8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH W NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday, by THE TGLEGHAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building Kedernl Square H. J. STACK POLE, Prest ana Editor-in-Clitef P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American § Newspaper Pub* nuo Building, New i■~ > Entered at the Post Office In IlarWs burg, Pa., us second class matter. By carriers, ton cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. u • SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3. 2i~o man can le said to live to any high and holy purpose, to appreciate what life in its fullness actually means, until he has experienced religion, until he has found the living Ood for him self. —IV. M. Brundagc. THE FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION of a Farm Bureau in connection with the: Harrisburg Chamber of Com- j inerce 1B a step In the right direction, j Farm Bureaus are no longer experi- 1 ments. Their value, under proper direction, has been proved In a thou sand places and in a multitude of ways. The old-fashioned farmer who be lieved that father's ways were good enough for him, who farmed by roto and the almanac, still exists, but one can pick out his place among the farms of his more progressive neigh bors. Invariably it is run down, mortgaged to the hilt and unprofitable. The modern farmer knows that the only way to get the most out of his i farm is to apply to agriculture the j scientific principles that govern every | lino of trade and production and with- 1 out which life as we know it to-day j would bo impossible. Farmers used to look upon the col- j lege trained agriculturist with eus- j plcion, and in some cases very prop erly so. Experimentalists and j theorists without number went out to ; teach the farmers how to farm, and ; failed. This kind of "scientific" farm- ! ing has gone out of fashion. The Farm Bureau head of to-day is j practical as well as theoretical. He is I an instructor who knows his craft as j thoroughly as a school teacher does 1 the alphabet; he is a "good mixer" and a friend as well as a counsellor: lie Is an organizer and a booster for his business and his district. Dauphin county is fortunate in getting into the Fafrm ■ Bureau class and the Chamber of Commerce is to be con gratulated for having fathered the movement. The large attendance at the initial meeting yesterday shows the importance whitfti the farmers themselves attach to the new organ ization. VINDICATED AGAIN' THE foolish fear of an lee gorge and flood in the lower end ol the city as a result of the sani tary dam in the river again has proved to be entirely groundless. When the ice began to attain unusual thlckuess and word came from down stream that it was piling dangerously high at some points, there was again dis cussion of the dam and its possibilities by those who cannot understand that an obstruction of its size ill the Sus quehanna at this point cannot pos sibly be of any danger to property under any conditions. The ice has gone out, the expected flood has not materialized, \lie lower end has not been damaged and—the dam has been vindicated once more. THE liOQI'ACIOI'S "MITCII" EVERY time "Mitch'fc Palmer goes down to Washington he breaks into print. The report ers at the national capital see "Mitfch" strolling up to the White House and mistake him for a national figure. don't know what "Mitch" him self knows, which is that lie can't get into UlO newspapers at home. In the language of the street, the home-folks "are onto" "Mitch," and don't take him seriously any more. So, when liis Democratic indignation seethes to the boiling point over the awful conditions prevailing in Pennsylvania politics— seething being one of the favorite di versions of Democratic politicians whose ambitions for office have been vigorously sat upon by the voters— ho buys a ticket for Washington, an nual passes having gone out of stylo In Pennsylvania as a result of some of that vicious sort of legislation enacted by corrupt Republicans, and proceeds to unload the burden of his agony upon the eapltol correspondents, who wire it baok to their papers. Yesterday was one of "Mitch's" un burdening days. Meeting up with sev eral Congressional corespondents and being peevish over Governor Brum baugh's veto of the Investigation res olution, he lit Into Pennsylvania Re • publicans In fine style, Jte called 'eni the usual hard names and urged the election of Denioorats to their places, Yea, more, he dei.ianded a full In quiry Into Republican party and State governmental affairs Jn Pennsylvania "In the Interest Of all the people." Thla sounded pretty good to the afore- Bald correspondents, so It turns up In 1 SATURDAY EVENING, the papers to-day, much we Imagine to the gratification of the loquacious "M^tch." One of these days some newspaper reporter Is going to embarrass "Mitch" a lot. He Is going to ask the defeated Candidate for United ' States Sena tor how much money he and his run ning mate spent to discover them selves to be the two most unpopular men in Pennsylvania. Maybe, also, he will ask how it happened that the Democratic State Committee was so liciting funds from saloonkeepers and liquor men in general while posing as advocates of local option. .Or, per haps, he will request hl*n to explain the offering of post office jobs as bribes for Democratic votes. You remember what a laugh went up in the kitchen upon that historic occasion when the pot called the ket tle black? JAPAN AND GERMANY IT does not require the official denial of Toklo to disprove the notion that Japan might give ear to the German plot to attack the United States through Mexico. However much Japan may look with disfavor upon this country, and just how much war feeling there is in Japan is not at all apparent, hostilities are at tilts time unthinkable from the Japanese viewpoint. In the first place, Japan is tied up with the allies to such an extent that a separate peace with Germany at this time is impossible. Secondly, Japan has too big a debt and too few resources at her command to wage war on such a gigantic scale without a loan raised in Europe. Much as she might desire. Germany can'i finance Japan at this time in any un dertaking and the entente powers would not, for the reason that they have about all they can carry of their own and their sympathies would not permit them to do so if they could. The cunning German mind doubt less took all these 'factors Into con sideration and the fact that the plot ting was permitted to go ahead never theless is only another proof of the desperate state in which the Berlin government now finds itself. A drown ing man clutching at a straw Is a good simile. We take back all we said yesterday about the advent of spring. COMPANY FOR THE WEST SHORE CAPTAIN RALPH C. CROW Wants West Shore recruits for the nerw machine gun company of which he is the efficient head. He should have them. It would be a fine thing if the entire (company could be mus tered from the west side of the Sus quehanna and its headquarters lo cated there. Every community move ment of this kind tends toward sol idarity on the West Shore. Even now, a central community is in the pro cess of formation. Not so many year 3 hence Camp Hill, Washington Heights, Wormleysburg and Lcmoyne will be all one town and under one govern ment. Eventually the West Shfire will be one continuous town from New Cumberland to Enola. Anything that tends to soldify community in terests over there is a step in the right direction. I This weather appears to have been i especially arranged for merchants with i surpluses of winter goods on hand. THE FOLLY OF HATRED HATRED is its own executioner, j lie whose life is founded on hate j plots to his own ruin. The ra- 1 tion dominated by hate becomes Its] own worst 'fenemy, and history is | marked by the graves of hate-in spired individuals and hate-wrecked 1 dynasties. j The hater may be ever so shrewd; j usually he Is more than ordinarily I cunning. But there is a poison in j his brain that warps his judgment j and- which prompts him almost in i variably to overreach himself. The I war party in Germany is a striking example of the futility of hatred in world affairs. Germany's Impending fate is the fate of all haters. Hate is the antithesis of love. "God Is love" and love Is all-conquering. "Love your neighbor as yourself" and you j will be happier. Hate and you hate to your own condemnation. Anyway, the ice jams will keep Gor man submarines out of the Susque hanna. THE REAL JOY OF FARMING SOME people think the of farming is in getting up with the chickens to hoe the corn while the birds sing overhead, the dew glistens on the nodding timothy and the gentle breeze ruffles the trees just sufficiently to give the rising aim a chance at the reddening cherries. And there is a lot of fun in that until along about 10 o'clock when the sun also begins to get Us chance at the farmer's reddening nose. Others imagine that the farmer is happiest when he tilts back in his arm chair before a roaring lire in tha evening, the while a generous supper comfortably digests beneath his belt, and a howling gale without accentu ates the luxury of warmth and leisure on a night so wild. And it is a happy condition —• until the thought in trudes of the necessity of getting up about 4 a. m. to milk the cows and feed the stock. But, being farmers in a very small way ourselves —— oh, a very, very small way, of course—we know when the farmer is really in his happiest frame of mind. It is when he reads that potatoes are too expensive for anybody but the town millionaire, that eggs are "out of sight," that apples are selling by the piece Instead of by the peck and that all kinds of foodstuffs are so high in price they make a man of moderate means feel like a bankrupt even to look at them: it is then— when he gets up from his chair, tears the paper in two, laughs tho food barons to scorn, makes a trip to the smokehouse, nnother to the cold-col lar, brings a two-bushel basket of "tho makings" to the big farm kitchen and tells mother to go to It and "get up a real square meal"—that there is real Joy in farming. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By BRIGGa f~Joe - OLD Boy/ ] - fpST- BILL 1 . You coMt. OUT f 1 Turn over And sleep with \l I I xi \- ?: E S ,S R S " EN3E I-P 7 YAWF J\!-M-NA\NF EE J IR IN You GOIMG WAs-r \ *■ 1 I l_ -r r" 1 H / j ; - . > /OlTyes r~\ H- SLepT v fRGN\eMOeH "\ . I " "~~l <!IEI>T F M f) . f C A YOU'RE \ 111 -, * -rill ,*^fe Hf,ROL " Y jOMEBODY\ OUT to IWY L rrL- A\a7cp i i v}\7 / W^\ h w,K,w i ,, —t. v ) , house ton^htJ fTHAWFF-co jt l^jd§ Labor Nptes A Colchester, England, woman has been engaged to act as superintend ent of a number of conscientious ob jectors who are learning to do work on the land at an Essex farm. A young British basketmaker has been granted an extension of his mili tary exemption on the ground that he is engaged in executing a hurry order for 2,400 wastcpaper baskets for tho war office. For several years, tho organized labor movement of the city of Chicago has provided for all members of unions and their families during the winter months, when unemployment, sickness and other misfortunes have befallen them. Tho 10,000 union carpenters and mill men of San Francisco and the Bay counties are to demand a 20 per cent, increase in wages, which will mean an advance from $5, the present wage, to $0 a day of eight hours. The Prussian Minister of Education announced at a meeting ot the Bud get Committee of the Reichstag that 10,950 public school teachers have fallen during the war and that their places have been taken by women. No Lack of Officers IFrotn the Boston Transcript.] • General Pershing succeeds General Funston in the command of the | Southern Department—a duty for which he was naturally In line, being on the ground and also of the rank of major general. General Pershing has • had very thorough experience in dealing, as far as he has ever been permitted to (Jeal, with the Mexican situation, and probably no better man could be in command on the border. These are busy days within the army's general staff, and in the highest circles the fitness of various men for staff and Held command is being very actively canvassed. The rise of both Funston and Pershing in the service was very rapid. Pershing graduated from West Point in 1880. and served throughout ttio Spanish-American War with the actual rank of first lieutenant only in the regular army, although he was made a major of volunteers and he at tained captain's rank only in 1901. lie was jumped over the heads of scores of seniors to a brigade generalship in 190(>. The army is fortunate In having a great many men who are still below the grade of brigadier genera! who are abundantly capable of high command. The outbreak of hostilities with a for eign nation would bring them to the front. Our deficiency would not be in the direction of capable generals, but of competent oflicers below the rank of colonel for the large army which would have to be called into being. Hail to the Soup Pot! [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.] Some of the woes which the con sumer finds himself heir to in these days of soaring costs are due, accord ing to a Pittsburgh woman, to so ciety's scorn of the ancient and honor able soup pot. Reinstate the soup pot near the family altar and bid the food kings do their worst. It is a savory suggestion. The soup pot has fallen upon an unappreciative gen&Kjition. No longer are its pleasant odors wafted through the home and out ihe open windows to tempt the passerby with an invitation he is not at liberty to accept.. No longer may the voungsters of the family time the ap proaching dinner hour by the ripening odors that seep from the soup pot and form a halo about the head of its presiding genius. That is—in too many homes the soup pot has disappeared. In many, of course, It still exists, binding a more frugal past to a present of easier liv ing. The ouestion may well he raised as to whether the great American soup pot is not entitled to as much in terest among economists as they have been wont to give to back-to-the-land propaganda and to backyard garden ing patriotism. Along with the home vegetable garden, let us Install tho soup pot of our ancestors wherein to transmute the products of the former into sustenance for soul and body. From the Canal Zone A bonmot of Colonel Goethals is re ported from Chicago. It seems that a Chicago amusement agent sought out Colonel Goethals and besought him to undertake, on the completion of his mammoth task, a lecture tout devoted to the Panama Canal. But the engineer hemmed and hawed. He did not seem over-enthusl astlc about the lecture tour Idea. -"'A Panama Canal lecture," said the agent, "would go like hot cakes, sir. Like hot cakes. We'll illustrate It, of course." Colonel Goethals gave a wry smile. "What with?" he said. "Slides?"— Washington Star. No Food to Give Also it is proposed to mobilize the nation's food supply, but owing to tho. high price of potatoes and beans about all wc can offer the mobilization mlttee today is three cans of spinach. I—Grand Rapids Press. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 -follUctU By the Ex-Commlttcemin ' J 1 igacsgd Mingled with the Democratic re joicings over four years more at Washington there are heard some rumbles of trouble in the Democratic State machine over post offices and other jobs which do not'portend well for the campaign of 1918 and which are said to be disturbing some of the Democratic bosses. The difficulty seems to be that State Chalrmnn Guffey sort of established a precedent by getting the scalp of the Pittsburgh postmaster and then putting in his own brother. There are other broth ers. TJiis proposition was read with the deepest interest throughout the State and immediately Democrats who had failed to get appointments to post offices during the years of the Wilson first term began to lay plans to get something ■ when the second began. They held that the Democrats iiad been out a long time and that the jobs should be passed around, there being no reason why a man appointed to a post office during the Wilson first term should hold it through the sec ond term. The same is true of some other offices In the State now held by deserving Democrats. The outcome of the effort to throw out. Postmaster Seitzinger, of Reading, and let John F. Ancona have the second four years is being awaited with Interest, trepi dation and amusement, according Xn. the viewpoint of the spectator. A. Mitchell* Palmer, Democratic na tional committeeman, who bewailed the failure of the "probe" resolution while at Washington yesterday, did not refer to the party boils which pre vail on the hide of the Pennsylvania Democracy over the handling of pat ronage and the holding up of post masters and others for campaign funds. —I-lerr Wilson G. Sarig, floor leader of the House Democrats when John M. Flynn Is not around and Charles A. Shaffer does not feel like getting into the game, made a desperate ef fort to get some attention for tho Democrats last night. The Temple schoolteacher, who was one of the advocates of the recess of the Legisla ture which will cost the State about SII,OOO, endeavored to detract from [the onus of that move by asserting] j that the way was still open for a probe of the State government. Herr Sarig's I lino of reasoning Is always interest- j ing and in his statement of last night ! he says that if the Governor still wants an Investigation he can have it and so can the Penrose people. Ht says further that the Sproul state ment rather sounds as though the thirst for blood had been allayed and In true Democratic style lie asks thaf it be revived. The point is that the Berks man is now for an investiga tion along the lines desired by the Democratic bosses, who by the way did not hold all of the Democrats in line when the time came to vote. —The Democrats are hearing from their people hack home about the recess and the talk that It was done to enable people to attend tho in auguration is not taking well. The project was proposed by a Democrat and its staunchest advocates ware Democrats from Berks, the .citadel of ] Democracy. —Governor Brumbaugh made a ] strong Pennsylvania speech at the Welsh society dinner in Philadelphia; Thursday night and was heartllj\ cheered. He urged everyone living I In Pennsylvania to line up behind the I President no matter whence he came. | —Public Service Commissioner Ryan and Mayor Smith differed very | sharply on the Philadelphia transit problem In Philadelphia in speeches; the other night. Mr. Ryan took up) the mayor's remarks and said that he I had Issued a challenge that made his blood tingle. The Public Service; Commission and the city administra tion do not appear to be thinking alike as much as they did. —The Dlllinger crusade against ! conditions In Pittsburgh appears to have ended. There were some raids made by the police and the talk of impeachment which the councilmanlc doctor started appears to have died out. However Dr. Dlllinger will prob ably bo heard from again before long. —lnsurance Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, who has been ill, Is Improving and may be able to come here next week. He is hoping to be around lor the local option hearing on March 21. —Mayor A. H. Swing took charge of the city government of Coatesvillo Vosterday and promised efficiency In government. —Fountain Hill borough has voted "BOY PLUNGER" COMES BACK Man Deemed Down and Out a Year or So Ago Has Added a Lot More to His Latest Fortune IT was the peace note leak that en abled Jesse L. Llvermore, the "boy plunger" of other days, to come, back. Oliver Harriman, Livermore's broker, revealed it the other day when he said his client made nearly one mil lion dollars on the break that follow ed the peace note. He has made a lot of money since, according to Wall Street information. Maybe another million, some of them hazard. Livcrniore, probably remembering his disastrous venture in cotton, play ed a big variety of stocks—fifteen or twenty, according to Harriman. At one time in December he had as much as eight millions at stake. It seems, according to information tho leak in vestigators got from Broker Harriman, L-ermore obtained a tip December 20, that a peace note or something ap proximating it was coming out of Washington and he started covering. In all he covered 74,200 shares of stock on which he had gone short. And now Llvermore has paid the 1 Vx million dollars he owed, has a nice lit tle balance again and is enjoying life at Palm Beach. Just a day or so ago he hired a whole train when he found he couldn't get a lower berth on the regularly scheduled train between Jacksonville, Fla., and Palni Beach. Started Speculating at 1(1 This youthful looking speculator is one of the most spectacular figures that has ever flashed across the amply colorful Wall Street horizon. At the tender age of 16 he bucked the stock market game for the first time and broke a bucket shop in Boston. Be fore he was 20 he hail made smd lost two or three fortunes that would have filled the average man with content and a desire to retire. At 28 lie ex tracted something like three million dollars from Wall Street. But his most picturesque achievement came ?30,000 for a new school. —The Philadelphia Press is making a pretty vigorous campaign against the "mine caves" in the Lackawanna district and calls upon the State to use Its polico power to halt the rob bing of pillars. —Philadelphia judges yesterday re appointed all of the park commis sioners and prison inspectors, there being no signs of factional ltnes. —McAdoo is to the front again. That district wants a mine inspector all Its own. County Treasurer McConnell, of Mercer, confirmed by the Senate on Monday, qualified yesterday. Tho county lias been Without a treasurer for two months, but did not suffer to any great extent. Bar Labor Injunctions [Des Moines Capital.] Courts will be prohibited from granting injunctions In cases growing out of labor disputes unless necessary to prevent irreparable Injury to prop erty for which there is no adequate remedy at law If the bill Introduced into the Senate of the lowa Legislature by Senator D. C. Chase, Webster City, becomes a law. The bill was referred to the judiciary cortimlttee, of which Chaße is chairman. The bill is fostered by the labor or ganizations and is referred to by them as a model Injunction law. It pro vides further that: No person shall be Indicted, prose cuted or tried In any court of this State for entering Into or carrying on any arrangement, agreement or com bination betwe'en themselves made with a view of lessening the number of hours of labor or Increasing wages or bettering the condition of working men, or for any act done In pursuance thereof unless such act Is in Itself for bidden by law if done by a single in dividual. The bill declares that the labor of man or woman Is not an article of commerce or commodity, and the rights of the Individual to work and labor as an employe shall be held to be a personal right and not a property right. | Thunderstorms My mind has thunderstorms. That brood for heavy hours; Until they rain me words; My thoughts are drooping flowers And sulktng silent birds. Yet come, dark thundrstorms, And brood/ your heavy hours; For when you rain me words, My thoughts are dancing flowers ; And joyful singing birds. —WUliam H. Davies. MARCH 3, 1917. two years later, In 1908, when he run a corner on the cotton market. In one day hp made $600,000. He un loaded just in time to escape the crash, a crash that brought a number of estimable speculators to a speaking acquaintance with ruin. Right then Livermore showed a streak of caution, or maybe Just plain common sense, lie bought a $20,000 annual annuity for himself and an other for his wife. And he tied those annuities up so that he couldn't bor row against them, mortgage them or in any way use them for speculative purposes. He Insured himself and his wife against the almshouse right there. Second Flier In Cotton Failed It was well he did, for a little later he took another flier in cotton and his millions faded like the frost before an April sun. lie undertook another bull corner, but failed to put it across. There was a time when a few hundred thousands would have allowed him to engineer the deal—success was that near. Hut he couldn't raise the re quired amount. He couldn't borrow sixty cents on those burglar-proof an nuities he had, and so Livermore went broke, went into debt, went into bank ruptcy court and was figured among the "Street's" many down-and-outers. As recently as two years ago hS was dodging his many creditors and insist ing referees that his as sets were nil or less. Where he got the money to start beating back has never been divulged. Some "Wall Streeters say that the few friends of his gala days that still clung to him staked him to a paltry thousand or so about the time the big boom started in 1916. At any rate. Wall Street is convinced he had nothing more than a shoestring with which to start his sensational recovery. Hut the same Wall Street confesses that he plajcd it with a master hand. , | OUR DAILY LAUGH J NATURALLY. w Mi What makes hj "' Mr. Porcupine *•■, eo conceited ? (>,) "JE& fj Fox: Why SSjk everybody gets JStz&m stuck on him. wJ beyond their Yen, they have A.'4* J meat on their Pi HfH t<lble * very day ' CONSTANT. An auto Is much like a Becuuse when S T' either starts t?lv- Kmvf/i \ Ing you trouble J there's no end ™T^s| . f COSTLY - A 1 owe(1 a ,ot of \\ A&ffi J&i' people rides Six months or * wish that £ 'lpyfcjy WJ r'de lEtottfng (Efjal Employers of Pennsylvania are ask ing the State for "husky" men. Men who are big of frame und with plenty of brawn have many Jobs waiting for them and the State Bureau of Employ ment, which gets a dozen letters from employers every day asking to be put In the way of obtaining workers has been getting numerous requests the last week for men who can stand heavy work. Positions as rollers, pud dlers and other work requiring strength seem to be open in many parts of the State and it Is notable m that some of the employers do not con- 1 slder experience as necessary as long as the man has muscle. These appli cations are due to tho conditions in the Iron and steel trade. Along with these applications have come a num ber asking to bo informed where nia chaiists can be found and according to the .Bureau officials there Is no reason why a machinist should bo without a job. Probably a score of requests have been made in the last month by heads of establishments manufacturing mu nitions for men who can act as guards, men who have served -in the State po lice*. militia or regular army or navy being specifically asked for. Good pay Is ottered for these men and those who get into touch with the Bureau are rapidly snapped up. At the same time there are employers who ask the State to keep an eye open tor men who have one arm or one leg, as they have jobs for persons who may be shy those members. • • Further promotions in the high de partment officers of the National Guard are foreshadowed by the ap pointments of Major M. 11. Taggart, inspector, and David J. Davis, adju tant, to be lieutenant colonels on the division staff. Two lieutenant colonels in the medical corps are to be appoint ed. There are now two majors, H. A. Arnold and W. J. Crookston, the lat ter the sanitary inspector of the Sev enth division at El Paso. The places of the men to be advanced will also be filled. A letter protesting against "sinful men" being permitted to live any longer in the State of Pennsylvania has been received at the State Capitol. It was addressed to "The Head Men iof the State," and the post office de partment was in a quandary for a time as to which department should receive it. Finally, it was sent to the office of the Governor whence it was sent to some other offices, legislative and administrative, but all disclaimed any jurisdiction in the premises. It will probably be sent to Superintend ent of Police John C. Uroomc when he returns to the Capitol Monday. * * • Plans of the State Department of Agriculture to make a series of studies of the lives of various pests which af lllct the farmers of the State have brought numerous suggestions from truck gardeners near cities to have the work undertaken in their plots this spring. Lust year's weather seems to have been very favorable for the de velopment of ii particularly annoying lot of pests and some which have not been known in this State before and some which were.tliought extinct have been reported. Pests which make a specialty of the vegetables raised In market gardens appear to have been especially numerous. • • A handsome memorial to the late Robert J. Cunningham, State Highway Commissioner, has been prepared by the Pennsylvania State Society to send to Mr. Cunningham's family. It Is all engrossed on heavy parchment and signed by officials of the society. It Is the work of YVllmer Johnson, of the* State department. * • * • Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew art, who will participate in the Wil son Inaugural parade on the staff of Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, the commander-in-chief, has attended every inauguration since 1876 as a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, a record probably unique in the State Guard. The first inauguration attended by the general wus that of Uutherford B. Hayes and since 1895 ho has been attending the inaugurations as Adjutant General and being in charge of all of the ar rangements. • * * < Major George F. Hamilton, second cavalry, who has relieved Major S. McP. Uutherford, Eleventh cavalry, as the United States army officer in charge of the annual Inspection of the State arsenal, will be busy here for a couple of weeks as a very complete inspection of the immense amount of military property in the arsenal is be ing made. It includes all of the regi mental canvas that has been return ed und many rifles—to say nothing of thousands of pieces of equipment. The inspection will determine just whut is serviceable. • • • Officers of the Public Service Com mission and the State Fire Marshal's office have been pretty busy the last few day.s getting a number of < oughs in the central portion of the State lire service in their water sys tems.' It has been found that in a number of small towns water compan ies placed their mains in very shallow trenches, in many cases less than a foot below ground and during the re cently severely cold weather the pipes were frozen up. Orders were given to water companies to immediately de vise steus to provide service and towns which have no fire hydrants will get suggestions that their authorities es tablish them without delay. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. H. Swing, the new mayor of Coatesville, used to be a telegraph op erator and is strong on efficiency moves. —Ej M. Zehilder, Scranton business man, is taking a vacation at the sea shore. —Judge Robert N. Wilson, of Phila delphia, is spending the snowy days in Florida. —Lieutenant Walter Kruger, IT. t- A., well known here, is busy giving instruction to military organizations of Pittsburgh businessmen. —Collector B. F. Davis, of the Lan caster internal revenue office. Is spend ing many late hours in his office on income tax returns. | DO YOU KNOW "1 That Hurrtsburg wus one of the Hist cities to try wireless telephone service in tills State? ' HISTORIC HARHISBtRt. One hundred years ago Harris burg had a dozen taverns in Market street. Ready to Meet All Comers [Newberry (S. C.) Observer. 1 Some kind friend, the authors like ly, have had the publishers, the Mc- Millan Company, send the editor a copy of Klnard & Withers' "The Eng lish Language," or grammar, in two nice volumes; for which we are thank ful. Now, if Colonel Cheatham of the Edgefield Chronlclo or any other mem ber of the press gang says "measles are" or "them molasses;" or anything of that kind, we Bhall be prepared to show him up. The Two Supermen Kverythlng now depends upon whctliHi- Lloyd George is a hotter su pcrman than Lmdendorfi.—-Charleston u Newa and Courier,
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