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Circulation in Harrlsbure ana %earbr towu? * Circulation Ptamlnfo b- THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVBRTIS2RS. •Hv... Branob ..oban^"™" CUMBEW, K° j likSSi 1 Thursday, January . IBIS. 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— Full Moon. Ist, 30th; Last Quarter. Bth; New Moon. 15th; First Quarter, :£Jd. ' 9 => WEATHER FORECASTS f Harrisburg ami vicinity: Fair ami 0*1 'i* colder to-night with lowest tempo rat ure *7 == [ r, about 15 degrees. Friday fair. lTLiL> , y Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy V and colder tonight. Friday fair. Mod erate northwest winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest. <l9: lowest, 30; S a. m.. 31; S p. in., 34. IN DEFENSE OF THE STORK We foar that our good friend, Dr. J. M. J. Kaunick. City Health Officer, is a bit unjust to the stork in his criticism of t hat noble bird for what he regards as its too infrequent visits to Har risburg in the year 1914. Dr. Rauniek, in his annual report submitted to the City Commissioners vesterday, said the birth rate in the twelve months just closed ">hows an increase so insignificant as to cause us grave alarm," although he further points out that the total number of the stork's visits was 1,360. or 32 ijjore than in the preceding twelve months. The registration records for the last general flection in Harrisburg showed a total of fewer than 14.000 male adults in this city. In an industrial community like this it is fair to assume that the number of adult men exceeds the number of adult women, so we will place the number of the latter at about 12.000. or one-fifth of the city's total popu lation of about 65,000 as shown by the lf>lo census. It is assumed further that half the number of adult women is made up of spinsters, invalids, widows and grass widows, plus matrons who have been honorably retired from the service of rocking the cradle together with a no more than average num ber of that class of married women, found in all communities, who decline to welcome the genial bird to their hearthstones. Eliminating all these there are left 6,000 women in Harrisburg who qual ify for the role of mothers. Now if a woman of that class that does find a place for tiie stork in the home circle has as many as four children in her lifetime we believe even Dr. Raunick will admit she has done her full duty. An average of four children to a family compares fav orably with the average size of a family in any city, (irauting further that a period of twenty years is none too long a time to allow for four visitations of the stork in anvvone home, the long -necked fowl will arrive in each of those ti.OOO homes on an average of once in five years. That means that one-fifth of 6,000 or 1.200 homes may reason ably be expected to be made happy by the arrival of a little stranger in each twelve-months period. The arrival of two or three at a time is so unusual as not to enter into the calculation. Hut Dr. Raunick's own figures show that 1,360. or 160 more than the allotted number, came to Har risburg in the year just closed. The only conclus ions that we can arrive at from these deductions, therefore, are that our esteemed Health Officer's alarm is not well founded and that he has been expecting a little too much of a very industrious bird. GIVES CREDIT TO PRESS OF HARRISBURG "Old Penn." a weekly publication of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, has high re gard for the Harrisburg newspapers as mediums for advertising. In the current issue of "Old Penn'' is an editorial which gives the local news papers credit for obtaining 4"> per cent, of the 200 pupils for the Wharton Extension (School which was established in this city last September. There is food for thought for those seeking the best means of advertising in "Old Penn's" editorial, headed "The Extension School at Harrisburg," and we therefore quote from it rather fully, as follows: There are some very interesting and instructive lessons indicated in a set of tables prepared by the director of the Wharton Extension School at the Capital. One of the most HARRISBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21. 1915, instructive of these tables shows how two hundred students head of the school: about 6 percent through employers: 15 percent through letters from Philadelphia; 10 percent by no special information: 4 percent through the director: •45 percent through the local press: 16 percent through friends; 3 percent by the Rotary Club, and I percent at a high school meeting. The principal lesson is that the public press is the most important factor in the case, and wo owe to the local papers an expression of gratitude for giving us. in addi tion to the eight hundred inches of paid advertising, about twelve hundred inches of news matter. No one understood the value of advertising better than Benjamin Franklin, who laid a stone in the foundation of the I'niversity in his "Pennsylvania Gazette" on August -1. 17-1!*, in an article declaring that the time had come for the establishment of an institution of higher education for the youth of Pennsylvania. One hundred and sixty-five years afterward an epoch marking extension was made in the state by the establishment of these schools for higher education in business. Not alone in commercial business, but in religion, pol itios and education it is commendable to advertise. The Harrisburg school draws students from Steelton, Middletown. l.emoyne. Hershey. New Cumberland, Carlisle, Halifax and several other towns. Some of these towus are from ten to twenty miles away. GENIUS UNCOVERED BY SUBWAY HORROR We may have thought the recent New York sub way accdent was horrifying at the time it occurred, but we cannot realize how awful it really was until we read an account taken from the stenographic records of tlie District Attorney 's investigation of the affair, which possibly emanated from a citizen of Boston unavoidably in the metropolis at the The wonderful description of the accident giveu to the investigators in the way of testimony, runs in part as follows: Then the Stygian darkness ensued, momentarily inter rupted by fitful gleams of weird electricity that rose and fell with ghastly effect. Men stood riveted to the spot, women screamed in abject terror and pandemonium reigned. To increase the realism of living death that seemed to be enshrouding the sepulchral aspect of the place, a demonical guard of barbarously formed countenance and accent iu guttural tones ordered the transoms closed. I knew the end was nigh, and with calm indifference, devoid of hope, awaited the last gruesome catastrophe. It is plain that the horror was not beyond words to describe, for no words could well make it appear more horrible than do tiiese. The account is a gem of literature, and it is a shame that it should be contined to the ordinarily passionless records of a district attorney's investigation. It might be of some interest to know what statement the genius of the subway accident made at the tLine of the trouble. Perhaps it was something like this: "Succor, succor," said he, riveted to the spot as he watched the fitful gleams of weird electricity flit; "1 would that 1 were extricated from this most deplorable and terrible condition, not only that I might absent myself from such scenes of abject terror but also that I might be saved from extermi nation to the furtherance of my earthly welfare aud happiness. "THE ONLY HUMOROUS RACE" peaking of the English, the people whom Amer ican jokesters have so often poked fun at for their alleged lack of a sense of humor, Rudvard Kipling has had the bravery to assert of his English brothers that "for all our long faces we are the only genu inelv humorous race on earth." A London newspaper considered the statement of sufficient importance, either because of some ele ment of truth which the sweeping claim was thought to possess or because of its apparent exaggeration, to conduct asvuiposium about it. and it is noticeable! that men of letters who contributed their opinions! concerning their fellow-writer's assertion were care ful. in expressing themselves, to keep one eye on ! America's literature. If they did not reject entirely ; Kipling's suggestion, they included the American cousins as part of "the only humorous race." When one contributor to the London paper's j symposium says he considers "America a nation of' humorists." and then proceeds to explain that in' England, "speaking broadly, one has to ring a beir before making a joke or it will pass unnoticed." he practically confirms what Americans have for some time thought to be the case with regard to Amer ican love of fun as compared with what passes as British sense of humor. The State Committee is supreme. The Susquehanna is having almost as many ups aud downs as the Stock market. How unkind of Pr. Brumbaugh to have appoiuted an Attorney Genera! whom the "Public Ledger" didn't ap prove after the "Ledger" helped to elect him Governor. The President's grandson is not to be named "Woodrow," but "Francis." Well any real boy with red blood in bis veins would rather be nicknamed "Frank" than "Woody." If it is true, as hinted, that a foreign spy was responsible for the big fire which wrecked the Roebling steel plant in Trenton, some of our big industrial establishments mav not i be so eager to get orders for European war materials as 1 they have been heretofore. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN LOST "Does your husband ever lose bis temper!" ".Not any more. He lost it permanently about two years after our marriage."—Exchange. SURE SIGNS "How do you know that man is a statesman!" "Because," replied the analyst, "he can wear a silk hat and a frock coat without looking as if he were going to a wedding."—Exchange. THE STAB S FINISH "Want any more actors for your moving picture dramas!" "We might use you. Had aoy experience acting without audiences!" "Acting without audiences is what brought me here." ! —Exchange. HOPEFUL , "Ah!" sighed the boarder, who was given to rhapsodies. as they sat down to the Christmas dinner. "If we could | onjy have one of those turkevg that we used to raise on itlie farm when I was a boy!" "Oh, well." said the pessimistic boarder, "perhaps it is one. You never can tell."—Exchange. RHEUMATISM GOES IF HOOD'S IS USED The genuine old reliable Hood's sar saparilla corrects the acid condition of the l)loud and builds up the whole sys tem. It drives jut rheumatism because it cleanses the blood thoroughly. It has bee* successfully used for forty years. For rheumatism, stomach and kidney troubles, general debility and all ills arising from impure blood. Hood's has no equal. Get it from your nearost druggist to-day. Adv. Tongue-End Top ics Queer Things in Soldiers' Wounds The reinarkalle wounds that are caused by ricochet ting bullets and sec ondary projectiles, and are being dis covered by surgeous in ever-increasing variety, are commented on by Henri de Variguv, in the '"Debat." of Paris. Not only are deformed bullets fre quently found in wounds, but with them such unusual substauces as bits of bone from the bodies of other men, metal and medals and money, pieces of cloth and other articles. The presence of these extraneous substances in wounds invariably means that they have been projected by ricoehettiug bullets. An officer recently was found to have been injured by patt of the forearm of ono of his men. One uian was struck by a stone that had been projected bv a bul let. Odd Pranks of Glancing BuUets In another case a part of one man's jaw bone \va? picked out of another man's body wound. Still another sol dier lost the sight of his eye tiy being struck with a fellow soldier's tooth. Prom the various lield hospitals come reports of finding in supposed bullet wounds su.h unusual objects as buttons, nails, fragments of eyeglasses, pieces of teeth, slivers of wood and bone, eyelets, scraps of leather and coins. In one case a: projectile struck a man's pocket and glan-ed off without even scratching the skin, the bullet hit an other man, aud in the wound were found bits of cloth from the lirst sol dier's uniform and deformed pieces of gold from coi'ns that were forced out of the pocket. Supplies for Switzerland Delayed Switzerland is awaiting with groat- j est interest the result of the American efforts for the protection of neutral trade, aud the newspapers express the hope that the negotiations between Washington and London will at least produce clearness aud uniformity. The Federal authorities are having increas ing difficulty in provisioning Switzer land. Thousands cf tons of supplies are accumulating in Italian ports, chiefly Genoa, but dealers are almost unable to get them through to Switzer land. although the government has giv en the aliied Powers every assurance that it will not allow the re-exportation ! of any couiraband to Germany or Aus tria. It is uow proposed to consign all importations direct to the Federal gov eminent, which as a matter of fact, is the greatest buver of food supplies in Switzerland at present. * * * Use of Scrip for Money in Wax The circulation of gold has ceased in Alsace, and even silver is scarce. Taper money of denominations as low as ten pfenuige (two cents) is being used. This fractional currency is in the shape of small tickets, bearing the name of the commune, the date of is sue and the stamp of the particular district of Alsace where the sum is payable. In most parts of Germany 'the one-mark (2o cents) note is the smallest denominateja of paper money thus far availably Fist Fight Saves Aeroplane German and Russian troops came to fisticuffs on the Polish front receutly, according to dispatches received in Pe trograd. A Russian aviator, having completed a reconnaisance over the German lines, was returning to the Rus sian position, when he found his sup ply of gasoline suddenly eut off by a German bullet, which had gone squarely through the f»ed pipe. This forced him 10 plane dowu, and he had to land about half way between the opposing trenches. The Germans stopped shoot ing. thinking the prize was sure and wishing not to damage the valuable machine furclier. They rushed out empty-handed to bring in the aero plane. A party of Russians did the | same, and the two groups found them selves facing each other, both unarmed. A hearty fight with fists for possession of the machine followed. The Russians came under the fire of the sharpsboot . ers in the German trenches and suf fered some losses, but got their aero j plane back to safety. PLAN WORKIN OMEN' S PAPEE Project to Be Discussed at Meeting i Where Maurer and Eupley Will Talk A mass meeting to be addressed by .lames H. Maurer. president of the 'state Federation of Labor, aud Con gressman Arthur R. Rupley, of <Jar lisle, will be held to-morrow night at 8 o'clock in Sible & Clark's hall, Third and Cumberland streets. "Mouldiug of Public OpilLon by the Press'' will be the subject of both speakera. After fhe talks plans for the ! organization of a company to publish I a workingman °s newspaper will be dia- I cussed. A Lapse of Memory The minister, who was a reformed policeman, said to the bridegroom, who stool trembling, with his pallbearer gloves on: "Do you, Algernon Smith, take this young woman to be you/ lawful wed ded wife in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, till death do vou , parti Remember, anything you say i will be used against you. —Chicago Port. The Globe's Greatest Sale of Sales MOTHERS—Are you taking advantage of the wonderful economies offered during this great sale in our Boys Department ? At these prices it will pay you to "rig out" your boy for his present and future needs. Boys' Suits SQ.BS Boys' Suits $-5.85 and Overcoats.. **— and Overcoats.. sturdy Suits and good warm Over- Amazing valuos in well-made, rough eon ts that woiv originally valuos to $5. wear boys' apparel—values to $6.50. Boys' Suits &$ A&§. Boys' Suits & $ C.85 5p Overcoats .. . Overcoats ... Mcnvv-weMit all-wool Suits These Suits are the celebrated _ !M,,ts II lUHT-POSTURE SLUTS—the with two pairs ot trousers — kind that make your hoy stand Ovorooats ot* Chinchilla, Tweeds "Pright—Overcoats of heavy all |T % . , tll , j i•, i wool Chinchilla and also Scotchy f V ami otIHT Rood quality oloths. Twwikl the Balmacaau style <6" Worth $6.50 regularly. $8.50 values. Boys' Boys' Boys' sl2^ Mixed Cheviot Rainy Day Mackinaw VsT Overcoats Outfits > Coats sm $0.85 s4^ Beautiful all wool , The heavy Mac- Fniiinnc .ill c,naiucoat and Hat , I ramies —an sizes kenzie Cloths m for boys to 8 years t0 nmt«h—a stand- beautiful Scotch W IT) —regular $3.50 val- ard $5.00 value— Plaid effects JM IJJ J\ ues. all sizes. worth $6.50. c&J ■■ 50c and 75c Knee Pants, 50c and 75c Blouse Waists, 50c Caps, 39^ SI.OO Knee Pants, ...79$ SI.OO Pajamas, 79? SLO °. Hats 79 <* $1.50 Knee Pants, $1.29 SI.OO Sweaters, 50c & 75c Wash Suits, Everything Reduced j THE GLOBE Nothing Reserved j ORPHEUM ACT WILL BE PLEA FOR PURE MILK Miss Una Clayton, on Vaudeville Stage Next Week, Will Aid Work That Has the Endorsements of State and City Health Authorities State and city health departments, as well as societies jf Harrisburg wom en formed for the purpose of protect ing infants against impure milk, will be interested in the announcement to day of the appearance next week in the Orpheum theatre of Miss Unn Clayton in a vaudeville act written for the pur pose of driving the careless dairymau out of business. Coming right on the heels of the an nual report of Dr. Rauniek, eity health officer, in which ho attributes a large ! share of the infant mortality of Har- j risburg to impure milk, the act is ex- i pected to have special significance. Miss Una Clayton has been engaged i in uplift work for several years, ami : in turning her efforts toward the sav- 1 ing of babies by way of kililng the j sale of impure milk she has taken up a work that is backed in every city in the laiul. In fact, so great was the j enthusiasm over Miss Clayton's playlet on the pure milk question in New York that the New York Milk Committee has sent a representative, Wei don D. j Griffin, out ou the road to inspire in terest in the work that Miss Clayton's) aet deals with. "Some of the wealthiest and most influential women in New Y'orfc are giving their time to the tight against the sale of impure milk," said Mr. | Griffin. "The work has so far pro gressed that at least t>5,000 babies have been saved in New York alone." Dr. Rauniek, the city health officer, is very enthusiastic »ver the scheduled appearance of Miss Clayton in her im pure milk fighting sketch. "There isn't uny doubt but what! almost all babies that die in Harris- j burg during the summer months could be saved if we could only prevent the I sale of impure milk." said I)r. Rauniek. "I don't know of any way that the public conscience could be more quickly aroused to the need of proper milk in spection than by bringing before the eyes of the theatiegoer the story in dramatized form. If theatregoers see the dangers n' impure milk worked out before their eyes, they will more quick ly sense the need of action than in any other way. I am very thankful that Miss Clayton is coming to town." This sentiment is shared by Dr. Dix on, of the State Health Department, and his co-workers at the Capitol in the present war against unclean milk. Pennsylvania is making rapid strides in the elimination of tne dairy that sells impure milk, but much more work remains to be done and this can only be accomplished by leaking the public mind to the danget. It is likely that Miss Clayton will deliver a lecture ear!v next week, to which all mothers, as well as those interested in the supply of pure milk, will be invited. BELL EMPLOYES BUY STOCK Harrisburgers Make Purchases Under Special Arrangement Officials of the Bell Telephone Com pany announced to-dav that many of the Harrisburg employes already havo subscribed for telephone company stock. The stock takers include employes in all departments. As soon as a stock subscription was received at the Hariiaburg oflice it was forwarded direct to the company's New York office and that fact prevented of ficials here from getting anything defi nite on the number of shares sold 60 Harrisburgers. Only Bell employes who have been in | the service of the company two years, or more can qualify as stock buyers un der the special arrangement, but many who have not been with the coripany for two years have expressed a desire to become shareholders. CLASSIC WAR POEMS Selected by J. Howard Wert N°. i. THE BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN BY THOMAS CAMPBELL Much as wo all deprecate war and .stand aghast at it* horrors, we cannot ignore the fact that many of the world's greatest poets have found their highest inspiration in deeds of heroism, in the sad story of fields of slaughter, or iu their lamentations over devastated lands. k It will be the object of this series to present to the readers of the Star- Independent some of the finest poems of this character, many of them being associated with the nations now battling in Europe and commemorating battles fought on the sites of the present fields of carnage. »*«»*•#« The battle of Hoheulinden, fought in the year 1800, during the Napoleonic wars, was a contest iu which the allied armies of Bavaria and France arrayed against Austria. The Iser (pronounced E-zer) also spelled Isar is a beautiful stream, 163 miles in length, rising in the mountain peaks of the Tyrol and flowing into the Danube, and not into the Rhine as stated in a reeent.lv widely copied article of the Hartford "t'ourant." It must not be confounded with the Yser, a small stream figuring in the present military operations between flic Allies and Germans, nor yet the Iser of Bohemia, which flows into the Kibe. Hoheulinden like many of the contests of the present war was fought in the dead of winter so that the trampled snow was crimsoned with the blood of the clain. The hamlet of Hoheulinden is some little distance from thA Iser, and is about "0 miles from Munich, the capital of Bavaria, located directly on the banks of the river. The poem here given is a most conspicuous example of how effective simple Saxon words eau be made in the highest flights of poesy. On Linden when the sun was low, And redder yet those fires shall glow, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, On Linden's hills of blood-stained suow, And dark as winter was the flow And darker yet shall be the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, 'Tis morn, but scarce yon lurid sun AY hen the drum beat, at dead of night, Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Commanding fires of death to light Where furious Prank, and fiery Hun, The darkness of her scenery. Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed. The combat deepens—on, ye brave. Each horseman drew his battle blade, Who rush to glory, or tho grave! And furious every charger ueighed, Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave! To join the dreadful revelry. And charge with all thy chivalry! Then shook the hills witli thunder riven, All! few shall part wh*rfe many meet! Then rushed the steeds to battle driven, The snow shall be fheir winding sheet, And louder than the bolts of heaven, And every turf beneath their feet. Far flashed the red artillery. Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. System and Safety A checking account with 1 his company will prove of I great value to you in many ways, particularly in afford ing thoroughly systematic method of keeping your financial affairs in order. You are cordially invited to call at the bank and meet our officers who will he pleased to explain to you how a checking account with us can be made of genuine profit to you. We receive small as well .is larpe accounts. g¥OCTI IU JIT-IE 1 " "fTF'3l'S'J 11 '4* II" WTuf/
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