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Wednesday, February 3, 1915,
FEBRUARY
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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
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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
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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.''
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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.
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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.
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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. All tired out and IffifiSl
miserable — down and nervous—sleep poorly and
no appetite—pain in back and sides—swollen ankles and
joints—bladder weaknesses—that's kidney trouble. You
need the medicine that stops the cause of your trouble.
That's exactly what FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS do. WLs\
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FOUR DAYS
| Special Music Roll Sale j
| Feb.3rd,4th, sthand6th Only f
§S 1.00 Holla, ... . . 40c I!
gty 1.25 Rolls (H C »
rai 1.50 Rolls 72c P
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S 2.00 Rolls Dtfc »
| EVERY BH-NOTE ROLL IN OUE LIBRARY INCLUDING FEBRU- 1
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