6 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOYS Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELSGRArH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres'l and Editor-in-Chitf F. H- OYSTER, Business Manager. GITS M. STEINMETZ. .Vanae,n t Editor. . Member American M Newspaper Pub llshers' Associa tlon. The Audit Bureau of Circu- Ms latlon and Penn fl in svlvanla Associate 41 S V Av * I fllHiml nue Building. New * rn Story, *" ! j jSCJ|;if Brooks & Fin- Building. Chi- — — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4. i ■ 1 He's true to God tcho's true to man; wherever tcrong is done. To the humblest and the iceakcst 'ncath ! the all beholding sun. —LOWELL. SAMUEL W. PENXYFACKER PENNSYLVANIA may well mourn the death of former Governor j Samuel W. Pennypacker. Never had a Commonwealth so ready or so resourceful a champion. Love of Pennsylvania was the great passion of a life that varied its activities from the humble place of a soldier, asleep on the stone steps of the Capitol of his State on his way to the front, to the proud position of Governor of that State, delivering his inaugural from the front of that same Capitol. Samuel W. Pennypacker was never too busy to take up cudgels in defense of his much-maligned home State. Sturdy and honest himself, and a stu dent of the history of Pennsylvania from its earliest days, he was at con-1 stant and vigorous odds with all those J who for political or other reasons; made it their business to go about | besmirching the fair name of the Com- j monwealth and libeling her people. It was this personal integrity and! his faith In the virtues of all men that | led him Into overlooking the transac-, tlons whereby a few, who were after- j ward severely punished for their j crimes, were enabled to perpetrate the j capitol scandal during his term as! Governor, an ordeal through which he passed when the exposure came with out the finger of suspicion once having been turned In his direction. The former Governor was eccentric as he was learned, but his eccentrici ties were of a kind that cost him no friends. Indeed, those who "knew him ' best loved him best," and his loyalty to j those he loved was so intense that it J was almost a fault with him. Even those who stood closest to him scarcely ! knew how to analyze the peculiarities | and apparent contradictions of his character. The author, as judge, of i many opinions that are regarded as 1 models of jurisprudence, he at times j championed legislation which as a judge he would unquestionably have pronounced beyond the pale of consti- ! tutionality. A thorough student of State history and a constant defender of the law and its proper administra tion as the one great force in the es tablishment and maintenance of the highest type of civilization, he did not hesitate to use his utmost influence to have passed a legislative measure that had it been enforced would have stifled that freedom of speech for which Pennsylvanians have fought and died since the earliest days and which is one of the fundamentals of the laws of the Commonwealth and the nation. Such were hia faults, but so many were his worthy accomplishments and so high his reputation for sterling patriotism and absolute honesty that the defects will not be remembered. His greatest work was historical and he did more than most people real ize to place Pennsylvania In her proper position as the keystone of the Revo lutionary arch. Not only did he force the part this Btate played In the es tablishment and the development of the Union upon the attention of the nation at large, but he brought the men and women of his own State to a proper realization of its importance and to a due appreciation of the worth and character of their own people. He championed Pennsylvania when the State was in desperate need of a cham pion. He never for a moment forgot his pride in her past nor his faith In her future. Nor will It be forgotten that it was during his term as Governor that the State enacted its first good roads law, created Its force of State constabulary and enacted a long program of other legislation of a highly constructive character. It was to be expected of the co-op erating communities on the West Shore that they would unite in the erection of a central high school building with all the modern facilities for the rapidly increasing and prosperous section on the sunset side of the broad Susque hanna. Here's to the West Shore and all Its live wires! GOMPERS AND WILSON* PRESIDENT GOMPERS. of the Amercan Federation of Labor, ask* the members of the Feder ation to vote for the re-election of President Wilson. Why? Because President Wilson believes MONDAY EVENING, that labor unions are a ruinous force in the country? Is Mr. Gompers fa miliar with the President's views on organized labor? Here is what Mr. Wilson said to tho Princeton graduates in 1909. at a time when he had no thought of being a Presidential candidate: Tou know what the usual stan dard of the employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardizes bv the trades union*, and this Is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do; in some trades and handi crafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skilful of his fel lows can do within the hours al lotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. I need not point out how eco nomically disastrous such a regula tion of labor is. It is so unprofit able to the employer that in some trades it will presently not tie worth his while to attempt any thing at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an in evitable and invariable loss. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be , lost because the country grows | more and more full of unprofitable I servants. | Is this the kind of President the labor unions want? PRESIDENT PRAISES HIMSELF NO more fulsome praise of Presi dent Woodrow Wilson and his administration has been written than that by President Wilson himself in his speech of acceptance, delivered et Shadow Lawn on Saturday after noon. Well written in the President's best style, convincing to those who are already convinced, summing up the accomplishments of the adminis tration In glowing terms and glossing over, misinterpreting or altogether neglecting mention of its many short comings, the address is all that any ■ Democrat could ask of It and precisely ! what every Republican familiar with, th» methods and habits of thought of the candidate expected It would be. Nobody will deny the President' credit for his Federal banking act,. although the country owes more of the provisions of that law to the late Sen- ! ator Aldrich than to any Democrat,j nor will it be denied that the rural credits act is a measure of which the administration has a right to boast. Eut when he asks the country to ac cept the Underwood tariff law as a constructive measure he puts a severe strain upon even his most ardent ad mirers!. The very fact that the Presi dent himself Is championing the creation of a tariff commission is proof positive that he secretly realizes the shortcomings of the Democratic tariff measure. Nor can he expect any but wilfully blind Democrats to accept at their face value his defense of the administration's policies with respect to Mexico and Europe. "So long as the power of recognition rests with me, the government of the United States will refuse to extend the hand of welcome to anyone who ob tains power in a sister republic by treachery and violence." he says In explaining his refusal to recognize Huerta as president of Mexico. But he recognized Villa, who treacherously murdered Un«>ed States soldiers, to make no mention of countless Ameri can women and children slain by his troops, and he is even now dickering with Carranza. whose officers under orders "by treachery and violence" led American troops into ambush where they were mowed down by machine guns. Huerta the President would not recognize because he slew Madero, but the President is willing and anxious to be friendly with Carranza, who did nothing more objectionable than put to the sword and the bullet number less helpless Americans. The President's address Is full of such inconsistencies. It Is more re markable for what It does not say than for that which it does. It implies full credit to the Democratic party for the pas-stge of big army and greater navy bills, but the country at large knows that the President was forced to the advocacy of a preparedness program by public sentiment and that only a few months before his "swing around the circle" in his fight to make his fellow-Democrats pass army and navy measures he had openly declared we were amply equipped for national de fense and needed no great increases in either branch of the service. This has been the President's great- : est fault —that he has swung with the wind of doubt and expediency. He has talked in language calculated to lm-! press the nation with his firmness and patriotic devotion, and he has behaved with the constancy of a weather vane in a November gale. Accepted at its face value, his speech of acceptance would win his re-election beyond doubt. Judged in the light of the past, it is a high-sounding essay as meaningless when applied to what Mr. Wilson may do or may not do if re-elected as were his own campaign speeches four years ago as applied to the developments of his term now drawing to a close. For example, note these two extracts: , We favor a single Presidential term, and to that end urge the adoption of an amendment to the Comititution making the President of the United States ineligible for re-election, and we pledge the can didate of tfys convention to this principle.—Democratic Plat form, 1912. The people of the United States do not need to be assured now that the platform Is a definite pledge, a practical program. We have proved to them that our promises are made to be kept.—President Wilson's acceptance, 1916. This is a sample of the President's good faith and of his accuracy of statement. In one breath he tells us that the emotfratlc platform was not meant to govern his own individual actions and in another that "our prom ises are made to be kept." He boasts of the fulfillment of the pledges of his party and by his own candidacy proves thut the Democratic platform was not the things he has omitted rather than by tho boasts he makes of past accom plishments and his fine promises for the future he must be Judged. '■ ■ - 111 "] , yuiuc* u ""PtiuvOijCtftwua By the Ex-Committeeman The fact that seventy-eight of the Roosevelt delegates and alternates from Pennsylvania tn 1912 have signed a paper declaring In favor of Charles E. Hughes for President appears to have been completely lost sight of by Democratic newspapers of the Stat# which are making statements about Progressives In some parts of the coun try being for Wilson. The names appended to the declara tion, which was sent to Mr. Hughes, form an interesting commentary upon the manner In which the Progressives have gotten behind Hughes. The names are as follows: I Philadelphia—James B. Anderson, Samuel Crothers. Frederick S. Drak?. Charles Frelhofer, D. Stuart Robinson. Alva J. Savacool. E. A. Van Valken- I burg and Albert Smith Faught. | Allegheny—S Jarvis Adams. John : P. Bell. Judd 11. Bruff. F. R. Dravo, R. I. Eastell, A. Rex Fllnn. William Flinn. Charles F. Fra2ee, William I McCullach, John Mallor. Alexander P. Moore. Louis P. Schneider. Percy F Moore. Nathaniel Spear. Wllliair Witherow and Charles W. Yerkins. Beaver —G. W. Carey. Beaver. Bedford—B. F. Madore, Bedford. Berks—B. Frank Smith, Reading. Bradford Robert fW Edmiston. Milan: Fred Luckev, Athens: I. A. Samuels. Sayre; Dnna R. Stephens. Athens, and F. E. Wood. Sayre. Bucks—Bvron C. Foster, Bristol. Butler—Thomas W. Watson, Butler. Cambria—Joseph CauKiel, Johns town. Chester—John B. Rendall, Lincoln jUniversity: Walter L. Wright. Lincoln University, and B. H. Warren, West Chester. Clearfield—A. S. Moulthrop. Dußols. Cumberland—Harry Hertaler. Car lisle. Dauphin—George R. Alleman and Edward S. McFarland, Harrisburg. Delaware—Albert B. Kelly. Erie—Philip J. Barber. Erie: L. A. Mcßrier, Erie, and L. D. Shreve, Union City. Fayette—Joseph K. Bush. Browns ville. Franklin—A. Kevin Detrlch. Cham bersburg. Indiana—Harry W. Trultt Indiana. Jefferson —James G. Mitchell. Ham ilton. and Lex M. Mitchell, Punxsu tawney. Lackawanna Myer Kabatchnick and John Von Bergen. Jr., Scranton. Lancaster Clayton S. Wenger, Brownstown. • Luzerne —David H. Rosser. King ston. and Paul J. Sherwood, Wilkes- Barre. Lycoming—Harry W. Pyles, Wil liamsport. Mercer—John L. Morrison, Green ville. McKean—Guy B. Mayo. Smethport. Montgomery—W. Wesley Miller and John L. Vandiver. Montour —T. J. Price. Danville. Northumberland —W. H. Unger, Shamokin. Potter—C. Harry Jacobs, Galeton. Schuylkill Thomas F. Edwards, Shenandoah; Horace D. Lindermuth, Auburn, and Charles E. Steel, Miners ville. Somerset —W. H. Banner, Somerset. Susquehanna—Charles I. Van Sco ten. Montrose. Venango—Fred W. Brown, Frank lin. Warren—Dr. J. C. Russell, Warren. Westmoreland J. B. Hammond, Bollver; John E. Kunkle. Greensburg; Reynolds Laughlln, New Kensington, and William C. Peoples, Greensburg. j Wyoming—Bradley W. Lewis. Tunk [hannock, and Boring F. Michaels, Lacy vl lie. York —Fayette H. Beard, Hanover. 1 —Plans for the local option cam paign in Philadelphia will be outlined at a dinner to be held on September ! 29 in that city under auspices of the ! Committee of One Thousand which is behind the local option movement. Prominent men will speak. The plan I is to ask every candidate for the legis lature in that city where he stands on j the question. —Lackawanna county Republicans are organizing for a big campaign this Fall in that section. Mr. Hughes ; formerly lived in that county and It is ' expected that he will poll a tremend ! ous vote. —The Philadelphia Inquirer in a review of conditions in Delaware and I Chester counties says that the Re publicans will sweep those counties again. | —Philander C. Knox will speak to the Chester county Republicans a? their annual picnic next Saturday. Senator Borah, of Idaho, is also listed | as a speaker. I —National Woman 6uffrage officers say that 46 of the candidates for Con gress in Pennsylvania have replied that they favor woman suffrage. Some -1 thing like fifty candidates in this State were addressed. —State Democratic leaders who had expected the enactment of the | eight-hour law for railroad men to be followed by a great popular outburst for Wilson were rather surprised at the calmness with which the people took the matter. —Friends of Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain gave him a boost for the Republican nomination for Governor at Reading last week. Mr. McClain received u notable greeting and the boom for him appears to be getting up steam. —The Republican campaign text book has been completed. It is to be PH# into circulation at once. It is also understood that President Wilson is due for a roasting from Mr. Hughe: soon. —According to rumors in Philadel phia a general change around of em ployes is to be made at Spring CttJ State Institution, where ex-Senatoi Oscar E. Thomson was made superin tendent last week to succeed George C Signor, who becomes head of the Her shey farms. Senator E. H. Vare, Con gressman J. R. K. Scott and others promirvent tn administration circles tr Philadelphia are making an Inspectior of the place to-day? —Chester county commissioners ar« considering enlarging their court house. —Ex - Governor Pennypacker'f greatest monument, said a prominent State official to-day, will be the con structive legislation enacted during hn term. This legislation was praised b> Roosevelt and lauded all over the country except by Democrats. —Members of the State Grange ar« going to make a determined contest to secure more money for State schools. They have decided to estab lish a regular list of questions for can didates on the subject and will push the question. They contend that un - der the present system the rural dis tricts suffer. —See that you are enrolled, assessed and registered this week. Municipal Ingratitude [From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] The scale of fate turned against F. W. Doepke, caretaker of the Upper Alton city scales, when the City Coun cil voted to remove the machine, and with it vacate Doepke's Job. Last yeai Doepke made S3O out of the office. In order to do so he remained at his Jot •very working day from morning to night. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY ' INquiftC* CO. FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS ■| TELEQRAPH PERISCOPE \j 1 —Thank you. Mr. Demain. Did you have it made to order? —We are happy to observe that Ki pona also means sparkling weather. Mr. Wilson on Saturday heartily congratulated himself on his splendid record. —Cheer up, you fellows who lost your vacations because of the pros pective strike; you have something coming to you. —Greece seems about ready to slip. —The poet who called these the "melancholy days" must have got his liver mixed up with the weather. I EDITORIAL COMMENT"] The path of glory leads but to an other trench.—Washington Post. You have to hand it to the Pullman folks for having quietly set up an effective system of berth control. Lowell Courier-Citisen. What Colonel Roosevelt will not say on the stump: Mr. Hughes would | make the best President this country : ever had.—Columbia State. "Price of Whisky Falling," says a headline. Whisky is always most ex pensive when it is going down.—New York Morning Telegraph. It was one of the ironies of fate that Professor Metchnlkoff's old-age pre i scriptions were first tried by the same ! generation that experimented with the great war.—Chicago Dally News. .Delights of River Travel In the search ror new water trips most people overlook our rivers, which in a country less fortunate would be a source of endless pleasure. Thousands take advantage of the delightful, far famed trips on the Hudson, but It is only nine or 10 hours' run from New York to Albany, and while there are few more beautiful trips of corre sponding length in the world, one can not call this voyage a vacation. The great interior waterway, the Father of Waters, however, offers the opportunity for a real vacation, a lazy, J interesting, well-fed week or two that I doesn't cost much and doesn't send I one home more tired than when he started. Efforts are being made to re vive passenger service on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Time was when these streams were thronged with packets of a luxurious type that were the wonder of the day. People used to take boats at Pitts burgh for New Orleans, or for the farthest reaches of the Missouri head waters in Montana, over 2,000 miles from St. Louis. The trip from Pittsburgh to St. Louis and down the Mississippi is de lightful in early Spring or late Au tumn. To go from Pittsburgh to St. Paul by boat is an ideal summer vaca tion trip. Kathleen Hills in Leslie's. Getting Something Done [From Collier's.] The king of the hard-rock men in this country is said to be Pat O'N'eil of Seattle, whose gang has driven a rail road tunnel through Alaskan granite at the rate of a foot an hour for months at a stretch. This is his ex planation as to what the scholars call methodology: "I'm an American and I've worked in hard rock most all over America. So far as this making a record at the Gastlneau mine is concerned, we had ideal rock to work in. The men were working six-hour shifts; that was one thing made it go fast. They got good pay $8 and $9 a day, and a bonus for everything over 350 feet. The bonus had a lot to do with it." Pat has left himself out of the pic ture, but the rest's all there. Meant It For Him He was fond of playing Jokes on his wife, and this time he thought he had a winner. "M.v dear," he said, as they sat at supper. "I just heard such a sad storv of a young girl to-day. They thought' she was going blind, and so a surgeon operated on her. and found" "Yes?" gasped the wife breathlessly. "That she'd got a young man in her eye'" ended the husband with a chuckle. For a moment there was silence. Then the lady remarked slowly: "Well, it would all depend on what sort of a man it was. Some of them she could have seen through easily enor.gh."—Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele graph. FOUND OLDEST H KNOWN TO MODERN SCIENTISTS CHARLES DAWSON, discoverer of | the Piltdown skull, a solicitor, j and for twenty-two years clerk to the Uckfield bench of magistrates, | is dead at Lewes. He was 52 years ' old. Seldom has any discovery aroused ! such interest in the world of science ■ as that by Mr. Dawson of the Pilt- j down skull, which linked modern man I very closely in some respects with the anthropoid apes, marking, as it did, the most notable advance ever made in England in our knowledge of the j ancestry of man. Walking along the road from Lewes j into the Weald, Mr. Dawson noticed that it had been recently mended by peculiar flints which he traced to a pit near Piltdown Common. On examin ing the pit he found that laborers ! had dug out a "thing like a coco&nut," , and thrown the pieces on a rubbish : heap. From that rubbish heap the. greater part of a human skull was j recovered, and the lower part subse- j quently dug from the undisturbed , gravel. It is generally believed to be i the skull of a woman, and the geo Truth and Beauty Of our leader and philosophers few have so great a capacity to put com mon sense into well-found words as ex-President Eliot of Harvard. De ploring the fact that "many highly educated American ministers, lawy ers and teachers have never received any scientific training," Dr. Eliot ob serves: "In city schools a manual training should be given which should prepare a boy for any one of many different trades, not by familiarizing him with the details of actual work in any trade, but by giving him an all-round bodily vigor, a nervous system capable at multiform co-ordinated efforts, a liking for doing his best in competi tion with mates, and a widely appli cable skill of eye and hand. "The boy on the farm has admirable opportunities to train eye, ear and hands, because he can always be look ing at the sky and the soil, the woods, the crops and the -forests, having fa miliar Intercourse with many domestic animals, using various tools, listening to the innumerable sweet sounds which ' wind, water, birds, and insects make on the countryside, and in his holi days, hunting, fishing and roaming." Here is depth of wisdom, beauti fully set forth. The National Voice [Ohio State Journal.] There is a national organization whose purpose is to Improve the American speaking voice and raisin* the standard of speech usage in daily life. It holds to the doctrine that the adequate training of the speech, voice and ear is of vital Importance to our national culture. The capacity for ar ticulation is constantly diminishing in this country. There is one explanation of it, though there may be others, and it if> this, that luxury, amusement, fashion, sport, society have weakened the thinking of the people, and,there fore pulled down the expression. We have some friends that we would use our ear trumpet on if we had one, not because we cannot hear so well, but been use their utterance Is so low and flabby. Health Questions [Kansas City Star.] From the United States Public Health Service The Star has received a bulletin reading as follows: "The United States Public Health Service asks: "Do You "Believe In national preparedness and then fail to keep yourself phvs- Icallv fit? "Wash your face carefully and then use a common roller towel? "Go to the drug storo to buy a tooth brush and then handle the entire stock to see if the bristles are right? "Swat the fly and then maintain a pile of garbage In the back yard?" The questions are right pertinent and suggestive. If the health service succeeds in bringing these and others like them to the attention of a good share of the people of the United Str.tee, In the next few years, It will set them thinking in a way to produce rebults in better health. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organisa tion's annual "Municipal Qui*."] What percentage was appropriated for Interest, sinking funds, etc.? 19 per cent. SEPTEMBER 4, 1916. | logical evidence of the strata In which I it was found shows that she lived at least as long ago as when the bed of | the North Sea and the English Chan ; nel were dry land. The skull was the oldest ever found, and belonged to the lowest type of hu | man being. The woman could not ! speak more than a chimpanzee, which | she probably resembled, though cer ! tain features in the brain which char acterize the human race were Just be ginning to show. She probably be longed to a race of wandering hunters, who had no domestic animals, who ; were without knowledge of fire, and | who ate uncooked, unwashed vege tables and roots. The find was ol capital Importance l from the light it threw on the prob lem of man's ancestry, and Professor 1 Keith, on examining the relic, de- I dared that Mr. Dawson and Dr. Smith J Woodward, who co-operated with ! him, had discovered what scientists j had been hunting for for forty years j —human remains dating from before the beginning of the first of the great i glacial periods.—From the London -Telegraph. Keep Quiet and Keep Going Old Sam Fields was born a fool So almost everybody said. As stubborn as a balky mule When he got a notion in his head But he wouldn't argue—no sir. He kept his mouth shut tight. He never threw a single slur. No one could get him In a fight. He mended all his garden fence While his neighbors loafed and smoked They said he didn't have good sense. But old Sam never got provoked— He rambled on in his humble way. While the vlllAffe laughed with scorn. He earned three dollars every day, And still had time to hoe his corn. Well things went on like this for years. Sam worked and paid his bills. He bothered not about their jeers. But right here's where the neighbors Got some thrills. Sam bought the biggest Ackard car. There was In all the town. This bus—Sam got—was sure a star. Steel gray and striped with brown. - • 1 then it seems he bought a home — The finest In the place. A-top it was a gilded dome. It looked like Sam was in the race. It seemed he'd saved a lot of cash And didn't need to work. He started out and cut a dash. While on his face a smile did lurk. This humble story of Old' Sam Should] teach us all a lesson. While other people slam and damm— Just work—keep still And keep 'em guessin'. —C. S. M. Our Daily Laugh fAN ART There ain't many cigarette ads that has much on that PRUDENCE. Sometimes it is '~T). wise to say noth- fill I jp; Yes; it may en- ! ,jTX—I able one to avoid 1 betraying the fact I JY/jJI 11 J| _ |_! that one has f*""y Ifjtj i*la 1~1 nothing to say. t-lfe jTI HE PLAYS, TOO By Wing Dinger At the office all was silent. Only one clerk of the force Held hi* post, for all the others Had sneaked out to the golf course. Full of happiness and good cheer Entered they the locker room At the clubhouse, but their gladness Quickly changed to deepest gloom. They Jumped into golf clothes quickly, Not a minute did they lose Then the partners for the foursome Two were called upon to choose. From some one they sought a small coin To decide first choice by toss, Walked around a row of lockers And. oh, gee, there sat the boss. Ebfttmg (Eljal Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny packer, who passed away on Saturday' at his beloved country home nt Schwenkvllle, often voiced a warm attachment for Harrisburg. Coming here at a time when the improve ments provided under the first city loan for that purpose were commenc ing to be noticeable, he closely fol lowed every development and fre quently referred to the manner In which the States capital lifted Itself Out of the mud and made an adequate (setting for the great'granlte building erected as the official center of the Commonwealth. Except for the hot months, Mr. Pennypacker made home In Harrisburg during his term* as Governor and entered much Into the life of the community and studied it as he did every place he visited. He kept up his Interest after he left, his high oßlce and when he returned to the city as a Public Service Com missioner. showed he was in touch. "I'm a part Harrisburger again," said he not long after he had assumed the Commissionership to which he was named by Governor John K. Tener. "I always believo in being a part of the community where I am engaged an much as where I live. Do you know I feel that X have had a long connec tion with your town? The first time I came here was as part of a regiment organized to defend It. We were quar tered in tho Capitol and I slept on the floor of the rotunda. I had a pretty fair chance to see the place and as I had been here off and on between those days and my election as Gover nor I felt that I was coming to a friendly city when I became chief magistrate. I have always admired the way it progressed and I am glad that the Capitol Park Is to be ex tended. X always felt that was bound to come. It was largely a question when the State could do it. We have a great State Capitol and I hope the people of the city will visit it moio and learn to know its beauties." Mr. Pennypacker liked to roam about Harrisburg. He one time startled the people at the courthouse by dropping in in the course of an afternoon ramble. It was In the Spring after he became Governor. He looked into the offices and then went into the courtroom and sat down. Some friends who heard that he was in the building hunted him up and he gave a most interesting talk about some of the not able trials that had taken place in the Dauphin courts and the men who had adorned its bench. Incidentally, he told some things that his hearers did not know and which if they can be recalled by those who listened to him would add much to the historic Inter est of the white belfried house of jus tice. It might be remarked in passing that the ex-Governor never could un derstand why the city of Harrisburg did not have a city hall. In an address before the Dauphin County Historical Society upon one oc casion the then Governor showed an amazing grasp of the history of this portion of the Susquehana valley and especially of the part that had been played by John Harris' ferry, which as State Librarian Montgomery wrote for the tablet on the ferry memorial marker, was the place of crossing for the people who settled in the south western portion of the State and of ad joining Commonwealths. He gave anecdotes of the two John Harrises and William Maclay which his hearers had never heard of, but which the in defatigable reader had run across in his study of the history of the State, And some things which he said In con versations after the meeting would have made tingle, the ears of descend ants of that select band of raiders known as the "Paxtang Boys." Whild> never losing sight of the prime impor tance of Philadelphia and the lower Schuylkill valley in the history of Pennsylvania, province and State, Mr. Pennypacker always referred to this region as one which played a great part not only as a bulwark against the Indians and the French, but as a factor in the development of the Com monwealth. Dauphin county, as he pointed out, suffered from raids and the quality of its men showed forth in the correspondence with the colo nial officials at Philadelphia. The lo cation of Harrisburg as the center of a web of highways, he said, was bound to make it a place of industry. There were some books and papers of interest to Dauphin county in the wonderful collection of such things to which the late historian devoted so many years of his life. He bought all over the State and he bought well. He paid no fancy prices and he got onlv the real things. Some of the books he secured In this neighborhood and unfortunately no effort was made to buy them by Harrisburg people at the time of the sales which Mr. Penny packer held as part of what he called his plan of being his own "literary executor." The bulk of these books are in Philadelphia collections and are available for study by those interested in the history of this district. It is not generally known that some of the choice early prints of Pennsyl vania which formed so famous a part of the Pennypacker collection, par ticularly those of the Christopher Sauer series, are now owned by the present Governor. It is one of the ambitions of Dr. Brumbaugh to own a complete set of the Sauer publica tions and he has been following out his plan for years. He bought several of the Sauer books at Pennypacker sales and they are among the gems of a valuable collection. In passing, It may be said that Mr. Pennypacker when a judge and al ready famous as a hisorian, notice* Dr. Brumbaugh when he was a student and marking his attainments con tributed to one of the early" Brum baugh books a preface to which it is always a pleasure of the present Gov ernor to refer. The two men had been friends for many years. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Major T. M. Knight, noted Phila delphia veteran, is seriously ill. • —Judge Josiah Cohen, of Pitts burgh, is among Allegheny countians at the seashore. —William Perrine. of the Philadel phia Bulletin, has been spending the summer in Maine. —E. P. d'lnvUliers. prominent Philadelphia mining expert, has been spending th