8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Fed-ral Sgmare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MIC HENER, Circula lion Manager .Executive Beard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, T. B. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. - W Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this puper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub- Assocbs- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvanU^Associa- Eastern of f Ue, Avenue Bu'llding, Story. Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Peat Offlcs in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cente a week: by mail, fj.oo a year In advance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1910 Peace of mind must come in its oven time, as the waters settle them telrrs into clearness, as well as quietness; you can no more filter your miml into purity than you can compress it into calmness; you must keep it pure if you would have it pure, and throw no stones into it if you would have it quiet.— RUB KIN. WORK AND SAVE THAT was the slogan during the war and it was based upon sound sense and the absolute necessity of the situation. We have seen nothing better on this point than the following from the current "Bache Review": After all, there is but. one nat ural. powerful, and efficient way to lower the cost of living. That ie by increasing the production of things needed to a point where the supply of them is greater than the demand. This can be accomplished only by more work and more efficient work, and by economy of all the people in the use of things. In the meantime, wages should be paid on a scale fully adjusting them to the level of increased cost of living. But the labor must be efficient and should be rewarded in pro portion as it is efficient—extra, reward based on extra efficiency.' High costs to-day, to a great percentage of such costs, are due to the fact that labor, while re ceiving large wages in many di rections, is much less efficient as compared with what it accom plished before the war. in some cases, where the output has been checked up, it is shown that labor is turning out only 60 per cent of normal. If we can ever got our labor up to 100 per cent, we shall have such an increased production of needed things as will tip the scale of prices steadily downward — such a production as the Nation brought about when it sprang to meet the needs of war and which, when the armistice came rather suddenly, snowed that we were overwhelming the world with munitions, guns, gas, air planes, trucks, and all other im plements of destruction. Unless, and until we, the Ameri can people get off our high horse and descend to the level of indus try and economy demanded by pres ent day conditions, we shall con tinue to suffer for our blind folly and waste a lot of time getting back to solid ground. THE KIPONA SPECTACLE AS THE TELEGRAPH family will participate in the cele bration of Labor Day and the Kipona carnival, there will be no Issue of this newspaper on Monday. Most of Harrisburg Will see the pa rade of the workers in the morning and the rest of the duy and evening will be spent on the "Front Steps," ■watching the wonderful events pro vided for those who always enjoy the river spectacle. It is expected that the Kipona celebration this year will furnish the Starting point for a larger and more comprehensive annual carnival here after. It is the ambitious dream of those who have promoted from year to year this river festival that the Kipona shall outrival the Mardl Gras of New Orleans, the Veiled Prophets of St. Louis and other fa mous spectacular events which at tract thousands of people every year. Harrisburg is udmirably situated for the development of a great spectacle and the Susquehanna Basin, with its many islands and the unique treat ment of the River Front, invites who appreciate acquatic sports and the wonderful pictures which are made possible by the blending Of the river and the picturesque landscape of this section. Those Harrisburgcrs who are still absent on their vacation will miss a great show, but they can comfort themselves with the thought that all Of Harrisburg will be expected to participate in the carnival of 1920, Suggestions for making the Kipona A still more attractive spectacle will have the earnest consideration of the committees which have undertaken the celebration this year. All should have a part and instead of hundreds of canoes and boats on SATURDAY EVENING, the river there should be thousands hereafter. Anyone who has a constructive thought about the next Kipona should send it to / Admiral Bowman, of the Greater Harrlsburg Navy, or to Secretary V. Grant Forrer, or any member of the committee, to the end that the carnival of next year shall be even more attractive than the spectacle provided for Monday. LABOR DAY MONDAY will be Labor Day, and Harrlsburg is preparing to celebrate the anniversary as never before. But while we celebrate, will we pause for a moment to think what It is all about? If we don't, the significance of the occasion will be lost and it will mean no more than any other hbllday. | Labor Day was set apart by Con ' gressional act as a recognition of the dignity of labor and of the im portant part the worker plays in the prosperity of the country and the advancement of society. Upon this holiday labor has to celebrate its successes and to set its face anew toward better living con ditions for all workingmen. But this year labor faces a graver responsibility than ever rested upon it before. The peace and pros perity of the whole world depend upon the wisdom of American la [ bor leaders and the conservatism of American working people. The air has been full of strike talk. In dustrial warfare has been upon the tongues of men everywhere, and not all the radicalism has been voiced in the halls of labyr. Heads of great industries who are still living in that era which closed when America went into the world's war are talking the dead language of a well-nigh forgotten past. Fortunately for America, there are ample indications that these radicals on the side of labor and these stiff-necked aristocrats on the side of capital are in the minority. Wise and humane managers of in dustrial enterprises are showing a disposition to "go the limit" in the way of wages (jnd improved living conditions, while the labor element, headed by such men as Stone and Gompers, Is giving evidence of a conservatism of thought and action that ought to do much to steady the national business situation until time will permit of a restoration of equilibrium. It is an that one of capital and labor having the same interests and that they ought to live in peace and harmony for the bene fit of all concerned. But it is worth repeating and emphasizing now, for, unless the two can get together on some common busis, we shall not see in the next five or six years, at least, anything like a settled con dition in this country. Industry ' cannot prosper while employes are at loggerheads with employers, and thus both the employer and the I employe suffer, for where there is 1 no prosperity for capital there can \ be none for labor, and vice versa. The answer to our present trou bles lies in cool heads and rea sonable demands upon both sides. Capital ought to pay as much as the industry in which it is employed j can reasonably stand in the way j of wages, but wigo earners ought not to demand more than that, for when an employer's profits are all taken from him he does Just what the workingman would do when his wages are taken from him—he quits work—for neither can afford to labor for nothing. And labor ought to give a full day's work for a full day's wages. Increased indi vidual production will do a lot to ward advancing wages and short ening hours of work, for without full production no business can earn profits or pay good wages. So let m celebrate this Labor Day in the spirit of good Will and amity that the occasion deserves. Let us all, employer and employe alike, for both are laborers, resolve to do our best to get together, to rule our minds by reason and love and give the Golden Rule a place in our holi day meditations. POLICE HEARINGS MAYOR KEISTER, if memory serves aright, made certain pre-election statements to the general effect that he, as Mayor, would trunsact personally all the duties of his office. Now the Mayor says that ho means to hold no more police hearings und adds that an ulderman will be en trusted with that duty. For years it has been contended that the work of committing magis trate does not properly lie with the Mayor, but to date there Is no law to the contrary. Indeed, what legal regulation there Is places the duty upon the executive. Nobody objects to the Mayor plac ing the obnoxious police hearings in the hands of an alderman, but he ought not to do so at any expense to the city. Any additional outlay for this duty should be borne by the Mayor himself, at least until there can be some chanfce in the law. By the Kx-Committeeman More commissions will be issued by the Governor as the result of the election to be held this year and for which the September primary is the preliminary, than known In years. Under the laws of Pennsyl vania, judges and county officers of certain grades have to be commis sioned by the Governor. This year there will be 560 offices filled for which the Governor must issue com missions. In addition to the judges to be elected who include one superior court, 17 common pleas, 5 orphans' court, one county court, two munici pal court and fourteen associate Judges, the records of the Secre tary of the Commonwealth show that there will be commissioned as a result of the November election: 15 prothonotaries, 67 registers of wills, 56 recorders of deeds, 61 of ficers known as dodimus postestat um; 51 clerks of quarter sessions. 0 clerks of oyer and terminer, 56 clerks of orphans' courts, 4 4 sher iffs, with the same number of writs of assistance commissions; 55 coro nors and one county treasurer, that of Allegheny, who is the only county treasurer to be commission ed by the Commonwealth. Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods has had punted for general use, the opinion of the Attorney General's department in regard to the act of 1910, relative to qualifications of soldiers. This decision is that returned soldiers, sailors or murines must comply with all requirements possible on their return, the act being only to waive these with which the return ed man can not comply, because of his absence in the National service. —Colonel John Price Jackson, commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry, who was giv en leave of absence two years ago when he went to France, has been appointed a member of a com mission that is to visit Armenia and trans-Caucasia, under instructions from President Wilson. Major, General James G. Harbord, chief of staff of the A. E. F„ is to head the commission which is about to leave Paris. The purpose of the mission is to especially inquire into con ditions In tho proposed new Ar menia Republic and by personal in vestigation obtain complete inform ation indicating what questions would be involved were that country to be taken over by the United States and administered by this Nation. Existing information re garding other governments of trans-Caucasia is also to be veri fied. —Philadelphia newspapers are now devoting pages to the develop ments in the campaign, featuring the numerous statements made by candidates and their friends and the addresses to the voters. Speech making is under way and it Is very evident that there will be a big drive made next* Tuesday to add to the registration. Newspaper com ment is that the big registration "amazed" the Vare leaders and 'helped Moore. The North American gets considerable fun out of the numerous interviews and state ments which are being put out say ing that the publicity factories are the only establishments "in the world threatened with over pro duction." The Record says that it is evident from the registration that the people of Philadelphia are "aroused." while the Press says that Senator E. H. Vare should de clare where he really does live. —Tho Inquirer is protesting against the activity of the Repub lican city committee in behalf of Judge John M. Patterson, saying' One of the scandals of the local campaign is the open and undis guised manner in which the can didacy of the Vare choice for mayor is being managed by what is called the Republican City Campaign Com mittee. I. nder all of the rules of decency and fair play an organiza tion of this kind is bound to keep its hands off primary contests. Its business is to use every honorable means to elect a candidate after he has been nominated." —Third class city registration re ports indicate pretty conclusively that Republicans are in general majority. In York city, for in stance there were over 800 more Kcpubllcans than Democrats rae istered and Reading also had a large Republican registration The Wilkes-Rarre, Ailentown, Altoona, Johnstown and MeKeesport regis trations ran heavily, just as In Har risburg. —Officers of the third class cities who left the Ailentown convention for home, are planning some vigor ous propaganda In favor of new municipal "home rule" and revenue raising laws. The league's legisla tive committee will .be an active body, the next year and a half —Democratic politicians- ' are wondering what has caused Con gressman Guy E. Campbell, of Allegheny county, to come out with such a strong declaration in favor of General J. J. Pershing for Presi dent on the even of the appearance of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, as a speaker at various meetings in Pennsylvania. Camp bell has been more or less aligned with the reorganization crowd of the Democrats and fully aware of the presidential aspirations of Pal mer and Palmer's plans to capture the Keystone State delegation. —Representative John W. Vick erman, of Allegheny county, was here this week in connection with the campaign of the Anti-Saloon League. The League is watching very carefully the developments in the county contests throughout the State. —An interesting election for a bond issue for a Joint vocational school has Just been concluded in Delaware and Chester counties, three townships voting $42,000 for a school at Chadd's Ford. —Major L. B. Schofleld, former ly of Warren county, formerly an instructor in the University pf Penn sylvania and an overseas veteran, and V. Alessandronl, a University of Pennsylvania man, have been appointed assistant at torneys In Philadelphia under tho newly approved act voting more as sistant*. HAHFU3BT7RO TELEGRAPH! THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST ... By BRIGCS JOTS. - ~~ _ usee >MW/ ' 8 fl'M 3 morc r r H e~PißST _^\ STROKES „ I r\ /hunoreo YARDS) MERE O 'l| V^ Re Tne M^PDesTy 4^f No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOK FRANK C. MARIN Of the Ariny Recruiting Station "When the American soldier went to war against Germany he took his appetite with him. The task of keeping that appetite satis fied with food (and the soldier, therefore, contented and well) fell to the Quartermaster General. Tho average American soldier at the end of the fighting in 1918 is said to have weighed 12 pounds more than he did when the Selective Service Act or his own enlistment brought him into the Army. This is the complete testimonial to the quality and quantity of the food served to the American troops in 1917 and 1918. Assuming 3,700,000 to have been the greatest number of Amer icans under arms, this average in crease in weight means that the beans and bacon and fresh meat of the American Army ration were transmogrified into some 45,000,000 pounds of Yankee brawn to be the basis of untold resources of health and energy during the coming quar ter of a century. The American fighting man of 1917-18 was a good feeder. He ate nearly three-quar ters of a ton of food each year, or over ten times his own weight. Without counting any transporta tion costs or the expense of hand ling at all, each man's yearly sup ply of food cost more than $165. In spite of the most rigid and pains taking economies in the purchase of this subsistence the American people were paying at the peak of Army expansion more than $2,500.- 000 per day to feed the troops. Con sider these millions of soldiers as one composite, gigantic man in khaki: compfess the war period into a single hour, the dinner hour; and it will be seen that the Ameri can fighter consumed what might be called a sizeable meal. Let us say that he started off with the main course. The roast of beef weighed over 800,000.000 pounds. It was flanked by a rasher of bacon weighing 150,000.000 pounds. Over 1,000.000,000 pounds of flour went into the loaf of bread, while to spread the bread there was a lump of butter weighing 17,500,000 pounds and another lump of oleo margarine weighing 11,000,000 pounds. As a side dish this giant had over 150,000,000 pounds of baked beans, half of these coming in cans ready baked and flavored with tomato sauce. The potatoes weighed 487,000,000 pounds. To add gusto to his appetite there were 40.000,000 pounds of onions. Then scattered over the table were such items as 150,000,000 cans of corn, peas, and string beans: while the salad contained 50,000,000 cans of salmon and 750,000 tins of sardines. Then there was a huge bowl of can ned tomatoes, nearly 190,000,000 tins supplying its contents. For des sert he had 67,000,000 pounds of prunes and 40,000,000 pounds of evaporated peaches and apples. The sugar for sweetening various dishes weighed 350.000,000 pounds. He washed It all down with a draft made of 75,000,000 pounds of cof fee thinned with 200,000,000 cans of evaporated milk. The bill for the meal, paid by the American public, amounted to $727,092,430.44. this figure to December 1, 1918. To get another idea of what these fig ures mean, consider; if the steers, necessary to supply the amount of beef eaten, were herded close to gether, they would cover 700 acres; if you ate a pound of bacon every minute of your w'aklng hours. It would take you about 35 years to eat the amount the army ate; It would take about 15,000 full loaded freight cars to carry the flour, enough to whiten the surface of the whole State of Connecticut; spread as you would on bread, the butter used would cover an ordinary width of road stretching from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific; if all the baked beans were in one pound cans, you could pave the sidewalks on both sides of all the streets in Harris burg; there were enough potatoes and onions" to supply about 2 0 of one and 5 of the other, to every person in the U. S.; the canned corn, peas, string beans, salmon and sar dines, tomatoes and milk would cover the Island—Fosters Island at Ilarrisburg, eleven times; the cof fee used would make a cup a day the year around, for every person in this State;, or a cup a day for a month for everyone in the U. S.; with the sugar used, we could make a five yound box of candy, for every one in the U. S.; and to pay bill, nearly 100 dollars per person would be needed, from everyone In Pennsylvania, \ All of this consti tutes another formidable side of war making, which Germany had to contend with." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR j Beauty and the Beast To the Editor of the Telegraph: If we had female juries, there's no doubt that many more women criminals would get their Just deserts. A movie aptly hit the thing oft recently. Grace Darmond, the very lovely actress, in "What Every Woman Wants," was shown in a courtroom, charged with the mur der of her husband. A close-up was furnished of her ankles, then of her trim waistline, with the sensual eyes of a fat, greasy juryman gloating over that perfect physique. He whispered behind his hand to his neighbor, "She ain't guilty." There are too many dames now adays who give Madam Justice the go-by, because said crimesters are blessed with bright eyes, and crook eyes may look at one very straight, very innocent, very babyish. Do you recall in the New York blackmail case this year that the judge had a spite fence built around the ankles of the handsome defendant, lest her dainty feet should make the cause of justice to slip? Women right and left pepper their husbands with buckshot, but dushed few ever go anywhere for it, except to the stage or the screen. Mrs. De Saules neatly punctured her hubby with her auto matic, then posed gracefully for tho paper artists and the Jurymen, wept and lied artistically and went scot free. Ditto Madame Lebaudy. Here's a recent case: A pretty girl ran away from Steelton to Chambersburg, because she said her father beat her too severely, and wanted her to marry a man she didn't love. The girl was a"vcry attractive Syrian, with the volup tuous charm of the Orient. She fell into good hands when she arrived at Chambersburg, and went to live with a respectable family, where the wife was sick. The truth of her running away was partly the thrashing, part ly that she was enamored of a gal lant youth who dwelt in Waynes boro. Absence doesn't always make a man's heart grow fonder, she rea soned, so she meant to try presence on the fickle male. No, I didn't say Andrew G. Curtin's Prophecy On March 2, 1882, while the dip lomatic appropriation bill was un der consideration in Congress ex- Governor Curtin spoke at length on European policies, and in view of the developments of recent years his utterances now appear pro phetic. ' He said: "In the one hundred years of the existence and example of this na tion, where free government has been exercising its mighty power over peoples who enjoy its blessings, and all the governments of the world have felt its power in reliev ing oppressed humanity, silently but constantly our example has been contracting the power of the ruling classes and remitting it to the mass es of the people, where it Justly be longs. Our precepts and example, our liberal political ideas have broken down the barriers between centralized power and the masses of the people and everywhere conces sion made in Europe to the voice and control of the people of their governments and the rights of com mon humanity. "The people have power in all governments in Europe save one. Kings and emperors are lessened in their powers and prerogatives, and in my judgment, believing as I do in the future of this great country and of our form of government, our broad liberty and equality, the em peror and the king will soon remain as the tinsel, nominal heads of the government, if they are not entire ly dispensed with as unnecessary in governments which aim to secure individual huppiness and prosperity and enjoy the blessings of liberty, peace and concord; and there, will come a time when the jrlghts of hu manity will stand up and be as serted and appear in the living light in the presence of American ideas of human rights and liber ties." His Quaintness One William Smith found out eft soon, when he tried married life, He could not keep a motor car and eke support a wife. So, as he was eccentric, as someCfew husbands are. He straightway took care of his wife and sold the motor car. To find h's like, from what you've heard, you'll lyive far, far to seek, For William wns eccentric and like wise most unique. f— City Star. presents! The girl behaved herself very well at Chambersburg. Her father appealed to the Har- law. A detective came to Chambersburg in an auto with the father, for which ride the dad, of course, footed the bill. It cost poor old "pop" a right smart penny. The daughter had meantime pawned her rings and bracelets for twelve dol lars. When she tried to redeem the goods, a week or so later, the broker demanded twenty-seven iron men. Tho Jinx was working against the poor pretty little Syrian. She hied to the post office, trusting for a Waynesboro dove message, and there found a man with a silver badge waiting 1 to collect her. The detective, when he first landed at Chainbersburg, and hadn't seen the luscious sweetness of the girl, was high and mighty in his defense of the parental rights, but just as soon as the man of the law got his orbs on her and an onlooker told me that the detective's eyes burned with passion of the sex kind—the de tective turned on the old father fiercely, handed him a verbal brick, and later gathering the charming girl into the auto drove away into the night, at the father's expense, leaving the aged man stuplfied on the street, and the Chambersburg chief of police gasping. All night the girl and the detective motored to Ilarrisburg, arriving there about three In the morning. The jewelry man was brutal. The law man was worse. i Would our readers wish their daughters to ride alone at midnight with a strange man, even though he was a detective? It isn't the first time that detectives have pulled oft risque stunts. We've heard of the play, "Cheating Cheaters." Some one ought to write a drama on "Dctccti/ig Detectives." This is only another case of a woman not getting justice tvo % \ the law. The law man was far erueler in his friendship than If he had stood by her father. There was no reason why dad couldn't have accompanied the pair to the capital city. Wasn't the poet right when he wrote about "the fatal gift of beauty?" WILL, W. WHALEN, Orrtanna. Labor Here and Abroad There has never been a time since the armistice was signed that a long view of the future has not in cluded, among the important prob lems to be solved, that of labor. Tills has been true not only as to the United States, but also of the other countries of the world, and those other countries have bean meeting tho problem acutely, while we have been only contemplating It France has met it, and apparently lias solved it. Twice she has been threatened with a general strike, and twice socialistic labor has been beaten. Reliable authorities advise us that this has settled the question for France, and for a year at least she will bo undisturbed by labor troubles. The whole nation is at work and carving out its salvation. England has passed through acute throes, and while not yet out of the woods, has progressed far toward satisfactory settlement. Here, we are just beginning to feci the acute phases, and the threaten ed steel strike is the first important development to be met and over come. That this will be accomplish ed there is good reason to believe.— The Bache Review. Strikes Discourage Business The Columbia Graphophono Manufactures Company is appat enlly set upon removing its plauta from Bridgep< rt as a solution of the .-itrirfb difficulties which the corpo/n -tion is having with Its employee there. Such a procedure is not new in itrike cases, but thus far few companies have recently taken this tuf ns of ending labor disputes. The Columbia Giaphophone Company, .t is anno'inced, has purchased two factories, one in the New York dis iiict and rr,other in Philadelphia. Furthermo e, negotiations are un der way for the purchase of a plant in Bnltimo'e The company has de scribed the labor conditions in Bridgeport as being so bad that it was impossible to operate thero longer. One Way to Be Happy [From the Detroit Free Press] "They seem to get along: very well." "Yes. She makes her plana so thut they Interfere as little as pos sibe with her husband's golf en gagements." AUGUST 30, 1919. A Russian Amazon Who Cried Out of the choas there comes, now anil again, a human note to re mind us that elemental nature will probably endure. On the Mur mansk Railway front, Canadian troops captured a party of Bolshe viki In the Red Guard uniform, among whom was a young woman of 22, Olga Semenova Petomtzevx, fully armed and with a bandoleer of catridgee across her breast. She submitted mutely to being dis armed, but when her captors took a little scrapbook of pictures she broke down in tears. This mystified the officer in charge, for the scrap book contained only a number of photographs of babies cut from magazines. Mme. Petomtzeva left Petrograd on April 4 to Join her husband, who was in the Red Guard. In order to remain with him she donned a uni form and joined the fighting. In the action in which she was taken, at Urosozero, she was separated from Petomtzeff, who \ escaped. Questioned as to her interest in the photographs, she at last explained that she had had a child, who died, and of whom, owing to the disor der of the time, she could get no photograph. So she was collecting photographs of' children of his age, intending to keep the one that most resembled him. When the Asso ciated Frees correspondent cabled these homely details, Mme. Petomt zeva was serving as cook for a Canadian mess. A great philosopher to the con trary notwithstanding, clothes do not make the man—nor yet the woman. Even wai; may not wholly urtmgke them. ( More Babies If it's true the present death rate Is much greater than the~blrth, Will some scientist who knows state When mankind will quit the earth? Will the race soon be no longer Here upon the globe to tread, Will there be another . . stronger . . Human animal instead? In the cultured homes of this laud, But few babies now are born; France and Austria, and England, Are subject to the same scorn. Thus the laws of generation Outraged are where e'er you go. One can hardly name a nation But the births are far below The death toll: And what conclusion Can be reached 'niid hope and fear? Nothing but the sad confusion, Man will quite soon disappear. Tell us please what compensation For the loss to any race, Tribe, or sect in any nation, Of the Angel Baby face? —THE REV. D. H. KENNEY. Diamond Price Goes Up [From the Des Moines Register] The high cost of getting engaged to be married is going to be worse. Everyone knows that every well conducted engagement is sealed with a solitaire diamond. A young man in this day and age has lo show his diamond as well as his de votion to the lady of his heart's desire. No diamond, no wedding. And the cost of diamonds is go ing up this fall. Jewelers say there will be an increase in their cost of at least twenty-five per cent. It's all because the diamond cut ters have asked for a twenty-five per cent, increase in salary, and the new salary goes into effect at once. Some Day I Shall Be Some day I shall be The carved frost, The flung foam. Or a shell of ivory— Or a bat's wing, Or a wasp's sting, Or a gull in the hair of the sea. x ) Some day 1 shall be The gray mist. The green moss, . Or pollen wed to a bee— Of an owl's cry. Or a firefly, Or a worm at the heart of a tree. —David Rosenthal in the New Re public. Tom Too Good Natured [From Kansas City Star] If the President wants the Senate to cease from troubling he'll have to find a more strenuous mandatory for it than genial little Thomas Riley Marshall. laimttg (Eifat Every county in Pennsylvania and more than a score of States together with Cuba, Mexico, the Dominion of Canada and some of the West Indies were represented in the throng of sightseers at the Pennsylvania State Capitol during the month closing to-day, which is probably the busiest month for visitors to the State House since the Capitol was opened. Summer months are always marked by large numbers, of visitors to the building, but this year, July and August were characterized by a continuous stream of sightseers was as great on Sundays as on the other days of the week. More people came in automobiles in August than ever known, and the plaza in front of the building has been tilled with cars bearing streamers, with the names of many towns. As a result of the rush, the guides have been kept on the jump from morning un til night, some of the visitors from the rural districts having arrived as early as 8 o'clock in the morning, while a number of parties came after nightfall. The register of visitors, which is signed by only a small number of the visitors shows more pages filled than in previous months. State officials say that im provement of the roads, the in crease in number of autortfbbiles and the interest in the Capitol building and the proposed park im provements have caused the in crease in visitors. Permanent arrangements for the deposit of the flags carried by Penn sylvania National Guard regiments before and after leaving Camp Han cock, and the flags of the various organizations formed of Pennsyl vanians during the war will be made by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings and Ad jutant General Prank D. Beary In a few months. The Adjutant Gen eral has received the flags of all but one of the organizations of the Keystone Division and some of the flags carried by other units, In cluding 79tli and 80th Division commands, and expects to make a complete list before long. The idea is to place the flags in glass cases in the rotunda similar to those containing Civil and Spanish war flags. The depositing of the flags will be made occasion of a formal ceremony. • • • People familiar with Capitol Hill are of the opinion that the people who will make the borings to de termine the foundations for the new South office building will run into rock at a comparatively short dis tance below the surface. Tho Capitol knoll is largely of shale with a dyke of trap which has its outcropping in the Susquehanna river notably at "Big Rock" or "Maclay's Rock" at South street. The new building will be just be low the former line of South street in Capitol park extension, and it is thought that it will be in shale and require considerably blasting such as was needed when the Capitol was built. • * • Harrisburg people are once more commencing to think that they should'not believe the persons who annually predict the failure of the peach crop because the latest ship ments of peaches to this city from the Cumberland valley are in great er amount and in as fine quality as ever known. Immense quantities of peaches are coming here from parts of Cumberland, Adams, Franklin and Tork counties. They are mostly of the yellow variety and the white peaches will soon fol low them. The prices are higher than in years gone by but so are those for everything else, and the amount of peaches being preserved by Harrisburg housewives is im pressive. * • • River coal men who have been busier this summer than for a long time, say that they look forward to at least three months work in the Susquehanna in the way of dredg ing. The demand for the coal is heavy, although industrial plants about the city have stocked up large quantities and the State Capitol bins cbntain hundreds of tons. Rivermen say that the coal dredged this year will make a very sizable amount compared to former years and that the value will be large. Large pockets have been found in places which had been dredged last fall, • • George W. Hensel contributed a giant steer to the Home Coming celebration in honor of the soldiers at Quarryvllle. Thousands of sand wiches were provided and other good eats for the great crowds of thousands who gathered for the reception. Those who know Mr. Hensel can imagine his great plea sure in providing for this commun ity occasion. He represents in his own personality the best traditions of Lancaster county and as a chronicler of the life of the entire Lancaster region, he has no rival. • • • These are the days when the State Treasury is getting all kinds of taxes, ranging from seventy three cents to $lOO,OOO. The cor porations of the State are com mencing to pay their taxes and as they are assessed on business done or amounts of loans the sums vary. Some of the inactive companies pay very small sums although of late years the Auditor General has been assessing what is called "bookkeep ing tax" or enough to pay for tho book keeping. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Fred Gates, secretary of the Third Class City League again, has been city clerk of Wilkes-Barre for years. —T. DeWitt Cuyler, prominent Phlladelphian, is spending a time in Maine. —General C. M. Clement is urg ing the daylight saving ordinance in Sunbury and vicinity. —Dr. B. H. Warren, former State Zoologist, found an albino black berry and has transplanted it to his garden. —J. B. Holland, Montgomery county attorney, has returned from overseas work in France. —W. C. Smith, who has been jus tice of the peace at Conshohocken since 1880, has just passed his 79th birthday. • | DO YOU KNOW ■ —Hnrrisburg will have ten conventions or State wide meet ings next month? 4 m HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Harrisburg was one of the earliest places to try out the Lan sasterlan school system.
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