Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-18
Ehrt1tng Gl1at


According to reports which are be-
ing received at the State Department
of Agriculture attendance at the farm
ers' institutes this winter is greater
than it has been for years, records be-
ing broken in some counties and even
in severe weather the number of per-
sons reported at meetings has been
ahead of the average. The attendance
in York and Lebanon, counties was
very high. while in Somerset county
5000 persons attended the sessions.
Dauphin reports q record breaking at
tendance with big figures from Craw''
ford, Fulton, Franklin, Schuylkill ana
Washington counties. In Lancaster
county the attendance jumped from
5,400 to 7,400. State officials say that
the increase in attendance is largely
due to the interest in the propositions
for forming cooperative associations
for marketing of products in large
lots and soil conservation.
It's odd how men will be in politics
together for years and be active in
the same part in the same district and
yet never meet. Yesterday Fire Mar
shall G.. Chal Port, who has been
figure in Huntingdon county politics
for years, and ID. Edward Long, the
new superintendent of public printing
and binding and leader in Franklin
county Republican politics for years,
were introduced to each other. Both
were chairmen of their respective coun-
ty committees at the same time and
in the same congressional district.
A good story is being told about
visitor to the Capitol. This visitor
came from the country and he looked
the part He asked to be shown the
/ nnintinpS and a nnnnnra1 To he SDecl1llN
interested in the series in the Cover
nor's reception room. He stopped Tor
some time in the big apartment and
| finally sat down to study the panels.
A man came along and asked If he
| could tell him anything. The visitor
remarked that the paintings Interested
him greatly and the other man started
| to tell him all about them. Then the
| visitor unlimbered and gave dates,
facts and incidents of the life of Will
| liam Penn. 1t turned out he was
Quaker and had made a special study
of the founder of the Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Nc
Claim likes to keep things moving in a
rapid yet dignified way at the State
Board of Pardons and yesterday be eX-
pressed his impatience with lawyers
who moved simply to gain time. 1t
| should be understood" said he, that
this board will not tolerate time vast
ing tactics and that lawyers who file
half of the papers in the case and
then try for continuance Will find
their cases stricken off the list And
they will not be restored except for
good reasons"
Judge H. A. Fuller, who figured in
an interesting story from Wilkes-B
the other day is well known to many
here. The judge is one of the most
| painstaking of men, as people, who
came in contact with him here during
one of the raids made on him of the
stormy session of 1913 we'll know. But
the latest incident must have tried him.
He was hearing a case when called to
the telephone on an urgent matter,
as it was represented to be. 1t turn
ed out to be n woman of whom he had
never heakd and she asked him how to
make her son get up in the morning
The judge was taken somewhat by
surprise, but advised the mother to
throw water on him and courteously
bade her good day. Then he went
back to the trial of the case.
There is a sign at Fourth and Straw
berry streets that announces that Vehl-
cles must not enter Strawberry from
Fourth street. 1t is one way high
way. The other day driver of a.
truck started in when he saw the signs
Instead of going around block he
ran OUT anu Ills ib'hShihS
around. Then he backed into the
smaller thoroughfare as far as the
rear of the Majestic theater.
There is no doubt that the old men
who have taken the messenger boys
places are Just as efficient and per-
haps more so than the erstwhile boys,
but have you ever noticed the changed
attitude of the average businessman
toward the new boys"
Have you ever been in busy
crowded Office when a messenger came
in and the busy man at the desk
called out, well. couldn't you hurry
that a little Then did you ever
watch his tone and manner change as
he notices that instead of some young
, Mercury an old man stands respect
fully at his desk? How quick the
tone changes as he asks, why, hello,
Dad. how are you today?
Especially is this true If the waiting
messenger wears the little button of
the civil war veteran as some of them
do We as a nation are not any too
much inclined toward respectful pat
riotism but more and more we are
coming to include in our ritual of rev.
erence the Boys who wore the Blue I
Ex-Scnato~ G.. r. Lantz, of Leba-
non, was here yesterday to argue al
case before the State Board of Par
dons IT was his first appearance
before that tribunal in long time.