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Average for the year 1913—51.5T7
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Average for the year 1911—15.851
Average for the year 1910—17.495
MONDAY EYEWING. MAY 24.
The best may err.—Addison.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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, 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.
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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.