Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-24
EVENING Chat

Wilkes-Barre's effort to have the
Superior Court sit in the anthracite
city calls to mind something about the
appellate courts of Pennsylvania or
which the average person seldom
thinks and which when you think
about 1t is circuit travelling with a
vengeance. Although the State has
provided remarkably beautiful cham
ber and a handsome suite of offices at
the Capitol for the Supreme and Su-
perior Courts, they meet in the capital
city of the State, where every other
branch of the government has its
headquarters, just once a year, and If
by reason of the list their stay is three
days yet 1t is apparently with a sense
of irksomeness that they remain that
long. Certainly the justices and the
judges leave within few hours after
the sitting adJourns. The Supreme
Court has one sitting a year in the
Capitol, three times in Pittsburgh and
twenty times in Philadelphia, each
Monday when a session is held count
ing as sitting. The Superior Court
mas one sitting here, one sitting at
Scranton, one at Williamsport, five in
Pittsburgh and eight in Philadelphia.
Why Erie and Johnstown are not
given sittings is not plain. The court
has very little time in the cities out
side of Philadelphia and the means of
communication in the State are SO
easy that ii seems strange that SO
much time should be spent in Phila-
delphia when the Pardon Board. the
Public Service Commission, the Water
Supply Commission, the Forestry Com
mission, the Sinking Fund Commits
sion, the Game Commission, the Fish
commission and other State bodies
have their meetings and their hearings
here month after month. The Su-
preme Court chamber is actually used
by the Board of .Pardons just about
three times as much as by the high
court for which it was created and
the Public Service Commission gets
more use out of it than the two ap-
pellate courts and the Pardon Board
together. The chamber is a beautiful
room and the offices beside it. which
are held for the exclusive use of the
Justices and judges meeting here once
year, might be employed in housing
some OF the departments which have
to go out of the building for quarters.
Game Warden Joe Berrier is in
clined to be little lenient with per-
sons who are sore on the proclamation
of President Wilson which forbids wild
duck shooting even if the Pennsylva-
MIA State law does allow it, The people
around here have hard time to as
certain why Congress should put the
wild duck into the same interstate
classification as Pennsylvania Rail-
road through freight via Morrisville
and give the proclamation issued
hereunder more power than a State
law. Joe is a Federal as we'll as a
State game warden and lately in meet
ing men VINO are supposed to have
been thinking about going for ducks
he forgets he is working for Uncle Sam
and acts for Father Penn and gives
warning. Many people do not know
OF the regulation and many are re-
sentful of 1t.
DR.. Ellis PaXson Oberholtzer writ
ing about Martin G.. Brumbaugh in the
Philadelphia Ledger, says that the
educators father made his first trip
to Philadelphia after a visit to this
city. 1t appears that DR.. Brumbaugh
was scheduled to preach at the great
conference of the Brethren held here
in 1901 and his father came on from
Huntington county to hear him. The
old gentleman considered Philadelphia
too far away to visit and would not
consent to make the trip. Finally to
talk to his busy son he went on a train,
manning to leave at Lancaster and to
return. The train did not stop at
was carried into Philadelphia. But he
only stayed that night. and with re-
luctahce. He did not like the city and
left at $50 a. m.. after, however, at
tending the markets.
At yesterdays session of sentence
court pretty Penbrook wife who had
been convicted of assault and battery
upon her husband was arraigned for
sentence. Among other things she
was charged with having beaten her
husband over the head with a clock.
Tn arerirg for leniencv her counsel
w. j. Carter. endeavored to make light
of her offense.
After all, your Honor" pleaded the
lawyer. there wasn't much to it, It
was merely little trouble over a clock
and she got the clock"
"Um-m." n1used President Judge
Kunkel from the evidence we should
cav that he got the clock-in the face"