6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEH'Sr.IPER FOR THE BOMS Pounded ISJJ B*ublthed evenlags except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Ttlcgnpli Bulldluc, Federal Square. IE. J. STACK POLE, Pr#/'! fr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUSM. STEIN'METZ. Managing Editcr. Member American liahers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- East ern office, Building^ Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as sscond class matter. xiggiK By carriers, ten cents a ■week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAT, JULY 7, 1917. ♦ A life on service bent, A life for love laid down. Is the life for others spent Which God will crown. —AIXKJSOJT. MAD DOGS ANOTHER German air raid over . London! More women and j children slain. The Prussian mad dogs are snapping again at the j heels of Christian civilization. There j Is only one way to stop a mad dog. THF APPLE CHOP LOVERS of apples win be de- J lighted to hear that conditions] in the Franklin county fruit belt are not as bad as at first said to be : and that In general the apple crop! will be a success. As reported some time since by the Telegraph, Adams I county apples are In excellent con-1 dition and little hall damage has | been done there. This statement; coming from a no less authority than ; the famous Dr. Fletcher, of State j College, should quiet any fears that might have arisen. Men like the Tyson brothers, of Adams county, have done so much I for apple growing in that section! that It Is gratifying to note how rap- Idly the Industry Is forging to the front In competition with the In dustry in other States. "Apple Seed Johnny" may been the father of apple growing in Pennsylvania, but It is men like the Tysons and Dr. Fletcher who have placed it on a scientific, profit-making basis. Muncipal Band Concerts GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH hav ing approved a bill permitting I cities to appropriate money for municipal band concerts, Harris- ! burg should put Itself on record as ' the first municipality in the State to lake advantage of the new law. Harrisburg had free band concerts In Reservoir Park long before any other third-class city in the State gave apy thought of music for the masses under municipal auspices. The late George G. Kennedy was the father of the park band concert In Harrisburg. He personally solicited subscriptions with which to meet the expenses and took much pride in bringing to the city many of the crack musical organizations of the East Later, under V. Grant Forrer's superintendency of t.ie old park board, the concerts w;s continued More recently they have been dropped as a feature <H summer life In Harrisburg; more's the pity. Nobody is to blame tor t'uis. What is everybody's business is often no body's business, and it .has been so with the free band concert move ment. Under the old plan a few people paid for the pleasure of all. By the provisions of the new law the band concert funds would come out of general revenues, and the ex pense thereby properly distributed. If it be too late to make an ap propriation this year an Item by all means should be included In next year's budget. VOLUNTEERS IT speaks well for the good cit izenship of the community that the Harrisburg recruiting dis trict has responded with 1.500 more volunteers for the Regular Army than tho quota prescribed by the War Department, and that of Jhese Dauphin county came forward with 155 mOre thafi required. These men will have advantages over those who are conscripted. will train with men who know how to fight. They will be shoulder to shoulder with the experienced sol diers of the Regular Army, than whom there are no better In the world. The privilege of volunteering SATURDAY EVENING, is still open, but the time left Is limited. For the man who expects to be conscripted and who prefers to go as a volunteer there Is no bet ter way than to get Into either the Regular Army or one of the National Guard units at once. There Is room In both. MONEY FOR RIFLE CLUBS IT is to be hoped that the com missioners of Dauphin county will take advantage of the law approved by Governor Brumbaugh yesterday permitting counties to give financial assistance to rifle clubs, the members of which pledge themselves to come to the protec tion of their respective counties at the call of the Governor. The Harrisburg Rifle Club is a fine example of th'j spirit and serv ice such organizations may render. It has been in existence little more than a year, yet it has sent to the officers' training camps or to the army more than half of Its enrolled membership. It has spent and Is spending its own money to perfect its members in the use of the rifle. The government is aiding in a gen eral way, but the county should stand willing to do its part These men are sacrificing their own time, money and effort for the safety of the people as a whole. A soldier who cannot shoot straight may as well not be on the battle front or in the militia body entrust ed to home protection duties. A crack shot is worth a dozen whose marksmanship is poor. The rifle clubs make sharpshooters of their members. They should be support ed. SPIES SPIES are everywhere in this country and little has been i done to prevent their ope#a- | tions, according to dispatches from Washington. This notwithstanding | early plans, approved toy the Presi dent, for circumventing their actlvl- I ties. And here is the explanation of Lincoln Colcord in the Philadelphia Public Ledger as to why Mr. Wilson's program has not been carried out: The story runs that the Cabinet also highly approved qf the pro ject, and thought that it ought to be don# at once, until it cams to the question of how it was to be done. Thereupon trouble arose. Secretary McAdoo said that, of course, this central intelligence ! bureau would be organized under ! the Treasury Department, since Secret Service operations tradi tionally had been conducted under I his department. Secretarv Baker | immediately objected, saying that j in view of war conditions the cen- | tralized intelligence bureau ought to be under the War Department. | I This brought a demand from Secretary Daniels that it be organ ized under the Navy Department, since the navy was the older ! branch of the service and our war operations would all be overseas. Secretary Gregory thought that it \ ought to come under the Depart- | ment of Justice, since he had the i best intelligence bureau to start ! with. Even Secretary Burleson j put in a claim on it. saying that 1 the Post Office Department was larger than any other and covered i the whole country. ' Thus, between nine stools, the project fell very flat, and has never since been revived. As a consequence the country to-dav is without adequate provision "for ! collecting intelligence regarding the host of spie which must be sending information to Germany. i This is a fine time for the little men who make up the big cabinet to air their differences. HZ" HOW COLLARS WEAR OUT THE LITERARY DIGEST devotes more than half a column of it 3 ; current issue to a scientific dis- I cussion of the topic—"How Collars Wear Out" The Digest refers, of course, to collars of the stiff, linen! 1 variety which for years have stood at once as a badge of gentility and a 1 mark of submissiveness. But why scientific research should! be necessary to ascertain how collars ! wear out will puzzle the average ' man who believes not only how, but; why, and his views are backed up, by long-suffering and bitter ex- i perience. For example, he buys a new collar: and after giving it proper initiation into its duties as the guardian and adornment of his precious neck, ho entrusts it to the tender mercies of : the laundryman. Most men believe \ that all the strong arm gentry of j the country get their early training : in laundries. The first couple of trips mak"e no ! apparent Impression. The collar ! comes home stiff and glossy. But by j and by a faint tickling just forninst the Adam's apple gives sign that the herculean efforts of the laundrymen are beginning to get in their work around the edges, as It were. About the same time the front buttonholes begin to grow, affording ample play ; for the vilest tendencies of depraved I collar buttons (all collar buttons are ' depraved by nature; some say they were Invented in Germany) and from ; then op to the bitter end the wearer i never knows at what embarrassing moment collar and shirt may part j company In front leaving the un fortunate and unoffending necktie to \ face'a miserable existence of divided | allegiance. Finally there comes the awful reckoning, when, with murder in his aoul, with a neck sawed to the raw and the upper edge of his collar filed down to a razor edge, the wearer rebels and ID Berserker rage tears the collaf In twain with a fine 1 ripping sound and casts It from him. followed by a line of conversational condemnation not ordinarily used In polite households. That's the how and tho why of collar 'wear-out. But w can give the Digest a sure oure for the evil. We know lt'j a sure cure, for we have tested It ourselves. It's like this. YV>u buy a dozen or more soft collars or soft shirts with collars attached, put your stiff collars In a laundry box and store 'em away on the top shelf of your clothes press. Then you forget where you put 'em. fofctttc* tx exxo ificanlo. | By the Ex-Committeeman —From all accounts there are some free for all races being conducted In smaller counties where there will be associate judges elected this fall. The time for circulation ot nominating petitions began on Monday and in some counties there were half a dozen candidates before night. There are associate judges to be elected In sixteen of the counties of the State and the rivalry is keen in most of them. In JPerry county, for Instance, there is only one judge to be elected and there are several candidates. In Juniata, Montour, Sullivan and Union counties ihero will be two judges selected and the candidates are ex pected to be numerous. Circulation of petitions for most of the judges who will run pgain began this week but there were not many reports re ceived here of rival candidacies. The demands for petitions this year have been pretty extensive and the supply laid in by the secretary of the com monwealth has been in demand. —The first changes of any conse quence to be made in the fiscal de partments of the State government will be started the end of the coming week. Auditor General Charles A. Snyder and State Treasurer H. M. Kephart have managed to keep their own counsel pretty well about the appointments to be made and they will make them gradually. In the T-easury, Corporation Clerk H. D. Jones will retire on Saturday and there may be some changes in the Auditor General's Department an nounced next week. Reports of changes in the Public Service and Insurance Departments are denied. —Governor Brumbaugh last night announced his approval of the Stern House bill fixing the date of tha September Primary for the third Wednesday instead of the third Tues day. This change affects only the primary in odd numbered years and was made because of a Jewish holi day falling on the third Tuesday. —The Philadelphia Record to-day! says that it looks as though the rival j leaders had agreed upon a slate for j Philadelphia offices this fall. Sen-1 ator Penrose is to have the district attorney, the Vares, the city treasur- j er. the mayor, the receiver of taxes i and Senator McNichol the register.! This means that District Attorney Rotan, Register Sheehan and Re ceiver Kendrick will succeed them selves. Senator E. W. Patton will be come city treasurer. —According to the Philadelphia Inquirer Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tus tln has landed the appointment of caretaker at the Fairmount Park. The ex-Senator was downed by a Vare combination but appears to be able to capture several places every now and then. —Democratic National Commit teeman A. Mitchell Palmer Is still suffering from the clouts handed to [ him by the Governor and others j relative to his assertions regarding' the conscription boards. —lt is figured out that Governor Brumbaugh will approve appropria- i tions to amount of $82,000,000. The appropriations as made aggregate 555.852.169 and the Governor will j tackle the job on Monday. The' amounts carried are all higher than approved two years ago and the j I chances are that the Governor will | cut things down to the original fig- j | ures agreed upon in the committees, l —The appropriation bill carries! j two items for the Fire Marshal's De- j i partment. One is in case the reor- ' | ganization goes through. U-Boats Losing Heavily Announcement has been made several times that American gunners | on merchant ships had reason to be ! lieve they had been successful in at-I : tempts at sinking submarines. A j ' ship reaching England on Sunday. | for example, was attacked by two ] j U boats that were driven oft by the I j machinegun crews. Confidence was | . expressed that the periscope of onej j attacker was shot away. Other evl- i i dence has accumulated to indicate ! that the Allies are making progress | against the undersea foe. But there generally is room for | doubt as to ilie efficiency of those announced successes against the U- ; boat. The attacks very often are at j long range. The enemy disappears 1 i and no one can be sure whether the submergence wis voluntary or, j forced. Th<v work of destruction ; against merchant ships has kept \ I right on, al'.hough in diminished pro- 1 ] portions recently, and left a sus- [ j picion in the minds of many that | • the allied gunners might not be as , successful as they have believed. Now comes indisputable proof : from headquarters in Germany that j i the warfare on the submarines is ef- , i fectlve. The losses have reached such , proportions that it is no longer per- ' [ mitted to mention them. No lists of j U-boat casualties have been an- , I nounced by the admiralty in recent' \ weeks, although until a month or more ago those missing were listed. It was not, of course, always known in Germany whether the miss'ng had perished or been captured.—lndian apolis Star. The Habit of Saving Those "aingle-sllce-of-bread" fig ures issued by the Department of Agriculture are impressive. If every home in the United States and there are 20,000.000 should waste one slice of bread a day, 7,000,000 bushels of wheat would bS wasted In a year, or the annual product of 470,000 acres. We all know that there Is more than an average of one slice of bread for each American household wasted in a day. So we may be sure that our waste ap proaches the 10,000,000-bushel mark in a year. "War is not a blessing. But It may have Incidents that come as bless ings under Martian disguise. Per haps this war is going to teach us as a people sane economy in our homes. We throw enough out of the window each year to keep poverty away from the thousands. If. when the lowering clouds have passed and the sun of peace again shines on this land, we shall have learned the significance of a slice of bread and other culinary units of our domestic life, we shall have con ferred an altogether surprising boon on ourselves. For-thrift Is a habit, Just as In waste. We acquired the habit of waste in piping times of peace. The habit Of thrift awalla us If we hava the character as a people now to acquire It.'—From tho Cincinnati Times-Star. HARKD3BURG TELEGRAPH _ . MOVIE OF A MAN TRYING TO LOCATE A FIRE By BRIGGS | I • • _J n Ji—*•^o." oe> *" "S*' * !>••"•' Iflr £T% I m I .-;§€* IH 4a I rwV- %J 1' # r §!## L-v.* -••"'■ ~ m~-re-e 6 ' r IL- [1 1 Johw You mOSTm'T — "IS? r : -^rT7 A Ot , -|4- r _V , TALK wheio Too -00-'J fT WAS -- ' 0 TAP —<l Z. COUfJTiw6 COOiJTiisKj I " tT OWTIL | J DaODV I To FIMD OUT JSfti„„==d, /==!> fi meVS Wu-ST . - T -- J -FOUR /|] A FIRE | / U pme 1 T o ** (f: g /I Fl' £s? /i 1 HEAR The 9| ■ # Sri ®i> f ffli "g 1 fr 1 T4l>- -r^ ?0 0 "0 WfAS THAT! hsluo cEro-m/su - -rbo-°°" Tbo-oo . Fo*jß -OR I WHepe-S Tn* f j Fws. ; Tt-^ T // \ / Fiße ? lw-A EDITORIAL COMMENT J "The mailed fist of Germany, with further aid from* Almighty God, will restore you to your throne," Is! "Your William's" message to Con-1 stantine, his jobless brother-in-law. j By this time even Constantino must j suspect that that "mailed fist" is be ing held by the Allies for Insufficient postage.—New York Herald. Frederick Palmer, writing In Col lier's, says there are no extraordinary happenings any more, and that he may yet have to write about a siege ! of Jerusalem conducted by the Kan sas National Guard. There are some fascinating speculative possibilities In the above remark, the Lawrence Journal-World points out. One can imagine a Kansas boy In the Meso potamlan expeditionary force, stand- j ing on the site of the Garden of Eden, thinking of Kansas and wish-1 ing he were back in "God's country." ; —Kansas City Star. There is flattery in calling them! food-gamblers. Gamblers take chances. —Newark News. A Kentucky woman shot at her; husband and killed a Jersey cow j worth SIOO. A gun is a dangerous, plaything in the hands of a woman ; who can't shoot straight.—Kansas 1 City Star. Liberty Bonds are not yet listed, on the Berlin bourse. Wall Street Journal. Home With Heads Up I believe that many of the men who have "dropped out" here at Plattsburg have come to the conclu sion that they should never have "dropped in." That in itself goes far toward settling the "policy" of the new method of selection of offl cers whether of the new army or of the reserve corps. It means that the man who must leave Plattsburg or the other camps can go home with his head up. He has been convinced not that he was unfit to serve his country, but that he was not fitted to serve it in the capacity that appealed to him. And the mere fact that he displayed enough Initiative to seek command should be everlastingly in his favor. Some of the earlier dropped men from the encampment were perhaps bitter about it. The later home farers have been not even philoso phical about it. They have been en thusiastic. ready to return to their homes and do what they could.— Herbert Reed in the New York In dependent. Throw at Unseen Targets On the commori not two hundred yards from the hutments there aic many queer earthworks where re cruits in the reserve battalion of the ! London regiment are taught almost under war conditions. They are ! given bombing practice in all Its dif ferent stages, and the raw recruit ■ finds that the hurling of a Mills is not as easy as it looks at first sight. ! First of all, the men throw the I grenades in the open at a well de ' fined mark, until after some weeks' ; training they are able to throw from ! the directions of an observer with a periscope, who watches for the i heads of the enemy to pop up. These I heads are on a hinge, and mp.y ap pear in any one of a half a dozen ; different traverses or emplacements. ! The observer has to be continually i on the alert, and the bomber must also keep all his wits about him. so that he can %iake his blind throw as efficacious as possible.—London Times. The Honey Bee Oh, de bee is on de clover. An" he's singin' of a song As de sun goes drlftln' over Where de day Is warm an' long. Oh, dat bee Is kind o' funny, Yoh thanks he'l try to win Foh de sweetness of de honey. But he'll sting you if he kin — You hardly don't know wtoat to say 'Bout sech a blame contrary way! Oh, de bee Is kind an' gentle While he's tollln' through de hours, An' a-slngin' sentimental To de bushes an' de flowers. Den he'll take a sudden notion Dat it's time to start a fight. An' he'l stir up a commotion Anywhere dat he kin light—- An' dar Is folks, It 'pears to me, Dat acts Jes' l,ke dat honey bee. —Washington Star. I MUNICIPAL BOTANICAL GARDENS) > IT Is a noteworthy fact that the United States is beginning to appreciate botanic gardens. This appreciation may be relatively su perficial as yet, but the superficial is usually the preliminary step that leads to the fundamental. The de sirability of botanic gardens was not obvious when large areas in a state of nature were available to almost j every one; but when we developed congested populations in cities and made artificial most of our open areas, the thought of botanic gard ens began to take form. Those of you who have traveled In Europe must have been Impressed by the multiplicity of such gardens. I They began there in the form of ; monastic gardens, in which the so ! called "simples," used in primitive 1 medicine, were cultivated. Then I they came out into the open as city I gardens, chiefly for the enjoyment of ; the people and to beautify the city. Finally, they became also scientific, j and gradually led to such great es j tablishments as the botanic gardens iat Home, Geneva, and Paris, the I 'great modern gardens on the .out- I i skirts of Berlin and Munich, and i ! that greatest of all garden establish- ! j ments, the Kew Gardens f London. > ! These are but conspicuous iliiistra- j | tions of what almost every Koropean | ! city had developed before be began I Ito think of garden establishments. j * * * * There is nothing more artificial than city life, and therefore nothing i j more abnormal. Some are able now I 1 and then to renew their contact with j i the natural and normal, but most l j are not. A botanic garden brings to! j the many a touch of what only the ; i few can secure for themselves. You | | have doubtless developed some very i definite and effective ways of ex-1 pressing the social contribution of j this garden to the life and welfare l of this community. But to me, Do**'n With Autocracy July l, 191", U. S. S. Prometheus, Cars Postmaster, New York, N. Y. To the Editor of the Telegraph: Would you mind putting this great piece of poetry in your paper and waking some boys up at home Please, and oblig me. I got this from Our Navy, the magazine of the service. Harry S. Clark, formerly of "57 Clinton street, Lemoyne. The war clouds are gathering thick in the east. The peaceful . vocations of men have ceased. Go forth into battle, each mother's son, To save what our forefathers died for, and won. Come on the front with your brawn and your brains. • And the spirit of Seventy-six In your veins, We need you right now and we need you bad, too, Evbry day that you slack, is no credit to you. • j i Our honor's at stake and our coun try's in trouble. So take up your arms, to the front on the double, Each man do his bit and show he's a backer, We all know that God, and the world, hates a slacker. Tha eyes of the world are upon you. young fellow, Do you want It to see plain as day that you're yellow? There's only two channels open to you, One Is the khaki and one Is the blue. Let us rise In our might to our task on the run. With the bursting of shells and the roaring of guns, We know that our cause Is most righteous and just, And we won't see "Old Glory" dragged Into the dust. Hurrah /or Old Glory, the Red. White and Blue, And remember the things she has done for you, I'orget for a time your work bench and tools, Until Autocracy's crushed and Democracy rules. speaking in general terms, the con spicuous social contribution is to provide the opportunity, and see to it that all the people take advan tage of it. * • • • Perhaps the most significant con tact with nature is the handling of plants. We are seeking now for an army of people with some ex perience in handling plants; for more people who will cultivate Slants wherever space permits. You ave been made to realize, tn these days of testing our resources, that the most important material prob lem we are facing as a nation is the problem of food-production and conservation. Food-production has lagged far behind population, and this Increasing gap must be closed up. Our science of transportation has far outstripped one science of food-production, so that we have come to depend not only upon a diminishing food supply, but also upon transporting that supply across a continent. To learn to grow plants and grow them everywhere, espe | daily near our great centers of I population, is a crying need. The development of home gard j ens, therefore, is not merely a serv -1 ice for social betterment that all | recognize, "but it is becoming more j and more a public necessity. Any | institution that gives you and your j children this training is not merely i an educational institution, but also a j public benefactor. A botanic gard i en doing such work Is like a power | house, radiating energy throughout i the 'commun'ty. Such training is an j equipment which not only enriches I life, but it is also an equipment for | service. These two contributions, social | and educational, seem very obvious, I but the third contribution needs ful | ler explanation.—From address de j livered at Brooklyn, April 19, 1917, by Professor John Merle Coulter. Prussianism at Its Purest There is a world of meaning in the words of the German General von Blume, who publishes a review of the military situation in the semi official North German Gazette. "With our three allies," he says, "we now have to guard ourselves against thirteen entirely hostile and nine half-hostile states, comprising the greatest part of the earth's inhabit ants. The more enemies the more honor." Nothing could be more typically- Prussian than that. Nothing could Illustrate more powerfully the extra ordinary vanity, the amazing conceit of the German ruling classes, which has convinced them that the Ger mans are the chosen people; that German Kultur is superior to any other culture, and must be imposed, by force if necessary, upon the other and "inferior" peoples. This vanity is utterly unshaken by the fact that the great majority of the earth's in habitants entertain a very different opinion of the Germans, of German Kulture, and of Germany's cause in this struggle. General von Blume points out that Germany and her three allies are now opposed by "thirteen entirely hostile and nine half-hostile states." He seems to take pride In this. It lias not dawned upon him that he is emphasizing the very fact which is most damning to Germany—the fact that the opinion of the great major ity of manhood is adverse to her.— Charleston News and Courier. Civil Liberty Our responsibility for the wise and temperate use of civil liberty is' of general obligation; and it is our ex ample as a Nation that has sensibly affected the civilized world. The image of personal freedom, of order, of security, of happiness, and at national -prosperity, which our coun try presents, has had its influence wherever learning and commerce have penetrated. When our revolu tion began, despotism prevailed everywhere, except In Great Britain and her colonies; or If civil liberty existed at all on the continent of Europe, it dwelt l|l timid retirement, in thjs romantlo valleys of Switzer land, within the shade of the loftiest Alps. But we have Jived to witness a visible Improvement In the Institu tions and policy of nations, after the tempest of the French Revolution had subsided, and its ravages were repaired.—'James Kent (1828), JULY 7, 1917. Labor Notes Men of 22 nationalities work In on© Arizona mine. Ohio's 50- hour work week for women was effective June 29. Canada has practically no returned soldiers out of employment. Bay City (Mich.) Iron molders have raised wages to $4 a day. Retail clerks at Beaver Falls, Pa., have formed a union. Chile will organize a system of Government labor exchanges. Wages of colored worker* in this country average SB.6S a week. Toronto plumbers have been In creased to 50 cents an hour. Government employes in #ie Neth erlands have a minimum wage. Canada will introduce vocation training for disabled soldiers. Chicago stockyards employ more than 5000 colored workmen. OUR DAILY LAUGH | VIEWPOINT. 1 war la always Can you Im : aglne what this MtgSeT ' | country would Jjgi* I be like If no- 3FfL body ever had /itIV died for It. ifcgfl /la 1 MORE WAT* j I THAN ONE. , I Mr. Titewad: 1 If you married I Ime for my I ,) „ / money, why do you want a His wife: Be y jJ p cause I have de jj /J elded that that Wm \mS// la easier uW W// way to get what I married yot GAVE IT UP. "Going to plant potatoes In your garden this spring?" "I thought I would, but *hen I looked up tho way to do It I found that potatoes have to planted in hllla, and our yard Is perfectly flat," AN INDUI/3ENT FATHER. "How la John trotting on at col lege?" r ! "Famously, 1 think, he spent over ja hundred dollar* Just for books the [ first tferee months he was there." Abating Governor Martin O. Brnmbaogfc It writing out all of his vetoes In hla own handwriting this year. Two years ago the governor made hla notes and dictated the messages, often after studying or discussing the comments on bills given to him by the attorney general and hla deputies, Governors Stuart and Tener used to dictate their messages, but Governoi Brumbaugh has abandoned that plan and now writes out his own mcssagei and sends them to his office to b copied. The governor has beejj working on bills at the ExeeutlJ mansion and plans to handle all thai kind of business at his official home, only going to the Capitol to meet en' gagements, which are being heK down to a minimum during the con sideration of bills. Very few people are being permitted to call on hlra and to save time he has asked foi briefs. When the governor gets th comments from the attorney gen eral s office on a bill and has all th< brief in hand he locks himself lr nts library and writes out hli thoughts. Many of the vetoes are It characteristic Brumbaugh phrase ology and quite a few of them hav< been surprises. After the vetoes hav< been written out and compared th< governor occasionally sends for them to see how it looks in typewritlnf and sometimes there is another writ lng to care for some interlineation! or some eliminations. * • * Thanks to the war gardens Penn sylvania will probably have th< P. cabbage and bear crops In its history according to esti mates made by men who have beer studying reports sent to the Stat< Department of Agriculture. PraC' tlcally every city and borough hai reported more gardens than evei known before and that most of them have planted potatoes, beans or cab bage, which crops were all shor last year. In the country farmeri have increased the area under culti vation tremendously, in some in stances so much as to seriously em barrass them for labor and the acre, age given to potatoes is very large It Is believed that the potato crop 01 the state will go over 30,000,001 bushels this year and that a grea amount of it will be stored. Th< potato vleld last year was only 19, 000,000 bushels. Late reports indi cate that there has been a market increase in the condition of thi wheat in practically every district the month of June having been ver favorable to grain. The hay crop ii some sections is not up to expecta tions. • • • The summer rush to visit the Stat Capitol Is on and automobile partie from a dozen different states ar registering almost dally at the offic lof the guides. The number of vis I iters registering this summer i larger than last year, especially u school parties. Several parties hav stopped here on the way to Wash ington. •• * ■ In all probability steps to star work on the Capitol Park extensioi landscape will be authorized nex week when the Board of Publi Grounds and Buildings meets. Th appropriation bill is in the hands o the governor who discussed it befor It was reported out. • * * The new colors of the Pennsyl vanla railroad's signal system hav been attracting much notice and th use of the yellow, which has bee: extensively used on other railroad is rather strange to people Wi have been brought up on white fli red. The red remains as the dange sign, but yellow takes the place o white, indicating things are cleai Green is the cautionary sign. Th I sight of lamps'at the end of train J painted yellow and showing I chrome light are a novelty. The can be seen quite some distanci too. o • • • The cavalry horses stabled over i the Capital Perk Extension distric are getting well trained and if the get to France they will be used t war's wild alarms. The stable of th horses Is right close "to the build ings on which the contractors hav been using dynamite to tear dowr Yesterday afternoon about twent horses were tethered within a shot distance of St. Lawrence's churcl where explosives have to be used t rip apart the walls. There wer numerous charges used, but th horses did not seem to mind it particle. ♦ • • Governor Brumbaugh la getting good many letters about the Cam Curtin Memorial proposed In th Senate bill now on his desk. Thl camp site is known from Maine t California and the attention given i the newspapers to the bill Avhen was going through the Leglslatur has caused many people to writ their views on it to the governor an to commend his remarks made o the subject last wlmer. That th letters are in favor of perpetuatin the great mobilization camp of th Civil War goes without saying. 1 WELL KNOWN .PEOPLE —Robert S. Conklin, commission' of forestry, who was sworn in f( another term yesterday, was one ( the first men connected with the d< partment. —Representative C. M. Palmer, i Pottsville, who was here this wee had to register under the draft h cause of one week. —S. A. Small has been commi sloned as a justice of the peace f< Chambersburg. —Ex-Senator Valter McNlchols, i Stranton, was among Capitol visitor —Prothonotary J. M. Cook, i Somerset, Is 111. —Howard Ileln*, the chairman < the food conservation end of tl Public Safety Committee, is devotii all of his time to tfie work. | do youTknow Tliat Harrisbarg is the dis tributing point for immense quantities of anthracite as well as bituminous coal? HISTORIC HARRTSBtTRG In the War of 1812 soldiers we mobilized along the River Front. Regular Names Note was made recently of the e listment of Ulysses S. Grant, 8 grandson of the great TTnlon gene'ri In a New York regiment. Enroll in a Yale contingent now ready f France Is William H. Seward, 4t a great-grandson of our famous cl war secretary of state. Even in republic there la something gra' fully significant in these fresh lln lng of old .family names wl national affairs of destiny. Inde< one of the finest features of the r< demoeratto life might well be t persistence of otd-fanilly tradltlo of readiness nnd faithfulness *o t public service—New York World.
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