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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.
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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
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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<s summer playing golf at
Eaßiesmere.
—Dr. S. W. Fletcher, new professor
of horticulture at State College, was
formerly at the Virginia State College^
1 DO YOU KNOW |
That Stecltnn stool is being used
to build new liners?
HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG
Sons of William Penn came here to
consult with John Harris about de*
fense matters.
Worthless
[Baltimore American. 1
There is one sad thing about th«
cast-off lumber of an old platform. It
ccnnot be used even to patch up a new
ono.