER HALF" ESCAPES Society Dame—Oh, doctor, I'm so sorely troubled with ennui. Doctor—H'm! Why don't you in terest yourself in finding out how the other half lives? Society Dam»—-Gracious! Why, I'm not looking for a divorce.-—Chicago JSenm, . The gaunt, huddled refugees Had poured from foul rooms to roof and yard. Not fallen like summer leaves. If It had been golden summer, Babes had hid In the fields of grain; And some had escaped the dagger And the sharper captive pain. If it had been golden summer. Our daughters to vineyards had fled, And safe in the deep dug leaf thatched rows. Not drunk of the shame and dread. It was cold and barren winter ■When our men and boys on the hill. Tied arm to arm, by their fathers' " graves, Fell. And they He there still. M. F. L. Tabriz, Persia. March, 1915. Our Daily Laugh ®IN TIME TO COME. * Wifey What LI do yon think of /A the way I handled the campaign in Hubby Quite L] creditably, my dear—though, of course. It caji't compare with the campaigns moth er used to make. i,Anon i.OAT By \\ lukI uk Dinner For three years I've been a-trying, Trying, brotner, mighty hard To produce a sod good-looking, Up in our big back yard. I have sowed grass seed each summer, I Weeds I've pulled up here and there— And my work has been rewarded For the yard looked more than fair. Not a week ago I wandered 'Bout the place, swelled up with pride O'er the way I had it looking And to wifey, dear, I cried: "Dear, the neighbors' yards this sum mer Haven't one thing on our place; Rather I should say our back yard For the others sets the pace." Next day, though, my hopes were shat tered. When from out the cellar drain Water backed up in the cellar And would not flow out again. Plumbers came with pick and shovel And without the least regard For the sod, they started digging— Now you ought to see the yard. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Do you know exactly what an "out drop" is? If you play basebaH in the summer, or like to watch it. or like to be able to talk about it and follow it. why, then, there's another book to take along. "BasebaH" it's called. "In dividual Play and Team Play in Detail" (Scribners). And it is the result of the collaboration of two players. They are, respectively, W. J. Clarke, head coach of the Princeton 'varsity baseball team, and Frederick T. Dawson, captain of the Princeton baseball team, 1910, and now general athletic coach at Union College. There Is nothing like the deep woods for the long, warm days of the vaca tion. But the unprepared "tenderfoot" may discover difficulties even In the sheltering woods. So there is an out door book for girls, entitled "On the Trail." by Una Beard anil Adelia B. Beard (Scribners). It tells of wood craft. camping, camp outfits, outdoor handicrafts, making friends with the outdoor folk, wild food on the trail, lit tle foes of the trailer, the camera on the trail, canoeing, rowing, swimming, campfires, accidents, etc. It Is a book that has long been needed. IN TSWCAJTwat By way of enlarging the children's vocabulary, our village school teacher In in the habit of giving them a cer tain word and asking them to form a sentence In which that word occurs. The other day she gave the class the word "Notwithstanding." There was a pause, and then a hrlght-faced youngster held up his hand. "Well, what la your sentence, Tom my?" asked the teacher. "Father wore his trousers out, but notwithat&ndl&ff." —Sfit-Biu. IS lEtennuj ©l}a ■ Persona who attempt to repeat iiF the suburbs of the city some of thi robberies and second-story that have been going on lately will »e apt to be shot full of holes, becauie residents of some of the surroundiJi* towns have been going the allies soine better In the purchase of of defense. Men living In several /bor oughs have been buying revolvers and a few haVe been purchasing shotguns, while others have arranged for a sys tem of signals to call for help. In a couple of places regular vigilance com mittees have been formed to break up t petty thieving and the residents will ' not content themselves with chasing off any men who may try to break Into their homes, but will endeavor to capture them. Most of the boroughs, like the outlying sections of the city, are without police protection and people have apparently decided to pro tect themselves and not to lose any time about getting repdy for it. Over the river half a dozen men have ar ranged to respond to calls for help with revolvers and to wake up half the town In order to capture the thieves. On this side some unpleasant surprises have been arranged and men have been told to shoot if they get a chance at the robbers. It is believed that the robbing has been done by a gang hav ing headquarters in this city and that automobiles are being used. • • • When Highway Commissioner Cun ningham goes into Washington county to-day on Good Roads Day inspection and encouragement he will make an effort to call on Dr. E. B. Martin, the western man who originated the "good roads - ' day idea. He is at present in California, a borough in Washington county, and he will be asked to make a speech and to visit some of the parties at work. * » • The new Hope fire engine has been attracting a good bit of attention as it is being driven about the city to give the men in charge the practice thev need. The machine has been driven into narrow streets and alleys and around piles of building material so that the drivers will be used to such things when they are in service. • • ♦ Friends of Edgar R. Kiess, of Hughesville, one of the new Public Service commissioners, will be inter ested to know that Mr. Kiess plans to spend practically all of his time here except when the commission Is in va cation. Mr. Kiess is well known to many Harrlsburgers through his resi dence here while a member of the Legislature and because of the many from this city who go to Eagtesmere in summer time. • • * Among Harrisburg visitors yester day was Judge Thomas J. Baldridge, of Blair county, who came here to see friends and to see the Supreme Court In session. The judge is one of the youngest and best known Jurists in the State. • • • "You'd be surprised," said an expert photographer the other day, "just how many people there are in Harrisburg ■who have the camera bug. It seems to get 'em hard along about this time of the year when the woods and streams are ripe for strolling. And what's more, lots of amateura know a lot about the technicalities of the art. Many a film or plate is brought to me for developing that transcends tlie work of experts in the results attained. Almost everybody knows how to op erate a camera nowadays and there are thousands of people who own "boxes" of various values in this citv and the surrounding towns. A lot of my developing work Is brought In by fond mamas and papas who are keep-r ing a picture story of their growing days. Then, too, me outinW of the high school boys and girls gets us fellows a lot of work. Some of the pictures taken by the lads and lassies are very entertaining, for the young people are just brimful of Joy and laughter when the snaps are made, and those are the things that help to make a picture worth while pasting in your album." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, the new Presbyterian moderator, is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson. —Burgess R. D. Warman, of Union town, well known here, was attacked by a man who appeared before him for a hearing. —E. W. Beadel, New Castle manu facturer, is an enthusiastic good roads advocate. —Colonel E. M. Young is active in the movement for $75,000 for build ings for Allentown's College for Women. —Hampton L. Carson, former At torney General, has gone to his coun try home near Philadelphia for the summer. —Colonel J. Benton Long, one of the new colonels on the Governor's staff, is prominent in the provision business In Elk county and vicinity. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisbnrg's river front "steps" have been photographed by people from alj over the State lately? UNCLE SAM'S DESIRE The Europeans in these days are finding out a good many things about themselves and one another, and' it will be all in a day's work if they find out something about us. Some of them have been developing conscious ness that they have souls, and if we develop a discernible soul they may be able to recognize it. So far since this war began our national soul has not been easily discernible from a distance. But it has been in its place all the time. »The great American de sire has been not dollars at all, but to be right.—Life. Letter List LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN the Post Office, at Harrisburg. Pa., for the week ending May 22, 1915: Ladies' List Mrs. E. S. Becker, Mis» Anna Endress, Mrs. Sarah Free man, Mrs. C. S. Glldae. Dorothy •>. Hardy (D. L), Mrs. Mae Hench, Mrs. H. Sr. Hickman, Mrs. Minnie Hicks, Mrs. Hogle, Mrs. George Holmes, Miss H. Johns. Mrs. Lewis E. Johnson, Mrs. J. F. Kiehl, Mrs. Lizzie Lance, Miss Markell. Miss Virginia Ridenour, Mrs. M. L. Shultz, Mrs. Edward Silks, Mrs. Ella M. Slninan, Miss Margaret fatoup, Mrs. Beatrice Write. , Gentlemen's List E. R. Andrus (W, Percy Beers, Prof. S. C. Reitzel, P. C. Bentzel, Ross Blessing, William W. Boone. Charles Robert Brlggs, Jr.. A. Cellitti, J. A. Corrigan. Dnv]d Currier, Jr.. J. H. Drewry. W. R. Ellis. Billy Ennls. H. A. Ewlng, J. F. Ferrell. H. H. Flelsher, W. E. Forrest. Frank Frey, Hubert R. Fye, Mr. Gregg. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, R. N. GrlsTiam. Harry L. Harris. Joseph Heardord. Wilmer A. Hoke (2), W. J. Jenkins, Rudolph Kim merer, M. D., Harry King, Thomas Klein, Y. E. Kremer, E. Leant, George Llndsey, Michael Llpiejko, Charles Mar tin. Charles W. McClure (E>. L), Geo. B. Murray, Mettle Neuglf (D. L). Frank L Snyder, E. P. Young. Firms Blrdsall Engine Co., The Dispatch. Humanla Hair Co Foreign Lea Furguson. Tonos Wldleyki. Lauzion fu Lulgi Vincenzo. Persons should Invariably have their mall matter addressed to their street and lnumber, thereby insuring prompt delivery by the carriers. FRANK C. SITES, Postmaster*
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