6 ANTHRAX WILL BE GIVEN STUDY Compensation Board Says It Will Hold a New Hear- ■ ing in Corry Claim Announcing that tlie time has 1 come when the State Compensation; Board must "enter into an exliaus-j five study as to how far the invasion I of the human body by the (term of! anthrax can be considered an acci-i dent suffered in the course of em ployment'* the Board today orderedi a new hearing in the claim of How- 1 Bard vs. Howard Co., Corry. The ( opinion is an exhaustive one and re-: views decisions in New York and other states and opinions of Phila delphia and Allegheny courts andj after citing laws of various states THE WONDER OF RUSSIAN SINGING Expression Given in Music j Through Beautiful Native Folk Songs The soul and the spirit of Russia, cramped by unfavorable external conditions, have reached out and found expression in the native folk songs. Russian people were always I ;ikJo loving:. Their folk songs are j most exquisite. They worked their | v.ay through convention and pre.iu- j < "!< e. Profound gloom and hopeless | ilesnair of their lone depression, the 1 ssness and deep monotony bf t' " - - Russian steppes, the historical trtyjed.' of their life as well as their rail)r<ii ability and pood humor arc 1 echoed not only in their folk songs ; i ut in the greater works of their i;re:it composers. In spite of ever- j lasting need and poverty, of vodka, I Mid i rison, the Russian communi ties always gathered on a glorious (-uinrner night to s'.ng, dance and •play. Listen to the long drawn, sad notes of the "Volga" song and there is nothing which should make-your heart long more for the unknown. 'Hear ".Tak do tehe hoditi," a humor ous s.ing, and you can't help think- I'-.g life very enjoyable. Behold the JlUHsian' when he lets himself free 1 1 "in the "Kasatchisk" (a national 1 tis.<ian dance full of vigor and lui nor developed into the most won derful natural ballet) and you have *een nothing wilder, nothing gayer vci'i lia" never laughed more in all vor 1' ie! America knows Russian compos ers and artists—HJlman, Zimbalist, Jlelfetz, Oodowsky, Gabrilowitch, I)idur. Challapine and others are be lo%ed here. Tcliaikowsky, Ruben stein. Moussorgsky. Rachmaninoff. Olazunoff. Rimsky-Korsakoff. and many others have added a glorious rage to the history of music. Now when Russia Is drunk with ' freedom to a point of irresponsibil- l itv, we can hope that the near future ! ivill redeem and save her. and I streams cf light will search the : darkest and remotest corners. And : the nation will arise and tell hei great aims In musical phrase. Music i will be no more a privilege of the venturous ahd fortunate, but will he democratized and legalized Into a r-wteping mass movement which will bring to the musical altar of the world greater pearls and higher ideals. I.KT AMERICA PAY, SAYS SAXON MIMSTKB By Associated I'ress liondon, Dec. 1. The Saxon Fi nance Minister, during the iiudget Je bate in the Saxo- Diet, according to a dispatch to the Times from Amster dam. said Germany must demand a large indemnity without bothering which of her adversaries should pay it. adding: "bet them only think of America." TO I M'l HI, SKItVICE FI.AU A fourteen-star service flag will be formally unfurled by Harrisburg Camp. Xo. 8. Spanish-American War Veterans, January 4. when installation of officers will also be made. The Military Order of Serpents, of the Harrisburg Camp, held its regular meeting last night in Tuguearoa bair. No. 8. —Victrola ipi For Christmas mI j Kill jI HI Brings more happiness to everybody all the time H| H v \ 'than any other gift in the world. i | We have a talkihg machine to suit everybody's M i purse —Victrolas from $20.00 up. Rishel talking machines from $6.00 up. New Victor Records every month, come in and hear them played before buying. ROTHERT-CO."™" All Victor Records . 312 MARKET ST. - Furn,,hers SATURDAY EVENING, | on the subject calls attention to the| j fact that the Pennsylvania Board has j awarded compensation in cases (where there occurred dermatitis.; i frost bite, heat prostration, lightning j | stroke and sudden exposure to pois onous Rases. The Board dismissed the rfppeal in 1 1 the case of Kihm vs. Westinghouse I Co., Allegheny, because the counsel j I for the claimant t'ould not induce hisj | client to testify, while in another i I western case an order in favor of a j ! widow was revoked because of lieri ! remarriage, but continued in the. i case of the son of the deceased work-' j man. XO TRACK OF HIGHWAYMAN' | Dauphin, Pa., Dec. 1. —An armed J ! posse searching for the man who j robbed Mrs. Sherman Fertig, on the j j street, near the Pennsylvania ltall-! I road station about noon yesterday, ] made a thorough search as far as j Speeceville and through Clark's Val-1 ! ley, without finding any trace of the] : robber. The posse was headed by j j the Bev. William Zweizig, pastor of j ' the Methodist Episcopal Church of | j Dauphin. Mrs. Fertig * was robbed of her! I wristbag containing S2O, a gold! j watch valued at $l5O and other ar- I tides. ' i QUAINT MUSICIANS OF FRANCE This photograph shows two typical French wayside musicians. To-' day in many places of France one can sec musicians of this type perch-I j ed on a barrel in this way. The instrument on the left is something like I j a flute, both in looks and in sound. At the right is a "French Bagpipe" I j something of an anomaly—but an instrument frequently used in France. MUSIC- A MEANS OF COPING WITH ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS Somewhere in the city of New York in that much-talked of little quarter called by those who live in it the "Village" and by those who; j fain would live in it but can't "The I Washington Square Section, you with a spiteful little empha sis on the last two words, and by those whose ancestors built it up, "Greenwich Village" there is a clever little body called The Woman With Ideas. All who would sit in the holy conclave of the elect of this enlight-1 ened little community worship at her feet and listen to her words of j wisdom in a state of wide-eyed won der that would have made the Del phic oracle grow green with envy. It was therefore with no outward show of surprise but with inward gasps of wonder that her retinue of admirers heard her give expression to the idea that "the night was cold enough for warm music." And suit- Big Dinner Party Given at Home of C. H. Cline New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. I. j A dinner was given at the home of! j Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Cline. in Third; I street, on Thanksgiving Day, which j the following persons attended: Miss Mary Lease, of Wilmington, Del.il | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lease and daugh-l ter Gladys, of HarrislJurg; Mr. and: ! Mrs. Kd. Breeswine and Miss Lo j retta N'onmaker, of York; Mrs. Katie i .I Bobb, of Mechanicsburg; Miss Es-; ther Sipe, of Goldsboro: Mr. and; Mrs. H. S. Lease. Mr. and Mrs. I H. S. Bare, Miss Fairy Bare, Missi j Sarah Bare, Bay Bare and Keith] i Bare of New Cumberland. SOLDIER'S GOOD RECORD New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. I. (Sergeant Harry Urieh has returned; i to Camp Meade after spending sev eral days with relatives here. In] ] June, 1913, Sergeant Urich enlisted] j for seven years. He served three! | years in active service. On August] | 8, 1916, he was transferred to the, ! Begular Army Beserve. May 12, , 1917, he was again called into active! service. After a few months' ser- : . vice in Coast Artillery he was ap-! j pointed' a first-class sergeant at the j school for bakers and cooks at Camp< Meade, Admiral, Md. I I ing the action to the word, she pour ed out reel upon reel of melody | culled from the operas of Carmen, ! Pagliacci, The Barber of Seville and | the like. Tlicne is Cold Music niul Warm Music For, explained this charming young person, there was cold music as well as warm music and both had their place in the calendar of time, moods and temperaments; that a cold night called for quick, warm, j dashing, fiery melodies of the kind [that made one's breath come quick and one's blood tingle with warmth and spirit, the kind that ccn vie in heating power with Ihe less poetic furnace and radiator. And with equal reason, a warm night called for cool music, softly flowing like a sheet of ice, music that made one think of woods and fountains, and rivers and glens, slow, soothing, dreamy melo dies that lulled one's senses into a HARJRISBURG TELBGICUPH Communion Service at Pine St. Presbyterian The Pine Street Presbyterian Church will observe the sacrament of the Lord's supper to-morrow at 10.30 ond at Bethany Chapel in the evening at 7.30. Owing to the seri ous illness of the Bev. J. W. Chap man, D. D., he will be prevented ; from preaching at the morning and evening services as he had arranged, i In the evening Dr. Mudge will de liver the final sermon of the series on ; "Our God in Our History." His sub ject will be "Our Four Great Fore i fathers." i After the service on Sunday even i ing the' Boyd Memorial building will be open and an informal service of 1 song will be "held for the young peo ple of the congregation and their : friends. THANKSGIVING BASKETS I Adjutant and Mrs. George F. j ] Greiss, officers in charge of the] ] American Rescue Workers, distribut-l ed a number of Thanksgiving bask-! ! ets on Thursday to needy persons lin the city. Siclt persons were also remembered by the officers. Ar ! rangements have been made by the workers to distribute milk daily at ; the homes of poor and sick children I in the vicinity of the mission. OLD-TIME SONGS HAVE APPEAL Children Should Be Taught j the Delightful Music of | Bygone Days • • Some time ago tlie Fuller Sisters. I three charming young English girls, gave a song recital which was unique in its way in that both the program and the presentation of the numbeis given, smacked of that il lusive atmosphere supposedly exist ent in those times when tlieir coun try was known to the world as Mer rie England, llow greatly apprecia ted was the revival ol' these old songs | was proved by the constant demand < j l'or more by tlie audience and the | | request among its members for indi-: j vidunl sonars especially dear to them. | : English folk-Song tlie Horlmsi' of Traditional Music in America This brings us to the realization that the old English folk-song, the only horitUge of traditional song that America might in justice call her own, is passing. Time was, and that not even a score of years ago, when it was no unusual thing in walking along the highways and byways of our cities to hear a group of children, little girls especially, chanting the old familiar tunes of "Here Comes a Duke Hiding," "Water, Water, Wild llower," "Oil, Do You Know the Muffin-Man," and the whole joyous, scintillutin", happy store ol' them. Now, however, these memory-laden old songs seem to have died out and left nothing as beautiful or lasting in their wake. The moving pictures, have, to a great extent taken up and | tilled the minds of the juvenile mem bets of our society, and the silent drama has had the effect of creating silent voices, silent with respect to tlie singing of those songs which are* associated with the realm of child hood. i Schools Should Make Effort to Re vive Tiie.se SOURS The places for the revival of these old songs are naturally in the school room and in the nursery. They should form a part of the education of every child and a conscious stud>y of them should be made with the hope t.iat some day, mayhap, they will once more sub-consciously be come part and parcel of the play time world of our future generations. It is true that old orders change giv ing place to new, but there is much in the former that the latter might with wisdom adopt. And the sing ing of the old folk songs by our chil dren is a case in point. state of rest. Mendelssohn's Spring Song, Hadyn's Cantatas, Bach and Grieg were some of the compositions she named off-handedly. The idea is more than a Village phantasy. There is reason as well as whimsicality behind it. To any one giving the matter a second thought,- it becomes quite clear that some music has the power of warming one up. of tilling one with the spirit of power and endeavor and that assur edly is the music for a winter's even ing. in the same manner the musi cal entertainment of a summer's day can be chosen with thought of Its effect upon a heat-withered brain and b<yiy. Whether the idea arose out of a necessity of coping with at mospheric conditions that could be met in no other way is a matter of conjecture but the fact remains that it is a, good one and worthy of a trial. /Resides, all is fair in love and war fnd the relations between the coalman and the much-abitsed ron ] sumer-have never been of the most | amicable. i IS THli SPIRIT OF MUSIC IN YOUR HOME ? | t The "Music in the Home" move ment is national In its scope, and I newspapers, periodicals and maga | zines are furthering thin commend [able idea in every way possible. I There should be music in every home !-—good music uplifts—l"-inspires— it ! educates and pleases. The family cir cle is more closely knit in conse quence. Music is a language under stood by all, and. in these martial times especially, it cheers, invigor ates and instils a keen appreciation for the home and all it signifies. With the winter month? before us, and visions of the crackling logs in the old fire-place and the big arm chairs drawn up in front—the pic ture is rendered complete with the beautiful melodies from a new piano, player-piano or talking-machine. Go to any. of the Music Houses whose advertisements appear on these pages and hear the best in musical instruments. They will gladly assist you In placing one in your home. KETTERS GRANTED Letters testamentary In the estate of Mrs. Emma Fox. late of Derry township, were issued to-day to As sistant District Attorney Robert T. Fox, of Hummelstown, who is a son. THE HKV. MR. HOCKER TO PREACH Lemoyne. Dec. 1. The Rev. Luther Hocker, of Westville, N. J., will preach to-morrow morning and evening in the Trinity Lutheran Church. Lewistown Home Guard Company Has 60 Members Lewistown, Pa., Nov. 80. —AI Home Guard Company has been or-1 ganized here. John Fleming, a for-j mer captain of Company M, Eighth Regiment, was elected captain of thisi new organization. D. A. Kline was chosen first lieutenant and Earl Dugan second lieutenant. John W. Price was made secretary and treas urer of the organization. Sixty mem bers were present at the meeting and much interest was manifested. The new organization has already 150 signed supporters and the hearty co operation of all local corporations, including the Standard Steel Works and the Logan Iron and Steel Com pany. Applications will be made to the Governor for official recognition; and equipment. ! ATTEMPT TO POISON SOI.DIKR j Carlisle, Pa., Dec. I.—An attempt 1 j was made, to poison George Yohn, a j former Carlisler, now In service in ] the National Army in Texas, accord ing to the story given to local offi cials by Mrs. Mary Yohn. his mother. She stated that a box of Christmas delicacies, ready for shipment, had been opened, some of the food taken out while in the corners were placed bits of cloth saturated with some STACCATO j We of the Pacific Coast are jitney- j j ing right along, and not worrying-1 j about what may or may not happen I | next year or next century. Concerts j scheduled many months ago are belnß i given. None have been canceled. I 1 Music teachers are busy. Bank clear- j | ings are far above what they were j | last year. There is no cause for anx- i j itay, except that which every one ; I must feel when their country Is at I war. Lieutenant John Philip Sousa lias j had his famous hirsute camouflage removed from his chin. They evidently were spending their first night at the concert, and the young man was telling the young i girl all about It, says the Conserva | torium Magazine. They talked loudly; j the young man was trying to make |an impression on all within a ten- j I foot radius. He always anticipated j I the performers, and finally held his j hand to his mouth as he said in an undertone: "Deary, did you ever try to listen [ to music with your eyes shut? It's I heavenly." Thereupon a man two rows behind | leaned forward and said: "Young man, try it with your I mouth shut. It'll be a relief." Julia Culp. the famous singer, who was scheduled for an American tour this winter, is not coming. Her hus band is one of the personal military chauffeurs for the Kaiser. Jackie—Does your father know anything about music, Tommy? Tommy (whose father is a police man—Yes; he knows bow many bars there are in a beat. Pearson's Magazine for November i contains a lengthy Illustrated article ! on Fortune Oallo and his San Carlo I Opera, setting forth that astute and j successful impresario's labor in the ' Cause of establishing grand opera at I popular prices in this country. J WAR POET TELLS OF THE SOLDIER AND HIS SONGSj One of the results of the var has been the budding of new poetic gen ius. Inspired by the great world tur moil, men have suddenly discovered the possession of a power of song that needs express itself. Anions the men who have thus come to the l'ore is Patrick Mac Gill, the soldier, who has recently had published his book of verse called "Soldier Songs." Singing (Jives Kxpression to the Soldiers' Soul It is interesting to note what this soldier-poet has to say about the songs of the battlefield. In his dedi catory letter to the book he writes: "The soldiers have songs of their own, songs of the march, the trench, the billet and the battle. The origin is lost: the songs have risen like old folk-tales, spontaneous choruses that voice the moods of the moment and of many moments which are mono tonously alike. Most of the verse is of no import; the crowd has no sense of poetic values; it is the singing alone which gives expression to the ! soldier's soul. 'Tlpperary' means home when it is sung in a shell-shat tered billet, on the long march 'Tip perary' is Berlin, to the goal of high enterprise and great adventures. The Tommy is a singing soldier; he sings to the village patronne even when ordering food: "Will you give me, if you please, Some bread and butter and coffee with cheese." Vie serenades the maiden at the vil-1 lage pump: "After the war is over. And Knglish soldiers depart, M'selle Frongsay will have a broken, heart After the war is over." One of the songs this poet men-1 tions In the same preface is being! popular in the billets and dug-outs I from le Havre to the Somme is the following parody on "Sins Me to j Sleep:" ! Sing me to sleep where bullets fall,. I,ot me forget the war and all Damp is my dugout, cold my feet, i Nothing but bully and biscuits to'eat,, Over the sandbags helmets you'll finf J Corpses in front and corpses behind. Chorus Far, far from Ypres I long to be. Where German snipers can't get at me, Think of me crouching where the worms weep, • Waiting for the Sergeant to sing me to sleep. Sing me to sleep in some old shed, The rats all running around my head, Stretched out upon my waterproof, Dodging the raindrops through the roof. Dreaming of home and nights in the West. Somebody's overseas boots on my chest. 1 substance which has not been deter | mined by local chemists. An investi- I gation will be made. Postpone Patriotic Rally at St. John's Reformed I The big patriotic rally which was scheduled to be held to-morrow in the- St. John's Reformed Church, Fourth and Maclay streets, has been postponed until next Sunday. An interesting program of music, ad dresses and exercises has been ar ] ranged and will be rendered at the ' rally. The Rev. G. W. Hartman. J pastor, will preach. CHICKEN THIEVES BUSY Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. I.—Chicken thieves are still operating In the vi cinity of Shady Grove on a large Vcale. Many farmers In the vicinity are heavy losers by appearance of these thieves almost nightly. Jacob Sollenberger recently lost 100 chick ens, while Charles Hamburg lost a score. | Why not have a pipe organ and a liberal sized concert platform in the j new high school building? At pres- I ent, there is no place suitable for I community singing. \ "What's become of that noisy baby I who used to live next door?" asked ! the visitor after an absence of fifteen I years. I "That's it blowing that cornet," replied the afflicted houseowner. Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist, has canceled all his concerts in this country. He will, however, keep his promises to play without compensa tion for those charities to which he has pledged his support. During a te#ent concert a man who ; really appreciated music for its own sake was greatly annoyed by a young j fop in front of him who kept talking j to the girl at his side, j "What a nuisance!" finally ex claimed the appreciative man. | "Do you refer to me, sir?" threat- I ingly demanded the fop. | "Oh, no. I meant the musicians. | They keep up such a noise with their J instruments that I can't hear halt your brilliant conversation." Dr. Ernst Kunwald, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orches tra, has resigned on account of the recent attitude of some of the Pitts burgh authorities, who placed the i orchestra and conductor in such a position that the scheduled concert had to be abandoned at the last mo ment. An Irish musician, feeling the need of a vacation, went to the English I lakes and put up at one of the fash i ionable hotels. When he was ready ! to leave the hotel manager asked him I to write something in the visitors' | book, and this is what he wrote: "I came here for change and rest. ] The waiter has the change and the | landlord has the rest." The content of the song matters little. The soldier's encouragement arid soothing comes from the mere fact that he is singing. In moments of stress, or monotony, or grief, or hope, his thoughts find best expres sion in music. 2 i I OUT TODAY Victor Records For December j jjj • # \\> jj; This month's list contains some of the best records that the iji Victor Company has yet given to the public. ij: I Be Sure to Hear the Two | New York Hippodrome Hits . I 18400—Melody Land Shannon Four Cheer Up 'Liza !.. American Quartet '!■ No! She's not what she used to be but after hearing this record you'll think she !j! :j: still has plenty of life; ;i| 18378—The Old Gray Mare—Vocal Collins and Harlan If Yo'u Saw All That I Saw In Arkansas. 87278 —God Be With You Gluck-Zimbalist Alma Gluck has thrown all the expression which distinguishes her singing Into her !|| rendition of this simple prayer-at-parting and Zimbalist's magic violin adds a world ijll !j! of sentiment which can never be put into words. / ; j Free concert of the new Victor Records for December, Mon- jl! 11> day evening, December 3, 8:15 o'clock. C. .AV SiAlftr, Inc. Pianos Victrolas 3teie an Q ] Of OU W. Cnd.OU ! ' • ' ■ ii t; ... j | | DECEMBER 1, 1917. Hospital Train Ready For United States Service . One of the first and most complete ] hospital trains to be put Into the service of the United States govern i ment Is being equipped in the shops of the Western Maryland Railway, In Bagerstown. It will be a modern hos pital on wheels. The final work is being done on the ambulance car, ] which, when finished, will complete \ the train. The electrical generating equipment of the ambulance car will furnish light for thp entire train, which will consist of the ambulance car, containing an operating room for physicians and nurses, a combination , car containing an operating room and beds, and two passenger coaches con taining wards like those In a hos pital and equipped with beds. I TO HOLD CHURCH RALLY i St. Nicholas Day. special service ■ known as choir rally will be held s Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the ' St. Augustine Episcopal Church. The ' service will be In charge of Miss > Idella Fisher and Mrs. Bertha Jackr ■ son. The Rev. Floyd Appleton, pas' l tor of the St. Paul's Church, will preach. P"W""**"ggSßgSßß™"M"*'* ll I"" Columbia The Common-sense Way to Buy a Phonograph First, drop into our store and learn to play the Columbia Grafonola. Hear it play the kind of music you like best. Select the style and price qf instrument that suits you best. Since the phonograph is to be in your house and your eyes will see it for many years and your ears will hear the songs and music it plays, doesn't plain common sense tell you that the way to buy a phonograph is to have a Columbia Grafonola sent home for a complete trial, you to decide then whether or not you want to keep it? Suitable arrangements made for payments. SPANGLER PIANO HOUSE #jjj\ 2112 N. 6th Street x*o *ls) OPEN EY;ENI>'GS Pine St. to Remember Boys in U. S. Service If every church in the .country would respond as bountifully as the Pine Street Presbyterian of this city the boys in camp and at the front would enjoy a rare treat this Christ ! mas. When it was linaily. computed that a full 150 young men frorti this i congregation had joined the coun | try n forces to save democracy and conquer the Hun, church and Sun day co-operated to see that each one received a soldier's kit before Christmas. I Old and young got very busy ini j mediately with the result that yes- Mi , terday contributions amounting toaa $225 were received. This will pay ; for 150 kits at an approximate price j of $ 1.50 a piece. ! HI. VIVA I, AT HECKTOX 'I The evangelistic services which i are being conducted in the Heckton • Methodist Church by the Kev. W. 11. ■ Zweizig, pastor, are growing in in- I terest. Several persons have been converted during the services.
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