6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A USWSPAPER FOR THE HOMB Founded lS)l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. £. J. STACKPOLE. Pr,st and Eduor-in-Chitf I". R. OYSTEK, Business .Vansf/r. GCS M. STEINMETZ, Mamagimg Editor. . Member American Newspaper Pub « Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat ed Dailies. Eastern office, f -ory. Brooks & Flnley. Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office. Story, Brooks & Fin ley. People's Gas 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. MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 28 Do good around you,; preach what you believe to be the truth: and act accordingly; then go through life look ing foricard. —MAZZI.NI. OFFICIAL SHORTCOMINGS ' WHEN the City Council granted permission to a private cor poration to construct an over head bridge across a city street con trary to the recommendation of the Planning Commission it not only violated those ethics of official courtesy recognized everywhere, but manifestly acted without serious regard for the public welfare. The incident will not down in the public mind quite so readily as the commissioners profess to believe. Their careless attitude in a matter so im portant as this invasion of the rights of the general public indicates a further weakening of that fabric of civic betterment which has consti tuted the best safeguard of the city's welfare. Indifference and defiance and arbitrary exercise of official power usually precede an awakening of the people and it can hardly be imagined that the commissioners will escape the condemnation of their utter disregard of the interests of the city in this case. Furthermore, the granting of per mission to span a main street with an overhead bridge to connect sections of a business plant is held to be illegal and being indefensible from that standpoint it is clearly the duty of the Council to revoke its grant while it may yet be done without hardship to the corporation in question. As to the Planning Commission, it has increased in favor with the com munity and in the confidence of the people. Without compensation, directly or indirectly, this body of five public spirited citizens has labored to im prove housing conditions and other wise to plan in a broad and intelligent way for the future of Harrisburg. In protesting against this obstruction of a public highway the board has again manifested an admirable application of the future needs of the city and a fine grasp of all the points involved in the controversy. Let the members be assured that the public is not with out insight and that what sometimes looks like indifference of the people most concerned is merely a long suffering pawnee. Out in Oregon, the Democrats organ i»«d what they called the "Woodrow, Wilson Nonpartisan League,'' but it was j to completely under the control of Democrats that it aroused the jeers or people of all parties. The promoters Anally became convinced of the failure of their attempted deception and aban doned the organization. Now they are sailing under true colors as a Demo- \ cratic league. It is an example the i pretended "Nonpartisan" Democrats might well follow all over the country. They are fooling no one but themselves. TRIFLING WITH FACTS SECRETARY M'ADOO refuses to discuss the dismissal of Appraiser Clapp from the New York custom house In order to make a place for the eon of 'Battery Dan" Finn. Hughes is "merely pettifogging." ex claims the Secretary, rather petulantly Th is airy maner of dismissing matten« 1 of grave import is characteristic of Mr. McAdoo. Some months ago when ex-Senator Bourne charged that there was no real "net available balance" in tne Treasury and proceeded to prove \ it by the certified statement of the ' accountant who devised the original \ form of Treasury statement which Mr. : McAdoo introduced, McAdoo waved ljis hand and said: "The charge is too ridiculous to discuss." But matters of this sort are not so ! •aeily dirposed of. Charges of this kind must be met —and refuted, if pos sible. It is probably because they cannot be refuted that Mr. McAdoo steles to brush them aside without discussion. Bainbridge Colby, one of the few Pro gressives who have embraced Wilson, says that he favors the continuance of this administration because of the record it has made. Two years ago Colby was lambasting this administra tion for its record in the matter of the Panama Canal tolls. However, politi cians have short memories—though the people have not. FOR MISSOURI'S BENEFIT THE proposal to make Wallace Bassford, of Missouri, the suc cessor to Daniel C. Roper, who has resigned as Assistant Postmaster General to help in the Wilson cam paign, looks like a political deal of no small magnitude. B&asford Is Champ Clark's nephew •nd now serves the Speaker as private MONDAY EVENING, secretary. His preferment may serve to mollify Clark; it will show the Democrats of Missouri that the ad ministration is thinking of them once more, and in the remote chance that Wilson is re-elected Roper can take back his old job and Bassford can re turn to Champ Clark's payroll. Friends of the President wax hot with indignation when anyone Inti mates that the President is givtns thought to political matters while Con gress is in session; but Wilson himself is constantly furnishing evidence that he is giving thought to nothing: but pclltics. Mount Etna is reported to be again in full eruption—and Jim Ham Lewis is about to take the stump. This is to be a hard summer on both sides of the water. THE HIGH SCHOOL REPORT THE recommendations of the new . high school committee of the school board represent the careful consideration and mature though of two outside experts and a delegation of school officials thor oughly familiar with local conditions and needs. It merits the careful reading of every voter. We must have additional high school facilities. It remains only to decide whether they are to be provided by bond issue or from current revenue. The school board assures the public that It can float the $1,190,000 loan re quired without increasing the tax rate of the present year. If the loan is not approved in November, it is ex tremely likely that the board will have to take other measures to pro vide relief, and while the directors are silent on that subject the probability Is that even temporary facilities could not be made without adding another mill or a fraction thereof to the tax rate. Obviously the thing to do is to ap prove the loan. Every child in the city is being robbed of rightful ad vantages by our present one-session high school plan, -with its overworked teachers and its overcrowded rooms. That is a condition which any city with proper regard for its future citi zens or pride in itself cannot permit to continue long. Further than that, however, the lack of proper school facilities in Harrisburg is directly retarding the growth of the city, and every new comer who is turned away from our doors by reason of dissatisfaction with our educational system means a direct loss to the real estate business and to every other line of trade that supplies the family or the individual. The Telegraph has personal knowledge of at least seven such losses and doubt less that number could be multiplied many times. Beyond question there are many not directly interested by reason of having children at or near the high school age who do not appreciate the importance of this high school ques tion. To bring these to a full and complete understanding of the situ tion the school board should lose no time in beginning a campaign of pub lic education on the subject. The full est publicity should be given to every point at issue. The period is brief at best and no time should be lost in getUng the matter before the people. RUMANIA GOES IX THE entrance of Rumania into Ihe war against Germany, announced in press dispatches of to-day. may be. and very likely will prove to be, the deciding factor in the great con test at arms. , In many ways Rumania is a great asset to the allied governments. In the first place, it has a well-trained and equipped army of 320,000, which can be increased without serious drain on the empire to nearly a million men able to bear arms, and all of them of military experience. These troops un questionably will be a great help to the Allies in their Balkan campaign, but far more important than this ad dition to the arms of the opponents of Germany and Austria is the door that Rumania will open to the Russians into Austria and the food supply that will be turned from the central powers to Russia. France and England. Rumania is a land of fertile plains and gently rolling fields, upon which vast quantities of wheat, rye and corn are raised. Millions of bushels of these grains are exported every year and crops are excellent in that rain ! favored countrv- this season. Through Rumania into Austria- Hur.garj, with a food supply ready made and waiting along the way, the Russian armies may be depended upon to make a new strike that will have : the double purpose of taking German i and Austrian soldiers by hundreds of ' thousands from the present fronts and j of attempting an invasion along a line that promises better results than the i attacks that have been made through J Poland, especially so since the autumns ' in Rumania are long and pleasant, thus | adding to the length of this year's | campaign. Further than that, the opening of Rumania will result in large quantities of grain finding their way to outside markets. Rumania may well be the last straw on the back of the Teutonic camel. PRICES GO IP THE Louisiana Purchase, from which we later formed an em pire of sovereign States, cost us $15,000,000. We paid only $7,000,000 for Alaska; for California and what is now New Mexico we gave $15,- 000,000; for the Philippines we paid $20,000,000. The Wilson administra tion now proposes to give $25,000,000 1 for the Danish West Indies. What has caused the boom in the interna tional price of real estate? Is some "deserving Democrat" getting a rake- I off? REDFTELD AXD DI'RAXD SECRETARY OF COMMERCE REDFJELD denied that he forced the resignation of E. Dana Dursnd. Director of the Census, and asserted that he recommended Durand for the position he now occupies. Now he a&&erts that Lf Durand had not resigned he would have been put outj for inefficiency. There you have an example of inconsistency true to the Wilson type. If Durand was deemed inefficient, how could Redfield honorably recom mend him for the position he now holds? If he were about to put him out, why deny that he forced him to resign? As a matter of fact, a letter of recommendation from Redfield in | favor of Durand would be a master piece of humor. There has nfet been a day since Red field became known to the country in 1913 when Durand's reputation for ability could be increased by any num ' ber of letters Redfield could write. I Nor can Redfield hurt that reputation. Trade Briefs Half of last year's orange crop from the Malaga district Spain, went to Lon don. The crop amounted to 100,000 boxes. Bolivian merchants are interested in portable houses. school furniture, barbed wire, wire mosquito netting and wireless field installations. There is a market for wheat, sugar, coal and sulphate of copper in the Mal aga district, Spain. Finnish capitalists are financing a new line of steamships to make direct sailings from Finnish to South Ameri can ports. It is rumored that Germany has man ufactured $1,500,000.00 worth of sup plies since the beginning of the war. and is only_waittng for the close of hostilities to put them upon the mar ket. The Bureau of Fisheries has dis covered a method for Increasing the crop of mussel shells. The natural beds In the Mississippi valley have been badly depleted in the'last few years. It has been discovered that Datura alba a plant growing in abundance throughout the Philippines, contains a large amount of atrophine. The plant is not cultivated on the islands, but American drug manufacturers are or dering large quantities of the leaves. Copper ranked first in Alaska's ship ments to this country in the fiscal year 1916 reaching a total of 117,000,000 pounds valued at $;6,500.0. Argentina's rice crop for 1916 prom ises to be a record one. The Govern ment has provided for its milling. Gas plants in several of the smaller Italian cities have been forced to shut down because of the shortage of coal. Norwegian dealers favor American hardware and Consul Chaj-les Form an suggests that American exporters es tablish agencies in Bergen or Chris tiania. Greece Is in the market for type writer supplies. White pine suitable for making but ter boxes, is needed in New Zealand. The domestic supply of white pine is rapidly becoming exhausted. Purveyor to the World [From the Providence Journal.] Now loading at Montreal is the first ship for the Norwegian merchant ma rine built on the Great Lakes. She Is the Nordal, of 3.000 tons burden. Witn the report of her sailing from Chi cago comes the interesting informa tion that she is one of thirty vessels in the course of construction in American yards for Norwegian firms. Once again the disturbing truth forces itself forward. We do for others the things that wo should be doing for ourselves. We build ships for foreign countries, and let our nag trail the seas. While our arsenals are empty, or nearly so, we make tons on tons of ma- j nitlons to supply all of the warring na tions that can charter ships to carry them away. • • Our army aeroplanes make third- : class nations snicker, and yet we build i the biggest and most modern flying machines for any countrv that has the i money to pay for them. We are like the woman who was al- 1 ways so busy 'nelpinc her neighbors that she never had time to set hei own house in order. We lead the world in many things—where we could leaa it in many, many more, we merely rol- • low. We have everything to put ut several miles ahead of the processlou, but we are content to take the dust of our rivals. Birds and Mankind [From the Chicago Journal.] The federal government is investigat ing birds with a view to discovering whether they are harmful or helpful to mankind. Of forty or fifty species, ex clusive of hawks and owls, thus far put through this scientific third de gree. only one has been found harm ful—the English sparrow. All other birds of the group mentioned are either innocuous or helpful, and many of them are worth well nigh their weight in gold to the farmer and fruit raiser. Of hawks and owls there are seventy-five species found in this coun try, only six of which are injurious. The rest either do no harm at all. or more than make up for occasional de predations by their services in keeping down vermin. * Precautions Against Heat [From the New York Herald.] In spite of the accustomedness to heat which makes the feeling of op pression less, more rather than fewer > precautions against heat are headed to- i ward the end of the summer. There ■ has been a gradual reduction of re sistive vitality. Above all. care must , be exercised in the preservation of food materials for young and old. Spoiled foods start many a fatal decline. All our readers need the warning iu the matter, and those who are in a posi tion to take the lesson should not for get to be helpful to those less favor. I able situated. The Herald Free Ice Fund probably represents the simplest and most direct method of offering such help. Dove From Missouri Senator Efsn Tillman having been convinced that the war is over, the matter may be considered as finally settled. —Washington Post. Hard Knot to Untie (Wheeling Intelligencer) Tammany has said to the Demo cratic campaign managers, "Show us, or we will show vou." Either wav he goes Mr. Wilson will get a pig 'in a poke. Too Bad, But We're Willing (London Spectator) The poor have so little sympathy for the rich! They have never lived among them, and they do not know what they suffer. EVERY YEAR By Wins Dinger Ma holds first place with the kiddies Up at our home, but gee, That's the way it is in most homes— That's the way it ought to be. But each year about this season. Dad takes first place and his nights For a time are given up to Making many styles of kites. Thin wood strips, one can't help split ting. Wh;n one tries to drive a tack Through them to jonstruct the frame work. Paste that will not stick, alack; Paper thin that tears to pieces With the slightest handling, but Dad sticks to it till successful And winds up a hopeless nut. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | .' ONLY •*-v***iWjWs -V-'j t' *" "I've had enough^oLit!" TELEORAPH PERISCOPE "j —Edison and Ford are spending their vacations together and the outcome may be a new peace plan or an improv ed submarine, or both. —"You can't buy a decent pair of shoes now under 55," says a trades journal. Then we plead-guilty to as sociation with a very disreputable pair of shoes. —Says a fashion note: "Hips are soon to emerge." Heavens, we didn't think they'd make the skirts as short as that. —According to the Ohio State Jour nal. Colonel Roosevelt is at home "thmkiner up spontaneous epigrams;" yes, and we bet President Wilson wishes he'd stop. —Says an exchange: "Finer grades of sugar have been reduced in price.' Reduced to about three cents a pound higher than they were before the phil anthropic Mr. Underwood introduced his high cost of living tariff. Commission Cheaply Held [From the, New- York Times.] Never hab the advice of a tariff com mission been effective. There is no new way of making a tariff The pres ent tariff proposals, whatever their merit, have been reached in the old bad way of closet negotiations, with resultant benefit to producers in the name of patriotism, but at the cost of consumers, and without benefit to wage-earners. It would be easy to argue for or against a tariff commis sion upon theory, but it is not possible to sustain on the merits congress' treat ment of the subject. Practically, notice is given in advance that the commis sion contemplated is held so cheap that the investment in it is waste, except for the incidental political benefits. "EXCEPT A CORN' OF WHEAT—" In the face of the many and fre quent assertions that organic church union is impossible comes the steady stream of information from Canada that up there an actual organic denomina tional union is being effected. Three great churches of Canada —the Metho dist. the Congregational and the Pres byterian—have taken positive steps to bring this union to pass. The most recent action was that of the Presby terian General Assembly of Canada, which voted 406 to 88 in favor of the union. The three denominations thus merg ing their indentity have seven hundred and fifty thousand members, more than six thousand churches, t«n thousand preaching stations, and live thousand ministers. They claim a constituency of more than two million adherents, and disburse yearly, in addition to the funds applied to the upkeep of the individual churches, more than two million dol lars for missions, Education and other benevolences. The new church is to be known as the United Church of Canada. This means, of course, that each of the three denominations will, upon the consum mation of the union, actually lose Its Identity. Its very existence. In the midst of the horrible spectacle of world-wide selfishness and strife it is a blissful thing to behold these great Christian denominations demonstrat ing that they are willing to die in or der that a greater church may be born. —The Christian Herald. s -s Prepare For This When we contemplate Industrial i and commercial conditions we see i that we are living in a fool's para i dise. The temporary prosperity to 1 which our opponents point has been created by the abnormal con ditions incident to the war. With the end of the war there will be the new conditions determined by a new Eureope. Millions of men In the trenches will then return to work. The energies of each of the now belligerent nations, highly trained, will then be turned to pro duction." —Charles E. Hughes. HOW ABOUT JAPAN? Our Lost Manchurian Trade By Frederic J. Haskin JAPAN'S course in Manchuria af fords an excellent opportunity to study Japanese business meth ods. Those methods concern Ameri cans because they have driven Ameri can commerce from the position it had built up in the Manchurian field, be cause they are about to be turned against American commerce in other fields, and because they cast an illumi nating sidelight on Japan's cry of a "Monroe Doctrine for Asia." In a recent annual report, the Am erican Association of China reviewed the situation. "Turning now from trade in general to some particular considerations." says the report in part,"—what is the outlook? Under Russian domination, every nation stood on an equal footing in Man churia. The same duties and charges were assessed against all and facilities for distributing goods and doing busi ness in general were satisfactory. Now it is all changed. Under Japanese ad ministration, no chance to advance its own trade is overlooked and to com petitors the means taken appear to jbe a departure from fair trading. In i fact, they constitute a most serious j violation of the open door principle on which the diplomacy of the United States in China is based. | "J panese competition takes the form of a system of rebates, not only in freight and steamer rates, but in ! remission of duties and charges which are assessed against all other nations, i In addition to this, many forms of pet ty annoyances have been worked out for the non-Japanese trader, and the imitation of established trade-marks is j common.V 1 Japan began her commercial seizure |of Manchuria even before the Russo j Japanese war was over, just as the 'army of her traders moved on Shant ung last year, on the very heels of the ; expedition against Kiao-Chao. Thou sands of immigrants and commercial agents followed the Japanese troops i into Manchuria. So long as the mili tary regime lasted, these traders were ; given many advantages by the military authorities, but although European and American merchants realized that ;the Japanese were gaining an advant | age over them, they saw no help for it, : and believed that the state of affairs ! was only temporary. Events proved. EDITORIAL COMMENT"! j Probably the highest explosive in Eu- j rope in Harden.—New York Sun. Hughes should abandon trying to be j "human." He should be just natural.— j Buffalo Enquirer. Too bad there Is no national conven- I tion to stop the favorite-son movement ; at Verdun.—Cleveland Leader. Have primaries eliminated the wicked ■ bosses or are the wicked bosses elimi- j nating the primaries?— New York Sun. One advantage a baseball player has over a railroad man is that it take* three strikes to put him out.—Wash ington Post. ' Taxing Munitions [From the New York Sun.} Senator Boies Penrose, who is ad mitted even by his enemies to know a good deal about matters of tariff and taxation, has taken advantage of the debate on the emergency revenue bill to tell some plain truths about the Democratic scheme to tax munition*. He says that the tax is sectional, and is not uniform; that as an evasion of the Constitutional inhibition on export taxes it is unlawful: that as a direct tax it constitutes double taxation of certain manufacturing corporations; that it makes the Government a xharei in munitions profits and so destroy* neutrality. Senator Penrose makes the mistake | of thinkingthat the Democrats in Con ' Kress employ reason in matters of taxa- I tlon. They do not. They simply seek the easiest way of getting the money jthey waste. AUGUST 28, 1916. however, that Japan was inaugurating a policy in war that she intended to follow in peace. Directly after the war. the steam-! ship lines from Japan to the mainland found themselves running from Jap an to Manchuria light. So long as the wAr lasted, they had beon carrying men and munitions to the army, but with peace the tide of freight and humanity turned the other away. Ad vantage was taken of ths to give Jap anese goods and Japanese immigrants transportation to Manchuria at very low rates, or entirely free. It is only logical to assume that when a Japa nese merchant and his stock were car ried to Manchuria without charge to him, the government must have com pensated the steamship company. Further to strengthen the Japanese hold on the commerce of Manchuria, what was known as the Manchuria Export Guild was formed, including the most powerful commercial guilds in Japan. The intentions of the guild and the government in Manchuria were freely dscussed in the Japanese press. They comprised a government loan of six million yen at 4 % per cent, for Japanese merchants doing business in Manchuria, the carrying of Japa nese goods over the South Manchurian railway free, or at one-half the usual rate fop one year, and the carrying of Japanese goods in Japanese ships free, or at one-half the usual rate for one year. Such a program was in direct viola tion of the principle of equal oppor tunity to all nations, which Japan along with various European powers had agreed to support in subscribing to the American Hay doctrine of the open door. Japan has a right to make what regulations she sees tit for the management of railways in Japan; she has now the right to make such reg ulations for the management of rail waj« in Korea, though time was when she guaranteed the principle of equal opportunity in Korea also. The case of Manchuria is fundamentally dif ferent. Manchuria is still supposed to be a part of China. The open door policy is still supposed to apply to all of Chiaa. All the nations trading in [Continued on Page B.] (THE STATE FROM DWTODW The Wilkes-Barre News says edi torially that "the man who throws his bread upon the waters expects a whole bakery to come back." Evidently the editor of this rarebit didn't spend his vacation in a sailboat. Three hundred members of the Fourth infantry. Sons of Veterans. Reserves of Pennsyl\ania, are in camp at Ligonler. President Sparks of State College, makes the suggestion that Pennsyl vania open up its million acres 'of forest preserves with great highways that will lure the motor tourist. Dr. Sparks is a great enthusiast for the good-road movement in this State. Doesn't Talk Like It (Detroit Free Press) Colonel Roosevelt is said to be suf fering from a weak throat, but if he hadn't admitted it himself nobody would ever have noticed it. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsbuig Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organisa tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What limit is placed by law on the amount of indebtedness for a city? Seven per cent, ot the assessed valuation. lEbetung (Wjat "Harrisburg is one of the most beautiful towns In the East," declared a traveling man who gets all through the eastern States from Maine to r lorida the other day and who ought to know whereof Ije speaks. "I know of no city where so many flower and porch boxes bloom or where the lawns and parks are so well cared for. For even in the poor sections where my work sometimes takes me there is that air of civic pride which does so much to make or mar a city. I was in Har-- risburg last Spring when the Harris- * burg Telegraph began its window box campaign and I am here to tell tli« world that it was well worth while." ♦ • * While most folks are giving but little thought to the cool days just ahead, the tradesmen who have to think of such things are already beginning to show signs of preparation for the fall and winter. In one of the large sport ing goods stores the bathing suit, ten nis racket and Ashing tackle so much in demand during the hot months are giving way to football togs, 'hunting equipment and other fall sporting goods. Football suits are piled high where just a few weeks ago one found bathing caps for women; in the corner where the tennis goods were displayed the togs used for basketball and even pkating will be found; and it's prac tically impossible to get "your size" in a bathing suit anywhere in town. Some charitable organization in the city is the richer by ten dollars as a result of the payment of a debt of thirty years' standing, which brings out a story full of human interest. The creditor, by the way, is one of Harrisburg's most prominent sons and a man who instead of slipping it into his pocket with a chuckle, does just such things as handing over sur plus income such as thirty year old debts to charity. The story of the ten dollar bill is a unique one. Thirty years ago a cer tain man borrowed from our frtend the business man ten dollars. For some years thereafter he needed every cent he could scrape together. Then he forgot it, but recently the memory of that borrowed ten was in some way stirred up. Ho continued to forget it, but it kept coming up in his mind and so one day lie put an end to his wor ries, entered th§ office of his former friend's son and planked a ten-spot on the desk. * » » Lewis Buddy, field commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, in an ad dress before the Rotary Club at a re cent noonday luncheon, brought home in a forceful way the beneficial nature of the scout movement insofar as it sets a premium on manhood and man liness among the boys of this country. He expressed the hope that Harrisburg would soon have a campaign put on to organize this city as an effective scout center and lis told of the ad vantages that would inevitably accrue to the community in future years when these same boys approach voting age and become the citizens who will shoulder the responsibility of promot ing the best interests of Harrisburg along lines of service » » * "One-tenth of one per cent, of the citizens in the average community," Ihe said, "are the men upon whom ! that community can depend when they jare needed to do something for the city." The more men of this sort a i city has, the better that city will be, and it is for service to their own com ! munity that the Boy Scouts are receiv iing their training. He also took occa |sion to rap the commission form of ; government and-to express the heart felt wish that Harrisburg may soon be freed from the petty politics that surround the. present form of govern, jment and that.it may adopt the city ] manager method of government. * * » Those who have made trips down I the Susquehanna are familiar with the peculiar bluish green streak of watei J that threads its way down stream as jfar as the eye can reach, and known |to old rivermen as the raft channel | This stream-within-a-stream marks : the only really navigable parts of the Susquehanna during low water and J those who follow its devious windings may feel sure they are in the best I water to be found. For most of the | way between here and Clarks Ferry, the channel follows the eastern bank but just opposite Seneca street, this city, it shoots out toward midstream and continues along in that course down to near the dam. From Speece ville to £>uncannon the channel is par ticularly well marked and affords I canoeists navigable water for many i miles. Above the dam the green stream shoots towards the western shore and continues there for many miles and it is back and forth in this . manner, from east to west, banks, for miles and miles towards the source of the Susquehanna. ♦ ♦ * The arrangements being made at the Capitol for taking the votes of , the soldiers call to mind how the State got ready in 1902 to take the votes of the soldiers who were on duty in the big anthacite strike of that year The State officials were all familial ; with the way to do it. having gon< ! through the business in the cases o: the regiments in the Spanish an< 1 Philippine wars. It was d'ecided tha ; the men being in State service lia