14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOMB ? j Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TELECRAI'H PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. STACK POLE. Prts't and Editor-in-Chitf R- OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member American sylvanla Assoclat nue Building. New cago, llv' Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. r carriers, six cents a week: by mall. J3.00 A* a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29. Blessed is everyone that feareth Jehovah, that walketh in his \cay. —Ps. 128:1. NO IiONGER AN ADMIRER OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, of the New York Evening Post, has contributed a valuable paper to the political history of the Wilson administration by writing on "The Mystery of Woodrow Wilson" for the North American Review. Villard was once an ardent admirer of Wilson. The great mystery is the change that came over Wilson when he became President. From a man who took counsel with his co-workers he be came the most Inaccessible and se cluded President who has ever occu pied the White House. Even promi nent diplomats returning from their I posts abroad and ready with lnforma- ( tion that ought to be of uso to the j head of a nation found that their I advice and facts were not wanted. Cabinet meetings were discontinued until public criticism caused resump- ; tion. Meetings with representatives of the press were abandoned and secrecy became the chief characteristic of the administration. Public men from over the country, 1 whether members of his own party or Republicans, were not invited or wel- | corned to the White House. Where other Presidents taken almost ' dally opportunity to confer with men j of affairs by entertaining them at i luncheon, Wilson maintained the ut- j most privacy. This became a one- j man government and Democracy be- I came a one-man party. It was assumed that all wisdom and integrity and I patriotism were confined to one man's 1 personality and the rest of the world "was kept from contact with him. No wor.der the Wilson ad minis- ' •tration has been such a dismal failure. 1 The Department of Justice is com. plaining: because Congress failed to pass all the laws asked for on the sub ject of neutrality. Well, it was a Democratic Congress, in both branches. If it wasted time and money making extravagant appropriations instead of passing good laws desired by the President, then Congress, in both branches, should be taken from control of the Democrats. If the laws asked for were not wise, then we need a change in the Presidency. In tin> event, the criticism of a Democratic Congress by a Democratic Department of Justice is certain to help the Re publican campaign. TRI E TO THEIR CONTRACTS THE most encouraging sign of the times Is the failure of the pro- posed sympathc-Uc strike in New York City, called for the pur pose of helping the street car em ployes enforce their demands. Nearly all of the unions Involved are under specific agreement with their employers. A majority of them have signed scales and are virtually under contract to work when work Is offered In accordance with the pro visions of their mutual agreements. For these union men to have quit work, embarrassing their employers and ruining their business, would have been an act of bad faith that would have reacted seriously upon the men themselves. A broken contract is a broken contract whether it be between businessmen or between businessmen y<l employes. Nobody has any faith B the company, the man or the labor Kaion that does not keep faith. The H-ongost pleas the union makes to the is that by recognizing It he his working force, Insures against sudden and unreason demands during the term of the Be signed and is dealing with one head instead of with Take that away and every Ksinessman In the land would be ropposed to unions. If, therefore, the union workmen of New York had walked out at the call of the street car mtn they would have broken their contracts with their employers and would have placed themselves In tho unenviable light of Germany regarding a written agree ment aa no more than a "scrap of paper." They would have lost pub lic support and public confidence and their "scales,", solemnly agreed upon and signed as a pledge of sincerity, would have been as worthless as Bel gium's treaty with the Kaiser. By refusing to be stampeded Into a disastrous strike not of their own making tho union men as a whole have demonstrated an independence of spirit and a sturdy American honesty Of Intent that will do much to restore the oonftdence of a more or leas doubt ful public and have dealt at the same time a stinging blow to the presump- FRIDAY EVENING, fcARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! SEPTEMBER ' tion of so-called leaders who have tpeen endeavoring to manipulate or ganized labor to their own selfish ends. Backet-s of President Wilson In sporting circles are declining: to take bets at 2 to 1 and say they are waiting for two and a half to one. They will get It, and, before election, the odds will be four or five to one that Hughes will win. ROOM FOR ALL OTHER organizations ought to fol low the example of the Rotary Club In lining up back of the Chamber of Commerce In support of the new hotel movement. Ninety per cent, of the Rotarlans, It Is said, will become stockholders In the new hotel project. Not content with canvassing their own membership the Rotarlans will carry their solicitation to hun dreds of others. The Rotary Club is made up of shrewd businessmen. They are not going into the hotel company as phil anthropists. They see In It what they believe to be a good investment. They believe that If an outside concern is willing to rent the hotel property on a six per cent, guarantee on a million dollar valuation, the hotel company operating the hostelry itself after the first year or two will be able to earn substantially more than even the grat ifying dividend of six per cent. But there is more than mere money getting behind the hotel movement There Is civic pride and a desire that Harrlsburg shall rank with other cities of the land with respect to hotel facil ities as It does in public improvements i and desirable living conditions. To that end such Influential organizations as the railroad brotherhoods, the Civic Club, the various secret societies which would like to see their State and nat ional conventions come to Harrisburg, the Commercial Travelers and all others who have an Interest In the welfare and proper development of the city ought to take a part in raising funds for the new hotel. It would be a fine thing indeed if the hotel could be built without either a mortgage or a bond Issue and with out going outside the immediate com munity for a dollar of the money. If this Is to be done other organizations must got behind the Chamber and the Rotary Club. Beyond doubt the Chamber's hotel committee would be glad to appear before any organiza tion that may deelre, to explain the hotel project at length. Co-operation along this line would be mighty good advertising for any society. Which will be first to volunteer? AMATEUR TALENT WHERE there's a will there's a way. Fortunately for the Civic Club this is true, and because it is they will have at least two of the rooms In their new home at Front and North streets completely furnished as soon as the furniture can be Installed. The will was found in the consciousness of one young lady, whose personality and determination, aided by the hearty co-operation of some score of other young ladies, car ried through to a successful conclu sion, socially and financially, the project of amateur theatricals as a result 'of which the Civic Club is th*s beneficiary. "Prunella" should be but the fore runner of similar productions. If the hopes of the moving spirits do not flag, it is more than probable that some lasting organization may be evolved that will assure the perma nence of a body of young ladies In terested in dramatics. HllT X BURGLARS COME APROPOS of burglars a contro versy has arisen in the Toklo newspapers as to how a man should proceed whose home was In vaded. A correspondent tells of a foreigner in that town whose house waa visited by burglars at regular In tervals and who on each occasion shouted from his window "Robbers! Help!" but nobody ever responded. Another writer gives the following advice: If your house Is visited by rob bers, don't- so so foolish as to open your window and to cry at the top of your voice: "Dorobn! Dorobo' (Robber! Robber!). In this <-as all your neighbors will very care fully lock their doors and not move one Inch, because their own safetv requires not to save you. But if you really want help in case you nre surprised or attacked by a burglar, open the window and crv at the top of your voice: ••Kali! Ka.1l!" (Fire! Fire!) —and all your neighbors will like lightning and even in a pitch dark night run out . of their houses and come in crowds to assist you. They will act under the Impression that thev must save you for the sake of their own safety. The Telegraph gives this bit of Japa nese odvleo as a hint to Harrisburg ers who may be visited by some of the nocturnal intruders the police are un able to catch. It would have been particularly helpful the other night at the United States Hotel, where Are and thieves came at the same time. It Is well that President Wilson de fends his attitude toward the wage-In crease legislation. The great mass of the people might be misled If h tried to change his mind Just before election. It Is far better that we have assurance that he chose his course deliberately and that he will follow the same policy any time and every time one or more unions threaten to tie up the transpor- I tatlon systems of the country unless their demands are granted within a specified number of hours. Everybody now knows the kind of stuff Wilson has In him and those who want a Pres ident who yields to dictation at home and bluff abroad can have him. I telegraph PERISCOPE "1 —The Democrats have placed Penn sylvania In the "doubtful" column— doubtful as to the size of Hughes' ma jority, perhaps. —We have not yet noted that annual dispatch about the shortage of the chestnut crop. We hope the blight got It. —Flour is used for dough, but to have any flour these days a man must first get considerable dough. —Loaves of bread may be smaller, but the holes In the doughnuts are getting larger. —There seems to be very little sym pathy for- that New York sympathy strike. I EDITORIAL COMMENT] Our volunteer soldiery has given a fine demonstration of the two predomi nating passions of youth; first, to get away from home, and then to get back. —New York Telegraph. As ypu may have read with con siderable emotion. President Wilson signed the eight-hour law with four pens, which he presented to the four brotherhood chiefs. A gentleman call ed; us on the telephone to Inquire whether the dear peepul will get the blotter.—Rocky Mountain News. The study of European geography this fall Is largely a matter of opin ion.—Kansas city Star. Efficiency of Scoundrelism (New York World) Further investigation of the black mailing enterprise founded upon the provisions of the Mann White Slave Law has revealed a rare thorough ness of preparation and scientific method, The operating gang, it appears, was in posession of a fairly complete record of the family skeletons of the country. It had lists as well of rich young sowers of wild oats with handy notes on the dates and other par ticulars of their sowing. Old bones could bo rattled at any time to en force a demand for coin. Happy turners of new leaves could be shaken out of their serenity and their cash by reference to a card index. Safe - breakers have kept pace through the years with scientific progress in explosives, electric meth ods and workings in hard metals. Counterfeiters have taken advantage of the latest developments in print ing, engraving and papermaking. Other offenders have profited by in ventions of special bearing on their lines of work. It has been left for the blackmailer to show most strik ingly how aptly Big Roguery can mis appropriate the technics of Big Busi ness. Villa Again (Salt Lake Tribune) Villa attacked Columbus, N. M., to force an American invasion. He al most accomplished his entire purpose, but the invasion frittered away into nothingness. Now he sees a new op portunity. If he can overthrow Car ranza and establish himseir as a de facto ruler, he can laugh at. Presi dent Wilson while at the same time demanding recognition. He can ren der nugatory all the negotiations of Carranza's representatives and can demand new terms from the United States. What the moral may be we do not pretend to say. With Presi | dent Wilson in power it probably 1 would mean another period of "watchful waiting." With Hughes in the presidential office Villa probably would be called to immediate ac countability and forced to establish I law and order or give way to those 1 who could. Saving His Excuses (Youngstown. O. "feregrami "How would you like to go with me on a fishing trip in a few weeks?" the fat plumber asked his friend, the thin carpenter. "I'd like it all right," the carpen ter returned, "but I am afraid it is out of the question." "Why?" "I couldn't think of an excuse to give my wife for going out of town at this time." "Haven't you any good excuses at all?" "Yes, but I don't want to use them Just now." "Why not?" "Well, to tell the truth. I am sav ing them up for housecleaning time." The Dawn (From a poem by E. B. Reed In the October Yale Review) Two spirits stand beside her bed Softly stroking her curly head. Death whißpers, "Come''—Life whispers "Stay." Child, little child, go not away. Life pleads, "Remember"—and Death "Forget." Little childfc little child, go not yet. By ail your mother's love and "pain Child of our heart, child of our brain Stay with us; go not till you see The Fairy land that life can be. Work and Play (Louisville Courier Journal) Work is all very well in Its place. And its place should be large and lasting, but if a worker is to allow it to consume his capacity for the en joyments of a normal life. If ho is to become a piece of efficient machinery like a piston rod or a wheel, he is' unless he is viewed as the provider of others, almost as great a failure as the fellow who cannot drive himself to work because of his desire to play Making Amends (Philadelphia Ledger) Richard Strauss' new opera, The Woman Without a Shadow, Is prob ably conceived as an act of penitence for the many operas that he wrote In which his woman heroines all had a past, and a shadowy or shady one at that. Little Good to Average (Gary Times) What good does Steel common at 107 do us of the common herd if we have to pay 10 cents for bread 80 cents a peck for potatoes, $9 for coal 2R cents for pork chops and 40 cents for butter? Somebody please hand us a Socialist application blank. Triumphant Vindication (Columbia (S. C.) State) Mr. So-and-So has been elected to represent his county in the legislative halls of the State by a very flattering vote, the recount showing that he Jed his opponent by three votes and not two, as was at first thousrnt. r~ T>outi<* LH. | I By the Ex-Committeeman Formation of Hughes clubs and branches of the Hughes Alliance is go ing forward in every part of the State and yesterday in Philadelphia there was also formed the Hughes Business Men's League. These Jjfughes organ izations are getting together many 01 the leading men of the country and In this State some of the clubs and simi lar organizations will wield a powerful Influence, as they comprise Democrats disgusted with Wilson. The Philadelphia organiza tion formed yesterday is one of eighty-five in northern cities. Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Ixicomotlve Works, heads the Philadelphia organ ization. Associated with htm are the following: Ex-Judge Dlmner Beeber. president of the Commercial Trust Company; H. K. Mulford, president of the H. K. Mulford Company, chem lets; Howard Loeb, president of the Tradesmen's National Bank; Powell Evans, of Merchant, Evans & Co.; John C. Winston, president of the John C. Winston Company, publish ers; John Walton, of Jacob W. Wal ton Sons, comb manufacturers, and Bayard Henry, of Henry, Pepper, Bo dine & Pepper, lawyers. Ex-Representative Fred W. Willard, I hiladelphia, who was re-elected presi dent of the league, in commenting upon the New Jersey primaries, said: "The President Is fast losing prestlgo In his own State. Our information in dicates 50.000 majority in this State in November. nomination of Senator Martine by the New Jersey Democrats over Attorney General Wescott is known to be considered a slap at the President'? vacillating policies by members of his own party In his home State. Before very long results in every section of the Union will bear out tho prophecies now being made by Republican leaders, and which were so forcibly presented at the rousing mass meeting last Tuesday night in the Tabernacle. The reports of the dele gates have shown that, although the present evidences of prosperity are of an artificial nature, it is at least prov ing helpful in obtaining campaign con tributions. The enthusiasm mani fested during the convention has Im bued club members with the deter mination to get every possible voter out for Hughes and FairbanksJln No vember. We Republicans have no fear that that pretty little bit of expedi ency, the eight-hour law, is going to help the cause of the Presdient. Those railroad men who were Democrats be fore its passage will remain Demo crats. of course, and those who w_ "■ Republicans will remain true to old party." —Judging from the catterwauling going on in Democratic papers, there must have been some feelings of Democrats hurt by the manner in which Penrose and Fllnn buried the hatchet and joined in making the tour of Charles E. Hughes a success In Western Pennsylvania. It was one of the impressive events of the visit and at traded national attention. The Democrats, naturally, see no good in it. Democratic State Chairman Joe Guffey came out I his morning with a very, ver.\ old yell about the tour of the Republican presidential candidate through the steel mills of Pittsburgh. He declarer that Mr. Hughes' tour was arranged by the Steel Trust. When Democratic candidates go through mills or shake hands with people in factories the Democratic newspapers and Guffey have acclaimed the visits to the very work benches of the toilers. It all depends upon who happens to he making the tour, according to Guffey. —Alderman George D. Herbert rather emphasized the fact that he is the Democrctic candidate for senator last night at the Middletown Democratic meeting. Right in the midst of some Democrats whom it is suspected have been trying to get him to withdraw the veteran Democrat proclaimed his Democracy and made a Jacksonian speech compared to which the ad dresses of the rest were like reports of pop guns. —To-day was "Federal amyiiiment" day among the suffragists and they had meetings in a number of places. The organization of the cong -ssional fight is progressing faster Xll the publicity end can keep track k,i. —Selection of commissioners to take the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers has been occupying the time of the Gov ernor for the last two weeks. The Governor expects to act pretty soon. —Governor Brumbaugh paid a tri bute to Representative I'harles G. Cor bln. the Republican and Prohibition candidate- for the Legislature from Mifflin county, while in that county yesterday. Mr. Corbin is a candidate for re-election and the Governor said 'hat he had stood four square for local option and good things. —Philadelphia city workers are ask ing for increases in wages. One of the pleas is for car fare. —The Philadelphia Inquirer prints the following interesting bit of news to-day: "With the return to the city last night of the delegates to the State League convention at York announce ment was made that there is to be a round-up of the McNichol cohorts at a big banquet to be given by Senator McNichol. The affair is to take place on Wednesday night, October 11, in Scottish Kites Hall. It is likely to be an event of more than passing in terest on account of the men of promi nence who will be invited and of what shall be said by both Senator McNichol and his guests. It was reported lasr night that Mayor Thomas B.'Smith has been asked to be present and that he lias accepted the Invitation. Other leading city officials are on the list, along with Senator Penrose, State Chairman Crow, Congressman George S. Graham and nominees on the State ticket." * Not a Wilson Year (Baltimore American) This is surely not a Wilson year. And November will disclose that fact in the most enthusiastic man ner. Maine had its word of weight. Now comes New Jersey. It there was one man above another anathema to Mr. Wilson it was James E. Mar tine. But the returns show that this man. who was reud out of the party by the one who is now President, has defeated the candidate of Mr. Wil son, Attorney General John W. West cot t, for the senatorial honors. This fact adds nothing to the Joy of Mr. Wilson, but it must subtract greatly from the measure of his con fidence in the movement of political thought at this time. The return of Martine is sufficient indication that New Jersey democra cy has cast ofr all allegiance to the Wilson domination. And there is no reason to believe that this same dis position to turn aside from him will be shown to be general throughout the country, and in many of the Democratic strongholds. This is true of the South. For while the Solid South may not be seriously invaded, there is ample rea son to believe that the South exe crates as much as any other section the peculiar products of the Wilson system of policies. Truly, the signs of the year are all adverse to the hopes of Mr. Wilson for re-election, and New Jersey has spoken significantly. Editor Had the Advantage Ix>cal Editor Brattan. of the News, and Miss Cornetha Nesbit motored to Everett last Sunday on a pleasure trip. Max Sheets at the wheel.—Fulton Re oubllcan. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY CALLED TO THE COLORS YodR country ( " ' iyHllSKwil |1 W ) L —From the Columbian Illapntrh. RAILROAD WORKER VIEWS ON ADAMSON LA W . FAGAN. author of "Confessions of a Railway Signalman," from his tower on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, yesterday wrote for the Philadelphia Public Ledger his impressions of the manner in which the Adamson law. recently passed by Congress to avert the threatened railroad strike, will work out in practice which are herewith re £ J" ■ . F^ K ?r member of ,he Switchmen's and Signalmen's Union and has devoted his life to the study of labor conditions. He is highly re garded by railroad managers and labor leaders, although he opposes some of the present tendencies in the unions. His article follows: Boston, Mass., Sept. 29. The ef fect of the eight-hour law on the rail road yard service will, of course, de pend on Its application by the man agers. In meddling with the yard service the new law butts in on a situation that is now extremely satisfactory to the employes. Let us remember this to begin with. The practice of rigid economy In the yard service after the" first of January next, and that Is what the managers will be driven to, will introduce all sorts of makeshifts which are likely to stir up a hornets' nest of dissatisfaction. In small yards, where the switch ing is comparatively easy and by no means continuous, there is sure to be a great deal of overtime, but in termi nals and big yards where switching never ceases, every man under the eight-hour law will be held to his eight-hour shift. So far as I can make out from ex tensive inquiries, the law will fall far short of yard-service expectation. Some of the men will be satisfied; a majority will put up a big kick. On the Boston and Maine, for example, in a present ten-hour yard, the law will actually mean loss of money per day for the individual worker. The older employes in the yard service say they will gladly accept shorter hours and a little less pay, but the younger men, that Is, the majority, will not be will ing to accept loss money than they are getting now without putting up a kick. This situation and this diagnosis wil probably hold good all over the country. The manager, of course, could probably find ways to straighten out the situation, but economy, for one thing, forbids. They, the managers, are not talking for publication. Nevertheless, they certainly hold the whlphand in this business. They are going to make everybody tired of the Wilson experi ment. That is really what they mean when they say they are going to fight the law. At any rate, that is what I Wabbling Chauffeur There was once n chauffeur who was employed to drive a car wherein many did ride. And the road whereon the car ran was not smootlii neither was It without unexpected urves and sudden grades. And there were deep ditches on either side of that road. Now that chauffeur, being: short of sight. kept his gaze upon the road Im mediately before the front wheels of that car. nor did he look ahead, where fore was he taken aback by unexpected things in that road, and was perturbed In spirit, and in his perturbation did make countless wabblings of the steer ing wheel, whereby the path of that car was sinuous even as the path of a ser pent in the road. And though at times he did open the muffler and make a mighty noise, even at that instant did he apply the brakes, and slight was the progress of that car. Ever and anon .would he stop and back up, and with hesitation would he start again. At times would) he bring the car to rest on the verge, yet, on the very marge of the ditch, and there would he tarry a while. And this h, called watchful waiting, for he was full of words. Bo that they who rode In other cars gazed scornfully upon that car, Its chauffeur and them who rode therein. Then said some of them that rode In that car: "Come, let us now engage 11 competent chauffeur, one who looks ahead as far as the road permits and who will drive with a clear understand ing of the principles of driving. For this man brlngeth ns all into peril of the ditch by his shortsightedness and habitual wabblings and into contempt In the eyes of men by his sinuosities." But some there were In that car who were ignorant of the art of driving and had therefore taken little heed thereof, and they said: "Nay, let us keep this man." And the others asked: "Wherefore?" And they replied: "Be cause he hath kept us out of the ditch." And there was dissension In that car. —George Help In the New York Sun. "Silence Is Golden" A great deal was said about the si lence of Mr. Hushes before the He publican national convention. It was this sllenco that attracted me to Hughes. If you select a man as your banker, you do not expect him to print declarations about his honesty or ability; nor do you expect htm to make speeches about his Progressive Ideas, or his fairness to his patrons, or his willingness to protect their Inter ests, as experience directs. You select him as your banker because of his rec ord; because of his known reputation; because of his proven ability to meet emergencies In a fair and intelligent way. The fact that Hughes "did not en gage in the contest of candidates to say the most "popular things," strong ly attracted me to him.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. think they mean. In other words, in the application of the law they are going to start a rumpus among the federated employes, and in this way the law itself is liable to be thrown back into the lap of Congress for re adjustment. Of course, this is simply and solely my personal opinion and horoscope. But the real noise in the business Is going to get started when managers and men get together and try to ad- Just the eight-hour law to the rail road man's schedule. This schedule is and always has been a law unto itself. It is the rail road man's Bible as well as his dic tionary. Now the basic working day in the eight-hour law is not the basic working day of hours and mileage In the trainmen's schedule. United States law is bigger than a brotherhood schedule. The railroad managers, in my opinion, are now go ing to interpret the eight-hour law as an obligation as well as a privilege. They are going to call upon a certain number and class of train service em ployes positively to work eight hours for eight hours' pay. Personally. I do not think this will he much of a shock to public opinion. But when the managers do call upon the men In any and all circumstances as they, the managers, see fit, to work eight hours for eight hours' pay, then I say, look out for the deluge! It will certainly be another condi tion to put over on the President for, as the schedule is arranged to-day, ■ millions of dollars are being yearly paid out by the railroads for what is called constructive, or as I should sav, presumptive mileage, when the men render no actual service and are paid full rates for the simple presumption. To sum up, then, who is going to tackle and to bell this schedule cat when it gets its back up after the first of January? Forewarned is forearm ed. Now is the time to studv the situation and to watch the hatching of the most unpromising egg in Presi dent Wilson's political incubator. JAMES O. FAGAN. British For Tariff (Indianapolis Star) A trades union congress was held recently .n Birmingham, England, at which representatives of 2,500,000 or ganized laborers in Great Britain went on record In favor of protective tariff. A resolution adopted by a majority of more than 1,000,000 votes ■ asks for "the adoption of methods of restriction or preventing the impor | tatlon of cheap manufactured goods j produced at lower rates of wages and under worse labor conditions than 1 prevail in this country." Those British laborers who have lived and worked all their lives in a free-trade country and under free trade conditions are asking their Par liament to enact into law the princi pies for which the Republican party stands in behalf of American labor. They do not "affirm our belief in the doctrine of a tariff for the purpose of the government." in the terms of the platform adopted by the Demo crats at St. Louis last June. They are, in the words of the Re publican platform, "in the fullest sense for the policy of tariff protec tion. There is no presidential elec tion on in Great Britain. There Is no Adamson law discussion to throw dust in their eyes. The Britons were unbiased In deciding what, is for the best interest of the workingmen. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Question, submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."! a ? 6 by ordl'nance. Y ° f the ° ,ty Our Daily Laugh FROM THE i>OPE. That new letter carrier should baseball pitcher. He's there with 1 h < * e ' ivery all Fish may be /\ bought If they JllkV* C can't be caught. Ebpttimj <El|at The way the Stat* Highway Departs ment and the Pennsylvania Railroad are getting ready to work on the new highway that is to occupy the old Pennsylvania canal for some distance north and south of the Clark's Ferry bridge should be noted by the goose bone and sausage skin weather prorh ets. The wagons and materials and tools and men are being assembled about the region of the old dam as though the State and the railroad never expected such a thing to come along. The preliminary work has been under way for the last seven weeks and wood cutters have been chopping down the trees that have grown In the space where the coal boats used to navigate and the appearance' of the berm bank and the wall Indicate that perhaps the task will not be so severe after all. This Improvement, the full extent of which will not be appreciated by Har rlsburgers for some time because when tourists learn of It the highway will be one of the most popular in tha State, is to be pushed. One of the men identified with the operation declared to-day that he expected some substan tial progress to be made before the snow flies. "October and November are great months for outdoor work and we may be able to work for a time in December." paid .Tie. "This Fall weather makes men and beasts want to step lively and we will show you something. We're not starting late. We are going to start before the black birds go awa.v and work as long us old Mr. Winter will let us. And when Spring comes we will be mighty well organized and we will make a quick clean up. The old canal section is go ing to be a lively place for the next year or so." Deputy Fire Marshall James TT. Me- Farland yesterday Investigated the rumors of Incendiarism in connection with the Metropolitan Hotel Annex fire, and while going over the ruins discovered a fire trap nearby. Deputy McFarland notified Fire Chief John C. Kindler at once, and the owner of the property was ordered to clean up. In the rear yard more than sixty large packing boxes, partly filled with ex celsior and old paper, were discovered by the State fire investigator. If the traditional meaning of the rainbow had signillcance this morn ing, then the scores of early risers en route to office and factory and mill should have enjoyed a doubly promis ing day. From 6 o'clock until about 6.10 a giant double span of the deli cate colors of the spectrum glowed across the western skies. Each broad band stood out with equal prominence and this, coupled with the fact that, the exhibition of the Fall sky painting by the Master Hand had taken place so early, was a more than ordinarily cheerful indication to hurrying clerks and stenographers and salesmen and mill and factory hands that to-day was due to t>e a mighty successful twenty-four hours all around. Front street in the vicinity of'■ Ma rket ordinarily isn't the quietest thor oughfare by any means, and now only mere man and his wife and his babies realize this. Here's a tale of how one of the furred "little people" appre ciated the dangers that lurk on the smoothly paved street between the east curb and the sheltering trees of the park. School days in the great wide world's lessons in experience evidently had l.egun yesterday for the squirrels and one anxioisf little four-footed mother had giver, over a portion of the morn ing to teaching her very small baby just how to climb trees, move from trunk to trunk and so on. And when the lesson was finished the mother had a problem before her—how to get her child across the much traveled street to th'e far-away trees of the park. For awhile she hesitated as motor cars, trucks and teams passed, and (hen, when a little lull occurred, she found a solution. She grabbed the youngster by the furry part of its neck, hoisted it half way across her shoulders and hustled across the street. "That famous Wilson tango has nothing on the dance you can do com ing- In over the Mulberry street bridge on a wet morning wearing a pair of shoes which you have just had re soled," peevishly declared an Allison Hill man in greeting his' fellow em ployes in a downtown office this morn ing. "It's not a case of 'one step forward, two steps backward and a sidestep,' but it's half a step forward and a) long glide sldewise, backward or most any other direction that your new $1.25 half soles take a notion to go," he recited, punctuating every other word with n hard expletive and tenderly rubbing a pair of aching calves byway of emphasis. "It's bad enough." he ended with Rn explosion, "to pay some dog-gone robber in a leather apron your good day's wages to induce hint to con descend to part with four ounces of leather for your only decent pair of shoes, but when you try to walk in those shoes first on a wet day and have to attempt to persuade your friends you were perfectly sober and only trying out a r ew dance steps com ing over the bridge—why. that's too much!" "Have you ever noticed that a hot spell always comes around when Sep tember quarter sessions Is being held?" said one of tlie older nttorneys at the Dauphin cpunty bar. I have hern prac ticing law for years and I have never known It to fall. I have gone to the courthouse In the morning wearing an overcoat, and by noon I have shaken my vest. I have known the mercury to (To around eighty In the September court week. It generally always gets cold about the time the court term ends." "I have sold Just one dozen red lights for tliis campaign," was the statement of one of the city's promi nent druggists last night as he watched the first club parade of the year. "In times gone by we have sold red lights by the gross, but then the political fever was running high. It. does not seem to be virulent this year." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Charles Rohlands. active in coal affairs in l-uzerne and vicinity. Is tak ing a big interest in the game propa gation work of the State and has stocked a number of tracts. -—-Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks, of Altoona, accompanied the Governor on part of the agricultural tour. He was the oldest man on the tour. —The Rev. Andrew Spanogle, who Is 92, was among those who went to Hurnha'.n yesterday to greet the Gov ernor on his tour. —Justice E. A. Walling was yes terday notified by York lawyers that they pledged their support to him. DO YOU KNOW I That Harrlsburg Is the center of ' fifteen roads which enter city streets? HISTORIC HAKRISBURG When John Harris a" 1 William M> clay laid out Capitol 1 0. it was noted .as a blackberry patch.
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