8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. H.J.STACKPOLE.Prw'I and EJitor-in-Chitf *"• R. OYSTER, Business Manager. Gt S M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. . Member American Ushers' Associa lation and Penn- TjgjglSjj W sylvanta Associate ' iBI fifljj Mi Eastern office, ' BfiS S BBS H Flnle'y, Fifth Ave ™\jm nue Building. New 1 Building, Chi — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, *3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVEXING, NOV. 18 Those tcho never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. — HUBBARD. EXTEND THE LAW EVERY life insurance policyholder should be protected by State supervision of every company or association selling insurance in Penn- whether profit-earning, mu tual or fraternal. To that end, at least. State In surance Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil will have the support of the public as a whole in his effort to extend the insurance laws of the Commonwealth to give the Insurance Department the authority it should have over the operations of companies and organ izations doing an insurance business in Pennsylvania. Efforts have been made for twenty years to enact some such legislation and failure to get the bills through has been almost always due to the in fluence of certain fraternal and mu tual organizations which objected to It for their own reasons, some of which are now becoming only too apparent. The State inspection of insurance concerns is not designed alone for the benefit and protection of stockholders and officials. The main object of State supervision is to prevent the money of the policyholder from being mishandled and in a measure to guarantee the face value of every policy issued. No company or as sociation can reasonably object to this. Suspicion must rest upon any Insurance concern that fears the scanning eye of the State examiner. No better assurance of financial in tegrity could be given by any insur ance selling agency than that it has been recently examined by the State and found to be in excellent condition. Every policy issued to a resident of Pennsylvania within the borders or the State ought to have back of it the assurance of the State Insurance Department that the company selling it is financially responsible, so far as the examiners have been able to ascertain. / Count on William Jennings Bryan to start something for Democracy every time Democracy doesn't want to have anything started. BRYAN AXD PROHIBITION THE expressed intention of William Jennings Bryan to make Pro- hlbition the chief issue of the Democratic party in 1920 is interest ing from whatever angle it may'be viewed. Beyond doubt, Bryan is sin cere In his prohibition views. His temperance proclivities in the cabinet did much to make grape juice the national beverage and paved the way for the Daniels anti-booze order in the navy. It is particularly fortunate for Mr. Bryan that he found an issue which at one and the same time is square with his conscience and gives him opportunity for a new pose in the political limelight. The Bryan declaration is full of high power explosives, but whether they will go off with a bang that will rip the Democratic party wide open or fizzle out before the next Presiden tial race cannot now be seen or safely judged. There are so many possibilities to he considered that forecasting is hope less. But this is apparent, Mr. Brjan has seized upon the only chance yet remaining to him to be the next Presidential candidate of the Demo cratic party. "What has become of those little lead soldiers marked 'Made in Ger many* that we used to buy?" asks an exchange. Perhaps they have been sent to the front—in the form of bullets. GI.TUNG TOGETHER THE most interesting political re port that has developed since * election day Is that the '"Reform" and the "Old Guard" factions of Democracy have buried the hatchet and agreed to be friends—the "Old Guard" to support A. Mitchell Palmer for Governor next time and the "Re form" crowd to divide the Federal patronage swag with the "Old Guard." In the trial of strength at the pri ' maries last Spring the "Old Guard" •howed that It is not altogether with out power, even though without in fluence at Washington, Just now the eource of all Democratic "pap" in Pennsylvania. It nominated James M. Cramer for State Treasurer, thereby ■mashing the "Reform" slate, and gave the McCormlck-Palmer faction ■omethlng to think about. There can be no real reconciliation between the Ryan wing of the party and that dominated by the present THURSDAY EVENING, HARRIS&URG TELEGRAPH * NOVEMBER 16, 1916. bosses, who threw down the regularly nominated party candidate for State sft>ator in this district in favor of a rank outsider—party loyalty being the rock on which the "Old Guard" pre tends to stand. Neither side trusts the other and both sides would rather see a Republican elected than to have the power of the other increased. It has been thus from Pattison's time and it will require more salve than that of A. Mitchell Palmer and a few Federal offices to heal the chronic sores of two decades of political dis sension. When the "Reform" and the "Old Guard" factions get together it is usually with clubs. Canadian manufacturers look -with apprehension upon any agitation on tliis side of the border in favor of the President's hint of a return to a pro tective tariff. Canadian producers like the looks ot oujj markets and want free access.' They desire to exchange the products of Canadian labor for Ameri can gold. Naturally, they don't agree with an "America First" policy in eco nomics. A FOOTBALL CENTER THE Gettysburg-Bucknell football game at Island Park on Satur day gives rise to the thought that Harrisburg ought to have more of these college games. We have the field and we are the center of the State so far as railroad transportation is concerned and we have the popula tion sufficient to support college games. When the new hotel is built, there will be no better town in the State for the social side of college football than Harrisburg, and no more attrac tive place between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for a week-end Jollifica tion following a football game. We have our inter-scholastic field meets in the Spring and there should be greater effort made by our people to encourage the staging of big college football contests here. SOME MISTAKE, SURELY: THERE must be some mistake about it: surely high school boys have not changed so much since a day that some of us, who do not like to think that we are any older than we were twenty years ago can recall, •hat they find escorting girls home from dances a "trouble and an* annoy rnce." If we recollect rightly, and we have no reason to believe that we have reached an age where the halcyon days of youth arc tinged and colored by the fading rays of a setting sun; if we remember rightly, as we said, taking the girls hc-me from class meetings— we had no such gidfly indulgences as school dances in those days—was the chief purpose of having the class meet ing. Nobody but the bashful boy of the class hedged or hesitated for a moment when going home time came, and even he kicked himself for a ninny as he trudged his lonesome way. Back in those simple, democratic days, not so very long ago. before Har risburg had outgrown its small town ways and donned the sophisticated garb of the big city, high school class meetings were held at the homes of members. Boys and girls gathered at the residing place of host or hostess by twos and threes and the evening was given over to fun and frolic, now and then enlivened by waltz or two step—when the size of the rooms per mitted. Perhaps some of the girls came unescorted, but they never, no, never, went home alone. Indeed, go | ing home was the climax of the meet i ing; the big. though, of course, un ! mentioned, purpose of getting to eether. And what a rivalry there was for the favor of the pretty aud the | popular girls! "Trouble and annoy ance" of escorting them home, indeed! Why, the boys almost fought for the 1 chance, and if the same isn't true to day—and we believe it is—there's something seriously the matter with the boys, for anybody who knows any thing about the girls in the case will without hesitation absolve them from all blame. Now watch the Democratic adminis tration extend tlie classified civil ser vile by "blanketing In" a large number of employes appointed outside the civil service law. E\ ery few months the Government finds a new cheap food for cattle and poultry, after which the pric# of beef takes, a jump and eggs go up. Couldn't the experts turn their attention for a change to cheap food for humans? llow to fill a dinner pail from an empty market basket i* a problem that ought to be occupying the attention of the Democratic bureau heads at Washington. We know of no reason why Presi dent Wilson should not turn out a Thanksgiving Proclamation that will be a masterpiece. Stogies having been advanced In price and shortened in length, there will be fewer ashes on the parlor floor Mon day mornings. Kipling, who declared that "East is East and West is West." was wrong; the West, Judging from election returns'. is South. Colonel Roosevelt has taken some time in which to think things over, but Mr. Bryan had evidently thought them over in advance. Germany waxing Indignant over Greece la almost as funny as the Al lies' tears over ravaged Belgium. What's the good of producing all the food In the world and then shipping it all to Europe 7 r J > olltic4 Ck TtKKQijlcQ, KUt By the Ex-Oommltteeman Senator Boles Penrose and his friends in the Legislature will up port Senator E. E. Beidleman for re-election as president pro tem of the State Senate and Representative Richard J. Baldwin for election as speaker of the House when the gen eral assembly meets here 011 Janu ary 2. This was the word brought here last night from Philadelphia, where a series of conferences was held yesterday. There will be no op position in the Republican caucus to Senator Beidleman as the Penrose, Vare and all other men are for him and Senator Vare yesterday compli mented him in giving him his en dorsement for re-election. The candidacy of the versatile Pel aware county man may or may not be openly opposed by the Vare-Brum baugh-Magoe-O'Neil forces. All will depend upon developments in the next four weeks. Mr. Baldwin is not fav ored by a number of men aligned with the- State administration forces, but he is going to make his fight in a way that they may support him if they choose. Governor Brumbaugh dictated the selection of Speaker Ambler last session and Mr. Baldwin withdrew. Just what policy the ad ministration will pursue will be set tled soon. As there is not a great deal of leg islation to act upon nest session there are chances that there may be agree ments. Senator Penrose is out for fulfillment of every pledge and for a number of reforms. The adminis tration will have an ambitious pro gram to carry out and has numerous State officials to be confirmed. People at the Capitol to-day saw a glimmer ing of hope that an agreement on officers might be reached, a general program arranged and an early date for adjournment set and worked up to. Following the announcement in Philadelphia last night that the Pen rose people would back Mr. Baldwin he issued this statement to the Phila delphia Inquirer: "I am in the hands of my friends. I believe that a ma jority of the Republicans of the mem bers-elect of the House are commit ted to my election to the speaker ship, but if they shall ultimately de cide otherwise I will philosophically and gracefully decide to accept their final decision." | —James P. Woodward, of McKees port, who lias for years filled the important role of chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, came east yesterday and met many of his Philadelphia friends. When asked as to his aspirations Mr. Woodward said: "While I appre ciate the mention of my name in con nection with the speakership, I am not a candidate for that or any other office. I am in the position of" a man who is eager to serve his friends and who has no special persona! ambi tions. I have always sought to work in harmony with the State leadership of the Republican Party in Pennsyl vania, and will endeavor to carry out this policy throughout the coming session of the Legislature." Mr. Woodward will be chairman of the House Appropriation Committee again. The Philadelphia Press, which gives the Vare point of view says: "The Philadelphia delegation to the Legis lature, eight members' of the Senate and forty-one of the House, will cau cus early in December, preparatory to the session which opens in Janu ary. While from a political point of view agreement on a speaker is the most interesting possibility of the conference of the House members, Mayor Smith is particularly interest ed in obtaining unity of purpose among the Philadelphia delegation to Senate and House to the end that much legislation beneficial to the city !^ ay n> e -, e 'i a ? t t d ° n a Partisan issue the Philadelphia delegation stands overwhelmingly behind the admin istration in city and State, of the forty-one Representatives twenty-five were supported by the Administra- are alliance, and of the eight Senators, six similarly were backed In the caucus therefore a speaker ta\orable to the mayor could be agreed upon. It is the mayor's desire, however, that no partisan issues shall be raised if such will interfere with obtaining legislation granting a larger measure of home rule to Philadelphia and especially the possibilities for raising additional revenue, so that all the burden of more income shall not fall on real estate alone. The caucus whose date has not yet been decided upon. however. will be likely 10 be a harmonious one. While at the present time there have been many self-announced aspirants for the speakership, nothing like united ac tion by the leaders has been taken month!" 0 probable un > early next _ 1° addition to Charles Walfpr nr Franklin; George W Williams nf Tioga and H. D. Hecht. E. H. i 'ox' and T. 1 . McMchol, of Philadelphia, who ha\e been mentioned for Speaker there has been a boom started in the western tier for Robert 1,. Wallace. illterniißsioit *"° C ° meS back aftfcr a J* T"L interesting to see, in the thrL°.U ' i, Baldwln being elected to V!n r i ° n whoße "boulders will fall the mantle of House leader ship. In days K ono by the House has had some active floor leaders, notablv D. J. Shern, of Philadelphia, and G H Mr s n;. O iJ' eb i an 1 n, J "i 15,13 and "IS Mr. Baldwin looked after the organ isation end on the floor, with John H Sr ?V. W. H. Wilson taking care, of the administration end. —ln Sunbury the Democratic pa rade wat> called off because of lack of Interest. The parades must be get ting too numerous. -—Democratic officeholders in this K* of ,'. he sta,e are shivering again. Uight after a campaign In which na tional and state committees were busv passing the plate and with turkey high and Christmas looming up, here is a call to help meet a deficit of $300,000 in the national campaign. And yet some men are scheming to hold post masters down to one term. —Pemocnit'e city Chairman Lank, of Philadelphia, has unlimbered with a statement In which he invites all Republicans who do not like things at present, all Independents and all others to Join the Democratic machine in electing the next Governor. Lank's statement has the merit of frankness any wa y. —Mayor Jones, of stormy Coates ville. whose removal is recommended, says It is all politics. 0 —More county returns which did not contain the soldier vote were sent back from the Capitol to-day. Good Evidence Captain Koenlg remarks that the blockade does not block. But the ne cessity for a Deutschland is the very best evidence that it does. Provi dence Journal, Of Great Antiquity A horseshoe manufacturer ha Just died, leaving a fortune of $8,000,000. With the village smithy turned into an automobile repair shop, the report has the flavor of great antiquity.— New York World. When a Feller Needs a Friend By BRIGGS EDITORIAL COMMENT] Wilson's peace appears to be raging in Santo Domingo again.—Boston Transcript. It is hard to get into "Who's Who'" by the "Here's How" route.—Charlotte (N. C.) News. The most welcome form of war-relief would be that from war itself.—Phila delphia Evening Ledger. Secretary Baker should be careful to make any unguarded allusions to Chris topher Columbus.—Rochester Herald. As between Villista bandits and Car ranzista de factos the United States oc cupies a position of malevolent neutral ity.—Kansas City Star. Prohibition in 1920 In Denver, three days after the na tional election in the United States, William Jennings Bryan made this statement: "Prohibition is sweeping the country. It will be a presidential campaign issue in 1920 1( a constitu tional amendment is not submitted by Congress to the States by that time. The political supremacy of the East, especially New York, is broken. The West can elect a President; It has done so." If this means anything, it means that, in the event of the fail ure of Congress to submit an amend ment to the Federal Constitution pro hibiting the liquor traffic in all the States, or in the event of the sub mitted amendment being defeated or held up by a bare third of the States, the Western and Southern Democracy in control of the national convention of that party, will probably make pro hibition Its paramount issue, and thaj Mr. Bryan may be willing to lead a campaign having the extermination of the liquor traffic as Its slogan. What support is there for Mr. Bryan's position? The South and West are almost solid prohibition sec tions to-day. With the five States added last Tuesday to the seventeen in the list when Virginia became dry, on November 1, the total number of prohibition States at present is 22. as follows: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Color ado, Georgia. Idaho. lowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Mon tana. Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon. South Carolina, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. The territory of Alaska also is un der the prohibition law. Utah and Florida, in addition to extending widely their prohibition territory, on Tuesday, elected "dry" governors. In at least a dozen other States, "local option" and "high license" operate to exclude the liquor traffic over wide areas. Restrictions difficult for deal ers In Intoxicants to meet, are in force in the District of Columbia, Tn diana, Illinois, Kentucky, Massa chusetts, New Hampshire, New Mex ico, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. One of the most hotly-contested pro hibition campaigns that has ever been carried on in the United States was that which ended in Maryland on the 7th of this month. Prohibition was defeated, but the voting showed tremendous gains for the antillquor element. The contest may properly be regarded as a preliminary skir mish. All the indications tend to show that the liquor interests will be routed in the next battle. As the situation stands at present, nearly half the States of the Amer ican Union are In the prohibition col umn, and. at the present ratio of In crease, the time when two-thirds of the Stutes. or the number necessary to ratification of a prohibition amend ment to the Federal Constitution through their respective legislatures, will be reached. The present Con gress Is in harmony with the Ad ministration, and the administration owes its success in the recent election very largely to the prohibition States. —Christian Science Monitor. The Joyous Season T T #ed to think in spring and summer This old world was sure a hummer; Orleved because, with Joy In sight. Had to sleep away the night! And in autumn—well, life seems In a land of golden dreams; An" In winter, still It smiles Jen' so bright for snowy miles That, with J.oy I will allow; "Hard to beat the old world now!" Tl\at's the way It goes—an' so Joy waylays you, high an* low. An' if Trouble comes around Soon hfe's glttln' over ground! For he Jes' can't stand to stay Whers he hears a fiddle play; That's the music lays him flat! (Takes old winter time for that!) Every season's Jes' so fine I'll Jes' take 'em all In mine! —Atlanta Constitution. ALL ALASKA DIOCESE OF THIS LONE NORTHERN BISHOP THE hardiest man in the house of higliops of the Episcopal conven tion at St. Louis, was the Rt. Rev. Peter T. Rowe, Bishop of Alaska. He is j 69 years old 1 , and for twenty-one years i has braved the elements of Arctic wint ers in covering the six hundred thousand square miles of his diocese, the whole of Alaska, once ever/ three years, on snowshoes and by canoe, ministering to whites, Indians and Eskimos. He is known from Sitka to the shores of the Arctic Ocean as the ministering brother of the lonely prospector. To be Bishop of Alaska, Bishop Rowe says, one must have cast iron digestive organs. The pishop of Alaska frequent ly finds It necessary to sit down in a blizzard to a morsel of raw whale for luncheon, or. If hard pressed, raw dog, in order to sustain life. He must take | forced marches over icy wastes, with j the mercury 50 to 80 degrees below ! zero. Bishop Rowe related that a year ago last winter he stumbled upon members j of Stefansson's Arctic expedition near I Point Barrow, Alaska, groping their way back to civilization. The men had been separated from the main expedi tion and were in a pitiable plight. Bishop Rowe is stocky and powerfully j built and has scant iron gray hair and steel blue eyes. Never (<( the ''(iolil Fever" ! Bishop Rowe was a clergyman at | Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., when he was j consecrated Bishop of Alaska, in 1595. Luther Observance A world-wide celebration of the four i hundredth anniversary of the Protest ant Reformation, and a glorification of i Luther and his labors, began last Tues day by various Lutheran bodies and I will continue for one year,- until Oc i tober 31 next, which is the exact date j upon which, four centuries ago, Luther I nailed his ninety-five theses on the doorpost of Wittenberg Church. Mar tin Luther has been known throughout the last four hundred y*ars as the "founder of Protestant Christianity." He crystallized the movement, begin ning In Germany, out of which grew all the Protestant churches of to-day; but the celebration which began last week Is designed for observation only by Lutherans, of whom there are 76.000,000 in the world and 4,000,000 in this country and Canada. All of the different denominations of Lutherans in America have joined in the plans lor the quadrlcentenntal of Luther antem. to be known as "Reformation Year," and these plans reach into every community which has a Lu theran church, no matter how small, and Include meetings and celebrations of national importance "n the larger ciUes; the design of all .* It being not strmuch to emphasize the Reformation of the sixteenth century us to "hasten the transformation of the twentieth." —Kansas City Star. The Good Loser Partisanship Is running unneces sarily high in old established quarters of conservatism when a leading news paper hints at something to topple over the administration of the man the voters elected a week ago. There may be a heavy truth in the assertion that none is so dangerous as the conserva tive grown radical, if this veiled ut terance of a Chicago paper is to be accepted as something stronger than the expression of disappointment. To say In print that "the good loser In this election would be a fool," Is to invite the disappointed to rally around that statement. To go further and declare that the administration of President Wilson Is bad. and that the coming four years will be bad, and should he overthrown by those who love their country is going further than sounds well even to the sorely disappointed. It is suggesting some thing that at one blow would make over the country and put an end for ever to our Institutions as at present shaped. The good loser In this election, and the good loser In any other election, is the good citizen who steadies down, forgets the whipping he got, and does what he can to help the country. The effect of the rash utterance would be that there Is only one party In the country Into whose hands the Nation's affairs will be trusted. The doctrine that there are only some men in a Nation fit to control political affairs iH the foundation of monarchies, but doesn't fit In well In a republic of democracy, however grievously dis appointment may afflict after a popu lar selection.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. He reached Alaska two years before the rush of prospectors to the Klondike and was one of the first Americans to go over Chilkoot Pass, where a snow slide killed seventy-eight men. He was one of the rescuing party that helped dig the bodies out of the snow. In all his years in Alaska he never had tho "gold fever." "The results of that memorable craze made other work for me,' he said, "and> i I never had time to get the fever. I | was at Skagway at the time there i was an epidemic of meningitis, and many who did not die of that disease succumbed to shooting affrays. Dur i ing a period of two months I conducted {almost dally the funeral of some mur | dered prospector or gambler." | At that time a gambler called "soapy" | Smith headed a gang that infested the j Klondike and mulcted prospectors. The I activities of the band grew to be such j a menace that Bishop Rowe and others organized a vigilance committee, which was sent after the gang. Smith was killed and others were driven out of the country. Bishop Rowe said his winter trips take him two thousand miles into the interior. On snowshoes, in company with an Indian guide, he follows a dog sled, across th£ country where there are no trails, guided only by a compass through the river valleys and over snow clad mountains to the remote camps of Indians and lonely prospec tors.—Prom the S{*. Louis Post-Dis j.patch. "Help Me Play the Game" I We believe in passing: along a bit of ! information whenever it conies our j way. We found the following little |4>rayer in the Wichita Beacon, and It j strikes us that someone else might be I klven R spiritual slap on the back by [ reading it. It is from the pen of Ed- I win Hunt, the Kansas poet. It may not be "highbrow" stuff, but it ought to help you to play the game of life with a little braver spirit. We repro duce it for the folks who believe in the God who is worth living for. Here it is: "Some day I know the evening sun will sink adown its golden lane into the west, but I'll have read the Great est Poem of All and sought the solace of eternal rest. The little children still will play about, their laughter yet will rise upon the air, but I, who love them so. will never see and nevermore for earthly things will care. Teach _.me, O Lord, before that time shall corte to know Thy love holds sway o'er every thing, that Thou are watching all the paths wo trod, from humblest laborer unto greatest king. O Lord, the way is .sometimes hard, the thing I think a srift is oft a curse, but though I stum ble, still I rise again, and keep on go ing, if for good or worse. Help me to learn the beauties of Thy world, the good that lies within my fellow men. and that a Thou hast willed so shall It be, help me to play the game, O Lord. Amen. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Who Killed Tecumseh? [Krom the Ohio Htate Journal.] General Cass thought he answered this question satisfactorily to himself and friends In a speech in the United States Senate In which, with all nec essary formality, he settled the ques tion in favor of Dick Johnson; but like the equally important question— Who killed Cock Robin?—it won't stay settled and every little while re ceives a fresh answer. Colonel Skin ner, away down in Texas, now claims the honor of the deed. To a number who were given their guesses and sur mises he said: "Gentlemen," he said, "I was at that battle where Tecumsey were kill ed—l was! I commanded a regiment there—l did! I'm not a'gwine to say who did kill Tecumsey—l won't: but this much I will say: Tecumsey was killed with one of my pistols; and, gentlemen, a man would not be very apt to lend out his pistols on a 'caslon of that sort!" Buoyant California Youth [From the Hollervllle Tribune.] One of the novelties of the season is a "cheering party." Piloting: two auto loads of boys, Hugh Rogers invaded the No. 7 district and bombarded every house with various yells and cheers, especially if it was the habitat of some comely damsel. Later In the evening they retired to the desert, where joy and liquid refreshments flowed unrestrained. lEbtttbtg (Efyat The fact that there are Ave Thurs* days in this month is believed to ha the reason why the Thanksgiving day proclamations were not put out earlier this year. The governors generally wait for the President. It seems that this year the last Thursday falls on the thirtieth, the last dny of the month. When some business people discovered that they began hustling around to get the otHclal day for giv ing thanks fixed for Thursday, th twenty-third, one week from to-day, on the ground that It was a fourth Thursday anyway and that it would not force all business for the month to be closed up on Wednesday. Tha average business man hates to hav* 4 his month close on a holiday. It '•( ™ bad enough when the last day A* Saturday and worso when it is Sun day. But a holiday makes it still worse. The matter is said to have agitated Washington and every Stata capitol In the Union. Governor Brum* baugh has been cogitating about it. but with the deference due to the President he has been waiting until ha hears from the banks of the Potomac. • • * The figures of registration, which means persons who have put down their names as deßirous of getting books from the Harrlsburg Publla library, mean that about one person In every fivo In Harrlsburg has quail* " ed - It does not cost anything to qualify. All that Is needed Is to sign a name In a book and then get what book Is wanted. The total registra tion is 14,067. If Harrlsburg has 70, 000 people, as some conservatives say, it means one in five. However, there are people from miles around who have signed their names, including quite a number from Steelton. Here is the tale of how William H. Ball, secretary to the Governor, chased Dr. Brumbaugh over halt the State of Pennsylvania yesterdav and how he caught him out in Mercer county. The Governor was scheduled to speak at Sharon last night and de cided to go over the mountains by day light. So he rose at 6 o'clock, Mr. Ball did not set his alarm clock. In any event half an hour before the train left the Governor went to Mr. Ball's lodging house and offered to help him dross. But the secretary dli not get all the papers together that he re quired to attend to business on tlia train and the Governor had to hustle for the train. He got it. Mr. Hall did not. Mr. Ball started for Pitts burgh six hours after the Governor and ran him down as he began to speak in Sharon. Deputy Attorney | General Horace Davis acted as thu I temporary secretary meanwhile and [ introduced the folks to the Governor. "In spite of a lot that is said to the contrary the Keystone State is awa.v in the lead In militia "affairs and I know it from things that have been unwittingly said," remarked a man who follows military matters th other day. "I was in Washington and I found that the army officers care* fully looked up the way Pennsylvania did certain things before deciding and that when it came down to what i 9 called the "paper work," which la rec ords and the like Pennsylvania wai) right up to the mark. In fact, J rather got the idea that. Pennsylvania led in a good many things." Insurance Commissioner J. Denn* O'Nell has joined the ranks with Genl eral Thomas J. Stewart. Both ar< presidents of newspaper publishing companies. General Stewart says h3 gets fits from the man who manage! his newspaper because every time anjj news is given out the general forgeti to see that his Norristown paper ii taken care of. Mr. O'Nell, who hai been very busy with some Insurance companies that needed attention, pul * out a bully story for Allegheny counts the other day. And now he Is WOIH dering whether the home paper got It) • • • The town of Chambersburg h&d i gay old time the other night whed Wilson's re-election was celebrated bl the enthusiastic Democrats. A hug< parade with redfire and much noise( sounding of hautboys, etc., started th* excitement. Believing the party to bfl a little too tame, however, the fire en gines were pressed into service to as sist in the gayety and when they were located in one end of town the enter prising merrymakers started a roaring bonfire in the other end of town. The none-too-big force of policemen forth with tried to arrest the culprits, but they were difficult to find in the surg ing mob and the good-natured crowd didn't sympathize with the strong arms of the law at all. So they refused to be arrested. Visitors to the city yesterday in cluded ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis. son, who came down from Erie to at tend to sor.ie business at the Stats Capitol. General Sisson met a num ber of old friends and seemed much interested in what other people thought abofit the election. Among those lie met was ex-Representative It. W. Fair, who was a colleague in the Capitol Investigation Commission. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Colonel Edgar Jadwin. of the United States engineers at Pittsburgh, Is moving to organize an engineci corps In that city. —Bishop Courtland Whitehead, ol Pittsburgh, was the welcoming speak er at the manufacturers' convention in Pittsburgh yesterday. —Percy S. Hill, the Penn alumnus who is taking such an active part in University affairs, is president of the American Tobacco Co. DO YOU KNOW That llurrislnirK will liavc on of the largest freight stations on the Pennsylvania main line noon? HISTORIC HARHISBURG The town's lirst public wharf was in South Front street near the preseni sand wharf. OUR DAILY LAUGH 'PNfll CHOICE OF Fancier —This IAJ/7 W dog will protect you from burg- But I'd rather take my chance wlth a bur & ,ftr v than w ' th th< THAT'S WHAT. statistician, pa? A statistician, man wh6 come* to the aid of fig ures which can- j A ' not lie of them- .
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