8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KEH'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TRLEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Kcdernl Square. "E.J. ST. I C K POLE, Pres't &■ Editor-in-Chief P. H. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of nil news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper -nd also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American ' ~ 1 Ch?cagofi'll! Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■jiywrs-r.-j Bv carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918 . j With God go over the sea; with out Him, not over the threshold.— RUSSIAN PROVERB. A REBI'KE TO STRIKERS THE firm declaration of the American Federation of Labor that this war is labor's war and must be fought through to a successful conclusion for the sake of labor's future in a world made >-afe for democracy is a stinging re buke to the striking ship-builders. Labor is justly entitled to be paid as well on the Atlantic as on the Pacific coast and beyond doubt the Hog Island workmen have grlev-! ances that should be given attention] at the hands of a board of arbi tration. but that they should hold up the work of the whole Nation is unthinkable. The organized labor of the coun- j try has been standing loyally by the I Government. Early in the contest; it divorced itself entirely from the 1. W. W. and Socialistic elements that had been trying to dominate it for their own purposes. The Ameri can Federation repeatedly has en dorsed the acts of Congress and the President. The time has come when such mistaken leaders as those at the head of the shipping strike must answer to both their own fellows In the ranks of labor and to the United State Government, and they need expect little sympathy from either. If the charge 'hat CMeigo pai.kers are hoarding hides to push up the price i- I • orally of Pennsylvania will now | l>i\e to admit that tha directors j knew what they were about. WAR AND BUILDING THE war is going to have a bad i effect on new building opera tions this year. Building as- j sociations report that the demand; for money for this sort of enterprise 1 is not nearly up to normal and some of them have decided to put out no new series until the Government restrictions against unnecessary con struction are lifted. The building associations are suffering in mem bership as a result, for home-build ers are no mean fraction of their total. The first building association was organized in America in 1831 and at the annual meeting of representa tives of these organizations last week it was reported that the number Is MOW 7,000, with a membership of 500,000. and with total assets of 51,898,000,000. It is to be hoped that] TUESDAY EVENING, HAKRJSBURG TELEGRAPH -8161 '6l AHYHHaHtf the lapse In building will not dis turb the normal growth, which Is about >114,000,000 yearly, for home building and home ownership make for good citizenship, and there is no greater promoter of either than the building association. Germany wants a "peace by under standing"—and she is going to get it. when she comes to understand that Kaiserism is a dead issue. SAVE COAL; USE WATER WITH Congress discussing the conservation of the Nation's water resources on the heels of the recent coal famine, we are in a mood to listen more attentively than usual to the proposal of the scientists who would save coal by the use of water in generating heat and power. Even the statistician is not so dry as usual. By intelli gent conservation or natural re sources, says Prof. Elizabeth P. Fisher, of "Wellesley, $342,000,000 of coal could be saved a year to the United States, $300,000,000 in land resources, $100,000,000 could be saved by flood prevention, and $1,000,000,000 by the prevention of insect pests. This makes a total ol $1,942,000,000. Quite a tidy little sum, these war times. Here are a few of the facts she cites in the Boston Teachers' New Letter to show the necessity for Government legislation for the protection of ourj lands and waters. She says: We find that our streams are to a large extent allowed to go to waste. Five years ago the unused water. power then capable of economic de velopment was estimated at nineteen millions of horsepower. Probably there is a greater amount now available, owing to the fact that hydro-electric pow er is now transmitted to great distances. In Colorado this pow er is transmitted 309 miles; Continually to fail to Use this water power means a drain on our non-rerewable resources, and particularly on the coal re source. The use of the same amount of horsepower from the burning of coal .costs the United States per year $342,- 000,000. This waste of water is espe cially regrettable, since it could easily be used to save coal and other mineral fuels, which are non-renewable. The safety of this country for the future is closely tied up with this ques tion. We should at the present time have-water power sites de veloped for nitrogen fixation plants, for nitric acid is a ne cessity in the manufacture of ammunition. Their absolute ne cessity should have been fore seen. Recently between s.*o.- 000,000 and $75,000,000 of Amer ican money was seeking invest ment in Canada in connection with hydro-electric power. Why was not this money Invested similarly in the United States'.' We know something of the use of "river coal" in Harrisburg, but here is "river coal", of another color. | Tt is possible that we are right on the dawn of a smokeless age, with households drawing their heat, light and power all from the same wire, and factories runhing full time with out the accustomed accompaniment of showers of soot. It's worth striv ing for. SUCKER FISHING TIE Telegraph delights in re ceiving letters like the fol lowing, because brickbats appear to be more popular in this town than boquets and our backyard is full of them. So, when a boquet does come along we just naturally put it in the front window where the neighbors can see it and its perfume can permeate the whole shop. But, to get back to the letter, here it is: "That certainly was a joyous dispatch the Telegraph published the other day from up-State about the early opening of suck er fishing coming soon on the heels of the big February thaw. One of the things 1 like about j the Telegraph is its optimism • What if a blizzard should come along neNt week and blast our hopes, we've had the pleasure of anticipation, anyway, and anti cipation is half of the sport of fishing or hunting. , Hut, for the sake of the other half of it I hope your correspondent is right. Have you. Mr. Kditor, ever gone black sucker fishing in the spring? Well, there's fun in it enough to make any angler want to shoulder his rod and take to the big eddies where the early fish love to lie on the bottom and fatten on the food the freshets have brought down." Have we ever gone black sucker fishing? Why, friend, spring without a trip or two would be like buck wheat cakes without maple syrup or eggs without salt. There's nothing like it to whet the fisherman's appe tite for the opening of the trout sea son a month later, or to "put him wise" to the kinks and currents of the streams he will be Jater casting k for bass. There is nothing more enjoyable than catching suckers in the spring time unless it is the eating of them that same evening, fried to a golden brown, with fried potatoes, bread and butter and black coffee on the side to make the repast complete. Somebody has said that "there is a sucker born every minute," but no- 1 body who knows anything about black sucker fishing would make any such light assertion about the catch ing of them. Catching suckers Is just as much a fine art and almost as much fun as whipping the streams for trout. The man who doesn't know their habits may fish all over them and around about them and : never get a nibble. The fellow who I does know comes home with a fine string. It's like almost every other game jin life. Good fortune and a fine | meal in the evening are for the fel j low who knows how. Luck may i have its part, but It's a very small part and the chap who counts 'on it when he goes sucker fishing may, and very likely will, find the sucker on the wrong end of his line. But, Friend Correspondent, we're just longing for a try at them, the soon' er the better. A GARFIELD SUGGESTION IF DR. GARFIELD will And a process whereby some millions of tons of "press agent dope" that find their way to the desks of long suffering editors in the course of a year can be turned Into house hold fuel there will be no "heatless Mondays" next winter. Paper brl quettes would be far more practical than some of the suggestions con tained in much of this valuable "lit erature." when any man, organization or branch of the gov ernment with a "bug," a bit of prop aganda or a conservation Idea has money enough for the purpose he at once hires a "publicity man" who sends it out In multigraph and multitudinous form. Dr. Garfield ought to be able to raise at least a regiment of ablebodied men for the mines from among the press agents of Washington alone. fslltict. I*. By the Ex-Committceman jj While a number of newspapers j and some men active in politics throughout the state express the opinion that the reports that Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh is ser iously considering a call of an extra session of the legislature to act on the long delayed reapportionment of the state for congressional and legis lative purposes, there are some who declare that what the Governor and his political friends are thinking about is to head oft the Penrose plans for reforms in Philadelphia. It is an open secret that the Pen rose people propose to ask the gen eral assembly of 1919 to enact laws to radically change the Philadelphia city government and to make cer tain happenings, impossible in fu ture. It is equally well known that the Governor and his up-state friends would like to force a show by the Penrose people and if in the wood make a breach between the Penrose leaders and the Vares which would smash any chance of harmony in advance of the primary. The Governor and his friends here are committed to the O'Neil candi dacy, but if an extra session in which Senator Sproul would have td sit would get into a row over Phila delphia it might make uncertain the support of the Vares for Sproul, which is commonly reported and which is disturbing administration men. Operating against this plan for an extra session would be the cost, which would be easily $300,000 or $400,000, according to the length of the period and the fact that the leg islature would be the same as last year in regard to the Governor and liquor legislation, and possibly the amendment. However, a showdown 011 the amendment this year in spe cial session would make much trou ble for many legislators who desire to come back. —According to the Philadelphia I-edger Governor Brumbaugh said when asked about the extra session reports in Florida, that he would attend to that matter when he re turns. Sunday the Ledger said the Governor was "puzzled" over the situation. —Highway Commissioner O'Neil and his friends are cheered over the situation in Western Pennsylvania as they see it. The Pittsburgh Dis patch gave almost a column to tell ing of the O'Neil strength in Mercer and other western counties. The commissioner is planning a number of trips about the western end of the state. To-day he will leave for Downlngtown to make an address to-night. —Representative Jim Maurer's de termination to attend the Socialist meeting in England and the state ment that he fnay not get a passport are being followed with much inter est at the Capitol. —Mayor Fibert, of Reading, does not stand for any nonsense and his example will probably be followed in other sections. An alderman who did not hold a man charged with disloyal conduct, was refused per mission to-preside in the mayor's court. —Philadelphia firemen will get some sort of an increase in pay. It is said that the two platoon system will be postponed for a year. —Senator W. C. MeConnell, of Shamokin, who is being urged by Northumberland county friends as a dignified and worthy candidate for lieutenant governor, is said to be entirely willing to run if he will not get into a rough and tumble light. The Senator is a native of Dauphin county, having been born at Halifax. Major K. X. Carpenter, of Wil kes-Barre, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Con gress in the Luzerne county district Col. Frank G. Darte's decision to take a trip south for several weeks being taken to mean that he will not run. Thomas Kennedy, the Hazleton miners' leader, is being urged to run. but there are some Democrats who would like the au burn-haired John J. Casey to make another try. —One of the jokes in Chester county is the fact that Fix-Controller Hobert Kay, who stirred up the an imals and made all kinds of sur charges, paid $1,886 too much to Montgomery county on a bridge bill. He insisted he was right, but Mont gomery county commissioners sent a check for the difference. Kay was appointed by the Governor to fill a vucancy caused by death, but did net run for re-election. —D. J. Stevens and B. M. Arthur, who have been fussing over who is to be burgess of Lansford, have tak en their troubles to court. —Chester city Are companies are all divided up over the Question of whether the fire chief should be paid. —Representative Conrad G. Mil ler, of Hazleton, has sent word to friends in this city that he proposes to be a candidate for re-election. —General Charles M. clement has informed men who urged him to run for Congress that when he said he had no ambitions in that direc tion, he meant it. —L. R. Goshorn, political writer of the Pittsburgh Dispatch and well known as legislative correspondent, hns been confined to his home in Pittsburgh by an accident due to a fall upon an icy pavement. —The Philadelphia Inquirer which has been reviewing the counties, says the hard coal region is for Sproul and that Carbon county will give him "a large majority." In North •umberland, says the Inquirer, the Sproul boom has been given "a de cided impetus during the past week" .more Sproul sentiment than is now realized. —A Lebanon dispatch says I. Say lor Zimmerman, of Lebanon, will run for the Legislature in place of Asa A. Weimer and adds: —"Considerable interest was in jected into the Republican nomina tion for county treasurer by the for mal announcement made dujing the week of the following list of can didates. Harry G. Louser, Frank P. Hammer, Dr. John J. Light, John Himmelberger, John B. Oberholtzer., Harry R. Heilman, Paul Grittingtfr and Harvey Steckbeck. All the as pirants are residents of this city.',' Owr ttu"Jo|9 Ik ""pMuuu Gladys, the twenty-foot python in Lincoln Park, Chicago, received her semiannual meal recently. Twelve keepers, with the aid of a sausage stuffing machine and a five-foot pole, treated her to thirty pounds of ground beef, followed by a twelve pound piece of beef. We know some people who wouldn't mind being a python. , "Wanted —.1 am going to New- York next Monday partly loaded. Would like to pick up enough to in sure a full load," Is the rather con fusing advertisement of a produce shipper in a north county paper. Mary was playing on the floor with her doll. She couldn't get the doll to sit in a certain position she desired and so she banged It on the floor with great Impatience and yelled at the top- of her voice, "I wish I belonged to a family that sweared." To these days of industry no one thinks much of Doctor Osier and his theory that no man Is worth his salt after reaching the age of forty. How about Mrs. George Jenkins, aged 80, who holds the vecord for Red Cross output: 30 sweaters, 9 helmets, lt> pairs of socks, 8 pairs of wristlets and a dozen scarfs. In addition to these she knitted in the last month mittens for all her grandchildren. Would you Oslerlze Mother Jen kins? , The schoolgirl was sitting with her feet stretched far out into the aisle and was busily chewing gum, when the teacher espied her. "Mary!" called the teacher, sharp. 1 v, "Yes. ma'am?" questioned the pupil. "Take that gum out of your mouth and put your feet in!" A young man in Altoona, employ ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in a responsible job, has the distinc tion of having no relatives what ever. His family died before he was seven years old and neither of his parents had brother or sister. What he lacks in relatives he makes up for in friends, of whom he has plenty: and we have heard of people who would envy him. ConsidefUte Little Girl —"Please, Mr. Keeper, will it hurt the elephant if I give him a currant out of my bun?" Real Road to Success In the March American Magazine the famous lecture of Frederick Wlnslow Taylor is printed, in which Mr. Taylor says: "Quite a large proportion of young men set out deliberately to t\o bare 1> enough to satisfy their employer —ln fact, many of them would feel happy to do as little as they ran and still satisfy their employer. Another set of men propose to do just what their employer wants. They, how ever, are at all times exceedingly careful to guard their own rights fUid not to give a single thing in the way of service that they are not paid for. About one man, however, in twenty, takes the real, quick road to success. He makes up his mind de liberately that in all cases he will not only give his employer all that he wants but that he will surprise him with something unexpected, some thing beyond what his employer has any right to ask or expect, and it is astonishing how fast this line of ac tion leads to success." Sunday Prayed For T. R. Billy Sunday prayed at the taber nacle the other night that the life of Colonel Roosevelt be spared for his country. The prayer was interrupted by the applause of the audience and a wave of "amen's" came from the minis ters' section. "Lord, send an angel down from heaven to whisper in the ears of Teddy's doctors a way to save him," urged Billy. "We don't want him to go now. Lord. Lean over the battlements of heaven. Lord, and tell the doctors haw to stay the ravages of that malignancy. "Please spare him. Lord, and keep our President, and help ' our friend who has been sick." —From the Washington Post. Path of the Han Only a ravaged earth Where the grass runs wild. And an old bent woman there With a little child. Only a shattered tower Bereft of its bells. Where, with itg sealed Gray silence dwells. Only a fresh heaped mound , With its grim pathos, And a titled soldier's cap I On a wooden cross. v Only the creeping wind ' And the shrouded sun: Only the pale gloom;—this Was the path of Hun! —Clinton Scollard of the Vigilantes. CUSSEDNESS CROPS OUT The Mayor of Bethany has learn ed something about the selfishness of human nature. A few weeks ago he announced that the city might have to cut off the water supply in the service mains in order to main tain sufficient pressure for fire pro tection, and requested that everyone aid in consrving the water supply. Immediately a lot of patriotic citi zents secured hose and began filling their cisterns with city water. Last week Bethany had to cut off the service mains—and the mayor didn't issue any warning that time, —Kan- sas City Times. Defensive Alliance Formed Wayne county lawyers have form ed an association and the Greenville Journal fears that means it will cost more than formerly to steal a pig.— Kansas City Star. SULTAN SACCHAItf\ 7 E Abdul is dead! That kindly soul's At rest somewhere in Asia Minor. On hist'ry's most affecting rolls Has tragedy with subtler, finer Or more pathetic artistry Inscribed a tale so broken-hearted As this of frail humanity. Exampled by the dear departed? Alas for Abdul, impotent To make his voice ring down the ages The milk of human kindness went And clove a channel through his rages How soft, benevolent his crimes. How uninformed with Kultur's teaching. A. Hamid lived beyond his times And childish was his overreaching. • • • Toll for the Sultan Saccharine, Outmatched by Berlin and Vienna, Reposing in his infantine And unsensatlonal Gehenna! H. L. C. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... By Brigg, —————. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM _ , risHW.ws" 1 o the Editor of the Telegraph: There is much said and printed about food conservation, of which the writer approves very heartily. 1 believe everybody should do his bit, if food, as it is said, will win the war, I believe more should be said, printed and done toward that end. One special and very impor tant item has been sadly neglected. We all know that fish are a good food, and that they would be plenti ful. If migratory fish were given a chance to migrate for spawning pur poses, our inland streams would be well supplied with all kinds of fish, as they were years ago, and no re strictions would need be put on fish ing. Any one could go and catch a mess of fish at any time they felt like it. What we want is adequate Hsliways at all water power plants. Adequate lishways, to allow all fish to move up streams into shallow waters, can easily be built. We have state laws requiring lishways, why not enforce k the law, and give the fish a chance to propagate in the natural way? I believe I am voic ing the sentiment of the majority of ! our Pennsylvania people, when 1 ' plead for fishways that will answer | the purpose. Those who know the' conditions existing at the McCall'sl Ferry dam that the eels and all | kinds of fish die in the attempt to MEN AS FOOD SLACKERS A woman writing in the March Woman's Home Companion asks meij to stop scolding her sex and look to their own faults, and she says: "I'd like to see a count taken of the mfh who've given up eating but ter and sweets to help win this war, and the women who have given up i these two things! It might check I some of these persistent scolders of i the American housewife and her i | patriotism. Only a few days ago a I friend of mine said to me: 'lt would all be so easy if it were not for Ar thur. He does so love heavy, sweet deserts, and he wants to have steak or roast beef every night for dinner and bacon every morning for break fast. I can't make hini see that it does matter, even if we have the money to buy these things. I try to tell him that it's a matter of honor not to eat them all the time, so that there'll be/ enough to go round for everybody. But he only acts peevish and wants to increase my house al lowance.' "It's incidents like this 1 that have brought me to the profound belief that after the Food Administration has shown the women what they can do to save food and check waste, then, then, the real work will begin, for they'll have to make all the heavy middle-aged men with long indulged appetites come up to the scratch, too." THE RARREYSHORE Full many sing to me and thee Their riches gathered by the sea: But I will sing, for I'm footsore, The burthen of the barren shore! The hue of love how lively shown In this sole found cerulean stone By twenty leagues of ocean roar, Oh burthen of the barren shore! And these fed crystal fragments bright, As clear us truth, as strong as right, I found In footing twenty more, Oh burthen of the barren shore! And how far did I go for this Small, precious piece of ambergris? Of weary leagues I went three score, Oh burthen of the barren shore! The sand is poor, the sea is rich, And I, I am 1 know not which i And well It were to know* no more The burthen of the barren shore! —Coventry Patmore in the Ohio {State Journal. ascend that obstruction, will agree with me that It is a sin and a shame, not to have a fishway there that would allow all fish, including shad, to go up to the head waters of the Susquehanna, and its tributaries, when we know it can be put there at a nominal coot. We are approach ing another shad season without provisions being made for hundreds o tons of food fish to do the natural act of multiplying and keeping up the supply of food fish. Let us hope and pray, that the high officials of this great commonwealth will see to it that an efficient fishway be in stalled at the McCall's Ferry dam, in time for the shad season in 1919. If this cause can be helped by the press, let every newspaper in Penn sylvania print this and other arti cles on this subject, and let able writers who can make stronger pleas get busy to do their bit. A great many people are led to believe that it is impossible to build fishways that will answer the pur pose, but that is a mistaken idea, notwithstanding the fact that sev eral futile efforts have been made, and a good deal of money has been spent, without any results. If the masses demand ■efficient fishways, J dare say their wishes will be grati fied. Lancaster. Feb. 16, 1918. JNO. It. BURKIiOLDER. Cannot Contend With God i How should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.—Job ix, 2 and 3. VOLUN TEERS MO THER He was so beautiful—my baby son! His sun-kissed curls citing; close around his head. His deep blue eyes looked trusting ly in mine. I did my best to keep his beauty fair And fresh and clean and dainty, for 1 knew I never could be satisfied with less. j He was so strong and well, my little son! I gave my days and nights to keep him so— I Called in fresh air and sunlight to my aid, | Good food and play, all healthful things of life. j I wanted physical perfection, for I never could be satisfied with less. I He was so bright and clever, my big son! II sent him to the very best of schools, j Denying self that he might know no lack Of opportunity to do his best. Or feel no door of progress closed to him. I never could be satisfied with less. And yet—but now—my well-loved son, For your perfection can I pay the price? Or would I have you play the cow ard's part, With selbsh. shriveled soul too small to dwell Within so fair a frame? Is that my choice? I sought the best! Khali I be satig fled with less? Nay, I would have you honorable, my son— Just loyal, brave and truthful, scorn ing fear And lifcs and meanness—ready to defend Your home, your mother, your country's (las, He's gone! Dear Qod! With bleeding heart I know I still could not be satisfied with less! —Kansas City Slap. LABOR NOTES There are over 700 local trade union bodies in Australia. Ten of the eleven states having no workmen's compensation laws are in the South. In 1916 Germany had 240 strikes, effecting 124,183 workers. Over a million workers are em ployed in British mines and quar ries. Venezuela has enacted legislation declaring eight and one-half hours a day's work. In Madras, India, twenty-five per cent, of the factory workers are wo men end children. Women employed in the Chicago stockyards work ten hours a day. There are 10,000 organized metal workers in San Francisco. Over 4,76G,000 women are em ployed in the various trades in Eng land. France has a million and a half widows on the Government pension list. The number of married women in industry has increased since the war began. Women as crossing watchers are being employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. More than 3,000,000 men have been withdrawn from industry in Britain to serve with the colors. The Kansas City Railways Com pany is trying to develop a senti ment in fav.or of women conductors. Operative bakers of Edinburgh, Scotland, have been given an ad vance of wages of $2.25 a week. OUR DAILY LAUGH JUST SO. I " tl Women's 'iJvMr clothes will not "hang so loosely V noxt season. SUSPICIOUS. "O Mrs. Bilton—l think you're the f" >,/®t dearest, sweetest IB man that ever -b Ky Bilton (suspi ciously) —Were f X \ you at some fall . Jf'f /' millinery opening | ALWAYS TO | '' -i-A THE RESCUE. I Science states j that girls are get ting taller year What if girls | get so tall that can't walk Fashion will Introduce soma W-'■ - kln(1 of a bend. ENTIRELY _____ DIFFERENT. What's this kiss me, I mere- tT jK|i ly let him try. n f Bmttng (Slfat James McLaurie. formerly a resi dent of Middletown and now In charge of maple sugar operations in New York state and along the northern border of Pennsylvania, was in Harrisburg yesterday on liis way from Baltimore to the sugar camps. McLaurie is an expert. He kii( ws maple sugar as most men know their alphabet, and he says that maple sugar is going to be more plentiful the coming year than ever before, but that the price will not bij much more or less than it hats been for the past several years. "The present prolonged thaw has been a great thing for the maple sugar industry," said Mr. McLaurie to a Telegraph reporter yesterday. "Few people realize that New York and Pennsylvania alone manufacture hundreds of thousands of pounds of this dainty and that the industry has grown greatly during the past few years. I think it has a great future." "Maple sugar making is one of the few industries the early settlers learned from the Indians which has been handed down to us," said the speaker. "When the settlers came into Pennsylvania and New York state they found the Indians making maple sugar cakes and maple syrup. Their methods were very crude but the results were so satisfactory that the settlers soon learned the art and thereby made themselves indepen dent of the sugar imports. Of course 'store sugar' was just as eagerly sought then as now by the folks who have more than enough maple sugar to meet their wants, but there was no hardship if per chance the settler and his family were caught far from the settle ments or one or another of the nu merous wars of those days cut off the imported sugar supply for the season. Of .course, we do not make maple sugar commercially the way the Indians made it, or even after the manner of the early settlers, uho spoiled about as much as they made and ruined hundreds of trees. Our work is all done with the idea of conserving the trees and making them produce only so much sap each us they can spare witlf safety to themselves. We bore the trees on one side where the sun is sure to strike the incision, with a half-inch bore to about two-inches in depth, and keeping the hole clean so that the sap flows freely, and this we catch in metal buckets and evapo rate partly and finally boil until we get syrup, following the usual method of 'reducing the residue to sugar when sugar is desired. It is a complicated process and must be done with great care to get the best results. One tree will yield from ten to forty gallons of sap a season, depending upon its size and the rich ness Of the soil about it. I venture to say that two-thirds of the farms of Pennsylvania contain sugar maple trees and 1 anv surprised that more farmers do not utilize them. You might pass this along to the Slate Agricultural Department, which I understand already has done something along this line." The Juniata valley counties are taking an interest in the forthcom ing awiird of the State College scholarships named in honor of Hugh Nelson McAllister, one of the famous ones of that part of the ftate, by his daughter, Mrs. T. It. lays, of Bellefonte. The scholar ships this year go to Center Juni ata, Mi/flin, Wyoming and Cameron counties, which show the highest ratio of students enrolled in the col lege to the total population of the counties. , It Takes more than a shutdown of the water department to stop C. Lin ford Scott, superintendent of tlio llarrisburg Manufacturing and Boil er Works. When the order came a few weeks ago to shut down all in dustrial plans using city water the boiler works was busy turning out 1 important government orders and ! then as your Uncle Samuel is a ratli i er insistent gentleman he informed the management it mustn't let a little thing like a water famine stand in the way. On the other hand the City Council was just as insistent that it would cause the arrest of anybody violating the order. Then it was up to Mr. Scott, who sat down to think the puzzle over instead of goinghomn to his evening meal. Suddenly it dawned upon him that there once had been a skating pond near the works known as Eastmere and he knew the water that formerly was impounded to produce the pond must be still flowing somewhere. A scouting party brought the infor mation that the stream was flowing past the plant about 500 feet to the cast. After that it was a mere mat ter of pipes and a hastily Improvised pump—and presto, the factory was in operation while all other were idle. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~ —Philip V. Staples, who becomes head of the Hell system at Pitts burgh, was for some time head of the publicity department and well known here. —E. f. Warner, the Carbon coun ty fuel administrator, has taken coal which he has found on sidings for t,ny length of time and not seem ingly needed. —Tudor Aston, a Luzerne mining man, has succeeded Chief of Mines Seward Uutton as superintendent of the Mt. Lookout Mine of the Temple Co:, i Co'. —George Wharton Pepper, who is to speak here on food conserva tion, will address a meeting in Scranton. —John M. Freeman, who appear ed here yesterday in the escheat case, is one of the prominent law yers of Pittsburgh. —Rudolph Hfankenburg, seventy flve years old last week, says he' Is still in battle for reform. | DO YOU KNOW ~ —That Harrlshurg got away with the snow a groat deal hot ter than dhl some larger cities? HISTORIC HARRISBURG As many as fifty rafts used to ar rive at Harrisburg during the spring floods years ago. LIP-SERVICE . "The Germans talk about their love of peace," but such talk is only from the Hps" said Senator Lodge at a dinner in Boston. "When I hear a German talking about his defensive war, about this war which was forced upon him, I am reminded of the married man whose wife said one evening to him, sadly, "George, you do not speak as af fectionately rs you used to do. I fear you have ceased to love me." "'Ceased to love you?' growled George from behind his paper. Ceased to love you? Why, T love you more than life itaelf. Now shut' up and let me read the football dope.' " —Washington star.