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Wednesday. March 10, 1015.
MARCH
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MOON'B PHASES—
Full Moon, Ist, 31st; Last Quarter, Bth;
N*w Moon, 15th; First Quarter, aid.
P" WEATHER FORECASTS
,'f \ x I Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair
, * { weather to-night and Thursday with
not much change in temperature.
f Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair weather
- tonight and Thursday with not much
change in temperature.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 41; lowest, 23; 8 a. m., 26; S p. m., 40.
ME. BROWN AND THE CONSTITUTION
There is something refreshingly frank about the
ay Attorney General Brown, in the statement he
inded out to the newspapers yesterday, tigura
vely tore up the State Constitution and consigned
to the waste basket. His outspokenuess goes a
•eat way toward convincing us that, notwithstand
g the apparent belief of an influential Philadel
lia newspaper that his appointment to his high
Eice was in some measure influenced by political
nsiderations. he is. at least in large measure, inde
sndent of the Republican organization which
the present administration in power.
For i must be concluded that if the Constitution
as fi ulty as he believes it to be and if we in
mnsylvania are "woefully in the rear'' of other
ites because of the burden that such a Constitu
)n imposes upon us, it must be laid chiefly to a
L'k of the progressive spirit in the Republican
ganization which has for so many years dorni
ted the affairs of this Commonwealth.
Certainly if the present Constitution is so bad
at we '"do not and cannot in this State"' have
vernment by and for the people; and if, as the
;torney General says, it is absolutely necessary
adopt another Constitution if Pennsylvania is
maintain its position in the nation, then it is the
ult of the Republican machine for not having long
0 brought about the changes that Mr. Brown
lieves to be essential to permit us to arrive at the
ulfillinent of the hopes of our forefathers."
Mr. Brown's courageous criticism of the Consti
tion iu its present form, for which instrument his
rn party is responsible because of its failure to
ep it abreast of the times which it might have
ne by amending the Constitution as occasion re
ired in the past, or by paving the way to throw
out bodily to give place to a new one, strikingly
jgests that Mr. Brown is the right man for his
). It puts him in the light of the man who is
lependent enough to break away from what he
lieves to be wrong in his own party, and an
icial of such courage can hardly, with fairness,
classed among those who owe their offices to
t>servience to a political machine that has stood
: the things that he now opposes.
SOLDIERS IN POSTMEN'S CLOTHES
siot only are Great Britain's Postoffice employes
iring a greater burden than the men in any other
>artiuent of the country's civil service, because
ced to handle a vast volume of letters and
using to and from the troops in France and in
ler places, but they have now been deprived of
ir uniforms that newly recruited soldiers may be
rbed in them to go to the front.
Through the sacrifice by the Postoffice of its sup
of uniforms, the War Office has been able to
the a hundred thousand soldiers, most of whom
1 now on the field. These troops, in the uniforms
postmen, must be objects of much curiosity to
ir khaki-attired predecessors at the front, and
ibtless are not able to escape good-natured quips
led forth by their appearance.
t seems strange that men should go forth to war
the uniforms of peaceful postmen. Such an
sngement is, of course, merely temporary and
intended to continue after sufficient supplies
khaki uniforms are on hand, but it is a little
fh on the postmen. The wockers of the busy
rtoffice Department are made by the war to toil
igually hard, and now their clothes are taken
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1913.
from them and put on soldiers that the soldiers may
be made presentable for slaughter.
Of course, if the womeu in England continue to
take upon themselves men's responsibilities so far
as to invade the mail service, postmen's uniforms,
as heretofore designed, will no longer be service
able and may in that event just as well be worn
by the soldiers as not be worn at all.
ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE
Reasonable persons would hardly search the col
umns of a country town newspaper for models of
good English. If they were to do so they would be
wasting their time. It is not essential that the
contents of such papers be perfect in unity, mass
and coherence. The issues as they appear are cir
culated by the publishers with entire complacency
so long as they are presentable typographically.
Readers cannot expect to find in the news items
phrases fashioned like those of a Ruskin or au
Emerson, considering the low subscription rates.
It is not altogether unreasonable, however, to
look for fairly good grammar and somewhat re
! specfable rhetoric even in the smallest and most
i insignificant papers. An "awkwardly constructed
j sentence may not only lack clearness as to its in-
I tended meaning, but may convey a meaning entirely
different from that intended. The following am
biguous sentence is takeu carefully, word for word,
from a rather well-printed paper in a nearby
county:
Ezra G and Johu H have again bought some
cow's since they are rid of the foot and mouth disease.
If Ezra and John really were themselves afflicted
and refrained from buying cows until they were rid
of the disease, then the grammar is all right, but
such a condition of affairs is so peculiar that it
seems improbable. The natural assumption is that
the cows had the disease and that tiie rural corre
spondent had difficulty in expressing himself prop
erly.
From the same newspaper many examples of
remarkable sentence structure might be taken,
which are not exactly misleading but which never
theless grate on sensitive persons. One more gem
will suffice. It is the introductory sentence to a
startling account ot' a secret marriage and jolts
along as follows:
Frank B——, one of our jovial and well-liked citizens,
known by the synonym of 'Butch,' he being a butcher by j
trade, but at the present time conducting a fruit store on !
North Prussian street, succeeded in keeping his wedding ]
a long secret it becoming only generally known the past j
few days.
It is only to be regretted that a newspaper which
shows so little respect for the English language does I
not have a contemporary in its community which !
so-called funny column and makes a
practice of seeking diligently and then exposing
the opposition's grammatical and rhetorical errors.
Such an arrangement would be the meaus of show
ing the offending paper the error of its ways and
perhaps of reforming it.
Make the boys behave on that Southern trip, Governor!
The fuller skirts of women ought to help the "buy-a-bale
of-cotton" movement.
Pennsylvania has thrived wonderfully well considering
it has such a weak Constitution.
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If you haven't a theory to advance as to the origin of j
the word "jitney" you are as much behind the times as if ;
you don't know how to fox trot.
"——
Dr. I.eland O. Howard, Chief of the United States •
Bureau of Entomology, has promised to give his brains to j
Cornell. We doubt whether our universities need brains as
much as some of our other institutions.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
FOR A TIME
Even a cheap skate may cut quite a lot of ice.—C'in- j
cinnati Times-Star.
EXPERIENCED
"I hear Mamie trowed you down."
"Aw, she needn't brag. I been trowed down by better
girls dan Mamie."—Life.
EXPRESSING IT POLITELY
The French are the most polite people in the world, j
They don't call a man a "bore." They say he is a i
"raconteur," and let it go at that. —Louisville Courier- j
Journal.
WOULDN'T MATCH
\Sife (with newspaper)—" Here's some one advertising:
to sell a green baby carriage for only $6."
Husband—"But our baby is pink."—New York Even
ing Post.
THEY ARE ON TO HIM
Jim—"What kind of a fellow is Briggst"
Jack —"Oh, he's the sort that leaves his car of
the church and goes across the street to shoot a game of
pool!" Yale Record.
OUTFIGURED
"What's the professor of mathematics making the fuss
aboutf"
"He was just short-changed by a banana-peddler."—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
CLEVER ACTOR
Patience —"So she married an actorf"
Patrice —"Oh, yes."
"Was he a good actorf"
"Oh, yes; he acted as if he loved her."—Yonkers States
man.
JUST THE SAME
"Every time I read Shakespeare I discover some idea
that hadn't struck me before."
"Yes," replied the man who yawns; "but isn't it pretty
much the same way with an insurance policyf"—Washing
ton Star.
SAME AS WAR
"So you're not to be married t"
"No. He says he has changed his mind." \
"What's his excuse?"
"The war."
"And you have no witnesses nor love lettersf"
"No."
"Well, isn't war just what they say it ist"—Buffalo
Courier.
[Tongue-End Topics]
Largest Typewriter in the World
One of the exhibits at the Manama-
Pacific Exposition which can hardly es
cape observation, is a typewriter of gi
gantic proportions, (tavs the "Scien
tific American.'' Lest their product be
overlooked among the myriads ot type
writers that are to be put on exhibition,
an enterprising company has batik a ma
chine built 1,72S tinier larger than a
standard typewriter. It is not merely a
colossal image, but a working model
that actually writes; and during the
Exposition it will type news bulletins
on a sheet of paper 9 feet wide, in let
ters 3 inches high aud 2 inches apart.
! The monster machine will be operated
i by electrical connection with a type
| writer of standard dimensions. For in
stance, on depressing a key of the smaJl
machine the corresponding key of the
large machine will respond. A lever is
use 1 ,! for the return of the carriage and
for line spacing or rotating the cylinder.
The big machine weigh* 14 tons as
against oO pounds, which is the weight
of a standard machine. It is 21 feet
wide, in action, by 15 feet high, aud
j requires for its operation a room meas
uriug 25 by 30 by 25 feet. The plat
en. 9 feet 6 inches long by 21 inches iu
diameter, weighs 1,200 pounds, and the
carriage 3,500 pounds. Each key cup,
which is the part of a typewriter that
' is pressed by the lingers, is 7 inches in
| diameter, while each type bar is 52
I inches long and weighs as much as a
I standaiM typewriter. This mammoth
• typewriter has been under construction
for about two years and cost |IOO,-
000.
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A Modest Hero
All prizes for brevity, and a few
more besides for modesty, go to a Ba
den peasant who for some time has been
i with the forces in Flanders. His wife
has just made public the following la
conic letters from liitn. The first
reads:
"Dear Wife: I am still alive, aud
j have received your bundle. If the boy
| is bad, spank him. Greetings, Adolph.''
j Shortly afterward cnine a second:
"'Dear Bertha: I am still alive,
. which surprises me very much. If the
; boy still is naughty, spank him again,
j Greetings, Adolph.''
The third communication was in the
j form of a photograph of Adolph's
! troop, showing him decorated with the 1
| Iron Cross. No mention, however, was
| made of the medal, and the picture
| merely bore out on the reverse si'ie this
brief note:
"Dear Bertha: 1 was wounded but
| am well again, and to morrow I go at it
again. If the boy is naughty, box his
ears. Greetings, Adolph."
Perplexed, the wife wrote her hus
j band demanding to 'know how he had
| received the Iron Cross, and received
the following illuminating reply:
"It was very simple about the Iron
i Cross. The major ordered me to stand
j still, and the sergewnt-major pinned it
j on. Greetings, Adolph.''
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Counterfeit Money in Mexico
In an effort to check the wide
spread activities of counterfeiters, the
Mexican authorities are making a srpe
j cial round-up of these criminals who,
i when caught in the act of making the
j bogus money, are to be shot, without
I trial. Coinage has long since disap
! peared, even the despised copper centa
| vos having been hidden away for safe
j keeping, i>o that paper cents, diimes and
| twenty-cent pieces, together with dollar
j and half-dollar bills are the exchange
j units of everv-day transactions. As
j this money is made on the ordinary
printing-press, the temptation to make
| bogus money has been too great for
; many to withstand. It is estimated that
I millions of dollars in counterfeit paper
are now floating about the republic.
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May Melt the Statues
Swiss newspaper reports of a meet
j ing of iron manufacturers in Duseeldorf
I February 4 say that a Dr. Shuster stat
led to the meeting that the lack of
j inetal was becoming a grave question in
: Germany and suggested, the reports
j add, that it might be easily solved if
Jail the bronze monuments raised to the
! honor of the Emperor and other mem
bers of, the royal family were melted
j down.
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Redemptions Dies Bravely
The Rev. Frere Jean Baptiste Jean
marie, who died of wounds received in
the battle of Vrigny November 12,
was the thirty-first of the Redemption
ist Brothers killed in this war.
"I am not afraid to die; I shall
i only regret not to have been aible to
I say mass'' were his last woi\le.
CYCLE COfIIPM'S growth
West End Industry, Established Seveni
j Tears Ago, Makes Rapid Strides
in the Business World
The West End Electric and Cycle
Company was first established seven
years ago in a small frame building
size 10 by 12 feet and one story high,
on Susquehanna avenue, near Peffer
street. Five years ago the business wat
movC.l to the present location at the N. |
E. corner of Green and Maclay streets,
at which place in 1913 the second
story was added, now being used as a
machine shop. . Connected therewith is
the only concrete motorcycle garage in
this section of the State.
The West End Electric and Cycle
Company now gives employment to ten
persons and at times as many as twen
ty people are employed. H. Z. Rose
and G. F. Hewitt are the owners o>f
this business and are the local dealers
of the Indian motorcycle. They are I
exhibiting at the Chestnut street show
this week. They invite full examina
tion and careful survey. The new mod
el is a brilliant example of engineering I
skill and mechanical progress.—Adv. •
You Are Invited to Attend Our
FORMAL SPRING OPENING
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
March 11th, 12th and 13th
Never have we welcomed you to a more extensive exposition of spring mer
chandise. Every department is teeming with bright, new merchandise for spring
and summer. The styles are just right, the qualities are the best, and the prices
within the range for which this store is noted.
See the Newest Here in
Millinery Hosiery Dress Silks
Laces Muslin Underwear Ladies' and
Art Needlework Children's Gloves
Embroideries Ribbed Underwea r children's Wear
Ribbons Dress Fabrics Infants' Wear
Neckwear Wash Fabrics Men's Wear
and Hundreds of Other Dress and
Household Accessories
fc to ?5c Department Store
WHERE EVERY DAY IS BARGAIN DAY
215 Market St. Opp. Court House
POPE MOTORCYCLE AGENCY
Chester R. Smith, Local Dealer, Fully'
Equipped for Repairs and Carries
Rig Line of Sundries
The Pope Manufacturing Company j
completed its great plant at Westfield, j
Mass., last vear The location is in I
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FINK'S BOCK
OUT
TO-MORROW
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FOR THE FIRST
A true harbinger of Spring,
a genuine Bohemian Bock Beer.
Carefully brewed. Properly aged,
and with all the aroma of the real
Imported Bohemian Bock.
ASK FOR IT
On Sale at All First Class
Hotels, Cafes and Clubs
FINK BREWING COMPANY
HARRISBURG, U. S. A.
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ithe beautiful Wo onoco valley, sur-1
j rounded by hills nnd mountains, 14 7 j
| feet above ser. level and close to the ]
center of production for the large va- J
rietv of r w niatiVial required in the!
j production of up-to-date motorcycles,
j The engineers of this company stand
upon their simplicity of design, beauty
of lines and lin ; sh, power and dura
bility.
Chester B. Smith, local dealer, has j
j fully equipped his present location, I
j 1815 North Third street, for all re-1
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! pairs and carries motorcycle ami bicycle
i sundries. In the early part of 1911
I lie secured the Pope agency and feels
| that he may be safely classed at the
head of niotorcyeledom. He is exhibit
ing at the Motorcycle and Bicycle
j Show on Chestnut street this week.
Adv.*
Senator McConneli Recovers
Senator McConneli, of Shainokin,
i who had been seriously ill with ton
j silitis, is again in his seat.