10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established PUBLISHED BY THK TEI.EGII.vrH PRINTING CO. *. J. S TACK POLE frtttitHt and Editer-inChitf T. R. OYSTER Secretary CCS M. STEINMETZ ilanatir.t Editor Published every evening (except Sun day> at the Telegraph Building, 21( Federal Square. Both fchones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau oi Circulation and Pennsylvania Assocl. ated Dailies. Sastern OfTice. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at iilkL> six cents a week. Mailed to subscriber* *t JJ.OO a year in advance. fntered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. 8i»or« dally average for the three ★ month* radlnii Jai1.31,1015. n 21,757 * Average for the year 1914—23.213 Average for the year 1813—21.577 Average for the year 1812—21,175 Average for the year 1811—1S.S51 Average for the year 181f >-17.485 FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12 LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG SPEECH FOVRSCOKE AXD SKVE\ yearn ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new na tion conceived la liberty and dedl eated to the proposition that all men arf cren'led equal. Son we are enicagrd In a great civil war. tearllng whether that nation, or any nation so coueelved nnd so dedicated, can Icing emigre. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives Hint that nntlon might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we ■ lioald do this. But. in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men. living nnd dead, who struggled here have consecrated It fnr above our power to add or to detrnct. The world will little note nor long remember what vie aay here, bvl it can never forgrt what they did here. It Is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly ad vanced. It Is rather for us to lie here dedi cated 'to the great tnsk remaining be fore as: that from these honored dead we take Increased devotion to that cause for wrhlch they (are the last full meas ure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died In vain; that this nation nnder t;od shall have a n?w hirth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the peonle and for the people shall not lierlsh from the earth. A VERY PROPER BILL THE need of some such bill as was presented in the Legislature a week or more ago for the con trol of the sale of heroin and other drugs derivative of opium is Illustrated by the discovery of a res taurant in Philadelphia where it may be said without much exaggeration that heroin was one of the items regu larly served on the bill of fare. A young girl was found there uncon scious from the use of the drug and the police ascertained that this was by no means an uncommon occurrence. The law regulating the sale of such drugs ought to be made so stringent as to make well nigh impossible their Improper use. The profits on such commodities are large and the temp tation is great for the unscrupulous when they are able to operate without much fear of punishment. Further than that, the reward for successful persecution in cases of this kind ought to be made so great as to encourage officers and detective agencies to keep their eyes open for violators. It is bad enough when the use of heroin and opium in any form is abused by a regularly licensed phy sician, but it is far worse when the drug can be purchased on the open market. Patients should beware of the doctor who prescribes heroin and Bimilar opiates extensively. This prac tice is the cloak under which the un skillful physician disguises his in ability to diagnose and treat diseases. Opium merely makes the patient in sensible to pain, it is not a cure. Its use is justifiable in extreme cases only. Reputable physicians no longer treat symptoms; they apply their drug to eradicate the disease itself. The doc tor who does otherwise does so to the Injury of his patient and he is guilty of a grave offense. Beware of him. GENERALLY CONCEDED THE always observant New York Sun notes editorially that In New York city a common topic of conversation wherever people are gathered together in a public way Is the emphatically expressed convic tion that we have now at Washington the last Democratic administration with which the people of the country ■will be afflicted for many years to come. Traveling men .who have visited Sridely separated communities throuuh FRIDAY EVENING, " HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 12, 1915. out Pennsylvania and the central west ern territory return to Harrisburg with the same story. Wherever one or two men are gathered together there will be expressed the belief that the Re publican party will be returned to power in 1916 by the most overwhelm ing: majority in the history of the country. Even dyed-in-the-wool Dem ocrats are convinced that "something is wrong at Washington" and while they maintain their faith in the doc trine of Jefferson many of them openly avow that they will vote for a change at the national capital at the very first opportunity. There is just one reason for all this —the people believe that the AVllson administration has failed utterly to make good its promises. Under a regime that went into office with econ omy as its keynote and a reduction in the high cost of living its solemn pledge, we are now witnessing at AVashington such extravagant expendi ture of the public money as was never known before and we are paying for household necessities prices from 10 to 25 per cent, greater than during the period of Republican administration which served as a text for so many sermons and promises of reform on the part of Democratic campaign orators. The voters have at last come to their senses. They have arrived at the conclusion that practice is better than promise, that achievement is more desirable than theory and that employment and a full dinner pall are greater blessings than experimental legislation, with consequent idleness and hardship for millions. EARLY" START DESIRABLE NOW that the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared away In city council chamber and council- men and the mayor have reached something of an understand ing as to the attitude of each toward the problem of providing employment for idle workmen, it is to be hoped that both sides will unite in an effort to get the public improvements pro posed for this year under under way at the earliest possible date. Councils have been doing what they could to keep men at work dur ing the winter, but the possibilities in this line naturally have been limited. They are as desirous as anybody of providing jobs for the unemployed as well may be understood from the fact that most of them will be candidates for re-election next Fall, it Is un derstood. and might be supposed to make friends wherever possible; and there is none so grateful as the idle man who lias been given an opportun ity to earn money. Indeed, it has been the practice of critics to accuse men in public life of creating too many jobs for just that purpose, and it is doubtful If ever before In the history of the city Touncilmen were accused, as the mayor accused his colleagues the other day, of being unwilling to increase the working force from whom they might expect to derive votes at election time. Warm weather is now fast ap proaching and every possible arrange ment should be made looking toward a vast reopening of the public work at the very first minute weather con ditions will permit. Now i§ the time to plan the preliminaries. There can be no reason for delay and from signs now apparent It Is not likely there will be any ground for criticism on this CLEARING THE RIVER FRONT THE ordinance introduced in coun cil a day or two ago by Com missioner Bowman, providing for the construction of coal I wharfs for the Harrlsbung Light and Power Company adjacent to the filter i plant, ought to open the way for the removal of the proposed coal wharfs at the foot of Market street. The elec tric company is by far the greatest, local excavator of river coal and the fact that it will soon cease to use the Market street landing place should en able the city to concentrate all of the wharves in the lower end of town where it is now proposed to land a portion of the fuel. This would clear up a centrally located and much used section of the River Front and would permit an uninterrupted walk along the front steps, practically, from Pax ton to Maclay streets, following the improvement of the "Hardscrabble" district. The Market street wharves lie di rectly in the vision of automobile tour ing parties coming into Harrisburg by way of the river bridges. More and more the Capital City of Pennsylvania is becoming one of the picture spots of the State. Our River Front im provements are the envy of all visitors and nothing should be left undone to remove the last unsightly spot from this otherwise unrivaled landscape. It is to be hoped that council will take up the matter as soon as possible in order to make any readjustments that may be necessary in the construction work plans now under way. SCOUTING IX)K THK SCOUTS PITTSBURGH, which owes its place in the world to the fact that it is a practical community, is about to try out a plan that should be watched with the greatest interest by Harrisburg. The city at the confluence of the two great west ern rivers of Pennsylvania is now suf fering along with the rest of us from icy pavements. It apparently has the same percentage of people who do not give a rap about the condition of their pavements that Harrisburg en joys and its efforts to get at them have probably been as successful as those made here when ice is on the pavements. • Now it is proposed to call the Boy Scouts to aid. The city has a large number of strenuous youths and the scheme is to have the Scouts scout for the Ice-covered pavement that spreads its trap for the man who thinketh he can walk without giving heed to his footsteps. When they have found it Scouts will telephone to the police station. It is a great plan and some of the Pittsburgh police will doubt less welcome it. Such a system would give the boys something to do, take burdens oft the "coppers'' and make life on a slippery day one of anguish for the owner of a long strip of pave ment. riVENTNG CHAT) The fact that to-day is Lincoln's Birthday recalls the visit paid to the city by the martyr President on his way to Washington to be inaugurated and the sorrowful stop in Pennsyl vania's capital of his funeral train. There was an interval of a little over four years in those visits and yet in that period the whole Civil War was waged and great changes made in Harrisburg. Lincoln's exciting visit to | the city, his stop at the Jones House, now the Commonwealth Hotel, and his departure for Washington secretly after consultation with Cameron and Curtin and prominent men here are part of national, not local, history, and the bringing of the body to llarris burg. its lying in state in the old Capi tol and its departure with a great demonstration of grief are recalled by many and have been much written about. When Lincoln iirst came to Harrlsburg it wus a sleepy place, noted for numerous hotels, and, except dur ing legislative seasons, more of a county town than a state capital. The war caused the great mobilization camp to be located here, as it was in the Spanish War as well, and stirred up the place. The days of Camp Meade and the effect upon business and life in llarrisburg are well re called by thousands of people, but It Is interesting to eonjectyre the manner in which the newly erected city of Harrisburg was awakened by the Civil War. Harrisburg had been a borough for about fifty years when the war broke out and was just trying city clothes. It had to be a city In more ways than one because of Camp Cur tin and the police force of other days was found to be inadequate, while new buildings, hotels and stores were re quired. Harrisburg became a place of national importance and there w§re visitors here from every northern state and it was the real gateway to Washington for many months because of the ebb and flow of the tide of war. When Lincoln's body was brought here it had emerged from a village and had become a city with an energy that has never left it and whose effects may be traced in its affairs and its life to-day. A man interested in Harrisburg property was asking the other day if the purchase of motor fire apparatus and the extension of paved streets would not have the effect of bringing down fire insurance rates. It was pointed out tlmt motor apparatus means great mobility and the reaching of outlying districts in much less time than heretofore and the more rapid assembling of apparatus in the busi ness district where danger of big fires always exists and where celerity means dollars. For years there have been complaints by tire underwriters that the city was not doing its part toward furnishing protection. New mains have been laid, water protection much extended and the street paving put down beyond the extent in any city of the size of Harrisburg in the "coun try. These factors added to the motor fire apparatus to be added make in the mind of the rrien discussing the problem good reasons for revision of rates. And it should not be over looked that Steelton. with its four or five companies, is now connected with Harrisburg by Improved highwavs and could render valuable aid in quick time, much more rapid than it did in the burning of the Grand Opera House, just because Cameron street is paved and so is the strip between the city and the borough. The response made to the call for help by Lemoyne in October ought not to be forgotten either. Ex-Governor John K. Tener may take a southej-n trip next month. The ex-Governor has contemplated this for some time and lie may see some of the teams at practice and also take a little hand at golf. Hugh L. Cooper, the engineer of the Keokuk dam, who will speak to-night at the Engineers' Society, is a resident of New York and not only had to do with the designing, but the construc tion of the wonderful power project He will be guest of friends while here! A copy of the State's fine report on the Gettysburg reunion in 1913 was to-day placed in the Harrisburg Pub lic Library with the compliments of the commission. The book has been much in demand. The State's new publications on the soils and trfees of Pennsylvania, issued by the Depart ments of Agriculture and Forestrv were also placed in the librarv to-day because of numerous requests for them. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —S. S. Henderson, well-known Jef ferson county man, donated a park to Brookville. —Congressman O'Contry, of New- York. is a former Pennsylvanian hav ing been brought up in Schuylkill county. —Congressman-elect M. M. Garland has not yet been relieved as collector of the port of Philadelphia, although he would like to be. —Chancellor S. B. McCormick. of Pittsburgh, says he believes boys should be taught defense. —Professor O. L. Shinn, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, served as a member of the United States Assay Commission. I DO YOU KNOW—I That HarrlsburK .shoes arc worn by a good many of tlic workers along the Mississippi? A REAL MAN By Wing Dinger It takes more than money. It takes more than bone, It takes more than sinew And sternness in tone; It takes more than shrewdness In laying a plan For the conduct of business To make a real man. Get out Kipling's verses. And read once again His poem 'titled "If"— He makes it quite plain What a ctmp must have In him To be a real man —Go out and stick to them As much a§ you can. And If you would have an Example In life— T.iat stuck pretty closely In joy and in strife To what Kipling outlines— "None better," I'd say. Than Lincoln, whose birthday We observe to-day. / \ Inquiries or Customers ? Some manufacturers compute the value of their advertising on the number of Inquiries it produces. Retailers measure advertising value by actual customers and actual sales. That is why the retailer in variably favors newspaper adver tising. It sends customers to his store and sells the goods. When it is the manufacturer advertising in the local news paper that is sending those cus tomers that retailer is naturally favorable to that manufacturer and his goods. He shows the goods and sells them. DEMOCRATS PL! TO GET LIMELIGHT Need Something to Keep Party on the Map and Are Framing Up a Few Little Bills SWATS AHEAD FOR FUSION Schemes Have Been Worked So Hard and So Often That Legis lators Are Weary —Judging from rumors which have been going the rounds, the men in charge of the Democratic machine in tend to put in some legislation after all. They have gotten over the awful defeat that they suffered in their am bition to fill the offices on Capitol Hill and will start out to beat the tomtom and call attention to the superior quality of mental wares that the peo ple of the State let go by. Some of the Democratic members of the legis lature are understood to have been approached as to how far they in tended to so In supporting the Brum baugh policies and to have been sounded whether they would not fore go voting for bills advocated by the Governor for the good of the com monwealth in order to vote for bills of the same Import but drawn In a differertt w«y for the benefit of the Democratic campaign thunder works. —The Democratic bosses have heard that the Republicans Intend to have some election legislation and will put In some of their own, which will be dressed up in choice words and launched with much display of ink In Market Square. —lt is understood that Representa tive W. L. Adams, of Luzerne county, intends to ana to the list of election bills designed to prevent fusion, which Mr. Kitts, of Erie, also plans to en large. One of the alms of the present Legislature appears to be to get rid of the opportunities of men of small po litical influence to make trouble and to get into power by rump nomi nations. stickers and the like. By the terms of the proposed Adams bill can didates will be confined to one nomi nation and a member of one party will not be permitted to file papers to enter the primary of another party. After nomination he would not permit nomi nees to withdraw, death being the only cause for a vacancy. This is now the law on the nonpartisan ballot. It is also the Intention of the Repub lican state organization to have legis lation preventing fusion. The bills are now being drawn in Philadelphia and if they are ready Senator James P. McN'lchol, chairman of the Senate elections committee, will introduce them Monday night. —Among visitors to the Capitol yes terday were Congressman J. N. Lang ham. of Indiana county, and Con gressman-elect C. H. Rowland, of Clearfield county. They called to see the Governor. —Commissioner John Price Jack son was at Wilkes-Barre last night to discuss the child labor legislation. —Automobile owners are commenc ing to sit up and take notice of the drastic legislation presented in regard to cars and some lively doings on hearings are expected to come about. —Frank SI. Wallace, of Erie, a member of the Public Service Com mission, will be confirmed by the Sen ate, and it will be followed by his al most Immediate retirement. He has desired to resign for a long time, but since the question of his confirmation has arisen his friends think it would be fair for the Senate to confirm him and then let him retire. He is con sidered one of the most useful mem bers of the commission. —Senators say that it is settled that nothing will be done with the Public Service nominations until after the legislature reconvenes on March 1. During this week the leaders of the Senate have been considering recess appointments, and they find that it is a delicate matter to refuse to confirm men appointed by a former Republi can Governor unless some very good reason can be given for such action. When Mr. Wallace retires, Erie will no doubt put forward a candidate as his successor on the commission on the ground that section of the State is entitled to representation. The two men mentioned are ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson and John S. Rilling, of Erie. The latter is a Democrat, but a close friend of the Governor, and also well liked,by all political elements In Erie. Both men are lawyers. —There is a possibility the Senate will take up some of the other recess appointments next week. The men most discussed for' confirmation are Banking Commissioner W. H. Smith and John C. Groome, superintendent of the State police. Captain Groome had a long conference with the Governor this morning. Commissioner Smith has the support of all the financial in stitutions of the State because of his good work in the department. —Vice-President Marshall is the lat est Democrat outside of Pennsylvania i to Interfere in the appointment of a surveyor of the port at Pittsburgh. After National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer had recommended George W. Deeds, of Llgonier, for the place. Secretary of State Bryan de manded the job for his old friend, George W. Ackliß, of Pittsburgh. Now the Vice-President gives his indorse ment to John R. Bracken, of Carnegie. As a result Representative Palmer U nonplussed. He asserted that he is loyal to Mr. Deeds, but won't say the Ligonler man will be appointed. Just how Mr. Bracken won the support of the Vice-President is not clear, but he has that notable back of him. THE KISS (Sara Teasdale in Harper's Magazine) Before you kissed me only winds of heaven Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain— Now you have come, how can I care for kisses Like theirs again? I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me, They surged about me singing of the South — I turned my head away to keep still holy Your kiss upon my mouth. And swift sweet rains of shining April weather Found not my lips where living kisses are; I bowed my head lest they put out my glory As rain puts out a star. I ammy love's and he is mine forever, Sealed with a seal and safe for ever more— Think you that I could let a beggar enter Where a king stood before? AX EVENING THOUGHT Not every man according to his mood and fancy, according to oth er people's giving or other peo ple's ability, but "every man ac cording to his ability." H. C. Trumbull. Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats Former Prices S2O, $22, $25 now $13.50 About 45 garments at this price and does not include our whole stock. At above price are mostly sizes 36-38 and a few stout suits and overcoats. Won derful bargains if you can be fitted Earl & Wilson's High Grade Shirts At $1.15 Every shirt worth $2.50. Only about 10 doz. left to sell Plain colors in SI.OO value Satin Four-in-Hand Ties At 55c Only 5 doz. to sell ALL FURS IN MUFFS AND SCARFS, ALSO MEN'S FUR COATS AT COST H. MARKS & SON 4th and Market Streets I OUR DAILY LAUGH | \ > ~WF ,v> *■ J ■ I NOT FOR HIM - H'lj • fl \ n 1 Does he blow v • k' B own \ Not muchl II AT THE DENT- f cy! That Isn't the right tooth you've pulled. patient, madam; « ■ rtj] —r I'm coming to it. 1 — BETWEEN TWO BBS* I thought you -7(4} promised your 1' " R, " e on New dear's that you'd 1 tip smoking. f xMnlw a promised myself 1 il l a smoke oceasion ally, too, so what / < 'Round About Pennsylvania In the City of Brotherly Love and remarkably astute lawyers, it has been suggested that the street cleaning de partment's men be kept busy in the winter putting sand on slippery pave ments. Judging from what we know of Philadelphians, the average citizen lias enough spare sand of his own that he could easily spread it over his own sidewalk without burdening the city with this extra expense. Speaking of Pennsylvania birth rec ords, John Linweber, A farmer near Leechburg, Pa., owns three cows which gave birth to five calves in one day. Two of the cows bore twins. No, there is no decrease In the price of veal at Leechburg, according to village butch ers. • • • The severe winter weather of the last two months is having its effect all over the State. Out near Kittanning Point, flocks of wild turkeys have joined the barnyard fowl on several farms when farmers put corn where they could get it. • » • Physicians know a lot about folks, but if the testimony of a surgeo- at Norristown can be believed, physicians' wives want to know more than their husbands. As the story goes, John K. Hedrick * -Id the court his wife in sisted on his telling her everything he learned through Ills office calls about tilings paining Mrs. This and Mrs. That. He says many doctors do tell their wives such things. But not for him. He's getting the divorce. • • • Un Shamokln way there lives a dog that made a name for himself the other dav and got his master's voice sought after by the newspaper reporters. Be fore Christmas, Christ Scliuler, a resi dent of Trevorton. presented Richard Haas with his family dog, and the ani mal was taken by the Haas folk to Hebe, thirty miles away. Last week, tired, thin and weak, but wagging his tail In the self same jovial way. Carlo stuck his nose under the Scliuler fate. Schuler has decided to keep 'im. » • • It is doubtful whether there is a bet ter known carpenter in the State than John Bull, of Columbia . Bull, who Is foreman for G. W. Paules, contractor, celebrated his 60th birthday anniver sary recently. tare too often doted with drug* when their blood is really starved. They need that blood - strength which comes from medicinal nourishment No drugs can make blood. SCOTT'S EMULSION is shiftily concentrated blood-food and every drop yields returns in strengthening both body and brain. a. If yoa sre frail, languid, iPgk delicate or nervous, take Ol Scoff's Emulsion after meals A \l[ for one month. No Alcohol JjJL I [From the Telegraoh of Feb. 12, 1565.] AuKUMtn I*oln»ed Washington, Feb. 11. Hailroad communications with Augusta have been severed. General Kirkpatrlck oc cupies Branchville. Hlckit Die* Baltimore, Feb. 12. Senator and ex-Governor Hicks died at Washington this morning. MurKan For 'l'rfanurfr Washington, Feb. 12. Senator K. D. Morgan. New York, has been nomi nated by President for Secre tary of the Treasury. 1 1 [From the Telegraph of Feb. 12, 1863.J | Three Kcet of Snow Snow three feet deep is reported to have fallen in Philadelphia. Firemen Coming; The Good Will Fire Company, of 1 Philadelphia, will visit this city, before i Koing to the inauguration ceremonies | at Washington. Fire Burn* Lumber Fire in the J. R. Simon Planing Mill, | in State street, destroyed some valuable : lumber. FACES AS FAIR AS I A SUMMER'S DAY Are Possible If Stuart's Calcium Wafers Are Used For a Short Time After Each Meal. Many people have been heard to I say that they used creams and lo tions for years without effect, yet after five or six days of Stuart's Calcium Wafers their complexions were per fectly clear. si "I Got nid of Blackhead* In ■ Jiffy by t'alng Stuart's Calcium Wafers." It's easy to understand why Creams and lotions only get at the surface, while Stuart's Calcium Wa-1 fers go right into the blood and in stead of a sluggish deposit in the skin J the impurities that cause skin dis-1 eases are destroyed in the perspiration ] that is exhaled through the pores in I the form of invisible vapor. You'll j never have a good complexion without! pure blood, but you positively will) have a fine, beautiful complexion If | you use Stuart's Calcium Wafers. i They contain no poisonous drug of any kind, are perfectly harmless and can be taken with absolute freedom, and they work almost like magic. Cal cium Sulphide, their principal ingredi ent, is the greatest b\ood-cleanser known to science. No matter how bad your skin may be, Stuart's Calcium Wafers will I quickly work wonders with it. It's goodby to blackheads, pimples, acne, i boils, rash, eczema and a dirty "fllled lip" complexion. Yoti can get a box of Stuart's Calcium Wafers at any drug store at 50 cents a box, and you will be postlvely delighted with their won- ! derful effect. A small sample pack age mailed free by addressing F. A. I Stuart Co., 175 Stuart Bldg., Marshall,' Mich.—Advertisement. There's a money-saving message for men in DOUTRICHS Advertisement on Page 9 HUMAN-NATURE NOTE [Washington Star.] | "Dc only time some of us really gits our minds on our rosponsiblliUes," said Uncle Eben, "is when we are thinkin' up some way to dodge 'em." Whooping Cough Notice Tor casing the hard spells of Cough ing. raising phlegm, and hastening re covery. Golrs Cough Syrup has no equal. Guaranteed by Grocers and Druggists. No opiates. 25 and SO cents. GOFTS COUGH SYRUP I Stylish— | Overcoats Balmacaans Raincoats Half Price A lot of up-to-the i minute garments that were slightly injured by water in transit just enough to hurt the selling price but not their service or ap pearance. The gar ments range in value from $6 to $24. Come quick and take your choice for $3 ,0 sl2 Harrisburg RUBBER CO. If It's made of rub ber we have it 205 Walnut St. _ _. _ __ . i Try Telegraph Want Ads.
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