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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office, at Harrisburg, Pa, for
the week ending July 8. 1915:
Ladies' List = Miss Clara Barton.
Mrs. Bertha Bruker, Miss Margaret
Coleman, S. Augusta Flory. Miss Edna
Foreman, Mrs. E. Hopple, Mrs. W.
Scott Hummel. Miss Eleanor r. Larri-
son, Mrs. Mary Leightner, Mrs. Jennie
j. Miller, Mrs. r. Phillips Cd, Miss
Amelie Russell, Mrs. Alice Right Mrs.
Seeker Mrs. Tom Vance Mrs. F.. b. Will
Gentlemen's List - Charles Adams,
W. B. Arnold, w. B. Atkinson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roland Bailey. ]. Nelson Baker,
Jacob Eckel, ]. Fl. Enders. Elmer Ewing.
Chas. Frattaroli. j. c. Garbuck. H. s.
Larkins, Marshall Leanhardt CD. Robe
ert McKissock, Truman BarkmaR
Michel, Jr. o. Miles. Edward Mills. Gill
bert s. Nickery. S. c. Ocks. Charles Pa
gano, Giuseppe Pope, Giavannt Pietro-
antonio, David Politzer, Franck Presto,
w. p Rickert. Mr.. Sailor. r.. II.
Schwartz, John Shaner. VIM A. Shearer.
Rev. C. r. Scherck, Mr.. and Mrs. Cunkle
SINNERS II. w. Walk. Fred A. Wei
Firms-Kiine Bros.
Foreign = John Michael. Johan Paw
Itch. Jennie Sebring.
Persons should invariably have their
mail matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby insuring prompt
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK c. SITES,
Postmaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
DANCER OF GRADE CROSSINGS

TIME accident at Hummelstown on
Monday night when six lives
were snuffed out because a grade
crossing was not properly safeguard
ed and the subsequent announcement
of the Public Service Commission that
henceforth watchman must be en-
ployed there at all hours, point les
son as to the danger of grade-cross-
ings in general and the necessity of
giving the public some assurance of
safety in their use.
There are other crossings in the
vicinity of Harrisburg that are no bet
ter guarded than that at Hummels-
town and some of them not so well.
A tragedy such as that which blotted
out a whole family ought not to be
required to bring about a reform in
this direction. 1t would seem no more
than good business to employ watch
men to look after the crossings. rather
than to run the risk of paying out
thousands of dollars in damages for
the loss of life and property.
Also, there is argument in this
Hummelstown accident against a
grade-crossing at the point where it
is proposed the Harrisburg parkway
shall cross the tracks of the Reading
near Paxtang. No pleasure drive that
can be taken over a railroad by bridge
or under it by subway should be per-
mitted for any reason to go across it
at grade. The additional cost of n
subway for tha mark road ShouId NOT
be allowed to enter into the matter
We have enough grade-crossings now
without creating any new ones. Every
one of them is a potential deathtrap
and while it is not reasonable to ask
the railroads to remove them all at
once the policy of the past few years,
which has been distinctly in favor of
getting rid of the crossings wherever
possible, should be encouraged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
a POOR PLAN
BY Wing DinRer

I doubt the wisdom of the plan
OF putting on a coat of tan
When for one day one goes away
To have a bit of holiday.
Now. as 1 told you yesterday,
To spend the Fourth I went away
And had some varied forms of fun
Beneath a blazing, burning sun.
My face the sun did partly cook
Enough to give a healthy look.
Folks said to me to-day: Dear Wing,
You've never looked so we'll. by jing."
And at the office the big boss,
Who gave my face the ''once across"
Said: Wing. IL such healthy hue
You get in just a day or two
you've no excuse to go away
For any two weeks holiday.
Another one-day trip or two
I think will be enough for you"
And SO hereafter when I get
A day off. you can safely bet
I'll come home looking pale and pore
And maybe I'll get three weeks more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
STUDY OF AMERICAS WILD FLOWERS
Our People Should Take as Deep All Interest in Them
as French and Germans Do in Theirs

when the earth is chill, cold and in
hospitable its savings will provide
against need.
The great binweed. a first cousin
to the morning glory, is hobo
among flowers. 1t has travelled up
and down the lanes of world trade
for centuries, until it has come to
claim most of the Northern hemi-
sphere for its abiding place. It loves
wayside hedges and thickets, where
1t climbs over everything in it's fight
for the survival Of the fittest; but
1t knows no joy greater than getting
into cornfield, where 1t can use the
stalks as a nature built trellis for
its wanderings. 1t flowers from June
until September. 1t keeps solid hours.
getting up with the rising sun and
going to bed when the sun goes down,
except on moonlight nights, when
1t keeps open house for the benefit
of certain moths that are its especial
friends.
The wild pink, or catchfiy. dwell
er on dry gravelly or sandy soil.
giving color to many lonesome places
from April to June with its delicate
pink petals, is among those flowers
who believe in taking no chances
when it comes to the question OF
fertilization. The wild pinks have
developed two sets of stamens, one
aooNo 'AS o'hSLt 80 'hot Al oIe huiSSSs
the transfer of its pollen, the other
is likely to supply the resulting de-
ficiency. The wild pink finds its cup
board of sweets fair mark for many
tiny insects that are large enough
to drain its cup of nectar and yet
too small to bear away the flowers
pollen to some distant mate. So ii
has provided an effective lock and
key to it's pantry. This lock and
key is a gummy, viscid fluid that
the pink secretes and spreads around
the sticky stem below the flower. No
fly ever alighted upon a piece OF
man-made f1ypaper was more certain
ly and surely brought to an untime-
| ly end than the ant that essays to
sip the nectar of the wild pink. Thus
we can see that the fiypaper idea
| is not mans invention at all. but
an idea borrowed from a flower.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
THE BELLS TRIP

TXTHILE it is easy to understand
wv why patriotic citizens of Phila-
delphia looked with disfavor
upon the taking of the Liberty Bell
to the San Francisco exposition, there
is, nevertheless. something distinctly
appropriate in this journey of the
famous relic across the continent. In
this trip it is only fulfilling its destiny.
The visit to the Pacific coast is in full
accord with the Bells inscription,
which reads Proclaim liberty
throughout the land unto all the in
habitants thereof
Figuratively the Bell has been full
filling this mission for generations, but
in reality it has never journeyed
farther west than Chicago. The trip
TO San Francisco will stir patriotic
feelings in the breasts of thousands
who never before saw ths Bell and to
whom 1t has never been much more
than revered symbol.
When the old Bell rang out its mes
sage of liberty in Philadelphia so many
years ago, the Pacific coast appeared
unreal and not much more likely OF
attainment than some storied land OF
fairy lore. To-day the Bell is follow
ing the route of the farfung message
1t sent echoing into the vast and un-
known wildernesses that were then
the untrodden West, but which TO-DAY
are the abiding place of millions OF
Americans who love devoutly the old
Bell and all 1t stands for. The journey
to the coast and back may be the last
the Bell will ever take, but it is well
worth the risk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK
IBoston Journal. /

tBoston Journal
Importers with a genuine grievance
called on Secretary Lansing in Wash
ington on Saturday. After their inter-
view they stated that the secretary
had expressed determination on the
part of the President and himself to
do all in their power to aid the i'm
porters in securing the right to which
they are entitled under the laws of
nations and by treaty obligations"
That is not a sensational revelation,
but 1t is a timely assurance and should
be backed up promptly and consist
emily by the force of public opinion.
There are those Americans who OBJ
viously take the ground that the
United States should hold Germany to
strict accountability for every viola
tion of international law. treaty rights
and the code of humanity, but that,
as friends of Great Britain, we should
permit her to nullify our rights and
make amends in her own way at her
own convenience.
This country's vital and inalienable
rights must be respected by all the
nations at war. She has no allies, and
she will not play favorites.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
@OMPANIONSHIP with the wild
. flowers that bloom by the door

4 NoMfAENIoNSf1lf WIFI IHe WIN
~ flowers that bloom by the door
way and wayside from early
spring until autumn through all our
States is encouraged by study of the
flowers recently prepared for the Ma
tional Geographic Society, in order
that our Americans may develop as
deep interest and as complete an un-
derstanding for the lavishly expended
beauties of their flora, as the French
man and the German have for theirs.
The study was prepared for the So
ciety in the spirit of the student of
botanical personalities; not only the
scientist, but the artist and the lover
of flowers speaks. A review of this
study has been prepared by the society
for the press and is given here in the
hope that 1t may lead many to look
with new eyes at natures moods
around them.
Among the stateliest and proudest
of the members of Americas flower
family none excels the larger blue flag,
which also wears the names of blue
iris and fieur-de-lis. Ruskin calls 1t
the flower of chivalry, which has a
sword for its leaf and a lily for its
heart. Longfellow pronounces 1t "a
flower born in the purple, to joy and
pleasance." 1t blooms in the wet, rich
marsh and meadow from May to July,
and finds its home from Newfound-
land and Manitoba to Florida and
Arkansas. The flag flower must look
to the insect world entirely for its
propagation, particularly to the bees
as it's pollen carriers. So it puts forth
flower that is blue tinted, for its ex-
perience has taught it that a bee can
| be wooed with blue better than with
any other color.
The iris was long centuries ago
adopted by Louis VII, the gallant
young crusader, as the emblem of his
house. 1t became thereby the flower
of Louis" which was corrupted into
"fieur- -de-lis." The iris, or blue flag,
| is really meant when one speaks of
the lily of France. The iris is a plant
that insures it's life. In its large
root-stock 1t lays up endowment in
surance in the days of plenty, so that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
FINANCIAL sIDELIGHTs

NNE OF the most interesting of the
many war discussions now in
progress is that in which finan-
ciers both here and abroad are en-
gagged concerning the effects of the
European conflict on the future
finances of the world. American writ
ers on business subjects are devoting
much attention to the subject and the
public has heard so much of 'un-
paralleled conditions and the "en-
tirely new situation presented" that
the opinion of well-known Pitts
burgh writer. who sees in present con-
ditions merely an enlargement of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
THE FRONT STEPS

IF anybody doubts the popularity of
! the promenade along the top of
Harrisburg's Front Steps" on the
river wall. let him takefa walk there
on any Sunday or holiday. Monday
the concrete strip was thronged from
one end of the city to the other all day
and hundreds of people spent the even
ing there enjoying the breezes, the sun
set and afterward the fireworks dis
plays of cross river towns.
This promenade promises to become
the greatest municipal attraction the
city has. That it serves also a prac-
teal purpose as a wall to protect the
city's great intercepting sewer is only
another demonstration of the wisdom
of those who have been back of the
public Improvement work in this city
during the past fifteen years or more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
PRISONERS GETTING FAT

correspondence of Associated Press)
Berlin-Prisoners of war in Ger
many are treated so we'll that they
are getting fat, DR.. Bruno Wolff. chief
military surgeon of the prisoners
camp at Nuremberg has had n soua n
or stXty-three prisoners weighed twice
a week at fixed hours from the time
they entered the prison two months
ago. Forty-one showed changes in
weight of pound or more in that
time. Only five lost weight. The in
creases in some cases were as much
as ten or eleven pounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE LIBERTY BELL

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
VIII you please publish the following.
1 am the Oldest reader of the Telegraph
in Harrisburg, but not too old to give
three cheers when the flag goes by, nor
yet too old to compose a piece" In
honor of the Liberty Bell on its visit
here. Here are the verses 1 wrote last
night, and please treat them kindly:
You dear old Bell of Freedom, again
are on your way
Across our great. Free continent, to San
Francisco Bay.
Your tongue it now is silent, you ne'er
will ring again.
But your joyous notes of Freedom. we
heard the glad refrain.
Father Penn, he sure will miss you, he
has guarded you so we'll
Did you hear his admonition, Bring
back that dear, old Bell.
Let the people of all nations see that
historic Bell
That once proclaimed our Freedom o'e
valleys, hills and dell.
Plant on that dear old relic the Flag
that made us Free.
That floats to-day so proudly, far out
Ger land and sea-.
1t guards the bold mariner. wherever
Whether in foreign land or In his
peaceful home.
That Flag once waved over bleak old
Valley Forge,
Where our brave old Continentals lay
in that frozen gorge.
That Flag, designed by Washington
made in our Quaker City
BY little Betsy Ross, who was both fair
and witty.
There stands her dear old homestead
without a single scar.
Now, vandals, keep hands off, do not its
beauty mar.
Please don't destroy old relics, that we
remember well.
We wish you a bon voyage, you dear
old Liberty Bell.
BY j. r. Miller, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

For a peace advocate Colonel Bryan
certainly does love a scrap.
Holt said he is a mixture of Ger
man and French, but he didn't say it
boastingly.
The man who has been heard to
wish he was Pierpont Morgan has been
silent the past few days.
"A team from Wall Street will play
ball with nine from Sing Sing. We
thought Warden Osborne intended to
keep his prisoners frees from contami-
mating influences?
-One-term planks are beginning to
develop splinters.
Short bathing skirts are forbidden
at Coney Island. After looking over
the summer resort catalogs we
thought there was no such thing as
bathing skirt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
THE soLILoQUY OF THE BELL

(enroute)
Was it but yesterday I gladly rang
the news of Liberty?
Methinks [ still can see the eager
throng,
And hear the wild huzzas which swept
along
Beneath me, as hung and quivered
there
In my loved home-My Independence
Square!
see the Statesman grave with good
ly dame
I see the warrior brave with cheek
The children quaint. who curtseyed
low
(They loved me for they told me sod
Some rode on prancing steed-some
were afoot-
My song lodged in each heart and
there took root
Liberty!
Was it but yesterday rang the news
of liberty?
To-day with afar greater throng.
I'm wildly. frantically swept along,
1 know I'm old. 1 feel it in the
crack.
The crack my clapper tongue made
in my back
Upon the yesterday when I rang lib
erty. That yesterday was years
ago.
1t must have been, for this I know:
The throngs to-day who homage pay,
Are different from the throngs of yes
terday.
For as afar I travel in my car
I see the wondrous changes which
there are.
My land has moved-my land has
gained
Since l rang out the song which made
mo famed.
Liberty!
Was it but yesterday I gladly rang
the news OF Liberty?
If 1t were but yesterday-what of to-
day?
And what of the to-morrows till I
pass away?
Oh, yes. I'm growing old. I see the
Shake each head and say SO as I pass
along!
I'm growing old. But as sit here in
my car,
And watch the children gather near
and far
To greet me and to call me Friend,
/ know that though l soon must reach
my end
(This worn old body which they know
as u
The thing I've stood for all these
years-e'en though / die
The soul of me-that sang that time
in Independence Square
Will live and hover always-every-
Liberty!
Edna Croft DiehI.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
20 X" ON THE SAFE AND SANE.

Il H pldC6u llS OIL
cial 20 X" on the safe and
sane" Fourth of July celebra-
ton. Only five accidents occurred this
year worthy of note, as compared with
100 ten years ago. when all manner of
fireworks were. permitted in the city.
All of the accidents that did happen
were in direct violation of the law
governing the use of explosives. The
fire department reports a loss of only
s25 for the day. which is also un-
usually small.
Slowly but surely the public is COM
ing to understand that the snuffing out
OF innocent lives and the destruction
of property are not essential to an
enthusiastic display of patriotic fervor.
The firecracker and the skyrocket will
pop and sizzle here and there for a
few more years and then go out, to
remain out for all time Everybody
is the better fof the change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
EDITORIAL COrR1ENT

Would Mr.. Bryan have consented to
submit his differences with the Presi-
dent to, commission of arbitration?-
Philadelphia North American.
Lloyd George would apparently
change the familiar quotation to read :
Heaven Is on the side of the biggest
ammunition factory."-Chicago Herald.
First the Austrians had Przemysl; (;
then the Russians had ii Peremysl, ana
now the Austrians will hold 1T for an
other spell.-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
1t begins TO look as IL Italy were
going to do the really heroic thing in
this war. She will rush to the help of
the yictors.-New York Morning Tele-
graph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. H. P. Bope was the speaker
Duquesne.
-Jonn Wanamaker will spend part
of the summer touring eastern States.
General E. Dew. Morrell will go
to New England this summer.
Thomas G. Seidle, we'll known
Reading man, is in politics again and
talked of for an office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
The July Sales

July is one OF the sales months
In the calendar of live mer-
chants.
1t is the time the stores get
ready for inventory and prepare
to clear out broken lots.
1t is the merchants time for
planning Fall business.
And so special values are
frequently offered to the public.
This fact makes newspaper ad-
vertising in July so full OF in
terest.
One may pick up the paper
any time and ind that It is Of
ferfng just the things they need
at prices much less than they
expected to pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

less his solution of the railroad rate
problem made public on the same day
that the Western Passenger Associa-
tion asks for an increase in fares will
cause some comment. 1t is to be hoped
so. Such discussion would be both
interesting and Instructive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
Signs Death Warrants

Governor Curtin to-day signed the
death warrants of David Gregory
and Martin Hopkins, accused of muir
dering stephen Vieria and Andrew Nc
Marty, fixing the date of execution.
August II, 1865
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

There appears in another column a
letter from man who believes he is
the oldest reader of the Telegraph. Now
watch the crop of oldest readers"
grow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

Another big wheat crop may still
further decrease the size of the five
cent loaf. Bread seems to have abso-
lutely no regard for the law of supply
and demand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
Soldier Attacked

An old soldier was stopped and at
tackled by number of negroes last
night near the Second street bar
racks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
OTHERWISE HE'S A STAR

Mr.. Bryan would make an excellent
professor of political economy were
1t not that he is as weak on politics
as he is on onomics.-Chicago Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg could have
bought "Hardscrabble" for s40,-
900 years ago?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
Our Daily Laugh
HER INGENU-

HER INGENU-
: ITY.
II Miss Lark
made no reply
when you pro-
! posed to her, on
J what grounds is
she suing you for
breach of prom
ise?
She claims that
her silence gave
consent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

The American Government is said to
be studying the effect of heavy shell
IRE in Europe. Certainly there should
be no difficulty in finding examples.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, JULY 4.

Things perfected BY nature Grs better thGn
those finished by drt,-Ciesro.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
N HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY

From the Telegraph of July Z, 1865. I
Ripe Peaches in City
Ripe peaches are on sale in this
city now. The price is eight dollars
a bushel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

It is entirely appropriate that the
big cold water convention should be
held at the seashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
T H A T r E.
DDnArurTTT
LOOK.

T H A T r E.
PROACHFUL
LOOK.
What a pathet-
ic face that young
fellow hasl His
eyes seem re-
proachful.
Yes. He pulls
in more tips than
all the other wait.
ers combined.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

-One-term planks are beginning {
develop splinters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Chester P. Ray, executive officer
of the Pennsylvania Panama-Pacific
exposition commission. Mr.. Ray was
in charge of the installation of the
exhibits, and handled the details of
the commissions work. He says Penn
sylvania has one of the finest build
ings In the exposition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

For a peace advocate Colonel Bryan
certainly does love a scrap.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

The above figures are net. All re-
turned, unsoId and damaged copies de-
Quoted.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-10-21
COUNCIL WILL NOT HAMPER KELSEY IN
WORKING ON WlS1KAH WATER PROJECT

The city council at last nights
session, decided that City Engineer
l.. ID. Kelsey should be unhampered
in his work on the Wishkah water
project. The dec ion was arrived at
after Councilman Grant and others
had voiced their disapprobation of the
appointment of committee, compos.
ed of councilmen nd citizens, to as
sist the city eng eer in his work
The council = cndpd it's former ac-
tion in instruCtlAp the mayor to ap-
point such com n ittee and, in lieu
thereof, authorized him to name a
body of three councilmen, at next
weeks meeting to act in an advisory
capacity with the engineer.
Most of the sessi.n was taken up
with a discussion Cs the protected
improvement of Yong street, North
Aberdeen. a pre- est with 25 names