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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
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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
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HIGH NOTIONS.
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Toda Y that
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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The Man and His
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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.