6 isi{e &tar*3nlirprn&ettt (Bttabhthed in 1576) Publish** b- INK STAR PRINTING COMPANY, \ ' Star-Independent Building, ' IS SO la Seutti Third Street. HutMM Pfc> ' t»f» KvenlM lUoept Sunday. Officer* t Dirtctmrt •• B— IIH» *■ M **«*s. u u KUHX. PrMidut. W*. W. WAAOWIR. _ I Vfco-Prosldont. W " *■ M ■***»• \ WM. S. Nirm, Secretary and Treasurer. WM. W. WALLOWM. Wm. «. WARNER, V. HUMMEL BKMIAOI. J*.. s Business Manager. Editor. ▲ll communications should be addressed to Basinesa, Editorial, Job Printing er Circulation Department according to the subject natter. Entered at the Post Office in Harrlsbnrf as EOCoad-ciaM matter. Benjamin A Kentnor Company, New York and Chicago Represeatativea. Hew foA OSes, Brunswick Building. 235 Fifth Avonue. Chlcngo Office, People's Qas BuUdlng, Michigan Arenue, Delivered by carriers at I cent* ■ week. If ailed to subeerlbeif fer Three Dollars a /ear in advance. TME^TASTNOSPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harrisborg and eearbf towns. Circulation Bxemteee by THE ASSOCIATION OP AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. """ TELEPHONE*! SELL " .ranoh PHwrte Sreneh E«e»ange. . - . «' • He. >4144< Monday, April 5, 1915. APRIL Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 12 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, 20th. rl WEATHER FORECASTS /jSjQn Harrisbnrg and vicinity: Unsettled (■fflßP weather, probably light showers this \ Wmk. afternoon or to-night. Tuesday fair. Warmer to-night with lowest tempera ture about 50 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy . to-night and Tuesday. Warmer to-night. ; wsMMaZy Moderate south winds. YESTERDAY S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 55; lowest, 35; 8 a. m., 38; 6 p. m.. 48. WHAT GOOD IS A PBIZE FIGHT? There i 6 no denying that a great deal of interest, even among persons who ordinarily pay no attention to pugilistic contests, centers in fights such as that scheduled for to-day in Havana, Cuba, between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, for the title of heavy weight champion of the world. You cannot get away from the human fact that when two giants, possessed of brute strength devel oped to the highest possible degree and, perhaps, with a scientific knowledge of the art of boxing, come together in a roped-off space to punch each other until one or the other is in a collapse long enough for the referee to count "ten," a very large percent-age of the people of the world want to hear all about it. and many, indeed, want to be on the spot and see for them selves. Yet despite all this admitted interest it is hard to figure out how any real benefit can result to the human race from such contests. Surely there is no moral gain and just as surely there is no economic gain. The money that is paid for admittance usually goes to meet the considerable expense involved in stag ing such fights and to reward the contestants and their backens who, generally speaking, are of the class that squander money rather recklessly. Moreover cash that changes hands in gambling among the spec tators serves no useful economic purpose, for we must recall how true is that old saying: "Easy come, easy go." It is admitted that knowledge of how to box is a valuable thing to possess and that the boxing gives to the boxer much healthful and beneficial physical development, but persons who attend a prize fight do not go to get any of these benefits. They are not there to obtain pointers on how to develop their own bodies. They are there to sea one or the other of the contestants punched until hia body is so weakened that he no longer can stand on his f£et. It is doubtful even if there is any healthful recrea tion for the spectators at a prize fight. Indeed, if the mill is staged indoors in a fog of tobacco smoke and in an otherwise tainted atmosphere, the health of the spectator is more likely to suffer than to gain anything. A prize fight serves no useful purpose, but just as is the case with tne war m Europe, the people want to hear about it. That's human. BANISH WORRY AND LIVE LONG A man who died recently in New York City at the age of one hundred and one years is said to have ascribed his longevity to his freedom from worriments. If an untroubled mind is the requirement for pro longed life there is little wonder that so few human beings are these days reaching the century mark, let alone passing it. \\ orriments seem to be very common among persons /lio have passed the age at which they consider their actual usefulness in the world to have ended. Many very old persons let their thoughts dwell too much, perhaps, on coffins and graves and tomb-stones. Holmes, in his "Over rhe Teacups." says that after sixty years of age there begins to be something per sonal about the stern sentence of the burial service concerning the limit of three score years and ten. An octogenarian, according to Holmes who was him self an octogenarian when he made the declaration, reads with a great deal of interest, mingled with hope, of persons who have safely parsed ninety. The Dic tator to the Teacups especially delights in telling of the centenarian wlio ably responded to a toast at a birthday dinner given in the aged man's honor. It is doubtful whether most persons would prefer to hear at the end of the prescribed three score years and HABKTSBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5. 1915, ten tlie fatal "No more"' from "the God of bounds who sets to seas a shore." Yet surely it is more comfortable these days to be old than it was in the times when there were no spectacles for failing eye-sight, no ear trumpets for defective hearing, no-artificial grinders for toothless mouths and no soothing tobacco for idle hours. If any age is more favorable than auother for the happy existence of centenarians it must be this one. The meeting of the requirements about the worriments is not easy but it might be tried to advantage by aspirants for loug life. FOOD FOS THE WAATE PAPER BALES - . When persons get an opportunity to see a post office waste paper baler in operation, as they occasionally do at postal service exhibits, they learn often for the first time what becomes of much of their mail matter. They may not be especially pleased with the baler as the ultimate destination of their favorite magazines and of other literature intended for them; yet, whether they like it or not, they will have to sacrifice mail to the baler as long as they persist in being careless about having such mail properly directed. All matter given to Uncle Sam to transport which is improperly addressed or which does not in other particulars meet the requirements of the postal regu latipns, has the best of chances of finding safe lodge ment in post office waste paper balers. When the use of the city directory is required in a busy post office to learn where second-class matter is intended to go, and the baler is nearby, it is a safe bet that the baler will get the literature instead of the addressee hinted at on the wrapper. Under new rules made by the Post Office Department a complete address on a piece of mail matter must include a "local habitation," that is. a street address or a post office box number, in addition *o the name of the recipient and the proper town and State. A post office box may not be a local habitation, exactly, yet the meaning of the regulation is plain. The pity is, if tiie public knows it must give complete addresses on mail matter to insure delivery, that the waste paper balers of the country should continue to consume so much improperly directed literature. Even a periodical devoted to the activities of postal employes has recently found it necessary to call the attention of its readers to the department's regulation regarding complete addresses, and to urge them to give their full post office addresses when placing subscrip tions. so that fewer of the magazines will go unde livered. It is manifestly not always ignorance of regula tions that gives food to the baler. It is sometimes inexcusable carelessness. They got the snow shoveled off the boardwalk in time for the Easter parade at Atlantic City. This is the day the doctor and his pills take the place of the bunny'and his eggs in the thoughts of the youth of the land. It is much to the credit of the United States peace policy that even the prize fighters have to go out of the country to pull off their battles. Again Weather Forecaster Demain has "made good." He promised a fine Easter after the storm, when the Washington experts were a bit skeptical, and he delivered the goods. "Buffalo Bill" has just been appointed a General of the national guard of Wyoming. First thing you know you will hear of this young man "coming back" in the Wild West show business. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN JIMMY'S HAIR CUT Jimmy's had a hair cut! How the folks all stare! It's so short you see his skin Showing through his hair. 'Twasn't what he had before, Cut all around a bowl, It was in that barber store By the candy pole. Jimmy's had a hair cut! We "were there to see, Looking through the window pane— All the boys with me. He was worried there alone, Trying hard to grin, On a kind of great big throne, Wrapped up to his chin. Jimmy's had a hair cut! Course it scared him some, All those shears and cups and things Sort of struck him dumb, Jimmy's mother saved a curl — She feels bad, I know, That he wasn't born a girl, And could let them grow. Jimmy's had a hair cut! My! It made him proud! .Walking out, while all of us Followed in a crowd. He got pretty rich that day, He made every fellow pay Just to smell his head. —Youth's Companion. ARCHAIC Polly—"What queer, old-fashioned children!" Dolly—"Yes; they are positively childish!"— Judge. WHY? "Statistics are always uninteresting." "So? Then why does everybody count the elephants in a circus parade t"—Judge. JONES' PREDICAMENT "Terrible predicament Jones was in." "What was that!" "Got in hot water and couldn't get anybody to bail him out."—Baltimore American. NO CATJBE TOR ALARM Colored Mammy—"l wants to see Mistah Cummins." Office Boy—"Mr. Cummins is engaged." Colored Mammy—"Well, I doan' want to marry 'im, honey."—Woman's Companion. UNTACTTUL AT LEAST Mrs. Bee—"l think it was perfectly hateful of Grace to send Lady Coppertbwaite in to dinner before me, when she kpows Sir John is only a sergeant, and my George is a «uh-inspector!"—London Puach. Dandruff causes a feverish irritation at the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the hair eomes out fast. To stop falling hair at ones and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a 25-cent bottle of Denderine at any drug store, pour a little in' your hand and rub well into the scalp. After a few applications all dandruff disappears and the hair stops coming out.—Adv. [Tongue-End Top ics | Me Ball's Pennsylvania Home The State Historical Commission has recommended that the site of the home once occupied by Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist, in the nrilds of Potter county, be marked with a suit able monument. Ole Bull was, perhaps, the greatest master of the violin since the days of the famous Paganini, than whom there has never been a greater violin virtuoso. A poor boy in Norway Ole Bull began the study of the violin from love of it, after many discour agements in preparing for his career. His skill as a musician, his manliness aad grace of bearing challenged the ad miration of the world. He made his debut in Paris in 1833 ami was hon ored by the presence of Paganini antj that master was witness to the young aspirant's triumph. Success came to Bull and he made a great deal of money. Being desirous of sharing his good fortune with his countrymen his idea was to establish a Norwegian col ony in Pennsylvania, to do which he purchased a large tract of land in Pot ter county. The colony did not flour ish, his countrymen grew discouraged and so many applications were made to Ole Bull for assistance that his entire fortune was lost in helping his country men. He again took up his violin to repair his shattered fortunes, after ward marrying an American lady and settling down in Cambridge, Mass.. but retaining a summer residence near Bergen, in Norway, where he died iu 1880. Almost all traces of his settle ment in Potter county have disappear ed, but the site of his "castle" Is yet known, and annually the descendants of those who remained here instead of returning to Norway, pay tribute to the great violinist. * • * Bull's Last Appearance Here In rebuilding his fortunes Ole Bull made many tours of this oouutry, gen erally accompanied by vocal artists of repute, and' his success was great -wherever he went. In Harrisburg he was a great favorite, his last appear ance here being in the old Opera House 'at Third arod Walnut streets, about 1878. His last appearance in Harris burg previous to that was in old Brant's hall in 1874, on which icca sion he wp.s accompanied by Clara Bar ton, a prima doHna who shared honors with the violinist. On that occasion h« responded to numerous encores, be ing exceedingly good-natured and oblig ing, and it was while responding to an encore that he gave his audience a treat that was highly appreciated and has never been forgotten by those who heard him and still reside in Harris burg. ••• Set Every Foot Tapping Ole Bull was over six feet tall, broad shouldered and his long white hair flowed down over his shoulders. He was a man of most striking appear ance. When he came on the stage in response to the encore he looked out over the audienc# and smiled, and then laying his head, lovingly on his violin he played that old time tune, known the country over as "The Arkansaw Traveler." Without apparent effort he gave it with, the vim and spirit of an old time fiddler playing at a country dance, and before he had gotten through half a dozen bars there wasn't a foot in the entire hall that wasn't tapping time in unison with the tune, ami in a short time the audience was so enthusiastic that it actually arose and cheered him. It was a remarkable scene, and at its close the old violinist whipped out his handkerchief to dry the tears that showed his appreciation of the compliment. That was a con cert long to be remembered. Feared He Would Miss Train His last appearance in Harrisburg two years before hie death was marked by a little incident that took place the day after the concert, a concert by the way that was beard by an audience that filled every seat in the Opera Honse. On the day following the com pany was to leave Harrisburg for Phila delphia on a train that left at noon. Ole Bull had gotten up early, had his breakfast and then went out to look over the city. Nobody thought any thing of thds, as it was his custom, the only misgiving being that he might not turn up in time to catch the train, for he was notoriously absent-minded, and somebody had to keep track of him ti see that he was on hand. Eleven o'clock came and no Mr. Bull. When 11.30 came the others in the company began to grow apprehensive and one of the company was sent out to find him. It was near noon when the messenger arrived with the missing Ole and took him into the Lochiel Hotel in tri umph. The others in the company crowded about him and wanted to knrfw where he had been. Dries the Prima Donna's Tears "Why," said the old musician, "I was taking a walk and I came to the banks of a beautiful river, and I fol lowed the river on and on and on until I came to a town, and when I made Inquiry I found that I was miles from home. Then I turned about and walk ed back the same way I came. Am I latef he asked in his simple way. He was late. Is fnct he was very late, and his companions hustled him into a cab and barely had time to reach the traiu for Philadelphia. Ole Bull had walked to Rockville and back while taking his little stroll, as he called it; but he only smiled at the confusion he had created and dried the tears of the prima donna, who thought he was lost, by kissing her affection ately in his fatherly way. Other»wio linists of world-repute have given Hsr risburg rare musical ,treats, but none have had the affections of our people as had the dear old Norwegian, Ole Bull. T. M. J. SCRANTON DOCTOR. HERO OF WAR. NOW HAS FEVER Edward W. Ryan, of Mexicau Fame, Is Now Reported Close to Death From Typhus In the Pestilence- Stricken City of Belgrade Nish, Scrvia, April a.—Scrauton, Pennsylvania's, soldier of fortune, hero of battles, bombardments anil concentration camps in Mexico and the Balkans, Dr. Edward W. Ryan, lies at I the point of death, from typhus fever in the pestilence-stricken city of Bel gride. Three years out of Fordham College, this 31-year-old physician lias done almost everything from playing Mexican politics to nursing Servian babies. Last summer he spent three months actuallv resting. He returned fresh from (teneral Barron's Zacatecas death cell and thought seriously of nettling down to reguhr practice, but the European war came along and the un known countries called ai^ain. In a month he was on the way for Servia, where the need was greatest and the work hardest: where the es tablishment of essential sanitation seemed only slightly less difficult than the creation of a world. They put him in charge of the Bed Cross hospital—"the best hospital in the Balkans,'' Sir Thomas Lipton has said. He worked night and day over the wounded •and still found spare time to get out among the peasants and the slum dwellers with a gigantic clean up propaganda. Typhus came just the ■ same, bat the Servian authorities agree that it would have been much worse if Doctor Kyan had not been ! there. But Dr. Rvan has been more than a hospital superintendent. For two days i late in the autumn, when the Austrians marched into the Servian capital as hated conquerors, he was virtually Mayor of Belgrade. The Austrian com manders sought his counsel in drawing up rules and regulations; the terrified Servian merchants came to him and asked him, "How shall we act " In a few hours, to ijeneraliseimo and mer | chant prince alike, Dr. Ryan was is j suing orders that sounded much like, "You do this," and "You do that!" In those critical forty-eight hours, while the city rested as 011 a store of dynamite, when a sin'gle act of folly might have brought down upon it the horrors of Louvain or worsp. there was no explosion and there was no folly. The Servians have an idiomatic equiv alent for "being on the job." They use it now every time Dr. Ryan's name conies up in a conversation. Dr. Ryan's management of the ty phus situation in Torreon, in Mexico, and hid services as a surgeon in Vil la's army, have been sensationally heralded throughout t United States. Last sprnig, while serving in this capacity, he was arrested and condemned to death in Zaeateeas, and was only released after emphatic pro tests from Washington. MRS. REBECCA DUNLAP DIES One of Oldest Residents of West End Succumbs Mrs. Rebecca Dunlap, one of the oldest residents of the Went End and for fifty years a member of Covenaut Presbyterian church, died at her home, 18'29 North Second street, Saturday. Death was due to heart trouble follow ing an illness of more than six years with rheumatism . She is survived by her husband, David Duulap, and the following chil dren: William, Robert, Charles, Mrs. O. J. Rice, Mrs. William F. fckhradley. Miss Belle, of this city, and' David Dunlap, of Philadelphia. Funeral serv ices will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Covenant Presby terian church, in charge of the Rev. Harvey Klear, pastor of the church. Interment will be made in the Harris burg cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap came to this country from Ireland nearly sixty years ago and shortly after came to this city and were among the first settlers In the northern part of the city. Alden S. Beckley Alden S. Beckley, aged 3 years, in fant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Beck ley, 20 South Seventeenth street, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of his parents. The funeral will be held from the house Wednes day morning at 10,30 o'clock, the Rev. Thomas Reiseh, pastor of Christ Lutheran church, officiating. The body will be takein to Philadelphia and in terment will be made in Mount Leb anon cemetery. Blchard W. Hamilton Richard W. Hamilton, aged A years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamilton, 314 Harris street, died Siaturday night following a short illness. Funeral serv ices will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Miller, pas tor of Holy Communion Lutheran church, officiating. Interment will be made in the East Harrisbung ceme tery. Mrs. Martha J. Bupp The funeral of Mrs. Martha J. Rupp, wife of 8. S. Rupp, an attorney of this city, who died Friday at her home in Shiremanstown, was "held this afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. H. K. Lantz, officiating. Interment was in St. John's cemetery. The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensary will be open daily except Sunday at 3 p. m., at its new location, Front' and Harris streets, for the free treatment of the worthy poor. Quick Relief for Oougbs, Colds ana Hoarseness. Clear the Voice—Fine for Speakers and 81ngers. 25c. OOBOAS' DRUG STORES 18 N. Third St. Penna. Station THE GLOBS v THE GLOBE "The Oxford" — A Smart Globe Creation of Ultra Young Men's Suits at *ls SOFT, needle-pointed lapels that \ fall in a long, graceful roll—one J •Lis : | link-button—crescent and patch I English trousers that are cut almost fjjl straight, inclined to be narrow. i V SL If Six-button, high cut vest, without psjf collar. These features lend a note of V'||A /®V>R distinctiveness to garments, far above LK\ »\\\W^y) the commonplace. v- to\V^F All the new plaids, checks and ~ 1 ' blues are shown. THE GLOBE " The Friendly Store " Open Until 6 P. M. SAFETV^FIRST (UNDER AN ARRANOEMENT WITH THE IJEPA ItTM ENT OK LAROR AND | INDUSTRY THE ST A R -1N DlO1 1 EN DEN T PRINTS ICAC'M MONDAY A PRACTICAL, AltTK'l.E HIO A !!!>:•; ON THE "SAKETY j KIUST" MOVEMENT OR KINDRED SUBJECTS, PREPARED BY THAT BRANCH OF THE STATE GOVERN MENT, OE WHICH COMMISSIONER JOHN PRICE JACKSON IS THE' HEAD.) HARD LABOR One of the most important facts | shown 'by the tabulation of the acci dents re|>orted to the Department of Labor an<l Industry for the year 1914 ds the tremendous num'ber of accidents ! caused by hand labor. Of the 38,1"6 j accidents reported, 20,339, or consid erably more than half, were due to this one cause. Under this head are included j only such accidents as occurred in con- ! neetion with the handling and piling! of material, such as workmen being etrurk by ialling material, or caught toy material, or 'being hurt while using hainK trucks, wheelbarrows or hand tools, and j other accidents of a similar nature, j Tliey do not include a large number of accidents which occurred to lmnd la'bor- j ers by falls, stepping on nails and acci dents due to machinery of all kinds. The important consideration in study ing these figures is that they repre sent in nearly all eases accidents which could not have toeen prevented toy the use of guards or safety devices. They are caused by the carelessness or in- j difference of the men themselves, and j verify the statement frequently made by students of accident prevention, that ress than one-fifth of the accidents can ! toe prevented toy guards. The vast ma jority of these accidents must be pre- J vented by care and thought on the part of the men themselves. . ' This statement should not be taken i to mean that- these accidents cannot toe prevented, or that the employers are not j largely responsible for their reduction. But this reduction must 'be accomplish- j ed not only toy providing the men with ; safe tools and appliances, but also by ; educating them to use these tools in a j safe manner. This education in safety j can best be accomplished through the agency of shop safety committees' arttoug theNrorkmen. These committees, under t'he direction of an administrative officer of the company, can properly . investigate all unsafe practices or J places albout the establishment, and make recommendations for their correc tion, and have in charge all safety.ac tivities. By periodically changing the men on these committees, the interest in j the movement and the responsibility for 1 its operation can toe extended to prae- 1 tically all of the reliaible employes. No establishment is too large and . none too smali, to toe greatly benefited A PLAN FOR SAVING The best possible way to make yourself save money systematically is to adopt a definite plan of depositing: a fixed amount with unfailing regularity week after ' week. By depositing SI.OO or more in our Savings Depart ment each week or month you will steadily accumulate a surplus fund by the best and most practical means known. Begin to-day by opening an account with us and get the benefit of the 3 per cent, interest, compounded every four months, which we pay. ——— i ■ 1 * - .1 j ! by organizing such committees as aro suggested above. They present the most I effective method for educating all tho ; employes of an establishment, from J j resident to sweeper, to the necessity of j thinking and working for safety, it is | only 'by this thinking and working for safety that the great uumlber of acci | dents due to hand labor can be success* I fully reduced. RAISES $3,604 IN DAY Sunday School of Derry Street Church Helps Pay Big Debt Easter Sunday was a big day at the Berry Street United Brethren church, Fifteenth and Derry streets. Each | Easter Sunday a special offering is j lifted to help pay the church debt j which was made extraordinarily heavy Iby tlie burning of the church when it was just about completed nearly a do- I cade ago. At the Sunday school serv i ice yesterday, $3,604 was raised. Special music by the choir was tho feature of the evening. Under the di ' rection of Earle E. Bean the choir song j the cantata, '"He Is Risen." The so loists were ilrs. J. E. oipple and -\li«s ! Helen Bright. in the social rooms of the church j to-night the boys of the parish will bo the guests of the Men's Bible class at ja ''feed" and entertainment. : The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensary I will be open daily except Sunday at 3 p. m„ at its new location, Front* and Harris streets, for the free treatment of the worthy ]>oor. / \ Fencing and Posts ! Build new fences or fix up the old ones. Nothing is more unsight ly than a tumble-down fence. We can furnish you the posts and any kind of lum ber you want. No difference how large or how small your order is we will deliver it promptly. United Ice & Coal Co. MAIN OFFICE Forster and Cowden Street* ;«• J
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