8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A h'BWS PAPER POR THE HOME Founded lljl ■Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sguar*. !E. J. STACKPOLK./Vfj l and Ed\tor-in-Ckiei ►F. R. OYSTEK, Business Manager. 'GUS M. STEXNMETZ, Managing Editor. a Member American rl Newspaper Pub llshers' Assocla iijt tion. The Audit 1 jBSKfiflM Bureau of Oircu ! latlon and Penn *k| gt jfjgf X sylvanta Associat ed Dallies. ggggßl M Eastern office. Has- I®* S $Sa Brooks. Fifth Ave -BBS m mle Building. New ern o'flce, Ha<- - Gas Building, Cht cago. 111. the Post Office in Harris- Durjr, Pa., as second clasn matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. •worn dally average circulation for the f hree months ending Dee. 31, 1016. ★ 22,412 These figures are net. All returned, •Mold and damaged copies deducted. .THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 27. . Much talent is often lost for want of a little courage. — GEOßGE EI.IOT. DAUPHIN COUNTY ROADS UNDER an act of the Legislature of 1913 authority is granted to boards of county commissioners, townships, boroughs and incorporated towns of the Commonwealth to incur such indebtedness as may be neces sary to reconstruct sections of State highway. This local aid is provided so that sections of the great highway system of the Commonwealth which cannot be improved owing to the present lack of funds may be put into condition through the co-operation of the State Highway Department and the local authorities. Dauphin county must do its share in this respect, as other counties are now doing, and we believe the County Commissioners are leady and willing to co-operate with ihe State Highway Commissioner in improving a number of the important highways which enter tne city. Several of the counties already have done a great deal in this direc tion and Dauphin county, as the seat, of the State government, must not fall behind in this important work. Gov ernor Brumbaugh and the staff of the State Highway Department have for mulated a cohesive and intelligent program; it is the duty of the local authorities to show proper interest by earnest co-operation. It were folly to imagine that a sys tem covering more than 10,000 miles of highway could all be improved by the State within a few years without enormous and almost impossible ex penditure of public funds. It is mani festly the duty of the counties and townships to assist in this work. Good roads are no longer regarded as the luxurious expression of an extrava gant idea. They are the essential lines of communication between cities and towns and communities, and Gov ernor Brumbaugh is determined that there shall be no lack of energy so far as the administration on Capitol llill is concerned. Dauphin county can afford to pro vide for more good roads and it is to be hoped the commissioners will lose no time In taking up this subject and agreeing upon a reasonable plan of action. With respect to the Narrows be tween Clark's Ferry and Dauphin it would appear to be up to the North ern Central Railway to provide the remedy. If it has encroached upon the established highway, as now ap pears, it is clearly the duty of the railroad corporation to provide a safe and adequate road in that particular district. REAL ESTATE IDEALS • ANOTHER of the get-together meetings which are making Harrisburg known far and wide as a llvewire city was held at the Har risburg Club yesterday when a dis tinguished real estate expert ad dressed the noonday luncheon meet ing of the new Harrisburg Ileal Estate Hoard. This speaker brought a mes sage of good fellowship and service such as has actuated and emphasized all that has gone before along this line at the various public functions of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and similar organizations. •He gave expression to his pleasure over the cleanliness of the city, Its unrivaled river front, the evidence of civic pride and public spirit every where manifest and in eloquent phrases dwelt upon the other many good points of Harrisburg. Every member of the organization and the guests, who included the City Planning Commissioners and * mem bers of the City Council, gathered from the address and the incidental good fellowship fresh inspiration for the attainment of that greater Har risburg toward which every loyal citizen Is pressing. This city is peculiarly fortunate in the fine spirit of helpfulness which pervades all classes of the com munity. The civic bodies," the news papers, the religious and other organ izations, the fraternal societies all are doinp their part in fostering the i community feeling; which has already accomplished so much in recent years. Those who visit the cily al ways leave with n fine Impression of the physical attractions of Harrisburs snd what is still better Its increasingly fine type of <ltizenship. "A good name is rather to be chosen than «reat richer," »aya the Good Book, and the THURSDAY EVENING, fiUUUUSBURG rfjßV TELEGRAPH JANUARY 27, 1916. reputation of a city is quite as im portant as the reputation of an ln j dividual. ! llarrtsburg lias grown phenomenally 'in everything that constitutes a modern and attractive industrial, j commercial and residential com- I munlty. Our people are standing to gether admirably for everything that ' means the betterment and the welfare !of the city. It is because of this fact i that the stranger is Impressed with the good fellowship and the public spirited attitude of our citizens. He could hasdly escape a good impres sion if he would. But it is up to our officials, and our businessmen, and our real estate and other active spirits to promote planning for the future so that what we have to-day may be re garded as the starting point of a bet ter to-morrow. Perhaps In no better way can the real estate organization benefit the city than in the creation of a Senti ment which will make Impossible solid blocks of houses without proper air space and^ ventilation and disre gard of lawns and esthetic features, which are. after all, the things which contribute most to the health and ; happiness of all who live here. Co operating with the City Planning Commission the real estate men can exercise a powerful influence for good in the years to come, and we believe they are ready for the test. I,F,K AND THE RAILROADS IN his speech at Philadelphia, Ivy L. I-.ee, a former Pennsylvania railroad official, made some straight from the shoulder statements regarding railroad conditions in this country. He referred to the fact that public opinion is omnipotent; that American public opinion can be de pended upon to be fair once the merits of a situation are made clear; that if railroad facilities are inadequate the condition thus created is more injur ious to the public than to the rail roads. Mr. Lee pointed out that the difficulties of the railroads to-day may become a barrier to national progress to-morrow; that sound public policy toward the railroads requires that regulation be fair and equitable. Perhaps nothing said by Mr. l-.ee ex cited more interest than his statement that the railroads are moving more traffic than ever before in their history, yet there is less railroad development now than at any time since the Civil War. In dustrial companies are making enor mous extensions to their plants, while the railroad corporations are embar rassed by lack of funds and shortage of equipment. Railroad managers un derstand the situation, of course, but the period of legislative and inquisi torial hysteria through which this country has passed for the last few years has checked investment in rail road securities and rendered the badly needed extension of transportation fa cilities almost impossible. Notwith standing that since 190T the railroads have invested $5,000,000,000 in new facilities they received in 1915 a net revenue of only about $30,000,000 more than in 1907. Less than one per cent, was earned on the new money neces sary to provide the increased service. Mr. Lee dwelt upon the fact that the American people are constantly de manding a higher standard of rail roading, which makes the cost of each unit of service steadily greater. Ex- Presldent. Taft admitted in a speech a day or two ago that he and others had erred in pressing too far the mat ter of railroad regulation and from many sources now comes the argu ment, based upon experience, in favor of a more consistent, harmonious and definite attitude of the government toward these common carriers. As a result of the hectoring of the railroad systems through experimental legislation and unnecessary regulation there comes the appeal for govern ment ownership. The present admin istration at Washington seems to have run mad on the question of public control of everything in the way of public utility, overlooking the inevit ably disastrous consequences of inter fering with private enterprise and initiative. Railroad managers have had their lesson. It remains to be seen whether they will profit by the hard experi ence of recent years. It must be ad mitted that now and then they show the same old attitude of arbitrary dis regard of public interest, but for the most part we believe the railroad leaders are ready and willing to co operate and to so manage their great properties that there may be no rea sonable protest from the public. W U.SOX'S REVERSAL STRIPPED of all the concealing verbiage with which it has been carefully wrapped, President Wil son's reversal of policy with relation to the tariff lies revealed as an endorse ment of the Taft administration's tariff board, which the President kicked out of the national capltol at the first op portunity and which was reviled and spurned by Democrats in Congress re peatedly during the debate on the Un derwood bill. One might even be led to suspect that the President had read very carefully Governor Brumbaugh's tariff statement pf last week before putting pen to paper to explain his new views with regard to the foreign trade of the United States. But the Wilson change of heart does not have the ring of sincerity. The President is on the eve of a campaign for re-election. He sees looming up before him bifcger and more menacing than ever the tariff as a national Issue. He knows in his heart that the Euro pean war alone has saved this nation from the most dreadful business de pression in its history. He knows that the public fully realizes It Is living in an era of false and temporary pros perity and that the end of the war, with the Underwood tariff still in foroe, would bring a catastrophe to both capital and labor beside which all the panics we ever have experienced would be as nothing. Hence Ills change of front, without a real change of heart, for It Is to be noted that while to all intents and purposes he endorses the j tariff views of millions of Repub i licans, in the same breath he declares he has not changed his mind with respect to protection. In other words, the President is throwing the tariff board to the pub lic as a sop for personal approval and continues to be a free trader still. He is trying to let the public under the impression that he Intends tojiee to It, If re-elected, that the tariff is revised upward, at the same time letting his hands free to do as he pleases once he and his free trade friends are safely in the saddle again. , Will the people be fooled a second time ? [""TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —Highway Commissioner Cun ningham In the Mlllersburff road case has demonstrated that while there may be something significant in the first part of his name the last syllable has absolutely no part in his make up. —Dr. Cook wants to cultivate the North Pole for profit. Well, the Doo is a living example of how to make the North Pole pay. —Chairman Hillis apparently be lieves President Wilson politically bankrupt with Col. Bryan to be named ns receiver. —The request of the New York censors for the nymphs in the Rus sian ballet to lengthen their skirts a little indicates that while the critics may favor high art they don't want it too high. —The Du Pont family is living up to its best traditions as producers of high class explosives. - —A glance at the newspapers ap pears to indicate that while "Teddy" has been transformed and is now Colonel . Roosevelt, Perkins is still Perky in more senses than one. EDITORIAL COMMENT More married than single men have been enlisted in the British army, thus proving that marrteci men are more patriotic than hachelots—or something. —Chicago-Daily News. The terrible condition into which Baltimore morals have fallen can best be gauged by the fact that there is a general consensus among the divines of that city that "Billy" Sunday is the only remedy —Washington Herald. MODERN WARFARE [Kansas City Star.] Senator Chamberlain—An untrain ed army never could have resisted Ger many on the French frontier, could General Wood—They never would have known what hit 'em. .. And more in detail here is how Henry Breckeridge, assistant secretary of war, describes what an American soldier would have to face in modern war. "To fare destruction by the enemy's artillery when he is five or six miles from f point where he himself can in flict injury in return, suffer casualties in advancing over great stretches of ground without firing a shot, to face the thunderbolts of large caliber guns and howitzers, to endure the rain of death of shrapnel and high explosives, to meet the withering hail of hell splitting mitrailleuse, to face the steel jacketed sheet of rifle fire, even to suf fer death at the hands of one's own supporting artillery, cut the wire en tanglements. mount the parapet, to [give or receive the death thrust of the bayonet's cold steel. That is what modern warfare requires of an infan tryman." It is the duty of the Nation, if it ever has to send its sons against an enemy, to give them a chance for their lives and they can be given that chance only by the training that goes with, preparedness. MILITARY SCHOOLS Under a military regime everything must be none exactly on time and ac cording to fixed standards. Hands and face must be clean, the hair combed, the shoes brushed, the Unen immacu late. If there is any neglect or de ficiency in these respects, a definite penalty is assigned. No cadet ever "talks back" in regard to any of these matters; the superior officer decides without debate whether or not a cadet has conformed to the requirements. If the cadet is ten seconds behind time at any exercise: if he shows the slight est discourtesy toward any officer; if he becomes negligent or" indifferent either in the classroom or in his mili tary exercises, he is detected and penalized. He cannot interfere with the rights or activities of any other cadet or he will suffer for it. If he thinks he has been dealt with unjustly by an olficer, he may appeal to a higher officer; and his case may be beard. JJut it is a fundamental mili tary principle that any cadet is under the control of his immediate superior. The conditions in modern life often make it difficult to bring up a child so that he will readily and joyfully adapt himself to the necessary rules and regulations of home and school and ar range his dally program in accordance therewith. For this reason the mili tary school becomes a necessity for ! some boys. It would not do to have the typical boy spend his whole time under mili tary regime. When the day comes that the home and the school will co operate to train children in good habits so that they may be sensitive to and respectful of authority, then the mili tary school as a separate institution may not be so necessary. But until the day arrives, it would be better to take boys who are becoming wholly irresponsible in the public schools and subject them to the disciplinary in fluence of a military school.—M. V. O'Shea, in the March Mother's Maga zine. MOBILIZING INDUSTRY (New York World) Five American technical organiza tions are asked to propose members, liy appointment by the President, for a board to plan the mobilization of 'industries in case of war. Such preparation is of first import ance. Every great war since the rail way was introduced has been on land a railway war; now we have also the factory war. Germany Is using 80 per cent, of her productive power for war supplies. Great Britain had to establish a Ministry of Munitions not long after she had centralized her railway management for war. Eighteen months have revolution ised all ideas of the mobility of heavy guns. The long-range bombardment of Lille now answers on the Entente side to the long-range shelling of Dunkirk. The huge field mortar has gained on fixed fort ordnance: but it means railways, permanent and tem porary, to place and feed It. As for miscellaneous factories, there are 800 In New Jersey alone that must be taken over In case of war. It Is well to have them listed and mapped. Engineers naturally lead in this work of planning. The chemist will almost rank with the engineer if an other great conflict ensues. Preparedness along these lines costs little and might save much If the emergency should come. Not the least of Its advantages is that, it can hardly fall to benefit the grouping and eore lntion of industries for peace. < I*tittle o- Ik "plKKOlfltfCUtta By the Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh will not take up the matted of naming a successor to Judge Robert Ralston, of Philadel phia, who died a few days ago, for some time. There have been many names suggested as possible appointees to the vacancy on the bench, including George Henderson. William H. Wilson and others, but the Governor to-day declared that he had not even consid ered the matter. "I have not even considered the question and I certainly will not at this time." said the Governor this morning. The Governor's attitude appears to be the same as during the discussion of the successor to the late Justice John P. Elkin. The Governor also declared to-day that he had nothing to say about other appointments on the "Hil" and that no one had been selected for the fire mar shalshlp. The prospects of a grand old row in the Democratic state organization over the national committeemanshlp have been aggravated by intimations that have come here that the Old Guard is carefully setting up candidates for state committeemen. It is to be a fin ish fight between Palmer and his pals not only for national committee but for the state chairmanship and all that pertains to an organization. —Notice has been issued by Dr. B. E. P. Prugh, chairman of the Pro hibition State committee, that a state convention will be held in Pittsburgh on February 22, at which there will be considered'amendments to the rules of the party, plans for the campaign of 1916 and suggestions for nominations for President, United States senator from Pennsylvania, state treasurer, auditor general, congressmen at large, national delegates and judge of the Supreme Court. —Charles E. Carol hers, the new Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, is ex pected to be here to assume his duties within a few days. He will give special attention to the reorganization of the educational work among the farmers and the study of the marketing prob lems. Mr. Carothers served as mem ber of the Legislature and as sheriff of Washington county and is well known In political affairs. —Erie's special election for mayor is commencing to attract attention out side of the county and many men in nearby counties are watching with in terest because of a fight which will be staged between the Democratic fac tions. —Director Dates, of the public works department in Philadelphia, yesterday showed that he meant busi ness by dropping over thirty highway inspectors. There was no use for the men. who were getting $82.50 per month, and he said so. —The North American to-day de clares that the Vares and Mayor Smith are about to engage in a battfe to wipe Senator McXiehol off the map in Philadelphia. BROADWAY The time. Eternity; the scene, A Street Hung between hell and heaven. Row on row. The lamps burn, and the burning thousands go To serve the turn of passion* and re peat The Comedy that life leaves incomplete And death remembers. Shame and beauty meet With laughter, and unreasonable woe Lies in the arms of joy; and their dreams throw Gold in their eyes, and gloom before their feet. May not some player, hearing in his heart The murmur of an immortal audienee From the dark House beyond that golden mist, Look over his own, lines, to question whence An action sprang, and trace from part to part The vision of the living Dramatist? —Brian Hooker, in Harper's Weekly. THE SEARCHLIGHT A «il IMKE FAMIXK The need for quinine in the war hos pitals is so keen that shipments to this country have been almost shut o(T Practically all the quinine used in this country heretofore has come from the Island of Java, which is under a British embargo. No new stock has been put on the New York market for months The price has increased from tlftv cents a pound a year ago to from $1.25 to $2.50 at present, according to grade During the Civil War. quinine In this country once reached a price of $6 50 and grave fears are entertained that it may do so again in the near future. A small quantitly of the cinchona bark Is raised in South America and also in Ceylon and India, but fully 80 per cent, of that used tn this country lias come from Java, which is no longer avail able as a source of supply. The In creasing difficulty in obtaining the drug is causing druggists and physicians some anxiety. AUTHOR A Jib MRS. DORA KNOWI/TON RANOCS Mrs. Mora Knowlton Rations, trans lator of Du Maupassant and other great French writers, publisher of several books, was found dead In her bed In her home In New York with a gas tube in her mouth. She was discouraged be cause she feared blindness end » «»'>ond attack of apoplexy. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE PEDESTRIAN'S TURN TO LAUGH —From the Dei Molnea RefflMter. i DODGING THE LIGHTNING By Frederic J. Haskin V J THERE Is only one peril that is shared by everyone in practic ally the same degree, Irrespec tive of age, sex or occupation. That is the danger from lightning. You can avoid the risk of being run over by keeping to quiet streets, yon can shun all chance of contagion; If you fear railway accidents you can abstain from travel, but when the lightning begins to flash and strike, everybody must run a certain risk. It is possible to minimize that risk.however.by knowing what to do in a thunderstorm, and that is what gives a wide interest to the results of a searching investigation lof lightning just completed. Every year at least 1,500 people are struck by lightning, to a greater or less, degree. It may seem anamolous to speak of some one being "slightly" struck by lightning, but as a matter of fact the popular idea that lightning never has to strike twice in the same place is largely erroneous. Only about one-third of the 1,500, or 500 people, a year are killed outright by the thunderbolt. The remaining, 1,000 however, are subjected to grave injuries that often prove permanent. Most of them could have saved them selves by taking proper precautions. There is no place in the path of a thunderstorm that is not liable to be struck by thunderbolts. It is possible, however, for people to be absolutely secure from lightning- stroke even though the bolts fall about them, if the shelter which surrounds them is of such a nature that they will be protected even should the shelter it self be struck. Any spot that is com paratively rflirrounded by a network of metal is absolutely safe, and hence a steel-frame building obviates the need for anxiety during a thunderstorm. An underground chamber of any sort is also absolutely secure, but wlthjlhe exception of places such as these, tffere is always some slight risk. The degree of safety is found in houses properly protected by lightning rods. If the protective system is properly installed, a high degree of safety can be attained, though for the person troubled by an instinctive fear of lightning, there is enough risk left to make things interesting. Any sort of a house, protected or unprotected, is better than a shelter under a tree or in a barn, or a position out In the open. Even when lightning hits a house, there is at least one chance in two that it will not hurt anybody Inside. Even If the occupants are hit, they are more likely to be injured than killed. On the other hand, if you j OUR DAILY LAUGH j PAYS TO AD VERTISE. V Then you don't ATr believe in busi i Jness men getting A I didn't eay ■[ But I do ly'believe that one Y 1 \ f inch of adv^rtis \ \ lng -will bring in • I 1 \ more actual busl r'nP* ness than four banauets. LOME FIGURE. ' l"T~l j By Gol! I must be a fine figger at _ a man! Every girl X passes smiles at / me like the dick- *7^^ TEMPERANCE A lengthy discussion relative to the temperance question would , be un profitable here. As a general rule, however, it may be said that for a healthy person whisky and other strong drinks are bad. There Is no doubt but that less alcohol is being consumed every year; people are gradually getting away from liquor. This Is so because through popular education people are beginning to [realize the harmful effects of strong drink; employers .take it for granted that their workers are temperate, and finally, the number of States in which liquor is being legislated iigalnst is constantly increasing. There is no real strength In alcohol despite the belief of some to the contrary. Liquor may brace tip a person temporarily but it is like whipping a tired horse, and there is bound to be a reaction. —From Good Health shelter under a tree and lightning gets that tree, your chances are slim. They are still slimmer if you happen to be walking about in the open, and play a leading part in conducting the Hash from the cloud to the ground. it is possible to minimize further the risk you run inside a house, by keep ing away from dangerous places. A draft is bad, as almost everyone has heard. JS'ear the telephone is a poor place to be caught during a thunder-' slorm, and unless there is something particularly urgent to communicate, it had better wait ,until the Hashes are over. Perhaps the most dangerous place in the house is one whose ex istence you hardly suspect. It lies be tween some mass of metal on the out side of the building and some mass on the inside; for instance, the line between a waterspout and a radiator. IThts is dangerous because the light ning will probably strike the water spout if it strikes the house, and run-* ning down the metal, it often leaps to some other nearby path, such as that furnished by the radiator. If you are In between the two, you may regret your intrusion. Chimneys are also danger spots dur ing a thunderstorm, and it is best to keep away from any metal that, com municates with the exterior of the building, such as a ventilator pipe or a screen door. Lightning is a freak ish and eccentric phenomenon, and its path through a building may include almost anything, but these are the channels it is most likely to follow. In any event, the chance of being injured while sheltered in a house is so small that it is hardly worth worrying about. Those who arc constitutionally timid in the matter can reduce the slight hazard by bearing in mind the facts mentioned above, but most of the lightning-risk coipes out-of-doors. The statement that a house is a safe place in a thunderstorm must not be taken as applying also to barns. Lightning seems to have a particular fondness for trying its hand at long range shots on barns. Some experts claim that this is due to the fact that warm dry air in a barn favors the pas sage of electricity. At any rate, a barn is a very poor shelter. Even worse is a tree that stands out. by it self, In a meadow or on a bald hill side. If the lightning hits anything in that neighborhood, it will probably pick the tree. For the same reason, it is poor policy to wander around In an open field, or even a treeless plain when lightning is abroad; for in that case, you yourself have the doubtful (Continued on Page 11.) [THESTATE FROM DOT TO DOT Irish maids down along the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad are knitting socks for soldiers over in old Ireland and the Bryn Mawr branch of Queen Mary's Guild is sending the fin ished products over to Erin's men who are at the front. Sweet, slim sewers sending socks to soldiers! One of the bundles reached a French instead of an Irish regiment and the appre ciative reply mentioned that the re cipient has a brpther in America who is very prominent—he keeps a saloon in Jersey City. t The Mittoon garage—Mittoon, by the way, is>the name of the owner and not a species—in Lansdale, had a crepe hanging outside the door the other day, indicating death. Worried neighbors investigated and discover ed that "business was dead." so the owner's wife did the conventional thing. The man with the cold In his head, who recites James Thompson's famous poem as follows (you can get the ef fect from the original by closing both nostrils with thumb and first finger) —"Cub, gettle Sprig! Ethereal bllddess, cub!"—will be glad to hear that a little robin redbreast has made its appearance in Erie and that the people of that city have been tricked into the belief that the seasons are in terchanging. An Ell wood City trolley car has no terrors for the deer out Newcastle way. Said trolley car was forced to slow down to stop while speeding along the country because a deer that had been planted in that section by the Wild Life League developed bovine tendencies and stood obstinately on the track till the last minute, when it struck off at a biplane clip across country. Greater Altoona, through the agency of the Knights of Pythias, is to have an adopted baby. The committee will receive exhibits, photographs, descrip tions and pedigrees of children till I the right one be found. The temple jgoat will be turned out to grass, and the real mascot tjike Its place. Won- Jder how the knights will hold the baby ] when it is passed around for inspec tion. Burning Olljat Millersburg people are In high (flee, over the prospects of a good road be tween Harrlsburg and that place. The developments at the hearing before , Corn "ilssioner Cunningham «u ay 'o. whlch It was indicateil that the State and the railroad com- Fv?r? a^fi° n the ver K e of an agreement that will remedy the dangerous and almost impossible conditions existing between Speeceville and the upper end town, were the subject of discussion on trains and wherever upper end peo ple got together last night. Discussing this matter Harry Falrchild, recently appointed to the county prison board, and who is a booster for everything of Interest to the upper end? recently said. "A good .road through to Mil lersburg from Harrlsburg would be helpful to both towns. Many of our people who own automobiles "and who are in business will not run the risk of a trip through the dangerous nar rows and practically everybody stays at home during wet weather. 1 believe that the business interests of the two towns would be greatly benefited by a , road and the railroad company would not be the loser for more of our peo ple would deal In Harrlsburg if the relations were closer and the freight shipments would be increased thereby. Millersburg is also in need of a bridge, and a good road to the lower end of the county would be the first step In that direction. Unquestionably we in Millersburg are so situated that we could become a great center of freight and travel if we had good roads to Harrisburg and a bridge over the Sus quehanna, and indirectly Xlarrisburg would be the gainer." • • • Elizabethville, which is planning to celebrate its anniversary next sum mer. is one of the livest communities of its size In the whole of Central Pennsylvania. It has a camp meeting annually which draws thousands of people, an athletic association that puts many winning teams into the Held and a town spirit that makes it the cleanest and best kept borough In that section of the county. Through all of the recent depression it went calmly on its way prosperous and con tented. So, when it sets out to have a celebration it is but natural that the whole upper end sits up, takes notice and prepares to attend. • • « Much of interest to Harrisburgers was brought out yesterday in an address to the State Board of Agriculture by Qeorge G. Hutchinson, of Warrior's Mark, who told about the organization of the Board in this city thirty-nine years ago. The Board, as everyone knows was the outcome of the State Agricultural Society, which had head quarters here for many years. This organization was started in Philadel phia about seventy-five years ago and held fairs annually, the first being in Philadelphia, but in the late fifties some of the prominent men of Cen tral Pennsylvania got control and Harrisburg was the place where fairs were held. They used to be given up where Cottage Ridge is now located and were great events. However, inter est waned largely due to the growth of other fairs and the Board was or ganized as a means of developing agri culture In ways other than exhibitions. This Board has had Harrisburg as its headquarters and its meetings have been very well attended. * • » One of the men in attendance at thr meeting this week was Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading, who was one of the men at the meeting to organize the Board on January 26, 187 7. At this meeting there were sixteen persons present, including Governor John F. Hartranft and James P. Wickersham, superintendent of Public Instruction. Thomas J. Edge was elected secretary. He was the first secretary of the State's Department of Agriculture. A»r. Fox was also nominated for secre tary of the Board. Yesterday he was greeted as one of the veterans of the Board. He was one of the delegates from the State Horticultural society of which he has long been- an honored member. Col. h. A. Watres, former lieutenant governor, who was here yesterday is about to take a trip to the West In dies. He will spend a few weeks among the islands. I , 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Representative John W. Vlcker man, of Allegheny county, active in local option affairs, is a newspaper publisher. —John Ferguson has been re-elected president of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange. —John N. Jacobs, the retiring con troller, of Montgomery county, says he is proud of its report. It shows a balance of $190,000. —General C. B. Dougherty is urging military training in Wilkes-Barre schools. —Henry C. Mercer, who designed the tile pavement in the Capitol, is the new president of the Bucks Coun ty historical society. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That tlic llrst railroad bridge at Rockville was long considered a wonder in its day? HISTORIC HARRIS BURG .William Penn's sons used to stop at Harris' ferry on their tours of the province. FRENCH STILL FRIENDS Whitney Warren, who went to France "as one who would go to his friends in trouble," declares that the French "are our friends, you know, in spite of what some people say." It is a welcome reassurance, for we have been somewhat oversupplied (as Mr. Warren seems to realize) with as surances that French sentiment to wards us had progressed through the stages of affection, expectation, and disappointment, to disaffection and despise. Mr. Warren won't have It so. He says: "The fact that the United States did not protest when Belgium w«f violated is a question they consider a Government 'one and not in any way reflecting upon our friendliness, The people are deeply thankful foi the interest that we have manifested in their sick and wounded. They know the people of this country art with them at heart in their fight for the right."—Life. When Mother Bakes She knows that right results cannot come unless she uses the right materials. The wrong baking powder, poor flour, bad shortening, or a poor stove, will spoil everything. The good cook proves her ma terials by experience. But she must know what to try and for that reason she likes to keep posted. She finds It pays her to read the advertising In a good news paper like the Telegraph. It tells her from time to time of the new food products and the stores that sell them. In fact t|ie advertising col umns are an educational course In .domestic science.
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