10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPBR FOR THE HOME Pounded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE! TGI.RGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. BTACKPOLE. Prut and Editor in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Businui Manager. QUB M. SraiNMETZ, A lanagini BdUor. « Member American Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastem «fflce, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New Brooks, " People's Gas Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Offlce in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, sic cents a > week; by mall. SI.OO a year In advance. Sworn dalTr average circulation (or the three montue ending April SO, IBIS, if 22,341 * Theae figures are net. All returned, anaold and damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 17. Never think it frosted time to sub mit yourself to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feel ing.—RCSKIN. THE PRIMARY RESULTS THE results of yesterday's Repub lican primaries indicate a whole some independence of thought within the party. Without rancor or any apparent degree of feeling one way or the other the rank and file of the party went to the polls and cast their ballots largely according to their individual preferences. The wide divergence in totals for candidates on the various "slates" is a plain indica tion that the Individual voter was guided generally by his own wishes and convictions rather than by the dictates of factional leaders. The comparatively light vote is another sign that people generally were not greatly wrought up over the issues at stake and that thousands of Re publicans who did not vote were will ing to accept the results whatsoever Ihey might be. evidently believing that the whole primary campaign was more or less a tempest in a teapot and without much significance in the final lineup of the party behind whomso ever shall be nominated by the Chi cago convention. For a time it did look as though the factional quarrel might have serious results In the coming elections. Now we know that it will cut little figure. Pennsylvania shows every indication of swinging into line behind the nominees of the Chicago conven tion with an old-time Keystone State majority. This Is the handwriting on the wall; the verdict written by the Republican voters at yesterday's elec tions, and it would go ill with any body who might endeavor to set it aside. Notwithstanding the somewhat mixed results in some districts, early returns indicate that the Penrose leadership is endorsed by majorities that cannot be questioned. There is doubtless reflected in this the effect of organized effort as well as party sentiment. The lack of organization, on the other hand, is plainly shown in the Brumbaugh returns. All cir cumstances considered, and especially in view of the fact that thousands of voters believed the delegate contest •was largely inspired by factional in terests in Philadelphia, the Governor appears to have polled a vote of which lie need not be ashamed. He has not been "overwhelmingly" repudiated as his opponents predicted; neither has lie "swept the State," as his friends asserted he would do. It has been known that the Governor had little taste for the contest In which he en gaged, and doubtless now that the political air has been cleared by the primary storm he will turn his un divided attention to those humanitar ian and constructive policies for which Jtis administration has been noted. He has been always at his best when leading the forces of the State govern ment to new accomplishments in the advancement of education, the better ment of living conditions in the State and the welfare of humanity. If the Republican vote was light, the Democratic and Washington party polls were pitifully so. The sharp fight between the Palmer forces and those of the Old Guard resulted, as •was expected, in the defeat of the Old Guard, the whole force of the fed eral patronage being lined up against It. But whatever the result, it means Jlttle. Democrats realize that they cannot hope to carry Pennsylvania .this Fall. They could not do it in 3 912, with a split Republican party opposing them, and they have no such hope now with every sign pointing to a union of Republican and Progres sive forces following the Chicago con tentions. The Democratic contest of yesterday was Interesting, hut in no wise important, from the standpoint of the coming general elections. The whole trend is toward a great Republican victory in Pennsylvania ,l»ext Fall and the outlook, is exceed ingly bright. Whatever differences !»iay have existed previous to the primaries will be smoothed out long ■before November rolls around and the • party will stand united and invincible In its opposition to the dwindling forces of the Democracy. The other day the Pharon Herald, a llvewire evening newspaper of the She nango Valley, Issued a special edition which was a credit to the publishers WEDNESDAY EVENING, and a fair reflex of an intelligent and | prosperous community. Sixty-eight pages were required to portray the in- ] terests of the field which it serves. The Herald has been doing much for the ad vancement of Sharon, and the special edition was incidentally an expression of popular favor. STEELTON PROGRESSIVE STEELTON demonstrated again yesterday that It is a progres sive town. The passage of its paving and fire apparatus loans. by substantial majorities shows that the people of the thriving steel borough are willing to spend some of the money that has come to them by reason of the unprecedented activity of the Iron 'market and that civic betterment has ! their foremost thought. Steelton is a fit neighbor for Harrlsburg and gome 1 times sets the people of this oity a most excellent example. The Telegraph has been gratified re cently with the large number of letters Which have come to it from its readers ' upon all manner of subjects. Brief and interesting comment upon the things which conoern Harrisburg and Central ; Pennsylvania are always of interest and we invtte a more general use of this newspaper's columns for the ex pression of public opinion. It matters not that these opinions may differ from those of the Telegraph upon any given subject. DEMORALIZED VOTERS REGARDLESS of party affiliations the voters of Pennsylvania v. ill heave a sigh of relief over the termination of the most exasperating primary campaign of recent years. Under the present system of nomina tions the conditions are intolerable and the next Legislature must restore something like sense to the primary ballot law. Right here in Harrisburg many elec tion boards have declared they will not again serve without some substan tial relief in the way of additional members and Increased Hours after the polls opened yester day many boards were incomplete in their membership and the Dauphin County court was called upon to give advice as to how to proceed in more than one case. And all as the re sult of alleged reform of the primary system and the manner of choosing candidates. One protest after another has been voiced in the last year or two and with the increasing difficulties of nomi nating candidates for office the Legis lature will be compelled to take defi nite action upon some remedial measures. Whatever of evil existed in the old convention plan was not a whit worse than that of the present cum bersome method. Not only is it dif ficult to express an intelligent choice respecting candidates; it is likewise inconvenient and expensive. Yester- day it was necessary for the voter to place between forty and fifty marks upon his ballot to express his full choice of candidates. He was fortu nate If in thus marking his ballot he did not defeat the very purpose of his going to the polls. Many intel ligent voters admitted today that they left the booth with no very adequate conception of their duty as good citi zens. Other voters did not go near the polls owing to the complicated and difficult method of voting. But that is not all of it. Election boards are expected to begin the count of the vote immediately upon the clos- ing of the polls. After sitting all day to supervise the casting of the ballots they aro supposed at once to start of ficial computation of the vote. TJiis means onerous and vexatious labor during most of the night and in some cases far into the next day. Election officers assert that much of the delay in announcing results could be overcome through a change in the law which would permit the counting: of the ballots every hour, reserving any publicity regarding the balloting until after the polls were closed in the evening. There could be no rea sonable objection to such a change of the law. It would enable the elec tion board to compute the returns at hourly intervals during the day and before the members became so ex hausted with their labors as to be almost unfit to compile the figures of a complicated ballot such as resulted from the controversies of the several parties this year. But aside from all this, there is throughout the State to-day a feeling of dissatisfaction growing out of party dissension and the breaking down of ordinary political ethics in the raiding: of one party by the voters of an other. Inasmuch as the American system of government is based upon parties, the changes of our election laws which have encouraged the disruption of party lines through coalitions under the present ballot system would seem to justify a return to the simple ballot and a more sensible method of making nominations. After the experience of yesterday in this State a general demand from voters of all parties for a return to simpler and more economical forms of primary expression at the polls may be expected. BOTH SIDES OF IT THOSE who attend the "Prepared ness' meeting conducted by the Harrisburg Chamber of Com n*«rce this evening will hear both sfflps of the question. Henry A. Wise | Wood, of New York, will speak in the interest of preparing the nation to defend Itself against the aggressions of a foreign foe. Prof. Isaac Sharpless, of Haverford, will tell why the pa cificists are against armament. The i meeting promises to be spirited and entertaining as well as instructive. THE GUARD AND ORDER THE Governor's Troop and other units of the National Guard have again acquitted them selves well on strike duty. Order has been maintained and the troopers jhave been on friendly terms with both strikers and employers ever since they i went to the Pittsburgh region. They I return to-day having restored order without having struck a blow. Grad ually it is coming to be understood that the best friend a striker has in times of disorder is the National Guardsman, who protects him from the rowdy element and from the mis chief-making outsider, who usually causes whatever trouble develops. The Guard has no object in a strike zone except to preserve order and protect, life, and even the most radical labor agitator can scarcely quarrel with j that. ROTARY CI.UB PROSPECTS THE Harrisburg Rotary Club com pleted the most successful year In its history, under the ad ministration of President Arthur D. Bacon, with a characteristic mixture of jollification and seriousness at the Colonial Country Cluh last evening. It j goes forward under the new leader ship of Howard C. Fry, elected to the I presidency last evening, with every I prospect of maintaining the high mark It has set for Itself. The Ro tary Cluh has become one of the city's ; institutions. Its membership eni i braces many of the Uvewiree of the 1 community and its force has been al ways for good. It has kept Itself free j from all political, factional or selfish , Interests, but has never turned a deaf ear to the call of civic duty. 1 I 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —"Forty thousand seek admission to j the G. O. P. convention," says a 'North ! American headline. Four years ago the "North" was confident there were not that many Republicans in the coun try. —Germany is to have a dictator to tell the people what not to eat. Over here we eat whatever we like, and then take digestive tablets. —May be it's all right after all—T. R., you know, stands also for True Repub lican. —For the candidates nominated yes- j terday, no doubt it seems a Ions;, long | way until Npvember. —"Money talks." hut in the rase of ; trust investigations it knows how to keep quiet, too. —The President says if he has to knock a man down he is ready to do it; but Villa, for instance, wouldn't wait. EDITORIAL COMMENT j One uprising: no government can con- , trol is that of prices.—Wall Street Jour nal. T. R. Is so dead politically that the World now devotes only two editorials a day to him.—Wall Street Journal. It doesn't require much manipulation to change "an ex-President" to "a next President.'' All you need is T.—Phila delphia North American. Certain unarmed Congressmen seem to fear attack by a German U-vote. Brooklyn Eagle. A showdown in Congress means showing up some Congressmen.—Phil adelphia North American. Hyphenates sending peace-telegrams to Washington should send them to the right capital.—Columbia State. "Sinn Fein" means "ourselves j alone." It's the Irish for "Deutsch land uher alles."—Philadelphia North : American. Penny Paper Is Passing [Editor and Publisher.] I'nder present conditions, the one cent newspaper is an economic im possibility. Is there any good reason why publishers should ignore that fact any longer? In all other lines of business the selling price of a product |is regulated by production costs. I When these mount higher and higher |only one solution is ever found—a reasonable increase in the selling price. To change a penny paper to a two jcent paper will, of course, mean some temporary loss of sales. But, if the j public is informed of the conditions, i these losses will not be great in any single instance. Of course, publishers in each com munity must act in unison. To fail in l this is to assure the indefinite continu ance of a losing game. Just as one man may often "hang a Jury." so one publisher, in any city, may prevent the adoption by other publishers of a pol l icy of common-sense. Playing Joshua [Kansas City Timesl Tf Kansas City goes to work an hour •arlier in the morning and knocks off an hour earlier in the afternoon, it Is demonstrable, by the simplest kind of arithmetic, that it would gain an hour of daylight In which to play. That Is all there Is to the plan, adopted in Ger many and in operation in several cities in the United States, of keeping the sun up an hour longer. It having been found impracticable to change the sun's hours, the people who wanted to beat his game have changed their own. It's simple and doesn't upset anything but a habit. The only difficulty lies In the uni formity of habit. The husinpss world is like four people in bed they've all got to turn over at once. No single in dividual can put the new daylight ex pedient In operation alone. If he conies down to business an hour earlier in the morning the place isn't open, and If lie starts to go home an hour earlier In the afternoon, somebody asks him if he thinks it's 5 o'clock. But if everybody did it the thing would work. There would bf» just as many working hours in the day—probably better ones, for the early morning Is the time to ac complish most. That's when roosters and milkmen make the most noise. It really seems worth trying. To make 5 o'clock come an hour earlier In the afternoon is something that ought to be worth permitting 8 o'clock to come an hour earlier in the morning. Gretchen und Her Pup Gretchen haf von poodle pup. Mlt vhite and voolly vleece; Where Gretchen vent dot pup vould up Undf voller like a geese. It vent mlt her von market day; De butcher man vas vise;— "Dot pup so nice und vat," he say, "He make good sausage pies." Und den. vhen Gretchen not him seen, ( He schoop 'im In a sack, J Und ry n 'm through dose meat machine, | Den Gretchen git 'm back. i Und Gretchen eat und eat und eat; She lofe dot pup. you know; So. now, vhereffer Gretchen vent Dot pup Iss sure to go. —Jerome B. Bell. Wilmington, Del. What Next? (Don Marquis, in N. Y. Evening Sun.l The "next" U-boat mistake will mean I a break with Germany. The "next" Mexican'raid on the bor der will mean trouble. The next President, who will he be? HARRISBURG trfVjftt TELEGRAPH folitlc* Lk '^CKKCuIcCi.KOX fy the Ei-Commltlecmu Men connected with the State gov ernment who are returning to the state Capitol to-day after attending ilie primary elections tn their home districts are hringing reports of gen eral dissatisfaction with the big bal lot and a demand for changing the cumbersome features of the primary "m . a , re als ? R P ec »lating whether the official results of the election for State committeemen will be known in P*""" the State committees hnth n HI. will be contests in both the Republican and Democratic State committees, although those In the former will not_ amount to much o£ C Po!! e ° the Kreat Preponderance or Penrose men. Lnder the primary law the State meet litter than the third Wednesday following their election, which would bring the meetings on or before May 31. The State chairmen will designate the places and the dates of the meetings. all probability the Republican. Democratic and Washington State CO i?J lu U ees wl " ment this city. The Democrats will go to the mat in a right over the State chairmanship, out as the Palmer forces claim to have elected htm national committee man they are also asserting that Pal mer carried through enough commit teemen to re-elect Morris. But there will be the usual fight by way of entertainment. Disgust with the ballot appeared to be general over the State yesterday judging from what people at the C apitol say. Many voters refused to vote more than a few names either "or fear of getting mixed up or be cause they were disinclined to spend so much time over it. In all probabil ity the dissatisfaction will be noted by Governor Brumbaugh and referred to in his last message to the legislature which will come in January. The bal lot was one of the greatest draw backs yesterday. It was bad enough, say men who are active in politics to encounter such general lack of Interest on the part of that potential factor, the average citizen, but when the voter was gotten to the polls some workers say that they felt rather guilty to put them up against such a formidable ballot. It is understood that Governor Brumbaugh has for the last year or so been obtaining the views of judges and other men familiar with election law administra tion and that with what he can learn from people who have suffered or will suffer in computing returns and get ting results certified he will be in a position to enlighten the Legislature. —Capitol Hill people resumed nor mal work to-day, glad that the struggle was over. Tn many districts men gave ample evidence of their loyalty to the Governor, hut were un able to stem the tide. Others whose lines fell in pleasanter districts were jubilant to-day. The Capitol, how ever. was awaiting with its usual at titude for the official returns. It is not believed thai there will be any reprisals or any "housecleaning" as a result of the primary. Most people seem to desire to forget it. Many compliments were given W. Harry Baker. Secretary of the Senate for the vote he received for delegate jat-large. His vote in his native coun , ty was very flattering to say the least. I —lt is generally predicted that there will be a good many changes in the next congressional delegation as a result of the primaries. Some of the big figures in the House from this State had notable contests and it may be days before the result can be ascer tained. —The official counts start to-mor row in the counties, but there is no j telling when the returns will be certi fied to Secretary of the Commonwealth | Woods. George D. Thorn, the chief | clerk, was ready to-day to enter the , results as rapidly as they come in, but he did not have many hopes of j receiving sworn returns before Satur day. —ln addition to the successful loans which occupied so mucn attention in Philadelphia there was another big: loan election yesterday and from all accounts it carried, too. This loan was $1,500,000 for improving: the sanitary condition of Mill Creek, which caused the flood in the city of Erie last year. It also provided for other improvements. Several school districts of the Stale voted yesterday on loans for new school facilities and probably 20 boroughs also had loan elections. —The campaign just closed was re markable for the manner in which the candidates and their friends used printing ink. Big advertisements were carried in newspapers, billboards covered, the mails jammed and even handbills put out. The use of print ing varied according to the intensity of the local contest. Printing was found -to be the best way of getting results. —-National attention was directed to the results of the Pennsylvania primaries as was shown by the num ber of inquiries which poured into the State Capitol from people in New York, Chicago, Boston and Washing ton. These cities appeared to have definite lines on the general results and inquired as to the outcome in many districts thus showing the wide spread interest. The national capital generally expected a Penrose victory. -—Democrats aligned with the re habilitation faction of the State Democracy were not inclined to con cede that the reorganization faction would control the State machine for another two years to-day, although most of them admitted that Michael Ijlehel. Jr.. had gone down in his fight with A. Mitchell Palmer for national committeeman. Palmer has apparent ly cinched his grip on the machine for another four years and his leadership, while It may be assailed, will hardly be questioned because he has sub mitted to a State-wide primary, just as Senator Penrose did in 1914 and fchis year. Old Guard leaders here were miffed to-day at the small showing made in the contest against Palmer and from all accounts there were some disappointed men In other coun ties. There will be a fight when the State committee meets and it will be directed against State Chairman Morris. Our Bid For Trade TNew York Sun] America's bid for a place in the markets of the world through the establishment of her own merchant marine has been heard abroad as well as in this country. While big steps have been taken by able men toward the building up of American shipping to the point where it can compete with that of foreign nations, foreign buyers and sellers are looking on with interest. The enormous advance in freight rates caused by the Eu ropean war has provided the Amer ican shipper with a fulcrum upon which to work in his effort, to place the American flag in a stronger posi tion on the high seas. Living on a Mountain Those who live on the,mountain have a longer day than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DON'T WORRY—I'VE GOT IT! ■■■ v. But Isn't It Time to Take It By the Horns, Mr. President? —From thf Baltimore American. PLANT EXPLORATION By Frederic J. Haskin OXE of the latest acquisitions to American fruit-growing is the jujube. This tree, discovered in the interior of China by Frank X. Meyer, plant explorer of the Depart ment of Agriculture, is now being watched with a great deal of interest by scientists in its new career on Am erican soil. So far, the results are dis tinctly satisfactory, and the latest re ports seem to indicate that it will not. be long before we are eating jujube salad and preserved jujube as a mat ter of course. The jujube fruit is a small brownish morsel, which, when fresh, has a unique and delicious flavor, and when dried is somewhat similar to the Persian date. Besides the jujube. Mr. Meyer brought back from China many other singular specimens which will probably prove valuable to this country, includ ing a wild peach, various marsh vege tables. species of bamboo sprouts and garden vegetables, huge persimmons and a new yellow rose. These are al ready under experimentation by the department, which Is grafting the roots of the peach tree, crossing the rose with other species, and planting the various seeds and scions. China was chosen as the hunting grounds of plant exploration because I its climatic conditions are similar to those of this country, some portions corresponding with our eastern coast and others with the semi-arid regions ! of our southwest. Consequently, in isome places the flora Is so like that | seen in this country that at times it | was difficult for Mr. Meyer to believe | lie was in China and not In New Jer j se.v or Indiana. ' Mr. Meyer, and his outfit traveled iby caravan and on foot through the | vast sections of China where railroads j are not, visiting all the small agri ! cultural villages and also individual farms. The Chinese farmer who by experimentation has produced a su- Rublee and Price Fixing Says the New York Sun's Washing ton correspondent relative to the re jection by the Senate of George Rublee as member of the Federal Trade Commission: The most potent objection with many of the Democratic Senators was the attitude of Mr. Rublee in favor of the bill to permit price fixing. Mr. Rublee co-operated with Louis D. Brandeis in support of the Stephens bill permitting price fixing. This bill is now being urged on Congress by the Fair Trade league, and in the hearings on the Brandeis case the activity of Mr. Brandeis for the bill has been criticised by many Senators who believe that the pro posed legislation Is bad. The effect of the vote on the pros pects of Mr. Brandeis was not lost sight of. Many observers believe that It foreshadows Mr. Brandeis' rejection. The most significant thing wae the fact that Secretary McAdoo failed signally as a "whipper in" for the Administration. He was at the Cap itol last week urging that the Senate confirm Mr. Rublee. Latest War Joke A private in an Irish regiment who had. been sorely wounded was leaving the hospital on his way back to the front. Some bystander wondered why any man who had escaped from hell once was willing to return voluntarily. An acquaintance of the admirable Irishman supplied the answer. "He thinks he knows who did It." TOUR DAILY LAUGH 1 tWhat do you usually say when you fall pends whether there are la dies present. NOT A BIT. .dl&L* Bow many of us h*ve beea The wish Is fa- 1 ther to the J6& Tat folks who Ijb— V—ML •Imply alt and W— I —W I Are not the ones who K |Ti «atch the \> A tub? * * MAY 17. 1016. perior variety of some fruit or vege table is extremely loth to advertise (he fact to any but his nearest rela tives, so that sometimes an extraor dinary specie grown on one farm will be absolutely unknown a few miles away. Moreover, he has a strong an tipathy to using any of the modern methods employed for the preserva tion of a plant, such as spraying and treatment for specific diseases; for such things were unknown to his an cestors and therefore could have no possible merit in his eyes. Hence many ancient varieties at one time prolific throughout China have either become extinct, or may be discovered growing on occasional remote farms. One variety of peach, for example, which formerly grew in great abund ance around Shanghai, has complete ly died out. Many of these almost ex tinct varieties may be restored to use fulness by western methods. The collection of plant material in interior China is not without its dif ficulties, perhaps the greatest of which is the packing and the exporting of the product. Scions and cuttings must often be collected in the severe winter weather and packed in damp moss immediately after they are cut. In moistening the moss, Mr. Meyer often found it necessary to he'at the water in order to prevent it from freezing, and even so, the next hour would sometimes see the package frozen hard. In North China there is also a prejudice against all mod ern innovations not In vogue with the ancestors, whose lineage evidently be gins with the original Chinese cave man. for the inns are even without stoves. The windows, which are made of paper are usually broken, admit ting icy breezes and creating an at mosphere even colder than the out doors. Mr. Meyer was compelled to [Continued on Page I] THE STATE FROM DA/ TO DM When you cast your vole yesterday, did you toss up a coin to decide where to place your little x and did your pencil hold out till all was finished? It is an interesting fact that James Connolly, "Commandant-General of the Irish Republican Army, who was one of Ihe four Irishmen shot to death in the Tower of London for their re cent attempt to form an Irish repub lic, was in the year 1909 editor of the New Castle Free Press, in this State. This paper was founded during the bitter struggle by the employes of the Xi-w Castle tin mills, to better their labor conditions. The Funxsutawney Spirit is out boosting for a free library and isn't afraid to say so. Miss Anna McDon ald, of Harrisburg, from the Stale Li brarian's office in this city, was in Funxsutawney the other evening to help urge along the project. | The postmaster at Bryn Athyn, ! where the Swedenborgian colony flour ishes, has been fined SSOO for padding jhis account of stamp cancellations. Reiglesville is now a borough, ac cording to Judge Ryan, of Doyles town, who has just granted the petl 'tion of the residents of the borough. They aren't a bit stuck up about it, though. The late Jesse M. Weyer, of York, who was philanthropically inclined, has in his will created a fund of over $75,000 with which coal will be pur chased for the poor of the city. Friends are mourning the death of Samuel E. Uavis, of Pottstown, a 70- year-old veteran of the Civil war, who lay for two days on the field at Gettys burg with a severe wound in his throat. A Catawissa boy, in his early teenß, climbs a telephone pole and is hurled to the ground by the shock of an elec tric wire, suffering concussion of the brain. The father sued for $20,000, but the boy received sl. which was an even greater shock. The Supreme Court has sustained the executors of a certain estate in Reading, who decided that the daugh ter of the former owner of the estate was not entitled to more than SI,OOO for her trousseau. Uncle Sam's oldest weather man. Dr. Jesse Cope Green, of West Ches ter. aged 98, believes that It is safe al ways to carry an umbrella, because, as he »ays, "I never know what the weather may do." And this Is the man who has been a government weather observer for 61 years. Weath ier prophets, please take notice. Atoning (Ehat Some of the struggles with the bal lots reported by Dauphin freemen at yesterday's primaries could be made in excellent argument for a slmpliti •ation of the election law if they could be collected and presented to the law makers of the commonwealth. The lifflculties and loss of time experi enced by men who desired to vote are lust commencing to be heard of and t makes one wonder what could have iieen the situation if there had been i heavy vote instead of one of the ightest known at ail important pri mary in a long time. The average time taken by men who apparently ioted the whole ticket In some of the ivard* where professional and busi nessmen live was from three to three ' ind a half minutes. in some pre cincts in the railroad districts reports come of men taking two and a half minutes, but those fellows were going ma fast freight schedule and were in striking contrast to some Hill wards nhere as high as tlve minutes was taken. At Third and Fourth ward precincts some men were declared to take six and seven minutes. When Ihe returns can be analyzed it will be round that many voters simply marked J few names and let it go at that. The number of persons marking 12 tlelegates-at-large and 12 alternates it-large will probably be found to be 'mall and as for what might be styled complete ballots they will be compara tively few. Many »nen studied sam ple ballots or advertlsments from the newspapers before going to vote and undoubtedly many took them into tho booths so that they would not become mixed up. The big ballot Is one of the things which the Pennsylvania voter will not stand and there will be » demand for a change which will im press the Governor and the next Leg islature. • • • One of the small hard beetles known variously as a June bug or a grape hug managed to kick up more fuss in front of the Commonwealth Hotel on Satur day night about 9 o'clock than ever a. motorcycle caused. This bug, which came to town for a Saturday night oft after a tame day out in the country, was much entranced by the bright lights. It buzzed around the stand ards and batted its head against. *he globes for fifteen minutes, and, ap parently, becoming irritated at the bumps, started to manifest another Saturday night characteristic by de scribing larger circles. Its erratic orbit finally began to attract attention. Then it suddenly made a wide swoop and immediately there were two squeals from two girls into whose faces the bug had glanced as he sailed by. The people had barely ..eased from grin ning at the fright of the girls when there came a loud "Oh-o" from ten feet away and a girl with a big hat ducked as though she had been hit by a shower of confetti. A few seconds later a big, tall man made a swipe at. the air and the package firmly clutched in his right hand just missed the hat of another man. By that time the bug had awakened to the danger of a call for police and had sailed off toward the waiting trolley cars to the quiet suburban districts. Farmers coming to the city's mark ets say that they not only have to contend with a scarcity of labor which is disconcerting, but that they are wondering how they are going to get; through the harvest. One man said at Chestnut street market that he and his whole family had been working from morning until night and that he wished some high school boys would come to the country to get an Idea of what farming amounts to. The high er prices which he Is obtaining ap parently did not enter Into this farm er's reckoning. Then, too, farmers say that they have an unusual num ber of people coming around want ing to buy produce before it is ready and chickens which are not much more than hatched. Another farmer said that he could have sold his horses five or six times in a month and that his hay crop had been requi sitioned. It is evident from what is heard at the markets that the farm er is a center of attraction Just now. ♦ • * In these days of branch exchanges, says a telephone man, the trouble is that people do not speak distinctly. Xine times out of ten persons who are talking through n branch ex change do not speak distinctly, but talk too fast and do not make them selves plain. "Enunciate and don't yell" is the advice given. * * * The fact that the Governor's Troop did not come home yesterday was due to discipline, strange as it may seem, said an old National Guardsman to day. Instead of the men being kept about quarters waiting for something to turn up Captain Jack had them out on a practice march, hardening them und maintaining his splendid state of discipline, which has manifested it self so often. Consequently when the order for relief of the troop came the men were at work and the depart ure could not be arranged rapidly. It was hard on the men who had to stay another day, but il did them good. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE** The Rev. Hr. W. T. Roberts, stated clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church for years, was presented with a portrait on his 71st birthday. —Philander C. Knox made a speech a few evenings ago on the site of his uncle's farm in Allegheny county. It is now Knoxville Presbyterian church. —Senator H. A. Tompkins, of Eb ensburg. who has been ill, is able to be about again. —Mayor J. G. Armstrong, of Pitts burgh, went the bail of several small bovs arrested. —Judge J. D. Shafer, of Allegheny, ridiculed Bryan's peace theories in a speech at Pittsburgh. —F. C. Dunlap, long connected with the Philadelphia bureau of water, has been made consulting engineer for Philadelphia's new sewage disposal system. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg billing machine!* ire used in the Japanese government service ? Historic Harrisburg This place was one of the centers at the pelt trade 150 years ago. Extra Value For the Money Primarily * newspaper gives the reader full value in Its news. Then by way of extra value it carries advertising. Advertising costs the adver tiser much money. The reader gpts It as a bonus for the price of the newspaper he buys to post him on current events. From the advertising columns the reader learns how to shop and where to shop. Knowing thes»» two things means Increased purchasing abil ity. Purchasing ability means buying at a minimum of cost The advertising columns yield steadily increasing profits to everyone who regularly and in telligently reads them. >■
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