8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QU3 M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. j Member Americai Newspaper Pub —llshers' Assocta- Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn jJ? ?*" sylvania Assoclat Stii ® SS3 I'll Eastern office jib n knji <ol Story, Brooks A fSB IP |3B I9f Plnley, Fifth Ave Jyyyßrtgjyß ' nue Building, Nev , Brooks & Flnley s "(p Peoples Gas Build Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as ifecond class matter. By carriers, ten cents n week; by mall, |5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1917. Hope is a prophet sent from heaven, Fear is a false and croaking raven; The dawn that buds all gray and cold 'Will blossom, to a sky of gold. —E. R. SILL. LICENSE COURT THE Dauphin County Court ie about to begin Its yearly wrestle with tho liquor license problem. It is not a nice duty nor a light one. Despite the unquestioned growth o£ prohibition sentiment in the country at large, the number of men desirous of dispensing strong drink for profit appears about as large as ever. Nev ertheless, stutistlcs prove that tho use of alcoholics is slowly but surely 011 the wane. Figures arc available to show that in the three banner distil ling States—Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Maryland—there is a marked de cline in the production of whisky. Figures for the last live years in Penn sylvania are as follows: 1912, 10,- 079,126 gallons; 1913, 11,482,359 gallons; 1914, 11,153,227 gallons; 1915, 1,073,808 gallons, and 1916, 918,582 gallons. In Kentucky the production of whisky dropped from 43,622,098 gallons in 1912 to 1,980,200 gallons in 1915. In Maryland it dropped from 5,950,827 gallous in 1912 to 506,919 gallons in 1915. "Whisky has had a stranglehold on the Pennsylvania Legislature for many years—regardless of party. Quite as many Democrats as Republicans—in proportion of the minority to the ma jority—have been elected subject to liquor influence, if not by tho aid of liquor-ring money. In Democratic districts the liquor crowd is Demo cratic. In Republican strongholds it throws its efforts toward the election of Republicans with "wet" proclivi ties An analysis of any local option vote in the House will show this to be true. That Pennsylvania persistently has chosen liquor Legislatures is largely due to two reasons the very large foreign element in the mills and mines of the Commonwealth and to the im mense sums invested here in breweries and distilleries, making possible the raising of large funds for all man ner of anti-temperance purposes. As the production of the distilleries de clines this financial factor, by the very nature of things, will become less a consideration in elections and in legis laton. * It has been said that the big cities of the State wguld turn in large "wet" majorities if a "popular vote were taken now in Pennsylvania on either State wide prohibition or local option, but even in Philadelphia temperance sen timent appears to be gaining. Ac cording to the Public Ledger of that city, the list of applications for liquor license, as entered to data for the com ing year, totals forty-six less than a year ago. In 19H5 there was a shrink-* age on the full list for the year of fifty-nine from the previous year. Back in 1915 the drop from 1914 was ninety-one applications. In Philadel phia last year there were 1915 saloons operating throughout the entire city, which was eight less saloons than two years ago, despite the fact that the city is gradually growing in popula tion at a rate estimated at about 25,000 a year. In Harrisburg some idea may be gained of the trend in the same direc tion by the fact that a few years ago the police spent every Saturday night —pay-day at the mills—gathering in from fifteen to thirty "drunks," and that now the Saturday night harvest is small by comparison, notwithstand ing the city is larger and the foreign and Southern labor element has Deen augmented greatly. The time is approaching when "li cense session" will be stricken from the local court calendars. • If this thing keeps up, the restaurant keepers will be serving a steak with each dish of potatoes. ' * MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXTENDED THE criticism of the County Com missioners with respect to ex cessive costs of police hearings at the Mayor's office is justified—but it might have been extended. Like our method of tax collections, our aldermanic system is expensive and archaic. If it ever had any real excuse for existence in its presont form, it has none now. Doubtless there Is need for some thing between the court and tho poo pie, but the aldermanic office as op erated in Harrisburg does not fill the bill. It is excessively costly and is a constant temptation to doubtful prac- ——— MONDAY EVENING, I tices. It Is an unnecessary drain upon ! the taxpayers and it should be re vised. Dispatches from Austria indicate thnt ■ Vienna hopes for the best, but fears for r the worst. DON'T BUY POTATOES ■ pOTATOES $3.60 a bushel In Har rlsburg! The figures are preposterous 1 Somebody is clutching greedily foi the pennies of the poor. That some body's fingers ought to be pinched. When food brokers put a tax or luxuries there Is ground for complaint When they place exorbitant and pro hibitive prices on the necessities o: life it is time for vigorous and effective protest. Government relief is slow and un certain. The deeper the federal probe goes into the price problem the highei the prices mount, apparently. Anj relief must come from the people themselves. Their weapon is the boy cott. DON'T BUY POTATOES. If everybody In Harrisburg refrains from purchasing for only three daya prices will be restored to something like normal. Rice is a good potato substitute. Hominy in a pinch can be made to answer, too. Both are palatable if properly prepared. If you must have vegetables tVy turnips for a change. At all events three days' abstinence from potatoes won't hurt anybody, and it would be sure to bring prices down. Potatoes are a staple diet in every household. Particularly are they val ued as a winter food by persons of limited means. They are at onceydc- Ucious and wholesome. Abnormally high prices for potatoes are almost as keenly felt by families of small income as are high prices for bread and flour. The present price is outrageous, 'it is justified neither by short crops nor exports. Somebody wants to get wealthy too fast. Will the consumer stand it or will he use his only weapon of protest— the boycott? Thanks, Mr. Weatherman, for the fine sample. nOItOUGII BIiITEIIMEXTS THE gathering of borough officials in Harrisburg last week indl- cated an awakened spirit of civic betterment among the boroughs of Pennsylvania. In this the State has had no small part. The Department of Labor and Industry has been inter esting itself in a very constructive manner in the problems of the small municipalities of the State, especially since the creation of the bureau of municipal statistics several years ago. I The great trouble with many of the boroughs is that they have grown up either in haphazard fashion or have been the prey of petty politicians using the local government as an instrument to their ends. Carelessness has played a much bigger part than deliberate intent to mismanage, and ignorance probably has been a greater offender than either. The effort of the bureau of muni cipal statistics has been to discover what is wrong and to offer corrective measures subject to the approval of the borbughs themselves. Those who have headed the movement have been too wise to attempt to force their own views upon the people affected. The unpopularity of the Clark act and Its failure to meet expectations afforded them an example of the folly of such tactics. Co-operation for improvement of conditions, supplemented by uni form legislation of a reasonable char acter, cannot but be helpful in correct ing many of the evils that are now recognized as holding back the prog ress of many of the small towns of Pennsylvania. OBSTRUCTIVE LEADERSHIP • THE New York Tribune com plains of the selection of Mann as Republican floorleader In the House and the Philadelphia Public Ledger expresses the belief that nei ther Mann, In the lower branch, nor Stone, the Democratic leader In the Senate, is big enough for the job he holds. Failure to display unpreju diced patriotism and unadulterated Americanism is the charge against each. Neither Mann mor Stone is progres sive. Both are prompted more by politics and partisanism than is good for the country or the parties they represent. "Stand-patism" of the old rank is unpopular. Tho rank and file of Americans are progressive. If the Republican leaders are wise they gently but firmly will take Mr. Mann away back and give him a seat by dear old "Uncle Joe" Cannon, whose unfailing good humor and broad ex perience make him at once an orna ment and a usefuj member of the lower house of Congress, but who long since outlived his usefulness as a leader. The Democrats may have their Stones, and welcome. What the Re publicans need In Washington and in the party councils is a leadership that shall be constructive rather than ob structive. The same applies to the party in Pennsylvania HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS -POPCORN- T =\ fAw '3 IMINV \ 'T,,, *!//J ///"* Universal Service in England "One cannot even begin to esti mate," says Sydney Brooks, in Na tional Service Magazine for February, "the enormous contribution that uni versal service has made to the cause of British democracy; how it has blot ted out-class feeling, has made wealth and birth of no account, and has un ified the nation by imposing upon all its members an equality of obligation. In that new England which will emerge from the furnace of this war, an England physically made over, in ured to discipline, making character and achievement the test of honor, scornful of old distinctions, and insist ent upon the bonds that link and not upon the divisions that separate rich and poor, employer and employ ed, the palace and the slum in that vigorous and triumphant democracy compulsory military service, I hope and believe, will take a fixed place in the national fabric. "But if England has gained much and stands to gain still more by her conversion to universal training, what may it not be expected to produce in America? For in America, as it seems to me, the need for just some such leveling and energizing experi ment is greater to-day than it has ever been in any white man's land." Bound to Survive The other day we heard two elder ly men reciting the merits of their au tomobiles and disparaging the other fellow's, and we knew at once what they were doing and what they had been in days gone by. For their talk was the talk of the old-time horse traders, altered to suit the commodity they were dickering over, revised as to technicalities, but racy still, unex cited, shrewd, marlced by that studied indifference which always misled the outsider into the notion that the last thing horse-traders wanted to do was to trade. This all went to show how easily a man can deceive himself. AVe had been thinking that the tribe of horse swap pers was passing from the earth, sor rowfully succumbing to tho new trans portation. But if we had given it real thought, we would have known that that could not be. Horse-traders were the most resourceful beings living. It was their business to be. They made it an art. So, of course, the automobile could not destroy them. They simply drew upon their great stock of ready, hiwhly trained wit and adapted them selves to the new order. They trade motor-cars now, and no doubt exult over victories in cunning, carry secret hopes about with them of avenging defeats, just as they used to. —Toledo Blade/ The Unforgivable Affront Now she hates one of her oldest friends. Yesterday she was downtown with this friend, and just before noon she said to tho other lady: "Well, I am going over hero and catch my car." Then the other said to her: "Well, I am going home, too: I'll go over on Main and catch mine: I am awfully glad I nfn across you, and I want you to come to see me real soon." Martha said she would, and the two parted. A few minutes later Martha wont Into a place to get a bite of something to eat, and what do you think? Yes, there she was—eating lunch. "I didn't want her to ask me to go to lunch with her," Martha ex plained to us after she returned from town, "but I don't see why she wanted to slip away. I don't see why she wanted to pretend that she was going home. I am sure I am able to buy my own lunch, but I want her to re turn those patterns she borrowed, and I never expect to set foot In her house again."—Claude Callan, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegraph. Bring on Your War! [New York World] "We are preparing for anything. When the necessity arises Chief In spector Schmittberger will press a button on his desk. The rest will foll - like clockwork." In these words Acting Pqlice Com missioner Godley yesterday summed up the international situation. Some Keep More'n Two "We have a friend," says Com merce and Finance, '"who is fond of telling how his elderly mother took him aside when he was about to be married and advised him always to keep two bears In his home if he would be happy. When he asked her what she meant, she explained that the animals she had In mind were 'bear' and 'forbear.' " Stops Exports of Sugar The government of Argentina has extended the decree prohibiting the exportation .of sugar and permitting the Importallon, free of duty, of cer tain quantities <ft raw and refined sugar. This is done to .prevent a se rious sugar shortage In the country and to stay speculation in this pro duct J | 'Pe.KKCi^CtfaKta By the Ex-OommltteamMl I Governor Brumbaugh is being ad vised by his friends to veto the reso lution for an investigation of govern ment in Pennsylvania and the gen eral belief here is that he will do it and accompany the veto with a scath ing denunciation of the proposition as embodied in the resolution as "un fair" and to state that he courts an impartial investigation. The effect of such a move, argue friends of the Governor, would be to force the Pen rose people to make investigations through committees of the Legisla ture in the course of inquiries as to why appropriations or changes in laws or methods or anything elne were necessary. The Governor is not going to lose any time in acting on the resolution which should reach him by to-morrow at noon. He will probably send in his action on it within two days. liis friends said to-day that a veto would be sustained in the Senate. Newspaper comment upon the situa tion is rather notable for its absence. The few newspapers that do discuss the proposition incline to the belief that the Governor should sign the res olution, notably the Philadelphia Ledger and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The opinion seems to prevail gen erally that there will be little doing in the Legislature until the middle of March. The resolution and its final disposition and the plan of cam paign to follow it up will occupy much attention and the proposition to take a recess until March 12 are having their effect. Legislators are not showing any great degree of interest and are getting ready to stay hero a long time when they re-assemble in March. The chief point of interest just now, aside from the "probe," Is what t*e Senate will do with the Gover nor's appointments and when the Gov ernor will send in the ad interim nom inations. , -—With Senator McNiehol in Florida and Senator Vare in Virginia, the pros pects for action on anything in the Senate are not very bright. Senator Vare is said to be somewhat disgusted with the way things have been going lately. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, in I an extended story yesterday, shows lip the operations of the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Board in a way which indicates that it has been one of tlio most expensive bodies that ever in vestigated anything in the State. The records at the Capitol fail to show a report except in the last six weeks on any of the work done since 1913, al though over $167,090 was spent. The Pittsburgh newspaper says that Wil liam A. Magee was the dominating spirit of the boards, both the first and the second, and that in a letter ex plaining some questions raised by the Attorney General, he said that there was hut one standard of appreciation in this country and that the American dollar. The review of the operations of the boards contains some interes ting and amusing things and the fail ure to make a report as well as some of the salaries paid may be the cause of some legislative inquiry. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger Is engaging In some interesting dis cussions these days. It insists that Senator Penrose is getting ready to "rip" the Public Service Commission out of office and that he wants to block the appropriation of funds for appraisals. This morning it says that the Penrose people are going to use the "ripper" as a club over the Gov ernor and that they will also tie up the nominations of public service com missioners. These startling pieces of news were widely read here some weeks ago. —George D. Thorn, chief clerk of the State Department, has suggested a bill to amend the laws governing fil ing of nominating petitions so that there shall be twenty days added to the period for certifying, which IsTiow thirty days. The twentv days would be taken oft the perioff In which to file and it would not matter as eighty per cent, of the papers are held bacfc until the last forty-eight hours any way. —Pittsburgh papers say the pro posed "pure tree" bill would give the Secretary of Arriculture powers be-1 vond those of the Commissioner of 1 Health. —The Philadelphia Press to-.lay says: "Nominally the has been In session for nearly two months. Actually it has sat on thirteen lesis latlve days and on one no business HELMET RESISTS RIFLE BULLETS Allies' Head Protectors Tested With Our Army Springfield IN a recent issue of the Scientific American Bdward C. Crossman tells how, one day during the first year of the war, two mysterious strangers ap peared at the testing station of a big American manufacturer of explosives with a steel helmet which they wished' to have proved with a service rifle. A marksman obligingly produced a regu lation United States army Springfield and at a distance of eighty yards drill ed a nice little round hole through-the helmet. The helmet men thanked the rifleman and left. Five or six times aftof this they returned and submitted their helmet to a similar test, and each time the steel was neatly perforated. Finally a helmet was produced by the visitors—they, came, it developed, from a famous Philadelphia steel company— of the same lightweight steel submitted for the initial test, which was dented by the bullet, but which refused to let it through even after repeated blows. The army rifle has a striking energy of 2,430 foot-pounds and a muzzle ve locity of 2,700 feet per second. The rifleman then changed his ammunition to that of the Palina type, which is of 180 instead of 150 grains, and has a striking energy of 2,900 foot-pounds. The results were the same even after repeated shots. The range was short ened to forty yards, at which distance Whatever was attended to. That was last Monday, Lincoln's Birthday. And pending the decision on the probe res olution little was done with the vast sheaf of bills introduced." —The Philadelphia North Ameri can, which has been more or less friendly to State and city administra- I tlons, to-day declares that fifty-seven \ per cent, of the bonding business of ■ the city of Philadelphia is done by Mayor Smith's firm and that in its opinion there is reason to believe Smith means what he says when he threatens to resign if the Legislature tries to interfere with the business of his firm. —There are thirteen less applicants for licenses in Berks county than last year. Provides For Citizens First The progressive little republic of Uruguay has taken a decidedly ad vanced step to provide for the needs of its people and has prohibited the exportation of all wheat or flour until after the next crop has been harvested. A law passed by the country's con gress provides that statistics shall be prepared after the harest is over, showing the quantity of wheat on hand In the country and the amount required lop home consumption. With these statistics as a basis, the exact amount to be exported Is deter mined and the rest is held for home consumption. In this way prices are kept down to a reasonable limit and a bread famine prevented. The Uruguayan Congress Is contem plating applying this same procedure to other foodstuffs produced In the country. Labor Notes Toronto, (Canada), machinists will demand 45 cents an hour. The working force of the li?-it' navy, afloat and ashore, Include more than 1,000,000 men. San Francisco Building Material Teamsters' Union has received an in crease of 50 cents a day. Dundee, (Scotland), town council has agreed to increase the wages of constables, sergeants and detective of ficers, but not those of higher paid of ficers. •An exhibition Of the work done by thp female munition workers, which has been promoted by the Minister of Munitions, lias been held In Glasgow, Scotland. • The governors of the North of Scotland Collelge of Agriculture at Aberdeen, approved of a scheme for the training in agriculture and hor ticulture of discharged soldiers and Bailors. The number of British women re cruited to Industrial occupations be tweon July, 1914, and July, 1916, was 362,000. Of this number 263,000 di rectly replaced men. In commercial occupations the Increase In women workers was 198,000. The Increase of women workers In hotels and places of entertainment Is only 19,000. In agriculture 66,000 more women are working steadily to-day than In July, 1014. FEBRUARY 19, 1917. I the eighth shot shattered the helmet after terrifflo pounding. | In all the tests the helmet had been placed over a head-sized rock. Previ ously the writer, using the same am munition had perforated >4 -inch plates of boiler steel at five hundred yards. It is tliis helmet, apparently, which is now in use by the allied armies. Of ficials of the Frankfort arsenal laughed at the reports of the powder man and when the latter tried repeatedly to get one of the helmets from Philadelphia to prove the truth of his statements his requests were met with a polite refusal. The helmet weighs about six pounds. It Is said, and is made of some alloy like tungsten, heat treated. "The shatter ing under the linal blow indicated a glasslike hardness that was still de void of the brittleness of most very hard and thin steel plates." The interest of Mr. Crossman's story lies in the fact that It has been popu larly supposed that the famous trench helmets were for protection only against shrapnel, which, of course, has not the force or penetrating effect of a high speed rilie bullet. Inasmuch as the average range of rifle fire on the western front approximates two hun dred yards and, in the tests, the blows against the helmet were all delivered at right angles, the effectiveness of the new head protection may be imagined. | DO YOU KNOW That Hnrrisburg Is one of the big telegraph centers of the State? HISTORIC HARRISBUKG In days gone by the State used to test the cannon it bought on pounds near First Mountain. OUR DAILY LAUGH HIH VIEW " i*m " Bver • 8 • a ""3®? gam* of polo?" JLPT "9aw one onoe Jwll. n P° n * time, but It muit have been tUJSM p fierce one, as I i Akl ' got the idea Jt K9 wan against the TM rules to hit the KaJL" SERIOUS. lllHMfflt Why aren't yon I eating, old top? m'r'■ I'm on a diet. What's the - trouble? Beenill? ' Had an opera- IJy \ tlon on my allow- MjELj \ I bltlH f SOMETHING GAINED. Oh, gardening Is sport indeed Beneath the smiling skies; Though" you may only raise a weed. You've had the exercise. WHAT DID HE MEAN? \\j^T)l She: I could die [L'mJL dancing! He: Reverse! SO SUDDEN, Maude: Do you f&# get me? liuHlf Frank: Is that >Kr ft ' eap year mm MM posal ? IV^u - "■ ■ ©rotittg (tthat Propositions to improve the Susque hanna, Scliuyllifll and other streams running from the anthracite region to the large cities and tidewater so that cheaper coal may bo obtained, which have hcqn given attention by Stat* Commisiaons, the public service boaru and legislators lately, have been dis cussed In Harrisburg for the last cen tury and more Without desiring in any way to talk about the difficulties of the plan to make the Ssuquehanna navigable, which excited the risibili ties of a Harrisburg editor some ejgh ty-flve years ago and grave doubt* . among the first citizens of Harrisburg 100 years since, it-may be stated tha* William Penn once journeyed as fa/ as Middletown, the confluence of tlx Susquehanna and the Swatara, to study possibilities of waterways. On# of the prime motives that led John Harris to select this site was tli chance that it would be a great trans portation center because of the water way and the valleys opening here. The founder's foresight was correct although the iron horse and not the river barge furnishes the means of transportation. Propositions to make the Susquehanna navigable in a chan nel are going to be much heard of in the next few years.' It may be that something may be started in the way of tests of"channel possibilities before the anthracite and JMtuminous coal, the vegetables and grain and other products of the Susquehanna, Juniata and other valleys, now being whizzed through Harrisburg get down to rea sonable figures. Just what could be brought to Harrisburg's front door from up-river farms or those along the Conodoguinet or other streams by motor boats, barges or flats pushed by the same kind of steamers that propel the coal fleet can be easily imagined. • * * Away back in 1793 and 1794 tlie citizens of the counties in Pennsylvania and Maryland abutting on the river were alive to its possibilities, accord ing to old records, and were keen to get the rocks out of the stream. That old standby of the historian and ances tor of the Telegraph, tho Oracle of Dauphin, notes that on August 14, 1795, men from Dauphin, Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Mifflin and North umberland counties met with men from Cecil and Harford counties In Maryland in our courthouse. This meeting named committees on sub scription, including some eminent men; appointed men to take charge of the work of blowing up the rocks. The work proved very expensive and was dropped. But Harrisburg was growing and so were the up and down liver towns and while all were im pressed with the beauty of the stream' and its value as water supply, they wanted to make the river work. It was in the I-eftislature of 1805, just 112 years ago, that sentiment of the State crystallized, largely through Harrirfburg efforts, and it passed the llrst bill for "removing obstructions and improving that navigation of tho river Susquehanna ind its branches." This bill was signed 112 years ago yc?torday, February 18, by Thomas McKean, then Governor. Of course, it chose the lottery as the means or raising cash. In those days the Legislature was principally occu pied in chartering boroughs and au thorizing lotteries for something or other, including the first Presbyterian church, built in Harrisburg, whoso lottery tickers are dated April 1, JBO3, by the way. What the State permit ted agencies for good to do it exer cised itself. The right to run a lot tery was a State concern and not to be voted lightly as was evidenced by the fact that before the people of Somerset could build a town hall they had to send a committee to tho Legis lature. Not a few of the churches iu the other places in Pennsylvania owp their first houses of worship to the lot tery and when Pennsylvania was "hard up," as it often was in those days, it used to resort to the lottery to do everything from building roads to buying cannon. It is a little hard to think of Robert Kennedy Young, the Treasurer or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who disbursed some thing like $36,000,000 last year, sol emnly collecting the State's revenue from a lottery or to imagine Governor lirumbaush calling Francis Sliunk Brown into council as to whether a bill should be signed to allow a Pres byterian church in Pittsburgh to build a house of worship by means of money to be derived from a game of chance. Tills particular Susquehanna river Improvement bill carried $20,000. That much has been asked to straiglit j on up a crook in Crawford county In recent years. Now such an ambitious project as "improvtng the navigation of the Susquehanna" would call for a bond issue of at least $1,00,000 or may be $5,000,000. And moreover Edwin S. Stuart" and M. Hampton Todd had nothing on lawmakers of that day in the way of specific appropriations. The legislators were not hampered by any constitutional Inhibition of special legislation, either. They specified everything. They named the commis sioners, which is Interesting in view of thfc Democratic demand that the pro posed investigation of government nowadays be made by n commission of men outside of the Legislature. In those days Lieutenant Governor 51c- Clain would not have had to rule that the Legislature could not delegate its powers to "outsiders" because this old-time commission was to investi gate and to go ahead. The whole bill appears to have been with the idea that the commission should become active. Howver, the legislators were specillc as to (he itemization of the ap propriation, big for those days. • The way it divided up that '20,000 did not leave very much for expenses of the commission. It was apparently desired that the work should be han dled expeditiously. The funds were to be allotted for removal of obstruc tions and improving the navigation, both objects, mind you. as follows: From the borough of Columbia to the mouth of the Swatara, (which was between Middletown and Portsmouth, later Royalton). $5,500. From the Swatara to the Juniata, $3,500. From the Juniata to Northumber land, $3,000. From Northumberland to Nantl coke Rapids, SI,OOO. For Anderson's creek improvement, SI,OOO. For improvement of the Juniata to Frnnlistown, $4,000./ For improvement of the Raystown branch of the Juniata, SI,OOO. For Improvement of llald Eagle creek, SI,OOO. f W£LL PEQPLE Ernest T. Trigg, the new of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com merce. has gone on a southern trip. —Judge W. B. Broomall, of the Delaware county courts, is in Florida on a vacation trip. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart. th authoress, is at the seashore for a vacation. —J. D. Breldinger, prominent Wilkes-Barre educator, is opposed to some of the proposed training ideas and is having quite a time with some of his people. —Captain S. M. Evans, well-known Civil War veteran, has been made cus todian of the Pittsburgh memorial hall. —Colonel J. Howell Cummlngs. one of the new trustees of the South : Mountain State Hospital, has a sum. [mer home near that place.
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