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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918
Be tcho cannot „-miie ought not to
keep a shop. — CHINESE PROVERB.
THE NEW DRAFT LAW
SECRETARY BAKER'S proposal
to place all men with dependents
■ in deferred classifications under
the new draft law was doubtless
prompted by the fact that
age limit extended from eighteen to
forty-five, inclusive, there will be
plenty of effectives without depend
ents to meet all apparent demands.
The Secretary's plan is fair and will
save a vast amount of work on the
part of local boards, who will not be
required thereafter to make deci
sions of a delicate nature and -nen
who have dependents and who are
intended by the terms of the law to
remain at homo will not be put to
the embarrassment of having to ap
ply for deferred classification. In so
far the Secretary is doing a good
stroke of work.
But there are other matters to
consider in the new draft well
worthy of attention. Our armies in
France are quick on their feet and
hard of fist because they are com
posed of young and vigorous men.
To brigade men of forty-five with men
of twenty and twenty-one can have
but one effect, which would be to slow
up the whole military machine, for
a regiment is no stronger than its
weakest soldier and men of forty-five
cannot compete as soldiers with Jads
just come of age.
Not that men of forty-five should
be kept outside the fighting zone;
they would be the first to protest
against such a course, but that it
would seem the part of wisdom to
keep men under thirty-one in or
ganizations separate from those be
yond that age, for the sake of effi
ciency as well as in Justice to older
men, who would break trying to keep
up with their younger and more vig
orous comrades.
There is also in this recommenda
tion the consideration that younger
men can be brought into first class
physical form in much shorter time
than can men approaching middle
age, and speed of preparation is one
of the chief demands of the moment.
"Food controllers aim to bring
down prices," says the New York
Times. The food controller who can
do that can have our vote for Presi
dent. He'll be some statesman.
THE TIME IS RIPE
PRESIDENT WILSON'S decision
to act in Siberia and Russia
proper came none too soon. In
a few days or a few weeks the op
portunity would have passed. The
Bolshevikl are on their last legs and
Germany has been bending every ef
fort to become the dominating fac
tor, If no longer through the Bolshe
vik leadership, then through other
agencies, and countless Prussian rep
resentatives are already at work
throughout the empire, trying to
turn sentiment away from the allies
by lies and to convince the people
they would be better under the wing
of Germany.
Russians have come to the plape
where they are demanding a change
from present intolerable conditions,
and no matter how antagonistic the
Bolsheviki may be to intervention,
"great masses of people In private
life are ready to turn to the allies
as their only hope. Pe&sants who
believed the stories of the Bolshevik
leaders that they could have more
land by taking it away from richer
neighbors have found that increase
of property by mere appropriation is
t anything but easy or profitable. In
some cases, says William Franklin
Sands in writing of conditions within
Russia, the peasant has attempted to
take the land and has come into con
flict with other neighbors who also
wanted the farm he coveted, and
there have been fights and murders
as a consequence. Marauding sol
diers have made the lives of others
miserable. Countless adventurers
and criminals are going about look
ing for victims. The government of
, fers any Russian anything he wants.
SATHD-DAY EVENING,
providing he can go out and take It,
but can glvo him no protection from
the next man who happens along and
wants what the first has got. The
common people are terrorised, de
jected and confused. It tho allies
can convince them that tho expe
ditionary soldiers are kindly dis
posed and In earnest, their armed
forces doubtless will find them
selves In high favor, particularly
when they begin to restore order,
provide food for the hungry and
medicine for the suffering.
America has always been held,ln
high esteem by the Russians. Our
great effort now must be to persuade
the people of that stricken country
that what the Bolshevik have told
them of us are so many German
made lies and then demonstrate by
onn deeds the friendly spirit we en
tertain.
Russia is capable of great things,
but she is like a man in the critical
stages of fever—too weak to throw
oft the disease that holds him and
greatly in need of the ministrations
of a physician. America, In this
case, must be the doctor. The time
is here and the opportunity is ripe
for a great stroke of statesmanship
in freeing the former domain of the
Czar from the slimy clutch of the
Prussian beast.
"Conservation of clothes must be
the next move." says a textile maga
zine correspondent. But we're already
doing it in Harrisburg. Some of our
girls are conserving below, above and
on both sides, to say nothing of the
arms.
LABOR AND TEMPERANCE
THE oft-repeated assertion that
labor is opposed to national pro
hibition is refused by the mem
bers of Lodge No. 574, Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, who, in a
series of resolutions adopted recently,
roundly condemn those at Washing
ton who have been trying to line
them up with booze.
The railroad brotherhoods are
high type labor organizations. They
have been recognized as such for
many years. The members of lodge
No. 574 say they are patriotic citi
zens. Tho proof of this needs no
further demonstration than the num
ber of railroad men who have gone
from Harrisburg to France, a very
large number of them as volunteers
and many beyond draft age. They
feel that they have been misrepre
sented by both union officials and
government agents at Washington
who have held that labor in general
is opposed to prohibition and would
resent interference with the sale of
intoxicants.
The resolutions, in part as follows,
clearly set forth the position of the
lodge with respect to "dry" regu
lations by Congress:
Resolved, That we. Lodge 574.
Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, commend highly the effici
ent service of President Samuel
Gompers along labor lines and
his loyalty and intense American
ism in the present national crisis,
yet we emphatically condemn his
mistaken judgment in his so
called "testimony" before the
Agricultural Committee of the
l-nited States Senate as untrue to
the real attitude of labor as a
whole towards the use of intoxi
cating liquors. While he prob
ably expresses the sentiments of
the 60.000 brewery workers, he
did not express the sentiments
of the 400,000 railroad employes
engaged in the transportation ser
vice alone, all of whom are for
bidden by rule even to frequent
places where liquors are sold.
Resolved, That we are amazed
at the "testimony" of Postmaster
General Burleson, and wonder
whether he would accept for
failure in the performance of
duty on the part of any employe
the excuse that he was "an old
time Democrat" simply exercising
his right of "personal liberty" to
take a drink.
Resolved, That we rejoice in our
American citizenship, and we
pledge ourselves to live up to our
motto of "benevolence, sobriety
and industry," and further pledge
our all. both physically and finan
cially. to our Government for the
successful prosecution of the war
to the end that liberty shall not
die.
Resolved. That we urge the
United States Senate and the
House of Representatives speed
ily to unite in passing a law en
acting nation-wide prohibition
during the war.
Labor is no untutored child, that
its opinions must be pronounced
ready-made for It by this or that
union leader or party politician.
Laboring men have learned to speak
for themselves. They are very will
ing to be led by President Gompers
or anybody else, so long as the lead
ing is done in conformity with the
wishes of the majority, but they bit
terly resent being lined up as advo
cates of the bar room and its asso
ciated evils. There are Just as many
good thinking labor union men as
there are in any other walk of life
and the members of lodge No.' 574
have voiced the sentiments of vast
numbers of such by asserting their
independence of opinion and action.
The ultimatum of Lcnlne Is about
as frightful as a political threat by
William Jennings Bryan.
NO TIME FOR PEAC/,
AGAIN the word comes from
Europe that Germany is
about to launch a new peace
offensive. If so, Lloyd George has
replied for ttye Allies before the
peace movement could get under
way.
"No quarter" must bo the allied
watchword now. This is no time for
peace. It Is a time to concentrate on
giving the Hun the beating he so
richly deserves. We cannot honor
ably enter into peace negotiations
with the present German govern
ment ajiy more than a judge In
court could discuss with the mur
derer upon whom he is to pass sen
tence the terms of his punishment.
Germany has become an outlaw.
She has chosen the path of crime,
rapine and murder. Falsehoods,
blood, loot, the lives of babies and
the honor of women have been her
stock in trade. The present German
government has decided to live by
the sword and it must die by the
sword. We shall talk peace with
Germany when her armies are shat
tered and the allies are speaking in
the terms of force upon which the
Kaiser has staked the fate of his
empire and his own worthless neck.
Nor are the German people to
be held blameless. Countless of them
are held undor the thumb of the
ruling class, It Is true, fearsome to
voice the hate they hold in their
hearts for the present system, but
countless others have bartered peace
for the hope of participating In the
booty that German armies were to
wrest from helpless peoples. These
must be punished. They must be
made to feel the strong arm of the
police powers of the nations. They
must be made to understand that no
one people is strong enough to rule
the world and that the International
criminal must serve sentnnnn for hi
crimes even as the individual of
fender against the laws of society
Is forced to do.
Liquor consumption Is falling oft,
according to the report of the Audi
tor General's Department, which may
or may not be traceable to the fact
that the size of the glass has gone
down as the size of the price has
gone up.
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Sets of nominating petitions for
the Supreme Court were taken out
at the department of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth to-day for
Charfes B. Lenahan, of Wllkes-
Barre, and F. B. Gallup, of Smeth
port. Papers had been previously
taken out by friends of Justices
Alexander Simpson, Jr., and Edward
J. Fox and inquiri*; had been made
by men Interested In campaigns of
half a doaen other men, including O.
H. Bechtel. of Pottsville, and A. V.
Dively, of Altoona.
The „ctivity of Judge John W.
Kephart, of the Superior Court, in
visiting various sections, has aroused
considerable interest here and it Is
expected that it will disturb the
midsummer calm. President Judge
George Kunkel, of this city, who has
been urged to be a candidate, has
declined to indicate what he is going
to do.
Every indication is that the wind
up of the period for filing papers
will be very interesting.
—William S. Aaron, of Altoona,
one of the candidates for Republican
nomination for Congress-at-Large
ar.d who was named on the Wash
ington ticket, has filed his with
drawal as a candidate at the State
Department.
—Formal retirement this week of
J. Denny O'Neil as the nominee of I
the Roosevelt Progressive party for
Governor of Pennsylvania clears the
state ticket lists of candidates named
by scattering votes who did not re
ceive Republican nominations, with
a single exception. Mr. O'Neil be
came candidate of the Roosevelt
Progressive party for Governor be
cause a couple score of men who
voted under the caption of that rem
nant of the campaign of 1912 cast
their ballots for him Just as Fred E.
Lewis became the candidate of the
same party, as far as it amounts to
anything, for Secretary of Internal
Affair's. Both have withdrawn and
in all probability the same course
will be taken by M. B. Rich, of Clin
ton county, who is a candidate for
Congressman-at-Large through the
same scattering votes. Senator Ed
ward E. Beidleman. who won the
nomination of the Roosevelt Pro
gressives for Lieutenant Governor,
will retain it, so that he is Repub
lican, Washington and Roosevelt
Progressive nominee, as are Congres
sional Candidates Anderson H. Wal
ters and Thomas S. Crago. M. M.
Garland is candidate on the Repub
lican and Roosevelt Progressive tick
ets. Senator William C. Sproul is 1
Washington as well as Republican'
nominee for Governor, James F.
Woodward having tho same nomina
tions for Secretary of Internal Af
fairs. None of the Democratic or
Prohibition candidates is on any oth
er ticket. The Roosevelt Progres
sive and possibly the Washington
party names will disappear after this
fall's election.
—lt is becoming increasingly ap
parent that there will be some
"gumshoe" candidates for Supreme
Court Justice and that it will be hard
to tell who will be aspirants until the
nomination papers are filed on Sep
tember 26. President Judge George
Kunkel, of the Dauphin courts, who
was here this week on a trip from his
summer home, declined to say what
he is going to do. Friends of Judges
John W. Kephart and 0. H. Bechtol
have been getting busy in this dis
trict.
—Mayor George M. Baily, of
Uniontown, has gone to the people
with the troubles he has been hav
ing with the councilmen of the Fay
ette capital. In a statement he aays
the members are cowards for placing
the blame of non-appointment of a
woman policeman on him, while he
was absent. Mayor Baily, after ad
mitting that he had failed to provide
for such an officer in the budget
when he was told by the city solicitor
that the matter could be adjusted any
time, stated: "For the benefit of all
the Uniontown people I want to say
that the mayor of this city Is a fig
urehead. He cannot select or appoint
a policeman or even a janitor for the
police station. It Is all done by a vote
of council. Wc have some men on
the police force who are utterly un
fit, I asked the council to drop them,
hut political expediency kept them
on the force. The taxpayers will have
to pay about $2,000,000 to get out of
debt. The bonded indebtedness is sl,-
000.000, and before it is paid the In
terest will run it up to $2,000,000."
Out With All Pacifists
[Col.- Harvey's War Weekly]
, Four years of war, and how much
more God only knows. The blood
guiltiness of it rests in awful meas
ure upon us, for our stubborn un
willingness to prepare for it, for our
neglect of moral obligations, for our
crass persistency in dreaming of be
ing too proud to fight, in thinking
that we had no interest in the causes
and motives of the war, in pretend
ing that we had no quarrel with the
Hunnish nation, in hoping for peace
without victory, ad in laying to our
souls the flattering unction that the
war was 3,000 miles away. These
are the reasons why the war is so
prolonged, and why after nearly a
year and a half in It ourselves the
end still seems so wearily far away.
It is a fearful lesson that we are'
learning, at a fearful cost; perhaps
yet to be prolonged for years. But
the part of a man, of a nation, is to
learn it at whatever cost; #.nd let
htm who In smug stupidity or smirk- j
ins smartness-would try even now to
ignore it and to meddle with the
le'arning and the application to which
the nation is at last coming—let him
be ground between the upper and
nether millstones of contempt and
I wrath. ,
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The Kaiser's Six Boys
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]
Pastor Drysander, founder of the
German-American journal named
The Peace Call, published at Zur
ich, in Switzerland, has asked the
German Kaiser how many sons he
has lost since the beginning of the
war. He even goes further and
prints: "In the event there have
been no casualties in the imperial
family, we demand an immediate
explanation." After publishing the
inquiry and demand, both wore sent
by Pastor Drysander in a telegram
adressed to the Kaiser.
The report concludes with the
sentence: "Emperor "William has
not replied." He may be impressed,
as was that young member of Con
gress who, in the midst of a heated
speech during the reconstruction
period, was asked if he had served
as a soldier in the Civil war. "Mr.
Speaker," said he, "I am willing to
answer all proper questions, but I do
not want to be interrupted by mere
technicalities." Pastor Drysander
may not realize that he has been
highly technical, but from the Kais
er's point of view he must seem to
be so. The Kaiser longs to appear
medieval. He has approved the
methods of Attila the Hun. with the
exception of leading his troops into
action, as Attila did, or of placing
any of his own flesh and blood in
places of actual leadership which
can be filled by Captains, Lieuten
ants, and noncoms. The Kaiser is
medieval in war with these few ex
ceptions, which probably he only re
serves for the purpose of proving the
rule.
In Medieval wars Kings led their
armies. Noblesse oblige! History
shows us a long list of names of
Kings slain in battle. Harold of
England fell at Hastings, James of
Scotland at Flodden Field, Hard
rada of Norway at Stamford. Rich
ard at Bosworth. The history of
Germany shows a bright galaxy of
names of royal Germans dying with
their boots on at the front of bat
tle lines. Before we condemn the
Kaiser utterly as an atavistic rever
sionist we must credit him and all
of his princelings with that degree
of modernity moving them to exer
cise the modern royal prerogative
of staying behind and urging their
men forward.
For all practical intents and pur
poses in hard fighting the Hohen
zollerns are only drafted for the war
In class 23-Z. Let the record stand
and mark the rating of al presump
tious royalty hereafter, not only in
military but political life. If, there
fore, blue blood should want to boll
red In combat, let the world rest
at that wise point in philosophy of
the old ballad:
If Kings would show THEIR
might.
Let those who make the quarrels
Be the only ones to fight
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Ole'-Clo's Man
[Kansas City Star.]
The German government has
called for all the old clothes In Ger
many, everybody being expected to
give up at least one suit. The Crown
Prince has a uniform he apparently
has no use for. And what has tie
come of Hindenburg's shoes?
Another Forward Step
(From the Newark News)
A 20 per cent, tax on musical in
struments has been suggested. At
last a means of discouraging the
second-story corntetplayer has been
found.
MOTHER
Sometimes young mothers press their
babies close
And lavish kisses on a rosy cheek-
In Just this wiy you surely fondled
me.
Who could not understand or even
speak.
When wondrous women through the
early years
Do Joyfully a thousand little tasks
That childhood needs and only moth
ers know,
I must remember that you labored so.
Ambttlous youths go out when school
days end
To seek adventure or success In life.
You watched me reach this gate and
carry through
No grander lessons than were taught
by you.
And now forever In that dim beyond
You see and understand and always
wait
Till He shall call together you and
me.
Keeping the best things for eternity.
MARIE C. HIGGINS.
—ln the Catholic Standard and Times
Heroines of
[St. Louis Star]
WHO will be this war's heroine
in trousers?
A Deborah Sampson in 1776
laid aside her petticoats for a Min
ute Man's uniform without any of
the stern Puritans being any the
wiser, and a Lucy Brewer, in 1812,
donned a Jackie's costume, enlisted
in the Marine Corps, and after a
thrilling career in naval battles,
where she conducted herself as a
"hero," returned home, rysumed her
hoops and brocades and married a
perfectly respectable man.
Up to the present, so far as is
known, there are no "fellows" wear
ing the olive drab or the navy blue
who should be attired in Georgette
crepe waists and serge skirts.
Adventurous damsels who might
be tempted to emulate the example
of either of these early feminine
fighters will find the entire details
of Lucy's adventures and her meth
ods of masculine camouflage in her
own account of her experiences.
This historical document is given in
part in The Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution Magazine.
Like many a man patriot. Miss
Brewster entered the war to escape
the unhappy life at home. At 17
years old she had an unfortunate
love affair, and her unfeeling father
ordered her out of her home. Her
parents were well-to-do, living in a
small town in Plymouth County,
about forty miles from Boston. She
took the name of "Louisa Baker"
and went to Boston.
When war broke out between the
United States and Great Britain she
induced an officer of an American
privateer, then lying in the Port of
Boston, to obtain for Her a sailor's
suit. She cropped her hair and don
ned it.
Lucy must have been what would
be called in these days "a mighty
America Finding Her Strength
The War Department's decision to
ask for an extension of the age lim
its in the new Army legislation to
include the 18 and 4 5-year-old
classes, discloses a right apprecia
tion both of the size of our war job
and the obligation of every physical
ly fit American to bear a part in it.
The problem, when all else is said,
remains one of manpower, and
America has the men. How much
of our manpower we shall be com
pelled to put into the battle before
the enemy breaks nobody can ven
ture to estimate, but the first part
of wisdom is to have it ready to put
in when it is needed. That means
the whole population of fighting age
must be trained.
Our national business now is war,
and every American who can carry
a gun, hammer a ship rivet, cut
down a tree or produce a food crop
must become a soldier. No matter
how many millions are required,
they must be made ready, they must
be made ready even beyond the
needs so far as we can now see
them. No commander in battle uses
up his last division of reserves if
he can possibly help It until he sees
where one is coming to take its
place, nor ought we as a nation to
stop in the process of raising and
training armies, either front line or
industrial armies, on a mere guess
that we may have provided enough.
We must keep on raising and train
ing them as long as the war lasts,
right up to the limit of our re
sources. If we don't have to use
them, so much the better: we can
turn them back into our civil life as
a leaven. But we must have them
ready as long as the calls come, for
we are the reserves, and reserves
win the battle.
The new age limits are the notice
to the enemy that we are putting
our full manpower In. He will know
what that means. He knows it
means his utter defeat as an Inexor
able and mathematical certainty, for
he has America's war strength down
on his private card Index system in
the minutest detail. But his hope
had been that America wouldn't use
Its full strength, wouldn't consider it
necessary. Just as America In the
old Jogging peace times wasted more
food than it ate and threw away
more money than It spent usefully,
so would America make war Ineffi
ciently, he thought, sending one
army In without providing another
to replace it, skimming tthe surface
but never getting down to the bed
rock of our strength. That was the
German view of America. But the
German was wrong about that as he
has been on other things.
America has taken the war on as
a business, and from the moment It
viewed it as such and prepared for
It as such Germany never had ' a
chance.
good sport," for she immediately
started out to see if she could "get
by" as a man. In the pamphlet
which she issued after her discharge
from the navy she details her first
day's adventures thus:
"Being garbed completely In a
sailor's suit, I quit, unnoticed, my
lodgings and passed into the public
street. From my awkward appear
ance in attempting to assume the
character of a man I was not with
out my fears that I should be sus
pected. Nor were my apprehen
sions relieved until, passtng through
Court street, I ventured to accost
one of my own sex. She answered
with a ready 'Yes, sir," which
strengthened my confidence that I
should pass for a man.
"I then bent my course to the old
market, where, entering a victualing
cellar, I procured my breakfact.
"The remainder of the day I spent
pleased in being enabled to visit
public places where women would
not have been admitted."
The young woman "sailor" then
obtained lodgings, "without difficul
ty," and the next morning sought a
passage southward. But the harbor
was closely blockaded and no vessels
ventured abroad, so she had to give"
up the idea of a southern cruise,
ghe says:
"Passing through Fish street, I
entered a house where there was a
public rendezvous for the enlistment
of men to go aboard one of the
.United States frigates then lying in
the harbor, and shortly bound on a
cruise. I viewed this as a favor
able opportunity to try my fortune
in the public service of my country,
provided I could avoid the search
which new recruits generally under
go. This I succeeded in doing by
an artful stratagem and entered as
a marine, receiving my advance
money and clothing, and the next
1 day I was taken aboard."
Guiseppe the Guide
[Public Ledger]
The "Tonys," Pasquales and Gui
seppes who are returning to their
native land or that of their fathers
in American Army contingents which
have reached Italy are capable of
performing valuable services for Al
lied unity. Happily Bilingual, they
can not only converse with their co
workers, but solve many perplexing
problems for the solely English
speaking "doughboy." Immediate
solution of the sort of riddles which
have baffled many of our soldiers in
France is thus at hand.
Piloted by companions In arms
who rattle oft opera libretto talk
with comforting volubility, many a
private may learn that an article
marked "soldo" has not been sold,
but is purchasable at the modest
equivalent of one American cent;
that a "chiesa" is not a cheese, as
Mark Twain confessed to believing
it, but a church, and that "caffe
caldo" is not distressing cold cof
fee, but the welcome hot variety.
Thus cleared of complications, for
eign air can be congenially breathed
and pangs of homesickness percept
ibly relieved.
Half of our troops now in Italy
are said to be of Italian or
origin. Their Americanism of spirit
is not in the least impugned by this
fact, while their usefulness in bring
ing two liberty-loving nations closer
together is greatly enhanced. A
stranger in a strange land will ex
change a dictionary for a pal who
is also an enthusiastic Interpreter
any day In the week.
Gas Mask and All
(From the New York Sun)
Those who have wondered over
the fate of the Dove of Peace will
be relieved to learn that she has put
on a uniform and Is serving Uncle
Sam as a carrier pigeon on the
western front.
LABOR NOTES •
Civil servants at Ottawa, Canada,
will work dally until 6 cfclock In
stead of 4 during the summer, as in
previous years.
Publicans of Dublin. Ireland, and
their assistants, having settled their
difficulties, the public houses have
been reopened.
On the payroll of the city of New
ton, Mass. is a cat which dVaws $29.20
a year as "offcial rat and mouse
catcher."
Working at certain jobs out of
which men formerly made from $3
to $4 a day. women are now earning
from $S to (13 at the same rate of
lpa.
AUGUST 10, 1918.
AUGUST ON THE RIVER
The swooning heat of August
Swims along the valley s bed.
The tall reeds burn and blacken,
While the gray elm droops Its
head.
And the smoky sun above the hills is
glaring hot and red.
Along the shrinking river.
Where the salmon-nets hang
brown
Piles the driftwood of the freshets,
And the naked logs move down
To the clanking chains and shrieking
saws of the mills above the
town.
M
Outside the booms of cedar.
The fish-hawks drop at noon;
When night comes trailing up the
stars.
We hear the ghostly loon;
And watch the herons swing their
flight against the crimson
moon.
—Lloyd Roberts.
Editors'll Always Be Around
(From the New York World)
The war which could not possibly
last four months because no nation
could longer endure the physical and
financial strain has lasted four years
—yet there will always be proph
ets'
As Our Pastor Might Say
(From the Kansas City Star)
It probably will be unnecessary for
the German war office to offer a
higher position to General Hell. He
is what the American soldiers have
been raising already.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
IN DANGER.
"They say women are to wear
trousers this winter."
"Aha! I thought I noticed my
■wife viewing my best panU wlt>
speculative eye."
THAT'S DIFFERENT.
She (desperately): When did y•-.
learn to dance?
He: I didn't. 1 Just took it up.
CONSIDERATE GIRL.
"Did you scream when he tried
to kiss you?".
"No, there's a poor man In tho
next flat who is very sick."
POSTPONED.
"Have you started your divorce
ult yet?"
"No—hubby's Just had a tremen
dous run luck with * war-bride.",
lEuwiraj (Clfat
Adjutant General Frank D. Beary,
who has been following the develop
ment of the War Department's greaty
depots near Harrlsburg with tho
greatest interest and who has been
expanding the State Arsenal, says
that few people realize that It will
make Harrlsburg more or less of a
garrison city. The activities of tho
State Arsenal have created a pei>-
manent force which has to do en
tirely with the military property of
the state and the coming of the
depots to the vicinity of this city and
they are of permanent construction*
means that there will be soldiers la
force stationed here. The three sup
ply depots, all of which will be la
full operation before people realize
it, will handle an Immense amount
of material of all sorts and in ad
dition to the soldiers and civilians
who will man the great warehouses
there will be garrisons of soldiers to
guard the reservations. Each of the
three places Is a government reser
vation, Just the same as a fort, and.
under martial regulations. The pres
ence of the soldiers near Harrlsburg;
permanently after the war will be a
novelty. While the war lasts the
warehouses will receive materials
from factories and store them until
needed to go overseas. These estab
lishments, which cannot be fully de
scribed in war time, are a notable
addition to the Harrisburg district.
• •
At least 1,000 miles through Penn
sylvania forests and along the val
leys and over the mountains will be
traveled .in the next two weeks by
Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chairman
of the State Game Commission; Dr.
Joseph Kalbfus, the secretary, and
proba"bly one other member of the
commission on the annual tour of
the game preserves. Dr. Penrose, who
provides the automobile and pays
most of the expenses of the tour, is
a keen sportsman, and next to Dr.
Kalbfus probably knows more about
the game conditions in the state than
anyone else. Ho has personally vis
ited everyone of the game preserves
except a few established this year
and some of those he knows by rea
son of Inspections of the tracts pro
posed In Dauphin, Huntingdon and
Union counties. The state has twen
ty-four of its own and three aux
iliaries. Work on the sew preserve
in Forest county started this weelc.
The plan is to Inspect the conditions
in the preserves and study -what has
been done in the way of propagation
during the last year and the pros
pects for the coming fall. Some
tracts which have been suggested
for game preserves will be visited
and first-hand information of value
in advance of the fall hunting sea
son will be compiled by Dr. Kalbfus.
Meetings will be held with the game
protectors and the special l men'who
are going on duty.
• • •
Will the blackbirds stick around
for the opening of the first stage of
the hunting season, Is the question
which many men who like to hunt In™
ttfe farming sections of the state
have been asking here. Immense
flocks of the blackcoats have been
observed lately and reports made to
t/he State Game Commission indicate
that the larger flocks began forming
rather earlier than usual. Southern
Pennsylvania counties report enor
mous numbers of blackbirds follow
ing the oats harvest. It has always
been a guessing game in this section
of the state whether the blackbirds
would be here when the season open
ed and some years they have left
only some rear guards to tease the
hunters. Under the Pennsylvarva
law the blackbird may he shot by
the owner of a farm when destroy
ing crops or fruit or doing dam
age to wild life of a valuable char
acter to farmers and some have been
> shot. The Game Commission has
authority to direct killing of the
blackbirds when they become a nuis
ance, but as yet no complaints that
would justify any killing order havo
come here. The birds have been in
large flocks, but have been no more
of an annoyance than usual. The
season for hunting opens on Sep
tember 1 and runs until the end of
November,the number to be shot be
ing unlimited. If the blackbirds
stay in anything like the numbers
they have ben reported there will
be some potpies this fall.
• * *
Senator Edward E. Beidleman Is
having quite a time to get any Sat
urday afternoons for himself. The
Senator is in demand for the various
farmers' picnics which are generally
held on Saturdays in August and as
he has to go out on tho stumn in
September he has not much l rie_
left. Some of the picnic events the
Senator has attended for years.
• ♦ •
According to some well-posted
people who have been observing In
sect life there will be visitations by
the locusts next summer. Some ol
the wings are now appearing with
out the "W" which meant war which
will soon be taken as a sign oi
peace. Some well developed lo
rusts have been found near the sur
face of the ground In Derry town
ship which is taken as confirmation
of the 1910 visitation. In the up
per end o the county locusts have
been a nuisance in several localities,
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Commissioner A. C. Gumbert, of
Allegheny county, elected president
of the County Commissioners of the
state, used to play baseball years ago.
—Ralph D. Paine, the author. Is
giving his time to publicity to speed
up production In Pennsylvania coal
mines.
—Jacob E. Weaver, who made
one of the addresses at the Pen Mar
Odd Fellows' gathering, has long
been a member of that organization.
—William S. McKee,
lawyer, has been appointed a major
of Infantry in the army.
—Doga.n McKee, secretary of the
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce,
has taken up war work.
—Senator P. C. Knox will occupy
his Valley Forge residence this fall.
It is now being renovated.
r DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburg Is making
some special steels used for
manufacture of heavy ordnance?
This city is helping win the war
In fifty ways and with a variety
of products.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The first markets were held
along the river front and about 1.800
wagons used to gather in Market
Square.