6 RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establisktd rf|/ PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PiUSTTKG CO. E. J. STACKPOLB Prtridtm and BdiUr-im*Ckitf r. R. OYBTBR Stcretary OUS M. 6TEINMETZ Managing 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 Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen St Ward. Delivered by carriers at <BSl5Esr six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at <3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post OfTlce in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. loon dally average circulation for the three months ending Aug. 31, 1913 ★ 21,083 ★ Average for the year 1914 —21.88S Average for the rear 1915—19.063 Average for the year 1912—19,049 Aversge for the year 1911—17,ft63 Average for the year 1910—10JS1 The above flgarea are act. All re turned, unsold aad damaged copies de parted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 1 Thought it the soul of act.— Browning. DEMOCRATIC JANGLING THE sweet bells of Democratic harmony are jangling sadly out of tune. The announcement that F. B. Lynch. Democratic national committeman from Minnesota, is the Wilson choice for national chairman is immediately followed by the posi tive declaration of Chairman W. F. McCombs and his friends that he will decline to give up the job. De velopments will be watched with in terest by Republicans who have seen this split between the President and his erstwhile campaign manager growing wider with the passing of the months. The trouble between McCombs and the President is said to be due to the latter's failure to Include McCombs in the cabinet list. McCombs managed President Wilson's preconvention campaign in 1911 and 1912. Largely on the strength of the victory at Bal timore, where he was in personal charge of the Wilson forces, he was unanimously chosen chairman of the Democratic national committee to suc ceed Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo. Efforts of the President's group of personal advisers, headed by Sec retary Tumulty, to elevate National Committeeman Lynch, of Minnesota, to the chairmanship in place of Mc- Combs may be met with a hot fight in Minnesota. McCombs has not been in favor at the White House for some time and if he chooses to use his abilities as a campaigner against the administration with the same force and intelligence he displayed In bringing about the nomination and election of President Wilson the effect will be of far reaching importance In the next Presi dential election. CHASIN' BR'ER FOX CHASING the Russian army across plains of Muscovy," observes the Baltimore American, "seems al most as easy as chasin' Br'er Fox down the long stretch of the East'n ShoV And, the American might have added', well nigh as fruitless. Chas ing a fox and catching one are quite two different things, as any hunter who rides to hounds will tell you. The Russian hosts appear quite as elusive as the Maryland fox. If the fox be captured at the end of a long run, all well and good, «but if he es capes then the chase has been in vain and the burden of bootless effort has been placed on the hunter. This applies to the campaign in Russia quite as much as to fox chasing along the aforementioned East'n Sho*. INTEREST IN PREPAREDNESS PENNSYLVANIA mustered a total of 10,500 officers and enlisted men at the annual encampments this year, the largest number In the hUtory of the Guard. This dis proves the old idea that the National Guard was designed for fair weather only and would shrink in mem bership with the prospect of actual service. With the country for half the summer on the brink of hostilities with a very powerful nation abroad or facing a possible Invasion of Mex ico, the Guardsmen turned out in rec ord-breaking numbers in their desire to be prepared so far as they were able for whatever might be required of them. This spirit has pervaded the whole country, radiating from that great center of volunteer activity at Platts burg, and it is extending into every walk of lite. The announcement through the Public Ledger that the Pennsylvania Railroad Is maturing a plan whereby 100,000 of Its employes may become trained soldiers ready to stepf into the ranks of the United States army should a foreign foe Invade these shores Is an evidence of the earnest ness with which the new idea has been received by those in high places and the willingness of this great cor poration to give each of its men a month's vacation to be spent at Platta-' burg or at one of the other camps •tire to be established ought to be «opi«d by business organisations large WEDNESDAY EVENING. and small the country over. It is a good indication when large financial j interests stand ready to make their sacrifices along with the private qlti zen for the benefit of' the country as a whole. TOO MANY ROBBERIES' TERE ' have been entirely too many robberies in Harrlsburg in recent months and entirely too few convictions of the guilty per sons. * There is a fault in our police system somewhere. Probably it is in the lack of patrolmen. Chief Hutchison repeatedly has reported to council the inadequacy of his present force. It Is true, as he has said, that the city is growing much more rapidly than the membership of the police department. If there is any other defect of which the Colonel knows he need not fear to speak out. The people in general lookuponhlmasdolnghls best with the force at hand, but this best will not do if robberies and assaults are to continue. We must have a safe city. If the in struments with which the city govern ment has provided the chief are not sufficient to produce that result then It is up to the chief to clear his skirts by putting the matter up to council. Colonel Hutchison in the past has demonstrated his ability to act vigor ously and courageously. He ought to feel It his duty to speak freely now. WIPING OUT ARMY POSTS IT required a hurricane down Texas way to wipe out one of the 176 little army posts in which our tiny Regular Army is stationed over the land. We timidly suggest that a few more such storms might not be un profitable to the nation at large, how ever disastrous they might be to the localities immediately adjacent to the military stat'ons. In the early Indian days these far flung posts with their little detach ments of armed men were necessities to the safety of the settlers. But that day Is long since gone. The scattered posts now merely appeal to. local pride and local business. They are detrimental to the efficiency and disci pline of the army as a whole and they could be for the most part abolished at a great saving of money to the country and with proportional improvement to all branches of the service. But it will take a bigger hurricane In Congress than that which recently demolished the Texas post to bring about the very desirable change. WAR ORDERS WE have been so busy recording the receipt of war orders of gigantic proportions that we have failed, almost, to note the declin ation of similar orders to the amount of about $150,000,000 by manufactur ers who could not make the produc tion and sale of death-dealing instru ments harmonize with their views of peace. Never in the history of the world has business of such magnitude been rejected for like reasons. It is a good sign when much maligned "big busi ness" representatives place their con sciences before dividends. Also it Is a refutation of the old saying that a corporation has no soul and that cap ital worships only the dollar. We may moralize as we will on the much discussed sale of arms to bellig erents, but we cannot but admire the men who have declined to enter Into what they regard as contracts of doubtful nature In order to keep their mills running during an unusually dull year. THE GERMAN HOBBLE THE German Government Isn't at all afraid of the devastating ef fect of the hobble skirt on the male portion of Its population, having ordered dressmakers to stick to that model as a means of conserving the fast diminishing supply of garment making material. But more than that, It isn't afraid to trifle with feminine fancy any more than it is with mas culine morality. The new order in all livelihood will have the effect of mak ing every German woman worthy of the name desire to wear hoop-skirts and a bustle. It will be interesting to note whether or not the Kaiser can cope with the ladles at home as capa bly as with his enemies abroad. If it should turn out that the mandate can be made effective we suggest that he try shortening 'em up to the knees, thus conserving longitudinely as well ias latitudinaily, as It were. GOOD PUBLICITY MATERIAL WHENEVER a publlo speaker lacks a genuinely Instructive topic or desires a little news paper publicity he solemnly tells his audience that "the human race is de generating," thereby making timid ones among his hearers gasp and examine themselves for "symptoms" and at the same time setting the pen cils of sensation hunting reporters to scribbling. It Is a fine old standby; a never-falling life-preserver when the ship of oratorical ability busts a shaft and goes careening towards the rocks.' Some times it is cancer that Is to carry the race to destruction. Again it is Intemperance. At another time it Is Insanity. Almost any old ailment that the human race Is heir to makes a fine little boogaboo when togged out In picturesque rhetorical garb and applied to all mankind. It has fallen to Dr. E. Edwin Lee, professor of chemistry of Allegheny college, to combine 'em all in one grand shocker designed to blow us all into early graves and leave' the earth to the more fortunate and lens afflicted lower animals. "The human race Is faat degener ating due to chronio diseases with which ecifpso la unable to comb#.t." he told an assemblage of school teach- | ers in Pittsburgh yesterday. "Every generation grows weaker," he says, "and chronic ailments gain greater headway." Now we understand why In the older days Atlas could hold the world on his shoulders, why Hercules was able to do his eight-hour stunt In the Augean stables, why Sampson had no difficulty In upsetting a more or less hefty temple and how It Is that we poor mortals of these later degenerate days find It irksome even to tote home the family market basket or help run the washing machine. We're not to blame. It s all the fault of this awful chronic degeneracy. Nobody can be censured for lack of energy or lazi ness. If you are perpetually tired blame only the processes of nature, over which even science has no con trol. How comforting! TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —We don't mind the frost on the pumpkin, but we do object seriously to it on the watermelon. —Appearances of the toy shops would Indicate that Santa Claus has removed his manufacturing plants from Germany to Japan. —Our idea of the best Joke of the season is Georgia's motto—"Wisdom, justice, moderation." —The warriors of the gridiron, are getting ready to push the European generals over on the second page. —We find In our list of publications for review an automobile tour book, but as sender neglected to enclose an automobile we are unable to pass upon Its merits. —ln planning to turn the current into the River Wall lamps on the first night of the municipal celebration the electric Company is not trying to "make light" of the affair.. EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ The peace-at-any-prlce movement Is making alarming headway. Only two men were killed and one wounded in the Kentucky primary.—Charleston News and Courier. Carranza's warning amounts to this, that he will not permit his country to be disturbed. "Do not feed or annoy the Mexicans,' as it were.—New York Evening Sun. Before Anally making up his mind to stand in the way of pacification, Car ranza ought to note the fact that resi dence in Europe is growing more and more disagreeable and expensive. Chicago Herald. It may be true that It was Noah In stead of Adam who ate of the forbid den fruit, but Adam's vindication comes rather too late to be of any assistance to him in living down the reputation.— Nashville Southern Lumberman. China wants to buy submarines here on credit. I. O. U.-boats, so to speak. —Columbia State. Germany Is boasting that she has no Siberia. She hasn't any Southwest Africa. either.—Philadelphia North American. I BETTER NATIONAL DEFENSE [From Farm Life.] We are naturally and instinctively against militarism. We are opposed to having our sons taught the trade of soldiering. We do not like the endless and inevitable expense of a big stand ing army. We are for peace, not at "any price," but at any reasonable price. Yet—and but—and however—the les son of this European war has been plain, ana easy to read. The unpre pared countries have not made a good showing In the field. National valor cannot stand up successfully against machine guns. The United States at present would be pitifully helpless to make war against a first class military power. In the event of such a war we would be shamed and humiliated before we could get our fighting forces equipped and In the field. We should make some preparation for the future. We should have a nucleus for an army. We should have more and better submarines and aero planes—more extensive coast defenses. We don't want to fight, but a rich country like this cannot afford to re main permanently helpless. THE CONQUEST OF TETANUS "No tetanus this Fourth o'f July" is the slogan of the United States Public Health Service. It is within the power of the American public to bring this desirable condition to pass. In 1903 there were 417 Fourth of July victims of tetanus or lockjaw. By li) 09 the number had been reduced to 130. Lasv year there were only three fatalities from this cause. The blank cartridge, popularly considered harmless, is de clared by experts to be the chief cause of tetanus. When it makes a wound the wadding carries into the tissues a multitude of bacilli which give off poi sonous products. These bacilli thrive only where there Is oxygen. The value of antitetanic serum has been demon strated. but to be effective it must be administered as soon as possible after the receipt of the injury. Government health authorities urge parents to see that all bla,nk cartridge wounds are given prompt attention. None is too trivial for treatment. The efficacy of scientific treatment Is shown by the fact that whereas In 1903 one case of tetanus developed to every four wounds reported from blank cartlrdges. in 1914 there was only one case of every forty Injuries of the kind. A dozen years ago the preventive serum" was not gen erally utilized. To-day ample supplies are kept on hand by public health bu reaus for free distribution and patients are attended to without delay. Warnings for the prevention of Fourth ol July accidents that are pub lished immediately before the day we celebrate are apt to receive scant at tention. The time to plan for "safetv first" Is now. The "deadly toy pistol" deserves the unenviable distinction as much as ever. The caps which form its ammunition as well as the blank car tridges for larger weapons play their fatal part by aiding the spread of te tanus. A Fourth of July without a single ease of tbe dreaded disease which we have come to associate with the patriotic holiday would be a signal achievement. TO DAN CUPID Dear Dan—Where are you nowadays? We used to like your sportive ways, When with your darts and little bow You took pot-shots at high and low! We even took It in good part Though now and then a flying dart Struck stinging home. "Twas pleas ant when The tiny wound was healed again. But now the arrows are ao rare That once seemed flying everywhere! Perhaps you need to-day. my son, A modern rapid-fire gun. The times are changed. No longer slow Our youth are never still, you know. So If you'd add hearts to your string You'll have to hit them on the wing! But whether bow or gun you wield, We hope to see you take the field For life is rather dull and gray Without you and your sportive play. When you your mother Venus see, With kindly words remember me: And while this mortal life endures, ru sign myself, sincerely yours. as-Tudor Jenkt In Judge. BXFRttBURG Uftjjft) TELEGRAPH 'PotcttCO- Mi. 'Pf.KKOifttfCUUa By the g»-Oowunltt« r man The Philadelphia mayoralty situ ation, the moat Important to the Re publicans In the whole State, appears to be clearing up. Thomas B. Smith, former postmaster, now a Public Ser vice Commissioner, filed a nominating petition and announced his candidacy. So did Commissioner John Monaghan. j Congressman Vare has not yet taken down his papers, but It is now gen erally believed that harmony has been effected. In announcing the developments o( last night the Philadelphia Press says: "Thomas B. Smith recently appointed Public Service Commissioner by Gov ernor Brumbaugh on the recommen dation of Congressman Williams S. Vare and Senator Edwin H. Vare, yes terday afternoon announced himself a "full-fledged candidate" for the Re publican nomination, hopeful of "sup port of all elements of the party." He took this action immediately after publicity was given to a night letter sent by Governor Brumbaugh to City Committee Chairman David H. Lane —a letter destined to become historic In political annals—ln which the gov ernor after defining the type of man who should be chosen by Republican ism to become Chief Executive of Philadelphia, and after speclflcally saylng "1 have no candidate" con cludes the decision that if the choice of the people "is an appointive officer of the State government,' he would regret but not oppose the choice. In view of the fact that Governor Brum baugh appointed Commissioner Smith under the condition that he should not be a candidate for public position, and that Commissioner Smith accept ed with the further condition that such candidacy would not be without the Governor's consent, the letter writ ten by the governor yesterday gives Commissioner Smith gubernatorial backing as a candidate." —The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "The Governor in what will be re garded as a message of far-reaching importance and significance political ly, emphasizes his keen interest in the success of the Republican party, not only in the city, but in the Nation, and evinces a spirit of hearty co-oper ation in the efforts of Republicans rep resenting all elements of the party to bring about the nomination of a can didate for Mayor whose selection will mean a decisive Republican victory. —From all accounts the second reg istration day in the third class cities was very much of an average. The registration except for the pronounced return to the party movement was un eventful and the Republican registra tion appeared to predominate general ly. The situation in Harrisburg was the situation in practically every third class city. Councilmanic contests In the Second and third class cities are going to be the sharpest known in years this Fall. The type of men registered in most of the cities is high and the interest is very keen. In Pittsburgh there will be the greatest political battle In years. Reading, Wilkes-Barre, Erie, Johns town and other cities have strenuous contests for councilmanic honors ahead. - —One of the most significant things in the western counties, politics has been the manner in wnich the superior court judge battle has been taken up. In practically every county the booms of Judges Orlady and Head have been pushed, but at the same time there Is a move on for ex-Judge W. D. Wallace, of New Castle. In the East there is a move for J. Henry Williams, of Phila delphia, for the third place. —County Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, of Allegheny, was given a re ception and a parade yesterday at Tar entum. O'Neil is very strong in the county and his friends say that'in spite of the combination against him he is going to make a fine showing. Friends of the commissioner say he will win easily. —There was a good bit of suppress ed excitement at the Reading third class city convention yesterday. It was the last day to file papers and the city officials at the convention had their minds on home conditions. Many of them used the telephone wires hard. —The Harrtsburg city Democratic committee appears to be In favor at the Central Democratic club again. The committee has been called to meet at the Central headquarters to night to plan the campaign. —The Washington party of North umberland county failed to file any nominating petitions yesterday, the last legal day for that purpose. Dem ocrats and Republicans are but 300 votes apart in registering this year, and it is said that overtures were be ing made by both sides to the Wash ington party leaders to indorse candi dates, but that they declined. THE WET TOWN PASSES [Atlantic (la.) News-Telegraph.] The crowd in the city on a recent public holiday came from all direc tions. They came from within twen ty miles of Des Moines; they came from within fifteen miles of Council Bluffs and Omaha. They came to see the circus. Knowing that Atlantic does not have open saloons, they came, eight thousands of them, in motor cars they have chosen tu buy for themselves and their families in stead of buying whisky, and they had a good splendid show, decent and so ber, and to-day they are on the Job again with a song on their lips And a light in their eyes, imbued with the Joy of living. Did anyone ever hear of such a crowd during the saloon period here? Did anyone see as many well dressed people, or as many expensive motor cars drawn up along the curb, during the time ten thirst parlors here helped to make beasts of men and over their polished bars took the money that be longed to their wives and children? Hardly. If the wet town draws the people, why was It that many people nearer Des Moines than here, came to At lantic, where there are no saloons. In stead of going to Des Moines, where there are saloons to-day? And, like wise the people from near Council Bluffs? Why did they leave a wet town to come to a dry one? Why? Because, whether the booze adherents want to admit It or not, the popular ity of the wet town is passing. TWO LITLLE PIGS MILKED THE COWS The following Is taken from the cur rent Issue of Farm and Fireside: "Our cows had been failing off In their milk supply for several days, and we could not acoount for it until two little rascally pigs were caught In the act of milking tnem. When the cows were driven past their pen after that the pigs would stand upon their hind legs and squeal for them to stop. Pome pictures were taken of the 'milk ers' without abashing lrast, and after they had been photo graphed they had to be driven away from the cows with sticks." THE VALUE OF WISDOM Through wisdom is an house bullded; and by understanding It li established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant, riches.—Provejb xxiv, 1 and 4 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | THE AWAKENING OF RIF VAN WINKLE —From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. COTTON AND POWDER By Frederic J. Haskir That snowy lint of the southern cot-, ton fields has been busy of late In the precipitation of international complications because, Innocent as it appears, it has but to be treated with a little nitrate when it becomes the best gunpowder that the world can produce. While the early stages of the war In Europe threatened to bring calam ity upon the growers of cotton be cause it interfered with its manufac ture into cloth, its use in explosives has largely counteracted the falling off of sales and the experts now state that the growers of the great staple are to-day better off than they would have been if there had been peace. Cotton Very Vital In which connection it becomes in teresting to point out just, how vital cotton is in the making of modern war and Just what have been the cir cumstances back of its continued posi tion in the limelight. For, despite the quantities of argument pro and con with relation to placing it on the con traband list, there seems to have been no authoritative pronouncement as to just the part it plays in the manufacture of powder. But these facts are obtainable, hav ing been furnished by no less author ities than the official powder-makers of the United States. For many years it has been the practice of those com mittees of Congress having to do with the military branches of the gov ernment to call before them repre sentatives of the DuPont Powder Company, which makes most of the smokeless for the United States, and the experts of the Navy Department HIGHER COST OF GOVERNMENT fFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] A bulletin just issued by the Census Bureau, showing the Increasing cost of government, national, Slate, county and municipal, during the decade 1903-13. is startling In its percentages. In that period the revenues of the Federal Government Increased 45 per cent., while the expenditures in creased 54.5 per cent. State govern ments. notwithstanding an increase of 94.3 per cent, in revenues, were un able to keep pace with the growths in expenditures for governmental cost, which was 105.9 per cent. Nor did county governmental cost lag. With an increase of revenues of 85.8 per cent., their expenditures grew 95.2 per cent. Municipalities, including towns of 8,000 population and over, increased their revenues 98.3 per cent, and their expenditures 103.2. The Federal Government in 1913 was the only one where revenues were not less than expenditures. It has a sur plus of about $1,000,000, or one-tenth of 1 per cent, of the revenues. The States had a deficit of $15,000,000, or 4 per cent, of the revenues, the coun ties were in a similar hole, while the cities and towns staggered under a deficit of $129,000,000, or 13 per cent, of the revenues. NO BIG TEXTILE MAW. OF COURSE [From Fibre and Fabric.] Probably because textiles are likely to be one of the most important Items in South American trade with the Unit ed States, no prominent textile man has been appointed to the commission to study the development of Pan-American trade. Of course not our industry is not English enough to suit the powers that-be at Washington. It would be a shame to allow a word In favor of American textiles when foreign eompe tion is so favored. Our Daily Laugh THE MAI* VT > LfJX MATTER. Tour witm rj?seems busy these pwrol c Yes: she Is to address a wom wf i I ,Ln ' , ■N I I Ah, working on M 1 address. BTTRB. | So yon play |. * ball? What nine? iiXV. > Ca-nine. r n ffk/ jtxwt ACROSS THE COUNTRY By Win* Dinger This afternoon I will attend The special demonstration Of the Bell Telephone Company, When clear across the nation The Governor of this good old State Will send a word of greeting To many local citizens Who will attend the meeting. From San Francisco land, at noon, He'U talk, and It's been reckoned That for his voice to reach our ears 'Twill take one-fifteenth second. And yet because the time out there Is different, e'en though he'll talk At noon, we folks who wait In here Won't hear his voice 'till three 'clock. I told my kids about the stunt— Tc them It seemed quite hazy, And with their questions by- the score I They've got me darned near crazy. For they cam understand Just why I won't hear him 'till three, though His voice In one-fifteenth second ,W(U 'cross the country flee, bf SEPTEMBER 1, 1915.' which operates a plant at Indian Head, down the river from the city of Washington, -and to quiz those gentlemen as to the facta of powder manufacture. Smokeless 00 Per Cent. Cotton The president of the DuPont Corp pany always talked very freely. Ac cording to his statements smokeless powder is nearly 90 per cent, cotton. There is little in it but cotton, and a small amount of nitrate. This forms a mixture that is of such a nature that when it burns the two substances unite, each using the other up so completely that nothing remains. There is not even a sufficient residue to make a bit of smoke. The Navy experts give facts with relation to powder manufacture that substantiate other authorities. They say that powder is made of cotton and nitrate. They state that, during the years that preceded the outbreak of the present war, the government was using 4,000,000 pounds of cotton an nually in the manufacture of smoke less powder. Cotton was the basis of all government smokeless. How Powder's Made The facts with relation to the method of manufacture are interest ing. The first step in the process is to break up the fibrous condition of the cotton. The fiber is treated with ether and alcohol to accomplish that purpose. Under the influence of these it assumes a Jelly-like consistency. The ether and alcohol have no place in the ultimate product and are evaporated oft after they have served ' [Continued on Page B.] I The State From Day to Day] v * Patriotism Is still a vital force, in spite of the contrary belief of glooms. Witness the recent canoe carnival held near Lancaster In which various martial scenes were represented. Co lumbia. Betsy Ross and the Goddess of Liberty all received prominence, and were enthusiastically received, accord ing to the Lancaster Examiner. « • • Charles M. Schwab, the steel king, receives crredit In the Johnstown Leader for contributing liberally to the erection of a new chapel at Mt. Aloysius Academy. This recalls a little inci dent which happened back In 1901. with the same Mr. Schwab as hero. At that time he paid off a large portion of the debt on a certain church, leaving only $6,000 unpaid. His generosity so stirred the emotions of the female contingent of the church that two hundred of them held a mass meeting and determined to repay the dear man with kisses. Mr. Schwab was so elated with his recep tion that he Immediately wrote out a check for the remainder of the debt. • • • The Erie Dispatch, whose veracity we have no reason to doubt, tells of a lively athlete. 100 years old, who turns handsprings, vaults over fences, and smokes and drinks at will. 'Taint natcheral, that's all! « • » Likewise from Erie, this time from the Times, comes the information that five sweet girl graduates of Geneva high school will accept positions as let ter-carriers. Merely anothy Indication of the truth that women can have any thing she wants. • • • "Howard Aughlnhaugh, of Rouzer vllle, caught the shaved and greased pig at the fortieth anniversary cele bration of Pen Mar Park after a whirl wind chase of fifteen minutes."—Cham bersburg Valley Spirit. • • • Hagerstown is very much disturbed by the probable presence of a leper in its midst. A wild man, believed to be Grable. an escaped leper, was captured and held in custody, says the Dally Mail. Harrlsburg's most recent experi ence with lepers occurred several years ago, when a Chinese leper, Incarcerated in an isolated house outside the city, was converted to Christianity through the efforts of a Christian worker in the city. COAL FROM THE ARCTIC [From the Chicago Journal.} A few years ago the Idea of getting coal from Spitsbergen, one of the most desolate islands of the Arctic Ocean, was a topic for romancers. Now it Is a fact of considerable moment in many of the world's markets. A single com pany, financed chiefly by American capital, mined nearly 40,000 tons of coal from Spitzbergen last year. The deposit of fuel in the Far North is said to be singularly easy to work. It comes In a single seam about four feet thick, stretching along the coast for thlrtv miles. The surrounding rock Is so solid that timbering is not need ed. The temperature is always below the freezing point In the present work ings. which does away with the need oi J tumps. In fact, the only real difficulty ■ that of getting men—and motion pic tures have gone far to solve that prob lem. Yet for every ton of coal In Spitz bergen there are ten In Alaska of at least equal quality, closer to a hungry market. The Arctic zone won't make a real dent in the fuel market till our big Northwest territory gets In action. BEKORR AND AFTER Imports entered at thirteen principal customs districts of the United States for the week ending August 7. 1915. were valued at $34,294,000; duty col lected thereon, 13,432,000. an average ad valorem duty of 10 per cent., com pared with an annual average ad va lorem of 17.6 per cent, under Republi can law. The New York Times Annalist Index Number on wholesale prices of twenty five leading articles of food for the first week In August, 1915. was 145.17. com pared with 138.7 for the first week In August, 1913. under Republican law. The Index Number for the year 1914 was 146.7 compared with 139.98 for the year 1913. The net balance in the general fund of the National Treasury dropped to 158,431,490 during the week ending Saturday, August 14. compared with over $130,000,000 two years ago. The < deficit from July 1 to August If was 1t34.7U.84t. Abetting (Eljat Construction of the dormitory at tha Harrisburg Academy la stimulating interest In the school on the part of the alumni and It Is being manifested In a manner that will not only enhance sentimental regard for the Academy, but also perpetuate the names of those who have been prominent among Its students and supporters. the plan of the alumni, contributions! are being gathered for furnishing dormitory on the room plan. The cost of equipping each room has been worked out and donations covering the cost are being made. It is the idea to place on the door of each room a brass plate giving the name of the donor of the furnishing fund. There are in Harrishurg a number of families whose sons have attended the school, some for a couple of gen erations, and in this way names which have appeared on the lists of students for many years will l>e found In tlio buildings, Just as In colleges the names of donors are placed over lintels or Inside vestibules. This plan was adopted in the furnishing of rooms in the new home of the Young Worn : en's Christian Association and will be followed at the Academy so that future generations may see the names of families who took an Interest In the Institution in its present revival or which have been represented In the student body. • • • The cool evenings of the last days of August started an early boom in the buying of Fall clothing such as underwear, top shoes, light overcoats and so on, according to merchants In the central part of the city. In one sporting goods store the swimming suit and the canoe equipment already have given way to the football and the heavy sweater. Nearly all tha haberdasheries are showing the latest Fall neckwear and the shoe stores and hat stores are displaying the latest models. In the women's suit ings sections of the department stores crowds of prospective buyers can be seen looking over the new shades and cuts at almost any time during the day, and as for women's hats—they've been the proper thing for the last three weeks. » • • * Members of the Millersburg Motor Club who were in Harrisburg to-day on their way to Hershey for their an nual picnic are among the most ag gressive motorists in the State. On Good Roads Day they were out by the dozen in the Lykens Valley and their wives and sweethearts joined in pro viding them with lunch along the roads where they were at work. They are very much interested and are co operating with the Motor Club of Har risburg In an effort to procure right of way for a State highway along the bed of the old. canal along the base of the mountain between Millersburg and Dauphin. They will also join next ses sion in an endeavor to have the Legis lature appropriate money for the erec tion of a bridge across the Susque hanna at the upper end of the county. « » • Well drillers are drilling a couple of wells In the Allison Hill section of the city and this calls to mind that recently in spite of the excellent water wells are by no means out of use in the city. Probably half a dozen wells have been drilled in Harrisburg in the last two years. One of the wells in use is right in the central part of tho city, having been drilled in the yard of the Commonwealth Hotel about twenty years since. Inquiry at the Capitol fails to that there is anything like the whole sale enlistment of men for special coal and iron policemen for steel works and coal mines and similar plants just now that many people believe. Even the Bethlehem Steel Company, which is a center of war order activity, has not materially added to its guarding force. Less than a dozen men have been commissioned for that company by the State in the last two months. In that time ten men have been com missioned of railroads or manufactur ing companies in Dauphin county. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Attorney General Brown Is look ing forward to his annual hunting trip this Fall, feeling that he earned It during the year. —Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, is said to have Washington ambitions. —Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president of Lehigh, is a advocate of na tional preparedness. —Dr. R. M. Russel, president of Westminster College, is to be given a reception when he leaves to enter work at Chicago. DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisburg Is making appli ances for Panama canal repairs? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris secured the ferry right in 1753. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY | [From the Telegraph Sept. t, 1865.] To Have Charge of Academy The Rev. F. A. Barnltz, of this city, has been appointed to take charge of the Mlddletown Academy. To Speak Again To-night Professor Alex. Crummel, the noted colored lecturer will speak again this evening in the South street church. Fifty-Fifth Here To-day The fifty-fifth regiment arrived in this city to-day. The soldiers In this regiment fought In many of the most Important battles of the war. * \ Put Newspapers First "Results are obtained by qual ity first and then the use of the daily newspapers." This Is the explanation given by a large producer of a food product for the success of his brand. It is a brand known and sold - by name the continent over. I The man behind it has tried every kind of advertising plan there ever was, and has given up about everything except newspapers. Year after year his advertising keeps up and his sales grow. The Bureau of Advertising. American Newspaper Publishers Association, World Building, New York, will gladly give any man ufacturer further information on this campaign. N SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. AHCUt Ist to September lltk, Fin cents ■ pint for all flies, *ad ■uar prises la sold. |Weße
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