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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
STORY RITEN'


There is a gink what is a good bit of
nut. says he would give a $1,000 for
a gurl, so 1 thought i'd advertize him
little, and mebby the gurl I'd give me
when she gets the money.
This here fello ses he has the money
in the Dauphin deposit lookup, and
sez he means bisness. but l don't think
there's much chanSt for him gettin the
gurl even if he does offer 81, 900 for her,
because he's more or less nut as
to the gurl herself and not to no agent
but I'm figgerin that the gurl might
give me some of 1t for this ad. which
is the reason I'm settin it up.
This guy is natral-born crouch but
he sez he wants a d-natchured guTl
who must be. abel TO. cook haln-and-
eggs and smile on all ockaShunS. for
which he scz he'll turn over his pay
envilip regler every week to her to do
the marketiE with and buyin Spring
hats, etc. All he wants is = quarter a
week to got tobacco with; and he never
makes a fool of hisself on this amount
he sez.
she must be ither bruinett or kemi-
kel blonde; blue eyes or brown or
green; not over five foot ten, not under
four foot-seyen; must be corn-fed but
to be capaoel TO boss things and main
tain peace In the family.
Anywhere between Is and 80 will do,
ne SEE, and she must be abel to talk
a bluc streak. but with some sense in
her conversashun, even If it is about
stiles and wimen's topicks of talk.
which can be made artisticlS IL wanted
to be made so.
l aint been awtherized to do this
adevrtisin and mebbe the fello will
Kick me a kupple times for doin it, but
I'm tellin the truth and hope somcthin'll
come of 1t so as l get a few dollars
which need very nnuchly, Spring comm
on and my old SCOT gettin shiny. APP
piickants for the $1,000 can rite me
through the mail and I'll get 1t to the
fello alIrite. II the glfrl wants to she
guy can come round and look at her
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
POSTING PRIMARY RETURNS

support will be found
- all over Pennsylvania for a bill
= presented in the House last night
by Representative Powell, Of Lu-
zerne county, requiring the posting
of primary election returns. Through
some oversight the primary bills have
not provided for posting of this I'M
portant information, and as a result
where an election board was in a
hurry or wanted to be disobliging,
through some kink of human nature.
or wanted TO hide what had happened,
it Just forgot" to post the vote results
and let folks guess. The trouble such
practices have caused is well known
to people in this county and prob
ably to q greater extent in the anthra-
cite region whence Mr. Powell halls.
Under the bill, the posting of pri-
mar returns is made mandatory, Just
like the posting OF general election
figures. 1t becomes the duty of the
election board to post. While the bill
lacks a penalty clause, it will doubt
less correct an annoying omission
of the primary acts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

states to act as an emergency corps
in case the United States should be-
come embroiled in the European mix
up or be suddenly attacked by some
foreign nation. The fact that Major
General Wood has given the plan his
endorsement and that such a recog-
nized authority as ex-President Roose-
Welt has written a letter approving the
proposal. gives the movement a
weight that it would not have were 1t
put forward as the thought of some
less prominent personages.
As Colonel Roosevelt well put it, it
is to be hoped that there will be no
war. but the surest way to avert war
is to be prepared for it and the only
way to avert disaster is by preparation,
both naval and military. in advance of
comes more and more apparent that
certain European influences are striv-
ing to bring this country into the world
conflict now in progress and the best
way to discourage such efforts is to
let everybody know that we are not
as helpless in a military way as it may
appear or that, realizing our helpless
ness, we are providing remedy for
the defect.
Nobody in America desires to build
up large standing army. Enforced
military service is abhorent to the very
principles on which our government
is founded. The maintenance of very
large National Guard also might meet
with much objection, but surely no
body would stand in the way of organ
izing a reserve force of 250,000 men
experienced in land and naval warfare
to stand between the regularly con-
stituted military forces of the land
and the private citizen with no knowl-
edge of the rules of the war game.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
RESPOND LITERALLY

THE churches of Harrisburg re-
sponded literally to the call of
\ the Home and Foreign War
Relief Committee for money to
provide much needed aid for the un-
employed of Harrisburg. A large ma
jority of the Sunday schools took up
special collections, many of them eX-
ceeding $25 in amounts.
If every one of the 100 churches had
done as we'll as those who reached the
high water mark, the treasury of the
committee would have been enriched
by more than $2,500. AS it is the
probabilities are that enough will have
been realized by these church contri-
buttons to keep the committees work
going until warm weather shall have
made it possible to give employment
to large number of men who have
been idle since outdoor improvements
were halted by freezing temperatures
last December.
The Sunday schools have set very
good example. 1t is to be hoped that
the fraternal and social organizations
will respond as generously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

In two yeurs. II must care for its
roads and its schools, establish work
mems compensation administration
and maintain its great work for hui
manity through its Health depart
ment; 1t is required to keep up vari-
Gus departments which deal with the
people, their lives, their business and
their utilities. 1t is obligated to town
ships for $5,o0o.OOO for aid for roads
and the demands of the wards of the
State are greater than ever before.
1t is time for careful figuring and
local charities may have to call more
on the people they serve than in years
gone by. The State has many new de-
mands and some which have grown in
the last few years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

u ~
N/ city landscape architect, is
w nothing if not practical. His
greatest value to Harrisburg
has been his ability to combine the
decorative with the utilitarian. His
plan to cover the newly-filled river
bank above "Hardscrabble" with the
hardy, rapidly growing matrimony
vine will not only turn that bare slope
of earth into a beautiful green bed
OF matted plant life within year, but
will give the bank permanency that
it could not have if it were planted
with grass or sodded.
The matrimony vine is modestly
beautiful at all seasons Of the year.
II blossoms very prettily in yhe spring
time, is green during the summer and
most of the winter, and during the
autumn and winter is covered with
brilliant scarlet berry that renders it
very effective as a landscape deco
ration, particularly so when the ground
is covered with snow, against which it
stands out in strong contrast
Self-appointed critics of City Coun-
ell have been censuring the Park Com
missioner for having purchased the
earth with which this fill was made
because rise in the river has carried
away some small sections of the newly
dumped earth. This criticism is IN
Just The fill was made not only be-
cause it was necessary for the i'm
provement of that very important
stretch of parkway, but because it was
insistently demanded by the people of
the uptown district, who find in the
River Park their only convenient
breathing space during warm months.
Mr.. Taylor would have been cen
sured severely, and very properly so.
il he had neglected the opportunity
which the excavation at the new Penn
sylvania freight station in the lower
end of the city afforded him. 1t will
Ire years before so much good, solid
fll' will be again at the disposal of
he city. Had not Mr.. Taylor taken
advantage o. the chance &c purchase
this large quantity of earth, the people
OF the entire upper end would have
been left without any park develoD-
ment along tho river and this very i'm
portant stretch OF parkway would
have remained the unsightly dumping
eround for ashes and what-not that II
has been for the past ten years.
1t was TO oe supposed that a freshet
such as has been experienced during
the past week would carry away some
of the filled-in ground. That must
necessarily continue until the fill has
been properly anchored by such treat
ment as Mr.. Manning proposes, and
until the efficacy of this planting is
demonstrated adverse criticism of the
city authorities with respect to this
development is unjustified and unfair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
LETERSTOTHE:ED!T0R


To the Editor of the Telegraph:
There can be no question as to the
advisability of repeating the full crew
law, being a law that was enacted on
the initiative of certain politicians in
an attempt to satisfy certain element,
and small element at that whose de-
mands are becoming insistent, and of
which they are many members, who, in
private conversation, freely admit that
II works an unnecessary hardship on
the railroads. and is of no benefit to the
public.
AS to the matter of properly manning
trains, there can be no doubt as to
where the railroad managers stand. 1t
Is to the interest of every railroad to
have its trains fully manned, aside
from Statutory requirements.
Common sense should tell people that
railroads will not care, nor dare, to
take a chance with an undermined
train, that they demand quickness in
all their movements and must avoid ac-
cidents. AN OBSERVER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

The Southwest Greenspurg police
can stand for some things, but by
cracky! when a speakeasy begins to
charge dollar a bottle for ten-cent
beer just because K happens to be
Sunday, the law in that peaceful viii
lage can't help but get its dander up
The officers in Squire ]. Q. Truxals
office had long been watching the house
kept by John A. Meyers, and so when
they heard of the insult which the pro-
prietor was adding to injury they up
and raided the place.
John Morgan, an Englishman, of Ellis
worth, mining community near Char
leroi. is said to be in critical condi-
ton as result of slapping Miss Sadie
Bytheway. buXom young maiden of
those parts, at a party the other night
1t Is related that the young man was
attending a dansant with Sadie. and
that because she hesitated with hated
rival, he slapped her right out in front
of everybody. Sadie got busy with her
strong right. John has taken a turn
for the worse, which may give the grim
reaper another sheaf.
Is our neutrality calculated to stand
wear and tear?-Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Thomas Martin, prominent in
Hazleton and vicinity, ,has been named
a director of the Middle Coal Field
poor district.
Senator w. S. Kenyon. OF Iowa, is
to speak in Pittsburgh on Friday
night.
DIR. w. B. Ewing. OF Pittsburgh, is
in charge of arrangements for the
semicentennial of the Allegheny
County Medical Society.
Thomas Mellon, of jeanette, is on
a trip to California.
DR.. a. s. Slayer, well-known AL
toona physician, has been appointed
surgeon of one of the national homes
in the South.
The Rev. DR.. Edwin II. Rice has
retired from religious editorial work
after almost 10 years service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
ON THE FIRING LINE


~ OVERNOR BRUMBAUGH went
out on the firing line last night.
~ He took the peoples commits
sion and sounded a call for the
men elected to do the peoples will to
rally and make the charge for local
option.
There was not much doubt about
where the Governor stood on local op-
ton in the recent campaign, and he
reiterated it when he learned OF his
election by a majority over his rivals
a majority gained from the State out
side of the two big counties. Around
inauguration time there were sounds
that indicated he was testing his
guns and his deliverances at Reading
and at Philadelphia last week We're
notices that he was getting ready to
fight to carry out his pledge. Last
night he issued the call to duty and
he expects the members of the Legis-
lature to give him their aid.
While the Governor showed con-
siderable reluctance as to an alterna-
tive, he let it be known pretty plainly
that the members who vote against the
local option bill can expect to have
the fight of their lives on the local
option issue at home in the next pri-
mary campaign. The Governor is
supported by many of the home folks,
too, and the wise legislator will stop
and consider his future, If his present
inclinations should be to vote against
the Williams bill.
The Governor is out on the firing line
and there is going to be action.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
DEMOCRATS FEAR
BIG PARTY REVOLT
Morris Worried Lest the Dissatis-
faction Culminate in Attack
on Leadership
BOSSES HUNTING SOME CASH
Do Not Want to Saddle Debt on
Themselves; Governor Names
Philadelphia Judge

Democratic State bosses fear an out
break of the plain people among the
Democrats because of the arbitrary
manner in which they have been
doling out post offices and turning
down men of years of service in the
party ranks. Stories are afioat that
the visit of Morris and Mccormick to
Western Pennsylvania was to head off
n revolt which may come after the
Legislative session, and that they are
considering getting active to give some
excuse for running the machine.
As a result it is said that the
ringmaster's committee may be recon-
stituted and efforts made to create a
noise by presenting bills to be knocked
down. This would furnish opportun-
ity for loud outcries and give the pub
licity committee something to talk
about later on.
The bosses are also said to desire
to arouse some party sentiment in
the hope of getting cash to pay off the
debts. The party workers are ad
verse to contributing, feeling that the
men who stood a chance of protiting
by the election should pay the bills for
the recent rout.
The machine is in a bad way and
no one seems to love the bosses, who
are also said to be in disfavor at
Washington because of their failure
TO get results and to be due for some
sharp turndowns.
Governor Brumbaugh last night
named William II. Shoemaker. a
prominent Philadelphia lawyer, to be
judge Of Philadelphia courts, to sue
ceed the late Judge Kinsey. He was
endorsed by many prominent men.
The Senate will act upon ii next week.
The successor to Judge Wilson who
is about to retire, will not be named
until April. The Governor also named
/. j. Hortsman to be an inspector of
the Eastern Penitentiary to succeed
the late r. A. Balfour
E. Lowry Humes, former member
from Crawford and now United States
district attorney for Western Penn
sylvania, was at the Capitol.
"A hearing on the Spangler county
officers salary bill is being given this
afternoon.
Morris Knowles, prominent in
water projects in the western end of
the State, was at the Capitol to-day
Representative Garner last night
took steps to have the bill regulating
acid lubricating oil sent to the mines
and mining committee. The chair
man and members of the labor and
industry committee do not know any
thing about OIL said he.
Local appropriation bills were
presented last night as follows: Mr..
Wildman. Nursery Home, $4,000, in
cluding $4,000 for building, and
Children's Industrial Home. $4,000,
and by Mr.. Nissley, Messiah Home,
$4,000.
Representative James A. Dunn, of
Philadelphia, says that if the flood of
letters on the full crew repeal keeps
up, he favors bill to allow each
member a secretary.
Elk Representative C. F.. Caroth-
crs. of Washington, was at the Capitol
to look after Panama Exposition mat
ters.
The general appropriation bill went
back to committee very promptly last
night.
IT. B. Foley. inspector Of the West
ern Penitentiary, and j. Denny O'Neil
Allegheny county commissioner, We're
Capitol visitors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
IT II E II A L L.
NJ A r K s OF
STATION.
THINK TWICE
by Wing DinEer

Twas in the middle of the night
That wiley said to me.
Il think burglars in the house;
Go right down stairs and see.'
OF course, I thought that she was
wrong,
And started cross the floor
To play the part of hero bold,
But stopped short at the door.
For suddenly there came to me
\ little chill of fright
As there popped in my head the thought
by jove, she may be right"
Did 1 go down the stairs? oh. yes,
on that tits safe to bet,
But not before some noise was made
by chair or two upset.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
DOY0U KN0W=
That Harrisburg is one OF the
big centers OF the corn trade in
this part of the State?
"Hello
Send Me

Shopping by telephone is on the
increase. Telephone companies
encourage 1t by good service and
by newspaper advertising.
With phone shopping the de-
mand for standard advertised
products also increases.
People like to call for definite
things by name when they shop
via the wire.
1t insures quality and value
and their getting exactly what
they want.
This is one of the reasons why
newspaper advertising is so eff
fective for the national adver-
tiser.
Telephone and newspaper are
daily companions In nearly every
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
STATE MUST GO SLOW

4 GENERAL appropriation bill
n carrying s46,955,722.42 at the
I y go-off is steep even for wealthy
Pennsylvania. It does not fol-
low that the draft presented to the
Legislature last night by Mr.. Wood
ward to provide for the expenses of
government for two years will be
passed that way or approved that way
If it should pass. The bill represents
the estimates of the heads of depart
ments and some of them conceived
their requests with more zeal than
modesty.
The truth is that Pennsylvania has
something like s6O.OOO.O0O to spend
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
A FIRST RESERVE CORPS

THERE is good sense and practial
judgment behind the announce
n ment from New York that Cap
tain Gordon Johnson, aid-de-
camp to Major General Leonard Wood,
has undertaken the organization of an
American Legion of 250,OOO men
formerly connected with the army and
navy and the militia Of the various
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Time is endlessly long, and
every day is Q vessel into which
much may be poured, If one will
readily fill it up.-Goethe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
o. HARRI SsVRe FIFN
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
INAUGURATION PLANS

Many of the citizens of this city
will attend the Inauguration cere-
monies at Washington. Business will
be suspended in the large cities and
big celebrations are being planned
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Far be 1t from us to doubt the Ger
man Chancellor's statement that his
people love the Belgians but we shud-
der to think of their fate should the
Teutons ever get mad at them -
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Washington, March 2.-Rebel presi-
dent JEFFERSON Davis has called a con-
vention of the Southern States. The
attack from Grant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
FIRENIEN ARRIVE

Eighty members of the Good Will
Fire Company. of Philadelphia, arrived
here at noon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
DELAWARE GOVERNOR DEAF
CALLS STATE CONVENTION

Dover, March 1.-Governor Cannon
died this morning after short illness
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
MW6a{ s RH57lRSsFSFEkAe
REBEL CAUSE UPHELD BY N. j.

Trenton, March /. Tho antislavery
was defeated to-day in the
New Jersey Legislature by go to 80
vote.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
COMMANDER ON BUSINESS "TRIP

Major John T. Morgan is in this city
on military business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Is our neutrality calculated to stand
wear and tear?-Wall Street journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02
RIVER BANK PLANTING

II. MANNING, the
M city landscape architect, is
w nothing if not practical. His
L.. IL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Among visitors to the city yesterday
was James S. Benn, city editor of the
Philadelphia North American and
well known to many people in this
part of the State. He went to the Capt.
tol to see the Legislature work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

~ oVERNOR BRUMRAUGH went
out on the firing line last night.
~ He took the peoples commits
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Governor Brumbaugh and Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth Cyrus f.
Wood will be speakers at the dinner
of the Lafayette College alumni in
Philadelphia on Saturday night. Last
Saturday the Governor spoke to
Swarthmore men,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

One can always tell when there have
been out-of-town visitors to the Capi-
tol and it is not always by the stuffed
condition of the squirrels and the Iazi-
ness and well fed air of~the pigeons,
says one of the men connected with
the park. 1t is the number of papers
used for wrapping films. The other
morning he says he counted six of the
black papers scattered along the old
boardwalk"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-02

Attendance at the farmers institutes
held last week in Dauphin county was
the best in recent years and ii is at
tributed to the fine weather and the
improved condition of the roads. The
farmers went long distances to attend
the meetings and the questions asked
indicated a big interest in intensive
FARMING and soil conservation. There
Is also much interest being shown in
siios and a number have been built in
this section.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-06
CLOSING THE GAPS

st. Augustine, Sept. 3.-Everyone
will be pleased to know that the brick
highway through st. Johns county
will be completed by Thanksgiving.
There yet remains to be paved several
miles southwest of New Augustine
and another long stretch in the south
ern end of the county. The work of
paving these two stretches will be
pushed with all possible speed and
the contractors positively assert that
all will be completed by the end of
November. The contractors have
practically year yet in which to
complete the contract but they will
beat this time limit by about nine
months.
While the people will rejoice upon
the completion of the ST. Johns county
brick highway, they will also regret
the fact that something is not being
done by the Duval county authorities
to hard surface the four-mile stretch
in Duval county just north of the st.
Johns county line. This four miles of
heavy sand spoils the pleasure of the
tour from St. Augustine to Jackson
vile. From all that can be learned
there is no immediate relief from this
deplorable condition in sight. How
ever, it does seem as though the Du-
val county commissioners should be
able to provide some immediate re-
lief if only with a temporary road
dressing so as to make the going a
little more pleasant and safe for the
automobilists.-T Times Union.
The many people from Ocala and
vicinity who travel the automobile
road from Ocala to Jacksonville can
appreciate the necessity of closing UP
these two short gaps, by far the
worst pieces of road in the lao miles
With the exception of these two lit
tie gaps, and about five miles between
] Hawthorne and Evinston, the entire
distance is over good roads. These
little gaps are allowed to go from
bad to worse and absolutely nothing
in the way of repairs is ever made or
them simply because the authorities
"expect to pave them some day."