8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELiXRAFH PRINTING CO., Telesrraph Untitling. Federal Square. IS. J. STACKPOL.E, Pres't <5- Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. BTEINMETZ, Manazint Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively on titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise 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 Futv- Eastern office. Avenue Building. jpinley, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents ,a rTroSgsjifSanrt week; by mall, >5.00 a year In advance. WEVDESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1917. Moral courage is nothing in the world but just the capacity for do ing what we know we ought to do. — PHILLIPS BROOKS. GERMAN NAVAL FAILURE IF anything can encourage the allies to a naval offensive that If successful would win the war al most at a stroke, it ought to be the manner in which the Inferior Russian fleet manhandled the Ger man dreadnaughts in the tecent Moon Sound light. Allied naval experts gave up the Russian ships for lost. They had been "bottled up" It was admitted and it remained- only for the Ger mans to go in and finish the job. Then came the surprising and unac countable escape of the Russians from the trap set by the Kaiser. There was something mysterious about this from the first, for it was perfectly apparent that the Russians could not have gotten past the Ger mans without a battle. Now It ap pears that they not only fought with and outwitted the imperial govern ment's forces, but that they also In flicted a serious blow to the German naval machine. If the Russians can do so much why cannot the Allied fleets be brought Into position where they can do more? PATRIOTIC PENBROOK PENBROOK people have • every right to be proud to-day. The thriving little town which will be-one day part of the bigger city of Harrisburg, subscribed for >22,000 worth of Liberty Loan bonds. No other town in the Harrisburg district did so well, in proportion to popula tion. Penbrook Is patriotic in the way that patrlotiten counts most these trying days. THE HUNTING SEASON MOST of the hunters who went out Saturday in search of squirrels had little or no luck. They returned in large numbers with empty game bags. But they are not to be laughed at, for all that. They brought back with them something worth many times the limit of squirrels the law permits them to shoot There Is nothing like a tramp through the woods in au tumn to bring one to a better under standing with himself and the world. Shooting is only an excuse with most hunters. Not the game, but the call of the open Is the influence that draws them forestward at this sea son. There is a tang In the air that is as full of tonic as an ocean breeze. There is the odor of fallen leaves and the swish and rattle of the half naked branches as the trees sway and sigh in the autumn winds. There is freedom from care, refreshment for the spirit, enjoyable exercise for the body and a new outlook on life for the man who tramps the forests these brisk days. The gun is not essential. may go hunting with a cane or a camera and get all the fun out of the woods that the keenest hunter knows. Try it—with or without—there is pleas ure enough either way. You can't lose even if you don't see a sparrow. MOTOR CIA'II REGULATIONS IF YOU drive an automobile write President J. Clyde Myton, of the Motor Club of Harrisburg, for a copy of the traffic regulations he has recommerfed to members f that organization—and study them. They have not been officially ap proved by city council, but they bear endorsement of Chief of Police Wetxol and if you abide by them you will be pretty certain not to get into trouble with the police. Reckless driving, speeding and utter disregard for the rights of other drivers and those of pedes trians have gone to such lengths In Harrisburg that Mr. Myton and the head of the police department are co operating to break up the practice— the Motor Club president by suggest ing proper regulations for autolsts and the police chief by ordering his officers to arrest all violators of traf fic rules. Both are to be commended. The automobillst with no regard for his own life or the Jives of others shohld have no place on the public thoroughfares. Punishment—as se vere as the law allows—ls the only WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARTOSBURG <fijftt TELEGRAM OCTOBER 24, 1917. thing such as he can understand; but there are others who are merely thoughtless, and these should be reached through the excellent sug gestions presented by Mr. Myton to the public through the coittmns of the Telegraph. A MIGHTY POWER T 1 HE wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of Harrisburg men in I I the service of Uncle Sam constitute a mighty force. There are in the i Army, the Navy and the various branches of the military organization of the United States more than two I thousand residents of this city. Each I of them has left at home women who pray for their safety and long I for their safe return. Every one of these, each in her own individual way, Is doing something to promote ! the health and the happiness of her ! absent loved one. But they are un j organized, these beloved and loving | women. Devoted as they are they j cannot work alone as they could in a body. It is a new illustration of j the old adage that "In union there j Is strength." How happy then is the thought which has prompted Mayor Bow man to have Madame Schumann- Heink, who has two sons in the United States Army and two in the Navy, speak to these women in mass meeting at the Orpheum Theater Friday afternoon, preliminary to the formation of a permanent organisa tion for work designed to carry com forts andvHttl® luxuries to the boys In the trenches. There Is no more devoted body of women anywhere than those of Har risburg who have watched their! loved ones march away to fight the battles of democracy. They are brave and patriotic. They are keenly in terested in the outcome of the war. They want to be sure that our sol diers have every chance for life in battle and every possible convenience and means of wholesome pleasure In camp. Formed into a great society these women will exert a powerful force In the community to Induce others to make sacrifices- for the country. Each of them should wear a proper badge, so that they may stand out as honored residents of the city. Each of them should be recog nized as a woman who is "doing her bit." Every woman who has a son, a husband, a father or a brother in the service should attend the meet ing Friday afternoon, to hear the message Schumann-Heink brings to them —the message of a woman of Austrian birth and German education who has given *our sons to the ser vice of the United States. Under her inspiration it will be surprising, indeed, if a large and Influential so ciety of women is not formed to In -1 terest themselves in behalf of our soldiers in the war. HE BOUGHT BONDS WHO was that chap you passed on your way down town this ■- morning cheerfully telling his friends that he had "put his last penny into it," and apparently happy and smiling over being "stone broke?" I Listen and we will tell you. He was the fellow who yesterday bought Liberty bonds "until it hurt." Why Is he so happy over being penniless? Well, for one thing he has the yery pleasant knowledge that he has hit the Kaiser a stinging blow over the nose, and you'll admit that Is SOME satisfaction. For another, he knows that now he is a good citizen and is backing up the boys who have gone away to face the music in France. Also, he has something better than money tucked away for a rainy day. The bank might have failed and his cash lost, but Uncle Sam won't fall and he stands ready to pay back the amount Invested In Liberty bonds In full and with four per cent Interest Why shouldn't the man be cheer ful? HOARDING POTATOES THERE is some evidence that farmers are storing potatoes in order to take advantage of what they believe will be a repetition of last winter's high prices. They are wrong in their assumption. There will be no extraordinarily high prices this year, for the reason that thou sands of persons raised their own supplies who did not last season, and In addition the farm yield has been greatly in excess of that of 1916. There will be no shortage of potatoes the coming winter, and consequently no very high prices. Ey hoarding the farmer not only deprives the poor of storing their winter supply In the fall, but he also takes the risk of rotting, which Is more prevalent In some sections this year than formerly. Hoarding pota toes Is not good business at this time, either, for the reason that at the least sign of such "gouging" as was ap parent on the part of middlemen last spring, the government doubtless will fix a maximum price, and if that hap pens the farmers, chances are, will not be the beneflciaries. ut "PTKKOLF&KUUA By the Ei-Couimlttctman The whole state Is watching the outcome of the attack on the nom ination papers of the Town Meeting party candidates in the Philadelphia courts and the outcome may be of considerable influence upon the gub ernatorial campaign next year. The proceedings started yesterday in Judge H. A. Davis court and at tracted many people. The hearing was as lively as have been other moves in the Philadelphia situation. It is expected that the hearings will close to-day and the Republican city organization is making plans to launch a strenuous campaign as soon as the decision is given. It is con tended that the effort is rtothing more or less than a campaign to throttle an independent movement in the hope that it can be used as a prece dent next year. On the other hand the Philadelphia Republican city committee officials claim that there has been fraud under the name of reform. The newspapers are filled with at tacks and counterattacks in the form of interviews. —From all accounts contributions are as slow in going from the at taches of the Philadelphia city gov ernment to the Republican city com mittee war chest in Philadelphia, as have donations from Capitol attaches to the Republican state committee funds. It is officially denied at the Capitol that any move to prevent contributions was made by the Gov ernor and in Philadelphia newspa pers say that the city administra tion can not get its people to giveT A third call is reported in Philadelphia by the city committee. —The Committee of Seventy In Philadelphia charges that there are 5,000 "phantoms" registered in that city. In Pittsburgh the charge Is made that accusations of false regis tration are being unjustly made against citizens In an effort to keep them from voting. —Asher V. Stauffer, the Norttf amption county register of wills, who committed suicide In Easton court house yesterday was well known here. He had a rapid rise in Democratic politics in Northampton county. As there are reports that he is away short in the money due the state from collateral Inheritance tax, Audi tor General Snyder says that It in dicates that he is right when he in sists that the state should have a Cjerk in the office of every register of wills to see that estates are promptly investigated and that the state gets the money due it under the law. There has been a tremendous fuss made about the course of Snyder In insisting upon appointing such clerks, but it is not likely to be heard much more. —Fourteen men, including Isaac Deutsch, one of the principal defend ants in the Fifth ward murder con spiracy were held in SI,OOO ball each for court yesterday in Philadelphia, on charges arising from alleged elec tion irregularities on primary day when Policeman George Eppley was murdered by a New York gunman. W. J. Eliott, representing the Com mittee of Seventy, expressed a will ingness to have the defendants held in SSOO each, but Magistrate Ren shaw would not agree to such small ball. "The charges against these men," said the magistrate, "are far too grave to let them off with such light bail. These charges deal with the very vitals of our government; we are on the eve of an election and I feel it my solemn duty to impress It upon men who will be election of ficers at this election that they can not violate the law and override the will of the voters with impunity." —Richard T. McSorley, nominee of the Philadelphia Democratic party for the office of District Attorney, who refused to withdraw in the inter est of fusion with tho Town Meeting party, yesterday issued a statement explaining his attitude. He expresses himself as being in favor of the can didates of the Town Meeting party for the "row" offices, but says he is opposed to their action in declaring for the candidacy of District Attorney Rotan on the fusion ticket. —William Perrlne, writing in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, urges judges to stick to the bench, as might be added is the custom in Dauphin County. The Bulletin in discussing some things says: Judge John M. Patterson, of our Common Pleas Court No. 1, has ex hibited an unusual activity for a member of the judiciary in his com ings and goings as a participant in all sorts of public events. In the so cial, th® festive and the ceremonial side of tho general public life of the town,'he has become one of the most familiar figures. Still a young man, and with an appearance which Is en gaging, he is apparently disposed to disregard the sort of personal de meanor or reserve which is often held to be an essential to popular re spect for the judicial character. The general opinion of level-headed men, whether lawyers or laymen, is that it is wiser for judges to keep at the business which they were elected to perform, rather than to yield to an impulse which, however honoruble or patriotic It may be, Is somewhat suggestive of a sort of knight er rantry when it moves an occupant of the bench to throw aside his gown and buckle on the sword. —Things are lively in Pittsburgh, too. The Pittsburgh Dispatch fays Monday's council meeting was fea tured by Dr. James P. Kerr lining: up with the Babcock-Armstxong ad ministration forces. "HitiJprto the administration has been in a minor ity, but Dr. Kerr reversed matters by joining the Babcock-Armstrong Tac tion in voting against the Insertion of Councilman W. Y. English's re marks in the record," says the Dis patch. "This situation was created by a speech of Mr. English's in which he severely criticised Mayor Armstrong for falling to submit bud get estimates in compliance with re quests contained in councilmanio resolutions and intimated that "the entire city administration is handed together under the direction of some invisible government,ywhich Is plac ing the personal political fortunes of certain candidates above the in-1 terests of the taxpaylng public." 1 THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS r~ / I \ o , T\/> / I HURTCMUR OL' J Wtmi| 1 "THE: (VWITH THE- OKJLY FOOT^ALX.) Drafting Every Pocketbook [Literary Digest] EVERY POCKETBOOK IN THE COUNTRY IS touched directly or indirectly by the new war-taxes, observe press writers In Washington and elsewhere, although at the same time the new Revenue Law is being characterized as "a real conscription of wealth." \Out of the total of some two and one-half billions to be raised, the Income tax and profits tax are expected to yield more than $1,800,000,000, or, as the Spring field Republican puts It, "the Gov ernment will now take from 'wealth' some two billions #f dol lars a year which 'wealth' kept to itself before the Great War be gan, and this exaction will be increased next year and the year after if the war does not end in the near future." When the New York World makes a close ex amination of the new Revenue law, it actually finds that "except for postage-stamps, practically every dollar" of Its two an'd one half billions la to be exacted from wealth and luxury. Perhaps It is because they hold both views of the law to be justified that Con gressman Kitchln and Senator Simmons, respectively responsible for the legislation In the House and Senate, express such satisfac tion with it Mr. Kltchin has been quoted as saying that the burden of taxation "is shifted around equitably between rich and poor, and while every one has to pay. none has to pay unfairly." And he adds; "We had before us virtually all past bills of this country and many of those drawn In foreign countries since this war began, and this is a better meas ure than any of them." Yet other members of the two Houses of Congress admit that there are imperfections in the measure and talk of amendments to be made when Congress again meets. The New York Evening Sun finds in the law serious "inequities," "ob scurities," "incomprehensibilities" and "unworkabilities." But as against these flattering words from Washington and sharp criti cisms from New York, we find The Tribune, of Oakland, Cali fornia, judicially remarking that "with the exception of minor de tails of distributing taxation against i t.;>.au) objcction v might have been offered, the Adminis tration appears to have devised a • iMd workable plan of financing •he war." -.ne war. Five million Americans who have un.til now been taxed only indirectly by their government,, will find the new law directly affecting their incomes, as a Washing ton correspondent of the Cleveland Press calculates, for "the Income tax now reaches down and takes its levy from every married man or woman with an Income over AUGUSTA'S WELCOME Not merely as expressing her ap preciation of the material benefits which she is deriving from the pres ence of some thirty thousand Penn sylvania soldiers in her midst, but, more particularly, as voicing her genuine admiration for these gallant men —whose personality and deport ment have deeply impressed all the people of this community—Augusta has undertaken to extend to-day a sort of formal welcome to the offi cers and men of Camp Hancock. Obviously, it is a somewhat diffi cult matter for a community the size of Augusta to do, either in a public or a private way, all that It might desire to do byway of extending Its hospitality, individually and collec tively, to so large a body of men as comprise the Pennsylvania division; so that, of necessity, jvhatever It Is able to do In a private way, as well as whatever it may do In a public way, even though It may embrace only a portion of the Pennsylvanians encamped here for the winter, must and, we are sure, will, be accepted as an attention due to all of them and intended for all of them. 80 it is that to-day, when only about one in ten of the men at Camp Hancock will take part in the big military parade and only about one officer In three will attend the recep tion at the Armory—due, of course, to certain recognized local limita tions—it must be accepted that Au gusta's welcome goes out to every man and every offlcer t from the low est rank to the highest, of the entire division. And, right here, let It be repeated, these Pennsylvania soldiers have made a most marked Impression upon the people of Augusta; not alone for their fine military bearlrtg, but for their high order of intelli $2,000, and every unmarried or woman with an income over SI,OOO, and the war profits tax reaches every cor poration with a net Income over $3,000, and every part nership an.d individual operating a business which yields more than $6,000 net income during this year." But one need not be too quick to congratulate oneself on not hf>inr one of these five million. Annual Married Single Income Man's Tax Man's Tax SI,OOO 2,000 ... *2O 3.000.... S2O 40 4,000 10 80 5,000. . . . 80 12') 6,000.... 130 ITO . 7,000.... 180 220 8,000.... 235 2 TS 9,000 295 ' 335 10,000 355 395 11,000 425 465 12,000.... 495 535 13,000 570 610 14,000.... 650 690 13,000.... 730 770 16,000.... 830 870 17,000 930 970 18,000.... 1,030 1,070 19,000 1,130 1,170 20,000.... 1,230 1,270 21,000 1,360 1,400 22,000.... 1.490 1,630 23,000.... 1,620 1,660 24,000.... 1,750 1,730 25,000 1,880 1,920 26,000.... 2,010 2,050 27,000 2,140 2,180 28.000 2,270 2,310 29,000 2.400 2,440 - 30,000. . . . 2,530 2,5/0 31,000 2,660 2,700 32,000.... 2,790 2,830 33,000 2,920 2,960 34,000.... 3,050 3,090 35,000 3,180 3,220 36,000.-... 3,310 3,330 37,000.... 3,440 3,430 39,000 3,700 3,740 40,000 3,830 8,870 41,000.... 3,990 4,030 42,000 4,150 4,190 . 43,000 4,310 4,350 44.000.... 4,470 4,510 45,000 4,630 4,670 46,000 <J9O 4,830 47,000.... 4/950 4,900 49,000.-... 5,270 5,310 50.000 5,430 5,478 75,000 10,180 10,220 100,000.... 1fi,430 16,470 150,000 31,930 31,970 250.000 G9.930 69,970 10,000.000.'... G,490,430 6,490,470 1,000,000.... 475,430 475 470 500,000 192,930 192,970 This includes new and old income tax. Earned incomes over $6,000 will also pay an 8 per cent, tax on the excess, unless this clause is repealed._ The person who writes a postal-card will be cawKht, for cards will sell for two cents each, by the provisions of the bill. Letters will be three cents. One will be taxed when he goes to a mOvlng-picture show, If the admission is more than five cents, one-tenth of the cost of the ticket. Coffee, tea and sugar stricken from the bill. gence and splendid demeanor. It is, indeed, remarkable that so many men could be gathered together, from all the walks of life, anywhere in this country, who measure up so highly, in their personnel and de portment. as do these thirty thous and Pennsylvanians. They are a credit alike to their tetate and their country. As a part of her official welcome to the men and officers at. Camp Hancock, Augusta has arranged a sort of patriotic demonstration In the way of a flagraising; a ceremony quite in hartnony with the presence tnd participation of soldiers who are soon to carry their country's battle onto European battlefields and keep It there until they return home victorious. The scene to be enacted on Augus ta's streets to-day—with khaki-clad soldiers marching In battle-trim, with artillery as it will appear when ready to be sent onward, with dash ing cavalry eager for the charge and military bands to Inspire all more aggressive action and greater glory—will soon be re-enacted "somewhere in France;" but with a far different setting. Here, all is peace and prosperity. There, all Is tumult and desalatloji. We who must remain at home may well let our hearts beat In admira tion and gratitude for those who are going to fight our battles abroad. They are, in every way, deserving of Augusta's heartiest welcome, of her greatest hospitality; and It Is to express these sentiments, even in some meager way, that Augusta celebrates to-day In honor of the finest division In Uncle Sam's Army. —Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. JUNIATA FISHING —Ed Jenkins. McVeytown, eaiifeht 400 Juniata salmon in the Juniata river this season.—Exchange. being one or tnese nve million. Because, "you can not buy any article that has been freighted by rail or water, you can not ride on a train, send a telegram, visit a theater or ball park, buy a botle of patent medicine, a baseball bat % or any other kind of sporting goods, a tube of tooth-paste or any other toilet article, own an auto, a motorcycle or a motor boat, draw a time draft, buy a bond or share of stock, or sen.d in a proxy for an election, without paying tribute to Uncle Sam." From the cradle to the ""grave most of man's activities will now be taxed, points out an Associated Press correspondent, since "baby's first dash of talcum powder, un der the 2 per cent, manufac turers' tax on cosmetics, will help the government carry on the war, and after death the Federal col lectors will be on hand to get the inheritance tax, at advances on the present rate of from 1 per cent, on $50,000 to 10 per cent, on $1,000,000." With certain exceptions, the new taxes became effective when the President signed the bill on October 3. The increases on first class mall increases do not go into effect until July 1, 1918. As the Washington press dispatches In form us: "New Income and war-excess profits taxes are based on Income of the 1917 calendar year and payable before March 31, 1917. "All stamp taxes, including those on parcel-post packages will become effective December 1. , Amusement admissions and taxes on club dues will. go into effect November 1, as will taxes on freight and passenger transporta tion, sleeping car, drawing room and steamship berths; pipe line transportation; insurance policies and telegraph and telephone mes sages costing fifteen cents or more." 'The so-calljed excess-profits tax not only furnisncs nearly half of the total yield of now war-taxes, but it has been the chief cause of controversy during the long weeks while the Revenue Bill was under consideration in the Senate, the House and the conference room. TRUE TO BOCHE FORM Thjs big liner (a Canadian Pacific steamer for the Orient), luxurious as a first class hotel, chances to be the one that conveyed the captured cre.v of the Emden back to Great Britain. The tales the ship's officers tell dt that experienct" are not pretty. At first the Emden's officers were given the run of the ship and per mitted to dine in the saloon. With clharaeiteristlc courtesy they were wont to toast the Kaiser and curse his enemies in the presencp of ind at the table with the British officers. Nor would they give their narole not to continue the practice; thenceforth they were confined to their quarters. In retaliation the bed linens was slashed, the furniture hacked, and the cabins grossly defiled. Members of the Emden's crew were fond of the pastime of spitting In the faces of the British sentries, who, rifles In hand, did not retaliate because they were British and under orders. "If they'd had a fair chance, though, our ,fellow 'ould hve torn the throats out of the dirty Huns," de clared, with intense feeling, the offi cer who told me the tale.. Yes, the red background of war is with us even In midocean.—William T. Ellis In the Outlook. AS YE SHALL BE JUDGED For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as "have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; for not the hearers of the law are Just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.— Romans 11, 11-13. AT THE TABLE "Do you know anything about camouflage?" "No, I never eat foreign cheeses." LABOR NOTES Union plumbers at East St. Louis 111., get >7 a day. Federated shopmen employed by the St. Louts and San Francisco Rail road have secured an eight-hour da| and satisfactory working rules. Membership of the local trades un ions In Toronto, Canada, during the last six months, according to the offi cial figures, increased about 35 per cent. England's House of Commons has approved of the Government's pro posal to fix a minimum wage of 25 shillings a week for agricultural la borers. Three Englishmen, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, have been arrested In Australia charged with being members of an unlawful association. • Our Federal Bureau of Education states that approximately 3,000,000 foreign-born whites residing in the United States do not speak English. Port Glasgow (Scotland) School Board has agreed to allow all full time female teachers fBO per annum whose present salaries are less than that amount. William Brownlie was elected pres ident of the Weavers Society of An derston at the one hundred and eightieth anniversary meeting, held In Glasgow, Scotland. At the mining camp of Sandon, Canada, and the surrounding mining camps, the miners have, refused to be docked a day's pay a month by the companies for the patriotic fund. The number of manufacturing plants in the United States engaged in the making of dyestuffs has in creased in three years from five to nearly 200. Montgomeryshire (Wales) Educa tion Committee has decided to give a war bonus of fl2 10s to teachers earning f55 or under, and fls to those earning over f55. ; OUR DAILY LAUGHI , . , -J WELL SCREENED. . I never see you sitting In a ham- mock with a young man. jj I should say 4 not. My ham jj J Ji mock Is put of sight Some men are ipn, stuck on their lobs and some are 4* not stuck enough. PONTO'S PLACE e What's the fun ny little coop un der the -back porch ofyour au tomobile? Farmer: That's for the dog that used to trot along under the buck a board. \ffit J Cos m e tleally 4 y\ M ■peaking, hand- MV I' I some is th a t '//- ""?> 1 1 handsome does. WM l/Jp Do you the words th® Star-Span p> _ g,e<l Banner ? No, but I can \ 31 stand while th* 1/ others sing it Bxnttng (Eljal ■ ar conditions and the economy; Propaganda which has become BO general have resulted In a gooi many things being dond which a few years a BO we would'not have thought or doing:. For Instance, there ar more people going .without meat now tnaji would have been deemed possl .l y ear a Ko and chops and veal cutlets h.ave almost disappeared, while those fortunate mortals who were able to buy a new overcoat . yea . r have decided to go through this winter on last year's J? "J ' )Y hlch 'i f er all turns out to bo perfectly newT It is in the food ?n^ al if e n le i! >ts tllut tho ™ost interest* ng aide lights are to be observed. It? IfiJl'ii that som e people have com .ViH', v revised their buying tables .. ? e . who uscd to buy out iif,ht without bothering: much about the price now have (he farmers at t™®clty markets gasping for breath SLiL the manner in which they dicker. The country butchers, who : moßt . disappeared from tho markets of Harrisburg:, are back knowAl Ulc , ky 13 tho marketer who irv T>L . e cutß V Thc O W-time coun nLit V ho use<l t0 have the finest of steaks cut up in his own peculiar way, would have more busi ness than he could accommodate if he was on the job the way he used to nnH W e, J W ? ÜBe, ' to KO Wednesdays ho . r i" y l to ,he old market houses in Market Square. And like wise the markotwomen with their own makes of "ponhoss" and mush. "I°' them still bring these great articles to the markets, but tho memory of the whole lines of coun ilw ? t,h the things that we , f ° r !°; dily at half the price, anf °r;l h ' r , d 1 HOme cases, makes peo ple think about thc times they left R lot of food on the table after eating a very square meal. Nothing doing," was the smiling remark of a waiter in one of the city s cafes this morning when askod by a Capitol Hill oltteial to brine bacon and eggs. "Now what?" asked the late and therefore exasperated official. "No more bacon." said the waiter, rhe boss told us to cut it off." The men in charge of Harrlsburg restaurants say that bacon is jump ns J" price and that it Is not only hard to get a good regular supply, out that they have to either cut down portions or raise the price so much that it is than it is worth. Baconless breakfasts have joined meatless dinners in Pennsyl vania's capital, but thank fortuiie, .Dauphin county is famous for corn meal mush. • • • On the subject of food it may ha said here that the men at a big ar ket ® ( J uar e market say that they have been doing business on a scale not known before and that the catches this summer and fall havo been of a kind that have enabled them to supply plenty of seafood and of a good variety, too. "We have been able to get before the people of Harrlsburg a number of fish that are splendid eating, but which are not well known," said the command ant of an uptown market. "For years we have been getting from Baltimore and Philadelphia flsh which are excellent eating, but be cause the peoplo of this city don't know them they did not buy. I have had half a dozen prime flsh, plenty of meat and fine flavor, but becausa they were not salmon, bass, trout op something else equally well known tlfey stayed on my stand and I had to take some home or give the rest away. Now the wholesalers are urg ing us to try to push these flsh again. If you want to give the people of this town of ours a straight tip ii that column of yours tell them tl look over the flsh markets and ask what we have new. We can give the women of this town pointers on food flsh they overlook. I'm not saying this to boost my own sales. Let 'em go to any flsh man. Find out the different kind and the days they come in. That'll help the food prob lem in Harrisburg." • • Harrisburg's Italian colony, which is about the thriftiest iri" the whole community, is getting along very well in the matter of food. One man ex plained that where his folks corn* from they were accustomed to short ages occurring and that, anywav there was more variety here thar , they ever knew. The Italian wav if la very good one to look at it, as one of the High school instructors saie the other evening. "If peoplo wii only realize that what they were usee to in their younger days with th ( exception of meat and a lew othe> things, made them what they to-day there will be less coir-plain lng," was the way he pu Jt. Th< Italians of this city >bnve helpec popularize macaroni *tnd spaghetti just as the havo made \i: familiar with plain old noodles ir new foois. It is astonishing th< varu*y of food that is to be had a tie-, stores in Harrlsburg that come: from things raised right aroijnd her.' The advice given by the flsh man t< study the stalls may be applied t< the products of the farms and orcli ard3 and factories of Dauphin an< Cumberland counties with an excur sion to bologna Is mucl desired, and to York and Lanraste for canned goods. The northern tie of Pennsylvania makes cheese whicl we in Harrlsburg buy from New Yorl jobbers and we love Adams count: apples when we see them on irui stands in Philadelphia or Chicago And while you are about it do no forget that Perry county farmer have long had a repute for honey. • • Among visitors to the city yester day were Col. L. A. Watres, forme lieutenant governor and grand mas ter of the Masons of Pennsylvania He was here to attend the meeting o the State Armory Board on whic >he has served for years and t whose business he gives close atten tlon. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —Dr. Herbert A. Gibbons, forme Philadelphian, is now residing i Paris. —The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Ohai man, prominent in evangelistic wor) is speaking in central counties. —-C. B. Connelley, who is a cand date for council in Pittsburgh, dean of one of that city's colleges. —Robert Wetherill, receiver c one of the big Philadelphia construe tion companies, has been engaged I the machinery business for years. —Judge T. M. Bailey, of Huntini don, is just finishing his fall term < court in Bedford County. —(fudge Harvey W. Whitehead, < Lycoming courts, has not lost h fondness for deer hunting. —Judge J. N. Lqngham, of Ind ana County, is one of the best stofj tellers in public life in Westei Pennsylvania. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg shared mate rially In tliat gain of bank re aouivcs reported by the state in five months? HISTORIC IIARRISBITRG —lron nails were among the fir Iron and steel products of this cl which now makes tons of steel eve hour
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