12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded lijt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEf.RAPH PRI.\TI.\G CO, Telesrapb Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE .Pres't 6r Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, QUB M. BTEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American 1 Newspaper Pub —lishers' Associa- Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn- Ml 5 ISs U sylvan la Assocl ated Dailies. fiisSi&lm Eastern office. L, 2 .2* Story. Brooks & SE§SSS3W Finley. Fifth jjSSLfI Avenue Building:. Western office, ftory. Brooks & Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as sscond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a veek; by mail. 55.00 a year in advance. i ■ ■ • FRIDAY EVENTVG. JUNK 15 Be had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus Men o'er him tcept. —Bybon. LET S LICK OUR OWN PLATES A CORPORATION for the manu facture of ceramic products has been launched at Mein ingen, Germany, with a capital stock of about a million dollars. The aim is to take over the English sanitary and chinaware factories, at present under process of liquidation, and consolidate them under one head. This is one of many instances show ing that Germany is not waiting un til after the war to adjust herself to meet after-the-war conditions, as our Democratic friends would have us do in this country. The official figures show that be tween ISSS and 1912 our imports of chinaware from Germany increased j 410 per cent. Germany well-nigh chased England out of our market, for during the same period imports of English ware showed a decrease of 20 per cent. Only a few days ago i Lord Beresiord, speaking at a lunch- j eon in London, suddenly discovered that the plates from which the guests were eating were imported i from Germany. The average wage in j Germany of all classes of labor in ; chinaware making in normal times, j reduced to an hourly basis, is about 9 cents, compared with nearly 25 1 cents in the United States, and the cost of production 's to be found j chiefly in the item of labor. Ob-' viously, our best means to offset the low German cost of production is the protective tariff, and either that i policy will be restored to the United ' States or our chinaware market will be handed over to Germany after! the war. We refuse to eat out of Germany's hands, why should we eat off Ger many's plates? I THE "SHIP" HE WON'T GIVE UP THE President is reported to be determined to have a censor- j ship law and will summon the j editors and publishers of the land to gether to formulate a bill such as , they would favor. We are of the opinion that this journalistic con ference, if it is ever convened, would ' summarize its advice regarding a censorship to as compact a form as i that famous counsel of Mr. Punch to those contemplating matrimony: "Don't." The best form of censorship in the world Is already to be found in this country and It has already had frequent demonstration. It is the common sense and the patriot ism of the newspaper men of Amer ica. They have censored their own columns—in the matter of the dis patch of our destroyers to Europe, in the matter of the departure of the French mission, and in other in cidents —far more completely than any board of censorship could have done. If there are individuals among them who do not measure up to the average of sense and patriotism, they can be dealt with under exist ing statute. Lincoln did not need a law of cen sorship to enable him to handle the New York World when it offended in Civil War times. President Wil son does not need a censorship law to enable him to handle the Sqee dunk Gazette if it falls into error now . . . LABOR BACKS HOOVER ORGANIZED labor in the United States has come unreservedly to the support of President Wilson In his demands for food legislation to meet the situation caused by the war. Gompers, the railroad brother, hood heads and other leaders high In the counsels of labor are back of Hoover as the food controller and their weight will be felt by Congress tn consideration of the important bill now before it. This war will be fought by three elements, men, dollars and food. Let any one of these factors fail and the other two will be insufficient for the victory without which the United States cannot withdraw from the conflict. We have all three in pre ponderance of numbers. We will win if we use all of them Judiciously and wisely. We would not think of throw ing away men in needless attacks on impregnable works or in spending our dollars for ammunition we could not use. Neither should we permit food to be wasted as it is now being wasted, or sold at exorbitant prices for the enrichment of greedy dealers FRIDAY EVENING, | willing to take advantage of the mis | fortune of the world to enrich them selves. Labor has seen the necessity of protecting the people'from extortion : ate charges for foodstuffs and has f undertaken to do Its share to pro yent waste. The service is important ind patriotic. PASS THIS BILL THE Senate will have opportunity next week of voting upon Sen ator Beldleman's bill for a me -1 morlal for old Camp Curtin. This ■ bill should be passed. It has tne recommendation of the Governor in ■ his last message to the Legislature and the local Grand Army posts and of citizens of Harrisburg in general. Monument bills are introduced every session. Many of them are unworthy or of purely local interest. ! This measure is of State-wide im | portance. It would at once com ! memcrate the administration .of An : I drew Curtin, the great war Governor, and would mark for all time the site of Camp Curtin, from which went out hundreds of thousands of Penn sylvania men to fight the battles of the Union. This may be the last opportunity the Legislature will-"have to do this. Only a very small piece of the land on which the camp stood remair n vacant. This Is available now, but it may not be two years hence. More than that, Senator Beidleman has worked out a plan whereby the whole object may be accomplished at a minimum of cost. The bill ought to have the prompt approval of both House and Senate, i ■ in which case there would be no ! question about the Governor sign- i j ing it. GENERAL HAIG'S OPTIMISM G' ENERAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. ! in command cf the British ; forces in France, is a pessimist turned optimist. From the time he ! saved his division of the English j army from the onrush of the all conquering German hordes in 1914 i until this week he has never per ; mitted himself to view the allied sit ; uation along the French front in any | thing but the most gloomy fashion. | His reports have been confined to as j few words as possible. For nearly three years he has maintained a ; stolid silence as to the outlook. His i one cry has been for more men, more guns and more munitions. The other day, however, he threw off all reserve and wired home that "Nothing can save the German ar mies in France from complete de feat." Evidently the tide must have turned wonderfully in favor of the | British to induce Haig to so commit I himself. The dour old Scotchman must be in high feather, indeed, to | give his countrymen such a hopeful J view, especially at a time when the i terror of the submarine is , the minds of Englishmen. All the more, then is it to be given thought i ful consideration. "Complete defeat" to Haig can mean nothing more than the German i armies in full retreat, flying before a swiftly pursuing enemy. The Gen eral places no limit on the time for the accomplishment of this, but it is evident from all reports that the British are unquestionably superior in every way to the Germans who are opposing them. Always the Eng lish are pushing forward, always they are smashing the trenches and the morale of their opponents. The end of this can be but one thing, as General Haig points out—complete defeat. And Heaven hasten the day. WHY WE FIGHT MUCH has been written ex plaining why we are fighting Germany. Many complexi ties have come Into the situation, but behind the average .American's de sire to see the Kaiser in a felon's cell is the beastly quality of character , that sends forth German submarines | and aircraft deliberately to slay women and children. None of us , has forgotten the Lusitania and this extract from the account of a recent . airraid in England, during which bombs were dropped on a school house, serves as a reminder that Ger j man "frightfulness" is Just as fright ful as ever: ' Many of the little ones were ) lying across their desks, appar ently dead, and with terrible 1 wounds on the head and limbs, l and scores of others were writh ing with pain and moaning pite ously in their terror and suffer ing. Many bodies were mutilated, . but our first thought was to get at ' the injured and have them cared t for. We took them gently in our > arms and laid them out against 1 the wall under a shed. I didn't 5 1 count them, but I should think . there were twenty or thirty. c Just then two lorries drew up and the driver suggested that he should help. We packed the poor 3 little souls on the lorries as gently t as we could, and he drove as if he were afraid of something giv * ing way, and so at last we tot j them to the hospital. 1 This is why we fight. Being Amer a icans we could do nothing else. The - beast who murders a child must be l banished to the pit where he belongs. 1 Earth is no place for him and the - good old-fashioned hell of brimstone l and fire is too mild for him. Not only r does it become the duty of America i to rid the world of this horrible men t ace, but we must realize, as we drill 5 and prepare, that, if he could, the b Kaiser would be ordering his aero >l planes to bomb the echoolhouses of ■ American cities as well as those of ■; England. Picture, If you can, your , i own boy or girl killed or maimed for, : life by one of these fiends of the air, | . and shun the man who tells you that i we have no business in this war. HPoUtu* u ovkc n Ic&KUL Ry the Ex-Commlttecman . L-i-. ... - The Woodward direct inheritance 1 j tax bill loomed up xo-day as the big-! >: gest thing in the closing fortnight of j the legislative session and there were | ! not wanting predictions that if the . Governor vetoed it an effort would be made to pass it over his veto or i that it might bring about an exten sion of the legislative session beyond j June 28. A good many people doubt, be- L cause of the temper of members of the Legislature over the prolonged j | session, whether an effort to stretch! it out again will be made. Others ; think that as every member is inter- j • ested in an appropriation and all ap propriations are based on the direct! | inheritance tax bill adverse action j by the Governor would be overturn-, ed. In any event unless there is a j change in the attitude of the state administration toward the bill there is going to be trouble. The chief ob | jection is that it gives the Auditor General authority to appoint numer | ous attorneys. —The Philadelphia Press, which is ! a very staunch Republican newspa per, says regarding the situation on the inheritance tax bill: "Senator ! Penrose and his leaders realize that | the Governor is threatening to veto j the bill because it gives Auditor Gen eral Snyder the sole power of ap j pointing tax attorneys in the sixty s, seven counties in the state, is play ing a hand empty ot winning cards, j They figure that such action would be dangerous politically to him be , j cause of the chaos that would result in the revenue and appropriation j ! program arranged by the Legisla i ture. But they feel also that the ac tion would be even more disastrous to them, both politically and practi cally, under present conditions. And 1 they realize that under present con-; ditions in carrying out the policy of : "sitting tight" and ignoring the Gov ernor they are playing a game of bluff exactly similar to that which I the Governor is playing." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times j i expresses the opinion that whether \ the session will be extended is a | i mere matter of speculation. The| ! North American says: "In the mat- | ter of handling the situation that | would arise in case Governor Brum-! I baugh vetoes the direct inheritance j i tax bill Chairfnen Woodward and; j Buckman. of the house and senate appropriations committees, just now i favor the plan of passing all the ; general appropriation bills with the greatest possible speed, leaving the ] hospital appropriations depending ' upon the inheritance tax revenues." —This is the time when the con tests over elections to seats in the; I Philadelphia city committee will be j threshed out and there is a general hope over the state that the contend- j I ing factions will get together and apportion the representation in the! i committee. Every time there is a j row in the Philadelphia city commit tee the rest of the state feels the' disturbance. The plan is to devote a good part of the day to settling I the contests. —Governor Brumbaugh made the Flag Day address at Lancaster, Lieu-j tenant-Governor McClain and Secre-! tary of the Commonwealth Woods j spoke in western counties, and At- j torney General Brown at Pottsville.' A number of represehtatives and [ senators participated in the exer-j cises at their homes. —The Philadelphia Record says j that there is grave dagger of the ' session ending in a row. The Demo-! I crats in the House would scarcely) be able to take advantage of it should j it happen, judging from the way they have been performing under the direction of the ringmasters' . committee. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says: "State and local politics [ have been involved in tbe develop-i ments of the last few days in the! Legislative situation, but owing to the fact that Senator Penrose has ■ been only indirectly in touch with, happenings in thte Senate and the i House, a condition of uncertainty! 1 still exists. There is no doubt about i ' the fact that Senators McNichol and ~ Vare, of Philadelphia, have reached j 'an understanding which has been; followed by frequent confidential ; talks between these Senators, many' . of them held right on the floor of 1 , the Senate." • —The Philadelphia Chamber of ■ Commerce has addressed a letter to Governor Brumbaugh, requesting him to sign the new cold storage bill. • . —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day ■ predicts that the Philadelphia small ; council bill will be a storm-center next week. Some of the legislators think it will not be worth while! ; fighting about, as the Governor will: • i probably veto it. Others contend j [ that he Is committed to the bill by, . and declarations on home j rule and municipal government. > —Third-class city legislation will • be up in th* Senate next week and i , from all indications there will be ■ 5 plenty doing. The Senators will vote j ! I whether the elections in such cities i : shall be on the partisan or nonpar- j i tisan systems. My Garden Gate . I Clematis white and roses circling the garden gate, i Tiny nests in their brances, where , i the robins mate. Screened by leaves and petals from the sun's hot ray. Guarded at night by the starlight, j under the milky way. Did I dream when I planted the flowers and arched them over head? Just for artistic beauty, I had bullded .an altar instead? For under* the sheltering roses, and under the star's pure light. The girl with the cheeks of peach blow, pledged her troth to-night. 'Twas just the same old story, always and ever new, The girl at the .gate with the love llght gleaming from eyes of blue, " The White flowers turning to Heaven, b recording the same old vow, s And' the- same -stars streaming- a , blessing, on the girl of then and now. e B This morning the rose and clematis LT 1 are fllllngwith fragrance the air. The old gate down in the garden, I 1 open with reverent care. - Every bud and blossom seems bend -1 ing as if In prayer, p , Since the girl with the love-llght in her eyes, planted an altar there. "I—By Florence Hess Seldlitz (Quoted f. from Pictorial Review lor July.> HARRISBUItG TELEGRAPH The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS v_ . - llr'iitt ... III'/'" t, , fii,,'. lom Boy "■I 7T> The Kaiser's Dream There's a tumor now current, though strange it may seem, Of the German Emperor's wonderful dream. Being tired of war, he lay down in bed, And 'mongst other things, dreamt he was dead. And in a deep coffin, lying in state. With his cold, waxen features frozen with hate, He wasn't long dead when he found to his cost. That his map of the next world and passports Vere lost. So, leaving this world to heaven went straight. Jauntily strutting right up to the gate. But the lookout angel, in voice strong and clear, Said, "begone. Kaiser W„ we don't want you here." "Well," thought Wilhelm, "that's very uncivil, Does he mean I must go straight to the devil." So he turned on his heel and oft he did go. Running full speed to the regions be low. But, when he got there, he was filled with dismay, For whilst waiting outside he heard Satan say To his imps, "now, look here, boys, I give you all warning, I'm expecting the Kaiser down here this morning. 'But don't let him in, for to me it is clear, , We're far too good for the mongrel down here. 1 If he gets in, there'll be the dickens to pay. For, bad as I am, he's much worse any day." ' "Oh, Satan, dear friend," the Emperor cried, ; "Excuse me for listening while wait ing outside; If you don't let me In, then where can I go." "Indeed." said the devil, "I really don't know." "Oh, do let me In. I'm feeling quite cold. ilf money you want, I've plenty of gold; Just give me a corner, no matter how hot." "No," said the devil, "most certainly not. "We don't let apartments for riches or pelf. Here's some sulpher and matches, make a hell for yourself." ; Then he kicked Wilhelm out and vanished in smoke, ' And just at that moment the Kaiser awoke. He jumped out of bed in a shivering sweat, And cried, "Gosh, that dream I shall never forget; That I won't go to heaven I know very well. But it's awful tough luck to be kicked out of Hell."- —The Philadelphia Press. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Eco nomic Zoologist. THE ROSE CHAFER EVERY rose grov.er is more or less bothered with the rose bug or rose chafer. It also 1 attacks cherries, grapes, peaches and many other fruits. It is more abundant in regions having sandy soil than where heavy clays are , present, as the looser soil presents oetter breeding facilities. To protect the plants, fruits and flowers from this pest spray with sweetened arsenate of lead. | Add to fifty gallons of water 2 % pounds of powdered arsenate of lead and two gallons of cheap molasses. It is absolutely essen tial that the spraying liquid be | sweetened. If not sweetened the ! chafer will not eat it. On grapes make an application just before they bloom again after the bloom has fallen. If not protected, it is possible for the crop to be lost in a few hours by the insects eating the blossoms. In the case of fruit crops, ap ply with the first appearance of the insects. In rose gardens start spraying when the rose chafer is due and keep the foliage covered with the sweetened spray. If you have 'only a few rose bushes or grapes to protect, use the arsenate of lead at the rate of two table spoonfuls to a gallon of water and four tablespoonfuls of mo lasses. Rose chafers do not breed in cultivated ground. If possible break up and cultivate for a season all uncultured ground in the vicinity. It will greatly re duce the number of rose chafers. STAGGERING POS LIE IN WASTE PREVENTION By S. \V. STRAUS President American Society For Thrift THE saving this nation will ef fect if just a little economy is practiced by each citizen will run into staggering figures. For ex ample, if just one slice of bread is saved in each American home a day it will mean the addition of 470,- 000 acres of cultivated wheat land added to our present productive area. Statisticians connected with the Department of Agriculture have fig ured out that the average slice of bread weighs an ounce, which means in the 20,000,000 homes in this country a daily average wastage of 14,000,000 ounces of flour, or over 1,000,000 one-pound loaves of bread. For a full year at this rate there would be a waste of over 319,000,- 000 pounds of flour—l,soo,ooo bar rels of flour—the equivalent of 365.- 000,000 loaves of bread. It takes 4Va bushels of wheat to make a barrel of ordinary flour. Therefore, if ev ery home saves a slice of bread a day it will represent an aggregate national saving of 7.000,000 bushels of wheat, or the crop cf approxi mately 470,000 acres. It also is pointed out that if one half ?up of milk is wasted daily in every American home, it means the destruction of 2,500.000 quarts a daj-j or 915,500,000 quarts a year. This is the product of more than 400,000 cows'. One might take other examples of waste with the same amazing results. Trade Briefs Indian corn is being grown in large quantities in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a result of an increasing demand for this grain as food for hogs, cattle and sheep. Corn is now produced for thirty cents a bushel, and this cost could be reduced one-half by use of | modern machinery. Due to the prosperous condition of ! the country there is an attractive j market in New Zealand for motor I trucks. American automobiles are more popular and more widely used than those imported from the United j Kingdom. Ninety per cent, of the lumber mills in Southern Mississippi are develop ing model farms on cut over lands. | Millions of acres can be made produc j tive in this way. ! Work has commenced on the sub ! way at Madrid. Spain. American manufacturers who are interested in | supplying construction materials | should communicate with the engineer I in charge. Catalog of machinery for paper making, concrete mixing, hydroelec ' trie supplies and turbines are needed i at the American Consulate, Grenoble, ! France. i Fruit crops in South Africa will be i large, it is predicted. Due to the lack ] of shipping facilities the fruit growers I are endeavoring to find a market for ! their goods in the surrounding dis tricts. Argentina's oil fields will be inves ! tigated to determine whether petro i leum can be used instead of coal as a 1 universal fuel. If oil is found in suf ficient quantities to justify exploita tion American supplies for boring wells will be needed. American trailmobiles have been demonstrated with good results at Cape Town, South Africa. An effort is being made to bring these vehicles to the attention of farmers in the out lying districts. Discoveries of gold and copper have been reported in Central Asia, and mining operations are expected to be gin shortly. The copper ore is said I | to produce 20 to 60 per cent, of metal. Cotton waste is needed in Cuba. Women Especially Efficient [Salina (Kan.) Journal.] Why not try women out as ob servers in the aviation corps? Any woman can sit on the front porch and tell you who went by, what they wore, where they were going and why they were late. Run 'Em Empty a While [Story in McClure's Magazine.] I ] Story in McClure's Magazine. [ The city editor stood at his elbow and took the copy, sheet by sheet, as he wrote it. In the composing room i above the presses were already rum- I bllng and growling impatiently for j_the feed About to be flung them. ( Bear in mind it is the little things that count. If the waste of a slice of bread and half a cup of milk in every American home a day means the sacrifice of 400,000 cows and 470,000 acres of land, the aggregate wastage in meat, cheese, fruit and vegetables must be enormous. Food is a big factor in this war and when so much good can be ac complished through the practice of these small instances of economy in every home, it is our patriotic duty to see that they are not neglected. Make up your mind to-day that you will do your part in this respect. To do so requires no inconvenience or sacrifice. It simply means seeing that the cup of milk and the slice of bread and the half potato and the piece of meat are not deposited in the garbage can. The preservation of meat in hot weather is quite a problem. When meat for any reason must be kept a long time, or when the conditions for preserving it are unfavorable, the following plan may be followed to advantage: Drop the meat into boiling water for a few minutes. This will not affect its flavor and will go a long way toward keeping it wholesome. It is important that it be dropped into a large body of boiling water. If only a small amount of water is used the intro duction of the meat will lower the temperature to such an extent that the whole process becomes worth -1 less. The Guard to France .The popular sentiment which sym pathized with Colonel Roosevelt's de sire to be permitted to enlist a force of volunteers for speedy dispatch to France will approve of the reported intention of the War Department to ; supplement General Pershing's division of regulars with five divisions of Na tional Guardsmen before snow flies. The objection raised to the Roosevelt proposal that It would be madness to send untrained men across the Atlan- 1 tic cannot apply to the Guard which i has seen service on the Border and has been trained and hardened under the most drastic efforts of the regu lars. The decision will be welcomed, too, by the men themselves, who are anxious to fight, and fear only an other long period of inactive mobili zation. In thinking of sending our armies to Europe there is a too common for getfulness that shipping facilities as well as equipment and training will compel gradual transportation rather than a movement in mass. By sending the Guard first room will be made for the shipment of the new national army to be selected from the registration and organized for train ing in the fall. In fact, under the present program there will be an al most continuous procession, once the actual movement has been begun. The need for American assistance as well as our own necessities in preparation, demands this. It is increasing cause for regret now we are in the war that prepara tion was not begun long ago. Some of the dely is due to lack of provision for equipment as well as to lack of trained men. Had the country seri ously thought there was a possibility of our being forced into the conflict it would have demanded prepared ness. That lack of foresight is cost ing us valuable time and thereby pro longing the war. The sooner we can get our fighting men to France the greater the hope of forcing peace. Once the doubt, in Berlin of what America can do is removed there will be a disposition to reconsider the al tered situation.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Old Cat Adopts Rabbits [Pomeroy Tribune-Telegraph.] .. Our old friend Ike Wilson comes forward with an interesting cat story. He represents that Hiram French drowned the family feline's litter of ntw-born kittens. Thereupon Mrs. Cat repaired to the neighboring hillside and conscripted a brood of baby rabbits, and Is proving a good mother to them. We take it that they will become very playful under her influence, and eventually will be come good moußers. If they do not hear the call of the wild and run away from home. Rare Presence of Mind [Rutland Correspondence, Pomeroy Leader.] The mad dog scare Tuesday caused quite a little excitement. The sup posed mad dog chased Bertha Kln caid up the staeet at a lively pace but gave up when she threw the soap and chicken feed she was tak ing home atJUm* I JUNE 15,1917. Labor Notes Cooks and waiters at Peoria, 111., have organized. .. I Vancouver (B. C.) bricklayers are paid 75 cents an hour. Cafes in Mexico City have been prohibited from employing wait resses. City firemen at Belleville, Canada, ask increased pay. Retail clerks at Elkhart, Ind., have formed a union. Pittsburgh (Pa.) boilermakers have secured 50 cents a day in crease. Uniontown (Pa.) electrical work ers have received an eight-hour day. Toronto (Can.) structural iron workers demand 55 cents an hour. Brant, Can.,has formed a co-opera tive society with 200 members. A municipal coalyard is demanded by Stratford (Can.) labor unions. St. Paul (Minn.) cigarmakers have raised wages $1 a thousand. San Francisco has 3,249 industrial plants, employing 47,626 persons. Valley, Wash., is to have a new hospital built by contributions from farmers. 1 NO WONDER! "She says her husband can't even keep her in pin money!" "I know, but she buys diamond 1 Dins!" DISAPPOINTED. Philanthropist (who has just dropped a penny in the cup): "I imagine you have many disappoint ments and discouragements." Beggar: "Sir, that la the fourth one today." NOT FOR PUBLICATION. "I never hear young Jones tu" about what he learned at college." "He can't very well. All he learr.r was the secret work of lilo pirt'r FANCY. Visitor —Aro these fancy chickens you are raising? Farmer— l should say bo. Judging by my bills for chicken feed every t — ■ v -nn'""Tai ©jetting (Effat Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton Is becoming: one of the most expert salesmen on Capitol HIIL The secretary has been busy for weeks getting farmers and those de to Plant gardens into touch ♦V „Pi erSOI } s wll ° have seed potatoes 4 Jd not long ago bought a part of a tralnload of potatoes, which at cost - the Sta,e figuring in the transaction only as the mid ut setttn K a precedent by not charging anything. The dajwirt ment has also been securing for farmers and those about to start out raising garden "sass" large quan- Ji u Z , seed navy bean s, thousands of bushels of buckwheat, many bush ols of potatoes, no end to tom&to, sweet potato, cauliflower, cabbage and other plants, some artichokes, numerous free settings of eggs, some thing like 1,800 young chicks and a miscellaneous assortment of seeds, cuttings, slips and the like to stimu late agriculture and horticulture. The other day the secretary sold two heifers while walking through one of the legislative halls and Inquiries are being made as to whether he can not supply some shoats. It's a great life encouraging agriculture and the only danger is that* when the people find out that he locates the seed material and puts people into touch without charging anything there may be such a run as will swamp tho department. Members of section F of the sopho more classof the