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Sworn dully overuse circulation for the three mouth* riullnjc Dec. 31, lIIIK. 22,412 ★ AvftJißp fop the year 1914—21.5JW Avenise for the year 1013—10.0*12 AvrriiKr fop the year 1912—10.64® j Average for the year 1911— | Average fop the year 10H>— H1.261 j The above figures are net. All re tiipneU. unsold and damaged copies «le- ; due ted. . MONDAY KVF.NING. JANUARY 3. Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents, as to follow them.—Francis Bacon. NEW ADMINISTRATIONS NKW administrations in both city and county take over tho reins of government to-day. The op portunities for service in both are many. The new county commission ers start off well, with promises of good housekeeping and changes in the methods of the office designed to in crease efficiency and economy in that branch of the county's affairs. The poor directors have plans under con sideration that if carried out will greatly increase the effectiveness of that office' and improve generally tho condition of the indigent poor in both city and county. The other offices pass into control of men whose past records forecast success for them in their new lines of work. The indi cations are that the next four years will be marked by able and construc tive work in the county government, with harmony prevailing among all of the various elements that go to make up the whole. In the city there is equal oppor tunity, but the outcome is not so ap parent. Three of the councilmen re turn, two of them to continue success ful administrations of the active, con structive branches of the city govern ment, and the third to resume his duties in charge of the finances. The public cares little for the petty politi cal differences of the various members, but it does care very much about the manner in which its business is trans acted and its interests conserved. All of the city commissioners are on rec ord as to their attitude in this respect. It remains to be seen how they pro pose to carry their pledges into effect. THE TEUTONIC REPLY THE real reply of the Teutonic allies to the Ancona note and all of the protests of the United States that have gone before, is the sinking of the British liner, Persia, with the death of an American consul and the narrow escape of another American who was aboard. Not all of the specious claims qf a "victorious conclusion of the Ancona incident," emanating from Washington, will wipe out the fact that Germany and Aus tria have absolutely no respect for the claims of the United States and that they hold the American govern ment as at present constituted, in con tempt. They tell us one day that they have abolished their piratical, blood thirsty course on the high seas, and the next they sink a ship without warning, drown American passengers —and prepare another meaningless note for the placating of the Wash ington administration. The whole situation is a jumble of contradictions and falsehoods the only outstanding, self-apparent feat ure of which is the utter failure of the national administration to uphold the dignity of the country and to pro tect Its interests abroad. It has not involved us in the European -war, and that Is about all that can be said in Its defense. Wc have no other course than to accept what it chooses to give us in the way of amateur diplomacy, but we do have the remedy, and that is a change of control at Washington next November. The whole attitude of the President and his advisers has been w-eak and Inconsistent. The situation is fast approaching the im possible. But unless Congress takes a hand, which is not likely, all the country can do is to grin and bear it, until the opportunity comes to f:ure the evil by the major operaflon of amputation. LOSING HOPE IN XEW JERSEY DILIGENT search has failed to find a Democrat who can—or will—advance a plausible reason why the administration has ceased its opposition to Senator Martine's re nomination in New Jersey. "Farmer Jim" was elected in the first instance because Woodrow Wilson, then Gov ••rnor of New Jersey, did not wnnt James Smith to return to the Senate. Martine. however, was never of the type that Wilson loves, and it has al ways been understood tha't the deli cate sensibilities of the President have KDAY lf 'KNTXG, quivered whenever the voice of the orator of Plninfleld was to be heard In the White House corridors. Two months ago, yes, one month ago, Wll- ; son and his New Jersey friends had ! no intention to let Martlne go to re nomination unopposed. Since they control the party organization over there, there can be no doubt of their ability to defeat Martine if they 1 choose—and Senator Smith's recent failure in business has made it sure that there would be nothing to fear from that source. Yet Martlne is to pass through the. primaries unscathed. Why? There can be but one adequate an swer—that he stands no chance to be re-elected, if nominated, and that it | may. serve some useful purpose to put I liim up to be knocked down. Right here, however, arises ail- I' other question: If Martine cannot carry New Jersey, how can Wilson expect to do so? A Democratic poli l tician would answer this by saying that Wilson is stronger than his party. The real answer is that neither Wil son nor Martine can carry New Jer sey again. As a matter of fact, Bryan was a stronger presidential candidate than Wilson in Wilson's own State— and there are indications that the Democratic managers have abandoned New Jersey as a factor in the election of 1916 and are trying to make up thg loss of its fourteen electoral votes by playing up California, which ha*i a strength of thirteen in the electoral college. This serves to explain why Secretary Daniels is so suddenly solicitous for the Mare Island navy yard and it also serves to explain the unexampled prominence which is be ing given to California's new I)emo cratic Senator, Mr. Phelan, who, in addition to being a Democrat and from California, is rich and has a reputation for being a good spender. Building up the Mare island navy yard, plus a generous contribution fronvSenator Phelan, and a little help from Governor Hiram Johnson might give California to Wilson. But even this would not re-elect the President. Swapping New Jersey for California would be a net loss of one electoral vote, in any way it is figured—and the Democrats cannot lose any electoral votes next time if they are to win. No sincere political observer believes that the Democrats can carry either New York, Ohio, Illinois, or Indiana. No man ever be- j came President who did not have the support of New York. 11l 1888 Benja min Harrison lost New Jersey—but he carried New York and was elected. In 1892 he lost New York and was defeated. If President Wilson's second cam paign is beginning with the abandon ment of his own State, how will it end? THE NEW YEAR THE New Year is before us, both as a people ancl individually. It ♦is ours, to do with as we will. What will the answer be'.' Only time will tell. What John Pefer Altgeld gave as advice to young men applies equally to us and the New Year. This is what he wrote: T.wo voices are calling you—one coming from the swamps of self ishness and force, where success means death, and the other from the hilltops of justice and pro gress. where even failure brings glory. Two lights are seen In your horizon—one of the fast-fading marsh light of power and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood. Two ways lie open before you-—one leading to an ever lower and lower plain, where are heard the cries of despair and the curses of the poor, where manhood shrivels and possession rots down the possessor; and the other lead ing off to the highlands of the morning, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where hon est effort is rewarded with immor tality. One of these ways we must choose. Which shall It be> What say you? FACTS ON CROPS IT is greatly to the credit of the State Department of Agriculture that It is making an effort to tell the people just what Pennsylvania Is raising in the way of crops In these days -when, because of European de mands, the prices of provisions ■ and grain are liable at any time to give imitations of "fancy" war stocks. If there is anything that American people will not stand for It is,a juggle of figures on the food supply. It is apt to make any man mad to be told that there is an abundance of pota toes or a huge wheat crop and then to wake up and find that it is short and that he must pay more. Hence it is the part of wisdom for State and Na tional governments to give plain, un varnished facts about crops. This State has hail a crop report system for a lons time, but it was not until a bureau of agricultural statistics was created in 1913 that the public began to get the benefit of the data which the State Government was gath ering. Prior to that time the infor mation was collected anil embalmed In bulletins which came out long after the potatoes of which they dealt had been made into "hashed brown." The new bureau started a system of monthly bulletins on the crops and, enlisting the services of a number of men thoroughly Interested in agricul ture, began to get figures which soon attracted the attention of the Na tlqpal Government and commercial or ganizations, to say nothing of the everlastingly vigilant freight depart ments of ihe railroads. In the last few months this bureau has done more to tell people of Penn sylvania the magnitude and value of the crops raised between the Ohio and the Delaware than was done in the preceding decade and whoever is of the opinion that the Keystone State is not a factor In the food supply of the United States is due to learn a few things this year. Pennsylvania does a great agricultural business and by publishing the facts about it Is advertising in the best possible way. And it pays to advertise, especially when there is a $46,000,000 hay crop to be talked about. The Bryan men continue to be heard from. One of them writes to tile Des Moines KeKimer and Leader to make it known that when men "criticise Mr. Bryan they are snubbing six million and a half of voters." | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE }j j —A S9-year-old woman broke her arm ■ j Saturday while making New Year's 1 calls. Another martyr to social duties. —The Persia having been sunk with another American'drowned the Presi dent now has a tine opportunity to win another great victory for American di plomacy. —No. Maude, dear, those low thunder ous noises you hear are not the echoes cf a bombardment In Europe. They are , made by New Year's resolutions going to smash. —"We see nothing good in these new style pantalettes." observes a Western exchange severely. I'ome Hast, young man, come East. —Capital being very timid we can't see how it got up the nerve to face Colonel Roosevelt at that Gary dinner. | EDITORIAL COMMENT j German Is soon to float another war loan, this one for $2,500,000,000. Her chemists must have learned how to make synthetic money as well as synthetic food. New York Evening Sun. There are more than 250,000 corpor ations In this country, according to figures compiled by the Federal Trade Commission, of which niQre than 100,- 000 have no income whatever. Those must be the good corporations.—New York Tribune. The ease with which European na tions dispose of Cabinet Ministers must excite Mie envy of every American. New v York Tribune. OLD AND NEW [From the New York Sun.] We bury the dead year solemnly, a year that was born in flame, Never to be forgotten so long as the race shall be. A year that goes in sorrow as In tears and woe it came, The Year of Death they'll call It through all eternity. Never to earth since man was man came twelvemonth such as this, Its food was manhood slaughtered and it loved the taste of blood. It crucified the Christ again, but not by word or kiss. But by the flowering of the curse it came upon in bud. We bury the dead year joyfully, for it did mankind a wrong That peaceful years In centuries will never quite undo. It placed the weak and helpless be neath the cruel strong— God grant the Old Year dead may be a warning to the New! EDWARD S. VAN ZIL.E. ARRANT~HYPOCRISY TNew York Tribune 1 On Christmas Eve an Austrian sub marine torpedoed the French pas senger steamer Ville de la Ciotat with out warning. The boat sank, carrying with it several scores of men, women and children. At about the same time an Austrian submarine similarly tor pedoed and sank a Japanese passenger ship. These things were done after the text of the last Austrian note on the Ancona had been written in Vienna. Mr. Wilson now asks the American people to believe that the Austrian note represents an American victory for humanity and a vindication of in ternational law. • • * That which precedes was written before the news came of the latest massacre. To the statement of fact there is added nothing but the detail that two American citizens —one of them an American consul—were among the victims of the newest slaughter. Is it necessary to add any word now to the exposure that the latest crime supplies of the lie and the sham of all that American policy has meant in recent months? COLD CURE "I've cured my eold," he said. "I'll tell you how I did It. The information ought to come in handy this treacher ous weather. •"I boiled a quart of wormwood and horehound together and drank it hot. Then I took two pills, and put one kind of plaster on my chest, another kind on my back and a third kind under each arm. "Thanks to my governor's advice, I had sense enough to clap a mustard plaster on my stomach also, and to sleep with red-hot bricks at my feet. "An old lady brought me a bottle of goose oil and showed jne how to take it—you suck it, you know, oft a quill. My uncle from the country turned up with a bundle of herbs; these herbs made a tea that I took a cup of every half hour. On a cousin's advice I got outside an enormous dose of salts. "My wife got me to take three pills of her own make —they were brown, bitter and about the size of eggs. They did me good. too. "The crisis was now reached, and I retired to my bedroom. There, after tossing off a pint of tar balsam. I tal lowed my nose, steamed my legs in an alcohol bath, and took large doses of hot rum, spearmint tea and castor oil, which were severally recommend ed by a sea captain, my minister and my grocer. Then I took seven different kinds of pills, wrapped round my neck an old stocking of my wife's soaked in hot vinegar and salt and got into bed. "As I dozed off they burned feathers lon a shovel before me. "That completed the cure. T am I now well. I recommend this simple j cure to cold sufferers." GERMANY'S GIRL WIVES [Maximilian Harden, in Die Zukunft] It is imperative and in the most vital interests of the German people that a solid barrier be placed against the hurried and reckless matrimonial alliances which, thanks to the cupid ity of the tribes of marriage brokers, i are being made in every part of the j country. Every girl is possessed by the obses ' sion of getting married. How fre quently wo hear men talking in that | fashion. Yet their mental indolence prevents them from seeing whose fault it is that young girls find no way but that of marriage to realize their aspiration for sympathy and psychological communion. It is due to the brutal heartless ness, the sordid race after money of a great mass of our men, forefully aided as they are by the vile marriage brokers, that young girls lightly sacri fice love, youth and happiness for a marriage that is in most cases noth ing but a brufish enslavement. And why not, ask the men? The costs are paid by others. Who are those others? The poor victims them- I selves. What do we see as the result |of this inhuman, system which is gnawing like a canker at the very heart of the German nation and de stroying its hopes of future regenera tion of'the race at a time when those of us who are real men are shedding their hearts' blood on the battlefields? The result is this: That to-day in Berlin alone there are 30,000 divorced girl wives. This is nothing short of a nationa' shame, which cries out aloud to the authorities for instant and drastic ac tion. To remove this shame from our midst is every whit as Imperative as the engineering of the food ques tion. because where one involves the material the other concerns the moral starvation of the t HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH CK I>e->vKOi{C<KUtU4,1 > e->vKOi{C<KUtU4, By the Fx-Commltteeman The most extensive changes in office ever known in Pennsylvania take place to-day. There is not even an election district in the whole State whiqh is un affected. This is due to the operation of constitutional amendments and the fact that some new laws take efTect. Philadelphia and most of the third class cities get new mayors. Whole sale changes take place in city and county offices everywhere and "there will be some notable changes on the bench. In addition to the Betlilehenis and t oatesviile. Dußois becomes a third class city, and there are a number of townships which enter the first class township list. .No changes will be made in the State government. Governor Rruni baugli has not yet named the Public Service Commissioner, Fire Marshal. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and some other officials. W hen Justice Walling takes the oath as a justice of the Supreme Court to day Judge Kosslter will become presi dent judge of Erie and Captain Whit telsey will go 011 the bench. The changes in the Superior Court took place several days ago. Charles K. Rice, the retiring president judge, who spent thirty-six years on the bench and was president judge from the creation of the court, was presented with a watch by his colleagues, the signatures of whom are engraved on the watch. The judge served as a legislator and common pleas judge be fore going to the Superior Court. Another noted judge who retires to day is Wilbur P. Sadler, of Cumber land county. Me lias served twentv onc years as judge at Carlisle. The judge, who was educated at Carlisle and Williamsport. was four times a candidate for judge and once for the State Senate. In 1871 he was elected district attorney and ran for judge in 1874, losing because of a factional contest. He was defeated by Judge Herman, whom he defeated ten years later. In 1904 he was again a candi date and won in a fierce contest against John W. Wetzel. The judge has been an active force in the affairs of Cum berland county and aided much in the making of Dickinson law school. —Lebanon county papers intimate that Senator D. P. Gerberich, of Leb anon, may not be seriously opposed for renomination for senator. There was talk that ex-Representative W. C. Freeman might take a notion to enter the race. It is stated that Dr. I. K. Urich, of Annville, will be a candidate for re-election to the House. Repre sentative A. A. Weimer has not made up his mind about running. L. Ray mond Riegej-t and H. G. L.ouser have also aspirations. —Mifflin county's officials, who take office to-day. are all Republican. The Democrats have lost control of the offices because of the lighting which was started in the McCormick-Ryan campaign. —W. M. C. Crane will be re-elected city treasurer of Altoona to-day. Mr. Crane is one of the prominent Repub licans of Blair county. Other city officials have all been re-elected by the retiring council. —J. E. Porter, burgess of Pottstown, is said to be planning a campaign for the Legislature. —Ex-Representative R. S. Frey, of York, is said to be harboring some legislative aspirations again. He has been talked of for senator, too. —Philadelphia newspapers which had been predicting a clash among Republicans over the national dele gates and a battle between Senator Penrose and Governor Brumbaugh have ceased from troubling and even the Philadelphia Ledger, which a few days ago announced that Penrose would have to fight for leadership, now says that there will be no con test. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that both Senator Penrose and Mayor Smith expect no The sen ator and the mayor were together at Atlantic City. The governor was in Philadelphia. —Among the men mentioned for the seventy-six delegates to whi,ch this State is entitled are many of 'promi nence. For delegates at large the names of Governor Brumbaugh, Lieu tenant-Governor McClain, Senators Penrose and Oliver, Mayors Smith and Armstrong. Colonel James Elverson, Colonel L. A. Watres, P. C. Knox, E. V. Babcock, Congressman Vare, Senator Crow and ex-Aduitor General A. E. Sisson are mentiohed. —Talking at Pittsburgh yesterday, William Flinn said that while he in tended to stick to the ship, return to the fold was a matter for each Pro gressive to handle for himself. As a matter of fact, the Republicans and Progressives have gotten together in Western Pennsylvania. TARIFF COMMISSION [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] If the President and his party are so steeped in doctrinaire theories as to the sacred action of their tariff sched ule that they will do anything to stop dumping of foreign goods after the war except change any clause of the Underwood tariff law. why, let us take our medicine and at least be thankful that they are inclined to a tariff com mission. For a commission properly organized should be able to clear up the situation in no time. The ample facts already collected by the various smelling and junketing committees, by the various government • bureaus, by our consular officials, are there for a commission's use and elucidation. KING WITHOUT CONTRY [New York Sun.] King Peter of Serbia, old, infirm and ill, tleeing before invaders and seeking an asylum in Italy, is one of the pa thetic figures of the war. He man aged to please his people principally by being merely a royal personage and never mixing in their politics. His daughter, a good, sensible girl, whose advice he often sought, married and went to Russia; his oldest son, in whom he centered his hopes, was com pelled to leave Serbia, and the old man afterward led a lonesome life at the royal palace in the shadow of the crime that made him king. Even should Serbia survive as a kingdom it is scarcely likely that he will return as its king; he will be more willing than ever to turn the honor over to Alexan der, his second son. INTOXICATED AUTOISTS [Philadelphia Record.] Judge Baldridge, of Blair county, who gave warning some time ago that he would give a jail sentence to any person found guilty of running an automobile while intoxicated, has made good by sending a well-to-do resident of that county, who plead guilty to driving a car while under the influence of liquor, to 30 days in the bounty jail, adding a fine of SIOO. A few doses of this sobering charac ter will do much good in Blair county and all of the Judges of the State ought to follow the example of Judge Baldridge. *100,000,000 SAVED BY TEMPEHANTE For the first time in many yesrß the government statistics show a reduced consuiuptlon of both fermented and spirituous liquors of 200,000,000 gallons of beer and 16.000,000 gallons of dis tilled spirits. This report means that one billion five hundred million less glasses of beer and five hundred mil lion less glasses of spirituous liquor were consumed than the year before.— JL'he Christian Herald, . 1 THE CARTOON OF fREDAY BEST CARTOON OF THE Ij)AY wA [You ivteox'r list O.'lT-iPSr I COI.UM»V.M»IT( ■kJ-S H tMcnV TX* »«** w"- 1 - ) lINIIJTI INIIJT WIF at *•«*«. T® TEA! Dfluapq'» J _-j- t !jhi/j « . , ymrr* rx« rettwi \ \ I I t. ' •«« SOLO ut R»T MM/ I I /• ro* ouftVoT '•xCr J Q 111 If I I/ ->J|I I' , M»«B» AL.LTMF" I I J I ' 0| J AMMUNITION- TO 3UPFIY * ' ' Iffl\ /v\ I'-w x>e *^ itßH *• I U>_J J&A&W J •woooojUX 'l\ S \ s^^ •"oolooSoSSs. y , • -4 j/]Jf\ j Making the Rounds of Our Old Friends —Del Molnn llrKlalrr. ( LIGHTS AND STORMS By Frederic J. Haskin WITH the coming of the winter gale season, now at its height, the real work of the year be gins for the lighthouse service. For the men who tend the towers and the lightships do. a great deal besides regulating their lamps. They form a sort of supplementary life-saving ser vice, and one with an exceptional record of risks taken and lives saved. The storm season always begins in the early Fall with a series of hurri canes that come swirling Tip from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, nearly always destroying: ves sels: often devastating islands such as Jamaica, which lost its whole banana crop this year, and occasion ally striking the l southern cities of the I'nited States. This Kail win the worst in many a year. There were three hurricanes in six weeks and two of them struck both Galveston and New Orleans. The great damage done was duly set forth, but how much the lighthouse keepers pre vented by sticking to their posts has not even been estimated. Bolivar Light stands off Galveston Harbor. On the night of the Gal veston storm all families in the im mediate vicinity took refuge in the tower, where they waited and won dered if the whole structure would be blown into the sea. for it swayed like a treetrunk in the terrific wind. The keepers were too busy to specu late on the chances of being drowned, for in a storm sirch as this the light is immensely more' necessary to ship ping than in a, calm. Bolivar is a rotating light, and the swaying of the tower threw th e mechanism so badly out of gear that it was neces sary to turn it by hand. After a time even this became impossible, so Boli var Light burned as a fixed beacon all through the night of the storm. The direct force of the wind blew In the iron door of the lighthouse, which the keepers were forced to close at great risk, to protect the towers from the wash of the waves, which had al ready swept away everything on Bolivar Point except the light itself. Hardly a light In the storm district came through the night of this hurri cane unscathed. Half a dozen of them were maintained by hand after the mechanism which gives them their characteristic tiafches of light and darkness, by which seamen recognize them, had been put out of order. The high waves ripped off storm shutters yards above ordinary high water mark, bent and tore away iron hoofs, smashed wharves, and even bent iron foundations, but the keepers stuck to their posts and kept the lights shining. In the later hurricane which struck New Orleans, the storm panes about some of the lanterns were blown in, and had to be replaced in a wind that blew ninety to a hundred miles an hour. One keeper kept a glow in his tower by hanging a lantern behind the lens when the light was put out of commission. Another man, in charge of an off-shore beacon, hung OUR DAILY LAUGH I rTf I IMPARTIAL. Sire: Now that you're starting in r*?/- business, remem- Wjj ber that honesty the best policy. Son: I intend til mr to glve botil sys |j|m tems a fair try- PITT THE The poets P er ; form a great mis- *f sion in this | They certainly J| iff; A do. If it wasn't Jl for them th eQ II ' •' £ ] MM magazine edi torsO II i | jr would have an 1 Ik, I' 1) awful time filling I || In small spaces *t IB"? 1 - the bottom of pages. V TEACH Kit WHO I'WDKR STANDS HOYS One teacher who lins the problem of fifteen boys from thirteen to fifteen ] years old writes significantly, as he kepps that live class in mind and their week-day life: I study the Graded Lesson Helps and the ball game scores for the past week." The Christian UetaMA - —■ j JANUARY 3, 1916. his light from a nearby tree when his beacon was destroyed. . " rst duty <>• keeper is to tend his light, to keep it burning even though the mechanism is smashed and the windows blown in,, with the tower swaying in a liundred-and twenty mile gale. He finds time to conduct extensive life-saving opera tions on the side, however. The rec ords show that life and property were saved by keepers and assistants on 143 occasions in the past year. The rescued included everything from exhausted swimmers to "disabled air ships. •Motorboat rescues are perhaps the commonest. These craft get caught in the currents which drive them to ward the rocks, and in case of any en gine trouble, they are practically helpless. Then the keeper, who has been observing their progress with a glass from the tower, rows out and tows them to safety, after which his report generally states that ho re paired the motor foi them and sent theni on their way. I.light tenders (the service vessels which supply lighthouses and lightships with fuel and food) very often give assistance to the distressed at sea. During the past year they have saved several ships which were on lire, and which, according to the ships captains, would otherwise have been lost. I The tenders rescued men in open boats who had left a sinking ship and iloated about for days without food or water when the lightship found them. Tenders pulled vessels off bars where they had grounded, and light keepers on one occasion performed the same service with their power boat. The officers and crew of a light tender off the Maine coast landed to help in lighting a forest tire. Perhaps the most sensational rescue was made in New York harbor, when a light keeper rowed out to pick up two aviators whose machine suddenly dropped into the bay. Both men and aeroplanes were rescued. So the lighthouse service makes a I sort of federal coast emergency relief system, as well as an unbroken series of guiding beacons that stretches from the northern tip of Mnine around to the northern tip of 'Washington, and ' lights the coasts of Alaska and our island possessions too. Under the general head of "Aids to Vavigation," the service maintains about 15,000 lighthouses, lightships, lighted buoys, bellbuoys, whistling buoys, fog sig nals and submarine signals. Every reef on our long coast line has its warder. Lightships are used on exposed shoals where it is impracticable or too expensive to build a lighthouse. The service maintains "iS ot' these ves sels, some of which are very old. One of them has been doing duty for 66 years. The more modern ships are equipped with standard engines, by which they can leave post when re lieved under their own rower, and also work their way back to station should one of the winter gales tear them away. | THE STATE FROM DAf TO DOT [ New Year's was fittingly celebrated in Easton on Saturday by a pair of genial souls, a brother and sister, who are 76 years old and twins, although born in different years. Mrs. Barron was born shortly after midnight on the first day of the year In 1841 and Henry Brinker, her brother, first saw light a few minutes before, although it happened to be still In the year 1840. John Barnett, the "model" boy of Glen Mills Reformatory, who had been released because of good behavior, was sent back again for robbing houses of lead pipe. John evidently believed that it was a "lead pipe" cinch to get away with the loot, and we have it on the strength of the dictionary that the word "model" is misinterpreted in his ease. It means here, undoubtedly, " a snvali Imitation of the real thing." county takes first prize In number of marriages. One thousand three hundred and eighty licenses In that county alone were issued during the year Just past, being the largest number in ten years. "For services rendered" will be a flt. ting phrase to lead off the memorial to Dr. Jacobs, of Lansdale, when he dies The doctor Is a banker of wide repute" more than 70 years old. and f>r four years has been controller for Mil ntgotn ery county. In all that time he earned $ IK,OOO and never collected a < - ei tof It. In spite of the winter sea 011. oil i drilling is still active and nev wel] s j are being opened In McKean :ounty ! I-ast week two were opened t at are now flowing at the rate of thir y bar- ' rels a day. The advance in tli prir,. I of crude oil from $2.15 to $2.25 » bar- ' rel has been hailed with joy by t e pro- I Queers, f Etetting (Chat I i.f 1 rV |®, n,epn " len l}ave been mayors of It irtt»7 *i? ce 't was incorporate.! it reek™<?i 1 K Ma . rch 1:t - IS6 «. although L" k m °" e „ d i y terras " lled ~lerp have 8 MJTI mayors. Including Dr. E. 'o-ilai fow m i" es mayor again ~ ua >- Tour men have been 0n.11e.1 times l0 t j lol< ' om. e twiceor mo?« im?s. However, the doctor is the first year* tnrrr, ayor i!° lH> e 'ected to a four' he eWtTA aS , 10 Wa " the «r«t man to Hnv«i ? a Primary. John K was i"he 'nrsT'T ° S " myor to-day. clritrfn fr>- f 1 y exec utive to bo V lec ted foi a four-year term All of lown m^°Mr fr r T illlam Kepnor V.» v '■ Royal were elected for nfl* e * ce »t where chose n vacancies which occurred three till!*' Vhen Mr - Royal was elected Lffect°thZnVv torm ho t l jUHt Rone »wo nient nconstitutional amend - A Prih ■ Patterson and Dr. John A. !• ritohej were the other mavori who were elected to full terms more than once. John C. Herman, who was t t 5r?, 1 5. 1, i , .f " 1!ly0r Ollt the I*! of Mr. Patterson, who was elected tesident clerk of the House of Repre sentatives, was elected to the full term immediately after. Dr. Meals served .ViT'; yenrs " mler his former term and will serve lour under that which be ams to-day. It is Interesting to note in connec tion with the change of city govern ment that Harrishurg is only exceeded "'its cltyhood by a few of the other cities. Lancaster is operating under JV city charter granted in 1808, Philadel phia and Pittsburgh being, of course, older municipalities. Tills city was laid out in 1785, long after the two biir cities and Lancaster. Reading, York and other cities, it became a borough I "i 1 1", 1791, and was reincorporated as a borough February 1, 1808. It entered the city class in 1860 Nome of ilie finest of the trees in the Keservoir and Riverside Parks appear t" liuve suffered from the storms of sleet and rain that have marked the last week, although it is believed that the gradual policy of getting rid ot soft wood trees has resulted in fewvr being much damaged. In the Capitol i ark only old anil soft topped trees felt the force of the storm, the planes and other recently planted trees not being much affected. In Wlldwood Park it will probably be found that lli<- damage was greater than in other parks, in the opinion of some experi enced in woodcraft. Tlie manner in which applications for renewal of licenses for the sale of oleo have been pouring into the Capi tol indicates pretty conclusively the wide extent of the business. When the oleo licenses were enacted It was thought that the rates would deter people from selling the product and thus the dairy industry would he pro tected. Indeed, for a time, oleo made such inroads that anyone would have thought that all the farmers owning cows were going to be ruined, so great was the protest. Tn recent years, when forty and fifty cent butter is not un known, the natural result has been a big demand for substances to take the place of butter. Tn 1913 dose to 2,90n licenses were issued and fully 2,000 have been taken out for 191* already. , It shows that building is going for ward with some mighty strides in Har risburg when-men dig cellars on the Monday after Christmas and have to use special steel shod ploughs to break the ground. Half a dozen operations were under way about the city to-day in spite of the weather and indicating that builders were anxious to get things moving for Spring before winter had more than started. * * • The number of Christmas trees, as w'c have come to call all evergreens, whether pine, hemlock or spruce, dis played beside the doors of Harrisburg homes this year was larger than ever known before and It was noticed that tlie number of small trees in tubs was also larger than shown heretofore. Many of the trees which are displayed at the holiday season are carefully tended throughout the year. ["WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~] ■—Judge Cameron, of Tioga, who re tires to-day, is one of the oldest judges in noint of years in the state. —Samuel Rea gave the usual Ne-r Year's reception at the Pennsylvanl* Railroad offices in spite of his health —Richard Harding Davis, the novel • ist. is doing war correspondent's duty in Salonlki. —The Rev. J. Alvin Orr, of Pitts* burgh, was presented with an auto mobile by his congregation on Christ mas Day. Professor Camden M. Coburn, of Meddville. has been making a study of Kgypt and says that the Pharaohs had their favorite cartoonists. Colonel Francis R. Shunk, United State engineer officer at Pittsburgh, is to be transferred to a new place of duty, having served four years. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg's bank clearings have gone up each year? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris used to hold councils with Indian chiefs from the west branch country at his cabin. RESOURCEFULNESS [January Outing.] Lt was at Flshklll Plains during the cavalrv maneuvers last summer. One force was driving the other back and the retreating force was destroying roads and bridges to hamper the pur suit To be sure the destruction, was not actual, but constructive. A bearer of despatches was hurrying down the road when he came to a bridge so destroyed. Nothing daunted, ho started to ride across when a sentry posted there halted him. "Hev there, said the sentry, "don t you see that that bridge is construc tively destroyed? You'll have to use the ford." • , "Well, don't you see lhat Im con structively swimming the stream," came the quick answer, and the des patch bearer held on his way. The Multiple Salesman The newspaper is the multiple "aPP e al is universal. Its friendliness with all members of ill.- family unequalled. th it reaches all classes. It ap j.|„ to all retailers because it nroducos a direct demand among MoDle who are possible custom er's—his friends. Thn newspaper advertisement is the message that goes every lav to every buyer of every prod uct everywhere. It wins the in terest of the prospective custom er And then it turns that inter est "nto an actual sale by point «iit the counter where the desired is found. That Fa™' rW< demand the straight i?.*. drawn between producer and consumer through the retail er's ytt j-i r. \nd that Is why the retailer— himself a newspaper reader in variably prefers to sell and to pSslf newspaper advertised prod- I ucts.
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