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Wednesday, January 27, 1015.
JANUARY
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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