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Tuesday, October 20, 11114.
OCTOBER
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MOON'S PHASBfI
Full MOOD, 4th; Last Quarter, 12th;
New Moon, 19th; First Quarter, 25th.
xrnr ETTv WEATHER FORECASTS
Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair and
* slightly warmer to-night. Wednesday
fair, warmer.
T F.astern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night.
slightly warmer in north and west por
%%.J tions. Wednesday fair, warmer. Gentle
1 ' to moderate winds becoming southerly.
YESTERDAY S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 68; lowest, 49; S a. m., 53; 8 p. m., 61.
QUESTION OF FREIGHT RATES AGAIN
The renewed effort of the eastern railroads to
obtain permission to advance their freight rates
comes close on the heels of the decision of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, which on Sep
tember 1!). last, denied absolutely to grant increases
east of Pittsburgh and Buffalo, although allowing
increases west of those places as far as the Missis
sippi river. That decision, however, was based on
consideration of conditions prior to July 1, last,
and conditions affecting the railroad business have
date changed so materially as to make it
altogether proper that the new effort of the roads
to obtain an increase should lie made even so soon.
it is a rule of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion not to reopen a hearing on a given subject,
such as freight rates, unless the petitioners are pre
pared to submit new fads based on new conditions
that have arisen since the previous ruling was made
on the subject. In the present instance there is an
abundance of new facts which have developed since
July 1, altering the business situation for the rail
roads in a way to justify the new plea for higher
rates.
I he war in Europe has done more to handicap the
railroads of this country than merely to make them
suffer some losses in traffic (hie to the world-wide
falling off in business in which United States, of
course, shares. It has seriously tied up the finan
cial situation which has so large an influence on
the business of the big transportation companies.
I lie market for the sale of securities is practically
al a standstill. Bond issues and the floating of new i
stocks can now be accomplished, if at all, only
through offering the securities at rates which assure
interest or dividend returns to the purchasers far
in advance of those prevailing in normal times, or
even before July ]. Even such high class securities
as approved municipal bonds can be floated only
at greatly advanced interest rates.
But the railroads are constantly confronted with
the necessity of issuing new securities. This is not
only to obtain funds to make needed extensions of
their lines and to renew their tremendously costly
equipment, but to refinance bond issues that from
time to time are maturing. If the necessary new
securities can be issued now only at advanced rates
ot interest there is of course this additional cost
imposed on the roads, and to meet it they are enti
tled to have more income. An increase in the
freight rates would give it to them.
Although he got off the Washington partv ticket Dean
hewiH gull i» a candidate for governor, on'the Roosevelt
Progressive ticket, but that will not prevent him from
making speeches for the Democratic state candidates.
BOY SCOUTS AND FOREST FIRES
At this time, when the floors of the forests are
thickly covered with dry leaves,—discarded and
dying foliage ready to catch an idle spark of fire j
and spread conflagration far and wide,—it may j
be well for men who roam the woods on business '
or on pleasure to follow examples set by the Boy
Scouts of America regarding precautions to be
taken for the prevention of forest fires. Rules fol
lowed by the Scouts in this matter read like this:
In building your camp fire take every precaution to
prevent its spreading. This may be done by building a
>-ircle of stones around the fire, or by digging up the e«rth, j
or by wetting a space around the fire. Always have buckets
of water near at hand. To prevent the rekindling of the i
tire after it is apparently out, pour the water over it and !
•oak the earth for a space of two or three feet around it. I
This if. very important, for many forest fires have started
through failure to observe this caution. It is criminal
to leave a burning fire.
It, is consistent with Scout principles to take un-
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 20. 1914. .
I usual care to prevent forest conflagrations/ The
! vast organization of boys which encourages the
| planting and proper care of trees on so large a
j scale naturally includes in its rules precautions
| against the destruction of trees by fire. These pre
i cautions are presumably observed by all members
i of the organization.
When the Boy Scotita of America of the present
generation who have had the good fortune to start
I the movement in this hemisphere pass from the
obedience of boyhood to the mastery of manhood
they will undoubtedly remember the Scout disci
pline so lastingly impressed upon them and will
follow the rules of the forest that were taught them
in their youth. Meanwhile, the men at this season
roaming through the woods who do not know the
; benefit of Boy Scout training, whose only guidance
' in boyhood was their own less disciplined common
sense, should post themselves on the rulesrof the
I Scouts and follow the examples set by the boys in
the matter of the prevention of forest fires.
Flames in the woods can be started either by
accident or by design. For persons who purposely
: start a tire in a forest a sentence is prescribed, and
i even though it may go to Hie full extent of the
| law,—ssoo fine and a year's imprisonment,—it is
hardly too severe for the offense. Persons who
start conflagrations unintentionally, as through
carelessness with campfires, are certainly blamable
for their inexcusable negligence.
Sparks from locomotives cannot he disregarded
as sources of much damage in forests at this time
of the year. Nothing other than principles like
those of Boy Scouts were back of the bill introduced
: in the last Pennsylvania legislature, but killed in
committee, which provided that the railroads take
certain precautions with their plentiful sparks.
The originators of the Boy Scout movement in
this country did well to provide that the important
principles of conservation of trees be instilled in
the minds of boys of this country of many forests.
The Boy Scouts in manhood will lie expected (o
live these principles learned in boyhood, and mean-1
while they can set their elders good examples, par-1
ticularly in the prevention of forest fires at this"
time of the year.
TV. Swallow is driving nails into the Stough tabernacle. I
The Doctor can wield a hammer as well as a pen.
Gradually this campaign is getting around to the "I'll- ;
sue-you-for-libel" stage. And the threat generally ends
there.
Boston baseball "players scorn a bonus of $17,000 to
play a game with the Indianapolis Federal League team for
the championship; but the unbiased fans of the country
would like to see such a contest.
We read that every morning when London wakes up it !
breathes a prayer of thankfulness that the hated Zeppelins j
have not dropped a few bombs ou Parliament House during j
the night. London must be a pleasant place for a night's
rest.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
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THE MARRIAGE MART
Representati\e Henry was condemning at a tea in Waco i
an international marriage.
"It reminds me in its bare faced quality of material- j
ism," he said, "of a story.
"'Who presented the Duke to yout' a girl friend en
viously asked a multi-millionaire duchess from Denver.
"'Nobody presented him,' the Duchess answered, I
yawning behind her jeweled hand. 'I bought him in the
open market.' " —Chicago Herald.
SOCIAL ZOOLOGY
"So you think the Mixingtons are toadies?" said t"hc
anxious inquirer.
"Toadies!" echoed Miss Cayenne. "Why, in the social
puddle they don't loom up e\eu as good-sized pollvwogs." |
—Washington Evening Btar.
THRIFT
Settlement Worker (visiting tenements)- —"And your !
father is working now and getting sl4 a week? That's
splendid! And how much does he put awav every Sat-I
urday night, dear!" ,
Little Girl—"Never more than three quarts, ma'am."—
Puck.
A PARALLEL CASE
The sailor had been showing the laay visitor over the'
ship. In thanking hini she said:
"I see that by the rules of your ship tips are forbidden."
"Lor' bless yer cart, ma'am," replied Jack, "s« were
the apples in the Garden of Kden."—Exchange.
HAD ONE BLACK DRESS
What has become of the old-fashioned woman who had !
one black dress known as her dress that she wore to !
funerals, weddings, shows and churches?— Cincinnati En-1
quirer. . |
ACCOUNTING FOR IT
His Chum—"How well bred your sister is."
Her Brother "Yes; you see, she spends most of her I
time away from the rest of the family."— Judge.
BOARDING HOUSE STATISTICS
It was dinner-time at Mrs. Meaneleigh's high-class board
ing establishment.
"Well," said the statistical boarder, leaning back in his i
chair, we have at this meal the representatives of two i
widely-separated generations."
"How is that?" asked the inquisitive boarder, rising to
the occasion.
"Why, the hen we have been trying tp eat was, in all
probability, the great-great-grandmother of this omelette!"!
Then there fell a palpable silence.—Exchange.
ECONOMY
"Yes, darling," said Mr. Newlywed, "we can get alonft
without a piano, but we must have a few tons of coal put j
in for the winter, and I don't really know how we can j
afford it."
"Why, Nl tell you what we can do," replied Mrs. New
lywed, who has been reared in luxury. "W<« will save
money on the coal bill by spending our winter in Florida."
—Pun.
OPPORTUNITY
A young suburban doctor whose practice was not very
great sat in his study reading away a lazy afternoon in
earJy summer. His man servant appeared at the door.
"Doctor, them boys is stealin' your green peaches again.
Shall I chase them away!"
The doctor looked thoughtful for a moment, then leveled
his eyes at the servant.
"No," he said. —Lippincott's.
| Tongue-End Topics]
The Mystery of the JJeckel Pear
The delicious Seckel pear is now
; abundaut in the market, and fruit
growers say that recently it has be
come more of a favorite fruit for them
to cultivate, the demand increasing
with the increased supply. It is not
generally known that the Seekel pear
! was originally * 4 discovered " by ljaw
j rence Meckel, » wealthy Land owner of
Philadelphia. whose granddaughter,
j Mrs. A. A. fcJHiy, resides near Wilcox.
| Elk county. Captain A. A. Clay served
t iu the 'Legislature for two sessions and
i was well known in Harrisburg, he be
' ' n K a prominent Grand Army man, hav
j iug served during the t ivil war in a
Philadelphia regiment. Mrs. Clay, who
{ has several pear trees in her yard, the
! offshoots of the original tree in Phila
delphia, savs that no one knew where
| the original tree came from, but it is
j supposed to have grown from seed de
posited by birds from a foreign coun
try. \\ heji the fruit on the original
tree ■became ripe the birds destroyed a
great deal of it, and Mr. Seekel had a
bell attached to a long rope hung in
the tree, the little Dutch bovs on the
plantation 'being compelled to keep the
bell ringing to scare the birds away.
Grafts from the tree were sent all over
the world and Mrs. Clay has in her
possession niauv letters of thanks, now
yellowed by time.
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Builer's Trout Plan Works Well
When State Ifisii Commissioner Bul-
I ler began the placing of trout, from
, three to six inches long, in the streams
instead of fingerlings and fry that had
J always been used to stock the water
courses he was laughed at by the older
pisciculturists, who were quite sure that
the experiment would be a failure.
Commissioner Buller, however, held to
j the theory that in placing trout fry in
j the streams he would only be furnishing
! foo,i for/the larger and more voracious
fish which gobble the fry as a sweet
j morsel. He decided that in placing
fish from three to six inches long in the
I streams the bigger fish could not get
j them so easily, as n trout of that size
: is a3 quick as a flash and can get awav
, frcyu the larger fish. His theory has
worked out well. Letters have been re
ceived from ojd fishermen in various
| parts of the State telling of the abun
dance of trout rn streams stocked by
the Commonwealth, and one man writes
that he never caught so many trout
when he was a boy as he did this year.
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Rainbow Trout Failure Here
Commissioner Buller says that the
j rainbow trout have been a failure in
I Pennsylvania streams, as they thrive
! only in the waters of Colorado and oth
er western States. The brown trout,
brought from other States to stock
Pennsylvania streams where the brook
: trout, known as the "speckled
beauty,' was once abundant, has been
a success as a breeder in Pennsylvania
j waters and some of the finest catches
i are of this kind of fish. Commissioner
| Buller accounts for the* partial disap
| pearanee of the brook trout in Central
: Pennsylvania, including Dauphin and
| other counties, by the fact that brook
i trout live and thrive in the coldest
water. Along streams—'like the Yel
low Breeches, for instance—he says
the clearing awav of the trees has let
the sun beat down on the water, warm
j ing it, and these smaller streams feed J
t into the larger ones, making the tem
| porature higher and eventually driving
i away most of the brook trout. This
j accounts for the fact that streams with- ]
in a few miles of Harrisburg, once the |
| resort of trout fishermen, are seldom
! visited by them. However, Mr. Buller i
says there are' Still a few fine specimens
of brook trout in the streams near Har
risrtiurg.
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Will Habgood Come Back?
Speaking of "coming back," mem
bcr:. of the Pennsylvania Editors' As
sociation, of which Robert P. Habgood.
| editor of the Bradford "Star-Record,"
has long been secretary, aro asking
each other whether " Happy," as he is
I familiarly known, is going to come
\ back to the Legislature. Mr. Habgood
I served as a member of the House from
McKean county in 1907 and declined
! renomination He was appointed post
j master of Bradford 'by (President Taft.
j and his commission would have expired
jin March, 1915. Last week, however. I
the Republican candidate for the Legis
lature decided that he would not run. j
and the county committee at once
named Mr. Habgood as the nominee.
He promptly accepted and then sent in
his resignation as postmaster, for it
would never do for a Republican post
master to be a candidate for office
against the party in power. And now
the question is "Will Happy come
backt"
Think twice, and, if need be, a
times, before beginning to sputter in '
anger and ignorance.
Contentment dwell where
thoughts of what might have been are
regularly entertaiued.
Opportunity knocks but once—but
it's different with the human knocker.
A COOD COMPLEXION
MEANS PURE BLOOD
Everybody that wants a fine, glow
ing, youthful skin, should take old re
liable Hood's Sarsaparilla. a physician's
prescription, which gives a clear,
healthy color. When your blood is made
pure, pimples, boils, hives, eczema dis
appear.
Languor, loss of appetite, tired feel
ing, weakness are symptoms o# impure,
unhealthy blood.
Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood.
Get a bottle today. Adv.
RIVAL CANDIDATES INVADE
WESTERNJART OF STATE
Brumbaugh Force Devoting Particular
Attention to Vigorous Campaign
In Allegheny County —To Canvaas
All Voters
Philadelphia, Oct. 20.—.plans for a
vigorous and extensive campaign in
Allegheny county In the Interest of Dr.
Martin G. Brumbaugh. Republican nom
inee for governor, have been made
at the Brumhaugh Citizens headquar
ters In this ctty by James E. Hlndman.
secretary of the Brumbaugh Citizens'
Committee of Allegheny County, the
complete organization of\which will be
effected this week and headquarters
opened.
The Brumbaugh campaign in Alle
gheny county under the direction of the
committee, will be one of the most
vigorous in the history of the state.
Plans have been arranged whereby
every voter in the county will be can
vassed, and in addition there will be
presented broadly and comprehensively
the record and achievements of Dr.
Brumbaugh.
Noonday meetings will he held at the
committee headquarters, Mr. Hlndman
said, and special efforts will he made
to present Dr. Brumbaugh's cause to
the numerous Industrial workers ot
the territory.
William H. Stevenson is chairman
of the committee and Mr. Hiiulman is
secretary. A treasurer will be selected
at a meeting to be held this week,
when the members of the publicity and
speakers committees will also be named
by the executive committee.
"The workers committee, which was
named at a meeting held at the Fort
Pitt hotel on October 13. is already
in action," said Mr. Hindman. "The
chairman ot this committee is John S,
Brumbaugh, who is an official of the
Westlngliouse Electric Company. Lin
coln Forrester is vice-chairman. Tilts
committee has an organization of
workers who are devoting their efforts
lo the industrial plants of Allegheny
County through sub-committees. The
workers committee also has charge of
the distribution of literature, and will
likewise supervise the series of noon
day meetings to be held at the various
industrial plants. Arrangements will
also be made for placing Brumbaugh
workers affile polls on election day."
The Democratic campaigning party,
headed by Representative A. Mitchell
Paltrier, candidate for the United States"
Senate, opened the week's work yester
day in the western part of the state.
The itinerary is as follows:
Monday—Tour Butler and
counties. >
Tuesday—Tour Metver county, with
a night meeting in the opera house at
Sharon.
Wednesday—Mr. McCor thick will join
William Draper Lewis, ox-Washington
party candidate for Governor, for meet
ings in Pittsburgh that day and even
ing. The remainder of the party will
leave Pittsburgh at 9.40 a. m. for
Johnstown and a tour of Cambria
county.
The party will "jump" across the
state on Wednesday night and spend
the remainder of the week In Phila
delphia and vicinity, holding many shop
meetings during Thursday.
Friday, October 23. they will leave
Philadelphia at I p. m., for Reading.
Saturday. October 24. the party will
leave Heading at 9.2, iin the morning,
returning to Philadelphia for further
meetings that day and evening.
34 Typhoid Case 3 in a Town
Pottsville, Oct. 20. —Typhoid fever
has become epidemic at Tower City,
there being thirty-four cases in exist
ence there. The State Board of Health
is making ait investigation, ami the two
reservoirs of the town are being clean
ed out. The entire family of Mrs.
( alar Schmerr, mother ami four daugh
ters, have been stricken and are in the
Pottsville hospital.
Mr. Luskett to Exhibit Paintings
William B. Luekett, of this city,,
who is a student at the. Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, has painted
three subjects, entitled "Mid-tSum
mer," "Golden Autumn" and 'The
tVase," which he will send to the John
Wanamaker Arts Exhibit for students,
to v be held November 4, in Philadel
phia
ALL KINDS
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KELLER DRUG STORE
403 Market Street
To the Public—
You Are Invited to Observe
the Store Windows!
THE retailers of this city in common
with merchants all over North Amer
ica are observing Newspaper Window
s Display Week.
They are showing in their windows
products made familiar to you by adver
tising in this newspaper.
They are backing up the advertising
with a showing of the actual goods.
These store windows will be interesting
and instructive. They will evidence live
products and live storekeepers.
They will be well worth looking at.
Storekeepers who observe National
Newspaper Window Display Week
are Worthy of Your Consideration
THE OLOBE THE GLOBE
The Globe Participates
pROM the very beginning of t'm Big Clothing Business
we have laid great stress on the exceptional character
and/iualit.v of our various lines of merchandise. Our single
mm has been to secure ONLY THE BEST—such as nation-
J ally advertised products—the kind that stand the most crit
ical inspection from every viewpoint of style, quality, work-
I manship, etc.
I THE GLOBE sells the following nationally advertised
articles. See our window displays.
HOLEPROOF HOSIERY MANHATTAN SHIRTS
DUOMLD UNDERWEAR CARHARTT OVERALLS
PEERLESS UNION SUITS AND COATS
PENNSYLVANIA-KNIT DENTS' GLOVER
SWEATER COATS uljOVi 'S
STETSON HATS OL OVES
SCHOTITP WITH STRIP ("KASY SLIP")
SCHOBLE HATS FOUR-IN-HANDS
I THE GLOBE I
BIG DAY AT CHHIM CHURCH
Rally to Close To-night With Social
and Banquet
All records for attendance and en
thusiasm at Christ Lutheran church,
the Kev. Dr. Thomas (ieiscb, pastor, j
were broken Sunday. The day of wor
ship began with a large attendance at'
the morning service. The Rev. Dr. j
I'. Wiles preached a sermon from the!
theme, ''Practicing the Presence of j
Christ."
The rally service at the Sunday j
school went beyond all expectations i
for attendance, being the largest in the
history of the school. The program in - j
eluded an address by Dr. Wiles, a j
strong and well rendered selection by
a men's chorus of Steelton, well exe-1
cuted solos by Miss Nora Weil, Mr.;
Henry, of this city, and Mr. Cover, of !
Highspire. T. H. Hamilton, assistant \
teacher of the Men's Bible class, out-!
lined the lesson study. The largest sin- 1
gle classes present were the Men's
Bible class with 172 and the toadies'
Bible class with 62 members. The most :
impressive feature of the hour was the >
processional of over 200 children from t
the primary department.
The day was fittingly closed with i
an evening audience of over 700 peo- j
pie with Dr. Wiles in the pulpit. The!
song service was led by fifty members I
of the Stough campaign choir.
The Sunday school rally will close j
this evening by a social and banquet j
by the Men's Bible class.
MAKING AN EPIGRAM
The Prize-winner Was Evidently a
Married Man's Effusion
The head epigrammatist of the great j
wit and humor factory bent over his !
work bench and rested his gaze upon !
an epigram that had been used and
used until it was cracked and frazzled.
"It's a shame to throw it away,"|
he said, "for I believe it can still be
turned about so that it will have a !
commercial value. 1 know what I will I
do. I will offer a prize to the work- j
man who brings in the best new!
twist."
So when the workmen were gathered !
in the room he told them that Jie want- j
ed them to beat out a new and clever
turn upon the old motto, "A bird in l
the hand is worth two in the bush."!
He gave them just one hour at their
an\ Us, with a monetary prize for the
best effort and honorable mention for
the others. When trie tune was up this
assortment was handed in:
A chauffeur in the front scat is
north two under the motorcar."
"A kiss in the dark is worth two
under the electric light.''
'-'f SHn 'l 0" the beach is
i worth two in the eye,' }
A git t fiom a husband after mar
riage is worth two from a lover be
fore. '
"A week's wages in bank is worth
two in a trousers pocket that the wifo
is going through at night."
And, while the first four received
i honorable mention, it was the last one
! that won the prize.—New York Sun.
The punishment does sometimes fit
the crime. A New York burglar, who
; tor-some months past specialized in
i thefts of clocks, was last week aiven
! time.
Don't Neglect
Lumber Repairs
especially at this time of
3'ear.
Replace all rotton pieces.
When rain and snow get
iu a decayed place the
lumber wastes rapidly.
A small sum of money
spent now may save you
many dollars next Spring.
United Ice & Coal Co.
MAIN OFFICE:
Forster and Cowdon Streets