HARRISBURP TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE IIOME Foundtd IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THH TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Ttlipifl) Hull dine. Federal Square. K J. STACKPOLE.Pr*j'< £r Bditorin-Chitf p, R. OYSTER, Businiss Managtr. QU9 M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Bditer. Member of the Associated Press —Tha Associated press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispqtches credtted to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are. also reserved. j Member American News^^ _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. jfffWTTY. Bv carriers, ten cents * "week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advanca. TUESDAY, MARCH 20. 1918 Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.— NUM. 6:26. PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN IT IS regrettable that there is a disposition here and there among newspapers and partisans of one candidate or another to split hairs in the interpretation of views on the prohibition issue. When a can didate has honestly and with out evasion declared in favor of the issue without the slightest reser vation he is entitled to a fair hearing among honest men. Supporters of prohibition are not going to advance this great cause by questioning the sincerity of those candidates who have declared in favor of the amendment after full consideration of the issues involved I in the pending campaign. So far as the Republican party is concerned, Senator Sprout, Highway Commissioner O'Neil and Ex-Repre sentative Habgood have all made strong declarations in support of the amendment. This being true the gubernatorial phase of the anti liquor campaign is practically elimi nated and the issue reverts to the se lection of members of the Senate and House who will be on the right side of the measure. Inasmuch as the leading candi dates for Governor have all aligned themselves with the prohibition forces, the Republican organizations throughout the State should lose no time in likewise declaring for pro hibition and thereby absolutely re move this issue from further football tactics in the politics of Pennsylva nia. It would be utterly absurd for a party organization to endeavor to successfully support a standard bear er on the prohibition issue while at the same time giving aid and com fort to the liquor interests by sup porting candidates for the Senate and House on the "wet" side. That sort of a campaign would not appeal to fair-minded voters. Indeed, it would be an open invitation to party disaster. Many Republican candidates for the Legislature already have an-1 nounced themselves on prohibition platforms and those aspirants for the Senate and House who still believe that they can be elected on a non committal or "wet" platform are as suming that the tremendous senti ment in favor of prohibition is more imaginary than real. Of course, all such candidates must assume respon sibility for an obsession of that sort. They would have nobody to blame for their defeat at the general elec tion but themselves. After looking over a list of rents paid by people in Washington, we have no doubt there is a lot of conser vation along other lines practiced down there. RIVER COAL IN VIEW of the serious coal situa tion of last winter, encourage ment is given to river operators and all other coal producers, but in providing every facility for the en largement of the river coal industry our city officials should insist that the river operators observe care in the handling of the coal to the end that the paved streets are not litter ed in every direction. Trucks that are not merely sieves should be re quired for use. River coal is too valu able to be wasted and the streets are 110 place for it, at all events. The "daylight saving" order will not be necessary to get many little folks up early on Easter morning. BEIDLEMAN A CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT by Senator E. E. Beldleman that he will be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor at the Republican primaries in May does not come un expectedly. For months it has been known that many of his friends have been urging him for either first or second place on the ticket and be fore it was certain that Senator Sproul would get into the field some of the Sproul supporters were sound ing out sentiment for the Dauphin bounty Senator. Mr. Beidleman bases his candi dacy largely on the requests rt his TUESDAY EVENING, BABJR.ISBT7RS TELEGRAPH! MARCH 26, 1918. | | friends among the laboring element ] [ I of the State, and it would have been j strange if labor leaders searching for a representative 011 the ticket I had overlooked the Seuator from • j this district, whose record as a 1 • | champion of their legislation in i | House and Senate is well known. He I | has been conspicuously prominent as ] : 1 an advocate of advanced regulations , for the safety of miners and the im provement of working conditions In the mines, has been an attorney for • some of the Railroad Brotherhoods ' and a champion of the Full Crew . law. It is reasonable to expect that he will get a large vote in that quar ' ter. ' Mr. Beidleman is experienced in legislative matters, and as an as pirant for the Lieutenant Governor ship brings to his campaign the prestige of having been for one ses sion president pro tem. of the Sen ate. Senator Beidleman is personally popular throughout the State and his vote in Central Pennsylvania, no | doubt, will be further increased by . the fact that he Is the only candi date for State office from this sec- 1 tion before the Republican voters. | • A lot of German mothers are not j , i seeing much of a "victory" in the | latest German attack. A GAME YOU CAN PLAY THREE billion dollars worth of four and one-quarter per cent. . 1 Liberty Bonds will be offered 1 1 for sale to the people of America > j shortly. This appeal is made to YOU. You may have wondered how you can help in this war. You may have hoped you could have a part in de throning the Kaiser. Well, here's how. One SSO bond will buy trench knives for a rifle company, or twen ty-three hand grenades, or fourteen rifle grenades, or thirty-seven cases of surgical instruments for enlisted men's belts, or ten cases of surgical instruments for officers' belts. A SIOO bond will clothe a soldier, or feed a soldier for eight months, or purchase five rifles, or thirty rifle grenades, or forty-three hand gren ades, or twenty-five pounds of ether, or 145 hot-water bags, or 2,000 sur gical needles. A SIOO and a SSO bond will clothe and equip an infantry soldier for service overseas, or feed a soldier for a year. Two SIOO bonds will purchase a horse or mule for cavalry, artillery, or other service. Three SIOO bonds will clothe a sol | dier and feed him for one year in i France, or buy a motorcycle for a machine gun company. Four SIOO bonds will buy an X-ray outfit. One SSOO bond will supply bicycles for the headquarters company of an infantry regiment. A lonely SSO bond will buy a box of machine gun cartridges any one of which may lay low one of the German officers who drive their men into the slaughter houses before the Allied lines. Here's a game you can play. Dig up your money for bonds. The British are not called "bull dogs" for nothing. DEMOCRATS IN TROUBLE IT is interesting to watch the gyrations of certain Democratic bosses who are engaged In ground and lofty tumbling on the prohibition question. While attempt- j ing to camouflage their own em- | barrassment through flimsy efforts to make it appear that the Repub licans are playing fast and loose with this issue, it is notable that no Dem ocratic candidate has yet appeared in the open and the bosses them selves are fervently hoping that something may yet occur to help them get a footing in this campaign. NOOSE FOR PRO-GERMANS UPON all sides there is a demand for prompt and energetic treat ment of the pro-German sym pathizers who are engaged in squawking peace at every turn and bemoaning the awful fate in store i for the United States because of our entrance Into the war. It is clearly i the duty of the government to cease j temporizing with this class of in- j i dividuals. Unless the strong hand of Uncle Sam himself reaches out for these undesirables, communities throughout the country will prob ably do a little elimination on their 1 own account. INCENDIARY FIRES RECENT report of. the National Board of Fire Underwriters I reveals what many conserva tive thinkers have long suspected— , that the number of incendiary flres ! throughout the country due to the activities of pro-German agents has , been greatly exaggerated. The report shows that of seventy , five large fires, six were of unknown I but suspicious origin, twenty-three were of unknown origin, but not in , condiary, forty-two were known not to be of incendiary origin, while only four were known to have been caus , ed by incendiaries. As the report says, it will thus be noted that in nearly 95 per cent, of 1 the fires cited there is no proof of > an incendiary origin, and in nearly 90 per cent, there is no reason even > for suspicion. It must also be re ' membered that much incendiarism • cannot be classed as part of a Ger -1 man propaganda. There were many • incendiary flres during every year 1 preceding the outbreak of the war and doubtless there will be in the 1 years which shall follow Its' close, ' the underwriters believe. " But the board would not have ■ anybody relax fire-protection pre f cautions because of these facts and 5 it points out that over-watchfulness • in such a matter is better than un -1 der-alertness: and there is a degree of value in the tendency to view ■ with suspicion every fire causing de ll struction of munitions or supplies, l until its cause has been investigated. But it is necessary to avoid hysteria, and in this sense, Ihe data obtained is reassuring. ■================== l I Lk 'peKKO^tcaKta' By the En-Committeeman It seems to be the impression among: Democratic county leaders throughout the state that Acting State Chairman Joseph F. Gutty Was wdn over National Chairman Vance C. McCormick and that the Pitts burgh utility magnate will announce his candidacy for Democratic guber natorial nomination honors within a few days with the blessing of the national administration. But what is interesting every leader is how Guffey managed to get the national chairman, who has strong ideas about the prohibition amendment, in line for him. Guffey has never made any declaration for or against the amendment and the general idea is that he would prefer to sidestep it in order to reap whatever advantages may accrue to Democrats because of division among Republicans on that subject. McCormick has reiterated his re fusal to be a candidate for governor, much to the disappointment of some leaders and at the same time comes to have demolished the booms of ex-State Treasurer William H. Berry and United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes. It was the belief among Democrats that McCormick would designate some oije as his choice. Instead of that he has apparently gone along on Guffey, who is suspected of having been the real choice of National Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer and his pals all along. Guffey's announcement will be ] awaited with interest inasmuch as the men who are really in the race, for Republican gubernatorial hon ors, are out flat-footed for the | amendment. J -—Speaking of this latest Demo cratic development the Philadelphia Ledger says: "A crisis has been reached in the Democratic guberna torial situation, and as a result It is expected that the candidacy of Jo seph F. Guffev, of Pittsburgh, will be announced by the middle of the week. In this connection it was learned yesterday that unexpected opposition to Collector of the Port Berry had developed and that Rob ert S. Bright, who had been urged to seek the nomination, persistently refused to do so. Tt is understood that the Democratic leaders regard Mr. Guffey as their strongest possi bility. It was said yesterday the President declared Mr. McCormick was an absolute necessity in his pres ent post." —Governor Brumbaugh and state | administration leaders conferred for 1 an hour or more at the Executive j Mansion with Commissioner O'Xeil j last night 011 the situation cret.ted by the announcements of Sproul and Beidleman, but refused to make any statements. The report got abroad that a state slate was being made up, but this was denied. O'Neil men were rather inclined to be insistent that O'Neil was a candidate for gov ernor and not going to have a lot of booms tagged on hint. —The Philadelphia Press takes the Ledger to account to-day for doubting Senator Sproul's prohibi tion declaration, saying that it statement about a "sudden conver sion" if true "would mean nothing against Senator Sproul." The Phila delphia and Pittsburgh papers gen erally regard the Beldleman declara tion to run for second place as a war notice on the Vares and Scott which will involve the state admin- j istration. 1 —ln the course of events Com missioner O'Neil will make a state ment on the Sproul declaration and some other thi "rs. Mr. O'Neil goes to Indiana comty to-day and to Johnstown to-morrow. "I'rji on my way and things are looking fine," was his comment. Tt remains to be seen what the commissioner will have to say about the Beidleman candidacy. If he attacks it' there will be a general assumption that he will line up with Seott, but the commissioner was not saying any thing about that to-day. —The Philadelphia Inquirer calls attention to the endorsements given to Senator Sproul by three former governors. After referring to the strong endorsement given by ex- Governor Stuart, the Inquirer says: "As prothonotary of the Supreme Court, former Governor Stone inva riably refrains from taking any part in politics, but he makes no secret of his personal interest in the can vass in Senator Snroul's behalf. "I am heartily in favor of the nomina tion of Senator Sproul." said former Governor Tener. "I had an oppor tunity when 1 was in Harrisburg to watch his intelligent and con scientious work in the Legislature and I believe he is just the man to meet the extraordinary conditions with which the next Governor will inevitably be confronted." It is planned to have Tener and Stuart speak from the same platform at an early Sproul rally." —The Philadelphia North Amer ican to-day says that it Is,likely that the Republican city committee of Philadelphia will be called together "this week to endorse a slate of candidates for state offices." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times intimates that Ex-Mayor William A. Magee, may conclude to run for the state senate in the district represent ed by his brother, the late Senator Charles J. Magee. The Leslie peo ple will run Representative W. W. Mearkle, and the Magee people have been talking of Peter J. Donalioe, who backed Magee in the mayor alty fight. The Gazette-Times says "It is within the range of possibili ties that when the final day for fil ing nomination papers at Harris burg arrives, it will be found that Mr. Donalioe will not put in a paper and Mr. Magee will appear as the candidate. The Magee family has controlled this senatorial seat for more than 40 years, and will un doubtedly fight to keep the record unbroken. Mr. Magee being with out public office just pow, and hav ing once held the seat, his candidacy would not be a surprise." —Sentiment In Lycoming county is overwhelming for prohibition, ac cording to a poll on the liquor ques tion just closed by the Williamsport Sun. A ballot entitling readers to vote for or against the prohibition cause, was printed daily in the Sun for ten days. During that period 3,949 votes were received. Of this number only 4 8 were "wet." The 3,901 ballots in favor of a dry coun try were about .evenly divided be tween men and women. —H. J. Blxler, of Johnsonburg, is out for Congress in the Twenty eighth district, where Congressman Beslilin, of Warren, will run again. —Ex-Congressman Anderson H. Walters, of Johnstown, is out for Sproul for governor 111 the Johns town Tribune. Walters is a candi date for congress at large, a place he formerly held. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS HFltO CHARI.ie! How TvJNI iUP. " * UTTt - E •BOUT A LITTLE R T)lr , hoP > £ THE Tl1= e= S / JIK I I 6HY OK> COT |NJ TH6 COUNTRY. ' vOILU HOLD OUT— J M/flr r / O U "T 1 THINK \r* TfYino> out they're ikj it will last I the bus- c'rvioio VmapS 7 Killlr UMTU - / HOP y — y y |Th src's 6m ,a lot 1 IvuaS .* eeli m<b f A £. p A C^ ONJ / FIMtS until He <SoT AWV EoufcM \ r —. SLrM.X's / £%s%! , WITH VOL* J ( \ V TURM- 1 . ' ■ 1 ThC C ? . / Re Ovrer the Lk 'peiuuu "She spends all her husband's! salary on her back," informed the j critical woman at a fashionable j gathering. "Umph!" said the esti- j mating male companion. "He must i 'a' lost his job." A white-liaired G. A. R. veteran j who had fought with Grant in the! early days of the war was contend- ; ing that the American soldier would j give a mighty good account of him- ] self even before he was thoroughly j trained, lie illustrated with an an-| ecdote telling how Grant had asked i a colonel of some raw backwoods J troops to stand at attention, thenj march with shouldered arms in close | column to the left flank. "Boys," | yelled the colonel, who w-as just as j raw as his men, "look wild thar! Make ready to thicken and go left endways. Tote your guns. Git!" This unit developed into one of the bravest and cleverest. A suspicious looking stranger went and stood a while by the well on the Hicks farm north of Altoona the other day and after explaining his presence by asking for a drink, re fused to drink alter the water was drawn from the well. His actions, the Altoona Tribune says, caused the family to suspect hefhad dropped something into the well. Nobody knows what It was he might have dropped, but the Tribune says when the fellow was examined, 'his right arm was missing and all but two fingers were missing from his left hand." Be good to mom, as you have al ways been, and try not to let her worry until I get home." These were last written words of an American boy, Private George A. Adkins, kill ed at the front the other day. Will this tender hearted boy have his reward? You know he will. LABOR AND FREEDOM The hope of labor lies in the op portunities for freedom: military domination, supervision, checks, bondage, lie in Prussian rule. So de clares the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor. This is a right and clear concep tion of the issues involved in this war for the working man. It is not through a German regime but through democracy that labor Is to receive adequate recognition and its realization of its rightful place in the world. All Americans are supremely and vitally interested in the war agains* German autocracy and none more than the working man of America. To him freedom means everything. The test is on whether the auto cratic regime of Germany has bred better men than the free institutions of this country has —whether the in dependent men of America can fight so well, can manufacture such guns and aeroplanes and other instru ments and munitions of war and put them Into effective use as can the human product of German rule. There is 110 doubt of the result, but it depends upon the whole Amer ican people and not alone upon our fighting men. We who remain in safety at home must do our part, work, economize, save and support the finances of the government. In dustry, saving, tnd lending to the government are now national needs and national duties. THEY ALSO SERVE! They also serve, who save, and save, For food must help to win. * They fight who live on hardy fare—• As well as they who face the glare Of battle and the din. They also serve who toil, and toil, And bravely meet the foe! They fight who work In field, on farm— Some fight with cannon—some with arm And some with plow and hoe. They also serve who make men smile— We'll lose except we laugh— They fight who keep brave men in trim — The Y. M. hut, the games, the gym— In war a smile is half! They also serve—aye, you and I We're traitors If we fall! While brave men sing and strong men smile. And walk with joy their dreary mile. And face grim death, nor quail. —Marshall Louis Mertins. | CAN VENIZELOS SAVE GREECE? FOR centuries the Greek people have suffered at the hands of friends and of foes. To-day they are poisoned with German lies and suffering from the treatment of their friends. Will Venizelos be able to lire them once more as he used to of old, or are the odds too great even for a man like him? My own opinion is that the odds are too great, and that the Allies will have to help him to free his country from the German propaganda and to purge the poison from their system. They can help him if they will, and if they can only realize that by do ing so they will be undoing some of the mistakes they have made. We are fighting to-day a war which in intensity and in sincerity surpasses the wars of the Crusades. We are fighting, not only to free the world from autocracy and from militarism, but to free It from all the aggres sions and wrongs which sprang from the old political and diplomatic tra ditions. Let us then face facts squarely in the face. Let not the year 1918 bring about still another catastrophe on our side. Let the year 1918 be a year of redemption rather than the continuation of our blunders In the Near East thus far. Through a blundering and hesi tating policy, 1915 was signalized by the destruction of Serbia and the failure to take Constantinople. 191G saw the defeat of Rumania, and put into the hands of Germany the wheat-fields and the oil-wells of that country. PRAYER FOR OUR MEN Father, the hour has come! Thou art glorifying America by permitting her to go up the Calvary road, bear ing her cross of sacrifice. These men of ours, who march to the wars, are marching in step with Thee on that road to*a world's redemption. If they fall under the weight of the cross, as Thou didst fall, show them how we at home are near to lift the heavy wood and bear it with them to the crest of the hill where victory is,—the victory of sacrifice for right eousness' sake. ' Father, glorify every soldier with this vision. May they know the nearness of Thy presence by the rustle of Thy garments and see Thy calm, confident face, -as with them Thou dosi march. We love them; we love Thee. In that love we live. In that love we leave our men, re peating to them Thine own great words of assurance: "Fear thou not, for I am with thee. . . .1 will up hold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."—Salem D. Towne, ► opyright. Society's Secret Service Irving Bacheller. the famous au- 1 thor and lecturer, says in the April American Magazine: "There's a kind of secret service among men and women of which everyone is a member. This secret service is constantly taking and comparing notes on the character of all individuals within the circum ference of its observation. My young friend, do not be deceived. They know all about you. They look as innocent as you, but they know every step in your going and coming, even though you are ' covered by the darkness of the night. There are a thouwand eyes and ears and the keenest wits in this great busy de tective who lives in your neighbor hood. He fools himself who thinks he can fool this all-seeing detective. Therefore it pays to be sincere and genuine—to be, in short, just what we are in public and private, in talk and action at home and abroad. The beginning of bigness Is absolute sincerity and something more. 1 would call It living the truth." 1 THE INCOME TAX Architects' Fees are "Cost"—Not "Expense" If I employ an architect to prepare plans for a building to be used for business purposes, may the fee paid to the architect be claimed as a business expense? No. Amounts expended for an architect's serv ices are held to be a part of the cost of the building, and are not such items a& may be claimed as deduc tions. 1917 will remain memorable foi® the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and for Italy's debacle. America is now in the war, and we are entering a new year, a year which must be a winning year for us, and not another blundering, los ing one. Let America at least pre vent the destruction of Greece. Let the American people never forget that twd weeks after the war began, Greece unconditionally and unre servedly offered her all to the cause for which America stands. And, above all, let us remember that in spite of German gold and German intrigues, in spite of the colossal mis takes of the Allies and the fiasco of the Dardanelles, the Greek people, in June, 1915, voted for Venizelos and for war when the Issue was pre sented to them in the most clear-cut manner —voted for war on the side of the Allies even after the Entente had refused to guarantee their ter ritorial integrity. And had their leader been adequately supported by the Powers which had guaranteed the Greek Constitution, Serbia need never have been destroyed. We have stood aside and seen Ser bia perish. We have lost the chance of taking Constantinople. We have lost Rumania. We hate lost Rus sia. We have seen the semi-de moralizatlon of Italy. Let us not abandon Greece because certain monarchistic influences have worked harder to save a rotten little dynasty in Athens than to win the war — From In the Heart of German In trigue, by Demetra Valta (Houghton 'Mifflin Co.) * LABOR NOTES | It is proposed to order women em ployed at the British of I Munitions to wear a khaki uniform. 1 Terre Haute (Ind.) Brewery Work ers' Union has raised wages twelve to twenty per cent. | An all-Ireland conference is" to be j held to consider the question of food j supplies for that country. | Peat brick are being retailed in I Dublin at a penny each, instead of ■ three for a penny, the price before j the war. ! The British Co-Operative Whole ! s. le Society has paid over 400,000 ! pounds to its workers who are serv i ing, except "conscientious objec- I tors." All the school boards o£ Caithness (Scotland) have adopted a minimum salary for assistant teachers, com mencing at S4OO. . The first short course of agronomy i and animal husbandry at the Univer i stty of British Columbia is now in j fuli progress. | In Germany working hours of all I plants have been increased from ■ eight hours a day to ten and even J twelve at the same rate of wages. i Recent British and French experi i ments in munitions plants indicate evertime does not increase maximum production by women workers. The anti-prohibition element in the British Columbia Federation of Labor failed to put through an amendment for two and one-half per cent. beer. St. Louis (Mo.) organized wood workers are asking for 50 cents an hour and an eight-hour day. effec tive April 1 next. Robert Brown, secretary of the Scottish Miners, and twenty-one years a Councillor', has been re-elect ed Provost of Dalkeith. EDITORIAL COMMENT ] Peace propaganda here is only an other brand of poison-gas—Wall Street Journal. We'll say this for Hoover: He's killed off a lot of incipient cases of indigestion.—Detroit Free Press. Deaf in one ear, he can hear his country calling: blind in one eye, he can see his duty, and he will do i it.—New York .Morning Telegraph. If only the Kaiser and, the rest of us would talk less about "Trust In God," and consider* the question of his trust ill us!— Wall Street Journal. Washington, with his early an nounced inability to tell a lie, prob ably stands out in Berlin as the su prenle type of American inefficiency. —Chicago Herald. That a German' General is pub lishing lessons of this war to he learned for the next one is a big season why this one has to be fought to a finish.—New York World. In spite of the scarcity of farm laborers, this department predicts that the crop of book-agents selling complete histories of the war will be as numerous this year as ever.— Emporia Gazette. The German idea seems to be to both rule and ruin.—Detroit Free Prces. TAKING ITT;ASY The Kaiser is willing to bear the troubles of his people, but they must continue to do the fighting.—Cleve land Plain Dealer. IQUR DAILY LAUGH SIC TRANSIT. The overcoat that once wo were nuisance grown. <*y-~ ho u ''■ l the api) ' e ot his To use that ' ',■/ tk/ . DU W'expresalon ' if rA lT seems fa r - fetched. 4jfll Not at all. She'if a. pippin. ALO NEEDN'T - IwV** WORRY. \J| all, fools make Hk life amusing. vX [M , When all are \J m /, dead I don't V* /& want to be alive. JOT Peggy: Don't AV JHiHf Ml worry, you |™| LOW WAGES. I didn't know per* that he's working for the government for Jill 111I II a dollar a year. Ibentttg (Etjal Every now and thsri someone rises to throw a shower of verbal brickbats at our courthouse. It hus : some shortcomings, but the truth of the matter is that they are inter nal. Externally, the Dauphin coun ty temple of justice, has many good points and only the other day War den John Erancles, of the Western Penitentiary, who has traveled a, great deal and who is rather plain spoken, remarked that he always liked to stop and look at the front of the courthouse, because to his mind it embodied some ftne architecture. State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont gomery, in the course of some brows ing among papers at the Capitol, ran across a letter, showing how the old courthouse, which had some of the features of the present building, was admired in the old days and in cidentally remarked that about all that was wrong with the present building, was the lack of some place where records would be safe from lire. He said that, architecturally, he considered the building a fine one and had heard other men, some of them wide traveled, say the same thing. The letter to which Dr. Mont gomery referred was addressed to Hon. John Todd, at Bedford, by Abram Kers, of Lebanon, who wrote' on "The Next, day Doctor Whiteside* had the politeness to get Me access to the Harrlsburgh Court House, which has also been altered Since the legislature Occupied it —It is quite a respectable and a Convenient Court Room—and Made in the right way as instead of (Most injudicious ly) elevating the bar and it is placed on the floor where it ought to be— The Court Seat is Sufficiently ele vated above the bar—The Juror Seats elevated gradually and the spectators seats elevated on the back ground still more than the' Jurors Seats —At Harrisburgh I heard the Court House at this place spoken of by Many Gentlemen (and some of them competent Judges) as being decidedly the most convenient and the Most elegant one in our State and Since I have examined the building thoroughly X do not hesi i tate in saying is beyond doubt the j most Convenient the most any and the Most elegant Court house I ever Saw in this State —This court house is nothing like any of the places that Mr. Hill laid before the Commis sioners of our County it was built in 1815 in deer times and the build ing Cost $26500 —brick at that time' Cost here $lO p thousand every load of sand $3.0 but boards were had at $lO p thousand from Susquehanna I am of opinion A court house Could now be built embracing all the Con veniences of this one for less than half the sum Above Stated." "Daylight saving is going to be a cinch when you just? figure it out." said the head of a big industrial es tablishment yesterday. "Get this. On June 1. most of us, who can, go to summer cottages in the country or else we plan some sort of things, such as working in a garden before breakfast, because there is daylight. Well, just put it \ forward two months. In other words start your summer hours long before, you ex pected to. Only this is my advice to llarrisburgers: Those who go to bed a< 9, start to-night at 8; those who hit the hay at 10, start to-night at 9: eleven o'clockers go to bed at 10 and midnighters pike up the wooden hill at 11, And do it all week and Monday you won't mind It." • * * "When the daylight saving comes around we- won't mind it" said a trolleyman yesterday. "We're used to getting up at 3 and 4 o'clock, you # know. We start one week about :> or 4 in the morning and next week about 11 In the morning. What's an hour, when you have to swing half a day, every other week or so?" * * One of the most interesting of war i time exhibits will be made at the Harrisburg Public Library, when Miss Alice R. Eaton, the librarian, has arranged fbr a display of war posters. Miss Eaton has gone to a great deal of trouble to obtain gov ernment, state and national posters, and some of them are of great merit. The Liberty Loan and War Savings posters will be given a prominent glace in the display. The arrange ment will probably be completed Thursday. The poster lias a distinct appeal for everyone in this war and some of the most effective calls to' the people have been made by ink. * * • "Being a candidate is an interest ing experience. I have been a can didate for all sorts 'of things in my time, but I must say that being it candidate for governor is the rarest of all," said J. Denny O'Neil, the Highway Commissioner, yesterday.. "I was in Philadelphia two days and I think I was asked questions on a hundred matters. And they were not all by newspaper reporters either. * • The final flowerbeds are being: prepared on Capitol Hill by Farmer Shreiner's force of haymakers, who are engaged in sweeping grass and sort of "redding up" after the win ter's feeding of the squirrels. The flowerbeds have been liberally plant ed with bulbs and similar plants and when they have bloomed, Mr. Shreiner will have some shrubbery which has been worked out on a "Pennsylvania only" basis. * * It may be of interest to some of the llarrisburg anglers to know that among the young trout put out into the streams, in Cumberland countv for the benefit of the fishermen, were some seven and a half Inches, long. The young fish distributed are all of a size able to care for them selves. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —Representative Ananias David' Miller, of Westmoreland, who has. filed a petition for renomination., now signs It A. David Miller. —-The Archbishop of York; who. spoke here Saturday, will speak in Pittsburgh on April 4. —General C. T. O'Neil, who re tires from the Army, was formerly head of the state arsenal heae. —Julian Huff, well-£nown Greene burg man, has been appointed fuel administrator for Westmoreland. —The Rev. Dr. C. F. Swift, former legislator and now active In the Anti-Saloon league, made a series of addresses in Western counties scor ing the political zeal, of the Ger man-American Alliance. —Senator W. C. McConnell, of Shamokln, is home from a trip .to. Florida. —W. J. Richards, -the Reading coal chief, is lending land for war gardens at Pottsville. 1 DO YOU KNOW ] —That Harrisburg l.i starting off wnr gardens on a more ex tensive scale than expected? HISTORIC HARRISRVRG Harris Ferry furnished grain for Forbes expedition foe the Indiana,
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