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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS
-The question to-night W.

The question tonight will be:
Who had the biggest meeting
Democratic partisans We're not as
sociable as they might have been to-
day.
The Harrisburg Republican Club
will have a big time next month.
-Penrose's visit to Steelton appears
to be worrying a good many people
not in the Republican party.
Some of the Socialist nominating
petitions being filed are written in red
ink.
Secretary Daniels has been elect
ed an honorary member of the Central
as compliment for his speech.
State Chairman Norris has not
yet made comment on that Beaver
town post office matter.
The post office scandal appears
to be something not referred to in DO
lite society about the Democratic
windmill
Judge Garman appears to be still
awaiting reply to his acceptance OF
Palmer's offer to buy special cal
for him.
Congressman Ainey has quit the
senatorial field in favor of Dimmick
-Dimmick had some big meetings
in Jefferson and Indiana counties YES.
terday. He returns to Philadelphia
well pleaSed with the outlook.
"A. b. Clark, of Altoona, candidate
for Congress -at-large on the Demo.
cratic ticket, has Joined the Ryar
party.
Mexican county enrolment shows
1861 Rep cblicans and only 1891 Dem.
ocrats, the Bull Moosers being lower
than the Democrats. And right after
that Mccormick tour of the county.
Out of 27,907 enrolled in Mont.
gomery county, 1886 are Republi.
cans.
Palmer said yesterday at South
Bethlehem that the new tariff was 9
boon. He'd better not say that Al
Steelton.
Bruce Sterling has declined tc
stand for Senator in Fayette They
can't beat Grow.
-keystoners may name Dimmick
for Senator.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

w YHILE their Democratic oppo-
M nents are ravtng over the
w awful partisanship of the
Republican members of the
City Council, those department heads
are going ahead with the important
public work which has been entrusted
to their care. Compared with the total
population, the persons who are en-
gagged in constant criticism of the Re-
publican Councilmen, while closing
their eyes TO Mayor Royals spineless
and partisan course since he assumed
office, are few in number and for the
most part hidebound in their party
allegiance.
There is much for all the depart
in touch with the municipal admins
tration realize, the extent of the public
work for which Superintendents
Lynch, TAYLOR and Bowman are re-
sponsible. These officials have already
done many creditable things, and from
time to time the public has been ad-
vised of the more important features
of the public work in contemplation
or already under way. but for partisan
purposes their critics have given little
consideration to these matters while
1ndulginS in eNaggerations and abuse
over the unimportant distribution of
jobs.
Mayor Royal has been more inter-
ested in promoting the interests of a
factionaI Democratic machine than in
cooperating with his colleagues in
the advancement of the interests of
Harrisburg. His list of incompetent
appointees is never referred to by his
apoiogists but they talk themselves
hoarse over the alleged partisanship
of the Republican officials
This newspaper does not approve
of everything the majority of City
Council has done, but it believes in fair
play and fair dealing with the public.
We repeat what was said Oh this page
few days ago-that the people of
Harrisburg are vastly more concerned
about results in the conduct of the
several departments than they are
over tne seiectlon OF Subordinates, and
just in proportion as they make good
will the several officials have the COM
mendation of their fellow citizens.
Building of political machines is an
active industry Just now-much more
active than other industrial enter.
prises-and the people are not going
10 lose sight of the real work of the
municipal officials by reason of the
dust raised over an appointment here
and there.
Whatever changes in the working
forces OF the various departments are
necessary or desirable should be made
without further ado and regardless OF
the squawking of political malcon-
tents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
POLITICAL FABLES

had written a book on the subject AM
also sailed the schooner New Jersey
for short time. He selected as hi
first mate one who had several time
applied to Young Nation for the posi-
tion of commander and whose service
had been rejected because of his ezra
tic ideas about sailing the Ship o
State. These officers at once discharg
ed all of the old and experienced EN-
ployes on the ship, replacing then
with friends who in turn named tn
minor employees largely on the basis o
5 per cent to keep up the organiza
ton"
Meantime the High Cost of Livin
storm showing no signs of abatemen
and in addition the black clouds O
Low Tariff growing larger and large
each day. Young Nation became eX
ceedingly anxious and finding tina
free tolls in his own Panama Cana
had been denied him, even for his ow
ships that wanted TO sail close [
shore: but the black and barren rock
of Foreign Relations and Mexican sit
uation were so menacing that he q
once sent out long and continuou
calls of G. O. Pc. o. P.-G. o. I
Moral: Proficiency is the produc
of experience; experiment the produc
of theory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

ENlUS, said MendelSsonn
lis industry" Perhaps it is
~ very largely the capacity fol-
effort. Ambition spurring
onward men of high ideals, stimulates
them to the performance of the hard
work without which few things worth
while are attained.
A remarkable eXempliflcation of the
close association between talent and
industry is given in the recent scholas-
tic triumph won by a young Chinese
government student of the University
of Michigan. Y. F. Jabin Hsu. IA,
who secured second place in the an
University of Michigan, first honors in
which were carried off by no less dis
tinguished a scholar and speaker than
Paul Blanshard, the 1913 national
peace orator.
The Chinese are remarkable for
their capacity for taking pains The
old joke about the stupendous task
which the Chinese language imposes
on the Chinese child has unquestion-
ably underlying 1t moro than a grain
of sound wisdom. That the Chinese,
in common with other foreigners,
often speak better English than many
Americans and most Englishmen, is
we'll known.
But it is greatly to China's credit,
and very much to the credit of young
Mr.. Hsu that he should win his spurs
in companionship with such a distin-
guished knight of the graceful perora-
ton. Mr.. Hsu. according to news
dispatch, is now working hard upon
a readable history of the evolution of
the Chinese people among the self
governing nations of the earth.
II he would decide to take TO the
American platform with good, intel
ligible talk on China, he might be
doing another good service to China.
and a considerable service to Ameri-
cans who are seriously interested in
the Youngest of the republics. Too
much of our information and our ideas
of China and the Chinese has come
from secondhand sources. Let us
hear from the Chinese themselves
from Mr.. Hsu, our young Wolverine
from Cathay!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

100000 less of raw material for manu-
featuring purposes and $9,000,000. or
Is per cent, more o. finished articles,
showing conclusively that the much
advertised advantage which manu-
facturers were to derive from free raw
material had no basis in fact when
they were subjected ut the same time
to free competition in the finished
product. In wool alone the increase
in manufactured articles has been
s2,200,000 and in wool cloths and
dresses s2.000,000. or the product of
at least $4,000 wage-earners. And
yet in view of all this, said Mr.. Mills,
We wonder at the number of unem-
ployed
During the same period, according
to the same authority, the imports of
farm products have increased s40,-
living, but diminishing to that extent
the purchasing power of the Ameri-
can farmer.
Mr.. Mills reciting the series of con-
tinuous blunders-and worse-that
have marked the course of the Demo-
Gratis since they assumed control at
Washington. expresses the belief that
they furnish ground for an unan-
swerable appeal to the country next
Fall''; and there are already indica-
tons that he is right in this view.
The Democrats have touched the
American voter on his tenderest spot
his pocketbook--and he is at
least awake to the truth of what men
of sound and conservative thought
have been trying to impress upon him
for the past three years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

placed his bleeding heart upon his
sleeve over the Indifference of his Re-
publican colleagues of the City Coun-
Gil to the spirit of the Clark act
which imposed upon Harrisburg It's new
system of government. jeremiah had
nothing on the Mayor in the matter of
lamentations and when he retires from
office much of the humor of the DO.
1itical game will disappear with him
Those wicked Republican members OF
the City Council ought to have some
respect for his feelings if they haven't
for his manner of conducting the office
which he still holds by grace of the
Clark act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
TOO MUCH CONGRESS
[From the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press1
The United States is suffering fror
an overdose of Congress, and the wors
feature Of the situation is that there
no prospect of relief from the fata
poison. Advices from Washington, s
far from holding out hope of early ad
journment. intimate that the presen
session will be dragged along fo
months yet. The tolls repeal has dis
| located all plans. it is reported. Afte
| it mas been decided, weeks hence, tn
administrations anti business pro
gram will be pushed to the front an
still more disruption of establishe
commercial methods with the conse
quent necessity for still more compli
Gated processes of readjustment wi
be inflicted upon the long-sufferin
nation,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
500 Reward, $1OO

The readers oc this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able TO cure in all its
stages and that Il Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to the med
ical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease. requires a constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting ma
ture in doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t
fails TO cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Still doth the soul, from its lone
fastness high
Upon our life a ruling ef1luence
send,
And when it fails, fight as we will
we die;
And while it lasts, we cannot
wholly end!
Matthew Arnold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
WHAT DIsRUPTs THE FAMILY
rFrom the New York Sun.l

When the Brooklyn Domestic Rela-
wear the Magistrates sitting in IT de-
cided to find out as nearly as might be
the underlying causes of disunion IN
the families that came under thelr
structed TO examine each case entrust-
ed to them and record the reasons dis
closed TO them for marital disaster The
subioined table. which is included in
the annual report of the court to the
BOARD of Aldermen:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
W HO Is HE

tFrom the Philadelphia Record (Dem)
At least all of the honest men of
every Democratic faction in Pennsyl-
vania will hope that no faction will
force on this years Democratic State
ed from a private individual the $4,000
a year Judge Garman, of Luzerne
speaks of.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
New Alderman In

Mr.. George b. Cole, recently elected
alderman of the Sixth ward. has been
sworn in and entered upon the dis
charge of his duties. His office is
located at the corner of Calder and
James streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

THUS tne presumably Wild and I'M
settled chaps under 80 behaved better
than their elders of from 80 to 40 while
the graybeards of 40 and upward failed
lamentably to disclose a better dispo-
sition than their juniors. Perhaps the
tango is responsible for this; its raw
ages are particularly disastrous among
those old enough to know better.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
IN HARRI SBURC Fifty
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, April
$50 Rats Pass BY

RATS passed down the river yesterday.
Immense quantities of lumber have
been taken to the eastern markets and
the cry is still they comet"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
Max Recall Gilmore

washington, April s. It is re|
ported that Major General Q. a. Gill
more will be Immediately recalled
from duty in front of Charleston AMI
ordered on service elsewhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
LIE, HAD To co

Mollie-Must you go so soon, dear?
Bobby must darling, though Ia
give ten years of my life to stay an
hour longer.
Mollie-But why do YOU have TO go?
Bobby-Because, dearest, It's our
Union meeting tonight and If / don
go now I'll be fined a quartz.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

CTuel -
Such a tabulation. must, of neces-
sity, be only roughly accurate, from
the nature of the cases examined; as,
for example. in the classification under
drink" in which undoubtedly are re-
corded many instances of domestic in
felicity due originally to less easily
stated indictments. which finally led the
partners at fault to dissipation landing &
them in the court. 1t will be observed
that lack of employment is charged
with a small share of the responsibility
for family trouble; it may be conjec-
tured that .adversity. as the poets love
to teach. binds human beings more
closely, rather than separating them;
or it may be that the ,futility of pur-
suing penniless. workless mate may
affect these igures. Let all humorists
take note of the official demolition of
the mother-in-law jest
During the year 392 persons were
convicted in the court. 1t would be
supposed that a large proportion of
these would have been youngsters, un-
able to submit to the readjustments
necessary to successful matrimonial
life. From the figures this does not
appear to be the case:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
NEWS Gf FRAIR FRA4IIRssTTSHES sTSSIHTE &SAR

From the Telegraph, April is, 1864.
Capture Blockade Runner
New York, April 1S.--A side-whee|
blockade runner Alliance was captured
by the United States steamer Nort1
Carolina. Her crew, thirty in NUM-
Der, were all found asleep. Her pas|
sengers, six in number, escaped in
boat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

MI. Mdcf arIand points out That while
Washington is the capital of all the
people, the national government has
spent little on it's development, while
the residents of Washington them
selves have been lavish in their ex-
penditures for public improvements
In sense Harrisburg bears the
same relation to Pennsylvania that
Washington does to the United States
it is the capital city of all the people
of this State. The comparison may be
carried farther. Harrisburg, like
Washington, has spent millions for
its own improvement, while the State,
until the passage of the Capitol Park
Extension bill, had done little or moth
ing toward the transformation of its
capital from a country town to a
model city of modern design con-
structed along beautiful lines
Soon it will be necessary for the
| Legislature to appropriate more money
| for the park extension work. Ever,
dollar of the money spent up to this
time has been made to buy one hun.
dred cents worth. All of the property
! in the scope of the proposed en-
largement will be purchased within
the specified sum, and the land clear.
| ed. But then will come the necessity
of landscaping and ornamenting the
land so acquired. This will necessitate
more money and it should be giver
unstintedly. The people of Pennsyl-
vania should feel toward Harrisburg
the way Mr.. MacFarland would have
the people of the nation at large fee
toward Washington-that it is theii
city and that they owe it to them
selves to assist its residents in making
it model municipality in every re-
spect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

AS to the truth Of this thousands OF
unemployed men to-day are living
testimonials. When this newspaper
during the campaign of 1912, in a
series of reprint cartoons, warned its
readers against a repetition of the
Cleveland tariff slashing, Democrats
laughed its forebodlngs to scorn and
voters in mistaken but loyal devotion
10 lost cause persisted in a course
that placed Democrat in the White
House. who, as MIR. Mills well said
"has fulfilled our most dismal fears
and made us true prophets at the
expense Of the country"
During the first four months of the
new tariff there were imported s47.-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

A story sent from South Bethlehem
to the Philadelphia Ledger last night
said: In the morning Palmer and
, Mccormick will appear before a mo-
ton picture machine. The films taken
are to be shown through the State.
Mr.. Palmer will probably return to
Washington tomorrow, while Mr.. Nc
/ Cormick will proceed to Harrisburg.
James I Blakslee, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General. and Wilson Bal
ley, fiscal agent of the State commit
tee, Joined the party at South Bethle-
hem"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

Mayor Royals nonpartisan spirit has
not interfered with his aspirations to
be member of the Democratic State
committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
FAILURE OF DEMOCRATS

GDEN L. MILLS, in a speech
on the first year of the Wilson
y administration, sums up the
situation thus;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
WASHINGTON AND HARRISBURG

TN a plea for national support for
the improvement of Washington.
/ the capital city of the nation, Henry
B. MacFarland, former president of
the Board of District Commissioners,
says:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
PUBLISHED BY

Published every evening Except SUN
day. at the Telegraph Building. ZIG
Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

tt IS TlulCuIOUS 70 Imagine that
George Washington, the founder,
and Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison, who specially aided him,
or that anybody else expected the
few people so brought to Washing
ton, or those who might come
afterward to carry out the splendid
plan of a National Capital. or even
to maintain the city of the nation.
1t is evident from all the official
reports and utterances that the
national Government itself was TO
furnish the money for the making
of the common capital
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

The problem of yesterday may
have been how TO live. .cheaply; that
of to-day is how to live at all
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
4 CHINESE ORATOR

ENIUS," said Mendelssohn,
~ lis industry" Perhaps it is
~ very largely the capacity for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18
EFFICIENCY THE KEYNOTE

w YH1LE their Democratic oppo-
NA/ nents are raving over the
!" awful partisanshp of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-18

DIR. ]. T. Rothrock, the former for
estry commissioner who is to be hon
ored at a 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.
The Ordway new era., 1914-09-18
Lyceum Numbers
Are All Excellent

The women Of the Thursday After
noon club who, last spring, announced
that they would open public library
in Ordway. at least on small scale.
will soon have the books gathered and
listed ready for use. They asked
donations OF books and while there
we're great many who promised they
would turn over one or more, up until
last week none OF the books had been
rendered. NJ. s. Slaughter. manager
Of the Ordway Electric Light and
Power company made the first de-
livery. He brought eight volumns to
The New Era ONCE last week TO be
placed in the library.
The club has not been meeting dur
Ing the summer months but the Hrst
OF the fall gatherings will be held
5000 and final arrangements made for
getting 10 every volumn that has been
promised. The club has arranged for
spacS is tdesN On Era oflfee wlere the
books will be died and numbered to he
issued the same as in all libraries.
The Ordway new era., 1914-09-18
Books For Public
Library Donated

The Redpath line OF attractions
which are to be put on here during
the fall and winter under the auspices
OF the Ordway schools, are among the
best that can be secured for lyceum
course work. There is not 4 one but
what is high class and it will afford
the people OF Ordway and vicinity ex-
cellcnt entertainment.
A representative OF the lyceum
bureau was here for several days the
latter part OF last week and the first
OF this week contracting for tickets.
The success met with assured the
school faculty well patronized course
OF entertainments.
The Ordway new era., 1914-09-18
Outlines His Plans
For Another Year

e. E. Hnsier, one OF the largest
growers Of cantaloupes In this district
is already outlining his work for next
season. Mr.. HOsler like most OF the
other growers, failed to,reslize on his
crop this season but that is not going
to keep him from putting iu good
acreage next year He has grown
melons successfully ever since the
,sInk meat caDsa loape ga me into exis,.
ence aud has made moo ey. He has
already marketed enough melons To
have netted him els. 900 to sls 600,
had the price been as good as in form
er years. while on the other hand.
even with his output. he will fall
short OF realizing sufficiently on this
acreage to meet the cost OF produc-
tiOn.
Hosler is a sticker. however, and
proposes to remain right In the game
and win, which he will, without a
doubt. He is already harvesting can
taluupe seed, not only for his own use
but for the market. He has nine acres
he raised for seed melons, aud will
have about 5000 pounds. These mel
ons were grown from the choicest
seeds and were cared for during the
season with view Of not only keep
ing up the original quality Of the pink
meat melon, but also further perfect
ing 1t.
The Ordway new era., 1914-09-18
Aviator Dashes
To Instant Death
Cooke is Killed at Pueblo As
He Was Closing Fine
Exhibition

Weldon B. Cooke. the aviator who
made several flights at the state fair
In Pueblo this week, was killed at
about 1O:45 Wednesday morning at the
close OF a remarkable exhibition
flight. He had circled over the fair
grounds several times and soon after
he dipped his bi plane to make land
ing, it shot almost straight to the
ground and dashed the driver to death
and totally wrecked the machine.
Cooke started on his descent at a
45-degree angle. but that position was
kept for about 400 or 500 feet. when
the machine seemed to take a code.
gree angle position and shot to the
Rround. landing just outside the fair
Frpbuds to the south Of the grand
stand. The body OF the aviator was
picked from the wreckage and re.
moved tb an undertaking parlor. and
the. afeckage placed under guard.
= Ceuke was married and his wife was
In Pukblo with him.