14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A h'SWSPAPBR POP THE HfiMß Poundoii itjl Published «v«nhH« except Sunday by THE TBLBORAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph BntMtng, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Prti'i and Editor-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER, Businejs Manager. QUB M. STOSINMETZ, Momtgirg P.ditor. « Member American Newspaper Pub lisher* 1 Associa tion. The Audit I Bureau of Circu- | lation and Penn- , ■ylvanta Aasoclat- Eastern «ffioe. Has- i Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New Brooks, * People's Ota Building, Chl ■ I Filtered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. ttwora dally average circulation for the three montue ending April 30, 181 A, it 22.341 These Ogarea are aet. All rftunct. aaaold and damaged eopiea deducted. 1 FRIDAY EVENING, MAT 5 J i Ifs veil to be up to date, but it's I foolish to borrow trouble in advance.— The Dait/t Nbwb. I CORRUPT PRACTICES PROBING campaign funds is an j old game and now is the open season for this sort of sport. Of ! all the piffle of politics the exposure! of campaign funds is the most j Pharisaical inasmuch as all parties, [ individuals and factions are constantly | concealing their financial campaign i activities. All the corrupt practices acts that can be enacted into law will j never stop the use of money In elec tions so long as the voters are willing j to traffic in the franchise of citizen ship. Also, there will be more public confidence in these occasional out-i bursts when the turning on of the light comes between campaigns. Then j the motives of those responsible will not be so likely to be impughed. Unless and until all parties agree in some effective fashion to stop the outrageous use of money in caro- ! paigns little will be accomplished in the occasional exposure of party man agers and organizations. It is too bad that American politics, has been cursed with the corrupt use of money in the effort to control elec-1 tlons, but hypocritical pretense of re-1 form in the midst of a' fight will not further deceive a too-credulous pub- j lie. To some extent, of course, the j corrupt practices act has restricted I the money end of the average cam paign, but it is an open question I whether the private and concealed ! expenditures are not quite as large as ! before the enactment of the law. OCR OWN ACADEMY A * suT " ER important step in the development of the Harrisburg Academy has been taken in the j formal dedication of the Seller dormi tory and the Gilbert memorial library. I This institution has graduated into the professions and business pursuits' many of the leaders of this com-! munity. Its history has been credit- [ able to the State, but its useful ness has been more or less restricted by reason of lack of facilities for the j doing of its predestined work. Since j the location of the buildings on the! fine site overlooking the river, im- j mediately north of the city limits, a change has come over the venerable ' educational institution and it is now rapidly taking its place among the foremost preparatory schools of the country. So rapid has been the de velopment under Headmaster Brown i that a second dormitory is now neces- j sary and plans are being formulated j for its erection this year. Harrisburg is Ideally located fori such an institution and there Is rea son to believe that an academy send- j ing forth large classes every year will be the outgrowth of present con- ' structive policies. There is a fine and proper balance j of the outdoor sports and educational ( features. Already the reputation of the Academy has extended beyond the borders of the United States. In the present student body are represented a number of the most prominent South American families and we may expect the development of the Institu tion from now on to be along the most modern educational lines. To the trustees, the headmaster and the faculty, felicitations and God speed. Park Commissioner Gross is going to cover the river bridge abutments with vines and blooming flowers. Oh, we'll have some bang-up city bye-and-bye. WRITING TO THE EDITOR SAYS the Ohio State Journal anent a subject that is of much in terest to newspaper editors, and maybe to newspaper readers, too: To show how diametrically peo ple differ upon the simplest sub ject. one needs read two letters .n the Chicago Tribune. That paper had an editorial which so excited one man that he wrote the editor thus: "Thank God for the editor of the Chicago Tribune." Next to this was a letter referring to the same editorial, and closing thus: "If you are not a traitor, this country never oroduced one. Both you and the Chicago Tribune need suppressing" We wouldn't know which of these two men to believe, unless we knew the kind of men thev were: what they did for a living and how they did it. The judgment of a mean, iow life is always wrong. These are fair samples of the letters that cross the editor's desk during the course of every day. Some of these are simply "bouquets'' of admiring » FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG CfißE* -TELEGRAPH MAY 5, 1916. readers and others contain only vllll flcatlon, and both go into the waste basket after a moment's perusal. An other class contain ideas, and these, in the Telegraph office, are reserved to be printed. Collier's weekly pub lishes them all and labels the col umn "Brickbats and Bouquets." The live and Interested editor is glad to hear from his readers. The more letters the better he is pleased. Even "brickbat*" are preferable to the si lence that damns his work as lacking the "punch" to arouse even adverse criticism. The editor is a mere man. He doesn't pretend to be all-wise or to know it all. He merely has the power of the printed word at his com mand to say in a way that will receive a general hearing what many other men are thinking. If he leads he also follows. If he advises he also heark ens. He must be in sympathy with and have the sympathy of his public or be at such wide variance with his readers that they will read what he writes merely for the force with which he says it. This latter type is rare and often as dangerous as rare. The Telegraph likes to hear from-its readers and just as much those who do not agree with it in some things as those that do. Its columns are al ways open to writers who have some thing worth while to say. City Commissioner Bowman must re gard with a lot of satisfaction the beauty spot which he is responsible for creating around the pumping station at North street. With the additional planting of the slope and the few open spaces in that vicinity it is certain to become one of the most attractive fea tures of our outdoor life. WHAT BASEBALL IS DEAR EDITOR, writes one who signs himself "Anxious Boy." addressing a Philadelphia newspaper, "Please explain baseball," and the editor, after making a few feeble passes in self defense, gives it up and advises his correspondent to j go out and see a game for himself. J Hut for all that it's an easy question. | Anybody knows what baseball is. | Aside from being the great Ameri can sport it is a mid-summer mad- | ness. a spring a Fail di version and the subject of unlimited discussion by the Hot Stove League during the Winter months while the j kings of the diamond are back at j their usual occupations in the pud-j dling mills. Baseball is a mighty ; factor in the gentle art of putting off what might he done this afternoon | until to-morrow morning. It pro-' vides bank president's salaries for young men who couldn't earn $lO a week in any other way. It gives lucrative employment to gentlemen ■ robbers politely known as umpires.! and causes small boys to play hookey' when the team Is at home. It is well-spring of happiness for the fan j and the despair of those who invest j in it for profit. It is a delightful recreation for those who love it and a frightful waste of time for those who do not. It takes up more space in the newspaper every day than the European war. It began before the j war and its peaceful battles will be fought out on a thousand diamonds | long after the war is but a memory, j There are many kinds of baseball, but | the kind Harrisburg likes best will be played at Island park sundry after noons during the coming summer, be ginning Wednesday next. If any man, woman or child in this | goodly city can walk along the River Front and not be thrilled with pride over the most picturesque and beautiful scenery to be found anywhere In the world, then that Individual fs deficient in every sense of appreciation. 1 A)ANS ON 1.1 fk insurance LOAN'S upon the insurance policies are the last recourse to a man who is in financial straits. A | husband or father must be hard up, i indeed, to trench upon this defense of his dependent wife and children in j the time of need when he is not at | hand to help them. It is, therefore, significant to learn that in the first j | year of the Wilson administration, i that year of baleful memory when] the "new freedom" was thrusting the; country into the most restricted pro : ductive activity which it has ever 1 known, the loans of this character in | creased nearly twenty and one-half | million dollars, or from <30,243,898 to j $63,723,452; while in 1914 —the year | when the spurious "war baby" pros ; perity was beginning to be felt —this j huge sum increased more than four j million dollars, or to $67,855,937. We have all known the extent to which the policies of the. Wilson ad | ministration had affected American I life—to its detriment —but few of us, ! we think, had supposed that the dead : hand of Democracy was laying its burden upon the next generation as is here indicated. The man who votes next November to put an end to Democratic rule in the United States will be voting not alone for his own good but for the benefit of his posterity. I EDITORIAL While on the subject of window boxes —in which movement to adorn the j city so many good people are interest j ed —it is only fair to ask: ■ "What are you doing about It?" HELPING BRAZII. SECRETARY REDFIELD has mad# a great pother about increasing our trade with South American countries and Secretary McAdoo was recently sent to a trade convention in j Buenos Aires for that purpose. If it | is the plan of administration officials ! to do all the boosting on the South : American side, they might as well spare themselves the trouble, because the Underwood near-free-trade tariff law is performing that feat with re markable success. Brazil, for instance, during the eight months period, July 1915, to February 1916, Inclusive, sent us SBB,- ' 000,000 worth of goods, compared with $64,000,000 for the correspond ing period, Jtily 1914, to February 1915, an increase of $24,000,000, while our exports to Brazil for the 1915~16 period increased but $10,800,000. A law that makes the handicap two to one against the United States may well be dispensed with, even If Its i author, Senator Underwood, thinks It | has not had a fair trial. I TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE " Obregon behaves so much like a i human being it is hard to believe he | is a Mexican. Senator Taggart's assertion • that a majority of the members of the Sen- j ate are neither statesmen nor orators makes one feel that he is In congenial j company. Says an Ohio professor—"Prepare j for war and you will get It!" Yes, , and don't prepare for war and you , will get it—ln the neck. For our own sake we hope some body will soon get up nerve enough to wear his old straw hat. t One of the many advantages of llv- < Ing in Camp Hill is that once a year your neighbor who owns a car Invites you to go with him on a two days' ( jaunt. This idea, by the way, isn't f copyrighted. Villa actually seems to be as dead as they say he Is. It's the easiest thing in the world to manage a woman—any single man . will tell you so. EDITORIAL^COMMENT Unless Mr. Roosevelt declares to the contrary, his statement printed to-day, "I have not expressed and do not in tend to express myself as for or against ] any man," can be taken as positive evl- j dence that he has not threatened to > bolt if Mr. Root be nominated.—New j York Sun. That was exquisite courtesy on the part of General Carranza in selecting | General Obregon to treat with us. It shows he didn't want to take any ad- ! vantage of our unpreparedness. Gent j eral Obregon also has only one arm. —Kansas City Times. England laughed at preparedness n"d now faces conscription. The les-• son for the United ,States ought to! be easy to read.—Kansas City Times. ' WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY What percentage of population is white, colored, foreign? 1910 census White, 55,502; col- i ored, 4,535; foreign, 4,149. What Is the square mile area of Har risburg? Land? Water? 5.655 square miles; land, 5.3R8 j square miles; water, 3.267 square miles. Harper's Weekly [Kansas City Times.] The passing of Harper's Weekly, j which has been acquired by the Inde pendent. closes the long career of a publication which was a pioneer in the 1 field of weekly journalism In America. | Started in 1857, its publishers found in the CiviJ War the opportunity which their enterprise turned Into an imme- ; dlate and lasting success. Pictorial art was then new in American journalism and the Weekly reaped the full reward of its bold and ambitious venture into that untried field. The Harpers boasted that every army officer who could make a sketch was on the Weekly's! srtaff. and as a result they were able to spread spirited pictures c' battlefields! before their readers with a wealth that astonished and delighted the fire sides of the North. Opposition Enemies only energize a man worth while. Opposition is the head-wind which can be used to great advantage by a real sailor who knows how to "tack." No opposition, no wind at all, and you are at the mercy of the ever changing tide. Tt takes opposition to jolt you into thinking along constructive lines. Put the man who knocks you on the pay roll. Add the name of the man who opposes you to your list of friends. The Silent Partner. Our Sawed Off Sermon From the Indianapolis Star A blind man in Ohio got married re cently and recovered his sight a few days later. Marriage is certainly a I great eye-opener. I Canada's Woman Officer^ r I j mmmmmmmmmsmmmm MRS. CLARA SANDERSON LAUB Mrs. Clara Sanderson Laub spent more than a year in hospital work in France, and then returned to Canada to do what she could to Induce men to enlist. This photograph shows her In her recruiting costume. She Is the only woman in Canada engaged wholly in this work, and she has brought many men to the colors. ""Potctcc* IK By the Ex-Committeeman Declaration by Mayor Thomas B. Smith that he was "tired of being made the goat" by politicians and that he wanted the policemen, firemen and city officeholders in Philadelphia to stay out of ( politics, the activity of prominent Republicans and Inde pendents In the campaign against the mayor's own loan bill as distinct from the transit loan and a conference held yesterday by Ex-Judge James Gay Gordon with District Attorney Rotan have caused Philadelphia more than ever to assume the high place in State politics to-day. The mayor broke loose yesterday after some incidents which tended to show that legal action against him was threatened because of bonding business, candidacy for delegate-at laige and activity of city officeholders in politics against the Shern law. It is even intimated that a demand will be made for the resignation of Wil liam 11. Wilson as director 'of safety. Probing of alleged ballot frauds in Vare wards and combing of McNiehol wards are only a few of the incidents. —Concerning the mayor's action the Philadelphia inquirer to-day says: "Declaring that 'the mixing up of politics with this administration must stop.' Mayor Smith yestet-day' served notice upon the police and firemen and other city employes that they must withdraw at once from all political activity. 'I am tired of being the goat for the warring political fac tions,' the Mayor asserted bitterly. 'lt must stop. As Mayor of Philadelphia 1 am endeavoring to give an efficient, olean, honest administration.' The bitter criticism directed against him and his administration by political op ponents during the past few days has aroused the Mayor, and he indicated a stop would be put upon practices which have brought discredit upon the police department. That em ployes allied with the Penrose-Mc- Nichol faction of the Republican party as well as those owing allegiance to the Vares, had been active in politics was the statement of the Mayor." —lmportant developments in the political life of the whole State are expected to be made at a dinner to be given this evening at Philadelphia at which a number of leading inde pendent Republicans, as well as a number of stalwarts will he present. Messrs. Arthur H. Lea, Alba B. John son, John C. Winston, Charles L. Mc- Keehan and Powell Evans are the hosts and their invitations read that the dinner will "consider" certain phases of the future of the Republican party and hear a discussion of this subject by Senator Boies Penrose, it is expected that both State and local politics, as well as the national poli tical situation will be touched upon by the Senator and other speakers. —-George D. Porter ivas allowed to sign his own bail bond yesterday in the libel suit brought against him by Speaker Charles A. Ambler. The hearing had some amusing Incidents, especially as Ambler said that Senator Penrose had been his sponser in politics. —J. Linn Harris, of Bellefonte, Pen rose "leadei —in —< 'entet — county, who was not reappointed to the Forstery Commissionn was here to-day attend ing to some matters. He declined to talk about the matter, but it is inti mated that he could have been reap pointed if he would have agreed to swing in with the administration forces in the present row. Harris will lead the Penrose forces in Center county. —Allegheny county Democrats have formed hostile camps and are saying unkind things about each other, the Palmer plan for harmony and a union on him having gone all to seed. —The fact that Senator W. E. Crow. James Mub'ihill and Michael Liebel, Jr., met yesterday In Pitts burgh has started no end of talk. They attended the wedding of Mulvihlll'a daughter and then had a conference, which according to the reorganized Democratic organs had a very sinister meaning. —Congressman Liebel is spending this week in Pittsburgh helping along the fight against Palmer and his pals and plans to visit other western counties. It is said that he regards his fight as .in good shape in Phila delphia and other eastern Counties. —Judge John M. Garman, Luzerne's Democratic leader, was here last eve ning in connection with a number of personal matters. He said that this was an Interesting year. New York Preparedness New York City has assumed its part in the organization of military bodies, through its co-operation with various official movements. The latest activity upon the part of the City Government is the forming of a mili tary unit composed of the entire police force of New York, number ing more than 10,000 men. As an army brigade, the police will be able to take the field at a moment's notice, in case of any attack or uprising, and to protect the city on both land and water. The police have been provided with rifles and $10,500 has been set aside with which to buy ammunition for use at target practice. The men have been Instructed to provide them selves with khaki uniforms and pre pare for service whenever they are called upon. The mounted police, with their trained and seasoned horses may be immediately transformed into a cavalry unit, or transformed into an infantry brigade, trained in the ex pert handling of rifles, machine guns, and revolvers. Mayor Mitchell was featured as one of the big figures in the Plattsburg camp last summer, and the present activities along the lines of military preparation by New York City, have his full approval.—, Longacre. Bits of Philosophy [From the' Silent Partner] To stumble into success means that you will eventually fall Into a failure. The mar. who never makes a mis take seldom makes anything worth while. The man who Invented Interest was no sloucn. Garden seeds that come from Wash ington are all well enough, but what we want is more statesmanship from this source. Advertising is a printed contract witnessed by thousands, and, when truthful, It is a powerful agent for building a business. When you hurt a customer you are liable to Injure several members of his immediate family of friends. Lace Curtain Protection Popular Science Monthly Tn the .summer, when the windows are opened, the housewife may be an noyed by the fact that the lace cur tains blow against the screens, and become rusty and dirty. This can be avoided by placing a small tack -at each side of the window and tying a piece of white cord from one tack, across to the other. This will keep the curtains clean. When a person sits near the window he may be both ered by the curtain blowing against him. Now, if another piece of strinß lis placed exactly where the first piece I was, and the curtain is placed between the two, it will be kept there; and 1 both difficulties will be solved. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY PINCHED ' *■'' - / - IT" --^T '' ' ''' / '' 1V V ' -o. <>• —From the !N>w York Worlfl. SOME PROFITABLE Money in Cats and Dogs By Frederic J. Haskin A WOMAN who had long made a hobby of cat raisin* was spend ing her vacation in a small New England village when she chanced to see a Maltese cat with curiously formed feet. An examina tion showed that the animal had six toes on each foot. The cat fancier quickly bought the freak and took it home with her. It bred true to its chance characteristic, and formed the basis of a strain of six-toed cats, whose novelty gave them kn unusual market value. The fortunate fancier still enjoys a substantial income from the sale of kittens. The breeding of dogs has been carried on in this country for half a century, hut the scientific breeding of cats is comparatively new. As yet, the business is in the hands of amateurs, who lire chiefly women. The oldest organization for the study and treatment of cats is the Beresford Cat. Club of Chicago, which is sixteen years old, but now there are cat clubs in almost every large city. It is to the cat associations of the country "that the amateur breeders -owe their success. They are judges who decide the value of a cat from the length of Its hair, color of its fur and eyes, and the size and contour if its body. Under their direction bulletins have been published which describe In de tail the characteristics not desirable in cats and those necessary for ad mittance to the annual shows. A cat who has a sufficient number of good Belief and Duty [New York Sun.] The President's warlike speech at the opening of the military encamp ment for young women left nothing to be desired In the way of accurate philosophical postulatlon. The President said to the military young women: "When you come to the last search ing analysis, we do not owe any duty except to those things we believe in." This is the crude doctrine which, if persisted In, would disorganize society and give us anarchy Instead of govern ment by law. When you come to "the last search ing analysis"—detestable phrase!—you find that you do owe duty to many things you may not believe in. A man may not believe in the Eighth Commandment, for example; some people don't; but be owes duty to it all the same, and he will find in "the last searching analysis" that if he does not respect and obey its prohibition he will get into trouble. Some Trick [The Silent Partner.l It is quite a trick to he able to fool yourself into the belief that you have fooled your wife, and then have her fool you into thinking that she doesn't know it. Novel Water Pump A novel pump has recently been in stalled upon a California irrigation project. It pumps the water from a flowing stream by using the force of the. stream to drive its wheel. This wheel, which is eight feet in diameter, in cludes eight broad paddles and is float ed upon two pontoons anchored to the bank of the stream. A driving rod from this wheel connects with the handle of an ordinary hand pump so that the.current in turning the wheel operates the pump, conveying water from the pump into galvanized iron piping. This wheel has a pumping ra pacity of 500 gallons of water raised to a iieifht of fifteen feet within twelve hours time. Bent Knees; Avoid Crash Here Is a hint for you. In case you should happen to he caught in a fall ing elevator, bend your knees. The other day an elevator In a 16-story building became disahled and fell from the seventh floor to the basement. There were seven passengers in the car. Alive to the danger, the car op erators shouted: "The car Is going to fall Turn your backs to the door and bend your knees!" Six of the seven passengers obeyed and escaped injury, although the car landed with a crash that sounded all through the building. The seventh rider failed to obey the order and suffered fractures of the right thigh bone and of the right knee and lacerations, because he was facing the door and the broken glass showered upon him when the car struck. Cupid Wages Warfare From the Washington Times. A certain army officer took In to dinner at a Washington party a young woman who had just returned from England. "The young soldiers." she said, "are having it all their own way with the girls over there now. Too much their own way, in fact. I know of a young lieutenant in the Blues who Is said to be engaged to seven girls sim ultaneously." "Oh, well," said the officer, with a deprecatory smile—"oh, well. Cupid, of course. Is using a machine gun .these days." points to attract the attention of the judges at one of these shows, is reg istered—an honor that is passed on to the glory of each of his descend ants. Occasionally new varieties appear, when they are added to the bulletin. One California woman, for example, decided to cross the black Persian cat with the gray Persian, In order to produce an animal combining some of the valuable points of each. The gray Persian is cobby and deep chested. with copper-colored eyes, while the black cat is slimmer and has big yellow orbs. The crossing resulted in a black cat with copper colored eyes, which, at the age of six weeks, sold for twenty-five dollars. Millions of dollars are now Invested in the dog-breeding business of the country, and yet the majority of the breeders are amateurs. A western girl, who had been wealthy in her own right, by a series of unfortunate investments was left penniless, with the exception of a pair of bull dogs which she refused to sell. She had chosen them on her birthday in preference to a diamond pendant offered her by an uncle, and for sentimental reasons she would not give them up. As in the fairy story, this attachment to the beasts was rewarded, for not long ago she found herself the possessor of a champion Boston bull pup, which sold at an (Continued on Page IB.) OUR DAILY LAUGH ▲ NATURAL. SPY QUESTION. beautifully J \ JET they dance to- l\> gether. Mrs W.: I j&J Yes. I wonder \ whose hus- A 7/ band her part ner is? OUR P RE HISTORIC PEOPLE. Her Mother: l*±rt Young Mr. \ Bo nc c h isel eent s ° u a ' ova Tf i IrtßMjW prettiest mar '±, j ' jSfIT ble slab you / j *y2c7fr ever saw and I if the carrier ' g dr °PP ed and smashed It. _J| \i| Violet Stone hammer: I should worry! He always did use broken USUALLY. He: So you vPi will marry no \ y man unless he ' She: Yes— v - and most he- i fJW* *; roes die, you j BKISAKINUI THE MIR ROR. _ She broke a mirror, on her hub And now she's sor- She doesn't —V« care about the dub, f ® ut ' tis "n ---J lucky there's tha rub That causes worry. GET IT OUT TO-NIGHT By Wins Dinger. Climb up to the attic Rummage 'round a bit Yank out your old straw hat Make sure that 'twill (It Then fill up the bath tub And with brush and soap Scrub the straw piece briskly Hoping against hope That when scrubbing's finished And your work is o'er. That 'twill look as nifty As It looked before. Do it, brother, do it— Do It now, to-day, For to-morrow has been i Declared straw hat day. lEbrning (that Much has been said In railroad circles about veteran employes. The other day during a conversation among railroad men someone asked: "Who is the youngest veteran you know?" The question has not been answered satisfactorily. Many of the railroad men who started with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Phila delphia and Reading Railway in Har rlsburg, and are still in service, are not old men. In the car inspecting de partment men are employed who have seen long service, but they are as young as the newcomers, judging ' from the work they perform. One railroad man took another view of ® the question. He called attention to the young men, who have between 30 and 35 years to go before becoming pensioners, but who have been in the service 20 years. Joseph McClintock. night assistant trainmaster for the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at DE started work when a schoolboy. For 15 years he has been holding important positions, and ac cording to his age has many years ahead of him before he joins the honor roll. There are many others in his class. The biggest line of tulips In Cen tral Pennsylvania, if not in the whole State, is in bloom in front of the State Capitol and the different varieties are making a showing which has attracted the admiration of many visitors and townspeople. The two beds aggregate almost 50 feet and there are several varieties, the most striking being th<? red and yellow. There are also some pink and white and red tulips which are well worth going to the 1111 l to see. The display this year is finer than ever. Veterans of strike service in the Na tional Guard are keeping close tabs upon the service which the Guards men are performing this year and are watching the developments in the Allegheny valleys. Some of the vet erans have gone through every strike in which the Guard has had a part since 1890 and they are telling some interesting experiences about the way things were handled in Homestead and the anthracite regions. This is the first time in a long while that the Guardsmen have been taken out. on strike service at (his period of the year. The strikes have generally been in hot summer time or about that por tion of the year when the early frosts come nipping around before daylight. Ed. S. Black, the well-known artist, was a very sleepy man on Wednesday of this week, and, in the language of a well-known national advertiser— there was a reason. Mr. Black is one of the most popular members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club. He attended the meeting Tuesday night and de clined an invitation to remain with friends in this city, saying that he preferred his own bed in his hand some summer home along the moun tains near Perdlx. lie boarded a late Pennsylvania Railroad train, dozed and got awake with the train passing an iron works and hearing the con ductor call Duncannon—six miles be yond Perdix. Hastily leaving the car he tried to find lodging in a hotel but everybody was asleep and declined absolutely to cet awake. Shivering and fatigued he finally pried up a window, crawled in. at the risk of being taken for a burglar, and went to sleep on one of those old-fashioned leather-backed couches that are as slippery as eels and as cold as ice bergs. Even a nearby table cover did not add sufficiently to his comfort so he tried a rocking chair for a time. At dawn he worked the chill and stiff ness out of his bones by a tional about town and took the earliest train back to Harrisburg. P. S.— He slept all Wednesday afternoon. • « • The advance of the rate for puddling iron to the $5.25 per ton mark in the Juniata and Lebanon Val leys which has .just been announced is the highest that the rate has been in many months. There were times in this community when the prosperity of the neighborhood was gauged by the rate paid to the puddlers and the rollers. The puddlers were numerous and were pretty free spenders and when they made good prices per ton the town knew it. Harrisburg does not have any puddle mills now. It used to have three big ones and the Chesapeake nail works was the last to go. • • # Robert V. Massey, who has just been appointed superintendent of the New York division of the Pennsylva nia railroad, is well known to many residents of this city. He was sta tioned at Mifflin as supervisor about fifteen years ago and was a frequent visitor to Harrisburg. » • • George R. Lewis, of Canton, who was appointed a member of the State Forestry commission yesterday is one of the big lumbermen of Bradford county and prominent in the affairs of the western end of,the county. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 Judge Peter A. O'Boyle who re fused citizenship papers to an 1. W. W. man at Wilkes-Barre. was for years one of the Democratic leaders of Luzerne and presided at State con ventions. , p. W. Leisenring, Allentown newspaperman, was hurt while show ing a friend about a newspaper plant at fhat city. The Rev. P. W. Grunert was in stalled as headmaster of Nazareth Hall school on the 161 st anniversary of the school. , ... «. —John Latta Ryan, who will be come'an embassy secretary In the diplomatic service, is a Philadelphian. —Thomas D. Fraizer. of Philadel phia, has been elected head of the national council of the Order of United Mechanics. DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrlshiirt steel billets are used for making shells for Uncle Sam? HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG The State street monument was erected four years after the war and prominent men attended its unveiling. t ——^ The Housekeeper's Story Here are the exact words of • an experienced housekeeper: "The goods I buy continually are those that are advertised widely and attractively In my favorite newspaper. I want no better guarantee than 'continued advertising.' When 1 see goods persistently advertised In a reli able newspaper 1 am certain that they are reliable for I know that a firm is not going to spend larßp (Turns advertising a product unless that product has merit." This statement proves that it is mighty poor policy for mer chants to attempt to sell to Rood customers any unknown, non advertised goods which are guar anteed neither by the merchant nor by the manufacturer.
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