8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PniXTIJiG CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-(. hief F. B. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Haibrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. -eCTBs,. Delivered by carriers at six cents, a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dully nvernge clrrulntlon foi the three months ending Oct. 31, 1915. ★ 21,357 ★ Average for the year 191-I—2l f WW Average for the year IBlS—ttl.Wi Average for the yenr 1(112—10,840 Average for the year 1911—17,562 Average for the year 1910— 1f1.2f1l The above figure* nre net. " All re turned, unsold and damnged copies de ducted. MONDAY EVENING, XOV. 18. Woe unto them, that are mighty to drink, wine, and men of strength to mingJe strong drinks that justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. —Isa. 5: 22,23. POSTAL SERVICE DEMOCRATIC THE convention of postmasters which was recently held in Washington was remarkable for several things. In the first place, It showed how clean a sweep the Democrats have made in the postal service. At one of the early meetings of the associa tion, Assistant Postmaster General Roper made a speech, In the course of which he paid an enthusiastic tribute to the character and ability of Ihe men who are now in the postal service: and then he called upon all the hold-over postmasters to stand up. Out of th\e several hundred in attend ance, eleven arose. Mr. Roper's speech did not contain anything about civil service. THE IiABORLXG POPULATION STATISTICS compiled by the De partment of Labor and Industry show that of the 1,066,486 persons working In 20,571 Industries of the State,.' 775,932 at*e Americans and 276,339 foreigners. In other words, nearly one-third of the laboring popu lation is of foreign birth. This ex plains some of the prqblems of sociology that confront us and it also demonstrates the necessity of losing no opportunity to teach those who have come to us from Europe and elsQ where the Ideals which we as Ameri cans cherish and the advantages of American government and institutions as we have developed them. REVENUE AXD PROTECTION" IMPORTS entered the 13 principal customs districts of the United States, handling 91 per cent, of our total Imports to the value of $32,- 334,043, for the week ending October 30, 1915. On these imports a duty of $3,540v656 was realized, or an aver age rate of duty on our imports of 10.9 per cent. People who believe in the policy of free trade ought to be pretty well satisfied with thin showing, but the attempt of Secretary McAdoo to mako buckle and tongue meet %ias revised that gentleman's private views on the tariff considerably. The average rate of duty on im ports for the month of August, 1913, under Republican law, was 22.3 per cent, and the Treasury surplus was thoroughly reassuring. To-day imports of goods competing with American products have reached truly Democratic proportions, but the Government revenues have become negligible. The Underwood tariff law is one of those poor laws which work both ways. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF WITH a record of four defeats at .the hands of smaller colleges, the humbling of whose teams in former years had been but a matter of chronology; with the somewhat weak ened confidence of a still loyal horde of hopeful students and graduates rejuve nated by the prospect of a stirring bat tle: with a coaching system that but. a week before had been turned inside out; with popular opinion conceding the victory to the opposing team be fore the game started: with the betting five to three against them, a Yale foot hall team, inspired by that indefinable something that, carries the individual beyond himself and enables him to do things never expected of him, defeated a Princeton team on Saturday by six points. The game was watched by sixty thousand eager partisans of either uni versity—for one simply, cannot remain neutral when one hears the singing and cheering and sees the riot of color and youth in the huge Yale bowl. The details are history and need not be repeated, but when a blue-jerseyed battler drops a field goal from an almost inconceivable distance between his own goal posts in exactly the same manner as did a blue-jerseyed battler MONDAY EVENING, two years' ago on the Princeton field, it Is worthy of special mention. If you had been at Princeton 011 that famous day In the Fall of 1913 when Pumpelly converted a sad, quiet Yale crowd Into a bedlam of frenzied maniacs, you would appreciate Guern sey's kick from his own fifty-three yard line in the game Saturday. So long as there are Guernseys and Purn pellys at Yale and Poes at Princeton, university football will continue to be the great, popular college sport—and the most uncertain. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON is dead, and there, is none to take his place, more's the pity. Booker T. Washington was not only the great est man of African descent this coun try has ever known, but he was one of the greatest men of any race*that the world has produced. Born in slavery, it was his lot to top the highest pinnacle of fame and to register himself among the greatest leaders of men that history has known. Misunderstood, maligned and assailed even by men of his own race, Wash ington persevered In the course he laid down for himself and died with the knowledge that he had vindicated him self, that he had started the people of his race on the high road to success. Like George Washington, Lincoln and others who stood l'or great principles, Booker T. Washington was headstrong, unshakable in his convictions, insistent and persistent, yet withal a gentle soul, a teacher and a religious guide as well as a leader, with his heart ever dwell ing upon the lowly condition of his fellows and how it might be Improved. Washington was a great religious figure, but he realized that more than religion was needed to lift his people from the slough of despond in which thfiy found themselves when he first began his propaganda; that it was necessary for the negro to attain eco nomic independence before he oould expect social equality. This Brought down upon his -head the censure of those who did not want to wait, who demanded at once what white men had labored and sacrificed through scores of generations to attain. "Learn to be thrifty; learn how to fill the places white men fill as well or better than they; save, own prop erty; in short, attain economic inde pendence. and the other things .you seek will come to you"—that, in brief, was the teaching of Booker T. Wash ington, and he died realizing that its soundness had been recognized, that colored men women worthy and fitted for places of trust attain to them, that color is no bar to fhe at tainment of high place in the world, that "a man's a man for a' that." If Booker T. Washington had done no more than this he would not have lived in vain. But he did more. He put his teachings into practice*. He convinced hundreds of wealthy men that he was right, and they gave will ingly that he might build a college where his ideas could be worked out in a practical way. No Individual will carry on the work that Washington started, but in Tuskegee and among its teachers and its graduates his spirit and his teachings will live in a never ending, always expanding, influence for good. ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY THE world at war, and we the one great nation at peace. Strained relations with England, and none too good an understanding with Ger many. Americans lost on the Ancona. Whitlock in trouble in Belgium. These, with the Mexican situation, a growing deficit in the treasury and a split In the Democratic party, are the weighty re sponsibilities the President faces. In all conscience, these ought to be suffi cient to keep the President busy, but we learn from Washington that the occupant of the White House has still another problem on his hands. He doesn't know where to put his wed ding presents. AX ELECTION SCHOOL THERE is more truth than fiction about the statement made from the bench in several counties of Pennsylvania the last few days that there is need for a school for election officers. Neve» before in the history of the present election system have so many Instances of downright blun dering been reported and more men have been haled into court to explain tangled election returns in Philadel phia than recorded in a generation. The chief difficulty is that the way to vote in Pennsylvania has been so safeguarded that it is as difficult to get a ballot marked and recorded as it is to go hunting or fishing without a law book. The election laws have been re formed until they are a fright to the average citizen who thinks about his ballot on just two days in the year primary and general election days. The realm of election laws has been a joyous romping place for the reformer and he has made voting onerous for the citizen and a burden to the election officer. It is going to be rather hard to get competent, men to sit as election officers if ballots grow so large that, it is like handling sheets to work with them and if so many things are pre sented for voters' action that it takes twenty-four hours to count. The proposition is either tQ simplify the Fallot, which means making more offices appointive, or restricting the referendum, or else to send the elec tion officers to school, at public ex pense, for a couple, of days before the primary and general elections. Our governmental specialists say the free man's will must be recorded as ho wants it. no matter what the cost. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE*" —Many a man feels that he has car [ rled off the palm after a girl has con sented to Rive him her hand. —Thirty-five million sprint to arouse sentiment for Germany in America? Somebody must have paid a mighty high price for a mighty poor job. —Some men know all about automo biles, v«nd others talk as though they do. —Bryan says he doesn't know of any split in the party. There arc many things thaf Bryan doesn't know that are perfectly apparent to many others. —lf this thing keeps up the next Congress may bo called upon to build a new White House annex as a residing place for our old friend Cupid. —ln the older days, kings and em perors led their troops to battle; now when a ruler goes to tlio front it is considered subject for a cablegram at forty cents a word. | EDITORIAL COMMENT | The President's chest measure, which Secretary Tumulty refused to give a Washington tailor, lias prob ably shrunk considerably since the lato election.—Philadelphia Press. The national horse show is in full blast in New York. They'd better make the most of It, as next year there may not be enough of 'em left in this country to make a show.-—Allentown Chronicle and News. The maritime policies of Great Bri tain begin to take more definite, shape in the popular understanding when they threaten the American Christmas. Paterfamilias may light even harder for free passage for a cargo of toys than he would for a shipload of the necessities of the ciders. —New York Sun. The only thing that remains to be seen is whether Mexico itself will recognize Carranxa.—Kansas City Star. The bonds between this country, England, and France are very strong. You can get them under 98.—Minne apolis Journal. Andorra, in its letter to President Wilson, voices the sentiment that we republics should stand together. Indianapolis Star. "Greece Will Stay Neutral For the Present," says a newspaper headline. And what is the present? Territory? —Columbus Citizen. However, we do not suppose England will have to resort to conscription in order to fill up the Cabinet again. Grand Kapids Press. Work as hard as he will. Count von Jagow does not seem able to make the creeks realize how badly ey feel about having their neutrality violated. —lndianapolis Star. Russia has put in an order for 10.000 Pullman cars. At least we may feel reasonably certain that the grand dukes are going to the front or some where.—Grand Rapids Press. Great Britain has groat untouched resources, and, judging from the oppo sition to conscription, a great many of tnein want to remain permanently un touched.—Chicago Herald. We positively refuse hereafter to read any more Interviews with General Jofrre in which the correspondent does all the talking and General .loffre nods his head thoughtfully from time to time.—Kansas City Star. The last peace forecast 'from Britain i?i.. i i, rw 3.000.000 more men. Pittsburgh Dispatch. It isn't the dyestuflts scarcity that the Bed, White and Blue off the I acinc.—Boston Journal. i= °»V r °. wn notion of a hard-luck story Columbia P Sta"e. * Lo " d ° n l,ouse '- BATTLESHIPS RAX OX I/AXD i!'t Th ? ® a P tain of the Pennsylvania win wield n weapon more intrinsically powerful than the German Standing army; and this control of it will be more absolute than is the Kaiser's control of that army." This surpris ing statement is made by K»ar Ad miral Bradley A. Fiske in the Novem ber Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance. After comparing the fighting strength and mobility of a great bat tleship and an army in the field, Rear Admiral Fiske says: "Possibly the declaration may be accepted now that a battleship of 26,- 000 tons such as the navies are build ing now, with, say, twelve 12-inch guns is a greater example of power, under the absolute direction and con trol than anything else existing; and that the mf\in reason is the concen tration of a tremendous amount of mechanical energy in a very small space, all made available by certain properties of water. Nothing like a ship can be run on shore, but if an automobile could be constructed, carrying twelve 12-inch guns, twen ty-one 5-lnch guns and four torpedo tubes, of the size of the Pennsylvania, and with her armor, able to run over the land in any direction at 20 knots propelled by engines of twenty thou sand horsepower, it could whip an army of a million men just as quickly as it could get hold of its component parts. Such a machine could start at one end of an army and go through to the other like a mowing .machine through a field of wheat: and Knock down all the buildings in New York afterwards, smash all the cars, break down all the bridges and sink all the shipping." FIGHTIXG BY NIGHT "A nocturnal attack on the firing line looks ljjte an exhibition of fire works magnified a thousand fold." says a writer in the November Popu lar Science Monthly and World's Ad vance, describing the various devices used by the warring armies to Illu minate the batlcfields. "At the first shot in the blackness brilliant searchlights, mounted on mo tor trucks, criss-cross tlje battlefield with their blinding shafts of light, confusing the attackers and exposing them to the death-dealing fire of guns and rifles. A sound like a giant sky rocket is heard, and over the opposite trenched a huge rocket bursts, and, descending slowly under a parachute, an incandescent ball throws down a fan of light, which illuminates the surrounding territory for several minutes. Before it goes out others take its place, keeping the field un der a brilliant light during the entire engagement. A glance down the length of the line reminds one of the drop lights of the stage, magnified a thousand times. As far as one can see these lighfs are dropping, shedding their lights the better to allow their makers to kill. "The whirr of an aeroplane's pro peller is heard overhead. Another danger is added lo the melee, and bombs drop in rapid succession from the swift machine. The searchlights flash upward, sweeping the sky, and finally focus their pencils of light up on the fragile, flying thing. One beam holds the range, while the rest return to >the battlefield. Guns fire in quick succession and a series of fireballs chaso across the sky HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Lk "P tKKO IcCLKLQ, By the Ex-Committeeman Kx-('ongressman A. Mitchell Pal mer will be fought if he attempts to run for re-election as Democratic na tional committeeman from Pennsyl vania whether he has the hacking of President Wilson antl the national ad ministration or not. Many Democrats of the State figure that through the terrific defeat of Palmer and the Democratic State ticket last year the rank and tile of the party is entitled to cty>ose new ieao.ers and they ilo hot propose to stand for the collection of nroKen pitchers which will start for the well again when the presidential primaries roll around. President Wilson is understood to have made up a slate for New Jer sey Democrats and 10 he getting ready to turn Ins attention to the situation in Pennsylvania. Notwithstanding the adherence or quite a few Democrats to WllliUm Jennings Bryan, the bulk of the Democrats 01 this State are will ing to give the President their support for renomin&tion, but It is very evi dent from wijat is heard among Demo crats that do not propose to swal low Paimer and his pals again. It may come about that there will be two sets of Wilson delegates to the next Democratic national convention next year when the presidential pri maries are held, incidentallydelcgates at-liM"Ke will have to De elected at large a net not by tne State committee or a State convention. As was statecf Saturday there are 103 presidential post oiUccs now tilled by Republicans and with characteristic disregard for civil service the national administration will probably "lire" as sistants and others when the heads drop. Assistant Postmaster General James I. Biaksiee has been sleuthing through the State looking up condi tions and changes in postmasters will be made soon. Every appointment will make a lot more enemies for the bosses of the Democratic State ma chine and make their path harder in the presidential elections. It will be recalled that men who criticised Dem ocratic State. Chairman Morris and any of the satraps of the Democratic machine were made to teel their dis pleasure and some of the candidates will never get over what was said about them or forgive those who said or wrote it. Jt is commonly believed that a newspaper correspondent as signed to llsij-risburg during the gub ernatorial campaign last Fall was re lieved because his statements did not I please certain Democratic leaders. —An amusing statement regarding Democratic plans for next year is that Koland S. Morris, the Democratic State chairman, may run for auditor general. Anti-machine Democrats could imagine nothing more pleasing than a chance to vote at a direct pri mary on the question of whether Mor ris should be nominated or relegated to obscurity along with certain other Democrats from whom the spotlight was turned last Fall. WiUl Morris running for auditor general and a Pal mer machine set. of national delegate candidates to vote for the Democratic primary next year would be something delightful to watch. —Congressman .1. H. Uothermel, of Reading, who fell outside the breast works in the contest for the Demo cratic congressional nomination with Arthur G. Dewalt last year, Is a can didate for city solicitor of Heading. Dewalt was formerly Democratic State chairman and was removed by the reorganization machine supported by a call signed by Democratic congress men headed i>y Palmer and tailed by Uothermel. It might be remarked in passing that none of the Democratic congressmen who signed the call for the rejuvenation of the Democratic party which gave it instead of new life, the most arrogant set of bosses it had ever known, is in congress now. —The Lackawanna Democratic ma chine is all split up the back as a re-1 suit of the primary contest for county fcontroller. Indeed, there is scarcely a county in the 3tate in which the Democrats are not mad at each other and indulging in recriminations over the failure of their hopes. It is very much like last November 15. THE DEATH OF EDITH CAVELL [From Collier's AVeekly.] When the Government of a great nation incurs the moral condemnation of mankind it is essential that the facts involved be clearly understood. Edith Cavell had been over twenty years in Brussels as the head of a hos pital there. She was not in the pay of any government, she was not con spiring or spying against any govern ment. Her sympathies led her to shelter certain Belgians and English men and to help them escape from Belgium. For this she was secretly tried and hastily shot by the German authorities under Sauberzweig, Bissing and Lancken. When American news papers such as the San Francisco i "Chronicle" and "The State" of Col i umbia, S. C., speak of Miss Cavell as la "spy" they are utterly mistaken, and ito parallel the Cavell murder one must go back to Alice Lisle, beheaded by rfrder of James II on September 2, 1685, for harboring two refugees from Monmouth's defeated army. (Mrs. Surratt was hanged in Washington be cause she had given shelter to and had known of the conspiracy which resulted in killing Lincoln, yet Rhodes and other historians unite in deploring her execution.) The French in the last year have executed two or more women, confessed spies and paid for their spying, but Edith Cavell had no part in any murderous conspiracy. German newspapers may heap con tempt on "English cant" and revile Brand Whitiock, but they will be ex plaining Edith Cavell's death Just as long as they 4 have to uphold the pres ent system of German Government. As a great. French writer, Lamartine has said: "The murderer has but ono hour; the victim hus eternity." AMERICA'S GOLD MAGNET [From the Kansas City.Times.l Nearly $12,000,000 of gold arrived in New York last week from ten coun tries. While most of it came from Eng land, there were arrivals from nine South and Central American and West Indian countries. • The stathility of American finances together with the expanding exports of American products constitute the magnet that is attracting gold from all quarters of the world. There have been imports recently from Japan and China, as well as from various coun tries of Europe. In the nine months ending with Sep tember. gold amounting to $266,000,0(10 has been Imported by the United States. The Treasury statement for November I shows a total supply of gold money in the United States $."!62,- 000,000 greater than a year ago. The Increase amounts to more than half the total supply of gold, in the country twenty years ago. RECIPROCITY IFrom the Kansas City Star.] There Is a prevalent feeling In the United States that it is the Govern ment's business to protect Its citizens In the exercise of their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is also a feeling that it is an Im position for the Government to ask anything from itH citizens—taxes, Jury service, voting at elections, or what not. One advantage of audi general mili tary training as Switzerland lias is tliat it emolißilzes the fact that something is tlue to the Government as well as from the Government; that there must lie civinu as well as recalvlntr. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE CHAMPION PURSE-SNATCHER * J —From the Ohio Slate Journal* CURING A MILLION. DR By Frederic J. Haskir WHEN the antinarcotic iaw was passed, men of experience with drug addicts prophesied that it would have no effect in checking this traffic, which has enslaved a million Americans. There were State laws on the subject, but nearly all of them had proved failures. The secretiveness and cunning of the habitue, and his desperation when deprived of the drug, made a problem apparently too subtle for the law to sjlve. The Harrison measure has now been in operation eight months. It has been rigidly and successfully enforced. The misery, liorror and disgrace which it has brought forth are the best proofs that the addict and his panders have at last been outwitted. This unpleasnat but imperatively necessary task of uprooting the traf; flc in habit-forming drugs has fallen to the internal revenue office of the Treasury Department—the same that hunts out the illicit still of the moon shiner. and the deceptive product of the man who sells oleomargarine for butter. The men of this service had already a machine of investigation and detec tion that operated in every part of the United States. They applied it to the drug traffic when the law went into effect on the first of March. For a time there were no results. Most of the addicts had laid in a supply of their favorite drugs. But soon these | The State From Day to Day I One Mr. Bowman, of Sunbury, re cently published this notice in one of their daily papers; slightly para phrased, it reads, "My wife, Helen, has left my bed and board without any excuse and I refuse to pay for any of her bills." Wheveupon the wife, somewhat incensed, routed her worser half by printing the following ad: "I, Helen E. Bowman, did not leave my husband's bed; we only had one bed and that belonged to me." The University of Pittsburgh, de partment of electrical engineering, re opened its wireless plant for public communication on Saturday evening. It is perfectly evident that, when the Workmen's Compensation law goes Into effect after (he first of January, there will be a reckoning among the owners of munition factories in Ches ter and the surrounding country, if the wholesale injuries continue as they have in the past few months, most of them having been kept from public notice. > A consolation dinner held iJVyWiLj liamsport by eleven defeated cltudl dates for office was the occasion for much hilarity and pleasant chaff. The nonpartisan ballot law was condemned in speeches and condemnation of sec ond terms deplored, but good wishes were expressed for all the men who had won out over them at the re cent election. A more-or-less under-the-weather gentleman was arrested in Heading yesterday for ringing doorbells. The child in man's armor evidently forgot that Hallowe'en in 1915 is past his tory. Governor Brumbaugh made the Ar bor Day address and in conjunction with M. S. Hershey planted the first trees at the celebration of Derry Presbyterian Church at Hershey Sat urday. This church boasts of the sec ond oldest Presbyterian congregation in Pennsylvania. "Where is the S2OO that Joe gave to Mary?" is the query that headlines a State contemporary. Sounds very much as though the lines had been taken from "Ten Nights in a Bar room," or sonic otlier equally illus trious playlet. Ord Hicks, living near Barnesboro, climbed a tree yesterday and captured an owl measuring nine feet from tipr to tip. Hicks is a cripple, but the owl was evidently blind in the sunlight and was easily captured. If anybody is sufficiently acquainted with the salient characteristic of a "P-O-G-TT-E wagon," the Chester po lice will take pleasure in consulting with him. They are searching for one of the aforementioned, which was at tached to a horse and both lost by a Philadelphia man. MEAI'TY ANII BI« VINS [Prom the Kansas City Star.] The axiom that beauty does not in dicate brains, laid down by Dr. Walter F. Fernald to the girls of Radclifte, is only h lislf axiom. The doctor should hove added that plainness doesn't indi cate brains, either. So those of the students who feel they were alluded to personally needn't cry tholr eyes { NOVEMBER 15, 1915. . little stores of poison were exhausted, and all of the horror and suffering they had held in check came to the surface. Almost maddened by their v need, many of these unfortunates rushed to them for their drugs. They crowded the halls and corridors of revenue of fices, begging for relief. Wont Into Hysteria Being refused, they often went into hysteria or rage. -In one such corri dor a man of education and position beat his head against the wall until in sensibility came. At another place the collector found it necessary to sur round himself with a\ bodyguard. These addicts suffered collapse by the score, and were turned over to hospi tals and physicians for treatment. There were thousands of them throughout the country who had been practicing their vice in secret, and who now raved in the open streets. Among the illicit dealers in these drugs a "deck of snow," the un derworld name for a package of co caine, rose in price from 25 cents to $4.50. Letters that rival de Quinc.v's "Opium Eater" have poured into the Washington oflice. An old man wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury, say ing that both he and his wife h;id been addicted for thirty years. He [Continued on Page 14.1 Our Daily Laugh "'S A CHAN'OELKSS * I suppose Ethel j g W h a t you would Ei J MHI call a girl of un- NO, indeed. She V has been the same H age for the past jßZjjjfiM / H five seasons. HER REASON. / I You're the 'worst J actress X ever/ '^g£l | ways said I was an awful acting T*MW Wjf j kid, that's why II took to burlesque, I TUN LITTLE JITNEYS Hv Wins: Dinger Ten little jitney cars. Doing business tine. One broke Its steering gear, Then there were nine. Nine little jitney cars. Running night 'til late. One wore its tires oijt. Then there were elgnt. Eight little jitney cars Pulling iii the "nicks." One hit another jit, Then there were six. Six little jitney cars, 'Round the town did whiz, Along eamc a snow storm And put 'em out of biz. A WAYWARD TONGUE The chairman of the committee was addressing a meeting at a teachers' Institute: • "My friends, the schoolwork Is the bulhouso of civilization, 1 mean—ah lie began to feel frightened. "The bulhouso is the schoolwork of civ—" A smile could be felt. "The workhouse is the bulschool of H<%was evidently twisted. "The schoolbul is the housework —" An audible snigger spread over the audience. "The bulschool —" lie was getting wild. So were his hearers. He mopped his perspiration, gritted his teeth, and made a fresh start. "The schoolhouse, my friends —" A sigh of relief went up. Hamlet was himself again! He gazed serenely around. The light of triumphant self-confidence was enthroned upon his brow. "Is the woolbark—" And tkat is when he lost conscious ness.—A ns wers. Stoning (Eljat The pupils of the Allison puhll* school building have a new victrola. They enjoyed their first concert on the newly purchased machine on Wednes day afternoon and enjoyed it hugely, despite the fact that it constituted repetitions of (he only three records that a generous dealer kindly "t hr 4 v in ' tiic instrument was put chased. The boys and girls set. a lorn of store by the talking machine, dije t<v the fact that they i>ut their candy money into a common pool for many weeks to buy it. The recess lunch has Buffered terribly since the victrola fund was started, but the reward is now at hand, and as soon as the littlo folks become so familiar with its strains as not to pause every time a tune is started they will march out of the building at recess and dismissal to the notes of a stirring band march. •I/lst now the crying: need is for records and if anybody has any on hand that would he suitable and is looking for a place where they will be mad« to do the most good, the Allison building has a standing offer to take care of them. Strange as it may seem, not a few of the pupils had never heard a talking machine previous to the concert on Tuesday and they wanted to stay all evening to have the teachers in charge I repeat the scanty store of records on hand. Boy Scouts! One of the most fami iar terms of our latter-day tongue and synonomous with efficiency and dispatch, just as the name Pennsyl vania State Constabulary is a synonym for order and discipline. The nation wide movement has gained headway with such rapidity and organization that many do not realize what an im portant part it plays in developing the youth of this country along the best and most helpful lines. Some of ihe things a scout does are to tell the north or south or east or west, by the "signs," to tie a knot that will hold, pitch a tent, swim a river, mend a tear in his trousers, point out which fruits and seeds are poisonous anil which are not, pull an oar, reef a sail, kindle a tire in the forest on tho wettest day with two matches at the most. Ife walks through the woods without snapping twigs, he knows how to stalk birds and animals ind study them in their natural haur.s; he sees much but is little seen; he speaks softly and answers questions modestly, and holds his honor to be his most precious possession. He is kind to animals, and takes pleasure in giving up his .seat in the trolley car to a lady or girl or old gentleman. If you cut your arm, he will stop the flow of blood and bind it up for you. In other words, the scout adopts as his motto the words that have been ring ing in the ears of our nation for months. "BE PREPARED." All tho Boy Scout lore, and it is astonishing what an amount of it there is, has been gathered up by I). Appleton & Co., into a year book for the scouts. This work occupied a representative of this firm, which has specialized in such matters, many months and it embraces not only what scouts aro doing in Pennsylvania and Massachu setts, but in California and Michigan. This is probably tho first time a gen eral effort has been made to collate all the scout matter in one volume. A well-grown wild turkey was seen yesterday morning in Wildwood The bird had apparently flown dovjff from First Mountain and was as saucy as could be, seeming to know that it was safe from hunters as long as it remained in the city's big park. Walter S. Franklin who Is well known to a number of Harrisburgeni has been promoted by the Pennsyl vania railroad freight department to have charge of freight at Baltimore. He has lately been stationed at Atlanta. VEIL KNOVN PEOPLE —Bishop Garland of Philadelphia, who is in the Southwest for his health, is improving. —P. J. Cunningham, Philadelphia manufacturer, is gunning in South Carolina. —A. G. Nesbltt, wealthy Wilkes- Barre citizen, has given SB,OOO to the Wyoming Valley Historical Society for research work. —Dr. J. William White has been 11! at his home in Philadelphia. —Homer C. Williams the new head of the Carnegie Steel Company, was given a farewell dinner by almost the whole of Braddock. —Captain S. A. Price of Chester, has been ordered to the Philippines by the War Department. —Thomas H. Burch, who succeeded Cyrus" E. Woods as minister to Portugal, is home on his first vaca tion and there is a chance for American goods. \ DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsbarg Js a big manufacturer of book-Wnding • machinery? HISTORIC HARRHSBURG Harris' residence was a meet ing place for provincial officials during the French and Indian War. A GREATER POLLY One day at Uttle Rock, where the Detroit team was playing an exhibi tion, old Red Donahue, who in his day was the sharpest-tongued man in baseball, was tossing them over and letting the Little Rock batters hit at Will, to the great dellghtvof the spec tators. "Oh, Red, you're easy, easy, easy,' shrieked one very wild fan who was getting on Red's nerves. "I'm not. half as easy as you are." retorted Red. "You paid fifty cents to see me do it."—The American BOY. Starting It Going [•; "How did I know THAT?" "Because some one told me, who had been told by some one else who read it somewhere." Thus one* of the characters In a Broadway play Illustrates the power of advertising. The fame of a good article never stops. Each satisfied cus tomer Is ft salesman. But to get the first customer or group of customers you must have them READ IT SOME WHERE. \. Why not In the daily news paper? That's where people are most likely to see it.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers