8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established I SJI PUBLISHED BY • THE TELEVItAPH PRIXTIXG CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTEIt Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Building, £l6 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern OfTlce. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Bufldinr, Chicago, 111.. Robert E. Ward. -juilWa . Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. " v <!s33fcS v ' Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average Hrenlntlon for tbe three months ending Sept. 30, 1013. ft 21,307 ★ Average for the year 1f»14—21,858 Average for the year 1013—10,002 Average for the year 1012—10,040 Average for the year 1011—17,562 Average for tlie year 1010*—10,201 The above liguren ore net. AH re turned, unnold and damaged copies de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 27. What we net we must earn, if it is to be truly ours.—David Starr Jordan. CAPACITY AND OVERLOADING SOMEAVHERE In New England there lives a farmer who trains oxen to draw heavy loads. He is an artist at training oxen to draw heavy loads, and the oxen he trains usually take first prize in the pulling contests at the county fairs. He claims to have a secret process, but it is simply a logical plan for developing pulling strength. While young he hitches the oxen to a light sled, which they can draw with case. The load is increased as they get accustomed to dragging the sled, but until they are two years old he doesn't work, but just exercises them. When they are two years old he works them every day. Once a day he hitchos them to a heavy stone in the barnyard and lets them drag it a few feet. Heavier stones are used and longer pulls al lowed as they become stronger, and the peculiar fact is, he never hitches them to something he knows thev can t drag, and thei r expect to move whatever he hitches them to. He never overloads. There s a whole lot of common sense In this farmer's ox-training pro cess that applies to human beings. Business failures are due in the main to attempting too much; in hitching up to something you can't pull; in ac quiring a load of debt that is stagger ing, in living beyond one's means; in overbuying, overtrading, overtrusting. ing. Thirty per cent, of the business fail ures are due to lack of capital, which, in other words, simply means that a little man has hitched himself to a big proposition, Down on Long Island a builder was particularly successful in building a' ' Oi-tain type of house, cheap, but good. He to a cent how much it would :ost to build, and could sell as fast as lie built. He made money. Not satis fied with being a cheap and prosper ous builder, and wanting to be in the "four hundred" of the builders, he started a dozen elaborate and costly dwellings. Here he fell down. He was out of his element, beyond his strength. He had hitched himself to a load heavier than he could move and a load he was not accustomed to. It almost made him a bankrupt. Now he has gone back to his first type of house, a sadder but wiser builder. Another business man had a very good year. He made jnoney. Satis lied that he had "struck his gait," he rented an expensive suite of offices, moved into a fashionable neighbor hood, and spent his money freely. The depression of 1913 came on and after it the war. He has had two years of constant worry, and has barely saved himself from failure, lie, too, hitched himself to more than he could draw, for when you undertake to pull a load, you must not only reckon on the smooth asphalt, but the hills and the mud holes. What these men should have learn ed —what every man needs to learn, is to properly gauge his strength. Thrift is good management, it is not only a matter of saving money, but spending It wisely, advantageously, looking ahead, being satisfied with modest things until you can afford more ex pensive ones. You can be as happy in a fifty-dollar flat as in a five thousand dollar apartment. Roberson's travelogues are certain to attract to the Chestnut Street Audi torium a large part of the population of the city during the two weeks be ginning to-morrow evening. It is a pleasure to the Telegraph to be able to present this high-class series of en tertainments and the nominal ad mission fee ought to make it possible for every man, woman and child to en joy this unusual course of travel pic tures. AS OTHERS SEE US THAT the fame of Harrisburg has spread far and wide is best Illus trated by the frequent compli mentary references to this city's way of doing things by prominent maga zines and newspapers. One of the live wires of the city has received from a Massachusetts friend a copy of the Holyoke Transcript which contained WEDNESDAY EVENING, an editorial the other day commend ing Harrisburg In strong terms for Its progress and its intelligent city plan ning. The editorial in question refers to a cit> plan now on exhibition at Holyoke which, the Transcript says, should be carefully inspected by every man, woman and child In that city. "Be sides being a work of art," observes our Holyoke contemporary, "it repre sents something toward which the future efTort city as a civic unit ought to be directed. It means effort on the part of the city, but nothing worth while comes without effort." And further: Out in Harrisburg, Pa., the capi tal city of Pennsylvania, the peo ple are closing a three-day cele bration to-day over the accomplish ment of a city improvement scheme known as "the Harrisburg plan." They ought to celebrate. They have done something worth while. And Harrisburg makes a tine city to compare with Holyoke except for the fact that Harrisburg never had half as good a start for its plan as Holyoke »ow has. The two cities are nearly the same in population and In area of terri tory. Continuing its comment, the Tran script discusses the "Harrisburg plan," teviews the achievements of the last fifteen years here and concludes in these words: The result is this. Harrisburg now has seventy miles of paved streets (Holyoke has about thirty miles). It lias over 1.000 acres in its park system, a modern filtra tion plant for, its fine water sup ply. summer playgrounds and swimming pools for children, a summer camp for children, public tennis courts and golf links, and a River Front and river basin which has been Improved in a manner not approached in the entire world. Perhaps in 1920 or thereabouts Holyoke will take three days off and celebrate the accomplishment of its city plan. Think it over. That is the sort of praise that is praise indeed. It is the honest com ment of an intelligent student of the "Harrisburg plan." the plan which has transformed an ultra-conservative and indifferent community into a wide awake, modern and public-spirited city. It is well that our light shines far beyond the Susquehanna and that what has been done here Is proving of value as an example to other cities which are seeking municipal better ment. Holyoke is no mean city; it is one of the important Massachusetts indus trial centers, and has many commend able esthetic features to attract the visitor. If what has been accomplished here in a comparatively few years serves to arouse civic interest and energy in Holyoke, then what has been done will not only have been of benefit to our own people, but will guide in the proper direction those of other municipalities who are making a study of the problems which are being solved in the right way here. SENATOR BORAH'S PERISCOPE NO clearer exposition of Republi can doctrine and policies has been made than the statement of United States Senator Borah this week. Intead of undue emphasis upon preparedness for war the Idaho statesman sounds as his slogan "Pre pare for Peace." He believes that the real job of the statesmen of this coun try is not preparation for war, al though he declares that the United States should be always ready to as sert its rights under all circumstances, but is the working out of an effective defense against invasion by European manufacturers after the war. Senator Borali suggests that the tariff laws ought to be readjusted on a broad scale because the United States will have to light as never before, not only to maintain its foreign markets, but to retain those at home. Many Democrats take this view of the mat ter and it will be difficult for the Wil son administration to further harass business by theoretical policies and im practical regulative measures. In the judgment of Senator Borah, j the next Republican national conven tion will write such a broad and liberal platform that there will be no further question of the reuniting of the Republican party, and this reunion will mean the winning of the election next year. He points to the harmon ious conditions in the Republican party in Massachusetts as disclosing the general situation elsewhere in the country and concludes in these words: The campaign of IMI6 will be an exceedingly interesting campaign, in many respects the most vital and absorbing tor years. It will in volve many questluns connected with our foreign policy, the just and proper protection of the rights and lives of American citizens at home and abroad, the readjustment of the tariff, a wise and sound sys tem of rural credits, which, by the way, is as important a question as we now have up for consideration, aim a merchant marine act, and I have never in my brief vears of observation known the electorate more deeply interested in all these questions than it is now." Corroborative of the conclusions of Senator Borah is an article in Every body's for November dealing with business after the European war. It is ftoni the pen of John H. Fahe.v, presi dent of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who is thoroughly familiar w'th the business situation and with the problem involved in an adjustment of the complex matters affecting our prosperity. Mr. Fahey discusses the difficulties ahead in a clear and concise way and observes that after the war there must be a tremendous amount of rebuilding and repair. He says further: It is said that after peace is de clared we must expect a tremend ous dumping of cheap goods from Europe. If we undergo that ex perience it will be our own fault, for we can prevent it. It is claimed that there will be a liquidation of wages across the Atlantic and that labor costs will go down. I am not convinced on that point. With practically all the countries of Europe engaged in murdering their best and most efficient men, with a tremendous reduction in the man power avail able to them, I do not yet see why wage costs-should go down. In general, I believe that the aftermath of the war will be largely influenced by the kind of settlement which is effected. If a settlement is reached which mav make practically impossible for all time a repetition of the present conflagration, the resultant relief to mankind will greatly stimulate progress. All the American writers and think ers capable of analyzing conditions are of one mind as to the necessity of pre paring for the assaults which will cer tainly be made upon the capital and labor of the United States after the oversea cataclysm. , TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —About the onlv place you can And good board in some towns is in a lum ber yard. —The average woman's idea of put ting something heavy on her chest when the chill east wind is blowing is to powder it three times instead of once. —The average high school boy It seems Is a running expense to his dad, whether he's on the track team or not. —lf D**. Anna H. Shaw is to be be lieved, the reason there is no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven is be cause there isn't a man in the place. If a man was In the average wom an s shoes, first thing he'd do would be exchange em for a pair three sizes larger. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT - The local suffragists are to form a flying squadron. Probably with a view or rising above the results from Jersey and dropping bombs down on It. Williamsport Sun. Mr. Dooley is the favorite humorist of American humorists, according to a recent poll. The general reader will agree, not only because he is cleverly facetious, but because his fun is hu man and uplifting.—Erie Dispatch. Secretary Tumulty has to deny something almost every day now from the story about the President's pri vate telephone to the reported split the Vice-President, Tumulty must be putting in more than an eight-hour day.—Philadelphia Press. Fashion has reached its wildest ex treme. It will be modish, runs an an nouncement of the Fashion Art League of America, to look like a hu man being. New York Evening Post. Quoth the Secretary of the Volunteer Watchers League, himself a Princeton graduate: "The spirit displayed on the football Held is the spirit we need in our polling places." At any rate, plenty of open play Is as desirable at the polls as it is on the gridiron.—New York Sun. Automobiling around Harrisburg, where one was killed and fourteen hurt in the past two days. Is not great ly different from an attack against the first line trenches in Servia, except that the names of the injured are much easier spelled.—Williamsport Sun. Diplomacy seems to have become the art of ineffectual concealment.—Allen town Chronicle and News. One of the last remaining of those who saw Lincoln shot was Dr. Andrew J. Smith who died recently in Indian apolis aged 83. Dr. Smith also was present at the death of the assassin.— Erie Dispatch. LETTERS TO THE F,prTOß~| DANKER AND RIBE.VDALL To the Editor of the Telegraph: I enclose a picture of Hoy Danner on >is wheel chair. 1, too, am a cripple like Danner, and I sympathize with him. But for all the money in the world 1 would not make mvself a side show for the sake of a politician trying to hold his job at my expense. Every body knows that Danner would not have been nominated if he hadn't prom ised to make Charley Rubendall his chief deputy and Rubendall is using Danner's crippled legs like a blind man on a corner who holds out his hat for a penny and cries out pity the blind. He out to be ashamed to use a cripple so, and Danner ought to be ashamed to let him. It is an'outrage on de cency. Yours truly, A CRIPPLE. THE EDITOR'S WAY Major George W. Teideman, of Sa vannah. Georgia, tells the following about the old-time Georgia editor who was usually mayor, justice of the peace, real-estate agent, as well. Upon one occasion one of these editors was busy writing an editorial on the tariff, when a Georgia couple came in to be married. Without looking up. without once slacking his pen, the editor said: "'Time's money; want her?" "Yes," said the youth. 'Want him?" the editor nodded to ward the girl. "Yes," she replied. "Man' and wife," pronounced the editor, his pen still writing rapidly, "One dollar. Bring a load of wood for It. One-third pine; balance oak." —Everybody's for November. ELECTION DRAWS NEAR (From the New York Sun.] ! Not from the tans in the air, not by | the frenzied cheers of enthusiastic 1 partisans, not because of the impas sioned appeals of street orators, do we know that the political campaign is ending and election day drawing near. Truer guides unerringly point the solemn fact: "Charges of colonizing on the part of Democrats have been made to Dr. Mar shall, Superintendent of lOlections. "Dr. Marshall, together with his thief deputy. Augustus T. Allen, has been busy supervising the work of scores of detectives and investigators in an effort to prevent any violation of the election law. "So far they have unearthed one wholesale attempt at colonizing in the Thirty-fifth Assembly district, j. he Bronx. "One man. a detective on the staff of District Attorney Martin, has been ar rested and held for examination, charg ed with inducing two men to register falsely front his home. ' " 'We can safely promise imprison ment to many floaters and colonizers should they attempt to vote,' said Mr. Allen yesterday. "We have evidence showing gross frauds by false registration. "'ln many instances it has been dif ficult to learn where the suspected men really live. "'Most of them are lodginghouse derelicts, but they can be assured of bed and board at the expense of the State for some little time if the-- put in an appearance on electitn day.'" A "wholesale" attempt at colonizing "unearthed;" one man has been ar rested charged with "Inducing two men to register falsely from his home." To be«ure. he has not been convicted; it is extremely unlikely, If the past furnishes a fair standard for judg ment, that he will be convicted. He may be entirely Innocent; never mind that. He Is a Democrat, he is alleged to have violated some provision of a law nobody understands, and he is condemned beforehand. Two votes, however, seem rather a pitiful bag; •why wasn't It made 200? "Gross frauds;" "lodginghouse derelicts;" "floaters;" "colonizers;" the grand old phraseology of mock terrorism thun ders on the shuddering ear. Nor is this all. Our amateur guar dians are quick in .our protection. Ma turity and experience, wisdom and good judgment will guard the polls: "The Honest Ballot Association will have several hundred watchers at the polls on election day. "Among them will be a squad of football players from Princeton. "The Princeton football men will be assigned to some of the districts where the doctrine of physical force is better understood than the teachings of Tur got, Von Stein, Morley and other po litical theorists." Gcave and learned fathers, they will watchfully wait the oncoming of those abandoned creatures who annually cast their ballots without disorder confusion or serious disturbance, re pressing where the police are power less, detecting those great crimes that escape the party watchers who fancy they have a real interest in the en forcement of the law. The town should, through their intervention, survive the Unprecedented test to which It is to be put. New York Is safe for 1915. By 291t> it may grown old enough to hold an election without the concomitants of foolishness and false pretense that now i seem unavoidable. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Ts>ti£lc& Lk ""ptKKOijkrcuua By the Ex-Committeeman Scarcely second to tho Philadelphia campaign are the contests being waged in Dauphin and other Interior counties In which Democrats or insurgents have been manifesting strength In the last few years and the close of the cam paigning shows the Republicans to be ir. far bettar shape than known in years. In Lancaster. Cumberland, Franklin, Northumberland, Lebanon, Perry and Union counties the Repub lican organization workers have been meeting the same kind of general sup port tor Republican candidates that has been so noticeable in Dauphin county. The meetings held throughout the counties have been very well attended and the general prospects are that tho Republicans will be united again this Fall and enter tho presidential cam paign in better shape than at any time since 1904. The Washington party has disintegrated and the men who were active in its work have aligned them selves with the Republicans again and are taking considerable amusement out of the antics of the Democrats and a few lrreeoncilables. Perry county gave Dauphin and its sister counties something to think about by its Marysvllle meeting last night. The Republican candidates who pre waging a fine campaign for the whole ticket were warmly greeted and County Chairman Rife was given an idesi of the strength of his organ ization this year and the troubles which prevail in the Democratic or ganization. Congressman B. K. Focht came down from Lewisburg to help the Republican nominees and made a red-hot Republican specc)i. The Re publican candidates in Perry have been cheered by the manner in which the Washington party voters are lining up behind them. What is true in Philadelphia ana Allegheny is true in Perry and there is no mistaking the return to the party. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says of last night in the mayoralty campaign in that city: "Stirred by/ the accla mations of thousands of voters packed in halls in various sections of the citv ast night, Tliomas B. Smith. Repub lican nominee for mayor, predicted that he and his colleagues would be elected on next Tuesday by a majority of at least 100,000. Smiling, confident and enthusiastic. Mr. Smith declared that the citizens of Philadelphia, tired ot unfilled pledges made by the pres ent local administration, had turned to the Republican party and the prin ciples it represents to restore to this city the prosperity it enjoyed until Mayor Rlankenburg and his followers swept into office four years ago. United States Senator Boies Penrose, again on tilt stump in behalf of Mr. Smith and the other Republican candidates, de clared that the election of Mr. Smith would mean the restoration of imperial growth for Philadelphia." —Prohibitionists in Cumberland county are giving their brethren in other parts of Pennsylvania something to think about in the manner in which they are pushing their campaign. They arc- holding meetings every night and to-night Carlisle and Palmstown will be invaded, with other meetings for later in the week. J' I ®, battle for the judgeship in the Mifflin-Juniata-Bedford district is glowing hotter as the campaign ends and friends of the two aspirants are lining up strongly in every precinct in uie three counties. Friends of Judge woods contend that he will be re elected because of his stand on the liquor question. —Philadelphia lawyers have called on Mayor Blankenburg to enforce the Shern law to keep city employes out of politics. The mayor is as busv as Can cidate Porter answering broadsides. —Speaker Ambler says that the municipal Investigation will not be taken up until after the election. He does not believe in grandstand plays, but when the probe starts it will start in earnest. —Friends of Judge Bushong. of the Berks orphans court, who was ap pointed by Governor Tener, say that he stands an excellent chance of be ing elected for the full term, although he is a Republican. 1 —!->• Clarence Gibboney refuses to let up in his attacks on Candidate Porter. —ln Chester one of the council manic candidates failed to file an ex pense account and is having trouble to run. —A Bloomsburg lawyer has asked the Columbia county court to name Reran Donahue as mine inspector for Columbia county, holding the office to be vacant because the Supreme Court recently decided that a mine inspector is a State officer and not elected in an odd-numbered year. He contended that James O'Donnell, of Centralia whom Donahue defeated at the pri maries before the Supreme Court gave its decision, was elected in 1911, and that the office Is accordingly vacant and O'Donnell is holding it without right. The court fixed next Monday as the time for a hearing. Should ballots voted for one candi date. but changed so as to read in favor of his opponent, be counted for the man for whom rhe voterdvcast them, or should they be thrown out*' That is a question the Supreme Court is to be asked to determine for P. H Durkin, Democratic candidate for county controller, who was counted cut in Lackawanna. Ballots from which the (Tiarks showing preference for Durkin had been erased were found in four districts, and were thrown out by the county commissioners on a re count. Court to-day sustained that action, and Mr. Durkin announced that he would appeal from the decision. Our Daily Laugh (*nv*fr!) (jwttS) Gosh! That'i TJ tuff luck! Th« i firecracker wen! - out> You thought (rts y\"we meant it wa* tuff luck becaus* they're engaged, (jvrJ didn't you? Well, fl maybe 'tis —may. - bo 'taint. FINK FOR THE HEALTH By Wluk Dinger Bill Smith's wife was much worn with care. The Doctor said: "William, beware— She needs exercise, and If you are wise You'll get her Out in the fresh air." So bill grabbed his paper and o'er The little want ads he did pore In an effort to find An auto that would grind Out each hour the miles by the score. A fine little bargain he found For a hundred bones, "warranted sound." So he answered the ad "Dear Sir: I'll be glad If you'll send your small buggy I around." Each week now his wifey he takes For a ride, but each time something breaks. Wifey's wrinkles are gone— She's put twenty pounds on From the walks back to home that she "ULkt*. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE REAL REASON p*%\ Zeent* ~7j *, j'feA /Ton Aha*d »*rr«e V*s3Rßl=gr' '"TL Auj 7*- . U «*« «* 2i^\ \i» *a*t T . 1 N j -CMC I ■ W».ii*K»l IB SQUIRRELS ARK LAYING IN EXTRA LARGE STORES FOR WINTER. Krnin the IndlnnHpnlln \>n«, THE FIGHTING SCRIBES By Frederic J. Haskin HOW long does it take to make an efficient soldier out of an intelli gent man who has never had any military training? To a country like the United States, which would have to depend upon its citizens almost entirely in time of war, this is a vital question. Of course, experience has shown that it takes a long time to make an army out of a great mass of raw recruits. The iirst step must be to get officers to drill these recruits; and it is therefore im portant to know how long it takes to make an officer out of a picked man. Secretary of War Garrison now has under way an unusual experiment for deciding this question. He has formed a corps of twenty-four picked men. and is giving them a special course of military training. All of these men are Washington newspaper correspon dent?, and it is not remarkable that they should have been chosen. The officials of the War Department fur nish these correspondents with news. They calculate that any man who can perpetrate a surprise attack by tele phone on a sleepy official at two o'clock in the morning, and wrest a piece of news from him, has the mak ing of a good soldier. They have cause to know that for never-sleeping alertness, ingenious resource, and per sistence in pursuit of a desired ob ject, the successful newspaper corre spondent is hard to equal. These are qualities that count in war. So they are going to find out how long it will take to make a soldier out of a scribe. Course in SO Weeks Tn thirty weeks this platoon of cor respondents will run the whole gamut of the war game. This will be ac complished in three hours of drill und demonstration each Sunday morning-, supplemented by an evening each week f The State From Day to Day The old story of how "Dan shot a cat for a rabbit" has been duplicated by one from Williamsport, which re ports that a certain hotelman of that city shot his own horse for a turkey, while he was out riding in his huggy. A turkey crossed In {ront, but the hunter did not stop to muse as to why that bird was crossing the road. He simply opened up with his trusty gun and picked his horse in the neck, wounding it so badly that It had to be shot. Which reminds us strongly of the story of the man who was very fearful of burglars. Waking one dark night from his sleep, he was startled to see a white hand appearing above the covers at the,foot of his bed. With a scream he jerked oul his revolver and fired, and with a still louder scream discovered that he had shot off two of his toes. The story is moss-covered, but still has a kick or two left. That the man who started trouble in New Castle yesterday believes in the proverb. "A soft answer turneth away wrath," is evidenced by the bad tomatoes which he was hurling at certain hostile windows. Frank H. Buhl, Sharon's great pub lic benefactor, has just deeded over to a board of trustees his 300-aere farm and buildings as a playground for the people of the valley, and in addition an endowment of sr>oo,ooo, the an nuity from which will keep the farm in good condition. , From noon till midnight on Christ mas Day, all bars iti Lehigh county will be closed, by ordier of Judge Gro man. The judge deserves the thanks of the community. "A pious old town is ours," quoth the Beading Herald in glee, contem plating the unusual spectacle of an empty town lock-up and meditating on the advisability of hanging out a for rent sign. It is to be hoped that the thunder storm yesterday afternoon in Dauphin county was summer's parting shot. She certainly is dying hard this year. The Bethlehem Temple Association, a Masonic organization, was incorpora ted yesterday morning at South Beth lehem, and a temple for the use of the Masonic bodies will soon be erected. Fruit growers from all parts of Cumberland county have entered ex hibits In the display of the second an nual "Apple Week" being held in Shippensburg. Such men as Newbecker, of Allen town, professional beggar and pan handler, who has been posing as a cripple and making an average of sl2 a day from a sympathetic public, are to blame for the lack of humanity which is ascribed to some people who refuse to take a chance on beggars; and one can scarcely blame them. TEUTONIC CONSIDERATION "Lance-Corporal T. (2d SufTolks), who was captured by the enemy at the battle of Mons, is huppy in his intern ment. He has a wife and six children. —Paiarborouith (Eng.) Advertiser, OCTOBER 27, 1915. at lectures. The tutors and drill-mas ters will be the best In the army. Fort Myer is just across the Potomac and almost a suburb of Washington. All the outdoor work will take place here. Schoolrooms, riding arenas, rifles, machine suns, ca\ - alry mounts, will be supplied by the government. Midweek lectures will be given downtown. An idea of the course may be ob tained by scanning the initial lessons. The first day the platoon is taught the mechanism of the army rifle. The men will learn how to set their sights for different distances, and how to lire with the battle sight when there is not time for adjustments. They will know that the trajectory is a bullet's course through the air and that it is some thing of a rainbow. When the gun is tired without the adjustment of the sights allowances must be mado. Shooting is shown to be a very exact science. This will be the beginning of the first lesson. The recruits will then have «uns placed in their hands, will be drilled in the manual of arms, and taken into the open and taught the correct firing positions, standing, kneeling, sitting and lying down. This will be a single lesson. The average recruit would get as much in a month, devoting all his time to It. This lightning platoon will go Im mediately into target work and the at tempt will be made to teach its mem bers to shoot accurately in a few les sons. When a reasonable proficiency with the army rifle has been developed they will be organized into machine gun squads and will learn to operate those deadly weapons. Machine guns and their ammunition will form an important part in the course, as they BOOKS AND MAGAZINES jM ■ "\^MB OWEN JOHNSON "Making Money," by Owen Johnson. As the author of "Stover at Yale," Owen Johnson needs no introduction and the popularity which has already been accorded his new book. "Making Money." testifies to its excellence. It is. a stirring- novel about u young col lege graduate who gets mixed ui> In Wall Street and Ik caught in that maelstrom's whirling pool of nervous tension and rush. His nickname is "Bojo," and he falls In love with the mischievously frank and natural, but lovable young sister of the girl to whom he is engaged, but who is pos sessed of tlie coldly calculating nature of her mother, who married for money. A true picture of Wall Street, together with the electrified atmosphere that is charged with "Patsle's" personality, and a great quantity of human inter est. puts this latest work of Johnson's on a par with hiss other productions. (Stokes and Co.). • * • "THE MOMiV MAST Kit" No novel that Sir Gilbert Parker has ! written is more genuine in its human • interest, more quietly convincing in Its ] insight, more worthy in all respects | of a permanent place in Knglish litera ture, than "The Money Master" J (Harper & Brothers). The central ; figure and title-character of the itale, Jean Jacques Uarhllle, is, perhaps, ■ ndt a great man, as the world counts ! greatness, but his story is in its way las striking as that of a world-con- I queror, and In many ways more afford ing. In this good little man with his touch of genius, his innocent vanity, , his unbounded self-conlidence, there is I summed up a great deal of the essen tia bigness as well as the amiable weakness and folly of human nature. No "life story" is more convincing In its general outlines or more "Inevlt ! able" In Its progress than "The Money Master;" and few tales can equal it in the multitude of tine and happv touches of nature. Among many good novels it stands out as of the few which unmistakably .testify to the great gift of reading character and lives. Richly human, written with knowledge of the soul of humanity as well as of Its heart, "The Money Master" is a story of which the memory will be cherished long after the book has been read and laid aside. CONGRATULATING HIMSELF "So Whoopler lived to read his own obituary?" "Yes. And when ho hud done so he reached around, patted himself ud mirlngly on the back and chortled; 'Some citizen, old boy! Some citizen!'" L —Kansas City Star. ( I iEhrnmg (Eljat Many a Dauphin county hunter and woodsman who read in last night's Evening Chat the review of Henry W. Shoemaker's passing of the bison in Pennsylvania knows of the salt spring in Stony Creek Valley, Dauphin coun ty, which he mentions as one of the last haunts of the buffalo in this vicin ity. The suit spring known to hunters is not heavily impregnated but con tains sufficient of the mineral, together with magnesia, to make it attractive to deer even at this late date. It is lo cated near the Yellow Spring Railro*t) station along the Schuylkill and Sus quehanna branch of the Reading Rail way and not very far from Water Tank station. Within the past few years, when lumbermen were working in that vicinity, deer frequently came there to drink and the workmen often found their tracks in the soft earth in the early morning. Stony Creek Val ley, by the way, is one of the wildest pieces of land in this vicinity. Be yond Ellendalc Forge the railroad, a single track affair, runs through the Valley with high hills on either side and only the break of Stony Creek to break the monotony of trees and rocks. For many miles there is not a habita tion. Bear, deer, turkey, pheasant and other game are not infrequently seen and the bottom lands where the val ley widens a little are favorite spot? for raccoon. The valley, it is said, is wilder now than it was twenty years ago and has fewer inhabitants. Those who know its wooded slopes and the lush growths of Its lowlands, have no difficulty in believing that the woods buffalo once found it a favorite abid ing place. » * ♦ Probably the most graphic part of the book is the description of the last great buffalo hunt in Pennsylvania. This took place in Union county on the last day of the year 1799. Unlike many other hunts, it was organized for revenge, a herd of buffalo, maddened in a storm, had knocked down the cabin of Samuel McClelland and killed his family in their flight. It was one of the most remarkable casualties ever reported in the State, as the animxls had literally wrecked the house. The settlers organized and, rounding up the buffaloes in the hollow near the town of Weibert, wiped out the whole herd. * * * From all along the route of Gov ernor Brumbaugh's "Seeing Pennsyl vania tour come words of commen dation for the effort to impress people with the idea of visiting their own great commonwealth." A noted Har risburger has been speaking on the value of "Seeing Pennsylvania First" for several years, preaching his ad mirable doctrine right in the face of the fashionable decree that American money must be spent abroad. In some of the counties which the touring party traversed efforts are being made to arrange a visit next year, while those which were not visited are ask ing if the Governor or his friends will not come that way next year. In Johnstown the people have so appre ciated the tour that they have for mally thanked the Governor and have invited Highway Commissioner Cun ningham to be their guest at a dinner in appreciation of what he made pos sible and of what he has done for Cambria county. » • • Some of the owners of fields con taining pumpkins near the city had better lock their big round fruit to the vines at nights or there will be somo prizes that will not mature. The Ilal lowe en celebrations are coming arotiba anc there are a good many scouting partios being sent owt by youth of both sexes to locate good lantern varieties Anyhow, it always seems that a pumpkin surreptitiously obtained in much better than one taken in the open market in Exchange for a piece of silver. ♦ » » The executive committee of the Na tional Historical Society has an nounced the election of a. large num ber of Pennsylvanlans as members Among them are William J. Rose! Thomas T. Wierman and Henry Mc- Cormick. • * • Among Harrisburg visitors yester day was Senator Horace W. Scliantz of Lehigh county. The senator was the first Republican district attorney in his county in many years and the first Republican senator in over 100 years. | WELL KNOVN PEOPLE ] —John R. Drexel, the Philadelphia financier, has returned from a visit to California. —Judge O'Connor, of Cambria coun ty. will recover from the operation which cost him a leg. Before his ac cident he was one of the most active men in the State. —Charles J. Rhoads, governor of the Reserve bank of Philadelphia, is in much demand for speeches on the financial system. —Maurice Willows, the new chair man of the State Charities conference. Is general secretary of the Scranton Associated Charities. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~] Tliat Harrisburg is making parts for ears for four railroads In Europe? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg was at Second and Cherry. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From Teltegraph, October 27, 1865.] To Hold Festival A festival will be held next Tues day evening, in the Courthouse, for the benefit of the Rlflge Avenue Methodist church. Committee to Select Pastor A committee pf three was ap. pointed in Philadelphia to-day at th« Pennsylvania Baptist convention, to select a pastor for the Harrisburg Baptist church. Eldership Elects Officers The following officers were electee yesterday by delegates attending tin sessions of the East Pennsylvani; Eldership of the Church of God; tli< Rev. C. Price, of Uandisburg, speaker the Rev. J. Hafleigh, Lilnglestown, ans the Rev. C. H. Forney, of Harrisbuf-*, secretaries. A Promise to Pay When a manufacturer adver tises his goods In this newspaper he Is giving a promlsory note to dealers. He is promising to pay those who co-operate with his news paper advertising. He, Is promising more custom ers arid increased sales to the storekeepers. It Is only business sense on the part o* the rettllers to show the goods and iJush them at the time th*y are being advertised in tho newspapers.
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