6 ( EUaNtfhfd in 1876) Published b • THE STAR PRINTING COMPANY. f Star-Independent luMkii. IMMI South Third Street. Hirritbwl. Pa* Every Evening Except Sunday Offierrt .- DinrMri. BHUAMIN F. MIYIRS. JOHN L. L. KCHN. President Wll W. W ALLOWI* Vfce President WM. IS NITIM, Secretary and Treasarer. W«i. W W allowtn WM II WARNER. V. HCMHIL BIRGHAUS, J*., Busmea.-* Manager Editor All commtinlca'.ions should be addreMed to Stab Inpkpbndekt, flaslnesc. Editorial. Job Printing or Cireulation Department according to tbe subject matter Entered at tbe Post Offlre in Harrisburg as second diss matter. Benjamin 4 Kentnor Company. New l"ork and Chicago Representatives New York Offlce. Brunswick Building. 22j Fifth Avenue Chicago Office, People's Gas Building. Michigan Avenue, Delivered hy carriers at 6 cents a week. Mailed So subscriber; tor Three Dollars a year in id v auce THE STAR-INDEPENDENT The paper wita t'.ie largest Homt Circulation ,n Harrisburg and •earby towns. Circulation Examinee by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVBRTiSCRS. TELEPHONES BELL~ Private Branoli Exchange. No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Private Branch Exchange, . No. B4S-24C Wednesday, January O, 1015. JANUARY Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MOON S PHASES— FuU Moon, Ist, 30th; Last Quarter, Bth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, "N, WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg ami vicinity: Rain this r yP -vy afternoon. to-night and probably \ Thursday. Warmer to-night with low est temperature about -10 degrees. J Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain to-night l J an< l Thursday. Warmer to-uight. Mod crate to fresh south winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Holiest, 39: lowest, IS; S a. in., 19: S p. m., WITCHCRAFT AT TURKEY RUN Conditions existing in the village of Turkey Run. I'a., as revealed in a court trial in Pottsville the • ither day. are most startling, for it appears that witchcraft still operates there. The plaintiff in the case, Mrs. Short, accused one Mrs. Zemanowski of assaulting her, and scratching her cheeks till 'lood came, whereupon the defendant explained that she was forced to draw the old woman's blood i in order to break a spell which liatl been cast over j Mrs. Zemanowski by the woman, whom the defend- , ant declared to be a witch. It seems that .Mrs. Zemauowski's vok'e had started to i'ail her not long after she had accepted a drink of whiskey from Mrs. Short. She of course lid not seek medical aid. because she was certain that she was the victim of witchcraft. She knew that her throat had not become weak through nat ural causes when there was an old woman around who was a witch and could east spells. She of course consulted the neighborhood's au thorities on witchcraft and at their advice drew the witch s blood, yet in court the old woman won iter case, and what was more the drawing of the blood failed to improve the bewitched one's voice. \ ietims of witchcraft are heard of frequently, in circumstances similar to the case at Turkey Hun. They are assuredly persons to be pitied, for they are forced to battle against mystic forces of evil which they can seldom overcome. Since they are restrained by the law from attack ing their tormenters, they should in some way be protected irom spells by this same law. All per sons susceptible to the charms of witches ought to be put in some place apart from enlightened per sons, where t hey would never be heard of more. The sorceresses, deprived of victims, would then be powerless, anil witchcraft would be at an end. THE NEW YORK SUBWAY HORROR What all New Yorkers had been dreading since the subway was built and what most of them knew to be inevitable and only a matter of time, has occurred, —fire and panic on an appallingly large scale on the underground railroad, in which there was at least one death. Early this forenoon enough details of the horror in the tube beneath Broadway and Fifty-fifth street were available to show that the disaster that oc curred at the height of the rush hour this morning was by far the worst in the history of the New York subway. Later and more definite details are printed on another page of the Star-Independent, Riding in the subway in New York, even in the quiet periods of the day, is hazardous at best. Siding in the subway in the morning "rush hour, ' when thousands of homes in Upper Man hattan and The Bronx are pouring their hun dreds of thousands of men, women and children through the various tubes into the offices and stores and factories where they are employed in Lower Manhattan, is and always has been like flirting with death. It was just as certain as that night follows day that such a disaster as that of this morning would occur. Even the people who use the subway knew it. The subway patrons simply have been taking a chance, —a tremendous chance, —that they would not be the one 3 to suffer when the inevitable should occur. Steel cars and the concrete walls of the tube are no guarantee against disaster. They, perhaps, HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, .JANUARY 6, 1913, were responsible for the horror of this morning not having occurred long ago, but there was always the danger that a small flash of flame or puff of smoke from a burned-out fuse would start a panic which mig-ht result in death in the subway into which human beings are crowded two times a day as closely as it is possible to pack them. The subway patrons knew this. THE 7 HAVE HAD TO TAKE THE DAILY RISK. The business concerns of downtown New York with its skyscrap ers, many of which individually hold thousands of persons, so crowd the narrow island that it is im possible for all the jfrorkers to get to their places of employment without using the subway. Their daily bread depends on it and they HAVE TO TAKE THE CHANGE. The surface cars run too slowly to carry people from five to ten miles to their work in Lower Man hattan. The "L" lines, though faster than the sur face cars, do not afford sufficient accommodations to haul the great throngs each day. Only the sub way is left for hundreds of thousands of workers. They have to use it simply because the terrible con gestion of traffic in New York leaves them no other course. The congestion is growing daily by leaps and bounds as the number of people employed in the downtown skyscrapers grows. More subways are being built but nothing like fast enough to meet the growing demand, and until the subways are multiplied sufficiently to make their operation safe by limiting the number of trains and the number of passengers to a train, and until the stations are made sufficiently large to handle the crowds with out herding them worse than any cattle are herded, New York will be in constant danger of a repeti-j tion of the disaster of this morning, in which, luck ily, the death toll was small. __ GETTING HARD ON SHOPLIFTERS File shoplifters seem to be having difficulties j these days in getting away with the goods in New , l ork City. Department store detectives assert that j during the past year their vigilance was too much ! for the men, women and young girls engaging in thieving expeditions, and that the number of shop-j lifters has diminished considerably, especially the, number of professionals. The great trouble now appears to be with the amateurs who, for the most part, do not steal from necessity. Kleptomaniacs, the persons who pilfer merely because of insane desires to do so and not because of the value attached to the objects of theft, are hard to deal with, because they are in many cases persons of means aud when t-aught make passionate appeals to be permitted to pay for the goods found on them and to be released. That no more tlian one shoplifter out oi' every ten caught actually steals from necessity is the experience of the detectives. The other nine carry ou their work because of some strange fascination which it has for them. When caught they gener ally have a great deal more money with them than the value of the goods they steal. Department store heads have been rather lenient with kleptomaniacs,—especially with the wealthy ones who have social positions to maintain,—but a new policy has been announced for the coming year. 1 lie warning has been issued that no kindly consideration will be shown to shoplifters caught hereafter, whether they be professionals ur ama teurs, with or without social positions. W hen men anil women on whose persons stolen articles are tound are turned over to the law with no distinctions made, and prosecuted if for nothing more than the theft of a paper of pins, there may be some hope of checking the kleptomaniacs who continue to cause trouble after the professionals begin to fall off. Can't the Front street fill problem be solved bv utilizing the discarded Christmas trees now decorating the vacant lots? Perhaps Dr. Brumbaugh could restore peace in tanope. He had no difficulty doing it among the five candidates for Speaker. Mayor Mitchell, of New York, savs the men of the police force are contented. Some of the New Vork i-rooks seem also to be contented. Sunday says he has the devil on the run in Philadelphia. "Billy" always was an optimist, but perhaps he doesn't know how strongly His Satanic Majesty is entrenched there. After the smoke of battle blew away the five candidates' for the Speakership had a group photograph taken .just to show how harmonious everything had become. Have tho defeated candidates so soon forgotten what some of them said about the "Philadelphia contractor bosse.s?" TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN IDEAL An ideal husband is one who remains unconscious of the fact that his wife is growing stout. —Topeka Capital. FINANCIAL NOTE The calendars that are pouring in are all pretty, but so far not one we have received indicates more than fifty-two pay-days during 1915.—Houston Post. CAUTIOUS "Waiter! Vienna steak, please!" " 'L'sh, sir, we calls 'em Pctrograd patties now, sir!" Bystander. NO ROMANCE IN THE TRENCHES "So Lady Gladys is back from the front?" "Yes, she couldn't find anybody interesting or romaatic to nurse."Pittsburgh Post. THE DIFFERENCE Teacher—"What is the difference between militarism and militaneyf" Pupil—"Militancy is the feminine of militarism!" Judge. REALLY "Ah, my day is spoiled. I came oft without my ciga rettes." "Algernon will let you have some of his." "Dear me! I can't smoke cigarettes with another fellah's monogram on them."—Louisville Courier-Journal. i [ Tongue-End Top ics] Failed to Scare the Court House 1 "I'll Wow the darn thing down. That's nie, every in9 Reade street, and his wife lived in the same apartment for nine years without speaking to each other and didn't separate because they were afraid of what their friends would say 'became knowu yesterday when Mrs. Maria Luisa F. Richards asked Supreme Court Justice (»off for alimouy pend ing suit for divorce. 'Mrs. Richards says she finally had to leave the apartment in The Turrets, Riverside Drive and Eighty-fourth street, and went to live at Hempstead, U I. She had detectives trail her hus band, she says, aird t'hev followed him from his office to a Brooklyn hotel, where he met a blond woman one day last summer. The detectives sent for Mrs. Richards and fhe party forced the door of a room, after which iMrs. Rich ards identified the man as her husband. Mrs. Richards told the Court that when her final quarrel with 'her husband took place last March he said: "I don't care for you any longer. You are a fool to stand for me and to live with me." Justice Goff appointed William Ar rowsmith referee to determine the amount of alimony Richards can pay. He is not defending the suit. The couple were married in 1890, when Richards was 21 and his wife 19. s~.'-7 LEFT OF S2,O(M> ESTATE Missing Husband Can Claim It Any Time in Three Years Riverhead, X. Y., Jan. ti.—Litigation has eaten up the estate of IMrs. Ella Burleigh, who was burned to death here four years ago. If R. W. Kafhan. a lawyer of Brooklyn, had insisted upon his full bill being paid the estate would be in debt $lO. As it was he cut his hill from SSt!O to S7OO, and the estate now nets $22.27. The estate was worth something like $2,1>00. Mrs. 'Burleigh's husband disappeared a'bout a year be fore her deai'j. Relatives sought to obtain the estate and carried the case into the courts. The light has been carried on since. Now the administrator is ready to pay over io the county treasurer $22.27. and the husband can claim it at any time in the uext three years. Eig Increase in Drug Arrest's New Yo'k. Jan. 6.—'As a result of the "campaign waged under Commis sioner Woods against the drug traffic, figures given out «t- police headquar ters yesterday bhow that almost four times as many arresls for selling or possessing narcotics were made in 1911 ,".s in the year preceding. The total number was 1,9.">0, of Which 9 4 7 result ed in convictions and 2.91 eases are -Hill pending. The campaign was under the peraonal supervision of Secretary tiuv Scull and prosecuted by a special drug squad. MERCHANT MISSING A WEEK E. A. Reincke of Wall Street Firm May Be Victim of War Tarrytown, N". V., Jan. 6.—The po lice learned yesterday of the disappear ance of K. A. Reincke, 57 years old, of 16 South Broadway, Tarrytown, a member of Gravenho'rst i Co., commis sion merchants of 90 Wall street. New- York City. -Nothing has been heard of him since December 30, when he left his home to board the 8.30 train from Tarrytown for New York. Members of his family fear that Mr. Reincke is a victim of aphasia or that his mind has become affected over the war. Financial difficulties are not 'be lieved to have been responsible for his disappearance, as it is said that just before the war he made $25,000 in a business deal. Mr. Reincke has a wife and t'hree daughters living here. LYIvEXS VALLEY COAI, SHIPME.'ST The shipment of coal over the Sum mit Branch Railroad for the week end ing December 31. 1914, together with a comparison with the corresponding week last year, wag as follows: Short Monntnin Colliery Week Year Tons Tons 1914 4,329,07 £4 1,659.07 191 2.306.16 295.070.14 Increase 2,022.11 Decrease 53,416.07 Summit Hrnni-h Colliery 191 5,111.19 318.346.03 191 3,697.07 308,268.14 Increase 1,414.12 10,077.09 Total 191 9,4 41.06 560,005.1s 1913 6,004.03 603,311.08 Increase 3,437.03 Decrease 13,338.18 Scranton Gets Tri-State Infielder Scran to n, .Jan. 6.—Manager Bill Coughlin, of the local New York State League team, and Hugh Jennings, lead er of the Detroit Tigers, of the Ameri can League, held a conference here, and as a result, Jennings agreed to turn over to the Miner pilot, Infielder S'harp and a pitcher named Balzel, who was drafted from one of the Eastern Asso ciation teams by the Tigers. Sharp is the clever little infielder of tlhe Wil mington team, of the Tri-tftate League, and he was also graibbed up in the draft •by Jennings. The hitter thinks that the youth needs more development before being riipe for big league service and has consented to turn him over for in struction to Coughlin. Mr. Brubaker Again Under Knife* Duniel W. Brirbaker, messenger at the Attorney General's Department, who has been very ill for some time with gangrene of the left foot at his home. llOl'j Capital street, was sai.l to-day to i»« improving. On New Year's day 'Mr. Brubaker submitted to tflie am putation of another toe, the third that had to be removed to stay the progress of the disease, and it is thought now that tihere will be no necessity for fur ther amputations. There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.—George Eliot. | Our Semi-Annual Sale of Whittall's High Grade Rugs Throughout the Month of January Very low prices on all discontinued patterns. This is your II opportunity to secure the best rugs made at prices which II should appeal to everyone needing j Whittall's Anglo-Persian Rugs j $60.00 Rugs, 9x12 ft.; reduced to $47.25 j $53.75 Rugs, 8-3xlo-6 ft.: reduced to $43.00 $36.50 Rugs. 6x9 ft.; reduced to $29.25 Whittall's Anglo-Indian i| j $50.00 Hugs, 9x12 ft.; reduced to $40.00 Whittall's Royal Worcester 'i $45.00 Rugs. 9x12 ft.; reduced 1o $30.00 $41.25 Rugs, 8-3xlo-6 ft.; reduced to $33.00 ! Whittall's Teprac Wilton Rugs jl $37.50 Rugs. 9xll ft.: reduced to $31.00 | Whittall's Chlidema Brussels Rugß j $32.75 Rugs, 9x12 ft.; reduced to $26.25 I S3O.(M) Rugs, 8-3xlo-6 ft.; reduced to $24.00 II Whittall's Peerless Brussels Rugs Sj $28.00 Rugs, 9x12 ft.; reduced to $23.25 ( $26.00 Rugs, 8-3xlo-6 ft.; reduced to $21.25 I A BIG REDUCTION ON CARPETS jj Axniinster Carpets, $1.60 per yard; now $1.40 II Axminster Carpets, $1.25 per yard; now sl.lO Velvet Carpets. $1.50 per yard; now 81.30 Body Brussels Carpets, $1.60 per yard: now $1.35 || Tapestry Carpets, $1.1(1 per yard; now II j Tapestry Carpets. SI.OO per yard; now J All sewed, lined and laid at this low price. ' ! FACKLER'S, P „ r ; 3 'l, re „ | At Victoria Theatre Thursday I THE SONGS OF OTHER DA YS Selected By J. HOWARD WBRT * No - 3,H - "The Rusty Sword" In a little roadside eottage, half hid by shrubs and vines, A woman, old and feeble. 011 a faded couch reclines; Her face is sweet, but sorrow has left its imprint (here, And her voice tells not the burden that her (iod hath bid her bear. As f drink the limpid water from the homely, dripping gourd, 1 note on the wall before me a naked, rusty sword; I glance at the aged woman, and speaking she bows her head, 'Twas worn by a gallant soldier, for many a long year dead. One day, sir, I was looking where the road winds over there, Wishing the war was over and breathing a mother's prayer— I saw a wagon coming, and soldiers, all moving slow; They were bringing my boy home, sir, wounded —all! it's many a year ago. I buried him there by the willows as you pass you can see his grave. Oh, stranger, my child was a comfort, but his heart it was strong and hrave. Watching the pearls drop downward over her aged face, I mount, and I ride in silence away from the lonely place. But now 1 have reached the willows and 1 leap to the shady ground, ■ I gather some wayside flowers to throw on his mossy mound; 1 care not if Grant has led him, nor if he has fought with Lee; 1 am an American soldier—and so was he. "Alice, Where Art Thou" The birds sleeping gently, sweet Lyra gleamoth bright; Her rays tinge the forest, and all seems glad to night; The winds sighing by me, cooling my fevered brow; The stream flows as ever, yet; Alice, where art thou? One year back this even', and thou went by my side, vowing to love m«, One year back this even', and thou wast by my side, Vowing to love me, Alice, what e'er betide. The silver rain falling, just as it falleth now, And all things slept gently, ah, Alice, where art thou? I've sought thee by lakelet, I've sought thee 011 the hill. And in the pleasant wildwood, where winds blew cold and chill; I've sought thee in the forest, I'm looking heavenward now, I'm looking heavenward now, oh! there mid the starsliine; I've sought thee in the forest, I'm looking heavenward now, Oh, there mid the starshine, Alice I know art thou. SECOND HAND " CASH REGISTERS WE BUY THEM FAn VATT WE SELL THEM rUtV lUU Write for list of available registers. Or, if you have one to sell, list it with us. We have inquiries for all styles and sizes of NATIONAL (.'ASH REGISTERS. All Registers sold bv us GUARANTEED TWO YEARS. THE CASH REGISTER EXCHANGE CO.