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Friday, December 18, 101-1.
DECEMBER
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MOON'S PHASES—
Full Moon, 2nd; Last Quarter, 10th;
New Moon, 16th; First Quarter, 24th.
WEATHER FORECASTS
■j«L^'' s Zljg i Harrisburg and vicinity: Increasing
cloudiness, probably snow or rain to
night or Saturday. Warmer. Lowest
temperature to-night about 20 degrees.
Kastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night
followed by increasing cloudiness Sat
. A/ urday. Rising temperature. Moderate
variable winds bccojning south.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 25; lowest, 11; 8 a. m., 11; S p. in., 19.
FATE OF THE BANDIT, HOHL
There never was a successful bandit.
That is (bat is taught by the career
oi' Frank G. Hohl, the former Harrisburg youth,
who was shot to death by the police of Cincinnati
yesterday alter lie had looted two banks in the most
daring way recorded in the police annals of this
country.
Hohl had attempted similar exploits of equal dar
'nSf»—notably the lotting of a bank in Altoona, —
and had succeeded. But his success as a bandit was
destined to be only temporary,—like that of every
other bandit who ever lived. It was inevitable that
Ho Ill's daring criminality would ultimately result
in his capture and punishment or in his death. As
it turned out in his case it led to death.
Ihere have, perhaps, been eases in which bold
and reckless robbers have seized great amounts of
loot and never been arrested. Such cases have been
very rare and if punishment has not been meted out.
to them by the authorities it has come to them in
other ways. No man ever attempted to prey upon
the public as Hohl has done without meeting terri
ble retribution in one form or another. If it has
nol been through arrest and imprisonment or sud
den death it has been through some other form of
misfortune.
Often in this age, when a certain class of motion
picture shows glorifies the exploits of men like
Hohl, the impression is apt to be left on the mind of
the young that such criminals often live to escape
the punishment for their crimes and to enjoy the
fruits of their criminal acts. The fate of Hohl, how
ever, proves most forcefully the fallacy of such an
idea.
GOOD BOOKS FOR BAD ONES-
Circulating among boys and girls in this city to
day are large numbers of books, paper-covered and
cloth-covered, which are doing the children untold
harm. They are the kind of books that are read in
secret by boys and girls whose parents use careful
discrimination in the choice of reading matter, and
in the open by those in whose homes there are no
such restrictions. They arc the books which their
youthful readers delight in passing on to school
mates under the noses of teachers, and which teach
ers seldom return if they once capture them.
Some of these books are not inherently harmful,
yet the grammar is bad and the rhetoric horrible,
setting the readers awful examples. Others are
distinctly injurious because I hey depict life wronglv
and excite their readers unduly by means of cheap
sensations. All of them steal time from the chil
dren, giving no benefits in return.
Parents and teachers need to condemn vicious
books, and they need to do more than that. They
must recommend to the children good books, em
bodying wholesome entertainment and written in
the best English. Bad books cannot be kept from
ardent juvenile readers with success, unless good
books are put in their place, because the passion for
reading when once started in children has to be
satisfied.
1 lie trend ol a child s thought for a lifetime may
30 determined largely by the nature of the books
which give him his introduction to literature. These
vital books need to be carefully selected, and the
selection must be guided by elders. Parents could
do nothing better for their children in this respect
than to give them on Christmas morning wholesome,!
absorbing, well-written books, unless it be to take I
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914.
them, one of these days, to the city library aud pro- |
eure for them a card that will give the(n access to
practically all the gems of juvenile literature.
SPANISH FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Suggestions ar£ being made in many cities, with i
chances that they will be favorably acte<| upon, |
that the Spanish language be taught in the high j
schools. These recommendations are being made, I
no doubt, because of the growing interest of this ;
country in the Latin-American republics which con- j
stitute the greater/part of the world's Spanish-!
speaking area.
Commerce between the United States and Spanish i
America is now making a demand for young men
who know the Spanish language, and increased
trade will make increased demands. Not only that, j
but Porto Rico and the Philippines need business j
men and educators who are familiar with the lan-1
guage spoken by so many natives, —the language
of the former mother country of the islands.
Aside from advantages in a commercial way, the ;
Spanish language has much of pure enjoyment to
offer those who conquer it. The conquest is not i
difficult and is worth the effort. The literature of I
Spain and even of the Spanish republics comprises |
many gems which only a student of the language!
has the privilege of enjoying.
Those who would have Spanish form a part of i
the high school curriculum do not want it to re- j
place entirely either French or German, for that !
would be too great a sacrifice. All that is desired I
for Spanish is that it be offered as an alternative to !
high school pupils in the-larger cities, where many |
of the students will enter business life in which I
knowledge of the language is a great asset.
Spanish has been left largely to the colleges to \
teach, but all who need it cannot get it there. It [
needs a prominent place in the public schools. As j
an optional subject it would strengthen any high j
school curriculum.
Holil tried it once too often/
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Buy your Red Cross Christmas seals while the supply j
lasts!
The nation's unpreparedness for war is nothing com- |
pared with the late shopper's unpreparedness for Christinas. !
Help the Belgians by going to the Orpheum this week!
You will get your money's' worth and at the same time
help a good cause.
It is too bad that the daring of a man like Hohl could j
not have been gut to some better use. For instance, with
his mechanical skill and his fearlessness, one could well
imagine him accomplishing an exploit similar to that of the
British naval officer who, in a submarine, dived benqath
five rows of mines and sank a Turkish warship.
TOLD IN LIGHTERVEIN !
HIS VERSION
The small boy came home from Sunday school looking so
disheveled and dusty that the mother had grave suspicions
concerning his having been at Sunday school at all. He
explained his disarray by the fact it!* ' he hiirl stopped at
a neighbor's house to see some young puppies aud had
climbed into a stable in order to be able to find them. '
"What was the Golden Text?" inquired the parent.
"Don't worry. You'll get the blanket," was the answer. '
"There's nothing like that in the Bible,' declared the j
mother.
"Yes there is. I guess 1 know the Golden Text. Our {
class said it over and over."
To settle her doubts the mother telephone to the boy's
teacher.
"Harry tells me that the Golden Text to-day was, 'Don't !
worry. You'll get the blanket.' What does lie mean*"
With a peal of laughter the teacher explained the boy's
statement, giving the text correctly: I
"Foar not, the Comforter shall come unto.yon."—Na-
tional Monthly.
A BASHFUL CLERK
A pretty young woman stepped into a music store the
other day. She tripped up to the counter where a new
clerk was assorting music, and in her sweetest tones asked: j
"Have you 'Kissed Me in the Moonlight"."'
"It must have been the man at the other counter; I've
only been here a week."—National Monthly.
FOR WEEK-END PARTIES
The old-fashioned razor is a recognized weapon of of
fense and defense in the South; in fact to such an extent
that many states (including Arkansas) have seen fit to
embrace it in laws prohibiting the carrying of weapons,
A few days ago a negro entered a hardware store and asked
to see some razors. The clerk showed him some safety
razors, which he looked at with rather a critical glance,
finally saying:
"Boss, dis am not the kind of razor 1 wants; I desire one
strickly for social purposes."—National Monthly.
WASN'T REAL GRANITE
"When we were married," sobbed the young wife, "he
said he loved me with a love more enduring than the ever
lasting granite."
"And it didn't Inst?" queried the sympathetic friend.
"Last!" echoed the young wife, drying her tears, "it
didn't last as long as a wood pavement."—Kansas City
Times.
CHEERFUL NEWS
The specialists had been called in consultation and had
retired to another room to discuss the patient's condition.
In the closet of that room a small boy had been concealed
by the patient's directions to listen to what the doctors
decided on and to tell the patient, who desired genuine
information.
"Well, Jimmy," said the patient when the boy came to
report, "what did they say 1"
"I couldn't tell you that," said the boy. "I listened as
hard as I tfould, but they used such big words I couldn't
remember much of it. All I could catch was when one
doctor said:
" 'Well, we'll find that out at the autopsy.' " —Exchange.
KIND TO THIS ANIMAL
The class was discussing cruelty to animals and the hu
mane sficiety. ,
"Now children, who can think of one thing the society
has done to make the life of dumb brutes easier?" the
teacher asked.
"I know," spoke out a ten-year-old girt. "I heard papa
say people couldn't run blind tigers any more."—National
Monthly.
MR. HERRIOK'S PREFERENCE
Mr. Herrick doubtless thinkß it is better to curb a Presi
dential boom now than take it out of cold storage in 1016.
—Washington Post.
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| Tongue-End Top ics |
Wants "M<ss Penn" Removed
A Reading citizen wants to displace
the statue of "Miss Penn"' on the
Capitol with si Htatue of Liberty. Fur*
i thermore, hi' is of opinion that the His
! torical Society of Berks county ca# |
; furnish the model. Samuel B. Ranibo,
j Superintendent of Public Buildings and
(■rounds, has received u letter from
j l/ouis Richards, president of the His*
I torical Society of Berks county, making
jtlic offer. Mr. Richards says in his
I letter, dated at Reading, December 14:
"I called at your office last sum
i mer on my way to Erie, to make a sug
gestion, but, ai you were engaged at
the time, I communicated it to your
secretary, Mr. McDevitt.
"To wit: It has often struck me
that the ligure on the dome of the nevr
Capitol is entirely too insignificant for
i the place it occupies At a short dis
tance from the building it can scarce
ly bo distinguished.
"The Historical Society of Berks
county has in its rooms, 519 Court
street, this city, a very handsome wood
carved statute of ' Liberty,' which stood
on the steeple of the county Court
House for fifty-seven years, but was
replaced by another in 1597, because
of some indications of insecurity in the
pediment. It was then given by the
County Commissioners to the Historical
Society.
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Work of William Rush
''The statue is the; work of William
Uusih, a noted wood-carver of Philadel
phia in his day, and is esteemed a mag
nificent and elegant #eco of work.
"It has occurred to me that if this
figure wei e east 111 bronze it would
make an altogether appropriate and ac
ceptable ornament for the Capitol dome
I sent a photograph of it to the original
Capitol Commission, but, as that bodj
passecl out of existence, 1 presume the
Rump's
Leather Goods
Traveling sets. Manicure sets, Col- |
lar boxes, Cuff boxes and Emergency j
medicine cases.
Golden Seal Drug Store,
11 Market Square.
picture may not )iftvr been preserved
among its archives, if it loft any.
"I do not know whether a proposi
tion to displace the present Capitol fig
ure would meet with any encouragement
either on the part of your department
or on that of the Legislature. What.
I wish to suggest, however, is that
when you pass through Beading you call
at the Historical Society rooms and see
: the lij»ure to which I refer. If noth
ing comes of the matter, at least noth
ing will be lost."
* $
Difficulty JOI Placing Figure
Superintendent Rambo said to day
that the figure now on the Capitol dome
is not likely to be removed to maka
way for another ono if he can help it,
because of the great difficulty in putting
it in place. Mr. Rambo superintended
the placing of the present figure in
position, and says he knows what a
job it would bo to undertake a propo
sition suoh as is proposed by Mr. Rich
ards.
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Figure Weigh 3 Four Tons N
The present female figure on the Cap
itol dome represents nothing in (►artic
ular, but was simply placed there by
way of ornament. It was said, when
placed in position, that it was posed
for at the bronze works by Mrs. Jo
seph M. Huston, the wife of the Capitol
architect. It is an exceedingly grace
ful figure about fourteen feet high and
weighs about fou. - tons. It was cast
by t/he Bonard bronze works in New
York, which firm also made the bronze
doors and grill work for the Capitol.
When the statue was first brought to
Harririburg the newspapermen, in re
porting its uncrating, gave it the name
of Miss Penn, and that lias stuck to it
ever since.
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Senator Clarlc Paid for Part
The statue faces west, and Architect
Huston said it was allegorical of the
onward march of the nation west
ward, and - did not represent any par
ticular persofi, historical, mythological
or modern. The bronze work o£ the
Capitol, including the doors, was con
tracted for at the fixed sum of $30,-
000, but the cost ran several times thHt
amount, and the additional 6um was
| made up by Senator Clark, of Montana,
one of the owners of the bronze works,
j whose bronze head is one of the orna
j ments of the big bronze doors along
with those of M. S. Quay, Samuel W.
Pennypacker, Robert K. Young, Boies
Penrose, William P. Bn\-der, George
Gray Barnard and others prominent in
public life.
SANTA CLAUS HEADED TOWARD
ORPHEUM—GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
I
' Santa flans is on his way to Hnr
n riaburg.
Ho lias a few more days to travel,
and then he'll put his big pack down
into the Orpheum's chimney, and
down he'll go after it, right to the
stage, where on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
3 he will distribute gifts among the chil
i dren who arc in the audience.
, Manager Hopkins has had word
; from Santa that assures him that the
I good old fellow will lie here on Mon
day, and so he has ordered a Christ
i . n 'i' ' i ■■■ at
' DEMANDS STOCK (QUOTATIONS
Pittsburgh Broker Files Suit Against
Western Uiiion and Exchange
Pittsburgh, 'Pa., Dee. 18.—Complain-1
ing that unless he receives New York
r Stock Exchange quotations it will re
t srnlt in the destruction of his broker
. age business, John L. Moore, a wealthy
broker, trading its John L. Moore &
. Co., filed a bill in equity yesterday in
common pleas court against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company and i
I the New York >Stock Exchange.
An injunction is asked to restrain
r Ihe defendants from doing any act dis
, eliminating against the plaintiff. Ac
cording to the bill, there is an agree
• ment between the New Yiwk Stock Kx
> change and the Western Union Tele
graph Company whereby the latter is
. not permitted to furnish New York quo
tations to any individual or firm which
is not sanctioned by the Exchange.
.Somo *|ayß ago a suit, was filed in
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•| mas tree and will have the stage all
■ fixed up for Santa Clans. Anil the
little boys and girls who buy tickets
'I are not the only ones who will sen
'| Santa at the Orpheuni. Through Mrs.
I Middleton, of the Children's Aid So
. ciety, and Mrs. Pierce, of the Sunshine
Society, scores of little Orphans and
' crippled children have been incited to
' attend Wednesday afternoon and Santa
" Claus will have a present for each one
of them.
1 There are nine little girls in one
) act at the Orphcum next week, ami also
an act in which dogs run a village of
• their own.
common ploas court in which the Con
solidated Stock Exch.nge asked for a
mandamus to coinpil the Western Un
| ion Telegraph to f.irnislt New York
| stock market quotations, out the New
York Stock Exchange was not named
j in the proceedings.
According to the bill, Moore had
been receiving the New York stock
market quotations up until the market
closed after the outbreak of the Euro
pean war through ticker service fur
nished by the Western Union Telegraph
Company. When the market closed the
ticker in Moore's office was removed.
Since then the telegraph company has
refused to reinstall the service.
On Time
"Is this train running on time}"
" [ should say so,'' answered,tile con
ductor. "It can't run any other way.
The company has had to get so many
extensions of credit that the whole
road is now running 011 time."—Wash
ington Star.