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JANUARY
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MOON'S PHASES—
Full Moon, Ist, 30th; Last Quarter. Bth;
! New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, 2;sd.
WEATHER FORECASTS f ■■■ 'TTEagBI
Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair and
colder to-night with lowest temperature
about 30 degrees. Thursday fair.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair and V i .
colder to-night. Thursday fair. Di-
ininishing northwest win|ls.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 43; lowest, 30; 8 a. in., 36; 8 p. m., 43.
COUNTY'S BONDS AS AN INVESTMENT
In these days of a good deal of financial stress in
some quarters the holders of the $421,000 Dauphin
< 'ounty bonds need not remain awake at nights
worrying about the safety of their investments.
They can feel more than reasonably certain of get
ling llicir money back at the specified dates of
maturity of the various bonds and, in the mean
time, that the various interest payments will lie
promptly and regularly met.
The report of County Controller Gough, just
issued, shows that (lie County lias actual cash on
hand sufficient to pay off all the bonds to-day, if
necessary, save an insignificant item of $31,000,
notwithstanding the fact that redemptions of the
bonds do not begin to fall due until the year 19*31.
There should be even greater comfort for the bond
holders in the fact that they are further protected
to (lie extent, of $848,501 by absolutely unincum
bered property owned by the County,—chiefly
buildings, grounds and so forth which are constant
ly increasing in value.
The county has no debt other than that repre
sented by the $421,000 bonds which obligation even
now is almost all offset by the actual cash in the
sinking fund plus the cash in the treasury at the
end of the year just closed.
Incidentally it can be remarked that Controller
Gough, in his first year as the "watchdog" of the
County's strong-box, has through intelligent ad
ministration of the County's finances, effected a
number of economies which have saved the County
thousands of dollars, for which he deserves the
commendation of the taxpayers.
RUSSIA'S PATRIOTIC STAMPS
in order to meet the urgent needs of the families
of Russian soldiers killed in battle the Imperial
Russian Patriotic Society has eo-operated with the
Czar's government in the issuance of "patriotic
postage stamps," which are used on mail matter
the same as ordinary stamps but are sold to the
public at an advance over face value of one kopeck
each. The revenue thus received above the re
quired rates of postage is to be used "to clothe,
feed and educate the orphans and the families of
soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield while
protecting their homes and country."
The "patriotic stamps" will doubtless have a
large sale in Russia, and it is not at all unlikely
that many of the most liberal purchasers of them
will be found outside of that country. Although
some of these foreign contributors to the relief of
stricken Russians may buy the stamps for charity's
sake and preserve them for curiosity's sake, many
of them will be matter-of-fact philatelists who may
have not. a thought of the good they do \vhen they
purchase the stickers, but will merely be gathering
specimens for their stamp collections.
Invitations have in fact been sent out from Petro
grad for foreigners to avail themselves of the op
portunity to get the new stamps direct from head
quarters there, and these invitations seem to he
aimed particularly at stamp collectors and dealers,
as the latter especially invest large sums in all new
postage stamps.
It will be advantageous to the Russian govern
ment as well as to the Patriotic Society to have
philatelists buy large quantities of the charity
•tamps, since these stamps, when they once get
HABRIBBTTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1915.
into the hands of the collectors, will never be used
on nftiil matter and their sale will mean clear profit
to the government over and above the insignificant
cost of printing, gumming and distributing.
The question which arises in this connection is
whether the German philatelists, of which there
are great numbers, will, in keeping their
up to date, purchase quantities of the Russian
patriotic stamps and thus aid in supporting a gov
ernment against which they are fighting while pro
tecting their own particular homes and country.
ON THE CREST OF THE MAD'NINO WAVE
Taking advantage of the breaking up of the ice
on the Susquehanna river an old friend made an
early appearance this year,—the big black bear
which each season floats down the stream on a cake
of ice, —or a log,—lands on an island and is not
heard of until the next year when the ice breaks
and bruin takes advantage of the opportunity to
do it all over again. Gradually, as the years roll by,
that bear gets further down the river; or, rather,
is seen foating on the cake of ice far below the
point at which his bearship was seen the previous
year, but it must be the same old bear.
Years ago this bear used to be seen, and was duly
reported, at Clearfield or Karthaus. Later the
hardy animal was reported at Hyners or Lock
Haven. Then it got down as far as Williamsport,
and marvelous were the stories that the news vend
ers of that village sent to the city papers which
fairly ifle up that kind of romance. \
Then, again, having survived Williamsport, bruin
got as far as Sunbury, at which point the pens of
the scribes fairly ran riot with descriptions of the
bear and its frantic efforts to maintain its balance
on the cake of ice as it was swept down on the crest
of the turbulent flood.
This year the bear has gotten further south, and
the latest news of the-beast, —possibly the last for
this year, for the story is good for only once a year,—
is from Selinsgrove, where that same old bear, still
black, not having grown gray in the service of pro
viding newspaper stories, was seen on a cake of
ice,—or was it a log?—sweeping majestically to
ward an island in the dim distance where it was the
animal's duty, according to all tradition, to hop
off and wait for an encore next year.
We have not heard the last of this wonderful
animal. Coming generations will read with interest
the story of the black bear and the cake of ice
floating down the Susquehanna river, and the won
derment at that great performance will never cease,
—nor the revenues of the space-writers.
CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE RANKS
That the present war is one not of cold steel but
of hot lead is the conclusion that has been reached
by observers on the field. Surgeons who have
treated soldiers of the different armies have testi
fied that they have met with few if any saber,
lance or bayonet wounds, but that they have at
tended principally to injuries caused by bullets
and fragments of bombs.
When that is said only the surgeons have spoken
and the testimony is not complete. Were Ihe phy
sicians and nurses to speak for publication, and
speak authoritatively, they might tell some startling
things about the ravages of disease in the trenches.
All the casualties of war are not caused by the
lead, —much less of course the steel, —of the oppos
ing forces. When human beings are crowded in
trenches which have become unhealthful through
long occupation, they are soon attacked by disease,
an enemy common to both sides on the battlefield.
In the very entrenchments which protect sol
diers from opposing troops, ills may attack them
which they cannot resist with anything like com
plete success. The best of defenses may be put up
against the enemy,—the French laud forces may be
made invisible by an invention now being tried out
and the adoption of which by the military authori
ties is said to be pending,—rbut the soldiers who
live in the open under conditions which cannot be
made strictly sanitary, will always run ehances of
being reached by deadly diseases if not by cold steel
or by hot lead.
When a photographer asked the Colonel to pose with
Taft for a picture, the great Bull Mooser said: "Don't be
silly." Huh! What did Bill sayf
There is even a prospect of fun in the coming session of
law makers. "Nev" Detrich and "Bill" Flinn promise to
head a Bull Moose contingent to watch legislation.
The man who bowled thirty-six hours continuously in
Sioux City would probably be too tired if his wife asked
him to chop enough kindling wood for the morning ftre.
It used to be that nature fake ltories were confined to
the early spring months, or at least to the tropical lands
such as South Africa or the territory drained by the Biver
of Doubt.
That seven-foot shake seen in midwinter in Capital street
by a man who walked away and wouldn't give his name to
the reporter of an esteemed evening contemporary, deserves
a place in history with the bear that "Came floating down
the Susquehanna on a log."
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
THE SNOWY TRAVELER
Ole Man Winter, with his blizzards on de blow,
Trompin' thro' de country in his overcoat o' snow;
Wen you heah him knockin' yo' troubles sho r begin—
Better rise an' answer, or he'll smash de winder iu!
(Ole Man Winter,
Don't you cut up so;
Out 'll go de fire
Ef you pelt it wid de snow.)
Time wuz ole Winter didn't have a place ter stay
W'e» de roses made a gyarden whar de li'l folks could play;
W'en de mockin' birds wuz singin' an' de bees made honey
comb,
Miss Springtime sont him flyin' out his house an' out his
home. «
(Ole Man Winter,
Yo' welcome is in doubt;
Wish you'd tell yo' blizzards
Not ter blow de fire out.)
—Atlanta Constitution. -
"93" Hair Tonic
sttys tin hair fro fiOtag lit ,
George A. Gorges.
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How No*h Lost His Bet
Contributed by James 8. Kimmel
Old Noah crawled inta his hay,
He knew he'd won his bet;
He looked out of th e Ark next day
And saw the state -was "wet."
Then Mrs. Noah lit her pipe
And seemed demure an<l shy;
She got the gang a meal of tripe
And a pieee of rhubarb pie.
Well, Noah's sons refused; to eat
Without a drink of booze;
And so they gathered up their feet
And laid down for a snooze.
The wives of those three Noah boys
Had voted with the "drys;"
They wanted real homelike joys
Away from pig pen flies.
Then came a strike upon the Ark,
The folks could not agree;
The men in charge of that old bark
Went on a glorious s.prec.
Those Noah men had voted "wet,"
Their wives had voted "dry;"
And as old Noah won has bet,
The women took their cry.
The Noah women prayed all night
To see once more "dry" land;
They centered on a lawsuit fight,—
And injunction job they planned.
Of course, the judge was awful "dry,"
He sided with the "wots;"
He winked at Noah on the sly
And said: "Rope in your bets."
The wives of Noalr's sons appealed
Their case to a higher court;
And 10, the fact was there revealed
The vote of "wets" was short.
In forty days the land was '' dry,''
The judgment was reversed;
The order made old Noah cry
As the-i'drys" were reimbursed.
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A German Ruse
A correspondent of the Associated
Press in Berlin writes that a young
volunteer from Obarlottenburg de
scribes in a letter from the front a dar
ing reconnaissance undertaken by him
self, with a sergeant mai.jor and four
other men, in an effort to learn which
French regiment was posted in the
trenches 600 yards away. A reward
of 150 marks and the Iron Cross had
been promised should the expedition
succeed, but the six men declared that
they would accept no money. They
startefd on a dark nigbt, walking in
stockinged feet as quietly as possible
through snow, and gradually approach
oil the enemy's trenches until they were
but fifty yards away. They they were
hailed with a "who goes there?"
"Patrols who have lost their way,"
answered the young Charlottenburger;
'' don't shoot, we are comrades.''
"Of what regiment?" called the
French.
"Of the Twentieth," was the an
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Drew the French Tire
The Germans advanced another ten
yards, and the young volunteer asked:
t '' Where is the road to Marieonrt ?''
The answer was another query:
"What regiment do you belong tot"
The sergeant major answered with a
shot. The French cried out, jumped
back into their trench and opened lire.
It was taken up all along the trench
and the bullets hailed about the Ger
mans, who jumped backward a few
paces and threw themselves face down.
Three quarters of an hour they lay
thus without moving. Then the French,
who had meantime been strengthened,
left their trenches, climbed over the
barbed-wire entanglements in front
and came forward, searching for the
intruders.
"Let them come on," whispered the
sergeant major. Suddenly he com
manded squad fire. Volley after volley
greeted the advancing Frenchmen many
of whom fell. The Germans retreated
rapidly a few paces and again threw
themselves down and remained motion
less. Rifle fire tore up the ground
around them and whistled over their
heads. Rockets began to light up their
position, and machine-guns added to the
danger. The little party withdrew,
leaving one of its number dead, and re
gained the German trenches.
BRIDE POISON'S HERSELF
She Mistook Bichloride of Mercury for
a Medicine
New York, Jan. 13. —Suffering from
bichloride of mercury poisoning, Mrs.
Rose Fischelberg, twenty-one years old,
of No. 712 East One Hundred and
Seventy-sixth street, a bride of five
weeks, was removed, from her home
early last night to Fordham Hospital.
She told doctors at the hospital she
had taken five tablets of the poison in
mistake for 'medical tablets. Soon
afterward she told her husband, who
summoned a physician. He ad-mdnis
tered first aid and then called an
ambulance. While the young woman's
condition was said to be serious, it is
expected she will recover because of
promipt treatment.
SAUSAGE MAKERS STRIKE
They Ask Exclusion of Non-Union
Workmen From Germany
New York, Jan. 13.—The sausage
makers are on strike iu Jersey City.
Hoboken and Newark. They say
strike-breakers are being smuggled into
this country from Germany. The Com
missioner of Immigration has been
asked to investigate this charge. Ev
ery person who has smuggled in a
strike-breaking sausage maker is to
be prosecuted.
The strikers are pasting labels on
union-made sausages and they ask the
public to avoid every bologna und
frankfurter not so branded.
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a Boy
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Tf yon really want to digest a meal,
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If you reailly want your old-time
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Stuart Dyspepsia Tablet after each
meal. Rosulte will astound you.
"Good Old Mince Pie Like Mother
• Used to Make."
The reason a Stuart Dyspepsia Tab
let is powerful enough to digest your
next meal is because it is composed
of those things which a weakened di
gestive system lacks.
One ingredient of these tablets di
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Think what a great assistance this
kind of co-operation on your part is
to the worn-out nerves and juices of
your stomach and intestines.
You cannot, understand how the
body really and gleefully O. K. 's such
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restored to health by Stuart's Dyspep
sia Tablets could be gathered to
gether into one column, they would
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and children than were ever gathered
together on this glo'be.
This fact is a fact because no town
is so small that Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets arc not to be found in its
drug store. Wherever, you may go
there yon will find in every drug store
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, price 50c
•per box.
A small trial sample package of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will be
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Marshall, Mich. Adv.
Camp Hill Citizens to Meet
Citizens of Camp Hill have been re
quested to meet at the fire engine house
on Friday evening, January 15, at 7.45
o'clock to receive the decision of .Tjjdge
Siebert in the water rate case and to
decide upon further action. J. W. Wet
zel, counsel for the iborough, will be
present.
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COUNTY FINANCES
ON AM BASIS
Continued From First Pace.
1914 business, despite the fact that
beginning next. Monday the Dauphin
County Auditors also will audit the
■County Treasurer's accounts for the
last year, and it facilitates making
preparations for compiling the 1915
annual budget and fixing the tax rate.
The County Controller and the Coun
ty Commissioners say that the tax rate
will not be raised this year and it will
be determined on Friday whether it can
be lowered. It is said by County offi
cials that there is a possibility of a
decrease.
Figures on the Bonded Debt
The county during the year paid out
$l2O as damages for the killing of cat
tle by mad dogs. The balance remain
ing in the dog tax fund, which will
be distributed among the county school
districts, is $1,469.72. The road tax
fund, amounting to $1,269.80, will be
distributed among the boards of road
supervisors. These moneys will be dis
tributed probably before the close of
this month.
Many properties that had been sold
by the County Treasurer for unpaid
taxes were redeemed by the original
owners during the year, this procedure
beitte based on the ruling that the deed
of title given to the purchasers at the
time of the sale becomes effective only
two years after the sale and then only
in the event that the original owner
does not reclaim his real estate by pay
ing the amount of the purchase price
together with twenty-five per cent, in
terest. In the redemption fund there
now is $705.88 which can be claimed
any time by the bidders, who must sur
render their purchases.
The county's bonded debt is divided
as follows: Loan of 1901, $249,000;
1902, $51,000; 1903, $121,000, mak
ing a total of $421,000. There are
now in the sinking fund, bonds, mort
gages and cash—representing the Sink
ing Fund Commissioners' interest-bear-
investments, —totaling exactly
$253,022.52, so that the countv's net
bonded debt is $167,977.48. There is
a cash balance in tho treasury of $137,-
4;>6.35, so that the county would be
able to pay all its liabilities, save less
than $31,000, with actual cash on
hand.
However, the fact that the bonds
will not mature until the years 1931,
1932 and 1933, respectively, and that
they cannot be redeemed without tho
consent of the county, removes all pos
sibility o>f the county having to pay oft
these obligations on demand,
j The county's total resources are
about the same as last year, since the
Ccunty Controller used the figures that
for years the audit boards have used.
The resources are given at $1,269,-
501.43.
Among the Treasury Receipts
Amounts charged against the County
Treasurer include these: 1913 balance,
$142,562.02; 1914 county tax levy,
$303,166.97; outstanding countv tax
for years 1913, 1912 and 1911,'518,-
323.22; personal tax, $52,950.94;
1914 dog tax levied, $1,087; outstand
ing dog tax for years 1913, 1912 and
1911, $315.61; 1914 liquor licenses,
$8,315; received from State for pri
mary elections, county fairs and re
funding overpayment for care of in
sane, $15,190.35; interest earned by
sinking fund, $5,325.09; interest
| earned by county fund, $1,993.56;
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support of insane, $1,737; sale of ma
terial, $91.10; fines from aldermen and
justices, $96.50.
Miscellaneous receipts, $20.55;
Liockwood B. Worden, tines and fees.
$7,906.32; Heury P. Holler, fines ami
fees, $9,512.77; Oscar O. Wiekersham,
$3,593,12; Kov C. Danner, $354.41;
Directors of the Poor, $3,508.03; City
for maintenance of prisoners, $4,934.02;
maintenance of Federal prisoners,
$180.75; Prison Inspectors, $5.80; de
tective licenses, $100; redemption fund
receipts, $597.96; return tax, $2,575.1 2;
( refund of overpaid tax, $20 5 .33.
The Treasurer is credited with war
rants and appropriations totaling
$402,810.12, which, subtracted from
the $587,605.63 charges, leaves $184,-
795.51.
Shoes for Soldiers
A study \)f the orders given by Na
poleon indicates tho care he exercised
to have a sufficient supply of s'hoei
provided. On one occasion he wrote,
"You know that shoes are always
needed in war, and at another time he
said to Baron "Shoes help on
mairches, and marches win battles."'
To Sir John Burgoyne's question ad
dressed to. Wellington, " What was tho
first requirement of a soldier!" "A
good pair of shoes," he replied. "And
the second requirement?" "A good
'pair of shoes for a c'hange." "And the
third!" "A pair of soles for repairs."
—Scientific American.
A Test
"When T wants to be plumb satis
fied in muh mind dat a sistah has done
been converted and not dess merely
pollyfoxin' to be " confessed
sage old Parson Bagster, "I takes her
husband to one side and tells him to
let a wet dog into de parlor de fust
time it rains."—Judge.
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