8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded jgji Published evenlags except Sunday by THE) TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building. Federal Square. 'E.J. STACKPQL.E, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania vAseorl- Ea st e office, Building^ Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as a scond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a ' week; by mall, 15.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1917 Be noble, and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead. Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. —LOWELL. THURSDAY CLOSING RETAIL merchants of Harris burg have determined to make the half-holiday uniform this year. Instead of the grocers closing one day and the other stores an other day, all will close Thursday at noon. There Is no question that this half-holiday is a good thing. It has been tried out and demonstrated. Men and women who work indoors during most of the daylight hours except Sunday and who are em ployed one evening each week sorely need the open air recreation the weekly half-holiday gives them. Thursday is nearly mid-week so far as sales are concerned. The half holiday then will prepare the work ers for the busy Friday and Satur day to follow. GERMANY'S TROUBLES GERMANY is face to face with another Internal disturbance. Each time the demand for lib eralization of the government is made and throttled the come-back is stronger. How long the Hohen zollerns and the pan-Germans will be able to hold out against this con stantly recurring pressure Is not ap parent, but Americans, hoping for an early end of the war through revolu tion in Germany, should not permit themselves to be overly optimistic of peace on that score while Emperor William and those who surround him have a card left to play. It was Emperor William, address ing the German armies, who said: Now that you have donned my uhiform it must be your pleasure and your duty to follow my wishes, realizing that I rule Ger many by the direct will of God. and you must willingly obey my comma-nds. even though I require you to shoot down your own fathers and brothers in response to my dictates. This Is from one of the Kaiser's printed addresses, published In book form In the German language and authorized by himself. Fantastic and ridiculous as it may appear to American eyes, it nevertheless sets forth the views of Wilhelm, and It Is easy to understand that a man hold ing such notions will be the last to surrender to the people any of the powers for the extension of which he haa risked his crown, sacrificed his people by the million, plunged his country Into bankruptcy and dragged his own name and the reputation of the German people in the mire. Or again, the same deductions may be had from a perusal of the Em peror's address at Konigsberg, August 25, 1910, In which he said: Here my grandfather, again by his own right, set the Prussian crown upon his head, once more distinctly emphasizing the fact fact that it was accorded him by the will of God alone and not by Parliament or by any assemblage of the people or by popular vote, and that he looked upon himself as the chosen instrument of Heaven and as such performed his duties as regent and sovereign. • *, * Looking upon myself as the instrument of the Lord, with out regard for daily opinions and Intentions, I g-o my way, which is devoted solely and alone to the welfare and peaceful development of the fatherland. Internal strife is beginning to stir In Germany. Leaders of thought are saying things and people are think ing along lines that would have meant prison before the war. The example of Russia, which overthrew her czar in a night and is yet able to mcke successful war against Ger many, is doing much to Increase the discontent of the people already be ginning to doubt the efficiency of their form of government, discour aged by the ever Increasing circle of foes without and on the verge of starvation from Prussianized war diet within. But withal there seems little or no chance of a speedy end of the war through the Instrumen tality of reform from within. The people of Germany are not yet humble enough for that. The strong arm of might must bring them to their senses before much can be ac complished along that line. There is no Indication that the German people. If they thought they ■aw a chance of victory, would not vote to continue the war Indefinitely. This state of mind must be changed before Germans will risk their lives In revolt, and reform through the government Is almoet Impossible to achieve. As a writer In the Chicago Tribune point# out, the elective sys tem In Germany is not calculated to jive popular control; rather the op- TUESDAY EVENING, poalte. He points out that the Prus sian citizen votes Indirectly through electors and his voting strength de pends on the amount of his Income tax. Voters who have paid a third of the total Income tax choose a third of the electors, and these eleo tors choose a third of the members of the relchstag. Voters who have paid the next third of the total In come tax do the same. So with the remaining third. Thus from 3 to 5 per cent, of the voters control one third of the relchstag. From 10 to 13 pe.r cent, control another third. The great mass of the people get what Is left. Inequality Is'not only permitted, it is prearranged and en forced. In each of something like 2,000 first grade electoral districts the first grade electors consist of but one Prussian. "Rotten boroughs," long ago abolished In England, per sist in Prussia. No effort has been made to district the country in accordance with its present population. A system in use ever since IS7I gives the landed aris tocracy every advantage. Berlin Is now as large as Chicago and should send twenty-four delegates to the relchstag. It sends nine. There Is only one hope apparent now. for Germany—lts standard Is the red flag of revolution, but there appears as yet no standard-bearer. GIVE TO THESE IN war countries millions of lit tle children are without one mouthful of food—hundreds of thousands are In rags, and naked. Many live in holes In the ground, like wild beasts; children gnaw at the carcasses of dead animals to live; and in the fields by the road side little ones, separated from par ents, lie starving, dying—alone. Millions of children have starved to death. Weakened, exhausted, by two years of underfeeding and ex posure, millions more will die If we do not help them! Ten cents will give a starving child one day's life. Three dollars, one month's life. Thirty-five dollars, one year's life. Won't YOU give at least one day's life to a little child? Make your remittances to the Children of America's Fund and mail to the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, New York City. Think how it would be if one of YOUR children lay starving by the roadside and folks who had plenty would refuse him a bite of foo(f to save his little life. PLANTING THE WALL THE appearance of the alreadyj beautiful river front will be ; greatly improved when the rip- ! rapping below Maclay street has been tamped and planted. This bed of rock not only will save the bank from damage, but when It Is covered by shrubbery and vines It will form a new beauty spot for the park system The park authorities have done no better piece of work this year than the improvement of this stretch of' the river park. GOOD SUGGESTION THE newly organized police civil service board would do well to avail Itself of the offer of the Chamber of Commerce to have Mr. Driscoll, the police expert who made the recent survey here, confer with the board. The new commissioners are men of high character, but none of them lays claim to much experi ence in police affairs. They are Just now formulating their rules of pro cedure. They need advice and Mr. Driscoll is well qualified to give It. KING CORN! GOOD old King Corn! This year 3,124,000,000 bush els In the United States alone. And not one bushel of It to be turned Into whisky! Do you realize what that means? It means about three quarts of corn apiece every day for a year for every man, woman and child in the United States. It means, If we did not use corn extensively for stock fodder, and were deprived of other food, and exported none, we could live for a year, even though every other source of grain supply were cut off—and still have a little left for Dobbin, Bossy and Biddy.* That corn crop forecast Is the best news since the Russians de cided not to make a separate peace. It Is a body blow to the Kaiser and a godsend to the allies. We may have less wheat next winter, but who cares If we have more com? What is a piece of pale, tasteless bread, anyway', to a slab of rich, yellow, well-buttered corn "pone?" Why. one ought to apol ogize to the "pone" for mentioning them In the same breath. Corn "pone" properly made and eaten hot is bread and meat and potatoes all rolled Into one. We used to pity those poor Southern folks who had nothing but "pone" during the dark days of the Civil War, but that was before we had been Initiated Into the manifold delights of that delicacy. Now we think they were mighty lucky. Then, too, there are corn cakes and fried mush, and mush and milk, and scrappel, to say nothing of the numerous breakfast dishes made of com and that old stand-by—hominy lr. all its varied forms. Give us corn aplenty and we can do without wheat. The Indians had no wheat, but they did have corn, and you may take it from any old sphool history you care to consult that the corn-fed Indians were a pretty good match for the wheat eating Puritan Fathers. Yea, there were times when the corneaters put It all over the bread and butter boys In open field fighting. But, be that as It may, the big corn crop news is reassuring along many lines. More corn means more and fatter hogs; more hogs mean lower pork prices. More corn means more chickens and more eggs. More eggs mean lower prices. Corn! Maize! It is America's great good fortune and <*ermaAy'# surjte, this corn crop of ours. It is wealth, and health and happiness. There Is no prettier picture than a field of corn as autumn approaches— "When the maize field grows and ripens. Till It stands In all Its splendor Of Its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and Its plumage And the maize ears full and shining Gleam from bursting sheaths of verdure." Th*nk God for our corn! "Pe-KKOlftcCUua By the Ex-Committeeman Discussion of the controversy over the right of the Governor to reappoint men rejected by the Sen ate seems to have given way in the newspapers of the State to weightier things and there is much interest in how Attorney General Brown makes out in his announced purpose of suggesting to Auditor General Snyder that he allow things to go as they are. The Governor has said nothing since making the appoint ments and barring some criticism of his course the newspapers of the State seem to be awaiting develop ments. Mr. Brown says that no good end can be served by starting a row over the appointments and the Watchhorn decision by W. U. Hensel In 1891, is being much quoted at the Capitol. Auditor General Snyder seems inclined to allow the courts to determine the mntetr. There are said to be decisions in national and other State courts which go against the Governor's right to reappoint, but Mr. Brown says that the Governor is within his constitu tional rights. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, tartly resents the comments of Sec retary of the Navy Daniels on morals in Philadelphia. —Secretary of Labor Wilson, who is said to have some gubernatorial ambitions, is due to make some speeches In the State this fall. —The Mayor of Reading and some of the couneilmen are at odds. One councilman was put out of the mayor's office. —Francis Fisher Kane, United States district attorney, may get Into trouble because of meddling in politics, says the Philadelphia In quirer. His term Is up this fall. —Joseph Gaffney, who is in At torney General Brown's law office, is being mentioned for city treasurer of Philadelphia. —The Philadelphia Rcord to day says: "A peace program for the fall primary, which embodies a 50-50 split of the county offices to be filled at the November election on the same basis that those offices are now controlled by the rival Republican factions, is said to have been agreed upon by the Vares and their allies in the Republican City Committee. The Program is expected to be sub mitted to the Penrose-McNichol fac tion with the ultimatum to accept it or fight. If the Penrose-McNichol forces choose to reject the proffered peace offer and fight, the Vares are reported to be ready for battle. A threatened independent ticket, back ed by the Penrose-McNichol forces will be met by the Vares with a ticket containing some independents whom the downtown leaders have managed to corral the disinte gration of the Washington party." —A. Mitchell Palmer has been writing letters again. Now he has ad dressing officials of third class cities about conscription boards. Another explosion is about due in Monroe cou"nty. —Ex-Auditor General A. W. Powell was here yesterday and call ed on the Attorney General. Mr. Powell's name has been mentioned In connection with possible appoint ments. —lt was just one year yesterday since Insurance Commissioner O'Neil took office. He is the one man who was confirmed who did not care whether he was approved by the Senate or not. The year he has been in charge of the insurance de partment has been a lively one. —According to men who figure out such things, there will be six parties entitled to nominate at the primary this year. —Ex-Senator John S. Fisher, of Indiana, who is prominently men tioned as a possible candidate for governor next year, was at the Capi tol to-day. —Frank R. Shattuck, the new member of the moving picture cen sor board, says that he Is going into the job with an open mind. Mr. Shattuck is well known here as he has frequently appeared in suits in the Dauphin county court. —Ex-Representative C. E. Mills, of Bradford county, was among visitors to the Capitol. He may run for the Legislature again. —The Philadelphia Republican city committee's subscommittee on ward leader contests has postponed action for the present, probably to allow things to simmer a bit. —The Washington party is mak ing plans to secure representation on the Philadelphia registration boards. The usual pulling and hailing be tween the Washington men and the Democrats is on. —There will be no constitutional amendments advertised this year and it is possible that newspapers which publish them next year will have to publish them on faith and look to the Legislature of 1919 to provide the money to pay the bill. The item in the general appropria tion bill to pay for the advertising has fallen under the displeasure of the Governor and Attorney General because it contains matters which they hold should not be placed in a bill of that kind. • Th bill is being gone through with a fine tooth comb by Mr. Brown and is likely to be among the last to be taken up. —An Interesting contest for the position of referee in workmen's compensation for the district com posed of Schuylkill, Berks, Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton counties, made vacated by the resignation of Secretary of Internal Affairs Paul W. Houck, has been started. Thomas C. Seidle and Ira W. Stratton, of Reading, are after it and it is said that Carbon and Lehigh also have a candidate, while the Schuylkill people are naturally claiming it. —Both Auditor General Snyder and State Treasurer Kephart have denied that they contemplate mak ing wholesale changes in their de partments. A few changes will bo made between now and August 1, but they will be minor In character. Stole Registration Card After robbing Jerome Fisher, ne gro of $2 and a watch the other night, a bandit took his military registration card. "Now you're a slacker," the ban dit said. "Stay away from the polico or they'll coop you up. I need this card In my business."—From the Chicago Herald, l HAHJUSBTTRG TELEGIWFI ■S KELLt—THE PENALTY OF WINNING By BRIGGS I 1 : ) \ IV5 T SOT' J A I r HE -RE ( WB'CL -BE ,RFP TENJ . 1.0. U. <TOE! I T ° BU * A, HJ / F S OOI-UAQS I / C&WT DRA6" L\ | OUJ6 / V ~' Y CH6CK- \AJH*T 1 V — U A,H-T HFPK\ / ?oh. S J£? ? ISLLAR BILL RLGHTL , sZjJ J— J ' \ CH^K 1 1 I EDITORIAL COMMENT ] German mark is playing: this "strategic retreat" thing into the ground.—Wall Street Journal. Whatever satisfaction Germany may derive from the belief that a penalty may have influenced regis tration must he dissipated by knowl edge that the loan was a natural out pouring.—Newark News. Each succeeding number of The Congressional Record increases the numbe r or laughs you can get out of a recent statement in The New He public that the United States is now in the period "of government by in tellectuals."—Kansas City Star. Germany will see to it that never again will Belgium serve as a base of attack for English troops. Vossische Zeitung. Yes. the way the British myriads smashed through Belgium in 1914 and fell upon poor Germany was shocking.—New York World. A young captain named Ulysses G. Lee has Just been assigned to duty in the regular Army. Which strikes me as being about the last word in the obliteration of "sectionalism!" —At- lanta Constitution. More About Camp Curtin This is from Penn's Column in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin— An esteemed correspondent at Harrisburg, whose knowledge of State affairs at the capital in the past two generations is unsurpassed, writes: X was much interested in the story of old Camp Curtin, because I was in personal touch with the old camp from the day it opened until the last man was mustered out In 1865. As a boy of eleven years, when the camp was first opened by Colonel Seneca G. Simmons, who gave it the name of Camp Curtin, I followed the soldiers from car to camp as they arrived here in response to the call for troops. The story as told the other day gave credit for the first troops in the camp to a Johnstown company. I was for years under that impres sion, but I have learned that on the night before the Johnstown company went to camp, the old place—it was the Dauphin county fair grounds and race track—was occupied by the Lo chiel Grays, a Harrisburg company, commanded by Colonel Harry Me- Cormick, father of Vance C. McCor mick. That is very likely correct, as I saw the Lochiel Grays (named after General Cameron, the Sage of Lochiel) march un Ridge road to the camp. I saw the Johnstown company the next morning and followed them into the camp. I well. remember that they wore their fancy militia uni forms and the captain was a man about six feet five inches in height, a very impressive figure. The founder of the camp, Colonel Seneca G. Simmons, was afterward commander of the Fifth Pennsyl vania Reserves, and was killed in the seven days' fight before Richmond, under McClellan. He resided in Har risburg and was as fine looking a soldier as I ever saw. To tell about the old camp would fill a volume, and I haven't the time as an active newspaper man to write it. There were three other camps in and about Harrisburg—Camp Cameron, where the cavalry were organized; Camp Calder, a smal camp, and Camp Healy, where the provost guard of three companies were located, the latter in the heart' of the city at present, all built up with fine resi dences. THOMAS M. JONES. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. (?. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist THE APPLE WORM At least one-half of our apple crop is ruined each year by the apple worm or codling moth. The loss each year 19 at least three or four million dollars in Pennsyl vania alone. Two broods occur each year. The second brood causes great damage to the half grown crops, while the first brood causes the heavy "June drop." Apple trees should be sprayed with a combination of lime-sul phur, one and one-half gallons to fifty gallons of water, with one and one-half to two pounds of powdered lead arsenate added. Apply first spray four to eight days after the petals fall: second spray two weeks later: third spray about last week of July or first week of August, in cooler parts of the State. These sprays will control foliage-eating pests as well. Dormant sprays of lime sulphur for scale are necessary and advisable. THE PEOPLE'S Fitness To the Editor of the Telegraph: It seems to me that the important question at issue is being missed by Mitchell Palmer, and the papers that are discussing how the men in this state were selected for the various exemption boards. Now I am the father of two boys who may bo affected by this selec tion, but neither my boys nor myself are Interested in ttie question of whether these men are Republicans, Democrats, Jews, Methodists, or Catholics, but we are greatly inter ested in the question of their Fitness. If Mr. Palmer knows any man in the list not a competent or fit man to serve upon one of the boards, ho should file the information at Wash ington with the proper authorities and have that man removed. It would be an easy matter for a man who is held in so high esteem by the national administration as Mr. Palmer is to have this done, and it would be a crime against the young men of the state for him to withhold the Information. On the other hand, if Mr. Palmer has no such information, he has done the men who have to serve upon these boards, a great injustice by creating against them all a feeling of distrust, when even Mr. Palmer knows their job is going to be most difficult, without anything being ad ded of an indefinite nature like the articles being circulated in the papers throughout the state. I hope you will call upon the gentleman to proceed at once so WQ can know whether it Is our board that is the bad one. A. B. HITCHCOCK. Philadelphia I can lyriclze ornately Of the city that sedately Stands upon the western bank of Delaware, For I know a Lloyd, a Norris And a Rittenhouse and Morris, And I'm quite at home on Independ ence Square. In the reign of Charles the Second Where the leafy forest beckoned It was founded by a certain William Penn, Whom the people speak quite well of; And vou also hear them tell of Mr. Franklin, known familiarly as "Ben." There are many colored voters, And a reckless mob of motors. And the streets are Market, Chest nut. Spruce* and Pine. The descendants of the Quakers Buy their pins at Wanamaker's. And the Stratford Is the proper place to dine. When you pass the outer bound'ries Of the textile mills and foundries, Fairmount Park will yield content ment to the soul. All the suburbs are alluring; And their roads are fine for tour ing, Though at every other mile you pay a toll. Where the trees in April quicken On the lovely Wlssahlckon, Or in winter where the Schuylkill, full of slush, Cuts the city through the middle, One may even see a Blddle, A Cadwallader, a Shippen or p. Rush! You should tarry there and grapple With the mysteries of "scrapple"— A conglomerate of flour, herbs and pork. Philadelphia, not to quiz It, Is a pleasant place—to visit; Which is what the natives say about New York. —Arthur Gulterman In Life. Get-Rich-Quick Scheme Two young Irishmen In a Can adian regiment were going into the trenches for the first time, and their captain promised them five shillings each for every German they killed. Pat lay down to rest, while Mick performed the duty of watching. Pat had not lain long when he was awakened by Mick shouting: "They're comln'! They're comln'!" "Who's comln'?" shouts Pat.' "The Germans," replies Mick. "How many are there?" "About fifty thousand." , "Begorra," shouts Pat, Jumping up and grabb'ng his rifle, "our fortune's i made!"— From th London nnlnl " n Let Him Name One To the Editor of the Telegraph: Let "Mitch" Palmer name one member of the exemption boards un fit for service and Governor Brum baugh will see to his removal. The Governor, by the way, is not quite so narrow as Palmer. I notice that he has named for office one of the men said to have given Palmer the infor-1 ination on which he bases his absurd charges. This man ts a Democrat. The Governor did not have to name him, yet he did so after the senate had once turned the nomination down. Is this playing the kind of partisan polity's Palmer partakes of? Would Palmer name a Republican under such conditions? His past record does not indicate that he would. FAIR PLAY. Will Do Her Bit To the Editor of the Telegraph : I note by the papers that the President and Congress intend to let beer be made in unlimited quanti ties. That means that the total ab stainer is asked to conserve on food while the beer drinker as you said recently is free to take a bath In beer if he wants to—and beer, you know, is made largely of foodstuffs. That is not fair to the total ob stainer, is it? But two wrongs don't make a right and I for one am going to do my bit. Because the beer swillers and their backers in the government continue to drown the cause of democracy in beers is no reason why I should make a pig of myself by following their wasteful example. I intend to do my bit no matter how they feel about It. W. C. T. U. WORKER. Stream Pollution In the Interest of an Increased food supply, if for no other reason, steps should be taken to prevent the pollu tion of state streams by industries that yearly are destroying many tons of fi3h. If there were any necessity for this wanton waste, this reckless disregard of popular rights, the sit uation might be altered. The utili tarian will contend that it is more important that manufacturing plants shall operate, giving employment to thousands of men, than that fisher men shall give play to their sport loving instinct, and this absurd reasoning seems to have made an impression upon state officials 'en trusted with the enforcement of the fish and game law. Since we can have both industries and fish, the former should be force*l to adopt safeguards to protect the waters from pollution. Many manu facturing plants have adopted de vices that enable them to dispose of destructive acids without dumping them into the rivers. Those who do not adopt them are more greedy than others. The tons of fish that yearly float belly-upward to the sea are monuments to the racapaclty of men who are satisfied only when they have collected the last penny that their business will yield. They disregard the welfare of the state, the wishes of their neighbors and the laws of the commonwealth. They are Indecent and inhuman. The other day the Juniata river lost thousands of Its denizens when great quantities of poisonous mater ials were deposited in it. This is a common occurrence, too common. In fact, to be accepted complacently. Were it not for the ruthlessness of manufacturers, our streams could be made an Important element. In our food supply. They would yield thousands of tons of fish If they were permitted to propagate. As it is, many of them are void of living creatures, and others are rapidly reaching this state of desolation. No man should be permitted to abuse his privilege, and if he cannot operate his plant without destroying fish he should be compelled to close it. Fortunately, however, this harsh alternative is unnecessary. The ex penditure of a comparatively small sum of money will correct the evil, and our streams will soon teem with myriad life, giving food and pleas urable relaxation to our people. The state Is spending many thousands of dollars In fish cultiva tion, and millions of fry are de posited yearly In the streams. But a great deal of this work Is nullified by the manufacturers who persist In their shameless practices. It is time that reforms be Inaugurated. Fines for law violation are inadequate. In junction should be issued against those who will not be persuaded by less drastic methods.—The Altoona JULY 10, 1917. Labor Notes Policemen at Winnepeg, Canada, have organized a union. In two months Sheet Metal Work ers' International Union has charter ed seventeen new local unions. The Laborers' Association of May nooth, Ireland, has by resolution condemned the government for guaranteeing the landlords a) fixed j price for their produce. The Canadian Government rail ways have increased track workers 25 cents a day and many of its monthly men $6.50. Improved work ing conditions are also secured. New York city's street cleaning department announces that its em ployes are performing a necessary public service and will be exempt from conscription. League buying, or co-opefsitive purchasing, in Washington, under the supervision of government offi cials, has resulted in a saving of sls to S2O a month by those participat ing. A resolution was passed by the Belfast (Ireland) branch of the Railway Clerks' Association protest ing against the inadequa y of the war bonus to railway employes. Conferences between shopmen em ployed by the New York, New Ha ven and Hartford Railroad and offi cials of this corporation has resulted in wage increases of 3 cents an hour for about 6,000 employes! OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 NOT THE MAN. "She's going to marry a slacker." "You're wrong—too slacker would have the courage to marry her." A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. Rat Burglar—My, 1 wish those po tatoes didn't have so many eyes. Make me kind of nervous! A BANG FROM HODGE. "I nearly died laughing last night." "Which one of your Jokes were you A HABIT OF HIS. "That new recruit must have beer * bookkeeper." "Why so?" "I Just noticed him trying to put Us bayonet behind his oar." BfpttUtg QMjaifl Officials of the Adjutant General's Department from Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart down are trying to find out what started the rumor 1 that has been going all over the United States and its territorial pos sessions to the effect that Pennsyl vania has offered a bonus to such of its citizens as enlist in the armed forces for the war. There never has been such a bonus offered and the officials are at a loss to account fiw the report that such a gratuity had been proposed. No legislation on the subject was introduced and no order or statement was ever Issued indicating that such was intended. The letters first began to arrive a month or more ago. Since that time they have been coming with regularity. Yesterday there were fifty on the subject. They have come from almost every army post, from practically every navy yard and from numerous training camps. IS seems that wherever tne army or nav y has a station there is a Penn sylvania man who has heard the story and wants his bonus. The odd part about it is that they all ask for the ten dollars. Tltat seems to be the figure given in every report and the fact has lead officials to believe J s . orne mighty good disseminators of information must have started it going from one place. All efforts to run down the report have been fruitless and in order to answer all ot the inquiries the Department has had to devise a form letter and use up Father Penn's money in postage because it is a rule of that office to answer all letters. None of the writers seems to be able to give definite information as to where he heard about the story. The splendid showing made bv Harrisburg in recruitment of vari ous units for the National Guard has been much commented upon and has stimulated other cities. In Philadel phia, which has been raising men for every branch of the service. Har risburg has been watched, while Reading, Seranton and Wilkes- Barre, which have been filling up their organizations, have had to hus tle to keep up with the Harrisburg district. One of the oddities of the military situation is that while peo ple in Altoona, Erie and other places would like to raise more units their men are so busy in the important railroad and manufacturing lines that they have to hold back, while recruiting officers have been leaving agricultural regions alone owing to the necessity of having men for the harvest. ♦ • • A friend writing about the articles which appeared the other day in this column relative to the compan ies raised in the part of Lancaster county which is now Dauphin, asks whether the command which went to Cambridge was the only one from this section. There were in all something like nine units which hailed from what is now Dauphin county and it may be added that it i was a contribution which was to be expected from a district where there were no tories. Some families sent every son who could bear arms, John Harris, Jr., who laid out this city, and his brothers being among thoso who served. Two of the Harris family were commissioned officers, one of them being the founder. • • There were half a dozen other companies raised at Harris Ferry, Middletown, Hanover, Hummelstown and other places in what later tj|S came our county and their sons gave up their lives at the battles of Long Islend, White Plains, Princeton, Trenton, Brandywine and German town. Some suffered at Valley Forge and others were with Wayne at S)<ony Point, while the company Which went out undeV Captain Pat rick Anderson and was later com manded by Captain Ambrose Crain served in the Pennsylvania State regiment of foot and then in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania, which par ticipated in the triumph at York town. * • + It is inspiring to read in the papers written by men who have studied the country of the sacrifices made for liberty. It is estimated that the county had 150 commissioned offi cers in the Revolutionary War. This meant a far greater number of pri vate soldiers. Dr. Egle says that "at one period the entire county was so bare of men that the old men, -wo men and lads of ten and twelve rfot only did the planting and harvest ing, but took up arms to defend their homes in the threatened invasion by Indians and Tories after the mas sacre of Wyoming." • • • The drills of the Harrisburg Re serves have been attracting attention from veterans of the Civil and Span ish wars who have been at the island to watch the men go through their paces. Some of the men who have been watching the drills tell interest ing stories of the drills by the Home Guards back In the Sixties. One of the organizations for home defense in those days was composed of men whose hair was turning gray. They were caled the "Silver Grays." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE { —Olin F. Harvey, Jr., who be comes lieutenant colonel of the Third artillery, was for years an officer in the Ninth Pennsylvania infantry. —Chief of Police R. B. Fellman, of Norristown, who is about to go to war. was presented with a horse by his friends. —Senator W. M. Lynch, who be comes superintendent of Farview State hospital, was formerly coroner of Lackawanna county. —Col. George K. Kemp, of the Third regiment, Is going after re cruits while his regim?nt Is on guard duty. —Thomas H. G.eevv, Altoona I lawyer, presided at a big meeting in Altoona to boom recruiting. —Bernard J. Kelley, well-knows. Seranton man, was chosen as presto dent of the second district of the Total Abstinence orgw-fwytton. f DO YOU~KNOW ) That Harrisburg's railroad population Is growing in spite of Enola and L/ucknow develop ment? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In old days the stagecoaches to make Front and Mulberry street* one of their principal stops. Conscientious Executor A couple of Kentucklans. meeting In a feud district, according to an exchange, one asked the other: "Look here, Bill what did you shoot at me for? I ain't got no quarrel with you." "You had a feud with Ben Walker, didn't you?" "But Ben's dead." "Well, I'm his executor."—New ! York Tribune.'
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