Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-28
EVENING CHAT

I
The shadow of the federal war tax
has fallen across Capitol Hill and peo-
pie connected with the various
branches of the State government
which have to do with receiving of
certified papers are boning up on the
requirements of the act so that they
can be sure of what Uncle Sam de-
mands after next Wednesday. For
instance, each surety bond that may
be filed at the Capitol to cover a bid
on State contract will have to con-
tain a fifty cent stamp as well as the
various requirements of the State.
This line will not affect so many pa
pers, but the ten cent tax will be re-
quired on everyone of the hundreds of
certihcates. This will require stamps
on scores of Incorporation and other
IKE papers hapdled each day and will
run up the cost to people doing busi-
ness, as the State will be required TO
eharge for the stamp in transacting
business. Papers on which stamps
are required Will not be received for
ming at the Capitol on and after Tues
DAY unless the stamps are affixed and
on papers going out the stamps will
: akaln6I
the person getting the papers.
Pennsylvania's National Guardsmen
VIII have to go through two inspec-
lons again this coming winter and the
men connected with the various or
CARNATIONS have commenced to drill
and overlook their equipment in an
tlclpaton OF the ordeals. The first
inspection Will be conducted by United
States army officers and will begin
soon after the new year. The object
| OF this inspection is to determine
readiness to take the field and has
been dubbed by some of the men 1.-THE
war scare inspection. The second in
spection, which will be conducted by
the regular inspection officers of the
state militia will be along the same
lines as heretofore. 1t is expected to
De very strict in regard to the school
OF the soldier, line upon which in
specting officers have been critical of
late. 1t is expected that the new
organizations will be ready for this
inspection.
John Barrett, the former minister
TO Siam, Argentine and Panama, who
was here this week, talked entertain
ingly of Lord Kitchener, whom he
met while in India and of whose party
ITO inspect frontier forts he was men,
ter. He remarked that Lord Kitchener
was immensely popular in India and
the reason for it was his uniform
courtesy. Ma Barrett smiled when his
hearers broke in to say that they had
never heard the English general ac-
cused of being courteous and said that
he showed the greatest consideration
Tor the natives. the lower the caste the
more consideration. For this reason
many men fairly worshipped him.
Mr.. Barrett also told how he came
to go on an exploring trip in South
america when the government to
which he was accredited and the
State department at Washington had
refused permission. He wired at his
own expense, which was S1a7. to
Theodore Roosevelt and from the
White House came this answer: Go
ahead"
The foot and mouth disease has stir
red up quite a number of jokers, who
see in the name subject for merri-
ment and who do not know about the
sickness it causes. The other day a
hungry tramp appeared at a residence
IN the central part of the city and
told story of long, long walk and
great hunger. At once the joker got
busy and announced that a man "suf-
fering from foot and mouth disease
was at the door. The tramp got chas-
ed away and the joker was told to for
get himself.
Howard NJ. Hoke secretary to the
Attorney General and the beacon light
of the esperanists in this section, says
that the believers in Esperanto in Ger
many are certainly right on the job
Every week since the commencement
OF the war he has received summary
of the official bulletins in the best Es-
peranto. They gave the German gov
ernment side. of course, but they serv-
ed the purpose of keeping interest in
the language alive and at the same
time putting out the Kaiser's side of
1T.
Henry w. Shoemaker. who was
elected a member of the executive
committee of the Pennsylvania Con-
Iservation Association a few days ago.
is president of the company publish
ing the Altoona Tribune and Altoona
Gazette and an author and poet of
repute. He is great lover of Central
Pennsylvania history and scenery.