8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Foundtd itji Published evenlsgs except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTIXU CO, Telegraph Dutldlns, Federal Square. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't *S* Editor-in-Chief I". R. OYSTER. Busintss Mjitagtr. OUS M. STEI-NMETZ. Mantling Edited. Member American Newspaper Pub latlon and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office, Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Building. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as sscond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail. 15.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 21 Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our rountry. —DANlEL WEBSTER. GOVERNMENT COAL "POOL" IF coal prices can be reduced and an adequate supply assured for the coming winter, the govern ment will be excused for going so far out of the beaten path as is pro posed in the creation of the pro posed fuel "pool," whereby govern ment agencies would take over for the war period the coal mines of the country and supervise the trans portation of bituminous coal, anth racite and coke, for the benefit of the consumer, allowing only a rea sonable profit to mine operators and the railroads. This proposal is not so revolution ary nor so socialistic as it sounds. • It is a war measure. England found it necessary, after numerous costly experiments, to do precisely what is suggested for this country. The re sults have been satisfactory. Doubtless great objections will be raised by the coal operators and the railroads, and specious arguments advanced against the plan, but with the whole conduct of the war de pending upon a plentiful supply of coal and in the face of extortionate ■charges to the consumer, the public •will be Inclined to give the govern ment a fair hearing before being convinced that it has proposed an impossible remedy. People in gen eral are convinced that they are pay ing more than a reasonable price for their coal and they are ready for almost any step that promises re lief. But, so far as the householder's problem is concerned, it will not be solved until the government goes farther than the operator and the railroad in its price-regulation pro gram. The retail dealer needs at tention, too. He is doubtless a suf ferer along with the public in the matter of prices, but on the other hand he himself is not beyond re proach and as one of the units of the coal trade he will require some supervision. Exemption of coal miners from military service will meet with little or no opposition. The coal miner is performing his full patriotic duty in this war when he labors the maxi mum number of working days. His ordinary duties are as fraught with peril as are many branches of the military. He is needed more at home than in the trenches, and at home he should stay. A COFXTY HOSPITAL AS was to have been expected, the Health Boards of Harris burg and Steelton have lost no •time in petitioning the county to •rect and maintain a contagious dis ease hospital under the provisions of the TYhitaker law recently signed fcy Governor Brumbaugh. This ■statute permits counties to erect such hospitals on or adjacent to poor farms, to be operated under the direction of the poor directors for the benefit of all the people of the counties in which the institu tions are located. At present the only hospital of the kind in Dauphin county is owned hy the city. It Is an old, obsolete type of structure that long ago out lived its usefulness. Just now Steel ton 1s paying the city for the use of It. If the building were owned by the county at large it could be used by Harrisburg. Steelton or any other community without conflict of au thority. Likewise, the county could ■afford to maintain a much better hospital than the city can, under the circumstances. It is to be hoped that a plan may he worked out by which a county hospital can be built. THE PROPOSE® FISH CODE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH has before him the most complete and the most stringent fish ocde ever enacted by a Pennsylva nia Legislature. Notwithstanding that It erects new -.vails of pro tection around some varieties of flsh and lowers the bars on everything save legitimate hook and line fish ing. It is favored by nearly all of the fishing and angling organizations of the State and has the support of Fish Commissioner Buller. Even , though it does lengthen by an inch the minimum size of black - bass which It 1s permissible for the angler to keep when caught, and tightens up the regulations on game fish in other THURSDAY EVENING, ways. It is very liberal In many re spects, particularly as to the size of the creel. The time has come for a more rigid conservation of fish in this 'State than ever before. Probably there are mote fishermen in Penn sylvania than in any other State' of the Union, and added to this con i stant drain on the supply, is the dif ficulty In fish culture resulting from the great Industrial establishments of the Commonwealth which line a majority of Its streams. To be sure, the new code provides against the pollution of streams and there are other strict laws on the statute books, but the State authorities must hearken quickly to Commis sioner Buller's repeated requests for prosecutions if the proposed act is to count for much in this respect. The code was drawn evidently with the thought of preserving game fish for those who find sport In angling for them with rod and line. This Is as it should be, for the streams of the State do not abound In food fishes and the supply of all sorts will be exhausted, even with State hatchery replenishments, if Indiscriminate fishing is allowed by those who care for nothing but the number of fish they can take from the water in a given time. Most likely the Governor will sign the code. It is to be hoped that he will. / ARE YOU IX LINE ? ONCE more the patriotic citizens of Harriaburg are showtng their devotion to the cause of humanity in a community campaign for the Red Cross. Following close ly upon a remarkable movement in the interest of the war loan the people are now giving to the support of the work in behalf of the sol diers of the United States and our Allies abroad. No movement rests upon a cause more appealing than this movement for the relief of suf fering and the protection and care of the boya who will go Into the jaws of death In support of a great principle. If we never before real ized we are at war, we shall soon do so and the raising of an adequate fund is absolutely necessary to give force and effect to the preparations which have already been made under the national organization. Ex- President Taft said the other day: The Red Cross is the only rec ognized agency through which we may help to take care of the wounded of the armies and the nations that are fighting our bat tles. It is an admirable arrangement that some such avenue as that should be supplied to give vent to the patriotic desire of those who cannot go to the front, to help in behalf of their country and the world. Every country has a Red Cross, and every country must have it. because no armv can fur nish the instrumentalities ade quate to meet the proportion of wounded that this war furnishes. Think of it! Forty milion at the colors, seven million dead, six million on beds of pain, and the whole of Europe taken up with hostilities. You cannot exaggerate the function that our Red Cross will have to perform merely in attend ing to the wounded of our army and other armies in carrying on this tight. Therefore, one hundred million dollars, great as the sum seems, is inadequate; but the first hundred million dollars will be the hardest hundred million to raise! And we must leave no doubt about it. I thank God that the organization is in such competent hands to do the great work that has to be done. And now, my friends, the one thing for which we ought to be grateful is that in this great war, in which we shall have to make great sacrifices—oh. such sacri fices so great that they wring tears from us as we think of them—we should be grateful that we have a cause worthy of all the sacrifices that we can make. As showing the interest in the Red Cross it is worthy of note that two of the principal banking insti tutions of the city—the Harrisburg trust Company and the Harrisburg National Bank—have declared spe cial Red Cross dividends of one per cent, with the suggestion that the stockholders endorse their checks to the local treasurer of the Red Cross campaign. These instances of sympathetic co-operation with a great cause still further emphasizes the willingness of our people to give generously to this Go.od Samaritan agency of a nation. CHERRY PIE CAN all the cherries you can," is the catch phrase the Depart ment of Agriculture is using to induce housewives to take advantage of the generous crop now on the markets. It's a grand thought, for canned cherries are no mean dish in whatso ever form they appear during the long, lean months of winter. But the idea can be carried to extremes. There is cherry pie, for instance. Fresh, Juicy cherry pie, we mean; the kind made from cherries only a few hours from the tree, which never knew the inside of tin can or glass jar, and with the warmth of the oven, the crispness of lightly browned crust and the honey sweet ness of rich syrup glorifying the luscious contents. We would point out to the eminent conservationists who would embalm all the cherries to be had, that con servation of food supply is not alto gether confined to piling up canned cherries for use next winter. Cher ries are the one article of diet selling this year as cheaply as they did last spring. Therefore, fresh cherry pie, comparatively speaking, should come within the range of cheap dishes, for the flour and sugar necessary for the making are but minor quantities In the cre&t'.on of the glorious whole. And so, cherry pie may be added to the diet of the moment, thereby sav ing meat and potatoes and other staples, for who eats a full meal of such ordinary things when there is fresh cherry pie for dessert? There may be those who don't like cherry pie, but If there are we would like to know their names BO that they might Be referred to the Federal au thorities as persons under suspicion of not being good, loyal Americans. If our boys, when they get to the front in France, could be assured that there awaited them an unlim ited supply of this succulent dainty upon their arrival in Berlin we are j persuaded the war would be over In , three days. It is Just as natural for ! a native-born American to love j cherry pie as it is for a German to be fftnd of Limburger and the difter | ence between the qualities of the two | articles of diet in question, unless we greatly mistake, are somewhat 11- j lustrative of the differences between : the two peoples. Americans take to i cherry pie as a duck y> water, and | while they are willing enough to lay j by a generous supply for next winter they are not going to be denied of their rightful heritage of June-vint age pies, whether the Department likes it or not. And if this be treason, like Patrick Henry, they are willing to let the government "make the most of it." Yes, mother, you may give us a third piece, and make it large. "PtJUvOifiaahxa By the Ex-Committeeman " The temper of the House of Rep resentatives in the closing ten days of the remarkable session of 1917 is the most interesting thing in Penn sylvania politics to-day. The mem bers have been insisting upon debat ing at length and at the same time indulging in considerable criticism of the failure to make progress on the calendar, this state of mind being reflected In repeated refusals to make special orders to consider measures. A good bit of the fooling was stated by the refusal of a majority to make a special order for the workmen's compensation amend ments. There have been no special orders made since. An attempt to advance the bill to suspend the full crew law and the effort to give the Philadelphia smalt council bill preference both brought emphatic objections. The attempt to put up the bill to give Philadelphia a single chambered council caused some caustic remarks in the House. The bill's sponsor, Mr. Beyer, declared that Mr. McNichol, leader of the Vare forces, who are against the bill, which is backed by Penrose and reform people, was denying a hearing to his people, to which Mr. McNichol re torted that he would take the conse quences. He also told the House to defeat the motion because the House had already devoted too much time to hearing Philadelphia squabbles aired. A chorus of "amens" was heard as Mr. McNichol finished. —Although members of the House appear to be rather firmly set for adjournment next Thursday, June 28, it is possible that it may be Friday or even Saturday before they get away. The Senate is now ready to adjourn on the day fixed, although somewhat inclined to be against such a plan a short time go. The House now insists on the date of adjournment being carried out,, but as there are many bills on the cal endar it Is possible that in event of members seeing that their measures are imperiled by adjourning on the day set they may either turn back the clock or extend the date a day as was done when things became strenuous in the windup of the ses sion of 1913. —The House fought over the Graeff bill increasing salaries of judges yesterday afternoon for al most an hour. In the language of Representative Black, of this city, it was the fourth time at the bat for the bill. The House some time ago defeated the conference report on the bill, but yesterday afternoon by a vote of 107 reconsidered that action and put the bill on the post poned calendar. It will probably come up Monday. Predictions that it would pass were being made to-day. The bill affects judges in Washing* ton, "Westmoreland, Schuylkill, Mont gomery, Fayette, Lancaster, Dau phin, Berks and other counties. —Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain received a notable reception in Lawrence county yesterday when he addressed the big farmers' meet ing at Volant. Mr. McClain is a splendid speaker and his straight from the shoulder talk took with the sturdy folks of the western tier. —The Philadelphia transit bills had another airing yesterday after noon and the Senate amended and passed them with William Draper Lewis in the offing, —lt is probably that the "mine cave" bills will be dropped before they get very far next week. A proposition to makfe a plan for ad justment of damages due to the sub sidence of surfaces will be presented by the coal companies. —Men active in the antiliquor movements in the Legislature were regretting to-day that they had lost so much time this session. It is prob able that next session they will de mand quick action on their measures and not wait until the last horn blows. —Men in the House last night were speculating on when the bill to suspect the full crew law would get up. Some members seemed in clined to talk against time, all of which had the effect of keeping back the bill. —There was a big demand for copies of the third class city police civil service law to-day. It will be come effective at once. Pershing in Paris Joffre came to America and the country rose to him. Pershing in Paris is acclaimed as a soldier of the reticent, unconditional surren der, all-summer type. He does not make the mistake of ascribing to himself the glory in which he is least interested. He knows full fell that he is accepted as the epic figure of a country which has registered ten millions of men and subscribed three billions of dollars to help in the war —our war. What he wants most of all is to get down to busi ness—the business of organizing, forwarding, concentrating toward the single visualized objective of vic tory. A year ago Pershing sat on a campstool in the quivering, hot dust of Mexico with the cactus and the prickly pear for shade trees; in these days he stands by Napoleon's tomb where kings have paid their homage, and kisses the sword of the Little Corporal before whom the world trembled. It was a replica of the visit of Joffre to Washington's tomb; and the voice of the crowd acclaiming the fighting leader of America was the echo of the multi tude greeting the hero of the Marne. The effect of the demonstration is only to Increase the determination of our representatives to do his best for the country and the cause she has made her own on foreign soil, which is destined one of these days .to become more precious to us when It is red with the blood of many of our men, following the example of the Americans who have already laid down their lives.—Philadelphia Ledger. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH Labor Notes A. Bellamy, president of the Brit ish National Union of Railway Men, has predicted that women workers on the railways have come to stay. j By an order of the British Minis ter of Munitions women engaged on skilled munition work will receive the same wages as men. Men in the employ of the pork curing firms of Londonderry, Ire land, have heen granted an advance of 50 cents a week. Women in England have helped in tho making of every type of weapon of war, from heavy artillery to rifles, from huge shells to machine-gun bul lets, and in construction of aero planes, including thetr engines. East Liverpool (Ohio) Retail Clerks' Union has secured an agree ment with local merchants which closes stores every evening, except Saturdays, at 5 o'clock from July 5 to October 1. The usual holidays will also be observed. A machine for stripping hemp fiber has been invented by an Amer ican In the Philippines which will produce 600 pounds of hemp a day, while under old methods a work man. fwith an assistant, produced only 15 pounds. Private control of railroads in England is a thing of the past. Government control was adopted as a war measure in August, 1914. It has worked so well that the principle will be retained when peace returns. A new pension system under which aged clergymen can receive pensions went into effect recently in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Another provision makes widows and orphans of the clergy also eligible for pensions. Butter Is being sold in Leeds, Eng land, at 47 cents a pound, and in con sequence many people are turning to margarine at 20 and 24 cents a pound. People in the middle classes, as well as in the laboring classes, are now learning to use it. The British government is cam paigning to obtain 10,000 milkmaids. The girls will be given free training and be maintained during instruction and terms of unemployment, and will be paid $4.50 a week, or the dis trict wage where it is higher. The Agricultural committee of the Eastern Townships Associated Boards of Trade of Canada has adopted a resolution urging the gov ernment to settle veterans on East ern as well as Western lands. Omaha (Neb.) hodcarriers and building laborers are enforcing their new wage scale of cents an hour for common laborers and cents an hour for mortar-mixers, hodcarriers and scaffold builders. Working Out the Plan Now let the elders till the fields, and, gathering at night, Prate of the battle fields they knew and many a gory fight Fought breast to breast and eye to eye. where hot breath met hot breath, When wounded horses screamed and kicked and men were done to death. And hotspurs rode with reins in teeth and shining saber bare; Of boys who lay beneath the moon with bloodclots on their hair. Of what they heard and saw. and felt in many a fierce campaign. And speak of comrades who came through, and other comrades slain. i For now the talk is all of strife. Our boys have gone to war, To battle for the self same thing their grandstres battled for; They hear the cannon's sullen roar and see torn earth up toss. And women fare forth to the fields, their badge a blood red cross, To help to save the wounded and to kneel beside the dead; And mighty engines built by men fight battles overhead. And other engines built by man plow through the sea's green deeps. Or grimly wait where "neath its plume of smoke the dreadnaught sweeps. For nations of the earth go forth to kill and kill and kill! G<J3 moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to fulfill. And out of all the warring and the deaths there shall come peace. And there shall come a day when wars forevermore shall cease; A dsv when thrones shall be no more and nations shall be free, And hands shall reach for brothers' hands across the land and sea. God's plans turn not aside for lives. Peace shall come back, and when Peace comes, oh, may God grant our sons come safely home again. Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Hous ton Post. I Remember, I Remember I remember, I remember, The quondam price of corn; 'Twas fifteen cents a bushel in The State where I was born. And well the eggs I used to hunt With rapture in the hay; Ah me, nine cents a dozen then Was all they brought In pay. I remember, I remember, The prices tall and high, Of ready-mades, I used to think Their limit was the sky. But ah, I left the farm one day. And now 'tis little joy. That corn and eggs and all are higher Than when X was a boy. —Cynicky Phin, in the Kansas City Star. " CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist SQUASH BUGS SQUASH bugs are sturdy things, which arp not effect ed by poisons and are al most immune to contact insecti cides. If the young plants are watched carefully and the gray ish bugs which are almost three, fourth of an inch long, are cap tured and killed, the future gen eration never becomes a serious pest. Collecting the orange col ored egg clusters on the under sides of the leaves and crushing them is of material assistance, especially In the small areas of the average grower. When the young squash bugs are present, spraying with kero sene emulsion, or better, 40 per cent, nicotine sulphate, diluting one part in 300 parts water and adding two pounds of soap to each 60 gallons of spraying ma terial is an effective means of de- I strov'.ng them. This spraying must be applied I when the bugs are small, or the bufcs will scatter over the entire area planted in pumpkins or squashes and control will be al most impossible. Destroying the old vines in the fall Is also of assistance. The material should , be piled up and left several days ; before burning in order to let ! hibernating individuals, seeking j the protection offered by piles of j old vines, have a chance to se crete themselves within its depths. When a Feller Needs a Friend By BRIGGS I V ' . C®Pyri*hted 1917 br The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribune). IF NEW YORK WERE PARIS WE WOULD KNOWHO WWA R "FEELS" By MARION BONSALL DAVIS (Mrs. Davis Spent Six Months in Paris a. a Volunteer Relief Worker .and With Clear Journalistic Vision Has Translated War-Timc Paris Into Terms of Peaceful New York). | X HAVE never yet been able to visualize the situation in France, j It is too big—too terrible —too | dramatic. I do my small part here I mechanlcaly as a matter of course. I work a little and contribute my mite to the Red Cross. Why I do jt I vaguely know, but cannot feel." The statement frojn an active Red Cross worker probably represents the mental attitude of a large num ber of Americans. To really get the "feel" of France to-day, imagine New York were Paris. There would be days of crashing bands and flying banners; glittering detachments of cavalr>, with hun dreds of horsetail streamers floating out from gold hornets; aeroplanes and dirigibles buzzing overhead; transport motors rumbling and Red Cross ambulances speeding In and out of every street; organs and or chestras In the churches and cathe drals playing stately marches and brilliant fanfares on the fete days; soldleis coming and soldiers going; color—music —drama—thrills. If New York were Paris, there would be signs on some of the white marble mansions, "Hospital Aux iliary 117," or "The Re-education of the Mutilated," or "Hospital for Men Blinded in Battle." The mir rors of some of the brilliant cafes would reflect aproned women sort ing and packing bandages, blankets, shirt, pajamas; typewriters for the bookkeeping on the dining tables; tins of ether, labeled, ready for sending, on the bar. Into the Pennsylvania Statton and the Grand Central would pour streams of old people and children, looking bewildered, as if In a dream —refugees. Big buildings in the city would be turned into hotels, and families from forty and fifty miles out. and also from great distances, who had built their little homes by a lifetime of thrift and saving, would live crowded with the rem nant of two or three thousand other homeless families. Soldiers —our men and boys— would forever be leaving those sta tions (as they have started to leave li> thin numbers) on their way back to the front after the short leave. In the subways wo would see them coming or going, very matter-of Not the Highest Ideal But, to speak plainly, peace is not In Itself a human ideal. As long as it leaves unsolved the problem of Jus tice 4t is not even a desirable aspira tion. It may even be repugnant to the moral sentiments of an enlight ened conscience. It is to be desired only when it is the concomitant of realized social good, for it is in no sense an end in itself. But the word is not to be set aside as representing a more negotiation, as if it were sim ply the absence of strife. Peace on earth would mean the liberation of human faculties for the highest and aobiest achievements of which hu man nature is capable. It would mean a splendid efflorescence of art, literature, science, philosophy and religion, in short, culture in its best sense, as the spontaneous unfolding of the powers of personality.—David Jaynes HUI in The Century. fact, caked with mud, coming in, or brushed off; going out: bulky, worn shoes on their feet, battered steel helmets on their heads, heavy loads on their backs, and somewhere, al ways, always the mysterious bundle for or from home. Some of them ! would have girls, some mothers, and some would be quite alone. We would have learned to read their uniforms, and would know from the symbols on aim and col lar their military duty, the number of times wounded, and their length of service. We would have learned, too, not to be surprised at seeing the medals for "conspicuous brav ery" on the breasts of the ill-nour ished, unpromising-looking oneg; we would know that they might have assumed command when the last of ficer had fallen. If New York were Paris, at 5 o'clock In the evening thousands of people would be starting to the dif ferent churches for the dally serv ice of "songs and prayers for our soldiers." The scrubwoman and the woman of fashion, the veteran of another war, the grimy private re turning, the immaculate young of ficer starting out, the white-haired scholar, the mother from the coun try come to see her son in the city hospital, would pray there together. Glorious heroisms would be Jived in tenements, palaces and flats. A people would have been caught up into another sphere of conscious ness by the Inspiration of mighty sacrifice, becoming supermen and superwomen In an heroic age. A few people would remain un touched. But the great army at home, be hind the army at the front, would count its glory commensurate with its sacrifice. Sometimes, if New York were Paris, the soldiers wauld start back to the front with bands; but oftenest, even when in detach ments, not to music and not in military step. The rich, coveted re ward of days and nights of fighting would sometimes be th& saluting of the flag. Our soldiers—men and boys— have started for those battlefields. Choking farewells! Prayers! Faith! Courage! Victory! The American Red Cross asks for $100,000,000 Immediately. It Is needed for the Victors'. "The Roosevelt Rock" Down in Brazil, where Terpsichore seems to be trying out her last word In strfps, they are dancing a new and thoroughly disconnected dance called the "Roosevelt Rock," which has found its way to New York through Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. De Forez, who are at the Majestic hotel. Mr. DeKorez is a banker and a disciple of the light toe exercise. It appears that the Oyster Bay ex ercise is performed with both parties to the dance distrusting each other, after the fashion of a late reunion between the Progressive and Repub lican parties. There are no holds. Each dancer waves hla arms, and the final modern touch is the universal suffrage note, which makes the man follow his fair partner, reversing the usual lead. The step is the good old one-step, with tango sway.—New York Herald. JUNE 21, 1917. OUR DAILY LAUGH TTSTNG 'EM AS if 4{ MISSILES, j n> X -want some j thln & to kiu ■ | These moth I ' balls are very I I efficacious. WKJ _ They look aTI M| right. Give me a few and also a grun to shoot 'em ■ : 1 With. TRUE ' PHILOSOPHY. Snail—Carry- j /7 lng your own house around \b[ J/ISs\_jh> on your back is |f j ■ure better than jln 2 hunting one to i* ~ SPROUTtI Ho planted Just S3 That from a ' o ° o e c ° \ Ejn Love often \JW A WATCHER. arreßt this man? He says be was u only watching a v crowd in a safe- / | Watchlnar 1 s right, your hon- ';j]|fe.>gfe36l or. He had three 1 raK: already when 1 BUSINESS PROPORTION. "Mother, how much Is an egg /orthT" "About live cents." "Well, It I go without the tgg can haye the nickel I" ffiroting gtljalj South Cameron street, between Market and Berryhlll. seems to be !" danger of becoming llarrisburg'a n . !. Wny " This highway. the nialn thoroughfare to Steelton and one of the oldest streets in the city, was until this year one of the gloom uh f k w St ° f thoroughfares. It lumber brlck^-'d ß and and warehouses' f °one U o°f l thf'T .ono of those lone dark hlirh ways through wiii„vr uh * lusn liicJes usVri , i\ ch cars and ve to Bet bv Jw W 5 te as though glad . r i . 7*' But now. The straAt ul e?ectrl(f after , There are 4 bulhlinir and i°'l alm ° Bt Gverv other aff irs .i et n c t n thoso brilliant berrv k .J lßhts on the Mul " lights ■lt u f O .. u , lui the street The l-p-icnJ i v.Uttering highway, turned becauso it has been The™ „1, an Al 'tomobile row." 11 nrt ro ? Baraires and 8ale places t "'[® p p p r r P'aces and each one has ltH electric sign. And earlv in the o\ening especially, just after dark mob"lize e th" Ut ?d l 0 l ' ommenpe to Kself TW ° Btr t et h ardly knows hav are other streets which a resiib r f fh'l® transformations as electric ii„ development of the but ri„ n and tho automobile, Jl anieron street has come to the °nt more than any of them. • • • j;?,?" "tay not be biting very turned fV a Har risburger who re ata vLln" 1 a J rlp " lon S the Juni fv nn tif rd f r ' but eels are certaln o hv r Jun \?' In " n hour's time weilhArt S aug bt seven, and the lot eoini? almost ten pounds. That is vp'cr S mm\° or thls season of the f„ ar : . rhts report does not differ tnwn ,f, T °tbers that have come to i . K he pttst few days - Th ® fn u bavo not been active dur ing the brief interval since the be ginning of tho season, but unusually f u r vf e r }V r H b ® rs L of lare chub and fail vlf '> 'by the way, have been almost unknown among local fishermen in recent years. Another nsh that used to be plentiful but is now not caught very often is the catfish. The muddy condition ot the streams is responsible verv largely for the large catches of eels. ♦ * * I ew large catches of bass, or any other game fish for that matter have been reported by local fishermen this year. The reason for this, old fisher men say, is because the water is in so very unfavorable a condition. It is dirty with coal dirt and mud and the bass refuse to take the bait. Fishermen expect that fishing will be better than for many years as soon as the water goes down a trifle more and clears up. The water just now is right for salmon but "where's a fellow gonna get bait," as one fisherman said. iou can't pet salmon bait of any kind for love or money. So I'll guess we'll just have to let them go until fall when they're so fierce they will bite on red flannel." • • • "Mel" James, who Is putting across the Red Cross publicity cam paign In Harrisburg in a big way this week, is the publicity man and general manager for the William Penn Highway Association. Jamed has been identified with many news paper campaigns, not least of which was that for the election of Judge Kepford, brother of tho State Treas urer, when he ran for judge of the Superior Court. When there is no Red Cross news lying around within reach "Mel" wanders out and makes some that the editors feel is good enough for the first page. * • The State Department of Agrlcul-# ture, which has been putting farm ers and owners of garden patches into touch with persons have every thing in the seed line from potatoes to beans, is being asked to locate large quantities of cans and jars for "putting up" things to eat next win ter. The effect of the propaganda for increasing the food production of the state is being noticed every where. The number of garden patches is enormous and people are going at their cultivation as earnest ly as they are saving money to meet payments on Liberty Bonds. They are the same way. They will get the results of working in gardens and vigilance against bugs and they will also have the bonds and see the money spent right in this country. • Ex-Speaker Charles A. Ambler, who presided over the session of the House two years ago, was among the interested visitors yesterday. Mr. Ambler said that he was glad to see everyone so busy and seemed to feel relieved that he did not have to go through the gruelling work of the closing fortnight of a session. • • It is a wonder tho Capitol Park squirrels do not get Indigestion from the varied diet that is forced upon them by visitors. The animals are tho great objects of "petting" by visitors and they get overy kind of nut from peanuts to pecans, walnuts and almonds. The squirrels have so much that they share with the fat pigeons and the "sassy" sparrows. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Colonel Edgar Jadwin, who Is organizing the engineer regiment at Pittsburgh, is also directing the fed eral' improvements along the rivers in Western Pennsylvania. —The Rev. Rufus W. Miller, well known here. Is directing work of the prohibition for the war organization In Philadelphia. —A. W. Mellon, tho Pittsburgh banker, is chairman of the executive committee in charge of the Red Cross work in his city. - Dr. W. C. McClelland has re tired from the chair of English at Washington and Jefferson College after thirty-one years of service. —Collector E. Lederer. of the Philadelphia internal revenue office, has made hearts glad by increasing salaries of all attaches. | DO YOU KNOW V That Harrisburg bookkeeping machines are used by the na tional government? HISTORIC HARRISBFRG Harrisburg turned itself into a big hospital organization in 1790 when it had an outbreak of yellow fever. Plain as Can Be Last week our enterprising re porter, who is too enterprising at times, brought in an item to the effect that Miss Georgia Taylor had become the mother of twins. Her mother was meant, of course. In the rush of journalism such things will happen, of course.—Hometown (Pa.) Banner. All Seem Alike Von Bethmann-Hollweg demon. Urates the fact that the statesmen of our own fair country haven't much on him when It comes to talk ing a couple of hours without saying anything.—Macon Telegraph.
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