10 HARRMJRG TELEGRAPH A NXWBPAPISK PON TUB BOMB Founded 18X1 Published evenings except Bunday by Ttt TEUOUKAPU PIUNTINQ CO. Tllsgissfc Building, Pedirsl Square XL J. STACK ROLJS President and JBditor-in-CMef It It OYSTER, Business Manager OUR. SC. BTEUNMJSTZ, Managing Editor I A. R> MICHENER, Circulation Uanagor , Executive Beard J, P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, OUR M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Prese—The ' Associated Press Is exclusively en- I titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this ' paper and also the local news pub lished herein. !Ell rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I ■ i | A Member American , PI Newspaper Pub- 1 tl' ,h ° rS h AsaoC j a " : Bureau of Clrcu- ' nMfIraREBIM latton and Penn- Assocla- ( iSSftiSi nfl Eastern of f I o e ppH W ggjg jjM story. Brooks & Avenue Jlullding, j Chicago, 111. * Entered at the Post Offlcs In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . By carrier, ten cents a zrfgK' .<, week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1910 When people who are tolerably for tunate In fhelr outward lot do not find i in Ufe sufficient enjoyment to make It valuable to them, the cause generally is coring for nobody but themselves. —P. 3. JfOL FOOD PRICES ARBITRARY and heartless in creases of food prices should be met with stern resistance through government agencies. The war Is over, but manifestly profiteer ing Is not, and Congress will be Justi fied In running down those respon sible for unnecessarily adding to the burdens of the people through the j high cost of living. It ought to be possible to probe the price:' of food stuffs from the time they le§.ve the soil until they get to the ultimate consumer. Every j step of the way should be made clear so that responsibility may be placed ■where it belongs. Under present conditions blame often rests upon entirely Innocent people. If the manufacturer Is Innocent ho can easily* make this plain through a! statement of his prices to thosp be tween him and the consumer. Thero must bo found some reasonable way for turning on tho light, to the end that public suspicion of rank profiteering may he confirmed or dis proved. "With the ending of the tyar it was generally understood that there would be a gradual reduction of tho high cost of living, but in many cases the cost has Increased and without apparent reason. This Is especially j true of food stuffs and it would ap pear that the administration at Washington, especially tho War De partment, must explain the failure to distribute meats and canned goods amounting to $121,000,000 that have been stored In tho great military •warehouses for months. Not only has the Government lost through this policy, but also the consumers who have failed to get the benefit of reduced cost that would have fol lowed the distribution among the people of this enormous hoard. The American people have con tributed In every way to the winning of the war without protest and with a patrlotto devotion to a great cause that entitles them to every considera tion at tho hands of their govern ment. It It was necessary to fix prices und restrain profiteering dur ing the wnr it would appear to bo just as necessary under present con ditions. What has caused general protest In Harrlsburg has been unreason able differences between manufac turing cost and retail prices In n number of Instances as high as one hundred per cent. In somo cases. Restaurant proprietors Insist that they must pay twice as much for melons as was charged a year ago. So It goes clear down the line and the people who complain of arbi trary and excessive prices are de termined to find out whether there i Is any Justification or excuse. •' I i the midst of a rich agricul tural region It Is Inconceivable that we should bo paying In mid-minuner winter prices for vegetables and eggs and fruits thut are brought here In large quantities for sale In the open markets. There is bound io he un uprising of the consumer and he bus a right to know whether the added burdens are necessary or are •imply the result of greed and selfishness. AUTOMOBILE CAMPER A PARTY of Hoy Scouts of Du bois. touring this part of Pennsylvania, hail to appeal to the Department of Parks for per mission to camp In llarrlsburg. A few days ago a Missouri tourist com mented to a Telegraph reporter on the failure of eastern cities in pro vide camping places for automobile partlss. This neglect haa been due perhaps, to the fact that automobile eampsrs are not so numerous In ths •aat as In the weat. The need le not so evident. But the time Is fact com log when the cheap motor vehicle, \ i£~~Z „ TUESDAY EVENING, feOtIUfUBBtrKO Mil *rELEGKXFH x JULY 15, 1919. •quipped with tents, bedding and cooking utensils wilt be a popular vacation diversion In Pennsylvania, and we should encourage people traveling that way to stop over night here. *'ew York City Is doing this very | thing. Announcement has Just been | mado that along the Pallßadeg, for j a distance of twelve miles, camps , have been provided which will 1 afford vacation for 76,000 tenement! house mothers, children and work- { lug girls, Boy Scouts, etc., and also , ample space, with fire-places and | kitchen shelters, for the automobile tourlßt. llarrlsburg, forward looking and progressive, should give tills matter of an automobile camp site—on the bridge Island, perhaps—proper at tention. State Health Commissioner Mar- | tin Is having the co-operation of 1 every civic organization of Harris- | burg in his efforts to mako of this 1 city a model municipality to which ho can point in his Important work of conserving the health and com fort of the people of Pennsylvania. SALOON SUBSTITUTE DK. FRANK CRANE, whoso al ways bright and Interesting writings are appearing In many American periodicals, writes along most original lines for "The Ameri can City" magazine on that popular topic, "A Substitute for the Saloon." Dr. Crane says "the only way to get anywhere is to start where you are now," and the present day saloon would be his starting point. Noth ing fancy, nothing with the touch of "up-lift" or charity will get any where, he believes. He says: It must be a place where any man with a nickel can go in, have a good time, und fuel that he is helping support the concern. It must not be a place where men uro "urged" to go. If they arc urged they will not go. It is human nature. Preferably It should be not altogether approved by the moralists. It should be as "tough" as its neighborhood. It must be run by private enter prise. and pay well enough to at tract an efficient manager. If the city runs it. or a church, or some benevolent society, it will fail. It inust arise from a real need of the people themselves. It must have a free comfort sta tion. Some kind of a free lunch also would help. There should he opportunities for card playing and billiards. There should be an expert bar keeper who gets part of the profits. There Is no reason why a place of this sort should not thrive, as It would have no license to pay and no graft to dispense to the ward boss. All this may seem rather low along the ground. Perhaps it Is. Rut there's where folks live, the kind of folks that go to saloons, and If you want them you must go where they are; they will not come to you. And this is the kind of eubstl tule that will grow up to meet the need. And any kind you attempt to devise and hand down to the ex-saloon crowd will most cer tainly fall. There is wisdom in this. The fre quenter of the saloon will shy off from pink tea surroundings and he wants no charity. Likewise he does not desire to be "up-lifted" or "wel fared." Both arc being overdone In ; this country. But he does want some place to go, and some such place will spring up to meet the de mand. And it will not be altogether desirable, but it won't be as bad as the saloon, so we shall get one step farther along, at any rate. We must understand that the abolition of the barroom will not herald the millonium. A POPULAR VETO PRESIDENT WILSON has had his ear to the ground on the daylight saving law and his velo of the repealer is one of the most popular things which he has done since his return home. There was general resentment throughout the country over the re peal of the daylight saving measure by means of a rider to the agricul tural appropriation bill, and the President deserves credit for refus ing to permit rider legislation to In terfere with the comfort and happi ness of millions of people. TAX BURDENS ENGLAND has already reduced the excess profits tax from SO to 4 0 per cent., and our own Congress would do well to consider whether it Is wise to discourage business enterprise by oppressive taxes on profits and incidentally cur tail production and business expan sion. The war is over and It is the business of the Government to assist as rapidly us possible in restoring normal conditions. Primarily the excess profits tax was Intended to increase the revenues of the Govern ment und get back from its own over-expenditures on emergency purchases a portion of the extraor dinary outlay. An authority on this form of tuxation says: Th war emergency has passed. It Is true. Government expenses renin In high, hut it is unjust, and, In fact, destructive, that this tax should remnln. It restrains busi ness enterprise and development, it limits prodtietion, and in its ultimate effect it works against the Interest of every Individual In re artllng the return to normal lie. ce activity and Increase In the expulsion of gcncrnl prosperity. Eng.and lias already Instituted policies of reform in taxation which will do much to relieve the pressure upon her Industries and business en terprises. Wo on this side of the ocean must adopt the same course or suffer a slowing down of busi ness enterprise and discouragement of business initiative. The pros perity of the country depends upon a reasonable altitude toward the commercial and Industrial Interests which continued throughout the war patriotic support of the Government. ""when the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings shall have awarded contracts for the Important work in the Capitol Park zone the city will be ready to co-operate In the changes on Walnut and Third streets. All of which will mean great activity tor the nest year or two. Meanwhile, all over the olty building enterprises are getting un der way and 1911 is bound to be one of the red letter yeare In the clty'B development. T>oUtu*u ftKKOldoCLlua By the Kx-Committeeman " ! —Repeal of the nonpartisan fea ture of tho third class city code has aroused an Interest In municipal af fairs that has been sadly lacking | lately In the more than thirty cities j governed by tho act of 1911 and , judging from newspapers the return to the old system of nominating and I electing mayors and councilman Is , I generally favored. Here and there 1 newspapers and disgruntled polltl | dans are heard complaining, and I declaring that things are going backward, but when studied it Is to be seen that there Is porsonal rea son or - blunted ambition that In- J spires the criticism. 1 —Most of the newspapers publish- | ed in third class cities play up the re- | nexved Interest In local politics j which haa followed approval of the j repealer and seem to think it Is a good thing. —Folks at Reading havo an idea that the repealer will not take with It the "sole nominee" clause. At the State Ciptal it is declared that the repealer means return to the old pri mary law or in other words that mayors and councilmen will be elected as before 1911 or on the same plan as county officers are i elected. Pottsville newspapers are j I also wrestling with problems as the: Schuylkill Capitol being compara tively young city, has held all its municipal elections on the non partisan plan. —The Erie Dispatch urges fusion on a municipal ticket in that city, saying: "Some office holders are ad vocating fusion of Democratic and Republican parties in the coming city election to combat the Socialist evil which, they say, will be more apparent this year than ever before. Ralph Waldo Tillotson, now serving a term of sixty days in the Alle gheny county jail for violating of the espionage act, Is being gvoomed as a martyr candidate for mayor by the Socialists, it is declared." —According to the Easton Free Press there is a stir in both city and county politics thut is most interest ing and a regular rush on the part of men to take out papers. The re pealer did not cause mourning in Northampton county. Neither does it Beem to have created much sor row in Williamsport, where the newspapers announce activity among candidates and much party inter est. The Lycoming city has had ex periences of its own with the non partisan act. The Johnstown Demo crat is one Democratic newspaper which looks at the matter sanely and it records political activity being re vived. —George W. Coles, active in Town Meeting party affairs and prominent in the Philadelphia charter legisla tion. is being talked of as a pos sible candidate for sheriff of Phila delphia. He formerly lived in this county. —A. P. Ingram, former register of wills of Chester county, lias re signed and been succeeded by the son of the present register, who used to be Ingram's deputy. —County Commissioner William S. Letb will he a candidate for re election in Schuylkill county. —Senator Charles W. Sones, of Williamsport, entertained the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs of Williamsport at his country home at Halls. —Judge James B. Drew, of the Allegheny county court, will be a candidate for judge of the common pleas court. • —Evidently things are as bad among the Democrats of Lacka wanna county as they are among the Democratic factions of Dauphin, Lebanon and Cumberland counties. This is what Roderick Random writes in that organ of real Demo cracy. the Seranton Times: "There is fear abroad that the Democrats will make good their record of years of folly In making up a county ticket with candidates drawn from a single predominant clement. Of course the part of wisdom is to draft candi dates from all elements that go to make up the party, so as to unite the Democracy of the county and to draw Strength from the opposition. If we do this the Democracy will be sure winners. The danger is great, however, that only one element of the party will be represented. In that case the light is lost before it is begun. It is time that the leaders of the Democratic party get together and at least make an effort to ar range for a ticket that will win." —Dr. William C. Powell, of Bryn Mawr, who has been chairman of the Board of Education of Lower Merlon township, Montgomery county, for a number of years, has resigned be cause of ill health, and William L. Austin, of Rosemont, chairman of tho Board of Directors of the Bald win locomotive Works, was elected to succeed him. —The Seranton Republican opens up a channel of interesting speculation by saying that while Compensation ltoferco Eager W, Beemer, of that .city, will be retained, there will be changes in districts. This Is said to be true regardless other parts of the State. Tho whole compensation system is reorganised by a hill man in tho Governor's hands and the Republican says "the measure will provide for fourteen referees instead of ten. and it is understood that Wilkos-Barre will be selected as a location for a referee's headquarters thereby dividing the local district over which George W. Boomer lias Juris diction. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the anthracite region during the year give to the bonrd ninety per cent, of nil compensation cases, and it Is understood that the political leaders of Luzerne county believe It high time that they be represented wHth a referee. Should one be se lected for the adjoining county, It Is said that tho district will comprise the counties of Luzerne Cambria. Columbia, Wyoming and Montour! The Seranton district would there , fore lose two counties and It Is be lieved the other five counties would still he considered ns the Seranton district, namely, Lackawanna, Mon roe, Pike, Wayne nnd Susquehanna. Rational Economg ( From the New York Trlbune.l Congress should be able to de. termlne without much discussion how large an army will be needed for all the duties required of the land forces, which, however, should not he stinted with regard to the special organizations and equipment acquired during ,he wal ' —transport, aviation, chemical service, and so on Rational economy In the ad ministration of the government is expected by the people, and they will not tolerate an Inflated military establishment. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUfPT ... ... ... By BRIGGS WMBN YouWe AOOOT : JTY HL63 ■ **© YOU IFIND THS. ROAD AND YoU LUMBER AND SKLD PROW HOMB OM A RFLTKV ROAO, CU>S*D FOR RORACRS AND T H E ALONG A"T ABOUT LO MILCS COM.Ma DOJOM ' WSTOUR SIGN Points TO am AM HOUR .N MUD To THE HUBS " LK3 *~ GRF OKFAFTQUENTED AMD MUDDY - ANt> "To CAP The CUMAX AMD -IF You FINALLY HT A ~ You LAND HOMG TO ADD TO VOUR TAouBLES YOU \ GOOD SMOOTH STRETCH THRT HAV/e. A 1 PUt-fCTUfte • / OF .MACADAM Q,-r ' eR A GOOD CIGAR AND A GooD MFAL ,, / UP M RUST OF THE TRIP / AM-H-H- BOY *! - AIN'T IT Trade Briefs Press estimates recently placed the 1918-19 wheat harvest of the State of Victoria, Australia, at 22,- 667,684 bushels. The value of the output of the copper mines of New South Wales for the year 1918 was $3,389,900, or a decrease of $572,175 when com pared with the previous year. A recent issue of the British ! Board Trade Journal contains an j announcement that the importation : of cheese is now permitted under j general license. According to the Japan Chronicle 1 the official report of the Department | of Agriculture and Commerce put . the actual yield of barley, rye and j wheat in 1918 at 115,573,050 bushels, j * Declared exports from the Hague, j Netherlands, to the United States in 1918 amounted to only about one tenth of the value in 1917, tho totals for the two years being $92,- 325 and $922,370 respectively. It is reported from Bogota that the Government of Colombia is con templating the establishment of long distance interurban telephone ser vice to be operated in connection i with the telegraph service, which is Government owned. The output of tin from the Fed erated Malav states for the year 1918, according to the figures pre sented in the annual report by the president of the Federated Malay states Chamber of Mines amounted ' to 627,815 piculs, or 37,370 long tons. A list of Australian trading com panies transmitted by Trade Com missioner A. W. Ferrin at Belbourne 'can be obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce or its district or co-operative offices by referring to File No. 20540. A branch of tho Jugo-Slav Bank of Punta Arenas, Chile, is soon to he established in Antofagasta. The capital subscribed is $300,000. The principal stockholders are the ni trate firms of Baburizza. Lukinoviey Compania. Mttrovick Hcrmanos and prominent Jugo-Slay business men. A High Class Appointment [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] No single action thus far taken by Governor William C. Sproul has received more uniform approval thnn his appointment yesterday of H. Walton Mitchell to fill the va cancy in the Orphans' Court of Alle gheny county caused by the recent death of the venerable Judge JamCs W. Over. Mr. Mitchell is a native of Pittsburgh and his mental equip ment and legal training have given him unusually high standing In his profession. His reputation is state wide, among his other activities being his connection with State Col lege, of which he is the chairman of ! the board of trustees. For many 1 years, as member of the law firm of McKee, Mitchell and Alter, he hns specialised in orphans' court work, and is thoroughly familiar with this practice. Governor Sproul has made a high class appointment to a high class court and the general public as well ns the legal profession of tho city greatly appreciate his act. As now I constituted —J. J. Miller, president | judge, Thomas P. Trimble and H. Walton Mitchell the Orphans' Court of Allegheny county will maintain the splendid reputation It has so long enjoyed. ( Wisdom and Understanding Wisdom Is tho principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. She I shall give to thine head an orna ment of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.—Proverbs Iv, 7 to 9. Within His Rights Speak gently to your little boy When he behaves like thundera tion; He's only trying to employ The right of self determination. —Kansas City Star. The Hamless Sandwich [From the Houston Post.] Ons of the easiest things to do In this world is to put pickle and mustard betwesn two slices of bread and call it a ham sandwich. THE CHAMPIONS OF WOMEN From the beginning of the struggle for woman suffrage until Us triumphant close, the cause has been championed by Republcans. The first man to recognize tho justice of the claims of women to the vote was Senator James Harlan, of lowa, a Whig—the fore runner of the Republican party—who In 1873 arranged for them to appear before the Senate Committee of which ho was chairman, and gave them a hearing. Too great opposition developed to allow of the Introduction of a suffrage bill at this time, but, five years later, a Republican United States Senator, shamed by the insults which greeted the presentation of the women's petition on the floor of the Senate, demanded "the same rights for the women's petition as Senators would give to men." 'And in the same spirit of justice, he introduced and spoke for the Federal suffrage amendment which forty years later, passed a Republican Congress by a vote of nearly four to one. Senator Aaron A. Sargent, of California, was the Re publican who first intrdouced the suffrage amendment, and Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Woman Suff rage Committee, and Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, who introduced the measure at the Congress which finally passed it, are tho Republicans who led the fight to its successful conclusion. What England Did [From tho Outlook, London.] One of the most monstrous but persistent items of anti-British propaganda In Allied and neutral countries has been the suggestion that in the bloody fighting of the great war Englishmen has displayed a selfish, if not cowardly, economy of their own lives—while lavishly sacrificing those of Canadians, Aus tralians, New Zealandors, South Afrieuns, Scotsmen. Welshmen (and, of course, above all, Irishmen). In- j deed, the legend is growing up that I hardly any Englishmen ever went I "over the top!" It is characteristic of our people that, so far, they have ' treated this calumny with indiffer ence and contempt, but reticence can j be carried too far, and it is neces- I sary that the facts should be plainly ' stated. The official statistics are now all available, and show that out of every hundred white British sub jects, throughout the Empire, who laid down their lives in the war, no less than eighty-two were English, J and the remaining eighteen contrib- I uted by Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the overseas dominions. Or, if the losses of the United States are in cluded. over 75 per cent of the total of English speaking men who made the supreme sacrifice came from little England alone. England is seldom articulate about her own | achivements, but it Is time that we found— ' A voice with which to pay the debt. Of boundless love and reverence and regret. To those great men who fought and kept her ours. Profiteering in Meals [From the New York World.] The habit of saving food, dutifully cultivated during the war by tho American people, has taken so firm a hold on consumers ns to excite alarm among certain classes of pro ducers. In desperation, the packers and livestock interests have reached the conclusion that their best hope of relief is to start a campaign of education to stimulate the larger use of beef and mutton. To the average consumer it should be consoling to learn that under nctuul conditions the supply of meut is now so plentiful as to exceed tho needs of the domestic market. It might seem to promise him that tho day is near when he shall derive some benefit from selling prices. Acting Secretary Ousley, of the Department of Agriculture, says: "While the live-cattle and wholesale dressod-beef markets have gono down to the extent of 5 per cent, tho price of retail beef-cuts to tho consumer has been nt a standstill In many cities and has even In creased as much as 20 per cent in some cities." The American Attitude [Harper's Weekly.] Americans will not go to war un der a group of nutlons, but only un der the inundate of our own law. • • • There Is only out flag here, and that Is our flag. Thero Is no I room here for the red flag. Kill it wherever you see It. It Is the enemy. It flouts when mobs rule. No, it wns not the President who said that. It was the man whom tho President would not permit to go abroad In command tho army which he had created. But we know of nothing that the President him said that Is more worthy to he the rule of life and action to every American citizen than those words of General Leonard Wood. Oil Belt Philotophy [From the Baxter Citizen.] A scientist has Just discovered that fish are intelligent. We had observed also that they don't bite 4op everything that oomea xJong Automobile and Farms [From the Houston P 1 Home Building Necessity The problem of housing is becom ing more than a mere question of business expediency, of waiting for an impossible return to normal costs in labor and building material. It has become a national necessity. No one who has followed conditions, either in his own experience or through the reports published con stantly in our newspapers, can fail to see that "build now" has become something more than a merely optimistic slogan to create business. The application of the law of the Jungle, of supply and demand, to human beings who are seeking places to live in, the unlimited privileges seemingly granted to un scrupulous landlords, the squeezing from tenants regardless of all fair ness, will, we believe, by the wido feeling of injustice it is creating, effect in time its own cure. The prime thing is thut time is pressing and thut waiting only makes the matter more difficult. Capital naturally seeks advantageous oppor tunities for investment, and we be lieve that both permanency and ■ profit are to be found right now in well-directed building investments. There isn't a city in the country where there is not an immediate and urgent need of homes. Another an nual rent boost menaces thousands this fall who are already paying more than they can afford for mere shelter, many of them living in shabby, illarranged, and out-of date so-called "apartments." There are the finest of opportuni ties presented in building large unit groups of small apartments for the very large class of poor but honest folks of the professional and semi- I professional classes. The trouble with some of these enterprises in the past has been that beginning with honorable intentions they have ultimately yielded to the pressure | pt' the law of supply and demand, land long since gone over to the get- I rich-quick class.—From an editorial In the July number of Architecture. The Spirit of the Nam/ [Front the New York World.] When a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy plunges over board from a ship's gangplank in | mid-stream to rescue a seaman from | drowning in the Hudson River the i act is noteworthy for various rea- I sons, it gives convincing proof, to begin with, of physical fitness in a ! flag officer no longer young and It exemplifies quickness of decision anil an admirable devotion to moral duty not specified in the regulations. Rut the particular merit of Rear Admiral Hose's feat is that it reveals at one stroke the full signillcance of what Is meant by "the spirit of the navy." "Any officer in the navy would have- done the same thing for one of his men," says the Admiral, making light of his own perform ance. (sranting that, here was the j actual deed by a ranking officer in i uniform who, "accoutred as ho was" except for his coat and even with I his eyeglasses on, plunged Into the ! water without hesitation to save a I sailor from death. No amount of fine phrases could I so eloquently portray the comrad | ship of the service. That eomrad shlp Is now an American tradition and most civilians have come to understand what a part It plays in the efficiency of the navy. But here Is the act thut speaks louder than any word in impressing Its truth. Misplaced Sympathy [From the Kdlnburgh Scotsman.] There were two Browns in the village, both fisherman. One lost j his wife and the other his boat at l about the same time. The vicar's wife called, as she sup posed, on the widower, hut really upon the Brown whosu boat had gone down. "I am sorry to hear of your great loss." she said. "Oh. It ain't much matter," was the philosophical reply; "she wnsn't up to much.". "Indeed!" said the surprised lady. "Yes," continued Brown, "she was a rickety old thing. I offered her to my mate, but he wouldn't have her. I've had my eye on nnothcr for some time," And then the outraged lady fled. Suggestive [From the Hallas News.] A widely known surgeon was per | forming an operation on u patient when a fire started at a warehouse ' across the roud, illuminating the whole operating theater. Having finished, the surgeon turned to the ! nurse and dryly said: "I say, nurse. I notice the patient Is coming to, I think you had bet ter draw the blinds. I don't want him to think tl.e operation hoan't beep a success." Btgtting (Cfrat[ In theso days when it takes more t}ian twenty-five pages of Commis sioner Lynch's directory of high ways to merely list the streets and alleys of Harrisburg it is most inter esting to turn back some seventy five of the 134 years of the official life of this city to note tho streets. Harrisburg was not the city of more than four miles from end to end along the Susquehanna that we know to-day and one could stand at the toll house of the Harrisburg bridge und look down Market street and see the Kastorn limit of the town just as wo can do in "imagina tion to-day by fancying the Harris burg Pipe and Pipe Bending works the end of the built up part of tho city. Commissioner Lynch, whose street gangs have to go as far north as No. 3300 and out to Twenty eighth street would have had a snap covering the street system of 1843 or 1843 when North street was up town and Pnxton street was the southern limit of business and resi dence. There wero some houses above North street which became the northern boundary of the bor ough when greater Harrisburg began its march in the twenties by absorb ing Maelaysburg, now the heart of the Fourth Ward with Stato street as its main artery. • • • | Front street was officially in the town from end to end, that is from Paxton to North. Above North it was farms such as we remember the Tenth Ward and below Paxton it had few houses and the town was Just awakening to the industrial possibilities of south Harrisburg. Then came River alley and Second street with tho same limits. Third street and Raspberry nlloy, now Court street, began at North and ended in Meadow Lane instead of Mulberry street as now. Meadow Lane, now obliterated by the ad vance of tho railroads was tho oldest highway here. It was originally an Indian trail and began at the Ferry and went up to become what was later Jonestown road. Fourth and Fifth streets and Dewberry alley ran from Walnut street to Meadow I tng silver coins from nooks and [ nannies all over the house whero t! It had been secreted The seller had j to take his money in n flour sack to t j the bank, where it took the teller and cashier two hours to count It. t Most of the money had been earned tlby the two daughters of the family, who had taken In washing*.