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We caw get out of certain errors only
it the top; that is, by raising our minds
above human things. —JOUBLRT.
WISDOM AND EXPERT ADVICE
NOW and then there is criticism
here of the expert advice which
has been sought from time to
time in the public improvement work
autho' zed by the people. This criti
cism is based for the most part upon
lack of information and grows out
of the old-fashioned notion that the
outsider is always more or less of an
overrated counselor. But as a mat
ter of fact the great success of the
llarrisburg improvement projects has
been due in large measure to the
intelligent investigation and recom
mendations of those distinguished en
gineers who have been brought here
l'rom time to time to study local con
ditions and advise as to their treat
ment. There was one instance wherein
the old council failed to seek the ad
vice of the expert and proceeded on
the say-so of Harrisburg people in
terested in the proposition. We refer
to the garbage collection system, and
there is hardly any citizens who now
would have the temerity to insist that
a mistake was not made in that
instance.
During the last few days our people
have had such an object lesson as
cannot fail to make a lasting impres
sion upon their minds. The old Sus
quehanna river has been booming
along at flood stage and yet the Pax
ton Creek Valley has scarcely felt a
* twinge of discomfort as a result of
the sweeping torrent of the river.
Owing to the flood control dam in
Wildwood Park and the general treat
ment of the winding stream through
out the length of the city the old con
ditions have disappeared entirely. In
stead of a sea jf water from the
I.inglestown road to the junction with
the river in South Harrisburg we see
to-day a busy industrial and com
mercial community going about its
business along the banks of the
stream without hindrance or loss of
any sort.
Yet we were told when the experts
advised the controlling of the waters
of the Paxton Creek Valley in the
construction of the Wildwood Park
dam that they didn't know what they
were talking about; that it was a silly
and impractical scheme. We submit
that, the engineers understood the
situation and through their work and
the co-operation of the public-spirited
officials of the city have saved untold
misery among the dwellers along the
stream and many thousands of dollars
to the businessmen who located In the
Paxton Creek Valley; not to mention
a vast increase in land values east of
the railroad.
Let us hear no more about the value
of expert advice. Harrisburg has
profited Immensely through the high
class men who have given to this city
the benefit of their wisdom and practi
cal knowledge of the problems which
once confronted the community.
Speaker Champ Clark declared the
charge that Congress is dawdling is a
"bald and malicious lie." Attorney
General Francis Shunlt Brown also uses
the short and ugly word in characteriz
ing the recent statement of ex-Tnsur
nnce Commissioner Johnson. Thus we
drift away from the forms and usages
of diplomacy to the short-arm jolts of
the pugilists.
PEN BROOK'S PAVING
THROUGH the Joint efforts of a
majority of the property own
ers affected and a generous sub
scription of S7OO by the Motor Club of
Harrisburg, Penbrook is at last as
sured of State aid in the rebuilding
of the main highway through that
town. While it should not be forgot
ten that 80 per cent, of Penbrook peo
ple who will have to pay for the
improvement signed up for It, the fact
remains that the whole project would
have been lost had it not been for the
action of the Motor Club.
It is difficult to understand how
anybody In the vicinity of Harrisburg,
at least, will stand in the way of paved
streets. The Penbrook improvement
will more than pay its own way.
i.toney spent in road Improvements
of the right sort is always money in
vested profitably.
Take Wayne county, Mich., for ex
ample. The good roads investment
there has Standard Oil "beaten a
mile." It pays 12K per cent, a year.
The county spent $2,000,000 on con
struction and maintenance during the
eight years Ironi 1906 to 1914, In-
TUESDAY EVENING,
elusive, and in this period the as
sessed valuation of property in the
county, outside of the city of De
troit, increased from $62,707,000 to
$114,548,120, or 82.6 per cent.
Of this increase. 35 per cent., or
$22,000,000, is credited to road im
provement, because the assessed val
uation of Detroit increased only 47.7
per cent. The increase in county
valuation above the rate of increase
in the city was 11 times the cost of
road work, or 1,000 per cent, profit
in eight years on the total investment
in improved roads.
More than 125 miles of concrete
road have been put down by the
Wayne county commissioners since
the county system was adopted in
1906, and the roads built with the
$2,000,000 bond issue are still in good
condition and give every promise of
more than outliving the bonds. The
commissioners state in their ninth an
nual report for last year that they
never have had to take up and replace
a single 25-foot section since thee
have been developing this type of
road, although some of the roads have
been down more than seven years.
Every mile of durable roads laid
is cutting down the cost of upkeep.
Last year -the commissioners had 45
miles more roadway to care for than
the year before, yet they spent $5,178
less for maintenance.
And so it goes! The experience is
the same everywhere. If Penbrook
doubts Michigan figures, let Harris
burg be an illustration. Paved streets
are paying their own way here a
dozen times over. What is true of
Michigan and Harrisburg will be true
of Penbrook, too.
Now comes word from Washington
that President Wilson has surrendered
to Congressman John J. Casey in the
naming of a new postmaster for
Wilkes-Barre. Again the "watchful
waiting" policy of the administration
has succumbed to the practical exigen
cies of the situation. Once more the
Palmer wing of the Democracy goes
down before the Old Guard.
THE GOVERNOR AT SCR ANTON
SCRANTON newspapers, reporting
the address of Governor
Brumbaugh at the 8-hour cele
bration of the anthracite miners last
Saturday, say he made a profound im
pression upon the vast audience that
heard him.
The Governor in that speech dwelt
largely upon the conservation of hu
man life and the problems in human
welfare he has been called upon to
face since his inauguration. The
Brumbaugh administration will bo
marked in history for the adoption of
workmen's compensation, continuation
schools and other labor legislation of
a type now regarded as "advanced,"
and the Governor is always at his
best when discussing educational or
social betterment measures. He has
done much along these lines in the
first year of his administration and
there are many who hope that the in
fluences of designing politicians may
not be permitted to mar that record or
interfere in any way with his un
finished legislative program.
That the Governor does not regard
his work along the line of social welfare
and industrial education as more than
well begun, ms.y be judged from this
paragraph of his Scranton address:
Pennsylvania was the pioneer
State in natural conservation, in the
reforesting of our mountains, in the
conservation of our water power,
and in setting aside vast reaches of
lands as public parks for the bene
fit and enjoyment of all. Let us
now turn Just as seriously to the
still greater duty of conserving
human life. Human conservation
is as vital to a State as the sun
light to the plant. The health of
our people is of the utmost import
ance. Whatever adds to that adds
to the happiness and to the wealth
of our people. The education of
our people not alone to participate
in the duties of citizenship, but to
compete successfully in our great
industrial activities, is like
wise vital. We are now beginning
a new type of school—the fontinua
tion school—which links the school
life and the work life of the child
together and adds to the value and
effectiveness of both. Our children
should all be taught to do some use
ful thing, to respect the dignity of
labor, to know and love this coun
try, and to acquire a deep and abid
ing reverence for the things of the
spirit and the God of us all.
Health, ability to labor intelligently
and well, with a time for play and re
creation! In brief, the Governor has
here summed tip the essentials of con
tentment for the masses. Political and
religious freedom we as a people came
by early in our history, but these
other things are not yet wholly ours.
We have caught the vision of them.
We have even laid hold upon their
edges: the Governor has made their
complete attainment the chief effort
of his administration. The object Is
big enough to warrant the ruthless
exclusion of any Influence likely to in
terfere even in the least with the great
ends In view.
HOLLAND AND THE WAR
IF Holland is thinking of getting Into
the European war, as reports seem
to indicate, she could not have
chosen a more auspicious moment than
the present. As Holland goes, so goes
the war. That much seems fairly cer
tain.
All the advantages of balance of
power and position lie with the little
Dutch kingdom. An allied army at
tacking Germany through Holland
would compel an entirerealignment of
the German forces along the western
front and the cutting off of another
source of German supplies.
On the other hand, a Dutch deal
with Germany would put the allies in
an equally sore plight, with England
threatened by invasion and needed
supplies turned over wholly to the
enemy.
Maybe, though, Holland is only
making a feint at fighting. If so, she
stands well to exact such a price from
one or both the belligerents as she
may choose. Holland just now holds
the key to success or defeat. She may
use it or she may merely threaten to
use it.
Again the Pennsylvania Railroad is
keeping step with the improvement
period of Harrisburg. It has Just been
announced that the company will bury
all the wires on its property in this
city. Bully for the old ' Ptnnsy,"
The Days of Real Sport .... By briggs
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"^iKKOi^CcaKta
By the Ex-Oommltteemaß
Democratic machine newspapers
are commencing to say harsh things
about the entrance of Congressman
Michael Liebel, Jr.. of Ei"te. into the
popular primaries as a candidate for
Democratic national committeeman
against the present incumbent, A. Mit
chell Palmer. The popular primaries
were a fine thing to demand and to
exploit as long as certain people were
not in power but now that they are In
vogue and some bosses are on the de
cline they are something which should
not be invaded when any one takes it
into his head to throw down a chal
lenge.
Liebel is thoroughly in earnest and
in order to devote all of his time to
the campaign to eliminate Palmer and
his pals he will not be a candidate
for Democratic renominntion. which it
is said could be his for the asking.
—National Committeeman Palmer
and State Chairman Morris are al
ready at work selecting candidates for
United States Senator. Auditor Gen
eral and State Treasurer. Mr. Liebel
says he will not interfere with the
making of this ticket and will not have
any candidates in opposition. He will
rontlne himself strictly to his own fight
to he National Committeeman, run
ning on a platform which pledges him
to use all his efforts to bring about a
united Democracy in Pennsylvania. In
his formal announcement Congress
man Liebel said: "I will not be a
candidate for re-election to Congress.
I prefer to devote myself exclusively
to the contest for National Commit
teeman. If I succeed. I will use all my
efforts to eliminate factionalism and
bring about party unity. I believe in
the policies of President Wilson and
I believe that he will have a united
Democratic party supporting him in
Pennsylvania."
—The Philadelphia Record says:
"Congressman Liebel, who is serving
liis first term in the House, was three
times Mayor of his native city of Erie,
and has long been active in Demo
cratic'politics. He was elected to the
present Congress as a Democrat in the
Erie-Crawford district, which is usual
ly a Republican stronghold, and was
the only Democrat in the Eastern
part of the country to succeed a Re
publican in tha present Congress. He
is credited with possessing exception
al talent as an organizer and only a
few weeks ago led the successful light
of the Democratic candidate for Mayor
of Erie at a special election made nec
essary by the death of the Erie Mayor
elected at the last November election."
—Colonel Horace L. Haldeman, of
Lancaster county, long identified with
the National Guard, is being promi
nently mentioned as successor to Sen
ator D. P. Gerberich, of the Lebanon-
Upper Lancaster district. "Uncle
Dan" Gerberich. who was president
pro tem. of the Senate and one of the
best known of Senators, is in poor
health and must retire, although he
could be renominated and re-elected
easily. He yesterday announced that
he would not run again. Col. Halde
man's friends will start to circulate
papers in his behalf at once.
—Administration leaders at the
Capitol to-day were talking fight. At
torney General Brown, who was in
consultation with Henry G. Wasson,
Republican National Committeeman,
on the lists of Brumbaugh candidates
for national delegate and State com
mitteemen, was not inclined to har
mony to-day. Neither was Wasson.
who openly said that he favored a
fight. The following is a Democratic
view of the situation from the Phila
delphia Record: "Intimations that
another offer from Governor Brum
baugh to United States Senator Pen
rose for a compromise in the threaten
ed factional fight had met with a flat
refusal from the Senator came yester
day from the followers of the Penrose-
McNlchol faction. United States Sen
ator George T. Oliver and his asso
ciates in West Pennsylvania are said
to have influenced Senator Penrose to
repect the Governor's peace overtures.
The Western leaders are said to have
asserted that the Governor was al
ready beaten, and that it. was up to
him to surrender completely or else
fight to the finish."
—Speaker Ambler Is campaigning
In Berks county to-day and wilt meet
Brumbaugh men in Reading to-night.
—The Nineteenth Ward Republican
committee in Philadelphia endorsed
David Martin for the Senate last night
and he is a sure enough candidate.
—Philadelphia councils' finance
committee in one of the stormiest
meetings ever held yesterday insert
ed an item in tho loan bill to carry
out the Taylor plans for transit. Con
siderable political feeling was indulged
in and Major Smith and Transit Dl-
HARRISBURG frfSjftg TELEGRAPH
rector Twining attended the session.
—V. Gilpin Robinson, who served
in the House several years ago, is a
candidate for the nomination again
in Delaware county.
—Congressman H. J. Steele, of Eas
ton, is a candidate for Democratic re
nomination and will likely have no
opposition.
—The Citizens' League and Senator
Vare continue to exchange compli
ments in Philadelphia.
—Twenty men are candidates for
treasurer of the Reading school board
and some unkind things are being said
by candidates about each other.
Representative R. S. Spangler, of
York, will be a candidate for renom
ination it is understood.
—Montgomery county Democrats
are in a fuss over some matters of
party discipline. The reorganizers ap
pear to have control of the machine
in that county.
—Knox petitions are being liberally
signed up throughout the State. Tliey
will be filed soon.
The organization Republicans of
Northampton county and the Twenty
sixth Congressional District, cotmposed
of Northampton, Carbon, Monroe and
Pike counties, at the primaries have
put up this slate: For national dele
gates, ex-District Attorney Robert A.
Stotz, of Easton, and Thomas M. Whil
din, of Lansford; for alternates to the
Republican national convention. Alfred
Marvin, of Pike county, and Charles
Dandon Fellows, of Monroe county;
for Congress, Twenty-sixth district,
Winfred D. Lewis, of Eansford; for
State committeemen from Northamp
ton county, Harry G. Seip, of Easton,
and Harry J. Meyers, of Bethlehem.
Mr. Selp will be a candidate to succeed
himself as county chairman and it is
probable that he will have 110 oppo
sition. The organization candidates
for the Assembly in Northampton
county are likely to be Edward Alcher,
of Easton; Edward Kieffer, of Raubs
ville. and Titus M. Ruch, of Heller
town. an Easton dispatch says. Mor
gan O. Morgan, of Carbon county, will
be an Independent candidate for na
tional delegate. It is said that he is a
follower of Governor Brumbaugh. The
organization candidates want to go to
the convention uninstructed. Senti
ment among Republicans in this
county favors Hughes or Knox, with
the Hughes men in the majority.
PEOPLE AND STATE
[Scranton Republican.]
In his thoughtful and masterly ad
dress at the meeting of the United
Mine Workers, held in Scranton on
Saturday afternoon, and also at
Wilkes-Barre the same evening, Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, who met with an
enthusiastic reception in both cities,
emphasized the importance of order
and obligations of law as vital factors
in the scheme of human betterment.
» * » The burdens of humanity are
lightened, not by violence, but by rea
son. persuasion and the application of
correct principles in accordance with
the fundamental provisions upon
which our system of government is
based.
Tn his address Governor Brumbaugh
uttered these words of wisdom which
convey a special message to every citi
zen at this period in the history of
State and Nation:
A good citizen will at all times
loyally support Ills Government and
use his utmost endeavor to make
the Government Increaslngl' - eftlcl
ent as an agency of service. It is
not the function of government to
hinder but to help ou' people. The
laws we enact should be filled with
elements of blessing and of help.
The more we respect our laws, obey
ing them, enforcing them, requiring
others to obey them, tile worthier Is
our place in the great social order.
There can be In this country of
beneficent offices to her people no
divided loyalty. We are Americans
here, and nothing else counts.
Whatever we can do to promote
Justice, protect human rights, safe
guard property, and enlarge the
liberties of our people within the
white-walls of liberty we must do.
* or the rights of pronerty and of
human life are alike sacred In this
country.
Rarely have we seen the reciprocal
duties of the State to the people, and
the people to the State, presented In
more compact or convincing form than
in these terse and telling sentences of
the Governor. The test of good citi
zenship, loyalty to the government and
the obligations of good government in
the protection of the citizen in his
rights are here epitomized in words
of candor and of truth.
The Governor emphasized the fact
that there can be "no divided loyalty"
in this beneficent country. "We are
Americans here." he adds, "and noth
ing else counts." The address of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh was exceedingly
happy, patriotic, sympathetic and well
timed. and furnished added proof of
his eminent fitness for the high office
he holds.
KEEPING WOMEN LOYAL
[From the L>oulsville Courier-Journal.]
The barrlnr of bargain "white salen"
In Germany Is a reckless thing. Indeed.
Is It not important to keep the women
loyal!
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THE WAR AND WOOL
By Frederic J. Haskin
. J
IN reckoning the list of industries'
that have been boomed .by "war,
you scarcely think of the range
sheep of the West. Yet the sheep in 1
America is at least as important a
factor as the powder mill, and the
sheep man has gotten a generous share
of prosperity.
The past year was probably the
most remarkable in the history of the
American wool trade. It opened with
the world at war and free wool on the |
tariff schedule. Wool growers-—and i
they include some of the wealthiest }
and most influential men in a dozen J
States —were making all sorts of dire j
prophesies as to the effect of the free
wool clause. They made few prophe
sies about the war, because nobody j
knew how the war would hit the sheep j
industry. There was no precedent for
reigning conditions, and prophesies
were at a discount. But when it came
to the tariff, the prophets went back :
to Cleveland's time for discouraging
data.
Wool growers now admit that the
business has never seen such a year |
as the past one, since the Civil War. !
Prices climbed to what the experts j
characterized as a dangerously top
heavy position, and stuck there for;
months—are sticking there still. !
Australia and other foreign countries
shot three hundred million pounds of
wool into America, domestic ranges j
clipped almost two hundred and
ninety million, and the country ab- !
sorbed It and called for more. The,
whole record of the year was one that |
would have attracted national atten- 1
tion in times less crowded with world- !
shaking events and diplomatic crises: ;
and it has no more than reached a
climax to-day.
With another season's clip ap- j
proaching and the market summed up i
by one merchant as "gone crazy," buy- j
ers and sellers are keeping one sus- j
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
Say, Colonel, couldn't you bring j
your friend Mr. Root and come over
to Harrisburg for luncheon some day
soon ?
—The performance of Colonel Dodd's
rider in Mexico is what might be
termed burning up a "hot trail."
"Don't blame the tailor if your j
Spring suit fades," says a news item
explanatory of the dye situation. We
won't; our Spring suit faded about the
time Easter millinery prices were an- j
nounced.
—Somebody ought to provide a nice,
safe cellar for "Cyclone" Davis.
That loud "ha. ha" from Europe
is the Armenian laughing at the wail
of the Turk for somebody to save him
from starvation.
"The Spring shoes are dear little
things," says a fashion review. Yep,
dear's the word.
—-We're not so much interested in j
whether an aeroplane can cross the
Atlantic as whether a Zeppelin can
make the trip.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
WJ-XA ANCED.
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jlift T MA bridge does sh«
S Cantilever; sh#
ffH j B never looks to b«r
| j partner for sup-
THE LITTLE MAX FnOM EGYPT
By Wing Dinger
"The Little Man from E*ypt"
Will have to stand a lot
Of blame for crimes committed
For which he's guilty—not.
For Instance, my one youngster
Was kept In after school
Because, forsooth, he'd broken
Some very rigid rule.
And last night at the table
I took the lad to task.
"Young man, why did you do It?"
Of him dear dad did ask.
He eyed me for a moment.
And then In tones quite said
He said: "The man from Egypt
Just made roe do it, dad.'
APRIL 4, 1916.
' piclous eye on their competitors and
the other on world politics. Now Is
the time when eastern buyers KO to
1 the West and contract for the wools
that will be shorn in April and May.
It is something of a speculative pro
ceeding under the most norm.il condi
tions, and this year it makes Wall
Street dealings look tame. Who
knows what world conditions will be
next May? Both sides keep the pos
j sibility of a sudden European peace
lin mind continually. But as to the
! results of peace, it is a case where
| doctors disagree. Some men think it
I knock the bottom out of the market,
others believe it will take off the
; roof.
! Meanwhile the sheepmen of the
| West, at least, have been making hay
while the sun shines. Conservative
leaders In the game are advising their
followers to take no chances. As one
j of them put it in a speech to the Wool
; Growers' Association, now is the time
to pay off the mortgage and put
something aside with which to send
| the boys to college. Some ranchers
; have followed the advice even to the
j extent of selling their flocks, for the
I price of sheep has gone up with the
; price of wool. They plan to buy back
when a decline comes. But set against
their opinion Is that of the men who
are buying sheep. They evidently be
-1 lieve that the decline is not going to
materialize.
The situation is fraught with enough
uncertain possibilities to make one
I man's guess as good as another's. Bc
sides the big question of when the
war will end, there are the chances
of changed foreign and naval policies
abroad, the uncertain factors of Aus
tralian and South American produc-
I tion to be considered, and finally and
I always, the tariff. Protectionists
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THE STATE FROM DA/ TO DAY
The interesting question hns been
raised in York as to whether a boy
is at work when he is on strike, and It
will probably be taken to the courts
for decision. Looking at the matter
from a casual standpoint, we would
say, in an offhand manner, that if we
were to be paid for the time during
which we were telling our employer
where to get off. we would feel very
much as though we were "taking
I candy from the baby." Inappropriate
| simile, perhaps, but expressive.
"I would rather have a black
diamond from the hearts of the
anthracite miners than the finest
diamond that glows in the sun of
Africa." was the complimentary senti
ment expressed by the Governor in
an address to the miners last week
upon receipt of a gift from them of
a desk seat carved from a solid chunk
of anthracite coal. Here's hoping
that the compositor puts the "black"
in the proper place and the sun un
; changed to "son."
The Bucks County Fish, Game and
Forestry Association has placed an
order for 11,000 black bass, chain
I pickerel, pike, white perch, catfish,
brook trout, frogs and yellow perch
;to stock the county streams. So get
i out the old hook and line, Ike, there's
! no school to-day.
I Horse thieves have been operating
in Columbia county again. Luckv for
j them they don't live in the wild "west
of the story book.
A boy was seen In his barefeet In
the streets of Charleroi the other day,
says the Charleroi Mail, proof positive
that "gentle Spring" is here.
The Greensburg Dally Tribune
j features the story of the "colusion"
|of a Ford and a Saxon, both cars
I being badly damage? I ,' after which,
| says the Tribune, an automobile was
brought out and towed the wrecks to
town. Reference books —"The Battle
of the Lilliputians."
Tables were turned on the men of
the First Methodist. Church of Media
when they were compelled by their
better halves to don aprons and serve
a banquet to 200 women of the
church. What matter that the soup
was cold and the service uncertain.
Was it not a triumph?
The March snow has proven to ho
; most valuable to owners of chemical
i plants in McKean, Warren, Forest and
I Elk counties, because it made it pos
sible for them to haul virtually every
piece of chemical wood cut in the for
ests last summer. It is figured that
,lt saved them SIOO,OOO,
lEbmng (Chat
Failure of many members of the
bar to appear In court yes
terday when the April term common
pleas trial list was being: called off
for the purpose of determining what
cases will be tried and what cases con
tinued, caused some more or less caus
tic comment from the Bench. Inci
dentally a new order was promul
gated. Hereafter Instead of marking
rases "continued" when attorneys fail
ed to answer "for trial," tt will be as
sumed that all CABM will be marked
for trial unless otherwise called. "If
counsel doesn't interest itself enough (
to appear when the list is being called
off," declared President Judge George
Kunkel. "there Is no reason why all
the cases shouldn't be marked for trial
unless continuance is stipula/led.
That will be the rule hereafter."
• * •
When the buildings included in the
sale of Capitol Park extension struc
tures scheduled for Saturday have
been disposed of there will be quite
a difference in the park area and peo
ple will commence to get some idea
of what it will be like. At the present
time a dozen properties are being
taken down and probably as many
more will be removed this month.
Then the fifteen or eighteen in the
new list will go. It is the hope of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh to get those along
the rairoads removed this summer.
• • •
David Martin, former Secretary of
the Commonwealth, Insurance Com
missioner and Senator, who is a can
didate for the Senate again, prides
himself on being a farmer. He has a
farm near Torresdale and has chickens
and garden "snss" and other things.
He raises some of the prize vegetables
and when he was commissioner used
to come here on noon trains with
bunches of huge asparagus for Gover
nor Stuart and other friends on the
Hill.
» • •
Fishermen who like to fish for trout
are making anxious Inquiries of farm
ers and others who live in the coun
try what effect the heavy rains and
high water have had on the troui. It
| would appear from what has been
\ learned about the places where they
sell tackle in Harrisburg and Steelton
that the streams in Cumberland and
Perry counties have not been bother
ed much. Tlie trout "planted" by the
Stale authorities recently are all ol
jan age to take care of themselves.
• * •
j Cigar store men in this city say the.v
| have been notified that the country is
ion the verge of a match famine be
! cause of the war. Millions of boxe.«
of matches are imported each year
during peace times from Norway. Swe
den, Denmark and Germany, and with
the coming of hostilities this supply
1 has been cut off to a great extent. As
a consequence American match manu
facturers are now trying to supply the
entire demands of a great match-burn
ling nation and prices art
going sky-high. Safety-matches
which used to sell over the counter of
I the stores of a big cigar store chain
company with several branches in this
I city at five cents are now seven cents,
! and another raise is expected very
j soon.
* • •
! Charles Johnson, who resigned ns
j insurance commissioner last week,
| was the seventh man to hold the place,
j The office was created in 1573 and
the late J. Montgomery Forster. of
this city, the first commissioner, held
'the office from its creation until 1891.
i George B. Luper, who had been deputy
| succeeded him. Colonel James 1!
Lambert, the late Israel Durham ami
David Martin, three widely-known
Philadelphians, succeeded betwen
early part of 1895 and the end of 1909.
Samuel W McCulloeh, the present act
ing commissioner and an insurance ex
pert, was commissioner for two years,
being named to act as deputy again
when Mr. Johnson came in.
• • •
Commercial men are commencing
jto come here with their ideas for
next Fall and winter. It is a saying
among Harrisburg hotelmen that
| when winter ends the traveling men
come around with things for the next
winter. The other evening a couple
I of men were talking and agreed that
'the average merchant did not appear
jto be much worried about business
| prospects as orders were being given
j freely, and that what most of them
j appeared to be really concerned about
was promptness of delivery.
James Collins Jones, Philadelphia,
who was here yesterday in connection
with the Juniata valley jitney caße be
fore the Public Service Commission, is
a prominent lawyer who is Identified
as counsel with a number of central
Pennsylvania public utilities.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*
—Ei nest Crittenden, who recently
I became chief of police of Hazleton,
issued orders that policemen will l<«
dropped if they drink.
D. A. Keefe, northern tier bridge
designer, was beside the new State
bridge which he recently completed,
when the flood carried it away.
—Dr. B. S. Erwin, prominent Car
bon county physician who has been
ill, is able to be about again.
—Joshua W. Sharpe, Chambersburg
lawyer, well known here, wlll_ delivet
the memorial day address at Newville.
—S. V. West, prominent coal region
man, has been elected head of tha
middle coal field poor directors.
The Rev. .T. W. Milnor. prominent
Baptist clergyman, is organizing a
campaign for social work in Philadel
phia. . , .
—Ralph Bingham, who has played
Santa Claus for the Philadelphia Per
and Pencil Club, will be given a dlnnei
to-night in honor of his generosity foi
many years.
DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harrisbui* Is making
munitions for the American troops
011 the border?
HISTORIC HARRISBVRG
This city became a borough
a few years after it was laid out.
WEARY OF WINTER
(Arkansas City Traveler.)
Are you ready for Spring? asks an
exchange. Of course we are. Oul
gloves are all ripped; our overcoat
worn out. cracks in the side of oui
shoes —certainly we are ready foi
Spring. Send it along.
/ . —f
Merit's Reward
Merit's reward Is often imita
tion.
It Is tha article with charac
ter that is copied, but Imitation
is seldom more than label-deop.
No reputable dealer ever offers
to sell you a substitute for an
article you ask for.
Tou ar» justified, if the store- ;
keeper tries it, in asking him \
whether there is not a little extra
profit on the substitute.
When you see an article adver
tised in this newspaper, ask for
it by name and insist on getting
what you ask for.