6 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editorjn-ChUf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager* GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor* t Member American llshers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastern office, fiory, Brooks & Flnley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New ern office! Story, ley. People's Gas cago. 111.' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls- Durg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 16 Maker and High Priest, 1 ask Thee not my joys to multiply, Only to make we worthier of the least. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, THE NEW HOTEL STATE-WIDE commendation Is be ing heard for the public-spirited people of Harrlsburg who are undertaking to provide their city with what it has so sorely needed—a mod ern hotel suitable to the center of a wonderful web of highways and the official seat of government of the sec ond Commonwealth of the Union. Harrisburg has progressed much in things material. Its public improve ments are known all over the land. Its products go over the seven seas. Its citizens are noted for enterprise. Yet it has lacked a great big distinctive hotel such as exist in Richmond, In Albany and in other capitals. The announcement that the new hotel is to be a "go" is being hailed throughout the State.* THE STATE AND THE INSANE IN the next three or four months men in authority in Pennsyl vania will be called upon to de- j clde upon a policy of care of those j whom mental disease makes the I wards of the Commonwealth and when the decision is made there should be a program outlined for construc tion of such establishments as re search and experience have shown are best adapted for the unfortun ates. For some years there has been a division over the question of whether the State -should care for all insane, or whether there should be some State care and some county care. Investigations have been made by the experts employed by a State commission, by members of the State Board of Public Charities and by men who represented the Governor offi cially and personally. While the mat ter has been discussed the number of insane increased, as is natural in a State with the population and the industries and the conditions of life in Pennsylvania. Leaving out of the matter the mer its of the two plans, it does seem that there should be somo steps taken to decide upon a policy. New hospitals are needed and preliminary steps have been taken. One institution has some room, others are overcrowded, some are close to capacity. So more than ever this is the time when the future ytem of the State In caring for its dependents should be settled. It has been long discussed and the financial condition of the Commonwealth Is aucb that next winter there will be a readjustment of the basis of appro priation. Appropriations will grow more and more towards the program system They must, if the State of Pennsyl vania Is to continue its notable pub lic works. Programs of .appropria tions were outlined for the new West ern Penitentiary, the Capitol Park ex tension and other things. The same can be done for the,wards of the State just as well. And now Is the time to settle how to do It. PREPARING FOR EXPAXSIOX WHATEVER may be the outcome of the controversy over the Walnut street bridge, we must not lose sight of the fact that the City Planning Commission has been In con ference from time to time with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company re garding an enlargement of the subway at Market street. The contemplated Improvement of that important link to the Hill district will undoubtedly effect a change of the business conditions and development in that part of the city. It must be evident to all observ ers of the growth of Harrisburg that the city is bound to spread not only eastwardly. but north and south. Even now the Planning Commission is having a survey made of the district between the northern boundary and the RockviUe mountains. This will provide for expansion along proper lines and open to residential develop ment much attractive territory. PROBING "WHITE SLAVERY" f ANNOUNCEMENT from Carlisle Xx ot th Intention of the National Purity League to wage a vigorous campaign In Pennsylvania against the "white Blave" traffic comes directly on the heels of sensational exposures in New York and it is important for that reason. A few years ago Mr. Rockefeller made an exhaustive Investigation and as a result gave It as his conviction that there was no organized "white slavery" in New Tork. If there wasn't then, there most certainly is now. The ©st horrible stories of the sale and SATURDAY EVENING. abuse of young girls by their "masters" was part and parcel of the day's news In any New York paper. Conditions are unbelievably horrible. Naturally, with the court's spotlight turned on this form of vice, the slavemasters will flee the city, temporarily at least, and Pennsylvania is near and convenient. Like Mr. Rockefeller In his report for New York, we doubt If there Is much "white slavery" in Pennsylvania. On the other hand, conditions may be worse here than in the State adjoining. Let's know the truth about it, at all events. And remember this—that the most effective foe of the "slaver" Is the mother who teaches her daughter what she ought to know and who wg,rns her against the wiles and pit falls of the conscienceless wretches who would lead her down the prim rose path at the other end of which sits Death. INDEPENDENTS FOR HUGHES TIERS has been a marked falling off in the publication by Demo- cratic newspapers of letters from "prominent Progressives" who "intend to support Wilson." That was to be expected, for the number at best was few, although much was made by the Wilsontan press of the <few irrecon cilables who could be persuaded to talk or write for the papers. But the long list of Democrats, Progressives and" Independent Republicans who supported Woodrow Wilson in 1912, but who are out for Hughes this year, continues to grow. Take Powell Evans, for example. Four years ago Mr. Evans, a promi nent Philadelphia manufacturer, was head of the Woodrow Wilson Inde pendent League of Pennsylvania. To day he is president of the Hughes Alliance of Pennsylvania. And Evans Is no mere vane in the wind. He gives ample reason for his change of heart in a letter he Is sending to thousands of voters of known Independent ten dencies. In it he says: Since 1914 the provincial aiftl sec tional Democratic management has proved itself so wanting in sound and adequate view, purpose, experi ence and capacity that voters of thought and conscience, both in and out of party lines, must now put aside all partisan and relatively unimportant considerations and surely retire it from power in No vember. It is unthinkable that tlie majority of American voters at this period of national and international stress will continue the present minority Democratic administration in power for the next four years, in the face of its record since 1914. Voters of this belief must not only so think, but so act; they must not only so vote, but work and spend legitimately to induce others to do likewise. Mr. Wilson bid for and gained much independent support in 1912 which was most useful to his cause. There never has been, however, a more partisan President, or one who secluded and insulated himself more from touch with the average citi zenship of the country. No man in his high position has changed his mind more frequently or suddenly than Mr. Wilson, and independents who formerly supported him can now justly change their minds on the merits of the whole case and repudiate him and the "Wilson Wabble," or "New Ineptitude," which have so characterized his policies and actions during the last two years. The country now vitally needs the experience, sound judgment, tem perate firmness and level-headed capacity which Mr. Hughes has shown throughout his varied career to lead it out of the present Demo cratic wilderness. Mr. Wilson's bid at this time for independent support is worthless on his record and should be rejected. Which sums up very well why nine out of ten independents are to be found on the side of Hughes this Fall. A CIVIC HEADQUARTERS THROUGH the active efforts of the Harrlsburg Civic Club, which will be shortly located in its fine head- on the river front, the city is to nave another center of civic activity. It Is the purpose of the club managers to make of the handsome clubhouse a. gathering place for all the important leaders affiliated with local campaigns for civic betterment. In the remodeling of the Fleming residence for the club's uses a hall has been provided large enough to accom modate small assemblies and there will also be rooms sufficiently large for conferences such as will be held from time to time in the work of city Im provement. Thus the donors of this attractive clubhouse will have provided for the extension of Um activities In which they were both so much interested and .to which the organization that will now occupy the building is devoted. LIKE TODY HAMILTON IT is said that the late lamented "Tody" Hamilton, who was for many years the press agent for a circus that was advertised as "the greatest show on earth," never went inside the big tent, because he did not want his imaginative conception of the show blurred by the actuality. For the same reason, perhaps, the admin istration press agents who are de scribing the "greatest prosperity in our history," never look at the real war business on which our present prosperity is founded. To look at the real facts would destroy their power of description. SHUTTING CHINA'S DOOR WOODROW WILSON is respon sible for a good many things which are regarded as of serious disad vantage to this country, but nothing that he has done, perhaps, has been more serious in its results than his failure to keep open the door of China to the nations of the world. China has pass ed through a most lamentable politi cal crisis and the only two great pow ers in the world to-day which can help her out of the difficulty are the Unit ed States and Japan. Through Presdent Wilson's refusal to support the bankers of the United States In negotiating a loan for China four years ago that unfortunate coun try in Its extremity has been compell ed to appeal to Japan, which ambitious nation Is now forcing China to make concessions of one sort or another which will give the Japanese a throt ting hold upon the^Chinese govern ment. There seems to be no limit to the ability of the President to get us in to trouble with other countries. His whole administration has been based upon theory and political expediency. It Is inconceivable that the tho United States will endure longer than (lext March the shifty and weak and Incompetent management of our national affairs which have charac terized the national administration for the last four years. ""PoCtttca- in, By the Ex-Coiamltteeman In spite of all the speech making and applause and prophecies there seems to have been considerable sore ness left in the wake of the Democratic meetings of Thursday. It turned out that while there was a good bit of hurrahing that there were many places where the steam roller will have to be run to iron out party rows or they will grow into a tremendous ruction by next year when the Democratic chiefs' predictions of victory are found to be dust. State Chairman Joseph F. Guftey, who remained here yesterday to digest the events of the previous day, Is said to have been more or less startled by some things which he found out and that there will be opportunity for exercise of all of his tact to overcome the resentment at endorsement of M. Clyde Kelley for Democratic congres sional nomination without making a delaration for the President. Mr. Guffey is also said to have discovered that some postmasters were liberal givers but that others did not seem much inclined to help pay expenses for the windmill. The reluctance of some postmasters to "come across" is said to have been cause for glee by some of the disappointed aspirants who came along to see the show. It also seems that twenty county chairmen failed to show up for the conference of chairmen and that six teen State committeemen did not ar rive for the notification. Some of these men just stayed away and ef forts will now be made to find out what is the matter with them so that they may not join the ranks of those who were disgusted at the failure to find out more about the campaign plans. Guffey plans to "take account of stock" and to have another meeting of the executive committee about October 1. —P. C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, who was among the visitors at Republican headquarters in New York yesterday said: "We are going to have a ma jority in the United States Senate. The election In Maine showed that conclusively. To my mind It proved also that the whole country has been aroused to the need for a change in national control, both in the White House and in Congress. The people are voting for principles this year, not for personality. The election of Hughes and Fairbanks Is the surest political prospect in many years. Of course, the result in Pennsylvania Is a foregone conclusion." —Out of a total of thirty-five war rants which have been sworn out by the Committee of Seventy in its cam paign against election frauds, the Philadelphia North American says, all but three are for followers of State Senator Vare, according to informa ti9n which has reached officers 6f the Republican city committee. —The Philadelphia Ledger in a first page article to-day confirms the re ports which have been going the rounds that the Vare interests are behind Congressman John R. K. Scott in his aspirations to be the Re publican candidate for Governor. Scott lias been heading in that direc tion since the legislative session of 1913, when defeated in his desire to be speaker, he adopted the tactics of the Democratic reorganizers in 1909 and demanded a change in methods. He is still at It. The Ledger adds that Scott may be opposed by Senator W. C. Sproul, of Chester, or Congressman W. W. Griest, of Lancaster. —A plan for a test of strength in Philadelphia is to run Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the Compensa tion Board for district attorney of Philadelphia. If he runs well the Vares will redouble efforts to cap ture the State. —Pittsburgh people are stirring about In gubernatorial talk, too. E. V. Babcock is very much of a candidate and there Is also talk in the western end of Ex-Governor John K. Tener, who is more popular now than ever. —By having J. Davis Broad head, former rival, placed on the Federal Reserve Board, A. Mitchell Palmer has played some good district politics. Broadhead has made trouble for Palmer and his pals many a time. —The Philadelphia city Republican committee held a big registration boosting meeting yesterday and Sena tors Vare and McNichol made speech es. The meeting practically opened the campaign in Philadelphia. —Allen L. Benson, Socialist candi date for President, will visit Harrls burg in his tour of the State. The ar rangements for the meetings in this section will be made by the local com mittee to-morrow. —Penrose, Knox and other big Re publicans speak at the Montgomery Republican meeting to-day. It will be a notable campaign opening. —At the.State headquarters of the Hughes Alliance of Pennsylvania It was announced last night that an Allegheny county branch of the al liance was formed yesterday In Pitts burgh. Richard R. Quay and H. D. W. English, who were Roosevelt electors in 1912 were among those active at the meeting. George D. Porter, secre tary of the alliance, who has been forming a similar State organization in West Virginia, was present at the meeting. —Copies of Attorney General Brown's opinion on the soldiers to vote have been printed and will be sent to the border and to county lead ers so that men of all parties may be apprised of what is needed and ar rangements made to pay the soldiers' taxes. —Gabriel H. Moyer, former mem ber from Lebanon, Is starting on a speech making tour. He will speak at Republican rallies In eastern and northeastern counties. —Wilkes-Barre politicians say that one result of the trolley strike may be a new local party. The rumpus this year Is going to have some queer results. THE FASHION SHOW Br Wine Dinger Would you know what will be proper In the line of shoes or hats, Shirtwaists, suits, or coats or dresses. Overcoats or silk cravats. Hose, et cet., for Fall and Winter? You may get acquainted, bo, When the merchants of the city Next week hold thir Fashion Show. Would you like to know what's netv est In thii lino of furniture. Pianos, wall paper, hardware, Listen, bo. Just make a tour 'Round the city Wednesday evening Ot next week when curtains rise In stone windows, where the latest Will be spread before your eye*. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE CARTOON OF THE DAY I STILL GOING UP! "1 KET, In the Oa \ TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE "1 —Says the Evening Ledger: "The Democrats are twe greatest tax impos ers in the history of the nation." Im posers or imposters? —About the time a man thinks he Is going to be caught his conscience be gins to work overtime. —-Some men rave against the short skirts women are wearing Just now because they stumble so often looking at them. —"Ail things come to him who waits." Yes, even the undertaker. —Cheer up, there's no shortage in the buckwheat crop. Not So Sleepy [From the St. Louis Star.] During the recitation of a college class in natural philsophy, the profes sor observed a tall. lanky youth in a rear seat, his head dropping, his body relaxed, his eyes half closed, and his legs encumbering an adjacent aisle. "Mr. Frazier," said the professor. The freshman opened his eyes slowly but did not change his pose. "Mr. Frazer, what is work?" "Everything is work," wag the draw ling reply. "Sir,'' exclaimed the professor, "do you mean to tell me that Is a reason able answer to my question?" "Yes. sir." "Then I take It that you would like me and the class to believe that this desk is work?" "Yes, sir,' replied the youth wearily; "it is woodwork." Mother ! TFrom the Silent Partner.] Years ago, while the world was full of flowers, while the sun shor.e in all its blaze of glory on the crest of the hills, while the wild birds were slnsing their sweetest songs. I know God must have pondered deep on what would be the sweetest thing Ho could send to earth. Finally the gates of heaven moved, and He gave to earth my mother. And now, in after years, how my memory steals over space and brings back again the time when. In the calm of a summer Sabbath morn, I walked with my mother slowly to that little church In the Valley of Long Ago! You can remember—of course you can —how sweetly soft your mother's lips grew in her prayers for you. Every good and wholesome trait that you hold—your devotion to right, youi love of liberty, your affection for the home—ls the happy result of the force ful lessons, the kindly sympathy, of this wonderful woman—your mother. Happy is the man who has a quiver full of arrows with which he can hit the hearts of humans. Great is the genius who can send his sentimental thoughts Into the very soul of the thoughtless. Big is the work that teaches us to reverence and respect tile name "Mother." I would willingly give my remaining davs if it were possible for me to write a song that would ring with some oul insplrlng theme of mother. PEOPLE READ NEWSPAPER ADS llow the Head of A Dallas Bakery Learned Tills Fact from Experience At last week's meeting of the Dallas Advertising League, Mr. Stone, of the Stone's cake baking plant, told the members how he had learned by actual experience that Dallas newspaper ad vertisements are read. "When we opened our pl*nt In Au gust," Mr. Stone said, "we held open house each night for a week and ad vertised the reception# dally in the newspapers, the attendance ranging from 8,000 to 12,000 each evening. Having decided not to have a reception Saturday night, I Instructed our adver tising man to make the announcement in the advertisement# appearing In the Saturday papers. I thought he would use big display type, but was chagrined to find that he put It in. the very last, paragraph of the ad in very small type. , "I was disappointed and told him no one would seo it and that we would have' another large cr'owd Saturday night and that we had better make preparations to entertain them. But only six people came. This proved to me the efficiency of newspaper adver tising." WHA T PROHIBITION FOR SEATTLE AND OTHER CITIES PROHIBITION has put an increase of $471,691 of real estate trans fers over the corresponding wet first six months of 1915 in Seattle's stocking. Building permits show an increase of $174,110. Bank clearings an increase of $53,851,865. The ag gregate of savings has increased sl,- 500,000 and the number of new sav ings accounts, since January 1, 1916, Is 7,165. Bank deposits gained $5,- 694,858 during the first four months of 1916. The Seattle Times quotes many men in many lines of business to the ef fect that prohibition has been Im mensely beneficial to trade. Some of these men bear especial testimony to the increased efficiency and earnings of labor. The total arrests in Seattle during the first six dry months of 1916 were 5,444. During the same six months of 1915 there were 10,152. "Before the prohibition law went into effect in tlje State of Washing ton," says Superintendent Conger, of the Anti-Saloon League, "the annual legal expenditure for liquor in the State was about $35,000,000. Under the permit system, taking the whole number of permits issued at the maxi mum quantity allowed, at the highest 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 Vance McCormick says the result of the Maine elections means a Demo cratic sweep in November. Oh, for the sanguine plumdoodle of that McCor mick fellow!— Trenton State Gazette. A Bull Mooser full of fatted calf makes an irresistible campaigner. New York Sun. Last Monday was the first time that Maine has elected a United States senator by popular vote, and in spite of the popularity of the Democratic candidate, who is an enthusiastic ad vocate of President Wilson and his pol icies, the people sent him to the tall timbers.—Trenton State Gazette. He Loved Pennsylvania [Philadelphia Press.] Governor Pennypacker was a man of great originality and independence in his views and opinions and always courageous in asserting them. He was mentally and morally a larger man and a greater man than usually fines to political prominence In Pennsylvania. His reputation is one that is likely to Increase rather than diminish with the years. He loved Pennsylvania and all things Pennsylvanian and sought to secure for this commonwealth wid er recognition of her merits than he thought was usually accorded her. For his patriotic efforts in this direc tion, as well as for his many other great merits, Governor Pennypacker deserves to be held by Pennsylvania in lasting honor. THE THINKER Back of the beating hammer By which tha steel la wrought. Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The thought that Is ever Master Of Iron anil steam and steel That rises above disaster And' tramples It under heel. The drudge may fret and tinker Or labor With lusty blows, But hack of him stands the Thinker, The dear-eyed man who knows: For Into each plow or saber, Each piece and part and whole. Must go the brains of labor. Which gives the work a soul. Back of the motor's humming, Back of the bells that sing. Back of the hammer's drumming Back of the cranes that swing. There is the Eye which scans them. Watching through stress and strain. There la the Mind which plans them— Back of the brawn, the Brain. Mlarht of the roaring boiler. Force of the engine's thrust. Strength of the sweating toiler. Greatly in these we trust. But back of them stands the schemer. The Thinker who drives things through, Back of the job—the Dreamer Who's making the dream come true. —Berton Braley la American Machinist. SEPTEMBER 16, 1916. price, as quoted by the dealers; the legal expenditure has not yet reached 5 per cent, in any county; it has not reached 2>4 pei cent, in the entire State." Oregon Tolls the Same Story Prohibition cut arrests for drunken ness in Portland from 3,231 during the first six months of 1915 to 830 the llrst six months of 1916. Bank deposits increased In the en tire State $12,693,421 up to May 1. Of the 332 saloon buildings vacated January 1 all but twenty-one have been rented. Portland papers report businessmen of that city as enthusiastic for the dry law. Numerous signed statements are given. Birmingham Is Prosperous The Manufacturers Record, one of the leading business publications of the country, asked E. W. Barrett, edi tor of The Birmingham Age-Herald, to tell the truth in regard to the effect of prohibition upon that city. Mr. Barrett's article is a strong endorse ment of the policy. Deposits in the Birmingham banks on July 1, 1916, were $5,134,052.95 greater than on the same date of 1915 and the number of depositors had in creased 7,860. Peace and War How beautiful and bright. This calm September night, I Fair Luna, she alone : In majesty upon her throne Rules—and doth Immerse In light, part of the boundless universe Stars in glitter and gleam, Thus would poets dream, I The sacred night away, Their beauty to portray On lilt or simple lay, or strain. As in sweetness smote the fair Judean plain, On that blest night thrice hallowed and serene. In the long ago of the Golden Age 1 wien. Whan to the unlettered tribes of men • was given, The Master of Life, the Prince of Peace of Heav'n, Ah, me how tranquil all, Tet in other climes the thrall Of Hate and the grim Monster War, Grips and binds men e'en to the deep heart's core; Fain would I invoke the Father of all, To break or cut as under this accursed thrall. And Peace as in the primal sinless day once more. To Europe's maddening warring sons restore. GEO. R. PRITCHARP. Harrlsburg, Sept. 14, 1916. Quiet Will Be Dense * [Memphis Commercial Appeal.] A West Virginia woman consents for her husband to have a divorce pro vided "she gets the parrot." Going to be an awful sllenca In that man's life. Daily Laugh Quisso : Did Mfc/" rour sou take any legrees at col- Tuj Slzzfc: Yes. 12 tbove zero. I I I J You say you never worked In a iJfij! reslaura nt before, PKellitk 81111 you J u i* dishes quite clev " mk'\ rl —C=Tj That's easy—l : g-Ij I to be a faro lEtontng dtjat It's a rather Interesting thing to note that the corner of Third and Walnut street which is to be the site of the great new hotel which Harrisburg people will to give visitors to the State's capital city accommodation* such as have been demanded, was many years ago the location of a hotel. It seems from old newspapers that soon after the seat of government was removed to this city from Lan caster. which was about 103 years ago, there was a big increase in the number of taverns in Harrisburg. It was already somewhat noted for the number of inns, its prominence as a center of roads causing numerous places for travelers to be built, a cir cumstance which was much com- & mented upon by foreign visitors In early days. After the Legislature came there were more taverns opened and, when the construction of the State Capitol began about 100 years ago Front street began to lose its prominence as the "hotel street" The earliest tavern known at Third and Walnut is supposed to have been the State Capital. It flourished about ninety years ago and was succeeded by others with names according to the fancy of the owner. The site was then bought for residential purposes and in the early seventies the Masonic Tem ple and Opera House which so many recall was built on the site. It was this building, which was the scene of many famous political gatherings and where noted players appeared before the foot lights, which was burned in 1907. In this connection it might be said that Dr. James A. Dale, a former legislator from York and now promi nent in affairs of that city, said re cently that it would be only a question of time until a hotel would be there . again owing to proximity to the State Capitol. Dr. Dale is interested in the big hotel at York and in commending the- project here said that there was no reason why it should not be a big success. ■ The keepers of law and order of Mt. Holly stand at the wrong end of the joke that Is told at their expense by a party of motorists who recently spent an evening at Mt. Holly park, which is popular among a great many 1-iar risburg parties who go there of an evening to dance. The story goes that the loss of several lap robes from two or three of the cars was report ed to the chauffeurs who were driv ing. David Keft'er and Albert Green, drivers for E. S. Herman, and E. Z. Wallower respectively, accordingly started in pursuit and discovered the thieves in some bushes. One of tha drivers drew a revolver and covered the men, while the other proceeded to relieve them of a gun and sharp knife, after which they were loaded uncere moniously into a machine and driven into town. Unfortunately the chauf feurs were unable to discover the ex istence of any authorities to whom the culprits cdbld be turned over and they were forced to release them or carry them around as passengers the rest of the evening. They did the former. The electrical storm Thursday ev ening was one of the worst seen or heard in Harrisburg for a long time - . Houses were shaken and doors rat tled from the heavy reverberations. The illumination of the western sky from the burning of a barn beyond Enola appeared like the belching tire of a volcano apd offered an unreal picture that caused watchers to gaze and gaze so long as the bright glare continued. Interesting letters, postcards and odd little trinkets from faraway Penn sylvania soldiers on the Mexican bor der are no longer uncommon; live animals from the land of the eagle and the cactus are not so ordinary, however. But there is at least one •* Harrisburg man who has recei\*ed enough of the 'live stock" of a kind from the shores of the Rio Grande to stock a miniature "zoo." He is Gilbert M. Oves, an attache of the bridge division of the State Highway Department and son of City Treasurer Harry F. Oves. Mr. Oves' brother, Horace, is a trooper in Uncle Sam's regular cavalry now on duty in Texas and from time to time he keeps his brother here aroused to the fact that there are many queer things in the animal kingdom "down there." So from time to time Mr. Oves has re ceived horned toads, snakes, tarantu las, lizzards and other things that set the expressmen inwardly quaking. The latest remembrance arrived a few days ago. Tills was a box cut full of breathing holes and containing two tiny prairie dogs. Salmon are commencing to flash about in the Susquehanna and there should be some good fishing before very long. There are plenty of fish in the river at present and the wise sal mon fisher will go out and row around to get his places fixed. After October 1 the fish will be in fine form and there should be a repetition of last year's fishing at the dam. Dr. John M. Baldy, who was here yesterday, is the chairman of the State Bureau of Medical education and li censure and has had more to do with raising the standards for practicing medicine in this State than almost any one man. He had charge of the legis lation and has been the active spirit on theJ>oard. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. R. G. Burns, Pittsburgh health officer, says that public drinking glasses are the most dangerous dis ease spreaders. —M. Clyde Kelley, who Is figuring in political news nowadays, runs a newspaper in Braddock. —Geheral C. T. O'Neill, of the Third Brigade, who is going back to the border a furlough, says that the mobilization has been an excellent training. x —Joseph Farrar, prominent Phila delphia Red Man, was in charge of th ceremony at the national council when the new chiefs took office. —Bishop Rhinelander, of Philadel phia, Is home from a summer spent In Maine. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrlsburg is one of tho biff meat manufacturing centers of this section of the State. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The project of a dam in the river below the old Ferry was agitated 90 years ago. 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."] How does Hsrrisburg compare from a school standpoint with others of like size'.' ' Very favoraWv. Among school men generally Harrlsburg schools have a high standing. Spacing The parlor sofa holds the twain. Miranda and her love-sick swain, Heandshe. But hark! a step upon the stair, And pspa finds them sitting ther% He AQd she.
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