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MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 25
The way to heaven —turn to the
right and keep straight on.—Supr
geon.
THE "HARDSCRABBLE" DECISION
HARD common sense characterizes
the opinion of the Dauphin
county court In the "Hard
ecrabble" case. Judge McCarrell has
clearly and convincingly upheld the
contention of the city In all Important
particulars. Whatever else is in
volved in the litigation over the con
demnation of this strip along the river
may be determined, as the court sug
gests, on appeals from the awards of
the board of reviewers.
Many of the property owners in the
"Hardscrabble" district long ago In
dicated their satisfaction with the
amounts awarded by the viewers and
It is expected that City Solicitor Seitz,
who has ably represented the city in
the dispute, will at once tender the
necessary bonds and proceed to take
over the properties. Much time has
already been lost and as the one ques
tion remaining is one of compensatory
damages the work of demolishing the
buildings and clearing the ground
may proceed .without delay. It should
be possible tp make considerable
progress before cold weather.
Meanwhile City Council will doubt
less give full consideration to the pub
lic demand for bathing and boating
facilities. These are not matters for
private initiative and the municipal
authorities need wait no longer for
public sentiment to justify provision
for these things.
"With the elimination of the build
ings In the "Hardscrabble" section the
placing of the slope in proper condi
tion for park uses will follow as a
matter of course. Another great step
forward in the Improvement of the
city's matchless river front will then
have been taken and the charm of
the Susquehanna basin will be greatly
enhanced.
Another swing through the farming
country will give the Governor a still
better conception of the State's agri
cultural resources.
PRESIDENTS OPENING SPEECH
PRESIDENT WILSON opened his
porch campaign at Shadow Lawn
on Saturday with a speech that
must have been a great disappoint
ment to those Democrats who had ex
pected he would strike vigorously some
keynote that would attract to his
drooping standard thtse voters who
are trying earnestly to decide the
question of national leadership for the
next four years on a basis of sound
and constructive statesmanship. In
stead of outlining in clear-cut and un
mistakable language his views and
policies regarding the grave questions
now confronting the nation, instead of
displaying the great qualities of states
manship to which he pretends, the
President gave himself over wholly to
a weak and inadequate "explanation"
as to why he forced upon the country
a so-called eight-hour law that Is
nothing of the sort and which promises
not only to be a gold brick for those
whom it waa supposed to benefit, but a
•tumbling block for the government
for years to come.
President "Wilson is an extremely
plausible gentleman and none -will
deny the English language is most
ably and delightfully handled in this
as .in his other speeches and notes.
But there comes a time when even the
most complacent people demand more
action and fewer words. The voters
this Fall are not being fooled by the
long-winded "explanations" of the man
who can explain only half the things
that the people of the United States
wish to have explained.
Vera Cruz was never explained; the
Lusitania disaster is another un
answered puzzle. The hasty rush of
our untrained troops to the border at
the President's command has never
been satisfactorily elucidated—and for
the Piesldent to come forward now
with a long explanation supporting his
arbitrary nullification of the principle
of arbitration In the recent railroad
controversy is nothing short of insult
ing to the Intelligence of the voter.
"While arbitration was being dis
cussed," said the President in his
speech of Saturday, relating in detail
the history of his negotiations with
the two sideti to the railway wage dis
pute, "I had this sad thought: arbi
tration is a word associated with the
dealings of hostile Interests. It is an
alternative of war."
But that Is Just what the railroads
and the brotherhoods threatened—in
dustrial war. Can there be any
atronger proof, therefore, that the
President, dealt the principle of arbi
tration—a fundamental natiopal prin
ciple—a fearful blow by his much
MONDAY EVENING,
criticised course, and is it riot a pretty
clear reading of the President's mind
as that of a man obsessed with the
fear of war of any sort? The phrase
on many Hps, "He kept us out of war,"
sounds sweet in the President's ears,
but he underestimates In his zealous
appeal for votes on that scoro the
patriotic willingness of Americans to
defend their rights and the funda
mentals of their government at all
coat.
All the President's "explaining" will
not wipe out the fact that he yielded
to the demands of an Infinitesimal per
centage of the country's population
without regard for the 100,000,000
whose Interests were Interrelated.
When he told his audience that "the
business of government is to see that
no other organization is as strong as
itself, to see that no body or group of
men, whatever their private Interest Is,
may come Into competition with the
authority of' society," he convicted
himself of being guilty of a gross vio
lation of that very principle. It Is the
old, old story of fine words and deeds
exactly the opposite. "What shall we
say of a man who tenders the white
flag with one hand while with the
other he passes out to reporters In
waiting a high-sounding speech the
text of which Is "Die, But Never Sur
render"?
Governor Brumbaugh has an eye for
the beautiful and he has frequently re
marked: "Tour river front is the city's
greatest asset." He will be more than
gratified to learn that the Hardscrab
ble obstruction is now to go. .•
THE OLD SUSQUEHANNA TRAIL
HARRISBURG is to be made the
radial point of another series of
distinctly marked automobile tour
routes if the Snyder County Historical
Society's movement to bring tho his
toric lore of the Susquehanna Valley
into Its own so that It may be properly
appreciated by motorists Is successful.
No stream so teems with Indian legend
as tho Susquehanna; none Is more
closely associated with the early settle
ment of the State, and none Is more
picturesque. The route, or routes,
for there would be of necessity several,
It Is proposed to call the Susquehanna
Trail.
In a little circular published by the
society it is set forth that the route
would start at Harrlsburg and follow
the west bank of the Susquehanna
river through Marysville and Duncan
non, using the William Penn Highway
to Clark's Perry bridge, a distance of
about two miles.
The course would be thence north
through Liverpool, McKee's Half Falls,
Port Trevorton, Selinsgrove, Shamo
kin Dam, Northumberland. Danville,
Bloomsburg, Berwick, Shickshinny,
Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre and on to the
headwaters of the Susquehanna at
Lake Ostego, N. T.
It is pointed out that the trail could
be divided into three sections. The
north trail would be along the North
Branch, the west trail along the West
Branch and the main trail along the
river south of the confluence of the
branches at Northumberland.
The society suggests that as a dis
tinctive mark characterizes all the
highways and trails In the Common
wealth, It would be appropriate to in
dicate the proposed thoroughfare by
an Indian arrowhead, placed vertically
on a white background and surrounded
by a circle of red. which would be
visible at great distances and very
significant of the vanished race that
formerly inhabited the picturesque
Susquehanna Valley.
The West Branch trail would nat
urally begin at Northumberland, ex
tending through Milton, Watsontown,
Muncy, Montoursvllle, Williamsport,
Jersey Shore, Lock Haven and through
the northern tier counties, but would,
of course, have its southern terminus
in Harrlsburg.
The Selinsgrove News, which is
heartily back of the movement, calls
attention to the fact that New York
and New England States have become
famous in the automobile tourist world
in large measure by reason of the
identification of routes. "The scenery,
roads and public accommodations in
this valley compare favorably with
those of the famed sections, and it is
therefore believed by the community
historians the situation presents one
worthy of development," says the
News. "By appealingto the historic and
perpetuating the names of the red men
and their linos of travel the nearby
state people have to-day the Mohawk
Trail, the Seneca Trail, the Tuscarora
Trail, the Adirondack Trail and sev
eral others, and the circumstances are
no more worthy of recognition than
those the Snyder County Historical So
ciety proposes to put on the map."
Along the old Susquehanna Trail
flowed the traffic of the Indians and
the early settlers fringed its banks with
their cabins. Later the Conestoga
wagon and the stagecoach followed its
easy grades and touched upon its cen
ters o i population. When the canal
period arrived the ditch diggers of
necessity could not venture far from
its source of water supply and its
levels, and Anally the railroads came
and paralleled the line of the old canal.
Now we have reverted—or progressed
—to the public highway again and the
old Susquehanna Trail comes Into its
own at a bidder for automobile travel.
Sister counties should go to the aid of
the Snyder county historians In their
effort to mark and advertise this
famous road.
An enthusiastic Democrat has writ
ten a magazine article dn "Why Busi
nessmen Will Vote For Wilson." But
they won't, and they have their own
good reasons.
CIIVIL AND SNIVEL. SERVICE
PRESIDENT WILSON has the dis
tinction of being the head of the
only administration since 1883
that has not extended the merit sys
tem in the civil service. Wa have the
explanation in Vice-President Mar
shall's recent speech as reported by
the Indianapolis News, when he said:
Did I say "civil service" or
"snivel service?" They both mean
the same. We found the offices
well guarded by snivel service, and
our only regret was that we
couldn't ury more of the appointees
loose and fill their places with
Democrats. If there la any office
under the Government that a Dem
ocrat can't fill 1 believe that office
should be abolished.
II T>oOt lc* U
I'PtKKQlftauua
By the Ex-Committeeman
Men who have accompanied Gov
ernor Martin Q. Brumbaugh on his
two tours of the agricultural regions ]
of the Stato have been so much Im
pressed by the crowds which have
turned out to see the State's chief ex
ecutive that they are urging the Gov
ernor to assume the leadership of the
party in the state and to submit to the
voters at the November election the
question whether they will support
legislative candidates committed to
his program. It is considered ex
tremely likely that the Governor will
do so and go before the voters of Penn
sylvania for the second time In a year
for their endorsement. His friends say
that the conditions will be entirely
different In May the Governor sought
a political preference which would
carry with It the leadership of the Re
publican party In the Keystone State.
In November he will go to the people
after nearly two years of tenure of
office and ask endorsement of his ad
ministration. If a majority of legis
lators committed to his policies, from
social and Industrial legislation to local
option, are elected, he will be elected,
they hold.
The Governor plans to stop at York
to-morrow soon after the convention
of the State League of Republican
Clubs begins its convention and his
friends from Philadelphia and eastern
counties arc planning to raise the roof
f6r him. Ho will be strongly endorsed
in the resolutions.
That the Governor intends to make
a keynote speech Is Indicated by re
marks in the course of an interview
given by him to the Philadelphia Led
ger last night when he outlined his
speech to be made at York. He said:
"I shall outline as nearly as possible
the manner in which I think the Re
publican party of Pennsylvania should
face the future. It will be a program
which, if followed, should make the
party impregnable in the next twenty
years, and may require all of that time
to be translated into law. Not all of
these recommendations can be carried
out at once, but if we keep steadily
hammering away at them they will
arrive in time. All of my recom
mendations will be constructive, a pro
vision of the Republican party's des
tiny, perhaps for a generation, as I
behold It now. I shall deal with none
of the small, petty questions regarding
leadership, but will declare that the
leadership must be progressive, must
be in touch with the people and must
have a stimulating influence on the
future of the party. The next twenty
vears may be required to put all these
Into effect, but we want to start at
once, and it is high time that the at
tention of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania was called to their essen
tial bearing on the future success of
the party, not to speak of the greater
matter, of prosperity and welfare of
the people of Pennsylvania."
Suffragists of the state have re
quested a hearing before the Repub
lican State committee, which will meet
In the near future in Philadelphia. In
a letter to State Chairman William E.
Crow, Mrs. George B. Orlady, president
of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage
Association, writing on September 22,
announces that the committee will be
a.sked to give a hearing to a suffrage
delegation and pass a strong resolution
favoring woman suffrage in Pennsyl
vania which will pledge the support
of all Republican organizations in the
effort to secure a second woman suf
frage referendum in 1920. Mrs. Orlady
In announcing the request says that it
will be demonstrated conclusively
whether or not national Republican
party platforms are binding upon Re
publicans in the various states. Mrs.
Orlady declares that if the national
party platforms are what they profess
to be, Republicans of Pennsylvania,
who will have seats In the next Legis
lature, will vote unanimously for the
woman suffrage bill to be introduced,
and in accordance wfth the woman
suffrage plank in the national Repub
lican party platform will favor suffrage
for women in Pennsylvania in 1920.
—While, the League of Clubs Is In
session at York to-morrow and Wednes
day Candidate Charles Evans Hughes
will bo meeting the Republicans of
Western Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh.
The Governor will enter Pennsylvania
after his Ohio tour on Tuesday night
and will be in Pittsburgh for a rousing
big meeting on Wednesday. Senator
Boies Penrose and Senator George T.
Oliver will be with him In Pittsburgh.
—State Chairman William E. Crow
and other officials of the Republican
state committee will be guests of the
Republican League of Clubs at York
this week. Senator Crow will probably
make a brief address.
—-Philander C. Knox plans to make
half a dozen visits this week and has
a pretty'stiff schedule if he expects to
keep all of his engagements.
—Northern tier men are trying to
work up some enthusiasm for W. P.
I-iongrstreet \or senator against ex-Sen
ator FrankV E. Baldwin. Baldwin,
from all accounts, has a good start in
the race.
'—Tho Central Democratic Club is to
visit Shadow Lawn on October 14 along
with some 2,500 other Democrats. It
will be a great day for the machine
Democrats and the Federal officehold
ers. They will pay their own fare.
—Senator E. E. Beidleman seems to
have opened the campaign pretty well
in his Middletown speech. His discus
sion of Dauphin county matters was
heard with interest.
—Kate Richards O'Hare. a noted
Socialist speaker, is to visit this sec
tion. She will speak hero on Octo
ber 14.
—Plans to stimulate registration are
reported from a number of the smaller
cities. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
appear to have the best of it.
—The Philadelphia ledger in a
Washington dispatch yesterday lam
basted the Democrats who talk about
Wilson carrying Pennsylvania. The
article seems to think that National
Chairman McCormick is just, amusing
the party during the early days of the
campaign by intimating possibility of
the state being debatable.
—Pinchot's latest attack says WiJ
son has ignored conservation. Brother
Amos If. about due to be heard from
on thai score.
—Edwin O. Lewis, prominent In
Democratic and reform circles In
Philadelphia for years, is out for
Hughes.
—The platform committee of the
Republican state committee will meet
this week. So will the revision of the
rules committee.
—Socialists are reported to have lost
heavily in registration In New Castle
and Reading, two of their strongholds.
Let George Do It
This is the essay of a Filipino sailor
who was told to write about George
Washington:
"George Wassingham was sore foe
cnuse America! persons is not free.
He sale to England on (naming his
own battleship) ship and say to king,
'I express declaraclon of indypenpen
dence for American persons." King he
say "Nothin* doin" ' and Mr. Wassing
ham tell Admiral Dewey to shoot tur
ret guns at him. Blme-by king, he
fay he will not rule Americal persons
again. 'Let George do it' say king and
to-day Americal persons is free." —Th®
Pathfinder.
BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
TEACHER'S PET ~~
DEBAEL. In Chicago Ei
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1
• —For a talkative man. William Jen
nings Bryan is keeping uncommonly
quiet.
—The Lewlstown woman who gave
up a pension of SSO a month to marry is
going to have something to hand her
husband in any family debates that
may arise.
—"What did Ben Bolt?" asks an ex
change. It's not what did Ben Bolt,
but why did Ben Bolt, If Sweet Alice
was such a fine girl?
—Rice having gone up in price may
not be a misfortune: perhaps now
they'll stop putting rice soup on the
menu so often.
—Skirts are to be longer this Fall,
and hosiery at once shows signs of
running to more subdued colors.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Germany has distributed 430,000 iron
crosses and some millions of wooden
ones.—Wall Street Journal.
Carranza wants to hear a jingle in
his treasury. Rut if it's loud enough
it will start another revolution.—At
lanta Constitution.
Why all this talk about the Russians
taking Musn? Why don't they tackle
something hard?— Nashville Southern
Lumberman.
Much of the fugitive verse that Is
cluttering up magazine-columns these
days apparently is fugitive from justice.
—Newark News.
Unfortunately, the public has no way
to compel United States Senators to
work eight hours a day.—Philadelphia
North American.
Courting Parlors
Many have deplored the tendency
of the boys and girls to leave the old
farm for the allurements of city life.
Sometimes, as our melodrama tells us,
they come back disillusioned, some
times with money to pay the mort
gage. In any case they would do bet
ter to stay at home. Governor Brum
baugh makes the timely suggestion
that the lack of courting facilities
is one reason for their restlessness.
He would have a "courting parlor,"
if necessary, in every farmhouse in
Pennsylvania. It should be sacred
from little Willie, or even from moth
er. The rustic lover is traditionally
shy and easily scared off. He no
longer conducts his love affairs with
the pastoral simplicity of the
"Georgics." He would not adventure
to sport with Amaryllis in the shade.
"Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown
An' peeked in thru the winder,
An' there sot Huldy all alone,
'ith no one nigh to hender."
Huldy must be alone Jf Zekle is to
summon up his courage and go In.
If he has no chance to confess his
passion, he will go to town, as the
Governor says, "to spark some woman
there." And then the lure of the city,
which the Governor somewhat unfair
ly sums up as "the five-cent movies,"
gets him.
Pity the sorrows of the country lad!
But pity those too of the lad who lives
in town. Has the "steady" a court
ing parlor? Not often. She is bound
by the heavy laws of the res angustae
doml. Father sits in the sole room
available for company reading the
evening paper. Mother comes in from
the kitchen to tell Willie It is time
to go to bed. There is no opportunity
for the tender nothings that make up
the sum of courtship. When the
weather is too cold to sit in the pnrk
there is no other resource. Some of
the homes for girls who have none of
their own wisely provide for this em
ergency. May their number increase
like the tribe of Ben Adhem! Earnest
students of sociology have paid too
scant attention to the courting par
lor. The Governor gives good advice
which they should eagerly follow.—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Priests Fight For France
(Abbe Oaell, In L/Iliustration.)
When the history of the great war
Is written, one of the finest chapters
will be dedicated to the heroism of
"France's soldier priests." Berving
as private or military chaplains to the
troops, they have shed fresh lu3tre on
the glory of France.
•
MRS. JANE DEETER RIPPIN
MENDER OF BROKEN HEARTS
STANLEY JOHNSON, writing in
the October American Magazine
under the caption, "A Mender of
Broken Hearts," has this to say of
Mrs. Jane Deeter Rlppin, who before
her marriage was Miss Jane Deeter,
of this city, where she is very well
known:
Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin might
well be called "The Mender of Broken
Hearts." But Philadelphia's judicial
stamping machine has fciven her the
less direct and less euphonious title
of Supervisor of the Probation De
partments of Domestic Relations,
Criminal and Misdemeanor Branches
of the Municipal Court.
This name seems altogether too
much of an extra load to be carried
by a woman who in 1915 —she has
shown me the advance type proofs of
the story of her work for the last
year—accomplished these splendid re
sults:
One thousand warring couples
restored to harmonious family
life.
Three thousand children saved
from the blighting effects of be
ing reared by strangers.
Three hundred and ninety
seven indigent parents relieved
from want and the possibility of
institutional care.
Three thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two husbands forced to
recognize their rosponsibllties to
their wives and children.
Mrs. Rlppin is smoothing out do
mestic wrangles in the City of Broth
erly Love with always increasing suc
cess —to the utter dismay of those le
gal sharks who supply divorces at a
fixed rate. She is an interpretive
physchologlst, revealing to married
men and women the folly of their
quarrels. Before she began her work,
two years ago. Mrs. Rippin studied
the manner of the divorce courts.
Since then she has built up a wonder
ful organization for healing hearts.
There are sc\ienty-soven persons
working under Mrs. Rlppin's direc
tions, day and night. The number of
nonsupporting and deserting husband
cases average one hundred and elghty
flve a day. When an afflicted wife
appears at room 578 in Philadelphia's
twenty-flve-milion-dollar City Hall,
she meets an officer of the court, then
files a statement of the grievance, and
receives an identification number.
Then comes an interview in which
the applicant is given the fullest free
dom and sympathy. She is made to
realize that she is going to be helped.
When the story is finished, it is fully
recorded on a second form. The
woman is told to return in a week.
A letter is then sent to the offending
husband, and he is asked to call for
a friendly talk in five days. Nine
times out of ten he comes. Another
interviewer listens to his side of the
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WANTS MOKE OF MAGGIE
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sir: Jerry's punk—so say all
of us. Give us more of—Days of Real
Sport and Maggie.
A Southern Reader.
Pet Whale Killed
.No more will travelers on the liners
be greeted with the spout of "Faral
lone Charley," the mammoth gray
back whale which has for years
greeted vessels off the Golden Gate.
Cy WUmarth, chief steward on the
steamer Matsonia, from Honolulu,
brought the news that on the outgo
ing trip "Farrallone Charley" was
sighted in a death duel with another
and larger whale.
Passengers on the liner witnessed
the uneven contest for half an hour.
When the Matsonia arrived here
and it was learned that a dead whale
had floated on the beach below Point
Sur, an 4 as their pet whale did not
greet them on the way into port the
officers aboard the liner have con
cluded that "Farralone Charley" had
been vanquished. San Francisco
Chronicle.
SEPTEMBER 25, 1916. ,
case, and he is given the same sym
pathetic attention accorded to his
wife.
The data obtained from the two in
terviews is carefully studied for the
next step, a face-to-face meeting of
husband and wife. The stories of each
have been carefully analyzed, and at
this stage in the proceedings Mrs. Rip
pin's real work of mending begins.
"We have a few tignts here every
day," she says. "I believe in bringing
a man and woman together in this of
fice and letting them scrap it out. We
frequently have fist tights, and have
to separate the fighters. But are not
a few blows worth It, when the dis
cussion involves the bringing up of
five or six children? Whatever it is
that has been boiling inside the mail
and woman boils out of them."
But the wife-husband conference is
always informal —and generally peace
ful. The cases of first complaints to
the Probation Department in 1915
numbered 4,287, and the restorations
to a happy and married existence
numbered 1,004. Four events may
happen at this conference; a recon
ciliation; further investigation and
visits to people who know the belliger
ents; a voluntary agreement for the
payment of money lor support, and
the last desperate step of a warrant
to appear before the formal court.
Every effort is made to avoid the
fourth move. Last year Mrs. Rippln's
assistants paid 19,293 visits and talked
with 27,224 people before the erring
husband was submitted to the com
pelling power of the law.
When love cannot be revived, and
It becomes a dollar-and-cents proposi
tion, Mrs. Rippln's workers look
sharply after collections. While de
partment stores make an allowance of
ten per cent, for collecting from un
willing debtors, Mrs. Rippin's collec
tions cost only three and one-half per
cent.; and she took, last year, $409,-
329 from husbands who had pre
viously ceased to give anything!
"Marry in haste and repent at leis
ure' is a belief not borne out here.
"In a thousand typical cases," says
Mrs. Rippin, "most of them were
found to be those men and women
who had known each other from one
to two years.
"Another theory upset," she con
tinued, "is the one that furnished
rooms and tenements breed domestic
trouble. More than half of all the
trouble in the thousand cases analyzed
was in families living in rented
houses, not small three-room houses
either, but comfortable five-room
dwellings."
Another finding from Mrs. Rippin's
interesting data is the destructive
agency of religious differences. There
is more trouble arising from those
married by religious rites than by
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Our Daily Laugh
OUT OP BUSI-
NESS.
You've got no
Kir <s® chance with the
summer girl un-
T ,eßs you're a
' HJH youn ® fellow.
Jtejk They won't look
£*B® at us old bald
hea-dB.
f ° f fourse hot
—They are after
scalp*.
kt3 ATLirrnvr.
Tommy's Aant-
Won't you have
another piece of
cake. Tommy? : j
Tommy (on a Mprtkrf
visit)—No, thank j)
Tommy's Aunt Ejp
You seem to be
suffering from
loss of appetite. "V "7"
Tommy That IS
ain't loss of ap< 1 ,
petite. What I'm
suffering from to
DOIIUaMB.
Ebettittg (Cljat
! It would be Interesting to trace th®
history of the efforts to give tho city
right to the houses on the river bank
known as "Hardserabble," "Duck
town," and other names, which the
decision of the Daupnin county court
appears to settle so that only ques
tion of consideration for properties is
to be determined. Fifty years or
more ago it was pretty generally un
derstood that it was only a short time
until the city would take the houses.
When the city limits were marked out
anew and the streets plotted in 1860
or thereabouts the men In the com
mission were eager to have the city
take over the properties which had
been built on the bank above HeflT
street and which had been there from
the days of the old logging taverns.
It is said that the estimate of the com
missioners was that It would take
about $40,000. That sum waa con
sidered to be exorbitant, as it prob
ably was for that time, but it would
have been money well spent. In any
event the idea was squelched. When
the city woke up and began public Im
provements in the year 1902 it was
again a mater for discussion and sev
eral ordinances having that end in
view were presented only to die after
some hearings. Tho decision of the
Dauphin county court will not only
settle the question for this district,
but establish a precedent which will
give the city right to Its chief orna
ment, the riverside.
"When Paul N. Furman reached
Berwick last Thursday on the agricul
tural tour ho discovered that a front
tire was "down." He proceeded to re
place it with a spare tire. As he put
the tools back under the seat, after
strapping the deflated tire on the run
ning board, there was a distressing
and prolonged "h-i-s-s-s-s" from the
rear. A rear tire went down. Stand
ing alongside it when it punctured
was Thomas Lynch Montgomery,
State librarian, so that Furman
naturally blames Montgomery. Later
in the day Furman collected nail No.
3, and Montgomery has some reason
for saying Thursday's run was a
punctural, and not agricultural, tour.
J. Denny O'Neil, insurance commis
sioner, was far back In the line dur
ing last week's tour. The dust on
Thursday was frightful. Mr. O'Neil
hurried to the station to catch a
Pittsburgh train. A Pullman porter
saw what he thought was steam com
ing in clouds from the mouth of the
puffing Insurance commissioner. But
it wasn't steam: Just dust. O'Neill
was still exhaling dust Friday after
noon, come reports from Pittsburgh.
"What does the $1 membership fee
get for the member?" a "prospect"
asked an official of the William Penn
Highway Association, the other day.
"Well," said the official, "it gets a
lapel button, a membership card, a
map of the road, permission to use it
any hour of the day or night (the
road), a car of the flivver variety, two
extra tires, a policy Insuring the mem
ber against accident, theft or Are, a
tire pump, a quart of boracic acid
solution and an eye cup, and four
quarts of huckleberries in season."
"Is that all?" asked the prospect.
"That's all this year," was the reply,
"but next year we substitute a twin
six for the flivver."
Baseball Is not dead in Harrisburg
by any means. There is a new field,
and every day the sun shines a spirit
ed game is in progress, morning and
afternoon. The field is located on the
southwest corner of the post office plot.
The players are newsboys and other
urchins who stop off on their way
from a swim in the river. They have
a ball. The bats are any old piece of
wood ,that may be picked up. Nines
are picked, and while the diamond is
not of regulation size, the contests
tract much attention. It is the ginger
the boys put in the game that at
tracts the outsiders. There is no um
pire, and all kicks are settled by ar
gument. The other day the score was
2 to 1. No names were given the
teams, and when the game ended the
defeated captain remarked: "We will
be on hand to-morrow and get even
with you." He kept his word.
• * •
Farmers In this section of the State
| have taken notice of the price of
i potatoes are selling and if all accounts
: are to be believed there have been
j comparatively few sold and they have
brought high prices. The farmers ap
i pear to be holding their potatoes and
I also sorting them. More attention is
being paid to grading than for a
I long time.
• •
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State com
missioner of health, who is the new
president of the State Medical so
ciety, is a member of probably more
learned societies than any one con
nected with the State government. He
is an honorary member of societies in
other States and countries.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Walter Lyon, chairman of the
Republican platform committee, had
charge of the platform drafting two
years ugo.
—S. Emlen Meigs, of Philadelphia,
is urging that the city t!ke more steps
to preserve Grant's cabin in the Fair
mount park.
—R. F. Randolph, long connected
with the Bethlehem steel plants, has
been made general manager of a new
| steel works in Nova Scotia.
—Captain Clyde M. Smith, of Sun
bury, is in command of the troopa
which left for the border from Mt.
Gretna Saturday.
—Fred W. Willard, who will pre
side at the League of Republican
clubs, is a former legislator.
| DO YOU KNOW |
That Harrlsburg knit goods
have a wide sale in Northern
States?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Steam navigation on the Susque
hanna began in the twenties.
Where the Good Live Lon>
[From the Yuba County (Cal.) Ex
change.]
The man who got the contract for
feeding the county prisoners here at
25 ceiits the meal has closed up shop
and given up his contract. There
hasn't been a single prisoner in the
county Jail for more than half a year.
County Clerk Alvln Wels has not
Issued a marriage license for three
months, and the city marshal has only
had one official duty to perform in a
year. He killed a sick dog.
All the undertaking establishments
have closed up and if the Yuba City
people die they have to call in the
Msrysville undertakers. The postofllce
still keeps open every day.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Qulz."l
What other revenue except taxes are
received by School Board?
State appropriation, t46.000.00,
i and a small amount from tuition
I and interest.