10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH •I NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THIS TEI.KUBAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K.J. STACK POLE, Pres't w| U Y| ,',!}! u |'' "*• C Gas Building^ - —— Chicago, HI. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a t week: by mail. $5.00 "" a year in advance. To sit .'till and contemplate,— to re member the faces of women without tie sire, to he pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are—is not this to know both wisdom and vir tue, and to dwell" with happinessf— STEVENSON. .IOFJKE AND LAFAYETTE HARRISBURG will entertain General Joffre next Tuesday and his reception promises to Vic even more enthusiastic than that which marked the coming of General to this city January 30, ISJS. . Lafayette and Itis suite rode into Harrisburg about 5 o'clock in the evening, horseback from W asliing ton. after a pause at Middletown for luncheon. Joffre will come by spe cial train of Pullman cars from the National Capital. Lafayette was es corted to the Governor's Mansion by the Dauphin cavalry. Joffre will be met by the Governor's Troop. La fayette remained the guest of the city for three days; Joffre. in these times of rush and hurry, will find it possible to remain perhaps less than three hours Lafayette visited Per severance Lodge of Masons while it was in session and sat beside the president of the Senate in the old brick Capitol. It is to be hoped Joffre. too, may be able to visit our magnificent Capitol and catch a glimpse of its splendid proportions and its works of art. La Payette came to claim that meed of admiration and homage which America owed him for his patriotic and valiant services in be half of the colonies during the war of the Revolution. Joffre comes to remind us that Lafayette and an nrmy of brave Frenchmen made it j possible for America to try out on a I gigantic scale the principle of demo- j cratic government, for which; Frenchmen are now dying by the J hundred thousand and to arouse us to the debt which we owe to France I and to our heroic ancestors whose j efforts on the field of battle were j brought to a victorious conclusion ! only because Frenchmen chose to | fight by their sides. Again tlie importance of the farmer j to mankind is made evident. GERMAN PEACE TERMS LKT nobody be deceived or enter tain false hopes concerning the latest German proposed offer of peace, "the generosity of the terms of which will surprise the world," according to Berlin dis patches. Germany is not sincere; the Ger man government is playing politics. Germany is confronted by a great internal crisis. The Hohenzollerns are in danger of losing the support of the people. The masses are be ginningtomistrust their government, Something must be done to convince the doubters that the Kaiser is desir ous of peace. The most natural thing in the world for the crown, un der the circumstances, is to present to the United States and our allies terms of peace which the imperial government knows before hand the entente will not be able to accept, at the same time impressing upon the folks at home their "generosity," thus placing the burden of refusal ■upon the fit the central powers and tending to quiet growing discontent in the empire. How much this political plotting is diluted by sincerity will be evident only when the "terms" are presented by the chancellor in the Kelchstag. His decision to postpone the speech, which was to have been made to morrow, indicates that It is designed for effect more than for any other purpose. HAKRISBIItG AND THK WAR IT Is Interesting and inspiring to delve Into the files of the TEL.- EGRAPII and find how In every war this community has proven Its loyalty to the government and the patriotism of Its people. In tho Rev olution It had its important and creditable part. In the second war with England It was promptly on the firing line and in every war since our people have demonstrated their love of country and loyalty to the constituted authorities. Now. in the great international struggle upo/i which we have entered this city has again placed itself in the honorable kcosltlon of a very leader in the re- WEDNESDAY EVENING, . j crating of her manhood and her I womanhood for the conflict which Is I ahead. Our quota in the army which Is now being organized will be largely exceeded through the units of the various branches of the service rep resented by the National Guard com panies and tlie volunteers who are already serving in the regular es tablishment. Central Pennsylvania boys are not waiting l'or any con scription act to force them into the service of their country. They are clamoring daily for admission to the various training camps and for en listment in the several branches of the army and navy. But this is not all. More than 5,000 men, women and children have joined the Red Cross. For weeks pa triotic women and girls have been preparing bandages and doing the hundred and one things which only they can do for the relief of the wounded and the suffering in the armies of the coun.ry and for our Allies abroad. The impressive spectacle present ed by the great patriotic demonstra tion on the streets of the city a few days ago was of itself an expression of the spirit of our people in this crisis. Not even a violent rainstorm could check the enthusiasm and earnestness of that great patriotic pageant. So it is that in all emer gencies this community has shown the stuff of which It Is made and because of this fact a responsibility rests upon every man, woman and child to maintain the splendid repu tation of a patriotic city under all circumstances. In our municipal life and in the discharge of the civic duties entailed in the public service we must see to it that in every way the best tra ditions of Harrisburg shall be up held. National prohibition is inevitable. From all quarters come urgent ap peals for the prohibition of the manu facture of liquor from grain during the war. LET CHILDREN HELP WITHIN the next forty days prac tically all the educational in stitutions of the country will close for their summer vacations. All those children who are old enough • work will be released from their studies and be free to go on the farms and into the gardens to help in the cultivation and gathering of crops. In most communities schools begin their fall sessions from the first the third Mondays in Sep tember. In many States, however, the harvest work is not completed until the middle of October or later, A\ onld it not he a good plan, in view of the scarcity of labor and the probable difficulty in gathering crops, to make the announcement now that high schools and colleges, and per haps even the seventh and eighth grades, will not begin their autumn sessions until all harvest work is completed. This assurance, given early in the season, would enable city families and farmers to make arrangements which would enable them to utilize the labor of those children who are old enough to help in the harvest. It may be safely asserted that the practical experience and the physical training which the boys would get while so employed would be no less valuable in their future careers than the knowledge they would get if they spent the additional four or six weeks at their l>6oks. If the'opening of all schools of the higher grades were postponed, those young people who feel compelled to work in the harvest would have assurance that they would not get behind their classes. Moreover, the announcement that the opening of schools would be postponed as ahyaid to war prepared ness would have a valuable psycho logical effect in impressing upon the minds of the young their share in the responsibilities of citizenship, and would create in them through out the remainder of their lives a higher appreciation of their obliga tions to their country. Unreasonable censorship of matters of public concern during the war will result only in public distrust and lack of interest among the people. Of course, everything which will be of service to the enemy ought to be sup pressed, but there is a growing im pression that the mistakes of Eng land in this regard are to be dupli cated at Washington. Now is the time to avoid errors. The newspapers of the United States have manifested the most patriotic attitude since the breaking of relations with Germany. They may be trusted to co-operate with the Government in every pos sible way, but any disposition to hamper their legitimate activities will inevitably result in lack of co-opera tion and serious detriment to the pub lic welfare. Senator Knox has an eminently practical mind. He cuts across lots in getting rid of red tape and the sur plusage of legislative restriction in the work of preparation for oui part in the great war. As a result of his forceful presentation of the matter we shall at once make use of the interned enemy vessels now tied up in the har bors of the Cnited States. These ships will take the place of those which are being sunk with great frequency by the German submarines. Two of the most distinguished speakers of the United States will ad dress the Chamber of Commerce and its guests this evening. The Rev. Dr. Hillis and ex-Congressman James Francis Burke are real orators, who will have something to say worth while. Manifestly the Legislature is not going to adjourn until it gets good and ready. Perhaps continuous ses sions from day to day would facilitate the legislative program. It Is the old story of dilatory proceedings for months and a grand rush at the finish. There is no mincing of words by the French commissioners. They are not concealing the facts. In their judg ment there should be an American army in France as soon as it is pos sible to transport the troops. We must get ' awake. Whatever complacency has heretofore existed in our consid- eration of the part which we must I take in the war is certain to give way I before the cold, hard fact* of the situation. Nothing has more aroused the peo ple with respect to the situation in France than the intimation of Gen eral Joffre that the man-power of Lafayette's land is almost spent and that help of a substantial kind in the lighting force must come from the United States. "Politic* "~Ptn.Hoif6aa.KUi. s By the Rx-Coniiiitttecman The question of a date of adjourn ment for the Pennsylvania Legisla ture, which is the highest point of interest in the politics of the Key stone State Just at present, will prob ably he settled within a few days. Members of the rules committee of the House of Representatives, to whom was committed the resolution fixing May 31. as the date to quit, have been sounding out the senti ment of the members of the lower branch and discussing the situation with leading senators. The senti ment of the hulk of the members of the House, notwithstanding the way they \oted the other evening, is to adjourn as soon as possible and ad ministration senators are enthusias tically ii favor of winding up busi ness with the utmost speed. Demo crats. who are hoping to fish up something of value for campaign material, have not' been heard from. Secretly the Democrats hope the ses sion may be prolonged and that is why there are no shrieks about ex cuse from the minority scats. There were several suggestions heard to-day. One was that the Legislature adjourn June " to 14, when it starts to get real hot in Har risburg. Another was that the Legis lature, following the example of that in Maryland, recess about June 1. —Supporters of the latter plan, who included several men prominent in the Senate, pointed out that no one could foretell what might turn up and that if the Legislature recessed it would be in a position to come back on short notice and would not put the state to the big expense that an extra session would require. —This idea was suggested in one of the speeches on Monday night and vigorously "booed" by the adminis tration forces in the House. Never theless. it is being seriously consid ered to-day. The action of other States may have considerable force, although the state administration, which wants to get the Legislature off its hands at the earliest possible moment, will insist that the governor and the military and revenue boards can handle any emergency, as was done in 1898, without further assist ance of the Legislature other than voting of money. The revenue-raising measures are attracting much attention now as a cause for holding the Legislature in session, but if anything gets by it would be a surprise. Auditor Gen eral Snyder wiH doubtless find that the business of the corporations in the last year was tremendous and that big gains in state taxes can nat urally be anticipated under present laws." Hence, the bills to tax coal, manufacturing capital and other things may languish unless some real great emergency arises. The fact that the federal government is about to make great increases in taxes be cause of the war is being heard about the Legislative halls as a reason for not increasing taxes under au thority granted by the state constitu tion. —The new highway and school needs are put down at $10,000,000, which means $5,000,000 more a year. Some of this money may be found by effecting rigorous economies in the state government and knowing per sons are waiting to see the general appropriation bill when it comes out of committee. —Notwithstanding reports to the contrary printed to-day. the resig nation of Gilbert F. Endsley as coun ty road superintendent of Somerset lias been accepted by Highway Com missioner Black. The commissioner vesterday in the HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH announced the ap pointment of his successor, who hap pens to be R. E. Myers, of Somerset, promoted from foreman in accord ance with the policy of the depart ment to advance worthy men. Mr. Endsley's resignation was not asked by Commissioner Black, as alleged to-day. He resigned to take charge of some coal developments of his family. Mr. Endsley is a son of Sen ator James M. Endsley, of Somerset. It may be added that Governor Brumbaugh did not even know Endsley was going to resign, and that the story that he asked him to re tire looks like another May-day tale. —Democratic State Chairman Mc- Lean was here yesterday on road business for his county. Mr. Mc- Lean expects to be in active service with the Third artillery in a few days and Acting Chairman Guffey will run the windmill in Market Square. —Commissioner of Labor and In dustry has had approximately 300 factory inspectors in his department in four years, that is taking the total number eaoh year and adding them together. In that time 24 men have been dismissed and 12 have re signed. —Auditor General Snyder is ex pected to name several men dropped by A. W. Powell to places in the au ditor general's department. He says that he wants to have men who know their business. —Ex-Auditor General Powell is mentioned in the reports that are wafted about the Capitol as likely to bfc given an appointment by the state administration as a "vindication." Mr. Powell was deefated as a presi dential delegate-at-large and has been an administration man. How ever. the reports could not be con tinued at the south wing of the build ing to-day. There have also been reports that Mr. Powell would run for judge in Allegheny county this fall. Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, will also be a candidate for the ermine. —Montgomery county people to day aired their opinions on the third judge proposition. Lawyers In the county want another judge. The judges do not. Administration men are willing to see the bill pass be cause it would give the governor an other appointment, but the State or ganization is not cheering over the Hill. Charles M. Schwab says:— "Theie is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works to-day who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up, round by round, simply by using his head and his hands a little more freely and a little more effec tively than the men beside him. Eu gene Grace, president of Bethlehem, worked in the yard when I first knew him. Mr. Snyder was a stenographer, Mr. Mathews a draftsman. The fifteen men in direct charge of the plants were selected not because of some startling stroke of genius, but be cause, flay in and day out, they were doing little unusual thi"f —thinking beyond their Job® HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'?* By BRIGGS HEH-HEH- TO BED d a ,v° P A "I'LL PRoB'LV TR irA t F THAT OLD DRlv/E Mice M CWfLV- M6E7 ILLBE MJ I THe MlDe HARVEV 0 F MIME IS VAJORKinJ ' HARv/CY AX 6.A.M. THCnI A ' T HgM "HO HUM- i oo AJLeEP- I MOPE I CAM DOIVJ'T RA,)J - ID ■RATHEk ' I'D GIV/e ANYTHING tF 'BRAo>SI ET HADM T ° UIJ EDITORIAL COMriENT Germany is in greater need of home rule than Ireland.—New York Morn ing: Telegraph. Maybe this now justly celebrated von Hindenburg line is a bee-line for Berlin.—New York Morning; Tele graph. It should not be a difficult task to arouse patriotic farmers to the im portance of raising all the I- wheat they can.—lndianapolis Star. Go to it, Ilaig! You have the en tire summer and the whole of Ger many before you.—Savannah News. You can't escape fighting by marry ing. a recruiting officer declares. Just what does he mean?— Philadelphia North American. The Russian people, however, will soon find out that it takes more than a little thing like a revolution to rid the country of grafters.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. The Kreuzzeitung says it is a case of 1 :500,000,000 against 70,000.000 Ger mans. This, of course, is intended to Hatter Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey. —Newark News. Repaying Germany [Kansas City Times] It ought to be a gratifying reflec tion to patriotic Americans that events are rapidly demonstrating that as a peopie we are not too proud to learn, even from Germany. In fact, we are coming to realize that Germany has been one of our most helpful allies in preparing for | wfir. We know we have been a waste ful people heretofore and one reason has been that we have not had to economize. If we now turn over a new leaf in this respect it is because we have learned from Germany that we cannot fight Germany effectively while wasting our substance in ex travagant living. If we go into this war with trained armies recruited on a basis of universal service, with ample reserves with stores of am munition, food and clothing and with officers who have proved their ability by other means than their dexterity in politics we can thank Germany for the lesson. Nor should we overlook the help Germany has been to us in restoring the American merchant marine to the sea. We had permitted our car rying trade to dwindle almost to nothing and were sending our goods abroad in foreign ships. But now our friend the enemy has indu'.ed us to make the sea our own element again as it w-as in our earlier history, and our shipyards are ringing with the hammer and saw of the ship build -61 Previous to attending the school of German efficiency we never thought of going elsewhere for nitrates than to Chile, but our teacher soon showed us by sending out commerce raiders lhat our sup ply might easily be cut of in time of war. ,So we decided the govern ment should go into the business of making its own nitrates. In the same way our manufacturers have learned to make dyes for our own markets and many other things that used to be "made in Germany" now are be ing supplied at home. We ought to try to repay Germany in some way for the valuable lessons thus given us, and perhaps the thing we can best teach her is, after all, the thing she most needs. She seems to be well equipped to do most anything in the world except to live In peace and' prosperity with her neighbors, and so perhaps It should !be our part tp introduce her gov ernment and people to the advan tages of democracy. Tf Germany could just get a democratic attach ment on its machine it would cure its present tendency to fly off the track without sacrificing anything of its speed and endurance. This Must Be Our War Mary Roberta Rlnehart's eldest son, though still In college, has al ready enlisted for service. In "The Altar of Freedom," just published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Mrs. Rinehart says: "I would not have my son do other than he is doing. He is still in his teens, but he is a man, and this is his country. I have not raised him to be a shirker. Only—this is a matter for everybody. It is not my war, or his, or the war of those other college boys who are always the first to go. Just as we all bene fit by the country, so must we share —and slmre alike—lts dangers. "Unless It is your war, this is not a democracy. If, as In the past, we have allowed the few to do our po litical thinking for us; If In this war we allow the few to light for us.' then as a nation we have died and our ideals have died with us. Though we win. If all have not borne this L alike, then do we lose." THE PEOPLE'S Curb and Corner Loafing To the Editor of the Telegraph: Your paper is always looking out for the comfort of the people and and for that reason I make bold to write a line or two about a great; public nuisance which the police j department seems to have overlook- | ed. I refer to the loafers on the cor- j ners and curb lines of the streets in i the central business district. We! women are constantly subject to in sult when we are not menaced with streams of tobacco. Day and night crowds of loafers monopolize the sidewalks, much as one might expect to see in a small town where the population goes in a body to the! post office or the railroad station of an evening; but contrary to all ordi nary police regulations in the mod ern city. Surely our police officials 1 could remedy the nuisance if they' would. Please ask them for the sake j of the women to break up the prac- i tice. A HAKRISBURG WOMAN. . The TELEGRAPH Flag . To tjje lidiior of the Telegraph: The Telegraph always leads. Your 1 supplement to the Telegraph on 1 Flag Day was certainly character istic of your paper. Passenger trains coming in from the West on the : Philadelphia railroad on many of the \ windows was pasted the Telegraph's supplement and to-day you can see i Democratic Deserters [Wilkes-Barre Record] Fortunately, President Wilson has liad staunch Republican supporters for what he considers- the most vital policies of war administration. The Democratic desertions are notable and at another time would call forth the wrath of the White House, but in the assurance of a safe majority the defections from the President's own party have been passed over as lightly as possible. Speaker Champ Clark's denuncia tion of the conscription plan as on a par with the convict system is but a part of the rankling antagonism that Jir. Clark has shown toward the war attitude of the administra tion. The novel spectacle has been presented of a Republican member of the House Committee on Military Affairs taking the place of the Dem ocratic chairman of the committee. Representative Dent, in champion ing the President's plan for raising an army, because the latter was un relentingly opposed to it. There is the leader of the Democratic major ity in the House, Mr. Kitchen, who has been so seldom in accord with the administration that he has remained for the most part in the background. In the Senate the chairman of the important Foreign Relations Com mittee. Mr. Stone, deserted the Pres ident In tne decision of the most momentous problem of half a cen tury. And we cannot overlook Mr. Bryan, who, although not at present a member of the official family, left the Presidenttin the lurch at a most critical time and by his radical dis agreement wilh the President and inopportune resignation as Secretary of State, decidedly embarrassed the President in his dealings with Ger many. These men declare that they are animated by conscientious scruples, but their attitude is far from that taken by such eminent Republicans as Messrs. Taft, Root, Roosevelt and Lodge, who on every occasion have admonished tlie statesmen and the people to "stand by the President" through thick and thin. The deser tion of the President by so many in fluential officials of his own party will be regarded with amazement by another generation. Turkey's Folly [Washington Herald] The Porte has seen fit to submit to Berlin pressure and break with the United States. It will repent at leis ure. The long delay In taking the step betokens its half-heartedness. Turkey's stutus in the central power group is as insecure as Bul garia's. She has everything to lose, and nothing to gain in the war. Ger man victory meafis German absorp tion of her empire. German defeat spells the loss of Constantinople. It in a miserable part that Turkey lias been forced to play, I the Telegraph's idea In all sections of the State. Signed, A READER. Free Bridge to Island j To the Editor of the Telegraph: A few weeks ago there appeared | an editorial in the Telegraph about ! a large hall that the city should | build on Island Park for holding large gatherings. 1 certainly do think that the Telegraph is right about that hall idea. A hall built on Island ! Park could be used for many pur poses and I think, like the Tele : graph, that we should not allow ' any other city to get ahead of us and I betieve that Island Park Should be 1 larrisburg's real play ground because it is close to the business section of the city and it would have it's many advantages to ! fhe people. But there is one thing fliat I think should be done first, and that is a tree bridge across the river as far as the Island and to i day I believe there is a great oppor tunity for out city council to have a free bridge as far as the island. ' The valley Railways is asking City | Council for additional franchise and ' privileges for the building of a ter minal, and for those privileges I think City Council should demand i from the Railway Company a free i bridge as far as Island Park. Signed, A TAX PAYER. Labor Notes Eighteen thousand people are em ployed in the salmon canning in dustry in Washington. Measures for the temporary assist ance of farmers who have suffered loss of crops and live stock on ac count of the drought and locusts have recently been proposed by the Argentine Minister of Finance. An order-in-Council has been pass ed extending for anothe* six months the embargo on the entry into British Columbia from the United States. China or Japan of any im migrants classed as .skilled or un skilled laborers. The protection of women employ ed in danger zones Is now being per fected by scientific experts in Eng land. Many safeguards are already in force, such as ample washing facilities (including hot baths and douches), fireproof overalls, veils and respirators, gloves, face ointment or lotion. As a first result of Government control of the coal mines, miners In England and North Wales are to receive a substantial increase in the war bonus paid them. The bonus, which has heretofore stood at 13.8 per cent., will hereafter be 18 per cent. The, increase effects 350,000 workmen, and means an increase of $10,000,000 a year to the wage bill. The activities of the Jewish Agri cultural and Industrial Aid Society extend to 36 States and to Canada. Its main object is the fostering and encouragement of agriculture among Jewish immigrants. It conducts a farm-loan department which In 17 years has made 4100 loans aggre gating $2,330,092, and a farm labor bureau which in nine .years secured positions for 6998 men. Various educational activities and co-operat ive enterprises £#e conducted by the Society. % 1,000 Doctors For the Front The American army of mercy is always mobilized. There is never lack of physicians, ambulance drivers, nurses, whenever and wherever needed. Our surgeons in particular, whether specializing in Inventive surgery, like Dr. Carrel, or in base-work, like Dr. Blake, or aid ing a nation stricken with disease and an army in retreat, like Dr. Ryan in Serbia, have won golden opinions in the field. The General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense has ar ranged to send 1,000 surgeons to the front within the next three months, anticipating the consent of the Government, which may be as sumed. It has been difficult for France and Great Britain to sup ply enough physicians for Held hos pitals without neglecting the con stant needs of the home population. At this distance from operations and while waiting the departure of a substantial field force of our own, the United States can spare that number of devoted men.—New York World. MAY 2, 1917. The Sword of Lafayette (Inscribed to Raymond Poincare, • President of the French Republic.) It was the time of our despair. When lion-hearted Washington— That man of patience and of pray er— Looked sadly at each rising sun, the freedom breeding air. Of hope and rescue there was none^ When lo!—as down from Heaven let, There came the sword of Lafayette! Our harbors—how they danced with light! Our tireless bells —how they did ring! Again we girded up to fight Not England, but her Prussian king. For here was succor, and the might Of one great soul's imagining What wonder If our eyes be wet To see the sword of Lafayette! Upon the walls where Justice keeps The swords she doth most gladly save, Not one of all so deeply sleeps Within the scabbard's honored grave But, listening for her call, it leaps, To live again among the brave. Thank Heaven our naked blade is set Beside the sword of Lafayette! Not his, not ours, the brutuft strife, The vulgar greed of soil or dross; The feet that follow drum and fife Shall tread to nobler gain or loss. 'Tis for the holiness of life The Spirit, calls us to the Cross Forget us, God, if we forget The sacred sword of Lafayette. ■ —Robert Underwood Johnson,read at France Day celebration in New York. The Oregon's Flag Unfurled TFrom the Portland Oregonian] Eugene, Ore.—With one and a l)alf stripes missing, shot away in the Spanish-American war, and with its field of Stars and Stripes bullet pierced, the flag that flew from the masthead of the battleship Oregon when the record run was made around Cape Horn was unfurled at Ihe University of Oregon the other day. The banner is twenty-four by twelve feet and was presented to the university in 1911. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH REASONS FOR IT. "That friend of yours is very pol ished." . "Yes, you see he has rubbed up against the best people." ONCE BITTEN, ETC. "Why did that 'brilliant' woman marry such a stupid man." "Because her first husband wns a genius." NO DISLOYALTY ALLOWED. ."Is Grace Jealous of her hus band?" "Jealous? Why, on their wedding trip she wouldn't even let him ad mire U>s scenaou" Stoning (Etjal Whether it was because of sym pathy or because of the value of an express wagon load of potatoes spill ed by a boy at the intersection of i a moron and Market streets yester day half a dozen street railway men braved a "calling; down" and joined with the traffic policeman In helping the youngster out. The boy had been sent to get some potatoes and his ex press wagon was loaded to the brim. In crossing the numerous rails at that busy crossing the wheels caught in a groove and the potatoes were scat tered. A big suburban car came along and was stopped. The car be ,, stopped. Then some cars in Market street stopped and before one could realize it half a dozen cars were standing still and people were sticking their heads out of the win dows to see what was the matter. The trolleymen turned in and had the boy's wagon reloaded and push ed to safety on the pavement in Quick time. And not a passenger kicked and if the cars were late no one cared at the railway otlice. It seems to be the rule, rather than the exception, that the Auditor Gen erals elected under the present con stitution should be taken from the Legislature. Just call the roll of those who have served since 1874: Harrison Allen, Republican, former Senator from Warren county; Jus tus F. Temple, Democrat, Senator from Greene; William P. Schell. Democrat, former Senator from Bed ford; John A. Demon, Republican. Senator from Blair, who served his term as Auditor General and was again elected Senator, dying in of fice; Jerome B. Niles, Republican, member of the Douse from Tioga; A. Wilson Norris, Republican, Senator I rom Philadelphia, who died in of fice and was succeeded by appoint ment by Thomas McCamant, Re publican, of Blair, who did not serve in the Legislature; David M. Gregg. Republican, of Berks, who was never a legislator; Amos H. Mylin, Re publican, Senator from Lancaster county, farming now in the Red Rose district; Levi B. McCauley, Re publican, Chester, not a legislator; Edmund M. Hardenbergh, Republic an, Senator from Wayne, now con fidential agent (or the New York Central Railway Company; William P. Snyder, Republican Senator from Chester, living retired; Robert K. Young, Republican, member of the Mouse from Tioga, now State Treas urer: A. E. Sisson, Republican, Senator from Erie, now engaged in law practice at his home, and Arch W. Powell, Republican and Wash ington, Senator from Allegheny, re tired this week. And now comes Charles A. Snyder, Republican, Sen ator from Schuylkill. Thus out of sixteen Auditor Generals in the State in the past forty-three years thirteen were either ex-legislators or In the Legislature at the time of their election. Representative Clem Chestnut, of Fulton county, comes from the rural part of Pennsylvania, where they have no railroads or electric lines, but whether they observe and study as their grandfathers did before them. Mr. Chestnut was discussing political affairs with Walter Darling ton, of the Philadelphia North American yesterday morning and informed him that the House was made up of "Republicans, like Mr. Wallace, of Lawrence; Penrose Re publicans, Socialists, who are very harmonious, and some Democrats." • • • Representative Joshua W. Swartz, of this city, who is in charge of the - bills to codify the laws of the State relative to decedents estates, was on the firing line yesterday in the House and winged Representative John, Reynolds, of Philadelphia. Mr. Rey nolds, who is one of the most digni tield' and careful of the lawyer mem bers of the House, rose when the decedents bills were being considered on third reading and suggested that he would like to interrogate the spon sor for the bills. "Certainly," said Mr. Swartz. "Would it not be well to see whether these bills conflict with those of the State Commission to Codify the Laws Relative to Dece dents' Estates?" asked Mr. Rey nolds. "These bills are the bills of the Decedents' Commission," replied the Harrlsburg man. * * * • John H. Fertig. who will become Deputy Auditor General shortly, is one of the best-posted men on the laws of the State at the Capitol. He is a member of the Schuylkill county bar and has done the bulk of the work on the last half dozen codes which have been before the Legis lature. He worked out the tremen dous amount of data required for the repealers now in the Senate and helped prepare- the township law code. He is equally well posted on corporation and taxation laws. ♦ Among visitors to the Capitol yes terday was Robert P. llapgood, former member from McKean and prominent In the associations of Pennsylvania publishers. Ho stopped off to see the legislators at work. • • * Ex-Mayor Alexander T. Connell, of Scranton, was here yesterday. He is a former member of the House and looked in on old scenes. He is one of the Scranton registration com missioners. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. M. Donaldson, of Harrlsburg, has shown to the publishers of the Lock Haven Dispatch an old news paper, the Lock Haven Press, dated July 24, 1862, which was found in an did bureau drawer by Mr. Don aldson. The Press was published by the nestor of the Clinton county bar, W. C. Kress. ♦ —Fred C. Hanyon, of Scranton, has been elected for the third time as grand treasurer of the I. O. O. F. of Pennsylvania. Dr. Richard H. Harte, the noted in Philadelphia, Is a native of that to France, will have tho rank of ilia jor. Bishop J. I'. McCloskey, conse crated for a Philippine see yesterday in Philadelphia, is a native of that (,t —J. Lord Rlgby, the new chief of corporations under Auditor General Snyder, used to be recorder of deeds of Delaware county. —John F. Casey, big Pittsburgh contractor, was here yesterday visit ing the Legislature. —Attorney Philip V. Mattis, of Scranton. who was here yesterday, cume to discuss the proposition for a law for a new station in Scranton. DO YOU KNOW | That plans for Capitol I*ark Extension, arc Httractiiig State wide attention ? HISTORIC LLARRIKBVRG If the first railroad station had re mained Unia station would have been down around Dock street .bride*