10 H ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH KrfeMi>»«4 rt|i PV»U«HKD nt INK TRIKOMAPM CHUtTIXI CO. K. J. PTACKPOLR *V»>t Jr*t ft H4Urrim-Ckul r. n OTrrrn fei-retary OUI M PTKINMI.TZ BJile* Pufcllshert every evening (except Sun dsv > st the Telegraph Building. Jt« Federal square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers Association. Audit ftura.iu of Clrculstlen and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Fsetern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. \.» York City. Ilashrook. gtory A Brook*. Western Ofric* Advertising Mulldlnr. Cbleave. 111., Hobsrt E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at ' cent* a week, "'la" Malted to subscribers at ft.eo a year in advance. Filtered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Fa., as second clas» matter. mnnlk. estlsg Nov. SO, IIMR Average for the year It»t«—*'-125 Average for Ike year —"•*' Average f»r Ike year I*l2 Average fee Ike yea. '•"■"'''J' Average fer Ike year 181 • 1 •..«1 Tke abate ggnres are aet. All re faraeg. aasatd aa< gaatageg roeles ge laettA TI WIIAV EVENING. DIXT. 51. The only difference het\r*rn a rut irnf a prtite it it* depth: one trho t* i« a rut fang enmiph trill mon find himmif is a grave. —Rev. Dr. Nehe-j aiiah Boynton. i iii: -II \RI»MKAMIU.E" VIEW THE exhibit of the findings of the vlewn* In the condemnation of the "Hardscrabble"district brings .hat long desired Improvement to the Inal steps of the legal procedure 'ececsfrj to the opening of Front «treet and the completion of the river wall and steps. By April 1, It la ex »f. ted, the citv will be ready to begin he removal of buildings ami the treat ment of the park slope. With *uch an experienced and fair minded hand at the heltti as that of City Solicitor Daniel 8 Helti, the in- ; tere»ta of the property owners are safe. The lity has no dcalre to take advan tage of anybody and all of the owners may reft assured that they will be allowed every penny that the law will P* rjr.lt up to the full valuation of their properties. It Is unfortunate that, under the law of I*7l. the city Is not permitted to recompense residents of the districts for hualneaaej blotted out, but on the other hand It mu*t be remembered that these enterprises were developed with a full knowledge of the court's rulings and a realisation that even tually the city would require the land It Is now about to take. It Is a pity, too, that several home steads must go before the sweep of progress, but the Rood of the whole must always he considered above that of the few. The Improvement of the Capitol ex tension lone haa been frought with many auch instances of business place* wiped out and homesteads condemned. Hut the old must always give way to the new and the remaking of a city necessarily Is accomplished by hard ship for some. Tho best that can be done Is to treat everybody as gen i rously as may be. with resort to the < ourts only where the -Itv and the owner cannot come to an agreement. The city's bond Is good and no time should be lost In giving the property holders this form of protection. Since the land and houses of the "Ilard scrahhle" district are to be taken over, the more quickly the transaction 1* • ompleted with Justice to all, the bet ter for everybody concerned. THK STORY TKI.LEHs" CM 11 THAT was U pretty tribute to the gradousness of the yuletide sea son which the Rtory Tellers' t'lub paid on Saturday when Its mem bers entertained the school children of the city with Christmas stories at the Technical High school. The en tertainment cost considerable effort and much preparation and the mem bers gave freely of their time and talent at a period of the year when most of them are unusually busy. They had their reward In the Interest ••f the little folks who came out In large numbers deaplte the Inclement weather and In the delight they dis played In the various numbers of tho program. To Instill Into the young mind tove «.f good literaluri la to teach the first steps of good 'llsenshlp. flood books guide the youthful mind aright and keep It from the pitfalls of evil pub- Illations. Tin imagination I* stimu lated by wholesome fiction and a knowledge of good English Is to be sained therefrom. The Story Tellers' club la oiovlng In the right direction. The parents of the city owe It a vote of (hanks out I 0111 H.V MIDDLE TltE muddle of our foreign affairs grows worse and Wor*e. Once wa had an International policy; now tbs term must he uaed In tha plural, for the mind that Is guiding affairs at Washington changes over night and what was law una day la fussed Into ths discard for some new luncy the next. With the I.ualtanla Incident loat In a flurry of worda reuniting In neither honor not aatlafactlon to the United Htatag; with • truckling policy toward nertnany and a neuter policy toward Kim la id and Prance. and with no end In eight of the nuuieroua notea that TUESDAY EVENING, hav* flitted intermittently W*wn Bwlln ami Wsahlngton. Secretary iljnilni has •dilrfmit a not* to Aua- I trla that amount* to llttl* I*** than jan ultimatum Vienna muat be punM Indeed. for what la foo«t for th* Inter- I national gooae I* by no mean* food for [the camlet. Herman)' may do with | Impunity what Au*trla I* called sharply to account for doing. To the ordinary J ohaerver tha Ancona note appear* to have been written In vlgoroua language with the hope of rehabilitating the ; national administration at home In the opinion of the voter*; not forgetting i iliat the President la to he a candidate for re-election next year. ' Ahout all that can l<* said In favor of the relation* of our government with nation* abroad I* that we have avoided actual conflict, except In the • cane of the fool!*h occupation of Vera i t'm* with It* lo*» of American live* and unprofitable re*ult*. otherwise | the whole couree of the administration ha* been a failure. We are in disfavor with Germany and Auatrla and we are the laughing stock of England and ' Prance. The government ha* blun dered at every turn and the effort* It ' ha* made to correct Ita error* have I only made matters worse. We are no longer able to pose as the one great neutral nation ready to stand between the belligerents as a peacemaker whe. the hour for laying down arms has come. The German attitude toward us la llluatrated by tho Lusltanla and the Ho.v-Ed Incident*. Ilow France feels 1* well set forth In a recent discussion of the subject by Monsieur Coudurier de Chassaigne. a distinguished French Journalist, who asserts that France Is disappointed In [the lack of moral support given l!i« 1 allies by the government at Washing ton ami he points out that America will not be wanted In the peace con ference at the close of the war. The French critic say* that In that case we would be much In the saine po sition as the referee who endeavors to figure In a contest only after It Is over. The dlsmul failure at Washington can he remedied In hut one way—by the summary removal of the cauae next November. GOOD KXAMFLE TO FOM/OW DR. SILAS C. SWAIAiC.W, in pre senting to the Methodist con ference of this district a hand sonic bungalow In Camp Hill to be used perpetually as a residence for a retired minister and his wife, the beneficiary to be chosen by the con ference. has aet an example that others might well follow. Dr. Swallow Is well along in years but he Is young In thought. Thanks to good business Judgment and much energy he has accumulated sufficient of the world's goods to relieve hi* mind concerning any personal Inter est In conference benevolent funds for superannuated ministers. Neverthe less he has not lost sight of the fact that the salary of the average minis ter Is small and that the call* upon his purse are large. He knows from long observation that he, in his pros perity. Is the exception rather than the rule and that to tnany a minister old age is the spectre that haunts his younger days. Few professions are so poorly paid as that of the preacher. Conference funds have been created for his bene fit, but tho sums of the annuities they pay are meagre and scarcely enough to keep soul and body together. To enter one of the ministerial homes is like taking alms for many a preacher who has held his head high during a useful and energetic man hood, and the feeling of charity is there in a way that cannot be ignored. Hut to occupy such a house as Dr. Swallow has provided is to maintain the old home ties and to accept Its benefits is only to enjoy special recognition as a laborer worthy of his hire. Here 1* a line of benevolence all too seldom practiced but which ought to appeal to churchmen who have wealth to spare and who have a fair appreciation of their responsi bilities as wardens of the talents en trusted to them. XO lll'lMil-rr FROM DEMOCRATS TO the other fair-sounding prom ises of the Democrats which have gone into the discard must now be added that for instituting a budget system to deal with the na tional appropriations. Mr Sherley, of Kentucky, who had the matter in charge, ha* announced that It has been impossible to arrange thedetallsof a plan so as to make them applicable at this session of Congress; but he intimates that something will be done for another year. The fact Is that the Democrats in Congress have found themselves un able to agree upon any scheme for revenues and expenditures to which a budget system could be applied. There lias been demonstrated abso lutely no disposition among Democratic Congressmen to relax their demands upon the treasury In spite of a deficit which the optimistic Mr. McAdoo can not set at less than $100,000,000; and I there Is no unanimity of Democratic opinion u* to how the money Is to he I raised. The financial record of the present Administration is one of shocking Ig norance of even the fundamentals of fiscal legislation. Almost without ex ception, Democratic estimates of reve nues have been too high, while Demo cratic estimates of expenditures have been too low. Novel and confusing methods of bookkeeping have been resorted to as a cloak to actual condi tions; and Secretary McAdoo hus late ly put forward a naive suggestion to hamstring national defense In order to keep the treasury outgo within the limits of possible receipts. Consequently, there Is small wonder that a national budget system Is not to be discussed now. Nor Is It likely that the scheme will be considered seriously at the next session. That will be a short se*»ton and everyone expects It to be the last which the Democrats will control for uiany years. There Is already a good deal of bad blood among Democratic leaders, and this situation will hardly become ameliorated by defeat next November. Next winter (he Demo The Days of Re • • • • BRIGGS crats will be too busy salving their wounds to attend to much else. A budget system, therefore, will not be seriously consldet >d until the Repub lican Congress convenes—which will probably be some time In the Spring of 1917. Cn. fly tho Ex-Committeeman Reports from New York that Philander C. Knox, ex-senator, ex attorney general and ex-Secretary of State, was among those who would be favored by Colonel Roosevelt and other Progressives for President has caused a marked revival of Interest In the famous lawyer and it is inti mated to-day that It would not take much to switch some of the friends of Mr. Knox from his tioom for United States senator to a boom for Presi dent. Senator Knox lias never announced that he wus a candidate for senator, but has been boomed by "loving friends" and has been making speeches. He has not been heard from since his name was mentioned as acceptable to Roosevelt. —"The Philadelphia Ledger in a story from Atlantic City to-day says: "Political disclosures, following close ly the refusal of ex-Governor Edward C. Stokes to support a reactionary Re publican for the Presidential nomi nation, indicate thut South Jersey may line up for Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania. This la the first visible movement outside of Pennsylvania in favor of Brum baugh. Vare leaders, upon the friendliest of terms with Stokes' lead ers in the Southern tier of counties, where a coalition of factions Is in progress .already have made pro posals having in view securing of the two delegates from the Second Con gressional District for the Pennsyl vania!!. Senator Penrose, scenting such a move, also has made overtures both at Trenton and In the lower shore counties, to secure the repre sentatives from both the First and Second districts for himself, or for the candidate he will espouse." —Judge George B. Orlady. recently re-elected to the superior court bench yesterday became president Judge of the court, through the retirement of Judge Charles E. Rice. The commis sions of Judge John B. Head, also re elected, and Judge J. Henry Williams, the new member of the court, were received and both took the oath of office. The oath was administered by William K. Taylor, prothonotary pro tern, of the court. —Yesterday in the Chester coun ty court counsel for 30 electors of Coatesvllle, tiled a petition to have the late election in the Fourth, Eighth and Ninth preclncta of Coutes ville, for mayor, declared unlawful. He also asked that the voters for Jones and McKlnney, the candidates, be deducted from the total that each received in the town. Counsel for Jones objected, but the court granted the amendment. —Joseph R. Grundy, the Uristol manufacturer, has offered J1.500 to one of the boroughs In Bucks county for improving Its highways. The bor ough people will endeavor to match the gift. —The Allegheny county Judges have appointed Gilbert F.Meyor. long active In Democratic politics in McKeesport. to fill the vacancy on the board which will assume office next month, caused by tho death of John A. Martin, of Pittsburgh. There was a scramble for the place. —James H. Maurer, member of the Legislature from the Reading district and president of the State Federation of Labor, is being boomed for the ao clallat nomination for president. It la said that Maurer could be named for vlce-prealdent If he uhoao and his friends want him to be selected for firat place. —The aelectloti of E. F. Meyer as Allegheny Oommlaaloiier la a hard hump trr tho Democratic reorganise™ whu had hacked Jaiuea Houlahen, of Mlllvale, the dead Commtaaloner elects running mate, aaylng he was put forward an the aeoond choice of the Democratic voter*. "Judiths of common idea* court. In turning down Mentation." auld Rxecutlve Chairman Joaeph K. GufTey, of the reorganisa tion faction of the lie MM ratio party. allowed themarlvea to he awayml by the uarroweat of rellgloua pre ludlfee" i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DIAGNOSING THE SLIDES ■ M By Frederic J. Haskin t J WITH a commission of leading scientists appointed by the President to Investigate Into the cause of the slides, with millions of tons of commerce sent 11.000 mil"s out of its way around the Horn, and the little. Panama railway trying with all its might to do the work of the big canal, Culebra Cut has once more caught the attention of the country. Everywhere people are asking why tho slides cannot be stopped. Time and again, they have been promised that the trouble was all over, or soon would be. East summer a channel was kept open for months; canal tolls yielded a neat profit; engineers an nounced that in eighteen months the slides would be stopped and in three years the possibility of their recur rence removed. Then, as though in conscious Irony, Cucaracha from one side and Culebra from the other flung down mountains of mud and rock and spoiled the slow labor of thousands of men as easily as you would kick over an ant hill. The ironic humor of the slides is fully appreciated on the Isthmus. They are personalities of a mysterious, dis turbing sort. "Well, 1 guess old Cucaracha's dead," complacently said the brawny captain of a dredge last summer, as he stared at the great red bruise on the slope of Culebra Mountain. And the next day Old Cucaracha gave a (lying kick and slammed down a few hundred tons of mud for his dredge to laboriously suck out again. Where upon. he went at it. streaming sweat and profanity in the tropical heat. Through Mountain Culebra Cut is a notch clear through a mountain range, the puny Central- American chain that unites the Andes with the Mexican Rockies, completing the backbone of the hemisphere. A very small mountain range is this one at Panama, but it has a core of solid primitive rock and a crest several hun dred feet high. Culebra Cut goes right through this core, with a wall of solid rock on either side, but over the solid rock lies a covering of soil which towers equally high—or did at first—and does not stand so firm. When the French men made the first scratch on the hack of Culebra Mountain little rills of earth came pouring In from either side, and as the cut deepened they grew and gained headway until the thing became a race between the men and the cascades of mud—a race that is not yet over. The engineers, hpwever, were con fident, and they based all their con fidence upon a term —the angle of repose. Any material, they pointed out, will keep on sliding until it reaches a certain angle of repose for the clay walls of the canal and issued an authoritative statement ol" the mil lions of cubic yards of mud that would have to be dredged out of the canal before that angle was reached. And after they had dredged out those mil lions. more millions slid In and they Issued another estimate. And so on, down to llils writing. Meanwhile, the canal has been closed since September 17, and all au thorities, constructional and adminis trative. refuse to prophesy when It will be open. There were 375.000 tons of commerce waiting to go through the 1 Burn a Candle on Christma# Eve Tou will want to observe this city'* latest custom for her alding the Coming of the King. Hum a candle In your front window on Christmas , Eve. The custom that la centuries old, but It has lately been re vived and will be observed In this city this year. He sure that your window has a burning candle. canal when it closed. Some of it went around the Horn at an enormous loss, and some of It waited for the canal to open, meantime eating up profits in time and provisions. No one has made an estimate of the total losses caused, but they have undoubtedly been enormous. At present, the canal administration is doing Its best to re lieve the situation by means of the Panama railroad. When the canal was opened, the rolling stock and all other facilities of this line were greatly reduced, and it was allowed to carry only local freight so that it might not compete with the big waterway. It is now carrying from four thousand to five thousand tons of through freight every day. That will only take care of a fraction of the canal business, but it will go a long way toward relieving the present congestion at the terminals. A flat rate of $3 a ton for all classes of freight has been declared. Formerly, the rate was from $2 to sls, accord ing to the class of commodity. T1 the government is doing its best to minimise the loss of the shippers who patronize the canal. To transship across the canal by rail is decidedly the best expedient, as the ships are then immediately re leased for new cargoes, whereas to go around the Horn adds so much to the length of the voyage as often to eat up a large part of the profit. A ship bound from San Francisco to London, for example, would require about 29 days longer to go around the Horn than to pass through the canal if it were open. The latest effort to increase the ef ficiency of the Panama railroad was to Install twenty-four large electric trucks upon the terminals. These take the places of from five hundred to a thousand native hand truckmen, who have long been a noisv and pic turesque, but rather an inefficient fea ture of the service. Meantime, the with the slides Is adding heavily to the total cost of the canal. It requires about $300,000 a month to keep up the work, in addi tion to regular dredging operations. THE CHRISTMAS LIGHT} Once from out a stable rude Eong ago. Shone a light, tho pale and crude Long ago. v\ here a mother, oending low- Swayed a baby to and fro. To the cattle's cheerless low. Long ago. But that light, so rude and quaint, liong ago, Gleamed afar—<tho t'was but faint). Long ago. Sent it's light o'er hill and plain, Angela saw It—and their strain founded PEACE on KARTH again Eong ago. For that little light so clear. Long ago. Told the World their King was here Long ago. Told it that the Christ was born- He whom men should mock and scorn With a cruel crown of thorn. Eong ago. Centuries have passed away. Still doth glow The LIGHT that turned the night to day Long ago. ISo Should we who love our Lord (He by angel Hosts adored!) Shed our candle lights abroad Make them glow. So within your window stand Lights to glow. They may cheer some wand'rlng soul Who can know? They may make some heart to sing, They may home aonte Wanderer bring They may tell how came s King Long ago. They may make men think of PEACE With their triovv. They may help to make WARS cease. And wars woe! They may speak of "Peai e—Good Will 11 And may thus help to fulfill Promise sung on Bethlehem's hill bong ago. EDNA OROFF DEIHL | Ojt Daily Laugh f NEVER AOADf. Why don't you \y ffk. try jollying your IMfcJMwlfr a Uttls? It's DjHg aa to tell her oBV •h• ' ■ looking ycunt»r and mora ■ —B beautiful ovary I triad that once, and aha nailed me for money to have her picture taken. DECEMBER 21, IVI3. TO STATE FROM WTO DW Geraldlne Farrar has been in the public eye for a long time, but a state ment that appeared yesterday in a State contemporary gives us the first intimation that she is of such a tigress-like temperament as to draw blood from the nose of a fellow actress and "bite the 4nan who plays the role of officer in the hand." From reports given out by the patijent, it must have been a "bird in the hand. Owing to a scarcity of dye, a do nation of 200 pairs of stockings an nually made by a Norristown hosiery manufacturer to poor children will not be made this year. And yet they do say that the lack of protection of industries never works a hardship. The chickens in Tardley will not behave, and so hereafter they will have to scratch in their own back yards. The members of town council down there have passed an ordinance "restricting domestic fowls, Including turkeys, ducks, chickens and geese, from running at large either on pri vate or public property." Not what you thought, was tt? • A pioneer resident of the city of Scrartton, Edward W. Weston, has offered to pay for two-thirds of the cost of a municipal athletic field if the city will pay tor the other third. Needless to say. the city has accepted the offer, and all of Scranton's youth are delighted. A shocking exhibition was given in Johnstown the other day when a couple of miners were walking through a puddle and one of them attempted to brush a loose wire out of the way. The wire seized him hungMly and everybody who tried to step to his as sistance in the charged water hopped nimbly out again. He was finally pried loose with a non-conductor in the shape of a broom. Williamsport laundrymen may place a tax of one cent on every package going out of their establish ments after January first in order to cover the additional expense which the Workmen's Compensation Act will entail. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ' —With gasoline going up in price 'as a result of the war, perhaps after all there was some method in Ford's madness. —About this season the average man begins to wonder why in thun der he didn't pay more attention to the ••shop early" warning. —The Kaiser says he never told Boy-Ed and his fellows to do what they have done. But he never told them not to, either. —Flinn says he is going to be the last Progressive—and he won't have to wait so long for that. —Those Rotarians .have the right idea of having a good time at Christ mas —they are planning to give some less fortunate people good cheer as well. Let's all be Rotarians this week. —The European armies' Christinas smoke may be a few whiffs of asphyx iating gas. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT If all the berths are taken It need not keep Mr. Bryan ashore. He can bring hi* own bunk.—Brooklyn Kaglc. And the next thing the poor Mexicans are facing Is it Constitutional conven tion!— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. "The boya are likely to git out of the tranche* by Chrlatmaa" on the enemy'* side, with bayonets and hand grenadea.—Wall Street Journal. XKWFOI'NDI.AND WILL TRY IT [From the Kansas City Times.] The American brewer* had better keep their eye* on Newfoundland. It has adopted a real prohibitory law. It forblda the aale, manufacture or Impor tation of liquor* of sny kind. American Stntaa that hava atopped the Male and miinufai ture are forbidden by the Fed eral Government to *top the Impoita- Hon. Ituaala ha* atopp<><l the m|i- of vodUa and atrong drink* but permit* a traffic In light wine*. Newfoundland goes the whule way. Newfoundland may be getting ready to anawer that famnua arguinenl of tha hrewara that "no country can prosper .without th« aaloon.'" j Editing (Ebat , From all account* Governor Martin '»rumhaug:h struck a popular cbor<| when he w rote his statement regard* Ing the national defense In which he »o strongly urged the development oe the National Guard rather than the formation of the Continental army. Since that statement was printed the governor has had dozens of letters, some times a couple of dozen a day. commending him tor declaring fft fa\oi ol the use of the guard as a basis for derense and they have come from people in every walk of life, i omparatlvely few huve come from guardsmen or alumni of the organ ized militia, but from businessmen and residents of the State who observe the trend of events ana the strong local sentiment aroused by a military l , company. The Governor issued his statement after he had considered the matter for weeks. Kver since the plan for the continental armv was brought out he has been thinking it o\er and his statement was not only the result of mature retleetion, but L at observation of conditions for w .i .I J Governor is noted and which he can make so keenly and use so well lor deductions. Dr. Russel H. Conwell, the Phila delphia clergyman and educator who entertained a Ilarrlsburg audience oil Saturday evening with his famous Acres ol Diamonds" lfcturp, gave some very Interesting reminiscences that were of great value from a his torical and biographical standpoint, lie told of the time he had gone as a boy-captain of a -Yankee" com pany to see President Lincoln on tha matter of saving one of his com pan v from being shot as a deserter. Ho took his place, he said, among the long line of others waitin K to see the I resident and announced his business to the secretary. Soon he was picked out from among all the others and in vited within. The secretary pointed to a closed door and said "The Presi dent is in there," and then went out and shut the door. Well, the poor young farmer was never more scared in his life. He wished he was in Kurope or anywhere except just where he was. He soon screwed up courage to knock on the door and was invited in. He waa told to sit down while "Old Abe" concentrated on a pile of papers that were on his desk. Those finished, he turned his attention to the young* soldier, swuns his long, lanky legs over the table and chatted sociably .for a few minutes. Needless to say the younp soldier who had deserted was par doned, but what impresses Captain Conwell most was the manner in which the President of the United States put at his ease this awkward, shy young backwoodsman, made him. feel as though he were right at home and then when his time was up turn ed back to other work. Abe Lincoln was an example of concentration such as has seldom been seen !n the his tory of this country, was the gist of Ilussel Conwell's formulated opinion of the man. "Do you know that T have noticed a marked increase in the manner in which people are getting rid of in flammable stuff about stores and other places where there are apt to be many passersby and danger of chanca accidents." said one of the older fire men of the city. "For years It was the custom to throw boxes and excel sior and other packing material right into the cellars. Now the wise man gets It out of the way of any chance accident and he does not lose any time about It. Incidentally a great deal of it is saved through care in handling." • • • State Fire Marshal Joseph E. Bald win, who retires on December 31 to become assistant director of public works in Philadelphia, was formerlv assistant director of charities In that city. He is said to be one of the best posted men In Philadelphia on busi ness methods in the city depart ments. VEIL KNOVN PEOPLE 1 —Mayor-elect A. L. Relchenbach, of Allentown, was guest of Allentown newspapermen at a dinner. —A. J D: - exe! Blddle spoke on Saturday night in one of the political club 6in Philadelphia and led tha members In prayer. —Hugh J. Harkins, one of the new deputy revenue collectors, Is a resi dent of Bristol. —W. F. Sadler, Jr., adjutant gen eral of New Jersey, Is working with the national guard committee to get some legislation for advancement of the guard through Congress. —Joseph A. Gray, Spangler editor, was acquitted in the lawsuit brought against him in Ebensburg. DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrlsburg bookbinding machinery goes all over the coun try? HISTORIC HARRISBCTRG The John Harris stockade site is In Harris Park about at Wash ington street. CONTINUING THE TAXBB 1 From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] A Democratic caucus has decided to continue the so-called war taxes. Of course. What else is there to do? When the Near-free Trade Tarlff-for revenue-only bill went into effect and proceeded promptly to reduce the na tion's income, direct taxation became inevitable. . The "war" taxes wore ahouloered up on the people to make up a deficit In the Treasury. They are to be main tained. and added to them are to come other taxes of various kinds. And the President actually claims that the "constructive work" of the ad ministration is Irresistible and that anyone who says otherwise Is "talking through his hat!" t * Everyone Has a Sweet Tooth Now The "sweet tooth" surely has Its,day during the Christmas Ma son. Christmas without candy would be a Joyous season with all the Joy taken out. All the more reason to be careful In the choice of your confectionery lo *'*e that it is free from adulteration. All the more reason for seek ing to guard off the "after Christ mas" headache. It's a good time to look close ly into tne character of the store and th<- guarantee behind tho unnie on the candy box. I'erhaoH the advertising col. umns of tin' Telegraph will help you?
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