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AUGUST 31 CLEVELAND AND HARRISBURG IN the city of Cleveland there is a milk agitation Just now which serves to show bow well paid the dairymen of this section are for the milk that comes into Harrisburg. Cleveland, according to the census of 1910, has a population of 560, 663. The same census gives Harris burg 64,186. That is to say, Cleveland is approximately half a million larger than this city, and by the economic rules, milk, eggs and all farm produce should be proportionately higher in Cleveland. The milk consumer in Cleveland ought to expect to pay a little more than the Harrisburg consumer and the dairymen supplying Cleveland ought to be entitled to a slightly higher rate than the dairymen supplying Harrisburg receive.

Tet we find that while the farmers in this section are getting four cents a quart for their milk, the farmers around Cleveland are getting only $1.25 a hundred pounds, or 2 cents a quart. They are asking for $1.50 a hundred, or cents a quart, and if the Cleveland dealers will do them the favor to pay them one cent a quart less than the farmers hereabout receive, they will consider themselves well treated. When George B. Otto, a Cumberland county farmer, offered to supply Harrisburg dealers for 3 cents a quart, he was derided as a visionary or an impostor by such experienced dairymen as Hospital Surgeon Shope, who has owned thirty three cows for the extended period of nine months and tome odd days. We might add that the Cleveland farmers, reasonable as is their claim for an Increase, have been particular to insist that It must come from the wholesaler and not out of the pockets of the consumer.

In contrast to this, we have the local kid glove producers, who offer to compromise with the consumer for a cent a quart advance, instead of two cents and who, as a further indication of generosity, agree to the appointment of a milk charity commission which, after investigation, shall be empowered to award free milk to anyone who feels that he 'cannot afford to pay the new price, although he might be able to struggle along outside the pale of charity, at the present price. We submit that the demands of the farmers supplying Cleveland have proved those of the farmers supplying Harrisburg to be altogether out of reason and that the present local agitation, unless satisfactorily laid to rest by the Dauphin County Farmers' Association at its secret meeting next Monday, is likely to result in an an! mated popular discussion of the ques tion: "Why pay four cents a quart when we can get it for three?" If Dr. Shope is to be permitted to dominate the dairy business in this vicinity, we move that a farmer be Imported to take charge of our hos A ii pitals. FKOM FAlOf TO IVETAILEU T' HE organization of farmers, now being perfected in New Tork for the direct disposal of the produce of 600,000 farms In that greatest market of the continent, would seem to be more significant than the limited publicity that has been given to it indicates. It is stated that the fifty delegates who are planning for the distributing station represent the United States Stores, the Grangers and the Dealers' and Consumers' Association, which, in turn, represent more than 1,000,000 individual farmers.

The scheme for the elimination of the middlemen and commission merchants is backed by a fund of $1,000, 000 and the delegates assert that 600, 000 farmers are pledged to pay an assessment of $5 each at any time an emergency fund may be deemed necessary. This would make a reserve fund of $3,000,000, whioh may behad for the asking. Certainly, an association of this kind is formidable enough to be reckoned with, and when its officers tell us that their plan as soon as put into operation will clip 40 per cent from the present retail prices of farm produce in New York, its possibilities for good become apparent. The middleman profit is a very serious matter, particularly In a city like New Tork, and any movement which will give the producer more whileI costing the consumer less will be a benefit to business at large. It will be noticed, however, that these farmers are Justifying their efforts to get larger returns for their products by offering smaller prices to the consumer.

They do not expect the consumer to volunteer himself as a burnt offering, so to speak. Nearly fifty millions of cold storage eggs were destroyed by the food inspectors last year. Yet, according to Chauncey M. Depew, the farmer received for those seventy cent eggs only twenty cents a dozen; fifty cents went to the middlemen. That's the story of products other than eggs also.

TEXAS SCHOOLS THE Lone Star State has occasion to boast of the educational record it has established within the last year. In the common school districts 643 new school houses were built and in the independent school districts 127 a total of 770 schools, or a little more than two a day. This is said to be jnore progress in the matter of educational equipment than any other State in the Union can boast, and we have no doubt that the claim is correct. Of course, it may be said that Texas has farther to go than most of the older States to get up to a reasonable average of expenditure for public schools, nor Is it likely that the pres ent rate of school growth will be maintained indefinitely, but the fact remains that Texas has recognized the duty of to day and is performing it to the best of her ability. Her aim is to be ranked among the enlightened and progressive Commonwealths which set the pace for the rest of the country in educational matters, and if her present pace is kept up for a few years Massachusetts may have to de pend on Harvard to uphold her pres tige as a center of culture and learn ing against the Inroads of a State whose chief products, we have always been taught, were steers and rough riders.

It will be a little longer before Texas can hope to rise to Pennsylva nia's class, for you will recall that Pennsylvania spends more money on her public schools than any other State, has better school buildings and pays higher salaries to her teachers. Through tradition we have come to look upon New England as the model schoolmaster and through calumny we have come to look upon Pennsylvania as unworthy of praise or emulation in any respect, but the truth is that we have set the standard for the world in school management and in generosity to schools. As a friendly adviser and well wisher, the Telegraph suggests that Texas should make the Keystone State its educational model. The Telegraph hopes it has proved to the Dauphin County Farmers' As sociation that there are two sides to the milk question and that the peo ple's side is the biggest side. Those Lewistown Boy Scouts have imitated their forbears in being first in a few things.

Lewistown sent a company Defenders to Wash 1 ington at the call of the President in THE h'ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1911. One of the I prominent Harrisburg firemen at Yorknext week will be Edward Halb4rt, of the Hope Company, assistnt chief of the Harrisburg Fire Department. Few State 'conventions have been overlooked by "Ed" Halbert, and he is not going to miss any if he can help. Halbert attends the conventions not only to have an annual greeting with his army of friends from all over the State, but to get acquainted with newest things 'A ''Vdti 5 I I i fid YANKEE DOODLE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY IN the early history of the nation many songs were written and used to the air of "Yankee Doodle," all preserving that term which had been, given contemptuously by British officers, but which was now the boast and pride of the new republic. Most of these have passed into oblivion.

I have here resurrected one which I find in a book printed in 1809 and which, apparently had been written a few yeears before, when complications with both England and France were threatened. Independence Day in those early brated with a vim and a rude, hearty, spontaneous enthusiasm of which we at the present day can have no adequate conception. Well had John Adams (as reproduced by Daniel Webster) saia: "Through the thick gloom or the future, as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are In our graves, our children will honor it.

They will cele brate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of sub jection and slavery, not of agony and and or Joy." It was for one of those old fashlonel Fourth of July celebrations that the song here given was originally and, for years, it was sung most heartily at many tf them in all parts of our land. Y. ANKEE DOODLE Is the tune Americans delight in; 'Twill, do to whistle, sing, or play, And Just the thing for fighting. CHORUS Yankee Doodle, boys, huzza! Down outside, up the middle Yankee Doodle, fa, sol, la.

Trumpet, drum and fiddle. Should Great Britain, Spain, or France Wage war upon1 our shore sir, We'll lead them such a woundy dance, They 11 find their toes are sore, sir. Yankee Doodle, Should a haughty foe expect To give our boys a caning, We guess they'll find the lads have larnt A little bit of training. Yankee Doodle, I'll wager now a mug of flip, And bring it on the table, Put Yankee boys aboard a ship, To beat them they are able. Yankee Doodle, Then if they go to argufy.

I rather guess they'll find too. We've got a set of tonguey blades. To out talk 'em, if they're mind to, Yankee Doodle, America's a dandy place, The people are all brothers; YANKEE Quite as old, probably, as the vers best of quite a number before me. Is th A YANKEE boy is trim and tall, And never over fat sir; At dance or frolic, hop and ball, As nimble as a rat, sir. CHORUS Yankee, doodle, guard your coast, Yankee doodle dandy; Fear not, then, nor threat, nor boast, Yankee doodle dandy.

He's always out on training day, Commencement or election; At truck and trade he knows a way Of thriving to perfection. Cho. Yankee doodle, 1861. As the guests of the Telegraph the famous Scouts will give a drill and concert in this city September 15. Brief statement of the milk proposition by a meditative consumer: "I now pay the producer four cents a quart.

It has been offered to me for three. Shall I pay five?" An Evening Thought "Where there is faith there is love; Where there is love there is peace; Where there is peace there is God; Where there is God there is no need." GLAD HEARTS. There are souls in the world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Their influ enoe it ao inevitable gladdening of the heart It seems as if a shadow of God's own gift had passed upon them. They give light without meaning to thine.

These bright hearts have a great work to do for God. Faber. in Are fighting apparatus, hose and other equipments. If you want to know anything about hose, ask "Ed" Halbert. He has made a study of the various makes and has visited plants where hose is made and can tell you every point in connection with rubber or fabric hose.

Halbert has kept a record of the hose used in the Harrisburg Fire Department and has given valuable information to councilmen when there was hose to buy. The assistant chief is also a good fireman and has proved his ability at many tires. The rains of the last few days have had a bad effect upon nearly all forms of outdoor sports except canoeing. For weeks the waters of the Susquehanna and the Conodogulnet, the favorite place for the sport, has been so fiw that travel for any distance has been practically impossible. The rains have changed all that, and now the rivers Is deep and there is a good flood on the Conodogulnet.

"Notice the clean appearance of the streets after these rains?" asked the man that observes things. "The asphalt has been scoured better than it has been for months, and everything looks fresh and nice." Elmer Schilling, of this city, has returned from a trip to Bucks county and has brought with him a sample of the coal recently discovered in that county on the old homestead of his parents. During the trip he met his great aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, who is 95 years of age. A little family reunion of the Rev.

H. Nelson Bassler, wife and daughter, of this city; Mrs. Nellie Fassler, of New Buffalo; C. Hyde Basslor, of New York; Mrs. Anna Bassler and daughters, of Chicago, and Augustus Lan dls, of Altoona, met at their family home at Mlllersburg around the family board this week.

J.HOVAIl WERT0 years of national existence was cele present, I see the brightness of the distress, but of exultation, of gratitude And when one's got a pumpkin pie, He shares it with the others. Yankee Doodle, We work, and sleep, and pray in peace By industry we thrive, sir; And if a drone won't do his part. We'll scout him from the hive, sir. Yankee Doodle, And then on INDEPENDENCE DAY (And who's a better right to?) We eat and drink, and sing and play, And nave a dance at night too. Yankee Doodle, Our girls are fair, our boys are tough, Our old folks wise and healthy; And when we've every thing enough, We count that we are wealthy.

Yankee Doodle, We're happy, free, and well to do. And cannot want for knowledge; For almost every mile or two, You find a school or college. Yankee Doodle, The land we till is all our own Whate'er the price, we paid it; Therefore we'll fight till all is blue, Should any dare Invade it. CHORUS Yankee Doodle, boys, huzza! Down outside, up the middle Yankee Doodle, fa, sol, la. Trumpet, drum'and fiddle.

DOODLE es rjust given, and amongst the very is neat version of His door is always open found, His cider of the best, sir; His board 'With pie crowned And welcome every guest, sir. Cho. Yankee doodle, Tho, rough and little is his farm. That little is his own, sir; His hand is strong, his heart is warm, 'Tis truth and honor's throne, sir. Cho.

Yankee doodle, His country is his pride and boast, He'll ever prove true blue, sir; When called upon to give his toast, 'Tis "Yankee doodle doo," sir. Cho. Yankee doodle, IN HARRISBURG 50 YEARS AGO TO DAY (From The Telegraph Sept. 2, 1911.) Attention, Colder Fencibles You will meet at the rendezvous to morrow at 12 o'clock and proceed to New York to be mustered into servce. J.

DETWILER. A Methodist campmeeting commenced to day near Sheppardstown, Cumberland county. It will continue until next Saturday. Able ministers are expected to be present and the prospects for a large meeting, we learn, are quite flattering. Another large invoice of arms' and ammunition arrived at the United States arsenal to day, from the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass.

Present Reckoning "I am 30 years old," announced a woman of 56 at a tea last week. "And I am 26," said a woman of 43. Then, turning to a girl of 17 who stood near by she asked: "How old are you, Ethel?" "Oh," replied Ethelj "according to the present reckoning, I'm not born yet" Brooklyn Life. Late Regret "Did Gwendoline keep her determination to marry nobody but a man who could make money?" "Yes, but she's sorry for it now." "Why is she sorry?" "She married a counterfeiter." I IF! WILL HP GOIHG No Signs of Peace in the Camps of the Fighting Minority PENROSE STATEMENT Says Time Has Come to Clean House in Old Philadelphia Prospects of harmony within the Democratic party have not Improved with the passing of tho days since the meetings of the State committee in this city and the two factions are as iar away as ever, lloth wings have headquarters in operation here and the chairmen and secretaries are paying visits and holding conferences as in the old days of a single committee. The special committee named by the Ritter committee to meet with any officers or committee from the re organizers has never had a meeting because no Bign was given by the Guthrie people that they desired to meet the other side.

From all accounts this committee will merely pass out of existence and time will heal the wounds among the Democrats and a compromise chairman elected within a few years. From all indications the headquarters of the Ritter peoole will main. tained and the men allied with that faction, trusting to the disaffection that has periodically occurred within the Democratic ranks, will await their chance to get back Into power. Penrose Issues Lejcow Statement Senator Penrose last night issued a statement about the Philadelphia Lexow In which he declared that the time had come for a change and that the commission could go deep if it ucsueu iu. The Senator's statment follows: "Many inquiries have reached me regarding the Senate Commission.

which is preparing to investigate the government or Philadelphia and mat ters relating thereto. I shall state Drieny my attitude toward the in quiry. "This commission was created by resoiuuon or tne senate passed on May 22 last. 'To investigate any charges that have been heretofore or may hereafter oe maoe, between legislative sessions, against any person holding civil office in this Commonwealth of anv immoral or dishonest conduct, or who has in any way violated his oath of office. "A commission of taxpayers has formally presented to this legislative body charges of 'gross dishonesty' in the conduct of the administration of the city of Philadelphia.

This action on the part of responsible citizens leaves the Senate Commission no alter native but to proceed with the inquiry, "The resolution creating the com mission conferred upon it extraordi nary powers, it can "compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, documents, records and etc. in order to elicit the most complete information regarding any department or official against whom charges are presented. I am advised that there is no doubt of its legal status and lawful powers to conduct a searching and conclusive investigation. "It was provided, further, that the commission shall be represented by the Attorney General or his duly accredited representative. The good faith of the State government is.

shown in the appointment, as representative of the Attorney General, of Thomas Raeburn White, who has been counsel for the committee of citizens which has gathered the evidence. "These facts clearly Indicate that the inquiry into the municipal government of Philadelphia will be made without fear or favor. In this purpose I stand ready to co operate. I have had no opportunity to examine the evidence which the taxpayers' committee, announces it has, but if it should appear that the commission would be aided in arriving at the truth through any Influence or information at my command, I should consider it a public duty to render all such assistance in my power. "Now that the investigation has started, I may add that it is my desire that it shall proceed with the utmost vigor, for the sole benefit of the people of Phiiadelphia, and not the benefit of any individual or political interest whatsoever.

"The present municipal situation in in my judgment, demands a thorough housecleaning and the adoption of measures to prevent a continuance or a repetition of the methods of the present administration. Under no circumstances should the scandalous personal obligations and financial operations of certain city offi cials be carried into another mayor alty term." i Socialists Are Naming Candidates The Socialist party has displayed marked activity in putting candidates into the field for the judicial primary elections to be held on September 30, King Oscar Cigars Mm Absoluiely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal rape ream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE men having filed petitions in seven of the counties where such officers are to be elected. The Socialists, like the Prohibitionists, take advantago of the State law which permits a man to be a resident of a county other than the one in which he stands for election. They have named a number of men who have voting places in other districts. Philadelphia is the only county where they hav not named any one but they have men out for every Judicial office in Allegheny county, in cluding John W.

Slayton, of McKee3 port, who was their candidate tor Governor last November and who polled 53,053 votes in the State. They have also put up candidates In York, Montgomery, Lycoming, scnuyiKiu, Luzerne and Northumberland. In a number of the larger counties the Socialists plan to name full county tickets. Cold Water Folks Will Gather Here Headquarters will be opened in this city within a week by the Prohibition State committee officials. State Chairman Burton L.

Rockwood having approved of Cie location chosen by the Dauphin county Prohibitionists for the direction of the campaign work. The headquarters paraphernalia will be moved from Franklin without delay. It is the plan of the State Prohibition leaders to conduct a general supervisory campaign throughout the State this year, having the members of the party name full tickets wherever possible and adhere to the traditional policy of naming men and allowing such parties or persons as approve of them to endorse them, but not making any alliances. The reports made to Chairman Rockwood by the men who have been touring the State indicate that the Prohibition lines have been standing fast and that the usual vote can be counted upon. In Cumberland county a ticket is to be selected for the county on Monday and within a short time W.

W. Wlest, the Prohibition county chairman, will call a meeting to select a ticket. One Week More For County Candidates Although the time for filing petitions to be candidate for judgeship nominations expired to day at noon, the asDlrants for various county and municipal nominations will have a week longer, the limit tor nnng sucn papers with the county commissioners being up on septemoer s. Some amusing letters have been re celved at the Capitol regarding nominations, not a few people having had the Impression tnat canniaaies ior countv offices had to file papers at the Capitol. One man who aspired to be a Judge or election in one oi me interior cities gravely sent such a paper to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

CIVNEWS HE Civil War began Just fifty years ago. The Telegraph win reprint daily the news of the progress of that great struggle as reflected In the columns of this newspaper of that date. Mixed Regiment Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer. (From The Telegraph Sept 2, 1911.) When the Tiger Rifles, who played such havoc with Lincoln's "Pet Lambs" at Manassas on the memorable 21st of July, passed through here we thought we had seen a specimen of the roughest and most ferocious set men on earth, but when we speak of the Tenth Louisiana Regiment of New Orleans, which passed through this city on Sunday, language is inadequate to give a description, 'composed as it was of English, French, Germans, Dutch, Italians, Sicilians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Swiss, Indians, Mexicans and Creoles, who, in their jabbering, seemed to represent a sec ond Babel. The commander, together with many other officers, are veterans "who served throughout the Crimean War.

The commands are given in French, Spanish or Dutch or some thing else, that we could not exactly understand, but seemed to be executed with promptness and a reamrkable de gree of precision. The Mexicans, par ticularly, were objects of much inter est to our citizens, most of whom had never seen one befc.e. The frigate Minnesota, with the prisoners captured, arrived here to day. They were captured at Hatteras Inlet by the Fortress Monroe expedi tion. Tobacco must be cured before it is ready for the filler, and this is one of the most important features of cirgar making.

A sweat room is absolutely essential to cure the leaf and destroy the things that cause rankness. Factory No. 1, where King Oscar Cigars are made, is equipped with a modern sweat room, with a capacity for curing many cases of tobacco. It's a slow and tedious operation, but prime filler, to be regular in quality, requires this process and even then one must "know how" and cannot be obtained any other way. 20 years of regular quality.

5. Human Hound Gets Judical Recuke Sptcial to The Telegraph New York, Sept. 2. When Polic Magistrate Butt3 yesterday learned that Jacob F. Heitz had expiated an old sin by four years of upright living he turned on Heitz's former employer, whom he had robbed four years ago, and declared him guilty of disorderly conduct because the employer had followed Heitz and had him dis charged from two situations.

"1 heard he was working and deem ed it my duty to tell on him," said William F. Delmage. the employer. who was robbed. But this did not appeal to the magistrate, who told Delmage to stop "hounding" Heitz and held him under a $1,000 bond for six months to carry out the order.

Heitz pleaded guilty when arrested four years ago for stealing five dollars worth of meat, and his sentence wM suspended. Aluminum $289 a Ton Aluminum is now worth $289.50 to $482.60 per ton. One can eaBlly obtain a metal 99.5 per cent, pure, and' in some cases the impurities do not aggregate 0.3 or 0.4 per cent. This metal generally contains a little iron, silicon and sodium. 1 Ranch 101 at the Arena tnis afternoon and evening.

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