8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded it}i Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.KOHAI'It I'RIXTINO CO., Telegraph Hnlldlns, Federal Square. E.J. STAC K POLE, Pres't & Bditor-in-Cliirf F. R. OYSTEII, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled the use for republication of •11 news dispatches credited to It or not otherw'se credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub fE ast er n office, Finley, Sintered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents ft rTfeffVyytr.ac* week; by mail. J5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY APRIL 1, 1918 How active springs the mind that leaves the load of yesterday behind.— PorE. GOOD LUCK BOYS TUIS week Harrisburg will send the first of its really drafted men to the National Army. There will not be many sent, but they will be the first offering of the State's Capital under the selective service law. With them will go men from the rest of Dauphin coun ty and from Cumberland, Perry and other neighbor counties. Thanks to Harrisburg's many en-1 listments prior to the first call fori drafted men, even before registration ! day, this city was not called upon J tt) furnish men. It has since main-j tained it's reputation as the best re cruiting district in the country, by j sending hundreds of men to the | Regular Army and it has contrib- i uted under every call for men I with special qualifications. These f men have been inducted into a score of lines of military service. Now, for the first time, Harris burg men go out under the draft. They will join their neighbors at Camp Meade, and the rest of us will stay here and work harder to back them up. The best of luck, boys! Harrisburg has a proud record and we know you will help make it one of the finest in the land. Many a man who wore low shoes for the first time yesterday has a high temperature to-day. AMERICANS GOING IN WE shall soon be able to judge how fresh American troops uhow up against the veteran Germans, and there is not an Amer ican who is in doubt that the ad vantage will lie with our own braVe men. The Germans are fighting for perpetuation of a dynasty, the Amer icans for liberty, independence and democracy. The Germans are in the fight because they were forced Into it. The Americans are there—near ly all in France now being volun teers or Guardsmen—of their own free will and because they want to have a share in putting down auto cracy in the world. Will such troops make their pres ence felt on the battle line? Can anybody doubt they will give the Germans something new in the way of war sensation? Our boys are not superhuman, but they have the same "pep" and punch as marked the Australians and Canadians and they may be expect ed to give as good account of them selves. In every American heart tj-day there is a prayer that they may acquit themselves well and that they may be protected from the death dealing devices they are about to face. There is something In the air that smells suspiciously like the approach of the trout season. THE CONSUMER ISN'T it about time for some one to ask some concessions for that curiously disregarded individual, the Ultimate Consumer? We are | reading of advances in prices for this, that and the other thing; we hear of figures being fixed for coal, bread, grain and other essentials of life; we are glad to hear that our railroad men, our miners, our steel workers and our other neighbors are getting "raises" and that the new wage agreements for the building trades are very advantageous to the Wen who earn their living that way. Various trades and occupations are participating in the general advance in returns for work and next thing the professions will be sharing. In short, the advance is general. It reminds us, oddly enough, of what was said when some timid citi zen arose In a hearing on Capitol Hill and asked who was going to pay the cost of workmen's compensation. Men In high station and men in low, lawyers and lawmakers, all united In sayiny, "The consumer!" The consumer is paying pretty nearly everything, and the funny part about it Is that the increases in cost of MONDAY EVENING, production, in handling, in selling lure all coming out of the pocket of the man who Is getting the raises, tor he is the consumer. Some one of | these days the folks who have been j trying to play ducks and drakes with the law of supply and demand, and some eminent governmental theor ists, are going to learn the inex orableness of nature, and then the consumer is going to get his inning. And we are all going to have front seats. March went out like a spring lamb I —and was not nearly so expensive. WHY WAIT? THE cable advises us that Secre tary Baker, "having conferred with the allied commanding of ficers and statesmen, desires to re turn to the United States as soon as possible and make available the in formation he has procured from his observations and conferences. He has completed the Inspection of men and material, which he found a very inspiring task." Many patriotic Americans are wondering why President Wilson lias declined to "make available the in formation" which Major General Leonard Wood is ready to impart after months spent in an inspection of conditions in France. BUY COAL B'JY coal now. No matter what you think of prices. They are high, but they are not going lower. The biggest and best storage reservoir in the country is the private coal bin of the house hold consumer. A ton in the bin is worth ten in the yard. If we buy now, as much as pos sible week by we6k and month by month, we shall not have to face such a scarcity next winter cj we did in January and February of the present year. If the mines can be kept giving a steady stream to the railroads, the railroads delivering steadily to the dealers, and the dealers emptying their yards and turning over their money, day after day, and week after week, next fall will find us with a fair supply of coal on hand and our yards well stocked. It was the man who laid in his I winter supply of fuel in summer last | year who saved the city from freez- I ing the past winter, for there would j have been no- possible means of I meeting the coal demand if cold j weather had found all the bins empty. Tiie Director General has cancelled j all railroad passes in Arkansas. Pretty 1 hard on the Arkansaw GOOD WORK THE Chamber of Home Garden Committee is not to be outgeneraled by ad verse circumstances. ' When It was discovered that there would be dif ficulty in finding horses and labor to prepare the ground for the city's garden plots this spring. Shirley B. Watts, in charge of that branch of the work, did a fine stroke of work. He procured the services of a farm tractor, attached a gang plow to it and began to turn up the ground far faster than three or four double-horse teams could have done. Not only *.hat, but he offered *0 j teach State Agricultural Department j agents, who will have charge of trac-j tcrs the coming spring and summer,] how to use the machines, and thus he got much of the local work done at very small expense. The city got the benefit and the State much} needed experience; thus both prof-j ited. The Chamber of Commerce alsoj will foot the bill for large quantities | of fertilizer. Altogether, the people j who are fortunate enough to pro- ( cure garden plots will find ground ready prepared and fertilized- that ought to be made by faithful atten tion to yield vast quantities of pro duce the coming summer and fall. It appears to be pretty well con firmed that Muck is a mucker. A REASONABLE ORDER THE recent order of the War Trade Board limiting imports of uncssentials and luxuries is entirely reasonable, and while I working no hardship on anybody, will savo much-needed shipping space, some times in two directions. For example, American grocers offer for sale various brands of Eng lish preserves. The fruit for these is grown in England and Is needed there, and the sugar, in great de. mand there, is brought into that country in ships. We don't need these preserves. We can make all we need. It is not right that ship space should be given them at this critical" Juncture and It Is folly to export foodstuffs from Britain while a food embargo is in force there. Another instance that may be cited relates to tobacco. A favorite brand of the smoking variety is grown in Virginia, transported to London, where it is cured by a secret process and then reshlpped to America. Here is a double tax on shipping halted by the new order. The wonder Js that the board did not eliminate thfs folly months ago. What are you going to do with that extra hour of daylight? APRIL FOOL! THIS is April first—All-Fool's Day. The worst fooled man in the world is von Hlndenburg, The biggest fool in the world is the Kijiser. Hlndenburg because he thought ho was going to bo in Paris by April 1; the Kaiser because he believes that it is possible for one man to 1 control the whole world. . £* "PtH,KOl|£KUua Bj the Ex-Committeeman State Democratic leaders failed yesterday to get themselves out of the daze Into which they have wan dered over the Governorship and the prohibition amendment, and the announcement of tHo candidacy of Acting State Chairman Jhseph F. GulYey, of Pittsburgh public utilities | and western oil lands for Guber- I natorial honors and of the relin- Iquishment by United States District | Attorney E. Dowry Humes of am bitions to be a candidate did not materialize. Instead, It is announced that Democratic state leaders will have another war council. Events are fast getting to a point where the situation so adroitly worked out in 19X4 is in sight. At that time It will be recalled President Wilson was asked to indicate men who should.be candidates and some emi nent citizens gave up private busi-. ness to immolate themselves upon the party altar. The belief in Washington, Pitts burgh and Philadelphia is that the conference may be held in Philadel phia or Harrisburg and Guffey slated with a ruthlessness that will appall Humes, Berry and Porter, and at the same time terrify some as pirants for othej - places. It is gener ally believed that Robert S. Bright, a Democrat of Philadelphia ances try, upright life and genial person ality, will be slated for second place either Aslier R. Johnson, of McKean, or ex-Congressman John J. Casey, of Luzerne, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. No other Demo crats need come around. The Philadelphia Press in a sign ed article by Charles R. Michael, its Washington correspondent, says that Vance C. McCormick, A. Mitchell Palmer and William B. Wilson, have . positively declined to stand for the Democratic nomination for Gover nor, and after saying that he has the information from them adds: "Four men are now before the Dem ocrats of Pennsylvania for this nom ination and out of this list the nom inee will be selected. They are: Judge O. B. Dickinson, of the United States District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania; Collector of the Port William H. Berry; United States Dis trict Attorney E. Lowry Humes, of Pittsburgh and Joseph F. Guffey, of Pittsburgh. The later was brought into the field to-day by an intimate I adviser of President Wilson, who said that he undoubtedly was the strongest man of those mentioned, and was especially strong in the dis | triot where Sproul had hoped to poll ! his heaviest vote. On the other hand i this same informant expressed a j doubt as to whether Judge Dickinson | would leave the bench for a doubt ful honor, ir there is a real call for Mr. Berry, the lattef has wriltvn leaders here, be will go into the primaries. Opinion considered to be dominant in settling affairs in Dem ocratic politics in the state is that Joseph F. Guffey, of Pittsburgh, will be nominated." —The Philadelphia Record de clines to accept Guffey gracefully, but it is intimated that he has won over the Old Guard leaders. —Sunday's newspapers pay more attention to the Republican contest for second space on the ticket than to anything else. The Public Ledger says the Vares will cafl the Philadel phia Republic City Committee to gether for a conference on governor soon and the Philadelphia Press says that it looks as thedSgh the stage was set for a battle to a finish between Scott and Beidleman. It is signifi cant that the newspapers all pass up the governorship as settled, except in Pittsburgh, where the Dispatch tells of big state administration plans to fight for O'Neil. —Senator Penrose 011 Saturday added to the prospects of a lively spring, by announcement that he would make speeches in a fight for control, to beat the Vares. He will concentrate 011 John R. K. Scott, he says, and carry the battle into every county. The Senator in addition to saying he was against Scott to the limit, endorsed the fight to be made against the Vares generally. —John F. Lenney, will be a Dem ocratic legislative candidate in the Chester city district. The Republi cans are in a fight over the place. —Just as an instance of Demo cratic harmony, it may be said that Congressman Arthur E. Dewalt, of Allentown, is out in a signed state ment assailing W. M. Crall, the Pal mer machine candidate for Dewalt's seat. He declares that Crall's re marks about his loyalty are ridicu lous. Tt is a favorite stunt of ma chine Democrats to say anyone who who does not agree with them on state politics, is not standing by the president in war measures. When the reorganizers were outside the en gine room, they used to call the old lenders bosses and denounce slates. But now anyone lnsurging, is lia ble to be given sharp words. —According to some Phoenixville J. Clarence Parsons, of that place, Vas dropped as a Spring City trustees, because he is a friend of Representative S. A. Whitaker, who is an Eyre man. —Lackawanna Prohibitionists have endorsed Madison Larkin, for state senator and also endorsed Con gressman John R. Farr, for re nomination. —The Philadelphia Innquirer says that Ex-Congressman Jesse L. Hart man. will run the Sproul campaign in Blair county, with Ex-Senator Enos Jones, James B. Hammond and other prominent men with him. It adds that "there appears no doubt that the county is going safely for the Delaware county candidate." —The Schuylkill county senatorial contest bids fair to be as exciting as that in Montgomery. The Governor seems to have gotten the breach be tween Secretary Paul W. Houck and Auditor General Snyder, he aimed at, when he named Houck to succeed his father. . , —Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis son was among the Penrose visitors on Saturday. —George Nicholson, prominent Luzerne county manufacturer. Is be ing urged as Republican candidate for Congress in the Luzerne district. —Republican chances of electing a senator In the Carbon-Wayne- Monroe-Plke district are Improving. Two Democrats are after Senator E. E. Warner's scalp, and Ex-Repre sentative Wesley J. Price, of Mon roe, and Nlles Rowland, brother of the former senator from Pike, may enter. Ex-Auditor General E. B. Hardenbergh Is watching develop ments and will likely be the Repub lican candidate. Relative Evils A burglar entered a house at Poughkecpsle, N. Y., and found $5.60 in a bureau drawer. The money had been collected by a girl for the Red Cross, and tills fact subsequently was published. The burglar returned the money. He. was a burglar, but not a war proiltcer,— From the Mon treal Star, HA-RRISBURG Ml TELEGRAPH | Over tta *To|a £>t 'peiuuu A Berlin dispatch says, that "when Kaiser Wllhelm motors to Potsdam he sits In one of three motors." And when the first Yankee gunner Sits a sight on BUI, he'll ride back all three—lf they can find the pieces. • • Asked whether he believed that love is the most powerful force. Life has a man, evidently of sentiment and experience, reply in Italics: "You bet! It makes the world go round; brings heaven to earth and raises Hell." * * • "I am the busiest man in our country," claimed a registrant ask ing for exemption before the Sec ond Division draft board" and it will be a hardship on me and the whole community if you send me to camp. "What's your business?" asked the board. "I'm the grave digger at Prospect Hill cemetery, near York" replied the other man, but it did not save him from going to camp, • • • United States Army truck trains, mercantile delivery trucks, trucks and automobiles in transit to east ern agencies, tourists, etc., day and night on the Lincoln Highway has caused the highway to become a liv ing stream of travel that requires the attention of the Somerset county division, to the limit. The road was well built, but is being used for traf fic not dreamed of when constructed and daily repairs are necessary to keep it in first-class condition. This Is being done with the best results. PROHIBITIONS URE The sentiment throughout the en tire nation in favor of the suppres sion of the liquor Federal power is gaining as never before. Whether this is due more to the war situation, with its impressive lessons of the necessity of eliminating every factor that wastes material and im pairs efficiency, or to the swiftly in creasing political importance of ihe women vote, is a matter for curious debate; but of the immense and swift growth of the sentiment there can no longer be the slightest doubt. The Sun believes that it will prove resistless. —The New York Sun. Patriots and Gentlemen It is our business carefully to cul tivate, to rear to the utmost vigor | and maturity every sort of generous | and honest feeling that belongs to j our nature; to bring the disposl i tions that are lovely in private lite ) into the service and conduct of the I Commonwealth; so to be patriots as I not to forget that we arc gentle j men.—Edmund Burke. Slack Not in Thy Vow When thou shalt vow a vow \into | the Lord thy God, thou shalt not I slack to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.—Deute ronomy, xxii, 21. THE STATE PRESS Go to church Sunday and thus Imbibe the spirit which will help the nation win the war. As this is a light for Christianity it behooves us to improve ourselves in Christian living and thinking and we can do this in no way more effectively than becoming steady attendants at church and living during the other six days according to the teachings we get on the seventh.—Potsvllle Dally Republican. • St Germany's Invitation to neutral nations to send representatives to watch the "great offensive" is about on a par with a man who goes to the lobby of a crowded hotel and in vites the crowd to watch him com mit suicide.—Columbia Spy. The Prohibitionists have been pa tiently persistent for so long that seven years will not seem a great 1 while to wait for state ratification of the federal amendment.—Allen town Chronicle-News. The offer of fifty American col leges to furnish scholarship, board and, in some cases, other expenses to girls sent by French colleges and schools is one of the fine evidences of our friendship for France, which honors us even more than it can benefit France. Happy indeed must the school or college be esteemed which enjoys the privilege of sup plying the young women what the heroism of their countrymen has been unable to preserve for them.— Philadelphia Record. I'm Going Across for Mother I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you— You never thought when I was a kid And played at soldiers, too, And drew my little saber out To capture a pirate crew. That I would ever a soldier be So far away from you. But I'm going across for you, Mother, I'm going across for you. I'm going across for you, Mother, I'm going across for you— The Germans talk of their Father land, I love my Father, too. But Motherland it is to me Whenever I think of you; You gave me life, you gave me heart, Apd I give them both for you. For I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you. I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you— To you the Hun shall never come To do what he can do. I think of Belgium, I think of France, Of submarine, Zeppelin, too, Of the women and children who went to death With the Lusitanla's crew. So I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you. I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you— And day and night I'll dream of home Until my dreams come true. And in my heart 'neath the midday sun And under the starlit dew There'll be an echo of your prayers, For I'll be praying for you. I'm going across for you. Mother. I'm going across for you. I'm going across for you. Mother, I'm going across for you— And won't we laugh at my little tin sword And the things I used to do? And your baby. Just thlnlc, a veteran (With maybe a medal or two) And tire Prince of Peace, yes, Christ Himself I Will bless the earth anew. And I'm coming back to you, Mother, I'm coming back to you. —C, C. P, WHEN A FOOLER NEEDS A FRIEND By Briggs \ / '| AM N, V I N || SHIPS, SHIPS, AND MORE SHIPS —— > 'Long tho towns that flank the rlv • era they are molding guns and shells. And the skies of night are lighted with a host of flamming hells. Down the rocky Cascade x-anges they are hewing mighty lanes. And they're combing out the spruce trees for the bones of aero planes. We've plowed and sown our prairies and we've reaped the sheaves of gold. We've garnered and we've hus. banded our grain in sacks un told. We've gouged our earthen vitals out ( by damp and dusky hole, \\ eve clawed and clutched and brought to light our moiety of coal, And the most of us have striven by what means we've had at hand To help tho conservation of the food throughout our land. We \ e got our men in training and a lot of them we've sent, And endless droves are coming still to fill each cantonment. Our mills a-whir with contracts are stepping double-quick To turn out duds for rookies and they're going to do the trick. Our women-folk are knitting and for the Red Cross one and all Are working 'gainst those gruesome days that surely will befall. We've braced our shoulders 'gainst, the wheels of our machine of war. We've pushed along right lustily— but say! We've reached the shore! Congressman Focht's View [Lewisburg News] The truth of the matter is Con gress took the Prohibitionists and the conservative temperance people at their word, and that wfird had been proclaimed ngainst rum. In Washington and elsewhere wo have found a variety of views expressed regarding old king booze. For long years wo knew a few men who never compromised with the enemy. These are what are called old line Pro hibitionists. They have consistently demanded that the whole business be wiped out. No trifling or tem porizing with anything so unsatis factory, exasperating and hopeless of permanent results as Local Op tion, which could mean little more than a temporary drouth in spots and tjie politicians forever juggling the question. These old time Pro hibitionists stuck and stuck hard for the cleaner on the whole business. The preachers were mostly willing to gain a little at a time, but their hearts were really set on hitting the thing to a real killing, just as Lin coln said ho would hit slavery if he ever got the chance. Congress has given the chance to nail rum, and it came somewhat as a surprise, and the vote of many a Congressman opened the eyes of some people who are too easily misguided as to men's morals and what actuates and guides them. THE INCOME TAX Life Insurance Policy—When Taxed An individual, now deceased, held a life insurance policy in which his estate was named as the beneficiary. Are the proceeds of this policy subject to Income tax? Tho proceeds <jf life insurance policies payable to the estate of the decedent, when received by his executor or administrator, are in the amount by which such proceeds exceed the premiums' paid by the decedent, income to the estate, and are to be accounted for by the executor or administrator. Beyond us is an ocean and it's broad and deep and wide, And only ships will float our guns unto the other side, And only ships will tote our men and only ships will bear Our Uncle's pile of luggage for the big push over there. And as long as we're without 'em— though we sweat and swear and pray. We can take it out in whistling till our ships have crossed the bay. So fall to, lads! Get busy—and whosoever's- fit Will find a shipyard waiting for a lad to do his bit— Two hundred and yet fifty thousand men to give a lift For ev'ry twent-f.our-hour day— eight hours to ev'ry shift! They want you, men! They want I you! For our freight—it's all a jam— Don't you hear the husky callin'? *Tis the voice of Uncle Sam! He's callin' to employers and he's askin' them each one To lend him all the men he needs until tho task is done— He's callin' men who've got the skill \ to come and show their stuff— a He's offered goodly wages and his word is pledge enough! For we all have been invited to a function o'er the sea By our good old friend —the Kaiser, and it's signed R. S. V. P. We've sent him our acceptance and we want to go in state. And we've got to have the ships, my lads, before it is too late. —From Leslie's Weekly. Now that the dream of a century has been realized by tho action of Congress, it is up to the people to do the rest. Rum must go and for ever if they say so. THE KAISER Most interesting of all. when the story is told, will be that ilg ure of the Kaiser, watching the bloody work of his ambition and telegraphing his wife that God is helping him in the task of killing. His sincerity is the most dan gerous power about him. He sin cerely believes that the Ruler of millions of suns and planets is ac tually concentrating His attention on the murderous enterprise of one miserable little mongrel on this planet. Because he believes it, he is powerful. And because he believes it he and his brood will be swept away In time, like others who have be lieved the same thing In the past. —Exchange. Dead Weight One fact cannot bo erased, ripped, raveled or burnt out of existence, and it is this; Any able bodied man or woman who does not perform useful service every day fails of duty and is a burden upon a war ridden country.—From the Houston Post. APRIL 1, 1918. LABOR NOTES Gait (Canada) policemen want in creased pay. f Municipal firemen at Cedar Rap ids, lowa, have secured wage in creases of |ls a month. War and war work has deprived New York state farms of 35,000 la borers in the last year. Girls have replaced all the candy butchers on the Oakland, Antlocli and Eastern railroad. Washington reports a surplus of labor all over the states, with the exception of the Gulf coast. Dallas, Tex., inside electricians have secured wage increases of 10 cents an hour or 80 cents a day. Each member of the London, Eng. city police force was recently pre sented with a pipe and a quarter pound of tobacco by Lord Roths child. OUR DAILY LAUGH L7~"\ 1 • \JL N I GIVE HIM I I CREDIT. j I She —• Tou j I never wrote an / I original thing in I your life—you i are a plagiarist. I He Well. J\ K~\\ 1 you'll have to i Ax AjL/ admit that, as a P plagiarist, I'm \ an artist. r&SbSS' fIW } \ \ She —lt's a Q;';),/ I \ \ curse to be so tr/ ill beautiful. Ml 11 He--Well it A\vJL / I ought to bs yI 'MlJtlfJ' Home consolu j If HARD LUCK. B,nm ® v : tho luck, here I : thought it was S yl a l)arber shop, atld ' tß ° n ' y F ijt • some old pep- PCrm ' nt can<ly " JNrUSTRIOUR J The typewriter J -L 1 Works herd (if nil day. VujLM Whenever we ging away. iEbmttg (Ebal If what men who have been ob serving business in Lancaster, York, Lebanon, Dauphin and other coun ties in the so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch" belt, say is correct, the cus tom of "settling up" for realty trans actions and other affairs Is passing. In some counties It Is said that while much business is closed up and many thousands of dollars change handa for land, securities and other things j the volume instead of keeping pace with the growth of prosperity, which, j is a good name to give it, has been I declining. More business is being done on January 1 and July 1 than over known before, due to the cal endar periods. This is in line with the tendency In governmental busi ness and in many corporations to do away with fiscal years which began at different periods and caused more or less confusion when it came down to making the reports which Wash ington and this city are calling up on corporations and individuals in ever increasing numbers. Fiscal years are now almost entirely calen dar years, and if they are not, they will be before long through the po-*. tent influence of the income tax re ports, which hit individuals and cor porations alike. Time was when the recorder's office and prothonotary'rf office would be crowded with peoplo on April 1 and even on March 31 and April 2. In the days when the late E. B. Mitchell was prothonotary and the late John S. Lynch, recor der, the courthouse was an interest ing place on "settling up" day, be cause tlio farmers and people from the small towns came in force and Market street and the Square were lined with buggies and farm wagons. And the hardware and dry goods stores did a rushing business, to say nothing of the four or five banks of which Harrisburg then boasted. And another thing connected with April 1, which seems to be also pass ing, is playing jokes. Just what the jokers that used to gather at half a dozen stores, one might name along Third or Market streets, would have done with such a choice opportunity as turning the clock forward, can be imagined by those who knew the select spirits. In those days mer chants would be apt to. find their doors carefully placarded with an nouncements of their own deaths and a suggestion that their custom ers go to a rival store, while one time Weaver & Hubley hunted for some people with a gun. because a card informing the public of their intended removal to a point on A!-' lison Hill, appe4red on their door bright and early on the morning of April l. "Bill" Lawser was highly indignant one day, because some one posted his gun store with announce ment that he had taken charge of the State Arsenal, and the pasting if "April Fool" signs over the' clock iliat used to enlighten the publi ■ over Brady's store, now the H. C. (Master establishment, was a regular thing. A few stores sold chocolate coated cotton or doctored creams with red pepper and the atrocious jokes that used to be perpetrated in the newspapers are well recalled. The Morning Call one April 1, came out with a story in "Bob" Sturgeon's best style telling of the collapse of the walls of the State Capitol and the killing of many of the best-known men in public life. Sturgeon's story talked about the weakness of the Capitol walls- and made people ner vous as they went into the building, a. fact which was recalled with some irritation by folks who saw contrac tors use up bales of dynamite to level the walls when the time came to clear tho Hill of the ruins of the eld Capitol, after tho tire on February 2, 1897. But the worst of the jokes was on most of the doctors of the town, on a certain April 1, before dawn, be it said, in the late eighties. This joker, who had not gone to bed, sent messengers beseeching im mediate medical aid for a certain citizen of credit and renown and a mobilization of Harrisburg physi cians occurred on and around his I doorstep in much suspicion and a gentle rain. And when the citizen, who was angry indeed at being aroused from rest, confronted the outraged doctors in his night shirt, matters were not improved by the fact that he was temporarily unable to proffer certain hospitalities which were much in vogue in our fafr city in those days. • W. B. Steward, sometimes known among trapshooters as "Mug," had the field guessing at the shoot in tho Riverside district Saturday. Mr. Steward is the active man in the West Fairview club and brought a steel pigeon, just like a clay pigeon, to the shoot. He had it sent off sev eral times and while men heard their shot strike it, the pigeon did not seem to break. The fellows who had charge of the traps had a lot of fun until several shooters having noticed that pigeons were not break ing when undoubtedly hit, made an inquiry. One picked up the steel pigeon and many things were said. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —William Flinn .has arranged to take up active work on the State Health Commission, which will meet in Philadelphia this week. He is just home from Florida. —James A. Gorman, the Hazleton food administrator, smashed one of the traditional Easter customs of that section by his suggestion that the saloons and hotels cut out egg nogs and use the eggs for food. Gor man took hold of the food admini stration after much urging and has been on the job ever since. —C. H. Stroup, one of the Johns town councilmen, was \mcertain about curb markets. So he sum moned all the market producers trom the country round about, to a talkfest and soon decided on what was In sight. —General C. T. O'Neill was given a great reception when he returned to his home at Allentown. He has declined to talk about the causes which led to him leaving the Army, but there is much guessing. —A. C. Howell, Sewlckley rector, will do chaplain ditty with troops in France. He has been at Camp Sher man. —Melville E. Stone, general man ager of The Associated Press, will be one of the speakers at the Pitts burgh Press Club dinner on April 18. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has given a number of butchers and provi sion men to the national serv ice? Harrisburg men are in every line of war work. , HISTORIC ir.VKRISBURG Some of the first steel steamers had boilers made out of Harrisburs rolled Iron. *
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