10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE H/)MB Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, FVderal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Fres't and Editor-in-Chi?/ W. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OVB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl^V Esstern office, Has brook. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave - nue Building. New York City: West ern office. Has- Brooks, People' 9 Gcs Building, Cb?i» Entered at the Post Office In Harriot burg, Pa., as second class matter. - By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally average elrculatlon for the <iaree niontha ending May 31, 10X0, 22,189 if These figures are net. AII returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 17. The Worldly Hope men set their hearts upon Turns Ashes—or its prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two is gone. —Fitzgerald. A LOST ISSUE PRESIDENT WILSON cleverly side-stepped the effort of his foolish Democratic associates who would have criticised at St. Louis the resignation of Charles E. Hughes as a justice of the United States Supreme Court to accept the Republican nomination for President. An attempt to make a campaign issue of this circumstance would have prov ed a boomerang lor those would have launched it. Those purblind partisans failed to recall that they had furnished all sorts of precedents for the Repub lican course in the nomination of the next President, among these being the selection of Alton B. Parker, chief justice of the New York State Board of Appeals, and by voting on Federal Judge George Gray in the same con vention. Nor has it been forgotten that the late Mayor Gaynor, of New York, was lifted from the bench to the mayoralty by the Democrats. As a matter of fact, our Democratic brethren are in a state of demoraliza tion over the tremendous favor with which the nomination of Justice Hughes has been received throughout the country. They had hoped that the division in the Republican ranks would continue so that President Wil son might prolong his tenure as a min ority head of the nation. These hopes having been blasted through the con servative and constructive work of the Chicago convention, the St. Louis mass meeting resolved itself into a mutual admiration society under the direct control and management of the Wash ington administration. It becomes more and more evident each day that the selection of Justice Hughes as the nominee of the Repub lican party means a prompt conclu sion of the incompetent management of the affairs of the country and the restoration to power of the party which has invariably guaranteed pros perity and respect at home and abroad. Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the absence of campaign material in the counsels of the Democratic leaders as the futile effort to create public in terest In a suggestion that a great wrong had been perpetrated in nomi nating for the presidency a member of the highest Judicial tribunal In the country. Manifestly, the esteemed enemy assumes that the people are prone to forget, inasmuch as its pledges and promises have been broken time after time with utter dis regard of consistency and fair-dealing with the people. There is general protest throughout the country over the proposed Increase of a dollar upon each pair of shoes be fore the end of this year. It Is pointed out that the importation of hides and skins for the nine months ending with March were 608,000,000 pounds, as against 883,000,000 pounds for the same period in 1916 and 395,000,000 pounds in 1914. This would seem to destroy the argument of the shoe manufacturers that the war had cut off the supply of hides, making necessary a great In crease In the price of shoes. THAT ANTI-DUMPING GROUND DEMOCRATS are trying to distract the attention of the millions of voters who are demanding a return to protective tariff policies by holding up the hope of an anti-dump ing law. The only kind of an anti dumping law that will work out in practice is a protective tariff measure that will enable the American em ployer to pay adequate wages to his employes and at the same time com pete with cheaply made foreign pro ducts. In their hearts the Democrats know thia, but they are afraid for po litical reasons to admit it. IX EXPERIENCED HANDS THE re-election of County Chair man William H. Horner by the Republican county committee to-day and the choice sonje time ago Of Harry F. Oves to again lead the city committee place the active work of campaign management, in the -hands of experienced men. Both SATURDAY EVENING, chairmen have led the Republican forces to victory in years past and both are thoroughly familiar with the details of committee work. Mr. Horner knows every nook and corner of the county, he has a wide acquaintanceship and the rank and file of the party workers have confidence in him. Mr. Oves has been city chair man during many years of strenuous campaigning and knows the city quite as well as Mr. Horner does the county. A GREAT STATE HIGHWAY WHATEVER may be the final de cision of the William Penn Highway Association regarding the main trunk line leading out of Harisburg westward, it is obvious that the Newport people have a strong argument in the fact that they repre sent a considerable population. It is likewise apparent that In the establish ing of this highway, which will accom modate so many thousands of people, it will be necessary to concede some thing to the larger cities and towns, even to the extent of some deflections from the original survey. It is highly essential, of course, to conserve dis tance wherever possible: but it is like wise important that the new trunk line shall provide accommodation for the populous areas through which it will pass. Perhaps the most interesting de velopment in the preliminaries of this important movement is the enthusiasm which has characterized the various towns and cities in the matter of se lecting the route. Harrisburg is deeply interested in all that affects the William Penn Highway and it is gratifying to note that those in charge of the work are men of business intelligence and enor mous energy. OUR GOOD NAME SPEAKING before the Chamber of Commerce the other day Thomas W. Shelton said that Pennsyl vania had stood from the very foundation of the United States for the integrity of the courts and the protection of the bench from inter ference by the legislative branch of the government, and this unsought assertion by a stranger of Mr. Shel ton's standing in the country fell like music on the ears of those who have been accustomed to hear the good old Keystone State maligned and slander ed by every lecturer and writer who happens to lack a topic, but who feels called upon to reel oft a few thousand words, at so much per column. These speakers and writers have mistaken political lies for facts and the name of Pennsylvania has suffered. It therefore gives loyal citizens of this State more than ordinary pleasure to hear the facts stated as Mr. Shelton did in his address at the Harrisburg Club. The Saturday Evening Post, dis 'cussing the Pennsylvania probation law, not only praises the statute in question but has this to say as well: This is an intelligent law, and we are glad to note it in the Keystone btate. which, by and large, probably has as many civic virtues as ativ other member of the Union—al though current political criticism, with Its powerful inclination to slapdash sijneraliawtions, has care fully picked out the vices that Pennsylvania shares in greater or less degree with the remainder of the sisterhood, and so made her a perennial horrible example. The Telegraph is happy to note this change of attitude. The facts amply warrant the Post's assertions. Pennsyl vania is distinctly a progressive State. Her people as a whole are honest and patriotic—but she has within her borders also those who are happiest when throwing mud, who take pleas ure in besmirching their own State and who are rapidly being unmasked for the political blackmailers and traducers they are. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION IN a communication to the Philadel phia Public Ledger a correspondent gives expression to a thought which is in the minds of more than a few people in Pennsylvania. He declares that "the Public Service Commission is the most effectual obstruction to live business all over the State that could have been contrived." In his judg ment, the only reason that it survives is because the ordinary citizen does not realize fully that it is against his in terests. This is a rather drastic criticism of an important branch of the activities of the Commonwealth, but unless some radical changes are made in the law creating the commission the complaint of this correspondent will take more active and general form In the next session of the Legislature. It was never contemplated that the rights of municipalities should be so utterly sub ordinated as has been the case in the organization of the Public Service Commission. It is possible that the working out of the problems of this important body will correct the evils of which complaint is so frequently made, but It cannot be denied that there is a growing feeling of unrest oyer the scope and character of the commission's activities. Especially aggravating to the vari ous communities throughout the State is the requirement that, forces them to submit to the Public Service Commis sion so many trifling details of local control and management. For a time these matters were regarded as the natural development of a new system of supervision, but instead of a more reasonable attitude toward the com mission there is evidence on every hand of an increasing unrest and opposition to the new scheme of State regulation. Governor Brumbaugh has his ear to the ground and it is known that he is in favor of a wider measure of home rule for cities and boroughs so that they may work out their own salvation under proper general laws. It is not fair to assume that the work of the Public Service Commission Is without important results; nor is it reasonable to charge this body with the improper exercise of arbitrary and dangerous powers. Perhaps the commissioners themselves will be the first to admit that too much in the way of regulation has been imposed upon that body. But unless the Public Service Com mission is to lose much of its strength and real usefulness, there must be some amendment of the law so as to relieve the municipalities of the con stant annoyance to which they are now subjected through the red tape provisions of the act creating the commission. 1 TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE —The Democratic platform calls for peace in Mexico—and the Demo crats say they mean to fulfill all of its pledges. Some promise! Indications are that Carranza will be weeping in sympathy on the shoulder of Villa shortly—that is if Villa will stand for it. What grand June weather we have had this week for raincoat merchants and umbrella menders. In claiming that the Democratic party had fulfilled all its platform pledges, the St. Louis convention very properly overlooked that embarrassing one-term plank. From the speed and ferocity he is showing the Russian bear must have a Jack-rabbit and grizzly somewhere in his ancestry. EDITORIAL COMMENT the President's business is sure no bonanza: Attending to politics, war, and Carranza—Chicago Herald. To any alliance of nations to enforce peace wo suppose that the United States would contribute the moral force.—New York Evening Sun. Lincoln was acclaimed as the "rail splitter," but no enthusiasm is aroused referring* to a modern candidate as a fence-fixer.—Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. The Canadian troops in Belgium and France should do well under their new commander, if there is anything in a name. General Byng sounds like what is needed on the Western front.— Springfield Republican. And He Was a Hoosier ♦ i T 1 ? a tall Hoosier delegate from the banks of the Wabash, and he was hanging rather wearily to a strap in a Wabash avenue ear bound for the Republican National Convention in Chicago last week. Evidently he was trjins hard to figure out a mystery. he Kave it up and exclaimed to n fellow-delegate by his side: i=.» tr ?" K ® st experience I ever had last night. I am registered at the Morrison uptown, but when I awoke tl.is morning I was lying on a bed in f-"Jf" roon * w 'th iron gratings above T' v. '^ ord -' thought I, 'have I been pinched again?' Yes, I was about town last night with some of S!?-£« 'nation. Oh, yes, I did some drinking too, but I must have carried my load pretty well, for when I went to settle for my room, T found that I A ~t he Y " M ' C " A - Hotel the Coliseum, and you know, they don t take in drunks, or semi-drunks there. Don't I remember anything about last niprht's experience? Not much, friend. The Inst, the very last thing I can recall is that I was nomi nating someone in the Republican convention amid wild applause. That's nil. Strange, isn't it?" And the Hoosier from the banks of the Wab- Tv! i u ?? ppd off ' or rather alighted, at the Coliseum. If They Told the Truth [From Life.] n,'=i Vh i?. t .i Spoi , le ' 1 chiidren you have! But then, little else is to be expected from people so weak-minded and irrespon sible as you are." . tJJ ratelv smoke more than twenty two cigars a day." * \ es, sir, if you are fond of seeond "l e , a , S ' a fi ? h l® as trou t stream, fine view of livery stable, and a lake full of LTi.Vii atp , r . nr " l leaky boats, vou snouid pass the summer at my resort." "I want you to understand, sir that JU y «?® w J pap ,S r ls r,m in th " interests of the advertisers and controlled hv the men who control me. And I'm no ex eeption, either." nn'i'Lv Il 'i I i k V uV " , fln<l that Insurance policy all right, sir. No matter what P"PPf"B' there s an unintelligible clause inserted which, when properlv inter preted by the authorities, lets us out of payinn- anything." "T beg leave to announce that I am a woman of 35. married, fairly rich, mov ing in what is known as good society: ♦ , hav ® rea<l on, y °"e half of one •. "'ays: that I know nothing hut the faintest smattering of history, science or art: that T support the name of heing a French scholar on the strength of a few glib phrases; that I am entirely unacquainted with cur rent events, and that I en.ioy. and have enjoyed for years, the reputation of be ing a cultured and educated woman." Drake's Drum Drake he's in his hammock an' a thou sand mile away (Capten, art tha sleepin' there be low?) Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay, An' dreamln' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Yarnder lumes the Island, yarnder lie the ships, TIT sailor lads a-danr n' heel-an'-toe, An the shore lights fiashin'. an' the night-tide dashin', He sees et arl so plainly as he saw et long ago. Drake he was a Devon man, an' ruled the Devon seas (Capten, art tha sleepin' there be low?) Rovin' tho' his death fell, he went wi' heart at ease. An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore; Str'ke et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven. An' drum them up the Charinel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come (Capten. art tha sleepln' there be low?) Slung atween the round shot. Ilstentn' for the druT" An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Call him on the deep sea, call him up tlie Sound, Call him when ye sail to meet the foe' Where the old trade'- plyln' an' the old flat? flyin' They shall And him ware an' waitln', as they found him lone aaro! HENRY NEWBOLT. I'M SO HAPPY By WIIIK Dinger I'm srlad to see It clear to-day, 'Cause merchants of the town Have had too many Saturdays With rain a-fallin' down. It is their big day, and it seems A shame when on that day The clouds pour forth their heavy showers * And keep the trade away. So with the merchants I rejoice. And hope the public will Rush forth to-day and with their coin The stores' cash drawers well fill. I think I'd help the cause myself. But I must be away On more Important business—. 1 A game of golf to play. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LK I>e.KKoi{£ca>iia1 > e.KKoi{£ca>iia *y the Ex-Committeeman The manner in which President Wil son and the men who run the Demo cratic machine in Pennsylvania are trying: to woo the Bull Moosers is one of the interesting things in Pennsyl vania politics just now. The Repub licans are united on the ticket, but the anti-Penroso people are still taking toll of heads in Philadelphia and else where because of the refusal of the Senator and his friends to line up for the support of the Governor. The Democrats are united on their ticket, but fighting among themselves as usual. Senator Penrose has been called to New York to take part in the confer ences to heal the breach between the Republicans and Progressives and it is expected that he will soon make a statement on the subject, which, com ing with the action of the Progressive national committee, will get the cam paign started with vigor. The Demo crats are moving everything to prevent the completion of harmony and count on Vance C. McCormick's selection to make some Progressives hesitate. In fact. Democrats are working on the Roosevelt radicals by saying that McCormick really represents the Colonel and other nonsense. The next fortnight should prove a very interesting period in Pennsylva nia politics because McCormick will be formally inducted into his new place and will shape his policies with the President and Governor Brum baugh will give further exposition of the fortunes of war. The Philadelphia Public Ledger in a St. Louis dispatch says: "Some of the old Democratic leaders are sullen be cause of the action of ME. Wilson in choosing an outsider as chairman of the Democratic notional committee. Vance C. McCormick, the new cam paign manager, is an unknown to the Democratic 'Old Guard,' who feel deeply humiliated over his selection. They looked forward to the choice of one of their own number. It is gen erally agreed, of course, that in choos ing Mr. McCormick the President was obviously making a bid for Progres sive support. As a candidate for Gov ernor in Pennsylvania in 1914 Mr. McCormick had the indorsement of Theodore Roosevelt. The old-timers are not so sure that the President will profit by McCormick's selection. They point out that in all probability most of the Progressive loaders will support Hughes, and at the same time they declare that McCormick's elevation to the head of the national committee may have a depressing effect on the boys in the trenches." —The Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin, in commenting upon the way the Democrats are receiving the Presi dent's own convention, says: "Inci dentally, Vance McCormick, of Har rlsburg, who yesterday was chosen to be the new Democratic national chair man, was "boomed" as the Democratic presidential standard bearer in 1920. The McCormiok boom was launched by Ephraim Lederer, collector of in ternal revenue. 'Pennsylvania Demo crats have much cause for rejoicing in the action of the St. I.ouis convention,' he said. 'Not only were Wilson and Marshall renominated harmoniously, but Pennsylvania go* the high honor of giving the new Democratic national chairman. To my mind, Vance McCor mick will be the Democratic choice to succeed Mr. Wilson in 1920. I think Mr. McCormick, by his aggressive management of the Wilson campaign, Will prove himself a leader who will win support throughout the country." Charles P. Donnelly, ex-Democratic State chairman and old guardsman, says: "In Pennsylvania there is only one party and no faction, and there will be willing hands extended to the Democratic State committee in the campaign to poll the greatest yote for Wilson and Marshall ever polled for any presidential candidate in this State. A loyal, earnest and undivided support will be given to State Chair man McLean and National Commit teeman Palmer and through them vig orous co-operation with the new na tional chairman, Vance McCormick." Governor Brumbaugh yesterday noti fied Frederick J. Shoyer, William A. Carr and Albert H. Ladner that they had been appointed to the Board of Registration Commissioners, Philadel phia. They were sworn in by Judge Patterson. Following this the board went into executive session to organize and Mr. Shoyer was elected president. The question of keeping the present office force was discussed, but no defi nite action was taken. However, sev eral persons fear they will lose their positions. Mr. Shoyer is a Republican and Mr. Carr and Mr. Ladner are Democrats. Mr. Shoyer succeeds the former chairman of the board, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, and John O'Donnell and Allen S. Morgan were the other members dropped by Governor Brum baugh. —Governor Brumbaugh's appoint ments last night all have a distinctly antl-Penrose flavor. Monaghan and Alcorn are Vare partisans, Mr. Alcorn having been a delegate-al-large candi date in his interest. The Pittsburgh registration appointments are Magee selections and it is even said that the former mayor of Pittsburgh approved the reappointment cf David L. Law rence, who was recommended by the Democratic state committeemen from Allegheny county. —All of Governor Brumbaugh's ap pointments since the Legislature ad journed will have to be confirmed by the next Senate, and about the State men who follow politics are predicting that there will be some strenuous times. . —lt is understood that Hale Hill, the retiring corporation clerk of the Auditor General's department, will re turn to Pittsburgh and practice law, but that he will take an interest in politics and boost Charles A. Snyder for Auditor General. —The death of Judge Robert R. I.ittle at his home in Montrose yester dav gives the Governor another judicial appointment to make. It is likely that the Governor will follow the advice of Public Service Commissioner W. D. B. Ainey In making the appointment. Mr. Ainey lives In Susquehanna county and could be judge if he desired the place verv much. —Judge Monaghan will serve under his appointment, by the Governor until the first Monday of January, 1918. —Additional men belonging to the McNlchol side of the house were dropped yesterday by Philadelphia county officials to make room for Vare men. A story is printed to-day that. Mayor Smith and the Vares have had a difference over appointment of a new chief of city property, from which the Mayor "fired" Frank J. Cummiskey. This is the place formerly held by Wil liam H. Ball, now secretary to the Governor. The Vares are said to have promised Frank J. Ryan, but the Mayor wants the place for a man In his ward. Happiness Happiness is more a mental attitude than a material achievement. Money more often adds responsi bility. influences the imagination and creates unnatural ambitions. Adam and Eve lived in what was cailed a Paradise. They had no great amount of money. In fact, they lived before money was invented, and they lived In Paradise.—The Silent Partner. THE CARTOON OP THE DAY TROUBLES THAT NEVER COME SINGLY —From the IV. Y. World. STUDYING By Frederic J. Haskin THE experiment of trying to make a plant grow 24 hours a day by exposing it- to electrical light at night was tried not long ago by scien tists of the Department of Agriculture. Had it been a success, wonders might have been accomplished in the rapid production of food crops. A nation at war, for example, would have been able to double the productivity of its soil. All of these large possibilities were nipped in the bud. The plant grew with abnormal rapidity for a time, and then it <cot sick. Even though the same amount of light and heat were supplied by electricity at night as the sun afforded during the day, the plant could not grow healtnily without sun light. This experiment shows that solar radiation—quite apart from the tem perature it produces—is an essential to plant life; yet it is the one element in climate which has not been closely studied until recently. Temperature, wind, rainfall and alt of the other things that go to make up weather have been carefully observed and charted. You can write to the weath er bureau and ask them about the cli mate of almost any township in the United States, and they will give it to you for every season of the year in exact figures. The only thing they can not tell you is the amount of solar radiation received by that particular township, unless you live in one of four places where investigations of solar radiation are being carried on. When these investigations have been made in all parts of the United States, one more element in climate, one more factor In agriculture, will have been charted and put to intelligent use. A I real step forward in the control of ' man over nature will have been taken. It is known, for example, that in countries where solar radiation is : strong, sugar beets yield a far higher | percentage of sugar in proportion to their bulk. This suggests that solar ■ radiation is an essential element in the conversion of starch Into sugar within the plant. This study of the sun's energy also opens another fascinating possibility— that of putting the sun to work. The construction of a practicable motor which would use the heat of the sun would solve the power question for ever. The price of gasoline would worry us no longer. Power would be free and inexhaustible. The problem is particularly tempt ing because it can easily be solved on a small scale. Anyone can build a sun motor that will turn a little wheel, and in Southern California one was constructed with a concave mirror sur face which focussed the rays of the sun so as to develop a considerable power. It was not, however, com mercially practicable. The secret cf how to capture and concentrate the heat of the sun' 3 rays remains un solved. Scientific observation, how ever, may show the way. Dr. Kim bDll, who is conducting the investiga tions at Washington, recently discov ered quite by accident that when an electric light bulb is exposed to sun light the filament quickly attains a temperature above boiling. This sug- THE STATE FROM DAf TO m The unprecedented situation of a board of school directors having to pass a resolution ordering the teach ers to cash their checks for the past four or five months' salaries has brought the town of Hazleton vividly before the public eye. Can business be so far divorced from teaching as that? The fly-by-night marriage of the Scranton heiress to the streetcar conductor suggests the likelihood of premiums being placed upon the posi tion of fare-collector by the railways companies. A check, three feet by 18 Inches In size, drawn to the order of the Bur gess of Warren for one dollar, will be used to pay a series of debts of one dollar, each person who owes endors ing the check and turning it over to a creditor. Quite a novel scheme. The organizing committee of the Boy Scouts of Wyoming Valley are adver tising 12,000 boys for SIO,OOO in an effort to raise funds for the Scout movement. A boy and a fifth for every dollar seems like a pretty fair return on one's money. A flve-foot long blacksnake caus ed considerable consternation In the business district of Pottsville the oth er day. Mr. Reptile was willing to be friendly, but showed tight If his au dience showed fright. In other words,.he reacted on public opinion. Fudge as the only sustenance for thirty seniors of a certain well-known college in the State, stranded on an Island in the Susquehanna while re hearsing for Hamlet, would scarcely satisfy the normal appetite. Even the art of portraying Hamlet demands more than that in order to subsist. Joseph. Kiewiaky, of Pottsville, re- JUNE 17, 1916. gests that a large glass vacuum filled with filaments might capture ind store the sun's energy in usable quantities, what it may be worth. Studies of solar radiation are now being carried on by the government at four points—Madison, Wis.; Lincoln, Neb.; Sante Fe, N. M., and Washing ton, D. C. Observations are made of the amount of heat that a given area receives from the sun, and of the amount that is radiated from the earth, under all conditions and at nil times of the year. The information is accurately charted for a number of years so that by referring to the chart you can determine, for example, just how much solar radiation your garden ought to receive during the first week in June. ! Separate observations are made of i the amount of light afforded bv the i sun, the direct light and that reflect ed from clouds and the earth being carefully distinguished. ! The investigations of the sun's heat I are made by a pyrheliometer, which | has been brought to a very high state |of perfection. Its principle is sim | pie. A bright metal plate which will | absorb the rays of the sun is exposed jin a glass case on the roof of the I building. This plate is connected by I wires with a "resistance" in an elec trical circuit in the laboratory. In accordance with a well-known elec trical law, the heat increases this re sistance, thus affecting the current, which actuates a pen. Thus the vari ations of temperatures are accurately' recorded in the course of a line. The measurement of the heat that is radiated from the earth is of far more importance than you would suspect; for it is chiefly this "second" heat that warms our atmosphere. All heat travels in waves. The sun's heat reaches the earth in very long wave lengths, which penetrate the atmos phere and are absorbed by the earth. Later this heat is radiated out again in short wave-lengths which are held by the atmosphere. This radiation of heat has given rise to some striking phenomena. It has long been known to mountain peo ple, for example, that high up on mountain sides there are belts of land In which no frost forms, even when there is frost in the valleys below. These "thermal belts" were also long known to the weather experts; but the first accurate observations of them were made quite recently. The weath er men went to a region in the Alle gheny mountains where this phe nomenon was known to occur, and es tablished several stations on the moun tain side, the highest being 1,700 feet I above the valley. They found that during the day It was four degrees colder than the mountain top. This was found to be due to the reflected heat. It warmed the air in the val ley, which began to rise because it was lighter, while at the same time the cold air of the upper slopes fell. T . hi s Process con 'n«ed practically all £?! ' vall ®y filling with cold air while heat rose from its bottom to warm the mountains.. In this region, it was possible to raise fruit far up the mountain side; but the blossoms were always killed by frost in the valley. cel\ed J3,800 for having been kicked in the face by a mule. Many there are who would be glad to turn the other cheek to the muliest mule ex tant for the sum mentioned. The Kane Republican scarcely merits classification with our great est prophets when it foresees a great frequency of rains during the next few days The coming of the sun will be heralded with the gusto that accom son return of the prodigal WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY . I . tQ I u , esU , O H B BU »>mltted to members of the Harrisburg; Rotary Club and their answers a B presented at the organiza tion a annual "Municipal Qulz."j year h ?9ls? a " th ® death ral ® toT the nnJF'? htee , nth an<l six-tenth per 1,- 000, based on population of 72,575. Dad hen you were a kid how very, very old your "Dad" seemed to be! And when you did some kid caper and got caught, how well your "Dad" seemed to understand even the most minute details of your little game! And now that you are a man grown, your "Dad" seems to be younger than years ago—seems to be the boy of tho family—even younger than you used to be. Dads are fellows; fathers are not the same. When a boy's father has money he is called "Father." When he teaches Sunday school, we call him "Papa." If he shops with mother and wheels a baby carriage, we call him "Pa." F.ut if he goes to the ball game and stands on his hind legs and yells "Slide, you suckers, slide!" and then quietly slips back on the bleacher boards and' smothers a groan, we honor him with the title "Dad."—The Silent Partner. ©mttng dUjal Some Idea of the unusual lines in which workmen's compensation is operative under the act which went into force on the first of the year is furnished by the State that in the last few weeks the State Workmen's In surance Fund has paid compensation ol \ me n killed by bulls, locomotives tin . ir ? Bane Patients, men who wero killed by electric current in a mill and by lightning and while making war munitions. Of the 1,448 classifi cations in the State Insurance Fund manual it is estimated that the State has 498 lines in which it has issued policies. The number reported to June i 5 13.186 policies covering 122,- 609 employes. Some of the lines cov ered in addition to the big Industries are bark peelers, lightning rod erec tors, colfln manufacturers, fish curersw* iVi evo Poi"atorß, fumigation men/*" riding masters, serum extracters, toll gate keepers, water bottlers, manicur ists, bill posters, playgrounds instruc tors, bowling alley boys, cemetery keepers, stage drivers, vaudeville per formers, including trapeze artists, garbage collectors, deputy sheriffs and baseball players, there being four chilis which have Insured their play ers. Hundreds of elevators, freight and passenger, throughout the State are being changed before the State code governing the construction and opera tion of elevators lakes effect on July 1. Lists have been made of thousands or elevators and as a result of inspec tions many new ones are being install ed or overhauled. The code will probably affect more appliances than any of the standards issued by the State Industrial Board. There are several other codes in course of prep aration which will be promulgated during the year, being designed to se cure better safety and sanitary ar rangements. The Rell Telephone Company Is constantly looking for new worlds to conquer. Witness its most recent feat, that of connecting up the alumni as sociations of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, which has lately consolidated with Harvard Univer sity, in every part of the country and giving them exclusive wire service for a period of over two hours. The stunt cost the company nearly $50,000, It is said on good authority. Thirty alumni and guests held receivers to their ears the other evening at the Engineers' i Club, this city, and heard the Stein song sung in Milwaukee, the Star- Spangled Banner with a band accom paniment in Washington, and loud cheers from California, Alabama, Montana, Ohio and other sections of the country. Alexander Graham Bell, Orville Wrjght, Thomas A. Edi son, Theodore N. Vail, Dr. Michael I. Pupin, who discovered the means of making long distance telephoning pos sible, and other inventors and scien tists whose names are things to con jure with, addressed the scattered groups by phone. An instrument was used in the local club which made the reeonance of the thirty phones the same as one. There is a good-natured colored man who watches tenderly over the gardens about the Harrisburg hospital. The old gentleman has a sense of humor. He was holding conversa tion with a young lady the other morning on the subject of cherries and cherry trees, with which species the young lady is not wholly conver sant. Just to make conversation, this young lady—we will call her Frances —remarked on the bareness of one particular tree, stating it as her firm conviction that there would be no' cherries on that tree during the pres ent season. "No, Miss," replied the old darky, white teeth gleaming, "you-all suttin ly am right; dis yeah's a pear tree. Miss!" 4 Many Harrlsburgers will be inter ested to know that John W. Alexan der, the Pittsburgh artist, who was much interested in the mural decora tion at the Capitol and who was to have executed the lunettes for the North corridor prior to his illness, left an estate of $414,000. Mr. Alex ander planned a series of paintings to show the industrial development of Pennsylvania as a companion series to the Vanlnghen paintings in the South corridor showing the religious influences which entered into the making of the Keystone State. No doubt the Board of Grounds and Buildings will commission some emi nent Pennsylvania artist next year to finish the paintings which should have been in place long ago. When an umbrella takes fire on the street something happens. The other evening a man dropped a match into an umbrella and it started to burn. He did not know it until he felt it. Then he forsook the article in a hurry But it took fifteen minutes for the fire to burn out and about 100 people got interested. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —City Solicitor T. K. Saylor, of Johnstown, is making up a building code from those of twenty cities. —Morris Knowles, who was here yesterday with the Pittsburgh Flood Commission, has been active in that project for a decade or more. —Dr. Leroy Weller, president of Beaver College, received the degree of doctor of letters from Wayne3burg College. —W. B. Kay, new corporation clerk in the Auditor General's department, used to be a newspaper man. —Thomas K. Donnally, secretary of the State Red Men, has held that of fice for over 20 years. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisbursr tin is used in dairy buckets in Wisconsin? HISTORIC HARRISBVRG This city had one of the earlv nail factories in this part of the State. OUR DAILY LAUGH THAT BALKY TIE. His face is red, w o nd e ring He's angry? Nothing of i He's struggling with a balky tia~- THE ACID TEST. 1 — So you think she is broad broad -minded enough to admit that she is nar- Job 7 row-minded.
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