6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Pounded rtjr ' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telesraph Building, Federal Sqnare. E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't <5- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American • llshers' Assocla- JjSmSBSSSk Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn -16(9 a filfll Eastern office, 1 Z SSP St Story, Brooks & ILL IS! S Avenue Building, Finley, B p ®£][| le ' s Entered at the Post Offlcg in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a iSfefe.> week; by mall. $5.00 . a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING. SEPT. 15 We ali seek happiness so eagerly that in the pursuit we often lose that joyous sense of existence, and those quiet daily pleasures, the "value of which our pride alone prevents us from acknowledging. —Slß ARTHUR HEM'S. PH. ORTH'S RETIREMENT THE proposed retirement of Dr. H. C. Orth as superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital will take from the State service a man who made the development of 'the great institution of wntch he is the head his life worli. An old-fashioned, overcrowded, totally inadequate hos pital when he took charge, it is now one of the largest and best in Penn sylvania. Infective treatment of the mentally deranged he combined with economical administration. He has been as truly lord of the domain of the hospital reservation as any Eng lish squire of his broad estate and he has taken as deep an Interest In Its various activities and functions as though it were his own. He Is a high type of public official and th#truste*i will have difficulty In replacing him. BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS THE Harrlsburg Public Library has been first to\respond to the call for soldiers' libraries, and the Rotary Club, meeting at the Li brary, will take up the movement Tuesday evening. No patriotic cltl en, eager to do all that the stay-at homes may do to help win the war, can fall to heartily commend ths! work being carried forward by the Library War Council, which owes its appointment to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. ThlS work is to raise, In conjunction with the Amer ican Library Association, $1,000,000 tor the erection and establishment of equipped libraries for the camps, cantonments, the field hospitals, the troop ships; wherever our soldiers and sailors are gathered together. Popular subscriptions for th-s work aro coming In so rapidly that It Is plain that In spite of the SIOO,- 000,000 Red Cross fund, the to bacco fund, cost of the Y. M. C. A. activities and others, American gen erosity, stimulated by a sense of duty, has by no means reached its limits. When the German army took the field, each army corps had travel ing libraries as part of its mate rial. Great Britain and France have provided lit reading matter for their soldiers, through various organiza tions. Through the appointment of the Library War Council by the Sec retary of War, with Frank A. Van derllp, president of the National City Bank of New York, as chairman, the American task of providing libra ries takerf on an official character, though the work will be that en tirely of volunteers. Not a penny of the money sub scribed will be used in the expenses of the library campaign; that cost has been mot by private subscrip tion. The libraries, the books, the service will be the gift of the Amer ican people, and In such a cause as this it were well, to remember that "he gives twice who gives quickly." BLIND .LEGISLATION* BECAUSE of early education in economic principles and subse • quent adherence to party tenets, the leaders of the Democratic party ■eem unable to take a long-distance view of the best interests of Amer ican industry. They legislate for the present and let the future take care of Itself. That policy is at the foun dation of their tariff Ideas. They •ee an opportunity for the American consumer to get his commodities a little cheaper by buying from some country where wuges are low, and pass a free-trade law which short ly puts the American manufacturer out of business and leaves the Amer ican consumer without an Income with which to buy at any price. Just ao, too, with their proposed repeal of the drawback on sugar. Under that provision, if an American refiner Imports raw sugar and paya a duty, and then exports the refined product, he a return of the duty. That encourages manufacture' in this country. Prior to the war, Great -Britain bought most of her augar In Germany and other Contl-v SATURDAY EVENING, nental countries. Now she ia buying from the United Status. The Demo cratic managers of national finances thought they saw an opportunity to get a little more revenue t>y repeal ing the drawback, which would make England pay a little more for sugar and put a few more dollars in our treasury. They could not see that thiß would be but a temporary reve nue and in the end disastrous. Eng land would stand that just as long as it took her to establish refineries of her own, and then she would buy the raw sugar in Cuba, where we buy much of It, and would do her own refining. We would lose both the duty and the profit of refining. The Democratic finance commit tee proposed that as a war measure. It was poor business in time of either peace or war. But it is a par with the economic policies of that party's leaders in time of peace. Strange, isn't it, that many men who conduct their own private busi ness on sound principles and with far-sighted vision, vote year after year to keep such leaders in con trol of Congress? REGISTER TODAY WE have gone to war with Ger many for the preservation of democracy In the world. This is the principle back of every war we have waged since signing of the Declaration of Independence. Thousands of Americans have fought and thousands more have died that this government by the people "might not perish from the earth." Millions more are prepared to make the same sacrifice. This right to vote Is no mean thing, since it has been bought at the price of blood sacrifice. Yet there are hundreds in Harrlsburg who value it" so lightly that they have not pro tected their privilege of the ballot by registering for the fall elections. The man who does not vote is not a good citizen. The man who falls to register cannot vote. Exercise of \ the franchise in local elections lndl-, cates the degree of interest the voter has in his community. Failure to participate in county and municipal elections bars the delinquent citizen from criticism If conditions are not to his liking. To-day is the last day to register. Back up the boys in the trenches by displaying your faith and Interest in the institutions of democracy. f Show your concern for good govern ment in Harrlsburg and Dauphin county. Register to-day that you may vote coming elections. PUNISH THE SWINDLERS IN the course of the Senate's de bate on the revenue bill, Sena tor Lewis, of Illinois, who de lights in being described as "the Democratic whip" of the upper chamber and who takes equal pleas ure In being hailed as the spokesman of the administration, told his col leagues that In the Treasury Depart ment "is the established proof of $300,000,000 swindled out of this government by perjury, fraud, de ception, and different forms of com mercial and personal trickery under the income tax returns." This is a grave charge. It af fects not only the persons who prac ticed these "different forms of com mercial and personal trickery," but it also affects the Treasury Depart ment which permits itfc "established proof" to lie idle and the Depart ment of Justice which is equally dls regretful of a condition which Im plies fraud and deceit on a wide scale, large loss of money to the government ,and a condition of law breaking which it is tfie plain duty of Mr. McAdoo to report to Mr. Gregory and of the latter to proceed against. How can, the Treasury Depart ment justify its inaction? How can the Department of Justice defend its neglect of duty? If Senator Lewis tells the truth —and his position in relation to the administration nnd to the Democratic party assure* that —ho has drawn an indictment of greater strength against the Demo cratic administration than against the tax-dodgers whom he condemns In words, though beating Messrs. McAdoo and Gregory across the backs of the fraudulent taxpayers. It is high time to begin meas ures to get this $300,000,000 into the Treasury. That amount of money would more than pay what it has cost the country for Daniels to delay for two years the naval construction authorized by the Sixty-third Con gress. It Is time to publish and to punish the men who have thus de< frauded their government. SPIRIT OF HIE VOLUNTEER pr*HE spirit of the volunteer Is not I ' dead lri"America. The govern ment reports that over a million men were In the armed service of the nation before the draft quotas were called. William J. Bryan predicted better than he knew when he said war would bring a million men rush ing to arms, Harnsburg, for ex ample, has sent nearly 2,000 Into tho army and navy. Doubtless there would have been many more had it not been .for the adoption of the draft act, insulting tn thousands of young men holding back for the .operation of the new law. foCttutf. Lk By the Ex- Committeeman This is the last registration day for the September primary and the November election in the cities of all classes in Pennsylvania and the boards will sit until 10 o'clock to night in order to list the voters. No one can vote at a primary who is not registered. 0 Although no reports on registra tion are sent to the State Capitol the greatest interest is being shown in the results in the cities because of the contests for nominations to be decided at the primary on Sep tember 19/ Men connected with the State government will leave to-night for their homes to take part in the primary and next Wednesday will practically be a holiday at the State Capitol. The returns of the primary for Judicial candidates and for Congress will be certified to the Secretary or the Commonwealth for entry upon records hefe. The hearing in the mandamus proceedings brought against Auditor General Charles A. Snyder by the four State officials whose appoint e * las declined to recognize will be held in the Dauphin county court on Monday afternoon at 2 ? c !°™' " av ' n K been postponed from last Thursday. The first move will be the motion of the Auditor Gen eral to quash the proceedings. Governor Brumbaugh made no statements regarding appointments °5 ar y state matters while here for the funeral of General Stewart and it is understood that he will not re turn to Harrisburg until after the primary election on Wednesday. Tlie Governor came to Harrisburg late yesterday afternoon and spent last night at the Executive mansion where the members of his staff called upon him. —ln Philadelphia judge's have started to strike off names of men who are cn the registration lists in the wards where there are battles. —The Ma gee end of the Pitts burgh mayoralty fight is told to-dav in a dispatch to the Philadelphia Ledger by Congressman John M. Morin, who was director of safety under Mr. Magee, when he was Mayor before. The Ledger says: "Mairee and Babcock will be the Republican nominees for Mayor of Pittsburgh," said Representative John M. Morin,-discussing the poli tical situation in that city. Mr. Morin returned.yesterday from the District, where he has been active in pro moting tho candidacy of his former chief, W. A. Magee. Mr. Morin said that while the corporations and the liquor men wore unitedly behind the candidacy of Babcock, labor and. the gTeot mass of voters, who recog nize what Magee has done for the city, would overcome the two power ful influences in the general elec tion." —The Philadelphia North Amer ican in a West Chester dispatch says: "Political skies here became clouded to-day when it leaked out that there was something doing in a quiet way against the candidacy of Judge William Butler for a third term. Stickers bearing the name of Walter S. Talbot, a member of the Chester county bar, are being sent throughout the county by per sons who ask that they be pasted on the nonpartisan ballot in oppo sition to Judge Butler, who Is the only registered candidate for the Judgeship nomination. Talbot some time ago was signer for Judge But ler, as were all the members of the bar. He is now In the Pocono mcuntains." —A decision of interest was ren dered yesterday in Wilkes-Barre, when Joseph Kushi registry assessor in the second west district of Newport township, was ordered by Judge Gorman to change his registry Itst to its original forjn. Daniel A. >tulherin asked the court for a cor rection of the registry list in a peti tion filed a few days ago. He alleged that the party designations of 170 men had been changed from Demo cratic to Republican without author ity. Kush on the stand admitted tear h did not comply with the reg ulations governing registry assessors, and that he changed the party designations of the voters on their mere say so, while the law provides that changes cannot be made unless voters properly provided slips. —The Philadelphia Press to-day prints an interesting resume of the political i'ltu&tion in Lancaster and Chester counties written by Henry James Buxton. He tells of exciting times in Chester county and of T. Larry Byre's confidence in ability to nominate his candidate for con troller, but he says Lancaster county is tame. Regarding Lancaster he remarks: "There is only one oon teat in the whole county that is be ing staged by four Democrats, who are lighting tooth and nail for the Job of Jury Commissioner. To be nominated for this job means elec tion, for the law provides that there nhull be a majority commissioner and a minority commissioner. The job pays a salary of SIOOO, which makes It more attractive than in other counties, where the stipend is only sr.oo. The Democratic contes tants for the nomination are: James, B. Jcffers. of Quarryv4lle; John W. Wilson, ot' Strausburg; Daniel K. Overly, of New Holland; Thomas J. Goodhart, of Lancaster. The nor mal registration in Lancaster is 10,- 000, but so far with only one more registration day, less than 4060 voters have registered. The princi pal office to be placed In nomina tion is that of Recorder of Deeds. The Republican candidate Is H. E. Weichans, of Lancaster; the Demi cratlc candidate is John D. Penny, a farmer. A prison inspector is to be nominated and the candidates are: Republican. M. G. Brubaker. of Manlieim; Democratic, James M. Paxton, of Little Britain." GIRLS WANT MATES If there Is any lovelorn swain In America who wishes to be married, but cannot Induce the girl to see It that way, he should go to England, where, instead of endeavoring to find a young woman matrimonially In clined, he would to make a choice among as many as he might please, according to Jonas Stone rock, r.t Indiana young man now in the Mculcal Corps of the Canadian army. „ , . .. In a letter to a friend the young ma n coinplalns of the size of the English girls' fe£t, however, which are of the sensible, dependable kind that have not been stunted by wear ing too small shoes. "There are girls everywhere," he writes, "tall ones, small ones, me dium sizes ones —all shapes and sizes. The nvain drawback to an English girl, however, Is the size of her feei. Their pedal extremities look largo enough for navigation purposes and I'm sure the average English rIH would bo more com fortable wearing: my army boots than the shcee she actually wears.—ln. UJunaoolls News. RARRXSBURG TELEGRAPH OH, WOMAN I < i By Briggs _ (*WITM ONS eye 4 " J'MMV," n^uewT I " \ ] HERea A . MAMOSAMY of S* 'WHAT KIND OF II THINK IT \ DANOY v \ct>JN-r,Kj6 THC: BAR - A SAMF, £. (would BE I I STORV W AND ThflT EtE T HIS? THSY SetY lF f HE-S ONE~ \ FAIRLY FOPPINC / you WOULD I of= My ~ 2A--1 ITS I GOOD .r\ \ „ REAP OUT L, faw'RITES 3S-- ae- I SOCKET- \ tTI \ \ TheY-RE ALIVE loud WHILE I JL~I- 28 J / UNCLE JimmY " > / d-L /L~r) V_ > 7m KMtTT.NGj > 39 30!/ WITNESSED / , -A N J Za to, I V -Y LJY £~ OM . ' ( Z"~y • \ I Goto ic ki' T ,it !? I IS ri \\/A1 17 I J / yMrf J STILL KMOCKIMG I I l\A/ ' ' HAha-h.ha- ABOUI . THE (JVY ; H^HA ha \ DESERT AND v! /~N PRICE OF BREAD If the master bakers are sincere in their expressions of a willingness to co-operate with the National Food Administrator it should not be dif ficult to reach a reasonable settle ment as to the price of bread. Wheat for two crops has been standardized at a fixed price. It is known how much wheat is required to make a barrel of flour, and the weight of the loaf once determined, the num ber of loaves to be produced from a barrel of /lour is as easily to be as certained. Unlike coal, sugar and other com modities, in respect of which price fixing has been or is to be attempt ed, bread has no definite standard. Wheat is marketed by the bushel and flour by the barrel, but bread goes to the consumer by the loaf, which may be of one size and weight or another. In time of peace, municipal ities have sought to establish some regulation in this matter, and the Supreme Crurt of the United States has upheld them, but in practice lit tle has come of it. War conditions and an honest pur-, pose on the part of bakers to meet them ought to produce an official loaf at an official price which will be Just alike to baker and consumers. The computation is simply mathe matical. Once accepted 1 , it will free an Important Industry from a great deal of trickery and relieve the peo ple of a short loaf imposition which ought not to be put upon them.— New York World. PRISONERS IN GERMANY There are about a hundred Amer ican prisoners in Germany. Most of them are civilians taken off Ameri can* merchantmen that have been sunk by submarines. More recent arrivals have been members of gun crews from destroyed merchant shipn. Provision for their relief and for that of* other Americans who rtiay be taken prisoners is made necessary by the German policy of giving prisoners inadequate war food. The high death rate among Russian, Ru manian and Serbian prisoners in Germany and Austria has been largely because Russia and the Bal kan States could not organize the rationing of prisoners of their na tionalities from their home countries, British, Canadian and Austrian pris oners in Germany now depend upon the food shipped to them from Lon don by the central prisoners of war committee, which, by arrangement with Germany, sends three times a fortnight food parcels to the pris oners. The American Red Cross* we are glad to say, has taken up a similar work. It is already forwarding to Berne, the capital of Switzerland, for dispatch to the Americans In Ger many, stocks of foodstuffs. Ninety-five per cent, of the Brit ish packages sent into Germany, with postal card receipts, to be mail ed by "the prisoners, have been duly receipted' for. The American Red Cross also will inclose postal cards as means of making sure that our pris oners do actually receive the food parcels.—Outlook. HEIRS OF CHRIST And because ye arc sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son your hearts, cryinfe, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a ser vant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God 1 through Christ. —• Galatlans Iv, 6-7. ARMY OF THE PLANES They are coming with the drumming of a million pinions humming, And the purr of mighty motors that are all In time and tune, Proudly soaring with the roaring of the thousand northerns pour ing Through the fast and hollow spaces sacred to the sun and moon. They are racing Into places filled . with radiant star faces. Following the meteor's speedways and the comet's ancient lanes. And the universe Is shaking, and the waking earth is quaking At the terror and Hie marvel of the army of the planes. Wings o't wonder as they thunder sweep the rolling clouds asunder, Sailing great uncharted oceans of thg empyrean blue; Struts are singlnrr, wires are ringing, swift propeller blades are flinging Spray of diamond dust and silver when they cut a star In two. Hall! the aerial squadrons forming through the fields of azure storming. Battle birds the crimson war god to celestial combat trains, Swooping down from viewless re gions to the aid of earthly log-lons Hall! the glorious, victorious val iant army of the planes. MINNA IRVING. Four Great War Songs FROM "THE SILENT PARTNER" to custom, The Si- I . lent Partner for September Is printing considerable worse songs that were used during the Civil War. There Is a magical power that springs from the hearts of men, passing through great and passionate experience. The song is necessary in war. The xpartlal song incites men to heroic and perilous deeds. The question of actual merit o literary value has no place in the consideration of a war song. There are spirited marching tunes, sentimental ballads, and outbursts of fiery patriotism. And these songs will live as an unfailing legacy to Inspire and delight. The most popular song of the Civil War was written by Charles Carroll Sawyer—"When This Cruel War Is Over." It Is doubtful If any other American song was ever upon so many American tongues. Listen: "Dearest love, do you remember, When we last did meet. How you told me that you loved me, Kneeling at my feet? Oh, how proud you stood before me. In your suit Of blue. When you vowed to me and country Ever to be true. Chorus: "Weeping, sad and lonely, Hopes and fears Irow vain! Yet praying, when this cruel war Is over. Praying that we meet again!" The next song In popularity was a sentimental thoug/it written by George Frederick Root —"Just Be fore the Battle, Mother." Its pathos and simplicity touched every heart. Listen: "Just before the battle, mother, I am thinking most of you, While upon the field we're watch ing, With the enemy in view. Comrades brave are round me ly ing, Filled with thoughts of home and God; For well they know that on the morrow Some will sleep beneath the sod. Chorus: "Farewell, mother, you may never— You may never, mother. Press me to your breast again; But oh, you'll not forget me. Mother—you will not forget me, If I'm number'd with the slain." Many of the marching songs of the Civil War have passed into oblivion. Their strident Jeers have been for gotten. But one of the earliest poems of the conflict was a fervid call of "Maryland, My Maryland." This song will live, by reason of Its martial ring and splendid vigor, for years and years to come. Listen; t / "Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland; my Maryland! Thy gleaming sword shall never rust, Maryland! my Maryland; Remember Carroll's sacred trust. Remember Howard's warlike thrust. And all thy slumb'rers with the Just, Maryland! my Maryland! UNSUNG HEROES A Harrisburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger sends that newspaper the following let ter: "Only a few weeks ago Harris burg was en fete to do honor to her soldiers who were about to leave home and friends for foreign fields. The day was observed as a general holiday. As I stood with others watching the long procession and listoned to the strain of martial mu sic that filled the air, as the soldiers passed with measured steps, I re called another scene I had witness ed only a few weeks previous in Harrlsburg. It was a scene without the waving flags, stirring music and cheering crowds. It was only a lit tle band of ten Harrlsburg boys who .had at once responded to the call of President for reorults, without any training or preparation; they, had laid aside their business to meet their country's call. Clad in their ordinary dress without any mark to distinguish them they passed along unnoticed, on their way to a gov- j ernment camp, there to train for the great world conflict In defense of liberty. "When the great returns come In ■ from the battlefield of France, let uu hope that the name of these boys will appear among the honor list of heroes." . | "Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland! my Maryland! Thou wilt not crook to his control, Maryland! my Maryland! Better the fire upon thee roll. Better the shot, the blade, the bowl, Than crucifixion of the soul, Maryland! my Maryland! "I see no blush upon thy cheek, Maryland! my Maryland! Tho' thou wast ever bravely meek. Maryland! my Maryland! For life and death, for woe and weal. Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel. Maryland! my Maryland! "I hear the distant thunder hum, Maryland! my Maryland! The Old Line bugle, fife and drum, Maryland! my Maryland! Come to thine own heroic throng. That stalks with Liberty along, And ring they dauntless slogan song Maryland! my Maryland! The other notable song Is the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe. Its deep-toned measures form a significant contrast' to the other song with its high pitched lyric. It has a swinging sen sation that soldiers like. The first song surges forward with the fire and dash of Southern tem perament to an impassioned cres cendo. The other song trumpets forth a calmer fate and determina tion —"God Is Marching On." Both of there songs are sectional, and one i'lterifely so, but they will survivo leoause they have the divine spark cf martial verse or ilie period in which they were written. Listen: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lighting of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Chorus: "Glory, glory, hallelujah! "I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps: They have btlllded Him an altar in the evening dew and (femps; I ha\e. read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. I "I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; 'As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal'; Let the hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Slnco God la marching on. "He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He Is sifting out the hearts of men before his Judgment seat; O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be Jubilant my'feet; | Our God Is marching on. "In the beauty ef the lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom thnt transfigures you and me; As he died to riakc men holy, let us die to malce men free, • i While God Is marching on." AGE AND YOUTH Let me say that I believe parents should always be willing to con sider their children's ideas, no mat ter how strange they may seem; that they should be eager to get the rea sons that lie beHlnd them. For any ideas and Ideals to which young people can honestly and enthusiasti cally adhere deserve consideration, yes, even though they are altogether wrong. And If parents and older people generally would listen toler antly and receptively when youth pours out Its heart they would win the respect of youth in larger meas use and be able, In time of need, to make the clever suggestion that would safeguard youth against the extremes of thought that are un sound. —Harriet Orne in the New York Independent MODERN MOTHER GOOSE Little Miss Mullet , Sat in a buffet Ordering curds and whey. Pood Dictator spied hw. And sat down beside her And said: "Tut, tut, little one, you should have more patriotism. What do you mean by pulling that sort of stuff around here— When thU> Is war portion day?" —New York Evening Mali. SEPTEMBER 15, TttT. LABOR NOTES Arizona State Federation of Labor, at its recent convention, elected a committee to meet representatives of the Sonora (Mexico) Workingmen's Congress. California canning corporations have accepted the recommendations of the mediation committee appointed after the recent canners' strike. Wages are increased. Women have become so popular in the trades In London and other cities of England that when the war is over the men whose places they have taken will likely have to find other Jobs. The Taeoma, Wash., shorter work day movement' has reached , local butcher shops, which will hereafter close at 7 o'clock on Saturday nights, instead of 9 o'clock. In Dutch Oulana the women carry upon their persons all the family aHv- Ir.gs in the s*hape of heavy bracelets, anklets, necklaces and even crowns of gold and silver. A flag of defiance was raised against Colorado's "can't strike" law by the convention of the State Fed eration of Labor, which called on af filiates to ignore the State Industrial Relations Commission. Boston (Mass.) Cigar Makers' Union 1.3 urging Massachusetts trade union ists to support an amendment to the state workmen's compensation law which will include occupational dis eases. In 1913 Finland employed 35,000 workers in woodworking and allied industries. Convicts have been employed on public works in Virginia since 1658. OUR DAILY LAUGH IIIS DECISION, s, V A v jrf I have been , L in your train a |N- > | long time now. ■TV] I can't marry |J ML Here's where I Wj • \| ujjw/ change cars, // SEA. My) Although we took a flsh , lng shack dally ' fished from MB ' Th® only fishy things b ugh t | Were stories. LOADED. I've Just come J/l from my potato / learned this —If potato bus* ||i were good to J| | JW eat I'd have a great crop. |l I " f'nENTICAL RESULT. The Ice box pr op agates a ahill. The furnaco .holds a flame, But either costs so much to The finish is the same. Bmrtttg (Mfal News of the proposed retirement of Dr. Orth as Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital, aroused many memories among the older men and women of the city, especially those who used to live or still live In the upper end of the city. Time was when In the grounds surrounding th hospital was located a little glade known as "Deer Park." which at the suggestion of Dr, Orth was made free for the use of the public. This was before the city had any parks of Its own and "Deer Park." which contained a number of the finest springs to be found In this section, and a pretty little brook, was popu lar as a Sunday school picnic place. Many a romance was kindled be neath the stately old trees that marked its winding course and many a game of "blind man's bult" or "Lady Locket" brought young peo ple together who later took up life's long walk together. Fishermen also used to frequent the hospital grounds, the creek flowing down by the dairy farm barn being a great place in those dayi* for crabs, stone rollers and chub. Thousands of live bait were taken from these waters every year. A curiosity that used to attract the attention of visitors on the road back of the asylum grounds, near what was and may still be, for all the writer knows, callod Haver stick'a woods, was the foundations for a large house all laid without mortar and constructed- solely o£ pieces of shale quarried from a nearby hillside. It was the work ol an insane stonemason and builder and his only tool -was a piece of broken spade. He labored on the foundations for nearly a year and experts who inspected it pronounced It a wonderful piece of work. The poor fellow died Just as he was about completing the task. It Js not generally known that Miss Dorothy L. Dix, one of the fore moat philanthropic workers of tha last century in Penntjylvania, was the moving spirit in the founding of ths State Hospital here. After the first hospital was established in Philadel phia she began work to have one placed in the central part of the fitate, and in 1845 a committee, com. posed? of Jacob M. Haldeman. after wards Minister to Norway and Swe den; Dr. Luther Reily, one of th city's best-known men; Hugh Camp bell, Charles •B. Trego and Repre sentative Joseph Koenigmacher. whc was chairman of a-legislative com mittee, chose the present site, whlcl was then a farm of 148 acres, bul did not make the purchase, whlcl was left to a committee composed 01 Aaron Bombaugh, John A. Weir anc James Fox. The cornerstone of th< hospital was laid by Governor John ston on April 7, 1849. The whol place was practically, rebuilt undei Dr. Orth. • * • One of the matters which attract ed attention to the way Dr. Ortl ran the hospital was Just plain pigs Dr. Orth was one of the pioneers it the movement tcx have the State de velop farms to feed Its wards, ant he established piggeries on a scali that brought trustees of other hos pltals here to see how he disposec of the garbage and turned it lnt< pork and bacon. In a short tlmi other institutions were doing th< same thing and fattening not onl: hogs but the credit sides of thel: ledgers. Francis J. Torrance, president o the State Board of Public Charities who was here a few days ago, 1 serving Uncle Sam as a chairman o a draft board and giving the kind o service that is seldom heard of, bu contributes mightily. Mr. Torrance i head of big business enterprises am Is giving his own time, almost ex cluslvely, to the board, has his au tomobiles at the service of the boar and turned in six clerks and stenog raphers from his office to help alom the work. Fred A. Go<J*-harles, Deputy Secre tary of the Commonwealth, has gon to Atlantic City to take part In th Westy Hogn shoot, an annual even which dra\Vs the best shooters of th eastern part of th United Statei Mr. Godcharles. who has been 1: many matches, is a great advocate o trapshooting as a preparcdnes measure and has instructed hun cireds of petjple in the way to handl firearms. During the Spanish Wa he served in the Twelfth Pennsyl vania and has figured In many or ganizatlons whose aim was to teac people how to shoot and shoo straight. • • Tearing down of some of the ol buildings in the Eighth ward fo Capitol Park % extension attract crowds of people every day and ther are some who root about for souv nirs. Numerous nails and bits of iro from tho old Citizen englnehoua have been taken and it is probabl that when tlio remaining churche go there will be the same eagernes for remembrances as was show when St. Lawrenco's Church was de molislied. • • Harrisburgers have started out o their annual fair circuit. Every yea there#are a number of our peopli including some who come from Cer tral Pennsylvania counties, wh make it their business to visit fair Quite a few go to the old hom county fairs and others have a ref ular round, taking in Carlisle, New port, Lancaster, Lebanon and Yorl The Port Royal fair, which starte to-day, always attracts a number ( former Juniata countians and thei were some tickets sold for Poi Royal to-day. The York fair will in measure take the place of the gre Allentown fair this year, tho Lelilg gathering being given up because < the use of tjje grounds for tralnlr hospital corps men. • • • Col. Frank D. ,Beary. who la ac lng as Adjutant General, has bee in the National Guard evef sin< 1888 and served through all of tl grades of the Fourth Regiment up \ niajtjr. He was In the regiment the Spanish war. o WELL KNOWN PEOPLE N —The Rev. Dr. John Mockrudg prominent Philadelphia clergyma has been named on the Eplscop Church "war board." —Mavor Smith varied his dutl tho other day by taking a trip the first run of a pollceboat. —Attorney General Brown, wl suffered from lumbago this summi Is rapidly improving and insists < worflng In spite of the doctors. —Senator W. C. McConnell w grand*' marshal of Shamokln's Ri Cross parade. —Provost Smith, of the Unlversl of Pennsylvania, favors the contln atlon of military training In cc leges. DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsbni* Is shipping Dauphin county flour for the al lies? HISTORIC HXRRISBURG The first prison was a log affi almost on the site of the prese structure.
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