6 'IARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VSWSPAPeK rOR THS HOUB Poumdsi ISJI published evanlnga except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Tthpiih Building, Federal Square. X. J. STACK POLE, Pr'| end Editorin-ChUf ¥• R. OYSTER, Bujintu Manager. QVS M. STEIXMETZ, Mana t ing Editor. . Member American SI Newspaper Pub taylvania Associate nue Building. New Sntered at the Post Office in Harris ourg. Pa., aa second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail, 3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. IS If we have only hoped Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. —I COR. 15:19. ONE OP OUR SUBSCRIBERS appeared in these columns j yesterday an account of a nono genarian who on his 90th birth day was still active and interested in the progress and welfare of the com munity in which he lives. This morn ing's mail brings to light another such, almost as old in years and quite as young in thought and deed; one whom the Telegraph is proud to claim as one of its great family of readers. He Is D. R. Elder, of Bellevue Station, this State, and this is what he writes: My subscription to the Telegraph expires to-day, and I should have remitted sooner, but failed to do so, as I have been so engaged that I could not avoid the delay. Please find one dollar for the same. My directions are the same. D. R. Elder, BMlevue Station. R. F. D., No. 3, Pittsburgh. Pa.. until further nottce. I have been a long sub •criber to your paper and ca*not do without it. I have taken it for over sixty years—ar.d as true a Republi can as they generally make them, and hope Hughes will be elected President. Am now over S2 years old. Think of it, you youngsters who think you are overworked, more than eighty years old and still "so engaged" that he could not find time to write a letter! There Is activity and Interest in life for you! Such a man never • grows old in spirit. The Telegraph is happy to have him as a subscriber. It would be delighted to have many mora like him, and It believes it has. It Is for such as Mr. Elder that the Telegraph has been molded along lines that are sincerely designed to be for the best Interests of the immediate community It serves and for the coun try at large. It is such readers as he that make newspaper publishing worth while: that encourage the pub lisher to look more to the quality of the paper for which he is responsible than to the profits he earns. Good, sturdy, stalwart men are they, with the soul of eternal youth stirring within_them and the desire to serve surviving the infirmities of physical age. The Telegraph is pleased to receive Mr. Elder's letter of appreciation and It hopes it may continue to be aa helpful to him as he has been to the newspaper. STEEUTON'S NEW ERA NOT long ago the Telegraph pre dicted that a new era was about to djwn for Steelton. For many years the borough was content to go along as a small town, the kind of a small town that is very often found where there is but one Industry. There were two "camps"—the bor ough, comprised principalis of em ployes of the town's only big Industry, and those associated with the manage ment of the corporation itself. Each flt that the other should take the Initiative where any municipal prob lem was Involved. Neither would make advances, and, speaking of municipal affairs, there was a noticeable lack of frankness and openness in most nego tiations. Then came a change. The borough's principal industry passed Into new hands. New blood was Infused into the town's life and Rjodern methods were Injected Into the corporation's dealings with the bor ough. As a result, there is now but one "camp." There are still two forces, but each is working toward a common end, a bigger, better, more desirable Steelton. Confidence has been relnspired, and It is mutual confidence. Problems that are as old almost as the borough Itself are being tackled in a new way and with different methods. That they will all be solved Is indi cated by the manner in which the municipality's most troublesome ques tion. what to do about "the canal nuisance," ts about to be answered.' The Pennsylvania canal, long aban doned for boaUng purposes, for years fca* been used as an open storm drain hy the borough. Property qwners and rsfldenU along Its shores have long complained that it is an eyesore and a menace to health. When Council was asked to elimi nate tho "nuisance" it was found to be owned by a private corporaUon. Coun cil asked the corporation to have the dream tilled. Tho corporation replied that it tva* up to the borough to solve its own drainage problems. A third ■corporation won brought into the dis pute and each interest intimated that It was "up to the other fellow" to do ■ottethlng. For years the situation stood & dead. WEDNESDAY EVENING, lock. Each interest felt that the other expected too much. Lees than a year ago the Pennsyl vanta Railroad expressed a desire to build a new freight spur Into the borough along this canal, but it was unwilling to assume the drainage prob. lem. The borough was unwilling to permit construction of the spur unless the railroad assumed the drainage problem. Again there was a deadlock. Then a compromise was suggested. Qulncy Bent, new head of the Beth lehem Steel Company's local plant, the town's principal industry, informed in terested parties that the town's princi pal corporation was anxious to sesuthe town progress and suggested that the only way to get ahead was to have all forces united, working toward one end. The other evening months of nego tiations came to u Aead, an agreement was effected and uow the borough, the steel company and the railroad are go ing to build a big system of sewers to drain the upper end and West Side of the borough. The freight spur and a new freight station will be built to place the borough in a more advan tageous position so far as transpor tation facilities are concerned. Each interest will pay just one-third of th cost and each will get just about one-third of the benefits so far as it is possible for a human mind to estimate. Each interest now trusts the other. All are working for the common end. Steelton has some other problems. They are going to be tackled soon. The new era is here. THE NAVY'S PROGRAM IF whole-souled enthusiasm be any criterion by which to measure re sults, then the program of perma nent development and Improvement of the Susquehanna basin as promul gated by the Greater Harrisburg Navy is certainly assured. When Harrisburg's scores of canoe ists, motorboatmen and other river sportsmen finally considered the time ripe for urging councilmanic recog nition of the river's needs as a great recreation place they banded them selves together Into what is now the city's biggest association. And when the Navy was formally organized the members decided that the truth of the Susquehanna's popu larity should be driven home to the councllmen. The first Ktpona, the regatta and water carnival, arranged and staged under the direction of the Navy, was the result. How many thou sands flocked to the river shores and bridges to add their cheering voices to the great outdoor "ad" is a matter of history. But the Navy's work has only begun. Municipal bathhouses and bathing beaches, boathouse facilities, properly blasted and marked channels —these are only a few of the necessary Im provements which the splendid body of youthful river enthusiasts demand. Oddly enough, some other thousands of Harrisburg folk, young and old, apparently discovered that the pretty Island shores, the many pools and the rocks within an easy paddling distance of the shores offered ample oppor tunity for bathing, and that all that was lacking were suitable facilities for accommodating the bathers. So the Navy's demand for bathhouse and bathing beach facilities was given first place on the list of "things needed and things that must be provided." Close upon the heels of the most successful river demonstration ever held followed this important action of the Navy. Not ondy has it authorized the ap pointment of committees to collect necessary data on bathing beach and bathhouse facilities, boathouses and so cn, but It has decided to pay from its own comparatively shallow pocket the cost of an architect's estimate on the construction of a bathhouse and bath ing beach: Thus Council will know exactly Just what such needs will cost, and it will know, too. In ample time to take neces sary steps to make proper provision in the city budget for 1917. THE END OF THE WAR The forecast of peace In 1917 with the Allies victorious, made by General Alexel Alexlevitch Brus siloft the other day. Is worthy of more than passing note. Brussiloft it was, who in 1915, with Russian armies in disorderly retreat apd Von Hindenburg threatening Petrograd, made a similar prediction. That was i before the doughty warrior had led his forces against the Germans and Austrians in the moSt brilliantly suc cessful campaign the Allies have con ducted on any field. At the moment he was 'comparatively unknown to the world at large—altnough highly re garded in military circles—and he got small attention at the hands of the 1 newspapers. Beside, his views under the circumstances seemed prepost erous. At the same time he gave a pretty accurate outline of what was to happen last spring and the past summar. Events show that he knew whereof he spoke. ConsequenUy, General Brussiloft's views at this time are worthy of at tention. In the course of an interview the other day, he said: ! While a huge work remains to be accomplished, a successful result is already in our hands. The game Is already won. I said so two years ago, when penury of ammunition obliged us to undergo great re verses. We must consider that for the allies the present war cannot -be compared to a lottery, in which one has to have a certain number to win. We must go on until the end. and not have the weakness to think about a premature peace. Now, you will ask me when one may suppose that a true peace will be signed, a peace which the allies will be able to accept with the Joy of an entirely fulfilled task. I am not a prophet. The future is In the hands of God. But if I had abso lutely to make an hypothesis, I should be Inclined to think that the month of August, 1917, might see theend of our memorable work. There is a marked similarity be tween these views and those of tho late Lord Kitchener, who thought three years would be required for the defeat of the Teutonic hosts. The world, weary of war, will hope that BrusellofC speaks with full knowledge, and there are strong indications even to the casual observer that he does. LK By the Ex-Coramltteemaa Plans for a vigorous campaigning in behalf of national, state, congressional and legislative tickets are being made in Philadelphia to-day by Republican leaders who are in conference with Senator Boies Penrose and two visit* to the Keystone State are being ar ranged for Charles E. Hughes. It is possible that the meeting of the Re publican state committee may be fixed for September 27 in Pittsburgh, on which day the nominee will be in Alle gheny county, this meeting to be fol lowed by several big gatherings throughout the state and a visit to Philadelphia by Mr. Hughes in Oc tober. "Candldcto Hughes." said Senator Penrose, "is about completing his first schedule of meetings. His itinerafy brlfigs him to Pittsburgh on Wednes day. September 27, and my under standing is that County Chairman Coleman and Mayor Armstrong and the local Republican organization of Pittsburgh expect that there will be a record-breaking Republican demon stration In his honor. • "The national committee is now ar ranging the second schedule of Hughes meetings. It will be under this itin erary that Governor Hughes will come to this city and address a meeting to be held under the auspices of the Union league. That will be some time tn October, and it is expected that this will be an occasion of particular in terest to citizens of Philadelphia and vicinity." —The first of the Democrats who will be here for to-morrow's "harvest home" arrived this afternoon and im mediately looked up the postmasters' convention. The postmasters are to be addressed to-day by National Commit teeman A. Mitchell Palmer and to night will have a banquet at which more Democratic chiefs will be present. —State Chairman Guffey and all the big chiefs will have a powwow to night and to-morrow morning will meet with the county chairmen and the leaders. Finances will be a big theme. The notification meeting is fixed for 2 o'clock and will be notable for the number and length of speeches. At least a dozen are expected. —Senator Penrose, speaking in Philadelphia last night, analyzed the Maine result this way: "The results from Maine show that the fight was down to the control of the Senate. The Maine returns are gratifying and give every assurance of a successful result at the general election In November. Some apprehension existed that made the election In Maine extremely im portant. Two Unltd States senators were up for election. It Is Important that there be a Republican majority In the next Senate. A reunited Repub lican party and a realization of the momentous issues involved were suf ficient to carry the election. The Wil son administration has been incompe tent from every point of view and I am confident that the American people want to get rid of it. But after all. the real issue in this campaign is the old issue of a protective tariff. Many people thought this issue was outworn, and many more even predicted that It would never be revived again as a political issue between parties. It Is disclosed now, however, that the tariff issue Is more vital and paramount than ever before In the history of the country." —The Philadelphia Press to-day says: "Only a negligible enrollment as Washington party men is shown by the almost completed figures of the first registration day, as compiled yesterday by the board of registration commis sioners. While the returns of enroll ments are i>oti made to the commis sioners, who receive only the regis trations, almost completed compilations made by the Republican city commit tee establish the fact that practically all the Washington party voters are back In the Republican party. The registration commissioners' figures show a registration last Thursday of #<M6B, a lighter registration than was expected, but one which compares favorably with the registrations on the first days for several years back." The registration commissioners in various cities are awaiting the return of Attorney General Brown in order to obtain an opinion on the rights of Pennsylvania soldiers now on the Mex ican border to register by certificate. —State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey has had A. "Marsh" Thompson, a Pittsburgh lawyer named as chairman of the executive committee for Alle gheny county. It is intimated in the inspired newspapers that Guffey plans to make Allegheny Democratic, but this is the season when such news matter can be printed without hurt ing. —Altoona people are charging that the typhoid in that city is due to the pollution of the water supply and at tack city officials for being remiss. —Congressman John R. K. Scott appears to be thoroughly in earnest about clearing up election frauds and crooks in his bailiwick and is about to employ detectives to chase them out. Scott In a statement made yesterday reiterated his Intention to work for a clean election and has influential sup port, especially from Senator Vare, the head 01' the downtown section. Scott's action is being watched with interest as lie Is following the very lines of the independents who aligned themselves with Senator Penrose against the Vares in the last primary. The belief in Philadelphia is that Scott will be a candidate for governor In 1918 and will be a formidable one. Prizes From Liquor Men [From the Kansas City Times.] A group of men interested ir. th liquor business in California have of fr-red J.uO in prizes to tho school pupils of that ritr.te for essay a containing tile boat arguments SSIINST prohibition, OJ the theory that prohibition would de stroy tho vmeynrds of California. From the standpoint of safeguarding their own business interests this Is bad tiling for the liquet men to do, tot. Just as sure as fate. If the boys and girls begin looking into the efTects of prohibition and comparing them with the results of open saloons they are bound to become prohibitionists. The story In The Star Sunday about prohi bition in Denver would be enough in Itself to set any fair-minded person asainst the liquor business. The pa thetic story in The Star Tuesday of George Wallace, who was ruined by whisky and has spent forty-eight of his •cvonty-two years in prisons. Is anotiiet argument in favor or prohibition. Al most every day some tragedy of crime, or accident, or misery caused by whisk> is chronicled in the newspapers. But who can produce an instance of where whisky ever benefited any person ex cept the man who sells It? Mr. Hughes on the Stump [From the Providence Journal.] Democratic critics are industriously trying to spread abroad the impression that Mr. Hughes' speaking tour is a disappointment to his friends. Some of them complain that he is not vigorous enough. Others say he is too vigorous. Some profess to miss tho Ftooseveltian wealth of invective fron. Ills speeches. Others, on tho contrary, object to the vehemence of his attacks on the administration. He is at once too limp and too violent, too judicial and too partisan, too cold and too hot. Meanwhile Mr. Hughes has had ex traordinarily large audiences on his Western trip. Ha has spoken freely anu frankly to them on most or all/of tho issues of the day. If there Is ahy im portant question that he has ignored, what Is it? If there is any national problem regarding which he has failed to express a definite Judgment, let bis critics give us the facts. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE CARTOON OF THE DAY AND HE'S GETTING WARMER EVERY DAY! I r6 cY X- *-v ~ o r — /gee. vohvzK IBr T J W,r^"^~\ BUT 't s J Mil iKv^S^ ' &ti %\t\ 7/ ; TO-DAy> * I % \ iCET, Jw Oakland Tribune. TELEdRAPH PERISCOPE [ —When the war is over Bulgaria may be spelled Bulged-ares. —And there was a poet who actually won fame by calling these "the melan choly days." —-That Galician village Tustobaby must have been named by a ~omlc opera composer. —About this season some of the summer flirtations show signs cf skid ding. —When a young man takes a girl's hand he is getting ready to ask her for it EDITORIAL COMMENT] If Bulgaria was "the Judas of the Slav race," Rumania has thrown oft the role of "doubting Thomas."—Phila delphia Public Ledger. If the paper famine gets much worse, it's even possible that Mexican money may assume some actual value.—Phila delphia North American. A new anglers' magazine says it will print no Action. Thus shutting off all real fishermen from its list of contribu tors.—New York Telegraph. Kind-hearted Democrats must experi ence a keen feeling of regret when they see that distressing Progressive-Repub lican wrangle In California. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. Joys of the Open Road [Kansas City Star.] A well-off business man of Phila delphia walked this summer from that city to his summer cottage In the hills of New Hampshire, five hundred miles. And now, his vacation over, ho is walking back home again by a dif ferent route. The newspapers of the East have made much of his exploit, printing his picture as he walks, and giving his views on walking. He startod to walk mainly for the sako of his health, and it was much benefited; but now he is walking for fun. He says he never got so much pleasure out of a jour ney before. "You don't see the coun try when you scoot across it by train or motor car," he says. "When you walk it you have time to drink It all in; you loaf along at your ease and stay as long as you like where the scene? enchants." This man has found something good that will lengthen his life and crowd it with real Joy, if he keeps at it. Few of us walk enough. With the coming of trains, motor cars and street cars walking has almost become a lost art. We pant and grumble if we have to walk a mile. Probably the good health and long life of our forefathers was because they walked so much. Doctors re<> ommend walking now as a cure for many ills. Golf is simply a revival, by means of a game of skill, of the ancient art of walking. There Is tonic in a walk. There is happiness In It, too, for a walk of three or four miles with the lungs filled with pure air and the muscles working, stimulates the circulation, burns out waste and pois onous matter and banishes the blues. A quaint philosopher said that any man who contemplated suicide would forget it if he walked five miles in the country instead. The Joys of the open road, and the health to be four.d there, have been sung by many a philosopher and poet, ancient and modern, but tho majority of us are too busy with our petty business affairs to heed the call. - The world is too much with us. Lte and soon, Setting and spending, we lay waste our powers. BRITISH FARMER PREPARES TO AID STRICKEN BELGIANS OF the many schemes, already set In motion, for repairing the rav ages of war, few aro more inter esting or remarkable than the effort of the British farmer, under the leader ship of the Royal Agricultural Society, to come to the aid of the farmers of Belgium and Northern France, and do all possible to enable them to recover their lost ground and position. As was pointed out in a recent dispatch to this paper from London, after the Franco- Prussian war of 1870-71, the farmers of Great Britain established a fund for the purchase of seed corn for the French peasant in invaded areas. To-day.the British farmer is mappingf out for him self a much greater task, for not only does he contemplate coming to the aid of the farmer in Belgium and Northern France, but he is looKing ultimately to help to rebuild, restock and replant the devastated farms of Serbia and Poland as well. Quite apart from the immediate and much-needed help the movement af fords to a class of people specially de serving all the assistance that can be LETTERS TO THE EDITOR '■ ■ J Picking the Cabinet To tht Editor of the Ttltgraph: Following Is a suggestive list for the constitution of Mr. Hughes' cabinet, calculated to be the strongest in the history of the nation and adequately capable of handling the reins of gov ernment in this the greatest crisis in 400 years: Secretary of State- —Elihu Root. Secretary of the Treasury—Frank A. Vanderlip. Secretary of War—Theodore Roose velt. Secretary of the Navy—George von L. Meyer. Attorney General—William H. Taft. Secretary of the Interior—Gilford Pinchot. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson. ' Postmaster General John Wana maker. Secretary of Commerce Oscar S. Straus. Secretary of Labor —Thomas Mott Osborne. The above represents the most ex pert body of counselors in the world at the present time, and if adopted would place the United States in a position of indisputable leadership, sumptu ously respected by all and a model of good government, international right eousness and benevolence. JOHN W. RHOADS. Edge Hill, Pa., Sept. 2. Mind [William Ellery Channing.] The highest force in the universe is mind. This created the heavens and earth. This has changed the wilder ness into fruitfulness, and linked dis tant countries in a beneficent ministry to one another's wants. It is not to brute force, to physical strength, so much as to urt, to skill, to Intellectual and moral energy, that men owe their mastery over the world. It is mind which has conquered matter. To fear, then, that by calling forth a people's mind we shall impoverish and starve them is to be frightened at a shadow. I believe that with the growth of in tellectual and moral power In the com munity, Its productive power will in. crease, that industry will become more efllclent, that a wiser economy will ac cumulate wealth, that unlmaglned re sources of art and nature will bo dis covered. I believe that the means of living will grow easier, in proportion as a people shall become enlightened, self-respecting, resolute and Just. Bodily or material force* can be meas ured, but not the forces of the soul; nor can the results of Increased men tal energy be foretold. SEPTEMBER 13, 1916. I ffiven them, it Is also doing much to bring all the different peoples con cerned together. Those who have visit ed the devastated districts, the dis patch already referred to declares, have been impressed with the dominant qual ity of determined industry in the face of disaster displayed by the peasants. This has made a special appeal to the British farmer, and he has shown him self determined to do all in his power to rostore these people to a position where their willing industry can once again bear good fruit. It is welcome to And. everywhere, a very general recognition of the fact that the restoration of the battlefields of Europe and the homes and property of the pec pie who formerly lived and worked upon them, is one of the first obligations laid upon all parties to the present struggle. The British farmer takes the eminently Just view that his land is being defended on another man's land and, therefore, it is laid upon him to do all possible to make good the ravages such defense may cause.— Christian Science Monitor. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What provision is made for the teach ing of unusually gifted pupils? Provision is made by which they can do advanced work and skip a year in the course of study. Knowledge Storehouse [From the Kansas City Star.] When you get to expounding your expert theories on history and gov ernment, quoting "facts" official In a superior manner. Inventing details the while to support your convictions, be sure that J. B. Smith of Atchison is not in the audience, because he may "call" you. Mr. Smith bought tv.enty nine volumes of the Encyclopedia Brit annica, each volume containing more than 1,000 pages, ana has read the whole set from cover to cover. He has read the works of Abraham Lincoln and thirty-five biographies of that mar tyred president. He has read the Bible four times, and a score of other stan dard works on the Scriptures, to say nothing of an exhaustive study of the history of Rome. These facts in them selves would not be so remarkable If Mr. Smith did not remember everything he ever read, and has his facts at his immediate disposal In a manner most annoying to habitual "wise guys." | Our Daily Laugh gfc SOME COOK. /-""{iW Mrs. B.: Is your IVOi ' W cook lm Pertlnent? MM. A.: Well, 'father. She coul<,n ' t b® ■fll ITHIVI -Mjl Worße " "he waa Kill rill imllM on ® of my own mr 'lll daughters, POINT OF VIEW I Just read of a woman who ap- // piled for a divorce Decause her hus band struck her flLjuk f! with a baseball V Gee, but women Hp J ire getting J T# touchy. J ( lEtontng (Clpl "I hope thtft the line of $125 paid by that Waltonvllle man who went hunting for robins will serve as a warning," said Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, the secretary of the State Game Com mission yesterday. "You would be surprised at the violations of the garno laws especially in regard to in sect destroying birds," continued the doctor. "The robin his been pro tected for £ears and yet we are con tinually turning up cases where peoplo have gohe gunning for that bird. There aro other birds Just as valuable as insect destroyers which are tho target of some fellows who seem to think that everything that has feathers and keeps above ground is legitimate game and there are some who hunt guineas with the same ardor that the real game lover hunts wild turkeys. We are steadily enforcing the law on everyone who kills a bird out of sea son and in that way we are rounding up the men who hunt any kind of birds. It's a pity that birds as useful as the robin should be hunted and yet when people violate the law by going hunting on Sunday what would you expect. It's our business to get after them and it is some problem." R. M. Dague, prominent In Harris burg auto affairs stood along the road side near Clark's Ferry the other morning, waiting for the second car of the two which crossed Pennsylvania In the interest of tho William Penn Highway. As he stood there a noisy roadster of the pocket variety coughed by. It was making a frightful fuss, rolling and rocking from side to side, and the exhaust awakening the countryside. "See those boys," mused Dague to the William Penn folks in his car. "They're traveling: 75 miles an hour, their engine is spinning 40 miles an hour and the car is going 12." * * • The Telegraph the other evening made mention of the fact that the three Kephart boys—H. M. Kephart of Connellsville. John W. Kephart of Ebensburg and Samuel Kephart of Boston, had made great forward strides since they left McAllieterville Soldiers' Orphan School at the ase of 16. H. M. Kephart will bo next State Treasurer and John W. Kephart is R superior court judge. Lieutenant- Colonel Samuel Kephart yesterday received word thaf he is to report im mediately at Panama, where he will be in charge of the coast artillery. At Panama the United States Govern ment has some of the largest coast defense guns in the world, and Lieut.- Colonel Kephart is much elated over his new charge. • • Coming up out of the Market street tunnel yesterday afternoon one of the Traction Company cars "blew a fuse." The conductor and motorman looked In vain for something or other; and finally the conductor came into the body of the car and said: "Will some lady lend me a hair pin?" "Here's a piece of string, if that will help you," laughed a joker. "All I want is a hairpin," declared the conductor. And when he had adjusted the hair pin the car moved forward very nicely. • • Senator Samuel W. Salus, of Phila delphia, is mighty ready with his tongue. He was somewhat noted for it in the Senate and the House as well as 1n the court room. Yesterday when asked if he was sure of a point In the course of the Williamsport hearing he replied: "Oh, sure of it? Why really when I made up that brief X debated seriously whether I should . come up here. The brief is so com- ' plete and wins our case ?o* us. My presence here is largely courtesy." A minute before ha had been figuring In a lively interchange of conflicting opinions. • * m "In years gone by we used to go cut on the walking bridge and watch the scull racing," said a man who has lived along the Susquehanna all his life yesterday. "Have you thought what a splendid chance we now have to watch water sports and to walk across the river? We have two open bridges and the views from them are splendid. Between the bridges and the "front steps" we have the best "bleachers" for river sports in the land." * * • The Cumberland Valley Railroad's bridge building operations are adding very much to the beauty of the river illuminations these days. It's pretty fine with both sides of the river lit up for miles by the lighting systems of the various municipalities and tho railroads and to have two bridges shin ing. Now there is a third lighted up for .part of its length and while the design is a little puzzling it is at tractive. ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Francis I. Gowen, prominent Philadelphtan, is home from the Maine coast where he spent the summer. —Commissioner of Health Dixon did not take a vacation last year and this year the paralysis outbreak took away the chance. —John W. Phillips, president of the lower anthracite field bankers organ ization, is a Mahanoy City banker. —Mayor John V. Kosek, of Wilkes. Barre, who is in the limelight because of the jitney strike, is a lawyer. —The Rev. C. W. Burns, prominent Germantown clergyman, has accepted a call to Minneapolis. I "DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg was for years noted as a manufacturer of fire brick? HISTORIC HARRHSBURG South street once formed the North ern boundary of Harrisburg. The Thing Undone It Isn't the thing you do, dear. It's the thing you leave undone. That gives you a bit of heart ache At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten. The letter you did not write. The flower you did not send, dear. Are our haunting ghosts at nifcht. The stone you might have lifted Out of a brother's way: The bit of hear'tsome counsel You were hurried too much to say; The loving touch of the hand, dear. The gentle winning tone, Which you had no time nor thought for, With troubles enough of your own. For life is all too short dear. And sorrow Is all too great. To suffer our slow compassion. That tarries until too late; And It Isn't the thing you do, dear It's the thing you leave undone. Which gives you a bit of heart ache At the setting of the sun. —Margaret E. Sangster. Without Incident King George's visit to France was without Incident. He didn't even fall oft his horse. Or, so far as Is known, off the water wagon.—Columbia (8. CJ State.
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