Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-28
EVENING Chat

We're going to have our own home
grown strawberries this year. Prob
ably not one in twenty had any doubts
on the subject, but it was not until
yesterday afternoons rain came<along
that the crop in this part of the state,
and that includes the York county
berries, was anything like certain. 1t
has been a rather hard summer for
fruit of all kinds. the spring being late
because of the way King Winter
fingered around. and then when it
should have been hot to encourage the
farmers 1t was cool. Ploughing, har-
rowing. rolling and seeding is still in
progress on many farms in this sec<
ton and things as a rule are back
ward. Then the dry spell, which was
broken yesterday, occurred to make
the roads simply tracks of dust and
to cause plants which should have
been growing over night and showing
plenty of fruit to look wan and deli
cate The strawberries have been just
coming into their own, being about as
large as the end of ones thumb. They
have been that way for a while and
people who have been observing them
declare that unless the rain had come
the crop would have been pretty slim
and the genuine york countys," the
ancestors of so many planted through
out this region, would. not have had
the taste of the sunshine which makes
them without peer and causes the Vir-
ginia and Maryland berries to take a
back seat The first Pennsylvania
grown berries are reported from Chess
ter and Bucks counties, but it is dol
lars to doughnuts that the man who
raised them used the hose or sprink-
ling can.
E. NJ. Bierbower. who is active in
the work of the S. P. c. A., makes an
excellent suggestion regarding the
drinking fountains about the city
when he says that the fountains should
have places for dogs as well as men
and horses to drink. Every man who
owns d dog-and every man who has
a dog sympathizes with him-has no.
ticed the amount of water canine
can drink in summer time. Yet, there
are probably not half a dozen places in
all Harrisburg where a thirsty dog can
drink. A couple of the fountains have
basins for dogs, but for some mex
plicable reason those parts are closeo
up. Anyone who has been about Capt.
tol Park very much knows how the
dogs slip by the policemen to drink
at the two fountains near the Hart
ranft statue. The dogs deserve some
consideration and every fountain
should be equipped for them. Dogs
uoh sldS away from water III lne uoS
days. They go to it. The popular
belief is that in the dog days the
CANNES develop hydrophobia and some
people think dogs don't want water in
that period. Science has exploded the
idea that hydrophobia is a hot weather
disease and the Indians never report
that disease among their dogs. Every
Indian tribe has place where dogs
can drink and they are as well taken
n a of in hot 1tt,A 1,A hol&
city authorities could do a good deed
by providing for the dogs as well as
the horses at the fountains
Some idea of the task confronting
the clerks at the Capitol in computing
the return may be gained from the.
fact that each county returns on an
average ten returns. In some of the
big counties with several legislative
districts there are more. and Philadel-
phia and Allegheny each have a regu-
lar bale. There is more work con-
nected with the primary returns com
putting this year than ever known,
owing to the new primary law.
DR.. Nathan c. Schaeffer, state super
intendent of public instruction, has
gone to the peace conference at Lake
Mohonk The doctor has been one of
having years ago urged that the his
tory of the United States be more con-
cerned with the triumphS of industry
and development and invention than
with the CORY glories of war.
De Bonneville Randolph Keim, for
mer editor of the Telegraph, who died
at Washington last Sunday and was
buried at Reading this week. knew many
Presidents intimately. He was a loyal
friend of President Arthur and the
President upon one occasion nomi-
mated Mr.. Keim for the secretaryship
of the Civil Service Commission. but
failed to secure his confirmation, owing
to the enmity of a senator whom Mr..
Keim had offended. When Secretary
of State William II. Seward visited
Alaska after the purchase from Russia
of that great tract. now one of the
great gold fields of the world, Mr..
Keim accompanied him on this famous
journey. Mr.. Keim was very close to
President Harrison during his ad-
Some years ago Mr.
Keim startled one of the White House
garden parties by wearing a brilliant
red necktie instead of the conventional
scarf. The red tie made great hit at
the party and friends made many pro-
tests against his breach of etiquette,
until President Taft appeared with a
scarf that was a dead ringer" for
that used by Mr.. Keim. President Taft
was delighted to find Mr.. Keim had
also offended Madame Grundy and
both had a hearty laugh over the dis
comfiture of the critics who had been
wearing a colored scarf