8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by TIIU TELKGIUPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph BuildlMC, Federal Square. 10. J. STACK POLE, I'res't and Editor-in-Chief l'\ It. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. s Member American Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Clrcu- lation and Penn- S Bp§ sylvanla Associat |i3||^ j9|B M Eastern office, tjif nue Building, New " lng, P Chicago, Illi Entered at tlio Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a <inj'fflf# r *?ul!fc> week: by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY' 21, 1917. When thou docst alms, let not thy left hand know 'what thy right hand docth.— MATT. 6:.?. BATHHOUSES THE Park Department will ask for bids to-day for one pitiful little bathhouse. To be sure, It is proper that tho old bathhouse at Sen eca street bj replaced by one adequate to tho growing needs of the boys and airls of that vicinity. But it is to be regretted that City Council did not set aside money with which to meet tho insistent demand of the people for bathing places largo enough to ac commodate tho thousands who make the Susquehanna bsln at this point re semble a midsummer scene in Atlan tic City every weekly half-holiday during the warm season. Just now people are thinking very little of swimming, but next summer councll men will be called upon to explain their neglect and the public will not be in very good humor when It calls for Information. NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THE Community Center Associa tion is given a line opportunity ' by tho School Board's action in turning the Shirumell school building over to it, to demonstrate what can be accomplished along social center lines in Harrisburg. The School Board, fol lowing the repeated recommeadatlons of Dr. F. E. Downes, city superinten dent of schools, has acted generously and wisely. Dr. Downes Is convinced that whllo the board's decision Is a radical departure in Harrisburg school activities, and for that reason some what experimental, there Is not the least fear the neighborhood work about to be started will bo other than successful. The saloon for years has boasted that it Is "tho poor man's club," and with some reason, but tho social cen ter Is more than that—lt Is a neigh borhood family club, an organization for men and boys, women and girls, old and young, rich and poor. Its In fluences aro uplifting and make for better citizenship. The neighborhood center will not Jump Into Instant popularity In Har risburg, because people do not know enough about it, but it will grow steadily, If slowly, into popular favor. Once tlrmly established tho school house centers will tako caro of them selves. THE STORY TELLING LEAGUE THE bringing of Miss Lucille Cor bett to Harrisburg by the Story Telling Leaguo was the crowning event of the winter for that organiza tion, Story telling is tho basis of all literature. Long before tho written word was conceived the early history and the traditions of the race were handed down by word of mouth. The pleasantest hours of childhood aro those spent In listening to the stories of those elder days which grandfather and grandmother never tire of telling. Story telling is an art no less than story writing and almost as difficult to master, for what tho writer does at leisure and with ample opportunity for revision and correction the story teller must do extemporaneously. The league has won for Itself a place among the Institutions of the city. It should be encouraged. A TinNG WE ALL CAN DO WITH tho coming of the Lenten season all people might well follow the advice of Bishop Philip R. McDevitt, that they give a bit of their time each day to praying for the cessation of hostilities In Eu rope and in asking mercy for the suf fering thousands in a wide part of the world. Here in tho hustling, bustling at mosphere of work-a-day America we are all too prone to forget the misery • of the countless numbers of women and children in the landß across the seas. True, America has come nobly to the relief of the bleeding peoples of Belgium, Armenia, Serbia and other warswept nations. Millions In money have been contributed to aid the hungry and the dying. Undoubt edly, the prayers of the devout have been raised to high Heaven for the amelioration of the widespread mis ery. But what have we nil individuals done? Many of us have been kept busy meeting oup debts with the pre vailing high prices fop the necessities of life. Many of us have had our whole Interest centered (n the chase for the dollar, But poop and rich WEDNESDAY EVpNING, alike can most certainly lift their voices In petition to the God of us all, asking Ills mercy and loving kindness upon those who arc suffer ing the scourges of war. FOOD PRICES SOMETHING Is radically wrong when food riots occur In the most prosperous city of the United States during a period of un precedented prosperity, with wages higher than ever before. Short crops and the war in Europe, we are told, are responsible. The first we cannot help. The second Is within our power to correct. Every nation now at war is fighting in Its own be half. It is from that angle America must view its food problem. We must "look out for Number One" first. We have been fond of calling Amer ica the "breadbox of the world," and have boasted of our ability to "feed not only ourselves but half of Europe." Yet with pocketbooks weightier than ever before people aro fighting in the streets for food. If we cannot feed Europe and ourselves, too, then Europe must go hungry. But not all the difficulty Is duo to extraordinarily large exports. Fifty per cent, of the increased cost of pro visions, perhaps, is due to the war. The remainder is the toll we pay to those who collect it from us because they know we must eat and because they think we are helpless. Greed has overreached itself, or soon will. People are not only hungry, but thoroughly angry when they de stroy provisions they cannot afford to buy, as they did in New York yester day. The same spirit exists In Harris 'burg. Only a spark is required to set it off. There is danger of serious dis order unless relief comes forthwith. Prices have touched unendurable heights. The constant advance has reached a limit past which it cannot go with safety. People are indignant and bewildered, which is a bad combina tion. There is where the Federal trade commission, with its untried but al most unlimited powers, has oppor tunity of rendering its first great ser vice to the people. It should in one order restrict exports of foodstuffs and place limitations on prices. There is a question, of course, as to the scope of the commission's powers in this direction, but to act now and test the ! law afterward would be entirely in i accord with public Interest and opln- I lion. Something must be done and j done quickly. HOME GARDENS THE Telegraph quotes from a! lengthy letter to the editor the following paragraphs: Following your advice, I last year cultivated a piece of ground back of my house about 100 by 140 feet. On it I raised over two bushels of early potatoes and over two bushels or late potatoes. I raised over three bushels of very fine sweet potatoes, early cabbage, enough late cabbage for use up to Christ mas, a half dozen pumpkins, peae, beans, lima beans, all the toma toes for table use and canning, and beside having enough "garden sass" for myself, I had the pleasure of treating my friends occasionally. 1 tako pleasure in outlining how I did it. It is all how one plans I ahead, how much manure is used I and how much hoeing is done. I would like others to see what I did so they may be encouraged. It 13 a good pastime and profitable, too. Annually about this season for years the Telegraph has been urging upon its readers the Importance of the "home-garden." it is happy that the seed has fallen on some fertile soil. It publishes the foregoing In the hope that, as our correspondent says, oth ers may be encouraged by the ex ample. Time was when no home in Harris burg was without its garden patch. Limitation of backyards by ever crowding buildings has made that Im possible in many instances. But there are few yards so small and badly sit uated that they cannot be made to yield something of value to the table, In these days of excessive costs. Beans, onions, radishes and tomatoes, for in stance, will grow under almost any conditions and with a little care may bo made bountiful bearers. By rota tion of crops the ground may be forc ed to give double or even triple re turns. If every backyard In Harrisburg were cultivated the price of living in this city would be materially reduced and everybody would be healthier and happier. Play a game of golf or base ball and the contest Is over at the end of the day and only the fruitless score remains. Play a game with your gar den and the contest continues until the last weed has been killed and the vege tables garnered. It Is the only exer cise we know that yields dollars at the same time It builds muscle. Try it h>r yourself. ' The name and further Information coneernlnp the writer of the foregoing letter may be had upon application to the editor of thl newspaper. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING ? By BRIGGS voHesi a. collector calls -and You 6eaj?ch - Asit> You search T<? CotLJEc-r a "v\lc Vou've Prakmticali-v for Through /xll. rbui? PAIP "The. T?Ecei?T FlL.e*S ' — * Yoo ©o | , . ' > . _ _ \ \ KVOOWO | Vtt i S c^S/ — WT ' WW S rA |° J| (p i rrkko>m ive7 //7 | V 60 * 7 * rr VAMO You wade THROUGH a FEEUM?^B|^^^ / J JsmSffi 2DE.3K LOAD OF tETTERJ I</ \ Awt> OTHER "receipts ({TrTrf&l -f-e-c" S t '' 7 uBSwHESB ——— \J iv i I ii .ii* LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] "INDEPENDENT" DEMOCRATS To the Editor of the Telegraph: A few years ago when efforts were being made to elect independent .Re publicans to tlie school board the Dem ocratic boss in Harrlsburg persisted through his newspaper mouthpiece, in telling us that the only sure way to independence in school board affairs was to vote for Democrats. He made enough people believe him to elect a number of members. Now two of these very Democrats are among the direc tors who are holding up the report of this Citizen Committee which this same Democratic boss pretends to want adopted. Why does he not come out and tell us the facts? Why does he not tell us why Ills own henchmen do not support his own policies? INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN. TRACTION COM I'AN V SURVEY To the Editor of the Telegraph: Thank you for your Interest in the street car survey. Certainly the situa tion demands looking Into. If the com pany and the men had got together be fore the strike last summer there would have been no cause for an ex pensive survey. The troubles of the company date back to that strike. Many of the men who did not get back on the lines or who refused to go are making more money now than ever and are better off, 1 am told, but that does not alter the fact that the strike never should have been permitted to come to a head. I ani glad some body is able to Induce the company to come to terms. TROLLEY RIDER. HELP THE PRISONERS To the Editor of the Telegraph: I would like to talk to some busi nessmen through your paper. 1 know there are many who never have given prisoners very much consideration In the way of giving them employment after their release. How many would lead good lives if they had a position to step right Into. I am sure there are men, Christian men, who would love to do this for our brothers who have partly wrecked their lives. lam corresponding with two young men in prison. Both will be paroled In three j months. One has a position to step right into, but the other one asked me If I knew any one who would give him work and take an Interest In him. So this is why I ask you to give this noble work your consideration. He tells me he had been a salesman for a i cigar firm; also worked in a public li- , brary before his incarceration five years ago. He is very anxious to lead ' an honest, upright life in the future. ] I hope some Christian man will give this young man employment, as he is very anxious to show liis friends that he, too, can make a success in this world. My address can be had from the editor. Now let mo plead for more correspondents for prisoners. This we all can do. Write a letter to one or two poor lonely souls behind those gray walls. How eagerly they read and reread our letters from the outside world. Many a man will lead a good life if he gets a little encourage ment from some one who seems to care for him. Write to Dr. 11. N. Stokes, 1207 Q street, N. W„ Washing ton, D. C., and obtain information and addresses. God help you to see what a good work this is. There are almost 6,000 correspondents now. A SUBSCRIBER. The Times There's no doubt, whoever says It, That we're living In a cyclo Which may have its faults and follies, Which to some may be unpleasing. But which not its dearest critics Can deny has its sensations. Not one can point the linger Of scorn at it, while remarking "Naught about you is exciting. You arc dull, and drab and weary. Monotonous almost past bearing, Same old things in same old manner 'rilling up youi- daily measure." Oh, no! none can fling this taunting ! At this day in which we're living, | For 'tis reeking of sensations, i War and crime and love and intrigue. Mystery and farce and romance, Politics and (feeds of wonder In the air and earth and water, Putting wildest, wlerdest fiction Unto shame by their comparing— All these come In quick succession, As wo read the daily paper. No! the times we may denounce them. Hut we truly can't accuse them Of a lacking in sensation. —The Baltimore American. A Sense of Vindication [Washington Star.] "What do you think of the idea of a concert of power?" "It's a good thing," replied Mr. Dustln Stax. "It. supports my old contention that If you want to do business these days you've got to have some sort of a merger." Poor as It Is The final passage of the Immigra tion Law is conclusive evidence that the Senate and House each possesses a mind of its uwil —Toledo Blade. 1 y " ; HARRISBURO TELEGRAPH IK "PtKKOiftauua By the Ex-Oommitteeimaa U Governor Brumbaugh's forthcoming veto of the resolution to investigate government in Pennsylvania does not seem to have excited much comment either at the Capitol or among the newspapers of the State. The admin istration supporters say it is the only tiling ho can do and the men on the other side see in that action a way out of a rather unpleasant situation. It will take much time to organize in quiries by standing committees and so much legislative time has been lost that a number of those suggested may not be undertaken because of uncer tainty of results. Senator Penrose is said to be insis tent that the inquiry should go right on, but some of his friends are not so keen and are disposed to allow things to take their course for some time at least. The administration people are hoping that nothing more will be heard of it. The North American to-day says the "probe" has collapsed and that the Penrose men are glad of it. The WHkes-Barre Record says that the Governor is in an unpleasant dilem ma, which is also the view of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The Philadelphia Record says the Gover nor is in the position of Hamlet. Pitts burgh newspapers look for a veto and say the Governor will have to shoulder the consequences. Newspapers appear to be having fun with Congressman J. Hampton Moore over his actions in Congress. Moore wasmentioned as a possible can didate for Governor, but he is just now more of a target. Mayor Smith is coming back from the South next week. He is signing ordinances in Florida and disposed to stand by the transit proposition of liis director. Just what will be the development in that line in the poli tics of the State is hard to say. The Philadelphia subway may be a great issue. People here were noting with inter est the license courts and the knock ing out of two licenses in Tioga and the possibility of reductions in Lu zerne are much discussed to-day. L. C. Maderia, trustee of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, is taking issue with State Treasurer Young on State appropriations and the tight is waxing warm. Kaston is about to stretch out and take in a number of adjoining towns to make a Greater Easton. It seems to be a foregone conclus ion that the legislature will take a recess on February 2 8 until March 12, chiefly because the Democrats are as keen about it as the Republicans. In spite of all the bunepmbe being print- ] ed by Democratic newspapers about | the Legislature the members of the I minority, with a few exceptions, are | decidedly in favor of taking a recess j over the inauguration. Some of the j Democratic senators left yesterday for ] their homes and let it be known that they were not coming back next week. If the Democrats h.id not lost their nerve the chances are very great that a recess would have been started this week. When the recess Is taken there will be a tremendous lot of protesting from Democrats and Independents, but they will not do it so that it will curtail the vacation period, The whole legislative program Is In such a situation that It has to be untangled and a good bit can be done toward outlining a plan of action away from Harris burg when the outcome of the proposed probe is established. The Democratic ringmasters com mittee will have a meeting about the middle of March and decide that things are all going to the dogs and that the only way to save the situation will be to enact some Democratic legislation. A new crop of bills will then appear with some morning and evening salutes from Market Square. And then they will disappear and bo heard of no more until speeches are in order in campaigns. Among the men active in politics who have been hero this week was George D. Porter, former director of safety in Philadelphia, and active In the charter revision movement. Mr. Porter brought several bills to this city and they will appear shortly. A. Nevin Detrlch, chairman of the late Washington party State com mittee. came to town to look over the prospects of action by the Senate on (he Dong appointment for superin tendent of public prlnttag nnd bind ing. He is not very hopeful. Representative B. F. Golder, the youngoFt member of the House, has been connected with the law firm of ex-Attorncy General John C. Bell. THE BUSINESS WOMAN AND THE THERE are parasites in business as well as in the home, says Eliza beth Sears in Harper's Weekly. Personalis - , I have always felt that it would be more of a disgrace to remain at home and coax a living from my fam ily than It would be to get out and earn it in the open market. But all of us who are in business are not business women. The latter works because she has ability and likes her work. The woman in business works because she has to, and she cherishes a sullen re sentment against the world in general and her job in particular because of it. The only solace she finds in her job is that it affords her a better chance to find a husband than if she remained at home. She becomes a man hunter, and stalks her prey where he most abounds. And often she marries well. Many an In trepid manliunter has turned out to be a very happy homemaker. You never can tell • • • Fully 86 per cent, of business women work because they must not only earn their own living, but must support, either fully or in part, some other member of the family. The human fluffs of the business world make up l the other 15 per cent. Belonging tob However, he votes with the Vare members. Senator C. J. Buckman, of the Sen ate appropriations committee, is on the reserve list. He Is a Plattsburger and will enter the service if he is called. The chances of action on any of the Important bills relative to the Phila delphia city government are not very good just now. They will await the recess. Compulsory Service at Once What is really required, in order to meet the danger the country now faces, is universal, compulsory service, under the sole direction and undis puted authority of the national gov ernment. Congress should enact at once a law of this character, which would pro vide for the immediate registration of every man of military age in this country. It should provide for the training of these men, starting with those between the ages of 19 and 21. It should make no exemptions be yond those Incorporated in existing statutes. The people of this country are drawn from many stocks, having their origin in many lands. Great multi tudes of them have not reached the full stature of American citizenship, but are moved by old loves, old pas sions, old prejudices and hatreds, which had their inspiration beyond the seas. On them the melting pot has not yet done its work. Our first and exigent duty is self protection. We must see to it that the venom of disloyalty has no Chance to spread. Actively to distrust those of our people not native to our soil would be unfair und unwise, but they must have their opportunity to de clare where they stand and where their sympathies and affections reside. Even the threat of war is a serious matter. We should be prepared, in the best and highest sense, for every emergency which may arise.—From the Richmond, Va„ Times-Dispatch. Horse Meat as a Diet Conversation in New York's most select boardinghouse circles these days runs to horses with a speed that threatens to overwhelm the best equipped sausage stables on the East Side. Although the East Side has been eating horse meat for some time, none of the landladies in the prune belt have dared as yet to put such dishes as selling-plater soup, ulso-ran salad, trotter kidney en sulkey, steeple chase stew or puree of pony on their menu cards, but they threaten to do so unless the present prices of meat are aoon reduced. Horse dealers, however, have eased the minds of the veteran and dyspeptic boarders. They declare that as long n the war in Europe permits BUCII a demand as now exists for American horses, there Is little danger of horse meat playing an important part in the reduction of the living cost. At least $1.35 can be ob tained now for almost any sort of horse carrying enough flesh to make him a profitable Investment. Cattle for dressing, butchers declared, can be bought now from sllO to $l2O They estimated that a horse equipped with enough flesh to make him avail able for food purposes in first-class eating places could not be purchased for less than $l5O or $l6O. A Better Word Conscription is a word Americans don't like. Universal service is far better and it does not carry implica tions with it.—New York World. I FEBRUARY 21, 1917. this class is the girl who works be cause remaining: at home is too mono tonous, or because she expects to find a husband in the office. She exploits her sex in the office, consciously or un consciously. She works cheaper be cause she Is a woman. She wants the window continually up or down; slie hinds for candy and flowers and theater tickets; she embroils the entire office in petty politics, and she clouds the record for the business woman who tackles her work like any other em ploye in the office and who fails to see why there should be any question of personal privilege in the office routine. This 15 per cent, always reminds 1110 of the fluffs that annoy the housekeeper so. I suppose we have to have the hu man fluffs in the office, too. Any house keeper who lives on hardwood floors knows what a floor fluff is. No one can explain them, but we all have to con tend with them. The worst thing about a fluff is that it hides around in dark corners when you are Industriously at work with mop and broom, and only blows airily out Into the middle of the floor for public Inspection when there is company and you want to put your >est foot forward. Labor Notes France has a 6 o'clock closing law. Factories yearly pay $140,94 3,000 in wages in California. A bonus of 5 per cent, will be paid to the women teachers in Hamilton. Plymouth, (England), co-operative employes' strike, which lasted more than ten weeks, has not been settled. A bonus of 15 per cent, of their yearly earnings will be paid to about 10,000 Porto Rican sugar workers next July, provided they do not strike. Glasgow, (Scotland), school board has passed a resolution calling for in creased allowances and pensions to the dependents of soldiers and sail ors. A well-defined movement is under way to induce Congress to change the national holiday of labor to Saturday instead of Monday. The reason for this move is to prevent the loss of the day. If the masses of the people could realize the potency of organization 011 trade union lines; the iniluence It wields in the industrial Held, the strength it Imparts In the aspirations of the workers for better conditions, the opportunities It offers for educa tion on economic and social problems, liio prospects for the future would be most promising and the road to the goal shortened by many years.—Ex. Control of Themselves Holland and Denmark may get ter ribly mad at Germany, but it is be lieved that, remembering Rumania, they will be able to restrain them selves. —Kansas City Star. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ■ OMEWHAT: '■ Jtj ; . • . P AMBIGUOUS. : Ho yon have: j I taken to carrying -AwsL-j --around a mon- ■ key? This Is go- /j\\ Well, you never U i \\ go anywhere with i.[ me. Ij w| good neigh ■Pjrtl Were they good They returned everything they j ® v e r borrowed ON THE WAT. Vieltor: Any real information on the problems Farmer: N0 t I /Sffw j yet; but my boy c/J? Josh is at work HjW on a commence- MHjKI if ment oration |j[l| v that'll tell 'em a ' few thing*. Ibening GHjal I, Folks living in the business sectlotf of Harrisburg, especially toward thel Pennsylvania railroad, will miss the old bell of St. Lawrence's Church which has kept such faithful time all these years. This bell has run® at 7 a. m., noon and 0 p. m. and for a time at 8.30 p. m. The latter ringing was an idea of the late Father ICopper nagel and was a sign for the children of that parish, and all others, to get to bed. The people of the neighbor hood and a good many more have ' regulated many things by the bell and generations of people have gotten up by it and sat down to dinner. Ita Jeep notes have sounded in all kinds of weather and never have they miss ed the hour. Often times the bell of St. Lawrence would ring out in ac companiment to the big bell In the Cathedral and one would supplement tho other's notes. When the State street church is opened tho people in the business section will bo without the friendly warning of the hour from the bell of St. Lawrence, which is nearer to the hearts of more Ilarris burgers than one thinks. ♦ • Speaking of bells there will be plenty of them in State street when St. Lawrence Church's new doors are opened. There is the Cathedral bell, which rings the same hours-as the St. Lawrence bell does now and in between them will be the bell of St. Michael's German Lutheran Church, whose peculiar note is well recalled by hundreds of people who were born and bred below Market street. The re moval of St. ]>awrence's Church from the business section will leave it with three churches with bells. Old Zion, with its beautifully tuned chimes: tho penetrating bell of Reformed Salem Church, tho house of worship which occupies the same plot which the Re formed congregation selected and upon whose rear end built the first church in Harrisburg right after the city was laid out 132 years ago, and tho deep toned bell in the tall spire of Market Square Px-esbyterian Church which stands at the south end of the city's busiest place to remind men of other things than daily work and strivings. • * The robins which are reported to have arrived in the city a few days ago as the advance guard of the spring brigade seem to have been "beaten to it" by a couple of flocks of black birds. Tho blackbirds were seen on Lincoln's birthday not far from Res ervoir park and two days later were observed near Paxtang park. They appeared to be in a hurry as was to be expected during the weather and were taken, because of the distance, for crows. However, that they were blackbirds who had looked in the wrong almanac for meterological data was well established by people who noted the flock and the manner of fly ing. They have not been seen since and probably left the neighborhood thoroughly disgusted with tho weather. • * * Governor Brumbaugh has received an interesting inquiry based upon the desire of a man in far oft California to establish the record as a Revolu tionary soldier of a man who enlisted from this State away back In 1775. It seems that W. O. W. Shepphard, of Corning, Cat., is the owner of a fife given to his grandfather and by him transmitted to his son and thence to the present owner. The fife was given to his grandfather by Jacob Young, a veteran of the Revolution in 1836, the giver telling how he had enlisted* at the age of nineteen from Pennsyl vania and had gone with the first con tingent of Pennsylvania soldiers to Boston. This soldier came from Cen tral Pennsylvania, according to a good many persons, by the way. Mr. Young told how he had played the fife when Washington took command of tho troops at Cambridge and he describ ed how he drew his sword and tho fifes shrilled and the drums rolled. The fifer had enlisted in what was known as the Heidelberg company from Pennsylvania, in 1775, and ho served throughout the war. The father of Mr. Shepphard used the file in the Civil war in which he served in a western regiment. What Mr. Shepp hard wants to establish is where Mr. Young lived and where he enlisted. o One of the funniest incidents about the Legislature was yesterday when the printers' label bill was being voted on. Many of the members were out of their seats and talking with friends when the roll was called and they had to line up afterwards to get on record in its favor. One of the number wai President James H. Maurer of the State Federation of Labor who was so busy talking with a delegation which had come to see him that he had to stand up and ask to bo listed, which was done amid considerable grinning. Several of the other labor members were also caught off their bases, hut got their names down. * * • Francis J. Torrance, prominent Pittsburgh manufacturer and presi dent of the State Board of Public Charities, was here yesterday on legis lative matters. Mr. Torrance has de voted years to the study of problems attending the care of the dependents. He was a member of the Legislature years go. * * • "Spring can't be very far off," re marked a man. the other day who spends his Sunday mornings, summer and winter, In the open. "Ever since it got cold and ugly out-of-doors, the country roads have been barren of lovers," he continued byway of ex planation. "But on Sunday I passed at least half a dozen couples walking arm entwined out the Poorhouse road. Of course there may be no significance in their taking that particular road, but the price of spuds has certainly gone skyward of late." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Harry S. Knapp, one of the new rear admirals, is well known in this State. Pr. J. M. Baldy. Chief of the Bureau of Medical Education, says that a new era is coming in state subsidies 'or hospitals. John F. Bowers, sponsor for tn original hunters' license law, was h®r yesterday observing the legislator. General W. G. Price, who will co<- mand the Pennsylvania guardsmen the inauguration, is the senior brlg** dler of the guard. He lives at Chester, where he is engaged in extensive de<~ velopment projects. Congressman A. G. Dewalt, of lentown, well known to many resident: of this city, is laid up with a sprainorf ankle. Judge Wessels, one of the new Philadelphia judges, is not very keen for vice squads according to some re in,arks he has made. | DO YOU KNOW 1 Tliat Harrisburg ships many tons of liay every wec'.i? It is raised exten sively near this city. HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg eitlzzens banqueted I.n fayette at a popular subscription din ner when lie visited liere in 1825, and i the general led the singing.
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