8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH "A KMVSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded it,}t Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Dulldlng;, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat- Eastern office, Stnrv, Brooks &. Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office. Story, „y. People's 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. SATURDAY EVENING, DEO. 2 Who is wise and understanding among you let him show by his good Ufe his works in meekness of wisdom. — JAMES 3:13. STATE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU LABOR In Pennsylvania at the time is in the happy position of being able to select its own Job. That there is more work than workers is evident from the report of the State Bureau of Employment for the past month. More employers than place hunters sought the services of the bureau. In Harrisburg, for example, 437 em ployers asked to be directed to men to fill the positions they had to offer, while the number of applications for work totaled only 317. In other words,, there were 120 more Jobs open than there were men to fill them. This pro portion is maintained throughout the State. Just now the Employment Bureau is serving the employer to a greater ex tent than the employe, but nobody can tell how soon this may be reversed. In times of industrial depression it will be of invaluable assistance to the man looking for work and a great aid in keeping check on unemployment. There are few more Important func tions of government than that of bringing Jobless man and the manless Job together. The wonder is it took Pennsylvania so long to put this very plain truth into practice. A hunter's pipe having exploded, Minding one of his eyes, it now be comes apparent that gunners to be safe must leave at home their pipes as ■well as their guns. OUR CANAL PROBLEM WILLIAM A. MAGEE'S recom mendation that the Legisla ture institute an investigation into the possibility of rehabilitating the old canal systems of Eastern Pennsylvania for the purpose of re ducing freight-carrying charges on anthracite from the mines to Phila dephia, is not new, but it will receive 1 more than ordinary consideration for several reasons, aside from the popu lar interest (ittaching to the subject. Mr. Magee has been prominently identified with coal transportation by water in Western Pennsylvania and with all mannor of canal projects on the Allegheny water shed. Besides, the fact that he is a member of the Public Service Commission gives in creased weight to his reference to State law and the canals. He can mean nothing more or less than that Magee, Public Service Commissioner, would compel the canal companies, If a legislative committee recommended it, to make such expenditures as would be necessary to transform the canals into waterways, capable of carrying all the coal that might be offered from the mines to tidewater. This would work a complete revolution in the transportation methods of Pennsylva nia and restore an industry, the doom of which, it had been thought, was sealed definitely when steam came into general use as a freight-hauling agency. Mr. Magen's remarks refer especially to the Lehigh and Delaware canals still In operation to a limited degree. It would be next to impossible to re store the long since abandoned Penn sylvania canal which in many places has been filled up and turned into roadbed for railroad or State Highway purposes, as north of Harrisburg' for example. Opinion Is Inclined, first off, to de cide that It was short-sighted policy, Indeed, which prompted the railroads when they came Into possession of the old canal properties, which they dis placed as common carriers, to let them deteriorate and finally fall Into disuse entirely. Viewed from present day car shortages and freight it was, Indeed, poor business to aban don these waterways, which Just now would be so helpful both In the hand ling of "slow" freight and in keeping down traffic charges on coal. But con ditions were different then. It requires a study of the canal his tory of Pennsylvania to give one a proper understanding of the attitude of the early railroad managers toward the canals. In the first pleace, the railroads did not rush in and gobble up the canals, willy nilly, with the purpose of killing competition. Records In the Depart ment of Internal Affairs show that the Etate repeatedly urged the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company—or anybody else with the money—to take the Pennsylvania canal system off its hands. The canal was losing money SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! DECEMBER 2, 1916. and the railrtoad didn't want it. It was only after much dickering by the State and much hesitation on the part of the railroad that the transfer fin ally was made, and it is of official rec ord that those who engineered the deal for the State thought they had "put one over" on the railroad cor poration. Once in possession of the canals, it was only natural that the railroads should throttle them. In those days it was not a question of too much freight, but how to got enough traffic to pay interest charges and dividends. The great four and six-track systems of to-day were beyond the dreams of the most imaginative. Let us not blame the railroads more than the State for conditions as they exist with relation to the canals of Pennsylvania. Both were to blame. Both were short sighted to an excus able degree. As well look back a half century hence and blame us of to-day for not reserving certain sky fran chises for the use of future aero planists. The transportation needs of to-day were far less apparent a half century or more ago than are now those that will trouble Pennsylvanlans fifty years hence. We know now that they will need aeroplanes then, but few in 1860 imagined that in the twentieth century Pennsylvania peo ple would have use for any such sldV golng, cumbersome vehiclo as a canal boat. Back to the mines, Mr. Football Fa tality; here conies Old Man Thought- He-Was-a-Deer! WHY FOLWELL WON 808 FOLWELL, "miracle man of Pennsylvania," is what the sporting writers call him, now that his football methods at Penn have been vindicated by a triumphant victory over Cornell at the close of the most successful season the red and blue eleven has had in years. But there is nothing miraculous about either Folwell or his coaching. When he took hold of the Penn eleven he found the merit system overrun by social favoritism. Too many men "made the team" because of family. Blue blood played on the eleven, while red blood stood Jersey-clad on the sidelines. Folwell changed all this. The men ho assigned to the "first team" were there because they had earned their positions in fair and open competi tion. He played brains and brawn against favoritism, and they won, as they always do. Philadelphia has ruled Santa Claus off the street corners, but not even Mayor Smith can keep him out of the chim neys. THE NEXT EXCUSE ONE wonders what excuse the fer tile brain of the German foreign office will evolve the next time a German submarine sinks, without warning, a merchant vessel carrying Americans. The Marina, we are told, was mis taken for an army transport. So the German submarine commander fired a torpedo at her without taking time to make sure and then let go another to be certain that as few of the passengers as possible should escape. It would be funny if it were not so tragic. Doubtless the wise statesman at Washington will accept as gravely as it is presented this ridiculous subter fuge of a government that laughs in its sleeve every time it puts over a fresh outrage upon the American gov ernment. | Maybe, sometime, he will get up I courage enough to tell Germany it is high time to stop making the little "mistakes" that every few weeks put the lives of Americans in Jeopardy. Maybe he will; and then again, maybe he won't. At least he should keep up pretenses by making the Marina re port excuse for another note, even though it does have a postscript. So amazingly keen is the shark's sense of smell that it can detect the presence of a human bodv in the water at a distance of from twenty to thirty miles, and is able accur ately to sense the direction in which Its prey may bo found.— Chicago Journal. Almost as keen as the scent of some land sharks for suckers. "MOVIE" CENSORSHIP MOVING picture producers who have been telling the public that there is no need for public cen sorship have something to explain. The censors to-day made public a list of the films condemned in recent months. Here are a few samples of the rejected titles, selected at random: "Black Nissen, the Human Beast," "The Flame of Passion," "The Brides maid's Secret," "Governor Sloton and Leo Frank," "Harry Thaw's Fight for Life," "The Life of Evelyn Thaw," "Leading Lizzie Astray," "The Horrors of White Slavery," "The Sewer," "The She-Devil" and scores of others like them. The producers are convicted out of their own mouths. If they are capable of censoring their own productions so as to protect the public from such degrading spectacles as those indicated by the titles of the rejected films, why do they not do it? The subjects alone are sufficient to condemn every one of the productions named without ex amination. So long as the censors stand between the people and films of this nature thp "movie" man cannot expect the public to get excited over the "injustice" of St&te cenporship. The longer the turkey lasts, the more we think it was worth all itf^ost. Mrs. Wood says meat pie Is delicious and economical. We bet we know now one of Mr. Wood's favorite dishes. We suppose it will be up to the Presi dent to apologize to Germany for' that thoughtless sea captain who protested against an Insult to the American (lag. "Meat Profits Increase."—Newspaper headline. Yet we hear that scarcity of beef is responsible for high prices. If Commissioner Magee has his way, Pennsylvanlans will be able to take voyages with absolutely no fear of sub marines. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING By BRIGGS y— NA/MESJ YOU | -AMD You STOP YbUR ' PwOULJ>N"T~TfiAT^ THE BANG OF A CAR To ouT BLO\AI OUT AMD . THE.RE Goes / 00 PIRTY HAD OVER, .SIX You SUPPOSE IT MY REAR / IJI-S AGREE ABLE V_THOU.SAND MILES To ee YOUR TIRP= SHOE !| / WORK, OF CM IT- J CHAMGIMG ' out it wasUht a 6Tr-R-i*AND j * TIRF AT I in, By the Ex-Committeeman Last vestiges of hope for harmony in the selection of the speaker of the next House of Representatives disap peared last night in the smoke of an interchange of broadsides between Senator Boies Penrose, champion of Representative Richard J. Baldwin, and Senator Edwin H. Vare, spokes man for the State administration forces, east, west and central and sponser for Representative E. R. Cox. There will be more firing in Philadel phia, and doubtless on Capitol Hill, and the prospects for a short legis lative drive with vigorous assaults on the work mapped out have given way to indications of a bushwhacking campaign with oratorical pot shots and investigation raids. The broadsides at Philadelphia were sharp and will reverberate all over the State. Senator Penrose in his comments said that he felt confident that Baldwin would win and said that the Vare brothers did not have the State in their vest pockets and com menting upon the fact that the Re publican riiajority in the State at the last election was 50,000 outside of Philadelphia, said that the people of the State were weary of contractor leadership. The Senator from South Philadelphia came back with the intimation that Penrose was inter ested in the McNlchol firm. —Senator Penrose said in part:— "From ail I can gather, Mr. Baldwin is the natural choice of the Republi can members of the Legislature, and, knowing as I do his qualifications and fitness, I am glad that my friends are actively and earnestly supporting his candidacy. He and they will continue in the contest without compromise until the finish, and any attempt at coercion of State employes in viola tion of every propriety and of those principles of civil service pledged in the last Gubernatorial campaign will fall to Intimidate Republicans in the Legislature. Neither can promises of appointments! and the use of patron age, which, in tho case of a legislator, verges upon bribery, change the pur pose of the legislators in what they think is right." —The Vare rejoinder was as fol lows: "There is no complaint from the people of this city or Stato as to legiti mate contractors taking part In the active work of the Republican party. Every election held for many years In this city has been n splendid vic tory excepting when the Penrose lead ership tried to steal the Philadelphia gas works in 1905 and again when it tried to force a nonresident on the voters for Mayor in 1911. The objec tion to contractors, if there ever was any, was removed, as far as I am con cerned, when he ordered the Catlln Commission to Investigate my con tracts and found them absolutely clean and fair to the city. Penrose and McNichol have been conferring daily over the speakership question for weeks, which shows that Penrose Is only opposed to one contractor. And it is no sure thing that if a legally authorized investigation was made that Mr. Penrose would not be found a silent partner in a contracting busi ness." * —That the newspapers of the State which pay attention to politics expect a bitter factional fight over the speakership is certain from the way they treat the developments of yester day. The Democratic Philadelphia Rtcord naturally helps it along and says that "harmony Is now impos sible," while the North American says that "an open clash" has come. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the fight has only started, while the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Pittsburgh Dis patch look for warm times. —The Philadelphia ledger, which comments upon the fact that the Penrose statement is longer and more earnest than the usual senatorial an nouncements. also says that the Brum baugh-Vare faction is not gaining and that tho (Governor's own friends ad mit Baldwin will win. The ledger also says that George W. Williams, of Tioga, mav decide to run and also notes that H. Atlee Brumbaugh, of Blair, cousin of the Governor, has am bitions. had prepared to launch a boom when the row started and had sent out some letters. ThQ ledger gives results of jsome polls and says, that Representative R. S. Spangler, of York city is for Baldwin. —On the other hand nothing could be more confident than the remarks of the Brumbaugh leaders at the Cap itol. Paul N. Furman declared yes terday that the fight was won and reiterated it to - day, but without figures or names. Attorney General Brown, who came here yesterday aft ernoon on a flying trip to meet Com missioner Magee, appeared to be con fident of Cox winning and Mr. Magee, the master politician of the Governor's forces, smiled when asked what he thought of things and hinted at sur prises. As Magee turned up with some votes in Allegheny which the administration had not counted on when looking with Philadelphia glasses there are some who are watch ing the former Pittsburgh mayor. —Much depends on Mayor Smith. There is some legislation in pickle which he does not like and if he throws in his lot with the administra tion and Baldwin wins he may have rough traveling when the snow falls. —The Philadelphia North American on discussing Philadelphia politics says: "In the primary battle next year may also be dragged a fight over the six common pleas and two or phans' court judges who come up for election. Already a crop of aspiring candidates for judgeship is hinted at, and the possibility arises of a free for-all in which the factions will be pitted against each other. Three common pleas president judges will be candidates for re-election, Bergy, of Court No. 1, who is now serving his third term; McMichael, of Court No. 3, who is serving his second term, and Audenried, of Court No. 4, now serving his second term. Judge Fer guson, of Court No. 3. and Judge Staake, of Court No. 5, who are con cluding their first terms, and Judge Monaghan, of Court No. 5,- recently appointed by Governor Brumbaugh, are the remaining candidates. Judges Anderson and Lamorelle, of the or phans' court, both of whom are con cluding their first terms, will come up for re-election." EDITORIAL CX)MMENTj Mr. Hughes was rlffht. Ho ' Pa id that work would be scarce if Wilson won, and new he's out. of a job him self. Philadelphia North American. Furthermore, it was a real treat to watch those eastern women who can't vote telling the western women who can vote how to vote. -- Dallas News. If that Democratic majority in tho Senate has any gratitude whatever, it will give Hiram Johnson a good committee appointment. New York Morning Telegraph. Jack London Here s to you, Jack, whose virile pen Concerns itself with Man's Size Men; Here s to you, Jack, whose stories thrill savor of the western breeze: ci .7J aK ! c , of south—and chill Shrill winds from icy iloes and seas: \ou have not wallowed in the mire And muck of tales of foul desire, l or, though you've sung of light and fraud, Of love and hate—ashofe, afloat— Y °u have not struck a ribald note Nor made your art a common bawd Here's to you. Jack; I've loved your | best, _ Y °ur finest stories from the first, | Your sagas of the north and west— | But what i more—l've loved your worst! For, in the poorest work you do There's something clean arid strong ana true, A tan* of big and primal things, A sweep of forces vast and free, A touch of wizardry which brings The glamour of the wild to me. So when I read a London tale Forthwith I'm set upon a trail Of great enchantment, and I track Adventure round the world and back, With you for guide—here's to you. Jack. —BERTON BRATjEY, "Songs of the Workaday World." The Bright Eyes of Jenny Ain't a singing of the stars— Wishing for their light; When the day Is dreamed away Jennie's eyes are bright. If it's raining In the skies Still the blue's in sight; Then I say; "Jes' rain away!— Jenny's eyes are bright!" All the world's a garden place. Care takes wings for flight; Sun an' star May fade af&r:— Jenny's eyes are bright! —Frank S. Stanton in the Atlantic Constitution. AT SEVEN, SHE NEEDS $10,500 YEAR FOR SO EVEN at 7 years old, Annie Marie Wallace, daughter of the late Al len Wallace, stock exchange member and descendant of Commo dore Vanderbilt, is burdened with the universal plaint, the 'high cost of liv ing. Abraham Greenberg, as referee, offi cially reported to the surrogates' court that Miss Wallace cannot possibly get along on less than $10,500 a year and still retain her social position, which calls for a governess, maid, dancing in structor, music teacher, riding master and other retainers. Also she must have her pet donkeys and dogs, and they, too, have to eat and occupy suit able quarters. Heir to One-half Million Mrs. Wallace, the child's mother, gets along on $12,000 a year. The child is the beneficiary under a trust fund left by her father and an other left by her grandfather, John Wallace, also a broker, the two amounting to more than one-half mil ilion dollars. Some day she will re- State-Dairy Inspection [Pennsylvania Farmer.] The preliminary legislative program for the next session of the Pennsylvania Legislature is reported to provide for a system of State inspection of dairy herds, barns and equipment. The plan favored proposes to put such inspection under the State Livestock Sanitary Board with power to call in the State Department of Health in cases of out break of diseases affecting public health. Dairy Inspection has long had a peculiar fascination for the legislators. Theoretically, it is a beneficial, and at times, a necessary service. But practi cally, few systems of inspection have measured up to the theoretical possi bilities and most of them have failed. Because of the frequent failures, and more particularly because of the abuses that have led to the failures, the entire subject of dairy Inspection has become a very Under one with dairy farmers. The most common abuse has developed from one of two causes: A multiplicity of inspection authority and standards, and l inefficiency of inspectors. Under the old practice of each municipality setting up its own standards and en forcing its own rules, dairy communi ties contributing milk to more than one city market often had varying require ments to meet. Such municipalities ' have the habit also of changing their ! standards frequently, and the inspec tion became a menace of unknown power and ever-changing requirements. State inspection to apply uniformly to all sections of the State and replacing all municipal inspection would be a welcome relief if honestly and effi ciently administered. But efficiency of Inspection has always been a trouble some problem. It is absolutely Impos sible to lay down one set of regulations to apply to all conditions with equal justice and comparable result. The purpose of Inspection is to Insure a wholesome product. Some dairymen can and do produce a perfectly wholesome product with equipment that would not pass even a lenient set of regulations, while' there are others whose products would be questionable if produced un der the most exacting requirements. These classes represent the two ex tremes. Between them are the great body of dairymen who are guided and safeguarded by an intelligent Inspec tion. but who would be seriously han dicapped by an arbitrary and un flexible set of regulations. The good inspector must be a man of experience in dairy work. He must know the business and know what makes a good product. He must have brains and common sense; Such men are not em ployed on a meagre salary. They cost money. With such inspectors the State must be prepared to appropriate a lib eral supply of money; with any other kind, a State system would be worse than useless. The best system of in spection is a marketing system that pays a premium on high quality milk, cream and butter and penalizes the careless or Indifferent producer by giv ing him a lower price for his product. This would call for the establishment of market grades of all dairy products, a condition that should result from the present dairy organization movement. Until such time, there must be some system of official Inspection. We be lieve that State inspection is better than municipal or district inspection be cause it will be more stable and less subject to change. But State Inspection must be liberally supported to secure the proper standard of officials and ceive the principal of these funds. But in the meantime she must be educated, trained and brought up in a manner befitting the social and financial posi tion she is going to occupy, for bv the time she is of age the funds will amount to much more. Lives in Italy Now Mrs. Wallace is now with Annie at Ragnaia, Italy, where she has for some time made her home. The mother said that even when they were in New York where they live at the Waldorf-Astoria, her little daughter has a private bed room and another for her maid. She also has a separate table at which to dine, with her own servitors, and she enjoys the luxury of a private play room. I'eferee Greenburff reported to the I surrosutes' court that Annie ought to receive an income of $8,500 a year from her .trust funds. Not that this jamount is sufficient for her needs, but j her mother has consented to add to | her comfort with $2,000 a year.—From I the New York Tribune. must be kept free from political and factional influence. The dairymen ought to be heard in framing the pro posed law. OUR DAILY LAUGH fk MADE GOOD fftXV WITH WIND. -7/7 ' Ho ftnnoun ced Iv. J I J that 1 10 would df / / make m. whirl- It W wind campaign. IWIW A J Well, he did a r M mSi great deal ot %• biowinß ' THAT, TOO. Everything has C -ifljMaf 1 k gone up since /ty / Fi the war started. J Yes, including // u T the Arm I / \\ worked lor. \ J P Jxfc** W' } HARD LINES. wen - ru * \ V-V, I I | doI ph , why / don't you kiss JrSgjt [ i i' i 08301 knew how to HI I t T-S!P- roach you. J THE EVEN- / ING'H EMBED- . LISHMENTR Why don't you / A 1 i IBSIt Join our literary AV' 1 1 don't play cards or dance Wu the modern T | iPh dances. \ EXERCISE. ) Jack Nohead ' llrliflku Jt has boen thrown (HA ■MM down by nearly 9h every girl in F/ W-T 7 town, but I be f/1 \f J lleva he enjoys V n be ' nB thrown y\il vflßHi He does. The / "li \P r lfT'l exercise keeps hlB w ® l kh 1 Ebentttg QMjal Newly-elected members of the gen eral assembly of 1917 do not seem to have had much trouble finding the way to the State Legislative Kefer- 'J enco Bureau to have bills drawn for J presentation to the Legislature and there have been so many requests the last three weeks that there ara suspicions about tho State Capitol that there will be the usual flood of bills notwithstanding the talk of a short session with a minimum of nev 'J laws which has been heard here. The j requests have been made by members J In person and by mail and there have J also been some requests from people ™ interested in legislation to have pro- ; posed statutes drafted by the State's experts. The legislators, however, como first. Director James N. Moore f is a former member of the House and j has served for years as assistant clerk under appointment and under the act creating liis bureau which makes the director the parliamentary authority of the House. He has untied many a knot and is the last word on legis lative procedure. Tramping through the country back of Loscli's Run, in Perry county the other day. a Harrisburger rail across a littlo house on the edge of the woods attached to which was a neatly painted, well constructed garage. "This, I suppose," he ob served to the native who was his com panion, "is the summer place of some town family; I see they bring their automobile along." "Not on your life," replied thq aforesaid native. "That is tho home of a track-hand on the Pennsylvania railroad, and that garage Is his. Also, the automobile on the inside is his. Sundays he and his family spend tour- | ing. He's tho worst auto bug in this neighborhood." "And to think," observed the Har rlsburger," that I had been pitying the track workmen as my train sped along from the city this afternoon." There is much sentiment among old soldiers in the proposed purchase by the State of a plot of ground ad joining the Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist church, which will be dedi cated to-morrow, as a site for a Camp Curtin memorial. James L. Prisbee, now a resident of Wisconsin, and ono of the men who enlisted at Camp Cur tin sends this testimonial of appre ciation for tbe movement in a letter to the Telegraph: "And now, re ferring to the idea of buying a plot on which to erect a memorial for tho Governor and the boys who together mado old Camp Curtin famous, I think it is a good idea. I would like to see as a part of that memorial tho old Camp Curtin pump, now, I believe in the hands of one of tho G. A R posts of Harrisburg, encased in glass and stono and put there so that all could see this famous relic and so that it could be preserved for all time Will you please print this suggestion In discussing the development of the StatcS school system, Girard, writ ing in the Philadelphia Ledger makes this Interesting reference: "We now take a public school with as much matter-of-factness as a drink of water. But our schools are quite new. What of the older day' llow did they grow? Who made them grow? Doctor Becht has set his class in pedagogy before which he lectures at Pennsylvania tho task of actually gathering from all libraries all the written facts about education in Pennsylvania. You cannot beat that sort of thing for concreteness in teaching. 1* rom tho data collected may be written the only real history* of education in Pennsylvania, not even excluding that by the late Doc tor Wickersham. Among the ro mances in Pennsylvania education are the sixty academies that Doctor Becht tells me wero built in the State after the Revolution and prior to the birth of the public school system in 1831 Soire of them grew into colleges' President Wilson's father was identi fied with that of Washington and Jeff erson. Hardly anybody to-dav knows that the first public schools very nearly caused civil war in Pennsyl vania. So hath the stone that was rejected by the builder become tho cornerstone of the greatest sinfc.a in stitution. in the Commonwealth." • ♦ Harrisburg friends of D. B. Case, formerly of Marietta, who commanded the Fourth Pennsylvania infantry in the Porto Rico campaign, in which this city had a company, will be in terested to know that he has been transferred from Honolulu, where he was in charge of quartermaster af fairs to Kansas City. Major Case has been in the Philippines and in other places. * County schoolteachers are giving (heir pupils something new in the lino of history work. At the countv insti tute they were given the most im portant dates in American history and asked what each one represented. Many of the teachers copied these dates and have given them to the youngsters to answer. Here they are: 1776, 1492, l(i 07, 1789, 1620, 1803, 1861, 1787, 1863, 1820, 1812, 1765, 1783, 1865, 1850, 1854, <1775, 1781, 1823, 1846, 1898 and 1915. How many do you know? • • • "Some of the Harrisburg soldiers whe are doing duty on the border will no doubt file their applications for assistance for their families who are eligible for help under the recent act of Congress which provided $2,- 000,000 for that purpose," said County Commissioner H. M. Stine, an ex-cap tain in Uncle Sam's army recruiting service. The probabilities were dis cussed by Captain Stine in connection with his note to Colonel M. E. Finney, commander of the Eighth Pennsyl vania Regiment, relative to urging the men to get in their applications. The note by the way wilj be sent to the border via Captain O. M. Copelin. "We've already had some instances where the absence of the head of the house on border duty has worked more or less of a hardship upon those at home," said the commissioner, "and this can be remedied by tho sol diers themselves if they will just get buey." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. Russell H. Con well has finished thirty-four years in his Philadelphia pastorate. —Congressman W. S. Vare has several automobiles, but prefers to walk. —Dr. W. N. Irvine, headmaster of Mercersburg, is home from a hunting trip to Maine. .—John R. Williams, Scranton manufacturer, ran the first trolley car in the country at Scranton, thirty years ago last Wednesday. —Col. E. H. Ripple, .Jr., command ing the Thirteenth Pennsylvania, is establishing winter quarters at El Paso. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisburg shipped iron manufactured in Lebanon and Cumberland eounties to Pitts burgh 130 years ago? HISTORIC HAHRISniTRG Tho first rolling mill in Harrisburg was in Second street near Paxton 4
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