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SATURDAY EVKXING. NOV. 18
i Our deeds still travel with us from
afar,
And what we have been makes tvllat
we are. —GKOBGE EH or.
DAIRIES AND INOCULATION
THE recent unfortunate experience
of this city with typhoid, an out
come of indifferent diUry inspec
tion or no inspection, ha." been dis
cussed generally by the medical fra
ternity and all interested in the health,
of Harrisburg.
An interested citizen, who lias been
m sufferer through tyi#ioid, has sug
gested to the Telegraph that in the '
adoption of new regulations affecting !
the dairies and Ice cream plants of the j
city and its suburbs a provision should j
be Included for the inoculation by the |
typhoid serum in the case of all em
ployes of these plants. There can be j
no doubt that prompt use of the anti- I
typhoid serum during the epidemic j
prevented many additional cases. This ;
has been demonstrated in a recent in- j
tident at the Harrisburg Hospital, '
where a supervising nurse, the only ]
one who had not been inoculated, was ,
stricken with the disease and an op
eration was performed this week to
save her life.
There are always those who insist
that inoculation is a mere fad, but
this case, like thousands of others, is
a direct refutation of the theory that
the serum is of no account.
Now that the epidemic has passed,
we should not rest in fancied security
until another outbreak arouses the
community to the importance of pro
tecting Itself against further invasion.
Typhoid is ciearly preventable and it is
disgraceful that any modern city
should be the •victim of carelessness
and upon the part of
those who supply foodstuffs from the
surrounding territory.
The suggestion of a regulation re
quiring inoculation of all employes of
dairies and Ice cream plants Is In line
with good medical practice and wo
trust tho Department of Health will
take this .matter into consideration in
its further preventive measures. Now
is the time to do it.
New York lias authorized by popu
lar vote a bond issue for ten million
dollars for forest extension work.
Pennsylvania has made no such expen
diture, but the growth of Its forestry
activities has been most encouraging.
Much more has been accomplished in
this direction than the average citizen
realizes.
Tin: KLECTIOV is (>VER
THE Adamson law was a make
shift. It settled nothing."
This quotation is from The
Patriot's "Spirit of the American
Press," a pr.ge which that newspaper
pays "Is the newest, the ryost inform
ative and the strongest intellectually
published in any American newspaper."
The election Is over.
There ought to be some "worthy"
Democrats for those seven judicial va
cancies in the higher courts which will
be filled by President Wilson within the
next few weeks.
MEX AND HEMGIOX
SEVERAL thousand Methodist Men
of Pennsylvania will attend the
conference to be held in Harris
burg next week, and the announce
ment draws attention to the marked
Increase of interest the men of Amer
ica In recent years have displayed in
religious activities. There are few so
young that they cannot recall the one
time vain appeals of preachers for
men at church services. The great
bulk of church membership not so far
back consisted of women and children.
Men's Bible classes of to-day illus
trate the change that has taken place
In the past decade.
The most significant development of
the times is this reawakened Interest
of men In religion. It is confined to
no locality and to no creed. Every
State In the union gives strong indi
cations of the trend and every de
nomination has felt its quickening in
fluence. Nor Is the movement con
fined to any one class of men. In the
democratic atmosphere of the Bible
class room bankers and manufactur
ers rub elbows with clerks and labor
ers and each learns not only the
truths of t,he Sunday school lesson
but the great truth that the difference
betweeh men is largely that of rank;
that we are alt beset by the same
weaknesses and Imbued with common
attributes and characteristics.
There is not a more potent influence
■ for good in American society than the
men's Bible class and the men's move
ment iif the church, whatever be Its
denomination or creed. There is a
distinct trend apparent along the lines
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SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG fcSSRS TELEGRAPH VoVEMBER'Yg, 191&*
of social betterment, toward total ab
stinence and for better living condi
tions for the masses. If this has not
been the result of this new interest of
men in religion it is certainly coinci
dent to a very remarkable degree.
The temperance forces fought a losing
battle until men by the thousand took
up the tight with religious agencies as
their weapons. Social welfare work
made little progress In this country
until after the men's Bible class had
become a factor In the life of the
country. Similar comparisons might
be noted to a very great number.
Instead of wishing to be a million
aire we are tempted to wish we were
a mechanic in a munition plant.
[NTERESTING SUGGESTION
MAYOR MEALS has suggested a
method for keeping down the
tax rate which is worthy of
serious consideration. He observes
that some legislation may be necessary
to give his plan force and effect, but
the scheme has much to commend it.
It is, in short, the diversion to the
general fund of the excess revenues
of the Water Department. For years
the city's water plant has been a
profitable proposition and notwith
standing the rates were reduced a
year or two ago by Commissioner
Bowman the surplus continues to ac
cumulate.
It would appear to be entirely logical,
Inasmuch as the water and lighting
systems are both under the control
and direction of the same department,
to so handle the funds that the profit
from water could be utilized In meet
ing the large expense of public
illumination.
In short, as the taxpayers and con
sumers of water are under the same
umbrella it ought to be easily pos
sible to reduce the pressure by making
the water pay the cost of the light and
thus avoid increase of taxation for
municipal purposes.
Mayor Meals should lose no timo in
finding out whether his suggestion Is
practical and within the law. If legis
lation is necessary, the Legislature can
be asked for such relief as the situa
tion demands.
And here, again, the need of a larger
measure of home rule for cities of
the Third Class is emphasized.
If the turkey roosts as high as the
prices charged, few will be stolen this
year.
ENLARGING SCHOOL USES
THE friendly attitude of the city
school authorities toward en
larging the usefulness of school
buildings is a step in the direction to
ward which other cities of this size
are moving and which has been the
subject of repeated reports by Super
intendent P. E. Downes for some
years. It is altogether likely that the
School Board cannot see its way clear
to employ experts for neighborhood
center work at this time. However,
the conviction that adoption of this
line of activity is essentially to the
good of the city and its people should
be sufficient to assure serious consid
eration of the subject when next year's
expenditures are under discussion.
' But it is difficult to see why the
School Board should hear all of the
expense of social center work. Sim
ply because the school houses are
logical headquarters lor gatherings
of the kind Is no reason why the city
government should not share in the
up-keep. Harrisburg spends thou
sands of dollars every year in main
taining parks and playgrounds, and
athletic fields and tennis courts, and
golf links for the entertainment and
recreation of its people during the
warm period. Just, as soon, however,
as Jack Frost sets his finger on the
landscape the city drops its work as
though it were a hot potato and lets
the people shift for themselves. If the
municipality is right in providing
outdoor amusement and exercise in
summer, how much nioro does it owe
them to the hundreds of people who
are left absolutely to their own insuffi
cient or harmful devices during the
cold months? •
"No more cheap cigars." Does that
mean what it says, or does it mean !
cheap cigars at higher prices?
THE YOUNGEST OLD MAN !
CIIAUNCEY M. DEPEW is the'
youngest old man in the United
States. He recently gave a talk
| on the art of growing old, declaring
that the "don't worry" helps
| make octogenarians. Mr. l)epew will
j he S3 years old next April and he
! observed in a speech this week that If
j he should reveal how often he h&d to
rely on a physician the old tradition
about, a man being his own best phy
sician after he is fifty would dis
appear. While the octogenarian might
not think a doctor was necessary, his
wife does.
Mr. Depew expressed the belief that
David's Nineteenth Psalm, in which
the sweet singer of Israel Bald that
three score and ten years were the
limit of life, has sent many a person
to his grave because they believed
David. He thought the psalm had
caused more deaths than the war now
raging in Europe.
Our national honor In Mexico is so
high these days that an American can,
with perfect admit he is a Ger
man or an Kngilsh citizen.
The President says we need more
crops. Well, why not have Mr. Adam
son lntroduoo a bill with the end in
view?
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By the Ex-Comraittecman
Representative Richard ,T. Baldwin,
of Delaware, appears not to be losing
any time in getting about the State in
his campaign for election as Speaker
of the next House. Baldwin is a very
active citizen, anyway, and he has the
support of a capable organization. The
other aspirants do not seem to have
gotten started and are waiting to see
the result of the high council of war
to be held by the administration lead
ers with Governor Brumbaugh in
Philadelphia to-day.
It is believed that the administration
people will decide to support an up-
State man and will start things mov
ing, among the steps being to make
some prompt and radical changes in
departments of the State government-
Reports that opposition to President
Pro Tein. Beidleman will be set up are
not generally credited, as Senator Vare
is with the Dauphin man.
Once the administration candidate
for Speaker is picked out, there will be
a hard fight, started for him with At
torney General Brown and the Vares
looking after tho eastern en<l and
Commissioners Magee and O'Neil han
dling the center and western members.
One of the odd things about Bald
win's canvass was that he turned up at
State College yesterday and spoke
rierht from the same platform as his
old legislative rival. Congressman John
R. K. Scott, who is much Interested
in preventing Baldwin from becoming
Speaker if possible.
The North American of to-day calls
attention to a change of front on the
part of Senator Vare on the assistance
clause question. The North American
says that the Vares evacuated some
trenches because of the Penrose move
which seems to have the sympathy of
ihe Democrats and independents. W.
E. Finley was spokesman for the Vares
yesterday and he and Democratic City
Chairman Lank fired broadsides. Most
of the newspapers admit that ttye
Baldwin early start has given him an
advantage.
—Candidates for mine inspector and
a number of other offices who are not
required to file, statements of expenses
at the Capitol are sending accounts to
the Capitol. They are being sent back
with regularity and dispatch, as the
candidates must file in their home dls.
trlcts.
—Lycoming county will probably
have a contest over the seats of Its
legislators. The candidates are watch
ing every move of the count.
—Politicians are watching with
much interest the developments of the
State Orange campaign to have the
powers of the State Commission .of
Agriculture broadened. The commis
sion is more likely to face abolition
than anything else.
—Friends of Congressman Rowland
have been congratulating him upon
his re-election In the face of a hard
light in Ills home district and failure
to get help where it should have been
given.
—ICx-Lleutenant-Governor L. A.
Watres was the speaker at the Leb
anon lilgli school ceremonies yester
day. He was greeted by many friends.
—Congressmen Barchfeld and Cole
man appear to be ahead on the face
of tho returns. The going is rough,
however.
Reading may have to increase its
tax rate to pay for various municipal
improvements.
Duquesne borough lias voted to
become a third class city. Butler and
Warren also voted that way.
• —Considerable interest has been
aroused in Philadelphia by a report
that Mayor Smith had decided to
throw out all bids for street cleaning
because they were too high. There
has been much discussion in Phila
delphia on the subject.
—John A. MeSparran, of Lancaster
county, well known In political circles
will be re-elected as master of the
State Orange when it holds the an
nual meeting in Philadelphia next
month.
• —Mayor Smith has landed the place
of orphans court tlpstaft at $2,000 a
year tor his brother In Philadelphia.
Senators Penrose and McNlchol favor
ed him. It was thought that a protoge
of Senator E. W, Patton would get
the lob.
—Demands for a shake-up are com
mencing to bo heard among the Demo
crats of Schuylkill' and Luzerne
counties where the Democracy was
signally beaten and whero objections
to the way the party was run were
heard before election. The manner in
which federal patronage was appor
tioned is blamed for the defeat of
Democratic candidates.
—Tlie Northampton county con
troller has refused to stand for anv
$lO for the election boards in some
districts which tried to make two days
of it because of the amount of work
required. It is likely that an effort
will be made to have the next Legis
lature provide more cash for boards.
—Reservations at Washington seem
to bo the popular Democratic past
time now. The parade novelty has
worn off.
—Schuylkill county polled only 97
soldier votes on the border. There
are several companies in that county,
too.
—Alexander R. Geismeyer, of Read
ing, prothonotary of Berks county,
has announced himself as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Congress In the Berks-Lehigh district
in 1918. This is taken to mean that
Congressman Dewalt should quit.
j EDITORIAL COMMENT 1
Germans Open Ghent University.
Newspaper headline. Of course there
will be a course in International law.—
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The latest demand on the Greek
army is, In effect, that It shall get out
of Greece. —Savannah News.
If O. Henry really learned to write
short stories In prison, a host of his
imitators deserve indeterminate sen
tences.—Pittsburgh Gazette-TimeS.
The present high price of wheat has
its pleasant side when one reflects that
breadpiulding can hardly be justified
these days as an economy.—Milwaukee
Journal.
One newspaper refers to the strike
at the Edison phonograph plant as
"without a parallel." It is to be hoped,
however, that it did not break all rec
ords.—Nashville Southern Lumberman.
The farmer who is being congratu
lated on $2 wheat is now in a position
to appreciate exactly lioy that fellow
who sold his Bethlehem when it
reached thirty feels. Send your felici
tations to the Chicago speculators.
Boston Transcript.
Times Have Changed
[Newspaperdoin.]
The hide-bound, tliick-and-tliin, ever
lawstlng-to-everlawstlng party organ
sffmsJo be doomed. The late campaign
demoiratrated that beyond question.
Newspapers supporting Wilson printed'
many Hughes advertisements, while the
Hughes papers ran columns of paid
matter boosting Wilson. Never before
was the power of newspaper adver
tising so generously and so widely rec
ognised. ft is safe to say that more
people read the political advertisements,
skillfully displayed by experts, than
read the candidates' speeches, set
forth in plain news shape. The question
of newspaper ethics came up frequently
during the campaign, nnd many read
ers wanted to know why the advertise
ments of the opposing party were print
ed. The New York World' expressed
the opinion that it was altogether eth
ical for It to print the linghes adver
tisements, although heartily supporting
Wilson, saying:
"The World has no more right to re
fuse to print these advertisements than
it has to refuse to print the speeches
made by Mr. Hughes. We have our
own opinion of the Hughes speeches
and likewise of the Hughes advertise
ments, and we shall continue to dis
cuss them with searching frankness;
but print them we must. They are a
purt of the record of the campaign."
A New Experience
It's a new experience for Poland to
have all the great powers tumbling
over themselves in the effort lo pro
sent her with independence.-—Charles
ton News and Courier.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
§ NATURAL
Did the sign*
down your way
show how the
election was go-
N o't much
they didn't. The
returns simply
made hay of all
our straw votes.
Do 1 dance
well, Dorothy?
Tes, . but for wy j*'
two things. Y /]
What are
" CHANCY' ' DEPEW
"DON'T WORRY"
TO MAKE OCTOGENARIANS
ONE night this week ex-United
States Senator Cliauncey M. De-
pew, who will be 83 years young
next April, delivered an address in New
York entitled "The Art of Growing
Older and the Value of An Interest In
Public Life."
"I'm afraid," began the distinguish
ed speaker, in a resonant voice, "that if
I should reveal how often I have had
to rely on a physician the old tradi
tion about a man being his own best
physician after he is fifty would dis
appear. The octogenarian man not
think a doctor Is necessary—Mit his Avlfo
does. [Laughter.] On the. other hand,
nobody can question what a man past
fourscore of years says unless that
body Is older.
"Seventj'-flve years go when I—l
say, soventy-five years ago when I was
7% years old—l remember that our
village had any number of old men and
old women. They advertised their agK
[Laughter.] After reaching the age of
CO years the women donned' caps, one
sort of cap during the daytime and an
other sort of cap at night. [Laughter.]
Men past 70 years of age lay around the
house or indolently sat on a nail keg
at the village grocery.
"We haven't got that sort of peo
ple nowadays. To-day you can't tell a
mother from her daughter because of
the way mother and daughter dress, and
you'd have a hard time finding a states
man sitting on a nail keg. [Laughter.]
"Everything helps old age now.
There is the telephone: A man can
reach his friends now by telephone;
he can 'get' his office. Ills club, or he
can listen to a sermon, an opera or a
speech without leaving his home. The
cable, the wireless, connect a far spread
world and so help to keep alive men
tal activity.
"The famous seven ages of man do
not exist to-day. Shakespeare died
at 52 thinking himself an old man. He
was only a young fellow. [Laughter.]
li<i spoke of the sixth age of man, the
T. R.'s Wilkes-Barre Speech
[Kansas City Star.]
It is interesting to note that Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, in which is lo
cated Wilkes-Barre, where Colonel
Roosevelt made one of his fiery speeches
during the campaign, gave Mr. Hughes
a majority over President Wilson of ap
proximately seven thousand.
John .1. Casey, Democratic congress
man, was overwhelmingly defeated by
Thomas W. Templeton, Republican.
Casey had served two terms and was a
member of organized labor, having been
business agent of his local union. Lu
zerne county's union labor population
Is larger by comparison than that of
any other congressional district in tho
United States.
It was because of this exceptionally
large labor vote that Colonel Koosevelt
singled out the district for Ills speech
dealing at greatest length with the
Adamson law. At the time of the
Colonel's appearance there, partisan
oigans, for political effect, carried re
ports of Ills reception in which it was
said that tfie miners resented to appeal
made on behalf of Mr. Hughes. The
Colonel, according to these reports, was
jeered as he led a procession from the
train to the place where he spoke.
Tlrese reports were discredited by
the responsible press associations. The
election returns show conclusively what
the workers thought of Colonel Roose
velt's analysis of the law to increase
wages.
Student on the War.
The following bit of poetry lias
turned up which Is based on the pres
ent war, being an attack on England.
It was written by 0110 of the boys of
the Senior class of Central iligh
School, and 1h entitled "Where the
Shamrocks Used to Grow."
The Kaiser's cows are grazing
Where the shamrocks used to grow.
How long they'll pasture on that
grass.
There's no one seems to know.
But if we judge the pasture by
What's happened, don't you know,
There'll be no grass for Patsy's
mules
Where the shamrocks used to grow.
Oh, Johnny Bull! Oh, Johnny Bull!
What are you going to do?
You said that you would whip the
Dutcli
And now it's up to you.
But if you don't get a hustle on.
There's one thing you should know.
They'll be growing plants for sauer
kraut
Where the shamrocks used to grow.
—JOB HALLMAN, 'l7.
lean and slippered pantaloon period.
That Sort of man to-day Is at the bar
—the legal bar, I mean [laughter]—or
in the pulpit and giving the world the
best of his maturity.
"Shakespeare's seventh age—sans
teeth, sans taste, sans eyes—why, my
friends, the dentist of to-day gives us
better teeth than nature gave us in the
first place; the oculist improves our
sight. As for taste, every good wife
knows that she had better look out if
the old gentleman finds something on
the table that does not come up to what
he was accustomed to have in the old
days. [Laughter.]
"One of the greatest influences on the
world has been Davidi's nineteenth
psalm, in which David sa id that three
score and ten years were the limit of
life. There's no telling how many men
and women have died because they be
lieved David. [Laughter and applause.]
That psaim, I believe, has caused more
deaths than the war now raging in Eu
rope—ten times more. [Applause.]
"David lived life. [Laughter.] He
had all that lie could get. [Laughter.]
If there were any husbands in the way
David saw to it that they were sent to
the forefront of the nearest battle.
[Laughter.]
"My grandfather died at the age of
76. One of my great-grandfathers died
when he was 80 years old; and he spent
the last years of his life lamenting
tho decadence of the age—because Jef
ferson had been elected President.
[Laughter.] The only centenarian I
ever knew was a French chemist nam
ed Chavral. 1 attended -his hundredth
birthday celebration In Paris.
"lie had attended a grand concert in
the Opera House the night before. When
I left him at 2 o'clock ill the morning
he was still In his box at the opera
house. The next morning, his birthday,
he helped review the troops of the
garrison in Paris; in the afternoon he
read a scientific paper and In the even
ing he attended a great banquet."
[Laughter and applause.]
Credit Where Credit Is Due
[Chanibersburg Repository.]
Former leading Progressives are
taking- to themselves much of the glory
for tiie Republican victory In Pennsylva
nia. It is very true that it was the
i return of the Progressives of 1912 that
made a large majority in Pennsylvania
possible. 1 tut it was not due to the
so-called leaders. Many of the Pro
gressives returned In 1914 and helped
elect Governor Brumbaugh, while many
j of the so-called Progressive leaders in
the State refused to return and aligned
themselves with the Democrats doing
everything in their power to elect Mr.
McCormick. llud they had their way
Governor Brumbaugh would not be at
Harrisburg to-day. It was the regular
Republicans and the Progressives who
refußed to follow Colpnel Roosevelt
in his campaign In this State for Mr.
McCormick, that elected Governor
Brumbaugh. Now some of these £o-
I called leaders are very pronounced in
i their apparent loyalty to Governor
Brumbaugh and seek to take unto them
selves all the credit for the Repub
licans carrying the State for Hughes.
* * • Tlic Progressives deserve all
the credit due them for their return to
the Republican party, thus solidifying
it and making Republican success pos
sible, but the credit Is duo to the large
army of Progressives who returned in
1914 and helped elect a Republican
governor, who lias done more to bring
the party together than any other one
man in the State. The so-called Pro
gressive leaders who cama back this
year, of course, are liea tily welcome,
I but it was the return in 1914 that saved
the party in Pennsylvania this year.
* * 'lt was the boys in the trenches
and on the firing lines of the Progres
sive party in 1912 who deserve the
credit for 1916. They came back in
1914, at a time when they were most
needed, and helped elect a man governor
who has devoted much of his time to
reuniting the Republican party and
who has succeeded'. The generals in the
Progressive party in this State came
hack only after Governor Brumbaugh
had so solidified the Republican party
that the so-called leaders had no place
else to go. The voters of Pennsylvania
two years ago had such implicit confi
dence in Governor Brumbaugh that the
leaders of the Progressives could no
longer hold tliem In line, much as they
desired to do so. The Republicans had
nominated a man for governor upon
whom all could unite. To Governor
Brumbaugh, largely is due the credit
for a reunited Republican party. Had
any other sort of man been nominated in
1914 the Progressives feould not likely
have come back as they did and a dif
ferent result would have been to chron
icle then as well as in 191.
©letting (Efyat
Men elected to seats in the nexW
Legislature are commencing to comal
to Harrisburgr to look up boardinerl
houses and to make their arranged
menta for the session as well as to be^
ThTbSn?o l f a fi, wlt, J . the Stato Capitol,
momh , the visitors are the new*
ex ™nt on W fl ? have never been here'
next o Men , who will st in the*
ask nhnnf i 6 also commencing: t<
thines u 1 "*?*"• altho "Kh such.
iwJfJli U? 1 anKl fned until late in.
T „ he llßual number ofap-'
ticed altbm.Jh 0 * 1 row placeß 18 no-'
and thnaL *v.° r years theae Places
SFv.n ♦ on the aisles have been'
As so<>n „Tf, m L s of e *tended service.!
pUstod tho ft® offlc,al returns are com-|
proclimn H^ OVernor wIU lBS "° hif
the VS£M2 announcing- result* of!
Election returns of almost f-nrtvl
tar U ies rv7h e e e n S n nt f baCk to P">thSno-l
a?v of tj,A rP Partlnent of the Secret
thlt ?U 9 Commonwealth to-day so
f the votes of the soldiers should
be included in-the official figures In
fbi l ( ' ase ,he cou nty officers had filed
the returns without regard to the sol
bernrtoitei s £ me assuming that it would
„a 2f d si
j. assx'si %srswigrs
h e county according to candidates and
be entered at the county seats, in
some instances county officers wanted
iol<iw W ♦ they could not send the
"'f;," separately. The tabula
, i, rk V which was started this
nlete' 5,if n foPPed until the com
wlH nnt h. returns come in which!
win not be for over a week at tW
used'a t T th e Sta ? e has the poll books'
he V^,nsr places ,n each or-
f a "l^ There are several hun-,
dreds of them and in a number of in-J
slances a whole book had to be made'
? wh£ Ut L e ° on e man - One instance
fu ? S a ™ an detailed to the field,
bakery lived in Connellsville, although!
WHS °i the bakery to which hej
was attached was located in Pitts-
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nf T vJ„°™, in * , ot the Methodist Men
SLi. Ii ? ylvan,a to Harrisburg for
tt! f convention next week, re
call!, the fact that one of the earliest)
and tersest of men's BU.Ie classes in!
tin/iJf ? y Was hat or sanized by andl
r~j£h.£ or -SJ?R y years by James Mc-i
Cormick. While the venerable teach- t
er no lon per takes an active part. In!
Its affairs, the McCormlck Bible clas.il
continues to be one of the mostJ
prominent religious organizations In
the city. It has numbered among- itaJ
of tho most prominent!
men of the city and some of the hum-t
Diest. Years ago, when he was Dlivsi
callyable,Mr. McCormick's greatest dew
light was to visit homes of members, i
Never did one of them fall upon days'
of misfortune or sorrow that the readr
hand of the teacher was not extended'
in aid. always with the Injunction that
his namo be withheld. The McCor
mlck class was one of the forerun
ners of the great Bible classes that
now number their members by tho
thousand.
The president of the Rotarv clubs
of the third district, which comprises
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Dela-,
wi " meet, in Harrisburg Novem
ber 26 jn the parlors of the Common
wealth liotel, for a day's conference.
International President Klumph, Vice-
President Oundaker and Governor Mo-
Fjirland will be in attendance. This
will bring- to Harrisburg a number of
Rotarlans prominent in their home
cities and well known all over the
East. President Howard C. Fry, of
the Harrisburg- Club, is In charge.
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Several of the Democrats wf?o plan
to attend the inauguration of the
President next March are men who
were present when Grover Cleveland
took the oath in 1885. They are try
ing to get the same location to sea
the parade next year.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
-—E. Lowry Humes, Unfted States
district attorney for Western Pennsyl
vania, is taking a big interest in elec
tions in western counties and has
directed watching of some ballot
boxes.
—Secretary of Labor Wilson will
make several speeches in this State
this year. He will attend meetings
of various kinds.
—Senator E. 11. Vare, who is pre
paring a bill to end the drug habit,
says It is driving more young men to
destruction than anything else.
—Dean McClellan denies any at
tempts to muzzle Penn professors.
—E. K. Morse, the new Pittsburgh
transit director, has long been identi- #
lied with affairs in that city.
—Governor Frank B. Willis, who.
lost in Ohio, spent, less than S9OO. The
governor is well known to many here.
—Titus M. Ruch, elected head of
the Northampton school directors, is
a resident of Hellertown and well
known here.
—Dr. David Jayne Hiol, former
president of Bucknell, will make his
homo in Washington.
—Janfes M. Beck, former assistant
United States Attorney General, hasi
written a book on the,war and hu
manity.
| DO YOU KNOW
'llint Harrisburg la exporting
woolen goods and 'shoes?
HISTORIC HAItRISIWRG
This city entertained two French
dukes within a decade of Its founding.
Trade Briefs
Golden and silver pheasants are be-,
ing raised in large numbers in south-
ern China. The birds are used fori
food, particularly at the Chinese New|
Year festival season. Large quantities
of the feathers are sold in the Am-,
erlcan market.
Plumbing supplies are needed in(|
France.
A system of fire hydrants is to be<
Installed in the city of Barbahoya,
Ecuador.. At present the city's flr| •
lighting apparatus is very inadequate.
There is a market in Venezuela fori
barbed wire, buttons, dynamos, hard-,
ware and lard.
A firm in Newmarket, Auckland,
has started a piano factory. This
may result In a demand for American
ptano parts and knockdown plant*
cases.
American hardware i In demand im
Italy.