Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-08
Ehr1tng Gl1at

Extract from the letter of an
American in China to a former class
mate in this city. giving a few side
lights on conditions there.
Wednesday, May 31st, 1915. The
hot weather has come with a rush,
but clad in our thin clothing of Singa-
pore cloth, or duck. or Hsia Bo, we
do not mind it--except at night.
suppose that in time we will become
accustomed to wearing a suit to the
point of saturation each day and of
Some of the ladies fear
going abroad except in a closed chair,
because of such sights as every meat
shop shows this time of year. Great
earthen gongs are filed with squirm-
ing, writhing eels. and at any moment
the butcher may have to prepare and
dress one of these. His method is to
eliminate the squirm by knocking
the poor animals head against the
gong, drive nail through the head.
and then with a knife, to rip the beast
deftly from bow to stern. It's the rip
ping sound that is hard on the nerves,
Our Chinese friends are very eX-
cited and angry to-day, two days
after their declaration of independ-
ence, at the news just received of the
signing of a loan by American bank
ers to the Yuan Shih Kai government.
Oh SEO,VVU,UUU BOlQ. Inc SOuJnernerS
are considering boycott on American
goods. as an act of retaliation. They
would have good reason for doing it
and / hope the money-hungry Ameri-
can capitalists who negotiated the
loan which may result in the sup
pressing of republican government in
China, lose every cent of it as they
stand a good chance of doing 1t
doesn't greatly interest the American
people, I imagine, but to these people
here in Changsha it probably means
war and death to many"
One of the most popular outdoor
sports these days seems to be riding
in street car and having your straw
hat sail majestically out of the car
window. The breezes are no respec-
tors of persons, either, and they have
been whisking ladies' hats and mems
hats with naive impartiality. Only a
few breezes will think of shooting the
nat across the car and out the oppo-
site window; most of them simply pull
it off the back of the head through
the exit easiest of access. Many a
| girl and man have furnished quiet en-
tertainment for the passengers in the
past few weeks:
In these days of war and rumors
of war, it is interesting to recall that
the Juniata Valley, which has sent
some many excellent citizens to Har-
risburg, was the first to respond to
| Governor Curtin's call for volunteers
in 1851. Out of Lewistown came the
| famous Logan Guards and about the
same time there arrived in Harrisburg
the Allen Rifles from Allentown, two
companies of the Light Infantry from
Pottsville and the Ringgold Artillery
| from Reading. These organizations
constituted the FIRST defenders" and
greatly encouraged President Lincoln
| on their arrival at Washington. It
is not known to many of his legion of
friends in Harrisburg that Harry c.
| Ross, the well-known merchant tailor,
was one of the youngest of the Juniata
county boys to respond to the call of
the President. He was too young to
follow the colors in 1851. being only
49, but managed to get to the front
two or three years later, first in the
195th Pennsylvania P. V. Regiment
and later as member of the Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry.
City detectives in recounting the re-
suits of their researches at the many
| homes which have been entered by
| burglars during the last week tell of
several incidents which they believe
prove that the thief is only entering
the homes to show the people that
he can do 1t.
At one home nothing was touched
except two bananas. One of these he
evidently had eaten in the house as
the skin was found on the diningroom
floor. The other was found on the
lawn. At another house several doors
away, pair of noseglasses was mis-
ing. Valuable silver had not be-
disturbed. The glasses were found
broken in bits on the pavement out
side. At several of the other homes
visited valuables were not taken, but
instead several small trinkets, or some
food.
In the current issue of the Amer
| lean City, a publication devoted to
| general discussion of problems per-
tanning to municipal Improvement and
development is an interesting article
on Harrisburg's "Romper Day" cele-
bration last year at Reservoir. by Miss
Anna S. Cubbison, clerk and stenog-
repher to Park Commissioner e. Y.
Gross The tale deals in a general
way with the work of the city's play
ground and recreation work although
special attention is given 10 the big
celebration by which the season was
concluded last year
A Steelton family has solved the
summer vacation problem In a really
/ clever way-so it would seem - at
least. to passengers on the Middletown
and Steelton trolleys as they run down
Front street, Steelton.
Adjoining the home of this family
a few years ago there was what, to
all appearances. was a dump. In an
effort to beautify the place members
of the family filled and sodded the
plot and made it one of the borough's
beauty spots.
This year the family went a step
further and erected three tents upon
the pot, which they have christened
Camp Have-a-Rest." One of the
tents is equipped with a sleeping quar-
ters and members of the family ev:-
IDENTIFY have solved their vacation
problem by spending their spare time
there.
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