8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief 3T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Manning Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat nue Building, New York City; West ern office, Story, Brooks & • Fin ley, People's Gas cago, ill.' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7. Sharp zvits like sharp knives do often cut their owner's fingers. — ArrowsmiTH. REGULATING AUTO LIGHTS MAYOR MEALS has done much for the improvement of street traffic conditions in Harrisburg. but nothing more praiseworthy than to lettrict the use of dangerous head lights in the city limits. The ordi nance passed by Council on Monday will prevent many accidents such as have occurred in the past few years due to drivers of cars being blinded by the glare of needlessly strong lights. The Mayor is deserving of all praise for his efforts in this matter and he will win the everlasting gratitude of countless people if he next devotes his attention to the motorcycle speed fiends who make the highways danger ous to pedestrians, particularly after nightfall, and who use their cutouts constantly, to the destruction of rest and peace along the main highways of Harrisburg and vicinity. There is an ordinance covering these points and no doubt a few arrests and stiff fines would do much to break up the prac tice. WHAT THE TELEGRAPH SAID WE quote from the bulletin of the the Pennsylvania State Brew ers' Association: The Harrisburg Telegraph is quoted saying that the Bulletin of the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association is opposed to Prohirn tion because Prohibition always in creases the consumption of alco holic liquors. The. Bulletin never made any such claim. What this prohibitory laws, if the Harrisburg there has been a constant increase of liquor consumption despite all nrohibitory laws. If the Harrisburg' Telegraph desires to preserve char acter and the respect of educated men for its opinions, it will have to cease indulging in misrepresenta tion—even against the liquor inter ests which are a constant target for false shafts from posing Prohibi tion moralists. The Telegraph said nothing of the sort. What the Telegraph did was to comment facetiously \tpon the incon gruity of the Brewers' Association, which exists for the sole purpose of encouraging the sale of beer, fighting prohibition while at the same time contending that the only effect of pro hibition has been to increase the con sumption of drink. And at the risk of losing "the respect of educated men for its opinions" it smilingly reiter ates. SATURDAY AS A HOLIDAY f A MONTCLAIR banker, annoyed by the constant intervention of holidays in the early and mid dle part of the week, and threshing about for a remedy, has hit upon the thought that all holidays except Christmas and New Years be shifted to the Saturday that comes nearest the date upon which the particular holi day happens to fall. This banker has done more than simply conceive the idea. He is so evidently in earnest that he has put his energy Into the proposition and will open headquar ters in Newark. There is some reason to his conten tions for making Saturday the univer sal holiday. The fact that Harrisburg's merchants got together earlier in the summer and decided to move the eve ning shopping day back from Satur? day to Friday and close their stores at one o'clock on Saturday during the hottest weather has the same argu ments to recommend it as does the unique proposal of the Montclalr banker. The let-up which inevitably follows a day oft is to be expected and both the employer and employe suf fer to a certain extent. The Sunday that follows a Saturday outing justi fies its claim to the appellation of day of rest and it is possible business and business conditions would be improv ed by the adoption of the Saturday holiday idea. The objection that might be raised to this change is the inconsistency of celebrating Washington's birthday or the Fourth of July three days early or four days late, for example. But af ter ail, Isn't it the spirit of the occa sion, rather than the set limit of time by hours in which we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of one of our national heroes or the occasion of the freeing of this country from foreign shackles. And would there be any less reverence shown to the Giver of All if we should all agree to express our thanks by national observance a few hours sooner or later. The promoter of the idea points out that an average of four and a half days would be added to the school term by having Saturday holidays, and if the children object to this, the time might very profitably be chopped off at the end of the school year. The Saturday closing movement is rapid ly growing in popular favor, both from a recreational and an economic THURSDAY EVENING, standpoint, and there is much In the proposed campaign of publicity which the promoter will wage in support ot his Idea to commend It to the public mind. HIGH SCHOOL FACILITIES WITH the approach of the season of public school activities more attention Is being given throughout the city to the proposed increase of high BChool facilities. There appears to be no objection what ever to the program that has bieen ten tatively adopted by the school authori ties. This provides in brief for a new high school for girls in the central dis trict, an enlargement of the Technical school buldling on Walnut street to provide for all the boys, and three junior high schools which will be pro vided for in an enlargement of the Camp Curtin buijding, the remodeling of the present high school building on Forster street and the erection of a new high school building on ground owned by the city in the rear of the Forney building on Eighteenth street. This program is comprehensive and intelligent and will properly receive the general support of the people. It Is probable that the enlargement of the Technical building will not be un dei taken until the new building for girls shall have been completed, but the situation demands prompt action and the school authorities will move a3 rapidly as possible in formulating their plans. President Stamm and his associates are pursuing a wise course in keeping the public fully informed of all that is going on and the co-operation of a committee of prominent citizens ap pointed by the Chamber of Commerce is proving of great help to the direct ors. This disinterested consultation with representative men already has created a large measure of public con fidence in the whole improvement pro gram. Inasmuch as under the school code the directors have the power of emi nent domain, there can be no specu lation whatever in the purchase of property, and this fact has prevented any adverse discussion. So great is the interest in providing proper school facilities so long neg lected that many voters who are not always interested in political matters are qualifying by personal registration for the November election that they may cast their vote in favor of the proposed loan for the purposes indi cated. HARDWICK HARD HIT SENATOR HARDWICK, of Geor gia, is aggrieved because Mr. Hughes called the country's at tention to the fact that, under a Dem ocratic administration, the South dominates legislation through its con trol of the chairmanships of the im portant committees in Congress. Mr. Hardwick calls this a new "waving of the bloody shirt," says he thought the day for that had passed and shows much peevishness because Mr. Hughes has seen fit to discuss the fact. The truth is that the North has no desire to revive the bitter memories of the war or of reconstruction days. Whenever the subject is raised by a Northern speaker or a Northern newspaper it is because the South it self has compelled attention to the fact. No one would criticise the South for the position of power which it holds in the Democratic party if the South had come to that position honestly. But the fact Is that, through laws which deny the right of suffrage to the colored man, the Democrats of the South have put themselves in a place of political power which is un just and which is subversive of the fundamental principles upon which this. Republic is founded and to main tain which the South was worsted dur ing the War of the Rebellion. Accordingly, it so happens that the Democratic party, by means of the iniquitous election laws which are operative In the Southern States, en ters every campaign with an enor mous initial advantage. Twenty-two United States senators, more than a hundred representatives in Congress, and 146 votes in the electoral col lege are at the disposal of the Demo cratic party without even the formal ity of a contest. The only contro versy that ever arises Is as to which Democratic faction in any one of the eleven States which constitute the Solid South Shall control the offices. Naturally, the North chafes under this sort of thing though the North would probably grin and bear It If tho South showed less of a disposition to "rub it In" to the North whenever a Democratic administration is in pow er. The South taxes the North and takes the money for Itself. The South resists every attempt to equal ize either the burdens of taxation or the conditions of doing business. The Income tax and the child labor law are recent examples in proof of this. Yet the South pouts and whines like a spoiled child if anyone in the North calls attention to the plain facts. Sen ator H&rdwlck shows that he has been hard hit by Hughes—but there are harder blows yet to come, we hope. OUR MERCHANT MARINE THE Department of Commerce boasts of the increase in the number of <American ships en gaged In overseas trade and that the American Flag is seen more often In foreign ports. A great many mer chant ships are flying the American Flag for the same reason that a great many Americans residing in Mexico are wearing British or German flags. It is a matter of protection. In all probability if Mexico had a respectable navy a ship flying the American flag would Immediately double its marine Insurance. TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE 1 —The satisfaction that one gets from a visit to the dentist may be de scribed as deferred happiness. —Senator Stone described Senator | Penrose as the "boss supreme" and we would like to caution him to be mighty careful how he infringes on the priv ate preserves of President Wilson. —"He drank daily ajid lived long," is a heading in the bulletin of the Pennsylvania State Brewers' associa tion; but why call attention to the exception? —The Ohio State Journal editor be lieves spiritual exercise to be more important than physical and we guess he is right, but did the Journal man ever know a run-down, nerve wrack ed, peevish little dyspeptic who had very much of the grace of high Heav en in his soul? —ln the light of the awful things they are doing up there in the name of politics would it be proper to call a resident of Maine a Maniac? j EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 We consider it a disgrace and shame that rats destroy 5 per cent, of the Jamaica crop of sugar cane every year, but. what amazes us is that no cam paigner has yet denounced it from the stump as an injustice that must even tually lie paid out of the pockets of the consumer.—Milwaukee Journal. It is a flattering tribute the Danfeh islands pay the colonial administration w^ en they urge the mother country to sell them as soon as possible.—Public Ledger. Whether Ohio is in earnest or not wo don t know, but the subject of licensing editors is being discussed out there. We hope such a move will die a-coming. Ohio editors have entirely too much license as it is.—Philadel- phia Inquirer. (THE STATE FROM Dfff TO Dw] The Wllliamsport Sun facetiously re marks that "it will soon be time for Jonas again to go on the sick list. The hearing at Harrisburg is scheduled for September 12." "Mayoring" in Wil liamsport evidently has its dark side. It's old-fashioned, perhaps, to try to convince the younger generations that the old folks know a few things after all. One bit of advice that every good mother gives her children is to stay away from the water immediately after a meal. A young Philadelphia man just two days ago illustrated the danger by diving into the Delaware river after a meal and disappearing. His body was recovered later. A bequest of $25,000 to the Chil dren's Home of York is contained in tho will of Mrs. S. L. Bailey, a former resident of Dillsburg. J. Russel Tates, of Scranton, has passed the State board law exami nations. Mr. Yates is a graduate of Dickinson law, Carlisle, and holds the qtiartermiie record at that institution. If the young man's legal equals his athletic ability, he has a promising future. The Mayor of Hazleton, so long as he is chief executive, will not be a party to the separation of any man and wife, he emphatically declares. The Mayor wouldn't be much of a suc cess out in Utah. An inquisitive grasshopper caused Miss Bertha Goss, of White Hall, to sprain her ankle when she tried to kick it off. The blackbirds are becoming annoy ing in Shippensburg and special per mits tor shooting them have been is sued. A solution of the problem might be to bake a few "four and twenty" of them in a pie, as per nursery rhyme. Wilkes-Barre council's refusal to pay city employes who enlist in the Fed eral Guard and are called into service can scarcely be condemned from a business standpoint. At that it might be a good way to recruit, however. Eagles Forecast Peace In an old abandoned peach packing house In the vicinity of Keedysville a pair of bald eagles are rearing two young ones. The claims of naturalists are flatly refuted and the superstitious are sure that the peace of America is assured, since this great bird has taken its habitation in domestic surround ings. Authorities on the bald eagle say that the bird lives chiefly on fish, and that it invariably builds its nest and rears its young on a rocky promon tory near the sea, a river, or a lake. While the eagles are often seen inland, this Is the first Instance known to people of the valley where a bald eagle has nested thereabouts. Eagles' nests have been known to exist In the nearby mountains, but they have been of the family which ltves on grains and small animals. The bald eagle is supposed to form its diet and feed its young from the scaly denizens of the deep.— Gettysburg Times. Rumanian War Strategy [New York World.] Upon a smaller scale, Rumania en joys the advantages which Germany has well employed of superior railways and shorter Interior lines. She need not lengthen the Russian line by more than frontier guards, since the Russians can now use the Czernowitz railroad south, and there is only one railroad pass tn the whole Rumanian panhandle over the Car pathians. Her reserves can be mo bilized in the great central plain. From Craiova or Slatina a three hours' run will take them to any one of five points on 300 miles of frontier without using lines reserved for Bucharest and Pitescl concentrations. She can move upon Hungary with little risk from the rear over lines more numerous than Bulgaria has from the south. And on that boundary Bulgaria may let well enough alone. Only in the Dobrudja Is a small part of the Rumanian frontier unguarded by mountain chain or unbridged river. If, as reported, Turks menace this rlaln, Russians may as well meet them there as In Armenia. They can be rushed from Ismail or Reml, where they have been waiting for months, by Danube barges, by railways from Galatz or from Odessa by the Black Sea. Earlier in the war Rumania's long western loop of boundary against sur rounding foes would have been a menace. Now that the foes are fully occupied, it is an advantage. Her ter ritory offers new channels of attack to Russian hordes which have not nearly reached their utmost numbers. The Answer Is Easy [Kansas City Journal.] Or.o of the railway presidents is Quoted as saying. "We are going to find out who is operating the roads, anyhow." As that veteran railroader, experienced in so many departments of the service, Woodrow Wilson, has assumed to take charge, why have «uiy misgivings as to the outcome? HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH CK By the Kx-CoimnitteemAn If predictions made here by men connected with the State government and who have been in touch with con ditions in their home cities and reports made to Democratic state headquar ters are anything to go by, the first registration day throughout Pennsyl vania is going to be notable for the number of voters put on the lists. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh sys tematic efforts have been made by the committees to get the voters on the lists and in Scranton and many of the third class hard work has been done by the leaders of both the Re publican and Democratic parties. Both have been busy trying to get the Pro gressive element, but the reports are that 9'J out of every 100 Bull Moosers are enrolling as Republicans this year. The first registration day In Penn sylvania is a good indication of the strength of organization, as every one tries to make a showing, and it will show the State of party feeling to a considerable extent. Voters are regis tering in every city to-day. —ln all probability the Republican State committee will be called to meet in Philadelphia early in October. The leaders will fix the date next week when they meet in Philadelphia and there will be a general council of war at which the policy in regard to a plat form will be discussed. Partisans of the State administration have not taken any steps in regard to the meet ing and are waiting for the Penrose people to show their h«.nd. —The Democratic State committee which adopted resolutions here last Spring, will adopt some formal state ments regarding the party candidates here next Thursday when the surprise pai-ty to notify the candidates will be held. —According to reports, Chairman Joe Guffey expects a big attendance at the Democratic powwow here next weelt. He will spend the week-end in eastern counties, probably making a speech or two in Monroe. —Governor Brumbaugh's presence in Philadelphia has started much speculation about what steps he will lake to till the managership of the State Insurance Fund and other offices now vacant, including one public serv ice commissionerslup. The Governor has succeeded in keeping his own counsel as usual. Bruce Sterling, forlorn hope can didate for Congress in the Fayette dis trict, has been drafted to make speeches at the Monroe county Demo cratic rally. Attorney General Brown is re ported to be seriously considering naming additional counsel for the Public Service Commission. He will soon select the attorney to succeed W. N. Trinkle, who resigned. —W. H. linger, the Washington party leader in the Northumberland county district and one of the leaders in Shamokin affairs, is Quoted as say ing that the Washington party com mittee in that former stronghold of the Progressives will not reorganize. Mr. linger and his friends are for Hughes. —Charlemagne Tower, former am bassador, or ex-Attorney General Hampton L. Carson will succeed the late ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny packer as president of the Philadel phia Historical Society. Both men are being urged for the vacancy. —The city council of South Beth lehem gave the police force of that place the greatest shake-up in its his tory, suspending the chief of police and two sergeants. —The Philadelphia North American says to-day that Congressman John R. K. Scott, leader of the Fourteenth ward of Philadelphia, has ordered a clean-up of the fraudulent voters and phantoms in that district. The action created intense surprise and Scott said that he was in earnest and would de mand clean elections. —Chester county Republicans are planning for a bier time Saturday, when the annual outing of the Re publican county committee will be held. The committee in charge has arranged ,tor automobile tours from all parts of the county. Philander C. Knox and Senator William E. Borah will be the big speakers. Congressman Thomas S. Butler will preside. —Allentown has just completed a re-* ision of its assessment of real es tate, which was boosted from $48,000,000 to $61,000,000 immediately after the commission form of govern ment took effect. —Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the Republican committee of theForty sixth ward In Philadelphia, presided at the. opening of the new headquar ters in his ward last night. Senator E. H. Vare and others made addresses. Mr. Mackey's speech was an invitation to the Progressives to join with the Republicans in making Philadelphia stronger than ever. While this was going on there was a clash in the Fourteenth legislative. —Democrats belonging to the Old Guard faction lost their case In court to throw out the reorganiser registrars. To Get Rid of Disease [Wausau Record-Herald.] The gospel of disease prevention might well be advanced, therefore, by a society having for its tenets such commandments as these: Thou shalt throw nothing on the streets. Thou shalt not permit the gutters to become filthy. Thou shalt have no open-air dump for dirt and garbage, neither in the back yard, nor in the alley, nor on a vacant, lot. Remember that sunshine is the cheapest germicide on earth, and let it have full play about your home, that your days may be long in the land. One could easily compile a sanitary decalogue on these lines, the observ ance of which would stamp out nine tenths of the disease to which human flesh is heir. / \ A Christian's Thoughts at Life's Eventide * I feel that God is calling With his wondrous drawing love, 'Tis easing all my suffering As It flows from Heaven above. And I know my Saviour's waiting In a robe of spotless white. To greet a wandering pilgrim To a place eternally light. Where there shall be no darkness. For the light is from the Son. Reflected from the Father's glory Around the great white throne. There shall be singing and rejoicing Fir the Father's wondrous love, How He sent His Son to save us From a world of sin and woe. 'Twill be a sweet and blessed privilege As we kneel around the throne. When the glory of Heaven fills us And we know as we are known. ones there will greet us With a happy, gladsome smile, And then a great reunion Which will last for all the while. There we'll praise our blessed Master In a bright and endless day, And anchored in His fulfilled promise We will never drift away. EDGAR C. HASTINGS. Kigbspire. September 7. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY yj ; ' I • jjj 1 Ir'if £ tfiwl $ \ fV s i i©Fa 1f iff *. 1 tfISR v ff It > -From ti» Prov.deaca Jonr&Ak LOST. / 1 » "HARRISBURG PLAN" IS AGAIN USED AS MODEL FOR OTHERS k . IN a recent issue of "Municipal En gineering," an important mag azine devoted to municipal pro jects and general improvement under takings involving engineering skill, an interesting illustrated article was printed describing the Improvement of the Susquehanna river basin in front of Harrisburg. It is from the pen of Farley Gannett, a prominent consult ing engineer who had much to do with the river front work, the filter plant, Paxton creek's regeneration and our sewage problems. Mr. Gannett says this city has taken long strides toward making the banks and streams of its water courses beautiful as well as putting them in sanitary condition. He describes the work, says the editor of the magazine, from intimate knowledge of what has been done and what is still in mind for future development. illustrations show Paxton creek conditions before and after the concrete channel was created, resulting in a self-cleansing stream and the reclaiming of large areas of valuable manufacturing sites; the river front with its noisome odors and unsightly shore line before and now the splendid "front steps" and the terrace possibilities, and a view of the dam which has made possible such a magnificent summer spectacle as the Kipona of Monday last. Public Neglectful From Mr. Gannett's Illuminating and valuable contribution to this lead ing magazine we make the following extracts which should be impressed upon every Harrlsburger: "Where there are no railroads or In dustrial works, it is most astonishing that civic pride and economic consid erations do not cause advantage to be taken of the potential beauties and uses of the streams. But even when these drawbacks exist, the banks and channels can often be attractively Im proved. "There is seldom any such attempt to control and guide the flow of water in streams other than the irregular banks as nature made them and as man has encroached upon and narrow ed the channel without regard to the necessities of the situation. But when Living Page From History [Kansas City Times.] It was a spectacle Kansas City will not. soon forget, that of the ten thou sand veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who yesterday marched through its streets to the sound of the file and drum. Void of every aid that goes to make a military parade Impos ing, these columns of old men, march ing without uniform, were nevertheless a far more impressive sight than any merely martial spectacle this city has looked upon. They marched in wavering lines, many with canes, many supported by Boy Scouts, and where some old fellow hobbled a little slowly the column slackened and waited for him to catch up. It. didn't matter if they did get out of step with the fife or if the line got a little mixed while a Boy Scout worked through with his bucket of water and passed brimming dippers to outstretched hands. Nor did it de tract anything from the spectacle that here and there a granddaughter inarched in the column with a blue sleeve resting on her shoulder, or that two old fellows walked with clasped arms steadying each other In most un mihtary fashion. These were the things that lent the impresslveness no military pageant could have supplied. Here was the nation's history written in living characters far more effectively than it has been described In words. Here could be felt and seen what Dowell meant when he wrote: "Weak winged is song, nor alms at that clear height Whither the brave deed climbs for light." Historian and poet have tried to tell the story, but none has succeeded in delineating it as did the slowly moving columns of white haired and stooping oia men as they passed along through the cheering crowds. In those crowds were thousands of persons who never before had quite realised what the Civil War meant. To them it belonged to a period as remote as the Revolution, yet here they saw before them men who had carried iif.es in its battles, who had fought for and preserved the nation and were now, many of them, marching in their last reunion parade, death walking at their sides. Something of all that came home to the crowds as they watched. It could be seen in the hand kerchiefs that went to eyes and sensed In the subdued cheering In which there was more of reverence than elation. It was a sight that will be remem bered, a page from history that Kan sas City has been honored in the- op portunity to read. Soon it will be a closed page and all that will lie known of the Civil War will be contained in books. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Qui*."] Briefly—What does the Technical High School accomplish? Gives pupils a fair knowledge of cahinetmaking. woodturnlng, ma chine work, electrical work, Me chanical drawing, etc. Gives the pupil a fair chance to fine} out what trade he would like to follow. Prepares pupil for work in advanc ed Technical Schools. Certificate admits to all colleges accepting certificates. SEPTEMBER 7, 1916. the stream 'flow is obstructed the only alternative for flood water Is to rise out of the channel and pass through the town carrying devastation with it, as did Mill creek, at Erie, Pa., on Au gust 3, 1915. Harrisburg and Eric "Two striking examples of stream treatment and lack of treatment by Pennsylvania cities may be cited. One, where nothing was done and the loss of thirty-four lives and $2,000,000 of property resulted. The other, where a few hundred thousand dollars has not only prevented such an occurrence, but has converted the waterways which pass by and through the city into valuable assets. The one is Erie, the other Harrisburg. "On the night of August 3. last, Mill creek, which passes for nearly three miles through the heart of Erie, rose In flood and tearing out over a score of bridges, 200 houses and other buildings, laid waste an area of two and a half miles long and from one to three blocks wide. Corrective measures are now being planned and will prob ably be adopted, for twice before has similar, although not so extensive, damage been wrought by this stream. "Previous to 1902, Harrisburg, the capital city of a great State, beautifully situated on the Susquehanna river, had apparently failed to appreciate some of its greatest advantages or to foresee the potential dangers in its streams. It lies on the east bank of the river, twenty-five to thirty feet above low water. Paxton creek comes westerly from the hills, turns south at the up per limit of the city and for some dis tance runs parallel to the river, which it joins at the lower end of town. For years these streams remained, from almost every point of view, a menace to the city. "The water supply, which was pumped direct from the river, was black with coal dirt afid laden with disease. Frequent floods inundated cer tain sections of the city, and by erod ing the banks, endangered the street along the river front. The current was too swift for pleasurable boating [Continued on Page 3] Paper Waste Evidently the house of representa tives has no fears of a paper famine, although the possibility of an actual shortage in print paper is to-day gravely menacing. Notwithstanding the cries of warning th&t are being uttered by paper manufacturers, the house has opened the floodgates of the channels leading to the printing of fice, granting "leaves to print" in such number that the composing room and press room forces of that establisn ment will be kept busy for weeks turning out the words of wisdom sup posedly uttered on the floor in the course of debate. This is a campaign year and practically every member of the house Is keenly interested in the elections for himself or his party, and everyone wants some of the usufruct of office in the way of free campaign material. With the printing office grinding out his speeches and his frank sending them without cost throughout his state and district, the member candidate possesses a dis tinct advantage over his rival, who must pay for his own printing and postage. In these circumstances it is not surprising that the prospective pa per famine fails to deter the national legislators from indulgence In printers' ink at the government expense. The grievous misfortune in this situation is that there is no editorial check what ever upon the language of the con gressional authors.—Washington Star. Our Daily Laugh ON THE "**l BORPER. ▲ xgy ' General—What I®!!* « are those fellows tLg* y VSJfc doing over there. Orderly—Plac 'nK barbwlre en gßm\V6l JIA tanglcments, sir. i General —Tell JrV¥>3/>H 'em to quit it I Rj - M tora my beßt J, pants on one of """ things yes terday. THE LIMIT. What a pessi- J VnlJi /[ mist he is? (£_ im* I Tei, Indeed. VyjM mfjm, Even miso r y J, [ phuns his com- \ 1 \ I I there: aint nonh By Wins Dinger Woodrow's done a lot of thinking Over matters of the State—. Mexico, torpedoed steamships, And the threatened strike of late— But the hardest thinking he's done I'll bet, was performed when he Tried to find some reason (good) why He should re-elected be. ©imng (HJjat In view of the anniversary of th« birth of Lafayette It is interesting to recall that Harrisburg was one of the places which the French statesman and soldier visited during his tour of the country in 1825. He came here with his son on the evening of Jan uary 30 and was guest of the gover nor at the executive mansion. The Dauphin cavalry and a big concourse of citizens escorted him. The follow ing morning the general was escorted to the Capitol, where he received the members and the state governmental people in the governor's office. The members of the Dauphin county bar then called upon him and George. , Fisher made an address and in thM afternoon he had more receptions the executive mansion. His was partly spent at Persevera jfii'f lodge. It was a pretty busy day. Bu! next day he was escorted by the vol unteer cavalrymen from Dauphin, Cumberland and Lebanon counties, commanded by General John E. Fors ter, and the firemen of Harrisburg to the Capitol where he formally ad dressed the general assembly, sitting in the chafr which John Hancock oc cupied during the sessions of the con tinental congress, and in which he sat when he signed Lafayette's commis „or\Jn, the ar '«y- Next the students of Dickinson college waited on the general and he was given a parade, followed at 4 by a dinner at Matthew Wilsons hotel, the governor and many prominent men attending. There were numerous toasts and the gener al and the company, says the chron icle, sang "Hail Columbia" with vig r!*i i roH statccJ that the general retired with the governor about 8, as "Jf' morn,n ff h e had to receive school children and to review the volunteer soldiers before leaving for York at 11, OCIOCK. The general's visit to Harris burg was certainly strenuous. And It wo°ii eC ? rd t i lat when he got back to Washington he sent letters to those ® n *® rtainef l him and also acknowl edged the patriotic address sent him >y the children from Shoop's school house east of Harrisburg. Hundreds of people came here from nearby towns and the general's progress through the streets was always marked by cheers. Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the state Board of Education, who is now claimed as a Harrisburg citizen, al though he comes from Lycoming and served in educational capacities in va rious parts of the state, has been giv en the honor of selection as the lectur er before the Department of Educa tion of the University of Pennsylvania this coming winter. The invitation to the doctor to speak was given by Pro vost Edgar F. and it is under stood that the theme will be the his tory of education In Pennsylvania. Dr. Becht is certainly one of the best qualified men in Pennsylvania to dis cuss that topic. For years he has been gathering material on the subject and his researches have gone back to co- | lonial days. The series of lectures will 1 probably begin early In the college year and will be the first to deal with the subject. Some of the most distin guished educators of the state and na tion have been among the lecturers at the university. * » » The Bell Telephone company's Kip ona float was not only one of the mosi attractive of those seen upon the rivei on Monday, but it was also the occa sion of some guessing. At a distance the figures and letters were rathe hard to make out. There was consid erable discussion as to what it mean and all sorts of long distance guesse were made. The letters were 11,029 in Harrisburg. This is what a small boy up towi told his mother it read like to him: I love you Harrisburg. • • * "Harrisburg's first annual Kipona * was the most successful regatta and i carnival event that I, at. least, have ever seen on the Susquehanna. In the past we have had splendid carnival.', but this has surpassed them all and : I think that this is pretty nearly in : dicative of greater things for the fu ; ture. Certainly Harrisburg's second Kipona will be greater than the first. And it all demonstrates the ever-grow ing popularity of the Susquehanna 'basin' as an asset—an asset that should be encouraged and developed. To everybody who had a hand or a . voice in the preparations which led to the successful working out of the day and evening program, every citi zen owes a vote of thanks; too much credit cannot be given to everybody : concerned in the 'big day.' That there : is a vast amount of work connected ! with such an affair is surely true and ' every detail, down to the tiniest item, was ably executed and carried out." M. Harvey Taylor, former city commis sioner and superintendent of the park department, under whose direction ' last year's water carnival and regatta were held, thus to-day expressed his 1 opinion as to the first Kipona, held un ; der the direction of the "Greater Har risburg Navy." ! WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | 11 " 1 * ! t —City Controller E. S. Morrow, ol ! Pittsburgh, In a report just filed tells ■ of estimated collections of $12,000,000 i for the city and says conditions are I "moft encouraging." i —T. V. Powderly, famous as head of ■ the Knights of Labor, was speaker at I Western Pennsylvania Labor Day ' demonstrations. It was his first ap-1 i pearance in this state in quite a while. 1 i —Dr. John P. Garber, the head of ] ■ Philadelphia schools, has called teach- I • ers together to talk about plans for . opening of the Fall term. —W. A. Pike, of Philadelphia, president of the Order of Americana In this State, has been presented with I the smallest steel rail ever rolled in Pittsburgh. [ DO YOU KNOW "f That Dauphin county is famous for its old-fashioned corn meal? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg's first iron works was a. nail factory which Is supposed to been where the Pennsylvania freLgh* station stands. Another Intervention [From the Toledo Blade.} Mexico has escaped armed interven tion. It may be that it cannot escafra another form of intervention. Word comes that typhus fever is epi demic In Northern Mexico and that in one city alone 100 have died of the plague In a few days. A dispatch from the Slate of Guanajuato tells of the. death of a score of persons from eat-M ing flour with which a merchant, seed ing to make up for a shortage, had ml\fi ed sawdust. f These two reports give the trua»"p|cJ ture of Mexico. The people starving and they become the eafsy vlcf tlms or plague and adulteration. Tim resources of food upon whiclL/the revfc luttonlsts foua-ht so long are/ all except exhausted. Few supplies i4re comirht to the country from Its neighbors or from across the sea. A hlandfull of meal, a few beans, the roofs that can be dug from the ground ojh the stray cattle which can be come tipon in the barrens, these are almosrf all that Mexico is living on to-da;#. Instead of shooting ou* way to the tumultuous heart of MeJxlco, we mav be compelled to reach it the better wav, with meat for v/omen and men, with milk for the chtl.dren. with medi cines for the pltlablw people who are i.too weakened to battle with plague.
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