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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."
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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.