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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
DREADFUL. DREADFUL

A ND now they are accusing the
n Colonel of having been friendly
with Big Business! Yesterday
they wept bitter tears because he had
consulted with bosses" What fresh
horror will tomorrow develop, we
wonder.
Strangely enough, the Colonel un-
blushingly admits the awful accusa-
tions. Yea, he even volunteers more
information than his inquisitors seek
to pry from him. Evidently he Is not
ashamed of these Affiliations.
OF course. there will be those who
will not see in the Colonels con-
sultations with bosses" much differ
ence between such talks and the con
ferences with leaders" of the kind we
heard so much about in the late Demo-
cratic campaign in Pennsylvania for
instance. and there will be others who
no doubt will be base enough to har-
Dor the secret suspicion that Big
Business" occasionally needs a friend.
And lastly, one cannot keep down the
thought that the Colonel has done a
deal of talking in recent years purely
for political effect; that some of his
trust busting TRADES and his pleas for
political perfection were delivered in
an algebraic or Pickwickian sense, as
it were.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
TREES ALONG STATE ROADS

NOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH is a
T friend of trees. Anybody who
has read his Arbor Day procla-
nation knows that. Recently he sign
ed a bill permitting the distribution of
young trees from State forestry reser-
Vations. This is a good move and it
ought to be extended to the State high
ways.
New York State has passed law for
the encouragement of tree planting
along its public roads, both State and
county, that has resulted in millions of
young trees having been set out in the
past year or two. Certain small re-
bates in taxes are allowed the farmers
who plant and care for trees to shade
the roadways. In a few years New
York State highways will be shaded
and sheltered by hundreds of miles of
stately trees.
There is nothing more attractive in
summer than shady road, and few
landscape vistas more beautiful. Penn
sylvania ought not to be behind hand
in this. Too often our road builders
are careless of the trees they find
The average engineer appears to ad-
mire more straight line than for all
the beauties of nature combined. But
to the man who uses the highways, a
straight line means little and a tree
means much. There ought to be some
law on the statute books not only to
preserve the trees that now stand along
the roads. but to encourage the plant
ing of millions more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

idea of what the now very much torn
up district will look like when properly
developed.
Pictures elsewhere. also from the
pen of Mr.. Manning. who has done
work of the kind in all parts of the
United States and Canada, show how
other State capitols look and the
methods of identification used. The
whole series of views is educational
and instructive and the impression to
be gathered from them is that when
the Improvement is completed Penn
sylvania will have not only the finest
capitol in the country, but the most
beautiful setting for it.
The Legislature is asked this year
to set aside only the 100000 neces-
sary for the purchase of the remaining
land and the whole transaction will be
completed by 1917. as was contem-
plated. The commission is to be COM
mended both for the energy it has dis
played in the conduct of it's affairs and
in the good business sense that has
been shown in all of it's transactions.
The purchases will be made and the
ground cleared in short order. Mr..
Manning's sketches are the first pre-
liminaries looking toward permanent
park improvements in the extension
zone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2s
WELCOME
HE TELEGRAPH to-day TAX,

THE TELEGRAPH to-day takes
| ! great pleasure in welcoming the
Harrisburg Suffrage Association
ITO the Beautiful Harrisburg contest.
The suffrage flower committee has
asked the Civic Club to award five five
dollar prizes for the best yellow flower
gardens grown during the coming
summer, three of the prizes to go to
the owners of yellow gardens and two
to the owners of yellow window boxes.
With $125 in prizes for gardens,
porches and window box decorations,
and almost as much again to be dis
trbuted by the Civic Club itself among
juvenile gardeners, Harrisburg ought
to bloom like a rose the coming sum-
mer. The season has opened very
auspiciously for growing things. DAN
ger of frost is practically past and all
plant life has a good start. The
ground is warm and wet. Growing
conditions for the present are ideal
Now Is the time to get the garden
under way, whether it be large or
small.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
NO INDEED.

You wouldn't
marry a man just
because he had
money, W o u | d
you?
No, in d e e d.!
He'd have to
agree to turn it
over to me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, keeps
in constant touch with the legislative
situation in Harrisburg by telephone.
-Ex-Auditor General A. f. Sisson
is having a fine time with his two
farms at Erie. He says he is watching
politics now.
Hampton L. Carson, former At
torney General is preparing a new
book. say his friends.
H. i. Elkins, Philadelphia banker,
has resigned as head of the Colonial
Trust Company.
Alfred NJ. Collins, well-known
Philadelphian, is home from an ex-
ploring trip to South America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
MIR. MANN1NG,s SUGGESTION

NN another page to-day the Tele-
" graph publishes a suggestive
sketch by Warren II. Manning,
the noted landscape architect, of the
Capitol Park extension zone as he be-
lieves it should be developed.
This drawing was made at the re-
quest of the telegraph because of Mr..
Manning's long and excellent service
J to the city. For the reason that Mr..
Manning designed the city's park sys-
tenn and has been identified with the
local public improvement work ever
since its inception, it was thought per-
haps a suggestion from him along the
lines of the Capitol Park extension
might be helpful to Legislators and
State officials, enabling them to get an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
BRING BACK
By Wing Dinger

Ny family's away in the country,
They've been there for some time,
you see,
And l have been figuring how
Could bring back my family to me.
Chorus:
Bring back. bring back,
Bring back my family to me, to me,
Bring back, bring back.
oh, bring back my family to me.
/ wrote that the circus is coming.
In answer a letter to me
Says: Dear Dad, get seats for the fam
lily,
We're coming the circus to see."
Chorus:
Good stunt, good stunt:
That circus stuff worked we'll, you
see, you see,
] knew would do
To bring back the family to me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg bank clearings
have been showing steady gains?
A LAILLEss COUNTRY

[From the Christian Herald.I
Iceland a few years ago, started
toward national prohibition. 1t has
1t In full effect this year. and Denmark,
which gave her official sanction, is
pleased at the experiment. Iceland
has a poor soil and climate, but il has
no almshouses, nor inmates in jails,
nor criminal courts worth mentioning
but it has newspapers, schools,
churches. total abstinence for the indi-
vidual. and prohibition for the nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28


The Democratic party has been ever
and ever a failure when it comes to
putting them into effective operation.
About once every generation its lead
ers gain the popular ear. Young vot-
ers come to the front lacking the ex-
perience that has taught millions of
older voters to differentiate between
promise and performance, between
theory and fact.
1t sometimes happens, as in 1912,
that times are good, work is plenty
and the country prosperous.
The young voters are never
theless discontented. Having much
they very naturally want more,
and to aggravate this situation it occa-
sionally occurs that leaders of the Re-
publican party have not kept abreast
with public demands. The result has
been a Democratic President, Demo-
cratic Congress-and then four years
of hard times. We are passing through
just such an era now. The young
lvoter and the dissatisfied voter have
learned their lesson. even as they have
taught tagging Republican leaders the
folly of directing their forces from
1.-THE rear instead of from the front
The time is ripe for a change and
Senator Penrose is entirely in accord
with public opinion when he predicts
the, election of, Republican President
in 1916.
But there is another section of his
speech that also is we'll worthy of con-
slderation by both the party leaders
and the rank and file. 1t is this:
But after all. the Republicans will
not be fully restored to power in a
way in which they can bring about
effective results such as the imme-
diate repeal of the present free
trade tariff law and other remedial
gether with the resumption of
vigorous foreign policy, unless the
Republicans have control of the
Senate of the United States.
Voters and leaders must stand close
together If this is to be accomplished
and the Republicans returned to full
power. Voters must sink all thought
of the past, all differences as to per-
sonal selections and minor consider
ations in the main issue. Leaders must
so conduct themselves as to leave no
room for doubt in the public mind as
to their sincerity or Willingness to bow
to the will of the people. Failure in
this regard has been one of the chief
complaints against the Wilson admin
istration and the Republican party
must not be permitted to fall into like
error, with its unlimited possibilities
for grave disaster.
Not an excuse for a third party in
the United States next year must be
permitted to remain. There must be
perfect accord between rank and file
and leadership. The opportunity is
at hand for the greatest victory in the
history of the Republican party. 1t
must not be marred by the loss of the
Senate. Yet that is possible unless
care be taken to keep the party man.
agement absolutely responsive to pub
lie opinion and popular demands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
NAPOLEON OUTDONE

In a small town there was a veteran
who was called Colonel Bingle. He
was stored full of anecdotes about his
life as a soldier. which had won him
the unbounded admiration of a certain
little boy in the town who was of a
martial cast of mind. But never had
the boys admiration for the colonel
found such complete expression as
when he remarked to a little playmate:
You be Napoleon Bonaparte. I'll be
Colonel Bingle!'-New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
Your Money Market! !!

Advertising is news of the
money market - your Individual
money market.
1t is a guide to what you
should pay and where you should
buy.
1t is a personal service news
the reading of which makes
for your wealth and comfort.
Advertising is valuable to the
man who pays for Ii only when
he can make IL valuable to you.
Wise people read the advertis-
ing In their favorite newspaper
and when they stop they ask for
advertised brands by name.
Advertising is one of the most
helpful features in the daily
newspaper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
Change Day of Mourning

Washington, April 2S. - President
Johnson to-day changed the day of
mourning for the late President s
death from May 25 to June /. May
% is Ascension Day was the only rea-
son given.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
Taylor Ready to Surrender

New Orleans, April 2S.-1t was re-
ported here to-day by the authorities
that the rebel leader, Dick Taylor, is
ready to surrender.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

entire army surrendered to Grant on
the 26th under the same terms Of
fered to Lee. Johnston wants jeff
Davis and the rebel leaders pardoned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
AN EVENING THOUGHT

An you've got to get up airly
If you want to take in God.
Lowell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
NEWGaf WGf fRAf RssTESfESAR
[From the Telegraph. April 2s, 1861
Railroads Repair Bridges

Railroads in the State are employ
ing hundreds of men to repair the
damage done to their bridges by the
Spring floods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
[ [QUR DAILY TAUCHl
SWEET INNO-
CENCE.

M T 8. Justwed
ito butcher): I
want two pounds
If becfsteak. and
iave 1t rare.
Nease.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
Court Session On

Court sessions have been begun
The grand jury will give its report to,
morrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Have Presidents Photograph
Burnite 6, Co., of this city, have the
original negative of a photograph of
President Lincoln and his son Willie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
SENATOR PENRosE,s SPEECH

TN a speech that is in perfect har-
mony with public thought on the
subject, Senator Penrose, before
the Americus club at Pittsburgh last
night said:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Owing to an unfortunate division
in the Republican party, which is
now happily passing away, the
Democratic party was successful in
the last Presidential election. The
people have had the change, they
have had a brief experience with
the Underwood free trade tariff
policy. They have felt the humil-
iation of the policy OF watchful
waiting. They have seen business
paralyzed by hostile legislation of
Congress, and now they are wait
ing for the coming opportunity in
1915 to register their verdict by an
overwhelming majority in favor of
Republican policies and a restora-
tion of protection and prosperity
and common sense in legislation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Talk about your high cost of llv-
ing" said a man who has Just re-
turned from Erie. The catch of blue
pike on Lake Erie this year is so
great that the warehouses are filled
and people are being regaled with
a fish diet. I heard that fish were
being quoted at cent a yound. That
is the lowest known in long time and
wish we could get some of it here"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Speaking of automobiles it is an in
teresting fact to record that a few
days ago man was arrested for run
ming a car with only one license tag.
The tag was issued in North Carolina
and in that State it is part of the
regulation that only one tag need be
displayed. AS Pennsylvania recipro-
Gates with the turpentine State there
was nothing doing in the way of
fine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

THE hot weather of the last several
days" said IA local sporting goods
merchant yesterday" Is certainly
boosting my business. Why I've sold
more swimming suits, tennis rackets,
golf clubs and balls, and canoes than
/ would have in four weeks of ordin-
airy weather. This is the way I'd like
to see it the year round"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Published every evening (except Sum-
day. at the Telegraph Building. 21e
Federal Square. Both phones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Men in charge of city parks have
started their annual raid on dande-
lions and the yellow flowers are being
cut out as rapidly as they can be
reached. Property owners are CO.
operating on stretches of grass near
their homes and the removal of the
yellow flowers is being pushed so that
the nuisance will not be spread.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
! Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ-
l ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28

Nature gave another example of her
many curiosities Monday evening just
as the thunderstorm was passing over
the city. The sun which was just
setting behind the light clouds north
of the city,where the storm was over,
gave a deep red glow lighting up the
mountains. Many of the people of
Rockville and the other towns north
of the city remarked that the noun
tains must be on fire because of the
red light. Shortly after Old Sol buried
himself for the night, leaving only
gray streakS instead of the red glow
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-05-06
IN Wind Yonder Blo60S
Good Here
BIoHS

1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good and the European war may be
considered as such. AS a result of the
conflict regular commerce may be es-
tablished soon between this country
and Iceland. new line has been es-
tablised and may continue indefinitely,
bringing that country into closer touch
with this republic.
In October the Iceland government,
because of the food embargo in Europ-
can countries, was obliged to charter a
vessel to send to this country for food,
Iceland having depended for its food on
American cereals, which, however,
have been bought through brokers in
Europe. The steamer chartered was
the Hermod, and it was sent here in
charge of a prominent Iceland merchant
and a member of the Parliament, and
It was the first vessel to sail directly
from Iceland to the Ameri-
can continent since the voyages of Lief
the Lucky. This spring others have
followed in the wake of the Hermod.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-05-06
II m erica First

A wise, a timely and highly pa
triotic speech was that which President
Wilson delivered yesterday to the
members of the Associated Press.
In two words, America First" he
defined not only the one great duty of
the Government of the United
States at this time, but the one
great duty of the people of the
United States 'Let. US think of
America before we think of Europe. "
1t was time that somebody who could
Bpeakswith authority gave that word
of advice and of warning to the clam
erous champions of the European bel
Igerents.
The President made his appeal in
no spirit of sordid self-interest. He
did not ask Americans to think of
America first because there would be
money in it. He did not ask them to
be neutral through - penny desire to
keep out of trouble. 1t was a plea
directed toward the higher ethical in
terests of the United States in the
councils of mankind.
Measured by the test of America
first, " most of the disputed issues of
this war readily and easily solve them
selves so far as this country is con-
cerned. There can be no violent clash
Of opinion between the friends of Ger
many and the friends of Great Britain
and France when that test is intelli-
gently applied.
We have our own work to do at this
time, and some of it is more important
to civilization than the work that is
being done in the trenches. We have
our own service to render, and when
the finali adjustment comes, that SER
vice may be gilmore value to some of
the belligerentsrthan any service they
can render to themselves. Not only
are we the great mediating nation, as
the President says, but 1--WE do not
want anything that does not belong to
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-05-06

ly. / think that this combination
included some of the Gollmar boys, who
were their cousins. | knew they
had pony and dog that took some
part in their performances. They had
performing animals. l am quite
certain about that. The sexistence
of this early show of the Ringing Bros.
was we'll known by all of the small boys
of Baraboo, at that early day. This
according to my recollection was the
beginning of their Worlds Greatest
Shows whose immense herd of animals
consumes 55, 900 tons of hay in one win
ter. do not remember the jail yard show
III 1882, was living then in Dakota
Territory; but there was still another
earlier show Of theirs, that Mr.. "Al. "
Ringing does not mention, that was
pulled off while was away from Bar
aboo; it was in 1878 or 1879 they gave
a ten cent show on the fair ground, at
the Sank County Fair. 1t must have
D6Ou SOOO Sl4OW 4O4 SOOO LAoAAJ
people remember it to this day. My
knowledge of it has been deriN ed from
persons who attended it.
| remember the Ringing boys in the
Baraboo public school, when they were
in the primary department, | also re-
member they were pupils of the Bar
aboo Collegiate Institute; there was
primary department connected with
that institution and two or three of the
Ringlings were primary pupils there;
when Prof. Pillsbury was at the head
of it.
The Ringing Brothers have certain
" made their mark and impressed
their personality upon the people of
these United States. They are good
citizens as well as good showmen. And
although we hope they may stay with
us many years yet, and that they may
continue to entertain the public in the
future as in the past, we may be
sure that this old world will be better
for their having lived in it.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-05-06
r eHgion Of the PreSiden1

The other day person desired to
know to what churches the presidents
of the U. S. belonged Here they are:
Washington, Episcopal; Adams, Uni
tartan; Jefferson, not a sectarian;
Madison, Episcopal; Monroe, Episco-
pal; J. O. Adams, Unitarian; Jackson,
Presbyterian; Van Buren,, Reformed
Dutch; Harrison, Episcopal; Tyler,
Episcopal; Polk, Presbyterian; Taylor
Episcopal; Fillmore, Unitarian; Pierce,
Episcopal; Buchanan. Presbyterian; Lin
coin, not sectarian; Johnson, not a
Gectarian; Grant, Methodist; Hayes,
Methodist; Garfield, Christian; Arthur,
Episcopal; Cleveland, Presbyterian;
Harrison, Presbyterian; Mckinley,
Methodist; Roosevelt, Reformed
Dutch; Taft, Unitarian; Wilson
Presbyterian.
1t will be noted there have been
eight Episcopalians, six Presbyterians,
four Unitarians, three Methodists,
two Reformed Dutch, one Christian
ind three non-sectarian.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-05-06
WE'D IN CHICAGO;
HOME IN KILB0URN

In Chicago few days ago, DR.. F.
H. Kesler and Miss Flora Hansen
were married. The bride is a grand
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Seneca
Briggs, we'll known in Sank county
where they have lived for more than
half a century. Though born in Colo
RADIO, she has, with her mother and sis
ter, resided in Kilbourn since the death
of her father.
DR.. Kesler is noted as one of the
most proficient and popular dentists in
this section of the state, having mod
ern. electrically equipped dental office
in Kilbourn. During residence in
Kilbourn of many years he has been
prominently associated with musical
and social entertaining affairs, through
which the Wisconsin Dells Band gave
them serenade. They will make their
home in Kilbourn.