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SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5
The reason some men do not succeed is be
cause their tvithbone is uliere their backbone
ought it be. —Anon.
GERMANY'S OFFER
THE offer of Germany to pay for
the loss of the Gulflight is no
more than an unduly deferred
recognition of a perfectly apparent
obligation. It seems to be nothing
more than an effort to justify the
home government with the German
people and to confine as much as pos
sible the demands of President Wil
son's note to the Lusitania incident.
So long as the German foreign office
thought it could Ignore or delay ac
tion on the Gulflight Incident and "get
sway with it" no move was made
There would have been none at this
time had not Germany become sud
denly awake to the understanding that
the United States is in no mood for
trifling.
The Gulflight was torpedoed in the
English channel five weeks ago while
■bound from Port Arthur, Texas, for
Rouen, France, with oil. Fortunately
rhe was able to make shore, but two of
the crew were drowned and the cap
tain died next day. The incident oc
curred in broad daylight while the
Guflight was displaying the American
flag at mast-top.
Germany pronounces it an "unfor
tunate' accldent" and offers "to fur
nish full recompense for the damage
thereby sustained by American citi
zens." That Is all very well, but it
does not give back the lives that Ger
man recklessness blotted out and it
convicts the German government of
the very crimes of which President
Wilson complains in the case of the
Lusitania. Furthermore, who will be
lieve that the German submarine crew
did not see the American flag until the
very "moment of firing the shot?"
And how are we to know that there
•will not be many more such "unfor
tunate accidents?"
The whole course of Germany on
the seas In this war has been as out
rageous as her behavior in Belgium
nnd the Gulflight admissions merely
serve to strengthen the case civiliza
tion has made out against her. There
must he no international pardon board
for this convicted criminal among the
nations. The full penalty must be ex
acted In one way or another and the
whole country will rejoice that Presi
dent Wilson has concluded not to re
cede one Inch from the position he at
first took.
Something must noon he done by the
municipal authorities In the matter of
regulating the size anil use of heavy
motor trucks on the paved streets of
the city. If the destruction of the
asphalt highways Is to follow, as seems
now quite probable, then it will be
necessary to specify the weight of
trucks and the size of load that will be
permitted. Much damage has already
been done and It is said still larger
trucks are about to lie put Into service.
SAVING
HERE are a few brief stories for
you. young man, who are won
dering how so many others are
Having; money while you are putting
nothing aside from your weekly
salary.
"Give me the young man with SSO
saved and I will show you a young
man who is started on the road to
success. I cannot impress on em
ployers too strongly the wisdom of
encouraging their employes to econo
mize and to save in little as well as In
big things," said a great merchant
prince who began life as an errand
boy and climbed to the presidency of
the same business.
"Be prepared," the motto of the
Boy Scouts, is a good motto for any
body who would get ahead in the
world.
Few men can achieve wealth on a
salary alone, but the habit of thrift,
tf persisted in, will make even the
•mall-salaried man well off in the
end.
Innumerable Instances might be
cited. Nearly every great man has
been an economist. Every rich main
has had to be one in the beginning
of his career and habits acquired
early in life usually continue to the
end.
Frederick Weyerhauser, the lum
berman. whose fortune was estimated
as greater even than Rockefeller's, de
clared that the surest way to make
money is to save money.
Marshall Field, the great merchant,
«ald, "If you want to succeed, save.
SATURDAY EVENING,
This is true not so much because of
the value of the money which the
young man who saves accumulates,
but because of the infinitely greater
value of the system and organization
which the practice of saving intro
duces into his-life." Mr. Field was
an exemplar of the habits of thrift
to the end of his life. One of his
early habits was never to ride when
he could walk. If he was not in a
hurry he always walked and the
habit persisted.
A wealthy New York man who
owns real est&te worth $20,000 de
clared that this property represented
what he had saved by shaving him
self and blacking his own boots.
The story is told of one Octave
Glrard, of Ware, Mass., who retired
well-oft at the age of 70, not long
ago, after working at manual labor
most of his lifetime and never re
ceiving more than $1 a day.
He said he was able to put aside
a comfortable sum for his old age
because both he and his wife believed
In economy and practiced it rigor
ously. "Steadfastness of purpose and
steady work is the. secret of saving,"
said Mr. Glrard. "We paid cash for
everything we bought. We lived on
simple fare, and although we had no
luxuries, we had all that anyone
needs."
A few men have made great wealth
almost over night—but very few—and
even these founded their fortunes on
a "nest egg" saved from small earn
ings. It is easy to save SI,OOO after
you have saved SIOO. Try it.
"THE OPEN MIXD
PRESIDENT NICHOLAS MURRAY
BUTLER, of Columbia Univer
sity, in his address to this year's
graduating /class, urged the young
men and women to be at great pains
to maintain open minds. He cau
tioned them especially against the
closed mind; the mind "for which all
the great issues of life are settled
once for all," and which is known in
fitmiliar speech as the Bourbon mind.
Then he said:
There is another type of mind
equally to be shunned. To be sure,
fnls type of mind is not closed, for
unfortunately it is quite open at
both ends. This is the type that
remembers nothing and which
learns nothing. To it the name of
no historic family hk i yet been
given. There is every prospect,
however, that some contemporary
name may, through contnnt associa
tion with this type of mind, yet
become as distinguished and as fa
miliar In the speech of our grand
children as the name of the House
of Bourbon is distinguished and fa
miliar to us.
Dr. Butler may not have had a
particular name in view when he said
this, but the description he gives
suits to a nicety the word Progressive.
Progressiveness itself is a fine thing.
No mind can be open, fair, optimistic
and healthy without a generous
amount of it. But that movement In
American politics which is known by
the name Progressive, and of which
Roosevelt Is the prophet, is quite
another thing. Some few of these
Progressives—the hard-headed poli
ticians with axes to grind—are not
handicapped by minds which, to bor
row another phrase from Dr. Butler,
"consist wholly of openings," but
those -who take seriously the plat
forms and campaign utterances are.
These people welcome with open
arms any proposition that promises a
change from existing, conditions. They
never stop to be sure that It is not
inherently absurd or dangerous. "Give
us something new" is the constant
cry of the typical open-at-both-ends
minds, and the saddest feature about
the whole thing is that they never
learn that many of the "new" things
are but the repudiated nostrums of
earlier ages, while others are the il
logical and impracticable schemes of
dreamers.
\ MR. SHAW'S VISION
KF. SHAH, Chinese Ambassador
to the United States, speaking
before the New York Chamber
of Commerce the other day, gave more
than a hint of what is passing in the
minds of Chinese statesmen regarding
the future of that great country. Mr.
Shah evidently has a vision of the time
when China shall be the leader of the
East, relatively as powerful in that
quarter of the globe as is the United
States in this.
He foresees a strong rivalry between
London and New York for supremacy
as the money market of the world and
with the Panama Canal in operation
and exchange possible on a liberal
basis in New York he urges the estab
lishment of regular steamship lines
between Atlantic coast ports and
China. Best of all, he pleads for a
continuance of the "open door" policy
in China, and the perfect good will
and friendliness of the Chinese to
ward the United States is well set
forth in this rather remarkable por
tion of an exceptionally strong ad
dress:
If we wish to open our door to
any country or any people in in
dustry or commerce at all, we
should like to open our door to the
American poople first and best. We
would like to open this door, but
the doorway may be blocked by
some extraneous forces which we
may not be able to conquer for the
time being. We hope that since we
are opening our door wide open to
you, if you desire at all to have
any communication with us, let us
Join hands and maintain the open
door to you. Furthermore, we are
trying to pursue another policy
which is better than the open door
policy, and that is the open heart
policy. We mean that we want to
have our heart open to you in busi
ness transactions. In developing In
dustry and commerce and In the
establishment of intimate and cor
dial relationship and friendship be
tween your great country and ours.
This open heart policy cannot be
blocjted or hindered, and there will
be always a thorough pasageway
through which the friendly feelings
and the cordial relationship will
flow from your country to our coun
try and from our people to your
people. We sincerely hope that
through this visit of ours we
will not only see tremendous possi
bilities of trade and commerce be
tween your great republic and ours,
but we shall also see tremendous
opportunities for the two greatest
republics of the world to Join hands
to stand for liberty, equality and
universal peace."
Here we have more than an intima
tion of what Chinese leaders have in
mind, and who shall say the vision ia
beyond fulfillment. Dr. C. Newton
Dubs, of this city, who has spent more
than ten yearf among the Chinese and
who is one of the best versed men in
the world on China and its posslblll
ties, says that the time la coming, and
at no distant date, when China will
have to be reckoned with as a great
world power. The progress of that
mighty nation since the revolution that
overthrew the ancient ruling dynasty
and resulted in the establishment of
a republic has been the wonder of the
age. China is grappling with tremen
dous problems and solving tflem with
little bloodshed and ki much more
orderly and sensible manner' than has
marked the course of many of the
so-called "enlightened" countries In
recent years. Once well organized,
developed and equippvd, the Chinese
nation will he a powerful friend or a
formidable foe, and evidently her own
statesmen realize this as well as any
body, perhaps better. At all events
here Is a friendship offered that ought
not to be carelessly thrown away. In
the end It may prove much more help
ful than the closer relations we are
trying so desperately to establish with
South America, depirable though these
beyond question are.
"It becomes prudent men to remain
quiet so long as they are not injured,
hut courageous men ought to exchange
peace for war as soon as they have
been wronged; when they have brought
the war to a successful Issue, peace
may be made with the enemy; but no
one ought to be uplifted unduly by suc
€ess in war, nor should any submit to
injustice because they are unwilling to
sacrifice the calm delights of peace."—
Thucydldes.
Cutting up asphalt streets to put
down pipes that should have been laid
previous to paving Is not only wasteful
from the city's standpoint, but it shows
a woeful lack of management on the
part of the company, which Is thereby
put to the expense of repavlng as well
as of excavating for the pipes.
The news that one woman stood oft
a whole company of Mexican troops for
half a day will give more confidence to
those who have been fearsome of what
might happen to American troops in
case of Intervention.
"The renegade Plutes have hit the
trail again," says the Baltimore
American. The same Issue notes that
"Billy" Sunday Is spending his summer
on a western ranch.
The German capture of Przemysl is
something like fighting for and getting
an empty pork barrel with half the
staves gone.
Just to add variety to the news, it is
announced that an English Subma
rine has torpedoed a German transport.
"This fickle June weather" Is the way
an exchange defines It. Fickle, noth
ing. Faithless is the word.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT |
Americans who contemplate a tour of
Europe might find it safer to pass the
summer In Mexico.—Chicago Dally
News.
In a nutshell, the* proposal Is to
change the freedom of the seas from
the vertical to the horizontal.—Wash
ington Post.
It looks as if von Tirpitz might suc
ceed General Weyier in American af
fection.—Columbus Dispatch.
On account of possible slides and for
other reasons the fleet's trip through
the Canal may be postponed.—Wash
ington Post.
You see. Germany, it isn't as if you
wouldn't still have the British Navy
for your submarines to practice on.—
Boston Transcript.
If the Kaiser wants to treat the
President's note as a scrap of paper,
the United States will be right there
with the scrap.—Philadelphia North
American.
In discussing the sale of munitions it
should be borne in mind that Uncle
Sam's shop is open to all comers, but
he maintains no delivery service. l
ndianapolis Star.
To say that the I.usitania had "ample
warning" Is a misuse of language: what
It bad was a threat that it would be
sunk without warning. The two things
are as different as can well be.—Spring
field Republican.
The sinking of the llier is equiva
lent to a naval defeat, and perhaps one
result of the incident will be the col
lapse in America of faith in England
and greater regard for the German
Empire.—Vienna Neue Frele Press.
PREPARING FOR PREPAREDNESS
fFrom the Kansas City Star.]
Senator Hoke Smith told the visiting
Chhiese commission In Washington that
the next Congress will probably make
large naval and military appropri
ations. "If you should see us preparing
this (coming* winter for more battle
shins than ever before, don't be alarm
ed." Senator Smith told the Chinese.
Indeed the Chinese would not need to
be alarmed at that forecast, even If
they thought we were going to war
with them. Preparedness takes time.
Congress will not meet (in the ordin
ary course of events* until next De
cember. Naval "preparedness," which
is going to begin to prepare nine or
ten months in the future will be com
pleted about three years off. The
quickest a battleship lias ever been
built in the United States Is two years
and two months.
Preparedness Is the shield and buck
ler of a peaceful but strong nation.
Preparedness cannot be prepare/! for
too quickly nor kept too constantly
at the 100 per cent, standard.
WHAT, IS ENGLAND DOING?
FFrom the Kansas City Times. 1
Sir William Van Horne , sneeringlv
says that President Wilson probably
in the end "will apologize to Germany."
This Briton with the Dutch name is
like many of his kind who keep thous
ands of miles from the seat of war and
strive to goad the United States Into
fighting Great Britain's battles. An
English newspaper asks, "Now what
will America do?" Germans are killing
a thousand Englishmen every day. The
real question Is, what is Great Britain
doing?
SUPPI.Y AND DEMAND
By Wing; Dinger
It's funny how the prices soar
On things much In demand.
And ones demand falls ofT, how they
Will drop to beat the band.
East Saturday I went to buy
For Decoration Day
Some peonies, and ten cents each
Is what I had to pay.
To-day we have In our yard
Of flowers a good supply,
So none In market this A. M.
Was I compelled to buy.
Curious to know what peonies
Were selling for to-day,
I asked their price of one woman,
And to me she did say:
"Well, I was asking three cents each.
But mercy, sakes alive.
No one will buy them, so you may
Have them at three for Ave,"
HARRISBURG flfSjjftl TELEGRAPH
CK
'PtKKO^tcanXo.
By the Ex-Commltteeman
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Mc-
Clain declared last night In Philadel- I
phia that reports to the effect that he
would lead a revolt against the Gover
nor inside of the Republican party
were absurd. He declared that there
has been some stories built out of his
announced intention to address the
Bucks county Republican committee
on June 19 which had no foundation
and that the engagement had been
made long ago.
The lieutenant-governor has on sev
eral occasions spoken his mind on the
relations between the executive and
legislative branches of the State gov
ernment, but people acquainted with
him know that Is his frank way of
putting it and that he had said things
right in the presence of Governor
Brumbaugh. iJast night Mr. McClain
made this statement of his position:
"I have accepted an invitation
to address the Bucks county Re
publican committee at its meet
ing on June 19. My- theme will
be' Republicanism.' Any suggestion
that 1 am identified with any re
volt against the State Administra
tion is simply absurd. It is true
that 1 have differed with the Gov
ernor on some matters of legisla
tion, yet that clearly is my privi
lege. It in no way disturbed
our personal relationship. Some
of the legislation with regard to
which we differed is now on the
statute books and our duty is to
obey and uphold this legislation
and give it a fair trial. If it shall
be demonstrated that these laws
are oppressive after the experience
of a fair trial of them it will be
easy to have them amended or
modified at the next session of the
General Assembly."
Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart and
Mr. McClain were speakers at the ban
quet of the Textile school alumni in
Philadelphia last night and Mr. Mc-
Clain made some comments upon ten
dencies of the times in his speech.
He said in part: "Too much hysteri
cal idealism, too muqh sentimental
energy expended in suppressing labor
of both young and old, that could have
been profitably employed in de
vising ways and means to furnish more
work. We have had humanitarianisni
run mad, and now social justice, as it
is called, contemplates rusts in idle
ness to be followed perhaps by 'rot in
vice,' rather than the honest toil of
our fathers, which, even though it
was ten hours a day or more, did not
prejudice their health or that of their
offspring, and did create a citizenship
certainly as high in morals, vigorous
in vitality, and useful in endeavor as
any that will grow from the new
freedom.' "
• —People who follow politics in
Pennsylvania profess to believe that
Auditor General Powell's activity In
legislative matters just now and his
issuance of a statement on the finances
at variance with the estimates made
by the appropriations committee chair
men is' preliminary to embarking on
a campaign for the United States sen
atorship. Unlike State Treasurer R.
K. Young, Mr. Powell never left the
Republican party and his friends as
sert that while he has been aligned
with William Flinn in many moves, he
is a Republican and can .enter the
lists for senator if he desires. It is
intimated, however, that the auditor
general will take his time to look over
the field and will not make any move
unless he can get the Governor to sup
port him.
—Lebanon county Republicans are
commencing to sit up and take notice
of the situation in regard to appoint
ments on Capitol Hill that are filled
and have been filled by Lebanon peo
ple. They will make an effort to re
tain the position filled by the late A.
R. Houck, but it is believed about the
Capitol that the Governor will place
it somewhere else.
—The Allegheny County Bar Asso
ciation yesterday declined to! take
cognizance of the charges brought
against District Attorney R. H. Jack
son. The bar association considered
that the charges were not matters for
its Jurisdiction.
—An interesting battle will be wag
ed for the election of a judge in Wyom
ing county next Fall. Judge Terry is
a candidate for re-election and there
are several men announced in opposi
tion. Jefferson county will also have
a lively battle for judicial honors.
—Governor Brumbaugh's action on
appropriation bills being awaited
with the greatest Interest because of
the effect upon institutions in interior
counties. The Governor plans to take
up the charitable appropriations next
week.
—Representative E. E. Jones, who
has had charge of the "dirt road" leg
islation for several years, was here
to-day looking after legislative mat
ters. He is mentioned as a candidate
for senator in his district ■ next time.
—lt appears to be a foregone con
clusion that Edgar R. Kiess, of Lycom
ing county, will decline the public ser
vice commissionership, if he has not
already done «o, and remain in Con
gress in deference to wishes of the
leaders of his district, the advice of
personal friends and the demands
of his own businejis interests. The re
ports regarding Mr. Kiess have re
vived the stories that Emerson Col
lins. of Williamsport, will he selected
for the place. The Governor, however,
is keeping his own counsel as usual
and the politicians are guessing.
THE STEEI, COItPORATIOX
TNew York Sun.]
The United States Steel Corporation
is the greatest of our great industrial
units, the foremost example of that
centralization anil aggrandizement of
functions which lias Inevitably attend
ed tlie development of modern business
methods. So also the Government suit
to dissolve this great concern, the suit
begun by the Taft Administration near
ly five years ago in the United States
District Court at Trenton, Is the su
preme and perhaps the final repressive
effort of that period of legislative
vagueness and economic mistakes and
political folly during which the Sher
man anti-trust act has been emploved
In attempts to eradicate the acknowl
edged evils of big business bv eliminat
ing the bigness Itself of business.
Our Daily Laugh
DANCING MEN
IN DEMAND. JflQ
We never knew
what to do with ,v
grandpa before. *5 Yr'yy
And new? fc/Ck
He'll oe a big SVa 1
help to us ao- fjljt I
cially. We're hav- jM I
>ng him taught MH
all the new
dance step*.
§ FASHIONABLIB.
Hubby (scath
ingly): You get
narrower every
Wifey (c om
placently): Yes,
I have the fash*
lonable figure.
»
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
DISCONCERTING, TO SAY THE LEAST!
*, y |
—Reynold* In tkr Portland OrrKonUi.
ANECDOTES OF CHAS. FROHMAN
DROWNED
j
BELASCO and Frohman were sepa
rated a number of years before
they made the joint production
of "A Celebrated Case" this Spring.
At the opening they sat in the same
seats from which they had watched
"The Girl I Left Behind Me," which
Mr. Belasco wrote for the opening of
the Empire. After the third act the
audience called for them.
"You take the call," said "C. F,."
shrinking back.
"Not without you," was Belasco's
reply.
"But I have never gone before the
curtain in my life."
"But I can't without you."
"I am the proprietor of this the
ater," returned Mr. Frohman, "and
you must do as I tell you."
Mr. Hayman said to his "chief"
one day:
"Do you know you are not doing
right in sending money to all the
people who write and tell you they
are in hard luck? They may be im
posing on you."
"There may be some that are im
posing," Frohman answered, "but I
know that there are others in want,
so t can't afford to make a mistake."
On one of the rare occasions when
Frohman granted an interview he was
asked:
"What is the difference between
metropolitan and out-of-town audi
ences?"
"Fifty cents," he said.
Mr. Frohman was not fond of lux
uries. When he brought an automo
bile several years ago it browe <Jown
in Fifth avenue, and when the chal
feur was cranking it the car lurched
forward with a severe shock. Mr.
Frohman made no comment until
sometime afterward, when he said to
his companion:
"I guess automobiles are for aris
tocrats."
He sold the machine within a very
few days and never bought another.
One of the manager's most precious
souvenirs was an unframed panel
photograph of. Clyde Fitch. It always
stood on a marble mantel near the
mahogany table where Mr. Frohman
worked. The particular reason for his
regard for it was a clever compliment
embodied in this autograph: "To
C. F. from c. f."
* • *
Six years ago there was a rumor
that Mr. Frohman would retire. He
denied it in these words:
"in actual funds X am not rich
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
Frederick W. Taylor, though dead,
inay be exerting an appreciable Influ
ence on the present European war. Mr. I
Taylor's publishers have just received
by cable from London a large order
for "Principles of Scientific Manage
ment." A recent review in the London
Spectator of "Principles of Scientific
Management" emphasized the value of
Mr. Taylor's discovery of the proper re
lations between the intervals nf rest
and work, and this and the action of
the British Government in pressing In
dustries and labor for the supply of
munitions of war lias created a de
mand in England for the book. And
the managers of a factory in Switzer
land wrote a short time ago for infor
mation concerning the theories put
forth in this hook, as they desired to
install the Taylor system.
Margaret Cameron, author of "The
Golden Kule Dolllvers,' is just starting
for a trip to California, to her old home
at Oakland. As she acknowledges that
she spends from "six to ten hours a
day" at her desk, week in and week out,
it would seem that a vacation were
about due.
Mme. L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone,
whoso recently-published book. "The
Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life," told of
the varied experiences of this observing
American at various European courts,
will spend the Spring in Copenhagen,
where she has been for some time. In
"The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life""she
tells of arranging and staging In Ber
lin the new opera of a young American,
and securing the patronage of the
Kaiser for It. Recently she has re
peted the experience to a certain ex
tent. for she has rehearsed another
opera, this lime to raise money for the
war charities.
Hamlin Garland, whose latest novel,
"The Forester's Daughter," was recent
ly published, was the guest of honor at
a luncheon In Chicago, given by the
Cliff Dwellers Club. He was its first
president, continuing for six years, and
at the luncheon was given a loving-cup
by his associates. Mr. Garland has now
begun his residence in the East, his first
work being the filming of one of his
novels In New York.
EARNINGS FALL OFT
TFrom Philadelphia Record]
Interest and dividend payments
next month will be $6,000,000 less
than a year ago, is the computation
of The New York Journal of Com
merce. The dividend payments will
be about $12,000,000 less, chiefly due
to the passing of the Steel Corpora
tion common dividend, and the in
terest payments will be nearly $6,000-
000 more, on account of new bond
and note issues. It is an interesting
detail that the railroad dividends will
fall off less than $1,000,000. Street
railway dividends will decline about
half a million, which is a rather high
proportion of the total. The steam
railway and traction dividends com
bined for the six months will be
about $8,000,000 behind last year, a
reduction of a little more than 4 per
.cent
JUNE 5, 1915.
enough to retire. All I possess is the
little money I have added to the $46 I
had when I produced 'Shenandoah.'
In this country you have to be a mil
lionaire before you can retire—or
properly conduct a theater."
Mr. Frohman had an engagement to
dine after a performance with a dis
tinguished foreigner. The manager
liked nothing better after a hard
night's work than a stack of wheat
cakes, and his guest, who no doubt
had expected an elaborate meal, sat
down to an after-theater supper con
sisting of "two stacks of wheats,'*
coffee and corn muffins. Mr. Froh
man watched both the cakes and the
muffins being cooked in the window.
Mr. Frohman was asked to explain
his success. .
"Because," he answered, "I am glad
to spend as much energy in producing
a single song as a whole play."
During one of Mr. Frohman's visits
to London he bought a mechanical
tiger and used to enjoy watching it
crouch and spring. Some of his
guests were frightened by the toy,
and one young actress fainted. Rich
ard Croker came in one day and asked
Mr. Frohman how to work the ma
chine.
"Ha!" laughed "C. F." "Fancy
showing the boss of Tammany Hall
how to work a tiger!'
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The Frohman anecdote which will
probably live longer than any other is
that of his words to Miss Kita Jollvet.
the actress, just before the Lusitania
sank:
"Why fear death? It is the most
beautiful adventure in life."
To a man who rushed up to Mr.
Frohman and Sir Arthur Pinero when
they were dining at the Princess res
taurant. calling loudly: "Hello C. F.!
Hello, Pin! I'm Hopkins!" Mr. Froh
man replied:
"Ah, Mr. Hopkins! I can't say I
remember your name or your face, but
your manner, is deliciously familiar."
Charles Dillingham, ordered to
hurry to New York once when he was
a subordinate to Mr. Frohman, sent
this telegraph message:
"Washout on line; will report as
soon as possible."
Mr. Frohman promptly sent the fol
lowing reply:
"Never mind your wash: buy a new
shirt and come alongsut once."
ITALIAN WAR MINISTER
IwRM
GENERAI, ZUPELLI
General Zupelli will have control of
the war department of the Italian gov
ernment during the war with Austria
and Germany. The king has taken an
active part In the management and it
Is not known how much authority he
and Premier Salandra will leave to the
head of the department.
A VOICE CRVIIVO IX
THIS WILDERNESS
And this is the record of John, when
the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him. Who art thou?
And ho confessed, and denied not; but
confessed, I am not the Christ. And
they asked, What then? Art thou Klias?
And "fie said, I am. not. Art thou that
prophet? Anil he 'answered. No. Then
said tliey unto him. Who art thou?
that we may give an answer to tliem
that sent us. What sayest thou of
thveelf? He said, I am the voice of one
crying In the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the I.ord, as said the prophet
Ksaias.—John i, 19 to 23.
Bmrotg (Eljat
While many, of the acts of the leg
islature signed by Governor Brum
baugh have attracted wide attention
and are of far reaching effect It Is
doubtful If any of the bills approved
has stirred up as much comment as
one wTiich was announced as signed
yesterday. TJlis bill prohibits un
naturalized foreigners from keeping
dogs. It was presented by a legisla
tor from the coke regions and was
designed primarily to supplement th#
statutes prohibiting foreigners who
have not become citizens from hunting.
It does forbid I#ie .killing of any game
by such persons and another law, en
acted this year, forbids them from
Ashing. Some of the foreign bom
folks have, through the recklessness of
a few, spoiled hunting and tishing in
many parts of the State. Unable to
comprehend the laws they have shot
at anything and thrown dynamite into
streams. This has led to restrictive
laws, the arrests of people responsible
having failed in numerous instances
to check the disregard of law. The
new act forbids foreigners to keep
dogs. The people back of the bill con
tended that in some parts of the State
there were more dogs than members
of a family In a house and game suf
fered as well as sheep. This condi
tion has prevailed more in the coal and
coke regions than about here, although
there are some foreign settlements
where dogs are a nuisance of the very
first class. What the dog act will do
will be to require the killing of thou
sands of animals. Every constable
and every warden is charged with the
duty of enforcing the act and it means
that there will be raids on foreign set
tlements and no end of trouble. The
tines for violation to go to the
game propagation fund and all dogs
killed are to be reported to the game
commission. Steelton and some of the
nearby places where there are for
eign settlements will probably see
some battles over dogs.
One of the interesting things con
nected with the overthrow of the gov
ernment suit against the Steel Cor
poration was the manner in which
HarMsburg people turned out to he
holders of the stock. The stock was
largely held in this vicinity half a
dozen years ago, but most people got
the idea that it had been sold. The
news of the dissolution brought out a
good many smiles.
Some of the business before the
Public Service Commission this week
was interesting because it was so
trivial. For instance, it was required
to pass on a lease for four poles and
for th© renting of office room in a
building of a public utility. Another
piece of business called for approval
of an agreement to allow a pipe to be
run across a bridge. The failure of
the Legislature to enact bills recom
mended will force the commission to
handle much of the same kind of
business in the next two years.
Effects of the European war are
being shown at the offices of the rail
roads here in the increased demand
for information regarding tours in this
country. Many people have been ask
ing about Canada and the western
states and San Francisco is benefiting,
or rather will benefit, at the expense
of Germany. A good many people
have been asking about tours through
the State as well.
George H. Biles, who was yesterday
appointed Second Deputy Highway
Commissioner, has lived In this city for
so long that he is almost a Harris-j
burger. He has been connected wiftf
the State Highway Department for
about a decade and has many friends
in the city. He is also related to a
number of Harrisburgers.
Among visitors to Harrisburg yes
terday was Superior Court Judge
George B. Orlady, of Huntingdon
county. The judge, who is as well
known to people here as though ho
was born a Harrisburger, will be re
elected this Fall. He was one of the
original judges named to the bench.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—E. M. Herr, of the Westinghouse
Company, says that what this country
needs is more shops to South America.
—Herman Eoeb, Philadelphia di
rector of supplies, asks the modest
sum of $717,000 for supplying depart
ments this year.
—A. B. DeSaulles. of Bethlehem, is
prominent In the athletics of that sec
tion.
—Theodore Voorhees, president of
the Reading, was sixty-eight yester
day.
—Harry C. Carey, president of the
Bill Posters Association, comes from
Philadelphia and is well known here.
—William H. Donner. chairman of
Cambria and Pennsylvania Steel, will
take a trip to California in July.
—The Rev. W. A. Jones spoke at
the unveiling of the "Penn Grant"
tablet in Pittsburgh.
—F. W. Sapper, Erie hanker, has
been elected secretary of the State
Bankers' Association group No. 7.
—Controller E. S. Morrow, of Pitts
burgh, calls attention to the fact that
Pittsburgh will celebrate one hundred
years of cityhood next March.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg used to ship
many tons of Iron to Pittsburgh?
HIS MISTAKE
He moved up to the city.
When lie'd made his little pile:
Built H house and had a garden.
Dressed his girls in city style;
He read the city papers,
And he ate the city food.
His wife joined half a dozen clubs, ,
His boy became a dude;
But he left his religion in the country.
He took a dab in polities,
The city kind, of course;
Ho bought a high-powered auto,
It was faster than the horse.
He had a box at opera
And a lot of gilt-edged stock:
Built the bank right in the renter
Of the city's finest block.
But he left his religion In the country.
The church just round the corner
Was of other brand than his;
So he visited the movies
Or' speht Sunday at his "biz."
He knocked the city preachers
And he laughed at Sunday laws,
While his boy went to the mischief
And his girls were lost —becaus*
He had left his religion in the cour>;«>,
And when he took his Journey «
To the place where all men sta?ȣv
He walked up to the Golden Gate
As though he owned the land.
"I know you're from the city,"
Said St. Peter, with a sigh:
"And I'm sorry I must tell you
This is once you can't get by.
For you've left your religion in the
country."
—Rev. Oeorge S. Fulcher, in Christian
Herald.
CIVIC CLUB '
Ply Contest
June 1 to July 31
ft Cent! a Pint
Prizes of $5, $2,150 and several
• 1.00 ones