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BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9
In this world it is not what we take
up, but what we give up that makes us
rick. —B EEC her.
BRINGING THE WAR TO I S
HAVING with impunity slapped the
face of the Wilson administra
tion, the German Imperial Gov
ernment Is now completing the pro
cess of humiliation by wiping its feet
on the mangled remains. Sticking
its ugly nose into an American harbor
Just long enough to let us know of
Its presence, a German submarine has
begun a surprising war on tho coast
wise and ocean-going vessels of allied
shipping and black-listed neutral
boats. Possibly tho Germans have
kept within their legal rights. That
question cannot be decided fully until
all of the reports of the numerous
attacks of Sunday are officially filed.
But the effect cannot bo other than
to bring to the American mind more
clearly and forcibly than over before
the horrors of submarine warfare, and
one shot at an unwarned ship carry
ing Americans will bring down upon
the head of Germany the long pent
up wrath of the American people de
spite the shilly-shallying of a wobbling
President.
The ravages of tho U-53 in Amer
ican waters plunge tho country into
a new crisis, and one from which even
the weak-kneed policy of the Wilson
administration scarcely will be able
to crawl out if it is found that the sea
raider has overstepped the bounds of
international law. One fialse step, and
the President must good
his threats of retaliation or submit to
the imperial boot upon his neck.
E% T idently, Germany haycounted upon
the latter. The President has let the
Kaiser have his way before, so why
not now? The German admiralty
knew full well the risk it ran in send
ing the U-boat to these waters. Evi
dently It felt safe In any eventuality.
It scarcely would have taken such
chances with a firm, courageous man
in the White House. But It reckons
without the temper of the American
people.
The melancholy days have come, tlit
saddest of the year." Thus sang Wil
liam Cullen Bryant of the autumn sea
son. HIB plaintive words find an echo
in the Federal Treasury, where on the
first days of Fall (September 21) the
deficit for the fiscal year to date was
shown to be $45,248,218. Last year at
that time the deficit was J32.140.550. The
expenditures since June 30 were stated
at $206,473,149, as against $170,341,81S
for the same period last year.
THE HAHRISBURG S. P. C. A.
OCCASIONALLY some one says
patronizingly, "The S. P. C. A.,
that is the society that bothers
Itself with dogs and cats—when there
is so much other suffering in the
world!"
Such a sneer argues a total miscon
ception of the aims of the Harris
burg S. P. C. A. and of what it has
accomplished since it was chartered
May 2, 1911, Moreover, there are
fifty agencies to ease that "other
suffering" to one that "bothers Itself"
with animals.
Modern Intelligence is doing all it
can, not only to relieve Buffering but
to remove the cause. Economists,
psychologists, scientific philanthrop
ists are bending all their energies to
promot tho happiness of the world.
What a sorry thing It would be to
limit the right to happiness, freedom
from suffering, to man.
Man, weak and oppressed though he
be, can to a certain extent fight his
own battles; animals must put up with
whatever Is handed to them. Until
the lost fifty years this meant. In many
cases, sheer brutality. Then came
Henry Berg, Gcorgo T. Angell, Caro
line Earl White and other pioneer
humanitarians, who against scorn, op
position, often persecution, determined
to give animals a chance.
The first step in Pennsylvania was
the anti-cruelty law of 1869. This
Act of Assemlfly was drastic and
sufficient—lf enforced. Five years
ago the Harrlsburg S. p. q. A. was
formed to ensure that enforcement;
also to develop a feeling of kindness
to all animals. From modest be
ginnings It has (irmly established itself
as a live, powerful agency for the
protection of animals In its jurisdic
tion of Dauphin. Perry and Cumber
land counties.
There Is nothing visionary In the
ideals or the methods of this Society.
Knowing that cruelty usually comes
from ignorance and opportunity, It has
educated public opinion through
Bands of Mercy and children's leagues
In the schools, through instructive
Alms and newspapur propaganda; and
has curtailed opportunity by the
eternal vigilance ot a paid police
officer who prevents cruelty when he
can, prosecutes it when he must. It
also employs a paid veterinary to eec
that stray animals are mercifully
killed.
Sometimes people question not the
motives of the society, but the exist
ence of cruelty. A day at headquar
ters would speedily convince them. In
the past two months over two hundred
complaints were investigated and
more than eight hundred visits of
supervision to dumps, stables, points
of heavy hauling and the markets
were paid.
One complaint, from Perry county,
was of such flagrant brutality as to
convince the most sceptical of cruelty.
An intoxicated man drove his horse
until it fell and broke one leg;
managing to get it up he lashed the
poor beast for over a mile, with the
bone sticking through the flesh, until
it fell again with the other leg broken.
The case was reported, the agent of
the Harrlsburg S. P. C. A. promptly
prosecuted and the man was fined.
Though conditions have greatly im
proved since 1911, this is but one of
many cases calling for the interfer
ence of the society. Though run on
careful business principles, it costs
about SI,OOO a year to finance it. This
must be met by dues, special contri
butions and fines. With the campaign
of education and decrease of cruelty
the fines have also decreased.
The society now finds Itself without
funds; has been forced to borrow
money. It asks tho generous support
of the public In this crisis. Must Its
humane work stop? Are we willing
to see animals once more brutally
treated—as they will bo without a
watchful agent? It Is up to the peo
ple.
The way the Democrats wanted Tatt
and Roosevelt to get together was In a
ten-foot ring without gloves.
If these are the "melancholy days,"
we wonder what bright, pleasant
weather would be like.
THE WAY TO TREAT MEXICO
IN the Ladies' Home Journal Presi
dent Wilson writes about Mexico.
He says that "America will honor
herself and prove the validity of her
own principles by treating Mexico as
she would wish Mexico to treat her."
Much as we admire the President's
use of language, we cannot help
thinking that something like this has
been said before—and said much bet
ter: "Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them; for this Is the
law and the prophets." Matthew
vil, 7.
And He who spoke thus, nineteen
hundred years before Mr. Wilson,
practiced what He preached.
Mr. Wilson did not. He said that
Huerta should not assume the presi
dency of Mexico and forbade him
even to become a candidate for the
place in a constitutional manner. Does
Wilson want Carranza to say that Wil
son shall not be President of the
United States? Is that the way we
want Mexico to treat us?
Wilson seized the custom house at
Vera Cruz and he collected a million
dollars in duties there which he
still keeps—because Huerta didn't
salute the American flag. Does Wil
son want Mexico to treat us that way?
Wilson permitted arms and am
munition to bo shipped down into
Mexico to be used by rebels against
such government as existed there. In
case Chief Murphy and the Tammany
tribe should decide to wage martial
instead of political warfare on Wilson,
would Wilson want Mexico to supply
the Tammany braves with the means
to carry on their armed rebellion?
The fact is that Wilson has not let
America treat Mexico as she would be
treated. He has insisted on treating
Mexico in accordance with his own
shifting as to men and conditions
down there. That is .not the way to
treat Mexico. The way to treat
Mexico is to demand and to be pre
pared to enforce the treaty and other
rights of Americans resident there.
"What would you have done?" shout
ed a Democratic heckler at Hughes in
Tennessee. "I would have protected
American rights," replied Hughes.
That is the way to treat Mexico.
You Just can't keep Harrisburg
swimmers out of the water; not even
Old Man October had any terrors for
them yesterday.
Here's hoping Harrisburg does as well
with its million-dollar hotel fund as
Bethlehem did with its bridge subscrip
tion.
BY THE SOUTH FOR THE SOUTH
THE Houston Post attempts an
other answer to the accusation
that "the South is'iri the sad
dle." The Post approaches the ques
tions from an angle on the flank, and
presents a list of Southern men who
have been elected to pifice In the
North, instancing Senators Lewis,
Harris, Poindexter. Chamberlain and
Newlands to show that there is noth
ing in the charge of sectionalism. But
the list itself gives emphasis to the Is
sue. No Northerners are ever elected
to high position by the ruling party
in tho South. The Democrats of the
South are thoroughly narrow and par
ochial in their views and they do not
practice reciprocity for the men of
their section who have" come North
and secured political success. The
North, as we have so many times
said, is national In thought and action
—and it Is this -which makes Southern
domination so Irritating, because the
South does not look beyond its own
borders, does not consider any but its
own purposes. No one in the North
wishes to mulct tho South, aa, for in
stance, tho South mulcts the North,
with direct taxation. Southerners who
come North are welcome in all enter
prises, political, religious or indus
trial. "Tho South is in the saddle"
and sits there as the South. When the
North rules, it administers the govern
ment as Tor all the people.
That U-B3 seems to bo nn A-l boat
Some newspapers try to explain the
light vote in most Democratic pri
maries as duo to a lack of contests. A
The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS
I
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lack of Democrats, however, is the real
cause.
William F. McCombs was nominated
for Senator in New York against the
desires of President Wilson and Crown
Prince McAdoo. He will not be elected,
of course; but his success in the pri
maries indicates how New York Demo
crats feel toward the administration.
A New York up-State banker predicts
a shortage in all kinds of fodder except
hay—thank heaven our breakfast foods
are safe.
Republicans in New Jersey polled
187,414 votes; the Democrats 119,513.
The answer is plain.
I "foUtCcj. U
I"~Pe.JVKO If tc&IUA,
By tho Ex-Coiumlttecman
Indications are that the Republican
State committee will stand upon the
national platform as has been done by
the Democratic State committee in
this campaign. The Democrats adopt
ed resolutions which dealt witlT na
tional matters at their meeting hero
in June and have apparently seen no
occasion to change it. The Republicans
will probably do likewise.
The State committee is meeting this
afternoon in Philadelphia with men
from all over the State in attendance
and the candidates on hand to make
addresses. It Is doubtful whether lk>v
ernor Brumbaugh will attend The
meeting.
To-night the members of the State
committee will attend the big Hughes
meeting. Mr. Hughes will lie the only
speaker at the meeting. Ho will be
met at Trenton by a committee and be
escorted to the city and given a not
able welcome. The two United States
Senators and the Governor and his
staff will welcome him with a com
mittee of eminent citizens.
—Registration appears to be trou
bled with the same apathy as the na
tional campaign. None of the parties
has registered what was expected.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh both
show falling off and Seranton and
Wilkes-Barre are-not up to two years
ago. Reading is the only city to make
a good return and it is within 47 of
the record. Easton registered only
5,500. Pottsville showed a Democra
tic loss of 1,000 citizens who refused
to declare politics.
—The official returns will come in
to-day and to-morrow and something
like an estimate will then be possible.
—Speaking in Philadelphia Satur
day Governor Brumbaugh said that he
expected to see Hughes get 125,000
PI urality in Pennsylvania with ease.
—The Clarion county bar has given
Justice Walling a notable endorse
ment. Other up-State lawyers' organi
zations are lining up for the justice.
—Candidate Hughes will come
through this section of the State to
morrow, leaving Philadelphia for
Chambcrsburg during tho morning.
From that point, where ho is to make
a brief speoch, he goes to Hagerstown.
Mr. Hughes will speak at tho Union
station plaza to-morrow morning.
—Philadelphia policemen and all city
employes are earnestly agitating an
increase in pay.
—Fifteen Wilkes-Barre policemen,
who resigned because ordered to ride
on street cars, will be replaced at
once.
—Republicans of Upper Bucks
county had a big meeting at Quaker
town on Saturday and arranged the
campaign. The Bucks Republican or
ganization is a strong one this year.
• —-Philander C. Knox will open the
Westmoreland county campaign at
Greensburg on Wednesday when the
district and legislative candidates will
speak with him.
—Tho Philadelphia North American
accuses Democratic National Chair
man McCormlck of forgotting some
thing in his eagerness* to run the na
tional campaign. It twits him because
he was called from the Job of "saving
Pennsylvania for Wilson" to "the task
of directing party maneuvers." It
adds that ho "seemingly left his local
option convictions behind him In cold
storage."
—William Flinn, who Is one of the
Republican candidates for presidential
elector, does not agree with some of
the men who object to the present
primary and Judicial nomination laws
and says he would oppose any change.
Speaking at Pittsburgh, tho former
senator said: "Tho direct primary and
the nonpartisan ballot laws were se
cured after years of effort by a ma
jority of tho people that believed
Pennsylvania should have tjie advan
tage of thetjc advanced laws, and, In
my Judgment, a very largo number of
these people would quickly turn In re
sentment against any party which In
Its platform sought to strtko them
down. Instead of returning to tho oldj
system. I think wo should strive to en
large upon the new one; improve it by
broadening it. The state-wide primary
should be supplemented with the State
pamphlet, delivered to every votor,
setting forth the party platforms, rec
ords of tho candidates and accurate
details of the campaign from an un
biased standpoint, so that the electors
may be fully informed. The only
trouble with the state-wide primary
act is that it has not been extended far
enough, and the same fault is to be
found with the nonpartisan ballot act."
The Philadelphia Inquirer has this
to say about the registration in that
city: "The total registration of voters
in Philadelphia for the presidential
election will be under 290,000. Re
turns from all of the forty-eight wards
with thirty-four precincts to be heard
from give a total registration of
250,109 for the three days this Fall.
The registration for the mayoralty pri
maries, when a battle between the
McNichol-Penrose and Vare forces
was impending for the nomination of
a successor to Blankenburg, totaled
303,183, while the registration for the
November election prior to that con
test, when Penrose and Brumbaugh
were candidates, was 289,720. The
total for Saturday, up to date, is 84,972,
and the missing districts may bring
this to 90,000. The total for the first
registration day this year was 92,624
and for the second 102,513. The total
Republican enrollment in the city to
date is 223.981, Democratic 32,249,
Washington 2.1G9, Keystone 647, Pro
hibition 282 and Socialist 1,4 00. Sup
porters of Hughes are elated on the
l)ig Republican lead, while the Wilson
men are keenly disappointed on tho
small showing made in the Democratic
enrollment."
Mr. Kennedy's Party
Writing of the Kennedy party at
fcnggrd Edge, Girard in the Philadel
phia Public Ledger on Saturday said:
"President Moorehead C. Kennedy of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad, to
day gives his big party at Bagged
Edge, Chambersburg. It is an annual
affair and is much the most famous
entertainment given in Pennsylvania.
"Colonel A. K. McClure used to say
that he and Mr. Kennedy's father were
kej>t busy during the Civil war turn
ing Chambersburg over to Cofffederate
armies.
"It ia the duty of the present head
of the Kennedy family to act as a
sort of godfather to the entire Cum
berland Valley and host-in-chief to
the State at large. His hospitality
makes Chambersburg the yearly cov
eted Mecca of a notable gathering of
railroad and hank officials.
"I doubt if any other railroad presi
dent on the continent who heads so
important a lino as ho holds quite the
unique relations with a great com
munity that are enjoyed by Mr. Ken
nedy.
"A long special train carries to Mr.
Kennedy's party from Philadelphia a
great number of this town's men who
do big things.
"Here is a fact about that train that
may interest you. It will have on
board at least $4,000,000 worth of ac
cident Insurance.
"That is n4t an aspersion on the
'Pennsy,' which has not killed a pas
senger for some years, but it indicates
what a prudent, lot of folks railroad
officials are. They take no chances.
1 am reliably informed by an insur
ance man who knows the facts defi
nitely that this particular train will
haul more accident insurance than
was ever hauled before upon any train
in the world.
"Policies of SIOO,OOO will be as prev
alent as gestures at a French picnic.
And there will he some a great deal
larger than that."
Two Lincoln Stories
Many of the stories told about Lin
coln at the Illinois bar represent him
in anything but a dignified light. But
they are a part of the character of the
man, says Francis F. "Browne in "The
Every Day Life of Abraham Lincoln,"
and should he kept in remembrance
■where there is reason to suppose they
are usually full of irresistible humor.
The Youth's Companion repeats these:
On a certain trial Lincoln appeared
against his friend. Judge Logan. It
was a suit betwlen two farmers who
had had a disagreement over a horse
trade. On the day. of the trial, Mr.
Logan, having bought a new shirt
open in the back with a huge stand
ing collar, dressed himself in extreme
haste, and put on the shirt with the
bosom at the back, a linen coat con
cealing the blunder. He dased the
Jury with his "horse" knowledge; and
as the day was sultry, he took off his
coat and "summed up" in his shirt
sleeves. Lincoln, sitting behind him,
took in the situation, and when his
turn came he said:
"Gentlemen, Mr. Logan has been
trying to make you believe he knows
more about a horse than those honest
old farmers who are witnesses. Now,
gentlemen, I submit to you" (here he
lifted I-*>gan out of his chair and
turned him with his back to the Jury
and the crowd, at the same time flap
ping up the enormous standing col
lar), "what dependence can you place
THE TURKEY THAT WOULD
BUILD A HOUSE, BUT DIDN'T
THERE is a negro story of a turkey
who, every time it snowed, drew
his feathers about him and firm
ly resolved to build him a house. But
before he could decide where to build,
or what kind of a house, the sun came
out and he would shake out his feath
ers, strut around and say to himself:
"Nobody wants to be in a house on a
day like this," and the result was he
froze to death one winter night.
There are a lot of people in the
same frame of mind as t;he turkey.
When things are going wrong, work
is slack, times are hard, sickness or
accident comes and their money is
gone, they firmly resolve that in the
future they will take care of their
money and look out for the rainy
day; build them a house, as it were;
but as soon as things right themselves,
they forgot their good resolution and
the next time of need finds them as
ill prepared as ever.
Most of us are merely grown-up
children. We want what we want
when wo want it. We live day by
day. To-morrow is a vague uncer
tainty to us. The boy will gorge him
self with green apples in June and
forget that there is a physical law
against eating green apples. To-mor
fow he will find it out, and may re
solve not to eat green apples again;
but a good resolution never gets a
man anywhere unless he keeps it.
Many a New Year's promise is made
only to be broken and pledges are
signed only to be forgotten. How
many a man has resolved to stop
drinking when drinking has brought
him in court! He should have stop
ped before.
Thousands of men have firmly re
solved that they would start a savings
bank account, made a deposit or two,
and then quit. An examination of the
books of any savings bank will show
on his horse knowledge when he has
not sense enough to put on his shirt?"
Roars of laughter followed, and the
jury promptly gave the verdict to Lin
coln.
The preceding incident recalls an
other, In which Lincoln figures as a
horse trader. He and a certain judge
once to bantering each other
about trading horses; and it was
agreed that the next morning at 9
o'clock they should make a trado, the
horses to be unseen up to that hour,
under a forfeit of twenty-five dollars.
At the hour appointed the Judge came
up, leading the sorriest-looking speci
men of a nag ever seen. In a few
minutes Lincoln was seen approach
ing with a wooden sawhorse on his
shoulders. Great were the shouts and
the laughter of the Crowd; and these
increased when Lincoln, surveying the
Judge s animal, set down his sawhorse
and exclaimed, "Well, judge this is
the first time I ever got the worst of
it in a horse trade!"— Current opin
ion.
Poor Devils
General Edward Kirkpatriok, XT. S.
A., tells this fine story in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut:
While at the front I witnessed acts
of horror and savagery, but the
French soldier is certainly as chiv
alrous and forgiving out of combat as
he is bravo and determined in battle.
There was pointed out to me a cor
poral "Who had suffered from many
acts of brutality on the part of the
enemy while a prisoner, and who de
clared to his superior officer:
"I am no longer the same man. At
first I was full of chivalry and roman
tic illusions. Now it is retaliation,
death, no more pity for theso damned
Boches."
> "Very well," said his commander.
After the attack on Avocourt wood
this dreadful French corporal brought
in two half-starved prisoners, and was
discovered by his commanding officer
giving them a part of his own soup
and tobacco.
"What!" cried his commander;
"where are now your terrible resolu
tions?"
"Oh," said ho, "but look at these
poor devils; they don't know anything;
they don't even know how to roll a
cigaret."—Current Opinion.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[QuMttona submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Kotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."!
Who are the Sinking Fund Commis
sioners. and what are their duties?
Sinking Fund Commissioners.
Mayor, Superintendent of Accounts
and Finance and City Treasurer. All
matters pertaining to bond Issues
and in<lhtedness are controlled by I
than.
a largo number of accounts with but
one deposit. It is mute evidence of a
good resolution broken. A certain
father with two children had them in
sured In an industrial insurance com
pany. He concluded that he could
save the money he was paying for in
surance some other way and decided
to put it in a savings bank, and pro
ceeded to open an account for e a ch
child. The first was tlie last deposit
ever made. The insuranco collector
qifit his visits and the father's good
resolution to save for his children
stopped with his coming, and to-day
they are without either a bank ac
count or Insurance.
Tho rainy day comes to every man.
No matter how long it may be de
layed or how distant it may seem, or
how bright the sky to-day, trouble is
bound to come to us all, some time.
A certain young man, full of energy
and ambition, with as bright pros
pects as a man ever had and highly
successful, made the boast that he
never expected his income to be less
than it was at that time; but inside
of three years it was nothing. He
thought he had a life job, and it had
every indication of being such, but the
props went from under, and at forty
he had to begin building all over
again. He does not boast now.
The turkey in the story was 110
more foolish than a lot of human be
ings. The difference lies" in the fact
that the turkey takes what is given
liim, or what he can find. We have
the power to choose. Wo are in a
largo measure masters of our own
fate. The beaver and the ant have the
right idea; they build their houses,
fair weather or fpul. knowing that
having a house you can go into it
when it rains or stay out of doors
when it don't, as you like. You are
safe either way.
Three Good Conundrums
I went to India and I stopned there;
I didn't stay there because I didn't go
there;
I came away from there because I'd
stopped there;
In fact. I didn't go there at all.
Answer—A watch.
I ran 'til I got it, then I picked it up
and looked for it. but I found I couldn't
find it. no I put it down and walked
off with it.
Answer—A splinter in the foot.
What is it God never saw. George
Washington never saw and we see
every day?
Answer—An equal.
Our Daily Laugh ]
STAGE TYPE. I ®R3|
My bride is /
dls a p potn ted VSr J
about housekeep- ]s\ sh jtMlk.
What's the troul SSL
She can't get a •tip !1
maid who will "
curtsey like they Wjj W|
do In the musical || | j E!j —T
comedies she goes *
to see. cfiS
THE ONI/T ONE
Mralra you wan °' t* loßo
M-^yf pcopl ° that never
( they're whipped?
iff r ' "V. J / word for it ex
cept tlie doctor"a
o®'-' I: after I come to.
i GETTING OUT
Young Mrs. B.
me if you /W v j rjSd;)
wouldn't give up if ill ; 4
a habit for me. Wjwi vn
—I dunno. You're MS||ljL ill'/
the most abiding //wJli|W I™/
habit I've sot. ||EJjjl —Hp—
Stoning (£tjat
The continued move of business up
Second street and the projects heart
for establishing more apartment house?
on Third street fronting on Capital
Park bring to mind how the char
acteristics of thoroughfares often
change and then change back agaltj,
Likewise the last of the old-fashioned
cellar doors on Front street demon
strates that the best laid plans are
overturned in the march of event*.
When John Harris laid out this city
with the assistance of his gifted son
in-law, William Maclay, he Is said to
have had some doubts about Front •
street being a business street and In
clined to the belief that it would be the
pleasure or promenade section of the
town. It is said that the original city
planner had this idea becaueo of the
shallowness of the Susquehanna. But
business overruled the fears of the
l ounder and Front street became the
center of commerce and Second street
below Market developed into one of
the chief residential sections of Har
tisburg, tho highway where men of
substance resided, while Market street
soon after became lined with houses
standing apart instead of being built
up close together as was the case on
South Second. Second above Market
was a business section, the borough
ofllces being located between Walnut
and Locust, according to a report of a
lire which caused somo of the early
records to be destroyed. Early news
papers tell of business places and
taverns, which were part of business
in those days to an extent we do not
urcam of to-day, on Second, and of
encroachment on Market. Early lists
of officials of the State government
show that quite a number resided at
boarding houses on Third street, which
began to be built up after the com
pletion of the Capitol in 1821. In due
course of time Second and Third
streets became more and more resi
dential and business centering about
the Square went out Market street,
then up Third a bit and on Walnut
and Chestnut.
The only one of the old-style cellar
floors, above referred to. that remains
Is at the Kelker house, now the home
of the Dauphin County Historical So
ciety, which under the terms of the
donation of the property maintains it
as it was bequeathed. The old cellar
doors at the Kerr house on South
T< ront street are being taken away and
those at the Pearson and Harris houses
have recently pone. The Harris house
at Front and Cherry, one of the old
JoR houses, is the homo of the only
lineal descendant of the founder of
the city by narrp to live here. The
found at other residences and a few of
remains of other cellar doors of tho
kind down which we used to slide
when we were youngsters are to be
the older houses have bipr spaces under
the sidewalks where goods used to bo
stored. The trace of the Front street
cellar ways attracts little attention now.
hut in old times such things were very
important. One of the best examples
of thf ancient business eellarway was
at the 1 laldeman house, on North
Front street Just above Market, which
was remodeled some years ago by the
late T.evi B. Alrieks. This cellar door
war, lined with bin blocks of stone and
there were heavy iron rings set in them
so that the boxes and barrels and bales
could be lowered or brought up.
• • •
Old Utters and newspapers tell of
the arrival of the barges from up the
river with lumber, bides, pelts and
later on anthracite coal and vegetables.
These articles were unloaded here and
shipped by stage or pack horses to
Carlisle and other places, although
some of the craft, known as "arks,"
went on down the river. When the
barges went back they took tho pro
visions, clothing material and other
things which were brought here by
stagef, and wagons from Philadelphia
ond which were stored in big quanti
ties in the houses along Front street.
For a time Ijebanon iron was shipped
from warehouses in Harrlsburg to
Pittsburgh and western towns, some
goin by horses and some being taken
up the Juniata by the "arks."
Early advertising was not on an ex
tensive scale in Harrisburg newspapers
and the total amount carried in some
issues of the newspapers published
hero one hundred years ago was hardly
as big as one of the big stores some
times runs here in a single issue. From
the notations of the arrival and de
parture of stages and pack trains and
boats it would seem that this city was
then as now a central point of dis
tribution for a large section of the
.State. Some of the early travelers said
that Harrisburg was a town of taverns
and warehouses and that it sat upon
'he roads to the north, the south, tha
• rrd the west, with the river as an
adjunct.
• • •
It! V, Bobcoek, the Pittsburgh busl-
Mosvnim. who was here Saturday, is a
several times over and in
terested in 'umber, steel and other en
*rri>rirs. He has been frequently men
'lonf fi f"r w-.-h office, but has only ac
cepted elections as national delegate.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—W. .Atforbury, vice-president
of the r mnvvlvanln, started In the
Alton"" ( bops "r? a machinist.
W n "Ti l", Rarba. who retires
"roui Midvale Steel after thirty-fivo
yen it, wi" travl for the first real va
ontloii h" It's taken In twenty years.
—Tyowfs Emery, Jr., the oil producer,
is np:t'r> ta'fing a hand in politics, al
though he ts over seventy.
—Professor Henri T, fontalne, tha
winner of the Nobel prize a few years
ago, and who is now in Philadelphia,
snyn that Germany is still a long way
from being benten.
—Coroner William R. Knight. wbr>
was injured in an automobile accident
on Snturdnv. Is nn enthusiastic golfer
and was on his way for a game when
hurt.
| DO~~YQU" KNOW T
That Harrisburg steel products arc
used In Niagara nowor plants?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
Navigation by means of arks be
tween Huntingdon and Harrisburg be
gan as early as 1794.
Menus For School Lunches
It Is at this time of the year that
mothers begin to knit their brows once
more over the problem of the s.'hool
lunch. Miss Pearl MaeDonald, lq
charge of home economics extension 04
the Pennsylvania State College sclior
of agriculture and experiment
has prepared some menus for this pur
pose, as follows:
MenVsandwlches
Bread and butter sandwiches
Celery Rice pudding Apple
Whole wheat bread and crearr.
sandwiches sandwteh®
Canned neaches
Sponge cup cake Milk
Racon sandwich
Bread and butter sandwiches with
Chopped celery
Apple sauce with raisins Milk
Egg sandwich
Graham and white bread and
Butter sandwich
Nuts Orange tapioca
Nut bread sandwiches
lettuce sandwiches
Baked custard Grapes