Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-11
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If Dauphin county farmers wives
Keep on adding to the number of bee
hives honey will be a pretty import
ant product of this county and as it
contains high percentage of sugar
and that in a most delightful form
there is going to be plenty in it in
the way of substantial returns. Bee
keeping has been peculiarly a do
mestic operation. The rule on the
farms about here is that the bees
are part. of the 'women-s work" just
as in some parts of the State and
among many families here the wom-
en- get the proceeds of the poultry
end of q farm. Bees are especially
so. The State authorities have an
nounced that even the bees have
been called up for war time service
| and that Pennsylvania has Joined
with the national government in
calling for big honey crop for
next year. TO this end demonstra-
| tons have been planned and some
are scheduled for this county. 1t has
served to call attention to the fact
that this is one of the honey pro-
ally hundreds of hives along. the
kmain highways and dear knows how
a many more in the really rural dis
tricts of Dauphin county, which it
might be added, are as pretty as any
| IN this section. On some farms any
old box is used for u hive and the
insects are very skillfully taken care
OF. With the development of fruit
farming and the planting of extern
sive orchards in this section of the
State the honey bee has become a
pretty important adjunct and the
states demonstration OF how to care
for the insects will be a recognition
OF something in the line of produc-
tiVeness which does not attract at
tentlop but which will be worth a
good many dollars.
Members of the State police force
who are on duty here are having
pretty hard time of it keeping fit.
The physical standard of the men
in the State police force is as high
as any organization in the world and
the men take pride il, keeping them
selves up to top notch. With the
daily riding that they do and the
systematic exercise when on patrol
duty or at barracks they are in con-
dition to meet any emergency and
the simple duty of walking up and
down and keeping their eyes open
is rather wearing on men accus-
toned to plenty of exercise. Some
of them have been trying to keep
from growing soft" by taking daily
exercise in the gymnasiums about
the city, while others have been GO
ing on long walks every day.
Representative James G. Dell is
the original early bird of the Legis-
lature. Mr.. Dell is the chairman of
the Rural Members League, or the
Farmers Alliance, as some of the
~ Ftg.l,a ton 20. /
huntington county. He has been
/ county school superintendent and
. is great traveller. He is accustomed
, to getting up betimes and to starting
work bright and early every morn
ing. But he gave the Capitol an
= awful shock when he appeared
about Z o'clock in the morning.
They thought he had not been to
bed or had come in on an early train
il and when he went to his seat they
: wondered what he was going to do
When Mr.. Dell appeared morning
. after morning between and 7.3O
Z o'clock, the people about the Cap
II itol grew accustomed to such con-
duct and he is now able to clear
up whole days mail and study a.
n lot of bills before other members
II are out of bed, and if they are, be-
fore they finish breakfast.
- The suggestion that men serving
y in prison for minor offenses be par
doned so that they can enlist for
I overseas service does not seem TO
- have met with much approval from
people throughout the State. 1t has
been pointed out in some word re-
SC ceived here that it would not be fair
- to men who leave good places to go
to the army to put them up against
men who have gone into service to
- escape confinement and who may
20 not be the man whom it is hoped
\ to reform or the first offender but
" some hardened character who may
% have been temporarily in prison on
n a short sentence. The Board of Par
" dons will doubtless hear considera-
bly, from the country about the meas
" ure proposed.
" DR.. G. NJ. Phillips, principal of the
States big normal school at West
Il Chester and former member of
,s the State Board of Education, was
here yesterday on educational busi-
ness. DR.. Phillips was a member of
the school code commission with
\ Governor Brumbaugh and was one
of the first State Board created un-
] der the code.
= Governor Brumbaugh has taken
to golf as n means of keeping fit
| for the big strain of the legislative
Z season, which is just ahead. The
4 Governor will shortly have hun
| dreds of bills on his hands and he
is playing golf hard, and well, to