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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
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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
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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.