8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBU'SPAPER FOR TUB HOMB Founded i!ji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE./WJ'I & EdiStr-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American \i Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla .'lS tion, the Audit . 31 Bureau of Circu it!latlon and Penn tSlSfts U sylvan la Assocl ffi? I SL Dallies. i&i&tSG bi Eastern office. iisysyf ews Western office. ftory. Brooks & Finley, People's c 1 Gas Building. Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By ten cents a CS week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance. ■ THVRSDAY EVENING, MAY S. As #fi/ lamp lights another, nor groves lest. J So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. TOE CHAMBER'S GOOD WOIIK IF the Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce did no more than bring to the city such dis tinguished speakers as Dr. Newell Dwight Htllis and former Congress man James Francis Burke, who ad dressed last night's meeting tn the Board of Trade Building, It would be doing a service Harrlsburg could 111 afford to lose. No more able speakers are procurable than those who came here In response to the Invitations of the Chamber, and its membership is to be congratulated upon the opportunity thus afforded. Both Dr. Hillis and Mr. Burke are doing a great work in arousing the country to the immensity of the task confronting it. Not a man who was present last evening but understands better to-day the long series of causes back of the world conflict in which we are about to engage, the principles which led us as a nation Into It, the responsibilities we face 1 and the tremendous Importance of coming through triumphant. "Omit the third verse of the 'Star- Spangled Banner' in courtesy to Eng land," advises a Washington writer. Easy; most of us only hum anyway when we get down that far. BOY SCO FT WEAPONS THE weapons of the Boy Scouts in the present war will be the shovel, the rake and the hoe, says Lev."is Buddy, national organ izer, and adds that the Scouts will do their bit on the farms and In the gardens this year, instead of in the trenches. Thus he quiets the foolish fears of mothers who may have Imagined that their little lads might be called upon for military service. Boy Scouts are not trained for war. Boy Scouts do not drill and do not carry arms. There is nothing mili tary about the Scout organization. Yet there are those who persist In the silly fallacy that the Boy Scouts are in reality Boy Soldiers. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Probably this idea gained curren cy through the fact that the Boy Scout movement developed from the siege of Ladysmith in South Africa, Baden-Powell saw young boys in ac tion as messengers and observers un der trying circumstances and went back to England to give the Boy Scout organization its start in the world. Boy Scouts never have been en gaged in warfare, and never will be. But they will have many very real duties to perform at home before the present conflict ends. For example they will render much more elflclent service leading the "Charge of the Hoe Brigade" than they would be able to accomplish with the soldiers at the front. ' David E. Tracy, William Jennings, E. Z. Wallower, W. M. Donaldson. J. William Bowman. Charles W. Burt nett, S. C. Gilbert and other prominent citizens have been mentioned in con nection with the vacant mayoralty. These men represenf In their public activities all that is best in our mu nicipal progress. They have each and all figured prominently and creditably in the advancement of the city and it ought to be the effort of the City Council to choose a man of this type for chief executive. WHO WILE WRITE IT? WHO will write the great na tional song that generations unborn will sing as we now £ing the "Star Spangled Banner?" Every one of our great conflicts has brought with It a sheaf of patriotic Hongs, some of which have died, but most of which live and And voice wherever Americans foregather on patriotic occasions. Just so this war will give birth to something better and more lasting than the machine made, rag-time products of the past few years. But the true war-song will not come forth until the nation shall have been stirred to depths as yet untouched. Such songs spring spontaneously from the heart. They are inspired, not designed. The War of 1812 gave us the "Star Spangled Banner," the Civil War "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." What shall the new song be? Who will be its author? Wlth reassuring response to the ap peals of President Wilson and Gover nor Brumbaugh, the mobilisation of "e agricultural forces of the country THURSDAY EVENING, proceeds in every directioft. It is not improbable that the production of food this year will be enormously in excess of anything that the country has achieved in many years. While there is a shortage of labor and a scarcity of seed it is still believed that much will be accomplished byway of Increasing the food supply. AMERICA AND THE WAR AMONG many intelligent people there is still considerable doubt, which Is surprisingunderthe cir cumstances, regarding the purpose of our entry into the world conflict. Discussing this subject, the "Ury Goods Economist" says if we are to flght in this war to a successful finish we must enter heart and soul into the conflict. This journal points out that we have the financial and industrial resources, we will have the munitions and the ships, and we will have the men; but not. until we havo the spirit as a nation can we be certain of the right kind of results. Further it says: This spirit will be created, our citizens will join unanimously in consecrating themselves to their country only when all of us rea lize what this country is lighting for. It is essential, therefore, that every American man and woman look deeply into this question and tind the right answer. We are not going into this war for revenge. American lives, including those of women and little children, do call for vengeance. But not revenge, not even punishment is our aim. We are not in the war for aggran dizement, for Increase of territory, for money Indemnities. We are not In it even for friendship, not even from sympathy with the op pressed—deep as is our feeling for Belgium, for Serbia and for Ar menia. , No. wholly free from sordldness as our motives are. we can't strike ourselves on the chest and plume ourselves on disinterested mo tives. We're in the war because we have to be. As President Wil son has said. "God help us. we can do no other." We are in the war for self-pro tection. No longer are we isolated by distance, by difficulties of transportation. The ocean to-day is but a span. America and Eu rope are next-door neighbors. Even the partywall between the two dwellings has been removed. If German autoeraoy gets a strangle-hold on Europe. America will be "next"—and what chance would we have against such a victor? We. too, therefore, are | fighting for our lives. Before us is the specter cf ruined towns, de vastated famis. flooded mines, burned homes and murdered in habitants. We. too. can almost scent the charred flesh, see the emaciated forms and hear the shriek of fear and of agony. That is to say, the more thoughtful, the more imaginative of us can. But a whole lot of our citizens can't. , These things, though known, have no meaning for them. Facts as they are, and in spite of their awful possibilities, they simply don't get over—as those they pass by would say. As the Economist points out, we are no longer a spectator of this world struggle. We are part and parcel of it. We must go up or down with it. Whether we were derelict in our duty at the outstart Is not now the question. Let the mistakes of the past be buried with the past. Our faces are now to the front and the cause for which we flght to-day is the cause which has bound together • the liberty-loving people of the world. As suggested in the remarkable editorial from which we quote "we are in the war to make the world a better place In which to live, a place of safety for our children and their descend ants, a place where the strong shall not oppress the weak, a place where the right of men to lite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness shall every where be recognized and enjoyed." Even Germany is to be helped by this terrific struggle, and when peace shall finally come it is the hope and prayer of millions of men, women and children that the liberty which we of America have enjoyed so long may be shared with the op pressed of other countries. "Big business In all lines will In crease," say the Dunn and Bradstreet authority, "and our entrance into the war should make for a greater com mercial prosperity for the V. S. A." This is the Judgment of those in posi tion to Interpret the signs ol the times and is a further argument tor con tinuing our business activities at full tide while preparing for our part in the world struggle. Americanization of the aliens goes forward with intensity throughout the country. Many of these alien resi dents are showing a patriotism which is worthy emulation by native-born citizens. In one of the school build ings of this city there are hundreds of children of foreign-born residents and nowhere are the songs of our country more heartily rendered than in this school. This war will mean the weaving of thousands upon thou sands Into the fabric of American citizenry. It la a remarkable fact that In con sideration of the great war measures, which have passed or are now passing through the Congress, it has been necessary for President Wilson to de pend upon the important Republican leaders instead of the Democratic spokesmen of the Senate and House. It Is no time for partisan discussion, of course, but these facts are self-evi dent and have already aroused nation wide comment. The newspapers of the country are practically of one mind regarding: a continuance of the ordinary activities of the industrial and commercial world. For a time there was a ten dency to upset ordinary business, but It is now accepted as an important development of the war situation that those who are not called Into the armed service of the nation shall go right on pushing the varied activities to the limit, to the end that the pros perity of the people may be assured through steady employrrrtfit of all who are able and want to work. lt might be possible for City Coun cil to facilitate the various important matters which are dragging along at the very outstart of the open-air sea son by a conference with the Park Advisory Board, the City Planning Commission and the experts who are familiar with what Is needed under the circumstances. Everybody Is wil ling to help If plans are adopted for a definite program of activity. Why not let the distilleries be turned Into plants for making alcohol used In munitions? City Commissioner Lynch Is on the right track In his proposed measure to reduce the number of poles and overhead wires In this city. There has been entirely too much, of the arbl- trary attitude in the use of these poles, resulting in their multiplica tion and uhnecessary obstruction of highways. In the matter of a general clean-up day, why not enlist the services of the girls and boys, as Is now being done in New York, in block organisa tions. Such co-operation on every block on every street of the city would produce wonderful results. Colonel Rooaevclt has the people with him, and It would be well for all concerned that no political opposition shall prevent his patriotic activities at thla time. Wouldn't It be a good thing for Congress to frame a law compelling the summer boarder to work In the fields with the farmer? We guess maybe the stories of In ternal difficulties In Germany may be true: the Kaiser appears to be too busy to let out his weekly call for God to strafe the allies. All over Harrlsburg one may see the cultivation of vacant lots for the pro duction of food. These activities of amateur gardeners will result in a -great increase of vegetables and other necessary produce. CK By the F.x-Committeeman Judging from the manner in which bills to reorganize the State Depart ment of Agriculture are being pre sented to the Legislature there will be nothing doing along that line this session. No less than five bills to change the administrative plan of the department are In hand, reorgan ization seeming to be about as Impor tant to some people this session as the Increase of departmental activity In behalf of an enlarged food sup- Ply. The department was more or less of a stornl-center last session and the Granger element, which had demand ed a new system, got the framework but precious little else as the de partment operation under the act of 1915 was about the same as in for mer years only with more polities. However, It succeeded in launching a number of important projects and has been active In pushing the larger crop propaganda. The upshot will probably be that the department will run along about as It has unless the appropriations committees In their shearing of Items may decide to leave out funds for sal aries and expenses of certain officials and others, as is likely to be done In other departments. In this connection, remembering the Governor has authority to reduce but not to Increase appropriations, the allowances for some departments may be lower than the statutes call for tn the way of salaries. —People who obierve legislative matters were of the opinion to-day that the Legislature would either ad journ or recess on June 14, which will be "Flag Day." Whether It will be a recess so that the Legislature can be reassembled to scan appropria tion vetoes, or to enact extraordinary legislation or an adjournment sine die depends upon the matter of recess appointments. —The chances are that the resolu tion for the recess will turn up In the House next week and will gfo through without much fuss and be concurred in by the Senate. —State Treasurer-elect Harmon M. Kephart, who yesterday closed years of service as chief clerk of the Sen ate, expressed his thanks to the sen ators and regret at severing his con nection with the upper house in these words: "In passing- from the posi tion that you have honored me with to one where the duties are more dif ficult and arduous, I want to express to each of you my sincere apprecia tion for your many acts of kindness. In my association with you I have endeavored to be a friend regardless of politics and I shall always cherish the many kindly expressions of senti ment and feeling given by each of you. No spot in my life has a greater charm for me because of your good fellowship and companionship than the position of chief clerk of the Sen ate of Pennsylvania. In leaving you I feel that I would be ungrateful If I did not particularly remember one man to whom more than to any other I owe my political success. Through his recommendation you accepted me as chief clerk, through his effortsf with others, I will become Treasurer of this state. My heart swells with a feeling Inexpressible when I think of the brotherly afTection shown to ward me by this man, the senator from Fayette, William E. Crow. But I will be around often. You know where the office is. The latch-string is out and the state's money at your disposal." —Thursday sessions are getting to be as unpopular as Friday sessions used to ba In the House. This morn ing there was a very scant attend ance. Between the visit of the State Society to Allentown, the appropria tion committees' inspections and oth er visitations there were not many men left. —Lehigh county legislators threat en to spilt over the bill for another judge In that county. Yesterday Montgomery cpuntlans aired their' differences on the subject of another judge and there will be a light on the floor of the House when the Le high bill comes up. —The members of the appropria tions committee plan to close up the hearing on appropriation bills In three weeks. Next week will end the hearings on the Labor and Industry Department, and the Public Service Commission will follow. The House bill list la about the same as last session, but the roll of Inquests will be larger by the time the gavels fall sine die. Xt was said about the Capitol to day that Auditor General Snyder would likely reappoint more of the men dropped by A. W. Powell in the days when he was stirring around in state politics last summer. Incident ally, some of the detective force of the department will get walKing pa pers pretty promptly as the rtw Au ditor General Is inquiring into the work done by some of the men on Powell's departmental payroll. According to Pittsburgh men who appeared yesterday before one cf he House committees, th-? whole Mate local taxation system needs ro\is!on. A series of bills presinted by Rep resentative Stadtlanfler waj fclven an airing but It is generally believed that they have come ta too la to to get very far. —Labor leaders from every part of the state are planning to coir.) here on Monday to arrangi some sort of a program on the compensation amendments. The opposition lo tiy amendments has been gr.uvJug stronger because of the heavy ex penses and the war-outlook and the administration has decided to remain' neutral in th- matter. Labor leaders will make a Irlve In the House tj see i how Ur they can ge- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS WH£NJ YOU VAJAKC * - AMD HEAR A SSTCAUTHV -AMD IT STOPS AT , \UP "TV<2 N(JHT STEP RUNNJIMG AKOUMFC \ BACK PORCH Yaur House YO ° Knjovw The fastening TOUK ttOU<>c oNi The kitchen! vjjimoovu • IS THE vjcakest OF The WJHOi_C ootfvt of locks - AFTER HAVIMG HEAR" THGl A 'TUNK- " A ArJ) COLD CHILLS CLNK" OF MILK BOTTLES A G. EEVuS FEEL I M' .. I Hand That Rocked President Helen R. Martin, the author of an j Interesting series of novels about the' Mennonlttes, lived in I.ancaster, Pa , | when she was a girl. Her mother j lived in Chlllicothe, 0., when Presi dent Wilson's mother was n resident of that town. The two women were j intimate friends. One day, when | Mrs. Martin was a girl of seventeen, Woodrow Wilson, then an obscure J professor at Princeton, went to L.an- j caster to give a course of lectures. • Mrs. Martin and her sister returned ! home from the first lecture full of I enthusiasm over the brilliancy, wit j and charm of the unknown lecturer.' "Why," said the mother, on learn-! lng his name, "he must be the son I of my old school chum. Jane Wood- i row! Don't come home from the next [ lecture without asking him whether his mother's name was Jane." So after the next lecture Mrs. Martin's sister went up timidly to the lecturer and said "My mother told me I was not to come home without asking you whether your mother's name was Jane." Mr. Wilson laughed and said it w as. Then continued the girl, "my mother said that T should tell you that she often rocked you to sleep when you were a baby—that if' : your mother's name was Jane." — Herald. Turnip Bread A party of women and children who have been interned in Germany since the outbreak of war arrived in Gravesend yesterday. Most of their menfolks are still at Ruhleben. A lady who has been living in Hamburg until recently told a Daily Chronicle representative that the bread riots there were due to the very poor quality of the bread. "It is not only impossible to eat It," she said, "but it lacks nutrition and produces disease. There has been an outbreak of smallpox as one re suit, and also a considerable amounti of frostbite due to the lack of nour ishing food. The bread is made chiefly of turnips. "There are practically no men left in Hamburg, and the riots were organized by women, who smashed a number of windows. The soldiers in the local barracks were ordered to fix bayonets and so quell the dis turbance, but they refused to do sc. Peace was eventually restored by the police. "The German people," she went on. "believe everything their papers tell them, and are quite content with the explanation that the German re tirement is simply a strategic move. They were glad to hear of the Rus sian revolution, because they imag ined it would mean an earlier peace."—London Chronicle. There Ain't No Such Animal The American nation has been llviftg the life of the prodigal son, with no fatted calf in the prospect. If we come to husks we shall re main on husks, and they are un pleasant eating. There is plenty and will be plenty where there is thrift. Extravagance will eat up the productive forces and destroy the sustaining capacity of the nation. The United States no longer is a land of the unlimited. It is a land with Its boundaries well defined. The swift shock of war does only what the slow processes of economic pres sure would have done eventually. We can appreciate what is happening when it becomes theatric in war. We might have failed to see the same forces working In the unthe atric of peace. What the American people must consider Is that they must adjust their consumption to their produc tion and put a restraining hand upon waste. Economy Is the first war duty, and It Is an obligation upon every one. It must be accomplished by universal service. There is no doubt we are the prodigal srfns. What we'd like to know is the whereabouts of the calf. —Chicago Tribune. Songs of Economic War I'm Farmer Jinks of the Plow Ma rines; I sow my farm nvlth corn and beans, I wear a pair of denim jeans, And I feed the British army. I teach young ladies how to plant, How to plant, how to plant, I teach young ladles how to plant To feed the British army. —New York Tribune. The Second Holdsworth Perrin, poet and critic, tossed aside a resume of Austria's position on the aubmarlne question. "Austria," he said, "would like to repudiate her ally's murderous sub marine policy, but her posttlon In the alliance /Is like the henpecked husband's in'the home. This husband coughed and said timidly to the Parlor maid: " 'ls my wife going out this even ing. Mary?' " 'Yes, sir: I believe so, sor." " 'And —er —Mary, am 1 going with bee?' " —WMhinnton Star. I JOFFRE'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA AIA, Washington dispatches agree that In his talk with newspaper men on Sunday Marshal Joffre stated his belief as a soldier that It was essential to send American troops to France to be trained either by French or British officers under conditions approximating actual war. All Washington dispatches agree that this portion of Marshal Joffre's comment was censored. We are told now tliat this censoring was done by the French mission itself, and that the vital part omitted from Joffre's original statement urged that small units of the American army be sent to the front at once, there to be trained within sound of the guns. We are told that this was omitted by the Mission because it was felt to be "too definite." But why 'too definite?" Is it that the French Mission, finding itself faced with rooted objection on the part of the American General Staff to any transportation of American troops promptly to Europe, hesitated to permit the declaration of Joffre to stand? It is possible to under stand the motive, but one must still I regret the decision. The people of the United States are entitled to know in what way they can best prepare an army. They are entitled to have set before them the judgment of the men who are familiar with conditions existing In the present war- -the men who have commanded armies of millions, on the battlefield, who have won vie tories and endured attacks unparal leled hitherto in the history of war. Is it proposed that against the judgment of these men should be placed the opinions of our General Staff, opinions collected in the li- When Friend Wife Calls [From the Irish World] We hold these facts to be proved: That no husband ever wants his wife to call on him at his office during business hours, except upon his invitation. That no wife can possibly know how she upsets his routine, disorders the mental processes that KO on dur ing those hours, or.d subjects herself to the gossip of his office mates. That there is no easy way to make a # wife see this. We proceed from these truisms to a few observations. " . A lovely creature breezes Into her husband's office, just because she happens to be passing. She says: "Now, don't let me disturb you a minute —I know you are busy. Dearie, what good does that desk light do you at that angle? Don't vou know you will ruin your eyes? What a mess your desk is In! L.ook at Mr. Officemate's, how neat it is. Well, Just let me stick this little package In your lower drawer, and you bring It home with you when J'ou come. 00-oh, Dearie, I just opened that drawer to slip this pack age in it and I couldn't help seeing that bill from Smith's—and you told me it was paid." Nation or Newspaper [Read nt the 31st annual dinner of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association at tho Waldorf-Astoria, New York.] Hail, men of might, you who control The body, and, almost, the soul Of written thought In this great land Your duty is to understand What Is your duty in these days When every word of blame, or praise, Must count for good alone and be For national Integrity! It is for you to understand That in this democratic land Where liberty of speech must be A tenet of true liberty. It does not mean that reckless men Be given license with the pen To undermine the basic walls On which the nation stands, or fallß. And furthermore, it is for you To understand that what you do Whatever worth it may possess, What you do not is none the less Of value to the common weal, For silence, wisely kept, may seal The nation's safety till the ldkst And greatest danger shall have passed. You men of might, with power In hand To make, or break, this goodly land, Are you for news at any price? Are you prepared to sacrifice The nation, or your profit, should You win, or lose, in making good It's up to you! What will you do? —W. J. Lampton. Charles M. Schwab says:— . Most talk about "super-geniuses" it nonsense. I have found that when "stars" drop out, successors are usu ally at hand to All their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain. braries and from the fragmentary reports sent from France and from England by military missions whose area of activity was always circum scribed by the failure of the diplo matic department of our govern ment to give them the slightest aid or countenance in their pursuit of useful knowledge? Let the General Staff make its own statement to the people of the Unit ed States, if It chooses; but the peo ple of the United States are in no mood to suffer the General Staff, either directly or indirectly, to sup pressive facts which it is the neces sity of the country to know. It is a very bad sign if already the Amer ican people are to be deprived of the truth —to be deprived of the Judg ment and advice of those who know most about military affairs, out of deference to preconceived theories of the General Staff of our oiVn army. The people of the United States can be trusted, lust as the people of France and Britain can be trusted to face the truth. Jn the end the people of this country will have the truth, no matter what censor or general Intervenes. We shall dispose of the men who aru not efficient In our General Staff, as have the French and the British. We shall dispose of the officers in our service whose methods would repeat the tragedy of Loos and the failure of Gallipoli. But it is of prime impor tance that they should not be able, by faking advantage of a universal desire to serve and a general reluct ance to criticise, to endanger precious American lives and post pone by a year effective American entrance into the war.—From the New York Tribune. . Labor Notes Wichita. Kan., has adopted city manager form of government. An eight-hour day for miners is general throughout the Western States. King Peter of Serbia, owns a shaving saloon and chemist's shop in Belgrade. Before the war His Majesty was the agent for a well known French motor car. The recognized standard of labor in Australia is the 4 4-hour week. The output of coal per man in Belgium mines is 155 tons a year. In 1897 Barbers' International had 2200 members. It now has 35,000. Ontario, (Canada) unions demand one day's rest In every seven for all workers. Of 1,254,063 persons engaged in agriculture In the Philippines 90,286 arc females. Union slate and tile roofers at Chicago, 111., are paid 70 cents an hour. Nearly all of England's farming will be done by women this year. Twenty-flve American women are acting as ambulance drivers in Salonikl. The telephone switchboard at the Boston Navy-yard is operated by girls. The War of Love "What we are going to do, then, we mothers, when the tumult and the shouting have died, and the long wait comes? We will pray. The churches of France are full of kneel ing women. And we will work. "There is no spectacular work for mothers in a war. They cannot drive ambulances, or guldt* aeroplanes, al though they arc capable of doing both. There will be no need of the wigwagging that some women are so painfully learning! But they will work for the Red Cross, and they will make up such little packets as only mothers can make, tooth brushes, and chocolates and fresh socks and gingerbread, and a Bible and playing cards and cigarettes. "And In between times, they will wait, in that quiet that Is not peace. "There are two wars being waged to-day. One Is the war of hate, and one Is the war of love. And this last Is the bitter war, because it is being fought in women's hearts, be tween their fears and their patriot ism. I know. "And because fear Is evil, it will go down to defeat. Women are brave, and mothers are the Bravest of all women, for they have faced the Gethsemane of child-bearing. They will not weaken now. "Napoleon said, 'Give me the mothers of France, and I will make France.' " From "The Altar of Freedom," by :Mary Roberts Rlnehart (Houghton [Mifflin Company). MAY 3,1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT Even in the "edited" version of Marshal Joffre's statement to the Washington correspondents, still more In his replies to various questions, his desire that the Ameri can flag; should be seen at the front as speedily as possible is perfectly obvious. Like his fellow commis sioners, he is reluctant to Rive un welcome advice: but he and they are the best qualified judges of the necessities of tho case, and the Ad ministration will doubtless weigh well their suggestions.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. To gag the newspapers woitld be the most disastrous thing that Con gress possibly could do. —Philadel- phia Inquirer. These are the days when it's all right to call a spade a spade.— Sharon Herald. John Barleycorn is certainly meet ing his match these days.—Chester Times. Reviewing the food situation, Bradstreet's finds that winter wheat has improved, that the visible sup ply of wheat is a bushel for every person, besides farm reserves and the flour that housewives have bought by the barrel in fright, and that, as usual, "s"hort crops have long tails." A time for economy, surely, and for planting all the land that can be properly cared for with out wasting seed. But panic never helps. —New York World. Anybody familiar with the recent history of the Republican party knows without being told that T. R. is the ablest man in the country when It conies to creating a division.—Boston Transcript. The only thing that's wrong with tho navy is that you haven't enlisted yet.—Savannah News. OUR DAILY LAUGH HARD LINES. \ Mrs. Rkeet y / Jjfij (jealous): See j y/\ C here Hiram , s. * Skeet, you're too y/§f l Jl . fond of the fdp' / fj > young girls; you vT I // jl Just bite old \\ / // f maids hereafter. W £—•££■ ~ 1 OUT ON THE BRINEY. "Pray get under my umbrella Miss Dull during this sudden shower. IN TOYLAND. "Her you doll, get away fron those shells, you might bo a spy!" DON'T TJNDE- - j 5 CEIVE HER. CO Miss "^Prinks has been pray- I o ing for a man l.t ■U for years and now she's got sftyklT : 1 ' Percy De Soft. J| won't know the ' difference, per- K lEtottfttg Gttfat Col. Henry "W. Shoemaker, of tho Governor's staff, has written an In teresting: article In the monthly Journal of the Wild Life League, In The Open, In which he discusses game conservation In a vory matter of fact way. Col. Shoemaker does not approve of what has been done and says so, but he gives credit to the motives of the State authorities and remarks that the number of per sons who think that they can rUn the Stale game business better than* the veteran secretary, Dr. JoseplA l® 81 ? ttnd IeBS each n 00 °" el tt'so says that the Game Commission is not In politics , . ? composed of Intelligent and unselfish men. Tho Colonel savs that nature's method Is the best for Penn sylyan a and says thnt the first step n r fLJL?' 2 must J ,e the elimination of forest tires, which means giving State Department of Forestry i J nß ' Rn<l b - v Preservation of natural cover, col. Shoemaker would J"?.I T calls "the bounty scan dal instantly and would let all ani mals and birds "live as they did before the white hunters sought to upset nature's balance." The colonel also makes the interesting statement that weasels are not as bad as paint ed and that cats are worse. "If the deer of Pennsylvania, deteriorate as last in the next fifteen years as thev have in the past century," savs he and a study of their horns and weight proves this, they will be no larger than sheep and subject to all manner of diseases." The colonel says gntne protection must discard what he calls "cobwebby" methods. ;r it is to bring results hoped for by many sportsmen. The suggestion that farm tractors , ® u * efl , at night as well ns in dav In plowing for farm work, made TiifT y y tlln Governor, will fa cilitate preparation of ground very much if the owners of such appli ances will give their use to their neighbors. In the last few years th number of such machines has ma terially increased in the State and !,™i e „T e f! uito a few ln tho Cum berland valley and some in the Leb rnnHnX l£ y '. Tho ownors hav e been lentlng their services, much as is done with threshing machines, in some cases. The Governor's idea is to do that still wore extensively and ho believes that by wide use of such machines, day and <ught, the short ige of larni labor and horses, which is worrying the farmers, will be overcome to a considerable extent. Mechanical cultivators, too, can be made of material advantage in farm work this year if judiciously worked Experiments made with them by Dr 11. A. Surface and others have "dem onstrated (hat they are very valu able. Plowing by night is no jest in the suburban districts, especially some places where there have been lot sales and the thrifty owners are putting their home sites into gar dens. The high cost of building ma terials is preventing many from building but they are planting. Niglit after night there have been men and women planting until after dark and on a couple of occasions they used lanterns to finish up a row. Hut the best of all was out near Paxtang ast night when a couple of men had what looked like a locomotive headlight and plowed by its rays • • * The seat in the Senate occupied by Auditor General Snyder has fallen to the lot of Senator McConnell, of -Northumberland. Senator Semineus of Allegheny, takes McConnerft< place. There are now two vacancies in the upper branch, one from Alle gheny caused by tho death of Sen ator Charles J. Magee, and the other from Schuylkill by reason of tho elevation of Senator Snyder to be Auditor General. There will be an other face absent from the Senate after this week. Harmon M. Kephart who becomes State Treasurer next .Monday, lias been chief clerk of the Senate. He is from Connellsvllle, l-ayette county, and has been pop ular with all factions in the upper branch. • • * Starting of No. 2 Paxton furnace and the reports that Lochiel furnace may be put into operation have rather livened up things in that part of Harrisburg which years ago used to be a hive of ironworkers. The old ironworkers' dwellings have dis appeared from Lochiel and only the foundations remain of the rolling mills. The furnace stands out as a monument of former industrial ac tivity and if It shall be started it vrll! add much to that section. The Paxton furnaces were classed as never likely to run again but the newer one is now making iron as fast as in the last boom time. • • • Among Harrisburg visitors yester day wore two men prominent on the bench. One was Judge Isaac John son, of the Delaware county coutrs, arid tho other Ex-Judge Harry White, of the Indiana county courts. * ♦ • An interesting sidelight was thrown upon the way the present leg islative procedure is regarded by a group of students who sat in the gal lery of the House yesterday and commented upon the way things are done. "They stick to tho rules of or der, but they do other things," was the remark of one student. "Yes," said another, "but the Senate does tho rest." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Richard L. Austin, prominent Pliiladelphian, looks for higher prices and says that the labor situa tion is making things acute. —Baron von Hauser, the Austrian consul at Pittsburgh, well known here, will leave Friday for his home. He loft Pittsburgh yesterday. —Judge Joseph Bufflngton, of the United States court, looks for a pro tracted war, according to an address he has just delivered. —H. H. Althouse, who is to make the investigation of grade crossings in Reading for the civic authorities of that place, used to be chief en gineer for tho Erie railroad. —Captain C. C. Gangloff, who Is In charge of the raising of a new company of engineers for the Na tional Guard, is captain of the Potts villo company. Tho captain served on the border. —Director of Safety William E. Wilson, of Philadelphia, says that men who do not work should be ar rested and has issued orders to round up tramps. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg mills could turn out large quantities of mu- from capacity not called upon? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg was headquarters of armies during the wars of 1812 and , the rebUtav. ' ?
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