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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Established iSfr
PUBLISHED BT
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.
E. J. STACKPOLE
President and Editor-in-Chief
F. R. OYSTER
Secretary
GUS M. STEINMETZ
Managing Editor
Published every evening (except Sun
day) at the Telegraph Building, 216
Federal Square. Both phones.
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ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ
ated Dallies.
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JCew York City, Hasbrook, Story &
Brooks.
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Chicago, 111,, Allen & Ward.
Delivered by carriers at
<Bgjgfi[JW£sKl> 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.
Strom dully average for Ihe three
★ months ending April 30, 1915.
21,844 it
Average for the year 1014—23,213
Average for the year 1913—21.577
Average for the yenr 1912—21,171 V
Average for the year 1911—18,851
Average for the year 1910—17.495
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28.
TOOTH BRUSH DAY
NEW YORK CITY to-morrow will
celebrate "tooth Brush T>ay"
—an event which might well be
observed in Harrlsburg.
The dental Inspectors in the schools
of the metropolis have found that
hundreds of children never brush
their teeth and that many have never
been taught how. The result in many
cases is exactly what might be ex
pected—sickness and chronic dys
pepsia.
In order that every child in New
York may learn the usages of the
tooth brush the special day is being
observed, when school teachers will
demonstrate to the youngsters.
Doubtless in Harrlsburg there are
many children who do not use their
tooth brushes as they should and
fome who do not use them at all, else
the. school dentists would not be kept
lis busy as they now are.
To be sure, it Is the primary duty
of parents to teach their children
to brush their teeth every morning
end night, but parents are notori
ously lacking In the teaching of health
and hygiene, and It has been found
necessary to teach nearly all of the
plain health truths in the public
schools. One of the best ways imag
inable to teach teeth hygiene is by a
practical demonstration with the
brush.
It might be a splendid thing for the
Harrlsburg school* to have a "tooth
brush drill" before the vacation pe
riod begins.
Western farmers and those of Penn
sylvania are looking forward to large
crops this year. Nothing but a calamity
can prevent a prosperous year in the
West, and there is reason to believe
that the farmers of the East will like
wise share In the bounty of Nature.
REDMOND'S REFUSAL
r A MKRICAN newspapers have in .
J"\ the past ten months discussed
the German people in their
ethnic, temperamental, historic and
other aspects. The tenacity of the
British has gained for the English !
subjects of King George brief mention
ir.ow and then, but on the whole a
Martian visitor who depended entirely
upon the columns of our newspapers
for his Information probably would ,
come to the conclusion that the Ger
mans are the only really Interesting
people on this planet.
But there are others. We are re
minded of this just now by the refusal
of John Redmond, the leader of the
Irish Nationalists, to Join the coalition
cabinet, and the effect his action is
Jiaving upon the popular mind In Ire
land. The Irish are an ancient race.
They wore vigorous in mind and body
end st&mped the- impress of their
Kenius upon the world long before the
early Greeks learned to write. The
Emerald Isle was an Intellectual center
xvlien most of continental Europe was
fi howling wilderness inhabited by
jiagans only one degree removed from
cave men. From earliest times they
Jiave excelled in literature in all it.s
branches, law, theology and the arts,
■ t is perhaps only because of lack of
opportunity that they are not also
right up at the front in the sciences.
INor arc they deficient in the sterner
•virtues. For centuries they have been
known a.s the fighting race.
That a people so richly endowed by
nature, and with roots as deeply im
planted in a soil they love passionately,
!have failed to create a strong nation,
s political entity capable of holding its
own against the whole world, is one of
nature's most striking: anomalies. But
the explanation is not far to seek. It
lies In the fact that for some reason,
perhaps to keep these virile people
from running rough shod over a re
luctant universe, it has been so
arranged that wisdom and the political
instinct never exist at the same time
Jn $n Irishman's head as long as he
remains in Ireland. England, France,
Spain have all had to learn to obey the
•will of men who sprang from "the
auld sod" and the history of the newer
parts of the world would present a
sorry appearance if the part played by
Irishmen were left out. But of great
Btatemen there have been precious
few In the story of Ireland itself.
When put to the test some, of their
lenders have turned rogues, hut per
haps not a greater percentage than
any other people would show If the
records were searched carefully. It Is
•when It comes to those who have
proved fools that every true friend of
Ireland Is compelled to hang his head.
'{Wrong headed, purblind leaders are
*
FRIDAY EVENING,
the greatest obstacle tdvlreland's as
pirations for what Empeifor William
calls a place In the nun. And John
Redmond appears to have definitely
enrolled himself In the ranks of this
hapless lot.
As a matter of abstract right and
of Justice long deferred, Ireland de
serves well at the hands of England,
but now, in addition to that claim, an
opportunity is presented by which he
can put the rest of the United King
dom under obligations of the most
pressing kind In favor of the Irish
people, yet the man the whole world
regards as the political chief of the
Irish holds aloof. It may be good
politics for the minute, but It may well
be doubted that it will prove a paying
move in the long run. Downright
opposition would have a truer ring
and be more calculated to win the re
spect of the world.
Governor Brumbaugh is right In re
fusing hearings upon every bill that
happens to have been left upon his
desk by the Legislature. Most of these
measures have been talked over at
length by the lawmakers and it ought
not to be necessary to further take up
the time of the Governor.
PAX-AMERICAN COMMERCE
OUT of the discussions before the
Pan-American conference at
Washington may come some
plan for the creation of a merchant
marine that will be creditable to this
country and its South American neigh
bors. Opposition to the administration
scheme of government-owned ships
has increased rather than diminished
since the adjournment of Congress and
any reference to a renewal of the Wil
son plan is certain to arouse earnest
criticism.
One of the ideas now suggested is
for a Joint Pan-American shipping
service with a representative of the
several Pan-American countries co
operating with Interests In the United
States. The South American delegates
now in session are outspoken in their
opposition to what they call "the grip
of the foreign shipping trusts." Lack
of ships seems to be the one serious
drawback In the development ot the
South American trade with the United
States.
Among the various features of the
scheme now tentatively considered is
the selection of ports of call along the
western coast and all along the east
ern coast of South America; these
ports to be chosen on a basis of pro
viding cargoes going and coming.
Whatever the plan finally adopted,
it is almost certain that lines of com
merce between North and South
America will be established as the out
come of the war in Europe. The in
terests of the countries concerned are
so great it is inconceivable that the
present situation shall long continue.
Under the direction of the State For
estry "Department millions of young
trees are being planted on the forest
reserves of the State. It will be a. good
thing when the tree planting microbe
takes hold in all parts of Pennsylvania.
Perhaps Governor Brumbaugh will en
courage the idea of planting trees
along State highways. These could be
looked after, hv the highway forces of
the State and wouid form avenuefc to
still further attract lovers of fine
scenery and good roads.
A VERY «OOI> STUN
IT Is a very good sign that Ameri
cans of Italian birth are not rush
ing back to the land of their birth
to help the Italian government wrest
from Austria a lot of land of doubtful
value to the empire. The attitude of
Italy is the same as that of Germany
and Austria. Both wanted "their place
in the sun" and the war is the result
It Is just as true to-day as it was when
the ancients embodied the thought in
their writings that the ambition of
princes is many times as hurtful to
themselves and to their own people as
it is to those whose lands are laid
tribute. This Is often ,lust as true of
those who are celebrated for their
successes as of those who fail to realize
the objects of their ambitions. As one
writer has put it, "if a severe view
were to he taken of their conduct, if
tho profit and loss of their wars could
he Justly balanced, it would he rarely
found that the conquest Is sufficient to
rt>pay the cost."
This is as true of Emperor William
or Victor Emmanuel to-day as It was
of Txjuis XIV, who. with the acqui
sitions of all his wars, it Is said, was
poorer at the end than in the begin
ning. because for every subject lie had
conquered he had lost three that were
his Inheritance.
Many of our Italian fellow-citizens
may not be familiar enough with their
history or their classics to judge their
present situation in the light of human
experience, but they are blessed with a
degree of good common sense that is
keeping them quietly at their work In
this the land of their adoption while
the prince-made war in Europe is lead
ing thousands of their countrymen at
home to death or ruin.
Lancaster county members of the
Dunkard sect are riot in harmony with
the action of the national conference
in deciding that Dunkards must not
own automobiles. Their Dauphin
county brethren are likewise of the
same opinion, if we may judge from
the number of automobiles driven by
the Dunkards In this section.
ANOTHER TREASURY 81/OW
BY the placing of a new construc
tion on one doubtful section of
the Underwood tariff law the
United States loses from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year.
The country would be pleased to
learn, no doubt, just how the Demo
cratic administration means to make
up this loss, but up to date the usually
talkative members of the Cabinet have
maintained a strict silence on the sub
jetc. Possibly they have not decided.
Possibly, also, the method that will
have to be resorted to is not likely
enough to prove popular to warrant
any unnecessary publicity. A bond
lasiie to cover the deficiency would
seem to be the only way out of the
difficulty, since Congress is not in ses
sion to extend the provisions of the
stamp tax.
Here Is another example of the utter
• incapacity of the Democrats in control
at V ashlnirton. Not only were they
mistaken in the effects of low tariff on
the business of the country, but they
were not able to draw even a low"
tariff law that would hold water before
the courts. When the Republicans
take over .the reins of government in
1917 they will have much the same de
plorable conditions to correct as faced
them when they followed the last
Democratic administration Into office.
Certain recent developments In the
( courts of New York, growing out of
I t * l<> free and, easy lives of young girls
In the metropolis, have called attention
' to the lack of restraint upon the part
of some parents right here In Harris-
I burg. It Is no wonder that the good
women of the Civic Club are doing
what they can to bring about the en
actment and enforcement of a curfew
ordinance. We may not have cabarets
and lobster palaces here, but we have
a certain class of young bloods who are
preying upon girls through the use of
automobiles.
i City Commissioner Lynch, who has
i had large experience in the care of
streets and general public work, will
i have plenty to do when the new asphalt
• j repair plant is in operation. Owing to
the active building operations in dif
ferent parts of the city there have been
many cuts In the paved streets and
these will mean plenty of work as soon
as the asphalt machinery is in motion.
! "Dupont Powder Works Doubly
Guarded."—Newspaper headline. After
the announcement of that big extra
dividend It is probably pretty difficult
tot keep people out.
The Supreme Court having fixed July j
first to hear the appeal In the anthra- |
cite coal tax rnattef, there Is hope that |
the consumer may yet see the coal |
barons fork over what they have al- j
ready collected from the people In the j
way of Increased coal prices.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT |
Scfiui to l»«- tiuite Human
[From the si. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
The poet d'Anni.nzio. after g.'iing in
and ascertaining that the king agreed
with him in everything', added •< rather
amusing note to yesterday's news from
Home by announcing that the king is
the right man in the right place.
(•eii!leiueu, Kindly Wall
[From the Boston Traveler.]
Now that the United States has or
dered its first dirigible airship, which
will be completed in about four
months, it is to be hoped that other
nations will refrain from embroiling us
1 in trouble until we are ready for it.
Very Serlouit Slliiutlou
[From the Grand Rapids Press.] 1
One of the tragedies of a tragic year i
is the difficulty baseball Is experienc
ing in finding Its place in the sun.
Incredible t'oiiNervutlsm
[From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph. I
Somerset reports much damage as the
result of a downpour of hailstones an
inch in diameter. Only an inch'.' Come
again. Somerset!
They Flock. In Fact
[from the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
Advice about taking Progressives
back seems to be superfluous. They Just
go back.
HIGH LIFE IX NEW YORK
[Philadelphia Inquirer]
After thinking it over. Miss Eugenia
Kelly has concluded to go home with
her mother and be good. The case
has attracted unusual attention be- '
cause of the wealth and social stand
ing of the Kelly family and the reve
lation which has come of cabaret life
on the Great White Way.
There may be some possible excuse
for the poor girl of beauty who is dis
contented with her lot In seeking the
glare of the electric lights, for the
love of luxury is inherent in most peo
ple. but Miss Kelly was influenced by
no fear of poverty. She loved the gay
life for its own sake and for it risked
her reputation. As a result there is a
shaking up In New York and we are
assured that this sort of thing is go
ing to be stopped.
It will not be stopped by law and it
will only be stopped when people see
the truth about this tawdry sort of
life. It will be stopped when women
refuse to enter upon the pace which
kills. And the best way to put a stop
to It is for mothers to watch their
daughters with greater care and keep
them from the pitfalls which are so
many. The glare of cabarets seems
alluring, but there is little satisfaction
to be derived from it. Men haVe a '
better chance of escape than women,
although it injures all:
If there is a young girl to-day who
thinks of treading the primrose path
of dalliance, let her consider the case
of Eugenia Kelly, who was saved un
der extraordinary circumstances. As 1
against this one instance there might '
be mentioned thousands who have en
tered light-hearted into the Great '
White Way only to disappear forever.
"BACK TO THE BABIES"
[Philadelphia Public Ledgerl
The benevolent order of women I
known as the Ladies of the Maccabees 1
of the World has assumed the sponsor
ship of a movement to induce women 1
to bestow on children the affectionate 1
regard now lavished upon poodles, '
cats and parrots. The Michigan "hive" 1
has set a good example to the rest by >
adopting twenty-nine orphans. Those
who have had no experience of such 1
pets hitherto are finding the human 1
animal unexpectedly responsive and
amusing. There Is much to be said,
in fact, for the child as an adjunct or
the American home, even though it
is becoming increasingly unfashion
able to have one. The Journal of
Heredity shows that twenty years after
graduation from one-of the leading
women's colleges fewer than half of
the alumnae have married, and that
those who have condescended to enter
the state of matrimony have one and
one-half children apiece. The Influ
ence of these highly educated women
is not necessarily conducive, however,
to social demoralization. The women
who have "small Latin and less
Greek" and still retain the normal in
clinations of the wife and mother are
in the numerical ascendency. And
many college women themselves have
I built their lives Into ideal homes.
Aristotle has declared boys the most
untamable of wild animals; yet those
who have had experience in the train
ing of children declare that when do
mesticated boys and even girls often
display extraordinary 'docility and in
telligence. They are sometimes quite
as lively as monkeys.
I.ITTI-E JIMMY'S ANSWER
They were speaking of the apt re
plies of the rising generation the other
evening, when Congressman William
H. Murray, of Oklahoma, was remind
ed of an incident that happened at a
public school.
During the lessons one afternoon a
thunder storm arose, and seeking to
lessen the fright of the children the
teacher began an entertaining dis
course on the wonder of the elements.
"Jimmy." said she. finally, turning
to a bright little youngster, "can you
tell me what lightning is?"
"Ye.s ma'am." was the ready re'
iolnder of little Jimmy, "lightning Is
streaks of electricity."
"That's right." smiled the teacher,
encouragingly. "Now tell me whv It
Is that lightning never strikes twice
in the same place."
"Because," answered Jimmy. quite
easily, "after it hits once the same
place ain't there any more."—Philadel
phia Telegraph.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Tolitlct. Lk
By the Ex-Oommittecman
Officials of the Democratic National
Committee who have been quietly In
vestigating party conditions In Penn
sylvania for several months, have
come right out Into the open with a
series of questions addressed to Demo
cratic county chairmen, the Inquiries
being very evidently to get informa
tion which is not obtainable through
the btate organization or which is de
sired to come from other sources.
Ihis action, which Is quite unprece
dented in the Democratic party, even
in Pennsylvania, where all sorts of
methods have been resorted to in re
cent years, has attracted much atten
tion. Thomas J. Pence, who is the
boss press agent of the national com
mittee, has taken charge of this can
vass and the questions have been sent
with requests that they be given early
attention.
The chief line of inquiry appears
to be for the feeling of the people to
ward the national administration and
I details are asked. Another question
|is to what extent the progressives
have gone back to the Republican
party and the prospects for a complete
union of the factions. The latter Is
believed to have been inspired by the
activity of Governor Brumbaugh to
solidify the party. Finally the county
chairman are being asked what would
happen if the election was to take
place this year.
Just why this information wad not
asked through the State committee,
which maintained a very elaborate
Press and information bureau here In
IHI2 ajjd 1914, Is not understood. Ap-
I parently, the national organization
jhas taken note of the fact that the
present bosses of the party in Penn
sylvania, the men who have been
handling the patronage, are not in
good odor and that county chairmen
who are closer to the people would be
more apt to give trustworthy answers
than the chiefs of the discredited and
defeated machine which promised so
much and gave so little.
—The State Prohibition committee
wound up its annual meeting at Pitts
burgh yesterday by hearing some re
markable addresses, including one by
William Sulzer, late Governor of New
Vork. The meeting was more for
speech making than anything else ana
the general plan is to have party tick
ets in all of the counties this Fall and
to prepare for a vigorous campaign
next year. The time and place of the
Spring meetings were left to the exec
utive committee. The Rev. Dr. B. E.
P. Prugh, of Westmoreland county,
Hvas re-elected chairman with the fol
lowing other officers: Secretary, Hen
ry S. Gill, Greensburg; treasurer, T. H.
Hamilton, Harrlsburg. The Execu
tive Committee consists of: H. G.
Steel, Butler county: D. S. Von Nieder,
Lancaster; James Peebles, Lawrence;
Albert Gaddis, Fayette; E. J. Fithian,
Mercer; William LTmsted, Philadel
phia; J. G. Ilosick, Allegheny; E. B.
Lacey, Warren; William Repp, Lack
awanna; F. E. Whittlesey, Erie; C. J.
Fluck, Northampton; J. C. Rumel,
Cumberland; Isaac Mondereau, Craw
ford; D. B. AJcCalmont, Venango; G.
L. Pennock, Delaware.
—Senator Penrose last night In dis
cussing the decision of the Customs
Court that five per cent, tariff rebate
must be granted on imports on ships
of "favored nations" said. "This is
but one of several hundred Inconsist
ent and impracticable provisions of
the present Democratic Tariff law.
The act in almost every section shows
lack of thoughtful consideration of the
welfare of the American people, of
American Industries and of time hon
ored American institutions. Those-re
sponsible for this law exhibited a re
markable and recKiess diregard for
home conditions and home interests.
Tl.ere can be no relief until there shall
be a complete revision of the tariff
along established Republican lines and
that will come with the next national
election."
—James A. Chambers, prominent
Lawrence county lawyer, is out as a
candidate for judge. Judge William
E. Porter, who made the county dry,
is also a candidate for re-election.
—The courts have held that the
city of Wilkes-Barre must pay Lu
zerne county $1,081.60 for the ex
penses of the special election for in
crease of debt held in 1912. The city
tried to put it on the county, but there
was objection.
—City Solicitor M. J. Ryan has
started more trouble in Philadelphia
by appealing from twenty-seven park
way condemnation proceedings.
—According to Scranton papers G.
W. Leemaster, formerly chief deputy
in the otfice of Fred W. Kirkendall,
revenue tax collector, when the head
quarters of the district were located
in Lancaster, has joined the Scranton
office force in the re-established
Twelfth district, and may succeed Har
ry Houck as chief deputy to Mr. Kirk
endall. It was stated by Mr. Kirk
endall yesterday that permission had
been asked of the Washington office
to allow Leemaster to be taken on
permanently. Collector Kirkendall
also declared that Mr. Houck did not
wish to retain the position of chief
deputy, but that the latter would re
main with the office. He further stat
ed that the permission to allow an
extra man to be taken on was asked
at the time of the re-establishment,
which everyone suspects was for the
purpose of rewarding Democratic fac
tionlsts.
} Our Daily Laugh"""
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THEY'RE SAD
By Winn Dlsgrr
All about the city, brother.
Downcast faces you will see.
•Tis because this burg of ours
Isn't what it used to be.
For, this year we have no ball team,
And on Decoration Day
There will be no chance to listen
For the umpire's call of "Play."
I don't blame 'em, tho, for looking
Sad, and feeling mighty blue.
For, if there's no game to go to
i What's a fellow going to do?
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
THE MAN OF THE HOUR
—Prom the New York Sun.
"By what means'may we hope to prevent In the future me recurrence of such
fatal conditions?"
HERE'S THE HISTORY
OF HARRISBURG'S IMPROVEMENT
. ,
WONDER how many of our citi
zens could summarize the sev
eral Harrisburg Improvement
loans of the last few years for the In
formation of strangers? It's a fine
showing of public spirit. Here is the
story as given by William Jennings In
the Chamber of Commerce resolution
providing for this summer's improve
ment celebration;
Ordinance of 1902, authorizing the
creation of a loan In the sum of
$1,090,000, distributed as follows:
$310,000 for the extension, improve
ment and filtration of the water sup
ply; $365,000 for extension and im
provement of sewer system; $65,000
for the construction of a dam in the
Susquehanna river to form part of the
improved sewerage system; $250,000
for acquiring land and property for
parks and for making park improve
ments; SIOO,OOO for creation of a fund
out of which the city may defray the
cost of paving the Intersections of
streets heretofore authorized to be
paved.
Ordinance of 1905, authorizing the
creation of a loan of $400,000, dis
tributed as follows: $200,000 for re
constructing Mulberry street bridge;
SIOO,OOO for extension and improve
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
(From the Telegraph May 28, 1865.1
SPECIAL MEETING OF COMPANY
The president of the Citizen Fire
Company has ordered a special meet
ing of the members of the company
to discuss the report of the commit
tee appointed 1o examine the
steamer.
PLANS FOR OBSERVANCE
The day of humiliation and prayer
in honor of the late President will be
observed with special ceremonies in
this city. Plans are being completed
for the services in the churches.
FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH
Seven children in one family were
burned to death night before last in
their home in Cumberland county.
The children were sleeping when the
fire broke out.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
"A-B-C of Good Form," by Anne
Seymour, is published this week by
the Harpers. This little book presents
in the simplest form the facts about
our formal relations with our fellows
which every one needs to know, in
order not to be handicapped by ig
norance of what society—in its broad
est term —expects, from him. The
following chapter-titles show the
ground covered by this gentle little
guide: "The Well-bred Individual";
"The Shy and Awkward Person";
"Good and Bad Society"; "Host and
Hostess"; "Concerning Introduc
tions"; "Visiting—("alls. Cards, Invi
tations, Regrets, Week-end Visits";
"Informal Dinners"; "Informal
Luncheons"; "Afternoon- Teas";
"Weddings"; "Card Parties"; "The
Little Dance"; "Good Form in Dress."
Maude Howe contributes an introduc
tion on "The Importance of Good
Manners."
Woeful lacks in certain kinds of lit
erature arit now and then discoverable
in the libraries of the United States. In
writing "Daybreak; a Story of the Age
of Discovery" (Scribners), for example,
its author, Elizabeth Miller, was obliged
to Import from England and Spain
many of her commentaries, which were
then translated from the original Span
ish by her brother, Percy Miller, be
fore she could use them. When war
Interrupted foreign correspondence the
story was still unfinished, and the au
thor appealed to the Library of Con
?ress and the Hispanic Society of New
ork, which provided her with data ct
long range.
KILLED THE HYPHEN
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Uncle Sam can credit the President
with one war Victory-. He definitely
and decisively killed the hyphen In his
Philadelphia naturalization address.
Entrenched
When one of the armies takes
a new position it leaves nothing
to chance.
It proceeds to dig itself in.
It makes its position so secure
that the other fellow must do
the hard fighting to dislodge it.
Business that builds up Its
reputation by advertising is en
trenching.
It is digging itself in.
It Is making Its position so se
cure that the burden of attack Is
on competition.
It Is making Its trade mark a
shield of defense.
*
MAY 28, 1915.
ment of sewerage system; $75,000 for
paving of Intersections of highways
hereafter authorized to be paved;
$25,000 for payment of cost of paving
and curbing in front of nonassessable
property In highways heretofore
paved and that may hereafter be
paved.
Ordinance of 1910, authorizing cre
ation of loan of $641,000, distributed
as follows: SIOO,OOO for improve
ment of sanitary condition of Paxton
creek; SIOO,OOO for sewers; SIOO,OOO
for paving of intersections of high
ways and in front of nonassessable
properties; $316,000 for Intercepting
sewer along Susquehanna; $25,000 for
construction of bridge over the Phila
delphia and Reading Company's right
of-way at Thirteenth street.
Ordinance of 1914-1915, authorizing
the creation of a loan in the sum of
$300,000, distributed as follows:
SIOO,OOO for sewers; $25,000 for
bridges; $25,000 for isle of safety in
Market Square and comfort station;
$25,000 for purchase of apparatus for
Fire Department; $25,000 for munici
pal asphalt repair plant; SIOO,OOO for
acquiring land and property for parks
and playgrounds and for making park
improvements.
Miss Hollins Leads
in Golf Tourney
Seventy women golfers, each one of
them with an eye on the Metropolitan
championship which they are contest
ing for. and unmindful of the rain and
wet and the soggy course, started off
at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in
the testing ground of eighteen holes.
Honors went to Miss Marlon Hol
11ns, of Westbrook, who was low with
a score of 91, two better than Miss
Lillian Hyde, her nearest rival, and
eight better than Mrs. A. S. Rossin,
of the Century Club of White Plains.
Miss Holllns had a fair score with the
exception of the very last hole, where
she took a nine. Miss Hyde, the cham
pion, who is a very long driver, had
trouble in approaching and putting.
These two are considered the favorites
and no one Is hardly thought to be
dangerous unless It be Mrs. H. R.
Stocton, of Plainfteld, who has been
playing very consistent golf this
Spring.
TOO MUCH "BACK TO NATURE"
[From the Indianapolis News.]
Mayor Volland. of Columbus, has
called r halt-on the "back to nature"
movement. So many people have heard
the call of the onion bed. the lettuce
bed and the truck patch generally that
city property is being aporoprlated. In
the subflrbs are several streets and al
leys not In actual use. People have
ploughed up these thoroughfares and
have things planted there. Mayor Vol
land h«s instructed the street commis
slonn to see that thin ground Is return
ed to the city.
Its odd how the seed of the Japa
nese empress tree that stands in the
pavement on the Court street side of
the Dauphin county courthouse has
been spread far and wide. This tree
grew from a seed brought to Harris
burg before the Civil war and there
were offshoots of it in WalnUt street at
a couple of places until a few yrfars
ago, one of the trees being at the
prison. Efforts were made to plant
seeds in Capitol Park and In the River
side Parks, but they did not ma
ture, the seeds evidently preferring to
germinate in the sidewalks. However
one of the trees was transplanted to
Reservoir Park and is now covered
with a wreath of purple flowers hav
ing the peculiar odor of the tree. The
blooms are almost like an orchid,
being oriental in shape and color as
well as odor and grow in bunches.
One of the singular things about the
tree is that it carries the seed pods of
last year while it is blooming and each
successive wind storm scatters more
of the seeds abroad. Some of the
blooms from the Reservoir tree have
been brought to the city, one of them
being on the forestry table at- the Pub
lic Library together with a description
of the tree.
Governor Brumbaugh, who is an ar
dent angler and who likes to steal
away to fish for trout almost as well
as he likes to play golf, has been pre
sented with an oil painting of him
self fishing along one of the tumbling
streams in the rocky region of the Po
conos. The painting was by a friend
who was accompanying the Governor
and who made a hurried sketch The
Governor is shown going right after
the fish, wearing his heavy clothing
and making a cast.
*• • ♦
Members of the Governors Troop
are looking forward with a great deal
or Interest to the coming encampment
° f . the p ' r st Regiment of cavalry at
Mt. Gretna because It is to be a ioint
affair In which cavalrymen from Penn
sylvania, Maryland and New Jersey
will work with regular army cavalry.
Jt is expected to be the largest cavalry
encampment in the State since the civil
war and will last for eight days in the
latter part of July. The First Regi
ment will encamp as a unit of twelve
troops for the first time and It is ex
pected that the organizations will be
recruited up to the limit. There Will
be four troops from New Jersey and
one from Maryland together with two
from Lort Myer. This will put the
Harrisburg cavalrymen into pretty fast
company, but they have always been
able to hold up their end and then go
some. Some of the Information gain
ed from the European war will be
used In the work of the camp.
• • •
Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown likes Harrisburg in all but a.
couple of things. One is the meeting
of the milkmen's exchange around
Front and Market streets before dav
light each day and the other is the
soot. The Attorney General has be
c°s7?e we " posted on the prices of
milk in this city and does not mind
the before dawn talk so much, but lie
cannot get used to the smoke. His
® j the Capitol has been equipped
with screens, one of the few offices
so equipped at the Capitol. Now it is
expected that the distinguished law
yer will find everything in his taste in
Harrisburg where his forefathers lived
and where he Is regarded as one of
our own.
It's interesting to note just how
many canoeists and hoat owners who
I frequent the haunts of the Susque
j hanna own talking machines, guitars,
.mandolins, banjos and other musical
I instruments. On a moonlight evening
strollers along the River Front are
often attracted by the sound of some
crooning melody a floating in from the
rippling stream. Sometimes along the
shore of the islands as many as two
dozen talking machines and string in
struments will be going at once and
the effect is far from a jarring Jumble
of sound.
♦ • *
The jitneys have broken up at least
one trust in Harrisburg. At the mar
kets the hoys charged ten cents to
haul home a market basket and once
in a while a fat basket would be the
occasion of an extra tax for appear
ances. Now all one has to do is to
carry a basket to a curb, call a jit
ney and go home in style, and with
celerity, for a. nickle.
I -
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—A. V. R. Coe, of the Philadel
phia Electric Company, ts on his way
to the Pacific coast.
—Owen F. Roberts has been elected
a director of the Pacific Mail Com
pany.
—John H. Hoffman, the Reading's
oldest mining expert, has been retired
at Pottsville.
—Director Porter, of Philadelphia,
is getting after crowds who throng the
fire lines.
—George McFadden, the Philadel
phia polo player, is at Virginia Hot
Springs.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
That Harrisburg is one of the
best lighted cities of the State?
FACT AND FITS
What is said to be the greatest speefl
ever attained by man on the face of the
earth was made over a level stretch of
Bait deposit in Utah some time ago
when an automobile was driven at a
speed equivalent to almost 143 miles
per hour.
"Have you a nice cucumber?" asked
Sandy, as he entered the market gar
den.
"Yes, here is one," replied the gar
dener, "that will be ninepence."
"Too much. Have ye no' one for
about tuppence?"
The gardener showed him a small one
on the vines. "Vou can have this one
for tuppence," he said.
"All richt. here's the tuppence; but
don't, cut it off. I'll be calling for it In
a fortnicht."—Youth's Companion.
H. J. Black, an American, wihu has
spent many years hunting and study
ing flowers in South America and has
obtained many rare and curious speci
mens, is convinced that the rose can
see and that the perfume exhaled by it
is really "its song."
Mrs. Knlckcr—Poor man, here is a
penny.
Weary Willie—No, thanks, mum. I
don't approve of charitable foundations.
—New York Sun.
BACK FROM BABBABISM
[From the Cincinnati Inquirer.]
Deliberate, neutral, impartial, our
country can and should adopt and fol
low a course that will command the
respect of all nations, that will enable
us to recall the belligerents from ways
of barbarism to those of civilization,
bringing them back to the recognition
of the rights of humanity and to obedi
ence to the laws they once acknowl
edged and promised to support. While
resolutely doing this, we can most ef
fectively assert the Republic's deter
mination to protect our own rights up
on every sea and in every land.
ANI> CAN'T VSE JITNEYS
(Cleveland Plain-Dealer.)
It is now suggested that the Pull
man Company acU In a high-minded
and beneficent way in that it does not
charge Its porters full fare for tho
privilege of riding on its luxurious
cars.