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FRIDAY EVENING, JAN'. 2i
!TVc are building every day
In a good or evil icay,
And the structure, as it grous,
Will our inmost self disclose.
j — ANON.
MORE "SELF-SACRIFICE"
THE picture of the President
"cutting short his honeymoon"
and "hurrying back" to Wash
ington because of the Persia incident
was a tine piece of political scenery,
akin in that regard to that other
Image of a year ago which depicted
"the lonely man in the White House."
As a matter of fact Mr. Wilson's
original plan called for his return to
the capital on Monday, January 3, the
day before Congress was to re
assemble. He changed this and de
cided to extend his honeymoon a few
days—though Congress did not post
pone its sessions—and it was this
borrowed time. If any, that was cur
tailed. Nobody will be churlish
enough to deny a honeymoon to the
President; but many will be irritated
at the renewed endeavor to present a
picture of a self-denying Mr. Wjlson
v ho does not exist.
Bellwood is the latest town along the
proposed William Penn Highway to
come into line. Its Chamber of Com
merce. at a meeting this week, in
structed the president to appoint a com
mittee to attend the conference to be
held in Harrlsburg this winter. So it
fi»e» along the entire route. Every
body is hustling and all are enthusias
tic.
STANDING TOGETHER
HARRISBURG still maintains its
place in the sun. and scarcely
a day passes without some fav
orable reference to the public spirit of
this community either in an address
before some civic body or through
the columns of a newspaper or maga
zine. The city has maintained this en
viable record of civic progress through
it long period of years by reason of the
unselfish co-operation and energy of
all classes of our people. Now and
then attempts have been made to be
stow credit upon individuals or groups
of individuals for all that has been
accomplished here in the way of civic
development and public Improvement. |
l»ut here at home we know that the
eecret of the city's success along legi
timate lines of development has been
the standing together of the people
and not simply the work of a few.
It is regrettable that now and then
the outside public gets the impression
that certain active and worthy indi
viduals have been responsible for all
that has been ahcieved since 1901.
Uegrettable because there is a ten
dency to forget the splendid work of
the people as a whole In the effort to
give credit to those who have hap
pened to be particularly active in the
several improvement campaigns.
Harrisburg should ever remember
With gratitude the several energetic
and enthusiastic men and women who
have caroled the flag of progress un
falteringly throughout these years.
But In doing honor to these care must
be taken that the great body of work
ers for civic betterement, including
many very humble and worthy citizens.
Is not lost to view. It is one of the
outstanding facts of the city's growth
and improvement that so many of our
people have co-operated in all of the
various movements for the betterment |
of the city and the welfare of the j
people.
During the present year there will
be ample opportunity for Harrisburg:
to still further blaze the way for muni
cipal progress and the several civic or
ganizations will doubtless have their
part in these activities. Many impor
tant matters still cry for attention and
It should be the business of all who
are Interested In the city's growth and
prosperity to join hands in promoting
plans for a still greater city.
With the coming of the next session
of the Legislature that body should be
fully Informed of what Harrlsburg has
been doing to make the city a proper
Betting for the magnificent Capitol.
As the law-making department of the
Commonwealth is an ever changing
body It cannot be assumed that the
members from time to time are In
touch with what has been transpiring
here In Harrlsburg. They should be
enlightened when matters which af
fect the city and the State are before
the Legislature at a time when mem
bers can act intelligently upon them.
It is certain that the session of 1917
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 21, 1916.
I must deal with the final treatment of l
I the Capitol park grounds—the old and
the newer sections. For this reason
particularly, some arrangements must
'be made through the Chamber of
! Commerce or otherwise to present to
. the Legislature some outstanding facts
regarding the progress of the city and
the ectlvltles of our own community
, in the matter of public improvements.
Prnctically every State will have n
favorite son or two before the Republi
can national convention at Chicago. It |
Is manifestly the conviction of all Re- I
publicans that the candidate of the
; party must be one who will embody
the very best traditions of the country
I and in his personality and character
give full expression to the aspirations
and hopes of the people.
IX AUSTRALIA. ALSO
T IKE the United States, Australia
I j has protited immensely by the
European war, but unlike the
! United States, Australia is not de
! ceiving herself as to the cause for her
prosperity. Apparently, there Is no
political necessity which impels the
administration to convey the impres
sion that the prosperity has a basis
other than war. The Interstate Com
mission has recently Issued a report
which shows how various industries
have been developed as a result of
the cutting off of importations and
the creation of a new demand from
nations at war.
For example, although Australia is
a great producer and exporter of
wool, she has been an importer of
woolen goods, particularly from Ger
many. Australian manufacturers de
sired the aid of a protective tariff,
but were unable to get it and the in
dustry languished—much to the prollt
of Germany. Now, however, "It Is
well understood by the general public,
that the isolation caused by war con
ditions, elimination of German sup
plies and heavy military orders has
provoked unprecedented prosperity in
this industry." The Commission
thinks the woolen industry, therefore,
presents scope for study by investors
with money needing profitable em
ployment.
But the investor who conducts a
careful "study" before investing will
probably ask: "After the war, what?"
If woolen manufacturers could not
compete before the war, what en
couragement is there for careful busi
nessmen to Invest in the industry with
the certainty that competition will
be restored as soon as the war Is over.
And the same situation Is presented
in the United States.
APPRECIATES WAR "PRICES"
EVIDENTLY Senator Reed, of
Missouri, is one Democrat who
appreciates the effect of war
orders on high prices and prosperity
in this country. Debating the ques
tion of the Government placing an
embargo on the shipment of supplies
to the European belligerents, he de
clared on the floor of the Senate re
cently:
Enforce such a doctrine and the
price of every horse and mule in
America will fall to about 50 per
cent, of its value; likewise cattle
and hogs will go to about 50 per
cent, of their value. All the pro
ducts of our farms and mines and
factories will go to about 50 per
cent, of their value, and this coun
try will be engulfed in a financial
and industrial catastrophe such as
the world has never seen.
The slump in this country before
the European war broke out indicated
that everything was going to drop to
fifty per cent, of Its value and no pur
chasers. It's rough on Dame Europe,
but she has pulled us out of the hole,
temporarily.
BRYAN'S ATTTTCDE
ARITHMETICAL progression could
not be more consistently regular
toward any given end than the
varying attitude of Bryan toward
President Wilson In the former Secre
tary's personal publication, The Com
moner. From warm support to cool
! ness, from coolness to adverso criti
cism, the progress of The Commoner
has been steady, but the movement
from one extreme to the other has
been so gradual as to be almost Im
perceptible.
How different is the following Com
moner editorial from the volleys of
praise with which It was saluting the
President at the beginning of his term:
What reason has he to question
the patriotism of Democratic Sena
tors and Representatives? Were
they not elected by the same
voters who elected him? And have
they not stood by him?
Now long, at this rate, will it be
before Colonel Bryan is openly oppos
ing the renomination of the man he
nominated at Baltimore? And yet
who can say just .when The Com
moner began to drift from the Wilson
moorings? The 8.-yan charge of front
has been so skilfully made that one
pauses to reflect that possibly the
former Secretary might have done bet
ter in planning campaigns in Europe
than in trying to checkmate them.
TRADE PREPAREDNESS
ONE of the most practical confer
ences planned In many a day In
this country Is that of the Third,
I National Foreign Trade Convention, to'
| be held next week at New Orleans.
The convention has been called for
the purpose of discussing the commer
cial preparedness of the foreign com
merce of the United States to meet
conditions which may be expected to
prevail after the war. Now is the time
to prepare for the keen competition
in world markets which is bound to
arise when the great European struggle
is ended. Since foreign trade is a
vital element of domestic prosperity,
the co-ordinated effort of the entire
; nation—manufacturers, producers of
natural commodities, merchants, bank
■ ers and carriers—is absolutely neces
! sary if the splendid trade balance rec
: ords set up during the war are to be
; maintained.
1 The National Foreign Trade Council
' indeed does well to schedule for
! weighty consideration such Important
• proble*ns as the utilization of the tariff
i to encourage foreign trade and pro
■ tect It from discrimination, the adapta
• tlon of commercial education to the
i needs of oversea commerce, and ways
and means for smaller manufacturers
more effectively to engage In export
trade.
It would well repay any business
man and manufacturer In Harrlsburg
and Central Pennsylvania who has de- 1
veloped foreign trade channels to at- j
tend this great conference and prepare
himself for the vicissitudes which are |
sure to come after the war.
| TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"]
—"Eufope is fast becoming a scrap
heap," says an exchange. Yes, in more
senses than one.
—President Wilson did to the one
term plank what Emperor William
did to that other "scrap of paper."
If this weather keeps up we shall
expect to hear very shortly that
Dr. Kager has found a hypatica bloom
ing in Wildwood.
—Pictures of the Grecian king show
him smiling and apparently in a pleas
ant frame of mind. The editors all
add the explanation that the photo
graphs were made before the war.
—Some' boys and girls were heard
yesterday complaining because the tire
bugs discriminated against their school
bouses.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Some of these German-Americans
who proclaim they will return to Ger
many after the war will lose their long
ing for the Fatherland when the war
tax rates are announced.—Philadelphia
North American.
Canadians are said to be crossing
over into the States to avoid the neces
sity of military service. A sort of de
laped reciprocity, so to speak. A great
many Americans crossed over into
Canada in the early 60's.—New York
Telegraph.
I? you think you are pretty well read
in world-literature, how does it strike
your complacency to learn that the
Nobel prizes for literature have been
awarded to Romain Rolland, Henrik
Pontoppidan. Troels Lundanre, and Ver
ner von Heidenstam?—Kansas City
Star,
TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Colonel
Roosevelt, In his speech at the Met
ropolitan Opera House last night, wan
dered a good deal from the strict letter
of his text, which was "Fear God and
Take Your Own Part." but he preached
a sermon on preparedness which the
American people might do well to take
to heart. Contrary to what might have
been expected from the ex-President,
in the light of some of his recent
utterances in criticism of the Federal
administration and upon the subject
of military preparedness, he devoted
less than a quarter of his speech to
the military and naval needs of the
nation and to the subject of universal
military service, and dwelt. Instead,
upon the equally vital need of that
broader preparedness in national effi
ciency of which Germany has given
the world so striking an example.
Philadelphia Press: Major-General
Wood's evidence before the Senate
military committee should arouse Con
gress to some just conception of our
condition of unpreparedness. This
European war has shown that unless a
nation dominates the sea, a large body
of troops can be landed, ready for
lighting, on its shores with compara
tive ease. General Wood says a trained
force of 150,000 men could inflict in
calculable damage before an army
could be assembled to prevent it.
New York World: Aside from all
debatable matter, Admiral Fletcher's
report makes clear one very important
poir.t. The United States navy to-day
suffers from a serious shortage both of
officers and men. It is generally known
that, by comparison with foreign na
vies, American warships are under
officered. Admiral Fletcher urges that
the number of officers on the battle
ships be increased approximately 40
per cent, "to enable the vessels to at
tain their greatest efficiency." In this
respect Congress with the least pos
sible delay should act in the matter of
preparedness on Secretary Daniels'
Annapolis vecommendation. As Ad
miral Fletcher says, "it takes approxi
mately ten years to educate and train
an officer, and no amount of legislation
can provide officers when trouble is
imminent."
THE OLD ALMANAC
(Kansas City Star)
An almanac was dropped upon the
doorstep yesterday; the same old al
manac. The only new thing about it,
at first glance, is the date, 1916, on the
front cover. In all else it is the same
almanac it was thirty or forty years
ago. when you first became acquaint
ed with it.
You greet the old almanac as you
would a very dear friend. It was a
member »f the family back in the
old home. It hung by one corner
from a nail under the mantel be
hind the cook stove. Grandfather
consulted it for weather forecasts as
religiously as he consulted the Bible
for solace, and woe to the boy who
took It from Its nail and failed to
replace it.
Possibly you had not seen one of
those yellow backed almanacs for
many years, and yet there seems to
have been no break in its issuance.
"Sixty-fourth year of publication" It
says on the cover. You turn its
pages lovingly. The same old medi
cines; and even the pictures are the
same. The same kind of testimon
ials of cure, list of eclipses, changes
of the moon and monthly calendars
with jokes under them. In the old
days, back home, those jokes were
told and retold at every gathering
throughout the year. Here's one of
the 1916 vintage:
"Dobbins —I hear that your daugh
ter married a struggling young man.
Jobbins—Well, yes, he did struggle,
but 'twas no use; he couldn't get
away."
That would have been a prime joke
in the old home neighborhood and Its
luster would never have been dim
med by retelling. It would always
bring a hearty laugh. It was one of
the fine attributes of the old home
folks that they never would injure
a person's feelings by failing to laugh
at his jokes. People were more con
siderate then than they are now.
Although the old almanac is not re
garded as such a reliable old friend
as It used to be, it still is welcomed
as it was so many years ago, more
for the sake of old memories than
for its usefulness now.
BETTER GET READY
(Johnstown Leader)
They say we'll have to fight the Japs
upon our western shore anil maybe on
the east we'll meet the Kaiser and
some more, and then, there's always
Mexico and little Haiti, too, with dark
and shady politics that's always in a
stew. Our northern tveighbor, Canada,
is none too good a friend and might
help John Hull's allies, or at least
might ncjt defend our northern border
from a foe who'd come across that
way, so maybe we had better start
preparedness plans to-day.
'polttt co- Ik
"~P CKKQijIcCDUXi,
By the Ex-Commlttoeman
According to Pittsburgh papers
Auditor General A. W. Powell, wlio
was among those mentioned as a pos
sible candidate for United States
Senator, is being seriously mentioned
as judicial timber in Allegheny coun
ty. The auditor general is at his home
in Glassport this week and it is stated
that he has admitted that some of his
friends have been talking about him
as a candidate.
Three Allegheny judges are to re
tire and the Pittsburgh Guzette-Times
says: "There was a story in circula
tion yesterday that William Fllnn Is
giving some attention to the judgeship
contest of next year and is making
up a slate. According to the report,
three of his candidates are Mr.
Powell, Lee C. Beatty and Judge
James B. Drew of the county court.
I This may be some political dopester's
[dream or the real thing. If Mr. Flinn
is interested in putting through a
slate of judges, he would hardly ad
mit this length of time ahead of the
contest. Mr. Powell was asked about
his candidacy, and replied that if he
ever aspired to another office it would
be a judgeship that he would seek.
'lt is a laudable ambition to want to
go on the bench,' said Mr. Powell.
'Some of my friends have talked to
me about the possibility of my be
coming a candidate next year and
when the time comes I may decide to
Ido so. At present I do not consider
[myself a candidate.' Mr. Powell's
successor as Auditor General will be
elected this Kail and will take office
next May. This would give him time
to make a campaign for Judge.
—A Pittsburgh dispatch says regard
ing a conference held here on Wed
nesday and referred to last night in
this column: "J. Denny O'Neil, the
Rev. George W. Shclton, Assembly
man John W. Vickerman and Council
man Dr. G. A. Dillinger returned from
Harrisburg to-day, where they took
up the matter of the local option tight
with Governor Brumbaugh. The lat
ter assured them, they said to-night,
that he would stump the State for
every member of the Legislature
seeking re-election who voted for the
local option measure at the last ses
sion. He will also personally super
intend the tight against the men who
opposed the measure. Two headquar
ters will be opened soon, at Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia, from which
the State-wide campaign will be di
rected. The Governor said, of the
12 delesates-at-large for the National
Convention, five of them should be
Senators Penrose and Oliver, Mayor
Smith, of Philadelphia, Mayor Arm
strong of Pittsburgh, and himself.
—Things are all beated up in Phila
delphia again as a result of a move
ment on the part of the Penrose and
Porter 'people to get together. Con
gressman Vare is quoted in the Phila
delphia Record as making some tart
comments and the Philadelphia Press
sees all sorts of possibilities. The
Press says in part: "Possibilities of
a Penrose-Porter alliance immediately
to take an active part in the election
of delegates to the Republican Na
tional Convention and members of the
Republican State Committee were dis
cussed with avidity yesterday by poli
ticians. Slumbering consideration of
such a deal which has been given for
some time, broke out openly when it
became known that within a week
former Director of Public Safety
Porter, defeated Mayoralty candidate,
had. with a group of his partisans in
the November fight, held a conference
with Senator Penrose in his office, in
the Arcade Building, and the even
more sensational supplemental de
velopment announced in an interview
with Senator Vare. that the arrange
ments for the conference were made
at conferences which Mr. Porter held
with Senator McNichol in the office of
the Clerk of Quarter Sessions Cun
ningham in City Hall. Finally the
political whisperers who are on the
'inside' add that Oscar E. Noll, leader
of the Thirty-seventh Ward, and Rolla
Dance, of the Tenth Ward, were the
instrumentalities in bringing about
the Porter-Penrose conference after
Mr. Porter failed to secure a seat on
the Public Service Commission which
it is said he sought."
—Congressman Henry W. Watson,
who redeemed the Bucks-Montgomery
district and sent R. E. Diffenderfer to
the scrap heap, is a candidate for
re-election. He is out on the tariff
issue.
Proceedings to oust A. H. Ellis, a
West Pittston councilman on the
ground that he is not a citizen have
been started at Wilkes-Barre.
—The movement to annex West
Hazleton to Hazleton has been revived.
It was defeated in 1910.
—Bryn Athyn is the latest addition
to the list of boroughs. It is in Mont
gomery county.
—William L. Hankey, a Wilmerding
banker, is out for Democratic na
tional delegate.
—C. K. Morganroth is the new soli
citor of Northumberland county.
REMEMBER THE POOR
| There is that maketh himself rich,
I yet hath nothing; there is that
\ maketh himself poor, yet hath great
riches.—Prov. 13-7.
' There is that scattereth and yet in
jcreaseth; and there is that which
l holdeth more than is meet, but It
Itendeth to poverty.—Prov. 11-24.
But this I say, He which soweth
• sparingly shall reap also sparingly;
and he which soweth bountifully shall
reap also bountifully.—ll Cor. 9-6.
Every man according as he pur
poseth in his heart, so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity; for
the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.—
II Cor. 9-7.
HE HAD 'EM
(From the Mother's Magazine)
Bobby's mother had forbidden him
to fight, but he came home one day,
bruised and battered, with the blood
running down his face and two front
teeth missing.
"Why, Bobby," said the mother
sternly, "you have been fighting again
and have lost two of your teeth."
"Oh, no, I haven't, mother," replied
the young man, "I've got them both
safe in my pocket."
LOVE'S YEAR
When quick'ning buds begin to peep,
Awaking from their winter sleep;
When birds in spinney, copse and
brake
Dear partners for their nesting take,
Then, Love, I think of love' sweet
spring,
When life's Joys all were burgeoning.
When summer's pencil paints with
flowers
The border trim, the woodland bowers;
When wilding rose and eglantine
Their flowery tendrils intertwine,
Then, Love, I think of love's high noon.
Of wedded summer, gone too soon.
When autumn's alchemy to gold
The leafage turns of Vale and wold.
And lingering flowers of loveliness
The corners of my garden bless,
Then, Love, I think of love's content.
That silent, still, calm sacrament.
When icy winds blow o'er the plain,
Inaugurating winter's reign,
And, far and near, beneath the skies
His glistening snow-white vesture lies,
Then, Love, I think of love that dare
Make its own Eden anywhere!
—Alfred B. COOPM.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
FINISHED?; , ..
—From the New York World
r -y
PUTTING DOBBIN^
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE slaughter of horses for food
purposes has been legalized in
New York City. For the first
time, horse-flesh comes on the Amer
ican market as a staple. The country
is watching with much interest this
attempt of the New York board of
health to fight the high cost of meat.
If the practice gains favor in New
York, there is no doubt that it will
be taken up in other cities. There
is a widespread prejudice against the
eating of horse-flesh, but should the
new meat prove cheap its use will
quickly spread. Once a source of
meat supply for half the world, the
United States has become a meat im
porting nation, and the change was
so sudden that its magnitude is yet
hardly realized. There were 51,000,-
000 beef cattle in the country in
1907. To-day there are less than
3 7,000,000. The average cost of the
best dressed beef, in wholesale quanti
ties, was $6.35 per hundred weight
In 1904. To-day it is $10.75, and
cheaper grades have rised propor
tionately more.
Some idea of the domestic demand,
for meat can be gleaned from a con
sideration of recent imports. In eight
months of 1914, we imported 197,-
000,000 pounds. The imports for 1915
were well over 200,000,000.
There are 21,000,000 horses in the
United States. Of these about 2 per
cent., or 420,000 head are not useful
for work, because of age or some
physical defect. They are not put
out of the way because with no mar
ket for their flesh, such a course
would make them a dead loss to their
owners. But there is a meat supply
available immediately, amounting to
about 300,000,000 pounds of horse on
the hoof.
That the prevailing prejudice
against the eating of horseflesh,
simply because it i s horseflesh, is
largely unreasonable, is shown by the
fact that it is used in Europe. Europe
went through the controversy which
is doubtless about to arise over the
question here, almost a hundred
years ago. The first public licensed
slaughterhouse for butchering horses
was opened in Copenhagen in 1806.
The practice suffered temporary
checks whenever a new cheap meat
supply became available, as from this
country in the '7os, or from South
America later, but whenever prices
go up the horse steps forward and
takes his place on the bill of fare.
Custom has uprooted much of the
prejudice against him as an article of
diet.
On the other hand, horse-flesh has
certain undeniable disadvantages that
will always militate against its use by
anyone who can afford beef. In ap
pearance it. is hardly appetizing, be
ing dry and often stringy, with little
fat. What fat there may be is yel
lowish In color. The taste is distinctly
sweetish, due to the presence of a
certain animal sugar. Its nutritive
value, however, is believed by ex
perls to be fully as high as that of
beef or mutton, and by those whose
circumstances do not permit them to
be fastidious, a chance to buy cheap
! | THE STATE FROM POTTO Dw'
For that person who would rather
mull over the eccentricities of events
and figures that never get him any
where, here are a few kernels gleaned
from a State contemporary. Over a
certain avenue in the town wherein
this paper holds the leading place, it
has been estimated that 50,000 persons
traveled afoot in one Week. At the
Isame time 62 5 passenger trains were
1 counted crossing the same street, and
so on, ad infinitum. It is our sincere
'hope that no serious mental depres
sion has resulted from the week's
strain of figuring. Nightmares -would
have no terror for such a mathema
tician.
The director of the Allegheny ob
servatory predicts an eclipse of the
sun on February 3; Mr. Schlessinger
also predicted that an eclipse of the
moon was to be visible yesterday
morning at 4.24 o'clock. We didn't
stay up to ascertain for ourselves,
personally, so cannot vouch for the au
thenticity of the prognostications.
A Langhorne girl, Miss Viola M.
Kingsley, had probably one of the most
unique wedding trips in the history of
man the other day in Norristown. Her
husband, H. E. Booth, is a volunteer
fireman and on the arrival of the cou
ple at their home, they were seized
bodily, bundled unceremoniously upon
a fire truck and rushed through the
streets of the town at a rate of forty
miles an hour. Nor was it a summer
day, but the pair took it good natur
edly.
A short, black-bearded Civil War
veteran wearing a black sweater and
a slouch hat and weighing 103 pounds,
has been missing from Marietta for
several weeks and no trace of his
whereabouts can be found. Part of
the top of his head had been shot off
in the war, and the shortage seemed to
be bothering him of late.
horse-meat will be enthusiastically
welcomed. This is especially the
case among the poorer immigrants,
who are acustomed to its use.
Two grades of horso-llesh will come
on the market immediately. First is
that of old, worn-out horses, whose
owners are glad to get rid of them
at any price, and would have knock
ed them on the head long ago, had
such action not meant a dead loss,
however small. This meat, obviously,
will be neither tender nor juicy, but
though it takes a large amount of
chewing it has as high a nutritive
value per pound as the best porter
house. For the very poor, it moans
an indispensable item on tho bill of
fare taken care of at a minimum
cost.
Besides the twenty-year old vet
erans, a large number of young
horses will in all probability be
brought forward for slaughter in con
sequence of some physical defect,
some injury, or viciousness of temper.
Here again, only tho fact that knock
ing the horse on the head struck the
owner as much like pitching a roll of
bills into the street, made him keep
it. Give him a chance to get a little
cash for the animal, and he will be
glad to be rid of him. The flesh of
such horses will prove as tender as
that of well-fed young steers or
sheep. It will keep its characteristic
flavor, but many people like the
sweetish taste. Properly prepared,
it should- make a tasty dish, and if
fickle fashion turns that way, there
is no reason' why it should not be
come, pqpular.
There ,is ,'no, chance, however, that
the raising of, horses for the market
will ever become an industry in
itself. The will give
the breeder'and-farmer an outlet for
his undesirable stock, aii/d in this
way it will. be a>' great help to the
business, but . the,,ahorse can never
compete wi ; th the steer as a food
supply. , The average value of the
21,000,000 'horses in the country is
$lO3 a head. The average value of
the 37,000,000 cattle is only $33. A
steer matures in threje years, .getting
practically his full growth and ,weight
in that time, while a horse is not "fully
grown until the tifth year. In .other
words, it requires two extra' years of
expense and feeding to raise a'horse
for market. Horse-flesh would be far
more expensive .than beef should the
demand ever'draw on young, healthy
stock.
As a, utilization of waste product,
however, the butchering of the worn
out and the unfit, whatever horse
flesh we put on the market will be a
clear economic gain.
The most important promise of the
new movement, and one whose far
reaching results have yet to be ap
preciated, lies in the way it will af
fect, not the meat markets, but the
horses of the country. Horse breed
ing is one of dur tremendously im
portant Industries. In spite of the
spread of the automobile, the horse
is more valuable and more in demand
every year. The new slaughterhouse
[ will bring about an ideal condition for
I improving the breed.
Typographical errors in the newspa
per game are numerous, but it re
quired almost jig-saw intelligence to
patch up the puzzle which appeared
in one of the State's well-known pa
pers this morning. The head, "Mur
dered Girl Was Not Native of City"
led oft a story about the health de
partment taking steps to check the
outbreak of measles; while several
columns away the story of the mur
dered girl had this at the top: "182
Cases Measles in City at Present."
The Reading health officer, Dr.
Charles P. Henry, has resigned from
the office because of politics, says he.
The doctor never was a politician and
never intends to be, and inasmuch as
he believed that the health department
was being placed upon a political ba
sis, he deemed it time for him to re
sign. i
I OUR DAILY LAUGH I
HORRID MAN.
She: Don't yow
rjS, think marriage la
y* the chle ' en< *
HIT I He: It'» surely
HE KNEW.
I won $50.00 at
poker last night,
So I suppose •
your wlfe'll get a
$75.00 gown on
the strength of It*
Bmttng (Eljat
Many interesting and historic placea
will be touched by the proposed Wil
liam Penn Highway in its course from
Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. At Col
legeville is Urslnus College; at Potts
town the Hill School; at Reading the
route will cover Penn street; at Wora
elsdorf is the burial of Conrad
.Welser, the Indian diplomat; at Myers
town the Albright College; at Annville
the Lebanon Valley College; Hershey,
the famous chocolate town; thence to
Harrisburg through a region rich in
historic lore; to the Lewistown Nar
rows and-Jack's in the Juni
ata Valley, every>foot of which will
suggest exciting Indian reminiscences;
Huntingdon, the home of Governor
Brumbaugh and the Juniata College;
Hollidaysburg, the end of the Penn
sylvania canal and the beginning ot
the incline railway over the Allegheny
mountains; Altoona, the seat of tho
convention of war governors and the
great Pennsylvania Railroad shops;
Ebensburg, the highest elevation of
the Allegheny mountains; Johnstown,
the flood city and great industrial com
munity; Indiana, State normal school
seat, and so on all the way to Pitts
burgh.
News of the death of Major-General
W. M. Graham, United States Army,
retired, which occurred at Annapolis
a few days ago. will be received
with regret by many here. General
Graham was commander of the Sec
ond Army Corps when it came to
Camp Meade and was a frequent vis
itor to this city. He was organizer of
that corps and commanded it until tho
end of the war. He was 81 years of
age and four times breveted for gal
lantry, serving with conspicuous brav
ery at Gettysburg. The late Captain
\V. W. Galbreath was one of General
Graham's aids at Camp Meade.
Railroad men who have been keep
ins: tabs on tho amount of coal rushed
through this city on the Pennsylvania
and tlie Reading railways say that
nothing like it has ever been known
and that the tonnage handled, if it
could be worked out here, would
amaze people. Almost every day more
coal goes through Ilarrisburg than the
average man realizes and the destina
tions are as interesting as the size of
the shipments. Many of the cars go
through here direct to the wharves in
New York, where the mineral is rushed
on waiting ships. Other cars are sent
to blast furnaces, to mills and factories
and coal yards. Some cars go to Balti
more and some to Boston.
One of the jitney drivers about tho
city makes everything serve him. He
appeared the other day with a sign
distinctly homemade ornamenting the
front of his car. On the rear he had
hung an ordinary stable lantern. Boys
had stolen the sign and lamp that
originally decorated the car, he said.
Vitality of the clilckweed that is
seen about the city is rather strongly
shown by the quantity of the plant to
be seen on roads about the city. The
tiny weed, which in some cases is not
much larger than a pillbox, is to be
found in the most unexpected places
and some bits have been found shoot
ing up between stones and right where
winter's winds would sweep it. The
chickweed is the hardiest, of the hardy
and it tries to maintain the green of
summer when everything else suc
cumbs to frost.
The spirit that caused Atze Zdveloff,
a Steelton Bulgarian, to plunge into
the ice-choked river the other day to
rescue a sacred symbol during a re
ligious celebration evidently became
infectious in the little Bulgarian
colony. Some hours after Atze had
taken his icy bath a little group of
shouting, jostling foreigners emerged
from one of the West Side "coffee
houses" and made their way to the
river. After some argument the crowd
turned upon one of their number and
shoved him over the edge of the ice
into the river. Asked what the idea of
the "joke" was, one of the foreigners
replied: l "Oh, just for fun."
"•• * • »
D^vid 'Goldberg, interpreter for the
Pennsylvania , railroad is the owner
of a, solid silver coffee urn. 113 years
old. . It' was made in? Moscow, Russia,
in 1803 and'was handed down from
the ancestors of Mr. "•Goldberg's first
wife. Four daughters want" this valu
able relic. He cannot gjve it to all of
them, and will sell it. The money, will
be divided between , the ' daughters.
Milton J. Brecht,; the Public Service
Commissioner, who has .been ill with
grip, has been able to resume his
duties. He took cold while making an
inspection trip. . .
j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Henry Albee, Potter county's
member of the Legislature, was a suf
ferer by the Galeton fire.
—Ex-Senator Clarence Wolf, of
Philadelphia, has been re-elected presi
dent of the Mercantile Club at Phila
delphia.
—George J. Watson, head of the
Philadelphia Builders' Ex'change, says
that it is going to be the largest in
the country soon.
—Mayor Smith's selection of a park
way site for the convention hall has
been endorsed in Philadelphia.
| —William Hi Stevenson, prominent
Pittsburgher, has been delivering ad
dresses on purposes of recent ordi
nances In that city.
—C. Ward Eicher, district attorney
of Westmoreland county, spent part of
this week in Washington.
[ DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg bread and cake
are shipped daily Into a dozen
counties?
'HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first State arsenal was located
in Capitol Park and removed soon
after the Civil War.
The Small Boy and
the Big Pie
When a very small boy starts
out to eat a very big pie results
seldom measure up to his en
thusiasm.
He wastes more than he can as
similate.
Advertisers of products who at
tempt to cover the world at one
sw<»op are like the small boy.
The waste eats up their profits.
The logical advertising way
is to take up a territory at a
time and to cover it thoroughly.
And the logical mediums to use
are the dally newspapers.
Advertisers seeking informa
tion about newspapers are in
vited to write to the Bureau of
Advertising. American News- |
paper Publishers Association, I
World Building, New York.