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WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 28. | ============================= Cowardice asks: "Is it safef" Experience asks: "Is it polite," Vanity asks: "Is it populart" But Conscience asks: "Is it rightf" —William Morley Puns/ion. ===================== "INDUSTRIAL VOLUNTEERS" OFFICIAL announcement that ' the work of "standardizing" j the large number of industrial j plants already offered to the gov- I ernment in case of war is near ing completion draws attention to a I most wholesome state of mind in the j business world. Never in the history of the country has there been such a general response to the needs of the j nation in the face of possible war. During the Civil War and, later, during j the Spanish-American War, there were j many ready enough to provide the government with munitions and other necessary supplies, but they wanted the last penny for them and often I were none too particular as to quality. | It is a notorious fact that many large | private fortunes were accumulated through favorable government con- | tracts during the troublous days of j the 'sixties. How different now! With war not yet an actuality, thousands of gigantic j industrial plants, in whjch are invested ! hundreds of millions of capital, have I been placed unqualifiedly at the dis- j posat of the government. In effect, the | big business men of the country have j said to the people of the United States: are our mills. Our fortunes and ■f those of others are in them. We have spent our lives making these factories the best of their kiud in the world. Take them. Use them in the defense of our country. They are yours un til the war ends." Could anything be finer? Here is patriotism only excelled by that of the man who steps into the ranks of the recruits and says: "Here am I; take ine. - ' It should give every Ilarrisburger a thrill of pride that two of these "in dustrial volunteers" are located right here —the Schwab properties at Steel ton and the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company, makers of shrap nel and shells of medium caliber of a ) quality noted the world over. Mr. j Schwab was first to offer his plants to the government. The Pipe Bending j Company was a close second. This in dustry always has been a credit to Harrisburg. It has given employment to hundreds of men and its policies toward workingmen have been always fair and liberal. Some of Its best and most trusted employes are men who went to its mills after having been turned away elsewhere. The effort of its management always has been in the direction of giving its employes their •hare of Its earnings, in generous wages, and the profits of the corpora tion, going to Harrisburg shareholders, have been invested for the most part here in Harrisburg. Its president, David Tracy, is head of the Chamber of Commerce and has been a progres sive, useful citizen for years. The whole country may rejoice in this manifestation of patriotism upon the part of those whose services freely given will be of vast advantage to the nation. Certainly, Harrisburg is happy *n contributing its share. Is this the "onion snow," or just the common, ordinary garden variety? BRIDGE AT MILLERS BURG THE Millersburg Motor Club, ably led by its president, Hay W. Bowman, the well-known news paper publisher, put Millersburg on the legislative map last night and In troduced the State Highway Commis sioner and certain very influential leg islators to the needs of that town with respect to a bridge across the Susque hanna. The annual dinner of the club is always an important event in the upper end, but it was made doubly so last night by the big boost the bridge movement was given. Millersburg needs a bridge across the Susquehanna, but in working to ward that end the people of '.hat town are also serving the Interests of Dau phin, Perry, Schuylkill, Northumber land and surrounding counties for many miles. The entire section of which Millersburg is the center owes to the Motor Club of that place a debt of gratitude for the intelligent and en ergetic campaign that organization has waged in behalf of the desired bridge. "When ithe structure actually is built — as it will be very soon—credit for the success of the movement will have to be given to the club. Senator Beldleman has been for ' years the champion of the movement Jin the Legislature. Last session he'got It through the Senate and it would WEDNESDAY EVENING, have been passed by the House had not the Governor warned the members that on account of lack of revenues he would have to veto the measure If It came to him. There are indica tions that bridge building- as a part of the development of the State high way system is to be given serious con sideration at no distant date. "When that time comes Millersburg should be among the first to bo benefited by whatever legislative appropriation shall be made for the purpose. Taking the rubber heels from Von Bernstorft's shoes in Canada, does not, however, remove the German Ambas sador from the ranks of gumshoe statesmen. WAR SEEMS CERTAIN VIEW our international situation in any light we may, war appears to be only a matter of days. ! After repeated assaults upon our national rights, continued insults to our government and wilful violations of pledges, Germany at last has been guilty of the "overt act" which the administration warned the Imperial Government would be looked upon at Washington as meaning nothing more nor less than that Berlin desires to add America to her long list of opponents in the field of conflict. We in the United States can be pa tient with everything but the loss of American lives. In the wreck of the | Laconia we have an example of i second to the Lusi- | | tanla only In the number of fatalities. ! ! Torpedoed in the darkness, without ] ! warning and with high waves running, j the Laconia went to her doom so quickly that there was little time for j those aboard to do more than leap for j the lifeboats and take their chances in an angry sea. Among those who died as a result were two American women, bound upon peaceful errands and entirely within their rights aboard ] the vessel on which they were passeng crs. Shall history record that the J nation sat supinely by and permitted i these things to continue? Is the blood ' of these helpless women to cry in I vain for vengeance? We think not, if American manhood has its way. The administration announces that the question of protecting American rights is now "up to Congress," which in a measure is true, and Congress will not increase its popularity with the country at large by wasting pre cious time in debating the form this protection shall take. It is vain to suppose that Germany, having gone the whole length of international crime, from illegal invasion of neutral territory to cold blooded murder of American women and children, will j pause in her insane career. The die I is cast as certainly as though the! armed forces of the two countries had j clashed in open combat. We are in 1 the war at this moment in everything : but name, and the sooner the country I is put in a state of defense and offense ' the better it will be for us in the long ' run. The inevitable has been delayed I about as long as it is possible to de- ; lay it. The next step probably will be to j give our merchant marine protection j by arming all vessels sufficiently to ' withstand the attacks of submarines j under ordinary conditions and, if nec- ' essary, convoying them through the! danger zone with American warships, j The result of this certainly will be that j some enterprising American gunner | will prick the sensitive skin of one of j the adventurous German U-boats, giv- 1 i ing it a taste of "ruthlessness" after ; Its own kind, and Germany will have either to overlook the sinking of one ! of her vessels or declare war on the j United States. Possibly, it is with the hope thus of "putting the shoe on the other foot" that the administration has been de laying the evil day, and this might not be undesirable. Nobody wants to rush headlong into conflict, but everybody believes that war is certainly coming and the general desire is to begin pre parations for national defense as open ly and as publicly as it is to bo hoped the government has been doing in private for many months. "This," observes the Pittsburgh Dis patch, "may be recorded in history as the year of the big squeeze." If this kind of weather continues it may be also known as the year of the big sneeze. TOMATOES THE Kansas City Times publishes the story of a home garden that Is worth repeating. In the little village of Admire, Kans.. Miss Hattie McKlnley, a high school girl, won the Kansas championship in tomato club work last summer. She had only one tenth of an acre, a plot sixty-five by sixty-five feet in size, to work with. She set tomato plants four feet apart each way, and grew 3,080 pounds of tomatoes on It, which she sold for $87.65. In any city of size these toma toes would have sold for at least twice as much. She knew nothing of farm ing, and 3he grew her own plants from seed planted in boxes in the house. The Times make the point that what this girl did any girl can do on a larger or smaller scale. The tomato is a prodigious yielcjer and grows under almost any condi tions. The tiniest plot of ground will do wonders as a tomato garden. A half dozen plants may be made to produce all a moderate size family can use all summer. A dozen plants care fully cultivated will erow enough for both summer and winter use. But when you begin to plan your summer garden, don't stop with to matoes. ✓ otitic4 uv By tlic Es-CommlUecmnn Now that the legislature has decid ed that it call take a recess until March l'J, as desired by the House ! Democrats who had more nerve than their senatorial brethren, and the ghost of governmental investigation has ceased to stalk through the corri dors of the Capitol, lor a while at ; least, the State lawmakers are predict ing an early summer ending for the session. Some say that the Legisla ture could finish up all of its worn and get away by May 10. As a matter of fact it would be a good thing lor the politics of the State if the General Assembly did adjourn by that time. There will not be much enacted at this session except approp riation bills, departmental matters, clarifications and repealers. It seems |to bo generally understood that there will not be much doing and members who have pet measures are resigned to that belief, while men who do not want to do anything are confident ot' such an outcome. The impression seems to prevail that the recess will not be a bad thing, although it will be expensive, because leaders can get together 011 a program while the Democrats are celebrating the last in auguration they are likely to have for some time, according to Representa tive* Painter, of Schuylkill. —The chief point of interest after the return of the Legislature will be the Senate committee on executive nomi nations, which has been caHed the storage vault of gubernatorial appoint ments. The committee shows no signs of getting together with the Governor on the numerous recess appointments he must send to it. The Governor lias been desirous of finding out, but has not obtained much inform/.tion and he has not communicated to the law makers when he will send in the rest of the nominations. —While there is talk of harmony there will be objections to some of the Governor's appointments beyond a doubt and that may smash harmouy into little pieces, it may also result in the Senate taking a long recess after work is finished so as to be in a position to review certain appoint ments. There are some which should come along in the early summer and after May 10. —The Governor's action in the matter of D. Edward Long as superintendent of public printing has attracted mucll comment, but the Attorney General holds that the Governor could withdraw the nomination by letter and that re ceipt of such letter took the nomination out of the hands of the committee which has been holding it. Mr. Long is commissioned until the end of the Senate and will hold office until then, ray his friends. —Just what the Governor will do j next is a matter of conjecture. He may ! send unother nomination lo tost out | the feeling on the subject and he may decidl to wait until the end of the session as he did in 1915, when he poured in nominations and sot away with then*. However, conditions are different this year, as they always are in a Governor's second Legislature. —No tears have been shed over the veto of the investigation proposition, whichis lying on the table indefinitely and there is harmony talk now where a week ago there was threat of "prob ing." Senator Penrose says at Wash ington that when he gets time from national affairs he will give attention to the State governor. Senator Vare says from Virginit that the Governor did exactly right and the Democratic leaders arc indignant at the disap pearance of their hopes to make po litical thunder. —Whether the Democrats will con coct some war medicine at the next meeting of the ringmasters committee is being discussed, but they will likely rest on the chargo that the Repub licans were afraid and advertise loud ly that, the Democrats are th<J only ones to trust with the government, etc., contentions which have not been taken very seriously either in 1902, 190G, 1910 or 1914, especially the latter year. i -—There are all sorts of rumors 'about what may come out of the har ; mony program and the talk of Wil liam H. Hall for superintendent of I public grounds and buildings is heard ]on many sides. Whether Mr. Ball! .would desire to be the man to draw] the lightning in the Senate is not stat- I ed at the executive offices. | —The presence of Gifford Pinchot I here yrstcrda.v on \;iter conservation ] legislation recalled the session of 1913 when he was here very often. Mr. ! Pinehot did not appear to take much j interest in anything except conserva ! tion and a luncheon he had with State I Treasurer Young. ! —W. W. Harper, Of Springfield, has i been named to the vacancy on the I Montgomery county board of commis sioners and some political calculations were spilled by the judges. Harper is a business man. —The biennial fight between the big colleges for State appropriations has been started rgaln. —Representative S. A. Whitaker, of Chester, who is the only member called to preside in the House by the speaker these days, has qualified very well for the office in opinion of mem bers of the Legislature. Whitaker is a level healed and lair presiding of ficer. -Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson, of Erie, is here attending to some busi ness at the Capitol and much Interest ed in tho passing show. He says he is out of politics, but there are some doubts on that score among Capitol Hill folks. —Councilman W. R. Horn, of Phila delphia, was here yesterday to sco about the two platoon police bill. —The introduction of tho Beyer resolution for a probe of the Philadel phia city administration does not look much like harmony on Capitol Hill, and it would seem that the resentment against tho Philadelphia city adminis tration is as strong, as ever among the McNichol men. —Governor Brumbaugh's veto of the "probe" conios in for a scoring from some of the newspapers. The Philadelphia Ledger says that the veto Is not enough and calls upon the Gov ernor to disprove the charges made against him. The Philadelphia In quirer says that the disposition is to have some inquiries mado by legisla tive committees, while the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that the next move is up to Penrose. The Philadelphia Press says that flic Governor has cre ated an impression "distinctly unfav orable" to himself by his action and the Philadelphia Record, the Demo cratic organ, bluntly says that' the Governor •w'as afraid of what might happen. The Philadelphia North Am erican which urged the Governor to veto the*resolution does not seem to have much to say. Improvement in Status Even. ?ir. Hughes will admit that standing behind President Wilson in February is a good deal more com fortable than running behind him In November. —Springfield Union. HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city began the manufacture of iron almost 120 years ago. V. HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH! • v 1 When a Feller Needs a Friend . B y briggs — J • ■ 3 NOW V<3U BF { - ApA AND ,LL BE THe '///////// maim A AMD 'DOLLY , //WILL BE OUR f// UTTLE BABV^J~ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - ] Fire Apparatus Bids To the Editor of the Telegraph: \ HoW does the Council expect to de cide on the price and quality of the different fire apparatus bids? It is a lot of money to play with. Why not call in some good expert who knows something? Don't you think the public should know? It is too large an amount of'money to be spent in a slipshod sort of way. TAXPAYER. r A i Rhymes From the Nursery [, Helen's Lullaby Hush-a-by, my dollie, hush-a-by, my dear, Mother's slowly rocking, nothing need you fear: Teddy's off in.bearland, mother's gone to town. Sister's gone to school, dear, and we are all alone! I will never leave you until you're fast asleep, Hush-a-by, my dollie, china eyes darn't peep. Hush-a-by, my dollie, hush-a-by, my dear. Mother's slowly rocking, nothing need you fear. But hark, Louise is calling, "Come out here and play!" Good-by little dolly, I'll rock 'nother day! —By Edna Groff Deihl, Paxtang, Pa. France's Declining Population (Paris Correspondence in The Man chester Guardian) M. Honnorat, the reporter of the bill for granting additions to the salaries of all government servants with fam ilies, gives in his report to the Chatn j her statistics of the births and deaths lin France since the war, which had I not previously been published. The , following is the comparative table giv en in the report (the ten invaded de partments, for which no statistics are available since the war, are excluded | in each case): Increase cr decrease of Year Births Deaths popul&tion | 1913, ..004,454 588,809 -|- 15,645 1914, ..594,222 647,549 53,327 1915, ..382,466 644,301 —261,835 The deaths do not, of course, include I those of men killed In the war. Tho figures for 1916 are not yet avail able. Iphigcneia of the Ships "Oh, father! Brieve no more; the ships can sail."— Walter Savage Landor. Oh, father, grieve no more; the ships can Hail, Spake she of Aulis, yielding to her doom— The tearful maiden in her early bloom. (llow tears yet gather round that in dent tale!) Which Ship, of all that now In haven wait, With mighty hearts athrob—still un released To take the foaming path into the en st— Which ship art thou, to prove that virgin's fate? O Ship! I say, let them rechrlsten thee, Iphigcneia—thou that goest first. Perchance the raven of a power ac curst That with Its loathly broods has spawned the sea! Rut, If thou be that sacriflclal one, Releasing, thus, thy sisters from their thrall. Thy r/ame shall be a watchword over all Midst the thick air that shall cloud in the sun! EDITH M. THOMAS. DISCOVERY OF AM RECORDED IN CHINESE HISTORY AMERICA was discovered, not byj Christopher Columbus in 1492 and not by Leif Ericsson in the year 1000 A. D., but by live Buddhist monks of Kabul in 458 A. D. This is the testimony of Hui Shen, a Buddhist missionary who visited America in 499 A. D., and returning to China matje a full report of his travels to the Emperor Wu Ti of the Liang dynasty. "Fusang," Hui Shen called the new continent, naming it after the wonder ful Fusang tree—probably the Mexi can maguey—which supplied a won derful nectar (mescal) and a strange ly strong liber cloth (hemp). Fusang, according to Hui Shen, lay 20,000 li or 6,500 miles to the east of the continent of Asia. It was 10,000 li or about 3,250 miles broad. And be yond it lay a great sea, which we know now as the Atlantic. The Chinese Historical Record The record of Hui Shcn's travels is found in the imperial archives of the Liang dynasty, handed down with the seal of approval of the great Chinese historian, Ma Tuan-Lin. China's civil ization being the oldest that Leif the Lucky, who dislodged Christopher Co lumbus from his pedestal, should now in turn be joggled from his place of distinction with the searching of the records of the Flowery Kingdom. Prof. John Fryer, one of the most famous Orientalists of the world, who held many educational posts of honor In China before accepting the chair of Oriental languages and literature in the University of California, found and translated the story of Fusang as i related by Hui Shen. Be it known that Doctor Fryer was at the head of three different colleges In China during his long residence there, was in charge of the translation into Chinese of foreifcn scientific works under an appointment of the court and is the author of more than one hundred books in the Chinese language. Told Marvels of "Fusang" Probably no man of tho white race ever obtained so thorough a grasp on Chinese history as has Doctor Fryer. 'Tho following facts have been set out by him, after his study of the oriental Chinese records: Hut Shen found on reaching Fusang that ho had been preceded by the five monks of Kabul forty years before. They had established tho religion of Buddha along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico, and at several points had penetrated far into the interior. Their course was to enlist native con verts in their monastic order and after establishing a mission center would leave it in charge of native priests and ! go on to a new field. Hui Shen told tho Chinese emperor ho had found traces of Buddlstic aducation at many places, tho natives practicing the religion of Buddha with the rites which marked it in the Orient. He found the natives had a knowledge of Buddhist books and possessed images of Ruddhist or igin A plant which doubtless was the spineless cactus was described by Hui Shen. who said the people at the ten der shoots, and he told of the cloth woven from a fiber plant, the threads of which also were used for embroid ery. Knew Alxmt Paper Making ' He even declared that they made paper from the fiber, and told of "red pears" which undoubtedly were the prickly pears known to-day. There was copper, but no iron and no money value was put on gold or silver. llul Shen described the customs of the peo ple, their marriage and burial rites and their lack of military weapons or fortresses with a detail which verifies the present day discoveries of native civilization on the western coast of America long before the white man's advent. Finally, Hui Shen submitted to the emperor samples of the wonder 'ful fiber cloth ho had brought with him from Fusang, as well as a polish- FEBRUARY 28, 1917. Ed mirror about a foot in diameter which had been made by the natives. Doctor Fryer'finds a verification of Hui Shen's discoveries in America it self. He points out that the statute to Wishipecocha, erected on a high rock in the Mexican village of Magdalena, as a tribute to the white man in flow ing robes who taught the people to abstain from evil, probably was a monument to Hui Shen, who was not a Chinese, but a native of Kabul in India, the center of Buddhist activities for many centuries. Cites the Elephant Fnecd God Even the name. Doctor Fryer be lieves, is a translation into the Indian tongue of Hui Shen bikshu (monk). Furthermore, he finds a striking veri fication in the Buddhistic influences shown in the monuments and altars in Mexico. There are figures evidently in imitation of the cross legged Buddha or Guatama in the temples at Uxmal and Plancque. The Buddhist priests in Tibet and North China were lamas; the Mexican priests wero tlamas. There are hundreds of comparisons made by Doctor Fryer, but none more striking than the citation of the ele phant faced god of the Aztecs in the land where an elephant never had been seen. The elephant was the ordi nary symbol of Buddha in Asia. The Buddhist cross too frequently is found in the temples and monuments of the Aztecs. All of which, Doctor Fryer be lieves, goes to verify the Chinese rec ord of the discovery of America by the Buddhist missionaries in the fifth century. OUR DAILY LAUGH ' IN NO HVRRY. V 1 could teach •&'?> ' i you to swim in /^Sfifer' three lessons. CjSSH want to learn -TO j J that fast. We're 11- B going to be here ■jf ' or a couple of IT IS. "Q uee r, isn't "What a lot of _ parts nature puts TMfy / into the human body that the sur- JlfM/ XflBF geons have dis covered might / Just as well have been omitted!" TOO SLOW, a A So Jones raar / > At Sried the widow, WjHeh? I wonder if Tit was a leap year ™ proposal. / flr < Yes, It was, and f I I Jones didn't leap *1 J —l u ' te ' ast enough, or 11 ® m 'sht have ■„. got away. INFORMATION. lEbetting (JUjal Stories about the peril in which per sona living on Duncan's, Reed's and other islunds in the Susquehanna are supposed to he, owing to the condition ot the ice and the weather, remind one or the number of exceedingly fertile islands in the wide branching river between Sunbury and the mouth of the Conestoga. There arc probably a dozen which have been noted for decades for their products and which have in some cases been occupied by generations of families, lip opposite Selinsgrovo there is Clemson's island and further on down Hartman's island, which was famous for its farms. Then conies Duncan's, which is a whole township in itself. Opposite Perdix is Harnett's island, called after the Perry county family. McCormick's island, now the property of the city, was a great farming island and survived many a Hood, while Keystone island, which is beside it, was the site of the big shad fishery before the McCall's Ferry dam was built. The city's play ground island, known as Forster's and Hargest's. was for years a melon rais ing island and was one of the best trucking propositions to be found un til the flood of 1889, came along. Sheetz's island was also farmed for a time. Stucker's and Hess's islands, the latter opposite Steelton, have been farmed off and on for many years. Ilill island, in the river near Middletotfn. Juts up out of the stream like a Rhine castle. It is the result of a singular geological formation and contains three farms. It is noted for good products and for its cattle, which are to be seen away up on its slopes above the river. It has been noted in many ways, chiefly because some years ago a band of Adventists went to the top ono chilly starlight night to await the end of the world, which missed the schedule, as usual in such cases. Then comes Shell's island, long famous for watermelons and scene of some mid night depredations by now well known citizens. But that was in their younger days. Duff's island, far down the river, was for years famous for to bacco and so was "VVhisler's island, op posite the Conewago, which raised some wonderful canteloupes and to bacco. Probably one of the best-known islands is the Isle or Que. This is lo cated right close to the ancient uni versity town of Selinsgrove. It is owned by Charles 13. Covert and every year he lias a camp there that attracts prominent men from many counties. The Que society has its annual affairs there and the people of the neighbor hood come around to hear views ex pounded on government, art, science and laot but not least, politics. Many Harrisburgers would not miss this out ing for any island farm. The camp ing equipment is the most complete in the State, including even an electric light system. McCormick's island, which used 1.0 be called Coxe's island, after General Cornelius Coxe, and Independence island are probably best known to Harrisburgers after Forster's island, now called Island Park. These have all been noted recreation places and suc cessive generations of Harrisburgers have gone to theso islands to fish, to • camp or to spend the day, to say nothing of swimming. Independence island has been used as an amusement resort for over half a century and un der that name. Its old wire rope ferry has been an institution about Harris* burg for many, many years. McCormick's island, now the prop- i erty of the park department through | the gift of its owner, James McCor mick, is still given over in part to farming purposes. After the flood of 1889 it was left in many places from ten to twenty feet deep with debris% consisting of houses, barns, chickeD coops* trees, farming utensils audi thousands of boom logs. It is said that the salvage on this lumber was sufficient to pay for the loss of the crops and a neat profit in addition. The flood brought down racoons, opos sums, rabbits, quail and many snakes, which were left marooned on the island when the flood subsided, afford ing- good hunting there for a number of years. The snakes became a nui sanco for a time until small boys of the neighborhood took to going after them, so that now the island is as free from them as It ever was. • • • 1.. H. Kinnard, vice president of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl vania, and formerly of Ilarrlsburg, is one of the live men selected by the National Chamber of Commerce to help the government in the matter of quartermasters' supplies and facilities in the event of war. Mr. Kinnard was selected because of his fumiliarliy with business methods and the choice is highly commended in Philadelphia. * • Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust's suggestion that people ought to turn to good old cornmeal mush for their sustenance in theso days of high prices for meat and vege tables, calls to mind the fact that this section of the State has always been famous for the quality of its corn j meal and that much of it is dried and I ground within twenty miles of Harris- I burg. The old-fashioned disk was j mighty popular hereabouts 100 years i ago and strange as it may seem there , was more than one party given in those days when Harrisburg was young at which mush and milk was . served. 1 * • j It if an interesting thing to note the 1 manner in which many boxed up ar- 1 tides on cars are marked. The other day car after car went by lettered in \ Russian and for guidance of people who had to go with the shipments j there was the word "Archangel." The shipments were big trucks being sent i to an eastern port so that they could be started for Russia's great northern port when the ice permits. "Bor-*, deaux" and "Genoa" are also to be t seen marked on some of the freight,/* that is whizzed through Harrisburg. r • • • These are the days when the man ' connected with tho United States in ternal revenue service is having his ears dinned by persons who have de layed until the last minute in making out their income taxes. One man who has been appealed to a couple of dozen times a day has a little schedule of questions and answers made up and ho manages to make them fit every time. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Joseph S. Neff, Philadelphia's former medical director, had a birth day yesterday and was kept busy all day answering telephone calls. —Coroner Samuel Jamison, of Al legheny county, is spending "a short time in Florida, as the war prevents him from visiting his home heath in Scotland this year. —F. M. Duecher, prominent Johns town man, has been an active T. M. C. A. worker since 1858 and was hon- 1 ored at tho State convention for his services. i —\V. J. Richards, the Reading coal official, was chairman of the com mittee which arrangod for the wel come home of the Pottsville Guards men. —F. W. Smith, well known in Carbon county affairs and connected with the pest office department, has been mado a major in the Federal Reserve. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrislxinr lias liad a reputa tion for the excellence of the shoes it manufactures fop many years?
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