10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., I elesraph Building;, Federal Square, I'j. J. STACKPOLE ,Prts't and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, 3US M. STEINMKTK, Managing Editor. jd Member American m lation and Penn j£| jS Ejj M sylvania Associat |Bß BIM Eastern office, 'BPBS Jm Finley, Fifth Ave i Stt -eii JjF " U ° New People's Gas Build- •— ing, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mall. *5.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10. There are two things that men should never weary 0/, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world and among cold, proud people.—Stevenson. PARK VANDALISM UNLESS and until the City Park authorities make an example of some of the vandals and mis creants who are destroying planting and otherwise maliciously damaging city property there will be no cessa tion of these outrages. Flowers, plants, park benches, all are subject to the attacks of these loafers who have 1 thus far been permitted to escape when they should have been arrested and severely punished. A recent instance of the malicious character of this vandalism was the 1 destruction of the wall at Tulip ' Spring in Wildwood Park. Let the heavy hand of the law fall upon these fellows without further delay. It ought not to be a difficult matter to accomplish arrests and punishment. ' In the matter of the abatement of the , iish and garbage nuisance in this city | it must be realized that the whole mat- j ter has been treated with weakness |, from the official side. There is no doubt j, about the power to enforce a contract, I and it is obvious that failure in this ! regard has been largely responsible for I the constant complaints about the ash i nuisance. It would seem that political considerations ought to have mighty < little show against the welfare and comfort of the people. Commissioner Gross might have properly deferred payment of the last installment until some real evidence of reform in the col lection of the ashes was manifest. INTEREST IN HIGHWAYS NOTHING more significant of the increased interest in improved highways with special refer ence to the William Penn trunk line across the State has come to the no tice of the TELEGRAPH than a sym posium of opinions printed by the William Penn Highway Association in the March bulletin. The opinions are from Governor Brumbaugh, U. S. Sen- j ator Penrose, Secretary of War Baker, I Governor Edge, of New Jersey, State j Highway Commissioner Black, Gifford j Pinehot, Major General Leonard Wood, Senator Eyre, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Roads, and Rep resentative Robert S. Spangler, Chair- ' man of House Committee on Roads. These leaders in public affairs indi cate through their statements the widespread interest in the improve ment of the highways of the Com monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh declares that the mobilization of the troops of the country cannot be accomplished suc cessfully without the establishment of great trunk line highways over which artillery as well as infantry could pass speedily and safely. Senator Penrose declares the William Penn Highway would constitute t valuable unit in a! natural system of roads. In his opin ion this particular highway, in scenic t attraction and in commercial and in dustrial value, would be unsurpassed by any similar stretch of road in any part of the country. These opinions all strengthen the purpose of the William Penn Highway Association in urging the completion of the proposed roadway from Phila delphia to Pittsburgh without unnec essary delay. Governor Brumbaugh realizes the importance of this road and is familiar with every inch of it. Providing for the food of the people and the armies which the United States will place in the field is one of the big problems now confronting the Govern ment. Tt ought to have the beat thought of all patriotic citizens. No time is to he lost in preparing for planting and sowing that the largest crops possible may be harvested during the coming summer and fail. Every vacant plot of around and every Idle farm should be utilized. HOW HAVE THE HUMBLE RISEN HOW have the humble risen! No more tto we sniff disdainfully when, at sunset we homeward plod our weary way, our nostrils de ftect the odor of boiled cabbage wafted* fon m warm current of air from the ktt iohn as we open the front door. Nor ido we toss our hat in wrath upon the [nearest peg and pass our better half -with a peck on the cheek that should have been a kiss on the lips to let her know that we disapprove her choice of the dish for dinner. Not us! No in deed! Far from it! We chirk right up and begin to feel prosperous. Cabbage for dinner? Well, well, life has been kind after aIL Not all the luxuries go ,io tba xtah, Occasionally even humble TUESDAY EVENING, | newspaper writers may enjoy turkey, i once or twice a year we may have a I nice broiled steak with mushrooms; yes, and every so often a pot of boiled cabbage. Oh, not a very large pot, of course, but still a pot. You may not believe it, but we assure you It Is true. Time was when we hated boljed cabbage with that deep and abiding hatred the Kaiser is said to entertain for England. Yea, we fairly strafed It. But times have changed. If lobster sold for Ave cents a pound there never would have been a lobster palace along Broadway and if terrapin could be had for a nickel apiece nobody would want them. So with boiled, cab bage. When cabbage sold at three cents the head, nobody ate It who could afford something more expen sive. Now that it is worth its weight in gold it has become a great delicacy. It has even broken Into poetry and we sympathize with Francis Morrison, of the Indianapolis Star, who sings thus sadly of the days of plentltude of cabbage which are now no more and of his own lost opportunities to in dulge his appetite therein: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my pos sessing. I called thee vulgar—bourgeois—now too late I see thy price soar far beyond my guessing; And like enough thou knowest thy estimate. No more will thy rich fragrance, per meating The block wherein I live, our humble lunch betray; No more will my proud family, zeal abating, Awart of thee, pause on their home ward way. Unless, perchunce, sometimes, we may be giving A festive meal for some great, honor ed guest. Then will I dare defy the cost of living And thy fair name unto my cook sug gest. Oh, one-time friend! whence comes this dreadful ban? Is it the war or that archfiend, the middleman? PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM CAPTAIN HENRY M. STINE is a practical patriot. Not only has j he donned the army uniform every time there has been a call to service since long before the Spanish War days, but he has been and Is an in sistent and persistent advocate of pre paredness, not only in a military way, but for the civil population as well. Several times recently the TELE GRAPH has urged upon the people of < this city the wisdom of employing one or more garden experts to organize the boys and girls of the city into vegetable garden squads and teach them how to use the vacant lots that will be at their disposal the coming spring and summer. Captain Stine has been the first to comply. Yesterday he brought to the j TELEGRAPH offices his hearty en- j dorsement of the plan—but he did more than that, he brought also his j personal check for SIOO with which to ! start the fund. That is patriotism of the practical j kind. Anybody can wave a flag and ' cheer. Anybody can * boast of his i Anybody can condemn Germany and swear everlasting al-1 legiance to Old Glory. But it requires a man of sincere loyalty, with the lovo of country in his heart and the spirit of sacrifice in his soul, to go down into his own pocket for voluntary contri butions of money with which to help put the country in position to fight the enemies of food shortage and unpre- j paredness within as well as armed j foes from without. Captain Stine has started the ball rolling. Who will give it another push? Small contributions will be quite as acceptable as large gifts. The TELEGRAPH will co-operate with the Agricultural Committee of the Chamber of Commerce which has j taken up the work this newspaper has j recommended. Only competent in- j structors and organizers will be em ployed. A dollar spent in this way will earn immense dividends. Garden ing must be understood to be success ful. Scores of city boys and girls and men and women,"-too, are desirous of havihg gardens, but they know little or nothing about planting and culti vating. Paid instructors not only will j tell them how, but will make efforts | to arouse additional interest in gar dening. The boys of Harrisburg must "do their bit" this summer. They must be producers as well as con sumers. Money is needed to help tbem. Who will be the next to follow the admirable example of Captain Stine? In the filling of vacancies which now exist or may hereafter exist in the City Council under an act approved by Gov ernor Brumbaugh a day or two ago, great care must be exercised that there shall be no criticism of this form of legislation. This act was introduced in the interest of conomy and Is in line with a smillar provision In the State school code. Its operation will prove satisfactory to the people, providing the vacancies are filled on the score of ef ficiency and fitness and for no other reason. LABOR AND Tin: WAR THERE are strong indications that organized labor intends to make an earnest effort to avoid dis putes that will end in strikes during the progress of the war. President W. a Carter, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Is quoted as saying, for example, that the application of the eight-hour law 'will be made by the Brotherhood lead ers and the railroad officials sitting together. They will debate the vari ous points at issue and reach an ami cable agreement. With that both the companies and the men will have to rest content. This Joint conciliation board will consider "all disputes aris ing out of the application of the EARLY SPRING IN THE LOCKER ROOM ... ... '... By BRIGGSI ■ 1 J # eight-hour settlement," and there will be no chance of another threatened strike. Much should be accomplish ed by these to cement confidence and encourage better un derstanding on both sides. City Solicitor John E. Fox is particu larly interested in the Capitol Park bill, because as Senator from this district he was instrumental in having introduced and passed the measure enlarging the Capitol grounds. It was fortunate that as the law officer of the city he will be in a position to co-operalb with the State officials in completing the work so auspiciously started while he was a member of the State Senate. THE SAME MORGAN JP. MORGAN has agreed to advance an amount up to $1,000,000, without interest to the Depot Quartermaster of the United States Army, at New York, to purchase supplies. Recently the quartermaster was compelled to stop payment for supplies because of the exhaustion of funds as Congress failed to pass the army deficiency bill. Is not this the Morgan of Wall Street, against the financiers of which salary-loving Southern Congressmen have so bitterly inveighed? Stories of disloyalty here and there I are not indicative of the general senti ment of naturalized aliens in the United States. These outbreaks are frequently the result of temperamental weak nesses rather than actual treason. How ever, the caution of Attorney General Gregory that foreigners will n6t be molested here so long as they do not break the laws and keep their mouths shut ought to be the guiding thought in the minds of every alien resident. In the interest of conservation of the nation's resources those New York futurists who opened their "art" show last night should be forbidden to waste any more perfectly good paint. The wisest thing the administration has done is to decide that it made a mistake by transferring General Wood. The British appear to be compelling the Germans to make another "retreat to victory." Wonder what the Czar will do after the snow-shoveling Job is off for the season? Labor Notes City fire fighters at Reading, Pa., will organize. Calgary, Can., miners ask for an eight-hour work day. Carpenters at Bridgeport, Conn., de mand $5.30 a day. Tusa (Okla.) plumbers are paid $7 a day. Aluminum workers at Canton, Ohio, have formed a union. Rome (N. Y.) building trades will ask increased wages. Vancouver (B. C.) retail clerks have a Wednesday half holiday. Policewomen in London, Eng.. re ceive $ 6 a week. Shibboleth Then Jcphthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Sphraim. And the Gileadites took the passage of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escap ed said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him. Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said. Nay; then said they unto him, Say now Shibbo* leth; and he said Sibboleth: for he i could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him.— Judges XII, 4 to 6. Warning to the Kaiser It is intimated that the next move will 1 be against* the Ilohenzollerns. The misfortunes of the Romanoffs ought to put Bill on bis guard, so that he might go while the going Is good.—Rochester Herald. No Votes For Them The Duma is going to be in charge of the Russian election, and some thing seems to tell it that it won't find many votes for a Romanoff in the ballot-boxes.—Kansas City Star. Companions in Trouble [From the Chicago News.] Nicholas to Constantino —"My trou ble was made in Germany, too—l mar- Had itr HARRISBURG 4SS& TELEGRAPH CONTROL OF FOOD PRICES THE decision of the Council of Na tional Defense to invite Herbert C. Hoover, head of the Belgian Relief Commission, to become chair man of a committee on food supply and prices, is an admirable selection. He has had exceptional experience in dealing with the Belgian problem and is. moreover, thoroughly familiar with the measures taken in the various bel ligerent countries for the conservation and regulation of food supply. His chief work will be to co-ordinate the food distributing agencies and prevent as far as possible speculative increase of prices. There is the rignificant hint that by starting thus early "the gov ernment will have an agency admir ably equipped for assuming the gen eral control of food production and distribution should it become neces sary for the government to take this out of private hands." It may as well be understood now as later that the public opinion which de mands there shall be no.exploitation of the nation's necessities through exces sive profits in military supplies is' as determined not to submit to being ex ploited by food speculators of high ox low degree. There is not going to be a get-rich-quick war for anybody in the United States. We are all in the same boat and mean to see that everybody totes fair. Germany and Britain and France have found it necessary to exercise EDITORIAL COMMENT Man might pay more attention to his conscience if it were to blow a horn.—Toledo Blade. Occasionally it is possible for our two esteemed ex-Presidents to agree about something, and both pf them happen to be in the fullest accord in holding that President Wilson's ad dress to Congress is "a great state paper."—New York World. The annual mystery has obtruded itself of why the angleworms will not be content to enjoy themselves in the nice Juicy soil instead of juggernaut ing themselves on the hard, unfeeling sidewalks.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. In his encounter with a pacifist, Sen ator Lodge's intentions were obviously good, but his strategy was hopelessly old-fashioned. To vanquish his oppon ent completely, he should have re treated.—Kansas City Star. No one believes that the President called the extra session of Congress because he was lonesome without Con gress.—Knoxville Journal and Trib une. The news of the German retreat was withheld a week from the German people so that they might not die of joy over the magnificent strategy.— New York Sun. Texas if! moving ahead right along, there being now sonjo $3.",0'00,000 in vested in school property to only $200,000,000 in automobiles.—Houston Post. America's warlike attitude is so un expected to Germany that her naval officers disabled her steamships in America barely two months in advance of possible hostilities.—Philadelphia North American. It Is a mistake to suppose that the world will permanently consent to government by periscope.—Philadel- phia Public Ledger. Various militarists who have been belittling the National Guard for years must notice with extreme regret the enthusiasm with which, the second time in one year, -that organization In the various States answers the Presi dent's call. —New York World. We are right sorry to hear that the cx-czar of Russia is to be isolated, as we do not believe that czaring is con tagious any more.—Grand Rapids Press. Governor Harding has signed the bill providing that 49 pounds shall be the standard for a sack of flour in lowa, but It does not say who will provide the price.—Burlington Hawk eye. Dirty-Dollar-Bill Championship While we have no way of knowing positively, we believe Gallipolls has the largest coUection of privately owned dirty dollar bills in America. Remark able as it seems, wo have had occa sion to handle about 200 dollar bills recently (they just passed through like a limited train) and they were soiled almost beyond recognition.— Gallipolls Tribune. Patriotism High in Alaska . "American patriotism burns as bright 011 the ice robed hills and snow crammed valleys of the North as here in the states," W. G. Itappley, of Birches. Alaska, said shortly after his arrival here from Alaska. Mr. Rappley is engaged in railroad work and has come to PiUsbuf&h for equipment.—. Dispi X , government control of food supply. The lowest winter wheat crop for years, due to unfavorable weather, al though on close to the largest acreage, may be made up by increased spring planting but, even at the best, with the demand from our allies abroad, there will be no oversupply for ourselves. This holds good of most other foods. Prices will probably be high enough without being boosted further by speculators. It will be Mr. Hoover's business to keep an eye on these gentry and keep the country posted so that there can be no duplication hero of the hiding and hoarding for specula tive purposes which has harried the European nations. Secretary Houston and the Depart ment of Agriculture, aided by the Agri cultural Departments of the various States, can do much to encourage the farmers to increase production. But the growers must in turn have assur ance of protection against exploiting middlemen. The people expect to pay a good price for food products, enough to pay the farmer properly for his labor and investment, but they are in no mind to b'e held up by a lot of spec ulative middlemen, who interject themselves between the producer and consumer. If there is no other way out they will insist on the government protecting the people by taking the matter into its own control, as the governments in Europe have been forced to do—Pittsburgh Dispatch. OUR DAILY LAUGH SOMEBODI ter melons out of ' yOUr melon P a tch 3lg\ hav ® beep quite cases °f cholera morbus around hood. ALTRUISTIC. Mistress—Why m. you leaving mum, me reasons are unselfish f irejj-'yJ *s| ones. I want to IMB, give some other with yez. Ll\W fcj -> IT WAS THAT p cor '° R -' ati/M. Thiß scientific 8m 'FjtUri'ni article says that wnr1 iff frr flle " wm kee * IT 7* awa y from any ( 1 Mtfflrp. J thing blue. u\ ill rV * n cas * ' H \ suppose we can leave the milk uncovered. Inent citizens. What does he J \ charity schemes for other people kf to subscribe to. PT'^ 80 IT GOBS. jHSome tay Ufa l *lK is like a baseball g _i Quito so. Soma of u make lilts. Mo t of us maka In* it goes into W j l . \ the hash; and if / I \ lt isn't it will do S-U V to trim a hat. /IVT' APRIL 10, 1917. Trade Briefs Directors of a new South African mercantile company are planning a trip to this country to make arrange ments for buying goods for use in the Cape Town district. Agricultural im plements, wind mills, hardware and other products will be needed. New Brunswick's smelt exports in the 1916-17 season were about normal, amounting to 920,598 pounds valued at $95,002. Prices averaged slightly over 10 cents a pound. Japanese petroleum has recently come into general use in South China as a result of the high freight rates on American oil, which formerly supplied the market. Shanghai suffered from a coal fa mine this winter, while in other dis tricts of China fuel was cheap and plentiful. This condition was due to the low water in the rivers, which made the floating of loaded barges impos sible. , Peruvian exporters want a market in this country for ratany root, sam ples of which may be seen at the bu reau of foreign and domestic com merce and its district offices. Madrid, Spain, offers an excellent market for American glazed kid and patent leathers. German competition has been eliminated. Safety razor blades are scarce in England due to the cessation of this manufacture in the Birmingham dis trict. The Lost Bazaars I always said that before 1 got Tied down by a wife and kids. I'd go to see the "great god Budd," An' the Sphinx an' Pyramids. It's the big bazars I want most to see— What I read in a Kipling book Has kept me wishin' day an' night For a chance to go an' look. I've been workin' steady in Jubb's gar age. An' I've saved what I could have spent For tobacco an' movies—an' now I could take My tour of the Orient. Yet last night, one the sofa with Nance, Somehow I let mysfflf slip. An' I kissed her, an' mentioned what I'd staved, But not a word of my trip! Well, Nance isn't bold, yet she dropped a hint That lots o' folks married on less; An', you see, I couldn't act selfish then— So the matter's settled, I guess. I'll give her my savin's to fit up a flat; But to-day, as I cleaned the cars, A voice kept sayin' "You paid for that kiss With your Oriental bazars!" —D. M. Henderson in Collier's Weekly. , The Piper The pipes blow up, the pipes blow down. Through all the streets of Vernal Town; Who is the piper? I have heard Her name is April—lyric word! She bids you dance across the hills With crocuses and daffodils And Join the robin revelry, . The blithe abandon of the bee! She summons you from every slope With her alluring call of hope. For hopo it is that seems to stir The wild, persuasive heart of her! Across the dawn, across the dark. You hear her piping. Hark, oh, harkl Is there a mortal ear that knows Pipes lovelier than April blows?" —Clinton Scollard. A Loyal Race Dr. Frissell, for many years head of (lie Hampton Institute for the aduca tion of negroes and Indians, says of the reports of (Jerman intrigues among colored men; "Certainly no other race coming from a foreign soil can be compared with negroes in their loy alty to this country." The amazing thing has been that any one could be found credulous enough to believe in the spreading of German intrigue among this loyal people.—New York Sun. A Canadian View "Our retirement paralyzes the al lies," gleefully asserts a German dis patch. Not quite paralyzed: Just a little short of breath trying to catch up, perhaps.—From the Montreal Star. Explaining the Retreat Possibly the Kaiser feels that it is advisable to have his 'veterans closer home, to nip in the bud any attempt of the German people to follow the example of the Russians. This may explain the retreat from France.—Kan nmrGLtr-J <xrca*> t Stoning (Eljat |j "No wonder food prices are high," observed Robert J. Walton, the mar ket gardener and fruit grower as lio cast his eye down over a stand in the Chestnut street market last Saturday. 'Just see what we have here and from what distant points it >ras brought to cater to our Down there at the end are oranges from Florida and California, cucum bers from hothouses near Boston, let tuce from California, apples from Washington and Oregon, celery from Michigan, pineapples from some south ern clime, I am not Just sure where s at this moment; and tomatoes from J the Canary Islands. "Transportation plays an Immense the modern provision prob lem," he continued, "and our people have learned to have all manner of fruits and vegetables In and out of season." Tomatoes from the Canary Islands was a new one to the reporter but Mr. Walton carefully pointed out the label on the box. They had run the gauntlet of submarines to be brought to the people of Harrisburg to meet their craving for fresh vegetables in spring time. • ♦ Just now comparatively few or anges are coming from Florida, a large number of the orchards in the north ern part of that State having been seriously damaged l by frosts some time ago. Samuel P. Eby, of Harris burg. who owns an orange grove in Florida, and who spends a month or two every winter looking after it, has returned recently from the South and says that the orchards in the upper section of Florida show the effects of the freezing weather to a very marked degree and many of the growers have lost heavily. He sent up several crates of oranges which were grown on his place and which were served at a re cent luncheon of the Rotary Club. I. • i The Florida vegetable crop Is also short and not nearly so much green truck is being sold in Harrisburg as is usual at this season. The frost blight Is responsible for this. O. P. Beckley, head of the Berryhill Nursery, who ordinarly sells heavily in Florida to these truckers, says hta business has been seriously injured by the freeze-up and that many of the Florida growers have been ruined by failure to harvest the expected crops this year. • * a E. D. Hilleary, division freight agent of the Philadelphia and Read ing railway at this point, resides in a fine home near New Cumberland, where he takes great, interest in gar den-making and other suburban pass times of the kind. The other eveninff he worked hard and long getting in some early seeds and next morning was not feeling quite up to top-notch as a result of too strenuous exercise. So he ordered a cup of hot water with his breakfast, whereupon Jus bright little daughter questioned him as to the uses of hot water under the cir cumstances, and her father explained, adding that it was supposed to chaso away the blues and brighten one's outlook on life. A few minutes later he had occasion to chide the little girl for something which apparently she felt didn't merit the rebuke for after mulling over the matter for a minute or two she asked him: "Father, don't you think you ought to have another cup of hot water?" Frank B. Musser, president of the Harrisburg Railways Company, had as his guest at a meeting of the Rotary Club at Bogar's store, the other even ing George W. Reily, the banker, who happens to hold among other offices, that of secretary and treasurer of the Harrisburg State Hospital for the In sane. Following the usual custom the Rotarians, President Howard C. Fry ask Mr. Musser to introduce his guest. He did so in the following lan guage: "Gentlemen, permit me to present Mr. George W. Reily, secretary and treasurer of the lunatic asylum." The Rotarians laughed themselves hoarse over the Joke. They whistled and-pounded the floor and otherwise conducted themselves in most unseem ly glee. Did they fluster Mr. Reily? They did not. He came right back, as soon as he could make himself heard, with this: "Gentlemen of the Rotary Club, after that introduction and' that kind of a welcome I feel thoroughly at home." • * Farmers in this section of the state have been making inquiries about prices of seed beans in an effort to get a line on supplies for planting this year. The prospects are that there will be immense quantities of corn, peas, beans and similar articles planted and that farmers will set out all the tomato, potato, cabbage, onion and similar crops that they can get hold of. In fields where the weather spoiled the wheat there will be extensive fer tilizing so that the ground may be pre pared for vegetables. It commences to look as though this year was going to be one of the rr.ost remarkable truck gardening years known in a long time. The seedsmen say that they have demands that they never ex pected and which because of inter ference with Dutch shipments are very hard to fill. * * * The State street grass plots are about the last place where anything except, a flock of chickens would be apt to go to find anything to eat, but in the last week they have boon pretty well combed over by people looking for dandelion. Many people who can not get out to th% suburban districts go over the parks each spring for the weed. Father Penn banishes dandelion so rigorously that there is little chance for It In Capitol Park. The grass plots are well covered with the wend and the city gets the benefit of the cutters while they get the leaves and all the tonic properties that they con tain. The number of people who ar to be seen on pleasant afternoons armed with keen knives and capacious baskets Is large. • • ♦ The Jammed condition of the Chest nut Street Auditorium on the occasion of the Gerard meeting, when it was so crowded that not even messenger boys could be admitted to "run" copy for the telegraph offices to send out reports of the meeting, calls attention to the importance of Governor Brum baugh's plan to provide in one of the new State buildings a great auditor ium. The Gerard visit was, strictly speaking, a State-wide affair becauso the whole Commonwealth was inter ested In what ho had to say. It could havo been held with propriety in any State building. However, the State has no auditorium as large as Chest nut street. Hasten the day when the city will have a big hall where famous j, men can speak and people will not ) have to sit on each other's necks. A couple of men were talking in a street car the other night about aliens. When they voiced the belief that the average alien was more concerned about being let alone than engaging In any deviltry and the conductor, who uaed to be a timekeeper in a big Indus trial plant, broke In with this observa tion: "Put this down. If anyone comes along and tries to do anything to stop the wheels going around and In that way stopping the pay envelope the foreign fellows will be about the first to get guns or dirks and go after him." An Equivalent [From the Boston Transcript.] "What is the English equivalent o§ 'raconteur'"
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