6 1 ®l|e &tar-3nfo*pett!>*rtt {Established in 1876) Publi«y»d b' *HK STAR PRINTING COMPANY. N r indepo'ident Building. ll , N L L KUBH. President. *M. W WAIJLOWKR, _ . „ . Vice President. *' ,VKR * WM If MEYERS, Secretary and Treasurer. WM. W VVALLOWER. Wll. H. ffi RNEK. V. HUMUEL BEROHAUB, JR., I Business Manager. Editor. All communications should be addressed to STAR INDEPENDENT, Business. Editorial, Job Printing or Circulation Departirant According to the subject matter. Clllered at the Post Office In Harrisburg as second-class matter, Benjamin n Harrisburg ana ■earby towns. Circulation Examlneu by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. V* TELEPHONES- BELL " KPllvata Branch Eiiohanft»> • > - No. 3280 I , CUMBERLAND VALLEY |,yrivat» Branch Encnanf - No. 345-246 Thursday, February 4, 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. BfrfP A-v WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Partly BuP cloudy and somewhat warmer to-night ■P" \ with lowest temperature about 25 de-. I Vjfl"" grees. Friday ruin ami warmer. II >■., Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy ■ * and somewhat warmer to-night. Friday \j rain and warmer. Moderate variable YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 30; lowest, 22; 8 a. m., 25; 8 p. m., 22. . - I UTILIZING HARRISBURG BRAINS There is much to commend in the Elliott-Fisher j Company's plan, full details of which were an nounced yesterday, to continue its school for edu cating young men of this community for the impor tant and profitable work of acting as salesmen j I throughout the world for the numerous wonderful products of the company's big South Harrisburg j plant. The company conducts a regularly organized [ I school, for approved applicants, for tuition in the ! work of salesmanship. Fifteen young men were graduated from the school in January and the com pany is now preparing to enroll a new class for instruction. The results obtained in January have prompted the company to state that it is "encour aged to find so much good material right in its home city," and adds: \ s We are willing to go to the expense of educating and training those men from home to grow with our business rather than go out in the market and hire experienced salesmen. While doubtless the officials are convinced that there is an advantage to the company in taking in telligent young men and molding their ideas to con- j form with the company's own methods of selling its goods, there also is a great advantage to this com munity in the fact 1 hat the company is willing to I provide this four-weeks' course of expert training to make salesmen of the available young men of Harrisburg and vicinity. Too often, perhaps, a manufacturing concern is I .unwilling to take the time or the pains to train j men for important positions in its own employ but demands that the men it employs must have gained experience elsewhere. The result is that while the home community may possess abundant "good ma terial' for the making, for instance, of salesmen, the company does not take the trouble to develop this material, but unlike the Elliott-Fisher company, finds it more convenient to import salesmen who already have received their training in the larger cities. The benefits to the community of the Elliott- Fisher plan are manifest for it gives Harrisburg young men an opportunity,—especially valuable at 1 this time wjien remunerative positions are not as plentiful as they are,at some other times, —to de velop and make us of latent talents which other wise in most cases would never be developed in the same useful and profitable direction. In brief it is a plan that encourages local initiative and gives men of this community a chance to do what it would be necessary to import men from other cities to do 'if it were not for the Elliott-Fisher company's . offer. BELGIUM GRATEFUL TO UNITED STATES In an expression of gratitude to the United States cabled to a New Yt*rk newspaper yesterday, King Albert, of Belgium, declared that but for the broth erly help of this country famine would have spread like a plague through his devastated nation. He gave assurance that his people will "be ever grate ful to the United States." lie thanked our diplo mats who have served with devotion to relieve suf fering, 'as well as the many Americans who have organized the movement to feed the Belgians. King Albert is only one Belgian, but he is the head of the people. In expressing gratitude to this country for its generous aid, he is speaking for his many subjects who are thankfully receiving the pro- HARRISBimO STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4, 1915. visions donated to keep them alive, yet who cannot all fell their thanks in person. The cries for provisions which come from the most afflicted countries, —Belgium, Poland, Servia and Palestine, —appeal to charity of a peculiar sort. Those who give what they can to relieve the suffer ing may hope for no return directly or indirectly, and cannot even know of the good which their gen erosity accomplishes. They may be sure, however, that each gift is appreciated by its recipient as only somctihing can be appreciated which means life to a starving human being. WOMEN ACTIVE IN WARRING NATIONS Countless examples of fortitude and heroism are | being furnished by women in the belligerent coun tries in these strenuous days, and the pity is that they cannot all be recorded. They will be men tioned in/history in a general way'or will perhaps j j be omitted entirely to make room for the names and | dates of important and unimportant battles. We may be led to picture European women, par i tieularly Belgian and Polish women, as destitute refugees carrying babies in their arms and suffer ing untold miseries. There are such, but they ure fortunately only one class. Many women are not only supporting themselves successfully, but are aiding materially iu relieving suffering among sol diers and civilians. Of the women who are rendering valuable service, of course comparatively few are permitted to work near fields of battle. These are doubtless bearing great responsibilities, since they are attending to wounded men who largely outnumber them. There also have heen not a few reports telling how sol diers' deaths have been the fate of devoted nurses at the front. The women in the cities, although suffering sepa ration from their husbands, brothers and sons, are said to be going about their daily work with order, accuracy and system. An organized women's move ment, for instance, has covered Germany, casting aside all objects but practical relief work. The women are conducting feeding houses and free tables, are sewing and knitting clothes for the sol diers. and are carrying books, flowers and musical instruments to the wounded men in hospital wards. It seems that the training which the women of the | warring nations are now getting will ue very use ful to them in coming years. Their responsibilities will be great after peace is re-established, for many wives will then be widows and many daughters, orphans. You're welcome. King Albert! No wonder the former Sultan, Abdul Hantid, is for peace, i I Think of the number of wives he had! The "Telegraph," in referring to something nice that j former President Taft said about President Wilson, mjikes j this comment: "It requires a big man to pay a compliment to a corn- I petitor." Is this to be construed as a Taft boom for 191G? Again the "Patriot" calls attention to the aeeuray of j l the Star-Independent's news columns. It points out -that j I the Star-Independent said "sixty" foreigners became nat- j uralized yesterday and that the "Telegraph" made it I "seventy-odd," and then it tells the public to take its choice! As it has done before, in similar cases, the "Patriot" took its choice and made it "sixty." A "Telegraph" reporter who interviewed John McCor mack, the Irish tenor, writes: "He talks with an intimate interest that still has the faraway look of the dreamer and artist." This important sidelight on the characteristics of Mr. j McCormack will doubtless convince many that his record for notable achievement is not merely confined to his work as a singer. " s TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN THE SAME Chump—"Were you ever at an afternoon tea?" Gruinp—"No, but once 1 was in a place where 16 phono graphs played simultaneously."—Harvard Lampoon. THE AFTERTHOUGHT SAFE "Every time I see grandfather's sword and medals," said ! Bill, "I long to take part in a universal war." Then, as an afterthought, Bill said: "But every time I look at grandfather's wooden leg I long for the advent of universal peace." —Exchange. LUCKY DOG ""What are you working at now?" "Shuckin' oysters,' replied Mrs. Kiastlis Pink ley. "How do you like the work?" "It's pretty hard work. 'Bout do only satisfaction I flits out of it is thinkin' how lucky I is to be de shucker instid o' de oyster."—Washington Star. t BREAKING IT GENTLY Maid—' Thieves got into a house in this street last night and stole all the silver." » Mistress —"What stupid people to leave doors unlocked! Whose house was it?" \ Maid—"lt was No. 7." / Mistress —"Why, that is our house!" Maid —"Yes, ma'am, but I did not want to frighten you."—Exchange. HE MEANT WELL The class German had been learning a little poem about the teacher was taking occasion to tell them in German a few facts about him. She made the statement that he was called "Der Mann von Blut und Eisen" (the man of blood and iron). They all knew what "blut" was, but none of them knew what "eisen" was. So, pointing to one of the iron ventilators in the wall, she said: "Das ist eisen. Now, Bismarck was the man of blood and what?" "Ventilators!" shrieked a youngster.—Exchange. GOING THE LIMIT Jones was one of those men who grumble at everything and everybody. He was once attacked by inflammatory rheumatism and was carefully nursed by his wife, who was very devoted to him, in spite of his fault-finding disposi tion. suffering caused her to burst into tears some times as sh' It is announced that the chemical de partment at Leeds University, in Eng land, has succeeded iu manufacturing a cheap dyestuff for use in dyeing j khaki for soldiers' uniforms. Hitherto I England had been compelled to use dve | stud's of German manufacture on all I khaki cloth. * o * j China Pays For Slain Americans The Chinese government has granted tho sum of $50,000 to the heirs of Bert. K. Hicks, of Osltosh, Wis., and to I Albert N'. Sheldon and Philip Hofman. These Americans were teachers in the | Chinese College at Ohengtu in tho in terior province of Szechwan, and while | on a journey down the Yangtze Kiang i were attacked by river pirates. Hicks was killed, Sheldon permanently, and ! Hofman slightly injured. Twenty-five I thousand dollars goes to the heirs of | Hicks, s'.'o,ooo to Sheldon, and $5,000 1 to Hofman, who is now back again | teaching in Chengtu. The Chinese gov | eminent lias paid this compensation in | order to demonstrate its intention to j protect foreigners who accepted posi | tions under it and come to China. ♦.* Motor Cars in Pckin The motor car. lias at last reached Pekin; taking the place with Chinese officials of the old Pekin cart. Only a few poorer Manchu families now ride in the cart, without which no govern ment official of the late regime dared to be. Picturesqueness has gone, for the modern motor car does not permit the j retinue of robed outriders on little long ! mailed Mongol ponies. Only the presi i dent's motor car is now escorted by mounted men, and they wear modern j military uniforms. The escorts of other officials ride on the footboards of the motor cars. On the occasion of the re cent visit of a prominent general to Pekin these escorts carried revolvers in their hands. SALTS FINE EOR~ AMIDNEYS We Eat Too Much Meat, Which Clogs Kidneys, Then Back Hurts and Bladder Bothers You Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get sluggish and clogged and need a flushing occasional ly, else we have backache and dull mis ery in the kidney region, severe head aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders. You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel as ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of TTad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water 'before breakfast for a few days and your Jtidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of ' grapes and lemon juice, combined with litliia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity. It also neutralizes tlfc acids /n the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending'bladder disorders. .Tad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithia water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep their kid neys clean, thus avoiding serious com plications. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only trouble.—Adv. OLD-TIME REMEDY , - MAKES PIE DLOOD Purify your blood t>y taking Hood's Sarsaparilia. This medicine lias been and still is the people's medicine be cause of its reliable character and its jyonderful success in the treatment of the common diseases and ailments— scrofula, -eatarrh, rheumatism, dyspep sia, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, general debility. Hood's Sarsnparilla has been tested forty years. Get it to-day. Adv. SPECIAL EXHIBIT AT SHOWS Paige Motor Car Company Provides Educational Display at All the Big Displays in Country • The thousands of people who annual ly thVrong the automobile shows at | New York, Philadelphia, Harrisburg j aud other cities for the most part get i but a superficial idea of tlie various [ models on display. Unless some special effort is made to meet the difficulty there is no opportunity and little in clination to understand the vital fea tures that characterize the various cars the manufacturers are offering the pub lic with so much pride and confidence. The Paige Motor.Car Company, how ever, is endeavoring to meet this situa tion by providing not only a special exhibit that Will show the more im portant mechanical features ot their j new six and their celebrated four, but | also a well informed official who can j explain these features in an interesting j and not too teuchnical way. Thus all visitors who tarry at the Paige exhibit will be able to carry away an appre ciation of the fact that the vitals of a car are in the "chassis and under the hood rather than in the external de sign and the superficial features. 1 hey will also learn in brief time just what gives Paige officials confidence in the | superiority of Paige cars. These special Paige exhibits con-j sist of cut-out motors of the new six and tho four models. The sections of the engine cut away enable the spec tator to view the interior from various angles so that the characteristic tea- | tures of design, such as the rocker arm j and roller valve mechanism, especially desirable because of their noiseless op- I oration, are seeai. All the other work- ( ing parts of the engine are also dis-} closed. —Adv. * EMBEZZLER REFUSED PAROLE Defaulting Treasurer, Serving From One to SO Years, Denied Liberty By Asscx iat&l Press, Hertford, Conn., Feb. 4. —William F. Walker, defaulting treasurer of the Savings Bank of New Britain, who is serving a sentence of one to twenty years in State prison, has been refused a parole by the Board of Parole. Walker embezzled $565,000 of the] bank's funds and about $56,000 from the Baptist convention of Connecticut, i of which he Was also treasurer. Ho dis- j appeared from his home iu February, ] 1907, and was captured ten months later iu Lower California, after a na tion-wide search. HILLIS RAPS DANCING ' I Evangelist's Subject To-night Will Be "The Giant of Harrisburg" ■| That "a young girt had better wad j die like a hippopotamus than acquire ' | grace of movement through •lancing,'' was the statement of Evangelist C, E. j ' Hillis at the First Baptist church last i night. The preacher's topic to-night ; will be "The Giant Of Harrisburg." A woman's meeting was conducted by Mrs. Hillis at 2.30 o'clock this aft -1 ernoon. , 38 CONVERTS ATsST. PAUL'S ' Baptismal Services Will Be Held on Sunday Afternoon The revival at St. Paul's Baptist j church conducted by Evangelist Simms closes with 38 converts. There will be | believers' baptism on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at the church, the pas ' j tor, the Uev. Mr. Cunningham, ofiiciat i ing. The sermon will be preached by , tho Rev. C. .1. Henderson. BACKENSTOSS GAVE NOTICE Says He Is Not Leaving Covenant Church Without Usual Courtesy In his resignation as choir leader of Covenant Presbyterian church, Stanley Bae kens toss 'extended the customary courtesy of a two weeks' notice. He has made this explanation to cor rect intimations that ho is leaving the eiiureh without giving word. Heisey-Neff Wedding Manor, Feb. 4.—Miss Mabel M. NefT and .John T. Ileisey, of near Lancaster, were married yesterday at the parson age of the United Brethren church. The Rev. C. N. Hostetter officiated with the ring ceremony. They were attended by Miss Esther Itutt and Daniel H. Kellinger. A reception fol lowed at the home of the bride. Nagle Street Class Meeting The Men's Bible class of the Nagle Street Church of God wall hold its reg ular monthly business meeting to-mor row evening at 707 South Front street. Founders' Day at Ursinus Founders' Day will be observed at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa., Thursday, February .11. The timely character of the subject of the public addresses and the nation al character of tho speakers who will treat them make the exercises of the day of public interest. Two honorary degrees will be conferred on that day. Animals and Electricity CVltan has much greater power of elec trical resistance or much less suscepti bility than many other animals. A loefh placed upon a copper plaite which ( ■ref*ts upon a larger plate of zinc is un able to crawl off on account of the fe>ehilo electric action excited by the contact of the metals. Horses are trou 'bled by slight differences of potential. An ox treated for rheumatism with electricity sweumbed to a current ab solutely inoffensive to man. Not a Diplomat Knicker—ls\vour wife's mother a diplomat? Booker—'No, she doesn't go home after she has said the wrong 'thing.—New York Sun. i, Fined on S. P. C. A. Charge R. 11. Bitting, 2503 North Sixth street, was yesterday fined $lO by Al dorman Hilton, charged by S. P. C. A. Officer O'Donnell wjth forcing hor&gs to stand in the river while carts were -loaded with coal. THE GLOBE - THE GLOBE Our Attractive Bargain List For Friday and Saturday Every department contributes its share of timely and interesting bargains. T ot a questionable value ill the entire list. Men's $5 Double Breast Reefer. Storm Coats, $4.25 Men's Overcoats, values to $12.50 at $5.00 Heavy Fancy Mixed Cheviots —all sizes. Young Men's Norfolk Suits $5.00 Values to sl2.so—sizes 31 to 38. ' Men's $2.00 Trousers at $1.45 Men's SI.OO Jean Trousers at 85c^ Men's $5.00 and stt.so Fur Taps at $3.95 j SI.OO Blue and Grav Flannel Shirts at 79<£ J Men's 50c Work Shirts at 1 , Of Ohanibray, Sateen and Khaki—either attached or separate collars. ' Men's $1.50 Semi-Stiff Bosom Shirts at 79^ 50c and SI.OO Phoenix Knit Mufflers (slight! v soiled), .19^ 35c Mercerized Tubular Wash Ties at 17£ 15c "New Idea" Black Hose at 9<^ SI.OO and $1.25 Peerless Union Suits, 79<^ SI.OO Heavy Natural-Wool Underwear, 79c 50c Egyptian Ribbed Underwear at 35c* ! Men's 15c Rubber Collars at 8^ • r j Men's 75c Seamless Knit Cloves at 39^ j Men s SI.OO Dress Cape Gloves (slightly soiled), i $3.00 Oliver Twist Suits at $1.95 i Of Blue ami Brown Corduroy—for boys ages to 8 years. ; ' Boys' $6.50 Corduroy Suits at $3.85 Boys' $ 1.50 and $2.00 Russian Wash Suits at...95£ Boys' 75c Knee Pants at ' 39C Boys'7sc Blouse Waists at <- 39^ THE GLOBE I ■ TROOPS FAIL TO PROTECT BAKESHOPS FROM ITALIANS London, Fob. 4, 5 A. M.—Bread : riots have occurred in Porto Torres, j Sardinia, a Rome dispatch to the "Morning Post" relates. Mobs attack ed the bakers' shops and broke the windows in the municipal offices. A telegram from Sassuri, Italy reads: "Kiots growing -out of the agitation over the high price of bread arc as suming a graver character. Crowds to day went about the streets sacking the : stores. Strong reinforcements of troops have been called out to maintain order. "The disturbances were kept up throughout the day and the municipal ity finally fixed minimum and maximum prices of foodstuffs as follows: Bread, per kilo (2.20 pounds), from 9 to 11 cents; fish, per kilo, 15 to 20 cents; meat, per kilo, 16 to 30 cents.'' MINTS BRITAIN MAY ANNEX GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA London, Feb. 4. —Possible annexa tion of German Southwest Africa by England was hinted at yesterday by Viscount Buxton, governor general of South Africa, in a speech delivered at Bloeiufoutein, according to dispatches from there yesterday. Said Viscount Buxton: "The sympathies of the neutrals are on the side of the allies. Holland knows that if Belgium is annexed by Germany she would be the next victim. But Germany might find Southwest Africa annexed. The interests of South Affjjta gre bound up with the allies." NO DECISION ON CONTRABAND SENT TO AMERICA BY BRITAIN London, Feb. 4, 4.47 A. M. —Refer- ring; to the statement in American ■ papers tl.at the British government has decided that foodstuffs consigned to Our Qualifications Complete equipment, through organization, conservative management and large capital and surplus are qualifications which the strength and stability of this institution and which enable it to assure ySu of the utmost satisfac tion in any transaction which you may have with it. We invite small as well as large checking accounts, pay 3 per cent, interest on savihgs deposits, and act in all trust capacities. Germany shall be considered contra band, the "Times '' says: "We understand no British decision on the general principle of treating foodstuffs as contraband has been con" municated as yet to the United States government. The decision published in the American press appears to refer to the specific case of the Wilholmina." A VICTROLA should be in your home With all of its hundreds of advantages, the entertaining quality of the Victrola is by no means the least important. And until you have fully com prehended the vast seope of the Victor library; you will not realize the advantage of a Victrola in your home. Allow ns to demonstrate the styles ranging from $15.00 to S2OO. 00. Convenient terms of payment if you wish. C. AV.. Siller, Inc. Pianos Vlctrolas JLtfl 30 N. BnJ.SU