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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. ,
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Keep the Baby's Milk
CleciTL, Covered and Cold.
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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.