6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A S'EHSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOL.E, Pres't and Edit or-in-C V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M, STXEIN'METZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- I llshers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocltft- Eastern office, Has brook. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office, Has brook. Story A Brooks, People's Gas Building. Chi' H 'Entered at the Post Office in Harriot burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <£?®,.%s?sjE> week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally nvtr»j( circulation for the tbrff months ending May 31, 1810, if 22,189 # These figures are net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 27. In Life's small things he resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained know'st thou when fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!" —Emersox. COL,. ROOSEVELT'S WITHDRAWAL COLONEL ROOSEVELT has lived up to the very highest Ideals of American patriotism in sinking his own personal ambitions for the good of the country as a whole. I earnestly bespeak from my fel low Progressives their ungrudging support of Mr. Hughes. Thus he concludes his letter to the national committee of the Progres sive party, declining to become a can didate for President at this time. Noth ing could be more generous, nor pat riotic. Colonel Roosevelt as early as January went on record as favoring Just such a course as the Progressives yesterday adopted, providing the Re publicans nominated a man for Presi dent and adopted a platform of undi luted Americanism. There is no gainsay ing that he desired to be the candidate of the Republicans and wanted to be again vested with the undisputed lead ership of the Republican party. There was only one thing he wished more, he said, and that was the reunion of the Republican and Progressive forces on one man who could insure the defeat of the Wilson administration. Colonel Roosevelt has lived up to the letter of that declaration. He is a bigger man to-day than when he was President. He has unselfishly laid aside all personal considerations for what he believes to be the good of the country. The Progressives can do no less than the illustrious personage ibout whose figure their party struc ture was built. The two parties are again united, and that spells certain defeat for the Democrats in Novem ber. A contemporary remarks that a party platform is no stronger than the per sonal props that support it. So we have observed during the past three years. But there is no fear anywhere that the Republican platform will be shat tered as has been the Democratic. WILSON AND HIERTA THERE are still those who persist in declaring on every occasion that the present administration at Washington has done everything possible to prevent a rupture with Mexico. These apologists of the Presi dent appear to take no note of his activities in the early days of the ad ministration. They choose to forget that it was President Wilson who was directly responsible for the break with the de facto Mexican government soon after the administration took hold of affairs at Washington. That was the genesis of the whole miserable busi ness and the people of the United States are not going to lose sight for a ruoment of the cause of the present deplorable situation. Perhaps nothing more illuminating on this phase of the matter has been presented than some letters just pub lished by Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, v.lfe of the former charge d'affaires of the American embassy in Mexico City after the recall of the ambassador of the United States. This gifted woman presents in these letters, written at a time when all the events were fresh in her memory, a graphic statement of the bungling of the Wilson administration and the unfortunate train of circum stances which have followed. She tells of the sending of John Llnd, the confidential asrent of President Wilson «nd Secretary Bryan, and introduces the various military and diplomatic figures who passed across the stage while Huerta exchanged notes with Washington in an effort to gain the recognition that President Wilson de nied him. An one who was in close touch with what transpired in Mexico this able woman vividly portrays the increasing difficulties of the situation growing out of the mistaken policy of (he administration. Mrs. O'Shaughr.essy describes Huerta as strong and astute and a3 a ruler who would have probably brought order out of chaos In Mexico. Then follows a recital of the raising of the embargo on the Mexican border, the supplying of munitions of war to Car- TUESDAY EVENING, ! ranza and Villa and finally the bootless ! demand on Huerta for a salute of .■po'.OKy for the Tampico incident, lr. her foreword Mrs. O'Shaughnessy ' says: , It is two years ago to-day that diplomatic relations were broken ! oft bstween the two republics. It is i more than two years since the Con j stitutionalists under Villa and Car ranza have had our full moral and material support. The results have been a punitive expedition sent into Mexico to capture Villa and very uncertain and unsatisfactory rela tions with the hostile de facto gov ernment under Carranza. As for beautiful Mexico her industries are dead, her lands laid waste, her sons and daughters are in exile, or starving in tne "treasure house of the world." What I here give forth —and the giving is not easy—l offer only with a trembling hope of service. In one letter she says of Huerta: "He is a strong and astute man, and !f he could only get a few white black birds, in the shape of patriots, to work with him, and if the United States vere not on his back, he might even tually bring peace to his country," This was the view of a bright and observing and fair-minded woman on the ground who was familiar with the circumstances. England had rec ognized the de facto president, but in stead Washington was making de mands upon Huerta and presenting practical ultimatums which threatened a severance of diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, also, O'Shaughnessy con tinued pouring oil on the troubled waters' while Carranza was "gathering strength" from Washington. "I won- j der," says Mrs. O'Shaughnessy in one j ietter, "if he sometimes doesn't won der why on earth he is so popular in Washington." Prophetic, indeed, was the comment of this level-headed woman on the raising of the embargo on arms and ammunition "so that Huerta's enemies might supply themselves," adding that "the program drips with blood, and these are the people we are bolstering up," concluding thus: A hot indignation invades me as Mr. Llnd drops out of the most dis astrous chapter of Mexican history . and returns to Minnesota. (Oh, what a far cry!) Upon his hands the blood of those killed with the weapons of the raising of the em bargo—those weapons that, in some day and hour unknown to us, must inevitably be turned against their donors. It is all as certain as death, though there are many who refuse to look even that fact in the face. • • • As for his [Huerta's] international attitude it has been flawless. On all occasions where there has been any mistake made it has been made by others, not by him. His natural political attitude has perhaps left much to be de sired," though I scarcely feel like criticising him in any way. He has held up, desperately and deter minedly, the tattered fabric of this State, and stands before the world without a single international obli gation. Who has done anything for him? Betrayed at home and neglected and handicapped abroad, he bears this whole republic on his shoulders. When the break was inevitable Huerta called at the American em bassy to extend an invitation to the O'Shaughnessys to the wedding of his son and these were his last words: 1 hold no rancor toward the American people, nor toward su Excelencia el Senor Presidente Wil son. and, after a slight pause, he added, he has not understood. These letters only emphasize what most intelligent people have believed right along—that President Wilson made his initial blunder in refusing to recognize Huerta, following this with ■ his "watchful waiting" policy that simply aggravated the Intolerable con ditions and involved the United States in a needless international difficulty. Of course, the country will stand back of the President, but it will also see to it that one who has so seriously fallen short in so many ways shall not be permitted to continue at the head of the government a minute longer than the term for which he was elected. There is difference of opinion as to the ethics of American sales of muni tions to the warring nations of Europe, but there can be no difference of opin ion as to the effect of those sales in re lieving this country from the industrial depression into which it was thrown by Democratic tariff legislation. LAW AND ORDER THE enforcement of law and or der is not conlned to any one race, but is the duty of all men. The organization of the Law and Or der League by the colored people of Harrisburg is a recognition of this principle. Harrisburg has among its citizens colored men who are living exemplary lives and who are striving for the up-lift of their race. The great rank and file of the colored race frowns as darkly upon crime and dis order as does the mass of the white race. The negro race is no more a race of law-breakers than is the white race. Criminality Is a matter of the individual entirely and the law-abiding element of the colored people of Har risburg has shown a very commend able desire to assist the authorities in putting down crime. In all fairness to these people It should be said that the negroes who have been giving trobule lately are not natives of Harrisburg, but have been recent importantions from the South, who came here to accept work which followed the great rush of war pros perity in the past year. Many of these have bad reputations in their own homes and it is the purpose of the new Law and Order Society to keep its eye on these and other new comers who may arouse the suspicions of the mem bers. It would be a good thing If the motor officers of the police department should spend a few evenings appre hending the motorcycle maniacs who rush through a sleeping city with their cut-outs open and making all the noise possible. A few arrests would abate this nuisance. Commissioner of Health Dixon is dis seminating some excellent advice in his weekly bulletins to the people of the State. This is not the least important service which he is rendering the Com monwealth. Anyway, the Republicans are not averse to looking back upon their own record, however much President Wilson may protest against those who look backward once in a whilfe. Now is the time for every citizen to keep his feet on tlje ground. There are grave questions to be settled and it is The Days of Real Sport .... By BRIGGS I fC SoMtA SfiT" N AT \\\ dlttfe' ' AF^NING IMBr bicycle Tr ' ck3 highly necessary that the best thought of our people shall be brought to the solution of these great problems. Let us think seriously and act in such a way as to improve rather than aggra vate the unfortunate conditions. All his countrymen will hope that Captain Morey has been saved. He is a fine type of the American soldier and the Indefinite report that he has man aged to get back to the Pershing forces has filled the country with hope that the report is true and that this hero of the Tenth cavalry will be able to clear up all doubt as to the actual cir cumstances of the Carrizal fight. The Philadelphia Press has well said that it is probable that "no Government of this or of any other country has turned aboutface on eo many issues of national importance" as has the Wilson administration. And the American peo ple are asked to give their approval to such a record. Robberies and attempted robberies continue to engage the attention of the police department. Householders should give close attention to their premises, and every effort ought to be made to apprehend the miscreants who are taking advantage of a situation to ply their nefarious trade. Wilson's Opportunities But what was President Wilson to do? it will be asked. Clearly, we re ply, the first thing for him to have done was to recognize a government which could have restored order in Mexico. Had he given cordial sup port to the Huerta regime and cut off supplies from the Carranza and Villa brigands, there are a hundred chances to one that there would be no Mexi can problem to-day. Failing this, he should have pressed the Mexican fac tions vigorously for a settlement of conditions in the country. This he should have done under pressure, by cutting off all supplies, we may even say by military coercion, since if we have to go in with our army now we might better have done so two years ago. Mr. Wilson and his administration made the impression on all the Mex icans alike of being hostile and unrea sonable and at the same time weak, cowardly and vacillating. He goaded them to hatred without in the least overawing them. His proceedings were the very perfection of ineptitude. To talk of re-electing him to get us out of the mess he had got us into Is about as sensible as would have been a movement among the people In De cember, 1860, to keep Buchanan in office on the ground that It would be dangerous to change before the South- | ern insurrection was suppressed. We can all imagine what would have been the result of such a proceeding were it possible. Mr. Wilson is the Buchanan of to-day.—New York Sun. Prompt to Respond The readiness of the National Guard organization to carry out the orders of mobilization, the generous offers of large employers of labor to grant leave of absence to employes who are enlist ed in the Guard, in many instances without loss of pay. and the eager ness of young men to enlist for the ser vice—in all the general attitude in the moment of crisis is sufficient answer to any who have assumed that the United 1 States as a nation, or any considerable j number of its citizens were unready ! ; and unwilling to fight, if occasion de- j manded. The nation is characteristically prompt to respond to the call to the colors, and it wouldi not be a farther step toward militarism, not less con sistent with the generally peaceful pur pose of the United States, if it were to maintain a constant interest in the national arms of defense, approximat ing that which is so quickly shown in the emergency. There is eager readi ness to support the National Guard now that it is ordered into camp awaiting , active service. But it is none the less doing honorable and necessary duty when in the armory, on the drill ground i and in its annual camps, and It ought to be as enthusiastically supported then.—Philadelphia Bulletin. —Reading the official Admiralty re ports, one would never suspect that the British and the Germans were talking about the same battle.—Nash ville Southern Lumberman. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY | [Questions submitted to members of ; the Harrtsburg Rotary Club and their | answers as presented at the organiza [ tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What has been the increase of mlll | age since 1902, and the increase in as sessments? 1902 millage was 7 mills of valua tion of J28.809.155.00. 1916 mill age was 9% mills on valuation of $51,600,000.00. Increased millage, 2H mills, increased assessments, $23,- 200,000.00. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Running Away From Record [New York Tribune] One of the most amusing things in Washington nowadays is the spectace of Josephus Daniels trying to wedge himself into the situation in Congress as an advocate of a very large and rapid increase in the personnel of the navy. Mr. Daniels sees other peo ple trying to make capital out of over night changes of opinion. He Is doing his level best, therefore, to get into the procession—to attach his approval to legislation which Congress is going to pass in defiance of the recom mendations which he made to it no longer ago than the beginning of the present session. Mr. Daniels has struggled for the last three years to prevent any adequate increase of the enlisted strength of the navy. His one great contribution to naval policy was the discovery that it was perfectly easy to keep the navy short-handed if a lprge proportion of the ships which ought theoretically to be in commis sion were simply held up in the navy yards as a reserve. It has been this administration's boast that one sailor could be made to do the work of three by simply shifting him from an older ship to a newer ship, and then to a still newer one. This system of tripling up meant death to the fleet's efficiency. But fleet efficiency has al ways been about the last thought in the Secretary's mind. In December, 1914, Mr. Daniels told Congress that no Increase in the personnel was necessary, the enlisted strength being then about 52,500. In December, 1915, he recommended an increase of 7,500 men. The General Board of the Navy recommended at the same time that the enlisted force should be increased to 67,000. The House of Representatives voted a few weeks ago to increase the enlisted strength to about 70,000, and now the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs is about to recommend a further in crease to 74,700. Mr. Daniels protests nowadays that no Increase of any sort can frighten him. He is as much against Danlels ism as any of the other patriotic Am eiicans millions in number who have been denouncing Danielsism. Politics always has its comedies. The nejkt thing we expect to hear from Washington is that Mr. Daniels has j signed a Navy League petition de-1 manding the resignation of the author of the great waiting orders policy for warships and signer of the annual re ports of the Secretary of the Navy for IM4 and 1915. Along the Color Line Prom the Crisis A chorus of five hundred voices will take part in the Southern Negro Folk Song Festival to be held July 26, 27 and 28 at Dallas, Tex. Major Robert R. Moton has been In stalled as principal of Tuskegee Insti tute, Ala. The William Penn High School for Girls, Philadelphia, Pa., has a pupils' court for purposes of self-government. Among the new officers elected to the court by the senior class was Virginia Alexander, a colored pirl, who was made an assistant judge. Governor Brumbaugh delivered the commencement address at the colored Downingtown School, Pa. The Hon. Robert T. Lincoln has pre sented to Fisk University the Bible which was given to his father, Abra ham Lincoln, by the colored people of Baltimore In 1864. "No public testi monial of regards ever gave Mr. Lin coln more sincere pleasure during his entire public life than that presented by the colored people of Baltimore." Biddle University, N. C., will cele brate its fiftieth anniversary next year, and is raising an endowment fund of $250,000 for that occasion. At the Beloit, Wis., High School j Jack Wells, a colored boy, won first : prize at the State High School Orator ; ical Contest. He spoke on "Daniel \ Webster." By the will of Martha H. Andrews, j Tuskegee and Hampton received be ! quests of $50,000 each. Advertising Did It (From Newspaperdom.] Yes. the Western Union Telegraph Company certainly made a wise move when it decided to go before the people via the method of advertising and spread the gospel of the efficiency of its service. Prior to the big advertis ing campaign which was Inaugurated in 1914, the business of the company was gradually narrowing down to a point where stockholders were not fully satisfied with their dividends. Ad vertising and the night and day-letter scheme gave great Impetus to the busi ness of the company, with the result that In 1915 the dividends amounted to a little over 11 per cent. Taking the profits of the company for the first four months of 1916 as a basis, it is figured I that dividends for the current year will exceed 16 per cent. When it is con sidered that this concern Is capitalized at $100,000,000, such huge earning nt once become noteworthy. Advertising! Help! Assistance! Jack Johnson Is now giving his views of the great war. Well, isn't Jack quite an ex-pounder? Los Angeles Times. ' \ IN MEXICO 70 YEARS AGO The Story of a War in Which Every Battle Was a Victory For the Stars and Stripes. By J. HOWARD WERT Author of '"Twai 50 Years Ago." published in the Harrisburg Tele graph, June and July, 1913, In connection with the Great Celebration of the Semicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg. _J WHEN the main engagement at Buena Vista opened at sunrise, February 23. 1847, the dark lines of Mexican infantry were seen, as far as the eye could reach, sweeping upon the devoted band of Americans, while their cavalry seemed to cover the plains with interminable lines. Soon Mexican trickery became a fea ture of the battle. When a large division of Mexican cavalry had charged and been so cut down by the American batteries that the survivors nere forced to take refuge among the mountains apart from Santa Anna's main army, that wily chieftain promptly sent in a flag of truce, de manding of General Taylor what he wanted. The delay in answering this enabled the cavalry to escape capture and rejoin the Mexican forces. The engagement was now resumed with Intense fury as the enemy, in dense masses, charged up to the very mouths of our guns. General Taylor EDITORIAL COMMENT According to strict Democratic logic, one mismanaged term deserves an other. —New York Tribune. The boys In khaki make a brave sight and they are the one redeeming feature of a situation full of humilia tion.—New York Tribune. —lf nations had to pay for their wars before they fought them, how few there would be! Wall Street Journal. —But he didn't say "God bless you!" to the President when he re signed.—Wall Street Journal. —Well Colonel bas a right to kill one Moose in a season hasn't he?— New York Morning Telegraph. Another surprize of the war is the Central Powers' craftiness in delaying this Russian drive with Austrian pris oners.—Boston Herald. —The letters which passed between Justice Hughes and President Wilson remind one of the handshake which prizefighters indulge in preliminary to the bout. —Springfield Republican. Criminal Lack of Aeroplanes [Philadelphia Public Ledger] What does this mean? "General Pershing deeply feels the loss of his officers, but, being without aeroplanes, as the expedition has been since the middle of April, there is no alternative but to use cavalry for reconnoissance to protect his flanks." And what does this mean? "Every effort is being made to find suitable propellers, but at the present time none of the dozen machines can bo used on account of this defect, al though they have been found highly satisfactory in every other respect." These two citations from a day's dispatches simply mean that we are sending men to death, when machines supplied in time and properly made would have saved their lives. The fate of the two troops of the Tenth Cavalry at Carrizal is to be directly ascribed to the criminal negligence of those whose business it was to put the aerial arm of the service in a condl | tion of readiness. In all theße years ; of watchful waiting and marking time lairing the border the one thing need ful was grossly neglected. In 1909 the Wright flier was adopted as our offi cial type. On July 18, 1914, the law went into effect creating our aviation service under the Signal Corps. But in the critical meantime we have al lowed the aerial navies of the world to race ahead of us; although to the initiative of American mechanical genius the first practical flying ma chines were due. The lives sacrificed In Mexico are the penalty of our shameful procrastination. Apropos of W. W. [New York Tribune] The town official who deliberately puts a candle on the gasoline barrel will find, of course, that his neighbors cheerfully rally to help him put out the fire, but, as a rule, they do not elect him fire marshal by acclamation, and their opinion of him would not lk look well In print. JUNE 27, 1916. thus describes cne of the critical mo ments of the conflict: "The Illinois and Second Kentucky Infantry, having encountered a greatly superior force of the enemy's reserves, were overwhelmed by numbers. The moment was most critical. Captain O'Brien, with two pieces, had sustained the heavy charge to the last, until, nearly all liis gunners and horses hav ing been killed and his infantry sup port entirely routed, he had been obliged to leave his guns on the field. Captain Bragg, who had Just arrived from the left, was ordered at once into tattery. Without any infantry to sup port him, and at the imminent risk of losing his guns, this officer came rapidly into action, the Mexican line being but a few yards from the muz s.les of his pieces. The first discharge of canister caused the enemy to hesi tate; the second and third drove him [Continued on Page 5] THE STATE FROM m TO DM It's a long story, this one we have to tell about the ad men now in con vention at Philadelphia. He is from Des Moines, lowa, and he is 7 feet 6 Inches tall, and he had difficulty in getting a bed down in Philadelphia. But all his friends got their heads to gether and the president of the Adver tising Association of Des Moines now sleeps all stretched out just like the little fellows. The Philadelphia Inquirer prints the college yell of a body of Chinese stu dents as being "Chi, hi, yo shai ki, Chung wung, we cum. Hip long hi!" To be frank, the cheer sounds to us more like the attempt of a somewhat muddled man to recite the recent suc cession of the president of the re public. Members of the board of directors and employes of the First National Bank of Moscow were entertained the other evening by the president of the institution on the occasion of the leaching of $200,000 in deposits. Two Italians had a thrilling knife duel on the streets of Glenside re cently. but the scrap was converted into a sprinting match when two officers of the law sighted the combat and hastened to spoil It. After a 440- yard dash In 53 seconds the two char acters were caught. Sarah Merryweather, a 55-year-old colored woman living in Scranton, is evidently a "rip-tall roarer from Pike's county, Missouri, and can whip her weight in wildcats," for she was dis covered yesterday biting l one of her boarder's throats (do not misunder stand us) and throwing a hammer at a second. Conshohocken Lodge, Hobah Lodge, No. 267. Knights of Pythias, of South Eethlehem, Pa., has passed the 1,000 mark in membership and has become the second largest lodge of the order in the world. | OUR DAILY LAUGH R^~ V Q FFJJJGL ECONOMY. I saved S2O this > vi@£\ a 'ternoon. T How was that? jL ' Brown wanted borrow twenty flve and I lent him only flve NOT IN THE Eastern Girl: I © should think the branding of cattle I would be dread- ffl/ffclfe' Cowboy: Why, mm Jj no miss. I've been flm Jj doln' it for up'- H H iJBI n f ards of fifteenJg I fVy year and I ain't■»' been hurt yet. - fP lElmtittg QHjal "Did you observe a single automo bile, in all the thousands that traveled over the city's streets or on the road to Mt. Gretna Sunday that didn't bear one or two or more flags stuck about the windshield or the tonneau?" asked the man who likes to keep tabs that sort of thing. ' That form of decoration seems to have been universally taken up by the motorists, during the last few days, and I doubt-if you could found a car that didn't follow the style. It was a mighty pretty form of decora tion and everybody that had a car seemed to have adopted the idea. Where the 'style' was especially no ticeable was on the roads that led to Mt. Gretna. From the tiny hustling little Ford which bore the whole fam ily on its gallant overloaded springs, to the great tourist which majestically hauled little more than the chaffeur, pa, ma and the dog—every motor car had its flag or flags." ♦* * • The martial spirit is gripping the land. From bent and gray veterans of other wars to the freckled lads of ten, none are exempt. Out in a large field just below Thir teenth street, at Berryhill, the other day a squad of youthful young, would be heroes attracted a crowd of spec tators by executing military drills. Each of the lads, had induced fa ther, mother or older brother to "be a quartermaster" to provide them the natty, imitation khaki uniforms and campaign hat. Broom handles served as "carbines and automatics" had been whittled from soft pine boards at the cost of many blisters. Altogether It. was a well equipped company and they had the drill man ual down almost to perfection, so the admiring big brothers and others thought. And why, it was easy to understand. At their head, eyes flashing, strode a grizzled veteran of the Civil War, proud in the possession of his ne\v command. • « • When the troops of Company D and Company I arrived at the Eighth regi ment site at Mt. Gretna on Saturday their biggest worry was that the wa ter had not been turned into the pipes running through the camp. The men reported to the corporals, the corpor als to the sergeants, and about that time details were sent out to nearby places to bring in a supply. Needless to say that the stand located near the Eighth regiment tents sold a big sup ply of soft drinks and ic© cream to the troops until the water arrived • » » Tossing chewing gum on sidewalks is a mean trick, especially when a nice | girl happens along and tramps on it; j and is obliged to go into a drug store j and remove her shoe In order to get the gum off. In a certain part of Harris ] burg a bunch of girls flnd considerable | amusement in throwing gum on pave j ments, and guess on the number of [ pedestrians passing before the gum is tramped upon. During Saturday evening five girls made guesses, and the one coming nearest to the number was to receive a box of candy to be paid for by the four girls on the losing end. They watched for one hour. Then came the girl with white shoes, j She knew wha£ had happened, and in her effort to get the gum from the sole of the shoe, pulled the latter from I her foot. It was not a pleasant pre i dicament for the young woman, but I she hopped into the drug store on one foot. hat she said about people who put gum on sidewalks was rather emphatic. • » • Superintendent William B. McCaleb of the Philadelphia division of tho Pennsylvania railroad is a great boos ter for Harrisburg's soldier boys. He participated in the demonstration Sat urday morning and was out early Sun r^ y .i I " ornin K. Considering the fact that he was up late Saturday night watching the movement of special trains over his division, Superinten dent McCaleb had very little time for sleep. He was at the Pennsylvania railroad station Sunday morning un til every troop train had been taken care of. He shook hands with Cap tain George C. Jack in command of Governor's Troop and with' many of the troopers, some of whom are em ployes for his division. * ♦ • The beauty of being a young giant in strength is somewhat marred if that very strength is the cause of prevent ing the possessor from serving his country. That is the situation in which Ed. Sourbier, well known in VTarrisburg's amateur athletic circles, found himself a few days ago when he applied for admission to the Gov ernor's Troop. One would think, to look at him, that the troop would fall all over itself in its anxiety to mako him one of them, but no! his powerful physique makes him eleven pounds overweight and he is just three inches too much of a target for the greasers down in Mexico. So Ed, being of a patriotic turn of mind, and determined that he will serve his country whether or no, has enrolled for the July en campment at Plattsburg and will spend a month receiving intensive training in tho duties and offices of a noncommis sioned officer. * • • Experts in universities and colleges of the State have been asked to in form the State Department of Agri culture why strychnine will kill crows and not affect chickens when eaten. The State Livestock Sanitary Board stirred up the question by sending out a notice urging that .crows be exter minated and giving instructions as to the use of the poison. Some people wanted to know if chickens would not be harmed by it, but the board officials replied that it would not and gave the result of an experiment by one man who has written to the department that he had fed strychnine In corn to brown leghorn chickens and that they had not minded it a bit. When he threw It out for the crows to eat they keeled right over and he had to get out bur ial parties. On the other hand quail did not seem to mind it a particlq. A number of man versed in chemicals were asked the question why the drug would kill crows and not chickens, hut they have passed it along to the folks in college. » « » One of the most popular of the "stunts" at the first annual outing given for the Harrisburg schools by this paper, a few days ago, waa the bean-guessing contest. A bean-guess ing contest, you know, requires a lot of imagination and considerable oi that four-leaf clover, horseshoe stuff, Nearly two thousand girls took a chance on the number, but it fell to Katherine Emanuel to come nearest to getting the correct answer. Katherine said 3,700, but there were 3,756. And just to prove that there was no ques tion about the little girl's' ability at guessing, her brother and sister, who also entered the competition (although the boy's guess did not count) were almost as close as the prlze-wlnnei herself. I - Jenny Lind arid Follies [From Newspaperdom.] About fifty years ago a New York City Hatter attained fame by paying 1600 for the first choice of seats at a Jenny L,!nd concert. This story has been told and retold for years, and proved an excellent advertisement for this clever hatter. The way In which time changes things is emphasized by the fact that when William R Hears! the other day paid $2,012 for twelve seats at the opening performance oi Ziegfeld Follies, the matter passed &1< most wholly unnoticed
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