Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-05
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MoiS MUCH TOO occupied Win inc
sunday supplements yesterday 10
heed the national cau to visit the
sunday schools yet the number who
TOOK the trouble to go to the church,
es Tor the hours devoted to the
younger generation was large and
showed the place the schools have
In Harrisburg life. The state cap
ltal or Pennsylvania has an average
OF church, mission or organic
tlon holding either services regular
ly or giving religious instruction for
each one thousand of population. II
the Sunday schools were to be
counted they would be found to be
not far behind. Practically every |
church has school. Few cities of the
ana new ones are being formed
yearly. Some of the schools have
reputations more than statewide
Tor enrollments and attendance,
the two older Presbyterian and
one of two Methodist churches
se1Io6,s Se1rng f,aan especially not notable: The
tions and there are many who main
tain an active interest in the Sunday
schools, three generations connected
with a school being not uncommon,
while the record of young men in
war service who are members of
classes of Harrisburg Sunday schools
is one to be proud of, indeed. The
attendance at Sunday schools has
been of such a character as to re-
fute the statement that interest in
them is waning. Juvenile attend
ance at Sunday school is as much a
part of the observance of tile day as
going to church used to be in the
early days in Harrisburg when Re-
formed, Lutheran, Presbyterian,
Methodist, Catholic and Baptist made
up the total of the denominations In
this place. Sunday schools have en-
dured for over century in Harris
burg as the Presbyterians established
one year after Philadelphia proved
the value of the school as a branch
of congregational activity. Others
followed very quickly and there are
family names on rolls of schools
of their existence. And it may be
added as a result of observations
yesterday that they are going to be
there for years to come.
More owls have been seen about
Harrisburg this fall than for a long
time and whether it is because the
city is growing wiser or because of
the shy old night birds realizing that
city parks are better protected dwell
ling places than woods on farms and
also offer better forage the fact re-
mains that they have been seen not
only in Reservoir park and in the
parkways, but along the Riverside
and once or twice in Capitol park.
Appearance of the birds of wisdom
in Capitol park may be seized upon
by the wits but if more would haunt
that reservation there would te few
er Sparrows chasing off robins. Pig
cons and squirrels are not likely to
fall victims to owls and as the robins
and blackbirds have started off for
the winter the sparrows had better
be Vigilant Two owls were noticed
| in Harris park last week and one
screeched at passing automobiles
late Monday night from the tree near
Pine street.
According to the people who roam
! about the country there are not
| many crows left in this neck of the
woods and while the series of per-
| feet days which we have been en-
| joying lately seems to indicate what
| the Indian summer is going to be
| delightful, the nature observers de-
| clare that early departure of the
| crows means severe winter weather.
| The big flock of crows that spends
| the summer between PaXtang park
and the Oberlin hills is we'll thinned
| out and there are not many to be
seen about Wildwood park. Cum
berland county farmers also say tAt
many of the crows have already
| gone.
1t is an interesting coincidence
that both William B. McCaleb, VINO
| has been in charge of the Philadel-
phia division Of the Pennsylvania
! railroad for the last dozen years, and
IL. X. Johnston. who succeeds him,
are both Westmoreland county men.
Mr.. McCaleb comes from Mt. Pleas
ant and Mr.. Johpston from Green's
| burg. More than ever we are .m-
pressed with the observation of Jesse
E. b. Cunningham that the Star of
the West" is a great county.
Some of the people from this city
who have gone hunting have talked
about changed attitude on the part
of the farmers in regard to game
birds "I saw two or three farms
where there have been quail for the
last two years. I saw them in the
summer and have heard them cal
ling, but do you think those farmers
would let me on the land to hunt
them. Nix. They simply refuse per-
mission to go on the land" said one
man who likes to hunt birds. And
they are not killing them themselves.
The answer is that the farmers are
| keeping the quail because of the way
| they eat bugs. I'm sorry to lose the
sport, but I'm perfectly willing as
long as the farmers make the birds
work"
There are probably q dozen or
4 more farmers in this part of the
county who have been protecting the
quail, just as the hunter says. One
farmer few years ago secured some
/ birds and fed them through the win
ter. He carefully placed them on a
part of his farm which was about
equal distance from the boundaries.
| The quail are there yet. He does
not hunt them himself and he will
not let any one else hunt them. He
feeds them in the winter. The birds
are a part of the investment on his
farm Just as his chickens which he
| turns loose. When one considers the
| eagerness with which quail are
hunted this regard for them is rath-
er interesting.
Promises made a month ago that
there was going to be good rabbit
hunting in this part of the state
seems to have been abundantly borne
out. on the first three days of the
new rabbit season. The cottontaile
have been not only numerous btu
sassy and it is suspected that some
of the hunters were sorely tempted
when the bag limits were reached.
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