8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KEWSPAPBR I'OP. THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEOIUPH CO., Ttlrgrnph It nil *i 111 a. Federal Square. | K.J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Bdifr-inCliitf kF. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. /Member American Newspaper Pub- I! Bnterad at the Post Offlce In Harrls inn'*. Pa., as second class matter. 1- —By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. •**orn dally average circulation for <ke three month™ ending IJee. 31, IMB. ★ 22,412 + These figures are net. AH refnrned, hw'fl aad dautagrd copies deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, JAX. 20 One to-day is worth two to-morrow— BENJ. FRANKLIN. SMITH AND HARMONY J A S the Mayor of the greatest Re publican city in the United States and an official who be lieves his administrative policies will be best furthered through political harmony and the dominant party, Thomas B. Smith, now in the llrst month of his administration as chief executive of Philadelphia, is demon strating great good sense and cour age in formulating his plans and like wise in using his good offices In the interest of Republican co-opcration and party solidarity. There is no excuse or reason for the constant bickering among Repub lican leaders in the metropolis of the Commonwealth, and throughout the State there is general criticism among 'Republicans of the never-ceasing fac tional strife in that city, which is an outgrowth of the clashing of personal ambitions and greed for power. Never has there been a time in the history of the United States when there was so much at stake as In the present year and harmony of action must be se cured without regard to the petty re sentments and ambitions which are constantly clashing at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Mayor Smith is doing his utmost to maintain the political equilibrium so far as the Republican party is con cerned in Philadelphia, but ho prob ably finds it a dilficult and thankless task. He has been strongly commend ed by the press of that city for his manifest interest, in the welfare of the big community and upon his admirable grasp of the important relations of the city to the State. Fortunately, Mayor Smith Is a man with a vision and he Is able to look ahead with a clearness that is creditable to him as an official and reassuring to all good citizens. And whether they may feel disposed at all times to approve the Mayor's acts it is manifestly to the interest of the squabbling political leaders to up hold his hands rather than defeat their own purposes through attempted interference with his program. One thing that has particularly im pressed those who have watched Mayor Smith's work thus far in his administration is his keen interest in the things which make for the welfare and upbuilding of Philadelphia. He has a broad view of the importance of the city and is evidently determined to do his utmost to develop its resources and its manifold interests. He has entered upon his work with a serious purpose and it is only fair to him and to the people themselves that he be given the cordial co-operation of the potential political influences which can either help or hinder his adminis tration. Many of his appointments have been warmly commended by the newspapers of the city and amid the factional atmosphere In which he is striving to obtain results this fact is indicative of public confidence. • Mayor Smith Is deserving of the good will of Republicans throughout Pennsylvania. Unfortunately Phila delphia has been the center and cir cumference of Republican factionalism ■which has occasionally extended into the State, and wise leadership at this time in that city ought to achieve much in the direction of permanent harmony for the good of the party and the Commonwealth. Now Is good time to consider what you are going to do In the way of porch nnd window boxes for next summer. Consult your florist ami make your plans during the long winter evenings, flowers cannot l«« grown over night; they should be started early in the Sprinsr. With the rapid passing of the first month of the year the heads of the several constructive departments of the city government are finding plenty to do in planning work for the open sea son. It is understood that one of the features of the Pork lJepartment will be the setting out of many trees, the nursery on the island having an abund ant supply of elms and maples and other varieties for transplanting to the various park areas of the city. Another section of the Capitol Park extension zone is being cleared of build ings this week. Month by month the work of demolition goes on and the next important step on the part of the Commonwealth will bo the planning of the permanent treatment of the public grounds. Governor Brumbaugh has a large interest in this matter and his love tor Pennsylvania, will find THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 20, 1916. | expression in the final scheme of im- | | nrovement of these acres of property . now owned by the Commonwealth in j | the very heart of Harrisburg. President Bla mm and his colleagues : of the School Hoard are giving much , : thought to the new Central High ; School proposition, and it Is under ' stood some definite plans will be de : veloped within the next few weeks. It ' is not a small problem and must be ap i' proached with core and intelligent I thought to the end that the solution [ may be a real solution when it shall ! have been finally reached. THE SCHOOLHOUSE FIRES ALL Harrisburg will await with Im patience the solution of the three mysterious schoolhouse fires of to-day. The welfare and the lives of our children are in danger so long as these fires remain unexplained and the miscreant or miscreants per mitted to be at large. There has never been a more dastardly crime in the history of Harrisburg than th.at which aroused the city to a high state of indignation and alarm when the news of the fires became generally known. Fortunately all of the fires were started while the school buildings were empty, but parents will not breathe easy until the guilty person or per sons are brought to justice, for nobody knows where or when the torch may be applied next. It is scarcely be lievable that the fires of to-day were , the work of any sane man, but this only makes the situation more 1 fraught with peril, for nobody can reckon with the possibilities of a de mented brain. The police should bend every effort , toward apprehension and the school ' board would be justified in offering a ! substantial reward for the capture and conviction of the culprit or culprits. More power to the City Planning 1 Commission. It is doing a fine work | in bringing together city officials and those corporation representatives who have to do with permanent city im provements. such as the enlarged sub way at Market street and other projects of that character. MR. ROOT'S SPEECH THE speech delivered by Klihu Root Saturday night before the New York State Bar Association deserved wider publicity than it has received. Doubtless this was duo to the fact that it was made at a late hour and was extemporaneous. Be yond question, it was one of the great est efforts of the noted speaker's dis tinguished career. It covered a broad range of subjects, varying from his own early experiences in the law to the wide field of world affairs with which Mr. Root has h&d so much to do in recent years. The address teems with sane and wholesome advice for the nation at large and is so full of meat that It is difficult to extract here and there one theme more important than another, but his thoughts con cerning preparedness are so timely and so vital that they ought to be read by every American. "Preparedness" means more than mere armed force, in the opinion of Mr. Root, who brought his hearers to their feet with cheers when he said: We must be prepared to defend our individual liberty in two ways. We must lie prepared to do it first by force of arms against all exter nal aggression. Ood knows I love peace and 1 despise all foolish and wicked wars, but I do not wish for my country the peace of slavery or dishonor or Injustice or poltroonery. I want to see in my country the spirit that beat in the breasts of the men at Concord Bridge, who were just and God fearing men, but who were ready to fight for their liberty. And if the hundred million people of America have that spirit and it is made manifest they won't have to fight. But there is another way in which wo must bo prepared to de fend it, and this Is necessary to the first: We must be prepared to de fend it within as against all indif ference and false doctrine, against all willingness to submit individual independence to the control of prac tical tyranny, whether It be of a monarch or a majority. Now there arc certain circum -1 stances which tend toward weaken ; ing the allegiance of the American people to the fundamental princi ' pies upon which the law of America ! is based. One of them is that the changes in conditions have re -1 quired and are constantly requiring ! extensions of government, govern mental regulation and control in order to prevent injustice; and we i naturally turn in the creation of these new and necessary regula tions to those governments which i have been most efficient in regula tion, and those are the governments 1 which sacrifice individual liberty [ for the purpose of regulating the conduct of men; and so the ten ! dency is away from the old Amerl i can principles toward the principles of bureaucratic and governmental control over Individual life: a dan . gerous road for a free people to travel, to attain necessary results, • and the danger is that in attaining those results the true principles of liberty be lost sight of. Another circumstance which we . ought not to loste sight of Is the fact that a vast number of people have > come to the United States within 3 very recent times from those coun tries of Europe which differ so s widely fn their fundamental concep- I tlons of law and personal freedom from ourselves. Back of any plan of "prepared ness" must stand the spirit of the t people, brave, up-stunding and ready [ for any sac I'll ice; ready to combat foes within as well as without. Mr. Root ■ has expressed most admirably the . thought that has been In the minds ; of those who have given the future 5 of the nation earnest and patriotic consideration. More than ever he stands before the people as a wise and experienced statesman, a safe counsellor and a patriotic champion , of the republic. 3 To-night is the night, and the big 1 Chestnut Street Auditorium is the s place. The big Charity Ball will fur . nlsh at once an opportunity for tjieet -3 Ing your friends and at the same time e helping a most worthy cause. Wildwood Park will com* Into its t own, winter and summer, when it is - more accessible through street railway e facilities and subway entrances. These e will come in due course. f Just take a walk about the city on c one of these fine winter days and see n. what changes for the bettef have taken s place during the last few years in the iij[character of our residential district*. I There are many attractive homes and the tendency is now toward detached I houses and attractive surroundings. i Republicans who are running around with chips on their shoulders seeking a row are not manifesting much inter est in the welfare of the party. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE [ —"Twins thrice in three years," says a Reading dispatch. No, the fafher has neither run away nor gone crazy. —Kipling has sent the Russians a greeting in verse. It was not, how ever, "The Bekr That Walks Like a Man." —Preparedness ought to be popular in those districts where Congressmen are proposing that $5,000,000 naval academies be established. —The man who gels wet skating on thin ice is guilty of damp fool ishness and you may pronounce it any way you like. —St. Valentine and the Ground Hog are looming up on the high road of the Immediate future and close be hind them como Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, arm in arm. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 One paper speaks of Mr. Roosevelt as a "passive" candidate. Wonder what they would consider an active candi date?— Nashville Southern Lumberman. Spain is placing $20,000,000 munition contracts in this country. She knows something about the effectiveness of American guns.—Philadelphia North American. By reversing all the protests that Great Britain made to tne United States during the Civil War it is possible to obtain a fairly correct notion of con temporary British theory of interna tional law.—New York World. According to the finding of a New Jersey jury, the doctor who, after hav ing performed an operation, sewed up a pair of forceps in a patient's body, was not guilty of negligence, as charg ed. Apparently he left them there on purpose, so that they would be handy in case of further need of them.—New York Morning Telegraph. DANIELS AND FLETCHER [New York Sun.] During his administration of the Navy Department Secretary Daniels has done nothing that demonstrates his incompetence and irresponsibility more completely than his remarkable performance in suppressing the an nual report which Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, commanding the Atlantic fleet, made on August 15. 1915. The report has been shrouded in secrecy. Until Senator Lodge called for it in a resolution it was kept under lock and key. *«■•> Except Mr. Bryan in his conduct of the State Department, no American has done the country greater injury than Josephus Daniels in the use of his power and opportuni ties as the head of the Navy Depart ment. The service would rejoice and the country experience a sense of relief if he would resign an office for which he never had any qualifications. ACCIDENT POLICIES Accident policies will huppen in the best regulated families. The last time ; we got one it was a very simple mat ter. After the physical examination, which lasted three hours and a half, we were obliged to fill out a blank, answering the following questions: Where were you born, and, if so, how much? Do you expect to live until Decem ber, and if so, what reason have you for doing so? Were you ever killed before, and, if so, how many times? Please till in particulars in each case. Do you ride in automobiles or dodge 'em? This is Important. Do you engage in the pleasant but perilous occupation of trying to sell I looks from house to house on the in stalment plan? This is considered an extreme risk. Did your grandfather ever have the mumps? How many and on which side—your father's or your mothers'? Did you ever break your collarbone or your right forearm trying to button a sixteen collar on a fifteen shirt? If so, why not? Do you believe in embalming or cremation? Do you go around looking for trouble or do your wife's folks come and visit you without being invited?— Brooklyn Eagle. SOMETHING ELSE "They charged like demons," said the retired colonel, excitedly. "1 never saw anything to touch it. The way they charged positively staggered me." "Who does he mean?" whispered the man who had just come in to his neighbor, "is he talking about one of his old battles?" "No," replied the other, "he is talk ing about the holiday he spent In the Highland hotels." —Tlt-Blts. THE SEARCHLIGHT THE DYNAMOMETER CAR The Swiss Government railroads have begun to operate a new device called the dynamometer car, for gathering defi nite Information about mecnanical problems ot track and roadbed. The dynamometer car runs on the rails like an ordinary passenger coach, but it is a laboratory on wheels, equipped with a score of measuring devices. It measures the steepness of every grade, the pull of the train on the en gine draw-bar, the power developed in each of the engine cylinders, the fric tion of wheels on track, the lateral thrust of the brake-shoes and the pres sure they exert in braking, even the resistance of the wind to tile train's progress at different speed. The car is so equipped with mirrors that the observer can see the track bo fore nnd behind the train. All records are made automatically on paper charts as the car runs. When no measurements arc wanted It Is possible to disconnect the apparatus and run the car as an ordinary coach. TO A FRIEND If nothing else in all the world Remained but. just a glimpse of you, I'd still believe the world was good And life was worth the living too. If every friend had proven false But you. I'd tilill have faith to know That God could raise up other friends To stand by me in weal or woe. If over all the world a cloud llad settled, deeper than the night. And I should see your smile, I'd know Somewhere, sometime, there would be light. If ev'ry bird that ever sang Had lost the note it sang before, One word of yours would make me feel That music would peal forth once more. If ev'ry lovely flower that grew Had perished in this world of pain, I'd trust the Power that made you, dear, To bring back loveliness again. If no one else believed In God, And no one else believed in me. Your joy in life, your faith, your love, , I Would make me feel eternity. fodtttC* Mt, By the Ex-Commltteemaa Lines will be drawn for the battle to determine which faction shall boss the Democratic State machine in Pennsylvania within a week. Promi nent leaders of the rapidly-growing revolt against National Committeeman Palmer and his pals will get together and decide upon the man to run against the Monroe county lawyer and how to wrest the State committee from State Chairman Morris. Privately it is intimated that Mor ris is afraid of the present commit tee and that the reason why he has avoided anything like a State com mittee meeting since the uproarious session in 1914 was because he feared that an attempt would be made to throw him out. Morris and his friends nave little hone that they will be able to hold the State committee and will concentrate their attention on national delegates which will attract Wilson's personal notice and help Palmer, if anything can. —Presence here yesterday of Rep resentative J. W. Vickernian, of Alle gheny, Hie Governor's right hand man on the floor of the House in the local option fight. J. Denny O'Neil, the Rev. G. W. Shelton and other prominent (local optionists of Allegheny, caused rumors of a visit to the Executive Mansion to get about. It is under stood that they talked local option and other things with the Governor. —Democrats in the York-Adams congressional district appear to be getting ready for another good old fashioned scrap such as is now the rule in the Pennsylvania Democracy. They have been losing right along and seem to be determined to make the old citadel of Democracy a debatable district. A. R. Brodbeck, beaten for congress sometime ago, is a candidate again, and S. Forry Loucks will be given a run for the nomination. School Superintendent C. W. Stine is also a candidate. —Democrats in Berks county are said to be favorable to letting Con gressman Dewalt have another term. Dewalt will be a candidate. —Coatesville's mayoralty contest will close next week. The hearings are on again. —Reading Democrats will take a band to the Democratic national con vention. —Owing to shortage of money the new Philadelphia commissioners are having a hard time to reorganize their offices. Some dismissals will be made. —Gifford Pinchot, who was so thor oughly beaten as a candidate for United States senator in Pennsylvania in 1914, has not been heard from for a long, long time. —License court work is now com mencing to attract attention all over the State and the way remonstrances are being piled up is worth noting. —John Gallagher. Jr., Chester My ers, Clyde F. Stewart, Joseph Shermer and Patrick Holleren. members of the Braddock Election Board on trial, charged with conspiracy to count more ballots than were legally cast in the First ward, Braddock, at the Septem ber primaries, were yesterday after noon acquitted by a jury. The costs of the case were placed on Allegheny county. After hearing the testimony in the contest of W. B. Kirker for the prothonotaryship, to which David Johns was elected by a small majority, the entire bench of Common Pleas court threw out the vote of the Brad dock ward. This decision turned the tide in the fight and elected Kirker. —The resignation of Dr. C. P. Hen ry as head of Reading's health bureau, because, so he said, the department has become political, and communi cations from the Taxpayers' League protesting against the payment of sal aries of Councilman William Abbott Witman, Sr., because, it was claimed, his campaign expense account was il legal, caused considerable excitement at yesterday's meeting of City Council, which has been in an almost constant squabble since taking office. The pro test against Mr. 'Witman drawing his salary had been threatened since it was found that his campaign state ment filed at the courthouse was not itemized, and he filed an amended statement, when Councilman Ruth, in charge of finances, threatened to hold up the pay unless lie did. it was de cided to lay the entire matter over for investigation and Dr. Henry's resig nation was also held over. —The Philadelphia North American to-day unbosoms itself this way: "With factional lines in the Republi can organization being rapidly drawn to the breaking point, both the Vare and the Penrose wings are making overtures and bids to the shattered fragments of the Franklin party, which was led to defeat by George D. Porter last November. Porter has re cently aligned himself in politics with Senator Penrose. During his term as director of public safety, Porter's lean ing toward the Vare wing of the ma chine was very pronounced, and at one time his political lieutenants as serted that Porter had reason to ex pect the Tares to line up for him when he ran for mayor. Therefore, Porter's friends thought that the Y'ares would "take care of him" in some suitable manner when the Vare political star took the ascendency and Mayor Smith aligned himself with the downtown contractors. The Huntingdon Globe, the home paper of Governor Brumbaugh, in an editorial on the national situation, speaking, as Howard E. Butz suggests, "as the wee small voice in the wilder ness," places the Governor in the field as an available selection for President. "We present him." says the Globe, "not as a factionist, but as a Republican, o » a \y e believe that the alleged jealousies and contentions would dis solve very speedily if all Pennsylvania would get under tlie banner of a native Boil so distinguished and truly repre sentative of Pennsylvania's interests as is the Governor of the < 'onunonwealth. We are not conversant with his views and wishes in the matter to the slight est degree. So far as our knowledge goes, he has been observing a strict neutrality in the factional bickerings we read about and has confined him self wholly lo the discharge of his official duties at Harrisburg, meeting each emergency as it arises day after day and solving it in accord with his conscience and his best judgment!" PROTECTION The tramp had scaled the fence about four inches ahead of the bulldog. "What are you doing around here anyway?" asked the woman who had loosed the dog. I "Madam." said the tramp with great dignity. "I was a-goin" to ask for somethin' to eat, - but all I now ask is that you will feed that there dog."— Ladies' Home Journal. STRONGMAN NEEDED fFrom the Boston Herald.] It is good news that Pennsylvania I purposes to send Philander Chase Knox back to the United States Sen ate. His earlier record there and in J the Cabinet was that of a strong man. I Of that kind we can have none too t many. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY YOU CAN HARDLY BLAME HIM AT THAT f'vweHi orfrevwV AFWRP"ie> Q«y (SAS rem- 1 /^V. <?#. V»H4T Do >©« { DO BtfTWJK.TE IT . ( » . 4/L OeANtwT a W* ./ A ,'J s *— From tlio i:\rnlnft Bulletin. / TRAIN YOUR WEATHER EYE How the Atmosphere Works By Frederic J. Haskin DO you know why it is cool up in the mountains? What makes the wind blow? When you are mo toring or camping out far from weath er reports, do you know how to make a creditable forecast for yourself ? Or do you rely on the ground-hog and your rheumatism and other ancient super stitions? Unless you are a professional weath er bug, your answers will probably re veal a comprehensive Ignorance of a force in nature that influences every day of yonr life. Not only your golf and your tennis and your vacation in the country, but your success in busi ness, not matter what it Is, depends upon the weather. Your efficiency and energy go up and down according to the seasons. Every thunder storm spurs you on, and every long spell of un changing weather makes you lose money. The Importance of the weather is shown by the fact that the Entente allies have cut cables and intercepted wireless, and even excluded weather reports from the newspapers to pre vent the Germans from making accu rate forecasts: for the fortunes of war depend largely on weather. Dispatches from France report that there are winds from the east which will en able the Germans to use poison gas, and that the French soldiers are put ting on their masks. The importance of the weather is be ing appreciated more and more by scientists. They are constantly explor ing deeper into the underlying forces of temperature and atmosphere, and studying the effect of weather upon man. Our own weather bureau was established only about fifty years ago by a group of scientists, and it was twenty-five years before the govern ment took it over and began building up the Invaluable organization which sends out the daily weather reports. Now there is a movement on foot, discussed at every gathering of meteorologists, to establish an Inter national weather bureau which shall co-operate to furnish every nation with reports from all parts of the world. But this growing attention to weather is scarcely shared by the layman. Country people still swear by the old saying's and superstitions, some of which have a grain of truth in them, while the town dweller usually disregards the weather entirely, despite the import ant effect it has upon him and all the doings. Before you can understand the weath er you must know the general princi ples of atmospheric movement and temperature. The atmosphere is a inix t\,ro oxygen and hydrogen, with about Ave other prases in very small quantities, and also dust and germn. These latter are present in the fresh est air that you can And and are as important as the oxygen itself. The tiny organisms that inhabit the air ferment and disintegrate the soil so that plants can grow upon it. Without them, the world would be a mere chunk of rock whirling through space. The .1 B iV I , niort > necessary. It modi fies the light so that it will not blind us. and. more important, the dust par ticles form the nuclei upon which all moisture condenses. Without dust, our whole system of rainfall would be thrown out of commission. So the atmosphere in which we live is an envelope p. few miles thick made of gases holding dust and moisture In suspension. This mixture holds and tempers the heat of the sun, presents I OUR DAILY LAUGH POPULAR gT| MARY. fWjBI Mary had a little , Ty When playing u whist, you And if her part- bTWmI!) ner played an ifjWj? That trump was ® sure to go. if, ' HIGH NOTIONS. / Love in a cot 4ft iY/yj ta * e? Hully Toda Y that ■QKUOJH| doesn't go, tiftt 1 The very least —By \ ' most glr I ■ nflft. V j" can see r Is a flne bun- ONB HK MISSED By Winn Dinger I'd not rob Job of his glory- Well. indeed, he held his goat— But one mighty trial of patience Of the present day, please note, He escaped—the bore who thinks that He must to the movies go. And interpret all the titles For the folks about, you know. Twouldn't be so bad. dear reader, It this chap his English knew. But In nine times of each ten It is butchered e're lie's through. T'other night "Lakes of Killarney" Flashed a moment on the screen. From the rear, I got in loud tones, "Here's the Lakes of Kilareen." TOO IMPATIENT [From the Kansas City Journal.] After all the Americans in Mexico are slaughtered there will be no fur i ther cause for complaint on that score. Yet impatient critics of the adminls lt ration are not content to wail. us from being' burned up in the day and frozen to death at night. It has a pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch, which we do not feel because it presses upon us equally from all direc tions. When it begins to move, how ever, its weight is apparent enough, as witnesses the ninety-mile gale that up set New York the other day. Now there arc two principal move ments of this atmosphere upon which depend the wind and the temperature. In the first place, the moisture par ticles of the air catch the heat of the sun. Since the ail* is more moisture laden near the earth, that part of the atmosphere gets most of the heat. It would get so warm that we couldn't live in it except that the heat makes it light, whereupon it rises, working against the force of gravity and losing heat In the effort. For these reasons it is always cooler at high altitudes. It continues to get cooler as you go up ward until you reach a level where the air holds no moisture whatever, when the thermometer sticks at the conser vative level of 459 degrees below zero, which is known as the absolute zero of space. Such Is the movement of the air up and down. Its prevailing movement across the surface of the earth derives Its motive power from the equatorial regions. There the heat of the sun touches the earth with greatest inten sity, so that over a broad area belting the earth the heated air rises much faster and higher than anywhere else. From tl>is equatorial eminence it goes sliding down toward each of the poles, and as it nears them rushes round and round exactly as a whirlpool in run ning water. This is the one constant, unvarying movement of the atmos phere, and It creates the steady trade winds which carry ships across the ocean without let or break. The sea reflects much of the heat from its surface, uses a great deal of it in evaporation and absorbs the rest far into its depths. Furthermore, it is relatively smooth and free from ob structions. So the trade winds blow steadily across the oceans. But the earth absorbs the heat about four times as fast as the sea and also throws it off much faster, causing much more rapid and unequal changes of temper ature, while mountain ranges break its movements and the changing seasons offer yet another complication. So un der the majestic circulation of the up per atmosphere is the trouble belt in which we live, where the warming at mosphere climbs and the cooling falls and the patchwork of cool and warm areas moves in eternal conflict, seeking an equilibrium which it seldom at tains. This varied and complicated move ment is what makes the weather. To correctly forecast it requires a world wide system of scouts to watch the movements of the various 'lodies of cold and hot air. The United States Weath er Bureau, with its numerous observ ers in all parts of this country and its reports from ail parts of the wo'id is just such a system, and the proposed international weather bureau would be only a more perfect one. Meantime however, movements of clouds, direc tions of wind, temperature, dew. frost and many of the other daily phenomena of weather aro indications worth ob serving-. If he will take the trouble to grasp the fundamental pri icipals of meteorological movements and train his weath jr eye by daily observation anv one may become his own weather prophet. ura THE STATE FROM Dflf TO DOT The Philadelphia North American, which has for years been known as the staunch supporter of the Anti- Saloon League, was yesterday liter ally honeycombed, on the page which it devotes to the State of Pennsylvania with headlines that indicate a strong pull in favor of the antis. Here are .lust a few of the "Number Pours": "It's a Long Way Between Drinks in Pulton County"; "Three License Ap plicants Withdraw in Jefferson"; "Watsontown Folk up in Arms Against Saloons"; "Seven Old Schuylkill Co. Rum Stands Lose Licenses"; "Fight on Bloomsburg Rum Licenses Be gun"; "Five License Applicants Re fused in Clinton County"; and so on. "Raise the flag!" "Butch" Mc- Devitt expects to select his bride to day, is the latest report that cornea from Atlantic City, where bulletins have been coming each day report ing Butch's progress In his search lor a soul mate. Mayor Riddle, it is said, is to be permitted to perform the marriage ceremony. The choice has by this time narrowed down to two or three fortunate damsels. West King street, says the Lancas ter intelligencer, was entirely devoid of street cars the other evening, and the impatient crowds demanded to know the whys, to say nothing of the wherefores. "Beer car off track" was tho cause, and the antis are jubilant, claiming it to be another point for their cause. William Wyrough and his son James of Altoona, are both suffering from broken noses. It seems to be a family trait of some sort. The rather got his by falling on the slippery sidewalk and the son In "one of those rough" basketball games. Plans are under way by friends to have an extra syllable inserted in the last name of the unfortunate family, changing it to Wliysorough. The fifty-seventh annual meeting of the State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania. Is in session for three days at Reading. Cyrus T. Fox, of that city, delivered the address of welcome. iEtamtuj (Elfat A. S. L. Shields, the eminent delphia lawyer who died suddenly yesterday, was well known in this city as he was a frequent visitor durin* legislative sessions of a dozen or mora years ago, an attorney at the Dauphin county bar and a guest at numerous functions. He was frequently in at tendance at the State conventions ot'"% years gone by and had a hand In drafting of many platforms and sat at the councils in party affairs. Per haps, lie was best known because of his activity as counsel for Joseph M. HUBton, the architect. In the Capitol trials, being associated with Congress man George S. Graham and Samuel M. Clement, Jr., in the long series of cases in which the designer of the Capitol figured. He worked day and night on those days and on a number of occasions showed his skill as a cross-examiner. Mr. Shields' last ap pearance here was at a dinner at the Executive Mansion a few years ago. « * 8 Van Bittner, the mine worker put in charge of wage matters at the In dianapolis convention, comes from Pittsburgh and was prominent here at the hearings and meetings prior to tlie adoption of the workmen's compen sation system. Mr. Bittner spoke on behalf of the bituminous miners at the meetings held by the Industrial Accidents Commission which drafted the act and was active in behalf of the bills when the Legislature was in ses sion. ♦ * » Men operating lime kilns in the vi cinity of the city have had the usual number of cold weather visitors in the form of tramps who have been huddling about the big tires these cold nights. One man who has charge ot' some kilns said that he had sometimes to go and drive men away l'rom dan gerous places. He did not object to them sleeping in the warmth, said lie, but he did not want them to be suffo cated by the gases given off by the lime. Some of the nomads resented his kindly meant efforts and wanted to fight. As a rule the trampu know how to get the warm places, but some of them seemed to be bent on getting to hazardous places. • » • Every now and then some practical joker tries to "put one over" on the newspaper. The other day a letter to the Telegraph Social Editor had everybody laughing. The contributor spent two cents to put it through the mails, so we'll pass it along: "Miss Lena Genster (aged 35) of 1245 Anxious avenue held a party in honor of her cousin, Miss Pearl Bnt ton from Coatesville. The evening was spent in sewing buttons on ice cream and old maids. Refreshments as fried ice, and stewed bees knees were served to the Misses Carry Cole, Maggie JSene, Lena Genster, Ida Wanto, Xma I.one, Olive Oyle, Ida Claire, Mae Ilogany, Ella Vator, Miss Fortune, Dina Mite, and Pearl But ton from Coatesville; Ben Zene, Jim Nasyum. Lee Moyne, Artie Flshel> Bennie Fishel, Max Well. Karl Lyle, Victor Ola, General Merchandise, Count de Pennies, Duke de Bum, Ivan Other, At Toona and Bay iior. Miss Pearl Button will return 10 her home in Coatesville on Sunday be tween 12 and 13." » • « The snapping of the crimson skat- 4 ing flag from the top of the Union Trust Building, during the last few days had more than ordinary signifi cance to scores of people. The rod ensign as most everybody knows by this time meaus that there is fine skating at Wildwood Lake. To the hundreds of friends of V. Grant Forrer the new assistant park super intendent, the flaming streamer has another meaning. They recall that the flag was raised for the first time over one of the city's tallest build ings by "V. Grant" to announce to an eager, youthful world at. large, that Wildwood's splendid stretch of ice was ready for the skaters. The flag has flown ever since whenever the lake was fit for skating. « * * "Possibly the fact that the first dinner of the Pennsylvania State So ciety is going to be held in Philadel phia and not in Harrisburg, "the State Capital, where one would expect if to be given, will stir up the people of this progressive community on the subject of a hotel in keeping with the importance of the city," was the trenchant manner in which a promi nent man on Capitol Hill spoke last evening. He did not say more and there was no answer. e » ♦ State and municipal officials may at tend the centennial of the Incorpor ation of the city of Pittsburgh on . March 16. On that day the corner . stone of the joint city-county building • will be laid. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Dr. John A. Brasliears, designated as the State's most emlnont man, was born a short distance from the birth ■ place of P. C. Knox, i —The Rev. G. M. Davis has resign . Ed a fourteen-year pastorato at New castle because of a controversy among his congregation due to membership 1 of club members. i —Dr. Frank J. Walz, of Pittsburgh, well known here, who has been in the | war zone, has written a series of ar ' tides for Pittsburgh papers. —J. Fred Wolle, of Bethlehem, con i ductor of the Harrisburg Choral So . clety, lectured yesterday in Philadel . phla. —Captain W. B. Mills, in charge of 1 Philadelphia's traffic police, is a form . er United States cavalryman. t —Col. Harry Cutler, who lectured here on Sunday, is in charge of imml ' gratlon matters in Rhode Island. | DO YOU KNOT ! That Harrisburg is making steel i for Spanish concerns.' HISTORIC HARRISBURG > Harrisburg is the burial place of i Half King, famous Indian chief, but > his grave is unmarked. * The Man and His * Clothes What is the score? i How is the stock market? i What is the weather outlook? When a man wants to know . anything of these tilings he turns to his newspaper. It is his ref t erenco book. What Is more natural than he should refer to " it when he wants to buy clothes? 1 Several manufacturers of f branded clothing have been t shrewd enough to see this and have advertised their trade ' mark in the newspapers. This advertising: has cashed in direct ? ly over the counter of the deal er, as the latter has been only ' too glftd to co-Operate in push ' ing sales for he believes in f newspapers.
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