10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Faundtd 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Hnlldlaa. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOL.E, Prtt'l and Eixtor in Ckitf F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. SHEINMETZ, Managmg Editor. M Member American Newspaper Pub gjjn sylvahia Associat es & Bl 31 Eastern office, Has .Kß 2 jjjß jfl Brooks, Fifth Ave jjj" jm nue Building. New G6s°Building?Chl — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mall, 13.00 ' a year in advance. Sworn daily average circulation tor the three months ending February 39, 1816, * 22,785 * These flxurea are net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15 For the balm of the breezes that brush my face with their fingers, For the vesper hymn of the thrush. when the twilight lingers, For the long breath, the strong breath, the breath of a heart without care. 1 would give thanks and adore thee, 1 Ood of the Open air. —VAN Dtke. MISSIONARY MOVEMENT HARRISBURG'S interest in the laymen's missionary movement can be no better illustrated; than by the announcement of those in! charge of the convention which came : # io a close last night that the gather-; ing here was self-sustaining, more | than 1,200 men and women having enrolled as delegates at a fee of one j dollar each. In very few of the more than seventy cities visited have the conventions paid their own way. The results have been well worth the effort of the local committees in charge. The coming of the eminen' | men who have made the bulk of the, addresses has brought to the city a' new conception of the missionary inovement, and a better understanding of the type of men engaged In carry ing Christian civilization to the utter most parts of the earth. Some idea of the growth of the mis sionary sentiment recently may be .gathered by looking back, over the years in an effort to find a time pre viously when 1,200 Harrisburgers i would have volunteered to pay a dol lar each to join in an lnterdenomina- ! tlonal missionary conference. CORN' AND APPLE SHOW SECRETARY PATTON will have i the hearty co-operation of all] Harrisburg in his plan to have j the Department of Agriculture hold a corn and apple show here next winter in connection with the annual meet- 1 ings of the agricultural and horticul- j tural societies of the State. It will j be remembered that such a show was held here some years ago and that It attracted State-wide attention and was attended by farmers and fruit growers from all over the Commonwealth. The rivalry was so keen in the corn section , that single ears of prize corn brought as much as $2 and $3 dollars each, while the apples and other fruits on display sold at marvelous prices. Corn and fruit growing in Pennsylvania was given a tremendous impetus as a result and growers learned first hand the best and most profitable way of pro ducing first-class products and how to market them to advantage. If Mr. Patton does no more during the coming year than make this show the big success it doubtless will be, he will have accomplished a service worthy of note. His proposal to have Ji county fair prize-winning class of prizes is a good move. Too often the county fair does not pay enough atten tion to the prime purpose for which it was organized—the promotion of hor ticulture and agriculture in Jta home community—and any movement tend ing toward the encouragement of friendly rivalry among the county fair associations of the State is in the right direction. Mr. Patton apparently has hit upon a very excellent plan to bring the fairs into competition with each other and it will be no small honor for any fair association to come out winner in a majority of the exhibits at the State show. For the love of Moses, Mr. Demain, don't you know that the bluebirds have arrived and that the first he patica has been found? THE WOOL SCARCITY LORD NORTHCUFFE, premier pf British Journalists, writing from the front at Verdun, lays particular stress upon the poor quality of the clothing worn by Germans cap tured by th« French during the open ing days of the drive "on that fortress. He implies very strongly that Ger many is rapidly reaching the end of her resources with respect to cotton and wool. Some allowance must be made for Northclilte's national preju dices, but a careful review of the field shows a very complicated situation in WEDNESDAY EVENING, the wool market, with Germany doubt less suffering to some extent, but not so much ns might be gathered from the article in question. All English wool Is being used at home, and the supply has been held up by an embargo which extends to the English colonies. What little comes through is restricted by the complicated regulations of the Tex tile Alliance. Russian wools are con centrated east of the Black Soa. But the Dardanelles are closed, the Trans- Siberian Railroad mobilised for gov ernment operations, and the only out let Is through "Vladivostock, from which some shipments are made. Turkish wools, tha Belgium supplies and the Antwerp market are all in German hands and a considerable sup ' ply is available from that source. As to the wool from China, Japan is, for the first time, competing for this part of the clip and Is In a position to out bid us In manufacturing for Russia, which she is doing on a large scale. Germany, however. Is not the only sufferer. We in the United States are feeling tho pinch. South American wool is our main dependence outside lof domestic supplies, and we have j been getting our full share of all | goods from this source, but the stock Jis now pretty well sold. Delivery charges here, as from China, have in creased fully 200 per cent, by reason of higher freights, war insurance, in creased bankers' commissions and in- I terest over longer periods than nor i mal, as shipping is so crowded that 1 goods move slowly. With all these restrictions on foreign supply, there is also a decrease in domestic wool, i the result of several causes, mainly the constant decrease in free or cheap ranges, the scare which placing wool I on the free list in the last tariff gav& the sheepmen and the high price of mutton, which makes wool a secondary I consideration. J The general market in this coun try, while prices are abnormally high ! in many grades—nearly double the prices of 1913—is in a ! ealthy condi tion. The present level of prices is i said to be due to actual demand and not to speculative' purchases antici pating higher prices. There is no rea son at present to hope for lower prices, as the world demand is in creasing faster than the supply, while great quantities are being destroyed in the war. Business is being done i in great volume at prices which here- I tofore were considered prohibitive. The ' difference between the United States and Germany is .that the United States is suffering mainly from high prices, while Germany cannot get an adequate supply at any price. SUGAR PRICES .\NI> SCPPMf THE announcement of the Phila delphia and Reading: Railway of the arrival at Port Richmond of the first trainload of sugar over its lines from the Pacific coast, is a new departure for that system and should add considerable traffic to its lines and the lines of other companies handling these sugar shipments. That the rail roads are to get a chance to add this welcome revenue to their gross earn ings for the year 1916, is due to the fact that ocean freight rates, because of the scarcity of ships, have risen to a higher level than the combined water and rail rates from Hawaii to New York. Time is also a factor which has operated favorably in in fluencing the Hawaiian sugar planters to use the railroads of the United States in transporting their sugar on part of its freight journey to eastern markets. Via the all-water route from Honolulu to Philadelphia, a cargo of sugar would take 56 days. •Via the rail and water route, the sugar can be moved in 23 days, a saving of 33 days, or over one month. This sugar in the eastern market, at this time, will exert a favorable influ ence on prices in the raw sugar mar ket. The 250,000 tons of Hawaiian sugar that is coming into the New York and Philadelphia market will serve to keep the prices of raw sugar at a far lower level than would be the . case if there had been no home grown sugar available. The lower the ■ cost of raw sugar to the refiner, the less the domestic consumer or house wife pays for sugar at the corner grocery. The growth of the domestic sugar industry in Hawaii has been of large proportion. It was in 1876 that the sugar of Hawaii, the' islands then be ing an independent kingdom, was ad mitted to the United States, free of duty. At that time the need of in creased sugar supplies for this country made it necessary for legislation to be so framed as to give the Hawaiian product preferential entry into this country. Under these advantageous conditions, Hawaiian sugar produc tion developed rapidly; the exports to the United States increasing from 11,400 long tons of sugar in 1877 to 50,000 tons five years later, and to 95,000 tons at the end of the first de cade. By 1898, when Hawaii came under the United States flag, the sugar crop was over 200,000 long tons. In 1911 it passed the 500,000 ton mark. In 19.16 it exceeded 577,000 tons. At the present time Hawaii furnishes approx imately one-seventh of the sugar con sumed in the United States. This production exerts a well recognized in fluence on the price of sugar to Am erican consumers. Such a consider able tonnage of sugar, computing with foreign grown Imported sugar, results in lowering the cost of sugar to every householder. Sugar* is cheaper in the United States than in an;- other large country in the world. The fact that one-half of the 8.000,000,000 pounds of sugar consumed in the pontinent. of United States last year was grown on Ameri can soil, made this possible. Without this home-grown sugar, we would be paying the world's price for this pro duct, which is much higher than the ruling prices in the United States since the beginning of the European war. And yet our Democratic friends at Washington well nigh ruined our American industry, which, but for the war would now be down and out en tirely. -ct——i—i TMtLciU By th« Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh's friends have followed up his announcement of will ingness to enter the Republican presi dential preference primary and his declaration for a reunited party and change of leadership by.vigorous work and are organizing his campaign in every section. Senator Boies Penrose, against whose leadership the Gov ernor s announcement was a challenge, has not yet made any statement, al though It Is intimated this morning that he will make some comment so®n. One Philadelphia newspaper says that ho may enter the lists against the Gov ernor himself. Tne next move is up to the senator. The Governor has started the hall a-rolllng. This is the general impres sion throughout the State, Some men well versed in politics hazard the opinion that after all there may be no content over national delegates and that the Governor may have them, but that there will be a fight for state committee- control. The Auditor Gen eral nomination will have to be fought out. —The attitude of the newspapers of the State is being closelv watched by men familiar with politics. Quite a few of the large papers have refrained from any editorial reference to the announcement. The Altoona Tribune warmly espouses the Governor's cause and halls his appearance in the con test. but the Scranton Republican and Wilkes-Rarre Record, two representa tive anthracite region papers, declare that there should be party harmony. Democratic newspapersgenerally relish prospects of a fight. —The Scranton Republican says in its editorial: "Harmony is, therefore, the Republican watchword this year all along the line, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The Republican party is a party of big men, but no one of them is bigger than the party, which Is big enough for them all. and for which all of them should co-operate in behalf of victory." The Wilkes-Barre Record says: "Neither Mr. Wasson's letter nor Governor Brumbaugh's reply evokes much enthusiasm, nor do they heighten the hope that the Pennsylvania dele gation would be united. Governor Brumbaugh would have m&de a stronger presidential candidate a year ago thau at present. Since then he has tied up with a faction whose only merit is that it is opposed to the Pen rose faction, but which Itself does not came with clean hands. To bring about harmony in Pennsylvania there is needed a leader who is without fac tional affiliation and who has held aloof from all contamination." The Philadelphia Eedger, which editorially criticises the-Governor's an nouncement yesterday and declared that there shoudl be no contest, dis cusses the Penrose end of the matter in the following first page article: "Senator Penrose is ready to enter the presidential preferential primaries against Governor Brumbaugh if by -so doing he can help to hold his friends together in any county in the State. This was learned authoritatively yes terday. The senator's candidacy, it was said, would be only one of a num ber of political methods he would use in liis fight on the Governor. Other suggested candidates around which it is planned to rally the opposition to the Governor, according to the temper of the several districts, are those of Jus tice Hughes. ex-Governor Stuart and Philander C. Knox. While many re gard it as unlikely that a presidential candidacy would be placed on the bal lot without the consent of the man himself, yet the law permits the plac ing of the name without any accom panying affidavit from the candidate. Justice Hughes, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stuart are not now presidential candi dates in the accepted sense. Tn fact, Mr. Knox says that he will not enter the presidential primaries." —Over fifty rooms have been en cased in llie Bolton House for Wednes day and Thursday of next week, when the annual State conference of the Washington or Progressive party will be held. A. Kevin Detrieh, the state chairman, arranged for the rooms yes terday, the date having been set so|ne ttme ago. All the big puns will be here and the situation will be can vassed. A complete delegation will be sent to the State convention and Wil liam Fllnn will inform the meeting what he thinks should he done about State nominations. Detrieh talked Brumbaugh to friends here yesterday afternoon. The Prohibition line-up for this section of the State was worked out yesterday at the conference. J. A. Sprenkle, of New Cumberland, the man most talked of for Congress, agreed to stand against Congressman Kreider. T. H. Hamilton, Harrisburg; M. B. Wengert. Lebanon; J. C. Rummel, Sliippensburg. and A. Eckels. Car lisle. were named for delegates to the national party convention. W. C. Perry. Harrisburg: J. F. M. Scliminky. Gratz; P. S. Grumbine, Lebanon, and J. M. Neisley, Shepherdstown, were named for alternates. .Tolin 1,. Pandel, of Burnliam, will be the party candi date for State senator for the district made up of Perry. Cumberland, Mifflin and Juniata counties. —William Flinn list night an nounced at Pittsburgh that, he in tended to stay in the Progressive ranks. He said: ."I am a Progressive and will remain a Progressive, unless there is an amalgamation between the Progressives and Republican parties when the two national conventions meet in Chicago in June. Whether there is to fee an amalgamation rests with the Republicans. "The Republi can Party at its national convention will be offered opportunity to nomi nate a candidate for President the Progressives can support, and- upon a platform they can indorse, and the Progressives, assembled in convention at the same time, will be on hand to pass judgment. "That candidate can be Roosevelt, but If not Roosevelt, a man somewhere near his equal, who stands on a platform the Progressives approve. The country will be found displaying precious little concern with politics, politicians, or even Parties, at n time when the future of the' R epublic is at stake. The Barnesps and Penroses will not control the next Republican convention, because the exigencies of the party, ttsclf, and of the Nation, will make it Impossible. Nobody will control the convention." —A Washington dispatch to-day says: Senator Penrose it Is declared here. will formally nnnounre his de termination to oppose th e Brum hauKh-V.Trrc-f'niith ticket a con ference he will hold, in Pittsburgh this week with Republican leaders from western Pennsylvania. Other interesting developments in the com plicated political situation are ex pected by the Republican members of Pennsylvania as a result of this visit." —A chicken and walTle sunper will lie part of the program at the meet ing of the East End Republican Club to-morrow night. March 1!i. Senator Edward E. Beidleman will be one of the speakers. EXPENSIVE LUXURY f New York Sun! Mr. Perkins still persists that bo does not want the elephant on his hands, and vet its board might cost IOSM than the doctor hills for his 'sickly Bull Moose. HARRISBURG sSS&L TELEGRAPH HINTS FOR BABY WEEK Dirty vessels Boil all and flies. utensils. , ft v* - j' 3 \ i i #L; if .• • 4 I 1 1 h Keep the Baby's Milk CleciTL, Covered and Cold. ■*» TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOP£~| —Sweet are the uses of adversity,' but sweeter by far are the ways of happiness and prosperity. —'Stick to your weakness, Wood row," advises the Ohio State Journal. Superfluous piffle. —There can be no harm in striking a friend for a loan, even old Midas used to make an occasional golden "touch." —About this season preceding the presidential primaries quite a few prominent citizens begin to discover striking resemblances between them selves and Lincoln, while hot a few counterparts of the immortal Wash ington are' springing up here and there. —As a juggler of the King's Eng lish we recommend the Colonel, the only man who can protest vehement ly that he is not a candidate in the same language with which he makes it perfectly clear that he is. —lt takes more than a dyestuff famine to take the green out of St. Patrick's Day. EDITORIAL CQMMENT | If Congress fears war so much, it might prepare for it. Wall Street Journal. Democrats in Congress are trying to throw the switch on President Wil son's single-track mind.—New York Morning Telegraph. Berlin reports by wireless that Ger many has captured 19,700 cannon and 3,000 machine guns. She couldn't capture that many from us. St. Louis Star. According to a decision of the United States District Court at Balti more, the corporation known as "Ami erican Can" can can. New York Evening Sun. 1 DAD AND THE PAPER Sometimes dad says the paper some how ain't just, his way, and he does a lot of kickin' when lie reads It every | day. He says there ain't a dad-burn i ed thing in it worth while to read, an' 'that it doesn't print the kind o' stuff [the people need. lie throws it in the ! corner and says it's on the "bum"— but you'd ought to hear him holler ! when the paper fails to come. He reads about the weddings and snorts like all git out, he reads the I social columns with a most decisive (shout. He'll read about the parties land he'll fuss and groan and say they print the paper for women folk alone. ] He says that of information it don't (•ontain a crumb —but you'd oughter hear him holler when the paper fails to come. He's always first to grab it and he reads it through and through—he doesn't miss an item or a want ad, old or new. I-le says, "They don't know what we want, them newspaper guys. I'll take a day off sometime and go and put them wise." If editors were as wise as dad they'd sure IKS going some, but you'd oughter.hear him hol ler when the paper fails to come. And when dad goes 'way and stays a day or two, I tell you he gets riled and says awful things he'll do if the paper failed to mention him as being out of town —well, he almost has a no tion -to knock some printer down. He never does, however, when he sees one he is rfium, but you'd oughter hear hini holler when his paper falls to come.—Shore Line Times. I HAT IS IN THE RING [From Evening Ledger.] There is no mistaking the meaning of the statement which Colonel Koosc velt has cabled from Trinidad to the New York Mall. , - Ills lint is In the rin^?. The statement divides Itself Into three pur KM. The first IH a declaration that he will not be a candidate for the nomination in the primaries in any State, that he does not wish the nomi nation, and will not be a party to a factional tight to secure it. The second part is a challenge to the men of heroic purposes and high ideals to nominate him as the man who is able to assist them in carrying out their purposes by realizing their ideals in action. Unless the country is in this mood, he thinks it would be a mistake to call him to lead it. The third and concluding part. Is a declaration that nothing can be ex pected from the present administration i but hypocrisy and infamy. THE CONSERVATION OF LIFE By Frederic J. Haskin V : J THE Federal Government has just shown what It is doing in the national Safety First campaign. If you allow yourself to set sick or killed or injured, it ia not the fault of your Uncle Samuel. The first national Safety Exposition, including exhibits and demonstrations from twenty-five government bureaus was held in Washington from Febru ary 21 to 20. There has been a gen eral impression abroad to the effect that Uncle Sam is a safety crank, but the scope and variety of the exposi-, tion was a surprise to all but the clos est followers of the movement. There was the Bureau of Naviga tion. for Instance. One of the duties of this bureau is the enforcement of a law providing that every vessel carry ing more than fifty passengers, either on the ocean or the Great Lakes, must be equipped with a wireless apparatus, effective up to a hundred miles at least. The radio Inspectors reported twenty-six vessels which left our ports in 1915 to meet with disaster. They caught on fire, they ran ashore, they got jammed in the ice, they collided with each other, their cargoes shifted; but they summoned assistance by wireless. In twenty-five cases Hie wireless call brought such prompt help that only two lives were lost al together. The twenty-sixth case was the Dusitanla. On the lakes, the wireless comes in very handily for receiving storm warnings from the weather bureau stations on shore. In the storms of November, 1913—a bad month—nine teen vessels were destroyed on the lakes. None of them had radio equip ment. The boats with wireless got warning and took shelter in time. The Coast Guard exhibited two life boats—an old-timer with a long record of waves breasted and lives saved, and one of the newest powerboats that multiplies efficiency. The Coast Guard renders perhaps the most widely as sorted safety services of any arm of the government. Besides such com monplace incidents as saving wrecked vessels, it has on its records the pre vention of suicide, return of lost chil dren to their parents, emergency pilot ing. firefighting and the arrest of thieves and lawbreakers. In the way of recent history, the Coast Guard records showed that on 3KO days in the last year one or more of Its branches was seeing active serv ice. Fifteen hu-ndred people were res cued from immediate danger, and the vessels to which some form of assist ance was given carried over ten thou sand souls. In many cases this assist ance prevented serious accidents. The service restored to life six people drag ged from the ocean after having been under water ten to fifteen minutes. The Coast Guard service includes both life-saving and the revenue cut ter branches. It is under the Treas ury Department. The Forest Service is another one of Samuel's children that Is out for THE STATE FROM DAT TO DAY "With one eye fixed upon the furious struggle in Europe and the other upon the splash of frontier warfare over the Mexican border our Uncle Sam is In danger of becoming wall eyed if the strain Is too long con tinued," says the Lancaster Intelligen cer. Chester would a-Jltneying go, but drastic legislation proposed by City Councils of that burg indicate that the way of the "jit" will be no smoother down in Southeastern Pennsylvania than in any.other section of which we wot. "Butch" McDevltt.the raueh-exnlolt ert "Millionaire for a Day," who but recently came Into the limelight again while searching the boardwalk at At lantic City for a helpmeet, Is now be ing sought by the grand jury in Wilkes-Barre that is sitting on the case which 1.-; in process with refer ence to the alleged corruptness of the 19X1 and 1915 campaigns. Lancasterltcs want an armory as housing quarters for the National Guurd. Steps are also under way for the organization of a machine-gun company. The more the merrier, In this time of stress and fighting. The school "strike" In Ellwood City has finally been ended with the volun tary return to school of the. dis gruntled upper classmen who were compelled against their will to inarch out behind the lowly Sophomores. A 22-year-old kitty has Just crossed the bar down In the lower part of the State. Although the cat has been able MARCH 15, 1016. safety first, last and all the time. Few people living off the national forest areas have any idea of the menace and terror that a forest tire can be. There were over 6,600 forest fires in the last fiscal year. The work of the service reduced the loss of life to a minimum, and the timber damage to four per cent, of what it was in 1910. The government fights fires by means of lookout stations, special guards In the dry season and a highly efficient corps of trained fighters. The most important work yet to be done in this lino Is education of the public in the causes and prevention of fires. Almost three-fifths of all the fires in 1914 were directly attribut able to human agencies—an increase of eleven per cent, over the year be fore. This means that the public is beginning to realize that it owns some of the finest pleasure grounds in the world, and is flocking to them in greater numbers every year. The more campers, the more tires. The service finds it comparatively easy to Instruct permanent residents of the reserves in safety measures, but the "irresponsible transient visitor is a formidable menace." It sounds hard on the casual camper, but no doubt it is true. Before you go camping, see what the service haa to advise in the line of safety first. • Fire prevention work along another line was indicated by the exhibit of the Bureau of Standards. The bureau estimates that the use of fireproof ma terials in the construction of industrial plants would decrease the annual property loss by forty per cent., and the loss of life by an annual twenty. The work of the bureau in this con nection consists primarily in testing materials as to their fire-resisting qualities. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion finds time between rate hearings to put in a lick or two for safety, as its exhibit demonstrated. A few years ago, fifty per cent, of the accidents to railway trainmen caine from the old style link and pin coupling, ljast year, as a result of the work of the Com mission, accidents from this cause were ljeld down to six per cent. The railroads have a Rood record in the nfatter of safety, and they must divide the credit with State legislators and the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. More than a million cars were personally inspected last year. More si eel cars are being used, the roadbeds are kept up better than formerly, and the electric block signals are getting a wider use. In 1915, the number of passengers killed was reduced sixteen per cent, over 1914. the number of employes killed decreased thirty-six per cent, in the same year. Out of over a billion nassengers carried only 222 were killed—less than in any year since 1898 when only a half billion people traveled, and an average of one in every 450,000, The Public Health Service is an other branch of the Treasury Depart ment. to vote for over a year. It had the en ergy merely to keep alive and of late its ninth life had been growing shab bier and shabbier until a day or so ago, when the strain became too great and the poor breast gave up the tight The Mayor of Johnstown was host recently to eight boys, whom he had put on probation, with instructions to report to him every Saturday after noon at 4 o'clock, which they did. As a reward the Mayor gave them a bang-up theater party. QUR DAILY LAUGH NOT IN HER WARDROBE. I must put on. X 1 my thinking cap / vi °4l vy/ and try to decide Jg&t J jy* this matter. /•'TvKi I've heard of those thinking L ij'-'A caps, and must get one of them. fA ■t; Where did you oK. get yours and how * ' Is it trimmed? THAT'S Dl*. \ Papa: But yom '4? * wo could, not 'mL, H ve on h' 8 ?S.O# Iflßy T*\, Gertrude: But he's promised a dollar raise wht> he marries. jlEiwning (Eljat Who Is Harrisburg's veteran news dealer? This question was asked dur ing a conversation of prominent citi zens yesterday, and the answer was, "Wendall Fackler," manager of the newsstand at the Pennsylvania rail road station. It was explained that by tho word "newsdealer," was meant one who has handled newspapers, books, magazines, etc., during his business career. There are dealers In llarrisburg who are older In age than Wendall Fackler. but they have not been fol io wing the business in llarrisburg as long as the Union News Company rep resentative. Ife started with the corn paify when a boy just entering his "teens," and Is nearlng the forty year mark. During his career he came in personal contact with every presi dent except the late James A. Qar lleld; conversed with national and State figures, and has been a big factor in watching Marrisburg grow, and helping it to grow, as he is own er of valuable real estate in the east ern section of the city. It begins to look as though govern ment aid for the civilian training camps would not be forthcoming this year and that the projected camps would be anuiled, men who desire to get training being invited to go into one of the proposed volunteer organi zations which will be organized. No word has been received at the Capi tol regarding the camps, but that is not unusual because these camps are a national affair and the States have nothing to do with them, although many of the State officials have en couraged them in every way possible and have been urging men to attend them for instruction. It will be dis appointing to many in this part of the State to learn that there will be noth ing doing in the way of camps. A man t>ound for the far west was inquiring for rates from a local ticket agent. "Why don't you sell colons ist tickets from llarrlsburg ?" he ask ed. "You used to do so." "Yes, I know we did," came the ready reply, "and with the result that hundreds of people left this vicinity and seftlcd throughout Nebraska, Kansas and elsewhere. We did a rush ing: business while It lasted. Tralnload after trainload went west, but In tho end we lost money because we lost all the local travel that these people once did. Now we are spending our money advertising the advantages of the Cumberland Valley and other nearby territory for residential purposes and it would be inconsistent to offer thesq people special inducements to move to some other parts of the country." "One of the children to be removed by request of the State Board of Charities from your almshouse to the Home For Feeble-Minded at Polk," saut Special Agent Edward Wilson yesterday after an Inspection trip to the poorhouse, "is suffering from a rare malady. The little one has a di sease noted first in Switzerland where a sort of goiter was formed in the throat of some of the boys and girls who drank snow or ice water from the glaciers. The effect of this is to arrest growth and development. Neith er the mind nor the body develops. The victim remains a little child in every way until old age. I have seen only a very few cases of this malady. How the little one at the almshouse came to Ks pitiable plight may never be known, but certain it Is that it will never become a normal being anil the best place for it is an institution like that at Polk where it will re ceive every attention. The Stato can not do too much for these poor, aifil- Icted mortals." Probably the oddest of the claims Hied at the State. Capitol for Work men's Compensation came this week in the form of papers for payment for the fatal injury of a man who was engaged in installing safety de vices. Dozens of applications ot claims have come for unusual acci dents, school teachers and canvassers and office boys being more or less frequent, while the metal trades art heavy. The claim in the safety de vice accident was through starting ql machinery. • « • Since a couple of men visited the State Capitol the last week with schemes in their heads the blue-coated policemen about the State House have been closely observing any one who seems to be a bit unusual in appear ance or who seems to have long hair or something on his mind. In the last fortnight several men who have been seeking to interest State officials In mechanical contrivances have been turned away, while one man turned up with a new plan for electing presi dents and Congressmen. One man who got as far as the rotunda desired to consult the chiefs of the govern ment on plans to end the war. Members of the Engineers Societj of Pennsylvania are planning for a bid dual celebration the last Saturday ol this month, when they will observe the twelfth anniversary of the organ ization and the second annual banquet ■Many of the prominent engineers ol the State have accepted invitations t( attend. It is likely that some things about the way engineers can help ir the plans of national defense will b« heard, • • • Among the Governor's callers yes tordav was D. fcdward ■ ol | Frunklin county, one of the judicia ! candidates last Fall and well known a! publisher and attorney in Franklin. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE") j Colonel Daniel Nagle, Mexicar veteran, \vants to march again. lit ' lives at Pottsville and is 88 years ol g —Congressman J. J. Casey, ol Wilkes-Barre, plan for nationai aid for semimllitary organizations. Ex-Judge It. G. Bushong. of Itead ing, may be a candidate for Republi can national delegate, j —C. Klmer Brown, Pittsburgh law ver, is making a municipal investiga tion of public utilities in that city. —rE. T. Stotesburv, the banker, hai returned from Florida. —Thomas C. Tierney has been con firmed as McKee's Rocks postmaster ] DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg t»stry Is sold In twenty counties? HISTORIC HARRJSBURG The Harrlsburg bridge was oilffjo the iirst to span the Susquehanna. Pushing the Quick Sellers FCetailerg favor newspaper ad vertised brands because they are quick sellers. The advertising creates a quirk, definite and sure demand. They feel it at their counters and they naturally show the goods people want to see. They put them In the window and on the counter at the time the advertising is running. Quick sellers are profitable be cause they keep capital at work. They make the stock turn over- rapidly and in the turn over it< a larger gloss business and a satisfactory balance sheet.
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