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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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SATURDAY EVENING, OC7TOBEK 7
Silence is Golden. To speak wisely
may not always be easy, but not to
speak ill requires only silence.
MR. ROOT'S SPEECH
MR. ROOT'S New York speech
should be placed In the hands
of every American voter. It Is
not only an effective campaign docu
ment, It Is a classic. In it Mr. Root,
with logic beyond challenge, by vivid
illustration and lucid language, an
alysed the Wilson administration. He
showed the estimate In which, as a
result of the Wilson foreign policy, the
United States has come to be held by
foreign powers and the danger which
I that estimate involves.
"We are told that Mr. Wilson has
kept the country out of war," he said
at one point. "So has every President
for seventy years, except Lincoln and
McKinley. Never since Columbus
sighted San Salvador has there been
a time when it was so easy for Amer
ica to keep out of war by doing noth
ing as it has been during the great
conflict now raging in the old world.
All the great powers of the world, ex
cept ourselves, have had their hands
full with existing enemies. They have
been straining every resource to the
utmost to avoid being conquered by
the enemies in arms against them.
Our danger is not now, while the great
war is raging, but later, when peace
has been mado and the great armies
are free and rulers and governments
look about for ways to repair their
losses, and the great spaces and ill
defended wealth of the new world
loqjxi large on the horizon of their
desires."
Without bitterness, but with telling
force, Mr. Root traced the course of
the Wilson administration. He de
clared that the great safeguard of a
nation -was its reputation for character
and manliness and courage, and that
with such reputation gone It was al
most certain to be so imposed upon
by foreign aggressors as to make war
unescapable.
During the visit of Charles M.
Schwab and hia party, the other day, it
so happened that four trips were maau
through the Market street subway. The
great steel magnate thought he was
going through a tunnel, and was greatly
relieved when assurances were given
that plans are now unfler way for the
reconstruction of this subway to thw
building line on both sides of Market
street. City Engineer Cowden has been
co-operating with the City Planning
Commission and the Pennsylvania Rail
road officials In this much-needed im
provement.
FOR PROSPERITY'S SAKE
THREB-FOURTHS of our sales
are duo to conditions created
by the war. Republicans and
all others who are familiar with the
currents of trade are not deceived
by the Democratic pretensions of sub
stantial prosperity which rests solely
upon abnormal conditions abroad.
With the close of the war these tem
porary conditions will give place to a
situation which is now giving the
greatest concern to those who look
ahead and who are endeavoring to
provide for the slump that is bound
to follow unless a protective tariff
along Republicans lines Is placed up
on the statute books as a barrier to
the cheap products of Europe.
It has been shown over and over
again during the last six months that
American people have lost heavily
through the removal of the protective
tariff. A continuance of the present
erratic administration at Washington
would bring about results that are
too serious to treat with anything
save the most grave c^islderation.
George W. Wagenseller, the Mlddle
burg editor, who knows the news
paper game as few other men from an
Intimate personal experience, has added
the Juniata Star, at Mlffllntown, to his
newspaper properties. MV. Wagenseller
will have the good wishes of the entlro
fraternity in Pennsylvania in his en
larging newspaper activities.
PREPAREDNESS
REGARDLESS of war >and his
military connection, Shackleton,
the noted English explorer, will
return to the antarctic.
There is a lesson in this. We are
apt to think England, France and
Russia straining in a death struggle
for victory—eating, drinking and
sleeping war, with neither time nor
energy for anything but the great
conflict.
In reality this is far from fact. The
Allies—the English in particular—are
busy in a dozen ways preparing to
take advantage, to the full, of the in
evitable period of peace. This is one
of the signs of the times for us. If
SATURDAY EVENING, • * HARRISBURG &6S& TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 7, 1916.
we do not raise a tariff wall
about us as England proposes to erect
around the British empire we are
doomed to the most disastrous period
of industrial life in the history of
the country.
JUST ONE SHARE
WONDER how many of the peo
ple of Harrlsburg fall to realize
that the million-dollar hotel Is I
to be the culmination of the efforts of
years and the filling of a demand as
wide as the country! This city has
suffered more than many' of our peo
ple know from Inadequate hotel fa
cilities and while the fame of Harrls
burg has spread in every direction by
reason of its unrivaled location, its
splendid parks and playgrounds, its
wonderful rivar basin and its many
unsurpassed advantages, the absence
of the hotel that is so greatly needed
has diminished the enthusiasm which
was aroused by all the other good
things.
Now we are to have the hotel just
as soon as the plans can be adopted
and the builder obtained. But those
who are laboring so earnestly to bring
about this great Improvement are
striving in every way to make a record
of building a hotel without one cent of
debt in the way of bonds or other ob
ligations. While many have sub
scribers of one or more shares, so that
those at the head of the movement are
anxious to secure hundreds of sub
scribers of one or more shares so that
the undertaking may have the
acter of a community proposition.
Surely, few citizens of Harrlsburg
will find it a hardship to subscribe to
one share of stock to the value of
fifty dollars, payable in installments
over a period of fifteen months, be
ginning January 1, 1917. So inter
ested are the Chamber of Commerce
people in this matter that they have
set apart next Friday for a whirlwind
campaign, In which hundreds of pub
lic-spirited men will engage to wp.lt
upon all our people who are interested
In the hotel with a view to obtaining
the final subscriptions. It ought not
to be necessary for these msn to give
of their time and effort in a matter
of this sort, but they have cheerfully
agreed to do so In order that the hotel
directors may feel free to complete all
their plans without delay.
A POETIC NEIGHBOR
WE are apt to think of Pennsyl
vania as industrial rather than
literary, as practical rather
than poetical, but there resides down
Columbia way a quiet, modest man
who has done for his State in the
world of letters what the Schwabs and
the Carnegles and the Hersheys have
In a business and manufacturing way.
He is Lloyd' Mifflin. Last week he
passed his seventieth milestone and
byway of celebration Is about to Issue
a new volume of verse. •
To learn how beautifully he writes
and how one need but read
the following sonnet from his new
book, then close one's eyes find think
of yesterday:
* Faint music drifts among the Au
tumn boughs—
Some one is coming far across
the leas
Where haze makes dreamland of
tho fields, and bees
Murmur the livelong day. The
wading cows
Move lazily along, or stop to
browse;
The orchard, from Its golden
fruited trees.
Spreads nickering shadows where
the nocks, at ease.
Rest In the shade and Indolently
drowse.
And now mid bronzing leaves, the
silent Jay
Finds his lost bugle and salute*
the air
From tawney valleys rich
with tented corn;
Slowly the splendor comes, as far
away,
With grape-leaves wreathed in
his sun-burned hair,
October, loitering, winds a
phantom horn.
After a week of standing shoulder to
shoulder and marching together up and
down .the streets of the city, the pro
gressive citizens of the Chamber of
Commerce have a new and broader
vision of the future Harrlsburg. All
who are still outside the organization
and who are able to Join In this work
should do so without further urging. It
Is your city and your Chamber of Com
merce and Just as you give for the up
building of the community all will be
happier and more prosperous and mors
contented.
VACANT LOT GAKDEXS
ONE of the progressive real estate
men of Harrlsburg lias sug
gested that the vacant lots of
tho city might be turned over to the
children next summer for the cultiva
tion of flowers. This suggestion will
probably be of Interest to th Civic
Club, which haa already conducted for
several years the agricultural activities
on tho vacant lots about the city.
Ford's new war cry Is "get the men
out of the shops In eight hours;" that
ought not to be difficult. The trouble
seems to be to get some of them In
for eight hours.
"Diamond sharks swindle shoe dealer;
loses price of ring."—Newspaper head
line. OH, well, let them sell another
pair of shoes and make up the loss.
Attention, small boys!— October 14
has been set apart by the mauufactui
ers as "Candy Day."
Perhaps there was more cupidity than
sympathy In the support given the New
York street car strikers by the shoe
makers' union.
Well, anyway, there are no typhola
fever germs in pumpkin pie or scrap
ple.
Philadelphia laundrymen will raise
the price f#r collars; getting their pa
trons by the throat, so to speak.
The Days of R . . By BRIGGS j
r W " I Ml ■II IN ■II I
T>oOt£c* u
By the Ex-Ooramlttrfrman
■Democratic machine circles were
Riven ajiother Jolt last evening when
Judge John M. Garman. of Luzerne
county, former Democratic State chair
man and one of the big: Bryan men
of the State when some of those now
making a noise as Democrats were
silent, came out against the re-election
of President Wilson. Such a decla
ration from such & man would be
enough to make Democrats pause and
think, but as It came right after the
thufnps handed to National Commit
teeman Palmer and State Chairman
Guffey in Schuylkill county and the
snubs they got in Wilkes-Barre, It in
dicates that something is wrong with
the reorganised, rejuvenated Demo
cracy of Pennsylvania. And right on
top of It all comes the report that the
Democratic national committee is go
ing to call on the Democratic post
masters and Federal officeholders for
cash contributions with the State or
ganization also seeking campaign
money.
The fact that the Democrats of the
State are divided as much as evy is
becoming more apparent every day In
spite of emanations from the Market
Square windmill and In about one year
there will be another demand for a re
organization for the purpose of throw
ing the present bosses into the garbage
can.
Judge Garman's remarks were made
during a visit to Philadelphia and
stunned some of the Democratic lead
ers. "I am opposed to President Wil
son." said he, "because his policies are
against the spirit of true Democracy,
He has violated practically every tra
dition and acted in direct hostility to
the national platforms of the Demo
cratic party since 1860. He has given
us a wobbling, unstable and extrava
gant administration."
Judge Garman also condemned the
Wilson administration's course in con
nection with Mexican and European
affairs and characterized his action on
the elght-hpur issue as "undemocratic,
In fact, autocratic."
Arrangements for the reception of
Presidential Candidate Charles Evans
Hughes at Philadelphia on Monday
call for a big demonstration of Penn
sylvania Republicans.
Governor Hughes, who Is due to
reach Philadelphia at 8 o'clock Mon
day evening, will be accompanied by
Mrs. Hughes. A committee of the
Philadelphia Union League, including
John Grlbbel. Charlemagne Tower, ex-
Govcrnor Edwin S. Stuart. Alba B.
Johnson and James B. Bonner, will
no to Trenton to accompany tho
Hughes party to Philadelphia. All of
the members of the Philadelphia con
gressional delegation have been invited
to Join the subcommittee on this trip.
At. 7 o'clock Monday evening members
of the Union League, it Is announced,
will assemble at the teague and pro
ceed to Broad Street Station with the
reception committee tb meet the candi
date and escort him to the Opera
House. Tho reception committee In
cludes Senators Penrose and Oliver,
ex-Secretary Knox, Mayor Smith, of
ficers of the Hughes Alliance in the
State of Pennsylvania, including Pow
ell Evans, chairman: William Draper
l.owis, Bayard Henry, vice-chairmen;
George D. Porter, secretary, and E. B.
Km£li, treasurer, and the members of
the national compalgn committee of
tho Union League.
—Senator Charles A. Snyder, candi
date for Auditor General, is speaking
to-day with Congressman B. K. Focht
at the annual soldiers' reunion at
McClure, Snyder county. The senator,
who is a descendant of the famous
Governor for whom the county is
named, was given a notable greeting.
—Pittsburgh reports are that there
is a brisk registration in that city.
Philadelphia reports a lively round-up.
—Men connected with Scranton's
centennial took advantage of the pa
rades yesterday to boost the regist
ration and a big enrollment Is expected
to-day.
—The Central Democratlo Club
counted noses last night to see how
many members and prominent Demo
cral4 are going to Shadow Lawn next
Saturday. The number was not an
nounced. The special train will start
from here and there will be plenty of
seats.
—Prothonotary H. F. Walton was
re-elected prothonotary of the courts
in Philadelphia yesterday. He is a
former Speaker of the House.
—Re-election of Senator E. E.
Beldleman Is expected to be by one of
the most substantial majorities polite
in years in Dauphin county. The sen
ator in his visits throughout the county
meets people everywhere who are for
him regardless of party affiliations. .
Postmaster W. A. McAdoo. of Kit
tanning, was nmong visitors here yes
terday. He was at the windmill to see
what was doing.
Senator Penrose returned yesterday
from New York, where he conferred
with George W. Perkins and other men
Influential around the national Repub
lican headquarters. The senior Sen
ator would make no comment on the
political situation beyond saying that
there was "no doubt over the result of
the presidential election."
Although the election will be held
In one month there is still one vacancy
unfilled In the Democratic list of can
didates for presidential elector. This
vacancy is In tho space allotted to the
twelfth congressional district, compos
ed of Schuylkill county. The other
four electoral tickets are complete.
Tho vacancies in Democratic lists will
be taken up at a meeting of the Demo
cratic State executive committee at
Philadelphia next Saturday.
Dr. Eliot and Mr. Wilson
No one has a higher regard for the
clarity of Mr. Eliot's mind, for the su
periority of his intelligence, and for
the genuineness of his courageous
patriotism than the editors of the
Outlook; but, even taking at Its face
value his presentation of the debit and
credit account of President Wilson,
we cannot follow In his conclusions.
No number of specific and detached
economic laws can make up for the
fundamental corruption of an adminis
trative system by the relntroduction
of the spoils system "under some In
visible compulsion or supposed neces
sity," nor can the passage of the Fed
eral Reserve law and the rural credits
act cover up the fact that the Wilson
Administration In Washington has
been one of the most expensive and
extravagant In the history of tho coun
try. We are of those Americans to
whom Mr. Eliot refers who wish "that
the President would publicly abandon
the neutral state of mind which he
recommended to the American people
at the outset of the war." But we
cannot agree with Mr. Eliot that this
is an error "resulting from too great
reticence and caution." It is an er
ror which President Wilson repeated
deliberately in his address before the
League to Enforce Peace, when he
said of the European war:
"With Its causes and its object we
aro not concerned. The obscure foun
tains from which its stupendous flood
has burst forth we are not Interested
to search for or explore."
This Is not an error of reticence and
wiutlon. It Is the error of a man who
flbes not see straight or think straight,
and we cannot support such a man.
; No matter how good his specific and
detached act# may be, no matter how
fine his aspirations or how upright
his personal character, the adminis
trative leader of a great nation like
1 the American Republic must be a man
who sees clearly and thinks consis
tently. If Mr. Wilson had mado as
1 many mistakes, had changed his mind
as often, and had been as "untrue to his
' own convictions" in the administration
of Harvard University as he has in
the administration of tho United
| States Government, we respectfully
1 ask Mr. Eliot If he would advocate
Mr. Wilson's retention as president of
Harvard.—The Outlook.
Going Some
' The Belgian Relief Fund received
sls from three little boys in Pennsyl
vania who saved this amount by doing
; without luncheon desserts. —News Item.
I Three little boys, without dessert,
[ Sat side by side, my! how It hurt
To forswear cookies, pies and cakes
| And luxury of stomach aches!
i Said one: "I guess It's going some
To give up sweets for Belgium."
I "You bet It Is," said number two,
, "It's harder than I thought to do."
. "I never guessed," said number threo,
i "That Ice cream meant so much to me."
• Three little boys, my how It hurt,
■ Sat side by side without dessert.
I
Three little boys In distant land,
) Sat cold and hungry, hand In hand,
' And wondered how a hearfy meal,
' A home, and clothes, and warmth would
' feel.
[ The pallid snow lay on the ground,
I Tho blight of war stretcheri all around.
Three pairs of brimming, hopeless eyes
Were raised in prayer to leaden skies.
, Like answer straight. In heaven's name,
L Food, warmth and clothing swiftly
came.
Dessertless lunches, going some,
■ Had! saved three lives In Belgium.
~ H. STANLEY HASKINS.
[ DON'T KICK YOUR
LIKE THE ARKA
i
WHY kick your job around as
though it were the Arkansas
hound-dog famed In song?
There are men whose pet affectation
it is to denounce and disparage the
task that procures their daily bread
and perhaps spreads It with butter.
They like to pretend that their ex
ceeding virtue languishes unrecogniz
ed. They are worth ever so much
more than they are paid, but no
body sees it that way. When they
read of fifty-thousand-dollar men or
hundred-thousand-dollar men their
imaginations are quick to establish
an identity. They cannot see why X
and Y should be paid so much, when
they, the real revolving wheels, the
true, dependable underpinning of the
whole establishment, are getting so
little.
Any time you like you can hear
from the man who is feeling that he
deserves a better position and is
denied his right to it. In the cor
respondents' columns of the fascin
ating country newspaper, faithful
mirror of the lives of little towns, you
will find that many a rising young
man has "accepted" a position in a
store or a bank or a freight depot or
a factory. It sounds so kind and con
descending to say that we "accept"
a position. It never would do to ad
mit that we sweated blood to get it
and now are having the time of our
lives to hold it down.
It is a poor workman who insists
that the place he now holds is but a
stepping-stone to a more responsible
and a more lucrative post. The suc
cessful men are they who utterly bury
themselves In the working life they
are leading, with no thought of a
better-pjiid hereafter. They are not
counting the days to a promotion
They "put in their best licks" at the
The Victim
Don't cry, little baby, that milk strikes
are on,
That men who are struggling in
greed,
Hear not your faint wail as the hun
ger pangs press,
Who are deaf to the plaint of your
need.
Cease struggling with strength that le
puny and weak
With the force of a giant-like might;
A song bird that flutters in clutch of
a hawk
Can make, oh, much more of a fight.
So slight is your need In the pressure
that's on
For chance to pllo up golden store,
'Tls trampled with scarcely a knowl
edge 'tis there,
As the eager crowds rush on for
more. ♦
It lies like a field flower, crushed by
the storm
That no one gives even a look;
Shall baby hands hold back the iron
machine
Which armies' attacks would not
brook ?
Don't cry, little baby, but weakly sub
mit,
This world is but trouble and strife,
With the strong to tho front and the
weak to the wall,
'Tis better your pitiful life
Should flicker and fade in the merci
less maw
Of the Moloch of business-like gain;
For then you aro safe from a bitterer
fate,
And shorter your portion of pain.
—Josh W ink . ' n Baltimore American.
Social Blunder No. 8973
[From the Boston Transcript.]
Hostess (to departing guest) Musv
you go so early, Mr. Blank?
very sorry that I must
leave, Mrs. Park; the fact is, not ex
pectin- to Have such a pleasant time
this evening, 1 made another engage
ment.
BTUMPING ~FtJT HUGHES
Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, author
of "A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico,"
has Joined the Women Hughes Cam
paigners and left New York this week
on the special train for its extended
tour. Since the publication of her book
Mrs. O'Shaughnessy has tasted for the
first time the Interest of the public
speaking and will now make speeches!
In behalf of the Republican candi
date.
task in hand, in the spirit of him who
said, "This one thing I do."
For it is a day of specialists and of
concentration. The lackadaisical and
the half-hearted stand no chance by
the side of those who are driven as
by a consuming fire and will not be
denied. It is not always a case of love
at first sight between a man and his
work. But a calling may be an ac
quired taste and still become a ruling
passion.
It is an excellent sight, that of a
man at work with an evident relish
for what he is doing, a just prldo in
the traditions of his craft, a firm de
termination that every finished pro
duct reaving his haj|<i shall be as
good as he can make in business
the value of a trade name often lies
with generations of men who
wrought not in the spirit of a hire
ling but In obedience to an urgent
voice within which never let them rest
upon a botched and boggled oper-
You cannot do your best work till
it 1'? shlnln £ morning face"
to It. All that Is wrong in you and
thl *Z° U be wron * ln and with
the thing you produce, whether it be
a book or a letter, a shoe or a coat,
nr W °? d ®? bo* or a gold ring, a bridge
or an interstellar airship. The mood
oualftv hls J vork affects its
quality for better or for worse. Your
own welfare is the welfare of all you
m?' .factories are run by sunlight in
the disposition as well as at the win
°wl; ' ,y . a spiritual combustion as well
i f! Under the boilers, by an
enthusiastic human mechanism as I
WhLt a h flywhoel and turbines.
What better place is there for a man
woH< nf h? , blo P a P h >' than in the
hands, and whnt more sat
the ?n y mem ° rial ca " be leave when
5L Koes dow n at last upon his
life . —Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Dentists to Advertise
cinH h rt e „ J^ d f. rn EU,lcal Dental Asso
ciation, at its recent meeting in In
dianapolis, planned to start an edu
cational campaign in paid newspaper
to bring to the public tWcaL
health i tlu> lm P°rtance to good
teeth it , better attention to the
, Proposed to confine the
advertising to educational lines. The
' 0n K° f tho organization pro
vides for a board of censorship whose
purpose is to exert its influence upon
wJtftta fha °h, t0 ? eep , the advertising
of the society 0 "" ° f Ule pui 'P° Bes
,S P lannp <l to co-operate with the
national vigilance committee of th
Ch *""" r
Unions and Contracts
[Omaha Bee.]
..MeV'l Ss? Y°„'r k "'f,
evidence of tho fwt that ik~_ % K
aiid e tWr r.'l'aH " lkln themselves
[° r the collective bargain, which is
the chief aim of trades unlon actlv
A f h ® members have imbibed'
knowledge of the fact that they have
too Um Thev°hf hlnß ° f rea P° na lblllty,
too. They have come to know that
the public has a share in the bargain
they have struck with thoir employers
and, more than this, they reallre that
they should be bound by an ® ree
°R? nly nd fre cly entered into
SR°" ltt0 of these considerations—
the contract to be binding on
■ Cm i oyers mt,st also be binding
the worker s will do more
than any other means to bring them tn
that state of stability and account
ability wherein the function or their
organizations will reach its fullest
possibility for service, because it will
have the respect and confidence of
those with whom they must deal. The
action of tho N.ew York union men In
declining to break their contracts is a
proof of advance.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to 'members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers aa presented at the organisa
tion's annual "Municipal Quia."!
Does etty regulate oerhead signs? If
not, should It be done? ,
City does not regulate overhead
signs. I
fEbntfttg (ttljat
With awarding of a contract for con
struction of a system of storm sewers
along a,nd across the old Pennsylvania,
canal In Steelton a few days ago vtttO
sounded the death knell for another
section of that once famous waterway.
The history of the old Pennsylva
nia canal. should It ever be written,
would be filled with many a romance
end would be quite apolitical chronlcl>
Prom time to time since abandon*,
ment of the stream as a waterway for
boats there has been many a merry
controversy and years of agitatloa
in Steelton to obtain the filling of
stream form only one of the number.
When the borough of Steelton was *
thing yet unborn the old Pennsylvania
canal sluggishly ll<wed through the
peaceful tarni land#that now are oc
cupied with smoking mills and tyw?
business places. At the lower enM .
llarrisburg there was the lock for
raising and lowering boats and at what
is now Trewick street, Steelton, was a
coal yard operated by Couffer &
Sultzaberger. These were about the
onlv places below the city for several
miles. In late years when the borougn
grew up closely along the banks of the
abandoned stream a strong demand
for filling ot the waterway was made.
Unanswered, this resulted in periodical
outbursts In council and In politics for
vrnrs until the question was recently
definitely settled. The canal will be
filled from Locust street and the Penn
sylvania Railroad will construct a new
freight spur Into the borough and
erect a new freight station at Front
and Locust streets, Steelton. The sew
age now drained Into the canal will
be cared for by a system of sewers to
be built at the Joint expense of the
borough, the steel company and the
railroad.
• • •
Governors of States who are natives
of Pennsylvania will be guests of hon
or at the first annual dinner of the
Pennsylvania State society to be held
in Philadelphia on November 23. The
committee in charge of the dinner Is
now arranging the invitations and has
discovered that four of the executives
of States were born within Pennsyl
vania. The society was formed last
winter and is composed of heads of
departments and divisions and mem
bers of important commissions.
Monthly luncheons are held.
It is expected that the dinner in
Philadelphia this Fall, which will bo
the first of the kind ever given in the
State, will bring together many of the
prominent men of the Keystone Com
monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh is
the honorary president and Secretary
of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods
the president. Members of the Leg
islature are eligible to bo members.
"The general use of automobiles
nowadays," said one with an imagin
ative mind the other day, "forecasts
the period when a man's trade or pro
fession mav be identified by the car
that he drives. The indicator will bo
on the radiator cap, where already
many machines belonging to physic
ians' bear the rod cross. A lawyer
would fly a crossed pen and seal, the
merchant a symbol significant of the
kind of merchandise he sells, the in
surance man an insurance policy, and
the railroad man a miniature engine.
I saw a camel a day or so ago, mount
ed on the hood of a small roadster.
Must have been placed there as sig
nifying that the special merits of that
particular car obviated the necessity
of refilling the tank with water every
day or so, and implying that the cap
could go us long without water as tha
camel."
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Although eighty-four years old, 8.
B. Elliott, of Iteynoldsville, comes
Harrisburg a couple of times a montli
on business of the State's Forestry
Commission. Mr. Elliott, probably
next to Dr. J. T. Rothrock, has been
identified with forest conservation
more than anyone else connected with
the State government. He has been
a member of the commission for al
most thirteen years and he knows
every acre of the reserves and of a
lot of land which he would like to
see brought under the State's control.
Mr. Elliott has had much to do with
the auxiliary reserve system to whoso
importance people are Just waking
up.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
—Judge T. D. Finletter, of the
Philadelphia courts, caused some sur
prise in a trial of a pickpocket the
other day by saying he knew how it
felt because he was once robbed of
S4OO that way. •
[ The Rev. F. R. Wagner, new
head of the Allegheny synod of the
Lutheran Church, is a clergyman at
Iluntln^'lon.
—Judne E. C. Bonniwell, of Phila
delphia. re-elected head of the State
Firemen's .iS'--ociatlon, has been con
nected with tire companies since ho
was seventeen.
—Congressman W. H. Coleman, who
is having a iUrenuous campaign for
re-eleetto- is also Republican chair
man ef .Allegheny.
—The Rev. Edward Riggs, prom
inent Ph'lrde'phtan, is spending the
year in nee and will not visit
Philadelphia.
[ DO~~YQU KNOW
That Hnrrisbnrg plates are
used for boilers for locomotives
in New England?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The stockade about John Harris'
house was first called a fort by
provincial authorities in Philadelphia,
In Time of Tribulation
And the Lord said unto the chlU
dren of Israel, Go and cry with the
gods which ye have chosen; let them
deliver you in the time of your tribu
lation. —Judges x, 11 and 14.
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