14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBIVSPAPER FOR THE HOME Fcuxjed if}i X'ubllshed evenings except Sunday by , THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, 1 Telegraph Building, Federal Square* E.J. STACK POL, E, Prrjt and Eduer-in-Chief 3P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Manage Edilor. t Member American Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat nue Building, New cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 6 Love your work. Pleasure comes through toil and riot by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.—Ruskin, STATE AND CITY CO-OPERATE THE cheering announcement is made that the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, made up of Governor Brumbaugh. State Treasurer Robert K. Young and Auditor General A. W. Powell, will meet In conference at a luncheon to be given *next Thursday by the Governor, the members of the City Planning Commission and the Capital Park Ex tension Commission to discuss the de velopment of the Capitol Park exten sion zone. There are many problems these todies have in common and It Is known that all of those interested have approached the improvement of the new park area in a big, broad way, giving It the careful study ii deserves both from the standpoint of State und of the city. Governor Brumbaugh and State Treasurer Young have ex pressed the opinion that the new Capi tol Park should be developed along lines in uniformity with the city park system, so that the State and municipal parks shall form one great, har monious whole. The State officials, as well as the city rj>lanners, see the necessity of widening Walnut. North and Third streets; on the park sides, to transform what are now rapidly becoming: one-way thor oughfares into the broad boulevards with which the park should be fronted. This Is neither expensive nor difficult. Another matter to be taken up is the handling of the street car lines through the park area. When the city deeded the Eighth ward streets to the State it ■was with the understanding that the trolley lines should be cared for, and row the problem arises as to how best to do this. Once the State's property here was for the most part surrounded by prop erties not of the most desirable char acter. Under the new conditions the Capitol area is fast becoming a civic center. The new million-dollar hotel, the Y. W. C. A. and the enlarged Technical high school will front it on the Walnut street side, the rebuilt Federal building, the Masonic Temple end Pine Street Church on the third street side, the Scottish Rite Cathe dral. which is to be made a magnificent structure within the next few years, on the North street side, and other buildings planned for erection within a short time. The city is doing its part to live up to the best the State can give it and the people are highly pleased that the distinguished citizens who represent the government of the commonwealth recognize and appre ciate what they are endeavoring to do. Very likely we shall never know on what particular ambassadorship Presi dent Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard, has set his heart. Vice-President Marshall calls it snivel service. After election day Mr. Marshall will do the sniveling. DENOUNCING PRIMARY SYSTEM ACCORDING to one account of the recent meeting of the Missouri State Ear Association at St. Louis, the favorite method of describing the rrimary election system was to quote Jt "that damn primary law." All the lawyers present denounced the evils of the primary system, especially as they affect the nomination of judicial candi dates. and the general comment was that proper and fit candidates for judicial honors could not be induced to enter an undignified scramble for nomination such as is entailed by the present system. While there is a wide spread disposition to continue the ex periment of the present open primary in the nomination of candidates, there also a rising tide of dissatisfaction with the kind of men who are being catapulted into the public service through the free-for-all method of choosing candidates. If it is wise to select Nominees for tlje Judiciary in a nonpolitical conven tion. it is just as wise to choose other candiates for other places by delegates In regularly constituted party conven tions. We have had so many new-fangled electoral reforms forced upon the people by half-baked theorists that we are living in a maze of indecision re garding what is next best to be done. Nobody will contend that the primary system of choosing candidates has given us any better class of officials. On the contrary, the ease with which all sorts of ambitious persons can se cure a place on the ballot has resulted In a'steady deterioration of the public interest in choosing of proper officials. Whether the present primary scheme •hall give way to the convention ays- FRIDAY EVENING, tern Is for the people to determine, but It must be recognised that there has been no reform worthy the name In the change from the old method to the present plan of nominating candidates. The Philadelphia Evening Ledger publishes a cartoon of Hughes nailing the lid on a coffin containing tht. Democratic donkey—only the artist made the mistake of picturing the donkey as alive. THE MEXICAN MVDDI.K JTVHE administration has decided i that the attempted settlement of the Mexican question must wait until after election. This means that the President has no hope of a successful conclusion of the negotiations. If he hoped to j reach a satisfactory agreement he l would press for an early conclusion of the conferences, thereby adding a j feather to his political cap and bene [ flting his candidacy for re-election, j Indications are that he scents failure, ' but failure now would spell certain i defeat at the polls, so important inter- I national conferences are made second ary to Democratic political advantage and the commissioners are told to mark time, while the great volunteer army Idles its time away along the border Instead of being at home where industry is crying loudly for more men. We suppose our Democratic friends would have been pleased If the Colonel instead of shaking Taft by the hand had done it by the coat collar. THERE'S A REASON THE babies of New York City have have been saved from starva tion by a settlement of the milk strike—but not through the interven tion of President Wilson. When the railroad strike threaten ed, friends of the President excused his Adamson bill surrender as the only means of advoiding a gTeat strike and thereby "saving the babies," who otherwise would have suffered by rea son by a railroad strike. But the babies of New York starved for some days during which the Presi dent sat silent and made no effort to end the trouble. Meddling in New York labor dis putes. it is needless to say, is not con ducive to vote-getting. Which may or may not have had a "watchful wait in?" effect on the President. Frank Munsey predicts prohibition in America in ten years. Well, the fewer ten-cent whiskeys the more ten-cent magazines. SCRANTON 50 YEARS 01.1> SCR ANTON for the past week, has been celebrating its semi-cen tennial anniversary in a way that has some of the ear-marks of a Harrisburg municipal holiday, and if reports that filter into town from the big mining city be true. Scranton is surely having the time of its fifty full years of life. Of course, the newspapers tell all about it, but none, perhaps, has been more enthusiastic than the Scranton Republican. Two big semi-centennial numb?rs were issued, one on Septem ber 30 and one on October 3. and they are surely "some" papers. Four section issues each and a magazine to boot! Then, too, there are columns devoted to the accounts of the celebrations, the processions, the redfire, the decor ations. Scranton is finishing up a solid week of sheer enjoyment of its birthday and the Republican Is telling j a big clientele all about "the party." There is something in the air these fine mornings that leads us to believe that one of these days we're going to get up nerve enough to suggest that a couple of days' hunting will be abso lutely necessary to our physical and mental well being. THE NEW AGE OF WONDERS WHAT a wonderful experience has been that of Mrs. Samuel Sipe, who this week celebrated her 104 th birthday at her homo in Carlisle! When she was born the world jog ged along much as it had done for centuries. The sailing vessel was the waterway carrier of the world's com merce, while on land the stage coach ar.d the Conestoga wagon divided the human and Inanimate freight between them. Life was simple and leisurely. The United States of to-day was for the most part an unexplored and un known wilderness beyond the Alle ghenies. The locomotive was a thing of the future, the telegraph, the tele phone and the wireless were not even dreamed about, while air and sub marine navigation were untried theo ries. The moving picture, the auto mobile, the talking machine and a thousand devices of electricity, steam end mechanics in general had not even entered that realm of fancy where are conceived the great Inventions. Mechanics! That's the keynote to the world transformed. Mrs. Sipe has lived through such a period as this earth has never known, but if there is born to-day a man or woman who shall be alive 104 years hence his or her biography will make the story of the Carlisle woman's marvelous experiences read like the recital of a simple nursery tale. Me chanics will go on and on. invention will be piled upon invention, but the wonder of the new age promises to be man's humanity toward man and the consequent vast Improvements in liv ing and working conditions. WHAT ABOCT WHEAT? WITH wheat selling at $1.66 a bushel and flour at $9.50 a bar rel, and with western farmers and speculators both holding on for $2 wheat. It Is pretty nearly time for the federal government to take a hand. We hear much about prosperity— about overgrown bank clearances and crowded factories, but there is very little benefit for the consumer In present conditions. Work and gold are both plentiful, but what.does "an abundant supply of gold do for us, with necessities of life fifty to eighty .per cent, above normal? The dollar The Days of Real Sport .By BRIGGS j I ~. y . tMffltt'' VKN^))/'^ .r*^ TM . •" c is more plentiful, but it Is not so big as it used to be. It takes more dol lars to buy a respectable living than ever before. Flour is a staple food. It is soaring in price to absurd heights. The sus picion arises that it is being artifi cially boosted far beyond the natural increases due to the necessity of war and the shortage of crops. By the FT- Committeeman j A. Mitchell Palmer and Joseph F. Guffey, official oil spreaders of the Democratic State machine, ran Into another hornet's nest last night. On Wednesday they visited Schuylkill county to tell the Democratic leaders how efficient is the Democratic State organization and how content are the Democrats of the big anthracite coun ty under the their sway. Both state ments were denied with vehemence and the charge made that the party had been wrecked in Schuylkill. Last night the two bosses went to Wilkes- Earre, where their coming had been much advertised. Forty men met them. From all accounts the forty was largely made up of postmasters and other men thoroughly satisfied with the distribution of federal patronage in that district. Except for Congress man John J. Casey, who is a candidate for re-election, the men identified with the dominant faction of the Democracy in I.uzerne were absent. Judge John M. Garman, the most in fluential Democrat, took no notice of the presence of Palmer and his pal. Palmer was so rattled by the absence of nearly everyone worth while and the appearance of Casey, whom he had bitterly fought, siting right in front of him that he declared Wilson was going to be elected. Palmer and Guffey will decide to day whether it will be worth while to continue their swing through the counties. —Great competition exists among Democrats in eastern counties to se cure the largest bands to go to Sha dow Lawn next Saturday, it is un derstood that the State bosses have urged that every delegation get a band and in order to make the show ing impressive it is said that cash for music will be forthcoming. With fif teen or twenty bands the attendance of Pennsylvania Democrats would loom large and possibly the bands might be in harmony. —G. W. Wagenseller, the Selins grove editor who was prominent in progressive circles a few years ago, has branched out and bought the Juni ata Star at Miftlln. Mr. Wagenseller now has the Middleburg Post and some of his friends believe he has congressional aspirations. —Norrlstown Republicans have raised a Hughes banner in that town and are arranging for nightly meet ings from now until election. —The Allegheny county legislative situation is heating up again. The candidates have started to make speeches and there is the usual inter change of claims and counter claims. A solid Republican delegation is said to be certain. —The -Young Republican of Phila delphia is out with a strong plea in behalf of Justice E. A. Walling as a man who should be elected to the su preme bench by a vote that would be overwhelming. —The Philadelphia North American prints this interesting gossip about ac tivity in collection of campaign con tributions: "A general scramble be tween Penrose and Vare forces for Republican campaign contributions in Philadelphia has resulted from the appeals of Mayor Smith and Sheriff Kansley in behalf of the depleted cof fers of the Republican city committee, Charges that Senator Penrose induced the Republican national organization to open campaigns for funds here with the express purpose of diverting every possible dollar from the treas ury of the Yare-controlled city ma chine emanated yesterday from Vare quarters. Penrose leaders in turn ac cused the Vares of trying to influence the trend of Hughes contributions that the city committee's indebtedness, which will run close to $90,000 before the end of the campaign, might be wiped out In a way that would not make it necessary for the Vares to dig down into their own pockets." —Among suffragists of various sec tions of Pennsylvania. October 7. and October 21. will be known as "Wo man Suffrage Federal Amendment Days, ' and they will call upou U> HAKEUSBURG TELEGRAPH Congressional candidates to pledge themselves, if elected, to vote for the submission of a Federal woman suf frage amendment for ratification by the Legislatures of the several States. In addition, the women will ask can didates In the Legislature to pledge themselves to vote for the passage ot an amendment to the State Constitu tion and a woman suffrage referendum in 1920. Pennsylvania's demonstra tion will be a contribution to a coun try-wide campaign to arouse senti ment In favor of Federal action upon the suffrage question. Showing the trend of suffrage sentiment and the effect of the planks of the two greater national political parties, suffragists announce that the Republican and Democratic State organizations have agreed to provide speakers in various counties, the Democrats to appear Oc tober 7, and the Kepublicans October 21. Meetings thus far are scheduled for Philadelphia. Allegheny, Chester, Delware, Bucks, Lancaster, and Mont gomery counties, and the following cities: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Read ing. Harrisburg, Butler Greensburg and Erie. —Jacob Gingsberg and C. C. A. Baldi, Jr.. two Philadelphia council men, resigned last night. —Colonel Sheldon Potter, Franklin Spencer Edmunds and other promi nent Independents are behind the for mation of the Hughes Alliance in Ger mantown. —To-morrow is the last registration in the cities and it is expected that there will be thousands of men regis tered. All of the political parties are working to make a good showing. —The Philadelphia Republican city committee opened the campaign in that city with a rousing meeting at the Republican city headquarters last night, the historic bronze cannon be ing tired and much red Are burned. Senator Charles A. Snyder, candidate for Auditor General, was the chief speaker and predicted a Republican sweep in Pennsylvania: "We are grandly moving along like an army with banners liying," said he, "and moving on to a great victory. This nation is furnishing the world with the necessities of life. The Republican partj made this possible. It has given the nation a sound financial policy and a sound dollar. It is an old say ing that the Republican party makes trie money, while the Democratic party appropriates it; as witness con ditions experienced with the present Democratic adminstration, under which there has been spent a sum equal to half the cost of the Civil War." Candidate Snyder asserted that President Wilson is a political auto crat, that he dominates both the Executive and Legislative branches of the government, and that the people ate demanding once more a voice in atiairs at Washington. LETTERSTO THE EDITOR"] For Hughes and Fairbanks To the Editor of the Telegraph: A few nights ago there was an article in your paper stating that the colored ministers of Harrisburg, had given their unqualified endorsements to the Republican ticket. National, State and local, following it with the names ot the ministers. I wish just a word, to set the public aright con cerning the matter. On Monday morning, September 25th, last, there was a motion made in our ninth conference to the effect that we send to the daily papers through our secretary, a statement that the colored ministers endorse the national candidates, Charles Evans Hughes and Mr. Fairbanks, of the Re publican ticket, and I seconded the motion. The Rev. W. A. Ray arrested the motion stating that he wished it thoroughly understood that it did not include the local Republican ticket. To which we all agreed, and I em phatically. There was nothing said in the motion concerning any other candidates whatever, and whoever interjected that other thought, stating that we or I gave any endorsement to the State and local Republican ticket has deliberately falsified, and it is out of whole cloth. In the State, I shall support local option candidates. I favor no man who is against the colored race sim ply because we are outwardly black; reasons founded on unjust and In fernal prejudices, and if there was ever a man in the White House whom I desire to see put out by the vote of the people it is Woodrow Wilson, for many reasons. For I regard htm as being neither a scholar, statesman nor patriot; and no man since the abolition of slavery that has done so much against my race. ALBERT J. GREENE. Washingtonian Discovery The funniest discovery of the age is that the nearest living relative of George Washington is engaged in manufacturing Ives. —Helena Io' 4 > • pendent. ROOM FOR MILLION IN CALIFORNIA, SAKS H. L. Burnell, formerly of the Tele graph writing from Oakland, Cali fornia says: California to a great many people is "The Land of Promise" and as the second largest State in the Union, with an extension of nearly e!ght hundred miles from north to south, it is obvious that one chief thing it can offer is variety. With its west ern front on the greatest of oceans, with its High Sierras, and its coast line mountains, its terrain is highly diversified. All the world knows of the Yosemite, of the giant Sequoias in Calaveras county, of its tropical and semi-tropical fruits, of the rice fields of the Sacmmento Valley and the cot ton fields of Imperial county. Not so many perhaps know that the present acreage in raisin grapes is 140,000 while fifty thousand acres are devoted to table grapes and 170,000 to wine grapes. The growth of the wine in dustry is shown by the fact that in a five-year period ending in 1873 the wine production of the State in gal lons totaled 16,800,000 while in the five-year period ending in 1913 the wine production totaled 225,815,945 gallons. There is now a campaign in pro gress to carry the State for absolute prohibition, but it is not probable that it will succeed. San Francisco has been overrun with men from Oregon and Washington, who having lo3t their employment there because of prohi bition have flocked to California, and especially to San Francisco, seeking employment and It has taxed the re sources of that city to handle this in flux. The natural resources of California are great, but the State has been and Is handicapped by the large land hold ings and the high price of land. Bailley Millard, editor of Orchard and Farm in a public address says that "under present conditions a man with even $2,000 or >3,000 cannot get a foothold upon the soil—he can only get a chance to lease it." He says further that "We need a more intelligent system of attracting settlers. Gaudy circulars and beauti fully illustrated pamphlets have fail ed. Why not try more attractive land prices? Middle Western farmers are not going to come here and pay S2OO to S3OO an acre for bare land and SSO more to prepare it for irrigation, when they can get farms in lowa and Nebraska for $75 an acre." Room For Million Mr. Millard points out that there should be a million farmers in Cali fornia instead of less than 100,000. It has long been evident to the writer that the unwarranted high price of land is a great handicap to the growth and settlement of the State. As a matter of fact California has not so many advantages over eastern or mid dle west States as to justify any such prices. The climate "the glorious climate of California" is the great slogan among the land boomers. It is true that around the coast, as In Notes About Books and Authors Former Senator Albert J. Beverldge of Indiana, whose recent speech on be half of Mr. Hughes at the annual din ner of the Middlesex Club evoked such enthusiasm, will tour the country in the Interests of the Republican candi date for President. Mr. Beverldge has been engaged during the last four years In preparing a definite Life of John Marshall, and the completion of the work, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Company on Octo ber 21. enables him to resume his po litical activities. Mr. Beveridge's Itin erary Includes the important cities of the South, West and the Pacific coast. Alexander Aaronsohn, author of "With the Turks In Palestine" in a re cent interview with Colonel Roosevelt, discussed the Balkan situation. Mr. Aaronsohn, who has lately returned from Palestine, is one of the few Amer icans whose knowledge of the Far Fast situation has been acquired at first hand. While visiting in the Holy at the outbreak of the war, he was pressed Into the Turkish army, and spent many anxious months before he was able to make his escape on board the United States cruiser Des Moines. The story of his adventures will be published in book form by Houghton Mifflin Company on the 7th of Octo ber. Grand Dukes Escaping Austria, too. must be running a lit tle short of ammunition, as it has not fired any grand dukes this week.— (IMJUI OCTOBER 6, 1910. Washington and Oregon, the climate is an asset of great volue, but when you get back Into the interior in vari ous parts of the State with thermome ters registering from 110 to 14 0 In the heat of summer, one's enthusiasm for climate Is apt to melt. Right around the eastern shore of the Bay of San Francisco the climate is perhaps the best in the State. In San Diego, where the writer spent about a year and a half, it is more equable, summer and winter, and usually with much less rain, but for that very reason it is more enervating. Having traversed the State from north to south and east to west several times, the writer's opinion Is that the Bay region is the best for residence. Others seem to prefer the south. Perfect Summer Climate A more perfect summer climate is found around Pugret Sound. Judging from three winters spent in California, as to rainfall, there Is not much to choose between Seattle and Oakland or San Francisco. Seattle it is true last year had a heavy snow fall, but in eight years of residence there the writer saw only very light snows. Your esteemed townsman, Vance C. McCormick, classes California among the doubtful States. On what he bases his view in this regard it would be difficult to conjecture. Certainly no Republican here will agree to any such classification. Governor Hiram Johnson is the G. O. P. nominee for the United Senate, and he car ried the State by a handsome vote, considering the conditions, with some unwise dissension between the "Old Guard" and the Progressive leaders. George S. Patton is his Democratic opponent, and has just about as much chance of election ns the Janitor at the White House would have to sup plant the President. Hmrlios Will Carry State The writer is not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but is willing to take the hazard of predicting that Hughes will carry California by at least 50,000 and that Oregon and Washington will each give him hand some majorities. Miles Poindexter, of Spokane, formerly a Progressive, is now supporting Hughes and has been renominated at the primaries for United States Senator, while here, Johnson, one of the most effective campaigners in the country, is now on the hustings vigorously supporting Hughes. The women of California too, are conducting a rousing Hughes campaign, and they all vote out this way you know. Francis J. Heney, who, it seems, turns his political coat as easily as a chameleon changes color, is out for Wilson, but he has lost caste in the State and his support will not carry great weight. Since he was beaten for United States Senator, he seems to have been troubled with political indigestion. The Republicans out here are vitally interested ifl the election of Judge Hughes and they are very, very sick of the present administration When you read the returns you will, as all the oracles now Indicate, see this fully verified. j Our Daily Laugh IT CAN'T BE DONE. A man should never talk about Tjr} what he does not y understand. Well, some- ■ ;ft times ha can get away with it, if ttjit he Is sure his au- ears and has proved himself a good administrator as well as builder. Some of the letters which have been received come from men who know what they are talking about, men of national fame and whose artistic attainments are conceded. These letters praise the building:, its art features and the fur nishing plans. Time has softened the florid colors of the rotunda and it is now praised as one of the beauties of the State House. As time goes on the I ennsylvania Capitol is coming into its own, ns was said in this column the other evening, and when the plan of mural decoration is finished there will be r.dded attractions for visitors. Mr. liambo has been endeavoring to get some of the Oakley paintings delivered here in time for placing before the Senate meets, but it is not likely. Be fore 1919, however, it is hoped to have not only the Senate, but the Su preme Court chamber, paintings on the walls. The item for the mural decorations for the north corridor was stricken out of the appropriation act Just year, but the Board of Public tirovnds and Buildings will probablv t.sk Its restoration, as the absence of any paintings in the lunettes along the corridor is the object of some caustic comments by visitors. Harrisburg's livest and most wide awake group of younK businessmen are watching with interest the daily papers in the expectation that shortly they will record some extraordinary feaTs by Henry Kale, a member of their Newsboys' Association. Henny,' as he is familiarly known to the thousands who come and go through Union Station, holds forth at the station entrance, where he breaks more than a few sales records. You have perhaps noticed that, dud to a misfortune years ago llenry depends upon a pair of crutches. But Henry is not to be deterred by accidents nor circumstances. Henry has traded in a number of prize cou poiis for a pair of running shoes. ou ve read of the armless baseball player, so watch out for the runner without—well, watch Kale. Glrard. In the Philadelphia Public I.edper. says Secretary of the Com monwealth Cyrus E. Woods has prob ably crossed the Alleghenles in an automobile more times than anyone else in the State. He quotes Mr. Woods as saving: "For scenery it discounts any other trip I ever made. And that includes what many call the 'ideal,' but what I prefer to name the 'ordeal,' trip through the Berkshires." Glrard then says: "It includes all the guide book's 'best drives of the Old World' in a considerable part of Europe. When Secretary Woods was our minister to Portugal it was his custom to do a great deal of motoring. Before and after that he and Mrs. Woods had traversed Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland by automo bile. Hence this eloquent member of Governor Brumbaugh's Cabinet knows roads and scenery. 'I repeat,' he said, you cannot beat Central Pennsylvania scenery and you cannot beat our new State roads'." • ♦ • The younger students of the Harris burg Academy will start out to-mor row on the first of some Saturday rambles into the country. The boys will be under the guidance of instruct ors who will show them how to take care of themselves in the woods and how to avoid eating all the berries they see and how to conserve the water they bring along instead of drinking from every stream regardless of dangers. These hikes recall the davs of the old Y. M. C. A. Ramblers and other clubs which flourished twenty five or thirty years ago and were great things in the lives of the youth of that day. • • • At intervals one of the fast trains on the main line Of the Pennsylvania rail road makes a fast run. It is recorded ! in the time hook, but the public sel dom hears of new railroad records. It has been a long standing order to not make public special time made over any division. If it leaks out, there is no kick, but officials are of the opinion that when they give publicity to something' out of the ordinary in the running of a train the public al ways adds "No wonder we have wrecks, running so fast." The other day a Middle division pas senger train made the run from Al toona, a distance of 132 miles, in 2 hours and 20 minutes. This was done with four full stops and two slow-tips to allow the train to take a freight track and run around a prefer ence freight that was making almost ns good time as the passenger. The tun from Altoona has been made In less time, but not very recently. That is why there is so much gossip in rail road circles about the record made on Train 36 the other day. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —C. Mahlon Kline, prominent Phila delphia drug manufacturer, presented a paper on prevention of adulteration at tlir Baltimore convention. —George Horace Lorimer Is back in Philadelphia after spending some time traveling in the Rocky Mountain region. Rowe Stewart has been chosen as president of the Poor Richard Club. —Dr. H. S. Drinker, president of Eehlgh, opened the university's fifty first year with 300 new students. [ DO YOU KNOW "J Tlint Harrlsburg pretzels arc sold In Pittsburgh? HISTORIC 11A Rlt ISBUIIG This city was selected as the best point for mobilizing- troops for the de fense of Washington In the early davs of the Civil War. Hand-Weaving in Mexico [From National Geographic Magazine.] The hand-woven blankets made by the Indian girls of Mexico, to whom a dime a day is a good wasre, although thev begin work at sunrise and labor until sunset, are the admiration and despair of all who appreciate fine handiwork or value perfect color combinations. A small blanket bought in Mexico five years ago, although it has been usea as a wall tapestry ever since, seems as bright in every one of Its rainbow col ors as on the day it was bought. The weaving is so perfect that it has no right or wrong side. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [QuMtlons submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organlxa lion's annual "Municipal Qulx."] How are County and Stale Mercantile Taxes levied? When Paid? County and State Mercantile Taxes are levied by the Mercan tile Appraiser, and turned over to County Treasurer for collection. Qua and payable May 1.