8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established tilt PUBLISHED BY THE TEI.KGIIAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS M. STEINMETZ . . . Managing Editor Published every evening (except SUIM day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Uember American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Bulldingr, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. JfesffKS*' Mailed to subscribers • t $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. Svrorn dnlly nverage circulation for the three months ending May 31, 1015. ★ 21,577 ★ Average for the year 1914—21.55S Average for the year 1913—19.902 Average for the year 1012—10,840 Average for the year 1911——17»5f13 Average fop the year 1910—16,2« l The above figure* are net. All re turned, unsold nnd riamiigeii copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 26. Wt should look at the Ihes of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.—Terence. DOWN WITH THE ARC LIGHTS ARC lights for street illumination are obsolete. They are neither so efficient nor so cheap to operate as the modern standard lights. This is well illustrated in Harrisburg by comparison of conditions in the heart of the city with those in the outlying districts, where the old-fash ioned type of swinging arc is still in use. It is to be hoped that Commissioner Harry F. Bow man will succeed in his effort to have the standard system ex tended to all parts of the city. This inust be done eventually and the sooner the better. The wires must come down. The center of the city affords such an excellent example of the desirability of putting the remain der of town on a similar basis that there is no argument whatever against It save that of cost, and It is to be hoped that some way will be found to finance the improvement, which is one of the most important and desirable that now confronts the city. From Oregon, alone, more than 350 carloads of horses have been shipped to the European war zone. It is esti mated that these sales brought Into Oregon more than a million dollars, f-uch a report, coming from the State farthest from the scene of conflict, in dicates the extent to which sales of horses and other war supplies have helped turn the balance of trade in our favor. * IJARGE IMPORTS PREVENTED NEW YORK importing firms have $30,000,000 worth of merchan dise tied up in ports abroad be cause of the British commerce re strictions on goods made in Germany and Austria. These importers have appointed a committee to take up the matter with President Wilson and to demand that these goods be released. Many of the men appearing on this committee are known to the members of the ways and means committee of Congress as advocates of near free trade on goods competing with our own manufactures. They spent time and money when the Underwood law was being framed in lobbying for tariff reductions. But as the Democrats were framing an importers' tariff law, these men were "called in as advisors," and were not known as lobbyists. The Underwood-Simmons-Wilson tariff law gave them a,bout what they wanted, but a higher power is delaying their enjoyment of the fruits of their in iquity. It looks like a judgment on them. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that a laborer's face on the gold dollar will be more appropriate than pictures of eagles, Indians or buffaloes. Yes, and more rare. ISSUE IN NEXT CAMPAIGN MUCH more is at stake in the next campaign than the election of a Republican President and House of Representatives. The po litical complexion of the United States Senate must be changed if the Re publican party is to be placed in a position to enact its policies into law. Unless this is done, the Underwood tariff and other injurious legislation which the Democratic party has in flicted upon the American people can not be repealed. There are thirty-two States in which senatorial elections are to be held next year. These thirty-two States are now represented in the Senate by seven teen Democrats, fourteen Republicans and one Progressive. The latter, Sen ator Poindexter, of Washington, has announced his affiliation with the Re publican party so that the figures should stand seventeen to fifteen. As the present Democratic majority in the Senate is sixteen, Republican suc cessors to nine Democrats must be elected in order to give the Republi cans control. The accomplishment of this result is now the determined ef fort of Republicans. The seventeen Democratic Senators come from Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jer sey, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Virginia. Of all these States only four—Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia—are SATURDAY EVENING, assuredly Democratic. In five other States—Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and West Virginia—lt la practi cally certain that Republicans will be elected. Maine has swung back Into the Republican column and In the last election New York and Ohio returned Republican Senators, while New Jer sey and West Virginia, in by-elections, have demonstrated that they are back again in the Republican-fold. This leaves only eight States—Ari ?onp, .Indiana,_ Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and Ten nessee—in the doubtful column and In each one "of these States the Re publicans have more than a fighting chance of success. If they carry four of these eight States they will con trol the Senate. The outlook is most encouraging. The election of Senator Newlands, of Nevada, last year was a matter of doubt for some days, so close were the figures. The Republicans ought certainly to carry Nevada next year. Indiana, now that the Progressive party has disintegrated, is almost sure to he in the Republican column again, while the Bryan-Hitchcock feud In Nebraska affords the Republicans an excellent opportunity for carrying that State. It was formerly safely Re publican. Missouri and Tennessee of fer splendid fighting ground, while Maryland had a Republican Senator until recently. With the tide run ning strongly in favor of the Republi cans several of these States ought to elect Republican Senators. But victory will not be secured un less Republican voters in these States are thoroughly aroused to the neces sity of electing Republican Senators. The election of a Republican Presi dent and a Republican House of Rep resentatives would be an empty honor. A Democratic Senate would successfully block any effort to re peal the Underwood tariff law and thus compel the country to suffer for two years more under its iniquitous provisions. The country has had enough of the disastrous free trade fal lacies of the Democratic party and only with the repeal of the present tariff law will prosperity return. The European war has served some of the purposes of a protective tariff and has created an enormous demand for American production, but no nation can easily base its economic policies upon the assumption that other na tions will continue a war indefinitely. The tremendous Republican gains in the last election, when the overwhelm ing Democratic majority of nearly 150 in the House was almost completely wiped out, makes the election of a Republican House next year a fore gone conclusion. But the Senate must also be Republican. This is to be the slogan of the next campaign. Fortu nately, Pennsylvania Republicans may devote all their energies to Congres sional and Presidential success. The administration will hardly waste time trying to explain axvay the in crease in the cost of living in 1914 as compared with 1913. The statistics are its own. The Democratic tariff went into effect in October. 1913. The war broke out in August, 1914. There were ten and a half months of uninterrupted opportunity for the Democratic admin istration to fulfill its pledge of reduced cost of living. It failed so completely that It deferred publication of com parative retail prices until June, 1914. THAT GRIM JOKE ONE of the low-priced magazines, a member of that curious group that essays to combine the func tions of yellow journalism -with those of the old-fashioned monthlies, prints in its current issue a story about how Kitchener perpetrated a "grim joke" on the Kaiser by raising the British army from a strength of one million men to four millions without letting any one suspect what was going on.. There has been a joke all right, but we incline to the opinion that the Kaiser was not the butt of it. First honors in that role seem to be divided between the editor of the magazine and the editors of American news papers who are taking the tale seriously. Until this story appeared the im pression prevailed in this country, and doubtless in England also, that Parlia ment had authorized the British army to be put upon a three and a quarter million war footing. This act prob ably did not escape the German in telligence officers as completely as It appears to have escaped some magazinists. And in this connection we may add that this newspaper shares the belief of the New York Evening Post that the great ado in England over muni tions and army supplies In general is a sign that the recruiting has been carried on so rapidly and successfully that the British army is now near to its authorized strength. The balance In the general fund in the Federal Treasury at the close of business Saturday, June 12, was $lB,- 865,726.74. as compared with $137,215,- 571.51 on the corresponding date two years ago. The excess of all expendi tures over receipts for this fiscal year to that date was $127,326,406.07, which was the amount of the deficit. THE DAY OF THE DOUiAR THE situation In the international money market during the past ' week, with the decline of foreign exchange to the lowest point ever reached, has attracted public attention to a subject that ordinarily Is left en tirely to bankers doing a foreign busi ness. The decline of approximately two per cent. In the price of sovereigns, francs and other forms of European money really involved factors of great popular Interest. Briefly It means that the American dollar is worth more to-day than ever before In Its history, measured in the currency of other leading nations. The cause of the present situation Is that the United States is selling abroad far more than it is buying, while the usual expendi ture by American travelers, amount ing to $250,000,000 a year or more, has been cut down almost to noth ing. It is estimated that Europe owes at least a quarter of a billion dollars on balances. So long as the war lasts [and huge orders for material continue to bi placed In this country, the move ment is likely to continue and inter- j national experts predict that dollars may becomo worth sl.lO or more, measured in pounds sterling, Instead ■ of $1.02 as at present. An expression often used in con- | nection with the present movement is that New York has displaced London as the world's financial center. This is true temporarily, as tills is the only market In which neutral nations can secure credit, but it is not likely to continue to be .the case after the con clusion of the war, although the posi tion of the United States in the finan cial world undoubtedly will be far more important than In the past. For the present, however, with a trade balance of $1,000,000,000 in her favor, with Europe owing her $250,- 000,000 or more, and with huge war orders piling up this debt at a rapid rate, the war certainly is bringing temporary prosperity to the United States. FREE TETANUS ANTITOXIN THE offer of free tetanus antitoxin to the people of Pennsylvania who may need it, but who can not afford to buy It, is scarcely less important man the warning with which Dr. Dixon acoompanies it against the use of dangerous fire works. If the people of this State do not buy firecrackers, rockets, Roman can dles and other explosives of the kind they will not need tetanus cures or preventatives. That there Is need of much reform in this direction is il lustrated by the report of the Health Commissioner on fireworks accidents of the past few years, showing that in spite of the campaign for a "safe and sane" observance of the Fourth of July, Pennsylvania leads the list of States in this respect, 25 per cent, of all that occurred last year having been credited to this Commonwealth. Evi dently we still have far to go in re forming our method of celebrating the nation's birthday. [ TELEORAPH PERISCOPE ] —English women who want to vol unteer have nothing to boast about. Thousands of American women face the powder every day. —New York has a city flag and is boasting about it. And at'that it isn't as handsome as our nine-year-old mu nicipal banner. —Bryan wants to sell his Texas onion farm. This appears to be about all the strength the Nebraskan has left. —Thaw being tried by jury as to his sanity admits he is sane. Since the prisoner pleads guilty what more is there to say? —lf it were not for the devious ways of European diplomacy one might con clude that Berlin really feels friendly toward us. —AH year instructors have been teaching the young idea how to shoot, and now along comes the chief of po lice and puts the ban on fireworks. | EDITORIAL COMMENT ] Real Benefactor [From the Detroit Free Press.] A New York chef has discovered the way to remove the bones from a shad before cooking it. thus conferring a greater blessing on mankind than all the inventors of all the implements of warfare ever did. Vital Spot [From the Kansas City Times.] If ever this country has to go to war, the President does not want any Ameri can soldiers to be wounded in the hyphen. Positively Incredible [From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] Three Americans held at Chihuahua for counterfeiting have been released. Do you get that? Counterfeiting Mexi can money! THE MODERN GRADUATE [New York World.] Critics of American colleges, and particularly those who think they dis cern a decline of student quality and caliber, should take heart from Presi dent Hadley's eulogy of the '"ale boys. "The present-day undergraduate," he says, "is a higher development of civ ilization than his father or his elder brother," and in spite of the inroads of luxury and extravagance, "there Is to-day more Intellectual life In the place than at any period I have known." His indorsement of student charac ter should reassure the doubters. Dr. Charles F. Thwlng some years ago showed that of the college graduates filling the highest political and Ju dicial offices, Yale had trpined the largest number, and taking that fact in connection with the Improvement of undergraduate intellectuality and to gether with President Lowell's state ment that a man reaches his prime at 23, it is apparent the country has no reason to despair. The colleges will come to the rescue, with Yale In the van. Certainly, if Yale boys are more ad vanced than their fathers, we may logically expect at once another and greater Taft, and a greater Louns bury in literature and Sumner In po litical science. Doubtless this year's graduating class contains some one already greater even than Hadley. Perhaps there is also a new Walter Camp on the list. V HAT WILD BE THE HARVEST? [Ohio State Journal.] Perhaps 100,000 boys and girls have graduated this Spring from the col leges and high schools and are about to figure in the future activities of the country. How much this great body of young men and women should affect American purpose and sentiment! How much better the world should be now than it ever was before! But this all depends upon the sort of educatlop they got. It was simply knowledge, skill and literary taste that was added to their lives; the world will go on pretty much as it has. without feeling the slightest impulse from their pres ence. If it Is the old race for pleasure, a zeal for getting rich, a display of the old selfishness, all the work of the educational Institutions will come to naught. May it be far otherwise. May these youth go forward prepared to suffer and sacrifice for the truth of life, to take in a broader vision of duty than the world has now, to show that humility President Wilson spoke of which is the best sign of culture, to cut away from the mere show and tinsel of life, its vanity and extravagance, and stp.nd for that simplicity of living which is the best representative of truth, the best exponent of American manhood. HARRISBURG ffijftg TELEGRAPH Lk By the Kx-OommitteemM Nomination petitions are in circu lation for the filling of three superior court Judgeships, twenty-six common pleas judgeships and two orphans' court judgeships in Pennsylvania next November, and it is doubtful if in many years so much Interest has been aroused in the campaigns which were launched yesterday -when the nomi nating papers were started on their sixty-day tour. What makes the contests for the umisually large number of places so absorbing in interest is that in many counties the liquor license question is uppermost. Counties which were noted for anything but temperance sentiment a comparatively short time ago are now divided into "wet" and "dry" camps, and judges whose re election would have been a matter of course under conditions of very re cent years are now face to face with battles. The "wet" and "dry" issues have taken the place of the Republican and Democratic tickets which used to ob tain in the days before the non-parti san act of 1913, became effective. The liquor issue has no political lines in most counties. It seems in some dis tricts to be as unpartlsan as the ju dicial election is nonpartisan. Another interesting feature of the election of judges this fall is that men appointed by Governors Tener and Brumbaugh to till vacancies are up for nomination and election. They include Judges Bushong, Berks; Ir win, Washington; Brodhead, North ampton; Miller, Montgomery: Dough erty, Shoemaker and Finletter, Phila delphia: Carpenter, Allegheny; Gaw tiirop, Chester; Reppert, Somerset. Col. Louis J. Kolb was given a din ner and a handsome clock in honor of his fiftieth birthday in Philadelphia last night, Mayor Bl&nkenburg, Con gressman Vare, Senator Vare and others prominent in Philadelphia af fairs being among the hosts to the colonel of the Governor's staff. Dr. Brumbaugh, who is in Maine, sent a message by Paul N. Furman, the act ing secretary, saying that he loved the colonel and that anything that the gentlemen present would do for him would meet his heartiest approval. Col. Kolb, Congressman Moore, Coroner Knight, Receiver of Taxes Kendrick and others are among the men mentioned along with Congress man Vare for mayor of Philadelphia. The vitriolic denunciation of tho course of the Democratic State bosses in giving offices to "silk stockings" and "college boys" at the meeting of the Democratic Progressive commit tee in Philadelphia the other night and the attacks made on the course of the State chairman and his co bosses by men connected with the re organization faction in that city have not been lost upon the State and are being freely commented upon. The meeting was intended as a "get to gether" session, but turned out like the recent meeting of the Democratic county committee, to be a ruction. State Chairman Morris did not at tend, but Robert S. Bright did and some one touched a match to the oil he poured out in an effort to calm the troubled waters. W. A. Carr, a close friend of Postmaster Thornton, raised a fuss by calling Palmer "the worst licked Democrat that ever ran for office." Charles E. Rhodes, of Altoona, well known here, is a candidate for mayor of the Mountain City. Sheriff Harry C. Wells last night added to the unpleasantness in the ranks of the machine Democrats by announcing that he would be a can didate for county commissioner. Wells will probably show County Commis sioner Eby and Samuel Taylor how to make a campaign. Friends of Eby were inclined to be a bit miffed at the sheriff to-day. Fortieth ward Democrats of Phila delphia last night turned down George W. Norris, the man favored by the State machine for the nomination for mayor of Philadelphia, and endorsed Judge James E. Gorman. Norris is a warm friend of State Chairman Morris, but that only made it worse. City Commissioner Harry F. Bow man last night announced his can didacy for renomination and received many assurances of support from friends. His papers will start Fri day. Friends of Auditor General Powell say it is too early to prognosticate what he will do about running for United States Senator. Powell is said to bank on the support of the Gov ernor and the Vares. However, the school appropriation is to be paid and many other things must come to pass before the senatorial primary. —County Commissioner P. J. Boyle, of Schuylkill county, who Is well known here, is after a third term as commissioner in his county. He will probably have several opponents for the nomination. 1 —Governor Brumbaugh's veto rec ord, according to Capitol Hill statis ticians, is not only greater than that of Tener, who was the high man, but beats Pattison and Pennypacker rec ords. —Senator Horace A. Tompkins, of Cambria, will be a candidate for re nomination next year. The senator was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. C. Stineman, who died in the midst of the session of 1913. —Walter S. Frees, who was elected by the Socialists to the old select coun cil in Heading, but who parted com pany with them when he refused to have them dictate his actions and is now regarded as back in the Republi can ranks, has announced his candi dacy for city council. He Is a promi nent fireman and will likely make a strong candidate. Former Select Councilman William Abbott Wltman, who is well known to Harrlsburg peo ple, will also run. ONLY A SLIGHT SHAKE [From the Baltimore American.] Deplorable as were the effects of the shake in Southern California, the seis mic disturbance was not of a nature to cause grave concern. The amount of real damage done was not consider able and the reported casualties, al ways sad, were not numerous, even if the fact of such should be substan tiated. There is not the slightest pos sibility of the incipient quake in a re mote part of the State being the pre cursor .of wider shakes. California was at one time visited with a serious earthquake, the first calamitous one in Its historical rec ord; and there is not likely to be an other such In the State for genera tions, if at all. So that the slight seismic outburst that has been ex perienced is only such as might oc cur In this or any other locality. As a matter of fact not twenty four hours pass without earthquakes being recorded by the sensitive In struments that keep tab on them, and many of these occur In the mountain ous regions of the eastern States, but they are so slight as often to es cape notice. Thus earthquakes are normal oc currents and only very rarely do they gather force to cause catastrophes, Hence California is not unduly dis turbed and certainly the rest of the country Is not, over the seismic occur rence, any more than the country has been disturbed over the volcanic erup tions of Mount Shasta.. HOW PLANTS BEAUTIFY A PORCH THIS etching is from a photograph of a front porch in the Allison Hill district. It shows what can be done with a little thought and work. On the top of the pillar the owner has placed a Jardiniere of modest design containing a pretty fern. Along the front a well-constructeil box for planting has been erected, the builder keeping the panp| effect on the front in uniformity with the design of the railing behind. The box has been planted with geraniums and annuals, some of them vines, which will be much prettier even than they are now when they have matured later in the sum mer. This hit of planting has transformed an ordinary front porch not otherwise different from a thousand others into a thing of beauty that at tracts the admiration of everybody who passes that way. It is to encourage planting like this that the Telegraph has offered SIOO in prizes to be awarded to llarrisburg people through the Civic Club. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift Extravagance has been grow ing in America for years, and seems to be in our blood. The demand for lux urieswhichseem necessities to so many—the de sire to live as do others whose incomes are greater —is the cause of these extravagant habits in many instances. i L - 1,-. ..a? jfl ■l : S Hu _ • Jaflfl The French in particular ire often re ferred to as examples of economy, and the French home is kept up on a sum that an American family in the same cir cumstances would consider decidedly meager. The French woman is particu larly saving. She savei the sous and even the centimes, and they malce the francs. It was the small savings of her citizens that made it possible for France at the end of the Franco-Prussian war to pay the huge indemnity imposed upon her. But in America we are learning the value of thrift—we are learning to turn waste materials into account. For example: Worn-out automobile tires are junk to the automobile owner, but they are making fortune* for four or five large dealers in Chicago who make a BOOKS AND MAGAZINES President Wilson may find courage in his hour of responsibility in cer tain words which appear in the re cently-published book, "When a Man Comes to Himself," written by one Woodrow Wilson: "The trustworthi ness of men trusted seems often to grow with the trust. And so men grow by having responsibility laid upon them, the burden of other peo ple's business. Their powers are put out at interest, and they get usury in kind. They are like men multiplied." Justus Miles Forman met death he roically when the "Lusitania" went down. It is remarkable that in his last published novel, "The Opening Door," the principal figure, a rising lawyer and political leader, faced the sanie alternative as did Forman him felf in real life. But the man, unlike 'orman, thought of himself first and let another rescue a boy from under the feet of frightened horses in a run away. "The Opening Door" concludes with the poor coward's convictions that human courage counts after all. Our Daily Laugh ■ CUPID'S WAT. y Then Fred waj gone on another girl when he fell ' n love with /VWißr' Edith? IW \\WxV\ Yes. Cupid, j gWj\ JR \ you know, in lik« ] Ik-/ ——V A on ® ot those Wj' 1 rsffi dreadful sharp | \l/ """" \ x!j shooters in the r 7 VJ7~"- — Iwar; he some j times fires on tha ■ .. V—wounded. CLASS. I notice, James, that you didn't r get a straw hat this season. _ No, Oswald, straw hats is got so common, I thought I'd stick to a dolby. "That man who was waiting for op portunity to knock said. when it knocked, that it was a mighty punk op portunity." "He was not waiting for opportu nity to knock; he was waiting to knock opportunity."—-Houston Post. WHY IS IT? By Winn Dlnfcrr Some things that happen in this life Seem very strange to me; For Instance, of this one what can The explanation be? If someone wants to make a touch Of five or ten from me. Why is it, when he calls I'm sure To in my office be? And when he comes around again To square with me his debt I'm never in—and he won't wait •Till my return, you bet. I never, never see him as About the streets I go, And where the fellow keeps himself I'd surely like to know. But turn the tables 'round, suppose Some coin to him I owe— I'll run across him here and there And everywhere I go. .TUNE 26. 1015. •pecialtv of handling them. It it esti mated that no less than fifteen car loads, or about 250 tons, of old automobile tire* are handled in Chicago in a tingle day. Figure this at 5 cents a pound, and you have the enormous sum of $25,000. As some tires are worth a great deal more than others, dealers have learned to Bort out these tires, the best makes bring ing about six and one-half cents a pound and the lower grades about four and one half cents a pound. Tires sold hi mixed lots bring to the dealer only about 25c a hundred in profits, but in thus sorting them the profit is increased to about a cent a pound. Thus one dealer alone handling about 40 tons a day is making in clear profits about SBOO. The humble business of collecting junk, "the trade of unconsidered trifles" has prospered in America more than in all other countries. We have government reports as authority that in 1912 the value of secondary metals exclusive of gold, silver, platinum, iron and aluminum thus recovered was $77,395,843. In Boston there is a junk dealer who has accumulated more than a million dollars. He was once an immigrant, he began in the smallest sort of way, and climbed rapidly to his present position of affluence and success. The leading dealer in one of the large eastern cities, Provi dence, who handles nothing but scrap iron is worth half a million dollars, while there are two millionaires in Philadelphia whose fortunes were made in the junk business. Will Pose as Model For Electra to Shine During Electrical Prosperity Week Jgj£22«2sS * MISS FLORENCE CASSASSA New York, June 26. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of four hundred ami ninety-nine, pout ing disappointed and beautiful girls scattered over the country. Five hun dred American beauties submitted photographs to the Electrical Pros perity Week Committee, the winner of the contest to serve as a model of the Goddess Electra. Of that num ber Miss Florence Cassassa, of Brook lyn, was selected. Beauty of face was not the only determining factor in picking "Elec tra." It was the graceful statuesque figure that helped in the selection of Miss Cassassa. Before Electrical Prosperity Week from November 29 to December 4, inclusive, Miss Cassassa will have the distinction of having at least 100,000,000 copies of her features spread broadcast over the United States. It will appear on all the post ers, letter heads, envelopes and oth er matter of the committee. The Society for Electrical Develop ment Ist arranging the details of the seven-day electrical celebration. The membership of the committee in cludes more than 1,200 of the lead ing power plants, manufacturers, job bers and contractors in the country. The purpose of the celebration is to celebrate peace and prosperity, and Incidentally, to teach the general public the wider uses of electricity. Among the Judges who selected Miss Cassassit, who is an American girl of Italian extraction, were H. S. Morgan, John Flanagan, Alonzo Kim ball, C. Howard Traver, Walter L. Green and Hamilton King, all well known artists. REPARTEE [From Judge.] Repartee is the promiscuous ricochet ing of verbal fireworks. It is a rocket which has been touched off by an in genious remark, and this rocket is very apt to touch off another., which In turn may touch off still another, and so on until all bolts have been shot. The verv best examples of repartee are the thoughts which come to us a few hours or perhaps a few days after we have listened to remarks which seemed to plead like angels, trumpet tongued, for us to rise to the occasion. iEbptUtg (Efyat Frank Hal' deputy chief of State Depart lent of Mines, for th« last <riozcn yeui, has written a pamph let on mining nd humanltarlanlem In which ho maks a summing up of re markable advttces In the measures taken for the nfety of miners and the Improvement f their surroundings. He points out hat it was fortv-flve years ago that he State provided its lirst mine lnspetors and remarks: "It seems like a faitry from coal beds to flower beds and he Imagination balkj at the attempt o bridge the chaurt between the twd,o widely separated. The apparent of speech, however, has Its .fuSltlratlon in the marvelous transfrrtmtlon that has taken place in reent years In the so cial condition atl physical environ ment of the mai who works under ground." Mr. Hd says that operators recognize that s.nething is demanded of them bevond physical safety of their employes nd living conditions have been so imroved that the min ing village comares favorably with communities ha*ig greater natural I advantages. Heemarks the effort to remove from thi mining hamlet the disagreeable and-epcllant aspect, the apparent temporfy character. After noting the advan<jment in precaution ary measures and he effort to amelior ate social conditions he remarks that "a visit to ont of the progressive towns of the bitpiinous region will upset most prectrteived ideas regard ing mining comsnuties." In another paragraph he s*ys J,at "The develop ment of safety ttrs an d rescue worlc and particularly made in educational facility have been great er in the anthacite region than in thu bituminous reiion and much greater than in any ottvr mining community in the United SUtes." From the start of the lirpt aid corps at Jermyn in 1899 he tfaces tie development until to-day thee are 5,000 men in first aid teams am 10,00< men trained or in- There are over 150 rescue corps wit) 4,00.4 instructed men. An other pl»se of the humanitarian side he says s the fact that there are 58 hospital! in which miners and their familiesian receive treatment, almost 17,000 rrsoils being cared for in 1914. In closijr Mr. Hall remarks upon the educatl«al facilities afforded the Pennsyhnla miner and his children, saying ley arc particularly fortunate in wha|s provided for their mental Improvaont. Dr. JM. J. Raunick, the health officer. Is made a whole lot of extra work fr himself because of his activity in inspecting the places whence ome the milk supplies for this eitjl The doctor has a monthly milk buetin which lie issues giving facts abit the milk supplied from the various diries and since publicity has been gN'n to conditions he has been asked fift, times a day for copies of the bullev Incidentally, his mail eontairTequests for inside informa tion alut places, demands for tlio name (establishments not up to tho mark a;l suggestions of various kinds. His tebhone rings most of the day and p.'i of the night with persons anxiouso get a line on conditions at the daiijs where they draw (heir sup plies. (any one wants to start any thing nlhe has to do is to make some announsnent about milk supply. It hits eveone. "If tlfe is a good horse to be had in this iftion of the State 1 would like to linte it," said a traveling man with a de line in the corridors of the Comonwealth hotel last evening. It happ« that this traveling man has been gog about the country buying up liorstfor years for men who tfrral in themri the large cities. The war has inteered with his business and he lias ftnd the agents for the allied nations ive been ahead of him. In speakinghout the matter he said that districts here he was always sure of picking k some nice horses he had found evything taken. The wjk of the State Department of Labored Industry in the drafting of codes jr safety and sanitation in various ijustries has been more or less held ,ok by the death of George S. Comstfc, of Mechanicsburg, who was a niejjer of the Industrial Board and who ive great attention to this importantine of State supervision. Most of ti codes adopted last year were draw up by Mr. Comstock, who had a wk knowledge of industrial conditions. This beirta year when it is believed that the co( is going to be good, there are more sfecrows to be seen in the fields of th<'umberland and Lebanon valleys tharior a long time. The corn area is larg<ithan usual and the pros pects are f a large yield. As the prices are grig to be good with a fail foreign denied the farmers are going to take preiitlons so that they will get what is <ming to them. Some of the scarecrow are works of art. There are a coupleear the city which have soldier hats.vhile one up the river sports a his hat of uncertain vint age. • • • The Itoriesbout organization of an aeronautic eps for the National Guard are agn going the rounds an«l there are repts of offers of fine ma chines to thetate Government. Un fortunately thState is not in a posi tion to acceptny of the machines as it has no app^rlation. • • Gossip abouthe proposed Improve ments to the mansion recalls the fact that ijwas in 1888 that the exterior of thenansion was changed and the and copper fronts added. Prior tijfhat the mansion was a very mcpt looking home-* for governors, l>Qg plain brick. • The Rev. Willpi H. Marshall, the minister who is i| was one of the first colored graduate of the Harrisburg High school. Miftlarshall was in the> class of 1885. WELL KIWN PEOPLE —John TempHGraves. prominent Washington new*ipermun, is to be the orator at th dedication of the Pittsburgh Press 4jb. —Dr. Henry SCrinker, president of Lehigh, made fe address on trea planting at the Foistry convention at Foxburg. Dr. Edward Hfjel, of Pittsburgh, has been elected i Histee of College. —Col. W. J. Eliot of Philadelphia, will spend the at North«*»«* Harbor, Me. —Col. Louis J. Kol»j occupying h>- summer home JjfiWfigomery county 1 DO YC) KNOW Th*t Harrisbrg ought to have a big summer ljtel In its vicinity? ——u_ CIVE CLUB ' Flj Contest June to July 31 S OnM a Pint Pries of si, 92,50 and several SI.OO ones dujJcated by Mr. Ben Strotue
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