12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TFLIXiRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Cliief F. R. OYSTER, Business Malinger. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en- to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to Jt 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- Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■ By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. J5.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY, DECEMBER IS, J917 titeep is the way and toilsome, Ijonp and hard and slow, Yet a wider view and a purer air Are ours, each step that we go. —PRISCII.LA LEONARD. STIFLING THE TRAITOR THE stupendous might and un daunted loyalty of America, j ist beginning to be recognized by Germany, which is plainly planning for peace, has neverbeen displayed since the war began as it was last night at the great meeting of the Union League in Philadelphia, where Secretary William McAdoo was the chief speaker. In the language of the day, Mr. McAdoo "cut loose." That is what America wants. The singing of the "majestic anil terrible strains of 'The Battle Hyhn of the Republic' " arous ed the huge audience to a frenzy. "A man who doesn't think ws are justified in this war has yellow blood in his veins—not red blood," de clared the cabinet officer. "As for those who are not heart and soul in the war we must make ..them feel that they stand apart. We aren't hesitating to waste lives in order to save liberty. The people of Russia have failed to establish them selves because they failed to deal with traitois. It is our purpose now to make America an unhealthy soil for such as these. We will finish him (the Kaiser) before we get through —this infamous despot, this sacri ligious egotist, who claims a part nership with God." Mr. AlcAdoo is the first member of the cabinet to fully express what the great bulk of Americans feel. His resolute words form a wall of ada mant for the patriot to back up against. Here is no faltering, no col lusion, no wavering. This is from the shoulder. It will do more to muffle the traitor, active or pas sive, than anything which has been said. Pennsylvania Railroad officials have given Cull consideration to the part that that great corporation will have in the development of the Capitol Park zone and its environment so far as it may affect the property of the railroad company. It is obvious that the new passenger station must be located at the foot of Walnut street, fronting the park, and the State authorities are going forward on this assumption. The city authorities likewise will pro ceed witli the part that must be play ed by the municipality in this great improvement. KXTT.RPRISF. AND Tin: WAR IP NDORSEMENT by Secretary jj Mt'Adoo of the recent $10,000,- 000 five and one-half per cent, bond issue of the Miami Conservancy District, which has for its object the construction of such a system of flood control in the Miami Valley, as will prevent a repetition of the Day ton disaster of a few years back, while the nation is. marketing four per cent. Biberty Bonds, is a com mentary upon existing financial con ditions. The government has let it be known that it does not approve generally of bond issues for local or private enterprises during the war, but Mr. McAdoo in his letter to the Dayton commission makes it cleur that there may be exceptions. Public and community needs must be met and big enterprises in some in stances must be carried on despite the war. In Harrisburg we have as an example the Penn-Harris Ho tel, financed before the war and de signed to meet a very urgent demand. The growing importance of this city as a military, munition and war sup ply center makes adequate hotel fa cilities necessary. Very properly the work of construction is being hur ried along. As Mr. McAdoo says, "it is only by subordinating local and personal in. terests to the public welfare, <ind by enforcing the most rigid economy in matters of public and private enter prise. as well as in matters of per sonal expenditure, that the United States can hope to bear its part of ihe financial burden of the war and to release sufficient labor and mater, ials for war purposes without deple tion of our resources," and just how far any community or corporation TUESDAY EVENING, may deviate from that policy is a matter for careful thought and con sideration. Of course, you are a member of the Red Cross. If not. why not? NATIONAL PROHIBITION y ATIONAL prohibition won a J.\| tremendous victory yesterday when the House, by a decisive vote, passed the resolution putting amend ment of the constitution forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxi cants up to the legislatures of the several states. The Senate having adopted a similar resolution, the prohibition question is settled no far as Congress is concerned. It now remains for a majority of states to approve the proposed amendment, after which It becomes an irrevoca ble tenet of government. Seven years will be allowed for this and the prohibitionists have the advantage, since any State may vote down the amendment one session and adopt it the next, where as if the amendment is once passed jit cannot be recalled. No doubt there will be a great scramble in many States to be first on the pro hibition bandwagon and the growth of temperance sentiment is so rapid everywhere thai liquor manufactur ers and merchants may as well be gin to prepare for the end. The whole nation may well re joice in this action of Congress. The drink evil has been a curse to the country. It must go the way of slavery and similar institutions. A century hence men will wonder why it was permitted to exist so long. The most gratifying feature of the House vote yesterday was that party politics played no large part in it. For example, a majority of Republi can members from Pennsylvania, in cluding Congressman Kreider, voted in favor of the resolution, while a majority of Democrats of this State opposed the prohibition measure. The State representation as a whole, regardless of party, voted "50-50" on the measure. No party is the party of ' booze" and neither of the big parties is the party of prohibition, but a majority of all parties favor it, which is the best augury in the world for its suc cess before the various legislatures. Congress has given the nation a Christmas gift worth while. BREAD OX THE WATERS A GOOD story comes from a little New England town where a poor and aged woman has just come into an inheritance as the result of a kindly act done early in her life, when she nursed back to health a Civil War soldier who fell ill at her home on his vay back from the army, after having been seriously wounded. For fl>*e years, it has developed, ever sinice she lost her own means, she has lived on the pension of the man who, dy ing, left her sufficient to keep the wolf from her door for the remain der of her life. The story reads like fiction, but there is nothing much out of the or-! dinary about it. after all. The little girl scattered her bread upon the waters and in old age it was re turned unto her. a hundred fold. There never was truer proverb than that which adjures us to "scat ter our bread." Not always do we recognize the harvest, or know wily wc pre garnering it, but "as we ROW, even so shall we reap." and if we go back far enough the effect may be easily traced to the cause. Scatter your bread upon the waters, and it shall be returned unto you. And if it be sour, and heavy and full of lumps, unsavory and un wholesome, bo sure it wit! be that kind which comes floating back to you. But if it be sweet, tasty and nourishing, that also will oe your Harvest. Scatter your bread, but make sure of the kijjd you are scattering'. Of all the literature of the war, none is so illuminating as the letters from the Harrisburg boys in France and elsewhere in the service of their country. There is a spirit of devo tion to duty manifested in these com munications to the Telegraph which must leave a deep impression upon those who are behind the lines. Not only are the people of Harrlsburg interested in the progress of the Penn- Harris Hotel, but visitors, commercial men and all having occasion to stop here on official or other business are constant boosters of the million-dol lar structure now rising skyward at Third and Walnut streets. Many of their friends are sending the Telegraph to the boys in the Army and Navy as a Christmas remem brance. What could be more acept able than this dally record of the doings at home? It was rather to be expected that the property owners in tho Hard scrabble district would accept the proffers of the city, to the end that the prolonged controversy over the necessary improvement should come to an end. It is only fair that those who have been ready to accept the awards of the viewers should be given an opportunity to locate elsewhere, as they have been ready to do so for more than a year. Colonel Roosevelt wants Lafollette sent to Germany as a member of the Reichstag. And every pacifist of the German type, the anti-American X. W. W.'s and all others of the same ilk should be in Lafollette's company when he starts for Berlin. IK By the Ex-Committccmnn The question whether Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh would call an extra session of the Legislature to act upon the "dry" amendment to the federal constitution passed yes terday by Congress or allow it to come up in regular order at the ses sion of 1919, was the big thing on Capitol Hill to-day. Under the con stitution of Pennsylvania the Gov ernor many include in a call for a special session any objects he sees fit. Advisers of the Governor have urged him against reassembling the Legislature on the ground that the amendment would cpme up in the natural course of events within thirteen months; that an extra ses sion would cost almost half a mil lion dollars and that the majority is more or less hostile to the Govern or, to anti-liquor legislation and eager to take advantage of anything for the sake of political capital against the state administration. The matter has been seriously considered by tha Governor and friends and some administration scouts have been out around the state sounding sentiment. —Auditor General Snyder's in clusion of Hampton L. Carson among his counsel in the appointments test suit means a battle royal in the Su preme Court next month. The form er Attorney General will cross swords with Attorney General Brown while Mr. Snyder's deputies and Mr. Brown's deputies will be in the tourney as assistants. The Auditor General is confident that the Su preme Court will overturn the Dau phin county court in the final de termination. —Highway Commissioner O'Neil has a number of speaking dates for the next month, but it is said that the administration leaders are not yet convinced that he has developed enough strength to turn in for him. It is said that the personal feelings of the Vares and Magce toward the commissioner have not softened with the approach of the holiday scaspn although he is stoutly cham pioned about the Governor's office. —ln an unprecedented ruling yes terday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered Judge William Wil kins Carr, of Common Pleas Court No. 4, who has been sittin® in Quar ter Sessions Court, to show cause why he should not accept from the Town Meeting party the $15,000 bond, which he had previously fixed as the amount of the security for the proposed contest of the election of November 6, says the Inquirer. Judge Carr on Saturday refused to accept the bond, claiming that the proceedings had been removed from his jurisdiction after the petitions for the contest had been filed. The fact that the highest state tribunal should make a ruling in connection with the decision of the Board of Judges of a lower court, in trans ferring a case from one court to an other, was pointed out by independ ent leaders as the best evidence of the Supreme Court's desire to show that it is determined to see that the ballotboxes' are opened for an Im partial count. Thomas W. Cunningham, presi dent of Philadelphia's Republican Alliance, the city committee of the Penrose ward leaders, has sent out a call to all of the division workers affiliated with that organization to have every Republican whose name is not upon the assessor's list en rolled when the assessors sit to-day and to-morrow to revise their lists. The law requires the assessors to sit at their respective polling places upon these extra assessment days between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. and from 6 p. m. to 9. p. m. —Pittsburgh is having an inter esting time over the selection of of ficers under the new Mayor. Mayor elect Babcock is keeping his own counsel pretty well. —Congressman John M. Rose is building fences for a renomination campaign. Warren Worth Bailey thinks that the Democrats of the Cambria-Blair-Bedford district would like him to run again. —Reports that ex-Speaker Oeorge E. Alter may run for Congress are paid to be entirely unauthorized. —Philadelphia City Councils Fi nance Committee yesterday turned down the increases asked for police men and firemen and there will be more excitement. —Dr. William Draper I>wis is protesting against the. Philadelphia transit lease being made the football of politics. —Dr. Silas C. Swallow is having a very enjoyable time these days. Booking back over a career of fifty years in behalf of prohibition it is the turn of the doctor to smile. —Altoona's start under the city managership plan is exciting the in terest of men in every third-class city of the state and 'here will he many pilgrimages to the mountain city in the next few years. —Montgomery county Democrats are making strenuous efforts to re vive the Norristown Register, only Democratic daily in that county. Running Democratic organs is an ex pensive business. STEEL FOR GERMANY A visiting French representative declares that Germany went to war largely to get French iron. Well, she has had a lot of French iron and steel in a fashion she did not exactly an ticipate.—Chicago Herald. FORGOTTEN THINGS Now that National Guardsmen from every state have arrived In France, who remembers the contro versy over whether they could law fully be sent on foreign service? — Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. GERMAN "EXPLANATION" Germany's explanations do not ex plain. To cut a man's throat cannot be compensated by a click of the heels and a polite phrase. Pro-Ger man talk has been too dangerously like the following: At recess, playing in the yard, Willie strangled Susie hard; Susie died in dreadful pain. Said teacher, "Don't do that again." Willie killed his baby sister; After while the teacher missed her. Sister, dying, made some noise. Teacher said. "Boys will be boys." Li. P. Powell in Association Men. HARRISBURG o£3& TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BYBRIGCS "f f! " pv>" V m] >j =E5 < I)i yi'LAW \ - r J%r>> . _ ' ' liJlc> -J -- (jack WHO \s poimq K 4>TTti><rn EDITORIAL COMMENT The information that Russia's gold reserve is in "safe hands" is mdeiln ite, but it makes it plain that the Maximalists haven't got it anyway— Kansas City Times. Count Karolyi says he is going to "get in touch with the Allis." Quite a number of his countrymen already are, but there is r"lways room for a few more.—Chicago Her ald. A visiting French representative declares that Germany went to war largely to ret iron. Well, she has had a lot of French iron and steel in a fashion she did not exactly an ticipate.—Chicago Herald. A red rag to a bull, and a red cross to a Prussian.—Boston Herald. The compiler of the Russian "Who's Who" has our sympathy.— Macon Telegraph. Our soldiers need new clothes more than you, ana on*-..er. —Wall Street Journal. If God is leading the Germans for ward in Italy, who is leading them backward in Belgium—Wichita Bea con. Headmasters Who Have a Head It is perhaps unnecessary to say, when one looks over the list of able educators from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, who have just formed the Philadelphia Headmas ters' Club of Boys' Boarding Prepar atory Schools, that the headmasters have shown that they have a head in deciding that this is the time to bring about closer co-operation in the mat ter of educational essentials. That the primary cause for the organiza tion is also a patriotic one, in that the headmasters wish to train the boys along lines of mental and phys ical education which will make them more intensely litted for the nation al service, is a thing to be expected at this time and from the men of high ideals who are back of this new movement. But at the same time even patriotism does not lead every one to wise action, and the uncom mon sense which underlies this new organization is not found every day in the educational world either in the secondary schools or in the col leges. The fact Is, however, that co-operatioh along certain general lines, with pointed exchange between the best schools, must prove of the gravest value not only to the schools themselves, in the matter of imme diate war necessities, but to prepara tory school education in general, for the future as well as for the pres ent. On all sides there are demands that secondary education shall reor ient itself with regard to the new needs of the nation and of civiliza tion, and such co-operation that the headmasters propose should estab lish some of the most pregnant basic factors needed in American educa tion of today.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. KOLB AND BROWN Colonel Louis Kolb doesn't care who knows that he is a master bak er as well as a bon raconteur and a prince of Rood fellows. When the Attorney General of New York was hammering the bak er's business in that state to bring it into conformity with the statutes] the Colonel was standing in a group with Governor Brumbaugh, John Gribbel and our Attorney Gen eral, Francis Shunk Brown, waiting to board a train at Warrisburg. Suddenly Colonel Kolb doffed bis hat to somebody out in the street. The others followed suit. "Who's that you're bowing to?" queried the Attorney General. "A baker's wagon," answered the Colonel. "I wanted to get our At torney General to pay due respect to the business that his colleague over in New York Is prosecuting."— Philadelphia Public Ledger. ABC OF KULTUR J stands for Junker. My! he looks fine! See! He is singing "Die Wacht" on the Rhine. You could bet on the Khine he would much rather be Than helping the Kaiser to set to Paree. K stands for Kultur —it keeps the Beer cold; It cures all Disease and prevents growing old; It polishes silverware, kills any corn. And babies all cry for it when they are born. L stands for Loot —the warrior's prize, That quickens his footsteps and brightens his eyes. In each little village that's burned to the ground, There's booze and Havanos enough to go round. ■ —Life. | The Way of the Child IF we expect our children to fol low in our footsteps, we make a sad mistake, and prepare our children for fail ire and ourselves for bitter disappointment, says Ly man Abbott in the Outlook, We must teach them to fly: but when they have learned we must expect them to fly in paths of their own choosing. If we wish to retain the companionship of our children, we must follow them into their newly discovered realms and join with theni in their experiences; we can not expect them to remain satisfied to share our life with us—to think as we think and to feel as we feel. If the child manifests the artistic temperament, the parent must learn with him something of art; if the scientific temperament, something of science. If the parent finds himself unable to do this, then he must be THE STATE PRESS Although Prussians are "the freest people on earth," the Kaiser's I'alth lul Socialists, led by Ptiulp Scheide mann, found that a Sunday mass meeting in Berlin is "verboten." — Pittsburgh Dispatch. "Our navy is wonderful," frays Daniels. Ye Gods, has Daniels just found out'.'-—Krie Dispatch. Distinguished Chicago psychopath announces that the longer you kiss the same woman the less thrill you get. because the electro-chemical action diminishes. Darn 'cm, they're trying to work us toward a kissless day.—Allentown Chronicle. An abused Benedict appeared in a Pittsburgh court and complained that his wife had threatened So kill him! that she threw an alarm clock and powder box at him, hit him 'n the eye with a stove hook, bit his middle finger, tore his night shirt and then whacked him over the head with a broom when he tried to es cape. And merely for this he asks the court to grant him legal sepa ration from his gentle spouse! He must be a pacifist.—Lebanon Daily News. Now that a Russian genera! has been killed by being thrown off a railroad train, the Russian ofllcers will learn that they must implicitly obey the commands the private sol diers give them. —Reading News- Times. The man who cannot find his na tive dialect somewhere in Chester must have had his "igloo" near .the "big nail" o" slept for centuries with tile Hittites.—Chester Times. Now that Jerusalem has fallen the Kaiser will be under the necessity of explaining that his Junior Partnef went back on him—Baltimore Sun. If the fitness of things is to be subserved, why not substitute the American cow as the great national bird? We may be a bit mixed on the ornithological data, but a good cow is some bird.—Lebanon Daily News. INDUSTRIAL LOYALTY The dissipation of German hopes that there would be fertile soil in this country for a Bolsheviki pro gram, operating through the I. W. W. and kindred elements of indus trial discontent, is evidenced f n the report of the Secretary of Labor that in six months since the declaration of war, although there have been 521 seeparate instances of industrial discontent to which the attention of the Department of Labor has been called, in but 43 has there been a failure of the efforts of mediation and conciliation. No extraordinary magic attaches to an annointment as federal me diator. It is not to be assumed that a new formula has been discovered which will be effective against in dustrial disputes under all circum stances. In the majority of in stances there has beeen no attempt made to arbitrate carefully the dif ferences as to wages or conditions of labor. The universal appeal has been to the patriotism of either side in the dispute, and the agreement has been reached by one side or the other, or both, waiving all selfish considerations, even beyond the line of justice, and making a sacrifice if necessary, in order that the pro cesses of production might not be impeded. Giving due credit to the Depart ment of Labor for its efforts at peacemaking, the figures are chiefly significant as a barometer reading Indicating fair weather in American industry, while the sign of war reigns in the zodiac.—Philadelphia Bulletin, y content to let the growing child live in one kingdom while he lives in another. This is hard for the parent, especially for the mother. To see her boy growing aJtray from her sometimes seems to her more than she can bear. But if she cannot join with him in his intellectual and spir itual adventures, she must bear the separation with such courage as she can command. The world would be come a monotonous world, and an unvital world, and an ungrowing world, and a dead world, if it were not composed of men and women of differing abilities and interests, as well as of differing vocations and ac tivities. I..ife is a great orchestra; we cannot transform it into a drum and fife corps, nor insist that our children shall play the instrument which we have chosen for our play ing. LABOR NOTES More than 100,000 women and girls are employed in Philadelphia in vari ous positions and in many trades. When it comes to working in the fields the Chinese woman is equal to any man. A colliery roadman was fined forty shillings for unloading and relighting liis safety lamp in Cornsilloch (Scot land) Colliery. About 20,000 employes have been added to the Government payroll in Washington since the wr hegßn, The maximum salaries of survey ors' assistants in the County of Wex ford, Ireland, linve been increased from fIOO to fl2o. The British Electrical Trade T'nion has asked the Ministry of Labor for a 48-hour week and an advance in pay. High wages for boys in unskilled occupations, thereby drawing them from school, and an increase of young boys in street trades are reported from England. Five thousand women are now in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail road on the lines east of Pittsburgh. This number represents approximate ly three per cent. An arbitration board has decided in favor of telegraphers employed by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The men were awarded hours of eight and 10 a day, a 26- day month instead of the present 30 days, a week's holiday each year and overtimf for Sunday work. CONFESSION OF FAILURE The Interstate Commerce Comijiis sion pleads the extraordinary con ditions of war as its excuse for hand ing over the railroads to Congress for pooling and other legislation, or to the President for operating during the war under Government guaran tee of an "adequate annual return." It is not a good excuse. The ex traordinary conditions of war as ef fecting the roads have been under the eyes of the commission for many months. The now admitted inade quacy of their revenues has been ob vious. The fundamental condition of adequate railroad revenue and credit is not Government credit, but adequate railroad rates. The Com mission Is charged by law to allow adequate rates or "an adequate annual return," but It has dawdled over that Issue all summer long with out being able to decide anything until now the situation Is concededly out of hand. It is a confession of failure without excuse.—New York World. PASSING THOUGHTS It's strange how people say "I cahn't" In Boston: And how a nephew says "My ahn't" , In Boston. One rides around within a "cah," And streets are smeared with sticky "tah;" The "R" Is camouflaged as "ah," In Boston. But things as strange are on each lip In Jersey City; The well known whip becomes a "wlp" In Jersey City. The sparrow wears the title "bold," In Jersey City. The second drink precludes the "thoid," And what they hear they say they've "hold" In Jersey City. _ , —Uf#, DECEMBER 18, 1917. Otfer the HV p L Sliamokin: The Government will acquire a new insight of anthracite miners'earnings through an order re quiring all coal companies to report to the internal revenue collectors the names and earnings of individual mniers earning in excess of SI,OOO per year. Payrolls are being gone over, and clerks report that they have found many miners who come within the scope of the federal in come tax law. Antonius Antopolis, Allentown Greek, who was drafted for the army, but who failed to appear for examination, was arrested at Atlan tic City and was sent to Camp Meade without further delay. It's a long way from Tony to Themisfo cles. The father of a four-year-old boy in Yorkville, Pa., reports that the youngster has asked Santa Clans for a road roller. Gee wliiz, the State Highway Department should look up this livewire. This war is going to make many high iliers in Schuylkill Co-inty," predicts ye editor, "besides those who are profiting through Govern ment commissions and high prices. Just look at the big aviation squad ron we sent away." OUR DAILY LAUGH A KNOCKER. "Pa, what IN a knocker." "A knocker, my boy, Is one who not only hopei for the worst, but boosts for it also " A BUGVILLE JEST. bnall —I've been tracing up my ancestry. Bug —Originated in Philadelphia I •uppose. TWO DOLLARB. PLEASE. "Do you know anything that wiiJ make me stout, doctor." "Yes, flesh." RETORT COURAGEOUS. Old Grouch —Here, sir, how ia it I catch you kiseing my daughter? guitorrngy a&ffj&lsc to 9B 3 *T- l&ttting flttfat Lieutenant G. W. Danforth, recruit-- ing officer of the United States Navy, has won the hearts of some hun dYeds of young Harrisburgera and at the same instilled valuable" and patriotic thoughts in juvenile minds by his Saturday morning talks at the Public Library. Mr. Danforth has been giving the boys talks on the glories of the United States Navy and explaining to the lads the meaning rfL.li how Jt came to be nf.il? e J" he other day he had an audience of about seventy in which there were over a dozen nationali ties and the demands for further so insls tent that he has . to explain not only the en ~ut to ta " c the service ; hh' it Strat, .? g them with lantern slides. The series of talks will long T fnembered by the boys. One effect has been to make every book J"„^ e children s branch of the li and dealing with the sea in tremendous demand. • ♦ • ™ con " ec tion with the library it slioivint statec l that It is once more mn. Rn how to I)UV Christ mas gifts. When the library was bookt TO I started to demonstrate that books were a much better thing tu fhrthin'i 1 "'' 8 . 1 "^ 8 Ume tlli,n somo ot ML I.' ? which are passed around. Miss Laton, the librarian, had some whln? H. e ? ? oks antl son,e of thos<3 which did not cost so much, but con r,eal stuff - P ut out on a spe cial Christmas table. People crowded around and it is said that every book put out as a suggestion served its purpose. This custom has been con tinued and in line with the serious nature of the reading of the peo;>le, as evidenced by the demand for books at the library lately, the list is worth looking over. Speaking about books, it is said that practically every store that deals extensively in books has sold copies of every title of a "war book" it had. Some of the books have been sold a dozen or more times and the demand for historical works an the countries at war has been unprece .if n Anoth er interesting thing is that there has been a great jump in the demand tor books on the Holy Land since the British took Jeru salem. Here is another interesting slant on books. It is from a representa tive agricultural journal, the Penn sylvania Farmer, and is as follows: Every farmer should possess a good working library. Standard, up-to date, practical books treating of the leading enterprises in which one is interested are as essential to suc cessful farming as are books on medicine or law necessary to I lie success of the doctor or lawyer. There is now a wealth of literature on all phases of agriculture from which to select. The books most helpful will depend on location and the type of farming In which one is engaged. At least one good booic °. n . eac 'h of the subjects—soils, fer tilizers and Held crops—will be needed on nearly every farm. Most farmers should also have one on farm management and one on build ings and farm machinery. Books on horticulture, market gardening, dairying, etc., will be selected ac cording to the kind of farming. One good reference tfook on general ag riculture will always be found espe cially useful." • Hampton L. Carson, former attor ney general, who appears in the arena of state cases once more as counsel for the auditor general in the big test of the riKht of the governor to reappoint officials rejected by the Senate as recess appointments, lias been giving his attention to big le gal problems in Philadelphia for sev eral years and has not been seen much in the courts. However, he has been intensely interested in the discussion over the right to appoint men once rejected and his convic tions on the subject are said to have impelled him to appear in behalf of the controller. The case will be one of great political importance. H. F. Hershey, the Adams county representative in the State Horticul tural Society, is hoping that the big fruit growing county will make a showing in every way commensurate with Its new standing in the state when the show is held here in Janu ary. Adams county has come to the front so rapidly and its apples are known so widely that, the display which it will make will be worth watching. The importance of fruit in the food movement will be em phasized at the meetings and at the show. Adanis county which heads the state alphabetically stands at the top in fruit and seems to intend to stay there, The cominsr of William Howard Taft to Harrisburg next month will recall the -previous addresses by the former President in this city. He spoke in Chestnut, street half to the Trainmen and at the Capitol to the Legislature. He was not President, when he spoke in the legislative halls and said he was enjoying life. Gen eral K. F. Glenn, who will speak wth him, is commander at Camp Sherman and one of the coming military men of the land. Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods, iyho has been re covering from a severe operation at Philadelphia, was able to visit the Capitol yesterday and was warmly greeted by friends. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. L. A. Watres has been chosen head of the Scranton Boy Scouts organization in which he lias shown a great interest for years. —Col. E. A. Deeds, of the United States Army, says he thinks tho floods which have caused so mucli damage in Western Pennsylvania, valleys can be controlled. —Rudolph Blankenberg says that he would like very much to go through just one more campaign. —W. Hey ward Myers, vice-presi dent of the Pennsylvania and former Harrisburger, has been elected presi. dent of the St. David's Golf Club. —William Flinn plans to stay at Pittsburgh all winter nnd will forego his usual southern trip because of work. | DO YOU KNOW —Tliat Harrisburg steel Is being used fop some of the new ship building plants? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In old days there were half a dozen pumps along the River Front which were justly famous for the quality of water they furnished. THE LORD IS GOOD And let these my words, where with I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the I.ord our God day and night, that he main tain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require that all the people of the earth mav know that the I*ord Is God, and that there is none else.—l Kings vllL 19 and 60,
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