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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,