8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ttjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Hullillbk, Federal Square, < IE. J. STACK POLE, Prts't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, QV3 M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and fVnn aylvania Asiocl&t- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office. Story, Brooks A Fln Kntered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4. Bow sweet and gracious even in com mon speech Is that fine sense which men call cour tesy! It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. And gives its owner passport ''round the world. — Jamts T. Fields. CAMP CURTIN CHURCH A LL Harrlsburg and many old sol- XJL diers over the State will join in congratulating the congregation of the handsome new structure which is to be at once its place of worship and a permanent marker for one of the most famous of Civil War camps. Camp Curtin Memorial Church, has had a career not marked all the way by flowers and good cheer. Erected When the Tenth ward had scarce a half hundred houses, as an off-shoot of Grace Methodist Church, by David Catterel, the well-known businessman; William S. Walter, now of Chicago, and others of that congregation, the little church grew with the population uptown and was rebuilt to twice its original size. Scarcely had the Im provements been made before the building was destroyed by flre, and the dauhtless membership had to be gin all over again. That they built a bigger and better church on the site, and kept on rebuilding and enlarging until the handsome church building dedicated last evening has resulted Is an Indication of the zeal and energy that has marked the organization since the very day It was formed. It was a happy thought to have named the church for the old camp site. It would be altogether proper for the State, as has been suggested, to purchase the small plot adjoin ing on which to erect a memorial to Governor Curtin, the great war Gov ernor, whose name was given to the camp when It was called Into being following the outbreak of the rebel lion. If England fought as well abroad as at home the Germans never would have , a chance. RELIEF BADLY NEEDED THE overcrowded condition of Harrlsburg Hospital for the In sane has reached a condition where it is almost a scandal. This is no reflection on the management, which has done wonders under condi tions that might discourage even the most resourceful and enterprising. The hospital was not designed for more than 75 per cent, of the patients now housed there. Relief Is badly needed and must be forthcoming un less we are to have more such occur rences as that of last Saturday, when an inmate died of injuries Inflicted by a fellow patient. To be sure, such a fight as reported might occur even under normal con ditions, but the chances of two violent patients coming together are greatly Increased when they are so closely housed that attendants have difficulty keeping them apart. Health consider ations, as well as safety of person, de mand that the Legislature authorize such changes as will remedy the dis gracefully overcrowded conditions that exist at the otherwise well-con ducted Harrlsburg Institution. Never mind, Mr. President, we have already declared our own food em bargo. MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS COOKIES AN Altoona merchant advertises "Christmas cookies, right from Mother's jar." The nerve of him! Why. the fel low's trifling with a sacred Institution; he's invading the sanctity of child hood's happy memories and manhood's most delectable moments. "Christmas cookies, right from Mother's jar!" The very idea! YOU know the man's faking. First place. Mother never could, or can. make enough Christmas cookies to meet a large and growing local demand; and second place. Mother would just as ■oon think of selling the family Christ mas turkey as a pound of those flakey tidbits of sugary toothsomeness com monly known as cookies. All of Mother's cookies were, and are, of the premium winning variety. We say ARE for this Is no tale of merely youthful memories; Mother makes 'em now as of yore, and their flavor holds true to early form. All Mother's cookies, then, were and are good, but the Christmas cookie was. and Is, in a class by Itself. Making the Christmas cookies Is a rite of household importance second only to trimming the Christmas tree. MONDAY EVENING, You remember your own part In it as a boy. You always new when Mother | reached that part of her holiday prepa rations by the fuct that she got down the large mixing bowl—not the second largest one, but the very bigr. yellow one with stripes about it. You knew what was going to happen next, and byway of preparedness you went for a hammer while Mother got down the old smoothing iron and produced a basket of walnuts and shellbarks. While you hammered and picked, Janey sorted the raisins, little Brother adding variety and excitement by "snitching" enough of both to give him a stomachache long before the sweet, warm aroma from the oven told of gastronomic joys about to be realized. And then the bird and the animal cutters—used only at Christmas time! The unsung inventor of those impor tant contributors to the joy of the sea son it is to be hoped is getting his Just reward on high. Certainly, he de serves perennial Christmas pleasures, for there is nothing under the great dome quite so meltingly delicious as a fresh bird-shaped Christmas cookie with a raisin eye, unless it be a raging Hon treated generously to sugar and cinnamon and stabbed to the heart with a walnut kernel. What fun it was to be allowed to help cut theml And when the oven had yielded up Its smoking treasure, with what antici pation you helped store the golden harvest away in that deep, sweet well of human happiness, Mother's cookie jar. It's all very well to advertise "bread like Mother used to make," but we pro pose to rise right up and protest when ever anybody outside the family begins to trifle with Mother's cookies, fig uratively or otherwise. Trying to live on eight cent 3 a day doesn't appear to be much more suc cessful when practiced by a diet squad in Chicago than individually in Harris burg. FOREIGN COMPETITION FOR those who believe that foreign competition will cut a com paratively small figure follow ing the war In Europe, the views of Prof. Francke, editor of the Soziale Praxis, Berlin, who predicts that an inevitable industrial consequence of the conflict will be the strengthening of the position of German employers, Individually and associated into federa. tions, will be of more than passing In terest. In the course of the war. Prof. Francke says, the position of the em ployer already has enormously in creased and although their numbers has been diminished their strength does not rest so much on their num bers as men as on the number of their establishments, but he foresees trouble for them after the war, for all that. Says he: As a rule, these establishments have improved and strengthened their positions, and have increased in concentration. There are now fewer independent groups of indus trials. Unity among them is prac tically complete, and there can be no longer any doubt that German industrials after the war will go hand-in-hand with the agricultural alliances and with the middle class leagues. The leading men of the most im portant industries are already stat ins: through the press that their principles remain unchanged, and assume with absolute conviction that they are the masters of the situation. They insit that Social Democracy shall learn a leson from the war, and rewrite the principles which have hitherto guided it. But they themselves decline to rewrite anything, and, therefore, when peace comes, there will be peace and relief from years of bloodshed, but the war of labor will succeed it, and no one knows whither its bat tles will lead. The better labor conditions are In Germany—and Europe as a whole— the better labor conditions in the [United States will be, and the less our business people would have to fear from foreign competition. Cheap labor abroad has made necessary to American prosperity In normal times a tariff wall to balance the difference of wages here and elsewhere. Conse quently, a contest between labor and capital In Europe, with higher wages and shorter hours as the objects of the men, would be of incalculable advan tage to all the people of the United States. Some of Harrlsburg"s officers must have broken into the Hazleton police force. Police lockers have been rifled, a cow has been stolen from the pound and a slot machine from the chief's office. "PRESS AGENTING" UNCLE SAM THE "press agent" game is being overworked by Europe. All the warring nations are playing it for the benefit of your Uncle Samuel. The American public has not been slow to see the drift and as a consequence has come to doubt the sincerity of all concerned and to read between the lines of every cablegram for the "joker" that is hidden away in so many innocent-looking war dispatches. Take, for instance, the woeful pic ture of England, France and Russia weeping in an abandon of anguish over the deportation of some thou sands of Belgians by their German conquerors. It is a sad enough spectacle, that Is true. Germany is committing a crime second only to the rape of Belgium at the outstart of the war. The imperial government has done no more despicable or out rageous thing in a warfare, the chief characteristic of which has been cold blooded, deliberate brutality, than this wholesale abduction of Belgians. But complaint comes with poor grace from the allies. They are no better than Germany in this. A Wash ington dispatch calls attention to con ditions in East Prussia, where the United States has failed in recent negotiations with Russia to Induce the Petrograd government to consent to the return of some 30,000 Germans to their country before Christmas. The Germans, consisting of wo men and children and old men, many over eighty and, none of military age, were deported from East Prussia In 1914, when Russian armies overran a part of East Prussia. These Germans, it was said, have been dispersed in several parts of Russia —some in the Russian Cau casus, some In Turkestan and some In Siberia. They have not been placed in concentration camps, as HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! Germany would have preferred, and the expense of their maintenance has fallen upon the German Government. Russia, while Indicating that these forced exiles may be returned to Germany, has not given any as surances as to the time, and it is understood that many of them have died from want and exposure. Here we have the allies tarred with the same stick with which they have been besmearing Germany. Neither side is sincere. Both have been ruthless and barbarous and both are trying to make virtues of their sins for the sake of public opinion In the United States—and both are over doing It. We Imagine King George will not b* hard to convince that a more vigorous war policy is necessary. Altoona's town poet has been killed by an automobile. Magazine poets, please take notice. According to Dr. Dixon, chances of long life are slim for the fat men. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 California voted for "He kept us out of war," although It is the most likely State of all to get him Into war. —lndianapolis Star. Thirteen electoral votes In a doubt ful State aro luckier than ballot No. 13 In a voting-booth. New York Morning Telegraph. The Colonel Intimates that he will, now retire to private life; but the Colonel has tried that before on sev eral occasions. Cleveland Plain Dealer. After all, Shadow Lawn found its place in the sun. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Few men can have followed the re turns with more complicated emotions than Colonel Roosevelt. Springfield Republican. Wood row also seems to have receiv ed some rural credits. lndianapolis Star. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] ADVISES FOOD BOYCOTT To the Editor of the Telegraph: Wc believe the time is now here for the general public to do something toward reducing the high cost of liv ing, and we know that this can be done if every consumer will co-operate with this movement and refuse any commodity on which there has been an unfair and arbitrary price charged for foodstuffs. We are sure this can be accom plished with the hearty co-operation of the press, and more particularly through the medium of your valuable paper, the Harrisburg Telegraph, by In stilling in the minds of the consumer the necessity of placing a boycott for at least two weeks on any article on which there has been an unfair price charged. Our reason for calling your atten tion to this matter is brought about by the unfair treatment the general public received at the hands of many of the farmers and dealers In our markets on Wednesday of this week. We refer more particularly to the price asked for turkeys, and when the farmer was unable to secure the unfair price asked ha reloaded them in his wagon and later in the day was seen to offer the same dressed turkeys to the downtown restaurants for a price less than one-half asked the consumer at the markets. Does this seem fair to the working man who might have enjoyed a turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner, but for the above unfair prices was unable to have a turkey dinner? We again ask your hearty co operation and trust the other papers will join you in this worthy movement. Very truly yours, J. HAWKINS. Concerning a Short Session The Harrlsburg Telegraph has pro nounced strongly and decisively in favor of the shortest possible legis lative session. Other newspapers are quite likely to do the same. It may be th citizens who are interested in a short and economical session will take the time to interview their Sena tors and representatives during the period preceding the beginning of the session. Should there be a general movement in that direction, either by personal conversation or by letter. It is likely to have the needed effect. Our public men are generally very re sponsive to public sentiment, once it is revealed clearly and decisively. Friends of efficient government can do nothing better than to impress upon their representatives the neces sity of a short session. Altoona Tribune. The Convict's Dream I'm fishing through the bars— Yes. . . . They're made of steel . . . It's fun to throw the line out far, to feel The fish a-bltlng like they used to, when— What? A lifer? No; y'see, in early May Just twenty years from now, they'll free me. . . Say! Feel that tug? I almost caught one then. It got away. Yes, the fish used to bite like that when I was on the farm. Somehow it seems a million years ago! t thought the world was good and free from harm. God, what's the use! There was a little mill. The stream of it was filled with speckled trout; Some days I thought I'd hardly last until My work was done and I could pull them out. Enough for supper, maybe, maybe more; And then I'd stop and leave some at her door. She had brown eyes, the truest sort of eyes All filled with a trust that never dies. She loved me then. Sometimes she called me "dear." I meant, some day. to bring her fame and gold, And pearls and rubies, all her hands could hold. And as I fished, I'd plan it out, and dream, And watch the dying sunlight on the stream. Do all dreams fade? She doesn't know I'm here. I wonder If God thinks I'm awful bad' He couldn't, for He loved the little lad That used to dream. He loved those dreams cf mine. Forgot Him? Almost. But He loves me still. What's twenty years to Him? Why, He's divine! He'd say, "Do better, man, I know you will!" He was a friend. He's still a friend of mine. I'm fishing through the bars. Yes, they're made o'f steel— It's nice to throw the line out far, to feel— Well, free again! It's nice to see the sun; It's nice to be alive—to have some fun. To make believe that life has just be gun. To dream and plan, just like I used to, when— Say, feel that tug? I almost caught one then! —Margaret E. Pangster, Jr., In The 1 Christian Herald. ck I>.KKO^O'Kta1 > .KKO^O'Kta J By the Ex-CommUleeman Supporters of Representative Rich ard J. Baldwin, of Delaware, for the Republican caucus nomination for Speaker of tha next House to-day scouted talk of compromise and de clared that there was no more chance of a "dark horse" winning than there was of Representative Edwin R. Cox being selocted at the caucus. The par tisans of Representative Cox retorted that they were for Cox to the finish and that If the Baldwin people did not know they were beaten they would within a few days when some sur prises would be sprung. The Cox people, who are aligned with the Brumbaugh-Vare-Magee wing, inti mated to-day that there would be a swing to Cox that would Jar the Bald win people and make Senator Penrose go to the seashore. The Brumbaugh people planned on Saturday to follow up the declaration of A. Kevin Detrlch. late chairman of the Washington party state committee, for Cox with some endorsements of the South Phlladelphlan by up-State legislators, but they did not arrive and Detrich's declaration was somewhat discounted by the way he prefaced it and by the fact that his name has been much mentioned for place under the Brumbaugh administration. Paul N. Furman has taken active charge of the campaign for Cox at the State Capitol and it is understood that a good many men connected with the State government will become active on their home members. The Vare brothers are looking after Cox's end in the east and Commissioners Magee and O'Neii In the west. Governor Brum baugh will be in the South most of the week and when he comes home some things will be ready forihis consid eration. I —Representative "Joe" Phillips, of Clearfield county, came out with a suggestion that a neutral should be agreed upon for Speaker. Phillips did not say that he favored himself. He comes from the county of Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton, who is more or less concerned on whether he is going to be confirmed next session. —The Penrose people last night gaf"e out an endorsement of Baldwin for Speaker by Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of Wilkes-Barre, which is rather significant, as Catlin is a power in Luzerne and has been very resentful of Patton's removal of Food Inspector Walsh. Catlin is strong with labor in his county and his declaration that he favors Baldwin rnd has heard that so many men from his section are for the Delaware man is regarded as upsetting the plan or the Cox people to make Baldwin an anti-labor candidate. The administration people to-day said that they had discounted the Catlin en dorsement and that it did not mean that Cox would not get votes from that county. —Baldwin's headquarters gave out endorsements of him by Representa tives John A. Fltzgibbon. new member from McKean, and Henry T. Albee, whom the administration is charged with having tried to defeat last month in Potter county, and C. Jay Good nough, of Cameron. They intimated that there would be more, which drew the shot from the State administration trenches that the Baldwin people were putting out "sure things" to make a pretense. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the Baldwin people have a chance to get seventeen votes in Philadelphia and will get more than half in Alle gheny, which is, of course, disputed by Mr. Furrnan. —The Philadelphia Record calls at tention to the fact that Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, will be a big factor and that the mayor is likely to have a rough time of It. The North American says the mayor is for Cox, but the Record says that while the mayor is generally conceded to the State admin istration, he may not come out in the open because the Penrose people may put through some of the new charter legislation asked in that city which the mayor does not want. The Record also notes that the mercantile apprais ers, all Vare men, are also uneasy be cause their appointments will fall within the giving of Auditor General elect Snyder, who is not exactly a Brumbaugh adherent. —The Philadelphia North American announces that Representative H. At lee Brumbaugh, of Blair, is still hold ing off his speakership ambitions. What the Governor has to say about them is not printed as yet. —According to the Philadelphia In quirer this is the plan of the Pen rose people: "The program of the Penrose supporters as far as it has been outlined is to seek to control the organization of both the Senate and the House Independently of the State administration and so support a legis lative policy which shall later on be outlined by Senator Penrose. Re trenchment in the expenditures of the State government with the abolition of useless offices and unnecessary ex penses, It Is declared will be a slogan with which the Penrose followers will go to Harrisburg at the organization of the Legislature. Penrose men claim that they will readily dominate the State Senate, that a number of Stale officials whose appointment by the Governor requires the approval of the State Senate will fall of confirma tion and that there will be heavy cuts In departmental appropriations." —The Democratic attitude in the speakership as outlined In Philadel phia bn Saturday by National Com mitteeman Palmer is as follows: "There will be no alignments made with cither of the warring factions, and no bi-partisan alliances, as long as I have anything to do with the State organization. If Penrose stands for clean elections and progressive legislation, well and good. If the Vares do likewise, well and good. Our moves will be governed by tho merit of the measures introduced in the Legislature, as they affect the Interests of the people of the State. We will be the guardian of the public interests and by the looks of things a guardian will be necessary when the Republi can factions come together in Harris burg." Mr. Palmer declared that local option is not a party issue and that the Democratic members would vote according to their party pledges made in their home counties and ac cording to their personal beliefs. He said that the Democrats will not sup port either Republican faction in its speakership light. —The Democratic machine will probably fill sixteen post offices, in cluding some fat ones in Schuylkill and other counties, soon. Incidentally Warren Van Dyke, secretary of the State Democratic committee, will be reappointed to a nice place in the Fed eral service, for which all of his many friends will rejoice. —John P. Glvlllcks, Franklin; C. P.. Stevens, Pulton; E. M. Beers, Hunt ingdon; Marshall Graham, Juniata; J, Harry Saxton, Mifflin; G. B. Noss, Perry; George P. Livingston, Snyder, and Oliver P. Miller, Union county, the return Judges for the Seventeenth, better known as the "Shoestring," Con gressional district, completed and cer tified their work at Lewistown Satur day. The total vote Is as follows: County. Harris. Focht Franklin 5,704 6,083 Fulton 1,811 684 Huntingdon 2,425 8,864 Juniata 1,433 1,222 Mifflla 1,670 2,188 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY j THE GANG GETS THE YOUNG HUSBAND ON THE PHONE * NOW urreM,o3vw*i.p, oo "T"* *LCMMe"rot<*re H,M , r J^s.l .YOU R£ty •rtMT. vou o UK£ To see The I v*eMt.r*s inr A J Otßu wt+o\p Keep you ]\ chain* / r AWAV rROM A Vbtceß-AAMC? I V ■ J "it,, (u uf'i^S ReMPMBrK-'i Mow we've J PJ STARTING WROMCr' v— p- . . -i """V yl N, 11.—Webster, the cartoonist, In n very recent bridegroom. ( H BUENOS AIRES BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2. Tak-, en in bulk the businessmen of Buenos Aires more easily re semble the Chicago typo than any other. Of course, this resemblance is con siderably qualified. For one thing, "A-B" Is predominantly a Latin city. It is maybe 30 per cent Spanish, 20 per cent Italian and 50 per cent very much mixed, but with a good deal of Latin blood even in the mixture. Nevertheless there is a resemblance to Chicago. The businessmen dross well and look prosperous, but they are not as strictly conventional as the New York model. To pick out a distinctly Argentine "type," however. Is a hard undertak ing. Argentine is a melting pot of the nationalities, to be sure, but the nationalities have not yet had time to do much melting. It is true there is a small element in Argentine which has been Argentine for as many gen erations as the real original popula tion of the first thirteen States has been American. This group Is so small, however, in proportion to the mass of much newer arrivals as to be scarcely noticeable. Native English a Queer Type To on Anglo-Saxon eye the English Argentines are about the queerest people, to be Argentines, that there are to be found In Buenos Aires. To all outward appearances most of these individuals are absolutely Eng lish. They look/English. They speak perfect English. The chances are they speak even Spanish with an Eng lish accent. They seem to think like Englishmen and they are of English parentage. Yet when you come to investigate you find that they were born in Ar gentina, consider themselves Argen tines and, while they may sympathize with England In the present war, for instance, say openly they would be Argentines, as against England, if there should ever be any Anglo-Ar gentine friction. The North American Argentines are the same way, though there are not so many of them. The same thing is true of the var ious sorts of Latin Argentines. In their case, however, the contrast be tween what they are and what they appear to be is not so pronounced, since it is the popular conception that an Argentine Is a Latin anyway. If you are born in Argentina you are an Argentine. This is the law. There Is no getting out of it and stick ing to the country of your parentage, Perry 2,196 2,519 Snyder 1,329 1,651 Union 1,349 1,646 Totals 17,417 18,237 Foeht also had 485 Prohibition votes and then some, making his plurality 1,253. And he was the man certain people were sure was going to be licked. liits of the Out o' Doors To a Sparrow O feathered little bird of somber gray, Your flutt'ring heart need feel no pang of fear When to your humble nest I stray too near, Nor need you fly in fright so fast away! For though you are but common and despised And men speak often things unkind of you. He, whom fain I would be as, well knew That In the meanest thing some good ness lies! Through Japanese Eyes The Japanese do not want war. They will avoid It If possible. But they are very proud, and the war par ty Is ambitious. They are too poor to fight a big war. But If war seems to be their duty to protect their national hoqor, they will fight with the des peration of the idealist and the effi ciency of the autocracy. If war comes, it will be America's fault. And If war comes it will be a big war. Ja pan does not harbor cowardice. This Is the situation as I have gathered it so far. It is a guess, you may say, and so is the Judgment of any man on such matters; for the past two years have proven to us that war sometimes comes unbidden, and that the "Great Illusion" of the summer of 1914 is the grim reality of to-day. What is Japan's offense? That she thinks herself as good as fljiy other nation. Is this crime or undue as sumption? Japan has kept her prom ises with us as surely as she has broken them tn regard to Asiatic mat ters. We should be ready to exert our Influence against her In case she takes steps in the Far East which are un just or illegal. But our mightiest war ship will not scare her; our sharpest note will not deter her from a fixed purpose. 6ho will do, right because of friendship, because she is beaten In war, or because she Intends to do right DECEMBER 4, 1916. as there is in most other lands. What | the law says seems to go. Apparently the people who are born here take the legal view of the matter. Unlike Argentines they may look and act, they consider themselves Argentines and are proud of it. A Polite People The average Argentine is very po lite and accommodating if his atten tion is called to you, as to a fellow human being. He is not so polite to the general public, however. The streets in Buenos Aires are mostly very narrow and crowded with vehicles. The sidewalks are still nar rower and much congested. This makes walking difficult. Do the peo ple try to minimize this difficulty by showing a little consideration for one another? Well, not so anybody could notice it. Your personal friend will gladly walk beside you in the gutter, to give you a place on the sidewalk. He and another friend will promen ade with you, three abreast, however, occupying the whole walk and crowd ing other people out among the auto mobiles, if they can "get away with it." This kind of thing Is so pronounced that it hfls been the subject of discus sion in Congress, where a deputy once tried to get a law passed estab lishing some sort of a rule-of-the-road for pedestrians. He failed. The peo ple admitted that all lie said was true, but they also alleged the svstem as it existed suited them and they didn't want it interfered with. Motorcars Speed Vehicular trafTic is just as bad. Mo torists run at terrific speed through the busiest streets and cut corners and dodge around street cars in a way that would throw a New York or a Chicago-traffic policeman into con vulsions. Not as many people are killed in this way as might be ex- I pected, but this is only because they are used to the situation and look out for themselves accordingly. And yet, if you stop one of these people, address him personally and ask him for a direction or some other trifling favor, he will go to such lengths to be polite and accommo dating that few North Americans would ever think of it. Assuming, for example, that you are a foreigner and he has trouble in understanding you, he will positively fie up traffic while he conducts an investigation to find someone who is competent to act as translator, in order to help you. The whole thing is simply the Ar gentine system and you may as welJ get used to it. anyway. She will do wrong because she wants to, and because she regards herself as a sovereign nation, able to interpret her own law and able to en force her will on weaker nations. If we have any real reason for keeping the Japanese out of America, let us keep them out. But if we arc not willing to do something, let us stop this jangle of rusty swords and flint-lock muskets in trying to scare our courageous little yellow brother, who will be friends with us. but who will not be scared.—Maynard Owen Williams, in the Christian Herald. The Exception All things come to those who wait, except, possibly, the things thev have been waiting for.—Philadelphia Rec ord. I OUR DAILY LAUGH A FORECAST. Do you think we're going to have a white It looks pretty ££§h|h J■ J dark for me. I wEESu SaUx. A can't possibly t - \ save the money TT _J to buy my wife the furs she's I■:S / set her heart on. vw i;||i H v&rv, hl r 'l/ THEY Da I i /AII ' Father—Fine / J* ' ' iHflyl feathers don't ttrA malte birds. w i'W\L wiiiJi But tliey caa IV;/ y chair or as soon as you start out fer a ride. Perhaps, us Har- come within that category of folks mentioned by the late Gov ernor Pennypacker who like to pay some one to come from somewhere else to tell them about their oiwn homes. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Roland S. Morris, the former Democratic State Chairman, speaking at Philadelphia, said that the people of that city still clung to many old village ideas. ■—Congressman John J. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, is said to bo contem plating writing a series of articles on labor and legislation when he re tires from Congress. —Ex-Mnyor Blankenburg said at Philadelphia that he thought asses sors had valued his home too lojv when he was In office. —Attorney General Brown has given up hopes of any deer hunting this Fall because of the rush of work. —Edwin R. Cox, candidate for Speaker, has served for years as a member of sectional school boards In Philadelphia. —A. S. Van Tassel, the Clearfield county tanner, Is planning extensive reforestation projects. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrlsburg has some of the biggest ear repair plants on the Pennsylvania system? HISTORIC IIARRISBPRO John Harris faced keen rivalry when he proposed to make Harris burg the seat of a new county. Both Lancaster and Lebanon objected. Prices Hit Honesty We claim to be just as honest as any body, but right at this time, if a neigh bor's hen were laying in our barn, we'd be the last person In the world to tell the neighbor about It.-—From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,