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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 26
Behold us. the rich and the poor.
Dear Lord, in Thy service draw near;
One consecrateth a precious coin.
One droppeth only a tmr?
Look, Master, the love is here!
—HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL.
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SERIOUS PAPER FAMINE
AN enormous demand for paper
abroad is making the paper
situation in this country even
more serious than it has been hereto
fore. Pulp mills in Canada are shut
down while thousands of employes are
at war and all the Swedish pulp con
cerns have cancelled their contracts
with American firms, sending their j
product into Germany instead.
Experts are giving close attention to I
the paper conditions, but these hold
out little hope of any immediate im
provement. Not only is the newspaper 1
industry threatened, but also the gen- !
eral printing trades and other indus
tries which are more or less dependent
upon the various grades of paper. The
other day one of the important New
England papers was compelled to sus
pend publication for three days in suc
cession owing to failure to receive its
supply of print paper.
Many newspapers have already in
creased their subscription price and it
is generally predicted by those familiar
with conditions that the one-cent paper
is rapidly passing.
Tl»e Federal Trade Commission is
making an investigation regarding the
print paper industry especially, in order
to determine whether or not there has
been an undue increase in the prices
of news print paper. Makers of paper
declare the high point in cost of paper
has not yet been reached.
SMOKE LOSSES
THE Louisville Times estimates
that the annual losses and dam
ages due to smoke in Louisville
are nearly $2,000,000. Were those
statistics collected during a normal
period under the Republican regime,
or during the 1915 war period? There
are no losses from the smoke nuisance
during a normally Democratic period
for the reason that/the mills are not
running and the smoke is not fuming.
THE WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY
ANOTHER important conference
with respect to the permanent
routing of the William Penn
Highway -was held at Philadelphia
yesterday. When this famous 'cross-
State road shall have been finally fixed
as to location, the various towns and
cities along the way, as well as those
rural communities through which the
road will pass, will unite in a general
plan for the pushing of the work of
'the association. It is fortunate that !
there is at the head of this association
such a live wire as William Jennings,
of Harrisburg, who has associated
with him some of the most prominent
citizens of the State. These include
bankers and manufacturers and busi
nessmen and farmers and men in
every walk of life, all interested in
the working out of a great highway
that will be a credit to the State and
provide easy access to some millions
of population.
We have long since passed the point
where there is any doubt about the
necessity for convenient communica
tion between the rural and urban
communities. So much depends upon
prompt and cheap transportation that
discussion of the necessity of these
main trunk lines has ceased entirely.
All that we hear now is how best to
perfect the system that it may prove
beneficial to the State.
Some amendment of the highway
system will be made at the next ses
sion of the Legislature and then direct
action can be taken by those com
munities which are in sympathy with
the William Penn highway proposi
tion.
For instance, nothing is more im
portant to Harrisburg than the
building of a permanent and L afe road
from Dauphin westward. Already the
Northern Central Railway has agreed
to provide a safe and passable high
way between Speeceville and the
Clark's Ferry bridge, but it will be up
to the State and the county in co
operation to continue the road west
ward from Dauphin, thus avoiding at
least two railroad grade crossings and
the climb over Red Hill.
Already some thousands of tourists
have passed through Harrisburg this
summer from many States and when
the roads shall have been still further
improved Harrisburg is bound to be a
central point toward which all tourist
travel will converge. Of course, the
inevitable hotel which all Harrisburg
has been expecting for several years
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
must be provided and this of itself will
prove a magnet that •will attract
thousands of tourists who have heard
of Harrisburg, but who have not al
ways found it a desirable detour owing
to the condition of the highways lead
ing from this city.
1 As was suggested some time ago,
|.he late Highway Commissioner Cun
ningham was pledged to the building
of a boulevard between Harrisburg
and Gettysburg and it will doubtless
be the pleasure of his successor. Com
missioner Black, to pu( that thought
i Into concrete form in the building of
a substantial and safe highway from
the 'Capital to the greatest battlefield
In the world.
HOUSES FOR WORKMEN
THERE is interest for Harrisburg
in the assertion that Pittsburgh
is threatened with loss of pres
tige as an important industrial center,
land will retain her place as a proml
nent factor in the world's iron and
steel trade against competition by
Cleveland, Ohio, Gary, Ind., Chicago,
111., and Duluth, Minn., only by the
adoption of a building code that will
provide for proper housing conditions
for hundreds of thousands of workers.
This statement was made by Charles
B. Ball, chief sanitation inspector of
the Department, of Health of the city
of Chicago. Mr. Ball, who is a sani
tary engineer of national reputation,
and who drafted the provisions of the
Chicagc building code regarding hous
ing conditions, spoke vigorously in
Pittsburgh recently on the subject of
housing.
The building code of a city, he said,
has come to be recognized as the
barometer of its progress. A poor
building code, he said, means poor
housing conditions. Poor housing con
ditions mean poor workmen. Poor
workmen mean poor products.
"No corporation can afford to manu
facture poor products and none will
employ workmen who cannot make
good products," Mr. Ball said. All
corporations have come to appreciate
that only good housing conditions at
tract efficient workers and, therefore,
great industries that make great com
munities will be built in cities where
housing conditions are best. If, he
said, housing conditions in Cleveland,
Gary, Chicago and Duluth are better
than in Pittsburgh, then such cor
porations as the United States Steel
Corporation will make these cities the
places of future operations.
He added:
The proposition for proper hous
ing conditions has become a mat
ter of industrial competition. The
Vnited 'States Steel Corporation
owns an option on twenty miles of
Lake Michigan frontage between
Gary and Michigan City, Ind. It
seems certain that future develop
ments by this corporation will be
on the same immense frontage un
less some other sections can offer
a more Ideal location for the erec
tion of great mills. The State of
Indiana has the best building laws
that I know of. If it is apparent to
the United States Steel Corporation
that the laws of Indiana insure the
best housing conditions for work
men, that State will be preferred
in plans for future development.
What applies to Pittsburgh and i
Pennsylvania at large applies also to j
Harrisburg. The. demolition of the old
houses in the Capitol Park extension
district is a double blessing. It will
give us a breathing place in heart
of the city and removes at the same
time hundreds of buildings unfit for
residence purposes. But more Is
needed. Scores and- scores of other
houses are equally bad from a sanitary
standpoint and new buildings are going
up that are not much better. Strive
as we may for the location of new in- ;
dustries here, Harrisburg will not grow
much until we can offer working people
better houses at reasonable rentals.
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
THE Federal Reserve Bank System
is by no means over-popular
among those who have to do
with it. A recent questionaire by a
New York trust company addressed
to each of the banks In the country
drew out more than 5,000 answers, of i
which more than 3,500 4-ere either
distinctly unfavorable to the system
or noncommittal.
The New York World regards this
investigation as presaging an attempt
to upset the Federal Reserve system
in case the next Congress is Re
publican. This fear is probably un-!
, founded. There are some good things
about the system being chiefly
those features which were taken over
without change from the measure ad
vocated by the Aldrlch monetary com
mission.
There are other things about the
system which are far from desirable.
These are chiefly those features which
were added at the behest of McAdoo
jor for the benefit of the South. These
j things should be changed and they
will be as soon as the Republican
party is given the power to do so.
, The Reserve Bank system to-day
is mainly beneficial to the Southern
' States. It furnishes some jobs for
| "deserving" Democrats. But It does
not make it any easier for the average
! businessman to do business.
BRITISH BLACKLIST
NOTHING has so Stirred American
resentment as the British black
list recently promulgated and
which places almost one hundred firms
i in the United States out of touch with
| the business of Great Britain,
j This appears to be another case of
' embargo against the interests of this
| country. Whenever ,Great Britain
feels like punishing the business men
of the United States it Is usually done
through some such scheme as the
blacklist.
It would seem to be about time for
another vigorous note of protest.
International law is being construed
nowadays purely in the interest and
for the benefit of the fighting nations
of Europe.
SECURITY FOR A LOAN
THE panhandlers, the yeggmen, the
gold-brick artists and all the
rest of the easy-money fraternity
must take off their hats to Carranza.
He has shown them a new way to get
the coin in large wads. By killing
American soldiers he was tble to se
cure administration support for a loan
of a hundred millions.
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'PTIIYVOIFTTFUUA
Sj the Ex-Committeeman
—' —— ■ ■ ■■——
i
Radical third party men, who de
cline to go along with anything; that
the Republican conventions do, and
the Democrats who are urging them
on for reasons obvious to everyone
but the aforesaid third party men, are
having a hard time getting an organ
ization started in Pennsylvania. The
men who were leaders in the Roose
velt movement have come out for
Hughes and the rank and file of the
progressives have followed the Col
onel. Only a small number of lr
reconciables and some men who are
mad even at Roosevelt are whirling
about trying to make a fuss in Penn
sylvania. Practically all the support
they are getting is coming from
Democrats.
The effort to recall the men elected
to the Washington party State com
mittee has gone to pieces and the men
who insisted upon forming local
committees have found very little en
couragement anywhere. In Philadel
phia Washington party officeholders
have decided to keep a skeleton or
ganization alive for business purposes
next year, but in the anthracite regions
there is nothing doing and in western
counties the Bull Moosers of four years
ago are Republicans now.
It is expected that some of the
bunch which made the recent confer
ence here a tempestuous gathering
will try to make trouble at the na
tional progressive meeting next mooth.
—Democrats of the State organiza
tion trend of mind, who are already
much disturbed by the fuss which has
been caused by the dismissal of Post
master G. W. McNeil, of Pittsburgh,
are further ruffled by Ryerson W.
Jennings, Philadelphia Democratic
leader for years, who now says that
he is a "former Democrat." The Phila
delphia Ledger says of the matter:
"These points developed when a note,
addressed to the editor of the Public
Ledger, was received last night in ]
which Mr. Jennings referred to him- I
self as a 'former Democrat.' This note
was as follows: 'As a former Demo
crat. I was very much interested in the
performance at the Democratic City
Committee, Tenth and Walnut streets,
the other night, when A. Mitchell j
Palmer and Charles P. Donnelly were !
the principal speakers. This thought |
occurs to me: Which was the lion and !
which was the lamb?' Of course Mr. j
Jennings had reference to the fact I
that Mr. Donnelly in his speech ]
pledged verbal support to the Palmer
leadership for the coming campaign, !
and that Mr. Palmer, in his speech, I
pointed out the rosy future should the i
city committee roll up an old-time j
vote. And, of course, Mr. Jennings
was touching upon the one-time and |
bitter factional enmity between the j
two. Commenting further Mr. Jen- j
nings said: 'Politics makes strange
bedfellows.' When it was suggested to ,
Mr. Jennings that he was popularly l
known as a Democrat, he replied: "I
haven't talked about it much, but I
have parted company with President
Wilson. Not enough Americanism. He I
is a little hyphenated. He was not
stiff enough in his demands. I have I
a son on the Mexican border. If there j
had been real Americanism it would
not have been necessary for him to
have gone there. If Roosevelt were i
President it would • not be necessary.' |
He was asked if he would have voted j
for Roosevelt had he been nominated.!
'Yes.' he replied. 'I would have votedl
for him. worked for him and con- j
tributed to his campaign. But Per
kins and the others in their confer- j
ences at Chicago with Old Guard Re- j
publican leaders laid a trap for him
and the result was Hughes. Of course j
Hughes was a good Governor. But
then Wilson also was a good Gover
nor. Wilson has not sized up.' "
"Was Hell, But It Was Grand"
IFrom the London Telegraph.)
A thrilling story of the "big push" I
was related by a wounded Scot, who has j
reached London.
"Eh. mon. it was hell, but it was I
grand." he declared. "We've got a mow |
on at last, and are paying the Huns out. I
For over a week our guns have been |
letting rip at them. Talk about |
1 the German guns in the early days of i
the war. they are not in it now. I was I
in the retreat from Mons. so I reckon i
i I've seen some of the fighting."
"I got my packet Friday night," ht j
added, referring to his wounds. "We
were pushed up to our front line '
trenches early Friday morning. Long
before daybreak the guns were at it :
worse than ever. The noise fair drove i
! some fellows daft, but the worst of all ,
was waiting in the trenches for the ,
j order to charge. When that came we
were over the top like a lot of dogs let
loose. The crround was churned up for
miles, and the front of the German !
[ trenches simply smashed to bits. We
got there under cover of smoke, and
fairly rolled in. I shall never forget the
sight. The Germans were lying heaped ,
up in all directions, and those who were
alive showed no fight, but appeared to
i have eone 'clean potty.'
"Further on we got into the sup- |
j ports, which had received a terrific
1 smashing about, and it was there we
had the scrap. At the last moment it
i seemed the Germans had rushed a
crowd of chaps in. and they had hidden
themselves in shell holes and were tak
ing pot shots at us. We rushed them
with the bayonet and bombs, and some
of them put up aj good fight. T had one
fellow in front of me. and felt myself
a 'goner,' for I tumbled over some wire.
• when one of oilr chaps got his bayonet
into him. The next second a German
'outed' my chum. 'STever fear. Jock,' he
said, 'you did the some trick for m«,
once.' That chap's left a wife and six
| bairns away up North." added the Scot
Asked how he received his wounds,
the Scot became somewhat bashful.
"Oh. one of the Huns got in at me,"
jhe renlied. Another wounded hero,
! however, took up the narrative. "He
fair tumbled into a hole where there
was half a dozen of iem hiding.' said
the second man "Jock comes of a fight
ing race, and he gave the Huns a bit
for hiding."
Advertising Necessary
John Wanamaker In a message to
the Associated Ad Clubs when they
met at Philadelphia, last month, said
among other things:
"Stores could not exist as they exist
to-day without advertising.
"Merchandise could not exist as it
exists to-day without advertising.
"We shoud go back to the haggle
and barter of trade, to the dark and
murky byways of buying and selling
as they still exist in the uncivilized
countries of the world—lf ADVERTIS
ING stopped.
"Without advertising men would be
suspicious of one another, would dou
blecross one another In their dealings,
would substitute inferior qualities,
would ask as high prices as they
could get, regardless the value of
an article, would waylay and rob and
steal a thousand times more than
they do to-day—because there would
be no standards of business, no stand
ards of interchange of money for
products, no standards of distribu
tion. no standards of manufacture, no
.standards of living.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
—Front tkf Baltimore American.
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1
—When a wife's eyes are opened her
mouth usually follows suit.
—"The President has done nothing
well,' observes an exchange. Well, i
neighbor, you'll have to admit he's
been rather efficient at changing his
mind.
—The Kaiser regrets that he cannot
go into the trenches, but we haven't
heard of anybody finding it necessary
to hold him.
—After witnessing the difficulty of
settling a mere street car strike we are
prone to wonder how anybody is going
to stop the European war.
—You don't have' to enlist for three
years to join the Navy—of Greater
Harrisburg.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT
Spare the rod and spoil the Mexican.
—Boston Transcript.
What Mexico needs is the little rift
within the loot.-.—Wall Street Journal.
Whenever President Wilson gets in
fighting mood his recoil is terrific. —
Brooklyn Times.
Trenches should give Europe a won
derful subway system aftfer the war.—
|Wall Street Journal.
Those at Armageddon, without re
turn tickets, can not be blamed for
feeling grouchy.—lndianapolis Star.
The G. O. P., having had his broken
leg set, is now attending strictly to
I his knitting—Boston Transcript.
Business Fighting Alcohol
[New York Sun.]
Let us imagine Benjamin Franklin,
] who in his day wrote of the liquor
j problem, after a lapse of nearly two
! centuries, visttir.g the plant of the
i Illinois Steel Company, at Joliet, 111.
j He would find tliat in this, as in so
many other reforms, he had merely
been ahead of Wis time. Posted ail
over the establishment this sign would
delight his soul:
NOTICE
To the employes of the Joliet Works,
Illinois Steel Company:
For the promotion of safety and wel
fare, It is hoped that all employes, will
avoid the use of intoxicating liquors.
Under the rules of the Joliet Works,
any employe who uses intoxicating
liquor while on duty will be discharged.
In making promotions iri any depart
ment of the plant. Superintendents of
Departments and Foremen will select
for promotion only those who do not
use intoxicating liquors.
If Franklin snould stroll into Gary
at night, he would find electric signs
over the entrance prate to the Illinois
Steel plant asking him these pointed
questions:
Did booze ever do you any good?
Did booze ever get you a better job?
Did booze ever contribute anything
to the happiness of your family?
These flaming signs indicate an en
tirely new aspect of \he prohibition
crusade. The antialcohol movement in
the United States has had three dis
tinct phases. First, the Church de
clared war against the saloon. Then
science and mf dicine began to demon
strate its evils. Now American in
dustry, in its search for mental and
physical efficiency, has decided to
abolish alcohol.— Burton J. Hendrlck,
in Harper's Magazine for August.
No Park Music?
[From the Kansas City Star.l
The summer is passing, and without
the park music that has been promiseo.
It vould be a great pity if the city
shoald fall to provide the little money
necessary to bring this form of enjoy
ment to its people. There are tens of
thousands of women and children who
cannot test away to the ordinary amuse
ment places. The expense of taking the
children to the movies is more than a
very large number of families can af
ford. The citv could brighten a lot of
l its corners if it would get busy at once
Ito provide the proposed band concerts.
"AN OLD OF MINE"
AMERICA LEARNS TO SHOOT
CAN you shoot? Could you pick
up a modern high-power army
rifle and put 20 bullets Into a
target 200 yards away in two minutes?
The American civilian who could do
that in 1914 was almost rare enough
to put into a museum, but if things
keep moving in the direction they are
headed to-day, the feat will soon be a
inere commonplace incidentally, the
country will have taken a loog step
along what is perhaps the most im
portant of the paths that lead to citi
zen preparedness.
America is learning to shoot. The
tremendous growth of popular inter
est in the use of the rifle in this coun
try since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war is a striking instance of the
way the conflict has affected popular
sentiment. We are turning back to
ward the days of Daniel Boone, when
every man was a sharpshooter, and a
call to arms found a citizenry that not
only heard the call Dut knew how to
use the arm*.
It was 11 years ago that Congress
authorized the issuance of army rifles
of the Krag model, with ball cartridge,
for the use of civilian rifle clubs in
target practice. After five years of
the operation of this provision, there
were less than a hundred civilian rifle
clubs in thj United States. To-day
th«SVe are over 1,100. While their
total membership is a matter of esti
mate, it !s probably not far from a
hundred thousand men. It might be
more accurate tc- say men and women,
for at least one woman, Mrs. William
Strong of Helena, Montana, has quali
fied as a marksman.
While the total club membership is
a matter of estimate, the number of
OUR DAILY LAUGH
A BURG CUBE.
recommend for
lightheadedness? j
# & UNFORTUNATE.
in II He ' s an un "
_J| ?ML 4 lucky fellow.
M Yes, he is a.l
- , ways Johnny on
the wrong spot
Church Advertising
The churches finally decided that it
was not Rood policy to "allow the
devil to have a monopoly of the good
music"; and they are, nowadays, com
ing to the same view about advertis
ing. If a church should have as good
music as a place of amusement, why
should ft not have as good advertis
ing?—Kdltor and Publisher.
Balked at Forgiving Enemies
A British army chaplain returned
from France has told of stopping at a
waytide shrine in Flanders, where Jel
gian soldiers, in prayer, were
following the chant of their priest un
til the father started the Paternoster.
At the words, "As we forgive those who
trespass against us." these was silence.
Not a man replied.
The priest hesitated and started
again. Suddenly a steady voice ran
out from the back, clearly Intoning the
words that pledge one to forgive his
enemies. It was the voice of Albert,
King of the Belgians. His soldiers then
repeated after him, word tor word.
JULY 26. 1916.
By Frederic J. Haskin
qualifications as marksman, sharp
shooter or expert are a matter of rec
ord. There were more qualifica
tions on the range at Winthrop, Mary
land, where the clubs from Washing
ton, D. C., shoot, in the first two weeks
of April 1916 than the entire United ,
States showed for the whole year of
1914. Winthrop is only a sample of j
what is going on to a greater or less
degree over the whole country.
A consideration of rifle club figures |
for the period of the European war ■
shows facts even more striking than ;
those touching a ten-year period. At'
the beginning of the war there were ;
270 clubs in the United States. A 1
single year saw the number more than '
doubled, leaping by the end of 1915
to a total of 639, a gain of 363-. In
the six months of 1916 that have pass- !
ed almost 500 additlunal civilian clubs
have joined the ranks, so that the
total to-day shows well over 1100 with !
the rate of increase higher than ever.
April 1916 the last month for which
complete returns are available, broke !
all records with 140 new clubs for:
the month. ,
The rifle clubs are under the joint
I administration and supervision of the
[ National Rifle Association and the
War Department. The National Ri
fle Association is an institution 4 5
years old, which w»:s organized with
the idea of developing target shooting
as a sport, long before the prepared
ness problem? arose. Government
| recognition of the movement also
| came in the days when the sporting
angle of the program was still upper
-1 most in the minds of most of the af
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WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB i
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
j the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
. answers as presented at. the organlza
j tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
What time is allowed for paying a
paving and curbing assessment? When
Is the lien filed? What are the costs
of a lien?
Paving and curbing assessments
are due and payable sixty davs
after completion of work. The
whole amount may be paid, or it
may be paid in ten equal instal
ments, with interest. If advantage
JB taken of the instalment pay
lhents lien is filed about four
.months after acceptance of the
work.
Courtesy Paid a Dividend
The winner of the contest on "Why
I Think It Pays to be Courteous" in the
August American Magazine tells the
following instance where courtesy paid
a big dividend.
"A woman came into the bank quite
early, 8:30, an hour and a half before
the opening hour, 10 o'clock. She said
that she was in great trouble, and had
to get some money from her account
immediately, as she was obliged to
leave for the South at once. She showed
me a telegram announcing the death ot
her son by a gunshot wound received in
Texas. I condoled with her, had her
waited upon immediately, accompanied
her to the station, secured her tickets,
etc. As the railroad station was oni>
a block from the bank I had a/nple time
to attend to these details. She thanked
me with tears in her eyes. I returned
to the bank and dismissed the matter
from my mind.
"About six weeks afterward, , a lady
garbed in mourning approached my
desk, wished me a pleasant good morn,
ing and said. 'You don't remember me,
do you?' I replied in the negative. She
explained that it was she whom 1 had
accompanied to fhe train. She told nu
she had realised on the accident and 1 if«
insurance policies of her late son, and
though she was offered by a bank tn
Texas one and one-half per cent, more
interest on her funds than we paid, she
preferred to deposit them In thc» bank in
Chicago where the employes were cour
teous to her in her hour of bereave
ment and trouble."
Abetting <£ljal
It's odd how the old names of
Streets stick in spite of the years and
how incidents will bring: them back
and send them into constant use again.
A case in point is furnished by Cam
eron street. For years this highway,
which is one of the few which run
from end to end of the city unbroken,
has been officially Cameron street,
having been changed from Eleventh
out ot compliment to the distinguished
statesman Horn this city. Vet for con
venience sake the street railway coij*,
pany called it Eleventh and put a bi>
11 on the signs for the cars operaticV
in the North section. Straightawn*
the street begins to be called by i>-.
numeral and one newspaper in t:.sv«
City habitually refers to it as such
though the official designation »•
Cameron. And an odd feature aboitf
it in the popular use is that whiii
the section north of Market is otloA
called Eleventh, that below the divid
ing street is Cameron. North Seventh
street is occasionally called Pennsyl
vania avenue, that colloquial name of
the sixties and seventies, when it was
named for the railroad more than
anything else, being heard among old"
timers. Of late, it has been called
••The Avenue" a good bit. Verbeke
street is called Broad street four
times to being given its proper name
once and yet it was named in honor of
a man whose name was a household
word for years and who gave notable
service. Short street, soon doomed to
be forgotten in the extension of the
Capitol Park, .is officially Fifth as is
Spruce, which is now called by that
term very infrequently. And who
ever thinks of calling tne en<l ot
Cowden street near the old United
States Hotel Sixth street, which is its
official title? But on the other hand
if one would ask for Two-and-a-Half
street how many people of the younger
generation could tell where it is lo
cated and why it was called Green?
Some years ago the late "Bill" Nye
and James Whitcomb Riley, whose
death this week has caused national
mourning, appeared in Harrisburg to
gether. They pleased a large audience
at the old Opera House, one with his
droll monologue, the other with a
reading of his own inimitable poetry.
About the time Nye and Riley were
here the phonograph was being intro
duced more or less as a toy. It was
during the Beaver administration and
the only phonograph in the city
was owned by R. F. Cromelin, execu
tive clerk to the Governor. He was
extremely anxious to have Nye and
Riley make a record for him and both
were pleased to do so inasmuch as
they had not then seen the wonderful
talking machine. Riley recited one of
his poems and Nye made some humor
ous comment upon the phonograph
and its future usefulness. This cylinder
was a great souvenir and may yet be
found among the valuable records of
the American Graphophone Company.
When these two fun makers were to
gether they suggested Mutt and Jeff
as to their general appearance. Nye
being very tall and Riley short.
• • *
A. Coleman Sheetz, one of the as
sistant State librarians, has been fish
ing since he was old enough to stand
up and has probably caught a carload
of fish in his time, but he says he
never caught a five-pound bass. He
tells a story of the man who did.
And it is enough to make a real fisher
man weep. Mr. Sheetz fishes accord
ing to the rules and regulations de
vised by Isaak Walton and sanctioned
by time, mellow ed by the traditions of
the Susquehanna and adhered to by all
true casters of the rod and line. For
a long time there was a whopping big
bass in the river near his summer
home at Aqueduct. He tempted him,
but the fish showed the disposition of
a trifler. The other day some other
i man went out to fish with a part of a
I rod, some kind of a line and a piece
lof wire. The bait is unknown. Let it
| be forgotten in the sorrowful tale that
Mr. Sheetz tells.
"I met this man and he showed me
a bass that was twenty-three inches
I long snd was a wonder," says the
l assistant librarian. "I was wild over
! it and took a good look at it because
j I had never hooked one like it in my
'I life. I asked the fisherman if the fish
had fought him much and if he had to
i play him a lot. And what do you think
Ihe said? He s.iid 'No, I just pulled
! him in hand over hand through the
i weeds'."
Mr. Sheetz has the sympathy of a
large coterie of friends and it is to be
hoped that if ho meets up \yith that
alleged fisherman again he. will sug
gest that he go catch suckers in Asylum
run.
• • •
One thing the frequent rains of this
year have done, say men who love the
woods and the wildlands, is to bring up
thousands upon thousands of flowers.
Not in a long time have the blossoms
of the field and the meadow and tne
woodland been as numerous or as
beautiful as this year. In Wildwood
park and along the parkways there
has been a profusion of flowers during
most of the summer. Generally, at
this time of the year the sun burns
plants, but this month everything is
luxuriantly green. •
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Gilbert Murray, the English
scholar who has been visiting Ex-
Senator Bayard Henry, thinks the war
will end next year.
—Henry Budd, who has the dis
posal of the Richmond case before him
in Philadelphia, was a Democratic
senatorial candidate in 1914.
—Bishop J. J. McCort, who has de
clined the appointment to Los Angeles,
was a schoolmate of the late Bishop
Shanahan.
—Arthur L. Bates, one of the Re
publican electors, is a former Con
gressman from the Erie-Crawford dis
trict.
—James I. Blakslee. fourth assist
ant postmaster general, is head of a
fire company at Lehighton.
DO YOU KNO^
That Harrisburg color printing
is famous over the country for its
excellence?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Soldiers slept in the old State Cap
itol during Lee's Invasions.
When the Mercury Sizzles
[From Answers, London.]
There's an art in keeping cool and
comfortable in hot weather, and the
first rule is to keep cool!
Those who are by nature of a calm,
placid temperament are those who on
the hottest days remain cool and com
fortable. Cultivate placidity, thenl
Don't get excited, don't hurry, don':,
fuss mentally or physically.
Ypu may lose a few minutes, but the
compensation in coolness is' worth an
hour. Do you know that the effect on
the body and ltq temperature of just
one shout, one spasm of anger, one min
ute's excitement over a missing stud
or the like. Is to send the temperature
up two or three degrees?
A hasty dinner, a hurried meal, a
quick walk to catch tram or train,
•neans that you get hot and uncom
fortable. Take things quietly an<t
you'll be cool.
Remember that it's far easier to k«e»
cool than to get cool.
Drink but little. Summer drinking is
I habit, and If all your drinks were
•ced they wouldn't make you cool.
Drink cold, unsweetened tea with a
lash of lemon juice. That s astringent
i And a thirst ender