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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 27
i
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH
AT last we are to have a real "old
fashioned" Fourth of July celej
bratlon In Harrlsburg; one of
the kind that we remember as
youngsters, when the eagle started to
«cream at daybreak and was still on
the job as lively as ever when the sun
sank behind the smoke-dimmed hori
zon; when the heroes of wars agone
•proudly displayed their scars and
■would-be heroes of wars to come
ehouldered arms and marched with
firm step and In unwavering lines be
fore an admiring populace; when the
orator on the flag-draped platform
with the Japanese lanterns swinging
over-head in the morning breeze de
fled the united countries of the world
and proclaimed us the "Greatest na
tion on earth"; when everybody agreed
■with him and then went perspiring
home to partake of ice cream, lemon
beer and ginger bread.
We are getting back to the standards
from which we strayed in those days
when it became unfashionable to cheer
as the flag went by and when any
display of patriotic enthusiasm was re
garded as "mawkish sentiment." It is
not good for a people to forget their
traditions and the nation is In danger
when its birthday becomes only an
occasion for a "double-header" base
ball game or an automobile trip to
the country. There is no shame in
letting your neighbor know that the
"Star Spangled Banner" can still send
a thrill up your spinal column. The
coming celebration is going to be that
kind. It will rouse memories of things
you thought you had long since out
grown or forgotten, and better still, it
•will start your boy aright, with due
appreciation of what America means
to you and what it should mean to him.
Get in line and help along. The man
who is too self-centered to give a lit
tle time and money to the observance
of the Fourth of July is indeed a poor
citizen.
England has finally refused to exhibit
at the Panama Pacific Exposition next
year. Yet this is the friendly nation
which President Wilson and others are
so anxious to please in the abolition of
that clause of the Panama Canal law
exempting the coastwise shipping of
the United States from payment of
.tolls.
THE TOLLS REPEAL
PRESIDENT WILSON and those
who agree with him in the mat
ter of the repeal of the tolls ex
emption clause in the Panama
canal act are finding it difficult to
persuade the people of the United
States that this is a patriotic propo
sition. Senator Chamberlin, In his
speech a day or two ago, said the
charging of tolls upon American ves
sels engaged in the coastwise trade
will impose a very great hardship
upon the people of the whole country
in that it will enable the transconti
nental railroad lines, which now prac
tically control the domestic waterways
of the country, to charge to both pro
ducers and consumers a higher rate.
There is no impeachment of the
honor of the United States in the
exemption of these tolls, and, as there
appears to be no violation of the treaty
with England in the exemption, it is
impossible for the average citizen to
understand why the coastwise ship
ping of the United States should not
have the benefit of this exemption.
HISTORY AND THE TARIFF
THOSE Democratic bosses and
their newspaper supporters who
vainly imagine that the voters
of Pennsylvania, thousands of
whom are Idle by reason of the opera
tion of the Wilson free trade law, are
going to forget their misfortunes In
any hip-hurrah campaign, will come
out of their trance before the frost Is
on the pumpkin.
Even those first voters of 1912,
thousands of whom failed to realize
what a free trade policy would mean
in this country, are getting awake to
the error of their course two years
ago. They and multitudes who ought
to have known better demanded a
change. They didn't Beem to know
what kind of a change they wanted,
but insisted upon a change for the
cake of a change. President Wilson
WEDNESDAY EVENING
and his associates gave them a change,
but they are still far from satis
fled and they are now ready for an
other change—a return to the sanity
of Republican administration. Dis
tress inevitably follows Democratic
tariff tinkering. This is not the first
case of the prostration of the industries
of Pennsylvania through the theoreti
cal foolishness of a free trade experi
ment. Older men remember the un
fortunate experiences of other Demo
cratic experiments and now the young
er men are feeling the pinch of condi
tions resulting from the anti-protec
tion tariff.
Horace Greeley in the New York
Tribune of January 15, 1856, gives a
pen picture of that period, so true,
so vivid, that it is one of the unfor
gettable passages in the English lan
guage:
Who is hungry? Go and see. You
that are full fed and know not what
it is to be hungry—perhaps never
saw a hungry man—go and see. Qo
and see thousands, men and women,
boys and girls, old and young,
black and white, of all nations,
crowding and jostling each other,
almost lighting for a first chance,
acting more like hungry wolves
than human beings, in a land of
plenty, waiting till food is ready
for distribution. Such a scene may
be seen every day between 11 and 2
o'clock around the corner of Orange
and Chatham streets, where charity
gives a dinner to the poor, and soup
and bread to others to carry to
their miserable families. On Satur
day we spent an hour there at the
hour of high tide. We have never
seen anything like It before. Up
ward of a thousand people were fed
with a plate of soup, a piece of bread
and a piece of meat, on the prem
ises, and in all more than sixteen
hundred.
There was much more of that vivid
picture from the pen of Greeley and
all this was prior to the financial
cataclysm of the autumn of 1857, when
the successor to the tariff of 1 84 6 was
only a few months old. That panic,
which men of business held to be a
direct result of years of tariff for rev
enue only, began In September. Presi
dent Buchanan, in his first message to
Congress on December 8, 1857, was
not yet willing to hold the new tariff
law accountable for the fearful dis
aster with which he was confronted,
but this Is what he said:
In the midst of unsurpassed
plenty in all the productions and
elements of national wealth, we find
our manufactures suspended, our
public work retarded, our private
enterprises of various kinds aban
doned, and thousands of useful
laborers thrown out of employment
and reduced to distress.
According to history, President
Buchanan in his message a year later
practically repudiated the tariff for
revenue only policy of his party and
the South, and appealed to Congress
to enact a new tariff measure, whose
"incidental protection" would "to some
extent increase the confidence of the
manufacturing interests and give a
fresh impulse to our reviving busi
ness."
History repeats itself, it is said,
and history is doing some repeating at
the present time. Yet in spite of the
conditions we are told by the Palmers
and McCormicks and their associates
in this great manufacturing State that
President Wilson must be supported;
that his hands must be upheld and
that his administration must have the
endorsement of the thousands of work
ing .men of Pennsylvania who are
either altogether idle or working on
half time.
President Buchanan himself, in his
message at the end of the dark pe
riod on December.l 4, 1860, said:
Panic and distress of a fearful
character prevail throughout the
land. Our laboring population is
without employment and conse
quently deprived of the means of
earning bread. Indeed, all hope
seems to have deserted the minds
of men.
That was an epitaph pronounced on
the tariff for revenue policy only on
that day by the Democratic President,
but the present occupant of the White
House continues to Insist that business
must be given more jolts; that there
has not been enough of the nagging
of those who give employment to the
Idle and who are responsible for the
prosperity of this nation. It was at
the end of the Buchanan administra
tion and at the beginning of Presi
dent Lincoln's term that Lincoln gave
voice to this economic gem:
I do not know much about the
tariff, but I know this much: When
we buy manufactured goods abroad
we get the goods and the foreigner
gets the money. When we buy the
manufactured goods at home wo get
both the goods and the money.
Democratic experiments followed In
later years, but always with the same
results. The first Morrill protective
tariff of 1860-'6l marked the end of
that terrible distress which Southern
tariff for revenue only had created. It
was when these Southern theorists
were driven out of Washington that
protection as the policy of the nation
was established, and for a generation
after 1860 this policy remained domi
nant In our national legislation.
History records that it was not over
thrown until the Gorman-Wilson tar
iff law of 1894, another Southern ex
periment, and, according to Winthrop
L. Marvin in a recent address, It was
"so instantly fruitful of disaster that
the political party responsible for it
received the most fearful defeat ever
Inflicted In time of peace in all Amer
ican history, and after three destruc
tive years the Gorman-Wilson law
was repealed in 1897. Now we are
having a similar experience under the
Simmons-Underwood act, another
Southern experiment.
It requires no prophetic vision to
see the outcome of the present free
trade law or the fate of the party and
the administration responsible for its
enactment.
i SOME LITTLE TRIBI'TE
WITH the approach of Memorial
Day hundreds, yes, thousands,
of people in this city are
planning little outings to
i nearby resorts on this, the annual oc
i caslon of paying tribute to the heroic
dead of '6l to '65.
It is, of course, all right that folk
should make plans to enjoy the holi
day in a way that will bring the most
pleasure possible. Getting out of town
i is one of the best ways toward this
end for the tired, sweated city dweller.
, But wouldn't It be just a little more
fitting, just a bit more thoughtful, just
a trifle more respectful to the heroes
i of long ago. both those who are gone
and those few who still are with us.
if every citizen took some part In the
exercises of the_ morning which are
being- planned?
Let us all then pay some little per
sonal tribute either to our own or to
the nation's dead before entering upon
the lighter pleasures of the day.
The River of Doubt has nothing on
the State of Doubt Plnchot is now dis
covering.
A news dispatch says that Colonel
Roosevelt narrowly escaped a swarm of
bees that settled on the depot platform
at Washington, yesterday, when he ar
rived. We rather suspect that it was
not the Colonel, but the bees, that es
caped.
Pinchot may surpass the Colonel. We
have no doubt he will discover many—
to him—unknown rivers in Pennsylva
nia.
I EVENING CHAT 1
Seven of the ninety-one campaign
medals issued by the adjutant gen
eral s department for the War Depart
ment to veterans of wars of the United
States come to residents of this city
and vicinity and another one goes to
Colonel Horace L,. Haldeman, of Mari
etta, commissary general of the Na
tional Guard and well known here.
Colonel Haldeman is the only one in
the ninety-one to receive a Civil War
medal. The names of those receiving
Spanish War medals are John C.
Shumberger, sergeant-major at gen
eral headquarters; Lieutenant Samuel
E. Broinmer, Company H. Eighth in
fantry; George Eckert, battalion major
of the Eighth Infantry; John F. Dech
ant sergeant, Company H, Eighth In
fantry; John A. Dutton and Jerome R.
Miller, of the Governor's Troop, and
Herbert F. Fleck, sergeant, of the
Sheridan Troop. The troops are in
the Second Squadron, of which Major
F. M. Ott is commander.
Deßennevillo Randolph Keim, the
veteran newspaperman, who died at
\\ ashington Monday, and whose letters
were a feature of the Tolegraph for
several years, was almost the last of
the veteran newspaper correspondents.
He spent most of his seventy-three
years somewhere close to a newspaper
office, having taken to the work at an
early age. As will be recalled by those
who read the history of the Harris
burg military companies by Charles 1'
Meek, recently published in the Tele
graph, Mr. Keim was one of the or
ganizers of the First City Zouaves.
He left the command early, however,
to become a correspondent and was
one of tho New York Herald's staff.
General Grant was a close friend of
Mr. Keim, who was with him in a
number of campaigns, and said that
the newspaperman had never violated
a confidence. He was for years one of
tho leaders among Washington corre
spondents and an inspector of con
sulates, on which work he went around
the world. He was known for his
historical writings and activities in
patriotic projects.
From Nantlcoke comes one of the
funniest stories of all the series that
have followed the primary campaign
parties that recently toured the state
pleading for votes. It appears that the
man put in charge of the arrange
ments for the meeting at which Pal
mer and McCormlck were to speak in
Nantlcoke despaired of getting out
anything" like a crowd, but he #ot an
idea. In following out the idea he
blew the lire alarm whistle for a box
located about 150 feet away from
where the candidates were to speak.
The alarm went in just about the time
the meeting was to start and the can
didates were surprised at the en
thusiasm. which was duly chronicled
in the newspapers. The funniest part
or the lake call to get a crowd was
that one of the borough firemen in
hustling to his engine house was bitten
on the leg by a clog and intends to
! sue the borough. At Lewistown and
Chambersburg it happens'that the ar
rival of the McCormlck caravan was
timed for just when court adjourned
for lunch. Tn both cases th(* automo
biles were late and the bulk of the
jurors were calmly eating during the
talks.
Few people in this city know that
™'? m Kodgers, the eminent
Pittsburgh lawyer who died Monday,
was one of the experts ol' the state on
municipal law. He was one of a com
mission named in 1877 by Hartranft to
codify the city laws for the State and
spent much time here. The report
was the start of most of the municipal
laws. Mr. Rodgers was an uncle of
Judge Elliott Rodgers and of J. Frank-
Rodgers, both well known to many
residents of this city, and was at one
time law partner of Senator George T
Oliver. His last visit here was two
years ago.
Simon N Patten, the University of
Pennsylvania professor, who is writing
about the importance of building a
canal up the Susquehanna to liarris
burg, is one of the professors of the
university well known to Harrisburg
graduates. Dr. Patten is a great be
liever in localizing matters to illus
trate his points and once was plagued
by a student from one of the eastern
counties where German is much
spoken. It happened that the doctor
was discoursing on race traits and the
questioner was asking some questions
about love of dress among some races
He spoke of the French and Chinese
and some others and said that the Ger
mans did not tend much that way
being of a frugal nature. "I'm from a
German community and some of them
wear pretty gay clothes at times," put
in the student. "Yes, and you wear an
Easter egg tie to prove the exception
to the rule, fired back the professor
Your socks ought to match vour tie
it that is possible. And I'll pass you
* f ° r o^ e tp v r , m «' you dare go home
with that combination."
Some expense accounts which ara
not j-equ red by the law are being
filed at the Capitol. It appears that
some men who ran for nominations or
for state committee are of the poinion
that they must burden the flies at the
Capitol with their affidavits. They are
filing the papers dally and ge'tttna
them back.
( WELL KNOWN~PEOPLE 1
—Mayor Joseph Armstrong, of Pitts
burgh, is called upon to make about
three speeches a week.
—Major I. B. Brown, of Corry, will
take an automobile trip through New
England this summer.
—Charles S. Salin, of Ridley Park,
is head of the Delnware county fire
men.
—Judge Mayor Sulberger has been
sharply criticising the management of
the Philadelphia police.
—The Rev. O. E. Sunday, a Colum
bia county minister, had measles In his
family and as he could not go into his
church he preached in the yard.
DIMMICK AND THE PRIMARY
[From the New York Sun]
It is refreshing to notice that the
Hon. Joseph Benjamin Dimmick, the
solemn Scrantonlan who was a candi
date against Penrose for the Republi
can nomination for Senator In Con
gress from Pennsylvania, and was
soundly licked, won't support the win
ner. This Is as it should be. It Il
lustrates beautifully the doctrine of
the rule ol the people. A primary
that doesn't nominate a "reformer"
is an intolerable device of darkness.
What is meant by "the rule of the
people" is "the rule of the right
people." (
. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
MOOSEHS WONDER
ABOUJTHE GUSH
Would Like to Know Where the
Coin For the Campaign Is
Going to Come From '
DEMOCRATS IN A QUANDARY
Realize That Platform Will Not
Amount to Much in This
Strenuous Campaign
Announcement that Colonel Roose
velt would start his campaign at the
Progressive confeernee in Pittsburgh
on June 30 fell with pleasure on the
ears of the local Bull Moosers yester
day, but when they got to thinking it
over last night they began to wonder
where the cash was to come from to
keep the machine going through the
long summer months and the strenu
ous Fall. The Progressives here argue
that as McCormiclt will unbelt there
will be no trouble about the Demo
crats having cash and that if they do
not have any coin the dominant party
of 1912 will look like a funeral.
The Dauphin county Bull Moosers
who had plenty of cash in 1912, have
never recovered from the shock of the
announcement by William Flinn here
last January that the rank and file
of the Washington party would be ex
pected to finance this year's cam
paign. Tf they are to fight and find
their own supplies this year instead
ot having a well stocked ammunition
and commissary train there won't be
much doing.
With a view to drafting a platform
on which the Democratic ticket of
McCormick for Governor and Palmer
for Senator will appeal
to the people for sup-
Platform port, Palmer, MoOormlek
Builders and State Chairman
Worried Morris gathered at
Washington last night.
The declaration of prin
ciples will be presented to the State
Democratic Central Committee meet
ing in Harrisburg on June 3. McCor
mick and Morris did not deny that the
platform is completed. The commit
tee is expected to swallow any dose
prepared for them by the Democratic
bosses. The overwhelming majority
for Senator Penrose in the pri
mary is the stumbling block for the
reorganizes. Palmer would not ad
mit that Senator Penrose would be
made an issue. He realizes that he
must meet Penrose on the tariff issue
alone and that personalities have lit
tle or no weight with the voters. The
strength of Pr. Martin G. Brumbaugh,
Republican gubernatorial candidate, is
another source of worry to Palmer
and McCormick. They admit privately
that they cannot attack the public rec
ord of Dr. Brumbaugh, who is known
from one end of the State to the other
through his connection with the
State's educational system. They also
confront the tariff issue on the Son
atorship.
Gifford Pinchot, the Washington
party candidate for Senator, who
spent yesterday touring parts of Cum
berland and York coun
ties, while the Colonel
Pillc'iot was traveling to Wash
in Town inscton, will burst upon
Tonight Harrisburg to-night and
the Dauphin county Bull
Moosers will give him a
reception. Mr. Pinchot is trying hard
to overcome the handicap of the pri
mary vote and yesterday went around
Cumberland county in company with
a number of followers of tjie Colonel.
Art Rupley also tagged along with his
candidacy for congress-at-large. Mr.
Pinchot will spend the evening here
and talk over things with the Dauphin
men. To-morrow he will go into
Perry county in an effort to galvanize
the Washington party.
A. Nevin Detrich, the Washington
party State chairman, picked up the
wrong wire last evening in Philadel
phia. Encouraged by the
proximity of the Colonel
Mr. Detrich, who has not Detrlch's
been heard from very Outburst
much since the Washing- Quenched
ton party polled such a
small vote in the pri
mary, made some remarks intended
as a slur on Dr. Brumbaugh. He said
that Brumbaugh has no monopoly of
decency and made other remarks cal
culated to irritate the men against
whom they were uttered. When the
doctor was told about the snap of
the Detrich toy cracker, he said: "I
don't think that requires any reply
except the reading of my platform."
Detrich has not been heard from
since.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
filed in the Monroe court an answer,
stating that he had no knowledge of
the fact that for
the last two months
Palmer Says his campaign ex-
He Don't Know pense account for
About Item 1910 has been miss
ing from the files in
the office of the
clerk of quarter sessions, and denying
that the clerk found any charging
cards indicating that the account had
been removed by him from the files.
In his orn investigation of the mat
ter, he asserts, he found the accounts
of the clerk to have been badly disar
ranged and mismanaged, and, further
more, nothing in that office which in
any way constituted a receipt from
him for the account. He calls atten
tion to the fact that the only requests
for production came from persons
who were opposing him as candidate
in the present campaign and an
nounces the whole proceeding as
merely an attempt to use the pro
cesses of the court for political pur
poses. Further action will be delayed
until depositions can be taken.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT!
Vera Cruz Is now pretty well Fletch
eri/.ed.—Chattanooßa Times.
"A B C" diplomacy ought to be con
genial at Washington.—Wall Street
Journal.
"Tired business men is no figure of
speech in legislative matters.—Wall
Street Journal.
The English will also note that none
of our army or naval officers are re
signing.—St. lyiuis Globe Democrat.
Charge O'ShauKhnessy will welcome
the relief from his dally grind of de
livering ultimatums.—Rochester Post
Express!
The Constitution follows the Flag,
but whether the Constitutionalists will
or not of course Is another question.—
Syracuse Herald.
Let us hope that by 2015 at least, we
shall be celebrating one hundred years
of peace on the Rio Grande harbor.—
New York World.
Maybe Huerta thought he could pet
gay witli the United States and pet
away with It because the Colonel is not
at home.—Knoxville Sentinel.
The tendency toward belligerency in
the month of April may be a holdover
from the regular Spring treatment of
youthful days.—Washington Post.
The conviction of a Boston butcher
on the charge of using sawdust 111 his
sansase eliminates at least one mar
ket fnr the utilization of ,lumber by
products.—Nashville Southern Lumber
man. ,
( OUR DAILY )
Foreiit I,ore l»a Cod Knew
Willie Wood- Tommy Cod
pecker I want What is It they
you to get a coat call a pessimist,
that would be pa?
suitable for me. Pa Cod—A pes-
Elmer Bit —As siniist, my son, Is
you're a knocker, H fish who thinks
if you will par- there is a hook in
don me, how every worm!
would a claw
hammer do?
All Right* Re- Getting Tired
aerved The l>ady Ah,
Dere, kid, dat's Edwin Is seven
de last of me ad- hours late to the
ventures I kin tell tryst. If lie ain't
you. here in four more
You see I'm go- hours, doggone if
ing to bring jem 1 don't go home,
out in book form.
lg^ LjL
Fun Enjoyment I.ont
Lose anything, Jes' my luck.
Charles? Jes as I was
N-o-o. I'm Jes' dreamin' of seven
pertendin' dat I tubs of ice cream,
dropt a tousand I gotter fall outer
dollar bill down bed an' wake up.
dis gratin'.
A Myth
Dothario (as an- Time to leave
other mud ball Ma after you,
hits him) An' I Clarence?
read somewhere Nope! Girls up
dat "all de world to de house playin
loves a lover." kissin' games.
SUMMER'S CHARMS
By WinK Dinner
The editor has asked me
To write a verse or two
About the charms of summer,
But that is hard to do.
For how's a fellow going to
Enthuse, I'd tike to know,
When he recalls that summer
For him moans grass to mow?
That means hard work at least once
Each week, and then, alas,
Each niprht there'll be the bugbear
Of watering the grass.
Don't talk to me of summer.
With all its charms, for I
Don't really see much to it
But work and swat the fly.
I wish my friend who borrowed
Our snow shovel last Fall
Would bring it back and borrow
Our mower, hose and all.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Some pretty strenuous work ap
pears to be going on between the
halves.
—The remnants will be paraded for
Mr. Plnchot's inspection to-night.
—Those Democratic bosses just
can't keep away from Washington
when they want to frame anything.
—We presume the Democratic State
platform will be known as the Wash
ington platform so that it will go with
the White House slate.
—ln years gone by Democrats used
to fume over platforms made at At
lantic City. Now when they do the
same thing at Washington it's all
right.
—To-morrow will be Pinchot's day
in Perry county. But most of the
farmers are busy.
—Penrose speaks at Easton to-mor
row.
—Anyway it does not matter much
what Palmer says the issue will be.
He's going to lose.
—The Keystone party is making a
noise like a real party In Philadel
phia.
—Mr. Detrich will probably let Dr.
Brumbaugh alone hereafter.
—Representative Moulthrop thinks
he is going to be elected to the Senate
from Clearfield county.
—C. I'. Being has landed the
Mahanoy City post office. More trou
ble in sight for Congressman Lee.
—Local optionists in Philadelphia
see a chance to win the next State
Senate.
—Won't it be funny to see McCor
mick and McNair on the same plat
form.
MARSHALL. CUSHING'S VIEWS
It is very appropriate indeed for free
trade newspapers to give free employ
ment advertisements to the jobless and
the workless, both, at about the same
time.
The woman's labor act of Pennsyl
vania has operated thus far to give
work to some by taking it away from
others, but those deprived in this way
of the chance to earn a living won't
mind any little thing like that.
LAWN MOWER '
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(Patented)
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away with sharpening and adjust
ing. Fits any machine. Absolutely
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HARRISBURG IMPROVEMENTS
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[From the Phlla. Public Ledger]
Harrisburg. the Capital City of a
great Commonwealth, enters this
week, not upon the last stage, but tho
latest phase in its policy of rejuvena
tion and reclamation. Preparations
will begin for the resumption of work
on the river wall.
"The front steps of Harrlsburg," al
ready cleaned up, are to be furbished,
decorated and made otherwise more
inviting.
The changes have been accomplished
with such rapidity that it is hard to
realize what the city was in 1901 and
what tt is to-day—a capital in which
every citizen of Pennsylvania may well
take pride. And these changes are
due to a co-ordination of ideas and
"teamwork."
Funds are now available for ac
quiring property between Derry street
and the present end of the Parkway,
and when this land is purchased it will
complete the chain that is to girdle
Harrlsburg.
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[From the Telegraph, May 27, 1864.]
Fortress Monroe, May 25. Tho
steamer George Washington, from Ber
muda Hundred, arrived this morning
and reports that at 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the rebel General Fitzhugh
Lee, with about 2,000 cavalry, attacked
our garrison at Wilson's Landing, on
the James river, and came near over
powering pur forces there, though they
fought bravely and had the aid of a
gunboat.
Enemy Makes Attacks
Baltimore, May 27. —A letter from
Bermuda Hundred on Wednesday says
the weather is exceedingly warm. The
enemy has made frequent attacks upon
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The Harrlsburg park system is des
tined, however, to lie something more
than a fringe, dividing tho city proper
from the suburbs. The condemnation
and purchase of 126 acres of land and
houses south of the Capitol under an
act of the last Legislature mean that
Pennsylvania in a few years will have
a scat of government second in beauty
and grandeur to no capital in tho
world.
In addition Harrlsburg has ac
quired Wildwood Park. It will be left
in a state of nature.
The scheme throughout has been to
bring the parks close to the people
rather than to have the people so sit
uated that they must seek out the
pa"ks.
There are tennis courts in the vari
ous parks and playgrounds, and Har
rlsburg has the only public golf course
in Pennsylvania, one of the few in the
United States. Every form of legiti
mate sport is fostered and band con
certs are a feature.
our entrenchments and has been re
pulsed each time with heavy loss.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, May 27, 1864.]
That Cost of I jiving
Owing to the high price of material,
etc., the blacksmiths of this city have
been compelled to increase the prices
for their work. Hereafter they will
charge $2 for a full set of new horse
shoes and 80 cents for resetting shoes.
Tho Magic Wheel
On Monday next the magic wheel
will commence to revolve in front of
the Courthouse. Fortunate are those
districts that have lilled their quotas.