Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-10
Et1rsttng Gl1at

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from the usual hot weather wave
OF crank letters and singular COM
| munications that seem to wax and
Wane with summer heat. Crank let
ters are necessary part of the busi-
ness communications of departments
OF the State government and they
are generally more numerous in Au-
gust than in any other time They
are not governed by anything else.
They deal with every subject under
the sun. The other day Governor
Brumbaugh was solemnly addressed
by man who demanded that he
"coerce" the Legislature into passing
a law regulating upon some original
lines certain practitioners. The time
when the letter came gave oppor-
tunity for the man who answered to
say that the Legislature was not in
session and some one mused that
the Governor would have been glad
OF information as to ways to do what
the man wanted some months ago.
one of the most original letters to
reach department on the Hill was
from person in Missouri who kind
ly offered to take charge of all su-
preme court work for the State of
pennsylvania" An answer was given
that the State had already made
complete arrangements for such af-
talrs. The courts are q favorite OBJ
Ject of letter writer's, but they gen.
orally get such formal replies that
the correspondence ends abruptly.
Perhaps the best example of putting
| an lmportunate letter writer on a
siding was given by prominent leg
isiator, whose idea has been brazen-
~ copied by some people at the Cap
ltol' lie mad been pestered by a man
VINO had a fancied grievance. So he
answered his fifth letter this way.
AS the weather is very hot let us
| L.,
how l can thank you for the valu-
able information given, but assure
you Will regard it as confidential"
James c. Deininger, executive
clerk to Governor Brumbaugh. be-
came a farmer the other day with
out notice. Mr. Deininger went down
the Susquehanna to visit Colonel
James Delaney, at RivervieW, and
after he had enjoyed the scenery
for a time he went to see his hosts
truck farm. There he was presented
with hoe and informed that polite
ness required him to work. Mr.
Deininger says that he is now fully
informed as to the meaning of that
famous poem, The Man With the
Hoe" and that he can write several
additional stanzas.
James C. Thompson, who is one
or the candidates for city commits
sioner, has a rather unusual knowl-
edge OF the State government. At
divers times he has been connected
9 with different branches and has been
Y especially well posted in regard to
t the highway. building and assess
: ment ends. Several of the other can
= dldates have also been connected at
various times with certain branches
0 OIL the city government, two of them
4 being former mayors.
a Auditor General Snyder and State
e treasurer Kephart ran the govern
n ment yesterday with assistance of
|. Adjutant General Stewart and Su-
( perintendent Shreiner. 1t happened
y that some people having business at
|, the Capitol discovered that the Au-
= gust days have come and that prac-
J tically all of the department chiefs
s were away. They found the two
4 ing the weather but very much
= around. They kindly volunteered to
give the callers anything in the way
e of information, but nothing of value.
= When one of the men suggested that
$ there were not enough men to pre-
3 vent the Capitol from being taken
, away, they replied that they would
t telephone for Stewart as the word
Q vacation was not in dictionaries
J when he came into the world.
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Any funnier combination could
hardly be imagined than that which
l met residents of the far eastern end
| of the city yesterday afternoon. An
] electric wire broke off on Derry
street near Twenty-sixth street and
after threshing around in the wet
weeds kindly got out into the street.
1t put out of business the telephones.
of a certain district. When eventide
came people found that there was no
current for the electric lights. They
found telephones not working we'll.
y Then they found that the grocery
| stores were all closed because of the
grocers picnic and there was no
place to buy candles.
1t is always the absurd that really
happens. Yesterday afternoon a man
walked into a store dripping wet.
He had been caught in the rain and
thoroughly caught. He just ran with
rain. When the people in the store
> looked at him pitifully he said: "I
didn't come in here to get out of the
rain. l came to get something" A
l man in the store promptly asked
. what he could do for him. The wet
man turned and was about to ask for
what he wanted when he faced this
sign:
LOOK FOR THE SUNNY SIDE
"Going to be any blasts tonight,
Cap?" asked a man of a fellow who
appeared to be bossing things in the
water-filled hole that will be the new
hotel at Third and Walnut streets.
Business of being densely ignorant
displayed by the man in charge.
'Hey, going to blast again to-
night?" persisted the inquiring man.
Don't You think the people around
here got enough the other morning
before daylight?" finally replied the
other
"Oh, they did. How about you?"
persisted the persistent one.
Say, if you can tell me just when
| it's going TO thunder I'll see about
the nifticst blast you ever heard"
finally came from the patient and
, aggrieved man at the pit.