8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded itji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKLEOII IFH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLJS, Pres'i and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUB M. SHEINMETZ. Managing Editor. M Member American Newspaper Pub- BHKSSm aylvanla Assoclat flfii fi ssl Ku Eastern office, Has ' BE B £S £35 ra» Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New Gas Building, Chi — cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., aa second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <ffsKCs23dl> week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally average circulation for the three months ending February 29, 11(16, it 22,785 These figures are net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18. Praise is deeper than the lips. —Brow xi no. It is a poor heart, and a poorer age, that cannot accept the conditions of life with some heroic readiness. —Stevensox. DELAYING DYESTUFFS TARIFF THE Ways and Means Committee of Congress has not arrived at any conclusion in regard to the tariff bill Introduced by Congress man Hill to protect the dyestuffs in dustry. Newspaper dispatches Indi cate that the Democrats are decidedly up in the air on the proposition, in dividually some of them admit that a dvestufts tariff is advisable, but when they are faced squarely with the proposition of establishing potective rates for the industry they are collec tively disposed to balk at any such repudiation of party policy. One of the majority members of the committee is reported as saying that it would be unwise for the Democrats to commit themselves on this issue because the probabilities wore that with the return of normal conditions ' in Europe our textile manufacturers would turn immediately to Germany lor their dyes, leaving the domestic dye industry to languish. He was sceptical as to whether the rates in the Hill bill would meet the situation, yet quite averse to higher, rates. Another Democratic member of the committee is quoted as saying that the theory of protection was as falla cious in respect to the dye industry as it was relative to any other industry. "We don't need protective duty rates. What we want is higher trained chemists," he asserted. Every aspect of the case Indicates that the dyestuffs industry Is going to receive mighty little encouragement from the party now in power. Certain rates will be fixed in a measure to be reported by the committee, no one knows when. The measure will be in corporated in an omnibus bill and dis cussion of the dyestuffs feature will be brief. It is a subject bristling with technicalities, and the party in power is tired out. We cannot hope for a proper dyestuffs tariff until a change of administration comes about. "Spring due Monday," says the alma nac. We're glad to hear It, but we sus pect the t.ain will be delayed by snow drifts. FARMERS' MARKET INJURED THE National Canners' Association reports the total number of fac- Tories which may be engaged in the canning of one or more truck crops as 2,412. Reports were received by the Association from 1,677 factor ies, of which 365 were idle in 1915, 249 were idle in 1914. and 84 were idle during the latter part of 1913, when the Democratic tariff law went Into effect. The industrial depression which dogged the heels of that piece of leg islation was evidently felt by the can ned goods industries. The bill slashed the duties on canned goods, and, comparing the ten months' peace pe riod, October, 1913, to July, 1914, un der the Democratic bill, with the same period, October, 1912, to July, 1913, under the Republican tariff law, im ports Increased 22 per cent. Even for the same period in 1914- 15, with trade cut off by the war, our imports amounted to about the same total as under the Republican period. Now that we have gotten into Mexico, some of us are wondering how we are going to get out. ►SHORTAGE OF PAPER ENGLISH newspapers are begin ning to feel the pinch of the Impending paper famine a famine that may before the close of the war seriously embarrass the news papers of the United States. The daily publications of London and of Berlin, too, are faced with the prob lem of having to submit to a reduction in size, perhaps even to an enforced limitation of circulation. Copies of the London Post, reach ing this country, announce that the publishers will be unable to supply ""•hanc® demands" and it ls reported that some of the weaker papers have been forced to suspend, at least tem porarily. Perhaps this shortago has SATURDAY EVENING, something to do with the announce ment of the London Morning Standard that it will no longer be issued. In the United States the situation has not nearly approached such a critical stage, but it is bad enough. No newspaper at this time can gov ern the quality or the color of its pa per. The Telegraph has frequently, of late, appeared with two shades of paper in the same issue. Quantity ls still available, but prices are soaring and within tlfe next few months even quantity may be so serously limited as to cause not only inconvenience for prosperous and powerful newspapers, but great hardship for others of lim ited capital. Washington hears that Claude Kitchin ought not to run again for Congress because he is so strongly in disagreement with so many of the poli cies which Wilson espouses. Cheer up, Claude! President Wilson is very likely to tfiange his mind, and then you will be in perfect accord once more. And. anyway, what difference will it make in the next Congress whether you favor the policies of ex-President Wil son or not? LINCOLN'S MEXICAN POLICY THE New York World, in a piti fully weak endeavor to bolster up President Wilson's Mexican policy—Heaven save the word —quotes the following instructions of Abraham ! Lincoln to the American minister in Mexico at a time when the Juarez government there was In much the same straits as was the Huerta govern ment when Wilson decided not to recognize It and thus precipitated the awful conditions now prevailing there: For a few years past the condi tion of Mexico has been so unset tled as to raise the question on both side of the Atlantic whether the time has not come when some foreign power ought, in the general interest of society, to Intervene, to establish a protectorate or some other form of government in that country and guarantee its continu ance there. You will not fail to assure the Government of Mexico that the President neither has. nor can have, any sympathy with such designs, in whatever quarter they may arise or whatever character they may take on. • * • The President never for a mo ment doubts that the republican system is to pass safely through all ordeals and prove a permanent success In our own country, and so to be recommended to adoption by all other nations. But he thinks also that the sys tem everywhere has to make its way painfully through difficulties and embarrassments which result from the action of antagonistieal elements which are a legacy of for mer times and very different insti tutions. The President is hopeful of the ultimate triumph of this system over all obstacles, as well in regard to Mexico as in regard to everv other American State: but he feels that those States are nevertheless justly entitled to a greater fore bearanoe and more generous sym pathies from tile Government and people of the Vnited States than they are likely to receive in any other quarter. « • • The President trusts that vour mission, manifesting these senti ments. will reassure the Govern ment of Mexico of his best disposi tion to favor their commerce and their internal improvements. I find the archives here full of complaints against the Mexican Government for violation of con tracts and spoliation and cruelties practiced against American citizens. It Is not tne President's intention to send forward such claims at the present moment. He willingly de fers the performance of a duty, ; which at any time would seem un gracious. until the incoming ad- | ministration in Mexico shall have [ had time. If possible, to cement its authority. This the World cites as a parallel of the "watchful waiting" policy of the present administration. "The memorandum was part of President Lincoln's instructions to the American minister in Mexico," says the World, "and it defined the principle that President Wilson has followed In dealing with our unfortunate neigh bor to the south." It does nothing of the sort. It defines a policy exactly opposite to that of President Wilson. In effect, Lincoln said he could not interfere in Mexico. President Wilson, on the other hand, has done nothing but interfere. It. has been his everlasting meddling with matters in which he should have had no concern that has kept Mexico in a constant turmoil ever since he determined that Huerta must be overthrown. Lincoln stood aloof. Wilson has tried to run Mexican affairs from Washington. Everytlme somebody In official life makes a blunder his friends try to explain it away by saying that Wash ington or Lincoln set the precedent. In any case, it is in bad taste to at tempt modern comparisons with either of these two great patriots, for we have no man in public life to-day who is knee-high to either of them. Wilson cannot be likened to Lincoln in any respect. From the choice of a cabinet for political purposes to his piffling policy in Mexico the President has not once approached Lincoln either in methods or results. He could put both his feet In one of the Lin coln's boots, with room to spare. The "keep-us-out-of-war slogan re ceived an inharmonious jolt when Con gressman Page, of North Carolina, de clined to be a candidate for re-election because he is opposed to Wilson's for eign policy, which he describes as tend ing to embroil the United States in the European conflict. Mr." Page seems to be of finer fiber than a good many of his fellow-Democrats: for if every Demo crat in Congress who disagrees with the Wilson foreign policy should decline to run again, the political mortality figures would mount high, indeed. Cato Sells. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, knowing that his present job will expire by political reversal next year, Is planning to run for Congress against Representative Callaway, who is one of the Texas Democrats In re bellion against President Wilson's pre paredness program. The somewhat un necessary information 'ls telegraphed from the capital that the President favors Sells. The New York Evening Post took to Itself the trouble and the expense ot sending a man out over the President's trail in the West and secured this ver dict: "Little in Wilson tour of any en during value." We could have given tills Information to the Evening Post at the cost of a return postal card. "Visitors here to get ideas on city gov ernment."—Newspaper headline. When they want to know how to run a city they come lo Ilarrlsburg. uv By tlx Ex -Committeeman The first definite indication of the manner in which Senator Boies Pen rose will conduct his campaign for control of the Republican State com mittee. which is involved in the can didacy of Governor Brumbaugh for presidential delegates, came from Pittsburgh last night. It was stated that the Senator favored election of uninstruoted delegates because of the importance of the selection to be made at Chicago in June. Sen ator George T. Oliver came out against the candidacy of Governor Brum baugh. The Governor was in Philadelphia at the St. Patrick's Day dinner last night and spoke on behalf of the foreign born who had become good citizens and loyal Americans. He and his trlends talked over the situation and arranged details for the opening of the campaign. Much was made in Phila delphia of the endorsement given to tlie Governor by Senator John W. Hoke and A. Nevin Pomeroy, Superin tendent of State Printing, who hail from Franklin county. At the same time the Senator was speaking at the St. Patrick s Day din ner in Pittsburgh, where he received a big reception. In regard to the developments at I Pittsburgh, dispatches sent from that city aaid printed in Philadelphia pa pers to-day say: "The selection of an uninstructed delegation to the Repub lican national convention and the presentation of Philander Chase Knox as Pennsylvania's candidate for the Republican nomination for President in the event the State should have a candidate, is the plan agreed upon by Senator Boies Penrose and Republican Readers of Allegheny county at a con ference held here to-day. Senator Penrose was Informed that the an nouncement of Governor Brumbaugh J that he would be a candidate for ' President had made no impression upon the voters of Western Pennsyl vania and that Allegheny and the | other counties of this section of the State would follow his leadership. Sen- j ator Penrose mot the Allegheny county > leaders at the Duquesne Club, where a | luncheon In his honor was given by Geortse W. McCandless." —Senator Oliver and Mayor Arm- ! strong were the spokesmen for the \ Allegheny county party workers last evening. "I am against the candidacy i of Governor Brumbaugh ' just as IJ would be against the candidacy of j Senator Penrose for the reason that j neither would be a candidate in good I faith." said Senator Oliver. "If the Republicans of this State present a candidate for President, it should be j Philander C. Knox, who possesses all i the qualifications required for that j high office. The Democratic adminis tration has been a failure. It has committed a series of blunders. We j need at this time a man big enough, with experience in public affairs to | manage the situation. lam convinced j that it would be the part of wisdom j to send to the Chicago convention an uninstructed delegation." "T indorse what Senator Oliver has ; said," remarked Mayor Armstrong. "There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that Allegheny county and i the other counties of southwestern Pennsylvania will follow the leader ship of Senator Penrose." The Philadelphia Record to-day gives this account of a rather interest ing event at Philadelphia last night: "Enthusiasm mounted high over songs i about Ireland and words spoken by i men of national and State fame in re lation to preparedness at the one liun- ; dred and forty-fifth annual banquet of ' the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, at the Bellevue-Stratford, j last night, but it was tame when com- 1 pared to the riot of excitement that greeted a telegram from United States Senator Boies Penrose telling of his; inability to attend the dinner and I wishing a good time to everybody! present, which included Governor | Rrumbaugh. Congressman Vare and ! other political opponents. Wh4n the j message, which came from Pittsburgh.' s was read the bannuet resolved Itself into a wild demonstration for the , i senior Senator. There were about 600 • -rnests who sat about tables in the big j ballroom, but it sounded as if 6,000 i nersons were cheering after the read- I ing of the telegram by Public Service t Commissioner Michael J. Ryan, the society's new president and toast- ! master. For several minutes the hand- i clapping and cheering kept up. Gov. "rnor Brumbaugh, who sat close to the ' ♦oastmaster. joined In the liand-clap- i «ing. but Congressman Vare. who also sat at the sneakers' table, never moved ! i muscle of hand, arm or face. After I the cheering had subsided someone ! imposed 'three cheers for Penrose,' ; which were given in most vociferous ' I fashion. When Toastmaster Ryan ! | canned for order with mighty pounds of his gavel he was greeted with an outburst of a familiar song, which was ' taken up all over the room. The aroused diners sang 'Hello. Penrose, i vou're a friend of mine.' The stam-'i nede was then full on, and the toast- • master was heard by some of the 'liners calling at the ton of his voice, 'Stop, men. stop, men, that's enough.' ; It was not for about a minute more that the cheering ones admitted, by becoming quiet, that it was enough." i —Richard R. Quay, one of the 1 | biggest Bull Moosers. was among the ' Penrose callers yesterday at Pitts- ; | burgh. —Governor Brumbaugh will speak J to-niglit at Pittsburgh and meet his 1 friends to prepare for vigorous prose- j I cution of the campaign in the western | nart of the State. —The Central Democratic Club last ! j night determined to remain on the ! : I map as a state figure. A committee i ! will visit Washington to get the Presi- i j dent to come here to make a speech, and. failing him. io get onv prominent j ' Democrat. Postmaster Sites, Reserve | "fink Governor McCormlck. City j Chairman Jones. Brigadier Henrv On- | merman and First Sergeant VanDvfce j j will march on the national canital ; with the club's hopes and aspirations) for national notice. —lt was announced last night that j ex-Congresaman Ruplev's headquar- | t«rs for Congress would be in one of j | the "movie" theater buildings. HAPPINESS No man can judge of the happiness of another. As the new moon plays | upon the waves, and seems to our eyes j to favor with a peculiar beam one j long track amidst the waters, leaving i the rest in comparative obscurity, yet j all the while she is no niggard in her J luster—for though the rays that meet!; not our eyes seem to us as though! they were not, yet. with an equal and h unfavoring loveliness, she mirrors her-|i self on every wave—even so, perhaps, ji happiness falls with the same bright- h ness and power over the whole ex-if panse of life, though, to our limited • 1 eyes, she seems only to .rest on those ii billows from which the ray is deflect-! Ed back upon our sight.—Bulwer-Lyt ton. CHRIST CURETH PALSY For whether is easier, to say. Thy sins be forgiven thee: or to say. Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of Man bath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saitli he to the sick of the palsy.} Arise, take up thy bed. and go Into thine house. And he arose and departed to his bouse. But when the multitudes saw it. they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.—Matthew ix. C 1 to 8. | HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • THE CARTOON OF THE DAY , —Uradley In the Chicago Dully »' TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —lf we were Wing Dinger we would write a Spring poem beginning like this: "Spring, Spring, there ain't no sich thing." —A steel ingot was blown through the roof of a Lewistown mill the other day. In other words, the ingot got out. —Blondes are not necessarily light headed. —Just now most of us would gladly accept the opportunity of complaining about the hot weather. —Certain pro-Germans are complain ing that the New York World used dis honorable methods to procure informa tion concerning their activities, but nothing that the World could have done to obtain the Interesting evidence it is publishing is half so dishonorable as the conduct of those it is is exposing. —Vice-President Marshall admits that he has "always been an optimist, so far as the Democratic party is con cerned." But present conditions are enough to make even a Democratic optimist pessimistic. EDITORIAL COMMENT WOTiIKR GRIM C RISIS LOOMS fGrand Rapids Press.] Now it is said that the shortage of dyes may affect the color of our post age stamps. It is going to add to Mr. Wilson's difficulties if he has to dis patch stern notes to the warring na tions bearing pale-pink stamps. THAT WOULD BE A BLOW INDEED [Gary Times.] Trust that the shortage of dyes won't cause a lack of the necessary colors | for March 17. GETTING PRETTY CROWDED [New York Telegram.] Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, for mally announces his candidacy. Ring I will soon contain enough hats to have a rummage sale. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN To the Editor of the Telegraph: Please print in your paper the fol lowing letter sent to the Congressman of the 18th district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Krelder, in Washington: "We beg to enter our emphatic pro test against the passage of the Burnett Immigration Bill now pending in the House of Representatives. We oppose the measure because it is contrary to the principles of the United States of America. As we are residents of the district represented by you in Con gress. we respectfully request you to cast your vote against the Burnett Im migration Bill. "Nine copies of this letter were sent us night letters signed by the following [congregations and organizations: Kesher Israel congregation, signed by President M. Gross; Machzlke congre gation, signed by President H. Meyer ovitz; I. O. Brith Abraham, city lodge, signed by President S. Handler; I. O. Brith Sholoni. city lodge, signed by President M. Brenner; Harrisburg Ben ellcial Association, Capital lodge, sign- ! ed by Bristol and S. Toon; Arbelter Ring, signed by Presidents M. Re'.ter and Zuckerman; Y. M. H. Association, signed by Shiftman: Mlzraehl, signed by | Joseph Klein, and one signed by me. "RABBI L. SILVER." FISHERMEN'S LICENSES To the Editor of the Telegraph: Thanks for your editorial in Monday night's paper on licenses for fishermen. , We believe with the Telegraph that the 1 poor fisherman should not be licensed while the streams are polluted with dyes and other stuff, and we look l'or | you to help us out. Yours truly, A POOR FISHERMAN. LAMP OF EXPERIENCE It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of Hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, land listen to the song of that Siren j till she transforms us into beasts. * » * j Are we disposed to bo of the num ; ber of those who, having eyes see not, | and having ears head not the things : which so nearly concern their tem poral salvation? For my part, wliat | ever anguish or spirit It may cost. I am willing to know the whole truth; | to know the worst, and provide for it I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp jof experience. 1 know of no way of | judging of the future but by the j past.—Patrick Henry. DON'T WHIP IN ANGER [Mother's Magazine.] i It Is absurd to whip a child who is | overcome by anger. The best thing Ito do is to let him alone and let his passion wear itself out. If he could j be taken before the anger gets the up per hand of him, he might be con trolled. What the parent should do is to : study the things which will arouse the! child's anger and then avoid these things. It is the height of folly for a parent to excite anger in a child, and i then try to control it by punishment. It is worse than folly: it is brutal, and is likely to ruin the child. YOU BET SHE IS [Kansas City Star.] The question is. would you want the old-fashioned girl back again? asks Miss Alice Murdoclt. She cer tainly would not be much like the modern girl, who drives a machine and tears around outdoors most of the time, but most modern girls can't cook, very few can sew or wash, but! they certainly get there in other ways I that the maiden of other days could ! not have dreamed of. And is Just as i lovable, rton't you think? PATHETIC SITUATION THE MAD COYOTE PEST By Frederic J. Haskin THAT wolves should have become a serious menace to human life In four of our western States, in addition to destroying millions of dol lars' worth of livestock, seems almost incredible to anyone familiar with conditions in the West. Yet that is the situation which people are facing in Nevada, Oregon and Southern California. The coyotes, or prairie wolves, which have always abounded through out the West, have been attacked by the rabies, and the disease is sweep ing southward at an alarming rate. Ordinarily a skulking, cunning brute that kills lambs and chickens, but is no more dangerous to man than a rabbit, the coyote has become a verit able lighting fiend, afraid of nothing and biting with poisoned fangs. It is comparatively seldom, even now, that a coyote attacks a man di rectly; but the rabid animals are in vading ranches and towns, where they bite the dogs, and these in turn go mad. constituting an ever-increasing menace to human life. Twenty-four persons were recently reported under going the Pasteur treatment in Reno, and more than a hundred have taken it in Oregon, where the disease origi nated. I'here have been some cases, too, where the treatment came too late. In some sections, the coyotes have fairly terrorized the people. In one county of California, children are go ing to school under armed guard; and all dogs are being either shot or muz zled. A mad coyote invaded the town of Westport and engaged in a light with a number of dogs. It finally beat them off and escaped. Within a week several of the dogs were mad, and a muzzling ordinance was rushed through the town council. In Modoc county, California, a coyote invaded a ranch, whipped sev eral dogs, and entered a cabin where two range riders were sleeping. The men quickly awakened and opened 011 the wolf from their bunks with boots, bottles and anything else they could lay their hands on. The coyote was knocked on the head he rn he lu ? d bit t p n either of them. The seriousness of the menace is indicated by the fact that on Febru ary second, the United States Public Health Service held a meeting in Salt Lake Ci(}\ of State and municipal health officers, forest service men. and all others who might be of use, to discuss ways of meeting the situa tion. Two Federal surgeons were ap pointed to stay in Suit Lake City and direct the treatment of persons who Had been bitten, and also to draft lo cal ordinances to prevent the further spread of the disease among dogs. addition to this, the Federal service will supply local boards of health with the virus used in the Pasteur treat ment. This source of rabies promises to be epochal in more wavs than one •» »i?' U ' Service is making , : occasion to emphasize and bring home to the people the neces !rv.»-£°L pr .°. pcr , 111Ui:zli ne ordinances, u he. e v ould absolutely prevent the m*esent ° f The >' {he present western scourge which is threatening human life and causing an economic loss of millions, was un doubtedly started by S o me dog brought to Oregon from the East Previous to 1908, rabies had never! appeared west of the Rockies and seldom west of Ihe Mississippi Its appearance in eastern cities had been sporadic, and it was usually stamped out pretty quickly. Nevertheless, it has long caused the death of about United slates Pere °" B a " nua,,y ln Ihc In 1908 a few eases of rabies were 1 reported in the fur West, and in 1910 IQUR DAILY LAUGH] THE DOMESTIC SCONOMOT. painful, but we j can't afford to m j miss half the J»h"WjSfcj'S*. 1 show when we've (f I paid ten cents a scat to see It all. c TIIE WIFELY A I offended fijp j George dread- Have you roa-de ■ft 'Mr- Oh, yes; I suo f|M il\ ceeded In setting jfl LJj him to ask my FIIIE.NU >0 I.OXGEII By \\ Inn Dinger There's a chap who was a good friend, Irish blood Hows through his veins, This week he has been quite sickly. Hotly filled with aches and pains. Thought that f would like to send him Something nice that he could cat, So to store I went and picked out Oranges filled with juice so sweet. Told the grocer man to send 'em To my friend's house yesterday. And last night when I went out, bo, Thought 1 d drop around his way. Friend who was. no longer friend Is. I forgot, when yesterday I sent him the yellow oranges That it was St. Patrick's Day, MARCH 18, 1916 '1 1 he disease broke out among the coy . otes in certain isolated mountain dis- I tricts of Oregon. It spread very : slowly at first, and it is only within | the last few months that it has de | veloped to alarming proportions. Now ! that it is on the level prairie country where both coyotes and doss abound, . the public health officials say there is ! no telling how far it will spread or | how much damage it will do. In the open West, where livestock Is abun dant, and where the wild coyote is the chief carrier, the disease presents an ; entirely different problem from that of an eastern city where an epidemic of rabies occurs. Just as the health officers are de termined to make this the occasion for a campaign against rabies, so the , western stockmen are determined to , use it to work up feeling against their ancient enemy, the coyote. It is the cattlemen that are suffering most from ; the rabid coyotes. One coyote ran amuck in a herd of steers near Win ! mimucca, Nevada, and bit twenty three of the animals all of which died. , Valuable horses have also been killed. and the total loss will probablv be j very large. Tt is the sheepmen who have suf , fered from the ravages of the coyote sinco time immemorial, however. In ! many parts of the West the covotes have regularly killed ten per ceiit. of , the lambs for years and years, dc spite every effort to exterminate them, i Hydrophobia does not make them any more dangerous to tlie sheepmen, for ; the thick wool of the sheep protects him from the infection. But the wool ■growers perceive that this is the psvchological moment to strike their ancient enemy. His cunning has saved him for years. He has learned ; j to detect traps and poison with al most human intelligence, and ho can tell whether a man is carrying a sun or not as far as he can see him. Now that he has become rabid, ; | however, the stockmen are going after him in a concerted fashion that prob ; ably means his doom. The stockmen's journals are publishing full page ad vertisements illustrated with the por l£ ui s of Rre r coyote, and demanding that every rancher devote two months of the year. December and January, to hunting him. It is planned to or sranize community hunts, and drive j the last coyote out of hiding. In addition to this the government | has recently taken the field against (he coyote. Congress has made an appropriation for the extermination of | predatory animals, and now has more Iri, an a . h , lm !l l ' e| l hunters in the Held. The whole West is divided into nine sections, in each of which there, is an j inspector and from twelve to twenty hunters, fourteen thousand covotes | were killed in Tdaho last year, and in I one county twelve government hunters i killed nearly five hundred of them in ! one month. The whole West is lit | erallv un in arms against the covote. Tn addition to this, the disease itself |Js destrovinsr him. In the parts of Oregon where it first appeared five or I six years ago, there are scnrcelv anv s coyotes left. After successfully defy ing mail and civilization for half a | century, the coyote seems doomed at ' I2SI. b ; a creat d*al Of loss In the West before the enidemic runs T.'.T' and It has some I possibilities of harm that have not vet j develoued. All of the lower animals | are subject to the disease. i n many "arts of the West, coucrars or moun tain ions, wildcts and black bears are abundant. Should the disease ob tain a hold nmoncr these lareer and more formidable beasts, it would be a create- menace to human life than THE STATE FROM DAf TO DW~ ' By tlie unanimous vote of the 2,000 | who cast ballots at the chapel exer | cises of State College, class scraps ,v. ere abolished. The recent bowl light at Penn where one student was killej and other serious accidents that have occurred at other colleges have swung the tide of student sentiment in favor of abolition. The sanity of the move is certain, the action of the students commendable. Speaking of students, John Early, of Heading, president of the senior | class of Muhlenberg College, Allen- J town, has been suspended for dis ; obedience. It seems that he had an | appointment in town for the relief of , a toothache and took an early car \ when a professor had told him to take ; a later one. ' i A fifty-two year old woman and ! ner 11-year-old son, the former of whom is believed to be simple-mind i ed. were found on East Mountain the ! other day wandering along up to their waists in snow and almost ready to . drop from exhaustion and cold. They had refused all aid, had walked thirty | miles to Scranton, and 'were on their way to New York city by foot when : taken in. j Mrs. Evangeline Stoclcer, of Bangor I, is a rip-tail roarer from Tike's countv I Missouri, and can whip her weight jin wildcats, you can just bet. At least | she threw the constable out of her I house when he attempted to serve a I summons on her to appear before court on the charge of neglecting to compel her children to attend school. The I„itita Springs National Bank has just passed to the "roll of honor" with surplus prolits more than equaliz ing the capital stock. The institution was only chartered in 190'J and the record is believed to be the highest in , local banking annals. ijlEbpntng (£l?at Ten members of the last House of Representatives have resigned their seats, making the largest number to resign from the lower chamber In less than a year from the close of a ses sion in a long time. Should Jt be necessary to have a special their places would be vacant, or a spe cial election would have to be held. Six of the resignations were from tho Philadelphia delegation. Miles B. Kltts. member from tho city of Erie, resigned when elected mayor of that city. Cleon N. Bern theizel, Columbia, resigned soon after the November election and Walter S. Young, L-ykens, recently nied liia resignation. John C. Kaiser. Pitts burgh, is the only one from Western Pennsylvania to resign. The Phila delpliians who resigned were William H. Wilson, chairman of the judiciary general and rules committees: Fred erick Beyer, John H. Drinkhouse. IT. J. Bauerle, Jefferson W. Smith and F. W. Willard. Pennsylvania is the banner buck wheat State according to the Stats partment of Agriculture. A bulletin is sued at the Department states that over 70 per cent, of all the buckwheat raised In this country is grown in Pennsylvania. New York is second, but Pennsylvania leads with half a million bushels. The department of the secretary of the Commonwealth which has to Jo with commissions, charters, cor porations. trade marks and similar matters, has just been asked the best way to raise beets. The request was received in a letter addressed to the Secretary of the State. It was sent to Secretary ol* Agriculture Patton after the charter experts had scanned it. The intensely cold weather of the last fow days appears to have driven away all of the Spring birds who came from the southland early in the week. Last Sunday robins were seen in half a dozen places thoroughly en joying the mild day, but now a robin would he hard to find unless some ono had taken pity oil him and fed and sheltered the bird. One man who is a great lover of birds advanced the idea that the birds that were nul frozen headed away for the South as soon as they got an inkling of the weathpr and that while many were lost the birds will all be about again soon, * • • A couple of men were speculating to-day upon the effect of the decision in the jitney cases. It was estimated that over ti.ooo jitneys in the Slate would be affected. Philadelphia has jitneys by the thousands, but strangclv enough they have never gotten a hold In Pittsburgh. * • * Judging from the advertisements being made by the State Highway Department the Commonwealth -if Pennsylvania must be getting ready finite a store of munitions. Bids are to be opened next week for dynnmlt«, powder and fulminating raps. The--j explosives are not for defense or IVr the use of the organized militia in r« - pelling possible invasion of the State, but to enable the State to push along its work for better roads. The Siatu authorities have to supply large quan tities of such materials for tlio main-* tenanee forces which must not only keep the roads clear, but also the | sides of the roads and engage in con siderable reconstruction work. * « * Homer Green, the poet lawyer of Northeastern Pennsylvania, who was stricken while in court at Honesdalo the other day, is well known to many here through his writings. He is ono of the most versatile of HM lawyers of the northeast and was much in tlio limelight because of his candidacy for congress a few years ago. • • • C. P. Rogers, Jr., of th® Auditor General's department, who is to run for Senator in Erie county, is part Harrisburger. He is a nephew of Messrs. J. R. Speel and A. R. Kneel, of this city. His mother came from Harrisburg. • • • Senator W. M. Lynch, of Lacka wanna county, who was here yester day, is a practicing physician in his county. He was formerly superin tendent of a big hospital and then coroner of the county. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. C. R. Zahnlieiscr, of Pittsburgh, startled the license court in Pittsburgh by first hand informa tion about scenes in saloons late at night. —Congressman W. 11. Coleman, of McKeesport, who presented bills to halt floods in Western Pennsylvania by engineering works, has long studied and experienced floods in his section. —General A. J. Logan, commander of the Second Brigade of the National Guard, has been assured by Allegheny county manufacturers of interest in increasing efficiency of the National Guard. —Samuel Wilson, secretary of the Johnstown Chamber of Commerce, resigned to go to Memphis. —Albert E. Turner, well known here, has been elected president of Philadelphia Methodist laymen. DO YOU KNOV ~~ That Ilarrlsburg engines furnish power in a number of manufac turing plants in the Western part of the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city was the seat of the "Buckshot" war, which was chiefly on Capitol Hill. THE HOMELY ZINNIA [from the House and Garden.! Be very sure that you do not g tt. - mixture in buying seeds of zinnl(4 though taken in a single color sel<»j tion there are few flowers that w-l< give greater satisfaction than tho> $ old-fashioned old-timers. And anv color that you may prefer is gooa although my own preference is white, the salmon pink, deep scarlet and yellow. Push and Pull Push rind pull are the com rades which unite to make Na tional newspaper advertising campaigns successful The dealer who carries the goods puts his push behind the pull of tlio manufacturer's news paper advertising. Naturally, the goods move and manufacturers and retailers reap fine profits. No other advertising gets the selling combination as forceful ly as does advertising in tlie dally newspaper. The newspaper is ready by dealer and by consumer. Its message is as forceful to those who soil the goods as It Is to those who buy them. i ————^
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers