8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ißii PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, . E. J. STACK POLE Prttidtnt and Editor-iu-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Stcrttary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except •«- day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publl»h ers' Association. Audit Bureau of CSrculatlon and Pennsylvania Anooi ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building; New York City, Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building-, Chicago. 111., Allen. & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <JMaS I*,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. Sworn dally average clrrulnllon for the . three months ending Sept, 30, 1915 ★ 21,307 . ★ Average for the rear 1014—213 M Average for the year 1918—18,98 a Average for the year 1813—■lS.tM# Average for the year 1811—17, MS Average tor the year 1910—14,291 • The above figures are net. All i'*> turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 5 'Tis sweet to feel that we may be In partnership, dear Lord, with Thee; 'Tis sweet to feel that all we do To make our lives sincere and true Is known to Thee, and that we share As partners all Thy love and care. —Mary D. Brine. OUT WITH THEM DR. RAUNICK, head of the City Health Department, is much dis couraged over the carelessness of the milkmen of Harrisburg and vicinity who repeatedly disregard Ae efforts of the health officers with re spect to clean milk. He says, in a re cent report, that apparently more than prosecution and publicity are necessary to correct the evil. There is just one other measure possible, and the community will back up the health department if 1t decides to take the radical step that appears to be the only thing left if the pure milk law is to be enforced. If Dr. Raunick has evidence of repeated and wilful violations of dealers or producers who will not heed his warnings nor profit by the lessons of prosecution and publicity, he should take away the licenses of the offenders. The taxpayers of Harrisburg are expending large sums yearly for the fmaintenance of a health department and they are assessed to cover the expense of milk inspection, for the license fees charged do not begin to produce revenue enough to make the bureau self-supporting, and they have a right to expect pure milk in re turn. Milk of good quality is a wholesome food and great quantities are con sumed daily. Contaminated, it }ias vast possibilities for spreading dis ease of all kinds. The man who de liberately sells his customers a pro duct reeking with germs of a dan gerous character is in a class with the professional poisoners of old. He is the forerunner of sickness and the harbinger of death. He is in league with the undertaker and a partner with the grave-digger. He is a menace to the community and the soon,er it is rid of him the better. If Dr. Rau nick has evidence sufficient to prove that any man is knowingly or care lessly persisting in the sale of milk in Harrisburg that is not up to the standards required by law, let him act as vigorously as the regulations permit. The people will stand back of him in any move for their own pro tection. GO TO TT, JUDGE JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY'S threat to take a shotgun and kill the next liar who circulates slanderous re ports about him will profoundly shock some of the most ardent admirers of the great little man #ho has made the juvenile court of Denver famous wherever problems of law and sociology are studied, but we have a suspicion that it will not topple the judge from his pedestal entirely. The outburst, if not exactly characteristic, will appeal to all red-blooded citizens as being essentially human, and it ought to win friends for the judge and his system in quarters where such matters are usually viewed with in difference. It is all very well to be meek. And no one wants to intimate that the re- held out in the Sermon on the Mount to such as are meek Is not worth Striving for with all one's might and with all one's soul. But at the same time it must be admitted that any man who has suffered at the hands of the foul-mouthed Colorado politicians as Judge Lindsey has, and can yet keep his temper, is far too good for a political sinkhole like Denver. If the Judge had indefinitely maintained the appearance of sweet ness and reasonableness the least his friends could have expected is that some fine day he would be translated like Elijah in a chariot of fire and a whirlwind. We would not like to see Judge Lindsey stain his hands with blood, and we do not believe therfe Is the slightest danger that he will. But w«s would be wl'.'iing to contribute a cookie or two as the prtce of ad- Cnlssion to see that 98 or 99 pounds TUESDAY EVENTTsTG, of Irate manhood, armed with a shot gun almost as big as himself, chasing one of the large tribe of character assassins that have been hounding him for years, down one of Denver's main streets and shouting death and defiance at every jump. Captain Stockton's remarks before the Chamber of Commerce, last evening, about Plattsburg and the other camps which were organised by Major-General Wood for the purpose of, training of ficers from the citizenry who may be used In time of war, strucE many of his hearers as being a little unfair. In that he did not give credit even for the Effort to pull the country out of its lethargy of unpreparedness. Captain Stockton may not approve of the Idea of these camps in their practical working out, but at lesst he must admit that those men who gave up five weeks of their business and pleasure to do what little they could in helping forward the movement for military preparation de serve something more than a scathlrig denunciation for their pains. READ THE SUMMARY READ the summary of the Cham ber of Commerce's work during the past year, published else where in this Issue, as presented by President Henderson Gilbert at last night's annual meeting of that body. If you are a member of the Cham ber you should read It from the stand point of ascertaining whether or not the price you paid for your member ship was well invested. If you are not a member you should read it from the standpoint of the man who is outside and who is trying to decide whether membership in the Chamber is worth while. Even a superficial perusal of tha report will convince the most skeptical that the Chamber of Commerce Is a body the city could well not do with out. It occupies a" place in the life of the community that no other organ ization could fill. The wonder Is not that it has not done more during the past twelve months, but that it has done so much. Possibly there may be those who have remained outside of the Chamber be cause of what they may have regarded as rather high dues, but a glance at the record of things done and in pro cess of being done when the fiscal year closed-will show the wisdom of making the dues sufficient to provide ample funds for work. This small member ship cost was the biggest handicap the old Board of Trade had. It never was the possessor of sufficient money to do any big thing well, and the city was constantly demanding big things of it. Last night's very large turn out of members is convincing proof that as a whole the business and pro fessional people of Harrisburg are convinced that the Chamber is on the right track and has the support of the community as a whole. President Gilbert hints at bigger and better accomplishments next year. This is good news. Harrisburg is just on the verge of another great stride forward and it is pleasing to note that the Chamber of Commerce is right, in step. Mr. Bryan says that Lincoln, Neb., Is the finest place of residence in the world; and the Wilson people hope nothing will occur to call Mr. Bryan away from home. VALUE OF GARDEN PLOTS THE family garden plots main tained by the Harrisburg Benevolent Association yielded more than 75,000 worth of vegetables last summer and the 237 families who worked the ground reaped the benefit. This is an average of about S3O worth of vegetables per family, although some of them made their ground yield twice that sum. Here is an illustratioii of what the Telegraph has bein trying to impress upon the people of the city for years —the value of the ground about town that is lying idle and growing up to weeds which the Health Department requires shall be cut at the expense of the property owner. Thousands of backyards that might be made to yield thousands of dollars' worth of all manner of vegetables are lying waste. The residents of Harrisburg might at one time beautify their premises, give themselves a whole some occupation and at the same time materially reduce the cost of summer | living and lay up a. supply of food for the winter if they would but take the small amount of trouble that is neces sary to turn the rear yard desert into ■ a place of beauty and of plenty. i HOW IT WORKS THE Federal Reserve Board is overwhelmingly Democratic and it is dominated by Southern Democrats at that. Accordingly, it | is no great surprise to find the South appearing as the chief beneficiary of the board's operations. The rediscountlng of commercial paper is the chief means n f making the Federal Reserve System available for and useful to businessmen. In July the total sum redlscounted was $13,238,200. Of this the three Fede ral Reserve banks In the Southern cities of Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas took exactly 64 per cent, of the whole, Richmond alone taking 32.9 per cent., or almost one-third of the total rediscountlng done for the en tire country. The Federal Reserve System was widely heralded as bt>lng a national undertaking. A rude shock was ad ministered to this theory when the board was made up and when the re serve cities were selected. Further repudiation of the national Idea Is being developed from month to month as the board's operations are made known. The Federal Reserve System is being worked to the limit for the benefit of the South. WHOSE ? THERE is ft striking parallel of method between the German and the Mexican negotiations. In both are found the same mental operations, the same indeflnlteness and the same pusillanimity. Bryan used to be blamed for the Mexican policy. But Bryan has gone, while the meth ods remain. The President also re mains. Are these methods his? Have they always been his? I —=| 'PotUXco- tn. By the Ex-Committeeman Washington county has come for ward with, a candidate *to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench caused by the death of Justice Elltln. The bar association of that county started a movement In behalf of James I. Brownson before Justice Elkin had been dead twelve hours and tlie mem bers will send a delegation to Gov ernor Brumbaugh on his return here to ask for the appointment. Friends of Judge Kunkei, of Dauphin county, who ran Judge Frazler a very close second for the Supreme bench a year ago, regard him as the logical candi date for the place, but. in view of the respect in which Judge Elkln was held In this county they have made no effort to put forth the claims of Judge Kunkel at this early date. Doubtless In due time the Dauphin County Bar Association will lake steps to present Judge Kunkel's name to Governor Brumbaugh. County detectives suspect, that the fire which destroyed the Wilkinsburg schoolhouse yestorday may have been started by persons desirous of having the ballot box stored there destroyed. Durgess Anderson, however, says the box was removed last week. Ex-State Senator John T. Murphy, a Roosesyelt elector in 1912; yesterday gave notice in Ptriladelphia of his re turn to the Republican party because he believes that the Issue now is be tween Republicanism and Democracy. Murphy was elected a State senator in 190(5 ovel- Vivian F. Gable. He was a Taft elector in 190R, but afterward fol lowed the leadership of William Flinn into the Bull Moose camp. Thomas L. Hicks, former State chairman of the Washington party, also made an nouncement yesterday that he was en rolled as a. Republican, having quali fied for such entollment at the last election. The legal committee of the Franklin party, Philadelphia, considered yes terday the advisability of taking steps to resist the pre-emption of the party title Frankland, which was pre-empted on Saturday by five electors of the Forty-sixth ward. The Franklin party did not pre-empt for all the division's of the wards and the Frankland party proposes to place a ticket in the field containing the names of election offi cers in the divisions not pre-empted by the Franklin party. A new angle was given to alleged frauds in the general primary of two weeks ago when a recount of votes in the Twenty-fifth ward o£ Pittsburgh, instituted at the instance of Repre sentative Stephen G. Porter, disclosed that Charles B. Mllligan, Civil War veteran, had been counted out for alderman. Ninety-eight, ballots cast for Milligan were found to have been changed. Charges that they intimi dated voters in Braddock were filed against Thomas Howard, former deputy sheriff; J. J. McCarthy, chief of police; J. Goldstein, constable, and Henry Schermer. George KeJlogg and John Korman. all of Braddook. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE j —While the family of AVllllam Heller, of Lancaster, were at church a thief stole the children's savings. Doubt less there is a moral concealed some where in this incident, but whether It is never to go to church or never to save any money we hesitate tto decide. —The man who lives a shady life naturally cannot be expected to have a sunny disposition. Those yellow Peruvian potatoes may be all right, but we prefer ours white and mashed to a fluff, with a laj-ge dab of butter to give the color. —The proof of the pudding lies in the taste you have the morning after. —And now Greece feels called upon to put a spot on the war map. | The State From Day to Day | «■ J That old liberty bell is cer tainly stirring up a lot of excitement and is receiving a flattering reception wherever it appears. The mayor of Dallas, Texas, has decreed that special tracks shall be laid through the prin cipal streets of that city to accommo date Mr. Bell. Pennsylvania will soon have a chance to see it again. * * * Now we know why the European war started. A woman in Reading de clares herself to be the cause of the war as well as the supposedly hard times existing in America. She hopes to right the wrong by death, but the asylum authorities are trying to con vince her that she .is really assuming too much responsibility. ♦ » • Estimates show that about 50 per cent, of the travelers in Easton street cars stand up and clutch straps six months out of every year. The city council criticises the traction company with a view to having the situation corrected. Officer Nelson, a Philadelphia po liceman, has discovered to his financial sorrow that business and pleasure cannot be combined to the extent of flirting with girls and young women while on duty. His suspension fol lowed. • • • Those connected with the Pennsyl vania Steel Company are all aflutter over the almost certain change taking place in the control of the company. They may believe in the future taking care of itself, liut all the same it would be mighty comforting to know how this taking care of itself is going to turn out for them. * • * Th* Easton Daily Free Press devotes a few lines to suggesting that the re cent feat of 'cross-nation wire and wireless telephoning gives promise of future generations evolving a way by which each individual may carry his own little phone with him and call or be called up wherever he happens to be. Not a bad idea! ■ • ♦ • The Monongahela river has been getting cantankerous and refuses to be held in. It rose eleven feet In as many hours Saturday and threatened to do great damage. * • « "Lollypop," a beautiful Scotch collie- of aristocratic tendencies, gave birth to seven blind puppies in Erie yesterday. Unfortunately, a copper head had bitten the mother dog on the nose and the result was that all tba ounDies were blind. kARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■ THE CARTOON OF THE DAY ONE OF EUROPE'S FIRST NEEDS—WHEN PEACE COMES. —From tlie Chicago Newi. THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK THE Panama Canal is primarily a great national, business ven ture. The Americ'an people have put millions of money and thousands or lives into its construction. To an unusual extent the nation is conscious or the cana-1 as a a splendid thing which it has done and which it owns. Naturally, the American citizen wants to know how his canal is coming: along financially; whether it is going to help pay the Federal taxes, or make them heavier. He may now he assured that the canal is prospering from a com mercial point of view beyond the most daring prophesy. Although it has been in operation only a year, during which time half the shipping of the world has been held up by war, it has actually yielded a profit upon its operation not counting overhead charges. The volume of business done as shown by the tolls collected month by month, just about doubled between Au gust, 1911, when the canal opened, and June, 1915. If the business of the canal goes on increasing at anything like the same rate, in fifteen years it will not only be paying a profit upon its operation "and maintenance, but will be meeting the interest on the debt, and rapidly amor tizing the loan. It is costing about $12,000 a day to fight the slides. Sooner or later, however, they are bound to reach an angle of repose. Whenever that hap pens the largest item of operating ex pense will be removed and profits in creased between three and four mil lions a year. The working of the Panama Canal and all of its acessorles is divided among a number of different depart ments. The operation and mainte nance of the canal Itself are only one of these. It cost $4,128,000 to operate it during its first year, while the tolls collected were $4,343,000, so that the actual operation yielded a profit of $215,000. Have Paying Store Another profitable phase of the canal government is its commissary. This gigantic store kept up by Uncle Sam did a business of $6,180,000, upon which it mad* a .profit of about $70,000. The commissary department maintains all of the stores in the zone, which sell to the employes at very reasonable prices. There are. fifteen of these stores doing a business that varies all the way from $2,300 to $85,000 a year. Canal em ployes purchase from the'eommissary by means of books of script, and the amount of these issued each month is about $350,000. It also sold $150,000 worth of supplies to steamships passing through the canal. These Government stores keep on hand a stock worth over a mlll'on dollars, and if you have the good fortune to be an employe you can buy from them almost anything you want at the lowest market prices. The competition these stores give to the merchants of Panama Is one of the problems faced by the canal govern ment. From the Panamanian point of view, Uncle Sam has brought an im mense lot of business to the Isthmus, but he has also taken care of all of it himself. Furthermore, many who are not employes of the canal govern ment wish to buy from the govern ment stores. An arrangement has now been made with the local merchants, whereby a Panamanian may purchase from Uncle Sam, provided lie will pav a 15 per cent, duty to the Panama Gov ernment, and bring a certificate show ing that the merchants of Panama have not the desired article in stock. Thus the Government is assured of its In come, and the merchant Is not robbed of any business which he is able to handle. nti.ilnenn Operations I.one Another department of the canal gov ernment is known as Business Opera tions, and it includes almost all busi ness tramiai'tlons outside of the com missary. It is not operated for profit and showed a loss for the first vear of $56,000. The Panama Railroad is also a sepa rate department of the canal govern- C Our Daily Laugh j IIE LOVED " EM N) lover. I'm sure —' he'd make a fine I Yes, every girl in town asrees THE TRICK. He gets a lot of If satisfaction out of his garden. / I know he .does, / j -r ~ but the trick is to -gjl ;et edible rad- LJW/ Ishes and lettuce f I out of it, and that If I he can't do. / x ALT, FTX.WO VOt •jr T' m worrying ( ai 'T / \ about my summer j vacation "' v wlfe ' ll tell m * SAFETY FOIST. P* ' When will you aJJJT and your hus- - band take your 1 '/vacation? Just before his JMj|« creditors t a k e By Frederic J. Haskin ment. This remarkable line, fifty miles long, has had a most unusual history °; "} on ®y making. In the early days of the French project, it carried an im mense freight and was a veritable gold mine on wheels. Then came the great failure and the railroad was left a streak of rust through the jungle. Uncle Sam again made it a profitable business proposition. Now that the canal is completed, however, the rail i road is no longer allowed to compete with It; that is, it carries no through freight, hut only the domestic business on the isthmus. Its operations show a profit of about $50,000, but If deteriora tion of rolling stock and other factors are taken into consideration the rail ro®d is now just about breaking even. The Panama Railroad Steamship Company, operating between the isthmus and New York, did a business of $2,760,000 and made about $600,000 profit. The cost of conducting the zone government was about SIOO,OOO more than its revenues. I'ncle Sum Ahead Thus the financial status of the canal, so far, is seen to be a record of profits and losses, with Uncle Sam a few hundred thousand dollars ahead of the game. But it is in the growth of canal business that the great promise lies. The big waterway was opened in August, 1914. During September of that year tolls to the amount of $268,000 were collected. In November they amounted to $382,000; in January to $419,000; in April to $442,000, and in June to $541,000. In a word, the busi ness of the canal showed a steady growth which doubled Its income be tween August and June. There is every j reason to believe that this growth will steadily continue .and there can be no | doubt but that the making of peace in Europe will be a tremendous stimur lus to the commerce that passes through it. Up to the end of the fiscal year, when Its operations began, the canal did a | business of $4,343,000. A total business lof $10,000,000 is confidently estimated | for the present fiscal year/ The confi : dence of the men in charge that busi ness will grow is shown by the fact that they asked for a million dollars I with which to purchase new equipment this year. How long it will take to pay off the I debt incurred by the building of the J canal, and what percentage must be j allowed for depreciation are questions I which can be answered only by esti mates. A high official of the canal | government predicts that within fifteen years, a{ the utmost, the receipts from I the canal will be paying the interest j upon the loan, and amortizing the debt. ! This debt is approximately $350,000,000, j bearing interest at about 3 per cent, per annum. No man can now say how long it will take to pay this Immense loan, but once the sinking fund is started, the financial stability of the canal is assured. The other unknown element is the durability of the canal itself. It is es timated that the locks will last about j 200 years; the terminals, including the I wharves and dry docks, from fifty to 100 years. There is very little ma i chinery that will last more/ than j twenty-five years. Frame living quar ters are assigned a life of from twelve , to twenty-five years, and concrete quar- I ters of 100 years. | Upon many miles of cut and chan | nel, It is estimates! that there Is prac j tically no depression, and these permanent features represent about ■ about $125,000,000 of the total Invest | ment. I Roughly averaging these r.-»tes of (wear and tear, it is estimated that the depreciation of the canal will not be at I the rate of more than 2 or 3 per cent. | a year. This is admittedly a very low rate, but it must be remembered that never before has a great project been so thoroughly and permanently con structed. Everything about it is built of steel and concrete and founded upon bedrock. It is reasonable to expect long life ftpom construction of this char acter. EDISON WORKING AS BRIDE-TO-BE WAITED Inventor Was Experimenting With Electric Light as Hour of Mar riage Arrived Although it is a fact not generally known, Thomas A. Edison, the master inventor, was so engrossed in his elec trical researches at the time of his marriage in 1873 to Miss Mary Still well, that at the appointed hour when the minister was to pronounce the ceremony, the guests were unable to find Mr. Edison for some time. Finally he was located in his private laboratory, experimenting with the electric light, which was in those days, of course, a great novelty, and, in fact, a brand new branch of science. It is recorded that at one time he had presented to him a box of "Ha vana" cigars, and although they were of doubtful quality he in a very short, time had smoked the whole box of, them. Absentmindedness such as this is an attribute of the greatest scientists I of the world. When walking about his j extensive laboratories at West Orange, \ N. J., it is rarely that Mr. Edison no tices anyone, whether they are callers or not, and he walks by even when close enough to brush their clothes with his coat. He does not recognize them even though they are old-time friends, as he is so intensely absorbed in thought over some invention or I other. Mr. Edison's wife has undoubtedly helped in a myriad of ways to make him the master inventor and scientist that he is to-day.—Erie Dispatch. IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY | [From the Telegraph of Oct. 6, 1865.] fieneral Grant In City Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant arrived In this city this morning, at 8 o'clock, remaining here until noon, when he left for Washington. l*a>» For Meal of 'fll Thts morning a man stopped In one of the principal hotels and told the clerk that he owed a bill for a meal he had eaten there In 1861. The man then paid for It and left. Woman Han Two Himbaniln A woman was arrested to-day charg ed with having two husbands, both liv ing. The charges were brought by her. second husbana, ( OCTOBER 5, 1915. $25,500 YEAR FOR GIRL AVSS 3 LOI\'EY. New York, Oct. s.—Miss Virginia Bruce Loney, 16, whose parents were both lost on the Lusitania, from which she was saved when the ship sank af ter being torpedoed, must have an in come of $25,500 a year from her mil lion-dollar estate left by her mother, for her proper maintainance and care. Her guardian has presented a petition to the courts that this amount be set aside for her ward. Here is the schedule of expenditures making up the $25,500 appended to the petition: Food, etc., $4,000; rent, $(5,000; clothing, $3,500; three serv ants, $1,200; school, $2,500; vacation, travel, $2,500; auto and chauffeur, $2,000; recreation. doctors, $500; incidentals, $1,200. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT " A suffragist volunteers the opinion that woman Is in a social quagmire. Is this the reason she now wears such short skirts?— New York Sun. A New York woman wants her mar riage annulled because her husband stutters. This Is an impediment sure enough, but there is nothing in it to prevent the lady of the house having her little say in all family affairs.— Wllliamsport Sun. There were 216,493 students in col leges, universities and technological schools in 1914, according to the annual report of the Commissioner of Educa tion, just issued.—Erie Dispatch. FARMER FALLS FROM HORSE Waynesboro, Pa., Oct. s.—Wishard Frazler, a young man living on the Benjamin Funk farm, west of town, fell from his horse while In Waynes boro, celebrating Farmers' Day, and fractured a bone in his right ankle. OLD HUNTER WANTS LICENSE Special to The Telegraph Duncannon, Pa., Oct. 5. —J. H. Mutzabaugh has applied for his resi dent hunter's license. He is 75 years of age and notwithstanding his age he gets his share of game each sea son. • "DOWN ALONG THE PACIFIC" An illustrated lecture on "Down Along the Pacific Coast" will be given at Camp Curtin Methodist Episcopal Church this evening under the au spices of the Ladies' Aid Society by James Stevens, of this city. * Cutting Down Expenses The advertising in this news paper can be made a potent fac- ' tor in reducing your expenses. It will teach you how to buy right. It will show you how to get the most for the money—some times It will show you ways to make motley. Knowledge is power always and buying knowledge is the safeguard of the prudent. If you are not an advertising reader try the experiment of seeing how much information the Telegraph cpn give you. Stoning (Elfai The Chamber of Comraercs banquetl last evening presented an unusual study In the contrasting personalities of the speakers. The three topics dis-« cussed were the country of Peru, thw federal reserve act, and the unreadi-' ness of our country for war, In th* past, present or future. The Minister* Plenipotentiary from Peru, Frederlo Alphonso Pezet, was the typical dliflo-* mat, with a pleasant mien and e(om-< plimentary phraseology. He spoke ofi the way in which the countries ot South America look to us to set tha example, which <they follow. He also told how the Irish potato really orig inated in Peru,among the Incas of agefl ago, when the potato was nothing but a small nut. The famous Peru potato Is now yellow, of the color of tha yolk of an "egg. It was, taken over to England in Queen Elizabeth's time and she, out of the of hen heart, sent samples to the Irish, who adopted it as their own and have ex* plotted it until its Peruvian ancestry; his been completely forgotten. Mr. Harding of the Federal Re serve Board, spoke In a slow, exposi tory manner, being completely wrap ped tip in the thoughts which he de veloped. and his manner of speaking ■was in direct contrast to the fiery and enthusiastically caustic remarks of the commandment of Bordentown Military Academy, Capt. Stockton. Ha was full of the subject of army or ganization and covered the field in a very able style, leaving nothing to tha imagination. Kindly words of praise for the con duct and management of the Dauphin county jail contained in the September quarter sessions grand jury report at the close of the criminal sessions Sat urday recalled to courthouse and county officials generally the sig nificant fact that not once since War den W. W. Caldwell has been in charge of the prison has the grand jury found occasion to criticise the way in which the Institution has been conducted. On one or two occasions the grand jury made suggestions, which, it developed, were for certain changes which had already been started under the warden's eye at tha time. The few crisp, frosty nights last week, with the high winds which ac companied them, have brought down a rain of chestnuts in the woods and mountains near Harrisburg. Yester day scores of nutting parties left the city for the hills In the Cumberland valley and around Rockville and M&rysville. While of course some of the older and more experienced in woodcraft, returned with good-sized bags filled with the brown nuts, by far the greater number came, back with littie more than aching backs and blis tered feet, for the nuts were not very plentiful this year. This is probably due to the heavy rains during the past summer. With the arrival of the cool nights and warm days fishermen are digging out and testing their bass and salmon tackle in preparation for the real sport which cannot be enjoyed through the summer for the double reason that the fish do not bite hard, and even If they, do, refuse to put up the game fight they do in the Fall. In the autumn the fisherman fond of angling in falls and rapids is able to get ninety-seven varieties of sport by playing his catch in swift water. The river lias been unusually cliffy along the east shore for the last sev eral weeks, while the west shore has been too muddy for fishing. As a re sult no large catches have been made. The openins of the gigging season ha 3 also made the fish unusually timid and hard to catch. The stream is now falling to a lowet level and clearing off so that within thi next ■several weeks unusually la.rga catches should be made. United Brethren circles in this city were not a little surprised when tha changes were announced in the pas torates of the East Pennsylvania Con ference district. The big surprises, according to most of the city church members, came when the Rev. C. E. Boughter, of Oberlin, was sent to tha First United Brethren Church to sue« ceed the Rev. J. T. Spangler. Not only were Harrisburgers astonished, but tha Oberlin congregation also showed that the news was unexpected. Every ona of the pastors last week who spoke on the changes that were predicted thought that, the Rev. Mr. Boughtef would go to Halifax to succeed tha Rev. C. A. Funk, of that place. With the approach of fall and win« tei seasons and the long evenings, motion pictures again come forward as one of the chief amusements. And a look at the offering of local the atrical managers is rather astonishing compared with the programs given only two short years ago. The man agers have been compelled by tha public, becoming more educated daily, to. bring only the best of productions. Photoplay dramatization of the finest of fiction stories, both classic and pop 'rlar, offers to the people something that is decidedly new and educational —and something that was thought almost impossible two years ago. ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN STEAMERS CHEAPER THAN STEAM WAS A carefully prepared test, of two Swedish sisters ships, one driven by triple expansion steam engines and tha others by electricity, shows that e!ec« trie motors are most economical foa ship propulsion. The vessels were both of 2,225 tons displacement, and designed for a speed of 11 knots with the development of 900 indicated horse power. The coal consumption was the important point to be determined and in these trials it was guaranteed that the turho-elec tricaliy equipped vessel should show a saving of 30 per cent, over the triple expansion engines. This guarantea was fulfilled, for the turbo-electria power plant showed an economy of 35 per cent., the consumption being 0.4 kilo per indicated horse power, the en gines developing 975 horse-power, anil driving the vessel at an average speed of 11.88 miles per hour.—Electric News. A BILUOK-BOTHBL GRAIN CROP [From the Christian Herald.] Contrast with the scenes of the ter rible European conflict and the "death harvest" which is being reaped abroach the scenes of agricultural activity are now being enacted throughout tn« Middle West and the great grain-grow ing sections of the Northwest, and you have a picturesque scene of relief. American farmers are surely destined to feed the world's children during tha months to come! One hundred and fifty thousand men from every State of the Union have invaded these western sections and are engaged in harvesting the greatest cereal crop In the world's history. The precision with which the precious grain crop is garnered from our grain fielda presents one of the wonders of tha world: There are approximately 60.000.0f10, acres devoted to the 1915 wheat crop. This acreage will yield a harvest of be tween 950,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 bushels, students of agricultural sltua tion confidently predicting thnt the lat ter figure will be reached by Fall. The average wheat crop from 1909 to 191,1 was 686,000,000 bushels, while the 1914 crop totaled the enormous sum of 891,- 000,000 bushels, which brings this year's crop 59,000,000 bushels greater than last year's crop, based on coneervatlva estimates.
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