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Iwara dally average for A« three a months ending May SI, 1918, W 21,577 * Average f»r the year 1914—2M1J Average for the year I*II —3I.BTT Average for the year 1815—21,175 Average for the year 1911—lfi.SBl Average for the year IH(V-IT,4M WEDNESDAY EVENING, JTNE 9 It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense ef tea or and kindness than by fear. — Terence. BRYAN'S RESIGNATION SECRETARY BRYAN has at last done something. It was the right thing, but at the WTong time. From the very moment he entered the Cabinet It was apparent that he was a misfit in the chair of Secretary of State. His appointment was In pay ment of a political debt contracted at the Baltimore convention when he was instrumental in the nomination of Wood row Wilson for the presidency. Bryan's selection for this Important place was the first error of the Wilson administration and the President is now paying for it by the embarrassment ot' internal differences at a time when the government should be presenting ji solid front to the outside world. It is a heavy price, but the recompense of Bryan's elimination will go a long way toward balancing the account. Bryan's whole course as Secretary of State has been painful to Americans who remember the distinguished men who preceded him and the high place accorded American diplomacy under their administration. At the very out start he signed a message addressed to Henry Lane Wilson, the then ambas sador to Mexico, congratulating him on the pursuit of a policy In direct oppo sition to th" views of-the President, and when called to account demanded the head of an efficient subordinate upon whom he found it convenient to place the blame. Immediately thereafter, with affairs In Mexico near the breaking point, the Secretary of State started off on a long lecture tour in company with a band of Alpine yodlers, this Joint attrac tion playing one-day stands for forty consecutive days. During his absence the heavy* diplomatic work of the de partment was performed by the coun selor and in some cases by the Presi dent himself. In 1913 he repeated his Chautauqua lectures and in 1914 op posed the President when the latter Insisted upon sending the fleet to Vera Cruz. During the trying period that followed he again permitted the sit uation to be handled entirely by Coun selor Moore, who resigned rather than perform double duty, and the present counselor, the well-trained and efficient Mr. Lansing, has performed the bulk of the labors of the department since that time. Bryan has been a figurehead or an obstructionist In the Cabinet ever since be entered. His only constructive efforts have been In the negotiations of peace treaties between the United States and some seventeen other na tions. These have been both praised and condemned. Worthy in purpose, diplomats of experience have pro nounced them of small practical value, ajid in the light of recent occurrences in Europe many others have come to that view of them. The resignation of Bryan at this time is unfortunate only because Ger many and other foreign governments may misunderstand. They may see In it not the severance by a mere Indi vidual of the tlea that hare held him very loosely connected with official life, hut may get the idea, that the Presi dent does not have the support of the entirp nation in his present course. There should be no room left for doubt on this score. The President has the backing of men of all parties. Ameri can rights must be upheld at this time at *n coats, or we must stand ready to submit to the tyranny of whatsoever international bully may In the future car* to ehaTtonre them. In his action Bryam stands almost alone, as un popular &• he once was popular and ss dismal a failure as ever stepped out of a Cabinet. At any other time his going would have been hailed with universal delight. Tf it were not for the advent of the cherry pie we might feel worse about the passing of the shad. STATIC COLLEGE EXCTOBTON r ■ VHE excursion of Pennsylvania J_ farmers to State College, in which thousands from Dauphin and surrounding counties are partici pating. is entirely without precedent in the hietory of agriculture In Pennsyl vanls. For some years it has been the custom of State College to provide a special week of instruction for farm ers and their wives during the Christ mas holidays, hut never before dur ing the season when corn U to be cul-j WEDNESDAY EVENING, tivate.d and when hay harvest Is ap-| proachlng has there heen any such in terest in the affairs of the State's one agricultural training school. The wtd» Interest that has been aroused in this excursion well illus trates the recognition that is now ac corded to the scientific principles gov erning soil productivity, cattle breed ing, stock raising, egg production, but ter making and the marketing of farm produota. Never before has the farm ing element of Pennsylvania been so keen for self Improvement as now. Those who partioipate in thi» excur sion may not be able to acquire any great amount of knowledge of a tech nical nature by one day spent at col lege, but they can very .well acquire a j general idea of the methods used by it he experts there and compare with [them the faults of their own farms. | The Spring season is at Its height and | the State College farms are In splen | did condition for demonstration pur poses. Then, too, the relations between the college and the farmers, already close, will be made closer, as they should be, and no doubt the foundation for a col lege course will be laid for more than one farmer boy whose father has been up to this time doubtful as to the ad visability of expending money for agri cultural training. General Obregon is said to have ob tained considerable military success by use of the "hollow square." Probably modeling his tactics after the condition of his stomach. COMPLETING IMPROVEMENTS THE three Republican city coun cilmen who voted yesterday to postpone Indefinitely action on the resolution to discharge on July 1 all of the engineering force employed by the Board of Public Works on im provement work were Justified In their action. It was clearly brought out that the Improvements, now In their final stages, should be completed by the engineers who are familiar with all the details. Furthermore, the city en gineer reported that if .the force is dismissed and the work transferred to his department he would be compelled to hire the engineers so discharged, because they are best qualified to su pervise the completion of the con tracts. Thus an adoption of the reso lution would have served only to transfer the expense from the Board of Public Works to the office of the city engineer. No saving would have been accomplished and considerable confusion and embarrassment would have resulted. It would have been purely a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Perhaps the percentage of engineer ing expenses is high, but that, as the Board in its verycomplete and concise statement shows, may not be a fair basis for judgment. Th« city has saved by the employment of expert en gineering advice hundreds of sands of dollars and contractors have been held to strict accountability. It is true beyond dispute that the con tract prices for work done In Harrls |burg have been uniformly low and the quality of the construction is unusual ly high. AH this mtfst be charged up in favor of efficient engineering meth ods and the saving thus effected de ducted from the sum expended for this purpose. Men familiar with the work should be in charge of the closing up of the contracts. Thousands of dollars are involved and if the final settlements were to be made by persons who had not every detail of the several im provements at their command it might be easily possible for the ctiy to lose far-more than the compara tively small amount that will be neces sary to keep the engineers at work until the middleiof August, by which time, with favorable weather, the whole Improvement scheme will have been completed. Who said the rain had spoiled the strawberry crop? GET Ol'T IF you know what is good for you, get out into the open these days. Take a walk along the River Front or through Reservoir Park or 'Wild wood—any place, just so you are out. The air is filled with the bloom of Spring, the atmosphere is as tranquil as the fragrance of a rose and the sky is as blue and as gentle as It was when in your boyhood days you used to lie on the grass and watch the sum mer clouds float by. After the rain and the cold of the past few weeks the change is unusually pronounced. There Is a great uplifting influence In a beautiful day. Tou will be better morally, spiritually and physically for a walk in the open, your mind free from the cares of the work-a-day world and open to a smiling Spring. Every flower preaches a sermon, every bird sings Its song of praise. All one has to do is to open his soul to the joys of nature. He is a narrow soul who prefers his easy chair these days and evenings to a tramp amidst the luxuriously growing things that make all outdoors a riot of color and frag rance. At any rate Mr. Lansing will see to It that Bryan's absence will not be greatly felt in the State Department. DEMOCRATIC CRISIS IMPENDS THE resignation of Secretary Bryan from the Cabinet promises to be of far less Importance inter nationally than in the affairs of the Democratic party. In the judgment of many, the Democrats are now facing a crisis somewhat similar to that with which the Republican party was con fronted when Taft and Roosevelt fell out. In many respects, politically, Wilson holds the same relationship to Bryan that Taft held to Roosevelt, and Bryan bids fair to become even more radical than ever, while Wil son has displayed recently a tendency toward that conservatism usually to be observed in second term candidates bent upon bringing: as many diverse elements to his colors as may be pos sible. Dispatches from Washington pre dict that the break between the Presi dent and his Secretary of State will project Itself far Into the politics of: the future and result in as wide a j preach In the Democratic party as the: circumstances that led to the Repub- j llcan split In 1»1J, and with Just as disastrous results from a party stand point. The President and Mr. Bryan were thrown together by political ac cident. Their views were never In harmony. in many instances their opinions were at wide variance. When the President paid his political debt by naming Bryan to head hla cabinet the press of the country united in wondering how long the relationship I would continue. Nobody expected that it would last throughout the four jyear term. ' j It would not be surprising If Bryan :were to become a candidate In oppo sition to the man whose nomination he was largely instrumental In pro curing at Baltimore. If so, the end of Democratic administration at Wash ington will become even more appar ent than it Is now. "The Ford factory Is turning out I.HOO cars a day." says a new* dispatch. We Judge that two-thirds of them come to Harrisburg. When, after the war. the Olympian games are resumed, it would not be surprising to find trench digging com petitions as one of the numbers on the program. I EDITORIAL COMMENT I The Man Artnnllr Stops to Think I From the Chicago News.] ♦ President Wilson is expected ix.r- I sht and courageous thing. [?' r, K a general feeling of satisfac man e he 13 not a hair-trigger Slightly More Important [From the Springfield Republican.] The country is not so vitally Inter ested in what Colonel Roosevelt would do as in what President Wilson will do. Wasting Thefr Energy [From the Philadelphia Record ] ir "SI 0 ?* * h ° ul « K° to Flanders lr they wish to tight. Maybe He Meant Furlongs [From the Cincinnati Times-Star.] to ,d°ubt weather bureau statistics, but It becomes absolutelv i necessary to our independence of mind 1 X«i? n - forecaster Devereaux says that 1 onl\ j,.4 inches of water fell in May. He must mean fathoms. Value of Veto Power, When Used [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] More salary-raiser bills killed by the ' Thus „ is brought to naught lators hopes of some graftuous legis- Tng'a One Accomplishment Ai. the Topeks Capital.l •nr... 0 "/ can be said for Tug .V he * aved Mrs Watts from being an old maid. One of the Donieadr Atrocities [From the New York Press.] The woman who thinks the atrocities wsr * le Just to ° terrible for any thing will soon go away for the sum mer and leave the cat with a jar of condensed milk and no can opener. CLEAN DRINK OR NONE [From the Phila. Evening Ledger] When the liquor men of Pennsyl vania banned the cabaret they took a big step toward the salvation of their Interests in this State. But when they declared 'that these breaches of the license laws were responsible for the local option and general prohibi tion waves." they told a half-truth not so creditable to their perspicacity. There are a dozen other sinister fea tures of the liquor trade which have raised this fierce distrust. The caba ret is only one. If the men who have invested their millions in the brew houses and distilleries of America want to save their bacon, thev must make a clean sweep of the adventi tious corruption of their business. WORLDLY WISDOM [From the Philadelphia Bulletin] —The person with a charitable dis position can find a lot to put up for. —A small boy doesn't have to saw wood to develop an appetite. —lf a man has any good points ad versity is apt to bring them out bv the roots. —A married man's idea of heaven Is a place where his wife's folks won't bother him. —This is a strenuous old world at best, but the other side of it seems to be a little more strenuous than usual this Spring. —Untidy women are always ask ing for a pin to fasten something on with. ZEPPEI.IX AND AEROPLANE [From the New Tork Sun] The achievement of Lieutenant Warneford of the British navy in de stroying yesterday morning between Ghent and Bruges a Zeppelin with a bomb thr.iwn from his monoplane bears a strong- resemblance to the torpedoing of a dreadnaught by a submarine on the surface of the sea. The advantage which the small aeroplane has over the great dirigible Is the ability to move more rapidly and climb faster. Also the aeroplane presents a small target to the dirigible's guns. So the submarine is not only a comparatively small but a submersible target to the guns of the battleship, and one tor pedo discharged from the elusive foe may send the dreadnaught to the bot tom. In the thrilling contest between the monoplane in Belgium and the Zep pelin. Lieutenant Warneford rose swiftly in his easily handled machine to a point directly over the bulk of the sluggish dirigible and dropped bomb after bomb, until the sixth at tempt was followed by an explosion and the dreadnaught of the air collapsed, falling to the earth a blazing wreck. The British aviator seems to have had the luck of the daring, for after he had lost control of his monoplane and the machine turned a somersault, he righted It, descended into the enemy's lines and then rising again made his escape. What Lieutenant Warneford accom plished can be done by other British aviators, whose numbers are becoming legion. Plainly the way for England to deal with the Zeppelin menace Is always to have a fleet of aeroplanes ready for a raid of tile enemy by day or night. As a Zeppelin is visible at any height it can be reported by tele phone when descried approaching the coast. Provided the defending aviators are prepared to ascend with a supply of bombs, the enemy dirigible should have a poor chance of returning to its base from a raid. EFFECT OP RHiID DIETARY [From the Sprinsrtield Republican.] Boiled thistle leaves are said to be ono of the main ('"ms on Albanian menus under present conditions Some one had probably been eating some of these when Prenk Bib Doda was named. SENSE AND NONSENSE The good time will come Motto of Earl Harcourt. "I thought Jiggs was going to use his Influence to get you elected to mem bership in the club." "He did." "What happened?" "He's been asked to re sign."—Buffalo Express. Ho shines in the second rank who is eclipsed in the first. —Voltaire. Jimson "Oh, yes, I knew old Sim son. He was a »cood sport. He did a very kind action once for m« wh*n the clouds were dark and threatening land the world looked so black." Pim son "What did hi- do?" Jimson "He lent me an umbrella."—Boston I Globe. HARRISBURG tjHftft TELEGRAPH TUlUc* IK , "f* IKKOfIvCIKUI By the Ei-Caaunltti^mii Pennsylvania Democrats were thun derstruck by the resignation of Wil liam Jennings Bryan, but there 1b no question but that they will decide to stay where their bread is buttered and, will stand by President Wilson. Bryan has been accepted by the former gold bugs because he became part of the Wilson administration, but the ad miration and eulogising of him has been more or less forced, although furious at times for effect. It is probable that the resignation of the Secretary of State will precipi tate such a condition of affairs in the Democracy that the meeting of the State committee to select a'national committeeman to succeed A. Mitcheli Palmer will be deferred until later in the summer. The scheme was to have It in July, but State Chairman Morris will decide to wait to hear from the | people again. One of the amusing things about the resignation of the secretary has been the manner in which the machine press has denied that such a thing was possible. Only a few days ago machine organs declared that people who talked and wrote that way were scuttling the ship or else were working up trouble. It will be interesting to watch the Dauphin county Democratic commit tee next week. Herr Moeslein has declined to be a candidate for re election as chairman on account of •advancing age." C. W. Rubendall, of Millersburg, is a candidate. | Amonit the speakers at the State Bar Association meeting is t' be John O. Bane, prominent Western Penn- I sylvan la lawyer, who will talk on the I modern attacks on the governmental 'forms. Mr. Bane was formerly very ! active In Democratic State alTalrs and is well remembered by many In this city for the vigor with which he used to press home his arguments. —The Allegheny county Washing ton committee is waiting to see if it is worth while to keep on the map. Some of the leading spirits do not seem to have gotten much satisfaction out of William Flinn and are inclined to let things swing by themselves for awhile at least. A strong movement for the re nomination of Judge E. A. Reppert has been started in Fayette countv. He Is very strong in that county and since his appointment by the Governor has received many assurances of sup port. WORLD WILL NOT STARVE [From the Lewistown Journal! In the eighteenth century Malthus foreboded that the world would starve to death for want because means of subsistence would soon be overmatch ed by population. Malthus did not reckon with scientific agriculture, with the capacity of an acre of land to pro duce twice and thrice the ordinary. Notwithstanding the world's, war, it looks as if. next Fall, wheat would be 32 per cent, cheaper than it is to-day. By the use of electric tools on farms as well as in shops, production is cheapened, while in use of phosphates production iR multiplied. Last year this country produced five times more farm crops than in 1879. We have several millions of idle acres capable of cultivation or less than 20 per cent, of acre capacity is now under culti vation. BORROWED BATHING SUITS [From the Phila. Evening Ledger] Every little while some city official goes clear out of his way to hunt for trouble. Just now it's Dr. Zlegler on the danger of strange powder puffs. He not only tells the vacation girl to stop using friend Oertie's rice powder when her nose is in danger; but, once and for all. he puts the ban on the botrowed bathing suit. The motive is all right: but when will these philanthropic public ser vants learn that human nature is hu man nature? Gertie and Amle are going to trade clothes and cosmetics to their dying day: and it's quite pos- Isble that the next world will hear re marks such as, "Lend me the loan of your halo-polisher, Emily." When good Dr. Ziegler says that a shiny nose is better than lumbago, ap pendicitis or any of the other myriad consequences of borrowed powder puffs, he simply displays his abysmal ignorance of the eternal feminine. * HIFI.K THAT SHOOTS AROUND A CORNER A rifle that shoots over the parapet while the user sis in comparative safe ty in the trench without necessity for exposing himself to the fire of the enemy Is a late invention brought out bv a well-known sportsman and de scribed, with illustration, in the June Popular Mechanics Magazine. The feature of this invention is that the ! rifle is held vertically while the pro ijectille is fired horizontally. This is ac complished by a curved deflecting tube, fixed to the muzzle of the gun. that changes the course of the projectile from the vertical to the horizontal as it leaves the gun. In spite of the enor mous friction that must accompany this change of direction, the tube, as shown Iby actual tests, is not subject to ex cessive wear, while the effective range of a rifile equipped with this device is I between 100 and 150 yards. Our Daily Laugh SOME PLANS, Made any plan* for the summer? Tes l'm go 1n g somewhere NOT FULL fledged. \ L ) I hear you'vs wp'M "Tbd J°' ncd the bene- As an honorary WORTH WHII.K By Will Dinger Recollect that weather Not so long ago When it rained like biases* Tes you do, I know. Tou and I were kicking 'Cause It rained so hard And the joys of Springtime By the rain were marred. But when we can go out Days like this and see Flow»rs all around us And especially All the handsome roses— It's worth while. I say, Every now and then to Have a rainy day. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY ■ i —From Washington Rvrnlng Mir. r \ RETIREMENT OF SECRETARY OF STATE BRYAN IS POPULAR FROM THE PHILADELPHIA REC ORD "As a champion of pacific principles Mr. Bryan, by resigning rather than sacrifice them, will commend himself to the advocates of peace at any price, who are not just now conspicuous for their numbers. But as a patrotic American he has placed himself in a very difficult position." PITTSBURGH GAZETTE-TIMES "It is a great relief to the people of the United States and President Wil son. It puts Mr. Bryan just where he belongs. He never was fitted for the place. He has not filled it with dig nity, ability or satisfaction, nor yet with fidelity. For the first time in his life in a position of genuine responsi bility, he has been but a cheap imita tion. He has been largely a sordid seeker after jobs for 'deserving Demo crats' of the Bryan breed, and for the gate receipts of country fnirs, side shows and Chautauqua circuits." CHICAGO HERALD "Probably for the first time in his public career, William J. Bryan will find the people of America practically unanimous in favor of something he has put forward —his resignation from the Cabinet." KANSAS CITY JOURNAL "Coming as a culmination to events of remarkable importance in our rela tions with Germany, this ruction in our government cannot fail to have a very marked effect abroad—more so, perhaps, than the circumstances really warrant. If Germany takes consolation from the incident by con struing it as an indication that the American people are not 'solidly be hind the President' it will be wholly without justification. Mr. Bryan as Secretary has failed dismally to measure up to the standard of states manship traditional to that high of fice. Thus far. It Is currently be lieved. in all the bigger affairs of the Administration he has been a drag and a hindrance to the President rather than a help, and it may not be too much to say that President Wil son is to be congratulated that the opportunity for securing a really able adviser was not longer delayed." CLEVELAND LEADER "The resignation of William J. Bryan as Secretary of State is a dis tinct and important victory for strong and thoroughgoing Americanism. It Is a triumph of the upstanding and vigorous elements in the national life of this Republic. Mr. Bryan steps down and out because he has not agreed with the President and high er members of the Cabinet in regard to the controversy with Germany and the stand taken by the Administra tion. He retires because he found himself hopelessly out of harmony with the sentiment and convictions of the great majority of the people of the United States." RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH "It is Wilson, not Bryan, who strikes to-day the note to which the hearts of the American people respond, and with which it beats in general sym pathy. The nation is with him. If here and there are dissenting voices, they are drowned in the great surg ing chorus of national approval. In the support that has been tendered the President there is neither party nor section, class nor creed. East and West. North and South, it is uni versal ant| all-embracing. At this crisis of our fortunes, in the presence of this menace to our happiness, our ■afety and -our honor, even Mrfc Bryan must share national aspira tion, oppose resolutely every further invasion of our rights—or stand aside." WORCESTER. MASS., TELEGRAM "Uncle Sam gracefully accepts con gratulations. Colonel Bryan has re signed from the Cabinet. He does not like the last note prepared in answer to the German latest. The Democratic fog about Washington Is a little thin ner with the Nebraskan Colonel eli minated. The act of resigning was one of his best. The movies have not caught anything so good for a long time. Mexico will applaud be fore long, and that will make it unanimous." BUFFALO COURIER "The resignation of Secretary Bryan will no doubt be regarded and be treated as a more or'less sensational event. For this reason it Is regrettable that It should take place at a critical stage of our relations with Germany and with Mexico. But at a time like this all Americans, men of all parties, should put behind the temptations to mix up domestic politic? with foreign relations. And why should a dis agreement between a President and a Secretary of State over a question of mere method in dealing with a I foreign country with a view to use -Mr. Bryan's words, 'of reaching » •JUNE 9, 1915. peaceful solution of problems,' be re garded as a reason why the people should hesitate for a moment to sup port their President, whose lot it is, again to quote Mr. Bryan, 'to speak officially for the nation.' At this time the wise, patriotic course to pursue is to stand by the national spokesman." BOSTON GLOBE "Mr. Bryan's move will doubtless do much to impress upon the Ger man Foreign Office the seriousness of the situation in that it causes a most unusual disruption of the American Cabinet. His resignation shows how paramount an issue in America is the dispute with Germany. Mr. Bryan's move will strengthen the President's hands. At a critical time he will have a united Cabinet, which will assist him upon the course on which he has started without annoying him with impractical suggestions." BALTIMORE AMERICAN "Without paying too much atten tion to Mr. Bryan at this time, it may be said that the country will feel a sense of relief to have the affairs of his portfolio definitely in the hands of Mr. Lansing and the head of the nation relieved from a halting and undeterminate Influence in the pre mier place in the Cabinet. His re tirement crystallizes yet more firmly the American sentiment for the policy of the American President." ST. PAIL PIONEER PRESS "The resignation of William Jen nings Bryan is an event of great mo ment and one with comparatively few parallels in American history. In spite of the unpopularity Mr. Bryan has achieved during his incumbency, it is somewhat unfortunate that the break is any way founded upon dif ferences of policy which have an in ternational bearing. To close ob servers of Administration affairs the retirement of the Secretary of State was 1 merely a matter of time." THE NEW IUGGAGK RILE Mary has a little trunk, She likes it not a bit. For everywhere that Mary goes She has to value it. —New York Sun. R. S. Lansing's Post Now Most Important HHhI HMb ROBERT 8. LANSING. Counselor to the State Department and one of the foremost authorities on international law in the world. Mr. l-anslng has been most conspicuous in the work of framing President Wil son's second note to Germany on the submarine warfare being waged by the Kaiser's navy. He has been in con stant consultation with the Chief Ex ecutive. discussing the proper choice of phraseology and terms included in the second note and attended the en tire session of the Cabinet meeting, in which the President's advisers con fined their attention solMy to the Ger man controversy. This latter is an ex tremely unusual occurrence, as none but the Cabinet officers and the Presi dent attend such conferences except when some momentous question is un dw consideration. -« Ebattng Chat Some Idea of the amount of paper used up In th® dally operation of the State government can be gained from the remark by Superintendent Samuel B. Rambo, of the State Capitol, that the contract let for removal of waste paper from the "Hill" will aggregate a ton a week. For many years the State used to throw away Its waste paper and old books for junk. Per sons who would cart away stuff could sometimes make a handsome stake out of reclaiming the paper and sell ing the books. But a few years ago Mr. Rambo made some calculations and figured out that Father Penn was losing a pretty penny. So he started , selling the waste paper. Pretty soon it became so valuable that balers were installed in the basement of the Capitol and the waste paper which often used to be carted off by Janitors aad other persons was carefully col lected and put Into bales. It waa nothing uncommon to get eight or ten hundred weight of paper from the letters, envelopes, old documents and other sources which figured in the every day business of the Hill and the waste paper business rose to magnifi cent proportions when the legislature was in session and bills by the score were thrown away every day. Per sons who saw the throwing of paper about the legislative halls in the clos ing days of the session were not aware of the fact that all of it was carefully gathered up and put Into bundles and that these bundles were sold. It is es timated that the paper sold by the State brings In close to $2,000 every year. This is quite a tidy sum for what a good many people did not even consider as a by-product. • * • Prominent among visitors to the city yesterday was Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor and perfector of the telephone. Mr. Bell came from Wash ington on an automobile trip. He was accompanied by Mrs. Bell and they re mained here over night, leaving this morning. • • • Not as many senators and members of the House have been coming here to look after legislation in the handn of the Governor as usual. In years gone by legislators were numerous while the Governor was working, hut Dr. Brumbaugh has established the rule that he will see no one except those for whom he has sent and he stays at the Mansion while visitors go to his office. Everyone is at liberty to file briefs, and judging from the siza of the mail many are availing them selves of the privilege. The bridges erected over Front and Second streets by the Cumberland Val ley Railroad are being ornamented and will be attractive additions to that part of town. They are being topped with fences of concrete work and the panels are taking form. The operations of the railroad are attracting much at tention and every afternoon and even ing there are numerous visitors to Mulberry street to watch the progress. Flag Day exercises which are to lie. held at the Reservoir Park under auspices of the Elks next Monday will be part of a general observance of the day throughout the country and if the weather is fair Harrisburg will have a fitting ceremony to recall the Flag Day exercises of last year. It will be re membered that a year ago next Mon day the flags were transferred from the State Museum to the rotunda of the Capitol after most impressive ex ercises. It was one of the memorable days for Harrisburg. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Dr. J. X. Morgan, the new presi* dent of Dickinson, is one of the coun try's prominent Methodist laymen. —R. W. Tener. brother of the for mer Governor, will become a suburban resident of Pittsburgh. —Judge A. B. Reid, of Pitttsburgh, has gotten after constables who do not obey the court. One constable has been ordered for trial. —J. K. Blake, prominent In the Spanish War Veterans' state organ ization, Is a prominent Wilkes-Barre man. —Congressman J, M. Morin, of Pittsburgh, is taking a prominent part in the convention of the State Eagles. j DO YOU KNOW ~ Tliat Harrisburg has not had as many conventions this year as usual? AX EFFECT OF WAR TFrom the Pittsburgh Sun! That one effect of the European war will be to create a new market for American harvest machinery is Indi cated by the reports that t;ome from Italy. It is said that the harvest there Is sure to be large and that it cannot be handled 'ln the old, laborious and slow hand way, for there are not enough people left on the farms. ft Is estimated that in Italy alone 2,600- 000 reapers would he required As a result machinery will have to he em ployed, and the one place In which the different kinds can be procured Is in the United States. Once the natives of Italy learn how to use machinery and their prejudice against It Is re moved it will mark the beginning of a mighty change in southern European agricultural methods. As is well known, the farm work now not only In Italy but in the Ral kan states. In Hungary, Croatia. Dal matla. in southern parts of Austria, a* well as In many sections of France, most of the farm cultivation and the crop harvesting is done by hand. The ground Is prepared by hand, men and women engaging in the work, and the growing crops are cultivated by hand, as is also the final harvesting. Finer fields or better examples of Intense farming cannot be found anywhere than in parts of the countries named. There an» or rather were enough peo ple to prosecute the work, for things were done leisurely and everyone was content. Now, with most of the able bodied men at the front and not enough women at home to properly handle the crops, something extraordinary is re quired. and that is the forcible Intro duction of American harvest machin ery. Once tried and mastered, the old style farming is doomed, .and that will he a good thing for Europe—and Inci dentally for America. ABOUT HARDY I.AI'DRR Harry has many popular songs, but none more popular than "I Love a lassie.*' The story of how it came to be written Is worth relating. Harry was leaving the stage door of a provincial theater one day, when he was handed a letter that had Just ar rived from Ills wife. "A lady's hand writing," said the messenger. "I sup fiose you love the lassies. Harry?" "I'm fond of them all," laughed Mr— Lauder; "but there's one lassie I love.ifll The sentence stuck In his mind: and as he wended his way home, he kept humming the words, "I love a lassie" And later on these words blossomed Into one of the most popular songs that have ever been sung before the public. CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 S Cents a Pint Prizes of ill. $2.50 and mgll H.IH) ones , duplicated by Mr. B«a Stron*®
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