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THE BEST $15.00
EASTER SUITS FOR WOMEN
Why is it that this store is
famed for its $1.1.00 Suits for '^3,; -
Wotnen and Girls? The answer r - fw
la SPECIALIZATION!
feature of suits at this price. f
Manufacturers of suits know /) )1 "A iWrMInOK
we demand more (and get it) W
? $ 15.00
practical purposes. Jackets ii f
empire and Eaton. Flare L i
"/V PUMPS and LACE
I BOOTS for EASTER
I " ew orc< ' *°P Combinations
Y'v. A Extremely smart Easter
Footwear—light in weight,
u uCTII dainty in design and un
it \ equaled in price for such
very seasonable merchan
s2.so, $3.50, $4.50
CLASSIC WAR
Selected by J.
No. ;m>. THE CHARGE AT
BY HON. CHARLES
I'uder the hickories' fluttering arch—
"Halt!" and we formed on the hill's
green marge.
Clearly the order rang: Forward march,
Quick —trot, gallop-—charge!"
Down the decline with a thundering
rush.
fluttering sabre and fluttering rein.
Up with a dash through the belt of
brush;
Out, and across the plain,
Kept we no order of rank or tile:
Never a rowel spared flank that day
Charging the enemy's work a mile—
A mile and a half away.
Terribly regular musketry rang:
Cannon-shot bounded and ploughed
along;
and rifle-ball whistled and sang
Their horrible death-song.
Half of the last half-mile behind.
All of the squadron but one I led:
Harry's gray thoroughbred ran like
wind,
Clattering just ahead.
Oh. the wild rush of that mad career—
Thunder of hoofs like the surf on the
shore!
Kuightly as ever charge! old cavalier
Ilarry tramped on before.
Turned in his saddle, so proud and fair.
Smiled when he saw that we two led;
Lifted his sabre-arm hij:h in air,
Waved, and pointed ahead.
Not a breath after I saw him bound.
Heard his lips utter a quick, low cry.
God in His pity drive sight and sound
Out of mv ears and eve!
SPECIAL EASTER OFFER
A large gi!t-franied picture, size
10x16. given with every 25-cent pur
chase of White Floating soap or a 25-
oent bottle of furniture polish. This is
]>ositively the best offer ever made to
the putilic. See this offer in our win
dow. Grand Union Tea Co., 208 North
Second street.
Dr. William B. Bigler Dies
Dallastown. Pa.. April 2.—Dr. Wil
liam ii. Bigler, one of the oldest and
KINNEY'S EASTER
FOOTWEAR
Never a more complete or better assortment of
Shoes for Easter wear shown anywhere at anv price
than our line at * $1.98
Come in and look them over and compare to the
values you get for $3.00 and $3.50 elsewhere.
Ladies' Pumps and Oxfords White Canvas Shoes, high and
with gray or putty colored top- | OWt with hi ~ or m<Hli heels
pings; lace, pump or Colonial .. . • ? , ...
stvle; the latest C 1 QQ a " 9izes ln . Misses and
Children's, 98*
Ladies' Colored Top Shoes, the 7I 7
big seller of the season; all the Men's Shoes—Any style you
wanted 3hades in cloth or suede wish; taa or black, lace or bnt
toppings; lace or button, .ton, high toe or English with
51.98 leather or rubber soles; all Good
Misses' and Children's Shoes in
patent or gun inetal. Special, Full line of Bovs' Shoes at
98* 98*
Extra Special for Saturday—Men's Taa Vivi Blucher Shoes, g\o
9i.HO grade VOC
G. R. KINNEY & CO.
19 and 21 North Fourth Street
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HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1915.
Howard Wert
VALLEY MALOY
MAUEEY-DEGROFT
Forward I spurred to a desperate pace,
Caught at him falling, with sickening
dread;
Looked only once in the white, set face,
Knew that mv comrade was dead!
Straight in my stirrups, I cursed thein
then.
Raved at them all for a dastard crew;
Dared and defied theiu to meet with
men—
Cowards, aud'that they knew!
Breathing the batteries' horrible breath,
Grapeshot and canister sweeping the
plain.
Caring no more for that storm of death
Than for an April rain!
Grief's burning passion my tongue dis
charged,
Hatred that broke in a blasphemous
veil.
At that mad moment I could have
charged
Into the gates of hell
Under a tree in a low. green space,
Peacefully babbling, a brook flowed
Softly I laid him, his pale, dead face
Turned to the summer sky.
Down at his side, in the gross, I flung,
Pressed the dear dead face up close
to my own;
One maddened moment my heart was
wrung—
Then it was turned to stone.
Back I rode into the fight once more.
Fought with the strength and the
rage of ten,
So may God never, till battles are o'er,
Suffer that men fight men!
widely-known physicians in the State
and an historian of considerable prom
inence, died at his home here earlv yes
terday morning. Infirmities of old "age
caused death. He is survived t>v one
son and two daughters. Dr. Bigler cele
brated his 81st b.rthday anniversarv
recentlv.
Lawyer's Removal Notice
C. 11. Backen.»toe. Esq., 'has removed
his law offices from 14 North Third
street to the Bergner building (Rooms
•Nos. 203 and 204 socond floor) north
west corner of Third ami Market
streets, Harritfburg, Pa. (Entrance on
Third street).
IN TWOWEEKSSTEEL ORDERS
LARGEST SINCE WAR BEGAN
France Places Order for 100,000 Ton)
of Bars With the Lake Company—
England Also After Some Great
Amounts
New York, April 2.—"The Iron
Age" says orders placed ill the past
two weeks with steel works in this
country by European governments have
exceeded those in any fortnight since
the war began. An important French
steal interest has just placed 100,000
tons of bars with a steel works
through a Central Western dealer and
specifications for 45,000 metric tons
of 2-iu. and 3-in. rounds applying on
this order are already in hand. Ne
gotiations are pending for 30,000 tons
additional. Deliveries are to be made
at the rate of 2'5,000 tous a month.
That this country must furnish
large amouuts of steel first and last to
France and England is daily more evi
dent and the urgency of the need will
relieve shipments on these contracts
from the uncertainties of ordinary
ocean transport, the governments them
selves providing vessels in some cases.
Export business both with belligerent
and neutral countries is larger than is
generally appreciated. As a partial
offset to the low railroad demand, its
effect on the effort to establish higher
prices in the domestic market is a fac
tor to which consumers are giving
more attention.
Naturally specifications on I.loc.
and 1.15 c. contracts for plates, shapes
and bars have gone in in good volume
in the past week, in view of the ad
vance bv important producers to a
1.20 c., Pittsburgh, basis for the second
quarter. The effect of this advance,
as with the change to the 1.15 c. basis
on March 1, is to cause buyers to hold
off while the supply-and-demand test is
made. At such a time jobbers' stocks
bought at 1.05 c. and I.loc. may be
come active.
The efforts of the steel companies to
parry out the step process of advances
iu plates, shapes and bars have held
many consumers down to short deliver
ies, but shipments on old contracts will
extend through April and May in some
cases and, in the easo of bars, through
June. Already third quarter business is
being considered here and there, most
ly in bars, and the Steel Corporation
has indicated that for that delivery it
will ask 1.25 c. for bars as well as
plates and structural shapes.
In domestic business new buying in
most liftes has been less than ship
ments, production of finished mute rial
in March being the largest in months,
and an excess of shipments over orders
is indicated for the immediate future.
The call for steel bars for agricul
tural machinery has been better month
by month. In iron bars mills have had
difficulty accumulating specifications
for a week's run at a time.
Recent buying of rails by the Erie
amounts to i! 1,000 tons, all placed at
Pittsburgh. Scarcely 1,200 cars are up
for bids. Locomotives bought for ex
port since the war started are about
250.
There are still prophecies of im
provement in structural demand, but
current contracts are only a fraction
of capacity. A recent letting in the
East was at $32.50 for the steel
erected.
The volume of line pipe work ig
again considerable. Recent contracts in
clude 30 miles of 8-in. pipe for a line
to Independence, Kansas; 23 miles of
S-in. pipe for the Dominion Natural
Uas Company, one-third being placed in
Canada and two-thirds at Pittsburgh;
20 miles of 6-in. pipe for Oklahoma
and 90 miles of 6-in. pipe taken in
the Wheeling district for a Western
oil line.
A number of automobile builders
have taken out all the special sheets
covered by their early contracts and
are placing new orders. Nearly 70 per
cent, of hot-sheet mill capacity has
been active lately.
Steel companies at Pittsburgh and
Youngstown have made round sales of
semi-tinished steel, largely sheet bars,
but also a good percentage of forging
billets, car repair work being particu
larly active.
The whirlwind in Buffalo pig iron
has passed. From 350,000 to 400,000
tons was swept up in about 10 days.
Some sellers there have advanced
prices to $12.50 for No. 2 X, second
quarter, and sl3 for second half. In
other districts the Buffalo cuts have
led consumers to expect concessions
which have not yet been offered, and
therefore buying waits.
SUNDAY CAMPAIGN COST $68,500
Surplus of About $2,500 in Philadel
phia Committee's Hands
Philadelphia, April 2.-—Expenses of
the "Billy" (Sunday campaign in this
city are approximately $63,500, and,
according to Edward H. Bonsail, treas
urer of the campaign committee, there
will be t upwards of $2,500 surplus.
This will constitute a fund to be ex
pended by the committee, co-operating
with churches, in the work of revival
conservation.
"Billy'' Sunday's personal offering
up to last night' had reached $53,-
138.80. The check given Mr. Sunday
for $51,136.85 on the last day of the
cnm.i>aign was returned to the Land
Title and Trust Company yesterday,
bearing the evangelist's endorsement-,
under which "Billy" had written,
"Thanks, old Philadelphia."
200 FLEE AS FIRE FLASHES
Explosion of Sawdust Blower Destroys
Big Box Factory
New York, April 2. —An explosion in
the sawdust blower of a big cigar box
factory at Avenue C and East Seven
teenth street yesterday set the build
ing afire and sent nearly 200 men and
women employes of the place down the
fire eseapes to safety. Five minutes
after the alarm bells in the factory ran»
the entire a four-story-and'-
structure, was a mass of
flames. Half a dozen firemen working
on the roof were rescued by companions
working with extension ladders.
Nicholaus Altliaus, owner of the fac
tory, said all his employes had been ac
counted for. Several women em
ployes fainted during the rush to get
out and were assisted from the build
ing by other women.
President Confirmed Soldier's Dismissal
Washington, April 2. President
Wilson has confirmed the sentence of
dismissal imposed by general court-mar
tial at Naco, Aria.,* upon Second Lieu
tenant John P. Markoe, Tenth cavalry,
who was found "having be
come violently drunk." Lieutenant
Markoe was appointed to the Military
Academy from St. Paul, Minn., and was
graduated last year.
THREE KILLEDAT LEWISIRWN
Two Other* Likely to Die, Four Lass
Seriously Burned In Steel
Works Explosion
Lewistown, Pa., April 2.—Three men
are dead and six injured, two fatally,
as a result of an explosion in the bor
ing mill at the Standard tHeel Works
last evening. The explosiou occurred
in a tank containing 200 gallons of
paint, tempered with benzine, which
let go as nine men were dippiug heavy
steeT wheels, with the aid of an over
head electric crane.
The dead, all residents of Lewistown,
are: Houier Detra, 21 years old, head
crushed to a pulp and body frightfully
charred; Abner H. Knepp. 55, burned
to a crisp; A. A. Shatzer, 40, foreman
of the gang, standing on the edge of
the tank, died on way to hospital.
Fred C. Shatzer, 64 years old, of
Lewistown, and James K. Gibboney, 35
years old, of Yeadertown, are said to
be fatally burned. Charles Woods,
John Jlannon and Stewart Hess, of
Lewistown, and Anthony Geible, of
Rurnham, are suffering from severe
burns and injuries from flying debris.
Those who witnessed the explosion
say it was due to an electric Bpark that
dropped from the crane brake into the
tank, igniting the benzine used to thin
the paint.
IRONING BOARD AS CLUB
Laundress Beats Intruder, Who Drops
Thirty Feet From Window
Greenwich, Conn., April 2.—With
an ironing board, Louise Lehman,
laundress in the lvoni9 of George L.
Storm, vice president of the Surbrug
Tobnceo Company and director of the
Tobacco Products Company, of New-
York City, fought a 'burglar single
handed and forced him to climb out a
wiudow and drop thirty feet. The po
lice got no trace of the intruder.
Miss Lehman heard a noise in Mrs.
Storm's room, and through the key
hole saw the burglar inspecting dia
mond rings and ther jewelry in a bu
reau drawer.
"What are you doing here I" said
Miss Lehman, rushing into the room.
"Leave this 'house at once."
The mar. dropped a diamond ring
and fled after the laundress struck him
several times in the face with the
board.
Tho residence of Clifford Mallory, of
the Mallory Steamship Company, also
was entered by burglars this week. The
thieves overlooked silverware and took
nothing o& value.
Dies Upon Return From Service
Chester, Pa., April 2. —Returning
from the Chester tabernaele where he
attended services Wednesday evening.
Edmond E. Bailey, 39 years old, went
to his home in t'he Shober apartments,
sat down on the side of his bed and
died. His 'body was discovered by
George Shober when he went to awaken
Bailey yesterday morning.
Mistaken for Burglars, Faints
Hazleton, Pa., April 2.—•Hearing
some one on the steps of her home at
Weatherly, Mrs. William Hartz scream
ed "Burglars!" and called her hus
band, who found Mrs. William Mi-Claiu.
who 'had «ome to buy yeast, lying, badly
hurt, at the fo<rt of the stairs.* She
had fallen there after she fainted from
frigiht w'heu the alarm was given.
Church 117 Years Old to Be Razed
Reading, Pa., April 2. —The old
Mertz church, near Drvville, this coun
ty, which has stood 117 years, will wit
ness its last service on Sunday, Ajpril
11, when the 2'34th semi-annual com
munion will be celebrated. The cTiurch
will be torn 'down to make way for a
new Lutheran and Reformed Union
chun'.h.
' 1 ' *FRAMHRS Ot THI CONSTITUTION OVTOS US.Au** NO!
George Washington— "Father of His Cbuntry" Jli
EERY AMERICAN knows that without "Immortal Washington our National Independence would have been impossible § ft; Ml
Few, however,know that the greatest battle of \X4shingtons life was (ought to secure for his countrymen the Constitution c# f j
die United States. Almost immediately after the Revolution it seemed that all the great sacrifice of blood and treasure had f
been in vain. The original thirteen states refused to work in harmony, either in spirit or in lav. The new Republic was tottering Jjj; ® |3| I
to its foundations. At this critical period in American history the most brilliant men of each state met in convention and unanimously Mp :|K| <|3j|V
elected as Resident—undoubtedly the most momentous gathering of the kind die world has ever known. Here he displayed
as great ability as law-maker as he had as a warrior. For months the Fathers of the Republic labored, and finally adopted our present
National Law. which {brewer sjarantees Religious, Commercial and Personal Liberty. This was in 1787. Seventy years later Anheuser-Busch A : fej
established their great institution upon the tenets of the Federal law which Washington did 90 much to create. Like all of the great men Hf fflK ||3
of his time, be was a moderate user of good old barley brews. Fx three generations Anheuser-Busch hawe brewed honest malt and hop : jP|
beers. "Ib-day 7500 people are daily employed to keep pace with the ever-increaalng public demand. The great popularity of their ||
famous brand —BUDWEISER — due to quality, purity mildness and exquisite flavor, has made its sales exceed those of any BBLtfi" .I_J
other beer by millions of bottles. ANHEUSER-BUSCH "STLOUIS, U.S. A.
Vinton to St. Louie are couruoualy invited to iaapect
M. P. Johnson KHm
Wholesale Dealer Harrisburg, Pa. j
Means Moderation
L :
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 fi
and merchandise and you will be convinced that you can make $
your dollar reach as far as two elsewhere. |
These Are a Few of the Many Special Prices Which Will Prevail Until After Easter I
Men's smart np-to-the-minute Boys' latest styles Norfolk Suits Men's Dress and Work Pants: I
Hand-tailored Suits with patch with patch pockets; worth £ *\ Q Q worth up to 82.00 Sale ft £* w
pockets; worth *22.30. ffO QC up to $0.30. Sale price, price JuC U
Sale price, <Ol £- _
—————————— Boys' Norfolk Suits with patch M , „ ilk _
Men's fine Hand-tailored Suits in pockets, in grey, blue or brown;
Blue or Brown; worth o>T\ t\r worth up to $4.30. Sale £ F siue P nce - MV\.
$18.30. Sale price, ... <piJ,i7o ——————————
——————_ ————— :n>c Silk Four-in-hand Ties, n q
Men's fine Suits: worth AT Ar ¥"!?.__ B ! OUBB Suita : worth Sale prlCe CiC
up to $14.50. Sale price, $7.95 l 98?
——_ pnce Men's 73c Dress Shirts.
Men's Suits in blue serge and Men's fine Dress Pants; values P "
pin stnpes; worth up to A J Qr* np to $3.00. Sale <f»n fkC
$12.30. Sale price, ... price, Men's and Boys' 73c Dress A
——— —^__________ Caps. Sale price *ti C
Boys' latest styles Norfolk Suits Men's Dress Pants; values up ——————
with patch pockets; worth AO QQ to $4.00. Sale A| QP Hats, Underwear and Shoes at re
up to $8.50. Sale price, s%)•*.fO price, v* duced prices.
OUTLET CLOTHING CO.
404 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. |
Open Late Every Evening Two Doors From Fourth Street 5
ALL CONIRACTORSTO RESIST
Anthracite Region Faces a Carpenters'
Strike —Willing to Sign Wage
- Scale, hut Balk Otherwise
Tainaqua, Pa., April 2.—Although
the contractors were willing to sign the
wage scale of 37 cents an hour for
journeymen aud 45 cents for foremen,
they rejected a number of other propo
sitions of the local union, and as a re
sult more than 100 organized carpen
ters went on strike yesterday.
A meeting of all contractors of the
southern suthracite region has been
called for this town this afternoon for
the purpose of organizing their forces.
Several hundred are expected.
Tie Up Ail Mahaooy Building
Mahanoy City, Pa., April 2.—A1l
building operations are tied up in this
region because several scores of car
penters and plumbers, with their ap
prentices aud assistants, are on strike
over wages and hours of labor.
Divorce Appeal of Grant's Son Fails
Carson City, Nev., April 2. —The Ne
vada Supreme Court has denied tihe ap
peal of Jesse Root Grant from the judg
ment given at Golitfield, refusing him
a decree of divorce from Elizabeth
Chapman Grant. Grant, who lives in
Sau Diego, is a son of the late Presi
dent.
STREET RAILWAY SOLD
Hanover Trolley Line and Light Plant
Change Hands
York, Pa., April 2.—The Hanover
ami McSfherrystowu Street Railway
Company was sold yesterday by J. W.
( Stacey, president of t'he York Trust
Company, and his associates, to inter
ests connected with Brooks & Co., of
Scranton.
James A. Linen, Jr.', of Scranton, is
, t'he new president. The new board of di
rectors consists of 'C. R. Bedford, Scran
-1 ton; Edward L. Allen, Hanover; James
A. Lin in, Jr., J. E, Weiseufluh and F.
B. Arfherton, Seraruton; B. W. Frazier,
. Philadelphia, and Ellas S. Lewis, York,
Pa. The sales carries with it tlhe Hnn
over Light, Heat and Power Company.
The capitalization of these companies
is $ 13'5.000.
TO KEEP FARM IN FAMILY NAME
Berks County Man's Will Aims to Per
petuate Homestead
Reading, Pa., .April 2.—That a farm
i in Oley township, which 'has been in
the testator's family three generations, 1
remain in the family in perpetuity is
the request made several times in the
will of Henry C. Geissler, a Reading
'business man* and 'bank director, who
died la*t week, leaving an estate of
$150,000.
The will, covering nine typewritten
pages, is one of the longest and most
peculiar recorded here.
The actual cash distributions of the
estate is deferred until tthe great-grand
children, tllu- fourth generation, reach
the age of 21 years.
DELIGHTED TO SEE THE BLAZE
Children Set Straw Stack Afire; Bam
Saved by Hard Work
Uniou, April 2.—(Several children
of Frank McConnell were playing with
matches yesterday afternoon in the
barn yard and set a straw stack on tire.
The tire communicated to the barn ana
'burned off two doors before tlhe flame*
could 'be extinguished. The hard work
of the neighbors saved the large struc
ture.
The children failed to give an alarm,
claiming they delighted in seeing the
iblaze.
SPECIAL BANK DIVIDEND
Ten Per Cent, to Shareholders Who
Saved Their Institution
Schaefferstown, Pa., April 2. —The
first special dividend of ten per cent,
on its capital stock of $50,000 was de
clared yesterday by t'he board of direc
tors of the First National bank.
This is in keeping with the pledge
made 'bv the directorate to the share
'holders in asking that they pay an as
sessment of $l7O on each share to savo
the'bank, after discovery of tihe defalca
tion of its cashier, Alvin Burner, whose
suicide on February 6 last disclosed a
shortage of $42,500.
Stove Polish Almost Kills
(Boyertown, Pa., April 2.—Katie, 22-
year-old daughter of Frank Grill, of
Bally, was seriously burned when the
receptacle which she used to polish the
kitchen stove exploded and enveloped
her body in flames.