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THE COLONEL TURNS TO SCRIPTURE The Colonel, from his retreat in Oyster Bay. vexed over the t'aet that the people of this country on Tuesday last declined further to follow his teaching, quoted Scripture to express his feelings oneerning actions of those who failed to heed his advice. Having read the election news in the . morniiir papers, and being particularly vexed be- people of his home state and most of the «tiier states, including Pennsylvania, should fly in the face of fate, the Colonel found language of lti> own inadequate to express his opinion of the returns and he availed himself of a Scriptural quo 'tatiou. Said the Colonel to a questioner: In the Episcopal church, lessons tasen from the Bible are appointed for every day of the year. The lesson for November 3 includes the se ond Epistle of Paul to Tim othy. Chapter IV. 3. 4. which reads as follows: "For the tipe will eome when they wilt not endure sound doctrine: but after their own lusts shall they heap to them seizes tea'hers having itching ears: and they shall turn away the'r ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables." The Colouel said he had nothing to add to the above, at present, which was exceedingly modest his part. There was plenty the Colonel might have added and he could have found something very appropriate in the Scriptures, taken, for in stance. in connection with his recent political tour of Pennsylvania. There is the quotation from Job 6: 2t>, which says: Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches ot" one that is desperate are as wind' And again, there is a verse in the 4th P§alru that he might study with benefit just now It reads: Commune with your own heart upon your bed. and be still? But why pursue the subject further? The Colonel says he may have something more to say later. Xo doubt of it. told is the day when the Colonel fails :o have something to say, but let it hereafter be the Simon-pure Rooseveltian dialect. FAKE WAR VICTIMS ABOUT Swindlers in this country are beginning to take advantage of the sympathy that has been aroused here in behalf of the Belgians, and impostors posing a* refugees from the stricken kingdom will soon be plentiful if the fraud is not fully exposed at every opportunity bv the press and other agencies. Ihe greatest loss sustained so far. perhaps, through this new skin game, is that of an unfor tunate New York jeweler. He purchased twenty pounds of •platinum" with a cash payment of «0.000. from two •"refugees" who said they had been iu the jewelry business in Belgium and had barely escaped from that country with their lives, which, in addition to the "platinum,"' was all they had in the world. That is the way they told it. Ihe tacts are that the Belgian refugees" were im postors and that the "•platinum" wss tin. The clever plan by which the swindlers accom plished the sale of common tin for precious plati num was not exactly original, yet it worked. They got the jeweler, whom they had picked as their victim, to their room in a hotel, and during the bustle preliminary to bringing forth the metal, they upset his bottle of acid with which he had intended to make his test before purchasing. They were very sorry about the accident, of course, but generouily offered to let the jeweler use some of their own acid. The prospective buyer unsuspectingly accepted HARRISBI RG ST AR-INDKPENDKNT. THI RSDAV EVENING, NOVEMBER 5. 1914. the offer and ton tut that the "acid" had no effect on the metal, apparently proving to his satisfac tion that he was testing pure platinum. The im postors. in their eagerness fully to convince their customer, insisted that he take a sample of the metal to his assayer at once, for thorough examina tion. The sample was platinum all right, an ounce or so of it standing test for twenty pounds of tin. The old gold brick game worked in this twen tieth century and in New York city; but then the swindling sellers were "Belgian refugees." and Americans at present feel great sympathy for Bel gian refugees. The jeweler, at any rate, took the ujetal anil paid down SO,OOO on account, promising to give the "refugees" an equal amount in tiual settlement the following day. When they did not come for it the jeweler's surprise quickly grew to suspicion. He had his twenty pounds of metal actually tested, and the result was not Pt but Sn. The impostors are now presumably real refugees, not from Belgium but from New York. There may not be many more frauds on such a large scale perpetrated by fake war victims, yet many little impositions may be attempted. "Bel gian refugees" may soon be begging in American cities, or seeking to dispose of property which they "saved" iu their "flight from the war zone." Swindlers realize that the scheme is one worthy of their attention. Kind-hearted Americans are eager to help war victims, and the sraugs of cunning impostors know it. Kind-hearted Americans would do well, how ever. to bear in mind that all Belgian refugees, like all sheets of platinum, are not necessarily genuine. In making contributions to relieve the woeful plight of the real war sufferers, Americans'should make certain that their gifts are being placed iu the hand# of the authorized and accredited agents for the collection of such funds, or of persons of whose integrity they have absolute knowledge. Crow shooting didn't seem to be very good in the Fay ette district. Haven't heard ot" Palmer and Pint-hot sending congratu latory message? to Senator Penrose. Governor Brumbaugh's veto axe will have to be kept sharp if he is to succeed in carrying out his election j pledges. Lincoln used to call it "the Republican state of Alle- 1 ahenyand it seems to have retained the name, judging from the election figures. Kunkel's majority in Dauphin county came within a few thousand of offsetting the majority against him iu Phila- ; delphia where it was to be expected he would run behind, j Dauphin could hardly have done more for her "favorite! i sou." TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN AT THE BAR That lawyers toast the humorists often, you'll agree: • ast note how oft the phrase "to wit" Within their brifes you see! —Judge. FEOM THE JOURNAL OF MADAME LEANDRE We do not mourn our lovers—but our love for them. 1? a lover lets himself lose his hold upon our imagination I he commits the oue unpardonable sin. The more earthly a man. the nearer the angels does he ; ! want his wife. Marriage without love is almost as dangerous as love 1 without marriage. Never love a man —unless you cau do without him. I Our spirits are shy. wild things. They are not a; easily : | mated as our bodies. The episodes of your past, dearest, do not interest me— : except for the qualities they called out in you. the ehar- 1 acteristics thev shaped for you.—Helen Woljeskr. in Smart | Set. THE BISHOP S OPINION Of a certain bishop the following anecdote is told: While i presiding over a conference, a speaker began a tirade against the universities and education, expressing thank fulness that he had never been corrupted bv contact -yith a college. After proceeding for a few minutes the bishop interrupted with the question: "Do I understand that Mr. X is thankful for his ignorance!" "Well, yes," was the answer; "you can put it that way j if you like." . "Well, all I have to say," said the prelate, in sweet and musical tones, "all I have to say is that Mr. X- has much to be thankful for."—Exchange. LIKE THE BRAVES Sunday School Teacher —"Did Pharoah overcome the' children of Israel at the Red Seat" t Small Boy—"Xo. ma'am. It was a walk over for the Israelites."—Exchange. ONE ON THE NURSE An officer of the R. A. M. C. tells this story against the amateur nurse who is wholly inexperienced: In a hospital at Cape Town during the South African war. the keenness | of certain amateur members of the nursing staff tended to aggravate, rather than alleviate, the sufferings of some of the wounded. At last the British soldier's native wit came to the rescue. One morning a sick soldier's bedclothes displayed a slip of paper inscribed: • "Too ill to be nursed to-day!"—Tit-Bits. HIS CORRECTION A teacher, instructing her class in the composition of { sentences, *vrote two on the blackboard, one a misstatement of fact, and the other wrong grammatically. The sentences i were: "The hen has three le-gs," and "Who done it!" "Harry," she said to one of the youngsters, "go to the i blackboard and show where the fault lies in those two sentences." Harry slowly approached the board, evidently studying j hard. Then he took the crayon and wrote: j "The hen never done it. God done it."—Exchange. WASN'T SURE An Irish maid recently sought permission of her mistress : to take an afternoon off for the purpose of consulting a dentist. Upon her return the mistress said: "Well, Rosalie, did you have the tooth filled 1" "I did, mum." "And what did the dentist fill it with—gold, or amal gam ?" "I don't know just what it was, mum; ,but from the way it felt I should think it was with thunder and lightning, I mym." —Exchange. | Tongue-End Top ics | The Defeat of Kelley Ono man eliminated from public life for u while by the election on Tues,lay is M. Clyde Kelley. Congressman from the Thirtieth district, a part of Alle gheny county, who served ono ses: ion in the House of Representatives in Har risburg, and was noted for his wanting to know everything that was going on, whether it concerned his district or not. Kelley got himself very much disliked by those who wanted to push through their little private bills that would not bear much investigation, for ho was coutinuallv asking questions that led to Mtvbarrassment, and he was coutinuallv spiking legislation that he thought was no< just the proper thing. The result was t.iat the others retaliated on him, aud before the session closed Kelley found himself in the position of having introduced a whole lot of what he con sidered beneficial legislation and hav ing it -buried in a pk-kling vat in some committee. He chafed a good dt\il over this and he made rip-roaring speeches •bout what he considered the injustice doue .him, but the members in the House only gave him the laugh, and Kelley went home without much accomplished. It made him mad clear through, and when the Roosevelt wave made its ap pearauee in 1912 Kelley got a good place on the crest and announced him selt as a candidate for Congress in the district represented by John Dalrell, the High Priest of Protection in Con gress. and Kelley got the Washington party nomination. To the wonder of the State Kelley defeated Dalzell and put him entirely out of the political game— so much so that Dalzell has never been heard of since. When there was a scram ble for the Washington party nomina tion for Governor last March Kelley came forward as a candidate, but he had no show, and he withdrew and again became a candidate for Congress. On Tuesday last he went down—but he will bob up agaiu. * * * "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelley?" W heu Kelley left the Pennsylvania House the memory pf what he had suffered in that body rankled within him and he sat down and wrote a 'book telling of what he called the inside workings of the Legislature. It was a lampoon all the way through, and as such male interesting reading, but Kelley made enemies by its publication. These people remembered him, and at the very first opportunity, when tiiev had the power, they "pas one over on" Kelley. After March, the Thirtieth Congressional distri >t will he asking a leading question, something like: "Has anybody here seen Kelley?" And M. Clyde wil be there to answer in [>ersou. for the hails of Congress will uo ionger resound with his oratory. Rupley 's Long Speeches They are saving that perhaps the speeches of Congressman Arthur R. Rupley. of Carlisle, had something to do with his defeat for re-election as Congressman-at-:a-ge ou the Bull Moose ticket. Mr. Rupley is a fairly good spee -h-maker, but he makes his speeches too long. For instance, when the Wash ington party State committee met here ; ast Jane Mr. Rupley attended the meeting armed with a speech that was spread over many pages of typewriter paper—the big long -ages—and he was going to fire tha* the committeemen. Boss Biil Flitin is said to have gotteu hold of "Art" and told him to cut 4t out. but Mr. Ruplev had already handed copies of that «peecii to the newspaper boys, and felt he was in duty bound to deliver it. However, he out it down considerably and when it got into priut it was even shorter, due to the work of the news editor's ruthless blue pencil. P£OPLE'S_COLU/HiV ' Tie Star-Independent does not uiake itself responsible for opinions expressed in this column. Compares the New Fire Trucks Editor, the iitar-lnde-pendent: Dear Sir:—l was very much pleased to have the privilege of looking over our new fir e trucks, side by side, and it can be noticed that the one made in our city is larger than the other one and better finished, but that is not the part that I am most interested in. Be ing a mechanic I got under the ma chines and liui the small machine is not nearly as strongly built as the large one aud the front part has been strain ed. The front springs are too light. They have settled down almost two inches. The fenders come close to the wheel. They are very narrow a nd short. They are 12 inches shorter and one-half inch narrower than the springs on the large truck and there is another dangerous feature. The clip that hoi ts them is only one-half inch in diameter and they ar e three-fourth inches on the large truck. There is nothing to pre vent either end of the front axle from slipping back except the friction of these light clips and a three-eighth incb bolt. This is very dangerous on a truck that runs 40 miles per hour. The large truck is made with a cap pressed in each ply of the springs and that receives the boss on the next ply to it. That, with the large clip, makes a safer arrangement. Another thing, the little truck has only one set of spark plugs, and the large truck has a double set and a double ignition. Another point: th e large truck is equipped with two side lights that are made for electric globes and also with oil burners and if the battery gets low there still are lights. There are several other things that the little one should have; a fender in front and a self starter. The seat is so high that a man's feet will hardly reach the floor and there >s no railing around the seat to hold on to. There are several shades of red paint on the little machine and the varnish is very dull but these are not points of danger. The machine would look much better if it had stronger springs in front and the front raised up about two inches. It looks like it has been used rough. An Engineer. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN THE NEW COSSACK _ SILHOUETTE Trimmings of Fur and Military Braid ing Are Used iu Profusion Upon Winter Costumes Hussar and Cossack Hats New York. Nov. u. The most popular of all trimmings for dresses suitable for street, motoring, or eveuing wear is fur. fur—aud again fur. Fox. wolf, titch, mink, caracul, chinchilla and different kinds of lambs' wool, from the wide, fluffy kind to the tight, curly kind, are used for different costumes. But among the most popular of these furs is beaver, possibly because v oue or two of the famous Parisian couturiers wpre usiug it when the war broke out. A Coat Showing the Lines of the Cossack Silhouette Xutria is often used in place of beaver and so closely resembles it that only those very familiar with furs are able to tell them apart. This nutria is the fur of a South American aquatic animal resembling the otter, aud called a covpou. The North American otter is also being used for those who can af ford such a luxury, a coat of otter cost ing a small fortune. As a novelty, African monkey fur continues to rank first. It is a long-haired fur, and wheu finishing the bottom of a tunic, the edge of a hat, or bottom of the sleeves looks like an irregular silk fringe. The wide bands-of fur which are use don the bottom of the full skirts, or tunics, are a stroug reminder of the costumes of the Russian, the Pole and the Cossack. With this as a beginning, the designers have harked back for in spiration to costumes of Russians and Tartars of the Middle Ages. Wonder ful evening coats are made like the cos tumes of bartering Tartar tribes. The material is a heavy brocade, almost of the texture of silk tapestry, while the figures scattered across its surface are Oriental in origin. The garment is cut very close-fitting at the shoulders, aud with sleeves set in, which flare at the bottom where they are finished with a band of fur. A wide band of fur adds weight and richness at the bottom of the coat, which flares out in deep godct ripples. Secondary only to fur comes braid ing. The popularity for this is no doubt due to the war abroad. For all we may talk of the barbarity of war our hearts go out to the soldier who is fight ing for his country, whether he be Eng lish, German, Russian, Austrian, or French. There is a glamor about war to the uninitiated which is reflected in the trimming and cut of our clothes. Wide braid is used on the bottoms of skirts and tunics in place of fur. Nar row braid binds the edges of tailored costumes and soutache, Hercules, and round braif's are used for braiding dresses, belts, panels, collars and cuffs in attractive designs. Wider braid and cord are made into frogs and buttons for the closing of coats and down the fronts of dresses, giving the military effect. Kven modified epaulets, made from black or blue braifi, are seen oil frocks. beading. Many handsome frocks have belts which are beaded in some attrac tive design in colors rich and dark, which adds snap and smartness to the entire frock. One blue dress made after the popular Moyen Age style had a belt which widened in the front and dropped rather low. This was entirely covered PURE RICH BLOOD PREVENTS DISEASE Bad blood is responsible for more ailments than anything else. It causes catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumatism, weak, tired, languid feelings and worse troubles. Hood's Sarsaparilla has been won derfully successful in purifying and enriching the blood, removing scrofula and other humors, and building up the whole system. Take it —give it to all the family so as to avoid illness. Get it to-day. Adv. tmmmmm The Beauty of Diamonds never pales—its lovely radiance | For close to a half century r this store has gained an enviable reputation for diamond selling. We know diamond values, aud through the facili ties our loug experience has made we are able to give values that cannot l>e had elsewhere. Comparison is the best test of values. Diamond Rings, l-64th to 3 carat, from $3 to SOOO Diamond Cluster Rings, Diamond Earrings, $5 to SIOOO « $6 to 9550 Diamond LaVallieres. Diamond Cuff Buttons. $5 to S2OO $5 to SSO Diamond Bracelets, Diamond Scarf Pins, $8 to S2OO $3 to S2OO Make your Christmas selection now. Pay # small deposit and we'U hold it for you until yon want it. Jacob Tausig's Sons Reliable Since 1867 420 Market St. with a beaded design in bronze beads, with now and then a red bead which served to accentuate the center of tHe conventionalized flowers. Color com binations ot' small beads may be used most effectively to add the touch which tells uiioti an otherwise somber dress. Embroidery is also used to a great extent this year. Not the tine small em broidery, but the largo sprawly variety, which is done in more or less coarse silk or wool and is most effective. In the illustration of the coat the Cossack silhouette, which I have spoken of in the tore part of this letter, may be noted. The closeness of the coat at the shoulders and the flare at the bot tom show the latest cut for coats. Skunk fur is used for the rolling collar, the cuffs and the bottom of the coat. Frogs add the military note which is so popular on coats of many styles. This same style may also be seen in coats of fur and fur-cloth, while the bands in this case are of contrasting fur. A long-haired fur on the short, close fur, or a fur of merely contrast ing color, are combined into a coat of luxurious warmth and good style. Although the dresses with the exag gerated waistline, or no waistline at all, are very much the rage, it has not tuken away from the style of the more con servative frocks, whose waistlines re main normal. I have chosen for one of my illustrations a dress in style— unexaggerated, but cut on the late lines. The armhole is small, the shoulders close-fitting, the tunic flares in the latest manner, while the rather wide belt is at the normal waistline. The only trimming of this dress is a braided design which is applied to the belt, the cuffs, the collar and the bottom of the tunic. A jaunty little hat which be speaks comfort in all kinds of weather is worn with the costume. The small hat vies with the larger! hats for the popularity of the majority i and the honors seem to be pretty evenly divided. The women who find comfort j combined with jauntiness in the small 1 hat hesitate to change for the larger i liats, but those who have made the i change find that the larger hats are con- 1 servative enough in size not to cause i the discomfort of those worn four or ! five years back and called the "Merry Widow" and "Peach Basket" hats. From such, Dame Fashiou' please de-1 liver us! 1 Simple, But Cut on the Correct lanes Is This Dress With Trimming of Braid In winter hats the Cossack shape, as i well as the Hussar, are very smart. The latter are rather high and flat on top, i made of cloth, velvet or fur and trim- ! mcd with jaunty fancy brushes of black or white horse-hair. An ornament is usually placed where this ornament is fastened, as in the real Hussar hat tho insignia of the regiment is usually ; placed there, as may be seen in the hat ; worn by tho Kaiser's Death Head Hus- i sars, which is a skull and cross-bones. \ Not cheerful, but certainly apropos to j the results of war. The Cossack hats worn this season Pennsylvania Railroad's School of Telegraphy The IVniiMylt nnia Hallrouil rontlurtN ■ xelionl of at llrilford, l*a., whirr only n nominal tuition Iff I* t-hHruril. (. milliliter* of thin xrhool arc n**iireil rm|ilu> im-nt ultli tile I'enimyl \ »ntn Hull mini. For Information ail- ILRRNN ThonifiN nil ill UK t on, Maunder. l\ 11. 11. School of T'rlrirrapll)-. Ili-tlfonl. I**. are made of fur, high and rounding at the top. In chinchilla, mink, or beaver they are most striking. ANCIENT FOOTWEAR And the Old Ceremony of Baring the Feet at Worship The India Hindus ami Mussulmans alike wear both sandals and shoes (slip pers) and the latter boots also. The sandal (the word is Persian) was ev i dently the original covering for the feet over all southern and eastern Asia, while the shoe was probably intro duced into India by the Persians, Af ghans and Mongols, together with the "tip tilted" (Hittite and Etruscan) boot. Both are usually made in India ot' leather, but never of pigskin, and, while the shoes are always colored red or yellow, the boots are generally brightly particolored, both among the upper classes being also richly em broidered in gold and silver and varie gated silk thread and with bangles, bugles and seed pearls after the manner of the ancient Persian boots represent ed on Greek vases. But. of however rare and costly elaboration, the invariable rule is to re move them after entering a private house just when stepping 011 to the mat or carpet 011 which the visitor takes his seat. They must be cast off, the right boot or shoe first, before the worshiper enters a temple or mosque, and it is still regarded as an absolute profana tion to attempt to enter either fully shod. —Westminster Gazette. Damp Room Test To ascertain whether a room is damp or not place a weighed quantity of fresh lime in an open vessel in the room and leave it there for twenty four hours, carefully closing the win dows and doors. At the end 'of the twenty-four hours reweigh the lime, and if the increase exceeds 1 per cent, of the original weight it is not safe to live in the room. WHY HE DOES IT Druggist H. C. Kennedy Gives Reasons for Selling at Half Price "It isn't often that I have faith enough in the medicines put up by other people to be willing to offer to refund the money if it does not cure," laid Druggist 11. C. Kennedy to one of his many customers, "but I am glad to sell Dr. Howard's specific for tho cure uf constipation and dyspepsia 011 that plan. "The Dr. Howard Co., in order to get 4 quick introductory sale, authorized me to sell the regular flfty-eent bottlo of their specific for half price, 2.") cents, and although I have sold a lot of it. md guaranteed every package, not one lias been brought back as unsatis fnctorv. "I am still selliug the specific at half price, although I cannot tell how long I shall be able to do so. Any per son who is subject to constipation, sick headache, dizziness, liver trouble, indi gestion or' a general played out condi tion, ought to take advantage of this opportunity. If the specific does not •lire them, they can come right back to mv store, and 1 will cheerfully refund their money.' Adv. r Do: I z-s msfa s^2 6 ? upthe SMOKE should go up tlie chimney— not the heat. The heat should circu late through the house. If it doesn't, then your coal money is literally being wast ed through the chimney route. Keller's favorite furnace coal —hard stove at $6.70 — gives more heat for the money because it is clean and absolutely high-grade. H. 18. Kelley & Co. Office, 1 N Third Street. . Yard, 10th and State Streets