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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.
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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^**
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% 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