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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBKR 18
It is better to wear out than to rust
out.—Bishop Cumberland.
THAT WII DWOOD ZOO
ELMER D. OYLER brought a live
black bear back with him from
a Virginia hunting trip last
week. What to do With the bear is
now a problem that Mr. Oyler must
solve. Very likely It will go to en
large the zoo at Paxtang Park. Where
it ought to go, and where it unques
tionably would go if quarters were
available, is Wildwood Park.
One of the next steps in our park
development should be provisions for
the creation of a zoo in the Wildwood
district. The State has provided the
city with a museum that contains in
mounted form most of the animal life
of the State. As the Capital City we
(should have a representation of the
animal life of the Commonwealth in
the flesh, and Wildwood Park, being
precisely what its name implies, would
be an a*, lirable place in which to
quarter such wild life as could be
made to thrive there amid conditions
as nearly like those of the natural
habitat as possible. By all means let
us have a Wildwood zoo.
YOUR MEASURE
IN an address before a men's Bible
class of 275 yesterday afternoon at
the Derry Street United Brethren
Church on the Hill, O. P. Beckley, one
of the leading laymen in the Harris
burg church world, declared that "a
man can get his real measure in his
own home more quickly than in any
other place."
Here's something to think about.
Have you ever tried to "get your
measure" while sitting by your own
fireside? Most men when consider-,
lng their "bigness,"- their degree of
success, look to achievements in the
business or the social world. Few
consider whether or not they are "big
men" in their own homes.
How about you? When things go
wrong, do you fly into a temper and a
rage, or do you act with that consid
eration, that love, that affection which
Is the mark of a really big man? How
»re you on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day and the other days of hurry and
worry and bustle? Do you go home
in the evening with kind words and
a cheery smile for wife and family; |
or do you go home with a grouch ?
No matter how successful you may
be in the business world, how promi
nent in the social life of the commun
ity, if you are not a "big" man In your
home—big in the eyes of those who
know you best—your "measure" is
Email; you are little, not J>ig.
TDLE MEN—IDLE LAND
THE Portland, Ore., Chamber of j
Commerce is seeking "a prac
tical solution of the problem of
placing idle men on idle lands." Cer
tainly a great problem and worthy of
study, but no one remedy will be com
plete. There are many things that
would help, and all combined would
go far to bring idle men and idle
land together. For one thing, every
effort should be made to make farming
profitable. No man likes to go Into
an occupation which .calls for the
labor of himself, his wife and his chil
dren unless he sees strong probabil
ity of fair compensation.
There have been some happenings In
the last two years that ought to shake
the confidence of the American people
in the permanency of profitable agri
culture. For instance, the enactment
of the Democratic tariff law promptly
closed beet sugar factories and put
the sugar beet growers out of business.
Canadian and Mexican and South
American stockmen began shipping
cattle into the American market, cut
ting the American farmer's price.
Argentine corn was sold in Illinois.
Chinese eggs flooded Pacific coast mar
kets. Dairy products began to pour
In from Australia and Europe. The
war put a stop to most of this com
petition, but the importations had as
sumed a sufficient magnitude to make
any cautious man hesitate to go Into
farming unles he was reasonably confi
dent of the continuation of war or the
restoration of a protective tariff.
There is no probability whatever
that foreign producers will be able,
even under free trade, to seize Amer
ican markets completely and destroy,
MONDAY EV7LNING,
American production. What they
cap and will do is cut the price the
American farmer receives and make
farming unprofitable. That means
more idle men and more Idle land.
Chambers of Commerce that are In
real earnest about diminishing Instead
of Increasing Idleness of men and
land In this country will do well to dis
cuss this question of foreign Importa
tion from an economic standpoint,
even if it is associated with politics.
| It is all very well for Chambers of
! Commerce to avoid political questions
| relating to individuals, but this ques
j tion of getting idle men upon Idle land
jin Ami -lea is something more than
I politics. especially when existing
| American legislation tends to put busy
men on busy land In China, Canada,
i Argentine, Australia arid other coun
tries.
NON-PARTIS ANISM
BECAUSE Messrs. Bowman, Lynch
and Taylor have chosen ever
since their election two years
ago to confess their allegiance to the
j Republican party, rather than mas
i querade beneath a cloak of deception,
Messrs. Royal and Gorgas, the two
| Democratic members of city council
I and their newspaper mouthpiece, have
accused them of not being in full ac
cord with the spirit of the nonpartisan
law under which they were elected.
At every turn the Republican mem
bers were charged with "playing
politics." Whatever they did, no
matter how commendable, they were
1 "playing politics." Mayor Royal used
to shed tears of sorrow for them until
the blotter on top of his desk was
soaked. Mr. Gorgas looked as though
he had just returned from the funeral
of a life-long and much-loved friend
every time a vote was taken, and their
newspaper supporter shrieked the dis
grace of it in ear-piercing walls from
the housetops, at the same time as
suring its readers that the little white
washed arigels on the Democratic side
of city council loved that nonpartisan
clause with a devotion akin to that of
a mother for her flrst-born.
Now, far be it from us to accuse
Messrs. Royal and Gorgas of shedding
crocodile tears or their newspaper
supporter of crying "thief, thief" to
hide the depredations of Democrats,
but, if they have been sincere, how
comes it that Messrs. Royal and
Gorgas, and their Democratic col
league at the primaries, Mr. Copelin,
each donated S2OO to Democratic!
Chairman Howard Jones to assure
them of the Democratic machine
bosses' support for nomination? And
if there was no Democratic machine
slate for council, as we have been told,
why was not some other Democrat out
for council permitted to contribute to
Chairman Jones?
The truth is that Royal and Gorgas
have been doing just what everybody
has known all along they were doing
—playing politics at every turn of
their councilmanic career. Their
whole course in council has been
destructive, with the hope of bringing
discredit to the Republican members,
who have done the only constructive
work accomplished in the past two
years.
The much-vaunted nonpartisanism
of Royal and Gorgas Is of the kind
that prompted them to donate S2OO
each to Democratic Chairman Jones in
order that they might continue to be
the favorite candidates of the Demo
cratic machine bosses.
OUT WITH THE HYPHEN
PRESIDENT WILSON and former
President Roosevelt are alike in
their views as to the necessity of
ridding America of the hyphen as it
applies to citizenship. On succeeding
days this week the President and Col
onel Roosevelt expressed themselves
in public addresses on this subject in
a manner that will be applauded by
every true American.
President Wilson did not over-draw
the situation when he pronounced the
issue in question the most vital which
,has engaged the attention of the peo
ple since the wnr'of the rebellion. The
American citizen who thinks of some
other country first and his own nation
second is not worthy of the franchises
and privileges he enjoys and the
sooner we kfiow him for what he is
the better. The house divided against,
itself must fall, and so with a nation. |
There mast be drawn a line of sharp
demarcation between the honest, true
blue American citizen and the Judas
Iscariot who lives off our bounty, pre
tends the ties of brotherhood and |
stands ready to sell us out at a
moment's notice in behalf of a govern
ment that has made It so uncomfort
able at home that it drove him forth I
to fare in a foreign land.
We do not believe there Is any
dangerous proportion of these poten
tial traitors in this country. We do
believe, however, that they are here
in sufficient numbers to call for a
declaration of principles. The time
has come for a separation of the sheep
from the goats. We cannot have this
line-up too soon. No longer v/ill it
be permissable for politicians to play
for the "Italian vote," or the "Irish
vote," or the "German vote." As Col
onel Roosevelt .said, addressing the
Knights of Columbus:
For an American citizen to vote
as a German-American, an Irish-
American or an English-American
is to be a traitor to American insti
tutions; and those hyphenated
Americans who terrorize American
politicians by threats of the for
eign vote are engaged in treason to
the American Republic.
The American voter is that and no
more. He cannot, be a German-Amer
ican voter or an Irish-American
I voter or any other kind of hyphenated!
| voter. The law does not recognize
'such distinctions. He is either simply i
|an American voter or he 4s no voter.
Either we afe a people or we are a
mere collection of strays and adven
turers from many lands, living tem
porarily on this continent, with our
eyes, like those of Lot's wife, cast back
whence we came. That we have these
strays amongst us is at the bottom of
the present trouble; that they are In
anything like a majority nobody be
lieves. And their numbers will be re
duced to negligible proportions If the
central government will deal promptly
and vigorously with the trouble-mak
ing diplomats and others who have
been meddling too long in American
afTairs. They, it will be found, have
manufactured most of the hyphens.
Banish them and with them will go
the hyphens In surprising numbers.
""PFCKKOI^AHIA
By the Ex-Committeeman
Talk of Senator Boies Penrose as ■!
possible chairman of the Republican
national committee next year, which
would mean that he would direct the
next presidential campaign, has inter
ested people from one end of the State
to the other. The news that the
Senator was being considered was ser.t
out from Washington on Saturday and
appears to be predicated upon the fr.ct
| that National Chairman Charles D.
Hilles does not want to undergo An
other campaign with the further sup
port that men of national influence
hnve been impressed with the manner
In which the Senator conducted his
successful campaign in Pennsylvania
against very heavy odds.
The late Senator M. S. Quay was
national chairman in 1888 when
Benjamin Harrison was elected and
Cleveland defeated for re-election on
tariff issues, which are uppermost in
the minds of many people to-day.
—Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
and ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart will
be speakers at the closing rallies In
Philadelphia this month. They will
speak for Thomas B. Smith for
mayor. The announcement has caused
much wailing among the alleged re
formers and set the Democratic news
papers off on another tangent. Mayor
Blankenburg will come out on the
stump for George D. Porter and the
Franklin party will try the fantastic
idea of an endless chain of postcards
for their candidate.
—Suffragists are commencing to
liven up the campaign in both ends
of the State and have started to hold
meetings and do various things to
make their cause stronger. Unques
tionably the suffragists have gained
very much In the last few weeks.
—According to Norrlstown people
Judge John Faber Mill, who was ap
pointed judge in Montgomery by Gov
ernor Tener, has gained immensely bv
permitting opposition to him to get
names on the ballot. The judge"'s re
election is more of a cinch than ever.
—The supreme court has ordered
some recounting of Democratic ballots
in Lackawanna in the contest over the
county controller nomination. The
judges had refused a hearing on the
Durkln petition, but the court has
ordered one.
—D. Clarence Glbboney is out
against Porter in Philadelphia in a
red hot letter. He does not seem to
be Impressed with his qualities as a
reformer.
—Congressman B. K. Focht, of
Lewisburg will speak in the Fall cam
paigns In New England States. He
was asked to lend his aid in several
districts.
—Speaking at Pittsburgh on Satur
day J. Denny' O'Neil, who lost the
fight for renomination as Republican
candidate for county commissioner on
a platform of State-wide interest, said
he would not run independent. . As to
the future he said: "I believe my de
feat will only tend to arouse the peo
ple and hasten the end. Revolutions
never move backward. All great steps
forward come up from the common
people. They can always be trusted
to settle all great, questions right, once
the issue is clearly understood. I ap
preciate the confidence and good will
of the thousands of voters who have
signed petitions requesting me to run
for commissioner at the November
election, hut I am sure it would be a
mistake for me to do so, as a move
ment is now under way to clean up
this State and wrest political control
from the 'booze barons' and their al
lies. and. under these circumstances, I
believe it is my dirty to devote my time
and energy to advancing this move
ment. I have no intention of retiring
from active politics. I have enlisted
for the war. and if no other candi
date is willing to go before the peo
ple anil make a State-wide fight for
the principles for which T stand. I will,
at the proper time, afinounce my can
didacy for such an office as will give
the people of this great State an op
portunity to express their will on the
most important question now before
the American people, a question that
will continue to be before the people
until they finally settle It."
A Sunhury dispatch on the North
umberland County Republican situa
tion says: "From all sides committee
men are sending reports to headquar
ters here announcing more activity
than ever in the party ranks. Chair
man J. Trvin Steel is very hopeful, ow
irfg to the way things look.'ns are all
the candidates. Some of them are
old-time camnaigners and say * thev
are quite positive the country will go
largely Republican next month. The
liveliest kind of a contest is "being
conducted by Sheriff John' Glass, Re
publican, to jump into the treasurer
ship. the best kind of an office In the
county. He was chosen Sheriff four
years ago and proved so popular that
his friends prevailed on him to try
and land the treasurershlp. He Is be
ing opnosed by former Justice of the
Peace J. P. MeCormlck, Shamokin. He
is a Democrat. Glass supporters pre
dict he will win by a*blg majority."
CARNRRIK AS A FISHERMAN
Andrew Carnegie is a keen and en
thusiastic fisherman. Th»re is little- of
thp art of rod and reel that thp Laird
hasn't at his lingers' end. In the sum
mer just passed he went fishing every
day or so in iiis steam yacht El Placlta,
angling for cod and haddock mostly and
usually enjoying his big catches. There
were several days when he hooked and
landed from twenty to forty big fish. At
other times he took long rides In his
automobile or played over his private
golf course.
THE PULSE AND THE THROAT
The Secretary of Commerce, whose
department has its hand constantly up
on the business pulse of the nation.—
Secretary McAdoo at Indianapolis.
Keep it there. Much better to have
Government hands on the business
pulse than on the business throat of
the country.—New York Sun.
POTS AND POTS
Suffragists Hope to Keen Pots Roll
ing.—Headline.
Metaphorically speaking, of course,
and with no reference to pots on the
kitchen stove.—New York World.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS
hi ' n
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—Harvard has a professor of phil
osophy aged only 19. Perhaps .that is
a trifle young, but at all events he
hasn't had time to evolve a lot of fool
personal theories.
—Germany says that England aims
if she wins this war to Anglosize Eu
rope. If that is to Include a revision
of geographical names along English
speaking lines the printer vote of the
United States will line up behind it
solid.
—The administration is preparing to
recognize Carranza. Judging from the
variation we have noticed in the news
paper pictures of the Mexican leader, it
is no wonder the President has been a
little slow about It.
—lf Denver values newspaper pub
licity. it will stop trying to crowd Ben
Lindsey out of the limelight.
—A tremendous amount of patriotic
political oratory could be summed up
in "Uncle Henry" Houck's favorite
campaign speech: "Boys, I want to be
elected because I want the job."
f
—The demand in this country for ar
tificial legs for Europe leads to the sug
gestion for a popular song for fartriers
entitled, "I Didn't Raise My Yellow
Willow Tree to Be a Cork Leg."
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"
Mr. Edison has been assailed and
violently kissed by an avalanche of
women, but in no other particular does
his career resemble that of Captain R.
P. Hobson.—New York Sun.
And now comes along a fellow who
says that to be locked up for the night
in a jury room with a woman who
doesn't smoke, would be one of the
penalties.—Trenton Daily Gazette. •
Greece and Roumania are still doing
the hesitation dance as gracefully as the
disordered condition of the great Eu
ropean ballroom will permit.—Wil
mington Evening Journal.
When it comas to constructing trea
ties. Greece has some of the best little
"strict constructionists" in the busi
ness.—Kansas City Star.
Our Daily Laugh
SOME HTTO
"ltmust be ntce I
to have twowaista
like you have,
Miss Ant." T
"Yes, and I'm .■»! 1 CI
engaged to a j I W
who has two sets d&i r i
»(arms."
\ AN INOKATE
tIW 1 HUBRANIX
v S av " his wtfi
St a,n jjigrylook
' Used laoguagi
itHlMv,- far from nice
mlHllVv INma the dam«
-V. jBpMIIW his raaor took
shave sorn *
THE PURE FOOD SHOW
By Wins Dinger
There's a Pure Pood Exhibit
To be held In town this week,
And all those folks in this 'burg
Who information seek
On what to eat, should take in
The Show, so they will know
What's pure In the food line
When they food-buying go.
Of course, there will be samples.
Which both of my kids know—
And they have made me promise
That with them I will go.
With dread I now do picture
Results, when those two kids.
From little cans of syrun
Begin to lift the lids. , ,
THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK
Vll.—The Irrepressible Mosquito
By Frederic J. Haskin
'
SO much has been written about
the elimination of malaria on
the Canal Zone by the de
struction of the mosquitoes, one might
jvell get the impression that the
Panamanian mosquito is practically
extinct. There could be no greater
mistake. The Health Department of
the Canal Government wages an in
cessant war upon mosquitoes, and In
all probability will do so as long as
white men inhabit the Isthmus. The
most important lesson of experience
at Panama has been that eternal mos
quito hunting is the price of a low
rate of malaria.
The scientific thoroughness with
which the mosquito is hunted out and
destroyed at Panama is almost in
credible to the layman. A typical
item in a Panama paper relates that a
mosquito alarm was sent to the health
department from Las Sabanas, which
might be described as the slums of
Panama. Forthwith, six mosquito
hunters responded to the call, armed
with brilliant acetylene lights and
| chloroform. After a thorough search
of the suspected house, a single rnos
l quito was captured alive and removed
;to the laboratory to have its age, sex
(and species determined. Nowhere else
j in the world is a single mosquito the
[ object of so much thought and solicl
| tude.
Most of the mosquito hunters of
!the health department are West In
! dian blacks, the men who dug the
I canal and who are now doing most of
the work of keeping it in operation.
! These clever negroes have learned to
identify the dangerous species of mos
| quito as well as any scientist could,
•while some of them are sufficiently
I skillful in the use of instruments to
make a microscopic examination of
blood for traces of malaria.
Destroy Breeding Places
The basis of the campaign against
mosquitoes is now, as it always has
(ril e State From Day to Day]
«- ■»
Ex-Senator John E. Fox, of Harris
burg, a member of the board of trus
tees, will preside at the dinner inci
dental to the inauguration of Presi
dent MacCracken, at I>afayette College
to-morrow evening. Governor Brum
baugh will be among those present.
Health Commissioner Dixon says
that gardening is more healthful exer
cise than golf. Perhaps it is along
practical and aesthetic lines, but who
of tlu ancient order of long distance
walkers would ever think of sacrificing
the chance to grind Colonel Bogey in
the dust for the pleasure of grubbing
beautiful flowers and toothsome vege
tables?
"Suburban Bargain Day'' held sway in
Easton, Saturday, and many and won
derful wire the bargains sought out
by wild-eyed hunters.
To be mistaken for a turkey is. in
our estimation, anything but flatter
ing, but to be shot at and hit is even
more Insulting. However, a young
Lewlstown man received both these af
fronts, but is now convalescing.
Pennsylvania Day will be celebrated
at State College on November 5. Plans
are being perfected for the largest and
most interesting observance of the day
that Penn State has ever attempted.
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, of Johnstown, harbored ghostly
visitations on Saturday when Dr.
Krebs gave a lecture on the mysteries
of the seance room.
Interested ladies will flock to Wllkes-
Barre to-morrow, on the occasion of
the annual convention of the State
Federation of Women, to last for three
days. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan
will speak on "The Rural Home and
Churcn."
A homesick miss out in Pittsburgh
wanted a good husband and enlisted
the sympathetic aid of the mayor of
that city. The mayor straightway
published a letter extolling the charms
of the fair maiden. "I am the man for
that girl." was the emphatic statement
made by Mr. Sanders, or Lancaster, after
.reading the letter. And now the L>an-
OCTOBER 18, 1915
been, the destruction of their breeding
places. Along the edge of Gatun Lake
all of the bushes and grass are cut, so
that there will be no shelter for the
mosquito larvae, and so that the small
fish can get in and eat them up. Sev
eral crews of men are kept busy at
this work.
There are large swamps near Colon
and Mount Hope which have given
much trouble to the health depart
ment in the past, but these are now
being permanently dry-filled at a cost
of SIOO,OOO. Meantime, the brush and
grass are being cut around their edges
and the shallow water covered with
oil. This same treatment of removing
shelter, and oiling of waters where
the mosquitoes might breed, is ap
plied to every puddle and drain and
creek within 500 yards of every house
on the Canal Zone. A mosquito sel
dom travels more than five hundred
yards in his lifetime, so that distance
from any bouse Is the zone of safety.
A new generation of mosquitoes, how
e'ver, is born and brought to maturity
every seven to ten days, so that the
whole process must be done all over
again at least once a week. Every
tropical shower creates new puddles
| and runs which might form breeding
| places.
The native Panamanians give little
co-operation to the health department
In its war upon tropical diseases.
These people believe that they them
selves are immune to malaria and yel
! low fever, and that the destruction of
i these diseases means the coming of
[more, white men, bringing competition
and change, which are two things they
do not desire. Health department offi
cials say'that the natives are un
doubtedly mistaken in the belief that
♦ hey are immune to malaria. As a
matter of fact, most of them have had
tt so much that it has become a part
[Continued on Paste 12.]
i caster Intelligencer suggests that the
local girls would do well to patronize
home Industries.
The Reading Fair, which wound up
on Saturday, proved the greatest suc
cess they have ever had at their annual
exhibition. On one of the big days, in
spite of the heavy rain that turned the
grounds into a muddy, ploughed field, it
was estimated that over 50,000 people
attended.
One of the to-be-expected incidents
which always follow a big event like
the world series amused Phlladelphians
who happened to be passing City Hall
at the noon hour, several days ago. A
man was seen rolling a peanut around
the square with a toothpick. Various
and sundry facetious remarks ahout
squirrels daunted not our hero who
had so nobly placed his unfortunate
bet on the Phillies.
Two brothers in Beaver Falls, Joseph
and Henry Sevin, closely attached to
each other in life, will be buried to
gether In Sewlckly Cemetery to-day.
It Is rather a remarkable coincidence
that they died In the same hour.
FATHER KNI< KKKIHH KKR'S JOV
RIDEHB
[From the New York Sun.]
The streets are filled with eminent
municipal functionaries riding about
In motorcars for wjilch the taxpay
ers who dodge them pay. Fortunate
jobholders step from the doorways
of their apartment houses into lux
urious limousines, which whisk them
off to their comfortable offices while
their proprietors use shanks' mare or
suffocate in the subway.
The evil is as old as practicable au
tomobiles, as notorious as the crooked
ness of a corkscrew. Year after year
it has been shown up. and its expense
to the rent payers has been made
known. The Impropriety and waste of
the practice have been thoroughly ad
vertised. Yet it has been endured,
along with a number of other petty
abuses, because nobody cared seriously
to assail It.
Mayor Mltchel's special committee
now recommends a radical change In
the management of the city's vehicles.
It would have a central garage, a check
system to limit joyriding, a record of
why and where Father Knickerbocker's
devil wagons go. A sound and sensible
reform; it has often been proposed be
fore and never adopted. Can we now
expect to see it put through? ,
whih ■ ■—mi ■i ■ 'MBagßßasaß—^i
Abetting (Eljatj
The activity evinced in preparation
tor the third annual Industrial Wel
fare and Efficiency Conference to be
held at the Capitol a month hence
recalls the Immediate success of the
first conference held in the State
House two years ago. The conferent®
was conceived by men prominent in
the Engineers' Society of
nla. which has become one of the mo*
influential organizations of the kind In
the country, and was a sort of out
growth of the annual conventions of
the society which were held half a
dozen.or so years ago. Governor John
K. Tener opened the first conference
with high complinients for what engi
neers are doing and subsequently ex
pressed to the late George S. Com
slock, who was president of the society
that year, that ho was delighted with
(he interest shown by the public, the
newspapers and the various organ
izations in the deliberations. The so
ciety made Governor Tener its first
honorary member in recognition of
what he had done for engineering ad
vancement. This year the society and
the departments of the State govern
ment have gotten into close co
operation in arranging for the discus
sions. The Journal of the Engineers'
Society, the official publication Which
has been calling attention to the com
ing meetings, says of the conference
to be held shortly: "The success of
the first two conferences, 1913 and
1914, was so great that this year the
Governor of Pennsylvania. Hon. Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh, has called upon all
of the departments of the State gov
ernment having engineering divisions
or dealing directly with engineers and
Industrial men of the State to partici
pate in the 1915 conference. The pre
vious conferences were directly par
ticipated in only by the Department of
Labor and Industry and the subjects
tinder discussion were principally those
dealing with factory operation. The
third conference will not only bring
together the large number of engineers
and other attaches of the various State
departments, but an invitation will be
issued by the Governor to the engi
neers and manufacturers throughout!
the entire state to attend the confer
ence and to discuss with State officials
engineering and industrail questions
through which they are brought Into
contact."
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•George M. Harry was talking about
the attendance at baseball games in
the world s series the other evening
and remarked: "At one of the games
in Boston I attended there were 43,000
persons. That is some crowd when
'p u reca " the whole attendance
at the Island this year was 52,000."
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Many of the automobiles which
came back to the city yesterday after
noon carried with them great bunches
of leaves and some of the late flowers
from the roadsides and mountains
near Harrisburg The leaves to be
tound within half an hour's walk of
the city's gates or in the parkways or
in the parks for that matter are just
commencing to turn and all the de
lightful combinations from the pallette
are being shown on the trees. Wild
wood Park is a place of attraction now
and fortunate will be those able to
visit it this week.
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Capitol Park flower beds have been
made ready for winter. Thev have all
been dug up and the plants whicli
were bright with flowers a month age
have been taken out cxc«®t in a few
instances where the late bloomers/ar«
making their final display. The plant
ing of bulbs will be the next order ol
business and April will see a great dis
tuli P s and hyacinths on the
Hill.
• • •
connection w,th Purchase oi
the Pennsylvania Steel Conipanv con
trol it is interesting to note the com
pany-was among the very first to meel
English competition in steel rails H
was the necessity for getting cheapei
rails at home that led Samuel Morse
Felton. the real organizer of the com
establish it. He lived untt
to see " IS company noted all ovei
the world and his right hand. Majoi
U b. Bent, recognized as one of thf
industrial captains of the nation
Major Bent became president when
Mr. Felton died and he was succeeded
hi turn by his own right hand. Edgai
C. Felton, son of the first president.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j
William Field Shay has been re
elected president of the trustees o
Danville State Hof-pital.
R. S. Bell, of Wllllamsport. con
rected with the Federal Farm Bureau
shot Lycoming's first wild turkey
—Colonel J. A. G. Campbell hat
again been chosen treasurer of the
Chester Hospttal.
»U T n e Guor * e Brewer, pastoi
of Holland Memorial Church, in Phila
delphia, has been called to a pastorat<
In Duluth.
| DO YOU KNOW ~"|
That many cigars you smoke un
der New York labels were made
right In this county?
HISTORIC HARRISPTOG
This city made nails back la 1786.
L IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph. Oct. I*. 1865.;
Eclipse Xot A'lsible
Owing to the clouded sky this morn
ing the eclipse of the sun was no
visible in this city. The next ecllps
in this country will occtfr In 1868.
Council Meeting' To-night
An adjourned meeting of councl
will be held to-night, to take action oi
the proposition of the Pennsylvanl
railroad, to erect a bridge over th
tracks at State street.
Fire Company Returns
The members of the Hope Fir
Company returned to this city laa
night from Philadelphia where thqj
had been attending the State firemen
convention.
Tailored Suits
This Is the month when milady
will give much thought to the
question of choosing a "tailored
suit."
And more than ever will she
be interested In the advertising
in the Telegraph.
That advertising becomes to
her very Irqjjortant news.
It tells her about colors and
cloths and styles tells her
whether skirts are to be wide
or narrow and above all else
gives her an Idea of prices and
values.
When she comes to make her
Important purchase, the woman
who has read the advertising
will do bettor than her sister
who did not post herself.