8 HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR FOR THB HOMB Foujidtd IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKIJBXHIAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Sfun, E. J. ST>. CK POLE, Prts't & Bditor-in-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Business Managtr. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of tho Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively en- to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. * Member American Ushers' Assocla latlon and Penn- ISli W S§i§ (I* Eastern office, iSllSlv Avenue Building, Western office, Gas lesr ' Biiilfing. _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a *week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918 "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them." — SOCRATES. CITY WILL CO-OPERATE THERE will be no lack of co-op eration between the State offi cials and tho municipal au thorities In a further working out of plans for tho proper development of tho Capitol Park Improvements. Mayor Daniel L. Kelster has ap pointed, on the authority of a reso lution of City Council, a committee comprising Commissioners W. H. Lynch and E. Z. Gross to meet with < 'lty Solicitor Fox with a view to carrying out the wishes of the State Hoard of Public Grounds and Build ings in the matter of a mutual under standing regarding the part which the city must play in the develop ment of the comprehensive scheme of treatment suggested by the dis tinguished experts employed by tho Commonwealth. Mayor Keister is particularly In terested in this matter, inasmuch as he happened to be presiding In the House of Representatives on the day the bill providing for the extension of the Capitol Park %vas passed In I J 911. He is entirely familiar with this important piece of legislation and as an official and citizen of Har risburg is deeply interested in the final steps necessary to develop the plans for the landscape treatment of the park district. Ho believes that Harrisburg will do its full share in anything and everything which will contribute to the definite fulfillment of the pur pose of the Legislature in this mat ter. It is the plan to have the state and city officials confer as frequently as necessary so that there may be entire harmony in whatever is done. It is likely that it will be necessary to submit to the people some of the problems involved in the whole plan of treatment, but there 19 no doubt the city of Harrlsburg will keep step With the state in the gradual devel opment of the various plans which have been considered by the state authorities. THK GOALLESS COLD SNAP TO our way of thinking the "old fashioned winter" will have to take a seat in the extreme rear along with the "year of the big wind" and the "summer of the Johnstown Olood," yielding claim as a topic of Veathor conversation to the "coal- Jess cold snap of 1917-18." 'Round about the year 1985, along in January, say, when some brash youngster, cussing out the electric company for not turning on a few more amperes, or kilowats —or what ever It Is that electric companies do, or do not, turn on to make the elec tric radiator heat up a bit to meet a steadily dropping temperature, for there will be no such thing in those days as a coal-fed furnace; well, along about that time, as wo were about to say, when some brash youngster remarks to his grandslre: "Pretty cold to-day. Grandpa." Grandpa, condescendingly will re ply: "Oh, yes, a little brisk, but nothing to apeak of, and talking of cold, you' ought to have lived back in the 'coalless coldsnap of 1918/ Those were the days"—and then he'll bo off, rpinning along something like thl: "Why, 1 remember when Mayor Keister used to lock up the coal sup ply of the entire city In his safe oVer night. In those times a man who had a ton of coal In his cellar was richer than many a millionaire and when the neighbors got wind of It he sat up all night nursing a shotgun. You'd take a wagonload of dollar bills down to the coal yard and bring baok a pocketful of coal, and then, like as not there wasn't heat enough in tho coal to keep the coffee pot from freezing up when your Grandma tried to get breakfast. Was it cold? Why nay—Mr, Domain had to get extensions on his thermometers, the mercury went down BO far—" Etc., etc. And the worst of it will be that rrandson won't believrf a word of it That'* the trouble about this "old- SATURDAY EVENING, ————————————————————— t .. ■__ —_ * fashioned winter" business. Nobody believes what he hasn't seen. No weather was ever so severe as what he, at the present moment. Is ex periencing. That's the way we used to feel about It, when folks talked about the days when six-horse sleighs crossed the Susquehanna on the Ice, and now here comes along a belated brother of past cold waves to plague us, and to prove that our modern heating systems are all right In mild winters when coal Is plentiful, but nothing, absolutely nothing, to compare to an old-fash ioned ten-plate stove backed up by a woodpile high as the kitchen roof and a woodlot In the near offing where the man of tho house has but to ply his ready ax to insure a fuel supply that not only would "keep tho home fires burning until tho boys come home" but a mighty sight longer. TIIE RAILROAD SITUATION THERE Is nothing in President Wilson's message on government contral of the railroads that was not forecasted In his statement is sued previous to the taking over of tho roads. save that he will leave •ne transfer back to the owners a matter to be decided by Congress. The President pays a very proper iribuie to the patriotism of the rail road executives and In a businesslike nay proposes that they shall be guaranteed a return on their Invest ment and that necessary Improve ments and extensions shall be made luring the period of the war In order that the roads may be the better able to meet the strain that has been put upon them. The President says little on the subject of government ownership, but there Is a growing feeling that ♦ho railroads will not go back to tlie'r owners after the war without a very bitter fight on the floors of Congress, and it may bo supposed that when the time arrives the ex ecutive will give voice to his own opinions, which are usually very de cided. Of far more Interest than the President's message Is the method taken by the government to accom plish what the railroads under pri- j \ate ownership found it impossible to do. Pooling, preference orders and all manner of short cuts to efficiency, I forbidden by statute and orders of I the Inter-State Commerce Commis- j sion as bad practice, have been i adopted by the government as the ! \ery means whereby railroad opera- j tions can best be stimulated and | traffic promptly handled. For example, there is the order of Secretary McAdoo giving coal and food shipments preference over all other freight. If this had been in operation two or three weeks earlier | tlicre would have been little trouble or. that score and the coal shortage never would have reached the pro portions it has. This Is proved by the records of the coal operators, which show that they produced more coal between last April and No vember than ever before and that the railroads hauled and delivered 175,986 more carloads, or about 10,- 000,000 tons more, of anthracite than in the same months In 1916, or an increase of 15 per cent, over the best previous record. In the same months the railroads hauled 925,091 more carloads, or about 15,000,000 more tons, of bituminous eoafthan in the corresponding p<yiod for 1916, or 1S per cent, increase. That the i railroada have not been able to haul all the coal, offered is admitted, but this has not been due so much to failure of railway lines to 6perate together harmoniously as it has been that the government itself set aside food and coal in order to give pref erence to the tremendous quantities of war materials, cantonment sup- | plies, eta., passing over the roads, I it is evident, then, that the demands of government, which the govern- j me.nt has Just set aside temporarily, j are responsible largely for the fact ! that railroads have failed to deliver j fuel promptly and relief may be ex- j pected as soon as higher tempera tures permit the more rapid move ment of freight. MORE GERMAN DIES THR German liar is Rt It again in Harrisburg. This time he, or she, is telling it about that the local Red Cross officials are being paid princely salaries for their services, And the worst of it is that some people are foolish onough to bo lieve this outrageous lie. Nobody serving the Red Cross in Harrisburg Is paid. All are volun teers working patriotically day after day and giving their money as well as their time. Why do the pro-Germans persist In telling such falsehoods? Because they don't want American soldlerß to have the benefits of the Hod Cross. They want them to die miserably of wounds and sickness. They don't want sick or injured Americans to get back into the ranks, That is why they try to keep people from giving to the Red Cross, It is all very brutal and very crude, Next time you hear a stoiy like that say "that's a lie" and if mors is needed make your in formant go along to Red Cross head quarters and prove what he, or she, has said, WHKIIE CREDIT IS DUE HERB and there appears an in dividual or an organization self-congratulatory over the part played in the recent "triumph of prohibition," scored when the constitutional resolution was passed by Congress, Many forces have been at work, it is true, for the adoption of this measure, but back of it all is a public educated to the belief that the use of alcohoi is poisonous to tho human system, And the pub lic school textbook on physiology, with its antialcohol chapter, is more largely responsible for thin statu u( mind than any one other factor of all that have be*n at work. The me ment that children In the primary grade began to be taught that rum is voiiion, that moment the fate of the liquor trafllc was sealed. If wo mistake not, it was the modest, but energetic and persistent, though often mocked, W. C. T. U. to which credit for this achievement fs large ly due. "~P©££ttcs. ck !j By the Ex-Committceman Thousands of county, city, bor ough and township officers, including over 1,500 justices of the peace and aldermen, will assume their offices next Monday, making one of the most extensive changes in personnel of officials since the adoption of the constitutional amendments regulat ing tenure of such officers almost a decade ago. In addition to the elec tive officers, there will be many ap pointive officers sworn in. Two score Judges are in the number of officers to take the oaths. The commissions for the hundreds of men taking office have been sent from the State Capitol with the ex ception of several dozens of justices of the peace who failed to file ac ceptances of election within thirty days, as required, and some of whom are now seeking appointments to hold until after the eelction of 1919 instead of being commissioned for six years. The bonds of practically all of the officers required to give se curity to tho commonwealth have also been filed, the only delinquents being some coroners. —Nominating petitions to be is sued by the Secretary of the Com monwealth for filing In advance of the spring primary of 1918 for Statu Appellate Court. Congressional and Legislative nominations will bear regulations for filing which will con tain a definite statement of hours for the first time. The final day for filing such papers will be Thursday, April 11, and 5 o'clock In the aft ernoon will be tho limit. For years people have taken advantage of the time limit and tiled as late as one minute before midnight of the last day. The new arrangement is aimed to correct troubles which often arose as the result of belated filing. It is stated that tho hours of the department are from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and that the office will close at 5 011 the last day. It is suggested that all candidates tile at least a week before the limit expires so that pe titions may be examined and de fects repaired or corrections made in tinid instead of having them reject ed when too late to get them in form. In 191(5 there were 1,400 petitions filed on the last day alone. —Questions involving audit of the Slate Insurance Fund to ascertain whether it will be able to make It self-sustaining by June 1, 1919, an.l that the appropriations will be sufficient if the present rate of ex penditure goes on, will be threshed out next week when the board in charge of the Fund meets. Auditor General Charles A. Snyder has let it be known that he has no doubts of the stability of the Fund, the solvency of the entire proposit4>n, the strength of the investments or the value to the policyholders. "Such things are unquestioned, but there are some- other matters about which I would like to inquire," said he. It is understood that the Audi tor General wants to check un ex penditures and that for some reason people connected with the Fund do not want the payrolls gone over. Miles M. Dawson, the New York ex pert whom tho Auditor General named to make the inquiry for him, happens to be the man who drew the act creating the Pennsylvania fund and was consulted when the Legis lature was disposing of the bills creating the Fund. Dawson's ap pearance here the other day caused much perturbation on the Hill and moves to have the Auditor General take the matter to the charge instead of sending Dawson to the manager's office were at once started. —The movement for the renoml nation of Superior Court Judge Wil liam D. Porter, which has been tak ing form in various parts of thl state for the last two months, was given a big forward movement when 111 c bar of Allegheny county, the judge's home district, gave h'.m unanimous endorsement. Leaders of the Republican party in many sections have declared for the re rumination of Judge Porter. There are ii.timations, however, that Ex judge William D. Wallace of New Castle, may decide to enter the race. The r.cmocrats are just as likely to have a candidate as not and the Prohibitionists are talking of trot ting out some one. —James T. Brownson, the Wash ington lawyer appointed lo the Wash ngton county bench yesterday, is said to have the approval of the temperance people. He is a part ner of John Donnan, the leader of i tlie Washington bar and a man of o.tlainr.ients and high standing. He is in sympathy with Judge Mcll valne's license policy. —Norristown papers are out for Judge John Faber Miller for Gov ernor. Thev declare that he Is emi nently fitted for the place. —A boom has been started at 13rlo for Ex-Auditor General Stssnn as a candidate nlio can unite factions. —While E. V. Babeock, mar or clect, has made no formal announce ment. of his cabinet and may not do BO until Monday when he sends tho names to council for confirmation It Is believed ihat he has decided upon the men who will assist in conducting his administration. The following Is given as a tentative list of his principal appointees by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times! Depart ment of Public Safety, Charts B. Prlchard: Department of Public Works, John Swan: Department of Public Health, Dr. Robert O. Burns; Department of Public Charities, John J, McKelvey or William H. Davis; Department of Supplies, James F, Malone; Department of Law, Stephen Stone j treasurer, Charles 8. Hubbard. William D. Uhler, chief engineer of the State Highway Department, who has Just been appointed n major in the ordnance reserve of tho United States Army, will remain in state service under the act of IS 17 which provides for state officials and attaches going to war and unless he is ordered abroad will act in sr. r.dvlsory capacity, Highway Com missioner O'Neil will name some one to act in Mr. Uhler's place and will also have to name two assistant en gineers and one engineer in the township bureau of the department. Heretofore It has been the custom to promote men in the engineering branch,. —.Appointment of Public Service Commissioners to fill the two vacan cies existing on the board, will prob ably be made by Governor Brum* 'buugh within a month, according to leports current at the capitol to day. One of the commissioners will THE ANNUAL DILEMMA .... . : . ... ... BYBRIGGS C 'THE ARE - I OLC> "PALS - You CAM WORK \|<?LD YoOj Awv Ti**E- Tme SUM is Mice j AwO \A/AR*X IM FLORIDA AivfD California- vjdu oujie *tj Tc> 11 be a Philadelphia*! and the other place depfends upon what develops at Pittsburgh after the Armstrong dinner. City Treasurer W. D. Mc- Coach is generally picked for the Philadelphia place. —Thai always Interesting district, Hanover township, Luzerne county, is to the front with a new election fraud charge. —Lackawanna county lawyers yesterday endorsed Judge Porter. There have been nine counties for him. • —Reports are that Glfford Pin chot may make a visit to the Pitts burgh district to confer with labor leaders about his gubernatorial ca.n rlidacy before the Armstrong dinner, which will be the big thing in State politics next week. —Friends of Representative Asa A. Weimer, of Lebanon, say that he is a full fledged candidate for Oov ernor and that ho will be consider ably heard from in the next - few weeks.. Mayor-elect Alex T. Connell, of Pcranton, yesterday made official an nouncement of his cabinet. The selections are: City Treasurer, Mark K. Edgar; City Solicitor, Rudolph P. Houck; Director Public Works, Robert W. Allen; Director Public Safety, Arthur G. Davis; Director Public Health, Dr. S. P. Longstieet. Mayor-elect Connell takes of£iee Monday. LABOR NOTES "Post-office unions affiliated to the A. F. of L are a menace and should be abolished" is Postmaster General Burleson's answer to organized la- I bor's demand that working conditions | in this branch of the Government be improved. Since the United States declared war about 300 strikes or labor con troversies that might have led to strikes have been settled by Federal mediators of the Department of La bor. They involved directly 800,000 workmen, and Indirectly '300,000 more. Senator Smith, of Georgia, lins in troduced a bill providing for the use of convicts on war work. The plan Is an extension of the state-use sys tem In certain states which employ convicts oh goods used by the stf\te instead of contracting them to pri vate employers. Boston public school officials an nounce that the appropriation esti mates for the coming year will in clude Increases of $96 for elementary teachers and $l2O for principals and subprinclpals. Cleveland Iron Molders' Union has adopted a new wage sca#<\ in effect the first of the year. Rates of $4.50 for a nine-hour day are changed to read "sfl for an eight-hour day." The executive board of the Wash ington State Federation of Labor has recorded its protest "against any and all proposed amendments to existing Immigration laws that will admit of any greater freedom for entry of Chi nese labor." The secretary of the Kentucky Slate Federation of Labor has been dismissed from the Louisville Fire Department by the Board of Public Safety because he organized a union of firemen. Chicago paper rulers, affiliated with the Brotherhood of Bookbinders, have secured a two-year agreement which guarantees a minimum rate of $?8.60 a week and a graduated scale for apprentices. NOBODY KNOWS Absolute knowledge have I none, But my aunt's washer woman's sis ter's son Heard a policeman en his beat Say to a laborer In the street That he had a letter just last week, Written In the finest Greek, From a Chinese coolie In Tlmbuetoo, Who said the "niggers" In Cuba knew Of R colored man In a Teaas town, Who got It straight from a circus clown, That a man In Klonlika heard the news From a gang of South American Jews About somebody In Borneo, Who heard of a man who claimed to know Of a swell society female rake, Whose mother-in-law will under take To prove that her seventh husband's sister's niece Has stated in a printed piece, That she has a son who haa a friend Whoiknows when the war is goin? ' to end. "Th® Gettysburglan." The Truce of the Bear Yearly, with tent and rifle, our care less white men go By the pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below, Yearly by Muttianee he follows our white men in— Matun, the old blind beggar, ban daged from bro,w to chin. Eyeless, noseless, and lipless—tooth less, broken of speech, Seeking a dole at the doorway he mumbles his tale to each; Over and over the stoiy, ending as he began; "Make fe no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that walks like a man! "There was a flint in my musket— pricked and primed was the pan. When I went hunting Adam-zad — the Bear that stands like a man. I looked my last on the timber, I looked my last on the snow. When I went hunting Adam-zad, fifty summers ago. "I knew his times and his seasons, os he knew mine, that fed By night in the ripened maizefleM ' and robbed my house of bread; I knew his strength and cunning, as he knew mine, that crept At dawn to the crowded goatpens and plundered while I slept. "Up from his stony playground—• down from his well-digged lair— Out on the naked ridges ran Adam- Kiid the Hear, Groaning, grunting, and roaring heavy with stolen meals. Two long marches to northward and I was at his heels! "Two full marches to northward, at the fall of the second night. I came on mine enemy Adam-zad all panting from his flglit. There was a charge in the musket— l pricked ftnd primed was 1 the pan— My finger crooked on the trigger— when he reared up like a man. "Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands In prayer. Making his supplication rose Adam zad the Bear! ■ I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing. LAW BRANDS ABSURDITY [Detroit Free Press] A. Bonar Law, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, destroys effec tively rumors that his government may undertake to repudiate a part of the national liabilities. He makes the absurdity of such rumors quite obvious by pointing out the repu diation would be ruinous to the gov ernment attempting it and disas trous to the nation permitting It "Nothing after the war will bo more Important than to preserve and but tress the fabric of the national cred it," he says, "and nothing would so easily undermine It as the refusal of the government to honor Its debt," The chancellor of the exchequer further points out that It would be Impossible for a government which had destroyed Its credit ever to bor row again. In other words, Me, Law takes the position that Orent Brltlan Is no fly-by-nlght Institution, but a permanently established enterprise which expects to be at the old stand after this war Is over, Good busi ness if nothing else demands main tenance of its credit' on a 100 per cent, basis, and this is especially necessary since a large portion of its securities are held by persons not of Its own household, Also, it Is characteristically British that such a sensible view will be taken of the situation and that any and every sacrifice will be made to prevent impairment of the national financial rating. War Time Wit in London People are Btill worried about the difference between a male and a fe male tank. The fact is the latter carries more guns and talks louder. Arnold Bennett says that all op | pressed people talk tremendously. I Tt's the depressed people who have I to listen. ; Humor hag it that the gentleman ; who allotted our meat rations with | their 25 per cent, of bone is a butch er, who is working pro bono pub lico. "Touched with pity and wonder, \ did not fire then—- I have looked no more on women— I have walked no more with men. Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray— From brow to jaw that steel-shod paw, it ripped my face away. "Sudden, silent and savage, Bearing as flame the blow— Faceless I fell before his feet, fifty summers ago. I heard his grunt and chuckle —I heard him pass to his den, He left me blind to tho darkened years and the little mercy of men. "Now we go down in the morning with guns of the newer style. That load (I havo felt) In the middle and range (I have heard) a mile? Luck to the white man's rifle, that shoots so fast and true. But—pay, and I lift my bandage end show what the Bear can do! (Flesh like slag In the furnace knob bed and withered and gray— Matun, the old blind beggar, he gives good worth for his pay.) "Rouse him at noon in the bushes, follow and press him hard— JJot from his ragings and roaring flinch ye from Adam-zad. "But (pay, and I put back the hand age) this Is the time to fear, When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near; When he stands up as pleading. In wavering, man-brute guise. When he veils the hate and cunning of the little, swinish eyes; "When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, THAT is the time of peril—the time of the Truce of the Bear!" Eyeless, noseless, and llpless, asking a dole at the door, Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o'er and o'er; Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame. Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow's game. Over and over the story, ending as he began;— "There is no trace with Adam-zad, . the Bear that looks like n man!" —By Rudyard Kipling, IS9B. RED CROSS WORKROOM (From Los Angeles Times) Stitch, stitch, stitch! Knit, knit, knit! For there is a lot of work to do , And lovo and duty must seo It thro' Humanity calls for It, Matrons and maids are at work to day Plying their needles In skilful way, Bed shirts, pajamas and knitted BOX. Compresses and bandages by the box. Scarfs and mittens and sweaters, too. Are n few of the many things they Some of the matrons this work em ploys Have already sacrlfled their boys, And sent thei.i away with a heavy heart, In the cause of Freedom, to play their part, And strong .wills triumph o'er the tears! And the clicking needles allay their fears. And many a soldier youth has sway ed A joyous lass to a somber maid, But she, too, stifles an anxious mind And with her needle leaves grief be hind. For the lover will eome when the war is o'er, And needs her now mere than e'er before. In every city—in every town— The maids and matrons are troop'ng down To the Had Cross rooms to do their share In the work that women And every where. And thoso brave young Jads who have gone to war Will know, forsooth, whom they're fighting for. Stitch, stitch, stitch! Knit, knit, kntt! For there Is a lot of work to do— A work for me and a work for you. Lct u do our share of it. LEBTBH J. BKIDMORE. Otfer tfu "The Colonel is very polite." "Hi 3 politeness was hard put to it to-day, however." "How was that?" "He tried to hold a revolving door open." Blowrfg out the gas has been a standing joke so long one' would never believe that it could be done. But George Hess, a farmer's helper living at Gum Tree, Chester county, registered at the Imperial Hotel in Lancaster tho other night and died in this fashion. The coronor said there could be no suspicion of suicide. Any Pennsylvania housekeeper who fancies that prices are exor bitant in this country should read the following scale of prices In Ger many: Woolen cloth, which used to be 72 cents a yard, is now $9.60 a yard. Half-wool stuff, formerly 3S cents a yard, is now $5.76. Vel vets, formerly $1.44 a yard, is now sl2. Sugar, formerly 20 cents, is now $2.88. Wash voile, formerly 13 cent, is now about $3. Machine cotton, formerly 4 cents per large spool, is now 22 cents. Cotton socks for infants, formerly 72 cents a dozen, are now $11.52 a dozen. Ladies' woolen stockings, formerly 6G cents, are now $3.60. Shoe laces are twenty times as much as before the war. OUR DAILY LAUGH THOROUGH • What's the ( definition for' jBQRM thoroughbred? Well raised, with plenty of 'rUBl doiigh. fJjUM A VEST 19RAN WTxJilll Wi\B SOLDIER. t/A "Won't you 'II W>rr> Klvß a veteran Hr Bomethlng to }i Kj lf(fe. eran? You were |sjftt|ljp A //I never a soldier. 5 ill 4 // Lady, you do \U\m B U me an Injustice. . h-Jinyr L J have done nothla' but sol dier all me life. FQRTUNATE. Indeed he is JfcvSw' - J 3 r He has almost I NATURAL DB- I J VBLOPMENT. I I Mrs. Knagg; i i t You used to call I Mm.Jj V me your dear Sfek mt,a kitten. \f \JT Mr. Knagg: U Well, I ain't to I tlx Mmi blame cause Hflu you Krew up to bo a cat. " M ifchwratg flUjat While thon deer that used to e-j vort around Wildwood Park and | come down to the Pennsylvania rail - j road yards at Lucknow to gaz* atj •he kiy men sorting out freight) tr.iinn seeir< to have made a beellne l for cover when the deer hunting ief.-| son began and swam the Suqueh<Mi-| na river, as alleged by quite a few 1 [people, thera was still good bunting I n Dauphin county In the season .■•list closed. The hunters havi mutfo some report And the gams wardens have made others and the two com 1 blrfei! indlcite that while der and i bear did nvt frolic about In thltfj county or In the-eastern end of Cnm-i Ic-rland, there were about seventy-j five killed In Cumberland and Perry,] most of them In the extreme we*t-i ern sections or along the mountains.! The Dauphin report shows that therei were 50,000 rabbits shot in this coun-i ty and the same number in Cumber-j land. This is considered a fair esti -i mate, because, if there was one an;- mal that seemed to be numerous tn| this county, it was the cottontatl:. Estimates are that the hills and) woods of Dauphin county furnished] 5,000 squirrels to the game bag jrj 3,000 more than Cumberland. Dau-j phin was also ahead of Cumberland! on the bag of raccoons, no less tfaaii-j 245 being taken In this county ti fifty over the river. One of the -•< teresting features of the hunting Ift, this county was that seventy-fly* wild turkeys were shot In Dauphin county. Half a dozen flocks have> been reported from First mountain and the Conewago hills, while some fine big fellows were* seen In the upper end of the county. Approxi mately 600 quail were shot In this county, about the same number aa In Cumberland. There were 100 gronse, a rapidly disappearing bird, shot in this county and seventy-five ring-necked pheasants. In view of these figures, old Dauphin county stands pretty well In the game line. If that preserve which the Game Commission wants to establish in the Dykens Valley can be worked out, there will be lots more game. The only thihg that standa in the way of the preserve is the question of leases from coal and water compa nies which own the land. "There are more people eating in their kitchens and making living rooms out of their dlnlngrooms now than ever known before in Ilar rlsburg, I can tell you," said a man conversant with city life this morn ing. "Since the fuel shortage start ed and the cold weather came a num ber of people have closed up parts of their houses and the days of the cold parlor are around again. You recall what It used to be like when they did not have the fire lighted in the parlor stovo. Well, that's it again. Now folks are paying calls in kitchens and diningrooms. Per haps the heatless bedrooms are all right in the end, but it's cold to get up in the morning." "Man alive, don't blame me. I'm having troubles of my own to get coal for my own house," said a man connected with a coal company yes terday afternoon. "Why, the yards of our company are bare and we have to take our turn just like our customers. I have not half a ton in my cellar. We are up against it like the rest of you and we beg the rail roads and the coal people to send us coal. There are people who gave orders In the spring who have not received all they ordered and they are down to the ton basis just like you and I. It's a mistake to jump the retailer. He's having troubles of his own between nondelivery of coal and his own drivers. There are not many men connected with coal com panies who have much coal on hand." One of the city's businessmen de clared to-day that, while the coal shortage was a calamity, it would have a good effect in the end be cause it would put the business on a strictly cash basis and make it eas ier all around. "Next summer when the coal man is hunting busi ness he will have cash customers to deal with and he will deliver pron |>t ly and the folks will pay promptly, which will bo healthy," was his rath er severe way of putting it. * •, There have been few events in Congress since war began which were followed with closer attention than the appearance of the President before the two Houses yesterday. Tho bulletin boards were watched and the telephones buzzed with in quiries about what the President said and what was done. Tho inter est in national affairs is greater than for a long time. • • * Payment of wagers sometimes cov ers a long period. Miss Josio Mag.vo employed by the Union News Com pany at tho Pennsylvania Railroad station yesterday collected a bet that was made seven years ago. Miss Magaro was employed at tho Harris burg Hospital. Another young wo man started a conversation on mar riage. "I'll bet you that I will not be the first one to wed," said Miss Magaro. The amount was named and an agreement reached that the first one to marry should within twenty-four hours after the wedding pay the amount agreed upon to tho girl remaining single. Onjthe arrival of an early train from Hagerstown, Miss Magaro was approached by a younp woman who remarked : "There is your money. I was married yes terday." It was a long time coming, but the bet was paid. • • • • "If the people of your city want the soldiers to get the mall sent to them they should address It to the regiment as well as the camp: that's my advice," said a government offi cer yesterday. "HarHsburg has an exceptionally largo number of sol diers In the camps and I think your people should know that letters stand a better chance of delivery if they are sent to the regiment." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Harry M. Laughlln, secretary of one of the big Pittsburgh clubs, haa gone into the Naval Reserve. —E. C. Brown, one of the promi ment men of Cambria county. Is critically ill. —A. J. County, new vice-president of the Cumberland Valley, has spent most of his life In the Pennsylvania service, —The Rev. Irwin A, Blackwood. Pittsburgh clergyman, has been ap pointed editor of the National Re form Association's paper, —D. T. Martin, Dushore business man, has been appointed food ad minlstrator for Sullivan county, —A. H. Kretz, active in Reading affairs, has been appointed a mem ber of the ity Planning Commis sion. DO YOU KNOW —That IlarrisburK has cut (lown its consumption of meat "mi a tenth? . HISTORIC HAIIfUSBUHO One hundred years ago the lirM anthracite was brought hdre on a, I rtat, but regarded as a curiewMy
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