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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
"wAR NEwS0
BY Wing Dinger

Scarce day passes by that we don't
get new word
OF the battles in old Mexico,
But they're not one, two three with
some other big fights
That take place in these days of
much snow.
Get out from the city, where kids have
full sway,
With houses to bother them not,
And you'll see great big forts modelled
out of the snow,
From which former battles are
fought.
Here history repeats itself most every
day.
AS crowd of rose-cheelscd, healthy
kids
Form in two lines of battle. and like
true soldiers. each
Does whatever his general bids.
Old Yorktown and Trenton, and Bunker
Hill, too,
Are the oft-fancied scenes of the
And not always Is history borne out by
That take place in these childish war
plays.
But the spirit that's in them crops out
in their sport,
AS all thought of themselves disap-
pears,
And we're given an insight of how they
may cope
With life's battles in long after
years.
II you want to see fun that is health
full and clean,
If you'd like to look back on real
joy,
Go out where the kids in snow
trenches and forts,
Do as you did when you were boy.
Blk - They say that to live a play
must have punch in 1t.
DIX wonder IL that's why "Ten
Nights in Barroob" survied?-Boston
Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
[1WekEKn0W Spe0pIe71

DIR. Morris Jastrow, Jr., honored
by the University of Pennsylvania at
the Washington exercises is an an
thority on Asiatic languages.
Mayor John Kosek, of Wilkes
Barre, writes letters to people own.
ing mills asking them to employ men
who have no jobs.
Bishop William Horn, who will
preside at the Evangelical conference
at Ellzabethville. lives in Cleveland.
PRESIDENT III. S. Drinker, of
Lehigh. presided at the dedication of
the arts building at the universitv
Mrs. Mollie Fels. widow of the
Philanthropist. has announced that
she Will continue the benefactions of
her husband.
john j. Reardon, who will run for
Congress up the State, used to be dis
trict attorney of Lycoming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
|pOLlTICAESlO OekldhTS]

After last nights nice party at
York Brodbeck ought to get substan-
tial aid from the Democratic war
chest
Jesse J. Lybarger was taken out
of the Forgettery once more to-day.
William c. Freeman, former Leb-
anon legislator, says he is for Dim
mick.
d. j. Pearsal is said to be await
ing permission to run for the House
in Carbon county on the Democratic
ticket.
w. C. Lebo. of New Bloomfield,
will be candidate for the House from
Perry on the Washington ticket.
-Scoutmaster Morris appeals for
cash have not been well answered, it
is said. There is a disposition to let
the men who are running pay the
bills.
Berry seems to find a new man
who helped him in the Capitol up
heaval every year.
Jesse Shallcross, picturesque bur-
CESS of Coatesvi1le, will be a candi-
date for the House from Chester. He's
the man who invented the jag list.
-Dimmick is running headquarters
in Philadelphia and Scranton with a
very active press bureau.
Ryan will speak in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Erie and Har-
risburg next month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
THE PARK SITUATION

TT Is to be regretted that things have
come to such a pass in the affairs
J. of the park department of the city
that Warren II. Manning and the
members of the park board have felt
called upon to sever their connections
with 1t.
Mr.. Manning is one OF the foremost
landscape engineers of the country.
He has been identified with Harris
burg's park system ever since its in
ception. He has rendered invaluable
services at salary that would not
be high pay for an experienced
clerk. He outlined the park system
before a stroke of work was done upon
it and he has been in constant touch
with it ever since. 1t may be said
without exaggeration that Mr.. Man
ming is the father" of the Harrisburg
park idea and the guiding genius of
its development. His work is not
complete and he is needed more than
ever at this time when the expendi-
ture of 100000 for park and play
ground purposes is under considera-
tion.
AS for the members of the Park
Commission, nobody with full knowl-
edge of the situation will say that they
have done other than a great work
for the city-a work that will magnify
in proportion as the years pass and
the value of their pioneering is real
lied. 1t is indeed unfortunate that
conditions have arisen to take them
out of the service of the city, even in
the advisory capacity to which they
were reduced by the operations of the
Clark act. Their work has been freely
given and their duties as they saw
them unquestionably have been car
Iied out as honestly and as efficiently
as they knew how. 1t would be wrong
TO let them sever their connection
with the city after SO long ga service
under even the suspicion of a cloud.
Mr.. Taylor has put the management
of the park system squarely up to him
self. The full burden of the responsi-
bility for it's proper conduct and fu-
ture development lies with him. I'm
burdened by connections that were
apparently not to his liking, he can
now go forward along lines he will
lay down for himself with the full
knowledge that, unhampered by the
views Of others, he can work out his
own ideas in his own way.
The new Commissioner has made q
Tjfea for fair play and has asked for
opportunity to demonstrate his ability.
Doubtless he will be given both, for,
above all personal feeling, the people
Cf Harrisburg want park system that
will give them all of the advantages
they have had and more; and that at
a cost that will compare favorably
with the expenses of the past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

~ USINESS conditions were never
more complex from the stand
- point of the layman than at pres
ent. One day comes the an
nouncement that the Pennsylvania
Railroad has laid off fourteen passen-
ger trains between New York and
Pittsburgh, because of decreased traf-
fic. The next comes news from Steel
ton that the great Pennsylvania Steel
Company is going right ahead with its
plans for enlargement; that 500 peo-
pie have been notified to vacate their
homes on the West Side irf thirty days
in order to give way to new railroad
yards and another big mill
Ordinarily, either business in gen.
eral is on the increase or approxi-
mately all lines show a decrease at
the same time. Evidently this is not
the case at present. although the fall
ing off in railroad traffic is perhaps
no greater than the dullness experi-
enced in the steel business, the plants
at Steelton now operating scarcely
more than sixty per cent. capacity.
1t may be asked why, under such
conditions, the steel company continues
its policy of expansion why build
more mills when those now in hand
are not as busy as they might be, and
the answer undoubtedly lies in the
desire of the management to so diver
rify the products Of the works as to
give 1t opportunity to operate some
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

of its branches even in dullest periods.
Every movement made at Steelton in
the past five years has had this in
view and it is because of this broaden
ing of its market that the company
is operating as fully as it is at this
time.
Harrisburg will rejoice in the con-
templated improvements at Steelton
because every enlargement of the
works means more business for this
city, and at all events Steelton and
Harrisburg are one community in
everything except local government.
What Injuries one Injuries the other
and what benefits one benefits the
other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
MORE SIGNALS
IPhiIadelphia Bulletin I

t.
Chief Investigator Dohoney. of the
Public Service Commission, in report
Ing his conclusion on the Pennsylvania
Railroad wreck near Conemaugh on
January ~, when an express ran past
automatic danger signals in a heavy
fog and crashed into a workmen's car.
killing three men, and adds a peril
nent warning against full speed at
such times when a clear view of sig
mails is impossible. The perils of the
fog on a railroad are not identical
with those that attend a ship at sea,
but they are not negligible, and fog
rules should be as applicable in an
engine cab as In a pilot house. One
reason for recurring railroad accidents
is that too generally safety is assumed
unless danger signal is seen. There
would be fewer disasters if, generally.
the presence of danger were to be
assumed and caution exercised until
the light of safety is clearly rec
ogniZed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
DEMOCRATIC DIVERSIONS
philadelphia Inquirer. I

MT. Ryan has proved to his own
satisfaction that Mr.. Palmer and those
who are undertaking to run the affairs
of the "reorganized" Democratic or
sanitation in Pennsylvania are a Sc,
of insufferable bosses.
Mr.. Palmer has proved to his own
way of thinking that Mr. Ryan is talk
ing hub-dub; and that the Democratic
party would be better off without him,
anyway.
What the pair of them are actually
proving is that there are tive factions
which cordially hate each other. and
that the voters of Pennsylvania would
be very foolish either to intrust the
State to the rule of Democratic Gov
ernor or permit a Democrat to sit in
the United States Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
MUST HAVE BEEN THE PROOF
READER

[From the Pleasant Hill (Mo.) Times.]
Some fellow without the fear of
God in his heart pried up a window of
The Times sanctum Sunday night and
raided the office jar of smoking to-
bacco. The large glass container. re-
posing on the window sill and nearly
full OF smokin, in which had been
mixed two small cans of Louisiana
perfque, fine tobacco rarely seen in
this part of the country, must have
looked good to some one. While we
are thankful to the purloiner for not
making off with our new No. Oliver,
standing nearby, still we sincerely hope
that the stolen tobacco will give him q
case of nicotine poisoning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
IA BOOKS and "a
|H MAGAZINlES6N
a34 RkAQxnRHH,
A DARING NOVEL

S. r. Crockett has written a daring
daring because it treats of sex or'of any
much discussed problem of modern So
ciety with questionable frankness, but
1t is daring because it avoids all such
Issues. SANDY" has nothing sensa-
tional to recommend 1t, nothing un-
wholesome; it is purely a simple story
of modern young man in quest of love
and of business success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
A NEW NOVEL NEXT WEEK

The story of how a young man finally
finds himself is told in Gordon Gardi-
ner's "The Reconnaissance" to be pub
lished next week. The novel, which
has an abundance of the adventure ele-
tion--a man thought by his most inti-
mate friends to be a physical coward
though his bravery has been officially
acknowledged by the presentation to
him of the Victoria Cross. Whether or
not he Is a hero is the pivot on which
the briskly moving plot, told largely in
dinloRiIe turns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

~
n English and American school
4 \ methods is presented by 1. L..
Handel, of Manchester, Eng
land, in report just made to the
United States Bureau of Education. He
finds that there is radical difference
between the two systems of school or
ganization in the relation of elemen
tary and secondary schools. The
American high school receives its pu-
pills after they have completed the
elementary school course and builds up
it's curriculum on that foundation. The
English secondary schools receive
their pupils from a variety of schools
special preparatory schools or ele-
mentary schools-and the pupils on
entering may vary in age from 10 to
IA.
In general Mr.. Handel finds it diff
cult to institute detailed compari-
son of the standard of elementary
school work in the two countries, be-
cause circumstances are SO different.
The American elementary school has
been for nearly century the national
school, the common school of all the
people. In England the elementary
school is just in the process Of de-
veloping into a national institution, a
public service for national needs, in
stead of being regarded as charity
school for the education of the lower
classes" he says.
Another factor that renders COM
parison difficult, according to Mr.. Kan
del, is the inherent difference between
the English and the American child.
The latter he declares, lis by nature
more precocious, natures earlier, is
by circumstances of his upbringing
thrown more into the company of
adults, with the consequence that he
is less reserved and self-conscious and
more alert than the former.
1t is gratifying to learn that "Amer-
lean children have far better knowl-
edge of the history of their country
and i'm some cases of general history
than is to be found among English
elementary school children and that
the same is true of their knowledge of
local and national government. In
English language the American child
has better command of oral express
sion; he is more given to debating
and discussing than the English child,
the writer says. The reading of Eng
lish literature is also more extensive
in American schools, and in art work
there is greater variety.
But the writer concludes that while
the English elementary school has
much to gain from the study of the
American curriculum, American edu-
cational administration would profit
as greatly from what Is the strength of
the English system-freedom of the
individual school. 1t is in the work of
medical inspection and general well
fare work that England's school sys-
tenn has recently made the most
notable development, according to Mr..
Handel.
The findings of the writer are dis
tinctly favorable to the American
educational system, which is very
gratifying in view of the general criti-.
cism of our schools now in progress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
sENsELEss COLLEGE EXPENSE
From the Gallipolis Tribune

One reason why parents shrink from
sending their sons and daughters to
college is given in an item about the
enade, attended by 800 college boys and
girls The prom. cost st.750, and the
clothes the girls wore $4,000. The un-
necessary things, indulged in for vain
show, which create a false atmosphere
in an institution of learning, are what
give the general public n prejudice
against higher education. They should
be checked.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
.ln.hARR1S BuRG.flfTy
Years. A6O.rO-D Ay
[From the Telegraph of Feb. 20, 1854 ]
Two DeSerters to Be Shot

Private Benjamin Van Horn, Bat
terry f, First Pennsylvania Artillery,
is to be shot on the 26th instant for
desertion. Private George w. Enter
line. Company d, SiXty-second Penn
sylvania, charged with desertion, is to
be shot at the same time in the pres
ence of the Second Corps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
NOT Al ALL IMPROBABLE

Charles Phelps Cushing suggests in d
recent issue of Golfers that 1t would
not be surprising if in the coming year
some books Of poems by Rabindranath
Tagore should win as much popularity
in America as was once accorded to
THE Simple Life.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
Recruits From selinsgrove

A hundred or more recruits headed
by an excellent band, arrived here
this afternoon. They were from Sc
linsgrove. Uncle Sans patriotic
nephews are rushing to the defense
of our glorious Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

For a woman "whose constitution
has been wrecked in English prisons"
Mrs. Pankhurst displays remarkable ac
tivity, Can it be that those prison
outrages" have been press agented a
bit?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
NEED OF AN AMBULANCE

eQly prOteSteQ dBdiISI tile uSo
1 of the combination patrol and
ambulance automobile for the
transportation of both prisoners and
patients. Yesterday the need of an
additional vehicle was illustrated in
quite another manner.
William Knighton, of New Cumber-
land, was seriously injured at the
Pipe Bending Works. The ambu-
lance was called, but, due to the fact
that it was battling with deep snow
drifts in another part of the city, more
than an hour elapsed before it re-
sponded. All that time Knighton lay
suffering, very badly in need Of the
attention of hospital treatment.
To be sure this is an exceptional
case, but if such delay should cause
the death of a patient the city should
certainly be held responsible, for it
engages to look after the transporta-
ton of it's injured when it maintains
an ambulance. At all events, one
human life is worth the price of many
ambulances and their cost of up-keep.
Further, the Board of Health is
quite right in it's contentious. There
can be no good excuse for hauling a
dirty, disreputable tramp to Jail one
hour and using the same vehicle, with
out disinfection, to transport a patient
to the hospital the next. City Council
must take up very shortly this matter.
The patrol wagon and the ambulance
should be separate. The city has
reached the stage when one cannot do
the service of both. even were sani-
tary conditions to be disregarded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
DeWS> >DlSpaTcbeS,"
>-Of>The- CIVIL war
[F'rom the Telegraph of Feb. 25, 1854.
RebS Around Them

Cumberland Gap. Feb. 24.--On the
22d instant a battalion of the Elev-
enth Tennessee Cavalry stationed on
the Virginia road five miles east was
surprised ut daylight and surrounded
by large force of rebel cavalry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

A Chicago man who drank thirty-six
beef extract cubes dissolved in water
was arrested for trying to wreck the
drug store where he bought them. Felt
strong a S an OK we suppose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

Mr.. Murphy says he went into base
ball with shoestring and quit with
$5,000.00o. Apparently he didn't muff
single chance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
[EDITORIAL. COMMENT
More Than $4,000 900 Needed

tFrom the Grand Rapids Press.1
Carnegie has given $2.000,000 to be
peace At last, maybe, we can harmon
lie the choir.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
Sherman Has ScI,na

Cairo, Feb. 24-The officers Of the
steamer Fanny. from Vicksburg the
goth. report General Sherman's forces
to be in possession of Selma, Ala.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

Clarence Gibboney has solution for
the liquor problem. He would buy up
all the saloons. Manx man has tried
that unsuccessfuliy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

We gather from English newspapers
that the British view the Monroe Doc
trine as something for timid Presidents
to hide behind
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
An EVENING THouGHr

There are no bad herbs or bad
men, there are only bad culti-
Nators.-Hugo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

An English Duke protests that
Americans neglect their women for
their money. Dear Duke, If they didn't
they wouldn't have any women to
neglect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
Might Re the Safest Course

Might BE the Safest Course
[From the Washington Post
The undercurrents of Al Jennings
platform remarks suggests that Okla
homba should elect him Governor In
order to avoid trouble later.
John ID. ShOveled OF Golf Links
IFrom the Chicago News.1
Snow has given employment to the
idle poor, but what can be done for the
idle rich?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
SCHOOLS COMPARED

A n interesting comparison Of
~ English and American school
1 4 methods is presented by 1. L..
Handel of Manchester
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25

Your little note the other eveninr
about crows coming in close tn set.
tied districts to find something to cat
was proved up the day after 1t an.
peared. said an observer of events
yesterday. 81 was taking a ride to
one OF the suburbs when | noticed the
crowds flying into the built-up por-
tion and they could be seen dropping
down into yards. The crows were
great. Dig country fellows. real ravens,
ana appeared to be mighty hungry"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
STEEINON'S Rig ROOM

BUSINESS conditions were never
more complex from the stand
- point of the layman than at pres
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
PUBLISHED BY

Published every evening Except sun
day), at the Telegraph Building sie
Federal Square.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
MITCHELL PLEADS
FOR SEX-DAY WEEK
Laborers Should Have One Day Of
Rest Out of Every Seven.
Saws Union Official.

New York, Feb. S-John Mitchell. for
mer vice president Of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, in an address before
the Republican Club today. made a
strong plea for the passage Of law
compelling employers to recognize the
right of the workingman to one days
rest out of every seven.
ours is the most prosperous country
on earth. and we want our workingmen
to enjoy their full measure of this pros
perity. / hold that those who work seven
days a week are not in condition to ap-
preciate the spirit of liberty and justice
on which this government was founded"
Mr. Mitchell recommended the enact
ment of laws enforcing the eight-hour
day, partly because there are too many
men now out of employment and partly
because the shorter day Of labor is more
humane and economical in the long run.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
GLYNN TO VOICE APPEAL.
New York Governor to Appear BE.
fore House Committee Today.

A specially appointed committee,
headed by Gov. Glynn, of New York,
will appear before the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee of the House this
morning to make an appeal in the
name of the State for the 400 cubic
feet Of water. the property of this
country, that is now pouring unused
over Niagara Falls.
By the treaty with Great Britain
this country is allowed 10000 cubic
feet of water from the falls every sec
ond. Permits to various interests have
granted, in the past, the use of 1860,
thus leaving 400 cubic feet unused.
It is this part Of the power of the falls
for which New York State will ask this
morning.
The>committee headed by Gov Glynu
is known as the Niagara River power
commission. They arrived in Wash
ington last night. Gov. Glynn. Attor-
ney General Carmody. and the follow
ing legislative committee make up the
commission; Senator Henry p. yelte,
Brooklyn. chairman: Senator John r.
Malone. Buffalo: Senator George r.
Thompson, Middleport: Assemblyman
Joseph d. Kelly. New York: George r.
Small, Buffalo: G. Fred Schwarz, Troy:
John McKeon. Brooklyn, and Henry
Drerton. Warren County.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
MOTT RIGHT TO REFUSE
Posi-, ASSERTS DANIELS
Secressry Of Navy Praises Y. M. c. A.
Work IN Speech. Scoring Indfer-
ence of Americans to Religion.

Special to Ths washinstoa Berah.
. Raleigh. n. c.. Feb. sin . speech be-
fore the meeting Of the Interstate Young
Mems Christian Association Of the two
Csrolinas. Secretary Of the Navy Daniels
tonight declared that John r. Mott had
the ,right, perspective. In declining -Prcsi-
dent Wilson's appointment a. Minister to
China. because he believed he could serve
God and his feIlowmah better In the
position he already held 1t the head of
the worldwide Y. NJ. c. A. movement.
|. Mr.. Daniels praised the Y. n. c. A.
for what he declared was its great work
among the soldiers. the sailors, the rail-
road men. and the Industrial workers
In mills and factories.
The greatest enemy Of the church to-
day. Mr.. Daniels said. Is the indifference
of men toward Christianity and religion
In general. He commented on the fact
that Shelby n. Cullom. former Senator
from Illinois, declared but . few months