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SATURDAY EVENING, JTIA' 29
There ts nothing the body suffers
:that the soul may not profit by.—
GEOBGE MEREDITH.
OUR CITY'S GREATEST ASSET
WE reprint elsewhere on this page
to-day an editorial from the
Kansas City Star commending
New York City for Its consistent and
constructive work along the Hudson
river, especially the Riverside Park
Drive. This editorial will be of spe
cial Interest to all Harrisburgers who
are proud of the river front In this
city. We have been particularly
blessed In our natural environment
and no feature of our wonderful
scenery is more admired by the thou
sands of visitors every year than the
emerald strip and terrace along the
"Front Steps of Harrisburg."
Commissioner Gross has made some
progress th:s summer In the grading
of different sections of the frontage,
but until tho lower part of the slope
Shall have been riprapped, as has been
proposed, we may expect more or less
damage at every flood stage of the
river.
It would seem to be the part of
Economy to utilize whatever remains
of the last park loan in placing the
river front from Iron alley to Maclay
Street in such shape as will allow of
liberal planting, the placing of per
manent ramps and such other provis
ions as may be required for the pro
tection of this wonderful asset of the
city.
Only the other day, two officials
from a western city spent several
hours here and they Were astounded
at the large park development that
has been achieved in this city with so
email an expenditure. It is certainly
creditable to all who have had any
thing to do in an official way with
Dur park system that they have been
able to accomplish so much with so
little.
Xo other section of the park sys
tem, however, demands immediate at
tention as does the river front, owing
to the danger of damage through the
frequent freshets of the Susquehan
na. Comparatively little is needed to
place the slope in such shape as to re
sist the river at its high stages and in
view of the increasing popularity of
the river park strip there can be lit
tle doubt that the public will approve
anything within reason that is done
to safeguard their playground and rest
resort.
Whatever additional filling is neces
sary to bring the slope to the degree
specified in the recent plan adopted
ought to be done without further de
lay. Stone that might be utilized in
this work is said to be available and
there would appear to be no good rea
son for further procrastination in the
matter. It is fortunate, indeed, that
the Department of Parks was able to
secure so much good material for fill
ing out the embankment between the
Walnut and Mulberry street bridges
this summer and good business and
good judgment both justify the prose
cution of the work as outlined along
the river slopes.
There is abundant shrubbery and
thousands of trees in the City Nursery
and with the grading of the embank
ment and the riprapplng of the low
er sections of the slope, this planting
can be given attention before cold
weather, if not during the early au
tumn.
As indicated in the editorial else
where referred to, "beauty is one of
the greatest assets a city can have"
and without boasting wc may add that
the "Riverside Drive along the Hud
son has nothing on the river front of
Harrisburg.
It is not clear why there should he
so much whining over the Pennsylva
nia soldiers on the Mexican border by
their Indiscreet friends at home. If we
may Judge from the interesting letters
that a-e appearing- frequently in the
Telegraph, the soldier boys from this
city and elsewhere are showing their
mettle in strict attention to their
duties and without complaint. So long
as the criticisms are based upon Inef
ficient military administration it may
be justifiable now and then, but it Is
hardly fair to create the impression
that thos« who have gone, to the front
are bewailing their lot In the midst of
uncomfortable conditions,
f .UrPiK.XWG A\ ITII "MOVIES"
r£ Democratic party will make
extensive use of the "movies"
In the coming campaign. We
can see u all now. No doubt there will
be pictures of factories running at
full blast; ships leaving New York
harbor loaded with exporta bound for
Europe ana boutu America; President
SATURDAY EVENING,
■Wilson, "•pfirinft a mortar *>oard hat
and floii i by the Oxford dictionary
and Roget's Thesaurus, will be seen
typewriting notes to the belligerents
and billets doux to Carranza; while a
five minutes' review will t)e given of
soldiers marching into Mexico and
! marching back again.
The factory pictures, of course, will
be taken In the munition and "war
order" districts; the shiploads of sup
plies to Europe will be over 50 per
cent, munitions of war, and those to
South America will take the place of
goods formerly coming from Europe,
Vhich is now cut off as a base of sup
ply because European factories are
bending their energies toward keeping
the armies up to the highest efficiency
in equipment.
It is highly probable that tho Re
publicans will also use the "movies"
as a medium through which to educate
the peoplef Accounts of the Vera Cruz
fiasco, the Columbus and Santa Isa
bella massacres, and the treachery at
Carrizal have 'been given in sufficient
detail to permit their depletion on the
screen; pictures of shipments of fire
arms and ammunition to the Carranza
government might be shown; the two
broken down aeroplanes which accom
panied the hunters of Villa, the ma
chine guns which insist on jamming,
and the dilapidated equipment of our
troops on the Mexican border will
show what the Democrats have done
toward preparedness during the past
three vears.
In respect to industry the Republi
can party may run a film taken Just
before the European war broke out.
This would show idle factories, blown
out blast furnaces, the long bread line
of idle men filing by the Fleischmann
cart, each getting his half loaf and
moving on to the free soup house; the
stockholder opening his mail at the
breakfast table and reading that no
dividend would be declared this quar
ter on his stock; the docks at New
York, Boston, Xew Orleans, San
Francisco and Portland heaped high
with goods made in foreign countries
coming into tlife American market un
der a near-free tariff law, and displac
ing goods "made in America." The
eye of the camera might then be turn
ed on an empty treasury, and a corps
of treasury accountants at work de
vising schemes to fool the public as to
the actual condition of Federal fi
nances. Following this would come a
picture of the Democratic members
of the Ways and Means committee
framing legislation for additional tax
ation in order to meet the unparal
leled extravagance of their party. And
the entertainment might conclude with
a still picture of Wilson, McAdoo,
Simmons and Claude Kitchin, and a
phonographic record of these four
worthies singing in quartet—
"We are the boys who hear no noise,
When the voters loudy roar."
Doubtless many of those who are
now holding down jobs on Capitol Hill
are awaiting with interest the out
come of Dr. Surface's refusal to resign
by request. In the interest of effici
ency and all that makes for a success
ful administration it would seem to be
the best policy to get through with
whatever changes are contemplated
without further delay.
NEED OF UNIFORMITY
THE Pennsylvania State Associa
tion of Boroughs has undertaken
a work of prime importance to
the motoring public in the framing of
a uniform street traffic ordinance
which it hopes to have adopted by all
the boroughs of Pennsylvania during
the coming year.
The recognized need of such a meas
ure is indicated by the prompt offer
of Attorney General Brown and Com
missioner of Labor and Industry Jofin
Price Jackson to give what assistance
they may be able to.
Borough legislation in Pennsylvania
with respect to street traffic regulation
is confusing and chaotic. Eoroughs
lying so close as almost to overlap not
infrequently have radically different
street ordinances. With the best in
tentions in the world and a sincere
desire to live within the law,Teven the
most careful driver will violate traffic
regulations of boroughs an average
of a half dozen times for every one
hundred miles of travel. Every
borough Is a law unto itself and to
obey all the rules would require con
stant consultation of ordinance books
and a traveling library aboard every
auto on the road.
THE BEAST:
THE TELEGRAPH recently pub
lished this item of local news:
Alice Gutshall, aged 26 years,
214T Atlas street, who one week ago
at her home drowned her 18-month
old nameless baby boy in a bath tub
and then took several bichloride of
mercury tablets, with suicidal in
tent. died this morning at the Har
risburg Hospital.
The young woman was more sinned
against than sinning. Her ocly crime
was loving too well and trusting too
implicitly. She was a motner nut not
a wife. She and her baby were with
out the pale. Physicians said the
nameless child of shame would have
the further handicap of blindness.
So she drowned the baby and swallow
ed poison.
Pitiful, you say? Pitiful, indeed!
But what of the mar. :n the case?
What of the unspeakable beast re
sponsible for the young girl's ruin
and her baby's death? Where is he?
Behind the bars on a charge of mur
der, where he ought to be?
Oh, no! He is still at large. So
ciety has so decreed. Perhaps he is
luring other girls as he lured this one.
He is beyond the reach of the law,
but for all that the mark of Cain Is
on his forehead and there awaits for
him the punishment for those who
escape the penalty of their crimes In
this life.
"Vengeance Is mine; I will repay,
■aith the Lord."
Fire and brimstone appear to have
lost favor In modern descriptions of
Hell, but In rases like this one wonders
why.
"Russians near Brody." bounds like
the good, old days when the headllners
used to dwell un Steve,
We've got a very low opinion of that
'Bermuda High."
The Days of Real Sport ■ By BRIGGS
,3? tIFI , *
in
ST the Ex-Commlttecman
The name of the Progressive party
has been taken for the State elec
tions this year by two different sets of
pre-empters, one from Philadelphia
and the other from Lancaster county.
The first set took the name in the
winter, but as yet there has been no
contest inaugurated to test the right
to use it.
The name has also been pre-empted
for the 9th, 12th, 18th and 30th con
gressional districts and the 13th,
15th, 17th, 29th, 31st and 35th sena
torial districts.
The same name has also been taken
for the First and Second Dauphin and
First and Second Lancaster legisla
tive districts.
The name of the Local Option party
lias been taken for most of the dis
tricts in the State wherein congress
men and senators will be elected and
also in many legislative districts.
In the last week there have been a
number of requests made at the State
Capitol for information as to forms
to be used in withdrawing and it Is
believed on the Hill that there will
be a number of changes in the dis
trict tickets before they are certi
fied for printing.
—Eli.ar Barfod, correspondent of
the Philadelphia Xorth American at
El Paso, charges in an article to-day
that there was politics, in the organ
ization of the First Artillery Regiment
by the appointment of infantry officers,
not skilled in artillery matters, as he
points out, to command it. He also
charges that there was politics in the
matter, as Senator W. S. McKee, com
mander of the Fourteenth Infantry,
which went out or existence, turned up
as colonel of the First Artillery. Inci
dentally, he says the bill for armories
in which Adjutant General Stewart
took a big interest, went through. The
charges attracted considerable atten
tion at the Capitol to-day.
—J. W. Allison, former county treas
urer of Mercer and well known in Re
publican circles, died yesterday at the
age of 75.
—District Attorney Rotan says of
the Philadelphia vice probe that he
proposes to go to the bottom of all
the charges and to get facts and
then act.
—The Philadelphia Republican lead
ers yesterday congratulated David H.
Lane, the city chairman, upon his
seventy-seventh birthday.
The subcommittee of the Commit
tee on the Revision of the Philadel
phia City Charter, following a meeting
yesterday, issued a statement to the
effect that any changes which were
made would be in harmony with
the scheme of the present charter. In
fact, it was staged that no such drastic
changes as were at first suggested
would be approved by the committee.
Among the matters called to the atten
tion of the committer- was the com
munication from William Hancock,
president of the United Business Men's
Association and city representative on
the Rapid Transit board, in which it
was stated that the United Business
Men would not support the proposition
to make a small council of sixteen
members—two from each senatorial
district—with a paid city manager, as
suggested by Clinton Rogers Woodruff
in a plan made public at the last
meeting.
A Wilkes-Barro dispatch says:
"Daniel L. Hart, who was removed as
city treasurer at. the reorganization of
council and subsequently elected col
lector of school taxes, has lost title to
the school board Job through a de
cision of the county judges here to
day. James Mundy, who was elected
treasurer of the city, started man
damus proceedings against the school
board to compel the directors to turn
their tax books over to him. He con
tended that as the lawfully elected
treasurer of the city, by virtue of that
office he has the right to collect school
taxes. The court, with the exception
of Judge Garman, who dissents, up
holds the contention of Mundy and
decides that the law makes htm col
lector of school taxes inasmuch as he
la the lawfully elected treasurer."
TransAtlantic Airships
The great hydro-aeroplane ordered
by Hodman Wanamaker for a flight
across the Atlantic ocean is almost
completed and the details of greatest
flight yet attempted in the world are
now being arranged. Tho machine is
the largest yet built. It contains six
12-cyllnder motors of 300 horsepower
each. It can attain a speed of 100
miles an hour and« carry six passen
gers. Its design includes a number of
patents not found In nny other ma
chine, and It Is confidently believed
by those who are familiar with it that
unless some unforeseen condition de
velops this hydro-aeroplane Is fully
l apaiil* of completing the parage in
[thirty hours. .
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ~1
These Russians must have stolen
Hindenburg's nutcracker.
—News dispatches say Perry coun
ty horses show signs of paralysis, but
perhaps it may be only anticipation of
the Fall plowing season.
—Southern harvest workers have
turned their pitchforks on I. W. W.
agitators who came among them,
which possibly provided an argument
pointed enough for them to under
stand.
—Saving money is the most exciting
game of solitaire any man can play—
and the player wins every hand.
—The Ford Peace Party appears to
be lumbering along with two tires
blown out and only one cylinder work
ing. „
—The White House says it has sent
a "peppery" note to London on the
"blacklist" order and unless all signs
fail it will receive a spicy reply.
—The married men carried off hon
ors at a Mt. Holly picnic this week, £ut
don't get puffed up, you married fel
lows—it was because they could run
faster.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"]
The case of Thomas Mott Osborne,
reappointed warden of Sing Sing,
shows what any determined man can
do when he is resolved to break into
prison.—Grand Rapids Press.
Allowing Mrs. Villa to cross the bor
der into Mexico was a master-strike
on the part of the military authorities
who have been unable to punish the
bandit otherwise. —Nashville Southern
Lumberman.
If Roosevelt is organizing a division
to fight under his direction in Mexico,
it is a grave question whether Presi
dent Wilson has a right to settle our
troubles with Mexico without war.—
Milwaukee Journal.
There seems to be no way to force
Hetty Green's estate to pay a tax to
the law and order that have protected
it all these years, and yet some people
claim they don't understand why
Socialism spreads so.—Boston Tran
script.
New York Insists on Beauty
(Kansas City Star.)
New York is going to spend 150
million dollars just to hide the un
sightly tracks and coal sheds of a
steam railroad alongside beautiful
Riverside Park Drive. The railroad
company has agreed to spend $300,000
to make certain cnanges, such as
moving away a high coal shed, and
tunneling under the hill on top of
which stands Grant's tomb. The rail
road has also agreed to do away with
steam locomotives along that stretch
of road and use noiseless and clean
electric engines instead.
A model four hundred feet long has
been built to show how the tracks
will be hidden from view of persons
on the drive, in places the tracks
will be roofed over with acres of
steel and concrete upon which earth
will be put and lawns and gardens
laid out and trees and flowers plant
ed. These alone will surpass in extent
and beauty the historic hanging gar
dens of Babylon, that were one of the
seven wonders of the world
New York is doing this because she
has learned that beauty is one of the
greatest assets a city can have, and
that it is worth spending 150 million
dollars to make its Riverside Park
Drive so attractive that it will be talk
ed about everywhere.
Everyone in this city and the South
west realizes by this time that Kansas
City's greatest asset is her system of
parks and boulevard.-.; that the old
Union Depot was for many years like
a bluck eye upon the fair face of this
city; that the new Unlfln Station is
the greatest advertisement Kansas
City has, outside the park system.
This advertisement will bo made unor
mously more effective by the Improve
ment of the station setting—if Kansas
City lives up to its opportunity.
Fine, But Depressing
[From the New York Sun.]
In the last thirty months the Penn
sylvania Railroad has carried nearly
half a billion pacsencrrs without kill
ing one. A rtn# record, but how de
posing to the advocates of govern
ment ownership o( railroads!
WHY WE SHOULD EAT BUGS
By Frederic J. Haskin
NOT long ago Dr. E. O. Howard,
chief of the Bureau of Entomol-
ogy, which is that branch of the
Department of Agriculture devoted to
the study of insects, caused to be
dug up on the Department grounds a
number of big, fat, white grubs, or
garden slugs of the sort you frequently
turn up when digging for bait.» These
not intt-nded for bait, howtver,
but for another government scientist,
Dr. Langworthy who wears the title of
Chief of the Bureau of Home Eco
nomics, and knows more about cook
ing than Anybody else in Washington.
Dr. Langworthy presented the worms
to his most skillful chef, who made of
them a rich broth, thickened with
chopped lettuce leaves and seasoned
with salt, pepper and paprika. In
this unusual form the grubs returned
to the initiator of the enterprise. Dr.
Howard, who consumed a cup of the
worm soup with great gusto and pro
claimed it delicious. One of his as
sistants courageously backed the
chief, and he, too, said the soup was
good. There was no argument.
These conservative scientists were
not merely indulging; in exotic taste
for an insectivorous diet. Neither of
them had ever knowingly consumed
any insects before. But they shared
a serious scientifice conviction that In
sects are an excellent human food,
which is being almost neglected by
civilized man; and they wished at once
to put their beliefs to the test, and to
give a practical demonstration of the
edibility of bugs.
The argument in favor of eating in
sects is literally unanswerable. Like
wise the prejudice among most civiliz
ed peoples against eating insects is al
most insuperable. So the situation is
a deadlock. A sufficient number of
exalted examples, like that. of Dr.
Howard, might suffice to break it. If
New York society, for example, would
take up cockchafer on toast.and grass
hopper omelette, there is little doubt
but what these dishes would come in
to general favor. An administration
really desirous of lowering the cost of
living might do much by having some
of the more savory native insects serv
ed at the White House table. Dr.
Howard has made a beginning. Let
whoso has the courage follow him.
The matter is of far more moment
thag appears at a glance. The popu
lation of the earth is increasing at a
great rate, and everywhere food is
becoming more difficult to obtain. Es
pecially in this true of animal food.
Red meat, fish, shell-fish, and the
Crustacea are all becoming scarce.
The last of these, the crustacea, in
cluding the lobsters, shrimps and
crabs, are first cousins to the insects,
having the same sort of flesh and
structure. Yet the lobster soars to
unheard of prices and is threatened
with extinction, while his near rela
tive, the June Bug. has escaped all
consideration as an article of diet
Our refusal to eai insects is incon
sistent, squeamish and ridiculous—
that is apparent. That is not the end
of the matter, however. It may be
stated with almost literal truth that
sooner or later we will have to eat
the insects in self defense. Modern
life on this planet is a battle between
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FROM A UNION WOMAN
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Can you tell me what is the matter
with the people of Harrisburg, that it
puts up with the way the railwav com
pany is acting? Why don't they ask
the city to take over trie lines? I think
after a rainy day like Tuesday they
should ask to make an ef
fort to bring President Musser to his
senses. What is the use in having the
city and suburbs suiter for the want of
car service? Just to allow a handful
of men like the railway officials have
their way? You must admit there is
no reason in them—they are very good
shareholders. If they weren't, thtvy
wouldn't ob'ect to the union. If they
wanted to treat their men fair and with
respect, they would have no fear of
the union. Now, if the company wants
to save the people, let them come to
the iront and recognize the union, and
In a few hours the trouble will be set
tled, and the strikers back to
work. The union man wouldn't stick
with a corporation when his fellow
man walked out to better working con
ditions. and he wouldn't step in and
t«ke another mans lob. If the men
who did this trick don't know what
i they are and want to find out. I would
I Hdvlse them to hunt up a universal
dictionary; that will explain It to them.
I am more than surprised at the city
allowing the railway company to im
: port those men here from New York
After the health inspector had orders
lo arrest anyone found here from New
York. I think thev better get busy in
, order to protect our children from In
fantile paralysis. Vet these men were
.-.llowert to come her* to run cars. Pos
l albly they are considered aerm-Droof,
jurr 29, rare.
man and the insects—and the latter
are in every physical respect better
fitted to survive. All other forms of
life have been subjugated by man so
far as he has come in contact with
almost undiminished numbers, and
continues to menace the life and well
being of the human race. Grasshop
pers descend upon our crops and leave
whole States in a starving condition
as a result of these pests. The boll
weevil, creeping southward, threatens
the life of a great industry. Moths
devour the shade trees of whole cities.
House-flys take thousands of lives by
acting as disease carriers, and the
mosquito laden with yellow fever and
malaria, kills more men than any wild
animal that ever inhabited the earth.
So modern life is in a very real
sense a desperate struggle between
man and the insects. Some scientists
believe that it is the insects who will
survive, and that they will own the
earth long after every other form of
life has perished. Dr. Howard be
lieves that man will ultimately over
come the insects by reason of his su
perior intelligence; and the valiant
battle which his department is waging
against the insect enemies of Amer
ican agriculture is an impressive de
monstration of his theory. But
whether we are to conquer or not. it
is certain that the struggle is really
desperate, and it promises to become
more so as man extends his dominion
over the tropics, which are the most
productive part of the earth, and have
so far been kept in a state of wilder
ness largely by the insects who carry
death to every intruder.
Now in this struggle for existence
it is evident that our enemies have
one great advantage over us in that
they live upon the spoils of war, while
we do not. A pest of grasshoppers
descends upon Kansas, and lays waste
the country. The farmers go forth
with poison and traps to destroy them
There is heavy loss on both sides'
But the grasshoppers live upon the
substance of the farmers, while every
cent which the farmer spends in de
stroying the is a complete
loss. Now just suppose that roasted
and salted grasshopper was a staple
food with civilized man as it is in
North Africa. Corporations would
pay the farmers large sums for the
grasshopper rights off their lands.
The insects would be gathered by the
ton in huge machines designed for the
purpose, and shipped to all parts of
the world. The crops would be saved
and the farmers would make a neat
royalty to boot.
This sounds a bit Utopian; yet some
thing very like it is being done in
parts of Europe, where the cokchafer
is very abundant. Children are there
employed to gather the insects which
are fed to the pigs. A recent traveler
n Germany reports that frequently
the peasant children will stop in this
work to pull the legs and wings off
one of the luckless bugs and chew up
his thorax and abdomen with great
re.ish just as a boy employed to pick
» e i? fllch one now and then.
With the young generation thus learn
lng" tne food value of insects, and with
P ,V hre ? tene<l by a shortage of
rood, there is reason to believe that
Insects may become a staple before
I trust the women and girls of Harris.
bv r nM th u l thcy are ,rue blue
by not riding in the cars. Take a llt
ney or walking is go<jd . 6tk& to yiuJ
to blush yOU h no cause
MRS. GEO. RICKARDSS,
Mech{inicsburg.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINESj
Tish, by Mary Roberts Rlnehart.
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Letitia Carberry, or Tish, as she is
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The chronicle of her escapades and
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Nothing daunta Tish. and she gaily
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from which Tish ever emerges tri
umphant.
In short, she is the most amusing
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! Mrs. Rinehart's versatile imagination
' and one of whom readers never tire.
Early Christmas Transaction
Knlcker—The guardsmen are to be
J presented with a Christinas on the
border.
Bocker—The President is certainly
1 doing his shopping early.
Stoning <EJ|at
Captain George C. Jack, comman
der of the Governor's Troop or Troop
C, of the First Pennsylvania cavalry,
as it is known officially in the National
Guard of the United States, believes in
making the best of the situation and
he is doing his best to have his men
think so. The cavalrymen have not yet
received their horses, but the captain
intends that when they do they will
be well qualified. He has sent hom«
for copies of the field service reguiii*
tions and the manual of drills whidfc.
were stored In the State street arnw
ory and the men will be put through
their paces and well grounded in wha*
Uncle Sam requires of his soldierv
Captain Jack, thanks to his interest,
has taken courses at army schools and
is considered one of the best officers
in the cavalry. When his regiment
was mustered into the federal service
at Mt. Gretna he turned out an even
hundred men and the ceremony, which
was witnessed by one or two Harris
burgers, attracted attention. The
United States mustering officer In
charge paid the men a high compli
ment upon their number and spirit.
When the troop returns from El Paso
the men will be mighty well versed
in field work if the captain has his
way.
Some time ago reference was made
in this column to the potato growing
activities of Benjamin Franklin Um
berger, a popular member of the City
Planning Commission. His friends
thought at the time that Mr. Um
berger was joking about his potato
experiment on the nose of the moun
tain at Duncannon. but this week he
has demonstrated in the most practi
cal way that he is a potato grower of
no mean quality, having produced
many bushels of the finest kind of
Irish Cobbler tubers. Now will those
other lawyers who were jealous of
Mr. Umberger's agricultural experi
ments conceal themselves in the tall
timbers.
Some of the strike-breakers are a
source of infinite amazement and
amusement to patrons of trolley lines
and to people who live along the
routes. Some of them do not think any
thing of stopping care to get a soda
and at the end of a run they occas
ionally enjoy a smoke. Whether they
"knock down" on the fares or not
persons who ride in the cars can best
determine, but they get a lot of en
tertainment out of the sights along
the streets and generously call atten
tion to some of them. But best of all
was a young, light hearted conductor
on one lino who practiced lifting him
self up on the straps for crowded
days and informed one passenger
that he believed he could "skin the
cat" on them.
Congressmafi B. K. Focht, of Lewis
burg, is of the opinion that the State
is overlooking some important mat
ters in not providing bridges across
the Susquehanna and that the Leg
islature ought to wake up to the im
portance of bridges at Watsontown
and Montgomery. The congressman
would have harmony of action be
tween congress, the war department,
the State and the. people and build
one free bridge every two years until
the three are constructed. He points
out that there are ten bridges between
Sunbury and Williamsport and In the
similar forty miles between Sunbury
and Clark's ferry not one bridge. Poli
tics, he holds, should be eschewed and
an effort made to get the bridges built
soon.
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Some of the jitneys being operated
just now are studies in the way of
ornament. Some display cards that
they are in sympathy with the strik
ers. others that they are for the pub
lic and still others that they charge
only a "jit." The other afternoon one
came down street with a sign "Licens
ed." Some one tore it off,but the man
was hunting for the fellow who did
it.
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WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—George W. Norris, the new mem
ber of the farm loan board, is a mem
ber of one of the oldest families in
Philadelphia.
—Mayor Armstrong has advised the
city highway strikers in Pittsburgh to
go back to work as the city has no
more money with which to give them
an increase.
—Major A. B. Gloninger. of Leba
non, is home from the camp at El
Paso and will have charge of medical
examinations at Lebanon and at Mt.
Gretna camp.
—Henry Hornbostle. Pittsburgh
architect.- who was designer of the
Pennsylvania building at San Fran
cisco, is the city planner of Johns
town and will make a study of that
city.
H. C. Reynolds, Scranton attorney
well known here, is acting for the city
in the mine-cave litigation which has
been started.
C. D. Barney, Philadelphia bank
er, has gone to Put in Bay for the hot
season.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg plates are used
for making steel cars?
HISTORIC HARRISBITRG
Dauphin county soldiers in the War
of 1812 were trained in camps Just
over the Susquehanna.
Friendship
And David said. Is there yet any
that is left of the house of Saul, that
I may show him kindness for Jona
than's sake? And Ziba said unto tha
king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which
is lame on his feet. Then the king
sent a:d fetched him. Now when
Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan,
the son of Saul, came unto David.
David said unto him, Fear not for I
will surely shew thee kindness for
Jonathan thy father's sake. So Me
phibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem for he
did eat continually at the king's table.
—II Samuel lx, 1 to 13.
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question per- j
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