6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH EslaMtshtd iSn ■" 1 ■ "" PUBLISHED BT TRC TBLEf.nAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. BTACKPOLB Prtsidtnt and Bditor+n-Ckitf F. R. OYSTER S tertiary GUS M BTEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sub day) at the Telegraph Building. lit Federal Square. Both phones. Kember American Newspaper Publish er*' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth 'Avenue Building, New Tork City, Hasbrook. Story * Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building. Chicago. 111.. Allen A Ward. Delivered by carrier* at six cents a week. Mailed to subscriber* at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris* burg. Pa., as second class matter. Strom dally average circulation for the tkree moaths ending Aug. 31, 1013 ★ 21,083 ★ Average for the year 1914—-31.538 Average for the year 1815—19.80 Average for tke year 101-—10,848 Average for the yesr 1811—1T.863 Average for- the year 1»10—1A.-S1 The above igarea are net. All -e --tnatd, nasold aud daaiaged copies de ducted. WEDXESD \Y EVENING, SEPT. 22 My doctem is to lay aside Contentions, and be satisfied: Jest do your best, and praise er blame That follers that, counts jest the same. —Riley. THE MAYOR-ELECT MORE or less complete returns of the primary election In the city Indicate the election of Dr. Ezra S. Meals as the unopposed candidate In the forthcoming election for Mayor. This situation is the result of that provision of the Clark act which stipu lates that any candidate for this office receiving 51 per cent, of the total vote In the primaries shall be the unop posed nonpartisan choice of the people. It may or may not be a wise provision, but as a law-abiding citi zenry we must accept the result and hope for the best. During his term as the chief magis trate of the city a few years ago Dr. Meals gave Harrisburg an adminis tration which w-as far from satisftic tory. He shut his eyes to many things he should have seen and permitted too often the unrestrained element of the population to escape enforce ment of those laws which are enacted for the welfare of the entire com munity. He was in short, an official •without a full appreciation of the re sponsibilities and obligations of an im portant office and his administration ; was clearly a disappointment. His selection as head of the city i government during the next four years t* in a measure the result of a re- j teflon against the weakness of the j Royal administration. Friends of Dr. Meals have insisted throughout the primary contest that he would give the people a different sort of adminis tration in the event of his election. II is now up to him to make good those pledges. So long as he mani fests a disposition to discharge his im portant duties with regard for the ■welfare of the entire city he will have the cordial support and co-operation cf *ll good citizens, without regard to party or faction or group. He has a remarkable opportunity for construct ive work. The city Is entering upon another era of its wonderful progress and as the head of the administration much will depend upon the mayor elect. He can either further the in terests which most concern the city tnd Its advancement or he can be in different and make more difficult the work of his colleagues in the govern ing commission and of all others de voted to the bulfding of the new Har risburg. In brief. Dr. Meals has it within his ewn power to give us a successful ad ministration and recover whatever prestige was lost during his former term, as he will also have the power to destroy in some measure the fine repu tation which the city enjoys through out the country- He may be assured of the earnest support of this newspaper In every thing that makes for the betterment of the community. THE SCHOOLS', PART IT is entirely proper that the city schools should have a prominent part In the municipal celebration of the present week. In the first place no part of the government's ac tivities of the city have advanced more rapidly than the city schools in the past fifteen years. They have grown snd they have improved. But there is much more to do. The boys and girls who will march In the parade will be a reminder to ns that the high school needs of the lmmedlrte future demand a new and adequate building. The boys and girls themselves will be given a new Idea of the value of public Improvements end of the esteem In which they are held in Harrisburg. THE FANS REJOICE THE baseball fans of Harrisburg have quite as much reason for celebrating this week as have those who sre ahout to observe with a great jollification the advancement of the city In a public Improvement way. Fifteen years ago Harrisburg was rot on the baseball map, or If it did have • placs It was little more than a tank station on the main line of the league teams. About that time Albert Bender, who comes back here this WEDNESDAY EVENING. HARRESBURG ttSf& TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 22.1915. week with a team of his own after having attained highest honors in the baseball world, wis Joat beginning-tots career at Island Park In Independent ball. * This year finds Harrisburg at next to the top notch of the baseball pin nacle. for the International League Is next in rank to the two majors. The exhibition games scheduled for the next few days will give local fans more opportunity to see stars of na tional magnitude than were ever in Harrisburg during a similar Interval and they should be well patronized. THE PRIMARY""RETURNS AN analysis of the vote cast In Harrisburg and the county at large at the primary elections yesterday leads to hut one conclusion —a sweeping Republican victory at the polls in November. There are other outstanding fea tures. but the predominance of the Republican party In the city and county is emphasized from whatever angle the figures are viewed. The Re publican totals are nearly three times those of the Democratic and Washing ton parties combined, and In this re spect It is to be noted that the Wash ington party has almost disappeared as a factor In local politics, its total vote running well down Into three fig ures. which is a pitiful comparison with its brave showing in 1912. The Republican party stands reunited be fore the people. The ticket nominated by the Repub licans throughout the county yesterday is one to Inspire respect and con fidence. From first to last it is made up of clean, honest, capable men, whose only pledge is a decent and conscientious administration of public affairs. It is to be observed, also, that the candidates are well distributed from a geographical standpoint. There can be no criticism this year from sections of the county connlainlng that they "have no representation." Practically every center of population has its nominee, who is a representa tive citizen of his community and who will command Its support at the polls. It has been many years since the Re publican party was so fortunate both in the ca'lber of the men nominated end in the wide Extent of locality lepresented. There can be no excuse for any Republican bolting his ticket this Fall, and it is not likely that rriany will do so. especially in view of the fact that Democrats in the national campaign next year would use any apparent weakness in the party now as an indication of endorsement of the Wilson administration, which then will be seeking vindication before the people. The fundamental difference between the Republican and the Democratic parties, with respect to support of their tickets, has been always that the Republicans have been accustomed to sink personal differences after the se lection of their candidates and all Join In support of the nominees of the majority, while Democratic primary contests almost invariably are carried to the polls, as was the case in Penn sylvania last year. There is no reason to believe that this condition will not prevail In Dauphin county this year, although the hot contests of the pri maries will no doubt provide the only campaign material left for the Demo cratic-Washington party bosses whose "slate" was put through without a single hitch yesterday. In the city It is gratifying to note that the three Republican councllmen v.-ho have been in active charge of the more important departments of the city government and who have borne the brunt of the unjust attack at the hands of partisan opponents bent on discrediting them before the people have been renominated. Doubtless when the staoke of the primaries clears away and the voters give serious thought to the excellent records and the really substantial accomplishments of these men they will be re-elected by comfortable majorities, as they should be. The city cannot afford to try any experiments at this time. It knows Messrs. Lynch, Taylor and Bow man, what they have done and what they may be counted upon to do, and it does not want to go through an other needless reorganization of the municipal departments, with all the uncertainties and delays such a course would necessitate. The mayoralty sit uation is discussed elsewhere. In no way was the independent spirit of the Republican voters ex pressed more strongly yesterday than In the selection of candidates for the School Roard. The three men who had been pointed out as unpledged and without alliances of any sort were nominated by overwhelming majorities. The results as a whole, as has been said, are distinctly optimistic from a Republican viewpoint. The party Is reunited and there can be no doubt that the tremendous Republican ma jority of last year In both city ana county will even be exceeded this year. SUPERIOR COURT CONTEST BEYOND doubt the most impor tant nominations made yesterday were for Superior Court judge, but despite that very little public at tention was paid to this feature of the primaries. Doubtless this was due to the fact that the offices are nonparti san. The choice of candidates to next to the highest court In the State would have been given much more thought had nominations have been made by party vote. Sometime the State may awake to And that it has put into hl(th office a man utterly unfitted for the place. The nonpartisan act has Just such possibilities when operated in the larkadasic&l, haphazard man ner that has chaiacterized it this year. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The equinox storm Is due. The weather man says there "ain't no slch thin*," but the Lancaster county alma nac "says different." —"Shoot Roman candles if the black birds bother you." advises Professor surface. And be arrested for violating the fireworks ordinance. A New Tork'restaurant keeper ad v ertlses for a dumb waiter. Wo thought most of them are. The New York Morning Telegraph says England wants good American plays. So does America. One baby out of five dies before it is a year old, observes a health writer. And others grow up that should have died young. Henry Ford says Tie believes we should disarm and give up all thought of armed defense. "And the little old Ford rambled right along; the little old Ford rambled right along. • editorial comment^ W. J. Bryan Is going to Europe to restore peace. Yhe betting odds are 1« to 1 that Mr. Bryan does not suc ceed. Wouldn't it be nice should Mr Bryan and old-time friend Dr. Dumba ar range to make the trip across the At lantic together?—Wilkes-Barre Record. Bf fore marriage, a man thinks his girl ought to have wing?. After mar riage, he makes an awful howl be cause of their price when the millin ery bill comes in.—Allentown Chronicle and News. HOPE NEVER DIES [Toronto Mall and Express ] No sooner has Henry James become a British subject than H. G. Wells un kindly compares his literary efforts ;o the struggle of a magnificent hippopo tamus to pick up a pea it has found in the corner of its den. But admirers of James will continue to believe that eventually he will pick it up. PROHIBITION OF HAM OMELETS [Cleveland Plain Dealer.] Somebody has discovered that ham omelet is a fine restorer when taken at breakfast the morning after a night out. But isn't this calculated to bring the ham omelet under suspicion ;n well-regulated families? HE CAN THAT [Columbia State.] Henry Watterson may be 78, but he certainly can write like sixty. REAL TARIFF REVISION [From the Wall Street Journal ] To James J. Hill is attributed a state ment on the eve of his return home from the Anglo-French loan conference which is specially to be commended to the coming Congress. Speaking of the operation of the present tariff law, he is quoted as saying: "undoubtedly some rearrangement of our tariff-duties must be made In rec ognition of profound Industrial changes. These cannot any longer be made the sport of parties and the prey 0 pri vate Interests." Mr Hill, if he has any partv affilia tions. is a Democrat in his sympathies. But he recognizes, like thoughtful ob servers generally, that our Arift prob lem is not settled, and that It is in the last degree unlikely that it can ever be settled on purely party lines. It is not a question of Republican and Democrat, for th€re are Democrats, especially tn the South, who are high protectionists at heart: and there are Republicans who are free traders, at least as regards raw materials of the commodities manufactured in their dis tricts. Each tariff bill, in fact, has tended to degenerate to a log-rolling measure, like the "pork barrel" appro priation, to the great d»trlment of the industries of the country and the dis location of the revenue. It is not even a question of protection as against free trade. It is necessarv for this country to raise a large and in creasing revenue, and the fact that this incidentally extends protection to some industries is merely incidental. We have had some good protection, and some mighty poor free trade, even in the Democratic tariff measure. Ewn In America there can hardly be a hu morist daring enough to suggest that the last measure was a logical demon stration of either principle, or of anv principle. With a strong distrust of deputing Congressional power, and an apprecia tion of the indifference with which. Con gress treats the reports of the commis sions It creates, it may tftill be said that the question is one for experts. Neither the methods adopted under the Hanna-Aldrich regime, when "big bus iness" dominated, nor the cheap politics of noisy demagogues with one hand h»ld up for economy and the other groping secretly for appropriations, can meet the case. The patriotic course is clear enough. The taVk is not easy. But the admin istration which fails to adopt that course will do some clumsv explaining in the campaign of 1916. SJIAM, BOYS .VXD MOTHERS "The small boy, as the cartoonists make him." says a writer in Cartoons Magazine, "is often unfortunate In hin selection of a mother. Some mothers object to a feller's getting down on his knees to play marbles, claiming that it wears out the pants. Some object to stray dogs that follow 'kids' home and are entitled to consideration. Others insist on one's practicing the piano and learning Bible verses. They have an uncanny divination when it comes to ears and feet. A few select ones have read "Tom Sawyer" and can imagine how It feels to be a boy. These moth ers can be counted on usually for cook ies. and will at least dissemble their dislike for dogs. Also thev pack lunches when one wants to go upon a pirate cruise, or to camp out for a dav in the woods. Briggs creates mothers of the formpr type: Webster, of the latter." ' A NOCTURNE OF PARHS "Many of the lea'ding French j artists," says a writer in Cartoons Magazine, "are at the front, painting war as It is. Others have remained | at home to portray little Incidents of; Paris. Among the latter is L. Sabat- j tier, for many years cartoonist of L,e Figaro, and who is remembered for his broad, sweeping style In crayon. "Perhaps the most notable of his recent drawings Is 'Les Matinaler,' the early morning wanderers of the Paris streets In war times. In the small hours of the long night they pass by, these women, as unnoticed as the good angejs that guard us against evil. Under the veils that shroud their faces—somewhat draiwn by the long vigil—one perceives the white hair of a mother, or the blonde or brown locks of a young girl. Some are re» turning from a night s watch at the bedside of a wounded soldier: others are on their way to duty aR nurses In one of the many hotels and clinics now converted into Red Cross hos pitals. Alt traverse Paris at the lianr when not so long ago they used to re turn from the ball or the theater. No more of the gay night flaneurs in eve ning dress who hailed a taxi while they finished a. cigar. The morning wanderers pass in silence, alone with their thoughts, theirs'the satisfaction of duty accomnllshnd." 'PtKKO^ttfanXa By the Ex-Committee-man Filing of official returns in the State superior court. Judicial and 34th con grcslonal district nomination Bon tests will begin at the department of the secretary of the commonwealth within a few days. The official counts ' begin by commissioners, the county returning hoards, to-morrow und filing at the Capitol will not be much longer delayed. Probably by next Tuesday it will be possible tc give a good forecast on the results In November. The greatest interest is bejng shown at the Capitol and indeed all over the State in whether Judges Orlady and Head will have the fifty-one per cent, essential to make them sole nominees. In the cities where the nonpartisan rule prevails and in Judicial districts there were tremendous efforts made to cinch elections as was done In the case of S. B. Sadler in the Cumberland ju dicial district and Dr. E. S. Meals in the Harrisburg mayoralty. Many thousands of dollars which have been paid by the State as ex penses of conducting primary elec tions ever since 1907 will now be paid by the counties, the cost of yesterday's election being one which must be met by the commissioners of each county on its own system of doing business. Ever since the special session of 1906 took lrom the party organizations the cost of primary elections State officials have been endeavoring to reach some basis for paying bills and a sort of schedule was worked out especially for printing and pay of election offi cers. Now through the "economy" act of the last legislature it is all put up to the counties. This act will save the State about ISOO.OOO every two years. The 1912 primary was one of the most expensive ever held and it is believed that it cost the State not far from half a million dollars. That ot last year was not so expensive be cause things were better organized. However, there are still pending a number of the primary bills for last year which the State has contested and which will not be paid until cer tain points are cleared up. Officials of the State Department have sent to each candidate for a ju dicial nomination In the State blanks for the filing of accounts for primary election expenses. These must he tiled by candidates, whether nomin ated or not, within fifteen days of yes terday. The candidates for congres sional nominations come under the same classification. —The judicial contests in the State have been the greatest in a decade and some of best-known judges will have hard battles to get back on the bench. The liquor issue was par amount and in most cases Judges who stood for "dry" districts were stronglv supported. It will be days before ail judicial results can be known. —The Republicans in Philadelphia polled such a primary vote that an overwhelming victory in November is forecast. The Democrats in that city, as in Harrisburg fell far short, an evi dent desire to repudiate the present party management causing many to remain away from the polls entirely. The defeat of the Palmer-McCormick- Morris ring at the next State commit tee is one of the things very clearly foreshadowed by the primary. —ln Lancaster county the Griest or ganization cleaned up its opponents in the usual thorough manner. —W. J- Cullen, the Hazleton coun cilman, who sued Dr. Stough, seems to have collected a tremendous vote for that town. In other parts of Luzerne there was the usual trou ble. Ballots disappeared, fights oc curred and other events added to the festivities. —E. A. Weimer, former mayor of Lebanon, seems to have lost his battle to be renominated. —ln Schuylkill county some trouble occurred over specimen ballots and Judge Brumm promptly had infor mation made against County Chair man W. S. Leib. The judge does not like the chairman. —Governor Tener's appointees to the Northampton and Montgomery benches appear to have won easily. So did Governor Brumbaugh's appoin tee in Fayette. —Senator \V. C. Sproul's friends cleaned up the Delaware county pri mary handsomely. The insurgent movement was shattered. —C. E. Rhoads and Richard Smith are apparently nominees for Mayor in Altoona after a hot fight. OFFICIAL MAP OF GOTHAM STREF.TS IS DRAWN For the first time a comprehensive and accurate official map of New York City's streets and outlying territory is available. Aside from the area with in the corporate limits, it covers the j territory adjacent in Jersey, West- IChester County and Long Island. It [is uncolored, making it possible for | the several municipal departments for the several municipal departments, for which it Is primarily intended, to emphasize their respective fields of ac tivity. It is drawn to a scale of 2,000 ft. to the inch and in its finished form is square. Pictures of the map are published in the October Popular Mechanics Magazine. Great pains were taken to assure minute accuracy. The ortginal draw ings were made on a heavy paper, to the scale of «00 ft, to the inch, which form humidity and temperature changes showed variations in length ranging between .012 in. and .017 in. to the foot, which is much less than the similar changes in tracing cloth. Twenty-one of these sheets, each 8.01 ft. by 3.53 ft., were employed. In making certain tracings from other charts, glass-top tablets, illuminated from beneath by three powerful elec tric lamps, wer used, enabling the draftsmen to trace through two thick nesses of paper without difficulty. I FIRST C ONDITIO* THE TOUGH OISE fSt. Louis Post-Dispatch.] | First obtain excellence, then set your ! price; the world will pay It. ' Our Daily Laugh SOME TTM- \\ v \ BRELLA. Mr. Bugg: Darn hese sudden . ihowers! This nush room um- . X \\ \ TW \ >rella is L A FRIVOLOUS GIRL. The professor •thinks highly of '~ l *- your Intellectual powers. He says you look at him A so understanding- W Yes; It is easier T| to look at him >V un d erstandingly ■f \ than to think up that high-brow cab. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY FIVE MINUTES 'TIL 12 1.. R. Ney, the artist who has been sketching scenes from life about Har risburg, here pictures a hod carrier waiting for the whistle that will permit him to eat the good dinner that "Mammy" has sent along with the boy. STRANDED TRUNKS By Frederic J. Haskin I j A conservative estimate of all hag gage handled by the railroad com panies in the United States for the month of September places the number of pieees at over a million. Fully ninety-nine per cent, of this great mass of trunks, suitcases, satchels, bags and bundles reach their destination so promptly that the owners of the few pieces delayed feel that they have a special and pergonal grievance. Most of these delays are only temporary, ranging from a few hours to a couple of days Occasionally, however, despite the precautions taken, a trunk may be come stranded for weeks or months In some out-of-the-way locality, which seems to defy discovery. A bridal couple, making a tour of the Great Lakes this summer, had a stranded trunk experience which will forever darken the memory of their honeymoon. They went by rail to Ni agara Kalis, and their baggage was supposedly checked for transference from the train to the steamer. While their trip was to be confined to Ameri can soil, in some mysterious way a trunk containing a charming trousseau was pitcned into the wrong express wagon and carried into Can ada. The owner and her husband spent the last possible minute in admiring the beauties of Niagara and did not board the boat until just a minute be fore it left the pi-r. The bride then asked for the trunk in order 10 take out the coat she had provided for the voyage. A. thorough search indicated that the trunk was not on hoard. The honeymoon waned from that minute. The bride wearing, her husband's top coat in lieu of the dainty garment site had provided for herself, was tearful and sulky. The groom, shivering from the lack of the coat he gallantly lent to his bride, was cross and impatient. Upon their return to Niagara two weeks later, a trarer was put out for the missing trunk. It was Anally lo cated In the attlj of a Canadian sum mer hotel. Millliim of Pieces Handled Such a happening comes near being one in a million, however, because with the 20,000,cuii odd pieces of hag gage handled in this country annually it is doubtful If twenty are lost for so long a period. Considering the care lessness of tho owners in looking after their own checks, this small number is most creditable to the baggage of ficials of this railrond companies. The .llniost perfect system of bagfc gage handling in the large railroad centers is generally taken for grant ed by the traveler, with little rec ognition of the patience and care given to the handling of their property. The Union Station at Washington has been in use for over sevon years. Consid erably over 1.600,000 pieces of baggage go out from it annually. Yet in these seven years only one piece, a suitcase has »e?n lost. This is generally con ceded to have been stolen by a pas senger. In New York. Chicago, St. Louis and other large railroad centers almost equally creditable records can be given. This smail loss Is duo to the per fection of the checking system, which includes reserve checks numbering up to a million, so as to prevent the pos sibility of duplicates. The numbers are broken by a Ijyphen separating the last two ilgures to facilitate reading. Rubber stamps are provided to elimi nate writing the n.ime of te station upon the check by hand. Illegible writing was formerly responsible for the miscarriage of many branded trunks, ''ho largs union stations are now all provided «,lth two sets of rub ber stamps which Include the names of practically ever station upon con necting lines. Sometimes as many as 15,000 stamps are required. These are arrange J alpabeHcally in a way to be most accessible to the hurried work of the checking agent. While all small stations have not yet secured a com plete rubber stamp check-marking out fit. they are being rapidly introduced, so that a written check will soon be as much out-of-dato as a written post mark upon a letter. Many Difficulties Arise The fixing of values upon the ar ticles In a stranded trunk is going to be a difficult matter to adjust in con formance with the new law. A travel ing salesman set *it from New York with a trunk full of samples of wo men s clothing which he insured for The trunk was stranded in a boxcar upon a siding in the Middle West, because of the wreck of the train In which it left Chicago. It was picked up by a freight train and not reported for six weeks. The railroad company, through its lawyers. Insists that the valuation was excessive, as the articles could be purchased at the time of recovery for half the amount clalm salesman Insists that he Is entitled to the value of the samples at the time they left New York when thev were in the heighth of style. He also claims damage from loss of business because he was deprived of having them to secure sales. The new ruling as to valuation, the heavy excess baggage rates, the diffi culties of having baggage transported from the house to the station, and from one station to another, where union 8, .?'1?. ns 1 r ? not Provided, and the pos sibility of lessened expense, are leading a larger number of travelers each month to ship their baggage by express Instead of checking by rail, despite the care being taken of It by the rallread companies. A number of tourists, go ing from New York to New Kngland summer resorts this summer, found that the express companies would call at their New York home, take their baggage and deliver it in the room of the hotel at the desired resort for little. If any more than the charges of the jdrivers and baggage men who would ihave to handle It during several changes if checked. A woman coming from San Francisco with two trunks paid S3O excess baggage and checked I them. Another woman bad her extra trunk shipped east by express at a cos of t«. The facilities of the great express companies for handling and caring for baggage have been demonstrated In the collection of the thousands of pieces of American baggage left stranded in the different cities of Europe at the outbreak of the war. At one time this baggage was piled as high as a two-story building for sev eral blocks in Cologne. No one was responsible for It until a great Ameri can express company undertook to be come so. In Belgium, some of the big American trunks filled with dalntv. Paris clothes had been seized to build barricades. Some had stopped bullets. In other (he bullets had gone straight through, to tile detriment of their con tents. The collection of all this baggage was not ail easy task. It requires tact and patience to enlist the interest of the German authorities. The largest shipment was made from Hamburg, Uermany, where the baggage had been collected a few pieces at a time from surrounding towns. It formed a huge pile reaching to the top of the building on the pier. It was surmounted bv two crossed American flags and the 'name of the express company responsible for it. A number of German officers, un der the special orders of the Kaiser, stood guard over it until It could be packed upon vessels and sent to New The 'argest shipment Included I.iOO trunks which arrived last No vember upon the steamer Veendyck of the Holland American line. The baggage rescued from Europe was praced in a special bonded ware house in New York until It could be claimed by its owners. Circulars were S£nt out entitled, "Is your baggage described here?" These circulars con tained lists of the recovered pieces and descr ptions of them. It is typical of American carelessness In this matter to note that less than half of the stranded trunks and satchels contain ed the name of the ownpr and still few er J, he , address. A "gray trunk with a black band IK about as definite a description as could be given of most of the pieces. Yet the majority of tills stranded baggage has now been re turned to l(s owners. | The State From Day to Day The Freshmen at Lehigli University won tliS annual cane-spree with four teen hands on the stick, while the Sophomores had only nine. This spree is one of the famous college tradi tions which modern day feeling Is do ing so much to abolish, along with haz ing, although there can be no com parison between the two. The Mayor of McKcesport returned from Ills vacation in the wilds of Can ada recently, says the Easton Free Press, and told the story of the man who married his second wife while tlio first one was still on ice. The condi tion of the roads prevented the burial ceremony and the corpse of wife No. 1 was placed in the widower's private icehouse. Not considering the freeze out that the first wife was suffering, the cold-hearted wretch married the second wife before the funeral of the first. A thrifty hen has been found which believes In handing down household utensils to her progeny. The Allentown Chronicle arid News relates of the dis covery. by Mrs. Oplinger, of Allentown. of a real live needle in an egg which she had opened and was .fust about to drop into the Ingredients for a cake which she was baking. The mj'stery is as yet unsolved. A letter that has traveled 20,000 miles and been on the road four vears, finally reaching Its original mailing point, ought to be placed In a gilt frame as a memorial to its pertinacity and an example to other ambitious let ters. This particular letter belongs to R. D. Laughner. physical director of the Johnstown Y. M. C. A., and was mailed in 1911. « A Lower Augusta township farmer feared horse thieves and searched for Ills horse. He found It iad fallen down a twenty-foot well, so he went for as sistance and hoisted It up with a block and pulley. An old oaken bucket was attached to the horse's hoof. which when torn open, was found to contain S3OOO worth of old Spanish silver coins of a mintage of half a century ago Perhaps Captain Kidd and his crew made Pennsylvania one of their haunts. CARTOONISTS AND SMALL BOYS "It takes a cartoonist," says a writer in Cartoons Magazine, "to understand the heart of the small boy. The car toonists enter Into his sports and share his joys and sorrows. They sit with him under the cool willows, watching the red-and-yellow bobber as a fat sun fish or a bullhead nibbles at the halt. "They know Ills likes nnd dislikes, which are simple. In the former cate gory Fall baseball, strawberrv short cake, kites, marbles, rafts, rubber boots dogs, circuses, swimming, picnics' buckwheat cakes. Fourth of July, Hal lowe'en, Thanksgiving. Christmas. In the latter may be found coppertoed shoes, schoolhooks, teachers, starched collars, sulphur and molasses, practic ing. yashlng one's neck. According to the cartoonists, the small bov lives •from holiday to holiday, with a birthday In between." THOUGHT OCCURS TOO L.tTB [New York Evening Post.) Had only the Idea of a leave of ab sence occurred to him a little earlier, Dr. Duraba might have carried hla own mecsages. | lEtatttng (Etfat | This week, when Harrl»bunr e«l«- brates its progress and when th® «tt« of the ferry that brought it Into b«- ing Is to be marked by the common wealth, It Is not out of place to re call that It has been one of the molt patriotic of communities from the early days. When the French and In dian war raged Its terrors were felt right In this county and soldiers were enlisted and equipped here who c.ha»«d Indians far up the Susquehanna and who were commended by the English for bravery. When the news of the Battle of Lexington told of the revolt against England, Paxton township, comprised the section about Harris burg raised a company In ten days , and It was sent eastward from Harris Ferry, being the second company from south of New York to reach Boston. It was practically annihilated at Que bec. Other companies from Harris Ferry and the townships adjoining fought In the battles* of Long Island,, White Plains, Princeton, Crooked Bil let, Paoll, Trenton, Germantown, Brandywine and so on to Yorktown. Some were with Gates and some were with Greene. Men from Harris Ferry were with Wayne, of course, while others were under Steuben and Lafayette. Its men enlisted for the war with France and the whisky in surrection. for the War of 1812 and for the Mexican, Civil and Spanish wars. Reports received here fall to bear out predictions of a failure of the chestnut crop because of the weather - conditions and districts In counties where the trees have escaped the rav- ages of the chestnut blight report the usual yield. In spite of the spread of the troublesome tree disease there was a big crop of chestnuts generally throughout the State last year, only a few portions being very much short. The rfeports which have come to the Capitol are that the chestnut trees, are well filled with green burrs and that with the coming of frost there will be found to be more than ordinar ily supposed. The continued rains and warm weather did not materially in jure the chestnuts and there will be plenty in the mountain counties. Hickory nuts are also reported as showing signs of being abu idant in those portions where the trees survive, but there are doubts about the wal nut crop in some counties. Beech nuts, according to sportsmen, hav