2 Early Spring Sale Men's and Young Men's Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Etc. This will give you an opportunity to buy all your Easter needs at a great saving. Call at our store, compare our prices and merchandise and you will be convinced that you can make your dollar reach as far as two elsewhere. These Area Few of the Many Special Prices Which Will Prevail Until After Easter Men's smart up-to-the-minute Boys' latest styles Norfolk Salts Men's Dross anil Work Pants; Hand-tailored Suits with patch with patch pockets: worth QQ worth np to SS.OO. Sale QT . pockets; worth io qp up to $0.50. Sale price, price, %fOC Sale price SIC »%fO ■ i —~—————"" Boys' Norfolk Suits with patch Men . g 25c Silk Hose. -J r Men's line Hand-tailored Suits in pockets. In grey, blue or brown; S| j e price ADC Blue or Brown; worth nr worth up to 1M.50. Sale Af QQ fe 18.50. Sale price. ... P rice ——— ' .Sttc Silk Four-in-hand Ties, oo „, . Little Boys' Blouse Suits; worth Sale price fcOC Men's tine Suits; worth Q C t0 0 . Sale QQ , up to $14.. >0. Sale price, the streets and alleys of the city free, the earnings from the plant during the ; year, derived from the sale of current ] to priAjate consumers. AA-ere sufficient to i keep Ime machinery in excellent repair. a J 1.000 electric light bond HI pay $1,950 interest on the out- ] Holding electric light bonds. t First Snake Story ] ' Waynesboro. April 1. —Portia s the first live snakes heard of this season t were plowed out of the ground Tuesday < Some Walk-Over Spring Styles 1 HIS season's ' i d omi nating Vv style feature is k one ot maltiplic " wWB |y| * \ ity, variety;—-a J|ft , game of .style -Ban(*a com- season which \ i /. /_ -y jlf gives full rein r / 1 J> patterns>nd v*. The dl scrim ' inaUng woman JO? \ search of . /jr SJ f newness of de- I ' \ ( / ] kJL sign - _ / *4. - ,/ 4 WA .e foar ?tylM he " i / 4 WALK? lOVER - one shown * iiCVER 1 any other shop. f W a 1 k - Over V shoes are world vx famous for com- A fort, style an WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 228 Markat St. Harrisburg, Pa. by James Benchoff, while working on his farm east of Rouzerville. The snakes, four in number, were copperheads and were from a foot and one-halt" to tAVo feet in length. The reptiles were lying together in a een learned concerning the whereabouts of Paul, the 17-year-old son of Joseph Harp. of near CheAvsville, who left home with his older brother. Reno, Tuesday morning and went to •Havwstown. presumably to attend school. It is the supposition that the boy is on his wa\- to Polo. Til., as a yourh, whose description tallies with that of the Harp lad. purchased a ticket to that, point and boarded the Baltimore and Ohio train leaving Hagerstown at 9.45, Arrested as a Firebug ' Huston. 'Md., April I.—'Deputy Sheriff Stevens, of Kaston, Assistant State Fire Marshal Famous and Detective Jen sins, of Baltimore, arrested yesterday Edward Smith, colored, on suspicion of "burning several buildings on the Jamaica Point farm of Edward B. Hardcastle, near Easton. After being lodged in jail, he confessed. Others are thought to be implicated. Increase Stock for Hugh Reservoir Hagerstown, Pa., April I.—Washing ton County Water Company stockhold ers voted to increase the stock from HArtßTPrertta STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1915. $320,000 to $520,000 yesterday, sub ject to appwal and to favorable de cision toy equity court of contention that the com; any has a right to sell by meter. The new issne is for the build ing of a 400,000,000-gallon reservoir in the mountains. Aged Woman Burned to Death Frederick, iM*l„ A ril I. Mrs. Spriggs I jams, ?0 years old, died at Frederick from burns Avhile smoking a pipe. Her clothing caught fire, and, be ing blind, she was unable to extinguish the tlanies. By the time assistance ar rived most of her clothes had been burned from her bod v. 'WITHIN THE LAW' THRILLS Detective Play, Based on New York Conditions. Is Shown Again in the Majestic Theatre Clara Joel, as ''Mary Turner" in Bayard Veiller's melodrama, "Within j the Law.'' pleased a fair-sized audi ence at the Majestic theatre last night, j The scene of the plot Avas in Xew York |and "Mary Turner" was a poor sales i girl Avho was sent to prison for a term ! of years by her employer for a crime of Avhich she Avas innocent. For this ! apparent persecution she vowed to get even with him upon her release from I prison, and did so, eA'en to breaking jinto his family by becoming his daugh ■ ter-in-law. The thrilling scenes and dramatic climaxes were presented by a 1 company of capable actors, all of whom j ably supported the heroine of the play | throughout the entire performance. | Agnes Findlay, as "Agnes Lynch," iin her East Side vernacular provided I much mirth and was a clever adjunct f to Miss Joel in the production of the ! play- Franklin George, as "Joe Garson" I who killel the stoolpigeon for putting | tho strong arm squad '' wise'' as to a I burglary about to be perpetrated in the mansion of "Richard Gilder," the man who sent "Mary Turner" to, prison, •acted his part iu a very thrilling man ner. Tom J. Evans in the role of '' Richard Gilder" contributed largely to the sOccess of the show, j There Avas not a dull moment I throughout the entire performance, ex ! cept, possibly, between the acts, when ja few strains of music from orchestra row would have broken the monotony of the waits between the curtain's fall I and rise. HEARING ON COLD STORAGE Foust Urges That Defects in the Pres ent Law Be Removed fold storage regulation in Pennsyl vania was discussed for several hours before the House Committee on Health and Sanitation yesterday afternoon by representatiA'es of the cold storage in terests and James B. Foust, Dairy and Food Commissioner. The latter said that regulation is essential and in his opinion the Legis lature should cure defects in the luav rather than repeal it. Charles P. Cald well. president of the Corn Exchange i National Bank, of Philadelphia, said that cold storage should be encouraged to aid business. He cited the cases of imported foodstuffs. Lawyer's Removal Notice C. 11. Backenstoe. Esq., has removed : his law otnees from No. 14 North Thir l j street to the Bergner building \Rooms 1 Nos. 203 and 204 second floor) north • west corner of Third and Market : streets, Harrisburg, Pa. (Entrance on Third street). TUMBLE IN HOUSE FURNISHINGS One Horse Killed in Flitting Plunge of 50 Feet j Mahanoy City, Pa., Apri 1 I.—As j ccnding Frackville Mountain yester day, with a moving of household goods, a team owned by Jaines Stranix, of jjGilberton, plunge J over the embank- I ment and tumbled 30 feet. The driver escaped. One horse was ; killed and the household goods wrecked. Sued for Money, Says It'a His Fee Tork, Pa.. April I.—Alleging that IE. D. Beiitzel. former District Attor , ney, retained SB4 awarded her in the 1 assigned estate of her husband, Mrs. Matilda Ruppert. Dover township, has | sued the lawyer for embezzlement, while Bentzel says the money retained was his fee. FORESTS WORTH $3,000,000 IN WHIE MOUNTAIN REGION Recent Purchases of Land In New Hampshire By Government Gives More Than Billion Board Feet, Say* U. 8. Forest Commissioner Washington. April X.—The mer chantable timber acquired by the fed eral (government in the purchase of land for national forests in the White Mountains of .New Hampshire and the Southern Appalachians amounts to more than a billion board feet, worth upward of $3,000,004) on the etump, according to an appraisement by the forest service. In addition, there is an enormous quantity of inaccessible and widely scattered timber which cannot l>e considered marketable uutil region al developments and improvements place it within reach. Plans for cutting some of this tim ber in accordance with scientiJlo for estry methods already have been pre pared and in a few localities opera tions have been started. N ln some places it has been found necessary to remove mature trees in order to give the young growth a chance. This work is being done largely by local residents who have bought the stumpage and are converting it into lumber. The construction of roads and trails is making more and more timber acces sible to lumber operators, but the principal use of these improvements at present is for local communication, tire protection, and to open up the wild land for recreation use. A secondary influence of the improvements is to in crease the value of the land and to make the timber ou it more accessible and valuable to operators. A great deal of the forest land within the purchase areas was cut over or culled before the government acquired it. Xearly all of this class of land, however, is covered now with voumj growth and even the abandon ed farm acreage, which forms about two per cent, of the whole, is slowly reverting to forest. Of mature timber which could be placed on the market at once, the eastern national forests contain a to tal of about 1,KM),0W),0O l O board feet, which includes all the common east ern hardwoods, together with much spruce, a good deal of hemlock and some pine. The land, including the timber, has been bought at an aver age price of a little more than $5 an acre. More than 3,000,00-0 acres of this land will eventually be acquired for nations] forests in the east, if the recommendation made by the National Forest Reservation Commission in its last annual report is carried out. SCHOOLS AND EPIDEMICS Doubt Wisdom of Closing Places of In struction to Stamp Out Con tagious Diseases Washington, D. C., April 1. —I>oubt as to the wisdom of closing schools in epidemics of contagious disease is ex pressed by Dr. Francis George Curtis, of Xewtown, Mass., in a bulletin on the "Health of School Children" just is sued by the Dureau of Education. He says: "If the schools are closed when an outbreak occurs, the children are turned loose from supervision; they mingle freely with one another in the streets, on playgrounds, and in each other's houses. They are having an extra vacation and enjoying themselves thoroughly and are unwilling to admit that they feel ill, lest they be kept at home and prevented from having a good time. For this reason they will uot say they feel ill until the disease is well advanced, and tbey may be active sources of infection for some time be lore it is discovered that thev are ill. '•lf the schools are kept open and the children continue in the classrooms as usual, they are under strict obser vation and examined daily by the school physician, suspicious and infact ed cases being sent home for observa tion or treatment. "In this way many children are sent home before they have had an oppor tunity to infect others, thus reducing the probability of spreading infection. Further than this, the attention of the parents is called to the fact that the child is feeling ill and he is brought under treatment earlier. "It seems, therefore, that keeping • the schools open offers the best chance of safety for the pupils, both collective- I ly and individually. "Instead of closing the schools and ! allowing the children to be scattered | and removed from supervision, when an I outbreak appears the schools should be ' kept open as usual and the children I urged to attend. The school physiciafi and nurse should be detailed to the | school where the outbreak lias appeared land instructed tj examine every child | daily, excluding such as appear ill or | suspicious. This can be done with very ; little disturbance of the school work. A j note must be sent to the parent stating 'that the child seems, or is, ill and must Ibe seen by the family physician. Sus picions cases must be ordered to re main at home until further notiee, and, lif necessary, must be visited in order to settle the diagnosis. Absentees must jbe rounded up and examined in order to find out why they have been kept at home. If they are ill, they must be isolated, and, if well, urged to return to school." This, of course, applies to schools in cities in which school physicians, or norses, or both are employed. ' Boy Bichlaml Y. M. C. A. Site Kichltind. Pa.. April I.—Purchase was made yesterday of the site for the erection of'the Young Men's Christian Association building. The site is cen- I trally located, beiirg on Church street, near Main. J. S. Steinmetz, a local cigar manufacturer, |>essed title for a consideration of but $460. ARROW COLLAR "We can't afford to get up in the air except when the ball's up there. Jfl "That's why we use PICNIC TWIST instead of a dark V 1 heavy tobacco. PICNIC TWIST is mild and it's better Vj than water for keeping you from getting dry." | Men everywhere are finding that there's f&k all the tobacco satisfaction in a mild, sweet, long lasting chew of PICNIC TWIST without the "comeback" on the nerves, found in strong tobacco. ' Try one of these soft twists of the mild, mellow part of the leaf and see for yourself. PicNicTmsffSt CHEWING TOBACCO fiplslik " The Thinkers of the Country Are the Tobacco Chewen" Also freshness-preserving drums of 11 THE BIRD PROTECTION LAW XJ. S. Will Continue to Prosecute Illegal Killing of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds Washington, I). C., April I.—(Many of the press comments on the decision of the United States District Court, rendered (March 20, at Topeka, Kan., holding that the federal migratory 'bird law is unconstitutional, according to the United States Department of Agri culture, are erroneous and are apt to mislead the public concerning the real situation in this matter. The Kansas decision, like a former decision to the same effect in the East ern District of Arkansas, is limited in its operatiou solely to the district iir which it was rendered. Neither de cision settles or nullifies tbe law, and t'he exact contrary has "been held by the United States District Court for South Dakota. The Arkansas case has been appealed to, and is now pending in, the United States Supreme Court. The act of Congress protecting mi gratory birds stands effective until tihe Supreme Court finally decides the ques tion of its constitutionality. In t'he meantime, it is incumbent on every law-abiding citizen to observe its •provisions and the regulations. It is the duty of the Department of Agricul-! ture to enforce this law and the offi cials in charge will endeavor to do so as long as it is in force. Reports of vio lations will be carefully investigated and wfoen sufficient evidence is secured they will foe reported for prosecution. In this connection it should not 'be for gotten that an offender against this, as in the case of other United States laws, is subject to prosecution any time with in three years from the date the offense is committed. Lebanon Man Dies in Arizona Lebanon, April I.—Word was re ceived here to-day of the death of Ralph B. Zimmerman, aged 32 years at Phoenix, Arizona, which occurred yesterday. He was in ill health for sev eral years and left for Denver, Col., six years ago, where he thought the higher altitudes would benefit his lungs. Start Replacing Historic Bridge Slatington, Pa., April 1. —The work of doing away with the Reading's iron , bridge, in Whitehall township, began Tuesday when a heavy blast in the Trexler quarry set loose 23,000 tons of i rock to be used in making arches under the bridge where it spans Jordan Creek, the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company -and a public road, i The railway will then haul thousands ! of tons of filling to reach the le*el of i the present bridge tracks. , Seven Liquor Places Close Lancaster, Pa., April I.—Yester- j day seven liquor establishments passed out of existence. They are the Lan caster County House, Stock Exchange Hotel, Opera House Cafe and Hoi- 1 linger's Lit|uor Store, Lancaster; Bridgeport Hotel, Bridgeport, and ho tels in Columbia >nd West Hempfield. 1 Applications for these licenses were ; withdrawn. * 1 40.000 TO GOJN FULL 111 Reading Collieries Will Be Busy All Summer—rPottsville Shops Also Prosper Pottsville, Pa., April I.—When the i Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron | Company's collieries and dependent' plants associated with the coal industry | in this section of the State suspended ; last night, to be idle over the holidays closing the Lenten season, the men were given to understand that their \ period of working short time is at last I over and that from next Tuesday the j mines, washeries and large repair shops j at this place will b,p operated full. This order assures prosperity to the j anthracite region, for it gives guaran-1 | tee that 50 collieries and washeries in | Schuylkill and Northumberland coun ties, employing 40,000 hands, will put in a summer of unusual activity. The Pottsville shops, where all the machinery is repaired and manufac tured for the Heading's collieries, will also share in the good fortune. They have been working only three days a week, the only break coming last week, when six days were put in. This seemed to presage the full-time news which was promulgated yesterday. At the local plant there are 800 hands. Bnsiness men are jubilant in all the largo towns of Schuylkill. On the coal branches of the Reading Railway orders have been also issued to begin working 54 hours per week from to day on. This department embraces the I track foremen, trackmen and allied ] workmen, which has been working 50 hours for some time past. The order places a number of extra men who were laid off back on the pay roll. The collieries of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, in the Panther Creek Valley, also have plenty of or ders on hand and full time ia assured for three months. MUSIC TO CONVERT CROOKS Calms "Jags" in Cells Also, Says Pittsburgh's Police Head • Pittsburgh, April 1. —Superintend- ent of Police W. Noble Matthews, after exhaustive experiments, asserted yes terday that music will "convert "tho crook and calm jags.'' He has arranged that tht police quartet, which sang in the Tabernacle during Billy Sunday's j services, will discourse music, nightly in Central Station in an effort to bet tcr the lives of wayward ones. If professional crooks are locked up ! the singers render solemn and pathetic i songs and hymns. For the drunks rag -1 time is selected, as it never fails to i rouse them to good humor. When the quartet sang recently "Where Is My Wandering Boy To-night ?" thre« pick pockets wept'in their cells. I < NOT PARTED EVEN BY DEATH Married OO Tears, End for Both Is Almost Simultaneous Stamford, Conn., April 1. —In Cread ley Heath, England, more than eighty years ago, two children Vere born—a boy and a girl—within a stone's throw of each other. They played I they went to school together, courted and sixty years ago they i ried. They moved to this ! Tuesday they died hem within hours of each other. ( These two people, whose lives) raj happily side by side for more that three-quarters of a century, wore Mr land Mrs. William Woodhall, 195|IIea jry street, Stamford. t J Lebanon Boys Taken to Reformntom Ijebanon, April 1. —Charles Whephl land Arthur Firestine, each 17 yeaJ old, were taken to the formatory yesterday by Deputy iff W. L Brunner. The boys sent tu the institution on the chaiL ■ e stealing bicycles and other articlils. (f ===» FINE CANDIES For , EASTER LIGGETT'B CHOCOLATES "Sweetest way to tell the story" V&-lb., 1-lb. and 2 - lb. Boxes HOc the lb. LIOOETT'S CHOCOLATES Old Rose Package $1.30 MARY GARDEN Very fine—Beautifully Boxed 'A-lb., 1-lb., 2-lb. and 5 lb. Boxes SI.OO the lb. WALDORF ASTORIA ; CHOCOLATES f New York's Latest Favorite \ $1.35 the Box f NORRIS' CHOCOLATES (Atlanta) Assorted, 80c the lb. Nut Centers, SI.OO the lb. Gold Package, $1.50 and *s;i.OO "Bale of Candy," $2.(10 ALLEGRETTI CHOCOLATES Original %-lb., 1-lb and 2-lb. Boxes OOc the lb. GUTH'S EASTER EGGS Fruit and Nut Center Pure and wholesome lOc, 15c and 25c EASTER EGG DYES Chips—('alico—Liquid Marbled 5c \ GORCAS' DRUG STORES, 10 N. Third Street and \\ Penn'a Station 1 j