6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 'Sjt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTIWO CO.. Ttltcraph Building, Federal Sqnnre. E. J. STACICPOLE, Pres't 6- Editor-inChirf F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS 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 also reserved. ( Member American ' Newspaper Pub- III B Eastern °£ flce ; BIS Avenue Building, Flnlc'y. People's Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a 4week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1917 Sad will■ be the day for any vian when he becomes absolutely con tented with the life he is l)ving, with the thoughts he is thinking and deeds he is doing—when there is not forever beating at the door of his soul some great desire to do some thing larger which he knows he was meant and made to do because he is a child of Ood. — PHILLIPS BROOKS. COMPENSATION DECISIONS THE State Compensation Board is building up a system of prece dents in its decisions of cdses which ought to facilitate future ad ministration of a code about whose success in a Commonwealth of such varied activities as Pennsylvania some folks have had some misgivings in the last few years. As a matter of fact, the State compensation system | has been signalized by the ease with which it has fitted into our industrial and business life. Fortunately, it was well talked over before being enacted into law and the men named to put it into effect went at it with such wholehearted interest that in a com paratively short time it was operat ing smoothly. Very few of the decisions have been appealed. The opinions have been generally accepted as fair con clusions, although some .have pre sented propositions requiring careful study and patient investigation. Lined up beside those of other States and even of the English system, which has justly world-wide fame, the work of the Pennsylvania Compensation Commissioners ranks indeed. The end of December will mark the second year of the system of payment for Injury to workers in the great industrial State of the Union. While there are demands for changes the plan of allowing it to work out cjfn be said to have been proven wise and the law itself to have been suc cessful and not burdensome. Prece dents have been established rapidly and there should be little excuse for prolonged litigation. HUNTING BY MACHINERY DU. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY. head of the great Bronx Zoo, big and little game authority and supporter of Pennsylvania's game conservation and supervision, rises to protest in the name of true sportsmanship against hunting by machinery. The doctor has hunted all over the earth and loves the call of the quail and the bellow of the elephant. He has stalked and crawled and lain in wait for all manner of game. His soul revolts at the way some people are hunting to day in Pennsylvania. It Is small wonder that the famous animal authority should do so. He finds men getting into high powered automobiles and going a hundred miles-to hunt, then Jumping on for another fifty and when they find game peppering it with automatic firearms. Aside from the depletion of game, which naturally follows such methods, one cannot help agreeing with the eminent faunal naturalist. Where is the man who does not love to recall driving ten miles from the station, then hiking three miles into the woods loaded with equipment? The automobile takes away the Joy of making camp and cooking and sleeping in the open. And is stalk ing a wild turkey or waiting hours on a deer drive, every sense alert, to be given up in favor of ripping along roads in a big car, with an electric battery ready to heat coffee or even fry bacon? And then the excitement of reloading after a first miss. Does the automatic compensate for that? When it is thought over, the Horn aday position Is right once more. LABOR AND THE FARMS IF one half of what is reported from typical agricultural dis tricts of Pennsylvania regard ing the shortage of hands Is true it is a situation which will call not only for national and vtate regula- tion, but the communities, to -take ky jnto immediate account. The tate- MONDAY EVENING. HXRRISBURG OfijEftt TEtJBGRX**fi: ' NOVEMBER 19, 1917. ment was made here recently by one of the foremost farmers of the State, a man who has been at the head fcf the Grange and who has represented the agricultural element In many matters, that Pennsylvania did not have twenty-five per cent. of the hands necessary to do the work re quired to maintain the farmr, much less speed tip production. Reports are reaching the State Department of Agriculture that potatoes are rot ting in the ground and that corn stands tinhusked. Other statements are made, on good authority, that notwithstanding the labor of men and women, boys and girls, food stuffs of value far grou demonstrated their ability in a mul titude of ways. "politics. tK "PtKKOtf&KWtca By the Ex-Commit lee man Organization of a state-wide move ment within the Republican party to eliminate the influence of the state administration, the Vares, the Magee forces and various elements an tagonistic to Senator Boies Penrose frcm the selection of the next Re publican state ticket will probably follow the series of meetings to be held in Philadelphia this woek. The first conference was set for late to day In the offices of the Republican Alliance, which is the name adopted by those who favor extension to the •state at large of the battle against wife Vares in Philadelphia. Another 'niil be held Wednesday and still an other on Saturday. Men from all parts of the state who gathered in Philadelphia for the MnNichol obsequies, which formed the Mieutest tribute paid to any man taken by death from the realm of politics in Pennsylvania since the passing of Matthew Stanley Quay, remained in that city for the conter ence to-day. The Vares and the state udminlstriition leaders are watching every move with the closest atten tion. 11 is Intimated that expectation of just such a series of conferences had something to do with the de termination of the Governor not to mako Important appointments for a time. —State administration leaders are keeping quiet about their favorite for Governor. Many of them favor At torney General Francis Shunk Brown, while others are waiting to see what strength Highway Commissioner J. Denny* O'Noil develops. Colonel L. A. Watres, who supported the admin istration favorite for Mayor of Scran ton, Is said to consider that the time is ripe for htm to raise the flag of the anthracite region, and Lieuten ant Governor Frank B, McClaln Is willing to carry the red rose of Lan caster Into the list. Congressman John R. K. Scott and Edgar It. Kiess [ are both prepared to accept adminis tration support, while on the shores of Lake Erie ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson is listening for the call. —Among other names mentioned In addition to Senator William C. Sproul. who is understood to have told friends that he will make a statement next month, are District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan. of Phila delphia; Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, ex-Governor John K. Tener, Judgo John W. Kephart. Col. Harry C. Trexler, ex-Speaker George E. Alter, Cyrus E. Woods, Senator E. E. Feidleman, ex-Senator John S. Fish er. Representative A. A. Welmer, John M. Reynolds and Judge Harry C. Qnigley. —The conspicuous success won in Allegheny over the state administra tion forces has brought that county very much to the front in the eyis of Republican leaders and Alter's name has been considerably mention ed, especially as he has many friends among both factions and a record of experience in legislative matters, a-s well as decided firmness of char acter. —Democratic leaders are waiting ana watching for their chance. They are hc'plni some one will be named against whom they can raise the labor and capital issue and as they are now bent upon running Secre tarv of Wilson they arc hoping Republicans will .".elect some one whese stand on labor legislation may be criticised. They do not want any one who has nppeared at any time as advocate of the position of labor, eitliei before legislative committees or state commissions. —National Chairman McCormick is said to be gunning for bigger game than gubernatorial honors and Cr.l. Richard Coulter's martial ardor may prevent him from entering the race, while no one here takes the aspirations of District Attorney E. Lowry Humes very seriously. A. Mitchell Palmer, James I. Blaksleo. Bruce Sterling and others who have been mentioned are now safe in pub lic office, while Joseph O'Brien is busy with law and Michael J. Ryan took himself out of it when he be came Public Service Commissioner. This leaves Judge Eugene C. Bonnl wel! as the only other favorite for the Democratic prognosticators. And it may be added that Bonniwell is very busy. —Some of the Philadelphia news papers attack Frederick J. Shoyer for joining in with the men who are seeking to prevent opening of ballot boxes and ask if he is just seeking office without regard to title. —Lancaster county Democrats are said to be in a more deplorable state than those in Dauphin county. The organization did not cut any figure in the recent election. —William J. Bryan's address on prohibition yesterday in Philadelphia seems to have attracted much atten tion except among adherents of the Democratic machine. Republican newspapers give considerable space to the declarations of the Nebras kan that the times demand a sober nation to back up a sober army. It will be observed that the publicity that the man from Lincoln gets in the mo'urning organ of the Demo cratic national chairman is not start ling even when he preaches temper ance. I —Woman suffragists are mobiliz ing at Pittsburgh in preparation for their drive on the next Legislature when they hope to get through the resolution providing for submission of a suffrage amendment to the con stitution. The women failed last win ter In the House of Representatives, hut expect to win in 191?. This would bring the matter to a vdte, provided the resolution passed twice, in 1921. The New York success has greatly heartened the advocates of suffrage in this state.# —Some of the foremost advocates of suffrage will speak at the Pitts burgh convention this week. —lt is now declared that 30,000 ballots were illegally thrown out in Philadelphia. —The city manager plan is being agitated in the new third class city of Bethlehem. —The Town Meeting name was not pre-empted for any district in the state to-day. Some one evidently forgot to do it. —Mayor Swing, of Coatesvllle, says he does not care for all the pro- German threats and pacifist growls and throws threatening letters into the waste basket. —The new burgess of Pottstown, a Republican for the first time in years, can't find any men to take Jobs as policemen and has to keep the Democrats on for a while. •A Media dispatch to the Philadel phia Inquirer says: "So far as the election of members to the Legisla ture is concerned, Representative Richard J. Baldwin, who was Speaker of the House, at the last session of the Legislature, and Rep resentative Harry Heyburn, will be candidates for re-election to repre sent the city of Chester, and William Ramsey will be a candidate for Chester district. Ramsay, It Is said, would like to fill Senator Sproul's boots in the event of the Senator be coming Governor." THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRWGS COLD'WINTER SIGNS [Ohio State Journal] There Is always a great deal of predicting by old-fashioned prog nosticators at this time of year of what kind of a winter we are going to have. Some are saying the win ter will be a cold one, because the corn husks and the fur on the ani mals are thicker than usual. It sounds reasonable. But it really Isn't. The corn husks and the fur are thicker because we had a cool summer, not becduse we are going to have a cold winter. Then, too, these wiseacres say the birds left early and that means a long, cold winter, which is also arguing from a lack of knowledge. Most birds have a certain time for leaving the nor thern latitudes, and leave on sched ule time, irrespective of the wea ther. The swallows go while we are still drinking ice tea and hunting the shady side of the street But the hardier birds, like the robins, bluebirds, meadowlarks, stay'as long r.s the food supply Is good. A well fed bird is a warm bird. TMU is why we sometimes have large flocks of robins wintering with us even in zero weather. On the other hand, the fact that we are over 700 degrees behind on temperature for the year doesn't mean that this will be all staightened out this year. It may take 10. So the only thing to do is to sit tight and take what •omes. FINNISH INDIGNATION [Omaha Bee] Finlanders p. oss to be indignant at the policy of the United States in dealing with neutrals on the food question, and one of the Helsingfors papers sarcastically criticises Presi dent Wilson for his course in this connection. Our Scandinavian friends persist in ignoring the fact that Americans are voluntarily re stricting themselves thnt we may have more food to send abroad, al though we are under slight obliga tion to meet the requisition of those who have steadily aided our enemies. The Finns had their full share in the Russian revolution, and since March have contributed notably to the confusion that lias disorganized that country politically and econom lcoliy. With order restored In Rus sia a huge reservoir of food will be opened, not only for its own people, but for Sweden, Norway and Den mark. lnsead of berating the United States the Finns might better employ their time in an effort to get Russia back on its feet, to the end that the great stores of grain be saved from Germany and put to the use of the people who need it. Indignation ex pressed at the course of the United States come with bad grace from a people who have spent months in fo menting the dissolution of all sem blance of orderly government, but it is typical of the nations whose sel fishness has brought them to their present straitened condition. STILL TRUE TO FORM [Philadelphia Ledger.] If any one has any idea that the Kaiser is not ready to blurt out his Inmost self on the slightest provo cation, all he has to do is to read the latest outburst to the effect "that the Herman sword will regain for us the respect of the whole world." That he is still true to form in his belief that might makes right, as he is in living up to the ideas that the old heathen religion of Germany Is a thing to conjure with, by calling Hindenburg "Wotan" and Luden dorlT "Siegfried," is made more evi dent once more. Indeed, it is part cf the general mania that obsesses him. For as the world shudders at the naked German sword, dripping with the blood of Belgium and the babes of Northern France, this madman of Potsdam complacently opines that the sword will make him and his re spected. But the delusion is one which cannot be cured except by the stern police measures of an outraged world being carried to their finality. "In Belgium, in the spring of this year," so runs a chronicle, "a train came from Aix to Antwerp bearing 255 returned exiles, 48 hours on the way, no food on the voyage, with every one taken from the train on a stretcher, and on 50 of the stretch ers dead men; men who died en route, not from 48 hours without food only, but from three months' experience In German wuys In war." This is the German way that the In fatuated Kaiser believes is winning the respect of the world. PEACE WITH VICTORY We are out for "complete victory." No other victory Is worth while. The talk of sparing Germany Is treason able rubbish. Would Q. rmany spare her enemies If she had proved the victor? Her rulers know that utter defeat cannot be averted. They can read the writing on the wall. Is this the moment for us to falter in our purpose? There i••• only one possible reply to the Kaiser's Insin cere peace talk. We print that re ply this mornlne: "At 5.20 a. m. we again attacked on a wide front."- From the London Express, GERMAN RE-ACTIONS The moving finger writes for Ger many. and as the months go on the record is read unmistakably by the military command, however stren uous the effort to keep the people at home from getting at the truth, or even their own soldiers In the field from knowing the whole truth. The most' recent captures of German prisoners have shown that while the presence of American troops in the field fs well enough known to the German officers, the knowledge is carefully kept from the men, lest their weakened morale give way in too many places at once. Germany's strength is by no means in collapse, but it is full of soft spots. When the reaction comes, disappointment and despair from the deadly strain under which the German troops have .been kept, first on one front and ' then on another, the recoil of the German obedience abused and trust I betrayed will be tremendous. It will not be well with the German high command when the soldiers find to what they have been driven. A memorandum written by VT.ee- Chancellor Von Helfferlch which has Just come into allied hands strikes another ominous note of forebod ing: "What are the reactions of ruth less submarine warfare upon Ger many and her allies? In the prob able case that the United States en ters the war against us It always Is possible that Holland, Denmark and other neutrals will Join in. Such a proceeding on the part of the two smaller countries might be by either direct action or by closing the fron tiers against us. "I cannot conceal from myself that the danger remains that the reaction from such warfare will be LABOR NOTES Little Rock (Ark.) cooks and wait ers have secured union-shop agree ments with forty restaurants. The agricultural committee of the Kent (England) Educational Comlt tee reports that cows seem to pre fer machine to hand milking. Sioux City (Iowa) Clgarmakors* Union has raised wages $1 a thou sand for the common grade of cigars. Employes of the American Loco motive Works at Pittsburgh, Pa., fa vor the eight-hour day and a 25 per cent wage increase. City firemen at Covington, Ky., have secured wage increases and one day off every live days. These muni cipal employes are organized. Northumberland (England) min ers have asked the Coal Controller to intervene in the colliery dispute at Newbiggin, to prevent stoppage of work. President Gompers of the Amer ican Federation of I>abor has Invited organized labor in Chile and Peru to become part of a Pan-American Con gress. Federal Bureau of Labor statis tics show that in the year from July 15, 1916. to July 15, 1917, food prices as a whole have advanced 32 per cent. Los Angeles (Cal.) carpenters and employers have accepted a wago agreement presented by mediators, who favor $5 a day for eight hours. California trade unionists, farm ers and co-operators have perfected machinery for Joint action in urging remedial legislation before the State Assembly. PERFECT MACHINES Greater than any discovery In sci ence was the German discovery that If you have many millions of persons all trained by the same method you can treat them as you could so many million empty rifles you can load eaoh with your favorite cartridge and aim It at whatever target you choose. And this is what actually happened. When German education had reduced, or raised the Germans to the level of perfect machines, their master, swollen with dynastic ends, came along and louded them for his own purposes. In old times every American colonist kept his gun within easy reach, lest he should need it to shoot at an unexpected In dian or bear. Wonderful is it to think that 10 million or more Ger mans, living flesh-and-blood Ger mans, stood ready, like so many mechanical weapons, devoid of will, Judgment or choice—empty barrels —to be loaded and fired In whatever direction their master aimed them. — William Roscoe Thayer in the Sat urday Evening Post more fatal to us than the strongest conceivable Injury of England"' When the Vice-Chancellor "can not conceal from himself" the fear that Germany's submarine warfare may have a recoil far stronger against the whole German nation and cause than any damage It may have brought to England, it Is clear that his imagination, long smothered, has caught some glimpse, smelled some whiff, of the red hell of ruin and retribution which this same piratical, murderous and indefensible sub marine warfare has prepared for its authors. What reaction against Von Tirpitz, the Kaiser's trusted offi cer? Kaiser Wilhelm has sent another vainglorious telegram to Kaiser Carl on the occasion of the successful drive against Cadorna, In which he commends the bravery of Austrian troops, always In a tone of German superiority and patronage, and ends in an almost plaintive echo of his idiomatic arrogance: "The operations so successfully be gun under your command against the Italian army gives promise of progress. I rejoice that beside your well tried Isonzo fighters the Ger an troops In comradeship of arms have beaten our disloyal former ally, "Forward with God!" What reaction, when the Austrian Emperor a* last revolts against vas salage, when the Austrian troops find themselves overwhelmed by numbers and by strategy, when they shall no longer be able to "with draw," but must face defeat and de struction? What reaction when the divine Ally whom he so impiously claims, shall leave him to explain the result to his people whom he has ruined, to the strong nation which he has made an outcast among na tions?— New York Sun. TRENCH LIFE "As the immortal costemonger ob served, 'there ain't no word in the blooming language' for the trenches in Belgium," says Major lan Hay Heith in "All In It," the continua tion of "The First Hundred Thou sand," just published by Houghton Mifflin Company. "In the first place there is no settled trench line at all. The Salient has been a battlefield for twelve months past. No one has ever had the time, or opportunity, to con struct anything in the shape of per manent defenses. A shallow trench, trimmed with an untidy parapet of sandbags, and there is your strong hold! For rest and meditation, a hole in the ground, half-full of wa ter and roofed with a sheet of gal vanized Iron; or possibly a glorified rabbit-burrow in a canal-bank. These things, as a modern poet has observed, are all right in the sum mer time. But winter here is a dis integrating season. It ruins heavily for, say three days. Two days of sharp frost succeed, and the rain soaked earth is reduced to the neces sary degree of friability. Another day'* rain, and trenches and dugouts come sliding down like melted but ter. Even If you revet the trenches, It Is not easy to drain them. The only difference is that If your line is situated on the forward slope of a hill the support trench drains into' the firing-trench; if they are on the reverse slope, the firing-trench drains into the support trench. Our inde fatigable friends, The Royal Engi neers, labor like heroes; but the ut most they can achieve, In a low-ly ing country like this, is to divert as much water us possible Into some other Brigade's area. Which they do, right cunningly." NOT SURPRISING The cow Jumped over the moon one day; It dldnt astound us greatly; We had been reading about the way That pork has been Jumping lately. —Kansas City Star. HOUSES OF DREAMS You took my empty dreams And filled them every one With tenderness and nobleness, April and the sun. The old empty dreams Where my thoughts would throng Are far too full of happiness To even hold a song. Oh. the empty dreams were dim And the empty dreams were wide, They were sweet and shadowy houses Where my thoughts could hide. But you took my dreams away And you made them all come true— My thoughts have no place now to play, And nothing now to do. —Sara Teasdale, v Love Songs," (Macmillan.) Otfer tfve uv ""peiuuu The county schoolteachers are attending institute in Harrisburg have IK) uncertain notions about the sculptor Barnard's much discussed statue of Abraham Lincoln. (A group of them were standing In front of Barnard's work at the Cap itol when an old professor took up the cause of Lincoln's personal ap pearance with great vigor. "My father knew Lincoln well," he said, "And he has the most accurate of photographs which show that Lin coln did not have ungainly feet and hands, lie had a firm powerful hand but with no trace of bony ap pearance. His foot was apportioned to his body and not too big or too small. As for his clothes, all these photographs show that he dressed neatly and like a gentleman of that period." The schoolteachers seemed to thoroughly agree with the profes sor and Scupltor Barnard came in for considerable criticism. * Enterprising citizens of Erie are out to raise rabbits to the end that they may knock the tarwadding out of beef barons. Canada is now rais ing Siberian hares by thousands. England and France are in the In dustry. The cottontail, it is said, may eventually take the place of beef, pork, mutton and poultry. The Siberian hare meat, we learn, re sembles plump young chicken when cooked and is Just as nutritious. The Belgian hare is better suited to this climate and can be raised on subur ban lots or in city backyards. He can live on the cheapest ot vege tables, and weeds. Just think what a family you could have in a year or so. Starting with one pair and allowing for the average loss by death the rabbitry should have twen ty-two the following spring. This would increase to 24 2 the next spring and the third year the family would number 2,420. In three years one could raise enough rabbits to cook two or three each day during the fall and winter months for the fol low five or six years, 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH THEY NEVER DO THEN. "Do you object to your husband staying out late at nights." "Not if I'm with him." A VOLUNTEER. Pretty Girl—Do you believe there are germs in kisses? Young Man—l don't know. But I'm always willing to volunteer for any. GETTING HER OWN BACK. "So the lawyers got about all of :fce estate. Did Edith get any thing?" / "Oh, yes; she got one of the law yers." I" ■ ill IH| Eimttng (Eljat jf i j Heavy withdrawals of eggs andj I butter which were put Into cold stor- ' ago last spring are reported as under I way at some of the big cold warehouses. This has been expected j by state officials as the time limit oni storage of many of the eggs will end I In December and the butter will beM going out under Operation of law iitJ January for the most part. prices of these articles aro generally reported as rising throughout thH state and the egg withdrawals are! thought to be largely to meet th*i conditions, although shipments to* New York have been under way'' from some sections. It is generally I believed that this part of PennsyM vania did not get as many eggs last spring as usual, owing to" the demand elsewhere and therel was such lively local buying that shipments from our district did not go much above ordinary years. The'- thought here is that the stored sup plies of both will be materially di minished during the next eight weeks. The central part of the *>*te* has been pretty well scoured by agents for produce men and the 1 eastern and western sections are>* sending to the cities which they . normally supply, while the northern' tier Is furnishing New Yorlt. Among the complaints which come to the< Bureau of Markets at the Capitol are that there seems to be no uniformity of prices and that in the same mar kets prices vary. Incidentally, it has developed that many housekeepers have been preparing for Christmas baking in Harrisburg. More reports of rtamaEe being done to farms and orchards by deer have eonfe to this city and officers are making- inquiries with a view to ascertaining: what was really done. Deer have been developing a fond-- ness for orchards in southern coun-- ties, where the apple and peach grow ing have been gone into extensively in recent years and have also been raiding corn fields, tearing up the "shocks" of unhusked corn, while some have gone into young wheat fields. Since the Blair county raid a short time ago elk have not been making much trouble. Apropos of Governor Brumbaugh's suggestion that inmates of state in stitutions engage in knitting of scarfs, sweaters and other articles for soldiers, u good story is told by a man formerly connected with one of the insane hospitals. It was fjlways one of the plans of this institution to keep its inmates busy. Knitting hus long been followed as one means. However, there was one tintimate, a. man by the way, who took to knit ting eagerly and they are still trying ito figure out whether he was as "ratty" as suspected. This man started to knit a shawl. He was al ways more or less secretive and when his task was ended the value of se crecy was manifested. He had care fully stolen bits of yarn from other inmates and in some manner known only to himself had worked them into the fabric. He bad Joseph's coat, the rainbow, cubist paintings and. scrambled eggs beaten forty ways. "It Is rather an interesting com- • mentary upon the times that the newspapers give about one Inch of space to the execution of murderers nowadays," said a man who ObMCVM newspapers. "In the last few months there have been unhappy men sent from this county for electrocution at Rockview and the reports were mere routine. Last week two men who shot down a railroad officer on the other side of the river and whose crime aroused the public were to the chair. It was barely noticed. I recall when executions at county seats were times of horror and it has not been so many years ago that each, infliction of the death penalty ia llarrisburg was an occasion for'ex citement. Establishment of the other system, terrible as it is, has taken from county towns sad exhi bitions and given newspapers a chance to avoid printing details. And there does not seem to be any public demand for them, I am thankful to say." • • • Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust's speech at Readug wherein he said that many city pe. - pie were rather sorry that they ha>t legislated hogs out of city limits may interest a good many Harris burgers who have been suffering ir regular service in garbage collection.. In times gone by garbage was a. nuisance, but there were some hog raisers who made it a business, and a paying one, to gather up the offal.. They turned it into pigs. Now it: wastes unless the driver of a wagon, chooses to stop and get it. • • The manner in which Contractor Augustus Wildman is making things move around the government build ing is attracting a good bit of favor able comment. The troubles of tho United States of America and its contractors appear to have ended and the time of occupying the re modeled and enlarged building i* no longer regarded as Indefinite as the end of tho war. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE~" —Joseph B. Rhea, tho food direc tor named for Pittsburgh, is head of one of the big stores in that city. —The Rev. John Mark Gannon, new auxiliary bishop of Erie, has long been a rector at Meadville and has a number of friends here. —Col. Franklin Blackstone, men-. Honed as likely to command one of the new Reserve regiments, used to command the old Fourteenth infan-. try at Pittsburgh. —Bishop E. A. Garvey, of who has been ill, has completely re covered and is making many visits in his diocese. j. E. Birch er, Pennsylvania member of the Ice Conservation, Board, is a Philadelphia manufac turer. Charles S. Calwell. Philadelphia banker well known here, has retired as president of the Philadelphia group of the State Bankers, an or ganization which has given up its annual dinner for patriotic reasons.. | DO YOU KNOW ~~ Tlint Harrlsbnrs ought to have a permanent committee on pa triotic movements embracing men In all lines? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harri.sburg had a most efficient committee in charge of welfare of soldiers' families during the Civil War. , FOR UNITY OF FAITH And ho gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangel ists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edi fying of the body of Christ; till wo all come In the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God. —Epheslans, lv., 11 to IS.