4 CIS GO WHIG BECAUSE OF HOME Startling Assertion of Superintendent of the Florence Crittenton Mission in New ork MINDS POLLUTED IN CHILDHOOD Formulated in Home Loug Before Application Is Made in Legislative Halls to Remedy Evils Prevalent in Many American Cities By Atsvaalcd Press. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 9.—More girls go wrong because of home condi tions than for any other reason, es corted Miss Margaret E. Luther, super intendent of the Florence Crittenton Home, New York City, -in an address before the International Purity Con gress here to-day. Miss Luther, who spoke on "The Girls Who (io Through the New York < ourts," pointed out that most of t!io £iris with whom the courts have to ileal arc not more than IS years old. "Statistics show that the large number of girls who go wrong are not alone in the world," she said. "Nor are they all wage earners. Girls come to us from all stations and all condi tions of life. In must of the cases the minds are polluted in early childhood. Home conditions are responsible. Out of 150 girls recently brought before the New York women's night court, 259 were not more than IS years old, L while 116 of them were onlv 16 years I old." ft Stories of locked doors and barred ■ windows in connection with white 'V.siavery, are largely imaginary, accord ing to Miss Luther. \ "The men who live on eominercial aoed vice arc the men you see standing op the street corners," she continued. ' ''Their victims are usually silly little giils thev win bv wiles. And the girl such a man can enslave soul, mind and body, is worse than any physical slave. "A .iudae recently told ine that 90 per cent, of the men lie ha 1 sentenced for white slavery, were less than 22 years old. Home conditions arc respon sible for this situation. "Some people are inclined to say that if we had better laws we would "have better living and better home conditions. Character is formed in the ihonie long before man goes to legisla tive halls fo make laws; and the home • makes the man who makes the laws. .'Speaking for New York, I do not be lieve it would be possible to have bet ter or stronger laws. The tiring we Vjieed is workers —persons who make a specialty of fighting commercialized vice." MRS. tiKitßUt: H. SEAL IS DEAD End Comes Half Ail Hour After She Is Taken 111 at Luncheon (Sptcial to the Star-Independent.) Lykens, Pa., Nov. 9—Mrs. George H. Seal, 63 years old. was taken suddenly ill while at luncheon in her home here on Saturday at noon and died half an hour afterward. Hear; trouble, the fam ily physician said, was the eause of death. Mrs. Seal was a sister of Mrs. "Emmanuel Hoffman, a lifelong resident ■of this place, who died here five years ago. Besides her husband there are surviv ing her two sons, Claude, of Easton, and Harry, at home; three brothers, Charles 'Hoffman, Aitoona: James, of town, and Frank, of Philadelphia, and one sister, Mrs. Lu.y ATvord, of Ly kens. Funeral services will-be held at the h.mie tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in the Odd Fel lows' cemetery. Mrs. Seal was an aunt of William Hoß.nan. one of the deputy sheriffs of Dauphin county. JCE COMPANY SEEKS CHARTER Merchants' Co-operative Enterprise Ap plies for Incorporation Papers Application was made to-day to Governor Tener for a charter for the Merchants' Ice Company, of Ilarris burg. with a capital or' $50,000. The object, as set forth in the charter, to manufacture, purchase and sell ice. The ilirectois arc: William A. Cartwright, Henry M. Hare, 1* W. Kay, W. E. Per lin. C. E. Sheesley, M. P. Johnson, B. B. Drum, James D. Miller and William K. Koons. The treasurer is Henry M. Haie. 421 Walnut street. The incor porators number about ISO. and the great majority are merchants who use i« - e in large quantities. The application will gu to the Gov ernor this week from the State Depart ment. WOMAN ON GUNNING TRIP Party Returns After Week in Perry, Blair and Mifflin Counties Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Cromer, 101 fiouth River street, returned to-day from a week's gunning trip with a party of 28, having to theor credit, jimong them, 2S rabbits. 10 quail. U gray siniriols and 6 pheasants. The week was spent in Perry, Blair and Mifflin counties. Mrs. Cramer was the onlv woman in the party. Railway Company's Suit Dismissed By Associated Press. Washington. Nov. 9. —The Supreme Court to-dav dismissed the suit, of the Missouri, Kansas ami Texas Kailwas Company against the I'nited Stales for 861,000,000 damages for failure to ■convey to it alternate sections of land through what was the Indian Territory. Neutrals Can Visit War Countries By Associated Press. Bordeaux, Nov, 9, via Paris. 12.4 7 P. 'M.—-The military attaches of ne.i-i trpl eou:i:ri-« Lnosed as Meßridc went to Or. Hertz's office and got into an argument with the physician over questions of anat omy. I)r. Hertz, who is 72 vears old, picked up an old brass-barrel revolver which had not been discharged for more than half a century and fired at the man. Seriously wounded. "Mi-Bride" stag • gered to the street, where a policeman i found him and took horn to the hos | pital. He is recovering, and expects to ibe discharged within a few days. In the meantime. Dr. Calvin Mr | Bride, a graduate of the University of j Pennsylvania dental college nod a prac j ticing student, of Thirty-fourth street i and Broadway New York, read an a - j count of the shooting. Attracted by the j similarity of his name r.ith that of the ! victim of the shooting Dr. Meßridc re | inembered that his dental diploma had been stolen at Palm Beach. Fla., in ! IS9S. Dr. Meßridc got in touch with De tective Emanuel, ol the t ity Hall force, and yesterday the New York dentist came to this city. He went to the hos pital and confronted the wounded man on his cot. According to Detective Emanuel, the pseudo-Mcßride acknowledged that he had been using the real Dr. Mcßride's diploma, first in Pittsburgh and later at 10 Market square, Harrisburg. The name oil the diploma, he said, led him to take it as his own and he was mar ried as Meßridc, and has a son which bears the same name. The diploma, lie said, is in the hands of a man named Ewing in Pittsburgh. He gave it to Ewing as security for a ?10 loan. The day after the shooting police here received a message from York, Pa., asking that "Mcßride" be held after his discharge from the hospital. He is accused to passing two bogus checks, one for $lO and another for sls. by < I - .. ZiMting, ;i York lawyer. York au thorities, who had been looking for him. learned of his whereabouts when the newspapers published the story of tho shooting. Harrisburg police, who declare the man hail st good practice in that city as "Dr. Meßridc,'' say his wife there had heard nothing from her husband for several months prior to the shooting and that she had an action for divorce pending. The bullet which wounded "Me- Bridc" penetrated the left cheek and lodged in his head. It was located by the X-rays. Dr. Hertz, his assailant, and his brother. Dr. Eiaui A. Hertz, a den tist. who was in the office when the shootng occurred, are being held in S3OO bail tu await the result of his in juries. DIPHTHKKIA I.N MERCEBSBIRG Reports Keceivcd By State Officials Do Not Refer to Big Academy There An epidemic of diphtheria was re ported to-day to the State Health De partment from ilereersburg, Franklin county, aud the public schools, church es and Sunday schools there have been closed to prevent a spread. In .Mont gomery township, Franklin county, tbo diphtheria appeared in the township school, almost every family in the school being affected. Dr. Rover, Dep uty Statg Health Commissioner, said that the order closing the Mercersburg schools, did not apply to Mercernbur" Academy, which is ' situated outside the township. He has no report of the disease being in tbat institution, which is :i very large preparatory school at tended by boys from all parts of the country. The houses in the township have beeu quarantined, but the disease is of a very mild type. The anti-toxin division of the State Health Department is kept busy day and night answering calls for" anti toxin in districts where the disease has made its appearance. This preven tative is furnished free of cost by the •State through the various stations throughout the State, and the supplv is renewed instantly when it becomes exhausted. TO APPRAISE HARDSI RABBLE Owners to Be Requested to Put Prices on Their Properties There Property owners in the " Hardscrab ble" district whose homes are to be taken over by the city and razed to fa cilitate the reopening of Front street, from Herr to Oalder street, will to-mor row receive requests from D. S. Seitz, City Solicitor, to sutbmit to the City Commissioners the approximate value of their homes. These requests will be sent out with a view to making settlement with the property owners for all damages and losses. The estimates of the -property owners must be sent in within thirty days. If any or all of the estimates are not satisfactory to the city the Oitv So licitor will start, condemnation proceed ing against, the properties. Reopening of Bordeaux Stock Market By Associated Press, Paris, Xov. 9, J 2.45 P. M.—The rec ords of the stockbrokers' corporation r.ere brought back to the headquarters of the corporation from Bordeaux to day in view of tae expected reopening of t'hp cash stock market. A definite date for this reopening "has not been set. HARRISBURG STAR-INDKPKKUEXT. MONDAY EVEN'IM;. NOVEMBER 9. 1914. COURT HOUSt PERMITTED TO AOOPT CHILD Court Allows Mr. aud Mrs. Weeley Metzger to Make Stella Fulton Their Lawful Heiress I nder an order made by Judge Mc- Carrell tiiis morning, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Metzger, 1311 North Camer on street, are permitted to adopt as their child and heir. Stella iulton, 14 years old. The little girl will as sume the name of her foster parents. Site has been living in the Metzger home since infancy. Albert Fulton, the child's father, died several years ago, and the Mer gers are better able financially to look after the daughter, than the mother, Mrs. Blanche Madden, having remar ried. Guardian for Little Girl The Security Trust Company this morniug was appointed by the court as guardian for Esther Ellen Wilson, a etiild of Calvin.and Lizzie Wilson, deceased, who is heir to an estate, left by the mother, valued at approximately SI.OOO. The court made the order on the application of the child's aunt, Mrs. Ellen Shrum. Bridge Inspectors Named On the application of the Dauphin County Commissioners the court this morning named J. A. Henninger, A. S. Hainman and Martin M. Keet, in spectors to examine the new bridge which recently was constructed over Reefer's Run, near Millersburg. The bridge ha? been completed by G. W. Ensign, the contractor, and will be inspected within the next week or ten days. Ryan Now Is Dead The court a year ago made an order! affirming the presumption that James I D. Ryan, « former Harrisburger, now is dead and this morning that order "as made absolute. An administrator now will be appointed to take charge of the Kyan estate and make proper distribution among the heirs. Many years ago Ryan left this county. Shortly after his departure relatives r»cei\ed a letter from him, bearing a Spokane, Washington, date and siiicej then nothing has been heard of him. Lodge Gets Charter Fnitv Lodge, Improved. Benevoient and Protective Oder of Elks of t.ie or; u . this morning was granted a charter of incorporation. Marriage License Peter W. Pemberton, Buffalo, N. Y„ and Lulu J. M. Bennett, York. Cases Contiuued Two of the '■ mation and . aughte-ed '-fiuO jf f men in a >w vdnute-s When Ftght KMCHS With Intensity The ftgii: .*».<(«• s .'» ; v ; 1 j .:3.'.i:st intensity «ou?fe if t";;res „»io r.iAia rosd, the Yo-es tana!, 'he Ly.. -ail .'he plateau -rossel c v; -cad f—nr, Mores "0 Artrentieres "he otl>n."V«* hr the allies isss Vie' m b\ violent . e -.«! . a Gertr.an active a-vsr (•:■■■, j- ;>rough! into Fnaderj. *! 6re V •'< gruat vtMoer >)* massed oatt?r es. The o are said •o ha>e ..rrleveri .-othing n«re than temporary heek» sr I 'n r t =iowiy but surely '.i„ allies -rt*Hp t'-^.-ward. ■1 Vrtois. * s n»»ie- I '.'al*'S, the moo! iJiiiiorlant en?ageni»> : :s a'C r.» ug ■ought ; a tbe plains '• .»n«,. Toe >er rrii.iis »rt ■issaillng ,ne vil lage ," ambriii, oti r.Je oii; from La Bassee to Bethune. it ;s cvfi 1 : '-ported *ha' fhe latter town is being bom barded. Determined Attacks Against Village Determined attacks are being di rected against Aix-le-Noulette. a vil lage which is situated at the foot of a wooded heights dominating a vast, plain. It commands the road from Arras io Bethune. A mile northeast of it stood the tree under which the great Oonde was stationed during the battle of Lens in 1 6 48, in which lie defeated Archduke Leopold. The damp fogs which prevail in this bleak country at this seuson of the year make observa tions by aviators almost impossible and artillery action is very difficult- Hampered by these disadvantages the Gorman offensive is declared to be in effective and the allies are said to be more than holding their own. The Aisne the French are showing renewed activity and are declared to be making considerable headway, no tably between Soapier and Bray-eu lannois. BELGIANS* REPORT IS NOT ADVERSE TO THE GERMANS Havre, Nov, 9, By Way of Paris, 4.25 P. M.—The Belgiau government issues the following: "The situation at Nieuport is sta tionary with slight advantage to us. On the remainder of the front almost complete quiet prevails. The enemy still occupies, on the right banks of the Yser, several points of support which have been caunonaded by our artillery. Dixmuile has been bombarded by the enemy. GERMANS SAY TSiKG-TAU GARRISON WAS 4.800 MEN Pekin, Nov. 9.—The German lega tion states Uiat the garrison at Tsing- Tau numbered between 4,500 and 4,800 men. Nit is thwight at the Jap anese legation, from advices received there, the town was notably damaged •by the bombardment. Chinese officials who have greatly feared that China would be involved : .r. international complications as a resu!t of the presence of hostile forces on her soil appear relieved by the conclusion of the fighting a; TsingTa.i im press the hope tha* ''h:na Hi* . uo'.v continue the process of .t-ons*' -.ction undisturbed by yet etna. ;ues; oiis. UNDER ARREST IOK FORGERY Two Men Are Charged With Passing Worthless Checks Two men believed to be Fred L.ea«sureHe is sale from danger who is 011 his ; guard even when safe. If you would escape the risk of ship- I ivrtwk at sea, sec .Vmcniea first. "Cut- out liquor, tobacco and tou-' sils" is the way manv doctors now put it. Many a man puts whip and spurs to 1 his brain who neglects to 'bridle his tongue. Why should a woman use a hammer to drive a tack if there is a hairbrush handy? There is nothing in which men more' ! deceive themselves t'han in what they j call zeal. | life to possess its full savor must, of . necessity consist largely of plans and j ambitions. When a woman is in love she acts | liko a fool, but when a man is in love j | it isn't altogether acting. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw wants a "Spinsters' Day." Why not make it February 14? If a man is really misunderstood he has himself to blame for not making! himself clear. Flour is asserted to be cheaper in | I the west, but that can be corrected by' a rise in the yeast. Do not spend you good money for lemons. Wait awhile amT somebody | I will hand you one. f'miliNU A BAiTLE. Cspoaiip ArmiN Do Not Always G"/« It th» Sam# Detignation. Kinu.v <»f the woliit •< itK'st t annum butties have i«« nuine* Thus itiM I Kit tic of W.tteriou in known u.v that naiuJ* only uuttuig Kugilsli fppnUHjK people*, 'l'he Kf tic ii t*K 11 it Hie battle of 1:4 Belle Alilume. TUe battle that dec id ed tbe w»r between Prussia aud Aus tria in IStMJ Is known among tbe Ger mans as tbe battle of Sadowa. but tbe Austrians call It the battlj of Koeuij; graetz. In the war of lb 10, between Germany and Prance. the great en gageinent that tbe Germans call tbe battle of GraveloLte is spoken of by the I'rencb as the battle of St. Prlvai. The same thing was common In our civil war. The battle that Is known tn the north as tbe battle of Bull Run would not be recognized by most south erners undee that name. In the eolith It Is invariably called tbe buttle of Manassas. So the battle that the Keel ernl generals called the battle of Pitt* burg Landing was by the Confederates called the battle of Sbiloli. Antielitm is called In the south the battle uT Sharpsburg. Xlie writer, a southerner, whose father was a Confederate ofli eer, was twenty years old before he ever heard of the battle of Antietam. although he was familiar with all the details of the battle of Sbarpsburg. The reason for this is that the op posing armies always name tbe battle from some prominent geographical landmark, aud as they look at tbe field from different points of view they nat urally settle on different names. Thus, at Waterloo, the battle took Us Eng lish name from the little village where Wellington made his final hcadquar tera and whence be sent to Vnglaud the first dispatch that announced bin victory. So in 18t>6 the headquarters of the Prussian army was near the vil lage of Sadowa, whereas that of the Austrian* was near the village of Koe nlggraetE. At Gravelotte tbe little vil lage of that name was an Important point In tbe German lines. On tbe side of tbe French tbe hamlet of St. Prlvat was the key to their battle formation. As long as they held that they were invincible, but when the Germans as sailed it in the rear and drove them out the day was iost.—Youth's Com panion. OUR MEDAL OF HONOR. More Difficult to Win Than Any For eign Military Decoration. Americans of average information know about the Victoria Cross, the Iron Cross, the Cross of the Legion of Honor. These are rewards of hern ism which would mark a man above his fellows even in this foreign land But many Americans know what a mednl of honor is? How many Americans know that tin* modest American soldiers who wear the medal of honor wear a decoration that is among the rarest and most difii cult to win among military honors? The Cross of the Legion of Honor, established b.v Napoleon in ISO-, wbil» founded to signalize deeds of special daring in war. was after given freely for civil distinctions. Nearly 40,00:> German soldiers were decorated witti the Iron Cross in the seven months of the Franco-Prussian war. while in tho more than half century since the crea tion of our honor roll only 3,088 have been granted, and of these nearly 90r old Frederick William I„ who listened to two lawyers on opposite sides of a question. Each of them convinced Frederick William that he was right, whereat the old king "fell into such a furious passion with the effects of c!«» qneuce that both orators got into scri ous trouble through the very excel lence of their persuasive powers - Kansas City Tiuies. Boil Glass Dishes. Glass dishes and vessels of all kinds may be rendered less liable to break if before being used they are put in!" boiling water to which salt has been rdded. Put the water, when cold, into n large pan, add the salt, put in the glass vessels and bring the water slow ly to the boil. Let it boil for a few minutes, take the pan off the fire and leave the glasses in tile water until it is cold. He Probably Did. The young author, reading a fsk« animal story to the attentive editor, said. "Whereupon the woodchuck laughed softly to himself." "Ah." remarked the editor, "I sup pose he Indulged ID a woodcbuckle."— St Louis Republic. It Recoiled. "My band." said Polly, holding It out admiringly, "is a good deal smaller than yours." "Yes," said Esther. "I can see that •t a glance. That ring Leslie g;;ve you was always too tight for me! London Telegraph. Sarcastic. Mr. Softly—Here's somebody pn po.ies to kill rll Idiots In tlielr etiilil hood. Miss Pert—Dreadful Idea. Tliert are not enough raeu to go around as It ts.— Exchange. Miss Mancbaser—You know the old adage. "Love laughs at locksmiths'.'" Mr. Grouch more—Yep. Getting in is easy enough, but getting out t» un joke.—Chicago News. A s'imnier girlie likes » place Where men in swarms arrive And all the other summer irirl* Are over thlrt.v-(lve —Louisville Courier-Journal.