10 HARRISBURGTELEGRAPH Established jJj/ PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH TRUSTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief ' F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Building, 21« Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern OfTice. Fifth Avsnue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at <innßyj|iWflmr> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dalty nvernge circulation (01 ike three months ending Get. 31. 1815. 21,357 ★ Average for the year 11114—21.WJJ Average for the year 1913— 10.093 Average for the yenr 10U— Average for the year lull— Average for the year 1010—18,-61 The above figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 27. Let ut be of good elieer, remember ing that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.—J. R. Lowell. IS THE FARMER RELIGIOUS DOES the fact that two-thirds of rural churches have ceased to grow and that 83 per cent, have membership less than 100, Indicate that farmers are not religious? Most students of rural conditions say "no." They believe rather that the ordi nary rural church has failed to fill an existing need for community lead ership. It has been too insistent on sectarian distinction. It has been able to pay for only the partial time of a minister and has made it physically Impossible for him to do anything hut preach weekly or oc casional sermons. The result has been development of a multitude of small, weak churches, whose aggregate membership in most country communities is less than 40 per cent, of the population. Now comes'along a big nation-wide inter denominational movement, prompted by the Commission on Church and Country Life, a branch of the Federal Council of Churches, to help the country church save itself. In every State this commission will plan a campaign for co-operation of churches within a township or other natural community. Three or four neighboring churches must work to gether under the supervision of a com mittee of delegates from each church. Possibly in the end they will merge. This is an interesting proposal for solution of the rural church problem. PHILADEI/PHIA'S FUTURE THERE are indications under Mayor-elect Smith of some im portant constructive work in the development of the metropolis of the Commonwealth at the junction of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. All political interests seem disposed, at least on the surface, to give the next mayor substantial and cordial co operation. There has been enough political fiddling in Philadelphia and the State at large will watch with In terest the working out of the compre hensive plans which have been out lined by the mayor-elect for the term of his administration. The Interests of a great city—and Philadelphia Is a great city—should not be made the football of politicians of any party, and it is creditable to the Republican leaders that they have de clared their purpose of upholding the hands of Mayor-elect Smith. It can hardly be expected that political lead ers will always agree upon a program that may here and there Impinge upon their political preserves, but these leaders are not* so dull as to invite a public upheaval through unreasonable Interference with and failure to sup port the plans of the chosen executive of the people. Mayor-elect Smith demonstrated throughout the campaign that he has a remarkably clear vision of the future Philadelphia and his policies were so plainly set forth in his public speeches that the people generally accepted his statements as the utterances of one who realties the needs of the city and is ready to do his utmost to accom plish substantial and fruitful results. So it is that the people of Penn sylvania are pleased to see these evi dences of constructive work in the great metropolis of the State and they will hope that no political tomfoolery shall be permitted In the slightest de gree to interfere with the good wo which has been outlined and will should place the city in its proper po sltlon in the galaxy of American municipalities. CANADIAN ENTERPRISE FORMER President Taft, in a Thanksgiving Day address to a Canadian audience, paid a high compliment, to the people of the Do minion for the manner in which they have shouldered the responsibilities placed upon them by the war in Europe. A study of conditions there will ehow that Mr. Taft's praise was more than the mere pleasantries In which public speakers sometimes indulge to gain the sympathies of SATURDAY EVENING, 'their audiences for the more serious thoughts to follow. j Recent reports give evidence of j greatly improved industrial and com j mercial conditions in Canada. Every able-bodied man should have full em ployment during the coming winter. The employment of women in factories is also likely to be larger than usual, and for the Immediate future, at least, the financial situation of the Canadian people is much better than at the close of 1914. The railway earnings show striking gains. During October the three big Candian railway systems reported earnings amounting to $21,656,191, an Increase of 34.2 per cent, ox er October, 1914; during each of the previous six months of 1915 decreases resulted from railway operations as compared with the corresponding months of 1914. Candian bank clearings for the week ending October 28, 1915, amounted to J 1 4,440,333, as again6t $10,641,254 in the corresponding month last year. For the seven months from April 1 to October 31 the revenue was $87,683,843, or nearly $",- 000,000 greater than in the like period of the calendar year 1914. The ordinary expenditures during this seven-months period amounted to $56,347,603, or about $9,000,000 less than for the like period of the previous year. The extraordinary and capital account expenditures during these seven months were $74,013,915, of which total $53,359,158 were out lays occasioned by the war. The splendid manner in which Can ada has responded to the abnormal conditions of war and to the great burdens placed on the people is not only a lesson to this country, but ad ditional reason for the growing respect with which Americans regard their neighbors to the North. . WOMEN AND THE WAR THE war is doing for the women of England what all the rant ing and rioting of the suffra gettes could not do—putting them on an equality with men, at least so far as work and salary are concerned. Women are to take the place of 150,- 000 clerks employed by the govern ment, who will be released for active service. Preference will be given to the wives and sisters of the recruits in filling the vacancies. The women clerks, after a short training course, will receive the wages of the men whose places they take. Classes ' for training in shorthand,, typewriting, bookkeeping and clerical methods have already been formed" in London, Manchester and other cities. The question will arise In the minds of many as to just what is going to happen when the men return from the war. Will they get their old places back and, if so, will the women who filled them at men's wages be content to return to their old work at less pay? In the light of past demonstra tions of the Pankhurst variety, the fu ture may hold possibilities more in teresting than reassuring. "MOVIE" MUSIC ONE of the remarkable develop men s of the moving picture theater is the type of music heard there. In many of the better class of houses pipe organs, costing thousands of dollars and played by skilled musicians, have banished the tinpan pianos and squeaky orchestras of a few years ago, and classic music has taken the place of the awful rag time of the cheap vaudeville houses. In almost any moving picture theater nowadays the film views are varied and enlivened by movements from Beethoven's fifth symphony, pastoral and moonlight sonatas, selec tions from the Wagnerian operas, In cluding Parsifal and Tristan, from Schubert's unfinished symphony, bits from Tristan and Haydn and such modern works as Tschaikowsky's casse noisette suite, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Sibelius' Flnlandia and the like. K for no other reason than this we may give thanks to the "movie." 4FTER THE WAK CONSIDERABLE attention is given to the recently published views of John E. Gardin, vice-president of the National City Banli, New York, on labor conditions in Europe after the war. Being one of the foremost financial authorities In the country and a keen, vigilant observer of in fluences bearing on this subject, what he says with regard to the improba bility of an invasion of our markets by European manufacturers is received with respect. He Is quoted as follows: Tlie countries now at war will undoubtedly be very close tp finan cial exhaustion at the conclusion of peace, and In order to restore matters to any semblance of nor mality will have to resort to taxa tion to an extent that will approach confiscation. Capital will nave to stand this burden, and the cost of production will necessarily be heavy. However, employment will have to be given to the hordes re leased from military duty, and whether the workers In factories will be called upon to bear their share of this burden In the form of reduced wages is highly Improb able, as they have been too long accustomed to high wages and may even call for still higher wages on the plea of a higher cost of living caused by taxation. As most of the men returning to work have seen service under most strenuous conditions there is no doubt that their efficiency has been greatly Impaired. Tn addition, factories will have to be transform ed, new ones built—in short, the entire industrial fabric of the old world will have to be reorganized —and all this will take time. Hence the opinion is expressed that no fear need be entertained as to the prospect of an immediate Invasion of the Industrial field In this coun try. On the contrary, we inav ex pect renewed activity In conse quence of the great demands upon us Incidental to the process of re habilitation abroad, but this de mand some time will cease sudden ly without warning. These opinions in the main may be correct, but they scarcely can be con sidered as applicable to the iron and steel trade, upon the prosperity of which all others in a measure depend. In the first place, Germany in all likeli hood will at the end of the war find herself with a greater Iron and steel production than before the war, and facing as well the necessity of looking beyond the seas for markets for this Increased product. France and England will be in much the same condition. Metal production has been increased to such extent in those two countries that only this \Veek notice was given that henceforth they could manufacture all the mu nitions required 'or the war and no more orders would be placed in the United States. It will require but little work to transform these factories from war plants to peace Industries after hostilities have ended. Then, too. our own steel producers have been adding to their capacities as though they thought the war never would end and war orders would con tinue forever. Thus it will be seen that the war will close with the world's steel manufacturing output greatly in creased and competition keener than ever. The outlook is not bright, by any means. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —No beer, no work," say London trade unionists. Over here it Is just the opposite—"No work, no beer." —"The holiday feeling is already in the air." says the Baltimore Am erican. Tes, extending from the cockles of the heart to the interior of the pocketbook. —We are beginning to believe that this old-time newspaper joke about turkey hash is jesting with what is really a very serious matter. If Henry Ford ends the war by Chrilstmas there is no reason on earth why he shouldn't go right along and establish the millennium by New Year's. —Notice to deer hunters—See that your life insurance is paid up before you leave for camp. —The Liberty Bell has come back from San Francisco safe and whole— which is more than can be said for the reputations of some of the experts who predicted it would come back in pieces. —The discovery that a British lord is not afraid to say to another "you're a liar," only confirms our suspicion that American diplomacy is slowly but surely leaving its mark on the governments of Europe. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT" Senator Works may think he is radi cal in proposing the abolition of the District of Columbia, but the opponents of preparedness are doing their best to abolish the United States.—New York Evening Sun. The allies would do well to beware of Greeks refusing gifts.—Chattanooga News. Wireless telephone may drive Am bassadors out of business.—Wall Street Journal. We thought those interned German officers were lieutenants, not skippers. —Columbia State. Germany prohibits all exports, with the assurance that the British fleet will co-operate.—Wall Street Journal. Waif the time it's a question whether the* Canal is in Panama or Panama in tho (.anal.—New York Evening Tele gram. With Thanksgiving Day drawing near. John Hull is still unable to catch his Turkey.—Charleston News and Courier. Germany's navy In the Kiel canal is still wondering why the British fleet doesn t come out and fight.—Columbia State. HIRAM, THE WIDOW'S RON And Hiram made the lavern, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made King Solomon for the house of the Lord.—l Kings 7: 40. KICKING THE HOUN' DAWG He leaves nine children, eight of whom are honored and respected citi zens of this Stute and the other lives in Missouri.—Lyons, Kan., News. Our Daily Laugh CONSIOTENT. I'll say onejSns~3( /1 thing for those J\. censors. They're/ M consistent. 1 mL W What do you \ W They never capture less than H 100,000 prisoners f OFTEN SO. Dan Cupid Is aq Whose plans are every. K*: where; specialty, J |fW much sus [ ,1s castles In th« WOT ALL SCIENCE By Wing Dinger I went out to the country Upon Thanksgiving Day To roam about the golf course And have a bit of play. I went all by my lonesome, But ere my clothes were changed By some other single players A foursome was arranged. At first I and my partner Kept quiet during play. But soon it was apparent That we would lose the day Unless we got real busy. For our opponents, bo, Had five upon the first nine, With nine more holes to go. They'd done a heap of talking Up to this time, when pard Called me aside and whispered: "Let's kid 'em good and hard." We started in and, brother. We put 'em both rout. Their lead of five on nine holes Was quickly blotted out. And when the game was finished Our team was five ahead— So T've reached the conclusion That when ail's done and said That science plays a big puart In golf, but hully gee With steady, earnest kiddin' It isn't one. two three. HAKRISBURG SSI&Sg, TELEGRAPH CK 'ptK^^tcanXa By the Ei-CommlMwmud Senator Boles Penrose, whose lead ership of the Republican party was challenged by William A. Magee In his statement on poiiiical conditions, said yesterday at Philadelphia that he suspected that Mr. Magee had had too much mince pie on Thanksgiving Day and denied some of the Pitts burgher's assertions. Governor Brum baugh and Commissioner Magee main tained silence yesterday and mean while partisans of the Senator were reported to be getting ready for stormy weather. On the other hand men like Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith were saying that they saw no reason to look for disturbance of harmony. The Philadelphia Record thinks that a storm is brewing and that Pen rose is reaiy to make a contest if the friends of the governor get into the field. The Ledger declared that the friends of Penrose were setting up candidates for delegate all over the State and that its reports showed that the Republican organization "was al most solid for the senator." Reports from Allegheny, Lackawanna, Luzerne and other counties, which were sum marized by the Ledger indicated that potential Republican leaders would be with Penrose. The Philadelphia In quirer says: "Attempts to divide the Republican forces in the election of delegates to the next. Republican Na tional Convention it would appear will not be successful. "There is an element in Western Pennsylvania which is backing Con gressman M. M. Garland, national leader of the Order of the Moose, for Vice President of the United States. Senator Penrose, while appreciating the complimentary references to him self as an available candidate for President, has indicated that he has not been an aspirant for that honor. In Congressman-elect Garland, how ever, there will be an avowed expon ent, of the Republican party organ ization in the suggestion that he be given the second place on the ticket." —ln his comments on the Magee statement Senator Penrose said: "I do not agree with Mr. Magee's views that manufacturing and business interests have suffered in this State on account of political leadership or politics. Pennsylvania has been quite well looked after and has been regarded with favor as a place in which to lo cate manufacturing establishments. Pennsylvania is about the only State in the Union in which manufacturing Corporations are given exemption:* from taxation. I have just completed a circuit of 10.000 mfles. and I saw no State that surpassed Pennsylvania and few that were comparable. The Democratic party has put the country in a deplorable condition." said the Pennsylvania Senator, diverting to the national situation. "It is worse than the conditions in Cleveland's sec ond term as respects the administra tion program. Then bonds were is sued to meet the current expenses of the government. It is now proposed to increase the direct taxes upon an already overburdened people." —Democratic poor directors elect broke up in a row at Reading yester day when they met to discuss thu patronage. The Democrats appear to be having as much trouble getting things moving right as they do in this county. —The Pittsburgh Leader, edited by Alexander P. Moore and supposed to represent the ideas of William Flinn, came out yesterday with a blast against the Governor and calling on the State to elect P. C. Knox as United States senator. —ln spite of efforts by Democratic bosses it looks as though there would be a row among the Democratic lead ers in Lebanon county next Spring over State committeemen. The Leb anon Democrats have been fighting ever since the organization movement began. Names of C. E. Carothers, Washing ton, and E. B. Dorsett, Tioga, are be ing heard in connection with the deputy secretary of agriculture ap pointment which will be made in De cember. George G. Hutchison of Huntingdon county, and R. H. Thomas Jr., of Cumberland county, have also been mentioned. The next week will probably bring a new flock of names to the Governor's attention. A. L. Martin, the retiring secretary plans to go to his farm in Lawrence county next week. He will maintain his in terest in politics, his friends say. In spite of the fact that the Phila delphia returns have not come in there are almost daily inquiries for figures and the result of the election in the' State. Most of the inquiries are sup posed to be for the purpose of pay ing bets. —With returns from C 6 of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania on file at the State Capitol it appears that 137 votes were scattered for men for Su perior Court judge. Three were to be elected in a field of six and in Alle gheny county alone 61 men voted for persons not on the ballot. It is expected that Philadelphia, whose re turns have not yet been received, will show a still larger scattering vote. Dauphin was second with 11 scatter ing votes, Lawrence had 10, Fayette 7 and Montgomery 6. Under the law these scattering votes must be count ed and solemnly proclaimed with the official results. —The time for filing expense ac counts will expire next Thursday, De cember 2, and all but a few candi dates whose accou/its are required at the Capitol have !>een filed. —Scores of m/n elected justice of the peace at the recent election have failed to file acceptances of their election as the law requires and If they do not do so by December 2 they will run the risk of losing their com missions. The law requires that ac ceptances be filed with prothonotaries who will then certify the lists to the State Department for issuance of com missions. NEWSPAPER MEN' FORM A NEW SCHOOI. OF MAGAZINE WRITERS In the December American Magazine are the names of some newspaper mei. who have become magazine writers. I I. ng Lardner. F. P. Dunne ("Mr. Doo l«y'0, Hugh Fullerton, Ray Stannard Raker, John A. Moroao. Dana Burnet, Don Marquis, Harry Carr, Grantland Rice, Rufus Steele and many others were taught at the copy desk. The newspaper has always been held to be the best training school for the maga zine writer and even for the more am bitious novelist. Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Julian Ralph, Rich ard Harding Davis, and George Fitch are among the famous reporters who began In the city room. TO ANY AMERICAN BABY Blessed baby in your cot. Who may one day—or may not— Be in vears so far away President of U. S. A.; Or. if of the softer sex, May—Regina 'stead of Rex— With the White House for vour tent Rule as Madam President, Dream your dreams of glory: still. Be you Jack or be you Jill, There's a better game to play Than the Presidential sway. Play the game of being young Other baby folk among, ■lust as long as e'er you can. Little maid or little man. —Justin Huntly McCarthy. THE CARTOON OF THE ,DAY SKETCHES FROM LIFE "Dear teacher, please excuse » —From the C'levelaud Plum Dealer. / THE MEXICAN ll.—The Plan of San Diego By Frederic J. Haskin NOT long ago a Mexican was ar rested in Southern Texas on a charge of sedition, and a remark- ' able manuscript was found on his per son. It was a complete and detailed plan for the conquest of the United States. Along the border the Plan of San Diego, as it was called, was treated as the biggest Joke of the year, the papers gave it only a few inches of space, and it was immediately forgot ten. To-day, in direct consequence of that plot, 5,000 United States troops are guarding American lives and homes along the Mexican border. The Texas Rangers, a band of picked fighting men, are beating the brush for Mexicans as hunters beat thickets for deer. Every civilian goes armed. A dozen ranch men and about forty soldiers have been killed. The dreamers who framed the Plan of San Diego have paid with their blood, too. The number of Mexicans that lie unburied in the brush about Brownsville is variously estimated at from 300 to 500. So the conquest of America by a band of socialistic visionaries, acknowl edging allegiance to no government, has begun in earnest. While it has never gotten beyond the confines of three counties, it has been generously baptiied in blood and trouble. The Plan of San Diego is said to have had its birth in the brain of one Ancieto Pisano, who now enjoys the distinction of being valued at SI,OOO, "dead or alive," by the State of Texas. He is living in strict retirement—if he is living at all. Whether the man who drew the plan of San Diego is an idealist, a dreamer | THE STATE FROM W TO Dw\ The Christmas shopper is already being forewarned to keep the weather eye peeled for pickpockets about this time of the year. The many don'ts which you are expected to heed In clude the necessity for not leaving a | sign on the front door saying the key is under the mat. The detectives in the different cities have spoken. | Watch out! Constable Snyder, dwelling In Al toona, was a hen that had its toes frozen off and lays egss so well that Its life was spared on an auspicious occasion several days ago. It was a wise old hen, and laid eggs overtime, thus softening the heart of a stern minion of the law, to its own salva tion. Weighing less than two pounds and smaller in size than an ordinary loaf! of bread, a little girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark, of Cam den, and is now hovering between life and death. Xf It lives, the tiny mite ought to be a great, singer and an able, energetic woman, if first signs are any indications of later development. An Evansburg man gazed upon Mr. j Turkey Thursday for the first time In eight years. The old man, D. M. Cas selberry, is 90 years old and has just undergone an operation which restor ed to him his sight and the first thing that made its impression on the retina of his eye was a large gobbler. The elimination of grade crossings, inaugurated by the railroads, but cer tain to take years in fulfillment, will soon be started at "Switchville" in Ablngton township. A bridge will be erected over the tracks in place of the the crossing. Thanksgiving was fittingly cele brated by Lebanon in its rejoicing over the introduction of wood block paving on the north side of the city. Parades and all sorts of doings made the town a scene of gaiety. John Barrick of Huntingdon, in 1868, planted an apple tree In his yard. The other day he chopped It down, but custom Is too strong, and he plans to plant another In its place and will eat the fruit himself. V. S. THE CREDIT NATION Merchandise valued at 334 million dollars was shipped out of the United States last month,7o million more than the normal exports for that month prior to the war. Imports were 148 million dollars, a little under normal October imports before the war. The excess of exports over imports for the month was 186 million dollars, and in twelve months the United States ex ports were 1,627 million dollars more than imports, three times the normal balance for a period of years prior to 1914. The figures are reproduced to show the tremendous commercial and finan cial Importance of the present war, in its effect on America. The immense demands of Europe for American goods have put the United States in a position of credit nation to all the world, so far as concerns the current tradft transactions, and the nations that are In greatest debt to the United States are adopting various devices to avoid sending gold in settlement NOVEMBER 27, 1915. and a patriot, his mind unbalanced by fancied wrongs, or merely a clever ras cal using tine language to hoodwink his ignorant countrymen, Is impossible to say—and tlie author himself is not accessible to interview. It is said that Pisano was an enthusiastic reader of the inflammatory literature of the So ciety of Magonistas, a Mexican organi zation of pseudo-socialistic nature, dealing largely with the wrongs which that nation has suffered at the hand 3 of the Anglo-Saxon. He not only read these publica tions. but he formed societies among the Texas Mexicans, which held regu lar meetings. In this way the propa ganda was spread until his supporters numbered thousands, with a secret or ganization In exer.v Mexican hamlet in Southwest Texas. The seed thus sown Pisano turned to action by drafting the Plan of San Diego. The plan provides for the rising of the Mexicans in Texas, Now Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and California, "all as one, and one as all." Every male American over 16 years of age is to be slain without mercy, the provision on this point being especially stringent, denying to any captain band or detachment the right of sparing any "exlngro.' Only Americans are to be killed, however. The Japanese are to be spared and received into the new re public, which the San Diegans will found. So are the negroes. The In dians of Arizona and New Mexico are to join the rising, and upon its suc cess they will be given lands and freed from "slavery." When the hated Yankee was put down and the new republic organized, the next step was to have been annex ation to Mexico. THE YOUNGEST REPORTER IN AMERICA The December issue of The American Magazine tells of a Philadelphia school boy who is probably the youngest re porter in America. "A member of the Fourth Estate at 11 years of age, a space writer on a morning newspaper at an age when most boys are possessed only of an infinite capacity for mischief, that is the achievement of Alexander Segal. "It was on a Sunday night of last winter that he made his first appear ance in the local room of the Philadel phia Public I,edger and asked for the city editor. Stammering with embar rassment, he told that busy Individual about an accident he had witnessed—'a c'lision between an ambulance and an other cart.' "The city editor swung around and looked at him. 'Did you see the acci dent?' he asked. 'Yes, sir.' 'Well, tell him about it,' and the editor Indicated the star rewrite man at an adjacent desk. " 'Please sir,' was the hesitant an- ( swer, 'I already wrote it out myself.' And a chubby little fist reached into an inside coat pocket and brought forth some 'copy,' written on two or three sheets of paper cut from a school com position book. "The city editor glanced over It. 'Give It to him,' he said, once more pointing toward the rewrite man, 'and tell him who you are and all about yourself.' "For several minutes the rewrite man quizzed Alex, and then told him that would be about all. Can't I wait till you finish?' Alex wanted to know. The rewrite man told him lie could, and Alex sat still in his chair, twid dling his cap, until the story was fin ished and turned over to the city edi tor. The city editor nodded his head. " 'We'll use your introduction," he said, 'and let the kid's story follow, just as he wrote it.' "With Ills voice trembling with eag erness. Alex asked. 'Will the story I wrote be in the paper?' "'I guess it will, son, the city editor told him. "Alex aspires to be a regular re porter. The police at first refused to take him seriouslv, and often told him to 'run along.' Now there is hardly a policeman in the city who does not know Alex and try to help him when he is after a story. "Almost any Sunday night you can see him sitting at the big desk in the corner of the local room, carefully writing his latest story." I ! ——— ——.— "I have Such a Lovely Bargain" Women like to compare notes and when one gets a "lovely bargain" she naturally exults. Women are trained buyers. They take delight In shopping. They do not all seek "cut prices" or greaf reductions but they do want a full money's worth. Women are natural newspa per readers and very close readers of newspaper advertis ing. They find It both pleasant and profitable. It is almost as much fun shop ping round through the news paper columns as it Is visiting the stores. And the newspaper shopping can be done at one's own fire side. liimtmg (Mjat ==a»ai Every large community grows out ot a number of small ones, but it ia doubtful if many Harrisburgers realiz® now many and how oddly named wcr# the districts which have come to bs •Bcluacd within the corporate limits °J j, ® ta,e 's Capital City. A coupl® ?u "* v ' s ' ona l names still survive, bull there are many which have been for gotten except by the older resident* and a mere recital of them will brins back old times. Starting In with tha Urst ward. l.ocliiel still remains th«^* of a district but the house* which used to cluster about the rollin? mills and the t'urtiace have about} passed away. Sheesleystown is still used as a designation for that partj about Ninth and Hemlock but notj many would recognize in Frog Hollow Tenth and Berryhill. Up town, there were Portertown, Schuddemagevill® and Verbeketown with later on Kngle ton, because of the man who developed North Second above Reily. One sec tion in the Eleventh or Twelfth wards used to be called Ragpickertown years ago. \ erbeketown used to compris® everything above Forster street, in cluding Woodman's Field, which a few will remember, just as others recall Hanna s Woods and Ilaehnlen a Spring. Smoky Row can still I,® found resisting railroad encroach ments in the upper part of the Seventh ward near Peffer street and Sibletowi* and Hardscrabble are well known to day. But who knows where Judas town was? It was the name of tli® district about Third and Mulberry ii\ the days of old "King" Bennett, who passed to his reward long ago. Spring dale is all but lost, only a few of tha old narrow houses remaining and Pleasant View Is vaguely defined u, little further on. Ant Hill Terrace ia up near the State Hospital, the real slum district of Harrishurg, if on® chooses to call it that, although soma of the structures which gave It tli® name have disappeared through tire or sanitary causes. Up above Asylum run there used to be a collection of houses known as Burnstown because a brick yard was located there. Brookwood is merged in tho great district known ai Allison Hill and the Thirteenth ward has replaced East. End, Eastmere and East View. Old Orchard and Ellersli® are rapidly building up. Over near the Reservoir there used to be a dis trict called Whitehall because of on® of the Calder farms which was known by that name, but it Is all Harrlsburs now and along the Reservoir park line. The Eighth is still used to indi cate that section which is fast beinsr vacated to make room for Capitol Park Extension and with it are goinsr many notorious memories and soma traditions of strenuous politics. Then there was Horse Hollow, which was given to the district near Crescent street, and further on Sauerkraut Hill with the Koenig tavern and its stories of cock fights, raffles, Dutch suppers and other things which the men who used to go there don't talk about except, when cigars are lighted and people start to tell how well behaved Harris burg has become for all its growth. And lastly, there is the district which has the honor of being the only one (o have Its name preserved not only in. memory but in bronze tablet —Camp Curtin. Two classmates of the law school of tho University of Pennsylvania shook hands last week in the Dauphin county court room when Ralph B. Evans, of counsel for Gulseppe Donato, Ilia sculptor, met YV. Harry Musser, for mer assistant district attorney. The two attorneys graduated from * Penn law department in 1905. Dur ing the trial Mrs. Evans, wife of the sculptor's attorney was an interested spectator. She is the daughter of Dr. John H. Musser, the famous Phila delphia specialist whom the State call ed to refute the allegations of ill health of several of the defendants in the famous capitol trials a few years ago. The defendants at that time tried to obtain a postponement of the trial on the grounds of ill health. Mr. Evans who made a host of new friends among members of the Dauphin coun ty bar and among the court attaches, is a member of the law firm of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. » • • The "per foot rule" made famous in the Capitol graft trials, the ordinary yard stick method, the metric system —these be fit and proper ways of measuring things that are all right in their way but it remained for At torney Ralph B. Evans, counsel fop Guiseppe Donato, the Philadelphia sculptor, to suggest a new system of determining space, during Donato's suit to recover $25,000 for carving a fountain for Milton S. Hershey, tho "chocolate king." The question of whether or not the boards of tho crate in which Donato shipped liis statue to Hershey Park was at issue and a more or loss embarrassed sta tionmaster was doing his best to ex plain just how wide a crack pre sented itself for his curious gaze. Finally he tried to illustrate: "About that wide, I should say," he said as he held up two fingers. "That is absolutely the way I should measure it. I don't know what method you'd call it —" "Two fingers?" observed Mr. Evans, musingly. "Ah, yes," he added, "why not call it liquid measure!" V * * Had the Westpointers been on their toes at the Vanderbilt hotel in New York yesterday morning, they might perchance have managed to get tli« jump on the Navy men in anticipa tion of the big football spectacle whieT* was staged this afternoon. A qui i. good-looking chap from Annapoi:< walked into the lobby followed I>* M rope, attached to which walked dately a very live and very cap».Vn« looking goat. The admiring gla»; of the fair young things who ». ?.<» present in large numbers with ? .«•! t chaperones or parents followed i.iAri and goat, but the Army continue-"*- were far from the scene, or it m'f have been that the enemy's goo; have been taken into camp !• 'ore ho battle had begun. | VELL KNOVN PEOPLE | —Major General Barnett, who rec ommended swagger sticks for marines used to be stationed at Philadelphia. —Dr. J. George Becht made tli« address Thursday at the dedication of the new Packet-ton school. —Harry C. Lauser was marshal of Lebanon's big pavement celebration parade. —W. W. Davis, old Pennsylvania newspaperman, now living in Illinois, is back visiting former home scenes In Lancaster county. —Robert Sagerson, prominent Johnstown man, was taken ill wliil® attending United States court at Pitta burgh. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Flarrishnrg is a center of big telephone divisions covering many counties? HISTORIC HARRIS BVRC The Mockodr built by John Harris was the first fortil-ratlnn against the Indians In tilts unrt of the State.
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