16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ttji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Ilulldlng, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Edilor-in-Cliief K. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Ushers' Assocla tion, The Audit ESEsfIA Bureau of Circu- QffgßM latlon and Penn ifilJsf fisH syivanla Asiociat- Eastern office, Has eSSfi SB Ki Brooks, Fifth Ave- R|£ ■ nue Building, New VK* (BAR ern Has • '**" I. r Fiijp Brooks. People's Gas Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <3®sWrCffl|E> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. S"®'® dally average elreulatlnn for the three months ending Dec. 31, 1015. * 22 - 412 ★ These figures are net. All returned, unsold an<l damaged copies deducted. FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28. And this life eternal, that they should know thee the only true Ood, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. —JOHN 17:3. LIQUOR LICENSES OVER in Cumberland county, as in all the other contiguous coun ties, the temperance forces are putting up a groat fight against liquor licenses this year. Those who are consistent opponents of the liquor business are beginning to understand that the courts are not legislative bodies and that they can only enforce the law as it is written. As a result many are acting upon the suggestion of the judges that it is the part of Protestants to present the evidence at the license hearings so that the court may act intelligently in determining the character of applicants and the conduct of the licensed places. In Cumberland county this year remonstrances have already been filed against a considerable number of applicants. These remonstrances include Wormleysburg, just across the Susquehanna river from this city, of necessity is one of the strong points against several of the places and disregard of the law is a frequent charge against the licensees. Here in the Dauphin county courts President Judge Kunkel, as also Judge McQarrell, has frequently called the attention of remonstrants to their failure to produce evidence which would show violation of the .law and ! such other facts as are necessary to a proper consideration of license peti tions. So long as the law contem plates the issuance of a license to sell liquor it is the duty of the oppo nents of the traffic Ao aid the court in every possible way in its decisions. Judge McCarrell, who has been for many years the general superintendent of the Market Square Sunday school, looks forward with great interest to the celebration of its centennial during the coming autumn. Out of this school has gone a wonderful influence for good throughout the century, and many of j our most prominent citizens ascribe to ] the teachings of the school an influence which has strengthened and helped them during the entire course of their J careers. DAUPHIN COUNTY COAL WITH proper appreciation of the situation the board of County Commissioners has determined to enlist the aid of Charles A. Price, of Lykens, the county mine inspector, in determining the important question of adequate assessment of the coal lands in this county. Mr. Price ought to be thoroughly familiar with the conditions, and if the assessments heretofore have been too low and the assessors have been remiss in their du ties, it should be a comparatively easy matter for the commissioners to learn the facta and revise the assessment. In the light of the recent attitude of the coal operators on the question of State tax upon anthracite coal and their apparent disregard of the public protest against an imposition of addi tional expense upon the consumer, it is well that the commissioners of this county go deeply into the matter so that the county may receive its due where one of its most important natural resources is at stake. Comparisons with the adjoining counties in the matter of coal assess • ments and invest Nation of taxation 'in this county will soon clear up the and assure an equitable val uation. 80 the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany Is going to build a million dollar hotel near its terminal in New York City. Twelve stories high and with all the modern appointments. And the company will conduct the hostelry with Its own force: May we not hope that the "Pennsy" will yet step into the ibreach and give Harrisburg that real hotel It so much desires. WHAT PRKPAKEDNEBK MEANS ri a recent address at a Harlem meeting in the interest of peace, Harry A. Garfield, president of Wil liams College, representing the Lea gue to Ei force Peace, intimated I hut a nation we havfe not considered carefully enough the step we are tak ing in urging preparedness so strong ly. As he sees it the inevitable re sult will be the conversion of this country from a democracy bequeathed to us by our forefathers to an auto cracy wherein the President would fcave Imperial power. President Gar- FRIDAY EVENING, • HARRISBUHG irfSjjftit TELEGRAPH JANUARY 28, 1916. field believes that we have not given sufficient thought to - the probability that with preparedness would go the loss of a large measure of the liberty of the American people. He advises that we look before we leap. Admitting that this distinguished son of an ex-President is correct in his conclusions, will it not be held with the same strength of argument that lack of preparedness will just as cer tainly destroy the liberty of the Amer ican people? China is the most significant example of the plight of a great nation exposed to attack from every side because It is not prepared to resist the Invader. This is pre cisely what confronts the United States to-day. Our means of defense and our utter lack of preparation to repel Invasion place this country in about the same position as the Chinese empire. Preparedness does not nec essarily mean war; it should, and with in the American definition of the term does, mean peace. There is a reasonable middle ground between the extremist in the matter of preparedness and the pacifist who insists that preparation for ..defense is an invitation to war. Those who are in position to properly diagnose the international situation are almost unanimously of the opinion that we of the United States must be prepared for any eventuality. It is far better for this country to contribute mil lions for defense rather than billions for tribute. We must look the situation square ly in the face. It is the duty of this nation to protect its own people in their rights which, under the funda mental declaration, embrace "ifc, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness." Having determined where the Donato statuary is to be placed, we have no doubt that City Commissioner Bowman, co-operating with his colleagues of the City Council, will take time by the forelock and anticipate the coming of Spring by placing a contract for the necessary preliminary work in the lo cation of the statuary at Front and Locust streets. Inasmuch as the River Park is much used during the summer time, it would seem to he well to get the materials on the feround during the winter so that the work can be pushed In the early Spring and not block the park throughout the summer. WOMEYS SHOES CONGRESSMAN KREIDER, in a speech before the National As sociation of Shoe Manufacturers recently, said that women's shoes are higher in price now than ever before largely because of the added expense of producing the freak styles now In such high favor. Much as she her self may desire to think otherwise, a woman togged out in the footgear of to-day is far from attractive, at least so far as her feet and ankles are con cerned. The eye is naturally drawn to her shoes hy the colors she chooses and the bizarre effect is accentuated by her short skirts, so that if she be thin of leg one gets the conception of silk-clad pipesteams, whereas if she be plump of build there is revealed far more than a mere suspicion of bow legs. The lady of fashion is pay ing a premium on shoe prices for the doubtful privilege of winning mascu line smiles of amusement and the more severe criticism of her observing sisters. Within a few days the Board of Pub lic Works, as at present constituted, will pass out of existence and hence forth its duties will be taken over by the Department of Streets and Public improvements. Since the creation of the first board in 1902 the record of the public-spirited gentlemen who have composed this body from time .to time has been one of substantial achieve ment. AEROPLANE WARFARE THE aeroplane is the bloodiest and nastiest weapon of the pres ent war. If an enemy raiding corps slipped into a city and slew a half dozen women and children and then fled away unscathed, the whole world would weep with the horror of it and there would be loud demands I for vengeance. But an aeroplane may j slip over a city in the silence of the night and mangle a dozen little forms as they lie innocent and sleeping in their cribs and the world reads of it at breakfast, shakes its head doubtfully and lets it ga at that. Air raids over helpless cities bring the war no nearer a conclusion. Neither side is benefitted by them, but the military leadership that orders them marks Itself as cruel and murderous beyond the understanding of civilized people. BRY AN STICKS TO PRINCIPLE AT the time of his resignation, Mr. Bryan announced this his differ ence with the President was purely on principle and not personal. And no one ever doubted it for a mo ment. And no one ever doubted that Mr. Bryan will fight to the death for his principles. Personally, Mr. Bryan would like to see Woodrow Wilson en joy a long and happy life in the peace ful shades of Princeton's spreading elms. Politically, Mr. Bryan desires to see his own principles prevail over those of any other man, and he will let no opportunity pass without put ting forth every possible effort to make those principles succeed. And Mr. Wilson is not in doubt on that point. j GENERAL WOOD'S TESTIMONY DOUBTING Thomases should read General Wood's testimony re garding our unpreparedness to resist foreign invasion, before a com mittee of Congress yesterday. We must always*make allowances for the professional army and navy msAi am bitions to make his branch of the service superior to any in the world, but General Wood's views and opinions submitted yesterday were not of that sort. He showed conclusively that we are spending millions of dol lars fruitlessly and that the only remedy is more millions, combined with patriotic effort toward Improving the condition that everybody, militar ist and pacificist alike, must know exists. ( We have been pictured as the fat boy of the nations. We are nothing of the sort. We are a husky young giant, but Uk« many another young giant helpless before less powerful antagonists for the reason that we are not trained in the art of self defense. We have the muscle but we don't know how to apply it. General Wood proposes to teach us how to use our strength for our own defense. We believe a large majority of people are convinced of the necessity of joining forces, as Congressman Mann urged the other day, for the adoption of a common sense pjan for the protection of the nation. fTELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE , —Now if President Wilson will only come out in favor of the election of a full Republican ticket next Fall his conversion will be complete. —The National Security League has succeeded in 'making most of us feel mighty insecure. —Mayor Meals is now discovering that there is some difference between talking about running a police force and doing it, but at that he appears to have his hand on the throttle. —With the thermometer at 65 the news of no coal strike in the Spring wasn't so thrilling. —The gas companies say the movies are responsible for the de crease in the use of domestic gas. Makes 'em used to sitting in the dark, we suppose. —From the way Big Business has been snuggling up to the Colonel lately, one might think the Trusts like to be busted. EDITORIAL COMMENT Those Vera Cruz medals were well worth winning, but what has become of that apology?— New York Sun. Germany has recognized Carranza. We fear, however, that when the war is over C'avranza will not be able to recognize Germany.—Washington Her ald. Germany, however, may be able to extract some consolidation from the ex change situation, if a mark isn't worth as much as it used to be. then she doesn't owe as much to herself as she thought she did.—lndianapolis News. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS Philadelphia North American. Workman's compensation law Is given as the reason for the boost in laundry prices. Behold, the paper collar !s sighted In the distance. Philadelphia Press. All that we ask of the British is to play fair in this Interference with trade. They have a right to stop all trade with Germany by a blockade if they can establish one, but they have no right to stop the trade of neutral countries with each other, or seize and hold our ships on mere suspicion that their cargo have an ultimate German desti nation. If they cannot maintain a legal blockade of Germany's ports that is their misfortune, but they can not be permitted to maintain an illegal blockade far out at sea for the purpose of catching American vessels and compelling them to waste time and money before British prize courts. Philadelphia Record. A change of opinion seems to have occurred in the State Department on the subject of merchantmen carrying guns. A vessel armed is now held to be an armed vessel, and two Italian steam ers, recently arrived, will have to un ship their guns before sailing. Philadelphia Inquirer. Entirely aside from the merits of the proposi tion. the President's announcement that he has changed his mind on the subject of a tariff commission presents an interesting study in psychology. For a man "sot in his ways" Mr. Wil son changes his mind oftener .than anyone that has sat in the Presidential chair in recent years, lie started out In his political campaign by express ing the hope that someone might arise to knock William Jennings Bryan "into a cocked hat," and when he has Ihe opportunity of performing that praiseworthy act he appoints him to the chief position in his Cabinet. Be fore election he favored exemption of American vessels from Panama Canal tolls. When he became President he reversed himself. A year or two ago he declared against national prepared ness and now he is on the stump advocating it. In a similar manner he put himself on record against a tariff commission and now he says that it is just what we need to meet the conditions of the day. Instances might be multiplied to show how he has said one thing to day and the opposite to-morrow. His method of handling the Mexican busi ness has made It difficult for his warmest friends to follow his style of reasoning. Really, it begins to look as if the President were not sure of himself on any of the great questions that have confronted his administra tion. , It was the first Napoleon who said that the worst fault in the conduct of affairs was vacillation. One of his maxims was that indecision in the rulers was sure to affect a govern ment as paralysis affects the move ments of the limbs. History has proven the truth of this contention. Mr. Wilson writes well and talks well, but his words are constantly reap pearing to plague him. OUR DAILY LAUGH f'itf/f' lost - Rollo: Gee! After rushir." to J Brit to school early 7 CSMP doggoned If I don't find I'm • - running in th« " ~ ; wrong direction. VEM, Vim. VIC'I By Wins Dinger There's a hole upon the golf course That aniioys me vct.v much; Ne«rlv every time I play It Seems as though I get In Dutch— Mental hazard, purely; halfway Twixt it and the driving tee Lies a wide lake, into which, ho, I'll drive two times out of three. Times galore I've wat-ted good strokes, Setting out; and then again I'd play into it. from cussing Striving quite hard to refrain. But this winter, on a cold day. When the lake was frozen o'er, I pulled one that was effective In obtaining H, low score. One chap, knowing well my weakness, Twitted me. and said, "why take So much care In driving, you know You enn't drive across that lake?" Didn't either, but I'd flgureil On that Ice. and. gee. what fun I got when the golf nail bounded L From H into CUD for "oaa." Lk ""PtHuotftrfuvia By th» Ex-Commltteenuui Manifest efforts to keep alive re ports of imminence of a State-wide fight for Republican national dele gates and members of the Republican nw,®/? 11 " 11 ' 4166 are bei ng made in Philadelphia, but both Governor Brum baugh and Senator Penrose, who are !T l ° st ' n the limelight and who are in Philadelphia to-day, are hearing from people up the State who are objecting to being dragged into a contest Just having straightened things out. The friends of Senator Penrose yes terday countered on the Governor's demonstration of Tuesday and Wednes day by flocking to the office of the senator In numbers and pledging their fealty In a manner very open and quite in contrast to ths reticence of men who called on the Governor. Mayor Armstrong and others prominent in Pittsburgh were prominent visitors to the senator. —The Philadelphia North American Insists that there will be a State-wide fight, which would just suit that news paper, and that the Vares have five of the six congressional districts in Phila delphia already "sewed up." This pa per also says that the Brumbaugh plan is to let Penrose start the fight and that district delegates will begin to an nounce themselves for the Governor, keeping the Vares In the background. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the senator received a remarkable tribute from friends yesterday, while the Record says that the senator was assured that Western Pennsylvania would back him up In event of a fight. —Speaker Charles A. Ambler is ex pected to announce his candidacy for Auditor General next week and it will be the signal for a state-wide fight. Friends of Ambler are said to be urg ing him not to get into it. —Congressman L. T. McFadden, of Bradford, and ex-Senator G. M. Wertz, of Cambria, who wero callers on the Goverrior Wednesday, were among the Penrose callers yesterday. Senator Oliver, who called on the senator, also saw Mayor Smith. —Representative A. A. Weimer, of Lebanon, who was here yesterday, is a candidate for renomination. He is one of the leading business men of Leb anon county, head of manufacturing and power concerns, and his friends are urging him to run for something higher. His name has been heard for Congress at large and also for state offices. —R. B. Scandrett, of Pittsburgh, has made things Interesting by announcing that he is a candidate for national delegate in behalf of P. C. Knox for President. —Coroner S. C. Jamison, of Alle gheny, has made this statement: "Western Pennsylvania is practically a unit in support of Senator Penrose. We recognize him as the logical leader of the protective tariff element among stalwart Republicans and no one can equal htm as an exponent of the Penn sylvania idea of protective tariff Re publicanism. Conditions in national politics make it inevitable that Senator Penrose shall have the unqualified sup port of all loyal Pennsylvania Repub licans. We do not propose that any factional differences that may be pro moted to advance selfish and personal ends shall in any way impair the in fluence of our senior United States sen ator at Washington or at the coming Republican national convention." —Editor E. J. Lynett, of the Scran ton Times, the man who was most strongly favored at the recent Demo cratic conference as a candidate for United States senator against P. C. Knox, has refused to consider the proposition. Mr. Lynett is a man of considerable influence and would have made a representative Democratic can didate. This leaves the matter up to Secretary of Labor Wilson, who will run if the President gives hlni per mission. —The Philadelphia city adminis tration Is having an interesting time just now firing Blankenburg men and putting in friends. R. C. Hicks, one of the men dropped by M. L. Cooke, has been put back and one of the men put into the mayor's office by the re cent mayor has been replaced by the man whom he replaced. —Representative C. A. Shaffer, of Columbia county, who was here yes terday, said that he would be a candi date for renomination. —The candidacy of R. J. William son. former district attorney of Hunt ingdon county, who has been connected with the Department of Labor and Industry, for the Republican nomi nation for Congress in the Seventeenth district has brought out ex-Repre sentative J. H. Light, of Franklin county. Congressman B. K. Focht, of Union county, is also a candidate and appears to be pretty strong. —The Tioga county court is just now in the throes of license court and a big battle is being waged. —Wilkes-Barre police and firemen have petitioned for a civil service law. —Friends of Director W. H. Wilson, of Philadelphia, say there Is nothing to the report that he may be considered to succeed Judge Ralston. The name of Alexander Simpson, law partner of Francis Shunk Brown, the Attorney General, has been used In the gossip lately. The Governor says he has not considered the matter. —Director Datesman's action In "fir ing" a number of highway inspectors kept on by the Blankenburg adminis tration because they were not needed appears to have stirred up consid erable comment about the economy of the former administration. —Representative Wallace B. Benn, of Allegheny, may not run again be cause of the fight the railroad men are putting up against him. —Representative Scott, of Philips burg, will run for renomination. ; —Charles Robins, of Mount Carmel, well known in the affairs of the Six teenth congressional district, will be a candidate for Congress against Con gressman J. V. Ivesher. who is on the outs with some of his Democratic henchmen. Mr. Robins was defeated by Congressman L,esher two years ago. —The Allegheny county mercantile appraisershlp fuss may go to the courts, as some of the friends of the man displaced are not inclined to ac cept the decision of the Attorney Gen eral. —An open movement against A. Mitchell Painter's continuance In Democratic politics has been started in his own congressional district. —Congressman D. F. of York, who wants harmony in the State, is said to be considering running as a candidate for congressman in his old district. Friends want him to run for Congress at large. REPUBLICAN ATTITUDE Republicans are preparing to accuse the Democrats of attempting to steal their thunder. For years Republi cans have urged the creation of a tariff board and have been opposed by the Democrats. Under the Taft ad ministration the Republicans suc ceeded In getting a board, but the Democrats promptly abolished it. Republicans now contend President Wilson is playing politics and hopes through the creation of a tariff board to meet the tariff issue in the next campaign. Representative Kitchln said to-day that he was at liberty to announce that the President is now definitely committed to the tariff commission Idea. The President will discuss his views on the subject in an early spcecli. Washington Correspondent ■ Is'ew York Sun THE CARTOON OF THE DAY NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION AND AN HONEST CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL —From the Baltimore American. ( HERE FOR HIS HEALTH By Frederic J. Haskin IN the little southwestern city of Albuquerque, N. M., the year 1916 arrived in silence. For the first time the blare of horns, the rattle of tin pans, the howl of the mocking bird fire alarms were missing. The celebration was omitted because a stranger In town wrote a little note to the leading paper. He was sick with tuberculosis, he said, and there were hundreds in similar case. The city had invited their presence by ad vertising as a health resort. Now It was the city's duty to let them sleep. The city admitted Its responsibility, and staged a safe and sane New Year. Nothing brings home more forcibly the grip of the great white plague on the nation than the prominent place the health seeking class has taken in the social and economic scheme over whole sections of the country. Albu querque is the largest city and the business center of a State, yet so im portant an asset, and so numerous are the consumptives, that a few lines from one of them sufficed to set aside a traditional municipal demonstration. In scores of smaller towns,, the health-seeker Is correspondingly more important. It is due to him that the southwest as a community is unique. Nowhere else do you find so many men who seem to be about three times too large for their job. In most places It Is the other way around. But out In some sparsely settled corner of New Mexico or Arizona, you will chance on some school superinten dent with Ideas and abilities big enough for Chicago, some musician playing in a one-story opera house who could hold aa audience brought up on the classics, some newspaper man editing a four-page weekly who might have been a star in New York if his talent had gotten its chance. To the eternal question, "What is he I doing here?" there is one eternal answer, western in Its brevity: "Here for his health." Sometimes the answer Is not even put into words; a significant tap on the chest Is answer enough. The pity of it, the lost opportunities, the whole sale economic waste of able men that are all too rare, cut off from the cen ters that need them, make one of the tragedies of the time. And yet those are the fortunate ones who are able to follow their bent in new surround ings, and make their mark in a new country. Who knows what talent, genius even, lies burning out, in some of the Innumerable tents and bun galows dotting the mesas? That is the real loss and the real pity. They come from every corner of the nation, many of them without money and too weak to work, put ting a heavy strain on the charitable resources of the community where they linger and die. Some of them who have a few dollars throw tho local labor markets Into confusion by their willingness to work for any wages—any work that will take them out of doors In the sunlight. All about are thousands, fighting the long fight with the cheerful optimism that is in Itself a symptom of the malady. The enemy has become for them a commonplace, a companion by day and by night. With a callousness and THE STATE FROM D/y TO DAf "Hershey's gum" Is the latest pro duct that has come out of the big- Uttle metropolis some few miles to the east of Harrlsburg. As far as the sticks themselves are concerned, the Herßhey people may well advertise that "no mouth should be without one." " 'Suffragists Are to Propose,' says headline. Gosh, this makes the leap year dangers very very real indeed," is the fearful comment of our esteem ed contemporary, the Allentown Chronicle and News. Alfred Noyes, the famous young English poet who is oft-times wrong ly termed the poet laureate of Eng land, addressed the women of Erie the other day and read from a num ber of his own works. "The Admiral's Ghost" and "The Searchlights," the latter 'of which was written after the opening of the present European war, were the favorites that took especial ly well. New Castle is having an egg-laying "contest at its poultry show and the story is told by the News of the little boy who stood all day in front of his father's pen and gave a delighted cheer every time a hen approached a nest. When asked how the hens were doing, the small boy remarked, "Three eggs and one on; that makes about three and a half eggs." Henry Stough, the evangelist, who converted so many Pennsylvanians in his campaign in this State, is being scathingly anathematized in Atlantic I City, where Mayor Kiddle recently a courage that fills the untouched spectator with mingled horror and re spect, they jest over the struggle, comparing temperatures and symp toms, sometimes making up a dally pool to be taken by the man who has the first collapse. They publish pa pers and magazines among them selves, filled with the news of psf tients and doctors and sanatorlums, filled before all things with jokes about everything from recovery to death. Whichever way the fight goes, the fighters are indomitable to the end. Many of them, perhaps most of them, win out. But victory at best means years of wasted life, and may be perpetual exile from the damp climates where big cities grow and big things happen. The pity of it is always there. The social conscious ness is just beginning to awaken to the fact that it is a national duty to strike the evil at its root. Michigan with her SIOO,OOO state campaign, the state work being done in Wisconsin, the wide movement to make the city or the county a unit in the fight, the educational publicity campaigns conducted in big newspa pers, all are signs that tuberculosis is at least recognized as a problem for the community rather than the individual. The disease must be checked at its beginning, says social science to-day, it must never be per mitted to begin, there is no compari son between prevention and cure. Cure Is only a belated attempt to re trieve defeat. The awakening was slow In com ing. The destroyer had been secure for so long that Its ravages were re garded as strokes of destiny. At the exhibit of a national association for fighting tuberculosis two years ago, the center of attention was a single electric light bulb. It was an ordin ary lamp, such as you buy for twen ty cents. At short intervals It flash ed, and then went out. "Every time this light flashes," read a sign below It, "someone in the United States dies of tuberculosis." All day a silent crowd stood about the bulb, watching it glow and darken like a slowly beat ing heart. They watched fascinated, but as people watch Inevitable. Not one In a hundred seemed to realize that each flash was a call to battle. They are beginning to realize it to day. State and national campaigns can have for their end nothing more than an awakening of the individual sense of responsibility, and a training lof each man's knowledge until he 'has the power to save himself and others. The keynote of the new train ing is vigilance. A stitch in time saves a life, when tuberculosis is the enemy. The disease Is the most Insidious of all the great plagues. Cholera and yellow jack, the bubonic plague of the East and the black death of the mid dle ages, all these defiantly fought civilization, and civilization battered them down and obliterated them. Consumption used the progress of the centuries to further its own stealthy advance. Its victories are won by working in the dark, by establishing its position before the victim well knows that the attack has begun. 1 took a fall out of him by refusing to repudiate his declaration that Atlantic City needs chorus girls, gamblers and prize fighters to enliven the town and bring back festive times. "Chorus girls will be as welcome In Heaven as muck-raking evangelists. I'm will ing to wager," says the ■ bellicose mayor. Plants engaged in the plate-glass in dustry have joined the ranks now, af ter having been in an impoverished condition for months. The European war is at last being felt In its effect upon this industry, and the great de mand has forced prices up to a rate that is from forty 4o fifty per cent, higher than that which prevailed only six months ago. CUBAN MILLIONAIRES A group that is beginning to bo much in evidence at the Opera and in the fashionable hotels In New York is made up of the advance guard of the new crop of Cuban millionaires. These are the men whom the fortunes of war and of sugar have made wealthy beyond all expectation. Ow ing to the high price of sugar brought about by this war Cuba's crop of cane last year brought the tidy little sum of $200,000,000 to the planters pt the Island. Most of this money came from the United States which buys four-fifths, of the sugar grown In Cuba. It is said that if the free sugar law Is allowed to go Into effect and the growing of sugar beets and cane is abandoned In the United States the sugar production of Cuba will double within a few years. In anticipation of this result American capital is investing in Cuban planta tions at prices which would have seemed dazzling under the conditions of a few years ago and the former owners of the plantations are adding a new and interesting flavor to the cosmopolitan lite o£ New York City. Burning (Chat « Secretary of the CommonwealtV Woods, who Is asked all sorts of que*, tions and to do all kinds of things, tf*' officer of last resort on Capitol Hl*, lias Just been requested to please find a missing man. The man is suspected of being on the Pacific coast or iji Wilkea-Barre or somewhere else. This is the letter sent to htm: Secretary of State, Harrisburg, Pa. Dear Sir: I am writing you this letter in the hope that you will try and as sist me In locating my brother whom I have not heard from in sixteen years. His name is Mr. John Finucane, aged 37, and haw white hair and blue eyes. When I last heard from him he was in Wllkes-Barre, Pa., therefore, I take the liberty to write to you. Can you not in some way look up your records and let me know if you have any trace of him. I wrote some time ago to the Secretary of State In Oregon for his assistance In helping me to locate another brother of mine, and he put It In one of the papers out there ind succeeded in finding him. I trust, therefore, that you will be able to do something in this matter and I can assure you It will be highly appreciated. Yours very truly, (Mrs.) A. DOMBO, 3229 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. • » • Dauphin county farms came In foi some mention yesterday during tha discussions in the State Board of Agri culture and It was pointed out that this section of the State was well adapted not only for general farming and wheat growing, but for the raising of fruit and splendidly fitted In many sec tions for market gardening. Several speakers said that Dauphin county had been noted for the richness of farms in the Susquehanna and Leba non valleys and the Young farms were cited as some which had become fam ous all over the State. Reference was made by one speaker to the success of ex-Senator John E. Fox in raising al falfa and it was declared that some demonstrations had been made on his farm, while Horace A. Keefer told of the successful experiments with Sou dan grass, which he said would grow any place and yield good hay. E. B. Dorsett, of Tioga county, who is one of the experts of the Department of Agriculture, spoke of the opportunities for market gurdening in this section and of the necessity of farmers to properly grade their products. Mr. Dorsett Incidentally said that the ap ple growers and potato raisers of Southern Pennsylvania were losing money every year because they did not grade fruits as they should and Instanced some failures to take advan tage of good marketing places. Investigations in connection with the burning of three Harrlsburg school buildings have developed some humor ous situations. Chief among these Is one related last night. A clue to the effect that a key to one of the threo buildings was unaccounted for was advanced by a janitor. The janitor by the way, had two keys to the build ing. It was learned that a painter had a key and the janitor said this man failed to return the key to him. The man was found and he said he had given the missing "opener" to a laborer who was working about the building. The laborer was next sought and when he was found he reported that he had given the key to the jani tor. When investigators told the jani tor that the extra key In his possession was the one being hunted he admitted "the joke was on him." The men who made the "marvelous discovery" said they worked a full day to learn the janitor had the key they were seeking. • * * The passing of Dauphin county's gallows Is scheduled for to-day some time when a kindling-wood dealer backs his team against the curb of Court street, loads his wagon with the half a dozen or more gray weather beaten beams and drives away to his little wood yard. The planks and beams of the scaffold were a part of the debris that was taken from the basement rooms of the courthouse in the general "clean-up." Custodian Charles Peters said he had some trou ble disposing of the wood as there were some superstititous folks who didn't quite like the idea of using the wood for fires. During the afternoon sev eral morbid folks chipped away UK le pieces of the old beams for curios. * » * 0 Anderson H. Walters, of Johnstown, who was here yesterday to see tho Governor, is a former member of con gress and is the publisher of (he Johnstown Tribune. lie was one of the leaders in the progressive party movement. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —A. D. Parker, vice-president of the Colorado Southern railroad, has re signed and will make his home in Philadelphia. —Charles T. Shoen, the steel car developer, is interested In the new munitions plant for the Delawaro river. —William D. Grange has been se lected for president of the Philadel phia Stock exchange. —F. A. Crandall, prominent Chicago banker, is to speak In Pittsburgh to night. —E. F. White Is the new president of the Chester Board of Trade. —C. Curtis Doak, former register of Carbon county, has legislative as pirations. | DO YOU KNOW " That Harrisburg makes stocl for tank cars for the far West? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The Commonwealth corner has been a hotel site for over 125 years. The Grocer and the Home The small grocer controls seventy per cent, of the food product trade of the country. The goods move directly over his counter to the family larder. He Is a neighborhood Institution. He comes in close contact with his customers at all times and In timately knows their likes and dislikes. It would be strange If the grocery man were not quick to sense the influence of news paper advertising. He knows customers begin calling for cer tain brands by name when these brands are newspaper advertised. What Is more natural than that he should push these particular articles?
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