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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Founded 1831
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X. J. STACKPOLK, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief
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THURSDAY EVENTXO, OCT. 26
TVe shall never see the sacredness of
secular callings until tee remember
that the Son of God created the world,
that €>j/ Rim all things, not simply all
souls, are held together.
— G. A. JOHNSTON ROSS.
EIGHT CENT MILK
HARRISBURG, apparently, Is
ready to pay eight cents a quart
for milk. Tho advance In price
Is not welcome, any more than other
increases in the cost of foodstuffs
have been, and It will work hardships
in poor families, but apparently It Is
necessary. The retailers aro right,
however, In their stand against the
farmer who insists upon nine cents.
Milk producers have not been going
bankrupt under present prices, how
ever close profits may be, and it Is not
fair that they should attempt more
than to cover their own increases in
cost of production and delivery. Tho
retailer knows that the first result of
nine cent milk will be a sharp decline
in the quantity used, and this lilts him
In a way the farmer, who turns his
surplus into butter or sells It to a
creamery, does not feel so keenly.
"With the higher price, also, we
•hall expect to get better milk. The
new municipal regulations will go far
toward that end. They are rigid, but
not too much so, for difficult though
they may make operations for the
milk men they safeguard the public,
and that Is the all-important thing.
Our thanks to the milkmen for mak
ing it eight cents instead of nine.
THE KXOX BALLV
THE observation of Philander C.
Knox, addressing the great gath
ering of Republicans at Chest
nut street auditorium last evening,
that never in his political career had
ho found the voters so seriously in
tent upon hearing every phase of the
Issues discussed, applied to last night's
his audience as well as to those of
the treat centers of population where
Mr. Knox has been speaking recently.
It is a good sign. The people realize
the seriousness of the situation they
face. Thej-e are fewer brass bands
and more thought; there is less hys
teria and more calm consideration.
Quietly, undeinonstratively, but with
their minds set, the great mass of the
voters are going about their business
with little of the furore that used to
,be part and parcel of presidential
campaigns. Their mood bodes ill for
the candidates whose backers are hys
terically sobbing their homago and
gratitude to the man who "kept us
out of war'' by sending our troops to
Mexico and to unavenged slaughter at
Vera Cruz and Carrizal.
There's one comfort, anyhow; just as
coal gets too high in price for use in
broiling steak, steak gets too high to
be broiled.
WHY XOT SOW?
AXY possible decisive action of the
administration to stem the tide of
anarchy now enveloping Mexico
will be held in abeyance until after
election; discussion of Mexican affairs
in any of their varying phases is no
longer welcomed at the State Depart
ment," writes a usually well Informed
political correspondent of one of the
big press associations at Washington.
Despite denials from Washington
and the border that Carranza's hold
on the precarious situation in Mexico
Is slipping, there is ground for the be
lief that he cannot hold on much
longer and the feirr has evidently
arisen at Washington that this last
faint hope of Wilson in JJexlco will be
eliminated by a collapse or the whole
Carrama power before November 7.
For the mere political effect of the
thing and in order to prevent the
wrath of the people from descending
too soon on the head of Woodrow
Wilson, administration officials are
content to let tyranny continue to vent
its spleen upon the unfortunate and
anarchy to rein south of the border.
But If It is known now that drastic
action must be taken as soon as the
voting Is over, why would not such an
honest and courageous President as
Wilson pretends to be, proceed to his
duty now? Apparently, "watchful
waiting" Is to be supplanted by politi
cal expediency.
LIGHTS '*>X_ VEHICLES
THE law very prppcrly requires all
motor-driven vehicles to carry
lights when on tho road at
night, and tho Humane Society dele
gates meeting here yesterday recom
mended that the statute be extended
to cover horse-drawn vehicles as well.
There Is common sense behind this
THURSDAY EVENING, &ABSIISBUROQfipftj TEIEGRAPB3 OCTOBER 26, 1916.
proposal, and farmers are coming
more and more to understand that
self-protection demands that they
thUB equip their carriages and
wagons.
A few years back an effort was made
to have the Legislature enact such a
law and the strenuous objections of the
farmers alono were responsible for Its
rejection. There are two reasons for
the change of vlowpolnt. In the first
place, It has come to bo pretty general
ly understood that tho automoblllst
who runs Into a dark tea'm on a coun
try road bocauno he hod no means of
knowing It was there lfl not tho only
Injured party; and, secondly, many
farmers themselves havo become auto
mobile owners and know the difficul
ties of the highways after nightfall for
tho man at tho steering wheel.
Alcohol, It Is said, is being used as
a gasoline substitute, but joyriders
should remember that It Is to be put
into tho car.
THAT CHILD LABOR LAW
MR. KXOX In his speech last night
tore the cloak from the so
called Wilson child labor law,
showing that It does not forbid the
employment of children In either
southern or northern mills and that
Its provisions aro easily evaded. But
there is a more serious matter In
volved iven than this. Mr. Knox re
ferred to It when ho asked:
What effect does this legislation
have upon the child labor laws of
the States? May both the State and
the nation legislate upon this sub
ject? Or does the legislation of
Congress ipso facto nullify the child
labor laws of the various States?
We, In Pennsylvania, have a child
labor law, enacted by Republicans, of
which we aro £>roud. It Is stringent
and effective. It protects tho cihlld
and punishes the unscrupulous etn-
I-loyer. Are Its provisions to be ren
dered Ineffective by the wretched ef
forts of the Wilson administration to
protect southern child employers,
while at the same time playing to the
galleries for popular approval?
The Democrats are trying to capture
the Irish vote by berating a man named
O'Leary.
HEALTH BOARD'S DITTY
IF the Health Board 13 wise it will
not be caught again as It was In
the typhoid epidemic. Time after
time the board has made recommen
dations to council which council has
ignored. It has asked for more men
and more money, and for equipment
and stringent regulations that have
not been forthcoming except under
the pressure of emergency. It knows
that It is not in shape to meet an
unlooked for condition suddenly aris
ing; it has known that for a long
time. It is handicapped by the nig
gardly policy of council, which, for the
sake of a few dollars to be diverted
to some pet purpose, has been willing
to "take a chance" with the health
of the city.
The typhoid fever epidemic is on
the wane. Tho board has conquered
the disease after a hard fight, but if
it had had the force and the equip
ment and the law with it at the outset
thousands of dollars in doctors' bills
would have been sa\ ed the people of
Harrisburg, untold suffering would
have been averted and the grim
spectre of death would have been
barred from entrance to many a
household where his shadow still ling
ers on a vacant chair.
This is the price Harrisburg has
had to pay for "unpreparedness" in
the past. If the Health Board wants
to square itself with the public in
preparation for the next epidemic
that shall come for come it will
it must go before council without de
lay and tell that body Just what it
needs. The people, with the horror
of typhoid fresh in their minds, will
stand back of any such demands. Thus
responsibility will be placed, at least,
and the burden shifted to the shoul
ders where it belongs. If the board
does not do this it, of necessity, will be
answerable for consequences.
Cato Sells rises to Inform a waiting
nation that there are more Indians now
than when lie took office as Indian
Commissioner. And fewer Democrats,
rrfay we add byway of political conso
lation.
HVGHES AXD HYPHENS
IF I am elected, we shall have an
exclusively American policy in the
service of American interests.
This was tho declaration of Gover
nor Hughes, in reply to tho fantastic
efforts of Mr. Wilson's campaign man
agers to make it appear that Mr.
Hughes is pro-German.
Mr. Hughes continued, "We have no
secret understandings, no unstated
purposes. If any one expects, in case
of my election, that American rights
or interests will be subordinated to
any ulterior purpose or to the policy
of pny foreign power, he is doomed
to disappointment."
Mr. Hughes was addressing a vast
audience, composed largely of Ger
man-Americans, in Scheutzen Park,
New York. He continued:
' r As to any person whose allegiance
to our flag is not simple and com
plete, who would not Instantly cham
pion our rights against those of any
country on earth, who wants impunity
for foreign aggression, or who would
have the power of this nation held
captive to any foreign influence or
swerved by alien machinations, let him
not vote for me."
That, we respectfully submit, ought
to be sufficient for the moment.
That Upper End cyclone appears to
have blown away the last Democratic
chance in that district; anyway, it's
gone.
"Why give tho untried Hughes a
chance to make another mess of it?"
ifsks a Democratic contemporary. So,
it's a mess, is It, and we ought not havo
another —Just the same old mess is good
enough.
We wonder If, those new Tlritish
"tanks" can find their way home with
out a guide in the early hours of the
morning
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By the Ex- Coram! ttecman
The Republican State campaign Is to
be pushed as vigorously In every part
of the State as It Is In Dauphin county.
The Republican State committee Is
sending men into districts where ad
dresses on the Issues are needed and
effective organization Is being carried
on. The Harrisburg meeting last night
attracted the attention of the whole
State and Mr. Knox's address was
eagerly awaited. The Democratic
State campaign has gone to water out
side of Philadelphia, where the Old
Guard Democrats aro making feverish
efforts to display loyalty after having
been patted on the back by National
Committeeman Palmer and his pals.
Even in Berks county the Democrats
are disgusted over tha way the Demo
cratic machine has collected money
and given only claims in return.
Senator Knox left hero this morn
ing for Indiana county, where he
speaks to-night. Next week he will be
in Lancaster, Pottsville and Xorrls
town. The senator was highly pleased
at the meeting held here last night.
The State candidates went to Blair
county this morning and will continue
in the western part of the State, com
ing east on Monday.
—Allegheny county was the scene of
a number of notable meetings last
night, the Republicans having a dozen
with men prominent in affairs of the
county as the speakers. Public Serv
ice Commisisoner Magee was one of
the speakers in Pittsburgh, while E. V.
Bahcock and others were also on the
stump for the ticket.
—Four councilmen will be elected In
Philadelphia at the coming election,
according to Philadelphia announce
ments.
—Mayor Smith Is to be given a
luncheon by Philadelphia business men
and members of his cabinet will at
tend.
The Prohibition national candi
dates caused consternation in I>acka
wanna Democratic circles last night by
attacks upon the Democratic ticket. In
.some way or other the I>ackawanna
bosses got the Idea that the Pro
hibitionists were only going after
Hughes. They attacked Wilson with
a vigor that made much talk.
Members of the Central Demo
cratic Club last night gave a reception
In honor of Alderman George D. Her
bert, the Democratic candidate for
senator, who is a great deal better
Democrat than many members of the
club when it comes down to party
regularity. The alderman was honored
by several speeches In which the
orators had the grace to admit that
he had always been a Democrat, in
sunshine and in storm. It was a grace
ful tribute to party regularity in a
troublous year.
—Democrats have about given up
hopes of coming anywhere near de
feating Congressmen Heaton, Schuyl
kill. and Hopwood, Fayette. Both men
are making energetic canvasses In
their districts and some excellent re
ports of progress are being made.
Armstrong county lawyers have
endorsed Justice Walling at a big
meeting held in the county seat. Prac
tically every county In the State has
backed up the Erie justice.
—Congressman John R. K. Scott
spoke last night In Chester county,
going there from Bellefonte. He joined
the State candidates In Blair county
to-day.
—Arrangements are being made In
Philadelphia to strike off about 4,500
voteru found by police to bo fraudu
lently registered.
—The local option committee will
announce the names of the men It en
dorses at a meeting to be held in
Philadelphia.
—Governor Brumbaugh left this
morntiKr for New York to make a
series of speeches In New York and
Connecticut. The Governor will speak
to-night at New Rochelle ami Mount
Vernon and to-morrow In Hartford
and Norwich, returning for some
sneeches in New York. Next week
the Goverr ">r will speak In New Jersey.
—Three of the men selected as com
missioners to take the votes of Na
tional Guard organizations now at the
Mexican border may lose the chance
to take a trip to El Paso If reports
coming here are correct. It was re
ported to-day that the Scranton, Fotts
\ille and Philadelphia engineer com
panies would leave within afewdays for
home. General James H. Coryell was
named to take the vote of the Scranton
engineers: Herbert W. Salus, of the
Philadelphia engineers, and Luden
Norrls, of Huntingdon, the Pottsville
company.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT]
A\ho has summed up the attitude and
Interests of Japan better than Judge
Gary when he says: "Japan Is not look
ing for trouble. She wants peace now
and the pursuits of peace."—Philadel
phia Ledger.
Why doesn't President Wilson send a
punitive expedition into the War De
partment to avenge our besmirched
Revolutionary heroes?— New York Sun.
Those new British "tanks" are some
what more effective than the kind they
had In England before Lloyd-George
closed the saloons.—Boston Transcript.
A New Hampshire person says that
Theodore Roosevelt is a "survival of a
pre-Neoeeno era of human thought." It
sounds awful, but T. R. survived it and
the rest of 'em didn't.—Detroit Free
Press.
The Real Provincial
[Louisville Courier Journal]
The desire to live as well as one's
neighbors is no more common In a
city of 1,000,000 than in a city of 10,-
000. And even in the rural districts
there is, and thero has been always,
the same income consuming spirit.
More farms are mortgaged In Ken
tucky because of a standard of living
which has its rigid requirements than
because of a need of money with
which to conduct agricultural opera
tions. In the smaller cities and towns
expensive apparel, showy equipages,
handsome homes are, in proportion to
incomes, Just as great a burden as
these outward evidences of expendi
ture are in Louisville or Chicago or
New York.
The common dream, and the fre
quent theme, of metropolitans is that
it is only In the metropolis that life
is financially stressful, and that in
the smaller cities and the little towns
everyone leads an idyllic existence
safely within whatever his income
may be.
To find the real provincial find the
inhabitant of a great city who has
studied life upon the sidewalks and in
the cafes. He believes sincerely that
his opportunities to put human na
ture under the reading glass are
unique and that what is under his
reading glass is unique.
Very Fluttering Kind
American X-ray Society has a ma
chine which records eVery flutter of
the heart. Proximity of small, blue
eyed blonde would wear out machine
in no time. Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
. Proof Positive
We shall never be entirely satisfied
(hat the trend of humanity is really
upward until we see men willing to
trade their automobiles for aeroplanes.
—Browning Magazine.
They're Liberal Minded
It Is all a mistake about there
being no paramount Issue this year.
Any campaign manager will tell you
that whatever Induces you to vote
for his candidate is that very thing.
—New York Post.
THK GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
The poetry of earth is never dead;
When all the birds are faint with the
hot sun
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will
run
From hedge to hedge about the new
mown mead.
That is the grasshopper's—he takes
the lead
In summer luxury—he lias never done
With his delights; for, when tired out
with fun,
He rests at east beneath some pleasant
weed.
The poetry of earth Is ceasing never.
On a lone winter evening, when the
frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove
there shrills
The cricket's song, in warmth increas
ing ever.
And seems, to one in drowsiness half
lost,
The grasshoppers among some grassy
—John Keats.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlaburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organisa
tion's annual "Municipal Qulm."!
What does It cost the city for rent of
Citv Offices, and how far toward tak
ing care of a loan for a new city hall
would the amount go?
About $8,900, Including water fur
nished county for use of Court
house and Prison. If a loan for
$250,000 was floated, with $50,000
falling due in Ave yearß and SB,OOO
falUn" due each ytar for twenty
five years after, the interest and
State Tax would amount to about
$169,000. The estimated amount
paid in rent for thirty years would
"mount to $240,000. This amount
would not onlv take care of Inter
est charges and State Tax, *<it
would also pay $71,000 oft on the
loan.
RUSH OF GERMAN ARMIES IN
EAST CALLS WORLD'S ATTENTION
* TO BLEEDING LITHUANIA
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To the Editor of th* Telegraph:
The recent advances of the German
armies on the eastern front of the war
zone have focused the world's atten
tion on a nation heretofore obscure;
a nation of four million peace-loving.
God-fearing inhabitants, occupying the
territory east of the Baltic Sea between
the Germans and the Slavs; a nation
which preserved her sovereignty and
independence until the sixteenth cen
tury, when, through the ill-fated union
with Poland, she was reduced to Rus
sian servitude, under which yoke It
still suffers. Though overburdened
and oppressed, and in spite of Russian
persecution, the Lithuanian nation—
for it Is of her we speak—has pre
served intact tbo remarkable language
at her people, their national customs
and their living, burning patriotism.
The country which has suffered most
from the raging, blood-thirsty carnage
in Ihe Old World is Lithuania, Her
cities and villages have been sacked
and burned to the ground; her able
bodied men (to the number of four
hundred and fifty thousand) have been
forced against their will to fight, in the
armies of Russia and Germany, too;
while her women and children, perse
cuted and oppressed, deprived of shel
ter and food, and with scarcely suf
f'cient clothing to protect them from
the elements, have been forced into
exile and to contend as best they can
with famine, plague, persecution and
death.
It is in behalf of these people that
President Wilson issued a proclamation
setting aside Wednesday, November 1,
1916, as a day upon which the people
of the United States may make such
contributions as they feel disposed for
the aid of the stricken Lithuanian
people.
Contributions may be addressed to
the American Red Cross Society,
Washington, D. C., to the Central Com
mittee for the Relief of the Lithuanian
Wnr Sufferers. 47 Bennett Building.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., or to the National
Liberty Bank. New York city, N. Y.
When local solicitors call, please
give them the attention they deserve.
FOR CHARITY'S SAKE.
QIOTATIONS!
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The following clippings from a re-
Crops Are Not So Worse
"Oh, the fly is thick and the wheat's
forlorn
And the frost has consumed the
oats.
And the cutworm feasts on the 'yaller'
corn
We would grow for our squealing
shotes.
And the rains do wash and the sun
'do' bake
And the wind sweeps the burning
soil!"
Thus we hear the plaint and the stom
ach ache
Of the pessimist son of toll. .
"There will be no fruit, for the buds
are killed!"
He continues his doleful song,
"With the chinch bugs soon will our
crops be filled—
They are coming ten million strong!
There are army worms in the meadow
grass
And the hoppers are here galore.
And the bugs that feast on the gar
den sass
Will be with us forevermore!"
But the Autumn dawns in a blaze of
hope.
And the barley and wheat and corn
Burst the spacious bins of the man
whose dope
Was continually forlorn.
There are fruit and cabbage and beets
and spuds
In the cellar of hlra who wailed.
For he rolls In money and grub and
duds
In a year when the crops have
"failed."
(Harry J. Williams in Farm and
Home.)
Just a Little Longer
A few more days of tearful talk;
A few more days of anxious sighs;
Two weeks of smoking rank cigars,
And hunting votes with streaming
eyes,
A few more days of shaking hands,
And asking of the baby's health;
A few more days of candidates,
With groans, dividing up their wealth;
A few more days of waiting round
With anxious beating hearts and
then
If fate Is kind; In a few more days.
The country will be saved again.—Ex-
change.
cent copy of the Patriot should be of
interest:
The Mexican line-up is plain. On
the one side are those who want
intervention to save their invest
ments; on the other those who want
the President's guidance to save
their lives. As between property
and human life, Americans need not
hesitate.
E. G., "human life" on the Lusltania
and interference with trade and malls
by Great Britain. The first is "justi
fiable according to our President, the
latter strenuously objected to. With
all hi intervention in Mexico not once
has the President done anything to
protect American lives there.
And again:
Colonel Roosevelt's hectic de
mand that war be declared on Ger
many because of the invasion of
Belgium in which he somersaults on
the position he took early in the
war shows how desperate is the at
tempt to defeat Wilson.
Why accuse Hughes of seeking the
German vote?
Yours for Hughes,
E. M.
WANTS TO DO PERSONAL SERVICE
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Yesterday it came to my notice that
the Associated Charities had discov
ered a family of six, all down with
typhoid and in need. I like to help in
such cases, but I believe in the old say
ing that "It is better not to let your
left hand know what your right hand
does," and I never let my name be
known in any of the little charities I
am able to bestow. I called up the
Associated Charities and asked for the
name and address of this family,
thinking to send them some money.
The clerk refused to give the name
and said that they were "relieving the
family on a scientific and systematic
basis." She evidently felt, therefore,
that the meager help from that source
was enough. Has organized charity
made it impossible for such as 1 uni
to go about the little errands of mercy
and personal service which some of us
are old-fashioned enough to believe
can be accomplished without "pauper
izing the poor."
UNKNOWN.
Our Daily Laugh
§ IMMUNE.
Phil Parsnlpi
How is it Mr.
Egg don't wear
an overcoat these
frosty mornings?
Chas. Carrot:
IHe has been kept
on cold storage
for a year or so{
that's why.
MAX) TO FOR
BUSINESS f
REASONS. \ xflgfe. \
* Bo you've L/ )
Joined a golf 'uV J
Had to do it. ijwu /JkA
The only chance TO ru
of seeing some of a \1 tj /l\\
the men I have to / / I \
do business with W" ■VW
is to meet 'em on • IMTVYr
the golf links." JJ
THAT SETTLED
■f/t I see Brown's
Wife has an auto
■'/ mobile. I thought
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NO WONDER.
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pend on him in
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Rabbit: He
gets rattled and & jftj
looses his head. twm
Brewing (ftljat
A friend in commenting' upon tlier
article In this column tho other night!
relative to the courthouses which have
been built In llarrisburg says that
when the county offered the State tho
use of the first courthouse for.the sit
tings of tho Legislature It entailed ex
pense of a good many dollars upon
the young county because new offices
had to be fitted up and In one Instance
a court building had to be construct*
ed. it was the first sacrifice made m
behalf of the State Capital and was
much commented upon at the time
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Few people know it. but Harrisburg
has been a seat of the State Supremo
Court even from the time before the
town was laid out. Long before llar
rlsburg became tho capital of the stato
the court of appeals recognized tlia
advantageous location of the city and
had sittings here ajid for a time sat
hern exclusively, as u should to-day.
i Justico McKean stopped here
when the place was Harris Kerry and
is said to have made his home In Har
risburg when Congress was sitting at
York and Lancaster. When the su
preme court came to town, says Georga
vvashington Harris in a description of
the town, "numbers of the citizens
would go out on horseback and escort
inem to town. Sometimes one of two
hundred people would attend on sucli
Each morning while tho
V ,- ce was in ,own holding court
the sheriff and constables escorted him
from his lodgings to the courthouse.
} j °" , the bench he sat with Ida
J?i * °'> l nncl was dressed In a
scarlet gown.
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...Jn 4 ?® a < n * seneral and governor as
w an a good bit of a
He was very dignified and
trie Indians, who used to come to town
hi?,'," i? e 2 " ear b >"> were afraid of
him. He had discussions with manv of
the people about here and is said to
have had a row with John Harris
which led to the suggestion that tho
name of (he new town be called Lou la
bours because, he argued, llarrlsburg
being cailed after the dauphin, the
!• rencli king, who aided the colonies,
should also he honored. John Harris,
however, had the making out of tho
deeds for the lots, and although tho
precept for the first court called fop
"Louisbourg." Harris Ignored that
name, and his town became officially
Harrisburg. There was a good bit of
state politics mixed up In that episode,
as Harris and his son-in-law, William
Maclay, the first United States sen
ator, were aligned with a different
party than McKean and his friends.
• * *
Herbert Quick, the lowa member of
the Federal Farm Loan Board, whose
mental alertness Impressed everyone at
the State Capitol, has made a state
ment regarding the second mortgage
proposition calling attention to the fact
that the law does not permit the gov
ernment to make nny second mortgage
loans. In a statement Mr. Quick says
that the land hanks can not have any
thing to do with them. It seems that
there have been many questions along
this line.
* * •
William R. 1). Hall, statistician of
the State Highway Department, has
been elected rs chairman of the com
mittee on publications of the Engi
neers Society. Mr. Hall, who is a
University" of Pennsylvania man, serv
ed in the First United States Engineer
regiment in the Porto Rlcan cam
paign and was later news editor of
the Philadelphia Press. He was a
member of the Philadelphia Telegraph
and Inquirer staffs.
Refusal of the Hoard of Publia
Grounds and Buildings to let a con
tract yesterday for the erection of the
now barn for the Pennsylvania Stato4
Hospital property to replace that de
stroyed by lightning illustrates the ad
vance in the price of materials. What
was considered to be a very liberal es
timate, as compared with what prices
were a short time ago, was made but
when the bids were opened it was
found that figures were away up and
that it would be impossible to erect
the building within the estimate made
by the board. Prices have gone up so
fast that even the estimators could not
keep in touch with them.
, Salmon fishermen say that the
weather lutely lias been just right for
their sport and that people who hava
given up fishing are missing the time
of their lives. The construction of
the sanitary dam has, it anything, im
proved the fishing and there arc soma
splendid specimens taken out? almost
every night down around Tuscarora
and Dock streets, while up at the dam
there Is also fine angling.
• *
Senator Marshall L. Phlpps, of Oil
"itv, who was here yesterday, used
<o ho tn the National Guard and is
fond of telling of military experiences.
He wps for years an aid to Major
General John A. Wiley.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Ma<or Armstrong and ex-Mayor
Masjec made speeches from the same
platform at Pittsburgh last night.
11. U. I ' wis, the Baltimore and
Ohio fjcii rul freight agent at Balti
more. b: m just been transferred to
*>ittnbui sh. He was formerly in this
State.
—The Rev. Dr. John B. Laird, the
retir ! ":r rnde.r:>tor of the Presbyterian
"ynod. who Is against tabernacle evan
gel)* in is a prominent Philadelphia
clerg"i>'at\
•—Chancellor P. n. MeOormick, of
the l'niversity of Pittsburgh, has been
rlrcted president of the Pittsburgh
Schoolmen's club.
—Ellsworth Kelly. Scranton city
clerk, refused to testify in mine cava
proceedings the other day until guar
anteed his foes.
""DO YOU KNOW 1
That linrrisbura: Is one of tlic
l)'j> wrap iron (vntcrs of Penn
sylvania?
HISTORIC HAHRISBURG
The first telegraph otflce in Harris
burg was in Third street near the pres
ent locations. These offices have al
ways been within a few blocks.
The Logical Conclusion
"They (the Democrats) told us four
years ago that we were guilty of wast*
and extravagance, but now tho hold
the record for waste afid extravagancy
• * * more than $230 000,000 in
excess of the record of the Republican
session of 1910."—Hughes, at Baltimore,
October 10.
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Quod Erat Demonstrandum
How does President Wilson figure
it out that there will be war in case
of Republican success? His mental
processes are evidently something like
this:
"War is hell.
"It will be hell if I get licked.
"Things equal to the same thing ara
equal to each other.
"Therefore there will be war if X
get licked.
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Class
in logic dismissed." Muncle, Ind.,
Republican.
What Is the Inference?
"Wo were told four years ago that
the Republican party was responsible
for the high cost of living. The cost ot
living Is higher now than ever before."
—Hughes, at Baltimore, October 10.