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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
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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
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' 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
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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.
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