6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief E. H. OYSTEP, Business Manager. GUS M. ETEINMETZ, Managing Editor. . Member American llshers" Assorla tlon. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu- latlon and Penn ies *S S(*t! sylvanla Associat ffilalf M < 6(l £>&il>eß ' HlSil Fin lay, Fifth Ave llMSSSi MB m,e Building'. New S York City; West ern office, Story, Build'lng'^' 6 3 Ch'i- — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg-, Pa., as second class matter. ®y carriers, six cents a <EKig3»3sE> weelc; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 5. I do not know but that, if we were fully the Lord's, the greater part of the good tve did would he that of which we were not cognisant. Service would overflow from us. —A. J. GORDON. CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE TO every participant and to all those who had a part In prepar ing for yesterday's great river carnival Harrisburg doffs its hat to day and most sincerely says: "Thank you." To the Greater Harrisburg Navy, its executive committee and commit tees on arrangements, and to V. Grant Forrer, who represented Commission er Gross, of the Park Department, and who was the most active spirit in out lining and executing the program, the city owes a debt of gratitude it is not slow in acknowledging. The mer chants and businessmen whoso en terprise made the decorated floats possible also are deserving of praise. They share in the general congratu lations that are being generously passed- about to-day. Nor must be overlooked the splen did display of fireworks through the generosity and direction of the Cham ber of Commerce. This was one of the great features. SOLDIERS AS WILSON'S I'AWXS SO WOODROW, the First and Last, is not pleased with the disclos ures fromy the Mexican border. It was not his imperial desire that the folks at home should know the truth about the keeping of the volun teers on the border; that they are simply being made the pawns of a political game at Washington. It Is now alleged that an army officer, whose judgment is respected through out army circles, told a reputable newspaper correspondent in effect that there was no military, reason in the world for keeping the American troops in Mexico. The health reports, ho showed, clearly indicated that the regular army was suffering in com parison with the less seasoned troops of the militia simply because they were aimlessly kept in an unhealthy country. "Not a Second Lieutenant of the National Guard would be so reckless of his reputation as to recommend that Pershing's command be kept in Mexico," this communication stated. But the opportunist now occupying the White House cares nothing for the men at the border, or the honor of the country, or Its splendid tradi tions or anything else save his own political ambition. WILSON AND LABOR CHARLES EVANS HUGHES chal lenges the sincerity of President Wilson's sudden conversion as the friend and advocate of labor, and very justly so. / President Wilson has never been a friend of labor. He is a typical South erner in thought and action, and labor is nowhere in America so poorly paid or so badly treated as in the South. Not in all his long career has he appeared as the apostle of the eight hour day until; failing in effecting a settlement of tho railroad dispute, he forced Congress into passing the eight hour law, which, lawyers say, will be declared unconstitutional because it affects only one class of railroad men. Just how President Gompers can consistently ask tho American Fed eration of Labor to support Wilson in view of his past antagonisms to organ ized labor is not apparent. In Mr. Wilson's "History of tho American People" he says: "The Chi nese are more to be desired as work men, if not as citizens, than most of the coarse crew that como crowding In every year at the eastern ports." Organized labor, it will be remem bered, has had little quarrel with laborers from Europe, for the reason that the newcomers were willing to do * tho meaner work from which Ameri can labor naturally shrank, but not at the starvation wages which the Chi nese were ready and willing to accept. Chinese exclusion has been an impor tant. plank in every labor platform written since the yellow peril first began to show itself. The "coarse crew" the President de scribed as "crowding in" embrace thousands of worthy men who are now law-abiding, progressive, patriotic citizens of the nation, many of thorn members of the American Federation of Labor, which Gompers is trying to drug into line for Wilson. Do the citizens of German. Italian, Hungarian, Polish and Russian birtfc TUESDAY EVENING, fancy themselves poins? down Into his tory as a "coarse crew"? Quotation after quotation from the speeches and writings of Woodrow Wilson might he repeated to show that he has been for years hostile to every form of labor union. Perhaps one example will sufTlco. At a dinner In the Waldorf Hotel. In New York, March 18. 1907, Dr. Wilson spoke as follows: "We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. THERE IS an other ns formidable AN ENEMY TO FREEDOM AND EQUALITY OF OP PORTUNITY as It Is. and THAT IS THE CLASS FORMED BY THE LA BOR ORGANIZATIONS AND LEAD ERS OF THE COUNTRY." That Is the kind of "friend" Wood row Wilson, with his suddenly Tormed Ideas about tho necessity of an eight hour day for only a peirt of the rail road men of the country, and a ten or twelve hour day for the rest. Is of organized labor. On the other hand, consider the record of Mr. Hughes. Never In his life has he been guilty of a word or doed inimical to the working classes of the country. But he has by word and act. demonstrated his friendship for labor. During his term as Governor of New York he advocated the passago of and signed fifty-eight, labor laws. In New York during 132 years only 162 labor acts were parsed. One-third of these were enacted during Governor Hughes' term. What, more need be said? A JOB FOR THE NAVY THE success of the great water carnival yesterday, with Its at tendance of thousands, Is con vincing evidence that Harrishurg has come to full recognition of the won derful possibilities of Its river basin for public amusement and recreation purposes. But. for all that only a mere beginning has been made. The public has approved the development of the basin, hut that development Is still largely In the future. The "front steps," the plaza and the dam, impor tant though they be, are mere funda mentals; the essentials are the great scheme of bathhouses, boathouses and municipal bathing beaches that are to be. Work, hard work, and much of It, remains to be done, and the bulk of It must fall to the Greater Harrisburg Navy, which so admirably staged yes terday's spectacle. Plans must be commenced at once for next year's celebration, committees must be named to urge upon Council the importance of including bathing and boating appropriations in the budget of 1917 and to co-operate with city officials in the expenditure of this money in a way that will best meet the ends in view. The Kipona is going to be an important event in the year's calendar of holidays, but Its greatest service promises to be the Interest to be maintained through It In the Im provement and development of the river basin. It is not too much. In the light of yesterday's celebration, to forecast the no distant time when the Susquehanna at this point will be the city's most poprlar recreation place; when its canoe and motorboat owners will have their headuarters in ono or more com modious and attractively designed boathouses and when the city will own all of the adjacent Islands, which will be dotted by bathing beaches and properly conducted bath houses. These are the signs of the times and it requires no prophet to foresee their accomplishment. All that is required is organized effort and willingness to work. The Greater Har risburg Navy has both. It is the In strument by which the transformation of tho river basin must bo wrought and it is ready for the task which must be begun without delay. THIS NEWSBOY HARRISBURG newsboys richly merited the good time they had as the guests of James Steiner at Good Hopo Mills yesterday. No body appreciates an outing so much as he who works for It, and that ap plies to young as well as old. The newsboys are hard-working and their holidays are few. For that reason they enjoy them all tho more. Nobody envies the newsboy his good times. He has the respect and often the admiration of those who know him. From his ranks come many of tho successful men of every genera tion. It is remarkable the number of men In any representative gather ing who admit having earned theli first money selling or delivering news papers. Newsboys have scored more suc cess in after life than almost any other class of youthful workers. This is not surprising. The newsboy is apt to be naturally ambitious and In dustrious. Either desire for gain or tho force of necessity has driven him to work when other boys play. In either case he learns in youth what many another lad acquires only in adult life, and this knowledge and experience are a great handicap in his favor when he comes to manhood's years. Much has been said and written about child labor, and nobody ques tions the evil of ail work and no play, but the truth Is that more boys aro ruined by Idleness than by toll. folltla U I>fcKKQl{Co,(MVta1 > fcKKQI{Co , (MVta By (he Ex-Commlttccman Considerable interest has been aroused throughout the State by the stand taken by the State Grange com mittees In opposition to the proposed bond issue for the construction of highways. Governor Brumbaugh on the occasion of his flying visit to this city in the latter part of July declared that he did not believe in building roads out of current funds and that other States had found it difficult. The State Grange has assailed this po sition and proposes to make it an is sue in the next campaign. The Grange opposes the road loan for the same reason that it did some years ago and offers instead its some what antique proposition of a special one mill tax on personal and corporate property, which taken with the reve nue automobile licenses, it is esti mated, would yield $10,000,000 a year. The proposed bond issue amendment will come up in the next Legislature for the final action. It was passed for the first time in 1915 and can be voted upon in 1918, it being assumed that the next Legislature will pass the resolution and the legislation prepar ing for the special election. Men who have studied the propo sition say that to build the roads, a bond issue is necessary unless there should be a special tax laid. The lat ter idea, in view of the Federal taxes and the,scramble to find revenue for the State to keep up its expenditures, will not be popular. —Schuylkill county is geTting on the political map again. Judge Brumm yesterday called attention of the grand jury to the violations of the liquor law in that county and de manded that steps be taken to enforce them. At the behest of thq mine workers, the courts threw off the miners' examining board Postmaster U W. Kopp, of Tremont, contending that he had no connection with min ing. —lt is not believed likely that Gov ernor Brumbaugh will be in haste to name a successor to Samuel W. Pen nypacker as a Public Service Commis sioner. The Governor has always taken his time about making appoint ments especially when a death Jias occurred. —Probably twenty justices of the peace will be appointed by the Gov ernor In the next two weeks. There are a number of vacancies to be filled in central counties. —State Chairman Guffey, who will be here the latter part of the week, will be a speaker at the big Demo cratic meeting in Monroe county next Saturday. The chairman is busy painting fences in Allegheny county this week. —Judge C. V. Henry and Senator E. E. Beidleman were given a notable greeting yesterday at Jonestown where they spoke at the dedication of the new school. This section of Leb anon county appears to be very strongly Republican. —Filling of a number of post of fices which have been vacant because of part;* squabbles Is expected to fol low the meeting of the Democratic State committee here next week. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Blakslee will be a popular man while here. —An appeal to independent voters of Pennsylvania to qualify for the Presidential election has just been is sued by the Hughes Alliance of this State. It reads as follows: "Every man j who wants to vote for Governor Hughes must make certain on Tues day and Wednesday, September 5 and 6, that his name appears upon the as sessors' list. If his name is not thereon enrolled he cannot register on any of the three registration days, and thus is ineligible to vote. The assessors will sit at the various polling places these -two days from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. and from 6 to 9 p. m. These will be the very last days upon which voters can be assessed for the Novem ber election. If you have moved since the last election, or are not certain that your name appears upon the as sessors' lists, go before them Tuesday or Wednesday. The importance of this action is gained from the fact that Thursday of this week, Septem ber 7, is the first of three Fall regis tration days. The others come on Tuesday, September 19. and Saturday. October 7. Merely being on the as sessors' list does not guarantee the op portunity later to vote. Every person who wishes to vote in November must register on one of these three days. Past registrations do not count. They are void. You must register again. Indirection Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Hare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultanee of song, but the strain that precedes It is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ but the meaning outmastered the meter. Never a daisy that grows but a mys tery gruideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing; Never a Shakespeare that soared but a stronger than he did enfold him. Nor ever a prophet foretells, but a mightier seer hath foretold him. Back of the canvas that throbs th« painter fs hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes the sou* of the sculptor is bidden; Under the Joy that is felt He the infinite issues of feeling:; Crowning the glory revealed Is th« glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator: Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giv ing; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Space Is as nothing to spirit, the deed is outdone by the doing; The heart of the wooer is warm, bui warmer the heart of the woo ing: And up from the pits where these shiver, and up from the heights where these shine, Twin voices and shadows swim star ward, and the essence of life is divine! —Richard Realf. Soldiers and Collars [Army and Navy Journal.] Although the recommendations of Brigadier-General Clarence R. Ed wards for some radical .changes in the uniform of the troops serving on the Canal Zone have been disapproved by the War Department, his suggestions may result in a change In the collar of th(' service clothing. It is rec ognized that the high collar is not only uncomfortable, but unsanitary. High ranking officers, both of the army and navy, have protested against what has been termed the barbarous collar of the uniform of both services. The suggestion is frequently made that the rolling collar of the English uniform should b6 adopted by the United States Army. It is argued that It is every bit as dressy and it Is generally admitted that ir is more comfortable than the one the army now has. Those who would cling to the present uniform in sist that the summer khaki is as cool as the canvas trousers proposeVl by General Edwards. The high collar, however, has few defenders, and tho change would have been made before this If It were not for the general op pocltlon to any change In the uniform. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY Manned by a crew af deserving Democrats ire act oar course <down the.old familiar Pork Channel. That's flie easiest way because we know it so welL Otir etolser is a wonder. He doesn't know when to quit fifing the engine. j TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE*"] ! —lf this thing keeps up we may one day find capital striking against work ing conditions imposed by labor. —"This," says an Ohio exchange, "Is the season of succotash." Succotash being the Ohio way of ruining other wise perfectly good roasting ears. —The Chicago beef packers may go on strike if they want, but the man who likes his roast beef rare won't mind. —"Every man considers a fib to be of feminine gender," says the Kansas City Star. Sure, any man who fibs does so In a high falsetto voice; the man who has respect for himself lies. A Texas farmer having ploughed up SIO,OOO will In all likelihood add that sum to the profit per acre of corn he raises this year. —Of course we know that Hughes will be elected, but it looks as though the barber vote might be divided— Hughes wears whiskers and Wilson shaves himself. | EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 The rather pathetic thing about it is that the candidate never seems t6 realize that he could say substantially the same things about his own party that he does about the other and have them just as truthful.—Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. Faragraphers feel so stupid some times that they think very seriously of applying for positions as British cen sors.—Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. Premier Asquith is willing to give the suffrage to English women. He realizes that his country has had all the war It can stand.—New York Sun. The threatened increase in the price of bread should be easily accom plished, considering the experience the bakers have had in making bread rise. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. Our Daily Laugh a _GLY nCe the T aFk " /ffllfj \ H bV very kind of you. Hi. HS\ It ought to cheer them up a whole BETWEEN GIRLS. How can you be engaged to a ffia. Xi. <L man 40 years old? He has, 1 ./Sfrtv' JbA see, given you «]l| some magnificent HjJ] presents. j //J /*? That'i the "vtSfv 0? /// point. A first jwV 11/ love is romantic, fflSjjkU but a last love very lavish. NO INTKHHST A-TALL, By Wlnji UlnK« Yesterday I took the family To the River Front to see Floals and sports upon the water, But It didn't interest me, For I knew that on the golf course All the bunch were quite content Playing twosomes, threesomes, four somes, In a one-day tournament. The Log of the Good Ship Administration HO W'LINCOLN^ S CABIN BMS S/4 FED Story of Its Building, Its Change of Ownership and Preservation Reads Like Romance THE Lincoln farm of 110 acres near Hodgenville, Ky., the little log cabin in which Abraham Lin coln was born, a magnificent memorial hall which shelters it and an endow ment fund of $50,000 for its main tenance was presented as a gift to the nation yesterday by the Lincoln Farm Association. Around that little cabin is twined a story that should be an encouragement to every American boy. In March, 1806, Thomas Lincoln, with his bride, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, took possession of a farm on the banks of Nolin creek, in Larue county, then a part of Hardin county. Here with his own hands Thomas Lincoln put up a rude log cabin, constructed of un hewn logs, the chinks daubed with clay, and in it Abraham Lincoln was born, February 12, 1809. Here during the next nine years he who was to be known as the "Great Emancipator" enjoyed the only real boyhood that ever came to him, for with the removal of Thomas Lincoln with his family to Indiana and later to Illinois many of the burdens of man hood were thrust upon the child's shoulders. The Lincoln farm remained In the hands of the family of the tlrst pur chaser for about seventy years, al though they considered it to be of but little value. Then it was sold to A. W. l>ennett, of New York, a wealthy res taurant owner, who purposed to con vert it Into a public park. Financial reverses made It Impossible for him to carry out his Intentions. The farm had constantly declined and presented a woeful scene of neg lect. and decay. So poor was it that a caretaker Into whose hands it was given In consideration of his agree ment. to pay the taxes was considered by his neighbors to have made a bad bat'fftln because the land would not produce enough of value to pay the taxes and the value of his labor. A short time later the little log cabin which Thomas Lincoln had built for his bride and in which Abraham Lincoln was born was sold to a travel ing showman. He took It about the country exhibiting it and finally stored the dismembered structure in a cellar, from which it was rescued at the in stance of Robert J. Collier, who pur chased the showman's claims. In 1906 Mr. Collier learned that the Lincoln farm was about to be sold and was in danger of falling: into the hands of persons who wished to .use it for exploiting their ware, among them be ing a man with big distilling interests. lie sent Richard Lloyd to Kentucky to investigate the possibility of acquir ing title to the property. Mr. Jones found the farm involved in court pro ceedings and returned to New 'York, ilrst instructing local attorneys to notify him when, the case was Anally adjudicated. In August of the same year came word that the farm had been ordered sold at auction at the courthouse door ot' Larue county. Mr. Jones Imme diately returned to Kentucky, arriving in Hodgenville somewhat in advance of those most keenly interested in securing the farm for commercial ex ploitation, and it was knocked down to him for $3,600. It was after Mr. Jones' return to New York that the The Canadian Form [From the Ohio State Journal.] The Canadian form of arbitration nt good; and it is sensible and efficient. It is simply the people, who arc <ieepi> interested in a labor dispute, inquiring into it and giving their opinion con cerning it. There is no compulsion ui it. The opinion gathered from such an examination binds nobody. It is only the people saying this Bide or that i» right. They ought to be encouraged by law to do it, for they are deeply inter ested In the controversy. They are the ones to suffer, and not the parties to the dispute. It Is only a matter of pub licity. that the law provides for. The theory is that the report of such an Investigation is an expression of public opinion, giving to that some effect in the decision. Public opinion Is de cisive and the purpose is to get an In telligent one. There ought to be no ob jection to that. The people want to be on the right side - SEPTEMBER 5, 1916. Lincoln cabin was acquired by Mr. Collier. Shortly after Mr. Collier had ac quired the Lincoln farm and cabin the Lincoln Farm Association was organ ized, to which Mr. Collier deeded the property, to be held in trust for the nation. Joseph W. Folk became president of the organization; Robert J. Collier, vice-president and chairman of the executive committee: Clarence H. Mac kuy, treasurer, and Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary. The members of the board of trus tees were William H. Taft, Joseph H. Choate, Samuel L. Clemens, Cardinal Gibbons, Albert Shaw, Henry Watter son, William Travers Jerome, Lyman J. Gage, Ida M. Tarbell, Charles A. Towne, General Horace Porter, Augus tus Saint Gaudens, Norman Hapgood, Edward M. Shepard, August Belmont, Oscar S. Strauss, John A. Johnson. Charles E. Hughes, Samuel Gompers, Augustus E. Willson, William Jen nings Bryan, Charles E. Miner and Jenklr. Lloyd Jones. A campaign for funds with which to rear a memorial over the log cabin on its original site was then begun and the response was quick and generous. More than 270,000 persons contributed sums ranging from 25 cents to $25,000, a total of $383,000 being raised. This response was limited to no one section, men and women of the South coming forward with a readiness equal to that of the citizens of any other section in their desire to pay tribute to the nwmory of Abraham Lincoln. On the centenary of Lincoln's birth, February 12, 1909, the cornerstone of the beautiful granite memorial struc ture was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt. On November 9, 1911, the memorial was dedicated by President Tm ft. Within the Lincoln Memorial Hall, resting upon its original site, Is the Lincoln cabin. Surrounding the cabin Is a heavy bronze chain, for no one Is allowed to enter its portals. . The memorial building Itself stands at the head of a broad flight of granite stepr that lead from an old spring. Over the entrance of the building is inscribed the following: "Here over the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born, destined to preserve the Union and free the slave, a grateful people have dedicated this memorial to unity, peace and brotherhood among these states." , Upon the walls of the interior are cut the Gettysburg speech and the Lincoln ancestry. Beneath the build ing is a basement with arrangements for keeping the records of the asso ciation and its roll of membership, which Includes every contributor of 25 cents or more. The memorial building 1B about a mile from the entrance Bates and Is reached by a fine winding road. The custodian of the farm lives !n an old log farmhouse nearly as old as the Lincoln cabin itself. The farm Itself is divided by a turn pike which leads directly from the square at Hodgenvllle, where the pedestal of the Lincoln statue by Wein man points the tfay to Lincoln's birth place. The road where it passes through the farm is flanked by an old faf-Moned worm fence made of rails such as Lincoln himself split. Labor and Leisure The ideal life would know how to measure labor and leisure. Life with out innocent Joy is dwelling In penal servitude, for and butter do not feed the soul, and the slave may have food and clothes and shelter. Then let us apportion our days—time for work and time for play—a let the children into the* secret. If ours Is the right eloquence In spreading the gospel of leisure and the spirit of innocent play, the next generation will have a liner cheerfulness. We ina> Knock at the door of heaven, giving praise in pleasure as well as in work. Religion with a sour face and downcast eye was Invented by the evil one, we know, because it Is so hard to follow when the natural world, free to the hand of thp Creator, smiles and is glad.—L. M. McCauley. Ebettmg Qlljat Appointment of an engineer to make plana for a new State brldga over Muddy Creek in Crawford county calls to mind the amazing duplication of the names of the smaller streams in Pennsylvania. Without glancing over a map of tho State it is safe to say that there are at least half a dozen Muddy Creeks in the various counties and the name of each is solemnly and officially marked in India ink on the l?or r mapS - Thls name . how in favorite. It would form knni g Kuessing contest to know how many creeks in the 'Com \j° arry the nam e of Stony. « £ lshing and Crooked. VV r e have ing and Stony in our own county and with!n a fl?»v m !! arly # namefl streams H'llf SiZ "U Dau P'»tn county. Half a dozen Dry Runs are on the list Rock e o, 1 . Tl H« e u knOWn as Rlk Ru ". while Rock 01 Rocky creeks or runs abound. There are eight Hunter's runs. Sandy creeks are known within a few milts and 6 th^ro thCr in the western counties Sn?in£ Ron™ ?; couple of Pa lnt creeks. Sprin„, Bear, Deer, Elk, Mill and Pine have duplicates, while among the larger streams are two Mahoning within'a h St » d ?. wn the Sus Quehanna within a short distance of Harrisburg sTIqonPh > fl e^n aKO f- Creeks cmpty into the Susquehanna from opposite sides of the stream. It does seem odd that in a State abounding in such pretty and ihnnM hl? Indian names, that there should be such a bewildering multi plication of names. Some of them, as in the case of the Big and Little Cone wagos, are within short distances of each other and have been given desig nations according to size. It would not be a bad plan for the county author ities to get together N at one of their annual conventions on some plan for renaming of streams. State survey of water resources and river systems is being mooted and will come beforo long because of its imperative import* an< l the result will be that somo of the major streams will have to name their children with numbers in the old Kotnan family way. ♦ * • Speaking of stream names It is an interesting fact that the stream which borders Dauphin county on the north em line and which traverses somo pretty country, is in reality named tha Mahantango. It is almost always pro nounced or spelled Mahantongo. This is one of the most distinctive of In dian names in this section of the State and is the modern way of spelling Mohantanga, which means "where wo had plenty of meat to eat," a tribute of the Indians to the fine hunting years ago in Dauphin and Northum berland counties. The stream rises in Schuylkill county and is twenty-five miles long. It is a crooked stream but possesses an abundance of water power which is little utilized. • • * » Black birds have commenced to foregather for their pilgrimage to tho southland and the flocks which have been assembling in battalion forma tion the last fortnight or so are now commencing to resemble regiments. Brigade formation will come befora very long. There are immense flocks of £he birds to bo seen every evening about the city and they sweep in from the fields to the Reservoir and other knobs and some fly across the Susque hanna to roosting places in the York hills and the woods of the First Moun tain. The blackbirds have been very numerous this year and for months big birds, fine specimens, have been, noticed busy in fields and gardens close to Harrisburg. The blackbird is protected now, except when he is tearing up a garden, destroying fruit or ripping the nest of another bird to pieces. He is a foxy bird, however, say the farmers and while damage is often done it is not often that the sombre coated summer visitor is' caught violating the law. • * * One two-inch kadydid, brilliant green in color and with a roving dis position caused a trolley car on a Steelton line to become a babel of tongues yesterday. The insect, flew Into the car for a ride. The car hap pened to contain some people from Steelton, mostly female and repre senting possibly eight languages op dialects. The first person upon whom the errant bug alighted uttered soma words in a tone that sounded like tho Balkan towns now figuring in the war news. She struck at tho insect and it moved across the aisle. Something like Italian greeted the traveler in green and so it went. Finally the katydid in despair alighted on a col ored gentleman. He grinned and threw it out of the window. • * * The display of fireworks which closed Harrlsburg's first Kipona gave pleasure not only to the thousands of people who thronged the River Front but many who live on the highlands about the river basin. For instance, people away out back of Progress and Oberlin, as well as some in the York hills saw the far-away gleam of tho fireworks and the rockets were plainly to be seen. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —John W. Slayton, who was the So-' cialist candidate for Governor re cently. was the Labor Day speaker at Uniontown. —Dr. R. G. Burns, the Pittsburgh heaUh officer, created some stir by in specting playgrounds in that city. Ha feared paralysis sources. —"Billy" Sunday paid a six-minute visit to Philadelphia yesterday and met sixty friends. —Perry A. Shaner, of Pittsburgh, grand master of the Odd Fellows, was the chief speaker at the dedication of the orphans' home at Sunbury yester« day. —Archbishop Prendergast paid a visit yesterday to Coaldale where ha dedicated a school. The archbishop makes frequent visits to the anthracita region. 1 DO YOU KNOW I' That Harrisburg plans for treat ing the islands in tin; river liavo attracted State-wide attention? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Simon Snyder was the first Gover nor to live in Harrisburg. He resided in Market street part of the time. Columbus Made Mistakes [From the Washington Post.] Rightly considered, modern explorers should not he discredited because somo of their reported discoveries have not materialized or because they cannot prove they have visited certain regions. What does It matter that Crockeiland goes Into myth, along with Manon, the Golden Temple of Dabaiba, the Seven Cities of Cihola, Estoitland, the Isle or Devils and Atlantic itself? Nobody was more In error than Columbus as to tho regions he discovered, and Ralboa, Raleigh, Ponce de Hudson and | dozens of others followed will-o'-the wisps. Yet their contributions to geography were valuable for all that. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their unswers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What was the total per capita cost for 1914-1915? $36.48.
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