8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iS Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief JT. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. M Member American ft Newspaper Pub ijr Ushers' Associa |£jj|j| tion, The Audit S3* Bureau of Circu gKfi lation and Penn gg A sylvanla Associat- JJ„ ue Building, New " Building!'' 6 S Clfi! 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 year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 21 Por bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, hazing promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. I TIM. 4 ; 8. NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PRIMARY results in New York are distinctly encouraging to Re publicans. Whitman's nomina tion by the Progressives as well as by the Republicans not only indicates his election by a comfortable majority, but shows conclusively that a majority of the Progressives have joined forces with the Republicans for the defeat of Wilson and the remainder of the Democratic ticket in the Empire State. This is not surprising. Wherever the issue has been tried out in the past three years, the Progressives have supported the Republican ticket or Republicans have voted for Pro gressive candidates. The Republicans and the Progressives have affiliated, as was natural, but instances of wholehearted and successful support by Progressives of Democratic can didates, if there were such, are too few and too obscure to be recalled at this time. Maine and New York in recent weeks and many other States in the past, several years have clearly in dicated that at heart Progressives and Republicans are of one faith and that they intend to stand together for the defeat of the common enemy— Democracy—at the polls in November. Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, took up teven pages of the Congres sional Record with quotations from newspapers, Democratic or Independent Democratic, for the purpose of proving that we recovered from the industrial depression before the war began. If it were a fact that we recovered before the war began, the American people would know it, and there would be no need for filling seven pages of the Record with carefully selected news paper clippings from a prejudicea source, in an effort to defend the Demo cratic record. FALL ARBOR DAY THE annual Fall Arbor Day has fallen on evil times this year. The date set is October 27, which is also the time fixed for the assembling of the public school pu pils for the autumn term. It is to be feared that the infantile paraly i sis epidemic wiJi bo *<*-flcted seriously in faiiur plant the thousands of trees that ofdinarily are set out each Arbor Day. The teachers will be too busy to arrange Arbor Day pro grams. Nevertheless, the occasion should not be allowed to pass un noticed. You who have a suitable spot ■ —plant a tree. The city and the coun tryside both need them. If you have the location by all means put in a fruit tree. You will live to bless the day that prompted you to it. If not, put in a shade tree. The landscape demands It. Long ago there tramped across Pennsylvania one known derisively in those days as Johnny," from the fact that he carried by his side a bag of appleseeds and planted them wherever the soil suited. Folks made fun of him and pointed to their heads as he passed. But to the wan derings of "Appleseed Johnny" and his prolific planting may be traced some of the standard varieties of apples on the market to-day. He was first to rec ognize the possibilities of Pennsyl vania as an apple-growing State. And his name is remembered and venerat- Ed by tree lovers everywhere, while those who poked fun at him lie in a thousand forgotten graves. Plant a tree on Arbor Day. The new Democratic Ambassador to Turkey, having reached Berlin on his way to his post, promptly gives evi dence of his entire fitness for a diplo matic position by granting an inter view to the Berlin newspapers In which he tells about Wilson's fight for "Demo cratic pacifisrrj." THE BOY SCOITT MOVEMENT THE Boy Scout movement, like many another worthy cause, has failed to achieve permanent success in Harrisburg because it has never been properly financed. It can eerve the community no better with out funds than could the Y. M. C. A. or the Y. W. C. A., both of which must be generously supported with gifts of money to make them the undoubt ed powers for good that they are. Boys take naturally to Scout activl- Uea. It is second nature for them to THURSDAY EVENING, gether for clean living, for the promo tion of mental, spiritual and physi cal development. The Boy Scout is in the way of becoming a good citizen in every sense of the word. The Scout organizations would be numerous and productive of a vast good In Harrls burg if they had the financial where with. It is for these reasons that the Harrisburg Rotary Club has got be hind the proposed campaign to raise a fund placing the Scout movement In position to pay its own way tor three years following April next, the thought being that in the period named the Scouts will have become an institution of the city able to take care of themselves. Men skilled in boys' work will be brought here and paid scoutmasters will be put In charge of the local troops, occupying much the same positions as secre taries of Y. M. C. A.'s hold in those or ganizations. Other cities have solved the boy problem to the satisfaction of both boys and parents in this way and the campaign no doubt will prove popu lar here. President Wilson Is more prompt as a collector than as a paymaster. He waited four years before giving Mr. Elkus the Turkish Ambassadorship as a reward for his campaign contribu tions in 1912; but he received from Samuel Gompers a redhot endorsement for re-election on the day after the four pens were used to sign the mis named "eight-hour-day" bill. "VERBROODUED" THE Philadelphia Public Ledger, in its account of Governor Brumbaugh's speech - making during the farm tour now In progress, prints the following: In his jaunt among the farmers Governor Brumbaugh declared to dav that Pennsylvania had so many laws that everybody was "ver broodled." This is a Pennsylvania Dutch expression for our own "rattled." That is the angle the Governor took when he stopped for his first speech at Stroudsburg, the home of A. Mitchell Palmer. "We have too many laws." added the speaker. "It has become so bad that we are 'verbroodled.' We want to stop making laws that mean nothing, laws that are noxious, and devote our time to a propaganda that will wipe useless, obsolete and hampering laws from the statute books of our State. The Governor is right. We are beyond question "verbroodled" by useless and cumbersome laws, and every year makes the situation worse. It is a safe wager that had Leibnitz lived to-day instead of in the 1700's he would have hesitated before pro posing his scheme for tabulating all the laws of all the countries in the world for the purpose of exhibiting their correspondence and differences by parallel columns. The job would have been more formidable than the compilation of an encyclopaedia and a library building would have been necessary to house the completed work. New and rapidly changing condi tions, uncontrolled evils bred by modern developments in business and everyday life and the growing demand for welfare legislation have all necessitated new laws, but not in any such numbers as have been enacted in the past decade. Our business laws are so numerous now, for example, that no man knows positively whether or not he is living within them. Skilled lawyers are in doubt as to what may or may not be legally done. This flood of legislation is one of the evils of our system of government. Every body realizes that we are overlawed, but nobody appears to know just how to prevent It. Girardville, in Schylkill county, has turned its town hall into a factory. There's civic enthusiasm for you, but Harrisburg could never take such a conspicuous step in the way of indus trial progress, because it has no town hall. CONTRASTS PRESIDENT WILSON is willing that women should have the bal lot, but they must not be anx ious about the method nor too inquisi tive as to when they shall reach their goal. He will "fight with them," but he doesn't say when or how. How different with Mr. Hughes. The Republican candidate puts his suf frage sentiments in these words, con cerning the meaning of which there can be no misunderstanding: I think it to be most desirable that the question of woman suf frage should be settled promptly. The question is of such a nature that it should be settled for the entire country. My view is that the proposed 1 amendment should be submitted | and ratified, and the subject re moved from political discussion. Mr. Wilson recommends watchful waiting to the suffrage campaigners. Mr. Hughes urges that they be given the vote, and he tells them how and when. Is it any wonder that the suffragists are supporting Mr. Hughes? DR. ABBOTT'S VIEWS DEMOCRATIC exchanges are quot ing broadcast the recent utter ances of Dr. Lyman Abbott, the venerable and venerated editor of the Outlook, when he said with re spect to criticisms of President Wil son's failures in office: You ask me what I would have done if I had been President dur ing the last four years. I cannot ■ tell you what I would have done, for the President is not an auto crat. In deciding upon his policies he must be guided by the advice of his Cabinet, who are his chosen counselors; and in carrying them into effect he must be determined by the support he can win from Congress. Dr. Abbott's conclusions are cor rect, save that he views conditions in the White House as they should be, instead of as they are. Dr. Abbott looks upon the Presidency with the eyes of the idealists who framed the constitution and fixed the duties of the presidential office. He knows pre cisely how he would be governed as President. But in this instance he reckons without his host Woodrow Wilson has been an autocrat In of fice. He has been a law unto him self. He has listened to none of his advisers In the cabinet, save perhaps do so. The Scouts are banded to- Mr. McAdoo occasionally. He has been headstrong and wilful. He has driven not only his cabinet, but Con gress, too. The Democratic publishers who are quoting Dr. Abbott so extensively might send a copy of the Outlook to the President for his perusal. Dr. Abbott's remarks should be Intense ly Instructive to one who evidently Imagines that the President of the United States is the chief executive, the Joint legislative bodies and the Supreme court rolled all into one. TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE ) —The fellow who "didn't see the train" Is getting into the class of the man who "didn't know It was load ed," only it is he and not the other follow who gets hurt. —A gardener having produced a seedless tomato, it is about time for some thoughtless farmer to write him for a little of the seed. ■—Columbus, 0., council is facing a deficit of $600,000, and we suppose the cptimi6tlc Ohio State Journal even In that will find some reason for say ing a kind word about the old home town. —One thing about these summer styles is that the girls don't have to get out their furs in the Fall. ■—The President Is so certain of election results that he isn't going to spend much money on special speech-making trips, evidently feeling that he may need the money after March 4. —"Service" is the motto of the Ro tary club and the way it has gotten into the hotel campaign Indicates that the members know what the word means. —About time for the Democratic national committee to announce that the Republican victory in New York is not as large as expected and that the signs are good for Democratic success there in November. Palmer Carries Pennsylvania [Philadelphia Inquirer] These are strenuous days in the ranks of the Democratic party in this State. Only the other day Vance Mc- Cormick hinted that we might look for some surprises in the Keystone State this year, and at the Democratic powwow at Harrisburg on Thursday Pennsylvania went Democratic. It is true that the election was not official ly held, and that no ballots were cast, but the 800 enthusiastic and deserving Democrats who had assembled at the State Capitol for the purpose of in forming the candidates for State offices that they had been nominated, agreed that it was all over but the shouting. In a fine frenzy of excite ment the faithful 500 decided to have a "Pennsylvania Day" at Shadow Lawn, when the President will be taken into their secret and given the glad news from this State. The inten tion was to surprise him with the re sult on election day, but it was finally agreed that "the news was really too good to keep until November. One Charge Fallen Flat [Wilkes-Barre Record] Immediately after the nomination of Mr. Hughes it appeared that the lead ing issue of the campaign, raised by the Democrats, would be the Repub lican candidate's alleged alliance with the vote of the discredited hyphenates. It was with great fervor that the Democratic press teemed with the in sinuation that if Mr. Hughes were elected the country would be turned over to the German kaiser. One sees and hears little of that kind of nonsense these days. The na tion would have none of it. The peo ple refused to take it seriously. Mr. Hughes deems It no longer necessary to resent the charge because It has fallen flat. In desperation the opposi tion has hunted around for another issue and the only one it can And is tiW. Mr. Hughes is a common scold! The rest .J' the Democratic campaign is a campaign of defense. No wonder the result in Maine was so one-sided. Washington—Minus Congress [Kansas City Times.] Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, where health and plenty cheered the neighboring swain, but from which, for some reason or an other, everybody beat it, had nothing on Washington in the way of being deserted. The President has gone, Congress has gone, the. embassies have gone, the newspaper correspondents have gone, everybody has gone except the government clerks who are under contract to live there. Washington, in such circumstances, resembles the widows of Asher, who, it will be remembered, were loud in their wail and cast down their Idols in the temple of Baal. Washington is worse than widowed. It is orphaned. It has no relatives at all. From now until its boarders come back it will wear linen coverings over the furni ture and an air of half pay. The Wil lard will rope off a good half of the dining room and Harvey's will serve oysters only upon notice. The guides at the Capitol will be asleep In their chairs and will rouse only at the be hest of honeymooners. if you have any business with the departments vou will transact it with the third assist ant to the chief clerk. If you wish to lay anything before any of the several hundred standing committees of Con gress you will find they are no longer standing. The bent you can do is to locate the assistant secretary, who, at last reports, was expected back from Atlantic City the first of the week. If anything comes from Berlin or Lon don the janitor is instructed to call up Shadow Lawn. Farmers Heard From [From the Providence Journal.] Among fhe communications pouring into the White House relating to the railroad mediation, or arbitration, or Intervention, or whatever It is, one from the president of the Texas Farm ers' Union Is particularly calculated to give the President at Utopia something to ponder on. It is pointed out that Texas farmers work from twelve to fourteen hours a day, and the average compensation doe> not exceed J2. Moreover, a quarter of a million women are working as farm hands "from sun to sun at fifty cents day." Now, as the communication proceeds to set forth, the Farmers' Union of Texas heartily approves of short hours nnd big pay. But, it is submitted, why should farmers be taxed to provide this agreeable economic combination for a. selected labor class—namely, the mem bers of the four.railroad brotherhoods? What the brotherhoods would gain by Mr. Wilson's benevolent plan of'adjust ment would, of course, have to be paid for by shippers and consumers. Hence and accordingly, the President of Utopia Is reminded rather bluntlv, that the farming Interests should be "directly represented in the contro versy, before the Government commits itself." HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH I>o£tttC4'1 > o£tttC4' Mt *^&KKCi|£tfa>ua By the Ex- Co rami tteeman Harrisburg will in all probability be selected for the meeting: of the Republican State Committee at the conference of the leaders to be held in Philadelphia this week. It is un derstood that State Chairman Crow has been ironing out some differences on dates and places and that he is planning for a meeting of the com mittee which will be essentially a national campaign opening and which will bring together the leading Re publicans of the State. „ This meeting will probably be held here some time in the early part of October. The week of October 2 is generally favored for the session as the Saturday of that week Candidate Hughes will be in Philadelphia- Regarding the platform It is likely that It will be purely national in scope. Just as was that adopted by the Democrats at their organization meeting. This platform so far met all desires that there was ho further action taken here last week. —Reports from York are that the meeting of the Stato League of Re publican Clubs will likely break rec ords. President Fred W. Willard has completed the arrangements for the big demonstration. About 800 dele gates alone, Mr. Willard said, would be present at the Tuesday night mass meeting and at the following sessions. Among Repubican candidates and officials who will speak at the mass meeting besides State Chairman Crow will be Congressmen-at-large John R. K. Scott and Thomas S. Crago, Charles A. Snyder, candidate for auditor gen eral; Harmon E. Kephart, candidate for State Treasurer; Daniel J. Shern, Samuel K. McCall, Republican candi date for Congress from the Twentieth district and Governor M. G. Brum baugh. Governor Brumbaugh will likely change the itinerary of his farm inspection tour in order to ad dress the mass meeting. —Two Philadelphia councllmen have been accused of frauds in elec tions in the latest list of prosecutions started in that city. —Pittsburgh Republicans are or ganizing In every ward to make sure of a sweeping vote for Hughes and the election of Republican council men. In Allegheny county the Re publicans have gotten together through committees and expect fine results. —According to what is said at Chester less than half of the voters of the city registered at the two regis trations. —Philadelphia Republicans are making big preparations for the re ception to Charles E. Hughes, who will likely visit that city on October 7. Senator Penrose was in New York yesterday making arrangements for the visit which is to be the opening of the campaign in that city. —Pittsburgh registration is reported as heavy on the second registration day. Scranton also had a heavy registration. —Governor Brumbaugh's declara tion that there are too many laws on the books now is taken to mean that there will be an effort to hold down legislation next winter and that the repealer of useless legislation will go through next time. The governor will give the subject of legislation much attention in November and his mes sage is expected to be one of prime interest. —Penn, writing in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, has this to say about Pennsylvania, which is being claimed pretty vigorously by some of our Democratic brethren: "Ip the pres ent campaign there is no thought rn tho mind of even the most ardent Democrat' that his party will carry Pennsylvania. It would be as much out of the question for him to suppose that Wilson would capture this State as it would be for a Republican to suppose that Hughes might capture Alabama. He,re in Philadelphia it is as certain as anything in the future can be, that Hughes will have a ma jority in every ward, with a single ex ception, and that he may perhaps carry that. In fact, no Democratic citizen who is under sixty years of age can remember that he went to the polls in the midst of an atmosphere of expectation in his party that Penn sylvania would give it a majority. The nearest approach to such an expecta tion since he became a voter was that Wilson, instead of Roosevelt, would have a plurality in the State. As for either the city or the State at large, such a citizen would need to turn his mind back to a time when he had not yet been born when one or the other cast a majority for a Democratic Presi dential candidate; that is, to the year when Pennsylvania gave Its electoral vote to James Buchanan." Maine's Public Playground New Englanders especially, and the people of the nation generally, will doubtless be much interested in the maps, just issued by the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, of areas in Maine known as the Mount Desert and Bar Harbor quadrangles, revised to show the Sleur de Monts National Monuments created upon Secretary Lane's recommendation by proclamation of the President on July 8, 1916. This monument includes more than 5,000 acres on Mount Desert Island, Maine, directly south of Bar Harbor. In fact, Its northern boun dary lies within a mile of that famous resort. On the east It touches the Schoonerhead "Road. On the south it approaches within a mile of Seal Har bor. It lies less than a mile northeast of Northeast Harbor. It is surrounded. In short, by a large summer popu lation. This superb area, for many years widely celebrated for Its historical as sociations as well as its commanding beauty. Includes four lakes and no less than ten mountains. The lakes are Jordan Pond, Eagle Lake, Bubble Pond and Sargent Mountain Pond. The Bowl lies just outside the boun dary line. The mountains are Green Mountain, Dry Mountain, Pickett Mountain. White Cap, Newport Moun tain, Pemetlc Mountain, The Tryad, Jordan Mountain, Tho Bubbles and Sargent Mountain. Prophecy Which Failed "Mother told me if I married Dave I would bo a widow inside a year. I said: 'Mother, I'm going to marry him if he doesn't live a week.' And I did." So spoke Mrs. David E. Jefferson the other day. Her mother's predic tion, uttered shortly prior to Septem ber 10, 1866, didn't coma true, since Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson have just cele brated their golden wedding anni versary. It did look at the time that the rather doleful forecast or the moth er of the then Miss Elizabeth Ennes was not so far out of the way. Mr. Jefferson had been terribly injured on the battle field at Chancellors vllle, where a wounded horse, in fall ing, crushed him against a tree and hurt his spine. He lay In a hospital In Washington for sixteen months, and was taken home apparently a physical wreck, but his sweetheart kept her promise to marry him. He recovered and they have lived fifty years to gether. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY Even the Shoes and Stockings Cloud Has a Silver Lining BARNARD COLLEGE GIRLS ARE MARRIED MARRIAGE by contract appears to be in vogue with graduates of Barnard college. Already five of its alumnae have thereby avoided the complicated proceedings involved in church and aldermanic weddings. Miss Pauline Cahn, of 202 River side Drive, was the fifth to adopt this short cut to matrimony. When she and Arthur S. Levy, attorney, of 27 William street, decided to marry, the bridegroom said: "Sit down at the typewriter, Pau line, and take a little dictation." As she pounded the keys the law yer, who is a graduate of Columbia Law school, dictated the following: "We agree by the terms of this con tract, executed at No. 51 Chambers street, before Supreme Court Justice Lehman, to enter into the marriage relations and take each other for husband and wife." After a fe.w more legal phrases, which were duly recorded by the bride-to-be, the contract was sign ed and witnessed before Justice Leh man by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cahn and Mrs. Sadie R. H. Levy. There by' ended the ceremony. The bride and bridegroom at once departed for a honeymoon in Bermuda. They have just returned, and Levy, In compliance with the law, filed the EDITORIAL COMMENT] No wonder the Danube's blue.—Bos ton Transcript. Constantine could tell Woodrow what watchful waiting brings.—New York Sun. It's about time the general public In this country organized a union.—Bos ton Transcript. If Bulgaria attempts to climb back on the fence, she may flnd*barbed wire. —Wall Street Journal. Germany can now shoot in almost any direction and feel sure she will not hit a friend.—Newark News. Old Engineer Wants a Pen Edgar Jay Dwyer, former chief en gineer of Central Division, No 157, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, in an open letter to President 'Wilson which is printed in the New York Sun. says: "I notice you used 1 four pens to sign the eight-hour day bill and that you presented one of them to each head of the four great railroad brotherhoods. "Was that action merely for dema gogic effecti or did you intend it for a cheap form of bribery, expecting by that means to get the votes of the two million railroad men in lh(% United States? If the latter supposition is the true interpretation of that ■ benevolent action on your part, I fail to see where I receive any benefit from it. For nearly all my active life I have been an em ploye of the Central Railroad cf New Jersey and for twenty- three years be fore I resigned I was a locomotive en gineer and still belong to the orother hood. "Twt?, my dear Mr. President, as I am no longer earning wages, I set no bene fit from the eight-hour law, but I am Interested in pens. Not pig pens. I am not interested in pork; even the luscious lubricating pork that hat been so .extensively used to grease the palm's of deserving Democrats does not appeal to me. I refer to the common ste>l pen that c&3ts about a cent. "I want a good serviceable one. that I can use to write articles intended to promote the true interest of every American citizen. "If you can send me such a pen, I pledge myself to vote for you on No vember 7 provided you can convince me that the policy adivocated by yourself and party will do more to advance American industry and employ more American wage earners than the policy advocated by Charles Evans Hughes and the united Republican party. "I am doing considerable writing at the present time, and my stock of pens is getting low." To Advertise a Nation The president of the Cuban republic has signed an advertising contract with the New York American, through the Beers agency, of Havana, for a double page advertisement in the Issue Of Sunday, September 24, in which the attractions of Cuba, both for tourists and home seekers, will be set forth. This will be literally "national adver tising." It is perhaps the first instance on record in which the chief executive of a nation has turned advertising man and undertaken the task of developing thd resources of his country through approved advertising methods. It. is especially fitting that President Menocal should have selected the American as the medium for his first campaign, for Mr. Hearst's newspa pers, it will be recalled, were powerful agents in creating public sentiment In the United States* In favor of Cuban Independence.—Editor and Publisher. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quij."l Does the instruction at the High High School equip pupils to fill posi tions of stenographers, bookkeepers, etc.? Yes. All who take the Commer cial Course. SEPTEMBER 21, 1916. contract of marriage in the supreme court. Mr. and Mrs. Levy have started housekeeping at 412 West Twentieth street. After her graduation from college in 1913 the bride was a teacher of natural sciences. Mrs. Levy is a friend of Freda Kirchwey, who was also married by civil contract last November to Evans Clark. Mrs. Clark is a daugh ter of Dr. George W. Kirchwey, for a time acting warden of Sing Sing prison and formerly dean of Colum bia Law school. In addition to Miss Kirchwey and Miss Cahn three dther girls who were friends at Barnard were married :n ths same way. Contract marriages are not fre quent in the United States, although they are as binding in law as a relig ious ceremony*. In Europe they have been customary for many years. Levy said when he filed the docu ment: "We thought we ought to marry ourselves instead of having someone else marry us. I am surprised that more young people do not adopt the same method which the state pro vides for. It is as simple and solemn as the usual marriage rites." —From the New York American. jTHS STATE FROM DA/ TO DAf Speaking of disguises, the Columbia Daily Spy warns its readers: "That hat which Postmaster Bucher wears looks like a straw, but it isn't; and don't make the mistake of calling it in, as many others have done." The Montgomery county courts have granted a charter to the "Gulph Golf Club,". Alba B. Johnson, of Philadel phia, being on the board of directors. Question arises as to what psycho logical effect the name will have on prospective goiters. Reading is all wrought up over the brief filed by the government in the antitrust case against the Reading Company, the Philadelphia and Read ing Coal Company and others. The charge being that unless the company is dissolved it will own or control every ton of commercially available coal known to exist, there naturally arises some suspicion that there may be a monopoly! Two old landmarks in Hanover were torn down the other day, one of which was erected five years before the out break of the Civil War. The old order changeth. A bunch of motorists tour ing the country insisted on seeing the Gettysburg battlefield at night by searchlight, and were much pleased with the sight. Next thing we know they will be playing baseball at night with phosphorescent balls and bats. The Knockers I know he must be doing well, I know he's getting on. His work has now begun to tell His struggle time has gone; He now lias passed the dreary days, The loitesome ones and grim, And now is treading better ways For folks are knocking him. His skill has caught the eye of men, His worth is seen at last, He's left the throng that knew him When his skies were overcast, He's won the laurel for his brow By toil and pluck and vim, And he is doing real work now, For folks are knocking him. The Knocker is a curious cuss, He never starts to whine Or fling his envious shafts at us Until our work is tine. It's only men with skill to do Real work he tries to block, And so congratulations to " The man the knockers knock. —Detroit Free Press. ( Our Daily Laugh WOKE HIM UP. Teacher —After Samson had killed the Hon with his /Th. ,vj \ bare hands, had ufFMxj| | slain the Philis vjij jgpy >J tines with the jawbone of an ass, and carried ott the gates of Gaza, he wai vSSwm'Atm overcome by De fiP Sfiß M "V- lilah. Can you jjJ ""jjw te " k° w she did ' Wise Kid "Yes'm. She put out his pipe. NOT POLITE TO — w I' USE THE ( HAMMER. WOA Sl^e —Have you / been up to break ( / f&phjff bread with the \ t new bride and Nfc?. > bridegroom yet? /Jif He No, I'm /j / not feeling very / f. (\\ strong. / "l \ lEtonfttg (Eljal A party of Harrlsburgera who spent several days last week as guests of former Mayor George Kreamer, of Lock Haven, aboard his houseboat on Bald Eagle creek, near that city, have returned home loud In their praise of the hospitality of the former mayor and pleased with what he did for Lock Haven during the period of his administration as mayor. Lock Haven is one of the cit ies of th<> State that has prospered under the commission form of gov ernment and to Mayor Kreamer be longs most of the credit. 'lt was h£ who was instrumental in keeping pollT tics out of council and who worked for street paving, improved street lighting system, oiled highways and other municipal features that make Lock Haven one of the best towns of its size In the State. Mayor Kream er is a great lover of his home town and he belongs to that class of citi zens who believe that the successful businessman owes a part of his time and energies to the development of the municipality in which he lives. He set an example in Lock Haven by paying personally for the Instal lation of boulevard lighting stand ards in front of the postofHce block, which he owns, and then induced ev ery other businessman along the main highway to contribute his share toward removing the old arc lights and replacing them with lights of the latest standard pattern. The elec tric light company did its share, too, and under an ordinance fathered by Kreamer the whole system will be come the property of the city after a six-year period. Many other improve ments of the kind were worked out while he was mayor and the leading figure in council. Mr. Kreamer is a great hunter and fisherman. When they first ran him for mayor he didn't want the office and on election day was at his lodge in the mountains gunning. The dele gation that went out to notify him next day found him with gun in hand far more interested in flushing a covey of partridges than in the elec tion returns. His houseboat on the Bald Eagle is a handsomely equipped structure and there he and Mrs. Kreamer spend the larger part of their summers. Bald Eagle creek is a beautiful stream, admirably suited to bass, Susquehanna salmon, blue gills, cattish and sunfish. Mr. Kream er and others hav.e spent considerable of their own money improving fish ing conditions there and Lock Hav en people, who use the creek by the hundred, are hopeful that the State Department of Fisheries will be able to spare some fish of various kinds with which to restock it. Kreamer is at the head of this movement and will shortly come to Harrisburg to take the matter up. Both he and Mrs. Kreamer are well known here, they having resided in Dauphin years ago when he had large lumbering in terests in the mountains near there. That the youthful recruits enlist ed in this section for service on the border are sent to Fort Dupont, Del., instead of Fort Slocum, N. Y., ijin't generally known perhaps among Harrisburg folks, but It is a fact that the young men who are accepted by Captain Henry M. Stine, of the Na tional Guard, and Lieutenant R. W. Lesher, of the regular army, are sent directly to Dupont for preliminary In struction. The latest youngsters to leave for Dupont were John E. Hef flefinger'and Loban Lewis. They were enrolled and sent down yesterday. There's a little story connected with Hefllefinger's enlistment according to Captain Stine. Just a year ago Heffle finger enlisted after having given an incorrect statement as to his age. Hi* father refrained from exposing thr# until the youngster was about ready to pass muster at Fort Slocum. Then the father probably figured that the boy, after all, was too young. Anyway Hefflefinger was refused because he was only seventeen. Eighteen is the age for enlistment with or without parental consent. Monday he was eighteen. And yesterday he enlisted. Dauphin county's good men and true who sit hour after hour through long drawn out criminal or civil court sessions no longer need say things about the penury of the county's tax payers who have made their chairs so uncomfortable while they trans acted the county's business. The county commissioners have solved the problem at least so far as the main courtroom is concerned by purchas ing swivel chairs. These will replace the uncomfortable seats that for years have accommodated the Jurors be hind the main railing. The jurors* feelings will be realized only so long as they sit in the courtroom however; when they go to their jury room to de liberate they'll find the same old chairs. The courtroom chairs are simply to be moved upstairs. At tljdt 'the seating accommodations in jury rooms will be vastly improved. For years the furniture has been of the type that may or may not have been popular in the Ark. ♦ • Thomas H. Greevy, the Altoona lawyer, who was here yesterday In the Westmoreland county murder case before the State Board of Par dons, was Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in 1910. He has been projninent in Blair county af fairs for years and is one of that county's ablest and most pugnacious lawyers. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Henry R. Edmunds, one of Phil adelphia's prominent lawyers, was knocked down and badly hurt by a motorcyclist. —George W. Norrls, the rural cred it commissioner, is to be given a din ner by Eastern Pennsylvania friends. —Col. H. C. Trexler, the Allentown business magnate, is the active spirit in development of the Allentown fair. —R. B. Tobias, the new Republican (hitman in Northumberland, is a pi'omcaent lawyer in Mt. Carmel. Ctrge W. Elkins, who has been In closed a big real estate transaction in Philadelphia by wire. T DO YOU KNOW | That Steelton flour Is fc*ding people In Kuropc? inSTOHIC HARRISBt'RG The first stage coacnes were run into Harrlsburg about 1770. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"]* "TOM" HARTER'S SKETCHES "Boonastiel," a famous collection of "Pennsylvania Dutch" sketches bjf Thomas H. Harter, a volume of leg*, end, story and song, has proved so de servedly popular that another edition has been issued. This will mean total of 5,000 copies, an evidence or the favor with which these sketches have been received In Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Many of "Gottlieb Boonastlel's" letters to "Llever Kernel Harder" have appeared in the Tele graph In the orlgnal dialect. This volume of 260 pages Is designed to perpetuate the memory of the Penn sylvania Germans. Colonel Harter la editor and owner of the Bellefonte [Gazette.
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