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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS

The chopping of heads seems to
have struck the Philadelphia police
department, too.
Judge Garman's boom for United
States Senator does not attract much
commentator in Market Square.
1T is not a happy new year for
the banded bosses of the reorganized
Democracy.
Mayor Armstrong seems to have
been very successful in his selection
Of men for the new cabinet.
The southeastern counties seem
to be having a real lively local option
time and it will be reflected in the
campaign this year.
Northampton Democrats are
scrapping over post office appoint
ments.
Friends of Joe Totten and Fisk
Goodyear are matching pennies over
the Carlisle post office.
james NJ. Jones has been elected
sealer Of weights and measures of
Montour county.
-Hazleton's new postmaster is to
be named this week and there are a
score of hopefuls.
Just suppose the majority of the
City Council was Democratic. How
long would it be before heads would
fall in departments which happen to
be Republican. And the Patriot would
hail it as an act of civic duty.
1t all depends upon whose OK is
gored.
1t is said that behind the Phila-
delphia Post Office congestion may
lurk some Democratic investigation
schemes and removals.
-Ex-Judge J. H. r. Wilson, OF
Clarion, has removed to Philadelphia,
where he will practice.
District Attorney Rotan will make
some changes in his staff in Philadel-
phia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
ROYAL ON APPOINTMENTS
n fAYOR ROYAL is taking it very
|M much to heart that two of his
~ appointees are likely fo losa

n HAYOR ROYAL is taking it very
M much to heart that two of his
V i appointees are likely to lose
their places under a resolution
presented by Commissioner Lynch at
the meeting of the City Council this
week and which lies over until next
week for action.
The Mayors charge that politics is
playing a large part in the changes
contemplated comes with i'll grace
from an official who has used his ap-
pointive powers from the very first
for the reward of political favorites,
who nominated men for the police
force whom Councils, for the good of
the city service. refused to confirm;
who named inspectors whose incom-
potency made them the subjects of
criticism from their first day of work,
and who ripped Republicans out of
office regardless of their fitness and
substituted for them Democrats whose
methods made the Royal admins
tration the costliest and most inefficient
in the history of the city.
Commissioner Lynch says that IL
anybody in Council started" inter-
ference with departmental affairs not
Immediately under his direction it was
the Mayor himself when he declined
to vote for the dismissal of a Demo-
cratic Highway Department employe
''for the good of the SERVICE" So long
as it means the retention of Demo-
crat in office Mayor Royal is a strict
advocate of nonpartisanism In COM
mission government. AS soon as II
happens to be Republican for whom
he is asked to vote in confirmation, he
finds that gang rule" is being at
tempted and that politics is being
played"
And yet, in face of the fact that
Royal has been and still is the strong
est advocate of the "spoils system
that has occupied the Mayors Office
for many years, his apologist this
morning has the temerity to assert
that "he is for the best service regard
less of persons or parties"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
A SINGING GAME

"How many miles to Babylon"
.'Three score years and ten"
Can we get there by candle-light?"
"Yes, and back again"
Children on the burning street,
Long lines dancing In the sun,
Faded dresses, grimy feet
How many miles to Babylon
Far. too far far to 20 gp,s1, t9-daym rny,.no.
And hard to find. the fragrant way,
For all save children in dance.
Can we get there by candle-light?"
No, for the toll is never DONE.
And life's long candle-light comes on,
And still they're far from Babylon.
For candIe-lighting time will come
In cottages along the road
But still the ogre factories hum.
And still the worker lifts his load.
'Tis three score miles and ten. they
say,
All. more then that the way must run
For tenement and rumbling dray
Have blocked the road to Babylon.
.Open the gates and let us through
Cry men and women in the gloom,
while weary hands their work renew
Al swift machine and changing loom
within those cleaning walls they find
Life welded In a joyous whole;
Through skillful hands and eager mind
A dream of beauty In the soul.
Fling wide the gates of golden hours.
Fling wide the gates. and hinder
That ali may see the shining towers,
And enter happy Babylon.
BY Hilda w. Smith in The Survey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
BACK TO THE BIBLE

Certain of our wise men of to-day
have shaded away sin till it becomes
an expression of temperament. lhey
tell us that we sin because our grand
father sinned, and because our nome
is situated in the wrong block Inese
are clever words of clever comforters'
ans surely they ought to wipe away
forever the tears from our eyes. But
they do not speak to human need.
They leave the life blighted and the
heart ashamed They leave the sim
ming one to continue in despair. He
does not ask that his sin shall be eX-
nIained away. He wishes forgiveness
and a fresh start. In the Book, which
ia not read as once 1t was, there are
no soft words about sin. But the way
out is shown. And not only is for
giveness offered in this BOOK. put
mans need of comfort is met. There
is comfort in plenty. These writer's
knew the human heart. They saw
man broken by his toll and his grief.
IAnd for this, too, they had the an
Iswer, They told of Being of love,
hidden Just back of this rude and tenn
porary universe. This love, they said,
is conscious of how the littlest child
and the old man are sick at heart or
one to come close to their loneliness.
When again will any company OF
writer's say Tic tHlh6o thVy hilO" ~
such telling words, such pictures of
humble life:--the body. far away from
the faces of his home and far gone In
shame-such true stories of lowly de-
votion breaking through into beauty
Much is swept away between us and
them. but not one accent of Naomfs s
voice is lost to us, and still the Turn
again, my daughters is as wistful as
when 1t breathed through the alien
corn. What richer consolation are we
hungry for that we turn from Judea ?
Has the human heart changed under
the wear of the centuries, so that sin
no longer seeks forgiveness, and grief
has no need of a comforter? Have
our ships sailed so far that they have
revealed to us braver continent than
the fields where pain once reigned? Is
our science so acut that 1t has banished d
failure from mans life. Is man 6
heart at last self-suf1cient and all
suffering,-Colliers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02

money in bank. but no one knew the
money was there, she reasoned, not
even her husbands parents. Win
whom they lived. and 1t was far SAFER.
And so every week she added rev
pieces of gold to the hoard and visions
of the little home grew brighter.
Every morning when the couple
awoke Mr.. Hankins looked at the
bookcase to see that everything was
safe. One morning he discovered that
the window was open, the books were
lying on the floor and the money
gone.
The matter was reported at once TO
the police, but detectives, who we're
assigned to the case have yet no
clew to work upon. A reward OIL sSoV
was authorized by the loser.
The building on the little home is
stopped, and unless the money is re-
covered the house will be turned over
to the builders.
The couple both declared that they
had learned dear lesson. They VIII
now start to save again. but each week
their savings will be recorded In
little bank book issued by one or the
very large and strong savings banks
for which Los Angeles Is noted
Similar examples of the folly OF dis
trusting banks occur frequently in all
parts of the country. None OF lnem
would occur il everybody realized that
the number of depositors who have
ever lost anything through bank
failure in the United States, as COM
pared with the total number of de-
positors is so infinitesimally small that
it scarcely can be figured at all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
HIS SUGGESTION

BY the restaurant pay desk stood
the manager. greeting each outgoing
and incoming guest with O. seraphic
managerial smile.
The smile grew broader, and, II
possible, sweeter, as an elderly gem
tleman. looking we'll fed and comfort
able, approached to pay his bill. When
he had collected his change he turned
and noticed the beaming manager.
by the way" said he, you say on
your bills-of-fare that you are always
glad to receive suggestions from Gus
toners as to any possible improve
ments that occur to them"
THAT Is so. sir-thta is So" an
swered the smiling one. Have YOU
any suggestion you wish to maker"
'Well-er-yes. l have. You state
that you make your own sausages in
this establishment, do you not?"
That Is correct, sir-we do"
We'll, then. / would suggest that
you let someone else do It, Good
morning"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
KU|VKE[ FAVORED
THROUGH STATE
Nomination For This Section
Spoken Of by People Inter-
ested in Campaign
CREEVEY IS OUT FOR RYAN
Late Candidate For Lieutenant
Governor Outspoken in His
Advocacy. Too

Owing to the fact that Senator Pen
rose. a Philadelphian. will be can
didate to succeed himself, and that the
Republican candidate for Governor
may be a man from that city, there
are good many people who are
speaking favorably of President Judge
George Kunkel, of this district, as
representative of the interior for the
vacancy on the Supreme Court bench
that will be caused by the expiration
of the term of Chief Justice Fell. Even
II the nominee for Governor OF the
Republicans should come from Allie
gheny or Erie or Lackawanna, and
not from Philadelphia, the terri
toral argument in favor of Dauphin
county would hold good. The nomina-
ton will be nonpartisan.
There are men being spoken of for
the judicial nomination in Philadel-
phia, Allegheny. Erie, Lackawanna
| and other counties In addition to the
i Dauphin president Judge.
| Thomas Ii. Greevy. the Democratic
leader of Blair county and candidate
for Lieutenant Governor in 1910, Incl
dentally man
who stood up and
fought and did not Greeyy Comes
desert to Berry, is Out Strongly
quoted in one OF For NJ. y. Ryan
the Philadelphia
papers as declar-
| ing that the candidacy of Michael j.
Ryan is widely favored in the State.
He said to Eugene G. Bonniwell, the
field marshal of the Ryan forces, that
the western counties will be for the
Philadelphia solicitor and that never
had he known candidate to be so
strongly endorsed.
/ The congressional situation in Berks
county, where Congressman Rother-
mel is facing opposition for renomina-
| tion, was further
| complicated yester
Rothermels day by announcement
Troubles i'm that Fred A. Marx, an
a Pyramid attorney Of Kutztown,
would be a candidate
for the nomination.
Rothermel irritated Doc Kremp, the
Palmer leader in Reading, by refusing
| to line up for him for postmaster.
Herr Spatz, the Boyertown sage, also
developed ambitions and now here is
Marx. over in Lehigh ex-senator De-
walt is demanding the place on behalf
of that county and making an active
fight.
1t is probable that within the next
few days an effort will be made to
secure some court test of the county
controller law for the
counties having be-
tween 100000 and Controller
/ 100000 population. Act Should
In the dozen or more Be Tested
counties, where such
officials will take office
on Monday, there are people who
question the act In Blair county
County Solicitor J. Lee Plummer
stirred up the animals by declaring
the controller had no right to the
office, but a court test has never been
had. Many are anxious to get the test
over.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
SCORN NOT THE SKUNK

CORN not the skunk. The cur
rent weekly letter of the United
y States Department of Agriculture
devotes several closely printed
columns to it's virtues. Many people,
the department expert concludes, do
not know that the skunk possesses
anything but smell and skin that
can be dyed and sold for anything
from sea otter to Russian mink. He
hastens to inform an ignorant public
of the fact that If it We're not for the
humble night -prowler named our corn
crops would be eaten from the roots
up by the white grub. our wheat would
be ruined by the grasshopper and the
pestiferous caterpillar would kill our
fruit trees
This is interesting information.
What an army of hungry, industrious
little skunks there must be- In our
imagination We see them sallying
forth in myriads at sundown from
their hiding places, Fastening to the
corn patches and wheat fields and
working as industrially during the
night for the welfare of the crops as
the farmer does during the day.
Some agriculturists may conclude
that the benefit Is not worth the
smell, but there is one recommends
ton in the article mentioned that in
Jail likelihood will be generally ac-
|cepted. Don't catch skunks," advises
the writer. Very we'll, then, we won't
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY

n G.. DUNN & CO. report S56
x financial failures in Philadel-
i y. phia alone during 1918, the
greatest number in years
Democratic prosperity.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger re-
ports that steel orders fell off 81 per
cent. during 1913. More Democratic
prosperity,
The United States Chamber of Com
merce announces that in Pennsylvania
mills are laying off a number of men
and at present are only running from
60 to 20 per cent. of their capacity.
further reduction is expected dur
ing the winter months. probably down
to so per cent" Still more Demo-
cratic prosperity.
Shoe manufacturing Is good at
present with a prospect OF an advance
in prices United States Chamber of
Commerce report. One of the prom
ised Democratic low tariff benefits for
the common people, no doubt. The
cost of living is generally higher than
year ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh has
been reelected head of the Philadel-
phia schools.
-DavidS j. Davis has been made
Scranton city solicitor again. He is
well-known here because of his ap-
pearance in cases and in the Iegisla-
tive committees.
r. A. McCrady. justice of the
peace at Edgewood Park, Allegheny
county, is the youngest justice in the
State. He is twenty-one and no more.
Charles Steel, burgess of North
cumberland, paid off the debt of the
borough hook and ladder company
yesterday
III. S. Snyder, vice-president of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, sailed for
Europe, planning some new ore ship
ment lines
r. M. Gibson, one of the assista mt
federal attorneys in Pittsburgh. has
become an assistant district attorney
of Allegheny.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
Letters to the Editor
W. G. T. U. THANKS TELEGRAPH

To The Editor Of The Telegraph;
The woman's Christian IemperahlGie
Unions of Harrisburg and Daupnlh
county extend New Years greetings.
AS the old year dies, we send soou
wishes for the year that's new ;si+,.
The press is the WORLDS eis'''
and this is a reading age. l.,
The masses are educated anu ~
fluenced by the mighty power OF the
press. r.,ard q
influence-it either helps or hinders'
lifts up or pushes down. A..
We thank the Telegraph Tor me re-
cent splendid editorials and FOR lts ae-
cision TO eliminate liquor advertising
from it's columns.
In the hands of this peaceful army
for the overthrow of our country !,
worst enemy, we consider tne leieS, ap, x :, -
a strong weapon in printing nearer the
day of final triumph. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
OLDEST SETTLEMENT ON TIL
PLANET
From the Chicago Herald.I

\ From the Chicago Herald.I
At last we are set down in the midst
of Damascus city that can claim life
without a break from it's founding back
in the dim dawn of the worlds his
tory. When Abram crossed the desert
from Haran 1000 years ago, this city
was standing. (See Gen. XIV. 15 and XIV,
2S. She dates back to the time Of the
Pharaohs in Egypt: in fact she was
old when Greece and Rome were strip
iinss in years. Rome may be termed
the "Eternal City," but Damascus 10
twice as Old, and though her streets
have run red with blood Of battle and
rapine many times, she has not been
Babylon is an heap in the desert and
Tyre a ruin on the shore" but Damas-
ouy WAS there ever such a place to, see
tho nations of the earth parading to-
gether? Here in the market-place are
motley crowds of Persians, Moors At
rhans. Indians, Egyptians Sudanese,
Jews. Bedouins. Druses. Turks Euro
peans. % The streets-.so crooked. so
harrow, so dirty. so full of life, with
that strange spell of the desert upon
them The residences as seen from the
street are ugly and Disappointing
enough, vet like old barns and tumble
down mills at home. are fascinating
and picturesque.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
HIDING MONEY

"HE murder of J. z. Bush, of this
county, for the large sum of
i money he kept hidden about his
home, has sequel in California.
less tragic, but just as conclusive in
its proofs of the fooiishness of hoard
ing cash in y-discovered places
of concealment. The death of Bush
and the experience of Mr.. and Mrs.
r.. r. Hankins, of Los Angeles, who
lost all their savings by not deposit
ing the money in a savings bank,
ought to be a warning to anyone who
is taking similar foolish chances.
The savings of two years of mar
ried life, the fruits of many privations
and denials, which were to be used in
paying for little home were taken
away by the ruthless hand of a thief.
The savings amounted to s1,500, most
ly in gold.
The money was. in little box hid
den I'm bookcase. Often the husband
had cautioned his wife 10 place the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
A LITTLE NONSENSE

"A rolling stone gathers no moss
said the ready-made philosopher.
Yes" replied Mrs. Corntossel. but
that's no excuse for a man devotin' all
his time to settin' In a rockin' chair
raisin' wlniskers."-Washin Star.
'Pa had the last word in an argu-
ment with ma as usual last night"
1.-THE last word as usual?"
Yes. He apologized again. De-
troit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
AN EVENING THOUGHT

The soul alone, like neglected
harp,
Grows out of tune, and needs
hand divine;
Dwell thou within 1t. tune and
touch the chords.
Till every note and string shall
anwser thinei
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02

The kind of public service that re-
duces the price of gas to the consumer
at a time that prices of fuel and other
commodities are generally on the in
crease 10 worthy of the name. The
Is<ric5urS Gas Company Is to be COM
'.nended for it's voluntary action in this
respect. No doubt grateful public
will see to 1t that II loses nothing in
the way of receipts. cut in price
will no doubt encourage more gener-
Gus use of gas for household and
manufacturing purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
cuppRESSING VICE

-HOSE who have undertaken the
task of cleaning up Harrisburg
i with respect to its vice dens,
Iiouor law violators and gam
bling hells, will have the support oil
every right-thinking man and woman
in the community.
The most potent weapon In the
hands of those who have undertaken
this movement should be the reports OF
the police officers and constables.
whose duty it Is to report conol-
tions in their home districts TO the
courts. There is plenty of law for the
wiping out of these places If those en-
trusted with keeping the order OF the
citv can be made to observe 1t In spirit
as we'll as in letter. In a large ma
iority of cases the reports made by po-
lice officers and constables at each
ouorter sessions are either deliberate
xidestepping of the facts as the officers
know them, or the officers themselves
are aensely ignorant of the things in
their respective districts concerning
Ft,ich it is their duty to be fully in
formed.
There can be no excuse for the con-
stable who tells the court that he
suspects" the eXistenceNof resorts run
in defiance of the law. 1t is his duty
TO bring to the court sufficient evil
dence to permit the prosecuting officer
TO proceed according to law. If the
law as 1t stands to-day had been fully
enforced in the past there would be
little need of the present movement.
The fact of the matter is that the Of
ficers and constables have purposely
CLOSED over conditions that were in
f1agrant violation of long existing
statutes
Possibly apathy Of press and public
has been in part to blame. The dis
position to wink at what used to be
considered by many a necessary evif'
NAV have given these officers the i'm
preston that they were doing quite
the proper thing in shutting their eyes
TO the unauestionably large number OF
den keepers of whom the court and
the prosecuting attorney have never
heard.
But this excuse can be no longer
offered. The public is aroused. 1t is
determined to rid this city of COM
mercialized vice and Its attendant
evils. Constables and policemen have
received fair warning that their re.
ports to the January sessions of Grim
inal court are to be real reports, set
ting forth the facts as they exist, and
as guardians of the peace in the sew.
eral districts they are expected tc
know them. Doubtless, with these
facts in mind and the possibility o.
embarrassing questions by the court Il
the new conditions are not recognized
the quarter sessions reports this month
will be of more than usual breadth
and interest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
EDITORIALS e. ~
CoNTfMPORA RAklES|
HA&z.&zI &
HARDLY WORTH MENTIONING

tChicago Record Herald.l
"A Strong Mans Faith was produced
at the Adelphi Theater last evening.
The cast was good but the play was too
decent to deserve attention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
SOUL is MARCHING ON

[Springfield Republican,
Horace Vose is no more, but his
Rhode Island turkeys may still continue
their annual trips to the White House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
VILLAS THE CONSTITUTION
New York World. ]

If Villa shoots his own men for loot
ing, there is some hint of reason: The
right to confiscate property shall rest
only with the Constitutionalist govern
ment'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
Chance to Talk Anyhow

tFrom the Albany Journal
Vice President Marshall is going to
lecture. but 1t remains to be seen how
many people will go to hear him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
From the Telegraph of Jan. Q, 1914
Attacks RpeveS

Inc Following dispatch was received
on Monday night at General Fisk's
headquarters in ST. Louis:
Pilot Knob, Dec. 2S.
To General Fisk:
Ofhcial dispatches from Major VIII
son INFORM me that he attacked
Reeves seventeen miles southwest
from Dauphin. Ripley county. Mo.
about three o'clock on Christmas DAY.
ana killed and wounded thirty-fve
OF the enemy. Il. G. WOODSON,
Colonel Commanding
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02

A thief robbed Hazleton church of
its contributions, using an ice-pick to
open the boxes. Cold blooded wretch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
COIOrcd Folk Celebrate

Fortress Monroe, Jan. 2.-The col
ored inhabitants of Norfolk and vi
cinity celebrated, to-day, the first an
niversary of their freedom. as given
them under the Presidents proclama-
tion of one year ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
ALMOST INSTANTANEOUS
Boston Globel

Boston Globel
Champ Clark can point to the rise in
the stock market Saturday as a quick
proof of the truth of his statement that
as soon as the currency bill was passed
conditions would improve.