10 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., TelesrapH Calldln*, Federal Square. E. J.STACKPOLE. Prts't and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. ' GUS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa jpgsk tlon. The Audit IjjaW Bureau of Circu iSGSft latlon and Penn &sb W sylvania Associat ivaH ed Dailies. 188 Ba Eastern office. §55 Q| Story, Brooks & IS! fS Finley, Fifth Ave ■Ha m nue Building, New yfeit 3fj York City; West- Buildingf S Chi —- cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21 The Lord looks doicn contentedly upon a, willing mind. —T. Tatlob. THE SIXTEEXERS rTVHE Slxteeners, so called because I JL at the age of sixteen they wero graduated fiom soldiers' orphan schools throughout the State, are gath ered in Harrisburg to-day for their annual reunion. The organization is worthy of pass ing note. It is made up of men and •women who in their youth were handi capped by tho death of father or mother or both. The fathers of many of them went away to the Civil War : and lost their lives on hard-fought j fields or in the prison pens of the South. For them the soldiers' orphan school was a boon above price. Not j always was it conducted as well as it could be, but in the main it made for discipline, education and training along various lines. Hundreds of the graduates of these schools have made their way to high places in the affairs of their com munities and others are substantial citizens doing their part for the up building of their own towns and de voted to the country for which their fathers laid down their lives. For example of the prominence many of the Sixteeners have attained one need go no farther than C. Day Rudy, the famous art glass manufac turer of Harrisburg. There are scores and hundreds of others like him, and lt«is altogether to their credit that they annually pause a day in their busy lives to honor the Institutions •which laid the foundation for their success. A MCXICIPAL BEACH HARRISBURG needs a municipal beach. That scarcely need be repeated. Like an island spring ing into being from the ocean over night, the fondness for swimming in the Susquehanna has swept the city until it is rapidly becoming the chief topic of conversation. When 7,000 people of an afternoon crowd the shores and waters of the river, It Is a sign that ought to be heeded, and heeded promptly. The citizens of Harrisburg are interested in promoting the welfare and comfort of the citizens of Harrisburg, naturally. They want a bathing beach, and want It badly. There is not the least doubt of the practical benefits. The people are entitled to the consideration which would promote such a proposition and the problem is or.e to which their duly elected representatives in the govern ment of the city ought to give careful deliberation. An efficient organization, when con ditions arise that need attention, meets those conditions. Either the demand for proper and adequate bathing facili ties for the people of Harrisburg must be met or elso Harrisburg will have to admit that she is not efficiently organized. The establishment of the city's "front steps" was the initial move in making attractive and useful the beautiful river basin before our doors. The dam at Dock street, while inade quate, is yet of decided advantage to river craft and was the second step. The next move is obvious. The river la being used by swimmers and canoe ists this year more than ever before. More canoes are owned and more are rented. The Greater Harrisburg Navy is an organization pledged to promote stronger interest in aquatic sport on the Susquehanna and we are at last beginning to have brought home to us tho value of the river basin as a civic asset in a way that it has never before been presented. BAOOX ANOTHER KXOX ROBERT BACON, who has an nounced himself as a candidate for the Senate in New York State, subject to the Republican pri maries on September 19, is another Philander C. Knox in caliber. He Is not a lawyer, but he is a trained financier of excellent reputation and a man of vast experience and ability In affairs of the nation and interna tional diplomacy. It is good to see men like Knox and Bacon again aspiring to public life. We have been so much the vic tims of bunglers and experimentalists in Governmental matters during the past four years that the return of the Knoxes and the Bacons and the Hughes Is being hailed with Joy the country over. Mr. Bacon has had vast experience In big financial problems, and heaven knows the Democrats are leaving the National Government in a condition that will require the be6t efforts of jmany able financiers. Further than jthat, he served with distinction In Jptho Stats Department and tor, a time THURSDAY EVENING, was Acting Secretary of State, during his incumbency deciding satisfactorily j a number of difficult Questions aris ing between the United States and European nations. He knows Europe, too, having been Ambassador to Paris for more than three years, during which he became popular throughout the capitals of the Continent and rendered many helpful services. He is the kind of man who ought to be In the Senate and New Tork should do for him as Pennsylvania will do for Philander C. Knox—give him practically a unanimous vote. A LESSON" FOR OUR POLICE NEWS filters in from Canada that mounted Canadian police have arrested and are bringing back to civilization the three murderers who three years ago murdered two mis sionaries away up beyond the line of the Arctic Circle. Three policemen were assigned to the task of appre hending the Eskimos at the time of tho murder and they have been con tinually on the trail ever since. Through melting snowdrifts and over frozen streams, amid the blizzards of winter and the torturing heat of the brief Arctic summer, these three hardy policemen trailed their men. Now the track grow hot and they were almost at their goal. Again all trace of the fleeing natives was lost and the officers almost gave up their chase. But always in the end they persisted and to-day they are on their way back to civilization with their prisoners. I What an example for our own po j licemen, to whom three days' vain | search, instead of three years, is often j sufficient excuse for deciding that de- I tection and arrest are impossible. Would that we had a few officers like the Canadian mounted police in Har risburg. HARRIS BURG IN MOVIES HARRISBURG in the near future will- be given opportunity of reveling in the realization of the poetic wish of Robert Burns "to see ourselves as others see us.'' The city in its working clothes, the city at play, the city at devotional exercises, all will be noted down and faithfully re corded by the accurate eye of the moving picture camera. And the re sults -will be attached to the visualized activities of eleven other cities of Pennsylvania and scattered broadcast throughout the country. "Seeing Pennsylvania" will be the privilege of many a city and town on the circuit of the proposed Pennsyl vania film now in process of construc tion. It will be a splendid advertise ment for the city and will show other States that Pennsylvania is bowling merrily along the road marked "Prog ress" and that there aren't many rough spots along the way. Those men who witnessed the show ing of the Williamsport film the other morning are loud in their praise of the possibilities in the program out lined, and the historical and scerfic advantages of the Capital City furnish a fitting background for weaving on the screen the story of Harrisburg as it stands to-day, a hustling, thriving community that well merits the desig nation "the heart of distribution." THE RECRCTrEVG PROBLEM THE Omaha Bee takes the men of the nation to task for not recruit ing for duty along the border. It asserts that the volunteer system is on trial and is failing, and it accuses the men of the nation with being averse to military duty. The Bee is mistaken. The wonder is not that so few are recruited, but that any volunteer under the circum stances. If men knew why they are being asked to go into the military service in Texas the results would be different. If they knew they were to be held there until November for training purposes and would be sent home then, or at the end of any other stated period of reasonable length, doubtless hundreds of young men would hasten to enlist. The success of the Plattsburg camp this summer is proof enough that American boys and men are as keen for military train ing as ever and many who could not afford the fee and transportation ex penses required of those who went to Plattsburg would be on'.y too happy to avail themselves of the privilege of a three to six months' service under canvas if they knew at the end of that time they would be returned home. Or, if there was a real crisis or any apparent reason for the holding of thousands of soldiers in idleness along the Rio Grande—if, in short, there was a real duty to perform with a chance of active service—the recruit ing stations would not hold all who would want to Join the army. But men hesitate to plunge into a military service that may last six days or six years. They want to know why they are being asked to enlist. If the President can give any good reason beyond doubt, Americans will respond now to the call as they have in the past. It is not the volunteer system that is a failure, but the administration at Washington. THOSE AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS BRILLIANT automobile lights caused a man's death a few days ago near Canonsburg, Pa. Ho be came bewildered and blinded and drove his own machine oft the road. "What occurred in Canonsburg may happen any day in Harrisburg. Motor ists who care nothing for the safety of others should be required to equip their cars with lenses that light the road, but do not blind the pedestrian, the horse or the automobile driver In front. Tho time to do this is now not after some such tragedy as that reported from the western part of the State. City Forester Gipple will earn the lasting gratitude of many a pedestrian if he evolves a plan for the removal of projecting and low-hanging branches and foliage from trees along the side walks. There is real danger to the eyes where the branches stick out at heights from five to six feet, and they are very hard to see in the shadows. Co-opera tion on the part of property owners ought, with a little time and labor, to remove this unpleasant conditio? ■ ~ . : "fdZtic* CK By the lis - ttecman Inauguration of the campaign by the Lehigh county field meetings has started men Interested In politics to talking about the big gubernatorial campaign for which, after all, the present contest within Pennsylvania this year wll be only a preparation. The election of the Republican State ticket is assured. The Identity of that for 1918 is now being discussed. The Republicans have plenty of available men. The Democrats will not know whether they lia\e any men fit to run until after November. Continuation of the Wilson administration would mean dictating tho nominee for governor, as was done when the president pick ed C. McCormick in 1914. The Stale administration forces will naturally seel to nominate the Re publican candidate for governor, so as to continue pesitions. influence or glory as the cat-e may be. The op position will *eek to name one of its friends. This Fall's election and next winter's legislative session will shape the contest. The general be'lef is that the next Republican nominee will come from outside of the two big counties. Con gressman John R. K. Scott, of Phila delphia. is said to be very willing to run. Allegheny has E. V. Babcock, William A. Mayee. George E. Alter and Congressman S. G. Porter on its list of avaJlables. Congressman E. R. Kless, of the WilHamsport district, starts oft' with a strong boost from the Lycoming county Republican committee. State Treasurer Robert K. Young is preferred by many progres sives. Commissioner W. D. B. Alney, of Susquehanna, Is also a candidate, it is believed. L. A. Watres, the Scran ton banker, will be boomed by an in fluential number of men. Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain and Sec retary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods are both possibilities. Senator William C; Sproul is preferred by many. Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis son, of Erie, and General Charles Mil ler, of Franklin, are talked of in the northwest, while ex-Governor John K. Tener Is mentioned by friends every where. One of the men much talked of is Col. H. C. Trexler, the Allentown guardsman and business genius. James Scarlet Is also talked of by Danville and Philadelphia people, while General C. M./ Clement, now commanding the State troops, at the border, has his friends. Secretary of Agriculture Patton is given mention by loving friends in the central sec tion, while John M. Rose, of Johns town. may loom up if he wins for Congress. Congressman D. F. Lafean, of York, had a boom, but whether he will inflate it again is not known. Jesse L. Hartman, of Blair county, has also been mentioned as available, while Frank B. Black suffering from the usual fate of men elevated to his office is being talked of for higher honors. Out In the Western section they are boosting John S. Fisher, while State Chairman William E. Crow, of Fayette, is being given bou quets by admirers. —Governor Brumbaugh has been much in demand as a speaker in the Maine campaign for the governorship, is the report brought by Dr. y. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, who spent a week-end with the Governor at his summer home at Wayne, Me. Last Saturday the cam paign opened ati Island Park with the Republican candidate, Carl E. Milli ken, Governor Brumbaugh and Ralph I. Cole, chairman of the National Speak ers Bureau, as spellbinders. Governor Brumbaugh, except for an occasional trace of his illness of the Spring. Is in good health and hopes to be in perfect condition by the time he returns to take up the direct activities of the executive office. When not engaged in speaking or attending to State matters dally forwarded to him. the Gover nor enloys demonstrating his skill as a fisherman. His successes have been so marked In this direction that he is accounted one of the best anglers in the State of Maine. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FEARS PAKALYSIS OUTBREAK To the Editor of the Telegraph: Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 23, 1916. Yesterday's Philadelphia papers stated that every section of Philadel phia had infantile paralysis and the disease was well distributed. May X call your attention to the fact that Harrisburg Is located directly in the current of travel west bound from New York and Philadelphia and that this city is Ihe first breaking or ex changing point west of Philadelphia and therefore this disease is more of a menace to Harrisburg than the aver age city. Aside from this there is a very great amount of business inter course between Philadelphia and New York and this city as well as travel. Harrisburg is a large railroad center and a great many persons working for the railroads are furnished with free transportation visit these cities frequently and Increase the risk above the average town, or contributes to a closer relation with the large cities where the disease prevails. We have had the disease in our city and the opening of the schools may start a spread of the disease. No one knows if there are lncipljent cases. It Is too late after the schools start to close them If the dread disease ap pears. The seeds have been sown and may lie dormant for another year. As It is a hot weather disease will you not be good enough to urge delay in open ing schools two weeks or more or un til frost comes which is usually about October 1. It should be remembered that September last year was our hot test month. There is not a mother of young children in the city who does not have fear In her heart. ANXIOUS. Haskin and Japan (St. Paul Pioneer-Press) Is confirmation of Frederic J. Has kln's article on "How About Japan?" that Nippon's ambitious rulers Intend to exercise a virtual suzerainty over China for trade exploitation, current dispatches state Chinese troops in Eastern Mongolia attacked a Japanese garrison, that Tokio views the inci dent as a possible forerunner of diffi culties between the two powers. That Japan would welcome an excuse for such a break is highly probable; and that China goaded from its pacifica tion by a long series of studied af fronts, may no longer submit to dicta tion and decide to resist to the limit of Its power is barely possible. Ori entalist* long have predicted the rul ers of the Island Kingdom eventually would endeavor to extend their em pire to the bordering mainland. They asserted Japan's assumption of the right to lay down a "Monroe doctrine for the Orient" was not for the altru istic purpose of guaranteeing China's sovereignty, but to cloak Japan's sel fish policy of fostering trade and ex cluding business rivals by fair means or foul. No [From the "Washington Star.] Do you believe in the saying thai language Is used for the concealment, of thoughts?" "No," Miss Cayenne; "In much of the language you hear you haven't ev«n the comforting suspicion that there <nay be a thought In hiding." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY j 1 ——J 4 [ft $ J'/ A\ £ "1 can't stand that gas? 1 * TELEORAPH PERISCOPE "] —The rainstorm which brought early darkness also brought coolness, so who cares for a little extra money spent for electric light? —The Deutschland has again landed safely at a German port. This is the third time the Deutschland has com pleted the Atlantic voyage since leav ing Baltimore. < —Hint to Congress—English Par liament adjourns. —Judging from the menu an nounced, that Chamber of Commerc-3 outing is going to continue for about a week. —German naval "victories" always sound best before the government be gins to admit the number of ships damaged. ITHE SWE FROM DAT TO DPtf Our definition of filial devotion is scarcely that of the Allentown boy who got into a dispute with his mother and hurled a dish of sauer kraut at the dear old lady. Person ally we should prefer to take it internally. Edward Johnson, a Mansfield man, 106t his life by going over the bank at "dead man's curve" on the bound ary line between Pennsylvania and New York. The coroner thinks it un necessary to hold an inquest because the victim was driving his own car, which is not the most flattering way of looking at It. Here's an excellent fish story, dug out of Ridgway. Patrick Deering and friends were swimming in the mill pond. Pat was diving and a large trout measuring 24 inches was lazily swimming about below. Pat and the fish collided violently and were boih taken home in the ambulance. Tut' tut! The residents of Sunnyside and tho patrons of the Rocky Springs amuse ment park near Lancaster do not agree with Ellis Parker Butler that "pigs is pigs." They claim that "pigs is awful," for they are fighting hard for the removal of a pigsty along the traction company's tracks that un pleasantly assails the nostrils of passersby. The Lebanon merchants are planning a "Prosperity Day," when they will offer special bargains to buyers from other parts of Lebanon county and outside territory. Nor is Lebanon the town to apply to its merchandising the well-known Biblical "he was a stranger and they took him In." Two lonesome sailor boys on the steamship Memphis at San Domingo have written to the Lancaster post office pleading for some of the local maidens to write to them. Letters have been dispatched. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] Who are the Food Inspectors? Dr. \V illiam V. Hughes and J. H Park. War and Humanity (The Christian Science Monitor) To say that the war is revealing to many people unsuspected capacities for helping their neighbors is, of course, to utter a platitude. The re cently formed Ilford Home Fires League Is the latest notable instance. The object of the league is to give practical rather than financial aid to the families of British soldiers at the front. Business and professional men of all descriptions have joined the league, and are ready with advice am} help on all matters that a father would naturally look to. It is, of course, another effort, like that inau gurated some time ago for looking after a soldier's allotment garden, to keep the soldier's "home" intact, and as such is cerUiny deserving of all SUfifOltr «« HOW ABOUT JAPAN? The Swallowing of Korea By Frederic J. Haskin Swallowing of Korea—Sun., July 2 .. THE fate of Korea has a double in terest for America. In the first place, the tragic irony of the whole Korean incident gives a hint of what may be expected from Japan in other quarters. In the second place, Korea was the scene of America's greatest Asiatic achievement, both in commercial development and in the work of missionaries. In all the Orient, Korea was the one field where American trade ex ceeded that of any other nation. Amer icans were opening the mines, hand ling municipal improvement propects —such as electric lighting, waterwarks and street railways—getting the lion's share of trade. They did these things in open competition with anybody who cared to compete, winning their advantage solely by superior enter prise and management. Jlany of their projects were undertaken with the outcome seriously in doubt; they put their money and their energy into a new and untried field. They built, for instance, the first railroad in Korea. They were the pioneers of industry in the Hermit Kingdom. They took long chances, and they were beginning to reap the reward when a shift in the far eastern balance of power threw Korea into the hands of Japan. No less conspicuous than the suc cess of American industry in Korea was the success of American mission ary work. The Christian religion took & firmer hold in the kingdom than in any country where it has been spread among people of a different creed In recent times. Almost half a million Koreans were converted. Close to two thousand schools and churches were established. The whole nation seem- Magazine Disease (Spokane Spokesman-Review) • Well-nigh universal deterioration of the standards of American period icals has become a matter of wide spread observation and frequent com ment. An editor and a librarian have recently diagnosed the magazine's disease. As lately as a quarter of a century ago, according to Librarian F. W. Faxon of Boston, virtually every popular periodical obtained record in "Poole's Index," the entry showing that the magazine published material of permanent value. Within the last five years, however, has appeared a constantly growing number of period icals which, to say nothing of their moral viciousness, are such intellect ual and literary rubbish, that they deserve only to be sold to the paper mills. Even the superior magazines begin to yield to the tide of sludge and sewage. These story periodicals comprise two classes. One vends col orless and 111-written tales, the other stories of "high" life or "breezy" In character. All of this stuff is flimsy, shoddy, and most of it is sexual sala-, ciousness. Not a few of these peri odicals ought to be suppressed. Floating Gardens of Mexico (Popular Science Monthly) The Lake of Xochimilro, near the City of Mexico, is nearly covered with floating gardens called chlnampas, on which are cultivated vegetables and | flowers for the city markets. They j arc formed of floating masses of water plants covered with soil and secured iby poplar stakes. The latter take root and surround tho Islands with living hedges, which are useful as well as ornamental. The Cause [From the Detroit Free Press.] "Going away on your vacation?" "No." "Then why expression?" "Just learned that the wife's rela tives aren't coming here for theirs." Getting Familiar \ [From the Musical America.] Prof. Fuge What do you mean, Mr. Jones, by speaking of Dick Wagner, Ludie Beethoven. Charlie Gounod and Fred Handel? Jones—You told me to get familiar i with. th»Kreat composers. 'AUGUST 24, 1916. Ed in a fair way to be Christianized. While there are missionaries of all na tions in Korea, the bulk of the work was done by Americans. After solemnly guaranteeing the in dependence and autonomy of Korea In the preambles to several different international agreements, Japan pres ently established a protectorate. It was obvious from the first that annex ation would follow sooner or later, but American interests were not particu larly disturbed by the prospect. It was expected that Japan would elim inate any foreign enterprise in Korea which had been founded with political intention—founded, that is by the na tionals of some European power with the idea of giving that power a foot hold on the coast of Asia. As Ameri can interests had nothing whatever of the political about them, as the Unit ed States obviously never dreamed of establishing herself in Korea as a na tion, it was taken for granted that Americans would be unmolested. Their work, while undertaken in a purely business attitude, with no philan thropic motives, was none the less of immense value to the development and enrichment of the kingdom. However, it soon became apparent that there was a fallacy in this reas oning somewhere. Japan set systemat ically to work to drive foreigners from Korean commerce and industry. She wished, apparently, to secure Jap anese dominance in the field, and here as elsewhere she had to deal with the sad fact that Japanese could not dom inate while western enterprise had an equal chance. It was necessary to [Continued on Page 8] In Lancaster, Too In Monday's issue of this paper no less than eight robberies or attempted robberies were reported. In most cases the offense amounted only to petty theft, although several of the robberies were not trifling and all of them indicated that thieves were oper ating with little fear of the local po lice. And yet Lancaster has a very con siderable police force for a city of its size including bicycle policemen and other traffic officers. It is supplied also, both with a police telephone sys tem and a "red light" signal or trouble alarm system, besides the patrol out fit. In fact no expense has been spared to provide an entirely adequate police force. In fairness it must be said that this force is conspicuously in evidence in its. traffic regulating- activities, al though these are often absurdly dis proportionate to the volume of traf fic; but it's a long, long time between the recording of other notable services rendered by our half hundred or so of policemen. The record of robberies seems to show that the thieves and other evil-doers operate without the slightest consideration for our police men—Lancaster Dally Intelligencer. So It Always Is [From the Boston Transcript.] It takes some gray-whiskered old country editor with one foot in the grave to remark optimistically that de spite his billions John 0. Rockefeller can t buy youth. Not Expensive [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] "My wife and I are thinking of char tering a yacht for the summer." "won't that be pretty expensive?" "Not as long as we conflne ourselves to thinking about it." EGGS ARE UP AGAIN The dodo remains extinct, but the eggs of the great auk now and then comes to light. The one they found recently in San Francisco Is valued at $43,000 a dozen.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Trouble Coming [From the Boston Transcript] When Secretary Daniels hears about that naval dance at Newport he'll be ordering the sale at auction a£ ♦very yhoaograpih AMU, lEbenmg (Eljat As f*r as the naked eye can observe there Is anything but a car surplus to be noted along the lour railroads en tering Harrisburg at this time. The long strings of cars which used to be observed run on sidings along the Pennsylvania and Northern Central railroads and which were stored on tracks running into auarries or even into fields along the Reading a couple of years ago have disappeared or rather have reappeared in the long trains which are rolling in and out of the city without let-up every hour of% the twenty-four. Some idea of the stupendous amount of freight being handled can be gained by going out on any of the roads for a dozen or so miles. One freight after another whizzed by; hundreds and hundreds of cars are in motion in vards and shifters are drilling in with drafts of cars collected about the city. There is an immense movement by day, but at night it seems that still more are moved and the movement is constant and continuous. If one could get on First Mountain with a good strong glass he would see literally thousands of cars on the tracks about Harris burg. From that point the big Enola yards and the elongated Harrisburg yards can be plainly seen while off beyond the ridge which culminates in Reservoir Dark the miles of steel that constitute Rutherford yards on the Reading are to be made out. The yards on the Cumberland Valley and about Steelton can be traced, too, and taken all together the scene is one which will demonstrate that Harris burg is one of the great railroad cen ters of the country. • » • "I do not know of any reason why earlier predictions that there will be plenty of gamo for Pennsylvania sportsmen should be changed." said Dr. Joseph Kalbfus. secretary of the State Game Commission to-day. "X have .lust returned from a trip of sev eral hundred miles through counties where game is abundant and X have seen many quail and pheasant and have heard reports about such birds being very plentiful. There are also very many deer. I accompanied Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chairman of the commission, on the tour and we visit ed Carbon, Sullivan, Lycoming, Tioga, Potter and Clearfield counties, going to the game preserves in those coun ties, which include some of the new preserves and found everything doing very well. lam satisfied that this will be a big year for game." • • • Over 5,000 circulars of information regarding ways for National Guards men now at the border to pay their taxes have been sent out by the adju tant general's department in the last two days. In addition to sending them to regimental commanders the chief of staff is sending them to various offi cers with requests that they make it their business to see that the soldiers are apprised of the matter. Septem ber 6 is the last day on which assess ment for taxes can be made and the adjutant general suggests that each man get friends to attend to this mat ter. It is likely that men active in politics in each county will also take steps to help the soldiers. The opin ion of the Attorney General to the Governor on the method to be follow ed in having soldiers vote is expected to be made public before the end of the week. , • • • The problem of keeping cool in the scorching weather that Harrisburg has been enduring for davs has been sat isfactorily solved so far as one young man in Harrisburg is concerned. Be ing a college undergraduate and not having as yet attained to the dignity of an office, his time is temporarily his own. and so he wards off heat prostration by selecting the latest magazine and filling the bathtub with deliciously cool water, in which he places himself, a la cold storage, for several hours each afternoon. A big bat flying about In the corri dors of the Capitol attracted much at tention yesterday about noon. No one appeared to know where the bat came from and it flitted about causing much excitement among the numerous women visitors to the building by its antics. Finally it was chased out into the rotunda and swept up high above the Abbey paintings. The next Job, said a Capitol attache, will be to get it out. It was not to be seen the rest of the day. * • • State Commissioner of Health Dixon was talking about Infantile paralvsts yesterday afternoon and remarked that there was not a case to be found in the State's sanitoria and as far as he knew in any of the institutions which had established quarantines when the danger became apparent. The same condition he said had been reported from New York where the State au thorities discovered that there was not a case among 20.000 youngsters in institutions which had taken precau tions. It's rather a good argument for the quarantine. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Richard Y. Cook, Philadelphia banker, is home from an automobile tour of the northwest. —W. G. Hohman. well known here, will marshal the big parade in Pitts burgh on September 2. —William A. Dunlap, of Philadel phia, the grand master of the Orange men, in an address at Pittsburgh praised their loyalty to America at all times. —Captain B. Cassatt is spending part of the month at Saratoga where he has entered his horses. —Senator Charles A. Snyder is home from a visit to, Atlantic City. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes wo men's clothing that is sold all over the country? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Some of the archives of the pro vince were sent here when the Brit ish chased the State officials from Philadelphia. Our Daily Laugh THAT'S DIF- . FERENT. I wish you'd £> guit dunning me for that suit. Do 1 you object to glv- ( T / tng me time? ,AX\ rfßt No, I don't, but Y^r I do object to V|\. fl J giving you the [i J | M suit. WISDOM OF SOLOMON. I Quoter The Ja&fc race 18 not to t k° swift nor the bat tle t0 tho "trong. Yffl Oldsport —You M \ |X-i/ said It. Them. L-.(-n eports is Jy framed.
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