8 MISS WASBERS IS INJURED WHEN AN AUTO UPSETS Daughter of State Senator Suffers Fracture of Skull— Fire Hurt Whan • Machine Bubs Off tie Bead at White House Lane Mis? bliiaoeth YVasbers. 32 Kast Sing street. York, one of Bve persons injured when an automobile went oxer an embankment at the White House lane, between H.ghspire ami Middle town, yesterday afternoon, lias re gained consciousness. She suffered a fracture at the base oi the skull, a broken '.eft ankle and general body bruises, She s in wie Harrisburg hos pital. Miss Wasbers. witi W B. Geininill, a \ork attorney and a recent' IVmo. rati, •spirant f«r Judge; Mrs. Gemmill. Mis- Beulah Griffith and Arthur Thompson. •11 of York, v .siteU Or. K. D. Swiler. 1334 Derrv street, this city. and were returning 10 York by way of Lsn. is ter when tie accident occurred. Mr. Gemini!! was driving. He turned sharply to g*»t away from a runabout which w-as ntuniug alongside and when he attempted to right the oar it tunu\i «h*rply across the road and went over the bank. All of the occupants were thrown out except Miss Wasbers. Mrs. Gemmill is suffering from a fractured collar bone and Miss Griffith from bruise* about tie face and body. They were treated at the Harrisburg hospital. Mr. Gemmill and Mr. Thomp son were bruised, but not seriously. Miss Wasbers is a daughter of State Senator Heury A. Washers. Mr. and I Mrs. Wasbers, w-ho were at their sum mer home iu Gol-.isboro. came to Harris burg last evening ami remained at the j bedside of rheir daughter ail nig at. RF.V. OR. LEWIS XI'DKE Father of Pine Street Presbyterian Pas tor to Be Buned To-morrow in Princeton. N. J. The funeral services for the Rev. Dr. L«wi» Mu\ige. who died Saturday morn- ] ing at the Presbyterian hospital. Phila delphia, following an operation, will be held at his home in Kast Dow-ningtown tomorrow. Burial will be in Prince ton. X. J. The Rev. Or. Lewis Mudge was the father of the Rev. l>r. Lewis S, Mudge. pastor of P-.ne Street Presbyterian thurco. and was active in evangelical work in Chester up till last summer, when he became ill. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Kast Down ingt own, and some time ago was )0 o'clock, where further services will bo held and bunal made. Miss Jennie Singer Miss Jennie Singer, _'n years old. rtic.i >at;..- iay night at her home. 338 Kelke- street. Funeral services will be held Tuesday night at 7.30 a: her home. The body will be shipped to \ew j ort on Wednesday morning for further service and burial. James F. Kirby James P. Kirby. 5S years old. *on of Mts Anna and the late William Kirby. 255 t. umberland street, died tnis morr. ng at h-.s home. The funeral wil >e held Wednesday morning a! 9 o'clock from St. Patrick's cathedral. Burial will be made n Mt. Calvary cemetery. AI>I>RE>SKS \T ST. ANDREWS Important Missionary Meetings Are Scheduled for To-morrow T.< morrow wil) be oue of the most important n issionarv days ia the lis tory o! >!. Andrew's Protestant Kp.s copai parish, as two of the missionary organisations w hold simultaneous meetings aud addresses will be ma le by three out-of-town speakers. The \\ illiam K. Alrickf Branch of the Junior Auxiliary, composed of all children in the '>ar sh un ier 15 ve»r< old. will meet at the parish house at Nineteenth and Market streets at 4.30 o clock in the afternoon and will be ai.ressed by Miss Hilpa S. Schram. of St. Paul s church. ' olumb"".a. president of the Junior Auxiliary in the !> oeese of Harrisburg. and Miss M Mi.lan. of St. John's church. Carlisle. At the same hour the Senior Brancn of the Junior Auxiliary, composed of girls and women, will mee- at the home of the rector, the Rev. James F. Bui litt. for a business meeting. At 5.30 p. m. th.s branch will be addressed by Miss Shram, and the members will: then be guests of Mrs. Bjllitt at sup per. After that another address will • l>e made by Miss Comstock. of St. Luke's church, Me.-hanicsburg, educa tional sectary of the auxiliary for this diocese. Both branches of the Junior Auxil iary n Sr. Andrew's parish nave recent ly reorganize) for the fail an.i winter work and to-tnorrow'» meeting are for the purpose of giving impetus to their efforts. COLIMRIS DAY OBSERVED To-day Is tiiid Anniversary of the Dis covery of America Pennsvlvamans generally observed to-lay. the 42 2d anniversar. of rne d.s cover-,- of America by Coiumb j, a « a lejgal holiday, a measure making : a holiday having passed the ast session of the Legislature. It was oose-ve.l on OapKoi Hill, and all of the iocai banks were closed. No celebration bv the flar-isburg Council of the Kn.glits of Columbus will be held, many Harris *»rg memoers going to Pniladei h;a to! take part in rae big meeting in the Academy of Music. / The Independent Ua.ian So-ietv of HaTrisburg and Lo ige Carlo Aliretto No 272. O. F. D.. will attend a dance •nil reception to be gtvea rh.s even ng by t+e -Stee.ton lodge in Qua-tet ha;'. The Royal Itai.an band -has been en gaged for the evening. LAWYEES' PAPEB BOOKS Printed at this office in best style, at 1 lowest prices and on short notice. I SIOQ REWARD CANNOT RE COLLECTED RY A POLICEMEN I When Ottjr Offer* Money for Arret of Senders of Fake Alarm Ooppers Are i Not Permitted to Beceive It—Oaee : ILlustrat-as the Point Saved. 1100 reward. That amoi\ut is provided by a city ordinance for the arrest and con vie-. t«oti of any person seuding in a false fire alarm, the money to be taken from the genera! contingent fund. An arrest on that charge has been made and the person has confessed to sending in the a arm, but there is nobody to collect the reward—for city policemen made the arrest and that is w'hat city police mfn are paid for. and tneret'ore they may not receive the reward. When an alarm of tire was turned in from box No. 331. Tenth aud State streets. early yesterday. Patrolmen Zimmerman and Lime found Alice Heckart, of Waguer street, standing by the open lire alarm box. She said she seut in the alarm an.i then she was sent to police headquarters to await » hearing. The -policemen cannot qualify for the reward, however. Nobody will collect a reward either for the arrest and conviction of the person who sent a false alarm in from Box No. Second and Dauphin streets, at 11 o'clock yesterday morn-i ing. for there is not a ghost of a clue :is to the identity of the guilty person. Persons were out on front porches in that ne ghborhood and under their , noses Hie box was opened and the 1 alarm sent in. They knew nothing of it until the firemen arrived and tried to , i locate the supposed bla^e. CARS HELD_FOR PALMER Candidate Hustles to Catch Train Sched tiled to Leave 6 Minutes Before His Arrival Here Tf you were a candidate for I'nited states Senator and were to speak in Sunourv to night, atnl v\w were n Pan adelphia this morning, and your tra.n | to S.ir.bury left Hamsburg six min utes before you got to Harrisburg from Phi adelphia. what would you do? There are several things you :n gin do Hire a special—but that costs like the mischief. Disarrange the nvtare railroad schedule by having nhe train for Sunbury wait at Ha— sburg unr.l the train carrying you from Philadel phia rea.'heil here? Rijftit. \ ou guessed it the second guess. That s what Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer succeeded in doing this afternoon. Mr. Pa mer was to ioin the group of Deooerati spell-binders in Harrisrimrg to tase riie 3.30 train for Sunburv, where a big IVmo- ratic mass meeHing is to be held to n jht; but his train iiiin t get here until s.x minutes after the Suo'iurv train was seiedu e l to leave. The railroad people were a - pea.ed to and good-naturedly agreed to hold the train for S.mburv six mioutes. an 1 Mr. Palmer made a flying leap from his train to rne waiting Sunbury tram an.i was garnered to the bosoms of his fellow spell-binders. In the party as the train pulled out were Mr. Palmer. Vance C. McCormick. Will.am T. Creasy. William N M Nair. R.-i-ert S. Bright. M. J. Canon, A. R 1 arii anh.cii -omprsel every -andi late cm rhe Dem ocratic State Iwkrt. There also v('»> a par -epresematives and a "per s"na! conlu.-to-" from Democratic *;ate nea.lqiiarters. RECITAL AT CAMP HILL Will Be Given in Church of God To morrow Night The following is the program to be •en '.ere ' at a r e.-it a to be given in the ' amp Hi.l C.uir *h of i>oB. Bashore wil! discuss the } agents and processes responsible for our local scenery. This meeting is one j of a course in nature study to be of ; fered during the autumn and winter i and any one interested in such work i is welcome. Head of Disciples of Christ Atlanta, tia. Oct. 12.^—The Rev.! Walter M. White. Cedar Rapids, la..' was elected oresident to-day of the In j ernationa! < onvention of the Disciples of Christ. Tue Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensarv ' rrill be open daily except Sunday at i •1 p. m., at its new location, 1702! ! North Second street, for the free treat I 'ment of the woWbv poor. i HARRISBt'RfI STARTXTIF.PF.XDKST. MONDAY KVKNIMI. OOTOBKR.I2. CAPITOL i| COMMISSION TO DISCUSS HEIGHT OF CAR STEPS'- i Public Service Off|f~i*Js Will Meet the State Street Hallway Association and Manufacturers at Atlantic City Representatives of the Pennsylvania i Public Service t ominission, the Penn syhauia Btree; Railway Association and the manufacturers of street > ar- \ will discuss standards of heights oi" ' > car steps at a meeting to be held to-morrow a: Atlantic City. Efforts wih oe made to reach an agrecmeut as to. the height of steps to be constructed', in tut .ire. Complaints have been made to the I : I Commission t.iis summer and fall j abo t the height of s:e;_s, especially by ! ; ladies, and in a number of instances | ithe companies agree,! to make the', hang*-, althougn tins was found to tie 1 iitf.eult because of the trucks on cars of old designs. During tne week the ommiss.on will i make a number of informal invest.ga lions and will meet next week, when a , number of hearings are scheduled, in | ; eluding the close of the industrial rail i ways cases. , Capitol Has a Holiday Columbus Day as a legal holiday was , observed at the capitol where almost everything was shut down. The eleva tors were not running, none of the | J guides were on duty, and business inji j almost every department was suspend led. In some of the departments a few j of the clerks were on duty to look aft ier urgeut matters. This will be the ■last holiday until election day. Last Day for Withdrawals Momiav, October 19. will be the last j day for candidates to withdraw from I the ticket, so on the following day, i Tuesday, the ballot to be vofed will be 'certified to County Commissioners ail) over the State. All candidates who have not withdrawn by Monday at mid ' night will be placed on the ballot. j Candidates Quit Notice was received at the State I>e , partment to-day that the followingl candidates for Assembly have wth drawn: C. V. McCreight, hid.ana: C.I , Oram ley. Centre: John A. Ziegen !; fus. Carbon, all Prohibitionists: David I L Hemmerly, Keystone. Twenty-fifth I Philadelphia district. Oliver T. Pe';>eclal to tiie Star-Independent. > Lancaster. Oct. IS. Many of tly>, pulpits lit'';' were tilled ye>trrdav by the m ulsters ;:i attendance a: the Kl uership of the Churches of <>o.l \!ter practically two .lavs of execu-■ five sess on the Eldership i n S.itur.-nv started its regular work u earnest. Tiie judiciary committee. which ast year was continued with inslructi .m to n vestigate complaints nga;n-; the Kev. H. 1. t arni'cLae., repotted the recall of his credentials. During tiie Ministerial!: the case of; the Rev. I. W, «-««.> i< v v :is referred to the ittdiciary committee ♦*»• i investiga tion. The Eldership adopted a resolation exptessing di*approva of tiie obser vance of the I.or I s s>uppe: at a morn nig church service or the separation of the Lord's Supper and the washing of the saints' foot. The Rev. \V. H. Snyder, statistical' cierk, reported. A summary of this ■<■• port shows that, ti-t pastors reported for llii appointmeiits, a membership of S.J it 1, an increase for the year of 708. These t!4 preachers received $35,- 601.02 saiaiv. Total amount collect ed $123,327.97. Houses of worship lie and 4 0 parsonages. The Kev. Dr. William Harris Guy or. president of Findlav College, u.l iressed the Eldership on "The Preachers' In tellectual Background" which lie fol lowed with a statement of the work of Findiay College-aud its needs. The committee on obituaries report ed resolutions on the life work and! death of the Rev. ('. I. Behncy and the Rev. O. E. Houston and El ier S. J. Bear. The Rev. Mr. Behney was pastor of the Church of God in Knha.it at the time of his death, while the Rev. \lr. Houston died during Ins pastorate at Penbrook. A crowded house greeted the Women's Missionary Society Satur [ day evening. , At this morning's sVssion a good deal of time was spent i-i the election of committees. The judicial commit tee elected is as fol ows: The Rev. s l>. Yabn. of Harrisburg, chairman: the Rev. \\. N. Yates, pastor of tiie Fourth Street church, of Harrison.g. the Kev. lieorse Sigler an.i 0. W. tJetr. The statistical clerk, the Rev. W. H. Snyder, reported. The report was adopted and he was re-elected to serve 1 during the following year. \ ballot was taken on the election of a standing committee and the Rev. : S. O. Yahn aud the Rev. W. \. Yates were eleeted. Dr. Yates resigned but the Eldership refused to accept his resignation. One more member is to be elected on this committee. SECRETARY OF STATE SUICIDE Illinois Democratic Official Ends Life in Tragic Marnier Springfield, 111.. Oct. 12.—-Secretary ot' State Harry Woods, one of the Dem ocratic Senatorial candidates at the re ; cent primary and former operator on the Chicago Board of Trade, killed himself early yesterday morning. His | lifeless body, with a gaping bullet | wound in the center of the forehead and an automatic pistol clutched in his right hand, was discovered early to- lav lying in the tool room of a garage in the rear of his residence. The body was found by Mrs. Woods, who had been alarmed at her husband's absence from home. No note of ex planation was left by Woods and the only clue was a bulky bundle of pa pers showing extensive dealings in grain through a Chicago brokerage house. I.KTTKK I.IST I-allies' I.st —.Mrs. i'has. Bro-tehev. Mrs. Fl-JticU .1. Croningei ,M ss Mar garet Fox. Miss Gallic Hunter. Miss i Hannah King. M 3. Marv Horn-r .Mar tenet. Mrs Gertrude Morrelli. Miss Alice O'H.illora. Mrs. Nelson Pit;:nger "DL>. Miss Rati Price. Mrs. l'raneis Pulley. Mis« M. Rose. Miss- Ma-garit ' Shlmmon, Miss F K. Wallace. Gentlemen's List—J. C. Armstrong. George Baile>. j. p. Barnard, Frank (5. Benjamin. I. P. Calhoun. K. Cheetham J. Kelson. Clinch, J. J. Conklev. Jos. H. | Cudlipp. Frank Cuppett, Giuseppe Di- Filipparstonlo. Thomas K. Donnallev, Mr. Duke. T. F. Dutton. Thomas B. 1-arrin (-i. J. H Fonda. Mr. Freeman, 'F. C. Gibbons. Chester S. Gild»a E Gill. Ciiarles Grunden. Alfred Hebron, G. C. Hain. Ed. Hanson. Walter Har mon. H. R. Hershey, George Hooker. K. H. Hoover. H. C. Horton. George E. Howard. Lawrence Hughey. J. c. Jones. Jacob Knlley. A. Krulini. ,1a ..i p. l„.e, Dan LeFevre. Hon. Jos. W. Little, Frank Mackey. J. P. Maugans, Lester Mawood. Tony McAfee. Thr>s. McOinnis. H. C. Miller. Rev H. F. Miller. Montv Montgomery. Arthur Morris. R. H. Mv "rs. Rev. R. Nicken. H. E. Xve. E. F. Ohler. Elicex Pay ton. .1. Rov Rood. Nick .-'antluse. Russel Saul. Edwin Schac!T»r, , Earl Shamon. Martin Slusser. Rev. T. H. Smith, Wink Snyder. W Sturtevant, Rev. E. I*. Teter, M K. Thomson. Frank Varona. L W. Walborn. U R. Weaver , James Wilson ( J). Firms—N. B. Attick & Son. Federal (Adjustment Co.. Lewight Bros. Matri monial Advertisement Dept.. Progress ive News (2). Foreign—Signor Mancon- Antonio. Hugo Beeker. Monsior lean Bo.koff Freng Dermensin, Josef Kavacs. Koef Hristo. Rosa Bolass. Skora Steran, . Snijiter Martin. Nik Teifkon,, Valeriani Raffaele. SENTENCED TO I'K.MTE.VTIARV Woodson Gets a Term of 12 to 18 Months—Two Sent to County Jail One penitentiary and two jail sen tences were hanaed out by Judge Me < arrell this morning to defendants who liad been convicted in the September criminal sessions On a charge of ac ' cepting bawd money. Lester A oodsou was sent to the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than eighteen months. On a charge : of assault and battery he was lined $5 and ordered to pay the costs. William Cupples got a tine of $5, was ordered to pay the costs and serve two months in jail on an assault and battery charge. On a similar charge James McLaren got three months. MEMBERS OF BOARD PUZZLED Equipment for Domestic Laboratory Can't Be Obtained Officials of the Harrisburg school Board are still woudering about the furnishiug for the domeMic science laboratory for the Central high school, fhai was ordered months ago. The manufacturing firm held it up on ac count of the war. 1 Friday will end the first six weeks of school aud the teaching of this branch has not been started yet. LADIES HELP THE POL idPfTihi aH § lip * * •The Indies' Auxiliary of the Hnr i rishurg Poly -linhospital, org<»n; ed five years ago, has done a great dc.ii in support of the inatitiition and is now : busily engaged in raising funds to help meet the ex.ense of furnishing the new hospital building at Front an I Harris I streets. In ihe tirsl floor rooms of the i building on Saturday afternoon 'ard i tables were placed, and about forty 1 I women took |\irt ,n games for the bene ! fit of the hos; iial treasury, j Phe membership of the auxiliary is! inade up of n hundred representative j BERLIN GENERAL STAFF ON THE FALL OF ANTWERP Berlin, Oct. 12, by Wireless to ' Siiyville, L. 1. The general staff of '•tlie German army announces to-day J that in the beginning a very strong i garrison defended Antwerp with great ,! energy, but that after the attack by Uermaii infantry and marine divisions the defenders fled in fulT rout. Among the Antwerp garrison was one British ■ marine brigade. ! The complete collapse of thi> Anglo , Belgian defense of Antwerp was shown by the fact that no military authority ( could be found with which to treat concerning the surrender of the city. 11 This surrender was finally negotiated { with the burgomaster. It is impossible to give as yet the , number of prisoners taken with Ant , werp. Many of the defenders who fled ! to Holland were interned. . tieneral Von Beseler, who has been ' j decorated with the Order of Merit for his capture of Antwerp, has issued a 'proclamation addressed to the people, saving no one would bo harmed unless they committed hostilities upon the Hermans. "Resistance." he announced, "will cause the destruction of your 11 beautiful city." Private property in 1! Antwerp was spared. AUSTRIAN'S Sl'FFKll HEAVILY AT HANDS OF MONTENEGRINS Paris. Oct 12. 12.10 A. M.—A dis patch to the Havas Agency from let trnje says tjie Austrian troops who on ' October S fo.ight the Montenegrins on * j the way to Sarajevo were 200,000 ' strong. ; The Austrians lost 1.500 in killed j and wounded and. withdrawing to 1 i Kalenovitch, 40 miles south of Sara *jjevo. at least 500 more in killed and ! wounded. Montenegrins also took many prisoners, according to the corre ; spoudent. RUSSIASEES HELI* FOR ALLIES IN DEATH OF RUMANIA'S KINO Petrograd, Oct. 12, via bin.lon, 1.05 A. Xl. An official statement given out | to-day expresses the belief tHiat the , death Saturday of King Charles 6f R.i --' mania, removes an obstacle to the turn j ing of Rumania to the cause of the al ! lies, to which end recent 'Russian diplo matic- efforts were unavailable. It is said further that rhe svm at hies of the | Rumanian people, who in the past have shown that t'oov were »p;-osed to rhe championing of Prussia by the late i King, will now assert themselves. | Consequently, according to Russian 1 authorities Rumania will cease to | menace Russia bv furnisbing'provisions I and traimporting troops for Oermanv. GERMAN OFFICERS ORDERED | BACK TO REJOIN THE C OLORS London, Oct. 12, 3.10 P. M,—lt is semiofficially announced to-day at Pet rograd. according to a dispatch to tlio Exchange Telegraph from the Russian : capital, that owing to the great losses 'sustained by the (ierinau armies all of ficers and non-commissioned officers who lever have been m the amn ar? ordered 'to rejoin the colors without regard to . age. Generals in rctiremc; ; are obtaining commissions in the landst'irm and in t the landwher corps wli.lt teaciu-rs in the primary schools who hitherto nave been exempt from military duty are now being compelled to enter active service. Wilson Talks About Peace Efforts ( ! Washington, Oct. 12. Various re ! ' ports about efforts of the Washington ,! government to set on foot peace ne , j gotiations between the warring Euro ; pean nations were set at rAt to-day by President Wilson. He told callers that lie had. made no direct* peace negoti i i ations representations to any of the I powers since his tirst note ti'n lering the , good offices of the United States. Autonomy to Avert Insurrection Ijondon. Oct. 12.—A message from Budapest published in Rome credits the r ; Hungarian government with th- intejr ' tion of granting autonomy to Transyl- II vania with a view to averting- an in » surrection in that country. Dense Fog Impedes Artillery »; Washington, Oct. 12.—Dispatches ; received to-day at the French embassy j said that, aside from violent cavalrv « charges, there had been comparatively s 1 little fighting to-day, a dense fog liav- I made the use of artiliery impossible. women of the city. They have been ■ very m-tive in their s.r j iv-| of ■'»' Polvciini' hos; ;jil, giving many sup pes and p.r os to la >e needed fun.l:.. The ofiice's ef the a.t\iliarv arc: Mrs. .1. 11. »!n;g-i h, | resident; Mrs. c. click nger. vice , • esidt s :: - Mis. Sun ucl s.iope, diiiji se.-ri «ry; Mrs. W . il. Yoci: b, correnponding secretary; 'Mrs. \\ . R. House:-, miancal se.-r< iar\. Mrs. . liarles ShalTer, treisurf-. Comiui.'teos in , liarge of arrauge ments for the iienerit parties are as fol j Ions: Table and .liar committee. Mrs,. ! THE SONGS OF OTHER DAYS Selected By J. HOWARD U /JA>7 "Aunt Tabitha" By Oliver Wendell Holmes Whatever T do ami whatever I say. Aunt Tali it ha tolls me that isn't the \v :i \ : When she was a girl I fortv snmmors nijo>, Aunt Tahitha tells me they never did -o. Dear aunt! if I only'w ould take her nilvice. Hut I like m\ own way. and I rind it so m, c'* , \nd besides T forget half the things I am told: j Knt they will come baek to me- when I am old. If a youth passes ""by, it may happen, no doubt, lie may chance to look in as I chance to look nut; I s he would never endure an impertinent stare; It is horrid, she says, and I mustn't *it there. A walk in the moonlight has pleasure, T own, Hut it isn't quite safe to l>e walking alone; ■ w o I take i, lad's arm—just for safetv. *on know; Rut Aunt Tabitha tells me they didn't do so. !l<»w wicked we are and how good the\ were then! They kept at am'- length those detestable men; What an era of virtue she live,l in! but stay Were the men Mich rogues in Aunt Tabitha'g day.' If the men were s„ wicked- I'll ask my uapa How he tlared to propose to my darling mama? > ; Was lie like the rest ot them? goodness! who knows? \nd what shall I say if a wretch should propose? 1 am thinking if aunt knew so little of sin, , What a wonder Aunt Tabitha s aunt must have been' , And her graikl-aunt—it scares me how shockingly sad i I hat we girls of to-day are so frightfully bad! A martyr will save us, and nothing else can; , us perish to rescue some wretched voting man! Though, when to the altar a victim I no, I Aunt Tabitha 'll tell me—she never did so. The New Baby i Muzzer's bought a baby—- | Zink I ought to love him Jttle bit of zing; I won't- so /.ere! • /ink Imm could put him Na-sv. ,rving bab\ i! Troo mv rubber ring. Ain't got any hair. j' Aint he awful ugly? Send me otV wi/. Hiddv ASn't lie awful pink f Every single dav Just come down from heaven, "He a good bov, t'lmrlev . Dat s a tib, 1 /.ink. ; away and play." Doctor told anmuuer Dot all mv nice ki-ses. Great big awful lie; Dot niv place in bed; ' >ose am t out of jo.vent— .Mean to take mv drumstick, Pat an, t why 1 cry. i And hit him on ze heart. f —-v- r.. i ———— —raw t> WHISKER CULTURE n A Critic Who Does Not Like the Hang ' ing Garden Effect ? In tlio "American Magazine'' James i ; Montgomery Klagg, writing a piece 011 i " Whiskerculture," contributes the fol . lowing pei niir to cultiv ate hanging gar- I dens oil the face: > '' This is to certify that the bearer, S the grass 111 any part of Central Park, or other city parks, during Mav and °j June and pretend he is a spiraea bush. 11 ; "It by any chance he should begin s jto bear currants or marrons giaces he ■ | must allow the Commissioner of I'arks I iirst, pickings. ' , "He is required also to permit any '; uniformed oflicial of the !' the following year '' IT PAYS TO USE STAR INDEPENDENT WANT ADS. • v /. >ho t\ Mrs. \V. If. llotis^p, V ;r. K. K. H »':> .M : r I M• s. I!. \ V . .1 . t . . t«\ .v is. (ii. \i. 00. >Hs. I\ L>. STM-kor. Mrs. W L\ !' ;< 'i. \s. K. 1». Wsthne! Hit'l M s. I. M. W-•'I.«T: r . cam »ouinK; t«v. Mrs. K. 1.. Luwson; *nki» « 0:11 *ni«tp»\ Mvm. v\. i!. Vocuni, Mrs. Ma «' Dick, Mis. V.. T . I Ikk'inger BIN I MIRS. .Tohu lijili.ig'hor; tally anl rai»ly 'o:nniittt*A, \l• 11. Woohlo ami 'Mrs. Bellort I /1 w son. I lie auxiliary plans a number of a«' t • vitii > IY» th»' (lining months lor flip IVly« >,u;. h,»s; iral bcneftt. MOTORCAR PROGRESS Standardisation of the Parts and Wh&t That Means Ask any engineer what feature of modem motorcar construction repre sents the greatest improvement and advancement in design, and he will say not the aiuomatie engine starter, the -ix cylinder engine, but standardiza tion. i hat may bp H word which means but little to the car owner, but he un consciously teriws untold benefit from it every day that he runs his automo bile. By reason of it lie has only to ask for a certain kind o.' p|;\:k plug and he knows it will tit the < ylinde . he has only a dozen or so uiffereat sizes ot tires from which to select tie one adapted to his car, and even the carburetor may be repla ed by one of H different make without any change whatsoever in the oolt holes or atta !i ing flange. \ vital part of the motor or running jiear may be replaced by a blacksmiin or local machine shop from the ord.- narv sizes of stock carried 011 han I, an,l the screw thread sizes as no.v used conform to If certain standard that ren lers replacements exceedingly simple. Urease cups, nuts or bolts that may have been lost may be replaced a' the nearest supply store or garage, for no longer docs cadi manufacturer work only to his own specifications on these minor parts. — H. \V, Slaus.oU, M. K., in Leslie's. Suspicious Ernest Vi'.etelly, who has published a record of his experiences during ma Fran 'o-Prussian war, tells a story to illustrate the popular mania for'discov ering "treason that prevailed in Paris. He says that one day a soldier re marked to a comrade: *" 1 am sura that the captain is-a traitor.'' "How's that/" was the re.joiuder. "Well." said the suspicious soldisr, "have you not noticed that e.verv time he orders 11s to march forward we in variably encounter the enemv ?"