8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itii PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editer-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Matiati*i Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, SIS Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of j Circulation and Pennsylvania Assocl- I ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building, ; Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at /wjjtnl.* six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris- j burg, Pa., as second class matter. j I Sworn daily average circulation for the three months ending July SI, 1915 ★ 21,084 ★; Average tor the year 1914—21.808 1 Average for the year 1913—10.903 Average for the year 1913—19,640 Average for the year 1911—17,5(13 Average tor the year 1910—ia,-01 The above figures are net. All ft tprnrd, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, A humble and a contrite heart. —Kipling. j PLANNING THE FUTURE CITY THERE is a great work in waiting for the City Planning Commls- , sion and w© believe the five public-spirited citizens composing that , body are equal to the task. They i. already have demonstrated enthusiastic j interest in the important planning j necessary to the growth of the city j along right lines and when the people j generally understand what a compre- ! henslve vision realized In actual j achievement means they will give full j credit to the men who are mapping out the Harrishurg of five, ten, twenty-five or a hundred years hence. Fortunately for the city. Chairman Edwin S. Herman and his associates, George A. Shrelner, George W. Reily. B. F. Umberger and F. J. Hall, are men who combine happily the esthetic with the practical. They are not ob sessed with foolish notions nor are they to be swerved to the right or to the left by favoritism, selfishness or greed in any quarter. They believe, as has been shown In all their de liberations. that the welfare of all the people is their great concern, and that in the development of the city the In terest of each citizen is merged in the interest of the whole population. So It Is that these intelligent city planners are going about their work carefully and with sound common sense, having in view the growth that even the most near-sighted must see in the comparatively near future. It is too-late to lament that such a com mission was not in existence many years ago. So instead of grieving for the things that might have been and sorrowing for the existence of others that ought to have been pre vented, we should rejoice that there are now five men on the watch tower who are going to do their level best to ' avert serious blunders In our munici pal expansion hereafter. Perhaps the most important feature of their work is the co-operation of the commission with the State authori ties in the proper development of a civic center within the territory em braced by the new Capitol Park ex tension zone. A start already haa been made in the location of the Federal building and the Masonic Temple on the west side, the Scottish Rite Cathedral on the north side and the Technical High School and the new Young Wom en's Christian Association on the south. It is believed that the contemplated new high school should be located directly opposite the Technical High School on North street. This, with other buildings in the years to come, would create in conjunction with the Capitol and the State structures a fine civic center. THE INSULAR ENGLISH NOW that the Teutonic allies have effectually disposed of Russia as far as the summer campaign is concerned, the prospect that they •will turn their earnest attention to the western theater of the war is produc ing a state of mind resembling panic in England. There Is every excuse for this, but It Is a trifle belated. For the sake ot the cause of the Entente allies it is a pity England did not wake up sooner to the menace involved in the Austro-German campaign .in Poland and do something. England's course during the past few critical weeks has been in keeping with her record since the war began and that is anything but creditable! to say the least. Although it is be lieved Kitchener has somewhere an army that totals over 3,000.000 effec tive men, less than half a million of them are on the continent, unless all observers are completely deceived. If the public knows all the facts there are to know, about all England has put Into the war so far Is money and this comparatively small expeditionary force, now in Balgium and northern France. In making this estimate the naval part of the attack upon the de fenses of Constantinople has not been overlooked. That may have cost Eng land a great deal, but It has not count ed for anything In the general result. Before It Is over, however, she will have to put in much more if her side is to win. Among other thingß, whole- MONDAY EVENING, KKRfUftBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 2, 1915. souled devotion to the cause and some military brains. And she also will have to free herself from the waves of timidity that sweep her people almost weekly. If it should develop that dur ing the heroic struggle which the Rus sian armies made against overwhelm ing odds England was retaining 2,- 000,000 or more men as well as the huge British navy for home defense Englishmen will And it difficult to hold up their heads in the presence of their allies, or anywhere else for that mat ter. The trouble with England is funda mental. There is a great deal of talk there about conscription. But it Is pure nonsense, for lack of sufficient soldiers Is the least of the difficulties ' England faces. Conscription would ! merely complicate the matter by filling I the armies with unwilling men. The 'soldiers England has put in the field I are brave enough, although badly offi ! cered. but the country as a whole lacks ' the solidarity and real patriotism I shown by the French. France has j compulsory military service, but that is not what is making the French army j the real wonder of the war. Every j Frenchman capable of serving in any j capacity is at the front now because iit would be impossible to keep htm ! back. He would be with his regiment if he had to fight for the privilege, j The war, in short, has given a new j France to the world, but it is at the | same time confirming the suspicion, | felt first during the feoer war, that [there Is dangerous decadence In Eng i land. If the real Issue of the great i struggle were between two democra | cles Instead of bitween democracy and I autocracy the possibility of the utter ( defeat of England would be viewed with indifference by enlightened peo ple throughout the world, If not act ually welcomed as a potential benefit to the human race. It is not too much to say that England needs nothing so much as a test by fire such as the French people went through after Se dan. That might give them a renewed i lease of national life; a renaissance of national conscience; a Jolt out of their complacency and materialism. If they come through the war with final vic tory, but without a spiritual awaken ing, the most sinister fears for the fu ture of the empire will be warranted. The huge national debt and the com mercial and industrial upheaval which will be a corollary of the readjustment to peace conditions are apt to prove too great a burden for such a thor oughly selfish and narrow-minded people as they beyond a doubt now are. THE STORY OF A BOY ONE of the youngest persons ever assigned to the conduct of an office by the Western Union Telegraph Company is "Al" O'Nell, a messenger boy In Montclair, N. J. The lad is Just turned seventeen. The story of how he won a place usually held by men much older should be good reading for the callow type of youth who spends his even ings in poolrooms and booze joints or in idle "spooning" on some moon lit porch or In a parlor corner that isn't lighted even by the moon. This youngster is the son of a widow and he left school when four teen to support his mother. He got a job as a messenger Ijpy, as many another lad has done before. But he didn't spend his time reading dime novels or in going to the movies when on duty, as the average messenger boy is popularly supposed to do. He prac ticed telegraphy. In less than a year he was a good operator. Last week he decided it was time to advance him self, so he w-ent to the company's of fices in New York and told them he wanted to take charge of an office. His confidence made an impression: he was put through the customary | tests, with a few added doses because j of his extreme youth; and got the job! at Beacon Falls. Conn. It's the old, old story of the boy with ambition, plus the stick-to-lt iveness to get him there. It's a story that's not too old to be read over and over again by any boy or girl who Is aiming high. Nor for the older bojs anci girls who still have some ambi tion left. THE BANK AND THE FARMER THIS should be a golden year for American agriculture. The farmers of the United States are now engaged in harvesting enormous crops—perhaps the great est ever produced in this country, government forecasts indicating $12,- 000,000,000 crop yield for 1915. Big crops and good prices will quickly make better business for the railroads, for manufacturers, and for wholesale and retail business general ly. There ought, therefore,, to be in creased prosperity for all of us, and that is why both city and country are interested in the crops. Nature has been kind to us. Should we not be equally kind to ourselves In the matter of waste —prevention? American farmers will burn thou sands of tons of straw that, in Europe, war-made thrift would cause to be saved for various uses. According to one student of the value of by-products, allowing corn stalks to evaporate and decay causes an annual waste of $200,000,000. But progressive farmers are reducing this waste by using silos to preserve chop ped stalks and other fodder crops. The humble hen Is a first aid to the thrift of the farmer's wife, but the Department of Agriculture estimates an annual loss of $40,000,000 from un necessarily spoiled eggs. The annual shipment of potatoes from Maine is 35,000 cars, and It Is said \hat the average waste is 20 bush els per car, or a total of 700,000 bushels. The yearly waste of vegetables of all kinds Is duplicated by that ot fruit. The government specialists estimate that home canning on the farm of what otherwise would be wasted ought to save at least $100,000,000 annually. But these are large and general statements. To get right down to "brass tacks," as they say, bow can the farmer actually save money? He must not be tight-fisted or his farm will not be kept up; he must not be a spendthrift or he will get Into difficulties that way. In approaching a bank for a loan the man without a bank account is handicapped. The farmer who says, "I wish to buy twenty steers to fatten for mar ket; will you loan me some money?" will stand a good chance of getting the loan. If he says, "Our best horse idled and we are hard up; the rent Is : coming due and the Insurance expires ,to-morrow; won't you please loan me 11200?" the banker feels very sorry for • him but dislikes to risk two hundred perfectly good dollars on a farmer | with such an unpromising outlook, j Close co-operation between farmer | and banker ought to enable most ten jants to become owners If they really 'want to own their farms, as they j should. Throughout the Central | Pennsylvania district, especially, this (relation Is becoming closer each year, 'to the mutual benefit of farmer and I banke^ T TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE ' —The richest girl in the world hav ing married one of her employes, it is 1 now time for the richest man in the ■ world to demonstrate that the spirit lof democracy is not confined to the feminine sex. The number of pretty stenographers should make this no dif ficult task. —The Philadelphia Ledger Is "all het up" over the correct version of C. A. Smith's song. "Put Me In My Little Bed." but as for us we prefer the Frank Daniels' version. —lf It took the Germans a year to capture Warsaw, how long will It take them to get to Petrograd? —The farmers of the corn and wheat belts who are reported as not enthusl sstlc over national defense projects, ought to begin to consider where they would market their products with Philadelphia tnd New York In the hands of an enemy. —And the worst of It Is that the hotter and rainier the weather the faster the lawn grows. —ltaly announces that whatever els© happens, she will save her works of art from the enemy. We hope this does not include the plaster of parls replicas. EDITORIAL COMMENT "| FGHHATS [From the Johnstown Leader.] While the soldier may shudder at the thought of the shells which fall around him the actor has a great fear. What he fears most are the yolks: THE "USUAL WVRMIO" [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] There is not the slightest doubt that the Orduna was attacked without the usual warning."—Excerpt from a Lon don dispatch. Whaddyt mean, J. Bull, by the usual warning?" THE BRIGHT SIDE [From the Youth's Companion.] You will never strain your eves by looking at the bright side of things. Why doesn't the Chicago coroner's Jury tollow the example ot the Kant>a& City police commissioners and tell the men responsible for the Eastland dis aster not to do it again?— Kansas City Star. PITTSBURGH IMPROVEMENTS [From the Kansas City Star.] Thanks to Governor Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, the promising taxation experiment instituted by the city of Pittsburgh is not to be discontinued on the insistence of intersted parties. For many years Pittsburgh had a flagrantly unjust system of taxation. Real estate was divided into classes. Homes in the crowded district paid the highest tax rate of all. The best resi dence neighborhoods paid less, and tracts held out of use 'for speculative purposes paid least. It was found, for Instance, that a man in a crowded fac tory district on an unpaved street, with no lights, was paying $1.«0 on the hun dred dollars valuation. The owner of a fine home in a well cared for residence section was paying 11.05, and a specula tor owning 105 acres in the middle of a densely populated neighborhood, was paying eighty-three cents. Through ine efTorts of civic organiza tions public sentiment was aroused and a law was obtained from the legis lature wiping out these inequalities. This sentiment was used as the basis for another advance in 1918, fixing the tax on buildings at 50 per cent, that oi. land, the reduction in the building tax to be made up by increases in the land tax. The change was not to go into ef fect at once, but was to be distributed over a series of years, reaching com pletion in 1926. The first reduction of 10 per cent. In the building tax was made last year. A protest at once went up from specula tors and from wealthy land owners. These Intersts were able to control the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the city administration, and through them the Legislature. But the repealing law was vetoed by the Governor. In his message Mr. Brumbaugh said: "Inasmuch as there is such a conflict of opinion, and Inasmuch as the law has scarcely yci been tried, it is well to al low it to operate until a commending judgment decrees its fate. Let the peo ple concerned study freely and fairly the operations of the present law and. 1 If found after two years to be inade- j quate to the needs of the cities or un fair In its provisions, it can then be repealed. To disturb it now when a ; preponderance of opinion favors It is j unwise." The attacks are likely to be renewed with each session of the Legislature. , But the advocates of the new system 1 believe that as Its workings are more fully understood, its popularity will In crease. Its effect will be to encourage i building and to discourage the holding of land out of use for speculative rea sons. Such an outcome will be of ad vantage to the whole community, al though it will bear hard on special interests that were expecting to make money out of the growth of the city without making any return to society. PEACE AT ANY PRICE [Louisville Courier-Journal.] It Is one of the misfortunes of man kind that peace is not purchasable at any price. It may not even be bought as a continuing condition by huge military and naval outlay, as the his tory of all warfarlng nations amply proves. If the Rev. Mr. Holmes' peace-at-any-prlce league had upon its membership list 100,000.000 Ameri cans, instead of 10,000, their willing ness to accept any Insult rather than accept the hardships of war they would be compelled eventually to hear, would bring upon them not only Insults and infringements of liberty, but also conquest. And It is perhaps for the good of the world that na tional flabblness of muscles, mind and heart cannot become a national char-' acterlstic without becoming a national danger. However horrible war may be peace-at-any-prlce would be more | horrible. It Is better to die with the . backbone standing up to the last as! the chief column of the temple, than j to exist supinely with the backbone In I a jellied state. Those who advocate ! peace are righteous, and often braver than those who noisily and thought lessly shout for war. But those who pledge themselves to peace regardless of the price are either greatly mis guided or utterly contemptible. And in America they always will be an In significant minority. 'PtKKOifitfaKta. By the Ex Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer's announcement on Saturday that he would decline the place offered him on the United States Court of Claims surprised no one here. For some time it had been suspected that Palmer was waiting to see If something else would not come along and the State Depart ment is said to have a fine berth open. Palmer's shunting into the State De partment would leave him free to re main on the national committee and also to dabble in State politics and boss patronage. That he desires to do so Is indicated by these remarks In his statement: "Since returning home I have found it more difficult than I had anticipated to give up my per sonal and professional matters. My roots are down too deep in the ground and I am too much of a 'going con cern' to suddenly cut off my activities bv the acceptance of a place for life upon the federal bench. While I have deeply appreciated the honor which was done me by the President in nam ing me for a place upon this high court, I cannot in justice to myself ac cept It. Many clients, both old and new. have asked me to look after their legal work nnd I havq already under taken obligations of this character from which it is difficult, if not im possible, for me to withdraw." ' —lt 1s said that Democratic County Chairman Fred L. Morgenthaler is commencing to find out that there are some in his own party who do not take to the nonpartisan suggestion. It only goes to show that the Dauphin Dem ocracy Is not united on anything. —The Dauphin county Bull Moosers are so dispirited by the small enroll ment and the poor registration pros- In the city that the clarion call of Vic Murdock did not even make an Impression here to-day. —Friends of Congressman Moore Insist that he may still be a factor in the Philadelphia mayoralty contest •nd are planning to launch his boom this w^ek. —Senator Penrose left Union countv last night for Philadelphia and fs due to have several conferences this week. It Is believed he will fight the Vare boom If it shows up. David H. Lane is said to be pre paring for another conference on the Philadelphia mayoralty an( j believes that a harmony candidate can be found. George F. Eisenbrown, Reading councilman, may become a candidate for mayor on an administration plat form. A Wllkes-Barre dispatch savs: "Fred Rhodda. who was first in the field for the Republican nomination for sheriff, has decided to withdraw from the contest and unite with friends of Rob ert Mellville Keiser in landing the nomination for him. Keiser has not the field to himself by any means, for Bill Adams, of Hazleton, Is making some noise In the county and is bid ding for votes on the wild rumor that Governor Brumbaugh will come to Lu zerne to atd him In his campaign in return for the support that Adams gave the Governor when the local op tion hill and other measures were be fore the last Legislature. With John W. Raeder and William Lelh already in the field sjtd the possibility of George Ross becoming a candidate, the contest for the nomination will be one of the merriest the county has ever seen. Keiser has the support of Republican leaders and many think he will have an easy time winning." The Republicans have enrolled con siderably over two-thirds of the voters listed in Allegheny county. The en ronment has been awaited with inter est and as In this and other counties shows the Republicans far ahead. The Pittsburgh registration is expected to be heavily Republican. Almost com plete figures covering the enrollment of voters qualified to vote at the com ing primaries and election in Alle gheny county, exclusive of Pittsburgh and McKeesport, shows the enrollment to he just 62 less than the 100,000 marlr The enrollment shows 68.706 for the boroughs and 31.233 for tho townships, making the total of Five borough districts were still in complete. Those enrolled gave their party figures as follows: Republican. 69.601: Democrat, 11.264; Washington. 974: Socialist, 3,460: Bull Moose, 7; Prohibitionist, 558: Keystone, 4: Per sonal liberty, 2; nonpartisan, 183; no party, 13,885. Our Daily Laugh TWO POINTS OJ j ery man ought t< have a salary th» wl>l et > able him ti < ant * then he ough to have sens single. NOT WHOLLY - rr_ IN ACCORD. r|HHK ' Then they have parted ? I thought v TJy f£ It was a. case of ( £ 1 two hearts that ya T/ ■> 1 beat as one. Their hearts JHd may have beaten as one, but couldn't accom modate himself to her dancing step. " —■ TOO HOT Br Wine Dinger It's too hot -to work this weather. It's too hot to eat or sleep. It's too hot to drive an auto. It's too hot to laugh or weep; >». It's too hot to cut the lawn grass. It's too hot to sit and look At some other chap who cuts It, It's too hot to read a book. . It's too hot to go to baseball. It's too hot to stay at home. It's too hot to go to seashore And upon the sand beach roam; It's too hot for all things, brother. Saving one, so I should say— It's never, never too hot At the game of golf to play. ENGLISH KISS COST THREE POUNDS [From the London Chronicle.] For kissing, without her consent, a girl messenger, Mabel Woodward, H vears old. Charles Franklin was fined £3 at Bow Street recently. The magis trate said that in these days, when girls were so much used In place of men. It was most, important that they should be protected against conduct of this kind. RUSSIA'S CAVAI.RV THE BEST The magnificent horsemanship of the Cossacks of course Is well known; but it Is net so well known that American cavalry officers sent abroad to Inspect cavalry in 1912 reported that of all the nations the Russian cavalry of the line I led the world.—Curtis Guild in the Yale i Review. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY —From ;he New York World. MEASURING HIM FOR A NEW UNIFORM MOTHER OF SEVENTEEN S/iFS "NOBODY GETSSICKFROM WORK" [Kansas City Star.] "Nobody gets sick from working too hard. It's staying out nights and dan cing makes them sick. They don't get sick from having too many children, either. It's refusing to have them that makes women sick." says Mrs. John Dill, mother of seventeen and a wage earner since her eldest daughter was old enough to carry on the housekeep ing. Calm eyed, deliberate and dignified, Mrs. Dill sits in her clean, little home, 56 South Fifth street, Kansas side, vainly wishing she might withdraw from, the public gaze, which, meta phorically speaking has been fastened upon her by her simple and natural | wish to add two little girls by adoption to her own brood of seventeen, to gether with the four extras she "rais ed" and the two grandchildren sho helps care for. How "Joey' Began It "All this advertising will make 't hard for the children.' sne said. "It was Joey started it. My married son was here and when he read in the pa per about those two children at the Detention Home he said: "Mother, you ought to take them.' I said I would rather do that than see them separated. "Vou see. we've had four children besides our own, In the family at vari ous times—children that needed the homes. Each additional child seems to make our house more of a home. Their father has always read to them evenings and they have sue! good times together that they never want to go to the 'movies.' They don't need to go away from home for com pany. Her Fear of Idleness "So, Joey, hearing us talk, thinking two more would be that much nicer, dropped in somewhere while he was out selling papers and called up the Detention Home. I knew nothing about It until I saw the manager com ing In at our gate with a police man. "When I saw that policeman, X thought: 'Now, something has hap pened. One of my boys has been doing wrong.' You see. they never got Into trouble of that kind, but with this law against children under 14 working. It's hard to keep a boy of 13 off the streets and out of mischief during vacation time. That law ought to be changed." Xo "Cabbage Patch Philosophy" The mother of seventeen, foster mother of four, grandmother of two— and still with the mother mind of her unwearied —spoke with the air of an autocrat. And hers is not a cabbage patch philosophy. Nothing so careless and vague as that. I "It's a great mistake they're mak ! Ing," she continued. "When big boys llike mine aren't allowed to work. They j get into idle habits and they learn badness from other boys. If my boys should happen to get doing wrong and take something not his own one of these days, they'll say it's the parents' fault. But I say it isn't. Our hands are tied. They must get rid of that law or fix it some way so a boy can work in vacation time. l ooks Out Fop Her Brood "It's just the same with the girls. BOOKS AND MAOAZINES" Although Miss Sara Ware Bassett has written several books for young people, "The Taming of Zenas Henry," published by George H. Doran Com pany, is her first novel for elders. Having read—and thoroughly enjoyed —the story, this fact comes as rather a surprise. It is the result of many delightful visits to Cape Cod made by Miss Bas sett. She is a Boston woman, member of a representative family of the State, and is intensely interested in all our types. Her trips to the Cape were not made primarily for the pur pose of obtaining "material," but rather to enjoy that fascinating sec tion and to understand the real Cape Codders. In a recent book of essays and per sonal impressions, Henry Cabot Lodge gives a tribute to "George Birming ham"—Canon Hannay—which is not only a laudation of that delightful Irish novelist, but also a suggestion of how a statesman of the enormously wide and demanding interests of Mr. can find the necessary relaxa tion. Says Mr. Lodge: "It is a difficult feat but it is not impossible, and the words of this the earliest, probably, of Shakespeare's charming women came freshly to his mind when the convalescent found himself laughing out loud as he read, quite alone, George Birmingham's story of 'Spanish Gold.' " UNNATURAL [From the Christian Register.] "Mark Twain was visiting H. H. Rogers,' said a New York editor. "Mr. Rogers led the humorist Into hit li brary. " 'There,' he said, as he pointed to a bust of white marble. 'What do you think of that?" It was a bust of a young woman colling her hair—a graceful example of Italian sculpture. Sir. Clemens looked, and then sala: " 'lt Isn't true to nature.' " 'Why notr Mr. Rogers asked. " 'She ought to have her mouth full of hairpins, said the humorist." A DRAWBACK "Jiggers boasts that he can marry any woman he pleases." ; "Perhaps he can, but he pleases so [few." It's much better for a big girl of 12 or IS to pe employed than standing around on the corners flirting. It can't be with my girls every moment and here's an empty house next door. There are bad boya about, too. So I went to Mr. Dunlavy the other day and told him something had to be done." •Mrs. Dill practices the profession of motherhood quite all the time. Even while she cleaned out cars for the Pullman company—for many years In Denver and more recently In Kansas City—she found time to teach her daughters the useful arts. There were days when she worked at her car cleaning from 7 in the morning until 10 at ntght, "but work never hurt me," as she put it, and the daughters were thus enabled to remain at home until their school days were over. Her Girls Cook and Mend "Not one of them hut can make light bread and cook all the plain things." said their mother. "'They darn and patch too, and they never are sick. Not one of the children ever is sick. Even when they had the measles, they weren't sick. Stayed around the house a little more than usual; that was all. "One thing, they always nave good food. There is no saving in buying poor stuff. We never waste anything, and that helps to make the food go further." The Dills are not rich in money. But there is an atmosphere of plenty rather than poverty In their home. She Could Teach Mothers . The mother, born in lowa of Ger-1 man parentage, has managed to ] achieve success In her chosen profes j sion—at least, nothing has yet occur red to make her feel that she has mothered too many. Although she has none of the high er education and does not put her | philosophy into exact words, she Is i plainly convinced that a family is like i an army—stronger when it is larger. Should some philanthropist endow a school for mothers he mignt do worse than give Mrs. Dill the chair of ele mentary motherhood. Elemental she is, not troubling overmuch about the halftones of life, but alert and entirely sophisticated in all thnt concerns her children. She is not more concerned about the welfare of the rwtn girls of 16, who are working at tne packing house, than she is about .tne twin girls of 11. The latter are something of a problem because one of them learns at a headlong pace and is held back for a spur to the other, who is a dreamier type. Snnday School and Movies She is demonstrating successfully her simple theories as she goes along, proving that Sunday school is a better influence than the nickel shows and that work is better than idleness, health more to be desired than sick ness, and goodness and purity better than badness and fllth. A very practical idealist is Mrs. Dill and somehow, though her feet were bare ("Just while i-m resting") and there are no luxuries about, you feel that the two little girls at the De tention Home will be mighty lucky If they get her for a mother. IN HARRJSBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY " [From the Telegraph, August 2, 1865.] Return Death Warrant The death warrant for William Hop kins, convicted of murdering a marine on board a United States steamer, was returned to Governor Curtin to-day at his request. Hopkins is under sentence to be hanged on the 11th. Senator Cowan to Speak The annual address before the Penn sylvania State Agricultural Society will i be delivered September 29 by United States Senator Edgar Cowan. Teachers at Convention Several teachers of this city are in Meadville attending the sessions of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Asso ciation being held there. CHANCE FOR THE SECRET SERVICE [Columbia (S. C.) State ] We think the height of absurdity has been struck in the war when Great Britain undertakes alTlcially to complain to the United States of the machinations here of German "spies." Of course, we have spies. A con glomerate country of such magnitude ! as this one could not hope in such clr- I oumstances to be without them. But | they make up an infinitesimal part of 1 the population and they have precious I little to spy out. Busy spies on this side are doing what they call in the gym nasiums a "stationary run." They are getting plenty of exercise, but making mighty little progress. As far as it goes, we do not think the protest practically cornea amiss, if it is acted on it will give our Secret Service something to do. Instead of following up Comstocklan leads and trying to "get something" on vocifer ous people like Tom Watson. Instead of running around in circles and search i ing the beds for bombs whenever the President accepts an invitation to dine or stay overnight, it may go spy hunt ing. THE TROUBLE ABOUT TROUBLE Trouble comes,, to some people be cause lt'a too much trouble for them to avoid it. Wellsboro Republlcan , .Advocates. , Ebenmg CCtyat The fact that the aggregate of ths balances in the State Treasury went below the four and a half million dol lar mark at the end of July has at tracted much attention from all pari* of the State as it is the first time l» over twenty years, according to men who have followed State finances, that such a condition has occurred. It is in striking contrast to the state of the Treasury fourteen or fifteen ago. in those days there was gen erally a balance of from $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 and once when K. H% Hardenbergh was auditor general big collections caused the total to go up to $16,000,000. This was the high water mark and Included tne sinking fund, which however, was not over $3,000,000. Ten years ago the State had considerably over $10,000,000 In its balances, but the furnishing of the Capitol put ai crimp In the cash and since that time there has been a gradual decline. The rapid decrease, however, has been in the last few years and is due to the larger appro priations. One of the Interesting things about the State's finances Is that while the demands on the in active depositories, which carry cer tain State deposits to be withdrawn only on notice, have been heavier than ever known and over forty were call ed upon to turn over their deposits to the State in July, there are still many applications to be put on the list. The state depositories have not had a very good thing in the last few years. The amount of money in the inactive list has not been great and has been spread pretty thin and the calls have been frequent as much a* •half a million dollars being taken out in a week. The institutions are re quired to furnish corporate security for the deposits, which is pretty vigorously kept up, and some of them have been paying for these bonds for months when they have not had a cent of State money on deposit. Prob ably when the State corporation taxes | commence to roll in sixty or ninety ] days hence there will t>e more money . put out on deposit and the long suf fering banks will share. But, there are some people about the Capitol who predict that the State will not have for many years balances like It used to carry a decade ago. "There have been more of the so called 'summer colds' this year than I have known for a long time," said one of the city's physicians yesterday. "This is due to the fact that we had cool, and even cold weather, during the period when it is generally hot. People did not prepare for cool weather and exposed themselves. Now when things have become hot they have felt the heat very much and •» have gone to extremes, in some cases, to keep cool. The consequence Is that they take cold and not precautions." Just where some of the raw foreign labor that is once more commencing to appear about the railroad stations come from is a puzzle to a good many people. Transatlantic travel is more or less hazardous these days and im migration is shown to be at. a low ebb, but there have been men and women, rather more men than women, seen about the stations who are manifest ly foreigners. They have all the ear marks of the newly landed, including the always interesting peasant garb, and are heading for the manufactur ing and mining districts. Some of them are from the Balkans and soma from Russia, but how they gel here Is more or less unexplained. Yesterday morning's suddejttKhower caught a good many automolnsts and motorcyclists and along tfle roads there was a skurrying for shelter. Tlf»\ automohlle parties defied the generally believed dangers from lightning liv heading for trees in order to put up tops, while the motorcyclists speeded for harns and asked permission to stay In the dry. Automobile trips are fur nishing plenty of entertainment in these days of almost daily thunder storms. That the period for camping had come was manifested on Saturday by the number of fishing' and other parties leaving the city. Quite a num ber started by train for spots along the creeks, but automobiles were used by a good many more. The Juniata seems to be the popular place. Postmaster Frank C. Sites, who has found it necessary to issue notices to boxholders to take their keys out of the boxes in the post office, says that often bunches of keys, giving access to dear knows what, have been turned In at the office. Often the clerks get half a dozen bunches of keys and In a short time frantic telephone calls to know about them. Mr. Sites' notice calls attention to the fact that people often become interested in their let ters and go away without thinking about the box. * » • The Harrisburg Country Club golf ers kept up their reputation for extra hole matches. The goirers of the club have had such matches In t{ieir con tests with other country club teams this year aifd some of them have been of the most exciting nature. • • • Sunday swimming with a thunder storm in the offing prevailed yester day along the River Front. Hundreds of people appeared on the islands and along the shores for dips notwith standing lowering clouds. The Susque hanna was one of the most popular places yesterday. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. B. Morris, the Philadelphia banker, is back at work after eome time spent in Rhode Island. —John M. Jamison, of Greensburg, former senator, is home after a trip to place coal contracts in Europe. —W. T. English. Pittsburgh council man. Is making an effort to have city officials and financiers get together on discussion of bond issues. —Col. H. C. Trexler, of Allentown, says he is too busy to go away for a vacation. —Jonathan Mould, of Reading, Is head of the Berks Conservation asso ciation which Is booming Pennsylvania first. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has great motor trips right close at hand? NO NEED FOR 'EM The lumberman was asked If he*} wanted to buy a couple of nlghtshlrtsji according to the San Francisco Star. "Nope," said he. "I reckon not; I don't set arcund much o' nlghtl." THE WELIjSBORO PHILOSOPHER All things come to those who wait, provided they wait on themselves. Money may be the root of all evil, but it doesn't always grow. —Wellsboro Republican-Advocate. SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August lit to September 20th. Five crnts a pint for all fllea, and many prtaes In gold.
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