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th ree months cmllnx Oct. 31, 101 K.
21,357 ★
Average for the year
AvfrnfC for ihr rc.ir IBIS—
Aver aire for the >rnr HI 15—10.649
Average for ll»e year 11» 11—1T.562
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ducted.
WEDNESDAY EVEMXG, NOV. 10
Simplicity is an e.vact medium be
tween too little and too much. —Sir
Jostltifi Reynolds.
THEY WANT A CHANGE
THE glimmering hope of some
manufacturers that the Wilson
administration would consent lo
a revision upward of the Underwood
tariff in the interest of American
capital and labor is likely to be rudely
shattered. All thought of any tariff
changes save those which will be of
benefit to the South may as well be
abandoned.
Tf a few millions of revenue can be
raised by protecting Southern plant
ers and sugar growers, then the I
President and his Southern advisors
will probably go along with a revision
to that extent, but any thought of a
general swinging back toward a pro
tective tariff is visionary and absolute
ly without the slightest encourage
ment under present conditions at!
■Washington.
Counting upon the patriotic attitude
of the people toward the President to
•ave his bacon in 1916. the Southern
ers now in the saddle will never con
st nt to any modification of the free
trade heresies and the impractical
theories which have dominated all the
policies of the present national ad
ministration. These men are obsessed
■with fhe idea that the manufacturing
Interests of the country are outside
the pale of Democratic consideration.
Kor will they surrender one iota of
their power or forego any opportunity
to administer a blow to the industrial
community when that community
happens to be outside the South. It
Is unfortunate that this condition
exists, but it is useless to close our
eyes to the facts or to pretend not to
sco the things which are so plain that
he who runs may read.
Even the Democratic apologists of
the free trade policy of the adminis
tration must soon cease to claim that
the conditions in this country are the
result of the war in Europe so far as
the revenues are concerned. The
war in Europe did not start until the
first of August, 1914, yet the decrease
cf revenues for the month of July last,
compared with the July before the war,
■was $4,818,189. Surely the war had
nothing to do with that falling oft. In
January, 1914; more than six months
before the outbreak of the war, the
customs revenue showed a decrease of
55,806,04 4 as compared with the satne
month the year before and in
February of that year the loss in
revenue was $9,995,512 as compared
■with the same month In 1913. Six
months before the war, and yet we are
told that the war in Europe has caused
nil the economic troubles in the
United States.
Not even the great war will save
the Wilson administration or prevent
the people of the United States pro
tecting themselves against a con
tinuance of the policies of one sort
and another which have caused wide
spread dissatisfaction.
JUGGLING ACCOUNTS
BY the magical method of chang
ing its system of bookkeeping the
Treasury Department on Octo
ber 1 made the net balance in the
general fund jump from less than
$41,000,000 to $128,000,000.
This startling announcement came
at a time when the net balance has
been dropping at the rate of nearly
half a million dollars a day for three
months.
The principal change made was the
transfer of $61,089,225.97, which
would ordinarily be carried on the
liability side of the ledger, to the
asset side. This amount has been car
ried under the item of "disbursing offi
cers' balances." Another change that
has been made transfers the national
bank note retirement fund from the
liability to the asset side of the ledger.
This is the second time the Treasury
Department has made important
changes in methods of bookkeeping,
with the result that Immensely larger
net balances arc shown.
On September 30, 1915, the net bal
ance in the general fund was
$*0,898,894.97, as compared with
$123.41(5,613 on the same date two
years ago, when Republican revenue
laws and appropriations were in effect.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
j Hereafter it will be impossible to
I compare the Treasury balance with
I ho balance that existed two years pre
viously. While the change in book
keeping does not take a dollar out of
the Treasury, or add a dollar thereto,
II does make a better looking balance,
and prevents comparisons with con
ditions as they existed under Repub
lican administration.
LIFE INSURANCE
SPEAKING before a gathering of
manufacturers the other day. a
Phlladelphlan expressed the
opinion that the operations of the new
workmen's compensation law will have
a tendency to make employes careless
about life insurance, and thereby mav
have an effect quite as bad as though
no compensation were provided by
the State.
Such an assumption is foolish. In
the first place, the compensation law
does not apply to death except as
caused by accident or otherwise di
rectly in connection with employ
ment. In the second place, the State
has emphasized the need of life in
surance by providing for it within the
limited provisions of the compensa
tion law. thereby drawing the atten
tion of the wage-earner, and the man
of business or professional life, as
well, to his own individual duties in
the matter.
Not a large percentage of men leave
estates when they die. but most men
leave somebody more or less depend
ent upon them. Lite insurance is the
one form of absolute guarantee against
the uncertainties of a future none can
foresee. Banks may fail, gilt edge
securities may depreciate, dividends
may be passed and bonds may be de
faulted, but any one of the big, es
tablished insurance companies offers a
guarantee as good as gold. The State
has provided one form of insurance
whereby the employe and his depend
ents are safeguarded; it remains for
the individual to do the rest and it
will be surprising, indeed, if the new
compensation law, instead of retard
ing. does not stimulate life insurance
business in Pennsylvania entirely
apart from the operations of the act
itself.
THK "HOI'XDED STAG"
MAYOR ROYAL told his fellow
councilmen yesterday afternoon
that for the past several months
ho "has felt like a hounded stag."
This is surprising news. Long
observance of the activities of council
had led us to suppose that when the
Mayor peered occasionally into his
mental mirror he saw himself as a
roaring lion, as a tiger couehant for
the spring, or at least as a watchdog
faithfully guarding the well-being of
the city.
We have heard of those who felt
like a scared rabbit, or a treetl
'possum, or a holed squirrel, and any
one of these seemed bad enough,
goodness knows, but to feel like a
bounded stag, ah. that must be the
supreme agony.
What a heroic figure is here pre
sented —the stag, that is to say, the
Mayor, surrounded by the yapping
pack of bloodthirsty hounds, as rep
resented by his fellow councilmen, we
presume, and the grewsome tragedy
about to ensue. Or, in the light of re
cent election returns, perhaps we
should have said, has ensued. Pic
ture it for yourself, and by all means
don't laugli.
The historic incident of Eliza on
the ice has nothing on this.
PI T n> THE BARS
THERE is still, however, one seri
ous obstacle in the way of the
confident and determined de
velopment of the coal tar dyestufC in
dustry on American soil, and that
difficulty is the possibility, no, rather
the certainty, that upon the resump
tion of normal international condi
tions European manufacturers will en
deavor by boycott, underselling and
other methods of competition to win
back thia profitable market and put
out of business a new and struggling
dyestuff industry."
That statement was made by Dr.
Edward Kwing Pratt, of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
In an address made before the Society
of Chemical Industry recently. And
(jet it was but a short time ago that
the Democrats were decrying protec
tion to American infant industries as
class legislation of the most vicious
sort. Has Mr. Pratt turned Repub
lican, or does the approach of cam
j paign year account for bis present atti
tude? Put the tariff bars up high
enough and the dyestuff industry will
get along all right, and that is good
Republican doctrine.
DEMOCRATIC PLEDGES '
IT seems a matterof little conse
quence to remind the Democrats of
the declarations In their platform
of 1912. So far every plank has been'
split to kindling wood, except the
single-term plank, for which Presi
dent Wilson is now sharpening his
axe. But here is a patagraph from
their plank on the merchant marine:
We believe in fostering, by con
stitutional regulation of com
merce, the growth of a merchant
marine, which shall develop and
strengthen the commercial tics
which bind us to our sister Repub
lics of the South, but without im
posing additional burdens upon the
people and without bounties or
subsidies from the public treasury.
The Democratic party has always
been against ship subsidies, a method
of government encouragement which
has been adopted by every other mari
time nation in the world. At present
we have the disgusting spectacle of a
member of the Cabinet, the Secretary
of the Treasury, grassliopping over the
country at government expense in the
interest of the Wilson-McAdoo govern
ment-owned merchant marine, unlim
ited. scheme —a proposition which, on
a referendum held by the National
Chamber of Commerce, was turned
down by 95 per cent, of the business
organizations of the country. At San
Francisco, October 23, Mr. McAdoo
said:
Suppose they cannot be main
tained except at a loss. Must we
then do without these facilities? 1
say no.
If private capital cannot afford
to provide it because it Involves a
loss, then the Uovcrnment should
firovlde the service and take the
one for the general welfare of all
the people and for the protection
of our trade prosperity.
The proposition advanced b.v Re
publican* to appropriate money for
j subsidies to encourage the growth of
i our merchant marine has been cried
I down, time and again, by the Demo
crats with all the power of their lungs.
But this socialistic scheme of Presl
j dent Wilson and his son-in-law, in
j volvlng the expenditure of from
$40,000,000 to $50,000,000. which re
! cent reports suy Mr. McAdoo is going
|to attempt to sneak into th? "pre
i paredness" program if he falls other
! wise to put it across. Is received by
j certain Democratic leaders much as
jtlir pupils nt Dotheboys Hall received
j their matutinal dose of sulphur and
I molasses, but swallowed, nevertheless,
i Poor old Democratic party! which
| created Its Frankenstein when itnomi
jnated Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore.
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My the F,t-()omtultteemii
Events in the last twenty-four hours
at both ends of the State have tended
I toward inauguration of the municipal
investigation or "lexow" authorized
by the last legislature being started
soon after the first of the year. This
inquiry was authorized by a resolution
presented in the House by William H.
Wilson, chairman of the committees
on rules and the House floor leader,
within a day of the final adjournment
It autliori7.es the president pro tem
and the speaker to name the commit
tees, which are given wide powers to
inquire into the way municipal gov
ernment is conducted not only in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or Scran
ton. but in any of the third-class
municipalities.
In Philadelphia Mayor Blankenburg
and other reform officials, stung by
the attacks made upon them as a re
sult of their activity on election day
and ly the awful defeat administered
to their ticket, are demanding that
the probe be started. Jn Pittsburgh
there are mutterlngs against Mayor
Armstrong and some talk that council
men may got after him.
The committer would be required
to report to the . -xt legislature.
-—The name of Judge J. M. Woods,
of Lewistown. who was defeated for
re-election last week, is now being
mentioned as a possible aspirant for
the vacancy on the supreme bench
caused by the death of Justice Elkin.
Opinion seems to incline that Judge J.
Willis Martin, of Philadelphia, may
get it. There have been forty men
mentioned, including Judge Kunkel.
although any mention of the Dauphin
judge has been without his sanction.
—State Chairman Morris' letter is
being variously' received by Demo
crats in the State. In Philadelphia it
is regarded as a swan song, in the
western counties as a pitiable effort
to keep up a front and in this cannv
neck of the woods as a prelude to a
request for contributions. In any
event Morris comes near joining a
certain mourning newspaper in the
ranks of humorists.
—Warren Worth Bailey, the Johns
town congressman who is almost as
entertaining as Morris when he gets
started, is now out against the presi
dent and strongly for Bryan including
his ludicrous position against national
defense. Bailey is a conspicuous re
organizer. an ardent backer of Pal
mer, Morris and the other reorgani
zation bosses.
—Prof. John P. Garber was last
night unanimously elected superin
tendent of the schools of Philadelphia
to succeed the late Dr. W. C. Jacobs,
who took the place of Governor Brum
baugh.
—Luzerne county court has ignored
charges of fraud in some districts of
the county. The Democrats have
elected two commissioners.
—ln Northampton W. W. McKean
was elected judge by 2099 over Judge
Brodliead.
—W. H. Fegley has been appointed
postmaster at Maxatawney by some
accident. He is a Republican.
—Willlamsport's city treasurership
pays SI,BOO. Twelve men want It.
—G. H. Roth has been elected
prothonotary of Adams county by two
votes. He won over G. A. Yohe.
David B. Johns who was defeated
for the nomination of prothonotary in
Allegheny, will be given a place on
the county tax revision board.
—lt is said that John P, Ancona,
who assisted in handling the winning
Democratic campaign, will receive the
$2,500 city treasurership, which is one
of the most desirable plums to be
given out, and thai Joseph R. Dickin
son, well-known attorney, will be the
next city solicitor at $3,000 a year.
It is also said that Charles Miller, a
well-known volunteer fireman and
former president of Mayor-elect Fll
bert's Liberty Company will be the
next chief of police.
Ollt "ELEVATOR" METHOD OF
CULTURE
rFrom the Literary Digest. 1
With all the music that is furnished
us in opera and concert, with tho ma
jority of Europe's highest priced musi
cians making: us annual visits and
KolnK over the length and breadth of
the land, we can not even yet, it ap
pears, justly claim to be a musical
people. "Music In America suffers, as
so many other thine* do, from the de
sire to attain swiftly a superficial in
terest In many kinds of yimisementH,"
says Mr. Josef Stransky, the conductor
of the New York Philh;> rmonlc Orches
tra. He sees our attitude to mus'c
typified by our habit of uslnß elevators
Instead of sta-irc-ases. We seem to him
to prefer to "use elevators to reach all
spiritual and artistic enjoyment" He
would have us lather walk up stairs
and pause on each step, which he typi
fies further as "a separate phase of
the development which is essential for
full education." In The Craftsman
(October) he tells how it may be done:
"The way to love music, to increase
its production, is to know it when you
are yountf, yountf Individually and
young: as a nation. It is much more
difficult to prepare people to enjoy
music after they are Brown up and
their minds have become crowded with
various interests In life. The American
: nation should not let Its youth slip by
I without filling: the souls of the chil
i dren with music. There Is no reason
why you should not have many (p-eat
I composers here, many creators of won
derful sound, new kinds of music fresh
i out of the heart of a new kind of civill
| zation. 'Natnre has a sound for every
'emotion:' so that in a world filled with
! new emotion the music of the people
i should be full of extraordinary new
l sounds and harmonies.
A new York judste has just sentenced
a man convicted of driving a motor car
while intoxicated to a year In the peni
tentiary and a fine of S3OO. Good!
That's the stuff: I.*t every drunken
driver of any vehicle, conveyance or
transport he Riven the game done. Don't
confine the honor solely to chauffeurs.
There arc others <iuite as euilty and
riuite as liable to brltiK death and In
jury to innocent people an the chauf
feur Is. We who believe in automo
biles don't want either favors or fa
vortism: grullty we expect punishment
since we deserve It. hut we have the
rixht to demand that others who sin
as we do shall also be punished as we
are Irrespective of whether the sinner
is the driver of an automobile, a truck
or a trolley car.—American Motorist.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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This picture shows the harvesting: of the sacred rice from which wine for the Japanese coronation ceremonies,
now in full swing, was made. The rice is planted under religious riles, tended during its growth by Shinto priests,
protected by the little paper prayers strung on wires surrounding the fields (shown in the picture) and finally har
vested by special collies, dressed according to an ancient custom and attended by priests. The water for the wine
is drawn from a sacred well at Kyoto.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—Another bad boy has been operat
ed upon with the hope of changing his
brain functions and making him good.
In our day the operations were not
performed upon the skull.
—The Tammany Tiger and the
Princeton Tiger threaten to have it
out with one another at Washington
the coming winter.
—"Boston barber goes on stage,"
says a news item from the city men
tioned. Probably going to become a
inonologist.
—Some of tile Wall Street war brides
are already showing symptoms of
alieniated affections.
—Evidently Mr. Bryan has not for
gotten that Dr. Wilson once advised
that his boom for the Presidency be
"kicked into a cocked hat.'"
—"Russian Attacks Fail."—News
paper head line. Where have we heard
those words before?
I EDITORIAL COMMENT
«
"One of the most hated nations in
the world," is the way Mr. Joseph H.
Choate characterizes the United
States. The present Administration
has certainly not done much to make
it loved.—Public I.edger, Philadelphia.
When America decided to equip it
self with armament of any kind, na
tions may rest assured that it will be
the best the world affords, —Allentown
Chronicle and News.
The difference between the election
returns this year and next is that
next year they will be more BO. —
Philadelphia Press.
Carranza was something of a watch
ful waiter himself. —Nashville Banner.
The Panama Canal beats Ty Cobb
when it conies to sliding.—Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
Check vour hyphen at Ellis Island—
It will be returned to you when you
go back.—Boston Transcript.
If the G. O. P. wants a strictly up
to-date ticket, what's the matter with
Cannon and Fort?— Columbia State.
If Mexico is not insolvent after all
that has happened, what chance is there
for Europe to go broke?—lndianapolis
Star.
Statements leaking past the censors
indicate that the Russian bear is bull
ish and John Bull is bearish.—Wall
Street Journal.
"Nicholas." our office Standard sage
lv informs us. means "Victory of the
people." But it doesn't say which peo
ple.—Columbia State.
The American doctors who cleaned
up the typhus in Servia took away her
chief defense against invasion.—Nash
ville Southern Lumberman.
MIIKIIi! Jt'OUHTHA, KING OF
NUMIDIA, AND ST. PAUL
WERE IMPRISONED
[From the Christian Herald.]
The reputed place of St. Paul's long
imprisonment, the Forum, is the cen
ter of the noblest ruin of Rome. Not
far from the center of the busy, noisy,
modern city rise the scarred ruins of
her ancient gior- Here is the temple
of Saturn with its eight columns, the
often copied three columns of the
temple 01 Castor and Pollux, the Arch
of Septimius Severus, the temples of
Vesta and Caesar, and many other
famous ruins: and beyond are the pal
aces of the Caesars. Not far away is
the magnificent Column of Trajan, 147
feet in height, around which run re
liefs of the Kmperor's wars, contain
ing, it is said, over 2,500 sculptured
human figures.
Close to the entrance to the Forum,
this lost wonderful collection of .the
ruined monuments of ancient times, Is
a small church called the Church of
Saint Gluseppi del Falegnaml. Under
this church are two dungeons, an up
per and lower, called the Mamertlne
Prison, and from a hole in the upper
chamber prisoners were lowered into
the noisome hole below, sometimes to
perish miserably of starvation, as did
Jugurtha, king of Numidia. with whom
schoolboys becor~- so familiar in their
first year of Latin.
In this dungeon—uncounted thou
sands of Christians believe—St. Paul
and St. Peter were Immured, and every
year on the night of the 4th of July
representatives of all the churches of
Rome assemble by torchlight and "'ln
solemn silence kneel In front of the
traditional pillar." A strange Fourth
of July celebration. Indeed, as we think
of the snapping firecrackers, and boom
ing i-annon, and clanging bells, which,
in our own land, usher in the Fourth
of July..
Our Daily Laugh
TIGHTWAD. Iff J/ j
When they
came back from
their wedding
trip he had just Jf r
♦ 2.60 in his pock
-2? —s(gf
HORSE SENSE.
ever lot you go
| to * burlesque
{.ML- without my blind-
_____
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
Vl.—The Boom in Detroit
By Frederic J. Haskin
i .
DETROIT is hard hit by the war,
She has been knocked upward
into the position of third ex
porting city in the United States.
This sudden boost has also made her
the fourth greatest manufacturing
city in the country, being out ranked
by only three cities of several tifnes
her population. Her manufactured
products this year will pass the half
billion mark. This has all come a-bout
because Detroit has secured such a
goodly share of the golden Hood that
has poured into this country from Eu
rope since the war began.
Detroit has never been subject to
slumps, but never have her streets
been so filled with chugging motors
and hurrying throngs, her hotels so
crowded,her factories and terminals so
busy as to-day. A whole new crop
of American millionaires has been
created during the past year, and a
number of them have made their for
tunes here.
No emissaries to European govern
ments were necessary to get foreign
orders for Detroit. The city was
known as the place where motors
come from, and here the buying agents
of the allies came seeking the wheels
of war—trucks to carry shells to the
front and ambulances to bring back
wounded men. Cars of all types they
had to have, and at once.
A certain motor company here had
an immense "Junk pile" a few months
ago, composed of returned, damaged
and incomplete cars and odd parts.
Since the junk pile was occupying a
1. Our Library Tablet
MINUTES WITH R
ATFKT BOOKS L MANA 7i TM fc X
"The true university of these days
Is a collection of books." was the sage
remark of Thomas Carlyle in his
"Heroes and Hero-Worship," but the
remarks of Thomas Carlyle were not
remarks that were of temporary appli
cation only—their scope is not con
lined to one century or sevei-al cen
turies and few will combat the above
statement in this present day.
The Foolish Virgin, by Thomas
Dixon.
The American public has wended its
way tlieaterward and paid homage to
(he man whose well-directed and un
flagging energy produced that won
derful creation on the moving picture
screen called "The Birth of a Nation."
But Thomas Dixon was the man who
wrot«» "flie Clansman" and it was
there that the seed was planted which
later under the magic touch of David:
Griffith grew into such gigantic pro-!
portions.
Again we are given the opportunity
of enjoying the fruits of Mr. Dixon's
mental toll in the "The Foolish Vir
gin," recently published (Appleton's,
$1.35 net). Suppose you fell in love
with a man and married him, and
then found he was a criminal. Would
you be crushed to despair or would
you rise and light for his rehabilita
tion? Upon this powerful and daring
theme Mr. Dixon bases a stirring
story. Mary Adains. a village beauty,
leaves home and follows the modern
crowd in its rush to the great cities.
For five years she succeeds In earning
a living, yet she cannot be happy. Her
ideal of life still demands marriage
as its end and her dream of a hero
fades into disillusionment in the face
of the city's great loneliness. At last,
quite unconventionally, she meets the
man of her dreams and rushes into a
marriage with him of whom she really
knows nothing. She discovers to her
horror that her husband has in his
possession a case of jewels, the prop
erty of a man in her boardinghouse
who was robbed and murdered by a
burglar. In the deep silence of the
Blue Mountains, the story carries us
through a whirlwind of ' startling
climaxes with the foolish virgin in her
struggle to decide whether to leave
her husband, to let him crush her, or
to fight to save him. It Is a virile
book that reveals the depths In the
nature of man and woman when in
spired with real love.
A History of American Literature
Since 1870, by Fred Lewis Pattee,
Professor of English in the Pennsyl
vania State College.
, How few of us are thoroughly
familiar with the history of our own
literature, particularly that part which
is almost contemporary with our own
lives--concretely—the period after
the Civil War? America has a liter
ary history of her own now, but it has
only been in recent years that it has
been possible to say this. How little is
generally known of the men who have
made this history f~r us. men whose
work has been constructive in giving
to this country a name in the field for
the cultivation of which we were
formerly dependent upon the brains
and pens of foreigners!
Professor Pattee's book on "The
History of American Literature Since
1870" (The Century Co., $2.00), gives
a comprehensive review of the more
prominent writers whose work has
stood out above the mass of litera
ture, good. bad. and Indifferent, of
every description, that has flooded the
country of late years. He discusses
Bret Harte and John Hay, who, he
says, studied their surroundings ob
jectively for the sake of copy; Joaquin
Miller, who emerged, as did Mark
Twain, from the materials In which
he worked; the restless, fervid John
NOVEMBER 10, 1915.
good deal of space it was regarded as
more of a liability than an asset—until
the eye of a foreign purchasing agent
fell upon it. He saw a chance to get
a lot of usable cars at a low ratST He
offered three million dollars for the
junk pile, and immediately became the
owner of it.
General Motors' Itapid I'se
General Motors is the Detroit war
stock whose amazing antics have
caused most of the thrills here and in
Wall street. This is one of the cor
porations that have converted a condi
tion bordering on bankruptcy into
dizzy, opulent success. Five years ago
General Motors borrowed fifteen mil
lion dollars to put it on its feet, and
was placed in the hands of a voting
trust, representing the bankers who
advanced the money.
The list of General Motors compan
ies included several well-known
makes and a number that were not so
well known. In fact, it had a number
of "dead plants" on its hands, and its
stock was way down. At the time the
war broke out it was in the neighbor
hood of S5. Then the rise began. To
the amazement of most of the stock
holders it reached 150, and many of
them began to unload. There was
brisk trading in General Motors both
on Wall street and the Detroit stock
exchange. But some of the wise ones
merely kept mum and held on. They
have been richly rewarded. On the
day that this was written General
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Muir, reaching out like Thoreau for
the infinite; Walt Whitman, big>
souled, uneducated, who studied
human nature and of the com
mon people at the dictates of his
emotions and not in mechanical
fashion; and many others he tells
about.
The Civil War was a fresh be
ginning in the history of the Amer
ican mind —it was then that a really
national literature began with the
consolidation of national sentiment
which the war brought, and it was
not until after the seventies that the
new romantic school sprang up, south
ern in its atmosphere and spirit,
northern in its truth to life and condi
tions. This book is the first full
length account of our literature dur
ing the period that can fairly be call
ed contemporary.
Hopsoy Burke, by F. N. Westcott.
Hepsey Burke is "A sister to David
Harum, by the brother of the man who
wrote the original." The possibilities
that are suggested by the title are
fully realized in the treatment, of the
character by the author. This is Mr.
Westcott's first novel, just as "David
Harum" was his brother's first ap
pearance in the realm of books. (H.
K. Fly Co., Publishers, $1.35 net.)
Hepsey Burke is a story of life in a
small town, told in the mannerisms
and with the convicting truth that only
a man who has lived with the type of
people in the story can impart to
such a work. The characters are
largely drawn from life. Hepsey her
self "carried with her an air of in
domitable conviction that things
worked themselves out in the long
run," a bit of the philosophy of her
life, which was a source of inspira
tion and sympathy for those all about
her. She is the motherly kind whose
presence smooths down the wrinkles
and brings a feeling of peace and fel
low-feeling that adds years to life.
Hepsey is sure to please you with Its
unfailing humor and good nature.
There is a man in the city of New
York who has inside Information con
cerning the fairy world. His name—
so far as can be learned —is Gilly
Bear, and the books which he has
just published through the medium
of Samuel Gabriel Sons and Co.,
publishers, are books which must by
their very nature appeal to the little
folks who have not yet, as someone
has so aptly put It, "mislaid the key to
their Imagination." There are three
of particular interest, all of which
once appeared in story form In the
New York Sun, but are now In book
form. They are Tom-Tit Tales. Fun
In tlic Forest, and The Green Tulip.
They have sometimes been called bed
time stories, but they lose none of the
charm of rending nor of their attrac
tive color illustrations by being perused
in the daytime. "Just before the
Sandman comes" is the time to read
them, however, and it is then that
the life, action and adventure which
they portray are best appreciated.
The Marvelous Organ Grinder, the
Pollywoodle Family, Dingo the Dragon
and T,ady Lightning are all characters
in the first of the three books, while
in the second we are fully informed
regarding man»v scions of the animal
kingdom that will enable us to under
stand their whims and fancies a little
more clearly than before: and the
third. The Green Tulip, is-a fairy tale
of Holland in which the little Gre°n
Fairy has lost his darling green tulip
nnd the heartbroken little fellow gnlns
the sympathy of Katrina and Jan,
the little heroine and hero, as you
must have guessed, and after many
, adventures thf£ - find the tulip and
(restore It to the little Green Fairy
[ and they all live happily ever after.
iEbenittg GUjat
As a matter of fact, old Paxton
Presbyterian Church, which will hold
services on Sunday in commemoration
of the one hundred and seventy-fifth
year of its religious activity, goes back
still farther into the dim past and it
might be said that it is closer to the
two hundredth anniversary than tho
one hundred and seventy-tifth. Well
authenticated records are that oUI
Derry Church, which is just east of the
model town of Hershey, was es
tablished in 1724 and it is generally
accepted as the pioneer church In
Dauphin county. The belief is that
the building in which Derry congre
gation was organized wan built in 1720.
Now as to old Paxton. no one seems to
know just when Its still beautiful grove
of oak trees was tirst used for wor
ship. The sturdy Scotch and Irish
Presbyterians who founded the churcli
held services in the woods in summer
time and it is of record that when the
Presbytery of Donegal, the ancestor of
the Presbytery of Carlisle, was organ
wed in 1732 there was standing in
Paxton grove a log house of worship
showing signs of age and having near
by graves of pioneers. A gravestone
marked 17lti was found in the grave
yard about the time ot tho Civil War
and another which bore in almost
obliterated figures what looked like
1702 or 1712 was also discovered later.
Who these stones were placed to keep
in mind no one knows to-day, but it is
tolerably certain that not long after
William Penn had made his visit to
the Susquehanna and tho Swatara,
supposed to have been in the neigh
borhood of Middletown, that white
men were pushing to the West. Pos
sibly the tirst worshipers at Paxton
were companions or retainers of John
Harris, who came this way 200 year:;
ago and who is supposed to have been
the first settler In the present county,
although Frenchmen were known to
have traded along the western shores
of the Susquehanna.
While poking through a desk drawer
just, prior to his departure for Vir
ginia the other evening Mayor-elect
Kzra S. Meals found a pack of election
advertisement cards. He chuckled us
he opened the package. "The caril
game at election time is a great game,"
he observed gravely. "This pack of
unused cards, for instance, might mean
much—or little. In this package, for
instance, is a lot of live hundred.
When 1 first started this campaign I
ordered 6,000. During the campaign
just 5,500 were given out, and this lot.
is what remains. When the official
count is compiled one may or may not
be able to judge whether it pays to
ask your fellow-citizen to vote for you,
via such a card." The ollicial count
completed yesterday showed that
Mayor-elect Meals, the unopposed can
didate for the office of chief executive
of llarrisburg for the second time,
had received 8,523 votes.
Announcement of the proposed re
sumption of operations at Marshall
furnace, at Newport, will be received
with interest here, as the furnace is
the only one left in Perry county,
which fifty or sixty years ago was one
of the big iron producers. The Mar
shall furnace was formerly called
Juniata furnace and was built in 1871.
It is the sole survivor of a number of
noted furnaces of which Duncannon,
Montebello. Oak Grove, Daura and
Caroline are best remembered. The
stack of the latter furnace at Bailey's
is still standing.
The weather this week has caused a
big Jump in the wheat sown by people
in this section of the State the last
month or so and by the time King-
Winter comes along the grain will be
well under way and strong enough to
stand any blasts. From upper win
dows of the Capitol wheat fields can
be seen showing bright green in four
counties.
Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown is not having a nice time this
week. He has to sit in court at the
trial of a hi* case in which he was
interonted before he became Attorney
General. As a result he is looking:
after State business at night, and his
office is a lively place after dark, the
deputies being busy with the tele
phones.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Cyrus E. Woods, Secretary of the
Commonwealth, plays golf every week,
rain or shine.
—J. E. Tliropp, Jr., son of the Bed
ford ironmaster, is furnace superin
tendent for the Thomas Iron Company.
—Robert A. Taft, son of the former
President, is conducting cases before
courts in Pittsburgh this week.
—Judd 11. Bruff. former sheriff of
Allegheny, is to become a member of
the county tax revision board.
—Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Norris
town, conducted services in church
when his pastor was taken ill.
DO YOU KNOW 1
That the new Cumberland Valley
bridge will enable Harrisburg to
Increase its freight capacity?
•HISTORIC HARRISBURG
A Masonic lodge was formed in Har
risburg not long after the city was laid
out.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Nov. 10, 1865]
Old Physician Dies
Dr. E. W. Roberts, one of the old
est physicians in this city, died at 3
o'clock this morning at his home. The
funeral will be held to-morrow after
noon.
Congressmen Pass Through City
A number of Congressmen from
western States passed through this
city to-day enroute to Washington for
the opening of the sessions on De
cember 4.
To Store Truck
A committee was appointed last
night at a meeting of the Mt. Ver
non Hook and Ladder Company, to
obtain a place to store the truck un
til proper quarters are provided. Dur
ing the summer the apparatus had
been kept in the Hope house.
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The School of
Experience
Many successful manufactur
ers hold diplomas In the advertis
ing school of experience.
They have tried out th-i best
ways of pushing their goods and
learned for themselves.
They know exactly what they
are doing wh»n they spend a dol
lar for advertising.
The experiences of these grad
uates are told of In a booklet,
"The Newspapers."
This will be sent to any ad
vertiser on request by th<»
Bureau of Advertising, American
Newspaper Publishers Associ
ation, World Building. New
York.