10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Poundtd ifji JPubllslied evenings except Sunday by THE TRI.RnRAPII PRINTING fO., Telegraph Building, federal Square, £. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor in-Chief fc*. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. EVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania As«oclat- Eaatern office, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave Hue Building. New era office, Has- Gas Building, Cht- j Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, stx cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally average circulation ft>r the three uionthn ending Jim. 31, 1010. ★ 22,760 These figures are net. All returned. Unsold and damaged co|»le» deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 10 Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in; Lend a hand. — EDWARD EVKBETT HALE. TWO CHAMPIONS REPRESENTATIVE MANN, the; leader of the Republican minority in Congress, standing j shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Clark, the titular head of the Demo- \ cracy in the national legislative body, In the first skirmish in behalf of na tional preparedness, is a spectacle at once encouraging and the very em-; bodiment of patriotism. It has sent R thrill throughout the country and In a moment has cleared the atmos-' phere of all doubt as to the real, attitude of the people of the United (States in matters affecting this coun try in its relation to other nations. If anybody had any doubt of the i patriotism of the American people, they will doubt no longer. Air. Mann declared his belief in President Wil son's sincerity on the subject of pre paredness and called upon his coun trymen to aid the President In pre- i paring "the country for trouble, which | tve all hope will not come, but which j Itili may come in spite of us." What, a situation for any Presi- j dent when the leader of his own party | Bits mute in the House while the Re- , publican champion takes his position | on the firing line with a rejected champion of the opposite political faith in behalf of the responsible head of the administration ! ' Itepresentatlve Mann is no slacker und this week ho has given expres- J fion to the thought and feeling of the j Republicans throughout the nation. In an address this week Mayor Smith 1 declared that the spirit of prepared- i ness was prevalent among the men and women of Philadelphia, and expressed admiration for the several organizations ! which are preparing for eventualities i should their services be required by I their country. It might he well for Mayor Smith 1o suggest that the Re- 1 publican factiunlsts could And a better outlet for their superabundant com butiveness in the Kiddle instruction 1 camp, rather than in battering each i others' heads. TlllO VALENTINE AGE IF that small boy of yours bogs a dime and shamefacedly declines to reveal the purpose of the gentle "touch," don't, darkly imagine that it j jnust be a detective story or cigarets; ( the chances are he has his eye on a xalentine. Most likely it is large, of ! florid complexion and has hearts, ! i-upids and wedding rings scattered promiscuously over the front, with a stanza or two of very fervid and very mushy verse tucked away on the in- ' Bide. It may not appeal to you, on the shady side oC forty, but to that boy 1 of yours it is just now the most de- j Bit-able thing in town. Not that it has I nny intrinsic value for him; oh, no; lor itself alone it is far less desirable j than a pack of gum or a trip to the movies. But, in the "spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," and if you go back a little ! you will remember that this male fancy begins to turn that way pretty early in life. Do you remember that, two-cent valentine you hid in Mary's third J reader and, a little later, how you j risked a paddling for being out late ! in order to push a gay heart-throb costing five cents beneath the front door of Maggie Jones, under cover of darkness? You always did these things in secret, hut how you did hope that Mary, or Maggie, as the case may have been, would in some occult way divine the identity.of the sender. Well, that's the state of mind your hoy is in to-day, chances are, so give him the nickel, think of the fun you got out of life at his age, of the priceless memories your boyhood nickels bought at valentine time, give him the dime lie craves—and don't ask fool questions. MR. CONSUMER f A MID all the controversy over questions of labor and wage scales and other collateral mat ters affecting the general labor situa tion it must, always be remembered that, the interested third party is the consumer. More and more the public is beginning to understand that these disputes in the last analysis concern the man on the side line quite as jnuch m the parties to the contest. THURSDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 10, 1916, For this reason interest in strikes is not quite so one-sided as was the case ) a few years ago. Public sympathy Is usually with the under dog, but the under dog turns out to be the con sumer quite as often as the wage earner. For instance, the proposition to | largely increase tire wage scale of j the miners in the anthracite coal i field Is receiving the careful con- I slderation of consumers of coal (throughout the country. These have J been given warning that any increase jin the scale will mean an increase In the price of coal to every con- J sumer, large and small. So It is that J the contest is not entirely one between j the coal operators and their em | ployes. It goes into every home j where anthracite coal is used as fuel. [ An interesting incident of the pro | posed change in the scale—the de : niand for a twenty per cent. Increase in wages, an eight-hour day and i recognition of the United Mine Work ; ers is an attack upon the organ . lzation and the methods pursued, by j Thomas L. Lewis, former interna tional president of the United Mine i Workers. This attack appears in a magazine published by Lewis, who de clares that the miners' organization is in a more demoralized condition to | day than at any time during the last lifteen years. He says: To collect and spend millions i j of dollars in industrial con flict seems to be a fad with the leaders of the union. The mem bership pays the expense, and has to earn it by hard work. It will not i always continue. A tifty thousand . deficit in the publication of the of ficial journal was treated with lit tle concern. It must be remembered that there are two sides to every question, and it is not always the unwilling ness, but the inability of the em ployer to concede the demands of the employes and remain In busi ness. Any person can demand a thing; but it takes men of intelli gence, with a thorough knowledge of the difference between the cost and the selling price of a com modity, to prove that any demand | which adds to the cost of the pro- j duct can succeed. In the coal mining industry the cost of producing a ton of coal and the j price at which it is sold will be the I determining factors in negotiating a | wage contract. That the labor leaders are making j a more careful study of the funda- ! mentals than was once the case, es- ; pecially as these affect the relations j of employer and employe, is demon- i strated every day in the discussion of j the great problems which concern the j wage earners of the country. The ] 1 tendency of the organizations of labor is to avoid strikes and the other dis turbing factors which militate against those immediately concerned and the | larger third party represented by the I I average consumer. As illustrating the more reasonable j attitude we quote from "Progress." j a magazine issued by the relief and I compensation board of railroad broth- i i erlioods with headquarters in this j city. Discussing Judge Gary's pre- j (diction that the producers of tliisi country, including the wage earners, j ] would find themselves in commercial! | antagonism with the most persistent i I and difficult competition unless this' ! shall be prevented by laws that are i reasonable and sufficient, the maga- i 1 zine in question says: Certainly there is need of the | most searching examination of our tariff schedules and consequent ac- I Hon greatly resembling a measure | ! of defensive warfare. Special rea sons exist why the whole system of American tariffs should be over- I ! hauled by scientific experts, by a I commission intent upon establish- j ing a "line of justice and fairness j I between the producer and the con- j ! sumer." Thus it is in every department of labor and industry, the mutuality of j the relationship between employer } and employe being emphasized more j and more as it is better understood I how closely and intimately related j are the interests of each in the wel | fare of the other. Strikes are no longer promoted by level-headed leaders of labor organ izations, save as a last resort. They ! realize that the better plan is arbitra- I tion of all questions at issue to the end that there may be no cessation of employment and resulting loss to all ■ | affected by the temporary suspension. It is a favorable sign of the times j that the big stick is less in evidence 'in all dealings between capital and j ' labor. SENATOR PENROSE'S SANITY IT is by such clarity of vision and sanity of view as characterized his speech on the manufacture of armor plate by the government that Senator Penrose maintains his posi tion of authority and influence in Washington. Neither the Senator nor anybody else conversant with the facts minimizes for an instant the evils of possible price agreements among armor plate makers, but any thinking man must see the reason ableness of Senator Penrose's conten- tion that the building of an armor plant by the government at this time is not the way to correct that con dition. Just when we are about to enter upon the most extensive ship building program in our history is no time to cripple the privately-owned industry upon which we must depend if we are to get the proposed new ships under way without a necessary delay of several years while the gov ernment is getting ready to make its own plate. FATHER KENN AND HIS FUNDS IF, as has been stated at the Capitol in the last fortnight, the actual working cash of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is not much over three-quarters of a million dollars, there is nothing of greater importance for the responsible heads of the State government to do than study the con dition and do their best to prevent its recurrence. The time to prepare a financial program for the next Legis lature is right now. It is not pleasant to realize that our State, which has in its sinking fund a dollar for every dollar of debt out standing and which would pay off all old bonds it could get hold of to-night, is in such a position that it can hardly pay the money due to the school dis tricts of the State without scraping the bottom of the strong box. This does not mean that there Ut not enough money in the Treasury, but It means that, adhering to lines laid down in the act of 1909 and to the business methods of the Treasury, the money to pay cer tain things is pretty well requisitioned or else tied up. , The present state of affairs, which is more dangerous to state pride than to credit, is due to the size of appro priations approved last year, especially for charitable institutions; to the diver sion of money which used to form big items of State revenue and to the lock ing up of cash in special funds. The new State revenue raisers are not going to raise n million dollars, and, with the federal government hunting new subjects of tax, any addi tional State taxation is going to be a rather difficult problem. The time to start on a plan which will allow the State to maintain its departments, go ahead with construct ive work, carry on its humanitarian projects and at the same time give aid where it should be given is right now. WHERE THE BLAME LIES AFTER all the talk of plots against munition factories in the United States since the war began, the statement of the Du Fonts that few of the explosions in their plants can be traced to foreign agents is a relief to strained nerves. When one thinks of the vast number of unskilled workmen at work in the powder plants the wonder is that accidents have not been more numerous. Hudson Maxim lost a hand experimenting with explosives and we are told that the first ground handful of niter, sulphur and charcoal drove Monk Schwartz's pestel through the ceiling. Occurrences like these are bound to follow the handling of highly explosive compounds by inex perienced persons. ["TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE , —Germany won't admit that it was "Illegal," but confesses it was "un justifiable." Why not compromise and call it by Its real name—murder. —"Grown women who dress like little girls" are condemned by Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. If she refers to the modern ball gown she is slander ing the little girls. —When it comes to announcing candidacies Woodrow seems willing to let Joe do it. We don't believe that old saying "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Recent developments leads us to the conclusion that many of them lie entirely too blamed easy. —lt Is remarkable how some of our liquor dealer friends are trying '<> save the country from the evils of increased drinking which they insist follows the enactment of prohibition. —Admiral Blue gives every sign of being true blue. EDITORIAL COMMENT Great Britain is said to have the modest ambition to control the world's coal and iron. If she can control our anthracite coal trust and Standard Oil she'll do more thau we can do.—Wichita Eagle. Carranza might try a note to Villa demanding a disavowal.—Wall Street Journal. IN THE OLD HOME TOWN I From the Kansas City Star.) The Old Home Town is divided on the question of preparedness. The Old Home 1 own, of course, is divided on almost every question—religious, political, so cial and economic. Not since the days «>f free silver in 18H6, however, has The Old Home Town been so "split" In its opinion as it is just now on pre paredness. As a rule in the Old Home Town men are Democrats or Republicans, and they approach every question from the viewpoint of one or tile other of these political parties. But over the ques tion of preparedness there appears to be no common ground of meeting. Every one has his own fears, his own argument, his own theories. The Old Home Town Debating Society meets every day to "settle" the ques tion. Every day the society adjourns with the question unsettled. So tar as known each member stands where he did the first day the question was up for discussion. But notwithstanding the fact that the Old Home Town is making no pro gress it finds great satisfaction in the discussion, it hears some truly won derful things. Take "Uncle Cy" Morgan's story, for instance, of what the navy costs each man, woman and child In the United States to maintuin. '.'Uncle Cy" does not remember just where he got the figures, but he knows they are car reel, "Uncle Cy" iwas in the Civil War and says the victory was won there "without no navy," but Wall Street, he says, makes Its money out of the navy. "Uncle Cy" is for all the infantry that can be enlisted. But "Uncle Cy" is against the whole program because it calls for a strong navy. On the other hand, "Ves." Thompson, who has a nephew in the navy some where. is strong for preparedness—but he is against any bigger army than we now have. "Ves." was once involved in a strike In which the State militia was called out, and he believes to this day that it was the United States army that interfered with the strike. He always refers to it as "the time the army came." Undo "Bill" West, who has not been off the townsite for a quarter of a cen tury, contributes to the cause the theory that the President wants a big army for no other reason than to annex Mexico. "I know what 1 am talking about," Uncle "Bill" invariably adds, and to doubt it would be to doubt his word. "We don't want no more Mexicans In this country," Mr. West says, with finality that is meant to settle the ques tion for all time. Then there is "Gov." Saunders. Just why they call him "Gov," nobody knows, but he has been known that way ever since he landed in the Old Home Town forty years ago. "Gov." Saun ders has a daughter who works in the pension office at Washington, and for that reason his opinion on all questions affecting the republic are supposed to be "first hand" and are given great weight. In the Old Home Town debating society. "Everybody knows." says "Gov." Saunders, "that the President and the press have been hypnotized." (Prob ably he means to say subsidized, but he has said hypnotized so many times in this connection that nobody notices the difference). "It is a well known fact." the "Gov." continues, "that these United States is in no mortal danger from any foe within or without. Our navy can shoot stralghter, our vessels are bigger and faster, and our army is better trained than anv army in this world. T guess I needn't tell you fellers where T get my information," he concludes mysteriously, "but 1 wouldn't be talkin' if I didn't know what t was talkin' about." Here the discussion ends each day In the Old lfome Town Debating Society. There is no answer to "Gov." Saun ders' remarks. His Information is sup posed to come direct from the pension department. So. the society disbands In time to allow the members to do the chores early this cold weather. But to-morrow it will meet again to cover the same ground—the advocates of preparedness, meantime, hoping that something will "turn up" to refute the mysterious information that "Gov." Saunders carriaa about under hi* haL By ttva Fx-Committeeman The news came out of Washington last night that the effort of Senator Cummins to set up presidential candi dates in Pennsylvania might result In bringing Philander C. Knox to the front as a candidate. The North American publishes a dispatch from the national capital to the effect that rather than see Cummins rounding up delegates unopposed in this State, Knox's friends believe they might with propriety ask for a Knox delegation from Pennsylvania, and this Is es pecially appealing in some quarters, for Knox has the approval of Repub lican leaders of all points of view and of the Progressives as well. However, nothing definite has been decided. —State Senator James P. McNlchol, who Is depended upon to lead the Pen rose forces In the city in the event of the anticipated tight between Governor Brumbaugh and the senior senator for the State leadership, held a con ference yesterday with Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, to discuss the Phila delphia situation, according to the Philadelphia Record. Although neither the Mayor nor Senator McNlchol would make any comment on their meeting. It was believed in organ ization circles that McNichol had sought out Mayor Smith to ascertain where the Mayor would stand If the two factions in the organization came to a clash. The meeting, according to Mayor Smith, was requested by Senator McNichol, and the Mayor agreed to take lunch with the Senator in the Bellevue-Stratford. For almost an hour the two were engaged In an earnest discussion. Following the luncheon the Mayor met Attorney Gen eral Francis Sliunk Brown. "I took lunch with Senator McNlchol and we discussed politics, but further than that 1 am not at liberty to talk," was the explanation given by the Mayor when asked what significance was attached to the conference. —Continuing, the Record says: "A thing that worried the McNichol fol lowers was the confident manner in which Governor Brumbaugh and the Varcs, with the open aid of the Mayor, fixed a slate for delegates-at-large to the Republican national convention and then followed up their attack by placing Speaker Ambler in the race for Auditor General. The latter move was considered a direct slap at the leadership of Senator Penrose, as he is known to have opposed the Ambler candidacy, and to have refused the olive branch extended to him in the shape of permission to select the nominee for State Treasurer. The Pen rose workers expect him to make a declaration by the end of the week, and that he will call upon his friends throughout, the State to prepare for war in the May primaries." Who shall lead the forlorn hope against Knox for the Senate is said by the Philadelphia Public Ledger to be troubling the Democrats. Says that newspaper: "Democratic State leaders yesterday declared that they hoped to be able to reverse Secretary of Labor Wilson's re fusal to become the Democratic can didate for the United States senator ship against Philander C. Knox, the Republican candidate. "With their candidate for United States senator decided upon. Demo cratic State leaders would determine quickly upon the personnel of the rest of their ticket, including that for dele gates and delegates-at-large to the national convention.". U. S. ARMOR PLANT [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] It is obvious that the Government will not be able to compete on equal terms with the Midvale, Bethlehem and Carnegie companies in the mak ing of armor; and the question which ought to receive the serious consider ation of Congress is whether the pos sible control of prices, to be obtained by the expenditure of $11,000,000 or more for a Government plant, would not be secured at too great a price. It would be a national calamity if the existing private plants were driven out of business; and while the fear of such an eventuality as the result of the entrance of the Government into the armor-making field may be an exaggerated one. the possibility is too serious to be overlooked by Congress. It is a pity that the question should have been approached, as it has been, in a partisan spirit; it ought to be lifted to a higher level, for it is part of the national program of prepared ness. Any course now which threat ens to delay naval shipbuilding or un duly increase the cost of preparedness would be suicidal. The evils resulting from price combinations by armor plate are not to be minimized; but can they not be corrected by some method short of crippling established industry or of handicapping the Gov ernment in preparing for national defense? FUTILE [From the Atchison Globe.] Unless you are close enough to him to be appointed Postmaster, following a leader is the most futile task. I OUR DAILY LAUGH SO THERE. H ' Hey! Ton L haven't forgotten that ten you owe S me, have you? Don't worry, ril let you know 1 w ' when I forget it. | I IHA PROBABLY NOT Jjlv'? She's always do ufiir 'i/ 1 iC * n K something iaJS A original. WM' \ what 18 her i |Hr L latest achleve- JJm ljU. Wj J ment In that line? ■I 1 'lll I 3 She's become YK engaged by wire j less telegraphy. BksjS s ! lA I wonder if she J™ j I will be satisfied Hkl f w'th ringless en ' gagement. A RIFT IN THE springtime grand? her most gorge ous raiment, the timid violets peep jpSaaSTO 'ViVol through their cov- pKjMJI ■> ness in song, and- Wholly And 'f" -C , the cro-cussea. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY TWO TRENCHES WON —From the Philadelphia Record. < -y MANAGING How the Gang Came Back ' By Frederic J. Haskin s. „ J WHEN you see the other fellow throwing trash ujpon the street, just call up the policeman as he's rounding out his beat; the judge will do the balance and the fine must then be paid, to punish the offender for the ugly trick he played." This jingle Is running through every head in New Orleans. Francois reads it as he idles over hs late coffee and roll at Antoine's in the old French quarter. Fernandez and Beatrice read it above the window of the street car as they rub their sleepy eyes in the early hours between home and the cigar factory. Sam Bowie Houston Crockett Jefferson, proud scion of a migrated Texas fanfily, reads it on the billboard as he trudges to the warehouse to check cotton receipts. Whenever the people get tired of reading one jingle the poet laureate of the city hall pro duces another one of his vest pocket odes on civic righteousness. For this is one of the methods by which the New Orleans commissioners ifc-e striving to foster community spirit. And it works. The rhythmical in junction about trash has helped to make New Orleans, which had open sewers along its streets a generation ago, one of the cleanest cities In the United States. In New Orleans the conflict between city hall politics and civic reform, which has preceded the adoption Of commission government in most other cities, did not happen exactly as the reformers had intended. It was- a fairy tale in which the villain upset, the plot by slaying the dragoif and marrying the heroine before the hero got around to It. Martin Behrman had been mayor of New Orleans and head of the city liall ring for a good many years before commission gov ernment was adopted. Most surpris ingly, he has been mayor of New Orleans ever since. It happened like this. The reform party, otherwise known as the "Outs" started an agitation for commission government. The "Ins," otherwise known as the city hall gang, saw that commission government was making a hit. They quietly went up to Baton Rouge and induced the State Legis lature to pass the law authorizing the change. So the civic reform party was out of thunder. It had been talking commission government for some years, but the city hall gang had actually produced the thing. So commission government in New Orleans is managed by exactly the same set of men who formed the poli tical ring of the town hall. But they do not manage it the same way. Hav ing undertaken to J>ecome reformers, they have got to make good. Furth ermore, each of them is responsible for a certain part of that good. The city hall ring has become a halo of chic righteousness. The five New Orleans commission ers have had a rather strenuous career. In the first place, New Orleans with its 400,000 people, is the largest city in the United States governed by a commission. Running such a town Is rather a large problem in any case, and several other large things, such as the Mississippi River, bubonic plague, and a West Indian hurricane, have come along to complicate it. Being so nearly on a level with the river, the problem of drainage pres ents some distressing difficulties. It is not the most encouraging thing In the world to begin digging a founda tion for a house and before you get through, have to change your mind and call It a well. Living in New Orleans used to be like living on a great big sponge. If you stuck your finger In the ground it came out wet. THE STATE FROM IWTODW The Kingston school board has just decided a most momentous question, to wit: That a schoolboy is permitted to eat garlic regularly if he so de sires, in spite of the effect it may, and is said to have upon the olfactory or gans of his schoolmates. Perhaps* the problem is one for the S. P. C. C. (last C referring to children) to de cide rather than the school board. The king can do no wrong! The Mayor of Altoona can stub not his toe without the taxpayers suffering. His honor was taking a walk and struck his foot against a corporation service box protruding an inch or so above the sidewalk. An Investigation proved that there were hundreds of them, and the reduction will cost the taxpayers some hundreds of dollars. James Shields has eaten 157 oysters' in 40 minutes and claims the cham pionship, He lives in Altoona, and if he can do that and still live, he's welcome to the championship and then some. Heinz's 57 varieties have nothing on this young man. After he had finished his six pounds of bi valves he ate two sandwiches and drank a pint of milk to wash the oysters down. The rector of St. Peter's Catholic Church, the Rev. John K. Kiernan. of .Heading, has denounced immodest That has all been fixed, thanks to the determination of the people to stick to their town and to make it habitable. Recently, an enormous drainage system has been completed, which literally takes the water out of the bottom of New Orleans. It is now possible to live in New Orleans and have not only a cellar but a dry cel lar under your house. To get the subsurface water out and into the Gulf, however, has re quired not only great expenditure, but remarkable feats of engineering. Tn some of the mains, the water is pumped five times before it is carried to the river. A sewer carries it by gravity till the sewer gets to the bot tom of dry soil; then it is pumped back to the surface, and carried a little further by gravity; then pumped again and so on. New Orleans was just ready to take a long breath after getting her drain age system bought and paid for, when a big, fat rat scuttled off n fruit steamer and slipped around a bale of cotton just in time to be stepped on by a husky roustabout. Not even a rat objects to a number ten shoe in its solar plexus, and this particular rat showed his resentment bv sink ing his sharp teeth into the leg of the roustabout. The next thing New Orleans knew she was in the throes of a bubonic plague scare. There were only a few cases, but the city health authorities, the State authorities and the Public Health Service at Washington all got busy on those cases. "What shall we do about it?" the city commission asked the Public Health Service. The Public Health Service replied that rats spread bubonic plague. If there were no rats there would be no bubonic plague. Therefore, get rid of the rats. That was all the Public Health Service could see to the situa tion. Of course, in a city as old as New Orleans, containing as many old, small buildings, crowded together on narrow streets as are all Latin towns, sitting on wood foundations or on lightly constructed brick foundations, the simple suggestion of the Public Health Service presented difficulties. There were lots of rats and still more rat holes. But the city commission of New Orleans thinks in a straight line. It gasped once; then it told the people what the situation was, passed an ordinance requiring every cellar and every building in New Orleans to be rat-proofed, told the citizens how to do the job, spent half a million dol lars rat-proofing the building owned by the city and rested on its oars. The people gritted their teeth, grinned and spent their money, a total esti mated at $6,000,000. To-day the Public Health Service says New Orleans is as nearly immune to bu bonic plague as any city can be. Levees, drainage and rat-proofing —surety that entitled the tax-payer to surcease. Surely he coud now take that long breath and rest. He did— for a few weeks. Then last Fall's storm hit the town. It was the worst in the history of the weather bureau. The wind reached a velocity of 131 miles an hour the highest ever re corded in the United States. Crash went the windows, and away went the roofs. Then, when New Orleans' hat had blown away, so to speak, it rained for five days on her bare head. All this, however, has since been forgotten. With customary willing ness and good humor, New Orleans paid the bill and went merrily on her way, taxing herself for still greater improvements and planning for even greater things In the future. garb and the modern (lance, urging mothers not to allow their daughters to attend dances where the newest steps are practiced. Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Mc- Ciatn is the guest of the York Elks this eveningin that city and will make on address at the tenth annual ban quet. Wampum has a woman who form erly lived in New Caßtle and while a schoolgirl there, 15 years ago, she appropriated several pencils worth all together about 10 cents. Her con science has troubled her In the in terim apparently, for she last week sent 10 cents to the school board of Tarentum, who acknowledged the amount with thanks and cancelled the obligation. HOW TO LIVE LONGER Alß—Rule a—The skin should be kept clean and warm and should have air. To keep the body healthy, clothes should not be tight. As most of us are in heated houses ,in winter a laree part of the time, we should wear lightweight clothes while in the house. Upon going out-of-doors put on heavy outer clothes. Do not wear your hnt tight. Tt cuts off the blood from the skin of the head and makes you bald. A soft hat is the best. Do not wear tight shoes or high heels. GNV V SI/AYETH Call now if there be any that will answer thee: and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? For wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly , one. —Job v, 1 and 2. ©retting Qlljat Establishment of the six school li braries in as many schoolhouses of the city by the Harrisburg Public Li brary Association has a branch of its educational work has been so suc cessful that the Library management has not only been forced to send books from its own Juvenile collection to the schools but to secure loan of books from the State Library to fill In the gaps until new books can be se cured. The school libraries were located in six widely separated build ings and it is the plan to double the number some day when funds war rant. The extension of the Library service to these buildings gives the youngsters in communities far re moved from the center of the city and not likely to get the use of books, a tact demonstrated by the manner in which the boys and girls jumped at the chance to read the books. The principals of the buildings are acting as the librarians and in every in stance have asked that more books be supplied. .In addition to this branch ing out the Library's educational work this winter at the building 011 the River Front has doubled, there being so many children for the story telling hour that additional time hail to be provided. Saturday's visitors in clude more children than dreamed of two years ago when the attrac tive week-end work was established. You do not hear much about the great American mule being; bought for war service, but let me tell you the same situation prevails regarding mules that was noted during the Boer war. The mule saved the British In South Africa until the traction engine was put to work and I guess the Al lies are at the bottom of the high prices for mules now In spite of all we hear about automobile transporta tion," said a dealer in livestock who gets this way every now and then. "I have been picking up horses and mules around here for quite some time, but let me tell you the men that have them are hanging on and arc disregarding some nice offers. I think more livestock is going to be raised in this State because of the prices that can be obtained for •it it* the next five years." A rather striking demonstration of the extent to which men who have come to Harrisburg and Steelton and other parts of the county are buying property in Dauphin county is fur nished by the publication of tha names of property owners lately. For years names of English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, German and occasional Scan danavian predominated, or rather made up the whole of the lists, but now the list is reminiscent of Slav, Magyar, Croat, Italian and other king doms which are figuring largo in the telegraphic news of the day. A good many of the old names remain, some German and Irish ones looming large, but there is a Near Eastern smack to the whole list nowadays. But when people start to invest in property they are pretty apt to look after it against all comers. Roundsman "Jim" McOann does not look any older and his step is not a bit less elastic than it was twenty years ago when he was as much of a terror to the wrongdoers as he is to day. The veteran officer, who has a more extensive acquaintance with the night roaming gentry than any one now in the city service, is just now cogitating what will follow the ex tinction of that part of the city known as "The Ward." He says it's a lonely place these nights compared to the old days and that It's rather odd to see a vacant lot where used to stand houses which he used to have to keep on his watching list. • • » Pottsville people have been paying some visits to this city to note the new Public Library building as the capital of Schuylkill has lately re ceived from Carnegie a gift of $15,000 to construct the home for the Li brary. The site was donated by Potts ville citizens at a cost of $23,000 and the school authorities are giving $4,500 a year for maintenance. The Harrisburg Library has also been not ed by the people in charge of York's new Library and by those interested in libraries from a number of other places. » * * George H. Wirt, who is in charge of the forest fire bureau of the State Department of Forestry, is contribut ing an interesting series of articles to In the Open, the organ of the Wild Life League, the big organization of State Sportsmen. The articles are filled with information for everyone who likes to roam the woods, to say nothing of hunters. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —lsaac Sharpless. active in the peace movement, is president of Hav ertford college. —Congressman Foss, who spoke here last week, is to address a meet ing in Pittsburgh. —Lee A. Gilmore, superintendent of Lawrence county schools and well known to many here, has resigned to become head of Oakmont schools. —F. C. Smlnk has been re-elected president of the Reading Iron com pany. —Theodore Voorhees, head of the Reading railway, is rapidly recovering from his recent illness. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore is advocating raising more sheep in Pennsylvania as good business. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg plates are in a number of the big oil tank ships'.' HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city had a dozen hospitals dur ing the Civil War. GENERAL REGRET [From the Cleveland Plain-dealer.] There will be general regret if Sweden joins the warring nations and a lot of th# regret will be Sweden's. i ' -« "Good Morning, Customers" In n bright, cheery way, that is what you the storekeeper are saying whan you till your windows with newspaper adver tised goods. Your friends, your neighbors, have read about these goods in their favorite newspaper. They will be eager to see them. And seeing them in your win dow will at once stamp your store in their minds. The next time they read the advertisement they will say to themselves, "Oh, yes, I saw those tn Blank's window." And/your sales and customers naturally Increase.
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