6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itli PUBLISHED BY TBI! TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. 6TEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21« 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 York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at 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. Sworn dally average circulation for the three months ending May 31, 101 S. it 21,577 ★ Average for the year 1914—21,8®* Average for the year 1018—19.062 Average for the year 1913—10,649 Average for the year 1911—17,503 Average for the year 1910—16,261 The above flgarei are net. All re turned, QBflold and damaged eopiea de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23. Nothing is more wretched than a guilty con science.—Plastus. REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY GEORGE W. PERKINS, noted financier and unquestioned business authority, summed up the situation in the United States be fore the Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce last week in this language: Every well informed businessman knows that before this war broke out we had gathered considerable downward momentum In the busi ness world under the Wilson tariff; that had it not been for tho war wo would by this time be flat on our industrial backs because of the Wilson tariff; yet the Wilson ad ministration which gave us this tariff is proclaiming that the war and not the Wilson tariff caused the acute business troubles of recent months. There never was a more absolutely false doctrine preached. There is only one way to correct thiß condition and that is by the elec tion of a Republican President and a Republican Congress in 1916, and this is the year in which to lay the foundations for a party victory next year. All over this country in November, f?tate, county and municipal elections •will be held. Nothing will so en courage Republicans nor so confound the Democracy as sweeping Repub lican victories everywhere. On the other hand, nothing would make the [ Republican task next year more diffi cult than the success of Democratic campaigns the coming Fall. Whole sale defeats of local Democratic tickets would have no other aspect than that of party repudiation on a national scale. Doubtful Republican victories or defeats would merely pro vide encouragement for the adminis tration leaders. Nor should Republican success be difficult of attainment this year. The country Is ripe for it. Men want to vote the Republican ticket. The Progressive party is a mere skeleton, j its members having returned to the Republican party by hundreds of thousands. Just one thing is neces sary to assure the overwhelming Re-, publican victories so much to be de sired. The candidates chosen must be men of ability and integrity and without unpopular or improper po litical entanglements. They must be clean and honest, jfledged to perform the duties of the offices to which they aspire as the people want their pub lic business conducted. In no other ■way can the party be sure of suc cess next Fall. In no other way ought it to be successful. The old day of the delegate and convention system is past. The voters now select the candidates di rectly. Leadership still may wisely direct party thought toward desirable men, but it can no longer easily force an unpopular ticket of its own choos ing on the people; or, having done so, it cannot elect nominees whom the voters do not want. Open, honest, above-board politi cal dealing only will win In these days of the uniform primary and the sec rot ballot. This is not the brand of politics being played by the Demo cratic administration at Washington and ita henchmen throughout the country. Having attained power through an unfortunate party split, the Democrats have not learned wis dom thereby. Instead, they have adopted precisely the same tactics that ohce made the Republican party un popular in some seotlons; namely, dictation of nominees and the nam ing of political favorites of party bosses for public places. This Is the rock upon which more than one local Dembcratic organization is about to *plit. and it is the rock which the Republican party must avoid. Republican leaders have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders at this time. They must forget all per sonal feeling, put aside the thought of purely political reward and lend their support to candidates whose personal and political reputations are above reproach and whose qualifica tions for the offices they seek are un questioned. In this direction lies overwhelming victory in November. Any other road leads perilously close to the brink of defeat. England borrows $5,000,000,000. If tliis thing continues newspaper pub lishers will have to widen the column rules and buy fonts with extra ciphers. WEDNESDAY EVENING, TRUTH IN ADVERTISING IN Chicago this w«k 10,000 adver tising men are meeting for mu tual benefit, and in a larger sense for benefit of every advertiser in the world, for on the coat lapel of each delegate there is a button bearing the watahword of the gathering, which la TRUTH. TRUTH, spelled in capital letters. Where truth is the guiding force in advertising, there advertiser, purchaser and publisher, too, are protected. Time was, and not so long ago, when truth did not play so large a part in advertising. Newspapers and periodicals in general paid little at tention to the subject matter of their advertisements. Quacks, charlatans and worse used the columns of the journals freely, and none thought the worse of a publication because he had been fleeced through its advertise ments. It was all an accepted part of the game. Then came a new school of adver tising men—a new sense of respon sibility on the part of newspapers. The guaranteed advertisement put In Its appearance. Slowly, but surely, the "fake ad" was eliminated, until now the newspaper or magazine that Is not careful of the kind of adver tising matter it accepts is shunned by the higher class of advertisers. Some pure food and other careful publicity purchasers go so far as to taboo even the newspaper that prints liquor ad vertisements. "Truth is mighty and must pre vail." None believes this more firm ly than the successful advertising man of to-day. Joseph H. Finn, of Chicago, sum med up the modern advertising situ ation in a few words yesterday when he said: Present-day newspapers are a better advertising medium than ever because they have a more grip ping national power—a power that should be studied by every think ing advertiser. I believe in the ef ficiency of newspaper advertising, because I have seen what it can do in such a variety of ways that the possibility of luck or accident must be eliminated from It. It is the peper which publishes the true news that pays the advertiser best. Generally spoaking. the best news paper is the one which secures the best advertising. And the best ad vertising is what helps make it the best newspaper. Truth is the stand ard of this convention. Truth is the slogan of the newspaper that hopes to win the most lasting suc cess—the widest influence. That is it in a nutshell Truth, truth, truth and then truth. Time was when the newspaper reader read and was convinced, or read and con demned. The reader of to-day is not that kind. He reads, digests and forms his opinions very largely for himself. The newspaper that per sistently and intentionally deceives is fooling nobody so much as itself; and the same applies to the adver tiser. Both must tell the truth if they hope for permanent success. And thereby, as has been said, the advertiser, the purchaser and the conscientious publisher all are gainers. The "Grandfather Clause" having been ruled out, the Supreme Court might turn its attention to some of the grand mother laws on the statute books. JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION IT is a happy arrangement indeed that brings the Liberty Bell here on the day Harrlsburg will observe as the anniversary of tho nation's birth. The like may never occur again and many a city would give much for the opportunity that comes to us al most unsolicited. It is doubly ap propriate, therefore, that the visit of ♦ his historic relic should be marked by a special demonstration and it is difficult to imagine a more appropriate observance than has been arranged. School children above all others will be favored, a parade of pupils is being arranged and to make the occasion even more memorable each one Is to be presented with a little flag and a history of the bell. Very special significance attaches to the celebration of Independence Day this year. It is likely that such a fitting time for a display of patriot ism will not occur«gain in the present generation. European nations should be made to witness the spectacle of a perfectly united nation rallying around the flag in hearty support of the cen tral government. This is no time for spread-eagle oratory and flamboyant speech-making, but Independence Day this year can be made the oc casion for distinctive and decisive ex pression of the manner in which the United States has taken a stand in be half of humanity and international fair dealing and honesty. A noted African explorer was called In to kill an unruly elephant at the New York Zoo, yesterday. It Is to be noted that nobody thought of Colonel Roosevelt. TRADE AND "WAR ORDERS." IN his address before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Secretary Redfleld, of the Depart ment of Commerce, gave a brief re view of our monthly trade balances August, 1911, to January, 1915, and glossed over the subject with these words; I beg of you, gentlemen, not to be persuaded by the dally news columns of the press into the be lief that our foreign trade lies chiefly in what one may call, for lack of a better name, "war or ders." That is not so. Since making that statement the Department's campaign publicity bureau has given trl-weekly proof of its existence by supplying to tho press of the country columns of matter laudatory of the Democratic adminis tration and figures on the expansion of our trade balances calculated to make a gullible reader swell up like the fabled frog and burst with antici pated prosperity. The truth of the matter is that If Mr. Redfleld would give the publlo the trade balances of the United States when International commerce was on a peace footing the showing would bo embarrassing to the administration, but up to date he has evaded these figures in his effort to "speak with frankness." Here is the record! The Republican tariff law gave us a trade balance in our favor to the amount of $452,547,- 000 for the six months from October, 1911, to June, 1912, and a balance of $584,740,000 In our favor from October, 1912, to June, 1918. The Democratic tariff law went into effect in October, 1913, and the trade balance in our favor dropped to 1351,811,000 for the nine months ending in June, 1914. This was $233,000,000 less than the balance in our favor for the nine months ending June, 1918. There was a steady decline In our monthly trade balances following tho enactment of the Democratic law, and in April, 1914, the balance turned sll,- 209,544 against us and remained against us every month thereafter until September, 1914, when war orders placed us on the right side of the ledger to the amount of $16,- 341,000. For the whole period of the opera tion of the Democratic tariff law, October, 1913, to April, 1915, the trade balance in our favor was $1,201,498,- 084, compared with a favorable trade balance under Republican law October, 1911, to April, 1913, of sl,Ol J, 423.19. The difference of $189,000,000 In favor of the former Is accounted for by the Increases for the months of March and April, 1915. In other words, after the war had given us a favorable balance, It took from October, 1914, to February, 1915, with the war orders giving us large and, in some instances, astounding monthly trade balances, to even up with the favorable trade balances un der Republican law for October, 1911, to April, 1913, In times of peace. That these heavy exports are due to war orders, an analysis of the export tables conclusively shows. In every Instance where our trade with a neutral coun try has not been seriously Interrupted, our favorable trade balance with that country has fallen off, or disappeared. It is just as well for the success of those negotiations now in process at Berlin that the explosion which wrecked a Canadian arms factory did not occur in the United States. Thaw has crowded Bryan off the first page. TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE —Speaking of the bravery of Euro pean soldiers, their courage is as noth ing to that of the mosquito on the scalp of a baldheaded man. —With all due appreciation of the value of trolley lines, we have no de sire to take the trolley trip from Har rlsburg to Maine. —Those who demanded the execution of Frank are demonstrating their own respect for law by threatening to mur der their Governor. —Do you remember how much n. day's fishing "with father" used to moan? Well, YOUR boy feels the same way about It. —Same men's idea of temperance is that it applies only to alcohol. —About 2 o'clock yesterday after noon we began to think that the alma nac. linfl forgotten It had scheduled the longest day. —The Germans are going after Lem berg as enthusiastically as though it were spelled Llmburg. —Just a year ago the Athletics were also in second place—at the other end of the percentage column. —A man named O'Boyle was arrested In New York yesterday for making incendiary speeches. Yet they tell us there is nothing in a name. j EDITORIAL COMMENT ~j GREAT OLD COUNTRY [St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] The first car of wheat to reach St. Louis this summer came from Louisiana. Look out for that bale of cotton from Minnesota! HOPEFUL MEXICAN MOTHERS [Columbia State.] We suppose that when a Mexican mother is especially pleased with her boy she tells him that there is very little chance of his being president some day. CAN'T HE JUST SHORTEN 'EM ? [Grand Rapids Press. 1 As the season advances Mr. Bryan may have to give us double-headers on some days In order to work in all his statements. ROOM MAKES NO DIFFERENCE [Topeka Capital.] You have heard thfe expression, "He's got no room to talk." None of us have, for that matter, but we all do It. HOW TO KEEP BABIES WELL Care For Thein Son si lily in Hot Weather, a Bulletin Says Hot weather is hard for babies. A branch of the Mothers' Congress in Atlanta has begun a campaign to save the babies of that city and to keep them well through the heat of sum mer. It has issued a bulletin, which deals first with the Importance of pure milk. Next in Importance is fresh air and coolness. The bulletin says: Keep the baby cool with frequent baths, light clothing and the selection of the coolest available place for him to play and sleep. Give him a full tub bath every morning, and, If It Is a hot day, and he Is restless, one or two sponge baths a day. A cool bath at bedtime often makes him sleep better. For a young baby have the water tepid, neither hot nor cold to the mother's elbow. For an older baby it may be cooler, but must never be cold enough to chill or frighten him. • After the bath, pat him dry; see that the folds and creases are dry. using a little pure talcum powder or sifted corn starch to prevent chafing. If prickly hewt • redness shows, use no soap In the bath. Often a starch bath, or a bran bath or a soda bath will relieve this. For a bran bath put a cupful »f or dinary bran in a cheesecloth bag and soak and squeeze in the bath until the water is milky. For a starch bath use a cupful of ordinary cooked starch to a gallon of water. For a soda bath dissolve a tablespoonful of ordinary baking soda in a little water, and add to it four quarts of water. Dress the baby only in soft all-cot ton garments. Never let wqol cloth ing touch his skin in summer. Starched clothing scratches him; don't use it. Do not be afraid of fresh air for the baby. He cannot have too much of it. Night air is often even better than day air, because it has been cooled and cleansed of dust by the dew. A screened porch on the shady side of the house Is a boon to every mother, affording a cool, secure place for the baby to play and also to sleep. him have his daytime naps on '.he porch, and sleep there at night dur ing the heat. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH TotlUct Ck "PlKKltftttUua By the Ex-OommttteeniM Democrats In eastern Pennsylvania are smiling somewhat over the effort to revive interest In the State Fed eration of Democratic Clubs, which was one of the schemes of the reor ganization element which fell flat al though planned to be a wonderful or ganization. Last year when the clubs met at York there were less than 200 delegates and more notable from out of the State than in. Now a scheme Is under way to have the federation again honor York. Scranton, WU liamsport, Allentown and Reading have not made any bids and the York Young Men's Democratic Society has hutched a scheme to have Secretary Wilson make a speech there In Sep tember and has suggested that the federation m£et there at the same time. State Chairman Morris is said to have decided to wait a while before having a State committee meeting and that may be suggested for York at the same time, so that the triple occasion would at least mean a crowd. —Plans for a complete change in the organization of the Lackawanna county Democratic committee were adopted by the committee of ten named at the Joint meeting of the Democratic committees some time ago to draft a new set of rules. The plan will be submitted to the Democratic county convention which will be held on Friday night. The salient feature of the changes will provide for the election of a county chairman to con tinue in office for two years. Other changes, as a compromise, were de cided upon. One of these Is the di vision of the county into six districts, with a chairman, elected for two years, to have charge of each division and to be responsible for the progress of Democracy. Lentz Announces His Boom For Recordership James E. Lentz, of Elizabethvllle, to-day announced liis candidacy for the recordership of Dauphin county on the Republican ticket. Mr. Lentz has been a resident of Dauphin county all his life and prominently identified with the business interests of his home town and the upper end of the county in general. He is connected with the United Brethren Church of Elizabeth vllle and takes a prominent part in Sunday school work. He has been a Republican of Independent tendencies for years and one of the most widely known business men in Dauphin county. Since 1913 he has been first vice-chairman of the Republican county committee. Mr. Lentz has been conducting his campaign quietly for several months and said to-day that he had received encouragement on all sides. Another Republican candidate for recorder came into the field to-day in the person of Frank J. Roth, of this city. Mr. Roth is court stenographer and lawyer and has been well known in legal circles in Harrisburg for many years. He is the father of Frank G. Roth, professor in the high school, and has taken testimony in many of the noted cases that have been tried in the Dauphin County Court for years past. There are rumors of other candi dates. including William S. Tunis, for mer member of the Legislature. BRIGHTNESS OF I.tFE A thought that is winged from a friend to friend Doesn't seem such a wonderful thing; Yet it carries the prayer for a Joy with out end, And it throbs with a big, friendly ring. A mere word of cheer in the shadow of night. When discouragement darkens the way, Will illumine our hearts with the glori ous light Of a hopeful and sun-brightened day. When failure confronts us and darkens our goals. How we long for the clasp of a hand! It Is then that we cry from the depths of our souls For a friend who can just under stand. A bright, cheery smile often gives us the Strength That we lack in the vortex of strife, For it lightens our load as we travel the length Of the care-laden path we call Life. So we find, after all. that the things we thought small I-ooni colossal above all the host; That the best of God's gifts are the friends we can call To our side when we need them the most. —W. Dayton Wegefarth, in Philadel phia Ledger. SERVING IN TENNIS Tennis is no game for a lackadaisical person. A girl who attempts to serve the first time she holds a racket and works all afternoon trying to get one ball in the right place is not likely to become en thusiastic over tennis. Emphasis should he placed on the position of the feet, with the left foot In front, outside the court. For general use a sort of chop with a downward pull of racket, started a little above the head, training for accuracy rather than for severity Is advised.—Outing. | Our Daily Laugh t MATRIMONIAL UNION, Dodge ln union there Is Hodge Well, marriage has weakened my pocketbook. IAMB THINO. you're to grada» She: If retting V « married is gradu atfeg, you heard OUT AGAIN By Wins Dinger Officer, they're out again. Thaw and Becker, too. Once more trying what they have Often tried to do. Tell you what, those chaps have been Mlghtv helpful, bo, To the papers everywhere When the news ran low. Many times when editors Were about to tear Out their locks, these chaps have saved Them from deep despair. I think papers owe to them Quite a debt, don't you? For without them, tell me, pray. What- would papers dot THE CARTOON OF THE DAY 1 ENGLISH VIEW OF UNCLE SAM AND THE KAISER Kaiser (to Uncle S«m)—"Everything: can he explained: I can put the whole thing in a nutshell, if you'll only listen to me for three vears, or the duration of the war." —London Punch, June 9. r An American Martyr to Science ■ ■■ ■ J FAR away in South America, on a small and unfrequented Island In the Lake of Tlticaca, stands a little crumbling tombstone roughly built of stones by sympathetic hands, which serves to mark the last rest ing place of a once-noted American explorer, Professor James Orton. Not very many now living remember the modest, kindly scholar whose work advanced the cause of human knowl edge, and in whom the gentle nature of the poet was linked with the daring ■pirit of the explorer of unknown wilds. Only in the hearts of his sur viving relatives and of Vassar gradu ates of some forty years ago Is his memory enshrined, and until recently comparatively few even of these re membered how Orton lost his life and where his body lay buried. They have now, however, learned something of the particulars of his death and the location of his grave, and a move ment has been started among the Vassar alumnae of the days of the early seventies, among their daugh ters and granddaughters, and soon a marble shaft will rise to mark the spot where, "Far from tourist travel and the world's unheeding race," James Orton sleeps. An article by Edward Albes in the Monthly Bulletin of the Pan American Union served to awaken the memories of those who had forgotten, and struck a responsive cord in the hearts of the elder Vassar women. It was their old professor who lay there, "far from kindred, home and friends, almost unknown and certainly un sung"—as the writer had it—and as soon as the knowledge came to them they determined to show the world that Vassar's alumnae were equal to the occasion. A committee had been appointed to collect a fund by private subscription, a fund that will be ade quate to provide a suitable monu ment, and the work is being system atically and eealously carried on. Orton, who was born at Seneca Fails, New York, in 1830, and edu cated at Williams College and And over Theological Seminary, entered upon his career as a scientist in 1860, when he was appointed instructor in natural sciences in Rochester Univer BOOKS AND MAGAZINES [ ' . J. B. Kerfoot puts St. John G. Erv ine in the class with James Stephens and G. A. Birmingham. "Since these men won their places in the select and small company of the new Irish writ ers," says Mr. Kerfoot, "the one notable addition to the list has been the name of Mr. Ervine, whose 'Mrs. Martin's Man' won him an instant and wide recognition recently, not only as a seer into the hearts of the humble, but as an artist in enabling him to see with them. He has just published an other story called 'Alice and a Fam ily' and, diametrically different as its matter and its attitude are to those of the former work, It merely proves the proposition of its author's attributes by the old mathematical test of doing the same sum backward. 'Mrs. Mar tin's Man' is the serious study of an able Irish woman's masterfulness and its slowly won ascendency over the elements of tragedy; 'Alice' Is a humorous portrayal of a little girl's 'bosslness' and of her successful Dos ing as Providence In a number of lives that are flash-lighted onto its amus ing pages. The book Is great fun." Letter List LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN the Post Office, at Harrisburg, Pa., for the week ending June 19, 1915; Ladles' List Stella M. Bair, Mrs. Barbara Boughter. Gertrude Bretry, Mrs. Nancy Castor. Miss Jessie Cum mings, Miss Maude Granville, Miss Alice Harper, Miss Ruth Hartz, Miss Dorothy Hess, Mrs. S. S. Huber, Miss Annie Jackson, Mrs. May Klncade, Adele Klnter (D. L), Mrs. Carrie Laklers, Miss Kate Lewis, Miss Minnie Lockhart, Mrs. Carrie B. Lym, Miss Gonnetee Mohany, Miss Madallne Market, Mrs. F. J. Mlddleton, Miss Mar garet Milllgan, Miss Ella Mottola, Miss Bessie Parker, Anna L. Prather (D. L.), Miss D. L Rltohle, Miss Ella Simmon. Miss Helen Williams. Gentlemen's List A. N. Anwyll, J. Mllford Bowen, D. E. Brandt, W. H. Brown (D. U). T. B. Brownlee (D. I*), Aaron C. Burr. David Davis, Warren Eichelberger, H. T. Elliott. I>. Stanley Felows, Isaac Fisher (President), Bill! Fltzslmmona. Frank W. Fuller. Ha mengiui Furtizi, John Gaulding, Mitru Georgies, Atolfo fungesco pavolo fu Gloseppe, Luther Hofman, J. M. Houtz, E. A. Johnson, Dr. Arthur P. Kilbourne, F. J. Klucker (2), James Marks, H. E. McCormlck, H. B. McGill. John Middle ton, Harry S. Miller, Frank J. Neft, Harrv F. Porter, Antlonio Giovanni Pietro. Giacomo anglUozri fu Raltaele, Jirne Rageat, William Rae, Mr. Rich ards, Mr. Shultz (Sculptor), Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Smith. J. B. Staf ford. Bert Stuart, Zoplto Bul plzlo, Charles Suslne, Roland Tomas, Wm. W. Upperman. J. S. Williams, M. D.. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Wilson, Dr. Wlstler. Firms Bertron Grlscom & Co., Elerta Mfg. Foreign Billy Fltzsimmons, Juan Popa. Persons should Invariably have their mall matter addressed to their streev and number, thereh ylnsuring prompt delivery by the carriers. FRANK C. SITES, i Pus t master, , JUNE 23, 1915. sity. In 1867 a scientific expedition to the equatorial Andes and the River Amazon was organized under the aus pices of the Smithsonian Institution, and Prof. Orton was selected as its leader. As a result of this expedition many hitherto unknown specimens of natural history were collected and to day form portions of the collections in the museums of such well-known de positories as the Smithsonian Insti tution at Washing-ton, the Philadel phia Academy of Natural Science, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Peabody Academy of Science, and Vassar College, while the bulk of the collection was purchased by Ingham University. Upon his return to the United States Professor Orton was offered the chair of natural history at Vassar College in 1869, with which institu tion he remained until his tragic death in 1877. In 1873 he made a second journey across South America from Para up the Amazon to Lima, Peru, and to Lake Titicaca, making valuable ethnological collections of Incarial relics. In 1876 he organized a third expedition, with the object of exploring the Great Beni River, a branch of the Madeira, one of his companions being Dr. Edwin Ruthven Heath, the well-known discoverer of the River Heath in South America, who is still living, hale and hearty, in Kansas City, Missouri. This expedition' reached the mouth of the river, where most of the equip ment and supplies were lost. Orton and his few companions made the terrible 60-mile Journey back to La Paz through forest and jungle amid incredible hardships, but on crossing Lake Titicaca on the way to Puno the intrepid scientist died September 25. 1877, from the exposure incurred. Subsequently his remains were taken to Esteves Island by sympathetic friends, and some years ago a Scotch engineer by the -name of Crighton built with his own hands the rough monument which now marks the spot where, "to the everlasting requiem of Titicaca's ceaseless waves, almost' in the very shadow of the snow-capped peaks he loved so well, James Orton sleeps." LABOR MAN FOR PEACE bHwHi H IHIIHkI *r Ii *1 REPRESENTATIVE FRANK BUCH ANAN Frank Buchanan, representative In Congress from Illinois and former president of the International Asso ciation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, has taken the lead In labor circles to end the war in Europe. That is, he has combined with Wil liam J. Bryan to create sentiment among labor union men throughout the country to bring pressure to bear on President Wilson to offer his serv ces as a peacemaker to the warrintf nations. It was Mr. Buchanan who arranged the labor meeting in Carnegie Hall, New York, at which Mr. Bryan spoke. He also planned the meeting of fifty labor representatives to be held before the President by Mr. Bryan. NEW BOOM FOR WILXIAMSPORT The new dog catcher picked up about S6O worth of dogs as the result of his iirst day's work, appraising them only at their redemption value of $2 apiece. It Inaugurated a boom in the issuing of license tags that will be worth several hundred dollars to the city. Nevertheless, tho catcher has a good thing und will be able to spend the balance of the summer at the seashore by the time the storm of indignation on the part of the own ers of the pet* breaks.—Wllllamjiport Ebftting (Eljat The picnic held yesterday at Wil liams Grove by Messiah Lutheran Church la the first Sunday school gathering from this city to be noted at the old time resort along the Tel low Breeches In a long time. In the last half dozen years the trolley com panies have taken away from the rail roads their old-time business and the parks which can be reached by special cars have been getting the business, places like Boiling Springs, Mt. Holly, Hershey, Paxtang and others so much i in the public notice to-day. Days were when Pine Grove Furnace, and Mont Alto were great places for Harrisburg Sunday schools, but both have dropped out of sight. Pen Mar still retains some of its popularity, but has not had much Harrisburg business for years. Then Penryn was for a time a great picnic place and until recent years brought a transformation into a real summer resort Mt. Gretna got a good many. Cold Springs, in Lebanon county; Montebello Park and Marys ville parks in Perry and Island Park in Cumberland also had a great vogue for a time. Nearer the city Hoffman's woods, Deer Park and Spruce Hollow, near the State Asylum and Cameron's woods were once very popular for Sunday schools. But the trolley cars have changed all that. « • • Yesterday had more varieties of un usual weather and they came in more rapid succession than the average as sortment on a bad day. To begin with the sun did not shine until the mid dle of the morning and then only for a short time. Most of the time it was cloudy. Then about 1.30 the sun came out a bit. A few minutes later the sky became overcast and in a short time it was so dark that down 'town and in many homes electric lights were turned on. Ten minutes later it was raining "cats and dogs" * and the sun was shining. Then the sun retired and the cool, chill air of the morning became noticeable. Soon after the sun was out again and its rays were as hot as the clay before and windows which had been put down because of the chill of the rain were hastily put up. It is no wonder that Governor Brumbaugh has escaped the atten tions of men who want to talk over appointments and other matters with him. He has been on the move al most ever since leaving here. The Governor said when ho left that he wanted to get away and take it easy, looking: at some of Pennsylvania's fine scenery 'meanwhile. He has been in at least a dozen counties since that time. Mercer B. Tate, who has taken an active part in the negotiations to get the Newark club transferred to this city, has been in the forefront of every movement in behalf of athletics here since he came back from college. He was instrumental in getting Lehigh's football team to come here for a match and has done everything from acting as head booster or referee to helping to bear the expenses. And in the latter he has been as willing as in the first. A Capitol Park guard had the sur prise of his life yesterday when he saw a couple of "kids" with an ex press wagon coolly start out on the lawn near the Library building and commence to pick geraniums. At first he could hardly believe that anytliyiK as sacrosanct as a Capitol park fl<iwr bed would be razed. He found that the youngsters had come from away up In the Seventh ward and liking tho looks of the flowers were going to "take some home to Mom." They were told to hasten home and as long as they had taken off the flowers they could keep them, but they were never to come around on botanical expedi tions again. During the hearing of one of tha desertion cases in June court Mon day an attorney referred to tho ul leged action of the husband who had cruelly beaten his wife. The husband was on the witness stand. "Didn't you tell her," demanded the attorney, "that you'd beat her face into a jelly?" "No, sir, that isn't true—l did not," indignantly denied the witness. ' ""Well, what did you tell her?" "Why X just said I'd beat her face to a pulp!" The Lalance and Grosjean tin plate mills in the upper end of the city will . probably be making some material for the use of the European armies be fore long. The news columns tell of large orders for tin cups and other tin vessels and it is understood that companies which draw plate from here will receive some of them. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —John E. Brooks, president of the Scranton Board of Trade, is ardent in behalf of turnpike condemnation movements in his section. —E. T. Stotesbury has gone to the Panama-Pacific exposition. —George B. Koch, of Altoona, has been elected president of the Western Pennsylvania Foundrymen. —Robert S. Orr, Pittsburgh electric man, well known here, has been elect ed an officer of the national associa tion. —R. S. Wilbur, who Is In charge of the new Somerset Rockwood line, sayß that the road will be built this year. —Dr. H. D. Matter, of Wiikes- Barre. wilt take a long tour through the West. DO YOU KNOW H That Harrlsburg is commencing to be a point of Interest for a good many visitors from around the State? VENIZELOS AND GREEK ELEC TIONS [From the New Tork Sun.] The final count in the elections In Greece, which have been followed by I Europe with more Interest than any ever previously held In the small state, leaves no doubt of the attitude of the Grecian people. The so-callerLp war party, of which former Veniaelos is recognized as the head, elected 186 of the 316 deputies, 82 more than the government, 56 mora than all the opposition. The elec tion was a triumph for Venlzelos. It proved hia strength greater than that of the king, who a few months ago forced hia retirement. CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 (I Cents a Pint Prizes of IS, 92.60 and «Mnl SI.OO ones I i duplicated by Mr. Ban Stroma
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