8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PHINTIXG CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. BTACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chitf F. It. OISTER, Busintss Manager. GUS M.'SWINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat ed Dallies. Eastern sfflce, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave - nue Building, New ern office, Has- Brooks. People's Oca Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Office in Harris. burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <SS3SS&%BSB> week; by mall, J3.00 a year in advance. ■ worn dally e.verage circulation for tka three month* ending April 1, 1816, 22,432 Tir Theae flgnrea are net. All returned, unsold and damaged coplea deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25 Pray in faith; and faith Is nof only a trust in God's goodness or power, 6«t the definite assurance that we have re ceived the very thing ice ask. —Ax- prew Muhrat. PHILADELPHIA'S AWAKENING PHILADELPHIA is preparing for a great civic exposition which will continue from May 15 to June 10. It is an undertaking design ed to arouse interest along civic, edu cational. religious, charitable and municipal improvement lines and will be conducted under the auspices of the Commercial Museum. It will be a mighty good thing for Philadelphia to lift itself out of the political atmosphere which has en veloped the metropolis for so many years. Pennsylvanians have in a measure lost interest in the develop ment of their chief city, because Phila delphians themselves have not mani fested the Interest in its expansion which was to have been expected from a city so admirably located and of a citizenry so patriotic, intelligent and energetic, notwithstanding the con trary impression outside the State. This newspaper has always insisted that Philadelphia must some day come into its own and the proposed exposition may be the instrumentality through which the people of Philadel phia and the State at large will better understand' and appreciate what fine opportunities for the making of a great American city are presented at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. For years there has been an exag geration of its political ills at the ex pense of its commercial and industrial and civic importance. Rival contrac tors have been permitted to exploit the city for their own benefit and their controversies have so disgusted the rest of the Commonwealth that out side interest in the metropolis has waned almost to the point of itidif ferem e to anything that Philadelphia desires. This accounts in some meas ure for the failure of the national gov ernment to give the port of Philadel phia proper consideration. So, also, with the Legislature, and all because the constant political uproar has made it impossible to hear the call of the finer element of a community which has always stood for that which is best in American life. So Harrisburg and all the rest of the State will be glad to help along the proposed civic exposition. It is a good thing for the city and the State. This city, as one of the smaller municipalities, has for fifteen years been devoting its energies to civic ac tivities and the "Harrishurg plan" has become known far and wide as a prac tical community scheme for promoting the general walfare. Also, the exposi tion should attract thousands of people and the results will be far-reaching in the setting up of new standards of municipal administration. William Jennings Bryan has had a long lease of personal popularity. His following for years in—the Democrat!e party has been remarkable, but the re turn* for the recent primary In Nebraska seem to Indicate that his star as a political leader Is setting, Out of seven candidates for delegate at-largn to the Democratic national convention, four to be elected, he was next lo last. THE GARBAGE CONTROVERSY ALL of Harrisburg's municipally conducted public utilities are be ing operated efficiently and eco nomically. Our water department earns money for the city every year, beside providing a very high grade of water at a minimum of cost to the consumer. The streets are kept clean by men hired by and under the control of the city highway department. The asphalt repair plant belongs to the city and already has saved the cost of its purchase. There is, therefore, no good reason why the city should not, even tually, adopt the suggestion of Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck and operate Its own gar bage and ash collection system. If, as Dr. Raunlck believes, our waste can be made a source of revenue Instead of a continual expense and an everlasting nuisance, the sooner the change Is made the better. We have on our hands now in the rarbage puzzle which the Health De partment is trying to solve a rare ex ample of letting such work to the lowest bidder without first having ex pert advice in the formulation of specl- TUESDAY EVENING, fications and afterward on the ability of bidders to make good their pro posals. Th« city rushed into an ill advised contract and the people are now paying: dearly for that piece of folly. But all blame must not be laid either to Council or the contractor. The people are themselves largely to blame. Very few in all the city have co-operated with the collector. The I rules provide that no garbage, paper or other waste be mixed with ashes, and that ashes be kept in cans of not less than one nor more than two bush els capacity. How many have lived up to that regulation? Yet this alone —and it is not by any means the only rule that has been broken—has cost the garbage collector hundreds upon hun dreds of dollars and days of lost time. "Cussing" the ashman is quite a pop ular form of indoor sport hereabouts these days, but the contractor is sinned against as well as sinning. It be hooves those who have not been living up to their contract to sing low if the contractor does not live up to his. I>R. mxox s VIEWS IN the following language Dr. Samuel G. Dixon. State Commissioner of Health, pays his respects to the ' man who indulges in alcoholic stimu : lants: A drunken man is the most dan gerous. demoralizing factor in civ ilized life. The wild beast of the forest is a plaything in comparison. He sets all laws at naught and be comes an instrument of the devil. Man crazed by any kind of mental overexertion or drunkenness, like a rabid beast, is a menace to every one with whom he comes in con tact. Dr. Dixon is no rabid reformer. He is not swayed by sentiment. He is not a one-idea prohibitionist. He is of a calm, deliberate turn of mind. He is a scientist, noted among scientists. He is careful and conservative. Yet he does not hesitate to say that a "drunken man is the most dangerous, demoraliz ing factor in civilized life." which is to say that alcohol is the most dangerous, demoralizing factor in civilized life. And yet there are those who do not believe that the liquor question should be made a political Issue. FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY UP to January 1 this year it has been estimated thai about $40,- 000,000,000 had been spent by the various nations engaged in the European war, says a writer in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger in response to the inquiry of a correspondent. Estimates of the casualties vary greatly, but it Is gen erally believed that between 3.000,000 and 4,000.000 men have been disabled. This would put the cost of disabling one man at about $12,000. Even German thoroughness and efficiency might show some improve ment here, one might judge. In the days when Buffalo Bill rode»the Pony Express, the cowboy or scout who couldn't wing a man at every pop of the pistol didn't deserve the name, and cartridges cost about two cents each. Twelve thousand dollars would have filled a whole graveyard in those days, with money on the side for brass band funerals and marble head stones for the victims. The gentle art of murder has gone up in price, like other luxuries. FORD AND PREPAREDNESS THIS from a recent utterance of a famous American: As long as every other country is prepared, we must be prepared. Sounds like Hudson Maxim or Theodore Roosevelt, doesn't it? Not so, however. In the author of these strong words for national prepared ness we behold none other than our erstwhile pacificist and long-suffering out-of - the - trenches - by - Christmas friend, Henry Ford, of p'eace-party f.ime. Whether or not it is because he is going to build a big tractor fac tory near Newark—which is uncom fortably tjcar the seacoast in case of war—the fact remains that the wealthy pacifist is seeing things in a new light, and just at the moment the disciples of unpreparedness had thought they had found a presidential candidate, too. Isn't it sad? Or, is it not ? A "STRIKELKSS CITY" WE do not have many labor dis putes in Harrisburg and strikes are almost unknown here. This is because Harrisburg employers and employes very well understand that there are two sides to every ques tion—that labor is worthy of its hire, and that arbitration is better than de structive idleness, any day. Yesterday the two trolley companies operating in the city and suburbs voluntarily granted their employes a raise in wages. They might have waited until the men asked for more money, and then pleaded poverty due to jitney competi tion, as has been done in other cities. But they did not. They recognized that the men ought to share in in creased business, and the wage ad vance was ordered. It is thus that Harrisburg avoids costly and unpro fitable labor disputes, and a very satis factory way for all concerned it Is, when one compares the peace we en- Joy here with the conflicts raging else where between capital and labor. T.F.T US HAVE MORE ARRESTS THE State Health Department yes terday prosecuted a man who was guilty of openly and flagrantly violating the quarantine laws. He was punished severely, but not too se verely. If people had observed the rules of quarantine as the law pro vides, the present measles epidemic would not have reached the alarming proportions It has. It is to be hoped that the department does not mean to stop with this one Isolated case among hundreds. A half dozen such prose cutions would teach selfish and reck less persons that the law must be obeyed and would serve as a whole some lesson to those who place their own convenience ahove the rights and health of their neighbors. We know now why dyes are so scarce. The girls have 'em all in their Easter stockings. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE " —Well, at all events Bryan can't be defeated for a place at the newspaper table in the Democratic national con vention. —We are supposed to be in the mtdst of a very exciting political cam paign here in Pennsylvania, but no body is very much excited. —A newspaper correspondent wires from Mexico that "It is believed Villa Is either wounded or In hiding." Pub lication of such Inside information leads to the belief that there must be a traitor in the Villa camp. —Now If we only settle our Mexican difficulties on the south, our German controversy on the east and our Japan misunderstanding on the west, war may be averted. Thank Heaven for Canada on the north. • —Ford is going to build a big tractor plant at Newark. Looks as though he might be getting rendy to bid with Wilson for the New Jersey vote. —ln a short time housewives, In stead of finding it necessary to slam a door to register indignation, will grab the fly swatter when things go wrong. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT Portugal is having by far the nicest war of all.—Syracuse Post-Standard. It's passing strange that none of those "floating mines" ever sink Allied battleships.—Seattle Times. The quickest way to get a larger army and navy is to get some larger Congressmen.—Columbia State. Turkey and Bulgaria have not yet disclaimed responsibility for the Sussex. —Springfield Republican. We may yet be forced to a.ik Ger many to reinstate von Tlrpltz in the nan* of humanity.—Columbia State. Perhaps if we wait a bit, Germany will supply us with a fresh U-boat crisis to take our minds off the Sussex. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Nobody can contemplate the Inter national crisis with elation. It is a solemn thing to take a position which may result in breaking friendly rela tions with any nation, and particularly with a nation to which this country is united by many tics of blood and sym pathetic association.—Kansas City Times. , ' Dollar Evangelism [From Philadelphia Public Ledger.] Dollar evangelism seems to have taken the place of dollar diplomacy, or at any rate to be running it a close race. Bishop Berry, of the Methodist Church, is the latest redoubtable an tagonist. of the "free-will-offering" idea, which as an audacious abuse of the contributor's benevolence is reach ing the proportions of the "voluntary" political subscriptions which are tiie premiums upon the otficehokler's po litical life insurance. It is touching to see how spontaneous these "free will offerings on the last day" have become through systematized pan handling for weeks beforehand. But the most regrettable feature of what Bishop Berry calls "professional, com mercial" evangelism is its consistent and persistent sneer at the clergy. An itinerant preacher can always "get a rise out of the crowd" by denouncing the regular army of the Lord. It seems to be a particular satisfaction to one who does not have to remain on the field of his temporary occupancy to assemble as many ministers on the platform as he can and then make fun of them, or even excoriate them with blistering epithets. It is the custom also, for the sake of a cheap and easy laugh, to make mock of a church member, a singular inducement to the unconverted to become one. The clergymen certainly have to work hard enough at their low wages to be spared the defamation of highly paid specialists who profess to be their helpers. Frying Pans, Garbage Cans I Kansas City Times. 1 Senator Reed Snioot (old the United States Senate last week that the Amer ican garbage can was the fattest in all the world. He was urging the passage of a bill to appropriate money to teach American girls to cook and to save in the kitchen. American women are wasteful and extravagant, he said. "Tens of thousands of homes are ruined by ignorant housekeepers," he exclaimed. "No women on the face of the earth are so wasteful as American women, and the average American housewife throws enough food into the garbage can to keep an average work ingman's family in France or Ger many where the most rigid economy is observed. It Is not only in the garbage can that food bought with money earned by the husband's toll Is wasted. A German who came to America to observe things here wrote in condemnation of the frying pan found in every Ameri can kitchen. He said that a large part of the average workman's money sticks to the bottom of the pan in which the nightly chops and steaks are fried. He contrasted this wasteful way of frying meats into indigestible masses of food, with the covered pot that simmers on the slow fire hour after hour and has preserved the health and filled the savings banks of Germany and France. Away with the frying pan, and be watchful of what goes into the garbage cans is the advice of leading home economists. Logical as a Logarithm TFrom the Rochester Post-Express.] Senator Smoot's speech on prepared ness brought the garbage can and dis appointed husbands to the fore in a masterly manner. There has been a lot of matter ex'traneous to the topic lugged Into the discussion of national defense, perhaps because congressional speakers feel that it is only by such excursions and Inclusions that they can be heard on their several hobbies. On the whole. Senator Smoot will find many to agree with him in his state ment that, this country has the "fattest garbage cans" of any In the world, and that, this waste of material consequent or poor housekeeping Is one of the principal causes for home mishaps and disappointments. While our sons are preparing to defend our homes let our girls be taught to be conservative with our garbage cans: thus the value of home will be a great incentive to its protection. Senator Smoot Is as logical as a logarithm. EIROPE WAII Munni.K "If w« don't meddle In Ruropean af fairs Kurope wit meddle in ours." This was the warning of Oscar 5. Straus, Public Service Commissioner and former Ambassador to Turkey. who spoke last nlsrht. before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. HARRISBURG ffljjftff TELEGRAPH '■ ' ===?»■-—— T>«tiKc* c x, K 0 nia By the ISx-Commltteeman United States Senator Boies Pen rose starts his campaign for the elec tion of uninstructed delegation to the Republican national convention to day. He will leave Philadelphia for Pittsburgh by automobile planning to stop at a number of cities on the way and reaching here this evening. The Senator is expected to sound the key note of his campaign in Pittsburgh on Thursday evening. While on his way to Pittsburgh the Senator plans to stop at a number of towns, including several in the Cum berland valley and in the southern tier. He will spend the week-end in Western counties. Next week the Senator will campaign in Eastern counties. The Brumbaugh headquarters cam paign plans are being worked out and will bo announced later. The itinerary as anounced from Philadelphia dur ing the period of quiet at the local headquarters has been withdrawn. —While the Republican chieftains are lining up for the contest the various Democratic facttons are in dulging in the choicest kind of brick throwing. The friends of A. Mitchell Palmer, the national committeeman whose official rubber stamp on patronage is threatened by the candi dacy of Michael Llebel, Jr., are say ing that Llebel is backed by the liquor interests' which have suddenly as sumed new proportions within the Democratic party. The Philadelphia Record, which appears to be about as keen for Dlebel as the Harrisburg Patriot is for Palmer, says that the Dicbel campaign plans will be mapped out at a conference to be held in Philadelphia to-night. The Record says that the campaign is to "loosen the strangle-hold of A. Mitchell Pal mer on Democratic affairs in Penn sylvania." —While the leaders of the two parties' organizations are busy on their campaign plans Senator Charles A. Snyder and Speaker Charles A. Ambler the rivals for the Republi can nomination for auditor general, ara stumping the State. Speaker Ambler will be In Lancaster county to-night and Mr. Snyder will be in easlern counties. —Another meeting between Mayor Smith and Senator McNichol yester day in Philadelphia caused a fresh outburst of harmony talk. The Phila delphia Press intimates that there is nothing to it. - —Judge Charles L. Brown, of Philadelphia, a former Senator and well-known here, is making an active campaign for national delegate, op posing the veteran David H. I<ane. —Threats of attacks on the big loan in Philadelphia, aro causing Mayor Smith to turn his attention to that feature. The Mayor says he will take the stump for the loan. This is taken to mean that he will avoid the factional light. —A lively contest is threatened in the Nineteenth district over the Re publican delegates. One is also brewing in the Ninth. —A Scranton dispatch says: "head ers from nine different counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania met to day in tlie office of Frederic W. Fleitz, former Deputy Attorney Gen eral, in the interests of Governor Brumbaugh's 'candidacy for the Presi dency. Following the session, it was declared meetings would be held here each week and that the organization in this end of the State would line up strongly for the Governor. Mr. Fleitz declared himself personally for Roose velt, but is chiefly concerned just now in reunioning the party in this section of the State, and that perhaps the best, means was in supporting Brumbaugh. The counties and the chairmen rep resenting them were: D. J. Christian, SuUivan; Bradley W. Lewis, Wyom ing: Charles M. Culver, Bradford: H. A. Denny, Susquehanna: M. E. Sim ons, Wayne: Charles 11. Edingener, Munroe. and Alfred Mariun, Pike. The committee from this end of the State will work in conjunction with the Brumbaugh committee in Harris burg." The federated railroad men have invited Governor Brumbaugh to speak at Pittsburgh Sunday night. —School Director G. A. Werner is out with a statement about his cam paign for Democratic legislative nom ination in the city district. There is opposition of a four-cornered variety among the Democrats in the city. —The manner in which the Alle gheny county Democrats are contest ing nominations Is being watched with interest all over the State. It is the first effort of a committee to strike down all papers which are not ap prove by a party organization. Bill Bill ain't much on preparedness, he says he's all for peace: He says this Nation's slidin' in time's groove as slick as grease: He says that we've got wealth to burn and that we're gettin' more; Bill's the best argufyer that was ever at our store: He says that if we all have guns, an' all learn how to fight. We'll find ourselves a-doin' it. Some nation's bound to light On us when it sees we are fixed for sheddin' human blood— But I dunno, I never seen a levee cause no flood. Bill says if we ain't armed for war no war won't never burst About our beads, and if it does that, mebby, just at first 'Twill put a dent in us, but we kin arm two million men. In almost 110 time, and kin drive the foemen out again. And I expect that what Bill says is more than likely true Thet the whole world would be sur prised to find what we kin do: But I keep thinkin' of that dent made by the foemen's guns— Tt seems to me thet it might mean lives of a million sons. Of course, event-cliu-ally, I admit Bill would be right: We'd get our trainin' and our guns and be prepared to fight, But the thought of that bloody dent is what gets next to me. But I can't argufy with Bill—he says they'd start a fight. Agin us if we was prepared, an' I sup pose he's right; But when J was a kid in skool I never jumped no kid Thet knew how to put up a fight—or got licked if I did. Yes, sir; I got licked, and didn't dam age him up none— I didn't even make a dent in that kid. not a one: But kids thet was all unprepared I licked them, so did Bill; Imposed on them most all the time, as fellows always will On sissy kids; and I believe we'd ought to be prepared— Though X can't argufy with Bill I wake up nighttimes, scared At thought of that there bloody dent thet means a million lives. And orphant homeless children, and a million weepen' wives. --Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Hous ton Post. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY NOW FOR THE SPRING DRIVE. 1^) i ||j - / CmaRP I "• " -v. ' 'tfo —From the Coin in Ihi* l)lft|iHtch. / \ WA TCH YOUR CHECKS By Frederic J. Haskin ; THE country seems to be afflicted just now with a plague of bad | checks. Although somewhat! worse than usual, this is nothing new. In fact, the methods are singularly old. The wonder is that they still l work. The President of a bank in a small Middle Western town recently was in terrupted in the perusal of his morn-j ing's mail by the sudden entrance | into his office of a tall, well-dressed } man who slapped him familiarly on the shoulder and called him. "Hill." "Don't you remember me?" he de-j manded. "Met you over at Smith's the other night." The banker could not remember ever having seen the! man before, but there had been sev- j eral people at the Smith's that night! with bank accounts. The man went ! on to explain that he was in a hurry to catch a train and it had just occur red to him to stop in and ask "Bill's" bank to cash a check for him. He coolly extracted a checkbook from his vest pocket and wrote out a check for! a hundred and fifty dollars. Although the man's signature suggested nothing to the banker, the check was on a; well-known bank, it all seemed per- j fectly regular,' so the banker cashed it. j Now a large number of Chicago de-i tectives are searching for this same tall, well-dressed stranger, who hasj successfully worked this fimsy story j in nearly every State in ihe Union, and so far as records show, has never been Inside a police station. The thing is ridiculously simple. The man merely trades upon the name of the banker's most influential acquaint ance—someone whose friend t lie banker would not care to offend. The rest is easy. Of course, he must rely a. great deal on his ability as an actor, ! and still more on the characteristic j American carelessness which has no j patience with small suspicions. Forj instance, it would have heen compara tively easy for the banker to have call ed Smith on the telephone and made a. few pertinent inquiries concerning the alleged friend, but he did not do it. What is more, if what the detec-i tives say is true, forty-eight other bankers didn't do it either. The i American Bankers' Association figures' that this particular swindler averages j about five hundred dollars a month from this and other ingenious stories. It. is a curious fact that the old! and more unlikely a story, the more; credence is usually placed in it. Swindles that were well known when! our grandfathers were boys still flour-1 This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— m WILUAM H. WEIQEIj lie Is one of Harrisburgs businessmen ! and is located at 1601 North Fourth ; street. Mr. Wclgel is a native of Mt. [ Holly Springs, but has been a resident of this city for a long time, and is rec- | ognized as an enterprising citizen. To the Seagoer Wave a salute to France for me as you pass her sunny shores. I Greet End with a ,f h l ® er „ Ol l. two and the dismal English moors. Join In the song the soldiers sing to a spot in Erin's isle; But keep your hearts in the U. S. A., and remember It's a land worth while. ' ~ . „ Morris Raymond in New \ork Sun. The Searchlight EXTRAS FOR THE MOVIES A novel advertising scheme was re cently devised by the manager of a moving picture theater In Minneapolis I to attract attention to a big feature. | Facsimiles of one of the largest, dallies j were printed with important, features of the plot displayed as headlines. Boys on the street, called "Extra!" vociferously and announced Ihe head lines. An edition of 35,000 copies was put. out for free distribution in a single day. As a result the theater was packed to standing capacity for every performance although the admission price was higher than usual APRIL 25, 1916. ish and make a large annual dent in I banking profits. Americans, as a rule, are slow to suspect people. We do j not bite coins to see If they are spur | lous; we do not weigli the lamb chops, I and some of us do not always count 'our change. But with a large army of crooks constantly perpetrating bank frauds of one kind or another, a cer tain amount of healthy suspicion I seems permissible, even advisable. [The bankers are doing their best to I warn their own employes, but every once in a while some cashier or pay ing teller finds he was mistaken. Not long ago, a stranger entered a bank in a new lumber town after ; banking hours on Saturday afternoon, j He asked to see the cashier, to whom !he presented a letter stating that he had thirty-four hundred dollars on I deposit in a certain city bank about a hundred miles from there. The let ter more the letterhead of the bank and was signed by its cashier. The man explained that he needed fifteen hundred dollars immediately to place as an option on a grocery store in the new town and requested a draft for 'lthat amount on the strength of the j letter. i The cashier looked up the cashier |of the city bank in the register and found the signature to be correct, so. after some hesitation, he gave the i man a draft for fifteen hundred dol lars. Kut later in the afternoon, in the seclusion of his town home, the cashier began to feel a trifle nervous. Why had he felt any hesitation at all in paying the draft? Surely, the man's manner had been peculiar. All the next day, which was Sunday, the cash ier worried about it, and by Monday ■ morning he was in a cold perspiration. |He could hardly wait to get to the to send a wire to that city cash ier. An hour later his worst fears i were confirmed. The bank replied that they had never heard of such an individual and that their cashier knew nothing of the letter. It was a • plain case of forgery. In this instance, however, it was not i too late to act. The cashier imrne idiately wired every clearing house in the district to stop payment on the II draft and to apprehend the drawer, i;The same afternoon the man was 11 caught. i While the law holds a bank respon sible for accepting a forged signature, on the grounds that it is its business ! | to know the signatures of its deposi tors, it is not held liable for a raised 11 check which it pays by mistake of j fact and in good fait h. Humane Sunday The American Anti-Vivisection So ciety, with headquarters in Philadel ! pliia, is urging a general observance I throughout Pennsylvania of Humane I Sunday and "He Kind to Animals , Week," May 15 lo 21, inclusive. Mrs. Mary K. L>ovell, of .Tenkintown, prominent in antivlvisection work and associate editor of the Journal of Zoophily, has been selected national chairman, and this is being consid ered in ihe light of a compliment to this State and recognition of the rapid progress being made in humane work in Pennsylvania. Pastors of churches are being urged to preach special sermons on Humane Sunday (May 21) and to call attention to the cruelty practiced on animals through vivisection. The question of vivisection is unknown in the average home, and It is believed that pulpit talks will appeal to almost evervone because of that fact. The thought that "Antivlvisection vs. Vivisection" would be an ideal pulpit topic is brought out in a re cent article by Mrs. ]„ovell, who de clares that vivisection should be abol ished because it Is evil. Perversity of Sight Seers "Every year," says Irvin S. Cobb in the May American Magazine, "thou sands of Easterners who have never found time to look at Niagara Falls go to Kentucky to see Mammoth Cave, passing on their way many Kentueki ans who haven't inspected the cave | yet, but feel their education can never ,be complete until they have gazed ! upon the beauties of Niagara. This is I a double tribute to the compelling elo quence of railroad passenger agents." OUR DAILY LAUGH \ REWARD. ■ Who scatter* ashes on th* When there has been a snow /r ~\ aj be l uite sur * / he will not ;Jf The cinder PLEASANT RE- 'ncKrWll We'd tired (<j ' war like In- JllJtltLl Sf / ML. To ease the We gladly turn to i—~ ! i baseball: I It rests the I > j brain. JlEimtmg Gtyat Some very attractive contributions toward Harrisburg's celebration of the ter-centenary of Shakespeare have been made by the city's Public Library which in accordance with the practice established when the present, building was opened has been displaying spe cial collections of books in keeping with the uppermost subject, of the day. The Library has added a num ber of Shakespeare books, especially for the use of the students and pupils of the city's schools, to its shelves and they have been in great demand, while the Shakespeareana of the Library has been grouped where it can be easily reached. In addition the Library has provided an interesting collection of Shakespeare prints. The State Library has co operated with the city library in sup plying some of the Shakespeare hooks which have been in most demand and some valuable works have thus been made available for reference. The observance of the ter-eentenary has been more or less confined to educa tional circles in Harrisburg and the Library has been able to render assist ance In the measure asked and to fur nish many suggestions. ♦ * ♦ James McCrea Cramer, of Young wood, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer, is well known in Harris burg, where lie has many friends and relatives. 11r. Cramer is a son of David Tate Cramer, of Mifflin, a retir ed Pennsylvania railroad official and the last survivor of a family well known in the history of the Pennsyl vania railroad since its organization and previous to that connected with the Old Portage road over the Alle gheny mountains from ITollidaysburg. David Cramer and James McCrea, at the time of his death president of the Pennsylvania railroad, were close friends in their younger years and the present candidate was named for him. Following the inclinations of his fam ily James entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad at Coneinaugh when a young boy and was the young est engineeer on the Pittsburgh divi sion, being in charge of an engine be fore he could vote. He left the rail road to join the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment—the famous "Fight in* Tenth"—when it went to the Philip pines and served there throughout its period on the island. Four years ago he was elected recorder of Westmore land county on the Democratic ticket. Will'ani Cramer, of Denholm, In charge of freight class!fication on the Middle division, is a brother. * • * There are a number of youngsters | up in the northern end of the city that | have the preparedness "bug" to such ja degree that U is a question if they {couldn't give cards and spades to a lot of regular soldiers. Up at Front and I Kmerald streets there is a large open | field and in that field there has been some strenuous work accomplished in | the last few days. Preparations have ! been made against the invasion of hos jtile hordes and the embryo fighters Ihave dug a real trench three or four I feet, deep and about twenty feet long, above which the American flag has ! been proudly planted. There is a smouldering patriotism in the youth I of America that somehow or other is |so firmly imbedded that it seems to be unshakable. It is just such inci dents as this simple, yet efficient build ing of a miniature trench, fliat slum in what channel the American mind n running to-day and which is convinc ing proof, if any were needed, that in spite of our unpreparedness the United I States will render a good account of herself in whatever the future may hold in store. * * • "Cheese it, the cop!" What mem ories do those few significant words 1 not recall to the minds of the old i "boys"; what memories of stolen pears, broken windows, trespassing and what not! Who of lis would not give even | unto half our worldly kingdom to be able to be a boy again, with all the , cares and annoyances of the busy world of business cast into the pale. The old "haunted" house at Second and Seneca, streets, which was com pletely gutted by fire several weeks ago, was the meeting ground a day or so ago for a bunch of lively little ras cals who were doing either one of two things: either they were stamping out. the fire that was raging over the field next the wreckage of the "haunted house" or else they were urging the i blaze onward to consume the rest of the building that still stood. Observ ! ers were constrained to decide upon fhe latter, for the appearance of a large bluecoat. around Front street caused a hurrying and a scurrying of little feet such as only a. bluecoat can cause, and the locality was deserted in three shakes of a ram's tail. * * * Sheriff George W. Richards, of Al legheny county, who was here yester day to see the Governor, is a former legislator. He served in three sessions and was one of the popular momben of the lower branch. The sheriff lives In Duquesne. WEIL KNOWN PEOPLE —Congressman S. Taylor North, who presented the bill for the reor ganization of the rural mail service, served in the Legislature for years from Jefferson county. —K. M. Herr, head of the Westing house company, started work in one of the Pittsburgh mills, but has never had time to write a biography. —Congressman Michael Llebel, Jr., of Erie, who Is much in Democratic talk now, was born in the lake city anil has lived there all his life. He is two years older than his rival, A. Mitchell Pnlmer. Major E. B. Cassatt, who is active in the main line rifle work, Is a son of the late A. J. Cassatt, lie served in the regular army. ] DO YOU KNOW Tliat the new Municipal street repair plant is going to maintain our reputation for goixl streets? HISTORIC HARRISIURG. The first bridge across the Susqt**> hanna. at this point was used by ten stage coach lines. /■ 1 Does Newspaper Ad- j vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer | asked this question of retailers throughout the country: NO. B SAID | "It seems to us that the best advertising we do, that Is to say, what seems to bring the most apparent results, is newspaper spare. We have tried them all. but this method seems to get the best, results for the money put into it. We made a systematic test I during the month of December, in an effort to ascertain whether or not our newspaper ads were bringing new customers to the store. We found lhat they were and that, they were bringing | them in from unexpected local ities." (Continued to-morrow) I
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