10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEIiEGRArH PHINTINU CO.. Telegraph Uiilldlnß. Federal Square. t£. J. STACK POLE, Pres't Sr Editor-in-Chirf F\ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ; Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. - Member American latlon and Penn ing * H| Eastern office, |g|g BBsm Avenue Building, _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. J5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917 Peace of mind must come in its own time, as the tvaters settle them selves into clearness, as well as quietness; you can no more filter your mind into purity than you can compress it into calmness; you must lceep it pure if you would have it pure, and throw no stones into it if you would have it quiet. — RLSKIX. WELL WORTH" PROBING HARRISBURG, among munici palities which have expended thousands of dollars in the last few years for the purchase of motor lire apparatus, extension of water mains and appliances for more speedy and effective fighting of flames, will take considerable in terest in the inquiry which State In surance Commissioner Charles A. 1 Ambler says he w*ill immediately inaugurate into the jump in fire insurance rates in a large section of Pennsylvania. While the advance in rates was in some communities, as in Harrisburg, offset to a certain ex tent by reduction of penalties be. j cause of improvement of fire fight- j ing apparatus, there are some people who would like to know the justi fication for the increase and what plane of efficiency or preparation the fire underwriters consider as their basis for calculation of risks and penalties. , U is not so long since we heard a good bit about the "pink slip" in Harrisburg. Fire Insurance rates seem to have been steadily advanc ing. Assurance was given that when Ihis city improved its fire service as suggested by a committee of ob servers, who one year blew up a fire engine and refused' to pay the bill for the damage, that rates would come down. Instead, we have had | Advances and penalties and when it I is ciphered down we are no better | off than we were some years ago, in j spite of putting a mortgage on the j city to buy motor fire apparatus, be- j cause that's what bond issues mean. For Mr. Ambler it will be a great i opportunity, provided the legal de- | partment of the State government | rules that he has the power to find out why the rates were advanced. The State Insurance Department has been courageously administered against life insurance crooks in the last half dozen years. This is the day of regulation in many lines. Hence any alleged attempt to take unreasonable advantage of property owners on the specious plea of losses, in other parts of the land, higher overhead charges and necessity for maintaining dividends and surplus at say sixteen per cent, may be rightfully probed. Railroads, water and electric companies are being brought to book by the Public Serv ice Commission, which has kept its rate-regulating machinery well pol ished up. There should be some authority in the laws of Pennsylvania to enable the Insurance Commissioner to call for a show down of reasons for boosting fire insurance. In this day of higher prices for everything and our patriotic obligation to t/ay Lib erty bonds, and to contribute to the activities to make our n.n fit to fight and to look after those left be hind, we are rather sensitive to fur ther calls upon our purses unless Justified by conditions under which enterprises just as important as fire Insurance companies are now oper ating In Pennsylvania. PI yO WING BY NIGHT THERE Is nothing very funny about Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton's suggestion that farmers either club togethei and buy farm tractors or else ar range with some one to buy a tractot and work it twenty-four hours next Bpring and summer to get the fields plowed and to keep them cultivated. It has been demonstrated that an Army truck can run twenty-four hours In crossing Pennsylvania, and the experience of many a taxicab has been that It'as fresh In the cold, pray dawn as In the dewy eve. And neither Is the Idea of running a threshing machine at 11 o'clock at night to finish up the wheat at a barn so that a schedule can be kept at the next farm anfthing unusual. Many a man In the country gets up around 3 o'clock to get the cans to the station for the morning milk train. Just because the Idea that farmers lo to bed with the roosters survives MONDAY EVENING, from the days when the Incandescent lamp was undiscovered. Is no rea son for supposing that a tractor cannot plow a field at midnight as well as tear up a rush con tracting Job on a railroad. It's all a question of money and men. The machinery doesn't need to sloep. All it needs Is oil and gasoline and at tention. * A big headlight can be rented with a tractor. If the farmers will loosen up and buy or hire trac tors, they can get the men to plow the fields on the night trick while they sleep and dream of three-and a-half-dollar wheat and two-dollar potatoes. The country needs the additional food Pennsylvania can raise, and one tractor can do a mighty sight of work, showing no more signs of than a thresher or limousine. PRESIDENT TEXER TO the suggestion that the Amer ican League of Baseball Clubs pool players and receipts next year so as evenly to distribute strength and resources, has brought this characteristic reply from Pres ident John K. Tener: It Is not in harmony with the spirit of baseball. I do not believe that the American League intends taking any such action. 1 am quite sure that the National League club owners would not even consider such a move. In the first pla'c#, the satisfactory placing of the star players would be a difficult problem to decide; in fact, it seems that it would be im possible to accomplish in it a way which would be satisfactory to all clubs. This is just what might have been expected of the former Governor. [ Those who are acquainted with him know that he would not for a mo ment countenance anything that would reduce baseball from the sportsmanlike game it is to a purely money-grabbing standard. It's in line with his swift jab at the propo sition of exemption for ball players from military service. PUMPKIN'LESS PUMPKIN PIE SOME wretch, very wisely un named in the dispatches from Washington, has devised a pumpkinless pumpkin pie, and ad vises Americans to eat it as a pa triotic duty, thereby saving count-' less pumpkins. We have stood for! c-gglcss omlets, and creamless milk, | and meatless mince meat, and wheat- j less bread, and butterless butter, and tomatoless catsup, and coffeeless cof- j fee because we believed the exigen-1 cies of the war crisis demanded! some sacrifice but pumpkinless; pumpkin pie! Who is to benefit from! that, pray? What are we going to' do with the pumpkins we don't putj into the pies? Feed 'em to cows. J Not at our house! Our friend from Washington would substitute cornmeal for pumpkin in the pie, and, we suggest, why not let the cow have the cornmeal, which she prefers, and let us have the pumpkin, which we prefer? May be we've got this conservation idea all wrong, but our notion is that con servation of foodstuffs at this time may be defined as using on our tables the cheapest forms of pro visions that cannot be shipped abroad, and if pumpkin doesn't come into that class we don't know what does. • Besides, wo have a sneaking fond ness for sinking our face deep into a quarter of inch-deep pumpkin custard from which no effort has been made to extract the pumpkin. We suspect we are not alone in our criminal intent to violate the pump kin section of the conservation regu lations come Thanksgiving Day.- SAVING FOODSTUFFS MEMBERS of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce >es terday pledged themselves to save each week— One pound of flour." Seven ounces of meat. ounces of fat. SeVfcn uuiii.o ui sufeai. ( If every one of us does that, t>ur~ Allies across the seas will have enough to eat and we will help win the war by keeping them in condi tion to fight. That these shortages are not imaginary is clearly shown by the advertisements of various of the big provision firms of the country ad- Vising the consumers to ' conserve. Typical of these is the Franklin Re fining Company, which is giving wide publicity to such propaganda as this: Our Government has asked you to use sugar sparingly. We be lieve that the people of this coun try will be glad to do their part to conserve the sugar suply when they know the facts. These facts are as follows: More than two-thirds of the source of Europe's sugar supply is within the present battle lines. This has resulted in greatly re ducing the production of sugar in Europe. England and France and other countries have been forced to go for sugar to Cuba. Ordinarily, nearly all of the Cuban raw sugar comes to the Fnited States and is refined here, chiefly for home use. This is not the case now. In view of the exceptional world demand for sugar there i;i no surplus, and barely enough to tide us over until the new crop comes in. The people of the New England and Atlantic Coast States should use sugar sparing ly. No one should hoard or waste it. This company has no surplus sugar to sell, it is working with the Government to conserve the supply, and to take care of the Allies so far as possible. Do not pay an Increased retail price. Ordinarily such companies as the Franklin are trying to create a mar ket for their goods. Increased sales mean Increased profits, and de creased sales mean decreased profits. Consequently, when the big grocery manufacturers and merchants spend their money in order to depress their own markets the supply must be indeed limited and conservation a necessity. City Commissioner Gross is making headway in the filling out of the river embankment between Hamilton and Kelker streets. This is protective work anil represents economical ad ministration. ToUtlct Ck By the Ex-Commlttccman Men active In the councils of the| Republican party In various parts .of the state will probably have con siderable business in Philadelphia in the days immediately following Thanksgiving, according to some things which were heard to-day about the Capitol, and it is believed that as a result of the inquiries a number of men of influence in the party are making in their counties and cities at present there may be some definite lines, laid for next year's campaign in "advance of the nomination of a state ticket. Sena tor Penrose and his friends have been sounding out sentiment in the state and preparing for a battle royal with the Vare people, while the state administration leaders are getting lines on the trend of political forces and preparing for some active times. Ordinarily there is not much do ing about framing up slates for pri mary battles before Christmas, but this year some kites mhy be tlown early. Senator Sproul is expected to make an announcement of some kiijd soon and friends of Lieutenant- Governor Frank B. McClain are pre paring to launch a boom for him as a man from the east who can unite factions. In the western end of the state ex-Speaker George E. Alter is being much discussed as the man Allegheny can offer to bring union of the party. Alter is declared by these western men as a logical can didate because of his well-known lo cal option opinions and because he is aligned with no faction. In the northeast friends of Louis A. Watres say the same thing about him. James T. Woodward, McKeesfrort legislator, is planning to travel around the state in the interest of his boom for secretary of internal af fairs which he says is looking well. His friends are much interested in the attitude of Secretary Houck, who has a boom for governor under glass In Schuylkill and Lebanon. —The Huntingdon Globe, one of the most influential Republican weeklies of the state, says: "For some time the name of Congress man McFadden has been associated with the gubernatorial possibilities of the 1918 campaign. It is the con sensus of opinion that if the Re publican party is to win next year, it must place in the field a clean cut, able, honest man, under whose ban ner there must be united support and not factional division. The very minute we get into an intensified factional contest and the welkin rings with the hue and cry that the candidate is the servitor of this, that or some other wing of the party, we invite trouble, if not disaster. From this aspect of the case Mr. McFad den looms up as a remedial force. No capital letter in the whole alpha bet from A to Z can impute to Mr. McFadden any factional alignment. He is simply an old-fashioned, rock ribbed Republican, and that's all there's to it. The Bradford county farmer, banker and statesman comes from good Scotch-Irish Presbyterian •stock, and stoutly upholds the faith of his forefathers. We are not boom ing him for governor, but we rise to remark that Louis T. McFadden pos sesses qualities and qualifications that would make him an ideal Re publican candidate and a sure win ner in the event of his nomination." - —Two interesting things about the Democrats of Pennsylvania cropped out yesterday. The Democrats have been trying to get harmony so that the party can take advantage of any Republican split and try to make good on its promises to the Presi dent for so many fat jobs for Penn sylvania™ who are cogs in the ma chine. One of the things waft the roar that went up over the assault made in the Dauphin county courts by the counsellor of the Democratic machine men on the soldier vote and the challenge of the right of the men in khaki to take part in elections. There are no allegations of frauds here, just a plain attack on the right of the soldiers to vote. -—The other thing was the at tempted flirtation of Michael J. Ryan with Vance C. McCormick. Mr. Ryan is the Democratic memben of the Public Service Commission and likes the place. Mr. McCormick de feated him for the nomination for Govennor and what some of Mr. Ryan's backers then did to McCor mick was a shame. . —The Philadelphia Public Ledger sends this under .in Atlantic City date line about the Ryan olive branch: "To Vance C. McCormick, Chairman of the Denjlociauc Na -tkSnal Committer, Michael J. Ryan, a m em'b erTJf^tno Pennsylvania Pub lic Service Commission, accorded at the Traymore to-day the distinction of being the most logical candidate of the party in Pennsylvania as the successor to Governor Brumbaugh. He said: 'McCormick has demon strated his strength already as a gubernatorial candidate with his party. The further honors that Pres ident Wilson lias conferred upon him af- a member of one of the most im portant Commissions this country has sent abroad is bound to strengthen him further. If the war continues, when Pennsylvania ne*t selects its gubernatorial candidates it is quite certain his name will be very serious ly considered.' Mr. Ryan was asked It he cherished any ambition person ally in the direction of the Govern orship. He dismissed the thought with a wave of his hand and for emphasis added: 'Not the slightest.' " —Upon the decision this moruljig hinges the result of the Town Meet ing party's figlit for an accurate count of the vote at the last election, says the Philadelphia Record. Should the election court fail to open the boxes the contest will be taken into a quarter sessions court, but In this event, it is claimed, the Vare attor neys would be able to delay the pro ceedings for several months and even two years. E. L. D. Roach, of the Committee of Seventy, declared yesterday that within a few days nearly two-score arrests would be made in the city of persons who will be charged with committing fraud at the recent election. Mr. Roach an nounced that the affidavits upon which the warrants will be Issued have been prepared and that the ar rests will take place before Wednes day. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says of the dismissal of Road Superinten dent Thomas R. McDowell in Ches ter county: "The incident ilhistrates the evident determination of tlio Brumbaugh wing to oust all state employes suspected of flirting with the Penrose organization. The new appointee is a prominent and suc cessful farmer with strong indepen dent leanings, in the inner circles of which he has been active for sev eral years. The control of the state highway patronage is a powerful feature In rural counties that are actively engaged in road construc tion as Is this and most of the small army of foremen, supervisors, in spectors, etc., ore men of consider able local political influence." —Declaring that he is fully con vinced that he received enough votes legally cast to elect him to city coun cil, William Ward. Jr., former mayor f Chester, who was li'cre a couple of '' -V HARRISBURG TFSF&H TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? .. .. By Brlggs AFTE'R YBUVF Pr?OPOSG"D AIVFO APTER YOU'VE AWO YOU'VE KEPT FIFTY" HA/VE\S TO A SENJT HER, Boxes OF YOUR-SELP BROKE WOIV/OERFUL. GIRL" A MD CANJDY, FLOWERS, TAKIMG HER TCJ IVLDV/E.R. GOT A TUMBLE EVERY THINJG — AN>D STILL SHOVAJS ANI^ GOT THE cot_D . * <JMBAREIT-S -^NO"6 T G AFTER YOU'VE Y^TO IAK6.S A HAND ARJT> PEOAT6P AMD STAYEL> CALU AS 5H£ I 7 YOU to " KEEP AWAKE NIGHTS WONDERirJG WAS AVMAY' AS ' .SHE T WHETHER TO VJOI/O THE ARMY IONJESOME= X€>J WKK WAMT YOU TO HAMG <^ R OVMP OFF Tnt "bridge "TO YW~ r- SGRA AROUMO - .(/. make He. A'?Viy PoR days last week, says that he pro- ( poses to contest the seat that tho official count at Media awarded to; John S. Miller by a majority of twen ty-nine votes. The official count of, the soldier vote gave Miller twenty nine majority. Previous to this count Ward led him with a majority of 123. —J. Edwari 1 Wanner has been j, elected president of the Americusj Democratic CJlub of Reading for the nineteenth time. —Plenty cf influence is being brought to bear in the matter of the selection of a county detective byj District Attorney-elect Dawson W. Light, who will take office at Leba non with the opening of the new ; year. Aaron Sattazahn, who has; been serving the office for many years, is being pressed by his friends; for retention in the position for: which no leas than four others; aspire. Sheriff-elect William L. | Brunner has no less than three aspi-j rants for the post of deputy sheriff, with Sheriff Harry P. Strupp credit- | ed with enjoying the brlghest j chance of appointment. —Mayor-elect Hendenreich, of Hazleton, says he expects to give ] that city a reform administration. | SCARCITY OF SUGAR The Brunswick Volksfreund quotes, the Magdeburg Zentralblatt fur die, Zuckerindustrie for the following ac count of the German sugar-beet, crop: "Some daily papers have been! publishing a report, emanating from a Berlin news agency, to the effect i that the strikingly good condition of j the beets will compensate to a sub-, stantial degree for the diminished production caused by a decrease in, cultivation. This is an exaggerated statement which awakens hopes im- i possible of fulfillment. Even with a full crop the production could j amount at most to 34,000,000 ctr. j (hundredweight) of raw value, while in the last years of peace over 50,-. 000,000 ctr. were produced. All means must be employed to bring j the beet cultivation up to the peace-I time level; until this is achieved the i sugar shortage will remain, for the. more or less good harvest results can j make very little difference." HINT FOR ACTION When horse sttalltig in the West was a young industry they used to shoot horse thieves on sight. Well auto stealing is still a young indus try.—Cincinnati Times-Star. THE GREAT ADVANCE In my heart is the sound of drums And the ijweep of the bugles call ing; The day of the Great Adventure comes And the tramp of feet is falling, falling, Ominous falling, everywhere, By street and lane, by field and square— To answer the Voice appealing! One by one they have put down The tool, the pen and the racquet; One by one they have donned the brown And the blue, the knapsack and jacket; With a smile for the friend of a hap pier day, With a kiss for the love that would bid them stay— They are oft by the train and packet. What fate, what star, what sun, | What field, What sea shall know their daring? Shall the battle reek or the dead calm yield Their wreaths that are prepar ing ? ! Shall they merely stand and wait the call? Shall they hear it, rush and slay and fall What matter? —their swords are baring! We stand in the crowds that seej them go— We who are old and weak, un ready; We see the red blood destined to; flow Flushing their cheeks, as with footsteps steady With a tramp anjl a tramp, they fite along, Our bfave, our true, our young, our strong— • And the fever burns us fierce and heady. With God, then forth, by sea and land, To your Adventure beyond story, ♦Jo Argonaut, no Crusader band 'Ere passed with such exceeding glory! Though ye seek,fields both strange and far, Ye arc at home where heroes are! Such is the prayer we send your star — We who are weak and old and hoary. —THOMAS WALSH. War Tank Like Big Iron Beetle Kenneth Payne in Washington Herald After taking a trip in a tank, and | going over the * tank stable and . proving grounds where * * * the un- 1i gainly mechanical beasts have been j performing for our benefit, I am able j to answer a question which has puz-| zled so many newspapers at home. ; The question is, "Why are the I tanks always written about in the' press dispatches as though the! whole subject was chiefly humorous. : and the tanks themselves nothing but great gawky jokes?" The answer is that * * * a tank do- j ing stunts proves to be in fact most, excruciatingly funny. Feats Beyond Belief With lumbering, crashing aplomb; it does things which you simply don't believe, even while the ludi-j crous performance is going on right J under your very eyes. When we arrived at this particular, tankodrome, a number of the crea tures were pawing the ground in the j center of a field, apparently eager to i begin the show. The whole thing was unreal, a bit, of Jules Verne, a Brobdignagian horse show. Near the field sheds and shops housed tanks in various stages of construction and repair. In one corner of the field a number of the uncouth beasts had apparently been let out to graze. Climbing aboard one which was i ready in the center of the field to be put through its paces, I found an interior as neat and shipshape as ' an ocean liner's. Smooth, Rapid Start It was clean and polished, its | walls painted white, and there was | oven a matting carnet on the* small j bits of floor space not preempted by int'ieate maphiwy. "Doesn't stay that way very long I when she's in action," said one of > | the crew. "We are soon si'unly llv-J ; ing in mud. Mud works all through' her insldes, in masses." As smoothly as a> ship sliding out, jof port, the tank got under way, I traveling considerably faster than I the passengers h a< l expected pos-. i sible. . When proceeding with portholes and doorways open, the interior is well ventilated, and the engines over which two of tho crew are contin ually tinkering, do not seem to be raising any very deafening din. t | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —George F. Fonda, Bethlehem Steel safety expert, who spoke here last week, has been elected president | of the Lehigh Vftlley Safety Council. —L. S. Cairns, who has been in charge of the electric lines in Manila, will become head of the Eastern Pennsylvania trolley system In Schuylkill county. —Dr. John G. Wilson, widely known Methodist clergyman and brother of Director W. H. Wilson, of Philadelphia, was seriously hurt in an accident in Philadelphia. —Major Adam Carver, long Iden tified with the National Guard in York, will head the York unit of tlie volunteer police. —Admiral F. R. Harris, who will have charge of shipbuilding, was formerly in . command at League Island. —Horace A. Beale, Parkesburg ironmaster, is head of the committee to look after welfare of Chester county soldiers. Less Barley For Brewing The Hamburger Fi - ports that, owing to the average poor results of the barley harvest, it is in tended to assign to breweries only about 20,000 to 30,000 tons of barley monthly, so that the barley destined j for brewing purposes will be dispos- I ed of in about four to six months. Omitting Bavaria, the peace-time j consumption of German breweries | amounts to about 1.2 million tons |of barley. The assignment In the ' new harvest year would, therefore, j amount to not more than 2% per i cent, of the peace-time consump- I tlon. , IN THE GLOAMING Roaming i In the gloaming May suit a romantic young clerk. But when a man's married And possibly harried He'd better Go straight home From work. —Springfield Leader. GREAT MYSTERY I I Why the patriotic senator from Wisconsin had to die. Instead of the one who wouldn't.have been missed, fs one of those things that no fellow can find out. —Albany Journe.l. Like ship's officers on the bridge two of the ' tank's masters are I Iparched up forward, peering out I j ahead and opaxlng various stunts out I of the beast. Like Pens in a Pod The power * * * lurking in its j I ponderous frame was evident when | it first began to indulge in maneu-i | vers. While gliding easily over the! straight-away. at every turn it j lurched heavily, exactly like a mam- j j moth animal alive with a great deal j more strength than it knew what to : do with. That the try-out might be com | plete, artificial obstacles had been ] prepared, and the tank took them j like a giant iron beetle engaged in j a clumsy steeplechase. It rammed bead-on up the face of a mound of earth and timbers ' (rattling its passengers about like peas In a pod), * * * panting, paw- I lng and scrambling to the tune of I various roaring, and finally clamber ed after a slip or two right up the i side of the mound and flopped down on top like a seal scrambling onto [ a rock. After a moment's rest it dove off i the other side, giving Mother Earth and its passengers a terrific jar and smashing everyth'ng w'thin reach. J (Long passage here deleted by the censor.) That's the kind of animal the tank crews ride into battle. Hcllisli Way to Die I It is no secret that they do not I invariably come back. There are tank casualties as well as airplane casualties. I have clambered as or.e of a party of correspondents through dead tanks, battered and ditched I amid the debris of a battlefield. "What a hellish way to meet your i death, in that iron sheli!" was the 1 universal comment. It must be a ghastly fate, and yet i there are more candidates for ser vice in the tanks than can be ac commodated ! When the full story of the cool. , dauntless heroism of the tank men I ican be told it will -tvnl the tr rent est i feats accomplished by any branch of i the service. But for the present we still have to treat their exploits mostly as a i joke!— Kenneth Payne in Washing t ton Herald. - ( 1 DO YOU KNOW j That Hnrrisburg is rapidly forging to the front as central point of the provision trade? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris armed over forty men at the outbreak of the French and Indian war at his own expense and stationed them along the river to protect travelers. • LABOR NOTES Ohio labor unions have a member ship of 100,000. One French munitions factory em ploys 9000 women. There are 14,0J)0 Mexican miners in Arizona. Vancouver (B. C.) teamsters de mand a nine-hour day. Ohio unions will work for a week ly pay day law. Union electricians in * v Con%et;u\.ut have formed a state body. Pueblo, Col., $45,000 labor temple j is the only one in the state. Railroad stenographers have a ; membership of over 40,000. J Every city official in Bicknell, Ind., ' is a union man. ; Railway clerks have added 4,000 members in the past four months. North Yakima, Wash., Labor Council Issued a weekly labor paper. Boxers at Vancouver, B. C., have declared for daylight work. Denver, Col., tailors have increased wageß 15 per cent. Labor unions at Fargo, N. D., are fighting private employment agencies. A strike of 2,000 clerks on the Nor thern Pacific was averted by the i granting of an eight-hour day and a an increase in wages. it Musicians at Halifax, N. S., have organized. NOVEMBER 26, 1917. Over tkc ot *"Pmuvcu V- .> What stories could be told of the Hinkletown Hotel, oldest licensed place in Lancaster county, which has just been closed after being con tinuously licensed since 1753. This reminds that the Mayor of Savan nah recently teelgraphed to Presi dent Wilson the percentages of re duction in crime since the adoption of prohibition down there: Assault with intent to murder, .6 4; burglary, .47: drunk and disorderly, .72; lar ceny, .50; larceny after trust, .76; murder, .66; lunacy, .54; number of convicts reduced 50 per cent. William Hensel, of Weatherly, in the Lehigh Valley, relates an ex change, was shot in the left arm and other bullets grazed his abdomen when he got in the line of fire of Wilbur Flickinger, who discharged his gun at a rahbit. We have no intention of getting fresh, but wouldn't it be a good idea if Wil bur spent some time really getting acquainted with the general contour and physiognomy of a rabbit? * ' The Schwenkfelders are a re ligious sect who, like the Friends and the Mennonites, profess the doc trine of nonresistance. But, while the entire membership is only 1,100, the are now in the Army twenty of these Schwenkfelders, and not a sin gle one has asked for exemption. Q <> * Serious-minded persons who have the welfare of Harrisburg at heart in the matter of garbage cleanup might learn something from John Stohbe, of Salt Lake City, into whose yard recently strayed a loose ostrich. No one claiming it, the host allowed the husky bird to remain there and was speedily repaid by having it de vour "all the dead vegetables and fruit, also broken dishes, knives, marbles and other garbage that had I been littering the backyard for a long time. "One ostrich might be employed in Harrisburg, say for each block, and the feathers divid ed pro rata among the good house wives. ; OUR DAILY LAUGH | NOT A CLEAN TAKE. "Can Grace take the high 'C?'" "Not without knocking oft some "Stroll- RULING PASSION. Floor Waljter—Hurry out, Madam. The store's afire. Mrs. Bargain— Oh, is it? Then I*ll Just wait for the fire sale. NO SHOE FOR WOMEN. Customer—Why do you call that the dumb shoe? Salesman—Because it Is made without a torypifc j lEteittttg Cttljal Thomas MacDowell Jones, who | died suddenly at his Locust street home on Saturday afternoon, hatf" keen actively connected with news- in Harrlsburg for mora than two score years and was dean of the newspaper correspondents of tlif state. He had "covered" every story of consequence in the state cap.t*l since the seventies and had an acquaintance with men in public life that was not only extensive but about as varied as that of a man long in newspaper work can have. He was credited with knowing the inside workings of the state gov ernment in half a dozen adminis- trations and in one had charge of a department. Letters and telegrams received by his wife. Mrs. Mabel t ronise Jones, herself a writer of note, yesterday and to-day, attest the large number of friends he had throughout the state, while the per sonal tributes i>aid to him by men identified with governmental and po litical affairs are noteworthy. At the time of his death Mr. Jones was president of the State Legisla tive Correspondents Association and had been long a member and officer of newspapermen's organizations in Harrlsburg and elsewhere, enjoying an acquaintance among editors and reporters in Pennsylvania probably greater than any worker in the newspaper field to-day in the state. Mr. Jones was born into newspa per work. His father. Uriah J. Jones, was one of the most bril liant newspapermen of Central Pennsylvania and was editor of a Hollidaysburg paper when his son was born in the mountain capital of Blair county on August 31, 1860. He was the author of Jones' History of the Juniata Valley, which is at this day one of the standard works of reference of the section which has given so many men of strength and capacity to not only the cities ot Pennsylvania, but to the Army and Navy and the national govern ment. Mr. Jones became one of tlj owners of the Harrisburg Patriot shortly before the Civil War and re moved to this city where his talents and fighting ability soon made him a figure of importance in state journalism. He was not always in accord with the nowers and is re called by old residents for the vigor of his articles. His son developed an intense liking for military affairs and when Harrisburg began to as semble its men for war service he got out his drum and marched at the head of the companies when they went to the stations on the way to the front. On'several occasions young Thomas escorted regiments from Camp Curtin to the trains and was formally enrolled in one unit raised here as its drummer. This service was. recognized long years afterwards by act of Congress. He also ran away from home and stole a ride to Get tysburg on the cars to hear Lincoln make his immortal speech in 1864, something which he took great pride in telling. And there were precious few events hereabouts in the stir ring months of that time of which he did not get first-hand knowledge. After the war he took the course then held essential for any one to become a newspaperman and "learn ed the case" on the Harrisburg Tele graph, published In Third street where the Security Trust building now stands. In due season he was made a reporter and started to ao .I cumulate his remarkable acquaint ance. In addition to "covering police" and "doing hotels," which were the big sources of news in those days, young Jones played baseball. He i.ccame an expert In the game and floured on famous local teams, some of which won state laurels. Some of the best-known men of the com munity were members of teams, whose history Mr. Jones wrote in a series of articles some years ago ir. the Harrisburj? Telegraph and later published, elsewhere. It was before professional baseliall came in and rivalries were high. In the seventies Mr. Jones was sent to Cap itol Hill. In those days the Leg islature had to struggle against hangings and disasters for any show and departmental news as we know it to-day was unknown. Mr. Jones did his share in developing Harris burg as a news center and was ap pointed correspondent for a number of newspapers. During this period he rose to be editor of the Harris burg Telegraph and architect of the "Oossip Colihrnn." After thirty years' service he became connected with the Star-Independent but recently had been devoting himself to corre spondence. writing interesting Har risburg letters for the Philadelphia itecord and a number of sfcite pa pers, including the Oil City Derrick of which he had been correspondent for some thirty years. • • In company with one who is now active in many ways in the making of Harriaburg to-day, Mr. Jones helped build up the musical attrac tions of the State capital by bring ing to the city such bandmasters as Sousa, Gilmore, Strauss., and Crea tore, and many stars of the vocal and lecturing would. This was a work in wh'ch he expended much energy ahd if the results were not always profitable they helped the fame of Harrlsburg because people came for many miles around to attend the concerts. • • • Mr. Jones' election as president of the Legislative Correspondents' As sociation. composed of the newspa permen from all over the state who come here to write the stories of the General Assembly, was realization of an ambition of years. Walter J. Christy, of the Plttsbtrrgh Gazette- Times. now the only surviving mem ber of the group of brilliant news papermen who formed that organi zation a quarter of a century ago, and others active in the capitoi niii worlt, quietly arranged the election of Mr. Jones, who was also a char ter member. Lee Solomon, secretary of the State Compensation Board, then with the Philadelphia Record, got Mr. Jones' consent to use his name and with Mr. Christy accumu lated enough votes to elect. Then they said there was nothing doing. Mr. Jones was elected unanimously, after a speech by George J. Brennan. of the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the founders of the Clover Club. At the dinners of the Muzzle Clqh, the newspapermen's dining club of this city, Mr. Jones always passed the big Stuart silver loving cup and • Introduced each diner In his own way. He was president for three years. ♦ • Mr. Jones filled quite a place In Pennsylvania Journalism and will be much missed at "the Harrlsburg end of the wire" as telegraphers say. SOMETHING ROTTEN The Nobel literary prize this year has been divided between M. Pontop pldan, novelist, and M. Gjellerup, both Danes. Evidently there la something fine In Denmark, also.— Detroit Free Pres
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