8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BstabUiktd it JI PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PKISTISO CO. E. J. STACK POLE PrisuSmt and Editir-in-Ckitf F. R. OTSTBR Stertiary QUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Bditor Published •▼ery •renin* (except Bum day) at th« Telegraph Building. 11l Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. ■•stern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hssbrook. Story * Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at <j#L »lx cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Poit Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn daily average circulation for the three months ending Sept. 30, 1915 "ft 21,307 ★ Average for tfco y««r 1114—21JM Afcragt for tfce lflS— iTfraft for tkt ytar iT«r«K« for the y«tr ltll—1T»MI Anns* (or thm ymr ltlfr—lW« Tbo mho flffiret art »tt All tarned. unsold tad diaif«4 iietH. SATTRDAY EVENING, OCT. 9. Take life as you find it. but don't leave it so. —Anon. HIGH STANDARDS SACRIFICED THE demoralization of the navy under Josephus Daniels has been constantly evident, and never more so than now, as a result of the cy clonic upheaval which has recently oc curred at the Naval Academy. Last June It was discovered that some of the cadets at Annapolis had bur glarized the desks of their instructors and liad secured copl6s o* the annual examination papers. An investigation which was made by the academy au thorities implicated several young men, among whom were some who possessed that most Inestimable treas ure, according to the Daniels stand ard. a political pull. Two Democratic Congressmen—Hay and Carlin of Vir ginia—hot-footed to Annapolis and took up the defense of their political favorites who had been detected in this serious breach of honor. Messrs. Hay and Carlin were unable to convince the high-minded naval officers whom they found at Annapolis that the standards of a Virginia police court were applicable to the United States Navy; go they betook themselves to Washington and laid their case be fore Josephus Daniels. Now it so hap pened that the dragnet at Annapolis seemed perilously near to sweeping those North Carolina shoals where Josephus lives, moves and has politi cal being: and he lent a ready ear to the Congressional advocates who were trying to set up politics instead of honor as the guiding spirit for Amer ican naval officers. As a result, the recommendations of ■ the Academy board were whittled down to include only those cases which were too flagrant for even Dan iels to overlook, and thus the impres sionable youth at Annapolis were given to understand that the rigid system of honor which has been the standard of the navy from Its first days is not to be held operative when two Demo cratic Congressmen can get the private ear of a Democratic Secretary of the Navy. This breaking down of the stand-1 ardß was a bitter dose for the navy.! Admiral Fullam, the superintendent ! at Annapolis, asked to be transferred in order to show his resentment; and he was sent to an inferior post of duty on the West Coast. The other officers at Annapolis expressed their feeling less vigorously, but to the same tenor —and now every man of thein who occupies an important post at the Naval Academy has been ordered away. The incident is regarded in na\al circles as a plain serving of notice that politics rules the navy to-day, that honorable standards a century old cannot resist the pressure of mod irn political necessity. To add to the injury- which has been done, there is a more or less direct charge of dou ble-dealing on Daniels' part. It is said that he told the officers at Annapolis that he would sustain them to the limit in their efforts to maintain the honorable traditions of the navy and that they would have the whole of the next academic year to put their no tions into practice. Xow, out of a clear sky, comes a sweeping order in repudiation of all that these high minder. men have been trying to do. and the Naval Academy has been made to serve as a plaything for Dem ocratic politicians. Every now and again the Attorney General reminds the public of his ex istence by putting out an opinion on <orae law passed by the last Congress. The gist of this Democrat's judgment on most of these Democratic statutes is that they are inoperative. Time was when It was the function of the courts to pass on questions of this sort, but nowadays a ministerial officer sup plants the courts and, instead of a Government by construed law, we have a Government by opinion. THE VOTERS KNOW THE Chicago correspondent o1 the "Public Ledger" of Philadelphia reports the results of a survey of national politics made by a Republi can leader, and which seta forth that no Republican need worry about the effect of th? present business activi ties in the mind of the voter, for all SATURDAY EVENING, understand that the revival is due to the war in Europe and not to any government policy. H« believes that the ordinary man can see what has happened, and that the rank and file are feeling the pres sure of bad times almost as much as before the onrush of war orders be gan. The Republicans will then go to the country with a strong arraign ment of Democratic policies, which, in the absence of the war in Europe, would have meant financial disaster to the country. One of the most striking examples of our unpreparedness for warfare is the present lack of aeroplanes In the army and navy. The navy has five aeroplanes and the army twelve. The number of men in either branch of the service who have been trained to operate them is lamentably small. These few army aeroplanes are at San Diego. Cal.. and | the navy aeroplanes at Pensacola, Fla. They are housed in flimsy hangars, which, if destroyed by fire, would con sume the machines and leave us with out aerial scouts. iIOHX L. AXI) HIS BELT WHEN' old Demon Rum, rein forced by the strong right arm of one Jim Corbett, snatched the fistic championship of the world away from John L. Sullivan, the ex champion took the Demon to his bos om even more affectionately than ever before and when he awoke to the fact that it was either the water wagon or an early journey into the long, dark valley for him, his most cher ished possession, the Diamond Belt about which every school boy knows, was in the hands of a pawnbroker and the $5,000 it had brought him had been invested in 47 varieties of booze. Old John L. wept and not a few of his ad mirers felt very much that way them selves: and then the old warhorse be gan to plan to win back his lost treas ure. That was years ago, and yesterday) the newspapers announced that tho Diamond Belt was once more in the possession of its original owner. John L. had won another battle. It took years of training to do it, but he put in the final knockout punch on the old Demon when he paid over the $5,000 and interest necessary to redeem his pledge. Many a prizefighter has won a world championship, but mighty few of them have ever "gone up against" Rum and won out. John L. is deserving of his belt. It means much more than the fact that in his younger days he was the mightiest bruiser the world ever saw. CENSORSHIP RCI.ES SMALL fault can be found with the new standards laid uown by the State Board of Censors if they are reasonably enforced. Of course, the board could so construe them as to make life not worth the living for a moving picture producer, but the film maker who is really desirous of living up to the best his profession makes possible will comply with the new standards without State regula tion. and the public will have small sympathy for the few who would work into their productions any of the" ob jectionable features upon which the censors have placed the ban of their disapproval. It is true, as many reputable photo play producers hold, that censorship works hardship on them and causes them considerable expense. It is un fortunate that this is so, but the men who have done much to make motion pictures the popular attraction they are to-day did not show themselves able to control their less scrupulous t'ellows. Censorship became Inevitable when the picture plays became so bad that decent people were afraid to go into even so-called respectable theaters. And if censorship has work ed hardship it has also had the effect of putting out of business the un scrupulous competitor of the legiti mate producer and in this way has probably more than paid its way for those who are striving to sell their products on merit alone. Perhaps some day censorship will be unneces sary, but the time is apparently not yet. A SATURDAY SERMON' IT was a wise old farm philosopher who wrote: "While waiting for the main chance do not neglect the regular chores." It isn't the man who spends his lime waiting for this "main chance" j who most often gfets there. The world J was not built in a day; neither was ony man's fortune. For every "ten strike" that has stood out in history as the exception to this rule a million men have striven early and late to win the prize they sought to attain, and even the "ten-strike" comes seldom to the man who is not looking for It. Michael Angelo observed that "trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle." Success comes from attention to detail; thought for little things; do ing little things so well that out of the many little things well done is sure to come one great thing—character. A great painting is but the result of many little strokes; the great statue, many little chips; the great building, many little bricks put together with care and precision, with the end always In mind. While the artist sees a finished picture in every stroke, the sculptor a finished image in every chip, and the architect a completed building in every line, each stroke and each chip and each line must count or the end will be a disappointment. Xo man jumps into success at one leap. Xo great invention has been a sudden thing. The Wrights worked on flying machines years before they flew. Henry Ford was a mechanic be fore he was an automobile wizard. He did not dream a Ford car; he worked it out. And it took years. It Is all very well to keep your head up, but watch your step or you will stumble. Look out to sea once in a while, but mind the compass near at hand. Aim at the moon if you will, but there's a barn door handy by to practice on. Dream big things, but try your hand at llttlo ones first. The man who wears expensive clothes, a hlsh hat, a diamond as big as a hen's egg and a watch chain that would do honor to a battleship may look prosperous and cut a wide swath, but if ho neglects the razor, the nail fie and the toothbrush he can't break into good society, nor make a good impression at his bank. The banker consistency—attention to little things. In the effort to get rich (and who doesn't asplr«? to wealth?) It Is bettor to lay a foundation, as the mason lays bricks, savins little by little, laying by each week or each month a few dol lars, which, when they get together, will form a foundation for a great structure when the time comes to build. T>MUctU 'PcxKOijloaicta DM E»-On»BitWIi«« —Estimates made in various coun ties as to the registration that has been under way since the books closed at the polling places are that the pro portion of Republicans registering Is as great as in- the early days. In Philadelphia a majority of the thou sands registered were Republicans in spite of the fact that the reformers' campaign is in full swing. In other places the same condition prevails. It only goes to emphasize the fact that this is a Republican year. —Governor Brumbaugh added to the ray given to advocates of aspirants to the Supreme bench by Attorney Gen eral Brown at Pocono last night. He had been bothered *ll along his tour by friends of candidates who want to succeed Justice Elkin and he made this remark: "I have too much re spect for John P. Elkin to consider a successor so soon after his death." —The natno of the Fair Play party has been pre-empted in Allegheny county. It is said to be a move of the friends of David B. Johns, one of the oaiulidmes tor prothonotary. —Ex-Director George D. Porter, the Franklin party's candidate for | mayor in Philadelphia, is having troubles of his own these days be cause someone started the story that he was formerly a Democrat. Porter is rather vehement in his denials. —L. P. Knltt'en, who lost out in the Wilkes-Barre race for the mayoralty nomination, may challenge the right of Mayor John V. Kosek, of that city, ta sole place on the ballot. Kosek is the man who brought the action to de termine if a third class city mayor could be a candidate to succeed him self and won. —Clarence Antrim, who was turned down by the new Washington party outfit for sheriff nominee in Philadel phia, is inclined to be miffed. He has been insurging so long that it is a wonder he was not considered in this year's motley collection. —William Sulzer, former governor ol New York, Is due in Bcranton to-day to address the Lackawanna county Prohibition committee. Sulz6r's speech is being awaited with interest because of the view it may give of the latest political slant. county Demo cratic bosses of the reorganization stripe have found themselves so much in the minority this year that it is doubtful if they will make any contest when the time conies to elect members 01 the county committee next year. —Senator "Jack" Moore, of Alle gheny county, Republican nominee for county controller in his county, yes terday handed Lieutenant-Governor Frank B. McClain his resignation a senator. Ho turned it in at the Phila delphia ball game, it is said. The question will probable be raised at Pittsburgh whether Moore is eligible to the place under old acts. The sen ator says he will take the chances. He is a brother of "Alec" Moore, who was a heap big Bull Mooser in 1912. —Suffragists and "antis" are mak ing things lively in Philadelphia. The "antis" have distributed 200,000 but tons in that city and are making speeches as vigorous as the suffragists. Pittsburgh is having much the same kind of interesting campaigning. —Schuylkill, Lackawanna and other big counties had anywhere from forty to sixty ties to "draw" yesterday and there do not seem to have been anv appeals threatened as a result. —Congressman Vare had Repub lican candidates as his guests at the Philadelphia baseball game yesterdav. Men interested in every one of the political parties on the militant list in Philadelphia made the baseball game a gathering ground yesterday and the great American sport made them for get they were rivals. —Whether the fusion game will be worked in Philadelphia or not is in teresting a good many people. The Democrats appear to have realized that their chances of becoming the dominant party in that county dis appeared last year and they are "trying to combine the disaffected elements. —The latest game In the Philadel phia "reform" movements is to have Michael J. Ryan retire from the race for judge of Court Xo. 2 in Philadel phia and become fusion candidate for city solicitor again. Mr. Ryan was elected on the Democratic tickets and i& being very much courted. —From the mass of evidence in the election fraud cases in the Allegheny courts it is doubtful if a settlement of the dispute between William B. Kirker and David B. Johns as to who will be placed on the ballot as the Republican candidate for prothonotary will be set tled in time to have the ballots printed for the November election. True bills were returned by the grand jury against Charles M. McChesney and Jacob Amrhein. charging them with larceny, misdemeanor and entering a building with intent to commit a felony in connection with the taking of ballots from a box and burning them. The count in the returning board was completed in the vote for protlionotary yesterday, with the re sult that Johns received 46,246 and Kirker 46,198, giving Johns a lead of 48. This will stand unless the court decides otherwise. Attorney George E. Alter, who represents Kirker, has srttbpenaed 300 voters of the First ward. Braddock. alleging that none had voted, yet their names appear on the registry as having done so. LINCOLN HIGHWAY FEEDER!) [From the American Motorist.] In its efforts to put Its home town as nearly on the Lincoln Highway as cir cumstances will permit, the Motor Club of Harrisburg. Pa., is doing a commend able work. In designing the transcontinental roadway, the town* of Lancaster, York Gettysburg and Chambersburg, lvlngr a few miles to the south, by east and west of Harrlsburg, were Included, but not the State Capital. Instead of bemoaning the fact that the Lincoln Highway wouldn't come to Harrlsburg. the Motor Club, assisted by the best forces of the town. Including the Patriot and Telegraph, proceeded to take Harrlsburg to the Lincoln Highway. In this the Motor Club I* Mazing away in excellent fashion and it Is expected that the next road map of Pennsylvania will show In heavy black lines, three splendid, sign-mark ed feeder roads between Lancaster, Gettysburg and Chambersburg and Ha rrlaburg. With South Carolina voting out liquids, the'liquid interests are learn ing what "the Solid South" means.— Kansas City Star. , HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE ROUTE GOVERNOR'S PARTY TOOK i .. —r p p\ porrr* { J J WA<«. ) — { { —\. ,««*».. JJ i —i \ ) r \ V I—— 'v., \ 0(.TL«« - p.'» _.<♦* . /UNIM iS(pj^~ Xi - X CAAOOM - <•' '" /'—jEfefc- i. f \. IJ / / svv /v %><rv 1 »""• Na v- FATfTT* / 50Hf*»»1 I pf j • Tjv [ \ J j/yZ>.JJ* / >~^ The accompanying map shows the route the Governor and his automohlle sight-seeing party took during their trip over the State this week, the tour ending in Philadelphia to-night. The dotted lino was a provisional route to be followed In case of rain, but the tourists did not find it necessary to cut short their trip on this account. EDITORIAL COMMENT In tlie latest election of celebrities to the Hall of Fame at New York Uni versity, John Paul Jones and Roger Williams were among those who failed to receive the necessary number of votes. But they can stand It; their places In history are not dependent on the erection of bronze tablets over the Hudson's tide. —New York Sun. Bulgaria says it. won't attack Servla unless Austria does. Which must be a lot of consolation to the Serbs. —Kan- sas City Star. Carranza says he will punish the border bandits. He would do well to hesitate; the bandits might get him and cut off his whiskers.—Pittsburgh Sun. Where is the old-fashioned man with two scats for the series in his pocket who used to say that his schooldays were the happiest of l'is life? —Plilla- ' dclphla Inquirer. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TRAFFIC CONGESTION To tfle Editor of the Telegraph: It is hardly necessary to remark that traffic conditions in the streets in our business district are daily becoming a more and more pressing problem and if Harrlsburg is to continue its ad vancement along metropolitan lines it Is about time some system of traffic regulation be adopted tending to di minish the present congestion. One need but stand a few minutes near the corners of Third or Fourth and Market streets, during the rush hours, to note the utter confusion that exists and the trouble our officers are experiencing in handling the traffic. undoubtedly they are doing their best under the circumstances, but this fact will always remain, that our streets are too narrow to accommodate the ever Increasing traffic. Any sys tem that would help regulate this con dition would be welcomed not only by the drivers of vehicles, but by the pedestrians as well. The following is suggested as one means of solving the problem. First, that It be made compulsory that all traffic in Third street between Chest nut and Walnut be required to travel In one direction only, that is north, and second, that the traffic in Fourth street between Walnut and Chestnut be re quired to move south only. The result of this will be to cause the majority of the traffic in Walnut street, between Third and Fourth, to move eastward, and in Chestnut street, between the same points, to move westward. It is to be noted that the above ar rangement is the present natural course of travel, causing the least friction. Is continuous and systematic, and further more that at the Market street inter sections, with the traffic on the side streets moving in one direction, the resulting blockades will be reduced one half, thus saving considerable time and confusion. This scheme also works well with the Hill traffic over the Mulberry street viaduct following the natural route, and it is thought that the resulting ad vantages will far outweigh the minor inconveniences that it may cause. The details of putting this system in to operation are comparatively simple, requiring a traffic officer at Fourth and Chestnut in addition to the regular force, and signs at the alleys in this district calling attention to the direc tion of travel. The writer believes there are many interested in this subject of traffic regulation, and that the outlined sys tem could be given a trial with very little inconvenience to the traveling public and at small expense. H. E. B. Harrisburg, Pa.. September 28. 1915. DIDN'T RAP GENERAL WOOD To the Editor of tli* Telegraph: Sir: From accounts in the press it seems as though I did not express my self clearly upon one point, when ad dressing the Chamber of Commerce of Harrisburg on the 4th inst. I had no Intention of criticising Major-Oeneral Leonard Wood, whom 1 regard as the foremost officer of the army to-day and whom. I think, is doing more than any other single of- I ticer to arouse military interest in this country. Nor did I "disagree" with General Wood, as the General makes no claim | that the Plattsburg Camp turned out men fit to be officers in a month's time, i The most that he has stated is that he i thinks he did as much with the busl ; nessmen as they do with a recruit in I the army in four months, and I beg to i assure you that the most intelligent recruit is not fitted to be an officcer after four months' training in the army. No military man thinks that these men were made fit to act as officers while they were at Plattsburg, for the simple reason that it would be just as easy to make a good doctor, or a good lawyer in a month as it is to make a good of ficer. Military science is very complex and hard to master. I meant to make it clear that I thought the progress made by the men at Plattsburg was wonderful for such a short time. Furthermore, the busi nessmen realised the limitations that time put upon them, and know that they aro not fit to act as officers. They are spreading sound military policy. What I desired to bring out. however, was that the press had encouraged the idea that officers were being turned out and that in consequence, more practical schemes for national defense might be neglected under the Impres sion that a trained army could be turn ed out In a verv short time. I also give full credit to the busi nessmen for the work that they are doing, and have done. However, l hope that I will be pardoned If I remark that you probably have many National Guard offices in Harrlsburg, who have worked much harder, at much greater sacrifice, and under much worse condi tions. Many of them have probably worked for many times more years than the businessmen did weeks, and many of them are probably really ef ficient as officers. Vet I doubt If they got one-tenth the press notice and credit that the businessmen received. Respectfully, RICHARD STOCKTON, JR.. Captain Second New Jersey Infantry. A RUSSIA* HEROIKK [From the Springfield Republican.] A Russian Sister of Charity, Mrs. Tvanovna, serving as a nurse, rallied the demoralized troops in a recent bat tle. charged the oncoming Germans, captured a trench and fell mortally wounded. But before she did all this :ahe was a hero. Sublime courage neither In war nor In peace la tue p*e- Lro*«tive of one sex only. __ THE PANAMA CANAL A T WORK lll.—Fighting the Slides By Frederic J. Haskin L OKCE in awhile you read a small item In the paper telling that slides have blocked the Panama Canal. This Is a tiny echo from a mighty battle. It gives no Idea of the tremendous toil, the ever-recurrent discouragement of the struggle with Culebra Mountain. Putting the ships across the Isthmus of Panama is a striking example of a great task just barely accomplished. For twenty-two hours every days the dredges crowd into the cut. digging and sucking the mud and broken rock out of its bottom. For two hours, if the work is lucky, they back out, and with infinite care the long procession of waiting vessels is towed through a channel just barely big enough to hold them. Once the canal lifted its bottom two feet between the time the dredges withdrew and the first great vessel en tered the cut. The steamer Arizonan of the American-Hawaiian Company, drawing' twenty-eight feet, suddenly slopped dead, as though a great hand had reached up through the waters and clutched her keel. It took Ave tug boats to pull the vessel off the mud and take her through. The best thtn»- that can be said for the slides is that they work in turns. If all of them began pushing mud and rock into the canal at once all the dredges that could find room to work could not possibly keep a channel. Cuoaracha .which started way back in the days when the Trench first cut a notch in the backbone of stubborn old Oulebra. is the most famous of the slides, but it is about dead. Its last strenuous activity occurred about six months ago. But just as Cucaracha slowed down and Colonel Comber, who commands the fight against the slides, began to shake hands with himself, the east and west Culebra slides came to life one night and pitched several thousand cubic yards of earth and rock into the canal on the other side of the mountain. Two I'nualnK Trouble It Is these two slides on either bank of the canal, on the Atlantic side of the continental divide, that are causing all of the trouble now. They are try- The State From Day to Day] Punxsutawney is holding a scries of "Nlmmie" dances. We don't know what nimmies 'ire. which puts us in the same category with the youngster who asked 'he question, "Say, mother, what are Yonkers?" • * * They say that the war in Europe is going to do away with "eyebrow" moustaches which one occasionally sees even whin Charlie Chaplin isn't around. The war may yet do some good, if this is so. • * * Speaking of moustaches, the Erie Dispatch states that shaving was in troduced by the Romans, and the first shave was a -ercmony of initiation to manhood. Thousands to-day regret over having joined this ancient whisker-removing society, it is safe to sav. » » * The latest report from the Hershey Fress announces that the Hershey zoo i« to be enlarged. This collection is the largest free private zoo in Central Pennsylvania and is only one of the features of the wonderful little town. • 4 « A case started in Carlisle thirty-one years ago has tlnally resulted" in the divorce of a couple dwelling there. Persistence is an admirable quality. « « « The sad incident is reported from Johnstown of the death of the midget baby recently born there. The little chap weighed only 2 pounds at birth and lived but fourteen days. • « • The artillery battery which passed through this city yesterday on its way to Fort Myer may perhaps be a fore runner of the battery which it is so heartily hoped will come to Harris burs' before long. « • • The Bellefonte papers are beginning to mix it up a lit He and the campaigr. for judge in that county is waxing denunciatory. • * * The South Bethlehem Globe de serves credit for its big centennial and get-together edition which appeared last week with a very complete and masterly presentation, covering >6 pages, of history and illustration deal ing with the last lifty years of progress ir. South Bethlehem. « • • "Danville, with 25 saloons and 7,500 inhabitants. Is the wettest town In Pennsylvania in proportion to popu lation." was ths statement which was made there recently in an evangelistic cf-mpaign. Nothing to be proud of! • • » A big black bear appeared on the road near Mainville the other day and stepped calmly in front of a machine that happened to be passing that way. The driver in his excitement stalled the engine, but bruin was friendly, and after examining the car, perhaps to ascertain the make, retired to the woods, apparently satisfied. IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of Oct. 9, 1865.] Catholic Jubilee Festival The Jubilee festival of the Catholic Church is being held and will be con tinued until tho end of this month. Commercial S<-Jiool Gets More Prizes The Harrisburs Commercial College was awarded three first prizes for ex hibits at the York Fair this week. EHlpsc Thursday Visible Here An eclipse of the sun will occur Thursday which will be visible here. The next eclipse of th« sun visible in this country will be in 186t. OCTOBER 9, 1015. Ins with all their might to pinch the canal out of existence by pressing their masses of mud together. As you sail between the two Culebra sluics you see on either hand a great reil gash on the mountainside reaching up hundreds of feet above vou. Im agine that some Titan a mile tall has plowed a furrow across the earth, that you are sailing across a puddle of rain water in the bottom of It, and you have a picture of the two Culebra slides. Far above you can see where fresh slices of earth are just cracking way from the mountain carrying bits of the jungle with them. You can see the abandoned houses of the workmen, relics of con struction days, tottering dizzily on the edge before they fall to destruction. Scattered over the face of this great, red bruise on the mountainside are groups of men that look as flies on a quarter of beef. They are the operators of the steam drills. They are boring holes in the great mass of rock that the slides bring down with them. Each of these rocks must be dynamited into little pieces; else it would choke the dredge. The fact that it takes half a dozen men and a steam drill to break up a single crumb of the moving mass so that it can be carried away, gives a good idea of the immensity of this task. Core of Solid Rock To understand the action of the i slides you must know that Culebra Mountain, like every other continental divide, has a core of solid igneous rock. The deepest and most laborious part of the Panama Canal is cut right through this rock. Gold and Contractor's Hills are simply the two sides of this cut. ■standing as sheer and sold as though built by some Herculean mason. These great masses of igneous rock have never moved. It is presumed that they will stand forever. Should they slip and come together, the Panama Canal would be literally squeezed out of ex istence and the cut would have to be done all over again. On the shoulders of Culebra Moun tain, however, this igneous rock has been weathered; hence, there are great [Continued on Page 14.] This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— v J BW B - v < m$T U - ij)r JOHN FLICKINGER A prominent decorator and paper ! hanger of the city, who has a host of friends and is well known through lout the State. \ | Our Daily Laugh j DOMESTIC ECONOMY. So you think gvery wife should 4 i have an allow- / M|B Certainly; oth-\ \/T SjtAaSP erwlse there isn't a? 1 j anything to 1 p row. I |>*v I li f IN A RESTAU- Angry Diner — Bffl Walter, you are $Sp. iff not fit to serve a plg MB j Waiter—l am ■ j doing my best, HE'D FORCOTTES, TOO By Wing Dinger Tuesday last I got a message . From a chap who said to me: 'Tve some business to talk over Meet me Friday—half-past three." After I'd made the appointment Suddenly it dawned on me, That was when the first World's Series Baseball game I'd hoped to see. Tried to figure out some method Of postponement of the date. Gut I couldn't, and resolved to Bow resignedly to fate. I Friday, though, I got a message I From the chap, who'd called before: | "I'd forgotten an appointment— I {Change our dat* to half-pait four," j fcbgmng <Etyat | Father Penn is putting hi» fans In the cellar at the State Capitol. There are 400 fans, more than ever known before, at tlie Capitol, and all are run by electricity and worked overtime ir. the summer. The storage of electric fans is the first sign that winter Is coming at the State House. This year, owlr.g to the opening of the new de partments and division of some de partments into bureaus, more fans were bought than in any summer since the Capitol was opened, and the round vp the latter part of the week dis closed that there were 400 electric fans. The Capitol Park force has commenced to get the winter quarters of the squirrels the State's official charges, into shape and an ample supply of nuts, which are bought from u supply schedule the same as paper, pens and inks, will be stored so that when real winter comes there will be something for the squirrels to eat. The benches will shortly bo removed and the plants are being taken from the flower beds. The State is officially getting ready for winter and when Governor Brumbaugh returns from his "Seeing Pennsylvania" tour on Mon day he will find the Executive Man sion renovation completed. This work hats been under way for several months and it is now finished. "Can you guess who is the best sales man in Harrisburg?" asked a man on Capitol Mill the other afternoon. "No, I guess T can't. There are some slick polliicians and some very able men on the 'Hill,' but I can't spot the best salesman. Who Is he? What's l'.t sell?" replied the newspaperman who was addressed. "Tom Stewart. He sells speeches. And he's got Bryan and Peary and all the rest of the big paid lecturers beaten a mile," was the answer, "How's that?" "The beauty of it is that the gen eral does not take a cent for his speeches. The people get the benefit. The other day he. was at Allentown. In a ten-minute talk on what lie had to give he got Colonel Harry C. Trexler. the cement magnate, to donate the cost of the tablet to the Allen Light Infantry, one of the "First Defend ers." on condition that he would make the address at the unveiling. It was a great stunt. It probably means that the Allentown colonel will pay i couple of thousands of dollars and Stewart will make one of the best speeches of his career, which will bo going some. I tell you, Stewart would be a corker if he was out on the road. He lias shown what lie can do in sell ing that speech to Trexler." • • • The Telephone News, the monthly issued by the Bell people, is getting into the newspaper class. It appears for October with a photograph of the very wireless towers which were used for the wireless telephone talk to Ha waii. The picture is very interesting and the description doubly so. An other interesting feature is a. discus sion of a toll ticket, told In a way that someone outside of an exchange can understand it. The centerpiece it' a. buncli of roses—the chief operators of the Harrisburg division. » • • Organization of the Central Penn sylvania Debating League yesterday at. the Capitol calls to mind the fact that years ago the art of debating was ver: popular among pupils in this city and interschool debates were held each winter which attracted much atten tion. Some of the schools bandied words with the debaters of Steelton, Meohanicsburg, Middletown and Tluni melstown and some even had the temerity to tackle the debaters of that ancient seat of learning, Carlisle. Forensix exercises have always been popular here, whether because of the location of the Capitol in our midst or not. is not clear. Harrisburg debaters have always given a good account of themselves and the plan for the de bating league bids fair to be popular in this district. The final decision of the county commissioners as to the arrangements of the eight, candidates for City Coun il on the nonpartisan ballot aroused more discussion in legal and municipal circles yesterday. Colonel F. M. Ott the county solicitor, advised the com missioners that the names of Commis sioners W. T,. Gorgas and Harry F. Bowman should lead the ticket in that order because of the fact that they polled more than 50 per cent, of tho ballots cast at the primaries. Colonel Ott suggested three methods: follow ing the order of the drawings for places on the primary ticket, alpha, betically, or in the order of the num bers of votes received. The arrange ment alphabetically, according to Colonel Ott. would have carried out the spirit of the general election laws, and upon his recommendation the commissioners adopted this method. * » * Professor IT. 11. Baish, the superin tendent of the schools of Altoona, who was here yesterday, is president of the State Educational Association and one of the most progressive educators of the State as well as one of the youngest to be called to that office. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Dr. J. S. Neff has been elected president of the Child Federation to succeed Edward W. Bok. —E. T. Stotesbury, the banker, ha* atrreed to help raise $500,000 for a children's hospital. —Wilbur Zimmerman is the new president of the Tioga businessmen's organization. —C. S. Salin, prominent Delaware countian. is head of tlio Delaware County Firemen's Association. —Colonel E. C. Shannon, of Colum bia. commanded the Fourth Regiment in the South Bethlehem military demonstration. —Emerson Collins, the new Deputy Attorney General, made Republican speeches in the West in the McKinley campaign. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg is making steel for cars for Siberian railroads? HISTORIC HARRISBURC This city was one of the first Cen tral Pennsylvania towns to undertake cotton manufacture. Forgetting A large percentage of people use their memories to "forget with." Jg your business or your prod uct one that you can chance hav ing put out of mind? Don't you n»ed the reminder of newspaper advertising? Don't you need the same ad vertising to tell new people your story? Don't you want your business to march forward instead of backward? Are you not taking too much for granted when your advertis ing docs not appear in this news paper. The time to advertise is now.
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