GRIP EPIDEMIC
ON THE INCREASE
IN HARRISBURG
Dr. Raunick Gives Tips on
How to Escape It and
End Its Spread
The grip epidemic in Harrisburg
shows no signs of abatement, accord
ns to Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, local
health officer. This disease is preva
tent in all parts of the city and physi
cians are liavlng a bus}' season. One
physician said lie had 75 cases in his
< liarge. Dr. Raunick is looking after
♦iO. Everything possible Is being done
to prevent the spread of grip. In tlie
opinion of Dr. Raunick, a little care
will go a great way to head off this
disease. He offered the following sug
gestions:
TO ESCAPE THE GRIP
Avoid crowds; keep away from per-!
sons who cough and sneeze.
Don't ride when you have only a ;
short distance to go. Walk.
Get plenty of sleep, with window i
open. j
Avoid overcrowded movies.
Walk a mile every day in the open
air. "
IF YOU GET IT
Keep by yourself as much as pos
sible.
If you feel ill go to bed and stay
there. Send for a reliable doctor.
Cover your face when sneezing and
don't expectorate in public.
See that your eating and drinking
utensils are washed separately from I
those of the rest of the family.
Don't take the patent grip remedies.
Restaurant Men Again
Warned by Raunick
I'he local health department is send
ing another warning to hotel keepers,
restaurant proprietors and owners of
public eating places. In a bulletin,
Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, local health offi
cer, calls attention to the recent act
of the Legislature regulating health
conditions of employes.
Attention Is called to the provisions
ol the law safeguarding patrons of
eating houses by insuring physical
cleanliness of employes, penalties for
violations of the act are outlined.
Dr. Raunick Calls Penna.
Reduction Men on Carpet
Dr. J. M. J. Raunick at a late hour
this afternoon held an investigation of
the conditions which for the past fen
weeks have caused such a. tie-up in the
performance of the duties of the Penn
sylvania Reduction Company. The
superintendent and officials of the
company were summoned before the;
city health officer to-day to submit
reasons, if any, why their payments
should not be held up until the work
of removing ashes has been brought up
to date.
The reason for the delays has been
jriven that all the men whom the com
pany have been able to hire have been
lured away by the attraction of higher
wages in the various munition plants
nnd that it is impossible to keep
enough men on the job with the pres
« «nt salaries to keep the work on sched
ule time. Housewives have been
• aused no end of inconvenience, and
I>r. Raunick says that the company
may have to forfeit its bond if there
is no promise of relief in the near
future.
City Will Buy 5
Acres For Parkway
Purposes For $2,000
-More than five additional acres of
land was obtained for the city for
parkway purposes to-day by City
Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, sup
erintendent of parks and public prop
erty, when the park head concluded
negotiations with Herman P. Miller,
President of the Prospect Hill Ceme
tery Association to secure the needed
ground for $2,000.
The park superintendent yesterday
offered an ordinance in Council au
thorizing the city to accept from the
< 'ernetery Association five acres of
ground adjacent to the burial ground
which is needed to help complete the
city-encircling: parkway.
The grading of the roadway, how
ever will require some additional
ground and this the city has to buy.
Commissioner Taylor and Mr. Miller
agreed on the price to-day. The or
dinance will be passed finally at Fri
day's special meeting.
Warden Osborne Is Charged
With Perjury and Neglect
Special to the Telegraph
White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 29.
Thomas Mott Osborne, millionaire
warden of Sing Sing Prison, was in
dicted here yesterday by the West
chester county grand jury, which since
November 8 has been investigating
alleged abuses in the prison. Mr. Os
borne will be removed from his po
sition as soon as a successor can be
chosen.
Two indictments were found against
the warden, one of them contains six
counts, including a charge of im
morality. The other charges perjury.
Expect to Liquidate Bank
at Saving of $150,000
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Dec. 29.—The temporary
appointment of G. H. Getty, bank ex
aminer, as receiver of the closed Pitts
burgh Bank for Savings was made
permanent in common pleas court here
to-day by Judge Joslah Cohen.
By I his arrangement the liquidation
of the institution will be under the
supervision of the common pleas court.
Banking Commissioner W. H. Smith
and the office of the Attorney General.
It is expected this plan will effect a
saving of $150,000 in closing up the
affairs of the bank.
FIRST VISIT OF BISHOP
Bishop J. S. Caldwell of Philadel
phia will pay" his first visit to Harris
burg Sunday and preach at the Harris
A. M. E. Zion church. Marion street,
Sunday night. Bishop pre
sides over the California, Oklahoma
«nd Arkansas Conferences of the A.
M. E. Zion chtirch.
FIRE HORSE HURTS SELF
One of the horses of the Royal Fire
ompany last night kicked Itself on
lhe left hind leg, causing a severe
laceration. The company was out of
service all day because of no horse.
Another horse will be provided by
John C. Kindler the fire chief.
BOGUS COLLECTOR WORKING '
John Yates, secretary of the Asso
ciated Aids, to-day notified the police!
to be on the lookout for a bogus col
lector. The man Is said to be collect-l
ing money in various parts of the!
< ity, representing himself as agent for
the Associated Aids. He was seen on
Allison Hill yesterday afternoon. /
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
I NEWS or TH3B \
TWO TOWERS TO
CONTROL BRIDGE
| New Structure at Front and
j Mulberry Street Important;
I t Modern Signal. Equipment
; To-day's storm put a stop to work on
, the new Cumberland A'ailey bridge. The
•only indoor operations are at the
tower, at Front and Mulberry streets.
I ntil the switches and tracks are down,
connecting the the towers with the
nidge, there will be very little to do
j here.
\\ hen the hridße is completed two
towers will operate all trains. The one
win be at the Umoyne end. the other
»t l« ront and Mulberry streets. The
.latter will be an important operating*
: plant, as the levers in this tower win
! n< ]k only control the bridge tracks but
:^ ni w a ]s° °P er *t«? all signals between
!\?i and I nlon Station, and two
• sluinKs leading: to the new Pennsvlva
• nia Railroad freight station in South
! second street, and to the warehouses
jand other plants in that section.
! new tower will be equipped with
telephones, automatic signals and lev
ers. The building is fireproof, and is
n concrete and tile structure. The ex
terior trimmings will be of stucco.
\\ hen the tracks are in operation the
signal tower at Third and Mulberry
streets will l»e abandoned.
Standing of the Crews
HARRISBI'RG SII>K
Philadelphia Dlvlnlon—l23 / erew first
lo go after 3:40 p. m.: 111, 109, 11S.
engineer for 123.
Firemen for 123. IJS.
Conductors for 123. 109.
Flagman for 111.
Brakentan for 109.
Engineers up: Burkley, Brubaker.
Gemmill, Hubler. Andrews, Kissinger,
>hoaff. Dolby. Dolby, Mctlowan,
| Schwarz.
Firemen up: Herman. >iamm, Killian.
Magman up: Hartman.
Brakemen up: Potter. Thompson,
Lutz. Foster.
Mltlille Division—243 crew' first to go
after 2:30 p. m.: 242. 228. 254. 247.
Engineer up: Snyder.
Firemen up: Wagner, Uel.au, Bender.
Stephens. Hunter, Eckels. Malone.
Brakemen up: Heck. Stambaugh,
Schmidt.
Yard Orna—
Engineers for 6. second 8. 12. 14. sec
on ™""' third 22. 36. 62, 64. Four extras.
Firemen for 6. second 8, fourth S, 10,
20. first 22, second 22. first 24. 28. 32, 4S.
00. 56. 62. Four extras.
Engineers up: J. R. Snyder. Lov.
Ueby, t ulton. Fells. McMorris, Runkle.
Wise. Watts. Pelton.
Firemen up: Pensyi, Waltz, Brady.
Desch. Graham. Doughertv. E. F. Kvde.
Ulassmyer. McKillips. Ewing, Ree'der,
Berrier. Peiffer, Sneil, Jr., Fleisher.
V eigle, Richter, Iveister, Six, Crawford.
KNOI.A SIDE
Philadelphia Division—23B crew first
to go after 3:45 p. m.: 216, 245. 224. 201
206. 243.
Engineer for 238. 216. 224.
Conductors for 43, 45. 48.
Flagmen for 6, 16, 33. 35. 38, 40, »2.
Brakemen for 6. S3. 35, 36.
Conductor up: Hasson.
Flagman up: Hartman.
Brakemen up: Gross. Quentzier. Ol
wlne, Shaffner. Cassner.
Middle Division —249 crew first to go
after 1 p. m.: 216, 225, 21T. 261. 252. 238
218. 235, 222. 214, 226.
Vard Crews —To go after 4 p. m.:
Engineer for 104.
Firemen for second 108, 112. second
126. 1 22, 132, first 106, second 102.
Engineers up: Turner. Reese. Kep
ford, Passmore. Anthony.
Firemen up: Cumbler,«L. C. Hall, C.
H. Hall, Kawel, Blckhart, Handiboe,
Brown. Mclntyre, Liddlck.
THE READING
Harrlsharc I>lvision—9 crew first to
go after 2:30 p. m.: 3. 24, 4. 23. 7. 15.
East-bound TO, 56. 57. 53. 54. 63
Engineers for 54. 56. 70. 1, 9, 23.
Fireman for 56.
Conductors for 53. 56. 4. 23.
Brakemen for 53. 54, 56. 1, 24
Engineers up:. Merkle, Woland,
Morne, Pletz, Wireman.
Firemen up: Riggs, Coyle.
Conductors up: Slioner, MeCullougli,
Alleman. Beaver.
Brakemen iip: Green, Amey, Uman.
Peters. Ka\ifrman. Grimes. Donlev,
Cocklin. Leader, Scott, Sullivan.
KKISER UVDER SI3OO R\(i|.
At a hearing this afternoon before i
Alderman Hoverter, John A. Keiser. j
driver of the auto which caused the
death of Harry Lehn at Steelton, a
fortnight ago, was held for court un
der SI3OO bail. He was held under
1300 on a charge of driving a car
without the consent of the owner and
under SI,OOO for Involuntary man
slaughter.
PLOTTERS READY TO
GIVE THEMSELVES UP
[Continued From First Page.] ,
come into court are received this aft
ernoon.
The two who surrendered were
David Lamar, alleged paymaster for
Captain Franz Von Rintelen and
Jacob Taylor, of Kast Orange, N. J.,
president of Labor's National Peace
Council, the medium through which
the government alleges. Von Rintelen
sought to direct his activities. Both
entered pleas of not guilty and were
released in $5,000 bail.
Taylor denied ever knowing Lamar
and of Yon Rintelen he said he had
heard only through the newspapers.
The third defendant who signified
his Intention voluntarily to give him
self up and who came to New York
from Columbus. 0., is Frank S. Mon
nett, former attorney general of Ohio.
Slay Claim Immunity
Representative Frank Buchanan, of
Chicago, and H. Robert Fowler, for
merly representative from Harrisburg
111., had not. signified early to-day
whether they would make their ap
pearances before United States com-/
mlssioners in their respective districts*
or in New York. There is a question
whether Buchanan can claim im
munity from arrest on the ground that
he is a member of Congress. The law
states that congressmen "shall in all
caf.es, except treason, felonv and
breach of the peace, be privileged
from arrest during attendance of the
sessions of their respective, houses."
Franz Rintelen. also indicted, is a
prisoner in England. David Lamar,
who is alleged to have distributed a
considerable portion of the $500,000
of German money said to have been
devoted to the organization of Labor's
Peace Council and of strikes in war
munition factories, has given no inti
mation as to whether he Intends vol
untarily to appear to answer to the
indictment.
DANIEL WHEELER
The funeral of Daniel Wheeler of
Philadelphia will take place this eve
ning. Burial will be made In East Har
risburg cemetery. The body arrives
In Harrisburg at 7:45 and will be re
ceived by George Sourbler the under
taker. Mr. Wheeler was 68 years of
nge and was a former resident of
Harrisburg. The survivors are four
sons. Harry, Samuel, Charles and
Hugh. Mr. Wheeler was a member
of the Mt. Vernon Hook and Ladder
Company.
This Is the Birthday
Anniversary of—
V
pHjfe
\ v
-?r
i«pp^
John J. I.andis of Middletown. He
is a native of Koyalton, but at present
is identified with the Citizen's Bank.
Middletown. Sir. I.aml is is well and
I favorably known In the lower end of
the county. His acquaintance, how
ever, does not stop here. Congratula
tions from all over the county indicate
this. He is identified with several
secret orders, and at one time was a
prominent businessman.
Mummers to Lose Their
Home When Royal Goes?
The complete program for the mum
mers' parade on Xcw Year's Day will
be announced at the meeting to-night,
to be held at the Mayor's office. Tho
association will meet Sunday, Jan
uary 2, to wind up its business for
1915. On Monday the mummers will
be without a home or meeting place.
Since Mayor John K. Royal has been
in office he lias permitted the mum
mers to use his office and the basement
for the meetings. With the.installation
of Drj E. S. Meals as Mayor it is un
derstood there will be no person in the
department who is at present iden
tified with the mummers' association.
At tlie meeting on Sunday a committee
will be named to look up other
quarters.
The Sons of Italy band will play for
the Fraternal Order of Eagles during
tlie mummers' parade on New Year's
Day. E. TCoxe, clerk in the .city
water department, and the band man
ager closed the contract to-day.
Paxton Valley Club Is
Planning Housewarming
Members and friends of the Paxton
Valley Club of Paxtang, will attend
a housewarming Friday evening in a
I house near the corner of Paxtang
avenue and Derry street, which the
Iclub has leased for the winter months.
The affair will be a New Year's event
Inasmuch as the party will continue
until the new year puts in its ap
pearance. There will be games,
dancing, music and refreshments dur
ing the evening and a box-ball alley,
procured from the management of
Paxtang Park, will be installed in the
house for the use of the club mem
bers. Every Monday and Tuesday
evening during the winter social af
fairs will be held and oyster and
sauerkraut and o\her suppers will
be in evidence.
The club members are anxious for
a permanent home and the agitation
for a Are company in the borough
gives some the thought thai with the
founding of a company will come a;
home for the club. Paxtang at pres- !
ent is without fire protection and i
many of the residents are desirous;
of having a fire department. If a
company can be organized a building!
of some kind will necessarily have to j
be constructed to house whatever ap- i
paratus is acquired. Paxton Valley
Club members say that if a firehouse
can be built, the club will take the
second floor for permanent social
rooms.
RUSS OFFENSIVE
IS GROWING BIGGER
[Continued From First Pap-.]
The Turks reported continued suc
cesses for their artillery in interfer
ing with allied operations in the
Dardanelles. A battleship of the
Ajiamenon class and a cruiser were
hit by Turkish shells, and the land
ins places of the allies were repeat
edly bombarded, disturbing transport
work, it is declared.
Hand grenade fighting in the Chaul
nes sector and bombardment of Ger
man positions west of the Navarlne
farm in the Champagne are the only
activities reported by the Paris war
office.
Conflicting accounts come from
Athens and Saloniki regarding the
movements of the troops of the cen
tral powers on. the Macedonian border
but there are persistent reports that
the Greeks have given the Bulgarians
permission to cross the border if they
and their allies are still intent on
following the entente troops to
Saloniki.
The recent French official state
ments indicate that the allies are
maintaining the offensive in the west
with the fighting fiercest in the
Vosges.
Italians Have Pushed
to Northern Epirus
By Associated Press
Paris. Dec. 29. "ltalian troops
which disembarked at Avlona, Albania,
have reached the vicinity of the north
ern frontier of Epirus in some places,
according to reports from voyagers ar
riving from Sani Quaranta," says the
Athens correspondent of the Havas
Agency. Italian troops also have been
seen near Tepeleni (southern Albania), j
75,000 Serbs Are Strongly
Fortified in Albania
By Associated Press I
Paris. Dec. 29. 9:45 A. M. "Ac
cording to reliable information there
art. 75.000 Serbian troops at Scutari and
Blbassan, Albania," says the Athens
correspondent of the Havas Agency.
"They are In excellent trim, notwith
standing the difficulties encountered in
their retreat. They hold strongly forti
fied positions against the advance of
the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians,
and It is unlikely that they will be
transferred to Saloniki."
TO-DAY'S KKAL/TY TRANSFERS
Realty transfers to-day included the J
following: Joseph Toney to Susque
hanna Coal Company, Williams (own
ship. $800: M. F. Hartman to B. Man
fridi. Middletown. $125; G. A. Shrelner
to U. Grant Nagle. Sixteenth street
near Briggs, $1: 13. U. paum to Charles
P. Walter, Ninth street, $1; 1,. Sllbert
to B. Rosenberg. 353-55 South
Eighteenth street. $1; Anna N. Frantz
to Ellen M. Cornpropst, 1641 Fulton
street, $1: F. Hetrick to Harry F.
Yeartck, 1936 Zarker street, sl.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
REV. KING'S STORY TELLS WHY '
HOL Y BIBLE ISN'T READ MORB
Shows How Magazines, Best
Sellers, Newspapers and "In
nocent Amusements" Crowd
Out Study of the Word
. A recent Issue of the Christian En
! deavor World prints an article by the
I Harry B. King, pastor of Paxton
rt-esbyterian church, Paxtang. which
deals In an Intensely interesting and
readable way with the pledges taken
by a young Christian Endeavorer who
is in business, even as you and I, and
who Imagines himself living up io
those pledges. One of these pledges
is: "To read the Bible every night,"
which he does, but oh! liow lacka
daisically, and oh! how easy It was
for this young man to manufacture
excuses, even as you and I. We take
the liberty of reprinting the article
in full. It will profit you to read It
thorough.
"He was a livewire in the Christian
Endeavor Society (with a little of
the Insulation worn off by some of the
innocent amusements of the day); at
any rate, he held an office, and was
really active. So after going home
• Sunday night he did read a chapter—
I a fairly long one, too—out of his Bible,
; partly because his pastor had preached
| on "The Bible in Christian iJife," and
! partly because his mother had cleared
, the library table and carried the Sun
j daj paper down to the Cellar. And
since it was a long chapter—twenty
three verses!—he felt he had done a
work of supererogation.
Monday morning «as gloomy, and
he overslept, so had to rush to be at
| the office on time. It was a busy day
and nothing doing until he got the
evening paper. He spent thirty-five
minutes reading about what be had
heard the boys talking about at the of
' flee, and was none the wiser. And that
I night, when he turned In, he read the
one hundred and twenty-third Psalm
! —four verses, twenty-one lines, ten
[seconds, a sort of hundred-yard spir
itual dash.
Devours Sporting Page
Tuesday morning he sat on the
porch till breakfast was ready, and de
voured the sporting page of the Morn
ing News, getting all the runs, strikes,
put-outs, of the local and National
leagues—twenty minutes: and he
knew the percentage and standing of
the teams and men—a lightning read
justment of the line-up. And he took
the paper along with him, and read all
the way down town, ten minutes" solid
cramming of the world's news into his
head.
On the way home he bought a Cos
mocluncy, and read three short stories,
eleven pages. And before he got into
bed he opened his Bible, and read the
one hundred and nineteenth Psalm —
section Mem, eight verses, beginning,
O how love T thy law!" and because
he had no sense of humor he kept a
face, and fell peacefully asleep.
\\ lining Away tlie Time Reads Pajiers
And Wednesday evening he hurried
home after prayer meeting, because it
was a wet night, and because Brown
had lent him the latest out; so he got
an hour and a half of intense pleasure
and enjoyment reading about kings
that never lived, and castles that were
never built, and lands that never were
on an) map, and felt when he was
through that he had been in touch
with a literary genius of the day and
was some judge of books.
And because the newspaper had
fallen across his Bible, and hid it from
sight, he forgot all about his Christian
Endeavor pledge until almost asleep,
and endeavored to salve his conscience
by repeating the twenty-third Psalm
as best he could. And his sleep was
undisturbed.
Thursday the firm sent him on a
trip. It took four hours to go and
four newspapers to while awav the
time. When he couldn't doze, or was
tired of trying to make out the blur of
passing scenery, he read—murder—
arson—divorce—political blackmail- -
war—peace—international complica
tions -- municipal manipulations et
cetera ad nauseam; and, when he
grew tired of the news, he read the j
ads and the theater programs, the ,
Lost and I'ounds" and "Wants" n.nd
Deaths," to kill time.
It is true he did wish he had brought !
a pocket Testament to look over the i
Christian Endeavor topic for the next 1
meeting, for he was to be the leader !
But he hadn't any, hadn't been able to I
buy one; it would have cost the price
of five movies.
Six Verses
Then on the way home the experi
ence of the morning was repeated. On
reaching home he was tired and dusty
and would have none to lied instanter
If his open Bible had not looked at him
so accusingly; feo he read Psalm 126,
just six verses. It seemed so ridicu
lously short that he added the one
hundred and twenty-eighth, same size,
and straightway forgot what manner
of reading it was. But he was an En
deavorer. and kept his pledge.
And Friday was much like other
days, except when he went to read his
Bible. Because he had no method,
neither reading a book through chap
ter by chapter, nor the daily readings
on the Sunday School lesson, nor any
other method, he spent seven minutes
TROOPS PREPARED'
| FOR HARD WINTER
I
Trenches in Northern France
Paved With Brick; Have
Warm Clothing
(Correspondence of Associated Press)
Boulogne, France, Dec. 15.—Signs
are plentiful that winter is close upon
the troops in the north of France. The
nights are already cold, far too cold
for comfort, and the characteristic
j winter night-mist from the marshes is
! in the air.
It is evident that there is to be an
other campaign; robbed, however, of'
much of the horror of last year's or
deal in boggy trenches and along im
passable roads. ,In Northern France,
at least, winter will find the rival
armies well prepared to receive it.
The wet mud. the ice-cold water knee- '
deep in the communication trenches, i
the ooze and discomfort of the dug- I
outs, will be the exception rather than j
the rule this year. The shelters, even
in the advance trenches, will I
ally be fairly livable, thanks to the I
plentiful use of concrete and tar, and '
the skilful employment of drainage.
Moreover, the armies will be prop
erly clad and amply fed. The British
soldiers will again don their sheep
skins, supplemented by ample supplies
of warm caps, sox and heavy boots of
rather better type than last year's.
Floors In Trenches
Many of the trenches now have i
brick floors, and practically all are j
drained and protected against land- I
slide by timbers.
The great problem of the winter I
will be the billeting of all the new i
divisions which have come out since I
last year. In the villages well behind |
the firing lines, every outbuilding and',
old barn has been requisitioned. I
cleaned, repaired and made Into shel- j
I
THE REV. HARRY B. KING
and eight seconds in a liicle-and-seek
game frotn Old Testament to New and
back again, sampling here and there
the first half of the first verses, a sort
of butterfly method, to see whether
they would suit. And, when the right
thing turned up, he spent one minute
and thirty-three seconds finishing it.
Bible Is Different
And that very afternoon he had
started a novel and began at Chapter
1, first word, and read right on, chap
ters 2, 3, without any skipping here
and there, so that he might get the
plot and the story.
But then—the Bible is different.
On Saturday nothing doing. Half
holiday, and Speedsell brought his
machine around after dinner for a
spin out to the storemen's picnic at
Candy Park. And that evening a
quiet dance at the Century Club caused
liirn to get home late, tired, wilted.
And the moonlight was so bright that
he could see the bed in the same old
place: and, not having forgotten the
way there, he tumbled in.
Feeds His Soul
And the Lord took care of him all
night long.
And Sunday—well, he agreed with
the phonograph record. "O! It's very,
very nice to lie in bed on Sunday
morning." So from bed to bath to
breakfast. And because the day was
so quiet and peaceful, and he had been
shut up all the week in the office, and
was so tired (from Saturday night!
he stayed at*home all the morning, and
fed his soul on The Sunday Sledger,
reading some pious platitudes called a
sermon, by Jeremiah Sacksnaps; and,
forgetting it was the Lord's Day, he
read on and on and on—scandal, base
ball, races, social slmperings, stori
ettes, and what not. These all marched
by, column after column, till his brain
was doped and lie fell asleep: and his
dreams were not half so hideous as the
comic supplement he had been enjoy
ing.
And, when the Sabbath was over, if
he had taken a niter and measured his
day's reading, The Sunday Sledger
would have overtopped the Bible as
much as the Washington Monument
overtops a lead pencil out on the Mall.
W hat Is Tills Bible?
And what is this Bible? WJiy, it is
the only book that the Lord God ever
wrote for man. It is the only one in
spired by His Holy Spirit, and deals
with the most sublime truths of
heaven and earth. It is the only guide
book from this sin-cursed earth to the
portals of heaven. It is the only reve
lation of the bliss and joy and holiness
of the eternal city. It is the only liv
ing message for the sinner and saint,
the only source of comfort and conso
lation, the only inspired rule of faith
and conduct, the only book that tells
of the love of the Father and the sac
rifice of the Son, that conveys pardon
and promises peace.
It is bread for the hungry and wa
ter for the thirsty, cheer for the dis
couraged, strength for the tempted,
comfort for the sorrowing, hope for
the sinner, assurance for the saint. It
is the cloud and pillar for the child
of God on his way to heaven.
And this young man who has ac
cepted its Saviour as his Lord, and
who believes in its teachings, and
would fight for its integrity, who says
its price is far above rubies, that it
overtops all other books —yet this
young man, who says he believes in its
God, and loves Its Saviour, and desires
to live by its precepts, reads it neither
regularly nor consecutively nor top
ically nor systematically.
It gets the ends of tired days and a
passing glance at odd • moments. And
because the Lord is kind and long
suffering and generous the young man
lives, and is strong, and enjoys many
blessings.
Ho, when his pastor dropped in Sab
bath afternoon on the way home from
Sunday School to consult about some
Christian Endeavor work, the Bibte
was so ashamed of its unused cover
and unthumbed pages that it was glad
to be hidden under Jim's tennis coat
carelessly thrown on the table.
Paxtang, Penna.
ter against the wind and cold. But
nearer the firing lines most of the
buildings have been smashed into
ruins, and although they were usable
for housing purposes during the sum
mer, they are plainly impossible after
mid November. The problem is being
dealt with to some extent by the build
ing of portable houses and huts, but
the armies grow too fast for the car
penters.
The work of the aeroplane observ
ers gets more difficult as winter ap
proaches. The fogs of the late autumn
• ling to the ground in little patches
well into the day. while the evening
mists make observations difficult soon
after midafternoon.
Released on Parole From
Asylum, She Marries
Special to the Telegraph
New York, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Ida von
Claussen, who on last Friday wa.l re
leased on parole from the Middletown
State Hospital for the Insane, eluded
her attendants yesterday morning and
was married to a mysterious Dr.
Francis Albert Dona, who gave his ad
dress at 1134 Arch street, Philadelphia.
Immediately after the ceremony the
couple disappeared.
Since first coming into prominence,
in 1907, when she attempted to get an
audience with the King of Sweden as
the "Countess Ida von Claussen," 'the
bride has led a varied career, one of
the latest chapters, of which was her
transfer from the asylum for the in
sane at Matteawan to the Institution at
Middletown.
She was released from Middletown
last Friday at the urgent request of
lier brother by Justice Arthur S. Tomp
kins, of orange county, who paroled
her in Mr. von Claussen's care. He
brought her to New York city and she
was living with him at 350 West
Eighty-fifth street until this morning.
It was said. Mr. von Claussen said at
the district attorney's office that he kept
l nurse with his sister constantly. She
told the nurse this morning that she
leslred to get married and the nurs'.
lust to hjimor her, accompanied hei
Jowntown, the brother said. There ah
•luded the nurse and was married.
DECEMBER 29. 1915.
NEW YORK NOW
BIGGEST CITY
Fact London Took Second
Place Hidden by British
Blunder
London, Dec. 29. New York is the
largest city In the world. London by
reason of losses occasioned by the war
and because of a gigantic mistake in
estimat|ng the population, must now
admit that the American metropolis
Is the bigger by about a quarter of a
million people.
Nor are matters Improved, as Lon
doners have imagined by comparing the
population of Greater London with that
of Greater New York, for there again
the American metropolis beats the older
city by 132,000.
It Is four years now since the last
census of London was taken, but the
official figures have only Just been made
public.
Kliturrn Show llliindrr
These figures show, among other
things, an astonishing blunder. The
census revealed that there were actu
ally some four and one half millions
within ttao county of London (which
means London proper), but the London
County Council and other local authori
ties had been estimating that the popu
lation was 390,000 more and accordingly
all statistics as to births and deaths
have been inaccurate.
The exact numoer of people In the
county of London, according to these
1911 figures, is 4.521,368, whereas New
York City in 1910 numbered 4,76ti,883.
Counting in "extra London." at: it is
termed (that is, London outside the
coUnty), the population of the erst
while metropolis of the world is 7,251.
358, whereas that of Greater New York,
including the Westchester and New Jer
sey suburbs, was at the last census
7,383,871.
Considering. however, that the latter
count was made In 1914, three years
later than London's most recent
enumeration, the probability Is that the
bigest cities of the old and iho new
world are now just about neck and
neck.
West Shore Committee
Will Make Plans For
Meeting After Jan. 1
Carl K. Deen, chairman of the Camp
Hill counciimanic committee on West
Shore improvements, announced to
day that immediately after the first of
the new year he would call a meeting
of the committee and arrange plans
for a meeting of all persons interested
in improvements and improvement or
ganizations along the West Shore. Mr.
Deen says he has spoken to quite a
number of persons in various sections
of the territory and they are all anx
ious to get together and organize for
civic betterment.
Mr. Deen's plan is, first, to have his
counciimanic committee meet and
then invite a number of citizens from
other towns to meet with t,he Camp
Hill men to get the sentiment of the
West Shore and map out a program
l*>r a general meeting of West Shore
residents. His plan has the approval
of hundreds of citizens.
Camp Hill council will reorganize
the first Monday in January and Mr.
Deen is delaying action by the com
mittee until the new president of the
counctl can reappoint the members of
the committee.
METKRS SHOW LOW CURRENT
Investigation of the city volt meters
; by City Electrician Clark E. Diehl dis
closed the fact that the amount of
electric current furnished during
Christmas week was not up to full re
quirements, although It was above the
minimum allowed by the city ordi
nance. Installation of new equipment
at the local electric plant and the lack
of power from York Haven, due to the
river conditions," combined to lessen
the service for both motive and light
ing power in the city.
NO FIKIS INSPECTION TODAY
Because of the unsatisfactory weather
conditions the inspection tour of the
city schools which had been planned for
to-day by the officials of the State De
partment of and Industry, was
called off. The State officials want to
look over the buildings, particularly
with reference to provisions for fire
protection.
PLEASING PROGRAM
The Christmas tree exercises of the
Second Baptist Church, in North Cam
eron street, Monday evening, were
largely attended. Music, recitations
and distribution of gifts made up a
pleasing program.
Suffragists Plan to Win by
Ending Internal Strife
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The National Association for Wo
men Suffrage has come to the con
clusion that it can win the vote best
by working harmoniously inside its
own ranks. Therefore the election of
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as presi
dent to succeed Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw was not contested at Washing
ton last Friday, December 17, Mrs.
Catt has been promised the support
of a united body of suffragists. In the
nbove picture she Is shown at the top
with Dr. Shaw, the retiring president,
below.
SPLENDID WORK
TURNED OUT BY
CRIPPLED MEN
French Wounded Taught All
Manner of Trades; More
Useful Than Before
Paris. Dec. (correspondence 01'
the Associated Press). The Frencl.
government recently save facilities to
the Associated Press and a party of
foreign journalists to inspect some of
the remarkable work which is being
done for the regeneration of the ranks
of stricken, crippled, maimed and ap
parently hopeless wounded who are
home hack from the lighting line at
Champagne.
Under the escort of French officers,
the party was taken to St. Maurice, a
short distance outside Paris, where
wounded are brought after the phys
ical cares of surgery have been given,
to be nursed Into convalescence, di
verted from the loss of limbs, and
gradually educated into some new line
which recreates them into useful mem
bers of society. St. Maurice Is'of vust
dimensions, the buildings and ground.
occupying an area probably greater
than Cent rah Park In New York. The
buildings stretch as far as the eye can
see; low, two-story stone structures,
so that the cripples are not climbing
long stairs, and are near the gardens,
everywhere abundant with flowers and
shrubbery, to lend cheer to the occu
pants.
"Two hundred more wounded are
coming," said an attendant, as the
officer led the way into the tirst build
ing, the receiving ward.
"Here they are," said the officer,
pointing to 200 large glass photo
graphic plates arranged and num
bered in a case.
The photographs of the 200 wounded
had been sen? ahead, the plates show
ing with precision the exact wound
and its process of healing, some of
them being x-ray plates.
"See this one," said the officer, hold*
ing up a large glass plate showing the
side profile of a wounded soldier with
a gaping bullet hole back of the ear,
and around the hole little sutures or
cracks of the skull.
"It is not a fractured skull —that
would be hopeless." said the officer.
"No, that man can be made over."
More Useful Than Before
Rut this receiving ward was merely
the first stage In a sort of ascending
scale which improved the wounded
man's condition at each stage until he
was finally landed in the school where
he -was made over into a condition
more useful to himself and society
than he was before. It was to this
school that chief interest was directed.
This enormous school at St. Maurice
is a hive of workshops of all kinds—
shoemaking shops, machine shops,
auto repair shops, blacksmith shops
with blazing forges and clothesmaking
shops, and the workmen were the
wounded soldiers from the firing line,
minus an arm, leg or eye on which
they had before depended, but now
launched on a new Mne< which did not
need that arm. leg or eye. As a whole
it was as efficient a body of workmen
as one would find in any well-regulated,
factory. The men had smiling faces;
those working in groups were chatting
and laughing.
Attention was also given to the fine
arts and the professions, and here also
were schools for sculpture and paint
ing and architecture, so that leglesw
or armless or eyeless soldiers, who had
a taste for the esthetic, could be led
Into some new line which did not re
quire the use of the lost member. One
pale-faced young soldier, his left arm
gone near the elbow, was delicately
modeling a Venus of Milo with his re
maining hand.
The soldier-architects were making
designs, with blueprints of girderr,
arches and columns, and calculating
the strength of walls and roofs. All
of these men had something missing,
but their work was so chosen as to
make absolutely negligible the lost,
member, and to make what remained
of their members entirely efficient, for
this particular work. Near the soldier-,
architects were ranged two long lines'
of soldier-typewriters, men who had
lost a foot or some other member, but
whose hands had now been taught a
skill they had not. known before in
rapid typewriting.
Make Splendid Shoes
In the shoe shop the men were turn
ing out a good grade of shoes, selling
for 23 francs (about J4.60). also wal
lets jyid purses of all kinds, leather
watch chains and belts. A large glass
case exhibited the diversity of their
product. It was the same in the ma
chine shop, the blacksmith shop and
all the other branches of this hiv« of
industry.
"One soldier with both hands gone,"
said the officer, "is making 18 francs
a day as a carpenter."
He explained that special tools had
been made for this handless carpenter,
fitting onto the steel hooks on his
arm-stumps. The plans, for instance,
automatically permitted the carpenter
to do his work with precision, a bell
ringing if pressure was too great to
the right, another bell if pressure was
too great on the left, and other bells
of forward and rear pressure. So that
the handless soldier-carpenter learned
his trade automatically, bells warning
him of each false move until ho had
become expert.
The St. Maurice institution and
school which is thus making soldiers
over for a new and useful occupation
has a capacity of 800 men, who have ■
their wounds dressed so far as remains
necessary, are housed and fed, and at
the same time carry on these extensive
shops which turn out useful products
of all kinds, and, what is more, turn
out useful men skilled in the arts,
architecture, mechanical arts and the
many branches of manufacture.
Deaths and Funerals
MRS. MARY J. SCANTLING
Mrs. Maiy J. Scantling, aged 73 years,
died late yesterday afternoon at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Rachel
Gibbons. 1224 Market street. Mrs. Scant
ling had been 111 a short time. The sur
vviors are a husband. Fllmore Scant
ling; one son, George Franklin, and
three daughters, Mrs. Rachel Gibons,
Mrs. Sarah E. Johnson and Mrs. Bar
bara A. Wilcoxson, of Albany: also four
grandchildren. Funeral services will be
held in Market Square Presbyterian
Church Friday morning, at 10:30
o'clock. The pastor, the Rev. George
Edward Hawes, D. t)., will officiate.
Burial will be made in Marysvllle
Cemetery.
MRS. ETTIE S. MAI KR
The funeral of Mrs. Kttle 8. Mayer,
wife of William M. Mayer. 2456 Reel
street, will take place Friday morning.
Services wilt be conducted at the home
bv the Rev. E. K. Snyder, pastor of St
Matthew's Lutheran Church. Burlai
will be private and will be made In Hat -
rlxburg Cemetery. Mrs. Mayer died yes
terday In Philadelphia. The body will
lie brought to Harrlsburg this evening
Resides the husband the survivors are
i father, John Rhaffner, and f<»ur
Mothers,
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