8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE limiE Pounded its' Publiahed evenings except Sunday by THE TBI.EUHAPH PRINTING CO., Tilcfmrk Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prtt t and Editer-in-Ckitf F. R. OTSTER. Businiss Manager. QUS M. 6UBINMETZ, Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub -1 Ushers' Associa tion and Penn ■ylvanla AssocUt- Esstern «fflce. Has- Brook's. Fifth Ave nue Building, New Gts°Butlding"c'hl- Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa, as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <BsaS&%PsE> week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally CTrraif circulation for tk( three oontbi ending April 30, lVli, 22.341 These flgnrea arc net. All returne*- nnaold and damaged copies deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY II The way to find out truth is by others mistakes. —SELDOX. THE TEN-MILL TAX RATE THE advance of the school tax rate j In Harrisburg from to 10 ! mills will be received with a wry | face by the average taxpayer, j But there is no use in complaining. As President Stamm says, the present ' School Board finds the increase abso-"i lutely necessary. For the past live j years the board has been living beyond its means; spending more than its in come and hoping that increases of, assessed valuations would in the end 1 make up the constantly growing de- j ficiencies. This was, to say the least, 1 very poor business. If the tax rate had been advanced to meet the grow ing expenses as they fell due. only a fraction of the rate that must now be ' levied would have been necessary md j the burden would have been divided over a period of five years. In his statement to the Telegraph yesterday President Stamm calls at tention to some places where money tan be saved in the operations of !he school district's affairs. Beyond doubt j the new board will see to it that these ' savings are made. President Stamm j has shown a disposition to go to the' very bottom of School Hoard activities j and he and those associated with him will no doubt scan very closely ex- i penditures for the coming year. There is just one note of comfort in i the announcement accompanying the! advance of tax rate, and that is Mr. I Stamm's opinion that the 10-mill rate; will cover all of the expenses of the proposed high school loan. People generally have coine to the under standing that the erection of a high school building can be no longer de layed. Harrisburg boys and girls especially those who cannot hope to go to college—are being robbed of edu cational advantages every day that conditions are allowed to remain as tliey are now, and with the large in crease of pupils expected next year it will be almost impossible to conduct the high school with anything like, efficiency. The already frightfully overcrowded conditions will be made infinitely worse. The time is at hand when we must build a high school, ! either by excessive direct taxation or by loan, and it is very likely that under the conditions that prevail the proposed loan will be passed by a big majority. MAItAHE SCHI MAXX-HEINK THE large audience that greeted •Madame Schumann-Heink on the occasion of her concert here on Tuesday evening is proof positive that Harrisburg will patronize the best musical offerings when the opportunity is offered. In this conjunction it may not be amiss to add that Harrisburg has seldom heard such a remarkably pleasing program as that presented by this wonderful woman. • It was quite like her to open the concert with a religious composition and to range all the way from that through the depths of soul sorrow and over the heights of spiritual exaltation to the delightfully childish selections with which the program closed. Not the least commendable feature of the evening was the plea made by the management for the Harrisburg Choral Society, which brings the Phila delphia Orchestra here to-morrow afternoon and which gives its annual recital in the evening. The Choral Society has done much for the musical education of Harrisburg and deserves the patronage which the management of the Schumann-Heink concert rec ommended. THE CHAMBER'S REFERENDUM THE Chamber of Commerce of the United Stales is playing an im portant part »n the regulation of business conditions throughout the country through the expression of sentiment by the business men of the ■country represented In the various local organizations that are members of the national chamber. The power # of the referendum vote in influencing the passage of laws directly touching the business interests of the country is of an importance that merits the at tention of every business man. At this time the Harrisburg Cham ber of Commerce is co-operating with the National Chamber of Commerce, of which it Is a member, in recording the feeling of the business world on the question of maintenance of resale prices as embodied in the Stephens- THURSDAY EVENING, Ashurst bill now before Congress, a bill that in its ramifications is far reaching and of great importance. Briefly, the bill aims to permit the manufacturer to stipulate the mini mum price at which his goods may be sold by the wholesaler and by the retailer to the ultimate consumer, for the purpose of preventing the cutting of prices on tradcmarked articles which the manufacturer apparently feels he has a right to control until they reach the consumer. Its purpose is to establish and maintain a uni formity of prices throughout the process of distribution from manufac turer to ultimate consumer. Members of the Chamber of Com merce are urged to debate the matter carefully in their own minds with a view to reaching a conclusion for or against the bill on its merits and not because this or that individual is voting a certain way, or because the committee appointed to consider the problem happens to have decided, in i the majority, in favor of the bill. The I arguments on both sides have certain features that are convincing. Naturally the vdjer is going to be somewhat Influenced by the more or less close relation to his own business involved in the passage or defeat of the bill. Yet there are a sufficient number who will broad-mindedly decide the ques tion for themselves wholly along altruistic lines, and these are the ones to whom the National Chamber must look for the opinion of the city of Harrisburg as represented in what is its virtual trade commission. He who Is in favor of the bill's pass age expresses the opinion that price maintenance prevents price slashing and unfair competition hurtful to the small business man; that maintenance of prices Is in accord with the argu- ment against trusts, that they attain their supremacy by cutting prices and driving their weaker competitors out of business; that price maintenance represents sound merchandizing meth ods in that any article of known value may pass from manufacturer at the lowest cost for distribution and yet give each link in the chain of dis tributors the fairest remuneration for their services; that the consumer is at tracted into the store of the big re tailer by a great reduction in the price of a nationally advertised article merely in order to sell him other goods at the expense of the small retailer who cannot afford to cut. He who opposes the passage of the bill claims that the merchant's inde pendence is assailed if he is not per mitted to carry on his business to suit the exigencies of his trade: that he may find himself on occasion with a big supply of goods on hand, facing a big loss unless he be permitted to sell at a reduced price: that the courts have handed down decision!; guaran teeing freedom of conirol to the whole saler and retailer by deciding that control passes out of the hands of the manufacturer with the transfer of the goods; that the maintenance of resale prices places no check upon the manu facturer; and that there is nothing to prevent the manufacturer from refus ing to sell to the wholesaler or retailer unless the latter agree to sell at a fixed price. The attention of members of the I Chamber of Commerce is called to 'he i fact that in casting their vote for or : against the bill they are influential in expressing the mind of the business , ' element throughout the country, and Congress Is powerfully influenced by ' the opinion of this most important voice in the interests. Without entering into a discussion of the merits of this particular bill, it is becoming a grave question in the minds of many a business man as to how much farther we are to go with laws passed by Congress and the State legislatures with a view to regulating business. This newspaper believes in j the fundamental necessity for proper regulation, but there is a limit to all I ihings, and if we are not already past the point where we may go with jus- I tice and safety, we -ire fast approach ing it. HIRAM JOHNSON'S HOPES GOVERNOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California, has written an open i letter in which he declares that ihe will remain a Progressive as long! las that party lasts—or at any rate, until the Republican and Progressive I conventions at Chicago take "joint ac tion upon common ground." The Gov- ' ernor adds that the voters who stood j with the Progressives in 1912 are as •■willing and eager this v4ar as they Were four years ago to support "a for i ward-looking Republican." Such a candidate will be the prod . uct of the Republican convention. No body expects any other result —unless it be the small group of irreconcil ables to whom words mean more than men or deeds and who cling to "re actionary"—without defining it —as an Indian clings to his fetich. The Issues upon which ihe great | division arose in Republican ranks ! four years ago are not in evidence | now. One paramount duty this year confronts all the men who voted i against Wilson in 1S12: the restora- I tlon of a real American administra tion to power. In this may be found | "joint action upon common ground" such as Governor Johnson hopes for. These hopes he shares with all Re publicans and with almost all Pro gressives. Republicans will do noth ing to dash those hopes to the ground. Let us hope that Governor Johnson and the other remaining Progressives will likewise conduct themselves. MASS MEETING POSSIBLE A COMMITTEE of the (Demo cratic) House of Representa tives has decided that the (Democratic) District Attorney in New York is guilty of contempt of the House and that he must be cited to appear to defend him i self. If everyone in the country who Is likewise in contempt of the House should be cited to keep Mr. Mar shall company the gathering would look like a gigantic mass meeting. The coming of the Philadelphia Or chestra to Harrisburg is not an ordi nary event. Encourage the Choral 1 Society and give yourself a treat by at tending the concert. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The young man In the Columbus hospital who has forgotten his past lias accomplished something that many others have tried In vain to do. —General Hang Hung is at the head of the Chinese revolution and it may not be very long until they will have hung Hang. —By the way, in these days of ris ing coal prices, what has become of that Altoona shoemaker who was go ing to turnt ashes Into a fuel equal to anthracite? —"Brick prices are going up," says a trade journal. For the information of contractors we arise to remark that we have a fine little collection of bricks collected during the painful processes of the years, each painted lightly with gilt, that we'll let go real cheap. —A skunk dealer wants to know of Mayor Meals how much he'll charge for a license to peddle young skunks for pets and the Mayor doesn't now. We suggest that about a million dol lars a minute might be about right. —The only gratifying thing about this Mexican muddle is that Europe is In no position to twit us about condi tions below the Rio Grande. "editorial comment One trouble with the pacifists is they do not realize that it takes two to keep the peace.—New York Herald. Mr. Henry Ford now says he believes In reasonable preparedness. Who is corrupting this man?— New York Tri bune. At least Villa and the Crown Prince have proved that dying Is not nearly so fatal as it once was.—Chicago Daily News. The Old Songs of Zion [Kansas City Star.] The Star has received the followng etter from a Kansas City subscriber: Last Sunday night 1 attended our church the Linwood Boulevard Methodist—and I took note of how many of the audience took part in the singing. Not more than one third of the people even looked into the hymn books. and not that large a percentage of the con- ■ gregatlon helped in the singing. ' The reason was obvious. The hymns were new and unknown to the congregation. I noticed this particularly, because in the after noon I attended the dedication of the "Billy" Sunday tabernacle, and there the choir and the congrega tion sang over and over again the old songs such as "Nearer, My .God. to Thee." "What a Friend We Have In Jesus," "Sweet Hour of Prayer," "I Need Thee Every Hour." The greater number of those who attend church on Sunday night or Sunday morning attend but the one service In the week. The only chance tliey have to take part in the services is in the singing. If they sing it must be some song that is familiar to them. Moreover it must be a song of "moving power," if it gets hold of them. I am writing this letter to ask the Star to insist upon a return to the grand old-time hymns that stir the soul, inspire the people to sing and make it worth while to go to church." But the Star is not going to do any thing of the kind. Far be it from this monument of grace and mercy to give advice about the conduct of re ligious meetings, •although, heaven knows, some people have accused It of trying to run everything else under the sun. But it has printed the forgoing let ter from a member of th.e laity for two reasons. First, because the Star lias given columns of space to the opinion of dignitaries and to "them which were of reputation," as to why people do not attend church, and it deems it no more than fair to hear what the meek and lowly laymen think of it. Secondly, here is a wonderful trib ute to what the writer calls the "mov ing power" of song. When the peo ple meet together in a really demo cratic way, they sing. When there is fellowship to be cemented, men sing. When the people are happy they sing. And, as the writer of the foregoing letter says, they must sing the old songs. There is hope so long as men sing. Paul and Silas in the dungeon cracked the wall of the jail at Philippl with one of the old songs of Zion. But when the Hebrew children were hope less captives in Babylon, they hung their harps on the willows and said in despair: "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land." It would be impossible to Imagine (two men quaireling over useless words of doctrine if they could be quieted long enough to sing together: Men do not commit crimes while singing "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," nor fall into temptation to the tune of "Take the Name of Jesus With You." The old songs are the marching tunes for the church in all the ages. From Wesley to Moody the old-time songs of "moving power," that the Methodist brother mentions, have marked time for the saints on the pilgrimage through the "wilderness." Clear down the alphabet, from "Arti I a Sol dier of the Cross" to "Yield Not to Temptation?" the old hymnals are full of trumpet calls to the fighting spirit | of the church. No wonder the Methodist layman who has been brought up on these old songs, as he gels a whiff of the re vival spirit moving the pity, begins to yearn again for the "moving power" ; of the familiar hymns. Trailing Arbutus Trailing arbutus or Mayflower was the first flower that greeted the Pil grims when they landed at Plymouth. It Is also called ground laurel. Epigea repens is the botanical name. It is abundant along the eastern coast of Massachusets and Maine and is oc casionally found throughout the Mid die .States as far south as Virginia. It is an evergreen shrub, creeping on the ground, hiding itself under what ever may be upon the surface. Its rose tinted flowers grow In clusters. The beauty of the flowers and their rich odor, together with the tendency of the plant to hide Itself, has caused it to be celebrated as an emblem of modest worth. Trailing arbutus can be grown in a shaded garden border or in a bed close to the west side of a house by removing the plant from the woods in the autuml, being careful not to dis turb or injure the roots. The soil should be removed for a depth of a foot or eighteen Inches from the place where the plants are to set. and the hole In which it Is to grow should be filled up with soli from the woods or leaf mould. This plant, like the blueberry, can be grown in sour soil, but will not live in soil that Is not at least slightly acid. The application of lime or lime soil is fatal to both these plants. After transplanting protect the, plant from the sun and wind by a light cov ering of leaves. Clumps carefully taken up in the autumn and placed in I a cool greenhouse In February will I flower in March. H ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ToUUct Ck "^LKKCiftoaKia By the Ex-CommiUeeman The extent of the row which has broken out in the Democrtic party be cause of the manner in which A. Mitchell Palmer has run the machine is shown up by the line-up of the favorites in the machine advertise ments. A few years ago Wilson Bailey, W. N. McXair, Jesse H. Wise. W. A. Hagerty and Martin Jennings Caton were hand in glove with Palmer and his pals. Xow they are not on 4 he slate, and the machine is paying good money to advertise the fact. The daily interchange of remarks between Palmer and is becom ing amusing. Liebel came out in Philadelphia last night with a sharp retort to Palmer s speech of the night before and stated that the troubles of the Democracy were due to incompe tent leadership. —lt is intimated in Philadelphia that Senator. Penrose may fight' the Smith loan bills. This will add to the complications of an already much mixed campaign. More than one million stickers bear ing the name of Henry Ford have been sent broadcast throughout the State of Pennsylvania by the Patriotic Peace league of Philadelphia. According to J. Augustus Cadwallader, the chair man of the campaign committee, the sticking of Mr. Ford's name on the ballot in the approaching preferential primaries will be a protest against the "preparedness madness" which has overtaken the nation. The Detroit peace advocate Is not directly con cerned in the movement to have Penn sylvania fall in line with Michigan and Xcbraska In indorsing him for Ihe presidency of the United States. Cad wallader declared this emphatically yesterday. He exhibited a telegram from Mr. Ford's secretary which read: "Go as far as you like on the sticker proposition. Mr. Ford, of course, will take no active part in such work. However, it will have his approval." —lt goes without saying that Re publican voters In Dauphin and ad joining counties will give a fine com plimentary vote for W. Harry Baker, of this city, for national delegate-at large next Tuesday. Mr. Baker's name comes pretty well up on the list and regardless of factional matters he will be given strong support here abouts. Friends of Mr. Baker say that he will receive a good vote all over the State because of his wide ac quaintance to say nothing of his place on the ballot. —Another man who will be well supported hereabouts as a personal compliment will be Guy W. Moore. Mr. Moore is manager of the Wilkes- Barre Record and one of the promi nent Republicans of Luzerne county. He has many friends hereabouts who are active in his behalf as the right type of man to be sent to Chicago. —Governor Brumbaugh and At torney General Brown have not yet discussed the petition tiled yesterday by Max Kauffman, of Philadelphia on behalf or Charles S. AVood. of Phila delphia. praying for the removal of the judge as president judge of the municipal court of Philadelphia. There are numerous allegations, among them one that the judge is a candidate for Republican national delegate and supported by Penrose-MeNlcliol peo ple. The judge being elected by the people could only be impeached by the Legislature. The petition alms to have his presidency taken away. If the petition is entertained the Gov ernor will fix a hearing later on. —A Pittsburgh dispatch says: "Har mony among Republicans in Pitts burgh and Allegheny county was rudely jolted when, following Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong's stand in favor of George M. Hosack and against State Senator Charles J. Magee, for the Senatorial nomination In the Forty-third district, friends of Magee, who is a brother of Public Service Commissioner William A. Magee, local Brumbaugh leader, threatened re prisals. The Mayor acted when Sena tor Magee. though running as a "Wet" candidate for renomination. was found lending every possible aid to the success of Brumbaugh ami local option. City and county offi cials are practically a unit In favor of an unpledged delegation to the Re publican national convention, and for Harmon L. Kephart for State Treas urer and Charles A. Snyder for Audi tor General. The belief most gener ally held here is that the fight is all over, and that the regular organiza tion forces are certain of a two-to one victory over the Governor in next Tuesday's primaries." Wartime Heroines [Omaha Bee] The reading world is so well nigh surfeited with stories of battles and bombardments that it gives precious little attention to the saving side of the human slaughter. Heroes mo nopolize the limelight just now. but the deeds of heroines are equally val orous and infinitely more merciful. The humanizing touch given to war by Florence NightfVigale is systema tized and modernized by the women nurses in the present war. and they perform their duties with the energy, endurance, kindliness and patience characteristic of the sex. Where in former wars hundreds sufficed, now thousands are required to co-operate with doctors at the front and in the countless hospitals sheltering wound ed soldiers. Few people at a distance realize the magnitude and horrors of the task. The intensity of the fight ing and the variety of means em ployed give an inkling of the maimed I and mutilated humanity constantly requiring attention. Thus the trying and agonizing work goes on almost i day after day. and it is not surpris ! ing that scores of heroines sacrifice themselves In the service. These are the unsung heroines of the war, I whose deeds glorifv womankind. No Cause For Staggering [From Philadelphia Bulletin.] First impressions of the General Na val Board's report that it will require three-quarters of a billion dollars to put the United States navy In second place among the fighting fleets of the world may be staggering, but a mo ment's contemplation should serve to convince any citizen that there Is no cause for halting, shaking, or even hesitating, If the estimates are com petent. A quarter of a billion dollars a year is not an impossible undertaking for a nation with the income and resources of the United States. If that Is the price of national safety and of security against attack from other powers, it. can be paid and should be paid. If it is deemed undesirable to provide for the entire expenditure by current taxa tion, the creation of a competent navy for the defense of the country is in the nature of a semipermanent invest ment, and, by all principles of sound j public finance, is a fit object for a bond issue. | The only question before Congress and before the public in the problem of naval construction should be —what is necessary, what is adequate for safety? When that shall be answered, the program should be planned for completion In the shortest possible time. And the question of finance may I well come last. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS —From thf X. Y. S«in. PURSUITS FOR C By Frederic J. Haskin THERE is a woman in Ohio who is r earning a living raising dish- j cloths. No long ago she invested 10c in seed and started growing luffa plant which flourished easily and re quired but litte attention. The ex periment was such a financial success that she bought more seed, and now i she has a small farm of luffa. which is a thick, spongy gourd in great de mand for dishcloths and bath sponges. Last year, she sold over a thousand to one garage company alone, to be used in washing muddy automobiles. The dish cloths is not the only use which can be made of the luffa gourd, j Cut into strips, it makes a sort of lace straw used in the millinery busi- j ness, and is admirably adapted to the ; making of flower baskets for which ] there is a large market, especially around Easter. Yet, in spite of its | utilitarian value and the fact that it will grow in almost any part of the United States, few persons are en- > gaged in raising It, and this woman probably never would have thought of it had she not been in need of out- i door employment because she had | tuberculosis. There are many outdoor occupa tions practicable for the tuberculosis patient. If It is only driving a ma chine, running a street car, policing traffic or acting as "bait" in a sight- j seeing car. the tubercular is better off in his own native surroundings than | WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB , LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of [ the tlarrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presenter! at the drganiza- | tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What Is the cost of city government | for 1916? $599,379.82. I Tragic and Amusing One of the tragic and amusing l things of life is a love affair between a couple who go together a long time, and finally the woman becomes afraid j to marry the man, and the man be- j comes afraid to marry the woman; so j they drift apart.—Howe's Monthly. Much Better It would be eventually better to put oft until to-morrow what you should do to-day, if in doing to-day you are ; compelled to undo it all to-morrow. The Silent Partner. [OUR DAILY LAUGH to r— ffc LOOKS f EMM good. Wvk What dit ™9 you think of jtjfc the prospects? Fine with » ' me. I'm en v I ify i heiress and sh« • as on 'y on * other flancc beside me. HFJ.P 'EM Al-OXG By Winn Dinger Season opened yesterday, Cockill's bunch did roam Down to York and won the day— Brought the bacon home. Here's a hope they'll have a streak. Winning day by day, Till they get a lead that none E'er can snatch away. But they've got to have some help, Many games to win. Great, big crowds a-rootln', bo, With a noisy din. None can play to empty stands— So, come be a sport. Blow two bits whene'er you can. Give 'em your support. MAY 11, nrn. I those afflicted, who without sufficient | funds, rush to Colorado, and the l ; southwest where many of them be [ come dependent on charity. . | There is no doubt but that the west ern climate has tremendous health giving qualities, but it cannot do bat- I tie against the disease when accom panied by homesickness, lack of em ployment and consequent lack of employment and consequent lack of proper food. Some enterprising per sons in the incipient stage, it is true, have found congenial occupation dur ing their sojourn the tubercular ; colonies. A number of women, for example, have opened outdoor board- I ing houses. One woman who went to Arizona four years ago to be cured I or tuberculosis, lived in a tent, pre paring her own food as best she could. ] As she grew stronger she took a cou ple of boarders, serving the meals in her own small habitat. Gradually ! the fame of her cooking spread until now she has a large tent accommo dating 4 0 boarders, with a small ad- I joining tent containing the kitchen. ! Here she has two oil stoves, one of ; which is equipped with an oven, and , employs a Mexican girl to help her with the cooking. Work for the tubercular patient must of necessity be light and of an | intermittent nature, so that he may [Continued on Page 13] ' | THE STATE FROM miQW Newspaper headlines of late contain I many references to "dimpled rook j ies." .Evidently the stern board of ; censors that has established itself to j keep all inquisitive newspaper report ers outside the fold of the training I camp for women down Washington I way has slipped a cog or some of the ! pretty soldier girls themselves have : granted interviews on a few min ' utes' furlough. Under "Greenville Briefs." a per i sonal item refers to a Miss Morneweck. j Meaning no disrepect to the name, it I sticks in Qur mind and we just bad to ! print it. Rumor hath it that the Sharon bar bers intend to raise the price of hair cuts. to go into effect June first. We prophesy that there will be many a reversion to type us a consequence. The Bethlehem soccer team claims the national championship by defeat ing the Fall River. Mass., team. "With a four-horsepower engine," 'says the Butler Citizen, "a motor driven plow of English invention cuts I a six-inch furrow at a speed exceeding j three miles an hour." i Ode to Baby Week, by Mcl,and burgh Wilson —"Hushaby baby, I sang 'as I tramped, notice your name on the week has been stamped." Paus | ing a moment to swallow a tear, "Gee," cried the infant, "I want the whole year."—To be continued von Saturday. "Falls Creek had considerable of an excitemnt yesterday when James Mc- Cullough, a well-known resident, evi dently became mentally unbalanced, 1 took possession of the home of James I McCormick, a neighbor, and after i arming himself with a butcher knife, | defied the officers and a crowd that | gathered for several hours." The Kane Daily Republican. The recent payment of a time-worn warrant by Auditor General Powell in favor of John Gilpin suggests the pos sibility that It may have been partly to compensate the poor man for his un comfortable horseback ride so inter estingly recounted by the poet Cow per. "The irony of freight" is that which announces, the reception of orders at the plant of the Standard Steel Car ! Company in New Castle for 2.500 ad ditional freight cars when the shop 1 has been closed owing to trouble witb employes over wages. The Johnstown board of school di rectors has circumvented Dan Cupid by stating that "the marriage of a wo man teacher during the year for which she Is appointed shall be regarded as equivalent to her resignation and a cancellation of her contract. Poor old "Cupe" gets it right and left. The Punxsutawney Spirit safely re marks that It likes books because It goes to thein for help and they always give the best that is In them. For t which the Spirit Is politely requested I to "set them up in the other avenue." Abetting (Chat Harrisburgers who have traveled through Canada have often remarked the difference between English and American public buildings and how the official residence of the head of a province, and, in case of some of the old cities, of the mayor, is so far ahead of what we have here in the Union. Ottawa furnishes an excellent idea of how the official home of the titular head of a country, if not the actual governing officer, can be made most attractive. The residences of the provincial governors are far and away ahead of the homes of the governors# of many of our own States and as for city buildings they compare very favorably with those of cities of the same size in this country. The Year Book of the Toronto Board of Trade, which has just reached this city, con tains a striking Illustration of the dif ference in official homes. The resi dence of the lieutenant governor of Ontario is shown in a handsome pic ture. It looks more like the Newport residence of a multimillionaire than anything else and the contrast be tween it and the mansion of the Gov ernor of the Imperial Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a bit disconcerting. The Canadian official has a palace. The Governor of Pennsylvania has two remodeled dwellings thrown into one. The homes of the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts are nothing to brag of. The Ontario residence puts them all in the shade. It strikes home to us with force just now because the State is clearing the way for adequate Cap itol Park property. » ♦ • Pedestrians who cross the Mulberry street viaduct to the center of the city witness a pleasing sight. Where the bridge crosses Paxton creek the pigeons by the score congregate for a morning bath. The concrete bottom of the creek permits the pigeons to j slip daintily into the .water to the depth desired, where they flutter and splash like so many beauties along the beach at a seaside resort. • • • When the Harrlsburg Rotarians go to Cincinnati for the international convention in July they will visit the zoo to call on an alligator named for one of their members, Captain J. B. Kemper, U. S. A., at present the regular army expert with the Na tional Guard of Pennsylvania and I stationed in this city. When the Am j erican troops went to Cuba in '9B an officer friend of the captain caught a baby alligator and sent it alive to : Kemper, at that time in Cincinnati, in the Fall of '9B Kemper was called |to the Philippines as one of the offi | cers in command of troops sent there to put down disorders, and he pre j sented the alligator to the Cincinnati | zoo. The manager promptly named 'the animal "Jimmy Kemper" and he i has since grown to be one of the big- I gest attractions in the gardens. The ! Rotarians have appointed President | Arthur D. Bacon to shake hands with I "Jimmy" and feed him peanuts, or 1 whatever it. is that alligators like as ' well as elephants do peanuts. * * * Robert H. McClean, well known in | this city as a former circulation man ! ager of the Telegraph, has just been elected to the unique position of treas ] urer of the Caswell Club in New York City, where Mr. McClean is connected in a business way with the New York ! Evening Post. "The club is named I after a perfecto favored by New York ' editors," says the Fourth Estate, and i every Saturday afternoon the Cas i wellites Indulge themselves with j i swim in the new pool of the WooP worth Building. The Saturday after noon party is the climax of the week j and the Caswellites consider it one of 1 the most important of the rites which are a part of the organization. One of Mr. McClean's friends has given out the tip that about the most - arduous of the duties of the new 1 treasurer is handling the swimming pool accounts of the members. » « • \ Unless you're something of a j chicken fancier or at least have some j knowledge of chickens, at what age they're best for all purposes, etc., you probably won't appreciate the humor I of this story as much as County Com j.missioner Harry C. Wells, ex-sheriff land chicken farmer. "Some years •■ago," said the commissioner, "I asked Mr. William B. McCaleb. superin tendent of the Philadelphia division '.'ot the Pennsylvania Railroad if T ' couldn't present him with some nice , i chickens, and suggested that if he ; would state the number, sex and age Ihe desired, I'd be glad to accommo date him. And a few days he wrote I back." concluded the ex-sheriff with | twinkling eyes, "that he'd 'like a I rooster and about six hens, of—oh, five lor vears of age'.'" * « • Governor Brumbaugh had troubles 'of his own to get from Erie to this city on Tuesday in time to look after i some matters at the Capitol. The ! Governor spoke on Monday night at Krie. The best train connection he i could make was by going to Buffalo. ISo he left Erie at night, about 11 I o'clock, and went to Buffalo where he 1 1 arrived at 1. He left the lake city the next morning at 9 and got here at 5. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" General E. deV Morrell. for years connected with the Philadelphia school board, has resigned. Ex-Judge Dimner Beeber, of Philadelphia, is making an tnvestiga l tion into military training In schools. 1 Ex-Representative J. W. Carson is president of the Chamber of Com merce of Beaver. C. U S. Tongley, president of the State "Street Railway Association, has ' been elected a delegate to the.general I convention of the Episcopal church. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~ Tliat Steelton steel Is to he used in tlic new piers being built in the North River at New York. HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city's first town hall Is sup posed to have been located on the River Eront near Mulberry street. ,—a Applied Proverb of Modern Business "Faint hrart nr'or won fat dol lar*." Or as John Wanamaker once stated another phase of the equa- U °AdvertislnK ts no business for 1 the quitter." The man that sticks at it wins. The article with merit that Is advertised day in and day out is the article that turns profit* for Its sponsors. The effect of advertising is cumulative. Returns grow big ger with every repetition. There are advertisers using this newspaper that increase thelc space year after year. And each year their sales en ' large. They are men who And that advertising pay*. IV
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