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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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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
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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.
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