Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
Ehrntnp Gl1at

Someone with a genius for figures
on speculative basis to-day figured
out that the preparation. circulation
and filing of the nominating petitions,
on which the time limit closed on
Tuesday night, cost over 500, 900. APP
proXimately 2,450 petitions were filed
for candidates, but this was not the
end by any means as in some cases
dozen of more papers were filed for
single candidate and in some cases
couple of scores were entered, to
say nothing of the hundreds of papers
circulated and not fled. Assuming
that there were at least $1,000 peti-s
tons circulated. and including the
supplementals, those not filed by can
dtdates and those which were prepared
and never heard of. that estimate is
not too high, the cost would run about
50 for circulating each paper. In some
cases the cost was more. Then the
| afftdavits had to be taken and there were
/ the items OF postage, expressage or
messenger service to get the papers
on file. 1t is not hard to get at $780,
900 say the figurers at the Capitol.
According to the States game off,
cials they had to sit up at nights
thinking ways to protect the new deer
and other animals and the birds with
which the Commonwealth has lately
stocked a number of forest reserves.
These reserves are more or less re-
mote, but they appear to be as attrac-
tive for dogs as for anything and COM
plants have come in of dogs running
down some of the deer for which the
State recently paid good hard money.
In number of instances the dogs
were shot, but in some they ran deer
FOR long distances. Several owners OF
such dogs have been arrested.
Mrs. Elizabeth Derby, the Philadel-
phia social worker. who appeared yes
to-day before the State Board of Par
dons, and got away with the pardon,
unconsciously helped out Senator S.
w. Salus in a case. The Philadelphia
Senator had case Immediately pre-
ceding that in which Mrs. Derby ap-
peared. The claim of mistake in iJen-
uhcation was made in both cases.
Mrs. Derby in opening showed that she
knew something about the case of the
Senator and gave some light on it in
illustrating her own application in
behalf of a Chester countian. Mrs.
Derby, by the way, is one of the few
women to win q case before the Board.
Women attorneys appear every now
end then, but they do not often win.
Mrs Derby appeared five times in the
case she finally won, causing Lieuten-
ant Governor McClain to say that she
had persistence as well as logic on her
, side.
The Lebanon Report prints this
comforting news for tennis and golf
) fiends, baseball cranks and others
Some of the Pennsylvania German
} weather prophets who are guided by
Innnart a a
dred Year Calendar) say 1916 will be
a year without a summer just as was
the case in 1916. At that time crops
were failure because of the protract-
ed cold weather and SHOWS. 1t is
pointed out that already vegetation is
a month backward in development"
J Federal naturalization court is al
ways productive of queer features of
dress speech or other characteristic
! of the foreigner who would swear
allegiance to the flag of Uncle Sam.
Yesterdays big session which was
presided over by United States Judge
Wilmer, was unique in the queerest
way of all; never was there such a
variety of moustaches. Every style OF
that form of facial decoration was
there, from the tiny "toothpick' that
looks for all the world as if 1t wse
set just under the wearers nose, to
the large, blond flowing brush-like
) effect of the Austrian of the lowland
provinces. There were the up-turned
military kaiser effects. the long
dropping, walrus-like lires; scraggly
"what's-the-use" attempts, hirsute
and, of course, "sieves" for tobacco
Juice. But it remained for a stalwart
son of Italy from the upper end OF
the county to produce the feature
: moustache of the day-this was long
l black silky twist with a perfect circle
] on each side.
Frederic A. Godcharles, deputy sec
= retary of the commonwealth, is GER
tainly not open tothe imputation of be-
! ing a rubber stamp official. He Is one
of the old d-fashioned kind that does his
own writing no matter IL he has to
stay up until in the morning to do
it. When the flood of nominating pc
/ titions began it was suggested to Mr.
' Godcharles that he buy rubber
stamp so that he would not get writ
, ers cramp or pen paralysis in signing
/ his name as certificate that the papers
had been found in form and had been
filed. Mr.. Godcharles refused and
said he would sign every paper. And
: he did He sat up until late at night
but every paper was signed in his
. best Miltonian style.