6 ( Estahlishal m 1576) Publnhtd b * *H« STAR PRINTING COMPANY. ' St»r lnd«o» id«nl Building. M communications should be addressed to STAB ISUKPAXDKNT, Bnsine.«:. Editorial. Job Printing or Circulation Department according to the subject matter Sntered at the Post Office in Harrisburg as second elasj ma;tar Bocjamiu A Kentuor Company, New Vork and CVIRAGO RepresanuUrw. New Yo.'K Office. Brunswick Building. ?-V> Fifth Aronue. Chicago Office, People I Has Building Michigan Arena*. V Deltrered by carriers at 6 centa a week. Mailed io subscriber} tor Three Dollars a /eat in sdrance. THE STAR-INDEPENDENT THE paper with the largest Home Circulation in HarrUborg aou aaarby towns Circulation Examlnro by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. ~~~ TELEPHONES BELL Plhatt Branch Exchange. No. 3283 CUMBERLAND VALLET yrtvate Branch Exonange, . No. 3 U NS Saturday, April S. lot. 1 ;. BTATEMEXT OF THE OWXBRSHIP. MANAGEMENT. CIROI'LiATIOX. KTC„ of The Star-Independent, pub lished daily except Sunday, at Harrisimrg, Pennsvlvania, required by t!»e Act of August "J4t.li. 191:: Editor. W. K. Meyers. Harrisburp. Pa.; Managing Editor. V. H. BorsUaus. Jr.. HiU-rlsburs'. Pa.: Business Manager. w. H. Warner, Harrisburs. Pa.; FyMisher, The Star Printing Company: Owners. W". W. Wlllower. J. LL L. Kuhti. \V. K. Meyers. R. M. Mumma and S. M. Afri a. Known bondholders, mort gagees and other security !>olders holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securi ties, Commonwealth Trust Company, trustee under mort gage. Average number ot enplm of earh Inar of thin publication *olil or distributed, through the malls or other svlae. to paid MUhserlbern during (he six months preceding the date of this statement, 1">73. (Signed> W. K. MEYERS. Sworn and subscribed before me this first dav of April. 1915. G. U CrUMERRY. Notary Public. (My commission expires February ;7. 1519.) APRIL Sun. Hon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 MOON'S PHASES— Last Quarter, «th: New Moon, 14th; First Quarter, :22nd; Full Moon. 29th. WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Cloudy, probably snow this afternoon and to- , y£*W*/ night. Sunday ftvir with rising tem- o y-y perature. Lowest temperature to-night • about freezing. y Eastern Pennsylvania: Snow, prob- ably heavy, this afternoon and to-night. L Sunday fair with rising temperfture. Fresh northeast to northwest gales. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG ~ Highest, 47; lowest, 32; S a. n)., 36; 8 p. m.. 42. AN EASTER OF JOY AND SORROW Easter day will dawn to-morrow on a world half joyous, half sorrowful. To the Christian peoples who are enjoying peace and to the Christian peoples who are plunged in war the occasion will have the same profound meaning and the same wonderful promise, but it will be observed very differently by the one than by the other. In lands like ours, at £>eace with all the world, Easter will be a day of rejoicing. The church bells will have a merry sound, and the church music will inspire cheerful thoughts. The streets will be gay with Easter paraders: the fdshion show will be pleasing to the eyes and will lighten the spirits. The many colored Easter eggs and the variously formed Easter candies will afford the gay children their great annual enjoyment All nature will rejoice. There are other lands where Easter will not seem at all like that. In war-wrecked Christian coun tries across the sea. where devastation luys come despite the resurrection of the Prince of Peace, the day will be a very solemn one.—a very sad one. The promise of victory over the grave will carry the thoughts of wives and mothers to their loved ones who may be already at the end of their earthly lives, or who may fall during the future progress of the war. Prayers that on Easter day go up from those women, and from the men who are facing death at the front, will be very earnest petitions. Human beings are so constituted that earnestness is revealed in them principally in times of stress and distress. Easter this year may have a somewhat deeper significance for Christian Europeans than it will have for Americans. Perhaps in the belligerent countries religions beliefs will signify more to actual war sufferers on resurrection day than they wj|l to complacent, thriving, happy citizens of this peaceful republic. Yet Easter day will have the same fundamental meaning wherever Christianity has spread. No matter if it is observed with joy by the fortunate or with sorrow by the unfortu nate, it will commemor'ate that one marvelous hap pening of gospel record without which, according to St. Paul, Christian faith would be vain. CHANCE TO BE A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE W hen a man of thirty, who is described by no less of an authority than the Episcopal Bishop of On tario "as a manly man, in good health, very active, full of pluck and energy, and without any ties," is driven to the expedient of seeking a wife through the medium of the newspapers, the average well balanced person is apt to pause and wonder why this apparently altogether desirable candidate for connubial felicity has been unable through his own efforts to find a suitable life companion. "When it is further revealed that he is a clergy man in apparently excellent standing in his church, and a graduate of Oxford University, and that the v " ' JT • - f.% " ' - T W W ■> TT \£ ■ V '?> v ' * * v -■ —V I ♦ % \/)\\;* ~ v , < * ffARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3., 1915. Princess Predericka of Brunswick and Lunenburg has joined with the good bishop in declaring him to be an ideal husband for any "well-bred, cultured woman who is healthy, cheerful and preferably not over thirty years of age," the wonder grows as to why such a perfectly desirable "catch" could so long have been overlooked by the designing mammas with eligible daughters who live in Barrie, Ontario, the home of the lonely rector. There must be some very good reason for .the singleness of this Canadian clergyman—his name is not revealed in the newspaper accounts, though his address is given as "Post Office box 701, Barrie, Ontario." Can it be possible that the bachelors of Barrie so far outnumber the unmarried females that there is no chance for a perfectly good minister to become a husband in his own home town f I'Xrhaps the salaries they pay to clergymen in Barrie, —goodness knows they are far below what they ought to be in other places,—are so meager that the idea of becoming a minister's wife there holds out the prospect of so much drudgery that the Barrie mammas are not enthusiastic about sac-, rificing their daughters to anything of the kind. Or. perhaps, the Barrie clergyman is one of those hopelessjy bashful souls who hasn't got the nerve to propose to a girl; though that seems hardly likely to be true of a man who welcomes the oppor tunity of publishing his matrimonial ambitions on the front page of the New York newspapers. Whatever is the reason this young clergyman lias failed thus far to get a wife to bring cheer into his life, we hope, if he is all the good bishop says he is, that the loneliness of his bachelorhood may not be of much longer duration. Perhaps some Ilarrisburg girl who is "cultured, cheerful and not over thirty" may see herein an opportunity. EASTER PARCEL POST BUSINESS It is not too much to presume that Uncle Sam's parcel post service will have a lot to do with this year's observance of Easter. The general public lias been usiug the parcel post more extensively with each succeeding year, and has now discovered apparently that the mails can be used very con veniently in the Easter celebration. The parcel post business in this city just now is reported to be reaching large proportions. It was even found necessary yesterday that the holiday be curtailed live hours in order to accommodate senders of Easter packages. The parcels, it may be readily surmised, contain candies of the forms and flavors peculiar to the Easter season. The contents may vary, but they are no doubt principally sweets. With Easter are associated inseparably chocolate bunnies aud eggs and other candies, and these have now found in the parcel post a very suitable means of transportation. When souvenir postcards were at the height of, their popularity these missives crowded the mails at Easter time, conveying best wishes to and from separated friends and relatives. Candies, too, were sent through the mails but not to any overwhelm ing extent, because oi' the rather high rates of post age under the old plan before the parcel post. The cost of carriage would not infrequently reach half the value of the candies. Now. although the postcards still are plentiful, they do not constitute all of the Easter mail. The parcels make up a large part. The government's low priced carrying service has apparently encour aged the sending of Easter candies through the mail. Surely every one will agree that such en couragement is titting and proper, for who, espe cially among the kiddies, would not prefer candies to postcards? It is rather hard on Uncle Sam's employes that they must anticipate a rush prior to Easter as well as before Christmas, although the mail, of course, is not nearly so heavy at this season as at the Yule tide. The prospects late this afternoon were for a white Easter. Even if you haven't got your wife's Easter bonnet paid for you at least have it bought by now. Now that the Johnson-Willard mill has been postponed for one day the dead game sports assembled in Havana will have a chance to attend Easter services. The State Highway Department got orders to begin repairing the roads and the nest day it snowed. Kind old mother ' . n got busy and kept th The "Old Man" (on the door-step)—" All shot to pieces. Durn these 'Home Economy' magazines anyway. The wife's been gone since Friday trying to find an unheard-of drug to use in a simple remedy for freckles; the cook's been working since last evening on a five-minute hasty-pudding reoipc, and my daughter is laid up with burning herself in a 'Home Mechanic' bath-tub that she made out of a tbimble, two sieves and a mile of lead pipe."—Puck. DYSPEPSIAJVERCQME Ton* Up the Stomach With Hood's Sarsaparilla * When you have dyspepsia your life is miserable. You imve a bad taste in your mouth, n tenderness at the pit of your stomach, a feeling of'puffy fullness, headache, heartburn, and some times nausea. Dyspepsia is difficult digestion—■ that is what'the word means—and the only way to get ri|l of it is to give vigor and tone to the stomach and the whole digestive system. Hood's Sar saparllla, sold by all druggists, is the one medicine which acts on the stomach through the blood and also directly. Its beneficial effects are felt at once. Im provement begins immediately. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, makes the rich red blood that is needed for perfect aud builds up the whole system. No other mediciue can take its place.—Adv. t " \ I Tongue-End Topics | The Origin of the Easter Bonnet A long long time ago, iu the forest of Aavon, all the rabbits for miles around assembled under the Great Oak on Easter Even to discuss their plans for the coming of the great annual fes tival. All the mother and father rab bits with their families gathered around and many were the plans made and suggestions offered. They decided that the human children should have more occasion than ever to eujoy them selves. They decided that the uests should be more numerous acd the eggs more brightly than ever be fore. Now in this great gathering were many beaux and belles who were given the task of distributing the eggs, and great was the rivalry among them, for it was considered an honor to have the greatest ninnber of nests to one's credit. The eggs were all brought to the Great Oak and a list of the places named where the nests were to be con cealed. * 0 * Billy and Bunny Rabbit For many months previous to this occasion Miss !\achael Rabbit hud been conceded to be the most popular of all the fair young lady rabbits of Aavon Forest. Her two most favored suitors were Billy and Bunny Rabbit, cousins, who were enamoured of the beautiful Rachael and frightfully jealous of each other. Mow it so happened, that when the ehairman of the assemblage offered for a prize a large round head of cab bage both Billy and Bunny conceived a brilliant idea of how to strengthen the hold of the fair Rachael on the title of the belle of the f»rest, and also win a firmer stand in the affection of the idol of his heart. The great pity is that both Billy and Bunuv thought of identically the same idea. And it was that he should gather all the eggs he could, take them to Rachael's home and secretly help to distribute them. Although each conceived this brilliant idea at the same time Billy was the first to begin its execution. • • * Rachael Babbit a Diplomat He filled all his pockets and then his cap and scampered off to Rachael's home. She received him with a de lighted cry when she saw the number of beautifully colored eggs that he had brought and glowed with enthusiasm when he declared he meant to help her win the prize. But alas —the course of true love never did run smooth, for at this moment in rushed Bunny Babbit with as many eggs and equal enthusi asm. The fair Rachael received him with much warmth which so peeved the ardent Billy that he rushed at Bunny and in words stern an 1 harsh and bade him depart and take his collection of eggs with him. Now Rachael was a diplomat and knowing that if she could make peaee between her lovers that She would have twice the number of ggs and even a greater chance to win the prize. ♦ • * Peace-maker Suffers But the angry cousins were not so easily subdued, their voices rose to shouts, blows were exchanged and the lovely Bachael was in the throes of dis pair. As a climax to the fight they be gan hurling the Easter eggs at each other which so shocked the gentle Ra chael that she rushed between them begging them to stop. But alas —the poor peace-maker! She received blows intended for each other and fell faint ing to the floor in the midst of all the pretty broken Easter eggs. Billy and Bunny were so ashamed that after re viving her and begging forgiveness, which was freely given, they went sadly to their homes leaving poor Rachael holding her wounded head. Bandages on Her Head In the morning she was much dis tressed to find her right eye swollen shut and her beautiful left ear sadly ont of proportion. Many soothing lo tions were applied but to no avail. The time came for the Easter parade and poor Bachael felt worse than ever, but as it was absolutely necessary for every rabbit to be in line shp had to appear with her head swathed in ban dages. Her mother had done hef best to give her an artistic effect. The clean white linen wae brought down gracefully over the swollen eye and wound firmly around the wounded ear, ending in a chick little bow. Behold, the Easter Bonnet! When Rachael appeared she was re ceived with profound admiration. No lady rabbit ever had worn a head dress before and here was the lovely Rachaei, the acknowledged belle, setting the style which was deitined to be followed by every lady of the civilized and un civiliied world. "A bit daring," thought the female of the species. "A shame to hide her lovely eye and charming oar," thought the descerning male. The next d|iy Raehael, —still suffer ing and still swathed in bandages,— was astounded to see all the other laly rabbits' with their heads wrapped in every color aud every style imaginable. So it eame to pass—the origin of the Easter bonnet. ADLYN M. KBFFBK. March 20, 1915. C. A. R. VETERANS PREPARE FOR NEXT MEMORIAL DAY a Post No. 58, to Observe 50th Anniver sary of Surrender of General Lee Next Friday Night—To Give En tertainment April 2*- At a meeting of Post 58, Grand Army of the ltepublie, iu the Post rooms, -ti North Third street, last nijht, a committee was appointed to make plans for the annual Memorial Day exercises, May 30. The commit tee will hold a special meeting in the Post rooms next Thursday night, when a further discussion of the matter will take place. Committees from Posts 111! and 520, G. A. R.; Sous of Vet erans, United Spanish American War Veterans aud Veterans of Foreign Service, will be represented. The fiftieth anniversary of the sur render of General Lee, will be observ ed by Post 58, next Friday night, when all Civil War veterans are invit ed to attend. The Post will have as its guests at the celebration. Department Command er John A. Fairman; Senior Vice De partment Commander Francis H. Hoy; Junior Vice Department Commander t'h.irles Taylor; Assistant Adjutant General Samuel P. Towns, aud Chief of Staff James D. Walker. No special program has beeu ar ranged for the event except for ad dresses to be made by the visiting of ficers. Large numbers are expected to at tend the entertainment to be held in Chestnut street auditorium April 22. The proceeds of the entertainment will go toward defraying expenses for music, which it will cost the Post when they jio to the National Encamp ment of the Grand Army to be held at Washington from September 27 to October 7. The committee picked to arrange the Memorial Day program is as fol lows: George W. Rhoads, N. A. \Vai mer. F. H. Hoy, Charles Beaver, B. Briggles, David Bender, W. D. Rhoads, John 11. Wehler, Tyrus Shreffler. Thomas Numbers, John M. Major, J. D. Winters, Harry W. Snyder, Fin 1. Thomas and Frank Anderson. DECREASEOF $49118,903 IN PERSONAL PROPERTY Figures From the Counties For 1014 In the Aggregate' Show a Big Drop In the Assessed Valuations—Dau phin, However, Gain $3,040,850 Vyder tlie new act giving to counties all of tlie personal property tax levied by the State, the Auditor General's Department is 110 longer required to collect the statistics of the assess ments of personal property for taxa tion purposes from the »>T counties, hut for the purposes of comparison Audi tor General I'owell obtained tlu> as sessments from the counties for 14)14 as compared with those of I'.MIJ, when the State i;etained one-fourth of the personal property tax. These report.-; from the counties show that the total of Increase in counties where there was an increase was JfiiN,- 71N.51N.-IG, while the decrease in coun ties where there was a decrease amounted to #107,537.722.41. and the net decrease for the entire State was s4!>.llN.i UU.UA indicating tha-t either properly valuations were decreasing or the assessors hud either assessed it I elow previous years or had not as sessed all of it as in the previous year. Dauphin county's assessment for 15)14 was Jfl3.2s7,."iNr>, an increase over ISII3 of $.'!.(14t1,5."i0. Cumberland in l!il3 had personal property assessed to the amount of *T>,704.! 140, a'll increase of J|ilN.">,l24. Izelutnon had ail increase of sT>3l.l'>42; I'erry a decrease of So-t.- :«»7: Northumberland an increase of S7O 000; Juniata a decrease of $10,220. and York an Increase of $<>13,125. RUN MODERN TIRE PLANT Sterling Company Has Three Story Building Where All Kinds of Be pair Work Is Bone The Sterling Auto Tire Company, of Harritfburg, Pa., has a modern day light plant. The buildiMg is t'hreo stories, counting the basement as one, for this is used as a stock room for all tiho new 'Miller tires aud tubes and the temperature is kept from 50 to 55 de grees, which preserves the rubber prod ucts in. most perfect condition. The first floor has an electric motor con nected with all «r. George W. Sbelton. pastor Second Presbyterian Church. Pittsburgh; for mer Congressman Andrew It. Brod beck, llanover; Congressman Henry \V. Temple, Washington. Pa.: John A. McSparrnn, master of Pennsylvania State ('.range, Furniss: J. Denny O'Neill, county commissioner of Alle gheny: 1". Z. Wallower, of Hurrisbnrg; Congressman Fred E. Lewis, Allen town; \V. (!. Lnndes, general secretary of Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association, Philadelphia; Dr. J. B. McClnrkin, Pittsburgh; David K. Small. York; Dr. Isaac C. Sharpless, president of Ilnverford College, Haver ford: former Congressman M. Clyde Kelly. Braddock; William H. Silencer, former district attorney, Williamsport: the Hew Dr. Floyd W. Thompkins, pus tor Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia; former Congressman Frank L. Der shem. liewisburg; Edwin P. Young, Towanda. and Congressman B. Pattoi'. Curwensville. The Executive Committee in charge of the arrangements, headed by 10. Z. Wallower. will meet at the Common wealth Hotel on Monday evening to perfect plans for the rallies, and it is IMissible that besides the morning and evening rallies there will be open air meetings held in Capitol Park for those who will be unable to get into the Capi tol in the afternoon to hear the argu ments before the Law and Order Com mittee of the House. (loveruor Brumbaugh has received letters commending his / local option stand and pledging support, from Pro vost Smith, of the University of Penn sylvania, and Rev. Dr. Edward H. Delk, President of the Philadelphia Inter-Church Federation. 7,200 Eggs Donated Eggs donated in the public schools of the citv la?t Wednesday to the number of 7,200 were to-day dis tributed amoni? the eight local chari table institutions. Artistic Printing at Star-Independent. Y MONEY TO INVEST IF you have SIO.OO, SIOO.OO or 1 SIOOO.OO and do not know how to invest it bring it here and get a Cer tificate of Deposit. Thousands of per sons have found this a safe and con venient form of investment for idle funds. The certificates pay 3 per cent, inter est for periods of h months and longer, and can be carried for any period of time by regular renewals. as 213 Market Street I—iZZ " n Orange Recipes Orange Torte Make a two-layer cnke with one fourth cup of butter, a scant cup of sugar, two well beaten eggs, one-half cup of milk and one and three-fourths cups of floilr sifted with a little salt and two level teaspoons of baking powder. Flavor this with the grated rind of half a Sunkist Orange, bake in -"moderate oven and cool before handling. For the tilling lieat a cup of milk in a double boiler and thicken this with two egg yolks well blended with two tablespoons each of sugar and flour. Cook this for ten minutes, stirring fre quently, add a little salt and grated lemon and spread between cakes when cool and cover with frosting. Jellied Oranges Remove all skin from two Sunkist Oranges, cut fruit into uniform slices and place in a sieve to drain. Mean while soften half a package of granu lated gelatine in half a cup of cold water, then dissolve it in half a cup of boiling water, add half a cup of sugar ami strain. Blend this with a cupful of orange juice and the juice of one lemon; pour a thin layer into a wet mold and when firm cover this with orange slices and a few spoonfuls of the liquid jelly. Chill and repeat process until mold is tilled. Then place on ice for an hour or more before turning out. Serve either as a dessert or with game. Orange Cup Custard Beat three yolks of eggs with one white, lightly, and add one-half a cup of sugar, a little salt and the grated rind of one Sunkist Orange, with one fourth cup of orange juice. Scald one cup of milk with one fourth cup of cream (but do not let it boil) and pour gradually into the egg mixture. Place four buttered custard cups on several folds of paper in a shallow pan, partly fill with the custard and surround with boiling water. Bake in a moderate oven until firm (the water should not bubble) and set aside to cool. Serve in with whipped cream on top, or turn out into shallow dishes and surround with sliced oranges or a little orange syrup. TUB OF EGOS FOR CHILDREN Motor Club Gives Annual Easter Bas ket to Industrial Horn? Upwards of 100 members of the Keystone Motorcycle Club signified their intention last night to donate a dozen of colored candy eggs, which will be given to the Children's Indus trial Home. The meeting in the club rooms, Thirteenth and Walnut streets, was one of the largest for many weeks and fifty-six members registered of ficially to enter the Easter parade to morrow afternoon. A luncheon will be given the mem bers and their guests to-morrow even ing to be prepared by the club's chef, Paal Nowell.