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MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 13
There are many kinds of love, as many
kinds of light,
And every kind of Jove makes a glory
in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and
love that gives it rest ;
But the love that leads life upward is
the noblest and the best.
—Henry van Dyke.
THE TEACHERS IN TOWN
DESPITE the ravages of Infantile
paralysis and rumors that be
cause so much time was lost in
the early Fall by reason of the
quarantine for that disease there
would be no "institute" this year, the
school teachers of Dauphin county are
in town to-day for their annual ses
sions. "Institute" might well bo called
institution it} Pennsylvania, for that
Is what it has become.
Take away the annual week of
"institute" and you would rob the
teaching profession §t one of Its dear
est perquisities, for the week in town
with pay is one of the bright spots of
the year for the rural teacher. There
he or she—mostly she finds both
intellectual stimulus and social en
joyment. The girl with her . first
month's pay in her purse does her
Fall and winter shopping during
moments between lectures and even
the giddiness of an evening at the
theater is far from unknown among
the more frivolous minded. And what
an opportunity is offered to renew old
acquaintances and to indulge in a
little "sparking" on the side! Nobody
but Cupid himself knows how many
weddings have had their inception
during "institute" weeks.
Harrisburg is always happy to
entertain the men and women who
constitute the teaching corps of the
county public schools. They are a
fine body. They have high ideals and
they are performing one of the most
Important services on the long roll
of human occupations.
What excuse, we wonder, will Penn
sylvania Democrats And to ask for Fed
eral pap?
LTETTEXAXT THOMAS
THE Telegraph Family is proud of
First Lieutenant Charles W.
Thomas, whose career at the
border has been one of the bright
spots In recent Harrisburg military
history.
Lieutenant Thomas enlisted In Com
pany I, Eighth Regiment, as a private
on the eve of the company's departure
for the border. He had been a mem
ber of the National Guard for years,
but had resigned a few months pre
vious. He left a responsible position
In the composing room of the Tele
graph to go to the front. He had
scarcely donned his uniform before a
vacancy occurred in the ranks of the
noncommissioned officers and Captain
Zeigler, now major, promoted Thomas
to be first sergeant. Tills post he held
until the transfer of Lieutenant
Chambers to a machine gun company
made another vacancy in Company I
and Sergeant Thomas was made sec
ond lieutenant by unanimous choice of
the company. On Saturday he was
made first lieutenant of his company,
following the promotion of Captain
Zeigler to be major of the Eighth
Regiment, another deserving promo
tion coming as the result of years of
training in the Guard,
The Telegraph always rejoices when
a Harrisburg boy makes good, and
doubly so when he is a member of the
Telegraph Family,
The Steelton football team appears to
have imbibed some of the Schwab
Kinger.
BY POPULAR VOTE
THE possibility of tho loss of one
electoral vote by President Wil
son In Washington and another
by Mr. Hughes in West Virginia, one
by death and the other by resignation,
both occurring so late that the va
cancies could not bo filled before
November 7, demonstrates what a
weak staff the electoral college is. As
It happens the electoral vote will not
be changed in favor of one or another,
because tho losses were equally di
vided, but in a close election it might
easily have happened that the verdict
of the people would have been over
turned and a President chosen by an
electoral college that would have been
a reversal of the popular vote In the
Btate which happened to be the de
ciding factor.
At' all events, the electoral college
has long since outlived the intent for
fvMch it was created. To-day it is
MONDAY EVENING,
merely the instrument by which par
ties record their wishes. It has no
useful purpose and in the cases of
Washington and West Virginia it will
serve this year merely to subvert to
a small degree the wishes of a ma
jority of the electors.
The election of a President should
be by the people of the United States,
not by the people of any number of
States. The time has come —if it has
not been here long since—that Presi
dents should be elected by the popu
lar vote of all the States combined.
Such a change In the manner of elec
tions not only would more fairly
register the will of the people, but
it would do much toward breaking
down sectional differences and pre
judices that make for anything but
good government.
If the price of turkey keeps on goiug
up it will be not long before it will be
as cheap as tenderloin steak.
SHORT SHOPPING SEASON
DO you realize, Mr. and Mrs.
Christmas Shopper, that there
will be very little "early shop
ping" this year?
Between now and Christmas Day
thero are but six weeks—to be exact,
just thirty-five shopping days.
Election falling nearly a week later
than usual and Thanksgiving falling
on the last day of November, Instead
of nearly a week earlier, have had the
effect of shortening the season usually
given over to preparation for the
Great Holiday.
Thero Is more money In Harrisburg
for shopping purposes now than for
many years back. Everybody who
wants work Is at work and good
wages prevail. Prices aro high, It Is
true, but business men keen to at
tract the shopping trade to their
stores have bought their Christmas
supplies Kith that fact in view and
have laid in great quantities of all
manner of attractive wares at "prices
suitable for even the most humble
I-urse. Knowing that money would
be plentiful, Harrisburg merchants
have bought as never before. They
have on hand the greatest quantity
and the widest variety of Christmas
goods and staples in the history of
the city.
The season is shorter than ever be
fore, the demand will be greater and
the crowds that throng the stores at
Christmastime this year will be big
ger.
The moral of this is that if you are
going to Do Your Shopping Early,
you must begin at once.
Mr. Mann and Mr. Clark are wonder
ing which is going to be minority leader
of the House, with the .result in doubt.
'.V ANT UKMI'F. NOT REPORTS
THE Telegraph is in receipt of the
following letter:
I notice in your paper of Thurs
day a demand that the Govern
ment do something toward reliev
ir><r the people of the higrh price evil
that is now destroying our pros
perity. Do you not know that the
Government is at this moment in
vestigating the prices of coal and
some other commodities? Can't
you be fair?
To be sure, the Telegraph knows of
tills. The so-called coal probe has
been going right along for the past
two months—and coal is higher In
price than ever. What the people
want is not a voluminous report to
Congress, submitted next summer, but
relief right now, at the season when
the furnace begins to work overtime
and the fuel problem Is most serious.
Action, not words, is the demand; re
lief, not reports. Everybody knows
coal is too high in price. No investi
gation of that is necessary. The same
applies to foodstuffs.
l?rA!ir T XG TRADE BALANCES
WHATEVER view politicians may
have taken regarding the
effect of tho European war
upon the revival of American industry
and the restoration of our export
trade, large business men of the coun
try are not permitting themselves to
be deceived. Their future financial
safety depends upon their correctly
analyzing the business situation. While
they had their preferences during the
recent campaign as to candidates for
the Presidency, yet those preferences
did not cause them to blind themselves
to actual economic conditions.
President Wilson and tho members
of his Cabinet and his political cam
paign managers repeatedly made the
assertion that our revival of industry
was not based upon trado growing out
of the war. They maintained an ab
solute silence regarding tho fact that
we had a favorable trade balance at
the time tho Underwood tariff law was
passed, that the balance steadily di
minished under the Democratic tariff
law until it was actually against us,
and that it did not again turn in our
favor until a month after the outbreak
of the war. President Wilson was
willing, for political advantages, to let
the people of the country believe that
we are now enjoying a trade balance
of $351,000,000 in a month not due to
war orders.
But, as remarked before, the large
business men of the country labor un
der no delusion of that kind. On
November 3, in Chicago, the leading
bankers of the country held a meeting
to devise a means of checking the
flood of gold that has been llowing
into this country until it has become a
menace to our financial structure.
They recognize the well-known fact
that one dollar of gold furnishes the
basis for many dollars of credit and
that the inflow of gold has been due
entirely to our abnormal exports of
commodities needed by the nations at
war.
Naturally, each man who has goods
in considerable quantities to sell for
export desires to receive in payment
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therefor the best kind of money.
Large shippers have, therefore, de
sired gold instead of securities; but
every time gold was shipped to this
country it furnished a basis for a
larger quantity of credit business and
brought on an inflation of values and
an advance In prices.
Democratic politicians call this
prosperity. To the substantial busi
ness man who realizes that there must
some day be a contraction, it has be
come a menace of such proportions as
to bring together in Chicago the lead
ing bankers of the United States.
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II "POETIC* U
I^e-KKOi^cuua
By the Ex-Coromlttecnuui
Officiate of the Department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth to
day announced that they had received
the first official returns from counties
and tabulation was immediately start
ed. It is expected that the whole
State will bo completed within three
weeks. The counties filing returns in
official form were Adams, Cameron,
Fulton, Juniata, Monroe, Montour,
Snyder, Sullivan and Wyoming.
The votes of the National Guards
men except the First Artillery have
been received at the department and
will be used for comparison with offl-'
cial returns from counties where there
are soldier votes. Meanwhile they are
being kept under lock and key.
The time for filing expenso accounts
for the election will expire on De
cember 7.
—Vance C. McCormick, the Democ
cratlc national chairman, who arrived
homo Saturday, resumed his private
business to-day. He declared there
was nothing to reports that he was
likely to go into the Cabinet as suc
cessor to Secretary of War Baker.
Mr. McCormick has been invited to go
to Atlanta to attend the big Democra
tic celebration.
—Philadelphia newspapers to-day
revamp the stories circulated before
the election to the effect that in tho
event of the election of Wilson the
Vare-Brumbaugh-Magee forces would
unite in an attack to drive Senator
Penrose from a dominating place In
the State organization on the ground
that he had failed In the election. The
control of the Legislature is said to be
tho preliminary test with the Gover
norship In 1919 as the goal. Newspa
pers unfriendly to the Republican
party are giving much space to the
possibilities of factional fighting.
—A fresh outburst of "honorable
mention" of men as candidates for
gubernatorial honors in 1918 has oc
curred. Somo of the men mentioned
have been listed every time anyone has
started to speculate In the last year
and a half.
—Tho election of Senator E. E. Bel
dleman, of Dauphin county, as presi
dent pro tem. analn being Bottled there
Is nfl.w much talk about the speaker
ship of the next House, which Is ex
pected to be, If anything, more strong
ly Republican than the last lower
branch. Richard J. Baldwin, of Dela
ware, who stinted out before the elec
tion on a campaign. Is working hard
and to offset him some
have been trotted out, Including
Thomas K. McNlchol, Eilwln R. Cox
and Herman L. Hecht, Governor
Brumbaugh and some of his friends
are said to be favorable to George W.
Williams, of Tioga, chairman of the
law and order committee last session.
The belief Is that tho speaker will not
come from either Philadelphia or Al
legheny. The Democratic candidate
will not matter as there nre but thirty
seven Democrats in the House list as
l'ar as known.
—Democratic {State headquarters
hero will be maintained for a while.
The wheels of the windmill did not trel
hot this campaign as it was maintain
ed as a mere annex by the Democratic
Stato machine, the main headquarters
being in Philadelphia, de spite the fact
that this condition was considered to
be a terrible offem,a by the reorganiz
es before they got into power. The
windmill bossi s having gotten Wilson
but failed to give Pennsylvania will
probably maintain the State heaqunr
ters as a smoking room for some of the
thirty-seven Democrats in the noxt
Hous6.
—These Democratic bosses, being
confronted with many applicants and
not enough places, are going to have a
fine time preventing raids on post
masters. In AUentown Postmaster
Martin Klingler, of brass band and
Wilson forever fame, is threatened
with a fight by County Chairman
Frederick. In several towns hungry
Democrats are contending that be
cause the President gets eight years is
no reason why postmasters should
have that tenure.
—Joseph H. Waidellch, Lehigh's
Democratic candidate for congress-at
large, has a gubernatorial boom. He
should be better Informed. That place
has been wrapped up and ticketed al
ready.
—No statement has come from the
Democratic windmill about the de
cline of the Democratic strength In
the next House. Last session the
Democrats had forty-one. Next ses
sion they will not have forty.
—lncidentally there is a Republican
member of the House from Lehigh
and a Republican Senator from Le
high and Luzerne Is Republican again,
Wilkes-Barre people are hailing B. F.
Williams as the new Republican leader
in Luzerne since he piloted Congress
man-elect T. W. Templeton to victory.
—Auditor General-elect Snyder will
be active in the Senate until the first
Tuesday in May when he will become
Auditor General. There are too many
precedents for the Democrats to at
tack.
How It Seems in Texas
They say that Villa is in hiding on
the Hearst ranch. Wc fancy he won't
be welcome there unless he raises a
devil of a disturbance and gives out a
signed statement praising Hearst.
Houston Post.
All the Fixin's
It has been suggested that the name
of this country he changed to Unista
tia. Wouldn't that be nice? And now
wc must get a yell and an engraved
letterhead. —Cleveland Plain Dealer..
Had Little Fun
Captain Koenig says that while the
Deutschland was bobbing up and down
in the southwest storm It made only
about a mile an hour, and we Imagine
the boys didn't have much more fun
than King George had on the horse that
time.—Grand Rapids Press.
Warning to Europe
Notwithstanding Professor Lowell's
theories as'to life on Mars, there Is a
belief that the people of that planet
got into a world war and killed each
other off.—Marion Star.
Smell of Stars
Miss Amy Lowell writes: "I smell
the stars!" And one naturally thinks
of the constellation of Capricornus, tho
Goat. —Boston Advertiser.
Running No Risks
Now we are to have motion-picture
shows for ladies only, though it seenis
as if the men had been sufficiently
hardened by the fashion ads in the
magazines to stand almost anything.
—Grand Rapids Press.
The Chaplain's Prayer
Among the Inspiring things that take
place in a big political convention may
be mentioned the earnestness, humility
and faith of the chaplain's prayer.—
Toledo ISlade.
Works That Way
It is a queer fact that even a bach
| elor nt tlie head of a business prefers
, married men for employes. But this
practice probably Ih no part of a move
ment to promote matrimony.—Mllwau
! keo New s.
A Song of Aviation
With a humming and a drumming, to
announce that I am coming,
Up tho long blue silent speedways of
tho universe I soar,
Saying "Howdy!" to Canopus, as I
meet his rays of topaz,
Sweeping into virgin spaces where
no man has been before.
Far below me files the eagle, now a
bird no longer regal,
Since his flight is short and puny as
a wren's compared to inlno;
For tho spheres unfold before me, and
I see tho mystic glory.
Of tho inflnlto extending to the rim
of things divine.
Oh, the wonder and the thunder of
tho wings that rend asunder
The eternal veils of silence that are
wrapped around tho stars!
Oh, the monstrous echoes falling
through the distances appalling,
Where a host of nameless planets
race their bright colostlal cars!
Sing, ye wires and struts and braces!
Let It ring across tho spaces.
Jupltor alone no longer rules the
stellar empire vast.
Riding on my daring pinions, earth
can Bhare the air-dominions,
And the star-trust has been broken
—smashed to smltherecnr at
last. ,
—Minna Irving, In New York Time*.
CLEVER LITTLE L
GOLD PRIZE IN ft.
MISS MARGARET KOSTER, Of
Woodbine street, was awarded
the second prize, a five-dollar
gold piece, in the recent D. A. R.
essay contest for Senior Central high
school girls on "Children of the Am
erican Revolution." Miss Koster's
paper was so original and Interesting
that the Telegraph has been asked
to publish it.
Boston, January 3, 1746.
Dear Patience:
Have you heard the good news?
We are twenty now, for we have a
little baby brother at our home. He
was christened last Sunday, and it
was so cold that Pastor Howell had
to break the ice in the christening
bowl. Little Expected has been very
111 since his christening, but our
mother has given him a compound
made from boiled snails. Madame
Austin recommended it and she says
it is very fine.
O, my friend Patience, we had a
happy country dance at friend Hopes
last Friday eve. There were ten
maidens there, and we had a good
treat of nuts, raisins, cakes, wine,
and punch. I was dressed in my
yellow petticoat, black bib and apron,
my pompedore shoes, the cap my aunt
Storer sometime since presented me
with, with the blue ribbons on it, a
very handsome loket in the shape of
a hart, the paste pin my Hon'd Papa
presented me with in my cap, my
new cloak and bonnet, and my pom
pedore gloves, and I would tell you
Farmers' Institutes
[Pennsylvania Parmer]
The farmers' institutes will begin
in Pennsylvania next week. As usual,
the State is divided into Ave sections.
One speaker in each section will at
tend all the meetings in that section,
while the others will attend for a
longer or shorter time, according to
the needs of the different localities
of the section. Wo would urge farm
ers to take advantage of the oppor
tunities which a farmers' institute af
fords to get together for'mutual dis
cussion of their common problems.
We sometimes hear it said that the
institutes have served their purpose
and should be discontinued. This as
sertion is usually based upon the as
sumption that the same thing is said
and done year after year at Institutes.
If this were true there would be good
reason for the claim, but the subject
of agriculture is so broad and the
need for Intelligent discussion so
great that the last word will never be
said, and institute speakers who are
really capable endeavor to keep up
with the times. Communities in
which these institutes are to be held
should make every effort to have the
session well nttended, arid to bring
out tho fullest discussion of the
topics.
A Healthy Sign
[Philadelphia Uncord.]
Figures compiled by tlie Interstate
Commerce Commission show that dur
ing the year ended June 30 only 718
miles of entirely new railroad were
built in tlie United States, and some
contemporaries are inclined to be con
cerned over this showing, which is the
lowest total for over fifty years. Our
| trnde journal even er.lls the situation
alarming, and says that "hostility to
| ward railroads must cease, that capital
; may again lie Induced to lend its strong
'arm to their extension."
J TIIIM seems a mistaken point of view.
New railroads are not being built so
i extensively as thirty or forty years ago,
j for the very good reason that they are
| not urgently needed. Many of the exist
ing companies are making more money
now than ever before, and if their
managers thought that new feeders
were required there would not be the
faintest trouble in financing them.
Good railroad securities find a ready
sale, and the alleged hostility to rail
way corporations is very largely my
thical.
A gtnnce at a railroad map will Rhow
that 111 this form of enterprise Amer
ica leads the world. They gridiron the
whole country, and have long been the
most Important agency In the develop
ment of tho United States,
A Certainty
There Is noth ng certain In the
world, except thav when you start In
saving money for one thing you are
golnt- to spend It for something else. —
Port Worth Star.
Synthetic Brains
We rend that they are making syn
thetic milk from peanuts, and wo sup
pose It would be permissible to refer
to the gigantic intellects of our states
men n synthetic brains. —Milwaukee
Journal,
' NOVEMBER 13, 1916.
they all liked my dress very much.
Did I tell you that WaitstiU has
been going to school in Boston? I
wish very much that I could go, but
my Hon'd Papa does not approve of
much learning for woe man.
By the reports received by my
Hon'd Papa, Wattstill must be a very
bad boy. His master has given him
two severe trouncings and every
day "Whispering Sticks" have had to
be tied in his mouth.
Our mother and Hon'd Papa took
my twelve sisters and six of my
brothers and myself to widow Dud
ley's funeral last week. I saw all my
friends there and we all had lovely
time. I wish there would be a fun
eral each weeke.
It seems to me that I have very
bad brothers. Last Sundaye at meet
ing my three younger brothers, Re
form, Experience and Temperance,
were hit upon the head by the tith
ingf-man. They were acting very bad
ly and therefore they were punished
Also my Hon'd Papa had his face
tickled with the fox-tail, for he had
fell asleepe in meeting.
My poor Patience, I am sorry to
hear that your brothers, Endurance
and Prisemus, have been so ill since
they fell in the pond while they were
"seating." I presume the ice was too
thin. The meanwhile I kiss your
dear Mother and commend the health
of ye-all to the gracious care of God.
Your lovynge frlende,
CHARITY PEMBERTON.
Our Daily Laugh
SUSPICIOUS.
That new cook
arrived Satur- V\ L^Ar
day and quit jrV"-''/ J Vw]V
Monday. jl i tr-V 1
That's the way (^ '( / 1(5
they'll do. It's \\ I I—ul
a new scheme v l v II
for week-end .//i .1
holidays. j IjrH I
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OV _ HK WAS WISK.
__ Politician
Your constltu
\y ents are crltlcls
/, / lnK you ' or not
I \ expressing l a n
LV/N \ jfl Vl "Pinion.
- ')) \j| Congressm a n
Ift —Yes, but not
' J ftrmp as much as they
would criticise
tho opinions If I
-*Sr expressed any.
YOUNG IDEA.
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SO LONG, IIKADIOU
By Wins Dlitfter
My things aro packed, dear reader.
I'm going far away
Upon a sad, sad journey—.
I'm sailing, by the way.
And with me many others
Will leave the port to-day—
There'll bo no fun or luughter
To cheer us on our way.
But sobs will mark the Journey
Of this down-hearted horde—
Hark, now I hear the boat called:
"Salt lUver, All Aboard!"
Batting (Etjat
Dismantling of the parts of the
plant of the Chesapeake Nail Works,
which has been going on this Fall,
calls to mind that this is the second
of the famous iron manufacturing
establishments in the South Harris
burg district to pass Into the hßnds of
the scrap iron dealer. Of the Lochiel
Koiling mills only some stone pillars
end heaps of rubble remain. Parts of
the historic nail works are disappear
ing. Paxton Furnaces and Lochiel
furnace, the only remaining furnaces
in the city, are idle in the midst o&|
a period when everything that caw
smelt or fabricate iron or steel is in
demand and the chances aro that they
will go the same way before long
that the Central Iron and Steel com
pany's plant and the Klllott-Fisher
company's big works will be all that
will be left in u district which was
once one of the most important sec
tions in tho premier iron State of the
Union. In years gone by there were
half a dozen blast furnaces in this city
and several rolling mills. .Porter fur
nace at State street and the old Penn
sylvania canal, "Wister furnace along
the canal below Mulberry street and
an older furnace located near the
Paxton plant, with the three now
remaining. Harrisburg's prominence
in iron making was dimmed by tho
smoke from Steelton, although the
development of the Central, Harris
burg Pipe and Pipe Bending, Lalance
and Grosjean and—other works
more than counterbalanced the loss o£
the old establishments.
• • •
Tho Chesapeake Nail works was fop
a long time one of the chief industries
of Harrisburg and there are many
families in this city whose fathers,
brothers and sons worked in the mills
or the nail factory. Its whistles
used to wake up South Harrisburg and
the 400 men who worked in the plant
were a considerable element down
town. The Chesapeake works was es
tablished, and what is more, main
tained in the face of disasters by the
late Charles L,. Bailey. The works
was built In 1866-7 and soon be
came famous for its cut nails while
it had a wide demand for bar Iron.
In 1878 and 1882 explosions and fires
caused great damage, but each time
the works was rebuilt on a larger
scale. The Chesapeake nails were so
well known that they were able lo
hold their business in the face of the
competition from the wire nails,
which really began soon after the
plant was built. Harrisburg nails
were shipped to Cuba, Brazil and
even to China and went all over tho
country. For years tho products of
its 103 clattering, busy machines en
joyed a high repute. The works has
been operated very irregularly in tho
last half dozen years.
The Lochlel plant of the Harris
burg Rolling Mill is said to have been
the first rolling mill built in Harris
burg if not in the country. It was
built in 1865, the idea of the men
who built it being to roll rails, which
were then a subject of thought by
American investors and iron men and
which a few years later were develop
ed. The works underwent many
changes .and the usual chapter of ac
cidents. It was abandoned some years
ngo and the plant sold. Robert C.
Neal, a member of a noted iron fam
ily of the upper Susquehanna valley,
was the last owner, having operated
it for over a quarter of a century.
In its day Lochiel had a fine trade
and some of its bars were sold in
England. It was the central point of
quite a settlement of iron workers and
the last company store in Harrisburg
was operated there.
"I see a good bit of attention 1?
being given to some reports of "dol
lar eggs." I do not thing that is so
unusual," remarked a man who fol
lows the food markets. "You can al
ways get people who have a lot of
money and do not thoroughly under
stand how hard it Is to get it to pay
fancy prices. I have hoard of soma
men in Philadelphia who pay sev
enty-five cents for eggs strictly fresh
and rushed to their houses from
poultry yards, and fancy eggs, laid by
pedigreed fowls, always command a
high price. Then, too. if some of the
people who have been indulging fads
for poultry will sit down and figure
it out they will probably find that they
have been paying around a dollar a
dozen for eggs. What is worrying
men more is that ordinary eggs are
round half a dollar a dozen."
The fine afternoons of last week
especially Saturday, made the vicinity
of the river dam very popular for sal
mon fishermen. There were half a
dozen boats moored near the dam In
the afternoon and further down tho
stream several more. The dam has
~? n .L ul ?, ninsr very close to the Rock
ville falls ' and the Dauphin "rapids"
p°ace°I )Ularity as a salmon fishing
• • •
Opening of the school libraries bv
the Harrisburg Public I.ibrary the last
few days has resulted in requests for
the establishment of more such
branches. The library now has six
tranches, which are in charge of tho
principals of the schools and somo
splendid work has been dono. Re
quests for an equal number are on
nand, but in the present state of tho
finances it will be impossible to do
more this winter.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—The Rev. Dr. W. C. Wallace, the
new president of Westminster college
was formerly stationed at Rraddock.
—J. Horace McFarland was the
speaker at the monthly luncheon of
the Allegheny County Civic club in
Pittsburgh.
—Director of Safety C. S. Hubbard,
of Pittsburgh, was given a surprise
by associates on his sixtieth birthday.
—W. W. Iloper, who resigned as
appraiser of the port of Philadelphia
was a noted football player.
Prof Emory R. Johnson, form
erly public service commissioner, has
been summoned to give expert testi
mony on public utilities before tho
special congressional committee at
Washington. He is one of the few
invited from this State to do so.
[ DO YOU KNOW j
That Harrisburg ships bread
every morning before daybreak
to a dozen counties?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Jesuit fathers conducted
on the site of Sylvan Heights orphait*
age as early as 1810.
A Model in Defeat
[From the Washington Post.]
The distinguished citizen who ran
second as a result of Tuesday's poll
will do well If he even succeeds in be
coming an acceptable understudy to
former President Tuft. If ever man
has carried gracefully and blg-liearted
ly the burden of defeat it has been Mt.
Taft.
Seems Curious
It is curious that the Allien should
be held up by such persistent bad
weather in Macedonia, while Macken
sen manages to get ahead in the Do
brudja swamps.—Springfield Repub
lican.