8 HARJtISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building-, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prcst and Editor in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OVS M. STCINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American lishers' Associa- Ition, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastern <affiee, Has brook. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office. Has brook. Story & Brooks. People's " Gcs Building. Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <Bfi£KSl2!3Bp> week: by mall. J3.00 a year in advance. STinru dally evfrnpc circulation for th. three ending April 30, 1910, 22,341 Theme fl«nrcn are net. AH returned anaold and damaffrd copies deducted. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 27. I | Religion is' a consciousness of God in tie Soul, leading in the ways of ser-1 vice and to the sacrifices of love. — REV. THOMAS EDWARD POTTKBTOS, D. D. DAMAGING THE PAVING IT would scent to be high time for the adoption of some rules and regulations to restrain the need less slashing of paved streets in all parts of the city. Instead of a reason able provision requiring service cor porations to utilize the same trench for making house connections it ap pears that these companies in many cases rip open the newly-paved high way with utter indifference to the consequent damage. An illustration In point is the sec tion of Derry street between Twenty fifth and Twenty-sixth streets. About a year ago this street twis payed with asphalt and during the past week or two it has been opened on both sides of the car line in twenty or thirty places. Think of it all these trenches necessary to provide house connections which should have been installed before the pavlngr was done! It is almost invariably the result that a cut in the streets is never re paired In such a way as to leave the surface in the same condition as be fore. These openings almost always mean points of deterioration. Taking the block in question as an example, why should it not have been possible to make one cut serve a lateral,connection inside the curbline? But whatever the remedy, one should be immediately applied to prevent the ■wholesale damaging of the paved highways of the city. Already Harrisburg is being in volved In heavy expense for street re pair work because under a general re pair contract covering a period of several years the holes ffnd depres sions were permitted to grow worse and worse until to-day wide areas must be resurfaced. "A stitch in time saves nine;" also, immediate repair of a damaged high way saves large expenditures. (This is a matter for the Depart ment of Highways and we believe Commissioner Lynch is sufficiently experienced and enterprising to cor rect whatever defects exist in the present regulation affecting the open ing of streets. Speaking of "clean-up week," there Is much complaint growing out of the conditions resulting from the indifferent handling of coal at two or three points along the river and especially on the thoroughfare which is perhaps more widely used for pleasure and enjoyment than any other street In the city. If there is to be any aesthetic value what soever to the city of Harrisburg, and we believe that the fifteen-year cam paign for the introduction of improve ments has not been waged in vain, why then do we permit to be continually dis figured one of the attractive park streets which is generally regarded as typifying the picturesque growth and development of our city? We "ask to know." as Hashimuro might have remarked were he a resident of Harris burg. SOCIAL CKNTKRB THE TELEGRAPH has just, com pleted publication of a series of three articles on social center heeds and possibilities in Harrisburg. They were written by Mrs. Anna H. Wood, based on the views of an ex pert and prepared after many inter views and much investigation. They were given to the public at this time with the hope that they might be of some value In arousing the people of the city to the needs of the munici pality in this direction. Four or five community centers ought to be opened in Harrisburg next autumn and during the summer is the time to mull over the problem and decide upon the preliminaries. We have concerts, public play grounds, tennis courts, baseball dia monds, swimming, camping and what not for our people, young and old, during the summer, but when cold weather comes we leave the entire population to Its own devices. Some thing must be done to keep the boys and girls off the streets and out of the way of temptation and trouble in the winter. It is all very well to say that the place for the youth Is In the home. But there are many homes that are neither attractive nor wholesome, and youth—age too, for that matter—de SATURDAY EVENING, mands society and social enjoyment. It will have them, good or bad. Those who earn above their living expenses find expression of this almost universal human need in the social clubs, the Rotary club, the country clubs, lodges and other organizations of the kind, where they meet their friends and discuss common interests. This is the social gathering's most use ful function—that it permits men to know one another better. But not all can afford the luxuries of club membership and at all events these do ! not meet the needs of the young peo ! pie, so it is only within reason to thjnk and plan now lor what is sure to i come—and the sooner the better — ' social centers in our schoolhouses un der proper direction. "COM MOX \VEAI/TH AVENUK" AS showing the widespread inter est throughout the city in every thing that makes for Its better ment we print herewith a letter to the Telegraph which embodies a very in teresting suggestion: Pardon an inquiry, but I have been wondering of late if considera tion could not be given to naming Statu street "Commonwealth Ave nue." The connection this beauti ful thoroughfare has with the Capitol Park extension has brought I the matter to my mind. Inasmuch as Pennsylvania is a "Common wealth" and not a "State." it seems to me that the street is at present bearing the very opposite of tne name it ought to have and that giv ing it an appropriate name would dignify the street. This is a small matter, but I have always wondered why State street was so called when it was not situ ated in a State, but in a Common wealth. I am bringing this matter to your attention because of your keen interest in civic problems. There is some force in this sugges tion and the Telegraph would be glad to have the ideas of other readers re garding the proposed change in the name of this important highway. With tlie landscape treatment of the ex tended Capitol Park zone and the prob able subway under the Pennsylvania Railroqd tracks In State street, no other highway will be so likely to at tract the favorable attention of visitors. 1 It will be the main avenue from the east and as the chief en trance to the Capitol it Is certain to become more and more the Appian Way of the Commonwealth. Governor Brumbaugh and the other j members of the Board of Public j Grounds and Buildings will soon take J up for serious consideration the sur- ' vey and landscape treatment in the j older as well as the new section of the ; park and they might with propriety j consider the suggestion herewith. SIR ROGER CASEMENT SIR ROGER CASEMENT'S friends contend that his brilliant Intel- j lect is marred by a streak of in- , sanity and suggest that he be sent to ; an asylum rather than the gallows.' Insanity iR the favorite plea of the i man who finds himself in serious trou ble of his own making, and it may be j that this Is the case with Sir Roger, j But there is one point not brought out i in his defense which would indicate pretty strongly that the deluded Irish patriot is lacking at least in good judgment and common sense. He went to Berlin, it will be remembered, to seek sympathy and aid for the free dom of Ireland. Berlin, the hotbed of imperialism and the last stronghold of the divine right of kings, as the cradle of Irish liberty is the dream of a madman, ludicrous if it were not so fraught with tragedy. BROKEN" PLEDGES AS the time approaches for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency, the pledges and promises of the Democratic platform of 1912 are being more closely studied. These are guides to the real purposes of the Democracy. Having utterly failed to make good in many direc tions the people are not likely to be impressed with the sweet-scented 1 phrases which fall from the lips of the President and his supporters on every occasion. We were assured four years ago at j Baltimore that the Democratic party ! favored a single term for the Presi dent. That is now a mere "scrap of I paper." We were also told that econ omy would be the watchword, yet hundreds of millions of dollars have • been squandered in one way or an other. Even Democratic leaders like Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, i Congressman Fitzgerald, of New York City, and others have publicly pro tested against the reckless squander [ ing of funds. Every form of taxation has been re sorted to in the absence of war to raise money for the spendthrifts now in control at Washington. A writer has suggested that the Democratic watchword now is, "Let us eat and j drink, for to-morrow we die." Grab | everything in sight appears to be the ; policy of those in power. Lack of ability, theoretical administration, nag ging of business, upsetting of well : tried and established policies—these ! have been the things, plus the race for spoils, that have destroyed con fidence In the party now in control of ; the government and invoked the wide spread protest which is going up against the continuance of Demo i cratic rule. Ol'R TRUCKS ABROAD THE war has given our automo bile truckmakers an opportun ity to demonstrate their wares In France, England and Russia. Re ports received last week indicate that the machines have given satisfaction under most trying conditions. It is likely that this market, once establish ed, may be maintained after the con flict when the trucks now In use are turned over to commercial purposes. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good and in this case It looks as though the American automobile manufacturers were the beneficiaries. Boys and girls—Don't forget that bunch of Decoration Day flowers for the veterans. It's grand growing weather—for weeds as well as vegetables. ly the Bx-Gommitteeman Developments of the last twenty four hours have made the Republican party situation in Pennsylvania one of the most interesting in the United States and it would seem now that the Republican delegation to Chicago will be as much in the limelight at the national convention this year as was fhe Democratic delegation to the Denver convention eight years ago. The Keystone Commonwealth is now holding national attention. The regu lar Republicans look for a decisive fight for control of the organization and the Roosevelt men are said not to be a bit adverse to having the Penn sylvania situation cleared up, appar ently not being sure of either faction. The Democrats who got Wilson, but not Pennsylvania are indulging in hopes again. Senator Penrose returned to Phila delphia last night declaring that there would be harmony in the .Na tional convention, which was taken to mean that he did not expect to have trouble over Roosevelt and that he and the Colonel's friends were not going to throw rocks at each other. Penrose stood pat on his claim of from fifty-flvG to sixty delegates favorable to his cause and a majority of the Republican State Committee. —While the Senator was returning ! from New York, Philadelphia began to realize that there was something to the reports that the Brumbaugh , people were endeavoring to prevent ; their followers from attending either the meetings of the State committee or delegation at Philadelphia on Wed- I nesday and that they inHended to i protest against any action being taken until every person could be certified.; This scheme was manifestly for delay and the Penrose people countered by pointing out that two years ago the State committee started off on the day set by lay. as is planned for this year, and that there was no objection raised. It is also pointed out that the meeting of the delegation in Phila delphia is planned more for a con ference than anything else and that Chicago is the place to show the credentials. —The Penrose invitation to the delegates to meet and make arrange ments for the trip to Chicago was a complete surprise to the Brumbaugh men and they have been trying to up set it. The meeting was styled by the Penrose men as a call for a "show down" and the action of the anti- Penrose men in trying to prevent men from attending is being much com mented upon. ! —The Philadelphia Record says to day that there were reports current yesterday that the Brumbaugh people 1 intended to either refrain from at tending the conference or else to bolt lit and set up a rival conference, which I would mean contests at Chicago. The ! North American says that Attorney j General Brown said that no such ioiders had gone out and that nothing jtliat could be printed had been decided i upon. The fact that Senator Penrose I is to be host at a luncheon to the dele- I gatea may be used as a reason for the \ Governor and others refusing to at j tend. I —Public Service Commissioner Wll ! liam A. Magee yesterday came out as i a candidate for Pennsylvania member l of the platform committee against j Senator Oliver, but did not seem to ! be very enthusiastic about It. I —While Senator Penrose was pre | dieting harmony as the result of his 'trip to New York, F. W. Fleitz. was jin Philadelphia, making a bitter at tack upon the Senator and his peo- I pie. Mr. Fleitz seemed to be particu | larly angry because the Lackawanna I delegates had not lined up for Brum ■ baugh against Penrose for chairman i —Allegheny county people say that i tht delegation from that county will j be about an even break, although last i night it was reported R. B. Scandrett j was for Penrose for chairman. The j Penrose people last night claimed for (the Senator for chairman John E. ! Baker, York; Calvin R. Armstrong, : Clinton; Frank Connell, Erie and ! Charles Miller, Venango. Penrose men 1 claim ten delegates-at-large. ! —A new boom for Knox for Presl | dent may be started at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh reports it is under way. ■ —Ford got 11,000 votes for Presi dent in Allegheny and the Governor 31,000. Snvder beat Ambler by 38,- 257 to 26,236. —F. H. Barker, of Ebensburg, Re publican candidate for Senator in Cambria, is also Washington party nominee. A mistake in spelling Rave him the Washington nomination over W. I. Stineman. •—The complete official vote for all candidates for Republican delegates at-large In Allegheny county was as follows: Aaron. 23.393; Acheson, 24,- 497; Alcorn, 21,114: Armstrong, 49,- 989; Babcock, 39,025: Baker, 30,982; Brumbaugh, 27.914; Bumbaugh, 14,- 747; Burke, 29.064; Clement, 18,528; Elverson, 27,260; Gillespie, 37,961; Johnson, 26.900: Kendrlck. 18,618; Lewis. 18,813; Moore. 27,801; Oliver, r.2,543: Penrose, 29.927; Powell, 26,- 391; Reynolds, 19,218; Rice, 28,031; Scull. 25,286; Shoemaker, 21,657; Smith, 19.864: Wanamaker, 33,019; Weingartner, 11,485. —One of the funniest things about the Democratic primary, whose re turns are even later than those of the Republicans in coming in, is that there is a chance that "Butch" Mc- Devitt may be a candidate for Con gressman-at-large. McDevitt is the famous "millionaire for a day" and has been butting into politics as a diversion. This year he filed papers to run as a candidate for Congress man-at-large on the Republican and Democratic tickets. He did not get anywhere on the Republican ticket, but the Democratic organization headed by Palmer was so busy trying to elect the Monroe man as national committeeman that It was not look ing and it would appear that "Butch" Is up among the leaders. Later re turns mav put him down, but the fact remains that he made a big run. —Another funny thing- about the Democratic campaign was that State Chairman Roland S. Morris was so busy looking after Palmer and others that, he did not take stock account for himself and may come close to being low man for delegata-af-large or may tr>en be defeated. The Philadelphia Record. Democratic organ, says this morning that late returns Indicate Morris' defeat. The Democratic returns, when finished, may be a big surprise as the Old Guard has mustered more strength than the reorganizes believed. How ever, as Democratic fights are expen sive the headquarters of the rivals have gone out of business. —Representative "Bob" Habgood, of McKean county, is being congratu lated on the double luck which came his way on Primary day. He was re nominated and his wife also presented him with a daughter, making his family two girls and two boys. He feels that under the circumstances his return to Harrlsburg next winter Is practically certain. •—Philadelphia's official count will be completed to-night. Some of the .up-State counties are still on. the way. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE IN HOW FAR? "I cast that responsibility far from myself" Von Bethmann-Hollwej?—"I cast that responsibility far from myself" On Wednesday. May 24, there appeared in the New York World and the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the cartoons reproduced herewith. The coincidence is striking. Neither artist knew the olher had such a picture in mind and both came off the presses at the same hour but in cities many miles apart. The World cartoon is that to the left and the Ledger cartoon that to the right. Underneath each cartoon appears the line, "I cast that re sponsibility far from me." TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —lt would seem to us that "little men from Egypt" might find opportunity I enough for mischief in their own land without stirring up trouble over here. —Despite its name, Dead Man Hill seems to be a very lively place. —About this date the home gard ener begins to learn that there is more to gardening than seed-time and har- ] vest. —Died—May 2fi, at Island Park, Mr. Penn State League. Mourners will omit flowers. York. Lancaster, Read ing, Shamokln and Mt. Carmel papers, please copy. —"For a man who made the Presi dent possible," says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, "the Colonel is not ex actly pioneering the way to make him impossible." The Colonel doesn't need to; the President did that for himself. EDITORIAL COMMENT Fears are expressed that Roosevelt i will refuse to support anybody who does not come from Oyster Hay-—Wash- I ington Star. Our entire army is now in Mexico, and the brave fellows can all get to know each other. Wall Street Jour nal. There is something of the calm se renity of a Henry Ford in the Old Guard's campaign to get the Colonel out of the trenches by June 7.—Boston Transcript. "We have met the Germans and they , are partly ours," but only, as it seems, i on condition that we proceed at once jto make the British theirs.—Chicago | Herald. Why not turn over the problem of finding some reliable vegetable dyes to the young- summer man who invariably attends a picnic in a pair of white duck trousers?— Boston Transcript. From the May Films He was standing in the garden, ar i rayed in the glory of the first white ! flannel suit of the season. The sun light slanted goldenly through the very i young leaves, the crocuses were spring ing up through the very young grass, j It was a gay, happy world,full of songs ;and laughter and mirth —tinted in blue and gold and green. The boy looked down at his immaculate white trousers j complacently. "In the Spring," he quoted, "a young j man's fancy lightly turns—" j "Huh!" murmured the girl, quite rudely interrupting him. She was 'kneeling in front of a very new flower j bed, dressed in the picturesque but ! rather dusty comfort of a green linen i garden smock. She held a trowel 1 firmly in a determined but grimy little I hand. All at once she turned her head, and, blinking in the sunlight, 'looked up into the hoy's face. "If you say that bromide again, you shall go home. Every Spring since I was born, : 1 think, I've heard some one say that." The girl fell to digging spitefully in the brown soil of the very new flower bed. "Oh—h!" screamed the girl sudden ly, as her trowel struck a fat, wriggly worm. "Oh—h!" she screamed again, as she dropped the troWelvind retreat ed toward the house. "Go up on the porch," he suggested. "This garden is full of worms. You need a man to dig garden beds anyway. To-morrow I'll come in the overalls and do your digging for you." Diplomacy won, and the girl, still shuddering at the memory of the worm, suffered herself to be led to the porch. The boy reached blindly for the girl's hand. "Dear," he murmured, "dear, if you only realized —If you only knew—" The girl drew her hand away. "Listen!" she said to the boy. "This foolishness has got to stop. You're not in love with me at all; it's Just the Springtime. And now I'm soing in to get dressed, and then I'm going to get supper. I think I'll make a strawberry shortcake—you can let your fancy turn to that. Are you going to stay and stop being foolish, or are you go ing to'go home and moon?" The boy in all the glory of his Springtime white suit looked deeply Into the heart of the sunset. The plnkness reminded him vaguely of strawberry shortcake« —and tha girl made wonderful shortcake. "I'll stay," answered the boy.—Mar garet E. Sangster, Jr., in the Christian Herald. America's Colossal Waste It used to be said that the people of New York threw Away er -h day more food than would feed Paris. Oeorga Hurst, editor of Financial America, Koen further. According to his state ment the people of this country lose in waste and extravagance mure than France is spending; in her Stupendous war operations. Mr. Hurst delivered an address last Thursday • before the Kansas bankers in convention at Salina. He said the American people. If Wiey so desired, cQuld save In one year enoufch money to pay off the en tire indebtedness of the united States by dietary economy In one kind of food and they would be healthier and hap pier by so doing. HAVRE DE GRACE IN HER GLORY j By Frederic J. Haskin TO-DAY sees the end of the year's . Spring racing in Havre de Grace. I The little Maryland town is ready | to settle back into its wonted quiet I after two weeks of feverish activity, i count its profits and wait for the Fall meeting. It is worth while paying a visit to Havre de Grace while the races are on, whether you are interested in rac ing or not. Havre de Grace has nor- 1 mally about four thousand people and an atmosphere of reminiscent dignity , and picturesque peace. Twice a year for two weeks comes a period when a daily crowd of six thousand racing folk descends on the village. Fifteen hundred of the same worldly and en ergetic class take up temporary quar ters in Havre de Grace itself, to the great enlivenment of local society and the profit of everybody who has any thing for sale or a fooin for rent. Havre de Grace is a town transformed. Every one rises to the occasion. Racing atmosphere takes the place of ordinary air. Local newsboys side track their stock dailies to peddle Racing Form and kindred publica tions. Every automobile in town un furls a "For Hire" banner and be comes for the nonce a jitney—not only !the humble brands that seem to be | born to the work, but big machines with stream-line bodies and fancy horse-powers. The visitors have to Ibe carried to the track, and all cars ! turn out. Natives take a proprietary interest in the proceedings. The state of af fairs is something like what prevails in a little southern town that a big league ball team uses for a training camp—only more so. Down to the tiny darky bootblacks running about the streets, everybody is an expert on the horses that are going to run. and the men who are going to ride them. The other day a visitor observed a [chubby and prosperous little urchin weeping bitterly in the street, under (he taunts of a circle of lean and in digent looking comrades. "What's the trouble?" inquired the visitor. "I weighs a hun'red an' thirty j pounds," replied the unfortunate. "I ; ca:n't never be a Jockey." On the whole, Havre de Grace re gards the races and their followers with approval. There is some quiet ! opposition among those of stricter |THESTATEFROM D/YTOPffifV Rumor insists on having it that Harry IK. Thaw Is to become a resident of j Klizabethtown. Coincident with the re i lease of the rumor came news of his divorced wife's marriage to her dancing I partner, who is the nephew of Comte j Esmeraldo Enrico Mllo. Visions of a j well-known tenor and tlie armless | Venus (lit unbidden through our mind at mention of the combination of names. William Williams, a Chester resi | dent, is a wiser man than formerly. A I new ruse was practiced on W. W. by a I thin, delicate-looking highwayman, who was so timid about walking alone through the streets that he asked for protection. The holdup followed the granting of aforementioned protection. Plowing at night by artificial light is the innovation introduced at dale. If the farmers keep on learning the economy of time they will shortly get up in the early morning and meet themselves on their way to bed. Baseball fatalities are . becoming more frequent than football, It seems. The most recent instance is the death of an Oil City bov who was struck over (he heart by a "roundhouse out," and died a few minutes after. The disadvantage of being a twin was demonstrated at Pittsburgh when a girl was placed on trlol for stealing from a department store and they got her twin sister by mistake. They Jump high In Reading, the girls •to, judging: from the Younf? Women's Christian Association "gym show, In which Miss Edith Bnrthold cleared four feel two inches without any assist ance. The Franklin Evening News shows a hit of insight when they comment on the iact that "a lot of people are fa voring HuKhes or Root "nd betting on Roosevelt." Odds aren't very long this year, however, on any candidate. An exchange prints the mistake of a certain editor in reporting that "An- I drew Umpus sang a silo at the last sociable." Further misquotation were tragic. else there might be some inter polation of "Silo, Jack and the game," etc., etc. The Punxsutawney Spirit tells !n genial vein the story of "Crazy Jack" Williams, who failed to climb the Na ! tional Rank Building for two very good I reasons, one of which the police bank i officials were responsible for and the | other the police. A Sharon Compliment Referring in complimentary terms to the floral decoration of the Telegraph {Building and tha campaign of this newspaper for porch and window boxes the Sharon Telegraph savs: "Usually the Telegranh is decorated the night preceding Decoration Pay, hut this S'HHon the florist in charge had the work done ahead of schedule in order that late applicants for win dowboxes might not be disappointed. The Harrlshurg Telegraph Is doing | splendid work in its home city where 1 civic betterment is a watchword." MAY 27, 1916. principles, but as one Havre tie Gra dan explained it, "Most of them have nothing against the races. While the meets are on, they take in lodgers." The lack of opposition really springs, however, from less mercenary motives than that. An addition of fifteen hundred people to the popula tion of a town of four thousand makes a large difference in business transact ed. especially when the fifteen hundred belongs to a class that, spends money freely. But even so, Havre de Grace would probably object strenuously to being used as a racing center if the, visitors were inclined to be trouble some. They are not. Natives agree that they are exceptionally quiet and I unobtrusive element. There are sev enteen places in Havre de Grace where the winner may celebrate victory or the loser drown defeat in strong wat iers. Yet the local police force docs not add one single constable while the j races are on. Of all the little towns where big race meets are held, none is better fit ted to set off the colorful, variegated life of the track than Havre de Grace. For this is an old and historic village, contrasting sharply with the ultra modern crowds in the streets. There is a gentleman in Havre de Grace who recently nad the honor of watching a monument unveiled to the heroism of his grandfather. When the British marched on Baltimore in the war of 1812, Havre de Grace was one of the unfortunate places that they visited en route. When they ar rived there were sixty or seventy houses in Havre de Grace, and they burned most of those, so that most of the town of today is less than a hun dred years old. Havre do Grace was taken, but in the gallant defense of John O'Neil, the patriotic inhabitant finds some consolation. According to Havre de Grace today, John O'Xeil —whose grandson still lives here —whipped the British single handed. He did not quite do that, but he made it interesting for them for a time. The citizens expected an attack and set up a battery of three little cannons. When the alarm came, took his p'ace behind the guns along with a number of militia men. The British cannonaded the battery [Continued on Page 6] WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What has the paving cost the city? Approximately J 300,000.0(1 from loans and $50,000.00 from general revenue. Bonnet Tells the Story [From the Washington Post] The acid test of a fair bird protec tionist is determined by the kind of , ornament she wears on her new Spring , bonnet. OUR DAILY LAUGH FIGURE OF A - SPEECH. fWI Mrs. D'a says her little girl has V \ ! learned to play \ >vV i the piano In no Yes, I heard U W bar playing ju«t y ; that way the oth- „ V*-/' •r day. v. Jf\ THE FAIR SUB- / •& : -'W MARINE. jf Vv Does she dU- U solve In tears? w £ Anm Yes, but she/ watches her hus- / T^tf'glsvV ; band through at :[/ /rn ' llj TO I periscope. ~l L 3 I MORE WAR PRICES By Ming Dinger Two hours off of eight for sleep This morning I did knock, i And to the market for some flowers ! I went at five o'clock, j About two dozen peonies, For Decoration Day, I wanted—took along, I thought. Enough for them to pay. But when I got there, golly me, My heart dropped with a thud. The florists wanted nine cents fjor A tiny tight-closed bud. At last 1 got up nerve to a*k The price of some quite flne— j Gadzooks! Instead of twenty-four i I trotted home with nine. Ibpttutg (Elfat Country for many miles around Horrisburg never looked better at this season of the year than it does now. in spite of the fact that the winter was late and that Spring has been marked by cool weather and many rains the land presents an ap pearance that is a delight to the eye. The green of the Held, the woods, the roadsides, the gardens is the bright green that we love to talk about and which one might call the living green. The \alleys that branch off of the Susquehanna for many miles up and down t lie wide-reaching river are well worth visiting just to see how nature is making up for the time lost in the latter part of April and the early part of May. Farmers are . couple of weeks late, it is true, an" II has hit them hard because labor Is scarce and expensive, but the fields thai are now being ploughed and seeded are green with promise of crops and the gardens and orchards are all presenting that appearance which one delights to hear the coun try folks talk about. The Juniata, Cumberland and Lebanon valleys are showing unusually tine signs now find the small valleys that lie be tween the Blue Ridge ranges have promise of bounteous crops. Among men from other climes who have made many friends over a period of years in this city Is George S. Mooradian, a well-known Armenian who is riow making one of his usual business sojourns here. He came to the United States about fifteen years ago and was educated at Gettysburg Ccllege. Those who know him never lease to be interested in his graphic narratives of the sufferings of his people, especially since the beginning of the great conflict which has spread from Europe far into the Orient. Mr. Mooradian tells many interesting stories of the life and customs of his people, but to-day his heart is sad dened by the fact that he has not heard from his aged parents and the other members of his family for al most two years. He fears that his father and mother have been cap tured and are being held for ransom I and that probably his brothers have i Keen slain by the Turks. It is part 'of the Turkish religion to obliterate :the Armenian race and the religious | fanaticism takes every form of cruelty that the human mind can de vlet. Sir. Mooradian has a consid erable acquaintance in Harrlsburgi and looks forward with great con-, fiderce to the future of this country. Ho is an American through and through in spirit and in his fealty to our institutions. • • • There were some pretty old people out on the roads on State-wide Good Hoads Day, but probably the oldest in this section of the Stale was George | llump'cr, of Elkwood, a former | legislator and one of the well-known j men of lower Cumberland. He is I eighty-eight years of age. Progressive High School boys and girls attending the advanced schools in the West Shore towns are very . much pleased with the recent action of their respective boards in tsrkini; the initial step toward the consolida tion of the schools Into a Central High School. The schools, at pres- j ent, are running in fine shupe but' not far enough advanced as to gratify the desire of the students who at this stage of their lives are seeking op portunities on which to place the foundation for life work. According to opinions of some of the promoters of the plan many of the young peo ple when reaching this step become dissatisfied with the plans on which the schools are run and the equip ment, and discontinue going. It ap pears. they say, that, the student nowadays is seeking the school that has an attraction, in sports, as wfli ns books. Aside from Camp H™ High, this branch of the work isi i overlooked. The plan originated iii ; the Lemoyne High School Alumni As- ; sociation about four years ago and at that time was agitated to a great extent but finally died out. .♦ * * Despite the seemingly cool weather during the week, no records for low temperatures were broken with the [exception of one. May 18. the mer cury dropped to the lowest It ever has been on that day in the 28 years' his tory of the local weather bureau. Rut the record for the month was 12 de crees lower and was made early in May, 1903, when the temperature ! dropped to 33.6 degrees. So far this 'year only one temperature record has been broken and that one was in Janu ary, when the thermometer registered 68 degrees one afternoon. If the pro phecies of some old-time weather ex perts (?) come true the summer will be exceedingly cool, so that no heat records are in danger. The hottest day recorded officially, by the way. in Harrisburg was July. 3, 1838, when the mercury climbed to 101. The coldest day was January 14. 1912. with the temperature at 14 degrees below zero. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Major Moses Veale, of Phila delphia, will deliver the oration at the observance of Memorial Day on Fort Washington battleground. —Bishop Talbot, of Bethlehem, officiated at the dedication of the new hospital at Lebanon, in which he haa shown a marked interest. —George Wharton Pepper, the Philadelphia lawyer is visiting In Virginia. , . , —Gabriel H. Moyer. former legisla tor will speak this afternoon at the i dedication of the monument at thi spot where Washington crossed the Delaware. Henry C. Frick, who made the gift of an organ and foundation for a chair of musical history for Prince ton, has always been greatly inter ested In music. DO YOU KNOW That Harrlshurs's treatment of Paxton creek attracted attention in -iimr of tJie larger cities which had been confronted with tlio same problem? HtISTOKIC HARRISBURG When the first State Capitol was dedicated there were stage coach ex cursions run here to allow people to view it. f _ A Intensive Co-operation When the manufacturer ad vertises his goods in the news papers he is giving intense co operation to the dealers who carry his brand. He Is moving customers di rectly into the stores and moving his own goods from the shelves. Naturally the retailers appre ciate help of this sort and put their best effort behind the goods. Sales follow In an ever in creasing ratio, profitable to both manufacturer and dealer. Manufacturers Interested in intensive markets are Invited to ask questions of thf Bureau of Advertising. American Newspa per Publishers Association, World Building, New York. MI ' >
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