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SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 1.
Beloved, let us love one another; for
love is of God; and every one that lov
eth is begotten of God, and knoweth
God. —I JOHN 4:7.
MORE HUMORS
IF, as has been hinted, the govern
ment has knowledge that Villa has
been or is being financed from this
side of the Rio Grande the public
should be given full particulars. With
our soldiers campaigning against this
desperado in Mexico, aid from the
United States in his behalf would be
little less than treason. If Villa is
being assisted by residents of the
United States they should be arrested
and imprisoned. If there is no
ground for the rumor it should never
have been permitted to gain circula
tion. Too many such unfounded
whispers and hints have come out of
Washington recently for the comfort
of a public that is fast losing all con
fidence in those responsible for them.
MOKE "FRIGHTFULXESS"
MANV wounded soldiers slaugh
tered.
Fifty members of the Russian
medical corps killed.
Fifteen Sisters of Charity merciless
ly murdered.
That is the record of the latest
example of German "frightfulness."
Picture the dastardly deed. A Rus
sian hospital ship lies peacefully at
her moorings. Great Red Crosses are
painted on her sides Red Crosses
that even in heathen countries have
been respected by savage combatants.
Sixty yards away the ugly nose of a
German submarine pushes itself from
the slime that tlcats on the surface.
A torpedo is fired. Then another, to
make sure of the cowardly crime.
Cries of distress and anguish, and the
peaceful hospital becomes a shambles.
Wounded men. physicians and women
go down together to a watery grave.
And yet Germany wonders that the
people of the earth turn their faces
from her. She pretends to be hurt
because they have repudiated her and
her methods. The wonder is that the
armies of the whole world are not at
her throat.
WAR HELPS BUSINESS
FROM almost every section of the
country come frequent evidences
of continued prosperity based
chiefly upon continued demand for
American goods from the countries at
war in Europe. Some Industrie's are
producing commodities in unusual
quantities, though not for warring
purposes, but in almost every such in
stance the activity of the mills is due
to the fact that the war cut off impor
tations, or that the activity of war or
der concerns has caused a demand for
articles not directly connected with
the war itself.
From Peoria, 111., comes the In
formation that immense fortunes are
being made because of the demand for
alcohol used In the manufacture of
gunpowder. In fact, the demand for
alcohol Is so great that trouble has
been had in getting freight cars to
carry the alcohol out of Peoria and
Pekin,- 111. This market for alcohol
has been a great relief to the corn
growers of that section of the country.
Because of an early frost, the corn this
year was soft and not in demand by
millers, but it makes just as good
alcohol as first-class corn. For that
reason the farmers are able to get a
first-class price.
From Seattle. Wash., comes the In
formation that shipments of commodi
ties bound for Russia are going over
land to the Pacific (.'oast because of
lack of ocean ships to carry the goods
around Cape Horn. Five thousand
loaded cars are standing idle in rail
road yards in and near Seattle await
ing an opportunity to transfer their
contents to steamers bound for
Siberia. The congestion at Vancouver,
B. C.. is greater than at Seattle. One
railway company at Seattle is building
immense temporary sheds in which to
store the freight bound for Russia in
order to unload and release the cars
and get them back to the Atlantic
'oast for use in shipping olher com
modities bound for the warring na
tions.
So great is the difficulty In procuring
cars to transport foreign-bound com
modities that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has taken up, of Its own
volition, a review of the rules of the
railroads concerning distribution of
cars. The great problem is to secure
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SATURDAY EVENING, " C HARRISBUKG WF J
the unloading of the cars so that they
shal> be carrying freiKht to market
instead of serving as idle storage cars.
The report was received this week
of the placing of an order by the Rus
sian government for the construction
of 250 submarines, costing approxi
mately $70,000,000.
The only incident which is discour
aging to those who are profiting by the
large orders from abroad is the recent
action of Great Britain in forbidding
the importation of a large list of com
modities produced by this country and
sold extensively in Great Britain, al
though urgently needed by that coun
try for carrying qn war. These are
articles that might be classed as
luxuries. Great Britain selfishly de
sires to continue to purchase our
wheat, cotton, meat, horses, leather,
munitions and other war materials,
but desires to exclude other articles
the sale of which adds to our wealth,
but drains the wealth of Great Britain.
Even should this order be made ef
fective, it is practically certain that
the enormous export trade of the
United States will continue as long as
the war shall last, for the list of ar
ticles necessary for the prosecution of
the war Is an extremely long one.
LESSON IN HARMONY
MUCH is made by the newspapers
of the friendly meeting of
Colonel Roosevelt and Elihu
Root in New York yesterday after an
estrangement of more than five years,
and with reason. No more significant
occurrence has been reported recently
in national politics.
Roosevelt and Root have been re
garded ever since the convention of
1912 as extreme examples of opposite
political views. Root has been looked
upon as an ultra-conservative, Roose
velt as an ultra-progressive, and as
late as six months ago it appeared as
though they might never meet except
in passages at arms. Whatever else
may be said of either of them, it must
be admitted that they are broad
minded men, honest and patriotic, and
that at this crisis in the affairs of the
nation they are willing to lay aside
personal feelings and come together
on the broad platform of service to
the country is a tribute to the bigness
of both of them.
But this meeting of these two for
mer political antagonists has a much
broader meaning than that, important
though the renewal of a friendly un
derstanding between these two great
national figures unquestionably is at
this time. When Root and Roosevelt
can sit down together in amicable con
ference, it is high time for others to
forget factional differences and get to
gether for an overwhelming Repub
lican victory next Pall. If the big gen
erals of the Progessive and Republican
parties make a truce of their differ
ences, of what boot is it for their lieu
tenants to continue hostilities?
"Politics was not discussed," said
Colonel Roosevelt after the luncheon.
Possibly not; but political issues were.
The subject of the discussion was na
tional preparedness, and national pre
paredness will be one of the keynotes
of the j1916 presidential contest. Pre
paredness has such a close relationship
to the management of the affairs of
the nation, to our financial policy
for the next four years, and even in a
way to those well-worn old bones of
contention, the tariff and the trusts,
that it must stand forth as a very im
portant, if not the most imporant,
issue of the coming campaign.
So that, if Colonel Roosevelt and
Mr. Root are united upon a common
platform of adequate preparedness,
they have gone more than half way
toward composing whatever other dif
ferences of opinion may remain be
tween them. Whether politics was dis
cussed or not. yesterday's meeting was
easily the most significant political
event of the year.
It is to be hoped that the warring
factions of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania may take a lesson from
Roosevelt and Root.
IX COST OF LIVING
A RECENT editorial in the New
York Times, on the sugar duty,
reads as though it had been
taken from their 1912 hook. It says:
This condition is specific regard
ing sugar, but is the same in prin
ciple as that on which all tariff re
ductions are based, that a protec
tive tariff Increases not merely the
urice of imported articles, but also
Increases the price of all domestic
articles of the same sort.
Per contra, a decrease in customs
duties should, if this argument is
sound, result in decreased prices.
But did the Underwood tariff re
duction bring this about? The cost of
living is ' considerably higher now
than it was in 1912-1913. It was
higher in 1914, after the Democratic
tariff law had been In effect some
months, and before the war, than It
was the year previous. At the same
time the average fate of duty on all
imports under the Democratic la.w
shows a reduction of fifty per cent.,
compared with the Republican tariff
law during 1913.
As for sugar, with a reduction of
twenty-live per cent, in the duty, un
der the Democratic law, the price on
Juno 30, 1914, was precisely, to a
fraction, what It was June 30, 1913. |
under the Republican law. The loss'
In,revenue on sugar, by reason of re
duced duty, must be made up by di
rect taxation of our people, who re
ceive no benefit from a lower price,
j The only beneficiaries are the con- j
1 trollers of the Sugar Refiners' Trust,
who import sugar at the lower duty
' rates and charge the same old price,
and who were hand in glove with the
1 Democrats in the campaign of 1912.
| Lk
By the F.x-Committecmmn
i . j
About the only thing upon which
the Democracy of Pennsylvania ap
pears to be now agreed is that Wilson
should be renominated for President.
, | Meetings held yesterday and last
' I in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
developed that the differences between
• | the factions of the Democracy are
• | irreconcilable and that the resentment
j over the methods of the reorganizers
in 1911 and their apportionment of
| patronage in 1913 is as great as ever.
The Old Guard faction is growing in
strength and its new slogan of anti
-1 machine, while somewhat weather
j worn, is being used effectively.
f ! A battle is to be made against the
| re-election at the polls of A. Mitchell
| Palmer as national committeeman; a
i j contest is to be made for control of
' the State committee and a general
1 tight for the election of national dele
-1 gates who will represent the underdog
; faction is to be organized. Further
| more. It is possible that the faction
■ I opposed to the present bosses will go
| into the field against the nomination
| for the forlorn hope nomination for
; United States Senator of ex-Judge
• j Allison O. Smith, of Clearfield. There
. will be opposition set up to any candi
| dates for State offices which may have
the rubber stamp of State Chairman
I Morris. As for Morris every effort is
j to be made to dethrone him.
The plans are ambitious. The
animus of the men opposed to the
dominant ring is something fierce.
; But. it is said, that the money for the
contest can be procured from some of
i the men who fell beneath the steam
roller a few years ago. If this is so
there win We the usual Democratic
i fight.
—While the Old Guard leaders were
! meeting yesterday in Philadelphia
under the presidency of Walter E.
Ritter, of Lycoming, the bosses were
[ sitting in secret conclave a few blocks
I away. Palmer, alarmed by the objec
; J tion to him and seeking to get peace
| in his own district, sat in with State
1 Chairman Morris, Bruce Sterling, of
Fayette and some others and then
hustled to Washington where It is
j understood he will meet James I.
Blakslee, assistant postmaster general
and one of the brainiest of the re
organization clique, in Pittsburgh a
secret meeting of antimachine Demo
crats was held to start the fuss in that
section.
—The Philadelphia Press, which
I has always been more or less friendly j
With the reorganization wing of the
State Democracy, to-day prints the j
1 following account of the manner in j
| which the antimachine Democrats in
| tend to go after the present bosses: J
! "Foundations for the State-wide op- !
I position which the Old Guard ele
-1 ment of Democracy expects to place '
in the way of the Reorganizer faction, j
j were laid yesterday at a conference of j
I State leaders at the Walton. The i
meeting, which was held on the call i
1 of Walter E. Ritter, of Williamsport, |
was attended by Judge C. D. Copeland
|of Westmoreland; Charles'P. Donnelly j
! and other local Old Guard leaders, |
I Judge John M. Garman, of Wilkes- 1
Barre; Congressman Michael Llebel,
|of Erie, and others. It was merely
I preliminary, however, to a State-wide
I conference, which is to be called in
the near future. If the study of condi
! tions which those attending the con
ference agreed to make, proves en
couraging. The one fact which was
decided upon with unanimity, and 1
with practical certainty, is that a de- |
termined war will be waged against
; the election of former Congressman ,
A. Mitchell Palmer, as Democratic;
i National Committeeman. Those at- j
J tending the conference yesterday were i
jin favor of Congressman Liebel for
| the National Committee, in opposition I
j to Palmer."
—Newspapers of the State do not!
I seem to lie growing excited over the j
i resignation of Insurance Commissioner I
Charles Johnson and the broadside he
fired at the Attorney General or Gov- j
ernor's stand with Mr. Brown evi- j
! denced by his acceptance of the!
resignation. Pittsburgh, which is ac- :
| customed to sudden developments in j
' politics, looks at the events as indlca- ,
1 tive of a coming contest. The Phila- !
delphia Press intimates that some-1
I thing more may come along, while the i
! Democratic Philadelphia Record ex- \
| presses the natural hope that Messrs.
i Brown and Johnson will continue their
! warfare. The Philadelphia Inquirer j
prints a story tinged with harmony j
talk to-day, but the North American
talks fight. The Philadelphia Ledger |
editorially denounces the conditions
which have brought about the wrangle
i and raps the Governor for permitting 1
some things to be done. The Ledger
i has several times taken the adminis
tration to task for the political activity
iof officeholders. Scranton, Wilkes-
Barre, Altoona and Williamsport
papers devote much space to the news,
but express no opinions as to the
propriety of the Brown methods or
the effect of the Johnson resignation,
i The general newspaper opinion of the
State appears to be that Johnson's
resignation has told the people of
the State what is going on and the
next, move is up to the Attorney Gen
eral.
—Things continue to be lively in!
' Philadelphia. There is going to be an !
Increase in the tax rate. Mayor
Smith is being assailed for the changes
in the transit plans and yesterday
; vehemently declared he. was not con
-1 trolled by any corporation. Then
council's finance committee cut the
Vare bill for $210,000 out of the pend
, ing bill and the tight will go to the
L floor of councils. Thus far McNichol
i men have the best of it. The Vares
■ ; are defending the Mayor.
| —At the alumni dinner of Mt.
| Union alumni at Pittsburgh P. C.
Knox was boomed for President by
'a number of men. One speaker said
j that "dollar diplomacy" was better
j than "slaughter diplomacy."
| —A political announcement of in
i! terest to many Harrisburgers and
i' which was received with much joy by
! Brumbaugh supporters was made yes
jterday in Philadelphia. It was when
' ' David Martin, for years the almost
f j unopposed leader of the Nineteenth
Ward, of Philadelphia, announced his
. j candidacy for Senator from the Fifth
1 District to succeed Richard V. Farley,
J the only Democratic Senator in the
i, Philadelphia delegation. Before Far
ley's election the post had been held
for years by William H. Keyset- and
- it was at first, believed that Keyser I
1 j would run again at the May primaries.
. Keyser. however, has declined to be
i come a candidate and is in favor of
• Martin, who served the district as
f i Senator in 1898-1902, was Secretary
of State and long Insurance Commls
r sioner. %
—The nominating petitions for
When a Feller Needs By BRIGGf
I 1 life
Philander C. Knox for the Republican
nomination for United States Senator
were put into circulation in Dauphin
county this week. They were speedily
signed up.
—Dick O. AUiday, who has figured
in Franklin county Democratic poli
tics a lot, is out for Congress in the
Seventeenth District. In his adver
tisements he asks voters to remem
ber that he was a candidate for the
Democratic nomination in 1914.
—Ex-Representative George W.
Allen, of Allegheny, faces a strenuous
fight on the liquor issue in his sena
torial ambitions.
—S. Forry Loucks, York manufac
turer. is the only Democrat in the
York-Adams district left to fight with
A-. R. Brodbeck, former Congressman,
for the Democratic nomination. The
others have withdrawn. Loucks has
been going into lights for quite a
while and. then getting out. He threat
ens to stay in this time.
—Opponents of Senator Charles A.
Snyder are getting busy. They are
starting stories that some men who
circulated papers were not paid. A
Sunbury man says he doubts whether
the nominating paper he circulated
would be legal inasmuch as he has not
been paid for his work.
—The name of the Local Option
party was pre-empted to-day for the
Second York district.
—Charles Johnson, former In
surance Commissioner, and Speaker
Ambler, candidate for Auditor Gen
eral. met at a luncheon yesterday and
seemed to be on good terms. It is
understood that the ex-Insurance
Commissioner does not refer kindly
to the Attorney General.
END OF ALPHABET
[From the Burlington Free Press.] '
The Important news subjects are get
ting fairly near the end of the alpha
bet —Vermont, Verdun, Villa.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"
—Welcome April, but for goodness
sake do have some respect for our
dwindling coal piles.
—The Wilson one-term plank appears
to be a chip oft the same old political
block.
—Why doesn't the President send
down and have Villa return the guns
the administration let him have a year
ago?
—The difference between Von Tirpita,
and Von BernstorfT is chiefly that the
latter is able to present a plausible
excuse.
—lt might be cheaper to station a
regiment across the Isthmus of Panama
to catch Villa as he goes by.
—The more T. R. orders his name
out of the campaign the more he seems
to get in it.
—.Some newspaper cartoonists make
pictures of the devil going on vacation
during Lent—but that's all they know
about it.
—Germany complains that the women
are wasting material in too large shoes
and too long skirts. Ah, come on over
here. Kaiser.
SOT MY YOUNGSTER
Hj- Wing Dinger
"Mother, mother," cried the youngster,
"Hurry to the kitchen, quick;
Daddy's kissing a strange woman."
Ma turned pale and felt quite sick.
| Gave a scream and toward the kitchen
! Ran without the least delay,
| And the youngster spoke in this wise
Ere dear ma had gone half way;
"April first, I fooled you mother.
Don't set things in such a whirl.
He's not kissing a strange woman.
It is Just the hired girl."
DIXIE GOES AHEAD
The Rise of the Mule
By Frederic J. Haskin
ATLANTA, GA.—Over a hundred
thousand mules are now sold here
every year, making this the sec
ond mule market in the United States.
St. Louis is the only city that does a
bigger business in these hardy, long
eared nionarchs of labor.
Mule trading has been capitalized
and incorporated and organized to a
fine point in Atlanta; and yet it re
mains—mule trading. It is still a
matter of barter and haggle and bluff;
farms and automobiles and all sorts of
other things are swapped; and the
man that thinks quickest usually
conies out ahead.
For the mule is one product that
you can't standardize. He comes in
all sizes, colors and dispositions, and
is affected with all sorts of idiosyn
cracies. peculiarities and blemishes.
He can't be sold by specification, as
big business sells everything else.
With hundreds of thousands of mules
to be marketed, It is no longer possible
to barter and argue over each indi
vidual mule, so they are sold in
bunches of a dozen to thirty, and
that is where the rapid thinking comes
in.
The man that brought the mules
from the country, the commission
dealer who is selling them, and the
buyer who may be an officer from
London, a Russian count, or a Chat
ham county farmer, are gathered in
the great barn which covers five acres.
A bunch of nine mules are turned in
to a little pen, where the men watch
them, while a negro makes them race
| THE .STATE FROM WTODflf]
Reformers who favor the substitu
tion of a more humane method of cor
rection for criminals than the prison
will find capital in the statement of
78-year-old James Hughes, who was,
recently released from the Schuylkill
county prison with the record of hav
ing served a total of 4 8 out of his 78
years of existence in Pennsylvania and
New York prisons. The old man,
weakened in will and broken in spirit,
is in a dying condition from tubercu
losis.
Employes of the Scranton Railway
| Company refuse to accept the 2-cent
an-hour increase offered by the man
ia gement of the company in response
to their demands. They insist on a
flat rate of 30 cents an hour, which if
granted will be in the nature of a
seven or eight cent increase. All talk
is with a view to harmony and no
strike Is anticipated.
A muskrat. is a muskrat, and a
"spiced pussy" as the dear animals
are sometimes called, is a rat whose
■ percentage is a whole lot more power
i ful than musk. So says the I.ewlstown
i man on his way home from prayer
I meeting who saw a little animal' cross
ibis dark pathway and thought it to
be a muskrat. Slight proddings in
the end availed much, and there was
a hissing noise, followed by a streak
through the air—and they buried poor
Ira with a fitting sense of the
proprieties.
Pittsburgh Methodists are planning
to lift the ban placed by that church
on dancing and card playing and to
arrange that it be made a matter of
individual conscience. One wonders
whether a love of principle or of
dancing and card playing influences
the proposed reform.
Fifty coons have been purchased by
Sheriff iMathues, of Delaware county,
which he will liberate In thickly
wooded hills for breeding. A coon club
will be formed among the enthusiastic
hunters of that section.
Science and a bit o£ will ican
up and down to show off their points.
"What'll you take for the bunch?"
demands the buyer.
"A hundred and ten," is the
answer. The mules are sold at an
average price per head, no matter
how many different values are repre
sented in the bunch.
"Cut out that little brown mare,
and the big mule with the broke ear.
'Now what'll you take for 'em?"
"A hundred and twenty-five," comes
the answer like a shot. Continually
the buyer makes new combinations,
by adding or subtracting various ani
mals, and each time the seller must
revalue them In a flash. This fenc
ing may go on for half an hour, un
til one or the other thinks he has an
advantage and closes the deal. Nat
urally, the man with the greatest
ability to judge mules and think fast
will make the most money at this
game.
"You guarantee those mules
sound?" demands the buyer, when
the deal is closed.
"If they ain't sound, I hope I never
get home alive," pronounces the man
from the country solemnly. That
settles it.
During the last ten or fifteen years,
the mule has achieved a new import
ance in the world. Here In Atlanta's
stockyard twenty mules are sold to
one horse, and the mules bring sur
prisingly large prices while horses are
almost incredibly cheap. The fact of
f Continued on Page 12.]
I accomplish more than the seven won
ders of the world are able to boast
of. There is a girl in Pittsburgh who
lost both hands when a child. She now
supports herself as an experienced
stenographer and typist, with more
than 70 words a minute as her rec
ord.
Miss Annie Lockard, of Carlisle, has
a quantity of linen thread made from
flax which her mother grew in her
garden more than 50 years ago, and
which her grandmother spun into
thread.
STRIVE TOGETHER
' j ],et your conversation be as it be-
I cometh the gospel of Christ; that
,'whether I come and see you, ir else
be absent, I may hear of your iffairs,
that ye stand fast in one spiri, with
1 . one mind striving together fir the
> faith of the gospel.—Philippiani, 27.
| OUR DAILY LAUSH)
/~-T— SAME BiRE.
; Mr " B °e* :
1 Well, thais's yer
, shadow.
t # hHH 1 haven'f torgot
(<\ ten wh 4 u ' a
Sign of. j
HIS REASON. H
s Little Feller: >
Watching for the Y
. ground-hog to
come out? > V*~
r'i Big Feller: Yes 'i\
) I I'm going to take . |Ls J \
= I him hom <or L,
diimer. lB(if jp
1 i
lEtanmg (ttljat
In spite of the rain and winds and
the generally disagreeable weather that
caused folks to declare the groundhog
the falsest of prophets and the leonlno
quality of weather which marked the
third month there were quite a num
ber of "flittings" in this section. Most
of them appeared to be coming to
ward the city, which is interesting in
1 Itself. This Is the season of the year
when folks "flit," hold sales and make
I changes in the country, although just
j why the hard-headed Central Penn
; sylvania farmers pick this period,
which Is sure to be unpleasant, is
hard to say. Probably for the same
reason that we Inaugurate Presidents
in the worst time of the year and in
stall our Governors at a time that is
sure to have weather which could be
styled atrotlous. In any event there
have been "flittings" for the last ten
days and a pretty forlorn sigh it Is to
see household goods piled on a big
w M®n with the snow sifting in or the
■wind driving in sheets against tho rolls
of bedding or else causing rivulets to
run down the glass front of grand
lather's portrait. Another thing which
cannot fail' to attract attention of
tnose who get out into the country is
the manner in which motor trucks
have entered into the moving busi
ness. A doaen or more from
and other places have been seen com
ing into Harrisburg the last few days,
bringing the household goods of new
; residents.
Here's a new one, fresh from tlio
Bolton Mouse barber shop, where
"Rabby" holds fortii in the dlspensa
!. lon 01 s hlnes and coat helpings-on.
Rabby" is a firm believer in the
efficacy of certain witch-like machi
nations for the cure of whooping
cough, although he confesses himself
stumped when it comes to a matter
of solving the measles cure. There are
two very sure ways of preventing
whooping cough from getting a
strangle-liold on your child, according
to this sage dispenser of witchcraft
wares: one is to take an absolutely
brand new shoestring, black preferred
—and it must be absolutely new, re
member—and tie it around the child's
neik in nine knots; or, if that doesn't
work, select a young married couple
whose last names were just the same
before as after marriage and secure
j from them a piece from ai*.entire loaf
of bread; have thesuffering patient eat
I the butter bread and the charm will
I work. Simp/e, isn't it?
* • •
"One of vv earliest recollections is
|of George I'iodd," remarked Dr. J.
J George Becht, secretary of the State
j Board of Education, in "reminiscing"
I the other day. He was referring to
j Col. G. A. Dodd, who is leading one
i wing of the cavalry pursuit in Mex
ico and who is very much in the pub
j lie eye just now. "I lived in the town
i of Montoursvllle when I was a young
j ster and it hud a local normal school,
j I guess I was about eight or nine
then and the most familiar sight was
George Dodd marching the students
jup and down the streets. The mili
tary instinct was strong in him then
and it was the most natural thing in
the world for him to be named to
■ West Point."
• • •
! For the first time in his military
I career Captain Robert C. Williams,
I commandant of the local recruiting
station, commanded a battalion of in
fantry last week at Fort Ontario, I.ake
, Oswego. N. V. The officer command
ed the four companies in working out
a problem In actual warfare which
had been propounded to him in tha
course of his professional examina
tion for a commission as major. Cap
tain Williams has just returned from
I the New York military post and has
resumed activities as the officer in
! charge here. The fighting in Mexico
i and the prospects guard
• duty on the border has stirred up the
. recruiting business to a remarkable
degree and Captain Williams to-day
, will open branch offices in Williams
port, Shamokin and Lancaster.
• • •
i High school students have formally
■ inaugurated Spring even if the weatli
, erman docs not promise there will be
. S no Harebacks in the shape of snow-
: 1 storms. Yesterday afternoon they ap
! I peared in the streets in running garb.
■ They were getting ready for the ath
i letic meets and they gave the folks
. quite a shock. A prediction made a
week ago that they would be out
t would have seemed quite out of
3 place.
• •
5 The synagogue of Kasher Israel,
which lias been put under bond by the
\ State Capitol Park Extension Com
• mission in condemnation proceedings,
II is the first ehurih that had to be so
t handled. This church was originally
a Baptist church and was dedicated
February 5. 1865. It was organized
' by some people who left the Church
11 of God and organized in 1862 what
'; was known as the Free Will Baptist
I Church. The church building cost
; | about $12,000. The Hebrew congre
r gation secured it a few years ago and
I removing the spire ; substituted the
roumled clonic which h&s been u
j feature. •
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
>!
J Alexander Van Renssaeler, of
1 1 Philadelphia, is taking an active part
5 in the naval recruiting in that city.
p x .Congressman A. Mitchell f al
' mer will he a candidate for district
delegate in his home district.
3 —\ J Drexel Biddle, of Philadel
-1 i nhia nredlcts an army of 48,000 men
i-! wm '|, e raised in that city if needed.
1 __H M Lessig, Pottstown school
board president, said in a speech that
his town makes everything but trou
ble
—Dr J N. Jacobs, former county
controller of Montgomery, is now in
' vesti gating electric light efficiency in
t his county.
; DO YOU KNOW
s
Timt Harrfcburg makes cast
ings for municipal work and
various kinds >f pipe?
HISTORIC IHAKKIKBURO
! This city's first real house was l.ie
. John Harris mansion.
Make the Goods Talk
Every storekeeper knows that
goods sell best when they are
placed where people can see tnem.
Displayed goods talk for them
selves. 1
When tho manufacturer ad
vertises 111 the newspaper he has
created a receptive audience for
his particular goods to talk to.
The storekeeper who shows the
newspaper advertised goons In
his Wind' t Is getting quickre-
HI III H because Interest In these
brands has been aroused by tho
ad \lert S 'storekeepers are quick
to co-operate with the manufac
turer'* newspaper advertising.