8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R OYSTER, Business Manager. GUB M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat- Eastern office, Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New em office, Story, Brooks & Fin ley, People's Gas cago. 111.' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a y® ar in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 14 My heart with sin and fear defiled Come Thou and cast the tempter out, And make me as a little child. — RANDOLPH. CITY TREES NOW that the annual Arbor Day proclamation has been issued It would seem to be a good thing for the City Forester to report upon the condition of the trees of Harris burg. He has been making an inspec tion during the summer and it ought to be possible at this time to report the result of his work. Even if the census has not been completed he should be able to indicate, through the head of the Department of Parks, what might be done regarding tree planting this year. There is a remarkable indifference to tree planting and unless the people generally get awake to this fact the next generation will find a treeless city instead of streets hedged with re freshing foliage. It ought to be easily possible for the City Forester to start some program of tree planting without further de lay that will Induce the property own ers on whole blocks or parts of blocks to join in a general movement for the observation of Arbor Day. Too often trees are planted that are either too . small or of the wrong variety and the results are far from satisfactory. Even the great avenue of elms planted by Individual property owners and the city from Hardscrabble to the north- em city limits has not received the attention which Is required to produce healthy growth. This is the City Forester's business and even without funds he can at least call the public's attention to the city's needs in this respect. About all that Is needed to induce the people of Harrl6burg to get busy in the matter of tree planting Is to have their attention directed to the matter in some intelligent way so that they may co-operate with the Depart ment of Parks in planting proper trees. Good for the State Bureau of Employ ment! During the month of August over 1,500 unemployed persons were placed in positions by this bureau. Jacob Lightner, the director of this di vision of the State's activities, is giv ing intelligent thought to this most im portant branch of the State Govern ment. WALNUT STREET BRIDGE CITY SOLICITOR SEITZ will now put the Walnut street bridge proposition up to the Public Utilities Commission. The City Plan ning Commission having unanimously disapproved this structure will prob ably submit its views to the State commission so that the whole subject may be thoroughly considered. It Is understood that Governor Brumbaugh Is strongly opposed to the bridge at the Walnut street location on the ground that it would seriously Impair the general treatment of the Capitol Park extension plans. He Is said to favor either a subway or some other treatment at State street. While the promoters of the Walnut street bridge are still busy there is no concealment of the fact that the ap proval of the loan was by a com paratively small vote. It Is declared by tho6e who oppose the structure at Walnut street that were the question again submitted'to the people the proposition would be overwhelmingly defeated. Governor Brumbaugh hit the nail squarely upon the head In his Clearfield speech, declaring that the absence of the Pennsylvania soldiers had driven more ■women to work in the fields than had been known in the last ten years. He charged the Washington administration with responsibility for these conditions and intimated strongly that political exigency was at the bottom of the re tention of the volunteers on the border. UNCLE SAM BUTTS IX IT does seem a little Incomprehen sible why the United States Pub lic Health Service should es tablish what can scarcely be called more than a local quarantine Inspec tion system in and about Philadel- phia because of infantile paralysis and try to run it on its own hook. In the last month our State Depart ment of Health has given t,he country, and the world as well, an example of speedy organization of an effective quarantine. The hundreds of miles of border have been covered, roads, fer ries, bridges, railroads and other means of entry have been patrolled and it has been pronounced the best quarantine ever devised >on such a scale. It has been as effective as the THURSDAY EVENING, old shot gun quarantine used to be In days when smallpox was rampant In the land and the requirements were accepted by the public wKh a mini mum of difficulty. Now along comes your Uncle Sam uel and establishes a partial quaran tine, effective in spots. It is not worked in co-operation with the quarantine for which Pennsylvania is giving her brains, her energy and her money, but is in effect a duplication for interstate business purposes of the quarantine in and about Phila delphia county. And when It is considered that it was established without completion of negotiations for joint issuance of cer tificates by nation and State it does seem that Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon has a right to ask what the federal authorities are trying to do. MUST IMPROVE ROADS STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER BLACK is on the agricultural tour with the Governor and he is testing the sentiment of the farming communities regarding the good roads proposition. Inasmuch as a loan cannot be secured for at least two years, the slogan of the department at the next session of the Legisla ture will be "five million dollars for highways and all the auto license fund." This will mean at least seven million dollars a year for the next two years to put the highways of Penn sylvania in proper condition. More and more the people of the State realize the importance of creat ing a firstclass road system and the improvement which has been made during the last few years has only whetted the appetite of all who believe in good roads as a means to further prosperity and development. Perhaps the most important mat ter to be given consideration at the next session will be some amendment of the law which will provide for the improvement of highways through boroughs. It is in the borough sec tions of every State highway that the worst conditions are found. Penbrook and Camp Hill In our own immediate vicinity are examples. DOUBLE TAXATION THE tax which the Democrats of the Senate propose to lay upon the capital and surplus of cor porations is another case of double taxation in many instances. Under the corporation tax provided by the last Republican Congress, the levy was made only upon earnings— and all profits of less than $5,000 a year were exempt. The new Demo cratic tax, however, will be taken re gardless of profits; and all corpora tions which have capital stock and surplus in excess of $99,000 must pay fifty cents a year upon each one thou sand dollars as an "excise" to help care for the deficiencies caused in the treasury by Democratic tariff legisla tion and to help pay for the extrava gances of Democratic legislators. All this in addition to the income tax already levied upon these corpora tions and in addition to the local tax es upon real estate and stock in trade and other property which the com panies hold subject to taxation at home. AUTOMOBILE SPEEDING THE recent accident on the River Drive will be followed by others unless automobilists and motor cyclists- exercise more care than at present. The thoroughfare is used by hundreds of automobile parties nightly and many of them pay absolutely no attention to traffio regulations. "Safety First" on their calendar of mottoes has been supplanted by "Safety Lan." "Take a chance" is their watch word, and they are not averse to com pelling the other fellow on the road to share their perilous game. Many careful drivers now shun the River Drive after nightfall and it will be avoided by a constantly increasing number of automobilists if this reck less operation of cars and motorcycles is permitted to be continued. The glare of unprotected lights and the unregulated speed of the machines tha.t use them are fast making the most beautiful thoroughfare in Cen tral Pennsylvania impossible for those who have regard for life and limb. RETURN OF THE TROOPS ACCORDING to a statement pre pared at the War Department about 15,000 National Guards men had been discharged from the service of the government up to Sep tember 2. These discharges were for various causes, including nearly 5,000 on the score of dependency, almost 10,000 for physical disability and the remainder for various other causes. Secretary of War Baker admits that the pressure from all parts of the country for the return of the American troops from the Mexican border is increasing, especially in view of the fact that the Arbitration Commission has apparently reached a point where there is no further justification for keeping the volunteers in the field. There is an impression at Washing ton and elsewhere that the adminis tration Is more concerned about Its political welfare than with any real protection of the border. It Is now believed that the troops will not be sent home until the administration Is convinced that the return of the volunteers will be of political benefit. Whatever else may be provided for In the annual budget of the City Coun cil It Is clearly evident that sufficient funds must be set aside to resurface many sections of the paved highways of the city. Commissioner Lynch is a practical man and he understands better than any other official of the municipality how important it is to maintain the paved streets so that the deterioration may not bo so rapid as to involve general repavlng. LITTLE SUBURBAN' TOURS NOW that the delightful autumn days are at hand we can Imag- ine nothing finer than little tours about Harrisburg for those who do not yet know their own city. These tours may be taken afoot or by auto mobile. A tramp through Wlldwood park would open the eyes of many who do not yet realize what Harris burg has in that splendid reservation of upland and fen. Nor have many of our people traversed the new Park way strip between Derry street and the Reservoir park. There are many beautiful places about the city, attractive little nooks and corners, which should draw our people into the open during these au tumn days. Some years ago the Telegraph op erated a sight-seeing car and thou sands then had the opportunity to see the river front from the city to Rogkville, and many delightful sec tions round about the city. It might bo a good thing for some of the au tomobile concerns to Inaugurate some fall tours for those who cannot oth erwise see these unusual spots, which contribute so much to the general at tractiveness of Harrisburg. ""Pmvivoi i/UcIkLCL By the Ex-Committeeman Men active in politics Of every part and all over the State are awaiting with considerable interest the result of the attempt to be made before the executive committee of the Democratic state machine to have ex-Congressman M. Clyde Kelley, of Braddock, a ram pant Bull Mooser In years gone by, put on the Democratic congressional ticket in the Thirtieth Congressional district. This is the old Dalzell, or McKeesport, district and the circumstances are un usual. The State executive committee has the sole power to fill the vacancy and it remains to bo seen whether the committee will put on a ticket a rtian who does not declare for Wilson. Kelley was defeated two years ago for Congress by William H. Coleman, who beat him Tor the Republican nomination last May. Kelley got the Washington and Prohibition nomina tions and now C. H. Arnold, the Demo cratic candidate, has sent a withdrawal to this city. It is in the pocket of Postmaster Born, of Wilmerding. who will file it when he is assured that Kel ley will be named in place of Arnold. Where the rub comes In Is that while Kelley Is willing to swing his organizations in for Wilson, he will not declare for him, contending that as he is Progressive and Prohibition candidate he can not. But he needs the Democrats to come near wlnnipg. The Kelley episode has been the only thing- to disturb the boss Democrats assembled here for their "in gather ing." It was declared to-dav by some Democrats that they were not meeting here to hold up the postmasters for contributions and that the State com mittee and notification meetings com. ing the day after the postmasters met here was a mere coincidence. How ever, it was intimated pretty plainly that the coincidence was carefully ar ranged. The Democrats have adopted all the tactics they used to condemn in other parties and are inclined to be resentful of the suggestion that they are not all angels of light. •—Democrats were showing much in terest to-day in reports that President Wilson would make seven or eight speeches and there was quite a little scramble under way to get the Presi dent to visit various localities. Be tween interviewing postmasters and getting dates for speakers there ap peared to be plenty to make trouble. . —Republican state leaders are talk ing over plans for the campaign at Philadelphia and are getting things in shape for the big opening in Pitts burgh. The State committee will likely meet on September 27 in that city. Candidate Hughes is to be there at the same time. —Senator Penrose is in New York arranging some of the details of the state campaign in Pennsylvania. Ar rangements are being made for tours by men of national prominence. The tours of thp state candidates will then be arranged. —Public Service Commissioner Wil liam A. Magee i* now being mentioned in the Pittsburgh newspapers as a likely candidate for mayor of that city next year. The commissioner served four years as mayor and his friends believe that he would be willing to enter the race again. —National Chairman McCormick and ex-Governor Martin H. Glvnn. of New York, were here late last night on their way to Indianapolis to attend the Marshall notification and indulged in some pleasantries about New York. They were not very enthusiastic a'lout Maine, but indulged in glittering and harmless generalities. Mr. Glvnn said that he looked for a rtuarter-milllon majority for Wilson in New York. Just then the train pulled out. —Half a dozen of the Democratic candidates for Congress were here to dav hunting sympathy and much In terested In what kind of financial sup nort the postmasters are going to give to the Democratic machine. —The plans of the Prohibition party for its presidential campaign In this State are rapidly taking shape and the snectal train on which Candidates Kanley and Landrlth are traveling in the western part of the countrv will tour this State In October. This train is scheduled to enter Pennsylvania at Reaver, Rochester and Pittsburgh on Friday. October 20. On the 21st franklin. Oil Cltv. Tltusville, Corry. Union City and Krie will be vlsltd. On Wednesday, the 2 sth. Sayr, To wnnda, Tunkhannock, Pittston. Wllkes- Barre and Scranton are the lucky towns. Monday. October SO, Easton, Rethlehem. Allentown, Rending. Potts town. Norrlstown and Philadelphia. Tuesday, October SI, Chester. Down- Ingtown, Cofltesvi'ie, Lancaster, Co lumbia nnd York. Wednesday, Novem ber 1, Hanover, Gettysburg. Green rustle. Chambersburg. Sh'nnenshurg Carlisle and at night Harrisburg. Thursday. November 2. Huntingdon, Tyrone. .Mtoona. .Tohns'own. Greens b'ire ad Washington. There are fortv stops thus indicated; three nlaces get '•as than 2 5 minutes; the rest will have the opnortunitv to hear the candidates for from 25 minutes to two hours. The Philadelphia Ldger to-day vs: "Asrents nfthe Committee of Seventy, aided hy law students and athletes from the University nf Penn sylvania and operatives of a New York detective saroncy employed hy Con gressman John R. K. Scott, began s svstemptic examination yesterday of the rlstr!itior> lists ef tTi Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards. The Investi gators reported last night, that they hfid discovered 'phantom' voters in the divisions investigated in the early hours of the day." The Golfer's Dream You may boost his pay And may cheer his name, And may strew his way With your worldly fame. But the golf bug's dream Is to be three up In the final flight For a silver cup. You could offer him power Or a kingly crown, Or the Joys of earth, But he'd turn them down, For the constant dream Of the golfing bug Is to get nis name On a silver mug. —Detroit Free Press. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY "We demand adequate national defence; adequate protection on both our western and eastern coasts.'' —CHARLES E. HUGHES. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ] —"When Ty Cobb and Mr. Hughes shook hands at Detroit not long ago two good runner* became acquainted. —After glancing through advance sheets of the Democratic campaign text book on prosperity we wonder whether the author knows that they ar? having quite a little trouble over in Europe. —lt's the chap with the yellow streak who is subject to the blues. —The biggest cloud in the sky never was able to hide the sun for long. I EDITORIAL COMMENT") —Vance McCOrmick discovers that the result in Maine presages a Demo cratic victory. King Constantine is understood to believe that the unrest among the Greeks indicates their love for his regime.—New York Sun. A Sam in Subtraction To carry Illinois President Wilson needs only 33 per cent, of the Progres sive vote, while he can carry Ohio and Indiana, if he gets only 20 per cent, of the Progressives. The Democratic national chairman. Mr. McCormick is adept in addition, but his mathematical education is not complete. He does not subtract the disillusionized part of the Democratic vote of 1912.—New York Sun. The Colonel Is Out [San Antonio Light.] If Colonel Roosevelt is alive at the time of the next presidential nomina tion he is to be reckoned with. He will be out of the game only when he is out of breath. Several months ago, immediately af ter the Republican national conven tion had declined to nominate him, the Colonel said that he was out of poli tics. He was finished, and there was nothing more for him to do except to write his own obituary. Such were his words. Now the Colonel is out for Hughe#. He Is up in M&ine and he is making the fur fly. In other words, he is going to the game old game In the same old way. He is preaching the doctrine of the stronger Americanism In a manner that is certain to keep him in the pub lic eye, and being in the public eye, the Colonel may confidently i.e expected to run for President of the United States. The Colonel whatever his other faults may be, never goes to a matter in a half-hearted way. He has declared himself for Hughes, and he is making a strong fight for him. In fact he is fighting as he would fight If tl.o nomi nee was Theodore Roosevelt himself. This is certain to give him standing with the Republican party four years from now and where the Colonel has standing he cannot be overlooked. Incidentally, Vance McCormick, the chairman of the Democratic national committee, has delivered himself of a remarkably ungrateful speech regard ing the Colonel. It seems that Mc- Cormick at one time ran for some office or other, and the Colonel came to give Such help as he oould. Mc- Cormick was defeated. He !s now be littling the performance of the Colonel on the stump, saying that ha once did all he could for McCormick, and that it wa not enough to put McCormick Into office. Therefore it is certain that the Colonel will not exert any po litical Influence in the present cam paign. Ordilnary gratitude should have pre vented McCormlck from making such a. speech as that. Moreover It Is not good political sense. The Colonel may have all sorts of defects, and he has them In plenty, but he Is a good and capable fighter, and the n\an who un derrates him makes a great mistake. The Colonel has taken the center of the high road once more, and he will be seen later coming right down the middle regardless of what is In his way. Nothing but death will head him off or stop him. GET A TRANSFER If you are on the Gloomy .Lino, Get a transfer. If you're inclined to fret and pine, Get a transfer. Get oft the track of Doubt and Gloom; Get on a Sunshine Train—there's room. Get a transfer. If you are on the Worry Train, Get a transfer. You must not stay there and complain; Get a transfer. The Cheerful Cars are passing through, And there is lots of room for you. Get a transfer. If you are on the Orouchy Track, Get a transfer. Just take a Happy Special back. Get a transfer. Jump on the train and pull the rope That lands you at the Station Hope. Get a transfer. ■—The Booster, ENGLAND PAYS FRIGHTFUL PRICE FOR DRINK PRIVILEGE LONDON, England.—ln his third article on the drink traffic in the Daily Chronicle, Arthur Mee has some striking arguments with which to rebut the contention that the drink business must not be prohibited be cause of the blow to revenue. "It is said," he remarked,, "that we cannot afford t6 throw all our strength against our enemies, because, forsooth, we must sell part of it to the liquor trade for £60,000,000 a year. * * * We have had an economy week, but we looked in vain to the government to seize the Opportunity of stopping a waste un paralleled In the history of any people, we are to give up wearing veils and costly laces; the tired man who works hard all the week Is not to take a rest in a motor car on Saturday; we must not each overmuch, and must be proud of the weeds in our garden * * • Our government must feel that they are all the time as if walking about on the seashore, picking up a copper here and there, while the ocean of gold runs to waste all around them. Let them save their coppers; but let the nation be wise and save hundreds of millions of pounds a year which now it throws away or spends in helping Germany. "Drink costs this country a million pounds a day. Our people spend on it £500,000 a day, and the controlling and managing of drink and its results costs £500,000 more. A Judge has written to me this week that, much as he ap proves of prohibition, the courts exist so much on the use and abuse of drink that it is proper for judges to keep aloof from drink outside their courts: and the man who would know how much drink costs us to control has only to think that out. • * "The drink bill since the war began mutt have reached £350,000,000. It should stagger a man and make him blush with shame. We must have spent more money on drink than we have spent on shells, and we have gone on spending while Mr. Asquith's words ring out that we need every penny worth of strength to win the war. Men tall; of 100,000 aeroplanes to end the war, but we shall soon have spent Safety in Arbitration A Jury decides on the Innocence or guilt of every man In every court. It passes on the question of damages to persons or property. The Jury Is the arbitrator of the law. The whole tend ency of the times Is to extend the in fluence and potency of arbitration. Even a high court of peace for all the nations has been invoked, and it is conceded that arbitration would have prevented the awful war in Europe. In Canada and Australia labor dis putes must be arbitrated before there can be a strike. The public welfare is considered of prime Importance. The people of this country have a right to demand that they receive first consid eration from our lawmakers. If they do not impress this demand upon their members of Congress, they invite a succession of evils, the end of which no man can foresee. From Leslie's. Josephus on the Result [New York Sun] Whenever Josephus puts his mind upon a subject the world Is made the richer by at least one pearl of wisdom, generally by several. He shines for all and for everything. There Is an encyclopaedic character to his men tality. That, added to his marvellous knack at coining epigrams, makes comment from him on any topic worthy of attentive consideration. His pronouncement on the result In Maine, where he had been the most picturesque oratorical exhibit pre sented by the Democratic campaign managers, is startling In Its orlginal itv. and remarkable not only for its pithy exhibition of political Insight, foresight, afterslght and second sight, but for its display of amaiing mathe matical genius upon the part of the versatile Josephus. He says: "If the Democrats had carried Maine by even one vote the campaign would have been ended and Wllsoh's election would have been certain." As the Democrats were about thirteen thousand votes shy of the number needed to make Wilson's return of the Presidency certain, It is only the splendid courage of a states man and mathematician combined that leads Josephus to Indulge in this post-election reflection. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] How many nationalities are repre sented in the children attending public schools? Nationality: American, Russian, Italians, Germans. Hungarians. Irish. Roumanians. English, Welsh, Scotch. Slavish, Norwegians, Syri ans, Hollanders, French. Dutch. Greeks. Polander, Austrian, Swiss, Bulgarian, Swede, Porto Rlcan; Canadian, Spanish and Indian. SEPTEMBER 14, 1916. enough on drink in war time to buy 200,000 aeroplanes, and we must have spent enough already to have fed with cartridges every machine gun on the British front since the war began. * * * The greatest single item in the expenditure of this country at this mo ment does not a single thing to strengthen England, but weakens it from morning until night. There is no appeal that the government makes to us for saving which is not a bitter con demnation of this appalling waste. Mr. Asquith has stated that from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, of the first men we raised were unfitted for service through drink; and in an army of 5,000,000 men that means a toll of 500,000—an eloquent and tragic text, truly, for Downing street. "And here is a text for the people. They are paying more for everything, and they pay more for three reasons: because produce, shipping and labor are scarce. There Is not one of these things in which drink is not largely re sponsible. Bread is dearer because drink has used up corn enough during tho war to feed the nation for 300 days, and sugar enough to feed the nation 90 days. Shipping Is scarcer because drink has used up shipping space equal to a fleet of 20 very laxge ships working all the time. As to labor, drink uses up the strength of 500,000 workers, and Imposes a carry ing and lifting burden of 500,000 tons a week on Our roads and railways. * * "Kussla, wanting strength and money, too, found both in prohibition, which has increased her efficiency 30 prr cent, and intrenched her finances as in a rock; France, putting this thing away from her, has covered herself with immortal glory and astonished the world. It was the Kitchener way, but it ia Russia and France, and not the lan<Tof Kitchener, that follows it. We fight on with our broken strength. We pay £5,000,000 a day to beat the Kaiser and carry on Lord Kitchener's work, and for £1,000,000 a week we license a power that plays the Kaiser's game by weakening England and keeps back the harvest of Lord Kitchener's work." "Keeping Out of War" [David Jayne Hill, In North American Review.] Peace, without doubt, is one of our most cherished Ideals; but no one will contend that a peace that has not been disturbed by threats Is anything to boast about. The fallacy now being thrust upon the country is that there Is no middle ground between the course pursued by the administration and war. These, it is pretended, were the only alternatives, and between them a choice was necessary. Had it not been for the wisdonf of the admin istration, we are assured, we should have had war! By whom, we a6k, were these alternatives presented? By whom, and when, and how, were we forced to this happy choice? But. unfortunately, the "record" shows that, upon two separate occa sions, neither of whom demanded war like action, the administration has pro voked a dangerous situation, and has committed every act characteristic of war, Including the invasion of foreign territory and the destruction of inno cent lives, and has subjected our sol diers and sailors to every danger and consequence that war involves. That this unavowed belligerency has been characterized by an extraordinary combination of lntruslveness and timidity, of deferred decision and un timely action, and has been so hesi tating as to make it ineffectual and so fruitless as to render it inglorious, does not in the least decree redeem these vacillations from being in reality acts of war. And if it be a noble service to have kept us out of war, what shall he said of the blunders that have needlessly involved us In It without a benefit? Our Daily Laugh ? " ONE MODEL. 6 stylos for old -IK Today are seen; And all the ladles 11 have to dress Like sweet sli- THEIR ORIGIN. The Amateur Dancer Where P \jLJj did you get those novel and orlg lnal steps, glides i| and dips? m C The Professor r1 Jg % -I used to ex- | tyi* jCflg hlbit a oompacy |fi W* * . ~f fsrfnafliTisls Stoning dljat Kirk Munroe, famous writer of boys' books and traveler of wide ex perience, was sittingr in his pup-tent a* Platteburg one evening last montu. while & torrent of rain poured abou* the three men who were huddled to gether in the little covering tvullt tor two. The three were Munroe, tha president of the Detroit Chamber oi Commerce, and the mayor of Des Moines, lowa. They were discussing cities beautiful, and the esthetic si<t< of civic life, and this distinguish'*:! world traveler had as his text the City * of Harrisburg. He praised its wonder ful civic improvements and spoke highly of the men who were respon sible for city betterment, among them his friend, J. Horace McFarland, of this city. The mayor of Des Moines and the Chamber of Commerce presi dent had to admit their champions defeated by the enthusiastic descrip tion of Harrisburg which the author drew. The above incident, showing the ex tent to which our city's remarkable development is being advertised, was related by George F. Ross, who at the time was visiting his son Frank, acting adjutant of the September Plattsburg camp. His conversation with the au thor revealed the fact that in spite of hie 66 years Kirk Monroe was en- Joying Plattsburg to the utmost and would have stayed for the second camp had he not been due in Miami, Florida, on Saturday of this week to celebrate his birthday, or "wedding anniversary" as he chooses to call it. Kirk Munroe is an uncle of Lyman Beecher Stowe and a son-in-law of Amelia Barr, the authoress. "I'm one of those darn literary cusses," says he, "although I've stopped writing now. The old gentleman is straight as an arrow and still as hearty as many a younger man. Lots of read ers will remember "For the Mikado," the last book written by Mr. Munroe, at the time of the Russian-Japanese war. Among the visitors in the city this week attending the session of the State Sealers' conference, is Thure Hanson, Commissioner ofWeightsand Measures of Massachusetts. Commissioner Hanson is also interested in public schools, and on the first day of the conference Harry A. Boyer, Dauphin county inspector, invited the State offi cial to go on a short tour to view some of the city schoolbuildings. Among these visited were the new W. S. Steele grade school and the Technical high school. Both of them brought ap proval from Commissioner Hanson, who asked a number of questions about the public school system in the city. Alderman James B. Deshong. at police court the other afternoon had a strange experience. One of the prisoners brought before him for a hearing charged with being drunk and didbrdGrly, proved to be a man whom he had gone to school with, years ago. The magistrate mentioned the fact as he called the case, and after a serious talk to hie former playmate, he released the prisoner with a reprimand. • • * David Goldberg, interpreter for the Pennsylvania railroad, would like to see the war end to-morrow. He has had a rather dull season since the trouble started. Few immigrants pass through Harrisburg these days. One car load a month is considered big business. Not many years ago two and three trains with immigrants pass ed through Harrisburg almost daily. There was scarcely a day that 50 or more foreigners did not stop off in Harrisburg until their destination was positive. The veteran Interpreter said, "I am afraid there will be little busi ness after the war. Everybody will want to go to Europe to make money, and many foreigners will return to their native soil." Postmaster John A. Thornton, of Philadelphia, stood in the Capitol corridors yesterday and talked about lively times in the Legislature. "I guess I have been coming to this city for thirty years and I see the jumps it has made each time I return. Some of the liveliest political doings I hav# ever known have taken place right on this Hill. I remember one time when we had something like 87 Democrats In the House and Senate. That was some years ago. my friend, but we may fool you again, well, we thought we had it all worked out to put an inde pendent in the chair of the House, but while we were meeting some one else was meeting and we did not have all of our colorbearers when we went to the fight. One John R. Farr won the speakership and we won a valuable lot of experience." Samuel C. Jamison, the Allegheny countian who was chairman at the convention of the coroners of the State, is a son of Scotland. He came from there when a boy. The other evening he was sitting with some friends talking about the "land o' cakes" when he discovered that his home locality was the starting place of the families of half a dozen men with him. Their forebears had come from the same neighborhood. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "" —Frederick W. Fleitz, former de puty attorney general, has one regret: the summers are not long enough for him to rtsh In Canada all he likes. —Senator Henry A. Clark, of Erie, who was sponsor for the third class city commission government bill, is a candidate for Congress this year. -—Samuel D. Clyde, prominent in the business world of Chester and who in corporated a five-mllllon-dollar asso ciation the other day, was formerly In the Legislature. —Joseph R. Gaffney, chairman of Philadelphia council's finance com mittee. says the public ought to stop guessing on tax rates and wait for figures. —Joseph McLaughlin, Congress man-elect and national president of the A. O. H., is kept busy with speaking dates these days. | DO YOU KNOW f That Harrlsburg used to be ono of the big producers of pig Iron In Central Pennsylvania? Now It docs not make any. HISTORIC HARRISBLRO Daniel Webster spoke here when in the Senate, addressing the legislators in the then new capltol. Pancho's Pledge I'll never raise my boy to be a bandit To loaf around the border with a gun, I'm tired of stealing cattle, so I've canned It— Now I go to moving pictures for my fun. I'll educate my child at Princeton Col lege; I'll boost him Into Congress if he'll run: There'd be no war to-day if the kaisers all would say: "I'll never raise my boy to be ban* dlt!" —Wallace Irwin in the Saturday Event In* Post. /
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