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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.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
It seems likely that the Russians
will decide they are not as badly
whipped as German propaganda has
led them to believe.—Newark News.
The Bolshevik government has
adopted phonetic spelling. Now if
you know how a Russian name
sounds you can spell it.—New York
Morning Telegraph.
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.
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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.