Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, August 09, 1915, Page 6, Image 6

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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Established l&ll
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THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.
E. J. STACK POLE
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F. R. OYSTER
Secretary
GUS M. STEINMETZ
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burg, Pa., as second class matter.
Sworn dally average circulation for the
three months ending July 31, 1015
★ 21,084
Average for the year 1014—21.W8
Average for the year 1013—10.063
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The above flfrurra are net. All re-,
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ducted.
MONDAY EVENING, AVGUST 0
J think we all know well ichat courage
is:
Xot thews, not blood, not bulk,, riot
bravery
Its highest title, patience.
—John Davidson.
THE FUTILITY OF IT
are spasmodic indications
i of life in the Progressive party.
Now it is Colonel Roosevelt sug
gesting Hiram Johnson for President.
Again it is Hiram himself dwelling
upon the "necessity of keeping the
machinery of the Progressive party
Intact." Heaven only knows what
would be left of the Progressive party
if its "machinery" were permitted to
get entirely out of running order.
Tbat's about all there is left of it, save
in a few isolated communities where
local conditions have given it a longer
lease of life.
To talk of a Progressive movement,
for 1916 strong enough to count for
anything save a reduction of the Re
publican majority is nonsensical.
There is neither rhyme nor reason to
such talk. The Republican party holds
the key to the situation, an,d it is not
likely to make any move that will take
from it the advantage it now has.
Leaders who disregard the trend of
the times will not be tolerated. Men
who are trusted by the rank and file
and who will merely carry out tha
wishes of ithe majority will be at the
helm of the next Republican* conven
tion. There will be absolutely no
chance for such objections as Colonel
Roosevelt raised in 1912, when he re
belled against conditions that he would
have been happy enough to accept, as
he had before, had he been in the
saddle. The next Republican nominefe
is unquestionably going to be the choice
of the rank and file. And being such,
he is going to be elected despite any
Progressive or other opposition that
may be developed, for the people are
unquestionably of thfe opinion that
prosperity for the country lies only
with the restoration of the Republican
party to p<wer in the White House,
the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
How futile is the Progressive hope.
If in the heydey of his popularity,
with the voters wrought up as never
before. Colonel Roosevelt was unable
to do more than defeat his old party
and plunge the country into a quag
mire of debt and depression, how do
the Progressives expect to cut any
figure in 1916, with the nation alive
to the mistake it made and bent upon
restoring to power the party that has
always led it in the ways of pros
perity and with the people convinced
beyond doubt that they owe their pres
ent deplorable conditions to the elec
tion of a minority President and Con
gress in 1912 ?
WOMAN AND HER FUTURE
OUR compliments to Dr. A. J. Read, 1
whose address before the Inter
national Conference on race
betterment at the Panama-Pacific Ex
position last week made that gather
ing famous. He was down on the
program as a professor of hygiene.
For all we know he may be a dis
tinguished authority upon that very
interesting and highly important sub
ject, but there is not the slightest
doubt in our mind that he is past
master in the gentle art of "putting
one over" on the alert gentlemen who
preside at news desks in American
newspaper offices. A hurried glance
through the exchanges connrms the
suspicion that the best of them "fell
for" Doc Read. He got top positions
under big heads on the best news
pages of papers that would feel they
were conferring a favor on a regular
advertiser if they let him occupy an
obscure* corner at the trifling charge
of six dollars a line.
Doc Read's method is as simple as It
was effective. He talked about that
universally. and eternally interesting
subject, woman, and indulged in a bit
of prophecy. He said that the ideal
woman of the eugenic age will be
plump, well rounded, but not fat. Just
so. If the statuary that has been dug
up from time to time is any criterion
that is a fairly accurate description
of the ideal when Greece was in its
glory. Travelers tell us thai the pres
ent day ideal in Persia is a bit better
than plump; downright fat, not to put
MONDAY EVENING,
I j too fine a point on it. Down Boston
1 way they like 'em slender and with
sold and intellectual mien. Cute ones,
I a trifle under size, continue to win the
■ beauty contests in the southland, while
Amazonian girls s«sm to make the
strongest appeal In the free and un
trammeled west. But In art circles
and In the suit and cloak trade, the
same girl Praxiteles immortalized
continues to hold the palm.
As for the future —well If the kind
Doc Read describes haa managed to
please from 'way back before old
Herodotus discussed the prevailing
I styles in girls down to the present it
Is a pretty safe guess that it will be
. the artistic ideal of the eugenic future.
, Likewise the ideal probably will run
[ about as strong to the hundred as it
■ now does. So cheer up. An Ideal is
a state of mind, and nature, which has
never failed yet, will continue to Bup-
J ply enough of all kinds to satisfy all
tastes—even in the eugenic age.
VANDALS
Ft the first half of the fifth century
there descended upon the more
1 highly civilized races of Southern
Europe the Vandals of lower and
• middle Germany, a rude, ferocious,
barbaric, destructive people who
! ravaged Gaul, Spain. Northern Africa
and finally Rome Itself. With con
tempt for art and with no eye for
beauty they smashed and. hacked their
way through the beautiful cities, the
gardens, tlae palaces, the libraries and
the galleries of their industrious and
cultured neighbors. Millions of dol
lars' worth of costly buildings, noble
works of the sculptor's hand, the
masterpieces of some of the world's
greatest painters and literary gems
without numbet went down beneath
the ax and the flames that followed.
We look with horror on such whole
sale destruction and with loathing
upon the people that perpetrated the
outrage.
But we have Vandals to-day. Har
risburg has labored for years, as a
city, to make its parks beautiful for
its people, the State has given us a
wonderful capitol and private citizens
,are doing their part to make the city
a desirable place in which to live.
Yet everywhere we find the destruc
tive work of the Vandal. Flowers are
ripped up by the roots In the parks.
Playground paraphernalia is stolen or
broken. Every public building in
town bears the marks of marring
hands. The river steps are broken by
men and boys who throw heavy stones
on them.
It is about time for Colonel Hutch
ison to add a clause against vandal,
ism to the admirable rules he has laid
down for his police officers. ,lail is
the place for the Vandals, where they
can exercise their destructive tend
encies practicing upon the iron bars
of a cell.
THE COLUMBIA'S END
ri what base uses we may return!
Why may not imagination trace
the noble dust of Alexander till
he find it stopping a bungholfi?"
Thus Shakespeare marvels at the
transmutation of the atoms, that to
day constitute the earthly vesture of
an immortal soul and to-morrow are
as the. dust in the street. "Imperial
Caesar dead and turned to clay may
stop a crack to keep the wind away."
So it is with things inanimate as
I well. The English monument at
Waterloo has been melted into Ger
man bullets, the forty-ton metal statue
of Bismarck has been carted oft bodily
from German soli to Moscow as food
for Russian cannon, and now our
own international champion, the Co
lumbia, the yacht that twice defeated
the fastest craft of her kind in the
world. Is to be broken up to serve as
charges for the allies' guns. The old
yacht long since has been junk, but
even when they relegated her glorious
hulk to the scrap heap it is scarcely
likely that her owners could have
imagined its ultimate fate. Nor Is it
likely that Sir Thomas Lipton dreamed,
when from the deck of the defeated
Shamrock he saw the Columbia hifll
down in the distance cross the line a
winner, that one day her hulk would
he hurled piecemeal at a foe des
perately assailing his Island home.
XO MOKE RED LIGHTS
COLONEL. HUTCHISON is to be
commended for the energetic
campaign he has waged to put
the disorderly house out of business in
Harrisburg.
It was to be no more than expected
that the people who depend upon com
mercialized vice and its associated evils
for a livelihood should look for some
leniency in the period immediately
preceding and during a municipal
campaign such as that on which thi
city is about to enter. But they cal
culated without taking the temper of
Colonel Hutchison into consideration.
His announced intention to raid every
place of the kind against which he can
collect sufficient evidence will receive
popular approval.
Harrisburg has enjoyed a period of
freedom from the open operation of
these vile resorts and the people are
ready to hold up the hands of a chief
of police courageous enough to live up
to the law providing for prosecutions
in such cases.
EXPOSITION* ATTENDANCE
THE Panama-Pacific Exposition
—with the exception of some of
the inside amusement attractions,
doomed from the first to failure
appears to be paying its way. This
in a dull year, with the dismal ex
periences of Charleston and the
none-too glowing financial results of
the Chicago, Buffalo and St. Louie
expositions, is regarded as remark
able by some observers. Pacific en
terprise and "get there" are given the
credit by many who comment on the
success of the San Francisco fair, and
they deserve their share. But the
European war—which once threatened
to ruin the exposition—has been its
greatest benefactor from an attend
ance standpoint this summer.
The New York World estimates
Europe's monetary loss as a result
of no American travel on the conti
nent this year at not less than $25,-
000,000. The steamship companies
alone, it is asserted, lost more than
$1,000,000 in fares from this source.
It is evident that thousands of those
accustomed to spending their sum
mers in Europe went Instead to the
coast and that, while the exposition
missed the attendance of many Eu
ropeans, the balance is far more than
made up by American visitors wjio,
but for the war, would have been
in Europe.
Lk
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By the Ex-Oommltteeman
One of the interesting matters In
connection with the disintegration of
the Bull Moose organization in Penn
sylvania is the way men who enrolled
as Washington party men are asking
whether their party will have tickets
in cities and counties. In most of the
counties the enrollment of Washing
tonians is only a shadow of former
strength and in several counties the
committees have taken no interest and
erstwhile rampant Bull Moosers are
taking more or less hand in Republi
can primary contests. Just what will
become of the men who enrolled as
Washingtonians if there are no pri
mary tickets to speak of is one of the
warm weather questions.
Another funny thing connected with
the Washington party is that the
Democrat* seem to have utterly failed
to gobble up the former Republicans.
Early this year the Democratic lead
ers in this State stopped fighting over
patronage long enough to pass out In
terviews that their party stood for
everything that Roosevelt wanted, al
though he has said it did not, and in
vited the Washingtonians to enter
their corral. In hardly a district in
any county in this part of the State
have the Democrats gained any Bull
, Moosers.
—Announcement that Governor
Brumbaugh is to make an address to
the Republicans of the Second Maine
district on Thursday is believed to
mean in this city that he will not re
turn to Harrisburg before he goes to
the Panama-Pacific Exposition on Au
gust 24. Official papers are being sent
to him at his summer home in Wayne,
Me., and are coming back regularly,
so that it looks as though he will not
come back for the encampment of the
Second brigade at Indiana this week.
—Spencer F. Barber, steward at the
almshouse the last year, has decided
to run for Director of the Poor. This
is taken to mean that the Dauphin
county Democratic bosses have de
cided to drop Charley Boyer.
—The Eleventh ward Republican
committeemen and workers will meet
to-night at the office of Dr. R. L. Per
kins,-2001 North Second street, to dis
cuss candidates for ward and precinct
nominations and to get the campaign
work lined up.
—A new development in the inter
esting Philadelphia mayoralty situa
tion is that several of the men who
were suggested for the nominations
have refused point blank to run. Re
ceiver of Taxes Kendrick declined to
run and came out for Congressman
Vare. Public Service Commissioner
John Monaghan has been brought to
the front considerably in the last few
weeks. Congressman Vare is expected
to make some sort of an announce
ment after a demonstration In his
favor by South Philadelphians. The
name of Judge Barrett Is again to the
fore.
—Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart is
among the men suggested by the
Committee of Philadelphia business
men who have come out with a list of
available candidates for mayor. Oth
ers are Col. Sheldon Potter, ex-Minis
ter William Potter, L. J. Kolb, George
Wharton Pepper. Dimner Beeber,
John T. Windrim. Rodman Wanamak
er and others.
—Director Porter, a Philadelphia
candidate for mayor, has been given
the job of regulating jitneys.
—Announcement that District At
torney W. W. Rice, of Perry, will be
a candidate for re-election will prob
ably lead to a battle between Rice and
his old opponent, J. M. McKee.
—Ex-Congressman R. E. Diefender
fer came back to life long enough the
other day to make a protest against
closing a Montgomery post office. One
by one the reorganization accidents
fade.
—George Sullivan, who was promi
nent here in the canvass for eleotion
of Speaker Ambler, is a candidate for
county commissioner of Montgomery.
He has been president of the Lower
Merlon commissioners for some time
and is one of the representative men
of that portion of the county.
—Congressman M. M. Garland Is be
ing boomed for the Republican nomin
ation for vice-president by Pittsburgh
labor men.
—Daniel G. Brose.presldent of North
Side Chamber of Commerce of Pitts
burgh, is a candidate for council in
that city.
—Mayor Caufflel, of Johnstown, is
having- troubles of his own with coun
cil again.
Samuel Gompers has declined to
come out for Vare for mayor of Phila
delphia.
—E. J. Mullln of Laporte, and John
G. Scouton, of Dushore, are candidates
for Judge In the Wyoming-Sullivan
district against Judge C. E. Terry ant!
it is going to be a live contest.
William H. Hughes, Scranton print
er, is already out for the legislative
nomination in the first district next
year.
TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE
—The current issue of The Father
land is typical. It starts off with a
criticism of American policies and
winds up with a picture designed to
make one believe that George Wash
ington signed the Declaration of Inde
pendence with one hand while he drain
ed a bottle of St. Louis beer with the
other.
—First thing we know Austria and
Germany will be at loggerheads over
the possession of Poland.
—English statesmen should read a
little history before contesting the
freedom of the seas with the United
States.
—"A wife with $30,000,000." sayß an
up-State exchange, commenting on the
recent marriage of a poor man to the
richest girl in the country, "would tend
to make a husband cowardly In her
presence." The writer evidently meant
more cowardly.
—Down Philadelphia way men are
"prominently mentioned for mayor"
only between rumors, as It were.
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The Modern Sport of Archery
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE thirty-seventh annual meet of
the National Archery Association
of the United States in Chicago
this month brings to the fore again this
sport, one ot the oldest activities of
man thus surviving as a popular amuse
ment.
"So long as the new moon returns In
heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long
will the fascination of archery keep
hold of the hearts of men," writes one
of its modern devotees who has had
much to do with the revival of the sport
In this country. There is held to be a
deep-seated fascination about winging
an arrow to its mark. For one thing,
archery had its beginnings In the long
ago primitive, and the man who loves
the pull and twang of a good bow is
but harking back to the days when the
race was young.
As a modern sport archery has many
advantages. Men and women may prac
tice it together. It develops supple
ness and grace of body and skill of
hand and eye. It is peculiarly associ
ated with the open and the sunshine.
It requires a knowledge of wind, an
appreciation of distance, to attain the
highest skill.
Despite all its advantages, archery re
mains a sport almost unknown to the
great majority, though zealously pur
sued by its few devotees. It is safe to
say that few persons outside of the
circle of its membership know anything
about the Archery Association of the
United States, while the information
I that many of these still hunt wild game
with the long-bow. like Robinhood of
old, is not widely known.
Archery by Auto
A unique combination of the oldest
sport In the world and one of the
youngest, is that followed by the mem
bers of the Sunflower Archery Club, of
Atchison, Kan., members of which go
hunting with their bows and arrows in
modern, high-powered touring cars.
They spin along the country roads until
some squirrel in the top of a tall tree,
some rabbit pausing in the middle of
the road, or a dove on a dead limb,
offers a tempting mark. <-Then one of
the archers dismounts and tries a shot.
The proportion of misses among the
veteran archers Is by no means Targe.
There are a number of cases on record
of rabbits killed on the run, and even
of birds on the wing, brought down by
these,expert bowmen.
The modern yew bow is not a weapon
to. be despised in the hands of a man
who knows how to use it. It Is the re
sult of a steady Improvement through
the ages, is vastly better than any In
dian weapon, and is even superior to the
famous English long-bow of the fif
teenth century. It has a pull of from
forty-three to fifty-five pound«, and it
takes a strong man to do good work
with it. The arrow is long and polish
ed, terminating in a knob or a steel
point, according to the use it is Intend
ed for. The pointed arrow drawn well
to the head will penetrate an Inch of
seasoned pine and will drive the full
length of Its twenty-elght-lnch shaft
through the body of an animal. In hunt
ing the arrows are carried in a leather
quiver at the belt, and the tips of them
are painted red so that they may be
more easily found, tor the huntsman
must recover his shaft. Marking them
down after a shot requires almost as
much skill as the shooting. Compared
to hunting with a shotgun, where even
a beginner may make a fair percent
age of hits, shooting game with a long
bow Is sportsmanship of the highest
order, for it gives the quarry rather
more than a fair chance.
Good Form Bard to Attain
That archery is not more generally
practiced in this country is probably
due to the fact that an instructor and
an organization are almost essential.
One cannot shoot alone with anv great
pleasure, and it Is hard to learn to shoot
without guidance. For good form in
archfcry is as hard to attain as in other
athletic sports. The archer must stand
with his heels about six inches apart,
his left side toward the target, and the
bow extended perpendicularly in the
left hand. The arrow must be drawn
to a certain point Just below the ear,
the arrow steadied In the crook of the
left forefinger. All these details of
holding and 'pulling the bow must be
perfectly mastered before one can be
gin to attain much sßill.
Then, too, the expense of modern
archery Is considerable. A good yew
bow costs about $25, and arrows are
$lO a dojen. The target is a straw af
fair, painted In spots and circles, and
representing a respectable additional
Investment.
There was something of a revival of
Interest in archery In thjs country a
t f«w years ago. ' At that time the (port
was strongly recommended to women
by experts in physical culture as one of
tne very best means of Improving the
fl f u r e - and there Is no doubt
& 18 an exc ellent exercise
Am«S?»« p, it pOBe L blnce ,he lays of the
?' i£ ere have been many skilled
archers, and there are a number
e'/he sex making high scores in thi
rl I ciler y Association to-day.
let o« e i Thompson Seton, the natural
ist and originator of the Boy Scouts
trt°o£^ tls L pr 2 moted 'merest in arch-
? e boys by devising a game
in which a target was painted upon a
te y^e . r ". . 8 was hld< len In the
woods, hunted for and shot by the toy
archers. Although the sport has been
greatly stimulated in these and other
seems still to remain a diver
sion of the few.
Where Archery Told
The first weapon of primitive man in
i almost every part ot the world, the
bow reached the zenith of its greatest
| use during the fourteenth century when
Kotunhood and his bowmen ruled in
Sherwood forest. It was the English
long-bowmen who won for their coun
try the decisive battles ot Crecy and
Polctires against the French. The ar
mored French knights hurled them
selves in vain against the long lines of
English bowmen, who shot their ar
rows into the air so that thev rainea
down upon the helmets of the horse
men, often entering the eye-holes. This
was one of the first demonstrations of
the superiority of infantry over cav
alry. During the fifteenth century the
long-bow seems to have been the de
cisive factor in many battles. Then
began a decline of its dominance,
hastened by the introduction of gun
powder. °
So deep a hold had archery in the
national life and story of Britain, how
ever, that the Government sought in
every way to encourage its practice.
Archery associations were formed and
meets were held. These were affairs of
freat splendor and social importance,
"hen canopies were erected on the
fields, and the archers strolled about in
elaborate and brightly-colored cos
tumes. The shooting, however, became
subordinated to the social phase of the
amusement, with the result that it rap
idly declined.
Later a revival took place, and the
sport was much more scientifically prac
ticed, jnd has enjoyed an uninterrupted
popularity in England to this day. It
came to the United States about
1828, when an archery club was formed
in Philadelphia, and remained active
for many years. Meantime, a number
of email clubs had grown up in various
parts of the United States, but especi
ally in the West and Middle West: In
18.9, these were gathered together un
der the name of the National Archery
Association of the United States, which
has ably supported and systematized
the sport ever since.
The meet last year was held at
Haverford, Pa., and that the year be
fore In Boston. Chicago, however, has
always been the center of American
archery Interests, and the return of tho
annual meet to that city will doubtless
Insure an unusual success.
WHO STARTED THE WAR?
Now that the Kaiser says that his
conscience is clear and that he did
not will the war. it is In order to
wonder who the guilty party was.
Certainly Great Britain, still unpre
pared after a year's hostilities, can
hardly be accused, and France and
Russia, who are not much better off,
can make the same plea. Probably
Servla started it In order to conquer
Austria-Hungary and get a place in
the sun and a window on the Adri
atic. After the Kaiser's lucid state
ment no one, of course, would ever
think of accusing Germany.-*—Phila.
Record.
POPULAR EXGLISH DIVERSION
Again says a London newspaper,
"England faces the supreme test."
Isn't it about time she tackled it?-
Worcester Evening Post.
SHOCKING, IF TRUE
Boston boasts a baseball enthusiast
who every time he gets excited at a
game gives oft electric shocks. A reg
ular electric fan. —Hagerstown Daily
Mail.
'AUGUST 9, 1915.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT -
If thing; continue this way along- the
Eastern front the Czar will soon nave
to call out the 1915 reserves of grand
dukes.—Grand Rapids Press.
In the drowning of 10.000 Chinese by
those Kwang-tung ' floods Japan de
plores the loss of 10,000 valued compul
sory customers.—Cleveland Leader.
Edison, in a recent interview, says
!he owes all to his wife. Imagine a
mail's wife inspiring him to invent a
talking-machine.—New York Morning
Telegraph.
It's about time for Germany to re
taliate for England's reprisal Jor Ger
man's revenge for England's reply to
Germany's air raid.—Philadelphia
North American.
WAR AND WHY
The First Wars were fought for
Fcod.
Thu Second Wars were fought for
Revenge.
The Third Wars were fought for
Women. , .
The Fourth Wars were fought for
Religion.
The Fifth Wars .were fought for
Conquest.
The Sixth Wars -were fought for
Aggrandizement.
The Seventh Wars were fought for
Liberty. . »
The Eighth Wars were fought for
all or mosts of these things save the
last.
—Johnstown Dally Leader.
i 1 Our Daily Laugh
.t[/* BOBBIE KNEW.
Mk, Teacher said ]
"®(—1 *' I'i must bring an ex
j cuse from you
when I'm late.
And what did
.y you Bay 7
SXf Lk I told her your
■ St excuses for beln*
ii ~ late -were no good.
SOME WIFE. I] a. >
Hubby: Smith )|
struck his wife finj]|
last night. wA f\_ y!
Wlfey : Did \yJ
they take the bul- «r»*
ly to jail? nCOOHw!wti
Hubby: No —to MM
IN 1030
Br wing Dinger ,
There's a chap, my son. worth millions;
I remember well the day
When he had to work like blazes
For a trilling bit of pay.
No one ever gave him credit
For possessing any brain;
No place in the hall of fortune
Did they think he would attain,
But he set his noodle working-
Back In nineteen fifteen, lad-
One tin roof, two wagon axles
And four wheels was all he had.
From the tin he made a body.
Nailed it to the axles, son.
Mortgaged all to get an engine
Just to make the blamed thing run.
Every evening in his back yard
At the thing he'd work and fuss,
Finally he got It running,
And called It a "Jitney Bus."
Night and day folks kept him busy.
And though trifling was the fare,
Jit by jit he saved his jitneys—
i Now he is a millionaire.
JjjEtetmtg GUjat
"Ham H. Horner, the Republican
county chairman, who gets over the
county a good bit in a quiet way, be
lieves that there will be considerable
interest taken in national matters in
" ./ a i 6 , canj Paign although the
presidential election does not come
until next year. People in Dauphin
county are pretty well booked on na
tional affairs he finds as he goes
among them and the chances are that
the presidential campaign of 1816 will
begin with the year. International prob.
Jlf 18 .'. Moxlco ' tariff matters and other
big questions are themes for discus
sion almost everywhere and this means
v.!) Interest taken in the county
and municipal election which is set tor
this year. The chances are, according
to some men who observe political
trends, that there will be a bigger vote
polled this year in the county than
since 1912, Interest in local contests
ajnd jn the coming presidential elec
tion being mentioned as causes. The
enrollment is not taken as meaning
very much as it occurred this year at
a. time when people in industrial lines
were busy and those in rural districts
were working about the farms. It will
be recalled that In 1914 there were
many people who failed to enroll in
Dauphin county and yet the vote out
side of the city at the November elec
tion was of the variety to confound
the prophets. The city registration
this year is to be a real sizable one
according to City Chairman H. F.
Oves, who has been preparing along
with the other men active in political
affairs to get a large percentage of the
voters listed.
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Young folks who started out yester
day morning for the mountains or the
woods got a Sunday ducking for which
they had not bargained when th«y
started early in the day. Tttfe storm
came up rather unexpectedly and peo
ple who had counted on spending the
day under shade of trees out in the
country or in woods discovered that
there are few more uncomfortable
places than a grove of ti%es with a
well developed thunder storm rattling
about the neighborhood. A good many
bedraggled parties came into the city
in the afternoon.
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After a lapse of months applica
tions are again being made for in-.
corporation of electric companies.
When the Public Service Commission
meets to-morrow it will have eighteen
applications for incorporation sched
uled for action. This reminds one of
the days some two years ago when a
couple dozen electric companies used
to be incorporated in a day and Gov
ernor John K. Tener, who used to sign
all such papers, got tired of amxlng
his name and sent word to another
department that as long as the enter
prises were legal and entitled to
charter papers he wished they would
take counties at a shot instead of
townships piecemeal.
Eugene Guy Miller, who is the new
manager of the Hotel Walton in
Philadelphia, which is owned by the
Goelets, is well-known to many Har
risburgers. Mr. Miller was head of this
St. J«mes for a time, we is a grand
son of John Guy, who for years con
ducted Guy's Hotel, one of the old
timers of Philadelphia, and his father
was also in the hotel business.
The martens which live up around
the Board of Trade building have be
come disgusted with the weather and
are showing it by perching on tele
graph wires in the evenings and chirp
ing their opinion of the meteorological
conditions. The other night about
twenty perched on wires crossing Mar
ket street near the Senate and ar.
ranging themselves in tiers attracted
much attention by the display and tha
racket.
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Another place which Is a great
favorite of the birds is the home of
Edwin C. Thompson, president of the
Citizens Bank, St. Thirteenth and
Derry streets. This house, which is
one of the landmarks of the Hill dis
trict, is surrounded by a garden most
attractively kept and the wall of the
business building which towers above
It on the east is covered with vines.
The birds froltc and forage In the gar
den and then go to the vines for
homes, chatterlhg about it all day
long.
• • •
W. C. Fownes. Sr., of Pittsburgh,
who has been visiting here, has played
on most of the golf courses In the
State. Mr. Fownes, although a keen
businessman and interested in many
lines in his home county, is very fond
of golf and has traveled about the
State trying the various courses on
which, by the way. he generally man
ages to make an excellent score.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Or. Robert Russell, president of
Westminster College, is one of the
speakers at conferences -this summer
throughout the State.
—Ralph Peters, president of the
Long Island Railroad, is in Califor
nia.
—Daniel Printz, Reading manufac
turer, is enjoying his annual outing at
the seashore.
I —Frank Koester. landscape archi
tect, has been engaged by the Allen
town City Planning Commission.
—Edward Rowland. Philadelphia
manufacturer, is in Maine.
—John C. Groome, head of the State
Police, has been drawn as a Philadel
phia grand juror.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg has had fewer
conventions titan usual this year?
DISCRETION' OF SPEECH
Discretion of speech Is more than
eloquence: and to speak agreeably to
him with whom we deal is more than
to speak In good words and good
order.—Francis Bacon.
LUCKY IT WASN'T T. R.
Those smart Vermont deer that
flushed a President should congratu
late themselves that it was Professor,
not Nlmrod.—Boston Transcript.
A Race of Athletei
Surely we are becoming an
athletic people. '
Look at the tennis courts, the
golf links, the ball grounds on
every Fide and consider how few "
there were ten years ago.
It is a healthy sign of the
times. It means greater things
ahead with stronger men and
women to do the world's work.
These sports have, of course,
developed specialized needs in
dress and equipment, but they
are needs easily supplied.
A glance through the adver
tising columns of the Telegraph
will nine times out of ten ans
wer the questions of the athletic
man or woman.
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SECOND FLY CONTEST
of the Civic Club for 1915.
August Ist to September afltb.
Five cents a pint for all files, and
many prises In cold.