8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ISJI , PUBLISHED BT TIMS TELEGLLAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Bun day) at the Telegraph Building; 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story St Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <IISSK&II3StC > si" cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Snorn dally average circulation for the three months ending July SI, 1015 it 21,084 ★ Average for the year 1914—21,858 Average for the year 1918—19,963 Average for the year 1912—19,340 Average for the year 1911—17,503 Average for the yepr 191fr—1M61 The above figure* are aet. All re turned, unvold and damaged coptea de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13 Light is above us, and color is around us; but if we have not light and color in our eyes we shall not perceive them outside us.—Goethe. A PLEASING CHANGE NOT only will the season of 1915 go down in Harrisburg's play ground history as j a record breaker for attendance, but in the years to come several unique features of the present .summer's work will stand out with extraordinary promi nence. And of course these will be demonstrated at the romper day celebration, August 27. Romper day itself will differ widely from the celebrations of previous years. Instead of a long, more or less tiresome program of games, folk dances, etc., a great open-air play will be produced, by some 500 children on the slopes of Reservoir Park. Then, too, there will be demonstrations of what has been done this year In ar ranging the "story hour" on the play grounds. The playlet itself will be written in such a way as to show from time to time what the thousands of youngsters on Harrisburg's recreation places learned during the season Iri the way of athletics, sewing, basketry work and so on; pretty folk dances will in tersperse the program; music by a big children's chorus will be a feature. The trend of the times will be kept in mind, too; the' differences of the suf fragists and the anti-suffragists will bo interestingly brought out and the antics of a rather notable "movie" hero will figure effectively'in-the pro gram. "The Princess of Playburg" Is to be the title of the play and Playground Supervisor George W. Hill, who ar ranged this unique method of closing Harrisburg's playground season for 1915, is already coaching the big group of child actors. The one regretable feature, per haps, is the fact that something of this kind could not have been arranged for Harrisburg's big improvement cele bration in September. Vacation days will soon be over, however, and the thousands of children will have gone back to the schoolroom, instructors wil| have scattered to school, to col lege .or to regular winter vocations, and the playground organizations will have been disintegrated. But what an opportunity to demon strate what Harrisburg's thousands of youngsters have done and are doing for their old home town! When, in after years, Harrisburg folks look with commendable pride up on the three-mile length of River Front wall, the great concrete gutter of Pax ton creek, and watch the Susquehanna rolling gently over the river-wide dam on its way to the sea. they will grate fully remember the part that Joel D. Justin, principal engineer of the Board of Public Works, bore in working under extraordinary difficulties to complete these great constructive improve meats. By September 1 Mr. Justin's connection with the Board of Public Works will have been severed and he will probably be somewhere in north western Wisconsin preparing to assume charge of the construction of a two million-dollar hydro-electric plant. In regretfully saying good-bye Harris burg will add a kindly "take keer o' yourself, J. D." *» THE "DUMPING"' SYSTEM NOT solely or chiefly for the pur pose of disposing of surplus stocks is the "dumping" policy practiced by European countries. It is a recognized method of keeping their factories running at 100 per cent, efficiency, thus reducing the unit cost of production to a minimum. Having supplied the domestic and continental trade at the lowest unit cost, there re mains, as a result of this high rate of efficiency, a large accumulation of sur plus stocks, the disposal of which is undertaken at little or no profit. This adds heavily to the disadvantages un der which American factories are placed, for the Democratic tariff law In times of peace, and we must reckon on that basis, for peace is the nominal condition, makes this country the dumping ground for these surplus stocks. It has<been estimated that this handicap amounts to 30 per cent, be cause of difference in cost, 20 per cent, by reason of elimination of profits and 15 per oent, because of inferior quality of many foreign-made goods—a handi- FRIDAY EVENING, cap far too great for any factocy em ploying American labor under Ameri can conditions succeasfully to over come. It is apparent, therefore, that a tariff law which encourages such a high rate of factory efficiency abroad, by supplying a market here for sur plus stocks, does Just that much toward increasing the unit cost of the American article at home, because of decreased output of the American fac tory which Is obliged to meet this cut throat competition. The efficiency of the foreign factory Is increased at the expense of the efficiency of our domes tic concern. The half-time article can not compete with the full time output. The American mill closes and the American laborer sits on the park bench. • It was to meet such conditions that Canada enacted what is known as the "anti-dumping clause," which has done away with most of the paralyzing ef fects of dumping. This clause pro vides that goods of a class or kind made In Canada are subject to special duty when sold for exportation to Canada at a less price than for home consumption in the country of export, whether such goods be otherwise free of duty or subject to specific .or ad valorem duty. A half-hearted attempt was made by the Democratic House, when the Underwood law was being debated, to apply a dumping duty to articles on the dutiable list. The Republicans argued that It should also apply to the free list because many articles not subject to duty would be dumped In this country in unfair competition with domestic production. When the bill got to the Senate the whole dumping clause was thrown out, and should the end of the war find this country still burdened with a Democratic tariff law we would be at the mercy of the in dustrial syndicates which will be or ganized all over Europe. THE PLIGHT AT BINDNAUGLE'S YOU might think that life at Blnd naugle's Church would hang heavy on the resident's hands. Or, possibly, you do not know that Bindnaugle's Church is a thriving lit tle community—with emphasis on the little—lying near the wooded hills that fringe the Dauphin-Lebanon county line. At all events you wouldn't pic ture the aforesaid Bindnaugle's as a rival of Broadway or a seaside board walk in the way of amusements. But list to the plaint of the Telegraph cor respondent in that town: Many in our midst are in a pre dicament. for next Friday. August 20, is the date of the Palmyra union picnic, the county fair at Lebanon, wlesh Bros.' show at Palmyra, and campmeeting at Cleona. Brother and sister, attend the one nearest your conscience, and all will be right. Thus we see that the Telegraph numbers among its correspondents not only keen observers of public events, but at least one philosopher and social adviser as well. Life is indeed too short for the solving of such problems as that presented by tho choice of attending a circus or a campmeeting, a Sunday school picnic or a county fair. The Telegraph agrees with its reporter in Bind naugle's. In the language of .the man who presides over the destinies of the elusive little ball in the guess ing contest popularly known as the three shell game, "you pays your money and you takes your choice." And as for the size of a town when considered in the light of its im portance as a center of social activi ties "you never can tell." ONE. BENEFIT FROM THE WAR ON the part of the French at least the great war is not all destruc tion. French science has been quite as busy with the problem of the preservation of life as French soldiers have been with the effort to destroy it, and since the beginning of this year the success, under practical conditions, of two important discoveries has been demonstrated. The first of these is the new anti septic based upon hypochlorous acid, which was developed by Drs. Carrel and Daken. As a solution this is said to be an almost perfect dressing for wounds and it has been giving the utmost satisfaction in the French mili tary hospitals. But, according to cables from Paris this week, Drs. Leclainche and Vallee have gone even beyond that poipt, and are now making prepa rations to supply in large quantities a serum which when used preventa- as antitetanus serum is now, will prevent infection in the most ter ribly mutilated men. The new serum, which has been named polyvalent, has been thoroughly tested as a cure with the most astonishing results. This is striking remarkably close to the ultimate object of bacteriological science. It may be doubted that such a long step in advance could have been taken at this time but for the war, which has made possible tests that would have required years under nor mal conditions. To that extent the world Is the richer as a. result of the war. And it would be a rash man who would now undertake to say that in the long run the good will not out weigh the bad. It does not require much imagination to realize, for In stance. that It would not take long for a perfected preventative medicine to repair the human waste of the war and then open the way for an era in which mankind will be free from many of the Ills that now afflict it. DOWN GOES PRICE AS one contribution toward the fulfillment of the Democratic promise to reduce the high cost of living, the Bureau of Mines an nounces that It can now produce radium for only $36,050 per gram. This will enable the Impoverished speculators In "war order" securities to have radium on their tables at least once a day, and will be of tremendous encouragement to workers in other enterprises who are now on reduced time, lower wages or laid off alto gether. There's one consolation about this rainy weather. It came along while the . team was away tram iionu. ""PoCtttC* CK % 'Pc-KKOij&rtUtla the Ex-Oommltteeman Theodore Roosevelt having declared that he will remain a Progressive, Gil ford Plnchot and William Draper Lewis have announced similar inten tions, although their call to the Bull Mocse to stand firm appears to have fallen upon times which are not favor able to reviving a disintegrating party. In fact, between the Philadelphia mayoralty 'situation, the Governor's strategic appointments and the war, the Progressives' call does not seem to attract much attention. The statement assails the old parties and whacks the Republicans, but it stings the Democrats this way: "After sounding promises, the Democratic party has failed to reduce the cost of living or solve the nation's other eco nomic problems. Its domestic and foreign policies have failed to secure the safety, honor or welfare of our people, either at home or .abroad. It is saved from hopeless discredit only because the attention of the nation is fixed elsewhere." Then the statement says: "In our own state of Pennsylva nia, however praiseworthy much of Governor Brumbaugh's record has been, he cannot if he would rescue the Republican party from Penrose- McNichol-Vare control. Colonel Roose velt has recently declared that he will continue to fight for Progressive prin ciples as a member of the Progressive party. Victor Murdock, chairman of the Progressive national committee, has announced emphatically that the Progressives are preparing for a vig orous fight as a party in 1916. We propose to help all we can." A. L. Long, of Millerstown, has an nounced his candidacy for the nomi nation of associate Judge of Perry county at the September primaries. Mr. Long served one term as sheriff of Perry county and is the fifth can didate to announce himself for this office. The other candidates are Harry L. Jones, of Newport, and Isaiah E. Stephens, of Buffalo township, who hold the Perry County No-License League's endorsement; Dr. W. A. Meiser, of Newport, and ex-Associate Judge Jacob Johnston, of Buffalo township. ■ —Friends of J. Lee Plummer, county solicitor of Blair county, who wae here yesterday attending "a con ference.of county officials, say'that his campaign for the Republican nomina tion for State Treasurer will be in full swing within a short time. Mr. Plum mer served in the legislature and has been the mainstay of the Republican organization in his county. His friends are quietly at work in several coun ties in the interior building fences. —Chester county is indulging in a very interesting contest over the Judicial nomination. Judge R. S. Gawthrop will be a candidate for the full term and Messrs. Hause, who is well known to many rcr?aenis of this city, and Park are also In the field. Their papers are to be filed shortly it is understood. —Postmaster Davis, of Pittsburgh, who retires this week, has held the office since 1906 and is one of the best known postmasters in the country. —McKeesport socialists have put up a whole municipal ticket. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ) —lf the farmers of Pennsylvania can't thrash their grain, why not get up a party and thrash the weather man. t —George- Ade says that the reason so many people are crazy about the movies 1s bc-cause it is the only amuse ment known without the element of talk predominating. Maybe he's right at that. It Is sort of restful to one's ears to sit in a movie theater a couple hours. —The ladles are wearing August furs. To be cure they'll soon be wear ing December gossamer. —Not'every man who stays at the foot in his chosen line is a failure. How about the chiropodist? —lt may be true that many married men have no conscience. But with their wives around to "tell 'em about It," do they really need them? —Too much liquor that is red in the cup will give a man a dark brown taste in the mouth ard the blues all over. —Many a man, and many a woman, too, mistake loud talk for forceful argument 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT""] In Mr. Phillips Oppenheim's latest novel a diplomatist from Vienna speaks in Austrian. The reply should have been in Swiss..—Philadelphia Public Ledger. In his effort to keep Germans out of American munition-factories the Kaiser will receive the earnest co-operation of every manufacturer in the country. Boston Transcript. Minister Sullivan has learned that while being a "deserving Democrat" is sufficient to enable a man to get hold of a good Government Job, It does not always insure his retention of it. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A cotton-planter's notion of the good old days are thoße in which the sisters used to wear three petticoats at a time.—Columbia State. IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY J [From Telegraph, August 18, 1865.] Demand For Iron Increases Since peace has been declared the increasing demand for Iron is being shown by the big orders on hand at a number of plants near here. Large railroad orders are also expected to be given out soon. Teachers to Meet The National Teachers Convention will open its sessions on the 16th in the House of Representatives. Gov ernor Andrew of Massachusetts is ex pected to be present at the sessions. More than 500 delegates from all parts of the country will be in the city. COXEY IS HERE By Wing; Dinner Say, fellers. Coxey's in the burg; Naw, not de army guy, But Coxey who brings Joy to hearts And makes your troubles fly. It's Coxey who is at the head Of the big Wild West Show With, Indians, rough riders and The bucking brown broncho. When he shows up around the burg Just start to save your dough, Because it is a certain sign We're going to have the show. He's havin' bills put on the boards Around the town to-day That tells you what you'll witness when i Tha Mar show camaa this *u. PARRISBURQ ffißig TELEGRAPH When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS \ THE RECRUITING OFFICE By Frederic J. Haskin v , i THAT the first love of the men in the ranks is a fight is indicat ed by the influence of foreign affairs upon enlistments in the mili tary services of the United States. Re cent reports of the war and navy de partments show that recruiting is greatly increased after the Mexican trouble reached Its climax in the Spring of 1914, and this increase has been steadily maintained since trouble arose in Europe. War abroad has ap parently turned the thoughts of Am ericans to the possibility of war at home, and recruits are plentiful when there seems a chance for active ser vice. At the present moment it is practic ally impossible for any one to enter the navy—not because men are not needed on the battleships, destroyers and submarines which guard our coasts, but because congress has spe cified the number of sailors who may sign under Uncle Sam and the lists have been full for nearly a year. Navy Has "Waiting List" At present, therefore, the United States navy is in the enviable position of having a "waiting list" of men who want to serve the flag, even though there is a decided shortage of men aboard ships for actual fighting. Ef forts will be made to induce congress, at the next session, to increase the number of enlistments which the navy may legally accept and thus make it possible to bring this branch of the service up to its full necessary strength. The condition of the army Is not quite as fortunate as that of the navy —possibly because of the superior at tractions in the manner of life and in travel offered with the fleet. But, even so, the rate of enlistments in the larmy have increased some 20 per cent, since the flag-saluting Incident at Tam plco. Just as the impetus given by this occurrence was commencing to die down, the European war began, and it brought home the fact that the United States needed more men to guard her shores in case of conflict. This also stimulated enlistment and discourage desertion—the one having] increased and the other decreased ma-; terlally in the past year. Uncle Sam does not believe In supporting huge standing armies, as are favored abroad, but he trains his men to the minute and every man, who has en listed within the past year is in a con dition to give a good account of him self in the event of war. , Improvement Recently- Some years ago the army and navy were not in such good shape with re gard to numbers as they are at pres ent, and the authorities at Washington cast about for a means of stimulating enlistments . To this end they con sulted a number of efficiency experts, all of whom mentioned the old maxim, "It pays to advertise." So Uncle Sam entered the ranks of advertisers. In newspapers and magazines, by means of posters and even through the me dium of moving pictures, he exhibited the alluring life of a soldier or sailor or marine. The results were most satisfactory and the government's ap propriation for advertising Is still con siderable. Gaily colored posters are to be found in nearly every post office, de picting the Joys of a life on the ocean wave or the fascinations of a soldier's career. These posters direct the ap plicant to the nearest recruiting office, where he finds officers who tell him of the duties of a soldier or sailor, the pay they receive, the chances for pro motion and the many advantages to be found In serving the flag. Exclusive of those rejected because of physical disabilities, it Is estimated that fully 80 per cent, of the men who seriously apply for Information concerning the military service enlist for at least one period. All of which speaks well for the persuasive abilities of the recruit ing officers. In the Recruiting Office But the recruiting otfice is far from being colorless or without Its share of the romantic. Men come there from all walks of lift—the gay young blood who has been cast off by his family and who wishes to retrieve his repu tation and rebuild his physique by three years in the service of his coun try; the patriot who considers that he owes at least a portion of his life to the service of his flag; the unem ployed who enlists solely because he can find work nowhere else; the dis appointed in love who seek solace from their heartaches; the man in trouble who knows that he can start aaiew in the army or the navy. All these and more drift to the recruiting stations and from them there flows a never-ending stream of human inter est, sad or happy, drab or colorful. Consider, for example, the story of George and Edmund Carson, brothers who, although not twins, were almost exactly alike. George, the elder and black sheep of the family, got into trouble in his home town in the Mid dle West and ran away. The only news of him that filtered back was some echo of his wild career in the submerged tenth of one of the big eastern cities. He was given up for lost and the hopes of the family were pinned upon Edmund Carson, who was sent to West Point, whence he gradu ated with high honors. Unknown to any of the members of his family, George Carson had enlist ed in the army and the long arm of coincidence, which causes so much trouble In real life and the movies, pulled the strings that moved Lieut. Edmund Carson to the same army post where his brother was stationed as a private. The elder Carson rec ognized his brother almost imme diately, but Edmund saw nothing fa-1 miliar in the tace of a private who i would have borne a striking resem-j blance to him had his features not: been lined by premature age and the life that he had led. Sentenced By Brother Not wishing further to disgrace his| family by the possibility of discovery I that Lieutenant Carson's brother was i serving as a private under an assumed name and with a none too savory rep utation, George Carson tried to have ! himself transferred to another regi ment. But in vain. He therefore de cided to take matters into his own hands and picked a fight with one of the noncommissioned officers, for which he was sentenced to serve two years in a military prison. Fate again intervened in the person of co incidence, and it was none other than Lieut. Edmund Carson that sentenced his brother to prison. The incident was not discovered until several years later when George, after a.complete reformation, made himself known to his family and informed his brother that it was he who had "sent him up." Reformed in the Army Another man who enlisted in the army as a moans of reformation was George J. Esterbrldge of Philadelphia, who came to the recruiting office in Philadelphia one day accompanied by a very attractive young woman. Es terbrldge told the recruiting officers that he had been a criminal for twelve years and that he had served a term in prison. He had met the girl who accompanied him to the office, he said, and had fallen in love with her and asked her to marry him. She had ac cepted. with the proviso that he re main "straight" for two years. He wanted to enter the army because that was the beet training he could receive and because, as a soldier, he was certain that he could achieve mor al reformation. He was accepted and his marriage took place at the end of the two years. But not every man enters t,he army for reasons of this nature. There is on record at least one In stance of an Enlistment caused by the glamor of brass buttons and the pos sibility of heroism which active ser vice holds out. John H. Collins.' of Cleveland, Ohio, applied for enlistment and when asked why he wished to be come a soldier said that his sweet heart would not marry anyone who did not have a chance to be a hero. Col- j 11ns was a shoe clerk and his fiance j gave it as her emphatic opinion that] AUGUST 13,19T3. there was no opportunity for hero ism in that employment. Therefore, he wished to enter the army, even if he never went to war. He was ac cepted, served for three years and then got married. Whether he ever had a chance to demonstrate his heroism does not appear on the records of the War Department. Case of Warren Adams There is more than a touch of pathos in the case of Warren Adams, who was born in the South, but edu cated in the North, one of the negro troopers who met death dliring the fighting in Cuba in the Spanish-Amer ican war. Because of his color he could find no work of a kind which he wished to do. Finally, hungry and without a cent, he enlisted. In the pocket of his coat, when he was killed, was found a letter addressed to the recruiting officers of the station where he had been recruited. "I, in death, want to thank you gentlemen for* having been the only white men in your fcity to give me a chance," read the letter. "Even now the others will probably say. when they read my name among the dead, 'Oh, well. It doesn't rrtatter—he was only a nigge!' But I want you to know that this negro is grateful to you for having given him the oppor tunity to prove that though his face was black his heart and purpose were white." Another tragic story of the recruit ing office is to be found in the record of William Tracey, of Chicago, whose wife eloped less than a year after their marriage. Worry and tuberculo sis undermined Tracey's constitution and he had to give up his position. From city to city he traveled, trying in vain to enter the army where he hoped to bury his worries in service of his country. But everywhere his hacking cough and hectic coloring betrayed him and no recruiting officer dared ac cept him, despite his pleading. "They | won't let me forget-" was all that was i written on a scrap of paper found be jside Tracey's body in a gas-filled rooiA :in a cheap lodging house In Detroit. < | The men who serve Uncle Sam on I sea or land have to be healthy in body 'and mind, for upon them may depend I the safety of the nation. A strict phy sical examination is one of the fea- Itures of enlistment and the men who pass It successfully know that they are sound "in wind and limb" and well prepared to withstand the rigors of camp life and the march. Our Daily Laugh MAYBB. Pop: No, you f x _yjL can't have anoth [ jfa Sfi».er quarter for fireworks. I need 4 jUm It myself. Bobble: What \v. y 0 u K g spend It for—flra- THE FIRST PA- Young Doctor's y-vf J|^H Wife: Mary, go tfOfh and tell the doc- M tor there's a pa tlent waiting to / \j 1 Maid: I wish you'd go, ma'am. iHfP He maybe would not believe me. HIS OCCUPATION Mrs. Knicker —Whisky is shocking. Weary Willie Yes'm; I'm looking tor a job as a shock absorber. 7 . \ SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August Ist to September 25tfc. Five seats ■ pi»« tor *ll (lies, and many prtsci In gold. f 1 j Batting QLifnt J If th» amusement Dark proprietors had known at the opening of the sea son what kind of a season was ahead of them there would have been no out door amusements of that kind In this vicinity this year. The dally rains have ruined business and if they coula do It without embarrassment every park within fifty miles of Harrlsburg would be closed at once. They have not only not paid, but have been op- m ere ted at a loss all summer, and no matter what the weather may be after September 1 there will be no mors picnics, the opening of schools putting an end to such festivities. The rail road and trolley officials say the same thing about the weather conditions and their business and it Is said that at least two amusement propositions which were being considered for open ing in this vicinity next summer have been definitely laid on the shelf. Whtla the weather has played havoc with big picnics It Is also said to have effect ually stopped the smaller family and neighborhood affairs. It has put a stop to the old-fashioned plan of tak ing a basket and going to eat supper on one of the islands near the river or in woods near the city or Steelton. * * * A motorcycle balked in Third street the other evening Just about the time a Rockville car was stopping at Mar ket street. The cycle was so close to the car that passengers had to squeeze by. By the time the machine had been steered to the curb it had stopped two cars, three jitneys, another motorcycle and two automobiles. "When the man started it It Jumped the curb .and started toward a store door. • * • The home coming of the Harrlsburg Indians to-morrow promises more baseball history. Fans have been lone some. Manager Zimmerman and his players starred on a trip three weeks ago. Interest over the return of the team recalls similar enthusiasm dur ing previous baseball seasons. Har risburg baseball teams have welcomed home local champions at all hours of the night. Crowds numbering from 200 to 400, with a band, have escorted the manager and players through the main streets to their hotel, where a warm welcome and cheers were given. During the days of Jim Farrlngton, when there was bitter rivalry £-«iiveen Harrlsburg, A'tocce. and York, these nightly receptions were frequent. Citi zens ha*'e turned out in big crowds for former State League and Tri-State teams. During the reign of the lato E. K. Meyers baseball enthusiasm was at high pitch and the club seldom re turned without receiving a welcome from a big crowd. Due to the fact that the Harrlsburg team will not reach home until early Saturday morn ing, it betng a long jump from Provi dence. there will not likely be any boosters at the station, but according to reports, an old-time welcome awaits the team on its appearance Saturday afternoon on the island. The Hazleton Sentinel contains the following abo.ut a legislator who la well known to many residents of this city: "William L. Adams, of BeaVer Brook, representative for this district, has been named chief of staff for the national convention of the United Spanish-American Veterans, which will be held at Scranton August 30 and 31 and September 1. The local legislator •was the sponsor of the bill that gave a State appropriation for the financing of this convention, and the appoint ment which has Just been announced is made in recognition of his services to the Spanish veterans In that line. The convention will have about eight hundred delegates from all parts of the country. In addition to this sev eral thousand of the men who fought in the Spanish war will attend to hold reunions with old comrades, and tha members of the Ninth and Thirteenth Regiments, National Guard of Penn sylvania, will take part in the festivi ties and the parade that will be held In connection with the convening of the convention." While oil a visit to this citv recently Lieutenant Richard C. Dußois, of Washington, D. C., recalled to his many old friends incidents occurring during his service as a soldier at Camp Cur tin in the early months of 1861. Mr. Dußois was for some time orderly to Colonel George A. C. Seller, com mandant at Camp Curtln, and was later commissioned as first lieutenant and adjutant of the One Hundred anit Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel David B. McKlbben command ing. Lieutenant Dußois had some in teresting experiences during his serv ice at Camp Curtin and in the city in keeping order among the turbulent soldiers and others. • « ♦ Allan Sangree, the short story writer, has been spending a few days in the city with his mother and is be ing greeted by numerous Harrisburg friends. Mr. Sangree has been In "New York during the summer and is plan ning to put out a new series of stories this Fall. • • • A. Leo Well, the Pittsburgh attor ney, here yesterday on the milk rate cases, has been the moving spirit In the league which stirred up political and municipal affairs in that city. Mr. Weil is not taking much hand in poli tic!? just now and has not staged an exposure for some months. He is still keeping an eye on things, say his friends. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE""" —Dr. W. P. Wilson, head of the Philadelphia Museums, has issued a warning to American manufacturers to be ready for a battle for trade when the war is over. —Judge Willis Martin, of Philadel phia, has returned from San Francisco. —Dr. R. V. Mattison, the Ambler manufacturer, is spending the summer at Newport, R. I. —Walter S. Cramp, the shipbuilder, is home from a visit to Italy. —Mayor George Lysle, of McKees port, is going to Canada for a vacation trip. —H. M. Brackenridge, of Pittsburgh, former water supply commissioner, Is active in the reorganization of the Allegheny Plate Glass Company. —H. W. Douglass is the head of the new motor club of McKeesport. j DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes consid erable steel for works that make millions of pins? \ The Tail Wagged the Dog Many manufacturers have been induced to take up newspapers as supplemental advertising. After awhile they discovered that "the tail was wagging tho dog." In other words, the "news papers were selling the goods." Newspapers need no co-oper ative advertising *%o make them reach customers with their mes sage. They constitute a complete campaign In themselves. They create consumer demand and dealer influence at the same time. They sell the goods. Vi-M. *
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