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Monday, January 25, 1915.
JANUARY
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MOON'S PHASES—
Full Moon, Ist, 30th; Last Quarter, Bth;
New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, U3d.
WEATHER FORECASTS f " '■ ] j
Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair and _ llfejafSi
■■older to-night with lowest temperature JB®-®'—
about 20 degrees. Tuesday fair and
Eastern Pennsylvania: Local snows . vjllj/'ll
and colder to-night. Tuesday partly
cloudy and colder. Moderate shifting
winds becoming northwest.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest,/29; lowest, 23; 8 a. m., 24; 8 p. m., 26.
SAVING IN MOTOR-DRIVEN FIRE ENGINES
The announcement of the plan of Fire Commis
sioner Taylor to recommend to the City Commis
sion the purchase of a motor tractor for the Friend
ship steam lire engine which was sent to the repair
shop by the unfortunate accident of last Saturday,
is a step in the direction of economy. While the
original outlay in cash will be a large one, never
theless there undoubtedly will be an ultimate sav
ing to the City.
As pointed out by the Commissioner it would
require au outlay of about SI,OOO to put tlie engine
in the same condition it was in before it crashed
against a support of the Cumberland Valley Rail
road bridge. Part of t his expense for actual repairs
would be avoided if a tractor were purchased, as
the tractor would take the place of some of the
parts of the apparatus that were smashed and
would otherwise have to be bought. • It had been
planned to equip the engine with a tractor at an
early date anyhow, and it would be the wiser course
to do it now rather than to wait for a few months
as this latter plan would make necessary the pur
chase of all the broken parts, for some of which
there would be no need after the ultimate purchase
of the tractor.
Moreover to repair the engine as a horse-drawn
vehicle would involve the buying of a new horse to
take the place of the one killed in the crash, where-*
as it a tractor were purchased at once the two
remaining engine horses could be sold and the
money thus received could he applied to meet part
ot the cost of the motor equipment.
While the original outlay for the tractor, of
course, would be considerably larger than the cost
of putting the engine in the condition it was in
before the accident, there is money available for
such purposes in the special fund obtained for the
Fire Department in the recent $25,000 bond issue.
There would be little risk involved in the experi
ment of trying out a motor tractor on a steam fire
,a ngine in this city. It has been done in other cities
with marked success and it has been shown that
the saving effected by doing away with the cost of
caring for and feeding the horses is so great in a
\ oar as to make it possible to offset in a compara
tively short time the initial expense of puchasing
tractors. Once the original outlay for a tractor is
naved there is a constant saving in the year-to-year
operation of motor-driven fire apparatus as com
pared with the expense of maintaining horses to
draw an engine.
ECONOMICAL OLD UNCLE SAM
A\ hen it comes to economy business men -might
well learn a thing or two from their old Uncle
•Samuel. I here is a notice in the current number
of the "United States Official Postal Guide"
headed "Conservation of Twine" which might be
a joke, but it isn t. It is a lesson on the impor
tance of avoiding small extravagances. Men in
almost every line of business might profit by it.
The Department instructs its employes as follows:
In tyiug small packages of letters, one wrap of twine
inly each way should be made. If the package is so bulky
as to necessitate the use of more twine, or in tying out long
letters, the least number of wraps should lie made each wav
tbat will insure the safety of the package in transit. * * *
All concerned will be expected to put forth every effort
looking to possible retrenchment along this line.
It would also be lo the purpose, wtj might surest,
HARRISBTTBG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY ETENTNf?, -TANTARY 25, 1915.
if the Apartment were to instruct to re
move the twine carefulfy from all packages when
distribution of the mail is mad,e and preserve it
for further use. Thrifty housekeepers are accus
tomed to save twin#-for future service £]iat comes
to them, often in liberal allotments, on packages
from the stores. Employes of the Postoffice De
partment might get (he same habit, if they do not
already have it, and they could thus make one ball
of twine do service for a long time.
The story about the postmaster who saved the
government several cents' worth of ink by refrain
ing from dotting his i's and crossing his t's was
possibly the invention of some malicious individual
who wanted to cast reflections on Uncle Sam's eco
nomical practices. Yet the reducing of parcel
post rates, the lowering of the registry fee and even
the ultimate establishing of one cent postage, must
depend largely on the economy in little things, as
well as in big ones, wtyieh the Department is able
to exercise.
ON CAPTURING A KING
Some of the most interesting stories eomieetcd
with the war, we may assume, do not reach this
country. Many of them share the fate of the pa
thetic account headed Sad Story" which was
represented by two blank columns the other day in
a Paris newspaper after the censor got through
with it, —only the headline surviving to tell the
tale. Other stories certainly never reach journal
ists. for there must be a much greater abundance
of them than ever get into print.
One interesting story has appeared, however,
which, if not late news still is news, and even if not
authentic is nevertheless interesting. It is the story
coming from London about almost capturing the
Kaiser, in which an officer of the 'tenth Hussars
tells how part of his regiment made off Christmas
morning toward a certain fork in a road on the
way to General von Manben's headquarters where
they understood the Kaiser was going to pass, and
how they just missed an automobile in which they
could recognize the Kaiser with their glasses, but
succeeded in cutting off two cars which followed
and in capturing the royal luggage.
It is difficult to conceive of the Kaiser, or of any
of the other warring sovereigns, for that matter, in
captivity. There is certainly a question as to what
the consequences of a capture would be. Without
drawing close comparisons between the game of
chess and the game of war, we might call attention
to the fact that, in the former, the king cannot be
taken and therefore has an advantage. Yet when
he is checkmated the game is over.
IS BASEBALL WORK?
In discussing the squabble between the orgauized
baseball leagues and the Federal League, now being
threshed out in the Chicago courts, the question
often asked is: "Is baseball work?"
It reminds one of the days when baseball first
started in this country,—that is. when it got its
first actual start as the national game,—just after
the Civil War. In those days the game was re
garded as sport, pure and simple, entirely divorced
from professionalism, and there wasn't a town of
any size in the East that did not possess one or
more baseball clubs, many of them with fancy
names, the players on which played for the pure
love of it.
So quickly did the popularity of the game spread
in Pennsylvania that the clubs of the state formed
a state association, and in 18ti8 there met in Ilar
risburg representatives of mofe than two hundred
Pennsylvania clubs, the object being to further the
interests of the gape and make closer relations
amongf clubs. The convention met. in the hall of
the House of Representatives and at the close of a
two-dav session the entire convention attended a
game between the Harrisburg Tyroleans and a
Coatesville team. The Harrisburg team, with Wil
liam Murray as pitcher and Thoinus Montgomery
as catcher, won the contest.
The state association did not last long, however,
dying at the end of a couple of years, but nobody
in those days ever looked upon baseball as work.
On the contrary it was played mostly in the early
summer evenings after the day's work was done,
ami was regarded purely as a recreation. If any
body had suggested that players should be paid,
he would have been regarded as a mild luuatie, and
hooted.
It was not until 1874 that paid baseball got into
Harrisburg. There was great rivalry between the
home teams known as the High Boys aud Experts,
and in a series of games it was thought necessary
to have better pitchers and catchers. The Experts
engaged a brawny mill-worker from Philadelphia,
who was a crackerjack catcher, and the High Boys
sent to Philadelphia and engaged a battery known
as the Snyder Brothers and a shortstop named
Harry Riffert.
That was the entering wedge. Thereafter paid
players were employed here regularly and instead
of baseball being a recreation it became a profes
sion. It has been that in Harrisburg ever since,
and now it is regarded as work, after all.
The Towanda man reported to have got drunk from sweet
cider must have had a psychological jag.
Remember, gentlemen of the Legislature, that whether or
not you are watching your stop your constituents are!
Mr. Harry Kendall Thaw, as the society editor would
say, has returned to the Tomba after a vacation pleasantly
spent in Canada and various parts of New England.
The Chamber of Commerce apparently is meeting with a
good deal of success in its work of demonstrating to whole
salers the great advantages of Harrisburg as a distributing
center. is the practical kind of work that brings
business to the city.
Perhaps the experts can tell us whether the losses of
43 ships by the German Navy and 28 by the British Navy,
as reported since the start of the war, have had the auto
matic effect of raising United States front its position of
fourth as a Naval power, which it held July 1, 191*.
BREAKS A COLD
IN A FEW HOURS
WITHOUT QUININE
First Dose of "Papes
Cold Compound" Re
lieves All Grippe
Misery
Don't stay stuffed-up!
Vuit blowing and snuffling! A dose
of "Pape's (.'old Compound" taken
every two hours until three doses are
taken will end grippe miserv and
break up a severe cold either in the
head, chest, body or limbs.
It promptly opens dogged-lip nos
trils and air passages; stops nasty
discharges or nose running; relieves
sick headache, dullness, feverishness,
sore throat, sneezing, soreness and
stiffness.
"Pape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and costs
only 25 cents at drug stores. It acts
without assistance, tastes nice, aud
causes no inconvenience. Don't accept
a substitute.—Adv.
| Tongue-End Top ics |
Activity of Underwater Craft
The steady extension of the sphere'
of activity of German submarines is the
subject of a recent article by the Ger
man naval expert, Count Reventlow.
The sinking of the British battleship
Formidable in the Channel, preceded
as it was by the sinking of a patrol
boat off Dover and later by the de
struction of two commercial steamers
off the French coast, gives evidence,
says the writer, that German under
water craft are able to operate almost
anywhere even in the most frequented
waters.
Heavy Tax on Brussels Street Cars
The German military authorities in
Belgium have forbidden the sale of
photographs or picture postcards ol'
King Albert aud M. Max, Mayor ot
Brussels, now imprisoned in Germany.
In Brussels, the street railway still is
•being operated by the Belgian company,
which is required to turn over thirty
per cent, of its receipts to the German
tax collector.
Jailed For Trading With Germans
Judgment has jiyst been decreed in
the courts of Calcutta in the first case
of "trading with the enemy," which
was made a severe misdemeanor at the
beginning of the war. The accused, an
employe of a Calcutta exporting firm,
was sentenced to eighteen months im
prisonment anil to pay a fine of JoOO.
He was convicted of endeavoring to
arrange for the sale of a shipment ot
mica to a German firm.
War Hits 212 German Newspapers
"Owing to decreased advertising
revenue arising out of the war, 212
German newspapers are already said
to have disappeared. At least half that
number have probably died in Great
Britain," savs the London "Globe."
"These facts supply the strongest
imaginable comment on the common
fajlncy that this war is profitable to
the European newspaper owner. As a
matter of fact, the reverse is the case.
A modern newsjmper is an exceedingly
complex organization, and the purchas
er obtains for a penny or half-penny a
publication which costs more than that
sum to produce. The explanation is to
be found in the profits derived from ad
vertising revenues, with the result
when that decreases below a certain
point, a paper is run at a loss on pro
duction, which increases with the in
crease of circulation. So far from the
British press having found the war a
gold mine, there is not one newspaper
that has not felt the pinch somewhere,
and many are making the greatest
financial sacrifices in order to continue
in their role of purveyors of news, and
thus to perform a real public service."
Complains About American Writers
The "Hamburger Nachrichten" com
plains that Americans in Germany are
acting as the representatives of Lon
don newspapers, this being viewed by
the "Nachrichten" as hardly in ac
cord with strict ideas of neutrality. The
"Nachrichten" says:
"Every war between civilized na
tions is initiated by the rupture of dip
lomatic relations. Newspaper represen
tatives in many respects resemble dip
lomatists, for their task is to oibtain
information and to give their own
country a true insight into the existing
state of affairs. Can we take it as in
the slightest degree possible that those
L<ondon journals which are showing the
greatest hatred toward Germany can
still be maintaining their correspond
ents lying low in Berlin? Of course not.
They are Americans! Thus they enjoy
the protection of their emfbassy; and
even if they place their telegraphic re
ports hefore the (?erman censor, natur
ally whatever they send their editors
through tl*e American post bag goes
through unexamined."
Sir Galahad
The Most Conspicuous of the Knights
of the Bound Table was Sir Galahad,
the son of Launcelot and Elaine. The
familiar words, "There Galahad sat,
with manly face, yet maiden meekness
in his face," sufliciently indicate the
qualitios for which the knight was fa
mous—to wit, lion-hearted courage
combined with humility and meekness
of spirit, the strength of the oak with
the soft beauty of the lily.
SAFETV«7FIRST
'UNOER AN ARRANGEMENT WITH
DEJPA RTMBNT OK I.ABOK AND
IJJDUSTRV THK 8T A H -1N I) BP ESN UK NT
?slff£?£ ACH MONDAY A PRACTICAL
ARTICLE HKAKING ON THE "SAFETY
'MOVEMENT OH K INURED
SUBJECTS, PREPARED BY THAT
pRANcn or the state govkrn-
MENT, OF WHICH COMMISSIONER
HE 1 1 NICE JACKSON IS THE
The most common form of blood poi
soning occurring in the industrial world
or in everyday lifo is that known under
the term of septicaemia. This condi
tion always arises from the entrance of
germs at some point where the skin
has been broken. Such wounds may be
deep, extending through the skin and
well into the soft tissues beneath, as a
puncture by a anil or other sharp in
strument; or they may be very super
ficial, simply a removal of a part of
the skin varying from a small scratch
to destruction of large areas, as found
following crushing injuries, especially
those caused by machinery in motiou.
The importance of the consequences
of any injury, so far as blood poisoning
is concerned, is not at all dependent
upon the extent of the injury, but
upon the kind of germs which enter at
such point and upon the conditions
which allow them to multiply in the
wound. The results of this condition,
which it shares in common with other
dangerous illnesses, are the intense suf
fering, prostration and danger of loss
of life and absence from work with its
accompanying loss of income and in
creased expenditure .ipr medical serv
ice.
In addition to this, blood poisoning
has consequences which are more dis
tinctly its own. Chief among these is
deformity. This may show itself in a
distortion of the parts affected, to
gether with stiffening of the joints,
thus impairing the usefulness of the
member or rendering it entirely worth
less. Worse than deformity, however,
is the amputation ot a hand, arm or leg,
which, while not an everyday h»ppen
ing, occurs so frequently that evorv
industrial community of any size con
tains living specimens, the results of
these conditions.
A few cases of blood poisoning will
occur with even the bfst care and at
tention, but the greater majority ean
and should be avoided. All that -is
needed is proper attention. By proper
attention is meant careful and clean
dressing immediately after the injury
has occurred and not, as is so often the
case, after the lapse of a day or two,
when the surrounding area has become
red, swollen, hot and painful, with pos
sibly more or less pus exuding from the
insufficient opening of the original
wound.
Such conditions arise only through
ignorance or carelessness, both of
which can be (overcome by proper in
struction in and appreciation of the
principles of "first aid." This sys
tem depends for its efficiency on
prompt care and proper care. By cov
ering a wound with a sterile dressing
as soon as possible after an injury
has occurred the chances for germs en
tering into the tissues either from the
air or from unclean substances with
which it might come in contact are re
duced to a minimum. The common
practice of applying to an injury oily
or dirty waste, a soiled handkerchief
or a quid of tobacco are mentioned
only to be condemned as far more dan
gerous than no attention whatsoever.
As soon as practicable afteV the
"first aid" dressing has been applied
the wound should be seen and dressed
by a competent person. This may mean
a physician or a nurse. One dressing,
however, is not sufficient and the
wound should continue to receive care
ful attention until every open spot
has been covered over, for just as long
as there is a break in the skin there is
always an opportunity for germs of
greater or less virulence to find a lodg
ing place.
It takes a little more time when an
accident occurs to be clean ami care
ful, but the results of such care are
so marked that no workman can afford
to take chances any more than he can
afford to disregard any other safety
device.
PHONE ( OS. MUST < O-OPERATE
Rival Companies Must Work Together
in Northampton County
In granting a certificate of public
convenience to day to Blue Mountain
Telephone and Telegraph Company, to
extend its business operations in the
boroughs of Pen Argyl, Wind Gap, Ro
seto and East Bangor, all in the county
of Northampton, in opposition to tho
protest of the Slate Belt Telephone and
Telegraph Company, the Public Serv
ice Commission declared that the future
development of the telephone service
will demand that every local commun
ity, however small, shall be given the
opportunity to communicate by tele
phone with the state ait large and the
state at large with every local com
munity whenever circumstances will
permit such co-oiperative service.
There is no reason, the Commission
says, why the 265,000 and odd inde
pendent telephone subscribers in the
State who can reach the state region,
and who can be reached from that re
gion over bhe wires of the Blue Moun
tain Company, through present or fu
ture traffic arrangement, should not bo
permitted to get that service.
The protest otf the Stlaite Belt Com
pany was that it already occupies the
given territory with a telephone sys
tem and that if permission would be
granted to the petitioner to enter a
territory so limited in area aud popu
lation, the competition resulting there
from would seriously injure, if not 'de
stroy, the property values of tihe Slate
Belt concern.
Penrose Escapes Pneumonia
(Special to the Star-Independonl.)
Philadelphia, Jan. 26.—Senator
Boies Penrose, who is ill at his home,
13.31 Spruce street, of bronchitis, show
ed some improvement yesterday, accord
ing to his physician. Dr. IH. 'B. Carpen
ter. At the Senator's home last, night"
it was said that danger of pneumonia
developing was slight.
"Bilijgins doesn't get on."
"No. He insists on flguribg on the
high cost of living instead of on how
to get the price."—Washington Star.
{ WHY HAIR FALLS OUT ' j
Dandruff causes a feverish irritation
of the scalp, the hair roots Bhrink, loos
en and then the hair comes out fast. To
stop falling hair at once and rid the
scalp of every particle of dandruff, get
a 25-cent bottle of Danderine at any
drug store, pour a little in your hand
and rub well into the scalp. After a
few applications all dandruff disappears
and the hair stops coming out.—Adv.
«««««** Out of High-Rent District
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most correct and neatest answers.' Fifty factory
@ bonds good for SBO.OO eredit 011 any new piano in if
® our salesroom. One bond allowed on the purchase ®
® of each piano. Every person answering this ad
s, vertisement will receive a Lester March and Two
® step written especially for us by Will Hardy by ©
® calling at the store. Piano dealers and piano ®
H agents barred from contest, only one answer from
|j, a family considered. Winners will be notified Sat
© urday, January 30,1915. Judges of contest will be ©
© P. K. Kitzmiller, druggist; C. (I. Miller, Citizen's ®
® Bank; E. S. Hess, cigar merchant, Thirteenth and ®
® Derry streets. ®
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Out of High Rent District
ALL
Mothers Are lnvited==
Miss Una Clayton, who is presenting "Milk," a eomedy
drama, at the Orpheum theatre this week, will give two free
lectures during the earl.v hall.' of the week on "Bab.v Hygiene."
—a plea for the prevention of the sale of impure milk.
I Tuesday afternoon, at 4.30, Miss Clayton will talk to mothers
in the Infants' Goods Department of Dives, Ponieroy & Stew
art's store. She will give many facts of value regarding the
care of infants, especially the matter of baby foods and the
dangers thatWurk in impure milk.
Wednesday morning at 11 Miss Clayton will lecture at the
Orpheum on the subject of impure milk, illustrating her talk
with moving pictures. To this talk special invitations have
been extended to members of state and city health departments,
Harrisburg physicians and ladies interested in the purification
of the milk supply. Others are also invited to attend.
Don't Fail to see Miss Clayton's
act at the Orpheum this week.
f; It. is an act with a purpose.
First Thanksgiving
The first Thanksgiving was conduct
ed by an English minister named Wot
fall in 1578, on the shores of New
foundland. The first celebration in tlio
present territory of the United States
was held in the I'opham colony at
Sagadahoc, on the coast of Maine, in
1607. The first regular appointment of
a Thanks'giving day was by Governor
Bradford, fhe first Governor of Massa
chusetts bay.
WOMEN
in all stations of life are able to derive a great deal of actual
benefit from the maintaining of connections with the
MECHANICS TRUST COMPANY.
We invite small as well as large household accounts subject
to check, provide special facilities for the convenience of lady
depositors, and extend the most prompt and efficient service
at all times regardless of whether the account maintained is
large or small.
Our officers are pleased to be consulted on any business,
financial or Investment matters.
Receives Damages for Lost Horse
Lebanon, Jan. 2^.—A verdict for
$102.80 was returned by the jury in
the case of David Swanger against the
supervisors of East Hanover township
in civil court Saturday afternoon. The
verdict covers the jury's valuation of
Mr. Swanger's loss of a horse which
had to be killed after its leg had been
injured and the tendons cut by strik
ing a terra cotta pipe which was ex
posed along the side of the road.