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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. '
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"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."
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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.
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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.