8 BI'RG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Fourdei itll Published evenings except Sunday by TMB TELEGHAI'H PRINTING CO, Tdtgnpn Uulldltic, Federal Square. E. J.STACKP DL.E, Prts't and Kditor-in-Chitf F. H. OYSTLR, Business Manager. •US M. Managing Editor t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit .Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvarla Associat ed Dailies. Eastern office, f" jry. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office. Story, Brooks & Fin ley. People's Gas Building, Chi cago, 111. Xntered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a ■®Sa.'- 4..311 C week; by mail, $3.00 n year in advance- _ TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7 Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. — Mrs. Jamesox. ADAMSON LAW ECHOES THE railroads announce that they contemplate advancing freight rates on all manner of commo dities, the increases to go Into force with the new Adamson so-called eight hour law. This is where the public Is affected by President Wilson's surrender with out parley. The Adamson law is not nearly so much an eight-hour law as is a salary raising law. To put it Into force the railroads must have more money. They propose to got It from the ship per and the shipper will make up the difference by assessing the consumer. It. therefore, comes about that the country at large will be assessed to make up the difference required by the railroads as a result of the Adam son law. Instead of benefiting labor as a whole, labor as a whole will pay more for its clothing, its household neces sities and its dinner because of the Adamson law. Illinois women claim that potatoes were dumped into the Mississippi to keep up local prices If this can be proved somebody ought to get a boat and a seine. THE "NEW POLAND" WITH much pomp and circum stance. Germany yesterday pro claimed a new Polish Kingdom —at the close war, if Germany wins. But it is a Russian Polish King dom, not an Austrian or a German Polish Kingdom, and right there is the fly in the ointment. The whole world of liberty-loving people would have rejoiced had the promise of Germany contained the proviso that the imperial government would restore to Poland the slice of the ancient Kingdom now held by Germany and would Insist that Austria do the same. That no such pledge was offered is pretty good proof that the Germans are doing in Russian Poland precisely what the allies did In Rumania and Italy—bid for the support of those peoples by holding out the hope.of reward in the read justment after the war. Germany needs soldiers and hopes to recruit Poles against Russia. That appears to be the answer to the much-her alded incident at Warsaw yesterday. No people have suffered more by reason of this war than those of Po land. First, the Russians ran over that portion lying within the boun daries of Germany, and then the tide of battle swept back, devastating the land as far as Warsaw. Thousands of people are homeless. The crops are a negligible quantity, and neither Ger- iftany nor the allies have thought enough of the sufferers to co-operate for the relief of the population by America and other charitably disposed notions. The plight of the people is pitiable. First, they must consider how to keep soul and body together the question of government after the war can be seriously dis cussed, and even then there can be no lasting Polish Kingdom that does not include those sections lying within Germany and Austria as well as that which fell to the lot of Russia when the early freebooters of Europe di vided up the spoils of their conquest. Tumulty predicts a Wilson landslide. Tumult, tumult, Tumult-y! I.AW AND ORDER IX MEXICO IN case of Hughes' election—which is now plainly to be foreseen President Wilson predicts that those Americans who have invest ments in Mexico and whom he de scribes as "speculators," will be able to have in Mexico "the kind of law and order they <fcant." Unless these men who have done so much for the development of Mexico are far different from the other enter prising Americans who have carried the outposts of our trade tc trie four corners of the earth, they want no kind of law and order in Mexico other than that which should prevail in any land where a constitutional govern ment exists and where treaty and statutory rights are maintained In be half of any who seek to transact legitimate business. This kind cf law and order In Mex ico evidently does not appeal to Mr. Wilson. The kind of law and order which he prefers in Mexico has been described by his Secretary of State, Mr. Lansing, who wrote to Carranza on June 20 saying that "It would be tedious to recount instance after In stance, outrage after outrage, atrocity TUESDAY EVENING, ™ StAKrtISBtJRG CAfefe TEIEORAPM NOVEMBER 1916. ; - after atrocity, to Illustrate the true | i nature and extent ol the widespread | conditions of lawlessness and violence I which have prevailed. During the I past nine months in particular, the frontier of the United States along the lower Rio Grande has been thrown into a state of constant apprehension and turmoil because of frequent and sudden incursions into American territory, and depredations and mur ders on American soil by Mexican bandits who have taken the lives and destroyed the property of American citizens, sometimes carrying American citizens across the international boundary with the booty seized. American garrisons have been at tacked at night, American soldiers killed and their equipment and horses stolen; American ranches have been raided, property destroyed and Amer ican trains wrecked and plundered. The attacks on Brownsville, lied House Ferry, Progreso Post Office and Ijis Peladas, ail occurring during September last, are typical. In these attacks on American territory, Car ranzistu adherents and even t'ar ranza soldiers took part in the loot ing, burning and killing." We say this is evidently the kind of 'law and order" which Mr. Wilson "wants" in Mexico, because he made Carranza the First Chief in Mexico and because he wants to lend him millions of dollars with which to cement his control of the Mexican presidency in order to continue the kind of "law and order" which Secre tary Lansing has depicted. Ashford, Mass., goes IS to 7 for Hughes, and if the returns keep com ing in that way "watchful waiting" will soon become but a painful mem ory. A LAST WORD JUST one last word on tho high school loans—both for Harrls burg and the West Shore: Do you, Mr. Older Voter, remember how hard it was for you to get the little education that the public schools of your day gave? There was the short winter term in the little red school house, and your father had to buy your books. There was the so-called "summer school" for which either you or your parents paid—in addition to purchasing neces sary books and school supplies. Y'our father paid his taxes and pur chased the books and paid tuition for a part of the term. • Compare conditions then with those that arer planned for the new high schools. Ten months school, no extra tuition fees for "summer school," nothing to pay for books—not even a slate pencil or a tablet to buy. And all for what? Why, for the man who does not own property, for a dollar a year school tax. Vote for the high school loans and Increase the buying power of that dollar a year. By the time this is printed the country will be well on the road to having been ; saved again. • GOOD SENSE AXD GOOD LAW JUDGE KUXKEL has written good sense as well as good law Into his decision regarding a certain piece of road in Northampton county which the commissioners of that county were endeavoring to foist upon the State before it had been actually taken over by the Commonwealth. Judge Kunkel indicated clearly that when a road has once been taken over by the Com monwealth as part of the highway system the county will be relieved of the expense thereof, and not before. Simply because a space of disreputable highway has been included in a gen eral highway system is no excuse for a county to cease to keep it Jn repair for public use. The greatest trouble that the State Highway Department has had to con- I front is the fact that an enormous sys tem of roads was blocked out before | sufficient funds were provided for i their reconstruction as permanent highways. As a result, many counties and townships have dumped upon the ' State mileS and miles of roads which have been impassable most of the time ! and absolutely neglected simply be ; cause they were indicated as a part ,of the road system to be developed. Judge Kunkel has cleared the at i mosphere on this point and hereafter these roads which are to become part [of the State system will not be per mitted to deteriorate while the State is preparing to take them over and make them part of the main system of highways. The particular controversy which brought the matter the attention of I the court was a mandamus by the Commissioners of Northampton county to compel thte State Highway De partment to construct and maintain a piece of road leading from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It is said to be one of the most atrocious stretches of high ways in Pennsylvania and It will now be up to the Northampton County Commissioners to put it into good condition. The Scriptural passage which com ments on the fact that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, might aptly be revised in the case of the Democratic National chairman to read that this particular prophet's prophecies are without basis of fact, • ven in his own country. Both National chairmen are gener ous to a fault in their i)re-election pre dictions, but Vance McCormlck was a self-elected Governor four years ago be fore the proletariat visited the polls. Some gunners get almost as many hunters as rabbits. F AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING -:- -i- By BRIGgT] I - AFtur YT>U *"—- AMr> Vol fWW , A*-r AH® you've LAYED HAVE MOPED S - ~ jf, VCLOST AWAKC. WrTM ,T FOR. TVSV3 F /A T HE <JOIH6 THROUGH | hj-ri 1 FINALLY ' "AND AT LAST YOUR .UN* r ' , £~L t rw TIME comes TO MAKE . . The bG night !hc -SPeecH / ARRIVE S MW By the Ex-Coramlttcoman Observers of Pennsylvania politics believe that the Keystone State will poll the greatest vote in its history to-day despite the operation of regis tration and enrollment laws and the general dissatisfaction expressed over complicated ballots. Reports coming to this city, which, as the capital, gets more first hand political information than any other place in the State, in dicate a general intention of the great mass of the voters to vote, although very many will not say how they are going to vote. The gist of reports received here is that the people are pretty deeply stirred up over the elec tion and the discussion of politics has superseded pretty nearly everything else when groups of men get together. Candidates, too, say that they have been struck with the intense interest shown by audiences in speeches on what are some times called the "burning issues." The question that is interesting many is what proportion of the 1,- 64 4,181 registered, enrolled or listed in the Keystone State will vote to-day. Better information regarding the number of voters is available now than ever before and the tremendous enrollment of 962,443 Republicans re ported by the Republican State com mittee is taken to mean the swinging of Pennsylvania back to its place as the banner majority State. It is also interesting to note that the enrollment of 416,111 Democrats is less than the vote for Bryan eight years ago. —ln 1904 there were 1,236,738 votes cast for President, Roosevelt getting the unprecedented total of 840,949 and I arker 335,430 and in 1908 there were - L 267.450 votes, of which Taft got 745.779 and Bryan, the Demo cratic high water mark of 445.782 In 1912 there were 1.217,736 votes. ? o °- o ft- elt _F ettin & 4 44,894; Wilson 390,631 and Taft 273,360. There was a decrease of 50,000 in the total vote in four years. —The 1914 election saw 1,111,252 votes cast for Governor, Brumbaugh 4I ? e s sfTM 0 5 1 8 ' 7 0 5 a " d McCormick Democratic nominee hav- IngT been made the nominee of the Washington party by withdrawal of William Draper Lewis, who with his friends is now backing Hughes. In the same election there were 1 111 . 932 votes cast at the first direct'elec *. i , for United States senator ever Pennsylvania, Penrose getting 266*436' Pinchot 269 - s 5 and Palmef 7 h ® election has a peculiar in terest for Pennsylvania because the Republican party is reunited with the Irogressives and the most important State offices next to Governor are to ibe filled. There will be a State treas urer and an auditor general elected for four years, a United States sen ator for six, a supreme court justice lor twenty-one and four congressmen! at-large and thirty-two district con gressmen for two; twenty-five sen ators, all from odd numbered dis tricts, for four years and 207 repre sentatives for two vears <*f^ Th „m HepUb T Cans wl " e,ect a 'l the State officers, Justice Walling being also a Republican, although his elec ton is nonpartisan. There are now six Democrats in the congressional are e *th t nt >n th SOr r* e estlmates m ade here are that the Democrats will sustain t\vn 3 ° f ° ne although some say !, Sii Thc r e are now thirty-eight Re publican State senators and eleven Democrats with one Wash In Etonian ?h e t I ? c * mocrata to lose two. in the House the Republican majority nu n!?v!n rge la * st t,me - th ere being 164 Republicans to 41 Democrat* Washington.an and one SooTaHst people here believe that the Republicans will come close to hold ing their strength. 10 r."^or„ a i 0r E \F- B eldleman win he Richard J." Baldwin, of^Defaware^U hZE? CANDMATE FOR or —Democratic State headquarters in lU HnrH U h i m ° Bt mour lful place in Harrlsburg last night and was closed as tight as a church most of to-day. The windmill has blen a rather melancholy establishment all through the campaign and the Demo cratic State chairman acted bb though he had something against It. He was seldom here and the Btate bosses ran the campaign, such as it has been, from offices in Philadelphia, some thing which was a crime when the men displaced by the present ma chine managers so conducted their campaigns. However, that was only one of the reversals of form by the Democratic bosses and as such things are regarded as true Democracy any one who criticises Is not loyal, etc. —Another thing about the Demo cratic campaign was the manner in which the State machine got after postmasters and federal officeholders when the national machine showed it self to be most adept. The methods adopted were those which Democratic newspapers, including one noisv one in Harrisburg, have attributed in hor rified language to Republicans in years gone by. And still another thing was the way the State was overrun with southern congressmen and job holders who yelled about colonization, gigantic corruption funds and other things and kept quiet about disfran ! chisement and features of southern ; elections. —But even with it all the Demo cratic windmill had no claim to put out on the eve of election as of yore. REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, Charles Evans Hughes, of New York For Vice-President, Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana For Auditor General, Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville For State Treasurer, Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsville For Congress-at-Large, Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia For Congress—lßth District Aaron S. Kreider. of Annvllle For Senator, Edward E. Beldleman. of Harrisburg For Representative. First District Augustus Wildman and J. W, Swart* Second District, Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold For Mine Inspector, Charles J. Price, of Lykens Nonpartisan Ticket, Supreme Court, Emory A Walling, of Erie Good-by It is a word that has choked many an utterance and started many a tear. The hand is clasped, the word is spoken, we part and are out on the ocean of time! We go—to meet again where?— Pleasant Hill Register. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR d THAT SCHOOL PAGEAXT To the Editor of the Telegraph: That scrhool pageant in the rain, on Saturday afternoon, was enough to 1 arouse the civic pride which every citi zen possesses, but which sometimes "goes to sleep" and lies dormant until something happens to wake it up I have been a resident of Harrisburg I but a little more than two months I I spent some time here in 1883, or there | abouts, and I cannot help wondering, when I look over the city and see the j wonderful progress it has made in al- I most all lines—the beautiful River ; front, handsome homes, splendid water Works, good trolley service, manv miles of paved streets, over which it is a ! pleasure to drive. In fact, there are few better paved cities In the country. It has been realized for some time | that Harrisburg should have better hotel accommodations, and that want will soon be supplied by the new mil lion-dollar, up-to-date hotel. The city has outgrown its schools, and there Is a very pressing need of more and better buildings and equip ment. To-day the people will decide whether the school board shall borrow the money for the purpose of supplying these needs, or find some other way ol accomplishing that end. I am very strongly in favor of the high school loan of a million and a quarter of dollars, and am glad I have been a resident of the citv long enough to vote. I hope no one will be fooled In to voting against the loan because of the fear of increased taxes, or the fear of "graft" The increase in taxes will be very little, if any, and will be scarce ly noticed. Rents are not likely to be raised on that account; landlords are not going to boost rents a dollar or two a month to pay for an Increase in school taxes of twenty-seven to forty five cents a month. Voters, lay aside your selfish inter ests and vote for the good of vour chil dren. for progress, better educational facilities which make for better citi zenship. The public schools must keep pace with the increase In population and the school board must provide the necessary buildings and equipment* they are obliged to do it. The best and cheapest way to provide the funds is through a loan which will run for thirty years, and thus the boys and girls now in school will help pay for these Im provements. I have no children, but I cannot see how any father can consci entiously vote against the loan Don't go backward. Kten Harrls burg moving forward. Don't be "penny wise and pound foolish." Let tho vote for the loan he overwhelming. Let the world know that Harrisburg Is the "city that does things." ALBKA W. BAKER, M. D„ 1433 Market Street. MILITARY INSTRUCTION SUCCESS IN WY 1 EXTRACTS from an article which appeared some time ago in Everybody's Magazine : "For five years Wyoming has been pioneering in this delicate matter of military instruction in the schools, and has now reached the stage where it places before the nation the results of the experiment. The Swiss and Australian models have been followed In some degree, but the big outstand ing features of the plan are entirely original, having particular regard for American Ideals and prejudices. "Like most big Ideas, the Wyoming experiment 'just happened'," write# one who has devoted considerable study to the plan. "The labor unions refused to see anything in it but a training school for the militia, and they reaffirmed their unalterable hostility to the National Guard as be ing nothing more than an armed force for the use of the employing class in industrial disputes. Parents based their objection on the ground that military instruction would exalt mar tial Ideals in the mind of every youngster. Preachers opposed because they scented militarism, and educators were antagonistic out of their fear that individual initiative would be destroyed and personal responsibility undermined." Lieutenant Steever, of the United States Army, who fathered the idea, devised ways and means to meet the various objections and right here is where the plan left the beaten paths and took on originality. He made the enlistments voluntary and promised complete separation of the cadet corps from the militia; he declared that he would make citizens, not soldiers, and that the boys would be taught the ad vantages of a strong body and a clean mind, the value of self restraint, civic duties and responsibilities; to the clergy and pacifists he announced: JJDur Library Table*!. Ml NUT <ll WITM TH*l3gCi§s OrNtMUI IHU t Demi Yesterday, by Mary Agnes Hamilton. (George H. Doran Co., New York. $1.50 net.) While It Is not a particularly thrill ing book, "Dead Yesterday" Is one of unusual perception and understanding of life. It is essentially an elaborate criticism of the working out of our inner consciousness and is a book for the discriminating mind. Sustained interest logs In spots and the author occasionally involves her self In her own thoughts to the read er's demoralization. It is a poignant love story with the scenes laid In a country at war. The Romanrp of u Christmas Card, by K:ite Douglas Wiggins. (Hough ton, Mifflin Co. SI.OO net.) The nearness of the Christmas sea son attracts our interest to books charged with the holiday atmosphere "The Romance of a Christmas Card," in the pleasantly restful style of this formerly much read author, fairly radiates Christmas cheer and spirit. It is the tale of two wanderers who are brought back to their childhood home by the message of a Christmas card written by the minister's wife. They arrive In time to assist in the celebration of an old-fashioned Christ mas and find happiness and peace with their old friends. Trade Briefs Lumbermen in the West have or ganized an export sales company. The purpose of this company Is twofold; to increase the sale of Douglas fir and hemlock and to cope successfully with organized European lumber compan ies. Numerous new industries have re cently sprung up In Barcelona, Spain. This is due to the fact that many ar ticles which were formerly inported are now being made in domestic fac tories. Machinery for carding and spinning wool is needed in India. Artificial leather, made of linen duck, coated with varnish and pasted together In layers, is being extensively used in England. American lamps are popular In Ma laysia. There is also a market for high grade lamp chimneys. It is estimated that this year's crop of Almerla grapes will total 2,000,000 barrels. Early shipments to London old at $2.92 to $6.32 a barrel. "The essence of militarism is exces sive armaments and a huge standing army, while our purpose is no more than such training of youth during the school years as will permit them to devote their manhood to orderly civil pursuits. You can't cut militar ism out with a moral precept. You've got to crowd ft out with something better and finer. Hard and fast orders .were never given. From the first Lieutenant Steever bent every energy to make the clean - cut distinction between leadership and drlvershlp. In camp he prefaced all new departures by conferences with the boys, "doping It out together," because he remembered his own school days In Washington and his boyish revolt against the "rock-crusher" style of drilling. To cut a long story short, the plan caught like wildfire and the corps in the Cheyenne school grew and grew until it included every member of the school who was physically fit; and those who were not were given the chance to develop themselves for fu ture cadetshlps. Even the girls were taken In, and each squad had a spon sor who became an adept at Red Cross work. The Idea spread to other high schools In the State, and now after five years of experience, the "Wyoming plan" has attained nation wide prominence and is looked upon as a settled thing. It trains the boys in the essentials of military experience while fitting them physically an<* mentally for the battle of life with out instilling the unpleasant features of militarism. Who knows but that the Wyoming plan is the solution of the preparedness problem for our 1 country? 11 Our Daily Laugh JUST THAT. jky What has he ibeen doing since h 6 graduated Y/ from college? Vjflpy He has been JifpW trying to find out Ijgp what he learned. HIS REMEDY. I I What would you do in the case of -"Pi a person eating poisonous mush- JM| Student—Rec omm e n d a LllLJJig change in diet y.\ J* Onward March of Education [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.] It is conccdedly too early for the United States to relinquish its benefi cent control of tho Philippine Islands, and to throw upon the Filipinos the responsibility of self-government; for the withdrawal of support would be equivalent to hinting to other powers that it was an opportunity for them to emulate the long and oppressive control of the people exercised by the Spaniards, and there would be a reces sion to former barbarism. But it would be folly to maintain that civili zation has not made considerable ad vancement in the islands. It is stated, on no less authority than that of the director of educa tion of the Philippines, that an unad vertised game of baseball between the girl teams of two primary schools at Manila drew an attendance of 2,700 people, or an average sized crowd at one hotly contested and sometimes quite freely advertised contests be tween the Hustlers and their competi tors of the International League In this city of 250,000. This fact appeal ed to the educational director so strongly that his report Is replete with illustrations showing advancement of this branch of education in the far away American dependencies, f&ttttttg (M|at Students of elections are watching the way things are going here to-day and the official results in Dauphin county are expected to be Interest ing indeed. The vote in Dauphin county in the great Presidential cam paign of 1912 was the greatest ever polled here, being greater by over 2,500 than the total of the Presidential year of 1900, which saw over 23,000 as a total. The aggregates of th votes of the county on national, Stati* and judicial elections are extremely interesting. In 1906, the Stuart elec tion year, there were 20,635 votes polled in the county, Stuart getting over 10,600 ror Governor. Two years* later there were 24,661 votes polled.! Taft receiving 15,637 or about 1,000 less than Roosevelt four years before. In 1910 when there was a big fight for Governor, 21,234 votes were poled or over 3,000 less than in the preced ing Presidential campaign. In 1912 the total vote of the county was 25,- 529 Roosevelt having 9,436, Wilson 7.470 and Taft 6,012. In 1913 in a Judicial election less than 12,000 votes were cast for superior court. The next year the Brumbaugh-McCorinick cam paign year, the total vote polled ran up to 25,725, the highest of any guber natorial year, Brumbaugh getting 13,- 64 4 as a Republican alono, and 11c- Si? ri VM c ' t 10,24 3 on Democratic and Washington tickets combined. That same election Judge Kunkel got 21,- 459 of 22,730 votes polled for supremo u . r r„ an< * Judge Trexler 13,783' of 19,44- poled for superior court. In the superior court campaign the next November Judge Orlady got 11,620 votes as the highest man, those run ning next to him getting about 8,300 apiece. The election was for three Judges and six candidates divided 4 5,- 492 votes, each voter being entitled to vote for three men. Just 45,303 official ballots were pre pared for distribution in city and county to-day, 19,019 of which were Intended for the city and 26,284 were for the use of the county voters out side the city. The number of speci men ballots that was ordered by tho county commissioners totaled 11,357. In addition to taking: his regular gen eral election ballot into the booth with him, Harrlshurg's voter also carried an extra ticket. This was the Jitney bal lot upon which the voter had a chance to indicate his views on the proposed .lltney ordinance amendment. Tho high school loan question was in cluded on the general election ticket. "All West Shore owes much to Ed ward F. Baum, of Wormleysburg, for his good work in the joint high school proposition for this territory," said a West Shore man to-day. "In all news paper accounts of the proposition very seldom was the name of this "live wire" mentioned. He preferred to have his name withheld, claiming that he could do more successful work. Many days and nights he scoured the West Shore seeking mem bers of boards in several of the towns who did not favor the proposition, and after much persuasion turned the pro ject into a new life after it had ap peared to sink. About five years ago It was through Mr. Baum's efforts that the project was launched. At this time ho was unable to keep tho work mov ing and it finally died down. When the project took on a new life months ago Mr. Baum was the selection of tha directors as pilot of the project. JSvery public-spirited resident of the West Shore should give Mr. Baum a hearty handshake whether the project is passed or defeated." It Is getting to be suspected thai Congressman Aaron S. Krelder really likes to campaign. The Congressman knows this district like a book and as he drives his own car and gets into districts remote from the general lineup of travel as often as he gets into the cities and boroughs he mixes with tha plain people. As a matter of fact, tha Congressman is a good mixer and ha knows the viewpoints of the work ers and the farmers. Not long ago ha was spinning along wfien he met a farmer leaning against a fence. Tha farmer was not interested in the Con. gressman and did not take pains to move his position, Krelder got him into an argument on the way to turn a furrow and when he left the man was shouting for him. Among visitors to the Harrisburg Public Library a few days ago was Miss Sarah R. A. Bogie, head of the training school of the Carnegie Li brary at Pittsburgh. Miss Bogle spent some time at the Library and was much interested in its rapid growth. As a matter of fact the development 01 tftc Library has attracted much at tention and the extent to which it had branched out among children has been much noted in other cities. Robert M. Simmers, one of the vet eran agents of the State Dairy and Food Division, has given a chill to people in eastern counties by predict ing that the price of eggs may go to seventy-live cents a dozen. Mr. Sim mers lias been studying the food situation and says one reason for the high prices is the weather and the other is that there is a big demand from Canada 1 _>r American butter and eggs. Many eggs are going abroad. Several Incipient forest fires which have broken out on First and Second mountains in the vicinity of the Heck eit and Manada gaps were pretty promptly stamped out by people living in the neighborhood, who were sum moned by telephone. Giving a fire alarm by telephone is a common enough thing in a city or town but it's strange to hear of it being adopted as a means in the country and in the mountain country at that. The phone haa saved many a valuable tract of woodland in this county in the last few years. The Man in the Moon has the benches in Reservoir, in the River Front parks and along the city's Front Steps to himself these eve nings; the electric lights no longer interfere. All the park lights have been switched off for the winter and from now until June I the moon and the stars alone will have to illuminate the parks. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "] —William Draper who has been active on the stump this year, is said to contemplate writing a book on his political experiences. —Charlemagne Tower, former am bassador to Germany, is spending part of the month at Atlantic City. —Dr. Isaac Sharpless, president of Haverford, says that this country should not build battleships, but givtv it to European countries to aid in construction after the war. —lsaac H. Clothier, veteran Phila delphia merchant, who is seventy, nine, voted early to-day. —Dr. Paul W. Harrison, well known In Eastern Pennsylvania, will travel Into the center of Arabia. T DO YOU KNOW "J! That HarrlKburg makes special stcHs for instrunientH? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Five councils were held with In dians here by provincial commission- Mrs between 1740 and 1766.
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