10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TH!B TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prcs't and Editor-in-Chief E. B- OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Arnjffll Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn |jg|j gj pgj S aylvanla Associat jggg.ll R nue Building. New Building! 516 8 Chl cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a I> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. _ WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 11 There's life alone in duty done, and rest alone in striving.—Whittier. GET BUSY OR GET OUT SIXTY burglaries in Harrisburg | since July 1, and not one con viction! That is a record of inefficient and Incompetent police conduct such as the city never has known. Mayor Meals rightly says that his j force of patrolmen is too small. It Is true that the beats are long and the officers greatly overworked. Never theless there can be no excuse for present conditions. We have detec tives paid to run down burglars. What have these been doing? Has the little game in the basement Deen more alluring than the search for thieves? Or, is the detective force also too small? Sixty burglaries, and not one ar rest! It would be a joke were It not so serious. The whisper has gone about that the city detectives know the names of men strongly suspected of the thefts, but will not make arrests until they catch the thieves in the act. It is doubtful if this is true, but if it is so, the people ought to be informed also that few burglars ever are taken red handed and that nearly all appre hended are arrested on circumstantial evidence, supplemented by proof not hard to find following arrest. The likelihood is that this story was al lowed to go out to cover up absolute Ignorance and to "save trie face" of those responsible for failure to catch the guilty persons. The detective bureau must do one of three things perform efficiently the tasks alloted to it, explain to the satisfaction of the public that it has good and sufficient reasons for failure, or get out and give place to detectives who sometimes, at least, detect. Democratic managers are acclaiming i the "healing of the breach" between j Wilson and the man who made him— William F. McCombs. It is worth r- | membering that it was not until Mc- j Combs was nominated for Senator in New York that Wilson took any pains j to placate his manager of 1912. Mc- j Combs as an Individual is probably as distasteful to Wilson now as he ever i was; but McCombs, the Democratic . leader, must be reckoned with and mul- i lifled. Mr. McCombs knows, of course, ! that he cannot be elected Senator; and j he knows, too, that Wilson cannot carry I New York and cannot be re-elected. But ' he must bo deriving a good deal of j satisfaction out of the situation, just ! the same. THE HUGHES RECEPTION THE warm reception given Mr. J Hughes in Harrisburg yesterday is an earnest of what Harrisburg will do for the Republican candidate in November. If Mr. Hughes will spend a day] here the crowds that will gather to | hear him will be the greatest in the j history of the city. Hugnes is a three to one favorite here, tie will com mand the solid Republican and Pro gressive vote and those of many Democrats. So far as Harrisburg is concerned Mr. Hughes may stop cam paigning. He has his opponent beaten to a frazzle. Missouri Democrats admit that they expect Wilson's strength to pull their State ticket through. Maine Democrats had an idea like that, also. GLAD NEWS MORE Republicans in Harrisburg and Dauphin county than Demo crats, Non-Partisans, Progres sives, Keystoners and all other parties and factions combined! That is good news. It means that the Republicans in Harrisburg and Dauphin county could tfjve away all the non-partisan votes registered and still wtn out over the Democrats at the polls in November. The Republican majority being safe in both city and county, a sweep ing Hughes victory locally is assured. The old-fashioned woman who used to do her housework with a tvventy-flve-cent broom now has a daughter whose maid does it with a SSO vacuum cleaner, which ex plains why eggs are fifty-live cents per dozen.—Boston Transcript. If we knew where to buy SSO vacuum cleaners that would lay flfty-five-cent eggs we'd go out and buy a flock of 'em. Senator Underwood says the Presi dent la not playing politics. No? Then la he working at It? EUOT AND WILSON UNDER the caption of 'Brains and Brawn for Wilson," a Demo cratic exchange comments at length on the fact that Dr. Charles "W. Kllot has declared for the Presi- pBMIkUUIi dent. But this is how he did it, asl set forth by the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: President Wilson In these terrible times has had ample opportunity to make mistakes and to hurt the country and its cause. He has made mistakes: but he has usually changed his mind and his course of conduct in season to prevent much mischief from those mistakes. He has not been uniformly true to his own convictions with regard to the merit system in the civil service; for he has allowed Senators and Representatives and some members of his Cabinet to apply the spoils system in the public service—prob ably under some invisible compul sion or supposed necessity. He dis appointed most Americans when he did not protest against the invasion of Belgium; and some Americans now 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 "He has made mistakes." "He has changed his mind." "He has not been uniformly true to his own convictions." "He has allowed Senators and Rep resentatives and some members of his cabinet to apply the spoils system to public service." "He disappointed most Americans" by his silence on the Belgium horror. Therefore, Dr. Eliot is for the re election of the President. And for these same reasons, it may not be amiss to add a great majority of Americans oppose the President's re-election. The conclusions are the same, but the application differs. FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH [FRIDAY, the 13th, is going to be a lucky day for this city, despite the J old superstition. By proclamation of Mayor Meals it will be Greater Harrisburg Day. The Chamber of Commerce, the Ro tary Club and a committee of volun | teer citizens will make it the occasion for a roundup of subscriptions for the new million-dollar hotel and for com pleting the Chamber of Commerce membership campaign started last week. Doubtless the hotel fund will be greatly increased and the Chamber beyond question will pass the 900 mark. But much as those accomplishments may mean, they are really of sec ondary importance. The real sig nificance of the day lies in the fact that the new spirit of progress and achievement has become so powerful in Harrisburg that it has been rec ognized, by the chief executive of the municipality in a special day set aside in order that all citizens may join to gether for a manifestation of their faith in the city and to participate in the great advancement movement now under way. It augurs well for the success of the occasion that more than 200 of the busiest men of town will lay aside their personal affairs for a full day to go forth upon the city's business. For that is what these Chamber of Com j merce movements really are. It is the j city's business to maintain a Chamber ! of Commerce with a membership large | enough and a treasury big enough to. I make itself felt as a powerful factor I for good in the affairs of the com- I munity. It is the city's business, also, j to have such a hotel as is needed here | and such a one as will be made pos- I slble through the co-operation of the j citizens all contributing to a common ! fund. But there would be no Chamber | of Commerce and no hotel if it were not for individual effort exerted co operatively. No one man or small 1 group of men. powerful and influen j tial though they be, can build a city or | minister successfully to its needs. "In union there is strength," and just such volunteer service as has been manifest during the past few weeks in Harris burs and such as is planned for Fri day. the 13th, is necessary to push through any campaign for municipal betterment, no matter how worthy it may be nor how popular. Work, whole-hearted, concentrated, individual and collective work, is the only means lo the end, and that is what we have been having and are going to have in the great task now before the com munity. The climax of the drive will come on Friday. The heavy guns have been booming for weeks, the way is cleared and the volunteers are crouched in the trenches eager and keen for the charge. Greater Harrisburg Day, Friday, the 13th, promises not only to be a lucky day, but a great day for Harrisburg. At any rate there are no typhoid fever germs in the milk of human kindness. "Wanted—Torpedo nets for food speculators." Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. Wrong—Torpedoes. Senator Penrose says Pennsylvahla will give Hughes 300,000 majority. The Senator becomes conservative. We read with surprise an Item con cerning dissatisfaction with the Hun garian diet. We thought any sort of 1 diet would be agreeable In Hugary Just ■ now. 'Pe.KKOijiacuua | I By the Ex-Coi\unltteeman Philander C. Knox's visit to Harris burg on October 2 5 will be made the occasion of a notable Republican dem onstration and many Republicans from this section of the State will gather here to honor the former Secretary of State. The arrangements for Mr. Knox's visit are being handled by the county committee, Senator Beidleman, State Committeeman Smith and Charles E. Covert having discussed the pre liminaries with him at Philadelphia yesterday. Mr. Knox is planning to make a dozen or so speeches. He will go to Greensburg to-morrow, where he will open the campaign in Westmoreland county, the home of his friend. Secre tary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods. He will also visit Erie, Wllkes- Barre, Uniontown, Pottsville, Lancas ter, Norrlstown and Pittsburgh. The senator's speeches, which have been masterly reviews of national af fairs, have attracted attention through *"it the country and have been re printed in newspapers in New England and the Middle West. —The plans for the prosecution of the Republican state campaign have , been completed in Philadelphia and there will be numerous meetings held in the next fortnight. Senator Charles A. Snyder, the candidate for Auditor General, says he is "dated" for every county in the state. —Governor Brumbaugh has not yet named the commissioners to take the votes of the guardsmen and efforts arc being made to find out how many regiments will be ordered home this month so that he will know Just how many men to select. —Charles E. Hughes said late yes terda> afternoon as he went into Mary land that he liked Pennsylvania and would like to make speeches here. News that Roosevelt was coming into Pennsylvania to speak for Hughes was given out in Philadelphia last evening. Harmon M. Kephart, of Fayette county. Republican candidate for State Treasurer, returned from New York last evening, where he went in company with a committee of Re publicans of Luzerne county. They visited the headquarters of the Repub lican national committee, where ar rangements were made for a meeting in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday evening, to be addressed by Colonel Roosevelt. Mr. Kephart will accompany the Colonel on his visit to the anthracite coal fields. Philadelphia lined up for Justice Walling yesterday and will vigorously push his candidacy. A committee of lawyers formed to support the candi dacy of Judge Emory A. Walling, of the common pleas courts of Erie coun ty, for associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania yesterday opened headquarters in the Morris building. John G. Johnson is chair man of the committee. The vice chairmen are Abraham M. Beitler, Francis Shunk Brown. Henry P. Erown, Hampton L. Carson, William A. Glasgow, Jr., James Gay Gordon, Charles E. Morgan. S. Davis Page, George Wharton Pepper, Frank P. Prichard, Alex Simpson, Jr., and M. Hampton Todd. Joseph P. McCullen if. secretary and Charles C. Morris treasurer of the committee, which is a nonpartisan organization. —The Pittsburgh regi stration amount ed to about. 78,000, which is less than that of last year, when there was a stirring local election, but better than two years ago. —Connellsvllle. which joined the ciiy class some time ago. started out this week to get a municipal building in keeping with the coke metropolis. —P. J. Calpin has withdrawn as Socialist candidate for the House in the Second Luzerne district. —Representative J. W. Vickerman, of Allegheny county, who was here this week, will be in charge of the local option measure in the next Legis lature. Mr. Vickerman had charge of the local option bill in the House last sesion. when it was presented by Rep resentative G. W. Williams. Schuylkill Democrats organized yesterday to push their campaign. Na tional Committeeman Palmer having ironed or rolled out some of the kinks. W. C. Devitt was elected chairman and Sheriff Charles Ritchey treasurer. —Congressman George S. Graham, of Philadelphia., one of the best known speakers in Philadelphia, is going to the McKeesport district to stump for Congressman Coleman, who is being fought for re-election by M. Clyde Kelley, behind whom is an aggregation of Democrats and renegade Repub licans. —Philadelphia Democrats have been galvanized by Charles P. Donnelly into some action and are arranging for a series of meetings in each congres sional district. For years the Demo crats in that city have been at logger heads with the reorganization ma chine. but Donnelly and Palmer and his pals are all together again. —Philadelphia guardsmen who have returned from the Mexican border will be given an opportunity to register for the presidential election November 7. Beginning Thursday at 10 o'clock, the registration commissioners will hold special sessions daily until the day be fore election. Guardsmen will be given precedence over electors who were un able to qualify on the regular days set by law. The same will likely be done in Pittsburgh. Booze and Business (Kansas City Star) When the prohibition campaign was on in Colorado the liquor men pre dicted that if the State went dry, grass would grow in the streets of Denver. They are saying now that if prohibi tion carries in November in Nebraska and Missouri grass will grow in the streets of Omaha, Kansas City and St. Louis. For the benefit of those who might believe there is something to this argument that prohibition kills business, the following recent edi torial from the Rocky Mountain News, the leading newspaper of Denver, is reproduced: The prosperity of Denver is genuine. It Is not a prosperity confined to the few at the top. Department stores have been do ing a bigger business than ever before and the smaller stores re port an equally encouraging bal ance sheet. Factories as a rule have been working overtime or in extra shifts. The public service corporations report a substantial increase over a year ago. and a year ago was much better than two years ago. National bank deposits have grown in a year more than 26 million dollars, which is proof of good times in general business; the savings banks note an in crease of 6 million dollars In their deposits In that period—a guar antee that the good times did not remain at the top but reach ed down to the wage-earner and plain householder. Wages have been high, from the common laborer up to the mechanic. The demand for skilted and unskilled labor is greater than the supply. It Is the presence of booze, not its absence, that hurts business. When a Feller Ne By BRIGGS w/\ "\ I ifilik / AMD PUT THOS£ xSHoes \///\ • Vyy, / ) ~ be ALL ]///\ I Y/y <^--5 / RI6HT AFTER Yoo V/E HASDI '///\ 1 \/% you y' | LETTERS TO THE EDITo¥[ The Whole Ticket, He Says To the Editor of the Telegraph: Yesterday the attention of our Min isters' Conference was called to a let ter in your last Friday's issue, over the signature of our esteemed brother, tljo Rev. A. J. Greene, in which the acting secretary of our conference was accused of falsifying the action of the conference in the report he gave the Telegraph, to wit: The endorsement of the National, State, county and city Republican ticket. Our brother Greene disavowed any intention of re flecting on the integrity of the acting secretary in the matter. His attention was called to the report as it appeared in the Telegraph by a Local Option friend, and this inspired his letter. Our conference has agreed to take no action in the matter, but as the mover of the resolution I consider 11 my duty in fairness to the secretarj and Brother Greene to give it to the public. This is my resolution: "That the entire Republican ticket be en dorsed, in appreciation for what the party has done for the good of the race." This resolution was seconded by the Revs. Greene and Gaines. The Rev. Dr. Ray of Wesley Church ar rested the motion, demanding an ex planation, and at the same time ob serving, "if it meant only to talk about the party when we meet, then I am against it; but if it means that we are to go out and hustle for the success of the ticket then lam in hearty accord with the motion." I gave thr assurance to the brethren tliat Dr. Ray's idea was in accord with mine. Nothing whatever was said about Local Option or any other option. I for one am very sorry, if the wording of the resolution is responsible for the misunderstanding of Brother Greene. V i!n of the opinion that the acting secretary reported correctly the action of the conference: "To wit, the en dorsement of the National, State, coun ty und city Republican ticket." There was rot a dissenting voice to the mo tion. E. I.UTHER CUNNINGHAM. Kickers With Kick One day the rain was pouring from a bright and cloudless sky. The summer sun was shining and the snow was drifting high. While children gathered violets In a warm and fragrant breeze. Jack Frost was bursting chestnut burs on tall and spreading trees. The women were In swimming while the men were cutting ice. Between two rain-soaked fields, the park was like a paradise. One woman used a palmleaf fan; an other wore a shawl, And passing farmers stopped their sleds to watch a game of ball. Some children made a snow man while their grandpa mowed the lawn ! The setting sun was shining in the I sky at early dawn. The autumn leaves were falling In' the Springtime sure's your born. The boys went skating on the creek while Higgens plowed the corn. Of summer, winter, spring and fall no mortal could depict A greater mixture all at once, and still the kickers kicked. JAS. C. BOWERMASTER (Written for the Telegraph). WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organisa tion's annual "Municipal Quiz." J What appropriation was made to Fire Department for 1916? 535.450.00. SUSQUEHANNA, RIVER OF ROMANCE, LEGEND AND POETRY THE Christian Science Monitor of Saturday, October 7, publishes a four-column line sketch of the Rockville gorge of the Susquehanna, just above Harrisburg. The drawing was made especially for the Monitor. The picture is accompanied by the fol lowing Interesting article under the caption "The Susquehanna, Near Rock vine, Pa.": The Susquehanna river, rich in legendary Indian lore and historical association, has also been celebrated in fiction and verse. In his "Down the Historic Susquehanna" Charles Weath ers Bump tells of a conversation he had with a bookseller at Cooperstowo, in which together they traversed this pleasant field. He says: "Cooper's name, of course, was first on our lips when we started to recall the poetry and novels in which the Susquehanna is well remembered. Then I spoke of Nathaniel P. Willis, whose happy years beside the river found expression in his varied writ ings. My friend, the bookseller, soon spoke of Thomas Campbell and his epic, "Gertrude of Wyoming," while I thoußht of Coleridge and Southey, who, with the enthusiasm of youth, dreamed of placing their ideal colony of Pantisocracy upon the banks of the Susquehanna, which, like Campbell, neither of them had ever seen, or ever saw. "There Is something deeply interest ing In their dream of starting upon the Susquehanna a brotherly, community where private property was to be abol ished, where two hours a day were to be spent In providing food, and the rest of the time in 'rational society and intellectual employment.' Biographies of both poets tell how the scheme was talked of in 1794, when Coleridge was twenty-two and Southey two years younger, and how it was never carried out because no funds were forthcom- Stirring Up Home Folks (Kansas City Star) There is nothing worse for a city or an individual than to become self satisfied. Stagnation always follows. That is why The Star is glad to be \ able to publish such a document as the letter signed by "An Old Resi dent," which was printed yesterday afternoon. It is a-mighty good thing for people to go to other cities and see what they are doing and come back and tell the home folks about It. "Old Resident's" account of the fine golf course in Chicago and the magnificent public pier extending into Lake Michi gan, and the condition of the streets is something for Kansas City to think about. Other cities are pressing forward. The Scriptural woe falls on them that are at ease in Zlon. Janney, Hughes-Democrat Just one more Democrat of recog nized Influence to enroll for Hughes is Stuart S. Janney, the well-known | local attorney who has clinched tho argument for such affiliation In th sentiments of his letter to G. L. Talt, chairman of the Republican State com mittee. It Is quite worth while repeat . Ine " reasons set forth by Mr. Jan ney in his own words, and each of them ! has a hook, and one of another of them i is sure to hook on to the Judgment of some other thinking Democrat. 1. Failure to protect our citizens and their property as shown In ' (a) The policy toward Germany. , (b) The policy toward Mexico (o\ lack of it). 2. The policy toward the Entente (supine acquiescence of the blacklist). 3. The policy of unpreparedness. with Impractical (or worse )thrusts lu the opposite direction. 4. The policy of legislation without ' knowledge and under coercloh. Can any Democrat gainsay the state , ment here made and can any Demo -1 crat say that Mr. Wilson properlv re f fleets the traditional positions of his • party and is a deserving exponent of Its policies? The number of Hughes Democrats is tremendously increasing, 5 and Mr. Janney's stand will surely stimulate the convinced but hesitating. —Baltimore American. Ins and because the two wedded sisters and had to be practical enough to earn a livelihood. "In 'The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna,' Cooper drew upon the early recollections of his own life and has described with minuteness affairs incident to the settlement of the region by his father, who figures in the novel as Judge Temple. It is an animated presentation of vigorous and picturesque country life, and is equally successful in its delineations of natural scenery. "The happy touch of Willis made famous so many spots in the Highlands of the Hudson that 'ldlewild' Is more known as his home than 'Glenmary' by tlie Susquehanna. Yet some of his happiest years were spent on the little place near Owego. which he named for his wife. His 'Letters From Under a Bridge' contains descriptions of that portion of the Susquehanna in his most graceful vein. He finds material where others would see nothing, and so we get wonderfully interested in the little brook and the venerable toad. . . . Delicate fancies characterize his petition 'To the Unknown Pur chaser and Next Occupant of Glen mary' when financial troubles com pelled him to return to New York and buckle down to steady la"bor. His 'Revery at Glenmary' is the most sin cerely devout of all his religious poems." Among the minor poets who have sung of the Susquehanna are James K. Paulding, whose clever parody, "The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle," a satire of revolutionary times, was thought worthy of a fierce review by the Lon don Quarterly; Mrs. Slgourney and Mrs. Ellet; Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist; Thomas Buchanan Read, in his "New Pastoral," and Lloyd Mifflin, who addresses it as "My Native Stream." I EDITORIAL COMMENT! According to the Rev. Dr. Sing master, the village blacksmith is bet ter paid than the village pastor. And yet the latter is probably more familiar with the anvil!— Philadelphia Public Ledger. Its an old, old game in politics— when you have something unpleasant or politically dangerous to meet or answer, sidetrack it. Talk something else. Get the people Interested In something else. Drag a red herring across the trail. —Kansas City Times. Senator Henry C. Lodge is right when he says that the question is not what the Republican party would have done but what the Democrats have done. There is no campaign issue in what the Republicans would have done; but this the country knows that in the fifty-one years since the Civil War ended the Republican party has conducted the affairs of the coun try so well that the Democrats have been in power less than twelve years —New York Sun. The new Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, has a name that sounds like a rifle volley. His place would seem to be at the front New York Sun. FIRST OF THE SEASON By Wing Dinger Wife called me up this morning And asked me how I'd like Byway of chango, at noontime To-day to take a hike Up home to get my dinner— I answered with a shout. "You bet"—because the menu Was pork and sauerkraut Etotting (Ktyutl Return of the Philadelphia arid Westmoreland - Washington - Fayette regiments of the National Guard from the Texas border has brought out con siderable talk about the experiences of the men and there has naturally been considerable curiosity about the way the militiamen feel. Everyone knows how they felt at Mount Gretna, but it is rather surprising to get the angles of thought after a couple of the worst months of the year In rigorous train ing service along the border. Just to find out how the men felt, some Har risburgers asked men of the two Phila- > c'elphia regiments which paused here this week and what they learned was widely divergent and also more or less indicative of character. Some of the declared that they were disgusted and would not go out again, if they Had the say, unless they were going to S e ' some real active service. Others said that no doubt the experience was valuable because it showed men what real preparedness would mean. Prob ably one of the most significant of the remarks made was by a man in the Ihird, who said: "I'm ready 1 o go back, it was better than Plattsburg. it gave us a splendid physical train- ; ng ' '' was an excellent thing even if , ~, no * know what we were there for. The same sentiment was ex pressed by other men, but not as em phatically. Al) agreed that there would be a big stimulus to the public interest in the National Guard and that while the army would not get many recruits there would be plenty of men to join the guard. • • • * he flrst Harrisburg hunters afleW this year will be E. D. HUleary. division freight agent of the Pennsyl vnnia Railroad at this point and one or the best-known railroad men in the •Mate. Hllleary comes by his love of a gun and a dog from a long line of Maryland ancestry. He Is a hard worker and takes few vacations, but when tho gunning season comes around he just can't get past asporting goods store or keep out of the woods. Next week, his friends suspect, he will be absent from his desk a day or two and a long distance telephone message might or might not, reach him back of Emporium Junction, depending upon how deep he happened to be in the mountains. His favorite sport is pheas ant shooting, but he has a fondness for partridges, too. Last year he brought to town some of the finest bunches of pheasants seen here. • J. Denny O'Neil, the State Insurance Commissioner, has been active in Sun day school and temperance work for probably a quarter of a century and lias made speeches all over the state in various forms of religious and civic activity. It seems that at Pittsburgh there are still some people who discuss the evangelistic work of "BiUy" Sun day. On one occasion one woman who was exceedingly interested in the strenuous evangelist clinched her ar gument by saying: "Well, you ask whether Sunday has done much. Just look at what he did for that man • O'Neil." * • • Governor Brumbaugh is rapidly pil ing up mileage as the State's most traveled executive. He has been speed ing about since his return from his vacation and has probably made more speeches this Fall than during his cam paign. The Governor never seems to want for a new topic and his memory of places, events, persons, is remark able. On his tours he often called out men by name whom he had not seen for years and at Philadelphia during the receptions to the returning regi ments he "spotted" boys whom he had seen in school. * * * Congressman Daniel F. of York, who was here yesterday, is one of the big businessmen of the city by the Codorus and has had much experi ence as a businessman and a banker. He is also mentioned for the Public Service Commission, which now con tains five lawybrs. • • • Among visitors to the city yesterday was Walter J. Christy, of the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times, one of the best posted newspapermen in Pennsylvania on things political and an authority on legislation. Mr. Christy will represent the Gazette-Times at the coming ses sion. • • • Very few people can say that they were hit on the head by the moon, but Katherine O'Connor, who was at the Majestic last week, was not only struck by a moon, but has a two-inch scar on the top of her head to prove It. They called Katherine O'Connor "Pat" White when she was one of the "little" girls with an Opera Company, a musical stock aggregation that played' twenty-eight weeks in Johns town in the Spring of 1914. One night a Weber and Field production played the Johnstown theater and the music al stock was sent to Barnesboro for one performance. The show was "The Gingerbread Man," and one number was a moon song sung by "Pat" White from a large and electrically-realistic moon swinging in the well-known scenery heavens. After the song was over, and as the girl was standing on the stage under the moon, a "grip," or scene-shifter, let go the rope and the moon banged Miss White, or Miss O'Connor, on the head. A large and interesting variety of stars then made their appearance, but the singer didn't know it, nor anything else for a couple of hours. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Thomas Kennedy, leader of mine workers in the Hazleton field, has re fused to enter the race for national offices of the big union. —C. Hartman Kuhn, prominent Philadelphia banker and well known here, was injured in an automobile accident. —Henry C. Frlck, the steel and coal magnate, refused re-election on the Philadelphia and Reading board. —C. S. L. Tingley, president of the State Street Railway Association, Is at Atlantic City for the national conven tion of the street railways. 1 DO YOU KNOW J That Harrisburg was one of the llrst cities to .successfully operate a trolley line? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first State arsenal was located here after 1820. 1 Our Daily Laugh SBEAT HIM TO I suppose you did the town when you were in New York? No Just the re verse the town
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