8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itti PUBLISHED BT B>BE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Mant-gint Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, Sit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at "1* 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. Sworn daily average circulation for the three months ending July 31, lUIB ★ 21,084 ★ Average for the year 1914—21.RW* Average for the year 101S-HO.MI Average for the year 1912— 10,049 Average for the year 1911—17,1583 Average for the year 1810—10,2*1 The above flgnres are net. All tnrnrd, unsold uud damaged coplea de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28. Don't let «s make imaginary evils, when ice know we have so many real ones to encounter. —Goldsmith. SCHOOL DIRECTORS IT is going to be more than difficult for the Democratic machine this year to persuade the citizens of Harrisburg that certain reputable men who have consented to enter the race for the School Board are the sub servient tools of a political group or faction. At least one of the Repub lican candidates was admittedly the choice of the chairman of the Demo cratic city committee for school di rector on a fusion ticket and It will not be easy for the Democratic bosses to throw dust in the eyes of the voters regarding the special fitness of this particular candidate. Nor will it be possible for these same inconsistent politicians in the Democratic camp to deceive the people regarding other prominent Republicans of indepen dent tendencies who are likewise standing as candidates for service in the School Board. We admit that it is unfortunate fac tional politics should be injected into contests for school directors, but It must be apparent that those who are desirous of electing to the board men of character and ability have little ex cuse to go outside the Republican party this year. Mr. Stamm, Mr. Enders and Dr. Keene represent all that is progressive and independent and public-spirited in this community. If the Democratic machine really wants a change in the present school board organization-—which this same machine has been insisting Is most un satisfactory—then these three men present the opportunity for such In dependence of action as the bosses of the Democratic party are constantly insisting should characterize the se lection of school directors. Certainly, the Democratic machine will not pre tend that it can present for the voters three candidates more acceptable In every way. In short, there is no occasion for the injection of factionalism or par tisanship into the campaign for school directors. If the Democratic party is able to present to the people more worthy men than those referred to, then it will be the duty of the voter to determine his choice on the basis of fitness for the duties to he per formed In the management of the im portant school interests of Harrisburg and without regard to political con siderations. Many of us vary the popular pastime of swatting the fly by swatting the mosquito. There's a reason. A SERMON FROM ST. PAUL nERE is a little Saturday night sermon from Paul, Thess. V: iVow we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, com fort the feeble-minded, support the Weak, be patient toward all men. Pvr that none render evil for evrrunto any man; but over follow tiat which is good, both among yoiirselves and to all men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. Quench not the spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Pin these in your hat or paste them to your desk calendar. No matter what your creed or religious prefer ence, your life will be the richer and the happier for observance of these rules. Some times Paul wrote things not so easy to accept in a literal way. But nobody can quarrel with the wis dom of these. Strang* as it may seem, Labor Day Is a time when few of us expect to work. HIGH PRICES ANT) PROSPERITY THERE will be no more cheap prices; after the war the world Is in for a period of rising prices, declared Dr. Slater, principal of Rus kln College, Oxford, recently, In the first, of a series of lectures on Economic Phases of the World War. We are not so much interested In high prices as we used to be. What we want most is plenty of work and plenty of money. Low prices are desirable, but they are far less im- SATURDAY EVENING, portant than some other things in the world of economics. We have seen that it is without the pale of politics to bring down prices, as witness the failure of the Wilson administration's chief platform plank. But we do know from experience that political policies may make or ruin national prosperity. We also know that when labor Is busy money is plenty and that then high prices are not matters of very great concern. Consequently, If'the United States Is put on an economic basis favorable to prosperity we decline to get excited over the possibility of high prices after the war. MUNICIPAL CELEBRATION THERE Is increasing Interest throughout the city and over all Central Pennsylvania in the approaching municipal celebration which will commemorate tho big pub lic Improvement events of the last fourteen years. Committees are at work upon the various matters and the program as outlined is develop ing in the most satisfactory way. It should be understood, however, that the co-operation of the people, young and old, is necessary to a com plete and well-rounded program. It will not do to assume that the Cham ber of Commerce and its committees will do all the work and provide all the entertainment'. Take the river carnival, for instance. Every boy who can handle a boat, every corporation and the owners of all craft must be interested. Canoes and motorboats and every floating thing that can be decorated or made to serve on this occasion should be utilized. There ought to be keen competition among those who are Interested in decorat ing the flotilla which will cover the surface of the Susquehanna Basin on the night of the carnival. Much in the way of ingenuity can be presented on that occasion in the arrangement of the floats and the smaller boats and canoes. This car nival promises to be a great spectacu lar event and all who are concerned in the success of the big celebration are hopeful that during the next week or ten days the entries will he so large as to assure such a showing on the river as has never been known in the history of the city. The heads of the municipal departments are doing their part in bringing to fruition and com pletion in every way the several en terprises under their charge. Harrisburg must present a splc and span appearance In every corner of the city. Our streets must be, as they generally are, clean and attractive; our parks and our several public works must be in the best of order; there must be, in short, everything to at tract the visitor and fill with pride the heart of every citizen. This celebration must simply be the crossing of one summit in our munici pal progress and the beginning of the ascent to still greater heights of mu nicipal achievement. Invite your friends here for the Greater Harrisburg festivities and let us all rejoice that we have done so well while still hoping to do still better. HARRISBURG AND NEWARK NOTE the following from a leaflet of the Shade Tree Commission, of Newark, N. J.: ' Essex county is as rich in the variety and luxuriance of its plant life as any district of equal area in the Northern United States. Its parks are unrivalled in the variety of their beauties, both cultivated and wild; unexcelled In area pro portioned to population. Its shrubs and bulbs and flowers, its lawns and swards and park-scapes are the ad miration of visitors from every where. Its specimen trees are surpassed by those of the Pacific coast alone. It has. too, its old his toric trees. Venerable witnesses these to many thrilling and epochal events! Reneath their spreading boughs they saw go struggling by the war-worn patriot army, the tattered, famished, battered, hut still right, undismayed and fighting Continentals. Washington in com mand with for co-adjutor. The older Broad street trees and those In Military Park looked upon Lincoln and Grant, on Kossuth, Sherman and Sheridan. From their green and growing towers these trees have seen a quiet village de velop into the big, bustling, hust ling: Newark of to-day. Within the limits of Newark we have thoroughfares, bordered with all that is rich in plant life gath ered from every quarter of the globe. In these and in our environs, tho Oranges. and Montclair, may be seen rare landscape effects; choicest plants arranged in ex quisite setting, unfolding their sea sonal succession of varying blooms. Within a few miles from Newark's center the student of botany may study the life histories of all the trees, shrubs, and flowers capable of thriving in the temperate zone. There is then no reason why any Essex county boy or girl, man or woman, may not view the very best in the plant kingdom: one thing onlv can hinder, and that is to walk through our streetß and parks with shut eyes—or shut heart. All this might have been written of Harrishurg. There are trees within the borders of this city that were sap lings when the ragged Continentals marched home from Yorktown; that witnessed the grent thrust of civilisa tion Into the wilderness beyond the Alleghenles. that saw the last Indian brave turn his saddened face westward In quest of the game that fled as the white man approached. There are trees In Harrlsburg that heard the voice of Washington, of Lafayette, of Lincoln. There aro trees that shaded the soldiers of the Civil War in the days of old Camp Curtln. And there Is variety here, too. No place in the State, botanists tell us, combines more varloties of plant life in a given area than Wildwbod Park. Yes, we have the troes to match those of New ark, but do we as a people take as much prldo in thevn, sot as much .store by them? "~Pot£ttc«. uc feKKOifkrcuua By the Ex-Gommitteeman The time for filing petitions to be candidates lor county or municipal offices will expire all over the Stato next Tuesday and from every county, every city, every borough and every township come stories of a lively In terest in politics with Republicans united. Democrats quarreling over the way the patronage has been parceled out, Washingtonians struggling to keep from being submerged in the "return to the party" movement and in many cases falling below the Pro hibitionists and Socialists in the regis - tration and enrollment. Governor Brumbaugh's intention to keep out of local contests at the pri mary. as expressed in his appreciation of an editorial to that eflect in the Harrisburg Telegraph, is being rec ognized all over the State. Only in places where tho Democrats have bit ter factional quarrels, a« in Dauphin county, -is his name being used, and then by Democrats trying to foment trouble. The reports of the registration on Thursday in the third class cities show tho paralysis of the Democratic party and the fading of the Washington party. Without exception the third class cities show big Jumps in the Re publican registration, declines in the Democratic registration and only frag ments for tho Washington party. It in small wonder that Democratic news papers and bosses are trying to create the impression that Governor Brum baugh is taking a hand in local poli tics. The Democratic organization of two years ago seems to be following the Washington party organization of two years ago Into the shades. The nominating petition of City Controller E. S. Morrow, of Pitts burgh, nonpartisan candidate for re election, is signed by E. S. Bigelow, Mayor Armstrong, W. J. Brennen and William Flinn. Members of tho Public Service Com mittee of One Hundred of Philadel phia decided hist night to organize a new party, entirely municipal in its character, for the purpose of attract ing citizens to vote for independent candidates for mayor and the various city and county otticeß who might ob ject to allying themselves with any one of the three national parties. Di rector of Public Safety George D, Por ter in all probability will be the mayoralty candidate of tho new party and a full slate will be agreed upon later, which will be exactly the same as the ticket named at the primary by the Washington party, unless the Democrats agree to fusion. Congressman William S. Vare yes terday signed his name to papers placing him on the primary ballot as a candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination and permitted his friends and followers tb tile the papers in the otflce df the county com missioners. The congressman thus be comes a candidate openly, although in a speech to a delegation of business men who called upon him and urged him to run he again withheld the actual announcement of his candidacy, saying that he would reach a decision later. This gives him a loophole to withdraw, if he should decide not to run at any time between now and September 7. Louis J. Kolb and A. Merritt Taylor yesterday announced that they would not be candidates for mayor of Phila delphia, thus narrowing down the candidates. The partisans of George H. Earle, .Tr., are still booming him, but he is silent whether he will be a candidate. The Democrats In Allegheny, Lack awanna and several other counties are in the midst of a row almost as bad as that which Is shattering the Democracy of Dauphin. Reading appears to have a free-for all race for mayor and from all ac counts there may be some dark horses sprung. Joseph N. Mackrell, Pittsburgh newspaperman well known here, is a candidate for council In Pittsburgh. Carbon county is in the midst of one of the most lively campaigns it has ever known. Most of the men who have been in office in the last fifteen years are candidates. Our Daily Laugh SORRY H B Fools rush in where angels ■ \L fear to tread. ' H J I I know. What m• « \ place have you J been kicked out I I I of now? ANADVAN TAGH. So you are get- AU\A'£ | *f t'ng your new /I \WMB 1-? suit frora Binge. Kit J&jfr He '■ n ' t *nuoh of / \ \ * tallor ■\ * know he Isn't IS 100011 ot a fi"er. h , tj: ~~ ut e ' B 80 near (S I Bi £h te d he can't fg&K I recognize a man ten feet away. HOME; AGAIN By Wins Dinger I have an umbrella I prise very much Because 'twas a present to me. This morning I searched for it all through the house All In vain, so I thought it must be At the office, whore usually it's to be found When at home for the same I have need; To continue my search, to the office I rushed With all possible trolley car speed. Alas, when I looked in the umbrella stand At the office, my heart. In despair, Sank down to tho soles of my number six shoos, For the thing that I searched was not thore. I questioned *ach clerk in the shop, not a one Could recall having seen It, but I ' Thought before I'd give up In my search, through the shop I would wander and make one more try. I gave a description of handle and cloth. And told of Initials It bore. Then a clerk brought It forth from a corner where he Had hidden It three weeks before. "I found It," he said, "in the office and thought That some one had lost it, an ad I inserted and when no one called for the thing X claimed It for mine"—not so bad. BAPniSBURO TELEGRAPH - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | REUNION OF GRADUATES OF THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE. —From Lite. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE | » Time may come and time may go, but Secretary Daniels goes right on talking:. Ditto Teddy and the Grape ! Juice fiend. The backless bathing suit is the latest vogue; but haven't we had the backless ballroom gown now for quite a time? A new law requires fire escapes on churches. Intended to save the con gregation from a hot flnis'u apparently. Has any one heard of any kings being among the killed and wounded? Out in Hillsdale, Mich., a pair of mules have been mates for 28 years. Nothing rare about that. Every mar ried couple doesn't believe in divorce, you know. The Bear that walks like a man has been running more than he's been walking lately. EDITORIAL COMMENT It comes as something of a shock to find Governors Brewer, of Mississippi, and Rye, of Tennessee, in the ranks of aggressive prohibitionists. Boston Herald. The operations in Poland indicate that once more Germany has reached her highest attainable point This makes at least a dozen.—Springfield Republi can. Two hundred German newspapers have suspended since the beginning of the war. Presumably because all the "hate" epithets gave out.—New York Evening Post. Responsibility for the Eastland dis aster would have been satisfactorily placed long ago if the captain had only had the forethought to go down with his ship.—Boston Transcript. Bulgaria, according to one of her dip lomats, is merely "wnitlng for the best offer." Possibly Mr. Wanamaker's bil lion-dollar bid for Belgium caused Bul garia to reject the offers already sub mitted as too low and readvertise for new ones. —New Orleans Times-Pica yune. BOOKS AND MAQAZINES A book buyer from a large New York store writes to Houghton Mifflin Com pany: "At S o'clock a. m. I finished 'K' —imagine a book buyer of mental dys pepsia and over-jaded literary taste to be kept up by a novel until 3 a. m. In Mrs. Rlnehart's books you have a story of unusual charm, sweet, clean, absorb ing, and thoroughly dolightful. "Doodles' is the sort of book which makes people feel really acquainted with the characters, and the author, Emma C. Dowd, receives many letters from readers who want to tell her how much pleasure the book has riven them. This is from a woman of 75 years: "I can't 'ell you now what I think of your book; I am too full of it. 1 finished it last night before I went to bed. Couldn't have slept if I hadn't. Every on« of thoso people are alive aqd I know them." This same from an author who has written much for young folks: "I love your little book and have its characters for dally companions." From an Old Ladies' Home, whero "Doodles" was road aloud: "Miss F. had other duties that tried our patience, and it took four evenings of an hour each. I Ucp'. a keen lookout for sleepers, and if there were any they kept their eyes open wide, with faces full of delight and ex pectancy. The applause never failed to come in the right place, and no one ever wanted Miss F. to stop reading." EVENING NEWSPAPERS ARE GAINING IN ADVERTISING While the war period has had a tendency to bring about a decrease in newspaper advertising throughout this country, Just as it has in other lines of business, it is interesting to note that morning newspapers have been called upon to bear the brunt of the paring down. In New Torlt city, for instance, of the seventeen morning and evening newspapers published there the morn ing newspapers suffered a loss for the first seven months of this year, as compared with the same period last year, practically seven times as great as that of the evening newspapers. Where gains in advertising were made, 80 per cent, of tho increased volume of business was enjoyed by evening newspapers and 20 per cent, by morning newspapers. A study of such conditions is in teresting to those who buy newspapor advertising, evidencing as it does that advertisers generally a re of the opinion that when confronted with the neces sity of cutting down advertising ap propriations they can least afford to do without evening newspapers. For the past five or six years there has been a growing tendency among ad vertisers for evening newspapers—the paper that goes directly into the home. GRETEST BOOK IN THE WORLD In a long, one-story, one-room build ing, sheltered behind a fine old country house in the outskirts of Oxford, Etig-' land, they are making the greatest book in the world. For fifty-eight years that book has been In the mak ing, and within tho year the last volume If It will be finished. This work, the New English Dictionary, in nut only the greatest dictionary, but, it Is said, the greatest book that man has written, In so far as scholarly labor Is concerned. It will be the groat treasury of the English language, containing as it does every derivation that It was humanly possible to discover, and 'near ly 6,000,000 uses of current and obsolete i English words. / > NATIONAL DEFENSE IX. —Lessons of the War—Battleships. By Frederic J. Haskin • I The man in the street Is to be treated to a surprise when the reports which naval experts are to make to the President and upon which the President will base recommendations to Congress are made public. This surprise will he due to the fact that the naval authorities of the nation will say that the submarine is of lit tle importance and that the dread naught still rules the waves. This, the experts hold, is one of the big lessons of the war, but one that is not apparent to the casual observer. The submarine has been one of the most striking developments of the great conflict, has attracted more at tention than any other of the new de vices. Yet it has failed to materially interfere with the commerce of Great Britain or France or to have any ef fect upon their dominance of the seas. The ships of England have gone stead ily about their business despite it and the losses of vessels leaving British ports has been but two in a thou sand. The 998 have borne their car goes to the ports for which they cleared. The losses have been ac cepted as a chance of war and havo not prevented other ships from put ting forth. Sea Path Kept Open A path of the sea has been steadily kept open between England and France, soldiers have been freely transported and supplies have gone forward in a constant stream. The loss of transports or fighting ships has been so slight as to amount to almost nothing. Yet, the experts point out, the con ditions roundabout England are ideally advantageous to submarine warfare. Germany has had her own home ports as a basis of operations and the sea lanes leading out from British harbors have been in easy reach German base. The same is true of the Italian ports with rela tion to Austria. Yet the submarine has proved Itself but a wasp that could sting most aggravatlngly at times, but which could inflict no mortal wound. Wouldn't Hurt V. S. A. If submarines could prove them selves a vital element in a war be tween European nations situated as are those engaged in the present con flict, it is said that it would deserve little consideration in any conflict with any nation that could be con sidered an ambitious possible enemy of the United States. The distance that lies between this country and any other that is at all powerful would render the submarine so much less ef fective than it is around England that Uncle Sam would have littlo to fear from it. Equally interesting is the export opinion upon the part that the dread naught has played in the present war and upon its importanco in a consid eration of possibilities that may arise. The big fighting craft have made so few spectacular appearances that they have been almost forgotten and the public has begun to say that the big ships are a thing of the past and that future naval battles will be fought by submarines and small fast cruisers. Greatest Victory of the War With this opinion the experts most strenuously disagree. They state that the greatest victory of the war so far has been won by the battleship, al most without having fired a shot. That victory is the dominance of the seas. The battleships of Great Britain have bottled up Germany. Their very pres ence in hidden havens around Scot land or Ireland or wherever they, are, has prevented the German fleet from leaving its home ports. They have in this way made it possible that German merchant ships should he driven from the seas and that German trade should he entirely cut off. The navy men hold that the feature that promises to eventually conclude the war is this bottling up of the cen tral nations and the consequent ex haustion of something that is essential to its carrying on. If the central na tions are eventually successful they must establish a dominance of the seas, an accomplishment possible only through meeting the enemy fleet and defeating it. This \vould have to bo done by hig ships. Big Ships Only Relief The importance of this dominance of the seas is pointed out by the ex perts when they say that, If the cen tral nations should defeat Russia and France and all their continental ene mies, they would still be blocked off i from world commerce and would suf- I for more from a continuation of the struggle than would Great Britain. Only big ships would bring them re lief. The fighting between ships of the navies of the warring nations has been chiefly among the smaller units, the cruisers. In all of those contests the victory has been won by the vessel that carried the biggest guns. The six-inch gun has dominated tho four inch and has in turn gone down be fore that of a larger caliber. Sjpeed has proved Itself of Importance chiefly In running away and tho reoults of the war would indicate that it was of less importanco than was previously thought. It is not of great offensive value. Biggest Guns Survive This dominance of the big gun has given an added Importance to the big ship for it Is those vessels that may AUGUST 28, 1915. carry them. In the end, the authori ties say, a ship must meet the enemy and there must be a grapple to deter mine which dies first. The biggest guns are almost sure to survive. As far back as 1903, the General Board of the Navy recommended that a continuing plan of construction be adopted that would produce, by 1919, a battleship fleet of forty-eight big ships and smaller craft in proportion. Beginning at that time it would have been necessary to build two big ships each year to accomplish that end. Con gress failed to keep pace with this plan. It appropriated some years for two battleships and some years for one. 32 Ships in First liine The General Board still held that its plan to look to the future and pro vide a navy of a given size at a given time was the correct one. It there fore recommended the building of an additional ship on years following pro vision for laying down but one. So it came to ask for as many as four ships in a year. At present the building plan of the experts is behind by the matter of eight ships. There are now thirty-two battleships in the first line. It would be necessary, that the plan of forty-eight ships in 1919 be real ized, that battleship production be very materially speeded up. The General Board has made the same recommendation each year since 1903. Its membership has changed over and over again, its guiding gen iuses have come and gone, secretaries, administrations, parties, have assumed authority and given it up. But the General Board, the official expert body to whom the task of determining the | size of navy needed is delegated, has remained constant in its belief that the plan laid down should be fol lowed. Expert observers and naval attaches abroad have exerted every energy to learn the lessons of the European war and have reported in minute de tail to the home government. The bureau of intelligence of the Navy De partment has operated as its clearing house. The General Board has | weighed all facts that have been de veloped. Needs of the Navy Now the President has asked the Secretary of Navy to make to him a report of the needs of the navy in the face of the developments of the past year. The Secretary will rely on his experts and those men will repeat the advice that they have given each year since 1903. There is, they will say, nothing in the present conflict that disproves the correctness of their old position. The nation should have forty-eight battleships in 1919 and the necessary auxiliaries to make up a well-balanced fleet. The second element In a well-bal anced fleet, in the opinion of the General Board, is the destroyer. Whenever a battleship is put into commission four destroyers should ac company it. These are the scouts of the fleet, the screens of the dread naughts. They do the work that Is performed by battle cruisers in the navies of Europe, for the American fleet manages to get along without cruisers because they are not so nearly indispensable as are battleships or de'- stroyers and thero Is no money for trimmings. Sea Going Submarines The United States now has building a few great, sea-going submarines that are believed to be the most ambitious machines of the kind in the world. The nation of the west usually leaps to the ultimate of the possibilities of a new development much quicker than do European countries. In addition nearly a score of coast defense sub marines are now being built. These are of a much smaller type and are not Intended to attempt the very dif ficult feat of operating with the fleet. Tho General Board has not changed its view since it made its last official declaration on the character of the fleet which was as follows "In the matter of battleships the General Board remains of the opinion that it has always held, that command of the seas can only be gained and held by vessels than can take and keep the sea In all times and In all weath ers, and overcome the strongest enemy vessels that may be brought agninst them. Other types are valuable and have their particular uses, nil of which are indispensable but limited in char acter. But what has been true throughout all naval wars of the past and what is equally true to-day, is that the backbone of any navy that can command the sea consists of the strongest sea-going, sea-koeping ships of its day—its battleships." Tho experts cite the fact that, at the termination of the Civil War the monitor was haifod as the battleship of the future. But the monitor soon proved its limitations. When the de stroyer was first broueht to a high de greo of efficiency, with speed exceed ing any battleship, with Its torpedo tubes handy for the launching of those deadly missiles, with the possibility of stealing In upon tho big ships In fog or darkness, it was hailed as sounding the death knell of the big ship. So with the submarine. Yet the hlg ship still survives and in it still lies the possibility of making the United States immune to attack. The experts will warn the nation against the neglect of the develop ment of this keystone of the fleet in favor of under water craft. jiEtantttg (Ktjat An Identification disc worn by EIT Johnston Ague, a Pennsylvania soldier killed In one of the battles before Petersburg;, Va., In the Civil War. was to-day sent to the widow of the sol dier. Mrs. Matilda Ague, of Oil City, by Adjiltant General Thomas J. Stew art after months of search. of the War Department at Washing ton and of the adjutant general's de partment here, members of regimental associations, officers of Grand Army posts, individuals and newspapers par ticipated in the effort to find the widow. The disc was dug up on the battlefield of Cedar Mountain, Va., by J. R. Leman, who took it to Raleigh T. Gjeen, editor of the Culpepper Exponent. It bore a device frequently seen on such articles in the Civil War and the name of Ague, stating that ha was a member of Company B, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves. General Stew art was asked to locate the widow. It was discovered that Ague was a nativo of Butler county and enlisted as a veteran on the field at Warrenton, Va., and was killed on June UO, 1864, be fore Petersburg. Mrs. Ague was left with a daughter and it was found that sho had been pensioned, but that tha last payment was in 1869. Through Grand Army veterans she was located in Oil City. She is 87 years of age. * * » South Harrisburg folks who live along the river front in the vicinity of Paxton street got a thrill the other evening when William Bumbaugh, a, riverman employed by Santo & Peace, the river coal dealers, hurried up tha bank carrying a big, blinking "monkey face" owl. The bird stood at least twelve Inches high and measured nearly three feet from tip to tip of the wings. The owl had been sleeping under one of the bridges along tha river, it Is believed, and was aroused by a passing train. Attempting to fly out over the river in the bright light, the bird crashed against a girder and dropped into the river. It was splash ing feebly in the swift current when Bumbaugh saw it from a flat. He res cued it and took it up to the nearby park. Quite a crowd of curious folks watched it until darkness fell—and then the owl came into his own, stretched his wings and swung away into the night. The West End Republican Club has the unique distinction of having three members representing three gen erations of Republican voters, all liv inp In the same ward and all inter ested in the organization. They are William Shuey, his son, George Shuey, and his grandson, Reed Shuey. All were present at a meeting of the club the other evening and attracted much attention. The State Capitol was thronged by visitors this week. In fact, the regis tration was greater than it has been for many months, and the guides wero on the jump. Over 200 cities and boroughs were represented in the list of persons who registered at the office of Chief Guide Fred C. Schaeffer. ' ♦ ♦ * "This has been a great mosquito summer," said an old resident of Alli son Hill who has seen more summers than three score and ten. "Why, I don't know when I minded the pesky little fellows like I did this year. Guess the wet weather had somethin' to do with It." "No," Interrupted a friend. "There were a lot of holes that people Vet water gather in." « • ♦ Among visitors to the city yesterday was ex-Representative Warren I. Simpson, of Huntingdon county, one of the prominent attorneys of the Juniata valley. Mr. Simpson was here on business connected with the State governmental departments. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Paul J. Shoop, of Pittsburgh, is head of a committee that is assisting aliens to become citizens in that sec tion. —Dr. W. E. Lawson, health officer of Homestead, has reported that big borough free from all contagious dis eases. —Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Al lentown, will preside at the Johnstown Evangelical Church next week. —Dr. W. J. Nelson, the Altoona physician, has had charge of the Al toona tournaments for years and one of the most successful has Just been held. —Joseph E. Widener will have a race meet on his private track near Philadelphia in October. —Henry S. Grove, the shipbuilder, is in Maine. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg ships largo quan tities of lime each year from the kilns in this neighborhood? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city was first incorporated as a borough on April 13, 1791. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph August 28, IMS.) Prominent Man to Spenk Professor Alex. Crummel. of Liberia College, will speak to-morrow evening In tho WVsleyan Church. South street, on "The Progress of Christian Civiliza tion Along the West Coast of Africa. Attempted Suicide Mattle Wyant, of Htghspire, attempt ed to commit suicide last evening by drtnklng laudanum. She said that she was tired of life. Young Woman Drowned Sarah Schwarm was drowned In the canal to-day at Second street. The bodv was recovered fifty yards below the bridge. It Is believed that she commit ted suicide as she had threatened to take her life a short time before. f Advertising Economy i~ = Newspaper advertising Is sold In exact quantities. "* You can buy enough to cover 5 ono city or one hundred—one • section or a continent. A dollar spent In newspaper circulation works a good dollar's worth. The waste is the mini mum. Newspaper advertising is sea sonable. You can employ It for summer goods where summer warmth demands them. You can send a warning mes sage to the frozen north while the sunny south Is too busy keeping cool to be Interested. That Is economy. * s I SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. Anrnst Ist to September 35th. Five cents a pint for all flies, and many prises In sold.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers