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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

n TARRIAGE by contract appears
V to be in vogue with graduates
~ of Barnard college. Already
five of its alumnae have thereby
avoided the complicated proceedings
involved in church and aldermanic
weddings.
Miss Pauline Calm, of 202 River
side Drive, was the fifth to adopt this
short cut to matrimony. When she
and Arthur S. Levy. attorney, of 27
William street, decided to marry, the
bridegroom said:
"Sit down at the typewriter, Pau
line, and take a little dictation.'
AS she pounded the keys the law
yer, who is graduate of Columbia
Law school, dictated the following:
I'VE agree by the terms of this con-
tract, executed at No. 81 Chambers
street, before Supreme Court Justice
Lehman, to enter into the marriage
relations and take each other for
husband and wife"
After few more legal phrases,
which were duly recorded by the
bride-to-be, the contract was sign
ed and witnessed before Justice Leh-
man by Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Calm
and Mrs. Sadie r. H. Levy. There
by ended the ceremony. The bride
and bridegroom at once departed for
honeymoon in Bermuda.
They have just returned, and Levy,
in compliance with the law, filed the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
NEW YORK REPUBLICAN

URINARY results in New York are
distinctly encouraging to Re-
publicans. Whitman's nomina-
ton by the Progressives as well as
by the Republicans not only indicates
his election by comfortable majority,
but shows conclusively that a majority
of the Progressives have joined forces
with the Republicans for the defeat
of Wilson and the remainder of the
Democratic ticket in the Empire
State.
This is not surprising. Wherever
the issue has been tried out in the
past three years, the Progressives
have supported the Republican ticket
or Republicans have voted for Pro-
gressive candidates. The Republicans
and the Progressives have affiliated,
as was natural. but instances of
wholehearted and successful support
by Progressives of Democratic can
didates, if there were such, are too
few and too obscure to be recalled
at this time.
Maine and New York in recent
weeks and many other States in the
past several years have clearly in
dicated that at heart Progressives and
Republicans are of one faith and that
they intend to stand together for the
defeat of the common enemy
Democracy-at the polls in November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
To Advertise a Nation

The president of the Cuban republic
has signed an advertising contract with
the New York American, through the
Beers agency. of Havana, for a double
page advertisement in the issue Of
Sunday, September "a, in which the
attractions of Cuba. both for tourists
and home seekers. will be set forth.
This will be literally national adver-
tising."
1t is perhaps the first instance on
record in which the chief executive of
a nation has turned advertising man
and undertaken the task of developing
the resources Of his country through
approved advertising methods.
1t is especially fitting that President
Menocal should have selected the
American as the medium for his first
campaign, for Mr.. Hearst's newspa-
pers. 1t will be recalled. were powerful
agents in creating public sentiment in
the United States in favor of Cuban
ndependence.-Edit and Publisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
The Knockers

/ know he must be doing well,
know he's getting on,
His work has now begun to tell
His struggle time has gone;
He now has passed the dreary days,
The lonesome ones and grim,
And now is treading better ways
For folks are knocking him.
His skill has caught the eye OF men,
His worth is seen at last,
He's left the throng that knew him
When his skies were overcast
He's won the laurel for his brow
BY toll aid pluck and vim,
And he is doing real work now,
For folks are knocking him.
The Knocker is curious cuss,
He never starts to whine
Or fling his envious shafts at us
Until our work Is fine
It's only men with skill to do
Real work he tries to block,
And so congratulations to
The man the knockers knock.
Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
One Charge Fallen Flat
[Wilkes-B Barre Recordl

Immediately after the nomination of
Mr.. Hughes it appeared that the lead
ing issue of the campaign, raised by
the Democrats, would be the Repuh-
lican candidates alleged alliance with
the vote of the discredited hyphenates.
1t was with great fervor that the
Democratic press teemed with the in
sinuation that if Mr.. Hughes were
elected the country would be turned
over to the German kaiser.
One sees and hears little of that
kind of nonsense these days. The ma
ton would have none of it. The peo-
pie refused to take it seriously. Mr..
Hughes deems it no longer necessary
to resent the charge because 1t has
fallen fiat. In desperation the opposi-
ton has hunted around for another
issue and the only one it can find is
the. Nr. Hughes is a common scold!
The resi- - the Democratic campaign
is campaign of defense. No wonder
the result in Maine was so one-sided.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

No wonder the Danube's blue.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Constantine could tell Woodrow what
watchful waiting brings.-New York
Sun.
It's about time the general public in
this country organized a union.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
If Bulgaria atteppts to climb back
on the fence, she may find barbed wire.
Wall Street Journal.
Germany can now shoot in almost
any direction and feel sure she will not
hit friend.-Newark News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
FALL ARBOR DAY

TIME annual Fall Arbor Day has
fallen on evil times this year
The date set is October 81,
which is also the time fixed for the
ssembling of the public school pu-
pills for the autumn term. 1t is to be
feared that the infantile paraly-
sis epidemic will be raaected seriously
in fainlre 70 plant the thousands of
trees that ordinarily are set out each
Arbor Day. The teachers will be too
busy to arrange Arbor Day pro-
grams Nevertheless, the occasion
should not be allowed to pass un-
noticed. You who have a suitable spot
plant tree. The city and the coun-
tryside both need them. If you have
the location by all means put in a
fruit tree. You will live to bless the
day that prompted you to it. If not,
put in a shade tree. The landscape
demands it.
Long ago there tramped across
Pennsylvania one known derisively in
those days as "Appleseed Johnny"
from the fact that he carried by his
side a bag of appleseeds and planted
them wherever the soil suited. Folks
made fun of him and pointed to their
heads as he passed. But to the wan
derings of "Appleseed Johnny and his
prolific planting may be traced some
of the standard varieties of apples on
the market to-day. He was first to rec
ognize the possibilities of Pennsyl-
vania as an apple-growing State. And
his name is remembered and uenerat-
ed by tree lovers everywhere, while
those who poked fun at him lie in a
thousand forgotten graves.
Plant tree on Arbor Day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

Senator Simmons. of North Carolina,
took up seven pages of the Congress
sional Record with quotations from
newspapers. Democratic or Independent
Democratic. for the purpose of proving
that we recovered from the industrial
depression before the war began. If it
were a fact that we recovered before
the war began, the American people
would know it, and there would be no
need for filling seven pages of the
Record with carefully selected news
paper clippings from a prejudiceo
source in an effort to defend the Demo-
cratic record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

do so. The Scouts are banded to-
Mr.. McAdoo occasionally. He has
been headstrong and wilful. He has
driven not only his cabinet, but Con-
gress, too.
The Democratic publishers who are
quoting DR.. Abbott so extensively
might send a copy of the Outlook to
the President for his perusal. DR..
Abbott's remarks should be intense
ly instructive to one who evidently
imagines that the President Of the
United States is the chief executive,
the joint legislative bodies and the
Supreme court rolled all into one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
"ToMY HARTER,s SKETCHES

"Boonastiel," a famous collection OF
pennsylvania Dutch sketches by
Thomas II. Harter, a volume of lego
end, story and song, has proved so des
servedly popular that another edition
has been issued. This will mean y
total of 5000 copies an evidence OF
the favor with which these sketches
have been received in Pennsylvania
and elsewhere. Many of "Gottlieb
Boonastiel's" letters to "Liever Kernel
Harder" have appeared in the Tele-
graph in the original dialect. This
volume of ESQ pages Is designed to
perpetuate the memory of the Penn
sylvania Germans. Colonel Harter IL
editor and owner of the Bellefonte
Gazette.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Henry R. Edmunds. one of Phil
adelphia's prominent lawyers, was
knocked down and badly hurt by a
motorcyclist.
George w. Norris, the rural cred
it commissioner, is to be given a dim
ner by Eastern Pennsylvania friends.
Col. H. c. Trexler, the Allentown
business magnate, is the active spirit
in development of the Allentown fair.
r. B. Tobias, the new Republican
eh,%man in Northumberland. Is a
pronsAen lawyer in Mt. Carmel.
George w. Ellkins who has been
in Maine, closed a big real estate
transaction in Philadelphia by wire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT

TINE Boy Scout movement, like
many another worthy cause.
has failed to achieve permanent
success in Harrisburg because it has
never been properly financed. 1t can
serve the community no better with
or the Y. w. c. A, both of which must
be generously supported with gifts
of money to make them the undoubt-
ed powers for good that they are.
Boys take naturally to Scout activi-
ties. It is second nature for them to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

President Wilson is more prompt as
a collector than as a paymaster. He
waited four years before giving Mr.
Elkus the Turkish Enthusiastically as
a reward for his campaign contribu-
tions in 1912; but he received from
Samuel Gompers a redhot endorsement
for reelection on the day after the
four pens were used to sign the mis-
named eight-hour-day" bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
CONTRASTS
WILSON is will

DRESIDENT WILSON is willing
that women should have the bal
lot, but they must not be anX-
ious about the method nor too inquisi-
tive as to when they shall reach their
goal. He will fight with them" but
he doesn't say when or how.
How different with Mr.. Hughes. The
Republican candidate puts his suf-
frage sentiments in these words, con-
cerning the meaning of which there
can be no misunderstanding:
I think it to be most desirable
that the question of woman suf-
frage should be settled promptly.
The question is of such a nature
that it should be settled for the
entire country.
My view is that the proposed
amendment should be submitted
and ratified, and the subject re-
moved from political discussion.
Mr.. Wilson recommends watchful
waiting to the suffrage campaigners.
Mr.. Hughes urges that they be given
the vote, and he tells them how and
when.
Is it any wonder that the suffragists
are supporting Mr.. Hughes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the oreantza-
tion's annual Municipal Ouiz."l
Does the instruction at the High
High School equip pupils to fill posi-
tions of stenographers. bookk eepers,
Yes. All who take the CONNER
cial Course.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

Columbus, O., council is facing a
deficit of 100000, and we suppose
the optimistic Ohio State Journal even
in that will find some reason for say
ing kind word about the old home
town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

The fellow who didn't see the
train" is getting into the class of the
man who didn't know it was load
ed," only it is he and not the other
fellow who gets hurt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

The new Democratic Ambassador to
Turkey. having reached Berlin on his
way to his post, promptly gives evil
dence of his entire fitness for diplo-
matte position by granting an inter-
view to the Berlin newspapers in which
he tells about Wilson's fight for Demo-
cratic pacifism."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

Girardville, in Schylkill county, has
turned its town hall into a factory.
There's civic enthusiasm for you. but
Harrisburg could never take such a
conspicuous step in the way of indus
trial progress. because it has no town
hall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
DIR. ARROTTS VIEWS

exchanges are quot
- ing broadcast the recent utter
ances of DIR. Lyman Abbott,
the venerable and venerated editor of
the Outlook. when he said with re-
spect to criticisms of President Will
sons failures in office;
You ask me what I would have
done. If had been President dur
ing the last four years. l cannot
tell you what l would have done,
for the President Is not an auto
crat. In deciding upon his policies
he must be guided by the advice of
his Cabinet, who are his chosen
counselors; and in carrying. them
into effect he must be determined
by the support he can win from
Congress.
DIR. Abbott's conclusions are cor
rect, save that he views conditions in
the White House as they should be,
instead of as they are. DIR. Abbott
looks upon the Presidency with the
eyes of the idealists who framed the
constitution and fixed the duties OF
the presidential office. He knows pre-
cisely how he would be governed as
President But in this instance he
reckons without his host. Woodrow
Wilson has been an autocrat In of.
flee. He has been a law unto him
self. He has listened to none of his
advisers In the cabinet. save perhaps
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

"A gardener having produced
seedless tomato, it Is about time for
some thoughtless farmer to write
him for little of the seed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

The President is so certain of
election results that he isn't going to
spend much money on special
speech-making trips, evidently feeling
that he may need the money after
March 4.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
THURSDAY EVENING. SEPT. 21

For bodily exercise is profitable for a
little; but godlness is profitable for all
things, ha5Fng promise of the life 7Uhieh
nozv is, and of that 7cltich is to come.
I TIM. AS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

One thing about these summer
styles is that the girls don't have to
get out their furs in the Fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

TIME Philadelphia Public Ledger,
in it's account of Governor
Brumbaugh's speech making
during the farm tour now in progress,
prints the following:
In his jaunt among the farmers
Governor Brumbaugh declared to-
aWs 'hfh Chat exesrySods Was So
broodled." This is a Pennsylvania
Duteh sxprssssioG for for sGr,s our oWa tSs
took When ne he stopped aIgs fos
his first speech at Stroudsburg. the
home of A. Mitchell Palmer.
We have t94 many ma yecnms laws "a ad6ed Ssd
that we are 'verbroodled.' We want
to stop making laws that mean
nothing, laws that are noxious. and
that will wipe useless. obsolete and
hampering laws from the statute
books of our State.
The Governor is right. We are
beyond question "verbroodled" by
useless and cumbersome laws, and
every year makes the situation worse.
It is a safe wager that had Leibnitz
lived to-day instead of in the 1700's
he would have hesitated before pro-
posing his scheme for tabulating all
the laws Of all the countries in the
world for the purpose of exhibiting
their correspondence and differences
by parallel columns. The job would
have been more formidable than the
compilation of an encyclopaedia and
library building would have been
necessary to house the completed
work.
New and rapidly changing condi.
tions, uncontrolled evils bred by
modern developments in business and
everyday life and the growing demand
for welfare legislation have al
necessitated new laws, but not in any
such numbers as have been enacted In
the past decade. Our business laws
are so numerous now, for example
that no man knows positively whether
or not he is living within them. Skilled
lawyers are in doubt as to what may
or may not be legally done. This
flood of legislation is one of the evil:
of our system of government. Every.
body realizes that we are overlawed
but nobody appears to know just how
to prevent it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

Service" is the motto of the Ro-
tary club and the way it has gotten
into the hotel campaign indicates that
the members know what the word
means
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

About time for the Democratic
national committee to announce that
the Republican victory in New York
is not as large as expected and that
the signs are good for Democratic
success there in November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
Our Daily Laugh
WOKE HIM UP.

WOKE HIM UP.
Teacher-After
Samson had killed
the lion with his
bare hands, had
slain the Philis-
tines with the
jawbone of an
ass, and carried
off the gates OF
GAIA, he was
overcome by De-
lilah. Can you
tell how she did
it?"
Wise XII d -
"Yes'm. She put
out his pipe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

The first stage coacnes were run
into Harrisburg about 1870.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
DO YOU KNOW

That Steelton flour is feeding
people i'm Europe?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
"VERBROODLED"

TIME Philadelphia Public Ledger,
in it's account of Governor
Brumbaugh's speech making
during the farm tour now in progress,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

e. ]. J.STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editoy-in. Chief
f. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETz, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-06

How can you work all day in that
awful newspaper Officer" she asks you
with motherly solicitude. "Those people
who write for the papers are said to be
fearful I'm sure I'd never let my dar.
ling Dorothy work In a place like that.
She's far too pretty to work in any office
but suppose you can take care of your
self"
With such n slur as that on the charm
of your physiognomy you feel like the
ugly duckllng in family of twelve. You
lose your interest in your mirror and take
to thick wells or charity work. And you
avoid the knocker as you would an in
fanti1e paralysis germ IL you met one.
mo wonder women are accused of
being petty when they resort to methods
such as thesel" snorts the Dominant
Male, virtuously. "You never hear men
gossiping or making unlSlnd remarks
about each other. They live and let live.
A woman's never happy unless she's got
her claws In somebody's hide"
Would that feminine ear could be
glued to the keyhole when the sterner sex
sits itself down TO a smokerl The con-
versation isn't about the Darwinian
theory or the high cost of living. I'll war.
rant. Ask any man who handles large
office force, and he'll tell you this little
thing: Men are just as "catty'' as women.
Call 1t what you will, but don't blame
it all on the ladies. They might be n little
more subtle than men when they deliver
their attacks; that's because man is
animal at best. But there are
agreeable-and agreeabe-knockers of
both sexes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-06
An AnRler's Query

Would you, at your convenience. tell me what
kind Of FISH are caught at Laurel Springs:
". J.. and what Is the best bait for this
spcccs2 What Is meant by uhsh with a
spoon'2 j. a. MCC.
While I am ignorant Of the species of
FISH to be caught in that particular locality,
do know that fine trout streams are one
Of the many attractions the Jersey hills offer
to the summer visitors. Your third question
shall have a more definite reply. The spoon
to which you allude is a well-known feature
of the apparatus used in plckerel and bass
fishing. 1t Is made Of bright metal and SO
fashioned that 1t revolves when attached to
a pole thrust from the stern of a moving
boat The passage of the boat through the
water must be skillfuly gentle and regular
and the flash OF the revolving spoon is so
like the action Of minnow, perch or other
small fish as to deceive the bigger fellows,
always on the alert for toothsome morsels.
A dart and strike" at the cleaning side
Of the mock bait and the hapless dupe Is
caught upon the hook which is part Of
the Spoon
No other bait Is needed. hope I have
explained the process to your satisfaction
Albeit not a practical angler, l have sat
in the boat with an expert and seen scores
of pickerel taken by the gltterlng sham l
have indicated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-06
To Stiffen Baskets

Is the following: Take one-half cup sugar
and enough water to make thick syrup.
Cook until almost as for icing: do not
let it thread; take Off stove and while hot
put in the baskets all at once Stir with
a fork until thoroughly saturated with the
syrup run string through each handle, and
hang up in cool place to dry AS they
dry very quickly, pull them into shape.
When stiff enough to stand alone, remove
string. Continue to pull into shape, and
have them well dried before trimming.
They turn out white and look lovely This
is for six baskets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-06
CONSIDER THE AGREEABLE
KNOCKER AND HER WAYS
"A Smile That Is Childlike and Bland Disarms
Suspicion; But Watch Your Step-There's
II "Kic1" Somewhere

r SING Of the agreeable knocker. The
4 plain, everyday variety which our
masculine friends call cats" is really
harmless. You can come back" at n
catty remark with something equally
feline and she will do you the honor to
appreciate the thrust. Like her furry
prototype, she will scratch you one min.
ute and purr the next. Her remarks may
prick beneath the skin and smart for a
second, but they leave no venom behind.
Not 80 with the agreeable knocker.
She has a double advantage. The two
edged sword of her agreeableness and her
"candidness" take you unawares. You
may be dashed with a shillalah Of truth.
full criticism, made to sound innocuous by
an ingratiating smile. like the sugar coat.
ing on dose of quinine. But you know
that the dose is underneath.
The sad part Of the agreeable Knockers
little duo is the fatuous grin Of the VIC
tim. 1t isn't permitted to strike lady
on suspicion, even when the blow is YER
bal. And If she looks like the cat who has
just eaten the canary, and insists on hold
ing your coat or admiring your solitaire,
you're doomed. It's like small boy
being smothered in ice cream. You're
80 pleased that you're insensible to your
peril
One lady of my acquaintance who has
won her spurs nobly at many n tea.battle
has the most fascinating method Of de-
livering n bloodless "uppercut." She is
always polite. She is never cynical. And
she invariably pats you fondly on the
shoulder, or arranges your gown, or in
dulges in some equally affectionate and
dangerous familiarity before the blow
descendR