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SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18
Doing what can't be done is the
glory of living.
—GENERAL Abmstboko.
STATE HUNTING HANDS
THE war has brought many
strange and unusual conditions
In official, industrial and every
other walk of life, but it is doubted
whether such startling changes have
been made anywhere as in the State
service. A decade ago such a thing
as a branch of the government go
ing out to urge people to take Jobs
■would have given the politicians a
fit and the Capitol would have been
about the last place that a contractor,
an orchard owner or even the head
of a department of a city govern
ment would have gone to get some
one to fill a position.
Now the officials of the imperial
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are
hustling arrfund not only to get wlll
lltS hands to work in the field, or
chard, mill and office, but are mak
ing strenuous efforts to get hands
that will stay on the pay rolls of the
Highway and other departments. The
State has to build roads, to use labor
in its forestry work and In other
lines. It has given freely of its of
ficials, trained and skilled men to the
national service, as was to be expect
ed of the Keystone State, and now it
Is "up against It," to use the slang of
the day, to replace those men with
others who are qualified to direct
operations of a highly specialized
character or work that is complicat
ed and demands particular knowl
edge. As for its own field forces it has
to take its chances with the rail
roads, mill owners and others.
But while this is going on It is be
ing appealed to by farmers confront
ed by bumper crops, peach and apple
orchard owners, faced with a huge
yield of which not one specimen can !
be lost at this time; mill owners har- :
ried by demands for finished prod-1
ucts and people in almost every lino !
to get them hands.
The old order changeth when gov.
ernments seek men.
AN OUTSTANDING MAN
SAYS the Zeitung Am Mittagr, one
of the Berlin publications th.it
is trying to hypnotize Germans
into the belief that there is much
pro-German sentiment in the United
States:
To many Americans the Ger
man Emperor continues to be one
of the outstanding men of con
temporary history.
Sure! But that's also the way some |
of us feel about Jesse James, and i
Villa, and General Weyler. and Czol
gosz.
CUTTING BREAD PRICES
IF Mr. Hoover succeeds in his
effort to keep wheat prices at a
figure that will make wheat pro
duction attractive and profitable
to the farmer and at the same time
enables the public to get bread at
lower prices or, what amounts to
the same, a larger loaf for the same
price, he will prove himself a wiz
ard before whom Marlin or Alladin
might bow the knee in humble sup
plication for instruction in the
gentle art of legerdemain.
When Mr. Hoover demonstrates
that he can do this he will have
demonstrated also that food control
is not merely a matter for war
times, but that It must become a
permanent institution In our federal
government.
A LESSON FOR GERMANY
IT is an old saying that "chickens
come home to roost," and it is
forcefully illustrated by the form
of punishment the new Russian gov
srnment has meted out to the former
Czar, who has been sent to Siberia.
As Nicholas begged to be banished
to the Crimea instead of the barren
wastes to which he was •entenced,
how his thoughts must have started
back to the years of his unlimited
power, when every' offense against
the government or one of its retain
ers was punishable by hard labor In
the Siberian mines. How little In
those times did Nicholas dream that
one day he himself would be com
pelled to foresake all he held dear
and take the long, dismal road to the
frozen steppes.
His punishment has been made to
fit his crime, and if Russia in so do
ing has set an example for the Ger
mans, when once they awake to the
character of the Kaiser and the
frightful depths into which he has
plunged the nation, the banishment
the ex-czar will have served a
SATURDAY EVENING,
double purpose. But In his case the
Germans will be hard put to devise
a suitable punishment.. The Nicholas
is innocent as a day-old babe when
compared with the arch field of jun
kerdom.
TURN OUT, EVERYBODY
ALL, Harrisburg should pause a
moment Monday to bid farewell
to the soldiers of Company D, of the
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, order
ed South to the training camp at
Augusta in advance of their fellows, i
These are our volunteers. These
are the young men of vision who be
gan to prepare when "preparedness"
was a joke and when a National
Guardsman ran the risk of being
called a "tin soldier." Through all
the trying days when to be a mem
ber of the Guard meant hard work ,
and no thanks, theso men worked
and drilled and got themselves into
readiness to take their places side by
side with the regulars In this their j
country's hour of need.
These men of Company D have
helped make Harrisburg the only
city in all Pennsylvania where no
man will be drafted on the first call
for troops for the National Army, j
They are going away in order that
somo others may remain at home, j
They leave their positions, lay aside
their civic activities, take up their
arma and fare forth to the uncer
tainties of soldiering that others may
continue in their peaceful pursuits.
For being farslghted and patriotic
we owe to Company D, and all the j
other National Guardsman, for that
matter, n debt of gratitude. They
I
have shown the world that in Penn- j
eylvanla, at least, the spirit of the \
volunteer is not dead and that in
Harrisburg it has reached the very
perfection of its flower.
And the least we can do Is to turn
out as a city on Monday, to go with
them to the railroad station, as we
would a party of friends or relatives;
to encourage them with our pres
ence; to let them know that we ap
preciate what they have done and
are doing; to pledge to them our
support here at home and our pres
ence with them in the trenches
should the need arise; to bid them
god speed, with our best wishes for a
safe and triumphant return.
Turn out on Monday, everybody!
HIS DRAFT RRIDE
MUCH has been written of tho
the young men who have been
married to escape the draft
and in condemnation of the young
women who lend themselves to this
cowardly practice, but when Miss
Ethel Cochrane, of New York, went
to the altar last evening as the bride
of A. Walter Murdock, of that city,
it was not to save him from military
service. He has been found physical
ly fit and his new wife will not stand
in his way as aj soldier. Said she,
speaking of her contemplated mar
riage:
I think that a girl gning with a
fellow for a long- time with the
Intention of marrying him should
marry him if tin- question is put
up to her at the present time.
But it should be with the definite
understanding that if he is called
on to go to war he will go and
sha won't let herself be offered
as an excuse for him to stay
behind.
I think it is a shame that a girl
should marry a young man to
keep him from doing his duty to
his country. It is an injustice to
both his country and himself, and
• I don't think they can ever be
happy if they start off their mar
ried life that way.
Here is a bride of whom her hus
band may be proud. She has both
patriotism and common sense. Her
philosophy is good and she is right
about the future happiness of the
man and woman who start their
married life on a wrong basis. The
girl who marries a man to keep him
out of the army will never have any
respect for her husband, and mutual
respect Is the foundation of happi
ness In the wedded state. Nor will
a hustind who hides from the re
cruiting officer behind the skirts of
a woman make a good help-meet
We suspect ther are a lot of Miss
Cochranes among those who recently
have taken out marriage licenses and
that the other kind of war wedding
has been greatly over estimated by
reporters looking for sensational
stories in the mid-summer dull sea
aOß.
BREWERY CONSERVATION
THE New York World, than
which there is no more con
i sistently Inconsistent newspa
per in the country, pleads earnestly
in behalf of Hoover, the adminis
tration and the new food law—and
then wires Instructions to its Wash
ington correspondent to color bU
news stories in favor of the booze
ring that is trying to prevent the
House from adopting the prohibition
amendment resolution.
The World evidently believes that
the total abstainer should, if neces
sary, half starve himself In order
that his alcoholic neighbor may bo
able to drink himself to death.
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Ry the F)i-Committeeman
The Attorney General's Depart
ment filed answers on behalf of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth to
day .In the mandamus proceedings
brought In the Dauphin County
Court bv General Willis J. Hullngs,
Oil City, candidate for Republican
nomlnat'on for Congress In the 28th
district, and George Sterner and T.
W. Tvlbill. candidates for judicial
nominations in Philadelphia, to re
quire the secretary to file petitions
presented for them. The secretary
declares In his answer that the
papers were not presented in time.
The Dauphin County Court will fix
a date for argument next week as
the nomination petitions must be
certified within a short time if al
lowed.
The proceedings raise interesting
questions. General Hillings claims
the printed forms furnished him
were not In accord with the act of
1917. but the state contends that
furnishing of petitions is not obliga
tory on the commonwealth and that
candidates should bo familiar with
laws. In the Philadelphia cases it is
declared the papers came too late.
Five candidates out of 169 who
filed congressional or judicial peti
tions at the Capitol have withdrawn.
The time for withdrawing expired
last night. The candidates who
withdrew were four common pleas
and one associate judge aspirants.
It is expected that the Dauphin
County Court will fix a date late in
September for the argument on the
motion of Auditor General Snyder
to quash the mandamus proceeding
brought by four state officials whose
appointment the Auditor General
has declined to recognize.
A number of nominating petitions
for county and municipal nomina
tions have been sent by mistake to
the department of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth. Such nominat
ing petitions says Chief Clerk George
D. Thorn, must be filed with County
Commissioners. The time for filing
such nominations expires August 22.
The time for filing judicial peti
tions expired August 10.
—The Philadelphia transit situa
tion bids fair to be an issue in the
politics this fall in spite of all that
could be done to keep out. The stx
cent fare is being denounced.
—Governor Brumbaugh will have
to name a judge for Monroe County
to succeed the late Judge J. P.
Staples. Whether one will be named
before election is an interesting
point. The county is Democratic.'
—York's police situation is attract
ing much attention. The report of
the mayor to council shows that
some of the ofTicers accepted bribes.
—Roland S. Morris, former Demo
cratic State Chairman, and now
Ambassador to Tokio, was guest of
honor at a dinner last night In Phil
adelphia. Meanwhile Democratic
leaders throughout the State are
trying to get people to stajid for
office.
—E. V. Babcock last night
launched his campaign for Mayor
of Pittsburgh at a largely attended
meeting over which Ex.Representa
tive H. W. Cromer presided. Mr.
Magee will start his campaign In a
day or so.
—The Philadelphia Ledger has
tills to say about Senator Penrose:
"Senator Penrose arrived in the city
from Washington last night, but
announced that he would have
nothing to say until after he has
conferred with his friends at the
shore to-day and to-morrow. It Is
expected by the political leaders that
one of the features of the Senator's
visit to Atlantic City will be a talk
with Mayor Smith on city politics,
with special reference to the fram
ing of the harmony ticket between
the Vare and McNichol factions for
the city and county 'row' offices."
The Wreck of a Nation
Review]
If we suppose that Germany is
blind enough, as she seems deter
mined to be. to ignore these results,
she will find herself at the end of
the war with ten million men gone
and her industrial man power so
badly crippled that she will be out of
the commercial race even if she is
not boycotted by alt the rest of the
world, as she deserves to be and as
she will be.
To-day, Germany's industrial fa
bric is a wreck. Front an agricul
tural people, in a generation or more
she has become a vast, successful,
commercial unit, with two-tlilrds of
her population devoted to manufac
turing. transportation and shipping,
and export.
To-day she faces commercial bank
ruptcy and tinancial ruin. The whole
civilized world is turned against her.
She has besoms an object of hatred
and loathing because of her inhu
man deeds.
Germany's It ad in chemistry, In
dyes, in potash, has gone for tho
period of the war. and in the rapid
establishment of these industries in
other countries, will, after the war,
be gone for good. Her ships abroad
are other interned and will be held
as ransom for damages to neutrals,
or, as here, arc being used for trans
portation by the allies. Her ships at
home are deteriorating at the
wharves, with export trade comple
tely wiped out.
. The Capture of London
That ante-bellum, stony British
stare, celebrated in song and story
and American tradition, cracked into
a thousand pieces when our soldiers
marched through London yesterday.
Women pushed through the police
lines to kiss our husky engineers,
veteran Tommies embraced them
like so many crazy poilus, and tears
and cheers ran riot from Piccadilly
to the Strand. What is technically
known in America as a big time was
had by all.
Probably wo are still too closely
related to Britons to understand
each other completely. That linger
ing American resentment of British
toploftlneas and reserve dies hard.
But t? BrftonS do their full share in
I dropping their ancient stoniness,
what will wi have left to complain
of? There have been many signs of
i a new breadth of mind in England
and a growing spirit of brotherliness
toward such preposterous outlanders
as Canadians and Australians. Now
| even Americans are pressed in. The
surrender of London could scarcely
i be more complete.—New York Tri
[ bune.
War Economy
Loud comes tho cry'to help and save
While we are in the war.
Save the wheat and save the coal
And save the apple core.
And if your breeches have a rent.
No cloth to it attach;
Don't mend It—for a hole will last
Much longer than a patch.
—Morris Rosenzwei*.
• HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT By Briggs
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Hot attacks are made In Congress,
asserts a headline. That is where
most of the heavy blows against
America have been struck thus far
in the war.—Philadelphia North
American.
The German military leaders re
fuse to believe that an American
army has landed in France, and
probably General Pershing will have
to take his forces right into Berlin
to convince them.—Seattle Post-In
teiligencer.
"If the enemy navy can be In
duced to show themselves again,
we will do the rest," says the Ber
lin Anzeiger. It must be awfully dis
couraging for the German navy to
go out hunting in the Kiel canal day
after day and never tind the enemy.
—San Francisco Daily News.
The Japanese Mission
At the moment the Teutons are
having presented to the allies pre
liminary plans for peace, a peace
that would leave unrequited the
wrongs done by the Teutons and
that would give to them the scepter
of permanent control over Europe
and would exact autocracy to the
pinnacle of presumption, Japan
comes forth through its mission to
the United States with a pledge of
unalterable allegiance to this coun
try in the prosecution of the war.
Japan writhes under the sting of
German intrigue that in the past has
been used to bring about bad rela
tions with the United States. Its
representative. Viscount Ishii, re
sponding to the American greeting,
said he and his associates are here
to say that in this tremendous strug
gle for those rights and liberties
America and Japan are bound to
gether! that when the victory of
the allied forces is secure, America
and Japan should so live that your
sons and our sons will have a cer
tainty of good neighborhood: so live
that on word or deed of either can bo
looked upon with suspicion; that
venomous gossip, hired slander, sin
ister intrigue and influence, of which
we have both been the victims, can
in only serve to bring us
closer together for mutual protec
tion and for common welfare.
Until a peace can be had that will
forever remove the Kaiser with his
personal rule, diplomatic intrigue
and insolent lying, as in the case ot
the cable to the President brought
out by Mr. Gerard, there will be no
peace. So says Japan. So says Amer
ica. So say the allies.-—Baltimore
American.
Makers of the Flag
I am whatever you make me, noth
ing more. 9
I am your belief in yourself, jour
dream of what a people may be
come.
Sometimes I am strong with pride
when men do an honest work, fit
ting the rails together truly.
Sometimes I droop, for then pur
pose has gone from me, and cynic
ally I play the coward.
Sometimes I am loud and garish,
and full of that ego that blasts Judg
ment.
But always I am all that you hope
to be, and have the courage to try
for.
I am the day's work of the weak
est man. and the largest dream of
the most daring.
I am the constitution and the
courts, statutes, and the statute mak
ers, soldiers and dreadnaught, dray
man and street sweep, cook, coun
selor and clerk.
I am what you make me, nothing
more.—Franklin K. Bane.
The Music-Makers
We are the music-makers.
And we are the dreamers of
dreams.
Wandering by lone sea-breakers.
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams;
i Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
With wonderful, deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities.
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory;
One man with a dream, at pleasure.
Shall go forth and conquer a
crown;
And three with a new song's meas
ure
Can trample an empire down.
We, In the agea lying
In the buried past t>f the earth.
Built Nineveh with our sighing.
And Babel Itself with our mirth;
And overthrew them with prophesy
ing
To the old of the new world's
worth:
For each age Is a dream that Is dy
ing.
Or one that is coming to birth.
—Arthur O'ShauKhnessy.
| AN EARLY PROFITEER
A THOUSAND years ago, and
three years over, one of those
who sat in high places took ad
vantage of the necessities of the
people and cornered the food supply.
Thera-had been a protracted period
of rain In Mainz, the harvest was
ruined and famine followed. The
people were perishing with hunger.
But, as the story goes, the grana
ries of Bishop Hatto were overflow
ing. He had gathered grain during
the years of plenty, and he had
enough to feed the whole population.
Naturally enough, the population
came to him to be fed. They worried
his lordship with their Importunities.
So, according to the legend, he gath
ered them all together in a big barn
and set fire to the barn.
That was the end of the people,
but there were still the rats to reckon
with. The rats also were hungry for
the grain, and Hatto couldn't get
them to go into an empty barn to be
burned. Finally they chased him
from his palace, and he took refuge
in his strong tower, built in the mid-
Embattled Housewife
It is the reproach of America that
the male Americans do not know
how to play. Their sordid infatua
tion with work doubtless justifies
the female of the species In indulg
ing undjr the olive branch in mild
!ly riotous living. A certain amount
[ of playing must be done if the race
is to be kept healthy and reason
ably sane, and resolutely she does
I u -
When the drum beat and the bu
! gle call summon the nation to war
I the women are enabled to behold
their men In a role altogether ad
mirable, and so the women rally
loyally to support them. Worthy
helpmeets of the warriors who go
forth to battle, they put aside the
follies and extravagances that in
peace seemed a part of their nature.
Kven as the tango lizards and the
tired business men prove in their
j response to war's demands that they
I are of heroic stuff, so do the fair
bridge devotees and favorites of
| fashion put aside their playthings of
peace, and in kitchen, camp and
.workshop prove that they have the
mettle of the pioneer mothers.
Gone are the sheer draperies, the
laces and furbelows, the powder and
patches and the niceties of peace
times. The lady in gingham gown,
or even in overalls, bends perspir
ing over pots and pans or other try
lng labor and reveals the long hid
den secret that she possesses all the
traditional housewifery virtues of
her grandmother.—Chicago News.
Caves of Ice Puzzle
There are several caves In the
United States where nature seems to
have become ccnfused as to the sea
sons. During the late spring and
summer ice forms and a freezing
temperature prc\ ails, but as winter
comes on the interior of the caves
becomes milder, the ice gradually
melts and a kind of subdued sum
mer sets in underground. v
One of theie peculiar caves is to
be found at Coudersport, Pa., and
one at Decorah, lowa. The super
stititous among the residents of
those localities give the caves a wide
berth and look with suspicion upon
any one daring enough to attempt to
investigate them.
Edwin S. Baich, of Philadelphia,
who has made a study of the sub
terranean ice mines, as they are call
ed, states thai according to the
theory evolved by investigators the
formation of the caverns is such
that the cold air of winter does not
penetrate and settle in them until
late in the spring at the time when
the water from spring thaws is seep
ing through the walls and roof. This
water meeting the cold air freezes
and stays frozen all summer until,
as the fall season approaches, the
warm summer air at last finds its
way into the cave and melts the
ice.—From the Popular Science
Monthly.
Proving It
A woman owning a house in Phil
adelphia before which a gang of
workmen were engaged in making
street repairs waa much interesting
In the work.
"And which is the foreman?" she
asked of a big, burly Celt.
A proud smile came to the coun
tenance of that individual as he re
plied:
"Ot am, mum."
"Really?" continued the lady.
"Ol kin prove it, mum." rejoined
the Irishman. Then, turning to a
laborer at hand, he added. "Kelly,
ye're fired!" —■'Harper's Magazine.
die of the Rhine. But the rats swam
the river, stormed the tower, and ate
Hatto up. So generally credited is
the story that the tower is called
"The Rats' Tower" to this day.
A thousand years of uplift and
enlightenment have passed since
then, and it is no longer likely that
the food sharks will burn hungry
people by wholesale to keep them
from eating the grain. The modern
food shark is become milder of man
ners-—he does not desire the lives of
'.he populace, but will be content with
their money. If they have no money,
that Is their lookout. And such a
campaign has been waged against
vermin that it is highly improbable
that enough rats can be mustered to
do the justice that was done to Hatto.
The only thing we can do is to pre
vent the Hattos of the present time
from hoarding the food from the
people. How strange it seems that
the people who have this power,
should allow the friends of Hatto to
do his work by obstruction and de
lay—to represent Hatto, and not the
people. In the houses of Congress.—
1 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pickers for Apple Crop
In a couple of weeks we will be
gin harvesting all over the United
States an apple crop equal to two
bushels for every man, woman and
child in the country. This is a war
crop. The consumers of the United
States will be urged to use apples in
the food saving campaign by which
we are increasing the amount of
wheat and other staple foods sent
to our fighting allies.
"Eat an apple and send a bis
cuit," is the motto this year.
War conditions also confront the
apple growers, for there is a scarc
ity of pickers and careful prepara
tions must now be made to see that
this crop is ail safely harvested and
put into storage. Now is the time
to begin organizing picking crews
in every apple growing section. A
survey of the situation shows that
the farmer wltl need co-operation
from business men in the towns and
cities round about at which he
trades and which have just as great
an interest in this crop as the farm
er himself. This Is emergency or*
ganization work to be taken up im
mediately by Chambers of Com
merce, Boards of Trade, State and
County Councils of Defense and bus
iness men generally.
The labor supply to harvest this
crop exists right in the cities ad
jacent to the apple orchards in most
cases, but the draft and the demands
of factories and railroads for labor
have disturbed the normal supply of
workers upon which the farmer
usually draws, and it Is necessary
to recruit new kinds of workers.
People who have never regarded
themselves as apple pickers may this
year be asked to go to the orchards
and help get In the crop for pa
triotic reasons.
Only the Empty-Headed
Former Senator Works, of Cali
fornia, makes himself ridiculous by
charging that the arrest of one of
the speakers at a pacifist meeting on
the charge of resistance to the se
lective draft law "was done for the
purpose of intimidating thinking
people." Thinking people do not
have anything to do with these so
called pacifist meetings, which are
organized and conducted solely in
the interest of Germany.—Springfield
Union.
A Comparison
A splinter of steel struck the picket
squarely between the eyes. It was
midnight, and he was alone and
helpless. While groping his way In
the agony of it all. a dozen rifles
were lowered to blow the poor boy's
soul into eternity, when out of a
blind hope this soldier's heart leap
ed into song. Listen:
"Jesus, lover of my soul,
me to Thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll.
While the tempest still Is high.
"All my trust on Thee Is stayed;
All my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wing."
Every rifle in the enemy's advance
line was lowered, and the boy in
gray was taken to the rear of the
army of the boys in blue.
Compare this Christian warfare,
this civilized warfare, with the un
speakable, uncivilized, unholy war
of the German Oeronimos, whom we
must (Vght over there for all we ar
worth, lest we get cleaned up over
here.—The Silent Partner.
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AUGUST 18, 1917.
Labor Notes
Frisco bricklayers ask 18 a day.
Birkenhead, England, has police
women.
Twenty-nine states have mothers'
pension laws.
There are 330,000 coal miners In
Pennsylvania.
Ouelph, Can., iron molders demand
increased pay.
India will this year produce 34,079,-
000 tons of rice.
Carpenters nt Winnipeg:, Can., want
60 cents an hour.
Bookbinders at Toronto get a 20
per cent, increase.
Brantford, Conn., sheet metal work
ers have organized.
The cotton factories in Japan em
ploy 125,000 women.
Vancouver (B. C.) Fire Department
went on strike recently.
Stock Suffrage Argument
A member of Congress and his
wife had been to Baltimore one aft
ernoon. When they left the train at
Washington, on their return, the
wife discovered that her umbrella,
which had been entrusted to the care
of her husband, was missing.
"Where's my umbrella " she de
manded.
"I fear I have forgotten It, my
dear," meekly answered the states
man. "It must still be in the train."
"In the train!" snorted the lady.
"And to think that the affairs of
the nation are entrusted to a man
who doesn't know enough to take
care of a woman's umbrella!" —The
Lamb.
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One of the Interesting: things that!
the war has brought to the
Capitol has been a notable Increase!
In the requests for expert informal
tlon about finds of minerals of var*
lous kinds. Pennsylvania Is noted!
for Its mlnoral wealth and people ati
the Capitol declare that there are q|
couple of hundreds of varieties, lnw
eluding gold, silver and other pre
cious metals, some very valuable for
chemical purposes, but in such smalt
quantities as not to pay for working
them. The deposits are nearly all
well located and their value appraised.
Since the war Industrial activity in
cident upon the war began thero
have been all sorts of reports of mln
crals received at the Capitol with re
quests for information as to their
worth and whether the State couldf
have any use for them. Numerous
outcropplngs of coal have beea
sampled and any number of speci
mens of iron ore have come hero
with requests for reports on what it
contains.
• * *
Enactment of legislation which
will enable the State to co-operate
with boroughs and counties in the
construction of State highways where
they pass through smaller municipal
ities is expected to result In better
ment of many streets In boroughs.
The condition of highways in bor
oughs which are in effect part of
State road routes has been a proli
ne cause of complaint at the Capi
tol. but tho new laws offer a way
whereby the Slate can help improve
them. Several engagements have
been made here by officials of
counties and boroughs who wish to
things started for construction
this fall. Unfortunately the high price
of materials and labor Is holding
hack State construction on main
highways.
• • •
William T. Htldrup. of the Har
rlsburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
works, remarked yesterday afternoon
upon the number and variety of
automobile* whizzing along Market
street in front of the courthouse.
There were a couple a minute and
it recalled to those who heard him
that Mr. Hildrup had the first pleas
ure automobile in Harrisburg. Harry
>C. Dodge had the first automobile,
but it was a commercial and pleasure
vehicle combined, while Mr. Hild
rup's was an electric runabout. -Mr.
Hildrup also had the first limousine
In this city. The cars they use now
adays are mighty different from
those early affairs.
• • •
While not the oldest member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fei
lows In tho State, the late John H.
Mcllhenny was recorded among the
early members. He was a member
of the IJnglestown 'Lodge, his mem
bership dating back to 1868. He was
also prominent In patriotic orders
and up to a fey/ years ago attended
regularly the meetings of the Pat
riotic Sons of America, Junior Or
der of American Mechanics and
ether organizations.
He was a member of the TTarrls-
I'urs Republican club and when his
health permitted never missed a
parade in which the club partici
pated. He believed in organization
and many young Republicans In Har
risburg to-day became active workers
because they followed the advice of
"Uncle John" Mcllhenny.
• • •
Mr. Mcllhenny was reared on A
farm and said that he lilted to work
on a farm. He certainly liked to
talk about farms. He would often in
the course of his rides about the
country, and he seemed to know al
most every road In Dauphin county
and t'le people who lived along It,
get out and lean over tho fence
and talk about crops. He often
walked around a field with men en
gaged in working and on more than
one occasion turned a furrow for a
friend. He used to say that he had
drunk water out of more wells than
anyone in the county as when on
his drives about he would stop at
a farmhouse and In the course of
talking politics with the men folks
showed his interest In fields, crops,
barns, wells and stock. And anyone
who talks about a well In the country
has to drink out of it.
• * •
The opening up of Greece since
the deposition of King Constantine
has had an effect upon banking In
Harrisburg that the ordinary busi
ness man would never suspect.
There are a good many Greeks in
this community and like all from
that land they save money and send
it back. When the allies had to put
the screws on Greece these men were
forced to keep their money here and
as they are thrifty and firm believers
!n banks they piled up nice accounts
in the city's banking concerns. As
soon as the blockade was lifted the
Greeks began drawing out their
money and some paid from four to
six dollars to cable it to Athens or
Sparta. There are a good many
from Sparta In this city and the
size of the drafts they wired under
the sea would Interest more than
one man.
•• • t
"What are you going to do when
your tire busts and you run a dan
ger of killing son eone by trying to
run on it right on a block where the
police won't allow parking?" plaint
ively asked a man whose machine
had been stopped right close to one
of the police department's red "No
parking" signs In Third street.
The policeman scratched his head
and asked whether tho car could not
be moved around the corner.
"All right you tak it around," re
marked the owner with rising tem
perature.
"Oh, I guess you can stay here
until you get fixed up," said the po
liceman.
f WELL KNOWN frEOPLE~*j
—Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks en
tertained the members of the Blair
county bar at his country home yes
terday.
—The Rev. II J. Hoyt, former
chaplain of the First Infantry, has
been attending the camp of the reg
iment near Philadelphia.
—William M. Croll, of Berks
county, has taken charge of the
farm army of that county and la
asking for volunteers tr the field.
—Mayor Armstrong, pt Pittsburgh,
has made an appeal ro* more dls
ply of Hags in his city.
—Major Walter Sterling, ordnance
officer of the Pennsylvania, division,
lives in Wilkes-Barre and >as been
connected with the Guard from boy
hood.
| DO YOU KNOW "1
—That Harrisbiire tin is need
In United States anny camp
cqulpmont.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Mexican war troops were musfe
ered into service in front of the Cay
itol.
A Plea
For God and country,
That's our vow. "HIV
God grant we may ' ' 'T
Not weaken now.
—From the Detroit Free Trttm-