8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSfi PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. BTACK POLE Pre rid en t and Editor hief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. BTEINMETZ M(inagini Editor Published every evening (except «u»- day) at the Telegraph Bulldlnr. 11l Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania AssoeN ated Dallies. Eastern Offloe. Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr, New York City, Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Bulldlnr. Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at {3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post OfTlce In Harris* burg, Pa., as second clsss matter. bvtorn daily itvernffc circulation for the three months ending Sept. 30, 1918 Averace fop the year 1014—213#' Arrraßr for (he year 1118—19.AW Are race for the ye«r 1912—'19,649 iTerage for the year 1911—17,509 ▲▼erase for the year 1910—10.291 The above fwrea are a«t. All r«- turned, aaaold and damaged eop'ea de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 13. 'Tis not what titan does which exalts him, but what man Would do. —Brozvn- iftff. THAT UNDERWRITERS' REPORT i THE chief function of the National, Board of Fire Underwriters, it; would appear, is to criticise. I There Is a suspicion in the' minds of many premium payers that the board is much more interested in keeping rates up than in putting them down. Harrisburg's fire loss is about as small as that of any city of its size in the country, we are assured, yet the board never once commends and never loses an opportunity to spread broad cast the Idea that Harrisburg is one vast fire trap and that our people are hent on making the fire hazard here as grave as possible. The fire department is given absolutely no credit for stopping the big fire at Fourth and Chestnut streets in a really professional manner; the only hint of efficiency we get is the wonder of the board that the damage was not greater. We buy motor driven apparatus of the most approved pattern, but the hoard comes along and finds fault with the type. Did the board make any recommendations to council be fore the purchase? No indeed; that Is not the way of the board. The board recommends a new build ing code. Good! We should have it. The board suggests fireproof garages in the heart of town. Fine! The Idea Is practical and doubtless will meet ■with approval. The board outlines many other things that may or may not be vital to the safety of the city I from fire. But after Harrisburg has spent its hundreds of thousands to bring about these changes does the board offer anything in the way of reduced fire insurance rates? Indirectly, perhaps, we are led to believe that the under writers have something like that in mind, but we have no out and out promise. We must live in hope, that is all, and there are those who, view ing the future in the light of the past, will be ready to believe that the Im provements recommended having been made the board will find some new and plausible excuse for keeping the rates up to their present high sched ule. THK WEBB MEMORIAL THE monument to General Webb dedicated on the Gettysburg bat tlefield yesterday Is more than a mere memorial to a brave soldier; It! is. In a larger measure, a tribute to the men he commanded, the veterans of the Philadelphia Brigade, who bore the. brunt of the attack on the Union center at the Bloody Angle when, if these fighters had given way, the day might have been lost to the Federal forces. What such a catastrophe would have meant to the future of the United States as a nation nobody can tell, but that it would have been fraught with dire results none familiar with history can doubt. Lee's army, flushed with success, would have poured on through Penn sylvania, splitting the North in twain, gaining the recognition of England and France and sreatly prolonging the war If not bringing it to a conclusion favorable to the South. The desperate decision of Lee to hurl his forces ogalnst the Federal center at Gettysburg was made when the great Southern commander saw this chance for which he had fought so gallantly and so long almost within his grasp, yet silpplng rapidly away before the unyielding lines of blue that lay between him and his cherished goal, the fat lands and the heaping treasuries of Pennsylvania farms and cities. And right gallantly did Pickett's men leap to their grim duty. But In the valiant old Philadelphia i Brigade, entrenched behind the his toric stone wall, they met a foe that knew not the meaning of retreat. For ward rolled the wave of battle, sweep ing all before it, until it struck the ranks of Webb's men, and then It halted, wavered and a fragment of it f.owed back like a receding billow from a rockbound coast. The Bloody Angle had turned the tide of rebellion. WEDNESDAY EVENING, Tht Philadelphia Brigade had made itself immortal. All honor to Webb, brave and able commander that he was; but honor also to the veterans of the Philadel phia Brigade who matched his fight ing skill and courage with their own cn that memorable day. WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY WHILE the great Lincoln High way extending from New York to San Francisco Is bound to become famous among the highways of the world, the people of Pennsyl vania are primarily interested in that section of the road extending through Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Is already upon the feeder lines reaching out from this city to Gettysburg and Lan caster. touching the Lincoln Highway at both points and thus putting the Capital of the Commonwealth In Inti mate relation to the national road. But Pennsylvanlans are not going to be satisfied with one main highway through this imperial Commonwealth. They want to make It easy for those within and without our borders to move about over our splendid hills and valleys and along the picturesque streams that make this State a marvelous picture for all who love natural scenery. It is now proposed to construct the William Penn Highway between Greensburg and Lancaster, through the Juniata Valley and over the Allegheny mountains, touching Harrisburg, Lewistown, McVeytown, Mt. Union, Huntingdon, Hollidaysburg, Cresson, Johnstown, Greensburg and inter mediate points. This highway, ac cording to some of the western Penn sylvania boosters, "is to be to Pennsyl vania what the Appian way was to the travelers of ancient Rome. In grade, in surface, in ample accommodations, in its scenic splendors, the William Penn Highway has no equal, and can have no equal, In Pennsylvania." Already fine stretches extending many miles have been constructed and the only thing yet to be done is the connecting of the detached portions of the proposed highway so that there may be a continuous route from Har risburg westward through the most picturesque region in the whole State. Perhaps the most conspicuous sections of the route already completed in a permanent way are those from Mifflin town to Lewistown through the famous Narrows and from Huntingdon to Hollidaysburg. There is also under construction a most inviting section between Huntingdon and Mill Creek, along the Juniata River. It Is little wonder that Governor Brumbaugh grows eloquent in his word pictures of the State and its glories. Those who rode with him last week through the valleys and over tho hills and mountains and along the rivers of the Commonwealth have caught his spirit and everywhere are sounding the praises of Pennsylvania. We may expect during the next year thousands upon thousands of tourists to come into this State and go out singing the song of an imperial and beautiful Commonwealth with its millions of happy and prosperous peo ple, its scenic grandeur and its marvelous resources. Governor Brum baugh has sounded the key and all the people should join in the mighty chorus. "See Pennsylvania First." THE FIELDS ARE READY NOW that Governor Brumbaugh has selected for the responsible post of the first Secretary of Agriculturo under the new act the man whom his careful study of many has convinced him is eminently qualified for the place, the cherished plans of tha State's Executive for the advance ment of agriculture can be put into operation. It Is doubtful If education takes a higher place in the mind of the Governor than agriculture. Born and reared on a farm, keeping in close touch with the rural districts during his rise and finding his pleasure in visiting them in the period of his call to office, the Governor has been think ing of the place Pennsylvania agricul ture should occupy. It was with the ultimate idea of bringing about a greator food supply that the Governor first attacked the road problem. His tours of tho coun ties last Fall had shown him that there was need of betterment. Com missioner Cunningham has wrought wonders in many lines. It can be said that in regions which could be classed as the market gardens of the cities of the State the roads are bat ter than ever. They afford easy means of transportation to the purchasing places, to the shipping centers, to the household buyers. Pennsylvania is not raising enough to feed its people. The Governor be lieves that it can add greatly to Its produce and have some to sell to neighbors. Charles E. Patton, the new Secretary of Agriculture, has been a student of farm conditions and like every businessman must be aware of tho situation in regard to the food sup ply of a growing State. A great op portunity awaits him to carry out the Governor's well matured plans. The fields of the State are ready to yield their inoroase. WORLD SERIFS POSSIBILITIES FROM tho strictly technical stand point the ball games of the world series, taking them as they came ftom year to year, do not touch a very high standard, but they aro simply loaded to the gunwales with dramatic possibilities and each] season they seem to add something of i value to the history of the game. For instance, one season the prece dent was established that a runner to be entirely on the safe side should take the trouble to tag second bag when he makes a swift trip around the bases. True, the necessity for this would seem to be obvious after even, the most casual reading of the rules, but then there is nothing in the life history of young Mr. Merkle, whose action or lack of action, rather, brought this weighty matter before [the supreme court of baseball, to indi cate that baseball players themselves I ever read the rules. This season's contribution to the higher knowledge of the game proba bly will be that while there is no rea son why the batter should let a per fectly good ball go past him simply because it happens to be the first one pitched after he squares away in the batter's box, much may be gained by swatting such balls with a mighty swat. For years this practice of batters has been the subject of much specula tion in the stands. Usually It is dis missed with the assumption that some i occult reason of "inside" baseball is at the bottom of it. But it seems in the light of the game played in Boston Monday that the true explanation is that some pioneer set the fashion of passing it up and the baseball mind had not reached out and grasped the possibilities of hitting at the first ball pitched. But, quite appropriately In a game played the day before the anni versary of the discovery of the west ern world, Speaker and Lewis, distin guished members of the Boston club with mentalities of the Christopher Columbus fiber, "took a crack at the first ball pitched" and much impor tant baseball history was the result. "They simply outguessed me." In these melancholy words the great Alexander told the whole story. Here after it will not be safe for the pitcher to assume that the batter is a dead one until after the first ball Is pitched. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ' —Now we know why he objected when the sporting writers called him Miracle Man Moran. —Henry Ford is having an excellent opportunity Just now of exercising his powers as a peace-maker right in his own factory. —Ham Lewis would like to be elect ed vice-president next year. Dear Ham: Run on the Republican ticket. —No, Maude, the report that Gen eral Villa is planning to send a wed ding present to the Whtte House has not been confirmed. —Vassar is celebrating Its 50th an niversary. It being a woman's college there Is no report of any of the original students being In attendance. —A Tennessee man 108 years old boasts that he never paid a doctor bill. The old rascal! editorial comment | General Sir lan Hamilton's report that he has gained only 300 yards in a month of fighting on the Gallipoll gridiron will cost him the respect of our college football players. An aver age gain of ten yards a day wins no victories.—New York Sun. Over In Europe thoy spend millions of dollnrs to shoot off legs and arms, and then lay out a million or so more In supplying artificial ones.—Chester 1 Times. Don't sleep with your windows closed any moro than they were in midsum mer. Now is the Ome to gradually adapt yoursolf to the open-air slc-eoink habit.—Pottsville Republican. Turkey Is In Peril.—Headline. Well, there's yet moro than a month before that Thanksgiving dinner.—Allentown Chronlclo and News. Wo can guarantee Dumba safe con duct, but not sane.—Washington Times. Dollar diplomacy appears to look good to the Allies. —Columbia State. A Congressman's idea of prepared ness Is an army post in his district.— Boston Transcript. Anyway, the new Ford submarine couldn't be any worse than our other F-class.—Columbia State. Having an unquestionably fine ad visory board, all the department new needs :s the navy,—Washington Star. The old order changeth. A Sing Sing convict is writing a book entitled "The ' Pleasures of Prison Life."—Macon ! Telegraph. The third German war-loan, amount ing to $2,750,000,000, is less than the ! annual value of the foreign commerce ! that Germany has lost by reason of the ' war.—New York World. The network of trenches on Mars proves that we named that planet bet ter than we knew.—Brooklyn Eagle. GOOD TASTE IN DRESS I Kansas City Star.] A movement for better taste in I street unci office garments for women is to be undertaken by Miss Anne Mor gan of New York, according to the New York Times. Miss Morgan, who has made a reputation as a sensible woman, has been disturbed by what she calls the "eccentricities" of the clothing worn by some of the fine self supporting women of hen acquaint ance, and she hopes to be able to in duce the makers of dresses to intro duce simpler, better styles. The French women who are noted for their taste, she points out, never think of wearing elaborate gowns to business. It is as bad form for them to be overdressed for business as it would lie for tliem to go to formal social affairs in a business gown. The had taste which Miss Morgan is combatting is not confined to New York. It exists In every other city. O? course, it in not universal. There arc many young business women who have the instinctive feeling for the proprieties in dress. But there are others whose home training seems to have been defective. They see young women dressed eccentrically, and they copy the fad unthinkingly. The lack of tasto extends even to hljih school students. It Is not uncom mon to see youn* girls on their way to high school dressed like mature wo men going to a party. They do not realize what bad form such dressing is, or how ridiculous they appear to the accomplished women whose good opin ion they would most value. It is the particular duty of mothers to see to it that their daughters dress simply, and in Aood taste. But where mothers arc neglectful the obligation falls on others who have to do with young people to do what they can to suggest the requirements of manners [and good breeding. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH tK 'pMUvClfttfCUua. By the Ex -Committeeman Republican campaigns have been opened In most counties of the State under auspices as favorable as those In Dauphin county and the leaders of the Republicans, encouraged by the return to the ranks of many who fol lowed the Bull Moose in 1912, are making their fights for clean-ups In city and county tickets. The feeling of victory which was in the air before the gubernatorial and senatorial elec tions last November is far greater this year and the general State situation is indicative of Republican sweeps. The Republican State committee of ficials have been keeping in close touch with the county organizations and are helping wherever possible, the work preliminary to the campaign of 1916 being mapped out. The manner in which the campaign has started in Philadelphia has heart ened Republicans in many districts. The opening meetings have been held in Delaware, Jefferson, Erie and other counties where Republicans are lined up strongly. The Democracy of Lackawanna, which has been pointed to with pride by the reorganization bosses upon a number of occasions is all shot to pieces this year and it looks as though Lackawanna would have a fine Repub : lican vote this year. This is the way it lis summed up by one of the Scranton papers: "Talking of Democratic poli tics is a reminder of the definition of chaos. The two-year county organi zation doesn't seem as permanent to day as the night when, with W. A. Wil cox out of the city, the committee met and elected Victor Burschel chairman. Wilcox guided the Lackawanna Dem ocracy through its last State campaign, when the party was rent asunder by the strife between the Palmer-Mc- Cormlck faction and the Michael J. Ryan strength. His organization then was very much divided against him, and his friends thought that with some of the old scorces forgotten and chances for welding the factions to gether Chairman Wilcox ought to get the Job for at least one term. This Idea didn't come to pass. Instead, the committee organized and got busy be fore the primary." Philander C. Knox's candidacy for the United States Senate from Penn sylvania to succeed Senator George T. Oliver, who has stated that he will not run for re-election, will be announced in the near future. The term of Sen ator Oliver extends to 1917, but the election of his si\ccessor will take place a year from next November. The former Pennsylvania Senator is now in Washington. Forty more informations, charging violations of the election laws, growing out of the contest for the Republican nomination for the office of Allegheny county prothonotary, being waged be tween David B. Johns and Prothono tary William B. Kirker, were made yesterday before Alderman Patrick J. Sullivan in Pittsburgh. No arrests have been made, Alderman Sullivan stating the arrests would be made to day. The informations were made by William F. Fidler, one of Mr. Johns' supporters. Mr. Sul'lvan said he could not divulge the names of the men. Prospects for the re-election of President Judge Charles E. Terry, of the Wyoming-Sullivan district, are im proved by the fact that H. S. Harding, who failed as a candidate for nomin ation at the primaries, has declared in favor of Terry's election, and asks his friends to support him. Judge Terry, who joined with Associate Judge Mott in refusing all liquor li-. censes in Wyoming county this year, and only failed in making Sullivan county "dry" also, because he was out voted by the two associate judges of that county, is supported by the tem perance people. The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day says: "Campaign leaders of the Penn sylvania Association Opposed to Wo man Suffrage, who met yesterday at the headquarters in the Finance Building, expressed the opinion that this State will defeat vot*s for women at the election to be held in November. Reports from various counties were read by Mrs. Horace Brock, president of the association, and they tended to show that n. large majority of the vot ers intended to cast their ballots in the "no" column. Most of the districts in the eastern part of the State were rep resented at the meeting, and those in charge of the work declared there was little doubt but what the antis would win an easy victory." A WONDERFUL PLENTY [New York World.l It just happened a year ago that the country produced the biggest wheat crop ever known when the great market for our surplus food stuffs became most in need of them. As the American harvest was moving northward through the vast grain belt of the West the tide of ,war was beginning to carry destruc tion over the fairest farm fields of Europe and the warring nations were grasping In all directions to secure themselves against any emer gency of famine. The combined consequence was the greatest export of breadstuffs from the United States at the highest prices we have ever experienced. This year all farm production worked with the design and under so great a stimulus to outdo any previous result. The weather was never the most promising. The sea son was one of exceptionally low temperature and excessive rainfall. But for the staple food crops, which are now practically secure, the gov ernment reports a total quantity ex ceeding all previous records. Wheat is better than a billion bushel harvest and 111.000,000 bushels above the record yield of 1914. Corn Indicates a yield ex ceeded only In 1912. The oat, the barley, the rye and the hay crops are all above those of any previous year, the potato crop Is a good aver age, and the fruit yields are above the average. 1 BOOKS AND MAQA2INES ] 'THERE'S A REASON" The artistic and aesthetic which is being displayed so frequently to-day in the building of housing room for some of the factories and manufactur ing concerns can find no better illus tration than tho attractive little book let which the Postum Cereal Company has sent out from Battle Creek de scribing with beautifully tinted en gravings a journey through Its factor ies. For example, the reader sees sculptured figures and wonderful paintings and upholstered furr.itui'e and thick rugs, and thinks he must be in the president's private art gallery, but It is only the exterior of a fire proof vault. The approach to the of fice buildings, with the sloping green lawns and bright flowers and the hand some architecture of the building It self lend enchantment to the eye that is only equalled by some of our more attractive country clubs. The look is a portrayal of the evolution of the musty, unkempt office of the past to the modern, clean, home-like office of [the future. I THE CARTOON OF THE DAY METROPOLITAN MOVIES —From the Xtw York World. "Hello, Mrs. Smythe! This is Bill—Bill Smith. Better let John come flown here to the Board of Registration and register, 'cause it he don't he won't get k chance to vote on the Suffrage amendment." f ) ARMENIANS AND THE WAR By Frederic J. Haskir, s. . J A MILLION Armenians are to-day being driven into the desert by the Turks, there to meet almost certain death. A whole race of people is being turned out. of its homes, and forced to make a 600-mile march into a strange and inhospitable land. Wild mountain tribes are being unleashed in their rear and allowed to kill and ravish them. Food is scarce and the march is through a hot country in the summer time. This incident that is taking place at the back door of Europe is a horror obscured by that which is greater and nearer at ha*id. The powers that rule Turkey have come to a decision, fraught with dire possibilities if that nation retains sufficient power to execute it. They have determined that Turkey shall exist for the Turks alone. All other races, all religions but that of the Moslems are to be driven out or exterminated. The Armenian tragedy is the flrst. In May the initial orders of removal went, forth. Into a given region would come the command. All Armenians were to arise and walk—men, women, children, young and old. At Tarsus on the Mediterranean, at Bergama by the Aegean, at Unieli across the peninsula on the Black Sea, the order has been received and the population is moving. Two Streams Wind Their Way Two streams of Armenians aro winding into the semidesert of Meso potamia—one toward the wild, arid regions at the headwaters of the Tigris: the other into the valley of the upper Euphrates. These are In hospitable regions inhabited only l>v wild and nomadic tribes. Few of the refugees can survive. Not always are there opportunities for flight. There are regions In which the men and the old are given to the sword of the Turk and the women thrust into the harems. This has hap pened at Van and at Mardin. But there is a limit to the need of harem slaves and the masses are on the move. Last month, a cavalcade of hurry ing fugitives paused for the night In the outskirts of Tarsus. American missionaries the next morning found that fifteen babies had been left be hind by mothers who could no longer carrv them. At another point the fugitives had to climb into the high mountains and, being almost without clothes, the missionaries gave certain of them quilts to protect them from the cold. One mother received a quilt, but asked whether, after she had passed the mountain, she should dis card the cover or her babe, as she had The State From Day to Day An Easton boy. with wisdom beyond his years, has written to President Wil son a congratulatory note and as an afterthought suggests that the Presi dent issue an edTet omitting schools on the day of the wedding. An answer in "any spare time" would be appreciated, he adds. kittle Arne Olson, says the Allen town Chronicle and News, caught three fine bass with a safety pin, the other day, and Arne always has been a truth ful lad. The Norristown Herald quotes a physician as saying that mosquitos will not light on anything that is yel low In color. Had the merchants known this last summer, there would certain ly have been a "corner" on yellow cloth and hosiery. Exhumed from a Pittsburgh Ceme tery, the bones of twenty-two dead Chinamen have been scraped and pol ished with a huge, two-edged Oriental knife and are to be sent back to China. Mysterious are the ways of man, es pecially he of the Orient. A Pennsylvania girl, Miss Clare Armstrong, has stirred up a hornet's nest among the Topeka Young Wom en's Christian Association maidens, who are extremely wroth because the new commander-in-chief gave orders to abolish Cupid s parlor, a cozy little room In the Young Women's Christian Association, and a place full of tradi tions and memories. The suffrage Liberty Bell spent the day in Reading and expressed Itself as having had a delightful time. "The Harvard zoological museum contains the largest frog in the world," weighing six pounds and stretching twenty-one Inches in length."—News Item In the Sunbury Dally. We'd like to see it Jump. Watch for the markers of the Lin coln Highway feeders if you are mo toring to Lancaster, York, Gettysburg or Chambersburg. Although only seven motorcycles were left in the big endurance run when they passed through Harrlsburg, Monday, on their way from Dayton to New York. Norristown reporters stat ed on that day that sixty were due to pass through their town. Maybe they expected them to travel "like sixty," but the best type-mixer cannot make sixty out of seven. John Craig, of Hazleton. who Is <t little hard ot hearing, was consider OCTOBER 13, 1915. not strength to carry both. All along the route babies are offered for sale for pittances. The Armcniuns The usual figure set as the number of the Armenians is a million and a half, but there are probably not more than a million of them. The Armenians have dwelt here since the dawn of history. They are greatly superior to the wild, bloody peoples amons whom they live. They are more likely to dwell in the towns than in the country. They are mer chants, artisans, craftsmen and the backbone of the communities. They are quite strongly of the Jewish type. Much of their blood is believed to have come from the Ten Lost Tribes. It may have been this Jewish strain that caused them to persist through the centuries in their religion. The Armenians were the first people to be converted as a nation to Christianity, which happened some 1,600 years ago, and they are still Christians. Because of their religion they have been sub jected to persecutions that are almost unthinkable. Yet their faith was not to be shaken. Those Armenians who are to-day filing into the desert in the direction of Old Nineveh on the one hand, and Delr-Zor west of Euphrates on the other, might remain in their homes if they would give over their Christianity and declare themselves Moslems. But they will not. Devotion to Faith It wah this devotion to the faith that flrst attracted Americans to the Armenians. Now it happens that Am erica has more to do with these peo ples than any other nation except Tur key. The devotion of the Armenians to the religion of Christ caused certain American missionary societies to at tempt to better their condition. It is seventy-flve years since those missionaries first, began to establish schools among these Christians dwell ing among the wild tribes of Asia Minor. To-day, there are six large colleges maintained in the region by these American missionary associa tions. and a thousand young Armen ians have been attending each. Aside from these, there are several hun dred common schools. Altogether 20,- 000 Armenian youngsters have every year been studying in these American schools. They have learned English, have in turn become preachers, mis sionaries, merchants, engineers, de velopers of the realm. The one germ of enlightenment that has stolen Into the whole region has thus been en gendered by Americans. So has Armenia become a sort of a stepchild of Uncle Sam. ably Inconvenienced the other day when a load of bricks (ell on him and completely covered him from head to feet. Our Daily Laugh CAUTIOUS. Say, old man, lend me a fiver £\y till pay day, will gj|4 1 \ Which? Your | pay day or the day you'll pay | W>9 B J me. {' I a | WHAT HE WAS Ist Bug: Hey, What's the idea? « 2nd Bug: Justl| making a little \> f/i , L trip around the EFFECTS OF AUTUMN WEATHER [From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] To many people the advent of au tumn months Is fraught with much de pression. Poets sing of "the melan choly days, the saddest of the year," and It Is pretty generally asserted that autumn, with the falling leaves and brown grasses, produces a psychologi cal effect Involving much gloom of mind. The truth of the matter Is, the sense of lowered spirits is physical rather than mental. Th® somnolent habits of hot weather are hard to shake off, and the blood ceases to receive the aid of heated atmosphere. This slow ing up the circulation is aided and abetted by the Indisposition to take exercise and provide .sufficient cloth ing to make up for the deficiency of outside temperature. Some people emerge from the ex treme heat at summer Into the sudden coldness of early Fall under the vain delusion that they need no change either of habits or clothing. Only the especially robust, young-blooded peo ple can successfully get away with this fallacy. It Is far more sensible Just now to give your circulation a little friendly boost and by exercise and sen sible clothing guard against the "bad cold" that Is so often the forerunner of something more serious. I fcbrtting <El|at| "The Attorney General'* depart ment has Informed me that Justices of the peace and other magistrates who pre cognizant of perjury or who con nive at It In the game bounty frauds are liable to prosecution and must bo prosecuted," said Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commis sion, to-day in talking about the diffi culties he has encountered In adminis tering the game bounty fund. have turned up some cases that re\flP/ astonishing conditions. Magistrates have taken affidavits In a manner flatly against what the law provides, not In isolated cases, but by scores and even hundreds. I have been amazed that such transactions as have been un earthed in our investigation of tho bounty frauds should have taken place and Justices will have to explain what they mean. Instead of pelts being brought in it has been shown that only heads, and some very old ones at that, were produced. I have heard of one case wherein a head of a bird with u straight hill was presented as the bill of a hawk. When the official probe was on it was asked if hawks did not have curved bills. The man answered by saying that, when attention was called to this straight bill the hunter who made the affidavit replied that It was a young hawk and it would have K°tten a curved bill if it had lived. v\ hy, we have turned up some of tho most bare-faced frauds and we arc I rosecuting every place we can. The magistrates who are blamable will have to stand Iheir part of it. We intend to go right through with the inquiry no matter who it hits." * » • The delay in the filing of official returns on Superior Court from Phila delphia and Duzerne counties has led to some amusing inquiries at the Capi tol. Apparently some people have been betting on whether certain can didates would get 61 per cent, of the not- When one man heard that the two counties had not filed l.e expressed the hope that the Secretary ®f the Commonwealth would collect the fine for being late. Another sug gested that maybe State police could hurry them along. ♦ • * "Hunters' licenses seem to be quite a line of business." said County Treas urer A. H. Bailey yesterday. "This v.as a holiday. The office was not open and I just went in to look at tho. mail. Well, I issued 250 licenses by the time I got through." • • ♦ Charles H. Wolfe, of Williavnsport, chief deputy Are mashal, has ideas cn holidays. too. Mr. Wolfe rose at p.oO yesterday morning to get a train to this city in time to take up some business. When he arrived he found the Capitol in the throes of a holiday and nothing doing except in a few spots. He attended to the business to-day. * • ♦ There is a pear tree in a garden adjoining the Telegraph building which is a living example of fruitful ness. This tree contains some dozens '-developed pears and it also has three fine clusters of blossoms. The pears and the blossoms are on tho same limbs. ♦ • • J - J- Mullowney, who had charge ?• Jlu , ol - the Department of Health at the San Francisco Expo sition. has returned home full of en tliusiasm over the scenery of Penn sylvania. He said to a friend to-dav: I have .lust returned from a wonder ful exposition. It Is magnificent. Cali fornia is a wonderfully country, hut in all my travels I have ■ not seen a scenio view that surpasses an< ' ' ns P'ratlon powers that .L ch Harrisburg has at Its very door —the Susquehanna river basin!" • • • A rat her questionable looking stranger accosted a passer-by in Front street yesterday morning and urged him to buy a diamond ring which he had in his vest pocket. It. isn't often that one is given an opportunity of pur chasing- a iiamond ring in the street, nor is it often that an utter stranger 8 ,'j u to negotiate a sale in the rublie highways. The attempt to sell a valuable ring to the first person who comes along is indicative either of a anfl an t 0 fomwLt a . whUe elephant or else the £om^ML Cha , nCe , of KP,tln K more for something of value than would he f'Y*" at * I regular three-ball establlsh « 6 on y other Possibility is rafo n i'fil t bunco SB.me. At any nfa« H il. businessman who was given the opportunity the other IS ,v^H makin * this ■"« thereby getting a great bargain was no r 0,1 diamond rings and was too much surprised to do anything ofThe offer. Shake emphatlc refusal • • • Piftßh e A ' exar >der, prominent Pittsburgh insurance man, was here T-To t^o ay , 0n hu , slne ss at the Capitol. II was a member of the legislative info St the ,l( t n uomrn 'ssion which looked state Insurance business of the I WELL KNOW PEOPLE ' , —Judicial Candidate J. N. La n(r _ ham, of Indiana, was congratulated bv Sassr* 0 - »w. m-sssss!, it; monument dedication. Is one of the authorities on Gettysburg. . T J - Pf aff. one of the Franklin i,^ m John R - Fe " has returned to his ln<r Philadelphia after spend! the summer j.t Newport. | DO YOU KNOW That Harris burg corral products arc being sold in Kurope? HISTORIC HARRISnURO This city had one of the first me- War 16 soldiers of the Civil New Wants Mean Progress As we go forward our visions enlarge, our tastes advance, we have more wants to fill. The cave man, and the Indian were content with primitive means of locomotion. Modern man asks for an au tomobile. Tlie luxuries of yes terday are the necessities of to day. Advertising has followed de sire and established markets where none exisjt«d. Advertising will be making products known a year from now that are unknown tc-day. Just look through the adver tising columns of this newspaper and see the names of products sold to-day that were unknown ten years ago.
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