8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH m Bstcbluked liii PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary QUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sua* 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 Tork City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at = iS£O six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Bntered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average circulation (or Ik* three months ending June 30, 191S ★ 21,231 Average for the year 1914—51.858 Average (or the Tear 1913—190)03 Average (or the rear 1912—19.049 Average (or the year 1911—170503 Average (or the year 1910—1«J61 The above llgnrea are net. All re turned, untold and damaged copies de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, JULY SO. And he shall fudge between the na tions, and shall decide concerning many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. —lsa. S:i- THAT NON-PARTISAN CLAUSE JUDGE VAN SWEARING EN- has decided that the non-partisan clause of the Clark third class city act, under which Harrisburg is oper ating, is legal. But declaring a law constitutional and making it effective are two vastly different matters. The nonpartisan clause of the Clark act was a farce from the beginning and promises to be so until human nature and party politics are both consider ably changed for the better. This is not a pleasant conclusion, but it is justified by the facts as they have been developed in the past two years. Take Harrisburg for example. The election that resulted in the choice of three Republicans and one Democrat to act in conjunction with a Demo cratic mayor as a city council was political from start to finish, and the city has not for a moment been per mitted to forget that council stands three to two, with party politics as a dominating factor. The result has been anything but satisfactory. As often happens in such cases the con structive forces of the legislative body have lain with the majority. The three Republicans have stood shoulder to shoulder for the completion of pub lic improvements, for the reduction of water rates and the advancement of the city in general. But at every turn they have faced an obstinate and sel fish opposition fathered by effort of the two Democratic members, led by the mayor, to make Democratic poli tical capital at the expense of the majority members. It has been con tinually construction vs. obstruction. This has gone even to the point of holding up public improvements at a time when they are on the very verge of completion and has been mani fested In a dozen other ways. In November a new commission is to be elected for the absurdly short term of two years and politics bids fair to enter into it quite as much as it did in 1913. Judge Van Swearlngen has declared the nonpartisan clause constitutional, but who is going to en force it? While Harrisburg never will be en tirely satisfied until the Pennsylvania Railroad provides a real subway at Division street, the construction of an overhead bridge for pedestrians Is an evidence of the Pennsy's disposition to do everything that is reasonable for a city which holds an important rela tion to the prosperity of the great rail road system. "PITILESS PUBLICITY" THE most übiquitous form of "piti less publicity" fostered by the administration is that of the Democratic campaign publicity bureau in ther Department of Commerce. Since the passage of the Underwood tariff law the Department of Com merce has been to the perpetrators of that outrage the object of their ten derest solicitude. Every wish of the department has been Indulged;' every recommendation of Secretary Redfleld has met with congressional sanction. The reason for this partiality is be coming more and more apparent as the months roll on. Secretary Redfleld Is the anointed champion of the Demo cratic tariff policy. He has comman deered the Bureau of Foreign and Do mestic Commerce ("the spearhead of the department," as he terms it) and has pressed government employes into service. With a generous allowance from Congress, dipped from the public purse, he is running as busy a little Democratic campaign publicity bureau as one could wish to see. Note the following items in the ap propriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1916: "To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the TJrited States, $76,000; Held Investi gations at home and abroad. $60,4)00; t»> promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and FRIDAY EVENING, Central America. $75,000; for commer -1 cial attache#, $ 100,000." All of these suras to be expended under the per sonal direction of the Secretary of Commerce. What the Secretary says, goes. Here are the sinews for "hid-» den" advertising. Three hundred thou sand dollars appropriated for purposes of present doubtful utility at a time when economy should have been the watchword of the government! What could have been done "to further pro mote and develop" commerce after the Democratic tariff law was passed, it Is difficult to imagine. The concrete result of these appro priations, aside from the money de voted to printer's ink publicity, is the appointment of a large number of "de serving Democrats," some of whom have been sent to Europe as commer cial attaches and are drawing large salaries to study commercial conditions which are in temporary abeyance. Others as special agents, whose chief function is to gumshoe around the ] country, snoop into the business of manufacturers, and then render re- I ports so partisan and abusive as to be utterly valueless for economic pur poses, even if their authors had any ideas respecting the science of econ omy. The report on the potterv in dustry in New Jersey and on the hosiery industry In Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, are examples of the lengths to which these political pets will go in vUUfylng the manufacturers, of the country. Still others are being put on the payroll to correct "the methods of col lecting export statistics." The terrific slump In our export trade following democratic control convinced Secre tary Redfleld that "the statistics of our export trade are incorrect to an extent sufficient to alter at times a trade bal ance on mercantile transactions which is actually in our favor into one which appears to be the reverse." It is ap parent that Mr. Redfleld received this illumination some time after August, ISI4, when the balance of trade for that month was over $16,000,000 against us, and he sent Dr. Frank R. Rutter, assistant chief of the bureau, to the New York custom house to flx that little matter. The large exports due to war orders having, for the time being, put that subject in the back ground, Dr. Rutter is again at his desk in Washington. But it is the audacity of campaign publicity work at the taxpayers' ex pense which amazes. All this Demo cratic propaganda, furthermore, is sent out under government frank. For some months the Commerce Reports, which are Intended to be devoted solely to matters concerning our trade, have been carrying pages of matter having nothing to do with commerce and adulatory of the administration. In plain words, the public is getting a correspondence course, at its own ex pense, full of partisan teaching de signed to create favorable feeling toward the administration, and this whether the public wants it or not. Mr. Redfleld is running a Democratic campaign publicity bureau on forced subsidization. He will close in 1916. I When Governor Brumbaugh comes ! back from the Fair he will find Har- I rlsburg all ready to demonstrate that the Pacific coast has no monopoly on big celebrations. And then there is the chap who a few years ago could see absolutely no good in public Improvements for Har risburg. GERMAN-MAD A DISPATCH from Dallas. Texas, tells of the explosion of a bomb beneath the bed of a manufac turer whose plants are turning out supplies for the allies, and the inevitable suspicion Is attached that the crime was that of a German spy. We have gone German-mad. Just as every mosquito bite and hive that developed a few years ago was at tributed to the ravages of the "kiss ing bug," of which rapacious insect, by the way, we now hear no more, so now every time somebody steps on a parlor match or a devotee of the black hand form of revenge lets loose a bomb, we are gravely told that a "Ger man spy is suspected." It is plainly a case of nerves. The war has "gotten us." We shudder at the far-reaching influence of the Ger man secret service, which, if it were half as efficient as we have been told, would have known better than to turn the Kaiser's forces over to a war which will bring them in the end to defeat, when the agents of that service have their lAnds too full to be exploding dynamite beneath beds of American businessmen whose mills will go on whether the" bombs get them or not. The whole thing la foolish and we will see it in that light bye-and-bye and laugh as we do now looking back on our boyhood fears of the fanciful figures that used to populate the deep gloom just over the footboard of the bed before we went to sleep. District Attorney Stroup has been asked to interpose in the matter of speeding of automobiles and motor cycles along the river drive. While he is about It may we not hope that he will likewise put an effectual stop to the noisy cutout flend who has no respect for the comfert or the rights of others. Penbrook is happy in the prospect of being the Important town on one of the most attractive of the modern highways leading eastward from the Capitol. In conjuctlon with the State Highway Department, the Harrisburg Railways Company and private citi zens, the borough Is on the verge of paving Its Main street from one end of the borough to the other. Penbrook is an attractive suburb and Harris burg's citizens will rejoice in the fact that a long deferred Improvement 1s now about to be consummated. All Harrlsburg is Interested i n the elimination of the disease-breeding and noisome districts of the city, and there will be general rejoicing over the official announcement that ti,u Paxton Creek menace to the city's health is eliminated for all time by the construction of a modern and hy gienic drain throughout the entire [length of the city. 7>*UUc4 LK 'P&KKOljttfCUua By the lix-Committeeman 11l , The Philadelphia Democratic city committee yesterday emphasized the lack of harmony and the spirit of dis sension in the party following the "re organization" by adopting resolutions endorsing President Wilson for re ncmination and congratulating Itself on being the original advocate of his selection. The city committee was in the field befora the bosses of the reorganization cult made up their minds about Wilson and has never ceased to call attention to the fact. Yesterday formal reso lutions were adopted boosting the President and stating that the commit tee prided itself on being "the first offi cial political body in the United States to present the nam® of Woodrow Wil son for the presidency." This action was a covert jab at the reorganization gangsters who have farmed their aid for the Wilson boom and secured most of the plums. —The Reading Democratic city com mittee yesterday decided to support Democratic candidates for city com missioner who present themselves un der the nonpartisan law. —ln Montgomery county 20,176 Re publicans and 1,062 Washingtonians registered. The Democrats had a little over 10,000. Center county also shows a big Republican enrollment, having 5,450 Republicans and 4,295 Demo crats. It had been claimed by the Democrats. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, candidate for mayor in Philadelphia in all probability, is to be given a din ner on August 5 by some of his po litical friends. —Evan B. Lewis. Philadelphia, who has appeared.here a number of times, is a candidate for Judge in Philadel phia. —H. G. Seip, Northampton Repub lican chairman, is seriously ill. —Candidates are having a, hard time in Pittston. There are many aspirants for office, but the chief of police is going around tearing down all cards placed on poles. —The constitutional amendments are now being advertised and the Usual fusses over rates are expected to oc cur. The amendments are consid erably shorter than those advertised a yc-ar ago. —Ex-Congressman J. N. Langham I s . . st .' r , r ' ng U P the Indiana county judicial district. He is a candidate against Judge Telford, who seeks re nomination. and his friends on Capitol Hill are watching the campaign with considerable interest. Mr. Langham was formerly corporation clerk to the Auditor General. —D. Floyd Hess, who succeeds J. V. Murray in charge of resettlements and accounts in the Auditor General's de partment, is prominent in Luzerne county politics. .— H - s - Anderson, who is 28 years o- age. a native of Australia and resi dent of Pittsburgh for three years, is a candidate for county commissioner in Allegheny. —Senator Penrose's visit to Luzerne county yesterday has attracted much attention in that section because of tnc number of prominent Republicans who gathered to meet him. While in Hkes-Barre the senator saw Judge Charles E. Rice, who is very ill. To day the senator is in Union countv. He accompanied by Judge Kenhar't and Prothonotary Walton. He will be in county to-day and return to rmiadelphia to-morrow night. The Philadelphia Press mentions an attitude of waiting in the Philadel phia mayoralty. It says: "Both the Democrats and the Independents held preliminary meetings yesterday, but since the Republicans have not de cided on their candidate nor an nsunced their platform, the oppor tunity to foment and organize oppo sition does not exist and so neither of thl ° r^, m zatlons took any action. The Public Service Committee of 100 which wm organized two years ago to aid Mayor Blankenburg in electing councilmen pledged to support admin istration policies, met yesterday, elected officers and then adjourned." THE LAST DITCH XO LONGER [From the Hagerstown Daily Mail.] The bronze and copper Hon of Water -5 wrecked and is being con- Th r »v,ui? for ,the German army. Fast enemy I r E el l c etermlne ' l 10 ««tat to the "STORK XEWS" ry RHYME The Seneca Kicker, printed in Venan go county, is the only paper in the world regularly publishing the birth of babies In rhyme, thus Ailing a crying need. The latest follows: A bumper crop of babies, this And sure we ask no greater bliss Than just the chance to rhyme them well And all their infant charms to tell. The first upon our list we puess Is this wee bunch of blessedness, For Marion Moore and wife a SOX Who 11 one day rise to fame well won. Freedom. Pa.. June 26, 1915. It must be that the Babv Poet Has been asleep and didn't know It, EUe how should we have missed till now The BOY for J. S. Hart and frau? Red Lion, Pa.. June 30, 1915. And Pinoak celebrated too, Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue. Frank Sampsell's home is full of glee For there a lusty BOY we see. Pinoak, July 4, 1915. It pours and rains and pours again The weather man he won"t say "when." But we won't kick when there's such joy Along with it as John West's BOY Rockmere, June 24. 1915. And "out the pike"' tbey have good news, 'We will not use that word "diffuse") Geo. Hughes and wife a healthy LAD Whos making all his klnfolks glad. Reed. June 29. 1915. Oil City has a lot of joys And chief among them are her boys. Another little chap we call For Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hall. Oil City, July 6, 1915. To Ten-Mile Bottom flew that bird, The Stork, and since the news we've heard How Martin Disque's have a SON And sure there's Jov out there begun. Ten-Mile Bottom. July 12, 1915. And then we rhyme our own town's pride. The finest ROY we've this day spied. John Hecka thorn's his daddy proud And surd some pride mav he allowed Seneca. July 11, 1915. ' ■ Our Own Emerson Emerson might have said "Advertising is the expression of a man's pride In his product." No man with good goods or good service to sell keeps quiet.- He Is too self-confident, too en thusiastic. He wants every one to share his pride and to benefit'by what he has to offer. If he is wise he chooses news paper advertising as his voice Through it he hears that sat- ' isfylng sound of the echo at his cash register bell. _________ g&RRIBBUR TELEGRAPH TELEORAPH PERISCOPE —Apparently the Bear and the Bug have united against the Kaiser. —That Buy-Belgium proposition bids fair to become a little less popu lar than the Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton movement. —ln the cargo of an American car go seized by the British there were 3,000 mouth organs. Why didn't the crew play them and drive off their captors. —A New Jersey woman was found insane because she persisted in dress ing like a young girl. What a fortun ate thing it is that Harrisburg is not in New Jersey. —There are two warships in Chesa peake bay, which ought to render the Susquehanna safe for the present. —well, well, see how our young friend the Jitney is growing. Already he is getting Into the motorbus class; which leads us to wonder how long it will take him to become a street car. EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ The one consolation in this kind of weather is that it is making the local sweet corn crop hump itself—Wilkes- Barre Record. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES r -^ Under the title "Paris: Red and Black—and Gold!" Estelle Loomls, whose first story about war-shadowed Paris In the January Century had the thrill and ardor of fiction though its basis was fact, will show, the emotional phases through which the most beloved and the most sensitive city in the world has passed since the beginning of the war. "The Serio-Comic Profession" is a book addressed to writers and to such others as may be interested in them and their work. It contains Mr. de Bekker's interview on journalism with Chester S. Lord, "Boas" Lord of the Sun, originally published in the New York Evening Post, new and timely essays on Copyright, the Cost of Mak ing Books, the Passing of the Story Weekly, "Human Interest," etc., "The Confessions of a Music Critic," which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and several papers presenting unusual ele ments in the life of the literary worker. The author has been a news paper man, writer of books and pub lishers' hack for twenty-five years, lie has attempted to show in these sketches, most of which are In a light vein, that the Profession of Let ters is serio-comic because the mid dlemen are permitted to reap all the material rewards. THE JITNEY BUSINESS A lot of effort is being expended on the problem of regulating the Jitney, much of which is destined to be wast ed. For the jitney question Is one of those that settle themselves in time. And this is the only way that such questions are settled soundly and per manently. One sure thing is that jit neys now In operation are not paying their way. This will make itself ap parent in tirfte, and there will be fewer cars. They will also have to ask more fare. Thus they will still be competitors of the street railway, but not in fare. They seem destined to supply a need not hitherto met, but not to displace any other means of transportation. As for safety, in this as in other things, it seems we must pay the price of Uves before we learn our lesson of not holding life cheap. Laws'to regulate anything still in the experimental stage seldom meet the occasion. They are inevitably overruled by the more fundamental laws of supply and demand, of the value of a service and the cost of rendering it—Milwaukee Journal. GET A TRANSFER If you are on the Gloomy Line, Get a transfer. If you are inclined to fret and pine, Get a transfer. Get oft the track of Doubt and Gloom; Get on a Sunshine train; theres room. Get a transfer. If you are on the Worry Train, Get a transfer. Tou must not stay there and complain; Get a transfer. The Cheerful Cars are passing through, And there's lot* of room for you. Get a transfer. If you are on the Grouchy Track, Get a transfer. Just take a Happy Special back; Get a transfer. Jump on the train and pull the rope That lands you at the station Hope. Get a transfer. —The Booster. GETTING THEM TO ORDER [From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.] Judge Peter Grosicup wants Presi dent Wilson to force the belligerents to consent to talk peace. Good! Now I i let Peter call the belligerents to order I [so that the President may proceed. SUMMER SCENES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA "THE CALL OF THE WILD." (Courtesy Eastman Kodak Company.) THE STORY OF PAXTON CREEK Slimy, Filth-Filled Stream of Bygone Years Now a Straight, Clean Concrete Gutter The sluggish, tortuous, slimy, ftlth filled stream of by-gone years will be recalled with more than ordinary force by Council, members of the Board of Public Works and engineers Wednes day morning when official inspection of the newly improved raxion creek is made. The stream of to-day flows swiftly through a straight, clean concrete gutter, open to the sun and the air throughout the entire length of the city. For years Paxton creek was a regu lar summer stamping ground for mosquitoes and frogs, and even snakes loafed along the banks. Now frogs can't even get a good toe-hold on the shores, the snakes have quit and crawled away in disgust, and as for mosquitoes—they haven't evea half a chance. Up until as late as three years ago the unsavory condition of Paxton creek was a real menace to the sec tion of the city through which it flowed. Even after the big intercep tor sewer that parallels the stream was put into service to carry oft the sewage that formerly drained into the creek, the unsatisfactory mosquito breeding conditions continued, al though the absence of the house drainage helped some. Prior to the construction of the in terceptor however, the city felt the effects of the slow-winding stream through the town; and that condition had existed for years. Newspapers of more than a hundred years ago tell of the deplorable condition of the stream and of how it threatened the health of a whole city. 'Way Back in 1708 'Way back in 1793 during those dark days in which yellow fever raged so terribly in Philadelphia, many Har risburg citizens were stricken with a mysterious ailment that had many of HYMN* TO THE SEA By Frederick Arnold Kummer. Great Mother of the race, from whose quick womb We crawled with timid eyes into the sun Reptilian shapes, born of thy upflung spume, Look thou with pride on that which we have done. Upon Earth's face, with cyclopean hand We have writ large, in letters graved in stone, I The message of our strength. The rock-ribbed land Thou couldst not conquer, we have made our own. Great cities have the built, their stub born walls Set firm against thy swift-encroach ing tide. Blood of thy blood we come to thee who calls — An offspring worthy of thy strength and pride. Lanes have we carved across thy sul len breast Despite the scorging of thy foam lashed whips; Does it enrage thee, thus to break thy rest That thou shouldst be so hungry for our ship? A bitter toll thy Seven Seas shall take; The silent forms lie thick about thy bed— What answer wilt thou to thy children make When thou art summoned to give up, •thy dead? We love thee, hate thee, fear thee in thy might, Yet with a smile we straightway are beguiled— O courtezan, whom none may read aright. Why dost thfru turn and smite thine ancient child? In garb of gold and purple, blue and green Thou lurest us to come to thee and rest; The flashing sword beneath thy silver sheen— How lightly dost thous plunge it in our breast! Great mother, from whope womb our life we drew —* Well have we labored—well our task have done. Yet all our hands have wrought to thee is due— The strength thou gavest hath our victories won. Blood of our blood, we greet thee in thy might— Breath of our breath, give to us strength again— Life of our life, be with us in our fight— Hail to thee. Mother of the race of men! ONE OF THE TWO [F*rom the Washington Observer.] Overheard In Tylerdale: "My hus band is like an unsnuffed candle or a short wicked lamp." "How's that?" "Aways smoking or else going out." OUR INDUCEMENT [From the Washington Observer.] Now that we have a submarine that can cruise to Europe and back without« replenishing supplies American friend- I ship Should look better than ever to Germany. 1 JULY 30, 1915. th© symptoms of tiiG dreaded yellow plague. However it was not diagnosed as such and It was decided that the curious illness was a severe form of malarial fever. And Paxton creek and the big mill dam that obstructed the stream a short distance below Hem lock street were blamed for helping to breed the diseases. The dam and mill were owned by Peter and Abraham Landis and after a couple of years' agitation, the citi zens then of the borough of Harrisburg decided at a mass meeting to buy tho property in order to destroy the dam. The sum of 2600 pounds, amount ing to something less than $13,000 was pledged to the Landis brothers. This was raised by popular subscription and tax assessment. Eventually the deal was closed and the dam and mill property were pur chased and preparations were made to demolish it. Scores of citizens had contributed and the sums varied from twelve shillings to seventy-five pounds. Saturday, April 18, a big citizens' com mittee gathered in Market Square and awaited the signal to move. The men were armed with shovels and picks. At 10 o'clock a bell sounded from a nearby church. That was the signal! Down to the dam the little parade married and four men promptly set to work with shovels. Thus the old mill dam, a quarter or a mile below the old "White House" between the mill road and the canal, was destroy ed. A week or so later citizens got together and bought the mill site from Landis brothers for more than 2600 pounds. This was assessed as a tax in proportionate shares against the citizens of Harrisburg. Thus was Harrisburg's first public; Improvement campaign really begun. Wednesday city officialdom will see the finished results of an expendl -1 ture of a hundred thousand dollar im provement loan. .1 IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY | [From the Telegraph of July 30, 1865.] Arrest Liquor Dealers Two liquor dealers, charged with furnishing alcoholic drinks to minors were arrested to-day. Special Meeting of Company A special meeting has been called tor members of the Friendship Fire Company to take action on important business. The session will be held to-night. County Convention Here The county convention will be held in thw city, opening at 10.30 o'clock on the morning of August 8. PASTURE LAND The shadows fall, a velvet brown, Jr.v.^ c J oss a Btr ®tch of pasture land; i trees are silent, scarce a breath Of wind is stirring. God's own I hand Has smoothed the troubles of the world Away to some far distant shore: hat though the echo of a gun Proclaims that somewhere there i 3 war? The grass is short, and heavy feet Have worn it level witn the soil: The cows have cropped the clover blooms, And, coming from his daily toil, The farmer pauses in the shade, And breathes, perhaps, an honest prayer, To thank his God for heafth and peace And summer in a world so fair. * When shadows fail, a velvet brown To tell that toil, and day, must cease, When all the world, its trees and grass, Is covered with a veil of peace- Then let our feet, that may be worn Pause for a bit, that we may stand Al ß on S the cows, and send a prayer To God from his own pasture land ~ Mar ChrUtl!n ffiSr Jr " ln th ° Our Daily Laugh HER PREFER- Georgo Don't J•/ you think you -*-\ \ could learn to Marion—l prob- _)J111 ably could, but if yjj really I much vfl prefer to pick a y 'jj 0 man for whom I u (JR H shan't need any —II preliminary train- I^** C ~ Y % Why don't you "■P go on the stage? become a "ham?" Never 1 Stoning (Eljat Harrisburg has the baseball fever aa bad as It ever did In the eighties or nineties, to say nothing of the early days of the Trl-State League. The best proof of It, of course. Is in the record of attendance at the games, which has been a surprise $o the peo ple behind the International League, but not to anyone who has followed baseball, in this city in the last few years. However, yesterday when the team had been gone a couple of days there was baseball talk all around th« city and the scores were followed with the same eager attention as they used to be in the days when we were play ling York neck and neck races for the , pennant. The record of attendance for the eighteen days of straight base i ball, barring Sundays, shows that Har risburg -will support a team that play# good ball and the number of people who-turned out for those games was probably over half of the total number at the games in 1914. In the day® when baseball used to be played on the grounds where the Cameron school is now located the old baseball sharp tells mo crowds of 3,000 were not unknown and that occasionally on the old Sixth street grounds back in the days of Felix Maßks and other cel ebrities 3,500 was recorded. But there never was anything like that crowd which turned out on Saturday to see Pro.vidence play, asserts the old-time sharp and it is all the more remark able because the league leaders came here after the longest stretch of base ball at home known in many years. The personnel of the crowds at the games has been as interesting as the number. And yesterday there were few places down town into which you could drop and not hear a lot of base ball chatter. Activities of the State Police have resulted In the breaking up of consid erable noisy Joy riding on the roads to Linglestown and Hummelstown. This Spring and summer it was not uncom mon for people to be awakened after 1 o'clock in the morning by the yells and anything but good singing of bands of young people, who some times fired revolvers to apprise the residents of their proximity. Since tho State Police substation was estab lished near Penbrook the noise mak ers have been very quiet about their trips. • • • Governor Brumbaugh is having a fine time fishing up in Maine. He is in the same district which he has visited for years and friends say that he has been making some record catches. • * • This is the pleasant season of the year when the oats midges come to see us. There arc lots of oats fields around Harrisburg and every wind that comes in from the country brings some thou sands of visitors. People at Reser voir Park and on trolley cars coming in from the suburban towns have been getting their shares lately. • • * "Picnics are not so popular this year as formerly," said a trolley man who tjas been conducting excursions for a long period. "I cannot explain why. The traction companies have improved the parks and they are more attractive than ever. Also the trolley service is better than previously ar.d we have I done all in our power for the comfort and convenience of the public, but the attendance is not so large as it was last year. Some people with whom X have talked explain It on the ground of the cool weather, which has made liff- agreeable in the city, and others say the unusually large number f©f storms and showers made women cau tious about leaving home. Still others are of that opinion that many are paying debts contracted during the dull period of last winter and are therefore not going to picnics." He was a traveling man and was evidently selling furs or some other winter stuff and when he dropped into a barber shop he started ln to rako everything about Harrlsburg. He said unkind things about the weather, about Harrisburg businessmen, the people, the streets and everything else. Finally he began to soak the city be cause of the spirit of enterprise which has made it amount to something. "You're willing to take our orders, X presume?" observed a young man who became bored by the tirade. "What's that got to do with it?" "Well, only you need not call at our place." was the tart rejoinder. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Charles D. Barney, the Philadel phia bajiker, has gone to historic Put in-Bay for the summer. —Edward Keenan is the new head of the Philadelphia Central Labor Union. —John P. Garber, assistant superin tendent of Philadelphia schools, haa been appointed superintendent pro tem. to succeed the late Dr. Jacobs. —James Hausman, Allentown's city controller, had a bonfire all by him self the other day. He burned can celled coupons representing $844,000. —Dr. R. C. Burns, Pittsburgh health otficer, says there was not a case of tetanus in that city as a result "of the Fourth. —The Rev. J. Stewart Kunkel, of Saltsburg, has returned to his mis sionary work in China. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg will have one of the finest parkways of any of the smaller cities after October 1? CROQUET [Cleveland Plain Dealer.] Croquet is, doubtless, a mid-Vlctorlatt game, and that is the worst that can bo said of it. It Is gentle, polite, un strenuous. The prim lady may partici pate without relaxing her dignity. The athlete and the octogenarian may ma nipulate the mallet with equal skill. It is a game for everyone, a game which pleases without wearying, which kills time without killing energy, which brings one into the open but not into undue perspiration. In these days croquet is pooh poohed. Golf, with its long, rapid "hikes," is popular; tennis with Its hoppings and skipplngs and its wav- Ings of arms is highly commended. But croquet is scorned as mollycoddllsh and effeminate. In most thing* the escape from Vic torian frippery and prudery and qui escence is a blessing. But croquet d*4- serves to be retained or resuscitated. For the tired man or woman who seeks wholesome and restful recreation there is nothing better than a mild contest amid the wickets under the apple trees. It may be reminiscent of crinoline, gaiters and beavers, but it is none the less good. The best the Vic torians accomplished was in the way, of mildness. A touch of mildness in these mad rushing times would be % definite benefit. ' CIVIC CLUB ' Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 B Cents a Pint Prizes of 95, $2.50 and several SI.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Strouae
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