Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-06
EhrntttD Chat

DR. John ]. Mullowney. of the State
Health Department, a member of the
Religious Society of Friends or
Quakers. and a member of the Phila-
delphia Yearly Meeting, has compiled
the Peace Calandar and Diary for
1916" which is to be published by
Paul Elder & Company, San Fran
cisco, in the near future. The CAL
endar will present words of wisdom
from the wise men past and present
against war and militarism, one quota
ton being given for each day in the
year. On each facing page is to be
the date and a liberal space for the
days engagements or memoranda.
While the calendar will be artistic in
appearance, 1t will be thoroughly con-
venient and practical, a desk memoir
anda record, fitted to a specially
finished standard. DR.. Mullowney
says he has given his time to its prep
aration not for financial gain, but
from a desire to help educate the
people in the ways of peace. All
money which he realizes from its sale,
above expenses will be used to pro-
mote the peace movement.
How curiously old Father Time
maps out the schemes of men is
probably never better illustrated than
in the use to which the old COW
cred horse-drawn police patrol is to be
put by action of City Council yester-
day. The City Commissioners, by reso-
luton, directed that the old patrol
wagon should be taken from the dust
of the loft of the Shamrock flrehouse
and turned over to the small men and
women of the Childrens Industrial
Home fora playhouse! For years
prior to the time the motor patrol and
ambulance was put into the police
service the old horse-drawn vehicle
hauled many a weary wayfarer be-
tween the police station and the
haunts of the Eighth ward and Sible-
| town. Its walls could tell many n
| story of the shriekS of the drug doped
woman, the sobs of the drunken man.
| of the tears of the groups of painted
| women hustled unceremoniously into
| the vehicle in the wee sma' hours of
| the morning! Now it's walls are to
echo nothing but the laughter of small
| boys or the song of the tiny mother
rocking her doll baby to sleep.
|
| Strolers through Bellevue Park last
| Sunday afternoon picked up chestnuts
| under the trees. The woods south
east of Bellevue also was filled with
picked up there.
| According to the reports of the folks
from the mountain districts, the nuts
have fallen at many places in the
Peters and Kittatinny mountains.
chestnut parties are being arranged
and willy farmers are placing trespass
signs upon their cultivated trees.
one of the biggest chestnut parties
which will be held this Fall is that of
the Derry Street United Brethren
mems class, scheduled for Friday, Oc-
tober %. The men of the class will go
by auto to some spot, the location of
which is being Kept a secret by the
committee lest some other party "beat
EN- to 1t. The chestnut party of this
class is an annual event and is usually
attended by well onto a hundred men.
Harry Carl and O. p. Beckley tho
teachers always suffer on these trips
tc the mountains, for all fellows drop
their wonted respect for these wortA
men and play all the practical jokes
IN the category on the luckless ones.
; Thursday night before the outing the
men will hold a social in their banquet
hall. where. with the aid of the
movie" they Will show their wives
J what a fine time they missed on tho
1914 trip.
; Not only has the Elliott Fisher
typewriter Company, in South Har-
, risburg, originated an efficiency vaca-
{ ton plan, but its employees have an
almost unique lunch hour scheme
Instead of taking an hour for lunch,
as do the employees of so many other
plants, and then tramping many blocks
, to their homes for a hurried bite to
eat, the employees here have taken
, advantage of the beautiful lawn in the
Cameron parkway near the works.
Here every day at noon you can see
bevy of pretty stenographers and
: girl employees from the other DEPART
= ments gathered in little groups on the
i, many grassy slopes. Instead of the
mad rush to home or lunchroom and
back again, these girls make a sort of
: picnic of their midday meal-and they
have half an hour to themselves in
the evening, for work ceases that much
earlier.
In your recent rambles through the
woods have YOU seen any signs of the
butcher bird, or shrike hanging
around on fences or broken twies?
This bird has a cruelty shaped beak.
with which he stabs mice frogs, SPAR
5 rows and other young birds After
killing his food he hangs 1t up until
he is ready for it,
, For some unaccountable reason this
, bird is more plentiful in this section
: of the country in the winter than in
the summer. He's about as large as a
crow, blush gray in color, and will
hide in the bushes and initiate the
cries of other birds to decoy them
within reach. His usual bill of fare
consists of grasshoppers and beetles.
In cold weather he diets on mice and
sparrows.