SPECIAL CEREMONIES
10 FEATURE SERVICES
Lenten Season Will Open With the
* Blessing and Distribution of
Ashes Tomorrow
Ash Wednesday, the
beginning of the Len
» ten season, will be
observed with special
c ere monies in oil
Catholic and Protes
• tant Episcopal
* |JLJ| churches of tho city
* i At St. Patrick's Ca
tliedral the blessing
- J[Al<«li. and distribution of
jjf , ashes will take place
' at 6.30 and 8 o'clock,
in other Catholic
" j churches of the city
»•*?* >—./■VOac'n the blessing will be
made at 8 o'clock. Evening services
will consist of the regular sermon and
benediction.
Special services each day, particu
larly on Wednesdays and Fridays dur
ing tho season will be held in all of
the churches. The Rev. W. C. Olapp
will conduct the service of the "Three
Hours," on Good Friday at St.
Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church.
The following ministers have been an
nounced for the Wednesday services
at St. Stephen's beginning February
37, and ending March 31: Bishop
James H. Darlington, Bishop Ethel
bert Talbot, the Revs. O. H. Bridgman,
S. H. Rainey. J. F. Bullitt, 11. B. Pul
aifer and G. I. Browne.
For Friday services beginning Feb
ruary 10, the following pastors will be
In charge, the Revs. A. R. Taylor.
Flovd Appleton, A. A. V. Binnington,
t\ G. Twombly, Archdeacon McMillan,
the Revs. E. L. Henderson and W. C.
Clapp.
A series of organ recitals has been
arranged and will be held at 5 o clock
each Saturday afternoon. Musicians
from York and Lancaster are includ
ed in the program which follows:
Februarv 20, Henry W. Stratton,
Grace Church. Earl Rhoads: February
27, George B. Rodgers. St. James'
r'hurch, Lancaster, soloist, Master
Ernest Kilgore; March 6, Alfred C.
KuscViwa, St. Stephen s Church, Mrs.
E J Decevee: March 13. John Denues.
St. John's Church. York: March 20
Frank A. McCarrell, Pine Street Pres
byterian, soloist, George Sutton: March
27. Alfred C. Kuschwa, St. Stephen s
r'hurch. soloists, Masters Harry Etter
and William Webster.
Bishop James 11. Darlington will ad
minister the apostolic, rite of confirma
tion, in St. Augustine's Protestant
Episcopal Church, to-morrow evening
*t 7.30 o'clock.
STORY RITEN'
By the Messenger Boy
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The telefone girl is a thing of beauty
that'll live for ever, acordin to the
way the telefone company's has been
which is mostly doo to the
W*et and lovely voices of the girls
which says, "number-please. and
makes every stranger that hasn t got
a telefone wislit he had one and order
It next payday sos he can be in line
to hear the voices of the telefone
K Whenever vou listens to a partickler
sweet-an -lovely voiced telefone gir
you wishes Shirley Watts, the felloe
that manages em and hires and tires
em here in Harrisburp would invent
some skeme so as to let you see the
telefone girl while you re talKin t)
her. Mister Watts knows all about
the telefone girls and leckters about
em, but he forgets that the subscrib
ers doesnt. , ,
How nice it ud be if you could
skwint over a wire and take a peep
at the telefone girl While you re put
tin in a call for someone: then
you wouldn't care how slow they waf
in answerin, because you'd be happy
to set there and look at the telefone
girl.
Most every telefone girl is a sweet
and lovely karackter, judgln by their
voices and the pashunce they displays
with cranks and nuts that uses fonef
and wants instantaneous service anti
cusses when they doesnt get it. Lot?
of idjits that takes the receever ofi
the hook buzzes it up and down like
si fool, thinkin it will make a bigger
racket at the centrel and give em
quicker service. But all the time
they're .iigglin they only holds them
selves off because the girl cant see the
little red light that makes the signel
when you don let the hook stay steady
When the telefone girl says the line's
bisy, she ain't lying just because she is
too lazy to make cpnneckshuns, be
cause its jist as easy to do it as to
hear you cuss, and call up and bother
again in two minutes. Telefone girls
makes mistakes sometimes jist like
preachers and soeiaty folks, but they
should be forgiven occasional when
they gives you "L" Instead of "R,"
which is too much alike to be sensibel
letters for telefone calls, anyhow, and
should be blamed on the fellows that
got up the signcls.
When you go up in the uxehange
where the telefone girls works, you
finds they are jist as good lookin as
you imajunes them to bo by their
voices. There they all sits in a row
twenty, or thirty, or forty of em
dressed in shirts and uniforms at a
long board with a million wires mixed
up in a tangel and each of em workin
like sixty tryln to answer ten calls at
once at the bisy time of day. How
they makes so few . mistakes is the
puzael.
If lots of the jackasses that kicks
about telefone service would learn
something about it and go up to the
Comberland Valley or the Bell Tele
fone Companies places and watch the
girls ten minutes, they would have
more sense about the telefone girls
and learn to love em more.
Difficult to Get a
Marriage License If
This Bill Is Passed
A codification of tlie marriage laws
Xti, the State is provided in a bill in
troduced by Mr. I>eighner, Butler. The
act, which is to take effect January 1
next, repeals 15 laws, and requires a
license which must set forth that
neither party is insane, a drunkard,
habitual criminal, epileptic or of un
sound mind, that neither of the par
ents of either party Is any of the
above; that neither party has tubercu
losis In an advanced stage, or any
transmissible disease: that the male
is "physically able to support a family,
the parlies being required to produce
certificates of freedom from disease.
The State Department of Health la to
name for each county an examination
on application, the fee to be $2.50.
The department is to provide each
examination with a laboratory. The
pay of the examiners Is to be $1,200
yearly. Licenses are to cast $1 each
and marriages must be solemnized un
der them within 60 days. The bill also
provides degrees of consanguinity and
all necessary forms together with pen
alties for any violations.
FOR THE TIMK
Anyhow the toothache makes you
forget any other troubles you may
have.
TUESDAY EVENING,
CONFLICTING CLUES
TO HILL MYSTERY
[Continued from First Page.]
possible bearing of this And on the
mystery.
Interviews Dr. Ay res
James T. Walters, county detective,
who 1b working on the case under the
direction of District Attorney Michael
E. Stroup, was In York yesterday aft
ernoon to interview Dr. Charles E.
Ayres, the dentist who occupied the
house 133 South Fourteenth street
during 1001 and 1902 and with whom
lived Bessie Geyer, a nursemaid, about
16 years of age, who has not been
located.
Detective Walters said this morning
he feels assured of the innocence of
Dr. Ayres and thinks he can locate the
family of the Geyer girl in Mechanics
burg. where she is said to have lived.
He had not time to investigate to-day
on account of other pressing business.
He spoke of the perfect frankness
of Dr. Ayres yesterday in talking of
his residence in Ilarrisburg and of the
nurseglrl who lived with them and
cared for their two small children.
"Dr. Ayres told me yesterday," said
Mr. Walters, "that he had been called
up on the telephone Saturday night
by a Telegraph reporter and had told
all he knew of the girl ho lived with
him as nurseglrl, but that he could
not then recall her name or her
whereabouts: but since then on con
sultation with his wife he remembered
the girl as Bessie Geyer, of Mechan
lcsburg. of whom he knows nothing
since she left his employ except that
she had returned to Mechanlcsburg
and had been married. He said his
wife had desired to secure the services
of the girl again after they moved to
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York, but that they had been unable
to locate her.
Dr. Ayres would not talk to news
papermen in York this morning, say
ing that reports about him were al
ready being too much distorted, and
that he would talk to no others than
those in authority.. He seemed much
worried and refused to say anything
whatever about the murder mystery
in Harrlsburg or his connection with
the house. He said he had made a
full explanation yesterday to Detec
tive AValters and would repeat it.
Xo Trace of Germans
The name of the German family said
to have lived at the house after 1902
and previous to the tenancy of Charles
Ebersole has not been found by the
authorities who confess difficulty in
obtaining; definite information In the
neighborhood. They have the names
and whereabouts of all other tenants.
Coroner Eckinger is keeping track of
the case although he has turned the
solution of the mystery over to the
district attorney and his detectives.
The coroner is convinced it is a case
of murder but offers no opinion as to
the perpetrators or circumstances of
the crime.
District Attorney Michael E. Stroup
says he knows no new developments
in the case, more than is already
made public and has been learned by
County Detective Walters in his trip
to York yesterday to interview Dr.
Ayres.
Detective Walters says it is difficult
to obtain accurate information from
persons in the neighborhood who
should know something about the
families who tenanted the house. 133
South Fourteenth street. His opinion
is that the best method to arouse peo
ple to thinking Is to continue publicity
about the case and urge the disclosure
of information that may have any
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
bearing on it.
He said he had been working on
the case only a short time and knew
very little about It aside from infor
mation given in the newspapers. His
tirfet knowledge about Dr. Ayres in
York was obtained through a Tele
graph reporter, he said. He has no
information of the German family said
to have been tenants after Dr. Ayres'
removal In 1902.
Unearth More Bones
Continuation of the search yester
day among the dirt taken from the
grave under the cellar steps disclosed
very little except the lid of the porce
lain tooth pajstc box. There were a
few smaller bones of the hands and
fingers, some scraps of rags, a few
buttons, rusty nails and scraps of con
crete, the neck of a bottle and part
of a broken lamp shade. The entire
mass is a thick gravel clay mud and
has streaks of dark material, said to
be decomposed flesh.
The opinion of Dr. R. D. Perkins,
the coroner's physician, that the skele
ton had been buried from ten to fif
teen years is still held by the authori
ties. Many people are of the opinion
that no definite estimate ran be made
on the tinie a body would last under
such conditions.
Mr. Coshman. the plumber, thinks,
from the appearance of the mud taken
from the hole, that it has been in a
continual soggy condition for a long
time, either from a slight leak in the
sewer or from rain water that settles
on the spot frequently. No further
search was made to-day, as the coro
ner thinks he has the complete skele
ton.
District Attorney Michael E. Stroup
late this afternoon said there were no
new developments in the case. "When
asked about the co-operation of the
local police department he said Colonel
Hutchison, chief of police, and his
force stood ready and willing to get
to work on the case immediately or
at any time and that he, the district
attorney, intended to use every force
available to solve the mystery and to
spare no effort that yvould lead to the
apprehension of the criminals.
Dr. Charles E. Ayres is the son of
the Kev. Dr. A. R. Ayres, pastor of the
United Brethren Church of New Cum
berland. He is also a nephew of Dr. ;
Wilmot Ayres. a physician who for
merly lived at Sixth and Forster
streets, Harrisburg, but died some
years ngo. Dr. Ayres has been prac
ticing as a dentist at York since leav
ing Harrisburg in 1902.
WORLD WAITS KAISER'S
WAR ZONE REPLIES
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nected in aurli a way that Germany
lias no alternative but to hack down.
Watch Britain's Attitude
Washington, Feb. IS.— Administra
tion officials to-day awaited an indica
tion of Great Britain's attitude toward
German's proposal, made through the
United States, to drop her plan to de
stroy enemy merchant ships by a sub
marine and sea mine campaign in
British waters if Great Britain would
permit food cargoes to go unmolested
to the German civilian population.
German's announced purpose is to
put her sea war zone proclamation in
effect on February 18.
New York, Feb. IK.—Of the steam
ships clearing from New York within
the past two weeks, maritime records
show to-day that 27 are due to be
within the war zone declared by Ger
many around Great Britain on and
after February 18, the day set to es-
FEBRUARY 16, 1915.
tablish the zone. Four ships of this
fleet are American owned ancl fly the
American flag ancl five of the steam
ers carry passengers.
The four .unerioan ships are the
Surnga which sailed for Gothenburg
February 4, the Cushing which sailed
for Copenhagen February 6, the Kan
san which sailed for London on the
Bth and the Philadelphia of the Amer
ican line, a passenger carrying ship,
which sailed last Saturday for Liver
pool.
The four other vessels carrying pas
sengers are the Adriatic (Britlsh)of the
White Star Line which should roach
Liverpool late on the morning of the
19th; the Norwegian steamer Bergens
fjord bound for Bergen: the Cunarder
Orduna (British) due at Liverpool
about February 25, and the French
liner Niagara which sailed Sunday for
Havre.
All the vessels were heavily laden
| with freight. The Philadelphia carried
'250 passengers, the Adriatic 400 and
jthe other liners had fewer passengers
aboard.
A note fro nit he German chancellor,
las transmitted to the Rotterdam
| Chamber of Commerce, says that "in
j most cases" German submarines will
be unable to distinguish between neu-
I tral and British vessels encountered
in the war zone and that all inerchant
| men therefore run the risk of de
struction. In Berlin an official state
ment was Issued suggesting that Brit
! ish submarines might purposely sink
ja conflict between Germany and neu
tral nations.
Mountain Laurel May
Be Made State Flower
i By a vote of 160 to 11 the House
to-cfay passed the bill to designate the
mountain laurel as the State flower.
Mr. Geiser, Northampton, sponsor for
the bill presented pictures of the flow
er and urged the passage of the bill.
The House passed finally these bills:
Granting borough right of eminent
domain for borough buildings.
Regulating tax collections in bor
oughs and townships.
Making a deficiency appropriation
to Temple University.
The House took a recess until 5
p. m.
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Help the Stomach
Digest Your Food
When the stomach fails to digest
and distribute that which is eaten,
the bowels become clogged with a
mass of waste and refuse that fer
ments and generates poisons that
are gradually forced into the blood,
causing distress and often serious
illness.
Most people naturally object to
the drastic cathartic and purgative
agents that shock the system. A>
mild, gentle laxative, positive in its
effect and that will quickly relieve
constipation is Ur. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, sold by druggists at fifty
cents and one dollar a bottle. It
does not gripe or cramp, but acts
easily and pleasantly and is there
fore the moat satisfactory remedy
for children, women and elderly
persons. For a free trial bottle
write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 451
Washington St., Monticello, 111.
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