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RID.VY, FEBRUARY I, 1918 or none of us lire to hirftself, and e dieth to himself. —ROM 14:7. OOK OUT FOR FLOOD ▼ ITH twenty-two inches of / snow on the ground and al most that thickness of ice he river the chances are that we 1 add to the hardships of winter ood of seme proportions before bluebirds come north again. The ditlons are much the same all r the Juniata and the Susque na watersheds and a sudden i may add another burden to the sly tried transportation systems the State. The only hope of iding what threatens to be a ster lies in a long period of clear, m weather, with melting tem ktures during the day and slight >elow freezing at night. ily two more chances to see the >mobile Show, and. of course, you 't miss both of them. PUBLIC SPEAKING HE Harrisburg Young Men's Christian Association has or ganized a class in public speak and it is becoming one of the ;t popular branches of or izatlon. This is by no means nge. Nothing is mora helpful these days of community effort, i to be able to appear to good intage before an assemblage of s fellows. Public speaking Jty Is sometimes a gift, but more uently it is the result of careful' ivation. The man with a mes i is trebly forceful If he dje r it well. The man suddenly ed upon to speak is at a loss and tea an appearance often greatly lis own disadvantage if he is a ready talker. The Young Men's Istian Association class will offer ny the opportunity for which r have been seeking. it possible that closing the brew- R has been the means of bringing German population to its sober les'T More power to the strikers. BEEFSTEAK IFE is no longer just one dis- I agreeable thing after another; it's come to be a whole lot of greeable things all jumbled up sther. For example, last winter j >ln steak and French fried po- i es were impossible because po- I s were worth on market about i each. Now, with potatoes itlful, along comes Mr. Hoover to o" us away from the butcher p with the cry of beef famine, i time It is not the "crool, Crool it trust" that has the supply tered. The Katser and winter ther are Jointly to blame, and don't know which we hate most, nyway, friend beeksteak threat soon to be about as plentiful as ih dodo eggs and nobody lias it brash enough to suggest a sub ite. That is the sad part of Not even the renowned food statists who garner fame —and lets —at Battle Creek have been i to make a "mock beefsteak." re ts mock turtle soup, coffeeless ee, nut turkey (it should be led; with an o), meatless mince ,t and sugarless candy, all more less palatable (most of them a d deal less than more), but no ?k beefsteak. The reason is sim lt can't be done. Beefsteak is in lass by itself. Tender, juicy and party broiled as a delicacy It has ittturkey penned In the oven and igpng- for mercy. Tough, pounded fried, it has wrecked the for es of many a prosperous board house and shattered many a itlng bride's fond faith in her band's temper and religion, lut nothing like that Is apt to nr for some time, if the usually urate Mr. Hoover is to be be ed. Beefsteaks, It would seem, rapidly getting Into the class 4 terrapin and lobster, and the e appears at hand when we shall reading of the "gay young rox who squanders his father's llobs on cherus girls, diamonds ; beefsteak." That's bow bad this ■'s getting to be. And at the iot i of It all is the Kaiser. i jolly well, right if he bad to FRIDAY EVENING, spend eternity broiling steaks for other folks and getting none for himself. It you can think of any worse punishment let's hear about it. AN IMPORTANT LINK THE roadway between Harrisburg and Lebanon is an Important link of a great 'cross State high way, in addition to being a section .of a proposed government post road, and some means should be found whereby the Dauphin county com missioners, the Lebanon county com missioners and the State Highway Department may reach an under standing as to its immediate im-i provement. The State is willing to meet the counties half way with regard to expense and with the coun ty debt only a little more than SIOO,- 000 Dauphin county should consider well before it concludes to reject the offer of the Commonwealth. The local commissioners are said to entertain the belief that the State's flrst proposal was that if the county purchased the turnpike the State would improve it, and an ef fort should be made to clear up this point on both sides. But at all events, the commissioners doubtless understand that while it is all very well to keep down the tax rate and reduce expenses wherever possible, records for progressi*-' administra tion are not made in that way. The public servant, who leaves behind him a well constructed, permanent public improvement is remembered long after the official who shaved a quarter mill off the tax rate is for gotten. The Lebanon pike comes under this heading. There's one fine thing about this kind of winter —we have a perfectly good excuse for not getting up early to attend markets Saturday mornings. OUT WITH THEM DR. RICHARD C. SCHEIDT has resigned from the faculty of Franklin and Marshall College, a position he held with much credit to himself and the school for many years, rather than have a commit tee inquire into his pro-German leanings. Dr. Schiedt, if the evi dence is to be believed, has merely saved the trustees the trouble of dismissing him. There Is no place in any American institution of learn ing these days for the .nan whose heart Is with the Kaiser, no matter how able or renowned he may be. The place for all pro-Germans is in a detention camp for the period cf the war, although there are those among us who doubtless would like to see them in the first line trenches of France, where their much vaunted belief in "kultur" might be put to a real test. Out with, them all. We reserve our opinion of the Groundhog until to-morrow evening. PRACTICAL SUGGESTION KEISTER'S snow re moval proclamation is a prac tical measure and doubtless will meet with a hearty response on the part of the public. Everybody is inconvenienced by the snow on the streets, from the merchant -who operates a delivery wagon to the man or- woman who has occasion to use the tralley cars. The city is like a train on a single track road— running behind time, stopping at switches and with no Immediate prospect of catching up to schedule. Remove the snow and we get back to normal. The result in sight is well worth the effort the mayor would have us make. The American forces having taken over a section of the line In France, we may expect any day the sad news of numerous casualties. That is the reason we are so anxious to have war preparations at home speeded up. TVe want to get It all over with as soon as possible. OUR LATIN TRADE IMPORTS from the Spanish-Am erican countries during the first nine months of the current year reached a total of $858,287,000, or about 38 per cent, of our entire im port trade for the period. Exports to those countries reached a total for the period of $497,000,000, or about 11 per cent, of our total ex port trade. The countries included are British Honduras, the Central American States, Mexico, the West Indies, (including Cuba) and South America. During the first nine months of 1913, our total Import trade from these countries aggregated $340,000,- 000, or 25.6 per cent, of our grand total, and exports to them totaled $254,000,000, or about 15 per cent, of the grand total of our export trade with all the world. During the first nine months of 1914, under the low tariff law, and consequent depression at home, Imports from these countries jumped to $401,300,- 000, or nearly 30 per cent, of the total, while exports fell off to $197,- 500,000, or nearly 14 per cent, of the total. Such trade as we have now worked up with these countries' thanks to the war, we should like to keep after the war, but that can not be done unless we return to the policy of protection which guaran tees us our own home market and puch maximum operation as wilt cheapen production to a point where we can compete with our foreign trade rivals in Spanish-American markets. We're glad to hear that the biggest corn crop in history Is moving east. Just at the time the fried mush sea son is at Its height. , The President doubtless felt the farmer needed a little advice, but he shouldn't forget that he also needs labor. Only slackers will present the ex cuse of "no snow shovel." IK 'PtKKOlfttfCUua By the Ex-Committeeman Senator William C. Sproul Mil an nounce his candidacy for the Repub lican nomination for Governor in a loruial statement the latter pari ot next weeK ana will immediately open headquarters in Pniiadeipnia. ine {senator will make an active campaign and it is slated oy men close to tne man from .Delaware mat nis declarations will be in line wun tne most advanced thought of tne day and that his position on tne big economic and moral issues will be ciear enougn for all. {simultaneously comes the an nouncement tnat Hignway Commis sioner J. Denny O'Nieil will open nis Headquarters in Harrisburg witnin a weeK ami will uiso nave orancnes in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He nas also announced tnat he will se lect a chairman of his state cam paign committee and that he will soon name county cnairmen to di rect matters In nis benalf in tlie various counties. Tne Highway commissioner went home lasL nigui and will spend the week-end IOOK mg atter things in Pittsburgh and go to Philadelphia tor a -Monday conference witn Anti-suloon league men. lie will combine business una pleasure by addressing Cumberland and York supervisors conventions next weeK. ->n. U'rwii spent, yesier day arranging lor tiie opening of his headquarters in tnis city and is seeking a suite ot offices near tlie State Capitol. He will have tne ac tive aid of Attorney General Brown m making his campaign plans. —Speaking of the Sproul plans the Pniladelphia Press says: Actual campaigning in con nection with the state election of next November will be start ed next week, and Senator Wil liam C. Sproul, candidate for Governor, will be the man to do it. Early next week he will open campaign headquarters and will put out the personal platform on which he seeks the nomina tion from the Republican party. Senator Sprout's headquarters will be near Broad and Chest nut or Walnut streets, probably in one of the hotels, but if ar rangements along this line can not be made, he will take a suite In one of the nearby office buildings. The Senator will vis ,it the headquarters every day when he is not campaigning on the road, and a staff of secre taries and clerks will be in con stant charge to receive visitors from all parts of the state who want to obtain or impart infor mation concerning the Sproul candidacy. His platform decla ration is expected to take the form of a statement to the newspapers, although it may be brought out in another way. In it, the Senator will define his viewpoint on ihe issues he be lieves involved In the campaign. It is thought that the issue of patriotic support of the federal government through all possible state sources will be one of the principal notes sounded. Some of the men who think they know the Senator's ideas believe ! he will make the statement that Pennsylvania's attitude on the prohibition and woman's suf- 1 ?rage amendments during the coming campaign is not a proper subject for the candi- 1 date for Governor to take up, since the law provides that the projected amendments to the i federal constitution are to be 1 voted upon by the State Legis lature and will not come to the 1 Governor's desk in any way, not even for his signature. —The Altoona Tribune has come out for O'Neil with considerable vig or and in the next county the Johns town Tribune is for Sproul. The Altoona Tribune is owned by Col. Harry W. Shoemaker, of the Gov ernor's staff, while the Johnstown Tribune is owned by Ex-Congres man Anderson H. Walters, the for mer Bull Mooser. —Montgomery is going to be a storm center. "Noticing that Charles A. Ambler acknowledged that he is being strongly urged to become a candidate for State Senator and that he is holding the matter under ad visement, prompted me to come to a decision that numerous friends have been urging me to make—to be a candidate for the Republican nom ination for State Senator of the Twelfth district," said James S. Boyd, Assemblyman from the Second legislative district, to-day at Nor rlstown. —Postmaster Raker, of Shamokin, was yesterday appointed Assistant District Attorney of Northumber land county, by District Attorney Strouss, of Mount Carmel. The post office pays {3,000 a year and the county appointment $1,250 annually. Raker, it is understood, will resign the postmastership in favor of E. B. Zimmerman, ex-county treasurer and Democratic chairman of Northum berland county. —lt was stated that Roger L. Bur nett, of Stroudsburg, who took the oath of office for another four-year term as U. S. District Attorney for the middle district of Pennsylvania, will reappoint his present assistants, John McCourt and Robert O'Brien, of Scranton. -—Pittsburgh City Council took a vote on the ratification of Mayor Babcock's nominations for city mag istrates yesterday, and by a vote of 5 to 4 refused to confirm the nomi nations. A peculiar feature of the vote was the fact that P. J. McArdle, a Magee adherenj, who has been against the mayor in nearly every measure sent to City Council since his-lnauguration. voted to confirm the nominations, but Dr. James A. Kerr, who has been a supporter of the ad ministration, voted with the noes. A proclamation issued by Mayor Bab cock calls on every man thrown out of work on Mondays to report for work cleaning the snow and slush off city streets. Tired Being the Goat (New York Times) Austria, war-weary and worse, is thus told plainly by her Foreign Min ister what she already suspected— that every life she loses from now on, all the money she spends from now on, all the hardship she under goes from now on, is lost, spent, and undergone for Germany, not for her self. Take this in connection wHh his statement that he tried to get in touch with the President, and that the differences between Austria and America "do not appear to be so great" that they cannot be discussed, and it seems possible that Count Czernin may have meant for other ears than those of the Socialists his hint that "those who wish to under stand must have understood." Of course he could neither have intend ed nor hoped for separate peace ne gotiations with the United States. He evidently felt that all the Allies would see in his utterance a peace overture, and that together with the United States they might make some encouraging response that would be helpful tt> Austria. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH fIT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ~ ~ . ; . .... 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The Bolsheviki seem pained to find that an ark of the covenant built from such trusted planks as class hatred should insist upon leaking. —Philadelphia North American. Bolsheviki have seized banks and factories, and they can keep or spend the banks' money; but what will they do with the factories?— Wall Street Journal. The Russian idea is to discuss plans for a new stable while some body is making off with the horse. Hence the expression, lack of horse sense. —Chicago Tribune. A member of the Bolshevik re gime tells what the real aims of Germany are. Wonder if he would be kind enough to tell what the real aims of .the Bolsheviki are? — Columbia Record. Germany immediately offers evi dence of the sincerity of its peace proposals to the Bolsheviki. by ar resting the Independent Socialists who are trying to carry out Bolshe viki ideas in Germany.—New York World. The Russian Reds are said to have arrested the United States railroad commission at Irkutsk, Siberia. They don't want them to begin their labors by improving the transporta tion to Siberia, which, when you think it over, is natural enough.— Dayton Journal. A TOAST When you turn hell loose on the earth you are apt to feel the fire. Byway of comforting the Kaiser, we offer him three verses, written by George Morrow Mayo, a young Kentuckian, formerly resident in Washington, now a gunner's mate in the United States Navy: Here's to the Blue of the wind swept North, When we meet on the fields of France, May the spirit of Grant be with you all As the Sons of the North ad vance. And here's to the Gray of the sun kissed South, When we meet on the fields of France, May the spirit of Lee be with you all As the Sons of the South advance. And here's to the Blue and Gray as one. When we meet on the fields of France, May the spirit of God be with us all As the Sons of the Flag advance. —George Morrow Mayo. Haldeman, of the Louisville Times, says these verses are the masterpiece of the war. LABOR NOTES To-day there are some 900,000 British women engaged in war In dustries, "carrying on" the work of men at the front, and of this num ber more than 600,000 are engaged in the manufacture of munitions. During a recent strike of mechan ics in the aeroplane engine factories at Coventry, England, a fleet of army aeroplanes circled over the town, scattering through the strets thou sands of leaflets appealing to the strikers to return to work. Universal enforcement of a na tional minimum wage, democratic control of industry, a revolution in national finances and the surplus wealth for the common good—these are the four cardinal points of Bri tish labor reconstruction after the war. Estimates, based on an army of 1,500,000 men, are that 37,500 nurses will be needed in the United States Army Nurse Corps. This means an enrollment increase of nearly 1,000 per cent, over the present member ship of 3,800. Our last census shows 522 dif ferent vocations, but there are really 900 occupations. In America 100 occupations are beyond the reach of the man without a high school and technical training. There are fif teen different types of engineering. SMILE AGE Sy WALT MASON. I'LL buy a dozen Smileage Books, and then a dozen more, gad zooksl and send them to some soldier chaps, and help to brighten up their maps. Oh. anything that 1 can do to keep the boys from get ting blue, to keep them cheerful, bright and sane, and drive the fan toms front the brain, I'll do with forty kinds of glee; so you can al ways count on me. I am too fat to scrap, myself: old age has placed me on the shelf; I'm wedded to my easy chair, I couldn't whip a Belgian hare. The younger men must tight for me, and see that I have liberty, and all the blessings I desire, while THEATERS NOT LUXURIES Little by little It is being realized that the theaters are something more than idle luxury, especially during war time. Borne sort of amusement and relaxation is neces sary for human effort. Men and women are not machines. AVhether you like it or not, a huge number of workers, of all classes, have learned to find their relaxation and amusement in the theaters. The wel-to-do go to the opera and the shows; the masses go to the "movies." To out off the theaters ic not the act of Eliminating luxury- It is eliminating a necessity. Men and women need mental and spirit ual food and good cheer, just as much as they need material food. Also, it is being realized that the saving in fuel, through the closing of the theaters,' would not be so very large. As for the saving of light, the people who are in the theaters are not burning lights at home, ac tors and audience. Perhaps scien tific Investigation would prove that it is cheaper to concentrate these tens of thousands of people into a few buildings each evening, all under the same group of lights, than It would be to have them turning on their individual lights throughout the city. As for heating, there must in any case be heat in theaters to prevent damage from freezing, and a good portion of the extra warmth required for the comfort of the au dience is provided by the animal heat of the audience itself. It was no doubt considerations of this sort that killed the propesals to stop the theaters entirely, and re strict them on Mondays alone. It is not impossible that these cpnsid erations would suffice to induce the Fuel Administration to remove Its ban on theaters even on Mondays.— Xew York Evening Mail. MIDDLE NAMES PASSING The New York Sun believes that middle names are going out of style. It prints a list of prominent men in this country who have no middle names, or who have given up their middle names if they ever had one, and it calls attention to the fact that most of the babies christened these days will have to carry around with them only one nante in addition to the surname. We have . had two presidents who dropped their first name and used only the middle name —Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson. John Quincy Adams was the first Presi dent with a double name and there was no other until Polk and Harri son. Then came Hayes, Garfield. Arthur and Taft. All the rest of our presidents have used but two names —the given name and the surname. Figuring on percentages, the fellow without a middle name stands a bet ter chance of being President than one with a double name. That .'act ought to induce mothers to conserve in the matter of names, and to at tach only one to the family name when having the kid christened.— 'From the Columbus Dispatch. Byron, Too The Russians now were ready to attack; But, O ye goddesses of love and glory. How shall I Bpell the name of each Cossacque, Who were immortal, could one tell I their story! Alas! What to their memory can lack? Achille' self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish'd nation Whose names want nothing but— pronunciation. —Don Juan, Canto VII. I sit dozing by the fire. For me they've left their homes and friends, to go where bloodshed never ends; for me they march on soggy moor, and pains and weariness endure; for me to France they will repair, per haps to fall and perish there. For me the brave young men go forth, from east and west, from south and north, with buoyant hearts that must not tire, while I sit dreaming b'y the fire. And am I such a tinhorn skate that I won't help to ease the weight of dreary hours the boys must know? He is a fake who tells you so. Bring on your Smileage Books, my friend; I'll buy till my resources end. HIS LAST LETTER Edwin A. Abbey, of Pennsylvania, Lieutenant, Fourth Canadian Rifles, killed in action at Vimy Ridge, April 10. 1817, wrote this last letter to his parents: France, Good Friday, April 6, 1917. "Dearest Mother and Father: "We are going up to an attack in a short time, and I am going to leave this note, to be sent to you, in case, by God's Will, this is to be my final work. "I have made my Communion, Mid go with a light heart and a de termination to do all that I possibly can to help in this fight against evil for God and humanity. "I do not think of death or ex pect it, but I am not afraid of it and will give my life gladly if it is asked. "It is my greatest comfort that I know you, too, will gladly give all that is asked, and live on happily doing all that can be done, grateful to God for His acceptance of our sacrifice. "To-day the news came to us here that the United States has joined the Allies, so I go with the happy consciousness that I am and you are fighting for our dear Flag as thousands of Americans have before us in the cause of Liberty. "It may be a comfort to you to know that I have a great company of comrades, men and officers, all filled with determination and cheer ful courage. "My dearest love to Sue and Howard and their dear children, Margie and Billy. My heart is full of gratitude for such love as they hare given me. My dearest love to all my friends. . . "Now dearest Mother and dearest Father I will say Good Bye for a time. You have given me my faith which makes this so easy for me, and a wonderful example and in spiration of courage and usefulness. "All my love and God bless you both. "Your son, EDWIN." Thoughts of the Wise The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the- wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in jnen. For all things are yonr<: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the vorld, or life, or death, or things rtsent, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's: and Christ id God's.—l Corinthians, ill, 20 to 2?. ORCHARD~HOUSE They met me at the quiet door, They took my hand in theirs: j They led me through the rooms and up The silent stairs. We peeped in that old attic where Four chests stood in a row. Where "genius burned," where Pick wick clubs Met long ago. And then we climbed the wooded hill, All dim with fragrant shade. To which four -little pilgrims cr.ce Their journey made. We raced through the long meadow grass Which one small breezelet frets, We picked a bunch of buttercup.? And violets. We sat a while where one great tree A dreamy shadow flings Five little spirit girls—and talked Of pleasant things. And last, they led me to the path, And kissed, and let me go. Long, long I saw them staMdlnj there— Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo. —Ruth Suckow in the Youths' Com panion. FEBRUARY 1, 1918. / t Over tta *Jo| 3 in "~fV>uuu The war appears to inspire those who go into service with poetic fancy. A big, husky policeman of Philadelphia, now in an engineer corps, expresses himself thusly: My name is Albert Bowman, My age is twenty-eight; A Reserve at Fourth and Chestnut, With Montgomery as my mate. My heart was light, spirits gay, , Life seemed just like a dream— O! what a change this "traffic work" To driving a heavy team! Xow "conscription" it became a law, My number being called With my six feet two and avoirdu pois I thought they had me stalled. To the "exemption board" I sum moned was, • The doctor looked me o'ei^ — He says, "Young man, I wish like you That we had millions more!" • • • The anxiety of folks to know when the winter will ease up re calls the story of the Kansas far mer who dreamed that he visited the infernal regions. As he watched the vat of boiling lava, supposed to contain old friends and others, air bubbles began to come to the top,' and finally the head of a man emerged. As he blew the boiling lava from his mouth the man ex claimed: "Dc you think it's going to rain in time to save the corn crop?" OUR DAILY LAUGH RJSI NO WONDER. Snail: Ha, ha! 'i Those fool bugs think I'm a „ lank! U & f t POOR FIDO. "Well, how's conservation at your nouse." "We're doipg our bit. But tbes* meatless days are pretty rough on the <log." IN THE WRONG PLACE. "Do you think our paper baa •nough nonsense in It?" "Certainly, the editorials are full f is-- CAUSE OF HATRED. "What have you arainst Henry?" "Nothing, except ne B the man my wlte 1b always wishing I would iini* l&nrbtg dljat Weather Observer Demain yester day afternoon estimated that four feet of snow has fallen in Harrls burg since winter began. As a mat ter of fact, it may be said that win ter has never let up since it began ana that all records for sustained weather, of the alleged "old fashioned kind have gone by the wlnter b egan as far as snow and ice and cold are concern £r.„.°„ n De ? emb er 12, as late deer hunters who were caught in the mountains well remember. Mr. Dc the aggregate of the snow wII be forty-eight inches. "I do not know of anything ever hap pening like that in this city, cer tainly not ao far as any Which we have." Mr. Demain s es timate is the oflicial statement taken lrom the observations at the weather bureau and are the thing to go by. The fact that the snow has equaled four feet may be a surprise to manv people who are firmly of the belief that we have suffered at least six feet of snow. Mr. Demaih's obser vations are taken on the Govern ment observatory and represent the °i n . the flat " ln the streets it is h&rd to say what the snowfall would look like and as for the coun try the fall is more or less deter mined by the drifting. There are places in the country now where th ®f® "re two feet of s now in fields which have not drifted. The re ports of the thickness of the ice which como to this city from the Swatara, Conewago, Conodoguinet Sherman's, AViconisco, Maliantongo and other creeks tell of ice which runs anywhere from two to three feet. Up the Susquehanna the ice is a yard thick. Just what will hap pen if there is a thaw instead of a gradual coming of warmer weather is not safe conjecture about when you are with a man who lives in a lowland. • • * Co!. Lewis E. Beitler, who was here yesterday to attend a meeting oi the state's "War Board," has a lot of .i un " rem 'nlscing." Yesterday he told the story of Roosevelt's break neck ride from the Executive Man sion to the Union station after the dedication of the Capitol in 1906. It was Col. Beitler's birthday, but he had other reasons for remembering the day. In the first place the President shot out of the Mansion and into his carriage in record style, e\en lor Roosevelt: then he made the driver go so fast that he was almost thrown out when the ba rouche skidded in Front street; he made such a turn at Market street that he hit the curb and in going tl.rough an arch the wheels grazed it. "And," said the Colonel, "I think Mr. Roosevelt would have been willing to take the arch along." Smallpox has spread into a dozen counties of Pennsylvania, most of them west of the Allegheny raoun tains, and the continuance of out breaks, largely due to labor move ments, is being viewed with much concern by officials at the State De partment of Health. Surveys of con ditions in Western Pennsylvania are being made and steps for closer co operation between county and mu nicipal authorities and the State Orovernment may be taken. Dr Samuel G. Dixon, the State Commis sioner of Health, has ordered stud ies to be made Of all circumstances attending the recent appearance of cases in Erie, Clearfield, Center and other counties where there have been few weeks without new cases and into the cases which have ap peared In Fayette. Allegheny and Mercer. It has been found that most of the cases came from Ohio or Michigan and in each instance the state health authorities of those states were informed of what had happened. • + * Approach of the time. for com pleting the draft questionnaires is causing a rush for appointment of notaries public to reach the Gov ernor's office. They are arriving by the dozen every day and handling the applications, which are endorsed by Senators; seeing that the forms and checks are right keeps people going both in the office of the Gov ernor and the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. It seems from the letters that the men are wanted to take oaths to draft papers. Some of them are oddly phrased, one man having applied for papers s a "notary re-public." He got a letter with a flag printed on it. ♦ * * Some people who got more ride than they paid for are trying to fig ure out why they were sent around the Third - Walnut - Market-Second street loop twice the other day. They got on a Third street car at Second street and went up Walnut. Then the man at the switch sent them down Third and on around again. Most of them would have appreciated the ride at any other time, but it was the rush hour. • • • Among visitors to the city yester day was Robert G. Gould, editor of the American Food Journal of Chi cago, one of the big trade journals of the country. He stopped off here to call on J. Horace McFarland, with whom he had been associated year? ago. • • • Members of the Harrisburg Re serves ar'e likely to furnish a fair quota for the new Reserve Militia here. The Reserves will resume their drills and shortly decide on Ihe scope of the spring work. Many of the members are eagerly awaiting the coming of warm- weather when they can drill on the Island again. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Edgar C. Felton, former head of the Steelton plant, is now In charge of labor distribution for the whole eastern United States. —J. D. A. Morrow, just put In charge of distribution of coal, was for years at the head of the Pitts burgh Coal Producers Association. —Clyde D. Wilcox, one of the new lieutenant colonels of the Reserve Militia, has been organizing the vo lunteer police in Erie county. —Col. Harry C. Trexler has bought out the interests of his part ners in the Lehigh game preserve and is now the sole owner of the largest preserve in the country. —William Findlay Brown, brother of the Attorney General and as sistant district attorney in Philadel phia, has been critically 111. DO YOU KNOW ~~ —That Harrishurg is sending large amounts of grain to the seaboard? HISTORIC HARRISBURG When the first Capitol was dedi cated here the workmen made un most of the parade. His Advantage (From the Pittsburgh, Dispatch) The chief trouble the German ne gotiators are having with Trotzky is that he has seen their hand, and I# . I T an . x takln every advantage of the fact.
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