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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. ,
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Bellefonte papers are beginning
to mix it up a lit He and the campaigr.
for judge in that county is waxing
denunciatory.
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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.
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"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!
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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
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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.
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DOMESTIC
ECONOMY.
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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,"
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.