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WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 18.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How changed with punishment the
scroll,
J am the master of my fate:
t
I am the captain of my soul.
—Wm. Henley.
THEN AND NOW
SENATOR WEEKS, before the
Chamber of Commerce the
other day, read a very enlight
ening paragraph from a Bpeech of
Daniel Webster in the early days of
the republic. Webster pointed out
the folly of railing against taxation
in a country where taxation is lower
than "in any other part of the world,
in crying out against the accumulation
of wealth in a nation where wealth is
more evenly distributed than any
where else and in complaining against
the rule of "bosses" in a government
where the individual has fuller pow
ers of expression than anywhere else
on the globe. The address might have
been made in reply to any one of a
do?en tirades against present day con
ditions that ambitious politicians have
made in the past few years. Times
change, but human nature does not,
and political speeches move pretty
much In cycles.
The Mayor of Atlanta justifies the
Frank hanging. The Mayor of Atlanta
ought to be in jail on a murder charge. ;
THE DIFFERENCE
SECRETARY OF STATE BRYAN,
when he assumed office, found
William W. Russell, minister of
San Domingo, who, though a Demo
crat, had been retained by a number
of Republican administrations because
he knew his job and was thoroughly
efficient. But Minister Russell un
fortunately had not contributed in any
way to the success of the Wilson cam
paign. So Bryan fired him and sub
stituted a "deserving Democrat," one
James Mark Sullivan, who severed his
relations with the diplomatic service
recently ' following a Presidential In
vestigation of his conduct in office.
Secretary Lansing promptly re-ap
pointed Mr. Russell.
In this incident we are shown the
chief difference between Mr. Bryan
and Mr. Lansing. One is a cheap poli
tician, the other a statesman. It Is
scarcely necessary to designate which
is which.
The judges of Georgia ought to hang
crepe on the court houses. Justice is
dead and respect for law has been
buried.
GOOD FOR KINSLOE
JAMES R. KINSLOE, who was one
of the organizers of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club, and who ror three
years has been secretary-manager
of the Winona, Ind., Board of Trade,
having resigned that position to take
up similar work at Charlotte, N. C.,
the Winona Republican-Herald has
this to say:
In losing Mr. Kinsloe as secre
tary-manager of the Winona As
sociation of Commerce, the city is
losing a citizen who has given of
his life all that he could possiblv
get out of it. Mr. Kinsloe has been
fearless In his work and by so doing
his accomplished what probably
could not have been done In any
other way—the solidifying of the
manufacturers, merchants and citi
zens into one large, effective or
ganization for the advancement of
Winona at all times and In all
places.
Good for Kinsloe! He imbibed the
true Harrisburg spirit during his resi
dence here and he is spreacmg it
abroad through the land. More power
to him!
Atlantis City thinks Its bathing is
its drawing card. Wrong! It's the
bathing suit
OUR MERCHANT MARINE
PRESIDENT WTLSON Is preparing
to urge the adoption of a ship
purchase bill, like that which
failed of passage last session, when
Congress meets again. He >s said to
be desperately anxious to rehabilitate
the down-and-out American merchant
marine, and he thinks the ship pur-
WEDNESDAY EVENING, BAJtRBSBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 18, 1915
chase measure written into a law will
accomplish that end.
But how about the La Follette sea
men's law which is driving American
ships from the ocean? If the Presi
dent had withheld his signature when
that bill was before him we would not
have surrendered the entire Pacific
steamship trade to the Japanese, as
we have done in the past two months.
Think of it! Only one steamer in the
trans-Pacific trade carrying the Am
erican flag, and that about to be sold
to a foreign company.
This is the kind of weather that fat
tens the batting average of the joy of
living, as the Toledo Blade would say.
LET THE WORK PROCEED
NEITHER the Harrisburg Light
and Power Company nor the
Republican members of City
Council should permit the yawping of
a few unprincipled, peanut politicians,
and their scandal-mongering spokes
man from proceeding with -the worK
of extending the ornamental lighting
system along Second street and the
River Front. There Is no reason why
It should be delayed and many reasonH
why it should be hastened, yet for the
sake of a. stupid attempt to deceive the
public and thereby create political
capital for two Democratic politicians
whose short-sighted policies have
doomed them to defeat even before
they open their campaigns ror re-elec
tion, an effort is being maae to pre
vent the city from enjoying the new
lighting system during the coming
municipal Improvement celebration.
The whole attack Is unjustifiable.
More than that. It Is outrageous.
The River Front wall and path call
for an ornamental lighting system.
The path has been lighted in part, but
lack of money prevented the com
pletion of the improvement. There
is only a small fund on hand with
which to place lamps along tne river
wall. At this critical stage comes the
light company, with commendable
public spirit, and offers to place the
standards and have tne system
ready for use by the time of
the celebration and wait for the
larger part of its pay until the city
finds Itself in possession of the money.
Thus the city is to have the "lenefit of
the lighting system that is provided
for in the plans for thv *»-ati and the
burden of the expense rests with the
company. Otherwise, the wall would
be without lights for a year or more
at least.
This offer of the company was not
only fair, but so generous that it at
once received the endorsement of the
Democratic and Republican commis
sioners. There appeared to lie nothing
in the way of the improvement except
the formal action of council, so the
company took time by tne forelock
and began preliminary work looking
toward the completion of the system
in time to turn on the current on the
date promised. The working interval
is brief at best and with a possible
continuation of the uncertain weather
that has prevailed this summer no
time is to be lost if the Ugms are to
be ready when the people want them.
At all events, if the ordinance were to
fail of passage, the company would
be the loser and not the city, which is
protected at every turn.
The whole attack is a patchwork
of easily riddled falsehood. As an
example of the utter disregard Tor
truth displayed by thoso responsible I
for it may be cited the assertion tnat
Commissioner Taylor was attending a
"political party" in the eastern part of
the county last evening, when as a
matter of fact he, with all or tne otner
members of council, Democrats and
Republicans alike, was going over the
city with representatives or the elec
tric company making an inspection of
the city's lighting system ana planning
for its extension. It is also mgnlficant
that neither of the Democratic mem
bers who were with this, party and
who occupied an automobhe with an
official of the company during the in
spection trip raised the least objection
to the advance work which is to-day
made the subject of criticism.
Neither council nor the city can af
ford to pay any further attention to
this ridiculous play to the galleries,
coming as it does from those whose
minds are constantly so full of scandal
that it bubbles up and overflows on
their shlrtfronts every time the
thermometer shifts a degree or two.
Let the w'ork proceed.
OtTR BANKING SYSTEM
THE Treasury Department has or
dered a further withdrawal of
Government funds from the na
tional bank depositaries and by the
end of this month more than eight
millions will have been thus trans
ferred from the local banks to the
regional reserve banks. The Govern
ment will lose the two per cent, in
terest which it now receives on these
deposits, but it is believed that the
transfer will have the effect of forc
ing the national banks to rediscount
their commercial paper with the
regional reserve banks. This would
enable the reserve bank system to pay
expenses, which it has never yet been
able to do. But it can hardly be
argued that a banking system which
requires artificial forcing of this kind
to make It profitable is altogether an
unmixed success. J
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—From all indications the Balkans
are balking.
—lt is usually fhe fastest auto that
turns turtle.
—At all events Fall will bring with
it an end of the broad striped sport
shirt.
—German women expect the war to
further woman suffrage. Well, a fe
male kaiser couldn't be much of an
improvement any way.
—A New York woman was married
yesterday for the fifth time at the ago
of 82. Nobody will deny that she is
old enough and experienced enough
to know whether fr not marriage is a
failure.
—The Wilson administration's Idea
of national economy is the creation
of an eleven cent postage stamp.
Making one stamp bloom where two
bloomed before, as It were.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ""
WHAT'S IST A NAME
[From the Johnstown Leader.]
Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton Is one
of the busiest surgeons on the staff of
the New York Polyclinic Hospital, but
she was named before she became a
surgeon.
A LESSON FROM SING SING
[From the Wllkes-Barre Evening
News.]
Convicts at Sing Sing have placed.a
ban on profanity. They will be apt to
launch a movement for the suppres
sion of crime next.
AS TO THE LIBERTY BGLI,
[From the Nashville Southern Lumber
man.]
The Liberty Bell would probably not
go traveling all over the country at its
age unless it was cracked.
WAR AND CITIZENSHIP
[From the Buffalo Express.]
The Government of the United States
is giving some publicity to the position
which it feels compelled to take in re
gard to those aliens who have sought
naturalization and now have returned
to their native lands to bear arms in
the present great war. Of course, all
persons who seek naturalization must
forswear their allegiance to any other
power at the same time they take the
oath of allegiance to the United States.
It lias always been held that all
Americans who may take the oath ot
allegiance to a foreign power by that
act yield their American citizenship.
The same rule applied in the case of
these aliens vitiates any act they may
have taken toward the assumption of
American citizenship.
This seems a reasonable position and
it is one that probably will not make
much difference in the cases of these
aliens. In the event that any of them
are left alive after the war is over and
the.v return to this country and again
desire to become American citizens, the
effect of this ruling will only delay the
consummation of that act. Instead of
having the process under way. they will
simply have to begin over again. It
may cause some confusion and disap
pointment to them, but nothing more.
Incidentally, the rule applied to those
native-born Americans—and there are
a few of them who have Joined the
foreign armies—will doubtless cause
them surprise if they are lucky enough
to have the opportunity to attempt to
resume theli* rights as American citi
zens and if the point should ever be
raised against them that they had for
sworn such rights when they took ser
vice under a foreign power.
THE EXPATRIATED MUSKR ATS
[From the New York Sun.]
The muskrats of this country which
were introduced on tlip estates 01
Prince Colloredo-Mannsfeld in Bo
hemia in 1905 have not behaved as
they should and have been no credit
to the land of their ancestry. Like
the rabbit In Australia and the En
llsh sparrow in the United States, the
muskrat has developed evil traits of
which It was apparently innocent in
Its native habitat. While it has grown
much in size its value as a fur-bearing
animal has decreased to almost noth
ing.
It undermines the dams and banks
of the fish ponds In regions where fish
culture Is a leading industry, allowing
both fish and water to escape: It works
havoc among river crabs and mussels,
the former furnishing a large food
supply and the latter shells which sup
port important industries. And as If
this was not severe enough an indict
ment. our consul at Prague accuses it
of other crimes—catching llsh, disturb
ing their feeding and spawning, eating
grain and vegetables and stealing etrgs.
Here, indeed, is a fine record in a
foreign land for one of our most harm
less creatures which is furnishing
American women with their finest
sable, seal or marten furs. The Bo
hemians do not call it a muskrat, bin
ian "American muskrat," and they also
I say it is a pest.
WHY THE FLEAS KI,ED
[From the Lockesburg (Ark.) Tribune.]
One of our good paid-in-advance sub
scribers has finally succeeded In get
ting rid of the fleas that inhabited his
bird dog. He took the dog to De Queen
and while there visited a show where
a man had a bunch of performing fleas.
The fleas on the dog got stage-struck
and followed the performing fleas off.
THE TERRIRLE TURK
[From the Detroit Times.]
There are no old maids In Turkey
No wonder, then, that country has so
many unhappy men.
Our Daily Laugh
§J SLOPPT.
When the rain la
> over
And water's In
fj the path,
fTU Old mother earth
gC. looks like
3"— She'd had her
self a bath.
DIFFERENT \
SPHERES. rfjSL II
"Our Interests He * I
i n different jfaf'j
spheres," i&p Ml-||
She said he . S-v j
sighed, poor t sMj 1
Twas so she | ||
was a golfing ||n fy |
And he a base- »
ball fan.
ELECTION IS COMING
By Wing Dinger
Friends, election time Is coming.
And. by Jove, It seems to me.
That the name of most of my friends
Will upon the ticket be.
Every day somebody asks me
For my vote, or else to sign
Some petition circulating
For some other friends of mine.
Never knew I'd friends so numerous;
If an office I could spy
That would suit me, for election
, Blamed if I don't think I'd try. -i
'ptKKOH&KUtZa
By the Ex-Committeeman
One by one the roses of the Wash
ington party fade. Westmoreland, Al
legheny and Fayette having shown a
terrific slump In enrollment now comes
along Clarion with a worse drop than
in any yet reported. Clarion is a
Democratic county and the Bull Moos
ers developed over 1600 votes for
Roosevelt In 1912. The recent enroll
ment shows Democrats 4,457, about
the normal; Republicans 8,563, which
is a gain, Socialists 365, Prohibitionists
282 and Washington party 50. Five
men registered as Independents,
twelve as Progressives, one as Bull
Moose and one as Anarchist.
The Philadelphia registration is be
ing watched with much interest as it
is expected to show that the Washing
ton party is now only {l shadow.
—While the remnant of the Bull
Moose in Dauphin county is talking
about fusing with the dominant wing
of the faction torn Democracy there
arc a good many Democrats who are
objecting to any new alliance with tho
Washlngtonlans. They claim they
failed to deliver last time and that
they have nothing now.
—lt might me remarked in passing
that- the fusion game looks a good
bit, to a man on the side, like an ef
fort to make expenses. The Dauphin
county experiment, now that the Dem
ocrats have shown no scruples what
ever about disregarding the verdict
of a primary, may be tried in other
counties.
Nominating petitions were filed at
the Capitol to-day by the following
judicial candidates:
Common Pleas' Court Thomas F.
Bailey, Huntingdon-Mlfflin-Bedford;
William P. Young. Montgomery; Hen
ry C. Quigley, Center; Robert F.
Glenn, Venango; Sevellon F. Channel,
Tioga; John W. Reed. Jefferson, the
latter being the present judge.
Associate Judge—George Zundell,
Forest.
The time for filing such petitions ex
pires next Tuesday.
—The name of Col. Sheldon Potter,
former chief of artillery of the Na
tional Guard, is now being mentioned
for the independent mayoralty nomi
nation for Mayor of Philadelphia.
The Colonel is getting used to It by
this time. Many prominent business
men have been urging him.
—The Moore boom received new
Impetus yesterday when businessmen
met and urged his selection as a
means of giving an experienced man
and one who would be acceptable to
all.
—The Philadelphia Ledger says to
day that~ the Vare firm has over a
million dollars' worth of city con
tracts in Philadelphia and hints that
the Senator may unload so as not to
interfere with the Congressman.
—Pottsviile has seventeen candi
dates for City Commissioner.
—Senator Penrose has made nu
merous engagements for the re
mainder of this month and part of
Septetnber, Indicating that the Phila
delphia Mayoralty situation will not
receive his undivided attention. His
engagements follow: August 24,
Reading, fiftieth anniversary P. O. S.
of A.: August 28, Lehigh County Re
publican Committee meeting at Le
vans, near Allentown, formal opening
of the November campaign: August
30-31, Scranton, twelfth annual con
vention Spanish War Veterans; Sep-,
tember 6, Shanksville, Somerset Coun
ty, P. O. S. of A. meeting; September
7, Pittsburgh Railway Mail Clerks' As
sociation; September 10, Put-in-Bay,
Ohio, Perry Victory Commission meet
ing; September 15, Hanover, Old
Home Week.
A COUNTRY DRIVE AT NIGHT*
[From the Columbus (O.) Dispatch.]
You are losing a lot of life if you
do not drive along the country roads
at night. Beautiful as is the country
during the day, it is more beautiful at
night. There is a weirdness about it,
an inspiration ,as one drives through
the country after dark that does not
come when the sun Is shining.
The road opens up before you like a
great fan, tinged with darkness. You
are plunging headlong into a gigantic
tunnel at night. 'The trees are seen
only in outline—fantastic shapes form
and reform before your eyes, and fade
Into a mystery of awe. The fences wig
¥le In the shadows like things of life.
Iw> cattle in the fields beside the road
become the goblins of the night, and
from afar there beats upon the scene a
dickering light in farmhouse for all the
world 11|ce the single eye of Cyclops.
The light from the car brings .out the
defects of the road, and magnifies
them. A billowy path, Indeed, accord
ing to the lights and shadows. Yet the
machine takes the rippling waves of
the road with never a complaint, and
the sweet, cool breath of night instils a
courage into the soul that is enchant
ing.
Sailing upon the lakes at night Is
pleasant. There is the silvery wake
trailing behind the boat, and the dis
tant lights along the shore are charm
ing. But the night time upon the lake
is different from the drive at night
through the country. There is not the
rolling changes every second; not the
pictures in the dark: not the ghostly
charm of mystery which one beholds
when riding along the country roads
when the stars are twinkling. There is
nothing comparable with the country
ride at night.
WHERE GREAT BRITAIN FAILED
TNew York World.]
Lord Lansdowne's statement that
Great Britain has only from 440,000
to 460,000 men "In the European the
ater of war" Is a startling expression
of the nation's unpreparedness even at
this late day. On good authority it has
been said that a British army of nearly
8,000,000 men has been raised. In
cluding casualties as officially reported,
only about one-fourth that number
have seen actual fighting.
It Is evident that Great Britain not
only lacked equipment for its army at
the beginning of the war, but after
eleven and a half months It is still un
able to equip it. The great bulk of
the huge army that it has recruited is
unavailable for service and counts for
nothing to-day on the fighting line.
Colonial troops from Canada, Aus
tralia and New Zealand have been sent
to the front becausf they came pre
pared, while hundreds of thousands of
soldiers who enlisted In Great Britain
are awaiting arms.
A nation may be capable of calling
volunteer armies into being on short
notice, but it cannot create cannon by
m?glc or provide itself with munitions
in emergency by mere force of money.
Under the assaults of more aggressive
and provident enemies its safety will
be Imperiled if it trusts too much to
its latent resources for self-defense.
NEEDED MORE ROOM
[From the Saturday Evening Post.]
During the run of a play in New
York last winter a wobbly person
teetered up to the box offlcte one Satur
day night when the place was packed
and demanded a good seat.
"Nothing left except standing room,"
said the DOX office man. ■'Bell you
standing room for a dollar."
The wavering one produced a dollar
and went Inside. But so many general
admissions were grouped at the rear
that, over the Intervening hedge of
heads, he caught only vagrant glimpses
of what was going on upon the stage.
He foggily considered the situation
for a spell. Then he rocked his weav
ing way back to the box office win
dow and put a second dollar on the
shelf.
"Gimme noszlr one of them stand
in' rooms," he ordered; "can't see the
.show at all If you only rot one*''
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
THE EUROPEAN HARVEST MOON
—From the N. Y. Evening Mail.
The Psychology of Adventure
By Frederic J. Haskin
< J
ADVENTURE, says the veteran
professional explorer in the serv
ice of Uncle Sam, is a thing
peculiar to the amateur. A man who
knows his business never has an ad
venture. Adventure is an experience
which comes only to the blunderer, to
the man who flounders into situations
that he should have foreseen and
avoided.
In substantiation of which theory
the government explorer modestly re
tails some of his accomplishments and
those of his fellows. He tells of ex
peditions undertaken and executed, in
attempting which other men nad lost
their lives. But, he holds, there was
no adventure, no danger, when the
scientist went forth upon the same
tasks. For the scientist roresaw every
possibility and provided against it.
He discounted every danger. He pro
ceeded with understanding and re
turned in safety.
Many field men of the government
are just now out upon such tasks for
explorations have to do with a num
ber of branches of the government.
The explorers of the Geological Sur
vey are the most numerous of those
of any bureau that sends men Into the
wild. To be sure there are agents of
the Department of Agriculture who go
into the jungles for rare plants, of
the Bureau of Ethnology who venture
among strange and savage people, of
the Smithsonian Institution which
sends all manner of scientific expedi
tions into all parts of the world. But
the Geological Survey is the official
bureau of explorations of the govern
ment.
The scientists of that service were
the pioneers of Alaska. They pushed
Into the forbidding interior of that
vast waste where the foot of white
man had never before trod. They
climbed its mighty mountains, crossed
its tundras, navigated its unknown
streams, suffered the darkness of its
long winters. But, they say, they ex
perienced no adventure.
Perils of Exploration
One such scientific expedition start
ed out with a pack train, traveled a
thousand miles, exhausted Its horses,
killed and cached them against the
possibility of needing their flesh as
food, built itself boats and pushed on.
So precipitous grew the region that It
was necessary that the boats De taken
up the stream by wading in it and
dragging them. All day tnese men
floundered through the waters that
ran from the snout of a glacier, slipped
and fell in it and never changed their
clothes. They knew that vigorous
exercise In the open prevented such a
possibility as taking a cold. There
was no such danger for them.
They came to the end at the stream
and knew they were near the top of a
divide. Beyond were waters that flow
ed In another direction into the un
knowp. They cached food against
the necessity of returning this way
and portaged over the divide and
found a new river. They built them
selves stout rafts. If a rart Is strong
enough it will not break TO pieces if
It runs Into rocks on fast rapids. The
amateur would build a raft that would
go to pieces and would have an ad
venture in the first rapids but not the
scientist. He discounts the possibility
of rapids.
1,500 Miles Down Stream
With food sufficient for a trip of al
most any length the voyage was be
gun. It led Into a new valley that ia
an offshoot of- the Yuson and
eventually 1,500 miles down that
stream to Its mouth past which ply
whaling ships that may take a wan
derer home.
Fj-ank C. Schrader is the veteran
explorer of the Geological Survey. One
Spring he crossed Chilkoat Pass early
and went down the Yukon a thousand
miles with a dog team before the ice
broke up. Then he climbeu a stream
that reached out toward the Arctic
Ocean at the eastern boundary of
Alaska. White man had never cross
ed here. He got over a pass 6,000
feet high where the moose were un
afraid of him because they had never
known the enmity of this man crea
ture. Going down a stream on rafts
he reached the Arctic Ocean far be
yond Point Barrow which Is the
northernmost land of the continent.
Thrilling Experiences
Schrader knew the way «ack and
had food stored along the way If a
retreat became necessary. But he
wanted to map this Arctic coast and
so pushed westward. It was Septem
ber when he reached Point Barrow to
which station a revenue cutter pene
trates once a year. But the revenue
cutter had come and gvne ror the
field Ice was threatening «o close in
at any time. The explorers had the
choice of remaining her» ror a year
or pushing on down the coast in a
whale boat. Fortified with provision
against any emergency, they chose the
latter. Four hundred mtles down tho
coast they found a belated collier that
was just clearing from an Isolated
mine in these wilds. They took thtlr
whaleboat aboard with them for the
collier was likely to be crushed In
the Ice and, without «!rts provision
against such an emergency, there
might be an adventure. &o tney came
out safely.
Savages Who Kill
The late Dr. W. J. McGee wanted
to go to Tiburon Island, in the Gulf
of California, to study the Seri In
dians, one of the most savage and
primitive races in the world. Many
adventurers had preceded him for
there were reports of goia on the
island and the possibility of establish
ing oneself as king. None of these
adventurers had ever returned. As
Dr. McGee afterward learned, the
Seris regard themselves «s the fittest
of God's people and always kill any
outsider for fear that their mood may
become contaminated through com
mingling with his.
There was the necessity or crossing
a desert forty miles wide to get to trie
coast off Tlburon. Then there were
choppy straits to navigate and a barren
island upon which to subsist while
studying this difficult peop-e which
killed all outsiders. It appeared on
the surface as though the party ac
complishing such an end might ex
perience various striking adventures.
But it did not. It had a scientist at
its head. Dr. McGee established a
depot beside the ocean to wnlch he
ran wagons hauling water and sup
plies. So there was no chance of dan
ger from the desert. Then he built a
raft th<*t the choppy waters might not
wreck. Here was the assurance of
safe transit to the island. Then tie
marshaled a force of armed men of
such strength that he wit» sure It
would not be attacked, for me Sen
had learned of the deadly bark of a
rifle against which he had nu counter
weapon. The law of the party was
that it was to stick together. Thus
did it avoid adventure.
Two expeditions were made and
months were spent in the region.
Finally friendships were stablished
with certain of these Indians, they
were studied, photographed, classified.
One of the most fascinating reports of
the peculiarities of a new-found peo
ple ever published by the Smithsonian
Institution resulted—a people over six
feet tall that was so fleet of foot as
to capture with its bare hands the
Jack rabbits of the desert, or the wild
cattle of the nearby ranges; so, primi
tive that they tore the raw flesh with
their teeth, yet so racially -wise that
each young man was forced to the
most drastic eugenic test before he
was allowed to marry and driven into
the desert to die if he failed.
In Colorado Desert
These scientific explorers have gone
Into the great Colorado desert and
surveyed it and mapped it. They laid
out the boundaries of Glacier National
Park in that riot of mountains just
this side of Canada. In the Great
Bend of the Rio Grande they have
contested every step with the rattle
snakes. One of them was winding
around a trail on a ledge of Copper
Mountain, in Alaska, one day when
he met a mountain sheep which dis
puted with him the right of way. He
killed the sheep with a hatchet and
carried it to camp and ate it up, but
had he been a bungling adventurer he
would have been butted over the
cliff.
There is a utilitarian side to all this
work. It was because of it that Uncle
Sam learned of the value of his hold
ings in Alaska In time to keep them
from slipping away. It was the knowl
edge of the geologist explorer that
led to the location of a mountain
range of phosphates when, a few years
ago, there was a scare because of an
apparent exhaustion of this material
that serves as a basis for fertilizer.
Such a geologist explorer one day
stopped to change trains at a plains
town in western South Dakota. He
talked with the station agent who
lamented the difficulty that the town
was experiencing in getting water for
the ordinary uses. The Keoiogist told
the railroad man that 460 feet down
there was a strata of hot artesian
water. The railroad drilled for it,
found it, and to-day there is an
aboundance of water for the town
which uses it for ordinary purposes
and to heat its houses as weil. The
geologist had seen the strata of stone
that underlies this region come to the
surface on the rim of the Rockies
hundreds of miles away. He snew that
the water beneath it was seeking an
outlet.
The theory that there is no danger
if care is taken to understand the
tasks confronted by the explorer is
borne out by one convincing fact.
These scientific men always return
from their expeditions. Tnere Is no
record of one of them having met
death. Yet the man of the street who
would undertake the same trips would
have little chance of surviving them.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[•From the Telegraph, Aug. 18, 1865.]
Announce Teacl.ers For Schools
The teachers for the public schools
of Middletown for the coming year
were appointed and announced to
day.
Teachers Elect Officers
J. P. Wickersham, of Lancaster,
was elected president of the National
Teachers' Association this morning.
S. P. Bates, of this city, was chosen
treasurer. Other officers and coun
selors were appointed. .
Church Festival Tonight
Members of the Fourth St. Bethel
will hold & church festival to-night In
the main room of the churclv
Ebtntng (ttlfat
Rainy weather, thunderstorms and
general hopping about of temperature
have not Interfered with»the swarmln?
of the blackbirds preparatory to going
to warmer climates after the frost be
gins to touch the trees of Pennsylva
nia hills and valleys. In fact, on some
of the rainiest days the birds have
been seen in great clouds from Reser
voir Park. Literally thousands of
must be spending the days within sight ,
of the city, for a trip to the knob of
Reservoir Park late.in the afternoon
or early In the evening Is enough to
give one views of whole brigades of
the blackcoats. Oneof the Interesting
things about the birds is that the va
rieties known as "rustles" and "pur
ples" appear to be about equally di
vided and without much regimental
alignment. The birds turn up early
in the morning, some being seen in the
outskirts of the city and over on the
Cumberland shore about the time the
trolley cars and the milkmen have the
streets to themselves and by day they
art in the fields. Often a hundred will
be scared up at one time, but they
appear to be well contented with the
locality and do not go far away. At
evening time they commence to gather
on the tall trees and the Reservoir, the
grove of old Paxton Church, the woods
back of the State hospital and tho
Reservoir Park are places which are
selected for their vesper gatherings.
The birds swarm In the trees and
fresh contingents keep arriving until
shortly before dark, when the whole,
crt-w suddenly start off on a flight.
Many of them have been seen early in
the evening along the river. Where
they spend the night in such crowds
no one seems to know, but probably In
some woods where they can squabble
without waking up other denizens of
the air.
The trip of the Pennsylvania com
mission to the Panama-Pacific Ex
position, which will start next Tues
day, is attracting much attention
along the route and the governors of
several States through which the train
will pass in the day-time will greet
Governor Brumbaugh and his party.
The first big stop will be in Chicago,
where former Pennsylvanlans will pay
their respects to the Keystone Stato
executive.
• » •
A good story is going the rounds of
Capitol Hill about an inspection made
by some State officers in a certain placa
where there are people who once in a
while need restraint. It happened that
such an establishment was inspected
and found to be shy on means of es
cape in time of fire. A fire escape sys
tem was ordered and put up. When
the State inspector went around again
he found the fire escape up and on the
Inside of the windows good stout iron
bars as effective in keeping persons
inside as in preventing access to the
fire escapes in time of danger.
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A Harrisburg housewife and a farm
er at the Chestnut Street Market were
discussing the price of potatoes.
"Yes, potatoes are cheap this year,
but I remember when we could get
'em for twenty-five cents a bushel."
"Waal," drawled the countryman,
"I remember somepin' of them days
meself, but then we got labor for fifty
cents a day instead of a> dollar fifty.
And nowadays we daresn't even say
'Com' on boys, let's hustle! Looks
like rain.' or by heck, the potato plck
ers'll quit and let you whistle foif
help."
» « •
Harrisburg jitneys are nothing ft
not obliging. Last evening a jitney
which was being steered by a rather
inexperienced driver became miffed
and undertook to charge Into the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
office. It carried one of the iron bi
cycle racks with it, but befqre enter
ing the door the man stopped it. When
he applied the reverse and with a loud
shout the machine started to back,
taking the rack with it and allowing it
to rest upright in the same place it had
been before.
• • *
Cars from five different States were
seen in ten minutes in Market street
this morning. One came from New
York, followed by one from Ohio.
Then Maryland and Indiana went by
followed by a lone car from far off
Massachusetts.
• » •
Cyrus E. Woods, Secretary of the
Commonwealth, who is to represent
the Governor at the conference of gov-
I ernors at Boston the latter part of this
ljionth, is spending the summer in
the New England States. Secretary
Woods is a former president of the
Senate and former minister to Portu
gal and has attended many formal
gatherings.
] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—W. E. Newljn, city solicitor of
McKeesport, has declined to attend the
third class city convention at public
expense.
—C. L. Saxton. of Pittsburgh, is on
an automobile tour in Canada. Pro
fessor Jesse Coldren, of Brownsville,
has gone to the San Francisco expo
sition.
—Congressman Thomas F. Crago, of
Waynesburg, is presiding at the For
eign Wars society convention at De
troit.
—Major F. E. Harris, of the coast
artillery, well known here, has been
transferred back to the United States
from the Philippines.
—George H. Lea, of Philadelphia, is
spending August in New England.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg municipal prao .
tioe is watolied throughout Ui«
State?
CURIOUS
[From the Washington Post.]
Somewhat paradoxically, P. S. Mc-
Clure refutes Sir. Bryan's argument In
favor of the signed editorial, and then
appends his name to the cartel.
Making Business Better
Despite the handicap of war
business Is on the up grade.
If each one of us contributes
a little extra push It will soon
be better.
It means trying harder and '
keeping at it longer.
It means continual optimism
and faitli in the future.
And It means careful, sustain
ed. well planned newspaper ad
vertising In many Instances.
This newspaper will be gl&d to
assist those who want sugges
tions as to how to help push busi
ness.
r " \
SECOND FLY CONTEST
of the Civic Club for 1915.
August Ist to September 2ftth.
Five cents a pint for all files, and
many prises Is gold.