8
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Established iSjt
PUBLISHED BY
THE TEI.ECRAPII PRINTING CO.
K. J. STACK POLE
/'resident aid Editor-in-Cliief
F. R. OYSTER
Secretary
GU9 M. STEINMETZ
Manatiitt Editor
Published every evening (except Sun
flay) at the Tlegrapli Building, 116
Federal Square. Both phones.
Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ
ated Dailies.
Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building.
New York City, Hasbrook, Story &
Brook*.
Wet, ton Office. Advertising Buildinr.
Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward.
. Delivered by carriers at
<grfanVigp|gE> six cents a week.
Mailed to subscribers
at 13.00 a year in advance.
Entered at the Post Office in Harris
burg, Pa., as second class matter.
ft IT nrn dally average circulation for tilt
three month* ending Oct. 31, 1915.
★ 21,357 ★
Average for the year 191-1 -I.WW
Average for the year 11M3—10,962
Average for the year 1012—- lit.MO
Average for the year 11t 11 17..W
Average for the year 1»10—10.201
The above figures are net. All re
turned. untold and damaged copies de
ll acted.
WEDNESDAY EVENING NOV. 3.
Honest error is to be pitied, not rid
iculed.—Lord Chesterfield.
REIHBIJCANS REUNITED
RETURNS from Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Massachusetts and else
where indicate beyond the
shadow of a doubt that Republicans
have reunited in preparation for the
gieat national contest next year. Presi
dent Wilson's own State has repudiated
him twice in almost as many weeks,
and elsewhere Republicans of all views
have come together on the common
ground of opposition to Democracy as
exemplified by the administration at
Washington.
Iti Dauphiu county the full Demo
cratic strength, bolstered up by the
•mall remaining remnant of the Wash
ington party, was able to accomplish
nothing against the reunited Repub
lican rank and file. The re-election of
Banner, as register, was not In any
sense a Democratic victory. Danner Is
n cripple, and a sympathetic public
returned him to office on that ground
and upon no other. Men of all parties
voted for him because of his physical
Infirmities.
With this one exception the whole
Republican ticket was triumphantly
elected. All manner of combinations
and every political trick known to the
opposition were brought to bear
against the Republican candidates, but
to no avail.
Dauphin county is normally a Re
publican district. When the voters are
content with the party management,
when they feel that the rank and file of
the party is in the saddle, and when
good men are nominated, there is
never any question of the result. All
or these factors were apparent in the
election of yesterday and the great
Republican victory that resulted, and
added to these is the growing discon
tent of the people with the Democratic
administration at Washington. The
total wreck of the Washington party
is also one of the salient features of
the election locally and this vote has
returned where it belongs, to the Re
publican column.
THE MUNICIPAL, ELECTION
HARRISBURG is to be congratu
lated upon its return to city
council of Harry F Bowman and
William H. Lynch, but it is very
much to be regretted that the cam
paign of wilful misrepresentation and
malicious falsehood directed against
M. Harvey Taylor, the efficient super
intendent of parks, resulted in his de
feat. On the other hand, the defeat of
Mayor Royal removes from city affairs
a man who has nothing of a construc
tive nature to his credit and whose
whole course since the Clark act be
came operative has been petty, vin
dictive and obstructive. The re-elec
tion of Mr. Gorgas was not unexpect
ed, following his heavy vote at the
primaries, and the fortunes of polities
have given him as his colleague in
council Ex-Mayor Gross, formerly a
Republican, but lately lined up with
♦he Democratic machine in his contest
for council.
With Mayor Meals as presiding of
ficer, the complexion of council still
remains Republican by the three-to
two vote of the past two years. To
that extent the Democratic city bosses
have failed in their effort to control
the local municipal legislature.
Mayor Meals will find in Messrs.
Lynch and Bowman two men who
have rendered splendid sen-ice. Their
records are clean and the conduct of
their offices has been distinctly econo
mical and constructive. He can hope
for little co-operation in constructive
policies on the other side of the house,
If the past two years may be accepted
as a criterion. He has a big oppor
tunity before him if he will accept it,
and there have been distinct signs re
cently, if he has been correctly quoted
.in his public addresses, that he has
outlined for himself a very definite
and positive course as mayor. Mayor
Meals has possibilities for good before
him seldom presented to any city exe
cutive. It remains for him only to
accept them, and to do what all good
citizens hope he will do.
The dofcat of Mr. Taylor was ac
complished by methods that ought
to bring the blush of shame to the
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
cheeks of those responsible. In him
the city had a faithful and efficient
public servant. Yet, because a little
band of selfishly ambitious bosses de
sired for their own ends to sain con
trol of the city government, he was
made the target of undeserved abuse
and villlflcation. He was libeled and
lied about as few city officials ever
have been, and the result was his de
feat. Those who besmirched them
selves to tliis end have not accom
plished the real purpose they had In
mind—the domination of the city gov
ernment. and they have turned the
well-organized department over to
some inexperienced newcomer. They
have undone much of the constructive
work of two whole years, and the only
result has been the defeat of a man
better qualified for the place he va
cates than any man In city council.
They have also weakened that confi
dence of our people in the present
form of government, which is vitally
necessary to a proper working out of
the problems which confront this city
in its future development.
Returning prosperity Is declared by
those who are in close touch with in
dustrial activities to be independent of
war orders. Reports of the reserve
banks all over the country indicate a
swelling tide of prosperity as a result
of the enormous crops and the general
return of confidence, much of which is
based upon the belief that the Repub
lican party is returning to power and
that the era of theoretical legisla
tion and regulation is rapidly nearing
an end.
MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS
HARRISBURG has approved the
loan for the purchase of fire ap
paratus. Some time ago, after
certain types of motor apparatus had
been bought by the city, the National
Board of Underwriters gave us the
discouraging news that we had bought
the wrong kind. The board did nol
give reasons. It merely announced
after the tractors had been bought,
that the designs were not in accord
with its specifications.
If the board desires to allay the sus
picion entertained by many Harris
burg people, that it is more interested
in explaining afterward than before,
it will give the city some idea now as
to what its views are concerning the
kind of apparatus we ought to buy.
Harrisburg is spending money to pro
cure protection from fire and inciden
tally to obtain lower insurance rates
and we are tired of hearing that we
have done the wrong thing when our
Intentions were good. Let the board
send on its specifications for motor
apparatus.
lave you seen the Roberson pictures
; heard tile Roberson talks? It not,
- are missing a great treat.
THE JONES MEMORIAL
DID you notice In last evening's
Telegraph a picture of the beau
tiful new entrance and fountain
erected by the colored people of Har
risburg to the memory of Dr. William
Harrison Jones at the Twelfth street
playgrounds?
If not, hunt up your copy and take
a look at it.
There is a lesson in it for you, who
ever you arc.
Good citizenship is carved into every
stone of it.
Dr. Jones himself was a worthy citi
zen. He left his impress upon the
community. The good deeds he did
[live after him.
I His close friends—and they were
not, for the most part, the wealthy
men of town—desired to perpetuate
his memory. So they put their heads
—and their dollars—together, and the
beautiful fountain and park entrance
is the result.
In this these leaders of the colored
people of the community have set an
example that ought to bring the blush
of shame to the cheeks of their white
brethren. With one exception, this
Jones fountain is the only memorial
of its kind in the city parks. There
ought to be many such.
Who will be the next to recognize
the need and go and do likewise?
It may be true that the fluctuation in
the industrial stocks, especially those
based upon iron and steel, is due to an
undercurrent of opinion that peace Is
not so far away in Europe as appears
upon the surface. This Is the optimis
tic view of the situation, but it is con
trary to the opinion of those who are
close observers and who feel that the
reaction is rather the result of going
too fast in the stock markets than any
promise of an early conclusion of the
war.
THE SUFFRAGE VOTE
RETURNS from all over the State
on the Woman's Suffrage amend
ment indicate that the greatest
; factor in its defeat was the apathy
of the women themselves.
"Mr. Dooley," In his homely phil
osophy, some years ago voiced the
opinion that "wimin'll git the vote
jist as soon as enough of them want
it." In Pennsylvania, as well as In
Massachusetts and New York, evi
dently not enough women wanted the
ballot to carry the movement to suc
cess.
The suffragist campaign managers,
if they were aware of this apathy on
the part of women in the campaign
waged In their behalf, either under
estimated its extent or its effect. In
stead of pushing the suffrage resolu
tion through the Legislature and con
centrating their energies upon edu
cating men to their viewpoint the suf
frage leaders, might have gained time
in the end by taking two or four years
more in which to gain the undivided
support of the women, in an unanimous
demand for the ballot. To be sure
other factors entered into yesterday's
vote, but it looks as though the suf
frage issue was pushed to conclusion
a little ahead of time.
Throughout the district to be covered
by the William Penn Highway, which
will traverse the State from Philadelphia
to Pittsburgh through the famous Juni
ata Valley region, there is widespread
interest in the proposed parallel of the
Lincoln Highway that has been given
such an impetus since Governor Brum
baugh's swing through the State. One
cannot hear Mr. Roberson talk of the
famous highways elsewhere without
feeling that the magnificent scenery of
Pennsylvania must be opened up to the
tourists of the world by the making of
tile best roads possible throughout this
Imperial Commonwealth.
HOW ABOUT THE CONSUMER ?
SINCE the Supreme Court has de
clared unconstitutional and void
the State anthracite coal tax un
der which the Commonwealth hoped
to reap some millions of revenue, it
will be interesting to observe how
soon the coal barons, who have been
collecting the tax from the consum
ers for two years on the basis of
twenty-five cents per ton, will make
restitution.
It would appear that they should
for two years at least make a re
duction of fifty cents a ton on all the
grades upon which the price was in
creased to meet the additional State
assessment. Here in Harrisburg and
elsewhere throughout the State the
innocent consumer, as usual, has been
paying the freight—in this case more
for coal—and the coal operators will
hardly have the face to persist in ask
ing more for their products, even If
they do not make restitution by re
ducing the price for a period which
would put back Into the pockets of
consumers the excess that has been
extracted from them.
TUITIC* IK
By th« Ka-Committeeman |
Judging; from the remarks of men
from various counties of the State who
have returned here after attending
the close of the campaign In their
home communities there will be a de
mand all over Pennsylvania within a
short time for a revision of the ballot
laws which will simplify matters and
do away with the troubles which have
beset people irom the day of the
primary and which are responsible for
the uncertainties existing to-day. To
day there are scores of districts
throughout Pennsylvania where the
election hoards did not finish their
work until after daylight due to the
size of the ballot and the svstem for
recording votes. It is nearly as bad,
comparatively speaking, us the slow
system in recording official counts. In
Philadelphia yesterday the voters were
confronted with the largest ballot ever
known and Governor Brumbaugh and
other prominent men voiced their dis
approval of it. In Pittsburgh the bal
lot had to contain so much that it was
printed on both sides. In many coun
ties the blankets resembled the sheets
of a child's crib. The prevailing
opinion appears to be that the referen
dum is being carried to extremes and
that the day of experimental work on
the ballot should close.
—The principal causes of dissatis
faction with the present election sys
tem are to be summed up this way:
T>ack of definite provisions on en
rollment and registration to which
might be added that there would he
an advantage in some central place
where the results of enrollment and
personal registration could be re
corded.
Unworkable features of the non
partisan nomination act with regard
to sole nominee privileges, together
with pronounced opposition to the
whole nonpartisan system.
No method for obtaining speedv
official counts either for nomination's
or elections.
Cumbersome ballots, some of which
require an expert to mark.
—Under tlie provisions of the con
stitution governing amendments the
amendments defeated cannot be voted
upon for five years. This means that
the resolution for woman suffrage will
have to be started again in the Legis
lature of 1917, passed by the Legisla
ture of 1919 and be voted upon at
the presidential election in 1920. The
suffragists will start the ball a rolling
again. The next Legislature will have
the new State highway loan and other
matters to wrestle with and they will
likely come up In 1917.
—People at the Capitol were jubil
ant to-day over the ratification of the
amendment relative to workmen's
compensation. It will permit the
Legislature to enact laws making
workmen's compensation compulsory
and carry out the system contemplated
by the Industrial Accidents commis
sion appointed by Governor John K.
Tener and embodied In the bills pre
pared under the direction of Gover
nor Martin G. Brumbaugh. The Gov
ernor pointed out recently what the
amendment meant and people of all
ranks rallied to It.
—One effect of the election will bo
to bring out numerous announcements
of candidacies for the legislature. The
strenuous contests in judicial districts
over the election of judges favoring or
opposing license have caused a num
ber of men to sniff the legislative bat
tle from afar and the lines will be
drawn in a month for the primary
nominations for the general assembly.
—Announcement Is expected very
soon of the candidacy of ex-Secretary
P. C. Knox for United States Senator.
He has been visiting many parts of
the State and his friends are organiz
ing for him. E. V. Babcock. the
Pittsburgh man also talked of for
Senator, may decide to wait and run
for Governor. Ex-Governor John IC.
Tener is being boomed both for sena
tor and for Governor again. Senator
William E. Crow's friends also men
tion him for senator to succeed Sena
jtor George T. Oliver.
—Tn addition to choosing presiden
tial electors and members of State
committees the voters of Pennsvl
vania will next June nominate candi
dates for State treasurer and auditor
general to succeed the present incum
bents, nominate candidates for con
gress. for half the seats in the State
senate and for the whole lower house,
together with such candidates as may
be needed to till vacancies on the
appellate court benches. For State
Treasurer it is expected that James r.
Woodward and R. J. Baldwin, promi
nent in the last Legislature, mav be
candidates with Senators C. H. Kline
and Charles A. Snyder looming up for
auditor general. There will be more.
— i
"LOVK YOUR ENEMIES"
Matthew, 5:43-48.
Ye have heard that it hath been
said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
and hate thine enemy But I say
unto you, Love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for
them which deapitefully use you,
and persecute you; that ye may
be the children of your Father,
which is in heaven, for he maketh
his sun to rise on the evil and on
the good, and sendeth rain on the
just and on the unjust. For if ye
love them which love you. what
reward have ye? do not even the
publicans so? Be ye therefore per
fect. even as your Father which is
in heaven is perfect.
HARRISBURG
When a Feller Nee By BRIGGS
EDITORIAL COMMENT
It certainly would be a fit token of
Japan to erect a statue
of L<a Follette in front of Its national
capltol.—Knickerbocker Press.
Will the winnings on war brides and
war babies be as large in the income
tax returns as they are in daily con
versation?— New York Sun.
Gen Carranza is said never to crack
a smile. If he were capable of risibil
ity, he'd get a good laugh out of the
way a world that was bitterly hostile
to him two months ago is now singing
his praises.—Punxsutawney Spirit.
Henry Ford is quoted as saying that
if Belgium had not been prepared for
resistance she would not have had her
nose bloodied. The shoemaker should
stick to his last.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Thanksgiving day may be defined as
a period of twenty-four hours set apart
once each year for the purpose of giv
ing thanks: but used as «• time for
playing football, overeating and hunt
ing.—Greenville News.
Our article 011 the "Unspeakable Jail"
in the last issue has already borne
fruit. The wife of a sheriff in charge
of a Western jail has presented tho
prisoners with a parrot.—Atlanta
(United States Penitentiary) Good
I Words.
The enormous gold reserve may be
threatening the structural solidarity
of the American bankrs, but It seems
about as bard as usual to borrow a
quarter.—Boston Transcript.
MOXOPLV BUGABOO FADES
AWAY
[Philadelphia Record]
Some years ago the passing to one
control of the Pennsylvania and Cam
bria Steel Companies would probably
have e.rclted violent opposition. Now
It Is recognized that, in the face of the
existence of the United States Steel
Corporation and many independent
concerns, such a combination has 110
possibility of becoming a monopoly. If
there were such a danger the anti
trust laws give ample authority for
dealing with the offenders.
Our Daily Laugh
tMORE TO THE
PURPOSE.
I see there is a
discussion as to
the best place for
a woman to keep
her money with
out losing It.
What women
need to be taught
Is how to keep
the>r money with
out spending it.
TRY IT OCT!
By Wing Dinger
Well, election day is o'er
Some lose, others gain.
Winners say "I told you so."
Losers do explain
In a hundred different ways
How they lost the fight
That began some months ago
And wound up last night.
One would think 'twould hurt so much
To put up a scrap
And lose out would one want
To get off the map.
But when next eloction day
Comes around, you'll see
That the losers, once aga'n,
In the scrap will be.
I
And we folks in daily life
Can be taught some tricks
By this yearly contest called
"Game of Politics."
.( we only would forget
Life's scraps lost to-day
And determined to win out
Fight to-morrow's fray.
,
MAKING Cm LI AN SAILORS
By Frederic J. Haskin
k.
THE Navy Department lias just
given examinations to 250 men
of the navat militia who were ap
plicants for commissions in the fleet
in case of war.
This was the laßt of a series of
events which have federalized the na
val militia, and put. it in a position
where it will automatically become a
part of the navy if an emergency
should arise.
Thus the Navy Department has se
cured the nationalization of the or
ganization which is to it what the Na
tional Guard is to the army. The
War Department has not yet !>een able
to set the legislation it wants to pro
duce the same result with the Na
tional Guard If it had it would
worry less about its ability to raise an
effective tfrmy on short notice, and
would not be resorting to 30 many ex
pedients to interest citizens in military
training.
It was in February, 1914, that Con
gress passed the law which placed the
I naval militia under federal direction,
i and gave the Navy Department the
i authority to directly co-ordinate It
: with the fighting licet. Nearly two
j years have elnpsed. The needed au
thority came in advance of a troub
lous year, and every effort has been
put forth to get results.
There are now 606 officers and 7,706
men of the naval militia, all with a
certain degree of training and pro
ficiency, who might be called upon
to-morrow to fill that number of
f The State From Day to Day j
A million dollar order from the Rus
sian Government is expected for the
Century Manufacturing Company of
Bo.vnton, and it is certain to give the
little town a big boost. The Johns
lown Leader says Iliat it will be the
foundation for a wonderful develop
ment in time.
The body of littlss John Lucicca,
aged four, of New York City, has
been found in the woods near Maueh
Chunk. The disappearance of the. lad
on August 4 has been a mystery which
was unsolved until the recent dis
covery of the body, in very bad con
dition.
The Pennsylvania State College Glee
Club lias been admitted to the Inter
collegiate Glee Club Council, which
now includes Harvard, Dartmouth.
Columbia, and the University of Penn
sylvania.
Twc thousand five hundred mum
mers, fifty automobile floats and four
brass bands featured the Hallowe'en
celebration at McKeesport, which
seems to take the hefid of the class as
far as a cursory examination of other
celebrations reveals any comparison.
The barroom of the old Commercial
Hotel In Altoona has been dedicated
as a mission by the Volunteers of
America. The Volunteers have leased
the entire hotel and wil conduct an
industrial home.
With every purchase of sl3 worth
of merchandise, a Punxsutawney mer
chant will present as bonus a good fat
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. The
offer is very luring, but regarded ask
ance by Mr. Turkey and his boys.
J. Horace McFarland, of this city,
president of the American Civic As
sociation, will talk before the Johns
town Chamber of Commerce to-mor
row 011 the subject, "Play and Pros
perity," dealing with the civic im
provement problem.
Three thousand women worked at
j ihe polls In Pittsburgh yesterday, in
jthe Interest of woman suffrase, hut In
I \ atn. for the State yesterday troved
itself unwilling: to concede that any
NOVEMBER 3, 1915. '
places in the fleet if they were needed
for fighting. They would not be
asked to volunteer; they would be or
dered into the service and would be
court-martialed if they did not report.
Means Much to Navy
Eight thousand men mean vastly
more to the navy than to the army.
A navy of 100,000 men would come
nearer matching the forces of a war
like enemy than an army of a million.
So the navy feels itself somewhat bol
stered up and is not going in for citi
zen camps and eyperlmental cavalry
troops. It is depending entirely upon
its militia.
Until the militia act of 1914 was
passed, the Navy Department was on
a basis as unsatisfactory as that in
which the army now finds itself. The
naval militia was a Stab, organization
over which the federal government
had no authority. It had no power to
(standardize in different States nor to
I enforce its rules of efficiency and
I training.
Massachusetts organized the first
State militia in 1890. A year later
New York created a similar organiza
tion, and was quickly followed by Cali
fornia. < >ne State after another had
aligned itself until to-day there are
naval militias in twenty-two States,
while new organizations are being
formed in " exas and Hawaii.
By the time of the Spanish Ameri
can War the naval militias of the va-
CContinued on Page 2]
thing will be gained by granting the
ballot to the fair sex.
The award by the court at Reading
of damages to the amount of $2,050
for the loss to a little girl of her leg,
when she was struck by a street car,
gives us a new respect for the value
of our lower appendages.
KEEPING YOUNG
[Kansas City Star.]
Here is Colonel Roosevelt, 07 yester
day, bull of interest and energy, find
ing life as full of zest as when lie was
a youngster rowing four miles, taking
a walk with Mrs. Roosevelt, eating
luncheon in the woods; his whole atti
tude that of the whole souled young
fellow with the great adventure of
life before him.
It's great to be able to live that way.
Most of us get slowed down as we ma
ture, We find the world hard to make
a den So we accept our place with
out a struggle and give up trying. If
we have had some great experience
early in the struggle our eyes turn
back to It, and we live more or less in
the past.
There were thousands of promising
young men who fought in the Civil War
on both sides who bad that experience.
You know the sort. By all odds the
most exciting and interesting episodes
of their existence came In the fighting
when they were in the early 20s, and
they constantly go back to that time.
Their politics and their view of life de
pend largely on things that happened
a half century ago.
We all suffer under that temptation.
But here Is Roosevelt who was cowbov,
civil service commissioner, assistant
secretary of the navy, police commis
sioner, colonel of a regiment, governor
of New York and president of the
United States, yet who has always
found tho Interesting thing ahead in
stead of behind. He has been busy
and active and making himself count
ever since he left the presidential of
fice.
There is no shelving such a man. He
is always going to be a factor In af
fairs simply because he deserves to be.
The example is an inspiration. It
brings home the fact that a man doesn't
need to grow old, and lose his Interests
and enthusiasms, and ossify in a shell
that is Impervious to ideas.
It takes some exertion on the part
of the mtuule aged man to keep fit
physically. It takes some care on his
Part to keep young in spirit. But It
can be done.
KNfiI.ISHMICX HEAD OUR PAI'ER*
Ix>rd Northellrte, proprietor of the
I*ondon Times »nd ually Mall, cables
to the New York World that Kngland
"knows practically nothing about the
course of its own "war. Many people
here are buying American newspapers
to read the war news."
| Irfamng Ctjat
The serious damage to Sylva*
Heights Orphanage by yesterday's fire
almost removed from this city one
of its most picturesque buildings and
one which has attracted the attention
of many visitors to the city. The build
ins was a landmark before it became
the episcopal residence for the Cath
olic diocese of Harrisburg and there
was much popular Interest ln« tlj£>
orphanage into which It was converted.
The Fourth of July celebrations at the
orphanage were among its notable
features and attracted wide interest
and the work done for the children
was much commented upon without
icgard to denomination. It is not gen
erally known that one of the members
of the board of managers Is Spencer
of " lis clt >'. who accepted
the election a number of years ago. A
number of other prominent men
throughout this section of the State
were managers. The disastrous fire
yesterday recalled many anecdotes re
garding its construction and occu
pancy prior to its acquisition in 1870
when the diocese of Harrisburg was
established. John H. Brant, the
builder, is well recalled by many of
the older citizens and tradition says
that it was the longest job of construc
tion ever known in the city. Brant
"bossed'' the job himself and ran it
011 a weekly basis. When he finished
it lie did not like it and resided for a
time in the hotel which he built where
the Commonwealth Trust Company
building stands. A severe storm un
roofed it once and it was allowed to
deteriorate for a time. The period of
its use by the orphanage attracted to
it much notice and the steps to rebuild
it will have the sympathy of many
people.
The paper written by James S. Hiatt,
private secretary to the Governor, on
the truant problem and the parental
school while bo was secretary of the
Public Education Association of Phila
delphia. has been issued in pamphlet
form by the National Bureau of Edu -
cation as a guide for people interested
in the questions. The work is the
result of years of study of the truant
problem in Philadelphia and of ob
servations on parental schools in thir
teen cities. P. p. Olaxton, the national
Commissioner of Education, com
mends the booklet in high terms. It.
is Mr. Hiatt's life work and will be
most valuable for school men and em
ployers in dealing with these phases of
juvenile life.
Hunters are not taking many
chances in the woods these days, as is
shown by the number of red caps be
ing worn by men passing through this
city or starting out from Harrisburg
for hunting places. Half a dozen wero
seen yesterday at the station and some
of the men wore red mufflers. The
"Safety First" idea appears to be
prevalent in hunting as well as in in
dustry. traffic a,nd business.
A dog's bark is worse than bis bile,
in the majority of cases, and this par
ticular dog which the writer has in
mind is no exception. He makes his
headquarters in the front yard of ono
of the houses in the upper pari of
town and lives, simply lives, until
some pedestrian comes along and gives
him an opportunity to exercise his
lungs. A panel fence keeps him in
the yard and the passer-by is startlol
out of his reverie by a hurricanej-usli
and a loud barking such as one
think only Cerberus capable of. If
the gate is open and Sir Canine is
without, he immediately retires to the
yard on the approach of a newcomer,
in order that he may be prepared for
his rush and bark, which is always
checked upon his arrival at the open,
ing in the fence through which onlv
his head has room to pass. The dog
is sometimes annoying, but then wo
must remember that every dog hu.s his
day and not be too hard on our criti
cism of his hobby.
♦ » •
One of the men who runs a tem
porary, morp or less, photographic
establishment on one of the streets
down town said yesterday that he was
sorry the Hallowe'en celebration did
not run longer. "I have taken dozens
of tintypes every night. The maskers
seemed to want to have their get-ups
for preservation."
| WELL KNQVN PEOPLE ]
—Caleb Milne has been elected
president of the St. Andrew's Kocietv
in Philadelphia. Jle has been active
in its affairs for years.
—H. J. Gideon, the chief of the
i Bureau of Compulsory Education, has
been active in Philadelphia educa
tional affairs for many years.
—General G. G. Bell, United States
Arnt.v, well known here, has been or
dered to Texas to take charge of tho
Fifth Brigade.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That 'Harrisburg has been one or
the most successful cities in trying
out the commission form of gov
ernment ?
HTSTOUIC UARItTSBITIWJ
The first town council met in ona
of the hotels in Market street.
SHORT GKOI/OGTCATj T.\I,KS"
CARLISLE —All the way from Har
risburg to Carlisle. Trenton limestone,
sometimes skirting the Hudson river
slates on the north. One-half mile
west of Kingston cross a narrow trap
dyke, ingneous rock pushed up
through the limestone, and extending
in a narrow line nearly the whole
width of the county. Trap rock makes
best railroad ballast—hard, tough an<l
nonpacking. Pennsylvania produces
more than $4,000,000 worth a year.
THE I.ATEST WAR STORY
A young fellow, anxious to enlist, h*«l
just been examined by the doctor.
"I am sorry," said the doctor, "but
your teeth are not good enough."
"What!" exclnlmed the Indignant re
cruit; "n"' teeth ain't, good enough,
ain't they? Well, they're the saniw
teeth what you passed my brother wltu
yesterday."—The Strand Magazine.
j
A Man's Show *
Window
Neatness, good clothes. and
good manners are a man's show
window.
They catch the public's first
impression and arrest its atten
tion. Clothes often make or mar
an Individual's future.
Every man should give care
ful thought to his apparel, to the
wearing of the right clothes for
the right occasion.
And as a guide the advertis
ing in this newspaper will fre
quently be of great assistance.
It not only tells what to buy ■
but it is distinct style news.
1