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FEBRUARY
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MOON S PHASES—
Last Quarter. 7th; New Moon, 13th;
First Quarter, 2let.
3jrr»w WEATHER FORECASTS
Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to-
J"xplf • { night and Sunday. Not much change in
temperature. Lowest temperature to
night about 30 degrees.
"wSfr u n Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair tonight
fln( l Sunday. Moderate north winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
* Highest. 44: lowest, 26; 8 a. m., 26; S p. ut., 38.
OPENING OF THE FRISCO SHOW
The big world's fair, officially kuowu as the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, threw its
gates open to the public at daybreak to-day in San
Francisco. It was on the program for President
Wilson, in the White House, to press a button to
set all the machinery in motion at noon, Pacific
coast time. The electric spark was to be carried
across the continent and when the wheels started
turning the President was to receive a telephone
message back from the Golden Gate that the big
show was "officially" open.
This great exposition, designed to mark the
closer linking of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
by the completion of the Panama canal, comes at
a time when most of the world is engaged in war
fare which happily this nation has escaped. While
the war has, perhaps, interfered with the exhibits
of some of the nations contending in Europe, not
even the great struggle abroad will prevent this
display being an international exhibition in reality
as well as in name. Most of the foreign exhibits
were arranged for in advance of the breaking out
of the European hostilities and they for the most
part have been set up as originally planned.
Indeed the very fact of there being a devastat
ing war abroad adds a certain amount of signifi
cance to the San Francisco fair. Not only will it
serve to divert, in some measure, the thoughts of
the people from the horrors of the clash of arms
across the seas, but it will help to impress on the
minds of the people of this nation the blessings of
peace and the measure of prosperity that peace
insures.
There -seeuis to be little reason to doubt the suc
cess of the exposition from the viewpoint of the
crowds that are likely to attend it. The great show
has been most effectively advertised and. from all
accounts received thus far in the East, is an exhibi
tion which, both for its educational and entertain
ment features has seldom if ever been surpassed in
an affair of the kind.
The fact that Europe is closed to the hundreds of
thousands of tourists who yearly have been accus
tomed to seek recreation there will cause them to
look about for a new playground, and it is logical
and natural that they should turn to the big 'Frisco
show.
SUMMER CAMPS FOR COLLEGIANS
The University of Pennsylvania undergraduates
who organized in the Quaker City the other day
into a society for the purpose of opposing ''the
rise of militarism in America," assert that it is not
their object to protest against the summer military
camps for college students. They have wisely
taken a stand against excessive military training in
this country, but their friendliness toward the va
cation training camps is no less a manifestation of
their good judgment.
Although there is an intercollegiate campaign
afgainst militarism in progress in this part of the
country it is unlikely that any sentiments will be
created which will seriously oppose the summer
camps. The movement for the vacation encamp
ments of collegians is now firmly established in the
United States. The War Department is doing its
best to increase interest in the project, and college
presidents are endeavoring to have the attendance
this summer enlarged.
No matter what may be the attitude of college
students toward militarism, —and it is gratifying
to know that so many of them are inclined toward
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peace and all that may go to, insure the preserva
tion ci peace,—they cannot but favor the summer
camps, which, without necessarily encouraging mil
itarism, are the means of providing that training in
self control, bbedience and bodily bearing which
is valuable not any means to soldiers only, but
to citizens in all walks of life as well.
Military drills as a part of college courses may
have disadvantages add may not always be pleas
ing to students. There is something grand about
the possibility of forming two regiments of a thou
sand men eaeh at Cornell University, where two
years of military drilling are now to be required
instead of one; yet much of the time of students is
takeu up by martial exercises and\he likelihood is
that the men do not all go through the prescribed
maneuvers with the alacrity of volunteers.
It is safe to predict for the government's summer
military camps for collegians largely increased pop
ularity from year to year,—this despite theories
about militarism which, after all, have little to do
with the choice students make of the manner in
which they "will spend their summer vacations, with
or without army discipline.
SOLDIERS AIDING MEDICAL RESEARCH
In order that infected wounds resulting from
warfare in the trenches may be carefully studied
and the cause of science advanced, the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research is now engaged in
equipping a new hospital in Compiegne under the
direction of the French government. More infected
wounds are at present being found, it is reported,
than in any previous war, and the variety of injur
ies seems to be providing a field of research which
is the delight of those surgeons whose professional
feelings dominate their human sympathies.
While many wounded soldiers are these days giv
ing practice to new surgeons who are not skilled in
the handling of the instruments of incision hut who
are eager to learn, there are also men from the
firing lines who have unusual infections, due to de
velopment of gas originating in bacteria in the
tissues, and to tetanus.' who are being experimented
upon by practiced surgeons desirous of knowing
more about the peculiar cases.
Many of the infected wounds of soldiers in the
present war are said to be rare ones, about the
prevention and cure of which there is little known
and consequently much that must be found out by
patient research. It is. of course, unthinkable that
the death of wounded soldiers should be brought
about willingly by the men presiding at the operat
ing tables, yet an operation which results in death
may not always be considered an unsuccessful one
from the viewpoint of medical science.
All Europe is "telling its troubles to the policeman," and
Uncle Sam is the policeman.
ill some legislator please introduce a bill for the relief
of father? Mothers' |>engions and child labor seem to have
the spot light continually.
Traveling through the State as members of the Legisla
tive Appropriation (. ommittee is about the only opportunity
some legislators have ever had to "see Pennsylvania lirst."
Governor Brumbaugh will have* plenty of work for his
veto axe at the close of the legislative session. Appropria
tion bills already in carry a total of $25,000,000, and the
session is yet young.
Seems to be a caterpillar campaign in Belgium. The
armies advance at the rate of about an inch a day, and
when either of them does it proudly annouuees the fact.
They need a Bull Run over there to establish their sprint
ing qualifications.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
THE BOSTONESE
Estimate the distance carefully ere you try to negotiate
it. —Boston Record.
THE USUAL CAUSE
Shoj^>er—"lt seems to me these eggs are rather small."
Merchant —"Perhaps they are, mum, a trifle—owing to
th' war."—Judge.
THE UNREASONABLE SEX
Knicker—"Does your wife make you wear rubbers?"
Outlate—"Going out; but she won't let me wear sneakers
coming in."—New York Sun.
A NEW ONE EVERY HOUE
"Do you know the latest dance?"
"I'm not sure. I haven't taken a lesson since half-past
one this afternoon."—Washington Star.
LOOKING FOB A OOOD THING?
Skinum —"I want to interest you in a mining proposition.
It's a good thing."
Flubdub—"Perhaps it is; but I'm not."—Judge.
THE BETOBT PERSONAL
He —"If you get the ballot, aren't you afraid you will
neglect the family f"
She —"No; not at all. I wouldn't take that prerogative
away from you."— Puck.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE
Judge—"And you still claim to be innocent, although six
witnesses say they saw you commit the crime?"
Prisoner—"Your honor, I can produce six thousand who
didn't see me." —Cornell Widow.
NOT QUITE THE SAME
"You can't stand on the step," warned the conductor,
mindful of the safety-first campaign.
"It's all right; he ain't on the step," proclaimed another
patron; "he's riding on my foot.^ —Buffalo Express.
DIFFERENT THEN
Nodd—"The only criticism I have to pass on women is
that they are never ready to take the initiative."
Todd—"l wish you would accompany me to my home
some evening after I have been out with the boys."—Life.
HER IDEA OF THE RHINE
Mrs. Askum —"So you took a trip ifhroad last summer.
Did you go up the Rhine?"
Mrs. Newrich —"Right up to the very top. What a
splendid view there is from the summit!"— Boston
Transcript.
JUST THE THING
"What are you looking for, Captain?"
"The Colonel told me to find cover that would harmonize
with the uniforms of the men and thus afford us protec
tion."
"Well?"
"So I'm looking for a khaki-colored hill."—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
PORE RICH BLOOD
MADE BY BOOB'S
#
Pure blood enables the stomach,
liver and other digestive organs to do
their work property. Without it they
are sluggish, there is loss of appetite,
sometimes faintness. a deranged state
of the intestines, and, in general, all
the symptoms of dyspepsia. "
Hood's Sarsa|>arillA makes pure
blood, and this is why it is so very
successful in the treatment of so many
ailments. Got it to-day. Adv.
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Selecting Historic Sites
The Pennsylvania Historical Commis
sion in looking about for historical sites
on whrcli to plaice markers has deeided
to plhce some in Hai*risburg and vicin
ity. but will take some time to decide
definitely on nhe locations. One of the
members of the Commission says that
Harrisburg and vicinity are so rich in
historical sites that it is net an easy
matter to select particular ones, and it
is possible that the Dauphin County
Historical Society will be called upon
to suggest several sites to be marked.
The Commission received SIO,OOO from
the Legislature of 1913 to use in pla
cing markers, but has expended about
one-tenth of that amount.
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Spots That Ought to Be Marked
There are a score or moro of his
toric sopts near Harrisburg that ought
to be marked, but the reason for their
not being marked is the lack of funds.
The Daughters of the American Revolu
tion have marked, by suitable tablets,
one of the old graveyards in Cumber
land county wherein lie the remains of
soldiers of the Revolution and the War
of 1812, and the Daughters of the War
of 1812 have marked the site of old
Camp Curtin by a tablet in the Camp
Curtin school house, whieih is commend
able, but there are many' more that
should be marked, according to this
Commissioner, fcnd it is possible that
sto;s will soon be taken to see that
these spots are properly perpetuated by
bronze tablets.
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Seeks in Vain for Old Church
"It is a long time since I had been
in Harrisburg," remarked an old gray
haired man in the Capitol rotunda the
other day, as he turned away from a
long look at the old battle flags in one
of tho bronze cases. "The last time I
i was here was on the day that Governor
Curtin presented our regiment with that
old flag. 1 went to battle under it. was
wounded and sent home, and I've had
but one arm ever since. When I was
here lasf I was a member of a company
that was in Camp Curtin. and one Sun
day we marched down from camp and
went to church in a body at a church
that I can't find any more. They called
it the Locust Street Methodist church,
| and a minister named John Walker
i Jacqson preached the sermon, and I tell
you it was a fine one. That was the
I first aud last sermons I ever heard in
i Harris-burg. 1 wonder what became of
Preacher Jackson?" One of the Capitol
guides who knows a little Harrisburg
history, told him that the postoffice now
occupies the site of the old Locust
Street Methodist church, and the Rev.
John Walker Jackson afterward became
a chaplain in the regular army, serving
for years until he retired.
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Governors in Religious Work
The fact that Governor Brumbaugh
is going to occupy the pulp-it of a Har
risburg church in the near future calls
to mind that another Pennsylvania Gov
ernor also acted as a preacher occasion
ally here during his term. Governor
James A. Beaver took an active interest
in chunsh affairs aud was instrumental
in the organization of the Olivet Pres
byterian church, occasionally filling the
pulpit when the congregation was ar
ranging for |>ermauent organization.
Governor Pattison was very active in
Methodist church affairs, attending
Grace churchy His father was a Meth
odist clergyman, and the son was al
ways in some way connected with that
ohurah as an official in its councils.
Belgians Making Uniforms
Hundreds of Belgian refugees, says
a London correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press, both men and women, are
finding employment in the woolen mills
in Huddersfield and neighboring towns,
where thousands of yards of khaki for
uniforms are turned out daily. Every
important mill in the Huddersfield dis
trict is working nigiht and day, and
the industry has been speeded up until
it can go no faster. While London
sleeps in almost complete darkness, the
Huddersfield valley at night is lighted
more brilliantly tihan in peace times,
scores of the huge mills throwing out
from their thousands of windows a glare
which illuminates the entire country
side.
RECORD GIFT FOR CHARITY
Altoona Tabernacle Attendants Fill 22
Wagons With Food
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 20, —Twenty-two
wagonloads of flour, potatoes and other
provisions were hauled away from tho
tabernacle yesterday to be distributed
to the poor\>f Altoona through the Cen
tral Bureau of Charities.
The provisions were contributed by
persons who gathered to hear Evange
■ lis* Henry W. Stough on "Charity
Day," and they represent the greatest
single day's donation to the destitute
in the- history of the eity.
Last nigiht was "Sunday school
Night," and 10,000 people were in at
tendance. Dr. Stough ends his cam
paign here on Monday.
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The Harrisburg Hospital is open
daily except Sunday, between 1 and 2
o'clock p. m. for dispensing medical
advice and prescriptions to those un
able to pay for them.
TO Mll
IS TO IB!
Inspector General Will
Report to the Gov
ernor Any Weak
Spots Found
INSPECTION WILL
START MARCH 9
Officers and Companies Not Coining Up
to Required Standard Will Be Sub
ject of Special Report—Others
Will Simply Be Marked "Passed"
The spring inspection of the National
Guard, it was announced to-day, will
start on March 9 and continue uutil
May 19. This inspection, which is
made by the Inspector General's De
partment of the National Guard, is en
tirely distinct from the inspection now
in progress, started last month by of
ficers of the regular army detailed from
the War Department.
Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, Inspec
tor General, will have charge of the
spring inspection, which will not be
open to the public, but is for the Guard
alone. No ratings will be made tor
publication following this inspection,
but all organizations coming up to the
standard will merely be marked
'' passed,'' so that it will not be pos
sible to tell which organization stands
at the top of the eutire guard or any
regimental organization, as heretofore.
It is announced that companies found
inefficient during this inspection will
be made the subject of a special report
to the Adjutant General's Department
for the consideration of the Comman
der-in-chief, Governor Brumbaugh. In
efficient officers will likewise be made
the subject of special report, while in
competent non-commissioned officers
will be reported directly to their com
manding officers. Details for inspection
of local commands are given as follows:
Governor's Troop. Harrisburg, April
12.
Eighth Regiment, Infantry—'Field,
Headquarters Company (less Band Sec-,
tion), ami Supply Company, Harris
burg, April 19; Band Section, Carlisle,
April 21; Sanitary Detachment, Ta
maqua, April 23; Company A, York,
May 6; B, Tamaqua, April 23; C,
Chambers burg, May 7; D, Harrisburg,
April 20; K, Mahanov City, April 22;
F, Huntingdon. May 12; G, Car.isle,
April 21; H, Pottsville, April 25: I,
Harrisburg, April 19; K, York, May
3; L, Bedford, May 13; M, Lewistown,
May 11.
Assignments of officers for inspection
duty have been made as foHows by
Colonel Sweeuey: Surgeon General Jo
seph K. Weaver, Field Hospitals Nos. 1
and 2: an officer to be assigned later to
Company A. Signal Corps; Chaef-of-
Ordnance Howard S. Williams, Engi
neers ami Field Artillery; Colonel John
P. Wood. Cavalry; Mn.jor Albert C.
Rutherford, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and
Thirteenth Infantry and Separate Bat
talion Infantry; Major James E. Mc-
Xary, Tenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth and
Eighteenth Infantry; Major W. Pres
ton Tyler, First, Second, Third and
Sixth Infantry.
RECEPTION FOR MEMBERS
Program Given Last Night at West
Fairview M. E. Church
West Fairview, I'eb. 20.—'Last even
ing in the Metihodist church of this
place was held a reception and banquet
for the forty-two new members who re
cently united with the church. The
services were held by the older mem
bers. One hundred were present. A pro
gram of music, readings and dialogues
was rendered.
John Sierei, Paul Sierer, 'Mrs. A. W.
Ellenberger, of Enhaut, and Miss Mary
Snyder rendered impersonations. Miss
Jackson, Clyde Phillips and others sang.
The Rev. Robert Runyan, of Harrisburg,
anil the pastor, the Rev. S. B. Bidlack,
made speeches. This church has dou
bled its membership in the past six
months.
"STRENGTH OF A MAN"
The Rev. B. H. Hart Will Speak ft
Theatre Meeting To-morrow
"The Strength of a Man'' will be
the subject of the Rev. B. H. Hart's
address at the men's meeting Sunday
afternoon. This will be held, as usual,
in Leuney'B theatre, Thirteenth and
Market streets.
A feature of the meeting will be the
attendance of two hundred of the
men's section of the Harrisburg evan
gelistic chorus under the leadership of
C. F. Clippinger. 'fhe speaker, who is
pastor of the Fifth Street Metihodist
church, is well known, not only for "his
religious activity, but also by'the fact
that he was recently grand master of
the I. O. O. F. of this State.
To Attend Convention
Dr. Fred E. Downes, superintendent
of public schools, and Dr. Charles B.
Fager, Jr., principal of the Technical
High school, will leave Sunday for Cin
cinnati, where they will attend the an
nual convention of the Department of
Superintendence of the National Edu
cational Association. Dr. Downes will
serve as chairman for cities having a
population from 25,000 to 250,000.
Omega
_ Oil
Sore Throat
and
Cold inchest
First rob the chest or throat with
Omega Oil; then soak a piece of flan
nel with the Oil and put it around the
neck or throat, and oarer with a piece
of dry flannel. This simple treatment
usually gives relief. Trial bottle toe.
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What Does Your Mirror Say?
It will speak truthfully and enable you to dress the hair and
put on all the dainty touches of the toilett* l just right if properly
lighted.
AX INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT at each side of the mirror
is what you need. See these lights at the gas office, or send for
j a representative.
We are now selling the 35c grade Welsbacli mantles for 25tf
—2Gc grade 15*.
HARRISBURG GAS CO.
14 S. 2nd Street. Bell 2028, Cumberland Valley 752
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j:APITOL
NIDNY INCENDIARIES IN
FIRE MARSHAL'S REPORT
Annual Statement Shows Forty-live
Prosecutions and Nineteen Acquit
tals For Arson in the State of
Pennsylvania For 1914
State Fire Marshal Baldwin lifts is
sued a statement showing the results
obtained by his department in the
prosecution of the firebug during the
year 1914, made up from court records
and from departmental records and re
ports submitted by the deputies
throughout the State who have been
active in ferreting out incendiaries and
prosecuting them. During the year six
ty-four suits were brought throughout
the State, and there were forty-five con
victions and nineteen acquittals. In
many cases the perpetrators were sent
to prison, but iu others before justice
could be meted out the firebugs fled
the jurisdiction of the State and have
not yet been recaptured to be sen
tenced.
In Dauphin county there were four
convictions—William Gotshall, Edward
Gotshall and William Vogt, setting lire
to the property of the Middletown Fair
Association, and Ward Sheets, setting
fire to the property of H. I. Young,
near Middletown. In Juniata county,
Jaanes K. Mover was convicted of fir
ing the building of Mrs. Elizabeth
Weiser in Mittlintown, and Michael
Foulkrod, suspected of firing the build
ing of Mrs. Emma Landis, of Swartz
Valley, escaped from jail, and is still
free. Chirles Shultz and Earl Wagner
were convicted of arson in York coun
ty and scut to prison. John Craft con
fessed to firing a property in Waynes
boro, and was sent to the penitentiary.
The record throughout shows that the
fire marshal and his deputies were kept
very busy during the year.
Called on Governor
Joseph S. Grubdy, president of the
Manufacturers' Association of Pennsyl
vania, and John P. Wood, a Bristol
manufacturer, called on Governor Brum
baugh yesterday afternoon to confer
on the workmen's compensation and
child labor bill. Later the Governor
said that he found Mr. Grundy favor
able to a workmen's compensation bill,
but had no suggestions to make con
cerning child labor. Governor Brum
baugh told his visitors of his plans for
continuation schools in connection with
child labor legislation, and said it was
feasible to have these schools run in
connection with industrial establish
ments.
George W. Xorris and Bernard New
man, of the Philadelphia Housing Com-
IN YOUR HOMEj
WHAT safeguards have you in your
home against fire?
Especially with regard to papers and
valuables hard to replace your will,
deed, lease, mortgage, insurance, jew
els, etc.
Bee our steel safe deposit vault—it's burglar-proof
and fireproof. WE HAVE VALUABLES WOETH
OVER $2,500,000 IN IT. THAT'S HOW CONFI
DENT WE ABE OF ITS SEOUBITY. No home af
fords such safety.
Smallest boxes are 22x2x5 inches and rent for 92.00
a year.
Q213 Market Street ;JL
Capital, $300,000 Surplus, $300,000
Open for deposits Sat. evening from O to X
j mittee, also called 011 the Governor to
i ask his assistance in putting into opera
tion in Philadelphia that act of 1913
i which creates a Bureau of Housing in
j that city.
lvatcr in the day, iu a talk with the
j newspapermen, the Governor i-aid lie
> was just as strong for local option as
I ever, believing that it is the best thing
; for the State and for the people of tho
State.
Seven Bridges
The Water Supply Commission lias
j given the Blair county commissioners
i permission to construct seven bridges
across streams in that county.
Food Laws Violated
Prosecutions were ordered vestcr
dav by the Pure Food Commissioner of
| twenty-nine offenders in several coun
ties, notably Philadelphia ami Alle
gheny, for violation of the pure food
laws.
Commissioner Foust on Thursday ad
dressed the Chamber of Commerce in
Altoona on the protection that this
j State now enjoys from food dojiers and
his hearers to purchase food
produced iu Pennsylvania as the surest
, way to get the real article, not doped
or adulterated.
Public Service Commission
The Public Service Commission has
| adjourned to meet in Pittsburgh on
i February 23. It will then have another
hearing in the matter of the complaints
: as to the rates of the Beaver Valley
Water Company, and, during the week
' will give attention to other matters af
, fecting the western part of the State.
The Railroad ami Warehouse Com*
; missuon of Minnesota calls the attention
( of the commission to the order of the
j interstate Commerce Commission relat
i ing to the requirements of the States
in the keeping of accounts and records
by common carriers, and requests that
the commission have a representative
at a hearing to be held iu Washington
| on March 4.
Governor to Philadelphia
Governor Brumbaugh and Private
; Secretary Hiatt left for Philadelphia
this morning to remain until Monday.
Increase Capital
The Annville and Palmyra Gas and
Fuel Conrpanv has filed notice of an
j increase of capital from $150,000 to
$350,000.
| The Woodward Township Water Com
pany, of Perry county, has increased its
j indebtedness to SIO,OOO.
"Argus" Out Tuesday
The "Argus" published by the stu
dents of Central Hig'h school will be
ready for circulation on Tuesday. A
-few changes have been made in the
business staff as follows: Daniel Burk
holder, circulation manager; Kichard
Hamer, social editor; William Bingham,
sporting editor, and Leroy Smucker,
business manager. Xew appointments
will be mdde from the sophomore and
Junior classes next week.