Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
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Inc cultivation of hundreds of
small plots of ground in various
parts or the city by persons whose
previous acquaintance with eardens
mas oeen of negligible quantity has
caused a tremendous increase in the
NUMBER OF what is popularity known
as the porch farmer.~ Ordinarily.
the porch farmer" like members of
lhe stove league in baseball. thrives
oest IN cold weather. But when the
warm DAYS come the porch farmer,
sits on the Veranda, or porto ricop
as they call it in Gibson Pa ana
airs his crop knowledge for the ben-
eIit OF the neighbors on both sides
oL MN The porch farmers" knowl-
euse Is Dook knowledge for at least
one season. After that il is Inn
proved through experience Tha
porch farmer" during his first sea-
son mas an unconquerable desire to
uIS up Deans and peas to see Wheth
er or not they are sprouted: and he
may ne seen in the latter part of
June trying to "shoo" a bumbI
rom one blossom to another so that
pollen fertilization may be completU
eu. During his first season he laws
everything out very carefully in
Dcds' getting these beds SO high
that moisture simply cannot stay in
the ground. About the third season
ne lorSets the bed idea and puts
everything in the ground in rows,
not caring a particle if the garden
does look a little rough on the sur
lace. The first season he has a COM
pIele set OF gardening tools; in the
thlrd ne is down to the hoe, and
GOES better work than he did the
first. The porch farmer is the
chrysalis from which comes the real
ground-tickler and crop producer.
Every good agriculturist was first a
porch farmer"
Inc young men guarding the
bridges spanning the Susquehanna
can KICK up more fuss in the still
watches of the night than the aver.
age person imagines. Every now anf
| tnen one of the Guardsmen takes
shot at something in the river. 1t
good thing to do it. 1t teaches t.
young soldier how to handle ts
weapons and makes people ley
ABOUT getting where they should OF
60 But the racket always stirsLp
some one. Last week on two GA
sions men who heard shots a)ng
the river got on telephonesand
wanted to know all sbout it an the
early morning roisteters in one lotel
were summoned to- the frontpy a
breathless individud who dasnd in
to announce that oldiers wee fiE-
ing.
There is a god bit of what
might be called community garden
ing" being underakelI about Harris
burg. The city's Facant spaces md a
!, Good many tielS on the outkirts
are under cultTation and the gar
dens adjoin eah other in mary in
stances. In sohe sections thu gar
dens are separated by paths, The
net result is ping to be that there
VIII be such 1 feeling arount Har-
rlsburg abouttaking care of gardens
that any man who ventures to in
dulge in any cain jumping or any
stealing will b, in as bad repute as
man who steals salt in Alaska.
Members the Legislature are
having all KIDS of fun about the
final instalmnt of their pay which
is due to paid them when the
session adjorns The members got
$500 a weeI ago when the Governor
approved a bill designed to aid the
financial silation caused by the pro-
longed sting this year. The final
instalmenfwill come along when the
session Wnds up and as there are
prospects that the end may not, be
until Jul the lawmakers are show
ing signs of becoming restiye. They
are jolling each other about how
the lastweek's board is going to be
paid AMI sending word to hotel own
ers to 1atch so-and-so. The number
of JOKES being played is legion.
AS the proportions of the new
Messih Lutheran Church at Sixth
and Torster streets are being shown
through the building operation they
are lttracting much attention from
visibrs to the city. The church will
F., be me of the largest in the city in
the amount of floor space and be-
cause of its location on old Ridge
! Rod will loom up above the build
! ingt in the central residential Sec
tioI. AS it is of white stone, it will
| be in marked contrast to the Cen
tra high school.
| Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, who is
| IL charge of the registration bureau
| tor the selective draft, has his own
| troubles. The colonel gets the tele-
grams only after they have been re-
lceived at the Governors office and
Studied there and as a result the in
formation given out at the bureau is
often behind the news reports over
the wires. The other day the colonel
gave out telegram which was in
teresting. 1t had just been received
by him and was timed five hours
before. 1t took that long to get
down from the Capitol.
Mayor Herman H. North, of the
Mexican county metropolis of Brad
ford. who was here yesterday, saw
the Legislature in session yesterday
for the first time in the present
building. Mayor North was a men,
ber of the Legislature back in the
sessions from 1893 to 1897 and was
an active and forceful legislator. He
came here yesterday on third class
city bills.