6 HARRISBUXG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded iljl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAM! PRINTING CO.. Tele*ral> Building, Federal Square. TE. J. STACK POLE, prest & Ediltr-inChief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press la exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special f 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 dTftßsfrMSjtKHil week; by mail. 55.00 MWrifrf- a year in advanca. MONDAY, DECEMBER :tt, 1017 Advertity borrows its sharpest j sling from our impatience. — BlSHOl* Hokxe. A PATRIOTIC SERVICE TIIE members of the Dauphin County Bar who have been giv ing their services to assist draft ed men in properly filling out their questionnaires, have performed a patriotic duty of a very important character. They have given freely |V of their time for several weeks and have placed their knowledge of the law at the disposal of those who chose to seek it. They have saved ■ hundreds of conscripted men from ■ making mistakes that might have : placed them in embarrassing situa- I tions later. ■ When a lawyer or a physician ■ gives his services he gives his entire I stock in trade, which is more than ' most of us who deal in more ma terial things would care to do. This I makes the action of the lawyers all the more praiseworthy. I P TO TIIE COI\NTIES F ill years the farmers of Penn sylvania have been complaining that it was unprofitable to raise sheep because when the market prices for wool and mutton were ■ satisfactory dogs raided the flocks W l>> night and the owners had all ■ kinds of trouble to collect the money the State allows and requires the comities to pay. Between dogs with out domiciles and Democratic doc trine in wool tariff form the sheep raiser had troubles of his own. The war has nullified the evils of the Democratic wool tariff and the mut ton chop is a delicacy. Pennsylva nia has provided a dog code. Under the terms of the dog code every Pennsylvania canine outside of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Kcranton, and there are some hun dreds of thousands of them, will have to wear a tag after January 33. Furtherforo, / every owner of a dog must have it penned up or tied tip after dark. Experience has shown that dogs raid sheep at night. By thus establishing ownership it is held that on the same principle that dictates the method of dog catching in cities the Unlicensed dogs will be destroyed. The law makes it the duty of constables to kill unlicensed dogs and requires that County Commissioners pay the costs for each killing. The proceeds of licenses go to the county treas uries. It is thus up to the County Com missioners to enforce the dog law. 3t may be a hardship on some own ers to pay the license and it may be difficult to kill some dogs, but there are too many, it must be admitted. And it must also be allowed that if the State is to raise sheep dogs must be kept under control. It will be expensive for a few years, but if the counties do not act the State can end in its policemen, clear out the ownerless dogs, many of which are half wild in some counties, and charge up the cost to the Commis sioners. A PLACE TO COUPIJE CP A MOST amassing lack of uni formity In regulations for the control of smallpox between the Slates east of the Mississippi has been revealed by the efforts of Penn sylvania's State Department of Health to check Ihe outbreaks which have occurred in western and cen tral counties. There is more small pox In the State now than known for years, in spite of all the efforts being made, and new patients are be ins reported almost dally. The in ■ iHlon has spread from place to ■ and is so readily traceable that| ■ remedy appears to be plain. " Men have come from comniunl jm ties in Ohio, Michigan and some southern States whero smallpox exists without let or hindrance. In fact. In one instance a whole crew of la borers went from Cleveland to near Pittsburgh when smallpox prevailed and authorities had to employ guards to round up the whole party. Small pox has appeared in people from Akron to Detroit frequently andj some of the southern negroes do not '' seem to mind the disease except that it prevents them from going about. Uniform regulations regarding dis eases are as necessary to proper con , servation aa pooling of railroads. MONDAY EVENING, I War breeds disease. There should be little difficulty about compelling iso-' latlon of smallpox. WON'T SLACK HERE ARRISBURG'S reputation as a city which does what it sets out to do will not be dimmed as a result of the forthcoming campaign to raise $25,000 for the Knights of Colum bus War Camp Fund. In his state ment of several days agp Bishop Mc- Devitt called attention to the great good being accomplished by the Knights of Columbus through their activities in all training camps; and from time to time the Telegraph has published letters from Harrisburg soldiers who praise the Knights of Columbus and the Young Men's Christian Association in no uneer / tain terms for the great good they are doing. "All war and no play," it might be said, "makes Jack a dull boy." And these recreation centers in the train ing camps are going to go a great way toward keeping the United States soldiers clean morally and physically. The sum of $?5,000 is not a large one. Harrisburg owes it to all its several thousand soldiers to bo lib eral in its contributions to the K. of C. fund. And it is a peculiarly re freshing thing to note that in the prosecution of this campaign the Knights of Columbus have been en thusiastically joined by prominent men who are not members of the Catholic church, as the Y. M. C. A. campaign workers were joined by prominent Harrisburg men not be longing to evangelical churches. OUT WITH THEM SERGEANT EMPEY, speaking in Harrisburg Friday evening, said: The soldiers in the field will cheerfully do 60 per cent, of the fighting; it is for you at home to do the vest, lighting the German effort in this country to nullify our determination to v.*in the war. I am out after this type of Ger man-American. As Roosevelt said, use the big stick on them. If you tap the wrong one apologize after the war, but get after nil of them now. The arrest of a German who had tampered with parts of torpedoes he was engaged in turning out in a gov ernment factory for the use of the American fleet, illustrates the danger Empey had ill mind. The folly of our too trusting confidence in every Ger man who pretends to be friendly may cost us a frightful disaster one of these days. German agents by the thousands swarm over the country, i and the Roosevelt "big stick," as i Empey says, is none too good for j them. Indeed, about the only "per suader" the present day German can i understand is the kind Empey him- ; self displayed during his demonstra- ' tion of trench warfare—a wire- 1 bound, lead-loaded, two-handed I club, as long as a baseball bat and 1 designed to be laid across the backs of the skull with the full force of a i two-armed blow. The sneak In the dark, the poisoner of Red Cross ' bandages, the thrower of bombs, the j slayer of women and children, has i sunk so low that there can be no ' argument with him save that of brute force. Ambassador Gerard once . told the Kaiser that there is a lamp- 1 post for every disloyal German- ' American in the United States, andji the time is rapidly approaching when ' some of them may be put to use. 1 With full knowledge of German ] capabilities for intrigue, plotting and treachery what folly it is to permit them in our munition and war sup- 1 ply factories. , IXJCAIj FREIGHT PROBLEMS GOVERNMENT control of rail roads doubtless will do much to stimulate freight movement, and elimination of competition should go a long way toward the prompt handling of traffic, but neither government control nor own ership will solve the country's trans portation problem, which is largely of a local nature. The getting of farm products from country to city and from town to town is the real big puzzle of peace times. For ex ample, apples went to waste in the Cumberland Valley and in Perry county the past fall because it did not pay to haul them to the railroads and thence to the city. Also, for ex ample, .potatoes a few weeks ago were a drug on the market in York county while selling for $1.25 a bushel here. Lack of means of get ting their goods to market kept the York county farmers from obtaining fair prices for their vegetables and prevented Harrisburg people from buying comparatively cheap po tatoes. What is the answer? There are two answers, the motor truck and good roads. The gasoline driven freight vehicle is just coming into its own. in a few years it will be come the great medium of transpor tation between town and farm—go ing where railroads cannot and do ing Its work with one loading and very quickly and cheaply. From a doubtful experiment as a farm im plement the motorized freight car is fast becoming a recognized aid to agricultural efficiency. And so with the automobile proper. It is no longer a pleasure car. It has. become | a passenger car; a utility Instead of I a luxury. And Just as the motor truck is replacing the local freight, so | will the motor bus replace, In mniny localities, the rural "accom modation" trains. All thlß, of course, being dependent upon the improve ment of roads. I • ... 11 I Ck By the Ex-Committeeman Pennsylvania's Democratic state machine, which has been run around the track a couple of times lately to Keep the placeholders in mind of the l'act that it takes money tq_ keep an organization going' in cold weather as well as in the heat of a campaign, was givon a - jolt yesterday right in the home of the Democratic national chairman. The Harrisburg Democratic As sociation, composed of prominent Democrats of this city and headed by T. K. VanDyke, who is a Demo crat in time of storm and sunshine, adopted resolutions culling for a re vival of the old-tipie unbossed Democratic state conventions. The action was taken late Saturday in the form of resolutions which urge that the Democrats have a conven tion to discuss platforms and the merits of candidates in advance of the primary. It is pointed out that the primary act only takes away the right to make nominations and that conventions are desirable. As the Democratic bosses of Penn sylvania are to meet on the banks of the Potomac this week to slate Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCormick for the gubernatorial nomination for the folks at homo the idea to dis cuss merits of candidates will not be popular here. The VanDyke resolutions were not [given much publicity by the Demo cratic machine organs to-day, al though big Democratic papers like the Philadelphia Record gave the subject prominence. At the Demo cratic windmill the millers refused to talk, being very busy sucking the grain that has come in from the faithful. The resolution as adopted and Mr. VanDykes' comment are as follows: Whereas, the uniform primary law has not abolished the holding of a state convention, and it is desirable that delegates from every county in the state should thus assemble in order to give expression to the wishes of their constituents and formulate into a party platform the fundamental principles on which the Democratic party stands, as well as give expression to the prevailing views of the voters as to who would make the best candidates for state officers to be elected in the state at large, and also for the purpose of gathering the Democrats of tho state together again in a free, unbossed old-time Democratic blow-out; there fore, be it Resolved, That the Harrisburg Democratic Association heartily favors the calling together of such convention, and urges the Demo cratic state committee to revive this necessary Democratic reform. "Judge McCarrell, of this county, has decided in a Philadelphia elec tion case that the uniform primary law has not in any way abrogated the holding of state conventions," said Chairman VanDyke, "and those conventions can'still be held and do everything they formerly did before the passage of that law, except ac tually nominate state candidates. It was the opinion of all the members present at this meeting that, if we are to maintain real Democratic prin ciples. the Democratic state conven tion should be called." . —Mayor-elect E. V. Babcock, of Pittsburgh, has announced that he will name Stephen Stone, son of the former Governor, as his city solici tor. The directors will be named some time this week, it is believed, although the new Mayor may wait until he takes office. —Jefferson county is real "dry" now. The lawyers did not file any applications for licenses on advice of the court. —Mrs. J. O. Miller, head of the Woman Suffrage organization, says that all the Pennsylvania Congress men will be found behind the woman suffrage amendment. She has issued a statement in which she intimates that It is all over with the antis. —Governor Brumbaugh's appoint ment of a registration commissioner to succeed Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scranton, is being eagerly awaited in that county. There are half a dozen candidates and every leader seems to have a man up his sleeve. —Concerning the dinner to Mayot Armstrong, in Pittsburgh, the Phila delphia Ledger says it will be a sort of party council. It remarks: "The <Senator will meet his lieutenants from several counties in Western Pennsylvania and learn from Alle gheny leaders particularly that they favor Senator Sproul for the Repub lican nomination for Governor. Fayette county may bring a boom for Republican State Chairman Crow. The western conferences, which probably will last several days, will discuss candidates for other state offices and for Congress men-nt-large. M. M. Garland, at present a Congressman-at-large, probably will run this time from his homo district in Allegheny. This may be duo to the fact that Alle gheny leaders want one of their home allies to be 'slated' for Secre tary of Internal Affairs. Senator Sproul, a candidate for Governor, probably will attend the Armstrong dinner also. The belief among poli ticians is that both the Vare and Penrose elements will unite on Sproul to succeed Governor Brum baugh. The Pittsburgh conferences, many thought, probably will settle the gubernatorial situation." —Senator Penrose and a number of prominent Republicans will at tend the dinner to Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong just before he retires from office at Pittsburgh. It is ex pected that it will have an impor tant bearing on the Mayoralty. —Judge Swartz, of Montgomery, has held that a man who voted the straight Socialist ticket and then in the Democratic column voted for a justice of tlie peace for which there was no Socialist candidate cast a valid ballot, to be counted for all the candidates voted for. The case is similar to that of a straight vote for the Town Meeting ticket in Phil adelphia, last November, nnd a mark in the Republican column for Dis trict Attorney Rotan. —Col. Henry H. Foote, Wellsboro lawyer, is out with an announce ment of his candidacy for Congress In the Fifteenth district. —Senator Clarence J. Ruckman on Saturday announced his deter mination to be a candidate to suc ceed himself as Senator from Bucks county. Senator Buckman just prior to the adjournment of the last ses sion of the Senate was elected to the office of .president pro tem. to succeed E. E. Beidleman, of Dau phin county. He has been a mem ber of the State Senate since 1910. lie had previously served one term in the State House of Representa lives. He is a native of Bucks coun ty. having been born in Middletown township in 1879. He is a graduate of the law department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and Is asso- HARRISBURG HfUjftj TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT . .... .... BYBRIGGS 16 ? "". ciated with his brother in the law firm of Buckman &: Buckraan and will be re-elected easily say his friends. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith says Philadelphia Councils must repass the budget so that, there will be no questions about it. —William J. Rorke, a lawyer, has announced himself as a candi date to succeed Senator Janies P. McNichol. —Governor Brumbaugh, while in town yesterday met a number of his friends, with whom he discussed the matter of filling the vacancies on the State Public Service Commission, says the Sunday Inquirer. Retiring City Treasurer William. McCoacli, who is the Vare leader of the Thir tieth ward, is an aspirant for a place and his friends are confidently pre dicting his appointment. There is a report from Pittsburgh that former Mayor William A. Magee, who re signed from the Public Service Commission to run for Mavor and who was defeated for that office by E. V. Babcock, the Penrose choice, is being considerc 1 for appointment to his old position. There are now two vacancies to be filled by the Governor on the Commission. illiam B. Palmer, former Media postmaster, will become chief sheriff's deputy of Delaware county. —Representatives- Cyrus M. Pal mar and R. J. Graeff have ambitions to succeed Auditor General Snvder ip the Senate. Palmer would also like to be District Attorney. —Joseph Van Dyke, of Carbon county, brother of Warren Van Dyke, secretary of the Democratic State Committee, has been selected as revenue collector for the Bethle hem district. -Ex-Representative G. C. Her man, of ICutztown, has been appoint ed clerk to the Berks county con troller. —Congressman-at-I,arge M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh, will trv con clusions with M. Clyde Kelly in the old Dalzell district. APPLE A DAY The apple Industry in the United states to-day represents a stupendous commercial achievement. It had •■rrown to C 9 million barrels in 1896; it dropped to 28 million barrels in 1911, and went up again to 40 mil lion barrels in 1912. From this date forward there is a continual increase in the production, for the great cit ies of the world are crying for ap nles, and people everywhere are lust Seginning to apprehend the actual value of this delicate fruit. We are turning backward to our heritage, for in the days of our great-grand fathers the common adage was: "An apple a day will keep the doc tor away." Fruit as a part of the diet renresents a. most health-giving element—From the Christian Her ald. TRANQUILLITY Better is an handful with quiet ness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.—Ec clesiastes 4:6. CRINOLINE DAYS Grandmother sits in her old rock ing chair Telling the stitches so daintily there, Draped in a shawl of an ancient de sign. Features all wrinkled with love In each line, Tuckered and ruffled in old-fashion ed grays, Knitting and dreaming of crinoline days. Ah, crinoline days in her flowery dreams Dimple and ripple like meadowland streams; Over some moment all golden she throws The loop of her yarn a* she stitch ingly goes Into the dream laden memory haze, Back to the pleasures of crinoline days ' Here Is a dream of an old-fashioned dance, JJream of a lover and stealthy ro mance, Dream of a moon on an arbor, where low A soldier boy whispered to her long; ago; Dreaming she knits, and dreaming she strays Back to the pleasures of crinoline days. Ah, soldier boy, soldier boy, lost long ago, Grandmother stitches her love for you so Into a gift for a soldier of mine, Looped in the stitches our love shall entwine. Warmly enfold you and keep you always Fit for the maidens of erinollne days. —By Jay B. Iden. Land of Afterwards FROM my new edge of conscious ness I looked about. Pack in the distance, leaning against a wind, went eld Sergeant Death through the blown powder smoke mounting to the posts of cinnabar. "The Father of the Regiments"— how we had walked with him and talked with him, chaffed with him and laughed with him, until we had learned the goodness beneath his grim old face and he had bared our soldier-souls! He was a comrade go ing, and I saluted his back with sor row. I'll see him again perhaps, parading the souls trooping here from the war. "Is this heaven? Where is this?" I asked of a white horseman on a white charger. "This?" He looked down at me thoughtfully. "This is Afterwards," he smiled; and wheeled off towards a waiting squadron of fair chivalry. In this Afterwards I've found the boys. You know who everyone is here without being told. The boys of the air and of the sea, you meet them; light thrills —you know them and their legend; they know you. Often we look up and find Lord Michael himself, leaning on his sharp, subduing sword, listening when the yearns are precipitous and there is through them the wif-waf c-f guns and the gleam of bayonets. He is all ruddy and very handsome, the Archangel of War, with level lidded eyes. Once he sang for us a sword song, a sharp, winged song. DARED SPEAK*ENGLISH As we dined together one evening in a widely-known Berlin restaurant, we were conversing in English. Seated at the next table was a quar- i tet of olflcers, home on furlough. Presently a waiter stepped up to us and said that the officers objected to our speaking the English tongue. Knowing that we were well within our rights, we refused to discontinue the conversation. The four officers then rose, stood stiffly at attention, and demanded that we be ejected from the restaurant. It, was a very unpleasant and humiliating experi ence: but, as we look back, we can not fail to see the humor of it, with the men standing so ridiculously straight in the center of the place. The American, as host, approach ed the group and endeavored to ex plain; but he was swept aside with haughty gestures. When he re turned to the table, the proprietor informed him that he would be un able to serve the rest of the meal, and we were "ompelled to leave the restaurant. The incident leaked into print and caused considerable discussion. The verdict, however, was in favor of the officers, and their very rude and un called for action met with universal approbation.—Adele N. and Russell Philips in the Atlantic Monthly. "FINEST CLUB IN WORLD" The front line trench is the street of adventure. No matter how quiet the day or night, there is always an air of Imminency and expectancy. Oh this front line street of adven ture one meets the truest men of his time. There there is a real de mocracy nrffl a real brotherhood. The mere fact that each is there de mands respect from the other. Among my priceless memories of the real front is that of junior head quarters' mess in the line. Among ourselves we often referred to this mess as the "Finest Club in the World," and its young members have perhaps made a good bid for the title. The junior headquarters' mesa in cludes the scout officer, machine gun officer, bombing officer, trench mor tar officer, intelligence officer and forward observing officer. Member ship in this, the "Finest Club in the World," is not apt to be of long duration, sis its members frequently "go west." During the period of their active membership they sent many of the stars on the stage of the world war. Of course, the generals' names are splashed across the billboards, but wo who have really been there know that these mere boys are the leading actors on the stage. Generals may direct the scenery, but it Is for the junior of ficers to carry out the drama. Hence the saying, "This is a subalterns' war."—Captain Arthur Hunt Chute in Harper's Magazine. ONE ESSENTIAL Brain foods some dealers advertise. But of this fact take heed, No food for brains will make us wise Unless we've brains to feed. —Boston Transcript. Once the Mad Major asked him. with his high Oxford manner anil drawl, "I say, sir, did you really pull up the mountains by the roots and throw them about, that time of yoin close-in with Lucifer and the rest?" "Does not my old friend Milton say so?" reproached Lord Michael, with a sort of gleaming gravity. 1 wish I might tell you how beau tiful all these men are, how cleansed are all words, what new values there are everywhere. It is good to have all words walking cleanly hero, nak ed and unashamed, vital with the Bap and flow of life. It is good to know the wonder and beauty of one's com rades and the glory of the fire in their hearts. O my mother, you who are in life, say to all the women in the home steads, dwelling with the ghosts of the slain, say that the boys whose arms were once strong around them are now no army of silent boys ly ing beneath the crooked wooden crosses. Say that the bugles are sounding magic notes, and the trum pets calling to the spirit, and the striding comely boys footing it straight and proud on some new way. We must not have you mothers back there, blind with tears of your weeping, while we press eagerly on with new knowledge and new pow er at every pause.—Nan Moulton in the Atlantic Monthly. DRINKING FALLS OFF By our effort in the prosecution; of this war we are attaining; temper- | ance. From the time war was dc-j clared, the arrests for drunkenness in the city of New York steadily de creased until in August they reached' the unprecedented low ligure of 969 \ for the entire month. The psychopatic ward of Bellevuej has had fewer patients in the last six months than during: any similar period in its history. Jn November,; 1917, the Kings County Hospital was, sheltering less than half its accus- j totned quota of alcoholic patients. I could go on ad lib. with corrobor- ; ative figures that are before me. The i steward of one of the big New York! clubs said to me disgustedly: "There's practically no drinking any more at all, not what you'd really call drinkin.' It's all happened since we got into the war. I don't know what's the matter with the boys. They don't seem to have the heart for the drinkin' that they used to have, an' the place is that sober an' quiet .after midnight you'd think the club was nothin' but a library where no talkin' is allowed." Urged on by the necessity for physical and mental alertness that this war demands, we are by our conduct converting the spirit of tem perance into a tradition of sobriety that will do Its part in establishing us as a great people.—William S. McNutt in Cfellier's Weekly. HAVE A PUNCH TO 'EM Suggestions as to how Germany should be treated have recently been set forth by the Marquis of Lans downe. But the real rules for the proper treatment under the circum stances have been laid down for {ill time by the Marquis of Queensbury. —From Collier's Weekly. THE MARCHING MEN The brown lads, the brave lads go marching down the street: It sets one's head a-whirling—the motion of their feet! Their legs go swinging, swinging, in row on rhythmic row, As down the street, down theh street the marching soldiers go. The yare stepping, stepping, step ping as if they hummed a song That soon must burst in thunder a mighty million strong. * • • ' The Kaiser, oh. the Kaiser, if ho had seen this hour When first he dreamed a van quished world lay sprawled be neath his power, Had taken thought, had taken thought, and then, had paused again Before he roused the valor of all these marching men! • —Harry Kemp in the New York In dependent. THE EASY WAY The crown prince to the Kaiser said: "Our front U 1 getting jagged. Oh, say, shall we retreat again, and run the Allies ragged?" "Aeli, nonsense!" said tlie Kaiser then. "Now what's the use of flying, When we can win more victories by keeping up our lying." \ —Kansas City Star. DECEMBER 31, 1917. 11 EDITORIAL COMMENT Now that a few mutinous soldiers , have been hanged, what's the mat | ter with a cheerful execution of a ' German .spy or two?— Chicago Her ald. j Roumania, deserted by the Rus j ians, registered its opposition to a I separate peace, but decided that it | didn't want a separate war.—Seattle i Post-intelligencer. The fact that British bulldog ten acity won Jerusalem after 700 years I makes Germany's peace feelers seem a trifle premature.—Philadelphia j North American. XT. S. Boys "over there" are re j ported to be in fighting form. The | nets will continue to be encouraging : as long as France lias a gun to give ! us.—Philadelphia North American. The Government, it is said, is j planning to take charge of German . patents. With a view, probably, to j taking charge of the German royalty : eventually. - Nashville Southern I Lumberman. Emma Goldman complains that Hie Draft L.a\v encroaches on relig ious liberty. This mirst hurt Kmma, who never was known to encroach on anything religious.—Philadelphia North American. For forty years the German autoc racy has refused to let the German people rule themselves and at the same time constantly assured them they ought to rule the rest of the world.—Chicago Herald. Even the Kaiser's- best friends in Congress are willing to declare war on .Turkey and Bulgaria. The Bul garian and Turkish vote isn't impor tant.— Emporia Gazette. OUR DAILY LAUGH MADE IN j&SKt f GERMANY. Mother What do you Iy \\ mean by bcat <§4 In ff your little A* sistcr and ,alc " ~w| ir >K her candy Jot away from her. xfr. '-Pwi Small Son—l fipf ' /.■ ? was fighting her T f it iy' IgH for my very ex- W istene'e and the VT J candy I took toT Indemnity. AND GOT fjkjtt*,,. Jg&4 COLD FEET. // I sent my Y \*** / daughter to a s cooking school F*~ Jl A to tit her for / i marriage. I J yl*'' ■■ Was tho ex- I 1 \ W reriment a sue- V \ \ cess? /\ } ' No. the roan \ M she was en- /Wr \\ il gaged to found //II Uil It out. STVIJSH. fSure thing. We had to stand up and eat tha refreshments In a most uncom fortable and awkward man* CONFLICTING yT> OPINIONS. The CorpoM.l At." \ftTy —How did the examining sur geon come to fSM** pass a soft I Itt|T7 n I headed thing ljp |n| jdJ] The Rookie — ' mIF/ Soft headed, eh. jCLi-if (reant said my ' I I . head was solid I IJ ff f&nting (Efyal While you can still get scrapple or ponhaus, as we know it better, and country ham Is procurable, the war seems to have driven from the cards of Harrisburg"s hotels and restau rants, its cafes and quick I'incheries some of the things we were brought up on like spare ribs, stewed kidney and mush, while it is very rarely that you can pet macaroni prepared in the Italian style, open-faced apple pie dusted almost brown with cinna mon and Juniata terrapin. Home made mince meat has not been In the markets for a long time and we doubt whether the farmers' wives are making smearcase any more. There used to be times when spare ribs could be had in almost any eat ing place Wednesday and Satur days and stewed kidney twenty years ago was a fine dish and In demand until the aromatic beef stew came along to chase It into the class with pickled pigs' feet. And who does not recall the Fridays when the tables of almost any eating place showed the Russ influence in macaroni or spa gettl cooked in that inimitable Italian way, while the hotels that catered to the country trade, especially dur ing court week used to make a spe cialty of boiled mush, which was also in vogue for a long time on winter mornings at the Commonwealth. As for that apple pie the men behind the counters say that people won't pay a dime for a cut and that they have to have fifty cents for each pie. It Is almost as sorrowful as the sit uation that has arisen in the matter of the Juniata red leg. In the days of "Boy" Russ and Pete Gonelli, no December or January was compete without the terrapin sign being dis played, and now, you have to keep your eyes and ears open for the word that some one has bought some of the "fresh water turtles" or else go and regale yourself on snapper. Of I a truth, the end of the war year is I bringing many changes in Harris- I burg diet. What with oyster stews costing thirty and thirty-five cents; sweitzer sandwiches fifteen and no . lirnburger, and not even a sprlng alie to he had, we are forced to wish ! that the rabbit season had lasted longer. . . . Our friend the lunch counterman probably feels about as badly over it as we do because he breaks out now and then with some Sicilian maledic tions against the men who protest that the orders of sauerkraut are so small that it takes two to make a portion such as they used to serve last winter. Me blames the farmers whom the says sells their cabbage to the men who "buy up queek an' much." It don't pay any more to have sauerkraut he says and pre dicts the deadt'ul time when it will follow other things to the "special dish" class reserved for high days and holidays. He says that the people miss a lot by not oating frankfurters and he tells you that Harrisburg folks don't know the good kinds of fish to be had. He slices the inside of the sandwich so thin that he is al most ashamed, but ho confides to you that his troubles are nothing to hlr white coated pal at the bar when the "schooner" and the "cannon ball" have departed never to return and where the "stein" holds about two-thirds of what it used to con tain two years ago. "Barkeep he havd much argue," is his description of the tribulations of the feilow who has the vanishing job. • • * It may be remarked in passing that recent events in the war have caused a considerable difference in the demeanor of the men from the land of the goulash and that ho no i longer has much to say to the Ital i ians either here or at Steelton. It ! may be said that the men who came here from Russia are now very much intent upon their own business anil are manifesting an eagerness to get out of military service. In fact, the breakdown of the Russian govern ment was followed very promptly by declarations that the suddenly very dear beloved Russia was out of the war and that there was no reason why her sons should be called on to serve. The Slav, Hungarian. Croat and other racial segment of the Austrian empire have if anything grown more reticent since the dec laration against Austria and in many I instances appear to be keeping out. ' of the way of trouble. It is rather ap parent that some of them are glad they are here and that they mean to stay. On the other hand some odd situations have arisen in regard to Austrians. In a number of instances it has been reported that men sum moned for the draft bluntly declared themselves enemy aliens. When ask ed all things being equal, whether in'event of this country being in vaded they would bear arms against Austria or Germany they have given the surprising reply that they had to take oaths when they left military service or their home province that they would not bear arms against the land of their birth. • • * Some rather startling statements are made to the attorneys who have been giving up hours day after day to advise the men of draft age how to fill out their questionnaires and the number of aliens who frankl> have no wish to shoulder a gun tin der anv circumstances, but who want to get' all the benefits of residence here without sacrifice in return is as tonishing. However, one of the most brutallv frank statements was made by a stalwart Slav who replied to the first question after giving his name and address, with -Now. meester, get me out." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —John F. Short, the Cleared ed itor, has been named on the food administration for his county. —Chester E. Albright, who is a Northumberland countian, is work ing on plans to house the thousands of workers at Hog Island. Dr F.lwood F. Kirby, well known here, is the new consulting surgeon to the Eastern penitentiary. H. W. Dodd, head of the coun ty superintendents department of the State Educational Association, comes from Allentown. Victor H. Wleand. former sher iff of I.ehlgh. Is seriously UJL He is president of the Allentown Fair As sociation. H. A. Acker, Reading fnel ad ministrator. had to threaten arrests before some merchants would ex tinguish electric signs. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~~| Hint Harrisburg had more money distributed tn Christmas savings than ever before? HISTORIC HAIUUSBCRG To-morrow marks the beginning of the iSSd year of Dauphin county. The act erecting it was passed in 1785. LABOR NOTES The average pay of women typista in England is $lO per week. International Boilermakers' Untor has signed an agreement with th< Missouri, Oklahoma and Quit Rail, road.
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