8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KEIVSPAPER FOR THE HS)MB Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE. /♦«'» and Editor-in-Chief F. R, OYSTER. Business Manager. CUTS M. SItEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub ■ylvanla Assoclat- EB3tern office, Has nue Building. New Brooks. " People's Gos Building, Chi- Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. -ggfPSaj-. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. Swora dall7 ererace circulation for the three montus cmllne April 30, 1016, * 22,341 if These flgurca are net. All retnrna*. unsold and damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8 When the potcer of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul re quires no other heaven. — SHELLEY. RIOT VS. ARBITRATION THE prompt settlement of the Pittsburgh street car strike by arbitration and the acceptance by both sides of a compromise a sharp contrast to the riotous scenes attending labor disputes in Allegheny county yesterday. The difference is largely that the street car men are > Americans of temperate habits and I that the mill men are "ignorant for eigners In the throes of liquor," as the press dispatches put it. Ignorance in flamed by whisky and anarchistic agi tators has been responsible for every riot call to which the State troops have responded in the past twenty-five years, and the people at large have paid the cost in blood and money. In the present instance two appar- | ently innocent men have been killed. I many rioters and officers wounded and I much property destroyed. It is to j prevent a renewal of these disorders, ! to protect lives and property, that the Guard has been called into the strike j zone. The Guard is not there in the I behalf of either employers or strikers, j but to maintain law and order. It will j not attempt to coerce a single striker, i Tt has no interest in the questions at j issue. So long as the strikers conduct j themselves like peaceable citizens -hey | have nothing to fear, and the soldiers ! will be as ready to defend them against injury, should the occasion dematad, as to Interfere to prevent strikers from | repeating the outrages of yesterday, j Orderly strikers will welcome the troops, knowing that nothing is ever ; gained in the way of popular sympathy j by rioting and bloodshed. Had the Legislature passed any one | of the numerous bills presented In re eent years for the enlargement of the ; force of State constabulary, yesterday's ' trouble easily might have been averted. The strikes In Allegheny county found all of the State police at Wilkes-Barre | and unable to leave. An additional force of trained officers at Pittsburgh j would have been much better equipped j to handle the situation than the always provocative and ofttlmes dangerous, hastily deputized and privately paid constables who in many similar in stances have been as ready as the strikers themselves to start a fight. As a result of this failure of the Legis lature to provide an adequate force for such a situation as has arisen the people must pay the enormous ex pense of maintaining the National Guard in the field until all danger of further disorder is past. It Is a pretty g price. As an arm of the police, the Guard always has acquitted itself with honor. It has upheld the law and preserved the peace wherever It has gone, and in all the strike duty to which it has been detailed in the many years of its ex perience it has never been responsible for the death of one striker. The man ner in which the Governor's Troop was mobilized and started on its way last nisht is a testimonial to its efficiency and discipline, two factors which count for much in a situation such as it now faces. The report of the Pennsylvania Steel Company for the year ended December 31, 1915, shows a surplus of $2,010,957. as against a deficit of $678,492 in the preceding year. That's good news for Steelton and Its neighbors. THE ROTARY CLUB'S QUIZ SOME time ago when Allen D. Albert, the civic expert, spoke in Harrisburg he asked the mem ber* of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary club some very em harassing questions concerning the operations of the local government. The questions were simple and upon their accurate replies depended an intelligent understanding of the various activities in which the city is engaged, the cost, to the taxpayers and how Harrisburg compares with mu nicipalities elsewhere. Rut a surpris ingly small number of correct replies were forthcoming and Mr. Albert sug gested that such wholesale ignorance' of civic matters was not conducive either to good government or civic progress. So the Rotary Club took the lesson to itself and last evening, under the direction of President Arthur D. Bacon, and with the assistance of WEDNESDAY EVENING, City Clerk Miller, Assistant City Clerk Seaman and other city officials, pro pounded and answered correctly a series of questions that required a wide knowledge of city affairs and no little research. No other organiza tion has ever attempted such an ex tensive probe Into municipal govern ment and methods. The Rotarians gave serious thought to the big bus ness in which they as voting citizens and property owners are shareholders and both they and the city cannot but be the gainers therefore. THE "SCUTTIiER" KILLED THANKS to the vote of Repub licans in the House, standing solidly together. President Wil son's plan to "scuttle" the Philippines has been shattered. Never was there a more shameful example of shirking national responsibility than this effort of the President to cast the Philip pines adrift at a time when the people of the Islands are helpless to save themselves either from Internal dissen sion or ruthless foes from without. Under the guardianship of the United States the Filipinos are being taught the ways of civilization and are being fitted for eventual self-govern ment. The masses live better, have more freedom and enjoy a larger voice in their own affairs than ever before. But they are not yet ready for the responsibilities of home rule. Nobody In the United States has any desire to hold the Philippines per manently. They are an expensive luxury and a very doubtful asset. But a proper regard for the lives and prop erty of helpless thousands bids us guard their rights until they are able to bear their own burdens 'and shape their own government unassisted. When the first lady of the Common wealth Joins heartily in the window and flower box movement wc may expect that the good women of Harriaburg will all emulate her example. Mrs. Brum baugh Is a lover of flowers and plants and the front of the Executive Mansion will be decorated with blooming plants and vines throughout the season. No movement for the adornment of the city has ever been more generally ap proved. THE "FOREIGNER" SAYS Elizabeth, in "Elizabeth and Her German Garden:" Miss Jones looked as though she didn't like Germans. I am afraid she despises us because she thinks we are foreigners—an attitude of mind quite British and wholly to her credit; but we, on the other hand, regard her as a foreigner, which, of course, makes things complicated. We don't have to go to Germany or England for an example of this state of mind In real life. We have it right here In Harrlsburg. We pre tend to welcome "foreigners" to our city, but we do nothing of the sort. We give them "jobs," it is true, at as low wages as they will acept, and quarter them in houses and In sec tions of the city that have outgrown their usefulness as habitations for Americans. We give them but a passing thought and label them "foreigners," but we should remem ber that we to them are also "for eign." and "peculiar," and that If the "hyphen" persists in our population we are not without blame in the mat ter. "This country demands service which is essentially and fundamentally non partisan," declared President Wilson at the dinner of the Common Counsel Club at Washington. Upon this theory, we suppose, Mr. Wilson proceeded to make up the original Federal Reserve Board without a single Republican member and the Trade Commission without an organization Republican upon it. WE NEED ONE, TOO OF all the cities that dot the Penn sylvania Railroad system none is more interested in the an nouncement of the great hotel which is to be built in New York City by the "Pennsy" than Harrlsburg. For several years we have been waiting for the philanthropist or cap italist who will give this city the kind of hotel which it so greatly needs. Now comes the Pennsylvania with its plans for a building twenty stories high and with 2,200 rooms for the me tropolis of the country. It will cost $12,000,000 and the Pennsylvania Railroad is going to be the owner and builder. Maybe the day will come when the same great system will mark the capi tals of the States through which it passes with similar hotels. Let us hope that Harrisburg will be the next after New York. li. F. D. News of Washington, D. C., which is in constant touch with the 43,- 000 rural free delivery carriers of the United States, is in a pretty good posi tion to judge of the merits of complaint that have been made regarding the new plan of establishing rural routes. In view of the protests that have been made by the farmers, the News ex presses the opinion that "If parcel pofct is to become a permanent feature of the postal establishment and if it is desired to make it of real value to rural delivery patrons, short routes and quick handling are absolutely nec essary. Certainly routes of thirty miles or more, which seem to be so popular with the postmaster general, are out of the question. Short routes and quick schedules mean prompt delivery and good condition of shipments, while long routes invite delay and damage." THE I'l BIJC THE GOAT 1 AS usual, the consumer must pay the freight. While the miners have been given an increase or from nine to twelve millions in their total wages through an agreement with the operators the chap who burns the coal, after all, is the real philan thropist. First he gets hit for a State tax which is never paid by the oper ators; then he gets "soaked" for the increased cost resulting from the workmen's compensation act and other legislation, and now he must come up again as a result of the increased wages for the miners. When will the public learn that it is always the goat? | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —The Underwood tariff was made to lower the price of sugar, and as a result it has been reduced from 5 to 8 cents a pound. j —"Strange to say," says a war commentator, "the same type of men predominate in both the German Ü boat and aerial service." Strange? Aren't both murderers? —Again we arise to remark that the Kaiser probably now pronounces Verdun aa though It were spelled Veredone. —Amos Plnchot says the National Guard "is contemptible," but Amos would be the first to yell lustily for help if a band of anarchists over-ran one of his extensive estates. —"Don't put the Athletics down as tailenders," begs Connie Mack of the public. All right, we won't, but be careful about yourself, Connie. —The Turks say the Armenian out rages were only half as bad as re ported; In other words they killed on ly 260,000 instead of 500,000. —"To-day we will show 600 feet of Lillian Russell," says a line In a movie ad. Remarkable, most re markable, indeed. EDITORIAL COMMENT You may have noticed how "prepared ness brings on war" In Holland.—Phila delphia North American. Being mobbed may make Sylvia Pankhurst feel as though the world were once more at peace.—Springfield Republican. In addition to the German denial. President Wilson has a lot of other evi dence that the Sussex was torpedoed by a German submarine.—Chicago Her ald. We shall be more hopeful of peace when the Austrian peftple make known their demands through the medium of Franz Josef rather than of Cardinal Piffl.—Boston Transcript. "Only the People" [From the New York Sun.] Our enterprising and Intelligent con temporary the Literary Digest cannot be accused of that partisan bias which twists straws or shapes election In quiries so as to produce a predeter mined result. It has been making a poll of Republican and Progressive preferences According to a method of Its own. Taking the legislative dis trict as a unit, the Digest has ad dressed its questions to the members of the Legislatures and has received (from thirty-one States 1,500 repllos or votes. With allowances here and there for the favorite son, nearly four fifths of all the votes are divided among three worthies, in the follow ing order as here exhibited: Hughes 758 Roosevelt 275 Root 138 It is interesting to note that In only four of the thirty-one States, namely, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, does Colonel Roosevelt's vote exceed that for Mr. Justice Hughes. A ratio of more than two to one Is quite uniformly preserved throughout the list. This exhibit will Interest Colonel Harvey, even if it does not Interest the eminent and detached candidate of Colonel Harvey and the people. As Harvey Sees It So we the People, say or think. Do you doubt it? Ask the man in the street, on the sidewalk. In the car, or the subway, in the Pullman, on the Jitney, in the vestibule after service, on the golf links before or after, down town or uptown. In or out of clubs not dominated by masters of finance, in Hartford, Springfield or Peacham, in wealth-wallowing Pittsburgh even, or Columbus, or on the farms of Towa, in Oregon or Washington, anywhere and everywhere, uphill and down dale, in this broad land, ask yourself, your wife, your plethoric uncle, your spinster aunt —and what do you find? Some who distrust the supporters of Root; many who are angry at Roose velt; and a few. Inclusive of Demo crats. who are sick of Wilson: none whose countenance fails to brighten at the mention of Hughes. But —"will he take It"? Ay. there's the rub.—Col. Harvey In North American Review. Advertising Did It The Coca Cola Company, with Its modest capitalization of 150.000, In creased Its assets by $1,370,000 in its last statement, and is now worth $6,- 572,647. It has $3,283,000 in real es tate and a $2,924,898 surplus—all built up on advertising. The Stude baker Corporation reports increased sales of over $13,000,000 in 1915—due to Increased advertising. Quaker Oats reports a gain in gross earnings of $1,356,972, or 67 per cent. Increase in two years. Advertising did it. On the other hand the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, which reduced Its advertis ing appropriation for 1915, shows pro fits shrunk from $731,172 to $422,371. Deadlock Over Army Bill It is hard to see how the most mealy-mouthed, milk-and-water paci fist can object to the provisions of the Senate's Army bill, which are meagre enough in all conscience. Yet the conference committees have come to a deadlock, the Republican House members alone siding with the Senate in favor of its increase of the army. According to Washington reports, the House members object to more than 140,000 men for the standing army, and want to eliminate the pro vision for the volunteer army. Are our Congressmen crazy that they can not see what is going on In Mexico? We have practically exhausted all our resources on a little raid and have not succeeded in our object. It is not improbable that Wilson's muddling of the Mexican situation will eventually plunge us into war with that coun try. Yet Mexico is the smallest of our dangers. A good provision of the Senate bill is that it enlists men for five years, only two of which are to be with the I colors. If this is retained in the Army bill there ought to be a rush for en listment. At present recruiting is slow, even for the 20,000 already au thorized to the regular establishment. Only 5,417 men. b"ve been enlisted in forty-four days, although about 24,000 applications have been made. At present there is an unprecedented de mand for labor and it is not surpris ing that the best young men refuse to leave good wages, but if they knew that they could retire In two years and be paid for three more while on call for the national defense, there would be more applications. Anything less than the Senate's es timate for preparedness would be farcical. This is not now a question of militarism, but merely of a small police force. Tteal preparedness must come when Congress is led by men of intelligence and enlarged public spirit. HARRISBURG ffijflg TELEGRAPH "POLITIC* CK By (hf Ei-OommlUpfman Efforts to revive the Oliver SI,OOO check transaction by charges that (here was a "frame-up" and various other things inimical to the Governor long before he was elected attracted little more than passing interest yes terday' in State politics. Governor Brumbaugh at Kaston last night re peated hte refusal of yesterday after noon to talk about the matter and Senator Oliver made a general state ment in which he exploded some stories printed yesterday on the check. Senator Oliver's statement is as follows: K. "T^ e ® tatement in the Philadelphia isorth American this morning goes to in the wa >' of silliness. If David B. Oliver thought so well of Dr Brumbaugh as to send hini a gift of SI,OOO as a token of his personal esteem, why should he have such a suspicion of his friend as to induce him to photograph the check before sending it out? The fact is, the photographic reproduction, both of the face and indorsement, are all from w. s ? me check, and thai Is the check which my brother sent to Dr. Brum baugh on September 19, 1914, and which produced the letter from Dr. Urumbaugh acknowledging his 'gen erous help in this tight.' "The perforations show on the face, as well as on the back of the check, but are not shown on the newspaper reproductions for the simple reason that the photographer 'touched up' his negative in order that the check might have a better appearance when printed. The indorsements on the back show that it was deposited in the Girard Trust Company on Septem ber 28, 10 days after its date, and on the same day was deposited by the Girard Trust Company in the Fourth Street National Bank, by which bank it was forwarded to the Farmers' Deposit National Bank, of Pittsburgh, and by it put through the Pittsburgh Clearing House. All of these indorsements are rubber stamped and some of them do not show In the printed copy, for the simple reasori that they are in purple Ink and not susceptible of being photo graphed. 1 have the check in my pos session, and will be glad to show it to any inquiring citizen who comes along. "Even if the North American's storv is true and even if the Olivers are bad men and 'framed up' this case against the Governor, it does not relieve Doctor Brumbaugh. These facts still remain undisputed: "First. Doctor Brumbaugh received the check for SI,OOO, which he ac knowledged was for 'help in this fight.' "Second. He djd not use the money for 'help in this fight,' but, as he him self stated, used it 'solely for personal purposes.' "Third. Although contributed for 'help in this fight,' Doctor Brumbaugh failed to account for it tn the sworn statement required of him by the law of the State." —Governor Brumbaugh addressed a notable outdoor gathering at Easton from all accounts. Reports reaching this city were to the effect that there was a crowd of 1,000 and that the Governor was well received. In the course of his address the Governor said: "We ask your support in selecting delegates to the convention In Chi cago, who will steadily keep in mind this fundamental fact, not to serve the will of any leader, but using their best edeavor, untrammeled and free, to bring about a complete union of our broken forces, the nomination of an acceptable candidate and the triumph am election of our ticket at the No vember polls." The Governor declared in his plea for support for his candidates that "We must not allow Pennsylvania to throw away this opportunity to lead in a commanding way for a triumph ant victory in November." Reiterating his statement that it was only in the interest of "unity" that he entered into the combat, the Gov ernor said: "In my first utterance upon this subject I was frank /to point out precisely what now I feel —that in the use of my name in the preferential primary, my sole purpose was to se cure a return to the party of those who in 1912 found it incumbent upon them to leave the party, and I further stipulated then that if at any time any candidate arises in the public mind whose support would insure a Re publican victory in November, 1 and my friends would most happily and promptly give our support to such candidate. "This is precisely the position which I took then and take now. and to which I invite the fair judgment of all right minded citizens. It is, as I see, it, the only possible way to bring about harmony and unity arid victory. Tiet us have the courage to do the thing that Is right for our people and the thing that will bring about the permanent prosperity or our Amer ican Commonwealths." —Word from Philadelphia to-day was to the effect that Speaker Charles A. Ambler had no intention of aband oning .his canvass or his tour of the State. While here yesterday the Speaker said that he expected to con tinue his campaign and to "get about among the counties." The speaker is engaged in a wordy war with George D. Porter and may have him ar rested. —Senator Snyder, Ambler's rival, said before leaving yesterday after noon that he and the Speaker had en joyed a fine chat and that he was satisfied with the way things were go ing. Senator Snyder went home on the same train that took the Governor to Easton. - —The Liebel campaign committee which is In charge of the opposition to Palmer and his pals as bosses of the Democratic machine is out with a hot statement about the reorgan izes. —Henry Opperman is chief ar ranger for the Central Democratic Club's Jefferson day dinner to be held a month after Jetferson day. There will be 400 diners at one dollar per plate. Committees of real strenuous Democrats have been named. —Penrose men plan to make some speeches about the Governor, the Varcs and the revival of the Dimmlck primary campaign this week. Hugh Black, veteran Philadelphia politician, says Penrose will be an easy winner. —A good bit of comment is being heard on the fact that Pittsburgh which is generally a hotbed of faction alism, is quiet, this year and Phila delphia is furnishing all the fun. —Congressman Benjamin K. Focht. leaving Washington yesterday to cam paign in his Congressional district in Pennsylvania. Issued the following statement with reference to the fac tional fight in Jhat State: "Accord ing to his recent speech, the Gover nor has evidently abandoned anv presidential aspirations, and will not pull any more chestnuts for the Phila delphia contractors. His friends want him to keep out of factional politics and till the big job he now holds. Most of Pennsylvania's delegates will go uninstructed, a man of the broad statesmanship and experience of Knox will probably lie centered upon. Sena tor Penrose will be elected National Committeeman and his leadership as representing the party in a l>lg na tional way is unquestioned and will not be now contested." r THE CARTOON OF THE DAY AT THE END OF HIS STRING —From the New York Tribune. SOME PROFITABLE Raising Gold Fish By Frederic J. Haskin THE center of attraction in a Phila delphia pet store a few days ago was an aquarium filled with brilliantly colored little fish, whose abnormally developed tails and fins floated and wavered about them like fairy draperies. So perfect were they, and so purely decorative their beauty, that they seemed less like products of nature than of some fantastic im agination. Presently a man who was gazing at them with rapt attention indicated that he had chosen the one he wanted to buy. It was carefully captured and put in a little tin bucket. The onlookers then gasped with amaze ment as they saw the purchaser count out one hundred and fifty dollars as the price of his two-ounce fish. As a matter of fact, the price was nothing unusual. The gold fish Hat recently been taken up by fanciers all over the United States, and his popularity and his \alue are growing rapidly. There are plenty of gold fish In the country worth more than their weight in gold, and some of the prizewinners in llsh shows are valued at SSOO each. The growth of the fad may be gauged from the fact that the American Federation of Gold Fish Fanciers, which was organized in 1918, now literally covers the country with its local organizations. This or ganization distributes literature on the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PAVING IN FRONT STREET To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: One of my keenest pleas ures, perhaps, Is to stroll along the river front and 1 am especially fond of promenading over the section of North Front street above Maclay. Walking there is a real pleasure, to my mind, and there Is only one thing to mar It. With the exception of two small sections, one iust south of Di vision street, one just r.outh of Emerald stre&t, the whole length of sidewalk is paved with granolithic. That these two little sections should be left open Is deplorable. The paving would cost comparatively little. Furthermore, I understand that the owners of these abutting properties are abundantly able to pay for these improvements. Would It not be advisable for the superintendents of the department of parks and public property or streets and public Improvements or whatever department may have jurisdiction in such work to take up this problem at once? Yours very truly, EARL, E WALKER. May 3, 1916. AS TO MAINTAINING PRICE To the Editor of the Telegraph: M.v attention has just been called to the misuse of my name in connection with an article on "price maintenance" which occurred in Monday's issue of the Telegraph. I find that the Telegraph's article states that the special committee rep resenting the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce appointed to bring about a referendum vote on this bill which is now before Congress favors the fixing of prices by manufacturers. As a member of this committee I should like to have you make a cor rection of the misuse of my name in this connection. I am heartily opposed to this form of class legislation, and feel, further more. that no manufacturer has the moral right to determine the resale price of an article after the title to that article has passed from his hands. Yours very truly, WM. H. BENNETHUM, JR. Harrisburg, Pa.. May 2, 1916. OUR DAILY LAUGH DOING HIS <jgp>\ i BEST. What do you think of the ( I'm keeping \y« m y thoughts Y j 4P • strictly to my \ n H I self, old chap. JJ) ■■ I 1 ha\e some J// 9™ I thoughts but LJ _ v 9 1 P re sume that is no breach of neutrality. ACCORDING TO HIS CUB- ( Horse Buy «r: What iQf makes you ao E& iVwayTh m bHB. MAY 3, 1916 care of gold fish, and otherwise does everything that it can for their im provement and propagation. The variations of form and color that scientific breeding has produced in the gold fish are startling, and al most incredible. No other animal has ever been so swiftly and completely changed by man's control of the prin ciples of selective reproduction. Gold fish are really of a very plebeian origin being near relations of the carp. At first they were distinguished only by their brilliant red color. Now their tails and fins have been developed to extraordinary proportions. Lace tails, fringe tails and ribbon tails are among the varieties judged separately at the shows. Their heads and bodies have been strangely distorted, the "tele scope" eye which projects sometimes half an inch from the head being the most striking variety. The Japanese deserve credit for some of the most unusual effects tu gold fish. They have produced one variety whose immense tail and bril liant coloring gives him the appear ance of a sort of aquatic butterfly. To the brilliant red from which the fish derives Its name, the Japanese have added blue, purple, yellow, and mottled fish. The so-called "calico fish" is just now a favorite with [Continued on Page 18] THE STATE FROM DAf TO DW —Out Pittsburgh way 250,000 per sons took part in the annual clean-up day under the auspices of the Cham ber of Commerce with the co-oper ation of the municipal administra tion. —Roosevelt leads in the Presiden tial poll being conducted by the Le highton Evening Leader. The stand ing of the candidates follows: Wil son, 64; Hughes, 52; Root, 22; Under wood, 32; Brumbaugh, 42; Taft, 12; Roosevelt, 79; Cummins, 14, and La Follette, 12. —A strange animal Is making havoc among the cats In Perry county, says the Newport News. Already it has devoured several full grown felines, and everybody is guessing as to the character of tthe night prowler. —A man in Waynesboro, Jacob Monn by name, left a will containing eleven words, including his signature and witnesses. His widow gets the estate. —-Shlppensburg has a chauffeur 91 years old, last. Christmas. His name is "Daddy" Struthenroth, and he' drivra a truck for the Shippensburs gas company. —Car movements are being broken with great regularity. During the i month of April 210,456 cars passed Lewlstown Junction on the Pennsyl vania main line. —Mrs. Mary Perry of Delano, cre ated a sensation in the Pottsvilie court room when she charged that her hus band was drugged and placed in a casket In order to separate her from him. Her Btory is being investigated. —Reading will spend $125,000 this season for street paving. The paving policy of Harrisburg is extending throughout Central Pennsylvania. Sergeant's Aim True Gregory Mason in the Outlook. "Dad" Miller, the old one-legged shoemaker of Columbus, likes to talk about what the soldiers did. He tells how they came in from the eastern end of the town, eacn man dropping on his knee and covering an enemy with a cool, unhurried precision, quite different from the blind, quick shoot ing of the already weakening Mexi cans. Gradually the invaders were swept across the plaza and out to the rising ground southwest of the town by the handful of disciplined Ameri can regulars. "One o' the three Lopez brothers," says the venerable leather worker, "stood on that leetle rise to the west o' the station wavin' a big sword an' tryin' to rally his cowardly compan ions. Major Tompkins an' Sergeant Foley were right in front o' my store watchin' 'em. " 'Can you git that feller, sergeant?' asked the major. " 'l've never missed sir,' savs the sergeant, an' he gits off his horse, draws a slow bead an' drops the big feller with the sword. That took the heart out o' them." TBnRIBI'B, NIMFI.Y TRRRIBL.E By Wing Dlnsrr On pins and needles I have sat At home each night with knowledge that A message I was going to get That would my peace of mind upset, night } got it, ami I see All kinds of gloom ahead of me— Flat dwellers who've no grass to mow Miss much, 'tis true, but they don't know The dread that comes with wifey's shout "Go down and get the lawn-mower | out." Starting (Chat As an example of collection of con temporary data which will be of the highest, value for reference purposes and which affords interesting reading at present the year book of the Penn sylvania society is unique. This book, edited by Barr Ferree, the moving spirit of the society, and issued from New York covers the whole State and does it in a way that no other publi cation does or has done. Kvery coun ty is represented and the Information presented is accurate, condensed and extremely useful. Under the heading of Dauphin county there are present- ' ed the Harrisburg emblem showing the keystone and this city as the heart of distribution; the cartoon of okl Harrisburg speeding up during the carnival last year. The map which concentric rings showing Harrisburg as the center of things and other things which will be interesting in 1940. Under the head of the county anniversary there is a thumbnail sketch of the history of Dauphin county, while Conewago, Dauphin, Fast Hanover and Grata are men tioned for anniversary and Harris burg is given considerable mention for its anniversary last year, its mu nicipal improvement celebration, the dedication of the marker of John Harris" ferry, the presentation of the "rattlesnake flag" to the State, the presentation of the Donato group and other events. Paxton church, Dlngles lown and Middletown, which observed the passing of the milestones are com plimented and so is Ijykcns, the home of_ the anthracite. Cumberland coun ty's events are given in brief, but in teresting form while the anniversaries in Perry are noted. • • • During the hearing yesterday to the objections to Joseph B. Martin's peti tion as a primary Democratic candi date for Assemblyman from the sec ond district, ex-Deputy Attorney Gen j eral J. E. B. Cunningham, of counsel | for the objectors scanned over a lot iof names that figuratively made Ad- I ditional I<aw Judge McCarrell sit up land take notice. "Certainly," observed Judge Mc- Carrell, "the Bible must be a familiar book in that district." "Yes, Your Honor!" "Why, just glance at these names," suggested the court, "listen lsaac, Enoch and Isaiah!" • • • The fruit trees about Harrisburs are flowering in all their ftlory now and people with an eye to beauty are photographing the old peach, pear and plum trees and watching for tliu cherries. The apple trees are com mencing to bud and in the woods tlia hickory trees are showing their singular buds and the other trees are demonstrating how nature clothes them. This is the one brief period of the year when the trees show forth the effects of the coming of the warm weather and the lover of tree life can find something to enchant him oil every side. • * • The arrests of men in Franklin, Huntingdon and other counties r<>r killing deer out of season have tnllol attention to the fact that there nte many men who are disregarding tlvi money and efforts the State is putting forth to provide wild animals for tlv> forests. In some Instances the kill ing of deer out of season has not b°en confined to bucks, but does, which may not be legally killed at any sea son of the year, have been slaughtered. .. • » • The Police Department lias been causing quite a stir of late with it H splendid chariot in place of a patrol wagon or car. Transgressors against) the law need only a footman now to make them the lordliest In the land, judging from the method of convey ance from the headquarters to the jail. A stranger to the city happened to be walking past 223 Walnut street the other day when he was interrupted in his walk by the sudden dashing up of a somewhat ancient model automo bile, yet withal still capable of render ing good service. Out there Stepped, with all grace, one of Harrisbnrg's best bluecoats, accompanied bv a more or less seedy individual destined to a certain period within the prison walls, but happily grinning from ear to ear as a result of his kingly ride through the streets of Harrisburg be hind a regular chauffeur. • * • The Greeks are busy as bees nowa days and scarcely a minute UOPS by without one or more men entering the ; shine parlors that are scattered freely . along Market and Third streets. The 'reason! Take a look and see the ' huge heaps of last year's straws be ing renovated and kicked into shape for the approaching date on which will be removed the winter lid, actually and figuratively, to make room for the cooler straws. * * * Congressman S. G. Porter, of Pitts burgh. who was here yesterday for a conference at the Capitol, was chair man of the last Republican Stat* convention to be held in Pennsylvania. He presided In 1912. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ' —Col. O. S. Hershman, the Pitts burgh publisher, has been elected | honorary president of the Pittsburgh Press Club. —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart is taking an active part in the prepara tions to bring the advertising clubs to Philadelphia for their convention. —Captain C. C. Allen, named to command the First Infantry, is n native of Philadelphia and served in the Philippines. Agnew T. Dice, president of the Reading, spent a few days by the sea side. , _ Paul J. Sherwood, who Is figuring In some lively proceedings In Luzerne county growing out or the Stoug cases. Is a lawyer In active practice ii» Wilkes-Barre. | DO YOU KNOW That liarrisburg shoes are s»»v in Culm? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Peter Chartler, the (Tftlt white nifUi on the Susquehanna, antedated John Harris at this point by a few year* Harris Is supposed to have come hcrtl about 1715. f < > Making Opportunities « Opportunities come to .those who make them. This is especially true In busi ness and a mighty good thought for to-day. TYe are now In an era of ex pansion. Factories are driving hard. Labor is In demand. Incomes are rising. To-dav holds the opportunity of a life-time for the mail who Will make It. Particularly does this go for the man with something to sell. People arc In a buying mood. Business Is ripe. The man who sees this is going after it. He Is advertising, as the columns of this newspaper will show, and he Is getting results.
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