10 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E.J. STACK POL,E,Prrs't & Editor-inQhief K. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEIMXIETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub tlishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. j Eastern office. I Story, Brooks & I Finley, Fifth Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a * H - * week; by mail, $5.00 a >ear in advance. 1 THIRSDAY EVKMXG, OCT. I Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knoiccst not tchat a day' may bring forth. —Puov. 27:1. A LONG WAR COLONEL BEARY made an ad mirable address before tho Pennsylvania Society at its monthly session at the Harrisburgi dub. He eloquently pointed out the important part which Pennsylvania has played in the wars of the coun try and aroused the patriotic re sponse of all present. We are beginning to awake to the( seriousness of the war on which we have entered and it is well that we. study the past with a view to pre paring ourselves for what is ahead. This must be a war of great sacrifice and wo can no longer deceive our selves as to the enormous task which confronts the Republic. Those who have hoped for a sudden end of the awful struggle are simply ex pressing the natural yearning of a peaceful people," but conditions are not such as to justify a reasonable belief in an early settlement of the; conflict. We must Bird on our armor and give the last atom of patriotjp de votion to the battering down of a monster that has engulfed the world In bloodshed. Congress is about to adjourn, prob ably for the reason that It cannot figure out how it can spend any more money and because there is nothing else left to tax. THROW DVT THK MALCONTENTS IT is a question sometimes whether those within the Republican party who are constantly fo menting factional trouble have >nnv real interest in the party at large. This newspaper has no patience or sympathy with the scheming politi cian.-; who would endanger the real usefulness of the party for their own selfish purposes. It must be obvious to the factional malcontents here and there in the State that they are simply paving the way for a difficult campaign -next year. If these factionists are desirous of aid ing the Democratic party, there is no doubt that they are proceeding in the right way to accomplish that end. It would seem to be about time for the rank and file, who are simply good Republicans and who believe that the party as such represents cer tain definite principles which are vital to the perpetuity of the gov ernment of the people, to take a hand in throwing out of the present party household the malcontents who are constantly arousing internal strife and encouraging party dissen sion. Villa, having been discredited at home, might come up to Philadelphia to take the vacancy In the Fifth ward leadership. A PAYING INVESTMENT THAT the Liberty Bonds of trie new series will prove even a more desirable investment than those of the first issue and that large as the sum desired by the govern ment is, it will be oversubscribed, is a forecast that may be made safely in the light of American history. Strange to say, it is the first issue of a war loan that usually sags and later loans finds purchasers where the first had no appeal. Civil War bonds, for example, went begging at first and were oversubscribed toward the close of the conflict, and the longer they were held the more they were valued by their possessors. There is much of interest for the prospective purchaser of Liberty Bonds in the bond history of the United States, and with such in vestors ought to be familiar. The years of peace from 1801 to the war of 1812 were a time of great na tional prosperity and expansion, and a remarkable reduction of the pub lic debt was accomplished. The total indebtedness in 1800 was $82,976,294, to which was added the $11,250,000 purchase price of Louisiana. Never theless, the debt was decreased oy •more than half, over $49,000,000 be ing paid oft by 1812. In 1811 an attempt was made to introduce United States bonds on the London market. The three percents were quoted at 65 to 70.71, and the sixes at 101 to 102. This effort was temporarily frustrated by the war of 1812, but by 1816 they were again •ONIN3AH AVaSHfIHX quoted there; the threes at 51 and the sixes at 81% to 82. During the war the price of g&vemment securi ties had dropped; and had England continued to trade In them at this time the British investor might have made considerable money. A 6 per cent, loan put out in 1813 was sold at SS*,. Tho war of ISI2 added about SSS, 7 000,000 to the public debt, and it stood at $127,334,933 in 1816, but the following year/the floating debt had been reduced to such small propor tions that payment into the sinking *und recommenced. Another period of prosperity began; and in 1536 so much had been paid off (the residue amounted to $325,582> that the Fed eral government distributed $28,- 000,000 surplus revenue among the States. The Mexican war did not interrupt this prosperity. A 6 per cent, loan, which partially financed it. was issued at par. This war, which brought the Pacific territories to tho United States, added, roughly speak ing, $49,000,000 to the national debt. The Civil War, one of the most ex pensive and exhaustive wars in his tory, until the Twentieth century, is ;aid to have cost the government $3,- j i' 00.000.000 on the basis of all claims j being adjusted. The debt of the United States in 1865 reached its maximum of $2,756,531,571, of which $1,110,000,000 was funded, 1 $ 1,127,000,000 was floating, and | $460,000,000 was paper currency. The most popular war loan was the ' per cent. 5-20-year of 1862, of which $515,000,000 was placed at par. At t"* close of the war re funding anil redemptions were at once begun, continuing until 1879. [ Thd surplus revenues of these years were used to pay off the short time loans. From 1870 to 1877 refunding operations reduced the rate to 5 per cent., then 4 % per cent, and in the latter year 4 per lent. The last war loan bond was finally redeemed in I*o7. when the few remaining "4s of' 1907" were paid. The progress made in reducing this debt was remark able, especially impressing Europe, where its repayment in such a short time was regarded as astounding.: During the years of war the prices of | the sixes of ISSI were as follows: In, V? 61 —high, 94; low, 84%; in IS62—j high, 107%; low, 87%; in 1863 high. 110^41 low, 91%; in 1864 —high, 118; low, 102; in 1865—high, 112%; low, 103%. On the basis of the relation be- j tween 'national indebtedness and' wealth at the time of the Civil War. when an obligation was incurred equal to approximately one-ninth the country's wealth, the present govern- ; inent, financial experts say, should be ■ i'l'le to float afloan of $2T>,000,000,000, with every prospect of its forming a tafe, sound and thoroughly desirable investment for the individual. It may be objected that no such amount of loose capital exists in this country, but the same objection would have held equally true in 1861-65. An unexpectedly large quantity is probably at hand, as was proved at that time, in very small nmounts, which ought to be available if it can be reached and interested. This is the duty of the Liberty Loan campaigners in each community. On the basis on which Great Bri tain and France are borrowing abroad, the United States, given a lender, might with comparative safety borrow up to $38,000,000,000. A war loan of $7,000,000,000, inci dentally, would mean a per capita debt about equal to that at the close of the Civil AVfcr, but a far smaller obligation in proportion to the per capita wealth. The United States has proved that it can easily and rapidly pay oft a considerable debt, and it is still a country with magnificent opportuni ties for development and the produc tion of new wealth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana lias been dismissed from Columbia University for disloyalty. We can picture the shades of two eminent Americans of a former day pausing in the midst of shedding tears over a degenerate namesake to give three cheers for Columbia's trustees. TREES FOR CAPITOL PARK PLAN'S have been consummated by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings for the perma nent treatment of the Capitol Park zone, and it is expected that the grading necessary will be started without delay so that there may be planted this fall many trees that shall have a year's growth even be fore the completing of the streets and sidewalks as outlined by the landscape architects. A general scheme of the planting, with definite specifications as to the size and the height of trees, will be adopted as a guide to all who shall participate in this important phase of the park development. Governor Brumbaugh has on several occasions indicated a desire to hjive the vari ous cities and towns of the State plant community trees under some uniform plan, and it is probable a statement will be issued by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings covering this particular subject. There would thus be a Scranton tree, a Lancaster tree, and trees repre senting other cities and towns in the <°apitol Park. Practically all of the buildings have been removed from the area cast of the Capitol, and there is noth ing in the way of going ahead with the permanent treatment. Messrs. Brunner and Manning, the distin guished landscape architects, who are collaborating in the reforming of the park, have agreed upon the lines as a result of a recent survey of the whole property, and it is understood that the granite coping along Third and Walnut streets will be placed before cold weather, so that the present sidewalks on both these streets may be added to the present width of the highway. Attention has been given to the safeguarding of all the trees which may be saved in the regrading of the park and it is understood that few trees of importance will be disturb ed. There is great interest in this S work and llarrisburg is preparing to do its part in making the environ ment of the Cat|ftol outside the State lines as attractive as possible. If Henry Ford wants to get that new tractor of his properly advertised, why doesn't he hire somebody to think up a few fool Jokes about it? Enlist In the Wharton School and qualify for the shoulder straps of a business executive. "7 > c.>v>toi|fcjyaKta By the E x-Comuii t tee mail Outside of the Philadelphia situa tion, which is going to have an ef fect on political matters this year and next that is hard to calculate at this time, the event of most inter est in state politics was the conveft | tion of the state's firemen at Butler, which is just about ending. It at tracted unusual attention from men in polities and the attendance was larger than for a long time. Pres ence of Senator \V. C. Sproul, much talked of as the next Republican can didate for governor, and the battle aj.ainst President Eugene C. Bonni well, who trimmed his opponents, were two big features. The convention of the firemen had many events which could be traced biick to the recent Legislature, where bills sponsored by firemen were ob jects of interest. Some ot these bills were in hands of Senator Sproul. As to the Bonniwell fight the re sult is contained in this dispuuh from Butler: "Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell was re-elected president of the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Association here, 2,812 to 1,284, yes terday, despite a bitter fight by the insurgent element, who injected poli tics into the issue. There were a number of candidates in the field, but only one candidate was put up to oppose the Judge George S. Weir, of Sharpsburg. In electing Judge Bonniwell for the third time a precedent was established, as it is the first time in the history of j the association that a president has been elected for three consecutive! terms. Lancaster was voted the 18181 convention. The principal reason ad- j vanced by Judge Bonniwell's oppon-' ents in opposing his re-election was that he influenced Governor Brum baugh in vetoing *he bill passed by the Legislature imposing a tax on the foreign insurance companies doing business in the state and turning over the tax for the firemen's pension fund." —An odd thing occurred in Scran ton yesterday when Mayor Jermyn aril the members of City Council were indicted by the grand jury of Lackawanna for failure to keep in repair city streets damaged by m'tie caves. The grand jury rpqymmended the indictment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company in the same connection, but Judge New-comb told the jurors a corporation could not be indicted. In t. he added, the same result could be- obtained by indicting city officials, as the coal company could be reach ed through them. —Edward A. Falter, who was named last night to a clerkship in the inheritance tax division of the county bureau of the Auditor Gen eral's Department, is well known in downtown political circles. He has long been a member of the Har risburg Republican city committee. Auditor General Snyder has been naming such oflicers as are requir ed to collect the inheritance tax for various counties under the act of 1017. —Selections of officers to have charge or' the formation of units of the new Reserve Militia will be made with the greatest care. A large num ber of men have been suggested, but the disposition is to go very slow. —Mayor Franke, of Johnstown, does not appear to care very much what the state lawmakers do about a building code. He says that Johns town needs one and that if the exist ing laws permit, he will get one for his city. —Thomas F\ Armstrong, chairman of Philadelphia's town meeting to protest against the political condi tions and to form the new party, hi s named what the North Amer ican terms "an exceptionally strong committee" to have charge of de tails. The notice issued was: "In pursuance of instructions given roe by the town meeting Thursday. September 27, that I appoint a com mittee to carry out the purpose of the resolutions adopted, I hereby, upon that atithority make the fol lowing appointments: Thomas P. Armstrong, Rudolph Blankenburg, Robert S. Bright, Cyrus D. Foss, Max Herzberg, Arthur H. Lea, Theodore J. Lewis, Hugh McCaffrey, Charles L. McKechan, Francis B. Reeve:-, Joseph M. Steele, John Walton, John C. Winston." —The fact that Pittsburgh and Scranton newspapers have their trained political observers at Phila delphia watching the developments in the hearings is rather significant. In both of these cities there ure men running for mayor who were dis tinctly backed by the State Adminis tration with which the Vares are very friendly. —lndications are that there will be nothing doing in the way of ap pointments or changes in the State Capitol departments until after the election. The disposition at the Capi tol is mark time for the present. Probably the only appointment will be of an Adjutant General. ANOTHER BOOST A gentleman who was visiting his lawyer for the purpose of making his will insisted that a llnal request be at'ached to the document. The re quest was that his Ford car be buried with him after he died. Mis lawyer triod to make him see how absurd this was, hut failed, so he asked the gentleman's wife to use her influence Willi him. She did the best slits could but also had to admit failure. "Well, John." she said finally, "tell me why you want your Ford car buried with you?" "Because I have never gotten into a hole yet but what my Ford could pull me out," was the reply.— Everybody's Magazine. Harrisburg. Pa.. October 4, 1917. Statement of the ownership, man agement, circulation, etc., of the Ilur rit>urK Telegraph. required by act of Congress, August 24. 1912. Kditor, E. J. Stackpole. Harrisburg. Pa.: managing editor, Gus M. Steln nietz, Harrisburg, Pa.; business man ager, Frank R Oyster, Harrisburg. PH.: publisher, The Telegraph Print ing Gorfipany, Harrisburg, Pa., E. J. fc'tackpole, president. Stockholders: E. J. Stackpole, E. J. Stackpole, Jr., F. It. Oyster, Harris burg, Pa. No bonds or mortgages. Average number of copies of each is.-ue spld or distributed through the ■nails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date of this statement, r.2,4 Ife F. R. Oyster. Ruslness Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3d '"ay of October, 1917. (Signed) H. H. MI'MMA. Notary Public. (My commission expires March 9, 1919). HA"RPTSBURG TET.EGR APH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE By Br iggs >( (VTHIS \ IHE WIRE IS \ I WHEBE WO vue^ r£ \ f W .T-He<. OFF^, OKiesiDeJ AG G, E H - , K.etverl • ' ' "■• , " ny A OH i II ,M Weavers ' 1 ' I N , E , VE^; S"~T&<** ■ sTek* fr togff Jl=nV^ " EDITORIAL COMMENT A few Swedish envoys will soon be ilying: to llnd their way homo with out getting their feet wet.—New York World. The soap box was more useful when it held soap.—New York World. Italy should have no difficulty in stretching its national food. —Boston Transcript. The Swedish government should get its grub from the people it saws wood for.—New York Evening Sun. The Russian provisional govern ment might have a chance if It could provide irore provisions.—Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Hoover says IIP has no power to set a price on meat. Then he isn't as big a man as our butcher.—Dallas News. Dots of men would be willing to stand a tax on war-profits if a pro hibitive tax could be put ort war prophets.—Nashville Southern Lum berman. Hearst has been boosting a song entitled "Send Me Away with a Smile." Referred to the Department of Justice. —New York Evening Sun. NEUTRALS GET LESS The latest available government report of foreign trade shows that there was a decline of $79,000,000 in exports to neutral countries ad jacent to Germany in July of this year, as compared to July, 1916. Compared with June of this year, these neutrals in July got $9,000,000 less goods. The only neutral which showed an increase in imports from the United States was the Nether lands. The value in that instance was $5,4 32,000, as compared to $2,r.0",000 in June. On the other hand, shipments to Denmark de clined $7,000,000 and the drop in Norwegian shipments was more than $2,('00,000. As the government's embargo on shipments to neutrals did not go in- to effect until the middle of July, the figures for August will show even greater declines. It is worth noting, however, that the shipments to Allied countries during July also fell off to the ex tern of $79,000,000 as compared with June, but there was a gain of a little lea= than $500,000,000 for the first seven months of this year, In com parison with the first seven months of 1916.—Buffalo Express. A BIT OF OUTSIDE HELP One night Mike attended a social affair given by some friends in the second story of the town ball, and became convivial to the extent of sweet singing and dahcing steps. At a late hour there was a noise like somebody's catastrophe break ing loose, and Mike was found at the foot of the stairs. "Begorra, Moike. an' is thot you?" concernedly asked a friend, hurrying to his side and assisting him to his feet. "Shure it's me," answered Mike. "Who ilse do Oi look loike besoides mesilf ?" "How in the worruld did it hap pen?" questioned the friend, trying to hold Mike in a perpendicular po sition with one hand and put on his hat with the other. "Did yea fall down stairs?" "Shure Oi fell down stairs," was the philosophical rejoinder of Mike. "But it's ail rolglit. OI was comin' down, anyhow." Philadelphia Tele graph. A WAIL At the Century Club, in New York, a number of litterateurs were complaining bitterly about the ago of magazine editors. "Yes. yes, they're too old," said h Critic. "A bunch of fossils. No wonder. they get out such rotten magazines." Alfred Noyes, the poet, looked up from a rejected threnody which he was tidying with a rubber eraser previous ,to sending it off on its rounds again. "What is the average age of these men?" he asked. "Sixty-four," the critic answered. "That's it!" said Mr. Noyes. "That's just it! They've all reached their declining years." Washing ton Star. SAVING FOR BONDS What you are saving on your war time platform of one lump, no "air-tights" before October 1 and no furnace heat before Xovember. will make a nest egg for yftur next Liberty Loan. —From the lioston Herald. Patriotic Agriculturist John Armstrong: Herman, the law yer and traveler, has written the fol lowing observations while on a tour of the "Garden of the Land." the wonderful farming region of Penn sylvania, a few days ago: Pennsylvania, from colonial times onward, in days of stress, (as are the present days)—has been singu larly dependable an<s patriotic. To day she leads her sister states in the enrollment of volunteers in the Reg ular Army, and nowhere in the Fed eral domain have women shown greater self-saeritlee in their devo tion and ellicient work for the armies of our allies, and for the great Army our country is now raising for the cause of individual liberty and world-wide fraternity. "Our Commonwealth's precious heritages—Valley Korge and Gettys burg are Incentives to our people— so tljat frequently w>.*eo our women, in addition ♦? their other country's tasks, working in gardens and lieids nurther the all-important food supply. Traveling a few days ago, my itinerant neighbor told mp of an agriculturist, an humble Pennsylva nia woman, about to celebrate her eightieth birthday, which should have currency. "I give it as the Keystone's chal lenge to American citizens as diver gent as arc the denizens of the rich pampas of the middle west, the bun galow dwellers who sovereign the fertile acres hard by Los Angeles, and the learned farmers who pet, nurse and cajole into generous crops the celery tields that margin Bos ton. "My octogenarian heroine lives in a neighboring bailiwick (I wish Har rishurg could claim her)—and she is possesed of a small home and a ha;f acre of land. For years on this half acre she has earned a comfort able living, and has made the last payment on her house and lot. She has laid irrigation pipes so that her crops might not suiter through THE SQUARE DEAL [Chicago llerald] Every patriotic American and ev ery loyal member of Congress will welcome the President's order pro hibiting the faintest suspicion in politics to inlluence the exemption eases of the National Army. Favor-seeking citizens, it Is re ported, already had begun to put pressure on Congressmen. Requests were being sent to the War Depart ment for special consideration for a privileged few. The peremptory com mand issued by Presment Wilson will end this budding evil. General Crow der rent to all the members of Con gress a notice saying that "the Pres ident directs the Department to decline to discuss eases pending on appeal or to entertain any com munications, suggestions or addi tional evidence or statements con cerning them." That is the spirit of Impersonal fairness which the American people appreciate. Because of the general belief that the National Army has been selected by clean tests of actual fitness this nation has escaped the customary wholesale opposition to the draft. The feeling that the law was hiring enforced without favor has done miracles in the develop ment of the national morale, back ing such a sense of justice we might have been a divided people. HOW TO REDUCE Reports from Germany indicate a general falling off in weight of the people under war rations. This sim ple fact might We put to use by per sons who are disturbed by a surplus of flesh and who regard the reducing process as a medical mystery. Thero is no mystery about it. The body is a machine which burns food as fuel and stores up the surplus above what is used for fuel and re pairs in the shape of fat. If we eat a little more than the body requires we naturally and inevitably put on flesh. If we eat a little less, we lose flesh. There are a few individuals to whom this doesn't apply. The Lord seems to have made them to be fat or thin, and nothlnß they can do has any effect. Hut there are only a few of them. Most of us are fat be cause we eat too much and thin be cause we don't eat enough. Dr. Graham Lusk. professor of physiol ogy in Cornell Medical College, has estimated that if a person each day eat a butter ball, weighing a third of an ounce, in excess of his food re quirements, he will put on nine pounds of weight in a year. The same result would come from drinking a drouth, thus often raising two or three crops a season from the same land, iind now that food is so much needed, she feels that it is her pa triotic duty to work with greater suc cess if possible. Regularly she goes to market and should unsold veget ables remain in her basket, on her way home she presents them to a nearby hospital. "During the hot summer days, lie cause of her age. she avoids the ar dor of the sun:—but when the night falls from 9 of the clock in the even ing until I of the clock in the morn ing she often labors unceasingly—by the light of an are lamp. "She has tilial sons and (Taug"hT."VS. A son made thr *rst payment on her house and lot—hut to her children's yittts that she accept their sup port and rest—she replies that she is hardy and strong—and when they need help—to call on her—but whlic the war lasts she will labor on. "I repeat the tale without frills or furbelows as it was told to me. I looked the narrator in the eyes and 1 thought I saw truth imaged there. If he painted the lily and gilded the gold he hath histrionic talents of an order in which his Satanic Majesty has acquired the reputation of being facile princeps. "The name of my heroine is Mrs. Stapf. She resides in ye anclente citie of the red rose, yclept Lancus ter. It is meet and proper that this woman, great among farmers, should live in the garden spot of our com mon country—a county that has been the native or adopted home of heroes whose names are in our schoolbooks —Pulton the ancestral inventor of the Lusitania; Reynolds of Gettys burg Immortality, and Thaddeus Ste vens, who, barring "Bobbie" Burns, was greatest of modern commoners. "Who will gainsay the assertion that the . independent old woman weeding her vegetable garden in the silent hours of the night in the light of the arc lamp—is not in the hero l class, too." half glass of milk too much every day. In the same way a person might lose weight by eating a large quan tity of bulky food of low nutritive value, like greens, salads, fruits, watermelon. The human needs a balanced ration, just as the steer does. With a wide variety of food, nothing essential to uourishment will be left out. The rest is simpie. If lie is underweight he needs to cat a little more than he has been eat ing. If he is inclined to fatness, let him keep his diversified diet, hut eat less of it. The detallcM sugges tions he may find in such a book as "How to Live," by Kisher and Klsk. —Kansas City Star. SONS OF OUR FATHERS We are the sons of our fathers— Passionate, free and bold; Ercd of the storm of battle. Cast in their mighty mold; Proud of their ancient glory. Strong with their ancient might. Reared with their world-winning story Sung in our ears at night, And we. as the sons of our fathers, Must live by the ancient light. Our fathers they smote the forest. Our fathers they bridged the sea; Our fathers came down and built the town Where the myriad peoples be. One hand on the sword hilt riding, And one to labor withal. They loved and fought and they won, God wot! A place and a home for all. And we as the sons of our fathers Must follow the ancient call. Our fathers bequeathed us honor And the glory of toil and song, And the deathless joy of longing, And_ hearts for the battle strong; And our faith, and our land, and our women, And the children that round us rise. And by God's grace we will purge the race Of wrong, lest their glory dies. That a fairer land than our fathers planned May for our children rise! —Hugh J. Hughes in Watchman- Examiner. NEW CLOTH ON AN OLD GARMENT Xo man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment; else the new piece that fllleth it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.—-ilark il, 21. I OCTOBER 4, 1017. LABOR NOTES A school of fisheries will probably be established at the Washington University. Crews of women sailors are fre quently shipped in tramp coasting steamers in Japan. India ink originally came from China, but now it is successfully made in this country of lamp black and glue. Twenty-four lumber yards in Wis consin now employ women as lum ber handlers. It Is proposed to establish a na tional industrial parliament for blas ters and men in the British building industry. "ver 2-3 per eenr. of nfl our women Tti years old and over are wage earners, buSincss women, etc. Federated shop employes on the Chicago and Alton get an eight-hour day next March. One and n quarter million women are stated to lie engaged in men's places on the British railways. ■British Gardeners' Association has decided to register their association under the trade union acts. Mrs. Florence Kelley has been ap pointed by Secretary of War Baker a member of the I,abor Council Board. Tn 1900 the number of married women In gainful occupations was only 7fift,ooo, while in 1910 it was 1,890,000. The effect of the check on the ex portation of timber from Ireland has been to start all the sawmills working at full time. The additional allowance of two shillings and six pence to British old age pensioners will cost between live and six million pounds a year. During the thrc years of war there I has been an increase in the number of women workers of 32.7 per cent, in England. 1 OIIR DAILY LAUGH" I wIF Was it a lovo | Looks like it. but you never can tell. One of may have JMkLSJ thought the oth- money. .* v ' • •• A COMMON 3beso man. So do I, but I \ like a fat job. WHAT HAPPENEC. ufrl. What hap -o;''® rrMiIH P®°ed to the KijHrQi nest eKK that Iwraa Jones set aside Mtw/ mrKTw w ' lcn mar \ vf J I' hatched into his job. /-Jpt \ I could have had any job in * I (his town I v / wanted, so I y v \ ' :ook my pick. ~a * J Nv \ Oh, I see. And /\f) didn't you need / y ./ /our shovel, •oo? "TO -a Batting (Ehat Frank L, Hessenberger, who left the staff of the Telegraph yesterday to go into the Y. M. C. A. work, was the originator of "Go to Church" advertising in Harrisburg, and wrote most, of the copy for the first cam paigns which were among the first experiments of the kind in the coun try, and very successful ones. too. Through his efforts a fund was col lected to finance the movement and he gave his time and talent for noth ing. The copy he wrote attracted the attention of churchmen the coun try over and the ads as they first appeared in the Telegraph were copied in style and text by manv other cities. Mr. Hessenberger has had extensive experience in welfare work among: tho boys and young men, is a great lover of the outdoors iiiKl will throw a. wealth of exper ience and enthusiasm into his new duties, lie expects to po to tho front when tho American troops are sent over. People of West. Ilarrisburg are mighty anxious to see the garbage disposal plant above Mat-lay street near Paxton creek removed from that place. When the plant was erected it was with the promise that it would be odorless. Instead it has been aij annoyance to the whole West End when the wind is from the di rection of the plant toward town. The West Enders say it was a mis take ever to have placed the plant where it is, at the entrance to Wild wood park and right along the park way. Every effort has been made by tho park department to have the district cleaned up but the surround ings of the incinerator are anything but attractive, as viewed from the nnrkwnv. and the stench it times is frightful. The West End wants this plant removed or really rendered odorless, when tho new contract is let. • • • Fishing is good these days In the creeks about Harrisburg. Stories of twenty-four black bass, the lot weighing nineteen pounds, caught by one angler and eighteen caught by another were brought to town dur ing th< last few days. The Falls below the ltockville bridge also have been the scene of some good catches recently, the Susquehanna salmon having developed some of their au tumnal fondness for "lampers" and striking freely at porjc rind and even the unadorned spoon, at times. None of the tisli is reported as being large but run from t hrce-fourths to a pound and a'half. The visit of the Lutheran minis ters to the Loysville Orphan Home on Tuesday recalls the t act that many well-known llarrlsburg peonle are graduates of that, noted institu tion, which holds a high pla''e in the regard of men and women of all de nominations who know of ttie excel lence of its work. "I never saw a brighter, healthier lot of boys In my life, 'salt! one visitor. "Their fares glowed, their eyes sparkled and they sang like angels." That is not over drawing it a particle. The Loysville orphan school pupils arc made to feel a pride in their school and in themselves. They do not look upon ♦themselves as oblects of chanty. They are pupils at tne school and tho management is so kindly, yet so ef ficient! that it at all times has both the love and perfect obedience of the lads whose votithfnl destinies it controls. Say "Loysvi)le" in Central Pa., and you will call up a vision of homlness, good-fellowship and ideal school life such as few insti tutions can boast. "I can remember," said an old >"ailroad man to-dav, "when It was m v fondest ambition to get a job as ex tra brakeman on the Pennsy, and when I dirt set it. my. how I was en vied tho other village hoys! And now they have sot to go out with all manner of promises to net a man to work. The worst of it is that wages are much higher now than when I struggled for a job." "Ever see a caekleberry" asked Governor Brumbaugh, of a man at the Capitol the other day. "No, where do they grow?" was the reply. "Oh, generally. I saw lots of them tn Maine this year and have gather ed them in my younger days in this state," said the Governor. "Up in Maine they are highly prized." The man did not know and sought out Secretary Ball who told this story: "Up in Maine the Governor asked Lute Norris, who is the local oracle around Wayne if he had ever seen the caekleberry. The man was stumped, but did not like to admit ; it. lie fussed around and finally tho | Governor asked a friend who was j present to go out and Ret a couple. Tho man started out <sf the cottage toward the woods." "Well," persisted the listener. "What in thunder did he bring back ?" "Two eggs," said Mr. Ball gravely. • * * Sullivan county is to tho front again. Executive Clerk James C. Deininger comes from thp.t county of shingles, lath, doer, purling brooks, mountain lakes and fine fishing and vouches for this story: "My brother is connected with one or the railroads in Sullivan coun ty a'nd says that deer are very abundant. They are so abundant that lliey are becoming a nuisance. Tho firemen say they have to stop the trains some mornings to 'shoo' the deer off the tracks." * • Among visitors to HarrisburK yes terday was C. W. Armor, one of the editors of the Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. Mr. Armor has long been con nected with the big Pittsburgh news paper and likes to visit Ilarrisburg once in a while. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —M. C. Kennedy, president of the Cumberland Valley, has two sons In the Army. —Col. Henry W. Coulter, of Groensburg, will command tho 111 th Infantry, which is the new number of the old Tenth Pennsylvania of Philippine fame. —F. N. Hibbetts, connected with Baldwins, will go to the Lehigh Val ley as chief of motive power in this state. —T. C. Jones, the member of the district board in Allegheny, which is having a stirring time, is a McKees port lawyer, with ideas of his own on tho draft law. —Judge Charles L. Brown, who is presiding in the Philadelphia cases, is a former state senator. DO YOU KNOW | Tliat Harrisburg is shipping much comnicai to the scacoast this year? HISTORIC HARRISBUKG Indians wore the first gunmen to bother people about John Harris ferry and when tiey got. bad citizens organized and chased them over the [ Susquehanna toward clans they did I not like.
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