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( .. 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY SO, 1018 j ■ ... \ Happy and strong and brave shall f we be—atle to endure all things, c and do all things—if tee believe that j every day, every hour, every mo- * I ment of our life is in His hands.— r HENRY VAN DYKE. 1 1 ■ ] GROUNDHOG DAY j NONE of us believe in the s Groundhog as a weather fore- £ caster. No, indeed! Most cer tainly NOT! BUT, there Is no gainsaying that a lot of foolish persons ARE super- d stitious enough to place faith in r Groundhog Day. This is silly. We t know it is, because an official of the Weather Bureau once told us that the Groundhog has nothing more to do with the weather than he has to do with the price of pork, and f this Weather Bureau man is a coldly calculating, scientific person, who can prcve by geometry and trigo- f nometry that the only way to fore- * cast weather is by figuring it out in curves on a map. We are the more 1 Inclined to think he Is right from 1 the fact that no self-respecting * Groundhog would dare hold himself for such a vile winter as 1 we have teen having. As we have said, the belief In the 1 GAiundhog Is a matter for the ignor- ' ant and the superstitious. But just ' the same most of us will breath a ! "bit more easily if the coming Satur day be so overcast that the sun does j not reach a shadow-casting stage, j Of course, this has nothing, oh abso- ] lutely nothing whatsoever, to do with the fact that Saturday will be ' Groundhog Day. • It is snowing in York to-day. This : is only another reason why we are glad we livb in Harrlsburg. MR. RAKER'S DEFENSE SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER is a past master of glittering and convincing generalities and his defense before the Senate Military Committee smacks strongly o{ his address in Harrisburg last year, which sounded well, but has not been entirely borne out in all Its particulars by the developments to which the Secretary then looked for ward so confidently. Neverthe less, in all fairness to him, it must he said that he has made a better showing than was expected. He came out of the hearing with little or none of the cross-questioning to which other witnesses wicre sub jected and without having to go In to particulars as to matters con cerning which thousands of Amer icans would like to have informa tion. But he has lost a very con siderable bit of that cock-sureness which has been his greatest weak ness and which led him into many errors in the past, and he has very recently displayed a willingness to listen to Congressional advice, even though he has been careful to an nounce that his reorganizations and appointments were made merely as a result of his own plans. Nobody has denied that the War Department has had to tackle the biggest job in the world. Nobody has denied, either, that it has not accomplished a very great deal. That is not the question. Public in dignation, reflected in the Senate ar d House, has been the result of need less blunders—blunders which have cost the lives of hundreds of Amer ican soldiers and sent others to France poorly equipped and depen dent upon the bounty of England and France for arms. The fact that we have 600,000 men now on the lighting line and 2,000,000 more to go this year Is very gratifying, but it does not explain away the awful negligence which has brought whole regiments of soldiers down with pneumonia or which has failed to provide the necessary sanitary and hospital equipment for which Gen eral Gorgas has pleaded In vain. Nor does it explain the lack of ■frarm underclothing for the soldiers, nor the lack of overcoats, nor the lack of shoes for the men sent abroad. The Secretary may have accom plished great things, and for those ho is to be praised, but he himself admits many shortcomings and asks I WEDNESDAY EVENING, to be excused on the ground that mistakes are bound to occur In such weighty undertakings as that under way. This is a good sign. Hertto fore the Secretary would admit of no errors. It indicates that he is broadening, and, therefore, becom ing more efficient. Every good American will hope that this very refreshing and bene ficial shake-up In the War Depart ment will not have to be followed by others, but there is no positive indication that the difficulties are at an end.. Indeed, there are bounh to be fresh flare-ups until the Presi dent surrounds himself with such a war cabinet as will take from his shoulders some of the burden of detail that rests there largely by reason of the fact that the men whom he has associated with him do not all measure up to the size of the Jobs they are asked to fill. The United States loses slxty-t>lne ships by U-boat sinkings and gains 107 by seizure during the year, which is our answer to Germany's claim that the U-boat campaign has been a suc cess. CONGRESSMAN KREIDER IT is to be hoped that Congress will enact Congressman Kreid er's bill amending the soldier's relief act so as to include Buch worthy cases as that of the Aurands in this city, whose only son and sole support was killed in France, but are deprived of government aid through the loose construction of the original relief law. The wonder Is that Congress ever should have adopted such a measure, which, by failure to include certain classes of worthy dependents, leaves uncared for many it was intended to protect. The corrective amendment is typi cal of the legislation for which Mr. Kreider has stood sponsor at Wash ington. He ha 3 proved himself a man of vision and practical ability. Ho is a student of the nation's busi ness and thoroughly posted on every phase of Congressional activity. Furthermore, he is a through going Republican and thoroughly repre sentative of the district he has so long served. It goes without: saying that he will be renominated as long as he desires the office. "Forty-seven men, women and chil dren killed in London by German air raid." Hurry up, Kaiser, and get out more Iron Crosses for the brave avia tors. CAMP HILL PATRIOTIC THE determination of Camp Hill and Washington Heights men and women voluntarily to add to their war work by raising funds to provide sweaters, helmets, etc., for the boys of that locality who have gone to the front, as well as to make surgical dressings and other supplies of a medical nature, is great ly to the credit of those communi ties. Already Camp Hill has done wonders In this respect and those at the head of the movement..have t £ad confidence enough in the patriotism of their fellows to arrange for the purchase of SSOO worth of supplies, to be paid for out of funds to be raised. The system of pledging a small amount each month Is wise. Saving systematically Is the only sure way to save, and giving syste matically ought to be productive of just as satisfactory results. The plan Is well worth the careful con- I sideration of other communities. Don't listen to any peace talk that does not Include the surrender of Prussian autocracy. Any other kind is "made In Germany." SMILEAGE ROOKS ASMILEAGEJ BOOK IS a book of tickets to recognized places of amusement for soldiers. The pay of the soldier Is small. The life of the soldier is hard and mo notonous. You buy the book—for one dollar or five dollars —and send It to a sol dier. He uses the tickets to see a show, hear a concert or lecture and thus drive dull care away. That's where the "smileage" comes In —one smile for you and quite a few for the soldier. The members of the Daughters of 1917 and the Rotarians are back of the movement here. All the stores will sell the books. The government has endorsed the idea. KILLING THE VARMINTS JUDGING from the reports made by officers In charge of the bounty division of the State Gamo Commission, a pretty good share of the State's revenue from hunters' licenses Is going toward en. couraglng the killing of weasels, wildcats, foxes, minks and other ani mals classed as vermin and upon whose heads a price is placed be cause of the damage they do to the farmers. There have been some scandals in the past in the wry the minor judiciary and the counties handled the bounty question, but the Game Commission and the Auditor General's staff have cleaned up that situation, although the legislature did a rather queer thing in legaliz ing some of the claims which had caused the State officers to protest. There were a good many brick bats thrown at the hunters' license law and some peoplo sat on the fences and sebffed at the idea of the law ever being a benefit to the farmer in the catching of nuisances. Yet in the last year 4 4,2 70 weasels alone were caught and paid for, while 393 wildcats, one of the worst pests in the woods, were scalped. And a choice collection of foxes and minks were also rounded up and killed. After all's said and done no less than $66,000 of the revenue from the licenses went for bounties, which Is a pretty fair share. feUUctU "P.K>vOi|to'a>tuv By the Ex-Committeeman An curly announcement of the platform upon which he will seek the Republican nomination for Gov ernor is expected from Senator Wil liam C. Sproul. This statement will be of such a character as to meet the views of everyone, declare friends of the Delaware man, who are preparing to contend with High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Nell and his forces for the honor. Mean while Mr. O'Nell is busy aligning his forces and getting ready to open his campaign with vigor. Friends of Chairman W. D. B. Alney, of the Public Service Commission, decline to accept the reports from Philadel phia. that the bulk of the state lead ers ha"e agreed upon Senator Sproul and are pushing his boom, although the chairman is carefully staying out of politics- and working on commis sion matters. In addition to the northeastern county men, Mr. Alney Is being boomed by William A. Magee anil some friends in Philadel phia. Pennsylvania Congressmen who have been busy fropi Washing ton in an effort to get hajrmony have been no more successful in getting Congressman W. W. Griest to run than the.' have been with Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods. Stato Chairman William E. Crow, who was In Harrlsburg last evening for several hours on his way home, declinedto make any comments upon the state ticket of any possibilities, except that he said that the cam paign would be interesting. The chairman Is looking beyond the pri maries and intends to have the party present a solid front wheti the nom inations are made. —Commissioner O'Neil had a great time in Philadelphia and vi cinity yesterday and last night and is very much encouraged. The Com missioner addressed the Anti-Saloon league and received a notable ova tion and made speeches at several other gatherings where he was cheered. The Philadelphia newspa pers give him extended notices and rather emphasize the belief that Mr. O'Neil is going to go it more or less alone. —The Commissioner seemed to be rather partial to this attitude him self as in a statement he made the interesting declaration that he had not received any word from the Governor. In view of the fact that Governor Brumbaugh came as close to endorsing him as desirable in a letter sent to the dinner and that Attorney General Brown was the chief speaker at O'Neil's dinner this is more than interesting here. —ln its account of the O'Nell visit the Philadelphia Ledger says: "I'm alone," said Mr. O'Neil, "so far as the leaders are concerned. I've had no whisper of a word from the Vares, none from the Governor. But I feel that a mighty host of silent people all over the state will back me up. And even if I lose. I'll win. I'm going to make that kind of a fight." The little Highway Commis sioner was reminded that a fight for abstract principles can sometimes be the loneliest occupation under the sun, and he said merely that he had been in politics long enough to realize this. "I'm not only after Penrose," he said. "I'm after his crowd. I'm going to rip this state up. I'm going to talk from one end of it to the otlier, if I haven't a promise from any leader. If the Vares will help mo I'll be glad. And I'll be glad if I get the Governor's help. I have had no promises from anybody. All I know is that the older order is passing all over the world. The silent people are mak ing themselves felt. Penrose and his crowd belong to the dark ages of politics; to the dark and ugly ages of free government. Penrose will go anyhow, whether I win or lose. But I'd like to be the man to send him on his way." —While here Senator Crow held consultations with Senator E. E. Beldleman prominently mentioned tor Lieutenant Governor, and \V. Harry Baker, secretary of the state committee. —Pennsylvania Congressmen of both political faiths, who have been more or less disturbed by the family quarrels under way in their parties, got on the map yesterday by going to Garfield and demanding coal for this state. It was one of the most signlilcant moves made by the Con gressmen, many of whom are going to have trouble at home. —The Democratic bosses are working hard to get a candidate to oppose Congressman IT. J. Steele, of Easton, for renominatlon. Dallett H. Wilson, Bethlehem, and Calvin Smith, Easton, have been talked of, but they are not talking. —The miserable attempt to make trouble for Fire Marshal G. dial Port by charging that he has Veen making new jobs by the hundreds, has about blown up. The marshal is only carrying out what the law di rects and calling upon newly-elected borough and township oflicials to serve and is not naming people' right and left as some Democratic organs would like to have the public believe in order to detract attention from the wholesale naming of deserving Democrats to jobs in the revenue service. —Senator Sproul and Commission er O'Neil met in a Philadelphia hotel for a few minutes last night. They shook hands and chatted and then went their ways. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch of Monday gives considerable attention to an attack made upon Governor Brumbaugh by Allegheny county liquor dealers. The Governor's atti tude is sharply citicised by the liquor men and given much promi nence. —Select Councilman Charles So ger, Philadelphia veteran, is in fail ing health. He is one of the pictur esque figures of state politics. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore is given a great editorial boost by the Philadelphia Bulletin which says he is more than a district congress man. THE MINUET A sonnet's like a measured minuet That poets step in, statelily and slow. Forward and back its powdered couplets go; Its quatrains keep their own ap pointed set. With formal grace the company is met, In periwig, grisette, and furbelow, Scented with abergris and berga mot, And no more free than finches in a net. So when It's done, I like to fling my stiff. High heels away and run outdoors to find Adventure far from candled halls; and if A thorn should prick me or a peb ble hurt Or bramble-bushes tear my silken skirt, At least I'm going where I have a mind. —By Dorothy Leonard, " ~ ; \ HAJURISBURG TELEGRAPH! OH, MAN! . | - ~ I f ~ ro*"* AMD PpOPFICToR?) <■ -<?■ - ~ / hemrv r s£e {&' ,/ f , J lOcLU t F AMVt36Dy'( / I=lo6 PoukJD Boy ' P/CuwD I ,r \ / Sugar HILPA/ I s-s'-ws I \ A I ( <3ue.ss I <Tou-0- I Got IoV^Y--~Z (SHU>S - / \ j (T Be / y- — \ s °"" ' y THAT-i A LLJ S LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LIQUOR IN COURT To the Editor of the Telegraph: The following is taken from the Big Run Tribune of Jefferson county. If the report is correctly given of the occurrences in the Clearfield county court, I have been wondering whether it be not in har mony with the course of reasoning in man;' another court. The Court i of Heaven seems to be at a dis count sometimes in earthly courts. May it not be that the present dis tress of nations, our own Nation included, is the result of thus try ing to count God out. Man may as well understand first as last that It pays to give heed to the laws of the Almighty; and earthly courts should never forget that upon en trance upon their dutiea they have made solemn covenant before the Court of Heaven. Here is the Tri bune statement: "According to a report in the Du- Bois Courier, Judge Bell makes the preachers shut up when they bring Bible arguments to bear against the booze business. The report informs us that the liev. Henderson, of the Presbyterian Church at Boardman appeared before the court as a re monstrant against Andrew Yavor- Bky's application for a license at Kellytown. Ex-Judge Reed was us ing his influence in favor of the li cense. The Rev. Henderson made an effort to show that it is a sin to give anyone a license to make drunkards. Ex-Judge Reed demand ed authority of the Rev. Henderson for asserting that liquor license is conducive to sin. When the minis ter proceeded to give divine author ity for his position he was inter rupted by Judge Bell, and informed that such arguments would have no bearing on the question at issue. "So there you have the whole matter in a nut shell. Rum-making booze sophistry is welcomed at a liquor license court, but Bible ar guments are rejected. The reason for this is evident. Where the court listens to and heeds righteous argu ments no liquor licenses will be granted." Sincerely yours, B. E. P. PRUGH, Prohibtion State Chairman. THE STATE PRESS An unmistakable sign of Scran ton's progress and future great prosperity is seen in the announce ment that 375 different enterprises are in communication with the Bureau of Industry of the Scranton Board of Trade relative to the wis dom of locating plants in this city. Twenty-five of these are considered very good prospects.—Scranton Re publican. Popular government is on trial and the contest is to determine whether or not free government can wage war, defend itself and/ its in stitutions, and defeat an attacking autocratic government. We are in it, the future of free Institutions, of free government and of the liberty of mandkind, are at stake, so there is nothing to be done but fight to the end—no matter at what cost nor for how long.—Easton Free Press. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"""" The Russian revolution would be all right if it could stop revolving.— Brooklyn Eagle. The Bolsheviki baby sqawked when the Kaiser tried to take too much of his candy.—Newark News. The Kaiser's faith in his super diplomats must suffer a bit when he realizes that even the Bolsheviki can see through them.—Chicago Even -1 ing Post. * 1 "Allies must not desert Russia." To the average man it looks much ' more as If Russia is deserting the Allies . Charleston News and 1 Courier. Possibly Germany, after a little ' more experience with the Bolsheviki, may pass Russia back to the Allies. —Kansas City Star. ' Late reports from the Far East in dicate that unless Russia is careful she will experience a Jappy new ■ year.—Nashville Southern Lumber man. One cheerful thing about the Rus i sian situation ia that the only food supply that can possibly help the ! Germans is in Southern Russia and in the hands of those opposed to the Bolsheviki. —Boston Herald. Getting Last Drop HERE is a little bundle of infor mation you can carry home, Anthony," said the man with the dyspeptic look as he pushed in to a chair at the Rush Lunch and turned in an order for a "bowl." "Even members of our best families are tilting" their bouillon cups nowa da>s to get the last drop. You know one can't hearken to etiquette's de mands when food prices are up ward bound and going so fast that a lone dollar won't flag enough gro ceries to make a 1-course meal for a sick man. 'I never was enthusiastic about this rule whereby one was supposed to leave a lot of good soup in the bowl rather than tilt it. Manv times I ve been out where I liked the cook ing and had to see real nourishment go back to the kitchen just because it wasn't good table manners to try to get more out of the dish than would come by letting it recline na turally upon the table. 'Now, thanks to the war prices and Mr. Hoover's plea to save food, TEAM WORK ! [Kansas City Times] "Tell the truth and speed up the war," is the slogan Colonel Roose velt wants the country to adopt. And that is what the country wants. It wants the truth, and it wants speed for our war preparations. , It is no fault of the people that there is grave uneasiness as to the war situation. They know only that war preparations have been unrea sonably delayed. They know that we are not in the war, and that thfere seems nQ immediate prospect of our getting into it effectively. The apologists for this situation say, "Of course, there have been mistakes." It is not the fact that there have been mistakes that causes the uneasiness existing in the pub lic mind. It is the fact that there seems to be lack of team work ev erywhere, up to this present time. Lack of team work does not win wars. Confession that mistakes have been made does not help re store confidence unless the confes sion leads to correction. The country is concerned only with one thing—winning the war. And it knows that it will take team work to in it. When it sees every department engaged in the conduct of the war doing real team work, it will be satisfied. How Great Is His Goodness And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!—Zechariah, ix, 16 and 17. THEN AND NOW I called the coal man on the phone When summer wheeled her flow ery flighty And made my modest wishes known, To-wit: a ton of anthracite. His voic< was soft, his voice was kind (Remember, this was last July); And quite to set at rest my mind He made the following reply: "A ton of coal? Sure! Right away. I'm grateful for your order, sir; I'll have it in your bin to-day, And twenty more, if you prefer! You can't afford so much right now? Don't let that trouble you at all! I'll send it up there, anyhow, And you can pay some time next fall'" I called the coal man on the phone When it was twenty-two below. And all the shivering temperate zone Was buried under ice and snow, His voice was rough, his voice was rude 1 (Remember, this was yesterday), His speech was coarse and crass and crude; And this is what he had to say: "A ton of coal, you bone-roofed 1 simp! A ton of coal? Well, I guess not! ■ Somebody ought to put a crimp In such a nerve as you have got! Say, IVe been pestered quite enough By guys like you. It makes me sore! i Hang up the phone, you dippy stufT, I And don't you call me up no i more!" —Boston Advertiser. • a great barrier to a hungry diner's getting all there is in the disli has been cleared away. "Of course, Anthony, one doesn't have to be crude in the method of getting the bowl at any angle where the last drop of soup may be dipped up and started on its way to serve the purpose for which is originally was cooked. One not bold enough to break off with the old polite so ciety rule openly and with scrap-of paper technique may conceal the move. Take for instance the little trick of putting the bowl down upon a fork or folded napkin. In this way the dish is slanted sufficiently to roll the last drop into the waiting spoon with an extra effort by the diner. "But seldom will one have to re sort to clever methods in this line of little food and less money. Tilt ing the bowl is almost universally being done. Unless one be dining at the home of some profiteer, where food is as common and as plentiful as in the old days, one will find the diners are all doing the same when it comes to going after the last drop." DR GORGAS NOT HEEDED (New York Times) It seems astonishing, in fact inex plicable, that the advice of the sur geon who combatted and by scientific discoveries triumphed over yellow fever at- Havana, and who made the Panama Zone a sanatorium for the canal builders, should have been dis regarded. The result was an unnec essary increase in the death rate of soldiers committed to makeshifts of hospitals without heat, proper equip ment, and trained attendants. It is a shameful argument that, after all, the death rate ne|~ thousand was not high, It provejjß|othlng but inde cent partlsanshfjjr Can there be a doubt that if the cantonments had to be built over again the construc tion of hospitals would not have kept pace with them? But the waste of life, which was so unnecessary and is such a reproach to the War Department, had another salient cause than the lack of ade quate hospital facilities, and that, was overcrowding the camps. Gen eral Gorgas urged as the minimum 1 of floor space forty-five square feet 1 —his preference was sixty feet as a sanitary precaution. "We were en deavoring," ho told the committee to account for the compromise, "to meet the questions of expenses and the feasibility in various ways." What happened? When General Gorgas made his inspections he found nine men crowded into floor spaced largo enough ipr five only. He had heard that as many as twelve men were compressed into space intended for five. LABOR NOTES The mining industry in British Co lumbia has experienced a very suc cessful year. A strike has been declared by the Dublin (Ireland) job carriage dri vers and the coffin makers. Practically every factory in Tor rington, Conn., has established the eight-hour day. A number of Hertfordshire (Eng.) women are now employed in the running of motor plows. "Reclassification of salaries for our letter carriers has only happened once in about half a century. Connecticut State Compensation Commission reports that 45,093 workers tfere injured in that state last year. A strike of the tenters in Belfast (Ireland) power loom factories has rendered nearly 10,000 operatives idle. Forty -three Parliamentary can didates will be run by the British Miners' Federation at the next gen eral election. Augusta (Ga.) City Council has raised wa"ges ten per cent, for the police, fire, streets and scavenger de partments. , Workingmen of Waterloo, Can., have formed an organization for the purpose of increasing interest in municipaf affairs. Tuberculosis mortality in the Cen tral Empires shows a terrible in crease during the war, according to official statistics. t JANUARY 30, 1918. —\ 0w tfa "Jo|a b s Three hundred Altoona residents volunteered their services to shovel the railroads out of the snow. We did not observe any such zeal In Harrisburg. Ten feet cf snow does not kill a copperhead snake. Man tit Mill Hall, Pa., found two while digging a well and they gave him the battle of his life. Declaring that she was a writer of moving picture scenarios and that tho only way she could turn out lively "stuff" for the screen was to fill herself up with "dope" a well-dressed woman was arraigned before the Federal court in Pitts burgh and held for trial. She beg ged for somo "dope" and cried that she could not pursue her profession without its inspiration. There must be a good many more scenario writers in her class. Miss Louise Stockert, of Lansdale, had five needles removed from her body. "I can't for tile world think how they got inside of me," she sighed, as they pried out the last cne. OUR DAILY LAUGH] ■——lUsiJ QUITE RIGHT. "He was cremated and his ashes scattered to the four winds." ' I suppose that Is what l* meow by ?oiin.g one's self." OF COURSE. "He's entered the aviation corps." "Wantc-d a chance to rise nuickty, X presume." os||i NEVER. FAILS. "The hostess said the affair was co be strictly Informal." "That makes the girls dreas up all right." BETWEEN GIRLS. "Jack declares he'll go craay if I don't marry him." -"Ah. Then thero'e no hope for him either way." lEtentng (fiijttf Tho prolonged cold spell has brought ft new artist Into our mid-a and he is entertaining, if not strict ly original. He Is ihe man who writes on the frosted windows of tho street cars or draws pictures and makes life worth living when you are crawling along in a car so filled v/lth moisture that the windows a r <s covered with ice because of the cold outside. There is a fascinating Idea about writing on the window panes of a public conveyance and a lot of people lea%'e their names and sometimes addresses or the address es of some one else. Yesterday somo wag wrote in. a Steelton car: "Fin lucky you don't have to walk." In itials are the great thing and once In a while some fellow with a real ar tistic touch carves some motormau a aa ' { or Kives his impresaio:i or a cop." Some of the illustra tions are of the cubist school whilu others are more or less impression istic. The crew generally suffers. A Derry street car, which is given t< overcrowding, was decorated with this legend: "Sardine box, No. 800." But the best of all was an inter change between two men in a Sec ond street car. It was rather mora original than the artist who wrote "Wake me" on the pane beside htm on a delayed trip. One of the Sec ond street humorists set down: "After this, take a jit." The man behind him was some what testy because he came back with this on his pane: "Where are the jits?" Some fellow whose state of mind was illustrated by the message he left to posterity, wrote in a Valley Railways car: "No meals served." The best of all was the optimist who also decorated a Second street car. He neither walked nor talked. He just wrote: . "Summer is coming." • • ♦ A serious conflict of Jurisdiction was narrowly averted Monday after noon at Third and Walnut streets, where federal and state property and city highways meet with the county jail not far away. A particularly noisy piece of Are apparatus was on its way up Third street and a sleigh containing United States mall started from Third and Locust, mov ing down Third. The horse was de liberate, the driver unruffled. "Come on. Get out of that" call ed the corner policeman. Other men joined in the calls to speed up. but the driver was not disturbed. Finally some man ran out, took the bridle and jerked the horse's hea l until he headed with the sleigh lni?> 1 a snowbank and the way was frco . for the charging apparatus. "Keep your hands off that horse. Don't you know this is the United 1 States mail. You got no business monkeying with this teem" shouted the driver from his wayside place in ■ the snowbank. "Oh, the city fire engine's got the , right of way—" began a bystaiui ' er. "Holy smoke, look at that." ® "That" was a large city truck, owned by the Highway Department and moving large amounts of snow. " The driver was also calm; the truck 1 asthmatic and deliberate. He just ' made the machine crawl down Third [ street from Locust and by the time he reached Walnut the fire appara -1 tus was standing panting, its driver " demonstrating and its ilremen saying ; things.' The air was blue. g "Cojne, get on. You got no right ! to do that," yelled the policeman. * "Get the out of that," shouted ' the fire truck driver. "G'wan. I work for the city, too," replied the snow truck man. ' "Uncle Sam's going to get you fel . lows," in the mail man from his perch. t "Oh. go up through Capitol Park and get the Sheriff to referee," put In a man who had tried to buy a ci i gar and found the door locked. * I In addition to this being the week when the well-known weather liar, the groimd hog, is supposed to come out, it is fire disaster anniversary week. On February 1 the old Grand Opera House and most of the ad joining property burned eleven years ago and on ITebruary 2, twenty-onn years ago, the Capitol burned. While there was much loss, each fire benefited Harrisburg !n the end or will. And as for tho ground hog, If the dweller. In Wildwood Park who has perennially appeared be side the maze of tracks at Lucknow has the nerve to come out with the citv looking like a trenched battle field because of snowbanks we will "sic" the Natural History Society on him, or have Grant Forrer take him for that menagerie he Is going to found. • • • Many lovers of horses in Harris burg will regret the passing of "Hob" Brubaker, who was burled this afternoon. Years ago, back In the days when Amos Tittle, Edwin K. Meyers, A. B. Oommmgs and oth ers who figured as owners of speedy horses. "Bob" Brubaker's judgment was often called in. He was a stu dent of horses and had a love for them that made him one of the best known horsemen in the city. g ... George C. Jack, former command er of the Governor's Troop, mount ed guard yesterday. Captain Jack is in charge of the field force of the State Capitol Park and It made an i attack upon the roofs of the build ings, while Captain Jack kept the • curious pppulace out of danger. The snow gathers on the roofs and makes much trouble and the Capitol force goes to the roof after every fall and throws It off. The throwing always attracts a crowd. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Walter S. Bickley, long proml ' nent in Chester industries, has re | tired. [ —\V. G. Rice, connected with the J Philadelphia Bourse for years, has become connected with the Sea Serv ice Bureau of the United States. —Harry A. Blakslee has been ap pointed food administrator for Car ,s bon county. —Charles W. Mould, former Ches ter councilman, has been appointed II one of the city assessors. —William M. Coats has. been re elected president of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. , —The Rev. Dr. J. C. R> Ewing, missionary, well known here, is de livering a series of lectures at Pitts burgh. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg makes thousands of cigars every day . and Uat they go over the seven ■eas? HISTORIC HARRISBURG I'icnic parties ÜBed to be held on '* the knoll where Sylvan Heights or phpnage stands.
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