14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXYIXG CO., Telegraph Bulldlag, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't ana Editor-in-Chief -• R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GL S M. STEIN3IETZ, Editcr. /Member American Newspaper Pub _ cago, Illf Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second ciass matter. -fggyav bv carriers, six cents a <Eros££|KE> week; by mall. J3.00 a year m advance. THURSDAY EVENING, Dfec. 11 Pay as you go, or don't go. —Asox. SELECTING AN ARCHITECT HAVING returned home after a thorough investigation of school methods and school buildings elsewhere. President Stamm and the officials of the Harrisburg school dis trict are ready to proceed with the Important preliminaries incldentai to the building of a new Central High School, the enlargement of the Tech nical High building and the locating of junior high schools. Their tour has opened the eyes of the officials to many things which will have their careful attention in the formulating of plans and the adoption of changes to conform to the program approved by the people at the recent i election. One of the vital steps will be the choice of an architect and. manifestly, the directors are of opin ion that the existing rule which pro vides that the selection of the archi tect shall be by competition of plans submitted anonymously, and which was adopted years ago, must be changed to meet modern conditions. An amendment is now pending and will be acted upon to-morrow which provides that In the selection of an architect for a new building or the remodeling of an old one it shall be by competition, dropping the anony mous feature and leaving open the kind of competition, the method, etc. The thought back of the amend ment is that this change will make possible the choice of an architect after full discussion of all plans and the investigation of the integrity of the competitors, their experience and general fitness. In short, the pro posed change seeks to do away with an anonymous selection simply upon drawings and sketches without knowl edge of the architect who made them. As in the case of the new hotel, care is being exercised in looking into the qualifications of architects and builders and all others concerned, so that there may t>e no reason for regret when a final choice shall have been made. President Stamm and his as- ' sociates are clearly determined that' public expectation shall be met at every point, Europe is fighting over the idea that I the State is greater than the people I who created it. THE CITY'S EXPANSION PRELIMINARY surveys under the direction of the City Planning l Commission of the territory be tween the northern boundary line and the first mountain at Rockville indi cate the necessity for immediate at-, tention to the development of this im- i portant section of Harrisburg. Unless and until there shall be a formal platting of the district from Division street to the mountain and from the river to the Pennsylvania railroad • lines there will be constant difficulty growing out of the converging of par allel streets into each other. For in stance, Second street would cross Front street owing to a bend In the river line and Third street would be lost in what is now known as the Ital ian Park lake. To overcome these conditions it has been suggested by Warren H. Manning, the city's land scape adviser, to the streets so that there may be no complica tions hereafter. Comprehensive surveys have been made and it is now an easy matter to determine just where the streets should be located. Mr. Manning sug gests a wide highway at Division street, extending clear through the Wildvood park, and a similar highway at Ott's Lane. There is also a practical sug gestion that the lake along the bluff. Just north of Division street, be made a permanent and attractive feature of that section of the city, the streets terminating at that point being divert ed into other highways on both sides of the fresh water basin. It's easier to win the iron cross than It is to bear the cross that European women are being made to carrv PENNSYLVANIA TREES IN his consideration of the highways of the Commonwealth, especially upon the late summer tours. Gov ernor Brumbaugh emphasized the im portance of planting Pennsylvania trees, such as the red oak and maple, along the main thoroughfares, so that these roads should not only be com fortable, but also attractive to the thousands of tourists who will visit Pennsylvania during the coming years. It has been suggested os a practical method to assure thi3 result that some rebate bo allowed fanners for the planting of such trees along the highways. A betttr plan v.ould seem THURSDAY EVENING, to be tho utilization of the State For estry reserves for the stock and the forestry forces for the planting. the Highway Department to give the trees attention thereafter. But whatever the plan it would seem to be the part of wisdom to give attention to this matter In some official way, so that the highways may be hedged with beau tiful trees for the present and suc ceeding generations. Incidentally it has been suggested that an interesting feature of the de velopment of the Capitol Park zone would be the planting of trees in honor of cities and towns of the State. This planting might take the form of municipal celebrations, the officials and others coming to Harrisburg for the planting of the community tree. ! There is a joker in that bill to coin | a "half-jitney" that every bookkeeper I will understand. I IT 'EM INVESTIGATE THE proposed Senate Investigation of campaign expenditures is a movement that will meet oppo sition among neither Republicans nor Democrats. It is entirely safe to say that neither of the national campaign ; committees will be found .Involved In transactions in violation of any of the laws of State or nation. While it is not only probable, but practically cer tain. that in both campaign manage ments there was not only much ex travagance. but absolute wastefulness of campaign funds, this is something that happens in every campaign, the extent of the waste being dependent upon the political sagacity of the cam paign managers. Wherever corruption occurs in poll tics it is connected with a local cam paign. It is impracticable, for obvious reasons, for a national committee to engage in the corrupt use of money, even if it were so disposed. Its busi ness transactions pass through too many hands for a national campaign management to even attempt anything irregular. The only possibility of fraud lies in a local campaign, where the man who is interested in the violation of election laws deals directly with the man who interferes with an honest ballot. Neither intimidation nor brlberv ever has its origin in a national cam paign organization. It has frequently been a feature of local political con tests. It is notorious that Tammany Hall, the most famous and most efficient political organization in the world, cares not one rap for the presidential election. Tammany Hall is chiefly in terested In patronage, and all tho pat ronage the Federal administration has in the city or state of New York would not be a drop in the bucket as com pared with the patronage attached to the city and State administrations. What Tammany Hall wants first Is control of the city of New York, with its vast force of policemen, its street cleaning department, its water system, its contracts for street improvements. Its control over the army of other em ployes on the city payroll. It wants control, If possible, of the State legis lature and the governorship, but It cares even less for these than for con trol of the city itself. What is true of Tammany Hall is j true of the local political organizations in both political parties all over the United States. 'Where there is no or- j ganization on the Tammany Hall plan there is frequently a local would-be "boss" who seeks to control local gov- ' ernment for mercenary purposes. He I wants the city council, or the sheriff's office, or the prosecuting attorney's : office for what he can make out of it j for himself. In the effort to secure control of these offices there Is in some instances corrupt use of money in elec tions. A few instances in which this occurs receive much publicity when discovered, leaving the impression that corruption in elections is a common occurrence. The agitation In favor of an investi gation of the affairs of the two na tional committees is calculated to give the impression that dishonesty is a prevailing feature of national cam paigns. whereas a moment's reflection will convince any thoughtful person that there is no likelihood whatever of any dishonest effort to control the re sult of the national campaign. The investigation of the committees may prove the campaign managers In efficient and wasteful, but it will not prove them dishonest. WE MUST PREPARE JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS is not always on the right side of grave questions which affect the na tion, but he seems to have struck the nail on the head in an address on national defense before the South ern Commercial Congress. Discussing the problems which the United States faces with the warring nations of Eu rope and which will come into greater prominence with peace, he pointed out that this country must prepare to de fend itself from aggression and must be ready to lend after the war for the rehabilitation of Europe. He de clared America's efforts to enforce the laws of nations had earned the enmity of most of the belligerents. These ex tracts from his address will have sym pathetic response among all patriotic Americans: Trying earnestly to be fair to all. we have incurred the suspicion and the animosity and brought upon ourselves the accusations of all Wealth unsupported and un guarded by strength is the weak est. most timid and helpless of all things. Every man who loves America must hold her honor as dear to him as his own or as that of the women of his own family. Every true American, cherishing the spirit. inheriting the magnifi cent dreams of our founders, must feel bis heart swell and thrill with the thought of our United States fearless, confident, powerful, equip ped for defense against any foe or all foes, ready to resent quickly and effectually any insolence or ag gression. Our duty to the world is to be ready not only with armament to command respect and monev and supplies with which to attract ob ligations and gratitude, but with the fruits of American gnlus. in genuity and Inventive talent to in crease man power. Everywhere the thoughtful men of this country are now giving utter ance to these reasonable warnings against our Indifference to national de- j fctsc. Nicholas Murray Butler, inhljl earnest speech at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Society in N'ew York City, stirred the thousands of repre sentative men at that dinner to the depths by calling attention to our fail ure to measure up to the traditions of the past and the principles upon which our institutions were founded. We must prepare for peace and no prosperity based upon indifference to the other nations of the world can long continue. These great problems must be faced and faced as alt true American men and women have faced them in the past. Our idea of an uncertain job is that of Archduke Charles, regent of Poland. We suppose Germany proposes also to leave the widows and the orphans "Just as they were before the war." Maybe the Kaiser is trying to win the Nobel peace prize. What's the use of making two-cent pieces when the food barons have cut the value of a nickel down to two j cents? I , ■■ LK By the Ex-OoinmJ tteenian . ■ Adequate funds for State highway Improvements, provision to increase salaries of teachers, local option and the speakership are the subjects Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh is tak ing up in the order named in his "con versations" with legislators-elect in vited by him to visit his offices to talk over matters. The Governor has found his visitors generally in favor of the first two, but has had varying success in getting them to his pofnt of view on the others. It is expected that between now and Christmas most of the members will be here for their "conversations." Very few have refused to respond to the requests for visits to the Capitol and naturally the names of those re jecting the invitations are not made public. The Governor is hopeful of being able to swing members around to local option and support of Rep resentative Edwin R. Cox without having to resort to drastic measures, such as removing high officials byway of object lessons. —The Governor was informed by three of his callers yesterday that they were not for Mr. Cox. These callers were Representatives A. A. Weimer, Lebanon, who told the Gov ernor he was for Baldwin; George W. Williams, Tioga, who told the Gover nor ho was a candidate and who feels that he should have been selected by the Governor because of his "local option record, and Frank H. Marvin, Williams' colleague, who will naturally back him. Representatives Walter and Benchoff of Franklin, will be for Cox, but abide by the caucus. > —The Governor was generally pleased at the outcome of his "con versations" and expects to do consid erable work next week. —While some of the Governor's friends are urging him to an extreme course and to remove officials who do not or will not help and who re fuse to replace men by adherents of members favorable to Cox there are others who counsel going slow for fear of reprisals when the Legislature : meets. They fear that something may come from the threat to cut out of! salary appropriations provision for, offices which may be tilled by adminis tration men in replacement of men dropped and that the salaries of some of the men who have been very active in the Cox cause may be reduced to such an extent as not to make the places attractive. This has been done before and there are intimations that, it is being considered and that some of the places which, according to rumor have been offered to legisla tors-elect. may not be worth much when the Legislature gets through with them. —©n the other hand the State ad ministration people say the Governor has the whip hand in the veto power and that while he cannot make ap propriations he can unmake some for pet objects of recalcitrant members. —The committee in charge of the proposed changes to the Philadelphia city government Is out with a report ' favoring radical moves. Mayor Smith is vitally concerned and it may govern his course. It is notable that the Mayor has not come out for any one and that the Philadelphia members have not had a caucus. —Two big parlors and the three rooms in the Commonwealth Hotel ordinarily used by Senator Boies Pen rose as his headquarters when in Har- I risburg were to-day engaged by Rep resentative Richard J. Baldwin as his ; headquarters for the campaign for I the speakership. They will be opened after Christmas and a number of friends of the candidate from Dela ware and other counties will be in charge of the place. Mr. Baldwin will ; come here several days before the I Legislature meets and will actively direct his campaign. He is now tour ing the State. —Friends of Representative Edwin R. Cox have not yet engaged head quarters but they will probably be in the same hotel. However, it has been announced that there will be head quarters for him. It is understood that Congressman John R. K. Scott wil be active at his headquarters. Representative George W. Williams, the third candidate, will have rooms at the Commonwealth, which is a "dry" hotel. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "After conferences between Mayor Smith and the presidents of the two branches of councils, Jaines E. Len non. of select, and Dr. E. B. Gleason, of Common Council, the committee which is to represent. Philadelphia at the next session of the State Legisla ture at Harrisburg. for the purpose "or providing Philadelphia, by law, with new expedients for taxation, was au l nounced yesterday. The committee i was authorized by a resolution of : councils providing that it should be I composed of five members from each | chamber. In addition to the two presi | dents, ex-oflicio." —Says the Philadelphia Record: "Lauding United States Senator Pen | rose for his loyalty to his friends and I bitterly lashing Governor Brumbaugh j for his desertion of 'the friends who : made him.' State Senator James P. ! McNichol put Home real warmth into the house-warming last night of the Overbrook Republican Association's new clubhouse. No. 1541 North Six tieth street. The club members, who, tinder the leadership of ex-Recorder Ernest L. Tustin, arc the active Pen rose-McNichol workers in the Thirty fourth ward, enthusiastically cheered I the Tenth ward Senator." Though We Have Rebelled To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have I rebelled against him.—Daniel ix, 9. J HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH ISN'T IT JUST TOO BAD HOW THOSE GUARDSMEN MISBEHAVE ? ~\ GENERAL I HAVE GOME TO J 1 77 J BEFORE SHOWING XOU ] [ AL^GWT——H Uns rr? f VfSr T id I W CAPTURED W IN WH YOU AND 1 J<^C ( THE ELUSIVE X T Sin^WFim 1 ( rTSoDp<\^ EDITORIAL COMMENT The Entente envoys are said to have reached a full agreement on what King Constantine will agree to. —Philadelphia Record. Owing to the high cost of living the Pittsburgh stogie has been cut an inch. Every cloud has its silver lining.—Bos ton Transcript. The Skating Party The blazing hearth.The trip over the The comfortable twig. chair. The J-ard bump. The soothing pipe. The friends who The satisfaction. race. The restless The inability to friends. stop. The suggestion "he tricky ice. about skating. The sudden crack. The lack of inter- Th* disappearing est. friends. The others who en- The rush to the thuse. spot. The collection of The tiles for help. skates. The rescuing act. The abundance of The frozen friends. sweaters. The blue lips. The excuse about The chattering feeling "low." teeth. i The friends who The icy clothes. insist. The lack of "spir- The final resigna- its." tion. The carrying home. The cross-country The pitiful proces tramp. sion. The hitter day. The arrival at the The biting wind. house. The cheerless lake. The thawed-out The cautious be- friends. ginning. The mustard baths. The slow progress. The many blankets. The fancy skater. The "rock and rye." The awkward spill. The resumed pipe. Th "cracking the The comfortable whip." chair. The tangled mass. The blazing hearth. —Life. Christmas Shopping Do your Christmas shopping early. Gentle friend! Don't betray ill-manners surly, "Which offend. Have a thought or two for others — Fathers, sisters, mothers, brothers— Whom a careless habit smother 3. As they vend. Rise up early in the morning, When you'd buy; Slothful ease with vigor scorning. Though you sigh: Get that diamond ring for Mary— She'!! no longer be contrary, But to your arms, all unwary. She will fly. Get those skates for little Freddie, And the drum; If you don't, you know, he said he Would be glum. Get those gloves and things for sister— You'd be sorry if you missed her— Write out checks till there's a blister On your thumb. Anil the same advice I give you. Ladies fair; Haste a bit: I'm positive you "Want to share Every single Christmas blessing; So take care you're not distressing Other folks—joy dispossessing— Yes. beware! —Richmond Times-Dispatch. Advertisers Endorse Newspapers [From the Fourth Estate.] Men who handled $90,000,000 in adver tising appropriations last year put their heads together in Boston to devise ways and means to make every dollar spent In marketing bring back greater re turns. They were the members of the Associations of National Advertis ers, meeting in the Copley-Plaza Hotel. An action of the A. N. A. considered of great Importance was the passing of a resolution endorsing the action of newspapers and periodicals in rais ing selling prices. The members did not consider that circulation lost by a publication through raising rates amounted to enough to be discounted In the advertiser's payment of rates, as the experience of publishers was that the real quality readers will pay any reasonable price for a worth-while pub lication. whether It be a daily or a periodical. The resolution adopted is as fol lows: "Whereas: Because the cost of white paper has made unprecedented Increase.s during the past two months and the cost of other materials and labor has also made large increases, many news papers and periodicals have been com pelled to raise their selling rates to readers; "Therefore: Be it resolved that we sympathize with them In their efforts to maintain their high standards of ad vertising in accordance with the "Dec laration of Principles' established by this association at Dayton. Ohio, in May of this year, without detracting from the quality of their editorial and news services, and that "It Is the sense of the A. N. A that Its approval be given such reasonable increases In the selling prices of news papers and periodicals." "BUDDHA'S SERMON ON MOUNT' Allen Sar.gree Inspired by Telegraph Editorial to Review Carssr and Teachings of Great Indian Thinker To the Ei!iter of the Telegraph: An interesting editorial in the Tele graph recently on Tagore. the Indian poet and philosopher, now in this country, is bound to recall to many a thought of the Buddha, the greatest of Indian thinkers and reformers, whose system of morals once counted among its adherents half the human race, and which has even now more followers than the Roman Church, the Greek Church, and all other sects of Christians put together. His name was Slddartha Guatame, his father being the chief of a tribe In the Aryan clan living some 100 miles north of the city of Benares, near the foot of the Himalaya moun i tains. About the age of thirty he come to the conclusion that material j pleasures and worldly goods did not . mean real happiness, and so leaving his life of luxury and ease, even his wife and children, he became a pennl j less, despised 3tudent and homeless v.-anderer. This occurred five hundred i years before the Christian era. Among the very oldest records of 1 the Buddhist belief is a sermon of the i Buddha, vhlch has been likened to I Christ's sermon on the mount. In it Ihe says: ' There arc two extremes ! which the man who has devoted hlin jself to the higher life ought not to | follow. They are the habitual practice, ; on the one hand, of those things whose : attraction depends upon ihe passions, and especially of sensuality (a low and Pagan way of seeking gratifica tion, unworthy, unprofitable, and fit only for the worldly minded), and the habitual practice, on the other hand, of asceticism, or self-mortification, which is not only painful, but as un worthy and unprofitable us the other. "But the Buddha has discovered a middle path which avoids these two extremities, a path which opens the eyes and bestows understanding, which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment —in a word, to Nirvana. And this path is the noble eight-fold path of right views, high aims, kindly speech, up light conduct, a harmless livelihood, perseverance in well-doing, intellec tual activity and earnest thought." It Is a rather strange fact that such a scheme of salvation should have been propounded at so early a period in the history of our race, it is a painful fact that the followers of Buddha have distorted his simple philosophy with silly legends, wars, persecutions and dogmas. Nevertheless, it has been the source of the support of all that Is good within its realm, and Its history is not yet done, albeit Christianity is beginning to replace it. Gist of Buddhism The last part of Buddha's sermon on the mount contains the gist of Buddhism. He said: "Birth is at tended with pain, and so arc decay and disease and death. Union with the unpleasant Is painful, likewise separa tion from the pleasant: and any crav ing that is unsatisfied is a condition of sorrow. Now, all this amounts, in short, to this, that wherever there are the conditions of individuality, there are the conditions of sorrow. This is the First Truth. "The cause of sorrow is the thirst or craving which causes the renewal of individual existence, is accompan ied by evil, and is ever seeking satis faction, now here, now there —that is tiits ot the Out o' Doons Slush Ice North wind's blowin' bitter; Skies are dull and gray. Suskle's slow an" sullen: Bass have quit their play. There's slush ice on .the river; I've dragged my boat away. Farewell fer a season to the Whltecaps an' the spray. Useless Ads Eliminated Merchants of Berkeley, Cal., recent ly agreed to eliminate from their adver tising schedules the purchase of space In programs, blotters, desk pads, floats, transparencies and others of a similar nature. Charitable organisations were excepted. DECEMBER 14. 1915. to say tho craving either for sensual gratifications, for continued existence, or for the cessation of existence. This is the Noble Truth concerning the ori gin of sorrow. "Deliverance from sorrow is the complete destruction, the laying aside, the getting rid of, the being free from, the harboring no longer of, this pas sionate craving. This is the Noble Truth concerning the destruction o sorrow. "The path which leads to the de struction of sorrow is this noble eight-fold path alone—that is to say, right views, etc. This is the Noble Truth of the path which leads to the destruction of sorrow." From this it is evident that, ac cording to Buddha, the effort, the struggle, to maintain individuality is the essence of human sorrow. In it' course from birth to death the in dividuality, the separateness, when ever it is brought most distinctly in to play (as for examule in the sever ance from what it ioves, or in the union with what it hates) produces pain. Next then, what is the cause, and i he takes that up in the second para -1 graph, namely the thirst or craving for renewal of individual existence. If this causes sorrow then who wants a future life, say the Buddhists, because what can a future life be but a con tinuation of individuality, and ttyat means sorrow. Hence it Is that Bud dhism is entirely independent of the belief in a soul, of the belief in God, and of the belief in a future life. Warns Against Baseness But in the third paragraph Buddha also protests against the doctrine. "Let us eat and drink, for to-mor row we die." Even though there is no God, no future, no soul, he warns against the gratification of one's baser capabilities. It is only the base and cowardly whom the struggle against the lust of life, or the sense of the evils of existence, can drive to suicide or despair. You muat conquer the evils of life, which are due to this strange but unrentable craving from which they spring. And this is to be done in no other way than that laid down by the fourth Truth—tho culti vation, namely, of the opposite con ditions of mind, of the equanimity that will result from kindness, from self-culture and from self-control Buddhism, It will rightlv be con cluded, is a philosophy, raither than a religion. That it is on the wane and cannot take the place of a religion is evidenced at present in Japan. There, in the last two years has been an in crease of 89 8 Christian Sunday schools, with an added enrollment of 41,753 students. This has so aroused the Buddhists that they are imitating the Christian methods, as one mis sionary reports "to a shocking de gree." They have Issued books for the arousing of Buddhists quoting such Christian authors as Professor Butler, Bishop Atkins, Leskv, Luther and others. They have adopted Chris tian hymns wholesale, substituting the name of Buddha for that or Jesus. But the story of Buddhism's decline can be read in a remark of a Buddhist priest to an American missionary. "We have no love in our religion Christianity has. You will therefore succeed." * ALLEN SANG REE. | OUR DAILY LAUGH MUST KEEP RR-W THEM. Does he keep M ( his promises? "7CI I guess so. I / J T never heard of *V anybody want iff 15 lng to take them. PARADOXICAL (I 11 EXPERIENCE. [OT Have you beea ) 'W® studying- the science of e<6- tm> Had to * on tfal reading about it. Got o Interested that I found It was Interfering with my regular VMkr l-bening (£l|at "There is one tiling about Harris burg which lins not been lilt by thi high price move and which to th credit of the people who run It has nol taken advantage of the .soaring cos' of living and the mounting cost of al most everything else," said a resident of this city this morning. Naturallj he was asked what could be so un usual that had escaped notice. "Street car rides" was the compla cent reply. "I'm not joking. Thinii of it. You have seen the price ol flour, coal and everything else go u£ and the railroads have tacked on in creased prices and you pay more foi books and everything else. But you can still rido from Hoffman's woods to the lower end of Steelton for a nickle and you can go from Puxtang to any part of the city for the same price. This is just what you used tc pay. The prices for rides on the liar risburg trolley system are just where they were twenty years ago unless they are longer. I'm not sure of that and it docs not matter. The point is that the price of rides in 6;;ite of the growth of the city, the Inci cased cost of equipment and the numerous othei tilings that have entered into trac tion operation in this city and State has not increased. The only fault tc be found ts that the ct>mpan> stil! persists in Its refusal to sell si> tickets for a quarter or to give chil dren's rates as is done by other cities. It has learned after lighting against it for years that night car pny. It has had its own trials ans tribulations but you can still ride at far for a nickle as you could in 1896." • Speaking of trolley cars it is inter estlng to watch the way the conduc tors take the transfer checks and the tricks that are tried on them. The experienced conductor makes the pas senger with a transfer present it opened. Some of the conductors dc not hesitate to stop people to make them unroll the slips of paper and the person who does not comply speedllj hears from the other passengers wait ing to get in and receives hostile glances when he or she sits down The great public wijl not stand foi | four-flushing and the wise person un rolls the ticket when entering a car. | Occasionally there Is a conductor whe j in the rush has to take a ticket whicli | is rolled up but he keeps his eye or I the person who gave it and more than once a man who has tried to slide I through a "stale" transfer Is tappet on the shoulder at his seat and askec !to make good. The conductors are al ways the favorites in the car at that I time and very uncomfortable is the | person who attempts to cheat. . . . I One of the oddest attempts to get I through a crooked game in regard te a transfer, was tried on one of the up j town lines by a man who had conn j from Philadelphia. He had a Couple j of transfers which he had accumu j lated in Philadelphia and he decided to try to save a nickle. He got on i j car and proffered one of the trans j fers. It happened that it was almost i the same color as that of one divisioc on the lines here, but the different;* was caugtit by the conductor and he quietly handed back the slip with the information that the car had left twenty-four hours before. The mar paid a nickle and when the conductoi was complimented upon the quickness with which he had detected the trick he was asked how he did it. "We get used to looking for the hour. We dc it automatically because if we turn in one which is not right we have to ex plain," said he. "Now I looked foi the time and in doing so caught th name of a line I knew was in Phila delphia. It happened that the time was about the same hour the day be fore. I just handed that fellow s quiet jolt." • • • Some of the old-time conductors or the trolley line can spot a bad coir as quickly as a crooked transfer. The one thing that worries them is a Can adian dime. But it is to be noted that they generally manage to get rid ol them pretty swiftly. • * • Harrisburg people who have com plained from time to time of the use less noises that inflict themselves upon residents of this city, especially in the business section, will be interested tc know that Pittsburgh, the city which got rid of its smoke nuisance, is tak ing steps to knock the noises. A few days ago Maurice Pease, who has been the police "silencer" of noises in Baltimore, spoi;e at Pittsburgh undej the patronage of the Civic Club ol Pittsburgh. Mr. Pease recited a hun dred or more unnecessary noises that have been reduced to a minimum in Baltimore during the past two years. "Autos, steam engines, shop whistles, grinding gears in large factories, and all friction machines made too much noise," he said, "and so we approach ed the owners and asked co-opera tion In eliminating as much noise as possible. We won that co-operation, by friendly anDroach and suggestion, and to-day the citizens of Baltimore work in hearty sympathy with the police in the noiseless movement." * * • Representative Asa A. Weimer, of Lebanon, who was re-elected in No vember, was here yesterday afternoon and visited friends in the city as well as calling on the Governor at the Capitol. Mr. Weimer is a prominent manufacturer and a keen student of legislation. [~~WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. G. C. Rlokards, commanding the Sixteenth Infantry, is bending ef forts to have his command sent home from the border next. —C. B. Foster, well known to many here, has been elected secretary of the Crafton Board of Trade of which he was secretary for years. —W. H. Holloway, Pittsburgh man who has been working for the govern ment armor plate plant for his city, thinks it still has a chance. —C. N. Gery, father of the county treasurer of Berks, celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday. —Gifford Pinchot, who is to speak here Friday, has been delivering o series of addresses throughout the State. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg billing ma chines arc used in Canadian offlero ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG ' Before the water works was built a dozen or more springs furnished water for the townspeople. This Is Uncanny Are figures clairvoyants? This looks like It. Put down tlie number of your liv ing brothers. Multiply by two. Add three. Multi ply the result by five. Now add the number of your living sisters. Multiply the total by ten. Add the number of your dead broth ers and sisters. Subtract 150 from i the total. The right-hand figure will be the number of deaths, the middle figure the number,of living sisters, and the left hand figure the number of I living brother*
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