Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
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The old. old question whether deer
shed their horns every season has
turned up on Capitol Hill again and
TINS time number of Central Penn
sylvania sportsmen have submitted it
10 Dr. IL: A. Surface. the State Zoo
logist, who has ruled that the deer
do shed their horns every year. This
question comes to the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and the State
Game Commission in cycles. The last
letter on the subject came from q
hunter in Hollidaysburg who pro-
pounded a series of questions to
which the zoologist replied that deer
shed horns every year and they grow
an entirely new set including the
extra prong during the next summer.
Dr. Surface also says that there is a
time in this early, part of Spring when
the buck deer is without horns at all,
but it is soon after the time when the
old horns are dropped that the new
appear. This is the season of the
year when the deer do not fight DR..
SURFACE says, that these facts are well
established from observation of deer
in the wild and on the State preserves.
This is the season of the year when
Governor Martin G.. Brumbaugh is eX-
periencing what beset his predeces-
sors in the way of invitations. About
every third caller at the Office of the
Governor just now wants 10 invite him
to some function or other and each
time 1t means a speech. The Gov
ernor has let it be known that for
the present he prefers not to be asked
to so many things, his list of invita-
tons showing something for practi-
cally every night in the week. Sun
days included. because he is wanted
IN churches, too. However, it is un-
derstood the Governor will not accept
many invitations for a while.
Are you a member of the overshoe
brigade? Do you have fat ones, skinny
ones, round ones, pointed ones, none
at all, or do you wear goloshes? II
you don't care enough about your
health, during this grip and pneumo-
MIA weather that invariably follows a
slight thawing out of the frozen at
mosphere that has characterized Har-
risburg since Sunday. to place
a more or less thin layer of the pro-
duct of the tropics under the soles of
your feet before -venturing forth into
the realms of ozone, then surely you.
and Solomon are not members of the
same fraternity. Vanity, vanity, all
is foolishness, sayeth the preacher
who rants against the girl or boy who
declines the good office of the par
ent whose interest is all for making
the young one put on his or her rub
bers, And we agree with him, even
though we've been there ourselves.
At one of the linotype machines in
a Harrisburg news composing room
the other afternoon, sat an operator
holding his weary head with one
hand, eyes closed. and working away
for dear life on the keyboard with his
trusty right. q
Sleepy" the typo was asked.
Nav, SICK" came the laconic ex-
planation. And still that quick right
hand kept raining down the mats"
How the thunder do you know
what to set with your eyes closed?"
the questioner insisted.
"Shucks, it's just one of 'em tariff
editorials" grunted the operator, land
know all the arguments pro and con
by heart"
The activity of the State authorities
in enforcing the new law providing
for the inspection of lime has resulted
in numerous articles on how to get
the worth of lime for farm purposes
and it is surprising the immense
amounts used in this part of the State.
The Pennsylvania Farmer, one of the
live agricultural journals, devotes
pages to description of uses of lime
with some hints on mixtures. 1t
would appear from the publicity being
given l1dL Lne may IIu III
Pennsylvania lime, burned in the llilns
that abound throughout the southern
countries substitutes for the German
potashes cut off by the war.
Arguments in favor of paving are
to be found in number of the streets
on Allison Hill this weather when the
dirt highways look like country roads
after market travel. In some streets
there are ruts half foot deep and
going over them reminds one of taxi
ing a trip over the ice. People living
on unpaved streets say that they are
apt to be forgotten" every now and
then by the milk man, the ice man
and the bread man and they are com
mencing to wonder what is on the
paving program for the coming sea-
son.
Col. Horace L. Haldeman, reap
pointed commissary general of sub
sistence of the National Guard yester-
day, is q Lancaster countian, and a
member of the Haldeman family
which has been prominent in affairs
in this part of the State for years.
With Adjutant General Stewart, Sur
geon General Weaver and a few
others he is one of the small number
of National Guardsmen now serving
who were in the Civil War.