12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGItAI'H PRINTING CO, Telegraph Bullilli/g. Federal Sqnnre. K J,STACKPOLE, Pr'( and Editor-in-Chief It. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. ——_ Member American f! Newspaper Pub lation and Penn- S£B fi| SSS M Eastern office, foft Hft An- M Story, Brooks & ESB S IHa W Flnley, Fifth Ave {Ej.fl'iSi W nue Building, New . People's Gas Bnild -- ing, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, '55.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1. I know that there is nothing better ■for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live. Eccl. 3 : ' f S. HEALTH INSURANCE JOHN PRICE JACKSON, head 6f the Department of Labor and In dustry, addressed Labor's Open Forum Sunday on health insurance, touching upon a theme that has been attracting widespread attention re- I cently. The United States public health service has issued a bulletin on I the subject. It found that there are 30,000,000 wage earners in ,this coun try, and that each one of them aver ages a loss of nine days a year through | sickness. Averaging the wages at $2 a day, and estimating that each will spend $1 a day while sick for a doctor and medicine, the total loss is SBOO,- 000,000 a year, the bulletin says. Commenting on this, the Kansas City Times says: There Is a further loss due to the percentage of the sick workers | who die, and yet another loss to in dustry by having each worker sick nine days a year. Nearly all this loss is pure waste. The greater part of it might be prevented. The Government found in its investiga tions that in some parts o£, this country BO per cent, of factories are a menace to the health of those .who work in them. No care is taken to prevent poisonous dusts or gases and fumes from being breathed by workmen. Sanitation is neglected, impure water Is drunk. No pro vision Is made for fresh air. The chance to become sick is aided by the neglpct of the workman In many cases. Often he lives in in sanitary houses, and neglects the ordinary rules of lifltlth. It has been found by the New York Association for Improving the Condi lion of the Poor that 90 per cent, of '"Aero destitute bc cause of sickness or death of a wage earner. This report says that the average annual Income of heads of families In the leading Industries in this country is so small that when the head of the household becomes sick the tendency Is to try and get along without tho expense of doctors, thus prolonging tho sickness and so for a long Jhe workman loses the only thing wjy.ch enables him to earn anything—-his health. Says the United States health service bulletin: The waste from disability and death due to "preventable disease is so tremendous that estimates mean nothing to the averagu mind. The suffering and sorrow due to these causes should be sufficient argu ment for a health insurance law which will place adequate medical relieyf within the reach of all ,and provide for preventive measures on a broad and comprehensive plan. Such a law would prove to be the greatest public health measure ever enacted. This kind of Insurance has been worked out satisfactorily In Europe. Such a law would go a long way to ward Inducing employers to improve living and working conditions and in teresting themselves in tho welfare of their employes, The Labor Forum has opened up a very interesting line of discussion in Pennsylvania. KANSAS CITY AND US KANSAS CITY, having attained a largo measure of home rule through State legislative enact ment, has framed a charter and placed It before the voters for approval, Here are some of Its provisions; A city manager, A daylight city government, The abolishment of ward lines, A provision of supervised play, Initiative, referendum and recall, Only three saloons in any one block, Ten Councilmen in place of thirty-two, Home rule in salec>n control and regulation, Street cleaning department to collect garbage, Tax bill interest reduced from f to per cent. City engineer head of public works department. Councilmen and mayor to form an administrative board. ' A plan whereby city can pay cash for any public improvement. City manager to name heads of all administrative departments. The city engineer to serve as deputy city manager when neces sary. . i Only twelve plective officials; mayor, ten councilmen and exelsd commissioner. Majority of resident property owners may bar saloons from any given district. Only two city boards—civil ser vice and city planning—instead ot live boards as at present. Street repair districts in which a front foot tax Is levied for mainte-r nance of all streets in the district. The average,' good-thinking citizen would run through the list and not find serious objection tq any of the features outlined. Indeed, pno and all they appear to make for good gov ernment. Nevertheless. Kansas City will not get its new charter without a fight. Professional politicians who see their occupations disappearing, contractors who have had "a good thing oft the city" and saloon men who fear the effects of the local option plause arc opposed tq It. VCurtail auent of personal liberties," THURSDAY EVENING, by highbrows," "one man power," and similar arguments are being used against it. Harrisburg is heading rapidly to ward home rule. There Is a strong undercurrent of sentiment In that di rection in the Legislature. The first steps will be taken during the pres ent session. A few years hence we shall be framing a new charter for this city. The experience through which Kansas City is now passing will be repeated here. We would do well to observe closely what is transpiring. The same forces that oppose a rea sonable, businesslike government for Kansas City will oppose such a charter for Harrisburg. WILHELM, ARCH VILLAIN THE Emperor of Germany stands to-day revealed to Americans as the arch villain of the world, i If ever there was any doubt that | the Entente Allies are fighting the bat tles of America In their conflict with i Germany, that doubt has been dissl | pated by the revelations of the past j twenty-four hours. In a moment it becomes perfectly clear that the power of Germany must be crushed It we In America may hope to live at peace with the world, j There is no enemy so dangerous as ] he who pretends friendship while plot ting mischief. Protesting' his ever | lasting good feeling for this country, ! the Kaiser was at one and the same I time endeavoring to incite Mexico against us and trying to bribe Japan into the greatest piece of International treachery since the German invasion of Belgium. There is but one sure means of protection against such a foe—the creation of an armed force sufficient to render his plotting futile. The publication of the Zimmerman I letter leaves Congress no other course' . to pursue than to give the President all the power he may need not only to protect American shipping from submarine attack but to arm the na tion against assault by sea or land. We are going into this war. That much is certain. The important thing then to do is to prepare for it and to prepare at once. Even opponents of armed Intervention In Mexico or participation in the land operations against Germany in Europe cannot reasonably object to measures taken purely for the protection of our own j homes and firesides, from the Invasion j of a power the watchwords of which ( aro ruthlessness and frlglitfulness. The time has come when the whole i resources of the country should bo! mobilized for defense against aggres- j slon from any source. Wo are rich and prosperous. We have the bulk of all the wealth.ln the world. We are, as somebody has said, like a countryman with both hands full of hundred dollar bills walking down the Bowery at midnight with no police man In sight, But wo have the ma terials from which to construct the most gigantic and efficient weapon of defense the world has ever seen. We can erect In a year an impassible bar rier across the path of this monster who would be knocking at our gates j the moment he would find Europe! helpless at his feet, Or we can throw j into the forces operating against lilm' the weight that would tip the scales ' heavily in favor of his opponents, We must act and act quickly, Con gress and the President must work as a unit, There is no room now for po litical differences or personal bicker ings. The safety of the nation is at stake, and nothing else matters, ET TU BRUTE? FRIENDS of the Underwood tariff law have pointed toward Great Britain whenever Republicans have raised their voices against the near-free trade Southern Democrats have foisted upon the United States. The attention of these is invited to a recent cable dispatch from London 1o the New York Tribune; The report by Lord Balfour of Burleigh's committee on imperial preference has created enormous interest, as it shows unmistakable divergence from all traditional free trade ideas. The findings are the more remarkable because I,ord Bal four and the majority of the com mittee were free traders before the war. The members of the old Man chester school are still ready to ad here to all their former ideas, but unquestionably the majority of the public regard colonial preference after the war as an accepted fact. England, the great exponent of free trade, is seeing the folly of the policy. KIPLING—PROPHET. TWENTY years ago Rudyard Kip ling, touring the United States, wrote some letters to a. paper in India. In one of them he discussed our military strength—or was it weakness? He said that some morning therewould be several million madmen in the United States because there would be occasion for them to fight and because they would want, to fight, but there would be no guns for them. That day may now be near at hand. ' KELLY—THE CLEANER UP RUBBING IT IN By BRIGGS I line OP HUWOR-/ • LAPS A CHAMC6- ITS] |T AIH'T THAT LFOR TH' . J T>Ol* T WAMT T*> A ALU StWAY*" A \ iCARC/eWNJ C\LUV/A MIKE I , } VAJIN) ALL TH -^aUAHTUH| EE GUV myself/- BUT , 5 IT MY buStJ/T A CASG THAT wj\NSy AHYBODV but ZV/ / / At-L-L. RIGHT OF BLOOP J HIM- (JEE JMOW-SJ-/ / EV'BODY IN ? — -j-J P&SOMMGJ— -. The Boy Who Didn't Pass I A sad faced little fellow sits alone in deep disgrace. There's a lump arising in his throat and tears stream down his face; lie wandered from his playmates, for he doesn't want to hear Their shouts of merry laughter since the world has lost Its cheer. He has sipped the cup of sorrow, he has drained the bitter glass, And his heart la fairly breaking; he's the boy who didn't pass, In the apple tree the robin sings a cheery little song, But he doesn't seem to hear It, show ing plainly something's wrong; Comes his faithful Utile spaniel for a romp and bit of play. But the troubled little fellow sternly bids him go away, And alone lie sits in sorrow, with Ills hair a tangled mass, 'And his eyes are red with weeping) he's the boy who didn't pass. Oh, you who boast a laughing son and Hpeak of him as bright, | And you who love a little girl who comes to you to-night | With smiling eyes and dancing feet, with honors from her school, I Turn to that lonely boy who thinks he Is a fool, And take liini kindly by the hand, the dullest in the class; ' lie is the one who most needs love— the boy who didn't pass, ■ —Michigan Christian Advocate, Silver Bullets (Prom the Wall Street Journal) Lloyd George once spoke of the "sil ver bullet" winning the war, Our finan cial arsenals are filled with those bul lets, gold-plated at that, We can send them to the Allies by the shipload so long as the war lasts, America can take upon itself a larg er part of the task of feeding the armies and civilians of the Allies, Where Germany is hungry, we have grain. Next spring we can increase the acre age of cereals, potatoes and foodstuffs in general, Governmental regulations may even be directed to that end. We have more than H'J million dairy cows, 40,000,060 head of cattle, 4S, 000,000 sheep and 67,000,000 swine. These ani mals mean food, clothing and leather, There are 25,000,000 horses and mules ready for the battlefront, or the farm, or wherever their labor is needed, War calls for copper, steel, coal and many chemicals, In the possession of these military necessities we are the strong est and best prepared nation of the world, ! If tiie short-sighted kaiser sees notli j ing but a mobilization of untrained men behind our little army, he makes his last and greatest mistake, When an Actress Grows Old? It is somewhat of a tragedy. In an article on the age of stage folk, Wal ter Prichard Eaton says in the Febru ary American Magazine! "Growing old is something of a tragedy for all of us. Any woman, looking in her glass and seeing the telltale crow's feet, the duplicate chins, the maternal sag, knows that she has lost something precious which she can never recapture, Any man, finding some day that the glances of girls pass him by. that tennis is no longer his game, that he now says to the ycying and idealistic; 'When you are ias old as I am, you'll think dif ferently—,' goes into secret session with himself, and the session is not a happy one. How much more tragic, then—how really tragic, for to ( the player charm is an essential asset and a tool—is the fate of the actor or actress who grows old, who loses that allure of youth and beauty which is so vital a part of stage charm. I re member talking once with an Amer ican girl who had just visited a fa mous and now elderly foreign actress in her country home in England. The" actress talked of her life, of her past triumphs, and as she talked she Pick ed up a hand mirror, looked at. her fact, and burst into tears of self-pity. She was enacting a tragedy in real life." She Admits It Gerjnany is fighting for the freedom of the seas and the sanctity of inter national law. This tho world knows, because Germany admits it. Tho pres ent. situation confirms Germany's po siUon, as anybody can see, for: Germany orders neutral ships to paint themselves up like barber poles In tho best style of German art; Germany decrees how many heutral ships shall sail from and for their home ports each week; Germany sinks ijeutral merchant ships at sight, without stopping for warning, visit or search; Germany orders neutral ships not to arm themselves for protection against plrates; Germajiy amends International law over night in time of war, as suits the exigencies of her own cause. Plainly, therefore, Germany is tKe defender of freedom of the seas, iho guardian of international law.—fVew York Sun. / ~...,, IIPMA;M WI Wm ) ,I. MUMI HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH By the Ex-Commlttecman Judging from signs about the Capi tol the "harmony" is not much nioro than skin ileep. Some of the leading senators and members are talking' harmony, but there are evi dences that it may be shattered at any tiyie and the announcement of Sen ator Penrose that when he gets through at Washington he will devote somo attention to Harrlsburg matters has caused administration men to as sume a cautious attitude. The failure of the Senate to agree with the Governor's request to return the Long nomination appears to be the handle of the hatchet sticking out of the ground. Senators claim that they returned Tener appointments at the Governor's request but that they have not acted on the request this year on Long, Meanwhile the superintendent is go ing placidly along attending to the du ties of ills department and apparently much interested in the time some of the attaches of the divisions of docu ments have to spend about the legis lative hails. comments continue to be made on the Governor's veto of the "probe" resolution. The Pittsburgh Dispatch and a number of other news papers support the veto as a proper move, but the Pittsburgh Gazette- Times raps the Governor, saying: "As a plea of confession and avoid ance, Gov, Brumbaugh's veto message can but whet the public curiosity as to what he Is covering up and whom he is protecting that might have been dragged into the light would his con science permit him to submit to inves tigation of his otlieial conduct." —The Wilkes-Barre Itecord also criticises the Governor, but somo of the smaller newspapers uphold him. ■ —Everyone is now sitting back and watching to see what the Governor will do with the deliclency bill which is on his desk, This can generally be taken as an indication of what the Governor may think of early legisla tion. Last session he cut out consid erable money, -—The Governor's attitude in de manding to know why department heads want so much money in the way of appropriation estimates is creating comment as the Governor wishes it known that he must be shown, If is an open secret .that some of the in fluential legislators are lying in wait lor chances to get at some of the de partmental requests. —The sentiment manifested in sup port of the Walter resolution for ad journment in May indicates pretty conclusively that members want to close up as soon as possible after the recess. There is general relief that the recess is coming because members hope that the legislative program can be made up, revenue measures drawn and appropriation policy prepared which will enable work to be done. There will be hard work holding back the House from fixing a date for ad journment once it returns from the recess. —The Senate is likely to object to fixing any date for adjournment until the Governor shows his hand in re gard to recess appointments and thus far Governor and senators havo not gotten together, The Senate may re cess instead ol' quitting. —The belief that tlie Legislature could stop in May is general. : —lf the Penrose people carry out the announced plan of having some inquiries made by committees there will be investigation of the last year In half a dozen departments. Some sen ators are said to h; eager to do some "probing" of a conple of departments which have been much in the limelight and if the United' States senator insists upon it there will be investigations of expenditures, political activity and other things and Pennsylvania may have a "leak" investigation of its own. —The Pittsburgh Post declares that there is not much chance of the suf frage resolution getting by this ses sion, but the suffragists • deny that statement. They contond that the Leg islature is In duty bound to give them I a show because of the comparatively ! close vole and that the position that a re-submission would be untimely Is not fair. .— Representative Cox received quite an ovation when he presided yesterday In the House during consideration of repealers. He was the second member called to preside. • —John Robert Jones. former Sohuylkill legislator, has been here this week. There is some talk of him as a gubernatorial favorite for judge. First Family Note It's lucky for some of us proud de scendants of early colonial forebears that they didn't run against a literacy test on their arrival here.—Boston Traveler. MARK TWAIN HID IN PIGPEN Rather Than Ride With Henry James, the Humorist "Disappeared-" SEVERAL weeks ago Col. George Harvey made a most Interesting address at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary College, says the Washington Times. He did pot. touch on politcs and was at his ftest. For an hour or so he kept his brilliant audience on edge as he told about some of the literary lights he had known. The stories about l-ienry James and IMark Twain were particularly delicious. According to Harvey, Mr. Clemens and Mr. James despised each other. James did not know that the world was moving on; what had been was. He could not get it through his head that because letter postage in the United States was three cents when lie lived here and it was only two cents when he came back, after he had been living for years in England. Many changes had been made, but he would not admit it. His eyes could not see them, and his mind refused to accept other than the evidence of his eyes. But the most amusing experience of Harvey with these two high lights in the literary heavens was when they were both his guests at his country es tate at the same time. He had some work to do, and thought it over to himself how he could get rid of both / \ j Rhymes From the Nursery ! *• J Nursery Land Oh, a wondrously line place is Nursery Land, Where everything's pleasant and everything's grand: The people who live there are busy as bees, They rest not a moment- —they build on their knees The longest of trains, that through dark tunnels creep— And they hammer and plane, and build sky-scrapers steep; Then they're dressmakers fine, and milliners, too, Bookmakers and singers—I'll venture that you With all of your learning and culture so grand Could ne'er fashion a place quite like Nursery Land 1 And the languages spoken in Nursery Lund! You never could learn them nor yet understand. Baby talks Goo-Goo, and brother talks slang. The next to the baby, well, twinglty twang! His twaddle's a cross between English and French, The words seem to come with a sort of 'a wrench! And big sister pulls off a new sort of stunt, She calls "piggy language"-—she says with a grunt "Oh, don'tski do—youski d' tliinkski it's grand ?" — Yet Harmony reigneth in Nursery Land. And they're quite democratic in Nurs ery Land, Though Ilabe tries to rule them with heavy iron hand; 'Tis true they will bow to him once in awhile, And sometimes they kiss his weo feet if he smile. Yet the ruling of this most miraculous place, Is the voice of the people—the Vox Populace. The Presidents oft changes as one may discern, And whenever there's trouble Con gress doth adjourn— But though they may quarrel they never disband. But live on and prosper in Nursery Land. —By Edna Groff Delhi, Paxtang, Pa. Were as Busy as Bees (From the New York Mall) One of the oldest assertions of the bee-keepers has been that honey could pot be adulterated with success, but health department inspectors have found a full blown honey plant in tho basement of a private home In Manhat tan. There were no bees at work In the plant when it was raided, but there were half a dozen women and a maVj as busy as bees with pots and pans about a stove. They were boiling up a concoction, the chief ingredients of which were sugar and about 10 per cent, of genuine honey. The plant was discovered after honejr purchasers had complained they were receiving adul terated honey. MARCH 1, 1917. lof them for a brief space while he 1 went to his workshop, and he con- I ceived the brilliant idea of sending I them off together in his car to see j how the town had grown since their rlast visit. if it had worked out the idea would I have been little short of genius; but :it did not. Henry James was ready } for the ride, but Mark Twain suddenly disappeared as if the earth had open jed and swallowed him up. What had j become of Mr. Clemens? He could not be found upstairs or down, in the | garden or at the kennels, and Mr. j James was getting more nervous every j minute. Ten minutes passed, fifteen j minutes, and the whole place was up set while Mr, James fretted at the ■ disappearance of the gentleman who had been wished on him for a ride which neither of them cared to take, ■ at least in each other's company. Hav ing exhausted all the possible hiding [places at the castle, further search was made for Mr. Clemens in the ad ! jacent grove, and one of the searching party in passing a pigpen was almost | startled by some voice saying, "S-h, I s-h, s-h!" Approaching the pen the | searching party found Mr. Clemens squatting in the corner of the pen and j saying; "S-h, s-h; don't tell anybody I you saw me." Labor Notes Canadian cigarmakers at Montreal, London and Hamilton have secured an increase in pay. An eight-hour day and six-day week may be granted all State em ployes In California. Improved working conditions have been granted workers in Canadian munition plants. Frisco Municipal Street Carmen's Union asks $3,40 a day for platform men, Road workers have been granted a war bonus of f>o cents weekly by the Middleton, Ireland, Urban Council, It has been decided by Ihe British government to take over the railways of Ireland. Little Rock, Ark., bricklayers ask an increase from 75 cents per hour to 87' i cents, effective March 1, On February 26, at Cleveland, Ohio. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of America will con vene.. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first church of the Zion Luth eran congregation was built by Stephen Hills, architect of the old State Capitol, OUR DAILY"LAUGH SOMETHING i FINER. The vine-clad cot tage, be It The one our daddies used Ca.iM / rnSl, ,0 know: ll 1 / Is sc,dom seen. \| [|f /V We have in- C stead The mortgage covered bun galow. TOO LATE. I'm going to the ball game this afternoon. I'm an xlous to see our . new ball player. My dear, it vlßfe/ won't do you a bit f mm of good to go. I Ml ■aw by the paper Uffl that he died try- fflfi jB VLfr lng to steal third. '■ FOR ECONOMI CAL, REASONS. 4 Do you belliv women ought to J smok ®'' ! / y 1 jjraff Indeed not. A i box of cigarettes r has enough hands *° KFab trom lEtoning QUfal Approval by the Public Service Com mission of an application tor a man to operate a ferry across the Susque hanna, near McCall's Ferry, calls at tention to the fact that such enter prises while numerous In the State, aro among the fewest public utilities to b Increased In recent years. The act of 1913 placed their control under the commission and all new ferry propo sitions must have State approval. In all that time less than Ave ferry pro jects have been before the commission and that granted this week to a down the-river man is the first for this sec tion of the State since the act became effective. There are probably a dozen ferries operated on the Su&quehannu. within a radius of fifty miles of Har risburg and some of them, especially beween the Dauphin and Perry towns, are well-established enterprises and pay fairly well, although once in a. while the service is apt to irritate one. The ferry companies granted charters have been very few in number and have been for southwestern Pennsyl vania, especially along the Slononga hela and Its tributaries. However, ferry rights are among the things which are pretty jealously guarded and no one will give one up. There are some old ferries which operate un der charters that, are yellow with age aid which maintain regular service while there are others whose rights, because of restrictions on bridges in their vicinage, are maintained by run ning of a boat once a month or even less frequently. A ferry is a pretty valuable thing even in these days of gasoline and frequent bridges. With the return of the Eighth regi ment but one Harrisburg guardsman remains at the border. He is Walter F. Stroup, a member of the Governor's Troop, Troop C, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, and he is in the military base hospital at the United States army post at Fort Bliss, Texas, about two and a half miles from the site ot Camp Stewart. Trooper Stroup was badly injured at drill with the troop last August wheft his horse fell and fell on his rider, fracturing his hip. The horse was one of the "outlaws," of which the troop had several, and he fell to young Stroup in the allotment of mounts when the thoroughly "green" animals were received from the government remount station at Fort Bliss. Trooper Stroup was taken to the hospital and operated on at once. The break was a serious one and the army surgeons were afraid the injured leg would be shorter than the ! other when the break knitted. In or j dor to remedy that several other oper ations were necessary and the hip was enclosed in a plaster cast for several weeks. In a letter written a short time ago Trooper Stroup says he is now walking about the hospital on crutches and can walk a little with a cane. He expects to be mustered out at Fdrt Bliss in a short, time and re turn home. Trooper Stroup is an ex cellent cavalryman and his comrades in the Governor's Troop were pleased to hear that he is recovering and will come home soon. Young Stroup says he Is lonesome, now that all his com rades have left Camp Stewart, and is anxious to join them at home. When Trooper Stroup returns to his home at 1337 Howard street, he will be greeted by a daughter, now only a few weeks old, whom he has not. seen. It is astonishing the size and num ber of the trains which are being sent east through this city by the two big railroad systems and if they contain cars of provisions there would not be , much difficulty about feeding people in the large cities. Some of the trains passing through this city are as heavy as the engines can draw and glances at the cards tacked on the cars show that they are going to tidewater. The reports of shortages of coal in eastern cities are hard to understand when one sees the trains of coal that pass this city and the same is true when one sees the special fast freight trains made up of cars of provisions that go east at certain times each day. The fact is that the materials they contain, whether for fuel or eating, are all bought. One of the residents of this city who is posted on transportation says that every twenty-four hours shipments through Harrisburg contain provisions and coal worth millions and millions of dollars. • • • A scarlet cardinal was seen the other day in Wildwood Park, and a scarlet cardinal is one of the sure signs of spring, according to one who loves birds. Hundreds of very blue blue birds likewise greeted strollers in the country during the spring-like days that lure the unwary ones into shedding overcoats and adopting low shoes. The more or less indefinable unrest which seizes upon the youth in springtime more familiarly known as spring-fever, conjuring up visions of long drives to center field and flashes of lightning around the bases, as well as inciting enthusiasts, from the aged and infirm to the "boy in britches," to physical gyrations suggestive of the full St, Andrews swing, was present last Saturday in great bunches. Cu rious ones passing golf courses ex amined the links expectantly, but the ground frowned back uninvitingly and the sticks were replaced In the bag. Pretty soon, however, pretty soon! * * Vesta Furnace near Marietta which is being rehabilitated by the Bavino interests of Philadelphia to manufac ture ferro-manganese was formerly owned by Harrisburgors. It is one of the old furnaces of the lower Sus quehanna Valley and has changed hands a good many times. The neigh borhood which it occupies has been making iron for over 100 years. The sister furnace, across the river at Wrightsvilte, used to be called Au rora. Vesta is one of the few fur naces left in the Columbia district. I "You have been printing some in teresting matters about foodstuffs; now listen tq this," remarked a busi nessman yesterday. "How do you ac count for eggs selling by the case at forty-five cents on Saturday and thir ty-live to-day? Give me the answer. I have to go up against changes in price like that. Why a man came in to my place and offered me eggs on Saturday at forty-five and insisted they were scarce and liable to go up. To-day he came in and I bought the same eggs at thirty-live." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Albert H. Swing, the new mayor of Coatesville, was formerly postmaa ter. . 1 —Alexander McFadyn, the Pitts-i burgher who wrote a new nattonal anthem, Is a musician and pianist. —General Charles Miller has taken up the active work of the Galena Sig nal Oil Company in spite of his age. —Bishop Oarvey, of Altoona, who has been ill, has gone to Atlantic City to recuperate. —W. A. Boyd, of Stoneboro, well knownamong Western Pennsylvan ia ns, has been chosen as president of the Northwestern State Fair Associa tion. - DO YOU KNOW ' | That Hnrrlsburg is making a ■ dozen or more lines of supplies fl for the government?
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