8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BY THIS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day} at the Tlegrraph Building, *lB federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago. 111.. Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers • t $2.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter, daily average circulation fot the three months ending Oct. 31, 1»1R. ★ 21,357 ★ Average for the year 1914—21.55S Average for the year 1013—Ifl.M'i Average for the year 1812—11MWD Average for the year 11M1—1T.562 Average for the year 101<^—16,201 The ahove figures are net. AII re turned, unsold and damaged coplea de ducted. TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. » He tcho has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. —James A lien. GIVING THE CITY A BLACK EVE TWO self-styled "detectives" and "reformers" are in Harrisburg telling whomsoever they can per suade to listen that Harrisburg is vice ridden and that commercialized im morality is as prevalent here as "in Pittsburgh or Chicago." If these men have the proof of what they charge, it is their duty to lay the matter before the district attorney, who has shown no hesitancy in the past in prosecuting when conditions of the kind came to his notice. The police under Colonel Hutchison were very energetic in blotting out the "red light" district and in raiding disorderly places as rapidly as they appeared. No doubt they will act just as vigor ously now as in the past. No good is accomplished by telling lurid tales of vice conditions before mixed audiences. Indeed, there is a distinct evil In the methods taken by these so-called reformers, for talk of the kind in which they have indulged is not good for young and innocent ears. The place for recitals of the kind is in the district attorney's office. The Telegraph doubts very much the truth of the broad generalities in which these two visitors have in dulged. This newspaper has been a leader in the cause of sex purity in Harrisburg and it will continue to be so with all the energy and ability it possesses, but it is too jealous of the good name of Harrisburg to permit anybody unchallenged to spread broad cast a lot of charges of the most vile character which it believes cannot be sustained. If the "detectives" have the evidence, let them produce it. If they haven't the proof, let them keep quiet. We have no time for profes sional reformers who make their living at the expense of the fair reputations of the towns they chance to visit. City Commissioner Taylor, notwith standing the failure of many of our citizens to appreciate his good work for the last two years, will leave his department with a record of substan tial achievement. He is now doing his utmost to complete all the Fall plant ing of trees and shrubbery before the onset of King Winter, and the showing of next Spring will be a silent tribute to his administration. THE SCHUYLKILL WAY SCHUYLKILL county stands among the first ten counties of the State in number of votes polled. Yet it was one of the first five in.the sixty seven to file complete official returns of the election. Friday, the third day after the election, the official results were on file in the office of the Secre tary of the Commonwealth at the State Capitol. There is a lesson in this prompt filing of returns. Schuylkill polled In ihe neighborhood of 35,000 votes on Tuesday. The official count was fin ished Friday before dawn, within eighteen hours of the time it was started in the presence of the court. It will be days before the official returns of counties having considerably less votes than Schuylkill have entered their returns at the Capitol. In Pottsville It is the custom to have Ihe returns all ready at noon on Thurs day, the second day after election, as they are required to be in all other counties. But the difference is that the Schuylkill men making the count keep on working until they finish. They do not stop for the night when Ihe sun sets. They keep on counting. And in a fe<v days there is an official return ready In the time that the law contemplated. These men are paid for the .•«*>, m day. They compute the results arid get result*. Exactly why the same system can not be followed in other counties passes comprehension. If it could be done, the State would have its official returns inside of a week, Jnstead of not for a fortnight or even worse. Pos sibly the laws which have been so much blamed are not as responsible as the persona who are charged to carry them out. The Schuylkill way could- be fol TUESDAY EVENING, lowed with profit In some larger coun ties than the famous county of the black diamond. SOME SANE POLICIES MAYOR-ELECT EZRA S. MEALS is recuperating in Virginia from his more or less strenuous cam paigning of the last few months, but before leaving for the South he sub mitted through the Telegraph some of his views concerning the sort of ad ministration which he thinks Harris burg should have during the term com mencing about the first of January next. Some of these views are of more than usual interest and indicate a sane and practical consideration of certain problems which are now giving the average citizen more or less concern. Nobody will doubt the wisdom of his suggestion that the truffle con ditions In the business district must be improved. It is obvious that the In tolerable sit uation In Market street and In Third and Fourth streets, between Walnut and Market, and in other sec tions of the business district cannot be permitted to continue. His idea of a one-way regulation for Third and Fourth streets, between Walnut and Market, Is absolutely correct, as Is also his proposition that the Jitneys must be subject to reasonable regu lation and control. Most people also agree with the Mayor-elect In his emphatic decla ration that the speed fiends must be suppressed even though the motorcycle officers are given a tip to bore the tires of all such spceiers with a bullet or two. This may be a drastic way to bring about a reform in the outrageous dis regard of these offenders of the ordi nary traffic rules and regulations, but the nuisance has become so serious that there is general protest among the people. Also, the Mayor-elect Is opposed to the rather elaborate scheme of police organization which was broached a few days ago. He evi dently feels that a police force need not consist entirely of officers with hifalutln' titles and that there is more need for practical conservators of the peace than for goldlace officials who may look Impressive and Imposing, but who will not patrol the streets and the haunts of the violators of law. Let us hope that the Mayor-elect is not talking only for publication, but is preparing to aid so far as one-fifth of the commission can in the working out of practical and common-sense traffic regulations to the end that the lives of the people may not be menaced and the rights of all may be conserved. A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT SO many big things are being ac complished now by the engineers of the world that any achievement to attract public attention must be of the most unusual character. In this age of reinforced concrete we are ac customed to seeing dreams come true which are sometimes startling in their reality. Such a dream was the great viaduct on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad between Scran ton and Binghamton which was dedi cated on Saturday. This work has at tracted the attention of engineers the world over and the massive character of the project and the millions of dol lars involved have been the subject of discussion in engineering circles for the last two or three years. This viaduct carries the double tracks of the Lackawanna railroad for miles and miles across the valley. It is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete and consists of ten spans of 180 feet each and two spans of 100 feet each. It Is termed the ninth won der of the world, contains approxi mately 4,509,000 cubic feet of concrete and 2,280,000 pounds of reinforcing steel. All of the foundations were car ried to solid rock. Two of the piers required an excavation of 95 feet In depth from the ground surface, while the excavation for the piers at the bot tom of the valley was carried through sand, gravel and boulders to a depth of 60 feet below the water level. The magnitude of this performance can hardly be realized by the mere use of figures and illustrations. It must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated in all Its colossal Immensity and is cer tain to become one of the great objects, of interest to all tourists. Governor Brumbaugh very properly referred to the achievement as an exhibition of corporate integrity and high-class public service. More and more the people are beginning to un derstand that these great railroad cor porations are the advance agents of the prosperity of the country; that without them there can be no real development: that they carve out the channels of trade and growth und op portunity for all the people. Courage and vision and skill are the predomi nant qualities which make such achievements possible. President Truesdale jnd his asso ciates of the Lackawanna system are keeping step with the spirit which has signalized the progress of this mighty nation. COM PENS ATI ON IN SCR AX CE MANUFACTURERS an over the State are now intensely inter ested In the working out of plans for the Insurance provision of the Workmen's Compensation' law! Whether the State insurance arrange ment shall prove satisfactory to the manufacturers will depend largely upon what kind of plan is developed. By the game token, the success of the various mutual insurance schemes will also rest upon the practical character of the plans now under dis cussion. Conferences of manufacturers are being held In different parts of the State and those of Dauphin, Lebanon, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry and Juniata counties will meet in this city to-night to consider a subject in which all are so vitally Interested. Just now the business community is endeavoring to comply In every proper way with the spirit and letter of the several enactments of the last Legislature which particularly affect manufacturers and other employers of labor. There is no disposition any where to sidestep or ignore these laws. On the contrary the spirit of co-operation is widely manifest and while some tim* will be required lo effect a satisfactory adjustment there is little doubt that the new order of things will be adopted without serious disturbance of business or employ ment. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE How time does fly. Last April's Spring chickens are full grown hens and the kittens that frolicked so glee somely in May are full grown cats yowling in the backyard at night Manufacturers are learning that the compensation act has ramifications far beyond the mere paying of benefits to injured workmen. Let the lawyers smile. Some men who are credited with good judgment in emergencies mere ly chance to fall off on the right side of the fence. The railroads of the country spent $10,000,000 on newspaper advertising last year. Ah, ha, my dear Watson, now we arrive at an understanding of all this railroad prosperity of recent months. Georgia hanged three men yester day. No, Maude, remarkable as it may seem, it was not a lynching. It requires a rich vocabulary to ex press one's poor opinion of another. EDITORIAL COMMENT Mr. Bryan says if he had lived two centuries ago he would have been hanged.. As he mentions no details, the hanging would evidently have been done on general principles.—Baltimore American. Unless Greece and Rumania enter the war pretty soon there will be no Rumania or Greece. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Is the issue to be grape juice versuS grape shot?— New York Sun. Since those Russians have come out from behind the barbed-wire entangle ments, and are trusting more to their beards, they seem to be doing better.— New York Evening Sun. Perhaps Mr. Asquith has adopted Bismarck's maxim that the best way to deceive your opponents is to tell the truth.—Kansas City Times. However satisfactory It may be to the Republican party that the Demo crats will have a working majority of only twenty-tive in the next House, It Is more satisfactory to the country. A topheavy majority is a license to do the unwarrantable thing, while con trol by a small margin often insures good legislation.—New York Sun. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOBKRSON TRIPS DKI.MiHTITJI, To the Editor of the Telegraph: For ten cents and a Telegraph I have accompanied the intrepid Mr. Rob erson on some delightful and very In structive trips. In no other way could I have secured the same amount of pleasure and information for even $1.60 per evening, and I simply cannot re frain from expressing my appreciation. I cannot visit these place, .nor could I realize their charm and beauty from a written description, but Mr. Rober son has brought them to me, while I sit at ease in a pleasant auditorium. It is wonderful. Respectfully, B v G. K "i PROSPERITY is xpßKAuirru Though a full measure of recovery is not yet apparent ill every branch of do mestic. enterprise, evidences of return ing prosperity are multiplying throughout the commercial world. Of late, the constructive movement has swung forward with a rapidity seldom equalled, and in some respects recent developments are wholly lacking In precedent. Pronounced expansion in the volume of transactions and a further growth of optimistic sentiment featured the month just ended, when several new high records, Including those of both production and distribu tion. were established. During October, for the first time in the history of the country,, output of pig Iron reached S,OOO.OOii tons; export trade, due largely to the urgency of the war demands, was of unattached proportions; gold im ports were of unparalleled size; bank clearings touched figures never befor* attained, while a number of standard stocks and bonds advanced to the best prices of the year. Moreover, latest railroad returns show a remarkable enhancement of the earning power of the common carriers, with some lead ing systems, notably the Pennsylvania, reporting maximum revenues, and the broadening scale of buildings opera tions, so noticeable in September, was fully maintained last month. Important and gratifying as these and other achievements are, of even greater sig nificance and encouragement is the fact that the business boom is becom ing nntion-wlde, Instead of being con fined to a comparatively few lines di rectly stimulated by the war. While the situation abroad furnished the mo tive power that started the wheels of progress, it is the exceptional strength of the economic structure, as repre sented in part by the bountiful crops and the sound banking position," that has made the advance to new goals possible.—Dun's Review. Our Daily Laugh STRICTLY TIP- [ ?4|y TO-DATE./ | I . How old Is four baby broth- jr^T] •r, little girl? He's a this rear's model. A DRAWBACK. Know thyself. What's the use? It's not an ac qualntance from \'\ \, rj whom you can/i I • \VVJfH ( borrow money. ' \ BrV LET'S BE I.IKE HER' By Win* Dinger 11 spent the week-end out of town. And while I was away I met again a dear old soul— Her hair long since turned gray. And though her eyes are dimmed by age— She's almost eighty-four— She seems to see more sunshine now Than in the days of yore. And other changes time has wrought— For Instance, she can't hear As well as once she did Back in- that yesteryear. She's feeble, too, and spends her time In one room, day by day, And yet, withal, from morn to night She's happy, bright and gay. I've entered that room many times— Sometimes when pain was tliere And life's skies seemed o'errun with clouds— But to her, all was fair. And were I asked to single out The throne room of sunshine I'd choose the room In which there lives This dear, old friend of mine, HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH ""Potttcc* £k BY THM Ex-Comraltteeauui Blunders and irregularities have been found in election returns In so many of the counties of the State as results of the official counts which have been in progress since Thursday that judges have taken notice of the conditions and have been suggesting ways and meajig to bring about im provements in the system of recording the votes. It seeni6 to be apparent that the Job of an election officer is so onerous as a result of the big ballot and the complicated way of voting that it is no longer attractive and that instead of the places on boards being sought in many districts the courts are called upon to make appointments. Year by yeax It seems to be growing more difficult to vote and consequent ly harder to count the vote. In Philadelphia yesterday Judge W. H. Staake in commenting upon the conditions said that he thought it time to start, instruction of election officers and that probably moving pic tures could be employed with profit to show men how to do the work. The mixed up condition of returns is blamed for the lateness of official returns from mdny counties. Thus far only 28 out of 67 have tiled their returns of the election held a week ago. The Democratic machine managers who face a revolt in their own party as well as a slaughter next year are whistling to keep up thetr courage. The few newspapers clinging to the reorganization gang standard are de claring that the election was all right, and yesterday in a circular let ter Roland S. Morris, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, found niuch cause for rejoicing over the Democratic showing in the recent election, though he refrained from all mention of the local contest. The let ter, which is to be sent broadcast throughout the State, predicts the re election of President Wilson next year. A review of the Allegheny County Republican leaders "state of mind" sent from Atlantic City, says: "It would appear that they all regard the question as to the candidate to be backed for United States Senator to succeed George T. Oliver as an open one, and that E. V. Babcock or former Senator P. C. Knox will be the choice of Allegheny county Republicans if there can be an agreement reached upon any candidate. Some still re gard State Senator William E. Crow as a possible candidate. The activity of friends of Mr. Babcock recently has given some concern to the supporters of fromer Secretary Knox, as Babcock has the backing of many of the active spirits in the Allegheny county Re publican organization." —Philadelphia is all stirred up over the flagrant use of the police at the polls by the reformers on election day and some arrests are likely. Yes terday the Philadelphia grand jury i-alled on District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan to advise them as to the proper methods v of procedure and began the investigation of the presence of the police at polling places last Tuesday as suggested by Judge W. W. Carr. Although he refused after his talk to the grand Jury to make public his in structions, District Attorney jßotan, while awaiting the call earlier in the day, did outline a method of procedure for the investigation. He said he con sidered the best plan for the grand jurors would be the summoning of judges of election in the divisions where policemen are alleged to have been stationed in the polling houses. Upon ascertaining the truth of such allegations, the grand jury could, Mr. Rotan further explained, call the policemen who were at the polling places, and the officers could be cross examined on all details concerning the issuing of warrants and whether the warrants were served or arrests made. —The Allegheny county grand jury yesterday found tlfirty-four Indict ments for election frauds. This is the beginning of a big clean-up. —The vote on suffrage in. Lancaster was 6,564 in favor of the amendment and 13,343 against it. The vote in Berks was nearly as bad. —Women suffragists are getting ready for their big convention in Phil adelphia this month. They will call on Congressman Vare to aid in passing the national amendment. —State Chairman Morris appeai 3 to be adding to the humors of politics with his letters. The latest one sounds like an editorial printed in Market Square. —it is likely that there will be a contest over the election of the Cam bria county controller. —Judge John Faber Miller had more majority for judge of Montgom ery than his opponent had votes. An other case of a Democratic effort gone wrong. \ —Schuylkill county's official returns have attracted much attention because of the promptness with which they were filed and the fine way in which they were prepared. —John T. Loftus is the new mayor of Carbondale. —Carrick has'voted &galnat annex ation to Pittsburgh. It beat it 3to 1. —Dr. J. Norman White, Governor Tener's appointee to the coronershlp in Lackawanna county, was elected to the full term by a big majority. —Prohibitionists appear to have elected their ticket in Dalton borough. —Luzerne county is now struggling with its count. Charges are numer ous. CONDENSED GEOLOGICAL TALKS M'CONN ELLS BURG.—FromMcCon nellsburg to Bedford, 36 miles, there is enough variety for a year's geological study; sixteen formations from tho lower calclferous limestone to the Pottsville conglomerate; and at the crest of Wray's Hill, but Ave miles north to the Broad Top coal beds. Practically the whole distance is virgin as to development, although gypsum, slate pencil material, flagstone, herlte, manganese, paint ores, red and brown hematite, copper and traces of silver have been found. Also, some evidence of carnotite, or radium bearing ore. USE FOR TIIKM Governor Arthur Capper, wno would be to Kansas what William Jennings Bryan is to the universe, said in a re cent speech at the Sunflower capital: "For the price of two battleships w® could gridiron Kansas from end to end with concrete or tarvlated roadways. And good roads, it has been proved In this war, are a tremendous factor." True. And the Germans, after tra versing them from Liege over the en tire country, said that the roads of Belgium were the best In the world.— New York Sun. "What Is the election news, please?" a woman, speaking over the tele fihone, asked a young man busy tabu atlng results In a Washington, D. C., newspaper office on Wednesday. "McCall has carried Massachusetts, Stanley lias carried Kentucky, prohibi tion is beaten In Ohio, suffrage in New York, Penhsylvania and Massachu setts, while Tammany seems to have won In New York,' was the reply. "What is Mr. Tammany running for?" was the next question. For a moment the young man sought for words, and then, realizing that he had to complete his tabulation, gave it up. "For Mayor," he answered, and the woman thanked him sweetly, express ed the hope that Mr. Tammany would make a good Mayor, and rang off.— Lancaster New Era. NOTED HORSEWOMAN IN NATIONAL SHOW | I atf St KB *WB V Wift / v sttuHl Pk gHBBt ; r iw H |ffl %M ■Rr- CAMPOEU- A SN/O/O, A/.VL /V/SS DOROTHY \*/EB&* New York, Nov. 9.—One. of the most beautiful anil most experienced horsewomen seen at the National Horse Show now In progress at the Madison Square Garden, is Miss Dorothy Webb, heiress, of Greenwich, Conn., New York and Newport. Miss Webb has exhibited her prize saddle horses at. all the prominent horse shows In this country and abroad for the past five years, numbering among her awards many first prizes. She is an enthusiastic sportswoman, and drives a racing automobile in addition to her'spirited horses. VISITING THE V.—Hopewell By Frederic J. Haskin L YOU approach the new city of Hopewell through a waste of timber and broom hedge. You are amazed to see this wilderness ex tensively laid off in wide avenues and boulevards, designated by freshly paint ed signs. There is not a house in sight. Tt looks as though someone had plan ned a large city and then neglected to erect sa much as a chicken coop. Suddenly the mystery is explained. A tremendous battery of hundred foot chimneys, belching sinoke, looms above the pine trees to your right, while to your left is a whole city of paper and wood and corrugated iron steadily marching into the forest under an army of hammers. The next minute you are In the midst of America's new est mushroom town, the city of thirty thousand that grew in a year from the furrows of a < orntield—the "war bride," El Dorado, which Is nowhere west of the Mississippi, but right here in the Old Dominion, home of first families and conservative traditions. The first families of Hopewell will afford considerable bewilderment to the future genealogist. Greeks and Ital ians seem to have a strong grip on the feed house and shining business, and a good many signs are in Greek: Jews are as ever the merchants. Negroes swarm everywhere, while among the workers in the powder mills are prob ably samples of every race that comes by way of Ellis Island. Hopewell is a muddled network of narrow streets, churned Into seas of mud, lined with palntless wooden shacks which house every trade and traffic known to man, but with an as tounding preponderance of dance halls, cabarets, moving picture shows, -es taurants and hotels. Throngs of e% ery tongue and color pour through the streets. The place resounds with their babble of chatter and shouting, the TF From Day to Day! Willi tli'i manual facility of a Kellar, a clever prestidigitator of gypsy ex traction yesterday attempted to with draw a roll of bills from tlio wallet of a Bristol citizen during the process of telling his fortune. His business in stinct warned him, however, that his financial status was in the process of changing, so the gypsy was arrested on a charge of shoplifting. An operation on the head of 14-year old Wlllard Borton, of the Glen Mills Reformatory, will prove, in the father's estimation, that the lad developed criminal tendencies as the result of a fall when 6 years of age, causing men tal aberration of some sort and lead ing the boy to commit offenses that he under normal conditions would have r.ever thought about. * » « A. E. Moore, of Lancaster, who cele brated his ninety-fourth birthday sev eral days ago, says honesty, with a jovial and cheerful disposition, is one of the requisites to longevity. Proud of never having paid a cent to a railway. Peter Farley, aged 73, stopped at Hazleton en route on foot from Philadelphia to Scranton. • » « Speaking of Scranton, the expendi ture of $12,000,000 on the famous cut-off of the Lackawanna Railroad at Tunkhannocls, near Scranton, In order to save three and six-tenths miles, is a lasting' monument to the men of that railroad whose enterprise and careful protection of the people's interests will not soon be duplicated. The viaduct is 240 feet high and half a mile long. ••• • • Newport will open a public library with impressive ceremonies Tuesday evening, November 23. The ladles of the Civic Club have fitted up a large room in the Newport high school building and are now busy cataloging 500 volumes. The situation in Wllkes-Barre is be coming worse and worse between the rioters in the street railway strike and the strike-breakers who have been im ported from New York. The State constabulary is there rendering Its cus tomary efficient service, however, and consequently confidence in the ultimate victory of law and order over mob ocracy Is practically assured. • • * A Pittsburgh man has secured a divorce from his wife on the ground that she was In the habit, of annoying him by hiding his set of false teeth under the rugs or in a bureau drawer where he couldn't find them. Had this man been an optimist he would .have smiled to himself and thanked NOVEMBER 9, 1915. ' snort an<l squawk of jitneys that are always bringing more, the tattoo of a thousand hammers building: houses to hold them,.and the mighty, murmurous undercurrent of sound which is the whirr and roar of the great mills that brought it. all Into being. liard WD A rlntocrary Hopewell has naturally scandalized those strongholds of aristocratic re spectability, Richmond and Petersburg, and perhaps she has made theiri a bit envious. She is not, however, the den of vice and disorder she has been rep resented. and that she well might be, considering her population and her gov ernment by common consent. Wine, women and song are here, to be sure, but with the assistance of the strong company police force, the Hopewelllans are gradually cutting out the wine and women and confining themselves to song—chiefly of the mechanical va riety. Hopewell is split In two by a wide and busy railroad yard where it seems to be a miracle that men are not killed every day. On the one side is the re tail and residential section, and on the other side the powder plant, a city in Itself. The casual visitor is not wel come to visit this part of Hopewell. The fact is delicately intimated by the presence of a ten-foot wire fence and a large force of armed men. Back of tills fence 1'.J.000 laborers are making $3,000,000 a month producing fiowder for the Kuropean War. This s the largest gun cotton plant In the •world, and also the largest nitrate and sulphuric acid factory. It has every appearance of being built with perma nence. It is universally believed the plant was located here by advice of the government at Washington, because of the strategic advantage of having a [Continued on Page 6.] his lucky stars that she hadn't placed them sharp edge uppermost 011 his chair where he would sit down 011 theni and be bitten. THE HAUIUSHUIU; CHILDREN Tlielr Pnraric SuKKextril <0 One Specta tor the Picture of Devastated Homes in Belgium T. H. J., of Harrisburg, writing to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, says: "Sir: On a summer morning quite re cently while on my way to business I heard the stirring strains of a band. It recalled to my mind this was one of the days set apart to commemorate cer tain important events in tho history of Harrisburg. I soon joined the crowd which was waiting to see a procession of school children pass, 11,000, repre senting the public schools of the city. As I stood on the pavement among the hundreds of other spectators, watching this wonderful procession go by, line after line (almost endless) of bright little figures, all in white with colored scarfs and each carrying a small flag, many being decorated in other ways very pleasing to the eye, I wondered where so many children came from. I must confess that I did not know Har risburg had so many lovely children. "They marched like little veterans: the people cheered, but they marched steadily on, each little face wearing a somewhat solemn and sedate look, as if they realized that this was no ordi nary occasion and day in their lives and (hat they must do their best. I thought what a noble heritage America has in her army of children. There Is no other countrv that I know of oh the wide globe where the life of the little child Is so tenderly cared for as in America. "I recalled another land across the sea, a land prosperous and content, a land where peace and happiness have reigned for years, where the family and the love of the family are as strong as with us, where the domestic virtue shr-ne with true lustre—a land of pic turesque villages and beautiful cities, where art and learning had their home, a country at peace. Its safety assured by the promise and treaty of its friends. But without warning or mercy, a de vastating and cruel lord of invaders swept down on these defenseless peo ple. Burning, pillaging, outrages and murdering indiscriminately; mothers were slaughtered with their little chil dren, fathers and brothers, by attempt ing to defend them were ruthlessly slain. The pent-up passions of forty years were let loose on these helpless victims. The world known now that these things are not visionary but are established facts, and will go down from generation to generation to the everlasting condemnation of Germany. "While our country has come for ward with generous gifts for the desti tute and wounded and has not failed to show her sympathy for the oppress ed people, while many noble women and self-sacrificing men have devoted their time and means to relieving the sufferings of the victims of this ter rible war. I think we will all say that our country failed at the crucial mo ment to raise its voice In protest against the slaughter of the innocents ill Belgium." j fttettmg (Ehat The unusually fine weather of th« first week of November was the 1 J*. of the Indian summer and we ma,< look out for the cold rains, the whlt¥ frosts and the chill evenings of ;«*. early winter. In the opinion of sonr of the weather wise. As a matter of fact, the autumnal line days were pro longed somewhat beyond their usual period and such days as Saturday Sunday and even yesterday were indeed. The period which can b® classed as Indian summer comes late In October, say men who have studied the weather history of this part of the Atlantic seaboard. It is just before persimmon time and when the leaves are commencing to fall in showers in the morning breezes. Well authenti cated records show that it has oc curred us a rule a week or so before the Fall election day. This year the fine days were lengthened a whole week after the usual termination of the pretty days and the mountains in stead of being marked by trees bare of leaves present the gorgeous tints of autumn, some of the trees having still red leaves, althougll the majority are the russets, the suns and the browns and the yellows. The countryside about Harrisburg has more resembled mid October the last ten days than the early part of November and Wildwood Park has been a place of joy for the lover of nature In her mellow au tumnal mood. « * « Shipments of coal being made through and around the city the last week or so have been so immense as to attract general attention. Steel cars I by no means comprise the bulk of the trains which pass through on the Pennsylvania main line or over the Cumberland Valley and the Reading or slide down the Susquehanna on the low grade. Cars which show signs of having been idle for months are now in trains, and wooden cars, early steel cars and some which show the rust of a year on sidings are to be seen side by side with the huge spick and span steel cars that carry off 100,000 pounds and sing over the wheels as they do so. • * • Frank I*. Rimel. the Chester county boy who raised 148 bushels of corn on one acre of land, has written to Gov eronr Martin O. Brumbaugh, telling him how he did it, and the Governor has told him that if he looks after his work so well he will become one of the successful farmers of Pennsylva nia. The National Top Notch Corn Club recently gave a. medal for the best corn record in the country, each state having a medal as well. Rimel won for this State and the Governor in notifying him of his success asked how he raised Ihe corn. The State execu tive also detailed Professor Franklin Menges, of York, to go to West Ches ter this week to present the medal on his behalf. The winner says his father showed him how to raise the corn and he had an acre marked off on the farm of Wycoff Smith, Colebrook Farms, : Whitford, Chester county. He put on twelve two-horse loads of manure, ploughed the ground seven inches, used a disk and spring-tootlied harrow, put. fertilizer in each hill and three grains of corn to the hill. When the com Mine up he used a hoe and a horse cultivator and sprinkled phosphate about when the corn was two feet, high. Then he hoed and cultivated until the corn ripened. The total ! weight of corn raised on this acre was ; 10,350 pounds. The young farmer Is ; about seventeen years old and th' . Governor says his example of work is too good to lose. k « ♦ ♦ ~ A businessman in the central part of the city who prefers to have business, not arguments, in his establishment ended two interesting verbal combats the other evening in quick time. Two men got involved in the war and be came heated. The owner turned out the lights and began to say things about the electric company. The de • baters went to the street. Soon after i two men got into a wrangle about tli« ' City Council. The lights went. out. again. They were on again after tho discussers had departed. !• « • i George W. Williams, the represents - I tive who presented the local option bill In the last House, was here yesterday 1 to talk over matters on Capitol Hill. 1 He met a number of friends, including members of the last House. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ! —Dr. J. S. Neff is taking an active part in preparations for the child sav - ing conference In Philadelphia. —William C. Brimmer, who took 1 part in the celebration of the new ; Susquehanna bridge at Sunbury on Sat urday, used to be burgess of that town and started the project five years ago. —F. C. Stone, the Lackawanna county surveyor, got the largest ma jority given any candidate in the. county. He is well known to many i here. —R. Nelson Bennett, well known to many liurrisburgers as an authority 011 third class city affairs, has been re elected to Wilkes-Burre council. DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg liad 011 c of the first Lancastrian schools in the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Tho first bridge across the Susque hanna at this city was objected to be cause it would interfere with rafting. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of Nov. 9, 1865] Colonel Gets Promotion Colonel Samuel K. Schwenk, of the Fiftieth Pennsylvania Regiment, to day was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, upon the personal recommendation of Lieutenant Gen eral Grant. To Kxcliange Pastorates By a mutual agreement between the Revs. J. C. Owens and C. H. Fornev. the latter will become the pastor Fourth Street Bethel and tho former will go to Lancaster the change to be made April 1, 1866. Railroad Director Dies William B. Thompson, a director of the Pennsylvania railroad, died Sun day at his home in Philadelphia. ► 1 I -- U "Something For Nothing" Sane men are convinced that there "ain't no such animlle." Sometimes, however, store keepers look on the manufac turer's newspaper advertising somewhat in this light. The manufacturer is spending money to benefit them. But the more alert realize that they can double and treble the benefits of the manufacturer's Investment by SHOWING THH GOODS. The manufacturer's advertis ing in- the newspaper and the GOODS in the window bring busi ness. Don't let the manufacturer lift all the load—do your part.
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