6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE,Pr«'« and Editor-in-CM?/ V. R. OYSTER, Buiinjsj Manager. GUS M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Edito*. * Member American /I Newspaper Pub llshers' Assocla tlon, The Audit Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn- T—< pm iai X sylvanla AssoclfrV ps| m *tsa ed Dailies. I Eastern gfflce, Has #3l £SH9 Iti Brooks, Fifth Ave all, Jf nue Building, New By York City; West ern office, hu- SSMBW brook. Story & Brooks, People'* *■ ——- Gts Building, Chi» Entered at the Post Office In Harrit* burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, J3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENIXG JULY 20. Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at aIIT —SYDNEY SMITH. GREATER HARRISBURG NAVY WHEN a prominent member of the City Planning Commission and the head of the Depart ment of Parks agree to serve upon a committee which has In mind the im provement of the Susquehanna river basin, it is an encouraging sign of the Increasing interest of officials and people generally In the wider and more general use of the river at this point. Visitors all speak in glowing terms of our wonderful river front and the city cannot afford to fall in •ny direction wherein the permanent Improvement of the embankments, the islands and the channels is involved. Our West Shore neighbors must also be deeply Interested In anything that concerns the river and it Is up to our 'cross-river friends to join the "Greater Harrisburg Navy" in its con structive program of improvement. Of course, there will be a wide variety of opinion regarding the things which must be done from time to time, but there is little doubt that upon the main questions there will be sub stantial agreement. City Commissioner Lynch will com plete the river dam by installing some concrete slabs which were not placed in position last summer and it will then be the business of the new asso ciation to have a survey of the basin completed with a view to providing bathing beaches, protecting the islands from erosion, opening channels in the reefs and otherwise doing what is necessary to make the broad bosom of the river here the ever-increasing resort of hundreds of our people. Committees will be appointed this week to interview all our business people with a view to making the Labor Day carnival a wonderful suc cess from the standpoint of a specta- | cular river pageant and aquatic j Interest. Fortunately for the future i of the association and the important' Interests which have been referred to it, many of the younger men of the city are taking an intelligent and ag gressive interest. They appreciate the river and through them a wider use ef the Susquehanna basin is certain to follow. The attempt of the officials of the Post Office Department to muzzle the press of the country by placing in the hands of the Postmaster General the power to elect whether magazines and other publications shall be sent by mail or freight, has been getting a good airing in the Senate. So much feeling and revulsion has been created against the proposition that it will get Its quietus. This is but another attempt cf the present administration to thwart the will of the people, and has been the ineans of stirring up much criticism and unfavorable comment on the meth ods of the present post office officials. THE PRICE OF SUGAR DEMOCRATIC editors are trying desperately to hide with clever phrases their chagrin over the fact that sugar has gone steadily up In price, Instead of down, as a result of the enactment of the Underwood tariff law and that the statute named all but ruined the cane sugar industry of that sacred domain, the "Solid South." The Philadelphia Record ex plains that the cane sugar industry was losing ground before the Under wood tariff, the Inference being that It was a mercy to put It out of Its misery. To-morrow, If experience counts for anything, the Record will call the Telegraph a "party organ" and in a perfect storm of indignation win rage around the old well-worn circle of Democratic tirade, abuse and explana tion. But that won't bring down the price of sugar or restore in a moment any of the ruined sugar industries of the South. The Evansville Courier, Evansviii«, 111., has Just issued its annual "mid summer number." The pictures and descriptive matter show Evansville j n warm weather dress, and it is not to be wondered that the Courier was B o proud of It* home town that it wanted others to see It through the eyes of the editor's well selectejl Photographs. Evansville is well worth a "mid-sum mer" number, and the Courier has done the subject full Justice. MUST PREPARE FOR PEACE GEORGE W. PERKINS Is another of those financial leaders who believes that the cessation of the war in Europe will mean serious re adjustment In this country. He antici pates that the war will end as sud denly as it began and that Immediately THURSDAY EVENING, will follow the reorganization of com mercial and industrial activities. Mr. Perkins says: It will not do to lull ourselves to sleep with the argument that when this war is over Europe will be so exhausted In men and money that she cannot compete with us in the manufacturing lines. Emergencies and difflculties quicken the facul ties of a resourceful people, and no country on the clvllzed globe to day is more resourceful than Ger many. It is a great mistake to expect Europe to be hopelessly crippled, industrially speaking, when this war is over. The thing Europe will be crippled for will be gold. We shall have it, and her only way to get it will be by sending us manu factured goods at prices low enough to get back that gold; and this she will unquestionably do. As matters stand to-day we are wholly unpre pared to repel her attempt to do this. , This view of the case squares exactly with the conclusions of Roger W. Bab son. the distinguished statistical ex pert. We have no business in this country to deceive ourselves and we, must be prepared through proper ad ministrative regulations and policies to meet the impact of the European com petition. » Those who are familiar with past Democratic performances will not be impressed with a nonpartisan tarifT commission and certain other panaceas proposed by the present wobbly lead ership at Washington. Only through the placing of Republican statesmen in the saddle can we be sure of con structive and sane government during the crisis which will come with the ending of the war. Way down on the Mexican border the Telegraph is keeping the boys from home posted as to what is transpiring in the old home town. When they re turn from the sand dunes and mesquite patches they will all be ready to Join the "Greater Harrisburg Navy" and thank their lucky stars that the old Susquehanna never goes dry. THE GLORY OF PENNSYLVANIA OUR thanks to Miss Agnes Repplier for some kind words con cerning Pennsylvania in the cur rent issue of the American Magazine. AIJ that she says about our scenery, our industries, our proud place in the history of the States and our patriotic devotion is true. But when Miss Repplier talks of our "preposterous capitol" she is libeling Pennsylvania, rather than gloryfying it and at the same time is placing her own evidently limited architectural judgment against that of the world's best authorities on the subject, who have pronounced the Pennsylvania building a gem among buildings. Miss Repplier talks sarcastically of "Imperial hatracks" and "vice regal spittoons." but never a word of the wonderful paintings of Abbey and Oakley, which rank among the best of their kind In the world, or the statuary of Barnard, which set all Europe agasp when it was exhibited in the art salons of Paris. Not a wcrd of the beautiful rotunda or the classic lines of the great structure itself. One wonders if Miss Repplier did not write this chapter of the "Glory of the States" from observation gleen ed from the newspaper political columns of a decade past and the smattering of information she may have gathered as she whirled through Pennsylvania over the mam line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Certainly, her well-written, but sadly lacking essay might have been so compounded. There is nothing in it that could not have been extracted from those sources, plus, perhaps, an old school history. Pennsylvania's glory is not of the past alone. It is of the present. Neither does it rely solely upon the sons f the men who were among those who signed the Declaration of Independence or helped frame the Constitution. We are as patriotic and as self-sacrificing as any State in the union. The first Commonwealth to have its full quota of soldiers at the border after the call of President Wil son was Pennsylvania. That-ought to be answer enough for the maligners who earn their livings blackmailing; one of the fairest and best Common wealths the world has ever known. We thank Miss Reppller for her kind words, and we invite her back for a more extensive examination of our capitol and our laws. ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT GERMANS who have professed wonderment over the prepon derance of public opinion in the United States favoring the allies In their contest with the central powers of Europe should read the speech of Vi&count Bryce made recently at a dmr.er in London. It sums up the situation precisely as most Americans see it Said Mr. Bryce: We do not hate the German peo ple; we do not wish to break up Germany nor destroy her national unity, nor inflict permanent injury upon her. What we desire is to exorcise an evil spirit and discredit the military caste which delights in war and threatens not only Eu rope, but all countries, America in cluded. Not content for Germany to be a great prosperous nation among other nations, the German Govern ment desires to dominate the world. The only safety for the world is to discredit by defeat that military caste and the military system which gained Its control and laid its yoke upon the German people by three successful wars. That is the feeling In America. "If Germany wins, we are next," is an opinion widely prevalent. The rape of Belgium was responsible for the start of the anti-German sentiment here, the dastardly attack on the Lusltanla added fuel to the flames and the efforts of Germany to subsidize all America to her own ends in creased the growing resentment, but the fear of German aggression in Am erica—that In a measure the allies are fighting our fight—that has been responsible for the growtti of anti- German sentiment in this country. Americans do not hate Germans. They admire them as a people and they sympathize with them in their trcubles. We don't want to see the allies batter their way to Berlin any more-than we want to see the Ger mans take Paris. But we do detest the German militaristic policy and we want to see It thoroughly defeated and repudiated. Our own safety and that of the whole world lies In that i direction. * The Days of Real Sport ... By briggs I ; fotitlco- LK Sy the Ex-Committccman ■ —■ Dismissal of Dr. George W. Mc- Neil as» postmaster of Pittsburgh bids fair to cause the biggest row known in Western Pennsylvania Democratic politics In years. It is charged that the postmaster was dropped because he had incurred the anger of National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and had refused to do some things which Assistant Postmaster General James I. Blakslee hoped to have done. The fact that Alexander GuHey, brother of Joseph M. Guffey, the Democratic public utility man who Is Democratic boss of Allegheny patron age, was named for the place is also considered significant, McNeil was appointed as a surprise, it being intimated that he was a per sonal friend of the President and when he took office there were intimations that the Democratic bosses would bide their time and "get him." The dis missal was made right when McNeil was in Washington, scheduled to make a big speech at the postmasters' con vention. —The Pittsburgh Gazette Times says that Postmaster Mcrveii refused to give orders in political matters and drew on himself the wrath of the bosses. It says in part: "The im pression prevailing in Pittsburgh among leading Democrats who have been in touch with the efforts being made to influence Mr. McNeil to make political appointments in the post office is that he is being removed be cause he would not play politics to the extent those in control of the Democratic State and county ma chines desired. When Mr. McNeil was appointed postmaster or Pittsburgh, largely through the efforts of George W. Guthrie, ambassador to Japan, County Chairman Guffey wanted his brother named. Finding that he could not succeed in getting the appoint ment, he agreed to the selection of Mr. McNeil, who did not seek the office. Since the appointment of Mr. McNeil last December, numerous ef forts have been made by the Demo cratic county organization to nave de motions and promotions made In the service. In cases where Postmaster McNeil thought It would be unfair and in violation of the civil service laws to act, he refused to comply. This led to friction. The postmaster also re fused to try to influence the post office employes in the matter of voting in the primary election of last May. His friends believe that tnese things and not questions of the conduct of his office brought about his removal. It is reported that some of the political changes were "recommended" from Washington and the refusal of the postmaster to comply could be con strued as "failure to co-operate with the department in carrying out its instructions." The two division plan is not considered as the real reason." —The recent raids by police in Philadelphia have been followed by the stopping of gambling and charges are made this morning by some of the Philadelphia newspapers that the higher officials knew of condit'ons some time ago and did not act until some exposes were about to be made. The North American, which has been friendly to the Smith administration, says that the police officers who got into trouble over the raids will not be seriously affected and the Demo cratic Record demands the resignation of Director W. H. Wilson. —G. A. Loose, of Reading, who be came Prohibition candidate for Con gress in the Berks-Lehigh district be cause someone wrote his name on a ballot yesterday found out he was a candidate. A newspaperman told him. —Charges regarding "Jumping" of men in the Philadelphia city civil service are made by the North Amer ican to-day. An investigation is de manded. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day says that much attention has been at tracted by the suggestion of Clinton Rogers Woodruff that the proposed new city charter shall contain a pro vision for a city manager. The new city charter proposition is not relish ed'by the city administration especially as Woodruff Is taking an active part In its discussion. —A. Nevin Detrlch said yesterday that he had received word that Fred Brenckman, of Carbon county, one of the Washington candidates ror Con gress-at-large would withdraw. • —One of the interesting things about the Democratic electoral list for this State is that the President's list was a day late and the vice-president's list wag not sworn to. If it had hap pened to be a pair of Republican lists there would have been an awful fuss made In some quarters. V Reports were current to-day that HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH the headquarters of the local ex- Washlngton city and county commit tees would be moved to North Market Square. TELECRAPH PERISCOPE"! —The rural credits bill doesn't mean, however, unlimited credit for butter and eggs. —lt begins to look as though Jack Johnson von Hindenburg has met his Wlllard. —By the way, what has become of those dreadful forty-five-centimeter I guns? —"Can't some nice, quiet place be found for Secretary Daniels?"— Pitt sburgh Dispatch. The trouble Is that no place where Daniels Is remains quiet. —Beading the President's kind words to farmers on the rural credits bin makes us wonder why he wasn't a lit tle more thoughtful about their rural free delivery service. —Anyway, we didn't have to go to a picnic to-day. because of the trolley strike. Every cloud has its silver lining. EDITORIAL COMMENT With all our horses sold to Europe, it is difficult to see how we can give Mexico a stable Government. Syra cuse Post-Standard. As for the insult to the flag in firing upon a Standard Oil steamer, we be lieve Austria will hasten to make repa ration before the price of gasoline goes higher.—Grand Bapids Press. It is reported that the Mexicans are preparing to shell the American motor truck trail. They have spilled our blood. Xow. if they spill our gasoline nothing can hold us back.—Louisville I Cou'ier-Journal. Crutches For War Cripples A Canadian soldier who has been returned to his home, after being kept for some months as a wounded prison er in a German hospital, was per mitted to retain his crutches which are of great Interest to his home peo ple as an example of German ingenu ity. They are adjustable so that they can be utilized as conveniently by a giant eight feet tall as by a midget. In addition to their adjustable height, the crutches are exceptionally light in weight and are a'.so strong enough to bear any reasonable strain. It is said that several large factories in Ger many are now working full speed turning out these crutches to meet the demand. An Interesting fact Is that many of the workers In the fac tory are war cripples of some kind and that the perfection of the crutches Is largely due to suggestions made by men who have to use them. Trade Briefs A bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives which pro vides for the adoption of a national trade mark for American manufactur ers. Petroleum marketed in this'country during the first half of 1916 approxi mated 140,000,000 barrels. There Is a shortage of dyestufts at Lyons, France, and should the war continue much longer all dyes will have to be Imported from the United States. The Russian government Is financing the erection of U large lodine factory on Nahodka Bay, near Vladivostok. Bweet birch 611, a substitute for oil of wlntergreen, Is In big demand In this country. The principal supply of this oil comes from distilleries in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The shrub from which "cassle," a French perfume, is made is found growing in abundance in the Philip pine Islands. Drains are being laid in the wet land at the western end of Prince Edward Island. The project will reclaim about ! 200,000 acres of farm land and In crease Its value *2O an acre. This year shipments of fox skins to Seattla Increased by 167 blue skins; 253 blue and 40 white skins were taken. Bhoe factories In the Philippines have had to close temporarily because of the shortage of leather. The production of Brazilian wine Is classed as the second most Important native industry. There is a market for logwood at Jeremie. Hayti. Brazil's exports to the United States during 1915 amounted to $106,956,884, an increase of 42 per cent, over 1914. Exports of gasoline, kerosene, lub ricating oils and naval stores from this country to Brazil in 1915 totaled $8,000,000. Seattle shipyards are at present working on vessels valued at $5,000,- 000, . r i. 1 1 1 1 TAKE A HIKE WESTWARD By Frederic J. Haskin , ) YOU can't run at high gear unless you keep your machine in per feet repair, and even then you can't run at high gear all of the time. That is the rationale of the need of modern man for vacation. He does more in a year than his forefathers did in five, and he therefore has press ing need to knock off once a year, and do nothing, or something else, for at least two or three weeks. All of the more important business organizations of -the country are making vacation a regular and important institution. They are organizing camps and play grounds. They realize that human efficiency is the deciding factor in the success of any business and that efficiency is a matter of health. The individual faces exactly the same problem. His success depends upon the amount of zest that he puts into his work, and the zest depends upon health. Many of us never do catch up with the modern j?ace. We are fagged laggards all the way through the struggle. Only a few of us are as much as five-eighths alive most of our waking time. We drink buttermilk to live long, but are only half alive while living. And so few of us ever realize that the way to achieve is not to try harder, but to quit trying for a while, to give our nerves the tonic of freedom from re sponsibility, and our lungs a breath of fresh air. Change is the prime essential of vacation. If you live In the country and raise cucumbers, the proper thing for you to do is to have your whiskers curled and go to New York. But most of us live In the city, and there fore the thing we need Is to go out doors. Xow living out-of-doors Is at once a habit and achievement. John Mulr says that going back to the woods is going home because we all came from the woods. To many a westerner this is very true. The East has somewhat to learn from the West along that line. In Western towns everybody is off for a hike every few weeks or months. Most of the men hunt and most of the women ride, and throw ing a squaw-hitch over a pack is as common an accomplishment as play ing golf is in the East. When your real Westerner gets a vacation, he has no doubts about what to do. Only a hundred and twenty-five miles away there is a trout stream that he has been intending to try for several years. He puts the grub box and bed in the buckboard, hitches up his team of na tive cayuses, and arrives at his desir ed trout stream in two days without fatigue. He knows how to take care of himself and have a good time out of-doors. And to that familiarity of his with the mountains and mesa you may trace much of what is best and .most typical in him —his breadth of thought, his physical stamina, his res olute love of freedom. Now there Is no denying that there are many good amateur woodsmen In the East, but numerically they are the merest handful. The typical East- GETTIXG HOME By Wins Dinger I Jumped Into a Jitney car. Last evening, after work. It looked a wee bit dingy And it started with a Jerk. It needed paint quite badly And it only had one lung; While the dust of many ages In and outside to It clung. All of which I'd not discovered Till I'd settled in»my seat. Or I think I would have beaten From that car a quidk retreat. For I was In quite a hurry. And I pictured how this flower Of the "nineties." aged and feeble. To my home would use an hour. But Just let me tell you, brother, When that boat got under w%y And from one street side to other It did Jump, and leap and sway There was nothing that could touch It And I landed, let me state, «* In less time than I can get home In a car that's up-to-date. The One-Cent Paper The one-cent paper will be a thing of the past In a short time.—Secretary Re^field. If the papers gave space to all of Mr. Redfield's utterances the disap pearance of the pulp forests would be a matter of weeks.—New York Bun. A Judicious silence 1b always better than truth spoken without charity. •—Francis de Sale* JULY 20, 1916. erner is about submerged in his own urban existence. Turn him loose in the woods and he is lost and miser able. Give him freedom and he does not know what to do with it. He falls heavily back upon the resort ho tel, which is very well for women and children and individuals but surely reveals a lack of all imagination and spirit of adventure in youth and man hood. So the East has something to learn from the West, and —this is the nub of the story—the West is now ready to teach. Through the Department of the Interior, ably and enthusiastically abetted by several large railroads, the West is inviting the East to come out and take a look at its great national parks. There Is room for hundreds of thousands without any crowding. Scattered from the Canadian border to Southern California, these national parks contain the most wonderful va riety of scenery and wild life to be found anywhere in the world. Yet until recently they have been almost entirely neglected except by people living within a few hundred miles of them, and occasional adventurous globe trotters, who have looked and proclaimed them far more striking than the Alps and wondered that they were not better known. Now the United States government has determined to make the American people aware that they possess these wonderful play-grounds. Robert T. Mather, a wealthy westerner, has been placed in charge of the work, and is pushing it with all the energy and executive ability of a successful businessman. And the East is al ready heeding the invitation. More persons visited the parks last summer than ever before, and this summer will see their numbers grow still fur ther. The West is showing the East how to go back to the woods. And the best part of it is that you can take Just as stiff or just as mild a course as you wish. You may get a pack horse and a saddle horse and take to the wilds to look out for your self, or you can hire a guide to bear the responsibility and do the work, or you can set up your tent by a stream, and stay right there, or you can rent a little chalet and keep house, or you can stay at a carefully organized and conducted camp, or you can get a first-class room at a first-class hotel and look at the scenery through the window. The whole thing has been planned so that any taste, and any amount of initiative and imagination or any lack thereof, can be exactly accommodat ed. And summering In these parks is, for the most part, pleasantly free of the holdup elements which mar vacations in some—in fact in many places. No millionaire colonies can get a monopoly of these parks because Uncle Sam owns them, and though all may camp on equal terms, there Is no land for sale. Likewise the hotel and camp people lease the right to conduct their establishments from the govern ment, and the government Is there to see that they are properly conducted. OUR DAILY LAUGH tThe world owes every man a 11*- That's so. And the world gives every man plenty of opportunity to collect it if he wants it CHARMS. #*2 She carries a rabbit foot, wears a horseshoe VjTjVjl brooch and a pin shaped like a lSjf/ \ four-leaf olover. AM*. I heard she was .wiyjj a girl of many /nflQj] charms. TSR 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 "Uunlclpal Quiz."] What license does the Valley Rail ways Company payT The Valley Railways Company pays to the city <50.00 per car, Khioh la 1916 atoouated to (1,600.00, | iEbmng (Eljat Hundreds of limekilns, which had been abandoned, some of them years ago, are being started up in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania counties be cause of the demand for lime for agri cultural purposes due to the stopping of the foreign supply of potash and the exhaustion of stocks in this coun try. Throughout the central part of the State and in a few of the western counties the lime burning industry has become more or less concentrated be cause of the engaging of corporations in the business and the small kilns, which used to be so numerous were allowed to go to ruin as was done with many of the old style stone blast fur naces which were the precursors of the modern steel giants. Reports which are reaching the Capitol tell of far mers buying up old kilns and putting them into operation to furnish lime. Last winter large purchases were made for top dressing of soil and this spring its use was very extensive, probably more so than known in ten years. The results, notably in the hav crops, were good. Now the old lime burning industry, which was once so profitable in the farming districts is coming back to its own as have some other industries which were revived by abnormal conditions produced by war. In eastern counties where there are outcroppings of limestone the number of kilns made active again is surprisingly large. The limestone quarries are also busy with the de mands of contractors for stone for building or road making purposes. • • » One of the funniest of the stories told about schemes to delay trolley cars comes from the hotbed of the ructions, Cameron and Market streets. It seems that yesterday morning just before a car came along two men went to the center of the street and one took up a manhole, the other going down into the hole. The lid was plac ed on a rail and one man standing in the middle of the track leaned over talking to the man in the hole. Along came a car and after some waiting the motorman tooted. The man looked up and smiled. The motorman waited some more. Then a policeman order ed the man to let the car pass. An argument ensued, of course, and the car had to wait some more. Finally the man walked away, but returned and said that he could not leave his fellow and that he could not leave his work. The policeman ordered the man out of the hole. Then there was more talk. Finally, the man came out, the lid was replaced and the car moved along. So did the men. One had done nothing but sit in the manhole and the other was part of the scheme to have some fun. Fourth street furnished another in cident in the strike and it seemed to amuse the policemen as much as some of the people who participated in it. At any rate the policemen laughed and told motojmen to go on, as they did when they were asked to stop throwing of things at Verbeke street market. It happened that a car came down Fourth street with a truck right in the rear. The truck held half a doz en kids and they were pelting the car with small stones and whatever they could find along the way, the obliging driver of the truck stopping now and then to permit replenishment of am munition and then speeding up to catch the trolley. , » • • Complaints about some of the jit. ney rates being charged in Harrisburg just now were being heard up and down Market street, but no one In au thority appeared to be paying any more attention to them than to the absence of compliance with the city li cense ordinance. One man was accus ed of charging a man a quarter to go to Third and Boas streets. "Don't you know what jitney means?" inquired the angry passenger when told the rate was a quarter. "Hunh" was the Intelligent re sponse. , "Jitney means nickel. Nickel should be your rate," was the next remark from the passenger. "Naw. Two bits. Five jits." replied the undisturbed jitneur. The man handed him a dime and walked off in disgust. The jitneyman started to get out and finding no sup porters in the crowd which gathered, called the retiring man a robber and cut out a side street. • * • Those who travel through the Dau phin Narrows are greatly pleased with the work that is now being done in the restoration of the river wall. This wall was fast disintegrating, but is now being permanently repaired and capped with a granolithic coping. The drive through the narrows is always picturesque and the improvement of this wall gives the visitor a good Im pression of the entrance to Harris burg. • • • Dr. H. M. Stlne, who will act as re cruiting officer for this district with Frank H. Mikle, served as an officer of company I, of the Fourth infantry in the Porto Rlcan campaign and was al so prominent in the National Guard for years. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge J. A. Mcllvalne, of Wash ington county, was hurt In an automo bile accident in Ohio. —Col. Asher Miner, who commands the Ninth Infantry, used to be a mem ber of the legislature. —The Rev. G. E. Brenneman, of Sheraden, enlisted in a regiment of volunteers beins raised in Allegheny county and will be chaplain of the command. —Judge John M. Garman, of Lu zerne county, well known here. Is sit ting In the Jitney bond cases. | DO YOU KNOW 7 That Harrisburg silk is used in dresses sold in Canada? * • • HISTORIC HARRISBURG Zachary Taylor visited this city when general and president and spoke at the Capitol. Lending Gun to Kill Yaquis ( Johnstown Leader.) While Carranza was shuttling his troops about to Induce us to hike out of Mexico the Yaqjul Indians came down upon some of his Isolated forces and wiped them out, burning at the stake those who were not killed In battle. The Yaquis are fighters, and also seem to be unpurchaseable. With these characteristics, together with their ability to survive all efforts to exterminate them after robbing them of their lands, they present a tough problem in the Mexican situation. We wonder whether our pacifist adminis tration is willing to slip Carranza a loan of a hundred million or so to enable the amiable First Chief to shoot or hang the last Yaqui. It seems to be considered rather rude for Yaquis to kill Carranzistas. Is It going to be Just as rude for Carranza to slaughter the Yaquis? Or shall we send a polite note to the chiefs of the Broncho Ya quis and the MayoeT