8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME > Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph llulldlns, Erdernl Square. E.J. STACKPOLE.Prrj'f & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. — T 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 also reserved. (Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla tlon, the Audit "SJirank Bureau of Clrcu -SVBJO, latlon andPenn fidl Im Eastern office, Story, Brooks & MK IS Finley, Fifth MijjHf Avenue Building, jL.% Western office, Story, Brooks & f Gas ' Building, " —- —■- Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURADY, NOVEMBER. 17, 1917 It is not much business that dis tracts any man; but the want of purity, constancy, and tendency to wards God. —JERK MY TAYLOR. MAYOR BOWMAN AND OTHERS IN his civic activities covering a period of several years, Mayor J. William Bowman has never shown greater earnestness and en thusiasm than during the campaign just closing in behalf of the War Work of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. As chairman of the city committee he has again demon strated his ability as an organizer and the results have established once more the unselfish character of his public service and the high Ideals which animate him in all the work In which he has so cheerfully en gaged for the betterment of the community. Mayor Bowman is the type of citizenry to whom we must look for the future development of Harrisburg and his cpurse is an in spiration for the other young men who are proud of their city and who want to help in every proper way. As the Telegraph has -frequently indicated, Harrisburg is fortunate in the number and character of the men who are constantly doing all within their power to advance the interests of the community as a whole, and Mayor Bowman and those like him are deserving of all public honor. Edward Bailey, chairman of the county committee, who has labored quietly but effectively; the many good women who co-operated in a great campaign, the zealous and in dustrious men of the press, without whose efforts the drive for funds would not have been so successful, and the forces of the two local in stitutions directly concerned in the canvass, all merit the congratula tions which have been bestowed. "ONWARD WITH GOD" WHILE the Kaiser was mouth ing his blasphemous "onward ' with God," the other day, Bavaria, a German State, officially abolished the Sabbath. t No nation has ever done this and prospered. One day of rest in seven, given over to the worship of God, is perhaps the earliest injunction of Holy Writ. "Onward with God" and a Godless Sabbath form an odd combination. No country ever set itself up as su perior to God's commands and es caped God's penalties for those who break his laws. Germany is no ex ception. SIMPLY AMERICANS MORE was accomplished in Harrisburg the past week than the raising of nearly $70,000 for the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. war work, laudable though that achievement is. Prob ably the greatest gain came to those who gave their time and effort to the active work of gathering the money. Never has there been in Harrisburg such a breaki. g down of so-called class feeling as has been brought about since war work has thrown the people of all walks of life together in unselfish public service. Creed and religion, social status and personal feelings all have gone by the board or have been merged In effort for the common good. Men and women have met on a new plane and each has learned to respect his fellow. Regardless of what certain sour souls would have us believe, we have a fine, upstanding lot of people in Harrisburg and some of us are just beginning to find this out. The men and women who labored shoulder to shoulder In the drive now ended will never be to ward each other as they were be fore they engaged in this work. Many of them have formed new and binding ties of friendship; each has learned to respect the other and all of them have a higher regard for the patriotic and open-hearted people at large, whose generosity made It possible for Harrisburg to go "over the top" so handsomely In the Y. M. C. A. drive. This Is only a beginning. A lot of superfluities as well as fool notions are going to be wiped out SATURDAY EVENING, if this war continues any length and the first fences to go down will be many of the old social distinctions by which many mistaken ones among us used to set great store. We are one people, bound by com mon ties, whose prime interests and fundamental aspirations, once we get down to them, are identical, and some of us are experiencing a grow ing admiration for the wisdom and insight of those who wrote that thought Into the Declaration of ' Independence and the constitution of the United States. In times like these the tawdry trappings of rank are laid away and we stand forth simply as Americans. Which is why wo are great among the peoples of the world, and why we are going to win this war. Tn the laste analysis—when the final test comes —it finds us all for one and one for all. NEXT YEAR'S GARDEN'S NOW is the time to ho thinking of next year's war gardens, and Donald McCormick, who is at the head of tlio Chamber of Com merce garden department, with Shir ley B. Watts as active director. Is already outlying the campaign for the coming spring. War gardens played a big part in the food program of Harriqjmrg last summer, but the need for a more careful conservation of the food sup ply, - with urgent necessity for in creasing it in every way possible, will be far greater next year than it was during the past season or is a pres ent. Every family that can raise a stalk of tomatoes or a hill of corn or potatoes must be pressed into service the coming spring and summer. It is no longer merely the part of thrift to have a war garden—it is a necessity of vital proportions. If ev ery family raises at least a part of its own vegetable supply next year we shall pull through without much hardship, but if the war gardens are neglected most of us are going to have hungry days next winter and our allies will be in sore distress for lack of provisions. Follow the lead of the war garden committee; spend your spare even ings this winter planning your war garden, reading up on methods of cultivation which the Department of Agriculture will send you free of charge, and in studying the seed catalogues. You will find it an en grossing as well as a profitable amusement. PUNISH THE SCAMPS MAYOR BOWMAN was not so busy with the Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. drive this week that he did not have time to act vigor ously for the protection of United, States soldiers visiting Harrisburg, when it came to his attention that they were being lured from paths "of rectitude by harpies and panderers making it their business to lie in wait for the nian on furlough. The Mayor's action in ordering the police department to "take prompt meas ures to stop this practice was not only warranted by tlio conditions, but in full keeping with the campaign waged for war wonk funds here the past few days. A city that has just] given upward of $70,000 with which to provide wholesome surroundings for soldiers will stand heartily be hind an executive who invokes the law to restrain the vultures who' would fatten at the expense of the' soldier's money and manhood. The wretch who ekes out a miser- j able existence through the illegal sale of whisky or by bartering 111 j feuman virtue is abominable enough j at any time, but in periods such as ! this he is intolerable. The nation is] in sore need of workers—of pro- I ducers. There is a job for everybody j and places going begging. The Mayor should sec to it that these*j bootleggers and procurers go to jail 1 or go to work. Whatever punish-1 ment he metes out will have the I approval of the public and the more! drastic the better. goldiers should be instructed to treat these fellows after the manner of one young man in uniform a week or two ago. Approached by an in dividual with a quart of liquor to sell, he warned him off twice and. i having fulfilled the Biblical Injunc tion to submit twice to the tormen tor, he then took the law into his own hands and proceeded to give the pest a dressing down that would have done credit to John L. Sullivan in his palmiest days, afterward turn ing the bedraggled scoundrel over to the tender mercies of a police man. GIVE US SHIPS T' HE government apparently has muddled sadly at tfie one point in war preparations where muddling counts most against allied success, namely, the ship building program. One incompetency after an other has developed, largely due to the selection of land lubbers to per form a work that should have been entrusted to men familiar with the sea and its ways. Apparently, we are now to have another period of water ing and uncertainty. Why wait until it develops? Why not dismiss the dis cordant elements at once and recon stitute the shipping board along lines that will bring immediate results? We must do so in the end, so why not now, while time may be sav#d and effort conserved? We are not going to turn out any thing like the '6,000,000 tons of ship ping promised within the time speci fied. We shall be fortunate if we have 1,000,000 tons fit for use in the submarine zone. The shipping board has been debating and quarreling during the moments it lias not been occupied with telling the public that the "shipping problem has been solved." We have been regaled from time to time with stories of unslnk ablo vessels, wooden ships too small and numerous to fall victims to sub marines, concrete ships, ships with out keels and a myriad of other won ders, all designed to frustrate the Ü boats and give America supremacy on tho seat*. But none of them have materialized Into fact. Without ships our armies are pow erless to go to France, or, if there, would be terribly handicapped by lack of supplies. Our great and Immediate need is ships. All else must be sub ordinated to efficiency in this de partment. Henry Ford, the latest addition to the Shipping Board, hit tjie nail on the head when he said: The way to succeed is to find one typo of ship that is best fitted for work in the submarine zone and which can be built fastest, and center all effort on its con struction. We have succeeded • already in standardizing con struction of airplanes. We are helping with that in our plant. What we want is to extend the same idea to every other branch of Government work. ""Politic* in. By the Ex-Committeeman ! The name of the Town Meeting party has been pre-empted for the state election next November by no less than four groups of men who have filed affidavits in the Dauphin county court and at the Department of the Secretary of the Common wealth. Two of the pre-emptions de clare flic, exclusive right to nomi nate candidates under that name for th-3 5-tato at la', ge. while the others specify the right to elect a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs and Congressmen at Larpe. Three of the state-wide pre-emp t'.cnt, were- made by Philadclphians, the first being filed October 4 by men active in the Town Meeting movement. November 14 a group of men did the same thing and Philadelphians also filed pre-emptions for the state at large on November IV and 16. The name of the Town Meeting party was. pre-empted -in the Third Montgomery district to-day. The name has been pre-empted in Lu zerne, Dauphin, Lackawanna, Schuylkill and Montgomery counties this week as well as in some smaller counties earlier. Officials of the State Department slated to-day that inquiries failed to show that may more poll books and duplicate returns of votes cast by soldiers were to come in. The time, however, does not expire until No vember 23. The making up of ex pense accounts Is under way. —Town Meeting party lawyers, it is said, will attack the soldier and sailor yote. when it is produced No vember 23, before Judges Martin and Finletter.Jn the election court, in Philadelphia. Affidavits and let ters written by soldiers or sailors, in which the alleged activity in be half of the Vare candidates by The election commissioners is described, are being prepared for presentation by the court. The commissioners were appointed by Governor Brum baugh. At least two of the commis sioners will be subpenaed, and the independents will attempt to place them on the witness stand to relate how they supervised the vote at the camps. —Former Representative Daniel J. Shorn has denied he had in fluenced sailors at the Cape May, N. J. barracks to v6te the Republican ticket. Mr. Shern was the commis sioner who supervised the vote there: "TlWre is absolutely no truth in the reports I tried to help the Republican ticket," he said. "I did nothing illegal. —Although state leaders from all parts of Pennsylvania are at Phila delphia to-day for the McNichol fu neral, it has been determined by Senator Penrose that he will have no council of war until Monday. The Senator and others have deprecated the talk of McNichol's successor while he is unburied. Auditor General Charles A. Snyder and City Solicitor John P. Connelly, mentioned lor leadership, have refused to talk about It. —Secretary of Internal Affairs ITouck and Representative James F. Woodward, of McKeesport, who is a candidate for the nomination, are both In Philadelphia to-day for the funeral. —Tlie Philadelphia Evening Bul letin in Its interesting article on Mc- Nichol says: "There were only two public oliices that he occupied In the course of his career—a seat in Select Council years ago and a seat in the State Senate—and in each he was in the forefront of its leadership because of strong sense and tlie na tural faculty of impressing his judgment 011 those around him. He was not an easy man to trip up, even when ho was crude in experience,! and men who were showier undj thought themselves abler than he was, frequently found that his un derstanding got into the heart of a perplexing: question more quickly I than theirs, throjving them com- i pletely into the shade." —Proof that nearly 25,000 ballots cast in the election on November (i were thrown aside by election boards and not counted, was obtained yes terday by the Town Meeting party, says the North American. "In tho first twenty-one wards of the city records furnished by Henry P. Wal ton, prothonotary of the Common Pleas Court, showed a minimum average of eighteen votes invalidat ed in each division. Members of the Town Meeting legal committee esti mated last night that in the 481 divi sions of those wards nearly 9,000-+>al lots had been thrown out." —The Town Meeting party has overthrown the first majority credit ed to a Republican by the unofficial election returns in Philadelphia. The victory was won in the twenty-sec ond ward, and was for director of the poor, a minor plum. Unofficially, Pringle Borthwlck, Republican, was elected, but a comparison of the vote in the ward, and the checking up of the tally, showed he was beaten tyy John Marsdcn, Town Meeting party, by nine votes. —The Democrats having captured all the county offices in Berks, an nouncement of tho distribution of patronage has been eagerly awaited. Coroner-elect Schmel has appointed Constable John Smith first deputy and Dr. N. Z. Dunkelberger deputy for the Kutztown district. Prothono tary-elect Hintz has named W. E. Bechtel as legal adviser and John G. Rho&ds as deputy. Both are of Reading. Recorder-elect Meek has chosen B. Morris Strauss, of Mohn ton, as legal adviser and Charles W. Swoyer and Henry F. Kemp as depu ties. —The Philadelphia Republican city committee, which is Vare con trolled, held a special meeting last nicrlit and eulogized Senator Mc- Nichol. —Tho new register of wills of Northampton county. C. S. Messln ger, took charge yesterday nnd Audl lor General Snyder's men will start the investigation on Monday. —lrvln P. Knlpe, well known lioro, HARRISBUHG TLBIII£RS TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS 1 ' *' . 1 JV. ' . I " F / . m W ■ , 8 E 5 V|JJ^^^ —,1 | \ \II| '7I G 1 BET EO®° OY ®SS3P I TREASURE . ■ , Jl| has taken the place of the solicitor j of Conshohocken, who has gone to, war. | —The Allegheny county official | count is well under way and is said that it will not show surprises. The elections appear to have been em phatic. —William Walsh, former legisla tor, will succeed Frederick Shoycr as Philadelphia registration commis sioner at ?4,000 a year. The governor has decided to appoint him. —Lackawanna county people are investigating charges that election commissioners to camps -tried to in timidate voters. —Lancaster county's Democratic committee reported no contributions and no payments. —lndications are that the close ness of the soldier vote and its ef fect on a number of cpntest's throughout the state will cause Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh to post pone making any appointments of. consequence for another week or) two. A visit of Ex-Lleutenant-Gov-' ernor John M. Reynolds, of Bedford,! here this week to attend the meeting of the Commission to Codify the| Banking Laws, caused a revival of; rumors that he was being consid-; ered for one of the vacancies on the Public Service Commission, but he smiled and said he did not know about it. Gossip here is that Wil liam A. Magee, who has been men tioned occasionally for reappoint ment,' is not anxious for the job and intends to take up practice of law,! specializing in public utility cases. The Governor has judges for Phila delphia and Washington counties to name and some county places. —Tho soldier vote returns have been rather a surprise here. It was expected that all would be in hand promptly, but commissioners are aparently taking their time. Some of the commissioners tell stories in dicating that, there was a lack of system and the fact that no commis sioner seems to have much knowl edge of where ballots went and eome turned in poll books without any results being given rather bears out impressions. The commissioners will get ten cents a mile for each mile traveled from capital to camp and back again by short route, with allowance lor the visits here for in structions. The Auditor General's; Department will co-operate with the i Secretary of the Commonwealth in I making up the travel accounts and ' tho printing department will turn in i bills for the ballots and other work,, which will run up the cost. Twenty five thousand dollars was appropri ated. LABOR NOTES Fur workers in Minneapolis have secured the union shop and 50-hour week. Memphis (Tenn.) Printing Press men's Union hasiSigned a three-year ! agreement with employers. Wages j are increased for journeymen and ap- 1 prentices. Proprietors of Washington, D. C., • military tailor shops have signed a j union shop agreement presented by j the Journeymen Tailors' Union. Fermoy (Ireland) carpenters have j asked for an increase in wages of seven shillings ($1.75) a week, and have gone on strike as It has not been granted. Five Birkenhead (England) ap prentices who went on strike with the boilermakers were ordered to pay costs for falling tp comply with the terms of* their apprenticeship. The net income of the Pennsylva nia State Workmen's Insurance Fund for 1916, including interest, was $803,543.90, and tho prediction is made that this year it will be Sl>- 250,000. Articsvllle (Okla.) contractors have signed a union shop agreement with their inside electrical workers. Wages are Increased 10 cents an hour for eight hours a day. FIGHTING IN BELGIUM An Illuminating explanation of just why fighting in Belgium is hard er and more trying than fighting ih France is given in Major lan Hay Beith's new book, "All In It," the continuation of "The First Hundred Thousand," just published by Hough ton Mifllln Company. "Trench-life In Belgium Is an en tirely different proposition from treneh-llfe In France, he says. "The undulating country offers an Infinite choice of unpleasant surroundings. Here (In Belgium) the line follows the curve of each little hill. . . Al most every spot in either line is overlooked by some adjacent ridge, or enfiladed from some adjacent trench. It Is disconcerting for a methodical young officer after cau tiously scrutinizing the trench upon his front through a periscope, to find that the entire performance has been visible (and his entire person ex posed) to the vlow of a Boche trench situated on a hill-slope upon his tm inodlato left" THE PEOPLE'S i WANTS BRIDGE CURBED To the P.ditor of the Telegraph: Some highways are more danger ous than others and the most dan gerous should always be safeguarded to prevent accidents, this will install Safety-First to act forfait preceding preventions and accidents must be superseded with the necessary im provements to prevent before we can have safty-flrst, because all unre strained vehicle-traffic on dangerous highways will sooner or later strike its death-blow to some one least de serving it. We must recognize prevention some time, if not first, but surely will it seek safety last after addition al expense has added itself auto matically to first cost and finally our official authority must concede to prevention by making the necessary improvements for safety sake. Prevention needs no cure and cure cannot cure after a soul is sent Into Eternity, hence we must first make the needed improvement to prevent, by first laying the foundation for at primarily fundamental princi ■ pie of safety to rest on. This will prevent accidents and thus give safety-first a chance to live and let live, as its soul-duty unto itself and others. This keeps duty ahead of •afety-flrst and to prevent accidents is safety always. And to safeguard the Mulberry Street Bridge, let me recommend a safeguard curb on both sides of the bridge, built of reinforced concrete two feet, six inches high and twelve inches in diameter. • This would keep vehicles in the street and the walking public could at least have a chance to get away, before another accident could involve the loss of life. Will be glad to furnish our offi cial authority with any information as may be required to further expe dite its construction on an econom ical basis. Yours truly, J. G. H. Kohlhass. Y. M. C. A. WORK To the Editor of the Telegraph: I read an article in the Coal Trade | Journal, November 7, of which I scind i you clipping. I hope you can give | some notice to the matten. There seems to be coming in this country a rather tardy recognition and appreciation of the great work that is being done by the Young Men's Christian Association. This wonderful up-to-date humanitarian agency is reaching out with its bene ficent influence to all parts of the civilized world. It is no exaggeration to say that the modern Y. M. C. A., perfect in its organization, practical i in its methods and sincere in its ef forts. is the most potent ethical and religious force of the present flay in meeting the needs of young men in almost every country and very clime. The clipping follows: "One phase of the Y. M. C. A. work developed largely within recent years is the very earnest endeavor being made to improve the conditions that surround the young men who work in and about the mines. In the bituminous regions of Pennsylvania the young men are being reached particularly through the medium of the first aid teams, in the organiza tion of which the local associations have expended much time and effort. Through the influence obtained in this way many of the members of the various teams arc gradually led into other beneficent activities of tho as sociation. Special importance is placed upon the teaching of English to foreigners, who constitute a large mojority of the mine workers, so that they may have a clear comprehen sion of the advice and instruction im parted to them, and thousands of them in and about the mines are now being educated In that branch. "In view of the continuous' ener getic efforts made to Improve mining conditions, as evidenced by the com prehensive mining code, the increas ed number of state mine inspectors, the first aid work, anH the safety first movement, It is gratifying to know that an additional force, intelligent, practical and ceaseless in its endeav ors, is gradually making itself felt in the mining communities, not only In botterlng the social and moral conditions but also In bringing to the workers, through education and suggestion, a realization of the great dangers of their occupation that are an ever-present menace to thoir lives and health. . "It Is undoubtedly a. fact that the work of the Y. M. C. A. is not only Improving the community life in the coal regions but is also instrumental In making working conditions safer for all classes of workers." Y. M. C. A. ADMIRER. TAKING A JOKE Learning to take a Joke Is much like learning to take medicine; It can bo done, but It Is not pleasant. —Detroit Newa. Fire Department Efficiency To the Editor of the Telegraph: I saw a piece in your paper oil November 14 to the effect that Fire Commissioner Gross intends to senrl the fire apparatus drivers to school to learn how to take oare of their apparatus. Half of these men are to go at one time and the other half the next time. Therefore when one half of these men are absent from the Engine Houses- the efficiency of the fire de partment is cut fitty per cent as .only half of the apparatus then re sponds to an alarm of fire. The way this is generally worked by a company with two pieces of ap paratus Is that the driver who is on duty takes the chemical truck to the fire and if the engine Is needed he then returns to the house and takes the engine: but in this way the en gine is delayed about twenty or twenty-five minutes in getting to the fire. A building can burn down in that time. The importance of having a fire engine respond immediately to an alarm of fire is shown by the fire at Number One rolling mill of the Central Iron & Steel Company on August 12, 1916. No. 1, 6 and 9 engines responded to box 12 which was sent in for this fire. Engines 1 and 6 were out of ser vice and one of engine nine's horses was sick. When the men arrived that had only ten pounds water pressure and ould do nothing until the engines 'arrived. Number nine borrowed a horse and number three engine was called. After they arrived the fire was soon put out but not till after it had done serious damage )vhich could have been prevented had an engine responded immediately when the alarm was sent in. I am not writing this to knock on Chief Kindler as the chief is one of the best chiefs that Harrisburg I evAr had. The chief not only knows how to fight fire but also knows how to handle volunteer forces which many men do not know. All of us like him and ninety per cent of us are hoping that ,he will be retained in office by the new council. A CITY FIREMAN. OUT OF LABYRINTHS , If you ever find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing cir cumstances, out of which you are at a loss how to extricate yourself, do what is right and be assured that that will extricate you the best way out of the worst situations. Through you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet fol low -truth, justice and plain dealing and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth in the easiest man ner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one will untie it self before you. Nothing is so mis taken as the supposition that a per son is to extricate himself from a difficulty by Intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This In creases the difficulties tenfold.— Thomas Jefferson. For the Men at the Front Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty hand Dominion holds on sea and land, In Peace and War Thy will we see Shaping the larger liberty. Nations may rise and nations fall. Thy changeless purpose unites them all. When death flies swift on wave or field, P.e Thou a sure defense and shield, Console and succor those who fall And help and hearten each and all. O hear a people's pra v er for those Who fearlesu face tl>ir country's foes For those who weak and broken lie, In weariness and agony, Great Healer, to their beds of pain Come, touch and make them whole again. O hear a people's prayer and blc3B Thy servants In their hour of stress. For those to whom the call shall come, We pray Thy tender welcome home. The toll, the bitterness nil past, We trust them to Thy love at last. O hear a people's prayer for all ' \Vho, nobly striving, nobly fall. For those who minister and heal And spend themselves, their skill, their real. Renew their hearts with Christ-like faith * And guard them from disease and death. And in Tlilne own good time, Lord send Thy peace on earth till time shall end. , —^Exchange. NOVEMBER 17, 1917. Over t KC IK ""JVKTUU L- J Although Thanksgiving Is only a few days off hardly a "gobble" Is heard from the great American bird, and the chances are that few of us will hear any. A buying agent has jus£ canvassed the Lehigh and Cum berland valleys and some of the far mers asked him what he meant by turkey. The bird is almost extin guished. This gentleman predicts that turkey, live weight, will sell lor as much as 40 cents a pound, the price of a dressed bird last year, and the supply, at that, Will be meager. *• * * I remember, I remember Thanks giving Day of yore Our turkey gobbled his last gob and gamely shed his gore; The pumpkin Held gave up its king, mince pie was plenty too; O days of they haunt me now with ever brighter hue. For now a hall room two-by-twice is what I call my home, There Isn't space to stretch my legs or elevate my dome, And as for eating turkey on old Thanksgiving Day, Lucky, I, to get cold fish or a sand wich made of hay. • • * • Who pities a chicken thief? No one. This one was 73 years old and gave the name of Gottlieb Miller, a name decidedly Teutonic. He had been robbing the roosts around Mt. Penn, in Berks county, and a chick en fancier set a trap for him. He plugged. up every opening to his coops except one screened window. This screen he electrified with a strong current with the result that Gottlieb was caught next night by an alarm, system, two chicks strangled in his hands. Seven chicks with their heads twisted off lay on the ground. Gottleib will be a long time without chicken now. OUR DAILY LAUGH highijy ESTIMABLE. V.I Half a loaf is Sk J m sr ,h,n Mil There's no . v A doubt about the r- J ' •respect to which \ half a loaf is """ "■ y~' J | ■■ entitled. It cost i | as much as a \ wliolo loaf used ] tend to be thirty % OUT OF M REACH. ft V\ A Wfi Duolc—lt's aw -1 ful. Grub Is go if Ing up again! c_ Announcement that Harrlsburg la to have an Infantry company of the Reserve Mllltla keeps up a chain of military organizations at this plac® from the French and Indian war, when John Harris built the first fort on the Susquehanna about what Is! now Harris park and a couple of j blocks adjoining: and organized the settlers and traders and hereabouts into a company. In neighborhood were the Paxtangi boys, who gave the Quakers iome| uneasy moments for a time and liv( the days of the Revolution the com-i pany from Harris Ferry and Paxton: church was among the early ones to; respond to the call for moblllzatlc£f] at Cambridge, and some of Its meWj died before Quebec. When the Rev-i olution ended there were three com—< panles here, and they went as far Carlisle in the Whisky Insurrection.) They included Captain Wallace's In fantry; Captain Ainswortli's riflemen and Captain Devin's Infantry, each)! unit about fifty men. About 18?)0 It Is presumed that Harrlsburg had a t. - oop of cavalry, a comYmnv of rtfle | nn ' l " company of infantry. \ When the War of 1812 broke out mere were two companies, but the city had many men in that struggle, Including General John Forster. ' J°bn Roberts, Robert Harris, Chris. Glelm and others, and com panies commanded by Thomas Wal ker, R. M. Craln, Johrf Carotliers, Jeremiah Rees, Thomas Mcllhenny, Peter Snyder, John B. Moorehead, James Todi], Richard Knight. John Elder, Isaac Smith, Philip Ferfder nofi and Gawan Henry* These men were active in military affairs here one hundred years ago and organ ized the Harrlsburg Rifles and Dau phin , Guards after the war. In the war with Mexico Harrlsburg sent out the Cameron Guards, com manded by E. C. Williams and be tween that time and the Civil War I MilT re were three companies here. The Harrlsburg Zouaves were the < first company to go from here Into the Civil War, and after that struggle. In which Harrlsburg had a high per centage of its sons, there were four companies for a time. Then came the City Grays whose record is un broken from 1872. The Governor's Troop, successor of the Revolution ary Cavalrymen, and the Capital City Cavalry of the Twenties date, from 18§8. * * • Speaking of military matters the history of this city is tilled with men tion of infantry companies and I troops of cavalry and it Is interesting j to note that there were organizations of riflemen in the early days. This has always been a center for marks men and they made themselves noted 'n the Revolution and in other wars. In the Civil War there were compan ies from this section which were mighty proficient with guns. The early records of men who served In the wars from this city are extensive, but they will hq,ve some rivals this year. • • "The rates that are charged In this city for hauling trunks to hotels are a scandal and 1 am not surprised that traveling men are asking peoplo to come to the station and look at samples Instead of having trunks carted to hotels," said a commercial man who makes Harrlsburg ' often. "The rates here are going up, but why I do not know. Tt used to cost a quarter to take a trunk or a grip front the station to a hotel. Now its fifty to seventy-five. Ido not pro fess to know the scale of charges, 'out I have heard of a man who was soaked a dollar and a half to lve , a trunk taken from the station to Ills hotel. This does not help your city, either," \ 1 Stato Game Commission officers here had to give rush orders to printers to supply additional hunters' license blanks and almost daily sup ' lilies of the salmon colored arm bands have been going to treasurers ; of counties in response to urgent re ' quests. In at least a dozqn counties : the issuance of licenses thus far has ; gone over the total for last year and the payments at the State Treasury ; have been on a scale that recalls the ' first year of the operation of the law in 1013. On one day last week, $24,000 was received in hunters' li censes. but this record paled before $40,000 from six counties, one of which had almost $ 10,000. These payments will continue to come in until the end of the season, which Is now In full swing with the deer slay ing time to come. The issuance thus far is believed, in spite of the num ber of men who havo gone to war and who ordinarily hunt, to be over the 290,000 mark of*last year and that it will probably be around, if not above, the mark of $298,972 made in 1914. The first year the licenses numbered 302,000. Prosecutions for violation of ll censo laws have been going on, but the number has not been groat. Game protectors have been bonding efforts to round up "bad actors" who havo been bragging about the way '