8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SEWS PAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded lt]l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH riu.vriXG co.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. I t E. J. ST AC K POLK. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief J 1 • R- OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMKTZ, Managing Editor. Member American ■ylvMila Assoclat- Building!' Chl cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls ourg, Pa., as second class matter. . By carriers, six cents a. work; by mall, J3.00 a year in advance. TCESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 Theoretically ire know that He doeth "all things well" and that "all things work together for good to them that love God"; but it is a triumph of faith which brings great glory to God when, in the time of nature's sorrow, the whole soul of the believer rejoicingly accepts the Lord's dealings. — J. HUD SON* TAYLOR. TECHNICAL SCHOOL FULL THE surprising fact has been de veloped by the Telegraph In the course of Its investigation Into high school conditions that the Tech nical school, which most people im agined was capable of housing all possible applicants for the next half dozen years at least, is operating at little less than capacity. With one loom left in which to accommodate the 300 freshmen who are expected to enroll next spring, the Technical school is facing the same conditions that pre \all at the Central High School. The proposed loan will be used in part to enlarge the Technical school in order to accommodate all boys of high school grade. Unless this money is made available, not only the Central High School, but the Technical High School, must suffer. Anyway, it's a compliment to know that the people of the Danish East Indies want to be annexed. WILSON "KNOCK-OUTS" WE have two chief objects." says George B. Compton, chairman and national campaign man ager of the Hughes National College I.ergue: "To encourage college men to do individual, practical work in con vincing voters and in getting them actually to vote, and to expose com pletely the fallacy that President "Wil son Is supported by the educated men of the country by giving the fullest publicity to our work." The contrast between the methods of the campaigners of the two great national parties is strongly marked. The opportunism of President Wilson is reflected in his campaign managers and the play to (he public for psycho logical effect has too many earmarks of the prestidigitator to be mistaken. It ir said on good authority that the Democrats are holding in reserve a numher of clever little coups which they fully expect to sway public opinion at the eleventh hour, but only a few believe they will create any flurry. The Hughes supporters, on the other hand, are playing the straight, old fashioned game of bucking the line, and experience has proved that new fangled Ideas and Impractical Idealism have no place In the constructive policy of a nation like the United States. "Wil son's "forward passes" and "onside kicks" and "fake formations," to use the gridiron vernacular, must give way to the Hughes "center rushes" which have the "powerful interference" of the richt-thinking men of the country. And the Princeton and Harvard and Yale straw votes indicate pretty clearly which way the wind Is blowing. Hallowe'en used to be a time when old folks scolded because girls and boys played pranks; nowadays even dignified members of the Chamber of Commerce know that there is some fun for grown ups as well as youngsters on the eve when goblins walk and ghosts stalk. SVBE SIGNS FOR HVGHES CHARLES EVANS IITGHES will be the next President. If all other auguries and tokens and Kigns had utterly failed, the one sig nificant happening of this week would settle the business beyond the per adventure of a doubt. In the Harris burg Patriot, inspired organ of the Wilson cause in this city, we find these headlines: "A Big Corruption Fund, Says GufTey," "Move Negroes to Swell G. O. P. Vote!" "Gompers Calls Labor to Wilson!" In addition to these certain indi cations we find also that lowa is going for Wilson and that other sure Repub lican States will support the President. This is all that was needed to assure the election of Hughes and the alarm of the Democratic bosses is so mani fest that no further discussion is necessary. If the Mexican Government really wants to catch Villa it might go after him where he says he is. 4 YEARS OP WEDDED BLISS SIXTY-FOUR ye&ra of wedded bliss," Is the way a Philadel phia contemporary labels an article having to do with the sixty fourth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rodine, of Phila delphia. The most remarkable fea- TUESDAY EVENING, ture of this unusual story Is the as sertion of the reporter that In all that time Vnot one cross word" has passed between the two. Refraining from the observation that life in the Bodino household must have been more or less monotonous or the sus picion that the writer may have been Indulging In reportorial license for the sake of embellishing: the Item, one may repeat with profit, perhaps, some of the rules whereby the aged pair maintained this remarkable state of perfect household peace. Here are some of Mrs. Bodine's reasons for six ty-four years of marital happiness: Because I think there is no one like father. Because I am /always willing to humor his little ways. Because I will do anything in the world to please him. Because I have always given him plenty of good food. Because I have always praised him when he deserved It. Here are some of Mr. Bodine's rea sons: Because I think my wife is the finest woman in the world. Because 1 never have a vacation unless she goes too. Because 1 have always been ready to listen to'what she has to say. Because I have never wanted anybody else but mother. One may believe, or not, as he chooses, that the mellowing Influence of the years has transformed some early scenes of disagreement In the Bcdine family into pictures of sweet domestic harmony, for it is hard to conceive a unity of spirit so perfect as to be in absolute accord for a period so long, but certainly many husbands and wives may well read twice some of the tules whereby this remarkable couple have regulated their married life. Democratic Federal officeholders are complaining because they are being as ressed for campaign purposes, but how else do they expect these reform ad ministrations to be maintained. HUGHES AND THE NEGRO ONE cannot read the speeches of Charles Evans Hughes since his entrance upon the distinguished public career which is to have its climax in the AVhite House without being im pressed with the breadth of his vision, the depth of his mental powers, the wonderful facility of expression and clearness of statement, and his grasp and understanding of the many com plex and delicate problems of our na tional life. Since 1905, when he first emerged into public view, the speeches of the next President have been char acterized by a statesmanlike quality which has given them a high place among the great addresses of the country's leaders. Speaking in the interest of the Tus kegee Institute In 190S and emphasiz ing his Interest in the black race, he said: The black man is entitled to his chance. He is entitled to tlie ad vantages of training and education. He is entitled, under the stimulus of free institutions, to an opportu nity to prove by his works what is in him, and to make his contribu tion, according to his talent and aptitude, to the sum of our produc tive labors and ®f our national life; and he is entitled to the rewards which his character and industry may deserve. There is no color line in good work, whether of hand or brain. Good work, trained skill and sterling integrity are the same, irrespective of race, color or previ ous condition of servitude. "He is a bold man,\' said Mr. Hughes, "who would attempt to fore cast the destiny of any people • We have reason for pride in what has been accomplished. But we take lit tle account of the past if we do not constantly strive to widen the area of opportunity and to do all In our power to promote the development, raise the standards and to increase the effi ciency of those who have been denied our own advantages." Labor organizations are not going to be taken into camp for Wilson or any other candidate. Samuel Gompers Is be ginning to realize that he can't deliver the workingmen of the United States like so many cattle. STORMY DAYS AHEAI> THOSE who foresee the defeat of President Wilson in November look for the stormiest session In years when Congress gets together in December. With him "In the saddle" for the brief interval between that and March 4 will be scores of defeated representatives and senators, "lame ducks" who will be anxious to feather their own nests in prepara tion for the black days in store for Democracy. Among these will be Senator Johnson, of Maine, who is known to feel that the ship-purchase bill was a large contributory cause of his failure to hold his seat. He and the other "lame ducks" on the Demo cratic side of the chamber, knowing that they are soon going out and that Wilson is going out too. will be at no pains to conceal their feelings. The setting sun, as is well known, is never worshipped. It is the rising sun to which the benighted bow. As Wilson's sun sets, it is believed at the capital, It will go down amidst tremendous explosions of political fireworks. The Senators of Ills party are already sick of the didacticism and dictatorial manners of their schoolmaster President. So long as his star was in the ascendant they hesitated to oppose him—though a few valiant souls did stand out on the ship-purchase 1)111 In Its original form: and now, when the patronage is all distributed, whe the White House has no favors to bestow, and above all, when the Democracy is about to go out into the desert for a long period of wandering, and all due, as many Democrats view it, to what they freely term the President's "pigheadedness," there will be scant disposition to do his will. From Shadow Lawn come intima tions of what the President plans to do at the short session of Congress. The best opinion of observers is that he will be able to do nothing and that his party will go out of power as badly split as it was in 1897. How mortified Mars must feel with the humble cow monopolizing so much of his front page space. The hyphen is one of the smallest characters in the printer's case—and one of the largest when it gets into orinU II -foUUc* U anXa By the Ex-Committeeman Certification of the official ballot of the Kovcmbor election was completed last night by Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the department of Secretary of the Commonwealth, who has heen sitting up at night getting It into shape. The official ballot goes to all of the counties, and is a sheet twenty two by twenty-two Inches square with eleven places to vote a straight ticket and five electoral tickets with the usual blank column in addition. The straight ticket spaces aro Dem ocratic, Washington, Republican, So cialist, Bull Moose, Roosevelt Pro gressive, Prohibition, Industrialist, Keystone, Personal liberty and Sin gle Tax and some of the parties named are making their last appearance. The nonpartisan Supreme Court ticket is in a space at the top and there are spaces for the other offices to be filled. Some attempts to withdraw names were made to-day, but the ballots have gone out and tardy men will have to ask county commissioners to take their names oft the final proofs. Some eminent citizens who are on unusual tickets will have surprises when they see the ballots. —Many people from this section of the State will attend the Knox meet ing here to-morrow night. Mr. Knox is coming from Washington direct to this city and will be the first speak er. He will leave next day for In diana to make a speech. The State candidates will be here to-morrow af ternoon. —Democratic State Chairman Guf fey is out again. In a speech at Phil adelphia last night he solemnly as sured a bunch of- Old Guard Demo crats, whom he had been fighting for a couple of years, that Wilson had a chance to carry Pennsylvania. He said that the President was going to the Philadelphia line with a majority. The Guffey rhapsody included carry ing Allegheny for Wilson and election of many Democratic congressmen. —Southern congressmen are being imported into Philadelphia to tell the voters how to vote. —Senrtor Charles A. Snyder, Re publican candidate for Auditor Gen eral, who spoke last night at the Pen- Iroolc rally lelt this morning for Cen ter county where he will make speeches to-night. The senator was well satisfied with the outlook and re marked upon the enthusiasm shown r.t the Penbrook meeting. He will speak here to-morrow night. —Govcrno.- Brumbaugh will leave to-morrow l'or New York, where he has two days' speaking engagements, provided his cold does not interfere. —The ballots and other parcels of supplies for the soldiers will contain notices that since the lists were print ed numerous changes have been made and that attention should be directed to "hem. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times charges that Dr. R. J. Black, former mayor of McKeesport and one of the men named to take the vote of the soldiers on the border is opposing part of the Republican ticket in his con gressional district. —The Lackawanna county Republi can committee has arranged numerous meetings for this week and next at which men prominent in Republican and Progressive affairs in that end of the State will speak. —Richard J. Baldwin, the Delaware representative, who is prominently mentioned s the probable speak er of the next House, will participate in the campaign in Allegheny and other counties. He will speak in be half of the national and State tickets. —William Flinn was the speaker at the noon day Hughes rally in Pitts burgh to-day. It was his third speech of the campaign in behalf of the ticket. Congressmen Morin and Porter will speak later in the week. —Philadelphia Republicans will have a series of big rallies next week at which Governor Brumbaugh and oth ers are to speak in behalf of Hughes. —-The suit to oust Tamaqua coun cilmen on charges of being interested in borough contracts was inaugurated yesterday at Pottsville, the writ hav ing been allowed by Attorney General Brown recently. The action will de termine a number of disputed ques tions. —Governor Brumbaugh lias reiter ated his stand in favor of woman suf frage in a letter sent to Mrs. G. W. Dibert at Johnstown. The Governor says he will do what he can. —T. Larry Eyre is having a lively time on the stump in Chester county. Farmers, egged on by Democratic bosses, have started to hackle him about road taxes. —Public Service Commissioner Wil liam A. Magee is to make some speech es in Allegheny county this week, the first being to-morrow night when he will discuss national issues. —Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods is to be the orator of the occa sion at several Westmoreland county rallies this week. He will speak at Lutrobe to-morrow night. —Ex-Mayor Weaver and others prominent in independent politics in Philadelphia, made addresses last night in that city in which Wilson was sharply attacked. Prominent Pro gressives also spoke. —ln Philadelphia there are threats of fights on councllmen who vote in favor of the tax rate advance. —Dr. \V. W. Trlnkle, Philadelphia common councilman, has been ap pointed a coroner's physician In that city. Doctors Against Booze 11-' rom the Kansas City Times.] The Medical Society, of Detroit, com po<-d of practically every physician of good standing in that city, voted last Moniliy in favor of prohibition, in ex plaining to a reporter for tile Jietroit Journal why the society did thin, Dr. Hugh Harrison Maid: "In the lulled States fiOO.OOO persons die annually from alcohol, more than are killed by warn, year in and year out. But physicians don't need statis tics to show them the terrible evils of alcohol and the saloon. We see it every day. The awful crimes commit ted usainst their children by men who drink are too horrible to brood over. The moderate drinker is weakening himself to an extent that hi* children may be born without a fair physical or mental chance in life. Such children die at the first attack of disease." There is a large significance in tills vote of the Detroit doctors. The physi cian. of all men, should know the evils of alcohol. A Water-logged Craft (From the New York Sun.l Is it true that after this campaign and election the Hon. Vance McCormlck will organize a company to paint bow waves on vessels whose speed is not quite up to specification? The Demo cratic chairman lias had enough experi ence in trying to create the appearance of progress on a waterlogged craft to give some plausibility to such an ex pectation. A Great Fact The grandson of one of America's greatest poets is carrying n hod. and sometimes it seems as if the grandsons of the greatest American hodearrlers are trying to write poetry.—Milwaukee News. aARRISBTJRO (fj& TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY EVERYTHING NEW BUT THE CANDIDATE i PfiWfiUWESS cv>m , Wilson jNILSON * IOWW TARIFF \ TRWtfON " IL , MM FT W,LSOW J J£o T *N Ml<rH WILL CURE A —SEE THE f Onward and Upward J.ong the pathway flowers He brown and dead. From tree, and bush, and shrub the bloom lias passed. Sum mer is dead! Is dead! But close at hand a gleam of gold appears. Pause! See the glory of tho distant hills—the gorgeous mantle flung about their breast! There is fruit to be gathered; sheaves to be garnered; work to be done. Why note the drooping blossoms—the skies that may be gray—while the path winding onward gives so rich a yield* Backward lie dead hopes; joys, that have turned to pain; failures —aye, worae than failures, it may be! Heart aches; wrongs; all Life's glad Sum mertime perchance, with its golden heyday of youth. But onward are fresh flowers; new summits to be gained! The path of Life leads on, and ever on—and up. You can think of the flowers, now brown and dead, and the tinge of gray in the sky; you can mourn for the summer left behind; you can dwarf your soul with repln ings; or, reaching out to the beauties ahead, you can catch the gleams of the gold and red that glint through the trees, and shimmer the hills; you can hear a song in the rustling leaves, Instead of a dull, dead sighing. You can smile a bit as you face the day, whatever the season, or weather, and can give to life, as you go on your way, a gladsome cheer and an honest measure, till that Harvest comes, with an Angel's call, when the years shall be set aside, and we stand at the en trance—wide and vast of God's endless Summertide!—(L. D. Stearns in Farm and Home.) Bridge Party in Japan It wasn't lone after we landed be fore we saw tlie Japanese woman, the type that Old Japan creates. She and some others were having a bridge tarty. Sounds inviting:, but it wasn't. About twenty of them were driving piles for a new bridge. The sun was ficorching, the timbers enormous, and the man overseer was abusing them. For weren't they only women? With out education and with Old Japan's idejv of women crushing them down, they deemed themselves pretty fortu nate to have even such work and the princely sum of 10 cents a day. No, It isn't enough for Old Japan that the women should have a baby every year. They must work, work like men and animals. In Nlkko we could see from a distance a long line of bowed figures climbing the steep bank of the river Daiya, and on com ing nearer we saw that they were old, old women, wrinkled and gray, carry ing barrels —not baskets, but barrels —of stone from the river bed to the road. Such is the reverence for age in Japan.—Jean Price, In World Out look for November. To Save News Print Paper A. Gorden Mclntyre, a Canadian pa per expert, has been engaged by the American Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation to take charge of the news print problem of that organization. He will enter upon his duties at once. , According to Mr. Mclntyre, the plan he will pursue ■ one to induce manu facture and consumer to make the de mands more nearly equal to the supply. "Consumers must practice ilgld econ omies," he said, "making all paper non returnable. eliminating pressman wastes and all avoidable consumption of paper. Manufacturers must turn aside from the export business, taking care of old and permanent customers, and should run mills at the fullest pos sible capacity and at a reasonable mar gin of profit." Mr. Mclntyre is a well-known chemi cal engineer in pulp and paper mill practice. He Is chief of the Forest Products laboratories of Canada, sec retary and treasurer of the Canadian Pulp ami Paper Association, and is edi tor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine of Montreal. Case of Postal Clerks "It If alleged that President Wilson lias been actuated only by principle in connection with the Adamson law. then I ask why he has failed to apply the same principle to the railway postal clerks, where he has full power. Es timating sis days to the week, these postal clerks, operating between New York and Pittsburgh, are required to run 205 miles per day (for the present administration has reduced the number of crews from six to five), whereas the present trainmen's agreement requires only 155 miles per day, which la to be reduced still further by the Adamson law. The only possible explanation of Mr. Wilson's action in one case and In action In the other is that only 400 men are affected In that case whero the government has full control of the hours of labor, whereas 400,000 men are supposed to be affected by the Adamson bill."—Kooacvelt at Wllkes liarre. MILITARY INSTRUCTION IS GOOD TRAINING FOR BOYS THE establishing of military train ing in the high schools of Kansas City, which the school board promises shortly, will mark a real ad vance in the school life of the city, says the Kansas City Times. It will furnish a new factor, not only in body building for Kansas City's young men, but in character forming as well. Naturally, at first, there will be parents who will shy from the idea of their boy taking military training— carrying a gun, even if in drill, and wearing the accouterments of a sol dier. The bogie that a militaristic spirit will be planted in the minds of young men will prevail with many—at first. But botli fear and opposition ! will vanish with a trial of the "train ing" idea. That has been the case wherever military training has been put in the schools. Wyoming probably furnishes the best example. Military training has been given a thorough test in the schools of the entire state. It is the Wyoming Idea which has spread to many Pacific coast cities and even has been transplanted to the East. Washington, D. C., furnishes a typical example of how the system works In a city somewhere near the size of Kansas City. There was a strong opposition when the military training course was put in the schools of the nation's capital. . Some parents were so worked up over the thought of their boys undergoing such a training they threatened to go I to court to stop the establishing of the | system. But Washington has tried it. And I Washington to-day. including parents | who opposed the establishment of the I now plan, would make a mighty roar | to Congress if anybody attempted to . interfere or even curtail the system as !it now exists. The great bulk of the Roosevelt at Louisville [New York Sun.] The Kentuckians. whom Colonel Roosevelt addressed at last night, are a people sensitive about their honor and quick to resent wrong and insult, none more so; and the Colonel's exposure of the cant and cowardice of Mr. Wilson's foreign policy must have put all the corpuscles of their blood "into shouting shape," to quote Wood row Wilson in a moment of rhetorical valor calculated for an occasion. In the sharpness of Its analysis, In Its spirit of traditional Americanism, robust yet restrained, and in the vi rility of its appeal, the speech de livered at I-ouisville was perhaps Colo nel Roosevelt's best contribution to the campaign. The Louisville speech lends itself to quotation so suggestively that to re frain is Impossible. Of the Mexican policy Colonel Roosevelt said that "Mr. Wilson does not mind the Mexicans being at war with us so long as we are not at war with the Mexicans." There ! has been no keener characterization of I "watchful waiting." The Colonel must have had Carrlzal in mind 1 when he de clared that "Mr. Wilson's conception of war painfully resembles that de scribed by Mr. Stephen Leacoek In his anecdote of how Mr. Smith took Mr. Tompkins by the coat collar from be- ! bind and bcican kicking him vigorously, j and the fluht continued In this manner for several minutes.' " Again, with Haytl in his thoughts, the Colonel ob served that Mr. Wilson "has taught the world that no nation which Is small enough to be helpless can Insult us with impunity." Hut Mr. Roosevelt's humor was grim and mordant; lie employed It only to Illustrate the pusillanimity of Mr. Wil son's policy in dealing with the Mt*x- I leans. Stern was the speaker's tone I when he summed up the fruits of that I shameful policy: I "He has permitted the country to be ruined and Its people decimated. He has permitted our own people to be murdered unchecked. He has prosti tuted our national honor to the bandits whose cause he has espoused. And ho has won from those bandits only a venomous and treacherous hostility to the United States." Women For Hughes "Mr. Hughes has unequivocally taken the right position, and as regards all other positions he, and not his oppo nent, Is entitled to the support of both men and women, and therefore the women In the enfranchised States who do not in this election support him forfeit the right to snv they have done their utmost for their sisters in the nononfranchlsed States." —From a let ter of Theodore Roosevelt to Miss Altco Carpenter. IRMPRpPiiIiPIPRn OCTOBER 24, 1916. high school students don't get actively into athletics. The military training, which brings with it the building up of strong, manly bodies, reaches the bookworm as well as the athletic boy. It has done wonders from the stand point of physique alone in Washington in the short while it has been es tablished. The stoop-shouldered young ster, the slouch, soon learns to carry his body erect, his shoulders thrown back. If he lias a defect in his physical makeup, he begins to eradicate it. if he can. The drills and the marches furnish an exercise that every boy par takes in. But that is only one side of the training. "First aid," the knowledge of how to take care of one's self, is primary in the course. The training imparts self-reliance and confidence. It furnishes an inspiration to develop qualities of leadership. It instills a new interest in school work and partly meets the problem of how to keep the young man interested In school. The experience of one Washington father is typical of many: "I used to offer my boy a small prize each month if he would keep his grades up. And he seldom won the prize, lie simply wouldn't take any interest in his books and studies. All of a sudden he became a regular glut ton for study. I would find him work ing over his lessons at nights—some thing he never used to do unless I made him. I got worried over this change and wondered what it was all about. 'Dad,' he said. 'l've simply got to get my grades up by the first of the year. T want to be a sergeant in the corps, and I can't qualify unless I push those grades of mine up.' And I've never worried about Ills grades since, llis desire to move up in the students' corps furnished the incentive he needed." [ Gimme a Dog—an' a Gun I You can have your play on Ihe Great White Way. But gimme a dog—an' a gun! • Your tills an' your that an' your prittle prat, I Your jeweled dame that's nine-tenths cat, | Your taxlcab an' your hiffh silk hat. But gimme a dog—an' a gun! ' Go loaf away in your swell cabaret. But gimme a dosr —an' a gun! , Drink deep o' your wine from over the Rhine, • Drown out dull care in "one helluva time," Dream—lf you like it —ln arms that entwine. Rut Rlmme a dog—an' a gun! C. Li. S.. for the Telegraph. Constructive Program "It is charged that I am destructive | and not constructive. Is it not con | structive to maintain American rights? Is it not constructive to preserve our peace by adequate preparedness? Is it not constructive to apply the doc trine of a protective tariff?" Is it not constructive to have efficiency in ad ministration? ' "My friends, we are destructive only in order to lay the basis for construc | tive work which we promise to do for I the benefit of the American people."— | Hughes, at Kansas City. September 1. Our Daily Laugh the fashionable jlrE Doctor, I hard ly know. an- What is newt WHAT THEY CRY FOR. n Vith the coming of the au- —ji tumn _L Vga The small boy begins to ut ter Bequests for JHHfc hunks of —fl —— home - made IK. Covered with fjk. fresh apple butter. Ebetttng (ftljat The commissioners to take the vote of the Pennsylvania Guardsmen now in federal service at the ■border who met at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to be sworn in and to receive Instructions and sup plies aro following out much the sama roullne as in 1898 when the last com missioners to take the voles of militia men were given their oillcial notices. The act providing for the naming o< commissioners to take the votes at soldiers dates from 180 4 and that th® votes have been Important is shown by results In districts. The ballot will cover only the Stato tickets, but there will be lists of can didates for congressional and legisla tive districts from wlileh soldiers can make their selections, writing tlia names on the ballot. The commis sioners will conduct elections In each organization and mail the official re sults to the Secretary of the Common wealth and the figures will then be worked out and added to the official returns for each district. This will be a big job for the people at the State department. The official returns from each county will all be worked out on tables for the State and those for districts entered in books and the soldier vote will be added. The com missioners will get no compensation for their services, but are allowed ten cents a mile going and coming. The commissioners will be paid upon pre sentation of their claims as Attorney General Brown has held that they need not wait until the Legislature meets to be paid. Some of the youthful drillmasters which Captain Harry M. Stlne select ed to drill the Central High school boys and girls for the big student parade of November 4, liavo splendid reputations behind them as instruc tors for Uncle Sam. Captaitv Stlno mentioned Joseph Wall, a member of the regular army recruiting staff in discussing the qualifications of the various teachers. Wall, he explained, had been detailed as an instructor by the War Department to help drill the Yale battalion. He put in consider able time at Tobyhanna, too, and has also seen Border service. In addition to Private Wall there are half a dozen youths who have seen service either on the Border or at the training camps at Plattsburg. Although there are nearly 160 ap plications for registration by prospec tive electors already on lile in the County Commissioners' offices, tho board has decided to receive them until Saturday, November 4. The ap plicants must swear that they were "unavoidably absent" from the city on the final registration day in order to get their names upon the commis sioners' books. Hunters who have been out in the woods up the Juniata valley and in the Seven Mountains say that they have not seen any woodcock to speak of and that .statement is borne out by men who have been hunting in East ern counties. Years ago the wood cock used to furnish splendid sport and there were some fine bags made not far from Harrisburg, but. the birds have i>een pretty well exterminated. In some counties the shooting of wood cock has been forbidden for three years and they have been set out in the State game preserves to propa gate. According to what men who follow grain say Berks, Lebanon and Lan caster counties are showing the most wheat to the acre as usual and thin might also be said of some of the farms in southeastern Dauphin county, which is part of the same section. In some parts of Berks as high as 25 and 26 bushels an acre has been se cured and the average for the county will run about 24. Lebanon and Lan caster farms show a slightly lower average but they are showing soma good averages in wheat considering the rest of the State. In corn the York and Lancaster fields are ahead again. Robert W. Herbert, one of the com missioners to take the votes of soldiers, who was here to-day to "get his or ders," is a former newspaper corre spondent for Pittsburgh papers and is now a newspaper magnate in Groens hurg. Mr. Herbert was a great friend of the late C. R. Magee and his articles on Pennsylvania politics, especially those pertaininp to Western Pennsyl vania, were read far and wide. He has a son who is an officer in the Tenth Regiment, and, coming from a district, noted for military excellence, he wns a good selection for the .tourney to the Border. He will take the votes of Iho First Artillery. * * * Herbert D. Harry, commission clerk in the Executive Department, went, gunning the other day and Is under suspicion. Mr. Harry has some fame os a nimrod and when he came home be was asked by friends bow soon they could expect birds for luncheon. Finally Mr. Harry was compelled to admit that all he had shot could be totaled as three squirrels. But the "kidding" that he ensured because of the small bag did not end there. Someone told the Governor about it and the other morning Dr. Brumbaugh rnn for Mr. Harry and said: "Herbert. Mr. Rambo reports that he is short three squirrels in Capitol Park. Will you look it up for me?" [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —The Rev. J. O. C. McCracken, Johnstown pastor, who resigned a week ago, has decided to remain in his pastorate and withdraw the resignation. —Major C. N. Berntheizel, former legislator and judge advocate gen eral. of the division staff of Pennsyl vania, is chairman of the first trial court to sit at Camp Stewart. William Flinn is to be one of the speakers when Pittsburgh welcomes the Arkansas commercial visitors to morrow. W. F. Roberts, vice-president of Bethlehem Steel Company, has se cured a, four-year industrial course in Bethlehem schools. —Alvin Rupp, twenty-two years county school superintendent of lie high, was presented with a picture of himself by the teachers at the close of the annual institute. T DO YOU KNOW T . That lfarrisbiirg toel is used to ■ construct oil tanks along the | Delaware? HISTORIC HARHIHBIRG Lochiel district was an Indian camping ground before John came to town. Messenger Service Only an ambassador of Count vo* Bernstorff's distinguished importance could command so magnificent, and Impressive a messenger service as that latest submarine.—Washington Star. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY {Question* submitted to members of the Harrlsburff Rotary Club and their answer* as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."l When was the City of Harrlsburg In corporated ? March 19. It6o.
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