6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ttfl PUBLISHED BY !j THB TBLEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. BTACKPOLB PrttHtnt end Bditor-in-CUtf F. R. OYSTER Stcrttary GUB M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Bun day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr, New York City. Hasbrook, Story St Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. IH"WI Delivered by carriers at si* cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at IS.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris bur g. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average circulation for the three months ending July 81. 1015 ★ 21,084 ★ Average for the year 1914—21,88® Avers ge for the year 1915—19,063 Average far the year 1912—10,640 Average for the year 1111—1TJMIS Average far the year lIIO—IMM The above fflgares are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies di luted. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24. Fqr phosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and, sinful generation, the Bon of man also shall be ashamed of him. when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.—Mark 8:38. CROSSINGS MUST GO THE activities of the borough offi cials of Hummelstown previous to and following the tragedy of July 5, when a half-dozen lives were snuffed out at a grade crossing in that place, is having widespread effect. In the end their protests, as laid before' the Public Service Commission, prom ise to pave the way for the abolition of grade crossings in all parts of Pennsylvania. The suggestion of Governor Brum baugh, promptly endorsed by Chair man Ainey with the statement that the Public Service Commission will at j once get under way, that a beginning j he made by wiping out the crossings I along the Lincoln highway is a good ; one. The Philadelphia Bulletin asks why only along the Lincoln highway, and others may be prompted to put j the same qeustlon. The Governor had his reasons and they are sound. The Lincoln highway is the great auto mobile drive from coast to coast. In the next few years it will be traversed by thousands upon thousands of auto mobilsts from other States. It is destined to become very soon one of most traveled roads in the country. We owe It to our visitors to provide them with safe conduct through the Commonwealth. Beside. Pennsylvania with a state-wide highway free from grade crossings will provide a fine example of "safety first" for other States to follow. At all events, a be ginning had to he made somewhere. Indications are that the Public Service Commission, aroused to its duty in the matter and heartily sup ported by the Governor, will not be content to let the matter rest with the Lincoln highway. If recent announce ments of the commission are to be taken as a guide, a program for the gradual elimination of all crossings will be mapped out shortly, to be worked out over a period of years. In the meantime, no doubt, the commis sion will take steps to make the exist ing crossings as safe to travel as pos sible. LEST WE FORGET WE have been shocked by the stories of German outrages In Belgium and Russian atrocities in GaUcia. but we should not forget that British history is not blameless In these matters. Just 101 years ago to-day Engllah soldiery ravaged the capltol of the United States at Wash ington. It was not a proud day for either England or America when the five thousand British raiders destroyed Washington. For President Madison, with hie wife and Cabinet, was forced to flee into the country and go Into hiding. Valuable records were hur riedly loaded into wagons and hidden In mills and cellars in Virginia and Maryland. The War of 1812 had been waged for two years when a fleet of sixty British warships entered Chesapeake Bay. In command were Admiral Coekburn and General Ross. The de fense of Washington by the American troops was made at Bladensburg, but through Interference with the plans of General Winder and his staff the efficiency of the small fore® was re duced to woeful disorder. The British troopers entered Wash ington on the afternoon of August 24, I£l4, and at once began the pillage. Admiral Coekburn enjoyed the de struction, galloping tfftout on a white horse. The unfinished Capitol, the ar- sonal, the White House, the barracks, , the t-j«sury building and other public «*rug(ures were burned. General Rosa attributed the firing of these buildings to revenge for sniping. The Patent Office was spared. At the White House the British offi cers disported themselves. They danced about In Mrs. Madison's ball gowns and In wall tapestries and vel vet curtains. Then they smashed the furniture and had an all-round good tirae, their feelings mounting hlsjh from the contents of the wine cellar. The torch was set to the executive mansion at the wind-up of this orgy. Before midnight the Invaders had TUESDAY EVENING, done their work and began to with draw. As they passed the grave of George Washington at Mount Vernon Admiral Coekburn halted his com mand and made them stand reverently with uncovered heads while the Brit ish standards were dipped In honor of the patriot's memory. The entire country was aroused over the act of the British commanders In sacking the city of Washington. The war was pushed with unusual bitter ness and force to a successful con clusion. It was another Instance when America aroused herself to the evils confronting any conquest on her shores. FRIENDSHIP WORTH WHITE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH left behind him when he boarded the Pennsylvania special for San Francisco yesterday a statement containing his unqualified support of Judge George B. Orlady for re-elec tion to the Superior Court. This, while unusual enough to exclto com ment. is quite within the rights of the Governor to do. The non-partisan judicial law has taken judgships out of politics and the Governor Is en titled to express his preferences. Governor Brumbaugh is to be ad mired for coming to the assistance of an old friend. Many a man in his position might have hesitated. Be sides, Judge Orlady has made an ex cellent record on the bench, so that there is more than mere personal re gard in the Governor's support of the Orlady candidacy. MEN FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD IT is an indication of wholesome public spirit when men like A. Car- son Stamm, Dr. C. E. L. Keene and Robert A. Enders offer themselves as candidates for the School Board. The office of school director Is not an easy one to fill and often the best efforts of conscientious directors are miscon strued. The school director receives much blame and littlo praise. If things go wefl, the public takes little or no notice. If they go 111, the director is sure to be censured, and in no gentle manner. That Mr. Stamm, Mr. Enders and Dr. Keene are ready to make their personal sacrifices and give up val uable time —for t*"-y are all busy men —to the service f the schools Indl | cates an admirable interest in public education In Harrisburg. Mr. Stamm is the possessor of one of the brightest legal minds in Pennsylvania and he has the confidence of the people, hav ing served with distinction as a mem ber of the Board of Public Works and previous to that In City Council. He Is well versed in the school needs of the city and would no doubt make an excellent director. Mr. Enders and Dr. Keene are also well known and progressive. Dr. Keene has displayed a lively interest In the development of the new Thir teenth ward and Mr. Enders, as presi dent of the Sixth Street Bank and head of the West End Improvement Association, has left his mark on that section of the city. Both are dis tinctly Independent in polities and are good businessmen, and Dr. Keene has had experience in school board work. There Is no more important branch of public service than that of which the School Board Is the directing force, but too often small attention is paid to it by the voters and not always the right men are elected. It Is a good sign when candidates of the caliber named are willing to get into the race. TONIC FOR THE CRISIS CERTAIN localities continue to re ceive the stimulus of war or ders. Pittsburgh's recent share of contracts aggregates $80,000,000, virtually all for railway equipment. Secretary Nordman of the Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Commission states that he has turned over to firms in other cities several large orders for muni tions, such as rifles and cartridges, which are not manufactured in the Pittsburgh district. A $25,000,000 contract for rifles, accounterments and ammunition is to be let among Denver manufacturers provided they can handle such a large order. The Newhouse mills in New York city have received a contract from the Italian, government for blan kets, the majority of them to be 8% pounds weight, 600,000 to be delivered In October. The American Woolen Company has also received a large order for blan kets from the same government. Or ders such as this account largely for the high prices of wool. Efforts of the Allies to place a. $29,400,000 order for picric acid in St. Louis have failed because of inability of manufacturers there to supply such a demand, but several of the St. Louisiana are con templating the establishment of a pic ric acid plant In New Jersey. Picric acid sells at $1.50 a pound, an advance of one dollar since the war. Some practitioners administer strong stimulants to their patients In the be lief that the artificial strength thus de rived will enable them to. tide over a crisis. It is hoped that war orders will act In like manner on our national in dustries, that they may pass through the crisis of the present administra/- tlon. JAPAN "MORE ACTIVE" JAPAN has spoken. Yesterday's official dispatch is to the effect that the Japanese government has reached the conclusion that It must more actively support the cause of the allies in their war with Ger many. That may mean much, or little. But the statement was not unexpect ed. The extent of this "more active support" will depend entlnely upon the success of German arms in RUB sla. It would be foollih for Japan to throw her armies Into .the European struggle if the allies demonstrate their ability to handle the situation. But with Russia in danger of defeat, Ja pan would have no choice but to pour her millions of men across Siberia to the aid of the Czar. Otherwise Japan would have to fight Germany after that nation had conquered all Eu rope. The Mikado knows thlt better than anybody. Hence his announce ment of "more active support." j I IK *Pstuvo*jt«Kuua j Ay the Bx-OonmiltteeaMra The period for filing nominating pe titions for judicial primaries will cx fiire to-night at sundown and the clos ng hours are developing some ex ceedingly Interesting contests. In Philadelphia it appears that there are numerous candidates for everything and in some of the central districts in teresting battles ar© developing. In the Huntingdon-Mifflin-Bedford district Frederic W. Culbertson, son of the former judge, entered his peti tion to be a candidate for judge. Judge J. 8. Woods is a candidate for renominatlon and there are also can didates in Bedford and Huntingdon. Little Adams county Is furnishing much of interest. Ex-Senator D. P. McPherson yesterday filed his papers to be candidate for judge of the Adams-Fulton district and William McCherry and J. L. Butt also filed. There are almost as many candidates for associate judge in Adams, which will elect two, as In Forest and Sny der counties. Yesterday afternoon David H. Guise and E. L. Shifter filed papers and to-day H. J. Gulden, L. H. Rice and E. P. Miller went on record. The filing of papers by D. Edward Long, of Waynesboro, for judge in Franklin, was followed closely yes terday by papers In behalf of Sena tor John W. Hoke. Jacob Johnston, associate judge can didate for Perry, filed his papers to day. Ellwood D. F"ulton, Uniontown law yer who was a candidate for superior court a few years ago, to-day entered the lists for the Washington county judicial nomination, it being permitted under the law for a resident of one county to run for judge of another. He will oppose Judge R. W. Irwin who was appointed judge of Washing ton county by Governor Tener. The Fayette county judicial battle was intensified to-day by filing of pe titions by Frank Lape and Harold T. Robinson. Judge George S. Crlsweli, of Venan go, one of the "dry judges" to-day filed a nominating petition. Among the petitions filed late yes terday afternoon by Judicial candi dates were: HenryJCathan Wessels and J. P. Rogers, court No. 2, Philadelphia; and Judge Raymond MacNeille for the Philadelphia municipal court. Wil liam C. Wilson, Philadelphia, filed for superior court. Ex-Representative George A. Bald win, one of the lexowers in 1913, to day filed a petition to be a candidate for judge in Beaver county. —Former Postmaster Thomas B. Smith was last night indorsed for mayor of Philadelphia and Governor Brumbaugh was petitioned to co operate in a movement to bring about the nomination of Mr. Smith by the Republican party as successor of Mayor Blankenburg. This action WSB taken by the Northwest Business Men's Protective Association, an or ganization composed largely, of mem bers of the Northwest Business Men's Association, a nonpolltical*body. —Petitions were started In circula tion last night at Philadelphia for Ex-State Treasurer John O. Sheatz for the Republican nomination for mayor. He is said to be willing. —Philadelphia independents are up in the air over mayor. Very few want George D. Porter and there is op position to Col. Sheldon Potter. Mayor Blankenburg will not make any moves. —The Philadelphia Record In siz ing up the Philadelphia mayoralty situation says: "Fully half the Re publican ward committees in various parts of the city held meetings last night, but not a word about the mayoralty was permitted in any one or them. This unprecedented con dition existing within eight days of the last day for filing nomination pa pers is due to the deadlock between the camps of the rival leaders, Mc- Nichol and the Vares. From each camp went forth orders that the mayoralty and all the city and coun ty officers were to be left out of the discussion. All the ward committees did was receive their blanks for Select and Common Councllraen, con stables, school visitors and election officers. There was not the slightest sign yesterday that the mayoralty deadlock was to be broken soon. Senator Vare was still silent upon the candidacy of his brother, Congress man Vare. Senators Penrose and Mc- N'lchol were also mute. Since their followers sprung the names of Thos. B Smith and Judge J. Willis Martin and found them coldly received, there haii not emanated from the Penrose- McNlchol stronghold any name likely to be put in opposition to that of Congressman Vare at the primary election next month." 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"" —"lt was a sublime day for which 1 humbly thank God. The booty at Knvno has Increased to 600 guns," says the German Emperor. For the victory or the booty? —Whatever goes up Is sure to come ■down; which leads us to the observa tion that the sun must have been drawing a great dsal of water some where. —"General Villa has assumed the of fensive," says a news dispatch. Gen eral Villa is nearly always offensive. .—We wonder how Dr. Bobo would fool if some thoughtless printer In theso days of his prominence In the | news forgot and spelled his name with an H. —Why this persistent silence on the part of those who reported last Spring that the peach crop had been ruined by lato frosts? —To-day 101 years ago President Madison WAS playing the role later as jsumed by King Albert of Belgium, I only the act wasn't so long nor so j tragic. The "Show Me" Spirit All people who like to be shown do not hail from Mis souri. The spirit Is typically Ameri can we are an inquisitive peo ple and inclined to doubts. Storekeepers who use their windows to display the goods which manufacturers are adver j tlslng in the newspapers are capitalizing this "show me" spirit. They are satisfying public curi osity and by so doing are bene- I fitting their own business. They are focussing the atten tion of newspaper readers on their store and service. They are keeping in the pub lic eye. 1 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Have you ever been in a barber shop when the customer goes out without paying the bootblack? Yes! Then you'll appreciate the Incident here depicted by L. R. Ney, the young Harrisburg artist who is making a suites of cartoons around about Harrisburg for the Telegraph. Incidentally, the cartoon was drawti from a life model in a local shop. Do you recognize it? NATIONAL DEFENSE PROBLEMS V.—Lessons of the War—Turret Forts By Frederic J. Haskin An aviator, flying over Germany or observing the more modern type of fortifications along the border of France, might see what he took to be the backs of huge tortoises, lying prone upon the ground with only their black rounded shells showing above the earth level. From a distance of a few hundred feet the pent up possi bilities of these rounded objects would not appear, but when Uncle Sam sent a number of military observers abroad at the commencement of the pres ent war in Europe, he instructed them to study carefully these fortifica tions. The tortoise-like objects are the visible portions of the modern turret fort, the outgrowth of the obsolete fortification which rose with sheer walls like the castles of old. Evolution or the Fort The evolution of the fort, the de termination of its modern possibili ties, particularly the lessons to be learned regarding? construction and placing, ranks among the most im portant of the problems that are to be determined if the United States is to increase its military strength. Uncle Sam has the facts. Of all the lessons hammered home by experience in the present war none is more important or more revolu tionary than the impotence of the old-style fort against modern artil lery. The sheer-walled fort, which has come down to' us in only a modi fied form since the baronial castles defied the puny attacks of poorly armed enemies, no longer offers ma terial resistance Xo modern gunnery and an entirely new method of fort construction had to be evolved to keep pace with the Improvement in gun manufacture. The turret fort, with its domed roof and novel method of handling guns, is the largest step in this evolution. Deflect Projectiles The reason for the curvature of the steel 'skin" of the fort is to offer the least possible resistance to the pro jectiles of the enemy. To the layman the thought of a fort conjures up ideas of impregnability by reason of thick ness of walls, the stopping of shells by sheer weight of protecting armor. But modern fortifications have fol lowed the line of least resistance and the turret fort is designed, not to stop' the enemy's projectiles, but to deflect them so that they will do little damage. A shell striking the curved dome of a turret fort will be so deflected that It will expend but littlo of its energy upon the fort itself but will fly oft at a tangent, al most without damage to the fortifica tion. Then, again, the domed construction allows of another revolutionary de velopment The modern turret fort is so constructed that it can be re volved about its axis by means of electrical power, thus making it pos sible for the muzzles of the huge rifles to be pointed in any direction. The rifles themselves are mounted very much like# naval guns and the entire operation of serving and load ing the pieces appears to have been borrowed from naval usage. The en tire fort becomes but an enlarged tur ret that may be turned about by the simple device of throwing a switch. How Battery Is Aimed The method of aiming such a bat tery is as interesting as it is novel. The dome or barbette of the whole fortress is rotated until the guns are [in a line with the target and then these are elevated or depressed un til the proper range Is attained. Or dinarily, this would require a large aperture or slit in the' rotunda, like that which permits of the operation on a telescope In an observatory. But this slit would also permit of the en trance of shrapnel or fragments of other shells which would be ex tremely dangerous to the gun crews. In order to obviate this danger, the guns are mounted in close-fitting em brasures and, instead of pointing the rifles up or down as was formerly done, their breeches are moved for ward or backward and the desired result is attained without danger to those inside the turret. The sighting and loading mechan-1 ism of the big guns, together with the machinery which rotates the barbette, occupies the entire dome. The am munition magazines and hoists, the engines which supply the electrical power and the quarters of the gun crew are all situated in concrete vaults beneath the surface of the ground. 'ln this manner space Is economized and the fort is there fore made much smaller and corres pondingly difficult to hit. Why Liege Forts Crumbled Despite the fact of the fortifications at Liege, Antwerp, Laon and else where, supposedly impregnable forts falling into the hands of the enemy in a comparatively short time, military experts still claim that the honors In the duel betwen the fort and the ar tillery belong to the former. The French and Belgian fortifications, they argue, were built to withstarfd only 7 and 9-inch siege guns and, so long as artillery of this caliber was used against them, they gave an excellent account of themselves. It was only when the huge 30.2 and 42-centimeter guns were e<riplaced against them that .they crumpled up and failed to with stand a strain for which they wero never designed. The Ileal Test This, according to military experts, does not prove that fortifications are obsolete or that the great advance in artillery manufacture has outstripped the construction of forts. It mere ly shows that fortresses should be constructed to" withstand the attacks of artillery even heavier than any tn existence at the time. When the pro tecting walls at Antwerp were built, no one dreamed that they would ever have to withstand the batterings of 42-centimeter pieces, because guns of that caliber had not been con ceived. The real test of the value of modern fortifications will come if the Germans engage the really up-to date type of French or Italian forts or if Tne allies attack the German coast defenses. In this connection it is interesting to note that the only "weapon which Is believed to be really effective against the turret fort Is the ordinary rifle, in the hands of experienced infantry. It sems strange that a rifle could succeed where heavy artillery failß, but men versed In military affairs de clare that this is the only method of ! successfully attacking one of these big tortoise forts. The reason for this lies in the fact that all forts of this nature, in mod ern warfare, are protected from the enemy's advance by carefully prepared series of trenches and barbed wire entanglements, radiating for several miles to prevent the employment of heavy artillery.' The big guns are I therefore powerless against the fort AUGUST 24, 1915. because they cannot come within | range. The Intervening ground must first be cleared by the advance of rifle armed infantry, aided by the pole or tube-system of eliminating the wire entanglements. This is a device re sembling a long hollow mast, made in sections and mounted on rollers so that it may be pushed under the wires. A number of these tubes, load ed- with explosives, are pushed under the entranglements and the fusc» lighted. The resultant explosion clears away a sufficient section of the barbed wire to permit of the un hampered onward march of the in fantry. The trenches would then be taken with the aid of concentrated fire from the rifles and machine guns and only then could the heavy artil lery be brought into action .against the forts. The big guns are practi cally powerless without the assistance of the rifle-armed infantry, because their sphere of operations lies en tirely outside an attack on the trenches which would prevent their approach to the ultimate goal—the fort itself. But it is easily conceivable that the most massive of modern fortifications would be unable to resist the attack of a well armed body of infantry, even if the troops were not backed by big gunSt The modern fort is usually too well stocked with provisions to be starved out and this primatlve method is too long and tedious to be us«jd unless it is impossible for the siege to be lifted by the arrival of reinforce ments. Accordingly, therefore, the attack ing infantry would sing a number of tunnels—technically as "sapping and mining galleries"—leading up to the fort from as many different direc tions as possible. A heavy charge of explosive would then be placed at the end of these tunnels and elec trically detonated when the signal is given for the attack. There is no known fort that could resist the im pact of the explosion of a large quan tity of trotyl or even dynamite and throught the breach thus opened the infantry would pour. Because of its vulnerability from below, therefore, it Is not safe to say that any fortifica tion is actually "impregnable." EDITORIAL COMMENT Bobo Is now singing his own Hymn of Haiti.—New York Evening Sun. Russia evidently has lost her punch as well as her vodka.—Columbia State. Russia is determined to win this war if she has to retire to Manchuria to do it.—Boston Transcript. Our Daily Laugh SOME FUN. Did you have a good time the , ■week you wus in f the country, Os- / J Did I! Fine! Why I got the NAff Uj--- cholera - morbus, sunstroke, poison TCr Ivy, an' a bunch of stone bruises the very first day' • I AS USUAL. That f ® ll ° w l u u'i l never did an hon« )f J | est day's work la ■ 1 - v 7 JJ his life. i Got rich, tlie^ "TJT I suppose t j Etettmg (ZLtjat These are visiting days at the State Capitol and there are more folks beinq taken through the big building by the guides Just now than In any othei month in the year. July is bad enough, but according to the men at the Capi tol it is only when August starts that people commence to travel around. This year, because of the war inA Europe, a good many of the folks looking about thei rown State, and the number of people who have come here nine years after the Capitol has been opened and exclaimed that they did not know what a superb building their State possessed is something note worthy. Between the usual summer rush, the automobile partieß from all over the State and the numerous ex cursions which have been Inaugurated and the Grangers' Picnic the last week of the month, August may show a rec ord for visitors. Unfortunately, all who go through the building do not register, and there is no way of keep ing an accurate count. One of the in. teresting facts about the ( visiting of the building is that a good many people well on In years have been at the Capitol. • • * Robert A. Zentmeyer, the Tyrone engineer appointed a member of th« State Water Supply Commission yes terday, is a schoolmate of the Gover nor. He grew up near the Governor's home and with that loyalty to old time friends which always marks the governor he kept him in mind. Mr, Zentmyer went to school with the Gov ernor and graduated from Juniata col lege in 1882, a year after the Gover nor. • • • The Pennsylvania special to the Panama-Pacific exposition went out "dry" yesterday. Except for Susque hanna water and iced tea there was nothing else on board.'lt was ar ranged. however, that a supply o( grape Juice and ginger ale should be put on board along the road. • • • Men interested in politics were busy yesterday and to-day getting ready for the registration. The work of preparing for the listing of the voters was keeping a number of men on the Jump as it is expected thai there will be a tremendous showing on the first day. At least, it is being predicted. • * • Major C. 8. Farnsworth, United States Army, who spent some time here as the inspector-instructor of the National Guard, but who has been in Texas with the army for some time, was a caller at the office of Adjutant General Stewart yesterday. Major Farnsworth resided in this city for a time and has many friends among Harrisburg people. * • # The high water in the Susquehanna the last few days flooded out the sites of a number of camping parties which were to have left the city yesterday. The river is higher than usual even in rainy summers and the muddy water has spoiled the fishing which is generally very popular at this time of the year about the Rockville "falls" and down near Collins station. Colonel Edward M. Young, of Allen town, was here yesterday on his way to the San Francisco exposition with the Governor's party. Colonel Young is one of the big hankers of the Le high Valley and prominent in many business enterprises. He Is a friend of Colonel H. C. Trexler, the lumber and cement magnate. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —The Rev. T. C. Billmeyer, of Get. tysburg went to Watsontown to de. liver an address. He was one of tha town's early pastors. —Ex-Congressman R. E. Lee, of Pottsviile, is taking an active part in political affairs again. —S. L. McCurdy, Pittsburgh busi nessman, is at Atlantic City. —W. L. Penn, head of the Mor ganza institution. Is at the seashore. —Dr. L. W. Ott, of Philadelphia, la on a motor trip to Canada. IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS [ ACQ TO-DAY | [From the Telegraph, Aug. 24, 1866.] Soldier Killed Robert Shaw, Company F, Sixth regiment, of Hancock's Corps, was killed near the Lebanon Valley rail road depot in this city to-day when h« was run over by an engine. Going to Texas. Lieutenant Harry C. Demming left to-day to jotn his regiment which la stationed, in Texas. Copperheads Convene The Copperhead State convention opened to-day in the House of Repre sentatives. Business sessions were held during the day. | DO YOU KNOW That thirteen State highways con verge on 'Harrisburg? HISTORIC HARRISBVRG Two well-established Indian villagea were on the site df Harrisburg before the white men came to the ford of the Susquehanna. I'M WOHKIED Hy Winn Dinger I've written several poems of late On golf, and friends tell me I've gone quite nutty on the sport. They say it's "twenty-three" For mine if I don't give it up— And since I've read the poem Which follows, don't you know, I'rri scared, And worried in my dome? A HARMLESS NUT ONCE MORE When my Uncle Alexander in his con duct got so queer That the squirrels began to chatter every time that he drew near, I consulted with a doctor, who declar ed: "It's mental strain; He has all the early symptoms of a badly skidding brain. What he needs is some distraction to clear up his cloudy thinks. I advise a dally session on some quiet golfing links." So I bought a bunch of niblicks, mashies, brassies and the rest Of the curious utensils of which golf-^ ers are possessed. And I hired a husky Scotchman, for -a handsome wage per day. To take on my wavering uncle and In struct him how to play. And so fascinated was he with his drives and putts and swats— In a week he left off claiming he was Mary Queen of Scots. But alas, his conversation, never lucid at the best, Now excites profound misgivings in my apprehensive breast. All he talks about is stymie*, drives and brassies, greens and teef— He's become a hopeless vlcthn of the deadlv golf disease. « And my conscience gnaws my vitals and my guilty heart is sore; How I wish my poor old uncle was a harmless nut once more. —Philadelphia Bulletin. N SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. Angnst Ist to September 23th. Five cents ■ pliQ for all (Ilea, and many prises |s «Ud. I
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