10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH .1 XBIVSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded lis' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLK, Pres't & Editor-in-Chirf p. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. DUS M. STEIN SI ETC, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—Tho 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. iA.ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & r Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. Western office. Finley. People's " Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a dttyf*. week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1917 "The inn o} a traveler on the way to Jerusalem." —lnscription on the j grave of Dean Alford. YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS THER2 is a lesson for Republicans in yesterday's elections through out Pennsylvania, and a bright outlook for a decisive victory in the gubernatorial and congressional con tests next year, if advantage is taken of the possibilities revealed by the re turns. Indications are tlKit Repub lican candidates in this State polled p total of more than 750.000 votes — n figure in excess of the Presidential vote of last autumn. The results In Harrisburg and Dauphin county are a fair example of conditions in the State at large. Jn this city Republicans have won every one of the non-partisan offices mid the school board. In the county, ■without exception. Republicans were elected by decisive majorities. In nearly every case throughout the Mate contests which developed were 1 etween Republicans rather than be tween Republicans and Democrats. The Democratic organization cut a sorry figure. Democratic candidates lost all along the line and the Demo cratic party was almost counted out as a political factor in many counties. But in this very Republican strength lies danger as well as oppor tunity. If inexcusable factionalism is allowed to prevail to an irreconcilable degree it may easily happen that the Democratic minority may swing enough votes to elect a Governor and strengthen its hands at Washington V>v the defeat of Republican candi dates for Congress. It is beyond belief that such a condition should be per mitted to arise. It is the part of wise l>arty leadership at this time to com pose minor differences wherever possible in order to concentrate for the great gubernatorial drive of next year. The great rank and file of the Republican party will expect this, and will resent any other course. The time to together is now. not next spring or summer. With respect to the local etection. for the first time since the Clark non partisan act went into effect. Harris, burg will have a Mayor and Council made up entirely of Republicans. The opportunity for advancing the municipal government to new planes of efficiency Is theirs; so also is the responsibility. They will have the support of all good citizens insofar as they devote themselves to the best Interests of the city. The election of the Republican county ticket, with a single excep tion, is merely in line with the trend of elections in all partS of the State. This failure of Democrats was accen tuated here by the desertion of Dem ocratic candidates by the local Dem ocratic leadership, which has no in terest in local contests that are noth ing but expensive and holds on to the organization here merely tor the purpose of using it when State and national elections are at stake. Gough, Pass and the other Repub licans elected are all men worthy of any voter's support and may be ex pected to give the same kind of hon est, efficient government that in re cent years has strengthened the con fidence of the people in Republican leadership. A SHORTAGE OF DENTISTS. ! LARGELY because of the fact that the American people have awakened to the prime import ance of keeping their teeth in ,7001! condition, many communities ore face to face with a problem which no one seems to have dreamed of a year ago. Army officers in charge of the units of the regular army, the National Guards of the various States which are now being split up among various organizations and the National army which is growing at the cantonments throughout the country are insisting that their men have as good teeth as feet. For the first time the dental surgeon Is being given his rightful place In the mili tary establishment. As the country ha about a mil lion and a half men either armed or ■undergoing military training and has possibly a million more coming on in the next six months, the matter of caring for the teeth of (he arm*' Is assuming real proportions.. Fred eric the Great and Napoleon were] WEDNESDAY EVENING, the first great modern generals who] looked after bread baskets first and now tho wise commanders are see ing that their men are able to eat what is provided so as to obtain the maximum values of the rations. The result has been that the government has had to form a dental corps and to draw heavily not only on the dentists who are within draft age, but upon the older practitioners. These men have been going to the camps and there is now a shortage of dentists in every city. They are called upon to work hours which a union would consider scandalous to care for their own practice and to al leviate the troubles of folks whose dentists have gone to war. A den tist is a good bit like a doctor. When a person is In pain he feels bound to give the assistance of his pro fession. Uncle Sam has cut short the courses of training of his cadets to provide officers. It is not without the | bounds of possibilities that dental ' students who have finished a year ! or two years of training may be dc ; nianded to help out the overburdened I practicing men and handle such | work as can be done by them under I the immediate supervision and ln ' struction of those who hold the I State's licenses. The same may come to 1 e true in a more limited way of medical students. The need is going to be great and the problems should be considered by those who have matters In charge. FOR OUR BOYS' SAKES HAT boy who marched away sc j J_ gallantly the other day is YOUB I boy. He may not be your own 1 flesh and blood, but he is your boy anyway, for he has gone to fight YOUR battles. He has gone out to risk his life that you may remain safely at home. He has placed his own body between the bullets of the murderous Huns and your body. He has made a very great sacrifice for you. What are YOU going to do for HIM? Oh. to be sure, we know you have given to the Red Cross and that you have subscribed liberally to the Lib erty Loan, but that's not enough. What are you going to do for the boy himself? Picture him in his leisure in the training camps. Are you going to provide healthful recreation for him or are you going to let him fall Into the temptations with which every such cantonment is bound to be sur rounded. Conjure up a vision of him just returned from the hell-fire of the trenches, where for days he has been subjected to almost Intolerable living conditions, suffering from bodily fa tigue and mental depression, ready for whatsoever diverting excitement may chance his way. Are you going to see to It that he is given the means of readjusting himself under normal, wholesome conditions or do you mean to abandon him to the camp harpies who have betrayed hundreds of thousands of French and English soldiers to their deaths? There can be but one answer. You mean to stand by your boy. Very well, then. It is your duty to get behind the War Work Council campaign that Is to be waged all over the country next week and in which this county Is to have a prominent part. You will be called to give money. Xo matter how much hardship the giving may cause, it will not be com parable to the sufferihg which your boy in France will endure if the War Work Council's plans for recreational centers back of the fighting lines fails. Give, whether little or much, ■in the spirit of the widow who gave her mite, for trifles will avail much if the spirit be right. FRANCE AND LIQUOR THE TELEGRAPH is in receipt of a circular extolling the vir tues and virility of the French people, with the inference that their prowess is due to wine-drinking. The French are described as a nation of wine-bibbers, and wine is given : credit for French successes against great German odds. AH very well, but how does this view of things compare with the fol lowing poster, displayed in Paris tramcars and signed by the Presi dent of the Republic himself: Alcohol is as formidable an en emy to you a* Germany. It has cost France since 1870 in men and money more than the present war. Alcohol pleases the taste; but a veritable poison, it destroys the body. Drinkers grow old early. They lose half their normal life and are easy prey to numerous weak nesses and maladies. The •'jlltle glasses" of parents are transformed Into hereditary weaknesses in their descendants. France has to-day about 200,000 Insane, twice as many consump tives, t Bay nothing of the vic tims of gout, scrofula, rickets. premature degeneracy, and the majority of criminals. Alcoholism reduces our produc tivity two-thirds. Increases tho cost of living and misery. Like the criminal lvalser, alco holism decimates and ruins France to the great Joy of Ger many. Mothers, young people, husbands, light alcoholism and remember the glorious wounded and dead for the country. You will thus accomplish a great task, equaling that of our heroic soldiers. If wine is such a strength-produc ing and health-inducing beverage, why this outburst from Poincalre? 'PeKKOiifcccuua By the Ex-Committeeman Predictions that a great vote would be cast in Pennsylvania yesterday, appear to have been abundantly verified and it was declared to-day by people at the State Capitol who have been observing figures of re turns that if an aggregate of votes polled in the sixty-seven counties of the Keystone state could be made, it would be found that at least three quarters of a million were under the Republican party name. The might of the Republican party was never more strongly manifested than yesterday and now the great question is wheth er the strength assembled can be utilized next year to elect the state ticket by one of the old-time ma jorities or whether it will be vitiated in factional tights. The great Repub lican vote marshalled yesterday can be held together and thrown against the Democracy with such force as to scatter the already weakened mi nority to the four winds and not only insure election of a Republican state ticket and Legislature, but of a con gressional delegation overwhelming ly Republican and make certain Re publican success in the county and municipal contests of 1919. I Judging from wliat has been re ported to-day, no leaders of the Re publican party have much to brag of. The Vare-controlled Republican or ganization in Philadelphia has been given a terrilic jolt if not defeated, and the bulk of the Penrose men have aligned themselves under the Town Meeting banner. In Pittsburgh the Penrose forces seem to have suc ceeded in downing the candidacy of William A. Magee, backed by the state administration, by a smaller majority than expected. In this city, which attained first rank interest be cause. of the state administration's activity in the mayoralty contest there will Vie few laurels for anybody if the differences are not adjusted. In Scranton a bitter partisan fight de veloped in a nonpartisan election and stiffened up both Republican and Democratic organizations. In a dozen other places the contests for control have made return sheets fat and pointed the way to mobilize strength for next year. —Eagerness with which Demo crats throughout the state were studying figures to-day was plain evidence that they expect to fish up something from the troubled Re publican waters. The really sorry state of the Democratic organization in Pennsylvania was however reveal ed yesterday and that Republicans should fail to take advantage of it instead of allowing advantage to be taken of their own differences U al most incomprehensible. —Except in Scranton and a few other places the Democrats trailed. In Philadelphia they were tail to the Town Meeting kite. In the Pittsburgh contest the machine Democrats lined lip with the Brumbaugh administra tion men. as did some of the same kind of Democrats here. In various third class city contests they scatter ed their strength. In almost every county and city they were without men of their faith in prominent places on tickets. What was true in Harrisburg was the condition in a number of cities. And in a score or so of counties they ran far behind claims and much less than expecta tions on county tickets. In Scranton the Democracy was militant and showed leadership. —Votes of Pennsylvania soldiers at the various camps and canton ments to which commissioners were sent by the state authorities will be returned to the prothonotaries of the counties wherein the soldiers reside and will be computed at county seats along with returns from the regular election districts. —"The returns of the soldier vote will be sent to the county officials just as though they were voters In a district instead of soldiers In a camp many miles away," said a state of ficial this morning. "The returns of soldier votes, however, will be made out in duplicate. One copy goes to the prothonotary of the county where the soldiers are voters when in ordinary life and the other is sent to the Sec retary of the Commonwealth for a record and for reference in case the other should be lost in transmission." —The State Department was in formed to-day that the commission ers sent to Camp Meade had dis patched their official returns to the counties last night and a few were received here and will be held for verification In case of dispute. Some of the commissioners arrived here to day and arranged for payment of their mileage. —The law allows each commis sioner ten cents a mile for each mile actually traveled, but nothing else. The Legislature made an appropria tion of JiJ.OOO to the Auditor Gen eral's Department to cover the ex penses of taking the vote. The ac counts will be audited by the Auditor General as are all other expense ac counts. —Results in counties where liquor was an issue appear to have been more or less definitely dry- The as sociate judge battles were mostly won by the "dry" men. In cities liquor men in spite of assertions that they were on one side or the other seem to have played both ends against the middle as usual and things are being said about them as of yore. —The serious turn of the illness of Senator James P. McNlchol in Phil adelphia, was a matter of grave con cern to his friends here. —From all accounts Insurance Commissioner Charles A. Ambler has started the "firing" of men by the state administration. One man says that he was asked to quit because they wanted the place for some one else. —The congressional election in the Twenty-eighth district to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of O. D. Bleakley before he could take his seat, resulted in a Republican being chosen so there is no change in the strength of the state delega tion. U. O. Lyons, the man elected, lives in Warren. Bleakley lived in Venango, which also had a candi date in General Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City, who got tangled up in the requirements of the primary law aiul ran on his own hook. This is the first HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS I MY DEAR TH£V HAVE j wo miiv.' ateD ME For * y o o WAnTT .//. : MAYOR 'M eeuMD J beautiful 4%/, 61 • To *.u BECAUSC \J G6v/E I RMeD CLCAW BY CORRUPTION ° n : rffo, V AMD \ t smith' 5 F *> R /s time Warren has had a congressman for a long time. Lyons is counted "dry." —E. C. Higbee, of Uniontown, named to be the assistant of A. Mitchell Palmer in his alien property work, is a prominent deserving Dem ocrat of Fayette. He has often fought, bled and been routed in behalf of the state machine. He tried conclu sions with Senator Crow and has not been heard of since until Palmer dug him out. —Judge Broomall appears to have routed the MacDade people in Dela ware county. —C. W. A. Rockow. elected Dis trict Attorney of York, has a ma jority of hundreds instead of thou sands in that Democratic stronghold. —The Socialists appear to have been beaten in their attempt to gain Reading's council. The city manager advocates won in Altoona's light and Coatesville carried a loan of $185,000 and a proposition to divide the city into wards. —Reports of arrests for disorder in Philadelphia yesterday came here to-day. No one was killed yesterday except politically. —Lewisburg voted down a school loan. EDITORIAL COMMENT The Peruvian bite Is worse than its bark, apparently.—Syracuse Herald. Nothing Is so Indicative of wom an's progress as the fact that not one of them Is knitting a doily.—Boston Transcript. Now that everybody seems to be agreed on the price of coal, all that remains is for the price to be set. — Atlanta Journal. Going bareheaded will prevent baldness; and in New York will save S9O a year for hat-checking.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. The soldiers needn't have any par ticular compunction about using their bayonet, as a thoroughly dead enemy can't come along later to bomb the hospital where you are laid up.—York Daily. THE COLT Gosh, I like to git a-hold^ Of a dad burn little colt: Soft-nosed, dish-faced, big-eared booger, Beggin' fer a lump of sugar Or a piece o' apple core — Reg'lar de'il he is, for shore! Neck too short an' legs too long, Back all wavy, short and strong, Kinky tail—there! See 'm flip That mischeevious upperlip. Fairly achin' fer a nip Out o' baby's tender hide When 'is daddy lets 'im ride! You may doubt it, but, says I They's a twinkle in th' eye Of a colt, when he sneaks up, Softer footed than a pup. Nuzzles off yer old straw hat, Runs away as quick as scat! Makin' faces at "s mother — Al'ays up to sumpin'—nuther. Ornery, but yit, confound 'im, I jest love t' fool around 'im; He's so careless an' high-strung An' so —well, doggone it—young! Strickland Gillilan in Farm Life. GERMANS WEAR PAPER The clothing of some German pris oners recently taken by the British was of such peculiar appearance that the Englishmen decided to analyze it. The uniforms the officers wore were found to have been made of cloth woven from leather fiber, while the enlisted men wore uniforms made from paper liber. The fabr'cs resemble thp regula tion army cloth used for uniforms.— Popular Science Monthly. SO LONG, OLD PAL So John, old pal, you're leaving soon? You're going off to war? It's sad, old pal, an' we're grieving soon, But we know what it's for. So long, old man—go to the front And do the best you can! We know, old man, you'll never grunt. Nor be an "also ran." You know, old scout, seems strange It's you: We've all raised so much Cain. While you, old scout, of Quiet Few, Have always held the reign. 'Twas you. old friend, who showed real pluck, When showdowns came our way; And now, our friend, you're first to buck, And go out there to slay. Ro long, old man, may God bless you. You are the best among us! flood-by, old man. you go and do; We're proud you are one of us! —Harold B. Norwood. Why Things Are Scarce THICRE is no "famine," or sign of "famine," or excuse for antici pation or talking- about "famine" of any kind in the United States. The country is a land of plenty, and it should be too grateful for its blessings to listen to those who pro claim "shortages" of supply in their efforts to hide or excuse economic Vlundering or wrong intentions. If the products of the soil, the mines, and the forests were conserved and distributed as they should be. tnere would be no need in the United States to-day for food or fuel com missions. Products are scarce and high either because they jire cor nered or hoarded, as conon and sugar were recently found to be, or because they are excluded from the natural channels of trade and from the markets by a wholly inadequate distribution system. Let us pass over the 1,000,000 bales of cotton found hidden the other day while a cotton "famine" was being proclaimed, and the 10,000,000 pound: of sugar found to have been con cealed while a sugar "famine" was being heralded, turn away generally from economic crimes against the public, and face economic shortcom ings for which the public must, whether it will or not, take its share of responsibility. Never were greater quantities of potatoes grown in the United States than were produced this year. Yet there was a potato "famine" in cer tain parts of the east last week, which, however, in response to the indignant demands of consumers, was "relieved" by the timely arrival ot several trainloads. There has been a sugar "famine" in the country recently. Housewives have, as a rule, been unable to pur chase this commodity for some time, save *om hand to mouth. Many con sumers of sugar have been on the verge of a panic. They have been told that the supply was practically exhausted, and that, unless "relief" should come from abroad, or from Cuba, or Hawaii, it would give out completely. Now it is learned that CANADA'S DRAFT A peculiar situation has arisen In Canada with respect to conscription., Only one draft eligible in twelve who have so far reported has waived claim to exemption. This is looked on as discouraging by some, but there j may be cirmcumstances which make < the situation appear worse than it is. The reason for the widespread be-! lief that exemptions can be had for < insignificant reasons is the report | that politicians allowed to be circu-1 lated when the military service bill j was before parliament that business! was to be disturbed as little as pos-! sible by conscription; that only hab itual out-of-works and apparent l slackers would be compelled to go. Those who have flimsy excuses fori staying at home will find that secur- i ing exemption will not be so easy. National interest is to he the first j consideration of the selection tri- j bunals. It is probable, too, that the ex- ,' emption claimants would report early. All have until November 10 to get in their papers, but the men who will not claim exemption have 1 nothing to make them in a hurry, about it.—Buffalo Express. SET GOOD EXAMPLE [Columbus (S. C.) State.] In the face of a gain of ;!2 per cent, in the number of automobiles in Mas sachusetts last year, there was a de- | crease of 14 per cent, in the number! of accidents connected with autonio- j biles, and one of the explanations of- j fered is that both pedestrians and \ driver? are exercising greater care. I The improvement was. for the most part, confined to the cities, however, j where the policing is decidedly better j than it is in the rijrnl districts. A striking feature of the statistics j in Massachusetts is that practically; no accidents occurred to cars driven j by women. From this it is inferrable 1 that the women drivers have greater; respect of the law, that they keep In mind the rights of others, that they i are not so bold and reckless as the men, and so they abstain from taking unnecessaijy risks. The driving of motor cars by wo men has not been common i ntil late ly, bfit it is rapidly multiplying, and' it may be feared that as women be-1 come more accustomed to the ma chines they will lose something of the caution which they now observv I In Massachusetts they have demon-' j strated that the exercise of due care goes far to eliminate motoring perils I both to the occupants of the car and 1 to the people afoot. 200,000,000 pounds of Louisiana cane sugar was contracted for on Wednes day, and that this immense purchase will begin moving within a week to "relieve" the sugar "famine" in the ecstern states. Recently the price of eggs, in New York and in other cities, has been si ooting lip to midwinter altitudes, bocause of their scarcity. Wednes day, six carloads of eggs arrived in New York in time to avert a threat ened "famine" in this commodity. And so it goes, all along the line. There is always, in these late days. "threatened scarcity" and "threat ened famine" in foodstuffs, but the time has very seldom been known, since these fashions set in, when any thing needed could not be bought by those who could and who would pay the ptlce. Theie are minor and incidental causes, of course, for "scarcities" and "famines" in the most fertile and productive agricultural country in the world, but the one principal rea son for them is the failure of the nation's distributing system to bring products expeditiously and cheaply to consumers. There is plenty of grain and meat: there are plenty of vege tables; there arc plenty of sugar yielding plants; these are plenty of eggs; there is plenty of butter and milk; there is plenty of everything; but it '.s neitUer regularly, expedi tiously no.- evenly distributed. The distribution system which the United H:'tts puts up with, besides failing utterly to keep the prices of foodstuffs at anything bordering on a commcn level, or at anything like a reasonable standard, affords con stant temptation and inducement to the speculator, the manipulator, and the monopplist. It would pay the United States to invest a billion dollars in the estab lishment of a distribution system that would effectually distribute. It would pay the United States Govern ment to give the railroads of the country a billion dollars, on a guar antee that they would furnish such a system.—From the Christian Sci ence Monitor. "PASSING THE BUCK" [Omaha Bee.] "Passing the buck" has been de fined as the greatest of American in door sports, and just now it is in progress all over the country. The new war revenue bill was framed to develop several new sources for reve nue and levied small taxes on a num ber of things heretofore untouched and in a new way on many that had borne some share of the big burden of providing money to run the gov ernment on. Perhaps it was the in tention of the Congress that the dealers should share their war profits with the government, but the dealers entertain no such notions. Theyi quietly slip the tax along to the pur-' chaser by adding it to the selling! price of the article. This would not; be so bad in itself, but it is being made the excuse for taking a little added profit. For example, if the tax is a fraction of a cent one penny is added to the selling price; a cent and a half puts on two cents and a two cent tax sees the price go up a nickel to the buyer. The process is one in evitable accompaniment of the effort to raise money by this sort of taxa tion. The beneficent circle of trade may finally adjust this in an ade quate way, but the buck is being passed just the same. FILE THREE ("General Pershing stopped in his i walk, turned sharply, and faced File ; Three."—London Dispatch.) File Three stood motionless and pale, Of nameless pedigree; One of a hundred on detail— But would I had been he! j In years a youth, but worn and old, With face of ivory; ■ Upon his sleeve two strands of gold— -1 Oh, would I had been he! The General passed down the line. And walked right rapidly, But saw those threads and knew the sign Ah, had I been File Three! "Twice wounded? Tell me where you were," The man of stars asked he. ! "Givenchy and Lavenze, sir"— Oh, where was I, File Three! ' Then crisply quoth the General: "You are a man File Three." And Tommy's heart hold carnival — God! Would I had been he! —P. S. W., in Chicago Tribune. NOVEMBER 7, 1917. LABOR NOTES Mayor Mitchell, of New York' City, will be asked to appoint six police women. Five hundred retail drug clerks at Toronto, Canada, have organized to obtain shorter hours. The various hotels and amuse ment places in Great Britain employ 31,000 women. A convalescent home and voca tional training school for returned soldiers is planned in Bethbridge, Canada. The British Board of Trade reports show that there are now 4.538.00U women and girls employed in the classified trades under its jurisdic tion. This does not include domestic servants, women employed in small workshops and women employed on farms. The executive council of the Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinders has notified affiliates that It is a waste of time to submit sliding scales foi its approval. These unions are instructed to stand for flat wage scales. The British Shipping Controller has decided to establish a standard wage for seamen, practically doubling the old rate. The preliminary decision fixes fll for seaman on foreign-going vessels, firemen receiving fll 10s. OUR DAILY LAUGH EASY MONEY. "What is this?" \ "Frame of a dinosaur, re)lc of a prehistoric age." "What bones tlie boys had to ped dle In those times." COVERING UP. "Why did you laugh so heartily at Smith's joke?" "Because I didn't see the point." TOO SURE. She—How do X look in my new bustle drss? He—lmmense! HE HAD THE DRIFT. t Teacher—Johnnie, can you tell me the meaning of camouflage? Johnnie —No, only, 1 heard pa tell ma if she'd leave off some of her camouflage when she went out, all the men wouldn't toe trying to flirt with her. lEkentng ®ljai While there may be sections of Pennsylvania where the planting: of wheat in response to the appeals of the Federal government has not been up to expectations, a view of tho country that can be seen from the dome of the State Capitol shows more patches of green than known in this valley for a long time. The high point of the State House is a wonderful place to gain an idea of the beauties of the Lower Susque hanna and its lateral valleys, some of the fairest farming regions in the land and abounding as well with natural features which are much ad vertised where they occur in other parts of the country, but taken as a matter of course here. The view covers a wide range of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and York coun ties, and while Lebanon and Lancas ter are a bit too far away to bo dis cerned there are ridges which mark tho lines. Scattered over the four counties, almost with checkerboard like regularity are wheat fields. The weather has been tine for growing and the green stands up in grateful contrast to the brown of the adjoin ing fields and the sere and yellow cornfields. If the number of rectan gles of rich green to be seen nre any thing to go by, this section is going tb produce largely of the great cerenl next year. There are also fields plant ed with rye. although this crop is not .=o generally raised hereabouts. There is probably more uncut corn in the fields within twenty miles of Ilarrisburg than has been known for a long time and many farmers aro frank in stating that they are not sure that they will he able to cut it. Corn has been raised very extensive ly in this section and the scarcity of hands has prevented some of it from being gathered. The result has been that it bus been frosted materially and some of it will not be of any value except for feed. Even at that It is hard to get people to harvest it. It is probable that many stalks will be held In t'le field all winter and this hint was given yesterday by an agricultural expert: "Except where it is needed for bedding or litter—a purpose for which shredded corn fod der is valuable —-it might better bo left standing and be husked from the stalk. The stalks would then bo re turned to the soil and provide con siderable humus and some fertility. Where this practice is followed, It is customary to break the stalks down by dragging some long, heavy imple ment such as railroad iron or plank drag, or even by rolling, when the stalks are frozen. Then by disking thoroughly before plowing, they can be turned under with little trouble. We believe It would be economy to manage the still standing corn in this way where the stalks can be spared from the barn, rather than defer husking too long, and because the cost of cutting Is a serious matter this fall." Combirtation of n perfect day, from a meteorological standpoint, and an election day holiday was too much for a number of Harrlsburg; hunters to withstand and the woods and fields were tilled with men chasing Benjamin Bunny, Peter Rabbit and the rest of his numerous tribe. There were a few quail routed out, but ow ing to the care which farmers are displaying in looking after the fam ily of Bob White there was not much doing in that line and as for the ruffled grouse they appear to have forsaken this part of the state. Abun dant traces of wild turkey have been reported from the Blue Ridge above the city and in the Perry county valleys. Governor Brumbaugh's visit to the camps where Pennsylvania soldiers are stationed will be the first state visits which the Governor has paid to the Pennsylvanians in military's service this year. Owing to the lact that he was in Maine he was not at the Capitol when the men entered Federal service and departed for the cantonments. Accompanied by Adju tant General Beary, chief of staff, and the members of the military family, the Governor and his party will be accorded the honors of re views at some camps and he officially welcomed by the commanders of the Pennsylvanians at others. The tour will occupy more than a week and cover most of the big southern camps where there are sons of the Key stone State, Camp Meade being first on the list. Times have changed and war brings changes, but it is doubtful whether boys in Harrisburg and vi cinity will get reconciled to the fact that bonfires were placed under an interdict. There was hardly a bon*- fire worth while last night and those which did (lame were of leaves and eld dead limbs. The old bonfire when boxes and barrels were begged, borrowed or stolen is a thing of the past. Time was not so many years ago when barrels used to diappeur about the first of November and bon fires were measured by their height. Long before that the old river shore, which was coated with filth and filled with weeds before we took tlie sew age out of the Susquehanna and made the river front a thing of beauty, used to be in violent erup tion from end to end of the city with election night bonfires. But there is nothing d<ing like that now and the oyster people are charged 'a half a dollar for a barrel that they iised to get free it may be realized that a change has come along. \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE V 1 A-J. Renwick Hogg, elected mod erator of the Presbytery of Phil adelphia, is the first layman to be chosien to that office. Philadelphia merchant and philan thropist, in celebrating his eightieth birthday, said that Quakers are fight ing irn the army for peace. —Cdunty Controller Heebner, of Montgomery, went hunting, fired five shots aSnd hit five rabbits. —J. ilonald Cameron has gone to his Poutm Carolina winter home. Ex-fSenator Cyrus R. Lantz was chatrmarV of the meeting to say fare well to l\ebanon drafted men. i DO YOU KNOW That Harristourg Is establish ing n rt -cord for freight ship ment*? HIST DRIC HARRISBURG. Onl hun dred years ago Harrisburpc had grain. iron and planing mills along Pax :on creek. J INBf OSTENTATION "Of coitrse. you disapprove of an ostentation of wealth." "Not alfways," replied Miss Cay enne. "I thoroughly enjoy meeting a man whe brags about how many I>lbertv I tonds he has bought."— From the Washington Star. HOA] RDING ALLOWED Postmafcter General Burleson is quite willing to have anybody hoard postage stamps In anticipation of the comlnftg increase in the postal rate.—Boston Globe.
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