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BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief
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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 10.
God never mocks the soul with an
impossible ideal, neither should the
soul ever mock Ood with an ignoble
one. —F. WATSON HAINAN.
THE PAST TOW DAYS
WHEN frolicsome Frank Daniels
sang his little song something
like this—
"l'm going crazy, don't you want to
go along?
We'll live in the madhouse over the
hills
And play in the fields with the daffy -
dills;
I'm going crazy; don't you want to go
along."
he voiced the sentiments thousands
of newspaper people the country over
i.ave entertained since last Tuesday
night. No "madhouse over the hills"
ever had anything on the average
editorial room since the Hughes land
slide ran up against a snag on the
Rocky Mountains early Wednesday
morning, and certainly playing in the
fields with the "daffydils" would be a
rare and restful form of sport as
compared with the strenuosities of the
newspaper business in the past three
days.
There have been times in that epoch
of nightmare—anyway it seems like
an epoch when newspapermen
loathed the telephone with a loath
ing that would have made the in
ventor of the word blush with envy.
In the Telegraph office, for example,
ten telephones have jangled all day
and most of the night and when the
attendants have not been answering
about two requests a minute for the
latest returns they have been enter
taining visitors who have transform
ed the news offices into smoking par
lors and reading rooms. We never
knew we were so popular. Neither
did we heretotore realize how pow
erfully and logically even the humblest
American can argue. We have heard
men right in our own little office
give 18,642 absolutely unrefutable
reasons why Hughes could not fail of
election and 17,689 uncontrovertible
arguments why Wilson was bound to
win and all of them were wrong.
Furthermore, those who were guilty
went into great lengths, elaborating,
explaining and digressing chiefly
digressing, until they ran down and
went out for a new needle of dope,
while others, fresh from the foun
tains of perennial hope, took up the
burden of their ravings. Every hour
or so the editors and reporters were
able to get in ten or fifteen minutes
work.
But they meant it all very well,
bless 'em, even those Democratic
brethren who came around to grin
at our funeral, and we hold no
grudges. We have tried to grin back
and look happy, but we'll confess
right here that being cheerful isn't
the grandest little job in the world
While a party of pesky rustlers from
the Wild and Wooly West persist in
dragging the majorities of your fav
orite presidential candidate all over
the landscape at the heels of a kick
ing broncho. •
Many, many's the time in the past
few days when we've felt like join
ing the musical Mr. Daniels in his
aforementioned little song.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
PRESIDENT WILSON has been re
elected, according to figures at
hand this morning. This is any
thing but good news to the thousands
in Pennsylvania who have been hop
ing that the few States in doubt until
the last minute would turn in a ma
jority for Justice Hughes. There are
those who will look upon the results
of the election as a misfortune ap
proaching calamity. But a majority
of the people have spoken, and this is
a country of majorities. We must ac
cept, as gracefully as we may, the ver
dict of the people. Four years will be
required to prove whether or not they
have made a mistake. All that re
mains for both majority and minority
is to be good citizens and make the
best of the situation.
It will be unfortunate if. in the re
count that either side may justly de
mand in a closely contested State,
there be any charges of fraud. Down
in his heart no good American believes
that the results in any of thfc doubtful
States have been held back or juggled
by either party, and we are in no
position to go before the world with a
family quarrel that will further lower
us In the eyes of our neighbors, much
iess give them any ground for the mis
taken notion that we are a house
divided against ourselves. Mistakes
there may have been and doubtless
were on both sides, but it Is unbeliev-
FRIDAY EVENING,
able that there has been dishonesty at
the polls sufficient to place the national
election In doubt. There was abso
lutely no excuse for that message from
Democratic headquarters: "Guard the
ballot boxes." Nobody wanted to steal
them, and the inference displays a yel
low streak that It is not pleasant to
note in men in high places.
There are so many "ifs" and "buts"
entering into the results that to at
tempt an analysis of the causes lead
ing up to the re-election of the Presi
dent would be folly at this time. Three
big factors are, however, outstanding
and apparent. The people were lulled
into a belief that the present pros
perity is permanent and duo to Demo
cratic policies. Thousands of others
were impressed with that overworked
phrase. "He kept us out of war." And
above all, the Progressives of the West
did not follow the banner of Theodoro
Roosevelt back into the party, and
that is no more evident any place than
in California, whero Hiram Johnson,
the Progressive candidate for Vtce-
Prestdent in 1912, was elected to the
United States Senate and where
Hughes was slaughtered. The sus
picion is excusable that Mr. Johnson
used little of his great influence in
Callforhia for Mr. Hughes.
However, these are matters for dis
cussion when more of the facts are at
hand. The thing the people will now
begin at do is to adjust themselves to
conditions as they exist. Many things
have happened since 1912 to upset
traditions and obscure great principles,
but we are an optimistic people, and
even the discouragements of the last
few years will not serve to perma
nently destroy the vision and spirit
and virility which have characterized
the development of the American
people.
Down in the heart of the average
citizen is a strong belief in the future
of the country. We have our backset
and other obstacles to overcome, but
there is nothing which will perma
nently destroy the spirit which ema
nates and inspires the citizenry of the
United States in the realization of the
high ideals upon which the republic
is founded.
The campaign which has just come
to a close has illustrated that whilo
the people may be confused and utterly
demoralized by fictitious issues, they
are certain to return to th(*aupport of
those principles which are funda
mental and enduring. It would be
well for political leaders of all parties
lo take note of certain significant de
velopments of the late contest. The
people are not going to be stampeded
Inta support of men or measures sim
ply because of a party label. They
may be thoroughly deceived, but in
the last analysis truth will rise above
fallacy and the real will take the placo
of make-believe in our governmental
policjdlt
EXCELLENT SELECTIONS
BRUMBAUGH and
the other members of the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings
hjve shown excellent judgment in the
select it>n of Arnold W. Brunner, of
New York, as architect to prepare
plans for the development of the
Capitol Park zone, and in the choice
of Warren IT. Manning, of Boston, to
assist him.
Mr. Manning needs no introduction
to Harrisburg. He it was who de
signed the very excellent park system
which has come to be a source of pride
and joy to every Harrisburger. Mr.
Ilrunner is not so well known here,
but his reputation both in this country
and Europe is second to no man in his
line of work. Cities all over the coun
try bear the stamp of his artistic
handiwork. Cleveland, Boston, Al
bany and a dozen others have em
ployed hiin to direct the expenditure
of millions of dollars for civic im
provements. In Harrisburg he will
find conditions especially congenial,
for the reason that, unlike Albany, the
city of Harrisburg is working in per
fect harmony with the State and both
will do whatever is necessary to make
the new Capitol Park a proper setting
lor the magnificent State Capitol and
a show place commensurate with the
wealth and importance of Pennsylva
nia in the sisterhood of States.
The Governor and the other mem
bers of the board have approached
'he development of Capitof Park in a
big, bread v ay. It is their purpose to
make the reconstructed and enlarged
park not only the center of the Har
risburg park system, but the very
center of the Commonwealth itself,
a jewel in the setting of the great
Keystone State. There is no reason
why this should not be so and every
reason why it should. Kurope has
long pronounced Am.erica young and
crude and our cities ugly. To a very
larger degree we have merited the
criticism. But we are growing rapidly.
We have both the money and the
ability to make our cities as beautiful
.'is those of Europe. Harrisburg in its
own way has recognized this and has
led the way for other of the smaller
cities of the country. It is worthy of
note that this effort of ours has not
gone unrewarded, for it is beyond
question true that- had not Harrisburg
gone in for public improvements when
it did, Capitol Park would not have
been extended and we would not be
about to receive the benefit of the
State's beneficent attention.
n Tolitict Lk I
By the Ex-CnumlNeaiita !
White the Hughes majority is
growing and the vote of Auditor Gen
eral-elect Charles A. Snyder and State
Treasurer-elect H. M. Kephart is
climbing up late returns are showing
that in a number of congressional and
legislative districts there will be much
closer contests than expected. In some
of these counties Democrats are shown
ito have profited by the Wilson
strength and official counts may show
them winners.
Many people are interested in see
ing whether the Democrats will get
(he half million votes in Pennsylvania
for Wilson which the saner of the
party leaders claimed. Tulk of 750,-
000 votes for Wilson, indulged in by
some of the Democratic claim-makers
recently has been found to be born of
a wish rather than of thought. The
best previous Democratic presidential
record in the State, that of 440,000 for
Bryan in 1908, has been passed by
Wilson and he is not so far from 500,-
000. However Hughes is away, away
ahead of him.
In some of the congressional dis
tricts the returns are still out—Demo
crats are claiming the twenty-first dis
trict now and there are close contests
against Congressmen Coleman and
Barchfeld.
I —With the State Senate and House
Republican by big margins talk of
officers has started. Senator Beldle
man will be president pro tem again
and Richard J. Baldwin, the Delaware
county veteran, last night got into the
race for speaker of the House. A
Chester dispatch says: "Richard J.
BaldSvin, of Chadd's Ford, Delaware
county, is a full-fledged candidate for
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives at Harrisburg. He has the back
ing of his fellow-members of the Dela
ware county delegation in the House
and has visited every county in the
State and is encouraged to believe
that he will have the backing of a
majority, of the Republicans in the
House canvass on the Speakership
when they get together at the first of
next year. Mr. I3aldwin has made a
canvass of the members-elect of the
several districts and is confident that
he will have the backing of a majority
of the Republican members of the
House. The local option forces of the
incoming House have centered upon
George W. Williams of Tioga county,
who was the local option chairman of
the Law and Order Committee of the
last House, for the Speakership of the
next session."
I —Counties which have no soldier
votes have been requested to send the
official results of Tuesday's election to
the State Capitol as soon as possible
so that the tabulation of the vote of
Pennsylvania may be started. Coun
ties having military organizations will
hold their official returns until the
soldier votes can be included which
will prevent a number of counties
having records for making prompt
returns from sending in their official
results before the end of the week. For
years there has been a rivalry be
tween Schuylkill, Union, Bedford and
other counties to get returns on file
tirst, but as they have companies at
El Paso they will be unable to send
their papers here for ten days or so.
Inquiries have been made by several
counties whose organizations have re
turned home as to whether they
should hold returns and they have
been told to send them in if satisfied
that all soldiers' votes are taken care
of. The computation of the official
results will not be delayed longer than
usual, it is believed because the big
counties take from two to three weeks
to complete their counts.
—Further changes in personnel of
departments of the Capitol are not ex
pected to be made for ten days. The
results of the legislative elections will
be looked over.
—W. W. Roper, one of the staunch
Wilson men of 1912 and appraiser of
customs of Philadelphia, is out. He
resigned and refused to support Wil
son because of the Adamson bill.
—T. L. Eyre got ample vindication
in Chester county. He won the
Senatorshlp with 2,600 and is high
man in the county. William 11. Berry
seems to have materially aided Eyre.
—Official counts began at noon yes
terday in every county of the State.
—Governor Brumbaugh has tele
graphed his congratulations to each
man elected Senator or representative
in Tuesday's election. It is the first
time such action has ever been taken.
-—-The question of the cost of Phila
delphia's proposed convention hall has
beon put up to the courts to deter
mine.
—Reports coming here indicate that
loans for schools and public, improve
ments carried generally in small
towns of the State, notably in the
anthracite region.
—Congressman Temple's majority
will run about 8.000 in the Washing
ton-I lea ver-Lawrence district.
—Latest returns show that Mercer
county went Democratic on the legis
lative end, much to the surprise of
many people in Western Pennsylvania.
Two Democrats come to the Legisla
ture.
—Representatives Eppley and Har
nett, of York, went down in the elec
tion.
New Prohibition States
Michigan is now added to the grow
ing list of Prohibition States, Further
West, South Dakota and Nebraska
have aligned themselves with North
Dakota in barring the sale of liquor
Florida, profiting by the example of its
neighbor Georgia, which had previous
ly imposed the rule of self-denial upon
its people, has elected a Prohibition
Governor.
The South has been so widely con
verted hy Prohibition for reasons pe
culiar to itselt that Florida has stood
out as a notable exception. Michigan
was under no such sectional influ
ences. Of its own accord it has brok
en away from local option and de
cided to create 11 new large area of
"dry" territory, with a population of
nearly 3,000,000. South Dakota, join
ed to North Dakota, means another
1,250,000 In the North voluntarily un
der Prohibition as a. principle of State
government.
At this rate the Prohibitionists as a
national party are rapidly losing their
one distinctive issue. Northern and
Southern States, and another group in
the West, without regard to Democra
tic or Republican leanings, have ac
cepted the one doctrine for which the
Prohibitionists have steadfastly fought
in the face of the ridicule and indif
ference of the country as a whole to
their claims to special attention. Prom
Maine to Oregon and from Michigan
to Mississippi, Prohibition has won
solely as a local Issue. It will con
tinue to win as long as saloon-keepers
habitually violate and defy the law.—
New York World.
If He Is Sincere
fFrom the Chicago Herald.]
Posen is the test. When the Ger
man Emperor Is ready to grant auto
nomy, If not Independence, to his own
Polish province, the world will believe
In the Integrity, of the Polish kingdom
which he decrees.
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HARRISBURO TELEORAPI
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A Creditor Country
[Kansas City Times.]
The New British loan in America of
300 million dollars, announced by J.
P. Morgan & Co., to be offered to in
vestors soon, will make a total of more
than 1 % billion dollars borrowed in
the United States by foreign nations
since the war began—and all the pro
ceeds have been spent in the United
States.
In addition to this huge sum, prob
ably an equal amount of American
stocks and bonds formerly owned
abroad have been returned to this
country in the process of paying for
war munitions and other supplies
bought hastily and in immense quan
tities.
While this process of taking stocks
and bonds from Europe has been go
ing on, foreign countries have sent
62 7 million dollars, net, in gold to the
United States, so that in the twenty
nine months of war foreign trade has
brought to the United States a balance
of more than 4 binion dollars in se
curities and gold , in exchange for
high priced commodities.
The most remarkable feature of this
record is that the United States was
suddenly transformed from a borrow
ing nation to a lending nation, and 011
a scule that would have seemed im
possible two years ago.
The transformation is due almost
wholly to the fact (hat the allfes in
Europe have been buying immense
quantities of commodities, at high
price, in the United States, yielding
very large profits to American pro
ducers.
A continuation of normal interna
tional and financial conditions prob
ably would have resulted in sustained
foreign investment in this country and
the United States would have remain
ed a debtor country indefinitely.
The war has changed the situation
completely and probably has just the
United States permanently In the list
of nations that have an excess of
capital to lend abroad.
Malaria and Cotton
ISt. Louis liepublic]
Cotton especially needs protection
from malaria, according to D. L Van
Dine, a Department of Agriculture ex
pert, who sums up the situation graph
ically in the Scientific Monthly. Tiie
principal effects of malaria upon farm
ing are a reduction of the net profits
011 the crops grown and reduced values
from tho nondevelopmeut of farm lands
Mr. Van Dine reports.
lie details the results of a study made
by the Federal Bureau of Kntomology
011 a largo plantation. Malaria was
shown statistically to handicap agri
culture through the loss In time and
the reduced efficiency of labor at the
season when labor Is most needed to
work and to harvest the crops.
Tiie government survey covered an
estate of \,*oo acres. Seventy four
tenant farmers cultivated 1,161 acres,
while GOH acres were worked directly
by the proprietors. The same tenant
families were employed for work by the
day on the owner's division of the plan
tation.
Between May and October, tlie critical
tlino In colon raising, ouch one of the
families lot on the average 14.4 ten's
work. There were 106 cases of malaria
In 138 persons out of a total of 299
members of the tenant families. Sir.
Van Dine states as a result of very
careful calculation that "In the absence
of malaria this plantation could oper
ate with the fame net returns on the
labor of 60.21 tenant families Instead
of 74 families required in the presence
of malaria."
A Real Surprise ,
"I was talking to my colored man
of all work the other day." said James
Yates Mellen. of Cleveland, "and I
asked him if he went to church.
*' 'Yessuh, T goes to church every
Sunday,' he said.
" "Are you a member?'
" 'Yessuh,'
" 'What church?'
" 'Prespeteeryn.'
" 'Do you believe In the doctrine of
election?'
''•'Yesßuh.'
" 'Do you think I am elected to the
saved ?'
" 'Law, Mr. Mellen. I didn't even
know you all was a candidate'."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WOMAN'S WIT SA VED RUSSIAN '
DEPUTIES FROM
PETROGRAD —A story to|d here
by members of the Russian Par
liamentary party, who recently
returned from a tour of the Allied
countries, is a striking proof of the
far-reaching information secured by
the German Intelligence Bureau.
The Germans managed to get wind
of the intended visit of the Russian
deputies to the Allied countries and
laid a plot to intercept the Jupiter, the
vessel on which the party was to
travel fyom Bergen to England and
France.
The plan was frustrated by a Rus
sian woman who traveled on the same
train with the deputies from Stock
holm to Bergen. A German friend of
hers, knowing of the intention to cap
ture the Jupiter, warned her not to
travel on that vessel with the depu
ties, as he had knowledge from the
best sources that a great fleet of sub
marines had been told off to capture
the vessel at all costs.
"Just think," said this German,
"what a laug'.iing stock would be made
of the Russian deputies when they
found themselves in Berlin instead of
the capital of the British empire."
Madame X at once gave the
tip to tho deputies, but the latter pooh
poohed the idea and said they were
A Little Premature
[New York "World.l
Like so many other English or- I
ganizations ever since the war began, I
the British Navy League is busily j
engaged formulating its own pecu- 1
liar conditions of peace with Germany. I
These are the surrender to Britain and j
her pllles, ton for ton, of interned Ger- |
man merchantmen in exchange for the j
Allied tonnage 'unlawfully" sunk by 1
German submarines. And as all sink- j
lugs of Allied merchantmen by U-boats
are held to be unlawful, such an ox
action Is expected to destroy all German
hopes of emerging from the war with
at least a merchant licet largely un
touched and threatening British supre
macy In the ocean trade.
This is a characteristic bit of Brit
ish bumptiousness, it is cooking and
eating the game before it has been
caught. It is paying a tribute to
U-boat destruction which the facts do j
Hot warrant, tn so far as it assumes
that any very great disturbance lias
been effected in the relative strength
lof the British and German mercantile
I marine.
| British troops are still some dis
tance away from Berlin. After four
I months of maximum etTort they are
short even of having broken through
the German lines 011 the Homme. Ger
many long since had the grace to
stqp talking of billion-dollar indemni
ties to be exacted from her enemies.
Great Britain may well follow tho ex
ample until at least something has
been done to give a little weight to the
threats.
As a Warning
fßuffalo Express. J
Regarded as a symptom of social
conditions, the fight at Everett, Wash.,
between a posse of citizens and an
: organized band of the I. W. W. is
somewhat ominous. These I. W. W.
men have been filled by their leaders
with the Idea that the way to obtain a
living Is not to work for it, but to take
it with the strong band. That, by tho
way. Is virtually the philosophy of
Villa's bandits, though It must be said
for the Mexicans that they have more
excuse for it than have any men living
in America.
Men of this type are few and of
small importance now. They were
much more numerous and troublesome
during the hard times of two years ago.
What will be the consequence if a re
turn of hard times should send some
millions of jobless and discouraged
men to trampling about the country
as the Coxey armies marched In 1894?
The Coxey armies merely paraded. They
did little mischief beyond pillaging for
food.
NOVEMBER 10, 1916,
going to follow out the plan worked
out by the British government and
there was nothing to fear. But the
English captain, to whom the German
plot was confided, thought otherwise,
and at the last moment the deputies
were transferred to the imperial yacht,
surrounded on all sides with English
mine layers. The whole of the day
they sailed from Bergen the comman
der followed a zigzag course, until
they reached a monster British war
vessel, which the deputies boarded.
The party was told that their des
tination was Newcastte-on-Tyne,
where they would arrive at S a. m.
That same night the captain received
a wireless that a perfect shoal of sub
marines was following in his wake and
he again changed his course. The cap
tain told Dr. Shingarieff, the distin
guish Russian deputy, "The subma
rines will never be able to overtake
my vessel, but they might heach a
point where they could hinder our
course, so I have to move very careful
ly."
The night passed without any thrill
ing Incident until the voyagers reached
a port, much to the astonishment of
the deputies, far up in the north of
Scotland, instead of their supposed
destination.
Pa's Been Shootin'!
A great big kettle's a bllin' away,
Upon our kitchen range;
The-smell I'm smellin's awful good,
But, say, I feel real strange;
For Bunny's head is in the pall *
Reside ills little furry tall;
Ills skin is spread out wide to dry—
I won't you bet, but t could cry!
For Bunny's eyes look up at me.
And sort of sad as sad's can be.
"Oh, Jimmy, I just loved to run
Across the finlds in Bunny fun,
I loved to chew the fresh green grass,
Or pluck a carrot as I passed
The farmer's Held, then run back home
Where I could eat it up alone;
Or give a bite to my mother,
Or to my little Bunny brother—
But now my head lies in the pail
Beside my little Bunny tail
My skin Is spread out wide to dry"—
Poor Bunny's eyes, they seem to say
All this. 1 have to look away.
And then I smell the smell from our
range
And gee! I feel most mighty strange;
I don't believe I'll want my dinner,
1 feel my pa's almost a sinner!
EDNA GROPF DEIHU
For the Telegraph.
| Our Daily Laugh ~"|
THE RUDDY ■■JTI
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red-haired girls
la autumn.
f SOMETHING
fjj JUST AS GOOD.
Miss Glasgow
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■tt y circulating 11b-
— No, ma'am, but
I can show you
some nice re-
volvlng book-
Bittting Qllfat
Friends of Lew R. Palmer, thd
State's chief of factory inspection, are
congratulating- him upon his electiort
as president of the National Safety
council, the executive organization ot
one of the strongest factors in the
world for the making of things better
and safer for working men, everyone,
in fact. Mr. Palmer was one of th'e
organizers and was vice-president last
year. He aided in organizing when
he was selected as the representative -
of the American Association of Electri- 9
cal Engineers. The National council
is composed of representatives of every
big corporation in the country, the
safety engineers and experts and soma
big business men. It is working not
only for safety in the industries but in
every day life. It is the organization
that is behind many safety movements
in the country.
* • •
Speaking of safety it is interesting 1
to note the manner in which safety
warnings are given. It seems to bo
the general idea that when a red globe
;is shown that it means caution and
there are various devices which hav
become popular to designate danger
The warnings are in great array. In
Market street these were read yester
day: "Better safe than sorry,"
"Watch your step," "Look before you
cross" and "Use your eyes and watch
your feet."
♦ ♦ *
"Harrisburg is a great city to cele
brate things," said a visitor to the city
as he stood in the Commonwealth last
night. "Yet, I have not noticed where
Pennsylvania's capital or its metropo
lis or any other city has celebrated
much about William Penn. His birth
day, October 14, is unnoticed and as
for the day of his landing, or the day
on which he promulgated his plan for
government of the province, I do not
think that many people in his Stato
oven know them."
•
Arnold W. Brunner, who will make
the plans for the improvement of the
State Capitol park, knows Harrisburg
and what it has been trying to do. Tho
creator of the great civic center of
Cleveland visited here last Spring
when he spoke at one of the noon
luncheons of the Chamber of Com
merce and he has been here since.
Warren H. Manning, tho consulting
landscape architect, is a close friend
of Mr. Brunner and the two visited the
park extension and went over the
park extension zone some time ago.
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Signs of the change at the great
steel works in Steelton are to be seen
on many hands in the big borough.
The signs are different about tho
works and there are some lively days
on the extension operations. Even
the shifters have changed the name to
the Bethlehem Steel Company and
the cars are coming out of shops with
tho big P changed to a B in the com
pany initials.
• • •
"The American species sofms to bo
losing that Vankee enthusiasm and
ingenious effervescence which hereto
fore has characterized it in presiden
tial campaigns and less important po
litical occasions," said a dusty trav
eler yesterday after a motor trip
through a number of northern coun
ties. Not a sign to indicate that the
country was passing through a. period
of suspense the outcome of which waa
of immense importance to our welfare
as a nation. "The only thing I saw
of significance," said the traveler, "waa
a group of women in Duncannon en
tertaining themselves with cheers for
Wilson.
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"Take me along, Mister!" The cry •
came-from a small 14-year-old boy
trudging along the road below Speece
ville.
"All right, sonny, hop in," returned
the driver and the motor renewed its
chugging.
And by the time the pair reached
the Clark's Kerry bridge it leaked out
that wayfarer was "Pat" Boyle, of
Wilkes-Barre, on his way from Cale
donia to his home, a matter of some
130 miles. While visiting relatives
there, he became homesick, according
to his story, and started to walk home.
He "freighted" it into Harrisburg oil
election night and found it not to his
liking. So he moved on.
The driver of the machine later
heard that several boys had run away
from Bloomlield Academy and tho
authorities were on the lookout for
them.
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Within the next few days tho
| various city departmental heads will
begin work on the estimates for tho
| 1917 budget and in course of time
the report, of the city assessor on the
I taxable property possibilities will be
[ ready for the commissioners. Tho
budget doesn't necessarily need to bo
passed until the latter part, of De
cember so that the councilman can
devote all the time they wish to par
ing and pruning with the hope of
keeping down the tax rate. Whether,
in view of the extra demands that will
necessarily have to be made on tho
municipality's purse strings during
tho coming year, the millage can bo
kept to the present basis is considered
questionable in municipal circles.
Many prominent Central Pennsylva
nlans were here yesterday to attend
the hearings of the State Board of
Public Charities on appropriations,
some of the leading lawyers and busi
ness men of the central and northern
counties being here. The hearings at
tracted an unusual number of men
this year.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "]
—Election of Senator Frank E.
Baldwin adds another lawyer to tho
State Senate.
—F. W. Stites, elected to the Legis
lature In Montgomery, was a great
baseball player in his college days.
—Jere S. Black, the York lawyer, is
ill in a Baltimore hospital.
—Charles M. Scliwub is having a
new private car built and It Is said tliat
it will cost $50,000.
[ DO YOU KNOW
Tlint llarrisbm* ships steel to
Boston for building operations?
HISTOHIC HAHRISBIIRG
Three Indian villages were on the
site of the present Harrisburg.
These Girls Will Cook
[lndianapolis Star.]
The New York grandmother of prac
tlval proclivities and old-fashioned
Ideas who left a bequest of |IO,OOO
each of four granddaughters on con
dition tha't they qualified by cooking
a course d'lnner for 12 persons, is re
ceiving much post-mortem praise from
the press.
Of course tho girls will all learn to
cook. What girl would not for that
sort of reward? Probobly she would
learn anyhow, especially If she mar
ried, for In these days of the high
cost of house servants and tho scarcity
of such help, the average young wo
man who marries Is obliged to learn to
cook.
A Safe Position
' We can say for the new dimes, with
out exposing any lack of artistic judg
ment, that they shine.—Toledo Blada.