8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Teleffrnph Untitling, Federal Square. -E.J. STACK POLE, Pres"t & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. + .. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en 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 alsi reserved. j Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla sXjtL tlon, the Audit Bureau of Clrcu- EGfa lation and Penn- Sgfffle sylvania Associ -3 SB ated Dailies. 4* Eastern offlce. ■Ms Wj Story, Brooks & - WF Avenue Building, Western office, Gas' 01 ' Bulhflng, Entered at the Post Offlce in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, J5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER . 1017 Moderators of opinion are often useful, "but the glory or the shame belong to partisans. — Harpeb. BRITAIN'S DEPENDENCE—WHY? WHAT you read between the lines is often more impressive than what you read in the lines themselves. A recent article in " the "Annalist" bears the heading "England's War-Born Economic Freedom," and it is declared that the war has "effected a revolu tion in Great Britain's industrial life and made her independent of German imports." There is no where the direct declaration that England was an economic dependent of Germany, but the assertion that she has gained economic freedom and is no longer dependent upon German imports, carries with it the necessary inference that she had heen dependent upon German indurc , try. The article has no meaning or purpose unless that were the fact. The great difference between the economic policies of Great Britain and Germany was that the latter has maintained a protective tariff policy for forty-live years, while the former has been adhering to the policy of free trade. Germany discouraged imports from England, while Eng land encouraged imports from Ger many. < >f course, German industries -* were developed much more rapidly than those of England. It was that industrial development that gave Germany the strength to make the wonderful fight she has against na tions of far greater potential strength than hers. Germany had become as near independent economically as it was possible for her to be. Great Britain had pursued a policy that increased her dependence. In the end, Great Britain and her Allies will win the war, but they be gan under a great handicap which has cost an enormous waste of lives and wealth. ONLY A BEGINNING AMERICANS were shooked to read yesterday of the death of American soldiers at the hands of German raiders. The death list as presented by the dispatches is only a small beginning of a long and sor rowful roll of American sacrifices on the altar of democracy. But their deaths will not have been In vain. Already there is sweeping through the trenches held by Amer ican troops, through the encamp ments back of the lines and the training camps of America the low mutterings of anger that presage v:ageancc when our turn shall come. It has been said that the nation will not fully Understand that it is at war until the death lists begin t.o come In. It may be said, also, that Germany will not fully understand that we are at war until our death lists begin to lengthen. German autocracy will pay the ex treme penalty for every American lad whose life is ground out by the Moloch of Kaiserism. GETTING DOWN TO SYSTEM PENNSYLVANIA ts said to have more water companies than any' other State In the Union and the records of the Public Service Commis sion will probably show that with the exception of the railroads there have been more complaints filed against such companies than any class of public utilities. It is safe to say that if it were not for the fact that a num ber of cities operate their own water systems there would have been more. It is estimated that there are over 800 water companies in Pennsylva nia, about 100 of which are either paper concerns or parts of systems and not active for one reason or other. The rest are .In business and the history of some of them is not pleasant reading and reflects upon others which are well managed. Water companies have been getting into controversies regularly and every time a rate Increase Is made, whether Justly or unjustly, it seems there Is fuss. Complaints have also been made that water lines have been laid with out care and capitalized with much care, while the whVlesomeness, qual ity and whatever else goes to make up what the solentlflc men term pot ability, is a frequent target. The Public Service Commission has spent thousands and thousands / TUESDAY EVENING, of dollars having valuations of water systems made on which to base rates and to use a stock market phrase has "squeezed out much water." It has now worked out through Its ex perts In the bureau of accoiyits, who have been sitting up at nights over the problem, a uniform system of accounting. In other words, after January 1- and after a series of pub lic hearings water companies will have to do like railroads, keep books in a way that the rate regulating rep resentatives of the public can tell if prices are just without having to re sort to higher mathematics. Republicans and Democrats have united in Reading to beat the Pro- Germans. In Harrisburg a Pro-Ger man couldn't get on any ticket. GREAT DRIVE; GREAT OBJECT PRELIMINARIES have been com pleted for the joining or the forces of the great organiza tions devoted to the welfare of the young men and the young women— the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. —to sweep Pennsylvania for funds to enable them to provide such forms of entertainment as will keep the sol diers fit to fight and at the same time to afford rest places at the camps for the members of the fami r lies of the soldiers who will go to visit them and who in the stern necessities of military lil'e can not be taken even ordinary care of. This State with its big industrial com munities, its rapidly growing cities and towns and its heterogeneous population owes much to these two agencies and it should be devoutly thankful that the self-sacrificing men and women who have been directing them should be offering to bend their energies to the work of furnishing at the camps certain features which the government can not. Our grandfathers have told us of the splendid results of the labors of the Christian Sanitary Commission, composed of noble spirited men and women in Civil War days, and our own city was one of the places gratefully remembered by soldiers who partook of its hospitality and entertainment on the way to tlfe front. Now, when we are in the midst of a war on a far vaster scale than ever known before and when mil lions are being summoned to colors in enormous camps, there is a need for Just such help as the Y. M. C. A. can give. What it has done for the troops abroad is one of the brightest pages of the work auxiliary to the army. What it can do at the three dozen cantonments and camps we all know. Bluntly speaking, the young men must be kept out of mischief. They must have entertainment at their camps. They must be raised above the depression of hard work, rigorous training and absence from home, which, in spite of all, grips a man at a camp, and when the men are "over there" they must be brought up from the depths into which men sink when the battle joins. The part of the Y. W. C. A. will be to raise funds to care at the camps for those who are giving fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, sweet hearts and friends. There Is nothing more pathetic than a woman wan dering about a camp when the one In whom she is interested is out on a hike or drilling or maybe in a guard tent. Few of the wives and sisters who go to camps realize that it is best for them to visit but a few hours. It is most affecting to see a mother sitting about with no shelter against the weather, enduring hard ships just to be near her son. Those who have been at war or mobiliza tion camps and have helped tired mothers and their children over weary miles to a station know what a rest place would mean. There is a place for the Y. M. C. A. "hut" and there Is room close to every camp for the "rest" of the ST. W. C. A. Both have more than sustaining influences. Both deserve the fullest measure of support. The forces have joined for sound busi ness reasons. There should be no division In giving. The cause Is most appealing. Pro-German firebugs will continue active until a few of them are stood up before a wall without waiting for the formality of sunrise. - GETTING AWAKE THERE are very distinct Indica tions that the awakening of the people to the fact tlvit the nation Is at war, for which repre sentatives of the government have been appealing, is at hand. One of these signs is that the country is turning to the writing of patriotic verse and ballad. Some tit these are very bad, but others are very good, and out of the grist that Is now flowing very steadily from the presses of the publishers there will come certain songs and poems that will live and become integral parts of national music and literature. It has been so In every war and this will be no exception. Only when men and women are moved by some great emotion do they turn to verse for expression of their feelings, and the volume of war poems and songs now appearing and the popularity with which they are received would Indicate that the nation Is pretty thoroughly in har. mony with the tak that confronts it. ""Po&tCca. LK By the Ex-Committeeman In spite of the fact that there are no state officers to be elected in Pennsylvania to-day and no voting on constitutional amendments, the aggregate of the votes polled may run ahead of the totals in the last Presidential and Gubernatorial elec tions in opinion of people at the State Capitol. These predictions are based upon the interest in judicial elections, -including both common pleas and associate judges; the nu merous county office contests and lively Mayoralty and Councilmanic battles In most of the cities. There are fifty-one judges, one Congress man and fifteen Mayors jto be elected to-day. Last year there were 1,297,292 votes polled at the Presidential elec tion, Hughes naving 703,828 of them. In 1914 there were 1,111,252 votes polled in the Gubernatorial election. The soldier vote will have consid erable influence upon close contests in cities. About seventy commission ers have been sent by the state to camps to take votes of the soldiers and they will make returns to their proper counties as well as to the state authorities. Over 90,000 ballot 3 were printed for the soldier vote. —Closing liohrs of the campaign in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and other cities where the state ad ministration is taking a hand in lo cal contests in order to obtain a strategic position in advance of the selection of a state ticket next year were marked by intense activity, and in many instances b> efforts on the part of men connected with the state government. According to some statements men in state service were told they could contribute to the campaign funds of candidates fa vored by the state administration in stead of the Republican State Com mittee. Most of the Ph.iladelphians are understood to have contributed to the war chest of the city commit tee in Philadelphia. ' —The Capitol was closed tighter to-day than known on any election day in years. Except for a few ele vator men, who were ordered on duty by their chiefs, no one was on duty except in the State Police and Health Departments where emergency serv ice is apt to be called for. Governor Brumbaugh and every other man connected with the Kovernment was at his lvome to vote. —An exchange of broadsides be tween Mayor Smith on one hand and Senator Penrose and James Gay Gor don on the other, enlivened the close in Philadelphia. The Mayor charged that because the Senator and the Judge were not given a free hand they determined to hunt him down. The Senator said bluntly that the Mayor lied and the Judge commented that if he was hunting a man he would not stop at the Mayor. —Police Lieutenant Bennett, who commanded in the Fifth ward on bloody primary day. is accused of political activity, although out of the ward for a day. District Attorney Rotan has renewed his warning and the most unusual steps have been taken in the city. —Senator Penrose says the Town Meeting party will win; Senator Vare says the Republican fifty-fifty ticket will win. —The Philadelphia newspapers call upon the people to-day to rout the Vare-Smlth combination. The Ledger calls attention to the fact that there are 273,000 qualified voters and says both sides claim victory. The Press and Record give much space to predictions by Town Meet ing men. The North American says the Town Meeting "is confident of 50,000 victory." The Inquirer sums up the situation this way: "A clean sweep to-day for the Town Meeting party candidates for city and county offices Is confidently predicted by the manager of the Independent party. Their estimate of 4 5,000 majority, made on Sunday night, it is declared, is short by thousands of the figure that will be disclosed in the final re turns. During the last forty-eight hours, the reports from every ward indicate an increased interest In the election and an assured preponder ance of votes for the Town Meeting party candidates. Not only will the full general ticket of the Town Meet ing party win, according to the re turns sent to the Independent head quarters, but the vote for Councilmen will certainly show a tremendous gain for the antl-Smith-Vare forces." —The Ledger prints a dispatch from Pittsburgh in which it plays up the fact that the Babcock people •rlalm that city for him by 8,000 and that Magee is asking courts to keep police out of politics. The dispatch says: "On the eve of election In the greatest mayoralty fight here in re cent years, Joseph M. Guffey, acting Democratic state chairman, issued a denunciation of Edward V. Babcock, Penrose-Armstrong-Leslie candidate for the office, characterizing him as a 'pro-German and the candidate of pro-Germans.' Babock adherents to night, despite all the claims of the Brumbaugh-Vare faction, which 1b supporting William A. Magee, for mer Mayor and Public Service Com missioner, for the mayoralty, claimed victory for Babcock by a plurality of 8,000 to 10,000. The campaign for the mayoralty closed last evening with last minute appeals to the voters. Magee men went into court yesterday afternoon and petitioned for an In junction against the heads of the po lice bureau and 125 policemen to re strain them from 'unlawful acts, such as featured the September primary.' " THE WINGS OF WAR Hail to the squadrons of the sky, The giant battleplanes And speedy scouts that sail the void Where primal silence reigns! And hail the pilots, iron nerved. And quick to do and dare; Who wins this war for liberty Must win it In the air. Some day a flier from afar Will pass the city gate, Upon its wings the sable cross Of unrelenting hate. And bombs will fall, and flames arise, And precious blood will run— Leave not the azure fields above Unguarded to the Hun! An aerial fleet must guard our coasts, An aerial navy go Three thousand miles across the sea To battle with the foe. The wind is humming overhead. And this Is what It sings: "Go shape the wood, and cast the steel, And give Columbia wings." —Minna Irving. INCLUDING SURTAX Our neighbor's rooster lost nearly every feather In a daslj by two play ful pups yesterday and now looks like a man who has mid his war taxes.—Grand Rapids Press. EVIDENT NEED Slacker—l won't buy any Liberty bonds for my children. Knicker—Then buy them for your second childhood. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! BY BRIGGS TSTEKJ -TOOTS - I'VE ) FV)UTUTT WHBRE'S ALL THE / I'M AFRMD IT'S/ f OH-H - WEV/'| "K.XWHERCS A CRCAT LITTLE IDEA I Y N COAC .<3OKJE !! ? VAJE <SOIM£ TO —/ I MIND - I'M TF-*AT " . -LETS BUILD A COZY J \HEN-RY JUS'R GOT A TONJ A I .SMOKC VNOIUG THIS/ V/FTI R"W DAMPPR!' ' TOWE IV J ' I 0 '- k > Vj. - [s° J ii-Tftußaei?" (2^^, LAUDER IS SERIOUS | Ilarry Lauder, the famous Scotch j comedian, dressed in picturesque | Highland costume, told of the experi-! ences of his son, who died fighting in l r rance, at Philadelphia recently, j The stocky Scotchman, who recently i returned from a visit to the boys in j the trenches, was in a serious mood, j The familiar crooked stick and the funny song about "gettin' up in the! mawrnin' " were forgotten. He did! sing "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" and "The Ways of Men Arcj Narrow, but the Gates of Heaven Are i Wide." "When my boy was home for thej last visit," said Lauder. "We liad| many quiet chats in the evening. I asked him to tell me more of the Huns' hellishness. 'One night," he told me, 'my regiment and the Black Watch were attacking in Flandecs, when sixty of the kilties were taken prisoners. German officers forced them to strip off their uniforms, stand at attention all night, while the cold rain deluged their naked bodies. In the morning they were ordered to return nude to their own trenches. Stiff from exposure, the men stumbled away. They had reached a point half way across No Man's Land when machine guns were suddenly leveled at them, and every j one was mowed down.' He also told me of a prisoner who escaped from a German camp. He was soon re captured and an officer advanced towaM him, drew his sword and cut off his leg. 'Run, now, you swine,' he said. "In one of -the hospitals be hind the lines I spoke to a fellow whose face was a mass of bandages. Here is his cwn story of how he re ceived his wounds: " 'l'was over the top in an attack and went into a German dugout. About thirty feet from the entrance of the dugout was a candle burning on a wooden ledge and by its light I discovered a fountain pen. Two days later I was going to write home to mother." When I unscrewed the pen it exploded and blew half of my face away.' " "We are fighting a different fight from the Germans. We are fighting a righteous fight of the people. The Hun is fighting for the Kaiser. He Is their God —There is one God—the God of all, and we have our faith. Turn your dollars into silver bullets. I want you to do to be shareholders in the bank of hu manity." Lauder spoke under the direction of the National War Work Council, of the Y. M. C. A. Later he ad dressed sailors and marines at the Navy Yard Y."M. C. A. POLITENESS I have mentioned good humor as one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. It is among the most effectual, and its effect is so well imitated and aided, artificially, by politeness that this hlso becomes an acquisition of first rate value. In truth, politeness Is artificial good humor; it covers the natural want of It, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sac rificing to those whom we meet in society all the little conveniences and preferences which will gratify them and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flatter ing turn to our expressions which will concllate others and make them pleased with us as well as them selves. How cheap a price for the good will of another! —Thomas Jef ferson. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN Nobility out of the veins of the dead Belongs to the past; the present. Instead, Makes manhood the measure of man again, And chooses blood that Is living red To make the American Citizen. The pride of the Great Republic I bear; I feel her majesty move in the air, Her greatness to come and her glory when A thousand million of freemen shall share The name of American Citizen. I pray that her strength and gran deur increase To tutor the world in the*ways of peace, Till the lamb shall lie in the lion's den And the wars of kings at the bidding cease Of the strong American Citizen. O, hail her flag with the stars be dlght, I see her power for freedom and right, I thrill with her power beyond my ken. As I feel that the coming man in his might Shall be the American Citizen. ■—Written About 1897 by Coates Kinney. How Germany Raises Loans IF German financiers had so fei'-l tile a field as the United States in which to operate, they would make short work of getting the sec ond Liberty Loan heavily oversub scribed. In the first place they would have all the banks and trust companies take liberal amounts, on the understanding that no actual money would be required, but cred its, involving no special reserve, against which the government might draw in payment for goods and labor. In the second place they would exact subscriptions from all the munition makers, steel manufac turers and other producers directly or indirectly interested in govern ment contracts, with the understand ing that such subscriptions would not need to be paid in before equivalent sums fell due on contracts. These producers would also have the further understanding that the bonds taken by them would be treat ed by the bank as collateral for bank loans bearing interest not greater than that borne by the bonds. By similar methods we could quickly raise many billions in government FAILURE OF SUBMARINE By far the most encouraging piece of news which has come from Eu rope in many months is that of the steadily decreasing success of the German submarine attacks on com merce. For the first time since last winter the losses of merchant ship ping are being reduced to manage able limits. Improved methods of convoying and arming merchant ves sels have been successful in render ing tire all important maritime com munications of the Allies compara tively safe. Inasmuch as the opera tions of these methods will be still further improved during the winter and the spring it seems as certain as anything can be in war that the submarine offensive Is byway of be ing defeated. Within a few months the gross tonnage controlled by the Allied Governments will begin to in crease and the handicap of deficient transport, which recently has been impairing the success of their mili tary operations, will be less costly. Germany's only chance of victory will have vanished. Even though she were capable next summer of placine a largely Increased number of submarines in the water, their construction would constitute a waste of valuable resources. They will not be able to get at the faster, more heavily armed and more care fully convoyed fleets of the Allies. — New Republic. VICTORY LOAN Last January the people of Eng land subscribed to their Victory Loan a sum equal to about 40 tier cent of their entire annual income. Now the income. of the American people Is figured at something up ward of $40,000,000,000 per annum. So if we to-day were to do as well as England did nine months ago, we should subscribe $16,000,000,000 to this new United States loan. An other way of putting it is that if. In proportion to our population, we Americana should come forward in tho same way for our new Liberty Loan of $3,000,000,000, we should have 20,000,000 subscribers stepping up and asking for a share in it.— Thomas W. Lamont in Collier s Weekly. SOUSA LIMERICK Washington.—John Philip Sousa, who was here with the Great Lakes Naval Band in behalf of the Liberty Loan, was banqueted by friends and former associates on the Marine Band, of which he was once leader. For the occasion he composed and recited this limerick: "1 joined the reserves on the 13th of May; I gave up my band and one thousand per day; A dollar a day Is my Government pay— My boy, how the money rolls in." —From the Chicago Tribune. THE LAUGHING HERO Give me the man from sphere to sphere Who laughs when grinning Death is near. Who never sues or bates his breath, But dareß the makebelleves of Death. For dying is but daring still— The crowning venture of the Will And God himself hath set no goal . To bound the daring of the Soul. —Walter Slchel In the London Dally News. loans. Why do we not employ them? Because they are essentially of the character of inflation. When we subscribe tq the Liberty Loan we make shift to furnish real money, saved out of our incomes. We en able the government to spend a bill ion by refraining from spending the billion ourselves. When the Germans subscribe, what they place in the hands of the government is a collection of I. O. U.'s, which the government realizes on in the purchase of supplies at such terms as it can get. In this country the German plan would pro duce an astounding rise in prices. AH persons of fixed income or prac tically inflexible income, including the whole working class, would find their command of the necessaries and comforts of life reduced. Specu lators would find their incomes greatly increased. For the moral gain of a loan promptly oversub scribed we should pay by higher costs of living to those of our citizens who already find coste high. That is why our treasury is pursuing the difficult but nonest method ot rais ing loans by direct appeal to the people.—From the New Republic. RIFLES AND MEN Secretary Baker declared in a speech at Harrlsburg, Pa., that there were Ave rifles now in France for every American soldier abroad. Not only ihat. but ail the Regulars and all the members of the National Guard In this country have rifles. Furthermore, rifles are being manu factured at the rate of .100,000 a month, and soon that output will be doubled. There is certainly nothing in this situation to warrant the alarm that some gentlemen appear to feel as to the shortage of rifles for the Army. Suppose a number of those in use in this country are not of the latest pattern. At the rate rifles are being manufactured it will be easy to re place them rapidly by the latest and best makes. And the old ones can be passed on to the training camps, where they will be just as good for drill as any other. And it need not be forgotten that at first the train ing camps can get along with their work fairly well even without this part of the equipment. Secretary Baker declares that when the American Army gets abroad It >vill be equipped as well as the best and better than some others. The country Is prepared to take him at his word, certainly until some thing more conclusive than vague complaints is presented. It does not believe for a moment that any ad ministration would dream of sending our soldiers abroad without thei latest and best equipment.—Chicago Herald Let His Name Be Magnified Let it even be established, that thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of Hosts is the God of Israel, oven a God to Israel. —I Chronicles xvli, 24. REPRISAL Knicker—What policy do you want enforced? Bocker —An eye for an eye and a sweet tooth for a sweet tooth. THE WAR LORD May God help farther * ** and onward with God!— The Kaiser. I strike un<?er sea, And I storm through the air; And holy to me Is the dying's despair. I'm the bringer of blight To the bloom of the day , And the wild wolves—they fight In the blood of my way. God's green fields—l stain them; Earth's altars I seize; World orphans—l brain them Away from my knees! And the sea Is dyed red With the blood of my giving; I'm the lord of the dead And the curse of the living. Yet I fear and I fly On the land and the foam. From the wrath of the sky And the dead, going home! And I crouch in the clod Where the crimson I see. And challenge a god To bear, witness for me! For a world cry rends heaven With thunder alarms. And an answer is given By millions in arms! And what Is the crying World voices repeat? "The tyrant Is lying At Liberty's feet!" ■—Frank L. Stanton In the Atlanta Constitution. NOVEMBER 6, 1917. LABOR NOTES Women metal workers in Germany have demanded an increase in pay of 50 per cent. In England many country schools are closing one day a week to permit the pupils to work In the flax mills. A dispute between the Hornsey (England) Town Council and its Workmen has been decided by the Board of Trade allowing the men live shillings a week more. Portland (Ore.) Building laborers and Hodcarriers Union has .secured the eight-hour day and $3.50 a day for laborers and $4.50 a day for hod carriers. Two years ago these work ers were paid $2.50 nine hours. A recreation committee backed by the British Ministry of Munitions, but supported by individual subscription, provides cricket and tennis, football, etc., and under similar auspices is a choral and dramatic society, mem bership in wliich costs one shilling a year. English women in France are em ployed in many kinds o> work, such as clerks, librarians, accountants, typists, cooks, wine waitresses, but lers, domestic wsrk, motor transport service, tailors, shoemakers, bakers and linemen in the telegraph and telephone service. In Government establishments, aside from the Civil Service and local government, the number of women employed prior.to the war was 2,000; now it is 198,000. In the Civil Serv ice and local government women em ployes have Increased by 1 •16,000 and 121,000 men have been replaced. OUR DAILY LAUGH SLOW. Snail—My, I —hope there be a train . along' for V awhile. I've got to get across this track, and I can't do It in l fiss than aj> HARD TIMES. It's terrible, food is getting so high they don't even bait the traps with cheese any more! JUST WHISTLING. Boss—Johnny, I wish you wouldn't whistle at your work. Office Boy—l wasn't working sir. only whlstllne. CAUSE FOR GLOOM. What's the matter, old top? Matter enough! X trj to kiss my girl, she draws her head tot lEhettfttg (Cljal While there are a dozen Pennsyl vania municipalities which are voU ing on loans to-day, Steelton is the only place which is determining' by; the ballot whether a loan voted at a previous election for a specific obw Ject may be used for another. It ia the first borough or city in the stata to have the chance to vote on a ques tion in that manner and the result* will be watched with much interest. There are probably a dozen places where loans have been voted subjects which are regarded as more or less impracticable now, especially; where prices have advanced so muc'A for materials that construction could not be worked out under the original estimates. There are other places, just as in Harrisburg with its pro posed Walnut street viaduct, where Judgment of men in authority is against location of an improvement. In fact, the Walnut street bridge, which has been proposed to be run on the line of State street. Is now more than a mere city affair. Be cause of its effect on the plan of the commonwealth for enhancement of the Capitol Park extension it is of state interest The.Steelton elec tion is to divert money voted for an isolation hospital to better fire ap paratus and street improvements. There are a number of boroughs which may follow suit. It is a real referendum in spite of what it may be called. The soldiers who vote to-day in the various camps In which Penh sylvanians are quartered will have all the comforts of home as regards voting. There are not only lists of candidates provided by the state for every county, but in quite a number of instances friends of candidates have thoughtfully provided ballots printed with names of their favorites thereon so that the soldiers will have a chance to vote as in the old times. Poll books are kept and there is a voters' check list, which reminds one of right here in Harrisburg, Penn sylvania. Major E. }}. Schell, who is quar termaster at the big camp at Hous ton, Texas, sends an Kiteresting ac count of the way the Liberty Loan was taken in that camp. There was a total of $964,000 subscribed and every unl| in the whole division took bonds, some as high as $14,000. Speaking of Houston, the way it goes after publicity is worth watch ing. It has Just issued its city re port and it looks like a tourists' handbook. Houston is announced on a white and blue cover as the place where some seventeen railroads or twenty-two railways go to the sea. The report covers over 600 pages and has pictures that cover three and four pages. And it hasn't nearly as much to show as Harrisburg, either. Wild geese and wild ducks are commencing to make Harrisburg their headquarters again before go ing to the South. Half a dozen (locks have been seen lately along the Susquehanna, the ducks being more numerous. Geese in wedge shaped formation were noticed yes terday morning, but high up. Very have been shot in this part of the state and they have been notice ably fat. People wlio have been out towaWl Linglestown say that the eroWs which were so numerous in that sec tion during the early fall have nearly all gone. The same is said to be true in regard to Perry county, too. Large flocks have lately been seen going south over Cumberland and York counties. Local naturalists de clare that the flight presages a hard winter, that these wise birds foresee it and are starting their annual mi gration to a southern climate. An other sign of a cold winter is ad vanced by Juniata Valley hunters, who report all kinds of "wild bird food" plentiful. Wild cherry trees are bending under the weight of this fruit; there are more naws or wild thornberries this year than in many seasons past; the red brush acorns and nuts are remarkably plentiful, and there are plenty of pigeon and wintergreen berries. All of these are favorite foods of the pheasant. Old-time observers de clare that such abundance of food for wild life is invariably accompa nied with a severe winter. • * Prof. Franklin Menges, of the State Department of Agriculture, was here yesterday with a stalk of red clover which was nineteen inches long. It grew hear Middlesex and represented comparatively little work on the soil. Tt was just watched. The professor thinks that with more watching of the same kind notable results may be attained. • * * The forethought of the state's Pub lic Service Commission In providing a form of certificate upon which men traveling on state business could pre sent to railroad ticket agents or Pull man conductors certificates from their chiefs as to the errands which took them on the road seems to have caught other departments nap ping. When the war tax bill was signed it seems that Chairman Ainey at once took up the proposition, reached an agreement with the rail roads and drafted the certificate. The Commission's men were using them on November 1. Some depart ments have not even provided them yet. [ .WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —H. J. Heinz has opened his con servatories at Pittsburgh to kinder garten flower growers. —The Rev. Dr. AV. E. McCullochs moderator of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, says that the time ljas come to seoJ Hps which utter treason. —George S. Stutzman, of Coopers dale, seems to be Cambria's oldest hunter. He hunted on his eighty third birthday. —John Robert Jones, of the Schuylkill candidates for Judge, used to be a legislator. —Dawson W. Light is candidate for District Attorney of Lebanon on all tickets. m —Postmaster Martin Klingler, of> Allentown, was the first man caught by falling to put three cents on a letter In his city. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisbtirg Wan one of the first cities In 1861 to take stops to provide fop soldiers' families? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harris Ferry furnished men fo| Col. Roquet's road-building expedk tion and for the fighting later on. J
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