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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1011)
•>- Ue stands strongest who kneels
weakest;
* Ue stands longest who kneels low
est ;
Hint knees make strong hacks—and
2 strong bucks arc needed to-day.
—AXON.
AN OUTLAW STRIKE
J -p EADERS of the soft coal
I . miners have put themselves bc
yond the pale.
Z In defying President Wilson they
! r~ have defied the people of the whole
country, whose spokesman the Presi
dent is.
They are striking for hours* -and
**" wages that, if granted, would add
■ heavily to the cost of everything
C* every American wears, eats or uses—
T for the cost of living depends large
-2 ly on the price of coal.
They want a six-hour day and a
22. five day week, and sixty per cent.
222 wore wages than they now get for
■— an eight-hour day and a six-day
.... week, and their leaders have the
temerity to tell us that the result
ing reduced production and the in
- creased cost will not be reflected in
prices to the public.
This soft coal strike is headed for
disaster before it begins—for it
does not have back of it that public
support and sympathy, without
" which no strike ever will succeed.
President Wilson has told the
mine chiefs that he means to oper
ate the mines, strike or no strike,
and the country will stand by him
*- -in that resolution.
The American people do not mean
22 .'.t0 see their mills closed, their rall
- roads stopped and themselves and
~ their families freeze and starve be
2. cause a group of labor leaders insist
*; ■ upon unreasonable, demands. They
-■ will stand back of the President and
Ma Cabinet as firmly In this crisis as
2' th ey did during the war with Ger
- many.
~ These coal miners are not striking
against their employers alone—-they
are striking against the whole
American people, who will know how
; to deal with the situation.
JT "Kaiser's home unlucky for men,"
soys a news dispatch. Unlucky for
i* one, at least.
FIGHTING THE PLAGUE
j* TrrHEN Uncle Sam found it
W Becessai "y to organize a draft
-2* ing system for the mobiliza-
Won of the manpower of'the United
States in the Great War he pro
-- vlded at one and the same time a
t tremendous argument for the antl
tuberculosis movement which is now
w. country-wide through the Red
* Cross Seal campaign and other
■m B-Seacies. It was developed as a re
'■ suit of the draft that over one-third
- of the men examined for military
22 purposes were found unavailable on
• account of physical defects. Physi
• cal standards were lowered, accord-
Z. ing to a military medical officer of
Z.. prominence, and thousands of in-
Competents had to be segregated at
£• each divisional camp. The same of
k- ficer declared that the creation and
£' fostering of public sentiment, the
F shaping of legislation and the cor-
V rection of defects and deficiencies
C within health organizations will do
T much to remedy the conditions
£. which threaten the health of the
r Country.
It has been a fortunate thing for
C the United States that high class
E medical men have been in intimate
touch with the developments that
$• followed the organization of our
£, armies. Several thousand men in
E, Pennsylvania alone were rejected
because they were found on exam
lnation to be tubercular, although
L they had not previously suspected
J* that the White Plague had gripped
I them.
Presently the Red Cross seal cam-
EL. paign will be inaugurated not only
CI ln this city and county, but through
jw •' out Pennsylvania, and when the pur
poses of this great mbvement are
fully understood by the people, there,
of their enthusiastic
THURSDAY EVENING, atRMSBURG uMSfo TEracraUPH OCTOBER 30, 1919.
support of the movement for the
suppression of the most dangerous
malady that now threatens the pop
ulation of the State and the country.
Right here in HUrrisburg the inves
tigation of those who are awake to
the importance of wiping out tu
berculosis shows that the people
must be aroused to the danger
which threatens so long as the
disease is not eradicated. Great for
ward steps have been taken by
Colonel Edward S. Martin and the
Department of Health in the sup
pression of tuberculosis in every
corner of the State, but much is yet
to be done and the responsibility
rests upon every community to co
operate with the health officials of
the State in overcoming the worst
plague that at- present afflicts the
Nation.
Through the sale of Red Cross
seals the people not only support
financially the constructive work
which is involved, in the anti
tuberculosis campaign; they do
more—they give encouragement and
hope to the afflicted people and in
spiration to those who are battliug
against an insidious disease that has
brought sorrow to so many homes
and that imperils rich and poor
alike.
By opening tlie saloons with the
coming of peace It may be the Presi
dent's idea to have us become peace
ful on the instalment plan.
A REAL GOVERNOR
GOVERNOR SPROUL'S SPEECH
at North Adams, Mass., Tues
day evening marks him not
only as a good Governor, but as a
great and courageous leader; a man
who pluces national welfare above
politics and who thinks straight and
hits hard.
The Governor is as staunch a Re
publican as there is in all America,
but he is big enough to acknowl
edge right and to support it where
ever he finds it. A lesser man might
have hesitated to say what he did
concerning President Wilson's ad
mirable stand in the soft coul situ
ation and he might very easily have
"pussyfooted" with respect to the
present labor disturbances. But he
spoke out fearlessly. There is cour
age, conviction and determination
in every line of what he said con
cerning his nonpartisan attitude in
the bituminous crisis:
I stood by the Democratic
President of the United Stales in
a national emergency and 1 am
standing by him now in another
cne which seems as threatening
as the menace across the seas a
year ago. 1 have telegraphed him
thut the government of Pennsyl
vania will co-operate with him in
any plan that he may have to
meet the emergency growing out
of the threatened" coal strike,
which will bring distress and de
struction, and death even, to in
nocent people throughout the
country.
And I am standing by the two
members of his cabinet, both
Pennsylvanians, too, who are
playing a big part in helping to
solve the troubles of the hour—
William B, Wilson, who was him
self a Pennsylvania coal miner
and a union leader, and who ii.
now the Secretary of Labor, and
A. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney
General, who was my roommate
in Swartlimore College.
It required a big, broad Republi
can, in these days of closely drawn
party lines, to speak like that.
Would that there were more Sprouls.
And what the Governor said in
his address about ninety-five per
cent, of the people of the United
States being true to the flag and
our democratic institutions is cor
rect. "Reds" and radicals in the
labor unions mean to upset them
if they can. They thrive on dis
order. They mold strikes to their
own uses. They care nothing for the
rights of labor. All they want is
revolution revolution that would
take over every bit of property in
the United States, the homes of
thrifty workmen included; steal the
farms, ruin the factories and bring
about just such another reign of
terror as is coming to an end in
Russia. All that the Governor said
in this respect is true, but it has
not been customary to hear public
men so outspoken as he. Too often
they have their eyes on political
preferment or advantage rather than
upon public welfare. The people
of Pennsylvania may .congratulate
themselves that in this time of stress
they have a man in the Governor's
chair able to see things as they are
without bias, to correctly analyze the
needs of the hour, and who has the
courage to speak and act as the oc
casion demands.
BY "SIDE-DOOll PULLMAN"
THE desperate straits in which
the Russian Bolshevists find
themselves is illustrated by
announcement that when his staff
was captured "Trotzky escaped by
hanging to a passing .freight train."
What a picture! The erstwhile
dictator of some hundreds of mil
lions of people saving his precious
skin by nimbly "hopping a freight"
and getting away from the scene of
his defeat by "side-door pullman."
Slowly, but surely, the Russian
people are coming into their own.
They have had enough of Trotzky
and their* ilk. Bolshevists have
made good none of their full- prom
ises. They have ruined the country,
starved the people, ravaged the
women and now they are at the end
of their string.
The duy is coming when there
will be no passing freight train to
save Trotzky.
By voting the Republican ticket this
Fall you not only help put good men
in office, but you give DeiJbcratlc
presidential hopes a body blow.
With feed of all kinds going down
in price, will somebody please explain
why eggs continue to go up?
If Milton and Wilkes-Barre can or
ganize housing corporations, why so
can Harrisburg.
"Which type for mayor?" Why a
I man of Alderman Hoverter's type, of
course.
politico Ck
fnOUiJ&KMua
By the Ex-Committecman
Democratic State ringmasters
have determined not to get tangled
up with the Democratic factional
war that has broken out in Cambria
county over the management of the
county machine and are commenc
ing to express some alarm lest the
tongs decide to begin hostilities in
Philadelphia, Allegheny, Luzerne
and other counties /where efforts
have been made to softpedal the
rival leaders. Reports of national
delegate seats and the honorary
places as alternates having been
exhibited and hinted as possible or
naments of the Christmas tree have
been going about the State, but if
indications are correct it will take
something more substantial than
such party blue ribbons to win
recalcitrants to quiet in the year
when the ringmasters want to have
a united delegation for A. Mitchell
Palmer for president.
The Cambria county situation is
one where jarring ambitions and
differences over party procedure
have given the great coal county
two Democratic county chairmen.
The Johnstown Democrat is thun
dering against men who oppose the
Bailey program and the Tribune is
having all kinds of fun with the
contending Democrats.
In Lackawanna county the Scran
ton Republican is having consider
able fun with Democratic efforts to
patch up troubles in advance of the
presidential year and is shooting
the Democratic county propaganda
full of holes.
—Republican campaign activities
have become marked in Lcbunon,
Cumberland, Y'ork, Schuylkill and
other counties in this section, while
the Republican organizations in the
Cumberland and Juniata Valley
counties are busy in efforts to make
their county and local tickets as
victorious as were their legislative
tickets in most of the districts last
year. The dent put into the Demo
cratic machine last fall when tlie
Republicans swept the 12th, 17th,
18th and 20th districts, where the
Democrats had been claiming some
footholds has not been forgotten
and the Republican chairmen are
busy as can be.
—Speaking of the Schuylkill
county Republican ticket the Potts
ville Republican says: "Never has
any party presented to the citizens
a ticket which could command
greater approval from all classes
than is the case with the Republi
can nominees this year. All arc
men thoroughly qualified for the
positions to which they aspire, men
who represent the best thought of
the county and who will be a credit
to the county us officials of It.
There is little doubt of their election
but it requires the active support of
those who endorse this ticket In
order that they shall be elected. On
the nonpartisan ticket there is no
opposition to Judge Wilhelm, who
will succeed himself as judge of the
orphans' court."
—Lebanon's Republicans have
gotten down to business, and are
holding a series ol' meeting in the
county, following up the big meet
ing held the other evening with
Luther Harpel chairmun. The
News says of the meeting: "That
the recent Republican primary elec
tion—one of the most hotly con
tested in the city and county in
many years—left no scars, and that
the partisans are now united for a
march in solid phalanx to the polls
for a solid victory on Tuesday next,
for the victorious nominees, was
indicated in a most unmistakable
manner, at the Court House, on
Monday evening."
—Charging that the certificate of
nomination of Rinaldo Capellini on
the Citizens ticket for commission
er of Plains township, Luzerne
county, from the first district was 4
not filed in time, Paul Cindaco, the
rival candidate who has the Repub
lican and Democratic nominations,
presented a petition to the court
yesterday asking that the nomina
tion petition be dismissed and that
the county commissioners be re
strained from printing Cupellini's
name on the ballot.
—Congressman J. Hampton
Moore, Republican Mayoralty can
didate in Philadelphia, has ex
pressed the opinion thut the omis
sion of the title from one of the
sections of the civil service article
of the new charter bill will not
change the purpose of the bill—
keeping policemen and firemen out
of politics.
—Chester City Republicans are
confident of a big majority next
week for city and county tickets.
"Uncle J.oe" Cannon will be a
speaker at Saturday's rally along
with the Governor and Attorney Gen
eral William I. Shaffer.
—Progress of the campaign in
Philadelphia is being told in an en
tertaining way by the newspapers.
The Evening Bulletin says that
Congressman Moore is urging his
friends to "put more pep" into the
work and the Public Ledger says
that Moore men fear some Vare
tricks. The Inquirer, on the other
hand, says that all factions and the
independents are for Moore and
that it is only a question of getting
out the vote. The Press remarks
that the campaign has been drag
ging and that Mr. Moore will have
to speed up his people. The Eve
ning Ledger in a first page sum-up
of the situation says: "Vote the
straight Republican ticket next
Tuesday, election day!" This will
be the fighting slogan of the Moore
United Republican campaign com
mittee from now until tlie polls
close Tuesday night. To this end,
Independents and Organization men
were called on yesterday by Con
gressman Moore, Republican nomi
nee for Mayor, and by Senator Vare
to support the full Republican
ticket. Both called for more ac
tivity and a big vote. Tomorrow it
is planned to send out the appeal
to Independent voters to support
the Republican ticket."
—ln Schuylkill and Carbon coun
ties it looks, from accounts printed,
as though the Republicans had
patched up their troubles and were
united. In Columbia the drive be
ing made by A. W. Duy and his
friends to put over A. H. Gennerla
for register and recorder is being
closely watched for it may break a
Democratic stronghold. Gennena
has been informed that he has been
dropped from the Postal Civil Ser
vice list because he entered the
fight. This move is attributed to
local Democratic bosses. Allen
town is having a battle royal over
mayor and councilmen, with good
chances for a Republican mayor.
Open claims are being made that
John K. Stouffer, Republican can
didate for mayor of Reading, will be
elected and newspapers are dis
counting the usual assertion that
the Socialists will get the city "if
they don't watch out." Republican
victories in Lancaster, Montgomery,
Northumberland and Chester where
some contests are on are made by
county newspapers, which refer to
some antics by Democrats, especial
ly old McCormick faction men who
do not know ; where to go. Phila
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delphia newspapers say that the
McClures #ro going to support the
regular Republican ticket in Ches
ter City and Delaware county.
—The Scranton Republican says
about the campaign for judge in
Lackawanna: "County Chairman
Zimmerman deserves to be congratu
lated for the frankness with which
he states the attitude of the county i
committee on the question of the
judgeship. Mr. Zimmerman is hon
est enough to go before the voters
of Lackawanna county and tell them '
the truth about the judgeship tight. ,
He says it is a recognized fact that 1
District Attorney George W. Maxey
is a Republican and that Judge
James J. O'Neill is a Democrat, so
that the endorsement of Mr. Maxey .
by the committee was only logical in
view of the situation'."
May Drop Mouriey Case
[From the San Francisco Bulletin.]
Indictments pending against
Thomas J. Mooney, Mrs. Rena
Mooney and Warren K. Billings in
connection with the Preparedness
Day bomb outrage will be stricken
from the calendar in Superior Judge
Ward's court unless the cases are
ready for trial by the district at
torney's office December 1.
This startling declaration, which
fell like a bombshell in District At
torney Fickert's political camp, was
made the other day by Judge Ward
in reply to a request for a further
continuance of the so-called "bomb
cases."
The ultimatum of the court swept
aside the plea of Alexander O'Grady,
assistant district attorney, that the
indictments. Which have been held
over the heads of the defendants for
the last two years, be continued for
60 days. Maxwell McNutt, appear
ing for the defendants, opposed the
motion on the ground that there was
nothing to indicate that the prose
cution ever intended to try the cases.
McNutt ended his argument by in
voking the 60-day rule.
"It is my Intention to hear all
cases pending in my department as
soon as possible," said Judge Ward.
"The cases of Mooney, his wife and
Billings are the same as any other
to me. There is no reason why they
should be kept on the calendar by
continuous postponements."
Judge Ward denied additional
postponement and instructed the
prosecution that the cases would be
dropped on December 1 if the dis
trict attorney did not bring them to
trial.
New Watch on the Rhine
From Andernach, Germany, to
| Little Rock, Ark., is a long leap, but
that is the jump made by The Watch
on the Rhine, an eight-page weekly
newspaper that the men of the
Third U. S. Division edited, printed
and supplied regularly to 30,000
readers during the six months
previous to the departure of the
division from Germany in August.
The publication, besides recording i
matters of interest regarding the
troops still with the Third Division, I
which is located near Little Rock at I
Camp Pike, aims specially to keep |
fresh the memories of the days with
the A. E. F. and to echo the spirit of
all those who have at any time been
members of the division.
The new office of The Watch on
the Rhine, which is in Room 306,
Board of Commerce Building, Little
Rock, was opened October 18, and
the first issue of the paper ut its new
location will appear November 1.
The paper will be published twice
each month at the yearly subscrip
tion rate of $1.50.
The Season of Crispy Things
This is the season of crispy Uiings,
Leaves and bacon and wind that
stings:
Doughnuts, pancakes, fried apples—
there
Is a wondrous blend in the frosty
air—
Sniff it,
Whiff it,
A "message" it brings:
"Whoopee! 'Tis the Season of Crispy
Things."
This is the season of rustle, too—
The leaves set the pace for me and
you;
The wind picks up and rustles along,
But never forgets to hum its song:
"Rustle,
Hustle,
It's up to you,
For this is the Season of Rustle, too."
—Lee Shippey.
Wickedness Burneth as a Fire
Wickedness burneth as a fire: it
shall devour the briers and thorns,
and shall kindle in the thickets of
the forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke.—lsuiuh
IX, A*.
Woman Candidate
Seeks Votes on Bowery
Oiic-Tlitnl of tlie Coses in New York Municipal Courts Involve Her
Sex, Miss Bertha Rcmbaugh Says in Appealing For Her Election
as Judge.
THE sightseers who take a bus
on Broadway and go down into
Chinatown and the Bowery
within the next few days will see
a curious sight. It will not be a
peculiar Chinese parade, dance or
new chop suey joint. It will be
right out on the street where a
I young woman—an American—is
making an appeal for votes. The
woman in the motor car gesticulat
ing freely will be Miss Bertha Rem
baugh. Republican candidate for
municipal court judge in the First
District of Manhattan.
The campaign started last week
without any hullabaloo of any sort.
Not even the town crier was there
to notify the neighbors that a poli
tical meeting was being held on the
corner. Miss Rembaugh pulled up
in her little runabout and in a calm
and judicial manner she opened
her campaign.
Appeals to the Women.
As she campaigns in Greenwich
Village, Washington Square, the
Bowery, Chinatown and Bowling
Green, she has one strong appeal.
It is to the women. She doesn't
go into the political side of the
various issues at all.
"A judge of the municipal court
has jurisdiction over controversies
about furniture on the installment
plan," Miss Rembaugh says. The
shawl covered women edge a little
closer. "These judges have jurisdic
tion over rent and 'dispossess'
cases. There is scarcely a woman
in New York City who can be sure
West Is East's Rival
[Mrs. A. Burnett-Smith, "As Others
See Her," Houghton Mifflin Co.]
If healthy rivalry is to be accepted
as a token of virility, ambition and
; progress, America is easily the most
virile, ambitious and progressive
country in the world. National
pride is indeed sometimes in danger
of being eclipsed by pride of state,
city or community. It is a very
fierce and jealous emotion which
brooks no question. Beyond doubt
it makes for efficiency.
The strongest and fiercest rivalry
' is that between East and West. The
. East, secure in her traditions, her
older culture, her established forms,
: has but a tolerant forbearance for
; the noisier, more hustling West, not
yet socially or. intellectually out of
her swaddling clothes. The West,
! on the other hand, has her own
. I strong contempt for the airs the
; I East gives herself.
The Middle West stands out like a
! clear cut cameo in my gallery of re
' | membrance. In a sense it interested
1 me perhaps more than any other
! part of the country. It is individual
and apart in a quite strong, con
-1 scious way, not loud mouthed or as
sertive, but simply fully aware of its
1 power and its destiny.
| From various remarks and criti
| cisms heard in the East I seemed to
, sense an uneasiness regarding the
growing prestige of the Middle
[ West. It is creating rapidly a
: standard of life which is going to
matter, and which will ultimately
influence the whole life of the Na
tion. One felt the pulse of material
power in the great, vivid, progress
ive cities and the steady growth of
,a finer standard in quieter places,
: even out to the foothills of the
Rockies.
Oh, Forget It, Oh, Forget It!
[From Kansas City Times]
I remember —I remember in the
good old days gone by,
When the frost was on the punkin,
it was time for punkin pie.
Some used rare spices, cinnamon
and cloves and nutmegs, too,
And made a thick cream custard
where eggs and butter flew.
And baked it in a crisp, "short"
crust to lovely golden brown.
Then piled it high with sweet
whipped ere
We can't go on with It, but Mrs.
, W. E. Ewing, of the Odessa Ledger,
wrote seven stanzas like that. If
there's any pie like that in the
world, we'd like to be shown.
Medal Awaits Inventor
[From the Arkansas Gazette]
t Another great life saving achieve
> ment would be the invention of a
i motor car that could butt a railroad
engine from the track.
that she will not quarrel with her
landlord over the rent question.
Sometimes women are called in to
testify on lease cases—anyway the
women are interested in these cases.
The four walls of the little space
she calls home are important to her.
Why should she not be glad to trust
the jurisdiction in such cases to a
woman judge?
Is a Bankruptcy Expert.
"Would it seem reasonable to have
a jury of women, however highly
educated, preside over courts in
which the cases were high finance
and international law? No. In the
same way the best men judges
might not be able to give to these
questions concerning the home the
same interest and comprehension
that a woman can give. Shouldn't
one of the twenty-six judges be a
woman?"
Miss Rembaugh is a hard work
er. But she will need every bit of
work she can put into the campaign
to swing the election in a district
that is commonly classed as Demo
cratic. Three candidates from each
party are in the race. The three
receiving the highest vote, regard
less of party, will be elected.
Women of all parties are supporting
Miss Rembaugh, as they feel that
there should be at least one woman
judge, since one-third of the muni
cipal court cases involve women.
By practicing law in New York
for fifteen years Miss Rembaugh
has become known in all the courts.
She is considered a bankruptcy ex
pert.
"Chadband" Found
One of the most interesting semi
literary hobbies is the search after
the origin of "Dickens names." It is
specially interesting, no doubt, be
cause nobody' can prove to demon
stration that his particular "solu
tion" is the correct one, and, as a
consequence, the long list of po
tential discoveries is seldom re
duced, much less exhausted. One of
the latest "strikes" is a possible
origin for the old favorite, "Chad
band."
A recent writer tells how, a few
years ago, in one of the small
hamlets between Sutton and Epsom,
there stood a small tailor's shop
bearing in large letters the name
"Chadband." And he goes on to
wonder whether Dickens, "going
down by road to Dorking noticed
the name, and kept it for future
use," for on that route he would
have passed the very door of the
shop.
The writer seems to think it high
ly likely; whilst, in proor that Dick
ens actually made the journey, was
it not in the town of Dorking that
there stood the Marquis of Granby?
And was it not the hostess of the
Marquis of Granby who ultimately
became Mrs. Weller?—Christian
Science Monitor.
The World's Smallest Violin
[From the Philadelphia Record]
Perfect in every detail, and so
small it will lie within a space cov
ered by two half crowns laid side by
side, London now boasts of having
the smallest fiddle in the world. It
was made by the well known violin
ist, B. Vandcrmeulen, and is ex
quisitely constructed as to scale.
The exact measurements are: Violin
body, 1 11-16 inches: violin, over
all, 2 5-8 inches; bow, 3 9-16 inches.
To Have and Not to Hold
[William W. Ellsworth, "A Golden
Age of Authors, Houghton-Mif
flin Co.]
An employe of the Century Com
pany was behind the counter one day
when a roughly dressed man entered
and asked if any stories were wanted.
The stranger had the appearance of
having just come off an emigrant
ship. Anything he cared to leave
would be handed to the editors, the
clerk told him. The man turned and
walked out; the Century Company
had lost Robert Louis Stevenson.
Way of the Substitute
[From the Albany Journal.]
The "substitute for the saloon"
seems to have gone the way of that
cheaper substitute for gasoline which
was announced u few years ago.
Out Along the Pike
The wife of an Atchison plumber
is in are uncomfortable predicament.
She has a mania for imitating movie
actresses, dressing like Mary Pick
ford, when Pickford films are
shown and like Bessie Barriscale
when Bessie is on the screen. And
now Annette Kellerman has been
billed for Atchison.
William Allen White: "The only
gen-uine movement in American
politics seems to come from those
blithe and irresponsible souls who
would let the March Hare run
against the Mad Hatter and turn
the platforms over to the Carpenter
and the Walrus."
The Baxter Citizen views with
alarm the shortage of school teach
ers for the reason it' will affect next
season's crop of book agents.
In spite of the world's advance
ment no one yet has been able to
achieve the success of the late Mr.
Homer as a local and long distande
liar, in the opinion of Harve Par
sons.
Lawrence housekeepers who or
dered groceries from the Govern
ment are beginning to rue their
bargains. They fear by the time
their orders are delivered retail
prices at home will be far below
what they paid the Government.
Thieves entered a church at
Smith Center last Sunday night
while the minister preached on
"The Sins of Omission" and stole
hats of several men in the congre
gation. The Wichita Eagle suggests
the pastor use "The Sins of Com
mission" for his text next Sunday.
Carl Brown wants to meet one of
those old-fashioned men who tried
to make friends by buying a case
of beer.
A Mankato youth went to the
county clerk to get a marriage
license, relates the Advocate.
"What's the lady's name?" asked
the clerk. "P just don't remember"
returned the prospective bride
groom, "just make it out 'to whom
it may concern.' "
Ambergris a Perffume
Ambergris, which forms a basis
for nearly all the best quality per
fumes and scents, is found in an un
attractive looking mass floating on
the sea or lodged upon the shore. It
is not known how such an unlikely
substance suggested Itself as a per
fume, but it has been in use for
centuries. Its origin, however, has
only been discovered comparatively
recently.
It is a morbid secretion of the
liver of a sick sperm whale, and
ashen colored and waxy in appear
ance. Although unpleasant to sight
and touch, it gives off a fragrant,
musky- odor when warmed, even in
its raw and unprepared state. In
this crude form it is subjected to
chemical action to extract the active
principle, called amberine, from
which the perfume is actually de
rived.
This peculiar substance is also
used as a remedy for catarrh and
nervous diseases, and is very valu
able, the largest piece on record,
weighing 130 pounds, being sold for
$2,600.—Detroit News.
Army Blanket Top Coat Now
If it is necessary to go back to
the Indian custom of blanket wear
ing to beat the tailor's bills the
American man is going to wear
blankets. In the East many are
wearing blankets now. Prevailing
colors in blankets are blue and
khaki, because those are the colors
Uncle Sam used in army blankets.
The style is a la overcoat.
One thrifty Brooklyn woman
started the idea when she paid $6
for an army blanket and converted
it injo an overcoat for her husband.
She had enough material left for
a jacket for her little girl.
Quartermaster officers say the
fame of the blanket overcoat Is
spreading. They urge the tailors to
get into the new idea by advising the
purchase of these blankets for coats.
The blankets have wide stripes at
either end, but a way has been de
vised to work these stripes into the
pattern. Possibly the overcoat and
the stripe will set a Fifth Avenue
fashion before the winter is over.
The Gift of God
Every man should eat and drink,
and "enjoy the good of all his labor,
it is the gift of God.—Ecclesiastes,
lii, IS.
luwttng ffiljat
Whether Its because of the ap
proach of the end of October when
festiveness often takes a mischiev
ous turn and steps and Kates have
been known to walk away, the fact
remains that electric light globes
nave been leading a precarious ex
istence around Harrisburg and if
the plans of some men employed by
the company owning them mater
ialize there will be some summary
'il! 5118 ' n aldermanic courts. The
globes are great round affairs and
afford a tempting target to many a
,Y: ... w hile people connected
with public utilities are accustom
ed to certain percentages of loss
due to juvenile behaviour the num
ber of broken lamps is becoming a
nuisance. There are two or three
sections in Harrisburg where the
globes have a hard time resisting
sling shot projectiles, stones and
other things and a few intersections
have become so menaced by the ar
tillery practice of boys that they are
being watched. In the First Ward
there have been lamps at some cor
ners broken half a dozen times in
a summer and in the Tenth Ward,
especially between the Susquehanna
and the "Ridge" the life of a globe
is brief, troubled and catastrophic
The hill has one section where
globes are broken as often as the
commandments arid another section
where well administered punish
ment has caused the globes to be
as respected as an unchained bull
dog. Now that "tic-tac" is at hand
the globes are regretting that they
are not made with armor and the
men in charge of maintenance are
wishing for winter winds when boys
have to stay indoors.
Potato growers in Pennsylvania
are overlooking real money and in
dulging in practices that are "un
economic and unnecessary" accord
ing to Guy C. Smith, the new chief
of the State Bureau of Markets, who
has been visiting the Berks-Scliuyl
kill-Lehigh-Luzcrne potato field.
"It is our job to put the growers
into closer touch with the markets
and to get more of our own pota
toes sold here instead of shipping
them out and then importing,"
says he. Pennsylvania's crop of po
tatoes this year is turning out bet
ter than expected and will be
money in the pockets o{ the grow
ers if they study their markets ahd
do not sell haphazard. Mr. Smith
says that indications are favorable
to a crop of something close to 25,-
000,000 bushels, which will top that
of last year which he estimates
brought in something like $37,000,-
000 and he went to the fields where
the greater part is grown and
studied local conditions, selling
methods, shipping points and the
markets. He thinks that they need
a change. Mr. Smith made his trip
accompanied by J. C. Gilbert, who
will work out the marketing report
service and he will have the assist
ance of P. R. Taylor, former man
ager of the Farmers' Produce Ex
change at Providence, R. 1., a son
of Dr. William Taylor, of the United
States Bureau of Plant Industry.
Mr. Taylor is an expert on Pennsyl
vania conditions as he has made
studies here for California and
other fruit and vegetable growers,
organizations. The idea will be to
establish a marketing report ser
vice centering here and reaching
the producing regions as quick as
mails and wires can do it.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulle
tin in printing some interesting
anecdotes relative to the visit of the
royal Belgians to Pennsylvania, re
marks upon the fact that many
folks through whose State the party
travelled got the idea that the king
was only interested in steel mills
and the queen in hospitals. This
is where Harrisburg comes in and
the Bulletin says that "State offi
cials were surprised when they
learned that the program did not
include a visit to the Capitol. When
the Governor's secretary protested
he was asked: "Do you want the
King to see what you want to show
him or do you want him to see
what he wants to see?" "I'll find
out," was the secretary's prompt
rejoinder, and, going to the' King he
inquired if he did not desire to visit
the Capitol rather than the pipe
bending works that was on the pro
gram. "I would not think of visit
ing the Capitol without making an
official call on the Governor," was
Albert's reply. That the Stata offi
cials and the King had decided
wisely was shown by the interest
the royal visitors took in Harris
burg's magnificent building. "It is
the finest public building I f have
ever visited," was the King's com
ment after having seen the grand
staircase and having been led
through the halls of the House and
Senate to the Governor's office. One
of the objects, too, that caught the
Queen's attention was Viol6t Oak
lay's mural decorations in the
House of Representatives, a room
she was loath to leave, so enraptur
ed was she with its architectural
and artistic adornment. But if
precedent hadn't been broken the
King might have had to. be content
ed with judging Harrisburg by its
machine shops."
• * *
Men who had not seen each other
since the Keystone Division dis
banded, got together in the House
caucus room at the Capitol yester
day for discussion of the new Na
tional Guard. It was one of the
most notable gatherings of experi
enced military men held in the
State in a long time. Virtually
every fighting unit of the Keystone
Division was represented and the
men of the Lorraine Cross and
Blue Ridge Divisions will be invit
ed to join with them as well as men
in the regular army and the men
of the Reserve Militia.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j
—J. D. Callery, prominent in
street railway affairs in Pittsburgh,
had charge of work for the Catholic
fund drive in that city.
—General W. G. Price says that
the new Keystone troops are going
to be among the first Guardsmen
organized.
—Col. M. L. Case, nominee for
mayor of Lebanon, is directing his
own campaign.
—John K. Stauffer, who may be
the next mayor of Reading, used to
be a Washington newspaperman.
—George W. Kirchway, New
York prison authority, may take
part in the Eastern Penitentiary
probe.
—Congressman J. Hampton Moore
is arranging the program for the
Atlantic Waterways convention next
month and plans to attend soon
after he is elected mayor of Phila
delphia.
I tO YOU KMOV j
—That Harrisburg used to
build churches by lotteries?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
j —Third and Chestnut Streets has
been a church property ever since
harrisburg started.