8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBH Sr.IFER FOR THE HOME Founded tSt! Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBKRAI'II PHINTINO CO., Ttkcrafh Building, FVderal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't end E d tier-in-Chief F. H. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUB M. STEINMETZ, Mar.jgir.g Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa- EB3tern «fflce, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New Ga«°Hu\ldlng! Chi' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a :lA»SC> week; by mail, J3.00 a year in advance. lirora dally average circulation for the three months ending Jnn. 31, 1018. if 22,760 Thear figure* are net. All returned, ■■aold and damaged coplea deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, IKB. » O wan with the eager eyes, Why do you hurry sof In your haste to pain the prize You miss much as you go; You hear no song-birds sing, Wor stray in flowery places; You never stay to bring Glad smiles to weary faces — Why do you hurry sot —S. E. KISEB. THAT ARMOR PI,ANT BILL THERE are two very distinct sides to the armor plant bill now be fore Congress. While on the face of it the an nouncement of the armor makers that they will advance the price of armor arbitrarily S2OO a ton if the govern ment goes into the armor-making busi ness sounds like a threat, it is really nothing more than a plain business proposition. If the government ap propriates money for an armor plant, most of the privately owned plants must be junked, for the business is of such a special nature that the mills cannot l>e turned to other uses. The owners do not propose to lose this investment If they can help it, and so they have told the government that if ; it proposes to build its own factory, then they will, between the present nnd the time when the government plant is ready for business, try to col lect from the government the sum of their Investment. Most men, faced ■with the possibility of being put out of business by the government, would do the same. It is a question, also, whether the government should wipe out existing plants and concentrate In one of its own. The time may come when we will need every plant that can be brought to the service of the nation. THAT QUAKER CTTY SCRAP WITHOUT bothering about the alleged merits of the factional Republican row in Philadel phia. the leaders responsible for the everlasting controversy over who's who in the matter of party control may as veil understand now as they are cer tain to do hereafter that the great body of Republicans who do not regis ter from the City of Brotherly Love •—heaven save the mark—will crush the whole outfit, root and branch, be neath the heel of a great party's dis pleasure. No more senseless effort to disrupt a political organization has ever betn put forth in this State. Just when the national situation demands harmony and cohesive and energetic labor in support of the fundamental principles upon which the party structure rests, the Philadelphia condition grows more exasperating and intolerable. And why all this ruction? Solely and only because one group of leaders is determined to measure swords with another group regardless of the im portant and vital intersts of the party in Philadelphia and Republican soli darity throughout the State. Of course, all outside the single big community in the southeastern corner of the Com monwealth are expected to stand on the sidelines as in a football scrim mage and cheer the rough-and-tumble contestants. But the cheers ore not forthcoming. Instead of enthusiastic approval, maledictions arc already be ing heaped upon the heads of all en gaged in this inexcusable and abso lutely indefensible struggle for power. Republican leaders, the chairmen of city and county committees and the party newspapers should unite their voices in a vigorous protest against further bickering in the State's me tropolis. As innocent spectators of the in ternecine conflict they should abso lutely refuse to be drawn into it. If the Philadelphians still insist on bat tering each other and they derive any real satisfaction from this form of ex ercise, there is no law to prevent the game going on, but it is most unrea sonable to expect the rest of the family to become Involved in the unseomly wrangle. Governor Brumbaugh has frequently declared that he wants party harmony; that the issues at stake in the Impend ing national campaign arc so vital in their character that the great Repub lican party, as the best, instrumentality for the expression of the sovereign will of the people, must present a solid and impregnable front. And nobody dares question the sanity of thnt statement. Yet rumors are flying on every breeze that certain factional interest* are urging the Governor to WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 9, 1916. ! enter upon a State-wide contest to ! wrest from Senator Penrose the lead ership on the eve of the most momen tous national campaign since the birth j of the Republican party. His real friends are just as earnestly advising the Governor to refuse to em broil his administration in a factional I controversy that can only result in j weakening the forces that are deeply interested in working out his con -1 struotive policies for the welfare of the people. Similar reports also persist that Sen ator Penrose is likewise besieged by belligerent lieutenants demanding a war upon the State administration. The Telegraph believes It correctly interprets Repuubllcan sentiment In this matter. Differences among leaders j are unavoidable, but it does not follow ! that these should be permitted to dls jturb the spirit and efficiency of the | party as a whole. ; It may be properly maintained that in a primary contest there is no ground for criticism as between the various I entries. But admitting this conten , tion, the nature of the contest and the ! party interests involved do not justify I such factional activities without regard ' to the principals as may disturb the j party alignment far beyond the sector immediately affected. In short, the Philadelphia rivalries must not be allowed to project them selves beyond the limits of the me ' tropolts at the risk of party harmony. We again submit that the differences between the Vares and the McXlehols j and their aiders and abettors should Ibe decently composed; but if they ] can't be truly happy without a rough ; and-tumble fight, the party In the | other sixty-six counties of the Cbm monwealth should declare a perfect neutrality and remain well outside the I arena until one, or both, of the com- i batants yells "enough." "SAFETY FIRST" TIIE astounding statement of John Price Jackson that the industries of Pennsylvania, at the present ! rate, will malm or kill 300,000 work- j men during the coming year ought to ( | give every employer, and employe, too. I cause for thought. This Is a great manufacturing State and some of our occupations are unusually hazardous, but. such figures as the Commissioner 1 of Labor forecasts are out of all pro- : : portion to the number of men at work, , even under the circumstances named, j "Safety First" should be the slogan in every line of work. Doubtless the operations of the new workmen's com pensation law will have the effect of making for the protection of workers j nnd it ought also to apply to the degree ! that .employers dismiss careless or! reckless workmen. Three hundred thousand men in jured or killed in a year! Why, the | figures sound like the casualty returns j from a European battle front. SINCERITY AND PATRIOTISM THE sincere and patriotic desire of Republicans and Progressives is to rid the country of what George W. Perkins calls "the incubus at Washington." This desire Is not based so much \ 1 upon a craving for power or for the I loaves and fishes of otfice. It Is a genuine belief, well fortified with spe cific proof, that the present Demo cratic administration has been harm-j 1 ful to the nation's honor and prestige,: disastrous to the nation's real pros- 1 perity, and that its continuance will j : ensure humiliation for the flag such j as Old Glory has never experienced and such as no one ever thought to have it experience. This is the pre vailing opinion of Republicans and Progressives. It is a real "America first" movement which has been start-: ! t:d in the proposed union of Repubii-' ' cans and Progressives upon a single candidate to oppose President Wil-! ' son. : That the movement will be success- j ful cannot be doubted. In fact, it is j successful already. The disposition; among men in both parties who have risen to leadership is to meet the prob lem in a straightforward, man-fashion ! spirit—not of compromise, nor of ar- ( rangement, but of union for the bene fit of the nation for which the men ofj both parties, Republican and Progres- i sive, have done so much. So far as the Republican convention is concerned, these recent develop ments do not materially alter the sit uation. That convention will be an' open and honorable contest for a great j prize—the Presidency of the United i States, no less. Any man, contending in such an arena, who is competent l to bear away the victory will be en-; tirely worthy of the Progressive party's J endorsement; and he will receive it. j Then the anti-Democratic majority in this country will again stand together j and the result will be a predetermined j victory. FREEING THE HIGHWAYS STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS SIONER CUNNINGHAM must have slept well last night, if a good day's work counts anything to- j ward a night's rest. Not since the an- \ nouncement that he has found a way! to procure for the State a proper road j through the Narrows below Millers-1 burg has any news so pleasing to Har- i j risburgers come out of the State High- ( j way Commisioner's office as that of | yesterday to the effect that ncgotia- j tions are tinder way looking toward the purchase of five pieces of toll road j leading into Philadelphia. In particular, Harrisburgers are in-! tercstod in the announcement that the ; old Lancaster turnpike between Paoli ! and the Philadelphia city line at Over- I brook is to be freed. This is one of ■the main arteries into Philadelphia and is traversed by hundreds of Har risburgr automobilists yearly. The | other highway to be taken over, from i Philadelphia to Allentown. the old i Bethlehem pike, is almost as Impor tant. This freeing of toll roads is "one of ; the most beneficial and popular duties of the Highway Department and Mr. Cunningham deserves the commenda tion of the public for the energetic i manner in which ho Is prosecuting the I work with the slender means at his 1 command. < [~TEUORAPH'S PERISCOPE I —Those two m«n who went down the street grinning this morning while you were trying to warm your ears and keep your nose from freezing were the coal dealer and the Ice merchant. —Tell a woman she's dull and she'll cut you In a second. —A burglar is not necessarily a gambler, but he always plays his best game with a full house. —Cupid, the candy dealers and the florists are playing it low down on mere man these days. And to think that a good old chap like Saint Val entine should be mixed up in It. —"Her toes beneath her petticoat like little mice stole In and out," says the author. In these days he would have written it knees. —Even if at night you haven't done as well as you thought you would In the morning, you're still all right if you feel you can do better the day following. EDITORIAL COMMENT If the Filipinos have studied the case of Belgium they will show little enthu siasm over Senator Stone's proposal to neutralize the islands.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. A Berlin professor is quoted as saying Germany loves the other nations, and Is punishing them for their own good. We suppose it hurts her as much as it does them.—Wall Street Journal. No longer can there be any doubt about the horrors of war. Garet Garrett, cor respondent of Th® Times, wrltea that the cost of living in Berlin is rs high as It Is New York.—New York Morning Telegraph. DOSE OF THEIR OWN [Pittsburgh Times.] We shall be treated to a fine dis ! play of proper indignation by the i Pennsylvania liquor interests because Judge Corbet of Jefferson county has rejected all applications for licenses. His action will be denounced as arbi trary, as an abuse of judicial dis cretion and as generally offensive to i the principles of fair dealing. The fact is that the learned court pro ceeded within the letter of the law and the powers conferred upon it by the Brooks act as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Is it any worse for a court to disregard the spirit of the law, as Judge Corbet may have done in this case by refusing all applica tions. than for other judges, in coun ties that might be specified, to grant all applications, or nearly all, regard ' less of conditions and tinder the pres sure of brewery and whisky influences and that of importunate counsel? Judge Corbet has given the liquor ! people a uose of their own medicine. I (They go down to Harrisburg and pre- ! ,vent the General Assembly from lcgis i latlng on the question of license so that the people of an indicated terri- j ! tory may determine for themselves! whether intoxicating beverages shall j 1 be sold within their civil jurisdiction, i ! They halt every effort at better regu- j lation and closer restriction. They j ■j threaten and defeat temperance can- i didates for the Legislature and coun-! Ity offices. At all points and In every j j possible way they seek to deny to the ! public an effective voice in the mat- 1 ter of this grave moral and economic j issue. What is more natural, there j fore, than that people in counties 1 should undertake to secure relief i Ithrough the election of judges who! ! have the moral courage to do what i the Legislature has not dared to do I because, forsooth, that would be de-! structive of personal liberty and of a j j legalized business long recognized; among the institutions of the world? In such sweeping decisions as that i ,of Judge Corbet the liquor men arc i getting precisely what is coming to j t them, what they have invited, and l i what they must continue to expect until they change their tactics. TWO DREAMERS [Kansas City Star.] In the mountains of Colorado some ' thirty years ago a freight train | waited on a siding for another train jto come and pass. and. as it waited | the locomotive engineer leaned out of his cab window gazing at the far-off 1 mountain tops and dreaming. The j fireman sat upon the tender, gazing] info the purple haze and he, too, was I dreaming. i "What are you dreaming: about, John?" asked the fireman. "I'm dreaming that I'm going to have a million dollars some day; and what's your dream, Cy?" "That I'll write a real book some day and have it printed," answered i the fireman. Cy Warman. the fireman of the loco- i motive, became a poet and author, a writer of many books and a singer of songs that touched the hearts of a 1 i whole continent. He died two years I ago. I His love for pure, sweet and beauti- 1 | ful things was shown in the last lines of his song. "Sweet Marie." v.-liich he wrote as a marriage proposal to the woman he loved, and which the whole ! ( world sang for a time. : Not the sunlight in your hair, sweet Marie, . Not because your face is fair, love, to see: I But your soul so pure and sweet 1 ! Makes my happiness complete, : Makes me falter at your feet, sweet. Marie. i John A. Hill, the engineer, made his million as founder and publisher of the trade papers: Power, the Am erican Machinist, Locomotive En-1 i gineer. Engineering and Mining ! Journal, Engineering News and the ; Coal Age. He put up a great build j Ing in New York and was one of Am j erica's captains of industry. He died ! last week. The dreams of both came true, j Each saw the fulfillment of his wish. | Each served in his own way the needs of his age. HOW TO LIVE LONGER Alß—Utile I—Open all windows wide before you use the room in which you i live or work. Let fresh air in all the | time. The best temperature is between GS degrees and TO degrees Fahrenheit. Open one window at the top and one at the bottom. The good air comes In ' one window and the bad air goes out , ! the other. If you feel the air blowing . on you. place a board in front of the open window to send the air up. Such .ja "window board" should always be used in winter. ' I People who are used to fresh air al ! I most never have colds. | Try to keep the air in your house as I I pure as the air outdoors. Do not let i j dust and smoke stay in the house. I Let in all the sunshine you --an. Sun shine and fresh air kill srerms and | thereby help to keep out slclcness. PILLAR OF CLOUD Yet thou in thy manifold mercies ' forsookest them not In the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not • from them by day, to lead them in . the way: neither th<* pillar of fire by i night, to sbovi them light, and the ' I way wherein they should go.—Nehe imiah ix. 19. y>uuc* in, *~PeKK6i{ttfCDua By the Ex-Oommltteenuui i issawsaag—at Senator Cummins' name will be placed upon the primary ballots In Pennsylvania, as a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. This was decided upon at a meet ing of the lowa delegation in Con gress and some of the Senator's politi cal managers held last night. All the Republican members of the lowa dele gation except Senator Cummins were present. ..The only limitation imposed upon the activities of the Cummins advo cates is the insistence of Senator t.ummlns that no attempt, will be made to elect delegates for him in States presenting favorite son candi dates, says the North American, com menting on this, and Pennsylvania Is not regarded as one of the States, for while the westerners have heard that an effort may be made to pledge the delegation to Governor Brumbaugh, the Governor is not regarded as an active candidate or as one who will figure In whatever contest may occur In the convention. Senator Cummins was born at Carmichaels, In Greene county. Pa., and has many friends In the State. Some of them have asked him to let them present his name in the primaries and have promised him that some Cummins delegates will be chosen." —Sas's the Philadelphia Record of to-day, commenting on the Republican situation in Philadelphia: "The re cently-organized Citizens' Republican League, formed for the purpose of aiding United States Senator Penrose plans to gain a place In the councils of the Organization by electing inde pendent Republicans as representa tives to the Republican City Commit tee from independent wards. This plan of action was determined on yesterday at a secret meeting of the League's executive committee." —Senator William E. Crow, Repub lican State chairman, yesterday sent out notices to all the thirty-two con gressional districts in the State con cerning the election of delegates to the national convention, which will take place at the primary on May 16. Penn sylvania will eteot seventy-six dele gates and seventy-six alternates to the Republican national convention, which 1 convenes in Chicago, June 7. Of these j twelve will be delegates-at-large and twelve alternates-at-large, to be elected by all Republican electors. The petitions of candidates for dele ; gates-at-large must be signed by at I least 100 qualified electors in each of | at least five counties in the State, and , the petitions of candidates for district I delegates must be signed by at least | 200 qualified voters in the district. All petitions of candidates, under the law, must be filed with the Secretary of the I Commonwealth on or before April 18. ; Petition blanks are now on hand in I the office of the Secretary of State. ! —Ex-Mavor William A. Masree, now | Public Service Commissioner, was in terrogated last night on the political i situation. He said: "I might be able to tell you what the outcome will be between the Penrose I and Brumbaugh factions if I knew : who the presidential candidates would be. T firmly believe that, if Mr. Brum j bough would openly announce himself j as a candidate for the presidency it ! would settle the light for control of I the State and would clear up the sit | uation in the national delegate fight. "The Governor has not made any ! definite statement along the line of his j aspirations to be chief magistrate. I I have not seen hint for six weeks, but I |am not out of touch with the po | litical situation. Let Mr. Brumbaugh i announce himself for President and the fight against Penroseism is won." 1 —The Pittsburgh Leader, whose i editor-in-chief, Alexander P. Moore, is | backed by ex-Senator William Flinn, i the Progressive chief, and which has been advocating Theodore Roosevelt I i for President for several years, in a I | front-page editorial yesterday sharply I attacked Governor Brumbaugh. j —W. Harry Baker, secretary of the , State Republican committee, is in Chi i eago procuring quarters for the Penn , sylvania delegation to the national i convention. PARTY UNPREPAREDNESS [Pittsburgh (gazette Times.] | Nothing could better illustrate the ' complete demoralization of the Demo , cratic party in Congress than Speaker 1 ! Clark's descent from the chair yes terday practically to open the debate i lon naval preparedness. The adminis ; tration—the President himself—had |no spokesman upon whom it could; i rely, or of sufficient caliber. Hence ■ Mr. Clark, betrayed at Baltimore and more or less on the side track since, | had to come forward, out of the good ness of his heart and the spur of his ! patriotism, and say what he thought 1 ought to be said because the Executive land his party were helpless in the face of hostile elements from their I own ranks. | If anybody wonders what's the mat- I ter with Congress, or why the halting and hesitating foreign and domestic policy of tlie White House, or how it i happens that, after a year and a half, so little has been done for national j defense, the answer is found in yes- J tcrday's scene in the House. The situation, save as to purely partisan 1 matters, is out of hand. The Presi dent's ultimate dependence for what i he hopes or plans to do in prepared ' ness is on the Republicans of the i House and Senate. If he looks only to the Democrats he cannot pass a i bill. Speaker Clark realizes this and !he is enough of a party man and! j enough of a strategist—some may say j | opportunist, perhaps —to appreciate the psychology of the occasion and make the most of it. Where, in the meantime, are the thiek-and-tliin Wil son men of other days? 1 HUMBUG ECONOMY [Kansas City Star.] I To provide the United States with ' an adequate army and navy is going |to "cost a lot of money." It is going to be "wrung from the people" in the form of taxes such as the people iof Europe are now "staggering un | der." This language of statesmanship will i be recognized as that now being used ,by Congressmen who are opposing the Presiddht's preparedness pro gram. They are the same statesmen who are proposing to pay blackmail to Colombia and to provide a pork I barrel fund to be distributed among the States under the pretense that it [ is to encourage the building of roads. The tribute to Colombia, the main j purpose of which is to write into a - treaty a political indictment of Tlieo ' dore Roosevelt for building the | Panama Canal, will cost the taxpay ers 15 million dollars, but presumably it is to be extracted from them by some other process than "wringing." The largest to be tossed to local State politicians under the Shackleford pork ! bill is 25 million. The scramble for it doubtless will raise considerable dust in the States, but it will not be 1 from the roads. Forty million dollars expended for political spite and State patronage is statesmanship. The same amount ex- II pended for defensive preparations as an insurance against war is cxtrava . gance. The people must be "pro i tected" against it. and when it comes (to this kind of "protection" congres sional politicians differ in nowise from •the city hall politicians in Kansas i City. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE BILL BRYAN DUCK •• (VM nwrftMs. "Trttt CfA-T»« .a 1 —From the Columbua Dlapatch. Getting the World's Fur Trade By Frederic J. Haskin AMERICA Is out for the world's fur business. New York just closed a successful fur auction; St. Louts held her big sale a few weeks ago. Both these sales were unique In American history. New York will have another and bigger auction in March. Apparently the United States is at last to take her rightful place as a world fur market. The importance of the world's fur trade is not generally realized. Furs are one of the most valuable of all commodities, and the demand for them is steadily increasing. The fur trade has its branches in every corner of the globe. Wars have been fought between nations for its sake. It has opened up new continents. It is as old as the human race, and its products have their recognized value, as real as the value of food-stuffs, in every society from savagery to the highest civilization. London is Jo-day the world's fur market. Before the war broke out she held that position unchallenged. The pelts from Canada, the Western United States, Mexico, South America, Siberia, China —practically the whole world's supply went to a few London brokers. These brokers graded the furs into convenient lots and sent catalogs to the world's fur-buyers and manufacturers. On this basis the furs were bid on. and sold. Small auctions wero held regularly in Rus sia and Germany, but they were a drop compared to London's bucket. Even now, with the fur markets dis organized by war. London holds the bulk of what business is being done. Her auction is running now. With the entrance of the United States into the game, affairs take on a new complexion. There are ten big fur companies In North America alone. If only the business of the western hemisphere can be done in the United States, it. should assure the building up of a profitable in dustry. Moreover, shipments to the New York auction show that Aus tralian furs will be sold here if sales in the United States become an es tablished institution. One great advantage in breaking up the present centralization of the business would consist in the protec tion afforded to American trappers and fur-growers. When the war broke out, the fur market was badly disorganized. Prices dropped like lead. This was because the manu factories were almost all located in the belligerent countries. London sells the furs, but Germany and France are two of the biggest manufacturers. England's factories in this line de pend to a great extent, on German labor, for the German is pre-eminent in cutting and stitching furs, as the Frenchman leads in arranging them to best effect. Germany's excellent workmanship has won her a powerful position In the fur business. Her dying of furs is recognized as the standard, and dying l« one of the most important operations in the manufacture. Great quantities of American furs were an nually shipped to Germany, where they were dyed and made up, to be returned and sold here under a Ger man trademark. THE STATE FROM W TO DAY The man who is by many conceded to have been the first to buy an Ameri can-built, gasoline propelled automo bile has died in Pottsville. His name was Robert Allison, his age 89 years, the date when he bought the first car was April 1, 1898, the price he paid SI,OOO, and the machine a single cylinder Winton. A very antique car it must, be, if still in existence. Back in the Spring of 1914, A. D. Hey wood, of Wilkinsburg, won a box of cigars at a church raffle. While attempting to enjoy one of them after dinner on that memorable occasion the cigar was exploded by a copper shell said to have been imbedded in the cigar. Heywood is now seeking dam ages from the Koliler-Snyder Co., of York, who, it is alleged, made the cigars. The throwing process was reversed at York yesterday when C. B. Kline, a dairyman, living near Wrightsville, was attacked by a vicious bull and tossed over a gate with the result that a certain number of his ribs were frac tured. A kindlv old couple of Norristown, celebrating their silver wedding anni versary, were the other day surprised to hear the minister, who was present, announce that their daughter was to be married. Whereupon, to the tune of the wedding march, the young couple marched down the stairs and were united In marriage, making a fitting climax to the evening's festivi ties. Elizabeth Rees and T. T. Highley were the principals. • • • The late S. C. Livingston, of Green ville. left in his will a bequest of $50,000. the money to be expended either on a recitation building or a dormitory for Thiel College. John O'Boyle, of Wilkes-Barre. was considerably embarrassed in court the other day when he was confronted by both of his wives. What could he do under the circumstances but admit his guilt? lie received one year. Three thousand dollars in cash was Greece is another point where lower priced furs are made up. The effect of the war on all these coun tries was of course temporarily to paralyze the business. Hence the American trapper often found himself in a position where it did not pay him to kill fur on account of the expense for traps and bait, or for rifle cartridges. Many trappers laid off entirely, and the fur-bearing animals, which are also the carnivora. increased until in some sections they made serious inroads into tho game animals, such as the deer. Other trappers sold their furs to local mer chants for the flat bounty money;— that is, if a pelt carried S2O State bounty they would sell for S2O, as though the fur itself were valueless. The American fur manufacturer and retailer also felt the pinch, as his European source of supplies was cut off. As the world got used to the idea of war, and started going about its business again, matters eased up, until to-day they are coming back to ward normal; but much of the em barrassment in America could have been avoided if we had had our own regular markets established in our own country. Taking this together with the stimulus that an American world-market would give to the whole industry in the United States, the new development is clearly of first import ance. Of course, London is very firmly es tablished in her position. The biggest New York fur dealers are slow to ad mit the probability of dislodging her to any great extent for some time— but they opened their New York mar ket with an organ playing "America." The auction was even more success ful than the men who planned it had anticipated. They had more orders than they could fill, and big shipments of Australian skins are still en route that will arrive too late for the sale. Tf tho second auction to be held in March, comes up to expectations, a building will be put up for the spe cial purpose of holding these sales — a feature with a satisfying assump tion of permanence. London does not view the proceed ings over here with any great degree of equanimity. Tier own auction is going on, and she does not see why one auction is not enough. Tier trade journals hint at German influence be hind the American sales, but New York and St. Louis continue apparent ly undisturbed. On the other hand, the present trend of affairs chimes in well with the wishes of German fur dealers, and they are among the heaviest buy ers in the world. Under normal con ditions, Germany buys eight times as much at the annual London sales as New York and St. Louis together sold this year. Neither American city passed the million dollar mark very far in its auction, and German pur chases alone used to run around sev enteen millions in London. It must be remembered however, that condi tions are still far from normal in all the markets, and that it is quite im possible to ship furs to Germany even if the empire were in a position to manufacture them. found under the rafters and beneath carpets in the house of TT. C. Markley, who died a short time ago near I'leas ureville. POPULAR SELECTION [From the Halifax Gazette.] When the County Commissioners ap pointed Harry M. Fairchilds a member of the Prison Board, they made a selec tion so good that they could not have made a better. From liis earliest boy hood he has been true, trustworthy and efficient. Whatsoever he has under taken has been well done and success has followed earnest and well directed endeavor. He is a good example of what a boy can do if he sets his mind and neart to do it. Without influential friends he has reached a place of honor among those who have known him since early manhood. A prominent and suc cessful business man in Millersburg, standing high in the opinion of its citi zens and honored for character, probity and devotion to best Interest of the municipality, he deserves this recogni tion. Mr. Fairchilds Is a Republican, true and tried, wielding a great power over the thinking men in the Upper End. I OUR DAILY LAUGH tpl HIS METHOD. Say,. Scrubby, how do you *pell "Love" ? Me—? I don't ' never write nuth- In' to compromis* me, I Jes' whil per® it! JUST THAT. ///-^_ That fellow certainly j That so? Then why doesn't he? Stoning (Eljat One of the interesting things abou» the coming contest over (he RepubU can nomination for auditor gcnerr>— which appears to be generally ex pected throughout Pennsylvania, la that both of the men now in the lime light are almost as well known to many residents of this city as they aro at home. Both Senator Charles A. Snyder, of Schuylkill, and Speaker Charles A. Ambler, of Montgomery have long been familiar (igures on Capitol Hill, although neither one is yet llfty years of age. The Senator has a year to go to reach the hair century uiark and the speaker was forty-one the day he was elected to preside over the last House of Rep resentatives. Both came to the legis lature In the same session, that of 1903 and both have served six ses sions. including the extra one. al though Mr. Snyder was promoted to the upper house In 1909. \for a couple of sessions they sat near each other in the House and were on the same committees and they have al ways been warm friends. Senator Snyder was born at Pillow in this county but he has long been Identified with Schuylkill county where ho was reared and educated. Mr. Ambler was born in Montgomery county where ho has always resided and was one of the youngest postmasters ever named in that county, having been selected to handle the mail at Abington soon after he was of voting age. • • • The Philadelphia city administra tion appears to be finding much tim ber in the legislature. In addition to Representatives William H. Wilson and F. W. Willard being named to im portant places Representatives X. G. Gordon Forster and Frederick Beyer have been selected as assistant city solicitors. Several other members of the Philadelphia delegation last year have also been named to places. • • • A good bit of the talk about spying out the lay of the mills in a number of industrial plants from aeroplanes has been discounted because of re ports of similar observations from the blue in other cities, but the fact re mains that if there is any one place on the map which affords through nature opportunities for looking over the whole transportation and indus trial system it Is Harrisburg. All one needs to do is to go to the highlands behind Steelton or the York county hills to get an idea of South Harris burg and Steelton, while Reservoir Park is an ideal place for Harrisburg to say nothing of the First Mountains for getting an idea of Enola and Har risburg yards. And then the Capitol dome is always open. The probabil ities are that if any one wanted to spot the mills and railroads around here he would have taken a stroll to the hills in summer time and that some years ago and not wait until midwinter in an uncomfortable aero plane. Anyhow, If anyone has data about this city it is a pretty safe bet it was obtained long ago. * • • All this takes one back to just be for the declaration of war with Spain. At that time powder mills were being pushed to the limit and were blowing up with regularity and havoc. The country expected to go to war and there was talk of Spanish spies. One day a story flew into town that a Spaniard was trying to get into the State Arsenal where the National Guard equipment was stored read* for instant service. A policeman hustled out in a livery buggy and found that an Italian who had been selling peanuts about town for ten years had gone to the Arsenal to sell a few quarts and had mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance con sisted of retirement to shade for a nap. What that policeman said would not look well, in war records. He never found out who "reported the spy." They would not allow him for fear of the consequences. * * * The number of "double-headers" to be seen on the railroads these days is rather indicative of the effort to get things rushed to the seaboard and is taken to mean here that the em bargo against freight has been lifted. Both the Pennsylvania and the Read ing systems arc hauling immense amounts of coal through this city to the coast and while the trains are shorter than during the recent mild weather there does not seem to be any hesitancy about using two en gines if needed to keep up time. » * * Residents of Allison Hill came nearly getting a special officer into trouble the other day. Joseph Cole man, a former patrolman, is now do ing special duty in the Eastern sec tion of the city. He is required to try doors and gates, visit backyards and peep into cellar windows. On Saturday someone called up the police station and said a man had been prowling around backyards in the neighborhood of Thirteenth and Derry streets during the night and a man had been seen crawling through a cellar window at one house. The patrolman was ordered to keep a close watch on all houses. He noticed a man moving mysteriously out llaehnlen street. On investigation he found Officer Coleman in a back yard and was about to pull his re volver and call a halt, when Cole man called the patrolman by name. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —Prof. C. N. McCune, of Union town, has been put at the head of the High School athletic union in Fayette county cities. —A. R. Hamilton, Pittsburglier, well-known here, has been rc-ele<Heu president of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. —Francis Feelian, one of the State factory inspectors, has been carrying on inspections in western counties to determine safety of school buildings. —The Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, prominent Philadelphia clergyman, will edit the Episcopal Church News. —Robert C. Wright, formerly of this city, was elected a member of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com merce committee on foreign trade. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg made iron nails over 100 yewrs ago? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Tliis city was headquarters for a big lumber trade for many years. f S Costs Little to Find Out No need to spend a huge sum to lind out "if there is anything in newspaper advertising." The manufacturer does not have to make an outlay to eover the whole country. He can take one section at a time—a few cities—check re sults and prove for himself the quick response of dealer and con sumer. He can predicate his advertis ing appropriation on assured profits, not on guess work. Manufacturers seeking sugges tions along this line are invited to write to the Bureau of Adver tising. American Newspaper Pub lishers Association, World Build j Ing, New York.
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