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Vita President W *' * M,RI "
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» MARCH
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MOON'S PHASES—
Full Moon, Ist, 31st; Last Quarter, Bth;
New MOOB, 13th; First Quarter, 23d.
f WEATHER FORECASTS
fa>i. Harrisburg and vicinity: Partly
cloudy and much colder to-night with
■I lowest temperature about 25 degrees.
Saturday fair, ooutinued cold.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy
and much colder to-niglit. Saturday
|fair, continued cold.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 54; lowest, 36; 8 a. m., 37; 8 p. m., 49.
WHEN WAR WILL BE NO MORE
When the idea that might makes right is obso
lete;
When financiers see so clearly war's bad effect on
business conditions that they flatly refuse to lend to
governments for war purposes the gold without
which fighting men could not be maintained and
other fighting men destroyed;
When universal brotherly love takes the place of
the world's numerous racial antipathies;
When patriotism is an affection for all that is
great and good in a country in time of peace instead
of an unreasonable, blood-thirsty passion;
When the education of childhood concerns itself
with the heroes of peaceful fields of activity more
than with the heroes of fields of battle and incul
cates broader love of country than that which
carries with it hatred for other nations;
When women of the world are driven by the
anguish which thj clash of arms brings them to take
a united stand for lasting peace;
When treaties between nations are so framed as
to exclude clauses through which future misunder
standings and antagonisms may originate;
Wh6n national self-control ever gets the better of
national«excitability;
When the fact is fully realized that "no war is
inevitable;"
When ambitions for conquest, for glory, for
power are unthought of;
When all governments take the attitude of serene
unguardedness rather than of expectant defense;
When the principles guiding nations and human
beings are completely changed;
When, in short, all the world is revolutionized.
Then and then only will war be no more.
WATCH FOR MORE POISON, GOVERNOR!
Pennsylvania still is without a state flower.
Governor Tener, during his administration, ruth
lessly swung his veto axe on the roots of the gentle
violet after a bill designating it was passed by
both branches of the Legislature, and yesterday
Governor Brumbaugh with a scratch of his pen put
an end to the plan to make mountain laurel the
Btate's official floral emblem.
Of course it isn't going to make a great deal of
difference in the peace of mind or happiness of the
people of Pennsylvania whether mountain laurel,
or the sun-flower, or the night blooming cereus, or
just plain yellow pumpkin blossom ultimately is
selected for the state flower? or whether we have
any state flower at all, for that matter. The idea
Df having one is a pretty bit of sentiment which
might«give a little pleasure to some people at times
or which might even increase florists' sales on state
sccasions. On the other hand if laurel had become
the state flower and if its leaves are poisonous, as
Sovernor Brumbaugh says some authorities declare,
then a few more Pennsylvanians than now might
suffer from time to time with inflamed fingers due
to handling it more frequently.
But all tilings considered it does not matter
nuch whether there is a state flower or not. Yet
he Governor's veto message on the subject is not
ivithout some rather important significance. For
nstance it indicates beyond all doubt that Gov
;rnor Brumbaugh is giving the closest sort of scru
;iny to every proposed law that comes to him from
he Legislating.
The facts that Governor Brumbaugh found out
hat mountain laurel is believed by some botanists
o have poisonous leaves, that he learned from
mother source that another state has laurel for its
HARRISRTTRG BTAR-IWEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCg 26. 191 S. - ' •
official flower, and again that he has ascertained
to his own satisfaction that is no very great
amount of satisfaction in favor of laurel for
the state's official posey, prove that the Governor
made most careful research in at least three dis
tinctly different directions before he made up his
mind on the subject of signing or vetoing the laurel
bill.
Such thoroughness in considering such a com
paratively harmless measure as the bill designating
an official state flower at a time when it is known
the Governor is giving most serious and thoughtful
consideration to legislative matters of most vital
importance to the state, may be taken as an indica
tion that all bills, whether important or otherwise,
will he scrutinized with the utmost thoroughness
and caution when they reach Governor Brumbaugh.
Assuming, then, that all bills are to be examined
as carefully as the mountain laurel bill, it is pretty
safe to conclude that none of the more important
measures will get by the gubernatorial dissecting
room without the poisonous virus being extracted
from their views. ■"
ANOTHER GENIUS DIES POOR
The fact t hat Morgan Robertson, prolific writer
of stories of the sea, who died on Wednesday, had
been in straitened circumstances in recent years, is
not surprising.
Even before the death of this remarkable charac
ter had called special attention to his poverty, the
facts of the matter were publicly known. The
author of two hundred stories not long ago told of
his financial circumstances in an unsigned autobi
ography. His friends were at the time of his death
making efforts to aid him and his publishers had
been endeavoring earnestly to increase the popu
larity of his works in book form and thereby in
crease his royalties,—royalties which, 110 matter
how large they become, will be of 110 earthly or un
earthly use to him now.
The fact that Morgan Robertson did not profit
financially from his literary work to a sufficient
extent to keep him comfortable in the closing years
of his life is not surprising because it is so usual
for a man.of his occupation. A business man or a
man engaged in some other profession than that v>f
authorship may receive substantial rewards for his
services during the period of his activity and be
able, to retire on a steady income in after life. A
man of literary genius, however, must often be con
tent with comparatively small receipts from his
labors while he labors, run the risk of dying poor
like most of his predecessors in his profession and
depend for his reward 011 the vagaries of Fame.
In a recently published treatise on Robert Louis
Stevenson it is said that this gifted writer was
earning less than $1,500 a year when thirty-three
years old, which was in the latter part of his short
life.
Some present day men of letters are of course
making fortunes through their typewriter ribbons.
They are exceptions in their profession. As a rule
they are prospering because their books are tem-
porarily popular and are having big sales. At all
events they are engaged in honorable work and
their industry, if not always their genius, deserves
to be liberally rewarded.
Morgan Robertson certainly had genius but he
lacked steady industry. He' was reckless in his
literary work. He wrote from inspiration, it seems,
rather than from necessity, fie was not apt to en
gage in the occupation of a literary hack, and to
"saw wood," as Eugene Field would say. As a con
sequence another addition has been made to the
roster of destitute geniuses.
There ain't going to be no state flower.
Any how it is likely laurel will keep right on growing in
Pennsylvania.
Perhaps the Governor will be able to detect poison in
some other pending bills.
Taft is reported to have lost 80 pounds by a process of
"reducing." Must be training to run in 1916.
7 ——
The girl who told the President to "quit your kidding,"
did not know she was talking to the President. She will
be more cautious in her telephone conversations hereafter.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
BREEZY TALE
"There was just two blows."
"Yes, yes; go on!"
"First I Wew de safe an' den I blew de town."—Buf
falo Express.
SURE SYMPTOM
Mary—"l'm positive Fred loves me and intends to make
me his wife."
Helen—"Why! Has he proposed yetf"
Mary—"No; but he dislikes mother more every time he
sees her." —Liverpool Mercury^
PLAYING IT SAFE
Farmer —"When/s the next train north f"
Station Agent—"ln an hour."
Farmer—"When is the next train going south?"
Station Agent—"Fifty minutes."
Farmer —"All right, Mirandy, we can get across the
tracks."—Kansas City Star.
LITERARY PERPLEXITIES
"How is Scribbler getting on with his new historical
novel!"
"Very badly. The scenes are* laid in Poland and Kast
Prussia, you know, and Scribbler can't make up his mind
whether the Grand Duke Nicholas or Field Marshal von
Hindenburg ought to be the hero."—Richmond Times-
Dispatch. t
EQUAL RIGHTS ON THE FARM
We are for equal rights to this extent: A farmer should
let his wife retire from the strenuous life at the same time
he does.—Atchison Globe.
ONE OF THE PENALTIES
A State that puts the children in the mills has to keep
on building hospitals and institutions to shelter the results.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
AT THE FANCY DRESS BALL
She—"These functions are so unnatural—people pre
tending to be something that they really aren't."
He—"Well, that's natural." —Puck.
I Easter's Fashion Parade 1
I Begins at The Globe |
Hf "p ASTER' Sunday is recog- IP§L ' pi
|pfs nized throughout the civilized "T'./ffi. t ; ,' *
'M World as SPRING AWAKENING. The birds, the Ug
tjij') trees, the flowers—all take a NEW lease on life.. ®fc|
Hm 'TPO YOU Spring should mean a „
W®, I CLOTHES AWAKENING—an awaken-, |3|. (fH
f|i|| ing to the fact that it's time to put on new "fo- m'\ }
liage"—tp DISCARD THE OLD and put on the NEW. /fla
r>UT don't wait until the day before \ O
I J Easter to buy your i>ew clothes. Buy lit
CMj them NOW—when stocks are at their FULLEST. \ ( i ;)
Patterns, styles and size ranges —all are most complete „ IS[
'W there's not a man living s JjjjL Iff Sg
•JO W cannot here a suit or top coat 4 ® 'rim' l
| %s)) to his complete satisfaction and fancy! Come in. Jpw/ yklia xwd
ft® Look them over and see for yourself, HOW DIFFERENT J|| fm/ gygj
our clothes are from those shown in other stores at even
I higher prices than these — . AMM ( V j
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That's My Boy— Boys' Sturdy Suits ?C^o
You wouldn't be a real mother if you didn't say NWlth 2 PaU"S Of PantS, at
those three words With a thrill of pride. He wears
RIGHT-POSTURE SUlTS—suits of toppy style— NN e don t overlook the boy who has $5.00 to pay Wf#j
iS*2n sturdy wear—and good HEALTH at a price that . a Just the contrary, we sacrifice profits to
mXJcJ spells VALUE. & ive you extra value at this price and in addition, an
lyfVl # ' extra pair of pants. £s/^L
• $6.50—58.50—$ 10.00—512.50 n _ ——— . w WSJ
Our Easter showing of Boys Hats, Caps, Waists,
Our new features for the season arc the cuff hot- Hose, Shirts—in fact everything your boy needs—is
torn pants—the military coat—the English Sport most complete—
model. Every new idea in Hoys' Clothes is here. And don't forget—HOLEPROOF HOSIERY.
L THE GLOBE" "THE FRIENDLY STORE" <M
I Tongue-End Top ics |
Just Two Years Late
"Two denominations of the Panama-
Pacific Exposition postage stamps have
been received at the Harrisburg post
office," and furthermore two other de
nominations will shortly make their ap
pearance, according to a "news'' item
in "The Patriot" this morning.
It is hard to understand how the
sale of all four denominations of the
Exposition stamps at the local postof
fiue for the last two years had been
kept secret from "The Patriot" so
long. Our esteemed contemporary was
quite please I with its first sight of the
one-cent and two-cent values, apparent
ly, for it favored the public with a
brief description of the stamps. It
will no doubt enlighten its readers con
cerning thie five-cent and ten-cent de
nominations when a fresh supply of
those values arrive at the postoffice.
We feel certain it will find them even
more attractive stamps than the one's
and two's.
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The Governor's New Footman
The new footman on the Executive
Mansion automobile, which carries li
cense number 1, is an object of much
curiosity to those who have business at
the eapitol. Every day, as the hour of
1 o'clock approaches, the automobile
swings up the driveway from Third
street to the south-wing door and takes
position in the small alcove at one
side. The liveried footman hops out,
advances with measured stride and
much dignity- to the front of the en
trance, takes up position, assumes a
military attitude and awaits the ap
pearance of Governor Brumbaugh to be
taken home for luncheon.
While standing in position this new
footman is oblivious to everything in
the vicinity. Those who see him know
that the Governor will soon appear,
and begin to fringe the curb along the
flower bed. The footman does not see
one of them. He. never bats an eye. He
looks neither to the left nor to the
right. Mis gaze is riveted on the door
whence the Governor will soon emerge,
and he has no time for anything else.
Pretty soon th e Governor appears at
tlie doorway, the new footman bounds
forward and opens the autocar door,
the Governor takes his seat, the foot
; man jumps to his place and away they
go. And then the crowd disperses.
• , .
War Closes Butcher Shops
Two thousand butcher shops have
been closed in England since the
ning of the war. fhe increased prices
of meat and the effort in most house
holds to economize closely have been
the cause for the decreased consump
tion, which has hit the retail butcher
very hard. Probably more meat than
evcr before is being imported into the
British Isles, but a large proportion of
it goes immediately into the hands of
the government fo.- supplying the sol
diers at home and abroad. The busi
ness of the average retail butcher, ac
cording to trade journals, has decreased
20 per cent.
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German Students in the War
Complete statistics of the German
and Austro-Hungarian universities and
technical institutes show that out of a
total of 93,44G students, 49,720 are
l in the war. In Germany 56 per cent,
of the university students and almost
62 per cent, of those at the technical
institutes are in the war, and already
1,081 of them have falleu. From Ore
German universities and .technical
schools 1,585 professors have gone into
the war and 35 have been killed. The
percentage of Austro-Hungarian stu
, dent? under arms is not so high as that
of Germau students, somewhat less than
50 per cent, having gone to the front.
These figures rqacli to December 15.
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Getting Color for War History
For the purpose of supplementing
the routine history of the "world>war"
—when the time shall have come for it
to be written —with a colorful account
of details. Dr. Witkop, professor of his
tory at the University of Freiburg, is
making a collection of letters from uni
versity students in the field. Relatives
of such soldiers in all part« of Ger
many are being requested, for this rea
son, to send to D' Witkop copies of
t \
Exclusiveness in
Manhattan Shirts
Men who appreciate style and
distinction in Shirts will find
here a wide selection of taste
ful color designs and exclusive
patterns very much to their
liking, soft or stiff cuffs,
$1.50 to $7.50
Forry's 'SZ
communications from the trenches, ex
cerpts ot' which will later be repro
duced. Professor Witkop ■believes that,
tlu-se war letters will form an epie sup
plement to the rich lyric poetry of the
conflict, the more valuable because of
their spontaneity, color and objective
ness.
Seized for Selling "Traitor Powders"
Five persons are under arrest: in
Paris; charged with participation in a
conspiracy to supply soldiers at the
front with the means of tricking the
army surgeons and getting themselves
sent home as no longer fit for military
service. Several days ago the postal
authorities opened an envelope ad
dressed to a soldier, and found four
packets of a grayish powder,
in a sheet of notepaper which bore the
following message:
"Dear Husband—l have at last dis
covered a powder which will give you
such palpitations of the heart that the
surgeons will send you home."
The police immediately arrested the
writer of the note, and her confession
resulted in the arrest of a gang of five,
whom it is alleged, had been driving a
lucrative trade in the sale of the
"traitor powders" to soldiers at the
front. Whether the powders were real
ly efficacious is not stated by the po
lice.
IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS.
Squaring the Circle, Perpetual Motion
and Defying Gravitation.
The circle has never been exactly
squared. They have been trying dur
ing 6,000 years and have not yet found
the length of the side of a square equal
in area to any given circle. The reason
of this is because the area of a circle
has never been found, and this because
the ratio of the diameter to the cir
cumference Is yet unknown.
The first eleven figures of the ratio,
U.14159U0530,- are a mere beginning.
They have been computed out to <135
figures without the decimal coming to
nn end—that Is, the figures representing
the length of the circumference and of
the diameter are known to be Incom
mensurable, or impossible to express
by two whole numbers.
The enormous labor of carrying out
this dividing of 635 Integers could hnve
as well been saved, because the higher
mathematics has proved that the ratio
pannot be expressed tn * finite number
of terms. Hence the work of attempt
ing to square the circle Is wasted,
likewise the useless labors of perpet
ual motion seekers, searchers after the
square root of one-half and overthrow
ers of th 4 law of gravitation.—Edgar
•Luelen Larkln In New York American.
Only Imaginary.
Married men don't really have half
the trouble they let on they have, and
bachelors don't have half the fun mar
ried men think ttey have.—Detroit
Free Pres*
Will Take Western Trip
Dr. and Mrs. Wayne K. J. Bomborg
er and Dr. and Mrs. John A. Sherger,
of this city, and James F. Cline, of
Steelton, will be among the occupatUs
of the Shrine special, which leayea
Reading June 19tli on a 10,000-mile
trip through the West. The trip will
include San Francisco, San Diego,
where the expositions are being held,
and Seattle, Wash., where Imperial
Council, A. A. O. N. M. S., will be held
July 112, 13, 14 and 15.
Dr. Smucker Will Address Meeting
Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker will be
the speaker at the afternoon service in
the John Y. Boyd hall, V. W. C. A., on
Sunday. Dr. Smucker will give a Palm
Sunday address and there will be sing
ing by the mnle chorus of the Stevens
Memorial church. Mrs. J. W. Bitter
nian has charge of the meeting.
Quick Belief for Coughs, Colds ana
Hoarseness. Clear the Voice—Fine for
Speakers and Singers. 2oc.
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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a
Soldier.
Back to the Carolina You Love.
Two of the Big Hits.
Also the following selections, vo
cal and instrumental, in order to
introduce thein. Remember, to-mor
row only.
Pennsylvania (song of the Keystone
State).
I'm a Lonesome Little Girl.
When It's June.
The Governor's March.
Faithful I'll Be to You.
Erin's Dawn of Freedom. i
.Barnard March.
WhofDo You Think You're Talking
To?
Senator Thomson. Waltz.
When the Attar Roses Bloom.
Any 5 of the above selections
for 35c. If ordered by mail add one
cent per copy.
Many others. Sec window display.
Also a large number of books at
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