8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE ILOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.KGItAPH I'HIXTING CO., Telegraph HiilldlnK, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE. Pris t and Editor-in-Chief K. P. OYSTEK, Business Manager. OVS M. SHEINMETZ, Manazing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub j\-,:roin lishors' Associa tion. The Audit Bureau of Oircu njgnQßHL latlon and Penn- WBnjWjpffjM sylvania Associat -1*« Mj ngjß Eastern gffice, Has -11!Bill SSI brook, Story & Brooks, Firth Ave EISES* hp nue Building:. New BHHBSk em office, Has. Gas Building. Chi ■— (ago. 111. • Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <SKISE*mKI> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Snorn dally everan- elreiilation tor the three months enciliiK April 1, 1010, it 22,432 These figures arr net. All returned, nnanld and daiuayril euple* deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, \1»RII> 11 And 10. I am with you ahcay, even unto the end of the world . — MATT. 2S: 20. THE CIVIC CLUB DECISION ALL Harriaburg will be gratified over Judge Kunkel's decision, holding as legal the bequest of the Fleming mansion at Front and North streets lo the Civic Club. The opinion deciding the case combines common sense with proper interpreta tion of the legal points at issue. .Judge Kunkel never loses sight of the intent of the statute in whatsoever maze of legal technicalities it may be present ed; justice and law go hand in hand in his court. The possession of this handsome home will add mightily to the effec tiveness of the Civic Club as an organi zation, but the building will probably become the headquarters for all man ner of women's gatherings, especially since Judge Kunkel in his decision makes it perfectly clear that the be quest is legalized on ihe broad premise that "in this case the people of Har risburg are the beneficiaries"—in other words lhat the mansion is the property of the people as a whole. An important point decided in this case is that the Daupllin county court will go to all proper lengths to make effective the wishes of decedents with regard to public bequests. It all too often happens tlittt the donor of a pub lic gift is scarcely cold in his grave before his heirs have their heads to gether devising ways and means of "contesting the will." By this gift to the Civic Club Mrs. Fleming not only marked herself as a woman of public spirit, but she set an example that should be followed. There are in Harrisburg scores of very wealthy people who have not done all lor their city that they might have done. It is difficult to believe that these men and women arc to permit themselves to go down "unwept, un honored and unsung,'' remembered only for their wealth and for the fact that they had so poor a conception of (heir earlhly stewardship that they gave no thought for the needs of the cc mm unity that made possible the ac cumulation of their fortunes. Harrisburg needs a public swimming pool, it needs a public community club building, it needs a free bridge over the Susquehanna—these and many other things of less cost would form everlasting monuments to their donors; nor Is it necessary for a man to die to build such a monument. The Harrisburg Civic Club has been a leader In civic affairs for years. Its new home should be a constant source of inspiration. It is beautiful in it self and its grounds are an illustra tion of what may be done on a small city plot. Its possession .will give the club a sense of permanence and well being. We shall look for some great things from the Civic Club in the next few years. City Commissioner Gross is absolutely right in his declared purpose to make the city parks safe recreation places for women and children. He particularly emphasizes his intention to enforce to the letter the law prohibiting intoxi cated persons from loafing in the parks. In this matter, Commissioner Gross will have the support and approval of all citizens. It might also be suggested in this connection that drastic and imme diate action ought to be taken to sup press the gang of young hoodlums who have already commenced their game of destruction along the River Front from one end of the city to the other. CITY PLANNING TIME was When, like Boston, cities grew along cow paths, on hill sides and in any old place that the founder and his associates chose to settle. Their start in many cases was indltTerent and careless and their development In others has been just as hodge-podge as the beginning. Now. however, conditions are differ ent. Cities are understanding the im portance of proper planning for the future and are no longer willing to grow like Topsy. There is now a proper appreciation of the need for looking ahead and providing for the future. Recently the American Civic Asso ciation issued a bulletin treating of real estate subdivisions and this bulle tin is. practically an exposition of the plans ai d purposes of the City Plan ning Co'hmisslon of Harrisburg, which Is (loin* such admirable work in .1 quiet but effective way. This city wil TUESDAY EVENING, realize some day how much it owes to the five men who are meeting' from lime to time and passing upon the streets and avenues and developments of plots in all parts of the city and its ' suburbs. John Xolcn, a distinguished land scape architect, has recently issued a book in which he points out that haphazard city development is a thing of the past. His book points out the needs of a city and how these needs may be met for the benefit of all its citizens. Like Warren H. Manning, who has done so much for our own city, Mr. Nolen and all who are en gaged in the work of city planning agree that growing cities must look to the future, and as in everything else Harrisburg has shown Its real civic spirit in supporting the City Planning Commission here. In all problems which confront this community the people must depend for their solution tipon the men of experi j ence and skill who know what is I needed and who have the vision to : direct In a legitimate way the thought ! and activities of the people. We are more and more coming to understand that detached houses with air and light contribute to the happi ness and comfort of the people; that building restrictions arc required to the end that the rights of all may be conserved in all building operations, that beauty and utility go hand in hand, and that an attractive city is a positive asset for all who live therein. Referring to the subject of planning, the Kansas City Star says: "To-day an up-to-date city engages an expert to make a city plan just as it engages one 1o lay out a water system." it adds: City planning is now being worked out on a scientific basis, and there is growing up in this country a new profession, which indicates how extensive is the de mand of cities to get away from the old haphazard methods of de velopment. At the opening of the spring build ing season these matters deserve particular attention and Harrisburg is just now at a point where more than ever before we must give thought to the planning of the future. That Municipal Boating Committee just announced has a work to do which will be of benefit not only to those who are immediately interested in aequatic sports and pleasures, but to all who are proud of the river hasiu. This com mittee should develop plans for the autumn river carnival and work out some reasonable provisions for the housing of boats. ORDERING THE ARMY HOME IX the light of recent hints from the White House it would not be surprising if President Wilson \ should order the army home from | Mexico at any time and Rive up the hunt for Villa. Just before the army retired from Vera Cruz one of the j interior leaders in a vain-glorious i moment posted notices throughout his district that unless the Gringoes left on a day named he would forthwith run them into the sea. By some freak this date coincided with the day of departure as fixed by Washington and | as a result thousands of ignorant Mexicans believe the Americans were frightened away without firing a shot, j This has cost the United States a lot j of prestige. Now conies another i blood-thirsty Mexican bull-dozer, with I a plot to cut off the troops seeking ] Villa and if the soldiers are ordered home immediately following there Is no telling to what lengths the aroused Mexicans may go. Then, too, such a withdrawal would be more than discouraging to the troops and would be poor pay for the sacrifices they have been making. Nobody will say where the rumor j that the army is to be recalled started, j but if it was a "feeler" thrown out | by the administration the answer was not long in forthcoming. BUSINESS OUTLOOK HOW long is our war prosperity to last, is a question that has been asked very frequently in the past few weeks. Men are begin ning to look seriously toward a pos sible sudden collapse of our great in dustrial boom. Free trade and pros pects of an early peace are influences combining to throw a scare into even the most confident. Some discussion ; has taken place also as to whether prosperity in the United States itself j is becoming so great that there is dan ! ger of American manufacturers los -1 ing interest in pressing for foreign | business and in taking advantage of | the great opportunities of the present ! time for entering the world's markets and building up a trade that can be held after the war. No nation ever had such an opportunity befbre and it will never come to us again. There is, according to the Foreign Department of the National City Bank, a world-wide scarcity of manufactur ed goods. This conclusion has been reached by that Department through a careful investigation, to ascertain as nearly as possible' Just how stocks stood in countries to which the United States might sell- The conclusion Is that the shelves are practically empty, not only in South America and the ex treme Orient, but in many other parts of the world. The situation is a remarkable one. The world's stock of goods outside of the United States is at many points the lowest on record. The demand Is great. We have the goods or can make them. The requirements in each market must be studied carefully and strictly complied with, in order to fur nish exactly what the customers have been used to and so as to pack and ship, not In our way, but In their way. Details of this character, to which our merchants are not accustomed, earn estly attended to, will open up ready, : vast and permanent new fields. i The business is worth the deepest I attention, because it will fill the great ! void in our commerce which will come j when the demand for war goods is over with. ! How soon will the war end? That lis problematical, but like the break i ins up of the Confederacy, it may be jas suddenly concluded as it was be j gun. There is only one thing to do— take our present profits gladly and prepare for the day of renewed Euro pean Imports by writing a protective tariff law on the books at Washing ton. I « | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"] ' —The contributing trusts would no doubt welcome the idea of a candidate of Mr. Ford's wealth. —Republicans should rest easy— the people have but one idea in mind, the defeat of the present national ad ministration. —What has become of the boy who used to go about crying: "Hold up! Hold up!" just before Easter? —Senator Smoot believes that every girl should know what to cook and how to cook—and. he might have added, how to get and keep a cook. —Three hundred New York news papermen are drilling for the army— probably figuring on getting into a ; quieter kind of work. —The prisoners at Sing Sing have i formed a glee club and have appro priately called it the Sing Sing Club. I EDITORIAL COMMENT I i China is getting so she can make a ! shift from a monarchical to a repub lican form of government, and vice versa, so deftly that It takes a quick eye to catch the performance. Chi cago Herald. The Congressman who calls Cor vol unteers to serve "until peace and sound government have been established, in Mexico" exceeds all records for long- I tern) enlistments. Why not limit it to ten years, with the privilege of re- i enlisting? Philadelphia North Anieri- j can. When it conies to watchful waiting, j nobody has anything on Theodore now- j adays.—Columbia State. Mr. Bryan, the man whT> can raise a million soldiers overnight, must be disgusted with tiie delay in gathering j our forces on the border. Philadel phia North American. They Want Harmony [Williamsport Gazette-Bulletin] It begins to look as If the Re publicans of Pennsylvania are to be I forced into u tight—not of their own choosing, of course, for the rank and file do not want a fight—but because , of the selfishness of Philadelphia and I Pittsburgh politicians, who do not seem to care what becomes of the party as long as they can serve their own selfish ends. There should be no light because there is absolutely 110 occasion for strife. Harmony should be the watchword instead of Hostility. [The Scranton Republican.) Because the Republican prefers concord 1o factional controversy, it ; has not been as keen as some of its < esteemed contemporaries in exploiting recent incidents calculated to widen the gulf between the opposing ele ments of the party in Pennsylvania. At the outset of the primary cam paign, this journal clearly defined its position in declaring for harmony and victory. We have felt, "and still feel, I that Republican success in this year's ! campaign is more essential to the wel j fare of our country and its people, i than the ascendancy of any faction. | Actuated by this broad view, we have j avoided factional strife, and still claim | it our privilege to do so, preferring to jbe regarded as plain, everyday Re | publicans, rather than faetionists. In I doing our utmost for the success of those principles with which the party is identified, wo have no enemies to punish, no animosities to appease. We stand for Republican success, and shall not encourage anything which in | our judgment will best subserve the interests of our country. There is no casuistry in this. We want to see every Republican in- Pennsylvania prompted by the same purpose, and I taking leave of faction for the welfare of the party and the good of the nation. The Game of "I Dare!" rfrom the Kansas City Star.] The dare season is on again in full t force, and until it passes In its natural | course The Stat- expects to be dared at < least once a day. That day on which The Star Is not dared can only be put down an a day on which writing mate rials are unavailable to the darers. The favorite dare just now Is on the j subject of preparedness for national de- ! fense. This dare if! generally esteemed ! as a clincher, and its most popular form j is. "I dare The Star to deny that the | munitions makers are paying for the I preparedness campaign." This dare is j generally on a postal card, and to make | It more menacing and strike a deeper terror to The Star's soul is frequently j printed in large letters and with red ! Ink. This dare may be called the dare direct, and while its supporters are nu merous. there is a class which appar ently considers It too crude to be eirec- | tive. These others inclined to- subtler forms In which the most refined irony" is j thinly veiled under a tone of grave po liteness. Thus: "I have 110 doubt The Star will take early occasion to print a ; full and convincing denial of the 1 charge, which seems unfortunately to j be substantiated by some plausibility of circumstances, that its editorials and news (?) articles 011 preparedness (sicl are paid for by the notorious death peddlers who expect to make for tunes selling murder tools to the Gov ernment." Then there is what may be called the dare confidential. It is a rakish, devil-may-care dare, a dare between good fellows and men of the world between whom there should be the ut most frankness. It assumes that The Star makes no bones about being in a conspiracy with the munitions makers (it being perfectly well known to everybody), but demands In the Inter ests'of truth- and candor to know the terms of the arrangement. This dare runs: "1 dare The Star to tell its readers what the figures were on the check it received from the armor plate Inter ests for that editorial asserting that our navy ranks fourth." ' To this is frequently added the encouragement, "Oh. come on now. don't be afraid." And It does seem churlish to hang back in the face of such winning ways. The Roosevelt dare is close behind the preparedness dare, and may even pass it before summer comes. It seeks to uncover the plot The Star is hatch ing to elect Colonel Roosevelt President in direct opposition to the known wishes of ninety-nine out of every 100 Americans. This is a verv popular and much misspelled dare. "I dare The Starr," it runs, "to tell what offis Rose velt is going to give It —Is it the post offls?" The dare season probably will run until the T-told-you-so season comes on. which should set in immediately after I the national convention In June. The rules are most liberal. All The Star | requires is that postage on dares be prepaid. If written in ink care should l>e taken not to smear with the thumb, I With these simple observances anybody | is entitled to the relief of daring The Star's dander. DO YOU KNOW __ 'l'lytl 'Hnrrlslwrg slccl Is usc«l for government work holts and nuts? HISTORIC HARRISIURCi Camp Curtin was the first liig mo bilization ,'ump established in the State 1 after the Civil War got under way. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH mv ""PtKKOi^ccuua By the Ex-Commlttecmaß Announcements which look like very definite alignments for the prosecution of a Republican delegate and state committee campaign with more vigor than known in this State for twenty years have come from the rival camps in the last twenty-four hours and even those newspapers which looked for an agreement at the very last minute now discuss the coming contest as one which will be memorable. The Philadelphia North American to-day says that the Governor's ver sion of the SI,OOO check transaction stands and that his friends are rally ing to him. The Public ledger says that the Governor's friends are loyal and will stand by him in his fight. The Philadelphia Record appears to think there is something very significant In the Governor's inability to find the Oliver letter and from Pittsburgh comes word that David B. Oliver says that he does not intend to put out the letter now and declines to indicate what he will do in the future. Pitts burgh newspapers look for war. The attitude of most of ihe newspapers ap pears to be to let the fight develop and lo print the news, very few of them taking sides. The Brumbaugh headquarters last night gave out a statement telling of the manner in which people all over the state have been rallying to the support of the Governor and quoting among others Dr. J. M. Baldy, of Philadelphia, chairman of the State Medical Bureau. More letters and telegrams in support of the Governor are to come out later in the day. Pen rose people made much of the return of a check for $2.78 to the State Treas ury by J. Louis Sowers, a clerk in the Department of Labor and Industry, who felt that he should not accept it because on one day he circulated a petition. If this dangerous precedent should be followed at the Capitol, say some people who have axes to grind, the State Treasury would get many checks in the course of a day. —The Penrose attitude is summed ; up by the Philadelphia Inquirer as in ! defiance of Attorney General Brown's j statement that the Governor's state- j ment meant war and that there was j nothing in the talk that he would withdraw. The Inquirer says: "It be came known yesterday that even should Governor Brumbaugh, as a re sult of the sensational developments of his acceptance of a check for SI,OOO \ from David B. Oliver during the guber natorial campaign for which no ac counting was made, decide to with- ! draw from the fight to have Pennsyl- j vania's delegates to the Republican . national convention instructed for him, j the Penrose leadership would not join j in harmonious accord with the Vare faction. The Penrose camp is united j on its program and will stand by it in its entirety. This is as follows: The elimination of Governor Brumbaugh as a presidential possibility carrying I the indorsement of this State's dele- : gates and the sending of these na tional delegates.to Chicago absolutely uninatruoted. A fight in every sena torial district in the State for the elec tion of members to the Republican State committee pledged to vote fori Senator Penrose as a member of the Republican national committee. An unqualified stand to the end for Charles A. Snyder, df Schuylkill county, for Auditor General and Harmon M. Kephart, of Fayette county, for State Treasurer." —James H. Maurer, president of the State Federation of Labor and a So cialist member of the Legislature, has denied that he made any remarks at a I New York labor meeting derogatory to the Stars and Stripes. The remark lias been reported far and wide and Mayor Mitcliel, of New Tork, has started an investigation. —The Old Guard Democrats in Philadelphia have gotten started on what looks like a real campaign against National Committeeman Pal mer and his pals. They threaten all kinds of things against them. The ' question is what strength the Old l Guard can command. I According to Gettysburg people, ' Congressman C. W. Beales, of that town, i will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Senate from the Adams-Franklin district. This is now represented by Senator John AV. Hoke. —Dr. F. A. Rupp, Lewistown editor, lis a candidate for the Democratic ; nomination for the House in Mifflin i county. Notwithstanding the Palmer decla | ration for ex-Judge Ellis L. Orvis, i Washington dispatches say a boom for | John H. Wators, of Johnstown, for the I Democratic nomination for Senator in Pennsylvania lately was started in the j Pennsylvania delegation in Congress, it Is not known whether Mr. Waters himself started it or whether Con gressman Warren Worth Bailey is rc ! sponsible. The statement launching i the boom was sent to the newspapers anonymously, but on the official sta i tionery of the House of Representa tives. If Mr. Bailey is the author of i the statement, it is apparent that he ' has made an earnest effort to inter- I view himself without success, as the following announcement discloses: Word reached Washington yesterday from Philadelphia that reorganization Democrats have about reached the conclusion that John H. Waters, of Johnstown, is good senatorial timber. —Tlie Philadelphia Record to-day says regarding the letter: "As the en tire attention of the public has been centered in the controversy between tire Governor and Mr. Oliver on the missing letter, it is highly important for the Brumbaugh interests that the document be produced. The whole controversy has simmered down to a question of veracity which the letter is expected to answer. Governor Hrumbaugh in his statement said the letter would show that the Oliver check was a personal gift. Mr. Oliver in reply assc-ted that the letter would show no such a thing, but on the con trary would prove that the check was distinctly a campaign contribution. A strong indication that the burden of establishing the true context of the letter would be left to the Governor was contained in a dispatch from Pittsburgh. David B. Oliver is quoted as saying: "I will not now produce the copy of my letter to Dr. Brumbaugh, if at all." This is taken to mean that Mr. Oliver failed to keep a copy." —Washington party committees in Philadelphia are commencing to adopt resolutions condemning the maimer in which the SI,OOO check was brought to the Governor's attention. The Vare people are strongly backing up the Governor. YOU'VE DONK IT. TOO By WlniK Dinner j Why did IJo it? Many times I've done the same before— I Ami each time that I'd not again Repeat my act, 1 swore. I Yet here to-day again I went Without my overcoat — j And now I have another cold 1 In head as well as throat. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT I WANT YOU t> QUrr fet-LING EVERYbCPV T&TSIMCE MV .SON'S GONE To TfiE CITY H&5 BECOME A,BUM, 'CPOSE fT AINT 60 WHY I HEARD ONiy UV5t WEEK WT j lEADINQ MAN DIXIE GOES The Movies Move South By Frederic J. Haskin PREPARATIONS are going for- ! ward in this city for a great Afri- j can expedition which will rival, j in a spectacular way, that staged .by the late Mr. Stanley, and will have the added feature of a touching love story in which the hero fights a whole tribe of natives and the villain is swallowed by an alligator. Will the expedition really go to ; Africa? It will not. It will only go as far as the mouth of the St. John's river at Mayport fifteen miles away, where there is enough tropical jungle j to suit the most exacting explorer, and where three large African native j villages are now under construction. As you may have guessed, the pro- | moters of this expedition are one of the big moving picture concerns, a| number of which have recently open- ! ed studios in Jacksonville. The property room of this particu lar company presents a bizarre and busy appearance right now. An or der for bamboo war spears is being rushed through, and three young' ladies are busy at their sewing ma chines making primitive gee-strings out of burlap for the savage tribes men, who will be a number of Jack sonville's negro waiters and cab driv ers in very slim disguise. These fel lows in fact will be nearly the whole show, as the scenario calls for only three white parts and there are about seventy blacks in it. The darkies are enthusiastic. Aside from the two dollars a day and lunch which each of them will get, they are one and all convinced that they were born to act. One of tlie director's chief difficulties, in fact, is to induce them to be na tural rather than histrionic. You are wondering about that alli gator. So is the director. Jackfeon ville has a unique industry in the shape of a combined alligator and ostrich farm, which is of the greatest assistance in rendering Asiatic and African local color. This firm has contracted to furnish an alligator which will swim out into the river and upset the boat in which the vil lain is trying to escape, leaving a rea sonable assumption that he has swal lowed that unfortunate offender, with out actually doing so. That is a pretty large contract for tne alligator—not to mention the villain—but the owner of the alligator farm seems to have perfect confidence in his pet reptile. Naturally, the vicinity of Jackson ville is particularly rich in all sorts of tropical settings and accessories; but that is not all, by a good deal. Tlie variety of scenes that may be found within a few miles of here is simply incredible. You wouldn't pick this as the place to stage Uncle Tom's Cabin, would vou? Well, Storm Boyd of the Kalem Company did it. lie discovered that the gleaming white sand of the Florida beaches made better snow, for movie purposes, than the clouds themselves could produce. He fenced in a section of the St. John's river, bought five tons of ice, and the setting for Eliza's dramatic get-away THE STATE FROM m TO DAY The usual relative positions of ad vancement in life were reversed the other day when Joseph Watson, of Colwyn, instead of mounting further the rungs of the ladder, suffered the ladder to turn and fall on him, in dicting painful Injuries. There is now a suit on against the owner of said ladder for SB,OOO. "Brevity is the soul of wit"-among the dwellers in the trenches of the French, if we are to believe the re ports that are sent out through the mail, stereotyped cards with lines "I am well," "I am sick," "Have been wounded." etc., printed thereon. The writer crosses out all that do not suit his case. Earl Wolfe, a Lewisburg boy, has written to his aunt and the. card which he sent informs her that so far he has escaped a German bul let. Founders' Day and the dedication of Science Hall will be observed at Juniata College, Huntingdon, a week from yesterday. The only history ever written of I the soldiers from Snyder county will I appear in the columns of the Snyder | County Tribune starting May 5. All I letters from prospective subscribers going to Selinsgrove will not have to I pass through the hands of censors. ' The Reading News-Times speaks i with line feeling and careful discrim ination when it says that "the old ladles of both sexes advise the boys 'to remove their ball game to some tiniot place where they won't annoy anyone." "Somebody's alius takln' the ijoy out o' life." I A lover of horses, a. theatrical APRIL 11, 1916. from the bloodhounds was complete. Those chunks of ice were somewhat smaller before the film was complete, and the leading lady testified that the water was somewhat, colder, but the production was particularly realistic. The scenic possibilities of the Flor ida landscape are one of the things that makes Jacksonville popular with the movie companies. On the St. John's river you can Ret almost any sort of a river scene Imaginable, in cluding any kind of a bout from a large steamer to a native dugout canoe. Then there are the nearby beaches which will furnish any ocean scene that does not require rocks. There are no rocks in Florida, so the companies which need them make boulders out of canvass. In the way of buildings, this vicin ity has the advantage over almost any Jther you could select in the United States. The great tourist hotels of Florida are veritable palaces, and the sky line of old St. Augustine, twenty eight miles from here, embellished with towers and minarets, is said to surpass that of many European towns. This little city, said to be the oldest in the United States, has been re peatedly used by the movie makers as :an old world setting. Indian hindoo j temples, Roman gardens with swans I and pools, Fiji Island scenes, and ship ; wrecks are some other settings for which Jacksonville surroundings have 1 been found particularly well suited. The light, in this part of the coun , try is much better, and more reliable | than it is farther North. "You don't j have to wait on the weather." is the j way the directors express it. They en i joy several hours more of outdoor | work every day, and are able to use I the outdoor studio, with the help of light diffusers, for a great many scenes that would have to be made indoors lin New York. Naturally, all of this I is a great saving in electrical current, and in fact, nearly all operating ex j penses are a good deal lower in Jack sonville than anywhere else the game j has been tried. One director has even diviscd a method of using the soft southern sunlight for outdoor scenes in which a ceiling is required to be shown. Rafters are used, and a white cloth that will diffuse the light is stretched between them. By getting exactly the right perspective, only the rafters will show in the picture. So the moving picture men have found Jacksonville good for them— and the benefit has been Intensely mutual. The lilm people began lo arrive in numbers just about the time that Jacksonville was getting up in a dazed sort of way after having been knocked galley-west by the European j war, which robbed the city of a large part of its shipping. The movie in terests brought with them a weekly payroll of between thirty and forty thousand dollars, and the great ma jority of those dollars stay right in Jacksonville, for it is a well-known fact that movie folk are good spend ers. agent, an inmate of an asylum whence he escaped clad only in his pajamus, and a jailbird, one S. Hawkins has just been found dead with an empty milk can at his side. Ho was former ly a resident of Charleroi and worth 125,000. Stc semper criminalibus. The Herculean strength of John D. Jr., has but recently been made pub lic by the announcement through the following headline in a State contem porary: "John D. Jr. Backs Church." People at Mont Clare, Montgomery county, saw a white sparrow in a flock of the regular colored type. OUR DAILY LAUGH > 1 7? PUZZLE. -r 1 y"~ What ia -Willie I | POOR SPOKT. The Hunter: v Humph! Mr. ,*r Roosevelt f must've been '/ along ahead of me! I ain't seen W \ a snow-bird or a " > rabbit .all day! Ebening (Ebat Purchase of the Oliver property, long occupied by the store of the Misses Gutelius, in Second street, Just opposite the Bolton, by C. Ross Boon brings to mind some interesting things in connection with properties in that Part of the city. Originally this lot, which extends through to Fahnestock alley, faced on Walnut street, the lots running parallel to Second. Then they were turned around and the property owners agreed to open Fahnestock alley in 1802. The first transfer of the property in the chain of title which was prepared for the new owner shows that one of the sons of John Harris the Founder, sold it in 1 788, three years after the town was laid out, to Nicolas Lover. In 1812 this lot came into the possession of Frederick Boas, » who was a relative of the new owner. Among the owners were Henry McKin ney, J. S. Oliver and A. K. Fahne stock. The Oliver people took title in 1845 and have held it ever since.- For years it was occupied by a jewelry store and watchmaking establishment. The fact that the lots once faced on Walnut street is not generally known, although it will be noticed in Mul berry, Chestnut, Market and other streets that originally lots faced on the cross streets, although now facing on those running north and south. listen to this canoeist's rhapsody: "Speaking of 'preparedness' measures of the canoeists for Spring, perhaps you've noticed the signs of approach ing summer yourself. If you haven't, there's no better way to forget the cares ot the work-a-day than by a few hours' outing in a canoe. At the pres ent stage of the river a stiff spin across the pulling waters of the river from 'Hardscrabble' to the mouth of the Conodoguinet will loosen up your muscles and take the'kinks' out of your back. Then if you loaf along a little and glide around the piers of the rail road bridges and linger beneath the overhanging banks of the hill that, rises Gibraltar like from the water's edge below Worrnleysburg you will feel like exploring the picturesque stream as far at least as the first dam. Mere you will find grim evidence of winter's destructiveness in the turbu lently rushing waters that gush through the breaks caused In the old dam -by the Ice flows. If you are venturesome you may want to 'shoot' the rapids that now tumble along be neath the dam—but this is a little dan gerous just at present. If you tire ot the scenes you can loaf along and drop I down again to the mouth of the creek. I Along the way you may see all the signs of Spring. On the rocky, almost bare face of the big bluff you will notice big icicles, winter's last strong hold, melting away beneath the warm breath of Spring's breezes. Here and there you inay see the early arbutus creeping out in the crevices of the hillside and everywhere the moss is just a little more green." Seeing a German band along Third street the other evening caused a man who vised to do considerable work ou the broad highways of publicity to toll a story, lie was out West, away out West, and he heard that one of his comrades was to strike the same town when he did. So he wired tli.it he would meet him there with a commit tee and a band. A couple of news papermen met him and he remarked that So and So was to meet him that afternoon. One of the scribes belonged to an organization which had just en tertained a United States senator and he dug up some foot-long badges marked "Reception Committee." They started for the train, and what should they run into but a German band. The result was that when the man on the road did arrive the band and commit tee were there to meet him. * * <1 How the epidemic of measles is actually affecting the business of the Dauphin County Court was striking!* demonstrated yesterday when at tit? opening of April special common pleas seven of the twelve iftlesmen who asked to be excused from jury duty gave as their reason "measles in the family." One man, who declared his presence at home was absolutely es sential, explained that he has a family of three youngsters, one of which is just recovering from measles, another is just contracting It and the third haa recovered from the childish disease only to develop symptoms of the more deadly illne-ss of pneumonia, aggra vated by the measles attack. » » » It's funny the way articles remain in fires long after the ruins have been swept by the winds and rains. There are, sometimes, articles which would naturally be taken out as soon as the fire was over. In one of the Fourth street buildings destroyed by fire last summer there is a bed frame which is on the second floor of a dwelling. The floor is mostly burned away, but the bed stands, and the iron work rises above the rubbish. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. W. H. Mostellcr, of the Phoe nixville board of health, is urging in spection of all cellars and bakeshops. —E. J. Morris Wood, of Consho hocken. has received word that his son has joined the English army. The Wood family is prominent in that part of the State. —Robert D. Dripps, former director of safety in Philadelphia, will run for Centrvess. —President H. 11. Apple, of Frank lin and Marshall College, is to be the speaker at the Juniata College fortieth anniversary. Unhyphenated "What nationality are you?" T asked a foreign looking man; And he replied, finite proudly, too; "Ich bin ein goot Aineerigan." I met another down the street Who answered with a cheerful grin When I my question did repeat: "Be gobs, and Oi'm Amarlkin!" To one who loitered near the spot I put the query once again, And here's the answer that I got: "Aye bane a glide Amerikaln." Still farther on I chanced to see A swarthy man who stood alone. "Da nationale?* responded he, "I gooda da Amahrigone." I met a lonesome looking guy. "Whnt breed are you?" I asked him straight. "I hardly know." he made reply. "My dad was raised in old VmV State." —Walter G. Doty In ✓ 'v Does Newspaper Ad vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer asked this question of retailers throughout the country: NO. 3 S<UD: "I believe that advertising in the local paper brings new cus tomers into my store and that it keeps the old ones trading here. I do not trace any per cent, of sales directly to this kind of ad vertising. "1 know that everything that I put In the paper is read us I have the people tell me about it. 1 do know that 1 bought almost as much paint in 1015 as in the two years previous and that I did much more advertising in the paper In 1915." (Continued to-morrow) I *
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