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8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELECnArn PRINTING Telegraph nutlding, Federal Square. STACK POLE, Pres't Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.

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BATURPAY EVENING, JUNE 9 Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy AUBELIUS. WOMEN DOING THEIR BIT MANY of the chronically tired citizens who are everlastingly asking for work, with no intention of accepting it, are now taking advantage of the general theory of labor shortage. A contractor of Harrisburg said the other day that there was a good deal of flub-dub in this sort of talk; that he had no difficulty in getting men for steady jobs and that many had come to him for employment. There will undoubtedly be a demand for all classes of labor as the armies are called into the field, but it is outrageous that chronic loafers should take advantage of the present situation to avoid honest toll when they ought to be helping in the important industries which are now contributing to the great work of preparation. The girls and women of the Unit- cd States are going to All a large gap in the ranks of labor and industry within the next few months.

Already the banking institutions 1 here and elsewhere are giving places to girls who are filling vacancies created by the enlistment of men for their country's service. England and France both found it necessary to mobilize the women for the i work which they can do and it seems i that there is little that men have been doing in the past that women cannot undertake, even to the plow- ing of the field, the gathering of the harvest and the making of war munitions. A number of communications and personal messages have reached this newspaper commending our editorial discussion of the street paving situa- 1 tion in this city, especially the reference to the growing use of Front street as a traffic highway. This driveway is primarily a park street and should only be used by heavy drays and trucks when it cannot be avoided. Perhaps the Civic Club can lend its aid to some reform in this matter, but it Is primarily the duty of the City Council to place restrictions upon unnecessary use of the city's main driveway for general traffic.

A PROPER TRIBUTE THE tribute paid to J. L. Cunningham, who has just retired as master mechanic of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania railroad in this city, was worthy the man and his associates in the railroad service. This recognition of Mr. Cunningham's fitness and loyalty was also an appreciation of his just attitude toward those who were under his direction and control.

There Is a growing good feeling among all railroad employes and it is a significant fact likewise that the relations between the company and its army of men aro so generally satisfactory. There are indications of a better iconditlon in distracted Russia. It was not surprising that this people, just emerging from despotism, should have interpreted liberty for license. But we must not forget that it required several years for this nation to get Its bearings after the Revolution. We must be patient with the baby republic, trusting that Elihu Root and those with him may point the way to leal freedom and self-control.

COPPERHEADS! DURING the Civil War those who were not in sympathy with the Union cause were frequently characterized as copperheads. During the Liberty Loan campaign in i this city a number of men have talked about our course in the present great war much as the copperheads talked during the Civil War. may cease to be a virtue to some individuals and the secrecy which has thus far shielded of this type may give way soon the blazing publicity which their fconduct and sentiments would fceem to justify. A Harrlsburger with Pershing. to the front.

ROAD TO GETTYSBURG pTTTHEN Governor Brumbaugh IYV ar his distinguished guests motored to Gettysburg yester- ISay they must have been impressed ivith the importance of making a permanent highway between this fclty and the famous battlefield, and to Washington. Gettysburg is bound to become )Biore and more a patriotic shrine in the center of Pennsyiva- SATURDAY EVENING, nla, which has demonstrated Its loyalty to the country in every crisis, there is a strong sentiment in favor of making the battlefield easily and comfortably accessible to the thousands who would go there under proper road conditions. Governor Brumbaugh is awake to the necessity of a permanent State highway between Harrisburg and Gettysburg and it may be hoped that before his administration ends some definite steps will be taken to provide such a road as shall be worthy the State and a desirable connecting link between this city and the ground consecrated by the blood of a reunited people. "You have here another Venice and all the energy and enthusiasm of your people ought to be manifested In making of the Susquehanna Basin a great asset for Harrisburg." This Is the opinion of Frank A. Vanderlip, whose impressions of Har- I risburg sent him away with a high opinion of our public spirit and civic ideals.

OSTRACIZE THEM TT Is a pity that the management of the Liberty Loan campaign has decided not to make public the names of the 'worse refused to buy bonds on the grounds that they did not believe lr. the purposes for which the money is to be expended. The public ought to know the names of these men in order that it might ostracize them. Such utterances smack of treason. The concentration camps for alien enemies are the places for such.

It is conceivable that there those whose financial circumstances are such that even a SSO bond bought on the instalment plan is an impossibility. These are to be pitied, for usually they are good citizens, whose only regret is that they cannot buy many of the bonds. But there is absolutely no excuse for the prosperous "slackers" who will neither flght nor buy bonds. If you know any such, keep your eyes on them. They will bear watching.

But be careful of your dealings with them. They are not to be trusted. They should be ostracized. Those railroad men of Harrisburg who have shown their patriotism by investing their earnings In the war bonds have set an example for all wage-earners here and elsewhere. THE LITTLE BROWN BROTHERS TWENTY-FIVE) THOUSAND Filipinos to Fight for America," is a newspaper headline.

The president of the Filipino Senate has declared a statement that his people are ready to stand on "the democratic principle that he who is unwilling to serve his country in the hour of need as a soldier is unworthy to help govern his country as a citizen." "There Is no division of opinion among our people," ho continued, "as to the duty and the privilege of standing by the United States, now arming to fight to a victorious finish in the cause of human liberty." With such facts constantly forcing themselves upon the public mind can we longer doubt that out of this ruck of bloodshed and suffering will come a still greater America? HOOVER HANDICAPPED HOOVER, the man who fed Belglum and who lias been picked out now to feed the United States and her allies, finds himself In disagreement with the administration at the outset. "With the approval of the administration," a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina is trying to get Congress to sanction a measure which gives the President the right to fix prices for food. Hoover says this has been tried in Europe and found to be a failure. Yet the bureaucrats at Washington rematn skeptical. What the hard experience of warring Europe has found too difficult to formulate and apply presents no terrors for the hordes of deserving Democrats who have been summoned to Washington to attach themselves to the government payroll in one capacity or another.

Hoover, however, has demonstrated in Belgium that he Is no quitter; and it is safe to say that he will not his position, fortified as it is by truth and experience, at the insistence of any of the amateurs who are at present trying to run this war as a personally-conducted political excursion. Please take notice that the TELEGRAPH, and the TELEGRAPH only, of all the newspapers printed in Harrisburg or that came to Harrisburg yesterday, was the only one to carry the story of the destruction of San Salvador. A CHANCE FOR RETRENCHMENT THE cry for economy In view of the pinch of war is far-reaching. Members of Congress are echoing it for the benefit of their constituents. Yet, like many a man who fixes his gaze on a star only to stumble over the gem in his Immediate path, these Congressmen are taking very little thought for economy on a national scale such as they alone can initiate.

For instance, there are many items of governmental expenditure which are now consuming money which might well be done away with or at I least postponed until after the war. Among these la the project for mak- lng a physical valuation of railroad properties, which is taking millions of money from the treasury and from the railroads and the results of which will be of doubtful value if the work Is completed on schedule time. This work can well be put in abeyance for the time being and the money devoted to other and more pressing uses. If those who are employed on the valuation Job feel that they are being unjustly cut off from the federal payroll, there is always a chance for them to join army and thus ensure a Continuance of their stipend With the Increasing number of Individual subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, the confidence of Uncle Sam in the loyalty of his children must proportionately increase. The have determined to defend Jerusalem, but we suspect that Jerusalem wishes they.wouldn't.

"pottttca- CK By the Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh has acted upon exactly 300 bills to date. There are hundreds more pending and within the next few weeks it )s probable that the appropriation bills will be sent to him. The number of bills acted upon is smaller than at a proportionate period of the 1915 session. Of the bills acted upon 206 have been signed, including those announced yesterday, and sixty have been vetoed. The veto list is somewhat higher than usual.

In the bills signed were thirty-four appropriation measures. The Siggins bill approved yesterday to fix the salaries of county commissioners in counties having less than 150,000 population establishes a classification which it Is planned by legislators to make a model for any future changes in county officers' salaries and duties. The list runs as follows: Less than 20,000 population, SSOO, and where commissioners are also directors of poor, $800; population between 20,000 and 000, and where also poor directors, between 50,000 and 75,000, $1,500, and where also poor directors, between 75,000 and I 100,000, $2,000 and where also poor directors, between 100,000 I and 150,000, $2,500 and where also poor directors, $3,000. new laws relative to time of filing nominating petitions for such offices as are to be filed at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, will become effective this year. There are a number of judges to be elected and the first day upon which petitions may be circulated is July 2.

They must be filed within forty days Instead of sixty as heretofore. State officers, congressional and legislative candidates will be nominated next year. Philadelphia Inquirer, dis-, cussing the proposed direct inheritance tax, says that legislators, national and state, seem to have a craze for direct taxation. newspapers appear to think that the reporting out of the small council bill was the answer of the Penrose people to the Vare attempt to kill tho move, and predict a bitter fight in the House over it. salary increase bill vetoed yesterday could not have affected any of the present members, several legislators pointed out to-day, The Burke bill, which the Governor signed, means an increase of $700,000 in the Pittsburgh payroll, it is claimed in that city, and there is resentment shown by some Pittsburgh papers over the approval of the bill as an interference in local affairs which are held to be purely under the control of council.

attempt to revive the board bill, defeated in the House during yesterday's lackadaisical session, will be made on Monday. warring factions are to get around a table and thresh out their differences next Friday. The Vares have clipped a couple of ward leaders from the McNichol people. Lehigh judgeship bill, vetoed yesterday, is taken to mean that there is small chance of any similar biir getting by this year. As soon as the courts uphold the bill making Clinton county a separate Judicial district the Governor will make an appointment.

Lunatics as Soldiers York The official report of one of the great German lunatic asylums has Just made it very clear that the conscription of the insane into the German armies has been attempted, but, as might well be imagined, without success. The lunatics proved to be ever so much more bother than they were worth, and, indeed, to bo sources of such trouble to the army officials as to cripple efficiency In many ways wherever they were. The attempt to conscript lunatics into the armies may well be taken as an index of the straits in which the Central Powers feel themselves for men. It is, however, much more than that. It represents the tendency on the part of Teutonic militarism to think that a man is a man and that any one who can physically hold a rifle can be counted as a soldier.

In this the French have taught them some marvellous lessons. The spirit of the French soldiers has fairly multiplied their numbers In offensive as well as defensive action. At Verdun and elsewhere they have demonstrated very clearly that It is the whole souled, clear visioned man, whose mind, cast in heroic mould, Is ready for emergencies and quite 1 capable of thinking for Itself, even under fire, who counts In the battle line. The Kaiser and Revelations Those who accept literally what Is written in Revelation read there certain doom for the Kaiser on or before February 1, 1918. About two years ago I first printed this strange prophecy and now repeat it.

In Verse 4, Chapter XIII, It is written: "Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" In the following verse appears the length of time the fight may go on: "And power was given unto him to continue forty and two from August 1, 1914. Then in the last verse of the chapter you discover who It Is: 1 "Let him that hath understanding 1 count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And his number is six hundred three-score and six." Which is 666. And here Is how the Kaiser comes 1 in: The alphabet numbers of the letters In that name are eleven, one, nine, nineteen, five and eighteen, which, if six be added after each, 1 will total 666. Who can tell? Perhaps the Amerl, can army which registered on Tuesday Is to he the very one to prove that tho Kaiser's number is 6e6.

Glrarg in Philadelphia Ledger. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS I AFTeR Voo ex on I IK The Yoa MORn)IAJ6 IT STILL. ttu FIMD IT AND TiAiN FOR OF You 1 UP TVie NIGHT AMD voo fimD The OLD Vs 6 I RAisJ IS COMiMCV SOKJ COMING UP -ATRONJG OVER RpcfeY IM SUCKET-S THE HILL i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR "TWO BIG GUNS" To the Editor of the Telegraph: Sir: The above title is the way! the Independent Brewing Company has of describing its two beers, named "Silver Top" and- "Pale Export." In an advertisement on the front cover of the Liquor Dealers Journal, of May 30, there is a picture of turret upon a supposed ship of war, through the openings of which protrude two cannon shaped like beer bottles, one named Silver Top and the other Pale Export. Underneath upon a shield appears the following, legend: "The 'Two Big Guns' of the Independent Brewing Company, Silver Top and Pale Export beers that will 'bring down' big business for you." It is not often that liquor advertisers tell so much truth In so small compass. Guns are made to kill.

That is their only reason for being. If they could not kill they would not be made. These "two big guns" of the Independent Brewing Company are great killers. It is their load of death (alcohol) that gives them favor. If they did not have it they would not be made.

It is true that they do not always kill oh the spot. In this respect the cannon of a real army are more merciful, for in most cases the death they bring is instantaneous, while, as a rule, these "two big guns" of the brewing company take their own time to complete the killing. The guns of a real army take only periodic spurts at the deathdealing business, but these "two big guns" keep on killing day by day and year by year without any intermission. The guns of a real army can touch only the bodies of its victims, but these "two big guns" kill both body and soul. The brewing company has well named them the "two big guns." The names of these guns are also well chosen.

It is the "silver" they bring in to their makers, and that the company in turn divides with Uncle Sam receives he would not "top" to their request to be permitted to make them and soil them to gain the permission to do so. If it were not for the "silver" bribe that Uncle Sam receives ho would not tolerate them for a day. Then, too, when the user has used them sufficiently they "export" all ness from his face and develop a deeply florid coloring of peculiar hue and even make his nose to blossom curiously and profusely. Yes, they are well named and the company wisely understands that neither without the other would be a complete representation of their real character. Then, too, guns are intended to, and do, "bring down" the objects their loads are leveled at and strike.

So with these "two big guns." It matters not how strong the man nor how "big" the "business" at which they are leveled, they are sure sooner or later to "bring down" both. The businessman may think he has sufficient capital both of brains and of money to fortify himself against any surprise of these "two big guns," but Just as surely as he allows himself and his business to get In their path, so surely will they "bring down" both him and his business. Just as surely as the sun goes down at eventide. Where they play irretrievable ruin is wrought. Yes, Messrs.

Independent Brewing Company, we are glad to bear testimony that you do sometimes tell the truth In your advertisements. Advertise it in great flaming characters across the skies that your beers are "two big guns," and that they Inevitably "bring down big business." DR. B. E. P.

PRUGH. EDITORIAL COMMENT Blest is the bond that draws a man closer to his Plain Dealer. Ireland should give support to a king who will hoe Street Journal. How Hindenburg must wish he could move the Masurian Lakes to the western New York Sun. Russia is beginning to understand that a separate means separate pieces as far as she is Chicago Herald.

As we understand it, a retreat to victory and beating It while the beating is good are so much alike you can't tell 'em Telegraph. CHEMICAL SCIENC POTASH DR. CURTIS H. THWING of the University of Washington, has been examining the ashes found In the incinerators of lumber mills in the Northwest with a view to conserving the potash from the ashes. He found the flue dusts contained only about 7 per cent.

The reason why this was so slight a pro- I portion and the amount of ash was so small was due to the fact that the type of incinerators in use calls for a strong draught, and this causes a good deal of the potash to go off in smoke. Dr. Thwing did not see how the present incinerators could be improved upon so long as the present methods of lumbering obtain. Of course, the amount of wood that goes to waste in the industry is a scandal and a shame to all of us, but until wo have worked out ways of using the vast waste of sawdust, small branches and slats, there is no use in blaming the lumberman. from the review in question it hardly seems likely that the lumber manufacturers will furnish us with potash.

Comment on Value of Singing York Major General Bell recently spoke of the value of singing to an army, its helpfulness on the march, its consolation in camp and even its inspiration in battle. Acting on this suggestion, various gentlemen in Washington are preparing a song-book for the soldiers who are to go to France, and we are told that it will be of a nature to take the mind completely away from the war. Perhaps this is not the right kind of song-book. Most of the war songs of the Civil War on both sides were either mournful or vindictive. It is true that thousands sang the rollicking Dixie, but large numbers on both sides marched to the solemn strains jot' John Brown's Body and Maryland.

There was one song, Tenting Toj night, so dispiriting that many comi manders prohibited it, and the bibulous When Johnny Comes Marching Home was more of a favorite in the family circle than in the camps. The Marseillaise like nearly all national hymns, is not what would be called a pleasing little ditty, and yet it tires the hearts of men who never saw France. Our own Star- Spangled Ranner: America: Hail Columbia and The Battle Hymn of the Republic would never be selected to (take the minds of our soldiers away from war. Even Tippcrary, sadly lacking as it is in words, carries a plaintive air which for a long time supplanted all the historic martial tunes of Great Britain. And we are not to forget that the favorite American army song of the Spanish war was A Hot Time.

Bill Comes Home Yesterday Bill came home from the war. He was thin and pale, And his hand shook when he lifted 1 the teacup. I My mother and my aunt were glad to see him. It was refreshing, so they said, to meet a man Who did not dwell upon horrors and morbid things, But who realized that war must have its brutal side Anjl who saw things in their true perspective. And forgot about them.

Then later. In my room. Bill showed me his war trophies and told me talcs. A paper for gallantry in action; A German major's field glasses; Gecman bullets of brass: A French helmet with three shrapnel holes in the top of it. "Wounded infantrymen in an ambulance An American ambulance, by the The road was visible from the Boche trenches.

It was a dull day. They placed shells fifteen feet behind the ambulance All the way down the open road. Then hit it just before It reached cover. Some of the wounded called for help And the Roches could hear them. So they turned a machine gun on the wreckage, Until there were no more cries." Bill looked at me with his fine smile.

"When are you going across?" ho asked. York Tribune. It has been stated so often that there is plently of potash available if somebody will only discover a means of getting it out of the insoluble feldspar that the subject bids fair to grow tiresome if somebody doesn't come along with the results pretty soon. William R. Ross, of the United States Bureau of Soils, contributes a paper to this month's Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry of the American Chemical Society that Bheds some light and makes a step toward the solution.

There are over 100 patents already granted on methods to get potash from feldspar, but the industry has not been begun. Mr. Ross notes that potash feldspar is treated with about. 1.7 times its weight of lime and is digested with water at 150 to 225 pounds pressure, then the potash dissolves out as caustic potash and the remainder has the composition of Portland cement clinker. This suggests making Portland cement from feldspar and looks attractive.

The next step will be to try it out on a small factory scale to test the economy of the operation. The Road to France Thank God our liberating lance Goes flaming on the way to France! To trail the Gurkhas found! To England's rallying ground! To path the Russians strode! To Anzacs' glory road! To our Lost Legion ran To fight and die for God and man! To every race and breed That hates oppression's brutal creed. Ah could our hearts forget The path by which came Lafayette? How could the haze of doubt hang low Upon the road of Rochambeau? How was it that we missed the way Bravo Joffre leads us along to-day At last, thank God! At last we see There is no tribal liberty! No beacon lighting just our shores' No freedom guarding but our doors'. The flame she kindled for our sires Burns now in Europe's battle fires! The soul that led our fathers west Turns back to free the world's oppressed M. Henderson, in the poem which lately won the $250 prize offered by the National Arts Club.

The Monitor Comes Back the Buffalo Express. 1 British monitors are playing an important part in the Italian advance toward Trieste. The monitors have again proved themselves in this war. They appear to be the only type of craft that can carry big guns into shallow water and bombard coast fortifications successfully. Submarines cannot follow them Into these shallows, and they have so little freeboard that they present a difficult mark for the enemy to hit.

Monitors took up the sea work at the Dardanelles, after the battleships had been lost or had been driven by submarines to seek protected ports. Monitors shell the Belgian coast when attacks are made on the German bases there. Now they are shelling the Austrian coast ahead of the Italians. And so far there has been no report of a single monitor lost. Cuba's Sugar Crop the Providence Cuba's contribution to the war promises to be a bumper sugar crop, notwithstanding the recent depredations upon some of the plantations by the lawless element stirred to revolt by a few disgruntled politicians.

The government's official estimate If this season's production of sugar is now placed at two million eight hundred thousand tons, an amount second only to last year's I crop, which was the largest in the history of the island. The statement is made by Eusebio S. Azpiazu, private secretary to President Menocal. It sets at rest the pessimistic reports that the crop would fall far below the normal and encourages the refiners to believe that they will have raw sugar enough to keep their reflnerlei; going and sunrily our market demands. We need the sugar, and If Tubs can supply us she is entitled to praise for doing her bit.

Her men can be as effectively employed in growing and harvesting sugar cane as in military service. JUNE 9, 1917. Labor Notes Workers in Portugal have an eight-hour day. Paris dressmakers have won increased pay. New York has 800 schoolteachers not naturalized.

New Jersey factories employ 23 000 operatives. Russian municipalities are about to engage in the boot and shoe business. The Japanese work seven days a week, and many work from sunrise to sunset. Dallas (Texas) Brewery Workers' Union has raised wages $2 a week and reduced working hours. On June 11, at New Haven, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America will convene.

In Michigan barbers' apprentices must serve two years before they can secure a State license. There are more working women in New York State than in any other state in the Union. The British Government is-considering the issuing of medals to munition workers at the close of the war. At the present rate the losses by accident in Pennsylvania this year will aggregate $7,000,000. 1 OUR DAILY" LAUGH QUITE A DIFFERENCE.

"Do you think there is any chance of our breaking into the smart-set here?" "By smart-set do you mean highbrow or low-neck?" A HOLD-UP IN BUGVILLE. Bug (the thug): Hands up, your honey or your life! STILL. FISHING. me, I didn't catch your last name. haven't caught It yet TIME WILL TELL "I hear we are to have a new show by the namo of "Sounds like a sneeze, it, but perhaps It will be a yawn." A good many people in are just now considering: the appointment of watchers and not of the political kind, either.

They are after watchers who will watch their gardens and from all accounts they are going to be considerably needed about this city and its environs. -Never in the history of the city have so many gardens been set out and so much land put under cultivation. There are gardens to bo met OR every block that is not built up some of the fields which have been laid out in lots the last few years have been subdivided and cut up nto truck patches until they look ke checker boards. In many cases the gardens are carefully marked out by stakes or bordered with wires on small posts. In Derry street some of the plots have been surrounded hedges of pine trees which were I cut miles away and still others are defined by boards, tincans and bricks set up in a sort of garden border.

A few men have outlined their plots by flowers which should make a pretty setting for cabbage and potatoes later what Is worrying these gardeners is how are their plots to be watched. Many of the gardeners live blocks away from he places which they till and many can only do their hoeing at evening time. However, it seems to ''fff'y weU understood that anyaiding a plot will get into trouble. Out near Penbrook and Paxtang aro extensiv gardens on which women and children have put ny hou of labor and as time goes on it looks as though the volunteer watcher would be a pretty important person. VCSt lr air view's efforts to obtain a new sclioolbuilding have been commended in the latest bulletin of the State Board of Education.

The board has issued a list of the progressive places which have been moving for better school conditions and praises their Senator William C. Sprout, who spoke at the dinner of the Legislative Correspondents' the other evening. said that one of the most inspiring things about the registration was the way that the press of the country lined up behind the President and the national officials. Everywhere newspapers urged that the registration be carried out and their patriotic efforts were declared by the hester senator to have shown to the world that the greatest factor in public affairs was united. This is the open season for btlls to buy various things for the State Museum.

No less than five bills are pending in the Legislature to purchase collections of various kinds, three of them to buy Indian relics. The collections are declared by men in charge of the bills to be remarkably complete and interesting and to represent not only various methods, but different epochs. The only difficulty is that the prices asked ace pretty steep. It is hard to gauge the value of a collection of Indian relics at any time, but the cost to the State Museum, which should be presented with the articles, seems to go up as the years roll on and the bills multiply in the Legislature. According to what is being said among rivermen, the river coal business this year will be one of the greatest ever known because of the demands for the future and the efforts of every concern to get a pile stored up.

Locking up money in a coalpile seems to be pretty good business and the rivermen say they are going to work as long as the 'river stays open and they can find coal. In connection with the attention being given to the fishermen's license before the Legislature it is in' teresting to note that the State calculators have figured out that the state has 40,000 miles of fishing streams. This distance Includes not only the rivers, but many small brooks, which are, nevertheless, noted as trout streams. Dauphin county has half a dozen creeks between the Mahantongo and the Conowago which could be made good fishing streams if care were given. The State has been willing to donate the fish for "planting," but no one has come forward to agree to take charge of the efforts to restock streams which used to be filled with trout and other fish.

This is peony time in Paxtang, and the garden of Mrs. Arthur Hamilton Bailey is the center of interest. Mrs. Bailey's peonies have been one of the sights of the borough in June, i and this year there are thousands of blooms. The choicest are to be exjhibited next week at the American peony show in Philadelpia, the first I to go from this vicinity to that exhibition.

Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods has been asked to locate Joho Francis Coughlin, who is thirty-seven years of age. When anyone wants information the secretary is addressed. In this case the mother of Coughlin, Mrs. Lyons Coughlin, 238 Third street. South Boston, seeks information about him.

She says that he is a machinist and has not been heard from since 1912. The reason she wants him is because of the death of his father. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, is to make six commencement addresses this month. Bonnafon, who was a guest at the executive mansion yesterday, is a neighbor and intimate friend of Governor Brumbaugh.

S. W. Miller, in charge of the training camp at Fort Niagara, says that training the Pennsylvanlans is one of the honors of his life. E. Groome, Yardley resident, is the new head of the Bucks firemen's organization.

Rev. H. C. Stone, Philadelphia clergyman, will speak for proi hlbition during the war at Philadelphia. DO YOU KNOW Harrisburg can furnish parts for almost any kind of machinery needed for munitions? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This place took the lead in movements for purification of the Susquehanna fifty years ago.

Richmond P. M. Prices Up Beginning June 1 the Richmond (Va.) News-Leader and the Evening Journal sell for 2 cents, the high cost of paper necessitating the advance. These two afternoon papers have been charging out-of-town patrons 2 cents for some time..