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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
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Sy the Ex-Committccman
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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, .
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TAKE A HIKE WESTWARD
By Frederic J. Haskin
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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