10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BrtaMuM Ttll PUBLISHED BT [ TBI TEI.EC.R.4.PH PRINTING CO. B. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ .V«M|i<i( 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 Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York (City. Hasbrook, Story Sc Brooks. Western OfTlce. Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at ' six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Offic« In Harrla burg. Pa., as second class matter. Swori dally average circulation foi tie three months ending Oet. SI. 1810. ★ 21,357 ★ Average" for the year I*I4—II.WHI Average for the year lIIS—ICJW Average for the year 1D1I—1».«4» Average for the year 1911—17,6413 Average for the year IWO—IMSI The above tlgures are aet. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 18. Be iciier than other people if you <««. biU do not tell them to. —Earl ot Chesterfield. THE TRREF. CROSSES EVEN with the approach of an other Yuletide season the mil lions in the sorry countries be yond the seas are still struggling to appease the hatreds of kings and emperors: in the' joyous country whose people are at p£ace with all their fellowmen. millions are eagerly girding their loins to wage more vigorously the silent battle of hope and faith against the creeping, de spairing onslaught of the "white ijlugue" of tuberculosis. On many a European field the only hope of reward of the soldier of a king is the cross of iron. On the quiet, but equally deadly, fields of the "plague," of civilization the soldier of the King is preparing his battle lines in the name of the crimson cross of Geneva. v In Harrlsburg the attack will be mupped out and directed by Dr. C. R. Phillips, chairman of the Red Cross <~hristmas seal committee. His com mittee is an eager, earnest group of citizens, zealous in the work of ad vancing the cause. YOU can be the soldier in the ranks. Instead of a high-powered rifle from the factories at Essen, your weapon will be a cent, a nickel, a dime, or a quarter, or per haps a dollar. Instead of firing a clip of cartridges you will buy Red Cross Christmas Seals. And you will tight entrenched in the shadow of the Cross of the Ages. When are you going to enlist? Interest in the proposed movement to inake Harrisburg a flower city next summer Is spreading In every direction. The Telegraph has received letters • ommending the suggestion and volun teering support of the movement. It is probable that the Civic Club will ap point committees for the working out of the plans during the winter. THE MODERN BANK A NATIONALLY prominent maga zine of current issue publishes | a cartoon of a banker stamped with the dollar mark and pudgy with wealth. But there is another side to the banker, and the cartoon is not a good representation of the modern man who alts in the president's office of thte average modern bank. Let us look at him in another light. James Smith was tafcen sick and lost the use of his right arm. ' He had a wife and four children dependent upon him, and for a year-he was out of work and faced starvation. He lived in a modest framecottage and his rent was sixteen dollars a month. He had no money laid away when he was tahsn sick, and only because the land lord was kindly inclined did he have a roof over his head. Neighbors and friends helped him, and somehow he pulled through that dreary year. The landlord was not a wealthy man; he only looked so. He was "property poor." He owned about fif ty houses, and owing to depreciation in real estate values and general busi ness stagnation was unable to sell his r#aj estate, and lived on his rents. He was, on a larger scale. In almost as btd a condition as his tenant. For two years he paid no interest on the mortgage on Smith's house and the taxes were in arrears for over three years. A savings bank held the mortgage and was as patient with the landlord as the landlord was with 4m|th. Therefore, the owner of the house was not Smith's benefactor, but the bank. The bank carried the load which the sickness of Smith brought to the landlord, and tljat is what banks are for. Likewise in the matter of taxes. The ' etty paid Its bills from tax money gathered from property owners like the landlord. But when Smith paid no rent and the landlord paid no taxes, the city had to go to some bank and borrow until the landlord paid up. And so another bank came to the res ell# and saved both Smith and his landlord. i We owe a great deal to banks. 'Mbey carry many a load the public | MM They ease the jars otj THURSDAY EVENING, life. They furnish the steam to keep the engine running. W« could not get along without them. Some day you may be out of work and unable to pay your rent. As a home-owner you may get behind in your taxes; but remember, somebody, through the medium of a bank, comes to the rescue and carries your loa<J when you can't carry It yourself. When In good health, why not appre ciate these facts, and when your load Is easy, help carry someone else's load by banking your money where it will, in a quiet and unassuming way, do some good to somebody besides your self. | To be ready to meet your rainy day, | you must spend less than you earn. The sky may look very blue and the clouds very far away; but be assured that It will rain some time, and if your days are not rainy ones, someone is out In the storm somewhere, and the bank will carry for you the load that comes to the thrifty as well as the spendthrift, for storms are not re specters of persons. The bank is no longer, if it ever was. the mere means of piling up sur pluses for stockholders. It Is a pub lic servant of no- mean value. XO "EASY JOBS" IN his talk before the conference at the Caplto) week Governor Brumbaugh made it quite clear that he expects actual service of all employes of the Commonwealth. It Is his thought that the public service is even more Important than private activities and he Indicated In a rather emphatic way that those attaches who imagined employment on Capitol Hill and elsewhere was simply a leisurely way of making a living would awaken to their mistake should he discover such lapses. However, it is known that the Gov ernor has a high appreciation of the industry and zeal of most of the men who are co-operating with him in the active work of the administration. He doesn't hesitate to commend where commendation is deserved and it is rather remarkable how closely he haß followed the operations of the several departments. Stale Highway Commissioner Cun ningham made a fine impression upon the conference at the Capitol by his practical and commonsense address. He goes right to the meat of things and his familiarity with the highways of the State and with the local condi tions ha* been a matter of surprise to those who have conferred with him on road problems. He paid a high tribute to the engineers when he declared that the success of the department depends solely upon their ability. THE RIVER ROAD ACCIDENT THE accident on the River Road last night, when three speeding 'motorcyclists were injured In collision, was not unexpected. In deed. it is just what everybody famil iar with conditions on that much traveled piece of roadway has long anticipated. The wonder Is that an accident of the kind or even more se rious has not occurred before, j The River Road is used every hour jof the day as a speedway for reckless and irresponsible drivers of automo biles and motorcycles. Automobile racing has not been so much In vogue. It is true, since the State Highway Commissioner and the Motor Club of Harriaburg got on the trail of the of fenders, but the motorcyclists know no limit save the speed of their engines. If drivers of motor driven vehicles refuse to obey the law with respect to speed they must not complain if the Legislature some day requires that no ' machine with a speed limit of more than twenty-five or thirty miles an hour be permitted on the roads. When an aroused public begins to! make reforms It nearly always goes too far. and the motorist is headed in i that direction. The Telegraph's literary contest Is attracting much attention and already the readers of this newspaper are en gaged in a lively search of the classics for the names of authors of quotations which are the basis of the contest. It is strange how many of us are familiar with certain lines, but without knowl edge of their authors. THE CORRECT ATTITUDE" THERE IS at least one moving pic ture house proprietor in Har risburg who has more thought for the kind of films he runs than for the mere money side of his business. Not long since this man booked a film and advertised it. It proved objection able to a large class of his patron?. It was of a character that should never have been passed by the State Board of Censors, which did make many eliminations and changes before It permitted the production to appear in Pennsylvania. When the matter was drawn to the attention of this proprietor he promptly withdrew his advertising and the film is not being shown, although the sacrifice cost him about *SO or more for reel rent and advertising. In this case the proprietor is far less to blame than the State Board of Censors. No film of the character in question should have been approved. When the owner of a moving picture house has no guide for his bookings save the approval of the Censors he should be absolutely guaranteed against any such loss as that to which the in question was put in Har risburg this week. He relies, naturally, upon the board and he should be pro tected. The Telegraph refrainß from using the title of this film lest sonic other less scrupulous proprietor fake ad vantage of the opportunity to produce It for the nickels of the morbidly curious who would be no doubt at tracted. With the railroads turning loose a half million dollars Just before the holi days. Christmas shopping ought to be quite n pleasant little incident of the season for lo«-al merchants. It Is said Uarranza never laughs. Well, being boss of Mexico is no laugh ing matter. Serbian army almost cut off. Sounds like a belated dispatch from Russia. fotittC*. «V . | By a* I Announcement by Senator Boies Penrose that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States recalls the action of Senator M. 8. Quay back in 1896 when he announced that he was a candidate and won the dele gation. Senator P. C. Knox was a can didate in 1908 and he had the dele gation. The announcement from the South that the senator intends to be a candi date, coupled with the general belief that Governor Brumbaugh would he willing to be nominated if the lightning should strike him. makes the situation one of intense interest six months be fore the time for the primaries to be held. If the friends of the Governor decide to make a fight for him it would mean a lively contest, while with the senator In the field as a candidate any opposition would mean a fight for con trol. Events will move pretty fast after the senator returns to this State with the Liberty Bell. By that time the Penrose plans will be announced and the rumored combinations against him will take shape or vanish. The senatorial situation will prob ably come to a head later on. Friends of P. C. Knox are getting very busy all over the State, while, the E. V. BabcocU cohorts are waiting to see what hap pens after Penrose comes home. That Public Service Commissioner Magee will get into the running as a compro mise candidate is doubted here. —Blair county friends of Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust last i night wired him their congratulations on his reappointment. Mr. Foust has long been active in Republican affairs in that county. —Forty judges of election have been haled into court in Philadelphia to ex plain election blunders. I,egal steps were decided upon at a meettng at Chester yesterday to pre vent Mayor-elect W. S. McDowell from taking his seat. The parties inter ested say it was decided to file papers with the courts setting forth the rea sons for their action, based on the ground that the act of 1915 under which McDowell was elected is uncon stitutional, as it deprived any other candidate having his name printed on the official ballot. The right of the four Chester councilmen elect, B. D. bright 'oseph Messick, Charles B. Mould .id John H. Mlrkll, to take their seats will also be contested, the allegation being that they were elected by fraudulent means and contrary to law. Prominent attorneys have been engaged to combat the issue in both instances, and if necessary. It was stat ed by one of the men Interested, It will be taken to a higher court. Mayor William Ward, defeated candidate for council and a former legislator, and »\ illiam T. Fowden. defeated candi date for mayor on the nonpartisan ticket, are active In the movement. —The Franklin party appears to be doing very much as the Keystone and other parties of protest in Philadel phia used to do by pre-empting the name of the party for national and congressional elections. These always look as though the organization was a real strong one and from now on there will be a stream of pre-emptions, ic esterday more were recorded and there will be more to-morrow with much noise by the boosters. —Congressman A. S. Kreider ap pears to be getting around his district a good bit and his fences would seem at this distance to be mighty well put together. He has spoken In all three counties of his district the last few months. The Scranton Republican in a re view of conditions in (he legislative rieiu in Lackawanna county deals with some well-known men this way: "Sen ator W. M. Lynch holds over for an other two years, but the terms of the representatives expire next December, before the convening of the next ses sion. Hush A. Dawson will be a can didate to succeed himself in the Sec ond district. William Luxemberger, Democrat incumbent, will have a hard tight for re-election, as there are sev eral prospective Republicans after the Job in this Republican district, anions them being Captain Jack Jones. Thomas Hart, Republican, of Winton, is one of the mun mentioned as a suc cessor to William Haffgerty, deceased, fourth district. In the Fifth "-.Jones will be opposed for the Republican nomination by George ?u /• Blakely, and In the Sixth John Cook of Old Forge, and David i °. ,7 uy r ' are already out for the Republican nomination. it is thought that Frederic O. Elirhardt representative in the Third district! will not seek re-election. Mr. Ehr hardt has been mentioned as a prob able candidate for sheriff two vears fin!5 Ce '« f sheriff's contest may also find County Treasurer Jacob R Schlager in it. • COM I'KXKATIOX IXSCRAXCE [Philadelphia Bulletin] The State Insurance Fund, organi zed for the more efficient and econo mical application of the new system of compensation for industrial accidents °"f ht approximate as near as pos sible the function of a mutual insur ance company, operating without pro fit. and on such a minimum schedule of rates as shall be sufficient to as sure its solvency, and periodically re turning to its subscribers pro rata such surplus as may be accumulated fund 6 requirements of the reserve Inevitably this will result in com petition with private enterprise en gaged in the field of liability insur ance, but the community and indus tr> were the intended beneficiaries of the compensation laws, rather than 1 the bonding companies, and the State is undertaking no extraordinary or un warranted function in attempting to operate its system of compensation at cost, and without a rake-off. or un necessary carrying charges. Experience in .Massachusetts, where there Is no State lnsnrancetf und, but' a near equivalent n a mutual organi zation sponsored at its commence ment by the State, together with su pervisory and regulatory power over rates of incorporated companies in the hands of the State Insurance Com missioner. thus establishing unifor mity of rates throughout the State, the tendency has been steadily toward reduction in premium rates, demon strating that the cost of the compen sation system may be over-estimated. It may be doubted if the actual cost is greater than the burden of industrial casualties under the old system, although there arc no figures upon which to base accurate compari sons. At least individual employers, who are representative of various in dustries, testify that their costs are not larger. The additional burden comes chiefly upon the minor employ ers, with whom accidents were so in frequent as not to figure in their bud gets, and to whom the cost of insur ance is an extra expense. Yet the time will come when Insurance against casualty loss in industry will be as generally recognized as wise and prop er, regardless of the frequency of acci dents in a particular shop, as fire in surance is now considered a neces sary safeguard against loss. The underlying theory of fire insur ance is that lire loss Is communal, and l hat Its incidence should be widely distributed. A great step forward was taken when It was realized that in dustrial loss was of the same nature and could best be borne in like man lier. ' HARRISSURG TELEGRAPH * 'THE CARTOON OF THE'DAY I NO COLOR LINE HERE. II ■ From the Philadelphia FhrnlnK Ledger, TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"] —lf newspaper pictures are ac curate one wonders who AJ. Davis got a divorce from for the purpose of wedding Eugenia Kelly. —Some women are such inveterate shoppers that they are glad when a tear in husband's coat gives them a chance to go hunting for a sample lo match. • —When that West Shore vision of Mr. Manning comes true the suburbs of Philadelphia better watch their laurels closely. —The prize puzzle of the season is who will win next year's 'peace prize. Hist, now, here's a thought. Perhaps Bryan has his eye on one. —Considering its age and physical infirmities the Liberty Bell is stand ing up pretty well under Its recent dissipations. • —We've been so glad to see the stacks of the local mills puffing again that we haven't the heart to write more "smoke nuisance" editorials. EDITORIAL COMMENT Berlin to Bagdad sounds as good as Cape to Cairo.—Brooklyn Eagle. Constantlne might try sending his hyphen home to her Imperial brother. —Wall Street Journal. Modern War Version.—"He who fights and runs away lives to announce a strategic retreat."—Brooklyn Kagle. If the German-Americans hiss Presi dent Wilson, what would they have done had the Colonel been elected?— Boston Herald. The artist who paints a modern gen eral in the hour of his victory will •have to paint him at the telephone.— Birmingham Age-Herald. Carranza does not care how much religious freedom Mexicans have so long as they do not exercise it openly. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IN THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Japan—Can play any position and makes all the managers nervous. Kussla—A kig fellow, but so slow he has to make a homer in order to get to first. Belgium The innocent spectator who was hit with a foul ball. Turkey—A pitcher who looked easy but who la making a lot of trouble. Uncle Sam—The man who owns the pop, peanut, and refreshment privil ege. War-Correspondents—The men who can't get into the press-stand because the managers have given all the seats to their friends. Czar —The manager with loads of substitutes, but too few regular play ers.—Walter Camp In Collier's Weekly. BY WHAT OTHER MEAN'S? [Kingston (Mo.) Mercury.] At President Wilson's direction, an investigation has been started to find means to prevent a flood of cheap products from Europe on the Amer ican market at the end of the war. Is this an admission of the administra tion that a Free-Trade, open-door policy is dangerous to' this country? By what means other than the Pro tective policy can the end be ob tained? The Incoming Republican administration will know the means and will apply them, as Republican administrations always have. Our Daily Laugh j GETTING MOR* \9iMgJ MONEY. itmmTl \Vvi How will the nations keep up the war when funds run low? Oh, every now \ and then they can declare an //mm armistice for the s / nA benefit of Amerl- / ■ can tourists. * tGOOD IDEA.. more generous with your klaseJ to try to get int« moving picture and I want a lot r r >| THE TYPHOID DETECTIVE By Frederic J. Haskin s TYPHOID fever is like crime, in that it may theoretically be eradicated from human society. If all persons of criminal tendency were hunted out, confined and pre vented from reproducing, and if the condition of poverty and disease which produced them were eliminated, crime would cease to exist. Likewise, if the last elusive typhoid germ could be traced to its ultimate source, and all the unsanitary conditions that bred it removed for all time, there would be no more typhoid. In either case, vigilant police and detective work is the chief requisite. Governments have always hunted criminals systematically, with forces organized for the purpose, but they have Just begun to realize the im portance of hunting and destroying infection in the same way. The United States Public Health Service now has ,a regular typhoid detective force, which devotes itself entirely to the tracing of Infection to its source. In order to prove to the State governments the value of this work, the Public Health Service has now selected in each of nine different States a typical county which is to be entirely freed of typhoid infection. Germ detection is. of course, not a new thing. Doctors and sanatoriums have always attempted to discover the source of infection during epidemics. But this germ detection has now be come a science of recognized methods and remarkable efficiency. The germ sleuths of the Public Service now sel dom fail to find the cause of any epi demic in which their services are re quested by the State authorities. Each of these successes is not only a step toward the elimination of typhoid fever, but a demonstration of how it may be accomplished. Last summer a typhoid epidemic broke out in a western State, fifteen cases developed in a week, the State health authorities asked for federal assistance. Gradually Traced It The stricken community was a rural one composed of well-to-do farmers living in well-built houses upon broad lands. Poverty, dirt and all other disease breeding conditions were apparently lacking. But the de tective found upon Investigation that each of the fifteen persons who first developed typhoid had attended a cer tain picnic. One by one he studied the articles of food that made up the picnic dinner. He traced the good country butter to the cows that yielded HIGH TIME, AND GETTING I.ATI [New York Tribune.] Jfono too soon come the reports from Washington that President Wil son had turned his attention to the manner in which this country is be ing sinned against by the crew of so called diplomatists who have stopped at nothing to injure our neutrality— who are making war in Its most out rageous form upon the government by forgery, dynamite, torch and bribery. Mr. Wilson has had the country be hind him to a remarkable extent. He has perhaps been misled into believing that public sentiment is the sentiment which carries water on both shoul ders. But a much larger number of persons than he has any idea of think It is high time that the President got behind the country. The secret con spirators of foreign lands who aro strongly intrenched in the country, offensively "getting away with it," never halt In their activities and never take time off. They are ut work night and day, surprised at the inefficiency of the United States in protecting its rights. Immunity has made them ■bold. If the President has taken hold and will give close attention to these Im portant matters there yet may be cause for rejoicing that a so-called diplomatic "gang" have been put. aboard ship and their agents put safely away in an Internment camp, say on the Dry Tortugas. GOD I/OOKS TO YOU! Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father,. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founda tion of the world; for I was hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gavo me drink; T was a stranger and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I 'was in prison, and ye came unto me." Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, "Lord, whin saw we Thee an hungered, and fed Thee? or at hirst, and gave Thee drink? And when saw we Thee, a stranger, anil took Thee in? or naked, anil clothed Thee? And when saw we Thee sick or In prison, and <-ame unto Thee?" And the King shall answer and say unto them, "Verily, I say unto you. inasmuch as ye did it unto one of jthese my brethren, even the least, ye [did It unto me." i . NOVEMBER iB, 1915. the milk and the men that cared for them. He considered the possibilities or infection in bread and cider and ' ham and everything else that goes into a country picnfb lunch, but It had all come from kitchens kept by scrupu lously careful housewives where the germ could not possibly Rain a foot hold. Finally, there was nothing left but the lemonade. He found that this had been cooled repeatedly by putting large chunks of ice into the tub where they rapidly melted. This ice came from a pond where It was cut every winter and stored in a typical country icehouse. A glance showed the skilled sanitarian that filth was regularly reaching the pond by seepage, and a test of its water revealed the presence of great numbers of typhoid bacilli. Germ Breeders Many persons who have had ty phoid fever continue to be infection reservoirs for months or even for years afterward. The public health records of Washington describe a man who had typhoid fever eighteen years ago and is still breeding the germs. Such persons are carefully guarded to protect the health of the public. If they will observe all the rules laid down for them, and refrain from coming in contact with food to be eaten by other persons, they need not be closely confined. While most persons cease to breed the germs when they recover from the disease, the present records show that about 3 per cent, of the victims continue to breed them indefinitely. Only the most rigid precautions can keep such persohs from being men aces to public health. Over 30,000 persons die from ty phoid each year and at least 400,000 are incapacitated. Yet it is a pre ventable disease. The county surveys, now being made in nine States, are ex pected to stimulate similar work in all these States. This survey includes a visit to every house and a study of the conditions, regarding water supply, sanitary pro visions, the age of each member of the family, his health record and oc cupation. From these individual re ports the suspicious conditions com mon to the majority can be selected. They are nearly always the sources 'of infection. A campaign of education follows the survey. Charts are issued and stereopticons and moving pictures show the true causes of typhoid, and the methods of prevention. 1 THE STATE FROM W TO DOT Women to the rescue! T. A. Wright, general manager of the Wilkes-Barrc Railway Company yesterday made the statement that "the women will win, the strike," referring to the long drawn out contest between the com pany and the people. The number of women who are returning as pas sengers is daily increasing and a rift in the clouds of discord appears im minent. Bears are getting so plentiful in the Brandy Caanp, Elk county, district, that they are becoming a menace, de clares C. C. McAllister. They are actually becoming so overbearing that they will go into a cornfield, roll over on their backs and break the stalks to get the Juicy ears, causing much damage. A "Hobo Social" was held last, evening in the Seventh Street Luth eran church, of Lebanon, under the auspices of the young people. Each guest was called on to tell a "hobo" story and refreshments were provided in the form of a hand-out from the rear door. The fourteen days' interclass war between the Sophs and Freshies of the University of Pennsylvania came to a close at 5.45 yesterday morning, with the older class being declared the victors. Considerable damage to property resulted in the course of the war, because, let it be known, the annual poster light is no pink tea. Nearly one hundred prominent New York business and professional men Journeyed to Allentown and Mount Airy Tuesday to Inspect Muhlenberg College and the Mount Airy Theologi cal Seminary, in connection with the raising of $500,000 for the institutions under the auspices of the Minlsterlum of Pennsylvania. The pretzel bakers enjoyed their annual banquet at the Halfwav House the other evening, eighteen members of the association being pres icnt. Yes, of course it was in Read ling. lEtottttuj (Ebat Here is the story of the pull of a Telegraph ad. It 1B not often that the Telegraph gets much mention In this column, but thin story is too goou to be forgotten. Not more than a month ago, a man in our town was carrying a suit of clothing to a clean ers. He dropped the vest. When tin cleaner returned the garments tlie vest was missing and the telephone wires curled. Then a hunt was start ed and the Telegraph was called on to help. The advertisement was read by a watchman at the federal build ing. This man had seen a man pick up a vest in front of the jail two weeks before he saw the advertisement. The watchman told the cleaner and the cleaner told the advertiser and the advertiser hunted up the watchman and thon all got Into touch with the n ?? n whom the watchman knew ancl whom he had seen pick up the vest. Ihe .vest was produced, identified and returned. And this is the ad that did I^OST—About two weeks ago, vest ol' blue serge suit on Pine street. Court avenue. Walnut or north Third street between Wal nut and Footer's Dye Store. Re ward if returned to Room 708 Telegraph Building. • ♦ * The deep pools In the Susquehanns just below the dam at Dock street ar« Mecca® for many a lonely fisherman pilgrimage these days. The fighting salmon is in his element there and the fishermen have discovered the fish's loafing places. Scarcely a day pasftes that doesn't mark a dozen boatmen on the surface of the river slowly trolling back and forth across the waters. Some splendid catches Incidentally have been madp thus far although the record fish for weight and size was-* landed by Deputy -Sheriff Virgil B. Kennedy. His fish weighed nine and a half pounds and N measured twenty nine inches In length. * » • Cottontails appear to have become numerous with the recent touch of frost and have been cavorting about Reservoir park and in fields near th« city as though they had a very pool idea of the skill of Harrisburg gunner: or did not know the dates on which they may be shot at. Yesterday or trips to Rockville and Dinglestown car operatives told of seeing the ani mals in the fields. Along about "E o'clock last evening several met equipped for gunning met in Market Square. They were on the way home and there was not a rabbit anion? them. But an hour later a gunnel leading three dogs arrived from th« I Cumberland Valley with a dozen bun nies. Senator Joseph 11. Thompson, o! Beaver Falls, who was here yesterday is having somewhat., of a hard tinu with business just now. He is an otO football player and takes such a big Interest in the sport in the Fall that he has to pay his visits to the depart ments at the Capitol in the middle of the week. * * • It is likely that within a short time the first anouncement can be made of the installation of traveling libraries in school buildings about the city. The plan is being worked out by Miss Alice R. Eaton, the librarian of the Harris burg Public Library, and Superintend ent F. E. Downes, of the city's it is astonishing the interest that, is Be ing taken in the matter. ¥ELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —E. V. Babcock, the Pittsburgh lumberman, is said to be heavily in terested in new steel mergers. —lvy L. Lee has gone to Colorado to make some Investigations. —President J. W. A. Haas, of Muh lenberg College, is interesting many former students in.the work of his col lege. —Congressman A. G. Dewalt is planning a series of speeches through out his district this winter. —Captain B. Tappan, U. S. N., well known here, has been, ordered hom« from the Philippines. 1 DO YOU ENOV "1 That Harrisburg tin is used in ware sold iu the Far East? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —-The first legislature met here 101 years ago. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR The three years following the Civil War, 1865-66 and 67, included a pe riod of recovery and reconstruction and business, according to present day standards, was In 'most lines poor. Prices of the leading commodities were at a high point during 1865, but suffer ed a sharp decline in the two years following, and, as payments were reck oned in a depreciated paper currency, merchants' operations were very con servative. In addition, tho benefits of the new National Bank system were not yet felt to any great extent and, as credit was difficult to obtain, the bulk of business was transacted or. a cash basis. Another important fac tor tending to restrict the volume of sales of manufactured goods, was the comparatively modest scale of living of the people, thousands of articles which are now regarded as absolutely necessary, being then unknown or impossible of attainment by the aver age person. In the South, for the three years fol lowing the war. trade was practically dead. There was little money In cir culation and conditions were only par tially relieved by the raising of cotton, lack of fertilizers and labor enhancing the cost and keeping down the vol ume' of production. In consequence, the majority of the population were compelled to subsist on what they could produce, and the demand for merchandise was of very moderate di mensions. In the North, conditions were bet ter because of the disbandment of thd armies. The return' of many skilled mechanics to the workshops and bench gave an Impetus to manufacturing, and while demand for the merchandise produced was at first slow, it was on a steadily ascending scale. This re sulted in an Improved sentiment and encouraged merchants to branch ou\, un<l while at no time business could bo called active, a foundation was laid for the return to normal trade.—Dun's Review. \ The "1 Have It" Store The man who keeps the "I HAVE IT" store always has his car to the ground. He tries to know in advance what the public Is going to want. He listens to salesmen and he watches his home newspaper. Wheti he sees a product adver tised In his newspaper he knows people will naut that. He puts the newspaper adver tised goods in his window and says to all who pass by " 'I HAVE IT," come In." And people come.
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