Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
EVENING CHAT

AAShiy W. oHoeIuakeT, TO WnOm
lovers of Pennsylvania owe a great
debt for gathering and publishing the
legends of the Susquehanna Valley and
the Seven Mountains, has issued an
other volume of folk lore of the Key
stone State. preserving stories of the
great woodland that formerly covered
the northern tier and extended beside
the West Branch into the Alleghenies.
The volume is entitled "Black Forest
Souvenirs" the great belt of spruce,
hemlock and other woods which COW
cred Lycoming. Potter, Tioga and
other counties up the State" having
been called by that name many, many
years ago. AS in his other books, Mr..
Shoemaker has narrated the tales of
the mountains and the woods, of the
pioneers and of the Indians, of the
wild life and of the seasons in plain
United States" 1t redoubles the
pleasure of reading them, for as every
reader knows there is nothing more
WearyinG than wading through a story
with a real heart Interest told in dia-
lect. We have read so much of the
Indians of New England and New
York that we seem to be on almost
intimate terms with Pequods and Mo-
hawks and we have been regaled with
stories of the Sioux and Apaches until
we unconsciously have given these
tribes and their distant hunting
grounds high place as representative
or the vanishing race. Yet in our own
Pennsylvania, up the course of the
majestic stream that flows by our city,
there was race of Indians as brave,
as proud and as influential in aboriginal
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in song and story, and the men to
whom they yielded the wooded realm
were of the folks from whom we are
descended. Hence the stories of the
settlers and the Senecas and of the
chiefs in Centre, Lycoming, Potter and
Mexican counties. of the desecrated
woods and of the wild life that is gone
furnish reading almost as close to
home as the tales of the Susquehanna
below the great confluence. BLACK
Forest Souvenirs" with the other
products of Mr.. Shoemaker's travels
and laborS. will rank high in Pennsyl-
vania literature. The book brings back
the life of early days and the figures
stalk through the pages just as John
Harris. black Hercules and the In
dams who lived, traded and hunted
about Harris Ferry in the days when
our commonwealth was young lives in
our local tradition.
DIR. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer. of
Philadelphia, contributes to the jan
uary number of the Review of Reviews
the leader. for such it is. of an article
on the galaxy of governors elected
some weeks ago. DR.. Brumbaugh has
| been picked out as the most con-
spicuous of the group chosen to take
up gubernatorial duties this month
land is made the subject of a special
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lCharleS 5. Whitman. DR.. OberholtzeI
writes of the new governor in a pleas
! ant way, without fiattery, but men
tioning what he really did in Pennsyl.
vania in the recent campaign, dealing
with his wholeheartedness, his direct.
! ness and his ability. Into two pages
| are condensed no end of interesting
| information, including the fact that ir
San Juan there is a street named Gale
Brumbaugh in honor of IN. c."
Representative Charles A. Amber
| has broken Il precedent. For years
/ and years, from the days when Hart.
ranft was candidate for the Repub.
| lican nomination for Governor, ant
possibly before, the placards announc.
| ing candidacy have been white will
| big black letters. The letters were i'm.
! pressive and the card brilliantly white
If there is such a thing. But SATURDAY.
night Mr.. Amber came to town will
his boom and his placards. And wher
they were put UP people saw that they
| were green, light green, like greer
pea soup. 1t was not Capitol Parl
| grass green or spinach green or
Spring wheat green, but a light green
| Later on he sort of made up for thu
shock given by putting out smaller
cards bearing his name and picture
They were white.
| The brilliant moonlight that pre-
| vailed on some of the evenings las
week and which will prevail part O
this week has been hailed by lovers O
winter sports who have been enabled
to go on long skating trips or OF
| sleighrides. In fact, there has seldom
been a liner combination of moonligh
ana winter weather for lovers of ic,
and snow 1t has caused a boom ii
| the waffle market at country hotels
y big gun on a special car passe,
through the city yesterday and at
tracted much attention from the curl
Gus and fears for violation of neu
trality. The gun happened to be on
that was being shipped from Washing
ton.
Joseph f. Shouler, director of pub
lie safety of Wilkes Barre, well know
here, has arranged to give the anthra
cite city a complete paid fire depart
ment in place of a part paid system
! He Will also equip the city with motto
apparatus. The change will h
watched with interest by Reading AM
other cities.
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