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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.
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The Days of Real By BRIGGS
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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
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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.