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SATURDAY EVENING, JI LY 15
Nothing <■>/ worth or weight can be
OcAteptM irith fial? a mind, tritfi a faint
heart, an/1 urith a lame endeavor.
— Barbow.
ONE GREAT PICNIC DAY
TWO of the big: department stores
of Harrisburg yesterday enter
tained their employes at store
picnics. To say that the outing* were
enjoyed by those fortunate enough to
participate would be putting it mildly.
Good fellowship, wholesome amuse
ments and a day in the open made
the occasion well worth while.
It has been suggested that if two
can lay aside business for the
purpose of giving their clerks a picnic,
all storee call. It would be indeed a
happy occasion if one day in the year
should be set aside as "picnic day"
ir. Harrisburg. on which all Harrisburg
firms would close their doors and, with
bands playing and flags flying, pro
prietors and their employes should hie
themselves away to the woods for a
period of Jollification and social en-
Jovmerrt.
Businessmen have learned that they
ate the better for an occasional break
In work-a-day routine and the same
applies to their employes. "All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
We used to think any businessman who
closed his doors before 10 in the eve
ning a sluggard. Now we know that
his methods were all wrong. A week
ly half-holiday was once looked upon
■with disfavor. Now wise businessmen
are urging not only a half-holiday but
are heading a movement for the clos
ing of stores on Saturday evenings as!
well.
Work is good for us. We need
plenty of it to thrive well. But the
love of recreation is inherent and the
perfectly balanced life is that in which
the joy of work is tinctured with the
Innocent and health-giving pleasures
of play.
A city-wide picnic day not only
could be well spared by all business
men, but it would actually tend to
Improve business conditions.
Vox popull. vox Dei. So ran the old j
iagejid. The campaign manager for '
Woodrcw Wilson phrases it thus: "The
voice of Mr Wilson is the voice of the
ration." We doubt it. The voice of
this nation is a robust and virile voice
—not a tremulous falsetto.
PRESIDENT AND PROGRESSIVES
PRESIDENT WILSON Is writing
letters to a few Progressives who
have showed some signs of being
out of sorts with Colonel Roosevelt.
The President sympathizes with them
and insinuates that he is the only real.
Simon pure Progressive candidate ir.
thr country and that the Democratic
party is the only honest-to-goodness
Progressive party in existence. The
picture of President Wilson in Rough
Rider costume, wielding the big stick
from the hurricane deck or a bucking
Democratic donkey is an lmpersona-:
tion of Roosevelt that would win a
laugh from the most hardened vaude- 1
vllle audience In the land. After pound
irg hot foot down the pike In the wake
of the Colonel for four years, with a
cheer at every jump and a warwhoop
In between, the "hot trail" of the
Democratic pussy-footers in the pres
ent campaign will have little perman
ent attraction.
We extend our sympathy to the stage
director who prepares the scenario for
the movies with which Vance McCor
mick purposes to enliven the Wilson
campaign. What a successful film re
quires Is action—and how that can be
procured in anything which truthfully
represents the Wilson regime ia beyond
our comprehension.
WAR ORDER PROSPERITY
TT is strange that any Democratic
* spellbinder would muster courage
: to mention closed factories and
open soup houses, even at this distance,
from the hard times that followed the
enactment of the Democratic tariff
law. but Senator Ollie M. James, who
was selected by President Wilson as
chairman of the St. Louis convention.
Is one who can forget 1913-14 while
enjoying a temporary war order pros
perity. He said in his keynote speech:
Our Republican friends told us
when we enacted this tariff bill into
law that It would close the fac
tories. fill the streets with Idle
men. produce a panic, create soup
houses, and distress would reign
everywhere; but we rejoice to-day
to point to an unexampled prosper
ity In the nation, with labor more
generally employed, at higher rates,
shorter hours and better condi
tions than ever before.
The depression was on long before
the war began. From three to five
million willing workers were out of
Jobs. The Fleishman bread line was
at work In New York and the soup
kitchens were open In all large cities.
SATURDAY EVENING,
The monthly balance of trade was run- |
ning against us. The steel Industry, |
the great index to business conditions
'in this country, fell off over 25 per
j cent. Five months after the European
1 war began, business began to pick up.
I Our favorable trade balance for the
fiscal year 1916 was about 12,000.000,-
| 000. Over 50 per cent, of our exports
| to-day are made up of SI articles nec
| essary to modern warfare. The coun
tries of South America. Oceanlca. and
other neutral zones, must look to the
United States for a large share of their
necessities whilst the war progresses.
Ours Is a war order prosperity; Neith
er the Democracy nor its crack
brained legislation has had anything
to do with it.
FAIR PLAY
THE Law and Order Society formed
somtf time ago by well-known
colored men of Harrisburg. after
j a comprehensive investigation, finds
! there is no evidence that a negro was
involved In »the alleged assault on a
. white girl in the Tenth ward last night.
The society says, if it is shown that a
oclored man was guilty It is anxious
Ito assist In the prosecution, but it
; protests against an unjustified ac
cusation. The society is right. No
doubt there have been many cases in
the past where black men have been
: unjustly charged. Fair play demands
that care be exercised In this respect.
Negroes who are working for the up
lift of their race are laboring under
a handicap They should be en
couraged rather than discouraged.
WILSON AND INTERVENTION
IF Woodrow Wilson decides on armed
Intervention in Mexico it will be a
confession that his entire policy
with respsct to that unhappy land,
since his Vera Cruz fiasco, has been a
lamentable blunder. If he decides to
■ yield to Carranza's demands and re
tire the troops from Mexico. Uncle
Sam will have a three-ply charge of
cowardice pasted between his shoul
ders. That is precisely what happens
to any man. or any country led by a
man who Is unable to make up his
mind.
Oh. what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.
And for over three years Mr. Wil
son has deceived himself and the pub
i lie.
WOOI. PRICES
THE British Government plans to
buy the entire wool clip of
Great Britain for 1916. This
will undoubtedly cause another rise
in the price of wool In this country,
but not on account of Democratic poli
cies.
CONGRESS PROCRASTINATES
THE Democrats have a clear work- .
Ing majority in both branches i
of Congress and they alone have j
responsibility for the legislation and:
appropriations of the session. It is
now seven months since the session 1
opened, the fiscal year has come to an ]
end and a new one begun—and yet it
was necessary to pass continuing res- ;
olutions to provide for the conduct of
the government In eight Important
particulars.
In other words, the Democratic
Congress for seveji months so neglect
ed the necessary business of the gov- j
ernment that they failed to provide i
the money to continue the government
activities and were compelled to pass
a stop-gap resolution to furnish a
month's supply of funds for each of
these branches. If they do not dis
play any more zeal In the next month 1
than they have in the past seven, it
will be necessary to pass another con
tinuing resolution —and yet Claude
Kitchin talks about a final adjourn-!
ment of the session in July.
The St. Louis platform challenges;
comparison of the Democratic record
since 1913 with that of any party at.
any time. To meet this test Republi
cans can turn back to any Congress
which they controlled without finding
such a record of slipshod methods of
conducting the great affairs of the gov
ernment as is found in the long list of
belated appropriation bills which this
Congress had on hand at the end of
the fiscal year. Republicans not only
made provision for the departments
of the government, but they also made
provision to get the money to meet the
appropriations. The Republican mot
to w-as to do the day's work when it
was due and to pay as you go. The
Democratic motto seems to be to put
! everything off until "watchful wait
' ing" is no longer possible and then
! turn to the wrong expedient.
THOSE HORNED GIANTS
WE await with impatience, tinc
tured with a trace of anxiety,
official reports of the rumor
from up-State that the historical
banks of the Susquehanna river have
yielded to the pickaxes of scientific
searchers bound in canoes this way
the bones of a lot of giant aborigines
seven feet tall and whose skulls still
showed plain traces of well-developed
horns. A few years ago some Juniata
valley adventurers swore they saw a
shark in the river opposite Bailey's Sta
tion. The summer following another
party of explorers discovered a fam
ily of "hoop snakes" and during
last heated season they capped the cli
max by seeing bears in Wildwood
Park. But giants with horns! Wow!
We know the weather had been pretty
warm lately, but we didn't realize just
how hot it really was.
THE STRIKE VOTE
THERE is an increasing hope that
a possible strike of the em
ployes of the railroads of the
country may be averted. Gradually
the third party to the dispute—the
Innocent bystander, the great public—
is beginning to manifest country-wide
discontent over the possible interrup
tion of a service which is essential
to the comfort and well-being of all
the people. Furthermore, a strike on
the railroads will affect not alone busi
nessmen and employes, but also the
vast army of wage-earners through
out the United States whose Industry
'and pay would be interrupted. For
| this reason there is an Increasing do
mand for some sort of settlement
which will prevent a disaster so far-'
reaching in its effects.
While the strike vote which is now-1
being circulated among the engineers,
firemen, conductors and other train
men does not in effect order a strike
;it gives power to the chief executives
and general chairmen of the brother
hoods, if they are unable to otherwise
i effect a settlement satisfactory to
them, to order a strike. This places
; a tremendous power and responsibility
in the hands of these officials in the
further negotiations, and the country
over will fervently hope that tWs pow
j er will be wisely used in reaching an
; adjustment that will prevent a great
I national calamity.
'YollUct Ik
S; the Ex-Otmmitteesnaa
Democratic state leaders have made
j a rare effort to harmonise the factions
into which the party has split under
the present management In the mak
ing up of the list of presidential elect
ors sent to President Wilson for his
i blessing and consent. The task of
, making up the list has been a big one
j and In a number of instances various
■ patriots were so insistent that National
| Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer
; and others hid to take matters into
, their own hands.
j The selection ot Webster Grim, who
1 was reviled by Palmer and his pals a
few years ago. Is Included in an effort
! to get the Old Guard lined up, while
friends of Donnelley, Brennen and
other leaders appear among the names.
The names as given out last night
at Stroudsburg by Palmer axe as fol
lows:
At large—Samuel S. Fels. Philadel
phia Simon P. Light, Lebanon: Isaiah
Sheeline, Altoona: Webster Grim.
Doylestown: Joseph H. Reily, Philadel
j phia; John A. McKinney, Clarion.
By congressional districts—First. Jo
seph L. Galen; Second. William Han
cock; Third. John E. Hagan: Fourth.
Henry C. Kline: Filth, Emanuel R.
Clinton, and Sixth. Theodore Jenkins,
all of Philadelphia; Seventh. Frank B.
Rhodes, Media; Eighth, Nelson M. !
Trout. Pottstown: Ninth, Jacob Pontz. •
Lancaster; Tenth. Edward Merrifield, i
Scranton: Eleventh, John J. Shigo,
Freeland; Twelfth, James A. Moecker.
Schuylkill Haven: Thirteenth. William
M. Zechman, Reading; Fourteenth. A.
H. Kingsbury. Towanda; Fifteenth. N.
Edward. Williamsport; Sixteenth. Lloyd
B. Skeer, Bloomsburg; Seventeenth,
John R. Dielil, Marion; Eighteenth, ,
Samuel Kunke!. Harrisburg: Nine- j
teenth, Harry S. Bender, Johnstown; j
Twentieth. Allen C. Wiest, York; !
Twenty-first. Henry Meyer. Rebers- '
burg; Twenty-second, James S. Moore- !
head. Greensburg; Twenty-third. Daniel 1
W. McDonald. Union town; Twenty
fourth. Charles H. Ruhe, Beaver Falls;
Twenty-fifth, Fred L. Woods. Erie;
Twenty-sixth, Wesley M. Heiberger.
Easton: Twenty-seventh, Don C. Cor
bett. Clarion: Twenty-eighth. Frank D.
McCue, Oil City: Twenty-ninth, John
Voelker, Pittsburgh; Thirtieth. A. P.
Burgwin, Pittsburgh; Thirty-fifth, Her
mann Obernauer. Pittsburgh; Thirty- |
second, Thomas H. Flynn, Pittsburgh.
Democrats here appeared to be very 1
much pleased over the selection of,
Samuel Kunkel, who has for years j
been treasurer of the State committee |
and who is acceptable to everyone.
Lebanon county, which did not get
any national delegate? and whose can
didate, S. P. Light, withdrew when the
primaries camo around, is recognized
in the selection of Mr. Light as an
elector-at-large. John R. Diehl, Ma- i
rlon. is the elector from the "shoe- j
string" district.
—While Senator E. H. Vane was
making a statement as hot as the
weather yesterday about Senator Pen
rose's absence from a certain meeting
at Washington at which Philadelphia
was not included in the list of navy
yards to be equipped for building big
ships, the Senator was having the
matter corrected. The Senator's state
ment was an arraignment of the Pen
rose course in i.nmeasured terms, but
he seems to have picked the wrong
time to make it. A Washington dis
patch says: "Senator Penrose yester
day secured the reinsertion in the navy
appropriation bill of the provision re
quiring the equipment of the Philadel
phia navy yard for the construction of
dreacinaughts. Senator Penrose, seiz
ing a favorable opportunity during the
debate on the bill to-day. explained
to the Senate that through a typo
graphical error Philadelphia had been
omitted from the list of yards for
which the sum ot 86,000,000 had been
provided for necessary equipment for
battleship construction. Senator Swan
son. who has taken charge of the bill
for the administration during the ill
ness of Senator Tillman, agreed with
Senator Penrose that there had been
an oversight. He immediately placed
the question brfore the Senate and
Philadelphia was restored to the list
without objection."
—Luzerne county has another po
litical blow-up. Yesterday the school
directors of Hanover township were
surcharged $12,528.54 in a decision by
Judge Strauss, who declared their of
ficial acts were either dishonest or the
result of incompetency or imbecility.
He declared that the school officials
showed "absolute indifference to pub
lic welfare." The court shows disgust
over the purchase of what it terms an
antiquated library for school purposes.
The board hired an agent and paid
him a liberal commission for buying a
school library and he furnished novels
that were old and of no use for school
purposes. Fault is found with the
directors for taking junketing trips in
looking for manual training equip
ment.
Announcement was made yesterday
by President Fred W. Willard of plans
to have the Republican campaign in
Pensvlvania opened at a convention of
the State League of Republican Clubs
to be'held early in September. Candi
dates Hughes and Fairbanks will both
be invited to be present. President
Willard stated that he is about to send
out a call for a meeting of the'execu
tive committee of the State league of
Clubs to be held at the headquarters
of the Republican city committee in
Philadelphia within the next ten dayj,
at which the time and meeting
for the jconvention will be determined
and arrangements will be made for the
entertainment of the delegates.
Healing Simon's Mother-in-Law
And forthwith, when they were
come out of the synagogue, they en
tered into the house of Simon and An
drew. with James and John. But
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a.
fever, and anon they tell him of her.
And he came and took her by the
hand, and lifted her up; and imme
diately the fever left her. and she min
istered unto them.—Mark, 1:29-31.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
What are the duties of the Building
Inspector?
To make inspections of buildings
to see that provisions of the build-
Ins l&w are carried out.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
When a Feller N By BRi££S
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE
—The picnic industry seems to be an
out and out success.
—The scapegoat is a domestic animal
that seems to thrive in any climate.
—lt's a good thing they didn't dump
Jonah overboard along the Atlantic
coast.
—Maybe those sharks were turned
loose by the mountain resort hotel man
agers.
—Anyway, the Democrats are will
ing to concede that a protective tariff
is not so bad as they used to think it
was.
—Just to show that we hold no
grudge against Carranza at Carrizal,
the President would loan the Mexican
dictator $100,000,000.
Next time Carranza should try It on
a whole regiment.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"
The Bethlehem Steel Company keeps
at it. Their advertisements, setting
forth the facts of the armor plate sit
uation, are logical, hard-hitting and
winning. If the campaign had been
started a few months earlier there
would be no doubt whatever of the re
sult upon Congress.—Fourth Estate.
Mexico is foolish to take us on at a
time when we rtem to need some one
fairly easy t<j practice on.—Minneapolis
Journal.
Russia is about the only country at
war big enough to hold the captured
Austrians without embarrassment.—.
New York Telegraph.
Villa may be an ignorant bandit, but
it's all working out just as he planned
that it should when he raided Colum
bus. —Charleston News and Courier.
Former President Taft is actively
allied with the League to Enforce
Peace. If he had only had that work
ing in good order in 1912! Los Angeles
Times.
Next to the big nation that pre
sumes on its bigness, the weak nation,
like Mexico, that eternally presumes on
its weakness, is the most reprehen
sible.—Chicago Herald.
The Largest Flag
"At the reunion of the Grand Arms',
i held in Washington, D. C., in 1915, what
is believed to be the largest flag in the
i world was carried in the parade by the
delegation from Canton, Ohio. It meas
ured 130 feet in length by 80 feet in
width. The stripes were over six feet
wide, while the stars in the union meas
ured five feet across from point to point.
The weight of the flag was over half a
ton. while 117 men were required to
carry it along the line of march. More
; than 20,000 hands set the necessary
stitches, while sewed Into the stars are
the names of over 16,000 patriotic men
and women of Canton, who contributed
either money or labor to the construc
tion of this giant emblem."—A. B.
' Neiss, in the July St. Nicholas.
Some Flower Names
Did you know that some of the com
monest of our garden and field flowers
taken their names from other lan
guages? By finding out the meaning of
these words, we see the fancied resem
blances in the names, says the Kansas
City Star.
Rhododendron comes from the word
rhodon which means rose, and dendron
which means tree. Thus the whole word
means rose tree. Pansies were named
from the French word pense, meaning
thought. Verbena gets its name from
the Latin word for twig, and iris from
the Greek word for rainbow, and aster
from the Greek word for star.
Buttercups received their name be
cause people thought that cows that ate
them gave the best milk for making
butter. It has since been proved that
cows do not «-at the little flowers we
call buttercups, but the name is so
pretty that we have kept it.
The Reason
[From the Kansas City Star.]
The Allies are either winning some
wonderful victories or London is send
ing out some wonderful lies. Berlin
says it is the latter. But Berlin has
to keep up the hopes of the German
causes.
THE DAY OF THE PAGEANT
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE preparedness propaganda has
recently shared with Shakes
peare the honor of several hun
dred pageants. Touthful Cordelias
and Desdamonas have adorned the
college campus; the high school rifle 1
clubs have turned their activities to
killing Caesars and Macbeths: and
throughout the country the history of
the Indians and first American settlers
has for the time being been forgotten
in the enthusiasm of the early Italian
and Anglo-Saxon drama. In almost
every large educational center the!
windows of the local photographers
are at present attracting great crowds
of young Americans who proudly gaze
upon themselves as the pageant por
trayers of Shakespeare.
It is not often that two such neces
sary excuses as preparedness and the
tercentenary of the bard demand the
production of pageants, and the Am
erican public, in whom the dramatic
instinct is well developed, is taking ad
vantage of them. This is the day of
the historical pageant if there ever
was one. When the mere sight of the
American flag on a motion picture
screen can bring the audience to its
feet In patriotic enthusiasm, it is nat
ural that people would rather see the
Landing of the Pilgrims and Penn's
Treaty with the Indians depicted by
The Happiest Highway
What is the happiest highway that
happy children know?
What is the place it comes from, and
whither does it go?
It is the road. "Vacation." that leaves
the schoolhouse door
And leads to lands enchanted that glim
mer oft before.
Oh, never was a highway like that
where pupils ran
To all that lies before them when
school at last is done!
It stretches from the June-time on
through the lonr July.
And onward still through August, till
autumn days are nigh.
And oh. the beauty of it! and how its
glories gleam
To those who journey on it, as in a
wondrous dream?
It leads to cliff and headland where
thunderinc surges beat
Far down below the pathway that lures
the eager feet.
It leads to where a farmhouse behind
the maples stands.
And where a welcome's waiting in lov
ing, lavish hands.
It leads to fields of daisies that quiver,
nod and blink.
To the touch of gentle breezes and the
song of bobolink.
It leads to sunny meadows beyond the
shady pool
Where cattle stand at noontime in
waters dark and cool.
It leads to ponds where pickerel are
darting to and fro,
And woods where fox and rabbit have
haunts that boys may know.
It leads to dusky woodlands where tan
gled branches stir
Above the canvas shelter and bed of
fragrant fir.
It leads to mountain valleys where
laughing waters run
And leap along the ledges and sparkle
in the sun.
So many wondrous places the wondrous
highway finds,
'Twould take a thousand verses to tell
the different kinds.
And when the summer's over, now
where do you suopose,
With all its dips and turnings, the
happy highway goes?
Why. into cool September—you know
what lies before—
Then straight as any arrow, right to
the schoolhouse door!
—John Clair Minot. in the Youth's Com
panion.
To the Smithsonian faunal collection
enriched by Colonel Roorevelt now add
one Bull Mooae. —Now York Evening
Post.
JUT.Y 15. t ol6.
their sons and daughters than the
latest Broadway problem comedy.
The modern pageant, which has
been called the hybrid product of the
procession and the play, was in its an
-1 clent form, the foundation of all
drama. The Greeks and Romans chose
the backgrounds for their openair per
formances, or pageants, with careful
, regard for the picturesqueness of the
scenery and none whatever for tho
! convenience of the audience. One
time the site selected faced a wide
river. It is not recorded whether the
: audience sat in boats or whether. In
: fact, it was witnessed at all. but it
i shows that the Romans at least did
j not believe in sacrificing art in defer
; ence to the audience.
Throughout the Middle Ages the
i pageant was a popular form of enter
tainment in England, witnessed by all
the royal personages, and was eclipsed
only with great difficulty by the theater
drama which made its appearance in
the time of Shakespeare. Within the
past ten years pageants have again
i become the rage in England, very
■ nearly turning the tables on the the
i ater. In this country the modern pa
geant had Its beginning as early as
> 1888 in Marietta, Ohio, where a hiß
[Continued on Pag*> 8]
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THE PROOF.
Did the widow wV -aJic
marry well? rj£nr&[ I
Why, certainly.
Her new husband ifflffiel 1
wears tortoise »
shell spectacles •, ,
and spats.
AND CALL IT
yj[ 1 • iKfcr f Jfj" Fido howls
nSnggjHjwhen a piano is
Some women
rnT A do that, too.
An Object Lesson
[From the Boston Advertiser.]
If the visit of the Deutschland and
the promise of a Zeppelin service soon
to follow did nothing else, it is in
evitable that it must attract the seri
ous attention of most Americans to the
record of the present Administration,
which has shown such criminal indif
ference to the possible threat of such
new weapons of war to any possible
plan of national defense for this coun
try. For two years every other leading
power of the civilized world has been
straining all possible resources to pre
pare to meet the changed conditions
of modern warfare. And, meanwhile,
the only occasion on which the Ameri
can submarine and air service have
been obtruded on public attention has
been on the sacrifice of some new vic
tims of the death traps which this Ad
ministration has considered "good
enough" for our army or navy, it will
be good fortune indeed if the nation
does not have to pay the cost of such
indifference with a terrible penaltv if
this country ever becomes Involved In
war.
Curley's Graceful Act
[From the Boston Transcript]
The conferring of a pearl-studded
medal upon Captain Koenig by Mayor
Curley will resound through the pages
of history as the most gracious act of
royalty since the Kaiser decorated the
murderer of the unavenged Americans
who went to their death on the Lusi-
UAia.
lEtanmg (Eljat
Contrary to all precedents moro
books are being taken out at the Har
risbur;-; Public Library in July than in
June. Ordinarily circulation drops oft
in the hot months, but this year, prob
ably due to the interest being taken
in the business and industrial books at
the Library the circulation is holding
up better than known in summer time.
The record for June went over tho
10,000 mark and it is likely that July
will run away up. The librarian in
charge making arrangements to meet
this unusual summer demand by add
ing more fiction to the shelves, a con
siderable number of summer recrea
tional fiction being on the way. One
of the rather unusual facts regarding
the demand for books is that there are
numerous dequests for books on Mex
ico and the "Travel Table" at the Li
brary contains some of the best books
on the tempestuous republic. Many
inquiries are also being made for in
formation on Mexico which indicates
the extent of the popular interest. Tho
business books, which wore bought
from lists supplied by a number of
specialists here and elsewhere, have
proved a big success.
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That the food provided for the Penn
sylvania regiments sent across tho
country was all right and met the de
mands of the men when handled prop
erly is evidenced by cards received
here the last few days. All of tho
cards were posted from Missouri or
other western States and tell of met*
being in good condition and well fed.
Major Henry A. Renninger, adjutant
of the Fourth brigade, which contains
the Eighth regiment, wrote to Colonel
H. C. Trexler, the chief quartermaster
who handled all the rations: "Every
one well and everything fine. Mess
officers received highest praiso and
men pleased with rations. All have
plenty of food.
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No one would have believed six
months ago that in front of a long
famous beer garden in Walnut street
Christian Endeavor emblems would bo
hanging to-day. But so rapid has been
the onward march of the "make tho
map all white" movement that this
very thing obtains. It seems that so
few people like to drink in the garden
so popular of old that it has been con
verted into an Ice cream parlor. And
the owner of the ice cream parlor fol
lowed out the suggestion of tho Cham
ber of Commerceand decorated in honor
of the Christian Endeavor convention
which brought temperance workers
here this week from every part of tho
Commonwealth.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
calls attention to the interesting fact
that 350 Pennsylvanians are officers in
the United States regulars and that
some of those most eminent are Penn
sylvanians. For instance General
Tasker H. Bliss comes from Lewis
burg and has been 41 years in tho
army. The Bulletin says: "The Chief
signal officer of the army is Brigadier
General George P. Scriven. who was
born in Philadelphia in 1854 and has
been in the service for 38 years. A
Reading boy, Hunter Liggett, is the
brigadier general in charge of tho
i forces in the Philippines, while tho
| Schuylkill Valley has contributed an
; other general officer in Brigadier Gen
j eral Charles Z. Bailey, who was born
; in Tamaqua, and is now in charge of
: the coast dfenses at Corregidor Island
in the Philippines. Brigadier General
William M. Black, the chief of engi
neers, was born in Lancaster; Colonel
Henry H. Ludlow, the second In com
mand of the Coast Artillery, was bora
in Easton and by marriage is relator!
to the Armistead family of Philadel
phia: Colonel Brechemin, the second
in command In the Army Medical
Corps, is a Pennsylvanian; Brigadier
General William A. Mann, in charge of
the Second Brigade of regulars at
Laredo, Texas, is another son of tho
Commonwealth, and Lieutenant Colo
nel William P. Burnham. also a Penn
sylvanian, is in command of the Porto
Rican Infantry. Pennsylvania's com
missioned officers are scattered around
the globe. Major James A. Logan, a
Philadelphian, who served throughout
the Spanish-American war as a private
in Battery A, is now attached to tho
American Embassy in Paris. Colonel
James A. Irons, another Pennsylvan
! Jan, Is the military attache at Tokio.
iln addition to the general officers
named, the Keystone State can claim
Colonel Frederick S. Foltz, of the First
Cavalry; Colonel Joseph A. Gaston, of
the Sixth Cavalry; Colonel Horatio G.
Sickel. of the Twelfth Cavalry and
Colonel George A. Dodd, the hero of
the now famous "Dodd's Ride," all
these officers now being at the "scone
of action." Three colonels of infantry
represent the State's leadership in that
arm of the service, one of whom. Colo
nel James S. Rogers, is now with tho
Eighteenth Infantry at the border,
while Colonel Samuel W. Miller is at
the head of the Tenth Infantry, pa
trolling the Panama Canal."
Officials of the State Highway de
partment have had photographed as a
horrible example the river road be
tween Division street and Lucknow. A
traction engine, supplied with big
cleats, passed over the road one of the
recent warm afternoons and In tha
language of the poets, "left its mark."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ""]
—Col, H. L. Haldeman and Col. H.
C. Trexler, on duty outfitting the
Guardsmen at Mt. Gretna, are the two
oldest men in the National Guard.
—William S. Brown, prominent
Philadelphia Shriner, has again been
elected secretary of the Imperial body.
He has long been an officer.
—Major H. W. Coulter, who com
mands the men of the Tenth in the Big
Bend, is a son of a noted soldier and
a prominent Greensburg man.
—Lee Stewart Smith, new head of
thQ Templars and well known here,
was given a parade when he returned
from the encampment.
—Bishop Designate McDevitt, is one
of the few Catholic prelates In the
country to wear a beard.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Ilarrisburg is the center
of twelve State highways?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city was headquarters of an
army department in the critical days of
the Civil war.
Keeping Out Cats
An amateur electrician has devel
oped a plan to protect his property
from the alley cat by nailing to the
top of his fence a strip of metal and
connecting it with a small induction
coil. This coil can be regulated by
clock work so that the electricity is
only turned on during certain hours.
When the current Is turned on any
cat Jumping upon the fence receives
a shock which promptly precipitates
him into the alley below and he usual
ly rushes away from that locality.
The originator of the device claims
that It has entirely overcome the an
noyance of the noisy cat concerts
which had disturbed his nightly ttlum
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