18 SEAR ARGUMENT ON PENSION CASE jQuestion of Husband's Un known Whereabouts lo Be Threshed Out in Court Among the dozen hearing Tuesday at, mutual agreement IS*£3as3?SiM!i of the State author ers° Pension Board) : pf Philadelphia to determine certain j legal phases of the mothers' pension | Haw. The question at issue Is whether; |<or not a wife and mother is eligible' ito receive a pension where no proof of Itlie man's death has been established but whose whereabouts is unknown. 'The other cases follow-: Schuylkill Haven borough vs. ! Schuylkill Haven Gas and Water Com ®iny. appeal from the decision of the | ■Public Service Commission; Edward ,C. Enders vs. Dauphin County Direc tors of the Poor, appeal and motion lot- new fiat and mollnn for judgnien; j Charles P. Messinger vs. Massachusetts . Bonding and Insurance company, new f trial; Manchester Rubber Company vs. V. F. Salerno, new trial; Malialieu and ICnnroy vs. George E. Ilapler, new Atrial; Security Trust Company and, KFred C. Miller vs. Ralph K. Moore, C. j®. Murray and Ellen McCarville, rule j rto satisfy judgment; Harry H. Gordon j tvs executrix of James M. Neely es- I (late, motion for judgment; George A.j »altsman vs. Theresa K. Saltsman, ar-! tgument; C. Ross Etter vs. Katharine j TStter, argument; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Trustees of Mothers' kAssitance Fund, Philadelphia, vs. Au ditor General A. \V. Powell, easel stated. At the Resistor's Office. The will • ©f Joseph A. Fletcher, Steelton, was probated to-day and letters on the es- ' tate were issued to Alfred Fletcher. Gruhh Succeeds Zimmerman. Ap pointment of Charles S. Grubb, Loyal ton, Washington township, a former shirt manufacturer of Halifax and an 1 employe of the State Highway depart-i ment, to succeed Charles C. Ziminer-j man as clerk to the county commis- ! gioners was announced to-day by the i commissioners. Mr. Zimmerman died very suddenly a week ago. Mr. Grubb j will begin his duties June 1 on a 1 salary of $75 per month. Charter C hemical Co. Applica- I cation will be made June 12 to the) State authorities by Attorney Charles C. Stroll for the chartering of the Harrisburg Chemical company. Soli Copper Wire. Bids will be 1 opened at 3 o'clock. June 1. by City J Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, su- j perintendent of public safety, for the ; sale of about 1,750 pounds of pure copper wire. The material is stored) nt the pipe line shop. Council's S|>ccial Session. Because of the absence of City Commissioner j "W. L. Gorgas, superintendent of tin mice, who is in Philadelphia this week attending the national conven tion of bankers, it Is not likely that j City Council will meet any more this Week to consider the Cumberland Val ley Telephone underground wiring or-1 finances as had been expected. The' commissioners, however, will probably! .get together Monday. Waul to liny Furniture? All the furniture and "good will" of the Fort Hunter hotel will lie sold at 2 o'clock j Wednesday, May 31, at public auction by J. G. Fackler, trustee in bankruptcy for Walter C. Bask ins. Speakers at Knci'a Playground. City Commissioner E. 7.. Gross Kind Assistant Park Superintendent V. (Grant Forrer have been invited to at tend the formal dedication and open ing of the new playground at Enola, on Monday, May 29. Official Count Begins. Official ■counting of the vote cast in Dauphin [county at Tuesday's primaries began at noon to-da.v when the corps of com puters appointed by the county eom- were sworn in. The count, it is believed, will hardly lie finished before.to-morrow evening. REAL ESTATE MODERN' I.ITTLE OFFICE BUILDING IS PLANNED South Harrisburg is to have another modern little office building in the near future when the plans of Simon Micklovltz, a lower end iron dealer, materialize. Mr. Micklovltz to-day got a permit to erect a two-story brick office struc ture in Paxton street, at the intersec tion of the Pennsylvania railroad sld ing. It will cost f 2,500. Work will be started at once. TODAY'S REALTY TRANSFERS To-day's realty transfers included the following: Ida Wiest to D. J. Wiest, Lykens, • $8,298; R. M. Grimm to Jerry R. | Grimm, Millershurg, $175; J. J. Bow man to 11. <'. Holtzinun, Millersburg, 5375; D. F. Bander to Paul G. Plume, IS3O Chestnut street, $3,300; C. W. Flack to Addie M. Murray, Mifflin, near Kelker street. $1,600, DANISH KING UNDER KNIFE Copenhagen. May 19. King Chris tian X, of Denmark, has just under gone an operation for intestinal trou ble. The royal physicians report his condition is satisfactory. I Efficiency TXCREASE the profits I of your business by aiding yonr skilled help ers to make the best use of their time. Use the proper blanks, blank books, stationery and ad vertising matter. Get the right kind of designing, engraving, printing »nd binding at the right price* front i The Telegraph Printing Co. Federal Square SANITOL WEEK i JUNE 4TH FRIDAY EVENING, HLAHRESBURG tfafcftj TELEGRAPH MAY 19, 1916. WIFE OF OUTLAW IS IN EL PASO READY FOR FLIGHT SZNO&ri JU/iJiO TORBE.S DBZ, VIIjLA S CHILD. <£>/a/tc r/i/t sen iv/c£.. BENORA JUANA TORRES DHL VILLA AND CHILD Growing weary of waiting in Havana for Paneho Villa to join her in their projected flight to the Argentine, Mrs. Villa has returned to El Paso to get into communication with her husband and to assist him in escaping from Mexico. Mrs. Villa has a ranch in the Argentine Republic awaiting Villa when he can get out of Mexico. Mrs. Villa's friends say she will go Into Mexico to her husband should she find it necessary. IS PATRIOTISM \ DANGEROUS VIRTUE? The other day at the Gridiron club dinner Mr. Wilson announced, as re ported in the press, that he would "be as ashamed of being rash as of being cowardly"—a statement which stands on a par with a statement on the part of a woman that she would be as ashamed of being quick tempered as of being unchaste. Such statements from a private man would call for no comment. When made by the man who is of necessity taken abroad as s|)%Miking for the American people, they call for the sternest reprobation. These sentences furnish the key to Mr. Wilson's acts in international affairs, both as re gards the Great War and as regards Mexico for the past three years. Tak en together with his acts, they show that he is endeavoring to persuade the I American people to accept the view that patriotism is sometimes a f!an 'gerous virtue, and cowardice often a venial fault. It would be impossible to overesti mate the harm done to the American people by President Wilson in accus toming them to play an easy and dis graceful part in the present crisis of alien insult and aggression. The man who habitually submits to shameful I insult gradually becomes incapable of I all manly action. The man who re peatedly permits his wife's face to'be slapped, without resenting it save by conversation, gradually loses all pow er of self-respecting action. The ad ministration has done its utmost to train the American people Into a men tal attitude which accepts making ! money and avoiding risk as satisfac • tory offsets to the wholesale and con tinually repeated murder of American ( men. women and children by u-.tside enemies.—-Theodore Roosevelt in the June Metropolitan. EARLY DAYS OF FISHING Fishing is probably the oldest sport In the world, although in the begin ning it was anything but sport. The | caveman who went out with rude spear to watch by brook or pool had no scruples as to legal length or size of bag. He was out for his supper. ! But then the conditions of his life es tablished the sanest kind of a bag lim it. His fishing wan so slow and so difficult that there was little incentive SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE : : : : : : : : : By BRICGS Me- r* Go~x, T 0 fuEHej A N*to» Polc uP MY PReTTvear AMT> 1 I , J SEE IF I CAMT A H4T \ VbfcJ Tb \ I 1 T~- ffw OvjiloN'T Y&o LWTE <• ! Ilb He** tu s . TX»ET J f — ' — —~ ■- —V OOMCoo®rf 15 >gS£ 4 1 3r o«K«n.«e c*w>c»wj | fV K a*c»c ** 1 ALwya TA,«t*j& Amt> O*o.so ?j — I a nwu-re- i J * ffi IS* Jk& osrr -3% \ ' Sr~ \ *»wt tcT ijj <* lww > > 3oi*e M»»u» ) 3c -« I - Meeot-gs jjj to catch more than he actually need ed. To be sure he may presently have reached the stage where he rec ognized the social and commercial ad vantages of a small store of dried fish somewhere In the back of his cave. Thus may the market-hunter have been born in the dim days of history. —Outing. THE BIG BROTHERS ' One of the fine evidences of the ex- ' istence of the spirit of helpfulness is j seen in the "Big Brother" movement, through which so many hundreds "of ! boys have been lifted out of untoward j environments and set upon a course of high manhood, through the genuine j interest and association with some j Big Brother, some man who has sac rificed time, thought and money to fol- j low out the Biblical injunction. It is | doubtful whether any one has been j saved or reformed truly in this world ■ by anything but love, and love Is the I very spring and substance of this Big | Brother campaign. It is a simple but great work. The j boy is assigned to a certain Big] Brother, a business man, perhaps; in troductions are made, and the boy is I made to feel that the man is his own ' friend—not simply a professional jalmsgiver, or a friend of his parents. The Big Brother helps in securing em ployment if necessary, arranging fori schpoling, and most or all by compan- ! ionship whenever possible. An hour's conversation, a quiet talk at night, a letter, a slight gift, making sure that [the boy has right companions—these ,are the old but the permanent means of showing brotherhood. One of the best known lawyers In New York has taken on six little brothers. lie con . fesses that he is six times happier, and six times bigger and better, than he i was before. Is your life cold and ibare? Try to be a Big Brother.; |There 's a boy somewhere needing you ! and you need him. —The Christian ' I Herald. \N OLD, ONE A very inquisitive man was sitting at table next a man who had lost an' arm above the elbow. "1 see you have lost an arm," finally I I was ventured. | The one-armed man picked up his empty sleeve and peered into it. ! "Great Scott! I believe I have," he answered. —The Christian Herald. HOPELESSLY HURT MEN EXCHANGED Germans and Austrians Sent From Russia; Constant Line of Trains Stockholm, Sweden. April —. —Clad in great coats of West Point gray, the first of the hopelessly wounded Ger man and Austrian prisoners of war to come out of Russia this year, pass ed through Sweden a few days ago In exchange for the helpless and hapless Russians who had been sent home from the German hospital camps. The Austrians and Germans were a more cheerful lot than the stolid, silent Russians and seemed to have a more definite Idea of their future life. "It is nothing," said one young Austrian with his right leg gone and two fearful scars on his face: "I am a jeweler by trade and my hands are as good as ever." The exchange of wounded prisoners undertaken by the Swedish Red Cross is a gigantic affair. Effective May 16 three trains running weekly In each direction from the Finnish frontier to the southern reaches of the Baltic can handle but comparatively few of the men so hopelessly used up that the waning nations are glad to get rid of them. Some statistician claiming to have knowledge of the situation has declared that with trains running daily all the year round it would take ten years to complete the transport of the human wastrel of war now held in Russia and Germany. "Must Be Millions" One of the wounded Austrians on i the first train coming from Russia i was asked how many of his comrades < were left in Russia. i"Ob," he replied, "there must be I a million of them." This prisoner said he had been "all I over Russia" and that few war pris- 1 oners, either wounded or whole of \ skin and limb, were permitted to re- j main in one camp more than a month jor two. He was wounded in August | | last and said he must have been in ! every hospital camp from Vladivostok [to Petrograd. ' There was one young soldier from Prugus, Bohemia, who had had a ter- | 1 rible experience. He was in the I | cavalry and was riding in a charge] | when a shrapnel shell burst just be- | jneath him. The horse was killed ! ,and the rider'was wounded 21 times.! ■ Seven times he was placed on the op erating table. lie emerged with one I leg gone and the other so broken, j bent and twisted that it but little re- j sembled human form. And yet the man had pleaded with j the doctors I'm- Mint remnant of a limb, j They wanted to cut it off, too, as j well as my rignt hand, but I heard them talking and I said, 'Please, good ; Mr. Doctor, don't cut off my other I leg and my hand! At last they let me j ! go' he said. i The hand was scarred in many I j places but seemed otherwise to be j perfectly useful. But in time of war j j amputation is such an effective and ! expeditious treatment. Maimed and Mangled Each man of the 217 on board the j j train from Russia had his own thrill ling story to tell. Each one had tasted ' the utmost of the bitterness of war land some seemed so badly maimed and mangled that even Death had re j fused to accept them. There was one poor fellow moving : about the train with sheepskin pads |on his knees and both feet gone. "Me no go any more," he smiled in ' broken English when he learned that The Associated Press correspondent on ! board the hospital train was an Amer ican. "And boom, boom, boom no good either," he added, mimicking the roar ! of battle. This man had lain wound ed for days with his feet in a half! frozen stream. When found he was more dead than alive. Up to the! time he lost consciousness he said he j must have been lying out of doors for | six or seven days. All this time he i heard the screech and roar of shells ; passing above his head and occasion- ' ally exploding about him. Anyone of i them, he said, would have been a i welcome end to his agony. But now he was smiling and cheerful on his ! way "home." lie did not know what | he could do when he got there for he. j ! had been a horseshoer by trade and | I a horse-shoer without feet is not of I much account. Some of the prisoners complained j j bitterly of their treatment at the hands i !of the Russians, but the more intelli- j ; gent of the wounded soldiers declared that while their lots had been hard {they realized the Russians had done all they possibly could under the cir cumstances. There were the days of exposure on the battlefields which could not be helped, the poor field ac commodations for the wounded, who YOUR DAUGHTER'S PROUDEST DAY ' ' Mother, if you and Wlnnte will put your heads together between the present and the time she must have her graduation dress ready, you may make her shine with the best of them —at a cost of $6, or less. That is what this frock cost, and does it not look as nice as scores you have seen at higher prices? It is made of voile, with a double flounce, and two rows of cording. Irish lace is introduced in the bodice, which makes a simple and appropriate trim ming. \ had to be cared for In far greater j numbers than anyone had ever antici- i j pated, and the hours of neglect due to j (the fact that the doctors had more j j work than they could possibly handle. I Blood Was His Ited One prisoner said he lay on the floor j 'of a house or stable for two days and ! the only soft thing about him was his own blood. His uniform had been entirely shot away by the explosive ! which had cost him a leg. Some of the soldiers said they had been robbed | by Cossacks as they lay wounded in j the Held, money and little trinkets of! j jewelry being ruthlessly snatched from ! jthem. It became a oustom, the {Austrians said, .for the wounded to turn their pockets inside out as they 1 (lay upon the frozen ground to show | they had nothing and thus escape a bayonet prod. The Swedish doctors In charge of the hospital trains listen to these j |stories with indulgent smiles. They' say undoubtedly there have been cases |of great hardship, but the wounded; |soldier as a rule is very keen for® sympathy and talks accordingly. | There were two pitiful cases of tu- ! , berculosis on the train. The sands j jof life were fast running out of the j I ulass for one of these, but he seemed ■ .to grow a bit stronger as the train j j neared' Trelleborg where the prisoners i j were to be transferred to a German ! j hospital transport. | "It will be so good to get home," he sighed. "But the poor devil never will get there," said the doctor, for the pris-; loners coming from Russia are kept! outside Hamburg for a month as a rule to guard against the importation j of any Infectious disease. They are not taken to Berlin, for it is said here the Germans do not wish wounded j men in the streets of the capital. Worried About Family The other prisoner far along in the j relentless grip of consumption, had :also suffered the loss of a leg. He 1 said he had a wife and three chil dren at home and he did not know how he could ever provide, for them. The invalid transport trains pass ing through Sweden do not come to Stockholm and the Swedish people as a whole see very little of the wounded men. The nearest approach to Stock-, holm is Halsberg, where the men de | train for dinner. As the first train from Rusisa came Into Halsberg the military attache of the Austrian lega tion in Stockholm was at the station. 1 The train platforms were crowded with soldiers on crutches and with ! arms torn away. It was pitiful to .see the poor cripples straighten up land salute with such hands as they i had left when they caught sight of <the officer in full uniform. The attache and representatives of the German legation distributed ciga ■ rets, cigars, newspapers and German 1 weeklies to the men on the train. And to each an envelope was hand- Jed with special ecremony. These | envelopes were found to contain pic ture postcards of Emperor William, } of Germany, Emperor Francis Joseph, I of Austria and Field Marshal von Hin i denburg. i After dinner there were songs of the Fatherland, sung with lusty Ger man voices. When the singing first began the maimed soldiers came hop ,ping to the song-circle as fast as crutches and heavy canes could help them. They gave cheers for the Em- I perors and stood with heads uncov ered as they chorused "The Watch on the Rhine." WINDOW-PORCH BOXES POPULAR Large Numbers Appearing Des pite Cold Weather; Many Send in Names Despite the cold weather of the pas# few days, window and porch boxes ar* appearing; In all parts of the city In extraordinarily large numbers. Flor ists and carpenters are very busy and the supply of boxes in the stores of a number of dealers have been replen- * ished as many as three and four times to keep up with the unprecedented demand. By Memorial Day, when all hoxes should be In place, the city will be well decorated and as the plants grow with the coming of hot weather, Har risburg will be utterly transformed. Among those who have volunteered for the work of spreading the gospel of the City Beautiful are Mrs. C. Harry Kain, 234 Seneca street, who will en deavor to arouse Interest among the residents of that street between Sec ond and Third streets: Mrs. Boyd M. Ogelshy, 2317 North Third street, who has volunteered to look after the block between Emerald and Seneca: Mrs. H. B. McClure, 1710 Green street, rvho will look after the section between Hamilton and Kelker streets. Individuals who have entered tha campaign in the past few days are: Fisher Broß., 1001-3 Capital street. Mrs. Anna Ott. 14 Prospect street. Mrs. Harry Miller, 2323 North Third street. Mrs. Paul, 2319 North Third street. Mrs. Morton, 232 Seneca street. Mrs. Paul Hooker, 226 Seenca street. Mrs. Knight, 224 Seneca street. Mrs. Edw. H. Fry, 222 Seneca street* Mrs. Shaeffer, 220 Seneca street. Dr. W. R. Walter, 704 North Thlrrt street. Greek-American Shoe Repairing, Third and Briggs streets. Mrs. H. B. McClure. 1710 Green street. Mrs. Mary Shultz, 1921 Penn street. Mrs. Harry Martin, 1924 Penn street. Mrs. Katharine Donnelly, 1923 Penn street. Mrs. Harry Baer, 1909 Penn street- Mrs. W. R. Deppen, Penn and Muench streets. Mrs. Stiner, 220 Herr street. Dr. R. L. Perkins, 2001 North Sec ond street. Mrs. H. M. Kirkpatrlck, 1829 White hall street. Mrs. C. W. Fenstermacher, 113 Chestnut street. Mrs. N. K. Hoffert, 600 North Seven teenth street. Mrs. W. E. Orth, 430 North street. E. W. Clay, 701 North Eighteenth street. Trains and Drives Her Own Race Horses I ,v| I X > ;f SIISS VEST/I ST/BBS. Miss Vesta Stibbs, of Lebanon, Ohio, has the unique distinction of being one of the two women in this country, who own, train and drive their own race horses. Miss Stibbs iias made a specialty of training horses for the half mile tracks In Ohio. She numbers many winning horses among her string and her earnings have shown a decided profit. ' Deaths and Funerals MRS. SUSANNA HEHN SINGLEY Funeral services for Mrs. Susanna Hehn Singley, agjed 61, wife of John H. Singley, who died at ther home. 1426 Swatara street, Tuesday, were held this afternoon. The Rev. J. A. Lyter, pastor of the Derry Street Unit ed Brethren Church, officiated. Bur ial was made in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. WII.LIAM B. METZGFR Funeral services for William B. Metzger, aged 79 years, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. Earl Graeff, 1841 Berryhill street, Tuesday afternoon were held to-day. The Rev. Joseph D. W. Deavor, pastor of ttie Epworth Methodist Church, officiated. Further services were held at Mt. Joy in the Methodist Church. Burial was made in the church cemetery. ji Stock Transfer j; ji Ledger ji The Pennsylvania Rt»«k <| ]i Transfer Tu Uw (ac* of Joe* ]i '! 4, ltll) which Is now m effect, i[ !; requires all corporations la the II State, no natter how large or '[ ' | how small ther mar be, to keep ]> Ji a Stock Transfer Ledger. We ' 11 are prepared to supplr these |> j! Ledgers promptly at a very '[ nominal prloa. $ The Telegraph ji Printing Co. 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