Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-17
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Governor Brumbaugh remarked to a
friend the other day that he had just
as much trouble with the little bills as
the big ones and that some of a few
lines were just as difficult to handle
as those of twenty pages. AS a mat
ter of fact, there have been half a
dozen bills of less than six lines each
this session which have been of mo-
mentous Importance. The full crew
repeater is not very large bill and
yet it has potentialities as great as
some of the bills of fifty times it's size
The largest bill to be signed was the
borough code and the shortest were a
couple of repealers. One bill was only
three lines long. The Governor has
literally isolated himself since he be-
gan to act on bills. He took them seri-
ously and after reading the briefs and
memoranda filed on them by the At
torney General and his assistants.
heads of departments or people inter-
ested he often sent them back with
some of those barbed-wire questions in
his scratchy handwriting. These ques-
tions were on little slips of paper
which bore the legend Governors
memoranda" and more than one de-
partment chief found that the Gov
ernor came back pretty strong when
he thought he had given an expla-
nation that would suffice. DR.. Brum-
baugh set some precedents in acting
on bills and the State has not gotten
used to them.
A man who is very fond of cherries
and who has a number of trees in
which he takes great pride has come
TO the conclusion that there is only
one way to prevent robins from steal
ing the fruit. He has tried various
schemes, including placing a stuffed
cat in tree and hanging bits of glass
or tin on branches so that when the
wind blew 1t would cause them to
make sounds and also to reflect the
sunlight. The other day. he said,
nothing worked and q neighbor sug-
gested that he hang bells in the trees.
4 ou might sit around and ring the
bells, too" remarked the friend. The
next night he heard a regular dinner
bell rung at intervals. His cherry
loving neighbor had concluded that
he was trying to kid" him and, seeing
storm was due, hung a dinner bell
where the wind would have full sway
1t did.
Curious phraseology frequently ap-
pears in the wills admitted to probate
from time to time by Register of Wills
Roy c. Danner, but it is doubtful il
any instrument more unique in its lam
guage has ever been filed in Dauphin
county than the last testament of
Benjamin Brenner. The will was writ
ten in the original Hebrew and is the
first of the kind penned in that lam
suage to be probated in this country,
David F. Baker, the official court in
terpreter worked several hours on
the will in translating it to English.
In closing the will Brenner wrote:
"a 1afY T
wish that this will be recognized as
those of the best wills written" The
instrument, by the way, was dated
May 26, 1912, but the date as written
by Bremen is fixed in ancient Hebrew
as follows: 18th day Swan, in the
Some real problems in finance mod
eled upon the kind that the country's
captains of industry frequently
work out in practice are often in
cluded in the course of study pre-
scribed for the local school of the
Wharton school of finance of the Uni
Versity of Pennsylvania. An assistant
to one Of the trust officers in a leading
banking institution recently exhibited
just such problem with a pardonable
air or pride. "Of course, I'm not
plan of the Wabash railroad for float
ing bond issue" The student mod
estly admitted that he had solved the
problem.
CLOSED for repair a small sign
hanging for several weeks on the
elevator of the Post Office building.
TO which an addition is being built,
meant climb the stairs if you wanted
to get to one of the offices on the
upper floors. But the elevator boy.
not being busy, just strolled in to see
how the old piece of machinery was
and also if his sign was still working.
We'll, who in thunder did that?"
were his first words. Someone had
crossed out the word repair" and sub
stituted another so that the sign read
CLOSED for Ever"
Speaker Charles A. Amber, who
was here a day or so ago to see the
Governor about the Fourth of July
celebration in Philadelphia, says that
the indications are that it will be ono
of the most notable events of the kind
ever held and that it is the plan to
make it the first of an annual cele-
bration which shall be national in
scope