6 ( Ettabluhed in 1876) Published b • THK STAR PRINTING COMPANY, ' /" Btar-lndep«'ident Building, M-20-22 South Third Stroat. Hirrlabur*. Pfc. Evary Evanlng Excapt Sunday OHictrt, | Director* ; S BWIAMW F METERS, JFLH „ U U KUHN, President. WM. W. WAL*LOWER, _ _ „ Vtce President. * • MEYERS WM. l£ MEYERS, Secretary and Treasurer. WM. W. WALLOWKR. WM H WARNER, V. HUMMEL UEROBAUS. JR., Business Manager. Editor. All comniunlca'ioirj should be addressed to STAR INDEPENDENT, Business. Editorial, Job Printing; or Circulation Department according to tbe subject matter. Entered at tbe Post Office in Harrisburg as second-class matter. Benjamin & Kentnor Company, New ifork and Chicago Representatives. New York Offlee, Brunswick Building. 2'-'5 Fifth Avenue. Chicago Office, People's Gas Building. Michigan Avenue, Delivered by carriers at 6 cents a week. Mailed to subscriber! tor Three Dollars a FEAR in advance THE ST A R-IK DEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home. Circulation in Harrisburg AND Marby towns. < Circulation Examined by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES! BELL*" , Private Branch Exchan#*, No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Private Branch Exchange. ..... No. 245-24S - Wednesday, February 3, 1915, FEBRUARY 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 MOON'S PHASES— Last Quarter, 7th; New Moon, 13th; First Quarter, 21st. * WEATHER FORECASTS '/T* Harrisburg and vicinity: Partly cloudy to-night. Thursday -fair. Not r V ' much change in temperature. Lowest JJ*" temperature to-night about 20 degroos. Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy to night, probably preceded by snow in 'W* v. southeast portion. Thursday fair. Fresh wwaaaajf north and northwest winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 36; lowest, 25; 8 a. m., 33; 8 p. m., 25. THE CANADA DYNAMITING CASE Some delieate international questions may arise as a result of the arrest in Maine of Werner Home, alleged to be a German, at least by birth, who is reported to have admitted that he dynamited a span of the bridge over the St. Croix river, between Vaneeboro, in the United States, and New Bruns wick, in Canada. The part of the bridge damaged was in Canadian territory and Home is being held in the United States at the request of the Canadian authorities who have begun extradition proceedings in Washington. If Germany were not at war with Great Britain, of which empire Canada is a part, there would be no possible grounds for this country to refuse to send Home across the border to stand trial in the Canadian colirts for responsibility for an act which in time of peace could only be regarded as a crime. Since, however, Germany and Great. Britain are at war, and assuming that Home is a German subject, there is the possibility that his alleged act can be construed, not as a crime, but as a military opera tion. If there is any disposition on the part of Home to resist extradition on the ground that, the dyna miting of the span was a military operation of one belligerent nation against another, it apparently is up to him to prove that it was actually a military move. In other words, unless he submits evidence to show that the span was wrecked by an agent of the German government as a military move, the United States would be justified in classing the act for which he is accused as a crime and could prop erly turn the prisoner ovetto the Canadian authori ties for trial. If, however, the act is shown actu ally to have been a military operation of the Ger mans and if it is acknowledged by Germany as such, then it is doubtful whether the United States could send Home back to Canada to stand trial on a criminal charge. On the other hand, however, if it should be shown that the man was acting as an agent of the German government and used the territory of United States as a basis for military operation, the question might properly be raised whether he is not subject to pun ishment under the laws of this neutral country. In any event the case is another one of ihe many that are arising in this country in connection with the European war that require the most delicate sort of diplomatic handling. WHEN A CARNEGIE WAS MOST NEEDED I hat there existed a demand for a Carnegie who would give away libraries long before the great philanthropist became engaged in that occupation, is clearly shown by a document discovered among time-worn historical papers in Nazareth Hall Mili tary Academy, Nazareth. Pa. The document con sists of a request, dated February 2ti, 1814, from fourteen students of the school,—the Eldest hoys' institution in the country,—that somebody advance money with which they might buy books. These students of a century ago stated that they had no beneficial way of spending their leisure hours because the unfavorable weather at that time of the year, which was probably about the same sort of weather we are at present enduring, pre vented tliein from taking walkß and engaging in outdoor sports. They therefore asked for funds to start a library by means of which they could oc cupy their time. It is natural thai Andrew Carnegie, to whom a , ... . .. . • i ;» y V" ' ' '.-r 5 * HABRISBTTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1915 copy of the document was recently sent, should ! have manifested interest in its contents which dem- i onstrate that the heeds in the free library line, I which he Was been helping to meet, were urgent a ! century ago as well as at the present time. The J general public, too, may well be reminded (that the! many free libraries in this country, with and with-i out Carnegie connections, are to-day offering priv-l ileges which were a hundred years ago unheard of. j There must be a remarkable difference, if we; could only see it, between these days when students] have free access to volumes of all varieties on' library shelves, and the times when most works to be read had to be bought, and the only knowl edge obtained by a rising generation was such asi "the village school and books a few supplied." LOW MARKS NOT ALWAYS A DISGRACE The girl in the Millville, N. J., high school who swallowed poison the other day when she found that she had failed in one of her studies, probably had the same emotions which are experienced by many school boys and girls who are confronted by low marks after term examinations at this time of the year or in June. The only difference is that she was foolish enough to suit her action to her inclination. Y\ hen students take their school work so seriously that after unsuccessful examinations they feel as though they want to end it all, they may be mani festing earnestness in a way, but foolishness cer tainly. Although high marks are highly desirable, low marks are not always utterly disgraceful. Low marks as the result of negligence in school j work, it is of course understood, are inexcusable. Students who strive diligently to get such marks by evading the work which comes their way would better be made to engage in some occupation in which recognition of worth or worthlessness comes in more convincing forms than averages scratched in little squares. Schools would be much better off without the confirmed loafers who deserve marks in the hundreds with minus signs prefixed. These are not the kind who are tempted to commit suicide when they fail in examinations. Yet there is another class of students who fail in certain subjects—only one or two perhaps,—who simply do not understand those particular subjects, either on account of their own deficiencies or, more rarely, of the deficiencies of their teachers. They may be especially good students in other branches, and if so they need feel no great disgrace on account of their few shortcomings, for talents vary in all individuals. failures in school subjects are discouraging cer tainly, but a valuable part, of the training of students is comprised in the meeting and overcom ing of difficulties. Persons specially gifted, in a way, who go through school with high marks and no worries, can hardly benefit by the course as much as the ones who find their tasks difficult,—provid ing of course that they try. No sign yet of those spring flowers the groundhog promised. Our oveV-worked lawmakers have taken another vaca tion until Monday. We are almost persuaded that it is more trouble to be neutral than to go to war. There is nothing so uncertain as the weather in Febru ary unless it is the price of wheat. The Republican administration in Pennsylvania, now that the State is confronted with reduced revenues, has an opportunity to show the Democratic federal administration j how to economize. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN AND FOOD AT WAR PRICES He—"Be mine! I cannot live without you." She—"Oh, go 'long; you've said that to many girls i before." He A es, but not when eggs were 50 cents a dozen." ' —New York Tribune. HE KNEW DIFFERENTLY Counsel—M"ay it please your Worship, I brought this I man from jail on a habeas corpus." Spectator (at. the bac.t) —"There's a bloomin' whopper for yer! Why, I me'self seed the pore fellow come in a taxi."—Exchange. OF THINGS THAT NEVER WERE He—"This brand of champagne should be called the Biograph." She—"Why so?" He—"Because after you drink a pint of it you begin to 1 see moving pictures."—Chicago Tribune. AMBIGUOUS AFFECTION "How much did he pay for those grand opwrtT tickets!" "Five dollars apiece," replied Miss Cayenne. "He must love music." Possibly. And, on the other hand, he may have verv little respect for %T>." —Washington Star. SURE THEN The guest sat down and frowned over the bill of fare in great perplexity. "What's good to-day?" he inquired of the waiter. "Stewed steak, sir," answered the other, promptly, and then, leaning over the table, he added, confidentially, "It's very good, indeed, sir. The waiters are ha-ing it them selves."—Exchange. CAUTIOUS! A Scot went to London for a holiday. Walking along one of the streets he noticed a bald-headed chemist at his shop door, and inquired if he had any hair restorer. "Yes, sir," said the chemist; "step inside, please. There's an article I can highly recommend. Testimonials from great men who have used it. Makes hair grow in 24 hours." "Aweel," said the Scot, "ye t-an gie the top o' your heid a bit rub wi't, and I'll look back the morn and see if ye're tellin' the truth."—Exchange. THE VERY THING Irate Country Gentleman (white with anger at being disturbed)—" You book canvassers make me so angry with your confounded nerve and impudence that 1 cannot find words to express my indignation." Canvasser (jumping with enthusiasm)—" Then, sir, I am a great help to you. I have here the verv thing you need —a dictionary of the English language, containing all the words and slang phrases known, and only GO "ents. Take it, and you will never be at a loss to express yourself a^ain." —Exchange. are too ofttn with drag* when their blood is really starved. They need that blood-strength which comes from medicinal nourishment No drugs can make blood. SCOTT'S EMULSION ism highly concentrated blood-food and every drop yields returns in strengthening both body and brain. A. If yon are frail, languid, drUA delicate or nervous, take \J)f Scot I'M Emultion after meals It W for one month. No Alcohol ■lllHrTlHff""" J " L ™"" Hill I Hill 111 M - ' > \ I Tongue-End Topics | V. Tho German Sharpshooters The activities of the highly efficient German sharpshooters have been re sponsible for a large proportion of the casualties in the French and British armies during the last two months. Lieutenant 11. G. Vouzier, of the French army, writes of these sharpshooters: " During the past three weeks I have lost more men by the sniper than I did in three stiff engagements. Our position is not unlike a golf link —• — ha I f u mile from the club house we are bunkered and nicely under cover, but immediately one of us shows a head a bullet whizzes past. In one day ten were hit and for the life of us we could not locate the place where their snipers were concealed. At last we found it. Four hundred-yards in front of us in the open were several prominent tufts of grass. One of my men fired into i one of these tufta, and a sniper fell into view mortally wounded. A hun dred yards to the right was another tuft, which we demolished with a fusil lade of si ots. When it was dark we found there two dead Germans, who were warmly clad and wrapped in rugs.'' * * * French Imitate Germans We decided to imitate the tactics of the Germans. Two of our men volun teered to become water rats, just as the Germans had become field mice. Un der cover of darkness they wormed themselves into the bank at the water edge of a stagnant pond, and the next ttay they picked off many Germams be fore they were discovered. * » * Service Medals in Panama | Canal Service medals are to be I awarded Panama ('anal employes in the course of the next few weeks. Orders have just been receive! from the War Office that the list of those wbj are en titled to medals and service bars must be in Washington not later than Feb ruary 8. It is estimated that this year TOO employes will be entitled to medals While more than 1,000 service bars will be given to those who have received I metals already. Up to December, 1913, | more than 7,000 service medals had been given canal employes. The medal Known as the Panama Caual Service Medal, but is also called the Roosevelt I Canal Medal as it was at President. Roosevelt's suggestion, made in 190R while on a visit to the Isthmus, that the idea of a medal was adopted. The medal is given at the end of two years service after which a servi.e bar is ai ! tached for every two a iditional years. * « * Jewish Refugees in Distress The largo numbers cf Jewish refu gees who are reaching Alexandria, Bgypt, from Palestine are becoming a serious problem there. They are brought without charge by the American cruiser Tennessse from .laila, amd available ac commodation* bore aro already stiainci, to the uttermost. The refugees report that a pronounced anti-Seniiti ■ persecu tion has-been startul nr;und laffa, ow ing to the charge that the Jews favor the Allies. $500,000 FOR R. SUN US BY Proven to Be legitimate Heir to Bar onial Property in England I>oiidoii, Feb. 3, 11.45 A. M. —The probate court decided to-day that tho son of Charles R. Slingsby is the legiti mate heir to the $500,000 Baronial property of the Slingslby family in Yorkshire. The case has been beforo the courts for nearly two years. •Charles R. Slingsby, formerly a lieu tenant in the British navy, and a for mer resident of San Francisco, is in possession of the property which wits devised to his offspring. When he asfked the court to confirm the succes sion, a younger brother protested on the ground that the chill was not a legitimate son but an infant substi tuted by the lieutenant's wife wh>en her own child died. Since the case has been on trial evi dence has been taken in California and records produced there to prove tihe child tho legitimate son and heir of the Slingsbys. Uncle Sam Denied Export Bates 11.1 Associated Press. Washington. Feb. 3. —The United States government is not entitled to export rates on structural iron and steel from Baltimore for foreign possessions shipped through the navy yard at Phil adelphia, according to a decision to day by the Interstate Commerce Com mission. Complaint was made by the Secretary of the Navy against the Pennsylvania railroad. Czar Honors Belgian Queen Havre (Via Paris), Feb. 3.—The military medal haH been conferred on the Queen of tho Belgians by Kinperor Nicholas of Russia in recognition of the Queen's heroic courage in minis tering to wounded soldiers at the risk of her own life. The medal was pre sented to the Queen at the Belgian army headquarters by Major General Prince Felix Youssoupoff, of Emperor Nich olas' staff. OPPORTUNITY FOR HITS YOUNG IN Continued From Ftrat Pace. terial to be found right at home as in the large cities and we believe that younig men from the home section will go out into the field imbued with the thought that they are representing a home industry and full of enthusiasm over their home 'product. We are will ing to go to the expense of educating and training these men from home to grow with our business rather than go out into the market and hire experi enced salesmen." Now Opportunity to Enroll The new class is being enrolled and applications forwarded to the office of the Elliott-Fisher Company, Harrisburg, Pa., on or before February 20, will be considered. Young men who have had some bookkeeping exiperience or who have been operators of Hlliott-iFisher machines or who have had some selling experience will be considered favorably and young men with this experience will do well to apply for admittance to this practical school of training. -"* "Salesmanship to-day is profession," said a representative of the company to-day. The superaalesman, the effi cient salesman who represents a com pany that manufactures a high class specialty and enjoys a national reputation of honesty and square dealing, holds a dignified posi tion of which any one may be proud. Such salesmen are brought into daily contact with successful business men who have reached high positions and are the kind of men with whom one can take pridp in doing business. Not only is the salesman's position one of dig nity, but profitable as well, and the successful salesman has a safe and sure profession equal in its income to that of the successful lawyer, doctor or den tist; but unlike these professions he is not hampered by a professionalism that is restricted to certain channels. The professional salesman can enter a new territory meeting with success from the start, while the dOPtor or lawyer re- to establish a practice." The ElliotNFisher Company is one of the ibest known manufacturers of office appliances iu the world and ther'e was never a time in the history of the com pany when it offered greater opportun ity to young men. Although well estab lished, having manufactured billing ma chines and machines tor writing in sew cd-bound booas for twenty years, it is now manufacturing new machines that are declared to be superior to older models. Wonderful New Machines "The new models were introduced in 1914 and the business world in general is commencing to waken up to the won derful advantages of these new mod els, said an official of the companv. "The new bookkeeping machine, with its ability to add and subtract cross ways of the page, is a wonderful revela tion and it is only a question of time when the banks and commercial houses ot the entire country will do their book keeping with the Elliott-Fisher book keeping machine. It is needless to say that with a new machine such as this that is revolutionizing bookkeeping, the young salesman who becomes per manently connected with the companv that manufactures it, is indeed obtain ing the opportunity of a life time. El liott-Fisher Company wants to build up its siles organization with voung blood; with young men who have' the discern ment to recognize opportunity; youn« men who have the moral courage .det ermination, adaptability and stamina to succeed as salesmen. The young men of Central Pennsyl vania who are fortunate enough to re ceive an appointment to the Elliott- Fisher school will receive a trainin" that will become a greater asset than dollars and cents, an asset that thev cannot lose as long as they continue in active business, a foundation asset that may continually be built upon and add ed to in the structure of business achievement.'' 7 SIKHS SENTENCED TO DIE Convicted of Killing Two Police Of ficials During a Mutiny By Associated Press. Calcutta, Fob. o.—The judge at Firozpur, in the Punjab, has sentenced to Sikhs who had been con victed of killing two police officials at Calcutta last October in the rioting which followed the arrival of the steam er Komagata Maru at that port from Vancouver. The Hindus who mutinied at Calcut ta last year were the men who for sev eral months resisted the Canadian gov ernment's order of deportation but who finally were compelled to return from Vancouver on the same steamer which brought them out. The rioting at Calcutta was suppressed bv troops who fired on the Sikhs. MEMORIAL FOR MISS DODGE At the Young Women's Christian As sociation, a memorial service in honor of Miiss Grace Dodge, Whose death oc curred a few weeks ago, will be held in the John Y. Boyd Hall Sun'Jlay after noon at 3.30 o'clock. Miss Dodge had been president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association for eight years, and her memory is revered by "tliou saiiids of women and girls all over the country. Mrs. E. 55. Wallower will have charge of the meeting and Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones will tell olf the life and work of Miss Dodge. Spanish Class Proposed A class in Spanish will be formed at the Y. W. C. A. if there is sufficient demaind for it. Anyone who wishes to take up the study of this language should enroll at once. | A Sure Way To End Dandruff There is one sure way that, has never failed to remove dandruff at once, and that is to dissolve it, then you destroy it entirelyi To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, common liquid arvon from any drug store (this is all you will need,) apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications will completely dis solve, and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff yon may have. You will find all itching and digging of the scalp will stop instantly and vour hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better.—Adv. Co many people suffer from B weak, inactive sluggish kidneys, \ 'n «nd don't know what ails them. 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