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order and ruffianism. What does this
mean? II means that instead Of sitting
at a table for hours at a time ordering
bottle after bottle OF more or less health
full beverage. men and women had spent
the major part Of the night dancing,
the dance being an outlet for the amiable
mischievOus spirit Of the season and
drinking only between dances.
The dance constituted the main source
Of cheer the drinks were only refresh
ments. Instead of low. sullen cheer de-
rived from the continuous imbibing Of
alcohol all the reelers gave themselves
up to the exhilara:ion Of graceful mo-
ton.
BESIDES, the orders. dancers will give
the waiter are likely to differ greatly
from those given by mere drinkers.
Strong alcoholic drinks have no appeal
for the couples who have been tripping
merrily to the tune of tango. They
seek light refreshing drinks containing
very little alcohol or none at all.
A third factor also comes into play.
Some indiscreet youth may be tempted
to overdrink. secure in the belief that
his condition will not become apparent
or will no longer be obvious by the
time the party breaks up. A dancer
with unsteady feet and dizzy feeling
| In his head would soon feel himself out
| Of place on the floor Of a ballroom.
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Knee exercise in the tango develops
muscles Of the abdomen
and thighs.

with ramfying dangers to all kinds of
constitutions that INDUCED in II. Presi-
dent Taylor died from eating cherries
and drinking milk.
Henry Clay as "a Kentucky prod
uct naturally cultivated the best
Kentucky products. President Blu
chanan distilled the finest whskey in
Pennsylvania. Lincoln was a teetotaler.
but expressed regret that he could not
supply all his Generals with the brand
of whiskey Gen. Grant favored. Andrew
Johnson believed in voluminous drinks
from rapid fire magazines. Samuel T.
Tilden fiirted now and then with very
old and delicious sherry. President
Hayes never dallied with alcohol in a
glass, but showed marked Partially for
Roman punch taken by "A spoon. the lat.
ter establishing the distinction.
President Arthur was the greatest bon
vivant the White House ever sheltered.
Gen. Harrison was Conscicntiously alb
stemious. President Cleveland shone at
his best with those in whom he re-
posed confidence. The water cart con-
stantly appeared in the White Lots dur
ing his regime. As for the versatile r.
r.. the courts have granted him the
White Robe. The glasses have all been
broken. No water cart ever could have
survived one of his strenuous eXpedi-
tons.
a wave of JOY and hilarity rolled over
Manhattan Island after the English
evacuated New York in 1888. Here IL
the bill, for a little dinner of celebration
given at John Cape's tavern at BROAD
way and Cedar street by Gov. George
Clinton and the City Council. The chief
guests were the Minister Of France and
Gen. Washington.
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had conveniently carried the bibulous
jurist for four months OF imperative
good behavior before his election when
sobriety was absolutely essential to sue
cess,
Shades of the soporific regents punch.
of the benignant and seductive gin fizz,
the soul inspiring rum sour. the appe-
tizing and aromatic sherry.
No more would fall upon the expect
ant eager ear the inspiring words:
Name your poison" "Whatll it be-"
Have little beverage? Let's take a
wee nippee," No more would the hui
man system. Frustrated to the point of
de lection by overwork or IA hard night,
looking upon the world as dreary and
chccrless waste, spring upward with re-
newed life and joy responsive to the
welcome straight" the potent highball
the melliiuous cocktail and the tran
quillizing cordial.
The selection Of the kind OF water
wagon was difficult. For instance. the
"Moonscraper" suggested fatal results In
the falling: the "Solace" was swung low
to allow the heels of the rider to touch
the pavement; the "Flyboat." or Tip
up was $, constructed as to permit the
occupant to hop or and into L refresh
orium and resume his placS without
discovery. The favorite. however,
seemed to be the "Brotherly Love"-the
short term cart, whose platform was
polished like glass and operated on a
pivot BY this method the mariner UNI
certain Of his bearings could side off in
any direction at any hour Of the day
and night. Some OF the carts bore
clamps of rubber. others Of leather,
many OF metal for the more irresolute
and Obdurate
The selection of the water cart Is
not at all synonymous with pleasure.
Complications invariably follow. espe-
clally to the whilom cOngenial victim.
The question, Now. what can or what
shall ] drink" opens several bypaths
Of cOmpleXity. In this particular every
man Is reduced to he his own chemist
1t Is always so easy to say, "a little
whiskey," repeat it," "the same" "the
same" "the same" the same" and 81
on. But no temperance beverage evel
stood this immutable test with the vic
tim living through it, Convivlality
scampers through the back door under II
or sneaks behind the back door ant
abandons It.
As the bicycle makes the sharI
grades Of road more labOriOus to the
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wheelman than to the pedestrian. so !
does the water cart set forth the high |
grades of life more temptingly and in
sidiously to it's victim than to the
tippler. The average individual never
discovers what vicious and uncon-
sC!onable enemy to society is the friend
he has not seen in long time until
he has ridden the water cart for q week
or so and overcome its most painful
and most dangerous characteristics. He
never can understand until he has gone
through this ordeal what II means To
be philosopher. student, an econo-
mist and moralist CrystalliZed under
one Derby. For the first time in his
life he learns in his compulsory efforts
to acquire the temperance diet the
trouble involved i'm the ordering. the eX-
pense, in the disposition and the fric-
ton engendered in the settling of the
bill. 1t is not strange that there are
times when, harassed, indignant and
discouraged. the evil one seems all
ready to drive him In sheer desperation
to drink
Medical men advise him that one pop
ular temperance beverage will in course
of time enable him to open up a nail
factory, his liver supplying the material
that another will permit him to dis
pose OF his stomach as walrus hide, that
soda water will produce marble monu-
ments on his kidneys IL taken to eX.
cess. and that in certain islands OF the
Pacific the natives have abandoned the
needle for tattooing in favor OF pine
apple juice, which accomplishes the
same results when taken as bever-
| age.
And there is that beverage the Sec
rotary of State punch" Even the con-
cOctor Of temperance drinks Is lacking
in neither the enterprislng nor the nee
essary instinct. One case well placed
produced an advertisement that toured
the world free Of charge, made every
one connected with it famous and set
new standards for statesmen.
Washington loved his toddy, John
Adams drank punch, but cared more for
cider; Jefferson preferred light wines,
delegates to the first continental Con-
gress wallowed I'm convivial entertain
ments In New York on their way to
Philadelphia before the Declaration OF
Independence was adopted. Burgundy
and Madeira were the favorite wines,
though punch was the common tipple.
The old time statesmen drank their
toddy like American gentlemen and es-
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On the Water Wagon
By HUGH HASTINGS.
>ACE to face with the water cart!
A novel sensation. but there
was no help for II. The doctor

had ordered 1t. Prejudice against
II. repugnance to It and contempt for It
disappeared like the cherry at the bot
tom OF a cocktail glass under his kindly
observation, ut Is best for YOU"
He knew his business. He had pre-
scrbed a high powered milk punch be-
fore breakfast and bedtime after the
first attack OF an illness that left his
patient with a bowling acquaintance
with collapse, and he deplOred reducing
the distance between the Governor Of
North Carolina and the Governor Of
South Carolina by the consequent in
crease Of the number OF his daily pre-
scriptions.
And so It happened after the violent
relapse which whirled the patient close
to the gates OF eternity. the popular
family vehicle, the water cart, was
brought around. 1t had been in use In
various styles, big and little, strong and
weak. old and new. None OF them
seemed attractive to the patient. One
gayly decorated had sustained BRIDE
groom ELECT for the six critical months
preceding his wedding, another dilapi-
dated and rackety had borne a con-
firmed bachelor for over thirty years
before and one year after marriage with
an uncongenial spinster; still another
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chewed the water cart. Many Of them
were three bottle men and thought moth
ing OF 1t. Webster slowed away a bot
tie and a half OF brandy with as little
concern as an elephant consumes a gal
lon Of water. Ice water drinking was re-
garded as a perniciOus habit fraught
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Roosevelt. James Duane, Egbert Ben
son and Fred Jay.
To-day Bryan punch commands
Washington. 1t has been well adver-
tised. And the price OF the Bryan punch
in some OF the social clubs has advanced
SO per cent. in price.
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The committee of the city council
which audited it was composed of Isaac
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
1WeEEKhoWn1pe0pIe7l

Senator John o. hSeatz, of Phila-
delphia, is making a series of ad-
dresses in the western end of the
State on mothers pension.
William H. Wylie, Jr., prominent
Carnegie councilman. will be a candi-
date for the legislature
Caleb Powers. the Kentucky con-
gresham, is speaking in Pittsburgh
on his experiences.
IS. P. Ker. Sharon steel manufac-
turer. says the steel corporation, big
as 1t is, cannot put the independents
out of business.
George P. Steel, we'll known in
the steel trade, is the head of the new
Darlington Steel Casting Company.
Patrick Gilday,th Central Penn
sylvania miners leader. is seriously
i'll with stomach trouble.
&C. H. Mosser is organizing the
Altoona Chamber of Commerce into
bureaus with number of prominent
men in charge of them.
&C. w. Bowden is the new presi.
dent of the Philadelphia Traffic Club.
Ex-Governor Pennypacker takes
exception to some of Franklin's writ.
ings in recently delivered address.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
ROYALS RECORD

"HOSE critics of the Republican
members of the City Council
l. who are striving to make a
martyr of Mayor John K. Royal
are manifestly proceeding on the
theory that a majority of the people
are so indifferent to what goes on in
any city that they have overlooked
the partisan record of the present
holdover Mayor. His weekly exhi-
bition of Virtuous indignation over the
dismissal of some of his police force
wit: deceive only those who have
given no attention to the partisanship
of the recent city administration.
However, without regard to the mo-
tive that is back of the reorganization
of the several departments, the men,
bers of Council must not forget that
their first duty is to the city and real
efficiency must control in all appoint
ments. 1t matters little whether the
individual be a Democrat or Repub-
lican or member of some other party
so long as his service is what ought
TO De expected III d CITY ike f1aTrlS-
burg.
Politics is bound to play some part
in any form of government and we
assume that Harrisburg will be no
exception, but in the playing of the
political game, whether by one side or
the other, the interests of the city
must be given first consideration and
all appointees should be selected on
the score of fitness. There are many
important things demanding the i'm
mediate attention of the new city
rulers, and it is to be hoped the mere
reorganization of the departments will
not interfere with the greater work
which will require the close attention
of the several heads of departments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
SUNDAY AND HIS METHODS

~ NE may frown on the efforts of
William A. Sunday, the whirl-
~ wind evangelist, for one or for
many reasons. He may jar our
tender sensibilities. His rough-and-
ready methods may not comport with
our ideas of religious service. Or we
may profess to believe that he is not
sincere. But we cannot honestly shut
our eyes to the vast good that he is
doing wherever he goes
The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph, in commenting on Sundays
campaign in that city, says that Pitts
burgh is experiencing the greatest
moral awakening that it has ever
known and the influence producing
this cannot be regarded as otherwise
than providential."
Those who are opposing Sunday
might do well to let him go his cv-
clonic way and turn their own atten-
tion to the uplift of the community
instead of the villification of a CO.
worker for the spread of the GOSPEL.
They are all working toward one end.
so why cavil over methods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
by Wing Dinger.

The office was quiet, the force was at
lunch,
Save one clerk who had been loft be-
hind
To keep tabs on the cash drawer, and
answer the phones.
And perform other duties assigned.
But business was quiet, the phones
didn't ring
And the steam made the office quite
hot,
When the clerk asked himself, "Why
don't you take nap?"
And then answered, "By jove, a good
thought"
AS the hands on the clock dial travers-
ed on their way,
The clerk slowly nodded his head,
And at one thirty sharp he was sleeping
the sleep
OF the just; you'd have thought he
was dead.
Just five minutes later the three-legged
stool
On which he was sitting gave way
With a horrible thud he fell down to
the floor
And awakened In awful dismay.
Then he quick grabbed his pencil and
started to write
A story, the scoop of the day.
Bout an earthquake, the shocks of
which clearly were felt
AS they passed through the burg at
midday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
REAL OBSTACLE TO MARRIAGE

VIE st. Paul Dispatch sees, in the
wholesale plunge into matri-
mony of the employees of Henry
Ford, the automobile manufac-
turer, following the announcement
that he would share 100000 with
them and raise their wages, an answer
to the question why such a percentage
of people nowadays refuse to marry.
''They are not marrying because
they cannot afford it, says the Dis
patch, which points out that they
have counted the cost in dollars and
cents and the reckoning appals them.
The writer admits that this is only
one factor in the problem, but he es-
Inmates 1t as the most potent of all.
The young man does not marry be-
cause he cannot afford tc, is the con-
clusion.
In this he is wrong. Young men
and young women are receiving
higher wages to-day than ever before.
1t is true that prices are high, but
there Is not one young man out of
hundred who could not marry and
provide a better home than that to
which his father took his mother, and
have more money at the end of each
month with which to support it. May
be you will smile at this, but pause
a moment for backward look over
the years before you pass judgment.
The decrease in the number of mar
"a -
!. thereof-is not due to low wages or
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11

n"HE study of eugenics is the
study of race improvement"
L declared DR.. McCuaig in his
address to the women of
Harrisburg, in Zion Lutheran Church
yesterday.
In defining the practical import of
this study to the women before him he
asserted it involved how to touch the
lives of the children of to-day that
they might grow up to be better
fathers and mothers than their par
ents had been; they in turn to bring
up better children from the start and
so a progressive betterment."
From the hazy conception that
turks in the mind of the average man
that eugenics has primarily to do with
feeble -mindedness and insanity and
loathsome disease, it is refreshing to
come to the clean, sweet practical
issue of dealing with these conditions
by touching Alright the unfolding life
of the child.
That the child is the seed-force of
society; that the great force welling
up in him is love possibility and
that the life of the child may be so
trained to the full expression of love
through every avenue of mind and
body that when he is old he will not
be untrue to that training seems to
lead back to true foundation.
That by right training the functions
of procreation may be brought into
subsection to the will and affection
seems to simplify a problem that amid
the chaos of spiritual and physical
overthrow looked almost hopeless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Palmer makes a bid for Pro-
gressive friendship in saying he does
not regard the charges against Pin
chot as squatter to be very serious.
York Democrats are split over
the rival candidates for the guberna-
torial nomination. Both may be in
vited to the Jefferson dinner.
H. B. Dandon and H. E. Chase
are out for the Legislature in Bradford
county on the Washington ticket.
-Prohibitionists evidently intend to
stay in the middle of the road.
Just suppos1ng the Democrats
had managed to control Council, how
long would Mayor Royal have delayed
the ripping of Republican office
holders?
The new doctrine of Jersey inter-
ference in Pennsylvania Democratic
affairs does not seem to go as well as
was hoped.
And they may even put II. d.
Westcott, a Jerseyman, into that new
Federal judgeship for Eastern Penn
sylvania.
In days gone by New Jersey used
to march behind Pennsylvania. I'm
der the New Freedom it bosses Penn
sylvania Democratic politics.
Maybe the new regional bank for
this district will be put in Camden.
voted against the commission form of
government yesterday.
And now they are talking of run
ming Theodore Roosevelt for Governor
of New York as a means of uniting
the party.
Democrats seem inclined to local
option. Western Pennsylvania Re-
publicans are demanding u prohibit
tion amendment.
Representative C. A. Shaffer, of
Columbia, will be candidate for re-
election.
Bailey's thoughts on John Matt's can
didacy for the Senate would be inter-
esting.
Robert S. Bright seems to be on
the Democratic slate again.
Congressman Ainey Is to speak
tomorrow at Williamsport and his
boom will be exhibited.
w. H. Hart will be legislative
candidate in Hazleton.
The Progressive Republican name
was added to the list of those pre-
empted yesterday for Philadelphia.
Senator Penrose speaks at AL
toona tonight and at Bethlehem to-
morrow.
While the Democratic bosses met
in Philadelphia yesterday to make a
slate, 10000 unemployed walked the
streets. The figures are from the
Public Ledger.
Collector Berry's praise of Clyde
Kelly has a jarring note in these days
of alleged harmony in the reorganiza-
ton camp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
HORRORS!

A FTER the tight-skirt, what? has
n been question that has given
1 \ even the most sedate of mankind
cause for thought. And now,
behold, the answer is at hand, and it
has possibilities sufficient to hold the
attention of most anybody for a shud-
derful moment or two.
From a gathering of fashion experts
at Chicago comes the decree that "the
hustle is again to be worn this sea-
son. of a size to be graded by indi-
vidual taste" Right on the heels OF
this interesting bit of news comes an
other to the effect that ''the tight skirt
is TO remain for another season.
Is your imagination equal to the
task of conjuring up a pretty gir
garbed in an eel-skirt draped artist.
cally over one of those wire bird
cages that used to masquerade under
the name of hustle?
Don't say they won't do it, A
woman would take 'em off altogether
if fashion so decreed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
WEDNESDAY EVENING

high cost of living, but to a desire to
start in where father left off; to an
unwillingness to pay the price; to a
selfish disinclination to sacrifice per-
sonal comforts and little luxuries for
the joys and responsibilities of mar
ried life. Let us not fool ourselves
into pity for these self-centered young
folks. What they need is a readjust-
ment of their views on life; glimpse
through the spectacles of their sturdy
fathers and mothers-one not obtain
able, by the way, through the medium
of the monacle or the lorgnette.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. II
Z DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION

4 LREADY the armies of the un-
~ employed in New York and
4 \ other great cities are appealing
to the authorities for relief
for work, not charity. Writing to the
New York Tribune. a correspondent
calls attention to the message of Presi-
dent Buchanan regarding the distress
full conditions which followed the
free-trade legislation of 1916 and 1857,
in which he said:
With unsurpassed plenty in all
the productions and all the ele-
ments of natural wealth, our manu-
facturerS have suspended, our pub
lie works are retarded, our private
enterprises of different kinds are
abandoned and thousands of useful
laborers are thrown out of employ
ment and reduced to want.
Democratic tariff tinkering has al
ready unsettled business and the
conditions described by President
Buchanan Ga Democrat) are manifest
ing themselves in ways which cannot
be misunderstood in these opening
weeks of 1914.
In these days of political hysteria
it is not popular thing to dwell upon
the effects of radical legislation nor is
public approval likely to follow calam-
fty bowling for political purposes, but
the facts are self-evident, and the
opening of American markets to the
cheap-labor products of Europe is GER
tain to bring about conditions which
will need no publicity to establish
their existence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11

fic becomes a part of the law of the
nation by statute or by constitutional
amendment. political party commit
ted to prohibition is absolutely neces-
sary for its effective enactment and
enforcement.
The Dauphin county Washington
party men have started the educa-
tional end of their campaign and to-
morrow night will have lecture on
Better Citizenship" at the headquar-
ters in Market street Later in the
month a smoker will be given. Wal
ter L. VanAman is the chairman of
the social committee in charge.
Justice Mestrezat was at Washing
ton yesterday and had a talk with
President Wilson on Pennsylvania pol
itics, and it is said in the capital that
an enthusiastically is being dangled
In front of him. Friends of the JUS
uce are mad clean through at the
way his name was used by the State
bosses and how he was dumped with
out word of explanation, and efforts
are being made to placate them. The
Justice is also said to be miffed, and
the fact that he has not come out for
the ticket of the reorganization crowd
is much commented upon. The man
ner in which Bruce Sterling Is nailed
to the reorganization slate for Con-
gress-at-large indicates that Sterling
is from Fayette.
The names of General c. M. Glenn
ent, of Sunbury, and DR.. Martin G.
of Philadelphia, have
peen put to the front for the Repub-
Hcan nomination for Governor pretty
strongly in the last forty-eight hours.
Ex-Governor Stuart has as yet de-
clined to make any statement whether
he will run or not.
Revenue Collector William H.
Berry is quoted in Philadelphia in
high praise of Congressman M. Clyde
Kelly and some people are wondering
why this Democratic officeholder is
doing so. Some think that he is rank
ling over his failure to be picked for
Governor by the reorganization bosses,
and others divine sceheme of the re-
organizers to aid Kelly against Lewis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-11
TO JACKSON'S CREDIT
philadelphia Bulletin)

II buII6IIn1
Set down one more mark to the
credit of the new State Department
of Labor and Industry for it's good
offices in bringing about the settle
ment of the local hosiery mill strike
through arbitration. 1t only goes to
show that the board of mediation is
valuable even though it has no power
to enforce its services on employers
and their employees.