Things to Do in Your Garden in May and June The HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH presents to Its readers hints for the gardener for lata May and June that have been prepared by the ex perts of the National Ehiergency Food Garden Commission, of Wash ington, D. C., which Is co-operating with this newspaper in encouraging backyard gardening and giving ex pert advice on garden work. Transplant sweet potato plants trom plant frame to garden. Sow tomato, cabbage and collard seeds in plant frame for fall crop. (Sow tomatoes in early June. Sow cabbage and collards in late June.) Sow seeds of hardy perennials in hotbeds. Shade plants with screens made of slats. Transplant in seedbed hardy per ennial flower plants and place plants six to twelve inches apart both ways. Plant beans, corn. Prune spring flowering shrubs and vines after flowers have fallen. Plant dahlia roots. Keep soil between rows mellow. Spray for Insect enemies and plant diseases. Harvest and replant crops promptly. Clothing JWeWs From Wm. Strouse's New Store 4 Harrisburg men have the reputation of be ing very well dressed and we claim a great part I\ \ wHSHa of the credit of this prestige. We have made 1 \ nil. Men's and Young Men's Clothing Our Life's Study-we have always endeavored to give the Maximum of Quality and Style at the Minimum \ of Cost. Our business at The New Store is in- \ creasing very rapidly—gaining day bv dav and i j NOW, WHY IS THIS? Why have we at- ' tained and retained for many years, the undis- NM.ll puted title of The Leaders of Clothing? Why J j /jPTvll \ . do we enjoy the confidence of the vast multi- | I JjsT\ | 1 tude of men, who have been our customers for I - / | I There's only one answer: MERIT. In every walk of life you'll find leaders —in Athletics —in Politics —in Baseball —in Business —but that leadership can only be maintained by play ing the game straight. We propose to hold the Clothing Championship as long as we possibly can. Our goal shall always be Good Values and Good Service; and we want every man, woman, boy and girl to refer to The New Store as Harrisburg's Best Store For Father and the Boys Our fronOad Guarantee Is: r Z?iE Let Us Illustrate Our Famous sls Suits Young men have learned thoroughly, that in our Suits at Fifteen Dollars, we give the greatest values that can be had-the top-notch of style-the high est standard of tailoring—and fabrics that in quality are far in excess of their very low price. The most authentic models of single and double breasted suits, with all round belts or belted backs are shown at sls and men of conservative tastes will find here Cassimeres, Worsteds and Tweeds to please the Businessman the Travelingman the Railroadman the Pro fessionalman—who desires to dress well. Such are our sls Suits. Very Highest Class Suits, S2O, $25, S3O Made hy the Adler Rochester Co. America's Foremost Clothing Makers We can fit perfectly every build of man —regular, stout —slim extra size short or short stout in fact there's no man whom we can't fit perfectly. The New Store of Wm. Strouse WEDNESDAY EVENING. This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— CAPT. EDWIN A. NICODEMUS Well-known National Guard offi cer on staff of the Pennsylvania division commander. Major General Charles M. Clement. News Items of Interest in Central Pennsylvania 'l'ninanun —Following a demand for an increase of 11 2-3 cents an hour the plumbers of Tamaqua and vicinity were yesterday granted a 20 per cent. Increase. Tnmaqun—Facing an empty treas ury the Tamaqua School Board is un able to pay the schoolteachers - sal aries for the month of April and must wait for 1917 tax money to be able to do so. Shrnnmlonh—Contract miners at the East colliery struck yesterday because the company refused to hoist them at 1.30 p. m., instead o 2.30 and 3.30 p. m., as in the past. The plant was compelled to suspend, throwing over one thousand hands out of employ ment and cutting off the shipments of 1,500 tons of coal daily. Columbia—Little Elizabeth Splain, accidentally shot on Saturday by her brother, still lives with a bullet in her brain. She sleeps regularly, has no fever, and appears to be free of pain. I'ottKVille —William James, aged 23 years, of Bridgeport, Conn., a driver • y • ■ rfpp HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH j employed at the Barn\|m and Bailey j Circus, showing here, yesterday was killed when the wagon he had been driving ran over him. He fell from the seat between the two rear horses of the six and rolled beneath the wheel. itrndlnK —The employes of the Tex tile Machine Works in Wyomissing have been granted a bonus which will | mean the distribution of several thou i sand dollars, and the Nolde and Horst j hosiery firm announced a five per cent. | increase in wages. A four per cent, i increase to employes of the Philadel | phia uiul Heading Railway shops went I into effect yesterday. j Kpmiiton Agents of speculators ' were traveling through the Berks-Le high potato belt offering the farmers 1 J1.60 per bushel for their potato crop jto be harvested next fall. None of : the farmers accepted the advance of fer. preferring to wait to see what the coming market will bring to them. MilS. \OTESTI\K DIES Mrs. Anna E. Notestine, aged 00, died this morning at the home of Donald C. eWrts, 1629 Chestnut street. The body may.be viewd at Fackler's chapel, 1314 Derry stret, Wednesday evening from G to 9 o'clock. The body will be sent to Philadelphia | Thursday morning, where services i will be held. Burial will be made | in Milford, New Jersey. HARMON KEPHART "FACES THE GUNS" V State Treasurer's Friends Give Him Dinner; 'Ht Makes His First Speech State Treasurer Harmon M. Kep hart faced the guns last night. He had established the unique record of having gone farther in Pennsylvania public life without making a speech than any man called to high place in years. In spite of the fact that ho had been in Fayette county politics' for thirty years or so, had been a candidate for the Legislature and had been in many a contest and convention and had wound up as a candidate on a State ticket with Seator Charles A. Snyder ho has never made a real speech. The occasion for the new treas urer making the speech and a new record was a dinner given to him by Senators W. C. Sproul and James P. McNlchol at the Harrisburg Club, one of the most elaborate functions of the kind in years. The members of the Senate and some of its offi cers. Speaker Baldwin and a few representatives, friends of the. new treasurer and legislative correspon dents were present. Lieutenant Gov rnor Frank B. McClain presided and was in rare form. Mr. Kephart lis tened to eulogies from friends and was about to get away without mak< ing a speech when the Lieutenant Governor called on Senator Clarence J. Buckmah, chairman of the Sen ate Appropriations Committee. The peace-loving Quaker from Bucks presented Mr. Kephart with a sizable check as a tribute from his friends in the Senate with instructions that Mrs. Kephart was to tell him how to spend it. "Faces the Guns" Mr. Kephart got up and said that | he was "facing the guns at last." He told how he came to Harrisburg I as a soldiers' orphan from McAllis- | tersville school to attend the inaugu ration of Governor Hoyt and was imbued with the idea of becoming a legislator. He then gave the story of his life, how he was elected to the House from Fayette and tlie recital of the reasons for his suc cess, closing with a tribute to a splen did mother, something to which the guests listened with rapt attention. It was Kephart's first speech, but it was something which the sena torial veterans recalled to-day with greatest interest. Other speakers were Senator W. E. Crow, referred to as Kephart's siile-partner: Senator W. C. Sproul, who said that he would rather be a Senator of Pennsylvania than a councillor of empires and that he had seen administrations come and go and the Senate go right on un- i ruffled and efficient; Senator E. H. I Vare, who said that he liked the ; Kephart "boys" because there was nothing "fancy" about them: Audi- | tor General Charles A. Snyder, who paid tribute to the new Treasurer as j a State official and friend and who j deplored some much exploited' legis- i laton as stifling individual effort; j Senator James P. McNichol. who dif- j fered with Mr. Snyder; President ! pro tern Beidleman, Senators Burke. | Eyre. Hackett, Kline and others; | Frank L. Knight, of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and Ex-State Treas urer Young, who was given the high est praise for what he had done and who was complimented by Mr. Kep hart for the way he had handled the State's strong box. Germany Gives Up Hope of Winning an Indemnity By Associated Press Copenhagen. May 9.-—The Bavar- i ian Staats Zeitung, the semiofficial j Bavarian newspaper and the per-1 sonal organ of Premier Count Herti-1 ing, publishes an inspired article j denying the necessity of Germany's j demanding a cash indemnity as one : of her peace conditions. Count Hert- I ling has just returned from a visit to Vienna where he had conferences ' with Emperor Charles and Foreign | Minister Czernin. The German news- j papers claim that these conferences' were intended to find a common | ground between Count Czernin's sug- | I gestions of peace wihtout anncxa- | tion and Chancellor Von Bethmann- I Hollweg's peace program. The article in the Staats Zeitung ii ; regarded, in viqw of the circumstan ces, as important as reflecting the i ideas of the Bavariaa prime minis- ! ter. It suggests that an agreement j to supply needed raw materials at a j ; low price or perhaps free might be | ! a substitute for a cash indemnity. | The writer goes on to declare that j an agreement to permit German i trade on its former terms in the I j old markets, the return of German ■ 1 ships and the surrender of German I [colonies would be the equivalent of millions of indemnity. W. C. Maguire, C. H. S. 'ls Dies at His Home Here Warren Custer Maguire. aged 20, a j graduate of Central High school, class of 'ls, and of the School of Commerce, \ died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Maguire, 1625 For rest street, this mornfng. He was a life-long member of the Fifth Street cMtliodist Episcopal 1 Church, and belonged to John Harris | Council, 174, Jr. O. U. A. M. Funeral j services will be held from his home | Friday evening at S o'clock. The ltev, ! Dr. Pyles, pastor of Fifth Street I M. E. Church, officiating. The body I will be taken to New Buffalo Saturday morning, where further services, in i charge of the ltev. .1. E. Brenneman, j will be held, and burial made. All Chicago Newspapers Will Cost Two Cents Chicago, May !).—Another week is : expected to see all Chicago newspa i pers, the price of which for years . has been 1 cent, selling at 2 cents, | owing to the high prices of paper I and all other elements entering into i i their preparation. The Herald made formal an nouncement of the advance yester day and set the date for next Mon day. Other papers admitted that they had decided on similar action. IOWA MAN WANTS ECUS Clerk to the Mayor Albert M. Hamer this morning received an in quiry from F. 11. Pryor, Cedar Kaplds, lowa, concerning the notice In a west ern newspaper that stated that the Pennsylvania State Poultry Associa tion would give $25,000 worth of eggs free to people who would hatch them. He is very anxious to know how to secure an allotment. CHIEFS OF POI.ICE COMING The executive committee of the As sociation of the State Chiefs of Po lice will meet next Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the office of Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel. They will discuss the probable meeting place of the asosciation. COUNTRY FACES ONE OF THE SHORTEST WHEAT CROPS IN HISTORY OF THE NATION \\ ashington, D. C., May 9. —In the face of a threatened world food shortage the American winter wheat crop shows' the lowest condition recorded since 1888 and prom ised a smaller yield than any other since 1904. Agricultural conditions otherwise are good, the de partment announced and it recalled that although the winter wheat crop of 1912 showed an equally discourag ing outlook the total production of crops that year was the greatest on record. The winter wheat crop, planted last autumn on one of the largest acre apes ever sown to that grain but which met disaster in several impor tant producing states from severe winter conditions, now promises a harvest of 366,116,000 bushels this year. The quantity was forecast to day by the Department of Agricul ture, which based its estimate on the lAt KAUFMAN'S At KAUFMAN'S AtKAUFMAN'st Sensational SUIT Sale 1 Friday (Next) May 11 th'* l j Your Choice of 68 Handsome New Af j Spring SUITS'I \ FOR WOMEN AND MISSES I/ | = j Regular $24.75, $29.50 to $35.00 Values M ■ j IYour Unrestricted Choice For I lie word "Sensational is much abused. It has so frequently been applied to mediocre i offerings that it lias partially lost its force. \\ e can think of no other term, however, to ade- ' quately describe the suit values we shall give Friday, May 11th. Think of the word in its 1 ; original and truest sense —as denoting: astounding, exceptional, record-breaking and unpre cedented values, and then come, sec this sale assortment—that's the true test after all. Every I suit is taken from our own original stock of $24.75, $29.50 to s3*oo new spring suits. Sixty- 1 ( M eight all told which will be placed on sale Friday, next, at $14.95 # Materials are poiret twill?, poplins, tricotine, men's wear serge, Jer- 1 sey cloth and velours; black, navy, all the newest Spring colors. , J One Tan $35.00 SUIT, Size 36, For $14.95 1 | One Gray $35.00 SUIT, Size 18, For $14.95 ' j One Check $29.50 SUIT, Size 16, For $14.95, 1 Two Navy Blue $29.50 SUITS, Sizes 16 & 42, For . . $14.95 1 I One Apple Green $29.50 SUIT, Size 18, For .... $14.95 ' ' S Three $29.50 SUITS, Size 16, Gold & Rooky .... $14.95 i One $29.50 Rose SUIT, Size 36, For $14.95 f I One $29.50 Gray SUIT, Size 40, For $14.95 \ 1 Eleven Handsome $24.75 Black SUITS, For .... $14.95 § K Mostly one of n kind. SI/.on | C Fourteen Smart $24.75 SUITS, in Gold, For .... $14.95 ■ Mze* l(S, IN, HO, JIN and 41!. Mo*tlv one of a kind. I I Thirteen Stylish $24.75 Apple Green SUITS, For . . $14.95 1 % Sine* lU, IS. SO, as and 40. Mostly one of n kind. I I Two Lovely $24.75 Old Rose SUITS, Size 18 canizer. Only one to a cus- SQUARE DEAL AUTO SUPPLY BenpZ.l 1408 N. Third St. 3627 MAY 9, 1917. condition of the crop May 1, as re ported by the thousands o agents throughout the grain belt. A month ago a crop of 430,000,000 bushels was forecast. Production last year was 481,744,000 bushels and In 1915 it was 676,947,00 bushels. On May 1 the area of winter wheat to be harvested was about 27.G53.000 acres, compared with 40,090.000 acres sown last autumn, and 34.829.000 acre) harvested last year. The condition of the crop on Maj 1 was 73.2 per cent, of a normal com pared with 63.4 on April 1, 82.4 ol May 1 last year, and 86.6. the averagl of the last ten years on May 1. J Production of 60.736,000 bushels (f rye is forecast from the May 1 conj dition, compared with a forecast cj 611,000.000 bushels based on the April 1 condition, 47,383,000 bushels produc ed last year, and 54,050,000 bushels in 1915. Rye condition on May 1 was 88.1 per cent, of a normal, compared witn 86.0 on April 1. 88.7 on Mqy 1 l*t year, and 90.2,' the ten-year averagt on May 1. Meadow (hayj lands: Condition 88.J per cent, of a normal, compared witn SS.4 on May 1 year, and 87.9, thf ton-year May 1 average. 11l SII.\M> ANl> WIFE AnRESETD Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hulderman, of 531 Violet street, have been com mitted to jail by Alderman James B. DeShong. They are charged with conducting a disorderly house and annoying the neighbors. The palf were arrested by Constable David Hodge and Leo Coyle. ADD D AND F 5