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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
VALUE OF GARDEN PLOTS

TINE family garden plots main
! tained by the Harrisburg
Benevolent Association yielded
more than $4,000 worth of vegetab bles
last summer and the 237 families who
worked the ground reaped the benefit.
This is an average of about $40 worth
of vegetables per family, although
some of them made their ground yield
twice that sum.
Here is an illustration of what the
Telegraph has been trying to impress
upon the people of the city for years
the value of the ground about town
that is lying idle and growing UP to
weeds which the Health Department
requires shall be cut at the expense
of the property owner. Thousands of
backwards that might be made to
yield thousands of dollars worth of
all manner of vegetables are lying
waste. The residents of Harrisburg
might at one time beautify their
premises, give themselves whole
some occupation and at the same time
materially reduce the cost of summer
living and lay UP a supply of food for
the winter if they would but take the
small amount of trouble that is neces-
sary to turn the rear yard desert into
place of beauty and of plenty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
READ THE SUMMARY

DEAD the summary of the Cham
IN Der of Commerce's work during
the past year, published else
where in this issue, as presented by
President Henderson Gilbert at last
nights annual meeting of that body. .
If you are a member of the Cham
ber you should read it from the stand
point of ascertaining whether or not
the price you paid for your member
ship was we'll invested. If you are
from the standpoint of the man who
is outside and who is trying to decide
whether membership in the Chamber
is worth while.
Even a superficial perusal of tho
report will convince the most skeptical
that the Chamber of Commerce is a
body the city could, we'll not do with
out. 1t occupies a. place in the life
of the community that no other organ
ization could fill. The wonder is not
that it has not done more during the
past twelve months, but that it has
done so much.
Possibly there may be those who have
remained outside of the Chamber be-
cause of what they may have regarded
as rather high dues. but a glance at
the record of things done and in pro-
cess of being done when the fiscal year
ed>will show the wisdom of making
the dues sufficient to provide ample
funds for work. This small member
ship cost was the biggest handicap the
old Board of Trade had. 1t never was
the possessor of sufficient money to
do any big thing we'll, and the city
was constantly demanding big things
of it. Last nights very large turn
out of members is convincing proof
that as a whole the business and pro-
fessional people of Harrisburg are
convinced that the Chamber is on the
right track and has the support of
the community as a whole.
President Gilbert hints at bigger
and better accomplishments next
year. This is good news. Harrisburg
is Just on the verge of another great
stride forward and it is pleasing to
note that the Chamber of Commerce
is right in step.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
GO TO 1T, JUDGE

TUDGE BEN B. LINDsEY'S threat
to take "a shotgun and kill the next
liar who circulates slanderous re-
ports about him will profoundly shock
some of the most ardent admirers of
the great little man who has made
the juvenile court of Denver famous
wherever problems of law and
sociology are studied but we have a.
suspicion that 1t will not topple the
judge from his pedestal entirely. The
outburst, if not exactly characteristic.
will appeal to all red-blooded citizens
as being essentially human, and 1t
ought to win friends for the Judge and
his system in quarters where such
matters are usually viewed with in
difference.
Tt is all very well to be meek And
no one wants to intimate that the re-
Ward held out in the Sermon on the
Mount to such as are meek is not
worth Striving for with all ones might
and with all ones soul. But at the
same time 1t must be admitted that
any man who has suffered at the
hands of the foul-mouthed Colorado
politicians as Judge Lindsey has, and
can yet keep his temper, is far too
good for political sinkho1e like
Denver IF the Judge had indefinitely
maintained the appearance of sweet
ness and reasonableness the least his
friends could have expected is that
some fine day he would be translated
like Elijah in chariot of fire and a
whirlwind.
We would not like to see Judge
Lindsey stain his hands with blood,
and we do not believe there is the
slightest danger that he will. But we
would be Wiling to contribute a
cookie or two as the price of ad-
mission to see that SO or 80 pounds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN
STEAMERS CHEAPER
THAN STEAM WAY

A carefully prepared test of two
Swedish sisters ships, one driven by
triple expansion steam engines and the
others by electricity, shows that elec-
trio motors are most economical foI
ship propulsion.
The vessels We're both of 2,225 tons
displacement, and designed for speed
of II knots with the development of
900 Indicated horse power. The coal
consumption was the important point
to be determined and in these trials it
was guaranteed that the turbo-elec-
trically equipped vessel should show
a saving of 80 per cent. over the triple-
expansion engines. This guarantee
was fulfilled. for the turbo- electric
power plant showed an economy of 35
per cent, the consumption being 0.4
kilo per indicated horse power, the en-
gines developing 975 horse power, and
driving the vessel at an average speed
of 11.S8 miles per hour.-Electrlc
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
OUT WITH THEM

HR. RAUNICK, head of the City
Health Department is much dis
couraged over the. carelessness
of the milkmen of Harrisburg and
vicinity who repeatedly disregard the
efforts of the health officers with re-
spect to clean milk. He says, in a re-
cent report, that apparently more
necessary to correct the evil. There
is just one other measure possible,
and the community will back up the
health department if it decides to take
the radical step that appears to be
the only thing left If the pure milk
law is to be enforced. If Dr. Raunick
has evidence of repeated and wilful
, violations of dealers or producers who
will not heed his warnings nor profit
by the lessons of prosecution and
publicity, he should take away the
licenses of the offenders.
The taxpayers of Harrisburg are
expending large sums yearly for the
maintenance of a health department
and they are assessed to cover the
expense of milk inspection, for the
license fees charged do not begin to
produce revenue enough to make the
bureau self-supporting, and they have
a right to expect pure milk in re-
turn.
Milk of good quality is a wholesome
food and great quantities are con-
sumed daily. Contaminated, it has
vast possibilities for spreading dis
ease of all kinds. The man who de-
liberately sells his customers a pro-
duct reeking with germs of a dan
gerous character is in a class with the
professional poisoners of old. He is
the forerunner of sickness and the
harbinger of death. He is in league
with the undertaken and a partner
with the grave-digger. He is a menace
to the community and the sooner it
is rid of him the better. If DIR. Rau-
{ nick has evidence sufficient to prove
that any man is knowingly or care
lessly persisting in the sale of milk
in Harrisburg that is not up to the
standards required by law. let him
act as vigorously as the regulations
permit. The people will stand back
of him in any move for their own pro-
lection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
A BILLIoN-BUsHEL GRAIN CROP
[From the Christian Herald

Contrast with the scenes of the ter
rible European conflict and the death
harvest which is being reaped abroadA
the scenes of agricultural activity thaA
are now being enacted throughout the
Middle West and the great grain grow
ing sections of the Northwest, and you
have a picturesque scene of relief.
American farmers are surely destined
to feed the worlds children during the
months to come!
One hundred and fifty thousand men
from every State of the Union have
invaded these western sections and are
engaged in harvesting the greatest
cereal crop in the worlds history The
precision with which the precious grain
crop Is garnered from our grain fields
presents one of the wonders of the
world:
There are approximately 10000, 900
acres devoted to the 1915 wheat crop.
This acreage will yield a harvest of be-
tween $4,000, 900 and 1000, 900, 600
bushels students of agricultural situa-
tion confidently. predicting that the lat
ter figure will be reached by Fall The
average wheat crop from 1909 to 1918
was 6S6,000 900 bushels, while the 1914
crop totaled the enormous sum of S91,-
900, 900 bushels, which brings this years
crop 59,0o0,000 bushels greater than
last years crop, based on conservative
estimates
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
EDISON WORKING AS
BRIDE-TO-BE WAITED
Inventor Was Experimenting With
Electric Light as Hour of Mar
riage Arrived

Although it is a fact not generally
known, Thomas A. Edison, the master
inventor, was so engrossed in his cleo
trical researches at the time of his
marriage in 1873 to Miss Mary Still
well, that at the appointed hour when
the minister was to pronounce the
ceremony, the guests were unable to
find Mr.. Edison for some time.
Finally he was located in his private
laboratory, experimenting with the
electric light, which was in those days,
of course, great novelty, and, in fact,
a brand new branch of science.
Tt is recorded that at one time he
had presented to him a box of "Ha-
vana" cigars, and although they were
of doubtful quality he in a very short
time had smoked the whole box of
them. observation-disclosures such as this
is an attribute of the greatest scientists
of the world. When walking about his
extensive laboratories at West Orange,
N. j., 1t is rarely that Mr. Edison no.
tees anyone, whether they are callers
or not, and he walks by even when
close enough to brush their clothes
with his coat He does not recognize
them even though they are old-time
friends, as he is so intensely absorbed
In thought over some invention or
other.
Mr.. Edison's wife has undoubtedly
helped in a myriad of ways to make
him the master inventor and scientist
that he is to-day.-Erie Dispatch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Captain stockton's remarks before the
Chamber of Commerce. last evening,
about Plattsburg and the other camps
which were organized by Major General
Wood for the purpose of training of
ficers from the citizenry who may be
used in time of war, struck many of
his hearers as being little unfair, in
that he did not give credit even for
the effort to pull the country out of its
Iethargy of unpreparedness. Captain
Stockton may not approve of the idea OF
these camps in their practical working
out. but at least he must admit that
those men who gave UP five weeks of
their business and pleasure to do what
little they could in helping forward the
movement for military preparation de-
serve something more than a scathing
denunciation for their pains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

While the family of william Heller,
of Lancaster, were at church a thief
stole the children's savings Doubt
less there is a moral concealed some
where in this incident but whether it
is never to go to church or never to
save any money we hesitate to decide.
The man who lives a shady life
naturally cannot be expected to have
a sunny disposition.
Those yellow Peruvian potatoes may
be all right. but we prefer OURS white
and mashed to a fluff, with a large dab
of butter to give the color.
The proof of the pudding lies in
the taste you have the morning after.
And now Greece feels called upon
to put a spot on the war map.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

of irate manhood, armed with a shot
gun almost as big as himself, chasing
one of the large tribe of character
assassins that have been bounding
him for years, down one of Denver's
main streets and shouting death and
defiance at every jump.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
WHOSE

T<HERE is A striking parallel of
method between the German
and the Mexican negotiations.
In both are found the same mental
operations, the same indefniteness and
the same pusillanimity. Bryan used
to be blamed for the Mexican policy.
But Bryan has gone. while the meth
DDS remain. The President also re-
mains. Are these methods his? Have
they always been his?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
Cutting Down
Expenses

The advertising in this news
paper can be made a potent fac
tor in reducing your expenses.
right.
1t will show you how to get
the most for the money-some-
times 1t will show you ways to
make money.
knowledge is power always
and buying knowledge Is the
safeguard of the prudent.
If you are not an advertising
reader try the experiment Of
seeing how much information the
Telegraph can give you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
PsGttsca In
Pe~'so4eOo~io
By the Ex-Comnsitteeman

Washington county has come for
ward with candidate ito fill the
vacancy on the Supreme Court bench
caused by the death of Justice EllSin.
The bar association of that county
Nstarted a movement in behalf of James
|. Brownson before Justice Elkin had
been dead twelve hours and the mem
bers will send a delegation to Gov
ernor Brumbaugh on his return here
to ask for the appointment. Friends
of Judge Kunkei, of Dauphin county,
who ran Judge Frazier a very close
second for the Supreme bench a year
ago, regard him as the logical candi-
date for the place, but in view of the
respect in which Judge EllSin was held
in this county they have made no
effort to put forth the claims of Judge
Kunkel at this early date. Doubtless
in due time the Dauphin County Bar
Association will take steps to present
Judge Kunkels name to Governor
Brumbaugh.
County detectives suspect that the
fire which destroyed the Williamsburg
schoolhouse yesterday may have been
started by persons desirous of having
the ballot box stored there destroyed
Burgess Anderson, however, says the
box was removed last week.
Ex-State Senator John T! Murphy,
a Roosevelt elector in 1912, yesterday
gave notice in Philadelphia of his re-
turn to the Republican party because
he believes that the issue now is be-
tween Republicanism and Democracy.
Murphy was elected a State senator in
1906 over Vivian F. Gable. He was a
Taft elector in 1908, but afterward fol-
lowed the leadership of William Finn
into the Bull Moose camp. Thomas L..
Hicks. former State chairman of the
Washington party, also made an
rolled as Republican, having quail
fed for such enrollment at the last
election.
The legal committee of the Franklin
party, Philadelphia, considered yes
terday the advisability of taking steps
to resist the pre-emption of the party
title Frankland, which was pre-empted
on Saturday by five electors of the
Forty-sixth ward. The Franklin party
did not pre-empt for all the divisions
of the wards and the Frankland party
proposes to place ticket in the field
containing the names of election Off
GERS in the divisions not -empted by
the Franklin party.
new angle was given to alleged
frauds in the general primary of two
weeks ago when recount of votes in
the Twenty-t1fth ward of Pittsburgh,
instituted at the instance of Repre-
sentative Stephen G.. Porter, disclosed
that Charles B. Milligan, Civil War
veteran, had been counted out for
alderman. Ninety eight ballots cast
for Milligan were found to have been
changed. Charges that they intimi-
dated voters in Braddock were filed
against Thomas Howard, former
deputy sheriff; j. ]. Mccarthy, chief
of police; ]. Goldstein, constable, and
Henry Schermer, George Kellogg and
John Norman. all of Braddock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
FARMER FALLS FROM HORSE

Waynesboro, Pa, Oct. 5.-Wishard
Frazier, young man living on the
Benjamin Funk farm, west OF town,
fell from his horse while in Waynes-
boro, celebrating Farmers Day, and
fractured a bone in his right ankle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
DOWN ALONG THE PACIFIC"

An illustrated lecture on Down
Along the Pacific Coast will be given
at Camp Curtin Methodist Episcopal
Church this evening under the au-
spices of the Ladies Aid Society by
James Stevens, of this city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 8

'Tis s7Vest to feel that 7ve may be
III partnership, dear Lord, 1uith Thee;
'T'is s7Ueet to feel that all aoe do
To make our li9eS sincere and true
Is kmoaon to Thee, and that 1ve share
rs partners all Thy loVe aHd care.
Mary D. Brine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
OLD HUNTER WANTS LICENSE

Duncannon, Pa, Oct. 5. - ]. H.
has applied for his resi-
dent hunters license. He is rs years
of age and Notwithstanding his age
he gets his share of game each sea-
son.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
Pays For Meal of ,g1

This morning a man stopped in one
of the principal hotels and told the
had eaten there in 1851. The man then
paid for 1t and left
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Mr., Bryan says that Lincoln, Neb, is
the finest place of residence in the
world and the Wilson people hope
nothing will occur to call Mr. Bryan
away from home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
The State From Day to Day

That old liberty bell is GER
tainly stirring up I. lot of excitement
and is receiving a flattering reception
wherever it appears. The mayor of
Dallas, Texas, has decreed that special
tracks shall be laid through the prin
opal streets of that city to accommo-
date Mr.. Bell. Pennsylvania will soon
have a chance to see it again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Now we know why the European
war started. A woman in Reading de-
clares herself to be the cause of the
war as we'll as the supposedly hard
times existing in America. She hopes
to right the wrong by death, but the
asylum authorities are trying to con-
vince her that she lis really assuming
too much responsibility
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
arrived in this city this morning, at 8
o'clock, remaining here until noon,
when he left for Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Estimates show that about so per
cent of the travellers in Easton street
cars stand up and clutch straps six
months out of every year. The city
council criticises the traction company
with view to having the situation
corrected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

is being worked to the limit for the
benefit of the South.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
NYnnan Hna T,rn Hunhnnds

A woman was arrested to-day charg
ed with having two husbands, both liv
ing. The charges were brought by he
second husband.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Those connected with the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company are all af1utter
over the almost certain change taking
place in the control of the company.
They may believe in the future taking
care of itself But all the same it would
be mighty comforting to know how
this taking care of itself is going to
turn out for them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

The Monongahela river has been
getting cantankerous and refuses to
be held in. It rose eleven feet in as
many hours Saturday and threatened
to do great damage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
Business Operations Lose

Another department of the canal gov
ernment is known as Business Opera
tions, and it includes almost all bust
ness transactions outside of the COM
and showed a loss for the first year of
s56,000.
The Panama Railroad is also a sepa-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

"Lollypop," beautiful Scotch
collie' of aristocratic tendencies, gave
birth to seven blind puppies in Erie
yesterday. Unfortunately. a "copper"
head had bitten the mother dog on
the nose and the result was that all
tha nunnies were blind
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

Officer Nelson. a Philadelphia po-
liceman, has discovered to his financial
sorrow that business and pleasure
cannot be combined to the extent of
flirting with girls and young women
while on duty. His suspension fol-
lowed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

The Easton Daily Free Press devotes
a few lines to suggesting that the re-
cent feat of cross nation wire and
wireless telephoning gives promise of
future generations evolving a way by
which each individual may carry his
own little phone with him and call or
be called up wherever he happens to
be. Not bad IDEAL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
EDITORIAL COMMENT

that woman is in a social quagmire.
Is this the reason she now wears such
short skirts?-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

County detectives suspect that the
fire which destroyed the Williamsburg
schoolhouse yesterday may have been
started by persons desirous of having
the ballot box stored there destroyed
Burgess Anderson, however, says the
box was removed last week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

There were 216.493 students in col
leges. universities and chronological
schools in 1914, according to the annual
report of the Commissioner of Educa-
ton. Just tssued.-Erie Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05

New York woman wants her mar
riage annuled because her husband
shutters. This is an impediment sure
enough, but there is nothing in 1t to
prevent the lady of the house having
her little say in all family AFFAIRS
Williamsport Sun.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-01

of good roads has been preached in
Minnesota. This means not merely
roads, but GOOD roads. It has not
fallen upon entirely deaf ears, for
there are some admirable highways
in the state, but unfortunately these
highways are the exception, not the
rule, and serve to make the ineffici-
ent roads stand out in hideaus COM
parison.
With perpetual dry weather the
road system of Minnesota would be
fair. Most of it's roads are dirt and
with enough traffic and the absence
of rain they are found in passable
condition. But the normal precipi-
tation in the state is sufficient to
convert the majority of the county
highways into bogs and slides and
for long periods at a time to make
them absolutely impossible.
The situation is a blot upon the
escrutcheon of the state. Next
month week is to be set aside by
the state. press to be devoted to the
exploitation Of the attractions and
advantages of Minnesota. How are
the newspapers to handle the subject
of roads without stammering.