8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iS}l PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editer-in-CMif F. R. OYSTER f , Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing fditor Published every evening (except Bun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21( Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Buildln*, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen St Ward. Delivered by carriers at s >x cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second elass matter. Snnm dolly nvernsp circulation for the three months ending AUK. 31, 1915 ★ 21,083 ★ A?eraff fop the year 1014—21.51W Average fop the ye«p 10.0 M Average for the year 1012—10.640 Average fop the year 1911—17,503 Average fop the year 101O—16»281 The above flgarea are net. All rt turned, uuaoltl and damaged coplea da* ducted. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. —Henry Ward j Beecher. —Cowen. A SHADE TREE EXHIBIT CITY FORESTER MUELLER has made an excellent suggestion in his plan to include a shade tree exhibit as a part of the big municipal celebration, plans for whfch are now under way. It is his idea to instruct the public in the kinds of trees most desirable for street decorative pur poses and to educate the people in the care of trees. Harrisburg needs trees. Many of its streets are beautifully shaded and others are bare of growing things. There is no comparison between the shaded street and the treeless thor oughfare. Even a very modest com munity takes on an air of beauty and dignity when Its houses are fronted by well kept trees, but the most ex pensive homes are bare and lacking in the very essentials of "homieness" •when they look out upon a street de void of green leaves and the stately trunks and extended branches of elms or maples. Trees are necessary to the beauty of any town and this city ought to Jiave them on every street. The more we know concerning their care and the measures necessary to protect them from insect and other pests the better, for shade trees are susceptible to all manner of ills and must be given almost as much attention as fruit trees, and some times more. Mr. Mueller's exhibit ought to be interest ing and attractive. BIG THINGS WE in America have been given to "talking big." The biggest crop, the biggest mountain, the biggest waterfall, the biggest, the biggest, the biggest, always the big gest. But even our million-bushel, million-dollar boastings have been swamped by recent statistics from Eu rope. Armies are rated by figures that stagger comprehension and war contracts of every day occurrence are large beyond expression in under standable terms. Newspapers used to put headlines of Bize on industrial contracts of a mil lion or more. To-day the New York Sun prints in an obscure corner under a minor caption a two-stick account of a $52,000,000 war order about to be taken by the Canadian Car and Foundry company. We must take second place hence forth as a country of gigantic things. But lot us not be downcast. Taxation in Europe after the war bids to be proportionate to the war orders now feeing placed. There is some compen sation in mediocrity. Vacation days are over and business 'ls getting back to a winter basis. We know this, because the Rotary Club re sumes its meetings to-night. THK SHIPPING PROBLEM I A LEXAXDER R. SMITH, former superintendent of the New York Maritime Exchange, in a recent ly published article, views the need of on American merchant marine from a new angle—that of national de fense. Mr. Smith believes that when a century and a quarter ago, Thomas Jefferson said, speaking of a marine, that "as a branch of industry, it is valuable, but as a resource of defense essential," he epitomized the whole subject. And yet, he reflects, after the Spanish-American war, speaking of the nondescript fleet that conveyed American troops from Tampa to Santiago, the Naval War College said: "Nothing but the safe arrival of the fleet at its destination justified its use for troop transportation." Had the weather been stormy, Mr. Smith believes, the fleet would have ■been dispersed, many of the ships doubtless would have sunk, and thousands of American soldiers and Bailors would have gone to their death, because the Federal Government had neglected to see that the nation possessed a strong, growing, profitable shipping, not for individual profit per Be. but for the national defense. Others bold the same belief. In a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated January 12, 1915, Admiral TUESDAY EVENING, Dewey. President of the General Board of the Navy, explained In detail the number and kind of merchant vessels the country would require If engaged in war. Secretary of the Navy Daniels wrote letters at the same time to senators emphasizing this need. And in the same month Secretary of War Garrison explained to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo the military need of merchant ships for war pur poses. And the only thing the administra tion has done in the matter is to pass a law that has driven every Am erican merchant ship from the Pacific and to urge the adoption of a ship purchase measure that would discour age the investment of private capital in ships on the Atlantic or any other ocean. NOW AND IN 1901 COMPARE the Harrisburg of to day with that of 1901. The difference does not lie wholly in our well paved streets, our filtered water, our improved drainage facilities, our parks, our playground and flood prevention measures. These are outstanding, apparent and essen tial, of course, but they are causes rather than effects. In 1901, when the first improvement loan was advocated by the Telegraph, Harrisburg was no more than an over grown country town, with inadequate sewer facilities, served with raw river water of poor quality and steadily deteriorating, with few parks and no playgrounds, with muddy streets and the whole Paxton creek valley section subject to periodical floods, dangerous to life and property. The improve ments authorized by vote of the people and carried forward with so much vim and enthusiasm changed all this. To day there is no more progressive city in the State, nor any more attractive. The result has been that capital has been attracted to Harrisburg. The Paxton creek valley section is fast be coming one of the biggest manufac turing and shipping centers in Penn sylvania, thanks to the construction of the Wildwood dam and the protection of the creek channel. Hundreds of traveling men have been drawn to the city both by reason of its splendid railroad facilities and because they found in it a pleasant and desirable abiding place for their families. In dustries have been located here be cause we had something to offer. The city has grown and expanded far beyond the dreams of those who first urged the improvements now in the last stages of completion. Over and over again by increase in prop erty values, by the additional volume of taxation and by their conservation of life, health and property have these public works paid for them selves, and we are but at the begin ning. In the end the investment made by the people for the development of their city will yield profits that might well make a Rockefeller turn green with envy. In those early days the city had to wait upon private initiative to in augurate plans and sketch out the needs of present and future. To-day we have the City Planning Commls , sion, thoughtful of the Harrisburg of i to-morrow and quietly but effectively, : working away, day in and day out, to | plan wisely and avoid mistakes of | city building. When next we enter I upon a public improvement campaign jit will be with years of experience ' behind and with carefully wrought i plans and specifications as guide posts ahead. Eighteen floats for the river parade make a good beginning. Doubtless there will be three times that number when the lists are closed. THE SOXG OF THE OYSTER LIST to this from the Baltimore Sun and be glad that you live in a city so close to the native home of the oyster that the juicy I bivalve Is lively enough when It I reaches here to bite the thumbs of the shuckers who take off half the shell 1 when you order a dozen of 'em raw: ! The Chesapeake is glowing in a light as soft as mist. And the shores between Its flowing are a gleam of amethylst. And they're bringing up the oysters With that taste of soil and stream Where they fatten In the Tangier To the flavor of a dream. { "To the flavor of a droam!" Ah, to what sublime poetic heights the Bard of Baltimore attains. But, then. consider also his subject. Who couldn't become fulsome and songful, yea even romantic, over a plate of Chesapeake oysters, properly served. Cooler weather has no effect on the boiling of the political pot. BUSINESS AXI) SENTIMENT NOT SO long since current opinion ww that business and senti ment were things apart—that kindliness and the dollar sign never spoke as they passed. Perhaps cur rent opinion was right; it has a habit of being so. But times have changed To-day business is making a studied efTort to lift Itself above the mere function of money-getting. Success ful men are finding life too short to devote exclusively to the acquirement of property they must leave on this side of the grave. The tendency Is reflected in almost every one of the "house-organs" pub lished by the big mercantile Interests for the benefit of their officials and employes in general. Take this, as an example, from the journal of the United Shoe Machinery Company, of Beverly, Mass: Brain service CRn be bought. Lip service can be hired. Physical ser vice can be contracted for. But heart service is the kind "0u get when you pay In the coin of appre ciation. kindness and consideration. Service is the true basis of all good business, and until you get the heart-tnrobß of your organization working with you and not Just for you. you lack one element that is of more Importance than you per haps think. And just think, Mr. Pessimist, all that good space might have been de voted to setting forth the merits of shoe machinery! | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —Will some kind insurance com pany please come forward with an ac cident policy that will help the man who falls in love? —lf they hanged people for killing time, there wouldn't be gallows enough to take care of the corner loafers. —Possibly the least important man In the world is the one whose wife Is a widow. —Don't worry, about the boy until he leaves the house without slamming the door. —How in the world does tne aver age chef, who makes chowder, find so many things cheaper than clams to put in it? —ln a shoe store, at least, all wo men agree. Ask any shoe clerk if every one of his fair customers doesn't think she's a Cinderella. EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ —The German submarines have de stroyed less than one per cent, of England's shipping. Congress, with a single bill, knocked out about ninety per cent, of American transpacific shipping. How Von Tlrpitz must envy our superior method.— Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport, Pa. There are days when we especially wish Taft had been elected in 1912. In handling the present difficulties with Mexico and Germany he would have been an expert President.— Franklin Evening News. The Glens Falls woman who at 107 expects to vote before she dies will at least be spared the pain of having candidates relate to her their alleged fidventures with her parents and elder brothers.—New York Sun. HE COt LD\T-A BEEN A POET He couldn't-a been a poet, for He used such simple words. ThereVa'n't a thing but what was clear As songs of common birds. And his rhymes, why, pnyone could see How little skill they took— As easy and as natural As any rippling brook. A homelike body; yet I liked The verses that he spun. And Sarah liked to hear them read Sometimes, when work was done. They sort of soothed the frets and cares And trials that life brings. And helped you see the good and true Back of the puzzling things. Some things he wrote were full of fun. And wife and I would laugh, I know real poets never deal In such light, tickling chafT. But after little Ella died. And he sat desolate— You know, if you've been through with it. That crushing, killing weight— We found some tender lines of his That made our tears fall hot, About God's care for little lambs; They eased our hearts a lot Real poets blaze and awe. His words The humble hearthstone haunt, He couldn't-a been a poet, and I'm sort o' glad he wa'n't. —Victor Kilsplndie In the New York Times. RUSSIANS NOT WHIPPED YET George Kennan Rays Germans Should Not BP TOO Sure of Victory [George Kennan. in the Out'ook.] I do not care to make a prediction with regard to the future of the Rus sian army; but I have seen it fight, at the end of a long campaign, when It had not been cheered or encouraged by a single victory; and my conviction is that it can stand up under reverses as long, and rally from defeat as quickly, as any army that Prussia ever put into the field. If i were a friend of Von Hinden burg, Mackensen and the kaiser, X think I should venture to give them this warning: "Don't count on smashing the Rus sian army so that It cannot recover. Like the Libyan wrestler. It draws strength from the ground every time il is thrown. You are now doing your level best: but the Russian army will not reach its maximum efficiency until next summer. Then you, with your waning strength, will have to fight harder than you have yet fought for the territory that you now hold;" A CITIZENS* ARMY [Kansas City Star.] England is having a row over pro posed conscription in time of war. If Switzerland got into a war there would arise no need of conscription. Its citizenship army, arranged, organ ized and drilled in time of peace, would be available at once. Such an army is the most demo cratic of all plans of national defense. It puts the burden and gives the pro tection equitably. It gives no advan tage to the shirker, and it makes every one willing to do his share be cause of the knowledge that every, body else must do his share. Conscription may have to come to England. Rut if England had had a j citizenship army prepared for war her troubles would have been much less. There might even have been no war. HOME Bl II.DKHS IN PEN\SYI,VASI* fFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] New England will have to look to its laurels as the land of thrift, for Penn sylvania is coming fast. Just an Phila delphia is the banner saving-fund citv of the country, so Pennsylvania is the banner building and loan State of the Union, and the annual report of the State Banking Commissioner on build ing and loan activities for 1914 reads like a prospectus of some big Wall Street merger. For the associations in Pennsylvania, up to the date of the re port, bad assets of $255,187,937, or more thar S3O for each man, woman and child in the State. More than $239,000,000 had been put out In loans, the vast bulk being mortgage loans on stock shares, which Is another wiv of saying that building and loan associations are advancing more than $200,000,000 to help build homes for shareholders who Drobablv could get homes of their own In no other way. Total shares In force were 4.3R8.625. divided among 541,000 shareholders, of whom 174,714 were wo men. Any Commonwealth whose wage-earn ers are willing and able to spend these magnificent amounts In home bulldln* has a moral and material asset beyond compatatlon. HXFIUSBURG qfijgy TELEGRAPH IP" 1 in i i *"PottttC4 OV "7 > tKKo^t*ranXa Bjr the Ei-Oommlt»ffm«n According to reports from Somerset county that former Bull Moose strong hold will vote as staunchly Republican as ever. The visit of Senator Penrose to the former citadel of the political Independents has demonstrated that it is in the van of the back to the par ty movement. The same thing is true of the onrthern tier counties which have been hotbeds of insurrection and of the anthracite region where the Bull Moosers swept things two years ago. Apropos of the Penrose visit to Somerset county a dispatch from the county seat says: "In no other county in Western Pennsylvania has the change In poli tical sentiment within the past two years been more emphatic, as Somer set was a Roosevelt stronghold in 1912. and gave Gifford Pinchot, Wash ington party candidate for senator last year, a large vote. Senator Boies Pen rose was so informed to-day, not only by stalwart Republicans, but by men who have been prominent in the \\ ashington party. Senator Penrose's visit to Somerset was made the occa sion of a regathering of workers in both elements of Republican party in this county. His headquarters were crowded to-day with active Republi cans. including many of the candi dates for the county offices, who talked over the political situation with him. Senator Penrose delivered two ad dresses to-day. He spoke to the stu dents at the Somerset high school this morning, and this afternoon attended a rally of the P. O. S. of A. at Shankes ville, where he addressed a gathering of members of the order and farmers and their families from that section of the county." —Philadelphia county has started to take advantage of an act of assem bly permitting counties to annex parts of other counties under certain conditions. There iB a part of Chelt enham township, Montgomery county that juts into Philadelphia and it will be taken in. —Judge Brumm is in the limelight again. He is ordering investigation of the Schuylkill enrollment where the Republican registration ran 6,SOU ahead of Democrats and Bull Moosers combined. The Judge is a leader of the irreconcilable Bull Moosers. —Judges Bonniwell and Wheeler, of the municipal court, are expected to resign shortly. Bonniwell is said to be slated for a federal place. —To-day is registration day in Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Scran ton and it is expected that there will be a still greater jump in the registration of Republicans. Xow that the con testa in those cities are pretty well de fined the Republican leaders are turn ing their efforts to getting voters reg istered and are successful about it. —One of the hottest contests in the western part or the State is over the Republican nomination for county controller in Allegheny county which lies between Controller H. M. Cribbs and Senator John P. Moore. The lat ter is going into the battle in spite of claims that if elected he will be un able to serve. —Mayor Blankenburg, who foresees the thorough defeat of his own per sonally selected slate is now furious ly denouncing the Republicans for agreeii% upon candidates in Philadel phia. When reformers fix up a list It is an expression of the leaders of the people, but when any other people en deavor to work out harmony it is making a slate and hosslsm. This has a familiar sound to Harrisburg people who recall emanations from Market Square in past years. —Thomas B. Smith made his first speeches of the campaign in Phila delphia yesterday. He attended the fair at Byberry and then addressed one of the ward meetings. —Many people at the Capitol are watching with intense interest the contest between ex-Councilman J. N. Langham, former corporation clerk to the auditor general and Judge S. J. Telford for the Indiana county judicial nomination. It bids fair to be one of the most closely contested battles of the primary season. —Lackawanna county people are much in earnest in their fight for free dom from toll roads and some of the county candidates are being required to make statements as to how they stand. —Altoona ministers have refused to allow politicians or candidates to ad dress their meetings. HOURS FOR REST Hours for rest, for thought, for prayer While enguJphing tides sweep on Through the great unrest of a warring world And men's hearts, passion torn. Hours to count what the awful toll Of the year gone by has brought. How tears and blood are as wasted things In the cost of the Issues sought! Hours to wonder, tremble, fear For a future we cannot evade. Yet God still holds in His mightv Hand The cycles of history unmade! ANNA H. WOOD. Our Daily Laugh CONTAGIOUS. „ Mr. Monk: You seem bo optlmis- j - tic. How is it? live next door to the laughing hy- . B TOO WISE TO foL/fir \ BITE - Ww *(\ v [fj Don't you think \A */ there are just as Y V S good fish In the "jjZIL \ , /j sea as ever were wll \ 1 A caught ? AJw Jl' v* * don't know. I Waif y But they art smarter anyway. JUST THE SAME TODAY Hy Wing Dinger I took my boys to school to-day And when they'd been assigned To their respective rooms, to each I said: "Be sure to mind Your teacher, and do what she says, Cut out all kinds of noise And every day in every way Please try to be good boys." I told them that a present fine Each one of them could earn . If he would only try each day His lessons well to learn. But if they do as I did when To school I started, say, They'll do Just as they please, and get Their presents anyway. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY "BET I KNOW WHAT GEN. SHERMAN 'UD SAY!" JOS* W4«, JW fllKTta Tut imm noon T> Tut fpj MM 601001. *•"> / 0 iHt SAVi SHlit. V jCtHAB mnt hi» «»»«** < i>, J. —From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. f FASTING FOR HEALTH By Frederic J. Haskin k J A woman In Altoona, Pa., a little while ago terminated a voluntary fif teen-day fast. It had been undertaken to relieve long continued digestive trou bles which had failed to respond to medical treatment. This wag the third and longest fast she had taken within five years for the same purpose. The first was for only five days but it ma terially improved her health during a whole year. The old difficulty then re curred and she fasted for ten days, gaining nearly two years' amelioration of a trouble which had been almost life-long. Within the past year her discomfort began again. For six months she suf fered severe pain after every meal even of the simplest and most easily di fested food. She entered upon the last ast in the belief that It would again relieve her and the hope that its longer duration might affect a permanent cure. At the end of the period of ab stenance she had allotted herself, she ate a hearty meal, including chicken and fresh vegetables. The relief from suffering for the first three days follow ing her fast repaid her. It has been no sacrifice to her because the pangs of unappeased hunger gave her less discomfort than the suffering from in digestion following each meal eaten. Voliintnry Knitlng kh Cure Voluntary fasting as a curative meas ure is receiving the attention of many scientific men. Distinguished dieti tians and physicians have scientifically studied the physical changes in the body wrought by a period of absten ance from nourishment. Most of their although of scientific Interest. The Carnegie. Institution of Washing ton, though its nutrition laboratory in Boston, has completed the most elabor ate study of prolonged fasting yet made and thus acquired the most accurate data regarding Its physical effect upon the patient. They have put a man through such a fast and carefully noted Its effects. The reports of this study, which have just been concluded, dis prove the theory that any danger to a f The State From Day to Dayl «■ * Button, button, who's got the mil lions? is the question Robert M. Zim merman, of Buffalo, N. Y., would like to have answered. He is heir to a large estate somewhere in Lancaster county, supposed to be the Hilz es tate, but all the efforts of the Lancas ter papers to discover such a one have proved fruitless. If anyone is concealing the estate from the right ful owner, he ought to be polite enough to come out in the open and say so! "Champion chicken thief run down." —Lancaster Intelligencer—There are very few wholesale chicken thieves who can get away with it constantly for a long period of time, but the champion, Mr. Koffroath, just arrest ed in Reading and taken to Lancaster, was immune from capture for over n year. His belief that one should not buy chickens, but get them "in the natural way," kept him on easy street for some time. The official emblem of the Wo man Suffrage party, a 2,000 pound re plica of the Liberty Bell, er*tered> Scranton yesterday and took a promi nent party in the Labor Day pageant. Public schools all over the State are off on the 1915-16 lap of the race for education. For most of the boys and girls it is an agreeable change from the weary days of vacation, no doubt. Scranton, Pa.—Charles R. Johnson, a well-known farmer of this county, was cutting wood on his farm yester day and while working hung his vest, with watch dangling therefrom, to a low sapling. When he finished his work and went to put on his vest, the watch was gone. Later in the day Mr. Johnson had occasion to kill a huge, six-foot black snnke which he found on his property. The victim was bulging suspiciously, and a further inquiry into his condition revealed the watch, ticking merrily away, care fully stowed in the interior of the snake. Another snake story finds credence in the New Castle News of yesterday. "Gee! somebody li.ust have put a nice silk necktie in my coat pocket." said James Wilson, of Darby, Pa. On reaching into said pocket for said tie, he discovered that he held a slippery two-foot black-and-white striped snake. With a loud yell, he fell over backward in a dead faint, and did not come to for fifteen minu tes. The reptile was harmless. What are reported to have been a species of ants flew over the city In millions late yesterday, and caused many otherwise mild-mannered per sons to wax profane. The pests clung tenaciously to people's hair, faca, hands and clothing. They presented somewhat of a menace to drivers of automobiles, motorcycles and other vehicles. In Broad street about 5 o'clock the clouds of them were so thick that people could scarcely see the sky. The ants migrate once a year, much as bees swarm. It is said they lose their wings soon after alight ing.—The Johnstown Tribune.. SEPTEMBER 7, T9IS. : healthy human being: attends a pro longed fast. They indicate that the body contains reserves sufficient to pro serve life for many weeks under fav orable conditions. The subject submitting to the test, which continued for thirty-one days, was Mr. Angostino Levanzin, a native of the island of Malta, and of distinguish ed French and Italian descent. He was a man of scientific attainments and had made a number of voluntary fasts to his own physical betterment. He offered himself as a subject observation in the belief that he was thereby serving hu manity. Several certificates from phy sicians testifying to hia good health and freedom from organic disease were submitted before his offer was accepted. During his Journey from Malta to Bos ton he kept an accurate record of the food he ate and other physical details included in the instructions sent to him by the laboratory scientists. During the fasting period, he was under the daily observation of Dr. H. W. Goodall, professor of physiological chemistry of the Harvard Medical school. Dr. A. I. Kendall, who observed the intestinal bacterial flora. Dr. Fran cis Benedict, director of the Nutrition Laboratory in which the study was con ducted. and a number of others. Dailv records were made of the respiration, blood tests and other subjects having a bearing upon the results. Levanzin slept each night in a calor imeter room that an accurate record might be kept of the temperature of his body and his respiration while sleeping. This room is large and well ventilated and contains a number of calorimeters and models of respiration apparatus. He spent most of each dav upon a balcony extending partly around the room which was approached by a stairway of twelve steps. These steps gave htm daily exercise. He was pho tographed on the last day of his fast in the act of ascending the staircase. Though the exposure lasted for twenty ('Continued on Page 9.) [ The Searchlight ] HEMP FROM YUCATAN The shipments of Jute and coars« hemp from India have been almost entirely cut off by the war. These fiber substances were used in the manufacturing of burlap and twine. The sisal hemp or Hencquen, grown in Yucatan, is being experimented with and is proving a satisfactory substi tute for many purposes. Yucatan was considered practically worthless land by the early Spaniards and it wag not until 1850 that it began to be used for Hencquen growing. Within the last ten years this has be come a valuable product and brings heavy profits to the planters who grow It. Labor is cheap in Yucatan and the Hencquen growers are reaping from 300 to 400 per cent, upon their invest ments. The exports from Progresso, the only seaport of Yucatan, have averaged nearly a million bales an nually for four years. The United States purchased nearly $23,000,000 worth of sisal hemp during the year ending June 1, 1915. Letter List LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN the Post Office, at Harrisburg, for the week ending September 4, 1915: Ladies' List Miss E. Barbow, Miss Hazel Barnes, Mrs. Llda Bradlev. Miss Mary Carpenter, Mrs. C. H. Daniels, Mrs. Carrie Davis. Margaret Davis. Miss Carrie Dressier, Miss M. Helen Eng berth. Miss Adda Fox, Miss Elsie Garysl Miss Charadette Crone. Mrs. Morris Harlon, Miss Mollie Harris, Mrs. Natile Koch, Mrs. C. Cramer, Mrs. Llllie Lait gan, Miss Minnie Leedy, Miss Fannie Legman, Mrs. R. Lucas, Miss Carrie Miller, Miss Kattie Miller, Sue Miller, Miss Mary Nickle, Mrs. Catherine Piddi cord, Mrs. Rosie Peen, Miss Pauline Rakin, Miss Hallle Rudy, Miss Carrie Shearer, Mrs. Annie Shipp, Miss Beulah A. Shutz. Miss Saddle StofTer, Mrs. Renita Villarreal, Mrs. J. R. Weigel, Miss Eva Wick, Misa Haze! Wilson. Gentlemen's List J. A. Albright, J. H. Alcorn. Seymore Batdorf, J. W. Ben nett. M. Aaouschr. C. F. Bowman, Geo. Boyd. Edgar Brown, R. E. Buff, R. E Bub, L Canjiani, Charles Carman. Wil liam Chamer, Chas. Carrell, J. A. Drake E. S. Dunn, W. H. Dyson, A. L. Ed wards. J. J. Galb (D. L.). Bud Gaylen, F. A. Gregory, Merlin S. Gulliver, T. M. Hawkins. A. R. Manufacturer, A. %. Hess Wm. F. Hoffman, W. Henseeker, V. T. Nortest, Webster Jell, Fred Kapp, C. Keim, J. B. King. A. Kister, S. J. Kohler. D. S. Koser, Tom Kowajitch, F. B. Kratzer, R. Lawrie, Frank Lencesni, F. M. Logan, E. J. Marshall. Harrv Mil ler, Wm. Millet. J. C. Myers, W. N.Ocker, L Peckitt, S. Pelmflles, Robert Proctor, C. M. Rogdell, S. C. Ranfleles (2). G. B. Rauth, Leon Rednoe, Martin Reed, John Rudy, Gus Ruppel (D. L), Mrs. I. F. Runkle, Willie Sake (D. L). H. R. Sav age. A. J. Schmidt. A. L. Sellers. W. D. Shlllen. H. P. Skipper Ellis Smedley, James Smith, W. A. Sparks, Fred Streh ers, F. G. Stellcomer. Will Thompson (D. L.). E. J. Vokem, N. P. Wilson, Pas qualale Zampina. Firms Children's Bureau, Eastern Supply Co.. L C. Isaacson & Co.. Mfgrs. Clo. Co., Mercantile Collection Co. (2). Reliance Co. Foreign Mrs. Fritz Fredlund, Ca millo Paponettl. Persons should invariably have their mall matter addressed to their street and number, thereby insuring prompt delivery by the carriers. FRANK C. SITES, ?oitma«t«r. j iEtentng (SJjat View* of Harrisburg's splendid River front, including some which have appeared in this newspaper, which have been in various publica tions and some privately taken will form an exhibit at the Public Library during the municipal celebration week and should attract much attention. The views will be shown on a special Harisburg table which will be Jfiid out at the library. Incidentally, the views of the River Front will show "Hardscrabbie" as it is and allow people to form their own ideas of l what it will be like some day. The activity of members of the Statei police force detailed to the patrol work in the vicinity of this city is having an excellent effect upon the order maintained on the highways. There have been times, and in the last few months, when automobile parties made the nights noisy with attempts to sing and with their racket. Occasionally some other parties have resulted in fights and disorder. Such occurrences have been rare in the last month or so and the State policemen are being given the credit for It as well as for lessening the high and illegal mor tality among chickens. ♦ « • Speaking of odd things, the other' day a friend showed an eggplant which was grown in a garden, and a small one at that, almost within the shadow of the State's Capitol, a gar den surrounded by asphalt. It only shews what intensive agriculture can do coupled with patience and care. » • « Golf appears to be the official gams for the State government quite aa much as in the Tener administration. Governor Brumbaugh, Secretary Woods and other officials are devotees and there is scarcely a department that does not have some players among its staff. They are members of all three golf clubs and the num ber is increasing. • • • W. H. Swartz, the editor of the Al toona Tribune, was given quite a sur prise by the members of the staff of the newspaper over which he has presided for years. It happened that the anniversary of his becoming con nected with the Tribune in 1881 and his seventieth birthday came along about the same time. So the staff took liberties in his absence and ran a picture of him on the editorial page with a tribute to his work. A good many men Interested in politics about the State are watching carefully the nonpartisan election In this city. Harrisburg has taken such a lead in municipal problems that tho manner in which it conducts itself under the various features of the Clark commission act is being closely observed. Several men who attend ed the Third Class City League con vention'were here on their way home to take note of the character of cam paign that was being started. • • * The German band which has been showing its neutrality by playing Tip perary about the streets of the city yesterday thoroughly established its opinion of militarism by playing soul fully: "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier." * * • Ex-Representative W. F. Blair, of Waynesburg, was here yesterday and to-day on; business connected with the State Armory Board. He hrts taken quite a lot of work in the ing business in western counties. ♦ • • William Lewis, one of the porter force at Union Station, is the physi cian to the letter shute. The letter box for train mail Is a pretty impor tant place as it is the dropping place of last resort for letters. Once in a while the chute, which runs the length of a couple of stories, gets indigestion and mail clogs up. That chute is too important to be allowed to suffer. Lewis has a weight on the end of a rope and when the chute gets a chok ing sensation he drops the weight on the letters and hauls it back for the next time. • • • Among visitors to the city-yesterday was Francis H. Bohlen, the University of Pennsylvania law professor who was secretary of the Industrial Acci dents Commission. He was the main stay of the commission which drafted the workmen's compensation act and was at the elbow of Attorney General Brown during the legislative session when the compensation bills were under consideration. Mr. Bohlen has been spending the summer at the sea side and will he here during the Fall to assist Commissioner John Price Jackson in organization of the Com pensation Bureau. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —James Scarlet was the Labor Day speaker at Scranton. —George M. Harsheberger, first candidate to announce himself, won first place In the drawing for place on Johnstown's councilmanic ticket. —Secretary Wilson spoke at several places in Cambria county yesterday. —Dr. J. William White may make another trip to the battle line in Eu rope. —The Rev. Dr. W. W. Shiff. of New Castle, startled politicians, by invit ing all candidates in his city to attend church. —Charles M. Schwab will build a steel plant in Beaver county. —George Wharton Pepper has gone from camp at Plattsburg to Maine coast. j DO YOU KNOW 1 That there are over a score of nationalities represented in Har risburg? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city innde many material# for use during the Civil War. OUR HANDY GOLF MANUAL [From Life.] Ball: That for which you are con stantly searching and which you never quite attain. , . Stance: .-v term you use only when you make a good shot. Flub: Your method of entering a crowd on the first tee when you make your drive. ... . , Approach: A popular method of keep ing one's ball away from the hole. Bunker: A center of gravity. Score: Something you once made when no one else was present. Caddy: An ever-present trouble in time of help. Iron: Something that enters the sod and your soul at the same time. Substitution Substitution Is the mortal enemy of the "square deal." In the long run it profits no one. ■When vou ask for a brand by | name don't take something "Just j as good." Go to the dealer who plays I fair. i The dealer who trades un fairly on a manufacturer's rep ! utatlon is not the kind of dealer Iyou want to give your confi dence to. or your money.
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