12 lIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE MO.Vfi Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chi F. R. OYSTER, Businjis Manager. OUS M. STCINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American /J Newspaper Pub f Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl&V Eastern «ffice. Has brook. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New Brooks, "" People's Gas Building, C&A« Entered at the Post Office in Harria* burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents » week; by mail, $3.(10 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17. The greatest evils are from within lis; and from, ourselves also we must look for our greatest good. —JEREMY TAYLOR. KITCHIN AND THE NAVAL BILL CHAIRMAN KITCHIN, of the Naval Affairs Committee, is already her- aiding the passage of the big navy bill as a Democratic triumph. Before the campaign has crossed the frost line of early October we may expect to hear that the navy measure ■was fostered and passed by Demo crats—that it is another feather in the cap of Mr. Wilson. Nothing could be farther from the truth. President Wilson was driven to endorsement of a large navy pro gram by force of popular sentiment. Mr. Kitchin himself was accused on the floor of the House of having turned from the policies of his own party to those of the Republicans •with respect to warship construction.. No: The big navy program is not a matter of party preferences. A large majority of the members of all parties favor such a program as is proposed. Republicans voted largely for It and a few against. More Democrats, pro portionately, voteil against it than did Republicans. The naval bill can claim no monopoly of support by any one party. Foolish question No. 6692, but inter esting just the same: If gasoline sells for 17 Va cents a gallon in Chit-ago. how much ought we to pay in Harrisburg? THE BOYS' CAMP JOHN" YATES, of the Associated Charities, and those active with him, have done an excellent piece of constructive work in establishing a summer camp, where boys who could not otherwise have a vacation in the open may spend the hot months' ac cumulating health and energy for a "winter in town. Dr. James A. Black, who lias given a portion of his farm as a camp site, is also to be com mended and those who have donated financial support to the movement should enloy their own vacations the more for the pleasure and benefit their money has been to the young campers. Next year Mr. Yates wants to en large the camp—and there should be no question about funds. It is a sad thing for any boy to gTow to manhood without a knowl edge of the woods and fields and streams. He who does not know when and where the first wild flowers bloom in Spring and where the last hardy blossoms linger latest in the Fall, who has not mocked the Bob White call ing to his mate,- who knows not one tree from another—in short who has none of the field and forest lore that is the heritage of every country boy, has missed something well worth while. There is health, spiritual as well as physical, ii> the open. Every boy is a good boy, only conditions .make some do the things we call •wicked. They need freedom of action and plenty of room. The country was the first nurserv and its sons to this day are rugged and hardy. Getting back to nature is a fine thing. The boys' camp is a step in that direction. It should be encouraged. Those stupid Russians keep right on troing regardless of the German general Staff's announcement that their offen sive has lost its force. THE JAMAICA HURRICANE TIME was when a hurricane In Jamaica meant little or nothing to the United Slates. If news of such an occurrence filtered through at all it came by word of mouth from some captain of a trading vessel and caused little comment. Now such a storm is noted on the first page of the newspapers and the announce ment that the banana crop has been damaged means another addition to living expenses. Life grows constant ly more complicated and its adjust ments more delicate. The earthquake that rocks Italy is felt in the United States, the war that shakes Europe jars every continent on the globe; the wind that lays waste the fruit groves of Jamaica blows pennies out of purses in far away America. Bulgaria went into the war to get something and seems to be getting , more than she expected. FIGHTING LOCAL OPTION* .r I ~\HE Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers ! in convention at York have gone on record as opposed to local option. That was to be expected. The : convention also endorsed the declar ation of its president that the "people THURSDAY EVENING, j of the United States do not want the | liquor traffic abolished; they want it I regulated." Just how the delegates found this out is not apparent, since they have been from time immemorial opposed to anything like a popular test of pub lic approval of the liquor traffic. If .they are so confident of their ground ! there can be no harm in local option, | which is no more or less than a pro vision whereby the public may express its opinion on the liquor question. The convention will not make pub lic its plans for combating the local option campaign. Neither is that sur prising. If they bear any semblance to some of the methods that have prevailed in former years they would neither look well In print nor reflect great credit upon the liquor trade. The Kaiser admits he Is "partly" to blame for the war. After a while he may be convinced that he invaded Bel gium. ' PERMANENT, TO BE SURE MH. JAAIES, secretary of the Wil liam Penn Highway, address ing a convention at Sunbury yesterday, said that the organization he represents is opposed to the use of a road loan in this State for the con struction of anything but permanent roads. That is right. It would be fol ly to borrow money on thirty year bonds to build a road the life of which would be five years. That is not the kind of highways we want In Pennsylvania. When the road loan is adopted It will be with the under standing that not a penny shall be spent except in permanent construc tion. Other States have made this er ror, but Pennsylvania will not. It's down to the place when even the j most stupid in arithmetic can figure ' out how many days until school opens, j STRIKES LESLIES WEEKLY, in an edi-1 torial evidently directed at the ratlroad situation, has a few wise words to say as to the results of strikes. Here are some of them: Every strike means empty places In the factory, the canceling of the pay roll and the emptying of the dinner pail. This is the first result. Every strike means suffering to the worker first and to his em ployer next, and it is harder on the former than on the latter, because the latter has resources in reserve. Every strike brings suffering to the unemployed, distress to inno cent onlookers, the withdrawal of children from school and savings from the bank. Every strike breaks a bond of sympathy between the employer and his employes—the bond that is the strongest safeguard of capital and labor. Every strike gives the dema gogue and selfish labor leader his chance to lessen the opportunities for labor and increase the opportu nities for himself. Every strike must finally be set tled by concessions. Why not arbi trate differences at the start ana avoid the strike. Every strike destroys the peace and happiness of the home. Imposes idleness on industry. discounts thrift and gives opportunlt v for the vicious to resort to violence and crime. Even the successful strike often re sults in more loss than gain. Always some very worthy workmen suffer for years as a result. There may come a time when between the laborer and the employer tjiere is no means of set tling differences save the strike, but both sides should look well to the future before resorting to such dras tic course. "Two more submarines coming." Bet ter wait until the Bremen reports. THE MATRIMONIAL "AD." MARRIAGE," observed Max H. Kling, in Philadelphia, the other day when called on to explain why he had advertised for a wife, "is a funny proposition. You never can tell how It will turn out. It's just a toss-up. That being so and I had heard so much of Southern girls, I just advertised for a wife." That is the code of the divorce court. Marry in haste and repent at leisure. The kind Kling used is one variety of advertising that does not pay. Mar riage may be a lottery, but there's no use choosing your ticket blindfolded, j The woman who answers a matrimon ial "ad." is apt to be pretty careless of the kind of husband she gets, and no man wants that kind of wife. The man who makes himself the subject of a newspaper advertisement admits that he is on the bargain counter and that he is of a pattern that the girls at home won't have. In sjjort, Its pret ty cheap business and a cheap business is seldom profitable. RAVE OX, OSCAR OSCAR UNDERWOOD is raving mad because he believes Presi dent Wilson—for political pur poses—is about to cast overboard the Underwood tariff law and go in for the Republican policy of protection. Rave on, Oscar! Up and at "em! Tell 'em where to get off! Wasn't the President so proud of your free trade tariff bill that he took two pens to sign it and sent a message of rejoicing to the people? Didn't he pat you on the back, Oscar, and tell you what a great man you were? To to sure he did. Well, If it was a meritorious bill then it cannot be meretricious now. Up and at 'em, Oscar, make "em explain. ALTRUISM TO THE NTH POWER WHEN the President expresses~a wish it is virtually a command," says C. W. W. Hanger, of the Federal Board of Mediation and Con ciliation, in commenting upon the rail road situation and the possibility of strike prevention through executive intervention. In a time of national danger and in the face of the threat of industrial ruin embodied in the im pending railroad strike the nation should have a man at ihe head who is able to weigh both sides of the con troversy and render a decision which shall consider well the Interests of the third party, in this case the general public. There should be a Judge in every dispute and one naturally turns, in instances like the present, to the nation's head as the final arbitrator. Are the railroads Justified in refus ing to accept the final decision whlcL seems tj the only way to prevent an industrial crash? Have they been squeezed to the point where they must either stand or fall on a single throw of the dice? Or has the President ex pressed "the wish that is virtually a command" in vain? Altruism is a splendid quality, but there is such a thing as carrying it to extremes, and It Is a question in the minds of many as to whether it is fair to the railroads to place them In a position of appear ing entirely responsible for the strike, If it does come. The outcome of the attempt to arbitrate will mean much to the immediate and future Industrial expansion of the United States. TELEdRAPH PERISCOPE —Col. Parker hasn't as yet got awake to the fact that HI Johnson played a low-down trick on him. —The New York woman who offers $5 reward for the return of her miss ing husband is over-rating the value of a wife deserter. —Von Hindenburg is proving that not all of last year's German victories were due to his genius alone. —Rejoice, fellow slaves, the home -1 mad© ice cream churning season is al most over. —Anyway, the new commission will be able to string the Mexican sit uation along until after election. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT" The visit of the Deutschland serves to establish Uncle Sam's contention that he is at all times ready to sell his goods to anybody who will furnish his own delivery wagon.—Nashville South ern Lumberman. Real sporting hazards are becoming fewer every day. It is estimated that by January X, 1917, there will be one motor car to every twenty-five persons in the United States. In a few years there will be nothing left to run over except dogs and chickens.—Kansas City Star. great art of war is artillery.— Philadelphia Record. It would seem sensible nowadays to be willing to tight for a place in the shade.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Taking his talks into consideration, a id the grief they cause President Wil son, it is plain that a term on the bench has had no effect on the splendid and unerring aim Mr. Hughes is directing against the administration.—Cincinnati Tribune. Finding $25,000 a Year Men In the September American Maga zine, Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, tells how he selects men for positions demanding the salary of $25,000 a year. He savs: "Several years ago 1 went to Texas, studied conditions there, became con vinced that prospects warranted our special attention, and concluded we wanted a man who knew that coun try. a man from Texas. On the trip 1 met. 1 think, all the bankers of Im portance. 1 crossed the State twice and stopped at all principal towns. "Of ali the bankers 1 came In con tact with, two stood out prominently. I had seen them only at luncheons, dinners, or other i&therings of that sort. But they had talked better than their fellows. They showed breadth of banking and financial knowledge and information; this was several years before the passage of the Fed eral Reserve act, and we were all very much Interested in that. "Their grasp of fundamental prin- ! oiples told me they had done what I J have often said a young man should ! do —one day's work at his desk and | another day's study finding out what his work means, what its relations! are to the general scheme of things. ' "I followed up my first impression with inquiries about them. After I returned to New York, every time I met a man from Texas or the South west I asked about them. I got uni versally favorable testimony. I pressed ! the thing closer, and finally engaged i first one and, two years later, the* other. "Note that I picked them out sev eral years before actually appointir ; them. If their records had not bee 1 scrupuously clean, if I had heard OB derogatory thing about them, my in terest might have ceased. "Then you might well wonder why was chosen, a lawyer with no banking experience. Sheer personality did it. "There, again, was the inspiring career. He had dug it out for him self. He had worked his way through college, and very successfully. Enter ing law, he worked and studied hard —and saved money. "His conversation revealed a trained mind, wide reading, broad interests. Tt was evident he had done his own I thinking on many subjects. And he had great physical force, which you always look for in a man who has a great work to do. You don't want a weakling, because the pressure all the time is severe, and at times of stress or crisis it becomes pi>etty nearly un bearable. A man must stand up under it and not cave in at a crucial moment." Taking the Cue (Philadelphia ledger) At last Oarranza has taken the cue from Washington and Is now charg-; lng the American mining operators i and other American concessionaires 1 with trying to bring about lnterven- | tion by "refusing to come back to Mexico and operate their plants" and ! so give employment, food and con tentment to the peons. Really, if the Mexican situation were not a great tragedy this would road like opera bouffe of the most humorous kind. In other words, .because the Ameri cans will not go back to Mexico to have their houses and ranches, mines and mills looted, their foremen robbed, their wives attacked and even their babies killed by bandits whom !the Carran/.a government does not suppress, and with whom it Is in | friendly relations at times, they are I being held accountable by the Car i anzistas for the distress in the re gions concerned. Invented so as "to i bring about intervention." And then j to cap the climax of absurdity these j very men who are wanted in Mexico ; to start local prosperity are the ones the ITnlted States government has or dered out of Mexico on the ground ■that their stay was perilous and sus ! picious and spelled intervention, too. ' Moreover, their employment of the ; peons has been assailed as "exploita | tion," which gave them no right to ask protection for themselves or their | property from their own country. So they are now being damned if they ; stay out and damned if they go back. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY IQuestlons submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] Who are the officers of the Fire Department? Edward Z. Gross, superintendent of parks and public property, un der whose Jurisdiction the fire de partment Is placed. John C. Klnd ler, chief engineer fire department. Marion \ erbeke. assistant chief en gineer fire department. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ITHESWE FROM DAf TO W That " coming events cast their shadows before" Is true in more senses than one. Witness the preparations now going on in one of the Pennsyl vania regiments on the border for a football team that bodes ill to the Mexican warriors If ever there should be a gringo-greaser set-to. Candi dates for the team are practicing just as hard as a college team two weeks before the big game. A number of noted officials from this city, Washington, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh and others are among the guests at the annual convention of postmasters of the third and fourth classes of Pennsylvania now in session I in Sunbury. The membership has In creased 100 per cent, since the last convention one year ago in Lancaster. "Have a Son" is the cordial Invi tation extended to the readers of a Pennsylvania daily, but closer scru tiny revealed the fact that it was a statement and not in the imperative mood. The story from Pittsburgh that a horse hitched to an express wagon deliberately ran down a bank and committed suicide by drowning offers additional evidence to those scientists who would like to discover the exact degree of the horse's intelligence. William Vail of Jermyn has an an tipathy toward the bee family after bis experience of a day or so ago on his farm, when his horses drove over a hive of bees just when they were having their noon repast. The activities of the bees were transmitted to the horses, who in turn propelled their master out upon his head, where the little stinger? again got busy. One of the strangest cases that physicians have been called upon to deal with has come up in Oil City, where a little girl swallowed a red ribbon and is slowly being dyed the same color. Her back, breast and arms are suffused with the dye and the internal poisoning has been rap idly spreading to other parts of her body with the same effect. The Trout family will gather at Brookslde Park. appropriately enough, the latter part of this month, when all the Trouts of America, who can get there, will reune for a season and celebrate the 164 th anntversary of the landing of their forefathers in this country. "Speeding Up" Doesn't Pay [From the Boston Traveler.] "Is your horse a good traveler?" ask ed one man of another who had stopp ed him on the highway to "swap" horses. "A good traveler? Why, stranger, I can drive that horse so far In a day that you couldn't get him back in three!" Naturally this ingenuous though not ingenious argument did not effect a trade. But it is the sort of argument that in a disguised form is being used effectively by individuals and people all over the map. "Efficiency" and "pep" are the two most overworked words In the lan guage these times. Wherever one goes he can hear the mental motors buzz ing and the wheels whirring. Every man is so keyed up and densely charg ed with his life purpose that you are almost afraid to shake hands with him for fear of getting an electric shock. But, listen, you fellows not already —because of overwork—headed for the psychopathic hospital, the word has gone forth that "Speeding Up" has reached its limit and that it doesn't pay. "The inefficiency of 'efficiency' has proved both costly and brutal." says a man who has been a lifelong; student of busy men. "A man should be his best up to TO. If a man disappears at 65 he is inefficient, no matter what he has done before that time—inefficient because he has thrown away the ripe fruit of all his life." Don't drive yourself so far in a day that you cannot get back in three—or j perhaps ever. A good share of the world believes that the efficiency of a | certain European nation was the cause i of ■ ,u. itself and the whole of civili- j "• lion bt. k half a century. Remember j f le story of the clever little boy who j Ltole the arty ice cream and ate it all himself a id died the next day? "Moder »tion," Bishop Hall says, "Is I the sil' string running through the chain of all virtue." And Now Gibby's Gone! [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] It's going to be pretty lonesome for Hans Wagner at Forbes Field from now on. It wasn't so bad when Brans field and Beaumont drifted away; the club moved away from Exposition Park about that time and new sur roundings took the edge off that breaking up. But since they went to the new park Tommy Leach, Camnitz, Capt. Clarke and "Babe" Adams have moved along and now Gibson's gone. The old man's going to be pretty lonesome. It's going to be pretty lonesome for the fellows out in the 25-cent bleach ers, too. You never could get away with a mean remark about "Gibby" or "Babe" out there. "Hack"—that was "Gibby's" other nickname, after Hack enschmidt, the wrestler —might drop a throw from the outfield or the enemy batsman might drive Babe's famous slow ball out to the flag pole, but you wouldn't hear any roast out there in the sun. ll was "All right. "Gibby' " or "Never mind, 'Babe.'" it was dif ferent out on the seats where the splinters grow when they sent Phief Wilson away; it's going to he lone some to-morrow. Well, they soon move along. It's only yesterday "Watty" stood where A 1 Mamaux stands now; only yester day it was "from Tinker to Evers to Chance; only yesterday the fans in the street were talking of Eeever. of Ritchey, or "Jimmy" Sebrlng. lionus Is the only one left of the champion ship team of seven years ago. Seven years! It behooves the players to save I heir money and make ready to go Into business, when they are through, like "Babe" Adams, at 33. The manage ment wanted to make Gibson a free agent and let him sign where he could; they never would have "sold him down the river." But the Giants needed a catcher owing to Raridan's injury so they claimed Gibson when Pittsburgh asked the other clubs to waice. He won't stay long in New York; they don't catch much after 36. But Pittsburgh will always miss "Gib by" and the memory of those 140 con secutive games in 1909 will linger long after he has gone back to Canada to stay. But it's going to be pretty lonesome for Honus. Piratical Submarine Warfare [The Outlook] There is not a naval vessel or a merchant vessel on the seas, whether belonging to a belligerent or a neutral power, whether British or Brazilian, Japanese or American, that would not be Justified In destroying a German naval submarine on sight.» In execut ing Captain Fryatt Germany has sanc tioned anew this piratical submarine warfare against which the . United States, as the greatest of neutral na tions, to her shame, has taken no action, and from which the United States herself, uttering only words of protest, has suffered, , THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DEALING WITH WILSON POLICIES —From St. Louis Weekly Globe-Democrat. HAVE YOU POTATO BERRIES IN YOUR GARDEN? LOOK FOR THEM v , CONSIDERABLE agitation has been aroused recently concern ing the disappearance of potato balls, which are the fruit of the com mon potato. The present varieties of potatoes were developed from seeds and after planting from cuttings for many years are disposed to run out or become subject to attacks by fungal diseases so that only a few small tubes are produced. Several years ago Pro fessor GuU.v., horticulturist of the Con necticut Agricultural College offered twenty-five dollars for a single ball grown In that State. After wide ad vertisement two small balls were pro duced. Luther Burbank, of Cali fornia in answer to inquiries for seed from his gardens replied that he had none but that It was plentiful in Maine. However the department of agriculture of that State reports that the balls are seldom found there now. The origin of the potato plant has been traced to the highlands in sev eral parts of South America. In the natural environment It was distribut ed by the seeds and the variation in characteristics of plants so developed fitted it for changing conditions of climate, soil and competition with other plants. Since our agriculturists have been selecting for propogation tubers from stalks showing greatest development in that part of the plant and removing the competition from other plants the potato has ceased to produce the unnecessary seed, i Finally when our best varieties of HOW ABOUT JAPAN? The Imminent Issue By Frederic J. Haskin HAS the European war, along with the guerilla fighting in Mex ico. served to turn American at tention from the Issue most vital to American well-being—vital, even, to American safety? Have we become so absorbed in the European drama that we stand all unconscious while in the Orient a stage is set for a drama where we may no longer be spectators, but leading players with a llfe-and-death interest in the issue of the plot? That such Is the case is the sober opinion of some of the keenest and most experienced students of the Far Eastern situation. Their reiterated as sertions as to the dangerous state of our affairs in the East is causing Amer icans to turn their eyes inquiringly across the Pacific, in spite of many as surances from Other authorities, who ridicule any talk of serious trouble as a hybrid creature of the jingo and the yellow press. If we are faced by the necessity of action, to avert a situation where we shall have to choose between war and surrendering certain of our rights, then such action will have to be moti vated primarily by the attitude of the American people. It follows that a knowledge of the actual state of af fairs is essential to every citizen; but for a variety of reasons that knowledge Is one of the hardest things In the world to get. It Is hardly possible for any Euro pean country long to keep secret the state of its public opinion toward the United States. Take the case of Ger many, for Instance, when from time to time there arises the question of strained relations over points of inter national law. A score of correspond ents keep us posted on every new shade of feeling In the German national mind. We know how the German people receive our suggestions and offers al most as soon as we know how the American nation as a whole regards them. It would be impossible for Ger many, or any other European nation to adopt a national attitude that would take us by surprise. .With Japan the case Is fundamentally and fatally dif ferent. Japan Is a nation that speaks a lan guage so totally different from ours that It Is an Immense task for an American to learn it, and one that comparatively few undertake Japan's written word Is built on a system basic ally opposed to our script; it is even harder for an alien to master than the language. As a result Americans who speak Japanese are few and far be tween. Americans who read it fewer and farther. Add to this fact that Japan has to-day the strictest and most effective of press censorships, and two facts become evident. First, that behind the wall of an alien tongue reinforced by the censor ship, almost anything might be going on In Japan without our knowledge, and, second, that whatever does get published in Japan, even In the "yel lowest section of the press, has a cer tain smack of the authoritative that a similar utterance in this country would lack, because every Japanese paper has been passed by the official censor. The significance of this state of af fairs as applied to the United Statfis lies in the fact that It obliges us to give a different reception to news from Japan, which at first glance seems al most'lncredible, than we would give to similar news from any other country. AUGUST 17, 1916. potatoes show a tendency to rest on the reputation of former production the scientific farmer begins to search for new varieties. Then the neglected and forgotten seed balls or berries de mand serious consideration as only in them is there possibility of producing a new and better variety of potatoes. We are in that stage now. Wide spread attention has been called to the scarcity of these seed balls and per sons are urged to search their po tato fields that the few seeds produc ed may be preserved for planting in the hope that a good variety may be found. Seed balls have been found in a garden belonging to Prof. J. A. Smyser of the Harrisburg High school. The garden is located in a subdivision known as Colonial acres, near Pro gress on the Jonestown road. The soil consisting of weathered shale has been enriched by manurial and com mercial fertilizers. The land slopes to the north sufficient for good surface drainage. The potatoes for planting were carefully selected and the stalks have been sprayed with arsenate of lead and Bordeaux mixture for insect and plant enemies and are strong and healthy. The variety is Sir Walter Raleigh which is an improvement on the Rural New York. From a num ber of flowers growing in a cluster only one berry was found on a stalk. Five berries have been found ranging in size from a large pea to a half inch in diameter. The berries will be kept and an effort made to grow new plants from the seeds another year. If we were told that public sentiment in Germany or Kussia had shifted in a few years from a friendly attitude to one violently hostile, that this change was deliberately encouraged by at least a section of the government, and with sinister purpose, we would be justified in laughing. When the same charges are made by men of high standing, as they are made, against Japan—then it Is time for us to do some serious think ing. It is charged, and backed up by nu merous quotations from Japanese ver nacular and English papers, that there is a deliberate campaign going for ward in Japan to arouse anti-American sentiment throughout the nation. It is no news to Americans that there has been an increasing lack of cordiality in Japanese-American relations, but that affairs have come to the point where the United States is conceived In the popular mind as Japan's active op ponent and logical enemy does come as news, and news of a somewhat start ling character. Side by side with this campaign to plant hostility against America in Japan, it is charged that a parallel campaign Is being conducted in Amer ica—a campaign whose object is to spread abroad In the United States the idea that Japan cherishes only the friendliest Intentions toward us, a campaign In other words, to lull our suspicions, to discourage any tendency Americans may have toward making preparations for a possible emergency. Thus should the clash come and neither side give ground, a fiercely inimical and heavily armed little empire would have to deal with a big. unready repub lic, whose national attitude toward her antagonist could best have been de scribed as one of complete indifference. The issue of such a possible conflict l« not pleasant to consider. Our Daily Laugh AN HONEST MAN. The Market . I Man —What jrou *7C y returnln' them A eggs for? They're (S& TJL i l h® choicest eggs my ,tor# * The Customer M and didn't want (riff you t0 cheat yourself. I want ? VH P 77 only common « 11/ eating earrs end you've sold me a dosen car io ■ laid by the great auk. EXPERT. .. , . The landlord of I | the Seltzer House I— says he doesn't m* J believe the day of miracles is past. bet that he do that one the five loaves and two flsheß-««^p*^^^r lEbpttUtg Cttljat Lewis Buddy, feld commissioner of the Boy Scouts <it America, who will be the guest of tie Harrlsburgf Rotaty Club at its luncheon next Moilday 1* one of the molt successful worker* among boys in America. He has put the Scout movement on a financially sound basis in many of the large cities of the country and is In so much de mand that. from the time he is able to give to the Harrisburg cltb he will be occuiied with engagement* constantly for more than a year and he is already outlining his work for three years ahead. The trouble; with the Scout move ment has been that it has depended too much up«n volunteers who havo had neither the time nor the money to get the mat good out of It for tVi boys. Not a| of them have been ifc the position of Scoutmaster Wootf; of Lewistown, who has a wonderful record as a Scout worker. Mr. Wood comes from an old and wealthy fam ily. He lives in a large mansion over looking the Juniata river, but lie doesn't caret much for society. He finds his recreation in the open and he is never so happy as when in com pany with his Scout Troop he is off in the mountains back of town "hiHing" for wildflowirs, nuts or berries. This summer he purchased a tract of land In the Seven. Mountains, far from any settlement and ideally situated with fine, pure vater for drinking and swimming, and there he built a camp for the Boy Scouts of Lewistown. This is Mr. Wood's contribution to the home town. It is the hope of Presi dent Howard C. Fry, of the Rotary Clyb, whost invitation brings Mr. Buddy to Hurrisburg, that something like this may be done for the Scouts of this city and that the organization [ be placed on a permanent and active basis here. Some very excellent troops of Scouts claim Harrisburg as their headquarters, but it is hoped to do far more in thii direction than ever be fore. • » • W. R. D. Hall, statistician of the State Highway Department, who caught a 4 50-pound shark on hook and line from a motorboat near Avalon during his recent vacation trip, is some fisherman. Catching sharks is not his only accomplish ment. He is a skillful surf caster and last season caught with a light rod and line a 36-pound drum fish that gave him a fight that lasted nearly an hour. "At one time I thought he in tended to go straight on across the At lantic," said Mr. Hall in telling the story, "and I was wondering whether I ought to let him haul me Into the ocean when the line ran out or give him the rod as well as the line, when he suddenly turned and headed In to ward the shore, i think I was as tired as the fish when I finally landed him." The shark catch was made while Hall and a party of friends were cruising in a motorboat. They saw the fin of the fish, halted, baited a big hook and be gan to angle for the man-eater. The shark darted (or it at once and then ran out 500 feet of line before stop ping. A forty-five minute battle, fol lowed. One of the largest hay crops ever harvested in Pennsylvania is reported by the State Department of Agricul ture, which estimates the 1916 crop at 5,300,000 tons. The production last year averaged 1-18 tons to the acre and 3,558,000 tons wore harvested. This year, the acreage was increased greatly and the yield prr acre was much larger. The ten-year average is 1.33 tons to the acre. In some coun ties, the present average is nearly two tons and it is expected that final fig ures will make an average per acre close to 1.7 tons. • • • There is a young grocery clerk in Harrisburg who has a large Dauphin county snapping turtle on his hands. His name is Allen Barbush. Yester day was the young man's birthday an niversary. Friends in Halifax did not know what kind of present to send him, 50 boxed up a big turtle. As he is not fond of turtle soup he is at a loss to know what to do with his pres ent. With the turtle came a card on which was inscribed, "Congratula tions. May you live as long as this fellow, and then some more. Thought you would like to treat your friends to a snapper luncheon." The turtle is still at the Barbush home. * • * Speaking about turtles, local river - men report an abundance of Susque hanna Terrapin in the river. They are not yet large enough to be caught, but in the Fall, after there has b«en a heavy frost, there will be a lively search for this valuable river product. Local terrapin hunters claim they send from 200 to 500 terranfri to Philadelphia and New York every sea son and also keep the Harrisburg restaurants well supplied. * * » Bang! chug-chug' bang! Must be an artillery battery or at least a machine gun company, though' the Front street pedestrians betweenJSroad and Herr streets the other evening, as the sharp crack of what sounded suspiciously like a gun was heard drawing nearer and nearer the curve at Front and Calder. But It wis only an automobile, with two gay young sters aboard, working the carhiretor backfire for all It was worth. "Which onlv goes to show," said a passer by," that the spirit of the soldier takes queer forms." The Call Will Be Answered In this hour of stress we hear the people calling for James Hill, the powerful railroad manager who com manded the attention and respect of railroad men and capitalists the world over. Be assured the call will not go unan swered, for there is even a greater than he somewhere about. These are new times, and they have brought new conditions such as Hill never had to meet. While his methods fitted conditions of years ago they might not, they could not reasonably be expected to meet the present conditions, and he had become too old. and too set in his ways to readily adjust himself to them. No conditions have ever developed in this country that there was not the man, or were not the men, ready to meet them. This is true of every country that if young and virile, whose men have s distinct sense of right, and are no: cowed and held in abeyance by age old precedents. Therefore fear not, dare to flo rigtt as you are given to see the right, ard yours shall be the reward of the right eous. In all the history of the world men who strove to see the right, anci who dared to do It, achieved great re nown and brought blessings upok. those faithfully supported tlem. —Erasmus Wilson in Pittsburgh' Gt zette-Times. My Scheme My scheme In life is to expect twd| or more disappointments every and then when these disappolntmecta arrive, I'm not so much surprised. But I do not accept the arrival ol a disappointment as the end of all cp portuntty. A disappointment to ms is a tcsi of my ability to overcome a rtt uatlon. I always keep constantly before me the encouraging thought that I have survived so far, and that I am, per haps, better equipped now to meet disappointments than in the part. -—The Silent Etetoea
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