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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY EVENING, MAT 5
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Ifs veil to be up to date, but it's I
foolish to borrow trouble in advance.—
The Dait/t Nbwb.
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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
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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.
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Canada's Woman
Officer^
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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
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—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
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OUR DAILY LAUGH
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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.
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/ 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.