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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
HALLOWEEN

IF, perchance, as you sit quietly
perusing the columns of thu Tele-
graph this evening, smoking your
after dinner cigar and luXuriating in
the comforts of your easy chair, there
should come an unearthly rattle on
the window, or bang on the front
step like the explosion of a baby bomb,
or the electric bell starts ringing as
though it never intended to stop, don't
leap from your seat with a nerve
jangling yell and begin to "cuss" the
"disreputable young scamps who have
no regard for other folks feelings"
Sit quiet for a moment and let your
thoughts wander back over the years.
1t will be less jarring to the nervous
system and you may stir up a remi-
niscent grin or two.
Do you remember how you used to
sneak into old Man Jones cornfield
to. "snitch" few ripe ears for Hal
lowe'en? Only the chances are you
called it Hollow Eve" Do you recol-
lect how you raided Mrs. Browns cab
bagc patch a night or two before in
order 10 have the "stumps" that stood
in such high favor then as implements
of torture for sensitive front doors :?
Have you forgotten how you cut UP
Pops" garden hose for the manu-
facture of the same kind of tools,
and devised window tappers out of
nails and strings and "rattlers" out of
well nicked spools?
Wasn't it funny when Old Man
Smith ran repeatedly to his front door
when you pulled the end of the rope
YOU had tied to the handle of his bell
from safe distance across the street? +?
How you did laugh when you threw a
handful of corn against the Gordon
Farthingtons new plate glass door, at
the same time smashing a pane of
glass on the marble step outside :?
How the whole family did rush out
in alarm to inspect the damage, and
how sheepishly they did return? Also
you will recollect, no doubt, of the
time you induced little Willie Jones
TO attack Mother Smiths front door
when you knew she was. waiting with
dishpan full of water at the window
just above.
All, those were indeed the good old
days, when mysterious spirits induced
horses to walk up stairs to the top of
church steeples, when huge wagons
flew in most marvellous fashion to
stable tops and when doorsteps con-
tracted the unpleasant habit of wan
dering squares from home.
Human nature hasn't changed much
since those times. Neither have bows
If you are going TO get angry and
rave because prank-playing lads are
doing to you just what you found so
much pleasure in doing to others. then
it is you who have changed; not for
the better, either. And if you never
celebrated Halloween in boisterous
boy manner. then you never were a
boy and you ought to be ashamed to
admit it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. T. Dice, the Reading vice.
president, is taking a big interest in
the training of men for military duty.
S. D. Warmer, who was one of
the Wilkes-Barre strike arbitration
board, is prominent in Lehigh coal af-
fairs.
City Solicitor Ryan, of Philadel-
phia, proposes to have the supreme
court act on the Philadelphia library
site matter.
DIR. ]. f. Edwards, Pittsburgh
health director, says that Pittsburgh
has the largest birth rate of any city
of it's size in the land.
William Loeffier, prominent Pitts.
burgher, has been appointed a mem
Der of the Pittsburgh Board of Edu-
cation by the judges of Allegheny
county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
SWITZERLAND TRAINS ITS BOYS

lNNHiiSeo lily DldT.
On August l of last year the call for
Swiss mobilization was issued. Two
days later the nations army was
ready-an army of about three hun
dred thousand men. This efficiency
was due to the Swiss system of uni
Versal military training, which is of
particular interest at this time in the
discussion of preparedness. ...
AT the age of 8 every Swiss school
boy begins course of physical train
ing in the school. This training is
under the supervision of the federal
war department. At the same time
the schoolboy is given instruction in
a cadet corps, in which he has rifle
practice.
From 16 to 20 every boy gets
weekly training under the direction of
army officers. When he is 20 years
old he serves for siXty-seven days in
school for recruits, and after that
serves a fortnight each year until he
is 20. For the next four years he
belongs to the first line, although he
need not report for service. From 80
to AZ he belongs to the second line
Members of this line are inspected
annually and are called to the colors
for week every other year. Rifle
contests are held to keep up the in
terest and efficiency of the men.
BY means of this system Switzer%
land has been able to present a for
midable enough front to insure the
respecting of her neutrality, without
resorting to the extreme military sys-
tenn of the great nations of Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
SETTLING" MEXICAN PROBLEM
IPhiladelnhia North American.l

Recognition was denied to Victoriano
Huerta because he had obtained au-
thority by force, and is granted to
Carranza for the same reason. Huerta
was repudiated, although he repre-
sented the de facto govArnment, and
Carranza is indorsed solely because he
is in the same position. Defiance by
Huerta brought upon him armed at
tack, and defiance by Carranza earned
for him approval. Huerta was driven
into exile because 1t was held that his
regime would produce disorder, and
Carranza is supported after having
participated in two years of anarchy.
This is called a settlement" of the
Mexican problem. But nowhere, not
even in Washington, is there any
cause it has been made necessary by
strong confidence, that it is more than
another experiment, more justifiable
than those which preceded it only be-
circumstances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

The hardest man in the world to
cross-eXamine, declares a great lawyer.
Is the man who's been thrice married.
According to all reports the average
American-made dye is fast only when
it starts to run.
If you wipe your feet on the door
mat it's dollars to doughnuts you're
married.
II you gaze on the MONDAY lunch of
most two hundred and twenty pound
ers, you'll know why the fat mans
fat.
vote for the fire apparatus loan
may not be vote for lower lnsur-
ance rate, but it will be a vote for a
better protected town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
EDITORIAL COrN1ENT

1t is = just boast that Philadelphia
is the best lighted city in the country,
but there are some things we haven't
yet turned the light on.-Philadelphia
Press.
One thing is certain-those Austri-
ans can't possibly burn the streets of
Fenice.-York Dispatch.
Sing Sing has a new safe for its
conVlcts. Something to practice on
Whlle they are waiting for larger fields
and pastures new, probably.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
babies have right to cry, rules a
Gotham judge. Well supposing they
haven't. Who's going to stop 'em?-
Allentown Chronicle and News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
The State From Day to Day

Hell may he paved with good inten-
tions, but the supporting pillars are
the gossipers," says the New Castle
News, editorially, in an attack upon
the satellites of Dame Rumor and the
students of the school for Scandal,
with apologies to Sheridan.
Resolved, That President Woodrow
Wilson should be reelected in 1916
was the question for debate before the
Swarthmore seniors recently. First
prize went to the negative, whose con-
vincing arguments were condemna-
/ ton of the President for his Vacilla-
ting policy in foreign affairs and the
return to the spoils system
| The marriage of. one Joshua How
ard has been given publicity in the
late Emporium papers, but the friends
of the Hon. Josiah of the same name
who formerly lived in Williamsport
the incident is connected with the
Honorable Josiah.
| Temperance women in Chester are
waging a spirited campaign to obtain
$4,000 to build themselves a new and
suitable home.
Judge Groman is quoted by the AL
Ilentown Chronicle and News as say
ing that a judges job is not bed of
roses. Nor, we feel constrained to
add, do we find many jobs that come
under that category and are still ten
able.
One of our worthy contemporaries.
. RrA h.1
averted in it's early stages, said that
| "the threatening blaze was quenched
| in incipiency." Whereat many jes-
ters wrinkled their brows and made
shift to pun upon the. phrase.
Quoted from the Philadelphia Rec
ord: "William Mayer, of West Ches-
ter, is saving the hides of gray squir-
rels and will utilize them in the maxi
ing of coat lined with wool, the
hides forming the outer portion. He
already has nearly sufficient for the
purpose.
Ten children of the Gelbach fam
lily, of Glen Rock, average 226 pounds
2260 pounds. The three sons and
seven daughters are a healthy set of
youngsters, we opine.
Reading is going to construct an at
tractive boulevard, eighty feet wide,
to extend about q mile from the city
line, the cost to be $4,000.
Five hundred and flfty-five dollars in
bills was evidently too alliterative for
safety, because that amount went up
in smoke yesterday when the mother
of Mrs. -Welchance (the name was
rather unfortunately. of Sunbury. built
a fire in the stove where her daughter
had deposited said bills
Although the following is somewhat
out of our province, we have decided
to include it in this column to-day, in
the event of its being of some service.
Personal-If this should meet the eye
of j. Smith, come home. and you will
learn something to your advantage.
Your wife is dead. - Kincaid, Kan,
Dispatch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

What kind of people will the Wal
send to us is the question asked in
an article by Frederic C. Howe in the
current number of Scribner's Maya
zine. The article states hat immi-
grafton from southern Europe will
probably continue to predominant be-
cause such countries as Italy, Aus
tria- Hungary, Russia and the Balkan
States are not as efficiently organized
as are Germany, England and France
and in the former countries 1t will
be impossible to re-establish agri-
culture for many years to come.
| Further interesting discussion of the
Question shows a careful analysis OF
conditions and gives reliable informa-
tion on vital subject.
The following books on fiction, edu-
cational and historical subjects and
miscellaneous, have proven to be most
popular at the Harrisburg Public
Library at the present time:
A Far Country, by Churchill.
Thankfurs Inheritance, by Lincoln.
Jaffery. by Locke.
Pollyanna Grows Up, by Porter.
Michael o. Halloran, by Porter.
~ Dy flHeDaTI.
Germany of the Germans. by Berry.
Poems, by Riley.
Europe Revised, by Cobb.
Amazing Argentine, by Fraser.
Across Siberia Alone, by Lee.
The Melting Pot, by Zangwill.
Care of the Baby, by Griffith.
In the Oregon Country by Putnam.
Abroad at Home. by Street.
Bird Life, by Chapman.
Poems, by Dunbar.
My Life Out of Prison, by Lowrie.
Behind the Veil of the Russian
Court, by Vasili.
Housekeeper's Handy Book, by
Baxter.
Secrets of the Hohenzollerns, by
Graves.
How to Tell Stories to Children, by
Bryant.
Secret of an Empress, by zanardi-
Landi.
Electricity in Every Day Life, by
Manual of Engineering Drawing, by
French.
Boston Cooking School Book, by
Farmer.
Cattle Ranch to College, by Double
day.
elbow to BE Personally Efficient in
Business is the title of very clever
little book gotten out by the A. w.
Shaw Company giving 81 plans ,shd
shortcuts used by our most efficient
businessmen. The book is small and
compact and can be covered in a very
short time, but the information avail
able and the time that is certain to be
saved If the suggestions made are car
ried out, make it of great value to the
man who is constantly head over heels
in work and whose desk looks like the
editors office as pictured by the car
toonist. When You have read how
easy 1t is to accomplish your work i'm
half the time. you will wonder why
you never thought of the plan your
self, but therein lies the beauty of the
book--in it's simplicity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

countries now at war will try to find
outlets for their wares in the neutral
markets"
If Sweden, with its low wage scale,
thrifty and economical people, looks
with uneasiness at its industrial fu-
ture, how much more should we be
alert to the future, possessing, as we
do, the greatest market in the world.
And Sweden knows, because she Is
near the seat of war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
THE FAST DRIVERS
kansas City Times. !

IINdISdS NSILy Times.
With tho multiplication of cars
hardly a day goes by that does not
chronicle an accident in which people
are hurt or killed. There is Just one
cause for motor accidents. Just one.
Fast driving.
A Kansas editor remarked the 9TH
er day that nobody ever was run down
by a car going only eight miles an
hour. 1T can't be DONE" he said.
toned could safely be doubled.
It's the man who drives about town
faster than twenty miles an hour who
has the accidents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

(From the Telegraph, Oct. 29 1860
Improvement Association Organizes.
The Young Mems Mutual Improve
ment Association, organized recently,
has obtained headquarters and will
meet three evenings each week.
Society Elects Officers
officers for the coming year were
elected last night at a meeting of the
Harmonic Society in the Courthouse.
Counterfcits Being Circulated?
Residents of this city have been
warned to watch for counterfeit SEQ
bills which, it is said. are being circu-
lated in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
ECONOMIC SENSE FROM SWEDEN

n FEW optimists in America still
"A remain of the opinion that the
close of the European war will
find the nations engaged in that
struggle so prostrated that it will take
years for them to recover sufficiently
to become serious competitors of
American manufacturers, either for
our huge domestic market or in
foreign trade. Secretary Redfield was
once Of this opinion, but he has re-
Gently changed his tune, and is now
calling loudly for assistance in meet
ing the anticipated dilemma. For the
benefit of those who continue uncon-
vinced, the following translation from
the Swedish press, made in the Amer
lean legation at Stockholm, is sub
mitted: After the war is ended it ,s
expected that domestic manufacturers
will have to compete very strongly
with goods here in Sweden. tor the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

risburg. Four of these globes were
broken on a single night in the district
between "Hardscrabble" and Maclay
street. 1t ought not take very long to
discover the offenders and punish them
severely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20.

The people that aoalked in darkness
hdUe seen a great light: they that
dt0elt in the land Of the ShGdoW Of
death, upon them hath the light
Shined.-IS. 8: 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Wonder what the three Republican
Observation-Disclosures. Bowman. Tay-
lor and Lynch-have done to deserve
the lambasting which they receive from
day to day by the Democratic bosses
and their organ? They have not been
charged with any maladministratIon
and the average good citizen will nat
urally. hesitate to reject these public
servants simply that others may have
their places.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Uptown citizens. and there are a few
thousand of them. will approve City
Commissioner Taylor's interest in the
making of a fine park strip from
'Hardscrabble" northward and for es-
tablishing a playground in the Tenth
ward. -."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

1t Is square lineup in the alleged
nonpartisan fight for City Council be-
tween the Republicans and the Demo-
Gratis. Ex-Mayor Gross has chosen to
cast his lot with the Democratic COM
oination, having in a speech this week
attacked the three Republican members
of the present Council and defended
the two Democrats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

II City Commissioner Lynch-every-
body calls him "Btlly'-were not so
modest he could tell of the scores of
prominent and influential men in this
city who are giving him their support
In this campaign because he has made
good
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Every man. woman and child who
participated in the great municipal
celebration month ago is proud of
the fine display on that occasion and
especially pleased with the ornamental
lighting along the River Front and in
the central district. These lights stand
as monuments of the energy of the
Republican members of City Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
General Depression"

1t seems as II this most an
noying of all warriors, General
depression" has been put to
rout.
Certainly he is now beating a
most vigorous retreat.
Good crops, heavy European
trade, and General Optimism"
have been too much for him.
Business is reviving. Employ
ment is more numerous.
People are developing the buy
ing spirit.
Merchants and manufacturers
will find this a splendid time to
begin their newspaper advertis-
ing campaigns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The entrance of the first train
into Harrisburg was occasion of
a mass meeting back in 1885.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Captain Joseph p. Thompson, the act
ing Chief of Police, has determined
to put a stop t. the malicious breaking
of the large globes on the line of stand
ards along the front steps" of Har-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Those who are paying less for their
water than they did before City Com
missioner Bowman reduced the rates
are not going to forget him next Tues
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
AxIoMATIC

'Why did you quit your last place?
Wasn't your work congeniaI?"
Lady. no work is congenial"-De-
troit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg pavcments at
tract attention of Canadian Off
cials?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
Our Daily Laugh
A REGULAR
EXCUSE.

Does your hus-
band carry much
insurance?
I don't know the
exact amount, but
it's just enough so
that whenever I
want a new gown
or hat he always
manages to have
a premium to
meet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Dangerous busi-
ness getting en-
gaged-well-for
that matter it's
Just as dangerous
TO set off live fire.
crackers in the
parlor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Although the following is somewhat
out of our province, we have decided
to include it in this column to-day, in
the event of its being of some service.
Personal-If this should meet the eye
of j. Smith, come home. and you will
learn something to your advantage.
Your wife is dead. Kincaid, Kan,
dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

The above figures are net. All re-
turned, unsOId and damaged copies de-
Quoted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29

Published every evening Except Sun
day) at the Telegraph Building, 2l6
Federal Square. Both phones.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-13

Mitchell, Phi. D., Ii. D., of Della
ware College, will deliver the annual
Grafton before the literary societies.
DR.. Mitchell is well known to Virgin
ians, having been connected with
Richmond College, and having served
az president of Virginia Medical Col
lege. He was also president of the
University of South Carolina for a
number of years
Wednesday morning at 10 O'Clock
the graduating exercises will take
place. Addresses will be made by
representatives of the graduating
class. after which the degrees will be
conferred. This will be followed by
the awarding OF prizes and distinc-
tions. With few announcements the
commencement exercises will be over
A reception to invited guests VIII De
given in the library at $3.50.
AT an informal reception Thursday
evening President and Mrs. j. A.
Morehead entertained in honor OF
the senior class of Roanoke College
DR.. Morehead gave a short talk, wei
coming his guests and expressing his
unbounded good wishes for them IN
their future careers. Mr.. ]. e, Da.
Wis, president of the class responded
10 the welcome.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-13
SUM OF 1886. 100000
DISTRIBUTED BY LIFE.
INSURANCE COMPANIES

New York. June 1.-THE sum of
by life insurance companies in the
United States, and Canada, accord
ing to computations made by The In
surance Press, as set forth in it's is
of insurance distributions ever made
in any one year. and exceeds the dis
tributions of 1918 by s40.I5o, 900.
The insurance Press points out
editorially that the treat total is
nearly two-thirds OF the amount OF
the net national debt. and that it
equals the expenditures to November
1, 1914, for the purchase. construc-
ton, Notifications etc, of the Panama
Canal and the balance of the canal
bonds authorized. but not issued. 1T
was nearly equal" the insurance organ
Isays. Ito the ordinary disbursements.
exclusive of postal deficiencies. by the
United States government during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1914, for
the civil. war. and navy establish
ments pensions. Indian service and
the interest, OF the public debt
The largest individual claim paid
last year amounted to 100000 The
policy was held by George w. VAN
derbilt. of Washington. The COM
pany that Issued 1t reinsured s750.00
of the face amount. The policy was
on the twenty year plan and Mr..
Vanderbilt carried II for seventeen
years. paying premiums amounting to
$685., 900.
The four next highest policies were
held by residentss OF New York city,
and were as follows: Gustav Bau-
mann, $E5,7l4; Isaac Weingart. s375,-