8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ilji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulletins. Federal Square. E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres'l and Edttorin-Chiet V. K. OYSTER, Business Manager. QU6 M. SDEINMETZ, Managing Editor. j Member • American Newspaper _ Pub laylvania Assoclat- Eastern office. Has- Brook's, Fifth Ave nue Building. New Gcs Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg-, Pa., as second class matter. -ajgKgi-. By carriers, six cents a <T?slaK».±sitE> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally average circulation for tfca three montui ending April 30, 1810, ir 22,341 it Theae flgnrea are net. All returned, anaold and damaged coplea deducted. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15. PROGRESS IB The law of life; man is not man as yet. — BROWNING. THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS THROUGHOUT Pennsylvania to morrow the voters of all parties will choose their candidates, decide the issues and express their preferences for party leadership. Not withstanding that the campaign lead ing up to the primaries has been vigor ously waged and that some of the is sues to be decided are of weighty im portance, all forecasters agree that the vote is likely to be light. Thousands of voters persist in the notion that the primary elections are of minor im portance and that it matters little one way or the other whether they partici pate or not. In any case this is a wrong view, and especially is the indifference of the people to he deplored at this time. The primary elections of to-morrow of fer the voter opportunity to express his convictions and his opinions on na tional, State and local candidates and platforms. After the primaries and the national conventions, State and local issues of very necessity must be subordinated to the great and all-im portant national questions to be decid ed at the November elections. Party organization control, local option and a dozen other matters should be de cided at the polls to-morrow. Repub licans should vote at this time as they feel on these subjects. The primaries must see an end of contests within the Republican party. Every effort hereaf ter must be bent toward the great duty of replacing the present danger ous influences at Washington with an administration that will in all things voice the sentiments and spirit of the American people. To this task all others must be secondary. The voters will decide upon the issues and the candidates to-morrow. There can be no appeal at this crisis in the affairs of the nation from the decision of the primaries. That this is the dominant thought is indicated in the attitude of Republicans all over the country who are urging the party leaders to har monize differences with a view to pre senting a united front in this year's epoch-making campaign. THK COMPROMISE ARMY BILL THE compromise army bill agreed upon by the House and Senate conferees on Saturday la a much better measure than that which the House at first insisted upon. But it is not nearly so effective a measure as the Senate bill was. That is the high est praise one may pass upon It. As a whole It is inadequate. The preparedness program of the Demo cratic Congress, which the President swung around the circle to defend, has dwindled down to an actual regular army fighting force of 175,000 men, although the paper value of the in creased army is given as 206,000. The volunteer army feature has dis appeared in its entirety. President Wilson, if he signs this measure, as he undoubtedly will, makes himself impossible as a "preparedness" candidate and at the same time by his bigger army and bigger navy decla rations and speeches has alienated himself from the pacificist element. His failure to put over the "prepared ness" program he advocated has weak ened lilm tremendously before the people, without gaining for him any friends of those who have been op posed to increasing the national arma ment. CLEAN-CP WEEK WHEN the American army went to Cuba It found Havana a plague-ridden spot, with the death rate high and health precautions few. When the army left Cuba. Havana was- one of the healthiest cities to be found anywhere. The Americans wrought no miracles to accomplish this wonderful result. They simply cleaned up the town and made It impossible for fever mosquitoes to breed. In Harrisburg to-day the local Health Board begins the semiannual Clean-Up Week with the request that all property owners and householders co-operate to rid the city of lirt, which is the typhoid fever fly's favorite breeding place. "Swatting the fly" is all very well. But It would be much better if there were no flies to "swat." Now is the time to prevent them from breeding MONDAY EVENING, and cleaning up the dirty spots is the | way to eliminate fly. The typhoid fever fly Is to Harrls- J what the yellow fever mosquito was to I Havana, only worse In Its way, for | while the mosquito carried yellow fever alone, the fly carries all manner of death-dealing germs, and any one of a dozen diseases may be traced to it. Surely we as citizens can do for Harrisburg what the army did for Havana. / A substitute for gold Is reported to have been discovered. But, like Mr. Wilson's substitute for Americanism. It will never replace the original. PULLING DOWN HIS FLAG IN view of the Inconsistent economic theories advocated by his paper, it is not surprising that Josephus | Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, has taken ! his name from the top of the editorial page of the Raleigh, North Carolina, jNews and Observer. Daniels has edited that paper for many years. He has always been a rank free trader. He is opposed to the principle and practice of a protective tariff which encourages capital to invest in indus trial enterprise for the employment of labor In the United States. While he was personally conducting his paper, |it maintained a fairly consistent attl itude on this subject. During the 1912 campaign he was manager of the Democratic publicity bureau, and as a consequence became Secretary of the Navy. Since then some un-Democratic doctrines have been creeping into his paper and two weeks ago he took his name from the top of the editorial page. In a late issue of the paper a staff writer, discussing a local indus trial question, says: Men with money do not put it in to anything unless they are able to ! see prospects that it will come back and bring more with It. Such men weigh the various factors that count, and when they have decided on their course, it is because they have the evidence. All of which is exceedingly sound Republican doctrine. Experience has shown that men with money do not put it into American factories or pro-' ductlve industry of any other kind when a Democratic tariff law invites the foreign producer to come into our market with the product of his cheap labor and sell at a price which de stroys every prospect that the Ameri- can investor's monpy will ever "come back and bring more with It." Men j with capital to invest weigh all of the j various factors and among these is i that of foreign competition. If it is a desirable thing to induce men to in vest in enterprise in North Carolina, In the territory in which Josephus Daniels' paper gets its patronage, then it is also desirable to induce men to invest in enterprise in every section of j the United States. Experience has shown that nothing will help more In j this direction than a tariff law built I on sound protective principles. The | staff writers of Mr. Daniels' paper 1 know this. Mr. Daniels himself is too J strong a partisan to acknowledge that! | the fundamental policy of his party is , wrong. I William Jennings Bryan is manifestly ; not in any doubt as to the balance of , trade between himself and President Wilson. He reprints in the Commoner an article from the Washington Star, I which says: "Mr. Wilson's obligations ■to Mr. Bryan are greater than Mr. Bryan's to Mr. Wilson, and they come ! first. If Mr. Bryan had not made Mr. | Wilson President, Mr. Wilson could not | have made Mr. Bryan Secretary of ! State, and while Secretary of State Mr. Bryan performed all the functions for which he had been chosen." If Presi dent Wilson reads the Commoner, as he certainly should do. he now knows very definitely what Mr. Bryan thinks is a proper statement of the debit and j credit account between these two emi nent Democrats. IX SCHUYLKILL. C'OUXTY SAYS the bulletin of the Pennsyl vania State Brewers' Association: Schuylkill county alone in Penn svlvanla derives a revenue of 1260,- j 000 a year from liquor licenses, and adding this to what the national | Government receives, brings the tax j revenue in Schuylkill, from alco holic manufacture and sale, to more | than $400,000 per annum. This is only a very little part, of course, of the money spent for "booze" in Schuylkill county in a year. It is ! only the comparatively small propor tion of their profits which the liquor i dealers pay for the privilege of con | ducting their business. This amount j in taxes would cost the merchants very little, if divided equitably among them, but if the entire sum now expended for liquor in Schuylkill county were divided among the merchants, as it would be if it were spent for purposes other than the purchase of liquor, it would materially Increase the business and the profits of each one of them. We have seldom seen a better business argument for the abolition of the liquor traffic. "BE KIXD TO ANIMALS" THE Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an active and effective branch of which has been maintained in Harrisburg for many years, has set apart the period of May 15 to May 21 as "Be Kind to Animals Week." Next Sunday in many churches notice will be taken of this humane work. We have so many "weeks" and "days" for which special observance is asked that if we followed them all we would accomplish little else. But this "Be Kind to Animals" movement has back of it so much good, so much unselfishness, so much of the milk of human kindness, that it especially commends itself to all persons who love their fellow-men and who have a fondness for dumb animals. He who is cruel to his dog, or his horse, or his cat. Is not to be trusted. If the opportunity offers he will be cruel also to men, or women, or little children. Beside, the dumb animal Is helpless. It Is cast upon life in many instances entirely dependent upon man for its very existence; often as his servant and helper. Speak a word for the helpiess creatures among us nnd do not hesi tate to report any cases of cruelty that may come under your observation to the proper authorities for punishment. Every week in the year ought to be a "Be Kind to Animals" week, politico. LK Vy tlie Ei-Commlttefmui Pennsylvania's primary campaign is drawing to a close amid a firing of broadsides which makes even the his toric Roosevelt campaign of 1912 seem like a Sunday school picnic. Re publicans and Democrats are Indulg ing themselves In factional rowing of a virulent type and the leaders on both sides are saying sizzling things about each other. The Washingtonians, Pro hibitionists and Socialists are sitting back and watching the other people scrap. The Republican fight has assumed more and more a Philadelphia flavor in the last week and the City of Broth prly Love appears to be a hotbed of factionalism. The Democratic fuss Is only one of the quadrennial rows for control of the machine in the State. The ballot to be voted to-morrow is going to complicate things and men will run up against many surprises. It is going to be the hardest ballot to vote In years and this will complicate matters. The real close of the campaign started on Saturday when Representa tive Isadore Stern, of Philadelphia, who made the charges against the Governor regarding the alleged un accounted for contribution of ? 5,000 from Colonel Louis J. Kolb, called attention to the failure of the Gov ernor to issue a denial, and nt'ier charging evasion asserted that 'he Governor had taken a contribution of SI,OOO made to him by ex-Senator Clarence Wolf and had turned It Into his account as his own, not mention ing whence the money came. Gov ernor Brumbaugh refused to discuss the latest charge when asked about It and Mr. Wolf was also silent. When Stern was lold of the Governor's re fusal he said that the Governor should either come right out with a candid statement or resign. Governor Brumbaugh toured the Lackawanna county region on Sat urday and made ten speeches, being well received everywhere. He closed his campaign by a speech in the town hall at Scranton with ex-Deputy Attor ney General F. W. Fleltz presiding. It was declared that Colonel L. A. Watres had refused to preside, but this could not be verified. The Governor's clos ing speech was a plea for party unity and a defiance of those who are at tacking him. Congressman John R. K. Scott declared that men were trying to rob the Governor of his good name. —While Governor Brumbaugh was speaking in the coal region Senator Penrose was assailing him from Phila delphia. The Senator cancelled Ills plans for speeches at meetings and issued a statement. He charged that the Governor was not a candidate in good faith, declared that the State would send uninstructed delegates to Chicago, predicted the nomination of Snyder for Auditor General, Kephart for State Treasurer, and Garland, C'rago, Sobel and McLaughlin for Con gress-at-large, winding up with the statement that the people of Penn sylvania will not stand for "contractor politics" in public affairs. The Sen ator's reference to the Governor's can didacy was in these words: "The can didacy of Governor Brumbaugh from the beginning has been an affront to the common sense of the citizens of Pennsylvania, which they will resent at the primaries on next Tuesday. More than that. It is a tainted candi dacy. To presume for a moment that an aspirant, for the presidency should appear before the convention accused | of the violation of the corrupt prac tices act of his State would be an ab | surdity. The mere mention of his name would be greeted only with de rision." In addition the Senator charged that there was trickery by National Com mitteeman Wasson in his use of cir culars and that It would react. i —The smoke from these blasts had 5 barely cleared away last night before the Senator opened up on Attorney j General Brown and got a hot fire in I return. Briefly stated it was the close of an interchange between the two men who have been bitter enemies for years. The Senator charged that Mr. Brown was once a Democrat and re sented his claim to being a Repub ! tican. Then he said: "His enormous ! fees in recent years from the Stale ' Treasury have constituted a scandal j and his present activities, personally and through his law iirm, with the Public Utilities Commission, which is supposed to be a judicial body, for personal and political purposes, threaten another scandal of State wide proportions when the next ses sion of the Legislature convenes. "I do not recognize that he has any standing in the Republican party. He has been a delegate to Democratic conventions. "His chief relation to the Repub lican party has been entirely that of a paid attorney, and particularly for the street-cleaning contractor element." Attorney General Brown said in re ply: "A wave of popular approval for Governor Brumbaugh and his aids in the fight to restore the supremacy of the Republican party Is sweeping the State as it did in 1912, when the Pen rose leadership received its rebuke. Penrose has repeatedly referred to the popular vote of 1914 as an indorse ment of his leadership. Nothing could be farther from the truth." —Assaults upon the candidacy of Judge C. L. Brown, of Philadelphia, for national delegate have drawn from the Penrose people some scathing ref erences to the political activities of some members of the Public Service Commission, whose chairman has ap peared on the same platform with the Governor. —The Philadelphia Inquirer yester day printed a story to the effect 'hat the Brumbaugh campaign in Blair county had met some snags and claims that uninstructed delegates would be chosen. —John Wanamaker and Alba B. Johnson, candidates for delegates-at iargo on the uninstructed list, last night made statements to show why they should not go to Chicago tied up. At the same time Attorney General Brown said that Brumbaugh instructed delegates would win all along the line. —The Philadelphia ledger to-day rapn Pennsylvania congressmen for failure to attend to business at Wash ington, pointing to some instances where candidates have left business slide. The Ledger also says that Pen rose will win in the State. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that friends of George M. Hosack say that he will defeat Senator C. J. Magec for renomination. —The Philadelphia Press says that Brumbaugh is as strong as Roosevelt was in 1912. the North American says thai it is a fight between rum and local option, and the Democratic Rec ord says that the big ballot will ccftti plicate things. —The Democratic fuss was aug mented last night by attacks on Pal mer and Morris by the Old Guard ele ment and some bitter counter state ments from the reorganization chiefs against Michael Uehel, Jr., the leader of the rehabilitation forces. The Democratic sideshow has been most diverting, hut the main tent attraction has been greater. The Kickers We men kick about women paint ing their cheeks, and then some of ; ns work for ten years and spend a , fortune trying to get a good color on l.oui noses, says the Silent Partner, EtAJRRTSBURG tfSjflg TELEGRAPTI - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY Some Bands a Business Administration Would Unloose. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE [ —Have you noticed how very Chester fleld-like the average politician has been the last two weeks? —The elections board will be kept busy pointing: pencils to-morrow, judg ing by the length of the ballots. —Just a few more days of this elec tion stuff and thenthe papers will be gin to fill their space with pictures of pretty girls in tennis and bathing cos tumes instead of mudslinging cartoons. —The reason so many young fellows about town have so little leisure time is that they are kept awfully busy roll ing their own cigarets. —What does Washington mean, a "gentleman's" agreement with the Mexican Government? EDITOR! AL~CQMMENf~ Anyhow, the British have captured Dublin.—Springfield Republican. Is Sir Roger the man who put the ire in Ireland? Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. Is the orrect quotation "blood and Iron" or Stone and Gore?— Wall Street Journal. It will be observed that a border senator is always strong for prepared ness.—Washington Post. Wilson Lincoln.—Headline. The campaign Is on at last.—Philadel phia North American. At any rate, the Democratic donkey ought to be able to give the country a stable government.—Florida Times- Union. What Congress needs at this junction Is less jawbone and more backbone.— Columbia State. A lot of people In this country are willing to do everything for Germany except to go over and tight for her.— Boston Transcript. Shots From the "Boss" Give me more than I expect, and I'll pay you more than you expect. I can alTord to Increase your pay if you in crease my profits. Don't kick if I kick—lf you are worth while correcting, you're worth while i keeping.- ■ Don't tell me what I'd like to hear, but what I ought to hear. I don't want a valet to my vanity, but I need one for money. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short, and a short day's work makes my face long. Paith is only Faith when it conquers Doubt.—Selected. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What percentage of cost 01 city government is borne by pro-erty tax ation? What percentage by ' other revenue? Property taxation 81 plus per cent. Other revenue 18 plus per cent. NO MORE TACKS By Wing Dinger Dast week all was dark and gloomy, Life held little out to me. But this week It's bright and rosy And my soul is filled with glee. Why. you ask. this change of spirit? •Cause, through houge devoid of shoe I It is safe once more to wander, i .With housecleaning they are through. UNCLE SAM'S PLIGHT A REVALUATION OF SNAKES By Frederic J. Haskin I J IF you see a snake in the country this summer, do not smash its head with a rock unless you are sure that It. Is one of the poisonous species, of which there are only three In America. If you kill a water snake, you are de stroying a very harmless creature, and if you kill a garter snake, you are depriving the world of a very useful servant. Qovernment scientists have recently devoted a good deal of attention to this matter of fixing the blame among llie snakes. Most persons will kill the harmless and useful species, while the most venomous and deadly of the lot, the rattler, has been given credit for various qualities which he does not possess. The regard in which the rattlesnake is held by man is one of the most curious and Inexplicable things in the relations between man and the lower animate. Certain southwestern tribes of Indians worship the rattlesnake, dancing with it alive in their mouths and allowing' it to bite them. They are also reputed to keep these snakes in their houses of worship and to feed them on human flesh. Whether or not this is true, it is certain that the rattlesnake inspires these savages with awe. White men watch the Hopl snake dance with amusement. And yet. at many a. corner drug store you can see a spectacle which is very nearly its equal in barbaric quality and motivated by much the same feel ing of awe. In the store window is a live rattlesnake. A crowd draws, fasci nated by the loathsome beauty of the creature, and Ihe knowledge of its deadly power—the very qualities that Inspire the savage. Meantime a long haired individual has appeared with a OUR DAILY LAUGH H C°<ON BlD are soln* to consldor m y consider it —a SHE KNEW. PH der if it will the girl who m gave it back v\»\\ f - ■ to you has of- 1 \ Y \ ten let me try C* j/X $ Applied Proverb of General Appeal "The power of dress la wry IT re nt In eoninißnillmt respect." Every man take thought of that proverb; every woman will. To dress badly is to mark one's self down. Foppishness is foolish, hut In between the extremes is the happy mean. Good clothes are a rung in the success ladder for man or wo man. And the guide to good dress ing, to sensible well made clothes, sold at honest valuations will be found In the advertising of this newspaper. It's worth reading. J MAY 15, 1016. bottle of rattlesnake oil, which he Kuarantees to cure deafness, or to re lieve corns by an application on the outside of the shoe. Someone conies forward for a trial and receives a drop of the magical unguent on hts sore toe. Invariably he proclaims himself cured and there is a rush for the medicine. This particular scene was witnessed on a busy corner in Wash ington, D. C., a few months ago. All Bosh! Now as a matter of fact, rattle snake oil lias no more curative quality than cottonseed oil, and not as much as olive oil. It is the personality of the rattlesnake —hjs sinuous, horrible beauty, the mystery of his bite—that sells the nostrum. Otherwise any other oil would do as well. Of course, rattlesnake oil never had any scientific standing as a remedy; but the venom of the reptile had, and to some extent has yet. Not many years ago the claim was made by repu table investigators that subcutaneous injections of crotalin. or rattlesnake venom, made an effective treatment for epilepsy, lumbago, rheumatism, and even tuberculosis. The idea gained considerable credence: but probably the first thorough test of the matter was that recently made in the Phila delphia Hospital for Kpileptics at Oak bourne. just outside of Philadelphia. The treatment was continued for a number of months, but no cures were effected. Two of the sick patients seemed entirely unaffected by the treatment, two grew worse, one de veloped such acute symptoms that the treatment was discontinued, and one died. The doctors in charge are not [Continued on Page 11] THE STATE FROM DA/ TO DM | "Its smartness and youthful ap pearance makes its popularity univer sal." is the decision reached Wy skirt makers In convention recently assem bled. Which means that grandma's Identity will continue to remain a problem as we approach lier from the rear. A Clearfield Lothario finds it scarcely worth his while, when lie presses a fleeting kiss upon the 24-year-old lips of the wife of a fellow workman and Is required to pay SIOO and costs. Mrs. Bumbaugh, of this city, will play an Important part in the musicals to be given this evening at Mlllersburg for the benefit of the Civic Club. More than 100 students of the T*nl "versity of Pennsylvania will go on the civilian cruise which is being arrang- I ed by the Navy Department as a "float ! ing* Plattsburg." Thei popularity of I naval training seems to be growing, | and it will soon compete with the mill -1 tary training camps if Interest In the proposed cruise continues to Increase ' proportionately. • The "preparedness" of the soil for the making of good gold courses has been appreciated by others than Har risburg scouts. The Country Club of Harrisburg purchased farm land on whicli to lay out an IS-hole course, and we now read that 118 acres In Upper Merlon, near Gulf Mills, lias been pur chased by wealthy owners of the Main Line to be used as an 18-hole course by the St. David's Golf Club. The Pocono mountains havs been en tertaining forest fires which were final ly extinguished after damaging timber land over an area of 50 square miles. Guest* at a dinner party In the home of Chnrles B. Roberta, of Sharon Hill, were driven out of the house on the double quirk Saturday evening when flames spread quickly through every room. A very delectable dinner was sacrificed and the family nought shelter over night among the neighbors. iEtanittg dhat It is one of the interesting signs of he times that when bunds play just now they render more pat riot lc air* !han anything else. The every otiier night. band practice concerts that are heard along Market and other streets are largely devoted to music of that Inspiring variety and the bands that lead the parades fall back on old-time favorites with a national slant or else play some of the new patriotic marches which have become so popular for the music as well as the sentiment. A striking illustration of this trend of music was given a few evenings when the band attached to the carni val which played up town during the week gave its nightly concert in Mar ket. Square. This band was a good, lively one as carnival bands go, nnil attracted much attention by the earnest manner in which its members attended to business. But the Interest ing thing was that almost every air played on Saturday was patriotic. . >ne after another they were played and the crowd which gathered around showed that it was in sympathy by liberal applßuse. Even the German bands have taken a leaf out of the book of the other bands and are piay ing American airs, although they do render "Tipperary," too, and the street organs which are now exclusively Italian enterprises fairly revel In American airs with "Tlpperary" and the "Rocky Road to Dublin" thrown in as compliment along the same lines as the German contribution of the British battle song. Some of the latest patriotic airs bid fair to be as lasting as some of those which gained vogue in the eighties and nineties, being much along tho same lines. However, there are still a good many people who like to hear every now and then the stirring airs of "My Own United States" and that, pulse-quickening "Battle Hymn of the Republic." This country has some line old patriotic airs and "America, I Love You" and other new ones have taken rank with them in popular estimation in Harrisburg, judging from the calls made upon the leaders of the bands and orchestras. • • • It's a wonder how traffic managc3 to flow so evenly in Market, Third ind Fourth streets on Saturday nights, but It is more of a wonder how motor cycles escape disaster in navigating amid the maze of automobiles, trucks, teams and the ever-venturesome mall wagon. Perhaps the motorcyclists ar« like the messenger boys In bearing charmed lives and get away with sit uations which would horrify the aver ago man. Half a dozen cycles puffed into the jam at Third and Market streets at one time Saturday night, wriggled around cars and got out into side streets without mishap, although the traffic officer probably had his own troubles. » * • With the coming of the warmer weather the number and kind of tho musical sounds from Market street amusement places is increasing. Dur ing the winter the city's musical en tertainment was more Or less Inter rupted by necessary closing of doors, but now the doors are open and the airs are wafted for half a block. The most entrancing operas are heard for a minute or two only to be drowned in the uproar from an accordeon played by a ran who tries to snare some of the nickels before they get into the "movies" and his efforts are in turn lost in the crash of oratorio played by "the only electrically driven pipe organ In the city." This volume of sound, often some majestic tone from one of the famous works, gives away before the "Chewing gum, please buy" of the man at the curb. Auto mobile horns and traffic officers' whistles take away the melody of tUu. "Star-Spangled Banner" further up iffft street and probably as you turn nwny you may get a line or two of some old time favorite like "A Hot Time in the Old Town" or "She's My Annie." Mar ket street never wants for music on Saturday night. • • • Just what are the mental processes of persons who take children under five Into the press of the shopping streets on Saturday night, it is hard to understand, but when they purchase toy balloons and hope to get them home unscathed after a tour of two or three times up and down the Market street stores they become hopeless. Down around Fourth and Market four balloons were counted bobbing in the crowds of shoppers, their strings flrmlv clutched in childish hands which were being hauled along by firm grasps on wrists. Children In a crowd are always objects of sympathy, but when to the youngsters' discomfort there Is added the agony of fear that the precious balloon may be injured it is pathetio and makes you want to go out and nail a Jitney and send the "kids" home. • • • Harrisburg has a forum, although it is only on Saturday nights and when politics Is at the oratlnr point, that yon would get to know of It. The forum Is the Courthouse portico, the place where preachers, discussers of politics and of social ills may hold forth with out let or hindrance, actually under police protection. The patent modi cine man may not intrude, nnd as for the man who writes visiting cards in flowing style or who sells the best suspenders ever tried by King Edward, they must keep to the side. The Court house steps are a forum as much so as ever was any monument in Trafalgar Square or any space in Place de la Concorde. Saturday night is given up now. by common consent, to religious matters, and the vigorous manner in which the preachers of the sects of our excellent "plain people" exhort cause many to linger. Saturday night there were two evangelists at tho Courthouse. One came early In the evening, pleading with the people to turn to the churches on the morrow, apparently not urging any special de nomination. but making a broad plea for better lives, union with church and walking with Christ. Before he fin ished the bearded brother of the Breth ren came along with men and women in distinctive garb and took up the task of reasoning with the knot of people who remained when the early speaker had offered his prayer and been lost in the crowd. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*" —The Rev. Dr. Stanley A. Hunter, new pastor of one of the big Presby terian churches in Pittsburgh, is only twenty-six and has been a missionary in India. —George R. Roberts, New Tor* banker, speaking in Philadelphia, tha* the war will not be the burden European future generally suppose.!. Pr. John A. Brasheßr, voted the Slate's most worthy citizen, had a tr«# named for him at Pittsburgh. George Wirt, of the State Forestry Department, was among the speakers at the Ambler horticultural meeting Saturday. A. Merrltt Taylor, Philadelphia transit authority, has been making an average of four speeches a day for the last ten days. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisbunc bullfllnj: permits I compare favorably witli those of i cities of larger siw? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG The first railroad station waa near .Hanna street.
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