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.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
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ly'believe that one
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• I 1 \ more actual busl
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banauets.
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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
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[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.
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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.
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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.