8 HARRISES URG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR THB HOMB Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 18. J. STACK POLE, Prist and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTEH, Business A lanager. ©US M. STEINMKTZ, Managing Editor. I Member American llshers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastern office, nue Building. New ern office. Story, cago. 111?" Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. SS.OO r a year In advance. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 26. 0 Lord, that Tends me life, lend me o heart replete with thankfulness. — Shakespeare. A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY AN appeal to the business men of Harrisburg was issued to-day by Secretary Wendell P. Ralne, of the Harrisburg branch of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Wharton school, to encourage the young men and women In their employ to take ad vantage of the opportunities aftorded by the university extension. Not only should every business man give this appeal earnest consideration, but every young man and woman who expects to enter or Is now in the field of business will do well to weigh carefully the message of that appeal with respect to their own futures. As Mr. Ralne points out. Harrisburg j Is one of four Pennsylvania cities that' enjoy the advantages of business train- ! ing of a university standard. The Uni- ! versity of Pennsylvania has been brought to the door of every ambitious ■ youth in Central Pennsylvania. No longer need anyone deny himself of j that training which makes for success in a big way in the realm of business. All the wider and broader viewpoints of business can he had by anyone will- , ing to sacrifice a few hours each even- ; ing In study. Such equipment as a j knowledge of commercial law, markets and prices, accounting, money and , credit, government regulation of busi ness, insurance, investments, advertis ine, salesmanship, real estate, eco nomics—in short, all those powers ! necessary to steady growth in the world of dollars and cents can be | possessed by you, Mr. Bank Clerk. Miss Stenographer, Mr. Bookkeeper, if you but have the ambition to acquire them. You will miss many hours of pleas- j ure? Yes, but remember it is better! to bear the yoke in your youth than ' w hen you are old. You hope to fill | the shoes of the head of the plant i some day? Well, just make a little in- ' \estigation and you'll find he was j working nights when he was a young man while the old men now in his | employ were "having a good time." i In his appeal Mr. Raine points out ' that the progressive business men of j Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, realizing the benefit therefrom to them, have adopted the plan of promoting Whar- | ton school trained men in preference to nontri'ined men—not because of favoritism, but because of superior business ability, because they are bet ter money makers. In Harrisburg the wide-awake heads j of business houses are doing the same ' thing. This year a new group of am- 1 bitlous young men and young women ! will enter the Wharton school and in ' three years they will be equipped to j fill the big places In the Harrisburg I hanks, stores, mills, factories and manufacturing plants. Will you be in 1 the Wharton classes this winter? Or do you prefer the movies and medi ocrity? COAL ANI) "GAS" PRICES ■ "<EW of us feel any keen sympathy for the coal trust in its present troubles with the federal author ities. Some of us may be unfeeling enough to cry out to the Government: "Hooray! Soak 'em again"; soaking having been for these many years one of the diversions of the coal combine. But if "soaking" the trust, is going to have any such tragic effects on the price of anthracite as the dissolu tion of Standard Oil had on the cost of gasoline perhaps it would be Just as well to sing low. GOOD-BYE SUMMER WE have just bade a tearful adieu to summer. The season of blue skies and sunshine, of carefree days and vacation joys, of flowers and green corn, of outdoor life and com fortable clothing, was all too short, and we approach the less inviting winter with forebodings. But perhaps it is Just as well. We can't have vaca tion all the time. Family life is closer in the cold months. Interest centers about the fireside. We have time and the inclination, too, for study and self-improvement. As a matter of course we now take up seriously the tasks we laid down last Spring—not our ordinary, work aday tasks, for they go on for most of us throughout the year—but our activities as good citizens in all lines of endeavor. Winter is the period of real progress. Beside, if It were not for the months of snow and Ice we would not ap preciate summer. There is summer, too, all the year for the brave heart and the cheery spirit. For such sum mer Is not a time, but a state of mind. He U wise who takes the seasons as TUESDAY EVENING, they come and happiest who makes the most of them, looking back in memory to the bright spots of other days and forward with keen delight toward the time of year he loves best. ON VERGE OF NEW ERA HARRISBURG Is on the verge of a new era of progress and pros perity such as that which mark ed the decade Immediately following the adoption of the first public im provement loan. That is the concensus of opinion of all those who have been close to the development of the new hotel project. The thought is not their own. Those who have been interviewing busi ness and professional peoplo for the purpose of procuring their co-opera tion in making the hotel a truly community enterprise have been Im pressed by it at every turn. The con viction of the community Is that the erection of the proposed hotel will ■mark another great forward move ment In the life of the city. Everywhere may be seen signs of I this confidence In the future of the town. Merchants and businessmen in general are translating their faith Into deeds. Throughout the business district, old store fronts have been torn out and Interiors remodeled and enlarged, and many other such changes are planned. The downtown business district Is being rapidly ex tended. Merchants whose business places are congested and Impossible of enlargement are looking about for new locations. The Pennsylvania rail road Is erecting a new freight station and yards and the Philadelphia and Reading Is Increasing Its yard track age to Rutherford and at Steelton. The Cumberland Valley railroad Is! spending upward of a million dollars j on a new bridge and double tracks from the yards at Lemoyne to those j of this city. The Bethlehem Steel j Plant, at Steelton, Is being enlarged at an expenditure of more millions than the whole plant was worth a ' few years back. The Harrisburg Railways company Is purchasing new j cars for Increased travel. The Valley j Railways company has extended its ' transfer system and has plans not yet j publicly announced for materially !m- j proving its service. Handsome homes j are being erected and the city is be- 1 lng rapidly extended In all directions, j These are but a few of the high ! points, touched upon at random. But the people do not propose to ! . stop here. They are going to erect a series of new High and Junior High schools to meet the needs of the rap- Idly growing town. They are urging upon council the development of the 1 Susquehanna River Basin at this point 1 1 so that Harrisburg will have facil ities for boating, fishing, bathing and swimnjing second to no interior sum mer resort In the land. They are join ing in support of the new hotel move ment in a manner that will bring to gether In this enterprise the capital and Influence of practically every in dividual, buslnesshouse and financial Institution in the city. Nothing like this co-operative effort Is recorded in the history of the city, and few communities can boast of anything approaching It in civic spirit. All this means that the people of the city believe in it, that they have confidence in Its growth and that they have that broad vision of future possibilities without which no com munity, large or small, "lias ever gone much beyond the point of mere popu lation. Harrisburg has grown and prospered wonderfully in the past fifteen years, but the coming fifteen year period beyond all doubt will witness a development far more re markable than that upon which we now look back with so much pride and satisfaction. The watchword Is onward and the people are responding eagerly. AFTER THE WAR JOHN S. STEELE, writing from London for the Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger, contributed to last Sunday's issue of that newspaper an article that ought to be read by every businessman, if not by every voter in the land. Much has been written of the "war after the war," when na tion shall be arrayed against nation in a gigantic struggle for trade su premacy, and Mr. Steele shows con clusively by personal Interview with men In high places, that England is preparing to go Into this business war fare on a scale far beyond the wildest prediction un 4. thai thA UaUm must stand behind a protective tariff or be ready to face disaster of a magnitude heretofore undreamed. England is aiming first at Germany, determined to ruin her, but America Is a fine target, also, and not to be neglected. Great Britain proposes to erect about herself a protective tariff wall. Free trade is a dead issue in London. She is willing to buy our wheat, our corn and our cotton, and would exchange manufactured goods therefor. In other words, England wants to purchase foodstuffs and pay for theni with the product of her cheap labor mills, with which high priced American labor cannot com plete. At a time when the tariff should be an over-shadowing issue of vital importance all too little attention is being paid to It. Of course, talk of ruining Germany in a trade way is nonsense, as is the movement to restrict the trade of the allies strictly to the allies. Germany will not sit idle while her present enemies walk oft with all the business in the world. Neither will America, but both Germany and America must have weapons with which to fight and In the case of this country a Re publican tariff, enacted by a Republi can House and Senate and a 'Re publican President, Is the heaviest artillery at our command. No half way Democratic measures will suffice. fotitlc* U | ""Pe-KKOijCtfahla II By the Ex-Coramltteeman Harrisburg was a center of political Interest last night as Governor Brum baugh and members of his cabinet and political friends were going over the situation and discussing the speech which the Governor will make as a keynote address at York to-night when the State Federation of Re publican clubs meet, and down street Senator Boies Penrose, State Chair man Crow, Candidates Charles A. Snyder and H. M. Kephart were at the same hotel. The Senator came here from Phila delphia on his way to Pittsburgh where he will meet Candidate Charles E. Hughes and discuss the campaign with Republican county leaders of Western Pennsylvania. The Senator will attend the meetings at which Mr. Hughes will speak as will Senator Oliver. The Senator said last night that he was well pleased with the outlook in the State. —While Governor Brumbaugh will not talk about his speech being any thing like launching a boom for Re publican leadership the address he will make at York to-night will be so regarded. It is being eagerly awaited as it will express some opinions which may Interest Republicans in a year when Democrats are making a drive for Pennsylvania. —The Governor will speak at York to-night, leaving his party along the road nd rejoining the tour at Bed ford. Many of the State officials will be at York to hear him speak and there will be a large representation of Capitol Hill people. State Chairman Crow and the candidates will also be there. —Philander C. Knox, candidate for Senator, is to speak before the York meeting and his address Is expected to be another scathing arraignment of the Wilson administration. —The name of Major General Charles M. Clement, commander of the National Guard, was added to the list of the possible public service com missioners last night. The General, who comes from Sunbury, is well known to Harrisburgers as he was deputy secretary of the Common wealth and has been here many times. He is commander of the Pennsylvania troops on the border and is a lawyer. Many letters from lawyers, business men and Guardsmen have been re ceived by the Governor in his inter est. Last May the General ran as a Brumbaugh candidate tor delegate at-large. —ln spite of assertions to the con trary there will be no change in the style of the legislative bills next ses sion. The matter has been discussed half a dozen times by State officials, but last night Attorney General Brown held that the change to smaller bills could not be made, although de sirable because of the cost of paper, because of the printing contract which will run until 1919. In the 1919 session there will be smaller bills. However, the Governor has •signified a desire to save printing and paper wherever possible. —Among visitors to the city to-day was Kx-Senator Ernest 1... Tustin, of Philadelphia, who is said to have some ambitions in the State line. S —Gubernatorial and other booms will be numerous at York the next few days. Lieutenant-Governor Mc- Clain, Commissioner Ainey, Congress man Scott. Congressman Kiess and others who have been mentioned as possibilities will be there. —The Federation meeting has been industriously boomed by the State administration and Vare people and they will have many supporters in the crowd. The meeting'will probably be mofe notable because of the com plexion of the State committee than for a long time. —lnvitations to attend the Penn sylvania Day ceremony at Shadow Lawn, President Wilson's summer home, are being sent from the Demo cratic State headquarters. An effort is being made to have all of the Penn sylvania national delegates to the Baltimore convention of 1912, and the Pennsylvania delegation to the St Louis convention attend the gathering. A Clean-Up Worth $30,000 Kansas City, Hept. 26.—Several hundred businessmen in the Armour dale section of the Kansas side gath ered to-day with rakes, shovels and brooms and cleaned five miles of streets and parking. J. L. Beggs, com missioner of streets, said their work saved the city more than $30,000. Sev eral big industries lent motor trucks to haul away the rubbish and the 150 employes of the street department helped. The movement was led by the Armourdale Improvement Asso ciation. Why Gotch Doesn't Drink Frank Gotch, the great wrestler, in a letter this week to the Des Moines Register, says: "X have always been for prohibition, and attribute my suc cess as an athlete to my abstinence from alcoholic stimulants of every na ture." Drinking is going out, because it means inefficiency. The crack athlete can't drink; neither can the man who expects to make the highest success In any line of endeavor.—Kansas City Star. Over-Industry It is my opinion that a man's soul can be burled and perish • • * in a furrow of the field. Just as well as " * **ll® m nfn r> ir i WTf^oTf^L. B ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY Answering a General Alarm. ~| DON NELL, SL Louis Globe Democrat TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE t —Even with perfectly delicious ice cream selling at thirty-five cents a brick many people prefer to out their money into goldbriclt*. —"Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way"—on a gasoline trac tor. —Mr. Mack now has some concep tion as to how the management of the Phillies felt some years back—only more so. —Perhaps when the Germans pro tested against the use of the English "tanks" as Inhuman they hoped the allied soldiers would all laugh them selves to death. —Now we understand why Presi dent "Wilson calls It a "porch cam paign"—full of splinters. 1 editorial comment"! The President used four pens to sign the eight-hour law and grave one to each Brotherhood chief as a souvenir. The rest of us will remember the event without artificial aid.—New York Even ing Sun. Can't German scientists invent a sub stitute for Austria?— Brooklyn Eagle. King Ferdinand surpasses Czar Fer dinand as an auctioneer.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Roumanla's entry may shorten tho war, but beyond question it broadens it.—Brooklyn Times. President and Suffragists [Philadelphia Ledger] When the delegates to the suffrage convention at Atlantic City find themselves no longer under the spell of the spoken word, the charm of Presi dent Wilson's presence, we wonder what they will make of his message, how much encouragement they will draw from his kind assurance that they are bound to win sometime, his adjuration to them to be "patient" a little longer. The President went to Atlantic City to speak to a repre sentative body of women desperately in earnest in their demand for social and political justice. They treated him with the courtesy that was due his high office. They overlooked for the moment the circumstances that he was a candidate for re-election and ignored the possibility that his mission may have been dictated more by hope of political advantage than by any real Interest In the cause for which they are fighting. And what did the Presi dent offer them in return for the hon or they accorded him? Ten or fifteen minutes of platitude, a condescending assurance that they had made great progress toward ultimate victory, but no word of advice or encouragement as to the means by which their goal was to be attained, no word of prom ise of the assistance which he and his party could give were they Inclined to take the suffrage issue out of the controversal stage and make It a fact accomplished! If the women of America are satis fied with that they are easily pleased. The one thing the convention was eager to learn from the President he studiously refrained from saying. Canoe Trails Broad Is the track that the steamer takes Wide are the ways of the windy lakes, Dear are the lakes to me. And the sparkling sound is good. Bright is the river, too; But the stream that winds to the heart of the wood Is the trail of the little canoe. Up through the fields where cattle browse. Up through the farms of rye, Under the arching hemlock boughs. Under the laughing sky. Out through the maze where the musk rats hide, Prawn like a silver clew. Clear to the buttressed mountainside Goes the trail of the little canoe.' Clean blue flags In stately ranks Stand where the shadows gleam: Ferns grow thick on the mossy banks Edging the deeper stream; Tnnagers flash in the vaulted leaves Where, faintly shltrimerlng through, A drowsy pattern the sunlight weaves On the trail of the little canoe. Dip of the paddle, gurgle and plash. Quiet and bird-note clear, White of the birch, gray of the ash— Ralm of the heart Is here! Hera -vhere the boldest footpaths cease The lovelle.ti road to the shrines of peace is the trail of the little canoe. Here where the best Is true: —Arthur Guterman In Life. LILLIAN RUSSELL HAS QUIT Real Home and a Husband Better Than the Stage, Actress Says Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 26. SO America's most famous beauty will indicate her residence next month. For Mrs. Alex. P. Moore —to give Miss Lillian Russell her cur rent married name—is soon to make the Smoky City her permanent home. A dignified old mansion is being pre pared for her arrival and soon after October 1 she will settle down there to the more or less ordinary life of a Pittsburgh matron. "I'm going to have a real home with a real husband for the first time in my life," she said enthusiastically, as we sat talking on the porch of her summer home. Proof of Her Love Miss Russell's summer residence is at Ventnor, a few miles below Atlan tic City. I say Miss Russell's resi dence advisedly. Mr. Moore's busi ness keeps him in Pittsburgh most of the time, and, to quote her own words "he is more like a week-end guest than a husband." "So we've decided to give up mar riage a la carte and go In for old fashioned table d'hote matrimony," she laughed. "My husband can no longer doubt that I love him, can he, now that I've really promised I will live in Pittsburgh?" The Lillian Russell who sat in her rocking chair on the veranda of her attractive home is not the "airy fairy Lillian" of the late 'Bos. But time has been kinder to her than to any other woman I know. She Is —well, she was 50 about five years ago. But Magic! After much scraping and bowing we left the table and retired to the draw ing room, where I fancied a little music would liven the atmosphere. Our guests listened gravely, a trifle surprised, and rose and bowed again at the end of the Chopin sonata. "Military music—much beautiful," ventured the interpreter. H. Smiled and going toward the Vic tor wound it up. A Sousa march rent the air. Their eyes began to sparkle; the interpreter went over and looked out the window. "Where is the music?" "Mere—ln the box!" They gazed at each other, aston ished. To have explained the me chanism of the Victor would have been too complicated. We didn't know ex actly what to say, and for a moment we stood staring at each other, tongue tied. while the lively march Jingled on. "This is an invention made by a man from my lady's country—out there—across the ocean!" "Those who succeed in making a box sing must have commerce with the gods and the demons." 1 was somewhat taken aback by this unexpected reply, but 11. explained that Edison was a simple mortal like ourselves, but with a most powerful intelligence. "This Is more than intelligence," came the answer. "He must be a most noble lord. I imagine that people prostrate themselves as he goes by— and are proud of having been toucheA by the shadow of his horse." The idea of Mr. Edison's parading on a Jewel-bedecked steed before the American jiublic standing in abeyance struck me as comic at first, yet pres ently I realized how lacking in re spect we must seem of our glories to the minds of these simple people. Alt our discs were passed in review, one after another, and it was very late when, the concert finished, our guests bade us good-night and retired, en chanted with their first Parisian even ing.—From "Guests from the Desert," by Frances Wilson lluard, in the Oc i tober Scrlbner. The Western Example A party of motorists, having come all the way from San Francisco over the Lincoln Highway, expressed great surprise over the comparatively little interest taken iri this region in beauti fying the road. Discussing the mat ter, one of them was quoted In the Gettysburg Times as saying: "While the visitors were enthusiastic >over the Lincoln Highway and its beauties, they expressed great surprise over the comparativelv litti tntrr"t taken hereabout in beautifying the road. Discussing the matter, one of them said: " 'ln portions of the West through which we came the sides of the road have been beautified with flower gar dens, Farmers on hoth sides of the highway have moved back their fences and now have bordered them with the finest sort of blooming plajits. Every wh U apparent an effort to make SEPTEMBER 26, 1916. she docs not look 40, and she has the enthusiasm and bubbling spirits of a woman half that age. Her classic profile, her chief claim to beauty In former years, is quite unchanged. Her fair skin is as flaw less and her blue eyes are as bright as when she sang in "La Cigale" a quarter of a century ago. Only her golden hair seems too good to be true. I did not attempt to conceal my ad miration. "How do you do it?" I exclaimed. "Do you really want to know the secret?" she asked with a mocking smile. "I never allow myself to think of anything unpleasant. X never worry. And I make it a point to en joy all the good things in life. Beauty is more than skin deep. It is 'as a woman thinks!' " The Happiest Moment We were soon intimate enough, for Mrs. Moore has the happy faculty of making a stranger feel like a lifeiong friend, so that I could ask her from what she had derived the greatest pleasure in life. ,"I couldn't begin to remember the thousands of good times I have had," she answered. "I've had a good time all my life. But the greatest pleas ure of my life was when my baby was placed against my breast for the first time. It was the supreme moment of my life and I think every woman who has been a mother will agree with me in that. As I look back I [Continued on Pace 2.] the road one of the show features of thecountry. In the East all that has been done is to make the roadway itself more durable and more comfort able for travel. In this you have been successful, but the idea of making this a beautiful parkway instead of simply a commercial road has evidently not Impressed itself upon the people east of the Mississippi, or, in fact, for some distance west of that river.' "The California tourists retired soon after completing their unusual trip ever Ihe battlefield and left at 6 o'clock in the morning to continue their Journey." They Call HirTi "Charlie" Charles M. Schwab, the Bethlehem steel king, is probably the most be loved "boss" In America. His men say there would be no strikes if others were like him. The October American Magazine prints an article about him in which this occurs: "They call him 'Charlie 'at Home stead; he is 'Charlie' when he goes back there now to visit the 'boys.' Those who were there in the old days he still knows by name and Just how long they have been on the Job. When he went down to Homestead to say good-by, after resigning as president of the Carnegie Steel Company, five thousand men turned out in a body to wish him good luck. " 'God bless you, Charlie!' 'Here's good luck to you, Charlie!' they shouted. "'Do I know him well?' said one grizzled employe at Homestead. 'ls it Charlie Schwab you mean? Shure, don't I mind the first day he came here? An' didn't I work wid him for years? Wid him, mind you. Not for him. Shure, I helped cut the first piece of steel that ever went out of this mill. There isn't a man here that don't give his good will to Charlie Schwab. There'd be no strikes in Ameriky if ivry boss was like him. The first day he come I says to him, says I, "Have you a match?" "I have four," says he, "an' you're welcome to I him," he says. "Thanks!" says I "What's your name?" "It's Schwab," says he, "Charlie Schwab!" An' faith, he'd give me a match to-day as quick as he was after glvin' it to me thill." "Perhaps there has never been an American industrial leader so popular with rich and poor alike. The reason Is Interwoven in the story of Mr. Schwab's spectacular rise from the ranks. 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 Qulz."l What Is dope t— the enforcement of the compulsory education law? Attendance officer, with one as- i sistant for outside work. Parents notified by mail of each three days' absence of pupils. Parents prose- I cuted under the law. I f&ftttttg Qlljat The Public Service Commission's order directing that the Berks - Dauphin turnpike Houd Company .rebuild 17 miles of its toll road east of this city, and ropair the remaining eighteen miles, calls attention to tho fact that thirty-live miles of the William Penn Highway are thus to bo permanent ' The toll road is part of the William Penn, but the association has never had reason to be proud of the fact, inasmuch as the exorbitant chargo of $1.02 has brought a "how"* Iroin every user of th thoroughfare. Since the Motor Club of Hurrisbutg; some months ago called this turnpike to the attention of the Public Serr ico Commission the toll company lias made efforts hero and there to make an improvement these attempts consisting for tho most part of putting down a cover of small stones. Tliesa atones grind to pieces very easily; and the dust, therefore, lias made travel oyer the toll road anything but u pleasure. For a half hundred yards on both sides the highway tho trees, grass und houses are gray with the pulverized road covering. In a speech at Bloomsburg last Thursday Gover nor Brumbaugh declared that dustv roads are injurious to the health of the people. That, of course, is true, and residents along the Berks-Dau phin Company's thirty-live mile dust streak have reason to complain. The William Penn Highway Associa tion is lending Its aid to those who wish to see the State take over tlio Berks-Dauphin road. The road should bo freed of toll, all admit. There are those who can see, they say, that the owners of the pike will not be able to comply with the Public Service Com mission's order. The reconstruction of seventeen miles of the highway will cost about $50,000, and the re pairing of the balance will mean an additional $20,000. It is rumored that rather than spend this $70,000 tho tol company will sell out, thus re taining the $70,000 for distribution along with what is paid for the toll road. The freeing of this turnpike will benefit more farmers and motor ists than the freeing of any other turnpike in the State. There Is a short toll road on the William Penn Highway west of Lewis town. Residents of Lewistown aro interesting themselves In the freeing of this pike, too. The toll is fifteen cents. Owners of the highway are also tlio owners of an electric railroad company operating In the Lewistown district. Still another toll road Is that between Johnstown and Cramer, where six miles are owned by a cor poration. The road is not of the best. The keeper of the gate is far from accommodating, compelling travelers to await.his pleasure. On the Berks- Dauphin road the gate-keepers go to the vehicle and sell the tickets, but at the gate west of Johnstown the keeper compels travelers to dismount and walk in to a window. The Johnstown Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are after the hide of the Johnstown-Cramer Company, and ex pect to get it. They say that every gate-keeper along the Berks-Dauphin road was peeved and irritated the other day by; the action of a motorist who had a, basket on the seat beside him. Ha stopped very carefully at each gate; and when the keeper came to him he placed a large lemon in the toll col lector's hand. It is told that soma interesting bits of Pennsylvania Ger man lloated on the breeze as the motorist drove on. Advocates of good roads find a. hearty supporter In President Judge George Kunkel of the Dauphin county courts. The presiding jurist usually has a word or two to say in an official way from the bench on behalf of ter highways at the opening of every session of criminal court when the constables make their returns. Yes terday, the opening of September quarter sessions, was no exception. Among the scores of reports handed up by the constables were a dozen or more which called the court's atten tion to sections of road in need of repair, of bridges which need plank ing or handrails, of missing sign-posts. In turning these reports over to Dis trict Attorney Michael E. Stroup for investigation Judge Kunkel said: "These matters should be investigated and attended to at once; the proper persons who are responsible for the upkeep of the roads and bridges, should be called to account for the conditions as they are reported here to exist." Since the price of paper began to advance so fast and newspapers wera compelled to reduce the sizo of theif Issues numerous free copies have been cut off and the number of papers in the mail is considerably less. Men in the postal service remark upon tha the number of copies, that must hava been cut off because there are fewei bags devoted to papers and not ai many are delivered. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "] —Major John C. Groome has been spending a few days in Virginia. —Joseph P. Connelly, of Phila delphia, will be the orator at the Pittsburgh Kights of Columbus meet ings. —The Rev. W. H. Main, Philadel phia clergyman, has accepted a call to Chicago. —Prof. AValter D. Scott will bo head of the new school of business psycology, to be opened in one of the Pittsburgh colleges. DO YOU KNOW "]j That Harrlsburj* tubes are used to lira in western mines? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Officers of the British regiments stationed along the border made this place their headquarters during part of the French and Indian war. | Our Daily Laugh SttIAOBD TO ITS SOURCE. Jokesmlth. lifcltl > —You say ]'JT ry an old jokel x what P a P®r has /a ever published ItT Tho Editor Jj. I Can't say about yyCji *h® papers and I •- forget whether it ITW first appeared on an Assyrian brick or an Egyptian obelisk. ▲ PRACTICAL MAN. >^"4sl Mr. Goodsole— k My young friend, can you read your title clear to man- jBBf ■lons in the jgrSMk jGgfft s*les? V9J| Mr. Pflippe—lf ■[ I could I'd mort- jfl_ save 'em and buy; _JB * n*w cax.
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