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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 7.
Abstinency is favorable both to the
head and to the pocket.
— HORACE GREELEY.
WASHINGTON AND HARRISBURG
WASHINGTON is now protesting
against the erection of a big
government power plant within
the shadow of the Washington monu
ment and in view of the Capitol. This
plant absolutely destroys a charming
view from Potomac Park and the
smoke stacks of the proposed plant
will be more conspicuous than any
other object In the city. It appears
that the plant was authorized before
the people at large became aware of
the defacing character of the under
taking. Now there is a general pro
test going up from the newspapers at
the National Capitol and throughout
the country.
This city occupies somewhat the
position to Pennsylvania as Washing
ton does to the United States. We of
Harrisburg, as the most Interested
municipality, are endeavoring to do
everything that Is possible to Increase
the beauty and attractiveness of our
own Capitol building and it is doubt
ful whether Governor Brumbaugh
and the other wideawake officials on
Capitol Hill could be so lulled by any
department of the State government
as to permit the erection upon the
State property of such an unsightly
object as is now menacing the most
beautiful section of Washington.
Time -was when the people of this
°lty might have been indifferent to
anything that could happen to ruin
the impressive beauty of our own
Capitol Park, but that time is past
and they are very much interested in
the park, as it will be when the present
administration shall have completed
its study of the problem and Indicates
the best treatment for the district now
covered by the old section of the park
and the proposed extension.
THE WHY OF IT
FROM Indiana comes the state
ment that it is "believed" that
Senator Tom Taggart will not
seek an election to the seat which he
now holds by appointment. In In
diana and everywhere else it is known
that he could not be elected if he
tried it.
.JAPAN AND HEMP
AT the request of a cordage manu
facturer in this country, the
chief of our Bureau of Insular
Affairs recently wired to Governor
\ Harrison of the Philippine Islands,
asking why it was that there appeared
to be a shortage of Philippine hemp
in the American market. Governor
Harrison wired back that It was be
cause of huge purchases being made
in Japan. This indicates that Japan
is rapidly developing her hemp in
dustries, is cementing her friendship
with the followers of Manuel Quezon
' in the Philippines by purchasing her
raw hemp in the Insular possessions
which the Democrats have put adrift,
and that the destination of a large
percentage of the finished product of
the hemp will be the United States.
And the wage scale in Japan to-day
would not have paid a day's board of
Oliver Twist at Beadle Bumbles
Workhouse, Doesn t this argue for
the Republican policy of protection?
CONSTRUCTIVE WORK
THE decision of the Chamber of
Commerce to publish in pam
phlet form the address of Allen
D. Albert, the civic expert who spoke
her® recently under the joint auspices
of the Rotary Club and the Chamber
of Commerce, is commendable. Mr
Albert's speech was helpful and con
structive. It pointed out both our
accomplishments and our needs, our
successes and our failures, and it is
well worth careful study, it points
out very clearly the way toward a
bigger and a better city, and the Cham
ber is doing an educational work in
placing It In the hands of the people.
Another educational project the
Chamber Is considering is the publi
cation of a handbook of Harrisburg
for use especially in lhe schools. Mr.
Albert made it. very clear by a series
of pointed rjuestions that few Harris
burgers know much about their city or
how it complies with others through
out the country. The Chamber means
to fill this gap by giving proper in
formation to the boys and girls, as well
as the adults of town who may desire
It. The notary Club Intends to apply
the lesson to its own membership by
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FRIDAY EVENING, x BLAKRTBBURQ rfSfcftg TELEGRAPH APRIL 7, 1916.
having a Harrlsburg evening:, when
members will be required to answer all
manner of questions relative to the
I city in which they live.
DEMOCRACY VS. BUSINESS
IN a lecture before the Royal Statis
tical Society of England, Sir
George Paish, financial authority,
j declared that "Great Britain has
nearly succeeded in maintaining its
productive power despite the with
drawal of approximately 4,000,000
men from ita industries. If allow
ance were made for the Increase in
.the country'* gold stock the nation
would be found to have succeeded in
1 meeting virtually the whole of its war
expenditures out of its Income, wlth
, out needing to draw upon its ac
cumulated capital to an extent worth
j mentioning."
If Great Britain can maintain its
' productive power under present con
iditions. think of the efficiency of that
i country'in a trade war when the men
i now under arms are returned to the
| industrial field. And Great Britain
; has decided to adopt the protective
I policy. Notwithstanding these con
| federations, our dull-witted Democracy
! refuses to be illumined, and stub
bornly adheres to the policy of near
free-trade. If business does not oust
the Democrats in November, Europe
will oust business in the next four
years.
FREE SUGAR
THE Louisiana sugar crop fell off
forty-four per cent, in 1915,
compared with 1914. Cuba had
a bumper crop for 1915. The Demo
crats had better get busy with that bill
to repeal the free sugar clause,
scheduled to become effective May 1,
and it would be just as well if they
restored the Republican rate. The
Government needs the money.
OBSERVING QUARANTINE
THE Health Board would be justi
fied in making an example of
.some of those who break
quarantine regulations and thereby
spread contagion. Unquestionably
the rapid development of the measles
epidemic is due in large part to care
lessness. Infected persons and those
who come into close contact with
sufferers are permitted to come Into
contact with children who are free
from the disease and hundreds thus
contract the malady who otherwise
might have escaped.
This cannot be laid to the door of
the Health Officers. They have more
work than their limited number can
do properly. It is entirely with the
people themselves. If they would only
"do as they would be done by" the
measles epidemic could be crushed in
a week. But so long as they go
selfishly about their own ways, with
no thought for the welfare of their
fellows, all the closing of schools and
moving picture theaters that may be
enforced will not have the desired
effect.
OUR MILK SUPPLY
HEALTH BOARD tests show that
Harrisburg's milk supply is the
best in the history of the city.
There is still room for much Improve
ment, no doubt, but that the efforts of
the health authorities to better the
supply have met with a great measure
of success is gratifying and encourag
ing. A comparison of present con
ditions with those when the Telegraph
started the agitation which resulted in
city milk inspection will convince any
body that the effort has been worth
while.
COST OF PREPAREDNESS
WE are hearing much just now
from the peace-at-any-price
minority of the overwhelming
cost of preparedness. They are talk
ing of the price of militarism in Ger
many as a comparison with what we
as a people may be called upon to
bear. This is all foolishness. The
people of the United States will never
be called upon to shoulder a single
burden of preparedness in excess of
what a majority of them believe they
should. An administration "that does
not give the people what they want
finds itself out in the cold after four
years.
The price of preparedness should be
I considered as similar to our individual
j contributions to tire Insurance. Con
; gressman Kreider, in a recent address
; on the subject, summed the matter up
1 very well when he said:
Regarding the financial burden
that preparedness will necessarily
bring. I wish to say that the bur
| den of cost is greatly and grossly
| exaggerated. Tlie figures In the ag
gregate may look large, but they
i are in fact very smai i in com
' parison to other expenses of the
i Government or our national
! wealth. If we desire to compare
the cost—a single battle would
| cost us more than it will cost to
construct a most powerful navy and
maintain a good-sized army. A
single year ot war would cost us
more than a century of prepared
ness. Should we, unhappily, be
come Involved in a conflict with a
first-class power, who would stop
to ask the cost on the day of bat
tle? How would you meas
ure in money the valdß of the dead
or the agony of the wounded and
dying, the suffering and privations
I of the widow and orphan? What is
human life and human blood and
human suffering worth measured In
gold? In fact, we all agree it is
not a question of cost. No. no, it is
solely and entirely a question—
j Will preparedness reduce the
I chances of war?
And preparedness in this country
will do just that thing. It is not the
big, strong man known to go armed
who offers temptation to the lurking
footpad. The bully seldom attacks the
man he fears may give him a drub
bing. It is so among nations. But
even in war, preparedness, as at Ma
nila or Santiago, may end a conflict
that otherwise might be long drawn
out. The readiness of Dewey and
Schley and the effectiveness of their
fleets unquestionably saved the lives of
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
Americans, and of Spaniards, too. for
that matter. The futftre may hold for
us something very like those occasions.
History has a tendency to repeat itself.
THE I>. A. R. REI.IKI' PLAN
TO-MORROW the Daughters of
the American Revolution of
Harrisburg and the country-at
large will sell flags for the benefit of
'i he Belgian relief fund. The cam
' palgn has been going on for some
i time, but It will culminate to-morrow
on King Albert's birthday. Ten mil
lion miniature Belgium flags havte
been distributed, so that the public may
concentrate on making contributions
to provide clothing and food for the
women and children in the occupied
portions of the war-racked countries.
It Is the largest number of flags ever
printed for an; charitable work. The
emblems are to be distributed for an
offering, the minimum amount of
which is seven cents, the cost of a
ration for one Belgian for one day.
Mrs. Daisy Allen Story, president of
the D. A. R„ on behalf of the National
Board of the Society, says of this
movement:
\
The national board of our society
has decided on a Belgium Flag
Day, to be held on the anniver
sary of King Albert's birthday, the
Bth of April. We are working di
rectly through our 100.000 mem
bers. These women will organise
their friends into little bands and
stand on every street corner, and
in front of every railroad station,
every theater and office building,
and if necessary, make a house
to-house canvass. In almost every
city and town in the. country and
sell Belgian flags to help the Inno
cent sufferers in Belgium and
Northern France.
It Is estimated that 17,000,000 peo
ple In the United States have not in
any way contributed to the Belgian
fund and an effort will be made to
reach many of these. Nobody will
miss seven cents, yet we are told that
this small sum will feed one hungry,
Belgian for one day.
fo HUcc. U
""PTKKOIFTAANZA
By the Ex-Committeeman
National Committeeman Henry G.
Wasson has not been successful in his
attempts to set up candidates for na
tional delegates in the Eighteenth
Congressional District in opposition to
A. Carson Stamni. of this city, and
B. Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon.
From all accounts, he has not suc
ceeded in stirring up as much trouble
as he hoped for Messrs. Green and
Byron in the Seventeenth district, and
he has not made any efforts in the
ork-Adams. Berks-Lehigh and Lan
caster county districts, although his
scouts have been reported in those
districts.
While here this week Mr. Wasson
occupied some of his spare time in a
studious effort to overthrow the har
mony existing among Republicans and
tried to start something by way of
Cumberland county. He was not only
rebuffed, but told that the men to
whom he looked for support were not
very heavy weights.
Mr. Wasson went home with his
temper ruffled. He was talking fight
and did not appear to be pleased that
a sincere effort for harmony was being
made.
—The Democratic war flags are fly
ing all over the State and even in Pal
mer's own there is about as nice a
fight under way as anyone could wish.
In Allegheny county there are signs
that the harmony program may be
torn in half and in Luzerne county
there will be an open fight made
against Palmer and his pals. In Phila
delphia the Old Guard element, which
has control of the machinery, is going
ahead and setting up candidates for
delegate without consulting State
Chairman Roland S. Morris.
Ex-Congressman Frank L. Der
sliem. of Lewisburg, has sent word to
friends here that he is not a candidate
for Congress this year.
Now that the siding headquarters
of the Democratic State machine has
Woodrow Wilson's name on the ballot
in this State, the parade will move on.
The machine promised in 1912 that if
it got Wilson they would give Penn
sylvania. They did not deliver and
this year the Democrats will furnish
the usual left of the line in the Key
stone State.
—Republicans in the Second Con
gressional District have agreed upon
State Senator James P. McNlchol and
"Uncle Dave" Lane, chairman of the
Republican city committee, for district
delegates to the national convention,
and Charlemagne Tower and Congress
man George S. Graham for alternates.
Senator MoNichol and Congressman
Graham will both be candidates for
renomination. All the Congressmen in
the five other districts, and also Con
gressman-at-Large John R. K. Scott
will be candidates for re-election. Jo
seph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia, may
be picked to oppose Scott for the
nomination. In the Third district Rep
resentative Roney will again seek the
Republican nomination for the Legis
lature without the aid of Ward Leader
Harry J. Trainor. Francis Littleton
Maguire, formerly a resident of West
Philadelphia, may oppose Roney.
Among the Vare men who will be can
didates for Legislative nominations
are: Common Councilman C. C. A.
Baldi. Jr., Thomas M. MeNiehol, pres
ent member; James A. Walker, Chair
man Edwin R. Cox, of the House
manufactures committee and sponsor
for the child labor law, and ICdward
W. Wells. Neither William Walsh nor
John McClintock will be candidates for
renomination in the Twenty-first dis
trict.
—According to word from Carlisle.
J. C. Bucher, prominent resident of
Boiling Springs, is circulating pe
titions to run tor congressman-at-large
on the Republican ticket.
—Congressman W. S. Vare was here
late yesterday afternoon and is under
stood to have discussed the possibility
of the withdrawal of the Governor, the
appointment of John Monaghan, Pub
lic Service Commissioner, as a judge
for Philadelphia and the successor to
Charles Johnson as Insurance Com
missioner. He was at the Capitol two
hours. The Philadelphia North Ameri
can to-day says: "Congressman Vare,
upon his arival in Philadelphia, said
that not a word of the Governor with
drawing was mentioned at the meet
ing. 'I have absolutely no information
on the subject.' said Mr. Vare. "We
merely talked over some Philadelphia
appointments and the first I knew of
these "withdrawal" reports was what
I read in the papers.' Attorney Gen
eral Brown, when reached over the
long-distance telephone last night, con
firmed Vare's statement. 'lt's news to
me,' said Brown when asked If the
Governor was considering withdrawing
Uls name. 'That subject wasn't even
mentioned this afternoon. We merely
talked over some appointments. The
newspapers have told me all I know
about it'."
SOMEWHERE IN JAPAN
( Albany Journal)
A Japanese salesman is making the
rounds of New York city soliciting
orders for shirts. He carries a line of
samples, takes measurements, writes
orders, directions, etc.. and the maids
in a factory somewhere in Japan make
up the goods. The finished shirts then
cross the Pacific and are carried on the
transcontinental railroads to 'the
buyer.
The Japanese are pushing this busi
ness rapidly, and inasmuch us the
Democratic tariff law cut the duty on
these goods forty per cent., our Asiatic
competitors «ee great possibilities in
this method of getting Into the Amer
ican market, as the wages paid in
Japan are about one-twelfth those paid
n the United States.
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[From the Coal ARC]
For the benefit of the younger gen- |
e ration and those who sometimes
despair of their lot in life because of
circumstances, educational or financial,
a brief sketch of the present chief of
the Department of Mines of Pennsyl- '
vana. James E. Roderick, is offered
for the Success Number of Coal Age. .
His biographical notice in Smull's, |
which introduces Pennsylvanians to
their public servants at Harrisburg, j
closes with the sentence, "He is a
member of the First Presbyterian
Church at Hazleton and a director of
the Hazleton National Bank."
This summing up presents tersely,
the character features of a citizen who
is well worthy of apace in the Who's
Who Department of Coal Age. Mr. j
Roderick's achievements serve well as
an example of the possibilities open
to all ambitious youths. Mr. Roderick
has never appeared in the class of in
dustrial captains or financial wizards,
but he has attained such a measure
of success in both of these fields as
would give him an entrance to their
councils. It is probably this fact that
has kept him In the ranks of workers
and retained for him the esteem of
his fellow citizens. While he Is chief
of the Department of Mines and well j
sustains tlie dignity of that important
post, he is still greeted familiarly by '
the men who worked under his direc- ,
Hon as youthful toilers in the mines,
and their greeting is returned in that
hearty way which conies from mutual
respect and confidence.
INTERNATIONAL POKER
As a poker player our President
would shine without a peer. The only!
trouble with him is that he will not
stay In a pot until the showdown. He
has had four aces in his hand during
his entire administration, but he is 1
afraid to play them to the limit. At
some critical moment he makes you 1
think he is bluffing with a bob-tail
straight.
He started after Mexico as though
he meant lo push her off the map.
Then, with the situation unchanged, he
withdrew tlie troops from Vera Cruz.
Naturally the Mexican outlaws said we
, were afraid of them and murders and
i killings became worse than ever.
When the Lusitania was sunk he
j drew the four aces again and sent a j
note worthy of any man. Then he ,
! weakened and sent some notes that i
I every American was ashamed of.
The Kaiser said he would sink every
armed ship without warning, and when
our President looked in his hand all
; he could see was a pair of deuces, so
he sent a foolish little note to the
I Allies that encouraged the Kaiser to j
I raise him the limit. A closer Inspec- !
j lion of his cards must have disclosed j
i the four aces again, for our President
I forthwith challenged the Kaiser, Con- j
I gress and everybody else on the issue j
he had made.
All this is good poker, but It is bad
diplomacy, especially when you want !
to avoid trouble. Our President has a j
reputation as a bluffer now, and in
consequence he has to have the cards j
in the future to win. A straight, firm, |
irrevocable policy from the beginning 1
migh* have «nved »s from so many 1
new deals.—The Outlaw.
WHERE HUBBARD STOOD
T believe in the stuff I am handing 1
out, in the firm I am working for;
and in my ability to get results. I
believe that honest stuff can be passed
out to honest men by honest methods.
1 believe In working, not weeping; in
j boosting, not knocking; In the pleas-
I lire of my job. I believe that a man
I gets what he goes after, that one
deed done to-day is worth two deeds
'to-morrow, and that no man is down
land out until he has lost faith in him
iself. I believe in to-day and the work
i 1 am doing, in to-morrow and the
work T hope to do, and In the sure
reward which the future holds. I
1 believe in courtesy, in kindness, in
generosity, in good cheer, in friend
ship and in honest competition. I be
j lieve there is something doing some
where. for every man ready to do it.
jl believe I'm ready right now!
! Elbert Hubbard.
PUBLICITY
"The essence of civilization is in
formation. Publicity is the monitor i
of a nation. Newspapers are the ar
teries of publicity, the overflowing
currents of enlightenment. Newspa
per advertising has become a hasis of
business. It serves those who sell and
lliose who buy. It is the modern mar-1
■ ket-place."—Michael Frledsam. presi
-1 dent, B. Altman & Co., New York, i
SPIESINCANADA
By Frederic J. Haskin
V. )
THERE are no spies in Canada —,<
at least, so say the officials. The i
people do not agree with tlieni, 1
however, and are persistent In their >
demands that Immediate and drastic I
measures be taken to protect Canada ; t
j from any more outrages such as the i
burning of Parliament House.
The officials still hold that this i
mysterious fire was due to accidental '
causes, but the people are not to be j
convinced. The accidental causes, i
1 they point out, could hardly have •
been responsible also for the attack t
on Victoria Bridge across the St. : 1
Lawrence, the destruction of the Cape i;
Spencer oil depot and fog station, and
the three equally mysterious fires in,
munition factories, all of which oc
curred in rapid succession.
Then. too. the circumstances in
connection with the fire in the Ottawa
capitol were most peculiar. The con-I
flagration is supposed to have started ,
j among the newspapers in the reading:
1 room, and yet both the fire chief and i
I Mr. Bonar Law claim to have heard:
five or six explosions of a sound so
extraordinary that they were sure they j
must have been caused by bombs or
shells. The fact that there had been
a small fire in the same reading room
the day before, caused by a few cigar
ashes carelessly flicked among the
newspapers, is brushed aside by the;
people as unimportant.
By this time someone, has come
forward with a story about a sus-i
picious looking stranger who was seen
nervously pacing up and down the 1
THESTATF-FROM miOW'
Mariorie Sterrett lias written to,
Harrv Heckman, a Hasleton youth,
who has been inspired with the proper
spirit and is going to take, charge ol
the campaign in that town, for rais
ins funds to. build the battleship
America. Harry will unquestionably
, have the moral and financial support
j of his fellow citizens.
I You can't, keep them down! The
tulips insist on pushing their brilliant
ly colored selves up through the snow
of Klttanning and thoughts of Easter
are driving the snow away much
abashed at its own temerity in stick-
I ing around so long.
A Montrose paper says that a black
fox, supposedly an extinct species,
I was seen by a party of huntsmen m
ithat vicinity. It is said that the pelt
of a black fox is worth anywhere
froril one to sixteen thousand dollars,
so it was either a day dream or a bit
|of tough luck that they did no more
than see the animal.
' We read of a husband whose af
! feet ion for his wife was such that ho
tried to make her eat an electric
bulb. It is rather deplorable that a
husband should treat his wife like a
gout, is it not
Anglers in Warren are in the dumps
about earU fishing prospects by rea
son of the high water. Of course., the
fisherman who doesn't care whether
he gets a bag full or not will go out;
lust the same, but those who are in
it for results have not been seen to
[ smile for some tlm^
1 Times are changing when several
hundred school children mob the city
clerk of Sunbury in on effort to get
permits to return to their studies. The
poor clerk was almost crushed to the
floor by the active youngsters, who
had been under quarantine as the re
sult of a measles epidemic.
The State highway between Lehigh .
Gap and Walnutport has been sub
merged for more than a week owing
| to the floods of the Lehigh liver.
! John McDonald had an ear-slash-!
Ing party the other day when he
• limbed into a window of his own
i home and attacked his hoarder, Frank
Lester. A good opportunity for the
dog In the barber shop story. This
barber had a little pup who would sit
gazing in an expectant manner at the
portly old gentleman who occasion
ally dropped in for a tonsorlal treat
ment. When asked the reason for the
| earnest attention paid by the little,
corridor outside tbe reading room im
mediately preceding: the fire. And the ,
boilers, which might have been re- '
sponsible for the five explosions, were :
found intact among the ruins. After
that the public's mind was made up j
and there is no changing It. The fire j
was the work of the nervous young,
man in the corridor—the work of a
spy. .
Since then, while the authorities
keep insisting that there are no spies
—a statement which is borne out by
the fact that they have caught none—
the.v are allowing themselves to be
persuaded into taking certain precau
tions. The guard has been strength
ened on the Weliand Canal and prep
arations have been perfected for
rushing thirty thousand men and
large quntities of ammunition to
the boundary within twenty-four hours
if necessary. Besides which, the in
ternational bridges are now also
heavily guarded. Evidently, the wild
rumors circulated about a German in
vasion of f'anada have assumed a new
significance since the recent outbreak
of fl res.
These rumors, coming from various
parts of the I'nited States and even
England, all seem to coincide. It
seems that the Germans, at war with
England, are anxious for the Can
adians to remain in their own country
and hence are thinking up wavs to
keep 'them there. They have figured
■ out. so the rumors have It, that if
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| dog to the operation the barber re
: plied that he had once sliced off a
portion of a customer's ear and the
pup was not the kind to miss any
thing.
NOT MUCH
"Pa. a man's wife is his better half,
isn't she?
"We are told so, my son."
"Then if a man marries twice there
isn't anything left of him. is there?"
OUR DAILY LAUGH I
1 CORRECTION Jr~
What are you (%£
0 speak about? "/ fy. -j|§j]a
The march of \
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The march is ( U
lut of date. You fa jTF
scan the tango. ffl • fjh
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x * The Pessimist:
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f tS? \ - we have di» snow
V-5^ 1 ' in Ju 'y it's
hot an ' we nee<^s
's« v<P . it, 'stead of now
i ' when it's cold
.. * enuff?
NOT ORIGIXAI HUT GOOD
By Wins Dinger
Said Woodrow: "The war. I much fear,
Will spoil my vacation this year,
I'nless I should sport
At some new resort
That to Washington is very near.
j "You see. I can't go far away
; This summer, for my month of play,
I'or some German I'-hoat
Might «:ot had, and a. note
1 would have to dispatch right away.
I don't know just where I shall go,
i New Hampshire Is too far, you know."
When someone replied:
"If I were you, I'd
Take a viila in old Mexico."
HEtontng (Eliat
Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, publlshet
of the Altoona Tribune, takes a rap
at the Slate's game bounty law in tho
course of a mighty Interesting num
ber of hia serifs of works on the gamo
of Pennsylvania which bus Just been
issued. The colonel wrote several
books on the legends and traditions of
the Keystone State, the passing of Jtlie
great forests of the State and other
themes which not only appealed to
every lover of Pennsylvania, but at
tracted national and even internation
al attention. Recently he wrote on
the "Pennsylvania laon or Panther,"
telling many people who did not know
of those splendid creatures of the for
est just what they were and where
I they were still to l.e found. The pass-
ilng of the bison from this State and
disappearance of elk were also given.
His latest work is on "Pennsylvania
Wildcats." Most of us have always
considered the prowler of the Blu«
Ridge to be a nuisance, a menace to
travelers and an enemy to the farmer.
|the colonel, who gives dates, places anrl
; individuals to back up every statement
tand gives many an interesting anec
dote of bobcat hunters, says that they
till a useful place In (lie scheme of
| nature, lie says that instead of being
| a pest the wildcat, as we know him,
| keeps down the rabbits which would
I otherwise multiply so fast that re
forestation would be endangered. 11l
settled districts the farmers' boys keep
I the wildcats well killed off. but in tho
j wilder districts there Is need of the
icats. Bounty laws, he says, are un
necessary, wasteful and cruel. Tin*
wildcat has its uses and if there were
! no rabbits in the State there would be
no wildcats. In the course of his in
troduction the colonel writes: "As it
lis the aim of all good Pennsylvanlans
to aid in reforestation of the State -
j after the forest fire menace lias been
j checked the wildcat should be pre
served to help along the arboreal mil
lenium."
. . .
J Col. Horace L. Haldeman. of
IChickies, who is a candidate for the
| Republican nomination for Senator, is
one of the few officers in the National
Guard who served in the Civil War.
, He is commissary general of subsist
ence and widely known all o\er tho
j State. Col. Haldeman has been iden
tified witli the iron industry of the
State all his life.
The Millersburg electric light plant
which was bought by Farley Gannett,
from the Eeffler estate, has been in
existence since 1892. It was origin
ally located in the old Deibler mill and
was originally operated by water
power. A steam plant was then in
stalled and for the last six years F. S.
Kirk, of this city, has been in charge.
j The Philadelphia Electric company
case which occupied considerable at -
! tention at the Capitol this week, is
j destined to be a big one in State flnan-
I cial circles. It will establish certain
precedents and rules of procedure
which will govern in many cases t'»
come and which have been closely
watched by men interested in utilities
all over the State.
* * *
Plans of the State Forestry depart
ment to set out something like 10,000
i young black or bird cherry trees this
J year, especially in the farming dis
tricts, so that there will be food for
| birds, will interest a good many peo
! pie in this section. For years it h(ts
I been the practice of Cumberland and
, Dauphin county farmers to vary lo
j cust trees along the roads with cherry
trees and there are hundreds of farms
within a short distance of llarrls
[ burg which are marked by cherry trees
along their borders, as a good many
antoniobilists know. These trees art
of various kinds and some of them
afford a large measure of fruit, but
they are largely for the birds whiclfN
i flock about them in great numbers
land remain close to the farms, where
1 their insect destroying proclivities
■ make them welcome.
i Among visitors to the city yester
il day was J. Banks Kurtz, prominent
-1 Blair county attorney. He is protni
' nently mentioned for the Republican
I nomination for Congress against Cou
■ gressman Warren Worth Bailey.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
i
I McKcen, prominent
1 Pittsburgh railroad man, is at the
■' seashore.
' | —Congressman A. G. Dev. alt, who
'! is ill, was for years Senator from Up
-1 high and once ran for Auditor Gen-
F eral.
—Congressman W. W. Griest. who
has been ill, is recuperating at the sea
. ! shore.
' —City Treasurer P. F. Lynett, of
■ Scran ton, is at Atlantic City.
l! —General E. DeV. Morrell, who re
> signed as a member of the Philadcl
•iphi!' Board of Education, was one of
' the standbys of Governor Brumbaugh
1 when he was superintendent of
schools.
j DO YOU KNOW
That Harrislnirg stool is used in
I gas tanks throughout the land?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
People used to come to Harrisburg
'on canal boats before the days of rail
' roads. They were called packets and
j several lines ran from this city.
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