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Thursday, October 15, t#l4.
OCTOBER
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any WEATHER FORECASTS
[ /f l ' Harrisburg and vicinity: Unsettlel
r to n cht and Friday, probably local
r*" Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled to
f X* nigh? and Friday, probably local ra ; n«
v~ Gent >e to moderate east winds.
THE ELIMINATION OF CARRANZA
The resignation of General larranza as provi
sional president of Mexico. a> rep rted in unofficial
dispatches to Washington, and its prompt accept
ance by the Villa-controlled peace conference in
Agua-calieutt s. while it indicates perhaps the elimi
nation ot' one ot* the stumbling blocks to the estab
lishment of permanent peace in the turbulant re
public to the south of us. cannot be accepted as
giving absolute assurance that all is to be har
monious hereafter.
t 'arran.:;. - for- d retirement from a position of
prominence in the affairs of Mexico appears to be
entirely satisfactory to General Villa, his former
ally, wiih whom, however, he has recently been
literally at swords' points, and the fact that An
tonio Villarreal, who has the Villa backing, is prac
tically certain to become the provisional president,
l- another indication that the Villa party has made
important trains in .ts campaign to strengthen its
own position. The record of Villa, however, is not
such as to inspire confidence in his ability or even
in his desire to give Mexico what it has so long
needed.—a stable government established on the
actual will of the majority of the people.
If Americans have got the right impression of
\ ilia or the Villa party, its aims and ambitions are
no less seltish than those of other parties iu recent
incomplete control of the Mexican government.
The impression will last that the Villa party will
remain in the ascendency only as long as it is able
to maintain us position through the right of might,
—that is through the strength of its military or
ganization,—and government established on such
a basis has been the cause of all of Mexico's woes
of the pas^
There is nothing to guarantee even now that the
majority of Mexicans will be satisfied with the kind
of government Villa will try to force down their
throats. Indeed th»»re already are signs that the
selection of \ illarreal will be unsatisfactory to the
leaders now engaged in hostilities in Sonora or to
other leader* iu the North, so that the hrie of
eliminating strife, even with Carranza out of the
way, is not very bright.
Indeed the prospect of real and lasting peace in
Mexico seems almost as remote as it has been since
the days of Diaz, for the simple reason that ea.-h
successive party that temporarily gains control is
prompted by considerations of personal gain and
personal ambition rather than the actual welfare of
the people.
The real deliverer of Mexico does not seem gs yet
to have put in an appearance.
COMMON SENSE AND THE HUNTER
With the opening of the hunting season will come
the usual crop of hunting accidents, many of them
••aused by sheer carelessness of the hunters them
selves. Authorities who have followed hunting iu
field and forest say that accidents almost invariablv
are the result of carelessness, either on the part
of the hunter or of someone in his party. The
observance of ordinary precautions would have
prevented hundreds of accidents in the past, and
while thos" responsible for them may have ex
pressed great sorrow for their carelessness, never
theless that sorrow does not restore a victim to
life, nor does it remove the suffering and misery
of the maimed and injured.
Every year the warning goes out to hunters to
beware of the ' didn't kuow it was loaded" gun.
•for this weapon has been the cause of more serious
hunting accidents than all of the other causes com
bined. Hunters are told not to point a gun in the
HARRISBURO STAR-IN DEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1914.
j direction of another hunter, for iu these days of
| hair-triggers and other quick-firing devices the gun j
I is likely to he discharged when least expected.;
; Those who cross fences are admonished not to drag
| the gun after them as they climb, but time and;
j again we read of men being iujured by carelessness'
of this sort, the trigger catching on a twig or a rail
and another candidate qualifying for the hospital.
How often has the warning been sounded not to
tire unless the game is in sight* And yet, the eare
■ less or excited sportsman sees a movement in the
bush, or a swaying branch, and sends a load of shot
or a bullet into another hunter.
<>f recent years deer hunters have taken to wear
ing red caps, especially in Pennsylvania woods, as
| a mark to distinguish them from deer, but this
practice does not obtain when the careless bird
hunter is abroad. The slightest movement in the
i brush is the signal for him to bang away.
Some years ago the loss of life in the Penneylva- j
nia forests through mistaking the hunter for the;
deer was one of the considerations that led to the
enactment of a law making it a penal offense to
kill a deer without horns—a doe or a fawn—so that
deer hunters now seldom shoot unless they see the
animal 's horns. This has led to a remarkable dimi
nution in the number of deer hunters killed and
wounded iu this state. It also has led to a won
derful increase in the number of deer, as none but
| buck deer are permitted to be killed, while the
, fawns and does thrive and continue to increase.
! Hut. even with this precaution, the number of deer
: hunting accidents is large, although decreasing
j every season.
It is huuter who carries a shotgun, however, |
who is guilty of most of the carelessness that re
sults iu accidents, and repeated admonitions have
failed to impress upon this class that care should
always be observed. The hunter's license law pro
vides that no person under fourteen years old
shall be permitted to hunt in ibis state, ami this
wise provision has done much to reduce the number
of shotgun accidents. In former years any boy
sturdy enough to carry a gun and point it could
as a hunter roam the fields, although it stands to
reason that hoys under fourteen arc not possessed
of that precaution given to persons more matured.
With no experience a hoy under fourteen is likely
to bang away at anything and everything, little
uoting the danger of his actions.
Common sense is the best qualification of men
who go into the tieids and forests in quest of game,
and the observance of common sense rules will pre
vent many an accident during the season opening |
to-dav.
i
The expected has happened. France i« placing orders
for bayonet and sabre steel with the Pittsburgh mills. j
From ail accounts the tombstones in the Lackawanna '
countv graveyards are beiug drawn upon fo- registration
purposes.
The convicts in the Illinois penitentiary have petitioned i
for statewide prohibition. With them in anv »case "it's a
long time between drinks."
The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed a suit to oust
the Standard Oil Company from that state. The octopus I
( hunting fad seems to be passing.
j It is promised that there will be enough Christinas toys
i to go around iu this country despite the fact that none will
i come from Europe. Yankee ingenuity can always be de
! pended upon.
Boss Viinu thinks that fusion will be complete if Palmer i
withdraw? as a candidate for Senator iu favor of Pinchot.
| What will the Democratic-Washington State Committee
have to say about this when it meets here tomorrow?
Palmer is not built of withdrawing material.
TOLD IN LIGHTERVEIN
BEYOND ITS POWER
"That rich Mrs. Stiggins doesn't speak to me now. Vet
she used to be my nest-door neighbor—and they were aw-f
fully common."
"Well, there are some things money can't do."
"What?"
"Make old-time neighbors forget the early days."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A LOT OF AMATEURS
Hicks —"What do you think of the General Staff?"
Wicks —"Huh! 1 use more real strategy to get a night •
out with the boys."—Boston Transcript.
THE VALUE OF NERVE
Don't let the war in Europe kill your nerve and it will
I not kill Your business.—Detroit Free Press.
NEVER IN DOUBT
"Does your wife ever doubt what you sav when vou get
: home latef" asked the Wise Guy.
"Never," replied the Grouch. "She knows lam lving." '
1 —Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE OPPORTUNIST
Teacher—"Mary, how would you divide five apples
■ among six children?"
j Mary—"Make apple sauce."—Philadelphia Ledger. i
AN OBLIGING SPIRIT
"I thought you were going to move ihto a more ex
pensive apartment."
"The landlord saved us the trouble." replied Mrs. Flim
gilt. "He raised the rent of the one we have been oecu- 1
i pying."—Washington Star.
CAUTIOUS REPORTER
City Editor—"For a beginner, that new reporter seemyi
very particular not to make any mistakes."
Assistant—"Yes; I told him to write on one side of the
paper, and he wanted to know which side."—Judge.
CARRIED TO AN EXTREME
"Sufferin' in silence is admirable," said Uncle Eben.
"But de chicken dat won't squawk when he's bein' lifted '
off'n lie roost carries it to an extreme."—Washington Star
WHERE SHE DOES THE COOKING
"Does his wife cook in an emergency!"
No, ma am; in the kitchen."—Baltimore American.
THE THRUST DISCOURTEOUS
He—"l've got something in this package for the one I 1
love best."
She ■ You re always buying things for yourself, you're
i that selfish!"— Public Ledger. i
I Tongue-End Topics)
The Doctors Oummil Wrong
Daniel D. Hammelbaugh. secretarv of
the Harrisburg Board of School Direct
j «r». who summers in Mt. Gretna. telle
an interesting storv of an 81 year-old
year-round resident of that place. De
pite his advanced years, the old fellow
loves to go out and spend two or throe I
hours at a time among the chestnut I
trees, gathering the nuts, and when
perils marvel at his powers of endur
ance he tells this storv: When he was;
•40 years old he wanted to barrow a !
small amount of tuotiev and the person
from whom,he wanted to borrow it in
sisted that he have his life insured ;
to guarantee the ainouut. He accord
tnglv went to at. examiuiug physician. |
who reported to the itisurauce company 1
j that he had a weak heart. The doctor |
vxrinid not advise that he he insured for
more than two years. Thai was almost ■
forty years ago. When he was 60 !
years old he had his teeth extracted j
and at that time was advised that he,
would die of dyspepsia in two years if I
he did not get false teeth. That was '
twenty years ago. He did not itel the
teeth, but he is still able to go for'
chestnuts.
Lebanon's Fire Truck All New i
No fire department in the State is
quite so proud of its new automobile
apparatus as the Lebanon department,
i whos,» engines attracted much attention '
during the State firemen's parade here;
I :ast week. However, when some spec
tators said they thought the motor- ■
I drawn hook and ladder truck was an
I old one, pulled by a tractor of recent
manufacture, and asked ,the Lebanon |
firemen about it. the visitors feft in- '
suited. Many persons did ask about it '
when the parade was momentarily
stopped along the route. One Lebanon !
fireman remarked:
"I should say that is not an old
truck with a new tractor. That is a
brand new truck aud it cost the city
of Lebanon almost 111,000, com
plete."
A few minutes later along came the
Mt. V eruou truck, of Harriaburg, :il ,
most twenty feet longer, pulled by three
horses. Should a tractor be placet! on
the Harrisburg truck it would seem,
from comparing these two machines,
that the local one would be about twice
' as big as Lebanon's.
. , .
The City Clerk Understood
I r :tv Clerk Mil.er's attention was
1 attracted to a foreigner at the door of
| his office in the Court House yesterday
! after the visitor had rapped several
j times ou the counter.
"What can 1 do for vou?" asked
Mr. Miller.
•Me want a licie.'' said the for-1
eigner.
•Do you want to sell on the
streets!" quizzed the < ity Clerk, part
' of whose business it is to keep tabs on
j peddlers.
'' No. sir.''
"Do you want to get married?"
"No. no. Pis way." the foreigner
' said as he assumed a pose somewhat
, like the hunter when he is about to
fire.
"Oh. you want nj hunter's license!
j Vou must go down the hallway two
j doors.
And the foreigner departed and
! joined three other hunters who '
, were lined up waiting for license tags.
Chestnut Blight Vanishing?
The last Legislature shut off an ap
j propriation for checking the chestnut
blight in Pennsylvania, aud the Chest
nut Blight Commission, created to stay
I the ravages of the pest, went out of
business. The disease continues, except
in places where it had been checked
»while the Commission 'was at work.
Scientific doctoring had a good result in
I preventing the killing of the trees, and
vet, with all of t;>e disease iu Pennsyl
vania. the chestnut crop this year is j
reported to b»* larger than ever, espe- 1
| cially iu the vicinity of 'Harrisburg.
i Every day for the last couple of weeks
i chestnut parties have been starting out
; from Harrisburg for nuts, returning in j
j the evening laden with bags full of
! the finest specimens.
"The chestnut blight is still
| ing on," says a Forestry Commission
i official, "but it has declined in the!
Alleghenies. It still ravages the south
eastern, eastern and northeastern parts
of the State, and the southern parts as j
j far west as Adams eounty."
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New Trees Spring Up
A singular thing in connection with
the chestnut blight is that trees affeet
ed by it, until they are totally sapped
i of their v itality and life, will bear ;
larger crops than trees that are not af-!
r'eetcd. and that is given as one reason i
why the chestnut crop is large in the
i vicinity of Harrisburg. The chestnut '
; blight we still have with us. but we'
also have the chestnuts. It is true that !
in time we may have neither trees nor j
nuts, but somehow as the trees die in I
one section new trees spring up, and
i there docsn't appear to be any appre- '
; hension that the chestnut at any (time
' will be a thing of the nast. And then,
i we ehall always have the minstrel and i
vaudeville jokes with a chestnut.
DO YOU SUFFER
FROM BACKACHE?
When your kidneys are weak and
tor).id they do not properly perform
their functions; your back aches and
you do not feel like doing much of !
anything. You are likely to be despond
ent and to borrow trouble, just as if
you hadn't enough already. Don't be
a victim any longer,
i The old reliable medicine. Hood's
iSarsaparilla, gives strength and tone to
the kidneys and builds up\the whole
system. Get it to-day. Adv. i
BRUMBAUGH FOR
SOCIAL REFORMS
Continued From Third Faff*
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mothers of the childhood of the future ,
of Pennsylvania.
"I have also said not only is mv'
platform but elsewhere iu Puuuylvi- i
nia iu my discussion of these issues.
that 1 think the coming legislature l
should pass again the amendment which
it passed at its last session obligating !
to the people the question as to whether j
or uot women should vote iu Pennsyl
vania. and 1 also, in exactly the same 1
way, have stood up and taken a stand |
for local optiou, county by county, in,
Pennsylvania, and 1 would" be false to I
the statement of my principles if 1 did !
not make myself plain on that and
every other moral/ proposition to the
people of Pennsylvania.
"These things which I have just
enumerated comprehend in a general
way what we call the program of so
cial reform in legislation, aud I want
to say right now aud right here to
every man iu this room thut nobody j
can offer a more reasonable program of j
reform social legislation than that to
which 1 am committed, as a matter of |
principle and as a matter of duty to |
the people of Pennsylvania, and it : my i
progressive friends have anv desire to '
see the things they have wrought for!
enacted into law :l nd administered in
this Commonwealth, 1 invito them to 1
join with me in this fight Tor clean,
inpable, conscientious government in!
Pennsylvania.
Promises Good Road System
"A word in regard to your public!
roads. Have you got the kind of roads j
you want? Let tue tell you what I
think about them. 1 think it is a'
shame that this great, splendid Com 1
monwealth ot' ours has not roads com- j
inensurate with its dignity and worth
of its people, and if I am chosen toj
the office for which mv party has nomi
nated me, 1 shall turn my attention toj
such a reorganization of the road prob-J
lem of Pennsylvania as to give to the 1
people quickly and promptly good earth i
and solid built, drained and crowued, :
roads from the farms to the markets of j
Pennsylvania, and without in any way I
reflecting upon any past administration !
of that proposition, 1 shall guarantee!
to you a dollar's worth of roads for j
every hundred cents of your money put .
into roads, and 1 shall also labor zeal- j
ouslv to see that somebody capable as 5
a road builder is put in charge of each j
section of that road bed to keep it daily |
in as good repair as it was the day it I
was built. 1 want you to understand '
ihat we are all committed—every i-au-;
didate on this State ticket —absolutely!
to the working out of a good transpor
tation system for the people of Peuu- I
sylvania, and it won't be done, let me!
assure, you, by politicians, but by men
who know how to make good 011 t lke
job!
very interesting writers, who
think they understand more about me >
thau I understand about myself, and
who for motives unworthy" of decent!
people, have undertaken to make peo-!
pie believe that somehow or other if j
I were elected Governor of Pennsylva
nia somebody, or some group of people
would control my actions. U't tis get I
straight on that here to-night. 1 never '
knew a boss in all my life, and 1 never •
will. If you elect me to that office, vou I
elect me Governor, and I will serve' in i
that office as my conscience and my j
I'ather in Heaven give me wisdom to
serve vou."
McCormick Makes t7 Speeches j
Coudersport, Oct. 15.—Vance C. j
Met ormick. Democratic candidate for ■
(iovernor. broke all speed records for!
campaigning and under the most try-;
ing weather conditions yesterday, but ,
in spite of the breakneck expedition
and the hazardous driving, the Demo- |
emtio standard-bearer had traversed
13S miles of mountain country by
nightfall and when he spoke in the
court house here last night he made the
seventeenth speech which he had given
during the day.
In his speech here. .Mr. Palmer took
up the 34th count in his indictment of j
Senator Penrose, charging him with '
favoring, as far as the Republican Sen- i
ator dared, a condition "next to Slav-'
cry" for the workinginan and pointing j
J-jejgBgBHBBMMH*
People Are Unusually Friendly to
I Advertised Goods These Days
A DVERTISED goods of standard quality
have stood out against the raise in
prices that came with the war.
They have kept faith with the public
and won a measure of esteem greater than
ever before.
The retailers who join in the continent
wide Newspaper Window Display Week,
beginning next Monday, are putting their
stores in the lime-light of public approval.
During next week retailers are asked to
make window displays of the national
products advertised in this and other good
newspapers.
It means linking the push of the store
with the pull of the newspaper, and it
means gaining the good will of the public.
1 he advertising department of this paper
will gladly furnish further information.
National Newspaper Window Display Week
October 19-24
I
THE GLOBE THE GLOBE
Greater Values
In Boys' Clothing
It makes uo difference whether your boy needs
a suit or an overcoat, this popular Boys' Store was
never better prepared to serve you than right now.
THE GLOBE HOYS' CLOTHES are faultlessly tailored and
the prices are absolutely the lowest obtainable for the high
standard of quality always maintained by TllK ULOBE.
(§" Globe-Special"
Two-Pants Suits at... 0
These suits have "two lives."
The extra pair of trousers dou
strenuous bovs. Mothers know
show first at knees aud seat—
i. e. "GLOBE-SPECIAL" TWO
PANTS SUITS are the uoat I
sensible and most practical idea
tinet models to select from—all
beautiful fabrics. Extraordi
nary values at .. 95.00
Boys' Balmacaans Boys 1 "Knickers" $ I
Sudden changes in the weather If there were better
suggest Balmacaans. All the new, "knickers" made than
nobby Tweeds and fancy fabrics these we would sell
are here. They're loose-fitting them. Cut full and
and are the swellest coats we've roomy, seams durably
ever seen for boys. Exceptional taped and are lined
values at throughout. Corduroy
*e «>»7 en *m nil-wool mixed fab
ss"~s7iso $lO • rics.
BOYS RAINCOATS, made of double texture rainproof
fabrics and guaranteed in every respect, at $3.95 & $5.00
the charge with a reference to Pen '
rose's vote against the repeat of thej
contract labor laws of Hawaii.
With Candidate MaCormiek was]
Robert S. Bright, Arthur B. Clark and j
N. XI. Crosby, candidates for Congress-'
man-at-Lurge, and William N. Mc-!
Naur, candidate for Secretary of Inter- j
nal Affairs, Harris A. Spo'tts, Deuiu
cratic county chairman of Lycoming!
county, was in charge of the tour yes- i
terday, and J. G. Paul, chairman of
Mi'Kean county, will meet the party'
at Port Allegheny to-day and escort i
it by auto through the county, arriving j
Bradford for the night rally.
No Fusion on Senator
' Philadelphia, Oct. 15.—There will
be no fusion between the Democrats
and Washington party on United States!
S«>mitor. This authoritative statement
was made yesterday bv the State chair
mei. of the respective parties. Mr.
Palmer has persistently denied that he
will leave the light, but, despite his
declarations, ex-Senator William Flinn
has attempted to cast doubt on the;
statement by saving that fusion was
still probable.
Beyond the acceptance by the Wash
ington party of Vance < . McCormick a<
:♦ candidate for Governor in place of i
William Draper lewis, and fusion on !
perhaps ten Legislative candidates, i
there will be no further union. This'
statement was made by the leaders con
sidering fusion.
The last day for substituting candi
dare« will be next Monday. The State
Committees of the Democratic and
Washington parties will meet in Har
risburg to morrow, when the legisla
tive fusion tickets will be arranged
and returns made to the Secretary ot
the Commonwealth.
Crow Attacks Palmer
Senator William K, Crow, Kepulilic
an State chairman, is? ;ed a statement
[yesterday citing 12 instances in which
he declared Representative A. Mitchell
Palmer had opposed reform legislation
in jhe Pennsylvania Legislature of
1907. His attack upon Mr. Palmer
followed that of the Democratic nomi
i nee s reply of Sunday to a similar accu
sation made by the Republican chair
man.
The statement, after recalling .Vlr.
Palmer's denial and declaring that the
indulgence of personalities cannot over
come facts, goes into the situation pre
vailing in the State in 1 J»O6, when
there was n demand for the regulation
of railroads and corporations. Senator
t row also attacked tho labor record of
\ auce McCormick and characterised
the Democratic nominees-—Palmer act
'McCormick—as "two notorious chaml*
Icons and Jekvl and Hydes of Pennsvl
v a ilia politics, representing in them
selves, their careers and business affile
atious everything they now pretend not
to represent."
U. B. Ministerial Meeting
Dr. J. T. Spangler will speak Mon
| day morning at 10 o'clock ou "The
■ Modern Evangelistic Movement.' at a
meeting of the United Brethren Mm
insterial Association of Harrisburg and
vicinity. The meeting will be held in
the Y. M. C. A. hall, Second and Lo
cust streets.
Artistic Printing at Star-Independent.