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TUESDAY EVENING, IKB. -'9 Truth takes no account of centuries. —WORUSWORTH. _ I IMPROVEMENTS AT STEELTON I A NNOUNCEMENT by the lieth leheiu Steel Company that four new blast furnaces are to be erected at Steelton as the first of a series of improvements contemplated for the industries of the town means much to that thriving borough and to Havrisburg. It does not require an ex pert to forecast, as a result of this, an enlargement of the'bessemer or open hearth departments, probably the latter. Steelton, It would appear, is still in straddling clothes and some of her am- j ll bilious citizenry may be excused if 1 8 they go about with chips on'their s shoulders these days trying to stir up r an argument with Harrisburgers as to ' how Ions: it is going to take to make Harrisburg a suburb of Steelton. Jok- " ing aside, however, what a great city this would be if Harrisburg and Steele ' ton joined forces and came in under ' .the same charter. t PROSPERITY -NIGHT ' TIIE Harrisburg Rotary flub is 1 going to entertain the wives, i sweethearts and guests of mem- 1 bers to-night at a "prosperity" dinner. 1 The Rotarlans are the optimists of: 1 Harrisburg. Happiness is their creed and confidence in the city their watch word. But a year back even the, en- ' thusiasm of Rotarianism would not venture upon a "prosperity" celebration. : To-day there is ample reason for jubl- : ' lation on that scare. The war in j' Kurope has given to us, willy nllly, a ) 1 measure of prosperity such as even : ihis most favored of lands has never ' known. But next year the war may j be over. What then? Will the Rotary j Club have occasion to celebrate as it ! does this year? Most certainly, for March 4 of 1917 will witness the re turn to Washington, clothed In full power, of the party of Prosperity. All : signs point in that direction: but if. ' perchance, there should be a failure, : and the present free trade adminis tration should be continued in power, it would not require a prophet to fore see a great dearth of "prosperity" ban quets next spring. AGAIN AVE APPROACH IT f A GAIN we approach it. We pause in our perusal of thrilling ac counts of the awful slaughter about Verdun to find ourselves In a \ cold sweat over the horror ahead of j us. If only there could be some way to avoid it. Blit no, we have gone all , over that ground before. We must! face it, that's certain, and only two I things can intervene to save us. One! of them is divorce and the other death. We are not certain that elther would be worse to contemplate than liiftt which we face, but there is no 1 immediate prospect of either. No, the ' thing must be gone through with. We j might be driven to the point of tem- : porarily forsaking home during the period of our approaching trial and j hiding ourselves away from the faces of our loved ones during the reign of terror, but we reflect on what hap pened the last time we attempted an evasion of that kind. There is no alternative: the only comfort we have /'is that we are not alone in our misery. Thousands upon thousands of good men and true are doomed to the same fate. The housecleaning season is uni versal. V. R. R. STOCK OWNERSHIP THE announcement is made that a \ majority of the owners of Penn- j sylvania railroad company stock reside in this State. That is at once a compliment to the management of the road and a tribute to the sagacity of Pennsylvania .Investors. Pennsylvania railroad securities represent properties of intrinsic worth and growing value. There Is not one drop of water in them, and never has been. Through out all the days of "frenzied finances" Its management resisted the tempta tion to make rich the few at the expense of the future worth of the system, and the reward has been suf ficient to justify the course. Pennsylvania stock is not a specu lation—it Is an investment. A story is told to illustrate this point. A wealthy old man lay dying and he railed his sons and divided among them his various stocks and bonds. It was noticed, however, that he tuck ed a bundle of Pennsylvania shares untler his pillow, and those gathered abbut asked him what he meant to TUESDAY EVENING, do with those. "Keep them, my boys," he replied, "Pennsylvania shares are negotiable anywhere." And It this is so it is because with the Penn sylvania the policy has been always one of future development rather than present profits. IXDrCKMKNTS FOB WORKERS THERE appeared an advertise ment in last evening's issue of thte Telegraph, reading in part: WANTED—GirIs over 16 to strip tobacco. Also experienced workers. • • • Welfare looked after by trained nurse. • • • What a far cry from the days of the unsanitary factory and the sweat shop to. the .trained nurse In constant attendance upon the female worker. Indeed, the "world do move." UNCLE SAM A MI'DDLER WHAT a blundering old muddler your Uncle Samuel is. Here we are, with every man jack | of us, from cabinet member to cracker ! barrel statesman, united in the belief ' that we must improve our national j defenses and fully aware that to that ; end the navv and its compliment of men and officers must be increased, the army reorganized along modern lines, a strong second line of defense i organized and many other things done to take us out of what Colonel lloose- I velt has called the "fat boy class," and make us respected among the light ing nations of the world. Yet we do nothing. Congress has been talking continuously since the first of the year and is not so near an agreement as when the racket started. Any sane businessman would have settled all the details in less than a month's time, and some of them in twenty four hours. If Congress isn't careful it will cease to be the "greatest de liberative body in the world and be come instead the world's most delibe rate body." CRACKLING REPKE SENTATIVE JOHN N. TILLMAN, of Arkansas, spoke in support of his Confederate pension bill in the House recently. The bill proposes to give to each Confed erate soldier and widow now living SSOO, and S3O per month thereafter, and SIOC,OOO.QOO 'is to be appropri ated for the purpose. Mf. Tillman spoke fervently of the mockingbird, pink peach,blooms, fra grant pines and bubbling springs. By some oversight he omitted the classic mint julep, possibly because it is no longer in the odor of sanctity. "The cost of these pensions will be a mere bagatelle#" asserts Mr. Tillman. Irrespective of the merits or demer its of such a mAisure, we should like to know where the money is coming from to pay these pensions. We hesi tate to speak of this bill as "pork" for fear of wounding the tender sensibili ties of some punctilious Southerner. May we, therefore, bo permitted to refer to it more delicately, using a term endeared to the Southern gour met, and call it "crackling'.'" THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN FOR the information of those who may have confused the Pennsyl vania German with that popular abomination, the hyphenated Ameri ; can, the Telegraph takes pleasure In publishing a digest of the remarks of | Dr. Henry Harbaugh Apple, president of Franklin and Marshall College, be fore the alumni of that institution at | Philadelphia Saturday night, in part i Dr. Apple said: The true 'character, mission and work of the early Pennsylvania German settlers, the influence they exerted and the part they took ill the struggle for independence and j the formation of our Government i ar- worthv of consideration. Al- I though they came from Germany. ' they were as truly American as any I of the eingllsh-speaklng peopl-. i They never have claimed any other nationality. There were no Ger man tories. They and their descendants frown noon the insolence which seeks to exalt anv other than the American (lag. They have never known any other lovalty, and tbev have labored for the welfare of this Government unceasingly In peace and in war. It was from the homes and farms of these Germans that the armies I of Washington were furnished with materials, provisions. 'worses, wagons and grain. Their descend ants have been in this country 2uo vears, shared its prosperity, taken ! their part in peace and in war and contributed in no slight degree to I its success. They are thoroughly Ainerican In word, thought and deed. Scattered through this land thev are not only on farms but in Workshops, at the bar. in the pulpit. ! in colleges, on newspapers. They f have become teachers, professors. Senators, Judges, Representatives, • Governors. All this is true, and Dr. Apple might have added that the Pennsylvania Ger- | man is that in name only. He is American to the core. He reveres the flag and is a utaunch defender of our j Republican institutions. Many of them ! left the homeland to escape a form of government thkt they found obnoxious and their descendants have been brought up as admirers of Karl Shurz and as lovers of America. It is said that the Treasury Depart- j inent manages to find one excuse after another for delaying the construction of public buildings authorized by Con gress or for which appropriations have been made. Fact is. the Treasury can't j spare the money. The people pay j "war taxes" but go without the im- j proved, service so much needed in post | yffleeß. 1 President Wilson is opposed to a pro- j tectlve tariff and wants a "non-parti-j san" tariff commission to investigate j the subject. In view of the kind ot | commissions he has appointed In the past, it is a safe guess that the Ameri ; can people won't approve Df a tariff commission selected by him. After t our recent experience with a tariff for i revenue only. American labor and capl-i I tal are not likely to compromise with i political theorists who preach "America ! First" and practice "Foreigners First." | What d<d Dr. E. Kwing Pratt, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce, mean by this statement, taken ! from an address delivered before the ! National Canner's Association at Louis ville: "American manufacturers are apt to be reluctant. They are apt to hang back; they are apt to ask for some sort of a suppovt to lean on: they are apt to , wait until someone else b rea ' ss the ground. I,et me suggest that our own usual, accepted and successful busi ness methods are equal to the oecaslon." The suggestion, following the accusa tion, makes poor logic. In hig address before llie United .States Chamber oI , Commerce, the evening before, Secre- i tary RedfielU said: "Our keen alertness I of mind is the only thing that has saved us from irreparable damage in the business world." Poor team work, tip. »ratt. Governor Johnson, of California, an nounces his readiness to co-operate with the Republicans if they "select a candidate in sympathy with Progres sive principles." The Governor may rest assured that the Republicans will nominate a candidate In sympathy with t progressive principles, anyway. The passage of the first defense measures In the House without a roll call should not be taken with too much exultation by the friends of prepared ness. Those measures contained a goodly share of pork. One of them ! Rives to each member an additional ap ■ pointment at Annapolis and the other carries hundreds of thousands of dol lars for navy yards. Preparedness yoked to pork is a strong and compel ling combination. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" j —The main trouble about the measles is that they seldom have any ' thing to do with the school boy who wouldn't mind catching 'em. —This is an extra day in the year, but up to present writing the Boss hasn't said anything about an extra day's pay. —"There's always a rift in the loot," says the sombre poet: yea brother, and in the clouds, too. —lt's not as serious as it looks. The Germans haven't begun to brush the dust oft' the old "On to Paris" signs. —"ls the Planet Mars alive?" asks the Pittsburgh Post. We don't know, dear Post, and by the way, lio<v old is Ann and when is a hen when she crosses the road? —Every time Justice Hughes de nies he is a candidate we note that he does not say he will not accept a nomination if it is tendered him, which may or may not mean some- I thing. EDITORIAL COMMENT I N'ot Really Advanced Yet [lndianapolis Star] The duma may begin to feel Its oats,!, but it has not yet tried to hold up [ any of the czar's supreme court ap- j pointments. Dasscnt Say s<> to His Eacc [Boston Advertiser.] David Starr Jordan waited until C. \\ . Eliot had gone to Bermuda before lie ventured to talk about there being ' 'too many low-brows in our colleges." i THE .SEARCHLIGHT AC>ItICI'I.TIiHAI. JOUKHAI.IBM ,\ A new department has been added ! to the school of journalism of the Uni versity of .Missouri. It is called the department of agricultural Journalism. ! and its object is to train both men and I women to write more intelliKcntlv u->- 1 on farm subjects. Its tirst plaii in eluded only the admission of students who had taken work in agricultural [colleges. Afterwards students who had had successful journalistic experience { were admitted to classes providing in- I struetion in agricultural terms. Although Still in its first year, this I department lias had an exceptionally ! large registration, showing the need i I of journalism as a complement to ad- ! I vanced agricultural education. It Is 1 planned to provide correspondenoe work for home study as a part of the work : next year. These courses will he open i to farmers who wish to increase their : facility in the use of technical agrlcul | tural teVnis. Counsel of Desperation [Philadelphia Inquirer] The tremendous attack which the Germans are directing against Verdun with what result remains to be de 'termined, looks like a counsel of des peration. Even should the stronghold |be captured, it does not appear that j any permanent advantage would be j gained commensurate with the enor mous sacrifices which are being made, j llt is not as though the fall of A 7 er- j I dun would jeopardize the safety of the | l capital. Verdun is situated one hun |di ed and forty miles from Paris and : the German advance would, we may ; be sure, be stubbornly contested along j ever>- inch of the way. Before the in- j I vasion could be fairly started one mile : after another of the trenches and for tifications which have been construct ed with this contingency .in view would have to be taken, each at a terrible cost, and the losses of the Germans as the assailants would im measurably exceed those of the French. What then are the motives' which have inspired the operations which are proceeding? One imaginable motive may be I found in the ambition of the Crown l Prince, the titular commander of the ' attacking army. He may well have ; been chafing under the reproach of adverse criticism which his previous | failures to successfully carry out the part assigned to htm In the general plan of campaign have provoked. Verdun has been his objective from the first, and it will not have been for forgotten that it was his inability to co-operate, as had been planned, with General von Kluck during the opening days of the war when the general was directing the terrific forward rush : which carried' him almost to the gates ti of Paris, that necessitated the Ger ! man retreat after the French had won j the decisive battle of the Marne. Had I the movements 6f the Crown Prince co-ordinated with those of General von Kluck at that critical period. It is at least possible that the French • would have hen overwhelmed and that the whole course of the war would have been changed, to Germany's great j advantage. I OUR DAILY LAUGH i FOOD VALUES. r / Do you under - 1 sTSSfc -• t a n d food -! L/SS values? f I <*. \ fttt Perfectly; If I r | •_ BT ive John a $4.87 ' i /V h Inner I can / J strike htm for 1 I /, I*4 , ' or a new *l'\jl gown, but If I 1 /. ,1 give him a $1.28 I In H IV dinner he bor- R '| 'IV V) P- rows ,aßt week'" | '■t|| ~ allowance from 6 ; TALE NOT THE t TABLET. Egl 0 chip in my pocket k j t , this morning and n I told her it wag . a dyspepsia tab- And did *h« ' a | (wallow it. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH "PottUc4 ov I^C-KKOI^aKUL By the Ex-Oommitteem*" j According to Information which comes from Washington, whence comes all authoritative information about the machine wing of the Penn sylvania Democracy, the reorganization bosses have found someone to be a goat In the United States senatorial contest. Secretary of Labor Wilson, Editor Lynett, Commissioner Qreena walt. Congressman Bailey have all re fused to be the victim this year. Now word comes that ex-Judge Allison O. Smith, of Clearfield, will run against P. C. Knox. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in a Washington dispatch says: "Formal announcement of Judge Smith's can didacy Is expected to be made within a short time. Following the death of James S. Young, United States district judge, the former Clearfield county jurist was prominently mentioned for the vacancy, but President Wilson named W. H. Seward Thomson as Judge Young's stteceisor." The old guard element in the Demo- I (.-ratio party may back Representative j Arthur G. )>ewnlt. of Heading, against A. Mitchell Palmer, who .seeks re election as Pennsylvania's member of [the national Democratic committee if ' ht< will run. Congressman Michael ! Llebel, Jr., of Erie, John J. Casey, of Wllkes-JWarre, and Henry J. Steele, of Hasten, are expected to support ilr. Dewalt. Ex-Representative W. N. Carr, of j IJniontown, who has been In Wash- | inut on for several days, is expected to i announce his candidacy for the House to succeed Robert F. Hopwood, Re publican. of Uniontown, from the Fiiyette-Somerset-Ureene district. Mr. Carr served in the Sixty-third Con gress, but was defeated for re-election by Mr. Hopwood, who will seek a sec ond term. —Changes in the Philadelphia office of the Internal revenue system are due to be made to-morrow. The new deputy and several clerks will take charge. —The nominating petitions of all of the Philadelphia members of Congress are now in circulation. They are be ing liberally signed, too. —The city and county Washington party remnants are to have a meeting within a few days to figure out the future. The action of Secretary Vana man In going back to the party is at tracting considerable attention. —Senator Charles A. Snyder is out making speeches throughout the State I and Is not abating his campaign a par- i tide in sfyite of the talk about com promises and various things. —David Benjamin, prominent Ha zleton man. is a candidate for national delegate in Luzerne county. The Allegheny county commission ers yesterday announced that they had named George B. Moore, a brother of County Controller John P. Moore, as chief of the bureau of sealer of weights and meaures. removing J. V. Hershey, !of McKeesport, a close friend of ! ex-Commissioner J. D. O'Neil. The . position pays $2,000 a year and there ! were reports the place was to go to j ex-Mayor Andrew Kurt on in rec \ ognition of the hard work he per j formed for Mr. Harris in the cam paign. Mr. Hershey likely will fight his removal, claiming the law pro tects him unless It can be shown he | mismanaged the office. Mr. Harris i says he would have no objection to urgeeing on a case stated and have the j courts pass on the act of Assembly. The following candidates for Re publican nominations for representa tives in Pittsburgh yesterday took out nominating petitions: Everett K. Hunt, Fourth district; W. J. Howarth. Sixth district; J. McM. Smith, Seventh dis- I trict; Samuel J. McKlm. Dr. C. M. C. i Campbell and W. Crawford Murdoch, Tenth district; J. W. Fonner, Elev i enth district. Representative W, W. | Mearkle, of the Fourth district, said : yesterday he had about decided to seek a renomination. —The State situation seems to be i quiet for a time. There have been no ] rumors of any kind the last twenty- 1 four hours. —Henry G. Wasson, former State I chairman and national committeeman, spent some time with the Governor yesterday. He refused to talk about his visit and the Governor was reti cent. Wasson is violently opposed to Senator Penrose and is ranked as a belligerent. —The Philadelphia Ledger in a Washington dispatch says: "Demo crats In Pennsylvania opposed to the leadership of A. Mitchell Palmer pro pose to contest his re-election as na tional committeeman, provided Presi dent Wilson will refuse to take part in j the fight in that State. This was an nounced to-day by one of the coterie of Pennsylvania congressmen who ar« at odds with Mr. Palmer. The Presi dent will be Informed that tire oppo sition is in no way directed against him and that all the elements in Penn -1 sylvania are loyally behind his re i nomination and re-election. At the same time his visitors will tell him that the leadership of Mr. Palmer and RolaAd S. Morris has continued th 6 : factional strife and that these men have done nothing to bring the party j together." MILITARY TRAINING [Philadelphia Press.] If a certain bill which la now be ' fore the New Jersey Assembly shall go ! through, the State will be setting an example, for New York and other | States, of alert patriotism and of readiness to slough the restraints pf unreasoning conservatism. The bill, Assembly 280, Is a supplement to the i public school act. Its purpose is to establish, beginning with the next | year, a high school course In military ! training. If the bill passes, the course of two hours a week will be compulsory to | all "physically lit" boy students of ; high school age, except those whose i parents certify objections based on • religious scruples. The sons of such parents will not be envied by their comrades as is the boy who "gets out of his i.atin" or "math." The nature i of the State Board of Education, sub ject to approval by the Adjutant ! General, who is also to pass upon the selection of Instructors. Whether military training in the | schools is a good or bad thing de !pends entirely upon the manner In • which it is conducted. It is not a step toward "militarism." If proper ly managed, such drill will benefit the growing boy physically and morally. I But its success depends Absolutely | upon the maintenance, in drill hours. lof military discipline; and its effect | would be j>erceptible in other hours and other work. No one who has seen the high school boys of to-day can seriously question the good they would derive from such a filling of the greatest gap in the structure of com pulsory public schooling. This bill presents to the lawmakers of New Jersey a splendid opportunity serve the State. POPULARITY ' "My son was voted the most popu lar man in his class. He graduates ! soon." "Popular, eh ? Then you won't u:et much work out of Viiiii for the next two years. Most of his time will be taken tip in acting as best man, ! coaching various teams and boosting iglee club tours.". Journal. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY LATE WINTER SPORTS mii OJ THAT M \ 11 1 / W wii PiAce oe I ,M TKt ill I wcywM>TWWV\ UHL' V^^Wamwtw*«oß»W#! *\ — 1 I IxMt*ITIO»W» I /^ K " lw *\ l V *-»V* ve»Te RpAV "/ / out 100**16 ow*\ | , /WNIT - ■—/ <JARDETJ P*OSWCT> I/RS7 ~* * P»ECM WO*M»V~\ I v CA»V .<£££ / // KIDDING A RELIABLE DISCOVERER OF SPRING SIGNS —From thf IndlannpollM Mfwii. — YOUR OWN DETECTIVE By Frederic J. Haskin HOW do you wear your hat? Do you jam it on the back of your head, wear it sedately straight up and down, or tilt it over one car? This detail of daily demeanor has be come worth watching, along with a number of other minor matters, be cause one of the new class of investi gators they are developing in Europe Is likely to read your past and your character in it. The* new European experts have been confining the application of their work largely to criminal science so far, but their methods can he used by any intelligent man in his daily busi ness. They tell you how to read what the other fellow Is thinking and feel ing, especially when he wants you to believe he is thinking and feeling somthing else. When you put a price |on a piece of land and the buyer al most falls out of his chair In surprise, you can tell, If you know what to look for, whether that surprise is real or not. When you strike the head of your department for a raise, and he ; is horrified, you want to know whether j the horror is genuine or assumed. ; The new methods are based on the fact that there is a part of us—the subconscious part—that is largely be yond our control. The more we are | interested in something else, the more 'the subconscious part—that is largely : beyond our control. The more we are interested in something else, the more [the subconscious goes its own sweet way. And for every emotion, the sub j conscious mind sets in motion some I little gesture, some apparently unini- I portant little twitch of the face, turn j of'the head, change of the eye. The 'real personality, the real John Smith, has nothing to say about those little i gestures. He can't stop them. If i you know what to look for, you can 1 come pretty close to the truth about John Smith. In Europe this new science of ges-i i tures has been applied to the court room. Experience lias proved tliut it ; is entirely beyond the powers of the average man to describe a thing the way he actually saw it. Days are spent in hearing testimony which is abso lutely untrustworthy. Lawyers are how able to save a great deal of time by employing their knowledge of typi cal gestures. When a man makes a resolution he suddenly compresses his lips and makes a slight backward mo tion of the body. When you resolve that you are going to perform a cer tain action you set your lips and per haps push back your chair. Then you begin to think it out. You cannot imagine yourself making an important resolution with your mouth open. The ■ lawyer, then, watching the prisoner, detects a sudden compression of the lips and an almost imperceptible backward movement of the body as the man moves in his chair. The last piece of yevidence brought forward by a witness declared that the prisoner was seen at a certain place at a cer tain time. The lawyer now knows that the accused has resolved to deny it. The same thing is noticeable with the Jury. When a juryman sits back inhis chair with his lips closely set, it is conclusive proof that he has form ed his opinion and that thereafter nothing can change it. By the nature of the evidence preceding this atti tude the criminal lawyer can deter mine what that opinion is. If con demnatory, the verdict will be "Guilty": if favorable, he will vote for acquittal. The eyes are always infallible bar ometers of the emotions, especially the pupils of the eye which dilates and contracts under great mental stress. A man may be weak with pent-up anger and outwardly serene with the exception of his eyes, the pupils of which will be contracted and have an unnatural glitter. Sparkling eyes are alwavs an indication of inward j hysteria, the sparkle in reality being an Intensified secretion of tears. The quick closing of the eyes is in dicative of unpleasant shock. The lawyer produces the lcnlfe of the ac cused which was found near the scene of the murder. The man in the dock [THE STATE FROM DWTODW] A tralnload of powder from the du Pont factory passed through Ldw renceville, Pa., a few days ago and scared the population out of a year's growth, so the report says. The en gineers were particularly cautious in stopping and starting, because there was enough material on board the train, bound for the Pacific coast and thence to Russia, to blow up the town and the county and then some. Twenty members of the First Meth odist Episcopal Church of Beaver Fills, face the possibility or receiving the "pink slip' at the hands of the pastor of the church for having signed liquor petitions, and the 'dry" mem bers of the congregation aver that the pastor will make good his threat. Little old Philadelphia is making extensive plans to royally entertain the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World next June, whe.n the center of illumination will be the city hall ; and on the night of the pageant Broad I street will be as light as day. The ; Indirect lighting system will be ap .] plied to city streets for the lirst tinre. l and the climax will be reached In a FEBRUARY 29, 1916. instantly veils his eyes and slightly lifts his hand as if to shrink from it. Unconscious that he has made these typical gestures, however, he swears that the knife does not belong to him and he has never seen it before. The simulation of various emotions, at all times very difficult unless the person be peculiarly gifted, is next to impossible in a cortroom. In cases where it has been attmepted the effort was easily discernible and de ceived no one. Astonishment, for ex ample, is expressed by raising the hands in the air, often covering the mouth with the palm. This gesture is so entirely inadvertent that any de liberate simulation of it would be per fectly obvious. One of the hardest emotions to de tect is that of scorn, for It is one which people go to the most pains to conceal. There are many persons for whom you may feel contempt, but out of a sense of politeness or expediency you cannot show it. The keen ob server, howover, can always detect the presence of scorn. It is characterized by an artiiicial tone of the voice al ; most nasal, and a dilation of the nos trils. The shoulders are also raised, as if the person were trying by main force to lilt himself into another at mosphere. Sometimes the breath Js | rapidly inhaled through the nostrils, ; producing a sort of sniff. | The exhibition of scorn in the court | room is always considered a good sign iby the criminal lawyer. It is difll jcult for a man with a very guilty con- I scious to feel scorn for another. It |is sometimes simulated, but in such cases is always accompanied by what is meant to be a desprecating smile. Real scorn does not smile. If a man has Just uttered a slander against you and you are scornfully angry, you do not feel like smiling. Every one ot the emotions has its significant and typical gestures. De liance and spite, which are a combin jation of resolution and scorn, are ex pressed by clenching the teeth or bar ing them slightly. This always oc companied by a frown, while the breath is Inhaled rapidly through the nostrils. Rage is characterized by many ges tures. The person's body is held rig idly erect or thrown well forward, flis muscles are contracted and his mouth and teeth pressed tightly to gether. The voice is vibrant or lower than usual with a touch of hoarse ness. The forehead is wrinkled and the face either flushed or pale. All of these signs do not necessarily appear at once, but separately or all to-, gether, they arc typical. Resignation is characterized by the unconscious folding of the hands in the lap and a slight droop of the shoulders. The hands, although held carefully in the lap, tell much. The Involun tary clench of the fingers in anger, the cramped fingers expressing pain, or any of the other spasmodic and nerv ous movements of the hands and fin gers are keenly observed by the crimi nal lawyer. In women the feet are most ex pressive. Unable to give vent to their anger by stamping their feet, they press their toes close to the ground. \Vlien embarrassed they turn their toes inward and describe circles and curves on the floor. When impatient they tap the floor with great rapidity, first with the heel and then the toe. Of course these movements seem per fectly obvious, but when there Is Just the faintest suggestion of them It re quires very keen perception to see them at all. . A prisoner may keep his secret for months, but in the end his gestures will tell the truth to the trained ob server. The shifty man In business, the woman who is trying- to hide the truth, the acquaintance who poses as a friend while he really dislikes you— they are all betraying themselves every minute, if you only know what to watch. It Is no more than a plain statement of fact that murder will out, and >not only murder but everything else that a man feels and tries to 1 hide. Ijears to look, and you will see. pillar of light rising 200 feet above the statue of William Penn, founder of the city. The motion picture as a source of, amusement is nothing compared to its match-making propensities, as evi denced by the marriage of Margaret C. Doe of Washington and H. S. Krankhouser of Heading. Frank houser, who is an attache of the Am erican Diplomatic Bureau at Washing ton, is likewise a chess expert, and he tlrst saw Miss Doe In a moving picture film, "Checkmated," played by so ciety amateurs In Washington. Re sult as stated. Michael Devine, a Philadelphia policeman. Is what you might call a subconscious scrapper. His house caught fire Sunday and he was carried out apparently unconscious from the flames. Our hero came to, however, smote one of his rescuers ovef the eye, threw another one downstairs and then called for more. Which we opine is not the first rule of gratitude. INDIRECT VICTIM "I sec you have a cold like every | iiody else." "This isn't a cold, 1 simply got hoarse telling ull my friends how to 'cure their colds." —Washington Star. j lElmung (Eljat "The last day of February in leap year may not toe the best time to make predictions regarding spring floods, but I do not think that we will be bothered with many this year unless there should come some prolonged rainy spells," was the opinion ex pressed by a resident of the upper end of the county yesterday. "My reason for that statement is that there is not as much snow in the mountains as there has been in many years gone by. In fact, some of the Blue Ridge spurs and crests have very little snow, and X have been over some of the counties in the main Allegheny region and do not see as much snow as usual. Of course, there are valleys and some mountains which are snow covered, but the snow is not deep, and in many places It. is drifted so that portions of mountains are bare. AVlien this con uition occurs you can pretty nearly bank on the fact that we arc not going to have much high water in the Spring. The snow starts to melt when the rains start and then there is trouble " • « » Observation of trout streams of the ►state in the last two yearn has con vinced officials of the State Depart ment of Fisheries that many of the streams known for years as trout streams have become too warm be cause of the passing of woodlands and brush along the streams for the native brook trout or charr and it Is now the plan to stoek these streams with the brown trout. The State hatcheries have been propagating im mense quantities of the brown trout for this work and Commissioner Na than R. Buller to-day suggested that people study the streams for which they want trout and ask for the kind w '" thrive, not the brook trout if the waters are too warm, but the brown. The experiments have shown that tho brook trout leaves water that becomes over 65 degrees of tempera ture, but that the brown trout flourish j in waters which no brook trout can j stand. "As to whether the brown trout will drive out brook trout In whose waters he may happen to get, experience shows, that the spreckled trout can take care of himself in the waters suitable to him," says Commis sioner Muller. The reports received at the department show that streams stocked with brown trout are very favorable and show good catches in streams which were abandoned by brook trout because the water got too warm. In the more cultivated parts of the country tho old trout streums have so warmed up that they arc in a measure no longer fitted for the brook trout. It is in these streams that we think the brown trout will thrive and which we will be glad to co-operate with fishermen in stock ing." • • • William M. Reiff, of the State De partment at the Capitol, has closed up 1 the "cornerstone" of that department. A new partition was erected, and there being a space in the woodwork similar to a corner pocket, Mr. Reiff arranged for proper ceremonies. Men connected i with the department contributed their 1 signatures and various souvenirs, in • eluding some campaign buttons from ■ the Pennypacker campaign and a . I number of circulars from 190 S. The i j closing of the wall was an event of ■ much moment at the CapitoJ, the office 31 force gathering and four pigeons be , ing in attendance on the outside. Arthur 11. Hull, who to-morrow be comes the law partner of Senator E. E. Beidleman, is a son of Professor Hull, sinco 1874 In charge of mathe matics at Millersville State Normal school. Mr. Hull was reared at Mil lersville and was graduated from that school in 1902. He entered the sopho more class of Franklin and Marshall College and graduated in 1905. For eight years he taught chemistry in the Central High school this city, dur ing three years of which period he read law in the offices of Senator Beidleman, and was admitted to the Dauphin county bar. For the past five years he has been associated with Senator Beidleman in the practice of law and is now to be admitted to partnership with him. Mr. Hull is well known all over Dauphin' coun ty, having participated as a speaker in many Republican campaigns in re cent years. He Is an energetic worker and a close student of the l&w. * « » James M. Archbald,* who became commander of the Fourth Regiment company at Pottsville yesterday by appointment of the Governor, has had a long National Guard experience. He r served in Schuylkill count? organ izations and was then a colonel on the staff of three governors. • » « According to the year book of St. Thomas' Church, one of the most noted of the Episcopal chirches of New York, the altar and rffedos for the new church are the glfs of Mr. and Mrs. Harris C. Fahnescock, Mr. Fahnestock being a forme 1 Harris burger. The reredos. which is the screen behind the altar, is aid to be one of the most beautiful in the coun try. if not in the world, excelling even the Astor reredos in Trinity. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"I —Ex-Attorney General Join C. Bell is at Palm Beach. —Thomas A. H. Hay, ofEaston, a strenuous Bull Mooser, plais to run for national delegate. Robert Glendlnnlng, Pllladelphla banker, is active in establishing a school of aviation at Philadelphia. John M. Rose, talked ct for Con gress in the Cambrla-Berford-Blair district. Is a former mayor of Johns town and one of its wealthv citizens. —Congressman T. S. Crajo, who Is discussing military tralnlnf now, Is a veteran of the Philippines. Ex-Judge Mayer Sulwergcr, of Philadelphia, is one of thecommittee to taV/e care of the Jews fr>m Europe when the war is over. | DO YOU KNOV Tlint 'Harrisburjc steel 1; used in sewing machines? HISTORIC HARRISHJRG The first market house were in Market Squaje. Planting Seeds in fee Sky Mr. Manufacturer, If 'ou were starting out to plant a«ds you would not shoot tliem ikywards hoping a few would llgit on the ground? Of course not! You would go direct to the ploughed fields and »-w them carefully. , Catch the advertising thought? It's a very Important me. The newspaper carrlei the mes sage direct to the ploufhed fleld. It reaches consumers und deal ers immediately and r#ponse is rapid. .. i.. Manufacturers seokln,' the way to the ploughed Held of profit are Invited to wrlt« to tie Bureau of Advertising, Amerlan News paper Publishers Agoclation, 1 World Building, New Y>rk. 1
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