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JANUARY
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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.
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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 in<rh of me. See! "
The speaker was a "drunk" who
was wandering through the corridor on
the second floor of the Court House
the other day and in his boisterous
spirit thought he could scare Court
House attaches and employes.
"Do you know who I am?" he fair
ly streamed as he interrogated an office
caller. The "drunk" was addressing a
man of powerful stature, a muscular in
dividual who could have crushed his
would-be adversary in a moment.
"Yes you're a hard guy," ho replied
as he brushed by. The "rummy" made
for the ; back stairway as fast as he
could.
Life Saving 180 Years Ago
One hundred and twenty-nine years
j ::go yesterday, the Massachusetts Hu
-1 mane Society built its first hut on Lo
j veil's Island, near Boston to succor the
; stranded mariners along the dangerous
I and desolate Cape Cod coast. From that
j little dark red hut, the first house of
! merey of the sea to be erected, arose
i a score of like huts along the coast that
I had been bleached with the bones of
: sailors for two centuries. In 1807 fhe
first life boat station was organized at
! Cohasset and out of that sprung the
j most eflicient life saving service of all
I the seven seas. At first if tlhe wrecked
[ and half frozen sailors was lucky
enough to land at one of these huts he
j found dry clothing and food and bed
j ding and wood aud the old flint tender
; to kindle a fire. This new haven of
| refuge lacked only the voice of a hu
i man brother to welcome him. It was on
| a stormy March night in 1807, that
j the first life boat on the American
l coast battled through the raging surf
[ and picked up half a dozen sailors from
a stranded schooner. In IS4S Congress
recognized the noble work of this so
ciety by granting it an appropriation
of SIO,OOO. Then the government or
ganized a small service of its own on
Cape Cod, but not till the winter o!
IS7I did it put its heart ardently into
a national life saviry service.
2,000 Life Savors To-day
To-day there is a little army of J,
000 sttpeifo bat silent heroes who night
ly tor eight mouthy of the year patrol
the longest and one of the most dan
gerous coasts in the world, ii' one could
behold the scope ol' the work in a
single g.ance he could see that these
2.000 men meet at a thousand stations
on dark and lonely shores and exchange
brass checks and brinj these checks
with them, on their return to their life
stations aj evidence thai they had
patrolle 1 the coast. Never has one of
these faithful servants failed to conic
back promptly with the check of the
patrol, unless he was halted by a caso
of uutiesa and even then his fellcit
; 'tro! conic- on to meat him. frVores
of men give their lives to the devouring
sea to favo the !iie and millions of
property. There are now 290 stations
on the sea and lake toasts of the Unit
ed States. There arc men in the service
that have saved as many as 30 lives
and literally every man in the service
has been an actor in one or more of its
ten thousand hero stories. !u 1912
rescue service was ronjored to 1,671
vessels carrying 6.500 passengers, the
total value ot these vessels aud their
cargoes beimj 111,000,000.
ff You Could Only
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Fancy yourself doing the same thing
with your stomach—the noblest of all
our physical organs.
Just imagine yourself devoting
hours of ceaseless work to the diges
tion of a meal which you cannot di
gest because of wrongful ingredients
given to you by the blood.
Is not a man very foolish to imag
ine a raw sick stomach capable of good
work when the juices it receives are so
tilled with alkali or acid that they
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Do you not know from a common
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WIFE'S TONGUE STILL 9 YEARS
Under Satne Roof With Husband, but
Never Spoke
New York, Jan. 6.—The fact that
Chester I. Richards, a wholesale shoo
dealer at .">9 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.
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