Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-30
EVENING Chat

Bills providing for the designation
OF state flowers and State songs will
not get anywhere this session. They
| occupied considerable attention dur
ing the last General Assembly. but
. this year they will be put into the
very minor class, and If they get out
OF the committees To which they are
referred they will be lucky. Accord
ing TO gossip that is going the rounds
of the Capitol corridors. the legisla-
tors have taken to their hearts the
Very manifest desire of the peonle of
the State at large that few additional
laws be enacted, and while many of
them have asked the legislative Ref
erence Bureau TO draft bills. il is said
that some of them will be merely pre-
sented and not pressed. The legis-
latorS who stay here over the week
end are sitting up and taking notice
of the time and care being devoted
by Governor Martin G. Rrumbaugh
on the drafting of the compensation
act ana do not see much chance for
/. freak legislation. Some of the legis-
lators have voiced the idea that when
the people of the State take up one
song and sing with manifest zest then
II Will be time to designate n song
and they think that State flower bills
are more apt TO stir up time consum-
ing debate than anything else. The
changed and reprinted three times
last session and then died, after hav-
ing cost the State about $I00 for
printing, to say nothing of the expense
of reporting and printing the debates
in the Legislative Journal. Prospects
are that there viii be hands on
policy in regard to the school code
and that bills of small Importance will
occupy very minor place.
Everybody can tell story but
every person who tells a story does
not always get away with il. There
are stories old and new. Some folks
can tell an old story over and over
again and make n hit. Others are
dead failure unless il is a new story.
Irwin 5. Cobb told rather old story
to the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce on Thursday and got the laughs.
Ii was about the finding of a body of
a colored man along the gutter, stiff
and unconscious from the cold. Fail
ure to revive the colored man brought
the verdict that he was dead. The
ground was frozen too hard TO bury
the man, SO they decided to cremate
the body. The "Stiff." as Cobb refer
red to IT, was placed i'll the oven. The
next morning when the attendant
opened the door 20 collect the ashes
a voice from the oven called out, who
opened that door ana let in the draft"
THAT is an awful old story" said one
.of Cohb's hearers, a businessman,
after the luncheon. He remarked. -
told it at n dinner last week and was
asked TO tell something new"
The Harrisburg Rotary Club is one
OF the liveliest organizations in the
city. Recently the club dined ma
tional officers at the Harrisburg club.
while wives of members entertained a
number of visiting ladies elsewhere.
Now it is proposed that they get to-
gether for an evening and a ladies
night" to include dinner and a recep-
ton, has been announced for Tues
day, March .. \ similar affair last
year was one OF the most successful
entertainments in the history of the
club. In addition there will be a
meeting of the club next Tuesday
evening at the store of George w.
Bogar. II North Market Square, and
on February 2S many of the Ro-
tarians will go to Philadelphia to at
tend the decennial of Rotary by the
clubs of the eastern division of the
international body. John c. Orr,
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee, is in charge of arrangements
and it is expected that the enrolment
will be large enough to warrant a
special car.
Employees of the Harrisburg Rail-
ways Company are laughing these days
at a story told by a conductor running
on the Hill lines.
II never was able to find any pie
or cake in my bucket" the story-teller
explained, and in due time / took the
matter up with my better seven
eights."
why. John. certainly 1 put pie in
your bucket insisted the Missus."
so we made a joint investigation
and found that my 5-year-old heir
who brought my lunch box to my car
each day. was opening the bucket and
helping himself to those things which
he particularly relished and which he
probably thought would make his
daddy sick.
I hated TO thrash the youngster. so
I bought a lock for the bucket. kept
one key and gave a second to my wife.
But I neglected to tell her 1 had one
of the keys in my pocket.
Next day my box came down, with
the lock tight shut, but no pie. This
time I decided to raise the deuce and
did
why I locked the box explained
my wife. and gave the key to Johnny
to give 10 you
Johnny had used the key. I used
the stick.
Enos II. Porter. former United
States marshal of the Western district
OF Pennsylvania, was among visitors
here this week. He came to attend
the Panama Pacific exposition COM
mission meeting.
Henry Gransback, Sr.. is the oldest
man in point of age in the present
Legislature. He has served in both
Senate and House.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
-George S. Patterson, the Philadel- |