Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
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Quail are being fed in the woods
back of old Paxton Church this win
ter by Paxtang men who have been
instrumental in keeping the coveys
heard in the summer time alive
and there will probably be a couple
of dozens to be seen after the SHOWS
go away. One or two pheasants
have also been seen in the wooded
sections couple of miles from that
historic place. The PaXtang quail
have been nursed along for years
and are the most elusive in the coun-
ty. There have been very few shot
and last fall it was declared by some
hunters that the birds knew that the
newly opened PaXtang parkway
leading from the old red school
house on the Reading pike to the
Reservoir was closed. The birds
have been known for the last ten
years or more in the hollow through
which the parkway winds and in
summer time have been heard in
PaXtang Park and up around the
Reservoir. But where they go in
the fall no one seems to know They
are around in the spring and in the
summer and are to be found in
winter time. This year the terrible
weather drove some of the birds
clear into the woods right behind
the old church and some lovers of
winter walking saw them in the
parkway, where rabbits were also TO
be seen. Grain was scattered back
of the church and near the parkway
to keep them alive. 1t is remark
able how quickly a crow will spot
grain put out for quail. There have
been some big crows, which come
from the roost out toward Llngles-
town, to be seen on the outskirts
of the city and they have invaded
chicken yards and been around
where quail are fed. Perhaps few
doses of that strychnine-treated corn
!. of DR.. Kalbfus would do them good.
1t is not often even in Pennsyl-
vania's Capitol where the govern
mental ends of immense interests
are handled that men representing
so many millions of invested capl-
tai get together in such number as
yesterday. During the sessions OF
the Labor and Industry conference
last November men who were acuNe
in direction of many millions or
conital invested in manufacturing
gathered here. Yesterday at the ar
gument heard by the Public Ser
vice Commission on the hNe-cent
fare ordinances representatives OF
thirty companies, whose Confined
capital would go over the $1OO,OOO,-
600, were assembled. Practically
every system of any size except hall
a dozen was represented ana tnelr
official organization looked after
those who did not have men mere
"a in
which the last game season bags
and the plans for protection and
propagation of game, animals and
birds, are being discussed in news
papers of the State there are more
people interested in hunting
than ever before. The issuance
OF hunters licenses, in spite
OF the thousands of men who form
erly hunted regularly who nave
gone into the army or navy or peeh
drafted into military bodies, was
greater in 1917 than in any year
since the enactment of the license
law. State Game officers have re-
ceived many reports of how quail
and other game were fed and when
the weather improves will have the
wardens take a general look around
to see how the game stood the WIN
ter. DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary
of the Commission, is interested in
some reports that the kill of bear
during the season was larger than
reported. The kill in the northern
counties where bruin was active and
a. nuisance will be looked up. There
have also been some claims made
that more deer were killed than
known, one reason for the lack OF
complete data being that the SHOWS
came on so early that all reports
could not be had. Commissioner of
Forestry, Robert S. Conklin, who
keeps in touch with the woods,
thinks the kill in the South Noun
tain region was better than reported.
"The plan of publicity for game
law violaters is going to be follow
ed" said DR.. Kalbfus, discussing
winter work of his men. There
have been quite a few game law Vio-
lators and we are running them
down. When we get the list made
UP we are going to give them a dose
of publicity by sending names to the
papers in their home communities. .
we have pretty good lines on the
lawless fellows and we are goinS
to show them up"
Copy of a December "a newspaper
of Canton, China, has reached Har-
risburg,' bearing what missionaries
in that city say is the first recogni-
ton of the Christmas holiday by n
Chinese journal. The paper carries
a picture of Mary and the Christ
Child and the Canton man who sent
it to his friend, here makes this ex
planation: "On Christmas eve the
reporter of one of the Canton
Chinese papers came to the South
China Mission Book Store and ask
ed whether he might borrow the cut
they had recently printed of Mary
and the Child Jesus. This was will
ingly given and thus for the first
time there appeared the symbol.
the Christian Religion, the Babe in
the Manger, in a heather newspaper
The inscription was the only thing
in English in the whole sheet" The
significant thing about it was that
the editor did not think it necessary
to accompany the picture with a