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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
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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
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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.