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TUESDAY EVENING, JAM AHV I.
If I knew you and you knew me—
If both of us could clearly see.
And. with an inner sight divine
'flic meaning of your heart and mine,
I'm sure that we would differ less
And clasp our hands in friendliness:
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree
If I knew you and you knew me.
—Nixon Waterman. ' I
JUDGE SADIJER RETIRES
IN the retirement yesterday of Judge
Wilbur F. Sadler after a long term j
of service on the bench of Cum- j
berland county, one of the best known ,
jurists of the State seeks the repose
to which his seventy-five yeurs entitle
lilm.
Twenty-one years of administra
tion of justice is a long period and
while Judge Sadler acquired a few
enemies here and there, he likewise
won to himself many staunch friends
who gave him loyal support in every
conflict and whose good wishes will
make pleasant his retirement.
Judge Sadler was a hard fighler in
liis day and his political opponents,
even when they managed occasionally
to compass his temporary defeat, al
ways knew that they had been in a
leal scrimmage. He has always kept
close to the people, and that they
have confidence in him is best ex
pressed in the fact that his son, Syl
vester 13. Sadler, a lawyer of dis
tinction and the author' of several
legal works, was chosen to succeed the
venerable jurist by more than fifty
three per cent, of all the v'oters in the
primary election, making him the un
opposed choice of the people in No
vember.
This is a most unusual compliment
in which father and son share alike
and there is likewise presented a fine
example of nonpartisanship where
once was political rancor and bitter
factional strife.
To the judge in retirement, peace
find content; to his successor, a long
period of usefulness in a place of great
responsibility and opportunity for
good.
His friends of The big Telegraph
Family are delighted every one with the
news from New York that Robert B.
McClean, former circulation manager
of this newspaper, lias been promoted
1o the important position of Assistant
Business Manager of the Evening Post,
the quality paper of the metropolis. Mr.
MuClean is highly regarded in every
department of the Telegraph, and his
success is a matter of real gratification
among all his friends in Harrisburg
newspaper circles.
TIME TO GET TO WORK
NOW that the new administrative
officials of the city and county
have taken their places, it may
be reasonably hoped'that the political
by-play which accompanies these an
nual changes will give way to serious
consideration of the important mat
ters which demand the attention of
these servants of the people. There
is much to be dofte in every depart-
I ment find thought should be given to
the projects which will require atten
tion during the early part of the year.
THE NEW POOR BOARD
THE announced intention of Di
rectors Snavely, Loudermilch and
Manning, of the newly elected
Poor Board, to so increase the pro
duction of vegetables and garden truck
of the county poor farm as to provide
a surplus for distribution among the
public charifies of the city and county
promises to have two very beneficial
effects. In the first place much of the
"" waste that appears to have been preva
lent in connection with the almshouse
management will be prevented and the
overproduction, finding its way into
the homes and hospitals maintained
for public benefit by private contri
butions, these institutions will lie given
much needed assistance-and the bur
den of their upkeep lessened to a con
siderable degree.
The fact that this change was deter
mined upon before Ihe directors
#etually took office at once Indicates
that -they have been giving serious
thought to tlie duties they were about
to assume and that they are working
in perfect harmony.
The directors have hinted at other
reforms now being worked out and
; #oon U be announced,' if these are as
TUESDAY EVENING,
. practical and as helpful as this first, j
the new Poor Board will establish an
enviable record in an office that in
recent years has not been remarkable
either for its efficiency of operation or
its economy of administration.
LIBRARY'S FINE RECORD
THE circulation figures of the
Harrlsburg Public - Library for
the year just closed tell a story
of splendid service for the peo
ple of the Greater Harrisburg. Dur
ing 1915 there were 111,110 books put
into circulation against a total of
102,126 for the previous year, which
was the first year of the Library in
its new homo under the Haldeman-
Haly foundation and with the sub
• stantial assistance given by the Har-
I lisburg School Board, which was
! quick to recognize the educational
( value of the institution,
j This extensive work, a third of
| which was in books for children, was
;in addition to the activities of the
' Library in establishing the system of
j traveling libraries for the schools,
| which will be opened in half a dozen
] buildings within a short time, in the
: special courses of instruction given to
jtlie teachers of Vhe city's schools In
j library matters and in carrying to
I the youngsters in. the open-air and
j playground schools the advantages of
ii the special collections made for them.
The Library has been doing all this
on what is voted by the School Board
and the income from its investments
together with a few contributions. It
lias been aided considerably by the
establishment of the Lyman D. Gil
bert fund for the purchase of bookST
but its activities have about reached
the point where further aid from jthe
people whom it serves win be essen
' tial. The Library is aiding many to
; gain an education and It is helping
many children. It ha* responded to
every call made upoii it, but if the
third year in the new building is any
thing like the second it is going to
be hard work to make income fit ex- j
penses.
TURNING TIIE YEAR
ONE of the favorable signs of the
sanity of the important financial
interests of the country is the
frequent check placed upon stock gam
bling enterprises by those who are at
tempting to capitalize the optimism of
the country. While the business pros
pects are inspiring, there are always
elements of doubt under present con
ditions. and it is a good thing that the
potential influences back of business
and industry are exerted in behalf of
legitimate activity in trade centers.
It is generally believed that the
belligerent nations are no more'anxious
to involve United States in the war
than we on this side of the ocean are
desirous of being drawn into it. But
the economic relations with which the
whole situation is involved require
careful handling to the end that there
may not bo an unfortunate upset of
the business interests of the entire
country. Extravagant optimism is as
serious as that form of pessimism
which tends to retard the energy and
activity of our people. We must be
level-headed, conservative and reason
able at all times so that with the ad
justment of normal conditions the
country in all sections may maintain
its equilibrium.
After the present week and the tak
ing of stock in all lines of trade busi
ness generally will assume a more
natural tone and we can look with
clearer vision toward the future.
LIQUOR REVENUES
FOLLOWING is one of the most
significant paragraphs from the
report of the board of poor
directors which retired yesterday:
As has been previously stated by
the board, the bulk of tne misery
and distress amongst the excessive
ly r°oi —or that class from which
is recruited the almshouse inmates
—is due to liquor, ilore than 90
per cent, of the inmates of the
almshouse are there directly be
because of its excessive use. The
social workers find that continuous
effort must be made —almost dally
cjntact is required—where mem
bers of the family use liquor. In
fact, rehabilitation is almost im
possible while liquor is used by one
of the family.
This is where much of the money
collected by the county in liquor li
cense fees goes. Yet there are those
who hold up the county's liquor
revenues as argument why it would
be disastrous to the public purse to
interfere with the traffic.
In a few days the gymnasium and in
stitutional building which Is a bequest
to the Pine Street Presbyterian Church
by the late John Y. Boyd will be dedi
cated. It is a fine memorial of a much
lamented and useful citizen. Mr. Boyd
was removed from his activities here
just at a time when he was developing
so many plans for the benefit of the
community. He did much good while
he lived an 4 the institutional building
in South street will put into effect some
of the plans which he had for the wel
fare of the youth of the city.
Henry Ford has returned from Eu
rope with more experience, perhaps, but
with little in the way of substantial
achievement toward a consummation
of his peace plans. The successful in
ventor of an automobile is not always
the'most successful pacificist. In his late
adventure he has lost somewhat in pub
lic opinion, but public favor is a rather
evanescent thing under all circum
stances and Mr. Ford can perhaps wait
patiently for the clouds to roll by.
Manifestly the Motor Club of Harris
burg is going into the new y.ear next
month even with greater energy than
was the case a year ago. This organiza
tion is in position to be of great ser
vice to tlie city and Central Pennsyl
vania and we can only bespeak for the
officers the cordial support of the mem
bership which embraces all the active
motorists in this part of the State.
What Is left of the Ford embassy
will be given a moving picture view of
i Germany next Friday. And then for
Rotterdam and good old America.
Once more the good ship Harrisburg
has put out to sea, and we shall hope
the end of tlie Voyage will be as sub
stantial in actual achievement as the
first trip under the commission Mag.
Harry F, Oves. the newly-Installed
City Treasurer, has been widely con
gratulated upon his election as cus
todian of the city's funds after a woary
contest extending over many weeks,
Friends of Mr. Taylor and those of Mr.
Oves engaged In the fine little game of
wire-pulling day and niglit, and It was
not until the see-sawing was over that |
the winner was sure of his commission, j
Meanwhile the interesting question of [
fees and salary is still In the air with ;
the preponderance of legal opinion on
the side of fees. Mayhap the next Leg- !
Islature will give tho problem a whirl.
7>dltLc* fcK
By the Ex-CoramJUccman
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i Inauguration day in the cities and j
counties of the State yesterday;
' brought out some interesting events, j
J Mayor y Thomaa B. Smith, of Phila
delphia, the most interesting figure,
! made a speech calling for action In I
public improvements and ousted the
i civil service board, saying he has his!
: own ideas about civil service. In |
1 Pittsburgh a near riot occurred over |
'the county controllershlp and In
Wilkes-Barre council dropped twenty
policemen and made other changes.
Rival county controllers tied up
county funds in a dispute in North
ampton and at WilUamsport Jonas |
Fischer, like Mayor Meals, was twice |
sworn in.
—The Lebanon council elected E. \J. i
Sowers as city treasurer in spite of a
fuss. At Chester Mayor McDowell,
who had been attacked in the courts,'
urged annexation of adjoining dis-j
tricts. In Reading the city council!
took office without much trouble in!
spite of threats. Changes were made '
among policemen by the dozen.
—ln the supreme court yesterday,
Chief Justice Brown delivered a'
trilogy of the late Jusljpe Klkin and
an appropriate minute was made.
• —The Schuylkill county court yes
terday removed the mining examining
board and named a new one. Judge
Brumni made a protest, but it did not
affect the result.
I —Pennsylvania politicians are fol
lowing with the greatest interest the
remarks of William H. Talt that Col.
Roosevelt should not dictate. The
return to the party movement is
under way without much friction :n
this State.
—John R. Lafean. retiring mayor
of York, is a member of the new
council.
—The new sheriff of Center county
found the jail empty when he assumed
office.
—Jonas Fischer, the new mayor of
Williamsport, has some ideas about
municipal ownership. He has been
in the utility business a little himself
from all accounts.
Dr. J. M. Jacobs, the retiring
controller of Montgomery county, re
fused to take $19,000 salary due him.
—More judges took office yester
day than ever known berore in the
State. The changes removed some of
the best known judicial figures from
the bench in many sections.
—-Senator Penrose is back in Wash
ington and there has been a cessation
of talk about national delegates. The
belief grows every day that there will
be no factional contests and that the
Republicans of the State will be
united.
—Dan L. Hart, one of the promi
nent Democrats of Luzerne county
and who attracted much attention
here by his "peaceful twilight" speech
at the last Democratic State commit
tee meeting, was d«featea ror city
treasurer of Wilkes-Barre yesterday.
James F. Mundy was elected. E. S.
Zoeller is the new chief of police.
Fred 11. Gates continues as city clerk.
—Tlie chairmanship of the finance
committee of common councils in
Philadelphia, one of the most im
portant, goes to J. P. Gaffney after
all.
—Chairman C. O. Schro.ver, of the
Fayette county Republican commit
tee, has been appointed chief deputy
sheriff of that county.
—S. J. Grenet, a Magee lieutenant,
has been appointed delinquent tax
collector of Allegheny. The office
pays about SIB,OOO a year.
—Dr J. P. Kerr, well known here,
is the new president of. Pittsburgh
council.
—Representative Fred W. Willard,
of Philadelphia, was appointed to a
place on tlie board of viewers in
Philadelphia yesterday. He is a
strong Vare man.
—Governor Brumbaugh attended
the inauguration of Mayor Smith in
Philadelphia yesterday.
—The Allegheny county controller
fight is now in the courts. H. M.
Cribbs yesterday gave up the office
to John P. Moore after a number of
friends of Moore had come around
and made threats. In his application
for the writ against Moore, Cribbs
said that he was forced to leave the
office through fear of a riot.
—Republicans now have control of
Shenandoah borough council.
—The new borough of Kulpmont
started in business yesterday.
—Mayor W. L. E. Jones of Ooates
ville, took the oath of office yester
day, ignoring the contest against htm.
He will abide by the decision.
GASOLINE
[From tlie Kansas City Star.]
Gasoline has almost doubleil in price
since last summer ami the refiners' are
being blamed and abused accordingly.
Hut some statistics gathered by the
Government indbate that tlie "oil octo
pus" is not wholly to lilaine. For ex
ample: In 1912 approximately 312,000
motorcars were built in this country. A
year later the builders turned out 420.-
000. In 1914 the number was 515.000
and for the year which closed last June
710,000 were made, the grand total of
motorcars then in use in this country
being estimated at 3.250,000.
In 1890 there was used In this coun
try 5,615,000 barrels of gasoline. Ton
years later, in 1909, the amount had al
most doubled reaehing 10,806,009. Five
years later, in 1914. there was used 18,-
000.000 barrels and the refiners esti
mate that 30,000.000 barrels of gasoline
will be used in this country next year.
Not all of It will be used in motor
cars by any means. There has been a
corresponding 1 increase In inotorboats.
in farm tractors and in other kinds of
engines that use gasoline.
The refiners saj they have not been
able to keep pace with the demand. The
Government intimates the same thing
and the exoerts In its bureau of mines
are at work all the time trying to find
some way to simplify yet more the pro
cess of refining, ami how to get more
casoline from crude oil than <*an be
taken out now. Exhaustive experiments
are also being carried on in the produc
tion of denatured alcohol. Experts be
lieve the time is coming soon when it
will be a rival of gasoline, and will
keep the price down.
WEATHER AND CIGAR SALES
Tn the January American Magazine
a writer tells "f a big tobacco company
in New York City that studies weather
nnd knows to a penny how much both
will affect its sales.
"This cigar company with Its one
thousand slores has figures that reveal
many traits of human nature. For ex
ample, It knows almost to the penny
how much loss of sales will result fronf
a certain velocity of wind. A rainy dav,
or a windy day, in New York, generally
speaking, will cost the company about
four thousand dollars. The reason is
obvious: it Is not pleasant to smoke tn
a high wind. Many men do their smok
i ing while walking along the street
I because antlsmoklug regulations pre-'
vent them from doing so In street cars
or in certain buildings. [f tliey are
driven into street cars or buildings by
wind or rain they do without a smoke."
PROOF '
"Do you believe that there is a
higher power?"
"My dear sir, I married her."—L.ll«». I
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—Says Mayor Meals: "A city hall Is
what we want." Yep, that's right, and
now, the need having become manifest,
all we need is to get the hall.
—Our old friend the water wagon
has moved over to his old residence in
the joke column,
—The Paris Matin says the Kaiser
has cancer, and It omits thy usual ex
pression of hope that the report Is un
founded.
—Too had the President had to cut
short his honeymoon, but of course he
can't expect Lansing to write all the
submarine ultimatums—the're coming'
too fast now.
—The Russians appear to be Styr-ing
things up again.
—At all events William Waldorf As
tor is not a hyphenated American.
—"Bread riots in Berlin" is a news
paper headline. Pooh, that's nothing,
we have 'em every evening at our
house.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Will our House and Senate he known
as the Sixty-fourth or the Safety-first
Congress? Brooklyn Eagle.
Genral von Biasing has been made
a doctor of laws, probably military
laws. Philadelphia Record.
As a thorough neutral. King Alfonso
must be getting considerable quiet
amusement out of the present Philip
pine controversy. Washington Post.
It will be suspected that tucked away
somewhere among Ford's peace-promo
ters will be that fellow who went to
the funeral just for the ride.—Boston
Transcript.
The Fatherland sS?* that the acci
dents in American munitions factories
have been acts of God. At any rate,
there has been a growing suspicion
that, some of the Kaiser's adherents
were responsible for them. Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
WHAT FRA.XCE CAN SHOW I S
Were we to follow the example of
our sister state, the French Republic,
this country would have a system of
National Highways about 150,000 miles
long, SOO.OOO miles of State Highway,
and 1,125,000 miles of country arid
township or town roads to make up a
transcontinental system of • about 2,-
175,000 miles. We already have nearly
that mileage now in ordinary public
roads as the basis.—The Christian Her
ald.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
CORRECT.
Tf S What's a
•tiM A ' fe „ er that
MB admits he S«te
his money's worth
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A PEACEFUL,
Even war has (A'S *1 *3? ifr
some reco jn- t -rjir,
None of our y4
friends are send-
Jng back descrip- J
tions of travel in jSI || ML*
Europe to make
my wife dlaaatla-
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
/ The Man and the Mill
By Frederic J. Haskin
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THE story of Bethlehem steel for
the last ten years is the story of
Charles M. Schwab. And this is
true not so mucli because he built up
the steel mill on the Lehigh, which Is
attracting so much attention in
America to-day, as because his person
ality is of the sort that men obey and
believe in.
The faith of his followers in his
power and destiny Is exceeded only by
his faith In himself. When he announc
ed some ten years ago that he proposed
to make the. Bethlehem plant the
Krupps' of America, there was quiet
laughter along Wall Street, where ora
torical announcements do not carry
much weight. To-day, his words have
somewhat the quality of a prophecy
fulfilled.
Ten years ago, the Bethlehem plant
was a string of half-deserted shops in
the Lehigh Valley. It employed about
3,000 men. It was running behind at
the rate of about a million a year. Then
Schwab took hold.
He decided that quality in the pro
duct must be the basis of success.
America, lie thought, had put too much
stress on quantity, so he journeyed to
the older countries of Europe, and es
pecially to Germany, where the steel
industry was known to have reached
Its highest development. He went pri
marily to study and observe. Incident
ally, lie got in touch with many persons
of position and influence.
When he returned his first procedure
was to employ the best engineering
talent available, and the superiority of
this department In the Bethlehem works
first secured him prestige in the steel
lnd ustry.
Then came the stroke of fate that al
ways goes into the making of roman
tic destiny. War broke out In Europe
at the time when Bethlehem steel was
best able to serve the needs of the
embattled countries. The best meth
ods were in use here. And that fact,
and the man who had made the fact,
were both known in Europe. Once
more Schwab crossed the ocean, and
this time he returned with war orders
amounting to millions.
Schwab's story is full- of the quality
of romance. He was born on a small
Pennsylvania farm. At the. age of
three, according to current tradition, he
displayed his genius for finance by
doing amazing sums in arithmetic on
the kitchen wall. His mother spanked
hin- and removed the evidence of his
precocity with the scrubbing brush.
Whereupon he asserted his embryonic
but already indomitable will by doing
it all over again.
In his early teens he is discovered
driving a stage coach for fifty cents
| THE STATE. FROM DA/ TO PftT
Bucks county's game and fish as
sociation wants the State to close the
county to gunners fox - everything ex
cept squirrels, rabbits and wood
cock. Echo of some hard luck in
forest'and stream.
tip Altoona way one A. S. Reihart
had a joyrlde which cost him $135
and a disfigured countenance. Mad
denvtlle is his abiding place and the
old home town looks good to him.
Altoona Tribune has pleasure in
testifying that the retiring mayor,
Mr Walker, was a gentlemanly offi
cial. Likewise the mayor believes
labor is dignified. Tie goes back to
the P. R. R. shops.
Carbon county retail liquor dealers
complain that their business is poor
since Judge Barber gave them orders
not to sell on credit.
All the furnaces In the Lebanon,
anil Schuylkill valleys are now in
blast.
Members of the "Kxplorcrs," a
camping association of this section,
JANUARY 4, 1916.
a week. A few years later, lie had
quadrupled his income and is a clerk In
a grocery store. Then he abandons
commerce to accept a position at $4 a
week in the Carnegie Steel Company,
Ijtd., and his career is begun in earnest.
There follows a meteoric rise through
all the grades of labor to the highest
executive position. By means of«the
Carnegie profit-sharing plan, lie makes
an independent fortune. Thus was the
man trained and equipped for the task
of creating an American Kruppe'.
Schwab is a man of sentiment and
ideals. He knows that he is doing his
country a service and takes patriotic
pride in the fact. He plans to make
Bethlehem one of the world's great in
dustrial centers ,and he does not con
ceal his intentions from anyone.
Furthermore, Bethlehem firmly believes
In him. They will tell you here that
the war orders are only an incident in
the rise of Bethlehem. Didn't Charles
Schwab tell them at the Chamber of
Commerce dinner several years that he
was going to make Bethlehem the
Pittsburgh of the ICast? Well, now he's
doing it. A sufficient statement of how
Schwab stands in Bethlehem Is the faet
that when the borough celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation
last week, Charlie Schwab Was master
of ceremonies. He made a speech in
which he painted for Bethlehem a fu
ture glorious and opulent beyond com
pare. The applause was long and vo
ciferous. Bethlehem is for Schwab.
The effect of the growth of the steel
company on the town is shown bv the
fact that the population of South Beth
lehem has increased from about 13,000
to nearly 30,000 In the last ten years.
Credit Tor the amazing success of
Bethlehem steel is modestly assigned by
Scnwab to the fourteen managers and
superintendents who comprise the pres
ent executive force of the company.
Many of these men, like Schwab, have
come up from the furnaces and rolling
mills. "Gene" Grace, president of Beth
lehem Steel, and only 35 years old, is a
typical example. He was "discovered"
while working at the open hearth for
sls a week. He was set to organize the
railroad yard at Bethlehem, and did
this so well that ho was placed in
charge of the Jaragua Mining Company
in Cuba. His riso to the top was no less
spectacular than that of Schwab him
self.
Schwab calls his managers "the
boys," and the Bethlehem offices are
distinctive for the spirit of fraternity
and good fellowship that prevails there.
This is not all "the boys" are getting
out of it. though. Their salaries are
remarkably small, but under the profit
sharing plan brought by Schwab from
the Carnegie company, each of them
has become a millionaire.
mourn the death of the Rev. Mr.
White, whose funeral took place at
Millersburg to-day. With the campers
he was just "Whitey" and he was
white in every way his friends all
say.
ADVERTISING
The Editor and Publisher stands un
qualified for newspaper advertising as
the only advertising that will sell goods
In the sense of bringing the ultimate
consumer directly to the merchant or
store selling them. Other forms of ad
vertising will make sales in a general
way, but are wasteful and extrava
gant as compared with riewspapor ad
vertising.
Manufacturers and merchants have
made a mistake in ''barging the cost of
their premiums and coupons to adver
tising. It is not advertising, but a
form of price cutting and price in
ducement which itself must be adver
tised to become even partially effective.
Newspaper advertising is used for the
introduction of nearly all other kinds
of advertising. Editor and Publisher.
. HER RIGHTS
[Frotn the Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Speaking of warm advocacy of wom
an's rights, there's the Chicago cabaret
performer who shot her husband be
cause he objected to her habit of
spending all of his salary "eating and
drinking at restaurants."
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Ijfctonittg (Efrat
The information given at the State
Department of Agriculture the othe
day to the effect that no diseases t>'
bees were found by State inspectors 1*
V? a sl i V rieH of Dauphin county prob
ably did not mean very much to th»
residents of this <4jty or Steelton but
as a matter of fact Tt told of good con
ditions in a by-product of agriculture
that has been growing in annual value
in this county and in Cumberland and
Perry as well in the last four or live
years. Few people are aware
there are within sight of the dome
the State Capitol hundreds of hives™
and that bee keeping is getting to be
as much a part, of farming as keeping
chickens or pigeons. This has been
due largely to the attention given to
scientific fruit culture and to the
stimulus given to orchard work by
the demands of the large city market's
and the efforts of the State govern
ment. The humble bee has been rec
ognized as of. the highest value to the
fruit grower and orchards which have
been developed or revived through use
of modern now- have numer
ous hives of bees, which, as a Lower
Paxton farmer remarked, not only car
ried the pollen, but kept off thieves.
Hence, the bee combines three duties,
carrying of the essential dust, hoard
ing up honey and acting as a guard.
The Increase in number of hives can
be seen by anyone taking a trip into
the country or by the amount of honey
for sale in the city markets. It used
to be a rarity to find farmers selling
honey raised on their own farms, but
now it is a common commodity and
as much in demand from individual
farmers as butter. Furthermore, a
considerable quantity is sold to com
mission merchants for the markets of
the larger cities. The State has many
thousands of hives and lias been giv
ing attention to extinction of bee dis
eases because a study made a few
years ago showed that the value of the
honey yield in the State waa not far
from a million dollars. Now. says Dr.
Surface, the State Zoologist, it is over
that, and the bees are adding thou
sands of dollars yearly to the apple
crop.
• » •
The Allen and East Pennsboro So
ciety for the Recovery of Stolen Horses
and Mules and the Detection of
Thieves, to give it its full title, is one.
of the oldest of organizations of that
kind in this part of tho State and its
meeting at Mechanicsburg on New
Year's Day was one of the events of
the year. This organization and a
number of others which are still in
existence in the Susquehanna, Juniata
and Cumberland Valleys is really a
survival of mutual protective asso
c' itions against thieves which were
formed back in Colonial times. When
the Susquehanna country began to be
opened up there were numerous thefts
of horses and mules and the residents
of townships used to get together and
effect an organization which could re
spond to a call. This plan still exists,
although now when a horse Is stolen
the society has funds in bank which
enable it to secure the best of help.
The Allen and East Pennsboro society
has counterparts in a number of agri
cultural counties of the State and such
organizations have kept down thefts of
farm animals because the pursuit is
always vigorous and a horse thief docs
not have much show at a trial any
more than he had a hundred years ago.
* » •
Considerable attention is being
given in Philadelphia newspapers to
the work of August Benziger, a New
York artist, who has completed por
traits of a number of eminent Penn
sylvanians. They include Charles M.
Schwab, Col. J. Howell Cummings, oC
the Governor's staff, and John jW
Brashear, the Pittsburgh astronomei™
whose paintings ar«- shortly to be ex
hibited. ,
• • •
The meeting of the State Educa
tional Association which is scheduled
for this city in December, will bring
to Harrisburg the largest number of
teachers who have ever attended a
meeting. The association membership
is increasing and in addition to the
meetings there will be many who will
want to get the chance to visit the
State Capitol.
* * *
Harrisburg as well as the State
government will be well represented
at the Americanization meeting to lio
held in Philadelphia next month.
Governor Brumbaugh, Commissioner
John Price Jackson and others will
attend. Miss Rose Weston who is
active in Philadelphia newspaper
work, was here yesterday arranging
for some of the details.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~|
i
—Senator Penrose, writing in the
Philadelphia says that war
bred prosperity is fraught with dan
gers if people put too much depend
ence on it.
—J. W. Logue, former congress
man. is in charge of the affairs of
the Bank of Independence, which vol
untarily closed recently.
—F. H. Howland, lately with the
Philadelphia Press, will become editor
of the Chamber of Commerce Journal
in Philadelphia.
—Judge Ellis H. Orvis, who retired
as judge of Center county yesterday,
refused several licenses before going.
—The Rev. A. H. Boggs of Phila
delphia, who has been very ill, is at
Atlantic City.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
—That Harrisburg hilling ma
chines are used in Now Zealand?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—William Maclay, one of tlie
first United States Senators from
this State, had a plan to locate
the National Capitol on the banks
of the Susquehanna.
VIEW OF AN EDITOR
In the .January American Maga
zine is the following concerning tho
prevailing opinion about editors:
"There is a common Impression
abroad that editors and sub-editors
are enormously salaried individuals
who go about with splitting headaches
putting tho paper to press and lighting
one cigaret from the end of another.
Occasionally they pause to sniff the
air for latent scoops, or else they dash
down to Washington to lunch with
the President."
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Getting What They t
Want
"There is satisfaction in hav
ing people come in anil got .lust
what they want." writes one of
tin. world's great merchants.
How different from the old
order of things.
What a contrast to the short
sighted Storekeeper who is for
ever endeavoring to sell his cus
tomers "something Just as good."
The modern merchant realises
1 that when a customer asks for a
| brand there Is a reason.
You as a purchaser are pro
tecting yourself when you shun
the store that habitually substi
| tutes.