8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.EGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telearraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE,Prj'( 6f Editor-in-Chief E. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en tttlerf 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 lyerein are also reserved. Member American Bureau of Clrcu- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office hi Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1917 Knoxo how sublime a thing it is To suffer and he strong. — LONGFELLOW. TIME TO BEGIN IT will not be long before the season for outdoor work rolls around again and everyone in Harrisburg will be glad to learn that members of the State Board of Pub lic Grounds and Buildings and of the Harrisburg City Council have de cided to go right ahead with the preliminary work on the beautiflca tion of Capitol park. The plans for this monumental State and munici pal enterprise, in which every Penn sylvanian is interested, have been outlined and the details have been advanced to such a stage that about all that is needed is the formal stamp of official approval. This will probably be given by the State Board to-morrow and the next step will be the letting of contracts for the filling in of the streets and the leveling of the ground preparatory to the cohering for the gardening. It seems to be the concensus of opinion among visitors from various parts of the State that the work should not be interrupted by the war and that thanks to the liberality of the legislature it can be undertaken without curtailment of any other activity of the Commonwealth. The people of Harrisburg, are ready to vote the money for their share. The time has come when there should be a settlement of the prob lems attending boundaries and bridges and such matters and they should be worked out so that when spring appears operations may be .started. "In other words, the time to hegin is here. KEEP THE ROADS OPEN Cf-IAKI.KH W. BURTNETT'S call to motorists to help keep the 1 main highways open shows how thoroughly the State Committee of Safety has organized its work and also how it relies upon the patriotic citizenahip of the Commonwealth to assist it in periods of stress. Time was when helping keep the i roads open in winter would have seemed a huge joke to city folks. It was the railroad's business to get them where they wanted to go, and as for the farmer—well, if he wanted to get out, why let him dig himself out. The picture Whittier paints in "Snowbound" was as true of Pennsylvania as of New England. But the automobile has changed all this, and the war has added necessity to the desirability of unin terrupted highway communication between big centers of manufacture and trade. All unnoted, a vast stream of vehicular traffic is pour ing across the State—carrying freight the congested railroads cannot car ry. Good roads are a growing fac tor in our war preparations and snow blacked highways are the al lies of the Kaiser. Fortunately, Saturday's storm in this section was not very heavy, but It is a warning of what may come any day. Chairman Burtnett ought not to call in' vain. Those of us whff cannot go to war must volunteer for home service in whatsoever way wo can be of most use. "PENNSYLVANIA EGGS" FOR years and years people from this State who have been vis iting New York and Atlantic City have been making their break fasts on Pennsylvania eggs, but they didn't know it. They were proud to talk about Pennsylvania coal and iron and steel and oil, and even lum ber and potatoes, but such a thing as the old Keystone having a repu tation for eggs never entered their heads. And although for a long, long time folks in the provision trade displayed an avidity in snap ping up Pennsylvania eggs and the produce market always contains prices for "Pennsylvania Fresh" it does not seem to have occurred to anyone to advertise the old State just a hit as a provider of the great American breakfast. Hog and hom iny have been claimed by a dozen States and helped make them ous. The officers of the State Bureau of Markets, who have been having a failini' tlaiH of it baaaiisstt at th a MONDAY EVENING. HAHMSBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 10, 1917. Impossibility of satisfying everyone in a day when food is the burning topic and because of the singular mental processes of some critics, are entitled to the credit of putting Pennsylvania eggs on the map. And they did it by means of a black and red label that was the target of wits and the butt of punsters. Now the label Is to be seen in every eastern provision warehouse that amounts to anything and the buyer finds that the coal and iron State sets a stand ard in eggs. Pennsylvania is getting a lot of advertising out of it and the standard, it may be said, is a high one. One of these days the Pennsyl vania pippin and the Pennsylvania peach will be labeled as are the Oregon apple, the Georgia Water melon and the Colorado cantaloupe. We are producing some fine eating in our sixty-seven counties, but we have been to blow our horn. BETTER HOUSING __ FRED ROWE'S interview in! PJ. Saturday's' issue of the Tele graph relating to the house problem here and how Williams port has gone about to correct a similar condition strikes a vital note. If this city is to go forward as it should in the next few years we must have more houses and cheap er rents. Talking of lower rentals at a time when all other items of living are on the increase may have the sound of impossibility, but Wil liamsport is making the miracle come true and adding an attractive section to the city as well. And Harrisburg must do it, too, if it is to J properly serve its people. The time has gone when anything with a roof over it was considered good enough for the family of small means. The crowded, squalid, close ly built up sections must give way to such well designed attractive de velopments as that of Williamsport. But we can't accomplish this in the) haphazard, hit or miss manner in which we have been building. The penny-snatching policies of the small house builder must give way 1 to the wider vision of men who will build along big and modern lines. We must have in our minds some thing more than per cenfages o£ profit. There is sunshine and pure air | in the world for everybody, and both j I are free. They are the heritage of J < the poor as well as the rich, and the j j city that falls to provide them in the j way of clean, well-lighted dwellings | is assessing against itself a woeful | taxation of poverty, crime, disease and death. What does Harrisburg ; mean to do? Go along as it has,| been, with districts the very photo- ' graphs of which would disgrace us j if exhibited abroad, or begin now to j provide clean, attractive houses for j those folks whose incomes are not;; sufficient to bear the S2O to S3O j a month rental that is now de- j 1 manded for even second-rate dwell- j' i, ings in this city? Has anybody an ! | idea how the need here can be met? ! ' 1 ! MR. HERSHEY'S SUGGESTIOX MS. HERSHEY'S gift of two j j second-hand, but still very | ( 'valuable, automobiles to the |, Red Cross ought to be an example, i ] Doubtless many of us have in stor- j 1 age articles of value we no longer j ! use. Turning these over to the Red , Cross would be to turn them into j money for a very good cause. Here is a form of giving that In ] , many cases might not seriously em- j barrass the giver, but if generally J ; practiced would net large sums fori the Red Cross and supply those | i who buy with their needs at figures! far below the market price. The practical business mind of i ! Mr. Hershey—who, by the way, has h given more than generously in cash , to every form of war activity—has j suggested a means of vastly increas- j ing the Red Cross funds at a min- 1 imum of sacrifice and effort. He has started a "rummage sale" on a j vast scale. THE "HARDSCRABBLE" CASES WITH the trial of the Hard scrabble cases to-day—appeals of property owners from the findings of the board of viewers— the final steps are being taken for the acquirement of the last piece of privately-owned property along the river front from one end of the city to the other. Nobody has any desire to take the properties of the pro testants for less than they are worth. They ought, on the other hand, to be generously recompensed. But they should not be unreason able and the decision of the lower courts should be binding on both sides. To go further would be to admit the proceedings to be merely in the way of delaying the inevitable day of dispossession. The purchase has been delayed already beyond all rwuiOQ. I TotltLc*. tK 'peKKOif&KUtZa Ily the Ex-Committccman The name of the Town Meeting party has ben pre-empted in no less than 137 papers filed in the Dauphin county court and the State Depart ment claiming the exclusive use of the name for the elections of 1918. It has been pre-empted by live sets of signers for the state at large. Eighty of the legislative districts have been covered by the- pre-emp tions, practically every district in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware and other southeastern counties be ing so covered. In addition the name has been taken for districts in Luzerne, Lackawanna and north eastern counties and also for the counties of Allegheny, Dauphin, Bfair and Lycoming. There have been pre-emptions filed on twenty-seven congressional and twenty-five senatorial districts. The Philadelphia judicial election official returns, the last of such papers to be Hied at the State Cap itol, has been put on record and the commissions for the judges will be signed by Governor Brumbaugh be tween now and Christmas. The judges will take office the first Mon day of January. —The story of the division among labor leaders aligned with the state administration between Dr. John Price Jackson and Gifford Pinchot which seemed to irritate some news papers when printed in this column, is confirmed by the Philadelphia Press. The Press says Pinchot is acting like a candidate. It also prints the following: "There is a story about a proposal on which a permanent peace might be effected within Republican ranks, which many politicians accept as ' genuine and which not a few wish were already an accomplished fact. "This story followed closely upon the statement of a Penrose leader, published early in the week, that the Republican organization has offered a highly profitable peace to the Pen rose leaders who make up the Re publican Alliance. According to the leader quoted, Penrose and old Mc- Nlchol jobholders were to continue in office 'fcrhile others who had been | fired recently were to be taken care of. Also the Vares were not to in terfere with the ward leadership of any more of Senator Penrose's friends and were to abandon the contests now being waged in such wards. It was said that this offer had been turned down as promptly as it was received. "Fo'lowlny; this report of a peace offer.the second story was started on its rounds via the 'whispering gal lery" along the rialto. "The whisperers in this case, how ever, happened to be among the leaders with large followings and their report was highly cimcumstan trial. —A Philadelphia Inquirer Dis ! patch from Pottsville says: ".Tohn Reber, of this city, a well-known manufacturer, has been agreed upon by the potential Republican leaders of Schuylkill county for the nomin ation for State Senator to succeed Charles A. Snyder, who has been ele vated to the office of Auditor Gen eral of Pennsylvania. Mr. Reber has been active in the Republican or ganization of this county, although he has held no more prominent place than that of deputy treasurer, which he occupied under the admin itsratlon of the late A. S. Faust, of this city, a Democrat of the old school. There will be an interesting 1 contest for Congress in the Schuyl kill district next year." —The entire police force of Darby, composed of six policemen and a chief, have requested a raise in wages and have issued an ultimatum to the borough councils that unless this in crease was forthcoming they would resign from the force in a body at the end of this month. The patrolmen are asking to have their salaries increased to S9O per month and that of their chief to SIOO a month. —According to what lias been learned here, live Congressmen in districts in Central Pennsylvania, have already determined to run again. They are Congressman W. W. driest, of Lancaster. who is certain; Congressman R. D. Heaton, of Schuyl kill, who is reasonably sure, as he has no opposition in his own party; Congressman Edgar R. Kless, of Ly coming, who is after a fourth term and who is declared by the North American to have abandoned guber natorial aspirations: Congressman John V. Lesher, Northumberland, who will have a tight, and Congress man B. K. Focht, of Union, who will be re-elected in spite of the grumb ling and growling of a lot of kickers and the noise made by men aligned with the national administration. Congressman John M. Rose, of Cam bria, will probably run again and voices from the tomb are that War ren Worth Bailey may try again. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can in a Scranton dispatch takes this whack at a law which is pointed to with considerable pride by state ad ministration men here: "Believing that to accept the Burke salary-rais ing act as imposed upon second class cities by the Legislature means a perpetual raising of salaries until erery man on the city payrolls re ceives no less than $1,600 a year, .Scranton's council may refuse to comply with the act until mandam used and ordered by court to "provide for the increases. The act, as coun cil reads it, provides not only that every salaried employe now receiving $1,500 or less shall receive $l5O in crease, but it provides that the $l5O boost shall be an annual perform ance, regardless of the position or the qualification of the holder benefited by the act." —"Outrageous," Henry J. Scott, attorney for the Town Meeting party, yesterday characterized the action of counsel for the Republican organiza tion in demanding the independents be compelled to furnish a $750,000 bond to insure the costs of the pro posed election contests. "The demand of the counsel for the Republican or ganization for a $750,000 bond is outrageous," Mr. Scott declared. "It is done for no other purpose than that of preventing a contest. The maxi mum cost for the re-opening of all of the ballotboxes would not exceed $25,000." —The report that City Treasurer William D. McCoach, of Philadel phia, was likely to listen to the Pub lic Service bee, has started a large "number ol men in other counties to taking appraisement of their chances for one of the two jobs open. —Democratic National Committee man A. Mitchell Palmer has chalked up Congressman John V. Lesher for re-election as a member of the Dem ocratic congressional campaign com mittee from Pennsylvania. —The Philadelphia Ledger switch es to-dav in its Democratic guber natorial to Joseph F. Guffey, Pitts burgh traction magnate and national oil administrator. —Beaver Meadow borough has elected James M. Breslin, a Carbon county lawyer and a native as its solicitor. —A. Merritt Taylor is making things merry for the Philadelphia elty authorities on transit matters. —Schuylkill county, which has many saloons, will have a light this I year to cut down licenses. Over tta . ■- —' Dr. H. H. Hefner of Pennsylvania State College, says that the draft horse will not go out of business for many a year. One reason is that the war has vastly encouraged horse breeding. Prior to January 1, 9117, more than a million head of horses and mules were shipped to Europe. They are Indispensable. But the United States gainn by this for it gets rid of a brand of horses that can be easily spared. Taking their place Is the heavier draft horse still so neces sary to the farm. "Good-by, boys; me for a warm bed to-night." It was the voice of Ser geant Schmidt, at the Allentown barracks, wild with trembling joy, for he was starting on a day's leave of absence. "Sergeant Schmidt!" It was the peremptory voice of the cap tain. "You will distribute the under wear this afternoon and bring over the stores which arrived at the bar racks this morning." - The Lebanon Chamber of Com merce has started a movement to se cure federal government aid In ma king the old Berks and Dauphin pike one of the greatest highways in the country. This road connects directly between Gettysburg and eastern points and Is In line to be constituted one of the national post or military roads. The government will provide SIO,OOO a mile toward the construc tion of these roads. A certain editorial writer in the western part of our state is allowing himself to be unduly agitated over the German suggestion that after the war soldiers may be permitted to have plural wives. We opine that what those fierce Hun warriors will want is peace. If you think you are unfortunate or suffering, meditate on the case of Ilia Obric, who was sentenced to death in Lebanon county by Judge Henry the other day for committing murder when saloonkeepers had given him bad whisky until he was blindly intoxicated. On his knees, tears streaming down his cheeks, he received the sentence and as he-rose to go to his cell he was told thjit his wife had eloped with another man, taking their four children along with her. A Pennsylvania girl I know Who much attracted me; So witty, pretty, responsive, So smart at repartee. But now she barely nods to me. Though with her usual grace; I've just found out what allcth her— She has the "knitting face." i> • * A straw shows which way the wind blows. In Altoona the High School officials ordered Kaiser Wil helm's picture, posed in military style, to lo torn as a frontispiece from district class books. No Ger man songs are permitted and there will be no German play this year. GERMANY'S FUTURE "The past month has been full of) events of great importance in thei war and in our relations to the war. The first casualty list was received; from American troops in tliej trenches, bringing home the reality | of war as nothing else can. Condi tions in Russia have become moro chaotic, with the Kerensky govern ment overthrown and the country apparently facing civil war. The dis aster to the Italian armies Is a ser ious disappointment to Oose who were hoping for an early peace. It will not alter the general purpose:) of the western Allies, but it may strengthen the position of the mili tary party in Germany and thus pro long the war. The overwhelming at tack upon Italy was made possible by the cessation of operations on the Russian front. On the west ern front the events of the month were favorable to the British and French troops, and the general sit uation was improved by a formal declaration of wak against Germany on the part of Brazil. Notwithstand ing the confidence that the German people may have In their military strength, there is much evidence that the commercial classes are gravely apprehensive that the antagonisms arising from the war will seriously affect the trade relations of the country when peace is restored. The longer the war is continued and the more belligerents are drawn actively into It, the more serious these after effects Will be. The Interest of Ger many in the recovery of Its foreign trade is shown by the recent action of the Reichstag in passing an im mense grant of aid to the German | steamship companies to enable them I to buy and build ships rapidly ns soon as peace is established. Ships alone cannot command foreign trade. I Every year that the war continues! will make it more difficult for Gef-| many to recover the trade position | she formerly held. She cannot re cover it by force. Her shipping; grant will be useless unless she In tends to make peace upon terms that will convince the world that her mil itary ambitions are abandoned, and that the spread of German influence Is not a menace to all other nations" —Bulletin of National City Bank, toew York. CHOPPING OFF YEARS Overeating is a dear pleasure. Its price is fearful to contemplate. It steals vour energy, your enthu siasm. It makes life a dull, monot onous, joyless existence. So much for the cost of irrational eating while you live. * But It steals years ofyour life. Some sacrifice to unscientific eat ing, ten years of life, others twenty, thirty, forty, and in some extreme cases more than double this num ber of years. A man of twenty may lose his life through overeating, while a scientific selection of foods, in quantity and quality, might have prolonged his years to a hundred and twenty. Mun is indeed what food makes of him. The world's greatest food scientist was born in the fifteenth century. He lived far Into the sixteenth cen tury. He was one hundred and three years of age when he died. He practiced what he preached, and was truly a marvelous example of the value of his theories. In his fortieth year he had been Kiven up to die by his physicians. He had led a life of dissipation, his vitality was depleted, his body a Fortunately, his mentality was still keen. The verdict of his physicians came to him as a shock. He awak ened to the dangers before him and began to study life's deepest and most mysterious problem—that of living scientifically. Luigx Cornaro was the name of this man, a native of Italy. He con trolled his fate He lengthened his lifet by more than sixty years. If proper credit were given to him, he would be considered one of the world's greatest men. There Is no problem In all human life that is more weighed with importance than that of adding to the health and life of the body. —From "Years of Life the Cost of Overeating," by Bernard MacFad len In December Physical Culture." UNDER THERE UNDER THERE By Briggs "• r s i / ■ . " , r . r. INTERVIEW S WITH EMPEY-No. 3 Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am erican Soldiers "War Not Nearly So Bad as It's Cracked Up to Be" IN the communication trenches the soldier hears the aharf crack of a bullet over his head and ducks —that sound Is like being stuns by a bee; it unnerves a man more than shellflre. Then perhaps a bullet hits the front wall of the trench and ricochets to the rear, with a whining, singsong sound. But the young soldier's first feai only lasts a moment," says Gunner Empey, who recalls in "Over the Top" the sane word that an old sol dier gavo him in his tirst fighting days, "You never hear the bullet that hits you." "In his trench the soldier will feel at tirst strangely lonely," he contin ued. "That'ditch is like one ol those 'mystic mazes.' He only sees the sky. Then he feels a sense of se curity— the Germans can't get at him down here. / Then he has an other feeling—They can't see me, but I can't see them, either! They might be coming In here any min ute! What are they doing? And he has an Irresistible desire to stick his head over the top! "You know," commented the sol dier, "the American is going over there looking for trouble. Me wouldn't bo an American if no weren't. And lie'll get some of it, too. If an officer tells an English man what he sees outside the trench through the periscope, the English man will take it for granted ami be contented, llut the American will want to stick his head up and see it all for himself! He's got to learn not to! After looking through the periscope, don't stick your head over the top to see what you saw! "When he first gets into the front line trenches the individual soldier will feel that every gun, rifle, and machine gun In the German Army is aimed directly at him! As a matter of fact, the Germans don't know he's enlisted. And if he to think that the whole City of Paris only oc cupies a pinpoint on the map and that the Germans have thousands of miles to shoot their shells at, while he occupies an infinitesimal point that you couldn't find without a strong magnifying gloss, he'll see THE RETORT COURTEOUS Natalie Sumner Lincoln, author of "The Nameless Man," Just published by D. Apploton and Company, was Adjutant at the, Nutional Service School at Washington, D. C., this during ,the time th* Confederate re union was being held there. The old veterans came in such unexpec ted numbers that Washington was not prepared for them and the lied Cross Branch, connected with the National Service School, found it necessary to provide for the men who could not obtain accommoda tions elsewhere. One morning Miss Lincoln was serving coffee and rolls to a number of the men at the Un ion Station when she noticed a par ticularly feeble old soldier leave a car, and In a rather dazed way at tempt to cross the street. Fearing that he would meet with an accident she stepped over to hfm and helped him across. On the way over she asked him if he had had a good time during the reunion. He looked at her a minute with a twinkle in his eye and then said in his quaint Southern accent: "Indeed ah have. Missy. Ah started to come to Wash ln'ton 'way back In '6l a®d Ah didn't arrive 'til jes dis week." PROBABLY NONE IN Messrs. Lenlne and Trotzky have ordered the Russian State Bank to issue them an advance of 26,000,080 rubles. At the v>rn*ent. value of the ruble this should enable them to get their laundry out It. of course they have any In. —Grand Rapids Press. that he mustn't expect every shell to hit him! "And when he has been in the trenches a short while the American soldier will begin to feel indignant: He'll figure out that everything about this war haß had a lot of cam ouflage in it right along, and that it Isn't so bad as it is cracked up to be. And it isn't! "And it's up to him to write home often, long letters, and tell the peo ple there how it really is! He mustn't forget that his mother, and his wife or his sweetheart, and his sisters still have the impression that he started out with—that it is just one horror after another. He's got to tell 'em how it is!" Another piece of advice for the American soldier Is concerned with his own Government. "When the American goes into the army, and when he gets t <S France," Mr. Kmpey said, "he wants to for get that 'the Government's rich.' He doesn't want to waste n single thing, food, equipment, anything. The people at home are paying for those things, and he is paying for them himself. And everything he wastes or throws away will help to prolong the war." Gunner Kmpey is a sturdy, rather stocky young man with bright eyes and quick movements and gestures. He gesticulates a good deal, and walks about when he talks. There is a jagged red scar on his cheek, but it is not very noticeable; one thinks of it far less as a disfigure ment than as evidence of some won derful surgery. It is not long since Gunner Empey's cheek was crushed to pulp, and it was thought that his face could never look like a man's face again—until a young American surgeon, a Harvard unit man, prom ised to "see what he could do." Now Gunner Kmpey simply has a slight scar on one cheek. lie talks with a great deal of vjgor, of enthusiasm, a contagious zest of soldiering. And his word of encouragement is not confined to the reminder of respites in the actual fighting, or. indeed, to the fighting side of war at all. (To Be Continued) LABOR NOTES Labor standards of the warring Eu ropean countries, which were relaxed at the beginning of hostilities when mobilization made necessary the re cruiting Of women and children for work usually performed by men, are being restored in most countries and strengthened in others. Arthur E. Holder, of Washington, member of the Federal Board of Vo- cational Education and member ot the law committee of the Interna tional Association of Machinists for many years, is in the Dominion of Canada to Investigate the methods adopted by Canada for the training of the returned soldiers. Membership in the A. F. of L. em braces 111 national and international unions and 845 local trade and Fed eral labor unions, and is also affiili ated with five A. F. of L. departments (metal, building, railway employes, mining and union label trades), and with forty-five state federations. 763 city central bodies and 441 local de partment councils. f Discontent In Kngllsh and Scottish workshops during the early months of the war reached alarming propor tions. Then came investigations by commission*, resulting In a better un del-standing, and since then the Brit ish government has felt the necessity of stepping in to restrain the speed ing-up process permitted by organ ized to win the war. | EDITORIAL COMMENT A place ought to be found on America's coat of arms l'or the knit ting needle. —Providence Journal. The only "safe conduct" for an enemy alien in future is to he good conduct. —New York World. It looks as if an unusually large number of French and British tour ists will spend the winter in Italy.— Dallas News. Some newspapers are born patriot ic and some have patriotism thrust upon them and pretend to it lest they be suppressed.—Columbia State. Evidently Germany is doing Its laughing at the Unit.ed States Army while the laughing is'good.—-Empor ia Gazette. [OUR DAILY LAUGH I LOOKED I.IKE IT. Bird: Goodness, folks are hang ing tip their Christmas stockings early this year! THE BIG TROUBLE. "Do you have any trouble wit) your stoam furnace?" except getting coal fo. it.' WHERE HE LEARNED IT. "Goodness, gracious, whore did you evor hear such language?" "I was in the car with Pa the oth er day when the traffic cop bawled him out for missing his signal." w BOTH PUBUC AND PRIVATE. "So your son Is in public life now?" "Yes, he's a private In the army." timrtng ffllpt It may be interesting to the Har risburg people who were impressed •with the talk given before the Chamber of Commerce by Wesley Frost, the country's splendid consu lar representative at Queenstown, to learn that he seems to have been impressed by Harrisburg. Not HO long ago Mr. Frost visited the city which contains a good bit of Har risburg in its district, Augusta, Georgia, site of the camp of the Pennsylvania divisions. He went to the southern city to deliver a lecture on his experiences in Ireland, espec ially during the Lusitanla outrage and In the course of his comments on the country and the way it is waking up to the meaning of the war he spoke with the greatest ap preciation of his reception in Har risburg, the deep interest shown by the audience at Pennsylvania's cap ital, mentioning the names of prom inent men who had helped to make his stay by the Susquehanna pleas ant. From all accounts these are stren uous days at Camp Hancock. Col. Maurice E. Finney is now bossing the range, which is one of the busiest places in the whole of tli great camp and where hia experience is going to tell in getting the men into fighting with riiles. Captains Bretz, Jenkins and Stine are all busy training men as are the lieutenants while lieutenant Colonel Zeigler Is working hard with overseas service ahead. A good story comes from the camp about Captain Stine. Col. E. JJ. Kearns, who commanded the Pittsburgh regiment until a few days ago, met the captain the other day and remarking that he had noticed the name of Henry M. Stine in the lists wondered whether it was a son of his old friend in Harris burg. "Well, why didn't you ask whether it was my grandson?" re plied the county commissioner who used to trim "Ed" Kearns at, tennis. State automobile license tags by the tens of thousands are being made up into packages for shipment to owners of automobiles the latter part of this month by attaches of the automobile division of the .State Highway Department in three differ ent places under supervision of the state authorities. The demand is greater than ever known at this time of the year as it is now pretty well known that on January 1 cars must display the new tags and there is an unusual lot of requests for trucks and business wagons. The tags are being stamped and pre pared for shipment at the offices of the Division in North Second street, in the basement and on the top floor of the Capitol and at one of the warehouses in Capitol park extension used for storage purposes by the state government. The tags are stacked up in great heaps and preparations are being made to send them out in wagonloads. Owing to the rush for automobile licenses the amount of cash passing through the department amounts to thous ands of dollars daily, a good part of it being in certilied checks. Many applications are accompanied by money orders. The last of the federal property has been prepared for shipment from the State Arsenal and all of the men connected with the United States quartermaster service ex apt four officers leave tomorrow. The officers expect to be ordered away at any time. The final shipment will include rifles used at ranges and on the Mexican border which will be used to train men at the camps. The space at tho building will bo utilized for the equipment and stores for tho new Reserve Militia for whose organization the adjutant gen eral's department has been prepar ing for months. Muster in of some of the new organizations will place late this month, it is expected* • • ♦ The prognostications regarding the winter which were heard on all hands a few weeks ago have been added to. A man in Hazleton says that there will not be hard weather because the hornets nest low. A Cumberland county man insists that the weather will lie severe because • chickens in -his flock have thick feathers on their legs. * Friends of Joseph N. Mackrell, the Pittsburgh newspaperman who comes here to report the legisla ture, will tendor him a dinner at, Pittsburgh next Wednesday, which will be a regular event. Dr. J. P. Kerr, city councilman, will be toast master and Commissioner O'Neil. George E. Alter and other noted men will speak. It will be a re markable tribute to a newspaperman. * 0 Harrisburg friends of William M. Donaldson are. congratulating him upon his re-election as a trustee of tho Masonic Homes at Ellzabethtown. Mr. Donaldson was instrumental in the establishment of the great in stitution and has taken a great in terest in it. • More kindly words have been said about the selection of George D. Og den as the chief of operations for the railroads' export business dur ing tho war in Harrisburg the last few daj;s than ordinarily fall to the lot of any man. The expressions have come not only from business men, but from railroad men as well. Mr. Ogden was some sixteen or sev enteen years ago the division freight agent of the Pennsylvania in this city and vicinity and ls> remembered by many men for his courtesy and enterprise. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Judge J. N. Langham, of the Indiana courts, was here on his way to New York to attend the State Society dinner. —Ex-Governor James B. Sheak ley, of Alaska, is seriously ill at his home in Mercer county. —John Philip Sousa has shaved off his heard sav Harrisburg friends who saw him recently. —Thomas Kennedy, head of the Hazleton miners, claims to be the youngest labor leader. He Is twen ty-eight. —Dr. L. C. Thomas, former recor der of Westmoreland, is home from camp, after being turned down on physical examination. j DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg sausage Is being made for tho men In the army? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Paper making was quite an Indus try hereabouts a century ago. PENNSYLVANIA, TOO. While you're cataloging Missouri poets, don't forget Phil Campbell, the uinlev (County) rhymer. Hero's Phil's latest: You may talk about your spring days Or your good old summer time, You may sing of California, With her balmy, sunny clime; But give to me old Missouri, A3 she ranks up full ace high, When the frost is on the fodder And the punkin's in the pie.—Kan- | sas City Star,
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