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Saturday. February 27, 1915.
FEBRUARY
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MOON S PHASES—
Last Quarter. 7th; New Moon, 13th;
First Quarter, 21st.
f WEATHER FORECASTS
rfa-.j, Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to
fT nipht. Sunday partly cloudy, continued
v I? Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night.
Sunday partly cloudy, continued cold.
Fresh northwest winds.
YESTERDAY S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 38: lowest, 29; S a. m., 30: 8 p. in.. 31.
WARFARE AND WATERWAYS
The news of the demolition by fleets of the Allies
of forts guarding the entrance to the Dardanelles,
and of the mine dragging operations now proceed
ing in the straits, awakens speculation as to the im
portance of control of this waterway by the Allies
if they are successful in their present endeavors.
By their possession of it they could change Turkey's
plans both for offense and defense in a dozen and
one ways, gaining all the advantages which go with
the control of an important water passage.
Rivers, because they are considered valuable as
lines of defense aud are used as such, and because
they often afford ready access to strategic points,
have been important considerations in warfare.
Many have been the battles in the descriptions of
which history says rivers ran with blood. Although
engagements on river banks are not necessarily
more sanguinary than other conflicts, the accounts
of streams bearing awav lifeless bodies and of
waters stained red, most often make them
seem so.
The Euphrates will ever be remembered for its
part in admitting the attacking Persians within
5 the walls of Babylon. The Tiber performed noble
! services in defending Rome. Over the Rhine no foe
lever passed unopposed. Our own Delaware was
crossed by Washington in one of his most cele
brated maneuvers. In the present war an important
place rs occupied by the Meuse, which, protected by
the Liege the Germans a fortnight in
their onward march and during that time bore away
. the bodies of many valiant soldiers.
The courses of rivers have decided plans of cam
paigns. ami the windings of waterways have deter
m.".led results of battles. The geography of a war
zone has everything to do with the movements of
armies, and lakes, straits and rivers all play their
parts.
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE WEATHER
With a one-two-three crack of the whip the month
of February, 1915, is about to be hurled into his
tory. There is nothing left of the beautiful, balmy
days but reminiscences and the prognostications of
the unofficial weather sharks who talk about how
severe the .March weather is to be or is not to be.
•Sure enough the wintry breezes were here to-day*
and, for that matter, they were here yesterday.
Snow flurries carried by a strong wind added to
the discomfort and, incidentally, brought a vivid
red color to many a proboscis; but that does not
necessarily indicate what the weather is going to
be during the next four weeks. We all recall the
saying about March coming in like a lion and going
out like a lamb.
All because the groundhog t lid not go back into
its hole to finish its winter's sleep on February 2,
many are of the opinion that the weather will con
tinue to be balmy and unseasonable—springlike.
However, besides the groundhog, the woolly worm,
the spring birds, the budding trees, the shooting
arbutus and similar spring signs, there are other
similar things to be considered. For instance, yes
terday was the last Friday of the month and since
some concede that the weather on that day gener
ally governs weather conditions in the next succeed
ing lunar period, there are a good many persons
looking for chilly blasts and a really seasonable
March. There's Saint Patrick's Day not three
weeks off and that has been a cold day in many of
the years gone by.
In the open country, where the twitter and chirp
of the spring birds during the last fortnight was as
regular, perhaps, as the break «f day, all of the
feathered creatures seemed to have gone into
hiding. They had been silenced, uo doubt, by the
sudden change of temperature. Now that practi
cally all of the weather signs have proved to be
little or nothing more than subjects for arguments,
there is nothing left to do but to await the daily
predictions of the official weather man.
GIOGLERS BANISH GLOOM
In a condemnation of the practice of giggliug a
clergyman in another state complained the other
day that the followers of his profession are ex
pected to preach to girls "as beautiful as angels and
as silly as geese."' Young women answering that
description cannot help it that they are good-look
ing, or perhaps that they giggle. Being good-looking
is no fault in itself, in any circumstances. Giggling
is no crime, although at a church service it is cer
tainly out of place and should be controlled.
Little outbreaks of merriment in churches have
beau explained by psychologists as the consequences
of some sort of a spontaneous resistance to serious
ness which affects young persons while hymns are
being sung aud sermons preached and when they
should, according to conventions, view thiXgs
soberly. Such outbreaks must be annoying cer
tainly. to clergymen trying to deliver discourses
forcefully from their pulpits, no less than they
would be to teachers aud lecturers. There is a
time not for fun as well as a time for it. and that
distinction is what needs to be better understood
by young persons inclined to giggle.
Yet giggling surely is not in itself bad. ll is not
as pleasant to hear, perhaps, as hearty laughter
inspired by something really funny, but if it is the
best that the "silly as geese" girls can do in the
way of expressing merriment, it must be tolerated,
—perhaps even, encouraged. If prolonged it may
become tifesome, but in moderation girlish giggling
in the propej- place never hurt anybody except un
popular persons against whom it may occasionally
have been directed.
Angelic gigglers banish gloom surely, and in'that
capacity are very useful to the human race. They
may be out of place in church auditoriums, school
rooms and lecture halls, but elsewhere they do more
good than harm.
Gloomy girls arc out of fashion aud giggliug girls
are in. Perhaps the former never did exist in over
whelming numbers. At any rate, the latter are the
more human.
We hep to suggest that they run jitney busses to Wild
wood park.
"Bad nickels afloat in Herndon Borough," says the
"Patriot." Perhaps they are cork imitations.
Those overworked legislators must be sufficiently rested
after their ten days' recess. Their energy will be manifest
in the fifteen-minute session on Monday night.
Pactional differences are not recognized in the Demo
cratic party when it comes to as.king for contributions to
wipe out that $14,000 deficit of the last cam{»aigu.
Now that the Navy no longer has use for the plucking
board it might be put to work by the Pennsylvania econ
omists in plucking some of the unnecessary job holders on
Capitol Hill.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
WASTED ENERGY
"Then you didn't enjoy seeing Congress in session?" (
"Xo. I did not." admitted the efficiency expert. "They
made so many unnecessary motions."—Judge.
IT COST MONEY
Harry—"What is the most expensive education that you
know of?"
Leonard—"Learning the names and past performances;
of a lot of race horses."—Brooklyn Citizen.
FAR-REACHING SERMON
Flatbush—"When I came out of church on Sunday I
found my horse fast asleep in the shed."
Bensouhurst—" hy, he couldn't hear the sermon from
there, could he J"— Yonkers Statesman.
NOT SO MUCH GINGER
"I don't think your speech was as full of ginger as some >
of your former efforts."
"Maybe it wasn't," replied Senator Sorghum. "The wav
a man has to stick to a topic in these filibustering days
makes him inclined to dispense with ginger and look for
glue."—Washington Star.
CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANTED IT
Wife (complainingly)—"You never praise me up to
anyone."
Husband—"l don't, eh? Yon should hear me describe,
you at the employment when I'm trying to hire a
cook."—Boston Transcript.
AT THE FRONT
"Yes, I say Chawlie Chippendale at the front."
"Good old Chawlie. I suppose he was waving his sword :
in the sunlight and shouting 'Come on, lads, come on!' "
"Well, no. he wasn't. He was waving a spade and yell
ing "Dig, von Tommies, dig!' " —Cleveland Pl?in Dealer.
BETWEEN THE LINES
"That man thinks I am positively ugly!"
"Why, I did not hear him say anything that could pos
sibly be construed that way."
"Didn't you hear him say that I would neeh the very
best lawyer that money could possibly employ?"—Houstou
Post.
PART OF THEIR PLATFORM?
"Do you women realize what you are doing? Suppose
you got to holding office—with your inexperience it would
be ten years before you would be ready to pass any laws" j
"Wai, ask any business man if that wouldn't be the best
thing that could possibly happen to the country."—Suffrage
Number of Puck.
IT WAS THE TURTLE'S FAULT
A California youngster had been permitted to visit a
boy friend on the strict condition that he was to leave
there at 5 o'clock. He did not arrive home until 7 and bis
mother was very angry. The youngster insisted, however,
that he had obeyed her orders and had not lingered un
necessarily on the way. *
"Do you expect me to believe," said his mother, "that
it took you two hours to walk a quarter of a mile?" She
reached for the whip. "Now, sir, will you tell me the
truth?"
"Ye'es, mamma," sobbed the boy. "Charlie Wilson gave
me a mud turtle—and I was afraid—to carry it so I
led it home."—Boston Transcript.
SCROFULA AND ALL
HUMORS GIVE WAY
There are many thingr learned from
experience and observation that the
older generation should impress upon
the younger. Among them is the fact
that scroful and other humors are most
successfully treated witli llood's Sar
sapurilla. This great medicine is a
peculiar combination of remarkably ef
fective blood-purifying and health-giv
ing roots, barks and herbs, and has been
tested for forty years. Get it to-day.
Adv.
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I Tongue-End Top ies 11
Not Best For Baker
W. Harry Baker, secretary of the
Senate, is not taking a re«t in Florida,
but it is through no, lack of effort of
his Senatorial friends to get him there.
When Senators Crow, Vare and Mc-
Nichol left for San Lucie last week to
get awav from the rigors of a Northern
winter—and incidentally to fix up a
few slates—tlicy invited Secretary
Baker to go with them, insisting that
the arduous duties of preparing for the
legislative opening, and the constant
service 4u keeping things straight since
the convening of the Seuate, had made
him due for a rest, and he should be
their guest. Baker didn't see it that
way, however. He is a great stickler
for work, and he thought there would
be enough here to ke?p him busy, and
he didn't like to entrust it to anybody
else, even though it were of a routine
character and could have been j)6ne by
hie assistants.
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Plan to "Kidnap" Secretary
But the Senatorial trio refused to ac
cept his declinatiou and decided, willy
i uillv, that the genial secretary should
be compelled to take a Florida rest. So
they fixed up a game on him. They got
tickets for transportation and parlor
and sleeping car accommodations for
him without telling him anything about
it, and thcu requested his presence .it
the train on the morning they started
for Florida. Their intention, as Senator
McNichol quietly confided to a few
friends, was to kidnap Secretary Baker,
gdt him on the train and keep him
there until they got to Florida, when
he would have to take an enforced rest.
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Somebody Leaked
Somehow somebody leaked, and
Baker got an inkling of how he wan to
be kidnaped and he didn't turn up at
the Philadelphia station when the twin
moved out. and the plot to kiduap him
failed. He remained home and has
been head over ears in work ever since
hit Senatorial friends set out for the
laud of perennial bloom, and whenever
he thinks of how he fooled 'em he
quietly chuckles.
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Geranuis Living in Bussla
The proposal to oust the German j
population from Russia still hangs tire
in Petrograd Recommendations made
before the Imperial Council and sev
eral commissions and sub-commissions
appointed by the government have in
cluded the government purchases of all \
landed property owned by Russian eiti- !
zens of Oeirnas rationality aud the ex
pulsion of these subjects from Russia,
but owing to the difficulty of replacing,
the Germans, who occupy an important
position in Russia's industrial scheme,
the German problem still lies before the
commissions, with little probability of j
immediate solution. The liberally in
clined members believe that, while the
Germans should not continue to enjoy
the special [rivileges which have fa
vored German industry iu Russia iu
the past, they should not, 011 the other
hand, be summarily deprived of their
rights in Russia, so 16ng as they are
Russian citizens. The Pan-Slavists and
the extreme members of the Nationalist
party favor the immediate expulsion of
Germans at all costs.
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Problem' Not Solved
As a practical measure, the whole
question hinges on the availability of
other candidates to till the positions
now occupied by Germans. This Ger
man population does not exceed three
per cent, of the entire population, but
it occupies a conspicuous place in the
administrative activity of Russia, both |
of a private and a governmental na
ture. The majority of bank and in
surance company directors, property
owners and managers are Germans.
The same is true of university pro
fessors, lawyers, doctors, chief foresters,
exporters, importers, civil engineers,
printers and foremen in factories. Be
fore the beginning of the war Russia
viewed this condition indispensable in j
a country not yet trained to develop its J
own resources to their highest efti- j
ciency. The problem, therefore, which j
Russia has faced since the beginning;
of the war is a complicated one, for I
which no practical solution has yet been
suggested. Works That prepared am
munition tor war, railroads and steam
ship lines for the transportation of
troops and munitions were directed by
Germane. And most of the land fring
ing the Russian boundaries in Kurope
was owned by the Germans.
A Tragic Coincidence
In 1865 a German predicted that he
would be a victim of a war that would
take place in 1866. The war occurred,
but did not affect him. One day forty
two years later he was laughing at liis
eld time prophecy and boasting of his
good health. In his happy mood he
bought an old cottage from a friend
and straightway went to inspect it. In
fhe garden there was a quantity of old
iron and among it a shell dating from
1866. He picked it up and was exam
ining it when it expired, and be was
kiHed on the spot. The prophecy had
come true.
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PEOPLE'SCOLUMN
The Star-Independent does aot
mike itself responsible for opinions
expressed In this column.
A View of the Full Crew Law
the Star-Independent.
llpar sir: It is not a misleading
statement when it is said that the ex
tra or full crew man is not needed on
railroad trains.
In the past or at present, without a
doubt the railroads have and would man
their trains according to the require
ments. considering tne public, the em
ployes and their property. They would
not sacrifice the value of the salary of
oue man, if it was known to them that
such service was required. No one
knows a business proposition better
than those who handle it every day.
Full crew law or not, the railrond
companies are not assured that they are
not held responsible for transportation
of passengers or freight, and the matter
should be left to their judgment for the
proper number of men on the crew for
>acli and every train dispatched.
The issue appears to be one like the
insurance protection of property. If
an investment is made in real estate, a
tire insurance policy is secured at once
for the protection of the holder. The
railroad trains are a heavy investment
and the holders of the investment take
the same care and pains for its insur
ance protection. It cannot be consid
ered. by wise thinkers, that safeguards
are not thrown about railroud trains,
as is done by real estate property hold
ers, yet, the full crew law was un
doubtedly introduced and passed with
out first securing the merits of the
wanted and selfish imposition.
Other legislatures, like the State of
Pennsylvania, had presented such bills,
which became laws, and tindiug them
contrary to the progressive spirit of
the American people, they were re
pealed, and the same law, at the pres
ent time, is being considered in other
•states for repeal, M
It is hoped that tlie lawmakers, who
hold the subject in their hands, will
thoroughly search for all correct facts
possible to the end that their vote may
be fair and impartial along business
lines. SHOPMAN.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 27, 1915.
WESTERN PACIFIC RECEIVER
Application to Be Made When Railroad
Defaults Paying Interest
By Associated Press,
New York, Fob. 27. —Application
for a receiver for the Western Pacific
railway will be made after the railway
will have defaulted the interest on its
first mortgage bonds due March I,.ac
cording to announcement made to-day
J after a meeting of the directors ot the
| Denver and Rio Grande Railway Com
pany. which controls the Western Pa
j cific. The proceeding, it was said, will
jibe of a friendly nature.
This method, it was said, had been
decided ii]>on as the best course to pur
sue in adjusting the company's finan
cial difficulties and its relations with
the Denver and Rio Grande.
[ YoUNti PROPERTY SOLD
Sale of Other Real Estate Postponed
for Lack of Sufficient Bid
A plot of groun'd situated ait Elm
; and Church streets. Penbrook, to-dav
| was sold at public sale, in front of tile
I Court House by William M. Hargest,
trustee of the estate of the laite Henry
F. Young, to E. K. Miller for S9OO.
The sale of the houses at 506-508
Walmft street, this city, which- also
were a part of the Young estate, was
postponed because of an insufficient
bid. The assessed value of the houses
is $10,500. The highest bid was $9,-
; 500. An adjourned sale may be held
i in the near future for the purpose of
disposing of those houses.
ASK TO RETAIN DR. FOX
Members of Grace Church Request Bish
op to Reappoint Pastor
At the meeting of the fourth quar
terly conference of Grace Methodist
Episcopal ohurch. held Thursday even
ing, the following resolution was passed
unanimously:
"Resolved, That a cordial invitation
is hereby extended to the Rev. J. D.
Fo> to return to Grace church as its
pastor for the ensiling conference year,
and that the presiding Bishop, the Rev.
William Burt, D. P., is kindly requested
to reappoint Dr. Fox to our church, and
that the superintendent, the
Rev. A. S. Fasick, I). D., is hereby re
quested to use his influence to effect the
reappointment.''
CHORUS TO MEET MONDAY
Singers Will Make Arrangements td Go
to Lancaster Tabernacle
Arrangements will be made finally
for the excursion to the Stough taber
nacle at Lancaster by the Harrisburg
evangelistic chorus at its regular month
ly meeting on Monday night at 7.30
o'clock in the chapel of Grace Metho
dist church. The excursion will be
held on Tuesday evening, March 16.
The*! are now over a thousand
members of the chorus. The members
of the orchestra, under the direction of
C. A. Stouffer, will be well represented
at Monday night's meeting.
TO ADDRESS PEOPLE'S FORUM
C. W. Anderson Will Speak To-morrow
at A. M. E. church
Calvin W. Anderson, of Williamsport,
will address the People's Forum at 3
o'clock to-morrow afternoon in Wes
ley Union A. M. E. church, South
street. Mr. Anderson will use as his'
theme "The Drama of Life." A mu
sical program will precede the oration.
A large attendance is anticipated.
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Selected by J. Howard Wert
No. n. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE
BY REV. CHARLES WOLFE
Amongst the lenders of English armies during the Napoleonic wars, there
was no braver nor nobler man than Sir John Moore. Yet, like many other brave
commanders who faced the victorious legions of France, he was destined to go
down to defeat and lose his life on the field of battle. He met his fate whilst
commanding an army in the northwestern province of Spain, and his beaten
troops were obliged to leave the land where he had fallen, embarking from the
port of Coruna.
Many a general has fought as nobly as did Sir John Moore and died under
circumstances as pathetic, yet, in a few years, has passed into oblivion. But a
poor and unknown Irish clergyman wrote a few simple verses about Sir John,
and the touching stanzas placed the unfortunate general forever in the gallery
of fame. His name is now as immortal as the English language.
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corpse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the gravt where our hero we buried.
We buried him darkly at dead of night.
The sods with our bayonets turning.
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.
No useless coffin enclosed his breast,
Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest.
With his martial cloak around him.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed,
And smooth'd down his lonely pillow.
That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,
And we far away on the billow!
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, —
But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on
In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
But half of our heavy task was done,
When the clock struck the hour for retiring;
And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was sullenly firing.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh and gory:
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone—
But we left him alone with his glory!
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Y. M. C. A. MEN'S MEETING | direction of W. H Kautz. Familiar
hymns will be sung. The management
Praise, Prayer and Testimony Service extends a cordial invitation for all men
To-morrow Afternoon to be present, young and old. All will
An old-fashioned praise, prayer and fc' ven a chance to take part in this
testimony service will be held to-mor- meeting in the way of prayer and tes
row afternoon at 3.30 o'clock under ti«nony. Doors will open at 3 o'clock,
the direction of the Young Men's h , tran P e ™ c, ty, o o| nmercmlttr y ;
Christian Association, Second and Lo- elers »n particular, are cordially mvtted
cust streets. The musical attraction to meet w,th the relation men
will be the male quartet, a favorite
company of singers with the men who Pmir»fm * '
attend these gatherings. They will V/Uupuxi
render some new evangelistic selections for ThUFStOII
to-morrow. _
The praise service will be under the Oil Page 9
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