6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBHSF.iPER FOR THE HOUR PouHttd lilt Published evening* except Sunday by THE I'RI.BfIRAPH PRISTINa CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLE, Fris't tnd Hdun-im-Chut F. R. OYSTER, Business Manattr. GL'S M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub " Gas Building:, Cht oago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg:. Pa., as second class matter. carriers, six cents a <>UjSm4OTE£RE> week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Smnrn ilnllv >\rr>tr circulation fer the three month* ending; IJec. 31. 1815, ★ 22,412 * These figures are net. All returned, • naeld and damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21. 1 the Lord search the heart. I try the reins, even to give every man ac- ( cording to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. —Jf.r. 17:10. BARNI'M ADMINISTRATION HEARINGS on the defense bills have only just begun in Con gres, and it took only three clays to disclose that it will be another year at least before anything is done on the building of the battleships which were authorized a year ago. It will be March, 191", before a penny will be spent on the naval building program which was adopted prior to March, 1915. These admissions, wrung from Ad miral Stanford in his testimony before the House Naval Committee, shed aj ♦ light of comprehension upon Secretary * McAdoo's estimate of only $93,000,000 additional required for national de fense this year when the naval and army plans which the President had sanctioned called for much more motley. This episode brings to the front and emphasizes anew the persistent policy j of this administration in trying to fool the people. McAdoo's cooked and juggled financial statements, Redtieid's incomplete and garbled statistics. Dan iels' stirring demand for warships— all are predicated upon the theory that the people like to be humUugged and' t hat'tins'Barnum among administra tions will give the people what they want. But when the humorists of the ad ministration apply their joker methods to such serious matters as the national finance, public defense and our for eign relations, the people are inclined to laugh on the other side of their mouths. The humor is too grim, the objects too serious. That quotation on the lips of Rep resentative "Ike" Sherwood, "Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just." recalls Artemus Ward's half-soling of the maxim: "And four times he who gets his blow in fust." H AItIUSBCRG'S NEIGHBORS PREPARATIONS are now going forward for the 1916 trade excur sion of the Chamber of Commerce. This tour will include all the principal! towns between this city and Altoona, as well as Bellefonte. Lock Haven and Wiiliamsport. It will cover two days ; and it is expected the special train will carry nearly 200 of the livest wires in the local business community. A number of guests will accompany the members and it is expected that the irip will still further cement the good feeling which already subsists between Harrisburg and the Central Pennsyl vania towns. A definite program is being arranged for every sto® on the itinerary and j nothing is being left to chance. It is j going to be a fine get-together excur- j sion in which the greetings of Harris-1 burg will lie extended to the towns! that are to be visited in this unique! manner. As the capital of the Commonwealth this city is becoming more and more a center of the activities of Central Pennsylvania. It is natural that tills should be so owing to the fact that Harrisburg is the very hub of the great transportation systems of the State. More than twenty-five years aso a distinguished churchman, dis cussing the location of the Gettysburg Seminary, made the prediction that this city would become one of the larger of the inland cities of the United Slates and that it would be wise to consider the location of the more im portant educational institutions at or near Harrisburg. Several times within the past ten or fifteen years boards of trustees of a number of important educational institutions have consid ered transplanting colleges and semi naries to this city, but owing to the influence of vested interests elsewhere the change of location has always been deferred. It is certain, however, that with the realization of the unusual transportation facilities here, and the ease with which large numbers of people may enter and leave Harrisburg from all parts of the State, this city must become a still greater dis tributing center than it is at present and a more Inviting place for all man. Ncr of enterprise, Industrial and other wise. While the Chamber of Commerce tour is in no wise a proselyting expe dition. the purpose of the excursion being simply to enlarge the good fecl- • V MONDAY EVENING, 1 Ins of the towns and cities to be vis ited, it is certairf to inure to the benefit of Harrisburg anil ail its neighbors when the facts which relate to the growth of Central Pennsylvania are better understood. This city is not only a leader in civic matters and in modern development: it maintains a conspicuous place in the indtistrial and railroad and commercial world. And the fact that it is the capital of the Commonwealth places it in a class of its own so far as the other cities of the State are concerned. The tour in February is arousing much interest along the way and it Is expected that great good wilt come from the swing around the circle. It is probable also that this tour will fur ther develop the orators of the Cham ber of Commerce and afford an oppor tunity to spread abroad knowledge of the good things of Harrisburg and its | environment. THE CALL .TO HARMONY EVERY Republican and Inde pendent voter In Pennsylvania with Republican leanings must subscribe to the call of independent leaders in Philadelphia for a "get together" movement -there that will result in a sweeping Republican vic tory next Fall and the utter repudiation of the present misfit administration at Washington. But it is "to be greatly regretted that such a call should be made the subject of a political brawl that promises to give harmony about as much chance in Philadelphia as the dove of peace has at present on the Ijattle front in Flanders. Republicans in Pennsylvania at large are heartily sick of the everlasting bickering and quarreling of those in command at Philadelphia. They are disgusted with local leaderships that place personal ambitions and business considerations above the good of the party as a whole. If a peaceful settle ment of petty differences in the Quaker City is impossible, then let the fist fight take place there and there alone. The Republicans of the State outside the one small corner that constitutes Phila delphia county want none of it. They have but one hope and ambition at this time, and that is party unity, to the end that all Republicans and all Inde pendents may be brought together under the common banner of Vigorous protest against the maladministration of national affairs at Washington. They look with ill-favor indeed upon anything and anybody that stands in the way of a sweeping Republican victory next Fall. Pennsylvania Republicans will lend ! a helping hand wherever it Is needed' to any man or body of men sincerely endeavoring to bring about harmony in Philadelphia, but they will not for a'moment countenance any effort that looks toward extending the Philadel phia brawl to the State at large. They have seen the evil results of such a course In the past and they will have none of it at this time. If Philadel phia hopes to continue to wield its old-time influence in the Legislature when it convenes next time, it would do well to give the voters at large some indication of its fitness for lead ership at this critical time. DEIdGHTFVL, WEATHER THE kind of weather we are now enjoying is too good to last,, but it should be accepted with rejoicing as a foretaste of what is in store for us. The winter seems scarcely to have started and already the groundhog is stirring in his den, there is a new note of joy in the chirp of the sparrow and Spring •is just around the corner. Another month of wintry blasts and snow, with an inter mingling of such fine days as those that have made life worth living the, past half-week, and the blue birds will again be with us and lovers of out doors will be turning to thoughts of gardening, of golf, of angling and the thousand and one dear, delightful open-air sports and recreations that the rigors of cold weather have caused us to temporarily lay aside. It's a good thing to look ahead In this way. It helps one over the hard spots. Fortunate is he who can mtke flowers bloom and balmly breezes blow beside his warm fireside when snow is falling without and biting winds are howling about the chimney top. Thanks, Mr. Weatherman, for this opportunity to glimpse the pleasant prospects ahead in reality as well as in fancy. IMMORAL SHOWS THE suit brought against the man agement of the Orpheum theater on Saturday, following the ap pearance there of a burlesque show that the police charge was immoral and indecent, is in direct line with Mayor Meals' pre-election promises of a clean city. It is a question, how fiver, if the interests ot the public would not have been better protected had the members of the company which gave the objectionable per formance been included in the war rant. " The local management is not re sponsible for the character of the bookings. The engagements are all made In New York. Frequently it happens that those in charge of th'e theater do not know that a show is objectionable until It is under way, and then it is well nigh too late to correct the trouble. Next time the police should require that the curtain come down and that the company appear at the police station. One or two raids of that kind would put an end to immoral exhibitions »in Harrisburg. News travels rapidly in the "show world" and not even the most careless of burlesque barn stormers cares to run the risk of a term in jail for the sake of telling his filthy jokes. HER IDEAL AMERICAN CITIZEN? '', ' ni k from lr«\rlln« unarwril m<Tilinni <rn.rl.of BeMlaerest aaOoia" Nfnt Ittn —From tlie Chtenico \ewa. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ] —"Piano In every room of Odd Fel lows' Temple," says the Reading Eagle. But the neighbors are not boasting about it. —"Fear God and take your own part," says Roosevelt, being a modern version of "Trust in God but keep your powder dry." —"Villa may be shot by anybody," is the order from Carranza. Now all that's necessary is to find somebody to do the shooting. —Democrats talk of running Brand Whitloek for vice-president. Belgium is going to be a peaceful pleasant place as compared with the Demo cratic firing line next Fall. —"The sleeping sickness is not con fined to Africa." says an exchange. We've known this for a long time. EDITORIAL COMMENT In time of Bryan prepare for Krupp. —Columbia State. Ford is no sailor, but he appears to have qualified as a skipper.—Columbia State. The Golden Horn ought to come in handy for the peace-overtures.—Co lumbia State. Pan-America is the disposition ex hibited by more than one European Power al.'-o.—New York Evening Sun. It begins to look as though the ulti mate fate of little nations is to be fed by the United States. —Washington Post. No near-sighted traveler could tell an election of Emperor in China from an election of President in Mexico. Boston Transcript. TO-DAY S EDITORIALS The Philadelphia Record. Thou sands of women are said to have lost their positions in Massachusetts since January 1 as a result of the operation of the Minimum Wage law. Possibly there was some exaggeration in the statement, though it was made to [Governor McCall by a committee of reputable citizens, who were represen tative of the interests of employers rather than of wage-earning' women. It Is unavoidable, however, that the establishment of a minimum wage for any class of workers should have for Its consequence the weeding out of those whose earning power does not come Up to the standard fixed. And no law can make the employment of sub standard workers compulsory. The State can fix a wage, but it cannot as sure employment at the rate fixed. The Now York World. There Is not a problem before Congress to-day that could not be wisely and patriotic ally solved by the House and the Sen ate If the members could forget par tifansliip for two months and also forget that a Presidential election is to be held in November. But as long as the American people are content to regard government as a game, the men who play the game for them will make their own rules, whatever the cost may be to the country. WOMEN READY [Cleveland Plain Dealer.] The assistant secretary of the War Department believes the report that the women of America are against preparedness is false. And the assist ant secretary probably knows as much about it as do those who are keeping the report in circulation. Who has either the authority or the information to speak for American womanhood on this subject? Certain ly no poll of opinion has been taken: it Is doubtful if any reliable plan could be devised to accomplish the purpose. The cpmmonest version of the mat ter has been that the women in the suffrage States, who at the next elec tion will cast hundreds of thousands of votes, were rather definitely opposed to any policy of a more adequate na tional defense. One organization of women in the State of Washington has gone on record in favor of prepared ness. It "would, in truth, be strange if women in the Pacific Coast States were to look with indifference on government proposals to Increase the nation's powers of resistance. It is doubtful, too, if women voters in in land States are even approximately a unit for or against preparedness. I OUR DAILY LAUGH CORRECT. I The way of the ;j transgressor 1s * (i hard. Yes; but tbe trouble is i« generally hard on somebody night. I think h® 1 | wants to tell me Oh, that goes without saying. JP V afraid he will. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I>odctfcCd'1 > odctfcCd' ow By the Ex-Committeema* Men prominent in the councils of the Republican party in the State at large are of the opinion that there will be harmonious party action in Pennsylvania this year despite the ex pressions of animosity heard in Phila delphia. In other words, the senti ment of the Republicans of the Key stone State is that Philadelphia lead ers should be left to fight out their own battles just as are those In Alle gheny, or Luzerne, or Chester, and that it should not be a matter of State wide concern. Men from almost every section of the State who have been here lately have voiced that opinion and the wordy warfqre which broke out in Philadelphia last night is not considered here as of prime import ance to the State, although some in eastern counties may so regard It. —The censensus of opinion is that Senator Penrose has stolen a march on his opponents In Philadelphia by securing the support of the great body of independents, who were yesterday called upon by John C. Winston and others to align themselves with the Republican party because of the na tional crisis. The senator's comment upon this call contained some barbed wire references to "contractors" which aroused the ire of Congressman Wil liam S. Vare, who exploded as he did at Washington when a man was to be chosen to the purely honorary post of member of the Republican congres sional campaign committee. Mr. Vare harked back to the Catlin commission and made it a personal matter. —lt is interesting in tills time to observe that in the attack and coun ter attack going on in Philadelphia that one. Senator James P. McNiehol, is keeping in the background. He lias apparently allowed things to go by which in other days would have called for tight and the fact that he has gone along with Mayor Smith is regarded as significant. It is also worthy ot note that some of the western and up- State leaders are not displaying much interest in the Penrose-Vare contro versy and that the name of the Gov ernor is not being used as much in the discussions as heretofore. —The Philadelphia North American declares to-day that Penrose has started an attack on the Vares and puts the onus of a factional fight up to the senator In its most characteristic way. The Philadelphia Inquirer takes the ground that an important "bapk to the party" movement has brought about a clash over a local government matter, while the Democratic Phila delphia Record gleefully plays up what it considers a row among the Republicans which it hopes will ap proximate the terrific fight under way in its own party. The Philadelphia Press says that Penrose and Vare are in a row over the independents and that the senator's welcome to the Washington-Keystone contingent seems to have disturbed Congressman Vare. The Public Ledger gives the greatest space to the return to the party call and refuses to get excited over the wordy duel between the Plill adelphians, which will probably be the attitude taken by most of the news papers of the State, which have no axes to grind. —While the opinion appears to be genera! that an agreement has been reached to support Chief Clerk H. M. Kephart, of the Senate, for the Re publican nomination for State treas urer, it is by no.means settled who is to be supported for auditor general. The names of Senator Charles A. Sny der, Speaker Charles A. Ambler and Senator Charles H. Kline loom up. However, the endorsement of Mr. Knox for senator and the selection of Kephart rather dim the chances of the Pittsburgh senator. —Senator Penrose regards the list of candidates suggested for delegates at large as "tentative." He is said to be agreeable to it in the main but op poses one or two men suggested by the Governor. One of these is said to be ex- Speaker George E. Alter, of Allegheny, who is favored by the local option forces all over the State. —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day says: "Senator Penrose's absence from the city, also the Illness of Mayor Smith, will cause a postponement of further conferences on national dele gates. But after the next meeting be tween the Mayor and the Senator it is expected that Governor Brumbaugh and his friends, the Vares, again will meet to determine whether or not con cessions shall be made in the way of revising the list to suit Senator Pen rose." —The flglit over the Allegheny county controllershlp has reached the demurring stage. H. M. Cribbs, for mer legislator, contends that Con troller Moore Is ineligible because he is a senator. -—Director W. H. Wilson in Phila delphia yesterday had orators shooed off the City Hall plaza because they had no permits. Wilson's tenure of office appears to be settled in the minds of people at least. —William Flinn is going to Panama and it is now said that he will prob ably meet the Colonel and talk over things with him. —Henry P. Shomo, of Hamburg, a clerk in the Auditor General's Depart ment, will contest with ex-Judge R. G. Busliong i he Berks county Republican national delegate place. Lehigh county will get the other place. Ex-Senator Oscar E. Thomson, of Phoenixvllle, may be n candidate for Chester county senator again. - -In Western Pennsylvania some at tention is being directed to the dinner which the McKinley Club of McKces luort will aive on January 29. J, Denny I ( THE NEW EDUCATION By Frederic J. Haskin lv : : J The Bureau of Education is in vestigating the experiences of a large number of young men and women who have left school for business in the I last live years. A set of questions has bfftn sent to city and county school su perintendents in a dozen States. The officials will collect answers from the former pupils, showing what line of | work each took up on leaving school, the changes made, the wages received land the chances for advancement. This Investigation by the govern ment is only one detail in a nation wide movement toward a Ihr closer relation between school and business life. The Introduction of vocational courses in high schools and gram mar schools \vas a step in the right direction; much of the Instruction, however, has proved to be superficial when put to the test. The courses were too highly specialized. To have shops fitted up for cabinet-making and electrical fitting when most boys start in a general business of some kind, as office boy or clerk, is a bad investment. To teach a class of girls fine needlework when many of them will stand behind a counter all day and be too tired at night to darn their own stockings, is wasted effort. It is well enough to teach cabinet making to future cabinet-makers, and plumbing to future plumbers, but the great majority of young people enter neither a trade or a profession, but simply one of the innumerable com mercial establishments that are lump ed under the general ahead ot' busi ness. What they need, and what up to now they could not get outside of a special school, is a business educa tion. The new system, which is being put into operation in New York. Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and a num ber of smaller cities, keeps the em ployer' point of view in mind through out the course. Business houses of all sorts are co-operating with the schools. Students are given a chance to practice their future work in some store while they go to school; and working boys and girls are given a chance to go to school while they work. The result is a grammar or high school graduate who can step into life and earn his salary from the first week. Boston was the first city to establish education work. Girls employed in certain stores were given a chance to attend classes in the pub lic schools. Now a director of prac tical salesmanship has been appoint ed. She has co-ordinated the commer cial courses of five high schools with the work of seven big department stores. She is familiar both with the conditions in each of these stores and with the talents and training of all her students. Under her direction, students are assigned weekly practice periods In salesmanship, during which they go into one of the big stores and do the actual work of a clerk. »This system Is found to benefit both the student and the store. The novices Have theoretical drill in salesmanship which many old clerks lack. The store gets the benefit of their knowl- O'Neil is to be the toastmaster and some significant things may be said. —Speaking at the Five O'clock Club in Philadelphia on Saturday night, ex-Governor Stone warmly endorsed Knox for senator. Three ex-governors and many prominent men, including Attorney General Brown, were pallbearers at the funeral of A. S. I>. Shields in Philadelphia on Saturday. —The death of Judge Robert Rals ton in Philadelphia on Saturday will give another judicial appointment for Governor Brumbaugh to make. TRADE WITH ORIENT [St. L<ouls Republic.] The American businessman and the business theorist have had much to say recently concerning "trade with the Orient." In nearly every Instance the meaning of this phrase is trade with China and Japan. There has been little said of possible Improvement of trade with the English-speaking Anti podes, with the whole of that rapidly developing Continent of Australia. Yet, according to the Honorable P. E. Quinn, deputy trade commissioner of New South Wales, In American Indus tries. the imports of Australia last year amounted to $433,750,000, and that in the nine months ending September 30. ISI6, Australia bought $40,027,088 worth of goods in the United States, In this sartie period Japan, reckoned a good customer of America, bought $32,010,- 808. Australia bought two and one half times as much as China in the same period. Trade with Australia has doubled since 1913, despite the fact that a permanent steamship service be tween American and Australian ports Is lacking- Naturally, a great deal of this in crease must be traced to the war. It will increase as long as the war con tinues. After the war ends? That is another matter; yet It Is reasonable to suppose that with any sort of a trade organization American manufacturers should be able to hold a great amount of permanent business In an English speaking country. MINISTERS APPROVE As an echo of the exclusion of liquor advertising from its columns the Ga zette and Bulletin, a leading paper of Wtlllamsport, prints a resolution adopted by the Ministerial Association of that city "urging our brotherhoods and other church organizations to pass resolutions .of appreciation, and the people of our churches to support by subscription and advertisements a newspaper that thus finely represents the best sentiment of our churches." The resolution was unanimously adopted. • , JANUARY 24, 1016. * edge free; and in return at the end of the course, the student has both theory and experience. Los Angeles is doing much the same thing in her co-operative plan. The I.os Angeles merchants send the heads of their different departments over to the school building, where they give lectures on practical salesman ship. The advice given to the stu dents is prepared with great care to be lucid and definite. A moving pic ture to accompany each talk points out in detail the exact differences be tween good and bad salesmanship. Be sides these lectures, the merchants take a limited number of young men and women into their stores for short periods of practice in real business. In Philadelphia nine big department stores and other business houses are establishing and maintaining schools at their own expense in their own buildings. They have entered into an agreement to this effect with the su perintendent of public schools, and their curriculum will conform as near ly as possible to that of the regular school system. All children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen will be given a chance to go on with their education as if they had never left school. This scheme will benefit about 1,600 working children. In some of the establishments it is already in op eration;'the others will begin it as soon as posible after January first. New York already has vocational work introduced into its schools on a fairly wide scale. An arrangement by which It may best be turned to prac tical account is just being put on a working basis, however. School em ployment agencies represent New York's solution of the problem of placing vocationally trained youth where their * training will do most I good. The agencies are Ijlie link between school and busi- I ness. They place the boy who has I learned plumbing with a plumber in [ stead of letting him drift into the first I opening that offers; the girl who made | good marks in sewing is put with a dressmaker instead of going behind the counter. The co-operative idea is spreading all over the country. In Kearney. N. J., the businessmen complained that the school training was 'not suffi ciently practical. The school super pendent replied by sending; a set of questions to the businessmen of Kear ney, asking them to be specific. They were requested to show definitely at just what points the school system was not practical, and to make suggestions tot remedying the faults. The sug gestions came fast enough, and a number of changes are being made in the curriculum as a result. Even the newsboy is coming under the beneficient influence of co-opera tive education. A western newspaper includes a well-equipped school for newsboys in its new building just erected. The school is under the di rection of a teacher recommended by the board of education, who plans the instruction so as to meet the indivi dual nt!eds and tastes of each boy. The work is carried on without in terfering with the boys' regular tasks in the least. THE STATE FROM Dflf TO DM It is just as consistent to accuse a person withoutanyteeth of eating your cake as it is to charge an armless man with having beaten his wife. Unless, of course, the man without the teeth was an ostrich and had castiron diges tive apparatus. The Wife of Jacol) Gajeiki, of Hazleton, desires divorce from her armless husband on the grounds that he had been beating her frequently ever since their wedding day in 1890. Philadelphia boasts of a thief with a literary mind. He has a long thin scholarly-looking hand, wears shell rinimed spectacles, and smokes a pipe. He stole four volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica from a Phila delphia home on the night of Decem ber 29, 1915, but the police have been unable to locate him. It is believed that his thirst for knowledge led him to «>mmit the theft. I The Mormon Church at Buck Val ley. which was to have been dedicated I yesterday, was dynamited and wreck led on Saturday morntng. Much feel ing against the sect was said to have been raised in the community near McConnellsburg, by reason of the headway which the Mormons were making in that vicinity. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the dynamit ers. , Sylvester Rose and Elsie Helen Ar nold, a lteading girl, were married in Cleveland four years ago by a min ister who lias since been proven fraud ulent. So Sylvester Bose and took his not-yet wife to this section of the country and now they are really mar ried. The condition of the Susquehanna at Columbja is said to be dangerous if in its present condition it should freeze again. The ice broke last week when the stream had reached a height of 8 feet 4 inches and has jammed some distance below the city. Giving the necessity for insurance under the new workmen's compensa tion law as an excuse, Johnstown's City Council to-day refused to raise the wages of the firemen, which re- Imain the same as throughout the past [two years. J iEbmttg (Ulyat . Capitol Hill s postage bill is com mencing to trouble some of tbe beads of the departments and boards of the State government. More mail is going out from the departments now than ever known before and some observers think that it la almost as great as when the Legislature is in session. Most, of [the departments carry on publicity services which have added to expenses not foreseen by the last Legislature and the inauguration of the work men's compensation, child labor and other systems, not to mention the game bounty, have sent tl\e cost of postage sky high as compared with former years, in the case of the com pensation and child labor school svs teins it was necessary to communicate with thousands of employers, some of whom promptly came back and asked for all publications on the subjects. To launch the compensation system required notices to be sent to "more people than ever expected and tin; accident report branch, which is u part of the compensation system, re quired a good many stamps before it was got into worjung shape. The State Highway Department is the State's biggest user of the parcel post at pres ent because of the demand for auto mobile license tags, although the Di vision of Distribution of Documents, which handles all State publications, is generally the largest in that line. Automoble licenses are taken from the Capitol by thewagonload and the mail matter of the departments is some thing of which the average citizen lit tle dreants. It is likely that because of the growth of postage that the whole subject of Capitol mail will lie studied by the Economy and Efficiency Commission and possibly some of the advertising matter cut off. The Freeport Journal is to the front with an item of news which might be classed in the "before, during anil after" class. It announces that "Wednesday afternoon about 1 oyiock an unknown Italian was struck by a freight train at Kiski Junction and had both legs cut off. He was still living when this item was written, but died later." Three boys sat on parkside benches on Saturday afternoon near the new Public Library for three hours. Thev changed benches because the air was damp and there was a fog from the river. One of tliern was asked the rea son of the vigil and replied with fine scorn In voice and face; "Waitin' for de ice ter bust. What else yer think'.'" It turned out that two of them lived east of Seventeenth street. Twenty-foot cuts into the rocks which form Capitol Hill have had to be made by the men in charge of the construction of the big sewer which the State is building to check the flood ing or the basement of the State Capi tol every time there is a hard rain. When the Capitol was built not enough provision was made for the drainage in times of heavy rain. As the Capitol building line is greater around than St. Peter's at Rome and the main building without the dome is over 100 feet high, it can be seen that there is a large surface exposed to rain. To over come the flooding it was decided to add a fourth sewer from the building and it is being built down State street to connect with a city sewer going to the Susquehanna. The first Harrlsburg Sunday school to cejebrate a centennial of unbroken existence will be that of Market Square Presbyterian Church, which will pass its one hundredth anniversary next month. There were some Sunday schools in Harrlsburg prior to tHo organization of the Market Square school, but they were not continued, or at least those of to-day are not directly descended. Market Square, which is a daughter of old Paxton Church, which is almost 200 years old, was the first Presbyterian Church in Harrlsburg. It dates from 1794. Capitol, Hill people are becoming suspicious of people alleging to be "from hqme" who have been making "touches" in the various departments. It seems that some men who have shown rather more enterprise than the ordinary borrower have been study ing up-state papers and then, picking out people from those localities, have gone in for a loan, using local gossip and talk about men and women of the home town as accessories. Harrisburg people will read with in terest the announcement that Hiram B. Schocli, formerly engaged in news paper work here, is to be a candidate for the Legislature from one of the Allegheny county suburban districts, lie resides in Ben Avon, which is near Pittsburgh. Mr. Schocli was connected with the Harrisburg Patriot and other newspapers before going to Pittsburgh, where lie graduated from journalism into law. He formerly resided at York and is well known to many here. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~] —Mayor John V. Kosek, of Wilkes- Karre, who was re-elected last Novem ber, has started to put the lid on the gamblers. —Alexander Vanßensaler is in charge of the National Security work at Philadelphia. —Thomas R. McDowell, former legislator, has been making a series of good roads speeches in eastern counties. —Alfred M. Collins, the new head of the Main IJne Association, is quite a noted sportsman. He lives at Bryn Mawr. —Ex-Judge H. M. Yerkes has been re-elected president" of the Bucks County Bar Association. —Mayor Smith will be the guest of the Walnut Street Business Men's As sociation at Philadelphia to-night. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg lias a greater mileage of sewers of any city of Its size in the State? An<l the same is true of paved streets. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first State Capitol was com pleted in 1819 and occupied with much ceremony. r -» The Crippled Lonely Dollar The advertising dollar that went out and came home crip pled or alone missed the right road. There is a safe way for the dollar a road by which it will come home in company with other strong, lusty dollars. Thai way is through the right use of dally newspaper advertis ing. It is a road open alike to the national manufacturer and the local dealer. It promises profit to both. The advertising manager of the Telegraph will be glad to tell you more about it.
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