Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
EVENING Chat

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Just now so many men arc talking
and so many newspapers printing pol
ltlcs and referring i'm such general
terms to Nariou5 matters connected
with the prelinnaries to primary
election that the average citizen is
confused and some of the ladies who
are interested in suffrage are wonder
ing If they will have to keep all of
such things in their heads. For the
benefit o. those Who are asking ques-
tons it may be stated that enrolment
means for Steelton and I.ykens bor-
oughs and Swatara and Upper Paxton
townships almost what registration
means to the people of Harrisburg.
only they go about it in a different
way. The law requires as a precedent
TO voting at primary tflat a man be
listed under the name of the party TO
which he is affiliated or. If he de-
clines to acknowledge fealty to any
party, he must admit it. The man
who does not register under party
name can not vote any party ticket at
primary, All he can do is to vote
the nonpartisan ballot. The enrolment
in the boroughs and townships is end
ed and the registration was closed on
the evening of Wednesday in the first
and second class cities. The voters of
the third class cities, of which Harris
burg is one. must register for the pri-
mary on August 20 provided that they
did not register last Fall. All this is
preliminary to the primary. When
that is held on May 10 the voters have
to go through new registration. The
dwellers in boroughs and townships
VIII have to get their names listed by
| the assessors of their districts and the
! Jewellers in the cities will have to APP
pear personally on any one of three
days in the Fall. which are designated
| by law. In order to safeguard the
ballot the regulations have come peril
ously close to red tape.
a German band was 'spieling" away
the other evening on a corner and the
| air IL was trying to play attracted
much attention from passersby. Two
men stopped and after listening awhile
one, who claimed Irish parentage, re-
marked: THAT sounds to me like one
of the old German melodies"
| Guess. You can't guess what it is ,"
replied his companion.
Give it up. What is it?'
Pennsylvania, Home of Peace-the
new State song" answered his friend.
Not SO sure of that. Ask the
leader"
The leader of the band was ap-
| preached as soon as he could finish
his cornet work and was asked:
What was the name of that piece?
We've got bet on it,"
"Oh, youse haf a bet gehabt. Veil,
| it's Killarney.
Only he never pronounced killar-
ney. He only meant it.
People riding along Derry street are
naturally much interested in the new
dwellings which are being erected
along that thoroughfare and yesterday
one man boasted the cheapest house
for the money in the city. He was
asked how that was possible. Pretty
soon the car passed the house and sure
enough there was For Sale sign
in full view. And right beside it was
$1,000
Now the question is: Is the owner
advertising the rent for the new
dwelling or is he off on his use of the
decimal.
Captain John II. Wiltbank, the Phil
adelphia legislator. who was here yes
terday to file his papers, was the Off
cial funmaker of the last House. The
captain was always on the job when
there was any fun to be had and once
in a while got off something real good.
and ''old salt" of the House as he is
la former sailor having spent most of
! his seventy-four years at sea. Incl
dentally Cap" as he was affectionately
known, wrote biographical sketch of
himself which was Just forty words
long. He put it in Smulrs and said
| it was the longest any man ought to
writ.
Speaking Of biographies it might be
stated that the record for biographi-
cal sketch in Smull's. which some
times has to answer for great deal,
is that of Ralph l.. Robinson, who
sat in the last House. He beats even
| Highway Commissioner BigeloW, who
| INDUCED in about forty-five words. Mr..
Robinson's sketch simply reads that
Ralph l.. Robinson, Mercer county,
was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives III November. 1912" He
said to one that he might have left out
the words county and "of repre-
sehtatives,' but he was too busy at
the time he wrote about 1t to think of
curtailment.
| Michael j. Ryan, who is to speak
here tonight at political meeting,
| has addressed Democratic meetings in
this city in years gone by, his last ap-
pearance being in 1904 when he came
to Harrisburg and at a meeting in the
Board of Trade delivered one of the
most scathing denunciations of the
Republican organizations ever heard
in this city.
| DR.. ]. T. Rothrock, the former for
estry commissioner who is to be hon
ored at luncheon to be rendered to
him here next month, devoted years
to the study of the trees of Pennsyl-
vania and while professor of botany
| in the University of Pennsylvania so
persistently urged the popular atten-
ton toward trees that when the State
sat up and took notice he was placed
| in charge of the forestry department.
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