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Mailed to subscribe!; tor Three Dollars a /ear in advance THE STAR-INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest, dome Circulation in Harrisburg and %earby towns Clrcjlatlon Examined b* THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTFS2RS. TELEPHONES- BELi.'"" Private Branch Exchange, No. 3280 „ _ CUMBERLAND VALLEY Frlvate Branch Exchange No. *45-246 » _ . Wednesday, January 27, 1015. 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, :50th; Last Quarter, Bth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, 23d. 1 t WEATHER FORECASTS . jaTJjr Harrisburg ami vicinity: Unsettled 5 \lfi. to-night and Thursday, colder Thurs p-Xfytyrn day. Lowest temperature to-night about Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled to night and Thursday, colder Thursday. U, tientle to moderate northeast winds be- WMSWM« coming variable. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 36; lowest, 24; 8 a. in., 24; 8 p. m., 32. MARTY AND VANCE MAKE UP And now we have it from no less of an authority tlian the Harrisburg •'Patriot'' that when Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Governor of the State, and Vance C. MeCormiek, his unsuccessful competitor for that high office, met yesterday for the tirst time since the campaign, neither tried to hit the other in the eye with a handful of mud. They simply sat down peacefully together ami munched apples from the generous orchards "of "Farmer"' Creasy. The erstwhile rivals in the bitter campaign for the governorship came together.in the Capitol at the meeting of the board of trustees of State Col lege, of which Mr. MeCormiek is a member, and we are told "everything was harmonious." Perhaps the "Patriot" expected, in view of recent hostilities, that Dr. Brumbaugh would try to land a Hunting don eouutyrupper-eut on the jaw of the former Yale captain or that the latter would attempt to tackle his successful rival below the knees, but there was nothing of the kind. It is presumed that both smiled broadly as they shook hands and then sat down to test the product of the Catawissa orchard. AH of which goes to show that two candidates can get hopping mad at each other during a cam paign without acquiring any real hatred for each other. And it is better so. Dr. Brumbaugh and Mr. MeCormiek live in the same block on Front street now and while perhaps they still disagree as to the necessity of "cleaning out the Capitol from top to bottom, they at least can be neighborly. Some ot Mr. MeCormiek's ideas of government might help Dr. Brumbaugh a whole lot in working needed reforms in the affairs of state, if Dr. Brum baugh saw tit to seek suggestions from his neighbor about how to run the state of Pennsylvania, but at any rate there isn't any reason why Marty and ance shouldn t be good friends and then, perhaps, Vance could show Marty how to enjoy an occasional game of shinny in the river front park. POLAND'S TROUBLES GROWING Bad as conditions are reported to be in Belgium, the assertion is made by several Polish refugees who have recently arrived in this country that there is now even more misery in Poland. The men were i overjoyed, it is said, when they learned that a Polish relief committee was at work raising funds for the benefit of non-combatants in the unfortu nate land. Tliat Poland is in urgent need of assistance is self-evident, llie Russian, German and Austrian armies have been sweeping through its fields and have in most eases left devastation behind them so that opposing armies might not be able to get sup port from the once productive soil. The natives are dri\en to and fro by these armies, getting food if they can and starving if they cannot. According to the Polish refugees a countryside of 12,000 square miles has been laid waste by the armies and thousands of poor people have perished, not only by starvation but also by diseases which are gaining headway .rapidly. The Polish provinces of Russia, Germany and Austria have unluckily been dependent upon these nations for aid. These countries, however, have more pressing business to attend to at present than that of relieving suffering among Poles. Poles who have been too decidedly a liberty-loving I » HARRISBTTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1915 people anyway ever to have exhibited much loyalty toward the countries which have annexed them. It is'only natural that Polish refugees should look expectantly for help to America, the country which is so nobly responding to the calls for relief from Belgium and which is not deaf to urgent cries from other quarters where war has been making misery among men. women and children guiltless of any participation in the actual tighting. NOW FOR THE WAR RELICS The first of the relics oi: the European war, which will doubtless soon find their way to this country in great numbers, have arrived in New York where they are on exhibition. There is a battered Bavar ian helmet to the straps of which cling several hairs from the head of the unfortunate wearer who is now presumably a corpse. Then there is a French hel met. round after the battle of August 24 at Dinant, surrounded by about forty other pieces of interest including weapons and articles of dress. One of the most interesting of the exhibits must be the aeroplane arrow, a pointed piece of steel which when dropped from an aircraft gains groat velocity and means instant death to any living thing it may happen to strike. If these arrows are used to any extent during the war they should become rather plentiful as relics. Of all the curious things which might be picked up to-day on European battlefields only a small part will be preserved. Relics always go to waste while the event which produces them is taking place. The curios which survive are for this reason worth pos sessing, since value is determined by rarity. It is not unlikely that when relics of the present war begin to pour into our country, as pour they will, there will be a lively demand for specimens, coming from persons who are in the habit of col lecting such things. And then, while these enthusi asts are proudly labeling their acquisitions, there will probably come into prominence those unemo tional individuals who look at treasured relies con temptuously and ask "What are they good for?" Battered helmets or mutilated weapons or tat tered letters found on battlefields these days may not be of any practical use to future possessors, yet they will he things worth owning, for, if unques tionably genufne, they will be precious .solely by reason of the contact they had with the greatest war in history. Look vour prettiest, girls! The state "movie" men are here an«i they may snap your picture. So long as Senate recesses are so long we can sav "so long" to hopes for a brief legislative session. John P. Rockefeller, Jr., is proving to the country that a rich man's son is not in all cases a useless member of society. We don't .know of anybody, save Mr. Bryan, who pro fesses to kuow just what our rights and duties are as a neutral nation. It is now definitely decided that New York is to have a State Constabulary patterned after that of Pennsylvania. As its powers are to extend to New York City the repre sentatives of the "underworld" who reside in the metrop olis would better beware. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN SO SHE WOULD SEE IT "What are you cutting out of the paper?" "An item about a California man securing a divorce because his wife went through his pockets." "What are you goiug to do with it?" "Put it in my pocket."—Exchange. HIS LINE OF BUSINESS "No," exclaimed the eloquent orator at the meeting of the Society for the Suppression of Other People's Foolish Habits, "no, indeed; at my establishment we will not em ploy a man who smokes at his work." As the hum of approval went round a curiotjs person in the rear of the hall arose and inquired: "May I ask what line of business you follow, sir?" "Well," was the slightly embarrassed reply, "I'm in a gunpowder magazine."—Exchange. GETTING BACK AT HTM An army officer's wife wrote to an I!. A. M. C. officer saying her child was suffering during teething; she ad dressed the letter "Dr. Brown." The recipient returned it with the remark that he should be addressed "Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Brown." Whereupon the lady wrote back: Dear Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Brown—l am sorry about mistake.—Yours, May .Tones. I*- S. —Please bring your sword to lance baby's gums —Sketch. HIS LUCKY ESCAPE Let me out of this building!" exclaimed the book agent What's your hurry!" inquired the elevator man "Don't you try to get me into conversation* I used to tbink that sign, 'No solicitors allowed in this building,' was a slight. But it's a blessing and a safeguard. I'm a good book agent, but I don't want to do any more business abound here." "Haven't yju sold anything!" Not a volume—and I came pretty near buying 500 shares of mining stock."—Exchange. ALPHABET OF NEW DANCES Awfully attractive; Boldly begun. Carpingly criticized; Daringly done. Easily enemied; Fearfully fly! Gracefully gyrated; Horribly high. Impishly innocent; Joyously jump. Kickily kittenish; Luringly limp. Merrily mischievous; Naughtily nice! Obesity's order; Propriety's price. Quietly questioned; Rampantly railed. Sinuous serpentine; Twinklingly trailed. Undue undulations; Virtuously veiled. Willowy wavering; Xpertly expressed. Young yielding youthfulness; Zigzagging zest. —Caroiyne Wells in Life. [Tongue-End Topics] Rivals in "Pottery" Business "Billy" Gallagher, reading clerk in the Senate, and Kenneth L. M. Pray, : recently press agent for the Democratic j State committee, are rivals in the 1 "pottery" business. Mr. Gallagher, as j assistant secretary of the Republican I State committee, prepares weekly a i political letter of legislative doings I from a Republican standpoint, which is sent to rural Republican newspapers, j | Mr. Pray, as the Democratic informs- , tion disseminator, prepare* and sends oul every week a news letter covering ; i legislative matters from a Democratic : | standpoint. These letters are sent out as "plate" matter through a news con- ! cern in Philadelphia, and this has led I the two gentlemen to be called by their | associates the rival plate makers or pot i tcrs. ♦ * * Rural Press Well Provided It is Mr. Gallagher's bounden duty I tq tell all the good that the Republicans i are doing or about to do, and at the | same time point with tine scorn to the I attempts of the Democratic legislators to thwart the eh'orts of the truly good Republicans to legislate for the best jnterests of the entire State; while it is the bounden duty of Mr. Pray to tell of the heroic efforts of the Democratic legislators to do that which will make this great State a happy Commonwealth and at the same time point out the shortcomings of the wicked Republicans and how they will obey the behests of what he terms "the machine." Be tween the two the rural press will be supplied with enough plate matter to make schrapnel for the two armies now in conflict iu Europe, with the differ ence that nobody is hurt by its use. * * * Garner Again in House Representative Garner, ot' Schuylkill, who was the first legislator this session to complain of misstatements in the press, was formerly a member of the House, and was then sent to Congress from his district. His constituents at the next election put a Democrat in his place in Washington, but Garner last year again tried for the Assembly and went under the wire a winner. He I lias ideas on various things, and he likes to talk. He will lie heard from I during the session. * * * Brennan a lave Wire One of the live wires on Capitol Hill during the present legislative session is not a legislator. He is George J. Brenuan, of the Philadelphia "Inquir er." who is known far and wide as the j political writer and legislative eorre- j spondent of that paper. Mr. Brennau j lias been coming to Harrisburg so long j as a reporter of State conventions— now abolished—-.ami as a legislative correspondent that he is known by many Harrisbupgcrs. fT£ is a promi nent member of the Pen and Pencil Club, of Philadelphia, and was for sev eral years the president of that liv e I organization of newspaper men, and he has served as president of the Legisla tive Correspondents' Association. As an after dinner speaker, a wit and promoter of festivity at banquets and social gatherings lie is in a class all by 1 himself. He has few equals as a toast master. Personally he is known to every politician of any account in ! Pennsylvania, and that includes all j j political parties. A Scene Before the Mirror What the jungle ladies of Africa lack in clothing they make up in hair adorn ment. Some styles are pleasing. Their hair combs are made of a very tough wood, and they need be tough, for one j of the feminine customs is to put gum j nil through theiV hair to keep it in place. A very strong comb is needed to get it apart, but the women contrive somehow to do it, and as time is not money in Africa they are never in a j hurry. One is not surprised to learn that sometimes it takes a woman a | week to have her hair properly arrang ; ed.—Christian Herald. ■KEEP URIC AGIO OUT Of JUTS ' Tells Rheumatism Sufferers to Eat Less Meat and Take Salts I Rheumatism is easier to avoid than | to cure, states a well-known authority. We are advised to dress warmly; keep I the feet dry; avoid exposure; eat less j meat, but drink plenty of good water. Rheumatism is a direct result of | eating too much meat and other rich foods that produce uric acid which is 1 absorbed into the blood. It is the j i function of the kidneys to filter this i acid from the blood and cast it out in i the urine; the pores of the skin are | j also a means of freeing the blood of ! this impurity. In damp and chilly ! cold weather the skin pores are closed 1 thus forcing the kidneys to do double j work, they become weak and sluggish and fail to eliminate the uric acid which keeps accumulating and circulat ing through the system, eventually set tling in the joints and muscles causing stiffness, soreness and pain called rheu matism. At the first twinge of rheumatism get from any pharmacy about four ounces of .Jad Salts; put a tablespoon ful in a glass of water and drink before breakfast each morning for a week. This is said to eliminate uric acid by stimulating the kidneys to normal ac tion, thus ridding the blood of these impurities. Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless and is made from the acid of grapes anil lemon juiee, combined with lithia and is used with excellent results by thousands of fplks who are subject to rheumatism. Here yon have a pleasant, effervescent lithia-watcr drink which : helps overcome uric acid and is bene ficial to your kidneys as well. —Adv. i This Is the Last Week Of The Globe's Greatest Sale of Sales Never Before Was Such Dependable Clothing Sold at Such Remarkably Low Prices s"| /1.75 For Silk Lined Dress Overcoats That lU= Were Regularly Values to $25. Distinctive overcoats that appeal particularly to the conservative dressed WL man ot Black lhibet ( lot lis-—-handsomely lined throughout with Skinner's guaranteed silk—hand-tailored—the overcoat for every purpose. $t 75 For Those Warm, Comfortable Chin- J lv chilla Overcoats, Worth to S2O. I jl|® Blue and Gray shaggy Chinchilla overcoats with big shawl collars—Ulstorette ■ \ style the overcoat that really protects you against the coldest wintry blasts. $1 1 .75 For Men's and Young Men's High-Grade Suits JL «J= That Are Worth S2O. Suits of tinest Silk Mixed Worsteds in neat pin stripes and nobby plaid effects—real high character suits made by the country's best makers—individualized garment* that will strike the fancy of the well-dressed man. Buy Manhattan Shirts Now Signal Shirts Sale Ends On Thursday Are Here Action counts now. men, If you want your share. Buy em to-ilav— Tlio shirt tliot io former prices prevail after Thursday—note these saving prices: 11,1 nial , ls lUal „ , _ . I'"' heart of the railroad man .fl.oO Manhattans are $1.15 I $2.00 Manhattans are SI.BB —all styles—all sizes. $1.65 Manhattans are $1.25 I $;5.50 Manhattans are 52.65 & i s\s\ $2.00 Manhattans are $1.38 | $3.00 Manhattans are $3.55 Ijpl.UU $2.50 Trousers, $1.85 | THE GLOBE j 15c Hosiery at.... I ! WAR RELIEF FUND GROWING | More Than a Thousand Dollars in Pledges Reported To-day by the Collectors More than sl,ooo^had been pledged or collected for the Home and War Re lief fund, according to reports turned in to headquarters of the Ways and Means committee this morning, though quite a number of collectors have just begun actual collecting work to-day. Statements of the need for the work and the operation of the .various de ! partments affording relief, both at ! home and abroad, have been circulated : i>v the canvassers, who will cover their j districts again to secure contributions I or pledges. Additional volunteers reporting for ! the iHill district are named by the | neighborhood executive committee to day They are: Miss Elizabeth Killinger, Mrs. Helen S V drews, Miss Gertrude Heriolfinger Miss Ruth HeffelQnger, Miss Jean Al- I len, C. W. Beyer, Miss Marion Mumma, | Miss Pearl Yohn, Miss Grace Sigler, j Miss Helen Heckert, Miss Clair llis i bane, Miss Sarah Shireman, Miss Anna Dugan. Miss Esther Henry, Miss Mar garet Arndt. ONE VIEW OF BISMARCK His Love of Music and His Dislike of Wagner as a Man Talking of the arts Bismarck said: j "Of music I am very fond, but now I I have to abstain from hearing it be cause tears eonie only too readily into imy eyes. My heart is stronger than ny head. Indeed, what self control 1 j have has been bought by experience.'' ! Many instances occurred during our conversations which gave the truth to this assertion. The extreme mobility of his counte nance and the various shades of ex | pression which passed over it tul i of a sensitive, emotional temperament. "But I have a lire within me still which burns at times with fury." Upon that 1 asked, "Are you in reality the iron chancellor?" "No," he said, "not nat urally; the iron I have created to use when necessary." And that I believo to be true. I asked him if he knew Wagner per sonally. "Yes," he answered, "but it was quite impossible for me to cara for him or to encourage his society. I had not time to submit to bis insatia ble vanity. Before breakfast, at break fast. before and after dinner, Wagner i demanded sympathy and admiration. His egotism was wearisome and' in tolerable, and his demand for a listen er was so incessant that I was obliged to avoid his company. I was too busy with my affairs to be able to give him all or even a portion of the demands he would have claimed upon my time. But 1 admire his music greatly, though I have been compelled to give up go ing to the opera because the beautiful and touching melodies I cannot get out of my head; they cling to nie, and I find it difficult to release myself from them, and now it tires me to be so much moved."—Prom "Conversations With Prince Bismarck," by W. B. Richmond, the English painter, in I North American Review. Lena Rivers at the Photoplay To-day Pamous novel by Mary J. Holmes has been picturizcd into five acts and will be shown at the Photoplay theatre to-day in conjunction with a two-act Lubin drama, "The Friendship of La mond," in which Miss Ormi Hawley and Karl Metcalfe are featured. Deal ing with the friendship of one man for another, and Earl Metcalfe as the sol dier of fortune, is wonderfully port rayed. Hearst-Selig Weekly of Current Events, and a.mine comedy, "Distilled Spirits," made by the now film manu-j facturers "Made in North America."! Friday a Broadway star feature, "Thej Sage Brush Gal."—Adv.* Fashionable Penmanship " Ix>oks like a futile transaction all round." "What are you kicking about nowf" "This fan! for large handwriting. My daughter got a box of expensive pa.pcr from a voung man and used it all up writing him a note of thanks."—Judge. The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensary will be open daily except Sunday at .1 p. m., at its new location. Front and Harris streets, for the free treatment of' the worthy poor. CLASSIC WA Selected by J. Howard Wert No " '*• BATTLE HYMN BY KARL THEODOR KORNER Karl I hcodor Korner, when hut n youth in It is teens, became Known I throughout Germany as a brilliant poet, of impassioned expression. Born at I Dresden, in 1791, from very infancy lie was rooked iu the cradle of stern times. ILike1 Like many a brilliant scholar of to-dav, battling and dying on the ensanguined [ fields of European carnage, he felt it his duty to respond to his country's call, | when the Fatherland's sons were asked to take arms against the legions of | Napoleon sweeping over Europe. At the early age of twentv-two years, his young life passed awav, August 26, 1813, on a'battlefield near Rosenberg. Father of earth and heaven! 1 call thy name! Round me the smoke aud shout of battle roll; My eves are dazzled with the rustliug llnine; Father, sustain an untried soldier's soul. | Or life, or death, whatever be the goal That crowns or closes round this struggling hour, Thou knowest, if ever from my spirit stole One deeper prayer, 'twas that no cloud might lower On my young fame! O hear! God of eternal power! God! Thou art merciful. The wintry storm. The cloud that pours the thunder from its womb, But show the sterner grandeur of thy form; The lightnings, glancing through the midnight gloom, To faith's raised eye as calm, as lovely, come, As splendors of the autumnal evening star, As roses shaken by the breeze's plume, \\hen, like cool incense, comes the dewy air, And on the golden wave the sunset burns afar. God! Thou art mighty! At thy footstool bound, Lie gazing to thee, chance, and life, and death; Nor iu the angel circle flaming round, • Nor iu the million worlds that blaze beneath, Is one that can withstand thy wrath's hot breafh I Woe in thy frown, in thy smile victory! Hear my last prayer! 1 ask no mortal wreath; Let but these eyes my rescued country see. Then take my spirit, all Omnipotent, to thee. Now for the fight, now for the cannon peal, Forward! through blood, and toil, and cloud, an:l fire! Glorious the shout, the shock, the crash of steel, The volley's roll, the rocket's blasting spire! They shake! like broken waves their squares retire! On them, hussars! Now give them rein and heel! Think of the orphaned child, the murdered sire. Garth cries for blood! in thunder on them wheel! This hour to Europe's fate shall set the triumph seal! YOHN BROS. Money-Saving Sale New Pianos, Player Pianos, used and Square Pianos and Organs. Every instrument fully guaranteed. It is useless to publish prices as you must see and hear these instruments to ap preciate these bargains. In addition to the great reduction in prices we offer you easy terms, if you desire. A number of Electric Players at less than half original cost. The Old Reliable House YOHN BROS. 8 North Market Square ■ ■ ARTISTIC PRINTING AT STAR - INDEPENDENT.
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