8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSs' PUBLISHED BY ' THE TELEGRAPH I'HIM'ING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President G'<d Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretory GL'S M. STEINMETZ ilanuiing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlograph Building, L'l6 Federal Squu.-e. 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 & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Ruildinr, Chicago. HI.. Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at »lx cents a week. Mailed to subscribers nt $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in llarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dull.v inornisr circulation for the three month* cmllng Oct. 31, ll*in. f 21,357 Average for the year 1014—-I.WW Average for the year tOI3—I9.WW Average for the year 101SC—10,040 Average for the year 1011—17,50- Average for the year 1010—10.U01 The a hove figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVEXBNG NOV. « One. harboring ambition, goes To tasks the lazy man would shun, i And if he governs men or hoes. The days arc all too short: lie knows j Xo peace until his work is done, Until the goal he seeks is won. —iS. E. Kiser. CAPITOI; HI IX CONFERENCE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH is greatly interested in the forth coming welfare, efficiency anil j engineering conference which is to be held on Capitol Hill in a few days, j This conference has been called for the purpose of familiarizing the pub lic and the various departments of the State Government with the work of the separate departments which have to do in a responsible manner with State engineering projects, natural ! resources and industries. There will I be talks by the heads of the various j departments, descriptive of the work under their control and its relation to the public. The program includes addresses upon subjects relating to the work of the several branches of ihe State government by distinguished speakers. Not the least interesting feature of the conference will be a discussion by competent authorities of the relation of this city to the State in tlie matter of the development through proper landscape designing of the properly now covered by the old Capitol grounds and the zone embracing the park extension eastward Iy. It is ex pected that the conference upon this matter will have an important bear ing upon the final landscape treatment and the co-operation of the city and the State in the development of a plan that will be harmonious and dignified. The Telegraph is in receipt of let ters from many interested persons, along the route of the proposed Wil liam Penn Highway which will link Philadelphia with Pittsburgh by a route that will accommodate more people than any other State road and traverse the most picturesque scenery in the State. It remains for the live wires along this proposed highway to concentrate their energies and enthusi asm in such manner as to accomplish definite results. RHETORICAL SIDESTEPPING PRESIDENT WILSON'S addi •ess before the Manhattan Club of New York was undoubtedly a masterly piece of rhetoric and oratory, and within its liniitations is excellent ir. that he promises his support of Secretary of War Garrison's program for army and navy expansion and the placing of this country on a footing of preparedness capable of maintain ing the dignity of the nation and the inspect which it has heretofore com manded among all the nations of the world. But a careful examination and analysis of the President's remarks fail to reveal any desire to evoke a discussion of commercial prosperity or the relations to which in a business Wf.y it is essential. It is all very well -and no ono will for a minute deprecate the importance of what the President has said of the need for de fense and the ambitions of this coun try—"to be free and prosperous our selves. as well as to be the friend and thoughtful partisan of those who are free or desire freedom the world over," but what the business and other Interests of the country want is some guarantee that in this excellent pro gram the domestic interests shall also have a little attention and considera tion given to their defense. The President is to be commended upon his declaration In support of the solution of the defense problem, which must certainly satisfy even those who differ radically on the at titude which the United States should take on the question of military pre paredness, but doesn't it savor the least bit of a desire to cement, all the factions which stood out against tlio President's former attitude of Inactive uncertainty by giving them what they want and cleverly pulling the wool over their eyes by absolutely ignoring the most vital problem—yes, more SATURDAY EVENING, | vital at the present time than the bit? | army and navy plan which Is to be j put before Congress for Its con i federation—namely, a cessation of the i Inexplicably foolish and apparently ! purposeless legislation which the Democratic administration has foisted onto a helpless and unwilling people. Frank R. Roberson lias made a last ing impression upon hundreds of peo ple of the city who have seen Ills won derful pictures and heard his clever i and interesting comment upon the ] countries through which he has con | ducted his audiences during the last It'ew clays. There are still several re markable entertainments in this course ■ and the Telegraph hopes that those I who have not yet availed themselves of ! the opportunity will enjoy the remaln j ins numbers in this travelogue series ! under its auspices. i PLKDGKS TO 'll IT. PEOPLR M.\ k" OH - ELECT SMITH of Phila delphia is greatly Interested in parks and playgrounds and I will make their development one of j the active policies of his administra tion. Mayor Blankenburg's successor I also expects to push with vigor an I advertising propaganda which will j bring to the attention of the world ! the advantages of Philadelphia as a. business and industrial center. lie believes that the city lias been side tracked long enough and that it should now get into the sun. Also. It is his opinion that there are poten tialities in the city for great develop ment and he proposes in every practi cal way to bring the city persistently before the manufacturing and com mercial interests of the country. , The Mayor-elect has likewise de clared against any activity of the police in politics. In fact, he pro claims that any policeman meddling in politics will be discharged in such a way as to debar him from future service in the department. Me also proposes to stand by his pre-election pledges to the people and to get out of the atmosphere of political con troversy and inaction. What the new mayor of Philadel phia proposes to do is precisely what the mayor of every other city should do. Having been elected by. the peo ple it is his business to promote in every legitimate way the interests which have been entrusted to his care and supervision. The people will not expect him to play politics nor will they overlook the doing of those things which militate against the pros perity of the community. Here in Harrisburg the mayor-eleot has an unusual opportunity to sti'l further place the city in a favorable light before the world. Mayor Meals has already declared to some extent Ills policies and the people will wait with interest their working out in the administration of the next four yearn. High water throughout the summer and autumn has interfered with the complete closing of the river dam this season, but Commissioner Lynch hopes to place the last big concrete slab be fore the summer of 1916 is far ad vanced. THi: NOOSE MAKER AMONG those who are waging a war on noise to aid the poor is Mrs. Imogene Oakley, who is chairman of the committee on noise of the American Civic Association, This excellent woman has given much study to the noise nuisance arid in her desire to find out how a city could best' serve its working class she asked a meeting of women workers of Philadelphia to tell her what they consider the greatest evil in their crowded tenement life. It is stated that one woman arose, and speaking for the others declared: What we can not stand is the noise. It never stops. It is killing us. We work hard all day and need sleep and rest at night. No one can sleep till midnight and all the noise begins again at Ave. Many of us have husbands who work all night and must get their sleep during the day, but they get no sound sleep with all the noise that goes on about them. You can get away from the noise during the summer, but we can not. we are right here in the middle of it all our lives. Now, what can your Civic Club do for us? Of course, Mrs. Oakley had to tell this poor woman that the club could do nothing: that there were no laws against useless noise in Philadelphia; that the only recourse was an appeal to a magistrate under the general law of nuisance. Then began the cam paign against the useless noises. Mrs. Oakley found through her own per sonal investigation that between live m the morning and midnight she heard a useless and preventable noise on an average of every five minutes. Let ters camo to her from many persons adding to her own list of useless noises and the propaganda against the noise evil got a real start. It is 110 impractical campaign which Mrs. Oakley is conducting. Shei realizes that there are some noises which arc unavoidable at present, but it is her conviction that most of the noises which now disturb and annoy and worry and result in nervous breakdowns may be overcome. We, of Harrisburg, have endured and continue to endure a lot of racket which is absolutely without excuse or reason. Unnecessary whistling of locomotives, the banging and clanging of bells of every sort, the screeching of the automobile horn, the everlast ing and preventable uproar of the unmufTled motor, the piercing siren of the peanut vender, the jangling bell of the ice cream salesman, and many other inventions of the noise maker might be suppressed without detri ment to the interests of anyone. We are not familiar with the efforts of the Civic Club in this direction, but the good women composing this or ganization might find in this avenue of activity opportunity for perform ing a great public service. As a result of the conference of the principals of th«> riormal schools of the State held here thitNyeek, Spanish will be added to the course of study in these institutions. With the opening up of the South American republics to American trade It is highly essential that the Spanish language bo tiiught In the American schools. A proper step lias been taken. 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE~] Yes. ladies, if you dabble in stocks. you may he squeezed. You can find thousands who respect gray hairs: did you ever hear of any great respect for a bald head'.* About this season the "subsisters" sharpen their pencils for a fresh series 011 the poor little shopgirl who faints behind the toy counter. By the way. did you ever see a toy counter girl who wasn't smiling and full of Christ mas spirit? Pleasant companionship and a day in the woods are reward enough for , any hunter, no matter it he does not I get a shot., Our old friend Bryan may not know i how to get votes, but he does know i how to get a crowd. EDiTORIAL comment" "Eat less," admonishes Henry Ford, who seems to -have succeeded Andy t'arnegie as adviser-general to the universe, iiut it will be noted that llenry does not add the rest of the pre scription—"and walk more."—Boston Transcript. We recommend the "Help Wanted —• Male" column to all ministers who nuist have secretaries.—Brooklyn Eagle. Mrs. Inez Milhollaud Boissevain also regrets to report that she has been un- I able to stop the war.—New York Even ing Sun. There's just one glimmer of cheer for Mr. Archibald—nobody hereafter will ever request him to mail a letter. —Boston Transcript. Greek reservists here contend that they would shine as much in war as in peace.—Columbia State. We see that President Wilson is now an advocate of votes from women.— Boston Transcript. Captain von Papen says when he wrote "idiotic Yankees" lie simply meant a lot of New York editors. All is forgiven.—Buffalo Enquirer. FAITHFUL I Vl'O 1) 10 AT 11 (From the Kansas City Star.] Blanche Walsh, actress, is dead. She had been ill. had gone to to be operated upon, and then had quitted her sick bed before recovery in order to keep an engagement. Her refusal to disappoint an audience caused a re lapse from which she died. Here is an honesty of endeavor tliat is a shining lamp. How many, when ill or merely puling', will still give of their best to fulfill obligations'.' Few. HOW many will rather coddle them selves? Many. Stage folks are among the few. When Death and Sorrow come, they still go on to play their little parts. When news reached Kansas City that Froliman had gone down to death—his "great adventure"—upon the Lusitania, Maude Adams, who loved him, still went upon the stage at the Grand, leaving her breaking heart and her tears in the wings. And Blanche Walsh, knowing, Der haps, that Death awaited her return, went forth with smiling face—"to keep an engagement." High valor here! REASON ENOUGH A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood, relates the Osborne Farmer. Trying to make the matter clearer he said: "Now, boys, if l stood on my head the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I should turn red in the face." "Yes, sir," said the boys. "Now," continued the teacher, "what 1 want to know is this. How is it that while 1 am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't rush into my feet?" And a little fellow shouted: "Why, sir, because yer feet ain't empty."— Kansas City Star. AM, IN THE DAY'S WORK [New York Times.] In a town of Maryland one Bill Mor ton appeared before the postmaster one morning and thefollowingcollociuy occurred: "Morning, Mr. Postmaster." "Morning, Bill." "Has Tom Moore been in for his mail yet?" "No." "Will you b here when he comes?" "I guess so." "Well, when he comes in will you tell him that on his way from the cheese factory I wish he'd stop and get that pig of Herman Stultz's and take it down to Henry Parker's, and tell Henry I said he could have it for that single harness even up, if he'll fix that bridle and throw in them rus set lines instead of the old black ones: and if he won't trade, tell Tom to bring the pig down to my place and put it in the extra pen. and be sure and shut that door to the henhouse, or all the chickens 'll get out. Sure I here's ain't no mail? Morning, Mr. Postmaster." "Morning, Bill." C%THOI,IC FEEI.IXG O V Kit CARKANKA [Literary Digest.] Despite th? fact that the Carranza government now recognized by Presi dent Wilson, has given its pledge to "respect everybodys life, property, and religious beliefs without other limi tations than the preservation of pub lic order and the observance of the in stitutions in accordance with the laws in force and the Constitution of the Re public," the officials of the Wilson Ad ministration are said to know that "in T fluential Catholic interests In this coun try do not regard this pledge as suf ficient." The Catholic view as under stood in Washington so a dispatch to the New York Sun makes clear. Is that "Carranza's pledges leave it altogether to his own whim as to the degree of religious tolerance which he will ex tend." Furthermore, the pledge, it is contended, "while holding out some promise of religious liberty to the in dividual, does not contain satisfactory assurances of Carranza's future atti tude toward religious orders in Mexico or toward the priests and nuns." Cath olics insist that more definite pledges are necessary before they can entertain hope for real tolerance, and they de sire the State Department to obtain from Carranza "definite assurances of the religious tolerance in Mexico such as exists in the United States." |~~ Our Daily Laugh j §M O D EIS T I suppose you know Just how the government should be run? Oh, I don't go that far. All ] say Is that no« body who is try<' lng to run an} part of it knowi I had a dark UJ) y* brown taste in my naouth after call "Elephant's breath" la brown, HARRISBURG tg&f&S TELEGRAPH T>OTOXC4 IK "^C-KKOifttfCDua By the Kx-Commltteemaa United States Senator Boies Pen rose's trip to the Pacific coast with the Philadelphia councilmanic com mittee to bring home the Liberty Bell is regarded as taken with a view to studying out the ground preliminary to making up his mind on the movement inaugurated by national Republican leaders to have him chosen as the i chairman of the Republican national I committee. The senior senator has been repeat edly boomed for the Republican nom ination for president since his notable victory last l<"all when he cleaned up t lie State by a tremendous majority when a year before his cause was de clared hopeless. Outside of the State his name has been mentioned on u number of occasions. The of the senator to New Vork where he has been in consulta tion with the national leaders have shown how high the senator stands in their estimation and it is generally believed that he has been considered as the man to direct the 1910 Presi dential light. The last national chair man from Pennsylvania was M. S. Quay, who conducted the victorious Harrison campaign. While on his western trip the sen ator will meet the people, sound out sentiment and make up his mind about conditions for next year. He is not only an expert in political observation, be it said, but is one of the big draw ing cards for Republicans now. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day says: "There is reason to believe that Mayor-elect Smith realizes that he could not have been elected without harmony anions the different elements in the local Republican organization and that he appreciates the fact that the big Republican victory in this city has contributed greatly to improving the chances of national Republican success in the Presidential election next year. Mr. Smith is known to recognize the leadership of Senator Penrose in the State Republican "or ganization and that he will strive to strengthen the Republican Party in Pennsylvania for the next national campaign may be taken for granted. In the selection of twelve candidates to be supported for delegates at large from Pennsylvania to the next Repub lican national convention. Mayor-elect Smith will without doubt be included in the number. It is also proposed that tile city of Pittsburgh shall be represented in this list of delegates-at large by its Mayor. With the chief ex ecutives of the big municipalities at both ends of the State included among the big twelve that will go at the head of the delegation to the next Presi dential election there will be an ac centuation of the thought of a united and harmonious Republican Party in the Keystone State." —Mayor Blankenburg last night as sumed the entire responsibility for or dering the police into the polling places on election day in Philadelphia. In a statement issued from his office the Mayor said that if there had been any violation of the Shorn law he alone was responsible and not the Director of Public Safety, Mr. Drlpps. The Mayor was stirred to this action by the action of Judge W. Wllkins Carr, who, in the Quarter Sessions Court earlier In the day. ordered the Grand Jury to make a thorough investigation of the presence of policemen in the polling places. Judge Carr ordered an exhaustive inquiry, on the ground "that If a flagrant violation of the law is permitted to pass unnoticed and without rebuke it may remain upon the records of the municipality as a precedent of authority for similar vio lations in the future." —Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith yes terday left for a vacation at the Vir ginia Mot Springs, accompanied by congressman William S. Vare. Gov ernor Brumbaugh is expected to visit him to talk things over shortly. In the opinion of political observers, the circumstances in which Mr. Smith went away indicated a "frantic en deavor" on the part of Vare« followers to make a show of strength "with the idea of influencing the .composition of the Smith Cabinet." On the other hand it was pointed out by friends of the Vares that when Mr. Smith arrives at the Springs he will find awaiting him John P. Connelly, City Socltor elect, one of Senator McNichol's friends. —The scandal resulting from the illegal votes cast in the primaries in September has finally reached the courts in an official way, as the Alle gheny Company Grand Jury for No vember was called in special session by Judge Haymaker and charged with the duty of making a thorough investi gation of conditions all over the coun try, and especially in those precincts where fraud was discovered and ex posed. —The election board appointed by the Chester County courts to tabulate and compute the official return linished last night. J. Frank Hause, received 10,031 votes for judge and Robert S. Gawthrop, 8858. Frank J. Elston. of East Brandywine, Democratic candi date for county commissioner, defeat ed James F. Cobourne, of Westtown. also Democrat, by 227 votes. All the Republican candidates for the county offices received majorities ranging from 472 4 to 1036. the latter figures being District Attorney Wade's majority over John Hamphill, Democrat. Perplexities regarding the methods of computing the official vote appear Ito have arisen this year more than ever and while the number of ques tions asked by State officials since the election is nothing like the difficulties brought to them to settle after the primary the conditions have kept the election law experts busy. As a re sult of the troubles a general study of the whole election system will be made by State officials and if the Gov ernor wants to take up the matter for discussion in his message to the next Legislature he can do so. Attorney General Brown is understood to be giving considerable attention to the various problems which ha\o arisen In the nonpartisan law and it Is expected that; he will prepare acts to clarify the processes. Just how the administra tion feels on the nonpartisan system has not been revealed. —As judges 1 l almost a dozen coun ties were candidates they could not sit when the votes were counted and this caused numerous calls for the State Department to tell the county officials what to do. The law pro vides how this shall be done and in IL couple of counties it was necessary to call in judges to sit. One judge ap pointed by Governor Brumbaugh and three named by Governor Tener to fill out terms went down to defeat. Gov ernor Brumbaugh's appointee was beaten in Chester and Judges Dough erty in Philadelphia: Brodhead in Northampton and Bushong in Berks, named by Tener, were losers. The other judges appointed by the two governors went through easily. AW EVENING THOUGHT Do not look forward to what might happen to-morrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you to-day will take care of vou to-morrow, and every day. Either He will shield vou from suffering, or He will give you unfailing | strength to bear it.—Francis do I Sales, , THE CARTOON OF THE DAY i THE RIVAL HEIRS - —From Sew Vork W orld. < CARING FOR THE BLIND By Frederic J. Haskir J A UNIFORM type system is one of the results of the National Congress for the Blind which has just been held in San Francisco. For ten years a committee, composed chietly of blind persons, has been en gaged in the work of combining th« best features of the five distinct kinds of type heretofore in use. The com pletion of this task, and the final adoption of the new system, will prove a great boon to the 60,000 blind per sons in the United States. Primers and other books in the new type ars now being made and will soon be available. Those who are able to read either Braille or Point readily will find no difficulty with the new type, and It will be more simple for beginners than any now in use. No division in the great Library of Congress at Washington is accom plishing greater good than that devoted to the interests of the blind. It has been reorganized and greatly extended under the administration of Mrs. Gertrude Ryder, the little woman whose skill and ready sympathy have cheered the darkened lives of so many unfortunate people in all parts of the country. The books for the blind are bulky, volumes an ordinary novel being fre quently the size of three large family Bibles. These great books arc carried postage free in the United States mail in order that all the blind of the na- fThe State From Day to Day) That there are "high-brow" and "low-brow" bugs just as there are hu man beings of that character, and that bugs have souls, are several of the deductions made by Professor Walters, of Langhorne. "Some insects are evolving more rapidly than we are, and that's why they go insane." was another of his statements. "A soul is that invisible self-constructing form, force and motion which, in cells and brain images, self-constructs them into tissues and memories." And bugs have them. Headline in a contemporary: "Three Rulers Happy Over the Balkan Hook- TJp " Which leads us to assert that it sounds like the relieved sigh of a man who has just finished getting his wife ready for the theater. News from Philadelphia informs us that "Aberg the Awful" is after the great Frank Ootch for the wrestling title, and is willing to wager SIOO,OOO that he can throw the champion. If Aberg is as good as he thinks he is, great Ootch, the Giant, had better look out for angry Aberg, the Awful. A graveyard in Lancaster is to be offered to "the United States Govern ment for the new government build ins which will be erected shortly. Let us earnestly hope that there is con cealed in the offer no subtle implica tion or reflection upon the liveness of those who would dwell on that site if the offer be accepted. The Potlsville Republican com ments: "The Surfs will not. man the polls for at least five years in Pennsyl vania." The use of the significant verb may perhaps give to the woman suffrage advocates a slight suspicion of the reason why so many men voted against the first amendment. Sam Botts, a widely-known charac ter and member of the Willlamsport street cleaning department, received two votes for Mayor of the city at the election Tuesday. The perverted sense of humor which prompted such votes, if present in large numbers, would work havoc with the efficiency of a city's administration. Cruelty to dumb animals, coupled with regrettable cowardice, led a Scranton man to blame the murder of his wife upon a cow, which he said had kicked her in the head and chest. This is the first case of murder by proxy that has come to our attention this year. Mr. Stough. the noted evangelist, has received the blatt, as it were. For the benefit of our readers who are un acquainted with the expression, which by the way is comparatively new, "to give a person the blatt" means "to ridicule lightly." or, more familiarly, to give them the merry ha-ha. The opportunity was not to be laid aside, and although not too apropos, we use the word, ("Mr. Daniel Blatt, of Read ing, will act as a press agent for Mr. Stough during the remainder of the year,") Is the unoffending headline that has provoked all this ebullition on our part. CONDENSED GEOLOGICAL TALKS FORT LOUDEN—From Chambers burg to St. Thomas, Hudson River and Utica slates, some superior for roofing and other commercial purposes, but undeveloped. Value of Pennsylvania's yearly product of slate, over four mil lion dollars. Tlie bottom dropped out of Broad way, and we havo a suspicion that It will be Wall Street's turn next.—Boston Transcript. NOVEMBER 6, 1015. (ion may have reading matter within their reach. The resources of the great national library for the blind are as accessible to the poor sightless woman on a remote ranch in Wyoming as if she could visit the building in person. The personal interest and sympathy expressed in the kindly little notes which go out with the books, are a source of comfort to the lonely recipients. "Lady of the Library" The "Lady of the Library," as Mrs. Ryder is called by the blind people, is in close personal touch with in dividual cases all over the country, giving suggestions and aid frequently outside the limits of ordinary institu tional work. She takes delight in se curing employment suited to personal qualifications. One of her special charges at present is a young man under life sentence in the Wyoming penitentiary. He is a man of educa tion. speaking eight languages fluently. He had been the honor man in his class during his year in college. The next year his work fell behind. His uncle, who was educating him, re proached him bitterly for his sup posed lack of zeal. A quarrel ensued, and the boy picked up a stick and struck his uncle. The blow was hard er than he intended and his benefac tor was killed. Shortly after he re [Continued on Pa«c ".] OPTIMISM AS DESCRIBED 15V THE NEW CASTLE NEWS Things to Forgot Forget the slander you have heard, Forget the hasty, unkind word. Forget the quarrel and the cause, I Forget the whole affair, because Forgetting Is the only way. Forget the storm of yesterday, Forget the chap whose sour face Forgets to smile in any place. Forget the trials you have hail, Forget the weather if it's bad, Forget the ltnocker, he's a freak, Forget him seven days a week. Forget you're not a millionaire. Forget the gray streaks in your hair. Forget the home team lost the game, Forget the pitcher was to blame. Forget the coffee when it's cold, Forget the kick, forget to scold. Forget the plumber's awful charge, Forget the iceman's bill is large. Forget the coalman and his (weighs), Forget the heat in summer days. Forget wherever you may roam. Forget the duck who wrote this poem. Forget that, he, in social bliss, Forgot himself when he wrote this. Forget to ever get the blues. But don't forget to read the News. MNCOI.N l\ A "NIGHTIE" Commencing when a recent volume of "TJfe and Tetters" of John Hay "Penn" writes in the Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia: "Lincoln going about in his night gown in the White House lias been heard of before. Hay tells how the President came into his office at mid night in his shirt with a volume of Hood's works, in order to show him and Nlcolay the caricature, "An Un fortunate Bee-ing." Lincoln, he said, seemed utterly "unconscious that he. with his shirt hanging about his long legs and setting out behind him like the tail feathers of an enormous os trich. was infinitely funnier than any thing in the book he was laughing at." On another occasion the President "came in last niarht in his shirt and told me of the retirement of the enemy from his works at Spotsylvania and our pursuit. 1 complimented him on 1 the amount of underpinning lie still I has left, and he said he weighed ISO i pounds. Important if true," Lincoln I would appear to think of himself as If he were an old man. When lie was only thirty-nine, he said that he was old. In the closing year of his life, when he was fifty-five, he said of an address which he wrote and afterwards read. "Not very graceful, but I am growing old enough not to care much for the manner of doing things." Bin coin was very seldom moved to the utterance of ouick or heated words In his contact with men. But on one oc casion George Opdyck and David Dud ley Field, of New York, who wanted him to remove Seward, went a little too far ill provoking him. "For once in my life," he afterwards said to Ifav. "I rather gave my temper the rein and I talked to those men prettv d d plainly." A few months before his death the remark was made to him bv Fox, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that a retribution had over taken .lolin P. Hale and Henry Winter Davis, "two fellows that had been spe cially malignant to us." But Lincoln did not reply in a like spirit. "You have more," lie said, "of that feeling of per sonal resentment than I. Perhaps I may have too little of it. A man has not time to spend half his life In quar rels, Tf any man ceases to attack me, I never the past again." No man in or out of the White House saw Lincoln at closer rangro than Hay; but he seems never to have become small under the closeness of the view. ANOTHER NATHAN HAI.E [From the New York Independent.] Some day there will be erected in Brussels a statue of Edith Cavell, and those who see it and read her dying words, "I give my life willinglv for my country; I have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone," will honor her as we Americans honor Nathan Hale. So shall she speak as long as bronre shall stand and inspire the generations to come with her own heroic self sacrifice. Intoning Qltjat Have you ever sat on the river bank and watched people skating on tho river while the winds whistled abou*- you and the very sight of the snow clad hills made you shiver" If you have, you have an idea of how people who are taking the treatment for cure of tuberculosis at State Sanatoria spend hours each winter day. The open-air treatment has saved a sood many lives and what Pennsylvania has been doing for those afflicted with tho disease has attracted national atten tion. But even a great Commonwealth like the Keystone cannot do every thing. There is a growing tendency for State supervision of a good many things, including our health and our wealth and our well being and the de mands upon Father Penn's treasury are pretty heavy. All this is prelimin ary to calling attention to the work being done by the Civic Club of Har risburg to get good warm clothing for the patients at the State establish ments at Mont Alto and Hamburg. The Civic Club is known all over Pennsylvania for its progressiveness and the manner in which it had made Harrisburg a better place to live and the forwarding of clothing to the. pa tients is only one of its manifold activ ities. For seven years the club has been sending to Mont Alto articles of good warm clothing and helped to make comfortable many a person who has thought of home in hustling Har risburg while compelled to take it easy at the sanatoria. It is the plan jof the club to send clothing to Mont Alto and Hamburg next week. What lis wanted is warm clothing in good condition. Only wool clothing will be serviceable, things like heavy over coats, fur coats, sweaters, hoods and the like being the. articles needed. The club plans to distribute the cloth ing according to the distribution of patients from this community. The State pays for the food, shelter and treatment but it cannot furnish the clothing. The club hopes to get the clothing next week and articles should be sent to Mrs. .William S. Bailey, Front, and South street. Incidentally, it may be stated that the proceeds of the sales of Christmas seals will be used for transportation of Harrisburg patients. The Civic Club stands for a good bit in Harrisburg and this charit able work in behalf of Harrisburg pa tients is one thing that should appeal to the people of the city. • * • A well-known businessman got out of a .iitney the other afternoon and snorted. His ride had not been pleas ant. He had sat between a fat man and a woman with a bundle and the car was old and jerky and it creaked so that he thought how glad he was that his life was insured. "That's the last time. The last time." he said. "Oh, take a trolley car and encour age the company," suggested the man upon whom his broadside fell. "It ain't that. I've made the first payment on a car and I don't know when I'm going to get it," was the answer. "Well, what, if it isn't delivered until 1916? What .ire you going to do'.'" "Do?" gurgled the almost apoplectic citizen. "Do? I'll buy the first, share of trolley stock offered at the Court house steps and make tho missis hire a taxi when she wants to go out on Sunday." Jesse K. Howe. 145 Sylvan Terrace, a Pennsylvania Railroad telegraph op erator, is making some record as a pedestrian. Every day the weather is favorable he covers a distance of not less than lifteen miles. Some days ho has walked fifty miles. Recently Mr. Howe completed his fourth year as :i walker. He keeps a record of every trip made and figures in his littla book show that 11,033 miles have been covered. The distance is registered on a pedometer, and whenever the hand points to 100 miles it is recorded. This telegrapher calculates that he makes 2,500 steps in every mile. In four years he has made 25,58e!,500 steps and has averaged 30 miles a day. Be tween now and October 21, 1916, he hopes to show records for many long distance trips. * * * Among visitors to the city yesterday was Agnew T. Dice, the vice-president of the Philadelphia and Reading rail way, one of the best operating execu tives in the country. Mr. Dice was here on matters before the Public Ser vice Commission. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. John A. Brashear, the emi nent Pittsburgher, went home from Atlantic City to vote for suffrage. —Mayor Jerinyn, of Scranton, has named a committee on national de fense co-operation. —President Rea, of the Pennsylva nia railroad, is improving from his sec ond operation. —Daniel M. Sheaft'er. who has plan ned many tours for notable men, lias been transferred to New York by the Pennsylvania railroad. —James A. Farrell, president of the Steel Corporation, is inspecting plants at Pittsburgh. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~ That Virginia people wear Ilar rlshui-g-niadc stockings? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city used to be one of the big points for distribution of coal brought down the Susquehanna in arks. SHORTEST SHORT STORIES diaper I—III. Chapter ll—Pill. Chaper lll—Bill. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Chapter I—Beau. Chapter ll—Dough. Chapter 111—Show. -Zanesville Signal. Chapter I—D. T s. Chapter II —M. D's. Chapter HI—D. D's. —Boston Advertiser. Chapter I —Jug. Chapter ll—Jug. Chapter lll—Jugged. —Columbia St''" i Fortune Helps Those \ Who Help Them selves Trade doesn't come. Mr. Store keeper, but waits around for you to go after it. But it is quick to accept the right Invitation. For instance, when an article is advertised In the newspapers people become interested. They want to see the goods. They will be attracted to the store that shows them In its windows. Alert storekeepers watch the newspapers and when an article is advertised they let the public know they have it. k———— ii ————J
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