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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018 If we find but one to whom we can speak out of our heart freely, with whom we can walk in love and simplicity without dissimulation, we have no ground of quarrel with the world. — STEVENSON. . DAIRYMAN'S PROBLEM THE dairy organizations are worrying mightily over the fu ture of the dairy business in America. Of course, being worried over the future of one's business is not confined to the milkman alone. All classes of business men do it. With the most optimistic it takes the form of a popular indoor sport and with the pessimistic it comes in the shape of a violent malady with suicidal tendencies. And the more prosperous his business was last year the more worried your businessman is about the coming twelve months. It's ingrown and chronic with him. But the dairyman has apparent cause for alarm. Feed, labor, sup plies and stock are all going up in price and with the public threaten ing a riot every time anybody talks about putting up milk prices the margin between profit and loss is be coming alarmingly narrower. For example, between 1899 and 1915 the population of this country increased thirty-three per cent. The total milk production increased 431,000,000 pounds during that time, yet the average per capita production of milk decreased from 95.6 gallons to 75.5 gallons. This does not mean that less whole milk was consumed or that the consumption of whole milk per capita has been reduced, but that population has increased faster than milk prodrction. That there has been no decrease in the consumption of whole milk may be accounted for in that less cheese was produced per capita. In 1881 we ex ported 148,000,000 pounds of chese, the most we ever exported in one year. Since then there has been a steady decline, until in 1914 about 2,500,000 pounds were exported, but in the same year wo imported 64,- 000,000 pounds. We have become a nation of cheese lovers and the best cheese producer in the world is the goat—not the backlot scavenger variety, but the fine, clean, healthy Swiss goats. Eventually the dairyman will turn to the goat, which can be made to produce far more cheaply than the cow, and without danger of tuber culosis, for the goat is immune. This war period ought to be a good time to give the goat a fair tryout in Pennsylvania. Nobody is happier than the motor men and conductors over the change in the weather. They have been hard worked and long-suffering. The mail carriers and the expressmen, the dray men, the delivery clerks and the rail road, men are also all smiling to-day. Nobody but they themselves will know jlust what they suffered during the prolonged cold weather. Railroading of all kinds has been conducted with great courage and efficiency under the most trying circumstances. The wonder is not that the roads were tied up occasionally, but that they managed to operate even in a re stricted way. OH, BEAUTIFUL SLUSH! DID YOU ever, in all your life, see anything so beautiful as the slush which came to town yesterday coincident with the rise in temperature? Ordinarily slush is anything but a source of delight, but yesterday, after the thermome ter had begun to sit up and take notice, following a period of pros tration that threatened to be perma nent, slush took on a new aspect. How we reveled In it! How we sloshed about in it and wont home joyfully with soaked feet and laughed at the idea of grip! Slush yesterday had all the soft suggestion of spring that comes with the flutter of a robin's wing, a blue bird's song or the breath of an early violet blooming on a sunlit lea. Slush was the harbinger of better days. Slush spoke comfortingly to "us of dandelion salad and sassafras tea; of Palm Beach suits and Pana mas; of lazy nights in hammocks FRIDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURG CSH&'TELEGKXPH! "FEITR'UX'RT B, 79M and joyous days on field and Btream. Blush may not appear so dslightful a week from now. There Is Buoh a thing a* getting too much even of a prayed-for blessing. But It certainly did look good yesterday. The Telegraph welcomes to Harrls tjurg the new superintendent of the Philadelphia Division, W. F. Smith, Jr., whose promotion by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company was an nounced exclusively In these columns yesterday. CONGRESS CANNOT RESIDENT WILSON, in the latest and most amazing of the administration's war measures, asks Congress to delegate to him the last vestige of power remaining in the legislative branch of the govern ment and to constitute him supreme dictator at least for the period of the war. Congress cannot legally do what the President asks and it should not do so if it could. The President has been given more and more power by Congress when it became apparent that he needed it for a proper pros ecution of the war. Food and fuel regulation have been placed in his hands gladly by Congress because it was felt that the situation de manded radical action and a cen tralization of control. Price fixing, the power of saying whether or not beer shall be manufactured in this country during the war, and many other matters of vital importance to the natipn have been entrusted to him or his appointees. Nobody objects to this executive authority. Nobody would take from the President any of the vast influ ence that he now wields —an influ ence and a power, by the way, sec ond to that of no other ruler In the world, not even the Kaiser himself. Willingly Congress and the people will add .to Presidential authority when the need becomes apparent. But that time is not yet, and not likely to come, for the reason that what the President now needs is not more power, but able men to ex ercise the power already vested In him and his subordinates. The President's state papers and his definitions of the nation's war aims are above criticism and voice in admirable manner the sentiments of a vast majority of the people. He has done a great work In getting war preparations under way. But he has blundered woefully in his selec tion of men to do the work at hand. He has accomplished much, but if It had not been for his persistent and unwarranted impatience with Con gress and congressional suggestions and recommendations he and the nation, too, would be much farther along toward the end of the war. He has ignored Congress at every op portunity. Instead of seeking ad vice and help he has declined both and has rebuffed even those of his own party who offered friendly aid. Now he asks Congress to confer upon him vastly more power than is wielded by any monarch on earth. There is no questioning the Presi dent's sincerity nor his patriotism, will agree with him in his evident assumption that he can best conduct the great war alone and unaided by Congress. Not only that, but Congress was elected by the peo ple to perform certain specific duties in the government which the con stitution and law distinctly specify. Congressmen cannot transfer these duties to the President even though they so desired. They have a com mission from the people and they cannot legally surrender It to any body. The President has all the authority he needs. What he should have is bigger men about him to effect the closer co-ordination of the machinery of war in all its phases and activities which he Is finally coming to recognize as necessary. "This," says the Punxsutawney cor respondent, "has been a hard winter for most of us." But why discrimi nate'?. It Is entirely In accord with the name of the place that Middletown should become a military hub. "Passing the buck" bullda no ships. "POCCTTCO- 'pe.KKO^tcanxa By the Ex-Committeeman From all accounts United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes, of the western district of Pennsylva nia and a resident of Crawford county, Is said to take his guberna torial aspirations seriously and his partisans In Western Pennsylvania are insisting that the eastern bosses show their hand. At the same time friends of Acting State Chairman and Fuel Administrator Joseph F. Guffey, general manager of public utilities in the Pittsburgh district, are declaring loudly for him as the man of the half hour In Pennsylva nia Democratic affairs. And the bosses appear to have gotten out of bed, shut off the alarm and then gone back to bed and pulled the covers over their heads because they do not want to indicate any preferences now. Humes' friends have gotten on the wires to Washington and are also getting in touch with county lea'ders in various parts of the state. These men are declaring that Humes rep resents the driest part of the dry wing of the Democracy and that if he is not taken it will be a sign that the bosses do not want a real dry candidate. They point to Humes' record as an objector in the Legis lature and to his activity against the brewers after he landed a federal job and ask what Guffey has done. Mr. Guffey is a likeable man, suave and able and has a large following from a personal, corporation, fac tional and prospective standpoint- There are many men for him because they think he is practical and the master General Blakslee are said to practical man has many friends in Democratic politics. National Chairman McCormick likes Humes personally and his way of doing things. National Commit teeman Palmer and Assistant Post be friendly to Guffey. But the Presi dent will decide. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says of the situation created by the Humes announcement: "Indications point to a contest among the Demo-, crats to determine the gubernatorial nominee of their party. Last night United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes issued a statement making himself a tentative candidate for the office. Almost simultaneously Congressman Guy E. Campbell an nounced that the seven Democrats in Congress from Pennsylvania were behind the candidacy of Joseph F. Guffey, acting chairman of the Dem ocratic state committee, and added: 'Our movement starts right now.' " —Philadelphia councils appear to be a storm center again, just as the Pittsburgh body was a week ago. Yesterday one branch of council, controlled by the Vares, jeered a resolution for woman suffrage. In the other the Vare League Island claim came up again. The city ad ministration is keeping up its "firing" of men suspected of Penrose tendencies. —Senator Penrose's attack on the Wilson war bill, which he says gives the President more power than he can use, was much discussed to-day as the opening of a general Repub lican move to demand efficiency in the war machine. —Uncle Dave Lane, sage of Phil adelphia city politics, has made some significant statements the last few days. One of them is to this effect: "So far as the impending guberna torial campaign is concerned it is my hope that there will be no factional contest at the primaries. But, if a fight between factions does ensue— and factional contests are not alto gether bad for the public good—then if: is my hope and advice that all Re publicans get together behind the successful candidate at the May primaries." • —Mr. Lane took numerous and sundry further flings at what he termed the "vagaries of Philadelphia reformers," says the Evening Led ger, but fought shy of announcing the man he would support as can didate for governor at the impending May primaries. The Republican philosopher of Philadelphia is en joying unusually good health and is looking more vigorous than he has for years. —Republican leaders of the Twen-| ty-fourth Congressional district are arranging for a banquet at Pitts burgh on the night of February 20. Congressman Henry W. Temple, of the district, has accepted as one of the speakers. Effort is being made to have former Senator Elihu Root, of New Yerk, deliver an address. Large delegations from Washington, Beaver and Lawrence counties are expected to attend the dinper. —Republican leaders in Lacka wanna county are trying to induce Dr. William Lynch to withdraw as a candidate for re-election as state senator and instead be satisfied as superintendent of the State Hospital For the Criminal Insane at Far view. It is the belief of the Re publican leaders that Dr. Lynch through his dual offlceholding tac tics will prove a weak standard bearer, says a .dispatch to the Phil adelphia Record. —Relative to the Montgomery toga a Norristown dispatch to the Philadelphia Press says that the Ambler boom is believed to be "only a feeler" to pave the way for Ker baugh or some other Lower Merion or First legislative district man to make the fight for tne anti-organi zation wing of the party. These knowing ones cannot 'see Ambler giving up his State job, which pays about $7,500, for the senatorship. The appointment which Ambler had made to fill the vacancy in the of fice of County Treasurer did not push much grist on his mill In the naming of ex-Assemblyman John H. Rex." —Reading city council is in a row over confirmation of appointments. There are others. —State policemen prevented a seat in the Old Forge council and State Interference In local self-gov ernment will be the ne*t wall from that direction. —Mayor Kosek, of Wilkes-Barre, has lost his grip in that city's coun cil, says a Wilkes,Barre dispatch which intimates that the Loveland- Kniffen faction now holds the whip hand. The mayor's brother failed to hold a job in the health bureau as a result. —"The city ought to grant what ever Increase It can to the police," said Senator E. H. Vare in Phila delphia on Saturday. "Think of ash cart drivers starting in at $3 a day, withdut necessarily knowing how to read or write, while patrolmen, who are expected to have the high char acter and intelligence as guardians of lives and property, start In at $2.50 a day." —Dr. B. A. Montgomery is a Re publican candidate for the office of State senator from the old indepen dent district of Mercer and Craw ford counties. The encumbent is L. M. Smith, of Crawford county, a Bull Mooser. Dr. Montgomery is president of the Mercer County Farm Bureau. MOVIE OF A MAN LYING OVER THE PHONE "rsT- \ s-r ; IT'S FRO"* THE / -?P, ,-EM ALL. \WELL- MOJ VUT ARC { EVENING ?' ) 1 ° UI W ' * JOMSSES- WMAT-CL I A(OYTH()JS ARE vou 7 -J DINWF-R - - Yes L£T>E SEE-/ EXPECT I REU'EM JJ- DOWT I - GOOV>J FOR THer WANTA r/LETTHeM \ ' I M SOf ' ¥ -yj*- OH we \ 0 p TOVAJM COME OV GO ? J \ COME. \ \ IT lOM£ , E ' V,e ' OT J ( ~~~ 7 \ ~ ~ ~ 1 r - MOW DAY .") (NO WE'LL BE \ NO[JU AFT6R THIS L NOW DAY ■ OHJ \ A VOAV THE REST / O[A )U \ MONDAY!-!- OF~THE " WEEK ! / [ -v I YIM6 " / HAHAHA! \ L e JU > I LYlMfa .-//I.HAUE TO ■ ' Si Phsw! ■ v/ LAUGH ! ou Fuel From the Ash Pit In most furnaces, particularly in the small ones used in dwellings, coal is very inefficiently burned and the cinders that are ordinarily thrown away contain a great deal of combustible fuel. It is too bad the ash burning craze was allowed to wane years ago. Now is the time to have it revived. We feel sure that If every consumer of coal could be pre vailed upon to sift his ashes, he would effect a saving that would be of material benefit to the country at large, and at the same time w>uld be doing a great deal toward solv ing the problems of heating with which he is now confronted. We were told a few weeks ago that half of the coal shortage of this winter could* be made up if each householder would save one furnace shovelful of coal per day. Is not this shovelful to be found in the ashpit?— From the Scientific Ameri can. "INSURANCE DAY" Governor Brumbaugh's proclama tion setting, apart February 8, as "Insurance Day" •in Pennsylvania should awaken every one having relatives in the Army and Navy to speedy action. The Federal govern ment has made the most generous provision for the insurance of both men and women in the service against either death or disability, i While enormous aggregate amounts of insurance have been written in the camps and canton men®, 100 many of the soldiers— and the sailors and marines, as well —have not availed themselves of the privilege. Some have not insured at all. Others have contented them selves with minimum amounts. Pre miums at a very low rate are de ducted from the monthly pay. Cash in hand has appeared more attrac tive to the thoughtless and improvi dent than the possibility of large payments in the future. Wiser sol diers and sailors have recognized the duty of making liberal provision for their loved ones and themselves by means of insurance to the maximum amount of SIO,OOO, involving a pay ment of about .$7 a month. The time limit in which this privi lege may be exercised by persons who entered the service prior to Oc tober 15, 1917, expires next Wednes day, February 12. "Insurance Day'' To-day is, therefore, set apart for a concerted "drive" by all citizens wh<4 have boys in the cantonments to per suade them to take out life and dis ability insurance to the maximum amount. Never before has any gov ernment been so generous with its soldiers and sailors as the United States is in this matter of insurance. It is a patriotic duty to urge every uninsured person who is eligible to take full advantage of the privilege. —Philadelphia Press. AMERICA The night has decked herself in jewels For my pleasure. Yet finds no favor, For my heart is torn and bitter For the crushed bodies of my brothers The night has seen These three years. ♦ When suddenly The distance trembles with a sound. As of some great thing moving, That holds the clang of metal; And the whirring of machinery. And the tramping, tramping, tramp ing, Of perpetual feet. • So I listen on and listen. And warm wonder takes me, For I know the sound that trembles Is the stirring of a nation To the succor Of my brave dead. • • It is the tramping of her armies Gathered willing from her prairies And her forests and her mountains, Gathered willing from her cities— The masses of her thousand cities— Coming, coming to the fight. It lb the clang of metal Molding, making in her factories A myriad fine implements Wherewith her men and ours May help to force the righf. It is the whirring of machinery, Of her acres of machinery, Working infinitely To make food and clothing For the men that fight. • • • It seems A giant bell within me rings, And rings with joy, To know the great are coming, And the great will help the great. And as still I listen The mighty sound is growing; Somehow it makes a lullaby For me to sleep. • • • —Helen Dlrcks in the London Ob server, Defender of Liege Finds a Haven in General Leman, the gallant de fender of Liege, now feeble with age and broken in health, is in Switzerland, where he was permitted to go a few weeks ago by the Ger man authorities. There he gave, in a recent interview, an account of the situation in Germany and told again the story of his capture after the forts before Liege had been blown up during the first days of the war. "The economic .and political situa tion in Germany?" he said. "It is simply deplorable. The morale of the German officers, however, will be good until the close of the war. All Germany to-day wants peace. The Pan-Germans ask peace with annexations. Outside of the em peror, Von Hindenburg and a few princes whose true opinions are not known, the leaders of the German army are Pan-Germans. But their opinions are not so firmly rooted as they were at the beginning of the war." In giving the story of his capture he referred to the letter written to King Albert in 1914 after he had been made a prisoner by the Ger mans, and said: "After the honorable engagement of August 4, 5 and 6, I considered that the Liege forts could only play the role of forts'of . rrcte. I never theless maintained the military gov- IMPORTANT TO SCRANTON The letter of Hon. A. A. Vosburg, chairman of a special committee of the Civic Bureau of the Scranton Board of Trade, printed elsewhere in this Issue of The Republican, epit omizes the great advantage to this city to be obtained by the re-classi fication of the cities of Pennsylvania in accordance with the plan recent ly referred to in these columns. Judge Vosburg briefly presents the benefits to be derived from the pro posed change in stating that it would enable Scranton to obtain legislation fitted to its needs without opposition from Pittsburgh, a very important consideration, and that it Would re lieve this city from legislation which is at present inevitable because it is desired by Pittsburgh. In referring to a Supreme Court decision by Justice Paxson in 1875, Judge Vosburg calls attention to the significant statement contained therein, namely that "at no distant date Pittsburgh will probably be come a city of Hie first class, and Scranton or others of the rapidly growing interior towns, will take the place of Pittsburgh as a city of the second class." The time is ripe for such a move ment as the Civic Bureau has inaug urated by which this city may ob tain legislation suited to its require ments, without being compelled to continuo the costly experience of having laws thrust upon it that are demanded by Pittsburgh.—Scranton Republican. ODE TO MY WINTER LOVE When snows are swirling o'er hill and plain And wind chills through to the bone, How thrilled am I to know that you Are waiting for me at home! When sugar's scarce and meat is classed A luxury to our Hooverized fare— To know that you are constant still Banishes a world of care. But oh! when bins are empty of coal In many and many a place, Then do I know thy true love best And then do I seek thy face. Oh! how to make thee feel my love More and more real each day, As Into the winter of Arctic cold We gradually wend our way I Ah! winter's the time for making love" In spite of what poet's say— The warmth of soul, the warmth of hearts Comes forth to sport and play. • • May no circumstance of life Rob me of thy fond care; If such should be the turn of fate, The winter's cold I could not bear—MY RADIATOR. —By James Gordon, of Harris burg. eminent in order to co-ordinate the defense as much as possible and to exercise a moral influence upon the garrison. "I was at Fort Loncirion at noon August 6. The fort was blown up at 5 o'clock, the greater part of the garrison being buried under the rtiins. That I did not lose my life in that catastrophe is due to my es cort, who drew me from a strong hold while I was being suffocated by gas from exploding powder. "I was conveyed to a trench, where I fell. When I recovered I found a German captain giving me a drink and I was made a prisoner and taken to Liege. In honor of our arms I surrendered neither the fortress nor the forts." General Leman was taken soon after to a German military prison at Magdeburg. The German com mander returned General Lenwn's sword as a mark of esteem. After a year in prison the Belgian com mander's health began to fail and his daughter sought to obtain per mission for her father's return to Belgium through the Swiss Red Cross. The petition was forwarded to the kaiser in February, 1915, but it was not until a few weeks ago, after Gen eral Leman had become practically helpless, that he was allowed to go to Switzerland, where le is interned for the duration of the war. Might of the Conqueror Must kultur rear its domes over mountains of corpses, oceans of tears and the death rattle of the con quered? Yes; it must * * * The might of the conqueror is the highest law before which the con querer must bow. KARL A. KUHN (of Charlotten burg), 1914. Ballad of Unsuccessful Dr. Richard Burton, Ph. D., head of the English department at the University of Minnesota, is the au thor of this striking poem: We are the toilers from whom God barred The gifts that are good to hold. We meant full well and we tried full hard, And our families were manifold. And we are the clan of those whose kin Were a millstone dragging them down. Yea, we had to sweat for our bro ther's sin, And lose the victor's crown. The seeming able, who all but scored, From their teeming tribe we come; What was there wrong with us, O Lord, That our KMs were dark and dumb? The men ten talented, who still Strangely missed of the goal, Of them we are; it seems thy will To harrow some in soul. We are the sinners, too, whose lust Conquered the higher claims; We sat us prone in the common dust And played at the devil's games. Wo are the hard luck folk who strove Zealously, but in vain; We lost and lost, while our com rades throve, And still we lost again. We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and braim we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours. A mighty army our full ranks make, We shake the graves as we go; The sudden stroke and the slow heartbreak, They both have brought us low. And while we are laying life's sword aside. Spent and dishonored and sad, Our epitaph this, when once we have died: "The weak lie here, and the bad." We wonder if this can be really the close, Life's fever cooled by death's trance; And we cry, though it seem to our dearest of foes; "God, give us another chance!" LABOR NOTES At Well Hall, England, near the Woolwich Arsenal, the British Min istry of Munitions has built some 1.600 houses of a permanent type. It has erected stores, halls, schools and other public buildings: also baker ies, a central kitchen, laundries and churches. Organized labor's agitation against the leasing of women convicts in Ala bama to private contractors is de veloping a strong public opinion against this system. At the next session of the State Legislature a measure will probably lie introduced to prohibit this practice. Union-Made Garment Manuactur ers' Association of New York City has agreed to raise wages as a re sult o conferences. Cutters and ap prentices are increased $2 a week and all other week workers wfll be ad vanced ten per cent. These rates are effective February 1. The government of New South Wales (Australia) has set aside 337 acres of Crown land in the suburbs of Sydney for the purpose of erect ing workingmen's cottages. Reser vations have been made for roads, parks and churches—for parks thir ty-two acres; public schools and technical colleges, seven and one half acres, and churches, five and one-ourth acres. There are also res ervations for police stations, and ad ministrative buildings. OUR DAILY LAUGH REASONABLE. "Is there really a shortage lc alt?" "How absurd, the ocean Is full of It!" AND LOOK UP. "What can a patriot do?" "Shut up, put up and sign up." APPROPRIATE. Mr. Turtle—My, -what a nice val entine that will make for my girl! TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. Doctor—Call In Doctor Squills am we will hold a consultation. Mrs. Hardluck—Do you think h> Is golwg to die, doctor? Oh no, onl; Squills owes me money and 1 see i chance to collect. lEbntbtg dipt One of the results of the severely cold weather and the big snow piles which does not appeal to the average man, but which Is reallv one of the most costly after-effects, is the tremendous amount of repair work that must be done on trucks Qnd automobiles. In fact, almost every vehicle except a sleigh has been hard put to navigate in the deep snows which prevail and the repair establishments have so much work on hand that broken trucks and cars are standing outside awaiting their turn. Just as an instance of what bucking snowstorms mean and how it strikes where not expected, it may be said that on one day this week there were actually over forty trol ley cars of the Harrisburg Railways Company in the shops for repairs. They simply could not be run. Some W v. re . rnec l out" and some had other things wrong with them, in cluding airbrakes. The Valley Rail ways Company suffered in like pro portion in all probability. Most of the motor trucks which have been ramming snowbanks and endeavor ing to get about the snow-filled streets have hiud to go to hospitals for treatment in the last three weeks I ] oaf |V recars - so called, have suffered all manner of internal Ills, ° nothing of fractures, because th ® usage given to them. And more delivery wagons have gone in for repairs than in any similar pe riod for a long time. Likewise, horses and mules have suffered. It has been a hard winter and the damage done can hardly be estimated now. * Speaking of the weather, It's odd how everyone's spirits seem to rise when the mercury goes up after what we have been going through. People tackled work with more eagerness yesterday than for a long time anil some of the "smile doctors" were going around saying that it was all due to the genial influence of thd sun. The January thaw, that wo have all heard of but often missed, arrived yesterday and, while it was welcomed overhead and made some people reckless about going without overcoats, there were many who felt scary as they looked at the river • ♦ Some of the young soldiers who have been coming home from th<3 camps for a few days are inclined to give us the laugh as they parade around with coats open and some times with overcoats over theii arms. The soldiers are the picture of health and abundant evidence ot the food and care they get. "II would have killed me dead to have gone around this way a year ago," said one young soldier on a cold, cold day here this week. "But you sec we iare out so much and working s<: hard all the time in the weathei that we're used to It. When 1 gej into a steam-heated room I want tJ get out and hunt a cold place." "And you have a lot more of fat producing food results on your ribs than you have ever had," remarket a doctor to whom the soldier wai talking. "Yes, that's so. I've had all th< bacon and other things like that can eat. They feed us up on tli< things that keep cold out." ** * * Tinners are going to be busy met when the snow and ice go away, be cause there are more porch roof: with holes punched in the coverini than for a long time. And by th< same token there are many length of spouting which are developini holes because of injudicious han dling. The trouble, as one tinnei explained it yesterday, is that th< average man when he starts to cu Ice takes something sharp, somethinf that cuts, and he chops. What h ought to do, says the overworke( tinner, is to pound the ice. Th point of an icepick will get result on anything, but when employed 01 a tin roof or a brick pavement i has to be handled like the rest o the edged tools. * • * . "Hope this zero weather has gon for good, at least this year; because if it goes on much longer, I'm afraii of being blown up," said the man ager of a: big enterprise. "The car of coal wo have managed to ge have been simply solid cakes of coa and ice. We have to dynamite ther to get the coal so that we can tak it out of the cars. Now that's n joke. We have been blowing up th coal in the cars. It is a little roug on the cars, but they do not min it and it does loosen up the con Otherwise, we could not handle 1 And while I am about it I migh ask that the men who are sellin us cars of coal might paint it blacl The stuff we are getting is rock, nc coal, and when we try to burn gra stones we would like to have th ■ I illusion made as complete as pos sible." • • ' The small loan brokers of th state, who have a pretty live associa tion and numerous members, hav taken a step which is worth com mending. They have decided th£ they will not accept Liberty Bond or Baby Bonds as pledges. Thes securities arc to induce thrift an the state officers of the organizatlo have ruled that there shall be not! ing doing in the line of "hocking such things. * * * Colonel Frank M. Vandling, c Scran too, a former Ilarrisburge was back in the city yesterday t attend a meeting of the commissio in charge of construction at tli State Institution for Feeble-Mlnde Women. The Colonel met a numbi of old friends and was cordial] greeted about the Capitol. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " -■-E. Lowry Humes, the westei district attorney, who Is developir a boom for Governor, was former In the Legislature. —Dr. Victor H. Wleand has be re-elected head of the Allentow Fair. —John C. Clark, Lack Hav banker. Is confined to his home i the result of a fall. —Lewis H. Parsons, in charge < the loan for the Third Reserve bar district. Is busy conferring wit bankers about the details. —Howard G. McGowan, form* legislator from Berks, has been ai pointed farm labor manager for thi county. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That llarrlsbu rg sales of War Saving Stamps aro jump ing dally? HISTORIC romRTSBURO Early courts were held In a 1< house on Front street below tl John Harris mansion. "Safety First" For Bill A subscription has been start by a Texas man to buy crutches t Ka.lscr Bill, "as he will need the next Christmas." Bqt the need not so apparent, Judging by the gr? care taken by the kaiser and * sons to keep away from the dang zones at the front.—From the Ball more American.
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