Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-19

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But when morning came we had fits
of despair;
For the pool had seeped out, though
the DAM was still there.
The bosses were gathered in
punches to look
On the zeal and goodwill of re-
newed efforts mighty.
And the waters grew deep in that
cool. shady nook,
Till jackson declared: %How I'd
loveto duck Whitney!
Then Miller showed Jackson right
into the pool
And when he caught breath, said:
See here. you DAM fool!
I'm older than you, but can lick you,
1 swear!'
And Miller vamoosed while the
DAMN was still there.
Now concealed by the trees on the
banks of the steram
From the eyes of the curious the
fair pool reposes.
For new DAM was built, one to
stay, it would seem,
And the calk that was used didn't
smell like June roses.
But conquer we must, for we'd no
bathtub trust
And thus was our motto-We'u
make it or bust!'
And three rousing big cheers at last
rent the air,
For the water was held by the DAM
THAT WAS THERE"
Tune of Star Spangled Banner"
The Rev c. G. White, who has
recently suffered from a severe opera
ton, was with the party and the out
ing was of great benefit to him as well
as a great pleasure to his friends in
camp. The Explorers have extended
formal thanks to the commissary,
Colonel NJ. r. Rhoads, and his assist
ants and to Colonel ]. H. Shank,
chairman of the committee of ar
rangements, for his care of the camp
ers. Fisher, Mead and Schriver were
the hard workers of the camp. They
never lifted their eyes from their
work" The "Colonels" are gladly
looking forward to their forty-fourth
camp in 1915.
Three young men went up to a soda
bar last Sunday and each ordered a
| five cent drink. one man standing
treat. But the clerk rang up three
nickel sales on the cash register in
stead of one fifteen cent sale.
Why asked the host of the party.
Slow day." said the clerk Several
excursions out of town to-day and a
lot of people away beside that. We're
doing mighty little business this after
noon. l ring up every sale it looks
| bigger at the end of the day even if it
doesn't mean large receipts"
DIR. William C. Miller, of Bedford,
travelling tuberculosis lecturer of the
State Department of Health, has a
| typical story of campaigning in the
wilds of Pennsylvania: it was a per-
sonal experience a dozen years ago
when the doctor was running for State
senator, an office to which he was
twice elected.
Il was travelling alone, he said,
"and came to a backwoods cabin about
noon when / was tremendously hun
CRY. l knew the man of the house
only slightly but he asked me to stay
for dinner and 1 did. He got to talk
ing about my opponent, who had been
along that way the previous week and
who also had stopped for dinner. 1
soon discovered that my host had
some sort of a crouch against the 9TH
er fellow. He's too stuck up he
went on to explain. I don't have
much time for these dudes. Doc. Do
| you know what he wanted Why,
when the pie came along for dinner he
actually asked for a fork
About that time" concluded DR..
Miller, our pie came along and you
just ought to have seen me shoveling
| IL in with a knife. And I didn't ask
for a clean knife, either"
City Park Commissioner Taylor is
| finding the much-needed park bench
es in many out-of-the-way places. Re-
Gently eighteen or twenty of these
| benches were recovered from an iso-
lated island off Hamilton street and
near the Cumberland shore. They
were associated with several empty
beer kegs and bottles, indicating that
somebody had had a midnight patty.
1t has been necessary for the Park De-
| partment to fasten these benches to
posts driven into the ground. Other
benches were recovered from an en-
tirely different place where they were
doing those who frequented the parks
mighty little good.
Sometimes the gentlemen of the
| City Council, Vho are also the heads
of the various departments, imagine
that their efforts are not appreciated,
but could they hear the comments of
approval from time to time they would
likely be better able to properly weigh
the kicks which come from thought
less sources. For instance, the beauti-
full flowers on the North street side of
the pumping station has won as much
commendation for Commissioner Bow
man and his force as anything else
that his been done by that depart
ment, There is also much praise for
the new fountain installed in Front
street, near the lily pond, another at
traetive feature of the pumping sta
tions environment