Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
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to become an annual affair in the
opinion OF those who are interested
in rose culture. A very large num-
Der of men and women in the city
and vicinity are taking more than
usual interest in roses recently and
there are many fine gardens of both
hardy and tender bushes hereabouts.
By far the biggest and best is that
of ]. Horace Mcfarland, who is no
ted as one of the authorities on rose
growing in the United States. His
place at Bellevue Park in the rose
season is visited by rose lovers from
many parts of Pennsylvania and
other states. Not a few culturists
make point of stopping off in Har-
risburg on their way through to see
Mr.. McFarland's collection. 1t not
infrequently happens that there are
to be found growing in the McFar-N
land gardens roses that have not
yet been placed on the market,
which means that the variety is new
and that there are comparatively
few plants of the kind in existence.
Mr.. Mcfarland is particularly fond
of climbing roses and has a number
of very rare and beautiful plants of
this type.
When the Rev. Robert Bagnen,
pastor of the Grace Methodist
Church, returns from France it will
be with a vast store of very valu-
able knowledge. He means to spend
time in the front line trenches with
the American soldiers under fire, to
get first hand information as to Y.
NJ. c. A. and Red Cross work at the
front, to make himself familiar
with the war sentiments of the peo-
pie and then to come back to tell
what he has observed. DR.. Bagnell
has rendered valuable service in all
the war work campaigns. He is an
interesting and eloquent speaker, a
keen student of human nature, an
| Unsuitable reader and an observer
who has the faculty of telling what
he has seen in a graphic and easily
understood manner. He is intensely
patriotic, a thorough believer in the
principle that right is bound to tri-
| umph in the war and that America
| is fighting on the side of God in this
great conflict. He is in every sense a
mans man." He has a magnetic
personality and has no fear of low
ering the dignity of his calling by
taking off his coat and going at any
| job which presents itself in vigor-
Gus, shirtsleeve fashion. However,
he is at all times the polished schol-
ar, the historian, the philosopher,
the preacher high type American
and a credit to his calling.
A good story is told of a Judge in
a nearby district, well known in
Harrisburg where he has frequently
graced the Dauphin county bench
with Judges Kunkel and McCarrell,
but whose name for obvious reasons
need not be mentioned. The judge,
who has a reputation for getting
/ over the roads in his automobile at .
| a speed which takes him from one
point to another in the briefest con-
venient space, was bowling along
certain highway where the speed of
motor vehicles is strictly regulated,
when he spied a constable with
whom he had an acquaintance and
picked him up for a ride. He threw
stirring up lot of dust when a mo-
| torcyclist went by the car going
like the wind. 'T got that fellows
NUMBER" remarked the constable,
land L mean to make complaint
against him for speeding, he was go
ing As miles an hour"
How do you know he was going
As miles an hour?" queried one of
the occupants of the car.
WELL" said the crafty constable,
1.-The judge here is going 35 miles by
his own speedometer and that other
machine passed us like a streak; 40
miles easy"
The judge said nothing then but
after the party reached town he
went around to the constables house
and said: John L don't think you'd
better report that motorcyclist. You
see, you and 1 might be placed in
rather an embarrassing position as
witnesses. The speed limit down
there was 20 miles and it wouldn't
sound exactly right If you told the
court you knew the motorcyclist was
hA
passed us while we were going S5.
Now would it?"
The constable agreed that it
wouldn't.
One of the interesting characters
of Pennsylvania is Edwin Charles,
register and recorder of Snyder coun-
ty, who lives at Middleburgh. Charles
Is an ardent historian and nature
lover. He was one of the first mem
bers of the Pennsylvania Alpine Club
which climbed Mt. Parnell, Saturday.
Charles always searches for a germ
inaFe ed acorn on every mountain
, climp, He takes it home and plans
to have a grove of oaks as trophies
OF his climbs. The grove, by the way,
has three young oaks as its first oc-
cupants.
Alarm clocks and telephones have
their distinguishing characteristics,
1t is true, but a story Is told of a
McConnellsburg boy who couldn't
tell the difference. Several weeks ago
his alarm clock began to buzz with
that intermittent changing which dis
turbs the heaviest sleeper. Hello,
this is john" shouted the sleeper,
! half-awake, thinking the telephone
was ringing. After continued shout
ing, with just a wee bit of expletive,
the boy awakened to the fact that he
was talking to "Big Ben" and not
to transmitter of a telephone.
Liverpool borough may be added
to the list of towns in the Harris
burg district which could, with prof
it, invite the aid of the State High
way Department in improving high
ways which connect with the
state system. Liverpool is not quite
as bad as Paxtang, but 1t is far
from having perfect highways. And
neither is the state highway through
New Buffalo of the kind to cheer
over.