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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
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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.