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TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 15.
I hare fought the good fight. I have
finishes the course. I have kept the
faith.— ll TIM. 4:7.
BROOKS' CAREER
IX a few lines of type the other day
the country learned of the death of
Belvidere Brooks, vice-president
and formerly general manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Brooks' career ought to be an In
spiration to every lad in uniform, for
he began work as a messenger boy and
I rose to the very top of the ladder as
the directing force of the company by
hard work and application. He had
neither riches nop influence when he
started. He had no friend at court to
push him along in the service. He i
was not different from the other boys
with whom he was associated, except
in two things—he was ambitious and
eflieieirt. He worked a little harder
tlian the other boys and what lje did
he did well. That was all.
Always he did the most he knew
how and always he did his best. At i
llrst he did more than he was paid for
, doing. After a while the company
learned his worth anu paid him well, i
so that while he began poor, he died ,
rich. The company to which he gave
$1.50 worth of service for every dollar
he received in pay as a boy at length
rewarded him beyond the fondest j
dreams of his early days.
'•Service" was young Brooks - watch- j
word, and the world will patronize and 1
favor any lad who pins that motto to
his shield. Any young boy in the em
ploy of the Western Union to-day may j
be a Brooks of to-morrow. The way 1
Brooks went Is a well marke<f~T>ath
t and there are no barriers in the way.
It all depends on the lad himself.
WILSON AND A CONTEST
PRESIDENT WILSON in "consent
ing" to become a candidate for
re-election takes dangerous lib-1
erties with language when he says he
is "unwilling to enter a contest for
the nomination." If that is really the
way lie feels about it the President
may just as well quit right now, for
one named Bryan and another named
Clark will see to it that he has oppo- j
bion in the convention.
May be President Wilson thinks it is '
so one-sided that it will be no real I
contest: but, be that as it may. the
present incumbent of the White
House job will learn before long that
the ex-Secretary of State Is not so
peaceful as he sounds and his "un
willingness" to face opposition in his'
own party may soon rise up to haunt
him. Presidencies are not being pass-1
ed around, these days, on a silve'r plat-
*
A WORD TO THE WISE
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE and
Ida Tarbell have been en- 1
gaged »by the enterprising
manager of a newspaper syndicate to
write their views of the Republican I
and Progressive national conventions
»t Chicago next June. "Favorite sons" i
will please take notice. The signs of |
the zodiac and the blue marks on the '
goosebone both indicate that it will
be profitable to say a few kind things
occasionally about the great State of
Kansas,atthe same time casually shy
ing any bricks that may be lying >
about In the general direction of 1
Pocantico Hills.
REASON ENOUGH
CONGRESSMAN EVANS (Dem.).
of Montana, does not intend to
let Secretary McAdoo and other
Department chiefs at Washington be j
alone in the practice of nepotism. He ;
has secured the appointment of his'
brother as postmaster at Bozeman and
his brother-in-law at Missoula. He
reminds us of the Pennsylvania Con
gressman, who. commenting on the i
appointment of a brother as postmas
ter said: "He is the best brother that
ever lived." And that is reason
enough for any deserving Democrat.
DVESTUFFS AND THE TARIFF
THE dyestulTs hearings before the
House Ways and Means com
mittee were decidedly embar
rassing to the Democratic members-of
the committee. Hours of sound argu
ment at length pounded into the
heads of soinc of tliem that the Re
publican policy of protection on the
dystuffs industry has certain advan
tages. but their solicitude in this re
spect is properly characterized by
Kepreaentative Fordney, ranking mi-
TUESDAY EVENING, ' H.ARRISBURO tfjjftt TELEGRXPH FEBRUARY 15, 1916.
naiity member of the committee, who
warned the witnesses not to be fright
ended at the Democratic questions, be
cause the Democrats think more of
bringing a few dollars into the Fed
eral Treasury than they do of building
up an important Industry in their
home country- Others of the Demo
cratic membership are still unwilling
to make concessions on any grounds,
and persist in'adherlng to the archaic
commercial policy of the Democracy.
JIM HAM SEES A LIGHT
WHILE it is pretty generally
agreed that Senator James
Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, is
not much of a statesman, his success
in getting into public office in various
States indicates that he is a good read
er of the public mind. He has re
cently been saying things that cannot
be interpreted otherwise than as an
tagonistic to the Wilson administra
tion. He is shrewd enough to know
that public opinion is running against
the present occupant of the White
House. Pink Whiskers are not always
indicative of a drab brain.
DEMOCRATS HELP FOREIGNERS
AT the annual convention of the
National Boot and Shoe Manu-
facturers. in New York, the
tariff committee of that organization
adopted a resolution urging the
restoration of the duty on shoes that
will cover the wage differential of the
American over the foreign working
man. They also declared tor a tariff
board to investigate industries here
and abroad and advise Congress re
specting the same. The president of
the association in his address declared:
If we wish to retain our home
markets for our home products
against foreign Invasion, which is
absolutely certain to come, we must
prepare for it now. Trade moving
along the line of least resistance,
must expect to meet the opposition
of foreign shoes in our market, and
as an indication of what will hap
pen let me call your attention to
the fact that the present tariff plac
ing shoes on the free list during the
few months of its operation had al
ready stimulated shoe operations,
and Its effect would have been seri
ously felt by inroads made in our
home market had not the outbreak
of the present war stopped foreign
shipments of shoes. The adminis
tration in Washington is fully
aware of this fact.
The gentleman is quite correct in
his assertion. Statistics compiled by
the Department of Commerce show i
that Imports of shoes increased during
the ten months' free operation of the ,
Underwood law, October, 1913, to July.
1914, 70 per cent, over the period Oc
tober. 1912, to July, 1913. ten ninths, i
under the Republican law, while dur- I
ingr the ten months' war period, under !
the Democratic tariff law. October,
1914. to July, 191 if, the imports of
shoes showed a slight increase over
: the Republican ten months' period,
despite the huge demand from the
belligerents for shoes. Shoes cost from
i 15 to 25 cents a pair more to manu- i
i r'acture now than a year ago, owing to I
the increased cost of shoe findings.
CHILDREN AND BIRDS
MIGHT it not be well for the
school children of llarrisburgj
—II,OOO of them—to be taught I
!in some way the value of bird life j
to the city and country. While no j
municipal appropriation is made for
the feeding of the birds during the j
I winter, we believe the children of Har- '
i risburg might easily be induced to
care for their bird friends
throughout the winter months.
It has been found that it pays to feed
the birds and protect them and en
. courage them in every way. We can
not do better than adopt the language
ot the Kansas City Star in discussing
I the birjl question:—
The city of Brookline. Mass., had
tried in every way to save its shade
trees that were being killed bv
caterpillars and moths, and it
seemed they were doomed, when a
man who knew what birds would
do presented a plan for their en
couragement. They were fed. cared
for, given boxes in which to nest
j and they saved the trees. Now a
person who would kill a bird in
Brookline would go to jail quicklv
! if found out.
Insects are a menace with which
man is at constant war. They
threaten nearly all our croos. Birds
eat the insect eggs ar.d thus keep
the insects within bounds. The
Department of Agriculture found
one thousand cinch bugs in the crop
of one flicker; sixty grasshoppers in
the crop of a nighthawk: twentv
elght worms in the crop of a red
winged blackbird: one hundred
worms In the crap of a cedarbird.
Do something to help tide the
birds over this hungry spell and
they will work for all of us next
\ summer when the insect pests be
j gin to multiply. A good way is to
put bread crumbs, cracked nuts
I and suet on boards in the back
j yard. The birds will find it.
INTELLECTUAL WIVES
ACCORDING to the Milwaukee
Sentinel, the following were
some of the points brought out
1 j In a woman's club debate In that city
Illustrating the topic "Resolved, That
a man is hindered by an Intellectual
wife":
She hasn't any domestic tastes,
i She can't sew—her children show
, it, and her husband has been known
to go around blessed with only
three available suspender buttons.
Her piano stands undusted for
.! days at a time.
She can't cook, but depends upon
' baker's bread.
She hasn't enough business sense
to manage the household finances.
She corrects hubby's grammar be
fore company.
She keeps him down, too—he be
comes known ae "Mrs. So-and-So's
i husbands"
I Maybe so. and again, maybe not.
What, for instance, of the wife
j whose intellectuality runs along the
' line of keeping her husband out of
debt by making his measly little salary
: go twice as far as his massive mind
could stretch it? Or she whose men
tality is of sufficient caliber to enable
her to be her husband's best adviser
! in a business way?
1 If by "intellectual" the Milwaukee
club means to define the type of
: woman who makes her home second
! ary to the cultivation of a fad or the
■ riding of a hobby, the Lord deliver us
■ from the "Intellectual." But, on the
■ other hand, who wants a brainless
f bunch o' curls and curves for a wife?
- Female loveliness is only skin deep
- and it doesn't wear well past forty;
- but a bright brain, a cheerful dis T
b position and a mind that can give as
- well as take are things of beauty and
- joys forever in wedded life. By all
I' means let's have intellectual wives.
- Heaven knows most of us need eui.
The Days of Real Sport . . . . By BRIGGS
wd£R THE. SEA —syy* _>
otitic* LK
By tit* Ex-Committeemaa
The biggest potitical news of the
day in Pennsylvania Is that the New
Englanders back of the Roosevelt
boom for the Republican nomination
propose to make a fight for Roosevelt
delegates in this State. The Phila
delphia Public Ledger in a Washing
ton dispatch to-day says that Con
gressman A. P. Gardner, of Massa- j
cliusetts, has been on the war path,
although not much encouraged.
The Ledger says that William Flinn
is expected to raise the war standard,
after he returns from the West Indies,
in western sections of the State, and
Dr. J. William White is looked upon
by the men leading Roosevelt's cam
paign in New York to use his in
fluence in the eastern section of the
State. The Ledger says: "After the
delegates elected favorable to. Cover-,
nor Brumbaugh see that Brumbaugh's i
chances have disappeared, the Roose-1
velt leaders say, Representative Vare j
and his faction will turn to Roosevelt.
Mr. Vare four years ago at Chicago, I
against his political judgment, voted
for Taft and he is not averse to Roose
velt at the present time., Informa
tion obtained here is to the effect that
the Roosevelt leaders have been in
touch with the anti-Penrose leaders
and they view the situation in Penn
sylvania. which was carried by Roose
velt four years ago, with the excep- :
tion of a few delegates in Philadelphia
and Lancaster county, as more favor
able this year. If a proper agreement
can be reached with the Vare-Brum
baugh faction, the Roosevelt leaders
will not make V strong fight for dele- ;
gates in Pennsylvania. In other words,
if the anti-Penrose faction agrees to
support Roosevelt as second choice,
the Roosevelt leaders will not waste
their resources in making a costly I
State-wide fight in Pennsylvania."
—Matthew Clark Watson of Indiana I
i county has given notice to the Re- j
publican electors of the Indiana-Jeff
erson senatorial district that he will
seek the nomination for Senator this i
Spring. His great familiarity with j
J the legislative needs of his district and
the experience gained in three ses
sions as a member of the House of I
Representatives are among the quallfi- i
cations he has to offer rhe voters of
i the two counties. Back in 1892, in
the days of the conferee system, Mr.
Watson was the choice of the "Re
publicans of Indiana for the Senator- j
ship, while the Jefferson Republicans!
named .Tames G. Mitchell. In the in
| terest of party harmony and to end '
| the long-existing feud between the
I two counties Mr. Watson conceded the ;
nomination to Mr. Mitchell. '
—R. F. Pascoe has been elected 1
warden of the Northampton prison.
—Philadelphia Organization men arc
now afraid that the Mayor will veto
the salary increase bill.
—Representative John S. Kby, of
Newport, is a candidate for renomi
nation. He has started hig canvass '
of Perry county.
—Representative Charles Walter, of
Chambersburg, will be a candidate for
renominatlon.
—A Norristown dispatch gives this
: account of the meeting 0/ Senator
Penrose and Speaker Ambler at the
Hancock..Fire Company banquet last
night: "Before the feast Penrose was
; the center of a general reception, while
1 Ambler mingled* with the crowd, re
ceiving introductions through T. L.
Bean, president of the company. At
the banquet table Penrose was at the
left and Ambler at the right of Presi
dent Bean, the toastmaster. Ambler
was called upon for a speech, although
his name didn't appear on the printed
list of toasts. He was greeted with
warm applause, and hts remarks were
chiefly an expression of gratitude at
being able to be present, and hoped
that he might set better acquainted.
He made no reference to his candidacy
| nor to politics. Senator Penrose was
I Riven an ovation. He. too, shied at
politics and made no reference to Am
-1 bier. He lauded the volunteer fire
i men as about the finest and bravest
] and most deserving class of citizens In
all the Commonwealth."
From Washington county comes
i word that John B. Holland, familiarly
known throughout Hie county as
| "Uncle Ranks." has decided to be a
candidate for one of the Republican
nominations for representative. Mr.
Holland served in the sessions of 1909
and 1911. It is also probable that
if'harles A. Rentley, of. Monongahela,
i who was a representative in the ses
sions of 190171909 and 1911. will seek a
i Republican representative nomination.
| TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE 1
—A certain recent verdict seems to 1
have been a case of—"Not guilty, but!
don't do it again,"
—All that the evangelists are able
to do for Atlantic City won't lengthen
the skirts of next summer's bathers :
even a scant quarter inch.
i
—Maybe Carranza's idea of cor- j
nering the hemp market may be as- j
sociated with his expressed purpose;
to round up all revolutionists.
—When "Uncle Joe" Cannon says i
that while he is a pacificist he is "not;
a darned fool about it," he runs seri- j
ous risk of being barred from mem- t
bersliip in the Ford-Bryan club.
"Somehow." observes the Phila-!
delphia Bulletin, "an old man on a!
motorcycle looks out of place." Yep,!
and likely any minute to be out of
place.
EDITORIAL COMMENT [
- Might does not make right, nor does I
j tight make might.—New York Sun.
1 All we want is a couple of puns on
j the stern of the Ship of State, <ust for j
1 defense.—Philadelphia Record.
That horse-meat they are eating in
Xew York wouldn't be so much out of
place if served a la cart.—Nashville ]
Southern Lumberman..
No sooner did the peace pilgrims
j visit Sweden than there were renewed I
rumors that the eountrv was about to
entei the war.—Boston Herald.
Miss Jane Addams' assertion that Eu- '
rope wants peace proves once more that j
a woman can't keep a secret.—Wash- i
! ington Post.
LIKES MRS. WILSON
[Kansas City Journal.]
! The President asked the members I
lof the local reception committee to j
i meet Mrs. Wilson and the following |
'are among some of the classic defini
tions applied to the "first lady of the'
| land":
! "A pippin, sure enough."
! "A good scout, take my word for!
| it."
"Thoroughbred, all the way
j through."
! "Nothing stuck up about her, that's
[what I liked."
"Looks and acts like a good fellow,
all the way."
i "I give it to Woodrow for picking a
real peach when he picked the
j Missus."
j "Say, that smile she hands a fellow
is some smile."
"Glad to see a fellow and acts Just
like she means it."
i "Woodrow ought to make a tour of
:the country and take the bride along,
! by all means."
i "You can't help but admire the
' President's splendid judgment after
meeting Mrs. Wilson. She's a bird,
that's all there is to it."
HOW TO LIVE LONGER
FOOD—Rule B— Do not force yourself
j to out too much, even if you think that
you should weigh more than you do.
Weight may be gained by sleeping as
well as by eating.
Chew your food well. If you swallow
your food half chewed it will make your
stomach work too hard.
When your body gets hard exercise,
it uses up more heat and needs more
I food. The food gives back the heat. If
you do not get exercise in your work,
I you should eat less, or you may get fat.
i Do not eat between meals. You
i may overwork your stomach.
| Do not eat heavy meals just before
I heavy work. Do not eat a heavy meal
! when you are very tired or overheated.
It is then sometimes better to skip a
1 meal or to eat fruits or salads. If over
heated, eat foods that take up room in
the stomach but which do not make
much heat.
Eat a little less food In hot weather.
Food makes heat, and in hot weather
' you need less heat.
DENNY AND "BILLY"
I Sunday School Times.]
One of the delights of tfce Chris
i t'.an life is to sit upon a high scat
in the arena of the Passing pays and
witness the wonderful transforma
tions made in the men who are born
again and given the Christ mind.
There was Denny O'Neil, a Pittsburgh
political worker and a McKeesport
merchant. In the beer saloons of
Allegheny County were beermugs with
his picture on them and the .inviting
legend. "Take one on me." Then
•Hilly" Sunday came to McKeesport.
Lenny "hit the sawdust trail." The
other day this .same Denny O'Neil was
in Coateeville talking for temperance
. j and religion. <'hrist-minded Denny
; < i'Neils are multiplying all over this
[great land of ours. (
MANAGING THE CITY
The Change in Pennsylvania
By Frederic J. Haskin
IN Pennsylvania commission gov-!
ernment has been most thoroughly
tried, for It was imposed upon
twenty-nine cities by an act of the
State Legislature. Reading is a typi
cal example of how it has worked.
You should not get the idea, how
ever, that commission government was '
forced upon the Pennsylvania cities;
without any initiative on their part.
Municipal government in this State j
was particularly cumbersome before 1
the change, as is attested by the fact
that forty-two cities, having a popu
lation of more than ten thousand, had!
remained boroughs rather than adopt l
the clumsy municipal machinery pro-:
vlded by State law.
All of the Pennsylvania cities were
awake to the disadvantages of the old
system. Ae long ago as 1910, the 1
cities of the third class, which in
cludes all of those with less than a
hundred thousand population, held \
a convention at Williamsport and or- |
ganized an Allied Civic Bodies Com
mittee for the purpose of studying mu
nicipal reform.
The constitution of the State of
Pennsylvania prohibits special legisla
tion, and this makes it impossible to
pass a law which would leave the
adoption of commission government
optional with the cities. If the change
were going to be made. It would have
to be a sweeping one, compelling all!
the cities of a certain class to change j
their form of government. After scv- j
eral years of agitation, such a law |
was passed in 1913. Twenty-nine I
j. ——
I OUR DAILY LAUGH I
NOT THE
■ i STTLE.
Old Mother Net-
Wanted a pettl
j n<i went < ® own
. But whan she got
MjjL The girl said wltl*
wearing then
" '• things any
more."
NOT FROM HIM
By Wing Dinger
A friend of mine, who's much in love.
Met me downtown to-day,
And said: "Dear Wing, I'm feeling due,
It happened in this v. ay:
Last evening I went out to call
Upon my girl, and, gee.
You should have seen the many smiles
With which she welcomed n>«J.
"She thanked me muchly for a box
Of candy which she got,
Of which I told her truthfully
I honestly knew naught.
But she Just took It as a lot
Of Valentine Day Josh.
And kept Inslstin' that I was
The guilty chap, b' gosh."
"Well, what of that?" I asked of him.
"You might have known that you
Could not fool her, why that's the way
That all the fellows do."
"Oh, that Is not wnat worries me,"
He answered, with a wail,
"Tnaa not from me—some other guy
Is camping on my trail."
EVERY INCH A SOLDIER
]New York Sun.[
The United States army lost a
splendid officer when Major James
Edward Normoyle died in quarters at
! Fort Ontario. No man's zeal was
greater and the Major's capacity for
! doing a thing the right way never
tailed him. As a quartermaster there
■ has seldom been his equal in the army.
! His work in the Mississippi Valley
j during the floods of 1912 at Dayton,
when that city was overwhelmed, and
at the Gettysburg encampment on the
j liftietb anniversary of the battle,
called not only for great organizing
ability but for incessant application,
i shrewd knowledge of human nature,
i the patience of .lob. and the tact of
la diplomat. Cheery, optimistc, self-
I sacrificing "Mickey" Normoyle was
'one of the best - known men In the
iurmy, ami he could ill be spared.
cities of the third class, including all
those in Pennsylvania except Phila
delphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton,
were thus summarily placed under
commission government in December,
1914.
The Pennsylvania law provides for
a mayor and four commissioners
elected at large on a nonpartisan bal
lot. The other city officials, with the
exception of the comptroller, are
chosen by this commission. The State
act also provides for an initiative and
referendum, but there is no recall and
no civil service board.
This wholesale change has been
emphatically a success. Under the
new form of government, Reading has
attained a new municipal efficiency,
and what is more, a new municipal
spirit.
If you visit this city some June, for
example, you will witness one of the
most interesting displays of municipal
common sense and civic righteousness
that has ever been staged in America.
The people of Heading, like people
everywhere else in the United States,
had beyi reading a lot about conser
vation for several years before the
commission government law was pass
ed. Now they have acted on their in
formation. Instead of sitting down
and pining because the magnificent
hills surrounding the town were de
nuded of trees of generations ago by
hungry lumbermen, they have under
taken the job of reforesting them.
[Continued on Page 18.]
THE STATE FROM m TO DAY
Don't exercise your privilege of
kissing a Polish bride when the re
cently-wedded husband is not in the
mood for such promiscuity, is the ad
vice which two Polish gentlemen of
Chester might give this morning if
they were in any condition to talk.
According to custom, the bride per
mits each guest to kiss her as the con
tribution plate is passed around and
money collected for the bride. Evi
dently the amount was not up to ex
pectations and the husband took it
out on the two men who happened to
be the most recent kissers.
At a meeting of the Bradford
county medical society in Towanda re
cently a few "good points" were
brought out by the speaker who was
discussing "influenza." The only
good point tlutt wc can think of is
the custom which the. bird "enza" in
i variably shows of flying out of the
window as well as in.
Eight little "Pollyanna" glad girls
have organized themselves into "The
American Girls' Club" of Hanover,
having been influenced no doubt by
the "Pollyanna" production now
playing at Philadelphia to get into
the habit of doing something for
someone else.
The T. M. C. A. of Pottstown com
pleted a three days' campaign last
week to obtain 300 new pnembers and
! exceeded that number by 35.
! The next annual Berks County Fair
will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday,
I Thursday and Friday, September 12,
13, 14 and 15, it has been announced
i at. a meeting of the directors of the
Reading Fair Company.
Westmoreland county will spend
half a million dollars for the con
struction of roads during the year.
The County Commissioners will issue
$500,000 worth of bonds.
Advertising Did It
A few years ago no one
bought furniture in February,
now every one buys it.
What created tills Immense
business?
Advertising definite news
paper advertising.
Certain merchandising savings
were possible if people would
buy in February.
The advertising made these
facts known and the response
was instantaneous.
Instead of being a dull month,
February Is now one of the
busiest in the store's calendar.
Ebftting (Eljat
Referring to the reminiscences c*.
College block and the olil Board o*
Trade building In this column la.
nlglit one of the older residents of the
city remarked that before the day of
the latter as tho home for Harris
burg's commercial organization tho
site was occupied by a
amusement place. It was owned bT#
Joseph Poulton and there is nothing
like It in Harrlsburg to-day. It was
a bowling alley, pool room, billiard
room and the like tind was a very
popular place among the young men.
This was back in Civil War days and
immediately nfter. 'When the old
building was destroyed, the present
structure was erected and about all
the Board had to do was to take out
the arrangement of the rear room,
which had been used lor billiard ta
bles and it had a nieetingplace. In
addition to the political meetings
which were held in the old Board
building it was used for formation of
a number of business and other or
ganizations. When the bicycle fad
was at its height some fifteen or seven
teen years ago the bicyclists used ti
med in the Hoard of Trade room t\
organize movements against magis
trates and constables who were too
free with arrests and the Harrisburg
Division of the League of American
Wheelmen was formed in the hall.
The College Block property wna in
great danger during the Opera House
lire in 1907 and it was scorched with
the intense heat, also at the time the
Astrich store in Third street was
burned out there was considerable
danger that the whole block would
go. The Astrich property adjoined
the block, on the site of the present
Security Trust Company. The tire
men of Ilarrisburg made a remark
able tight both times and deluged the
building with water In their success
ful efforts to save the property, whose
occupants had prepared to move out
their valuables.
There is a certain wholesale dealer
in the city whose business necessitates
the transportation to and fro of a
considerable number of boxes and
signs. The other morning one of his
clerks noticed on the sidewalk a most
unusual looking sign with uniquo
hieroglyphics engraved thereon, tho
like of which it had never before been
his lot to witness. Not being a stu
dent of Esperanto, nor an interpreter
of the Babylonic language, nor even
being particularly expert in "hog
latin." as they say in boy circles, this
somewhat surprised clerk refused to
accept the sign, announcing in most
determined tones that it didn't belong
to his firm and he didn't want it,
hadn't ordered anything like it. Per
haps you will not blame the clerk
when you see the sign, which looked
something like this:
O Z O bl c/a
"You poor boob," replied the car
rier of the sign, whence hailest thou?"
and anon, turning the sign at right
angles, the clerk read just as you
will read when you turn this paper to
port—and silently withdrew from the
scene.
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Friday night of this week the Gov-
ernor's Troop and its former members
or alumni, as they might be called,
will celebrate the anniversary of mus
ter into the National Guard service.
The Troop was mustered on February
18, 1888, and the interesting thing
about it was that General J. P. S.
Gobin, of Lebanon, commander of the
Third brigade, was the mustering of
ficer, and Captain T. J. Maloney, who
commanded Company D, conducted
the election of officers.
« * «
Capitol Park was a favorite place
for visitors yesterday in spite of the
Intense cold. Many of the people who
went to the park did so for the pur
pose of feeding the squirrels and pig
eons which were on friendly terms
with everyone, the snow and ice hav
ing prevented any foraging. A num
ber, however, went to take pictures.
• • •
Now and then President Judge
George Kunkel gels a little quiet fun
out of the spectators that crowd the
courtrooms, especially during a mur
der trial.
As a rule 12:30 is the luncheon ad
journment hour. The Shuman mur
der trial was wall under way yester
day and a whole courtroom full of
more or less restive folks were ready
to leave. Promptly at 12:30 they
thought they could go when Judge
Kunkel gravely turned to the jury:
"The hour for adjournment having
arrived —" lie began.
Several hundred spectators prompt
ly arose in their seats.
" —But court has NOT yet ad
journed," finished the judge.
The several hundred spectators
sank resignedly back in their seats.
Whereupon President Judge Kunkel
murmured to Court Crier Young:
"Adjourn court until 2 o'clock!"
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—T. A- Osborn, former Commis
sioner of Cambria county, who has
been ill, is recovering in Florida.
—The Rev. John 11. Willey, promi
nent Pittsburgh clergyman, has been
preaching preparedness sermons.
—Ex-Congressman Bourke Cockran
will be the speaker to the Scranton
Knights of Columbus next month.
—T. M. Dailey, of Philadelphia, is
at Palm Beach.
—Mayor E. B. Jermyn, of Scranton,
is closing down on the gamblers in his
city.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg's population is
jumping monthly, people moving
here from nearby counties?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Indians are supposed to have used
tho big island opposite the city for
council meetings.
SHOOT FIRST »
'[Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Germanv and Austria have both given
notice that on March 1 they will begin
to treat armed merchantmen as w
vessels. That is to say, they will
taok and torpedo tliem.
But how is a submarine to determine
whether a merchant ship is armed or
not?
Merchantmen are not bristling with
great guns. Tt has been customary for
many of them, especially those engaged
In trade with the Far Kast by the way
of the Mediterranean and the Suez
Canal, to carry a small piece or two
purely for defensive purposes. Tills has
been lawful, and, of course, still is.
These small pieces are rarely observ
able. How, then, is a submarine to pick
out an armed liner with any degree of
certainty and sink it as it would a
cruiser?
Is it going to take chances, shoot
first and investigate afterwards?
This new proposition is full of
danger, ft Is one that the administra
tion at Washington cannot sympathize /
with unless It has cotivtetely lost Its
' head.
And there pre tidies when we think
| that it has. >