8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER TOR THE HOME Founded lSit Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Tclejirsi.il llulldlng. Federal Sqnare. E J. STACK POLE, Prest and Editor-in-Chief C. I?. OYSTER. Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ. Manages Editor. ~ Member American Newspaper Pub jfV- jjl llshers" Assocla tion. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu ■QQEWupA lation and Penn- IHH sylvania Assoclat- I |£i S va9 03 Eastern office. IBSBfin 3ft Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Ave- I Egß n itMa U-' nuo Building, New York ritJ " : wp st ern office, Story, ... Brooks <S.- Finley. People's Gas Btiild ~ lng. Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Fn., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail, J3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY F.YENING, JAN. 29 * ,"H'nm a bit of sunshine hits ye. After passing of a cloud, TTftrn a fit of laughter gits ye. An' ye'r spine is feelin' proud. Don't fergit to up and fling it A< a soul that's feeling blue. for the minit that ye sling it It's a boomerang to you. —Craicford. SOLDIERING AND SENTIMENT LIEUT.-COL. HARRY G. BISHOP, of the aviation corps, taken to a hospital at Yuma, Ariz., still ■weak after his experience of being lost in the barren wastes of Northern Sonora, watched anxiously as the hos pital attendants removed from a pocket in the uniform of his coat a "bunch of half dried wild flowers. "Don't throw those away, please," he said. "They're the cavalry yellow. X picked them up when Robert left ' me. I wanted to die, if I had to, with the colors on." • Colonel Bishop's first years of ser •viee were with the cavalry. It is a tradition of the American rmy that the bravest and most daring soldiers are almost invariably the gentlest and most given to sentiment. "The worse the man the better the soldier." may have been true of Napo leon's armies, but it has never been so in America. Washington, Grant, Lee.""Stonewall" Jackson, and others whoso glory as soldiers will never fade, were gentle, loving men in rrl- Vate life. "Don't cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying," is typical of the im pulse that has inspired the fighting men of the United States. It is a strange comment upon hu man nature that men whose fame rests upon their deeds on bloody fields hould be the kindliest and the most loving when once the sword has been laid aside. COVENANT CHURCH'S GROWTH THE growth of Covenant Presby terian Church, which yesterday ] was rededicated after having been remodeled extensively, has been in proportion to the growth of the community it serves. Covenant Church originally stood in Seventh street, near Peffer, then in the midst of open fields. It saw the cltv grow up to it and pass. It saw its people move alsewhere and those who founded it and believed in its future picked the church building up bodily and carried the little frame structure that then serv ed as a place of wor ship to the more central location where the church of to-day stands. Now it is the center of a thriving, growing community. It is moving along lines designed to broaden Its field of usefulness and make stronger its appeal. Tho history of Covenant Church is pretty much the history of the West End of Harrisburg. The two Jiave been closely interwoven since the trend of building started up town. PRAISE AMERICAN PROTECTION ALTHOUGH Great Britain has in the past steadfastly adhered to a free trade policy it has fre quently furnished official data strong ly supporting the American protective tariff policy. In 1911 the British Board of Trade made a study of wages and living conditions in the United States and made a report which was published by order of the British government. The report Included statistics regarding family living bud gets among the working classes in American cities. On this subject the report says; By the budgets as a whole, hew: ever,' various* features are brought into relief, and among these may be mentioned the high level of fani- " ily income, the large contribution made by the children in the higher* income classes, the insignificant earnings of the wives, the consid erable expenditure on food, and tha large proportion of income remain* lng after the cost of food and rent lias been deducted. "That paragraph of the report should be of interest to every laboring man in America. When American children become wage earners, they are found (by the British investigators to be in the "higher-income classes." The British investigating committee was also surprised to observe the insigni ficant earnings of the wives. This is a splendid testimonial of the high stand ard of wages of the American work man, which renders it unnecessary for his wife to become a wage-earner in order to provide a living for the fam ily. Notwithstanding the fact that the wife is in a very small number of j fjistaiiccif 4 ivage T earner, the British MONDAY EVENING, J committee found tho American table j \ so well supplied that it was impressed ; with the "considerable expenditure on. food.'* In addition to all this, show- i ins that the laboring man in America is able to make a good living for his 1 i family without sending his wife out as a wage-earner, special note is made i of the "large proportion of Income re ; maining after the cost of food and I rent has been deducted." j With this evidence from a free trade j source proving the superiority of the ( protective system in making living ; j conditions satisfactory to the work-j man, it is difficult to understand how any American wage-earner can remain ' indifferent to the free trade law pow i on our statute books, with a possibil- j itv of peace in Europe occurring at i I almost any time. SCATTERED GOVERNMENT SOME years ago the Legislature, I under Republican spur, put j through a body of legislation so admirable in its character that Pres-j i ident Roosevelt, in a public speech, [ was moved to commend the laws then j enacted as constituting reform so j progressive as to challenge the good , opinion of the nation. Now comes Senator Penrose with a j series of proposals which, if enacted I 1 into law, will almost revolutionize the i ■ practice of many years. Perhaps not j all the measures suggested are neces- | sary, and their genesis may be in a j factional controversy, but when he declares that the practice of having I ! departments of the State government I ! located in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, j Scranton and elsewhere outside the State Capital, has become a scandal. | i lie is stating an incontrovertible fact. | j This he proposes to stop by providing j j for a centralization of all departments j t and bureaus in Harrisburg. His long experience as a legislator, his familiarity with conditions here at the seat of government, and his knowledge of manifest abuses growing out of the detachment of important I bureaus and divisions and whole de-1 partments from the Capitol have i doubtless led the senior Senator to rec- j ommend a return to first principles in | the matter of administration. TVe have heard for the last two years about the location of a "Branch I ' Capitol" in Philadelphia, the whole thing growing out of the practical ; joke of a newspaper man, but certain ; Philadelphians took the matter quite I seriously, and there was a lot of dis i cusslon by a commission designated un : der the joker resolution. Also, the | joke was taken seriously elsewhere and other cities began to demand a little capitol of their own so that the whole fabric of the State government was in danger of being divided by lot among the ambitious municipalities. Senator Penrose manifestly believes the , time has come to smash the peripa- I tetlc scheme of goverment invented by I restless otflcials who have been gradu -1 ally making Harrisburg a sort of way-station in the performance of • their public duties. Only a short | time ago a group of otflcials was trans ! ferred to Philadelphia, whence they ! had been brought during the Tener administration, but they were not con i tent until on order was made to send 1 them back to Philadelphia. And that | is the story of many on abuse of this j kind, While the proper concentration of j the officials of tho State in Harrisburg I is being arranged—and Senator Pen | rose should not abandon his idea un ; der tho pressure which will doubtless be exerted upon one pretext or an other—steps should likewise be taken for the permanent location of the j Supreme Court on Capitol Hill, There is absolutely no excuse for the court ! of last resort to sit anywhere else than jin Harrisburg, If there ever was a i reason for this Judicial body to move around between PhlladelpMla, Pitts- I burgh and Harrisburg. the reason no ; longer exists. And with the comple- j tion of a great modern hotel within the shadow of the Capitol this year there will be less excuse than before 1 ! for the sittings of the higher court j ; outside of Harrisburg, Let us hope these proposed reforms j are not transitory and merely echoes' of a factional controversy. Something worth while may yet eventuate as a | result or the political hurly-burly of i the last year, DEMOCRATS ACT RELUCTANTLY MANY Democratic measures have been introduced in the House looking to a lowering of the high cost of living, such as embargoes on the export of foodstuffs, a tax on cold storage warehouses, etc., yet none of them has ever seen the light of day after being referred to a committee. Nevertheless, points of order and other objections are always offered when Republican attempts are made in the same direction, Representative Cassius C. Dowel!, of lowa, forcefully called the attention of the Democrats to their inconsistency when he said; If you are going to do anything pn this subject the time to do it is at hand. 1 put it up to you, gentle men. There is no reason to stand liere and object to any kind of an investigation because you have some other method that Is being held behind. Yielding to the taunts of Mr. Dowell and others, the House adopted a pro vision directing the Bureau of Markets to investigate tfae control of foodstuffs. \ The Days of Real By BRIGGS * —— - llliiilil i\\ —— ffvlovu HUSH RIGHT ) - j | \ / up- vMoyuo j CDvriihud 1917 by The Tribun* Assoc. (Wew York Tribune). LK |J By the Ex-CommlttermM Announcement that citizens of j Philadelphia were prepared to finance j the proposed investigation of govern- | ment in Pennsylvania if Governor Brumbaugh vetoed - the resolution j which will be up in the Senate to- j night was the most important political i news in Pennsylvania to-day. It put! it squarely up to the dominant faction j to go through with the probe, which, ] the leaders say, they intend to do and ga. e notice to the Governor and his friends that It would be made whether the Executive opposed it or not. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh papers are filled with suggestions of legislation of aMrastic kind, for a good bit of which Senator Penrose is stand ing sponsor. The State administration people have at last begun to realize that they are In for a real fight and the attitude of people who were think ing things were going to blow away Is materially changed. —Concerning the offer to finance the probe the Philadelphia Inquirer to-day says: "Should the Governor veto the joint resolution, the Penrose men will then offer a concurrent reso lution. which will not include an ap propriation and which can be passed without being sent to the Governor for his approval. They say under these circumstances they will proceed with the investigation and believe that the developments will force the insertion in the general appropriation bill of an item to meet the legitimate expenses of the probe and which the Governor could not afford to veto. The guar antee of a citizens' committee to meet these expenses, if necessary, by pop ular subscription, the Penrose leaders declare, will have due weight with the lgislators anxious to be in accord with public sentiment." —The Philadelphia North American to-day says: "Mayor Smith has been bending his chief engeries for a week past in the political domain to patch ing up 'harmony' between the Yare and McNichol factions in Philadel phia. He finds that he has tackled a pretty tough proposition. The Vares have no intention of giving up the predominance in municipal affairs and their control of the Republican city committee, which they won when the mayor threw down McNichol and turned to them as his political men tors, On the other hand, McNichol will be satisfied with nothing less than complete restoration to supreme com mand. Neither side takes kindly to a fifty-fifty proposition, and the mayor acts as if he were apprehensive of be ing shot full ot holes If he tries to [ maintain a position between the lines." —The size of the loan which Phlla ; delphla will be asked to vote will be i made up to-day. | -—All of Hazleton's councllmen •will I be candidates for re-election. I • —ln all probability Governor Brum baugh will name a coroner for Perry county because of the tangle resulting in no election last year. The Governor has quite a number of appointments to make of county officers. —D, G. Wat kins, former farbon county prothonotary, has bought the Record, a Democratic paper. Carbon has been going Republican lately, although It is the stamping , ground of "Jim" Blakslee, the assistant i postmaster general. —The city council of Wllkes-Barre will not build a garbage plant. It will i engage in the municipal enterprise of buying a lot of pigs and letting them eat the stuff. The Clark act is cer tainly flexible. —W, 8, Bowen has been fired as the superintendent of Philadelphia's city hall. A McNichol man is talked of for the place, —H. A, McCaleb is out for council in Altoona, He Is well known among railroad men In that city, ,—ln Northumberland county 859 bars were licensed and in Cumberland, Luzerne and other counties near by the annual fights to cut down the licenses have started. In Indiana county Judge took away the licenses of four places. . —Mayor Siaith, of Philadelphia, is quoted as saying that being mayor Is costing him a loss of SB,OOO a year. His salary is $12,000, —Lieutenant-Governor MeClaln will attend the Hibernian ball in Philadel phia to-night. The Lieutenant-Gov ernor is not much in favor of the probe as outlined, —Coatesville's ex-Mayo* goes on trial in court to-day to answer the charges made in the recent probe i—Numerous Philadelphia city bills; HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH will go before the Legislature to-night. J —The Penrose suggestion for a i single chambered council in Philadel- i phia was the talk among the legls- | lators to-day. —Senator Boies Penrose, who is to , be the orator of the occasion at the : McKinley day dinner in Pittsburgh to- i night, passed through this city yester- ! day and was in consultation with ! western leaders about legislation at Pittsburgh last night." The senator | met a number of friends in that city | to-day and prepared a number of leg- | islative moves. —Frank Feeney, the Philadelphia labor leader, got into a new row in the Pltiladelphia labor union yesterday and an investigation is threatened. —Dr. J. N. Jacobs, who recently re- i tired as controller of Montgomery j county and who has been engaged in ! numerous controversies, Is spoken of ' as a possible county commissioner to ! succeed George Sullivan. ' —.Chairman Harry A. Maekey, of j the State Compensation Board, who ! got into the Penrose line of fire on Saturday, came out yesterday with a , statement in which he defended his j bureau. He says there is not a ward worker in the service of the bureau. : -—Philadelphia Democrats are for- j getting the fuss over the appraiser of ! the port appointment in the approach I of the inauguration. The tip has been | given that the bosses expect a big j turnout in the parade in honor of Wil son. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT] ! 1 —Kaiser Wilhelm perhaps is soothed by the thought that neither did Noah's 1 peace-dove accomplish anything on its first trip.—Chicago Daily News. —The militiamen enlisted "for home I and country," and now they would like | to begin the home part of their ser- | vice.—Philadelphia North American. —There is one unusual attraction j about Count Tarnowski von Tarnow. If you remember his first name you'll 1 probably recall his second.—Cleveland lyaln Dealer. —— Trade Briefs Ten thousand acres of iron ore land i will be developed by a recently formed 1 company at Poplar Bluff, Mo. A blast 1 furnace.• a chemical plant and a con- 1 centrated plant will be built, costing J650.000. ! Plans have been completed for the erection of a coal briquet plant at Nor folk. Va. This plant will have a ca- I paclty of forty tons an hour of sixteen , ounce briquets. Sea Island cotton growers in Florida, I Georgia and South Carolina will con- 1 vene to discuss the best methods of fighting the boll weevil pest. The meet ; inga will be under the supervision of the Georgia State Board of Entomo logy. | The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway has completed plans to extend its road to Mill Creek. Tenn., where It Is asserted there are 25,000 acres of coal lands awaiting develop ment. A new method of building wood block flooring has been invented by C. J. Carter of Kansas City. Mo. The pro cess consists of dovetailing the ends of the blocks to the baseboard and ■ smoothing the block surface to fit as tightly as hardwood floor. Agriculturists of Spain have been I called upon by the Central Provisions Board to declare the quantity of food | stuffs they possess. Embargoes on ex j ports of cereals and vegetables will bf lifted if It Is found that the country is I abundantly provisioned. Low priced American pianos should [ find a market in Portuguese East i Africa. j The output of manganese ore In tnls | country In 1916 amounted to 27.000 I tons, which was three times the pro-. ! ductlon in 1915. j Ocean freight rates to British East | Africa have increased from 100 to 300 I per cent, over the rates prevailing be- I fore the European war. Coal deposits have been discovered on the Island of Spitsbergen. The extent of these fields Is estimated at 200 square miles, which represents about 1,000,000,000 tons of coal. American magnates should make large sales In Brazil, as shipments of these supplies from Europe have ceas ed. A -company of Japanese capitalists has started a plant to manufacture egg products at Tslngtau, China. Sales will be made almost exclusively to the American market. Merchants In Cochin China are In the market for American shoes. Oxford styles and high shoes retail at $5 up ward, ' Consul E, A, Wakefield at Port Eliza beth, South Africa, asserts that office appliances from this country are rapid ly gaining favor in that district, Tne Rlttman process of transforming petroleum waste Into gasoline, benzine and toluene will act as a check upon I any movement to Increase the prices of these products. Gasoline made by this process costs six cents a gollon. Construction of national roads In Peru is under the control of the national government. An annual appropriation of 148,665 is made for the mainten ance of these highways. There Is a possible market for American supplies. Asbestos sheets are In demand in < Switzerland. | THE FOOD SITUATION IN AUSTRIA | SINCE the war began I have made the circuit of Austria-Hungary twice, inquiring and observing. From personal study 1 can say that industry, trade and general business are, so far ;is data are obtainable, in a surprisingly flourishing state. What are known as "war industries" par take, of course, most largely of this prosperity, short-lived and inherently fallacious as it may be. Hundreds of new millionaire contractors and deal ers in army supplies have sprung up. Food conditions vary greatly in dif ferent parts of the monarchy. They are vastly better in Hungary than in Austria, Hungary being largely an ag ricultural country, whereas in Aus tria industrial interests predominate. Normally. Austria imports about one third of her provisions, largely from Hungary. The harvest of 1916 and that of 1917 will tell a different story. The 1916 crop was less than middling. A portion, owing to unfavorable weather prevailing during harvest time, as well as to insufficient help, spoiled on the ground. It was espe cially deficient in' breadstuff's, whereas In hay, in cattle feed, in barley and oats it was above the average. As Hungary■needs her produce for her own population, relatively little finds its way into Austria, even at extrava gant prices. Importation of certain classes of food has wholly stopped. Until last spring cheese, condensed milk, potatoes and herrings from Hol land, butter from Denmark, condensed milk, cheese, honey from Switzerland, and canned fish from Norway, could be procured, though' at steep figures. All that has stopped. If the foodstuffs of both Hungary LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reservoir Park Service To the Editor of the Telegraph: I notice on the front sheet of your paper an explanation in regards to why the Reservoir cars are late. 1 wish to say it is a very lame excuse. As I have noticed on different occasions the crew letting the car stand at Thirteenth and Walnut streets, go in the cigar store and stay as long as ten minutes. Only Thursday evening at 8 o'clock a car passed me at Seventeenth and Walnut streets. I was walking. It stopped at Thirteenth and Walnut, the motorman went in the cigar store. 1 walked clear Into Fourth and Market and lie hadn't caught me yet. Some service! But what can you expect from the class of men they have on the cars. Please print this, will you? From a Citizen and Taxpayer. Jan. 27, 1917. For Penn State To the Editor of the Telegraph: This is of vital interest to every citizen of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. I am a senior in an engi neering course and therefore fully aware of the conditions and necessi ties of this, your college. This should be the greatest school in the State, if not the country. A reality which need not be imagined, or anticipated, but produced if only those who have the I power, namely, the legislators, can I be impressed and furthermore if the j taxpayers of our State can be con ; vineed that Penn State Is their school. The greatest need of Penn State is money, not only to further Its educa j tional possibilities by the aid of new ! buildings, modern equipment, more instructors with increased salaries, but j in order, to enlarge Its extension work i among the worklngmen of the State. ! Penn State is now serving over 10,000 workers in the different industrial | centers of the Commonwealth and, ■ under a great handicap, is faithfully 1 carrying out Its motto," Take the col i lege of the State to the people of the j State." Why then should it not receive the I money it needs? Penn State asks | only what is necessary. It is not the ' money itself in which Interest cen -1 ters, but rather in what it represents 1 and in its power to produce leaders, I qualified and trained to serve the peo ■ P'e in the best possible manner. Penn ! State cannot get the appropriation it | really should have. That is impossi • ble. It can and should get a great | deal more than It is getting, If the Legislature can only be awakened to its neglected opportunity of making Penn State the best college In the United States. Imagine, if you will, a great college of 3.000 youths, situated on a"' small plateau, 1,200 feet above sea level, amid several high mountain ranges. Removed from the noise and turmoil of a city: Its student body given an opportunity to breathe the pure, fresh air of the mountains; to enjoy nature In a manner that.ls impossible in the average urban college; and to live Its life In an atmosphere of peace, quiet and heulthfulness. The genial urroundingsvfferan*incentlve to study JANUARY 29, 1917. and Austria were put into a joint pool, so to speak, and the people of the whole monarchy fed out of it evenly, there would be no serious difficulty. It would mean that everybody would re ceive about 70 per cent, of the normal supply of peace days. But Hungary is a sovereign state, just as much as Austria is, and Hungarians do not pro pose to stint themselves to please the people of the other half of the dual monarchy. Thus it is that Austria goes short in' her rations —alarmingly short. During September and October, 1916, the poor in Vienna had to go without potatoes; and bread, their only other staple, was sold in but in sufficient bulk. The bread in October consisted of 20 per cent, of rye, and 4 0 per cent, each of barley and oats. It was not very palatable, but it was decidedly better than the bread of a year before, which contained 75 per cent, of maize, a cereal which Vienna bakers were not accustomed to. Thus they turned out a bread that was bit ter-tasting, heavy, of unpleasant odor, and hard to digest. Prices soared, of course. Several months ago, meat of better quality ranged from 12 to 17 crowns pet; kilo, or about sl.lO to $1.60 a pound. Bacon, ham, sausage even higher, and very hard to obtain at any price; but ter, $1 to $1.20 a pound; milk, 8 cents a quart, but very little of it; cheeses, according to grade, 80 cents to $1.40 a pound. But bread and potatoes had legal maximum prices. Bread sold at 9 cents the pound, potatoes at 5 to 10 cents the pound, according to kind.— Wolf von Scliierbrand, in The North American Review. and thus, the scholusttc record of the school is high; the rate of mortality astonishingly low. A very desirable locality to live, an attractive one in which to secure an education, proven by the fact, that In the past few years many students have been denied ad mission because of the lack of accom modations. Should this he so? The training the school affords can be observed by the success of its ulumni and no one will question the fact, that they are equal to or even above the average. But our buildings are old and rapidly depreciating, our laboratories are overcrowded and bad ly in need of equipment, our shops are without modern machinery and tools, above all our faculty is becom ing weakened because of low salaries. Give us what we need and we will produce; show us the light and we will increase production in your fac tories, conserve your forests, mine your coal, farm your lands by the aid of trained minds and with science. Not a dream but a wonderful invest ment for your benefit. Think and consider. J. W. G. OUR DAILY LAUGH BOTH MEN RIGHT. IX To be a doctor - one must have ) 1 patience. j I \\ Well, it would ■■ \ / \ be more apt to . / / / say: One must I •KA have patients. \ \ PScribbs Is a editor /will give hi m anything f FLIGHT FIGURES. RRR '"" Ducks fly eighty miles an / Ninety - two reels off the goose. Hawks have JK jfijfegl even great- V 1H!/ er power jit-- Money flies — but what's fc*"' the use! Stoning Qtfjatj The manner In which Dauphin coiftuy will meet conditions arising from the presence within Its borders of men of more nationalities than ever known to be assembled within the limits of the county before is being: watched with Interest by other coun ties. Unfortunately, as in other coun ties in the coal and steel regions, many of the men have come here raw, knowing: little of customs and, being strangers, inclined to look after them selves a bit too strenuously. The in fluence of the colored residents of this city and Stoelton has gone long ways A. toward taming some of the negroes from the Southern States who have been told that, contrary to impres sions, it is not the custom to "tote guns" and in time our colored ele- * mcnt will bring about more regard for the way things are done here among the strangers. Enough Slavs have been living hereabouts for years to impress the men from the Balkans and other parts of the Near Kast with the sentiment of this community and barring outbreaks duo to rum. this segment of the working population is on a fair way to be assimilated. Just how to deal with the Mexicans who have come here to work on the rail roads is another problem, very much like that, which met the Ivykens val ley people when the Russians flrst ar rived and when the Serbian a'nd Bos nian laborers were hired for work at Stevlton. Few hero can understand the Mexicans and they do not seem to care very much whether they under stand. cither. The Asiatics hereabouts are so small in number that they are not likely to give trouble and the folks who seem to be ab'.e to do mors to ward making them comprehend what is expected and what they must do are the Italians and Greeks, who, like the colored folks, have been sort of teach ing newcomers how to behave In or der to stay out of trouble. The great est difficulty, says a man who has to deal with foreigners is to get out of their heads the necessity for being walking arsenals. State Fire Marshal Clial Port is a great believer in the lightning rod. Kor years the lightning rod agent has been the man upon whose approach the average man gets a gun. Port figures out that last year in Pennsyl vania 1,3 4 3 buildings were hit by lightning and suffered a fire loss of $064,000 in round numbers. In the number were just seven which had lightning rods. Somehow or other in spite ot' the attitude of insurance com panies which regard the rod with favor there has been a tendency to abandon the use of lightning rods. * • * One of the interesting facts in con nection with the recommendations of the State Board of Charities is the manner in which the items in appro priations requested for agriculture and livestock raising were approved. Practically everyone of the State in stitutions seems to have gone into the business or raising cattle or hogs and some of the cowbarns, piggeries and henneries were on an elaborately planned scale. The reason is that the State authorities some time ago sug gested that farming and stock raising be speeded up at the State institutions as a means of reducing the increased ! cost of living. All of the insane and similar hospitals have farms and raise an immense amount of food. • * * Notwithstanding the weather, build ers in this city are rushing work on the interior of houses so that they will be able to rent about April 1. The in terior work is something which can be handled with ease, provided the windows are delivered and some of the alert Ilarrisburg builders took tliea trouble to give their orders early for™ windows and sashes. Consequently their men are going right ahead with inside work and the houses are being made ready for early occupancy. • • • Horned toads which some of the Troopers brought back from the bor der are a never-ending source of in terest to a good many people, but they do not take to the weather. The other day a man exhibited one of the toads in a trolley car which was not well filled and therefore cold. The toad took one look around and went back into the box in a rush. * * • "As quiet as you keep It Saturday was as near an old-fashioned winter day as I care to see," remarked one of the older residents of the county who was in town this morning." There is plenty of snow in the country and the wheat and other fields are well cov ered. But it has also been cold and things have been frozen up tight. I have lived some years and the real winter we have been enjoying is as close to the old-fashioned as any one would want for purposes of reminis cence. Here in the city you have paved streets with pipes that give off heat and you do not knovV what a country road is like in winter time." ["""WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Mayor Keichenbach, of Allen town, is commencing to figure as a speeclimaker at banquets. He was one of seven mayors at the Strollers' banquet in Philadelphia. —Joseph Wayne. Jr., the Philadel phia banker, will be one of the speak ers at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Philadelphia. —l. T. Tyson, the new superinten dent of the Reading and Columbia, began life as a telegraph operator. —Walter McNichols, former Stato senator, now an inspector of the De partment of I.abor and Industry, is making inspections of steel works on safety matters. —Adjutant General Stewart has been invited to be orator at the recep tion Norristown will give to returning troops. [ DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harris burg is one Of the best centers in the State for army recruiting? HISTORIC HAHRISBURG Records show that one of the first industries in Harrlsburg after trading was wagon repairing. A Growing Dry Desert [Kansas City Times.] A new "wet and dry" map. issued by the Anti-Saloon league, shows that only two States are almost entirely wet, Ne vada and New Jersey, and even they have some towns, small and large, that are dry. All other States are either wholly dry or have considerable dry territory. Missouri has only a few splotches of black, denoting wet coun ties. Texas is almost wholly dry. So are Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Penn sylvania and Western New York are getting whiter and whiter year after year. In 1890 there lived in dry territory 15,665,000 of the population. Now 48' A million live in dry territory. "The great American dry desert has nearly engulfed you," says a circular Is sued by a liquor house to its customers in wet towns. National prohibition is on the way. Closing Up the Business I take these means of thanking my friends and neighbors who done r much toward making the death and funeral of my husband a success. Also one sow and litter of pigs for sal# cheap. Yours very truly, Mrs. Lizaie ißUct —Denver Field and Farm.
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