Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-05
EhrttIng Gtrat

The Chamber of Commerce banqueU
last evening presented an unusual
study in the contrasting personalities
of the speakers. The three topics dis
cussed were the country of Peru, the
federal reserve act. and the unreadi-'
ness of our country for war, in the
past, present or future. The Minister
Plenipotentiary from Peru, Frederio
Alphonso Pezet, was the typical dinlo@
mat, with a pleasant mien and com-
plimentary phraseology. He spoke OF
the way in which the countries OF
South America look to us to set the
example, which they follow. He also
told how the Irish potato really orig
mated in Peru, among the Incas of ages
ago, when the potato was nothing out
small nut. The famous Peru potato
is now yellow, of the color OF tne
yolk of an egg. IL was taken over to
England in Queen Eilzabeth's time
and she, out of the goodness of her
heart, sent samples to the Irish, VINO
adopted 1t as their own and have ex-
plotted it until it's Peruvian ancestry
his been completely forgotten.
Mr. Harding of the Federal Re-
serve Board, spoke in a slow, exposi-
tory manner, being completely wrap
| ped up in the thoughts which he de-
veloped, and his manner of speaking
was in direct contrast to the fiery and
enthusiastically caustic remarks or
the commandment of BordentoWn
Military Academy, Capt. Stockton. He
was full of the subject of army or
ganization and covered the field in a
very able style leaving nothing to the
| imagination.
Kindly words of praise for the con-
duct and management of the Dauphin
| county Jail contained in the September
quarter sessions grand jury report at
the close of the criminal sessions SAT-
| urday recalled to courthouse and
county officials generally the sig
nificant fact that not once since War
| den w. W.. Caldwell has been in
| charge of the prison has the grand
| Jury found occasion to criticise the
! way in which the institution has been
conducted. On one or two occasions
the grand jury made suggestions.
! which, it developed, were for certain
changes which had already been
started under the warden's eye at the
| time.
The few crisp, frosty nights last
week. with the high winds which ac-
companied them, have brought down
a rain of chestnuts in the woods and
mountains near Harrisburg. Yester-
day scores of nutting parties left the
city for the hills in the Cumberland
valley and around Rockville and
| Marysville. While of course some of
the older and more experienced in
wcodcraft returned with good-sized
bags filled with the brown nuts. by far
the. greater number came back with
little more than aching backs and blis-
tered feet. for the nuts were not very
plentiful this year. This is probably
due to the heavy rains during the past
summer.
With the arrival of the cool nights
and warm days fishermen are digging
out and testing their bass and salmon
tackle in preparation for the real sport
which cannot be enjoyed through the
summer for the double reason that the
fish do not bite hard, and even if they
do, refuse to put UP the game fight
they do in the Fall. In the autumn
the fisherman fond of angling in falls
and rapids is able to get ninety-seven
varieties of sport by playing his catch
in swift water.
The river has been unusually dfftY
along the east shore for the last sew
eral weeks. while the west shore has
been too muddy for fishing. AS a res
suit no large catches have been made.
The opening of the gigging season has
also made the fish unusually timid and
hard to catch.
The stream is now falling to a lower
level and clearing off so that within
the next several weeks unusually large
catches should be made.
United Brethren circles in this city
were not d little surprised when tha
changes were announced in the pass
torates of the East Pennsylvania Con-
ference district. The big surprises,
according to most of the city church
members, came when the Rev. c. Il.
Roughter, of Oberin, was sent to the
First United Brethren Church to sues
ceed the Rev. J. T. Spangler. Not only
were Harrisburgers astonished, but the
Oberlin congregation also showed that
the news was unexpected. Every one
of the pastors last week who spoke on
the changes that were predicted
thought that the Rev. Mr. Boughter
would go to Halifax to succeed the
Rev. C. A. Funk, of that place.
With the approach of fall and wins
ter seasons and the long evenings,
motion pictures again come forward
as one of the chief amusements. And
a look at the Offering of local the-
atrical managers is rather astonishing
compared with the programs given
only two short years ago. The man.
ayers have been compelled by the
public, becoming more educated daily,
to. bring only the best of productions.
| Photoplay dramatiZation of the finest
of fiction stories. both classic and pop
Tplar, offers to the people something
that is decidedly new and educational
and something that was thought
almost impossible two years ago.