6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BitabluktJ illi PUBLISHED BT • in a telegraph phixtttc© co. B. J. STACK POLE Pnudmt BHitr-in-Ctotf W. R- OTSTER Stertfry <3l'P H STEINMETZ Umtteing Etitter Published every evening (except Sun day* at the Telegraph Building. 11« Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City. Hasbrook. Story. & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building. Chicago. 111., Allen * Ward. * _i|WTHj. Delivered by carriers at <TnrMrjU*?t»tr six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■won dally average (or tke three ★ oaeatha ending April SO, 191 S. a 21,844 * Average for tke year 1M4—*3.21J Average for the year 1913—51.5T7 Average for tie year 1912—SI.ITS Average for the year 1911—15.851 Average for the year 1910—17.495 MONDAY EYEWING. MAY 24. The best may err.—Addison. . - MOOT OF THEM ARE BACK EX-PR EBIDENT TAFT last week advised Republicans that they "receive the Progressives back into the party fold on condition that they leave behind them their fads, their nostrums and their isms." Laying aside the thought that most of the Progressives in Pennsylvania are already back in the Republican party fold on those grounds, Mr. Taft must recognize that the wave of "fads and nostrums and isms" has spent Its force. It reached its crest in 1912 and has been steadily receding. Abuses of power, corruption in high places and the dissatisfaction that followed were responsible for the unrest which the Progressive leaders seized upon to make their campaign. They came be fore the public at a time when the public was ripe for the unusual. Legis lation that ought to have been enacted years before had been shelved. The dissatisfied element of both old parties' were ready to accept anything that looked like a remedy. The "fads and the nostrums and the isms" came to them as some new-fangled medical theory to the man who has tried the old standard remedies in vain. The result was Wilson and the train of State and national legislative experi ments that followed. "The tads and the nostrums and the isms" have failed, as the adver tised cures of quacks usually do. and the public has come into the belief that the safe, sane and sensjlbie type of statesman, as exemplified in Mr. Taft, for instance, is after all the best leader in matters of legislation and government. The great mass of voters are still progressive, but sanely so. They will never go back to the old days of accepting anything that po litical leaders choose to give them. They have reached a full understand ing of their power, and wise political leaders have come to a similar under standing. The people have but to speak and they will get what they want, and what they want more than anything else just now is that capital and labor, businessmen and working men shall alike have a square deal be fore the law. The Republican party in Pennsylva nia is in position to go before the voters next year with a platform upon which all Progressives and progressive Republicans and Democrats, too, can stand. Now comes from foreign shores the uncomfortable statement that dishonest American manufacturers are endanger ing the value of the phrase "Made in U. S. A.," by cheating foreign govern ments on war contracts. Such things as boots and socks have been sold by sample, and then made up in very in ferior quality. The foreign Govern ments are helpless, of course, because they have paid cash in advance. All they can do is to refrain from placing other orders with the offending firms. This is outrageous in view of the splen did efforts now making for the expan sion of American trade. DOMESTIC SCIENCE COURSE THE Telegraph's annual course in cooking—or domestic science, as Its exponents prefer to term It —was opened in Fahnestock Hall at the Y. M. C. A. Building this after noon. to run one full week. It is in charge of Mrs. Vaughn, who is well known here and all over the country, indeed, as an expert in her line. The ladles of Harrisburg are invited to at- tend. The cost of admission Is noth ing. but the benefit to be derived will be worth many dollars to any woman who takes advantage of the opportun ity offered. In these days of dyspeptic stomachs high cost of living and pure food laws J the woman who does not know just how to pet the most for her money, in quantity, quality and proper pro portions, Is not only behind the age. but is not fulfilling her full duty to her family. Cooking should not be a matter of mere guesswork. It should be founded upon well-established •cientlflc principles. Nor are these principles tnwlved or hard to umler-. stand. It is merely a matter of be coming acquainted with a compara tively few simple rules and methods. Mrs. Vaughn has made a close study of these. She is authority for anything she may say. She knows from first ito last just what she Is talking about. !Womeb may tako iier advice without MONDAY EVENING, j hesitation and any woman who attends 1 one of her lessons will not be likely j to miss the remainder. Men attend Chamber of Commerce lectures and pay for the privilege of hearing discussions of themes only Indirectly applying to their own busi ness, and say they profit thereby. They must or they would not continue to do •o. The Telegraph cooking course la to the business of the women of Har risburg what the Chamber of Com merce lectures are to the business of the men, only the application of the principles Is direct and the course is free. Enormous orders for ammunition and supplies of every sort have been placed by the belligerents of Europe with American manufacturers Great Britain alone has given the Bethlehem Steel Company contracts exceeding in value $100,000,000. Other big concerns have j received orders running into the mil | lions of dollars and the I'nlted States ! Government Is likewise preparing for any eventuality by keeping Us powder dry. MAY SEE AND THINK BY WIRE IN accepting the Edison medal for "meritorious achievement In elec trical science" the other day, Alex ander Graham Bell, head of the Bell Telephone system, said: "Much has been accomplished, but there Is more to come. You have electric light, heat, the telegraph, the telephone— are you going to stop? Are you go ing to see by electricity? I can ima gine men with great coils of wire over their heads, transmitting thoughts by induction." Here is a thought so fanciful that it has not even reached the Sunday sup plement stage, and voiced by a man whose practical accomplishments arc equalled only by the greatness of his constructive imagination. What a dream of the future it Is. What a vista of untold possibilities it holds. Yet it is doubtful if it Is not nearer fulfillment than was wireless teleg raphy 25 years ago. If love and broth erhood had progressed as rapidly in the past few decades as have the ma terial accomplishments of modern civilization the world war of to-day would have been impossible. There will be held at Detroit, June 7-9, the seventh national conference on city planning, and the program for this meeting indicates the character of the movement an<j the practical sub jects to be considered. Surely the City Planning Commission of Harris burg should be represented. It would be well for the city were all five mem bers to be present. We are now real izing as never before the importance of planning our cities so as to avoid the mistakes of the past, which mis- I takes have cost enormous sums to remedy. PROSPERITY INDICTMENTS SEVEREST indictments of Demo cratic administration come, un intentionally, of course, from Democrats themselves. In a telegram to the Southern Commercial Congress, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo said that "prosperity has already been re stored." If this means anything at all, it means that prosperity had been destroyed. Otherwise it could riot be "restored." Democrats condemned Re publicans a year ago for saying that American industry had been injured by Democratic legislation, yet they as sert exactly the same thing in other words when they say that, prosperity has been "restored." They endeavor to mislead by saying that recovery has been in spite of the European war, whereas the demonstrated fact is that revival of business is due to the war and in spite of Democratic policies. AMERICAN SHIPPING SAMUEL BLYTHE, in a recent ar ticle on Japan and America in the Saturday Evening Post.says that the United States by its new ship ping law has handed over bag a.nd baggage the Pacific ocean trade to the Japanese. The United States was just begin ning to get a foothold on the Pacific coast against the heavily subsidized lines of Japan when along came the Democratic Congress and enacted a law, which President Wilson lost not a moment in signing, containing what looked like a harmless little clause, but which In reality has proven the instrument, that will drive American shipping out of the Pacific, and this in the face of all our chattering fears of "Japan mastering the Paoific." The new law requires all members of the crew of a steamer to under ! stand the language of their command !mg officers. For years steamships of : all nationalities plying between the , western American coast and Japan and China have been chiefly manned by industrious and docile Chinese sailors, firemen and stewards, though on the Japanese lines their own people have been substituted. These Asiatics have been engaged frankly because they were cheap, and they will work for wages of about $8 a month where white men would demand from S3O to SSO. But the Chinese —and the same thing Is true of the Japanese—are not only cheap but reasonably efficient and thoroughly amenable to discipline. Orders of European or American offi cers are communicated to the crews through their own leading men, who know both languages. •» Congress has now demanded that the Chinese shall go, not only from American ships but from British or other European ships entering our ports in tfrans-oceanic commerce. As a quick and certain sequel, the Paci | fie Mail management has announced that after November 2 next, two days before the new seamen's law goes into effect, its entire trans-Pacific service will be suspended. The Pacific Mail, as an American steamship company, is not subsidized by its government. But the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, one of its Japanese i competitors, paralleling its route from • San Francisco to the Orient, receives a subsidy of J1,340,000 a year. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha, another Japa nese concern, receives a subsidy of $600,000, and the Nippon Yusen Kai sha—both of these running out of Puge! Sound—receives J238.000. The British trans-Pacific line, called the jJa-nadian Pacific Steamship Company, i» subsidised by the British-Canadian governments to the amount of $218,- 000 a year. These foreign competing eempaolee employ cheap Oriental labor. The | Pacific Mail has done the same, and through an exceptionally vigorous and able administration has managed to maintain its service against the subsidized Japanese and British fleets, but for many years the American com pany has paid no dividend. Now, however. In addition to the hopeless handicap of these foreign subsidies, the American Congress loads upon the American trans-Paciflc line the obligation to discharge its Chinese stewards, sailors and flremen, and em ploy white men at from four to six times higher wages. That is to say. the Pacific Mail Company, without a subsidy, is required by the mandate of the American Congress to compete with foreign concerns generously sub sidized and allowed, moreover, to re tain Asiatic crews. Not even an extraordinarily capa ble American management can meet these overwhelming conditions, nnd the American ships are, therefore, to be withdrawn. And this at the hands of an administration that has been prating constantly of the necessity of re-establishing American shipping on the high seas. GOVERNOR'S SI MMER PLANS IFrom the Philadelphia Record.) Governor Brumbaugh plans to put in the better part of the summer and Fall In personal Inspection of the State highways. The Governor will be kept at the Capitol for the next month in pursuing legislation passed up to him by the Legislature, and will then be a comparatively free man for many months to come. The work of the Leg islature has kept him well confined since his advent into office, and pre vented him from personal investigation of the work of the Highway Depart ment to the extent desired, but when his pressure of duties relaxes he plans to give portions of his program full vent. The Governor is not friendly inclined to the idea of a "summer capltol" for a State Executive, and intends to con tinue his home at Harrisburg. without taking any prolonged vacation. He will make the customary visits to the Penn sylvania military camps during the summer period, and will also attend a number of other official funrtions throughout tbe State. He expects wherever possible, however, to make auto trips and make personal notes of highway work and needs. EDITORIAL COMMENT The wonder now is how the Hon. Charles Evans Hughes contrived to have his way in almost everything without breakfasting with the bosses. —New Tork Evening Sun. The Danish diet has adopted an amendment giving women the right to vote. This shows that if the women can't stop the war. the war can't stop the women, either.—Chicago Herald. Twenty-two members of Princeton's senior class announce that they have never been kissed. Before reading this we never could understand why the end of a college course was ..nown as commencement.—New York Even ing Journal. Quite the cleverest thing so far said about the Chinese and Japanese sit uation was that the moment China, having been smitten on the one cheek, offered to turn the other, the Christian nations raised a howl of indignation.— San Francisco Chronicle. A movement is on foot to have the law against the exhibition of fight pic tures declared unconstitutional. So we may see the Syracuse films after all. —Boston Transcript. Our Daily Laugh CERTAINLY KOT '- (U He: We'd bet- I II •T ter part now be- j \„ fore it's too late. V-f? She: It won't „T$ be too late after { that theatre - you're going to MHUD r . take me to, will fIN THE CHILD LESS ERA. Going te the wan: to, of course, but I'll have to take my wife's BTGVTLLE W doings. -y Chorus of Bugs: Ji/ What a fine dia- 7 ||gpJ / mond—if we only / fit had a bat and / f*V _ * / bail! TO PROSPECTIVE BRIDES By Wing Dinger Prospective brides, take notice! We're going to hold this week A cooking school, to which you Should go each day and seek The methods that have proven Of all the very best For holding man's affection For wlfey in his breast. You've heard that old, old saying, That man's heart can be reached Best through his stomach—truer Words never hare been preached. So take my tip and go learn Just how to stew and bake And fry and broil and cook things Like mother used to make. j "\ Full Steam Ahead The business fog is lifting. The danger signals are disap pearing—lts time for Full strain Ahead! It's time to get your optimism out of the moth balls and put gloom In cold storage. The very fact that so many people curtailed their expendi ] tures during the past few months means that they will have more needs to be filled. I Be aggressive. Advertise. Ad vertise in the newspapers. . Begin now and get a flying start in the doliar race that is I beginning in earnest. H ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'poittCc* LK r ] > tKKOi|^a>ua Hy the Ex-Committeeman —Men active in politics in every quarter of Pennsylvania are awaiting with (treat eagerness the action of Governor Brumbaugh on the elecUou amendment bills which were sent to him last week by the House of Rep*- resentatives after having passed the Senate. The bills will materially af fect the course of so-railed Indepen dent movements, revenge campaigns and combinations such a<\ that engi neered last Fall by the Democrats and Bull Moosers. —Briefly stated, the bills in the hands of the Governor are aimed to prevent fuaion and to give the party polling the largest vote at a general election the first place on the ballot Instead of the position being govern ed by quadrennial presidential elec tions. The first would give back to the Republican that which it won at the last elecUon and the others would prevent formation of mule tickets by prohibiting withdrawal of any one after primary election*. The organi zation of "over night" parties would also be ended by another bill. —Before the session adjourned ef forts were made to give the impresion that the Governor was opposed to any changes in the election laws, but the fact that they were brought out of committee and passed without any statement to that efTect attracted some comment. —The visit of Governor Ferris, of Michigan, to this city on June 2. which was mentioned in the Telegraph some time ago may be of considerable poli tical significance because he is an old friend of Governor Brumbaugh and the Pennsylvania executive may find time to make a speech or so in Michi gan. If Governor Willis, of Ohio, can get here next month it will be an inter eating occasion. —The Governor's trip to the Pana ma-Pacific exposition late in the sum mer will be watched with interest be cause the program as outlined calls for a number of stops so that the peo ple can see the Governor and hear him talk. Dr. Brumbaugh, because of his educational lectures and books and service, is widely known through Western States. —No one who observed the manner in which the two branches of the leg islature were held to their work and the celerity with which business was dispatched, difficulties avoided and knots untangled could fail to be im pressed by the thorough grasp of par liamentary procedure and cool head erness of the advisers. W. Harry Bak er in the Senate, and James N. Moore in the House. Both are men of long experience in legislaUve practice and they steered the presiding officers most skillfully. Quiet as it has been kept there were a number of occasions in both branches 'when the situations were ticklish, but things seemed to go without a ripple. —Senator E. E. Beidleman is the Fourth Dauphin countian in fifty years to be president pro tem of the Senate. His preceptor in the law. Judge S. J. M. McCarrell was presi dent pro tem twenty years ago and | before him Andrew Jacksop Herr held the office. Back in the days when the president of the Senate was known as the Speaker David Fleming held the gavel. Louis W. Hall was also speaker of the Senate on two occasions, but in those days he was not a resident of Dauphin county and was at the com mencement of the brilliant career that! made him one of the leaders of the Keystone State bar. —-Governor Brumbaugh has over 700 bills to act upon and his days and hi* nights for the next three weeks will be full of work. In addition tl\e Gov ernor has a number of important ap pointments to work out and his new Public Service commission to launch, as well as the new Agricultural com mission. Up to date Governor Brum baugh has disregarded a good many of the precedents of the Executive De- | partment and his handling of the bills! will be watched with interest. —Paul N. Furman, who is acting as private secretary to the Governor, is an old Philadelphia newspaperman. He used to do "routes" and "police" and later became city editor. He was on the old Philadelphia Times under McClure. —Friends of Judge Thomas J. Bald ridge, of Blair county, are congratu lating him upon the manner in which the bar of his county stood up for him when the impeachment attack was made. The Bar Association voted unanimously to express confidence in his integrity and the petition for im peachment did not get any more con sideration from the people at home than it did from the legislature. —Judge Robert S. Gawthrop, of Chester count will have opposition at the primaries by A. T. Parke and J. F. E. Hause, both of whom were ap plicants for the appointment. The judge is strongly backed by many of the prominent men of the county. —Edwin O. Lewis, Philadelphia re form lawyer, has been appointed an assistant city solicitor by City Solici tor M. J. Ryan. —Renomination of Judge E. H. Reppert, Fayette county, appointed last week by Governor Brumbaugh, is forecast in the southwestern counties. —Ex-Senator D. R. McPherson, of Gettysburg, is in the for the judicial nomination in the Adams-Ful ton district. His friends say he will be one of the candidate* beyond & doubt. —The long delayed appointment of John B. Evans, of Pottstown, to be subtreasurer of the United States at Philadelphia, is expected to be an nounced soon. Ex-Congressman Pal mer has been strongly urging it. —Congressman William 8. Vare in a statement issued last night in Phil adelphia, gives high praise to Governor Brumbaugh and to the Legislature which has just adjourned. The con gressman kept a close eye on the ses sion and many of the moves of his brother, the senator, have been at tributed to his counsel. The congress man is also credited with influencing a couple of public service commission appointments. —James H. .Maurer, the Socialist member of the House from Reading, also praises the work of the Legisla ture, although it did not take up his numerous bills. Maurer sized up very well in the Legislature and when he spoke he commanded attention. In fact, the whole attitude toward him was respect and very different from that of 1»11. —J. Denny O'Neil Is to be one of | the speakers at the big temperance I conference Jn Atlantic City next month Other prominent workers f will he present, including some of the legislators. —The Berks Socialists have com pleted a primary by referendum. Charles A. Maurer, a brother of the representative, has been named for mayor of Reading and R. B. Ringler for county controller. FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY MARKED EN ■ , GRAND REVIEW AT WASHTINGTON, D. C., 1««# I Victorious Union Troops Marched Down Pennsylvania Avenue at Na tion's Capital in Memorable Review May 24, 1865, on Re turn Home From Southern Campaign To-day marks the fiftieth nnniver- 1 sary of the rrand review of troops at Washington. D. C.. May 2 4, 186 5, when soldiers of the Union Army were re turning from years of hard service on southern battlefields after the Civil War. The article and illustration here with are taken from "Elson's New History of the Civil War," issued by the Telegraph some time ago, and the cut was made from one of the famous Brady Civil War photographs. The following account of the review is given: "One of the proudest days of the nation—May 24. 1865 —here lives again. The true greatness of the American people was not displayed till the close of the war. The citizen from the walks of humble life had during the contest become a veteran soldier, equal in courage and fighting capacity to the best drilled infantry of Marl borough, Frederick the Great, or Na poleon. But it remained to be seen whether he would return peacefully to the occupations of peace. European nations made dark predictions. 'Would nearly a million men,' they asked, 'one of the mightiest military organizations ever trained in war, quietly lay aside this resistless power and disappear into the unnoted walks of civil life?' Eu rope with its standing armies thought INSIDE A SUBMARINE NO PLACE FOR A NERVOUS OR TIMID MAN (From the Pittsburgh Dispatch) NEW YORK—Five strange, black looking craft, with fishy bodies, are moored to a float at One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and the Hudson river. By their side is a vessel that looks like a cross be tween a battleship and a pigsty. These are submarines and the pigsty battle ship is the submarine fender. And since one of these machines of war sent the Lusltania to the bottom of the sea they are attracting more at tention than the sixty-odd battleships that are lined up for review. These five little things are hideous, grew some, ugly as sin and as leaden as black death. They have just made a record trip from Key West, coming the 1,200 miles in five days. According to one of the officers of these cigar shaped steel boxes, they are just as unpleasant inside as outside. Every means the risk of pneumonia and tu means the risk of uneumonia and tu berculosis. "The entire inside of the boat sweats like a pitcher of ice water on a hot day." said the officer. "Before we are on it three hours our clothes are soaked and they stay that way. We have absolutely no heat, which means NEVS DISPATCHES OP THE CIVIL WAR [From the Telegraph, May 24, 1865] Grand Review Today Washington, May 24. —At 9 o'clock this morning the grandest review ever witnessed on this continent com menced, led by Sheridan's Cavalry. Shortly after 9 o'clock the head of the column reached General Grant's stand. Business was suspended all ■day In the city. JcfT Davis Imprisoned Fortress Monroe, May 24. —Jeft Davis was Imprisoned here to-day un der close confinement. Special guards have been stationed to prevent hife es cape. Alabama to Return Memphis, May 24.—Efforts are be ing made in Alabama to hav« the State return to the Union. SOMEWHAT MIXED [From the Christian Herald.] A careful estimate has been made recently of the proportion of citizens of foreign birth and descent through out the United States which proves of especial interest at the present time. According to Professor Albert B. Faust, or Cornell University, who has made a special study of the subject, the country contained in 1910, 32.Z43,- 352 people of foMgign birth, or 35 per cent, at the entire white population. Of this number 13.345,545 were foreign born, 12,91(,511 had been born In America of foreign-bom parents, and 5,981,526 had one such parent. According to the statistics a large proportion of the foreign-born popula tion, or at least those of foreign birth, of of German origin. There are 8.282.618 Hermans and Home 4,504,360 of Irish descent and 3,231,952 classi fied as English, Scotch and Welsh. Canada contributed 2,754,615 to the so-called foreign population; Austria- Hungary. 2,701,886; Russia, 2,541,649; Italy, 2,098,360, and the Scandinavian group. Including Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 1,743.378. All the other countries totaling some 1.177,092, THE TIRED BUSINESSMAN (Phifadelphia Public Ledger.) America's strength is to be found i in its 1,7000,000 business concerns. What they W&ut is freedom of oppor ; tunlty and irtft unfettered use. of their time. It costs them money to fill out intricate inquiry blanks from Wash . ington and attend benevolent Investi gations. They do their best work when let alone. And that kind of gov ernment that frets and hinders them hampers production and hurts the general good. MAY 24, 1915. not. Kurope was mistaken. The dis banded veterans lent the effectiveness of military order and discipline to the industrial and commercial development of the land they had come to love with an increased devotion. The pictures are of Sherman's troops marching down Pennsylvania avenue. The horsemen in the lead are General Francis P. Blair and his staff, and the Infantry in flash ing: new uniforms are part of the Sev enteenth Corps in the Army of Ten nessee. Little over a year befor® they had »tarted with Sherman on hk series of battles and flanking: marches in the struggle for Atlanta. They had taken a conspicuous and important part in the battle of July 2 2 east of Atlanta, receiving and finally repulsing attacks in both front and rear. They had marched with Sherman to the sea and participated in the capture of Savan nah. They had joined In the campaign through the Carolines, part of the time leading the advance and tearing up many miles of railway track, and operating on the extreme right after the* battle of Bentonville. After the negotiations for Johnston's surrender were completed tn April they set out on the march for the last time, with flying colors and martial music, to en ter the memorable review at YVashlng -1 ton in May, here preserved." that the boat is the temperature of the outside air. Sometimes we nearly freeze. The doctors say that the men on a submarine never sleep; they merely become unconscious for brief intervals. The air, the odors from the machinery, the constant vibration and the intense strain under which you labor make sleep an impossibility. "In a storm, when we have to seal up, the air gets worse than anything you can imagine. There are eighteen men and two officers in one of our boats, and at any moment any one of the twenty may cause the death of all the rest. There is no room for mistakes. The space in which the men live is 50 feet long and about 10 feet wide. I can stand upright if I pick my place, but most_ of the time my shoulders are bent." There are no bunks; we all spread our mattresses on an iron deck. The diningroom consists of our electric hot plates. Nothing in the nature of a spark Is allowed below decks, but we can heat up cofTee on the hot plates a.id occa sionally fry things. We can't smoke, and the vibration of the engines makes it impossible to read or even play cards, so when we are not working there's nothing for us to do but sit on the floor and look at each other." IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, May 24, 1865] To Muster Out Penna. Regiments Forty-one regiments of Pennsyl vania infantry and five of cavalry, from the Army of the Potomac, will be mustered out as soon as the sol diers arrive in this State. No. Fire Chief For City At a convention of delegates of the fire companies of this city, a resolu tion offered by George L. Black, of the Hope company, stating that a fire chief was not needed in this city, was carried by a vote of 12 to 9. Friend- j ship, Washington and Mount Vernon members voted for a fire chief, the other oompanles opposing the eleotlon of one. Horse Killed A horse owned by a man from Hor nerstown, ran away and coming to ward this city. The animal fell in running down a hill ajid was almost Instantly killed. BOOKS and "Bred of the Desert," Marcus Hor ton's Just-publl9hed novel, was begun as long ago at 1906. "I was an East erner in the West," says Mr. Horton. "What fiction of the West I had read contained somewhere in its pages the element of the horse. In fact, a story of that country, without a horse in it appeared impossible." So he asked himself: "Why not do the thing from the viewpoint of the horse, give him his due, as It were." The tirst half of the book was written In Denver and then laid aside. Years later, when the author had returned East, he ran across the forgotten MS. in the garret, and at the insistence of a friend the original of "Pat's" mis tress —he took up the book again. The June Woman's Home Companion is called "The Bride's Number" because it contains so many articles and stories relating to weddings. Families, In which weddings are soon to take place, will find in these articles many and varied practical suggestions of great value and interest—always with a view to obtaining the most beautiful effects at the least expense. Some of these articles are: "In Their New Home." by Charles E. Jefferson; "My Wedding Morn," by a bridegroom; "The Bride's Own Page;" "The Bride's Cottage;" "Handicraft Gifts for the Bride;" "The June Bride and Her Attendants;" "Her Wedding Veil," and "The Bridal Shower. { ©wiring dhat 11-=========^ A rood many people who left the city's streets' and the States main highways yesterday and struck across country, defying mud and disregarding the occasionally sharp breezes, were delighted to And that the butterflies are with us again. The coming of the butterflies and the blossoming of the locusts are two events eagerly anticipated by the dwellers In the rural districts because when they appear one can be sure that summer is approaching and that It Is time to do various things about the house and to change apparel. Butterflies abound In this part of Penn sylvania, the lower Susquehanna Val ley counties as well as the Cumber land Valley being well-known to en tomologists for the number more than for the variety of the species. Perhaps a score are known as natives and they range from the small cabbage butter fly to the gorgeous AJax swallowtail with his red and black wings and red dots on the portion that fanciful scien tists have called the tall of his coat. This big yellow fellow Is to be seen in Wlldwood Park and occasionally sail ing about the fields near the Reser voir. The most abundant of the butter flies, one that can be seen about al most any open space, especially in the country near the city is the Monarch or milkweed, a common insect with reddish brown wings, an untiring flver with a large bump of inquisitiveness and a latin name that sounds like a lifle from Virgil. Then there Is the beautiful red Admiral with brown wings tipped with black with white dots and barred with red. A smaller and lighter brown butterfly, much seen along the River Front, is the Comma, because the out of its wings when folded make it look like that essential bit of punctuation. The black and blue astcrias and the copper but terfly, whose scientific name sounds ltke a battlefield in the Dardanelles, are not uncommon and once In a while In warm weather the superb peacock eye can be taken In the open country, where the soldier blackbirds and blue birds flit undisturbed by noises of the automobile or the trolley car. • • • Few of the entertainments of the schools of Harrisburg In the last dozen years have matched for beauty and originality that of the pupils of the Seller school on Saturday evening at the Technical High school. The whole Idea of the entertainment was unique and not only required costuming with the utmost care, but thorough training of the young folks. The flowers of Spring time were most daintily por trayed and the butterflies and the geese gave a most delightful and amusing touch. When one considers the soirees of years ago in the school entertainments and nights of recita tion and music It must be admitted that the youngsters of to-day have the advantage of us. The program of Sat urday represents the advance In school methods and its rendition was charm ing Indeed. » • • The way the Harrlsburg Railways Company has gone about renewing the crossover at Cameron and Market streets without stopping shows how things can be done with preparation. Of course, the heavy work was dona In the few hours that no cars rumble across that busy intersection, but there remained much to be done to com plete the Job and that cars were not held up more than a minute or so when the rest of the operation was under way attracted the attention of a good many passengers. * • • "While the Susquehanna just now is practically stationary at a stage that is usual for this time of the year, tlt**- waters arc still too high in the opinion of contractors and city officials to per mit the construction of the additional flights of steps across the gap in the river wall at Market street. "It's true," observed an official of the department of streets and public improvements to day, "that the river is low but It Is equally true that the water must re cede considerably yet before we can expect the contractors to go on with the work. When it was announced the other day that high water is inter fering with the continuance of the concrete work at the Market street gap, the statement was entirely cor rect insofar as practicability is con cerned." * * • County Treasurer Arthur H. Bailey Is preparing his statement of mercantile license fees paid to date for presenta tion to the Auditor General. "The licenses have not been taken out as rapidly as is desired," said a county official yesterday, "but we expect them all to be lifted by at least the first of July. Our first report will go up to Capitol Hill about June 1 and we'll probably have from $3,000 to $3,500 to show for our efforts to date." "The jitneys In Harrisburg are be coming; each day more popular when the people want quick service," re marked a man the other day who is interested in the competition between the autos and the trolleys. He, how ever, severely criticised some of the Jitney drivers who are too careless in running their cars. "One of these days a big accident will wake up the people of the town to the fact that 'safety first' is also applicable to Jit neys, as well as shdps. I will say that a large majority of the drivers are careful, but there are several who do not try to avoid trouble, and they will find plenty of it If they continue to endanger the lives of the pedestrians and the passengers of reckless driving. Personally I think It Is the duty of the police to be on the job every minute, and arrest the fellows who insist in driving on the left hand side of the street, running aj-ound another ma chine at high speed and performing other stunts to show their Ignorance or wilful breaking of the trafflo laws of the city." • • • Fully a dozen automobile parties registered at Harrisburg hotels yester day, soma of them coming from as far away as Pittsburgh, Wellsboro and South Bethlehem. Most of them ware on the way to Gettysburg. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —John F. Casey, Pittsburgh contrac tor, has taken a big Job at Milwaukee. —Abbott 8. Weibel. well-known hers, has been elected president of the Allentown Rotary Club. —Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson Is to make an address at South Fork this week. —JCjn T. Dempsey, Scranton labor leader, is to be one of the auditor* of the Colorado strike fund. —Congressman Thomas S. Butl*| hurt in a recent automobile accident, has Improved and Is able to get about. [ DO YOU KNOW •niat Harrlsbwg steel Is used In United States fortWcatlons? WO PLACB FOR TOI.I.GATE# [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] The Lancaster and Montgomery pikes should have the first call on the State s appropriation of $500,000 for the pur ! chase of toil roads. Tollgate houses I have less place In twentieth-century Pennsylvania than ' the Conestoga wagon. In the museum they might t>« Interesting. On the highroad they are merely enraging.
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