10 BASBISBURG TELEGRAPH A tftWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Pounded IS}I Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH I'lXTl.\\i CO., Talrgrrapk Ilutldln*. Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE. Presl and Editorin-Chitf V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. i Member American llsbers* Associa tion. The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Finley, Fifth nue Building. New Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a tj "lk> week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 23 Let me put myself wholly at God's tervicc, whatever I may he; greatness is not called for, hut "meetness" for the Master's use. —W. L. Watkinson. WHAT NEXT? THE fate of the Adamson law In the Supreme Court of the United £tates in all probability la forecasted by the decision of the district court declaring' it to be uncon stitutional. The opinion was widely expressed at the time the bill was framed that it would not stand in court, for the rea son It favored one set of employes over another, and, therefore, was class legislation. Members of Congress and newspapers joined In asserting the belief that President Wilson, playing •nly for re-election, had handed labor a gold brick. If friends of the Presi dent think that may be putting the case too strongly. It mu9t be apparent that the President did act without due consideration of the proposed legisla tion and in unseemly haste. With the eight-hour day there can be no quarrel. The printing trades, for example, have had it for years, and many other trades organizations with them. In all cases conditions have adjusted themselves to the change. But with the manner in which the Adamson law was enacted we may, as citizens, file very decided objections. The dignity and indeed the very sta bility of the government were put in Jeopardy by the political expedient of an administration with an eye only to Its immediate advantage. And to what end? Merely that election day should come and go before the rail road men learned how they had been buncoed. When the Supreme Court shall have thrown out the Adamson act, what next? To what new humiliation will the President submit? Or will he show himself in his true colors, as he stood before the thought of a political career entered his calculations—one of the most lntolerent enemies organ ized labor has ever known? About the only things that have not lone up in price are dried apples, and we don't like them. TERRAPIN TALK THE Baltimore American sheds tears of anguish over the price of diamondback terrapin—sl2o a dozen—and urges Eastern Shore fish ermen to take up seriously artificial propagation of this fast disappearing type of turtle. The American Is talking twenty miles over the head of Mr. Average Consumer. If the editor wants com pany in his misery, let him weep over the price of eggs and flour, or bacon and potatoes—or, if he must talk in terms of luxuries, let him sob over the soaring cost of Thanksgiving turkey. In that case we would all join him and mourn en masse, so to speak. But, grow heartbroken over $lO terrapin when baked beans have risen to a proud place on the menu of mil lionaires, and with eggs so high that John D., Jr., boasts if he has had two for breakfast? No, siree! We have no quarrel with terrapin as such, but If ever we get hold of a pair or two we'll take 'em right down town and trade 'em oft for a quart of cornmeal, or a pound of pork pudding, or some thing filling. These are no times to cry over luxuries when even the sight of a corner grocery makes one sad. Won't it be fine to be able to go down to the Penn-Harris for "that little din ner?" BARKING CP THE WRONG TRF.E CHICAGO is trying the experiment of 8-cent meals. The idea is to / , prove that the cost of living can be reduced. If there exists the will to sacrifice the good things of the table for the substantials. Perhaps 8-cent meals are possible. It Is to be suspected that they are. Bat the Chicago authorities are ap proaching the problem from the wrong angle. America is producing far more foodstuffs than it can use. Its people are hard working, peacefully disposed and enterprising. They are attending to their own affairs. They are pros perous In proportion to their industry. Europe, on the other hand, is engaged In professional murder on a gigantic scale. No longer producers, the men Of the opposing armies have become merely destroyers and consumers. The question naturally arises, why should America be required to feed these military millions? Why assess •very American for the folly of send ing our own food supplies abroad? Americans no doubt do need some lessons in the gentle art of paring the grocery bill, but when governmental authorities endeavor to teach the con- THURSDAY EVENING, sumer to live oft the dregs, while the better portions sre either sent to Europe or held here for exorbitant prices, they are barking up the wrong tree. What the people want is cheaper groceries, not Inferior qualities at prices formerly charged for first-class goods. A good many families are on the point of deciding that "chicken is Just as good as turkey, anyhow." HOME! THERE was found among the ef fects of a young German sol dier, killed when an English tank bestrode the trench he defended in Picardy a few weeks ago, an en velope written over and over, until not a space remained on which an other letter could find place. And the one word that the soldier had written time after time was this—"Home!" "Home!" "Home!" How many German lads, far from the scenes of their childhood, have re enacted the scenes depicted in that classic of school day recitations— "Bingen on the Rhine?" How many a German soldier in the trenches of France must have sung In his heart the mournful song of Cobbler Keezer from his exile along the Merrimac: "Oh for the purple harvests Of the days when 1 was young! Of the merry grape-stained maidens. And the pleasant songs they sung! Oh for the breath of vineyards. Of apples and nuts and wine! For an oar to row and a breeze to blow Down the grand old River Rhine." When it comes to potatoes, or any other kind of farm produce, Cumber land county can be relied upon to do its part. FAVOR A SHORT SESSION THERE has been widespread pop ular approval of the suggestion that the forthcoming session of the Legislature shall be short and to the point. It is understood that the Chambers of Commerce of the State, which will have a convention in this city early in December, will strongly endorse the movement for a short ses sion and urge upon the legislators action to this end. For several years the • industrial, j commercial and manufacturing in- j terests throughout the Commonwealth 1 have been almost constantly demoral ized as a result of the ceaseless at tempts to regulate business by legis lation. This hamstringing of the ac tivities of the Commonwealth has reached the limit, and business men and manufacturers are determined that the game shall stop. While no disturbing bills are in sight, it has been the common experi ence of the important interests which have been so seriously affected in the past that every session produces a new avalanche of statutory "reforms" of one kind or another. Under the Constitution the Legis lature convenes the first week in Jan uary and it has been the rule for years to fritter away week after week in the killing of time. It is believed that all the necessary business could easily be transacted before the end of March and that much better results would follow a shortand business-like session. There is nothing to gain politically or otherwise in a long-drawn-out ses sion of the Legislature. We don't wonder the business men have decided to take a hand in forcing an early adjournment. "How to get <Jut of Mexico is now the burning question," observes the Balti more American. Yes. and most of those who are trying are having a hot time of It. nRUNNER AND MANNING NO time has been lost by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings in getting Arnold W. Brunner and Warren H. Manning busy on their study of the proposed permanent treatment of the Capitol Park zone. In fact. It wasn't necessary to even urge an immediate study of the prob lem upon these distinguished planners; they had already made a preliminary inspection of the property, and It Is certain that some comprehensive sug gestions will come from their collabo ration. The topographical surveys of the old and new sections of the Capitol Park, which were completed by the young engineers of the State College some time ago, and all other data in the hands of Superintendent Rambo were forwarded to Mr. Brunner immediately after the conference a few days ago, and it is expected Governor Brum baugh will submit the drawings and recommendations of the landscape architects to the Legislature early in the session. Xot only does the study contemplate the landscape treatment and the widening of the streets abutting on the Capitol grounds, but also embraces the proposed -viaduct over the Pennsylva nia Railroad lines at State street and the incidental treatment of the whole district leading to the eastern entrance of the city. It Is Indeed fortunate that the three officials comprising the Board of Pub lie Grounds and Buildings—Governor Brumbaugh, State Treasurer Young and Auditor General Powell—are so greatly interested in the working out of this problem, which means so much to the future of the Capitol environ ment. FACTS OONTROVKRT CLAIMS SATS a leading Democratic editor on the Pacific coast: In the past three and one-half years, every act by the American government has been a move to make prosperity. Prosperity for whom? At the time the Wilson administra tion came Into power, we were selling other nations more goods than we were buying from them. From the date of the enactment of the Under wood tariff law. the drift of trade was reversed. In May, 1914, we were buy ing frofti other nutlons more than we were selling to them, and that condi tion continued until a month after the outbreak of the war. The acts that made for prosperity in this country were not the acts of this government, but the acta of the governments that went Into war. I THOSE NEW POLICE RULES \ anyhow, they cany r >. 9 i I Quick! TOE: \ } I PI I HESSIR-N-Nop| L. i \s*/=l *S f/> J QqQ '-j'ff-) •r-^u' 1 ' I beg one S' , l ' PoicesHouil^^^S^ TO FISt OR ACCIDENT .N CONTROLOFTHEIRTEMPtP, ALERT ATTLTIMES AND COURTEOUS TO EVERYONE. ALERT AT ALL TIMES. Vffill.ttUL.tttu. " . HRft AWOWEV GLUKIOfI£ I WHWT can be VJRONIi WW THE POLICE ? Om! I SEE. LjL^* LK By the Ex-Committeeman One hundred and twelve of the men who sat in the last House of Repre sentatives have been re-elected, ac cording to the reports which have been received here from counties. These reports are in advance of the official returns, which will commence to come In as soon as the soldier vote is all counted. The House contains 207 members, so that there is a rather large proportion of new men. Analysis of the reports shows that 78 of the members of the last session who voted against the local option bill have been re-elected and that 33 of those who voted for it have been re elected. Likewise, one member who declined to vote has been returned. Local option people claim all the way from 62 to 71 members of the next House. The tirst returns' from counties which completed soldier votes are ex pected at the State Department next week. Official returns have been sent back as fast as received, as the law demands that the soldier vote be in cluded. It is expected that within ten days the official vote will be com pleted. With nearly 3.000 friends and ac quaintances present, funeral services for Charles J. Honey, Philadelphia member of the House of Representa tives and well known in political cir cles, were held yesterday. Until 10 o'clock in the morning a stream of mourners passed in and out of the family residence and the street near by was crowded with people. No funeral in South Philadelphia had for years been attended by so many persons. After tho services at the home the body was removed to the Church of St. Philip de Neri, where solemn re quiem mass was celebrated. William G. Wright, treasurer of the state committee of the Single Tax party, filed a statement of expenses of the party organization at the Capitol to-day showing $240.17 contributed and $235.08 expended. Thomas Shipley. Republican elector, certified to spending $125, and Na thaniel Spear, Republican elector, to $250. Less than SSO was expended by the Walling Judicial campaign com mittee of York county; J. Elmer Perry and Charles Wtnebar, Socialist elec toral candidates, and Charles Durner, Industrialist electoral candidate, Ellis A. Gimbel, Republican elector, and Fred L. Weedo, Democratic electoral candidate, spent nothing. Judge Harvey W. Whitehead refused the motion of attorneys for Mayor Jonas Fischer to quash the quo war ranto proceedings against the Wil liamsport executive to compel him to show cause why he holds office. Upon the petition of citizens,-the Attorney General has started ouster proceedings against Fischer on the grounds that he ts not naturalized. They contend that he was born in Austria and that the only step he has ever taken in this country to obtain citizenship was to take out his first papers. Numerous demands have been made on Fischer to submit proof of his citizenship with out definite results. He was elected mayor at the 1915 primaries, receiving more than a sufficient number of votes over his opponent, ex-Mayor Stabler, to give him the office without a fight at the general election. The former mayor's friends, however, waged an other campaign with the use of stick ers, but Fischer was a winner. The charge of not being a citizen was lodged against the mayor soon after he was elected, but was not presented for definite action until several months ago, when the Attorney General was petitioned to start quo warranto pro ceedings for the ousting of the mayor. The petition was granted, the State beconring the plaintiff, with the under standing that the costs were to be borne by the petitioners. The Philadelphia Record to-day says: "Whether or not the charges of fraud preferred by Democratic watch ers against certain election boards warrant a congressional invest I gatloii of the methods employed in rolling up big Republican majorities in some of the wards of the city at the presiden tial election will be determined to morrow, when the organization com mittee of the Democratic city commit tee meets. Much evidence concerning the filing of fraudulent returns and the forcing of nsslstance on reluctant voters who, although registered as Re publicans, were desirous of casting their ballots for the Democratic presi dential electors, has been placed In the hands of the committee." Anyway, He's on His Way Carranza Is announced as running for office and thus again it is said he Is only running.—Knoxvllle Journal 4Pd Tribune, HARRIBBURQ rtfjfeV TELEGRAPH j EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 I Suggestion for a 60,000-ton battleship sounds good, but not to retire the rest of the navy to supply a crew for It.— Wall Street Journal. We fear that the Prohibition candi date will never receive a majority vote in this country until election day is shoved up to January I.—Boston Tran script. News that the Deutschland brought a cargo worth $10,000,000 indicates that the Uevmans must have sunk a lot of money in the Bremen.—Philadelphia rvorth American. We've had a "100 per cent, candidate," ' election, and now why not a 100 per cent. President?— Philadelphia North American. Future of Shadow Lawn [Providence Journal.] The sumptuous estate at Shadow Lawn, having served as a "summer White House," It is not surprising to hear that there is a feeling in that neighborhood in favor of making It so permanently. Something Is said about a popular subscription to purchase it and make it a gift to the government. The Grant cottage and the ono that Garfield died in are not far away. That may be as good a location as can be found for a summer White House—lf anything of the kind is really needed— though there would undoubtedly be bids from other sections, particularly in the interior of the country, if Con gress should take up the subject of establishing one. Shadow Lawn could probablv be bouerht a a mark-down price. It has had an unfortunate his tory—in fact, it seems to have been a white elephant for several owners. Built by the president of one of the life Insurance companies that went through the trying experience of the Hughes inquisition, it came to be konwn as McCall's Folly. The build ing price Is said to have been a million dollars, but in the course of its chang ing ownership a sheriff's hammer knocked it down to less than a quarter of that sum. Nobody seems to have had much use for Shadow Lawn. Whether the United States would have is an open question. Universal Peace a Dream? [Omaha Bee.] A contribution to one of the current magazines upon "The Dream of Uni versal Peace" carries in >its very cap tion a gentle suggestion that universal peace is nothing but a dream. By any definition a dream is merely a vision, and. at that, a vision which Is unreal: and we must all admit that up to the present moment the Idea of universal peace has always been and still Is a figment of the Imagination—fiction rather than fact. Universal peace presupposes either extinguishment of the incentive for men to make war upon one another or incapacity to fight or substitution of peaceful means of settling inter national differences. Attainment of the first condition is certainly remote, for it is nothing short of the uninter rupted reign of brotherly love. The second condition is embodied In no practicable proposal except that of mutual disarmament, and this would have to be concomitant with the third suggestion of the establishment of a world court whose decree would be accepted through the very futility of resistance. Whether plans for providing this machinery of peace mature fast or slow, the dream, in the sense that it is a wish and something to be strived for —a goal which we may approach even though we may never reach it-*- will persist and grow stronger In its Inspiration. Paradoxically, the in tangible dream of universal peace is the one thing all nations are willing to fight for. She Was Shopping She had been sitting in the furniture shop for nearly two hours, inspecting the stock of linoleums. Roll after roll the perspiring assistant brought out, but still she seemed dissatisfied. From her dress he Judged her to be a person of wealth, and thought it likely she would have a good order to give. When at last, he had shown her the last roll he paused in despair. "I'm very sorry, madam," he said apologetically, "but If you could wait I could get some more pieces from the factory. you would call again." The prospective customer gathered her belongings together and rose from the chair. "Yes. do," she said, with a gracious smile, "and ask them to send you one or two with very small designs, suit able for putting in the bottom of a canary's cage."—Chicago Journal. Time to Avoid Blunders I<et President Wilson take plenty of time In selecting his next Cabinet. No time is wasted that will enable him to avoid the blunders made In choosing his present Cabinet Kansas City Journal. "UNCLE JOHN" B MOST DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN WHEN Governor Brumbaugh se lected John A. Brashear, the white-haired instrument maker of Pittsburgh, as the most distinguish ed man in Pennsylvania, there were many who wondered and then learned to admire the famous millwright, the associate of scientists. Some weeks ago a clever magazine writer told the story of "Uncle John" Brashear's life and that of his good wife, his helpmeet. Herp are a few paragraphs: "Doctor Brashear's life has inspired more people than all the sermons ever preached in Pittsburgh," a business man told me. The story of that life, the evangel of a mechanic and his wife who followed an Ideal for twenty years, and then found fame without losing happiness, is one which "Uncle John's" friends never tire of telling. In the street cars, going to and from work, the young mechanic studied mathematics and physics and astron omy. Every night he would find the shop tidied up, tools in order, the en gine, which he had built himself, clean ed and oiled, and steam up in the boiler. Sometimes they would work until one or two o'clock in the morning, grinding and polishing with infinite care. For three years, they worked night after night, on that first five-inch lens, and when it was at last Brashears wrapped It up In a red ban danna handkerchief and went blithely over the hils to Professor Langley of the Allegheny Observatory to ask ad vice about the mounting. They cut a hole in the attic roof, poked the nose of the telescope through it —and the magnified heavens were at last before them. For hours that night they stood together under the roof, and the next day they sent out an invi tation to the neighbors to come and see the stars, too. "We used to love to think that our stars up there were giving a new range to the thoughts of those around us," said Doctor Brashear. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THK METHODIST MEETING To the Editor of, the Telegraph: Pennsylvania Methodists are to be congratulated on initiating and carry ing forward to completion their great convention of men which has just closed its three-day session In this city. I was a silent spectator of the proceedings and will say that for genu ine enthusiasm, eloquent addresses and the spirit of intense devotion to truth it was an extraordinary series of meetings. The program was a world program and the eminent speakers, many of them experts In their several depart ments, had to do with mobilizing the Methodist public for the great move ment of winning men to the Gospel standards. The subjects discussed em braced a wide range, including educa tion and civic righteousness, the greater efficiency of the laity, the mis sionary propaganda, the prohibition of the liquor traffic, evangelism, facing squarely the problems of the present day. It became evident to your corre spondent that there was "something doing" in Methodism when the great crowds fill<*d convention hall, men coming from all parts of the state en tertaining themselves and paying $2 for the privilege of a seat. The key note was happily struck In the opening session with the discussion on the value of prayer in the effort of lifting the burdens of the world into the light. The Methodists profess a Joyous Chris tianity and so glad notes of song were heard at each session. What processes of thought have been stirred! What aspirations leading to duty and what resolute purposes were formed none can tell. The direct and indirect re sults of the whole movement are to be furthered by the distribution of 3,000 copies of the proceedings. OBSERVER. Odd Viewpoint One woman in the audience had her own ideas about Julian Eltlnge, the famous impersonator of feminine types. "Wouldn't it be great fun to be mar ried to a man like that?" she said to her husband. "You mean because he Is good look ing?" "No; vo'i are good looking enough to suit me." "Then what do you mean?" "Think what a novelty it would be to be able to dress in the Paris gowns your own husband wears to work." — Youugetowa Telegram. NOVEMBER 23, 1916. Whenever Doctor Brashear delivers a lecture to-day, whether It be to a group of the nation's most distinguish ed scientists or to a schoolroom of little children, he testifies to the mighty driving power given his v life by his wife's love and companionship, I* or six years her ashes have rested in the crypt of the ICeeler Memorial Dome, with a companion place ready to receive ills own. And upon the wall of that crypt the scientist has caused these words to be graven: We have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night. The twelve-Inch telescope which the Brashears made after the first one broke was as large as those possessed by many universities. In the years that followed the millwright became very much as an astronomer. He was so anxious for other people to share his knowledge and love of the stars that he often used to write letters to the newspapers about unusual happenings in the heavens. Instruments invented and perfected by Doctor Brashear hav,e made it pos sible for us to determine, where our fathers only speculated; to be precise, where they were approximate; to know, where they guessed. From his workshop have gone forth Instruments of widely divergent uses but of uniform precision. The Brashear photo-chrono graph that measures the speed of a cannon ball is no less wonderful than the glass plane thirty inches in dia meter with no part of the Burface vary ing a millionth of an inch from a per fect plane. Uncle John" does a clay's "work that would wear out many a man half his age. It usually runs from seven o'clock in the morning until midnight When he Is not otherwise engaged he is out In the shop watching the prog ress of work or pounding away on pat terns. The other workmen say "Uncle John" makes more noise than any of them. OUR DAILY LAUGH LSI ONE FOR DAD. Do you know everything-, pa? KWO Yes, my son. What's the jflSk^R difference be- |\jH 1 tween a son of a \]/ J gun and the pop _jJ/f of a pistol 7 ~mS(~ WW"** fWho was that girl who sang at the £ang3 mu sical last night f That was their daughter. She was studying music In Europe but had to com* homo on ac count of th war. Gee! War la a terrible thing, fWHAT ITWia What kind of a model la your new autorno klnd of a model. It's a horrible lEbmng CGtyat Mention the other evening of ths sad experience of some Harrisburg newspaper reporters in an effort to interview Wu Ting Fang while here several years ago stirred the memories of a man who does not live here now but who has some recollections of newspaper work in Harrisburg years ago. They deal with tho reporting end of visits of famous men to the State Capital. Also they show that the really big men of tlfty years ago wero just as approachable as the statesmen of to-day. Abraham Lin coln was as ready to talk for publica tion as Theodore Roosevelt or William H. Taft. This man tells tho story ofigfe how when President Johnson Harrisburg in company with General Grant and Admiral Farragut, they were given a great reception and after tho people had departed and the big men were taking it easy a Harrisburg newspaperman went to interview them. They Interviewed him and he did not get home until after midnight. Gen eral Grant, who visited here on Ills way home from his trip around the world, was a guest at the Executive Mansion and told scribes any number of fine stories about his trip, including some amusing incidents In which crowned heads figured, but the gen eral refused to let any of them be printed. • • * President McKlnley was the most affable president anyone would want to meet and while he would talk freely to newspapermen ho never let any thing be published unless it came out in typewritten form. Major McKlnley used to travel a great deal on the Pennsylvania Railroad 'and when Ms train changed engines here he would get out and walk around. He would gather newspapermen about him and tell stories, but there is not on record one of his visits here that produced an Interview. Yet on his return from a trip West after the Spanish War when he went to sound out the sentiment of the West about the Philippines he said some things In a chat with newspaper reporters In Harrisburg which would have made "scareheads" In all the papers if they could have been printed then. The news did come out, but it eamo out in Congress without the White House figuring in it. Probably tho shortest interview given by a President here was to a newspaper man who In his day was the leader of them all in Harrisburg. He had a telegram to ask President Roosevelt about something. The Colonel was having one of his usual receptions with everyone shaking hands and he stop ped, read the telegram and replied in an explosive "no" for publication, later on inviting newspapermen into his car to toll them why. The Colonel was great on shaking hands with all the "kids" that could get to his car when he went through. One evening he saw four babies in ariy of fathers or mothers and chucked two under the chin and shook hands with the others. On one occasion a little girl, now a pretty young lady and a member of a well-known family, threw a kiss to him fom the arms of her father. The then President kissed his hand back and said "Ah, there, petty." Then to the crowd ho said: "You ought to see the bunch I have at home." * * Speaking about interviews at Union station also brings to mind how two scribes endeavored to talk to the Span ish minister a3 he was passing through this city on his way to Canada right after the breaking out of the war In 1898. In some way they got into his private car. It was the next to last on the train and the United States secret service men detailed to guard him and his own staff were all in the rear car, probably expecting that would be boarded by some dreadful patriotic hothead. The minister was getting ready for bed. Indeed ,he waa H almost ready when the newspapermen walked in. He was shown a telegram asking for a statement, but before he could reply an adjoining berth grew a gigantic porter, a valet came in through a ventilator, two wildly gesticulating Spaniards seemed to have flown in through the windows and secret service men sprouted from the floor. The two Harrisburgers were hustled out of the car and when they expostulated at their treatment one secret service man whispered, "Say, what do you think'll happen to us? How did you do It anyway?" • • Charles Warren Fairbanks is an example of the newspaperman In pub lic life who is not afraid to talk. When Mr. Fairbanks was vice-presi dent he had to stop here many times to change trains and was always will ing to talk, guardedly, it is true, but to talk on important matters. And ho always had something worth while to say. It happens that In ills younger days Mr. Fairbanks was the represen tative of the Associated Press In In dianapolis and Pittsburgh. • • William Jennings Bryan who is the champion interview granter, is an other former newspaper worker. He still writes but he does not go at it as hard as in the days when he used to chase political stories for Omaha newspapers. Once he stopped here on some trip that was attracting much attention and newspapermen were awaiting him with telegrams ordering them to ask the Nebraskan various things. When Mr. Bryan left his car he walkel up to the group and said: "Now, bOjS, I want to find something out." Then he asked probably half a dozen questions about what news was on the wire and what was going on at Washington and so on. Then, turning around, he said, "Now, you fellows, take your turn." Two of Pennsylvania's most noted United States Senators had a few questions very much like those of Mr. Wu. Only, they knew about everyone In tho State and they did not ask the questions to parry as did the adroit Celestial. They wanted to "place" their questioner. The two men noted for questions were Matthew Stanley Quay and J. Donald Cameron. About the first query many of the newspaper men who went up against them for the first time got was "Where do you live?" or "Who was your father?" And If you came from this part of Pennsylvania nine times out of ten they knew whence you sprang. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Marcus Aaron, member of the State Board of Education, Is making an investigation Into teachers' salaries in his end of the State. —General W. G. Price, of Chester, commander of the First Brigade, looks for calls for further service. —Colonel James N. Schoonmaker, the Pittsburgh railroad man, has been touring parts of tho State looking i over routes for extensions to tap new coal fields. —II. M. I.andis, tho city treasurer of Pittsburgh, is seriously ill. —Mayor Franke, of Johnstown, U planning a municipal Christmas tree. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg Is an Import ant holographic relay center and tliat thousands of wires pass through here? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg's first public Improve ment was clearing dams from Paxton creek. ;
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