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GV i 0 HARR1SBURG TELEGRAPH (EitMLiheS tStr) E. J. STACKPOI.E, President. Published every evening (except Sunday), at the Telegraph Building, ill Federal Square. FRANK OYSTER.

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Job Dept. 202 SATURDAY EYEXIXQ, AUGUST 11 COXVEXTIOX HAIXS HTLADELPHIA Is to have a convention hall the largest In the world. It will be built in ffairmount Park on a high bank overlooking the Schuylkill river. It is to most $1,800,006 and will seat 18,000 people. As a result of this splendid municipal enterprise, many large gatherings which formerly could not find a suitable meeting place in Philadelphia, will go there without any urging.

The cost of the hall will be made good in a few vears bv the money it will bring to the city, but, better than that, Philadelphia will have acquired a prestige and a reputation for handling big things in a big way that will add much to her dignity and present day importance among the principal centers of the United States. Independence Hall may prove her family history, but it will take a convention hall greater than Madison Square Garden to insure a future as brilliant as her past has been glorious. The convention hall is something which Harrisburg, as the "Convention City of the East" should be thinking about very seriously. If we are to hold this title in the face of such for mldable opposition as Philadelphia is about to offer, we must furnish the facilities. Although we haven't a million and a half to spend Just now, there may be other ways of killing the dog than choking him with butter.

At all events, It will do no harm to think a little and talk a little. Shippers say the apple crop looks good. The apple crop always looks good, but sometimes It Is smaller than at other time. THAT FAXIC YARX GEORGE W. PERKINS Is no personal friend of ours but somehow he seems to be forcing himself Into the news lately.

"We are compelled to take notice of him for the reason that he has been talking common sense and tilting at old industrial fallacies at a rate which proclaim him a very extraordinary person. You will recall that it was Mr. Perkins who suggested that it might be well, while we are In the investigation business, to inquire whether trusts have accomplished any good a most startlingly common sense recommendation in view of the fact that even a casual reflection calls up far more to the credit of the trust than to its discredit. Continuing his testimony before the House Steel Trust Investigating Committee, Mr. Perkins got face to face with that inane theory about the panic of 1907 having been the result of a deliberate conspiracy on the part of the money powers to ruin certain banks.

When this wraith was conjured up by a question from Representative Bartlett, Mr. Perkins went at it in a way which seemed to indicate that he had been waiting for the opportunity for a long time. He sprang to his feet, pounded the tarde in front of him with his fist and denounced the rumor as an infamous lie. "You might Just as well ray that a certain group of gentlemen made a contract with Mrs. O'Leary's cow to kick over the lamp that set fire to Chicago," exclaimed the former part ner of J.

Pierpont Morgan. A very large majority of people will believe that Mr. Perkins is telling the truth. The men who wield financial power in New York city are essentially constructionists. They have grown strong by building, rather than by tearing down, and it is ridiculous to suppose that they would deliberately start a panic which might upset everything they have accomplished.

One man may be strong enough to launch a panic, but he is never strong enough to stop it when he wants it stopped. It Is like crying "Fire:" in a theater. You can easily create a stampede, but you must be prepared to be trampled to death' when you do It Certain well known American products, like garters and hooks and eyes, have become household articles in France, largely because of persistent and systematic advertising. Philadelphia Public Ledger. What a sloppy looking place France must have been before we got busy! THE STRIKE IX LOXDOX ECAUSE a limited number of dock workers were dissatisfied with their Jobs, London's teem ing millions for a time appear to be in danger of starving.

Car men, drivers and others Joined hands with the dock workers and the disastrous effects of the dispute were considerably evtended thereby. Food rotted on the wharves by the ton because the mob would rot allow wagons to move it. lee which ordinarily wholesales in London for $4.80 went up to 114.40, which made the re tail price prohibitive to the majority of the city's Inhabitants, even though it were possible to obtain deliveries. Prices of every kind of provisions soared to famine figures and London was really suffering for want of food. As one correspondent expressed it: The metropolis experienced something akin to what might happen If a hostile foreign force should succeed in interrupting Great Britain's trade routes.

Isn't it anomalous that the people of London, or any fraction of them, should voluntarily do to themselves what their worst enemies would endeavor to do to them only in time of war? Surely the strike as a means of settling industrial disputes is too unscientific, too unreasonable, to endure In these days of science and reason. It ought not to be necessary it IS not necessary to starve a whole city for the sake of one trades union or one class of merchants. To inoculate with cholera for the cure of toothache would hardly be more pitiably absurd than this outrageous method of debating a question of wages. The former Harrisburger who wants to Jump off the Brooklyn Bridge aspires high, but not wisely. UXSEATTXG OF MR.

XUGEXT ALTHOUGH it was accomplished with considerable difficulty and disorder, James R. Nugent has been deposed as chairman of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee, and Governor Wilson has been avenged for the "liar and ingrate" insult We have no sympathy whatever for Mr. Nugent. His was a clear case of lese majeste. He refused to bow the knee to the properly constituted authority in New Jersey and the expected happened.

Not even the thick necked friends whom the chairman summoned to his assistance were able to ward off the inevitable. There could not have been a more convincing demonstration of the strength of Boss Wilson in the Democratic organization of his own State. His Juggernaut was irresistible. unescapable. Tet this fight, purely personal as it was, will be cited as an exhibition of patriotism on the part of a leader who is so anxious to serve his country that he is unselfish enough to allow the voters to elect him President if they want to.

The most deplorable political quarrels often take on a totally different aspect when bosses are called by softer names. The House of Lords decided to do unto itself as others would have done unto it. THE HARRISRURG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. To the average short story writer of to day the telephone has grown to be pretty nearly indispensable: of late the girl behind the switchboard has been getting into print in that way, too. But, with the possible exception of Leslie Stuart's modest efforts in his "Hello, People," hit in Havana, it is i nable whether the cryptic query of the little operator has ever figured as the title for a Bong until Mrs.

M. E. Carst.1400 North street, got into the song writing game. "My Hello Girl" Is the title of Mrs. Cam's song, published shortly by a ashington firm.

In it Mrs. Carst evidently pays a tribute to some yellow hatred operator with a sweet voice, quite likely someone on a Har risburg switchboard. Although "My Hello Girl" is the first of Mrs. Caret's songs to be published, she has written a lot, some fifty eight songs and "song poems." Here is the chorus of "My Hello Girl:" "Hello, Central, give two nlne, When she answers very slow. Line is busy.

Hello mine; They can wait, so here we go; Fondly still her message tingles In my ears so sweet and low. While her voice with others mingles, As she fondly calls, When the band last evening at the close of the program at Reservoir swung into the "Star Spangled Banner," a rather plain looking little man back in the shadows near the bandstand arose and while the crowd carelessly drifted out toward the park entrances, he stood rigidly at "attention," straw hat pressed against his breast, eyes to the front. He remained there until the selection was finished. in wnat regiment and war did you serve?" inquired a curious bvstander. "Royal Fusiliers, at Maf eking, sir!" "But, that piece is not English, and" "Naturalized, now, sir.

Soldiers is soldiers, sir, and a national hanthem is a national hanthem!" Two foreigners were marching through the Square when suddenly one of them stopped, yelled something in Italian and pointed towards the sky. For at least ten minutes they stood there, talking excitedly and pointing at the sky. In the meantime a great crowd had collected and traffic was being held up. Finally one of them turned to the other with a broad grin and said in excellent English, "Well, we might as well move on, we've fooled the crowd." The Rev. B.

H. Hart is taking his vacation this year in small pieces. He left yesterday for New German town, and to day is one of the principal orators at the Blain Old Home Week celebration. He will return to night in time for the services to morrow. This is the second of a series of trips made in his automobile, driven by his son.

Shaman. Last Friday went to Liverpool and Thompsontown, visiting his father in law, Lnah Shuman, and preaching at two churches there HOWARIX follow where the Swamp Fox guides, His friends and merry men are we; And when the troop of Tarleton rides, Vt burrow in the cypress tree. The turfy tussock is our bed, Our home is in the red deer den. Our roof, the tree top overhead. For we are wild and hunted men.

We fly by day. and shun its light; But, prompt to strike the sudden blow. We mount, and start with early night, And through the forest track our foe. And soon he hears our chargers leap, The flashing sabre blinds his eyes. And ere he drives away his sleep, And rushes from his camp, he dies.

Free brldle blt, good gallant steed, That will not ask a kind caress. To swim the Santee at our need. When on his heels the foemen press The true heart and the ready hand. The spirit stubborn to be free The twisted bore, the smiting brand And we are Marion men you see. Now light the fire, and cook the meal, The last, perhaps, that we shall taste; I hear the swamp fox round us steal.

And that's a sign we move in haste. He whistles to the scouts, and hark! You hear his order calm and low Come, wave your torch across the dark And let us see the boys that go. We may not see their forms again, God help 'em should they find the strife For they are strong and fearless men. And make no coward terms for life; They'll fight as long as Marlon bids, And when he speaks the word to shy. Then not till then they turn their steeds, Through thickening shade and swamp to fly.

Now stir the fire, and lie at ease, The scouts are gone, and on brush the ffihat mm. using several cars. How to get a 200 foot flagpole from the dock at Fhlla 1 I a to 1 lzabethtown, where it will be placed in position at the new Masonic Home, is the question that is perplexing the contractor for the new buildings, and It probably will be solved by placing It on wagon trucks and hauling it to its destination. The gigantic pole was a big fir tree in Was I State before it was cut down and lashed to the deck of a steamer. It is now on its way around the Horn and will probably arrived in a few weeks.

The railroad companies cotild han dle the big fir pole by placing it on positions. nat cars. Recently a sieei giruer weighing 200,000 pounds and very nearlv this long was transported over the Philadelphia Division lines by While no doubt it was necessary for the improvement of the street, much regret is expressed by those driving along Front street that the handsome large poplar trees above Seneca street on the river road had to be cut down. For over a century the splendid trees have towered above the river, making a sylvan scene of old time splendor. With nook and corners cool and inviting on a summer day, its shade has refreshed many a traveler who sat down on the bench beneath to rest.

If the bench could talk it would many a tale of lovers unfold, of persons now grown old and gray. Here on the rude wooden seat were carved many. an initial and arrow pierced heart, as the locption with its cooing doves and nearby silently flowing river was a favorite place for a lovers' lane. A little stream which after a heavy rain became a roaring torrent wound its way through the little dale and under the road by a small bridge and it was the pleasure of many a child to sit t.nd fish in the shade of the big branches. Near by is the city bath house, which is visited by hundreds of children and they delighted to picnic beneath the primeval forest which, bearded with moss and in garments green that, indistinct in the twilight, stood like giants of old.

If the woodman could have spared that tree many hearts would have been gladdened, but they have been laid low and now in all its fury the sun beats down on the un protected roadway. The Rev. J. Francis Gregory, of the Capital Street Presbyterian Church, who has been offered the vice prln clpaliship of the Manual Training School at Bordentown, N. is one of the best known colored ministers in the city and has had a very success ful career here.

He is a son of Pro fessor James M. Gregory, the principal of the school. The school is modeled after the Booker T. Washington School and has 150 students. The discovery of iool at Carlisle recalls the traditional story of the old widow, Hannah McNatten, who was visited hy an Irish miner during the Revolutionary War.

The miner, while digging in the ground, round a large lump of coal which he placed in the stove. Instantly an explosion oc curred and the lids of the stove went sailing through the windows. Wert. "THE SWAMP FOX" By William Gilmore Simms THOSE who would know more of "The Swamp Fox" than I can give in these brief introductry sketches, should read Weems' "Life of Marion," a book too little known at the present day. It is as absorbingly interesting as the most elaborate work of fiction.

It is not fiction, however, but a true narrative of what our forefathers endured and suffered that they might bequeath to us the pearl of liberty. For several weeks Marion's band was reduced to seventy men; at one time, to not more than twenty five. Yet, with this scanty force he kept the field and harassed the royal army by unremitting sallies. On one occasion, with but thirty men, he surprised and captured in the night a party of ninety British soldiers, on their march to Charleston with 200 American prisoners. William Gilmore Simms, an eminent pioneer Southern writer In the fields of poesy, fiction and history, was born in 1806 and died in 1870.

Francis Marion, the subject of his laudation in this poem and in many other portions of his works, was born in the same year as his great compatriot. General Sumter, 1734, and died in 1795. I see the colonel bend his knees. To take his slumbers, too but hush! He's praying, comrades; 'tis not strange; The man's that's fighting day by day, May well, when night comes, take a change. And down upon his knees to pray.

Break up that hoecake, boys, and hand The sly and silent Jug that's there; I love not It should idle stand. When Marion's men have need of cheer. Tls seldom that our luck affords A stuff like this we Just have quaff'd, And dry potatoes on our boards May always call for such a draught Now pile the brush and roll the log; Hard pillow, but a soldier's head. That's half the time in brake and bog Must never think of softer bed. The owl Is hooting to the night.

The cooter crawling o'er the bank, And In that pond the plashing light, Tells where the alligator sank. What 'tis the signal! start so soon. And through the Santee swamp so fleeD. Without the aid of friendly' moon. And we.

heaven help us, fast asleep But courage, comrades, Marion leads, The swamp fox takes us out tonight; So clear your swords, and coax your steeds. There's goodly chance, I think, of fight. We follow where the swamp fox guides, We leave the swamp and cypress tree, Our spurs are in our coursers' sides. And ready for the strife are we The Tory camp is now In sight. And there he cowers within his den He hears our shout, he dreads the He fears, and flies from Marlon's neo.

WIS 10 NAME CANDIDATES Prohibitionists Will Also Place Tickets in Field in Counties SHEARER COMES BACK Former Cumberland Leader Will Organize the Wil son Clubs Socialists and Prohibitionists pro pose to nominate tickets for county officers and for municipal offices in many of the cities this fall according to reports received here and the in dications are that every county will see men of the two parties In the field. Inquiries at State offices of procedure indicate the activity of the men interested in these organizations and the State leaders of both are urging energetic work to maintain The Socialists Dolled 53. 053 votes last fall In the gubernatorial campaign, a higher number than ever oerore and almost four times the numbers cast far James A. Maurer, of Reading, who was their candidate In 1906. In 1908 the socialists ot 33.000 votes for Debs.

The nrohihi tion vote showed a sharp decline last iau because of the unusual Dolltical conditions, but 17,445 standing firm. in iut castle got 24,000 votes in round numbers and in 1908 Chafin for president got 36.694 or 8.000 more than secured for Matthew H. Stevenson when he ran against John O. Sheetz for State Treasurer in 1907. It was not until last vear that the Socialists got more votes than the Prohibitionists and this has caused the "cold water" people to stir them selves in order to regain the third position to do which they must not only exceed the vote for the Socialists but also for the Keystone party.

The Prohibitionists will have a conference at Williamsport on August 24 at which steps to revive the caxtv In terest will be taken and the question oi removal of headquarters of the State committee from Franklin to Harrisburg will be considered. At the same time reports on the outlook in each county will be submitted and complete county tickets urced. ine socialists hold that they do not need conferences, but that their party womers are active and will name full tickets. They claim they will hold their strength of last year. Shearer Rallies the Wilson Cohorts Special to The Telegraph Carlisle, Aug.

12. Raymond E. Shearer, ex Democratic leader of Cumberland county, Is making a valiant effort to "come back." In years gone by Shearer was a power in the politics of this former Democratic stronghold and he was always on the firing line when there was a possibility of office. He got the revenue collectorship of this district as a reward for his stren uosity in the Cleveland campaign of 1892 and, having figured out that there is a possibility of Democratic success next year if all of the Republicans fall dead, he has taken his flintlock from the wall and is elbowing his way to the front. Having calculated that the Democrats might win in 1912, he tossed a coin and it came down Wilson.

Hence the activity in the forming of Wilson clubs. Shearer would plant one in every town, every township and every hamlet. He has never met the erudite Jersey Governor, but he means that Wilson shall meet him with outstretched hand, preferably containing office. Mr. Shearer went into retirement with the Harrity people after the rise of Bryan.

He made a noise like a rooster calling a flock in 1900, but the county's Democrats had swung in for the man from Nebraska and heeded not the summons. In 1904 and in 1908 his cry was heard again, but it was a mere pipe in the roar of other leaders. Now the former collector means to be heard in earnest. He has taken personal, and, it is reported. unsolicited, charge of the Wilson cam paign in this section and is stirring and bustling about.

He has urged the formation of Wilson clubs vigorously ever since he saw the way the wind was blowing in Harrisburg during the meeting of the State committee and when the parade is formed he Intends to be on horseback. Democrats May Renew Their Row The meeting of the Democratic State executive committee here next Wednesday bids fair to arouse almost as much interest among the Democratic leaders throughout the State as the recent meeting of the State committee, owing to the possibility of a row over the rules. The c'ommittee, in the first place, faces a division. The reorganization people contend that a whole committee of nine was elected by the com mitteemen comprising divisions, while the Rltter faction claims that but five were elected. The meeting has been called by the reorganizes, who expect Chairman George W.

Guthrie to preside, and if the call is ignored by the men who were elected by the Kitter people the fight for control may be repeated on a small scale." The chief plan for the meeting is the abolition of the present system of electing nine committeemen from as many divisions and the substitution therefor of a committee composed of one man from each congressional district. This would give a big committee, but it is contended the work could be divided find at the same time each man made to show results In his district The reorganizes intend to put it through despite what action the Ritter people may take. PEXROSE AGAIXST VARE Strong Candidate Will Be Named to Oppose the Recorder The candidacy of Recorder William S. Vare of Philadelphia for mayor will be opposed by Senator Boise Penrose who contends that he is not strong; enough. He will confer with other leaders and name a candidate soon.

David H. Lane has declared fori Vare with other leaders, but Mayor Reyburn has not spoken. Fronfleld For Judge Delaware county, who do not follow the lead of Berry has declared for W. Roger Fronfleld for Judge. Mr.

Fron fleld is well known in this city where he had often appeared in cases in the courts. Pittsburgh Fight to night The fight between the factions of: the Pittsburgh Democracy for the possession of the peacock plume will be held to night The McNair people have called a meeting of the city committee to depose W. J. Brennen, the leader. CIVNEWS IfE Civil War began Jimt fifty years ago.

Tha Telegraph will reprint daily tha new of tha progress of that great struggle aa reflected In therolumna of this newspaper of that date. From the Telegraph of Aug. 12, 1861 Prise Arrives Fortress Monroe, Aug. 10. The steamshtD Quaker City arrived this morning with the prize schooner George Baker, of Galveston, and her Confederate crew of four men in irons, The schooner was captured by one of the United States blockading fleet off Galveston, and sent to New York with a United States crew on board.

She was cautured yesterday off Cape Hat teras by the rebel privateer York, who nut four of her own men on board. In the meanwhile the York was seen by the United States gunboat Union, who gave chase and burnt the privateer, but not until the crew had reached here and escaped. The few houses remaining in Hampton on Thursday morning have not yet been destroyed by the rebels who are now near Great Bethel. A white woman, an invalid, was burned to death in the great conflagration. It Is reported that one of General McGruder's captains penetrated within our line of pickets at Newport News and declared the place to be too strong to be attacked.

IN HARRISBURG 50 YEARS AGO TO DAY From the Telegraph of Aug. 12, 1861. Two express cars heavily laden with improved Enfield rifles passed through here last night direct for St. Louis. They were shipped straight from Washington with the passenger train and will remain in that position until they reach their destination.

The New York fast line brought the car intended to convey Mrs. Lincoln from Washington to that city and It was sent at once to Its intended destination. The President's wife will in all probability leave Washington tomorrow and pass through here direct for New York. General Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, passed through here yesterday morning en route for Washington via RflltlmnrA. The water in the Susquehanna com I menced rising last night, giving promise of quite a considerable freshet.

Dlmmlck' For Judge W. H. Dimmick, a lawyer of Wayne county, has filed a petition as a Key stone candidate for Judge of that county. CHARACTER. The gifts of wealth, place, ease and luxury are dispensed with a good deal of caprice, but nobody ever heard that a character was got by chance.

EDITORIALS ef CONTEMFOAIE tiootl Hot Weather Tonic (Ohio State Journal) Good Housekeeping reprints a re clpe for a summer tonic, as follows: Halve your food; double youf drinking water not ice water; trehM your hours out of doors, and quadruple your laughter. It Is a pretty good tonic, fitted to the needs of about 99 per cent, of ths wanderers through this old vale of tears. It would be extremely difficult for some persona of our acquaintance, however, to quadruple their laughter If they had to halve their food. Rend Like Paid Matter (Boston Globe) The Congressional Record may not print any advertisements, but it prlntt a lot of reading notices. Rending Wants (Reading Herald) There's no word from Togo.

The Board of Trade is still waiting. It's half feared he won't come to see us. But then he might at lenut be polite enough to decline. Postal cards aro cheap. Hint Finul (Erie Herald) There always' has been a good deal of in Pittsburg and evidently the old town wants the rest of the world to know It.

Any Difference? (Louisville Courier Journal) About 7,000.000 flies are reported to have met sudden dpath in Baltimore, but before cheering may we ask If they are missed? Weather Vote (Ohio State Journal) One of our somewhat dlscouragiiih meteorological observations is to stick to the chair all day and then see lv the paper that the temperature wua normal. Distinguished for its fine flavor and marked character. FINK'S BEER. dfThes that i If 1 seir maae man is able to but refuses to provide for the future of his wife and daughter is usually the type of "self made" that admires his creator. The Equitable Life Assurance Society "Strongest In the World" Geo.

G. Norris, Supervisor. Union Trust Building. Harrisburg, Pa We have a good many books I I popular authors that you I I would enjoy. For the camp, cottage or voyage why not? The Kingdom of Slender Swords.

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