6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE \!OMH Founded IS3I Published evenlmgs except Sunday by THE TKLFX;iIAI'H I'IIINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. •E.J. STACK POLE, Pres'l 6- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINWETZ, Managing Editor. jd < Member American Bureau of Clrcu jJJJJ g jgjjf 9 Eastern office, ChfcagoPm^ l "*' Entered at the Post Office in Harris- Dure, Pa., as a ?cond class matter. -aggßSCSfc;. By carriers, ten cents a Gpra-SyiSED week; by mall, *5.03 a year in advance. 6ATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4 An ounce of mirth will serve Ood further than a pound of sadness.— THOMAS FULLER. KING COTTON ELSEWHERE on this page to day is published an extract from an address by Congress man J. Hampton Moore on the ne cessity of including cotton on the list of embargoes to neutral countries. Strangely enough the embargo proc lamation of the President fails to specify cotton among the articles the exportation of which is interdicted. Yet cotton is as prime a necessity as steel. It is an essential ingredient ot high explosives, it is a slne-qua-non of clothing. Yet there is nothing save a lack of shipping facilities to pre vent its exportation to neutral coun tries and its final arrival at an enemy destination. All the staple products of the North, those of the factory as well as those of the field, are for bidden to move from' our shores ex cept by government license. But a royal road is left open to King Cot ton. Nor is this the only instance in which this favored child of Demo cratic legislation and administration has figured. Cotton falls under no baii of taxation by federal authority, either directly or indirectly through the division of war profits. And It was only when cotton was added to the products to be controlled by the food bill that the insidious assaults began upon that measure under the guise of an ethical pretense which was chiefly bolstered up by the vote 3 of Southern legislators. How long will this condition of things continue? None can say. Kins Constantlne, of Greece, managed to stick to his throne a little longer I than-his cousin Nicholas of Russia;! and the two kaisers yet retain their | crowns. Their abdication or de- j thronement by force is not unlooked 1 for. If it shall take place prior to 1919, they will precede King Cotton into private life, as we think; be cause there is little hope that a Con gress which is controlled by a Demo cratic majority hailing from the! Southern States will ever raise the [ impious hand of revolution against j the sacred rule of King Cotton. There j can be no other kind of a Congress j until the elections of next; year. We shall then expect the down fall of King Cotton. NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP DEDICATION to-morrow of the new synagogue of the Chizuk' Emuna congregation will add a new and beautiful place of worship to the many such in Harrlsburg. This | congregation is one that has been > benefitted by the removal of build-1 ings from the Capitol Extension' zone. The new temple at Sixth and Forster streets is a direct result of the removal of the congregation from its old home. Chizuk Emuna is the oldest Jew ish congregation in Harrisburg an 3 one of the more devoted. Its mem bers have given liberally^toward the new building. To-morrow they will be rewarded when the handsomest Jewish synagogue In Central Penn sylvania is thrown open to them. OUR VOLUNTEERS THE American Manufacturer com ments interestingly upon the figures of the War Department showing the number of men that have volunteered for army or navy ser vice since the war btgan, observing among other things that "the higher the degree of education of the man or of the community, the greater has been t"he spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifiee. Wherever there is lack of patriotism in the individual or in the community, It may with safety be said that tliere is lack of intel ligent broad education." This is neither a rich man's nor a poor man's war. The other day the collegebred' son of one of Harris burg's well-known men, went into the army as a private. At the same day a young man in the employ of this same wealthy and influential citizen was commissioned as first lieutenant. And so far from being jealous the father of the private congratulated his employe publicly upon his good fortune, wished him God-speed and promised him his old place back upon his return. Both private and officer will make good soldiers. They heard tHe call of their country and volunteered. It Is right and entirely in accord with our dem ocratic principles that poor and rich should stand shoulder to shoulder with ea<h other in the trenches and SATURDAY EVENING, that each Should have equal chance for preferment. Merit alone should count. It is encouraging; to note, accord ing to the Manufacturer's source of information, that the college and uni versity men of wealth, and those who have had the opportunity of studying world problems, have been the ones who have most quickly responded to the call of the country. They have demonstrated that money has not sapped the vitality of American man hood; that money has not destroyed the patriotism of the young men of the land, and, with all of the priv ileges which boundless wealth has conferred upon them, ttiey have held that duty to the nation was the su preme test of character, and they have measured up to the call. The man fi;om the shop is the "bunkie" of the man from the bank; the lad from the cottage Is tent chum of the youth from the man sion. Each will learn from thd other and when they come home again there will be a great smashing of the bars of caste. Rich or poor they will find that "the rank is but the gunea stamp; a man's a man for a' that." ' 0 AUGUST J V ULY went out in a burst of ab normal heat, but August is run ning pretty nearly true to form. There is something at once delight ful and melancholy about August. v The summer season comes to its height and wanes then. Vacations begin and end. The full flash of the warm season gives way to the haze of Fall and the days are hot and the nights are cool—forerunners of the frosty evenings not far in the fu ture. Clara Thaxter's stanza sums up the sentiment of the season most beau tifully and completely: Buttercups nodded and said good bye, „ Clover and daisy vent oft to gether. But the fragrant water lilies lie Yet moored in the golden Au gust weather. The swallows chat about their (light. The cricket chirps like a rare good fellow. The asters twinkle in clusters bright. While the corn grows ripe and the apples mellow. THE DIFFERENCE HOW we do change our views! Only a few weeks back a pub lication that may as well be nameless shed great salt tears in copious quantities and took the TELEGRAPH righteously to task for daring to "publish pictures of one of the little camps of national guards men protecting the railroad bridges hereabout. Yesterday that same journal printed pictures of Truck Company No. 6 on its way \o Mount Gretna with full information as to route, destination and other details. What a few months back hysterl-, cal publishers thought gross viola tions of propriety, if not actually treason, they now look upon as evl, dences of enterprise. The chief dif ference between them and * the TELEGRAPH Is the length of time required to arrive at a correct point of-view. DEPOSED, NOT DISGRACED GENERAL BRUSILOFF has been deposed but not disgraced. His t resignation as commander-in chief of the Russian forces on the eastern front in favor of General Korniloff, the peasant soldier, for the moment relegates him to a minor position. But he Is nevertheless Rus sia's foremost soldier. Had it not been for the treachery of the Czar or those who surrounded him Brusl lot' would have laid all Austria trib ute to Russia, and might even now be knocking at the gates of Berlin. He is a bigger, better soldier than Von Hlndenburg and Is the outstand ing military genius of the war, a brilliant leader and a remarkable organizer. Unless ail signs fail ho will be heard from again before the war ends and may yet be in at the death of the German menace. WHY WE lUIiHT SECRETARY McADOO in a speech yesterday assured the public that America would fight until "complete victory" shall have been attained. Complete victory over Germany is necessary to insure world-peace in the future. Germany herself eyery few days gives fresh evidence of this. As a reason why we are fighting and why we must continue to fight until Germany is conquered, take the sinking of the English merchant ship the Belgian Prince, related by one of two men who escaped, as follows: The German submarine tor pedoed the BRiginn Prince, but the ship did not sink Immediately. Ho they proceeded to loot It, smash the lire boats, destroy all the life belts and then having the crew at their mercy, forced them to come aboard the deck of the submarine and strip. The submarine started off. After running on the surface for a mile or two it suddenly sub merged, throwing the helpless sailors Into the water. Thirty eight drowned. Not until the sea and the land shall have been freed from the rav ages of these murderous marauders can America sheath the sword she has drawn. MINIONS OF THE KAISER THIS is the kind of thing the New York Staats Zeltung pub lishes almost dally: In Milwaukee, the city where once there was to be read In the show windows "Also English is here spoken," the German-Ameri can Bank, has In slavish servil ity. and fearing it ml~* lose a customer with the name "Pmlth," changed Its name. Nix deutach! And these gentlemen of the hank were before- the year 1914 those who In Berlin, In Wiesbaden and in Hamburg wanted to be feasted as "German-Americans." If an American newspaper pub lished in the English language in dulged In such sickening balderdash Its editor would be haled before the federal authorities at once—and very properly no. But the German press Is permitted to traffic In treason to the United States the while It fattens off the prosperity of the country, and the Department of Justice sits idly by and smilingly twiddles its thumbs. It Is time the loyal newspapers of the nation depnand that this blot be re moved from the, escutcheon of jour nalism In America. By the Ex-Committeeman The period in which to file nomi nating petitions for the judicial nom inations to be made at the primary election on Wednesday, September 19, will expire at 6 o'clock Friday evening, August 10. There are com paratively few petitions on file ex cept for associate judges. Although there are twenty-seven judges to be elected In sixteen common pleas dis tricts and three orphans' court judges in two districts very few havp entered papers. Most of those filing are sitting judges. Twenty-two associate judges are to be chosen in seventeen counties, a number having two to elect. Inter esting contests are. foreshadowed in the three Juniata Valley counties of Perry, Juniata and Mifflin, where there are numerous candidates and in Union, Sullivan and Mpnroe. Aspirants for county or municipal nominations tile their papers with county commissioners in their re spective counties and have until Wednesday, August 22. All judicial candidates must file their papers with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. —From all accounts State Highway Commissioner Frank B. Black Is in clined ,to establish a system of di viding state funds applicable for con struction on a "fifty-fifty" basis with counties on a general plan. This Is a proposition 011 which Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh had not made up his mind when he left for his vacation. There are said to be some counties which the Governor and his friends would like to favor because of friendships and because of enter prise in getting money together for building roads. The Commissioner is rather set for a distribution On a well defined plan, taking into ac count mileage of unimproved high ways. It was a plan of Commis sioner Black to make public hla views on the question that brought into action the famous "censorship" of Highway Department news on a certain day before the Governor left. What Mr. Black planned to give out has never been disseminated and probably never will be. —The Democratic row in Phila delphia is getting down into the ward committees and there are some harsh things being said and done. In one ward committee two men were thrown out because they did not stand up for the faithful. The spe cial committee is still hunting A. Mitchell Palmer to see what he is going to do about appointment of Republicans to places which the (Democrats claim. —From all accounts Mayor Smith and Director Wilson appear to be proceeding on different orbits in re gard to the vice cleanup. Men are being shifted, ordered for trial, de moted and other things. , —Mayor Smith says the city of Philadelphia does not intend to take over any company holdings. —Commissioner W. A. Magee's friends are boosting him pretty hard in the Pittsburgh mayoralty pre liminaries. Dr. J. P. Kerr, E. V. Babcock and William Price are like wise very much in the limelight. Mr. Magee is expected to make a formal announcement soon. —WilllaWi A. Glasgow, Jr., emi nent lawyer and prominent in the work of harmonizing Democrats*af ter the guillotine period, is being boomed by friends of Roland ti. Morris, ambassador ti> Japan, and others, for district attorney of Phil adelphia. A committee has been named to push him along. —Councilman J. F. Lafean is de manding a probe of York policemen. Some of the things done lately do not meet with his approval. —James B. Reilly. Democratic congressman from Schuylkill for years and marshal under Cleveland, is in the race for judge in Schuyl kill. There are now four candi dates. —The Philadelphia RecoVd has this to say about some Quaker City politics: "The Vares and the mayor are said to favor another term for Receiver of Taxes Kendrick, but in the event of a factional fight Kend rick may be pulled down to make way for a stronger candidate. Much opposition to Kendfrick has developed in organization circles. With Sen ator Penrose backing an independent ticket for row offices, the Vares would be forced to take aboard some Independents themselves. They have not hesitated to intimate that they would back some independents If Senator Penrose forced a fight. It Is hardly likely that, with a fight on, Kendrick would be put on the ticket, although it is generally believed that he would be taken off only as a last resort." —David Morgan, of Lansford, Is a candidate for poor director in the middle field. Blair county has about four can didates for each county office nomi nation. . Philadelphia may not have an other Fourth of July celebration with an apprcfpriatlon. The councils committee spent *I.OOO of the *5,000 for a lunch. ' —Auditor General Snyder is at the seashore and will not return until Monday evening. He says Aiis ans wer <wlll be sufficient. —Attorney General Brewn is ex pected to return here on Tuesday for conferences with state officials. The Scranton. Republican has this to say about some well-know'n men: "Mayor John T. Loftus, of Carbondale, who Is being backed b> the Democratic county committee, for the nomination for prothonotarv, Is not the personal choice of P. J. Roland, covinty commissioner and former Democratic county chairman, Mr Boland declared yesterday. Tn. absolving himself from responsibility for getting Loftus into the fight he passed the buck to the Carbondale Democratic city committee." Squaring Himself Through some oversight last weol; we failed to mention the return of Mrs. Jonle Jones and daughter. Alice from a visit with relatives and friends at Beardstown. The item was given to a member of the News force, but was lost In somo way before It reached the news columns.—From the Cerro Gordo News. An Easy Job The new German foreign minister is said to have a reputation as a slug gard and a late riser. He won't have to get up very early to fill Dr. Ztm mermann's shoes. —Savannah News. Germany's Internal Problem Germany's Internal problem has become almost ridiculously simple. She Is merely hesitating between democracy and a dictatorship.—New York Evening Post. H ARRIBBURG <66& THLKGRXPH rAHANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE - s By BRIGGS I ~" t rZ \ f u/HCA6 1 HovJ Bout f., J —r potJ Tjj fej on AGfiie .? I H I ~ VKHeES iMFrj / MVJBLF / M y LIFE* I vM/l/ > IB Cotton Going Abroad While the terms of the trading with-the-enemy act seem harsh with respect to aliens who made invest ments in the United States in good faith before the war, the administra tion and its advisers insist that the surest way to bring the war to a speedy close is to prevent Germany from getting supplies or from ob taining information of any kind from the United States. It was this argu ment that forced the $G40,000,000 aviation bill through the House with scarcely a ripple. A certain mysti cism is thrown about such bills which indicate that the administration knows what it is about, but does not desire, even though Congress, to have its plan of operation made known to Germany. So persistently is this attitude maintained, both as to appropriation bills and bills confer ring military power, that the pos sibility of doing injustice to those who have hitherto been our friends is not taken seriously into account. Nor does it avail much to call atten tion to the likely waste of public funds in the making of tremendous lump sum appropriations like that for the aviation service without spe cific information as to details. The administration answer cornea back each time, good and strong—"We must have support and have it promptly to beat Germany, and we deem these means essential. We do not want to unfold our plans to the enemy." Oddly enough, It is a different story when cotton comes into view. Even the President's embargo pro clamation, which specifically men tioned foodstuffs and coal, iron and steel among the forbidden products, did not mention cotton. As a conse quence, the attention of the House was called to the omission, and dur ing the debate it was admitted that Germany had been obtaining Ameri can cotton through neutral countries even since the declaration of the ex istence of a state of war. Members from the Southern States are naturally testy on the subject of a cotton tax or any restrictions upon cotton, and they nret the charge that the President's embargo declaration had specially excluded cotton in silence. They did contend, however, that what cotton had gone through to Germany had gone through neu tral countries before the authorities here were able to stop It. Since the cotton that has been slipping into Germany is used prin cipally as a war munition and is as much an aid to the enemy as food stuffs or the income' from invest ments, or the activities of German insurance companies in the United States, which the President has pro hibited, It is thought probable tlat cotton itself will sooner or later be placed under the license ban.—J. HAMPTON MOORE. The Aircraft By Lewis Worthlngton Smith. Onco it was earth's chief glory that we rose Into the clear blue where the free wind blows. Up, up was man's long cry. We fash ioned wings We caught at wonder as art eagle flings His strength upon the tempest, till they cried Their madness, war, as If its shame were pride. Now, back they draw us from the rapturous suns To load the furies, signalling the guns. • Once, once again! Our hearts <yy for the air. The sky is clear. No bugle's burst and blare Bids us be ravening monsters out of hell. Ours Is the newer freedom and the spell Of speed and distance and the sweap and swing That mount and find the earth's hori zon ring. Out of their murk a fiendish message runs; We are their blazons signalling guns. Up, up! The petty and the mean slip by. • A blotch of green below, above the sky. - We are faith flying where the falcon falls. We are strength driving whore the seagull squalls. We are love breathing where the swallow wings. We are faith lifting where the sky lark sings; And down they drag us where the thunder stuns. Not men, but demons, signalling the guns. From the English Tongue and Other Poems. (Four Seas Co.) THE PEOPL L City Responsible To the Editor of the Telegraph: Is the city responsible for the number of drownings in the river re cently? I think so and I will tell you why. If the demand of the public for well conducted municipal bath ing beaches had been heeded by city council, bathers would use these in stead of bathing in dangerous places. With life guards and life lines handy there would be little chance of any body going to his death. This is a thought along the line of municipal bathing places I have not heard ex pressed previously. INTERESTED. Prugh to Pack To the Editor of the Telegraph: Will you please give space to the following letter addressed to Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the Na tional Emergency Food Garden Com mission: "Dear Sir: "Your letter of the 23d ult., sent to supposed pastors of the churches of our land, reached me in due time, but found me so busy that I have not had time to reply to it before this. "You will note by this letterhead that I am not a pastor, but am en gaged in the task of helping to over throw the liquor traffic of our coun try. "The object of your endeavor is & laudable <pne, albeit I am not sure that the busihess of the pastor is to turn his attention to the serving of tables. The Church has a far great er work on her hands than looking after the conservation of the natural bread. If she look after her own mission faithfully, she will do her full share in eliminating nil kinds of waste, for waste is not a Christian virtue. "I can not but feel that there Is a mighty lot of official trifling with what I believe to be a very vital ques tion, conservation of food. Nothing that has been said by your commis sion or by any other agency looking to its conservation has been too strong for me; but I feel that, in the face of a very real danger of shortage of food, it is even worse than 'trifling,' yes, almost criminal negligence of duty,, for our Congress and our President to hesitate for a Somewhere in France When Rochambeau's gallant troops came ashore at Newport to help the American colonists win independ ence from their mother country, it was to write one more page in a chapter of history that goes back to Troy and Carthage. But when "Black Jack" Pershing strode down the gangplank at Boulogne to take command of our country's armed forces In France, a n.ew volume was opened, a volume that may conceiv ably close with nothing less than the federation of the world. Our age has long been perfecting the means by which human unity can be maintained. Steam and electric ity are the conquerors of estranging space and sundering time. The men of the eighteenth century had al ready shown how education. Justice, and liberty can answer that dreary riddle of ignorance ruled by tyranny for which ancient wisdom had no solution. Our own United States has been above all others the land where the races of every clime might meet unhindered by tha jarring am bitions of historic nationality. The symbol of that whole revelation If our flag borne by *>ur soldiers through French streets in the pa .rades of July 14, the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. The foe Is the old one: the doctrine that some nations nnd classes must rule others by the sword. Against that enslav ing creed, as upheld bv Prussia's le gions. the new world has set its strength. Voices are raised in Ger many that seem to show realization of tnls, voices declaring that Ger many cannot stand alone against the tide of democracy that now fjpws strong even through what was the Russian Emnlre. The world turns to a n.ew order in which there shall be scope for the best that all men can do. There are wrongs to he righted, *vils to be atoned, but, more than these, there is this vision of a lust nolltv for all manklrd.-nnd it Is for those who can see thats vision to bend their every energy to Its trlumnh. That Is what the Stars nnd Stripes means ns It floats in i France in this year of grace 1917. — Collier's Weekly. moment to outlaw the using of any foodstuffs in the making of alcdholic drinks. If it be so important, as Mr. Hoover put it, for housewives to save the crusts, how infinitely njore important to save the 11,000,000 loaves a day that could be made from the grains worse than destroyed by the liquor traffic! Indeed, the heroic efforts at conservation of .foods put forth by the various agencies would be ludicrous in the face of the ef forts of those in high places to save the ex-German, pro-Germn/n beer agency the criminal privilege of using grains to perpetuate their nefarious traffic, if the danger were not so real. The reality of the need to conserve food eliminates these efforts from the ludicrous and rtiakes it dangerously near treasonable. "In view of this, 'ln the name of patriotism and national service,' as you appeal to me for my 'co-opera tion in placing this request ('to join In the immediate conservation of food') before the members of your (my) church, I likewise appeal to you to give me your 'co-operation in placing this request' for nation-wide prohibition so strongly before our President and Congress that thev will be compelled to yield to the de sire of the vast majority of the American people for its enactment. More than one result will thus be ac complished:— "1. Food supplies will be increas ed greatly. "2. The manhood of the nation will bfe greatly conserved and the pro ductive powers of the nation greatly increased. "3. The criminality of the nation will be greatly rediM-ed, the resulting wrongs to our people greatly lessen ed, and the ordinary expenses of gov ernment greatly diminished. "We rejoice at the passage of the resolution for a constitutional amendment by the United States Sen ate yesterday, we greatly hope the House will do as well, but we need and should not wait in this crisis time for the ratification of the amendment by the requisite number of States before securing nation wide prohibition. Do your bit along this line. "Sincerely yours. "B. E. P. PRUGH. "Prohibition State Chairman." Harrisburg, Pa., August 2, 1917. A Dream of Peace Can you lure me, Morpheus, In my dream. To a land where, peace and Justice seem To rule supreme In the hearts of men, Then bring me back to this world again? s Will you carry me into some vale of peace, Where wars and yumors of wars I have ceased; Where the law supreme is the la\V divine, Where peaceful rest shall e'er be mine? Can you take me to some pleasant shore, v Where then do not know the horrors of war; \ Where joy wind happiness e'er in crease, And the sun goes down on a land of peace? Can you show me a valley where every man. Is glad that he lives in his own peace-land. And leave me there awhile with them, For a little rest with peaceful men? ' Can you carry me into a land where kings. Are relegated as ancient things; Where men of war are never heard: But every one has a peaceful word? Ah Morpheus! Thou hast given my dream, For I lived in a land where all did seem, As ft haven of rest on a stormy sea; 'Twas a land of peace, a heaven to me. But thou hast brought me back again, To a land which throngs with mar tial men. OMorpheua, come on the evening breezo, 1 And take me again to a land of peace. By V. E. Waltlmyer, Stewarts town, Pa. AUGUST 4, 1917. Labor Notes Workers throughout Portugal are practicing food economy. The State Industrial Commission has prohibited night work for women in manufactories and laundries In Wisconsin. . A laborA- was sentenced to two months' Imprisonment by Midland, 'England, magistrates for hmoking within six yards of a powder maga zine. Uniontown, Pa.. Meat Cutters' Un ion has secured signed agreements with employers covering working con ditions for one year. Norwegian experiments with flsn ing with the aid of electric lights lowered into the sea have been fail ures, the illumination frightening the flsli away. • The federated shop committee of the Kansiw City Southern has secured an agreement which raises wages for every mechanic employed by this sys tem. Sioux City, lowa, Teamsters Union has been organized just one year and has secured wage increases that n no case is less than $3 a week per member. A war bonus of f7 10s for the pres ent year has been granted to the ma ternity nurses in -the union by the Coleraine, Ireland, Guardians, Since the beginning of the war Edinburgh, Scotland, domestic serv ants have contributed the sum of ?10,- 000 for various war charities. If the war continues for three yearn more many of tie railroads of me United States will be operated by women. It is stated that 2,000 employes of the Santa Fe Railroad in Colorado will receive a 10 per cent, bonus next December. OUR DAILY LAUGH POWERITCXL. So Mrs. Brown has a mind of Tnlli" should say you ou sht to '-ifflre-jijjJlß see her use it. ENGAGED myself against jiff burglars, I' m<7 5 ( jljflL going to get a // get a six-footer, j|p! PICKED A #k i nfgl How did you LJU *ijPPf wln papas con_ er him. Ho /r'M''*' said he pre /111l I Im. ferre( * to keep m 1 the money in family- SOME LITTLE Ah see yo' Is af} M*" 1 ho us ecleanln', all said Mrs. White. ' / J^!s Yes, replied W&bi Eliza, dey els no thin' lak' /ffrFTf" movin' things 1 '4,'\ySm^ ( 'round o Ace in a f while. Why, Ah tiffSJT <les come er- 4 I I~f~ ~' A cros a pair ob (- IJJL" ~-P slippers under "T 1 | 111 {l de bed dat Ah - T*|f H hadn't seen foh Z j { I 1 live years. tEtatrtng (Elyat When the Natlonsfl Guard of Penn sylvania Is drafted into the Federal service to-morrow it will cease to be a part of the armed forces of the State of Pennsylvania and within a comparatively short time the regi ments will be given new numerical designations as a part of the United States Army. No information has been received from Washington aa yet regarding the numbers of the regiments but it is assumed at the Capitol that the Keystone State troops will follow those of New- York. The New York troops will con stitute the 27th division and it is believed that Pennsylvania will be the A 28th. The New York infantry brig ades will be the 54th, 56th, 57th and 58th brigades, and the artillery will be the 52d artillery brigade. The last New York regiment will be the 123 d in the United States service and the last artillery regiment will be the 107 th. Pennsylvania, it is believed here, will follow those numbers with its intantry and artillery organiza tions respectively. Nothing has been received here officially regarding converting the First cavalry into a regiment of Held artillerv. The Presi dent will appoint the officers of the ,i,V'V, ,sy ,! a tr °oPS after being ? , ,s expected that the commissioned officers from colonels "own and all noncommissioned of receive new commissions tho *i, rra ts, as the case may be, from to th„ dent \ Nothi S i* known as are nn J e e ra l officers, all of whom staff? . tl Y e servic ® with their ning order headquarters in run ♦ • f l ues tlon of what to do about originally granted because of private lanes has arisen before the Public Service Commission in connection with moves for abolition of a number or grade crossings in counties adjoin lng* I niladelphia and the cases have assumed a state-wide importance. It has never come before the commis sion in the form in which it appears, it seems that a number of crossings which have been marked for change to undergrade."? because of the travel over them have grown into regular roads from private lanes and tho private rights do not seem to have been extinguished. In another in stance it has been claimed that high ways crossing railroads were not public highways but were legally re stricted to private use and had not been used as public roads for twenty one years. • • The new State Bureau of Markets already has jobs out for it. Owners of peach and apple orchards in the South mountain section and of vine yards in the Lake Erie region have asked that the bureau lend its efforts to obtain not only hands to secure the crops but to have the fruit mo'ved promptly to markets. There have also been requests made to secure supplies of seed potatoes and other vegetables. The bureau got down to work this week but it will take gome time to perfect its organization. lirst business, it was stated, would be to prevent waste of the fruit crop wherever possible. • * • The State commission in charge of*the erection of the Meade statue at Washington, will be called to gether for final action upon plans as soon as Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh returns from his vaca tion in Maine. The commission has been appropriated $70,000 to finish the memorial, a like sum having been given for the pedestal and prelimi nary work. The designs are now be ing elaborated from those of Bassett ■ ! & Simon, Philadelphia, by Frank Miles Day, of Philadelphia. Charles Grafley, Philadelphia, is the sculptor. The Fine Arts Commission of Wash ington, objected to the first plans. The memorial which has been strongly urged by the veterans of the Army of the Potomac and by Pennsylvanians, will bo located near the Grant statue in Washington. • • • Applications for thousands of yearling trout are being made at the offices of the State Game Commis sion by sportsmen and members of fishing clubs throughout the State although it is not the plan of the State commission to begin "planting" fish for some weeks. In all probabil ity the trout will be put out late in August and the applications will bo listed. The applicants have agreed to supervise the placing of the fish in the waters and to make reports on them to the department. Prospects are that more trout than ever be fore. will be put out. • * * Pennsylvania is declared by. State Live Stock officials to have fewer colts this year than for a long time. The tremendous demand for horses because of the war and the high prices paid for animals caused many brood mares to be shipped abroad and the stock of horses has not been kept The decline in number of horses was noticed about iwo and a half years ago. It is estlisated that there are between six ana seven per cent fewer colts than a year ago. *• * • Notwithstanding rumors there are slim chances that the headquarters of the National Guard will be moved to this city prior to the movement to Augusta. The headquarters are at the home of the major general com manding and are at Sunbury, which is the administrative center of the Guard. Just what will be done about general officers of the Guard after the muster into Federal service no one knows. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust has been at Atlantic City this week attending the meeting of the American dairy and food of ficials. T. W. Tobias, Blair county con troller, is a strong good roads advo cate. Thomas J. Harris, Johnstown of ficial well known here, is a candidate for council in his town. —Lawrence Schnapps, Pittsburgh trafflic man, has been placed in charge of passenger agencies in that section by the Pitsburgh and Lake Erie. Dr. J. T Rothrock, of West Chester, attended his first meeting yesterday as forestry commissioner since his reappointment. | DO That Harrisburg Is mak&ig appliances for iron and steel es tablishments? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first Harrisburg newspaper was issued in 1791. Attack Concentrated The Austrian empress is said to be strongly In favor of peace with every body except the Einperor Charles.— Boston Advertiser.
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