12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ttv r. PUBLISHED BY TBI TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLB Prteidtnt and Editor-in-Ckiif r. R. OYSTER Secretary QUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published «vtry evening (except Sun fl»y) at the Telegraph Building, tit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newapaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania AnocW •ted Dailies. ■astern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <m( - 6v*. ,*it: » six . cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. •worn (icily average circulation for the three months ending Aug. 31, 1815 ★ 21,083 Average for the year IM4— Average for the Tear 1013—19.MJ Average for the year 1012 —10,640 Average for the year 1011—IT,MS Average for the year 101O—lC^tdl The above flsurea are net. All timed, unsold and damaged copies de parted. THCRSDAY EVENING. SEPT. 23 Good order is the foundation of all good things.—Burke. A PLEDGE REDEEMED [From the Telegraph. April 23, 1901.] THE time haa come when it will not do to mince words for the sake of somebody's feelings. A spade must be called a spade, and whatever the Telegraph can do to arouse our people to the necessity of more aggressive action along the lines of public improvement will be cheer fully done." FORWARD THE WATCHWORD DURING the official inspection tour this afternoon, which embraced all the important points of the public improvement program enacted during the last fourteen years, a large number of active citizens saw for themselves what has been accom plished. There were many interesting comments and the most gratifying phase of these observations was the "Universal demand that the city shall go forward without lagging or pause upon the highway of its manifest des tiny. This celebration is going to give a new impetus to the public and private activities of the community. There is a general sentiment favorable to the undertaking of the important phases of development which have been dis cussed more or less during recent years. No longer is heard the protest against still further betterment; all are united for a greater city. The immediate work at hand is the comprehensive planning for future de velopment. This is the duty of the City Planning Commission, a body ad mirably qualified for its important work. In addition to the creation of a great river basin, with jurisdiction over both shores and the islands, there must be established great radial high ways leading into the outskirts of town of sufficient width to accommodate the traffic of the larger city that is bound to come. Already this commis sion has achieved much and there is still a great deal to do. Harrisburg is fortunate in having the disinterested, patriotic and energetic services of such men to perform a work that is so com prehensive and far-reaching in its re sults. Every citiaen should visit the float which is being arranged to exhibit the plans of the Commission and also the other floats which will display in some measure the growth and progress of Harrlsburg during recent years. Last night the development of the schools was studied by a great multitude and during the remainder of the week op portunity will he presented for a fur ther inspection of the many things that have been done to give Harrls burg its fine setting and its well de served reputation as a modern and progressive city. Every citizen should take a day off to-morrow and see the River Front and enjoy the carnival of the after noon and evening. The Susquehanna basin is bound to become a great re sort for all the people and as the im provements go forward and channels are cut through the shelving rocks at Maclay street the river will become still more attractive for old and young. The HarrUburg Patriot issued to-day a beautiful illustrated supplement as that newspaper's contribution to the municipal celebration in which the city la now engaged. It is artistically print ed from copper plates on tinted paper *nd as a souvenir of the occasion well lets forth the Harrlsburg of to-day, with some comparisons Illustrating the "city before and after." A historical touch is given by the reproduction of cartoons published during the first im provement campaign and a sketch cov ering the various enterprises of the past fourteen years. THE RAILROADS' SHARE NOT a little of the success of the municipal celebration of this week is due to the hearty co operation of the railroads centering here. The Reading, the Pennsylvania, the Cumberland Valley and their brinchea have joined together to give THURSDAY EVENING, * HAJRJRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 23, 1915. , the people of Central Pennsylvania low excursions to this city. Bo much had is said of the railroads and so Ut ile good is credited to them that the Telegraph takes great pleasure in ex pressing the thanks of the public at large for the generous manner In which the committee on arrangements was treated when It asked the railroad companies for low rates during the Jubilee week. Harrlsburg would he a dreary place without Its railroads at any time, but our jollification of to day, to-morrow and Saturday would have been a mere local affair and much less pleasant had not the rail road companies come to the rescue. "DOLLAR DAY" TO-MORROW the merchants of Harrlsburg will observe "Dol lar Day." "Dollar Day" has been devised to give the proprietors of the stores of Harrisburg an opportunity to display to the thousands of visitors who will ' be here for the big municipal cele i bration their new lines of Fall goods I and at the same time to demonstrate that they can compete with the stores of the larger cities in price as well as in quality. Unquestionably many bargains will he placed on sale for this great event in Harrisburg mer cantile circles. Ninety per cent, or more of the stores are advertising "Dollar Day," which means that prac tically every enterprising store keeper in the city has marked his wares at especially attractive figures for the benefit of his patrons and those he hopes will be his patrons In the future. The stores of Harrisburg are as at tractive as will be found In any town of this size in the Commonwealth, and in many respects they compare favorably with stores of much more populous communities. Indeed, their proprietors and managers are to be congratulated upon the fact that they have kept pace In every respect with city improvements made during the past fifteen years or thereabouts. In that period every store worthy of the name has been improved, many new business enterprises have come into being and not a few large and attrac tive store buildings have been erect ed. There have been few failures and many successes. The ever-extending trolley lines, the construction of good roads leading into the city and the improvement of railroad suburban fa cilities, not to mention the growth of population in the city itself, have made Harrisburg a much better busi ness place than it used to be and local merchants have not been slow to seize upon and improve the oppor tunity thus offered: To-morrow, on "Dollar Day," they will throw open their stores to the throngs of visitors. This evening those who are upon the streets will be given a foretaste of what is in store for them on the morrow. Curtains will go up, lights will be brightened and the Fashion Show of Fall 1915; will be under way. The Telegraph ] bespeaks for the merchants of the' city the attendance at this display and the patronage .to-morrow that their enterprise so much warrants. SPUNK SPUNK" is the title of the little magazine of the State Tubercu losis Sanatorium at Mont Alto, r.nd it deserves the name. "SDunk" is edited and published by the men and women who are fighting their hard light with the great white plague at the South Mountain health resort. Not only courageously, but -with a whim sical humor that speaks well for their moral stamina, do they face their lot snd challenge fate to its worst. The pages of the magazine teem with examples of the indomitable spirit of the Mont Alto colony. Tako this quotation from the joke column, for instance: Dear Editor: Will you kindly tell me the quickest wav to get to Mont Alto. Bill. Dear Bill: We think the quickest way of getting to Mont Alto is bv keeping late hours, boozing and smoking cigarets.—Editor. Here Is not only a rare species of prim humor and an exhibition of cold- Hooded nerve on the part of the pa tient who Is responsible for it, but a lesson for some of us who are not at Mont Alto and have given little thought to the "quickest way" there. DRINKING CUPS AND FOOD WE are an inconsistent lot at best. We shudder at the mere thought of drinking from a cup from which somebody else has o.uenched his thirst, but we eat food every day of our lives that has been handled by numerous people of none ioo cleanly habits and which Ims been exposed to all manner of contamination. To be sure, there Is a law against such ex posure of provisions, but while the State authorities have given notice that they mean to enforce it, no arrests have been made up to this time. Per haps a few Judicious warnings might help. We recommend a visit of the Inspectors to any of the market houses In this city on any market day. FOOD FOR EXPLANATION THE balance in the National Treasury on September 4 was $51,922,932, as compared with $130,038,890 on the corresponding date two years ago, when Republican revenue laws and appropriations were in force. The deficit for the first two months of the present fiscal year amounted to $30,003,152. This is the record the Democratic party will have to explain next year. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —No, Maude, dear, we do not be lieve there is much of an increase in the number of political liars this year. They appear to have been only a little more demonstrative than usual. —Technical High school students are surveying the Susquehanna river. Who wouldn't be a school boy theso days? —"Stockings will be giddier this Fall," says a fashion "note. So, wo take it, will their wearers. —A Pittsburgh scientist says that climbing hills makes shapely legs. In the first place, how does the man know? And in the second place we demand that he prove it. It's a poor day In the news when the Russian army is not surrounded and then makes its escape. —And now, altogether, let's take the first step toward another big improve ment celebration fifteen years hence. | EDITORIAL COMMENT" MAKING RAPID PROftItESS [Grand Rapids Prese.] We now have so nearly succeeded in restoring peace In Mexico that our < onsuls are coming out oil the run. ADVICE TO SUPERSETSITIVENES9 [Houston Poet.J When a man can't stand criticism without flinching, he ought to get a set of petticoats and see what he can do in the way of slssying. SOCIETY MOTE [Columbia State.] It is understood that Mr. and Mis. B. \ . Dee will soon be off for the winter. FAIR TO POKE Tl HKS ANYWHERE (Toledo Blade.] For some reason It doesn't seem at all ungallant for the Italians to attack the Turks from the rear. TIMELY WARNINGS [Kansas City Star.] The ice cream men having been warn ed against adulteration in September, the coal dealers may be cautioned against short weights next April. CELEBRATING A DEBT Just to think of Harrlsburg celebrat ing the spending of $2,500,00u on public improvements. And not a single dis cordant note. No cheap politicians try- i ing to advance themselves by ignorant opposition. Harrisburg even employed "experts." The city sought the best advice it could get—and paid money for the advice. Not one Harrlsburg news paper carps and fiddles, splutters and spouts, or raises captious objections. Everybody is satisfied—now. Harrisburg found itself, despite the politicians, despite the pullbacks. The city went ahead and adopted a compre hensive program. Men who were not afraid led the way. Before long the folks, those who were to receive the benefits and pay the bills, swept aside opposition and supported the improve ment plan. Now they are celebrating the expenditure of $2,500,000. They have the improvements. Harrlsburg did not start in a day— or a year. They had experience with obstructors down there. They had the good, but mistaken, folks who asked for immediate cash dividends. They had cheap politicians of the class who would wash the sewage "down stream," in defiance of the laws of God and man. They had professional "money-savers" who wanted jobs at good salaries. Even these are now hunting for places in the celebration bandwagon. Johnstown Daily Tribune. PROGRESS AT HARRISBL'RG [From the Butler Citizen.] The people of Harrlsburg, under the direction of the chamber of commerce, are preparing for the celebration, on September 23. 24 and 25, of the com pletion, during the past fourteen years, of improvements that have placed the State Capital in the forefront of the up-to-date municipalities of the United States. Plans are being made for street ; and water carnivals, a series of sport , ing events and addresses by various in j dividuals of prominence in the progress lof the city. Among the more prominent accomplishments of Harrlsburg during the time following and Including the I year 1901 may be mentioned the new State Capitol, several large office build ings, two Y. M. C. A. buildings; Y. W. C. A- building, new Masonic temple, ex tensive railroad Improvements In the. way of street viaducts, scores of tine residences and other buildings of value and interest. Now that the people of Harrlsburg are in the full enjoyment of the various improvements, it is deemed fitting that attention be called to tliem in the aggregae in a public manner and that the aforesaid hree days be se aside for a season of rejoicing and gen eral felicitation. The fact that Har risburg is the capital of the great State of Pennsylvania gives every citi zen of the commonwealth a certain in terest in its progress and welfare, and on this account the people in practical ly every section of the State will Join in congratulations to the people of Har rlsburg for their enterprise in keeping step with the march of modern prog ress. EASY TO BE A BACK NUMBER [From the Columbus (O.) Dispatch]. One of the easiest things, these swift moving days, is to become a back number. A lawyer may school him self thoroughly in the knowledge of his profession, but if he is to wjji, he must continue his study; be something for him to day and then he will wish for longer days in which to learn more. So with a physician, especially with a specialist. Every day is sure to add something to his particular science, and he must know it, if he is to lead. What is true of these two professions of law and medicine is true of every profession and skilled employment. The knowl edge, which is all the time accumulat ing, one must have as certainly as tho carpenter must have his tools. That Is why it is so easy to become a back number. Keeping abreast of the knowledge peculiar to one's oc cupation is hard work and constant work, but the reward is abundant for the man who thus exerts himself. Years may come to silver his hair, but. he is still the master of his task, and he will not be distanced by the new comers in his field of endeavor. More over, his keen interest will keep him young, his continued success will con serve his health, and he will serve bet ter and live longer. Dont by any sort oT a letdown run the risk of becoming a back number. SPECULATING CLERGYMEN [Philadelphia Evening Ledger], Now that the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwlght Hillis, one of the best-known clergymen in the country, has publicly confessed that he made a mistake when he began to devote his attention to accumulating a fortune by specula tion of one kind or another, the rest of us can agree with him. We can go as far as he went in his remark able confession in his pulpit, and say that the first business of a minister is to preach the gospel, and to preach it (and live it with all his might. There is nothing new In this. The surprising thing about it is that Doc tor Hillis had to learn It in the bitter school of experience. He was not ignorant of that old proverb in which Is concentrated the common sense of many centuries, namely that the shoe maker should stick to his last. The trouble with him and all others like him is that he and they came to think that they were the exception that •proved the rule. < If" " fotcttc* Ik ! Br the lCx-Committeeman Two things stand out among the results of Tuesday's primary elections throughout Pennsylvania. One is that there should be some better means of ascertaining results and the other that the Republican party will simply have a walkover in November. Even In Democratic counties the Republican primary vote showed big gains over recent years and in other counties it was as in Dauphin, two to one. three to one and foup to one, over the com bined vote of the Democrats and Washingtonians. Just as in Dauphin county, where Democrats indulged in a bitter fight over tlie nominations for county com missioner and director of the poor, Democrats in Philadelphia and other counties where some remnants of the party of Harrity and Guffey exist fought over nominations. These fights v.'ere in many instances outcropplngs of the warfare in the party last year when the McCormlck and Ryan fac tions fought it out. at the primary. In many districts Democrats will go to the polls with the knowledge that In the face of united Republicans they must face dissension and tiard feeling In own party. Not in many years has the Democracy of Pennsyl vania been in such a disorganized state on the eve of the election preceding a presidential campaign. The sit uation in Dauphin county is the same in other counties. Democrats are openly arrayed against party manage ment and fighting over local offices, while Republicans have gotten to gether and the Bull Moosers have returned. The Washington party has dissolved as far as any fighting organization is concerned and it has ceased to be a factor in State affairs. In Dauphin and other counties the Irreconcilables have Joined with the machine Demo crats in attempts to stay in the po litical arena. The Philadelphia Press to-day says regarding the situation in that city. Which is of interest to the whole State: "In every ward the Republican trend was of the most decided character. It was of course most marked in so called 'independent wards,' where Re publican candidates received larger votes than even sanguine expectation anticipated. The Washington party has been eliminated as a serious oppo sition factor to the Republican party. A new party would appear to be the only possibility for further organized opposition to the Republican organ ization. The Democratic party cast a r.otably small vote, and with the presi dential struggle looming up proba bility of any serious opposition to the Republican organization in this city would seem to be at least two years off." —Director Porter last night quit his place in the Philadelphia city govern ment to give all his attention to his campaign for mayor. The figures show that Thomas B. Smith received about 128,000 primary votes. Porter got but 51,000. It is going to take the official count to determine who has been nominated for orphans' court in Philadelphia. —ln Easton Mayor Nevin and his predecessor, H. A. Hartzell, will op pose each other at the November elec tion. —Edwin U. Sowers, Superintendent of the Lebanon Department of Fi nance, df whom it was said by Rev. Dr. Henry W. Stough, the evangelist, that he had been slated for defeat by the liquor interests because of his marching in the opening parade of the Stough campaign, is the leading May oralty nominee, according to the un official returns of the primary election The other nominee is George T. Spang, Superintendent of Public Safety. Sowers' vote is 1283 to 1277 for Spang. Councilman George F. Krause and James E. Fisher are practically assured of re-election, each having re ceived more than fifty per cent, of the votes polled. —Peter J. Sheehan, of South Beth lehem, who stands on a platform ad vocating children's playgrounds and a pension fund for policemen and fire men, was chosen the nominee of the Democrats for' Mayor at the primary Tuesday, polling nearly twice as many Votes as his opponent, H. A. R. Diet rich. There was no candidate for the Republican nomination, but several voters wrote Mr. Dietrich's name on the ballot, so he will be the candidate of that party. —Register of Wills William Connor, a former legislator, was renominated by Republicans in Allegheny county. He was about the only one of the anti- Armstrong-Magee faction to get through according to returns. O'Neil, Cribbs and Smith are reported to have been beaten. —Judge Gillan's victory in the Franklin county judgeship was one of the most striking in the State. Ex-Congressman Henry W. Temple appears to have won the nomination of the Republicans in the 24th congres sional district. It is said he will have 4.000 majority. Republicans and Bull Moosers united on him. —Judge R. G. Bushong, a Tener ap pointee, is nominee for judge in Berks after all. Henry D. Schaeffer, a brother of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will oppose him. —John V. Kosek, who brought the suit to see if a third class city mayor could succeed himself and won it, was nominated for another term In Wilkes- Barre. —C. L. Huston, the Coatesville iron master, won the nomination for direc tor of the poor in Chester county. —J. N. Langliam, former corpora tion clerk in the Auditor General's Department, appears to be the sole nominee for judge in Indiana county. Jonas Fischer, prominent business man and head of an electric company, is the sole nominee for mayor of Wil ilamsport. The Rev. T. W. McKlnney, a minis ter, is one of the nominees for mayor of Coatesville. The town is now a third class city. NEW ENGINE WORKS ON GAS AND STEAM A motor of novel type that has just been brought out is designed to use any fuel oil whatever, and combines some of the features of both the in- j ternal-combustion engine and the steam engine. It is adapted to ma-| rlne, automobile and stationary-power j uses. In the operation of this engine the air is compressed in a chamber to itself and is then passed to a second chamber where it mixes with the atomized oil. When this mixture is ignited by the electric spark, the re sulting hot flame Is utilized for form ing a measured quantity of water into steam, a process quantity of water in to steam, a process that greatly re duces the temperature of the gases formed by the explosion. The steam and these gases then enter a cylinder much like that of a steam engine, where their expansive force furnishes the power for driving the piston. With this arrangement the speed of the en gine is easily controlled by a throttle. In exactly the same manner as that of a steam engine, while reversing is accomplished by the simple process of swinging the reversing lever. A picture of the engine appears in the October Popular Mechanics Magazine. HARRISBURG'S AWAKENING Slumbering, content in its shadowing hills The city lay dormant. The voice of men Which dinned the great places of earth passed it by Without recognition of merit; and then As sparks will ignite, came a word of suggestion From someone to someone who carried it on. Municipal pride had new birth and the battle With selfish complacency thereafter won. The citizens toiled while they boosted their city And padded its angles with promise and hope, While year upon year came a nobler upspringing Of buildings a credit to hilltop and slope. A city progressive, awake and compelling! A new Harrisbufg on the sight of the old! Yet the start is but made, go fifty years farther And half of its wonders can never be told ! —ANNA HAMILTON WOOD. Written for the Telegraph REAL LIFE JN THE MOVIES By Frederic J. Haskir SOME months ago, a moving pic-, ture was released by a large American producer which showed pverv detail of the life of the pelican In Ills native haunts. These grotesque j and decorous birds were shown fismnK. I preening their feathers, and sitting in their most characteristic attitude of profound meditation, at such close range that the spectator could ver- | itably see the expression in their eyes. Furthermore, these were obviously wild pelicans, as the wide wastes of water and mud all about tliem showed. The story of how this picture was taken Is a good example of the pa tience and ingenuity which the mov ing picture operator must use In mak ing his films of wild life. The pelican pictures were made in Florida. After much searching and watching of groat flocks of the birds flapping over the sounds and livers, the operator charg ed with this particular task found that at low tide the birds congregated In large numbers upon a sand bar a mile or more from shore. But they were very wild, and It seemed impossible to get near enough to use oven a tele photo lense, while the bare sand bar offered absolutely no concealment. A blind of bushes was erected on the sand bar, with the result that the pelicans would go nowhere near It. Then the operator removed all of this ambush except one little twig with leaves upon it. > He left this several days until the pelicans became quite used to It. Then he added a couple of more twigs. Day by day, this ambush was built up until at the end of two weeks it was large enough to conceal a man and a camera, while the pell cans took no notice of It because it had grown up so slowly In their midst that they were used to its presence. From this ambush were made those films which showed to thousands of de lighted children, and adults too, just exactly how wild pelicans live and de port themselves. Scour the Karth Moving picture men in search of the unusual and interesting are to-day scouring literally every part of the earth. One producer at present has camera men in Brazil, Australia and the Philippines, while another of his operators has just returned from a trip to Peru. In order to reach the mountain haunts of the Peruvian aborigines, this camera man had to load his films and machines and supplies upon the backs of mules and travel into the interior for several days. Then there was a big pow-wow with the chief of the tribe, and it was filially arranged that the camera man make a film of a tribal marriage with all Its native rites. [The State From Day to Day j A sad-eyed, lonely old horse, knock kneed and with the heaves, In Its twentieth year, was the bone of con tention in a lawsuit at Washington, Pa., says the Observer, of that place. To the Observer it seems as though they ought to allow the poor old vet eran to iive its few remaining years in peace, without involving it in any serious trouble with the law. A prominent citizen of Carrolltown has handed his name down to poster ity as the hero who boldly carried away a fire. A rug lying in a wheel barrow was ignited in some way or other and an alarm sent in. Un necessarily however, for the porch under which the wheelbarrow was resting was saved by the quick wit of aforementioned prominent citizen. The latest fad, which no doubt will eventually reach this State, has been introduced out west, and consists in wearing a tiny tuft of white fox fur dangling just below the fullness of the throat. It may be very alluring, at tached as it is to the throat with mucilage and easily removable, but it certainly looks like something that has blown there from a pillow and never been brushed off. Out in Harrison township Stanislaw Persinki and Charles Putka had a hot race for constable. The latter based his campaign platform on "two beers for a nickel." • • • The Sharon Herald figures it out that according to mathematics a man has one chance in 1,600,000 of driving a 200 yard hole in one. It is when the golf fiends begin to think about such elements of golf as these that the mind wanders and the poor idiot be gins to gibber. ENSLAVING THEMSELVES Great Britain's debt before this war broke out was $3,535,000,000. It had nearly doubled that figure at the end of the British fiscal year, March 31 last. The total of that date will be doubled again by March 31 next, In the estimates of the Chancellor of the Exchequer given to Parliament a "dead weight of debt" of 111,000.- 000,000. The phrase is well chosen. It will be a dead weight of proportions never be fore imposed on an industrial civiliza tion. The vanquished in war afore time became slaves. The victors be came the owners of their labor. Ger many in 1871 changed the form but not the substance in taking a billion dollar cash Indemnity from France, which put French industry under sub stantial bondage to Germany for gen erations aheaxl. Now victors and vanquished alike are enslaving themselves. They are so far being enslaved to their own monu mental debts that the victors In slavery at the end will be unable to collect productive indemnities from the van quished, equally enslaved. Taxes must be piled upon taxes merely to carry along this dead weight of debt. They are already reaching proportions in all the belligerent countries which will cripple Industry for generations to come. They may not then be equal to the interest demands of this brutal taskmaster. Debt, upon each of these nations of slaves. When this point will be reached we cannot tell. It cannot be far off as war must end. But there will then remain such a condition of widespread industrial slavery as the world never saw before or ever had to deal with against internal revolution. New : Vor k World. There was 110 acting iu this movie drama, for the participants were in capable of acting, but it is nevertheless a striking story with a most unusual setting. The courtship and bethrothal are shown and all the steps of the wed ding ceremony, which culminates when the tribal priest lifts a great earthen ware bowl high in the air and shat ters It over the heads of the newly united couple. They are then shown embarking In the groom's canoe, and paddling away down a tropical river to their new home in the jungle. Difficulties Are Tremendous The difficulties of this sort of work as compared with making dramatic films of trained actors are tremendous. The natives do not realize the import ance of keeping In focus and facing always towards the camera. Further more, they easily become tired and if they are many stops to give direction or rearranging things, they will all quit and go home, as many an operator has found to Ills distress. The days of faking in the moving picture world are undoubtedly passing away. The great majority of the films of wild life and travel shown to-dav are the genuine results of long and ardous searching in out-of-the-way countries. Sometimes, however, the operator will resort to a bit of decep tion in order to get a dramatic effect. l<or example. In a film which recorded the exploration of a tropical river, the explorer was shown rushing down a, rapid in a canoe. Suddenly he regis ters amazement and horror, lifting his spyglass to his eyes. Then he disap pears from the screen, and at the foot of the rapid a great jungle bear is seen to lumber down to the edge of the water and plunge in. It is a tense and exciting moment and splendidly con veys the Impression of wild and' primi tive surroundings. Got tlie IlreakM. As a matter of fact, however, this film was made quite near a town and the hear was a pet cub belonging to one of the natives. He was led to the river at a point where the growth was relatively small, so that he loomed up rather large. The camera was set up iu the water and the bear was prod ded and punched by men concealed in the bushes until he consented to amble toward the river. All the operator had hoped for was a few feet of Aim which would show the bear walking about in tlip bushes near the river, but at the last moment the cub became venture some, walked out on a small long so , that he loomed up immense, the cam : era being within a few feet of him. and then most dramatically toppled' into the water. He could not have ijlone better if he had been rehearsed for a week. THE FIRST BASEBALL GLOVE A Writer in All Outdoors Believes It Appeared in 1867 [From All Outdoors] About 1867-68 a baseball team came to Rockford, 111., to play our nin- They called themselves the "Uncon riuered Clippers of Illinois," and plas teied our town with big posters. We made u p our minds to give them a drubbing, and at the end of the game pers T re W3S Rockford 76 ' Clip- There was a little chap playing third base who grabbed everything tha' came near him, and held it, too. I noticed that he wore a kind of glove. the game was over I went to him and asked what it was that he wore on his hand. He told m» that he was a machinist, and had got his hand badly hurt the week before, and he showed me the wound In his palm. He said the boys did not want him to p ay n same, but he got a piece of thin steel and made it slightly con cave, but so that it did not quite touch the sore place. He then made a short glove to cover all the hand excepting the first joints of the fingers, and doubled the leather in the palm so that he could slip the plate between. I asked him if it hurt, and he said it did not, and that he could take a hot one and hold it better with the glove than without it. That is the whole story. 1 don't think that Spald ing ever talked to the little chap with J r^ n ,istl as the b0 >' s dubbed the third baseman, but everybody In Rock ford knew about the mitt, and he may have got the idea from him. Any way, that was the first glove that any ballplayer ever wore. CHAMP CLARK PRAISES T. R. "Knows a Lot and Isn't Mcalv Mouthed," Says Speaker Speaker Champ Clark in a talk at Hannibal, Mo., at the opening of the ninth annual convention of the Mis souri Association of County Highway Engineers declared that Theodore Roosevelt was an "American to the core." "I am not talking Democratic poli tics, I know. 1 am not going to dis cuss Republican politics, but I am very fond of the chief Bull Mooser Col. Roosevelt." said Clark. "He knows a little about more things than any man in the country, and is not mealy mouthed." Speaker Clark said he was opposed to "peace at any price." On the other hand, he said, he was "against bank rupting the country to build battle ships." Our Daily Laugh 1 Do you think this poem of mine will I I the good that dle^^RP^^ A TrtOUBLU Do you know «•—-Ar l ... pinks enjoys trouble? Jj i Because he'd isjjte'ljsjk'*" \.i r rather be the um -2 pire in a baseball W_* JP game than one of (fflf yqj—■ players. Hbming (Eljat Some of the trolley cars which are used by men whose morning trips per mit them time enough to read a news* paper are becoming well equipped with publications. On most, of the cars traversing suburban lines there are men who habitually leave their newspapers on the car seats. Some of (hose who travel on Second and other f city street lines do the same thing. As a result people who come on later cars find the morning papers awaiting them. "It s one thing that the trolley cars have on the jitneys on pleasant days," said a man in talking about it last evening. "The jitney gives an open view because it only runs as a rule when there is no rain and you have to read before you start or read after. In the tralley car you have the paper all ready for jou and you read in comfort." This remark Interested the trolley car conductor and he. re marked: "You would be surprised to know that there are probably twenty papers left in my car in the morning nnd probably half that number in the evening. And how many do you think stay? About one in each ten. You see. when a man gets into a car and notices a paper lie plumps down in that seat and reads the paper through. And nine times out of ten he carries it off with him. He doesn't want it, but he takes it. Now, no woman would Co that. She might read the paper, but she would leave it." Another man told a story of a magazine being left in his car. "It stayed there five trips. Some man left it and people thought there was something wrong. Some joung girl came in and pounced on it. She got interested in the story and :>way went the magazine," said he. Several important new books on the subject of travel and highways e lately been added to the collection in the Harrlsburg Public Library, includ ing "Dunbar's American Traveler" i<nd various works on highway tours. The historic highways and historic towns series are well represented. An other book just added is the American directory of weeds, which will interest garden lovers. Colonel W. B. Wilson's history of the Pennsylvania Railroad has been placed on the shelves. Ex-Governor Penny packer lias proved to his colleagues on the Public Service Commission that he is both ambitious and ambidextrous, lie has been send ing letters almost daily signed in his left hand's linest writing telling of his progress. The last letter stated that he was coming next week to go to work. The freak voter was out in full force on Tuesday and there are names writ ten on primary ballots which have furnished amusement to the writer, annoyance to the men who have had to make the counts and consternation to the owners. Every election it. seems there are some people who consider it their duty to write in names of inno cent and unsuspecting persons. A hot contest like that, of Tuesduy seems to stir up the jokers and probuhlv 100 names were used on ballots in the city and more in the countv. Speaking of writing names on hal lots. it came to light yesterday that ii couple of citizens had written tlv name of Judge George Kunkel on tho Superior Court ballot on Tuesdav. * When one instance came to be known at the Courthouse one man remarked: "Seents to have voted that way last year and got the habit." "Yes." responded another. "It's a habit that, will stick. He'll have a chance to vote for him for Supreme Court one of these days." I do not care what you say about the West, there is no scenery prettier than that in Pennsylvania," says Go\ - ernor Brumbaugh. "We may not have as high mountains or as many unusual manifestations of nature, but we have lovely country. And there are few places prettier than the trap in the Susquehanna just above the citv." T£ e Te| ephone News, the attractive publication issued by the Hell Tele phone Company in this part of the country, contains a handsomely illus trated article on the ceremonies at tending Governor Brumbaugh's tn 11c over the long-distance telenhone from fcan Francisco to the Capitol. The Governor Is shown speaking from the Pennsylvania building in San Fran cisco and the group in the big recep tion room of the Executive Depart ment at the Capitol is given. One of the interesting features is a photo graphic reproduction of the memorial to the Governor signed by those who heard him speak. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —William Luxemberger, candidate for county controller in Lackawanna, was a member of the last Legislature. —Joseph Widener is on a cruise of the Atlantic coast. —S. Davis Page, Philadelphia law yer, celebrated his birthday yesterday. Robert C. Miller, former Mont gomery legislator, is nominee for register. —Thomas E. Vale, author of text books, has been added to the Dickin son faculty. —Dr. W. L. Rodman, of Philadel phia, is home from the Coast. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrislnirg; makes many line parts for delicate machinery? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Zion Lutheran Church was one of the first Lutheran churches built in this section. / * Out of Ammunition T>ack of ammunition has made important developments in the world's war. it Ims turned the tide of bat tles at critical moments. No manufacturer seeking to market goods at a fair proflt ban advertising ammunition to waste. I£e cannot afford to cultivate dry spots. It pays him best when he makes all his shots hit through newspaper advertising. Then and then only his money works without waste. Manufacturers are invited to send to the Bureau of Advertis ing, American Newspaper Pub lishers Association, World Build ing, New Yorl:, for the booklet, "The Newspapers." 1 r" ■ % SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August lit to September 35th, Five cents ■ pint for all files, and many prises In cold.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers