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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10
He who sous courtesy reap t s friend
ship. and he who plants kindness
gathers love. —Basil.
FUSION
EVERT time a political party finds
itself in hopeless min.ority Its
bosses look about for some other
party or faction with which to "fuse."
That appears.to be the position in
which the Democrats of Dauphin
county find themselves at present.
Last Fall they were well supplied
with those munitions of war that are
Bupposed to make for victory. Like
wise they had the appeal of "home
pride" In support of a native of the
county as a candidate for the highest j
office of the State. But they could not
win. Indeed, they suffered tne worst
defeat in years.
So it is but natural that they look
to the coming elections with fear and
trembling. This year they have neither
money nor platform. The Republicans
who are candidates for re-election are
good men. There Is not a Republican
seriously in the running for any of
the nominations that is not of excellent
reputation, able and popular. Like
wise. the affairs of the Republican
party in Dauphin county have been
well administered, for the reason that
they are in the hands of the rank and
fie. and the party was never more
harmonious nor more assured of vic
tory at the polls in November than at
the present.
Thus It happens that we hear the
cry of fusion from the Democrats,
which is but an admission or hopeless
ness. Like drowning men some of the
"leaders" are clutching at the straw
of the poor old Washington Party, re
gardless of the fact that the recent
registration in the county districts
ehows there are some thousands more
Republicans than Democrats and
Washington Party voters put together.
DOWN, WITH THE GATES
MORE power to the citizens of
Columbia and vicinity In their
effort to free Lancaster county
roads from toll gates. The garden
county of the United States has the
reputation of having about as many,
If not more, toll gates as any other
county in this broad land. York
county comes next and it is to be
hoped that the movement to be
launched on August 19 in Columbia
will sweep across the Susquehanna
and arouse York people to the neces
sity of tearing down the gates.
The toll road is an anachronism.
If the roads were kept up it would
not be so bad to spare a few cents for
ten miles or so, but they have been
allowed to run down until the exac
tion of toll is now little more than
legalized robbery. In the vicinity of
Philadelphia, owners of toll roads are
offering to sell, frankly admitting that
they have gotten about all out of the
franchises that they can reasonably
expect.
Harrisburg's Motor Club, one of the
most enterprising in the State, is mov
ing to free the highway to Reading
from gates. Its members aided ma
terially in freeing the roads in this
county, and Dauphin, which has only
a. short strip of road left, will Join
hands with its sister counties to do
away with the gates.
Highway Commissioner Cunning
ham, who will attend the Columbia
meeting, will not only be able to as
eure the official co-operation of the
Commonwealth to the crusade against
the gates, but can speak with public
sentiment b'ehind him.
HOPING TOO MI'CH
[ A N advisory board of twelve, rep-
J\ resenting equally the Federal,
Stat© and municipal govern
ments of the country, to bring about
closer co-operation between the three
branches in dealing with problems of
employment and unemployment, was
named at the closing session of the
■United States Department of Labor
conference on employment in San
Francisco last week.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, chair
man of the conference, said that he
felt co-operation would do much to
alleviate, if not eradicate, the evils
from which the laborer suffers.
Alleviate, perhaps, but eradicate,
never. No public labor bureau ever
devised cu create positions for idle
TUESDAY EVENING, "
men In periods of industrial inactivity
unless by employing them temporarily
upon public work at public expense.
What the laboring man wants is work,
and he looks in vain for a Job when
the mills are idle and the railroads
running half-time. If Secretary Wil
son Is sincere in his efTorts to eradicate
idleness, let him support a national
policy not calculated to knock the
props from beneath American Indus
try. There is very little use for a
national labor bureau lri times when
factories are humming and the rail
roads glutted with freight.
CUT OUT THE CUT-OUT
THERE is a municipal regulation
in Harrlsburg against the use
of the cut-out on automobiles
ind motorcycles within the city 11m
ilts. But in so far as it makes for a
! quieter city it might just as well never
j have been written.
j On a lonely country road, especial
ly when scooting along through the
night, there is no sound pleasanter to
;the driver of a motor vehicle than the
; accompaniment of the cut-out to the
j throb of his engine. The cut-out has
its practical uses,-too, but not on the
paved streets of the city where run
ning is easy and the motor never la
boro. There it is a nuisance.
How long do the police Intend to
permit the practice to continue? How
Ions; is the night to be made hideous
by motorists who care for nothing but
their own pleasure? How long does
the motorcycle policeman intend to
along behind cars and cycles that
flaunt their reckless violations of the
law In his face? Does anybody re
member of an arrest for illegal use of
the cut-out in the city?
A few arrests and a little unpleas
ant publicity for the violators would
bring relief to residents and teach a
useful lesson to careless motorists.
"FRIENDS OF PEACE"
PEACE advocates from all parts of
America and its insular posses
sions will assemble in Chicago
September 5 and 6. to attend the* na
tional peace convention and raise their
voices against what their leaders be
lieve to be a plot to involve the
United States in the European con
flict. Just who the "plotters" are the
Friends of Peace do not say, but they
are positive that the "capitalist-con
trolled press of America" is helping to
spread the gospel of hate dnd to
hasten the nation over the brink of I
war.
Says one of the statements of the
society;
With sorrow we have noticed in a
certain class of newspapers In this
country a disposition to malign and
vilify every person whose voice is
raised in the cause of peace. With
such regularity and precision do
the vituperative attacks follow
every utterance or movement
against the efforts to involve this
country In the war that thev
strongly smack of a well organized
campaign of calumny and set de
termination to down all opposition I
to the cry for war.
The Friends of Peace must thrive,
in the publicity they receive, or per- j
ish for the lack of it. They have!
taken a strange way to win wh£t is!
to them the vital friendship of the
newspapers. But that aside, the Friends
of Peace grossly misstate the case
when they say that the bewspapers of
America are either controlled by big
capital or are urging the country into
the war. A glance through the files
for the past year of almost any rep
resentative newspaper will dispel
either accusation. If by repudiating i
Bryan and his ilk the newspapers
have offended the Friends of Peace,
then no apology Is due.
No newspaper in the country Is
arguing for a bigger army arid a
bigger navy In order that the United]
States may participate In the present;
war. By the time our program of
! preparedness is well under way the
European war will be at an end, In all
likelihood. The newspapers are look
ing to the future and the eyes of
millions of other suddenly awakened
Americans are cast in the same direc
tion. They believe that our people
must be guarded by the best possible
defense we can raise between our land
and burglars abroad. Not » news
paper in the whole country But would
suffer frightfully in case of war. For
their own selfish interests, if for no
other, the? too are friends of peace.
We very jnuch fear that unless the
delegates to gather at San Francisco
are more practical and opca-minfled
than their spokesmen have been very
little good will come ot me con
ference.
j. ______
NOT AX UNMIXED BI.ESSIXG
THE war orders over which many
of the large industries of the
country are so excited may not
be an unmixed blessing.
Some of the contracts are 'so big
that mush-r&om towns are springing
up around the plants that have them
and enormous sums are being ex
pended to Increase factory capacity.
Nobody knows how long the war will
last. Nobody knows whether there
will be other orders to follow those
now being turned out.
Consequently, managers of industries
who are building additions to their
plants to turn out the munition orders
they now have must be realizing
tremendous profits therefrom, sufficient
to cover their expenditures and still
leave dividends, or they are facing
a serious condition when the present
abnormal business with Europe sub
sides.
The factory that is equipped for the
manufacture of war materials only
and with largely increased Invest
ments on which to earn interest and
dividends at the close of the war may
find itself in serious straits.
The so-called "war stocks" at fancy
figures may be all right for the man
who is buying and selling stocks, but
they do not appear to a conservative
mind very desirable as a permanent
investment.
| TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE^
—The number of drowning accidents
this summer Indicates that It Is almost
a* hard to floaty alone aa It Is to float
a loan. •
—The funniest thing ahout the
Philadelphia Record's first page
humorous column is Its heading—"ln
and About the City."
—Joy riders shouldn't objeot to
newspaper criticisms of them, for they
themselves are always running down
somebody or other.
—For the encouragement of one
Grand Duke Nicholas we herewith note
the fact that Yorktown followed Innu
merable retreats and defeats, and that
It was the man who did the retreating
who dictated the terms of surrender.
—Colonel Hutchison shows a very
praiseworthy disposition to Illuminate
the red light situation.
—lt Is an undeniable fact that the
person responsible for recent weather
I forecasts doesn't care a hang about
fishing.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT [
Who Is expected to Inspect the steam
boat Inspectors?— New York Tribune.
A Bulgarian paraphrase—"Come over
with Macedonia and we'll help you."—
New York World.
We see by the papers that the Ger
mans have captured 7,690 more husky
appetites.—Columbia State.
The new note to Germany Is not a
"billet doux," but a "Billy, don't."
Charleston News and Courier.
Can't the Government do anything
to stop the sale of habit-forming ex
plosives?— Philadelphia Inquirer.
After Przemysl, Przasnysz. We hate
to think what the Germans will take
next.—Syracuse Post-Standard.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Aug. 10, 1865.]
Cotton Company Directors Meet
The directors and stockholders of
the Harrlsburg Cotton Company met
to-day in the Courthouse. A large
majority favored the sale of the entire
pLoperty to a Philadelphia firm for
SIOO,OOO.
Surgeons Appointed
The Commissioner of Pensions to
day appointed the examining surgeons
for this State.
Will Erect Depot
The City Passenger Railway Com
pany is Advertising for proposals for
the erection of a depot and stables.
"I AM POLAND!"
[From the Free Poland for August I.]
Behold me. O Mankind: Clothed In
robes of white and crimson, fetters
dragging at my withered limbs!
White, because 1 am innocent be
fore the God of P.eace and Justice of
the awful fate that has befallen me.
Crimson, because the wounds that
thrice have pierced my heart a cen
tury ago, now bleed afresh and life's
last drop of blood is slowly ebbing.
The fetters soon will fall, for there
Is navight to hold!
I spoke of God! Oh, dreadful
thought! I now begin to doubt that
God still Is, and all around me I be
hold portents that justify my fears.
Where'er I turn, contending armies
press upon me and in the front ranks
of each of them. oh, merciful
Heavens; I see my own. my children,
well beloved, my only hope and wish
for life impelled to slay each other
for a cause not theirs!
The aged, the mothers and the little
brood, that promise of the future, I'm
powerless to feed and shelter and pro
tect! I see them starve and die.
The very soil is battle scarred; deep
trenches cross It everywhere; dwellings
of God and men are desolate and mighty
forests barren stand, stripped by the
hand of war!
I love this land of plains, O Poland
of my heart! I love thee more, because
a hundred years thou has endured the
sorrows of Niobe thousandfold and
noble courage has sustained thee!
I've hoped for thee and prayed. Thy
children I have gathered to my heart
and breathed the spirit of a valiant
race into their souls!
But now I can no more! Behold me,
0 Mankind! I've sunk upon the blood
drenched ground and faith and hope
have almost lied within me.
Can it be writ upon the scroll of fate
that this nation should be wiped away
while Mankind was engulfed in war or
in pursuit of wealth and happiness?
O God of Justice and of Peace! The
talents Thou hast given me I freely
shared with others, while sorrow has
been mine alone!
The might which Thou vouchsafed
to me was never in oppression used.
When Crescent threatened to supplant
the Cross my sons were the defenders
of Thv faith!
O God of Justice and of Peace! What
recompense is mine! Hast Thou de
creed that I should die? Or shall I pass
through this travail to life anew?
Inspire Thou Mankind to help! Pre
serve me. Thou. O God of Justice and
of Peace! CASIMIR GONSKI.
Our Daily Laugh
B EDDIE'S PART.
Now, Edwin,
H I'" furnish thla
nlc* brick, an' all
you gotter do Is
/g£*, to swipe yer dad's
new silk hat to
& put over It.
TRUE.
Mrs. Divorce*
|h ' belongs to the
Lfk cream of society.
- -*,}» doesn't she?
5% Well, she's been
through the sep-
HAHD TO WORK
By Wing Dinger
Gee, It's hard to keep a-workln'
As. vacation time draws near—
As the chap who's dead In love, bo.
Makes a fellow act as queer. •
He just simply can't keep his mind
On his business, and you'd think
From the distant look In his eye
That he's meddled with strong drink.
1 know, 'cause the time Is comln'
For my summer holiday,
And I'm thinking of a spot In
Ole Virglnny, far away.
Where the birds fly by the hundreds
And make gunnln' mighty fine,
Where the fish bite in dead earnest
Like they'd take the hook and line.
Gee. It's hard to keep a-workln'
And awaltin' for the day
When on such a big vacation
One can make a getaway.
Klnda makes a fellow fearful
That the birds will all be shot
Ere he gets there, and that all flsh
la the will .have been caught.
HARRIBBURG gSfcßg TELEGRAPH
Rolette* Ck
""PoovQij&jcuua
By the Ex-Commltteeman
Considerable midsummer amusement
is being furnished by efforts of Bull
Moosers and Democrats who hope to
attract to their disorganized ranks
some of the wavering Washlngtonlana
to blame the small enrollment of
■Washington party men on the Repub
licans. In practically every county the
I Washington party enrollment has gone
so low that the Democratic newspapers
ht«ve ceased to claim that the partisans
of protest decided not to register but
to await thelr chance to land a smash
ing blow in November. In several coun
ties the Washington, enrollment was so
small that Bull Moosers decided not to
attempt to ndme tickets.
To-day the amusing claim is made
that the reason the Bull Moosers are
so few is that the assessors avoided
putting down party affiliations, but this
Is so absurd that only Democrats who
seek to frame up alliances wi>h the
remnants of the army of 1912 are
making It.
For several weeks past efforts have
been under way to form one of the
fevorite fusion bunds by the. Demo
cratic bosses, but the difficulty seems
to be that the rank and file of tho
Democrats object to giving the Wash
ington party men anything worth
while because they do not represent
any voting strength. Dauphin county
forms a conspicuous example.
—Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart and
other prominent men mentioned In the
list of "eligibles and availables" by
tho businessmen of Philadelphia, have
declined to permit the use of their
names as candidates, for mayor. Con
gressman W. S. Vare is believed to
hold the key to the situation. If he
decides to run, there will be opposition
to him and a bitter fight. The Inde
pendents are sitting back awaiting the
the Republican councils.
—New York people are predicting
that the next Republican national con
vention will be held in Philadelphia.
They say that sentiment throughout
eastern States Is growing rapidly In
favor of a change from Chicago.
—Stewart H. Whitehlll. one of the
candidates for judge in Jefferson
county, has been arrested on a charge
of criminal libel. He got into a row
with one of the leaders of the
Nc-Lteens© League.
—The city of Chester has adopted a
city flag. William Ward, Jr., a former
legislator, is mayor of the city and
took a prominent part In working up
the movement.
—County Commissioner J. Denny
O'Xeil is making a game fight for re
nomination for county commissioner
in Allegheny against a coalition of
men who have been on the outs until
this year. Friends of O'Neil say that
the outlook is favorable to him.
—The Lawrence county Judicial con
test is getting about as hot as any in
the State. Judge W. E. Porter is facing
opposition of James A. Chambers and
S. P. Emery. The latter is well known
in Harrisburg, as he has been a fre
quent visitor to the Capitol.
—City Chairman H. F. Oves will call
a meeting of the Republican city com
mittee before the first registration day
comes around.
-—One of the most interesting of the
mayoralty contests In the State will be
In Rending. Mayor Ira W. Stratton Is
not expected to be a candidate" for
re-election because It Is rumored he Is
to get a State position of some impor
tance. Consequently Commissioner
Eisenbrown is being put t,o the front.
—Johnstown's mayoralty contest this
year will be a tame one. Mayor
< puffiel is said to be after a county
position.
—Pittsburgh, morally, is the clean
est city in the United States," said
Bishop J. F. Regis Canevin, addressing:
the delegates to the convention of the
Catholic Total Abstnence Union, in
session in Synod Hall at St. Paul's
Cathedral this morning. This state
ment called forth a storm of applause,
which was followed with applause in
greater volume when he continued,
suying: "There is less crime in Pitts
burgh, fewer violations of the liquor
lews and less people who drink in
toxicants than any city in the world,
excepting those districts where pro
hibition prevails, this in accordance
with the population of the city."
MOVIE CENSORS UPHELD
I From the Philadelphia Press. 1
The .supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has affirmed the right of the State to
of Censorship. It has declared the Act
l " r ? e* hlb| tions through Its State Board
creating the Board of Censors,
constitutional and has upheld the Com
mon Pleas Courts of Philadelphia in
exercise supervision over moving nlc
their refusal to grant an Injunction re
straining; the censors from performing:
their official duties. As the Supreme
Court of the United States has made
similar runngs on appeals from the
censorship lawn of other States, this
principle may be looked upon as defi
nitely settled.
The Act of 1911. of which the film
manufacturers complained, was amend
ed by the Legislature of 1915 in a way
that assures the movie men of fairer
treatment and removes the most seri
ous of their grounds of complaint The
cost of the censorship to them was ma
terially reduced and the administrative
details considerably simplified. Experi
ence has demonstrated that, as it is
now enforced, the censorship works no
great hardship on the film manufac
turers nor prevents them from follow
profitably occupat,on expeditiously and
It is doubtless for the general rood
of the community that the principle of
moving picture censorship has been up
held by the highest court of the State.
The wide appeal of the film drama
makes It a tremendous force for good
or evil; and a censorship based upon
considerations of public morals can
only result In shaping this potent in
fluence In the right direction.
The single valid argument that has
been made asrainst the principle of cen
sorship is that a board of arbitrary,
narrow-minded censors might abuse the
discretion conferred upon them by law
But this danger Is ofTset by the Gover
nor's power to remove the censors at
win and by the fact that public opin
ion will always demand and secure fair
play for the makers of moving pictures.
COTTON* EXPORTS
[Washington Post.]
The Increase in exports of cotton
manufactures has had a wholesome
influence in correcting the collapse
of cotton prices in the South, but al
though the total exports for the last
ten months exceed by several million
dollars the cotton exports for similar
periods in the past, the real test can
be made only in the domestic market.
Official figures made public by the
Department of Commerce show an
indicated export total of approxV
mately $75,000,000 for the fiscal year,
while the imports will fall below $50,-
000,000, making a favorable balance
of trade amounting to $25,000,000. This
net business done by American man
ufacturers cannot fail to be gratify
ing. It means that there will be $25,-
000,000 to be spent In the United
States, which otherwise would have
been held in Europe.
Administration officials, however,
should pay greater attention to the
Improvement of domestic conditions.
These conditions have been improv
ing. but the Department of Com
merce would do well to consider all
possible methods of increasing domes
tic trade.
XATIRB HAS BIG Gl'JtS
[From the New York World.]
Nowadays you have to look twice at
the picture to see whether It is a record
of storm havoc in the Middle West or
merely another cathedral.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
"I GOT ME EYE ON YOU; DON'T CHEAT"
When,the junk man comes around and the summer park attract* how
the boys and girls do hunt up the old newspapers, rags and broken Iron
ware. L. R. Ney, the young Harrisburg artist, has caught such a scene
for the Telegraph.
I —-—^
A NEW NATIONAL PARK
By Frederic J. Haskin
V
A TWO-MILE-HIGH playground,
is the latest addition to Uncle
Sam's national parka. It is lo
cated in Colorado, 40 miles as the crow
flies from Denver. The route by wing
is by far the shortest for wagon roads
make so many detours among the can
yons that 70 horizontal miles, and one
which is perpendicular, must be tra
versed between this city of the Rock
ies and the new riot of nature that is
to be preserved for posterity.
It was 50 years ago that Lord Dun
raven, an English sportsman and globe
trotter, wandered into the region that
makes up the new Rocky MauntainNa
tlonal Park. There tie shot elk and
bear and mountain sheep until his
bag was full. But, having surfeited
himself with sport of this nature, he
remained to absorb the beauties of the
mountain scenery. He became so im
pressed with it that he tarried for
months.
Then he went to Europe and
brought back the best artist he could
And to paint some of the beauties he
had discovered. Incidentally, he em
ployed a descriptive writer to come
all the way to these American wilds
to write about them. He contem
plated buying a great tract of this land
and converting it into a shooting pre
serve. He never consummated this
ambition, but he introduced this
"heart of the Rockies" to the world.
The preserve that Lord Dunraven
would have created as a private hold
ing became a national park through
the action of the last session of Con
gress, which, in January, set aside
230,000 acres to be held forever as a
wilderness of nature where the people
may, upon occasion, repair and review
the primeval world still undefiled. On
July 1 It was turned over the Secre
tary of the Interior and is now being
administered as a national park. Dur
ing the present month it is being vis
ited by many tourists, to whom It Is
making Its first bow with Uncle Sam
as its sponsor.
l-'ourtecnth National Park
Thus has come into existence the
fourteenth national park that is cared
for by the federal government. Al
ready it has been administering such
playgrounds as the wonderland of the
Yellowstone; the snow pyramid of
Mount Ranier; that titanic gash In the
earth that makes the Grand Canyon;
Glacier Park In Montana, which sur
passes the Alps; iosemite, Crater, Se
quoia and others.
But the Rocky Mountain National
Park introduces a new attraction into
the sisterhood. It is not a park which
has its central attraction some one
feature that is a freak of nature, or
that lends a peculiar interest. It occu
pies that point in the Rocky Mountains
where the grandeur of this huge
mountain chain Is at Its best—where
mountain scenery is regarded as hav
ing most nearly approached perfec
tion. It is a single point where the
wide-flung Rockies may be seen to
best advantage—where the impres
slveness of the whole system may be
appreciated.
The new park contains about 360
square miles, which means that It 1b
about Ave times as big as the District
of Columbia. It is about 25 miles
long and fifteen wide.
There is not in the park a single
spot that is less than 8,000 feet, or a
mile and a half, above sea level. Yet
so hlglj is the whole region that these
are by comparison lowlands. There
are 60 peaks that rise above the 12,-
000 foot line and are in the two-and-a
half mile class as to height. The
highest of them all surpasses Pike's
Peak and is among the great moun
tains of the Rockies. This is Long's
Peak, which has an elevation of 14,-
256 feet. Eighteen of the mountains
In this small area have an elevation of
more than 13,000 feet.
200 Crystal Lakes
Suspended In this sky line of a con
tinent are 200 crystal lakes, mirror
ing the nearby sky. They are but
patches of blue in the pockets of
mountain canyons. They cover ten
or twenty or sixty acres of ground.
Grand Lake, the largest of them all, is
three miles long. Odessa Lake Is the
most picturesque in its riot grandeur,
while Charm Lake Is the wildest and
nestles like a fawn in hiding at an
elevation of 11,000 feet.
The Rocky Mountain National Park
straddles the continental divide. The
water from portions of it flow into the
streams that lead to the River Platte
and thence to the Missouri, the Mis
sissippi and Gulf of Mexico. Others
of them leap over precipices into the
headquarters of the Grand River
which flows into the Colorado, which
winds through the wonders of the
Grand Canyon and empties Into the
pearl-breeding waters of the Gulf of
California.
The trees of the region, chiefly pines
and spruce, climb high up among the
snows. Timberllne here Is 11,500 feet
high—a decided contrast to condi
tions In the Alps where nothing grows
above 6,600 feet.
The landscapes that are laid out
upon tbls basis have their own pecu
AUGUST 10, 1915..
i?li . es ' mostl - v virtues. The whole
area Is not covered with timber. Prob
and,,? 01 I"°,F e than one-fourth of the
surtace of the park is timbered. The
bm lß f ape Sardener of the ages who
p„ a „.f om L fhe plan for these central
a different idea,
o-ri, trees be P'»nted in clumps and
«ro\es and scattered about without
rhjme or reason. They clamber up
n,o„^. a " yOn ? J and scra mble over the
mountain sides. But in the valleys
*S ppear str ©tches of level
land, there are seldom trees. These
'"*o Parkways and meadows
co\ ered with luxuriant grasses and
blossoming in flowers the varieties of
which mount into the thousands.
Snow Beds That Never Melt
( .f ro ® the meadows and the lakes in
the \alleys rise the mountains—tower
ing masses of rock spotted to the
kI?» w 'ith forests and above that
belt crowned with perpetual snows.
J,nere are many snow beds in the park
that never melt, and there are three
of these of sufficient magnitude to pro
duce glaciers.
Crowning the whole are those cloud
effects produced in the clear air of
these altitudes and of which it has
often been said that they alone were
recompense for a trip across a contin
fv? ' rhe aJtitude and the clarity of
the atmosphere work as strange ma-
Sic upon the clouds. These become as
substantial and as clear in outline as
the grini walls of a monastery be
neath which one passes. They pile
in huge masses about the plateaus, as
though pushed forth by some stupen
dous volcano. They roll down moun
tain gorges and He in the roadway,
ihe traveler drives into a cloudlet that
has drifted into his track, is enveloped
for a time in its misty folds, and he
drives out of it again into the sun
light.
One of the chief considerations that
led to the creation of this national
park was the fact that it constituted
a region that was already visited by
something like 50,000 people tvery
summer. Its elevation is so great .\nd
the snow so deep in the winter tnat
it is difficult to establish homes here
in which people will want to live the
year round. But In summer the cli
mate is so attractive and the condi
tions lend themselves so Ideally to
camping that the fame of the resort
has long been such as to draw many
people to it.
Koad From Denver
Just outside the region set aside Is
a settlement known as Estes Park.
It is the gateway to the new reserva
tion. There are hotels and outfitting
establishments for campers. A good
automobile road leads to the park
from Denver. Considered from the
standpoint of accessibility from the
East, the new park may be reached by
a much shorter and quicker journey
than may any of the old ones. The
vacationist who wants to know what
the big mountains at their best are
like may get the idea here with least
loss of time. Judging from the num
bers of visitors who have visited it
while the region was still but a part
of the national domain, it is expected
that it will soon become the best pat
ronized of the national parka.
The government has not as yet ex
erted much influence upon the new
park. It is just now In the midst of
the task of selecting rangers and in
augurating its administration. It will
follow the general plan under which
the other national parks are adminis
tered in handling the new playground.
There will be a superintendent who
will enforce the regulations laid down
by the Secretary of the Interior.
Rangers will act as his aids. There
will be no soldiers in this park as there
are in Yellowstone, as the area is so
much smaller that they will not be
needed.
FIRE ON THE: OKLAHOMA
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
The public will not be satisfied with
any hypothetical explanation of the
fire on our biggest battleship, the Okla
homa, at the New York Shipbuilding
Company's yards In Camden on Mon
day night. It is all very well to say
that a careless \workman may have
thrown a lighted clgaret stub or a burn
ing match among inflammable ma
terial. But this explanation Is no more
acceptable at present than the alterna
tive theory of spontaneous combus
tion.
The long arm of coincidence becomes
a groupof tentacles, when one attributes
to change the Are underneath the for
ward turret of the Alabama at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard on Sunday a
week ago; another on the New Jersey
at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and
this third on the Oklahoma, in Camden.
Chance Is not singling out the ships of
the United States navy for a freakish
display of fireworks. This, at least,
will be the strong suspicion of the
American public, unless the official in
vestigation should demonstrate the
contrary.
XOT TEL.DIXG
Ted —What do you do when a man
tries to kiss you?
Marjorie—Oh, that's something you'll
have to find out for yourself.—Life.
j ©mring (Etjat
Pennsylvania's State school fund,
which was established by the framers
of the State school code which became
a law In the first year of the Tener
administration, now contains over
$160,000 of permanent Investments,
the last purchase of bonds having been
made yesterday. The fund had $70,000
of Investments several months ago and
since that time over SBO,OOO has been
turned over to It by the State Forestry
Department, as under the law all reve
nue from forests goes to the perma
nent fund. Prom this latter sum
there have been purchased SIO,OOO
Wilmington, Del., bonds. SIO,OOO
Charleston, W. V., SIO,OOO Rochester,
Pa., $20,000 Nashville, Tenn.. $20,000
Louisiana State and $15,000 Oil City
bonds. The fund already contained a
number of Pittsburgh and other bonds.
It Is expected that this fund, the prin
cipal of which may not be spent, will
ultimately amount to millions, as to it
must go not only the income from the
Slate forests, which now aggregate
over a million acres, but all sales of
State property and all escheated estates
and money. Under the operation ol
the new escheat act, which is to be
come effective on January 1, it is ex
pected the State will receive much
more money for this fund. While It is
accumulating the fund the State will
use only such portion of the interest as
will be actually needed for relief of
school districts in distress.
• • •
Attorney General Francis Sliunk
Brown has secured and hung In the
Attorney General's department an oil
painting of George Bryan, who was
"President of Pennsylvania" in 1778.
Mr. Bryan was President of the Su
preme Executive Cpuncil, which was
managing the affairs of the Common
wealth in that dark revolutionary year,
having succeeded Thomas Wharton
when that noted Philadelphian died in
office. The painting is well preserved
and has been appropriately marked.
TTp on Riverside Drive the other
night about 11 o'clock an autolst
stopped with a blow-out. He worked
and cussed, as is the custom in such
cases, until 'long about 2 o'clock in the
morning. But he was not without
company. After he had been plugging
away at his tire trouble for about a
half hour along came another machine
—boom! went a tire, and he stopped.
Soon another car, driven by a hilarious
lady, stopped with a third blow-out.
and the feminine driver sang in a loud
voice, "Everybody's doing it" Needless
to say, the neighbors didn't sleep
thereabouts.
* • •
One of the Harrisburg manufactur
ers has devised a scheme for control
of some of his men who take unex
pected leaves of absence, generally
for bibulous reasons. He worked out
a plan whereby men who took a day
off without notice had to stay oft two
days. It worked very well for a time
and It happened that last week that
one of the men who had been caught
felt like taking a rest and, not desir
ing to lose two days, up the
manufacturer to "give notice." What
the manufacturer said was a shame.
It seems that he called up at 5.15
a. m.
• • *
Highway Commissioner R. J. Cun
ningham is a terror on placards ani.
posters and other things tacked up
along the State highways. There Is a
State law prohibiting advertising mat
ter along State highways and many
local politicians have disregarded it in
various counties of the State. Their
cards have been coming down as fast
as put up and have no favoritism
o\ er Aunt Somebody's sovereign
remedy or anything that grown folks
dream about.
• • •
A couple of city chaps were out in
the country the other day and found
farmers looking lugubriously at the
fields of corn almost laid flat or bent
away over by the force of the storms
that have occurred the last week. One
farmer said that unless the corn got
straightened out he would stand to
lose a good many dollars.
"Try a rope," suggested one of the
city boys.
"Rope? What for?" asked the agri
culturalist.
"Why, start at one side of the field
and run the rope under the stalks and
then straighten them up," was the
bright suggestion.
The farmer went back to his house.
• • •
Joe LeCompte, assistant cashier of
t"® State Treasury, is approaching
what he calls his vacation season. He
has lately had the number of pav
checks which he handles jumped from
1,200 to 1,800 and now he is about to
send out the 2,500 checks to school
districts for payment of the school ap
propriation and 1,500 to townships for
road bonus purposes.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Frank Butterworth, the Tale full
back of the nineties, is at the training
camp at Plattsburg.
—Ex-Congressman J. W. Logue, of
Philadelphia, was a speaker at the big
temperance meeting in Pittsburgh.
—Captain William T. Rees, of Pitts
burgh, is the ranking officer of the
State artillery at Tobyhanna.
—Charles H. English, Erie city so
licitor. Is active in the relief work. He
is in charge of the negotiations with
the national government.
—Jones Wister is spending the sum
mer at Cape May.
—Slgmund Lubln, tire film manu
facturer, is thinking of trying aviation.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrishurg stores are the big
buying places for people within
forty miles of the city?
HIS CHOICE OP THREE
St. Peter.—What was your occupa
tion on earth?
Spirit.—Robber.
St. Peter.—lce, coal or gas?
—Ohio State Journal.
Back From Vacation
When we return from our out
ing things look differently to us.
We have a new and perhaps
keener vision.
We see many little things wo
would like to Improve—new pur
chases we must make.
To meet the new view point
and not tax the purse one should
buy with discrimination.
And discrimination means
knowledge such as comes from
reading the advertising in the
Telegraph.
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SECOND FLY CONTEST
of the Civic Club for 1915.
Augiit Ist to September 38th.
Five cents a pint for all files, and
many prises In cold.