6 RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established it II r ■' ■=» PUBLISHED BT THE TKLBGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE Prttidtnt and Editor-m-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Stcrtiary GUS M. STEINMETZ M ana tint Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, Sl* Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper publlah •rs' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Aaaoel ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr. New York City, Hasbrook. Story * Brooks. ■ Western Office, Advertising Bulldlnr, Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. >«lWDelivered by carriers at s 'x cents a week. Mailed to aubserlbera at (3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Poat Office In Harris* burg, Pa., aa second claaa matter. Sworn dally average circulation for the three months ending Aug. 31, 191S it 21,083 ★ Average for the rear 1014—21388 Average tor the year IMS—IMW Average for the year J9IJ—IB.M9 Average fer the Tear IMI—IT|MI Average for the rear 1#1»—1W1 The above leans are net. All re turned, unsold sad damaged copies de ducted. _ WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.—Francis Bacon. ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR ERROR SINCE the great municipal cele bration of last week those unin formed citizens who were dis posed to criticise without knowledge the constructive efforts of the city de partments whicli have accomplished so much' during the last year or two are acknowledging their mistake and now is heard praise where before was censure. For the most part the people are disposed to be fair and any criti cism of the work of City Commission ers Bowman, Taylor and Lynch, who have had the burden of all the con structive work of the last two years, ought to be based upon actual knowl edge rather than upon political preju dice. Our people will have to be shown that those who seek to displace these heads of departments, with their ex perience and energy, are better quali fied to do the Important work that still remains to be done. It is an easy matter to talk in gen eral terms of what the community ex pects and the kind of men who should he elected, but consideration for the "Welfare of all the people demands that those who have been doing so well be given an opportunity to continue the program of betterment which has been followed consistently for the last two years. # Four council men are to be elected and these four should not be chosen because this political boss or that po litical boss favors or opposes any one of them. These must be selected be cause of their fitness and the people ere awakening to the fact, since they have had an opporunity to see what has been accomplished, that the three Republican members of the present Council have done admirably under extremely difficult circumstances. We believe that with the progress of the campaign the piffling efforts to dis parage the work of the three depart ments over which Commissioners Lynch, Bowman and Taylor are the heads will be understood by the great majority of people and that the pro posed turning out of experienced officials for others who want their places will not be in the interest of economy or efficient administration. Merchants of Harrlsburg are showing their usual enterprise in presenting to the autumn buying public an unusual assortment of the best things that the market has to offer. Long ago the ex cuse for going to New York and other metropolitan centers ceased to have any basts. CABARET A RUM PARASITE LO, and behold our old friend Neil Bonner in the %uise of a re 'former and lecturer. Out in Springfield, 111., yesterday Neil took a fling at the cabaret. The cabaret, he says, Is a parasite on the liquor busi ness, is dragging it into disrepute and reputa-ble saloonkeepers to financial ruin. Mr. Bonner puts himself on record as strongly opposed to "arti ficial stimulation" in the conduct of the liquor traffic. "Artiflolal stimu lation" is bad for business and even tually will wreck the trade, he decides. What a pity he does not follow his theory to its logical conclusion. If "artificial stimulation" will wreck a business, what may we not expect it to do to the complexities of the human body? An employment bureau Is to be es tablished by the State in a few days, and If we may judge from the anxious inquiries of local contractors there Is work waiting for idle men right ,'iere In Barrisburg. ADVERTISING STEELTON THE Board of Trade of Steelton lias decided to do something in the way of town advertising, evl iJently bolng awake to the fact that "ho who bloweth not his own horn, the same shall not be blown." And Steelton has reason to do a little "toot ing." The town has grown and pro gressed wonderfully in the past few years. Time was when nobody who knew anything about the situation held a very high opinion of Steelton. II was as dirty, as unpaved and gen erally as sleepy as was Harrlsburg before the era. of public Improve ment enterprises. But Steelton took a leaf out of the Harris burg notebook^ WEDNESDAY EVENING, It has not been far behind this city in recent years in any respect. It has filtered water, adequate sewers, paved streets, mode! schools, parks and play places. Nor is the «nd yet. It is perfectly apparent to all who have given the matter any consideration that Steel ton'? future li bright with promise The Pennsylvania Steel Works is still in Its'' infancy, although growing rapidly. In time-Harrlsburg rfhd Steel ton will stretch as one community from Rockville to Middletown. This Is no idle dream. The accomplish ments of the past ten yeara both in this city and Steelton forecast it as a certainty and the growth of the future will be more rapid than that of the past. j Steelton's Board of Trade has a reason for advertising—the best in ! the world. Indeed—for it has some thing good to offer. Perhaps no more promising incident with relation to the attitude of the alien population of the United States toward Uncle Sam has come to the sur face than the severe criticism by Slo vaks against Dr. Dumba at South Beth lehem. Resolutions were adopted by many former subjects of Austria- Hungary expressing loyalty to the United States and refusing to take any part in the movement to create social disturbances In this country. Dr. Dumba Is denounced Jor his intrigues against a friendly nation. This coun try has little to fear from its new citizens and when the war is over we may expect an enormous Influx of thousands of hardy peasants and in dustrial workers from the belligerent countries on the other side of the ocean. PROPER TARIFF POLICY THOSE who have been accustomed to regard Congressman James R. Mann as an example par excellence of the old-fashioned "stand patter" will have to revise their opin ions after reading his speech before a Republican gathering in St. Louis last evening. Mr. Mann's address will sound the keynote of the Republican policy for the 1916 campaign, unless we misunderstand the temper of the rank and file of the party. His tariff views are in strict accord with the protective policies of the party, in which the great mass of the people unquestionably tielleve, but they are progressive enough to meet the views of even the most radical. Every Republican should read what Mr. Mann has to say In this respect. The convictions of millions of, Amer icans are summed up in his St. Louis speech. He concludes in this lan guage: The first duty of the Republican party when it comes into power again will be to write a protective tariff law and provide for a tariff commission of disinterested ex perts. The business, labor and indus tries of the country cannot well wait for a tariff revision until after the tariff commission has reported. We want to start up every old In dustry and many new ones at the earliest possible moment. The tariff commission will inves tigate and ascertain tue facts more completely than has been done heretofore and tariff schedules of the future will be based upon full Information obtained by scientific methods to secure fairly the Ameri can market to American producers, but not so high as to permit' ex orbitant charges for the things produced. In other words, the rates should be reasonable. The recent experiences of other countries bring to mind vividly the need of our country to foster and protect Industries at home in order that we may have their benefit If we should be engaged In war. It is doubtful if Mr. Mann will be selected to bear the Republican presi dential standard next year, as some of his friends hope, but he at least has written far in advance the text of the Republican platform on the tariff. THE CONFERENCE HARRISBURG is honored this week in entertaining the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ, which is In session in the Sixth Street United Brethren church. This city has long been an Import ant religious center, as evidenced by the many church conferences held here, and It bears reputation for church-going of which It may well be proud. One of the strongest of the denominations in this city is the United Brethren, which includes five large and flourishing congregations in the city proper and four or five more in the immediate suburbs. The East Pennsylvania Conference includes 149 churches between the Susquehanna and the Delaware rivers, with nearly 23,000 communicants. As the representatives of these thousands of church people, several hundred clerical and lay delegates are gathered here and we are more than proud to have men of such high caliber with us. The preacher to-day is a man of sacrifice even more than in days gone by. Living costs have In creased, the demands of theppetw t on the pulpit are so exacting that a costly education is almost a necessity to suc cess, and the man of the cloth has to scrape to make ends meet more than ever. But has anyone heard of any sudden jumps in the salaries paid to ministers? A few, perhaps, but only sufficient to establish the exception that proves the rule. The Telegraph extends its best wishes for the success of fhe United Brethren conference and Its greetings to the men who are here to report the gains their sacrifices have made during the year. SIMMONS AN'D KITCHIN IT is refreshing to note the belliger ent attitude a few of the Demo crats in the House and Senate have assumed now that premonitory quak ings warn them they are about to be pitched into oblivion by a nation-wide revulsion one year hence. Senator Furnlfold Simmons, of North Carolina, chairman of the Sen ate Committee on Finance, now swaeFh-buckles around in a suit of bor rowed armor four sizes too large and declares himself for a huge bond Is sue to provide for an adequate navy. Heretofore, Mr. Simmons' espousal of the cause of national preparedness has been about as ardent as that of a Kentucky colonel for the Hobson anti-redeye amendment. , But while Furnlfold has glimpsed enough of. the light to encourage him. to take his place in the sun, his fel low statesman and coadjutor. Repre sentative Claude Kltchln, still snuggles the Bryan dove to his palpitating bosom and strives with soft accents to smooth the wrinkled front of grlm visaged war. Kltchln Is the next chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House. Thus we are to have the pleasing spectacle of two tar-heeled Incense swingers. each chairman of the most powerful committee of his respective branch of Congress, differing in diag nosis of national symptoms. When such Den\ocratc leaders disagree, what is to be expected at the hands of the next Congress in the way of prepared ness. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE 1 —lt is a safe bet that T. R. and Dr. Dumba are at odds on the subject of the recall, although both will doubtless admit its effectiveness. —Judging from the amount of paper money said to be in circulation the printing business must be good in Mexico. —Detroit candidate for mayor favors a low tax rate. Where have we hearu those words before? —War may be expensive, but then there is also the matter of running a furnace during the winter, —George Barnard Shaw says he will write no more plays. Ha, at last, going into vaudeville, we suppose. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"" MUCH BETTER INWAX [St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] One of the principals in a recent ceremony on the Crow Indian reserva tion in Montana was Shows-the-Flsh, a prominent man of the tribe. We like that. It beats Tells-About-the- Fish, whom we all know better and respect less. HARDLY ANY HOPE OF IT [Grand Rapids Press.] It is expected that by this time Doc Cook has reached the top of Mount Everett, the highest mountain in the world. The hardest Job though, of course, will be to keep him up there. GREAT CHANCE TO SAVE [Baltimore American.] With the cost of war $3,000,000 an hour the belligerents might lessen the demands upon charitable America by stopping a few hours and giving sav ings to their own poor. QUITE IMPROBABLE, AT LEAST [Columbia State.] Impossible news item: Among the callers at the New York Sun editorial offices yesterday was Mr. W. J. Bryan. LET US HAVE ENGLISH [From the New York Sun.] This is the season for the opening of schools and colleges, and for that rea son a humble plea for the English language may not be out of place. We make it shrinkingly and witn def erential regard to the profounder teachings of Professor Brander Mat thews. who proclaims tha grand prin ciple that "everything goes." Accord ing to this distinguished 'authority language is made or the people, by the people and for the people, and hence what the people say is good and should therefore be admitted to aca demic society. At this time the people call a man a "guy," a woman a "skirt," and a dog a '"mutt." Other samples of the speech of the people are not essential. The truth is that few can say any thing in the old fashioned direct way. All have become so accustomed to the use cf slang that the common speech is no longer common: it is become a curiosity, relegated to the obscure haunts of the "highbrows" and treat ed with scorn by the workers of the world. While-this undoubtedly gives much joy to Professor Brander Mat thews, it saddens some old fogies, who mourn the departure of earlier and more elegant ways of speaking, as they mourn the decadence of earlier and better manners. Perhaps the two were unrelated, but they were at least companions. Ts it probable that if the young ceased to call their eledrs "old guys" or "geezers," to refer to other people's mothers as "skirts" or "rags," and gen erally began to lift their terminology toward levels of n decorum less figur ative, if more prpsaic, they might also improve their manners? At any rate Is there any overwhelming reason why the youth of this time should be al most wholly unacquainted with the plain English- tongue and unable to sav the simplest thing except in slang? It is a matter, worthy of the consider ation of those teachers and orofessors who may perhaps not agree with the Columbia sage that "everything goes." Our Daily Laugh ONLY THINK- Wayne—Where are you thinking of going this sum- gjlly )V-' Jj g 0 thinking of the R , Panaira - Pacific :V Exposition, but" I'll probably go _ to Punk Beach. SURE - JoHk But we haven't a thing In A. / /nTTnf y° ur fortune In common, HE GOT AWAY By Wins Dinger When, for two weeks a chap haß been A fishin' down the bay, It's hard to come back and at work To plug and plug away. I've tried to concentrate my thoughts OnjSgures, costs, et cet., But I can't keep from dreamin' of That fish I didn't get. He was a beauty, I should say At least four feet In length— I gave him lots of play and tried To use up all his strength. And when I thought the time was ripe I tried to land him—gee. He leaped from water. Jumped the hook And got away from me. The guide, a diplomatic cuss, To me did then remark: "Don't mind it, 'cause you missed him, bo, • For it was just a shark." But shark or riot, when o'er my work I'm struggling every day, I just can't help a-dreamln' of, The ash that got away. ffUUUSBUR , TEIJaQRAPIi ftKKOi^aiua By the Ei-OomraitteeiM* —Practically every cdunty In the State may be affected by the ruling of the Allegheny county court in the con test which has been started in Pitts burgh to get ballot boxes opened. Over fifty boxes have been attacked, so to speak, and the Allegheny judges are considering the situation. The Pitts burgh Post, the Democratic organ of Western Pennsylvania, has this to say about it: "Because of the great Im portance of the case, it was said that the Judges wanted to go into the sub ject thoroughly before rendering a de cision. Their decision will establish a precedent in which politicians throughout the State are Interested. Their interpretation of the act of 1913 will affect every county in the State. Should they uphold the decision of Judge Macfarlane, in which the letter held that any Ave men could petition to have the ballot box of any district opened, live men could have every bal lot box In the State opened In the con test for judge of the superior court. It is believed that the Judges will not. open the doors to such a contest. If they throw the doors open wide, it is almost certain that they will be peti tioned to open every ballot box in the State. Leaders of both factions of the Republican party are afraid of this, and they are of the opinion that the decision of Judge Macfarlane should be modified. If it is not, it Is certain that the Judges will be called upon to open every box in the county, and probably the entire State. The judges gave no intimation as to when their opinion would be handed down, but it was believed generally by both fac tions that a decision would be render ed to-day. Interest in the decision was shown by the fact that over a thousand citizens called various offices in the courthouse yesterday seeking information regarding the matter." —Transfer of officials from Wash ington was decided upon by Postmas ter General Burleson yesterday a:s cure for the defects In the Philadelphia postal service. Coincident with the announcement of this policy, the Post master General stated that F? F. Frazler, chief clerk of the First As sistant Postmaster General In Wash ington. will go to Philadelphia as superintendent of mails and will be ac companied by T. P. Johnson, of the same bureau, who will become one of the assistant superintendents. It was specifically stated that the changes meet the approval of Postmaster Thornton. —The Republicans thus far have made no effort to begin their cam paign in Philadelphia and will not take any steps until after the meeting of the City Committee next Friday. Thomas B. Smith, the mayoralty candidate, went to Atlantic City for a week yes terday to rest after his primary cam paign. which consisted of making 12 five-minute speeches in 21 days. —Slowness of the official count for superior court judges is exasperating a good many people, who are anxious to learn what has happened. Thus far only a score of counties have filed their official returns at the Capitol. Some system for speeding up the offi cial returns will probably be devised for the next legislature. Threats are being made to revive impeachment proceedings against Dis trict Attorney R. H. Jackson, of Alla gheny, who is active in the ballot box investigation. —Ex-Director Porter will start bis campaign with "movies" to-day. He has opened headquarters. President Judge Charles L. Brown, of the Philadelphia Municipal Court, yesterday wrote a letter to the Com mittee of One Hundred, protesting against the statement made by the committee to the effect that the court employed members .of councils as clerks and court officers. Judge Brown said that there is not a single member of councils In the court's employ over whose appointment the court has any control. The committee issued a statement admitting its partial error. —John R. Halsey, Republican coun ty chairman of Luzerne,has been nom inated for district attorney on most of the tickets in that county. IJe is well known to a number here. —Representative William Luxem berger appears to have cinched the Democratic nomination for county controller in Lackawanna. —The Pittston city council has dis missed Chief of Police Newcomb and seven patrolmen because they refused to stay Interned in city hall on Pri mary day. —Luzerne county candidates will elect their chairmen of county com mittees this week. This will be done by the Democrats as well as Republi cans. —The absence of any statement by State Chairman Morris to the effect that the primaries were a great Dem ocratic victory is attracting some at tention. The one place in Luzerne county) where there is not one Democrat is the Upper Lehigh district of Butler town ship. Of the sixty votes cast there at the recent primaries the Republicans got them all. This appeared suspi cious to the counting board when the official returns were opened, but no fraud was discovered. The poll has for years been a Republican strong hold, but once in a while from one to three Democrats come to the surface. Republican leaders never make any special efforts at Upper Lehigh because they know in advance that their Inter ests there are perfectly safe. | —Charles Eckenlaub, who received the highest vote for city controller on the nonpartisan ticket in Altoona, withdrew from the fight in favor of his rival nominee, Calvin Myers, who lost both legs, an arm part of his remaining hand in a railroad accident. The job pays SSO a month. MORE FOR OIIR MONEY [From the New York Independent.] Wto agree with President Butler when he recently said: "I should welcome a properly con ducted inquiry Into the military and naval expenditures made by the gov ernment of the United States in recent years, because I believe that the first result of such Inquiry would be to show that under better administrative con ditions and under more businesslike management we should have gotten much more for the money spent—or to put it in another way. we should have gotten what we need for less money." This surmise of President Butler Is right There is something: wrong with the way our military appropriations are expended. It has cost us more in the last decade to keep our army of ninety thousand than Switzerland to maintain her citizen army of 250,000. Our army of 1913-14 cost $173.000,000, which was about what Germany ex pended on her entire army In the same period. HOW MANY IN THE DISTRICT? f Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] Joe Cannon favors a reserve army of 100,000 men, each paid $250 a year. How many of the reserves would he Ulke to ajujoint from, district?, j THE CARTOON OF THE DAY . 1 THE NEW RACE IN THE BALKANS —From the Des Moines Register. • . t ! Practical Post Office Methods By Frederic J. Haskir. I . J THE Post Office Department at Washington has just issued an order which will abrogate all the contracts for hauling mall in the cities of Chicago and St. Louis, and replace such service with government-owned equipment, mostly automobile trucks. This reform is expected to save $170,- 000 a year in Chicago and $62,000 a year In St. Louis. This change in method of shuttling mail about a big city comes as a re sult of the experiments of Otto Praeger, a newspaperman who bo came postmaster of the city of Wash ington, and who has been demonstrat ing the economical possibilities of commonsense and organization when applied to the infinitely detailed task of handling the malls. Mr. Praeger found that in Wash ington there were contracts for col lecting mail, for distribution, and for hauling to trains, which amounted to $52,000 a year. He thought this serv ice could be performed much more cheaply by government-owned equip ment, and its correct handling would accomplish a great saving. He was allowed to buy the nfecessary trucks and inaugurate his system. The problem seemed to be to keep the trucks working as much of the time as possible. The merchant's de livery truck works but 40 per cent, of the time, on the average, and is stand ing idle waiting for a load 60 per cent, of the time. The task was to arrange the work so that the trucks would be running steadily. It was found possible to use a single fThe State From Day to Day] I J In York county the damage this year to the wheat crop, as the result of the Angoumois moth, is reported by farmers to be even greater than last year and efforts are being made to get rid of the pest. Mrs. Anna Cately, Williamsporfs oldest resident, was admitted to mem bership in the Grace Methodist Episco pal church Sunday by the Rev. John H. Mortimer. She celebrated her 100 th birthday anniversary on Saturday. The State College this term has an enrollment of 3800 in all courses, 550 over last year. The Freshmen class has been limited to 600, owing to the lack of buildings, more than 200 ap plicants having been rejected. Fifty six new teachers have been Ridded to the faculty. Chester Times has made a great discovery. It says: "Now we know why so many people get colds in their heads. A patent medicine advertise ment says 'Colds always attack the weakest spots'." Opposition to the present open pri mary law is becoming epidemic. The Erie Dispatch declares that "from all points come complaints from the voters and complaints from the can didates and yet we must go through it all again next year. It is expensive, ridiculous, absurd, farcical, unfair to all concerned." Addresses by John Wanamaker, ex-Secretary of State Knox and H. J. Heinz all In one week means an un usual treat for Erie, says the Dis patch. Because no premium h&d been paid on two Insurance policies, the widow of John J. Rinehart. who was killed in the automobile accident near Cale donia Wednesday night. Is out just SIO,OOO. She has seven children. Reading is to add another large cigar factory to Its already long list of industries of this character, which, when in full operation, will employ between 200 and 300 people. The report of the Reading Clearing House Association for the week shows clearings of $1,595,990.43. For the same week a year ago they were | $1,721,385.50. DONT BE A JAY DRIVER An unusual number of motor car accidents have been reported In the last few days. There have been sev eral collisions. In at least one In stance a car skidded on a sharp curve and turned over. As cars multiply In numbers It is evident that increasingly careful driv ing is called for. The driver who "hits her up" endangers not only his own safety, but the safety of other motor ists. There are drivers who fall to slacken speed when they come to cross jrtx§eta. Ther« we drivers who dash SEPTEMBER 29, 1915. truak for almost all the tasks of the post oftlce. The same vehicle would gather mails at certain hours, distri bute them at other hours, and haul them to the trains at other times. Each of these services might have been per formed by different contractors under the old system. Soon it was found to be possible for a truck to be working 65 per cent of its tjme and idle but 3 5 per cent. This was a great im provement. It meant that the opera tion of a truck cost the post office but nine cents a it cost the commercial user cents a mile. Cuts Down Cost This method reduced the annual cost of performing this service for the city of Washington from $52,000, under the old contract system, to SIB,OOO under the new arrangement. There fore the new order has been Issued in Chicago and St. Louts, with a pro bability of its extension to many other cities. This is but one of the many reforms that have been worked out in Wash ington under its newspaperman post master—reforms that have meant a saving of $127,000 a year to that city. "Washington, for instance, had de veloped a system of independent sub stations where mails were made up and distributed. This system is also ir> operation in some other cities. It was found that by a concentration of the distribution system a saving in clerk hire alone of $39,000 could be [Continued on Va?e 5.] around corners or across a boulevard at high speed. It cannot be too strongly empha sized that the really competent driver always has his car under control; that he always drives op the theory that every other driver may be careless or may lose his head. Caution marks the competent driver. Recklessness belongs only to the Jay.—Kansas City Star. HARRISBURG SPENT $5,000,000 [Beaver Falls Evening Tribune.] Harrisburg has been celebrating for three days. Back in 1901 Harrisburg discovered that as a city it hadn't mi oh to brag of except being the State capital and that it scarcely deserved that honor. Only a mile or two of paved streets; no parks worthy of the name; no playgrounds; drinking water heavy with coal dust and disease germs —everything, in fact, Just about what it ought not to lie. So Harrisburg borrowed $1,090,000 and proceeded to dress up. Later it made other loans until the aggregate was $2,43,1,000. while that much more was spent by individual property own ers paying for improvements in front of their real estate. The ctty has more than seventy miles of paved streets, mostly sheet •asphalt; far more than 1,000 acres of public parks, most of which it owns outright; a plant which filters all water used in the city; summer playgrounds and swimming pools for children; a summer camp for children; tennis courts and golf links for the adolescent and adults, and a river front and river I'asln which has been Improved in a manner unique in the entire world. Other plans have been made for the future and probably will be executed, for a remarkable thing about the ex penditure of the millions of dollars has been that no one ever has yelled ■graft." BARRIXG OUT BOOZE Over the entrance gates of the great plant of the Illinois Steel Company at Gary, Ind., appear these electric signs: Did booze ever do you any good? Did booze ever get you a better job? Did booze ever contribute anything to the happiness of your family? In a letter to the Manufacturers' Record the president of the steel com pany, E. J. Buffington, writes: "The purpose of these signs is to emphasize the importance of certain recognized facts related to hygiene and physical efficiency. During recent years our safety, sanitation and welfare work among employes has borne good fruit in the form of a manifested interest on the part of employes generally in. the question of individual efficiency and well being as an economic factor in their lives." The Temperance Society of the Methodist Church of Topeka recently made Inquiry Vegardlng liquor In the plants of 140 Iron and steel companies. Of the 120 that replied only six fall to prohibit the use of intoxicating drinks by employes. This Isn't a matter of morals. Tt is a matter of efficiency. The use of liquor by a workinst force reduces Its efficiency. It Is the conflict of the hand loom and the power loom over again. Of course, the power loom wins to-day as It always has. —Jvansas ,Cit£ Star, ! j| Stoning Qll)at| If some of the small lassies of th« Fager girls' grammar school ever get to Vassar and take part In the wind ing of the "daisy chain" they can truthfully say they once had a little experience In a similar event in their girlhood days. The girls, some 133 of them, took part In the big school children's parade Friday during the big municipal Improvement celebra tion. The Fager building appeared to splendid advantage. The small ladies nil carried laurel garlands just like the Vassar girls and great blue and gold shields which bore the name of the school. For weeks the girls had been preparing for the display and the result of their efforts was re warded with applause all along the line. The whole color scheme was worked out by Mls.s Clara L. Meredith, the principal, and Misses Bender, Sample and Conelly, teachers. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will sit next week and as always It will necessitate the presence of some of the members of the Dauphin county bar. Naturally that was the reason, ad vanced by several attorneys for the continuance of certain cases listed for October common pleas court next week. But that wasn't the only rea son. One lawyer suggested that a trial in which both Charles H. Bergner and himself had been retained go over until the next term. "Mr. Bergner, as your Honors know," explained the lawyer, "will be In attendance upon the Superior Court of Pennsylvania during that week" "Yes, and besides that," suggested Attorney Charles C. Stroh, softly, "the world's series begins that week, too." The combination of fire and water that wrecked one side of Fourth street from Blackberry to Chestnut some ton days ago appears to have had some preservative properties because there are In tUie windows of a couple of the luncherles which were burned out oranges, grapefruit and lemons which seem to be as fresh as the morning of the blaze. Some bananas also seem, to be standing the strain of \yaitlng for the underwriters to adjust things. Other foods are to be seen on shelves and only the other day a chicken was taken from a "cooler" in the rear of I the building only slightly the worse | for experience. However, It was not used for food. Some idea of the intense heat gen erated at the Fourth street Are may be gained from the manner in which the \*>oden window frames and door frames were burned from the brick work. The removal of ruins has shown that in the portions abutting on the garage the fire was so hot that nothing was left but bricks, everything inflammable being consumed. • • • Warden Caldwell is running a pretty close second to the Post Office authori ties when it comes down to lawns. The prison grass plots, which are given the best of care, are an ornament to Walnut street and in spite of looking moth-eaten are fresh and green. The Isleboro Inn, at Dark Harbor, Mpine, which was burned yesterday, was owned by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the State Commissioner of Health, although many who visited it probably never knew it. Dr. Dixon has owned the hotel ever since it was built and it was an attractive place to visit. A few years ago several HarrlsburgerA stopped there and when they started to* compliment it were surprised to know the commissioner was the owner. • » • The steal bars which have been placed at the Federal building for us« in the construction are being put to use by the men engaged In moving the granite which has been unloaded. The granite must be moved from the street and the men have been using the beams for slides. They place a stone on the steel and whizz it along. Without it they would have to do some heavy lifting. » • » H. L. Keller, of Butler county, who was here yesterday, is the Republican county chairman of Butler county. He came here on business at the State Capitol. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —V. J. Patterson, of Pittsburgh, is one of the Ive leading candidates for commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. . —Colonel L. A. Watres, of Scranton, reappointed a member of the State Armory Board, was one of the driginal members of that body. —lsaac Bauni, prominent Washing ton county attorney, has gone to New foundland. —James S. Fleck, of Altoona, has gone on a trip to the Pacic Coast. —John A. Bigelow, the retiring dis trict attorney of Luzerne, started in life as a telegraph operator. —H. K. Porter, the Pittsburgh manufacturer, has been spending some time in Lenox. 1 DO YOU KNOW "] That Harrisburg playgrounds have a national reputation? HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG The first Methodist church erected In Harrlsburg was near Third and Pine streets. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From The Telegraph, Sept, 29, 1865.] Chestnuts In Market Chestnuts were on sale to-day in the markets of the city. The prices ranged from 25 to 45 cents a quart. Murderer In Tills City? A murderer from Middletown, N. Y. ( Is supposed to be hiding somewhere in this city or vicinity. His name is John Henderson, alias John Hardy. He is wanted for the murder of a farmer in the New York town. Soldiers' Rally iii Harrlsburg At a meeting of discharged officers of the War in Pittsburgh yesterday it was decided to hold a rally of Penn sylvania regiments in this city October 4. It Is probable that a permanent,, organization will be completed then. * i The Busier the Better The busier a store is—lf It be efficiently managed, the better It can serve you. The more a manufacturer makes the lower his prices. Volume of business lessens cost of handling and for that roa son means economies. ' The stores and the manufac turers who IMC newspaper ad vertising arc busy. It pays to patronize them be cause "the increased business gives better opportunities for service. L*-
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