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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
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and colder tonight. Friday fair. Mod
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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.
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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.
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