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POSTAL DEFICIT
ELEVEN MILLIONS
Annual Report Says That War
Has Cost Department
*21,000.000
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 18.—Post
master General Burleson's annual re
port made public to-night says the
European war has cost the American
postal service $21,000,000 but that
economies of administration'have re
duced the audited deficit to a little
more than $11,000,000 for the fiscal
year which ended last June. Consid
erations of service, the report says,
were placed above all others and not
withstanding adverse revenue condi
tions. expansion and improvement of
postal facilities continued. Had It ndt
been for economical reorganization be
gun before the war started and con
tinued since, the Postmaster General
*ays the audited deficit would have
keen at least $24,000,000. Of the to
tal deficit, however, his analysis of the
department's finances declares that all
but a little more than $300,000 was
the result of increases of postal sal
aries and additional railway mail pay
required .by law.
Chief among recommendations to
S'ongress are a renewal of previous
proposals for a change from the
weight to the space basis of fixing pay
to the railroads for carrying mail; a
renewal of recommendations for gov
< rnment ownership of telegraphs and
telephones; removal of the four-pound
limit on first class mail; and the adop
tion of more liberal limitations on the
weight and insurance of parcel post
packages.
Camp Hill Fancier's Pen
Wins Egg-Laying Contest
The five hens owned by P. Edgar
Hess, of Camp Hill, in a competitive
egg-laying: contest with forty-five
other noted layers won first prize at
the exhibit of the Central Pennsylva
nia Poultry Association. Mr. Hess'
hens totaled eighteen for five days'
work. The nearest pen, with six be
low this total, was owned by S. W.
Babble. A number of prize-winning
birds from the exhibit were shipped to
Philadelphia Saturday and entered in
a show in that city. •
Prizes won by the winning pen fol
low: ?."i for best laying pen: 100
pounds Premo stock feed, donated by
Holmes Seed Company; setting special
Silver Campine eggs, donated by G.
Ilorsman, Camp Hill; setting special
Single Comb White Leghorn eggs, do
nated by S. W. Bright bill, Penbrook;
netting White Wyandotte (Dorcas
strain* eggs, and lirst prize for best
laying type White Wyandottes entered.
Babble's prizes are; S2 for second
best laying pen; setting special Barred
Rock eggs, donated by Dr. David I.
Miller: setting special White Leghorn
eggs, donated by Dr. David I. Miller:
netting White Wyandotte eggs. The
pen won second prize for second best
egg-laying type of White Wyandottes.
Pittsburgh Strike Ties
Up Many War Contracts
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Dec. 13.—Many thou
sands of dollars' worth of war mu
nitions and other contracts were tied
up here to-day by the strike of iron
uiolders and coremakers, which af
fected between 60 and "0 foundries
and has spread to about 1.500 men.
POLICEMAN SAVES CHILDREN"
Policeman Coleman, on duty near
Sixth and Reily streets, when a team
of runaway horses, starting at Second
street, tore up Reily at full speed,
saved a number of small children com
ing from the Penn building from being
seriously injured. Officer Coleman at
tempted to stop the horses, but was
thrown aside. He then climbed over
the rear of the wagon, picked his way
forward between the horses and.
standing on the tongue, stopped them
by grasping the bridles.
MRS. JENNIE M. HOOT
Mrs. Jennie M. Hoot, aged 62. wife
of C. T. Hoot, died yesterday at her
home. 629 Ross street. She is sur
vived by two brothers and two sisters.
S. M. Vankirk, III; John Vankirk apd
Mrs. Margaret Pentz, of Mechanics
burg, and Mrs. John Slngiser. of this
city. Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
MOUSING COMMITTEE TO MEET
The State housing committee will
meet to-morrow morning to make ar
rangements for the annual meeting of
the organization to be held in Allen
town next year.
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MONDAY EVENING,
HALF MILLION IN
INSURANCE FUND
Applications Pouring Into
Office For Rates and
Information
Over half a million dollars' worth
of insurance in the State fund will be
the total of business for the first day
since Minouncement of the rates for
insurance in the State fund. Applica
tions are pouring into the office of the
State fund tor rates and information
and now the formal requests for poli
cies are commencing to come in.
Albert L. Allen, assistant manager
of the State fund, declared to-day that
several thousandv applications for In
surance in the State fund has been re
ceived since December 1 from em
ployers whose payrolls aggregate sev
eral million-; of dollars. He asserted
that the total amount of premiums
on applications received up to noon
to-dav woulu amount to approximately
$500,000.
Art Commission to Ask
Manning's Views Before
Placing Donato Fountain
I The "Dance ot" Kternal Spring"
1 better known as the Hershey-Donato
| fountain, is still unplaced. Members
(of the Art Commission this afternoon
i discussed the question of a location
! and Front and State streets was favor
ed. It was thought, however, that
Walter 11. Manning who planned
Harrisburg's Pkrk System, should
tirst be consulted as to his ideas and
Mr. Manning will be invited to meet
with the Art Commission at an early
date. Plans were also discussed for
placing the fountain at the junction
;of the old and the new road in
; lteservoir Park.
Murder of Aged Widow
Surrounded by Mystery
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 13.—Mystery
1 to-day surrounded the death of Mrs.
j Caroline Flaccus Viehmier. aged 71,
wealthy widgw and member of a
j prominent Pittsburgh family who was
; iound murdered in iter home ten miles
j north of here. The woman's body
was bound and with gag in the moutli,
was discovered yesterday. The house
had been ransacked and telephone
connection severed. The authorities
1 believed that robbery was motive.
Mrs. Yichmler was a sister of George
E. and C. L. Flaccus, prominent glass
; manufacturers of this city.
Pennsylvanian Held by
England as German Spy
By,. Associated Press
Allentown. Pa., Dec. 13.—Accord
ing to a cablegram received in the
county commissioners' office here this
morning from the American consul
i in Liverpool. George Phaon Heiberger,
aged 18, a native of l<ehigh county, is
being detained in England under the
suspicion of being a German spy.
Heiberger two years ago abandoned
his wife and enlisted in the navy.
Since then lie had not been heard
from. The asked-for information was
cabled this afternoon.
HELPS HOUSIXG PROBLEM
The police are receiving help in
solving the regular winter housing
! problem for homeless men. Last night
j Captain Stevens called and said that
i he had opened a home at 211 Cherry
street, and will fit the building up
with twenty beds and the purpose of
j housing "down and outers."
ARTIFICIAL RUBBER TIRES
By Associated Press
Berlin, Dec. 13, by Wireless to Say
ville. Automobile tires of artificial
rubber are now being made in Ger
many. the Overseas News Agency says.
WITHDRAWS TRANSFER
PETITION"
Otto S. Mumma to-day withdrew
■ the court application by which he
sought to take over ihe liquor license
j held by William X. Deibler, pro
prietor of Shell's Tavern, Grantville,
East Hanover township. Mumma gave
| no reason for not pressing his appli
[ cation.
TO BUILD HOUSES
Mrs. Sallie A. Raber obtained a
building permit this morning to build
| two two-and-one-half story brick
houses in Xorth Fifth street, 160
feet south of Seneca, costing $4,000.
Patience as a Virtue
l«.v BRATKICB FAIRFAX.
"Patience a little, learn to wait:
Years are long on the clock of fate.
One of the hardest lessons for youth
to learn is that of patience. Which of
i us has not said when facing trouble, "I
could stand anything but tlie uncer
tainty." Hut almost the whole lesson
of life lies in learning patiently to en
dure uncertainty!
Patience is a mixture of disasters
endured, of growth in culture, of abil
ity to look all about subject and of
i calm noise which must spread itself
lover everything; we do and say. It is
tile power to wait with Joyful expect-
I am y for happiness and to endure qulet-
Ily up to the moment of actually fac
ing sorrow and pain and deprivation,
j Probably no virtue is less inherent
in human nature and no virtue Is hard
er to cultivate. And yet it is absolutely
I requisite to happiness in life.
Impatience leads to all sorts, of fool
ish Impulsiveness. It drives one to
actions which one almost knows will
lead to unhappiness. It impels one to
try to force the hand of events, to pull
j open a rosebud, to waken the dream
of romance into premature reality. Im
patient people in hurrying up "events
hasten them Into the particular path
they never should have taken. Im
patient people cannot wait for things
to work themselves out normally and
worthily. They wreck the ship tliev
do not know how to guide. So much
for active impatience of the sort that
cannot let events come to their natural
fruition. Passive impatience is of the
sort that forgets that all wounds heal
but by degrees. It iterates to itself
again and again, "Oh, I can't bear this
sorrow." and so makes it indeed almost
impossible that the sorrow should be
borne.
The Itoynl Hoad
There is no royal road to cultivat
ing patience. It has to be sought most
patiently. it has to be striven for
over a series of failures and through
a vast accumulation of little lapses
back Into impatience.
Patience is part of repose and poise.
Tliey are needed to make it up. When
something happens and you feel you
just can't endure it and must do some
thing about it. try this: Instead of get
ting up and fluttering and sputtering
like a beheaded chicken, walk over to
the open window and inhale deeply
to the count of ten, then exhale to the
same count. Do this a dozen times.
You will find yourself very detlultely
concerned with the physical process
you have set up. And your poise will
DOROTHY ARNOLD IA)ST
FIVE YEARS; STILL MYSTERY
New York, Dec. 13.—Five years ago
yesterday at 11.30 in the morning Dor
othy Arnold left her home at 10S East
Seventy-ninth street. Half an hour
later she was seen buying a box of
candy at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth
street; at 2 o'clock she purchased a
book at Brentano's; at 2.45 she met a
BABY DESERTED IN LOCKED SUITCASE FINDS HOME
'
Sl//T CAS* T)WOiW(i
New York, Dec. B.—The latest fortunate victim of the fad for adopting
children, which seems to be sweeping New York is the little baby found tvo
weeks ago in a locked suitcase In a far corner of the Erie station in Jersey
City. The little bit of deserted humanity was turned over to Miss Frances
Day, superintendent of the State Board of Children's Guardians.
Millionaires heard of the dress suitcase baby and tried to adopt her.
Truckmen, laborers and bankers wanted her too. But Miss Dav was ob
durate.
"This baby is going to have a real home," she said. "I will not let her
go to a home where merely money is plentiful. She must have love."
The name of the people who have adopted the babv has been kept
secret, but Miss Day vouchsafed the information that the little girl who
began life in a suitcase in a railway station would one day ride in a private
car, or at least in a drawingroom section of a Pullman.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
be a little increased, so that curbing
your patience will be a trifle less dif
ficult. -
Or try this: Proceed to laugh at
yourself. Naturally It will be a me
chanical process, but after you have
kept It up for a minute, or two you
will find that you are actually laugh
ing. After that it will not be possible
to return to the thing which caused
your impatience with quite the irri
tability you first felt.
1 have suggested two purely physi
cal processes for curbing impatience.
But the real way to curb impatience
is not a matter of deep breathing or
laughter, but one of philosophy.
I.ife moves slowly, not in jerks or
leaps or bounds. In one little reverse
twist against nature one fractures a
bone. And then slowly, gradually. Na
ture sets up her healing process, anil
torn fragments and splint-red bones
mend themselves into a perfect whole.
Every time you get excited and over
anxious anil make an attempt to put
undue strain on the member which is
mending you counteract the healing,
you break down some little tissue which
was Just on the verge of mending.
Impatience has a way of subjecting
mind and body to undue strain.
Patience tries things out to make ;iure
they will endure a strain, and tests
sinew, fiber and mentality carefully be
fore asking anything of them. Patience
knows it must endure, anil so proceeds
philosophically to endure well.
When you have a wild feeling that
you must hurry events, force vo.'i
self to do nothing. After all. whatever
you do will probably be exactlv wronff.
Impatience is part of self-centered
ness. When you think you can't en
dure what you must endure and won't
await what cannot be hurried, part of
your trouble is that your mind is on
yourself and your own concerns. A
simple corrective is to lie found in do
ing something in no wis • related to
the crisis you are awaiting or the sor
row you must hear.
Actually remove your mind from
the thing over which it is becoming
vexed and ruffled. Tills is not at all
easy at first. But if you force vour
self to sew or read or walk, in the
nature of things your body adjusts
itself to the mechanical process you
are performing, and qrr.iduailv v'our
thoughts veer from their other center
to the healthier center of your action.
We all have to be patient at many
times during our lives. It would he
very well if we all set at one- about
cultivating this much needed virtue.
girl friend at Fifth avenue and Thir
tieth street. Since then she has not
been heard of.
GEORGE 1,. REED, AUDITOR
George L. Reed was appointed:
auditor to-duy to examine the ac-!
counts of Leah M. Donner, executrix!
of the will of Fred W. Donner, late!
of Harrisburg.
Will Champion Philippinos
CONGRESSMAN WM. A. JONES
Congressman Wm. A. Jones of Vir
ginia UK chairman of the Insular Af
fairs committee of the House of Rep
resentatives will lead the light again
this year to increase the liberty of
the Philippinos. This bill reached the
Senate last year, hut died there. An
other measure that will be intro
duced by Mr. Jones wil be the Porto
Rlcon bill, which failed to reach the
House last session.
Make Red-Blooded Boys
of Sons, Says Dibble
"Make red-blooded boys of your
sons," was the advice of Prof. H. G.
Dibble, principal of the Central High
school, speaker at the Kotary Club
luncheon to-day. Prof. Dibble said
that fathers do not give enough at
tention to their sons, that too many
of them are inclined to say. "don't"
when they should say "do." and that
i the biggest handicap the high school
i teachers have to face is lack of initia
tive on the part of the boys due to
failure of parents to properly direct
I the activities of their sons. B. F.
ITmberger of the City Planning t'oin-
I mission, J' 1 so made a short address.
F. R. Croll was chairman.
Livestock Rates in This
Territory Are Readjusted
By Associated Press
I Washington, Dec. 13. —General re
adjustment of livestock rates north of
! the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and east
of the Mississippi was authorized to
day by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Many increases were au
thorized. The roads get large in
creases in revenue as a result.
(AHRANZATROOPS ARE
MARCHING THROUGH V. S.
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 13. —Juarez
and Chihuahua. Villa's last strong
holds in Northern Mexico, are believed
to be the objective of Carranza rein
forcements now being permitted to
pass eastward through the Fnited
States from Douglas, Ariz., to Colum
bus, N. M„ almost opposite Palomas.
LANCASTER TOBACCO FOR
NEUTRALS
Lancaster. Pa., Dec. 13.—Saturday
the local revenue office issued permits
lor the shipment of 45,000 pounds of
scrap tobacco to neutral countries in
Europe, most of it going to Holland
and Belgium. During the last month
permits have been issued for the ship
ment of about 200.000 pounds of this
class of tobacco to neutral countries.
AD DEATHS W. . W. . W. . W.. W
ZEIGLER FUNERAL THURSDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Grace
Zeigler, aged 43, wife of Daniel M.
Zeigler. will be held Thursday after
noon at the home, the. Rev. Dr. Ellis
A. Kremer, pastor of Salem Reformed
church officiating. Burial will be
made at the Harrisburg cemetery.
She is survived by her husband and
five sisters, Mrs. Jacob Linsenmayer,
Mrs. Clarence T. Mackenson, Misses
Mary, Alberla and Florence Zimmer
man.
HORACE S. STEES
Funeral services for Horace S.
Stees, aged 54, an employe of the
Foundry and Machine shops, will be
held to-morrow afternoon at his late
home, Twenty-Sixth and Market
streets. Burial will be mad" a< the
East Harrisburg cemetery. He is
survived by his wife ahd four chil
dren, Horace E., of Penbrook; Mrs.
John Y. Mosey. Paxtang; Emma R.,
and Edgar R. Stees at home.
SELLERS FUNERAL WEDAESDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Cather
ine Sellers, aged 73, who died yester
day at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
William Mattis, will be held at the
Mattis home, 612 Kelker street, Wed
nesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, the
Rev. H. W. A. Hanson officiating. The
body will be taken to Mtddletown by
C. N. Mauk, undertaker, for burial.
DECEMBER 13, 101?.
Mak<e: This an
Electrical XmasT^
\ isit our store, and see the immense
assortment of Electrical appliances and /^KTIN
household fixtures that lessens the
vvi)lt< °/ t '\ c lad y °f the house and /
Christmas tree lighting outfits for lA'
battery and live current.
15y payment of small amount we will
W # put back any article for Christmas de- lS?f|
Agency for the Celebrated Westing
house Mazda Lamps. From an Auto
y/TV Lamp to a Giant Street Lamp. 1*
Of course we do electric wiring and JjJ
re P airin g- fny
% Dauphin Electrical
J\ Supplies Co. A&?
JNO. S. MUSSER, President
V l\ 434 MARKET ST. Jfc-
ALLIES FLEE TWO TOWNS
AHEAD OF BULGARIANS
[Continued From First l'ago.]
Persian rebels at Aveh and are now !
nearlng Hamm&dan. Allied troops are
still carrying on successful operations
against Turkish transports in the Sea
of Marmora.
On the western front minor suc
cesses are reported tor British artillery
and air squadrons.
The Italian government lias received 1
a vote of confidence by a large ma
jority. In the German parliament dis
cussion of food problems is being con
tinued.
Relaxation of. the censorship in
England naturally meets with enthusi
astic approval from the press, al
though it is not understood clearly
how far this freedom is likely to ex
tend.
Expelled From .Macedonia
The Anglo-French forces have been
entirely expelled from Southern
Serbia, the German war office an
nounced tr cay. The official state
ment records the capture .if l>-iran
and Glevgli near the Greek border.
Very heavy losses were inflicted
upon the British in the fighting near
the frontier, according to Berlin,
which declares that "approximately
two British divisions" were annihi
lated. There are slightly more than !
19,000 men .in a full British division.
Capture of 1,000 Serbians in the
operations in Albania and Montenegro
is recorded in the German statement.
Twelve modern guns which the Ser
bians had buried were dug up at
Ipek, Montenegro.
Half Million Pleading
For Food in Hungary
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 13. The Morning
Post to-day pwnts a letter from
Budapest which I'tatee that more
than half a million people have
signed a memorandum which will be
presented to the Hungarian premier
in Parliament by a deputation repre
senting all classes of the population
complaining of the high prices of
food. The memorandum claims that
prices are much higher in Hungary
than in Germany. It asserts that the
coming winter threatens to over
whelm the population by starvation,
and urges the impossibility of going
on under present conditions much
longer.
TURKS AND COLONIALS
SUFFER FROM THE COLD
By Associated Press
London, Dee. 13, 11:35 A. M.—
Winter in the Dardanelles is proving
to be a severe test for the Australians
and Turks alike. Keuter's correspon
dent at this front reports that the
first blizzard of early December
found the Turks entirely unprepared.
It was necessary for them to evacuate
several positions, as the trenches were
flooded. .
The Colonial troops, lncfiding the
Maoris from New Zealand, withstood
the cold, although many of them had
never seen snow before. The British
authorities believe that owing to their
hardy physique and excellent equip
ment the Colonials will get through
the winter in safety.
SERBIA IS DESOLATED
By Associated Press
Paris, Dec. 13. —The Athens corre
spondent of the Havas News Agency
sends the following under Sunday's
date:
"Members of the diplomatic corps
here describe the situation in Serbia j
as learned from reliable sources.!
There is the greatest desolation over
the entire territory occupied by the
Germans and Bulgarians. The misery
of the Serbians left in the country, is I
becoming indescribable."
NEARNIG GREEK IHNE
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 13. The Saloniki
correspondent of Renter's Telegram
Company in a dispatch Sun
day relative to the fighting in south
eastern Serbia, says:
(( \
f, YOU MAY
' OPEN YOUR
Christmas Savings Club Ac
counts this week and avoid the
£ crowds later on.
Union Trust Co.
Union Trust Building
CRAP (iAMU ENDS WITH
SHOOTING ANI> ARREST
Plumb Morris, colored, of Brown
stone, is in the Harrisburg Hospital,
with a bullet wound in the upper part
of his thigh and Hamper Washington,
colored, is in the Dauphin county
prison as a result of a little "crap"
game which ended in Morris being
shot. The affair happened Saturday
evening In the shanties at the Brown
stone quarries.
HI'KT IN FALIIJ DOWN STAIRS
Charles Fisher, aged 63, 327 Dau
phin street, fractured several ribs Sat
urday night when he fell down the
steps at his home.
STEAIj PROVISIONS
Warren I;. Warlow, 226 Yale street,
after laying in a supply of provisions,
including vegetables and meat, accept
ed an invitation to supper last even
ing, then returned home to find his
supply gone. Inquiry in the neighbor
hood failed to reveal who had stolen
the food. Mr. Warlow then reported
his loss to Clarence O. Backenstoss,
secretary to the Mayor, who lives near
by. The police are looking for the
thief.
SOLI) l i lts WITHOUT LICENSE
B. .T. Philips, who was arrested b.v
the police recentlv for selling furs In a
the city without a license, was a repre
sentative of the Rosenberg Brothers
firm, in New York, according to a let
ter received to-day. Philips has been
released and left the city, but the furs
were held here. They were shipped to
New York to-day.
SAYS HOT WATER
. EACH DAY KEEPS
THE DOCTOR AWAY
Drink glass of hot water before
breakfast to wash out
the poisons.
Life is not merely to live, but to
live well, eat well, digest well, work
well, sleep well, look well. What a
glorious condition to attain, and yet
how very easy it is if one will only
adopt the morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by
opening the sluices of the system each
morning and flushing out the whole
of the internal poisonous, stagnant
matter.
Everyone,, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous day's indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ins, sweetening and purifying the en
tire alimentary canal before putting
more food into the stomach. The
action of hot water and limestone
phosphate on an empty stomach Is
wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
r.plcndid appetito for breakfast. While
you are enjoying your breakfast the
water and phosphate is quietly ex
tracting a large volume of water from
the blood and getting ready for a
thorough flushing of all the Inside
organs.
The millions of people who are both
ered with constipation, bilious spells,
stomach trouble, rheumatism; others
who have sallow skins, blood disor
ders and sickly complexions, are urged
to net a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from the drug store, which
will cost very little, but is sufficient to
make, anyone a pronounced crank on
the subject of internal sanitation.—
Adv.