16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Pounded lg)i / Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. B. J. 6TACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief R R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. ' m Member American Ushers' Assocla wßgSSpslft Bureau of Circu latlon and Penn pu*lif§B 0 sylvanla Assoclat p |KX fjij Eastern office, ffll j liß al Flnley, Fifth Ave (Sß & ffl? nuo Building, New Sgj*j &jprr*ffr ern office, Storj', ley, People's Oas 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. FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. 22 Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings in to society for the reception he meets within it. —HAZLITT. PROTECTING OUR MILIi SUPPLY SOME good may come out of the evil of the past summer's typhoid fever epidemic In Har risburg If the Health Department, the Ice cream manufacturers and the milk dealers get together on a code of workable ruies protecting the city's tnilk supply from contamination, as. they now propose to do. It appears to be certain that whatever of typhoid was in the Ice cream to which the recent outbreak was traced was in the supply when it reached the city. Two Important points, therefore, should bo emphasized in the proposed new regulations. In the first place, the farms and dairies and creameries from which the milk Is shipped to Harrisburg should be kept constantly clean, on penally of having their sales cut wff In this city, and, in the second place, more care should be exercised In the pasteurization of milk in t?ie local ice cream plants. Even though the milk contained germs when It ar rived, proper pasteurization would have removed them. On that ground it would appear that both the pro ducer and the manufacturer in the present Instance might have been lafx. , The handling of milk is an exceed ingly delicate process. From the housing of the cattle until the moment of Its consumption the pro duct must be carefully safeguarded if it is to be pure and wholesome. Milk protection and distribution in the city have been greatly Improved un der the regulation of the Health Board during the past few years. But the whole burden of responsibility should not be placed upon the city dealer, often bidding for his supply under competitive conditions that make the producer careless and Independent. The remedy lies In making the farmer and the dairyman and the creamery man clean up and keep clean. It costs little more to produce good milk than poor and the prices are always higher for the rich, pure product. EIGHT MORE THE present Democratic majority in tlje United States Senate is Bixteen. To give ' President Hughes a Republican Senate to help him make America First and America Efficient means that nine' Democratic Senators must be replaced by Repub licans. Maine has already given us one of them. Eight more are to be elected; and Maine's example will be a great tonic to the Republican campaigners in other States where Senators are to be chosen. This is especially true of Indiana, where the parallel with Maine con ditions Is particularly close. Both States now have Democratic Senators and Democratic Governors. In both States the national administration has gone the limit with patronage and other assistance designed to strength en the sitting Senators. In both States there have been ample contributions of money from Democrats who would like to be classified as "deserving." In both States there have been massed a battery of tho biggest oratorical funs at Democracy's command. Maine resisted all this. Maine threw out her Democratic Governor and her Democratic Senator. Indiana can hardly fail to do likewise; and when this is done the other six Senators i necessary to Republican control will be found in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio; Nevada and Montana. To these will doubtless be added three more—from Arizona, Mis souri and Maryland. • Eight more, did we say? We mean ten more. TAFT OX MEXICO ALMOST at the same time Presi. dent Wilson puts out a defense of his policy with respect to Mexico, former President Taft makes public the truth about conditions in that war-stricken republic. With due regard for the dignity of the office of President and tho respect a former President should have for an incum bent of the office, Mr. Taft omits per sonality to a very large extent and deals with facts as they exist. His at tack on the Wilson policy is all the more effective for that reason. From the outstart Mr. Wilson has dodged responsiblity by claiming that the Huerta situation was an Inherit- * ■ •%- ■. V- _ *"t ' *v \ • ' -' ; - _ * ■ - •?- •• ' - - - " v - . 1 •- 1 . FRIDAY EVENING, BAJtRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 22, 1916. ance from the Taft administration. Mr. Taft shows conclusively that thlH is not true. He left the hands of tho incoming President free and the diffl cultes In which the President shortly found himself were of his own mak ing. Mr. Taft says it Is not fair to ask Mr. Hughes what he would have done under this or that circumstance in Mexloo, since If Hughes had been President circumstances due to med ling and interference would not have occurred. The whole Mexican mud dle was the result of tho President's very llrst act In that direction and all that followed were consequences of his insistance that Huerta be deposed. Now comes Mr. Hughes with abso lute proof that President Wilson was so insistent that Huerta get out that he was willing to promise United States interference if the Mexican revolutionists could accomplish that end in no other way. Perhaps our Democratic friends will have the nerve to ask Mr. Hughes what he would have done under those conditions. WHY HUGHES • WHY," asks a Democratic ex change, "do Progressives in Maine and New York vote in a way that can be ascribed only as favoring the candidacy of Hughes?" Ever since the Chicago conventions Democrats have been expressing the opinion that Progressives would swing their support to Wilson. Whether they did so for effect or really be lieved it, the results in the only two States where an expression of prefer ence has been made since the presi dential nominations must be discon certing. But there is no mystery about Progressive support of Hughes. Colonel Roosevelt in his Maine speech answered the question forcefully and completely when he said: Against Mr. Wilson's combination of grace In elocution with futility in action; against his record of words unbacked by deeds or be trayed by deeds, we see Mr. Hughes' rugged and uncompromising straightforwardness of character and action in every office he has held. We put the man who thinks and speaks directly, and whOae words have always been made good, against the man whose adroit and facile elocution is used to con ceal" his plans or his want of plans. The next four years may well be years of tremendous national strain. Which of the two men ao you, the American people, wish at the helm during these four years; the man who has been actually tried and found wanting, or the man whose whole career in public office, is a guarantee of his power and good faith? But one answer is possible; and it must be given by the American people through the election of Charles Evans Hughes as President of the United States. If this Chihuahua business keeps up President Wilson may find it necessary to order his commissioners to cease negotiations %vlth Carranza and re sume conferences with Villa. A HINT FOR HIM THE following we quote from a valued exchanged that devotes its energies to a correct and Interest ing report of events In a Missouri town: "Grandma" Tomlinson, of Gantry county, is 94 years old, yet lives by herself on her little farm. She doe's, the milking, slops the pigs, raises chickens and tends a garden plot, as well as doing her own market ing. Just now she is visiting In Colorado. She made the Journey alone. Aside from the Interest that always surrounds unusual activities of aged persons you will note that "Grandma" Tomlinson does her own marketing. Lady readers of the Telegraph might clip out this item and place It on the plate at dinner this evening of that certain member of the household who complains bitterly every Friday night because he has to turn out at 5.30 Saturday mornings to tote the family market basket. There is truth in the old adage that "Misery loves com pany, also in the observation of the hage the effect that "A man may be shamed Into doing" that which he would not do for gain." Try it on him, anyway. THE Y. M. C. A. PLEDGE THE Y. M. C. A. workers who are doing so much for the comfort and welfare of the American sol diers at tho border are procuring hun dreds of signatures to the following pledge: I take this step pledging my al legiance to my highest manhood, my homo and to society, to lead a clean life and to help others do so. It's worth any young man's trip to the border to have signed and kept a pledge like that. It sends a shiver of pride along one's backbone to Jearn that hundreds of American soldiers are volunteering for a life of that type. Von Hindenbyrg on the west and Von Mackensen on the east are learning that there Is more to success in war than the name of a famous command ing general. HELP SWELL THE CROWD THE Chamber of Commerce and the merchants of Harrisburg will stage a delightful show for the people of the city this evening. In addition to the illumination attending the annual Fall opening, there will be concerts, a fantastic parade and danc ing in Market Square. It will be one of those neighborhood affairs In which Harrisburg delights. The spec taclo will be worth witnessing. Do your part by helping to swell the crowd. OUR RESOURCES HOW little we know of our re sources is shown by the an nouncement that the "tank" tractors used by the British against the Germans in France are the prod uct of a Peoria factory. Our indus tries are turning out a thousand varie ties of munitions and instruments of war of which the public at large knows noththg and of which the gov ernment itself is ignorant. It is im portant that tho preparedness census of the country now being made be thorough and complete and that the facts be placed In classified form be fore the experts of tho War Depart ment at Washington for quick use In case of emergency. LK *^t)w7vo^ttfa,nXa By the Ex-Cortunittecman Republicans from all over Pennsyl vania will gather at York next week to attend the annual convention of the State League of Republican Clubs and Indications are that it will be one of the lively conventions held by that organization. It will be in effect the opening of the State campaign as State Chairman Crow and the State candidates will attend. The convention will last for three days and Tuesday, the opening day, Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will make a flying visit to York to deliver an address to the convention. Noted men from various parts of the coun try will speak on the other days. State Chairman Crow will decide to-day about the date an place for the State committee meeting. It is likely to be held here on October 4 or 5. —Committeeman A. Mitchell Pal mer will go to New England to make some speeches in behalf of Wilson. Palmer, who is said to be speaking by the bock, will discuss the eight hour law. —The possibility of some appoint ments to vacant places by the Gover nor attracted much attention to Har risburg to-day. The Governor said that he was still thinking about a public service commissioner. —lt Is proposed that Candidate Hughes and his party will be enter tained at tlio Union League prior to the meeting in Philadelphia next month. The matter of a public re ception prior to or following the meet ing has also been suggested, but these and other details will depend largely upon the plans of the National Com mittee. Special trains from interior towns in Pennsylvania and South Jersey may be run for the occasion. —Candidate Hughes is booked to make an address in Pittsburgh on Friday, September 29. The arrange ments there are being made by the Republican County Committee, of which Congressman William H. Cole man is chairman. It is planned to have a parade of Republican clubs of Allegheny county and vicinity. Sena tors Penrose and Oliver and Sena torial Candidate Philander Chase Knox are among others invited to address the meeting, which will be held in the large Exposition Build ing. —The Democratic State Committee Is now arranging for a Pennsylvania Day at Shadow Lawn, the summer White Hoyse. No date has been Qxed. At the Democratic rally in the Acad emy of Music on October 4, Palmer and ex-Judge Ellis L. Orvis, Demo cratic candidate for United States Senator, will be the otner speakers besides Vice-President MarsUa.ll. The registration commissioners yes terday received returns of the Tues day registration from 235 of the 414 districts of Pittsburgh. They show an average of 5 5 to a district. Indi cating a total for the day of 22,700, as against 21,381 in 1915 and 21,870 In 1914. It will require ZS.OOO or 30,000 registrations on the final day, October 7, to bring tho enrollment up to normal. In the districts report ing the party affiliations were as fol lows: Republican, 10,497; Democrat, 1,691; Washington, 27;' Socialist, 193; Prohibition, 46; not enrolled, 415. —The Thirteenth Ward Republican Committee, of which Charles A. Hil legas is chairman, held an enthusias tic meeting last night in the Home wood school, says the Pittsburgh Gazette Times. M. Clyde Kelly, Democratic candidate in the Thir tieth district, although he entered the Republican primaries with the pledge that If he failed to secure the nomina tion of that party he would abide by the result, has been trying to get Thirteenth Ward Republican commit teemen to agree to support him on the Democratic ticket. In the pri maries Mr. Hlllegas and some of the members of the committee did sup port Mr. Kelly for the Republican nomination. When Congressman W. H. Coleman was returned the vic tor they immediately became loyal to the nominee. Last night Chairman Hillegas called upon members of the committee to express themselves and it was found the Thirteenth ward or ganization is standing solidly by the whole Republican ticket. —According to worn coming from 1 Philadelphia there is a chance of T. J. Myers retiring as a candidate for the Legislature and being replaced with Patrick Connor, who sat in the last House and_who was defeated for a senatorial nomination. —Plans are being made by Demo cratic State leaders for * meeting of the executive committee here the first week in October. The time for filing nomination papers by Independent bodies will expire on October 2. The Democrats are working some fusion schemes and hope to be able to get the combinations on file before long. —The fine autumn weather got into the blood of the Democratic bosses yesterday at a luncheon con ference in Philadelphia at which Na tional Chairman McCormick was a guest of honor and they decided that Pennsylvania was a debatable State. According to what was given out these people decided that Instead of merely working to Increase the Democratic representation in Congress the ma chine should work to capture the State and carry it for the Democratic na tional and State tickets. It will be recalled that at the Baltimore conven tion the machinists had as their slogan "Give us Wilson and we will give you Pennsylvania." They did not give Pennsylvania and two years ago they had everything In their favor and they failed to get within reaching distance. —The men at the Democratic meet ing yesterday are said to represent a combined wealth of something like $30,000,000. Let Us Assume Just before you start out to-night to spend some of that hard-earned money, spend some of your time— and you know this is money. Just before you let a lot of your energy go for the fun of it, and wind up knocking the varnish off from your pretty good reputation, let me push time ahead ten years, and have a talk with you. Let us assume that it is now 1926—that you are ten years' older. If you arc spending more than you are earning now, oi as much as you are earning now! if you are not sav ing your money now, what do you think will happen in ten years from now?—Tho Silent Partner. Her Kind of Letter A young woman called at the Bos ton postofflce and bashfully inquired If there was a letter for her. "Busi ness or love letter?" Jokingly inquir ed the clerk. "Business," was the re ply, accompanied by a blush of the deepest crimson. As there was no such letter to be found the young lady took her departure. She came back, however, after a little while and said, in faltering tones: v "Please, would you mind looking among the love letters 7"—Boston Post. - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY HER DIRECTION "Where arc you going, my pretty maid?" AT FflFfH T /k- o. "Any direction ihe -wind blows, air," she aaid. ' 1 Baltimore Star. | TELEORAPH PERISCOPE 1 It begins to look as though "noth ing to arbitrate" really means "we won't arbitrate." The Democratic press agents are boasting that the United States is "now the first money power." And all the time we thought the Democrats believed the "money power" to be some awful monster having its lair in Wall Street Just around the corner from the Stock Exchange. The government seems bent on making it hot for the coal L-ust. The Kaiser need not worry over failure to discover the new "tank" as a weapon of war; it's absolutely use less for sinking passenger ships or tossing bombs down on sleeping wo men and children. Peary advises that President Wil son "keep our Greenland rights in cold storage awhile." Along with most of our other rights, we suppose. After reading one instalment of Peggy Shippen's Diary in the Public Ledger we are ready to give it as our opinion that Peggy must have known when she wrote it that the Ledger in tended to print it; it's so different from the ordinary diary. (THESTATEFROM DWTODW' Eight residents of Carlisle have been commissioned by the Cumber land county court to act as fair police. The fairer the better, of course, but in this case it happens to be the Car lisle fair. "Why is a Tollgate?" asks the chief pilot of the United American tour, in the Sharon Herald. "In trying to make time between Annapolis, Md., and Harrisburg, the first stage of a tour that Includes every capital city, the car was halted by no less than nine of these obstructions." No hews in that for us, unfortunately. Pottsville merchants are already laying plans for their Hallowe'en celebration in the latter part of Oc tober. Harrisburg, on the other hand, Is celebrating twice, once now and again at Hallowe'en time. Woman suffrage in Pennsylvania can point to at least one woman voter in the State. It seems Miss Reba Sarvetnick of Coatesvllle claims that honor, having marked the ballot several times for her father, a Rus sian, who has never mastered the English tongue. Dickinson college opens with a Freshman class of 150, the largest In the history of that institution. Com pares favorably with many of the iarger universities of the country. SIO,OOO on Hughes, 2 to 1 IKrom the New Tork Times.] A bet of $5,000 on Hughes to $2,500 on Wilson was reported on the Curb yesterday, and a similar bet on tho Cotton Exchange. Edward McQuade. Curb broker, said that a proprietor of an uptown hotel had SIO,OOO to bet on Wilson at 1 to 2. A Western visitor to the Curb mai ket was quoted as saying that it was difficult to get even money bets against the President in the West. # Odds of 10 to 8 on Governor Whit man for re-election, and of 10 to 9 on Calder against McCombs for United States Eonator were offered without takers. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the HaiTlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal QuU."l Does the Instruction at the High School admit pupils to the universi ties? fen. Certificate accepted In all uoileges which accept certificates. HAS SOULOF NORDICA BEEN TRANSMITTED HAS the soul of Mme. Lillian Nor dica been transmitted to little Lillian Patison? Has, too, the soul of some forgotten dancing mas ter whose pupils, perhaps, danced for Cleopatra by the green waters of the Nile, transfused with the soul of the great American diva and found lodg ment in an almost unknown little girl? These are questions which students of psychical research in :few York City are asking themselves. David Belasco, who saw this "infant prodigy," has been quoted as saying that she was "positively uncanny and was most fascinating." "It seemed to me that she were the reincarnation of some famous dancer of the past," he said. Mr. Belasco saw her dance. He did not hear her sing. She was "born dancing," so to speak. Song came to her almost coincident with the death of Mme. Nordica, May 10, 1914. The Journal of the American So ciety for Psychical Research, in Its issue for September, discusses "the Patison case" at length, and the in ference is drawn that the souls of Mme. Nordica and of some famous dancer "who died thousands of years ago" are in the child. She's a Normal Child She is described as being "normal," unless her "remarkable power to in terpret rhythm and music in calis thenic actions be regarded as abnor mal." She is nearly S years old, and "from the time she was old enough to walk she was noticed to respond to music in an unusual way, and from her fourth year she began spontane ously to dance when she would hear music or sounds that were rhythmic." The child has had no instruction in dancing, but when 6 years old she would interpret the most classic music in terms of dancing and calisthenic movements in a manner wholly un mechanical and without the formal and trained mechanics of the ballet. James H; Hyslop took her before Mr. Belasco. The Journal of the Amer ican Society for Psychical Research i EDITORIAL COMMENT"] Royal-family ties are to be worn loose this Fall, with frayed edges. Red will bo the prevailing color.—New York Sun. One must approve the strategy of the Bulgarians. Before occupying Drama they grabbed a lot of passes.—Bostoi. Herald. At last we are warranted In dropping the metaphorical and speaking literal ly of railroading a measure through Congress.—New York Morning Tele graph. Those railroad Brotherhoods modi fled the old saying. "Strike while the iron is hot," to "Strike while the politi cal campaign is hot."—Chicago Daily News. ~ War Profits During the twelve months ending with June, 1914, the last full year of peace, England bought $594,000,000 worth of goods in the United States; in the next twelve months she pur chased $911,000,000, and in the twelve months ending with last June, no less than $1,518,000,000. But In the mean time her sale* of merchandise to us, which had been $293,000,000 in the fiscal year 1914, were only $308,000,- 000 two years later. The flnal question, whether Europe —supposing continuance of govern mental control over Industry and pro ductions—will for that reason be a more formidable or less formidable competitor of our own industrial mar kets, is another unsettled question. Much of it will depend on the obscure problem: What, in the aftermath of war, will be workmen's wages, labor costs, and the price of competitive materials on Europe's markets and our own. But, in the meantime, the United States has entered the third year of the European war with the largest internal trade of its history, the greatest production of steel and iron, the hifhest monthly surplus of exports over Imports, and the largest gold importations ever known.—Alex ander Dana Noyes in The Financial World of the October Scrlbner. quoted Mr. Belasco in a letter to Mr. Hyslop as saying: "I consider Lillian Patison, the little girl about whom you inquire, as the most wonderful phenomenon I have ever seen, especially as she Is self taught. She has given me several private exhibitions, and her dancing astounded me. It seemed positively uncanny and was most fascinating. It almost seemed as though she were t.he reincarnation of some famous dancer of the past. She lived every movement and every movement was filled with charm. When she was through she was exhausted from the concentration and the spirit she had put into her work." Spirit Message Prom Nordica Immediately after the death of Mme. Nordica, Lillian Patison is said to have developed unusual vocal pow ers. A spiritualistic medium at tributed those powers to Mme. Nordica's "influence." At one of the "sittings" Mme. Nordica's spirit was assorted to have "communicated" this: "I have tried to do this writing here, but there was so much confusion and so I decided to wait. But the time passes and I fear I shall lose my impetus. The little one has been the center of a group of people who have a purpose to make real the expression of artistic expression and there has been much to demonstrate that the power was in the hands as well as feet, and tone and gesture and move ments have been full of the person ality of one well known to the world." What "spirit Influences" are being directed to make the child a dancer the psychiclsts say the* do not know. They quote one from the spirit world as guiding her. "He claimed to be many, many years older than a thousand years," says the Journal of the American So ciety for Psychical Research. "He stated that he had been a teacher and then became somewhat confused, end ing in an affirmation, apparently, of the doctrine of reincarnation."—New York Herald. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _ , NOT CUT OFF Jo the Editor of the Telegraphs On the first pago of your last even ing s issue, you state that a Brooklyn dispatch says my late father, George W (.olton, cut me off In his will with only *25 worth of furniture. This must be intended as a joke, because so far as I know I Inherited no furniture what soever. Regarding the remainder of the ar ticle, would say that 1 am receiving one-third of the securities of the es tate, amounting to more than $150,000, all of which you can readily verify if you will communicate with Coombs and Wilson, attorneys-at-law, 260 Broad way, Brooklyn, N. Y., who are settling the estate. Kindly give this communication as prominent a place in your paper as you did the one that prompted it. HOWARD I. COLTON, „ , . „ 1825 Whitehall street. Harrisburg, Pa., September 21, 1916. Islam and the Arab [Philadelphia Ledger.] The Arab has appointed himself the custodian of the true faith of Islam. The grand sherif of Mecca, with the tribe? of Araby to support him, has issued a fiery denunciation of the Young Turks of the Committee of Union and Progress, whose pro-Ger manism has been faithless to the pre cepts and to the intensive cultivation of the Mohammedan religion. "What stronger proof of their faithlessness Is needed," the sherif asks indignantly, "than the bombardment of holy places, such as Abraham's tomb, and the kill ing of persons praying within a moecue?" By such acts the Young Turks have added fuel to the flames of insurrection in the peninsula.. The Arab is of a nomadic habit in his poli tics as In his domiciliation, and as long as he was let alone In his hour of prayer he did not much care who Im personated authority at Constantinople and pretended to tell him what to do. But the Arabs are now cordially en raged against Enver Pasha and his agents and they would be overjoyed if Iho grand sherif were to raise his siandard with a rallying cry and pro-1 claim himself the caliph of the Moslem world. Brottng (Eijat "Somewhere in France," Is a phrast that has come to be associated witk many a heartache for those who hava lost sons and brothers and nephews in the great European struggle on the French front. One of these is Mrs. W. L. Dan iels, 173 C North Fifth street, this city, whose nephew, Arthur J. Chapman, was killed in action early in June ' somewhere in France." The boy waa the finest type of manhood, twenty live years of age. and a member of the 54 th battalion, Canadian troops. Young Chapman's homo was in Trail, British Colombia, and the news 01 his death is eloquently reported in a lett9r to the parents, written to th< father by a companion of the dead soldier and published in the Trail. News. The letter in part follows: June C, 1916. Dear Sir: Have to-day been notified of Art'i death by one of the boys of the 54th. and as I was one pf his most intimate friends until separated by drafts, tha boys have asked mo to write you. He was wounded in a charge by shrapnel, and later his nervous sys tem was so affected by the shock that he didn't suffer. I saw him when they were taking him out, and then ha seemed cheerful enough. I sincerely hope that both Mrs, Chapman and yourself will not grieva over his death, for it's a life work well done. He save his life for the freedom of civilization and gave it freely. What death is more glor ious? Yet it is not death, but a trans formation from this world of pain and trouble to great peace beyond tha grave. I hope I have said nothing to causa unnecessary pain,, and am only too glad to do anything you may request of me; for Art was a comrade in arms to me. Sincerely yours, C. CLARK, 7th Battalion, Army P. 0.. London. The young man who was killed was a skillful musician, a master of seven different instruments, including the piano, violin, banjo, mandolin and guitar. • • • General A. L. Mills, the distinguished army officer who was buried yester day, was greatly interested in tha Pennsylvania National Guard. He was chief of the Division of Militia Affairs and visited some of the camps of in struction held at Mount Gretna the last few years. The general frequently referred to the excellent work done by the organized militia of Pennsyl vania. • Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods gave a chill to some lawyers the other day at the sitting of the State Board of Pardons. A case was being presented and among the papers on which much stress was apparently placed was a letter from a congress man in another state. The lawyer re ferred to it several times. "Oh," said the secretary, "anyone can get a letter from a congressman this year." • • • Cosmos, the prettiest of autumn flowers, is commencing to be seen in great bunches about the city and vies with golden rod as a decoration. Tha market stalls have been ornamented with many of the cosmos bunches and some of the flowers have been used in store decorations during the last few days. • • • These fine mornings have caused more people to take walks and to risa earlier, eat earlier and get to work earlier than anything else this year. Front street. Second street. Market street, the Mulberry street bridge, Wal nut street and Derry street all hava their battalions of walkers who ordi narily take the cars, especially in sum mer and in winter. It takes the first touch of autumn to make them takfc to the sidewalks to get to work. Anr they all feci better for it. • • * P. M. Speer, of Oil City, who was here yesterday on matters before tha Public Service Commission, served in Congress for several years from the oil region and is one of the prominent attorneys of that section. He is promi nently identified with telephone de velopment. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "" —George Burnham, Jr., prominent in reform circles in Philadelphia for years, is the new president of the City Club, of Philadelphia. —W. J. Serril, long active in elec trical matters in Philadelphia, has been chosen as president of the Ameri can Society of Illuminating Engineers to succeed C. P. Steinmetz. —W. J. Patterson, the new com mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., was given a notable reception upon his re turn to Pittsburgh by the veterans of that city. —A. A. Hammerschlag, the director of the Carnegie Museums, has been speaking in the western cities on what the institution is doing. —President T. D. Kennedy, of the United Mine Workers in the Hazleton district, is urging the appointment of a committee to look after legislation here next winter. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg stockings are bold through the Middle Wets? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Councils of war were held here by provincial officials in 1765. A Distant Relation During the course of a trial In Chl cago a witness by the name of Fran cis Dooley was asked concerning tha defendant: "Are you related to Thomas Dool ey?" "Very distantly," said Francis. "I was mo mother's first child —Francis was the tlnth."—The Youth's Com panion. | Our Daily Laugh u AB THEY 1 1 PASSED. Tho woman — My old beau I Ski [t( Thank heaven, • *' m not aS M J I o,( * sweethirt of mine! I'm glad 1 don't look as old as she does. *4 BASTED UP. Doctor Flxit— There! I've sewed _ up that cut in you must come around next week and lot mo take out the stitches. sewing was in tended only for a /■ J temporary repair'' * why dldnt you use safety pins?
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