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HARRISBIIRG TELEGRAPH
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TUESDAY EVENING, IKB. -'9
Truth takes no account of centuries.
—WORUSWORTH.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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