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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<er next
spring than to-day, are spoiling,
The war conditions are of such a [
nature that next April there will be '
still further shortage of hands. The ;
authorities will then he confronted I
with a situation full of peril. What !
is being done to got skilled labor to
the shipyards seems to ofTer a sub
ject for thought. There are many
aliens In this State, some of whom
will not fight and others refusing to
take tip military service, although
nationals of countries with which
the United States Is allied. They
go where the wages are highest and
acknowledge little control when
they want to move. The dislocation
of industry caused by their flitting
from Job to Job is the least of their
thoughts. In the cities are a lot of
men and youths who need exercise
to rejuvenate them. And lastly. In
time of need there should be volun
teers. •
The condition Is one with which
communities are most concerned.
If they do not act the government
will have to step in.
WHY NOT TRY PIGS?
THE city authorities are at a loss
to decide upon the best method
of garbage disposal. It Is gen
.erally understood that the govern- '
ment will ask all cities to save fats
1
contained in refuse by reduction or !
other means. Now It happens that ,
garbage contains many elements of ,
food value other than fats that are 1
lost In the processes of i eduction.
To avoid this lose, as well as to com
ply with the federal government's re
quest for greater production of pork,
some municipalities the past summer
have undertaken to feed their gar
bage to pigs and have found in this
a solution of their garbage difficul
ties.
Why not give this a trial in Har
rlsburg? Any one of a half dozen
plans for working the refuse into
pig feed might bo adopted. The
country is sorely in need of meat.
If what we formerly threw away can
be turned into food we would be Just
that much ahead. A mighty blow
would be struck at the high cost of
living if every city and town in the
country fed its refuse to pigs that
later could be utilized to increase the
food supply.
At least the Idea is well worth the
earnest consideration of city council
men, who must find some satisfactory
solution to the garbage problem
within the new few weeks.
DISOOCRTEOUS OFFICIALISM
JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS,
Comptroller of the Currency, Is
out with a statement declaring
that the railroads are entitled to
an increase in rates and that the
Interstate Commerce Commission
should give it to them.
Mr. Williams is right. But the
spectacle of an officer in one branch
of the government rushing forward
with statements attempting to fore
cast what another branch of the
government oufcht to do is not re
freshing.
Moreover, Mr. Williams has not
handled his own Job so well that he
is entitled to read lessons to others.
•USELESS DUPLICATION
TIIE Official Bulletin contains a
reprint of the substance of the
daily treasury statement, already
printed and distributed at govern
ment expense. Since there is abso
lutely no need for duplication of that
kind, why would it not be a good
idea for Chairman Creel, of the
Bureau of Information, to utilize the
same amount of space for something
really news—for instance, a state- j
ment of how much the free trade
tariff commission is spending and
what it is accomplishing.
HANDICAPPING OURSELVES
OUR nominal peace with Austria
puts us at a great disadvantage
in dealing with Austrian sub
jects in this country who are under
suspicion of espionage. Not being
enemy aliens they may not be Intern
ed or proceeded against except upon
legal evidence, which is none too
easy to get in most cases. Tf we
should declare war against Austria,
as we ought, those now under sur
veillance could be at once taken in
hand. (
ABILITY OVERLOOKED
THE suggestion that such men as
Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root
i and Leonard Wood be sent as
■ representatives of this country to the
• Allied conference met no favor at the
: White House. In his search for men
: who would command confidence, the
President overlooked men who have
> demonstrated their ability in a mul
titude of ways.
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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.