6 H APPIQRIIPf 1 TEI FPPAPU those South American potato eaters nAlVl\loDUl\U I IjLLi'jlXAr II were building temples that are the wonder of modern scientists and con ducting tholr affairs on a plane of civilization that historians tell us has not been surpassed since the world began. It was not until the potato was introduced into France that real progress began there. All of which is set forth for the specific purpose of illustrating the virtues of the potato as an article of diet and indicating its importance in the gen eral scheme of things. So, when wo are told to go it and fill up on potatoes the order is nat urally to be obeyed • with a will. Boarding house keepers and restaur ant proprietors will please take par- I tlcular notice. They were so thor ! oughly imbued with the potato sav i ing Idea last spring that they are still I providing a microscope with each I order of French fried. We used to I order steak and potatoes; now we or | der steak and a potato. Mr. Hoover ought to go around and talk to the restaurant people about this. Wo can't eat potatoes unless we are able to get them and In the average res taurant the proprietor apparently thinks as much of his potato supply as he does of the cash register. The standing order In case of fire is, save the pototoes first. Eat potatoes alone and they are gdod. Accompany them with steak and they are excellent. Cover 'em over with gravy and they are am brosia. A few more orders of this | kind and we'll be boosting Herbie Hoover for President. It takes a great mind to figure out a food con servation order which reads: "ife sure you eat your share of potatoes." October 22 to 27 is potato week, but - there's no reason why you shouldn't begin to celebrate at once. A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. IE. J. STACKP©LE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief P, R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the uso for republication of all news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn " Eastern office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a t> week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, OCTOBKR IS, 1917 Life is so short and insecure that 1 would not hurry away from any pleasure. — Stevenson. RUILPIVG OUTLOOK BRIGHTER HIGH cost of building materials and scarcity of labor have con spired to keep down the volume of new building this year, but it is notable that this is true more gen erally of smaller enterprises than of those of greater magnitude, like that of the Pcnn-llarris hotel, for exam ple. The man of small affairs and limited finance has seen only present difficulties and has entertained the hope of relief next year, or the year after, liut the man who has a build ing enterprise in his mind and who has studied the national and the In ternational situation knows that prices of materials and the cost of labor will remain high for years to come. Unless he is willing 'to post pone indefinitely he must go ahead regardless of the cost. This has been done in the case of many large building developments, and as the smaller operators, home builders and the like, come to the understanding that there will be no marked change in conditions for a long period, the building trades will show more signs of revival. The out look, for that reason, is consider-' ably brighter for the coming year. Back up your Liberty Loan bond with a contribution to the Y. M. C. A. fund. HALLOWE'EN ADVICE THAT was good advice Scout Ex ecutive Stine gave the Boy Scouts of the city in the telegraph last night, when he warned them against participation in Hallowe'en pranks that would be annoying to others or destructive to property. Boy Scouts should Set a Rood example to other boys by refraining from such prac tices. Likewise, the city authorities were wise in decreeing that the Hallow e'en celebration be confined to one evening this year. There never was justification for stringing the holi day out over three nights and turn ing privilege into license. It is scarcely likely that the Kaiser paused to pay homage yesterday to the memory of Columbus. IIAIG'S DRIVE GENERAL HAIQ'S continuous drive is doing more than to advance the British lines, im portant although that be. It is pounding into the German mind the knowledge that Germany cannot stand before the allies and that de feat is certain. It is teaching the German forces the only kind of les son they are capable of understand ing—that of the baseball bat laid vigorously across the back of the head. Haig is paving the way for' the big defeat that is coming when the American forces join the allies in large numbers on the French front, it is the beginning of the end. "Fingy" Conners to be a general! We suggest Mr. Jiggs as adjutant. eat potatoes HAVE you eaten your share of Amerioa s bumper potato crop this year?" asks the United fc'tates Department of Agriculture. And just as pertinently and very emphatically we reply: "We have not. but we hope to do so." It's the patriotic thing to eat po tatoes these days, just as It was the proper caper to go without 'em last spring, and it may be said, without running the risk of giving aid or comfort to the enemy, that to eat is a tar easier order than to refrain Somebody has said that the sad dest sight on earth 1 8 a fat man eat ing a potato, but to the fat man it Is far sadder to, be deprived of the potato. This applies to many also who are not fat. As In the case of tho strawberry, doubtless God knew how to make a better vegetable than but he never did. Bread may be the staff of life, but the poU.to is the very founda tion of civilization. The ancient Bouth Americans grew it in their war gardens while our ancestors in Europe were seeking out a miser able existence on artichokes and other wretched substitutes. And while , these aforesaid . ancestors Were living in mud huts, mind you, SATURDAY EVENING GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! THERE is no end to the calls upon our pocketbooks In the cause of the war. and not the least important of the pleas that come with almost daily frequency is the request for money with which to support the Y. M. C. A. work in the Army. Those fortunate enough to have heard John R. Mott, fresh from tho battlefields of France, speak at the Harrisburg Club and the Y. M. C. A. yesterday, have come to be lieve that the association at the front and in the training camps will be a mighty agency in winning the war and that it should receive every penny for which it asks. Back of the lines in France lie as deadly enemies as in front. Statis tics can be quoted to show that some hundreds of thousands of French and English soldiers have fallen victims to those nameless enemies of young manhood in the trenches who otherwise might be on the fighting lines helping to win the war for their countries, and that numberless others will go home when the war is over physical wrecks from the same cause. The Y. M. C. A. Is the influence that stands be tween the soldier and these evils. When it is well supported and ac tive in any camp or sector at the front, the health and morale of "the troops are perceptibly Improved. When its defenses are lowered by lack of funds vice creeps in to re place wholesome recreation and takes its toll of youth living under conditions that make temptation easy and resistenee difficult. This puts the matter directly up to us who remain at home. Our dollars are the weapons the Y. M. C. A. workers depend upon to fight off evil and disease. Shall our boys return clean of mind and healthy of body? If we give liberally to this Y. M. G. A. fund most of them will. Shall they come back the victims of nameless horrors or die miserably in a foreign land, when they ought to be fighting their county's battles? Many of them will do one or the other if we withhold our contribu tions. Give! Give! Give! That is the slogan of the countless millions who remain at home. It is as little as we can do to give until it hurts. The young volunteer has gone out to risk his life that we may live com fortably and enjoy our liberties. Ten dollars is the sum needed for each of these soldiers. Who are we to tighten our purse strings and with hold the only weapon we can wield when his safety is threatened? How are we going to square ourselves with our consciences if we do not give, and give liberally. "The life of the average garage is from five to seven years," nays an in surance expert, which is an excellent reason why the law should require them to be built of concrete and steel. Admiral Capolle has resigned as the head of the German Navy, which Is the best evidence In the world that the U-boat campaign has failed and that the Kaiser Is looking for another goat. "One swallow does not make a sum mer," but with the price of "red likker" at its present figure, it does add to the temperature of many bar rooms. "Ex-Czar Nicholas sent to monas tery.' "When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be," etc. "Flour price to be limited by the Government." But how about breafl? TatitlcQ. ck By tho Kx-Committeeman A distinguished array of counsel is expected to appear in the Dauphin county court on Monday afternoon when the hearing: will be held on the application of four Philadelphia judges and two Schuylkill judges who are candidates for re-election for an injunction to restrain Secretary of tho Commonwealth Cyrus E. \Voods from certifying four candidates in stead of two in districts where there Pht, 1 t J V^ Jut J Brest 0 eleot - The Alle- Th Lt? U . y contest is not affected. struotiftn°* il to obtain a new con struction of the clause in tho judicial nonpartisan election law which gov eins the sole nominee" certification. Rtn\f r ? re h a f y *i, W 2 ods has taken his stand that the decision in the Drake case, severoi years ago, Riven bv Judge S. J M. McCarrell, of the Dau phin county court, governs in this in stance. The position has been taken that a candidate must not only get Hfty-one per cent, of the votes cast at a primary for the nomination to ™j! lc A he aspires, but that he must „et fifty-one per cent, of the aggre- i?^ e d ec ' s 'on will probably be given within a week as the printing of tho lay must started without de- —The Philadelphia political situa tion is commencing to show the ef fects of the Fifth Ward hearing. The morning newspapers all praise the Town Meeting ticket and the Press and Ledger continue their attacks on Mayor Smith, while the Phila delphia Inquirer caustically refers to Senator Vare's interview and ex presses a desire to have the Senator on the witness stand "under the probe of a Gordon." The Philadel phia. Record, which booms the Town Meeting ticket, says Philadelphia is "waking up" and that organization of independents is under way not only in Gennantown, but in Vare wards. significant incident of yester day is reported by the Inquirer in this language: "'l have set my face as a Hint against violence, individual and official.' That declaration was made yesterday by Select Councilman George Connell, of the Fortieth ward, in a letter notifying the chairman of the Republican executive committee of the ward of his resignation as a member of that body. He later an nounced his determination to sup port the candidates of the Town Meeting party. Mr. Connell is one of the most prominent active Re publicans of West Philadelphia." —Samuel P. Rotan, Republican nominee for district attorney, of Philadelphia county, yesterday noti fied Thomas F. Armstrong, chair man of the Town Meeting party com mittee, that in accordance with an agreement in which he entered with his colleagues named at the uniform primaries he could not conscien tiously accept the nomination o t the Town Meeting party and solicited the support of all citi zens interested in good govern ment. Leaders of the Town Meet ing party, while regretting the cir cumstances which impelled Mr. Ro tan to take this position, admitted that he is' the logical candidate for the district attorneyship and in ad dition to signifying their determina tion to present no candidate against him forecasted his re-election as a certainty. "1 am in full sympathy and in accord with all movements for the purification of political condi tions in Philadelphia," wrote Mr. Rotan in a preface to his statement giving his reasons f*r declining the Independent nomination. —Mr. Rotan's action meets with editorial commendation. —Things are growing interesting in Pittsburgh, too. Congressman S. G. Porter is out attacking E. V. Bab cock and the Magee men are assail ing the lumberman's business affairs. Signs that the Magee men are deter mined not to let the Philadelphia upheaval affect their activity are to be seen. On the other hand the Bab cock people have not been idle as the following from the Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times shows: "Fishing for registration irregularities, the Pitts burgh Board of Registration yester day landed an employe of the court house—working under the Magee controlled board of county commis sioners—who is now charged with violation of the election law. There was consternation among the Magee faction generally when this haul of the seine was miylc, for even while the registration board was still in ses sion a warrant was sworn out." —The appearance of the O'Neil gubernatorial candidacy cards here, which was noted In this column on Thursday, seems to have furnished a topic of much interest. Philadelphia newspapers give space to It and a Pittsburgh dispatch to the Philadel phia Ledger says: "O'Neill, a part of the Brumbaugh or anti-Penrose faction, of which W. A. Magee, for mer Public Service Commissioner, Is the leader in Western Pennsylvania, has made it plain here that he will be neutral In the mayoralty light be tween Babcock, the Penrose candi date, and Magee. To-day O'Neil's warmest and personal political friend. Dr. G. A. Dillinger, a mem ber qf city council, declared for Bab cock, arraigning Magee. This is ac cepted in local political circles as finally severing relations between the two Brumbaugh lieutenants. O'Neil and Magee. O'Neil's present plans, local politicians say, is to lay the groundwork for obtaining the sup port of Babcock and the new city ad ministration, if Babcock is elected mayor, for O'Neil's candidacy for governor. In political circles in Alle gheny and adjoining counties it has been known for sometime that O'Neil was nursing a boom for governor, but not as a Brumbaugh candidate, the Governor's friends say. The the ory f the Brumbaugh supporters is that O'Neil Is laying his line to be the regular organization choice who would he acceptable to the Brum baugh-Vare forces." HATtT* ISBTJRG tfS&SgL TELEGRAPH THE GOLF SALON . BY BRIGGS | /f ALrr | \ / j/ WILLARD AND SUCCESS Daniel Willard, the great railroad man, has told B. C. Forbes some of the things that have helped him be come successful. The article is in the November American Magazine, and Mr. Willard says: "If you really want to get along rather than to see how easy a time you can have, you must apply yt>ur self wholeheartedly—both during your working hours and your leis ure hours —to .your business. By baving your mind on your work you are apt to learn how to do it ac curately, and there is nothing more Important than accuracy. Then, don't stop after doing what you are told; do that and do that accurately —then find something additional worth doing. When the time comes to retrench, when men have to be laid off, if you have made yourself reaHy useful and valuable you will probably not be dropped; you are ruare HJ*iy to be given more impor tant* 1 work to do, because your em ployers will know you will do it right, that they can trust you and depend upon you. "In my own case I had no spe cial advantages. I had no superior education, no unusual mental gifts, no physical advantages, no influential friends, no money. I worked my way out of the rut by determina tion to keep right on doing the best I knew how to fill my job, plus, and losing no opportunity to Increase my fitness for my job. I never had a chance, or if so I failed to recog nize it, to do any unusual or bril liant thing, anything spectacular— such as being the hero in any great railroad accident or situation, or sen sationally saving some celebrity's life. I simply pegged light along." WON'T DO A story is told of an Irishman who went to a chemist's shop for an empty bottle. Selecting one that an swered his purpose, he asked; "How much?" "Well." said the chemist, "if you require the empty bottle it'll be two pence, but !f you have something put in it we won't charge anything for the bottle." "Sure, that's fair enough,' ob served Pat; "put in a cork." —Lon- don Tit-Bits. HATED THE LANGUAGE Judging from the phraseology in some of the kaiser's letters now be ing published, he hated the English language almost as much as he did the English nation. —Chicago Her ald. PACIFISTS* WAR HYMNS The Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, long known as an ardent advocate of peace, has written a national hymn, which was recently sung for the first time in the First Congregational church in Columbus, 0., of which he is pastor. This hymn, sung to the tune of "Oh, Mother Dear, Jeru salem," serves to reveal the grasp which Doctor Gladden has upon the new national and. international situ ation; O land of lands, my fatherland, the beautiful, the free; All lattds and shores to freedom flear are ever dear to thee; All sorts of freedom hail thy name, and wait thy word of might, While round the world the lists arc joined for liberty and light. Hall, sons of France, old comrades dear! Hail Britons brave and true! Hall Belgian martyrs ringed with flame! Slavs fired with visions new! Italian lovers mailed with light! Dark brothers from Japan! Prom east to west all lands are kin Who live for God and man. Here endeth war! Our bands are sworn! Now dawns the better hour When lust of blood shall cease to rule, v When peace shall come with power; We front the fiend that rends our race And fills our homes with gloom; We break his scepter, spurn his crown, And nail him In his tomb! Now, hands all 'round, v our troth we plight to rid the world of lies, To fill all hearts with truth and trust and willing sacrifice; To free all lands from hate and spite and fear from strand to strand; To make all nations neighbors and the world one fatherland! —From the Springfield Republican. If- < =^j Railroaders and the War | ti I Harrisburg, Penna., Oct. 12, 1917. To the Editor of the Telegraph: The news that our ncighbo.r, Moo'-"heail C\ Kejanertv. President of the Cumberland Valley Rail road, of the Pennsylvania Kallroud System, has given up his important railroad duties at home and gone to France to help our allies —re- calls the story of a modest hero, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad System during the Civil War. In his sphere, under the di rection of the officials of the railroad, he helped ,to protect the life of Ab raham Lincoln. The ruse by which Lincoln yvas secretly and safely taken through Baltimore, where, in a few days later, the First Defenders, on their way to Washington were bitterly attack ed. lias been told, but a phase of my informant's story was new to me. His name is George W. Albright, far down the eighth decade of life, a resident of Harrisburg, and well known to many of its citizens. Speaking of Linclon's address at Harrisburg, when Lincoln was on his way to Washington to assume his duties, Albright said to me a few days ago:— "I only heard the last part of Lincoln's speech. He said:— "We are divided politically but we are all one nation and we must stand by it. I have tried to be a father to you all. Good Night." "This speech was from the bnl conjr of the old Jones House, now called the Dauphin building. At that time I was inspecting cars at the depot. My partner got. the car ready for Mr. Lincoln, and we sent it down to the lower end of the depot, and there we left it. We slin ped Mr. Lincoln into that car. His friends were already in the car. We had a blind train in the depot and we sent it across the Cumberland Valley Bridge seemingly for Balti more and Washington by the way of the Northern Central Railroad. Mr. Lincoln was not in the "blind train," but was in the car at the lower end of the depot, which was THE ALLIES' NAVIES Frank Simonds, the well-known editorial writer and author has writ ten an article for Farm and Fireside, in which he says: "What so far has been the new lesson of sea power in the greatest struggle of history? How far has that policy known as Navalism justi fied itself in conflict with the rival doctrine of Militarism? "Even at the present moment it is possible to say unqualifiedly that naval power has achieved all that was* expected it could achieve. So far it has supplied the single decisive element in the whole struggle. Brit ish sea power—and it is not neces sary now to discuss the relatively minor part played by the Russian, the Italian, or even the French, na vies—won the war, as far as the water was concerned, in the first days of the conflict, and without bat tle, and now to these fleets have been added that of our own country. "With the declaration of war ngainst Great -Britain three years ago, Germany became an Isolated nation so far as the sea was con cerned, save only for the Baltic. First of all her merchant marine was swept from the seas or interned in neutral ports. Almost with the first note of the call to arms, Hamburg and Bremen, the great German sea port cities, were paralyzed; they have been paralyzed ever since." THE MAN A slouchy young man is not only to be criticised for his outside habit, the way he walks, talks and dresses, but for the Inside habit which these things imply. A slouchy man Is slouchy Inside as well as outside. His mind Is slouchy, his thinking lags, his ambitions droop. Anyone can tell him on the streets. He swaggers along, lolls about and dresses like a scarecrow. The fashions are slouchy and he revels In them. You cannot expect much of such a man. His spirit drivels and lounges along as if to be orderly and proper was a sin. Such young men are poor timber for citizenship.—From the Ohio State Journal. PROPORTION PROBLEM A $3,000,000,000 Liberty Loan looks big, but it would scarcely meet the Interest on the indemnity th.- Hun sl,:l treasures In his Imagi nation.—Washington Post. all darkened, and which was sent East. It was reported they might lynch Lincoln at Baltimore. Feeling was bitter there against lincoln. 'Bob' Williams, trainmaster, said 'We'll fool them, won't we?' 1 was very busy and attended to my work first and then slipped up to Mr. Lincoln's speech, and that is the reason I only heard the last part of it. "I also saw the First Defenders off. Donald Cameron was Presi dent of the Northern Central Rail road Company, then, and we went across the river to see them safely started for Washington. There was a crowd to see the Defenders off. They ran soldiers by train for months. I never got to bed and had to sleep in passenger cars at the station. 1 worked day and night those times." Albright and his partner kept the secret of Lincoln's journey via Phila delphia and Washington well —and soon afterwards, in the Capitol at Washington, Lincoln welcomed the First Defenders after they had been attacked in the city of Baltimore while hastening to Washington for the protection of our National Cap itol. The First Defenders by the way were Pennsylvanians. Next in importance to the brave men at the front, whether in the trenches, or in the planes in the air, or heroically manning the bat teries, during actual warfare, are the officials and trainmen of the sup porting railroads, who must bring up vast stores of food that their own soldiers may live and fight and vast stores of munitions and artil lery that the enemies' soldiers may surrender or die. And Baltimore, known as the Monumental City, because of the reverence in which she has erected memorials in bronze and granite to the fame of her heroes, to-day, next to Washington, reveres the name of Lincoln. And to-day Maryland's metropolis, sometimes called the City of Beautiful Women and Court ly Men, is tireless in her deeds of patriotism and daily adds luster to Lincoln's Flag. JOHN A. HERMAN. THE SUBMARINE Frank Simpnds, the great war ex pert, has written an article for Farm and Fireside in which he says: "Half the advantage of superior German preparedness was swept away when the British fleet made it possible to transform America into the factory and granary of the Allies. It will be the verdict of history that the defeat of Germany was made 111 the United States, at least the Ger mans already attribute to American lielp the protraction of the war." This is the contribution of sea power. "Against sea power Germany nad devised the submarine, or rather she had relied upon the submarine. In her plans it played the part of the old privateer. It was a commerce destroyer, and what it undertook to do was to prey upoYi commerce, upon the commerce 011 which de pended the very life of Great Britain, sihee without imports she would starve to death. Yet despite all the sensational successes of the subma rine, it has failed in Its purpose. It has not isolated Britain, it has not produced starvation, it has not even interrupted the flow of munitions or of supplies for the allied armies. It has sunk many merchantman, but it will not be the deciding factor in the war." ROADWAYS One road leads to London, One road leads to Wales, My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails. One road leads to the rivfer As it goes singing slow: My road leads to shipping Where the bronzed sailors go. i<eads me, lures me. calls me To salt green tossing seas, A road without earth's road dust Is the right road for me. A wet road heaving, shining And wild with seagull's cries, ' A mad salt sea wind blowing The salt spray in my eyes. A wet road calls me, lures me West, east, sovth and north: Most roads lend men homewards, My road leads me forth. To add more miles to the tally Of gray miles loft behind, In quest of that one beauty God put me here to find. —John Masefield. OCTOBfeR 13, 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.—Boston Transcript. Times certainly change. A Ger man commander now offers a re ward for an American soldier dead or alive, and only a few months ago von Bernstorff was offering $60,000 it* we wouldn't send any.—Chicago Hefald. Germany regrets, but not as much as she is going to.—Boston Tran script. If "explanation" is all Sweden wants from Germany, she has gone to- the world's experts.—Wall Street Journal. We have, as has been said offi cially, no quarrel with the German people: but if thirty or forty or more plots are exposed we are ever so likely to have one. This country can be pushed Just so far.—New York Tribune. \ What did Sweden think was being sent to BrHn In her diplomatic code, the baseball scores? —Boston Tran script. OUR DAILY LAUGH" •— AN UNRULY NAG. Bug Driver—Look what that fool horse does every time I say "back up!" LIMITS. Arthur—Does your mother object to kissing? Tess —Now, just because I allow you #o kiss me, you needn't think you can kiss the whole family. SURE! Blotter —What's the matter, old chap? Calendar—Oh, alas, I fear my days are numbered. SOUNDED RATIIER PERSONAL Wlfey—John, what Is an absolute vacuum? Hubby—An absolute vacuum, my dear. Is something that exists only in your mind. f&nttng (Sijal There are just two hotels whlcl) J ver ® listed In Smull's leglslativ< handbook forty years ago which ar| doing business In Harrisburg to< day, ' said Thomas M. Jones, th< dean of the newspaper corresponds ents at the State Capitol, who had been looking up some of the old guide posts of legislative affairs In the Keystone State. The two are the Lochiel and the Bolton and of the two the Bolton is the only one thai . J® a f big a scale as It was back in the time when Henry M. Hoyt was Governor. The Brady House at Third and fttate is now the site of the Ma sonic Temple; the Farmers' hotel la m ® mol 7. °' Market near Fourth; the Franklin House site now has tlia Arcade building; the Gross house is incorporated in the Columbus and the Jones gave way to the Leland and then to the Commonwealth and 4L nO ?T the Dau Phin office building. The Motter house may be Identified by some as the Central, but the State Capital, like the Mansion, which stood on the site of the Grand Opera House until 1872, has gone. The State Capital hotel was where the Federal building now stands and was next to the historic Exchange, I lie United States is an annex after many vicissitudes and the White Hall survives In the Carlton. Of tha boardinghouses listed forty years ago for legislators none is in business now and most of them are not even known to the Capitol Hill people of to-day. A city is told by its hotels. One hundred and twenty-five years ago Harrisburg had thirty-seven tav erns or inns. Some of them were on the sites of hotels of to-day. Few of those of a generation ago, much less forty years ago, are In business or the buildings standing. The story of how the Keystone State got along without Kentucky rabbits or "bunnies'* from other states last winter and spring and has probably more cottontails than for a decade is Interesting. When the state wanted some* rabbits it ad dressed Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana and other states. They were offered, but when the state was ready condi tions in the other commonwealths forced the prohibition of the sale of the rabbits. Michigan and other states were willing to send deer, but they did not have rabbits and states which did wanted to hold on to them. The state game authorities thereupon started to round up Penn sylvania's own rabbits. The sport of catching the hare was carried on In game preserves and in other places and scores were captured and turned loose in other counties. The rabbits did the rest. An old friend who has been read ing the "Patroliad," the wanderings of Harrisburg's first patrol wagon, sends the following: "Officer 'Jim' McCann could tell some funny things about that old patrol wagon,, if you could get him to talk, but he' is ono of the few officers who decline to tell things in connection with his official duties, which is why he is such a good officer and is known as 'Silent Jim.' It is history that Offi cer '.Tim' picked up a man at Thir teenth and Market one cold winter night, when everything was frozen stiff, including the man, who had ap parently been overcome by liquor, and who was unconscious—so un conscious that he could not talk to tell where he lived. The old wagon was summoned and the unconscious man .was tumbled In, and the oillcer took his seat on the front seat: with the driver. The wagon rattled down Market street and over the "Bnule var4 of Blood" known as the Mar ket street railroad crossing, and when Fourth street was reached tJio officer looked around t spe how the passenger was enjoying the ride| The wagon was empty. The mpn had fallen out. "Turn her around, and get back as quick as you can, we must get that man before he dies," was the cry of th® officer to the driver. The horses swung the big wagon around and there was a wild gallop back, but no trace of the missing man could be found. On the way back, as the wagon neared the crossing the old watchman said to the man on the wagon: "What is youse fellows lookin' fer?' They told him a man had fallen from the wag on while on the way to the police ftatlon and they were searching for him. 'ls that all?' said the watch man. "I saw him fall out, and ho got up and went into the United States hotel. Youse *ll find him in there now.' Sure enough, when the officer went into the hotel bar room, he found his man lined up against the bar hoisting in ,three fingers of hard red liquor. The officer regard ed the man with astonishment. ITe didn't say a word, but turned and walked out and accosting the driver said: 'Go back to the office. That fellow don't need any help.' " j Probably the closest the old pa trol came to being wrecked was one morning, and a frosty morning at that, it was bearing down Walnut street, when at Fourth a street car and a hose carriage mixed it up very thoroughly. The horses were swerved so sharply that they almost went Into a plate glass window of a store. • • • The most advanced traveling man to conie to Harrlsburg in a long time !*ot off the Keystone express at tho Pennsylvania depot last night. "Taxi?" barked the man at the station. "Yes" said the man. And soon ha was sinking back in the cushions. "Where to?", asked the Jehu, "Whore? Why the Penn-Harris, of course,," replied the man at ease. Thr rest of the incident was de leted by the station plaza censor. • * * When it comes down to quick changes in weather yesterday can afford some Instances. It rained, was misty, heavily cloudy and bright with sunshine within an hour be tween 2 and S o'cloek. Soon after the storm clouds rolled over the sky again. However, weather observers say that the weather has been better than usual in October^ [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —General W. G. Price, who is In command of the Pennsylvania troops, is interested in big extensions of the.city of Chester. —Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Com missioner of Health, is improving at his home at Bryn Mawr and hopes to get here late In the month. —W. N. Trinkle, who figures in the latest full crew suits, had charge of th£ defense of the law for tho Attorney General's department dur ing the Tener administration. —E. IJ. McGrew, prominent In Pittsburgh business, has been chosen as president of the National Associa tion of Purchasing Agents. —W. R. Nicholson, Town Meet ing candidate for city treasurer of Philadelphia, is a prominent banker. DO YOU KNOW —That ITarrisburg steel is be ing used for gun carriages? • HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city was a center of har ness and saddlery manufacture dur ing the Cl\U War,
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