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THURSDAY EATXIXG, AUGUST 3
Forthe Son of man came to seek and
Ua*tavo>that-which was Jest,
—Lcke 19:10.
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THE GOVERNOR'S ENDORSEMENT
rpHE graceful acknowledgement by j
JL Governor Brumbaugh that the 1
Telegraph had "beaten him to it" ;
In suggesting the adoption by Penn- ;
Kaylvania of the Vermont plan to invite
tourists to this Slate detracts nothing
from the force of the chief executive's
recommendation.
The Governor's endorsement of the
Vermont plan follows personal ob
servation of its success. He has toured
the Xew England States for the past
ten years and knows every byroad in
the mountains as well as he does the
highways of his own native Hunting
don county. He realizes that tourist
travel is taking thousands of people to
New Ens'and yearly and is leaving
thousands of dollars of tourist money
In the hands of those who cater to
them. And he Is right when he asserts
that New England has no finer scenery
than has Pennsylvania. Therefore. It
remains only for lis to advertise our
selves as well as New England has
done to bring to us many of the tour
ists who now speed their summers
there.
It la possible now to go to almost
any place 1n this State over good roads
«nd every summer conditions Improve.
The foundation has been laid for
popularizing motor travel in this State
and It becomes the duty of those most
Intrrested to follow the example of the
thrifty Vermonters who are commer
cializing their hospitality in a manner
that delights tht, visitor and enriches
the native —a combination that Is ap
pealing, indeed.
orR RIYKR n\!slV
VISITORS to Harrlsburg never tire
of singing the praises of the
cKy's beautiful river front. They
appreciate to the full all the scenic
beauty, the unique treatment of the
shore line, the wonderful islands and
the unsurpassed view of mountain and
hillside and river. It's a good thing al
so for the people of Harrisburg them
selves to understand what a wonderful
thing is the Susquehanna basin and all
that makes living here so delightful.
It's a blessing without price and free
for all.
When the "Greater Harrlsburg Navy"
shall have been fully organized and
equipped the Susquehanna basin will
come into its own.
DEMAND A MILITARY I'OI.ICY
FROM many influential quarters is
going up a vociferous protest
against what is characterized as
the "militia blunder" of the Wilson
administration. It is pointed out that
the present Congress has steadily de
clined to take expert advice on mili
tary matters; that instead of adopting
a sound and dependable military pol
icy, the National Guard has been
swept unprepared into a position
where many of the men are embar
rassed by the fact that instead of re
sponding for the defense of their
country they are forced to do the
dally grind of a standing army.
Congressmen are being goaded by
business and other interests all over
country to take soure action regarding
the militia on the border. Mr. Town
send, of Michigan, made a \*igorons
protest in the Senate In which he de
clared:
These boys ought to be home,
tinder the circumstances, They
ought to be returned to their
schools and their various vocations
at home if their country does not
need them, to the things which they
have given up with the thought
that their country's honor and de
fense required their services.
The military committee of the Mer
chants' Association of New York rec
ommends the recall of the National
Guard from the border and the repeal
of the statute federalizing the Guard,
substituting therefor a military pojloy
In accordance with the views of the
military experts.
"NO WONDER MAUD DIED !*»
TTARKING back to the Baltimore
convention and the platform of
that memorablo body of up
tffters, we recall this declaration:
The constitutional rights of
American citizens should protect
them on our borders and go with
them throughout the world, and
every American citizen residing or
having property in any foreign
country is entitled to and must bo
given the full protection of the
United States Government, both for
himself and his property.
Now comes Colonel Harvey, the
original Wilson man, the distinguished
•ditor of the North American Review
THURSDAY EVENING,
and philosopher extraordinary, who
thus comments upon the foregoing
plank:
One hundred and twelve Ameri
can citizens murdered on a single
ship at sea in literal compliance
with official forewarnings—with no
sign of either apology or disavowal
from the assassin Government fif
teen months after the perpetration
of the crime. Hundreds of Ameri
can lives and hundreds of millions
of American property destroyed in
Mexico—and "protection" not only
not afforded, but officially refused
time and time again. Every Ameri
can citizen residing or having
property in any foreign country is
entitled to and must be given the
full protection of the United States
Government, both for himself and
his property. The ghastly irony of
it all! And the brazen humbug of
pretense of pledges made to he
kept when In office as well as re
lied upon during the campaign!
Xo wonder Maud died.
NOT ENOUGH CATTLE
IF we may Judge from the statements
of experts in the packing business,
| the real trouble in this country has
) been the failure to raise livestock sutfl
j clent to meet the increased demand.
' Tears ago every farm represented a
I considerable herd of cattle, but in re
| cent years there has been a lessening
t of interest in the livestock Industry.
| The head of one of the great packing
I concerns says:
i The big problem in the meat in
dustry is one of supply. The Gov
! ernment reports sent out by the
I Department of Agriculture point
out that meat production all over
the world has not kept pace with
the increase in population. The
I supply of live stock must be in
creased. We will co-operate with
stock raisers: we want to see stock
raised in every farming district.
With the experience of our organi
zation we should be able to bring
about a betterment of this condi
| tlon. We know that the road to
success in this business is keeping
the consumer In mind at every step.
Livestock diseases have contributed
much to the reduction of the meat
supply, but those who are familiar
with the raising of cattle agree that
there has not been sufficient attention
given to this feature of agricultural
activity. Time was when great flocks
of sheep covered the hillsides of Penn
sylvania, but these have disappeared'
Just when meat was most needed.
VIOLATING ORDINANCES
ONE of the most public-spirited
men of the city writes the Tele
graph a letter upon the subject
of law violations and their effect upon i
the community. He especially refers
to the many recent robberies which
have been committed without ap-'
prehension of the miscreants. We
quote from his communication as
follows:
I wonder whether it is not time
to call a meeting of citizens or to
undertake some action in an en
deavor to save llarrisburg from ac
quiring a reputation for complete
lawlessness?
You will remember, I think, how
much reprobation lias been poured i
out upon Coatesville, where one I
desperajely lawless act a few years
ago gave that city unenviable no
toriety.
Now look at the situation i.p j
Harrlsburg. For many months rob- I
bertes ha\e been committed in this
city with apparent impunity. 1
think 1 am correct in assuming i
that no property has been recov
ered and no thief apprehended bv
the action of the local police body.
Mr. Wallower did get back some
properly, but the thief was caught j
and the connection with the Wal- I
lower robbery established in Wll
llamsport. one of th* force com
plained to me two or three dava
ago, showing me his orders, which
indicated that even if he saw a sus
picious character lurking aloxit the
door of your house at night he
could not stop and watch that man
because he had to cover a certain
beat and report at a certain time.
He told me that tinder former ad
ministrations this need for some
time to look for suspicious occur
rences was recognized, but not at
present.
In the second place, all forms of
State and local laws are being ut
terly disregarded, and with im
punity. Every week at least two
hundred and fifty dollars worth of
illegal signs are erected in and
about Harrisburg in defiance of a
Stale law and of a city ordinance.
The enforcement of the traffic or
dinance is faintly approximate and
in no sense adequate. A visiting 1
chauffeur told me not long ago that
our traffic law was a joke, because
our policemen didn't mean it. Ho
said he would very much prefer the
drastic enforcement of New York, ,
because there one knew what to
expect.
in my lifetime I do not believe
I can remember a period when it
has been so unsafe to live In Har- j
rishurg as it is now. 1 believe it
is time for citizens who have reallv \
the interests of the town at heart j
to act in a way which would dett- i
nitelv advice the constituted au- .
thorities that they were ex
pected to enforce the law. i
I believe that a meeting of respon- i
hible persons could take such ac- !
tion as would interest the courts.
If necessary. In the direction of
proper protection lo property and 1
While the letter from which the
foregoing extracts have been taken was
not intended for publication It goes
so directly to the heart of things and
so well expresses the views of so
many protesting citizens that we have
taken the liberty of using these ex
cerpts.
Harrisburg has always been a law
abiding city and it must continue to
deserve this reputation. Yiolations of
ordinances and traffic regulations and
the commission of crime of every
sort must be rebuked without hesita
tion In any quarter. Nobody wants
disorder; all are in favor of a faith
ful and consistent enforcement of the
laws.
In fairness to those in authority it
should be said that there are evidences
of a firm stand recently in the police
department looking toward the en
forcement of the street traffic regula
tions, or at least the prompt punish
ment of those arrested for violations.
PROFITING BY EXPERIENCE
FROM Wilson's peace address:
"With its (the war's) causes
and objects we are not con
cerned. The obscure fountains from
i which its stupendous flood has burst
forth we are not Interested to search
i for or explore."
• And in the next paragraph: "One
observation on the causes of the pres
ent war we are at liberty to make,
and to make it may throw some light
forward upon the future, as well as
backward upon the past." Since we
are not concerned with its causes and
objects, why make the one observa
tion. This dictlonal deviation on the
part of Woodrow recalls Bernard
Shaw's remark: "Since history repeats
itself and the unexpected always hap
pens, how can we profit by exped
ience?"
1 TELEORAPH PERISCOPE "]
—The man who wrote "There's No
Place Like Home" must have just re
turned from a vacation.
—There are indications that the one
term plank in the Baltimore conven
tion platform is to be carried out to
the letter.
—One of the advantages of the new
tariff is the fact that the sugar banks
of Cuba have increased their deposits
$23,000,000 this year, while sugar pric
es have advanced only to nine cents
a pound in the United States.
—"The war is one of economics,"
says a commentator; yes, but not of
economies.
—Naturally the tramp who asks for
something to eat would be delighted
with a tart answer.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"
Something tells us that before our
militiamen finally reached the border
In those Boston & Maine day-coaches
they found some means of prying open
the windows.—Boston Transcript.
If Roosevelt organizes a division of
1,000 men for service In Mexico, we
expect to see him turn it into a politi
cal party and run for the presidency
[again.—Xew Orleans States.
The experiment of making the Re
publican Xorth pay the whole income
tax proved such a success that those
Southern Congressmen seem to have
been encouraged to double the dose.
—Boston Transcript.
Even English educators are begln
?: s ',, to s ' low some appreciation of
timeliness. An Oxford professor has
out a new edition of the parts of
"Caesar" which tell of his wars with
the Germans.—New York World.
If. as is hinted, Mr. Hughes has been
able to convince both the woman suf
fragists and the antis that he is for
them it is clear that the diplomacy of
the country will be in competent hands
were he elected.—Chicago Daily News, j
Why Desire Great Age?
[Prom the Kansas City Star.]
Professor Metchnlkoff worked hard
to discover the secret of long life and
he died the other day without achiev
ing it. The man who could discover a
receipt for old age could become the
richest man in the world. Nearly every
one seems to want to know how to live
to he 100 years old. and when the news
papers and magazines get word of a
man who has lived that long they rush
to interview him and find out the why
of It.
But none of them can tell you. Some |
of them never drank In their lives and i
they attribute it to that. Some drank j
all the whiskey they could pet hold of. i
drank until they were pickled In alco- !
hoi, and they give that as a reason. The i
old man who smoked and chewed to- I
hacco all his life tells us that nicotine j
preserved •him. The centenarian who I
never used tobacco says: "Beware of j
nicotine if you want to live long-."
The census tell us that in 1910 there!
were 4K.000 persons In this country 90
years old and over, and) 3,555 who were :
100 or more, and It Is likely that not
two of them would give the same rea
son for living so long. It Is useless to
try and discover the secret because
there is no general rule that can be ap
plied to all cases. Old age depends
upon the individual case and the cir
cumstances surrounding It.
Often a person who was sickly in
youth lives to be 100. We all know of
thin, anaemic looking men and women j
who live on and on, threatening for j
years and years literally to "blow away 1
in the tlrst hard wind." but outliving!
all the healthy and wholesome and!
hearty ones of the whole neighborhood.
But. when you come right down to It. j
why should anyone want to live to be!
100. or even 90? A man who was said i
to lie 10S years old attended one of the
••Billy" Sunday meetings here and
everyone who saw him pitied him. He
was a wrinkled shadow of a man who
had lived beyond his time.
The chief end of man should not be !
so much to live to be 80 or 90 years old j
as to get the most out of the years that 1
he does live, and the only way to do !
that is to live rightly, which means :
sanely, temperately, usefully, with due,
regard to the rights and feelings of
others, living that way you may not !
exist for a great span of years, but you j
will have the satisfaction of knowing I
that you made the most of the years'
that were allotted you.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES j
Captain Lincoln P. Andrews, U. S. A.,
first American Governor of Leyte, i
Philippine islands, and a veteran of the
Cuban and Philippine campaigns, spent :
a year In Mexico. In 1906, becoming,
familiar with the northern provinces in
particular. Captain Andrews, whose
"Fundamentals of Military Service," re
cently published by the IJpplncott Com
pany. is the textbook in use at Platts
burg and other military training
camps, has been recalled from the
Philippines for service with the Amer
ican army on the Mexican border.
The author of "From Nature For
ward." published by the J. B. Lippincoit
Company, is Harriet Doan Prentiss, a
cousin of Rupert Hughes, the novelist,
who has Just gone with his regiment to
Mexico. It is said that Mr. Hughes is
a convert to the system of practical
philosophy that Mrs. Prentiss applies
to the problem of modern life as these
afTect life a'nfl 'health. Wfth his en
couragement and that of many friends
who have made a successful trial of
her methods. .Mrs. Prentiss was induced
I to share her ideas with a wider circle
! of readers.
In "Birds In Their Relation to Man,"
a revised edition of which, just pub
lished by the Eippincott Company, in
cludes the results of government In
vestigation of all supposedly harmful
species of birds, the authors tell us that
of forty or fifty birds exclusive of
' hawks and fowls, thus far investigated,
the English sparrow Is the only one
which has been condemned. Of seventy
five species of hawks and owls found
| In America, only six were found to be
injurious. And Stite bounties upon
dozens of species have been withdrawn
I in consequence. State protection being
j substituted. Only'tßat arch-hyphenate,
I the English sparrow, is without the
pale, and six States offer a bounty for
; Its extermination.
s How many people realize that this
cry was heard during our Civil war?
Twenty-eight vessels fell victims. Cap
tain George R. Clark U. S. N„ tells us,
in his official (Annapolis) textbook,"
"A Short History of the United States
Navy," (Lipplncott's) the Confederates
being the first to adopt a policy which
j sounds remarkably like "German fright
| fulness." Thrilling exploits, as daring
as any performed by the German navy
in the present war, were numerous.
Thus a Confederate submarine, after
suiTocatlng three crews In attempts at
submarine attack, sank the Federal
Housatonlc and went down with all
of her crew. Captain Clark's narrative,
revised and brought up to date, ought
to be on every citizen's book table.—
4t makes stirring reading.
HARRISBURG *££&&& TELEGRAPH
[f odtttC4 Ck
"PcivKOi^caKta
ST tho Ex-Commltteeman
"Pennsylvania troops at tho border
are certainly entitled to vote and I
think, being- in the Federal service,
there is possibly some way in which
the State laws requiring a man to ap
pear at his honie precinct to register
or enroll could be overcome," said
Governor Brumbaugh to-day in talk
ing about the problems attending the
voting of the troops.
"I intend to have the matter looked
up at once to find out whether we
must send commissioners to get the
■votes or whethsr the officers will con
duct the voting or how the law re
quires." continued the Governor. "The
men voted in the Civil War and in the
Spanish War and they will vote this
year. It is a matter of getting the
law's provisions on the matter, and I
think the legal department of the State
government can work it out. One
thing you can be sure of. and that is
that the men will get a chance to
vote."
—The Governor last night gave high
commendation to the speech of accept
ance of Charles E. Hughes, saying that
it was strong on the three big issues—
tariff, foreign relations and merchant
marine. The Governor said that he
was not surprised at the Hughes decla
ration for suffrage, as he had known
the candidate's views for a long time.
Speaking of tho shipping matter, the
Governor reiterated last night his well
known views on the Importance of ex
tension of the merchant marine and
said that he personally favored a
diminishing subsidy. Governor Brum
baugh has placed himself at the serv
ice of the Republican congressional
campaign committee and expects to I
make speeches in behalf of the ticket. !
Governor Brumbaugh's unexpected i
visit to Harrisburg and his plans to
remain here until Saturday are gen- 1
erally believed to have more political j
significance than anything else. For'
weeks Private Secretary Ball and some I
of the officials have been preparing a |
list of attaches of the various depart- !
inents of the State government with *
special reference to the counties to !
which they are accredited and it is i
generally believed from conferences
Mr. Ball has had that the time is 1
drawing near to make numerous
charges. These have been threatened !
for a long time, in fact ever since the
primary. Some of the men on the list 1
have stirred up ! ackers at home and !
they have been endeavoring to stop |
any changes, while some of the chiefs ;
of departments have insisted upon 1
talking over with the Governor per- 1
sonally changes in their departmental !
staffs. The Governor will meet these i
chiefs while here and may also see !
some of the men behind the ap
pointees.
It is "aid that Insurance Commis- I
sioner J. Denny O'Neil Is one of the ■
men most active in preparing for 1
changes and that he will overhaul his
end of the government this Fall.
—Conferences held between Mayor
Smith and Magistrate William E.
* amp bell, who had been declared out- j
side or" the factional breastworks,
caused much comment in Philadelphia ;
yesterday. Campbell is a McNichol !
man.
—Senator Penrose and Senator!
McMchol declined to lake Candidate I
Hughes' suffrage position yesterday. !
The Penrose vote will be against the;
Federal amendment. Senator McNichol !
says women "ought to stay at home." !
1 he Philadelphia North American
to-day says that "petty politics" had i
something to do with the resignation I
of George C. Signor as superintendent
of the Spring City State Institution.
T here has been a fight in the board of !
that Institution for months and the
Governor created some excitement a
short time ago by summary removal
of men who were alleged not to be in
political sympathy with him. Signor's
methods at the institution won much
approval throughout, the State, es- •
pecialiy from students of such insti- i
tutions.
—The Philadelphia grand Jurv will
continue its vice hunt. Landlords are
to be called In.
—Men active in. politics and business
are urging enlistments In the new or
ganizations of the Second and Third
artillery regiments. Meetings are be
ing held throughout the coal regions
and General Dougherty and others are
making speeches.
TRAVELETTE
By NIKSAH
WINCHESTER
Winchester is one of the most like
able and attractive of the little inland
cities of England. Even the war has
only served to make it sleepier than
ever by drawing away the young men.
And there has been no Increased bus
tle of industry to compensate, for Win
chester's chief products are pictures
que vistas and memories.
It is a bit hard for the American
visitor at first to grasp the spirit of
Winchester, so different from the one
that animates almost all our towns and
cities, large and small. Even New York
Is pushng and boosting, and New York
| might seem to the unprejudiced big
enough and rich enough to satisfy the
! most exacting. As for our smaller
| towns, everyone knows how they go
to work, and most of us are proud
of their spirit and their methods. It
Is the spirit that made America; and
to Winchester it would be the quin
tessence of the Incomprehensible.
Winchester would be classed on our
Atlantic coast as a village, in the Mid
dle West as a town, in the Rockies as
a Metropolis—which means that It Is
a place of some twenty thousand peo
| Ple. And such It will remain. It is
| finished, satisfied, complete. It Is not
'going to change. It does not want to
change.
It has a history running back two
thousand years; it has the bones of
Alfred and scores of other great men
In its cathedral; it was a Roman camp,
as witness its name; It has had a long
eventful past, and now in its old age,
It has settled down to look forward to
a long eventful future, unchanged and
content. The men of Winchester may
still go forth to new lands and adven
ture, to war and death; but Winchester
will quietly honor the living and mourn
the dead; never stirring in its calm.
American civilization is an ofTshoot of
English stock, but towns like Win
chester seem in a way under fo# ign
than China or Tibet.
The old Roman road from Canter
bury leads to Winchester over the roll
ing chalk downs and through the green
river valley. The town itself lies on
low hills that lend it a pleasant irre
gularity. The tower of the cathedral
rears Its head like a watchtower, a
lookout that has seen naught but peace
these many years. The little river
murmurs beneath the walls, gentle and
soothingly indifferent, every wavelet
laden with a thousand stirring memor
ies, seeming to whisper that even Ver
dun is only an incident.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
THE FALSE ALARM
—Darling; In the Dea Moines Krglit'r and Leader, '
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THE BIG FALLS
By Frederic J. Haskin
GOING over Niagara Falls in a
barrel is one of the oldest
stunts In America. The news
paper story about someone who did it
Is a sort of national chestnut. And
yet if someone were to announce his
intention of going over Niagara In a
barrel to-morrow, there would be a
large crowd on hand to see him do it
and everyone who couldn't be there
would read about it in the papers the
next day.
it is the same way with everything
about the great Falls. They have been
visited and exploited and written
about ever since the first white men
laid eyes upon it, yet the interest in
them never dims. It is a fact amply
attested by the registers of Niagara
hotels that he who looks upon the
l-'alls once nearly always comes back
to look again.
Speaking of going over the Falls
in a barrel, there is an old lady here
engaged in selling post cards to tour
ists who did the trick successfully
some forty years ago. Her story de
serves to rank as one of the hardest
hard luck yarns in all the world.
At the time she made the famous
leap she was a beautiful young wo
man, who had come to Niagara to
earn a living. She fell very much In
love with a young man, who was as
penniless as herself. They put their
heads together to devise a method of
getting enough money to set up house
keeping. The young woman, full of
the courage of her devotion, proposed
to go over the Falls in a barrel while
her lover was to collect admissions
from the people who came to see the
event. She leaped the Falls and was
towed ashore, unhurt and triumphant.
But alas for love's young dream! Her
fiance had left for parts unknown
with the gate receipts.
Most of the lovers who conje to
Niagara, however, are happy newly
married ones. First-class honey
moons for couples from the country
are Niagara's most important and re
munerative product. Of course, the
citizens will tell you that they really
make their money out of a tremendous
commercial development. But you
have only to observe the respectful
consideration with which the newly
weds are treated, to realize that Nia
gara knows a good thing when it sees
it.
Why people jur.ip over Niagara.
Kails is a question often threshed out j
in hotel lobbies here. • It appears that
only three have ever done so and,
come out alive. Some of the victims, .
of course, obviously intended to com- !
mit suicide, while in other cases the j
reason for the desperate leap was not
at all clear. Psychologists claim that I
not only the cataract itself, but the,
foaming rapids below, in which so'
many have gone to their deaths, ex- j
ercise an irresistible fascination over j
some persons, so that they leap in
spite of themselves.
Every precaution is now taken to
prevent such occurrences. In order
to end your troubles by the romantic
Why Courtesy Pays
In the August American Magazine a
writer says: "I soon learned that the
average woman, with the burden of
housekeeping on her shoulders, is the
most irritable and unresponsible crea
ture alive. A delivery ten minutes late
can bring on your head a mighty wrath,
a wilted lettuce can lose you your best
customer. I had to stand between these
women and overworked delivery boys,
careless shipping clerks, and some
times inferior goods One Instance: A
woman was to give a dinner party.
Her groceries arrived almost at the
last minute with the flsh onder filled
incorrectly. 'My dinner Is spoiled,' she
cried distractedly over the telephone.
'I never will spend another cent with
you as long as I live.' Woman is built
for fortitude, not responsibility. I
shouldered the responsibility and per
| suaded her to bear with me until I
could rectify the mistake. It took
much soothing: a hint of Irritation on
my part would have spoiled everything.
As It was, fifteen minutes later a mes
senger boy was delivering the fish at
her door! we had kept our customer
and made a lasting friend."
Knocker—Growler—Kicker
When you hark to the voice of the
knocker.
As you list to his hammer fall.
Remember the fact
That the knocking act
Requires not brains at all.
When you list to the growl of the
growler.
As you hark to his ceaseless growl,
Tou will please recall
That a dog is all
It takes for an endless howl.
As you watch for the kick of the kicker,
As you notice his strenuous kick.
You'll observe the rule
That a stubborn mule
Is great at the same old trick.
The knocker, the growler the kicker.
Fault-finders, large and small,
What do they need.
For each daily deed?
No brains, no sense—Just gall.
■—ANONYMOUS.
AUGUST 3, 1916.
method of leapihg into the foaming
torrent nowadays, you must first
overcome a large and healthy police
man, and then climb a high iron rail
ing.
Everyone does exactly the same
things at Niasara, and that no doubt
1s one of its charms to the mass of
tourists who pour through the town
every summer. They do not have to
think where to go, or how. The first
thing, of course, is to peer over the
railing at the great Falls, to exper
ience the appropriate sensations and
utter the appropriate scream, gasp or
sigh of delight. Everyone, of course,
is deeply and properly impressed.
The comments of the feminine visi
tors assay about 98 per cent, staccato
superlatives, while the masculine
comment, though more restrained, is
no loss enthusiastic. Few are disap
pointed: for the Falls is truly a big
ger thing than the average mind can
preconceive.
After the glimpse of the Falls from
above, you climb aboard the "Maid of
the Mist," the brides conceal their
loveliness in long rubber "coats, with
immense hoods, and you experience
the thrill of going close enough to
the Falls to have spray splashed all
over you.
Finally, if you are a real American
tourist from up the country—the kind
that believes in doing the thing up
right—you will drop into a little sou
venir store and ha\;e your photograph
taken to show Ma and the girls, with
Xiagara Falls in the background, the
Falls, of eourire.. being somewhat
crudely painted on the back drop.
There are innumerable other fas
cinating souvenir stores to tempt the
nickels and dimes and Quarters out
of your pockets. That they do so
successfully is attested by the fact
that Niagara has grown from a town
of 20,000 to one of 50,000 in the last
twenty years, and that many of its
hotel and store keepers spend their
winters in Florida.
When business gets slack it ip cus
tomary in Niagara to plan an excur
sion from some part or the state. Al
though you would think that everyone
in New York had been to Niagara at
least once, there are always thousands
ready to take advantage of these op
portunities. The people of Niagara
can calculate with great accuracy
just what an excursion will put in
their pockets, except for one uncer
tain element, and that is the weather.
They know that the average excursion
day tourist will spend exactly $1 in
Niagara. On an excursion from cen
tral New York r few weeks ago. they
confidently predicted that 8,000 per
sons would come to the city, provided
it did not rain. Betting on the weath
er, all the hotel and restaurant keep
ers engaged extra waiters and pre
pared a dinner for the crowd. But
they lost. It rained all day, and ex
actly twenty-five bedraggled strangers
showed up at the feast. Needless to
say, Niagara went in the hole on that
excursion, but she averages up pretty
well.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
j NATURAL EA
&{£• PRESSION.
How grave he
{- Naturally, be
'j ing a 'dead onj^"
NATURALLY.
Brown Is al
ways bragging I
about his familyjjßJjL ifce
tree. Do you sup-
pose he has really
got one? V&W
Of course. He'siS; *m
a nut, isn'l bo?
IN SUITABLE
PROPORTION.
Summer Board
er: How is sport 1
' ' not"too thick, sir;
[Aila few boats us«
the stream occa-
END OF FLIR- \
TATION.
Jack (bitterly): JjltC
I suppose you
i consider It quite a Jgejf yrj&J'
triumph to make
u. fool of a man. Am'vlT' '
Edith: Why, no.
A triumph means
something accom- , I Vil
plished that was i
i very difficult. ™'' JJ *
Ibemttg (Hfjat
If federal government estimates that
about $23,000,000 will be paid for mo
tor vehicle registration during 19J6
Pennsylvania automobile and truck
owners will have contributed
almost one-tenth of it The
total amount of income de
rived by the State for registration of
vehicles run by their own power in th©
highways of the Commonwealth be
tween January 1 and July 31 amounts
considerably over $2,150,000 and the %
changes are that it will go to two and I
a quarter millions. At this time last
year tbo revenue from motor licenses
In this State was almost $600,000 less.
The United States government author
ities figure that $18,245,713 was paid
throughout the country last year for
motor vehicle licenses, which was an
increase of $5,863,760 and represented
a jump in number of vehicles regis
tered of 734,325. If the rate of in
crease Is the same this year the reve
nue may go pretty well along toward
the $25,000,000 mark. The United
States Department of Agriculture
which takes a benevolent interest in
highways and automobiles, says that
New York was the first State to requiro
fees and it collected $954 in 1901. it
says in one of its bulletins that there
is a motor car for each 44 persons in
this broad land of ours, lowa leading
with one car for each sixteen persons.
The Pennsylvania average is about one
car for each thirty-five persons ac
cording to some persons who have
been making observations on the sub
ject. The Keystone State in 1915 stood
fourth in the number of registrations,
being exceeded by New York, Illinois
and California in the order named, but
was third in revenue received from li
censes. This year it will be higher up
In the list for both cars and revenue
therefrom. In the belief of folks at the
Capitol. Harrisburg is one of the cit
ies which has a large number of cars
and is said to have the most in propor
tion to population of any city under
100,000 except Reading.
The Engineers Society of Pennsyl
vania, which has issued some very
original publications, has established
a record in announcing its aunual ex
cursion to old Pino Grove Furnace this
year. The invitation is in the form of
an order to an organization of engi
neers and is gotten up in military style
with works of art embellishing it. The
final roll call is to be held on August
10 and the excursion on August. 26.
The old furnace, the State's foresty,
sand and quarry operations and the
ice houses will he inspected.
» » •
"Judging from what I hear about
the National Guard camp at El Paso
they would be mighty glad to have
some of the jitneys you are kicking
about in Harrisburg just now," said
a man who follows up «itlitary mat
ters. "The latest cards I have re
ceived from friends on the border say
that they are six to eight miles from
the city and no way to get there.
Evidently the Southwest, which start
ed the jitney, has a few fields which
the unlicensed jitney might visit with
profit."
• • •
It's rather a far cry to talk about
winter feed for chickens, but W. Theo.
Wittman, the poultry expert of the De
partment of Agriculture, makes some
excellent suggestions foi winter feed.
He says that hundreds of tons of the
most valuable winter feed for chickens
is wasted because people do not save
the grass cut en lawns. If farmers
were wise and poultry raisers on to
their jobs, he holds, they would secure
the grass cut on lawns, dry it in the
shade and keep It for winter. It's
ratjicr a singular thing that what the
city throws away is the very thing that
the farmer needs for chickens. Blue
grass and whits clover lawn clippings,
says the Allentrtwn expert, are among
the best feeds tov chickens. Inciden
tally, the expert says that the belief
that alfalfa is good chicken feed is a
mistake. They would rather eat pig
I weed.
* • •
The commission which has been
visiting the banks and islands of the
broad branching Susquehanna the last
Fereral weeks has been making some
important finds on the islands, show
ing that they were much used by the
Indians and that sometimes they were
not always used for peaceful purposes.
These investigations have also es
tablished the interesting fact that, the
islands are ages old and that the Sus
| quehanna must have some time ago
had .well defined channels instead of
j the many cross currents that make
some parts-of it dangerous.
Progress of the construction of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad britlge is
attracting much attention among the
railroad men in this State and in the
last month it has been visited by a
number of men representing perhaps
half a dozen railroads. The details of
the work have been closely followed
and in a number of instances men in
terested in bridge building have come
here to observe some of the features.
When the bridge is finished it will be
a realization of many hopes expressed
in the last dozen years.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—William H. Ball, secretary to the
Governor when In charge of city
property In Philadelphia, had super
vision over $65,000,000 of property.
—E. F. Beale, prominent Philadel
phian, 1J on a motor trip through New
England.
—Harry K. Daugherty, who took
part in settlement of the New York
telegraphers' demands, used to be a
member of the Legislature from Mer
cer county.
—C. B. Spatz, the Boyertown editor,
who appeared at Washington on tho
paper price matter, has been a candi
date for Congress several times.
—J. K. Johnson, secretary of the
Johnstown Chamber of Commerce, has
been on a trip of Inspection of observa
ation of suoh bodies In other States.
—J. O. Miller, prominent in Pitts
burgh warehouse affairs, Is on a trip
to Canada.
—Ernest G. Smith, general manager
of the Wllkes-Barre (Pa.) Times-
Leader, formerly a lieutenant in the
Seventeenth U. S. Infantry and a vet
eran of the Boxer uprising and Philip
pine campaign, has gone to Plattsburg
to "do his bit.*' Smith entered the ser
vice as a private and in four years re
tired with the rank of captain. He was
recommended to Congress for a medal
of honor.
DO YOU KNOW "I 1
That Harrlsburg prints hooks
for Soutlxern State firms?
HISTORIC HAKKISBLRG
The first State Capitol In Harrlsburg
was occupied on January 2, 1822.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organlza
| tlon's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
1 What is the capacity of the Filter
Plant? What is the capacity of the
Pumping' Station? How near does con
sumption equal capacity?
Capacity of filter plant, 16,000.000
gallons per day. Capacity of pump
ing station. 12,000,000 gallons per
day. Average dally consumption
« for 1915, 7,400,661 gallons.