8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Foundtd itjl Pi .liahed evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.EXiRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Untitling, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE,Prx'f & Bdilor-tH-Chirf JT. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. (BUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. UlI rights of republication of special dlapatches herein are also reserved. Member American Ushers' Assocla latlon and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris , burg:, Pa., as second class matter. . b 5" carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, 16.00 a year In advance. MONDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1918 Don't let us make imaginary piHis, ' i left en we know we have so many real ones to encounter. — GOLDSMITH. I u - 1 FOR A CLEAN CITY i WITH the opening of ash col- 5 lection bids by council to- s day, It is to be hoped that the beginning of the final chapter •f the ash nuisance is being written. It Is encouraging to note that fol- j lowing the recent survey of condi tions, city councilmen joined in say ing that some means of relief must ' J>e found. To-day, Mayor Keister ' Officially asks the public to co-ope- ' rate with him in cleaning up the debris of the winter and in keeping 1 the streets clean. This is an excel- ' lent move and no doubt will b$ pro- ' ductive of good results, for Harris- 1 t>urg people are proud of the city's ! reputation as a clean town and are j always ready to do their part for its . Improvement. But permanent re lief must come from council itself. A dozen or more years ago few ( Streets were paved and ashes dump ed on them were sometimes useful j In filling mud-holes, and at all events were soon obliterated by ve- I liicular traffic. People expected dirty streets then, and thought ( little of them. With paved high- ( ways, and a most efficient street cleaning department, under the j watchful eye of Commissioner Lynch, all that was changed and Harrisburg became known far and t wide, as Mayor Keister says, as the j "cleanest and best paved city in the r country." Even under the old hit- or-miss private contract for ash j. removals, this was true, but with the f collapse of the entire system the j j past winter, the highways again P have taken on the appearance of vil- t lage streets and the people are dls- r gusted. The beauty of the city Is j jnarred and the health of Its resi- , dents endangered. j Councilmen realize this, and are taking steps to remove the menace. The more expeditiously they move, the better. In the meantime it is the duty of all of us to co-operate •with Mayor Keister in the clean-up lie has proclaimed. "DRY" SENTIMENT GROWS rIE State Y. M. C. A. delegates have gone home, each one pledged to work for the nomi nation and election of candidates who will support the prohibition amendment in the next session of the Pennsylvania Legislature. As rapidly as they meet the great, virile organizations of the State are lin ing up In favor of this very worthy measure. Before the May primaries are at hand, the sentiment of the people will have been so crystalized In its favor that the legislative can didate who dares oppose it villi face a tremendous handicap at the polls. Leaders of all parties must recog nize the fallacy of any course that runs counter to the will of the peo ple. This year the voters want legis lative candidates who will vote "dry," and unless all the familiar Bigns fail, they will have them. THE FOOD SITUATION EAT less wheat now'or you will eat none next summer. That sums up the whole grain situation now confronting the American people. Eat less meat now or go meatless In the coming months. That, also, is a condition that must be confronted by the Ameri can public. Make no mistake about It. we are going to send over the ocean what our Allies and our soldiers need, even if we go hungry here. The German must be held in check and Ills armies broken, and hungry men, with hungry people back of them, cannot do, that. So, first and foremost, we are going to feed those In the war zone. If we suffer. It Is our own fault. If we want to greedily gobble up everything In eight to-day. we must expect to go ; hungry to-morrow. But there is Ino need for empty stomachs In i America. The situation is like this—lf you I had one loaf of bread and one piece ) of meat in the house and you knew WOKDAT ~EV IMS! 1 J?G. KOUUSBURO ISSBBe TELEGRAPH! FEBRUARY 25, 1918. you could get no more for a week, you would eat sparingly of both and complete your meals with some pro visions that were more plentiful. You would regard it as foolish to eat all your bread and meat at one time. Yet that Is precisely what you are doing, if you are not cutting your usual portions of wheat and meat at least in halves. ATTEND THIS MEETING CHESTNUT STREET AUDITO RIUM should be crowded to the doors this evening, when noted speakers, fresh from the battlefields of Europe and the halls of "govern ment. come to tell us what we must do to help win the war. They will bring us a message of startling im portance. They will paiiit conditions in their true.colors. They will show us that it Is very distinctly up to us at home to do our part. If you pose as a patriotic American, attend this meeting. A WORTHY INSTITUTION UNOSTENTATIOUSLY, but very efficiently, the Children's In- dustrial Home, which last week celebrated Its forty-second an niversary, is performing a service in the community that only those familiar with its activities fully un derstand. Last year it provided a truly home-like refuge for an aver age of ninety-three children who otherwise would have been either neglected in their own homes or would have become inmates of the poorhouse. And this, under diffi culties that would have discouraged any but a most courageous and con scientious board of managers. When the war, with its many de mands upon pocket-books, time and resources, is over, Harrisburg people will be ready to contribute the money for the fine new home that should house this very worthy In stitution. SEED TESTING DAY CORN is going to come pretty near wearing a crown this year. We are going to eat more pro ducts of the splendid grain that the Indians bequeather to us this year than ever before, and a folks who have grown away from corn meal mush are finding it as delicious as they used to in the days when they wore short dresses or knew not stiff collars. But in addition to handing us a very large share in a tierrible war, 1917 played hob with Pennsylvania's corn crop. While it was our best crop and was worth $112,000,000, yet there were thou sands of bushels frosted and many that were never gathered. Early winter well nigh ruined the crop in a number of counties and seed corn is away below par as a general rule. And right at a time when the Na tional food authorities are vocifer ously urging us to raise more corn, and the farmers and seedsmen are tearing their hair to get the seed corn, comes an Adams county school superintendent with a suggestion that is a nugget for practical value. Prof. H. Milton Roth, who has re marked upon the interest taken by boys and girls in raising corn, has proposed that March 15 be seed corn testing day. He would have the farmers and their wives show the boys and girls how to test the corn to be planted for our record-breaking crops next year. He would co-ordinate the interests of the farm, the school and the home. If the seed corn is all tested out, there will be fewer disappoint ments, and it will serve to get the youngsters primed for the big job that is ahead ot them this year. YOUR INCOME TAX APRIL 1 is rapidly approach ing and with It the end of the period in which you are required to report the amount of your "Income to Uncle Sam. Don't wait to be notified. The government is not required to serve notice on you that the tax is due. The law makes it your duty to seek out the federal agents and report to them, giving an accurate account of your income for the past year. If you are in doubt let the govern ment's own employes decide for you. The original intention was to close all reports March 1, and since the government has granted an addi tional month of grace it will go all the harder with those who are not in when the bookß close. You may file your return any time before April 1, but if you wait until April 2, you are subject to a fine of not less than S2O nor more than SI,OOO and an additional assessment of 50 per cent, of the amount of tax due. Returns are required of every un married person—man or woman whose net income for the calendar year 1317 was SI,OOO or more and of every married person whose net in come was $2,000 or more. The rate of tax is at least two per cent, on net incomes of unmarried persons in excess of SI,OOO and on net incomes of married persons in excess of $2,000. Payment must be made on or before June 15, 1918. The estimated revenue to be col lected this year under the War Rev enue Act Is $2,500,000,000, of which $666,000,000 Is In Individual income taxes. Last year 500,000 persons paid income taxes; this year It is estimated the number will be more than 6,000,000. If you are one Of them, remember that your dollars are for the support of the war. By promptly filing your return and promptly paying your tax you are helping the Government to early vic tory. Pay your income tax in the same spirit in which you bought your Liberty Bond. The proceeds are for the same purpose—to keep the Hun out of America and to make the world safe for democracy. fUiUayi*. ftKHOI{( at Senator Vare will insist upon Congressman Scott for Lieutenant Governor to make a test of who's who in Philadelphia, this contest to be entirely separate from the (gub ernatorial nomination. The North American says that leaders of both parties "higgled" over secondary dominations Saturday. The North American declares that the bulk of the campaign" and then turning to rather poor stick to lean on during the campaign" and thten turning to Republican afTairs says: "It seems to be taken as assured that State Sen ator William C. Sproul, of Chester, will be the nominee at the primaries over J. Denny O'Neil, of Pittsburgh. Therefore, the big and little bosses of both factions seem to think that their job is to hang a lot of singed cats on Sproul's back and compel him to carry them through the cam paign." —Allegheny county's local option elections, which are held in nine boroughs and seven townships under special acts which permit those municipalities to determine whether they wish liquor to be sold indicate a tremendous "dry" sentiment. —ln the First ward of Avalon the "dry" forces rolled a total of 54 votes against six "Wet." Thirty-nine votes were cast in the Third ward against, while two favored it. —ln Ben Avon the dry forces came within one vote of winning unani mously. One man favored the sale of liquor, while 83 were opposed. Members of the election board in the First ward, where the lone "wet" voter resides, said that only one vote was east three years ago in favor of the liquor question. The "wets" polled four*votes to 70 "drys' in Emsworth. —The declaration of Representa tive Robert S. Spangler, of York city district, who is a candidate for re-election, in favor of the "dry" amendment is a very significant one. Mr. Spangler says: —"I believe that the majority opin ion among the voters of York is fav orable to the adoption of the amend ment providing for nation-wide pro hibition, and believing this, I shall vote, for the ratification of the same. If fleeted to the next legislature. I shall also support local option and the woman's suffrage amendment." —Sunday dispatches say there is a possibility that General Charles M. Clement may be a candidate for Congress after all. John H. Elass, of Shamokin, and Albert W. Duy, of Bloomsburg, will hardly run. it is said. A French "Big Bertha" According to a correspondent of the Washington Post in France, the French have outbuilt the German "big Bertha" of 42 centimeters cali ber, and their artillery now includes the 52 centimeter mortar. He states that the length of the new gun is such as to render this piece practi cally a howitzer. The same author ity states that one of these pieces was used in the Verdun surprise at tack last August, and also in the Chemin des Dames attack in the neighborhood of Laon, where its projectiles wrecked the entrances to the quarries and prevented the men inside from re-enforcing the first line troops engaged with the enemv. Two shells from the "52" sufficed to wreck Fort Malmaison. EDITORIAL COMMENT' . Whether Germpny Is fighting for her existence or not, it Is clear that the Kaiser is fighting for his.—Sa vannah News. The recommendation of a food substitute usually carries a patriotic rise in the price of the substitute. — Ohio Farmer. General Crowder savs # no spy has been executed in the United States, and much as we. hate to, we have to believe him.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Through blizzards and bloodshed, brutality and stupidity, muddling, incompetency, delay and famine, peace is coming.—-Washington Times Senator Stone's denial that promi nent Democrats tried to dissuade him from making that speech is an other blow at his party.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BOOMING DAUPHIN Dauphin, Pa., Feb. 22, 1918. To the Editor of the Trltgraph: I noticed, in the Telegraph that there are no houses for rent in Har risburg. There are a few empty houses here. I think it is an ideal placo to live. Mountains and river —beautiful scenery, two lines of railroad, land to sell, but we need trolley service. Why cannot Harris burg help Dauphin; They have the trolley lines to other places; why cannot we have them here? A great deal of the money from Dauphin, is spent in Harrisburg. I wish there was some one to "boom up" Dau phin. y Very truly yours, Clara E. Bergstresser. FALL OF JERICHO The story of how "General" Joshua obeying the commands of ,the Lord, captured the city of Jericho is told in the second chap ter of Joshua, as follows: "And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of ramshorns before the ark of the Lord, went on (about the city) continually, and blew with the trumpets; and the armed men went before them; but the reward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on and blowing with trumpets. "And the second day they com passed the city once, and returned unto the camp; so they did six days. "And it came to pass on the sev enth day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and com passed the city after the same man ner seven times. "And it came to pass at the sev enth time, when, the priests blew with the trumpets Joshua said unto the people, shout, for the Lord hath given you the city. "And the city shall be accursed, even it and all that are therein to the Lord; and only Rahab shall live, she and all that are with her in her house, because she hid the mes sengers that we sent. * • • "So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city." The spoils of Jericho, then a Canaanitish city, according to the Biblical narrative, must have been immense. The hill Karanthal. north west of the modern Erlha, Is the tra ditional "high mountain" where Jesus was tempted by Satan. RUSSIA'S ONLY HOPE Whether Germany demands an indemnity of $4,000,000,000 from Russia, or only $1,500,000,000, as Trotzky is represented as stating it, makes very little difference to Rus sia. She ran pay neither one sum nor the other. Germany's security for the payment will be her power to seize Russian territory, and ne cessarily failing to collect In cash, she will seize the collateral. Rus sia's only way of scape lies through the resumption of her former rela tion with the Allies, a return to her place among the Powers, fighting to destroy German despotism. It may be thought improbable that she will choose that way, but it Is absolute ly the only possible way for her to escape the peril that confronts her. Her re-entry into the alliance a gainst Germany would give her the moral right to aid and protection by her allies, and It is conceivable that important aid might be given by Japan. Her right to assistance would be undeniable, for she would ren der a service to the Allies of the west comparable to that she ren dered at the beginning of the war, which was in the highest degree im portant. Forced to resume fighting on the eastern front, Germany would find her plans for the loudly trump eted drive in the west much disar ranged, to such a point even that she might be compelled to abandon them. Such a service, the mere threat of military operations which would necessitate the retention of a large German force in the east, would demand substantial recogni tion and repayment from the Allies for its value would be very great New York Times. OUR ENGINES IN FRANCE (From the Philadelphia Inquirer) Noxv that so many veils of cen sorship have been lifted, it mav be said that one of the great achievements of this country in France has been the construction of a railway from the American sea port base to the trenches and the operation of it by locomotives made in France by American mechanics This was referred to In speeches In the British Parliament and is a fact much better understood in Eur ope than here. Germany knows only too well and all too sadly that there are being turned out weekly iu, France speci mens of the locomotive art such as Europe has never seen individually nor collectively. The plain truth is that most of this work is being (lone by Philadelphia boys who learned their trade in this city and who are working longer hours than ever in their lives for the smallest of wages to make ready the engines which will haul ten times as much freight as any engine in France or Ger many to-day. More than this, we are building there, as here, freight cars which look colossal to those who have been accustomed to cars with little more capacity than a large motor truck. This country has built en gines and cars and has constructed a railroad over which a train of one hundred cars carrying fifty tons each will transport supplies to our boys. That is a feat of war on its engineering side which will make our enemies, as well as our allies, sit up and take notice. A Philadelphia railroad man In the person of General Atterbury is building and managing a railway which Is being fitted up with every possible equipment, and in our hum ble opinion this will help mightily in winning the war. This Is only one of Philadelphia's contributions to victory, but It will be one of the " WHIfN A FEIWR NEEDS A FRIENO - By Briggs •:; 1 J /jj LITTLE PUP A HAS '/////. Traced All OVER '/// A MY CLE AM BED SPREAD. LUL VoOV6: Simply \ V// \ ?. %£ / 'S/Zv/ I HAV/E HIN\ AROUMD J '/ mi Baal 9s9f German Lies and German Liars By PORTER EMERSON BROWNE WHEN the Germans let loose upon the world their poison gas and their liquid fire, the world, aghast, thought that the end had been reached. it had not. For since that time have these same Germans found, and brought to use, even a still more lethal weapon—a weapon alike as veiled as it is deadly, as noxious ap is is effective, and quite in keeping with the absolute negation of ethics, or morals, of decency, of humanity that has marke'd Germany's warfare from the Belgian atrocities down to the present date. And this new weapon Is lies. Throughout this country, as well as throughout the countries of the allies, Germany has flung her serri ed lines of German liars. All kinds of lies they tell, and In all kinds of ways, from the 4 2-centimeter lie that no one believes down to the dumdum lie that makes a little hole going In and a big one coming out, and the chlorine He that you don't even know is a lie until you find that you are overcome to a point where some friend has to giro you the restorative of truth. There is the direct lie, and the richochet There is the nitroglyce rin lie that explodes itself when It hits: and the time-fuse lie that does not go off for a week or so. There are lies on the land, in the air, on the sea, and under the sea. And all these lies, effective and In effective, big and little, are directed against each of the allied nations to confuse, to distract, to puzzle, to de lay them in the successful prosecu tion of the war. "The life of an aviator Is only 30 hours in the air!" And there are aviators who havo been flying for three years! "The Navy is rotten with disease!" Maybe so? But you must admit that when it comes to sinking sub marines they do pretty well for a bunch of Invalids. "The camps are hotbed# of im morality." A lie on the face of It. If there weyo the inclination, there Is neither the place nor the opportunity. "This is not America's war?" * Whose war is it to defend the rights of America and Americans against submarines at sea and plots on land to present Texas. New Mex ico, and Arizona to Mexico? To say nothing of blowing up American ships in American harbors, and American factories In Ajnerican cities? LABOR NOTES Oregon has passed a law prohibit ing women from acting as messen gers. Two hundred thousand women in England are engaged in agricultur al pursuits. A delegation of British trade unionists will visit this country In the near future. The poorest paying job for women in Japan is that of elementary school teachers. Many Japanese girls are making their living by work formerly done exclusively by men. The Dominion Atlantic Ballway has increased wages of Its nlp.inte nance-of-way men 40 cents a day. What About Your Advertising in War Times? The merchant who WEAKENS in his purposes and effort to keep war-time business active and prosperous is a shirker of the national duty—quite as dangerous to the cause of the defense of human rights as would be the soldier in the trenches who should "flunk." For the merchant SERVES. He is at a post of duty not less vital than that of the man on the firing line. • „ The merchant must sec to it that the wheels of industry here at home are not stopped through the failure of the processes of distribution. He must strive, and strive mightily and always, to keep business—not merely "as usual," but GRISATLY BETTER THAN ÜBUAL. Store advertising, in these days, la an Index of the faith and the vision and the steadfastness of our merchants. Does YOUR store advertising meet the test, and afford an Impressive answer to those who would like to see American business impaired? "All Germany wants is a jus peace!" That's all! A just peace that will give her Poland, Belgium, Aisac- Loraine, Austria-Hungary. Turkey, Bulgaria, Servla, Koumania, control of the Baltic and the Black Seas and ports on the Mediterranean. A just peace in whk-h she can coordinate her new possessions preparatory to taking another wallop at the rest of the world! As her own people have already announced that it is her in tention to do! ' "England is making her colonies do all the fighting." England lost '120,000 men—her entire standing army—in the first few months of the war. And she is now holding the biggest part of the western front and sending troops to Italy besides! • "The Germans would never try to conquer America." Take the English Navy away for a few weeks and see! Germany has announced her dream of world power. If America isn't in the world, where Is it? These are a few of the Type A lies. Of the other types are the follow ing: Germany Is unbeatable; so why go against her? We will never get troops to Europe in time. We can't equip our soldiers. We can't feed our soldiers. Germany never in tends to attack us here; so let's keep our troops at home to defend us when she does. If we must choose a machine gun for our Army, let us pick one that isn't invented yet We must have free speech;, it is better to have people talking than doing things. Germany undermined Russia with lies. Germany undermined Italy with lies. She is trying to under mine America with lies. Don't be fooled. America haa, and is, mobilizing, equipping, and drilling troops. She has sent and is sending them to Europe. She will give 'em plenty to wear, plenty to eat, plenty to shoot, and plenty of guns to shoot it in. She is building a gigantic fleet of airplanes. She is building a great fleet of destroyers and adding to her battleships and cruisers. , America is going to make the world safe for democracy. The President has said so. and the coun try has said so, and they mean what they say. * Tag the German lies for just what they are—German lies. Use your head! Don't be fooled! i HIS SMILE He wasn't rich as dollars go. He didn't have a pile of dough, He didn't own a motor car. He couldn't often travel far. He couldn't dress in costly style, He just possessed a kindly smile. He had a happy sort of way, Knew how to work, and how to play, And he respected women fair. And dealt with men upon the square, And people thought him much worth while Because he had a kindly smile. You do not need a store of gold The love of real friends to hold; Be honest, boy, and kind, and true. And do the work you find to do; Win openly and not by guile, And folks will like you for your smile. —Detroit Free Press. STAR SPANGLED BANNER Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro' the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watch'd . were so Kaliantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting irt air. Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. CHORUS Oh, say, does that star-spangled ban ner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh! thus be It ever when freemen shall Btand Between their loved homes and wild war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued Jand Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" CHORUS And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. OUR DAILY LAUGH I DISREGARD. 7\ Don't you think is an accom \{ ' jPHshed musician? Bwl \\ I No doubt he ia AW At iS a muslclan . but i fill ll' Can hard| y "ay ho wMBM haS accompllßl>e( * is agreeing -with , KP I a man when It is r/fl' too hot to arguo the question with TECHNICAL,. pfeS, Don't you think sisifk. 1 ' m losing Mr. Stockson- Bonds You've MlVi'-i'-CTB fallen off about my ™ three points but 1 H conditions are Jefij favorable for a tW . sharp recovery. PERIODIC / INDUSTRY. I Now politicians ® sweat and 1 n sunshine fur and in rain; |MBKB Iky But soon all labor Until the next campaign. I DOUBLE TROUBLE. 1, J&'&< Busy days for ,•7, Tt (\_ my wife. " TaSKr; c^r How so ? jgSftsSv Has to keep her sffiPfZi white shoes pow dered as w<*ll as her face. UNKIND. I They say thai 1 J Ignorance is bliss. I (4 tj fcs) Ho w perfectly VY blissful you V Buntug (Hlptf Once in about every dozen yeara the Susquehanna river gives those who live along Its banks, especially below Northumberland, reason to tit up and observe the stream and the dwellers on the numerous Islands which split up the waters furnish ex periences that read like those under gone by pioneers m the western states instead in a long settled coun try. Perhaps a score of islands ly ing between the Junction of the branches and the gorge like lower reaches of the river are farmed, some of the islands being of great fertility, a few noted for tobacco and others for the choice varieties of melons raised on the river mud of by gone days. These Islands range in appearance from the altltudinoua Hill island, near Middletown, to tlia broad and flat Duncan's island, which was such a fine possession that the Indians used to fight over It. The people living on these islands are used to floods and when tlia river gets to showing peculiarities in spring they prepare to move upstairs and to get their stock to safe places. Occasionally they begin their '•treks'' too late and somo of them have un dergone anxious days and nights anil been rescued in the most hair rais ing manner. The great flood of 1889 was marked by saving of people and stock from moro than one Island when the boom logs were battering at farmhouses and barns, while the "ice flood of 1904 will not be for gotten by the people on the islands near Middletown any more than it ■ I be by the people living in the section of the town swept by the great masses of ice. Ex-Governor Pennypacker tells in his memoirs of the rescue of people from islands near Goldsboro in time of flood and the stories of the last quarter cen tury of rescues from Clemson's, Dun can's, McCormlck's, Shelley's, Duf fy's, and other island** come so close to the traditions of saving people in years back that they must be true. This year, with its unusual condi tions, will probably bring many new tales of hairbreadth escapes. One of the most interested of tho observers of the river is Edmund Mather, who served for many years as a member of the old board of Water commissioners. Mr. Mather looked after affairs at the "water house" in the days of 1889 flood and has observed the Susquehanna for more than half a century. Many other people living along the banks of the stream are watching to see how it will behave in this worst of recent winters and there will be some interesting data to scan in the spring. • • • Four women, a man and a boy, comprising the family that rents from the city, the farm on McCor mlck's island, made the venturesome trip over the jce from the island to the city shore. They dared death at every step, for nobody knew when the great ice cakes piled up there might break, but they laughed and joked at- they climbed over the floes and though' nothing of their jour ney. "I brought one of the girls over in the basket we have rigged to the ferry cable, a sort of aerial railway," said the farmer, "but the ice looked good to me and when I went back I found the rest of the family want ed to go to* a church convention in Harrisburg, so we set out and here we are." The girls and the mother laugh ed over their e;y>erience and a young boy In the party said "it was good sport." • • • The ice between the island and shore settled down to-day with the falling of the river and It now looks as though it might remain there for weeks 7 slowly melting with the com ing warm weather. The condition is peculiar, all the river, for miles being clear except this one stretch of a mile. Some of the pieces are fifteen to eighteen Inches thick, and they are badly clogged and Jammed. They have caught a coal fleet be longing to the Harrisburg Light and Power Company and another the property of a coal dredger named Weiner, badly damaging both. The boats have been pinched or tossed up on the banks on the tops of the heavy ice blocks and will require weeks of repair before being fit for service. • • ♦ Old rivermen are confident that the efforts of the river coal men will be amply rewarded the coming sea son. Last year little coal was brought down, and some of the beds were well nigh exhausted at the end of the season, but the exception ally high water of the past week has loosened" up the deposits in the streams about the anthracite wash eries and in the Susquehanna above Millersburg and it Is be liieved that thousands of tons have been deposited in the beds about Harrisburg. Some of the fleets will be slow in getting into operation, due to the loss of flats in the ice and the damage to boats that were not carried off. The floods this spring brought down little drlftwooil and not a single boom log. Old rivermen say this is because the lumber operations along the Sus quehanna and its tributaries are few and unimportant. A few years back every freshet deposited thousands of logs and millions of feet of smaller timber all along the stream in this section and the Islands were almost covered after every period of high water. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE \ —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, president of the State Firemen's as sociation, is busy with plana to help the state authorities stamp out fire bugs and plans a number of speeches. —Major B. W. Frazier, one of the old Philadelphia CKy Troop officers, has been assigned to one of the new cavalry regiments. —Congressman Thomaa S. Cfago, of Greene county, was one of the speakers at the Princeton Alumni luncheon at Princeton. —Dr. L. M. Gates is the presldept of Scranton's new bank, Just abM> to begin business. —Powell Evans, well known heUt Is arousing Philadelphia ovetf numerous automobile thefts. \ DO YOU KNOW t A That Unrrlsburß people ar making a record for the syste matic organization for their war activities? HISTORIC IIARKISRURG When the first bridge was built at Market street there were four fer ries In eperatlon thereabouts. Gobbler Was Beaten Frank Llntemuth saved his turkey gobbler from a one-sided fight re cently. Hearing a noise In the barn yard, he investigated, finding the gobbler fighting its reflection In the back of a mojor car. The car was only slightly scratched, but the gob bler was nearly exhausted.—From the Detroit News.