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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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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
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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
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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!"
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—From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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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
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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.