8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established tSjl PUBLISHED BY THE TGLIDGIUPH PRIKTINQ CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phonei. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of . Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building', Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. 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. Iworii dall; average circulation for the three months ending Nov. 30, 11)15. Average for the year 1914 Average for the year 1913—19.®*' Average for the year 1912—1»««| Average for the year 1011— f",™ Average for the year 1910— lfl.Sal The above figures are net. All re turned. untold and damage# copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 4 A more glorious victory cannot be pained over another man than this — that, when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.—Tillotson. MARKET STREET SUBWAY IN the matter of the proposed new Market street subway there is prac tically no opposition from any source. This subway has been so ob viously a municipal blunder front the \ ery beginning that a remedy was bound to come and the time is now liere to correct the mistake of yettrs ago. Through the co-operation of the «'lty Planning Commission, the City • 'ounell and the authorities of the Pennsylvania Railroad an agreement upon plans for an adequate subway ought to be a comparatively easy mat ter within the next few weeks. Under present conditions the passage under the railroad Is a positive menace to life, aside from any other consideration. Tt is fortunate that there has not been more serious accidents at that point. The proposed plan of a subway similar to the admirable treat ment of the railroad cross ing at Mulberry and Second streets seems to be generally accept able and as the consequential dam ages will be more than equalled by the resultant benefits to the abutting prop erty, the early days of the new year should see the undertaking started. It is probable that the existing passage will facilitlate operations and avoid the delays that would have followed the construction of an entirely new subway at that point. Care mult be exercised, of course, that so important a passage way as that proposed is designed to meet the requirements of many years to come. Market street will always be an im portant highway and it will be readily understood that the correction of the present difficulties will be shaped to meet conditions a generation hence. A reconstruction of the subway at Market street will mean improved trolley service to the Allison Hill dis trict and Steelton, and will cut down the cost of Urayagc and the delays resulting from the present congested conditions. It will also give a better outlet to the Lebanon Valley. It must be conceded that the laws for the protection of wild life are begin ning to show results. This year tin; hunters report abundant game, from squirrels to deer, and with the co-op eration that hunting associations and protectlvo organizations are giving the State Oanie Commission the future promises still better results througn the propagation of game and the pro tection of the forest reserves. CO-OPERATIVE ADVERTISING IN the past year or more the Tele graph has had the pleasure of be ing the instrument through which a number of new and somewhat novel co-operative advertising plans have been placed before the people. The first of these was the "Go-to-Church" campaign of the associated churches, the second the insurance advertising of the Central Pennsylvania Associa tion of Life Underwriters, now run ning, and the third Is the co-operative and collective advertising of the Up town Merchants' Association, the ini tial publication of which appeared yes terday. The appearance of this class of advertising is significant or the new attitude of businessmen toward fach other, and it is indicative of a movement destined, beyond doubt, to Play a large part In the advertising of he future. Cut-throat competition Is giving way to co-operative develop ment. This does not mean that the unquestioned benefits of fair compe tition are to be abandoned for mono polistic methods and uniform prices, but that competition Is to be made •econdary to service, and at the same time be placed on the high plane of personal salesmanship. These pioneers in co-operative ad vertising point the way to others who have a common commodity or service lo sell, but who find it impossible to advertise on a scale sufficiently ex tensive to bring their propositions vromlnently and Impressively before SATURDAY EVENING, the public. How the life agents solv ed their problem may give others a hint. ' The association was organized with Harrlsburg as the center In March, 1912. It had a small beginning, but It has steadily increased until at the present time the Harrlsburg mem bership alone is «nlrty-onc. The steady increase in the membership in itself is evidence of the fact that the association is worth while. It has brought the life insurance men in close contact with each other, and a spirit of co-operation and coniidence has been created which is beneficial to the insurance men and the public alike. The latter receive their beneilt ; through the better methods which are ' now being employed in the solicitation | of life insurance and in the appllca- I tion of the benefits of life insurance jto the community. Perhaps additional j credit can be given to the body of I insurance men who now comprise the ! association when it is remembered that they are engaged in a business which has heretofore been extremely competitive in its methods. Many of the members could not afford to advertise in a big way. Their advertising appropriations were not sufficient individually either to hire the services of skilled copy writers or to buy space in large quantities. So they pooled their funds, each con tent to take his chances with his fel lows in procuring his share of the business created by the joint effort. The idea is not only new, but it is proving successful. The likelihood is that it will be widely copied. IIARRI3BURG REM. ESTATE IT ought to be clear to the average citizen that Harrlsburg is upon the verge of another big forward movement in its development. While a large improvement program was practically concluded with the work of the present year, there is much yet to be done and a general disposition among the people to do It. The results of the three campaigns of the last fif teen years have proven so satisfactory to all the people that plans for the future expansion of Uarrisburg are receiving city-wide attention. Owing to the somewhat depressed industrial and commercial market for several years the real estate develop ment has been arrested to some ex tent, but notwithstanding the deter rent conditions a number of promi nent builders have continued their ac tivities and in a proper spirit have met the requirements of the city's growing population. Basing * their plans upon more active business In 1916 real estate interests are prepar ing for the expansion that is certain fo come. It Is said that large tracts of vacant laud are to be improved and that the opening and improvement of streets will provide further opportuni ties for building in all parts of the city. It is fortunate that the City Plan ning Commission must now pass upon all plans for the development of new tracts and this fact will safeguard the city from serious blunders of former years. Up to a comparatively recent period it was the custom of owners of vacant land to open streets and alleys and establish building lines without very much regard to the contiguous territory and the result was lament able to the last degree. The situation was accentuated by still more care less development in the suburban dis tricts and Harrlsburg has paid the price for permitting adjacent terri tory to grow up in haphazard manner when it was evident that such districts were destined to be annexed to the city. It is also a favorable Indication of better conditions that the real es tate Interests are themselves awaken ing to the Importance of concerted and Intelligent co-operation. The organi zation of the Harrlsburg Real Estate Board is a step in the right direction and this board, co-operating with the City Planning Commission, can do much to remedy serious defects of the city's development in the past. That a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump is manifest In the fine spirit of co-operation which is now shown in all the towns along the West Shore. More power to the live wires of those communities who are now closing up their ranks with a view to standing shoulder to shoulder for everything which will contribute to the welfare and prosperity of the attractive sunset section fronting Harrisburg. NUTCRACKERS "> AMONG the attractive novelties displayed to catch the eye of the Christmas shopper is a new kind of nutcracker. It consists of a hard wood dish with a metal pedestal in the center and a metal hammer of pretty design completes the outfit. Doubtless it will decorate the holiday tables of hundreds of homes, but for general efficiency, effectiveness and guaranteed satisfaction it has nothing, absolutely nothing, on the old-fashioned llatiron, supplemented by a hammer from father's workbench. Remember It? Of course you do! It was in the .dead of winter. The winds were tuning up for an all-night serenade about the chimney tops and loosely hung windows and shutters rattled a'protesting accompaniment. The kitchen stove was hot to the point of redness and the family gathered about basked drowsily within its tropic radius. Somebody suggested nuts, and then It was that the old flatlron came into its own. We say THE old flatlron, for, if you remember, there was only one of the half-dozen going to make up the family Ironing kit that mother would permit to be submitted to the indignities ordinarily Imposed upon an anvil. The modus operandi was simple. Tou turned it upside down, gripped the handle firmly between your knees and exposed Us face, marred and scarred from many conflicts of nut find hammer, and went to work. To be sure, you sometimes pounded your fingers and wanted to say things that would have broken up the family gath ering in a second if you had, and sometimes the nut, instead of breaking, simply cracked and closed up again with a piece of tender flesh chewed to a blister on the Inside; but withal It was a pleasant pastime and con ducive to philosophical meditation of a homely sort. You reflected, for In ! stance, as you pounded away In an I effort to keep ahead of the family's .consumptive power so that you might j pause in your labors for a share In the spoils you, were laying bare; you re flected, we say, on the folly of making itlie butternut nearly all shell and so I little meat, upon the mistake of nature ' in Browing so many common hickory ' trees and so few sliellbarks and upon I the awful greediness of little brother who always selected the big kernels easy to pick from the shell and left the little, hard-to-get pieces for you. In those days we gathered our own supply of nuts and ate them in the kitchen. To-day we buy them at the grocer's and wo eat. them around the dining-room table. Then we ate them by the half-peck, now by the half dozen. Maybe the new way is the bet ter way, but It is hard to believe that any newfangled, hardwood and silver contrivance will ever enshrine the memories of the old flatlron that still stands on the kitchen mantle be tween the clock and the candlestick In the little home just around the corner on the Road to Yesterday. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —The Ford party is olt —in more senses than one. —Tt looks as though Ford might stall his engine most any minute. —Says the Star-Independent: "When Uncle Henry Houck wants a rest he goes over to Camp Hill." The very idea, implying that a brisk young chap like Uncle Henry occasionally needs a rest! —The appearance of some of the store windows indicates that Santa Claus has Japanese sympathies. —Captain Boy-Ed will soon find how tt is to have somebody plotting ugainst his life—it is said he will be sent into active service when he goes back to Germany. —We won't feel positive that the holidays are approaching until we see the Christmas trees piled high In Mar ket Square. —Every Congressman is confident that river and harbor Improvement should be extensively curtailed—ex cept In his own district. —Colonel Roosevelt -says he will not be the Republican candidate for Presi dent next year. Upon mature reflec tion we are inclined to agree with him on that. EDfTORIAL COMMENT Illinois is congratulating itself upon getting through the hunting season with only fifty-nine dead and sixty-six injured, whereas that of last year pro duced 273 casualties, one hundred and eleven of which were deaths. —Wll- liamsport Sun. If wo go in for preparedness, let us remember that the Gorman Government also prepares against factory fires and Eastland disasters. New York Even ing Post. We see by the paoers that almost sixty towns elected Republican coro ners as a stainging rebuke to the Ad ministration's handling of the Mexican situation.—Columbia State. The Smith family is coming into its own. One has been appointed to a position in the British Cabinet, another has been elected Sheriff of New York county, and another Mayor of Philadel phia. When the Smiths come to the top we may be sure that the drift is toward conservatism.—Brooklyn Eagle. | THE STATE FROM m TO DM The people of Bucks County marry young, if we are to judge front the ages of those who took out licenses in that county during the month of No vember. Forty-eight were issued, and over one-half of the men were be tween 21 and 25 years of age. Twen tyjK)nc of the brides held positions and one-sixth of the parents of appli cants were born abroad. Miss Jennie Frontal, of Chester, refused to be kissed at a kissing game held at a masquerade party early in November and the peeved youngster who was refused the kiss pushed her a little too roughly into the next room. Now he is worried for fear the re sulting fall which she had may have 'caused her death yesterday, hut phy sicians say It was due to typhoid. Ten Holstein-Friesian cows at a sale in New Castle this week brought $1,073, which borders on a record price. The highest price paid for one cow was $l7O. State College has instituted the | wearing of the regulation olive drab uniform, replacing the blue suits now worn by the student regiment at that institution. It is estimated that five dollars will be saved on each suit, and they will be more suitable for military field operations. Governor Brumbaugh's selection of Charles H. Young as referee for the Workmen's Compensation Bureau in the district about New Castle has elic ited an outburst of joyous approbation from that section. If the ap pointee's findings and decisions, when the law is put Into operation, are on a par with the reception which his appointment got, there will be no criti cism of the Governor. The recently organized "Upper Lip Club" in Farreil does not seem to have smboth sledding. Many have already fallen from grace and the fines are mounting up. Pride is evidently worth money. Mayor-elect Smith, of Philadelphia, proves himself a man and not a hot house plant when he decides to do away with the unnecessary bodyguard which has been an adjunct to the may oralty for time out of mind. He Is to be congratulated upon his display of good common sense. The light snow that prevailed the other morning brought delight to the Mexican school teachers who are visit ing Philadelphia to study the system lof education In vogue there. Snow is a novelty to the visitors, so they in dulged themselves, while they had the chance, in tasting the flakes and pelt ing each other with snowballs, to the delight of dignified onlookers. FICKLK I'OUTI'NE A poker and bridge, young man, A taxicab. younß- man. But fortune Is tickle: L.ost all but a nickel A "pay-as-you-enter." young mail. —DoWolf Hopper. HAKRISBURG t£3fjS& TELEGRAPH ; ~ "1 ~~ T>oOttc* Lk I By the Ex-Committf«>m*B More votes were cast on each of the four proposed amendments to tlie Constitution of Pennsylvania at the recent election than were cast when the constitution was ratified at the spe cial election of December 16, 1873. In the case of the woman suffrage amendment more than twice as many votes were cast as on the question of adoption of the document. The figures compiled at the oftiee of the Secretary of the Commonwealth show that 826,332 votes were cast on the woman suffrage amendment. The vote on the adoption of the constitu tion in 1873 was 362,338 of which 253,744 were for ratification. The vote last month on the second amendment, which was the Philadelphia debt question, aggregated 552,192; on the third, which enables the Legislature to pass laws to make workmen's com pensation compulsory, there were 661,303 votes cast and on the fourth amendment, relative to real estate conveyances, 532,253. Until this year the highest number of votes ever cast on an amendment was 559,477 on the proposed road loan In 1913, which was defeated. —Democrats of the counties in the Ninth internal revenue district are taking a tremendous Interest in the developments in the Davis charges in which the Lancaster reorganizer is accused of violating some federal statutes. Incidentally the Lancaster Democrats are showing signs of a real old-fashioned tight over the matter. ■ —Attacks on the small council sys tem are being made in Pittsburgh where Ex-Mayor Magee and Mayor Armstrong are quoted as against the system. Nothing seems to suit the Pittsburgh leaders as a system of gov ernment. It Is only a few years since the whole system was changed. They are as tired of it now as are some of the third class cities of the commis sion form of government which they so heartily advocated two years ago. —W. H. Deppen is to become deputy treasurer of Northumberland county. He is well known here. —The recent Democratic mayoralty vote in Philadelphia is said to have been the smallest known in years. There are suspicions that the re organization element voted with the Franklin party in order to make the vote small and thus furnish a chance for some machine tactics against the Philadelphia Old Guard. —Ex-President T a ft's visits throughout the State are commencing to attract attention. He says that lie enjoys being able to speak his mind, but the people are showing consider able interest in what he says. —B. Frank Ruth, Reading council man, is a candidate for national dele gate to the Progressive national con vention from the Berks-Lehigh dis trict. Ruth was a Roosevelt dele gate in 1912. —Recommendation that Mayor Blankenburg be censured by the court "for everstepping the privileges of Ills office in ordering police into polling places on the last election day, in violation of the letter and spirit of the Shern law" was made yesterday by the Philadelphia November grand jury In its presentment to Judge Carr. Charges by the mayor and others con nected with his administration that as sistance was forced on thousands of voters, were investigated by the Grand Jury, with the result that it was found that election officers had performed their duties properly. —Reuben B. Kayser has been ap pointed mercantile appraiser of Mont gomery county. —The expense account for Judge Criswell, of Venango, chows expendi ture of SII,OOO. —Warrants for arrest of forty more men for election frauds were ordered issued by District Attorney Jackson in the upheaval of Pittsburgh politics which has been going on for some time. The threat to clean up politics seems to have been made good by Jackson. —Some big expense accounts are being filed throughout the State. In Luzerne county it seems that candi dates spent over $60,000, while in Schuylkill their bills ran up to about *50,000. —Congressman Thomas S. Butler, chairman of the Republican delegation from Pennsylvania to-day issued a call for a meeting of the Keystone State men at Washington next Monday morning before the organization of the House. This meeting will elect, its officers for the coming session and select the Pennsylvania member of the Republican Congressional commit tee. The Republican delegation is the largest in recent years. There were twelve Democrats in the House front Pennsylvania in the last session. Their number was reduced to six in the No vember election in 1914, giving the Republicans 30 of the 36 members. Pennsylvania holds the banner for Republicanism. "The time has come when Pennsylvania members of Con gress should work for Pennsylvania legislation," said Mr. Butler. "Legis lation desired by Pittsburgh should I interest Philadelphia members just as t much as if a distinct Philadelphia ! measure was pending. In other words, I propose to sound at this meeting a new keynote, a stand-toijetlier spirit for Pennsylvania. We shall invite the Democrats to co-operate and political lines will be forgotten, except when partisan bills are under discussion." —After conferring with a number of Organization leaders, Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith announced yester day at Philadelphia that his cabinet is practically complete, with the ex ception of the office of Director of City Transit. but that the names would not be made public before Tues day of next week. Mr. Smith expects to go to Washington to-day to attend a dinner in honor of Congressman elect Isaac Baclvaraeh, of Atlantic City and will return to the city either Mon day or Tuesday. Xot only has the Mayor-elect selected five of the six di rectors who will sit in his cabinet, but he lias chosen their assistants also. The list selected, however, he an nounced. may be subject to changes, before it is made public. These changes, the Mayor-elect declared, would not be due to any political rea sons. —Sheriff-elect L. A. Nagle an nounced yesterday at Norristown that he would reappoint W. W. Owen and William H. Fox deputies and name Theodore Lane Bean solicitor in place of Thomas Uallman, serving under Sheriff Schwartz. ENORMOUS GROWTH OF THE R. F. 1». SERVICE [From the Christian Herald.] It may be of incidental interest to mention that since the beginning of the rural delivery service in ISH6, when there were eighty-seven routes. the number has Increased until In 1911 there were 43,652. for the maintenance of which the Government expended $47,377,070 as against $14,840 in 1896 and there has been notable Increase *n these llgures in 1915. There has also been a gradual increase of salary until to-day the maximum salary is f1,200 per annum as against »300 at the be ginning of the service. The routes, of course, greatly vary in their character istics. some being along macadam roads, through densely populated sec tions requiring numerous stops, and some through sparsely settled regions THE CARTOON OF THE DAY A PLACE IN THE STAR Lest We Forget —Baltimore American. r i THE MEXICAN MUDDLE Carranza's Army By Frederic J. Haskin I J DEL. RIO, Texas, lies outside tho zone of the bandit war. Lower down the Rio Grande Valley the Mexicans do not wander alone through the unsettled country unless tired of life. Here they come from Old Mexico, a mile away, to attend the moving picture show. Even the passage of C'arranza's army caused only mild excitement, though it was the greatest event of months. This was the army which was sent through United States territory to re enforce the Carranza garrison at- Agua Prleta, • opposite the American town of Douglas. It gave many Americans, even here on the border, their first opportunity to see a Mexican army. The sight was calculated to surprise any one whose idea of soldiery was gained in Europe or the United States. These Carranza men have proven again and again that they are high class irregular troops. The spectator's first thought, however, is that they are very irregular indeed. The only uniform among the privates is a whitish and much faded cotton khaki. Comparatively few boast even this. More common is the blue denim jumper and overalls which the west ern American associates with the idea of a section gang. All the men wear one form or another of the soft felt hat. Around the brim of this is a faded and weatherbeaten ribbon printed with the name of the wearer's regiment. For instance "24 Bataillon de Sonora." The faces of these motley, clad privates will satisfy the most" exacting idea of a soldier. They are lean and hardened by wind and weather, keen-eyed and savage. These troops were selected from the best of Carranza's men, and were made up chietly of those with a large proportion of Indian blood. Many of them were pure Yaquis. They were not of the type which the American is accustomed to think of as Indian. Their faces are brown rather than red, broad and flat in shape, with a wisp of coarse black mustache of which the possessor is apt to be excessively proud. The army stood up well under the discomforts of travel. Jammed in the over rough and hilly ground. The Post Office Department is wrest ling with many problems affecting this service, one of which is that of equal izing - the work performed for a given salary. The service in the aggregate distributes annually over 3,000,000,- 000 pieces of mail, varying in weight from a fraction of an ounce to fifty pounds, and this enormous total is handled pra> th-ally right at the homes of more than 20,000,000 people In coun try districts. 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOIT AMKHICA, rKACEMAKKIt To the Uditor of the Telegraph: After the war what? Most likely a defensive alliance for all the Euro pean States will be the outcome of this last great war among them. A certain section of these warring na tions who trusted in the power of might to conquer and rule all the world, as well as the remaining ones who believed only less in the power of arms and armament, will thus be led to see that the brotherhood of man is the basic principle of all permanent peace. Awful as the present experience of Europe Is, it has probably hastened by hundreds of years the universal ac knowledgment and adoption of the principle that right, not might, is the best law for the welfare of nations. Then why prolong (a year's carnage has been decisive of nothing) an un necessary and useless conflict, that can only result in the exhaustion of these self-same Powers and the century long misery of the great masses of all these peoples? If a new Hague con ference were to sit continuously until the peoples of these countries com ?' elled their rulers to submit their dlf erences to its decision, peace might come sooner than anyone would im agine. What greater role could America have than to be the first to take this decisive step, and work for it incessantly until Its fulfillment came? Yours very truly. F. U FISHBAUGH. 011. stay a little, stay! Why do you hurry sot Joys lie along the way That you ne'er again may know; The grave is at the end Of the way that you are taking— Oh, stay a little, friends, And soothe some heart that's aching— Why do you hurry sot —S. E. Kiser. DECEMBER 4, 1915. lons cars like sardines in a box, such of tliem as could squeeze their way to the windows grinned cheerfully at the American Mexicans who gathered to see them pass. Every Mexican in the neighborhood had come to the railroad station, where they crowded around the trains as closely as the guard of American soldiers would permit. The interest they showed, however, was born merely of curiosity. There was no sympathy manifested with the cause for which these men were fighting'. One large and corpulent American Mexican stood out in the sun shouting, 'V'iva Carranza" at the top of his voice. Occasionally he varied this by bellowing: "Quien vive?" and loudly answering himself "Carranza." Ho gathered quite a crowd, who regarded his performance in the light of an en tertainment. Many of the native Mexicans, more practical-minded, opened their little stands for the sale of candy and fruit. They did a rush ing business. When the troops en trained at Kagle Pass, each man was given a dollar in American money. This was expected to supply him with food until he reached Douglas. A good many of those dollars stayed in Del Rio. The troops bought pop-corn and .crackerjack like children at a country fair. The Carranza men were not allowed to get out of their train. Two United States troopers guarded each door, but their efforts were chiefly directed toward keeping the crowd from climb ing on board. The soldiers bought their food through the windows. The Carranza soldiers ranged In age all the way from boys of sixteen and seventeen to gray-headed men. Scat tered through the cars were numbers of boys even younger, but these were said to belong to the camp-followers. The average age of the Mexican troops was well over thirty. In this they form ed a striking contrast to their guard of United States regulars, most of whom were still in the twenties. In point of appearance, discipline and in telligence, however, the Americans were so far above their charges from across the Rio Grande that comparison is hardly possible. Our Daily Laugh blued carpet sweeper and talk- '• | " PROOF. 1/ What makes J ll' vegetarian ? hie cigars. A < (> VI'HI IH 'I'ION By \Vln«r Dinger I've a friend who wrote some poetry ■ And submitted It to nie, Which by publishing below, friend, I am passing on to thee. "In the dim pale gray of morning, When the chilly zephyrs play Through the sheets and likewise blankets— Then you wish that it was day. "Liong you squirm and huddle closer To yourself and all the while You are hoping, you are praying With a melancholy smile. "That some one with human feeling And a philanthropic mind Will come in and close the window, But that one you never nnd, "Man is weak and heavy-laden. But when all is done and said. Why don't you put on a bathrobe Just before you jump in bed?" Author of these verses, hear me, That's the curse of single life. At my home the open window ! Is closed by the kid or wif« Ebening CEhat "Two years ago stocking facto rk-« were begging for orders," said a woi ried-looklng stranger In a downtown hotel yesterday, "and to-day 1 can't place a single order at fancy prices for immediate delivery. 1 have re quests for 100,000 dozen of army gray socks, of varying sizes, either all wool or part wool, and I can't find anybody to do the work. Ido not ask the ordi nary market price. Indeed, I am ready to pay a premium, but there is no- I body I know of, and I have been all over Pennsylvania, who will book my order or even a quarter of it. They say the wool market is too high and uncertain to take any chances. Glove makers are in the same boat. I am ready to contract for the manufacture of 600,000 dozen pairs of gauntlets, with' thumb and forelinger, all wool, and there is nobody to take the order. If you know of a stocking manufac turer or a glovemaker who wants work, lead me to him, and you won't have to worry about your Christmas money." » • » Demands for blanks and forms on which to transact business with the State Workmen's Compensation and State Insurance Fund Bureaus have far outrun the supply available and hurry-up orders have been> given tlio printers so that everyone affected by the new laws when they go into effect on January t may be able to com municate with the bureaus. Judging from the mail which is being received at the offices, many people are Just waking up to what the new laws mean and are striving to make their ar rangements in a hurry. The demands made for the blanks are in many caseu out of all proportion and some of them have hud to be cut down. Few of the applicants for forms and blanks ask for less than twenty-five at a time. In addition there are all sorts of re quests for information about the new system, with the result that the post age bills of the bureaus have been soaring. The bureau in charge of the en forcement of the child labor law will start to send out. its blanks about the middle of the month and big orders for its printing are being pushed through at the State printery. « » a State game wardens are having their annual troubles with the courts and the Attorney General's department is arranging to have attorneys look after the interests of the State where judges have turned prisoners loose after they have been convicted of violations oC game laws. Some instances have been reported where release orders have been issued after magistrates had im posed sentences of a day for each dol lar of tine and costs unpaid. In these cases a reopening of the case will be asked on the ground that it affects public policy. « • • The curious yellow chalk marks that, have decorated downtown streets for the past few days have puzzled many pedestrians. They have appeared In the forms of-squares, oblongs, circles and Irregular figures. A group of curious ones near the old Post Office corner at Walnut and Court streels yesterday morning walclied a man behaving most curiously. First lie studied the asphalt most carefully for many feet around. Then, quickly and certainly, he stooped and began his work with the chalk, drawing all man ner of apparently meaningless signs. "Say, who are you, anyway?", one o; the group managed to muster up cour age to ask. "Who? Me?" came tlia counter-interrogation. "Oh, I'm a Highway Department inspector. I'inj marking off places for the attention of the repair gang." « * * A round of visits to the city markets affords an Interesting Illustration of wljether the farmers arc using auto mobiles. In place of rows of farm wagons, mud-stained and more or less showing signs of wear and tear, there are to be seen numerous automobiles, some of them rigged up with market wagon bodies, bat others which are plain pleasure vehicles turned into basket carriers. • * • Dr. Moses Stearn, who is exciting interest in Philadelphia just now be cause he thought he was going with the Ford party, is not unknown to Harrisburg. The doctor has been a perennial candidate for something or other and ever since it became neces sary to tile nominating petitions for Congress at the Capitol he has been "running." He has been a candidate on several tickets not sponsored by mpny people. One year ho ran as "Liberal Sunday" candidate and camo back two years later as the candidate of the Stearn party. He came here one year to tile hts petitions and edi iied the Capitol attaches by original views on politics. When asked what he thought of the Capitol he said ho would like to have his office there. Dr. Charles B. Penrose, who was elected a member of the Park Com mission in Philadelphia yesterday, is chairman of the State Game Com mission and one of the best known of the big game hupters of the State. It is said that he has hunted in every county in Pennsylvania even in rural Philadelphia. The doctor is a brother of the Senator. WELL tCNQVN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. M. IT. Stlne.' of Leb anon. formerly in this city, will accept a pastorate in Wilmington. —M. M. Cochran, head of the asso ciation formed by Thompson creditors, is a wealthy coal operator. Wilfred Powell, retiring British consul at Philadelphia, will leave for England in a few days. —Senator William E. Crow has been elected president of the Fayette County Bar Association. DO YOU KNOW That Horrlsburg is mighty well provided with lire escapes on its industrial buildings? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first courthouse was opened for business about 1795. Service The Foundation "If we can serve the public bet ter than our competitors we need not worry aboyt proflts, the pub lic will be only too anxious to reward us." Such is the motto of one of the world's great merchants. He advertises In newspapers because he believes that to be part of his better service. The newspapers that carry his advertising are at the same time performing a distinct service to their readers in giving this In formation. Newspaper advertising is one of the most important arms of
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