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"" TELEPHONE*- BELL fMvat* Rranoh liekania No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY BWvate Branch Eaotiaa |o, . ._ •_ No. MS-MC Thursday. April 8, 1915. APRIL Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Pri. 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, 6th; New Moon, 14Ui; First Quarter, 22nd; Full Moon, 29th. WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to , <l> • night and Friday. Lowest temperature to night about 36 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night *, a * n< ' Friday. Moderate temperature. Hjf Moderate variable winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 59; loweet, 44; Sa. m., 4S; Bp. m., 50. GENIUS OF F. HOPKINSON SMITH TYhen Francis Hopkinson Smith was born in Bal timore in 1838 he enjoyed the advantages, if hered ity means anything, of having had among his ances tors Franeis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an artist, andaJudge Joseph Hopkinson, tirst president of the Philadelphia Acad emy of Fine Arts. His father was an iron founder and dealer in hardware, and probably gave him the practical qualities which accompanied his artistic temperament. At any rate, when he died in New York City yesterday he was widely known as a man of letters, artist and engineer and he left behind him notable works accomplished in each of these spheres. Although a descendant of artists and longing, no doubt, to develop his own artistic abilities, F. Hop kinson Smith had during his early youth received no other training than sueh as goes with clerking in a hardware store. It was not until the struggling genius went to New York to shift for himself that he began to make a success of life, in an artistic way, and then, strangely enough, his practical na ture took precedence over his artistic teraperameut and he became an unimaginative but very business like and successful contractor. It was P. Hopkinson Smith who managed the construction in New York City of the base for the great Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. His Declaration signing ancestor had in the eighteenth century takei a part in laying the foundations for American inde pendence. and he in the nineteenth directed the lay ing of a no less substantial foundation for Liberty. There is some interest attached to the fact that it, was in giving an exhibition of his own water colors to help raise funds for constructing the ped estal for the Goddess of Liberty that Mr. Smith, — how very indistinctive the name sounds without the prefixes.—first manifested his artistic talents and began his career as a painter. When his literary works appeared in later years he gained a high place as a man of letters because of his charming style and his originality in constructing plots. The world has had few such versatile geniuses in modern times. THE BILL TO LIMIT INCOMES Representative Maurer's bill, introduced in the House, yesterday, taxing incomes on a sliding scale which works out in a way that would prevent any person getting an iucome in excess of £IO,OOO a year, designed for the very worthy purpose of providing a fund to take care of the unemployed of the State, but we doubt if Mr. Maurer has hit upon a very happy solution of the unemployment problem. The bill compels any person whose income now is $20,000 a year to pay fifty per cent, of that amount to a fund for the unemployed, and if that person's income shall exceed $20,600 all in excess of the SIO,OOO shall go for the same purpose. Mr. Maurer doubtless is of the opinion that $lO,- 000 a year is enough for any man and his family to live upon, which may perhaps be conceded, but to limit Pennsylvanians to incomes of that size would simply drive millions of invested money out of the State, for it cannot be denied that if a man whose income now is, say $23,000, learns that he will have to pay $15,000 of that amount to the state he will do one of two things. He will either turtail the amount of effort he is putting into his business or the size of the business itself, so that the amount of profit to him will not exceed SIO,OOO, the amount he is per mitted to receive in the form of income, or he will take his invested money and put it into an industry HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1915. in some other state, in either ease there would be less work for Pennsylvania workmen to do and con sequently worse conditions of unemployment in Pennsylvania. \ But we doubt whether anybody, even Mr. Maurer, takes the bill very seriously. TENDER CARE FOE BRITISH OFFICERS Shocking news has been getting past the British censors to the effect that army officers on short leave have beeu frequenting London night clubs and have been having high old times. An army order has now been issued forbidding military men to enter the club houses iu uniform. This order is intended to discourage the frequenting of such places by the warriors. That the night clubs arc very wicked places is hinted by guarded accounts of the serving of ginger and orange wines and of the playing of games of chance. Late hours in such places might harm sol diers physically, think the careful army authori ties. Some London newspapers have so far abated the force of their verbal attacks 011 the Germans as to devote space to assaults 011 the night clubs, and the House of Commons has glanced with dis favor at these places of recreation. When soldiers of the British army are in London on brief furlough, they must surely have some amusement to break the dull monotony of life in the trenches. They would find little joy in their vacation if they were to go to bed with the going down of the sun and to avoid all the little diversions of .London night life. From this distance it seems that if there is really any harm in the clubs, if some of them are the breeding places of vice as hinted, then the agitation against them has come rather late. It would not be pleasant to thiuk that careless Englishmen have allowed noxious night elubs to grow and prosper and ruin young manhood in times of peace and have not made any efforts to eliminate the evil until now, when dissipation would make young men less capable to do military service. Yare. O, Vare does the South Philadelphia delegation stand on the local option issue? One thousand, five hundred and fifteen bills introduced in the House in 1915; and yet they told us we already have too many laws! A daughter has been boru to the Crown Princess Ceeilie j of Germany. Perhaps the stork is balking at producing ; more war lords. The captain of the Kitel is a bold skipper but not so foolhardy as to rush into the month „of hell without having at least a hundred to-one-shot chance of getting out again. The wounded soldier who said he had rather have one real nurse than half a dozen duchesses take care of him in the hospital must be more lacking in sentiment than in a desire to get well. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN SIX MONTHS OF WEATHER Jan. Freezes! Feb. Wheezes! March Breezes! Apr. Sneezes! May Eases! June Pleases! —New York Sun. AS THE TWIG IS RENT Knicker —"What became of the boy who was kept in at school T" Boeker—"Grew up to be the man who was detained at the oflice."—New York Sun. SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED "What does our party stand for?" asked the machine Senator. "You. for one thing," replied a raucous voice from the rear of the hall.—Philadelphia Record. A HANDY EXCUSE New York Cop—"Not a panhandler, huhf Why, I saw you stop three different gents within five minutes." World Traveler—"True, officer; but not one of them could direct me to the Hotel de Gink."—Puck. V AN UNHAPPY CLIENT "Prisoner, have you anything to savf" "Only this, Your Honor. I'd be mighty sorry if th* young lawyer you assigned to me was ever called upon to defend an innocent mau."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. PROGRESS BY DEGREES "The Prohibition wave lias hit Crimson Gulch pretty strong," remarked Bronco Bob. "Why. I sow every mau in the place lined up at the bar." "Yes. But seven or eight of the men are learnin' to take water on the side." —Washington Star. DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY "I'm a self-made man," said Mr. Cumrox. "Didn't your wife have something to do with your career*" "She used to say so, but after seeing how I behave in society she refuses to take any of the blame."—Brooklyn Citizen. WHAT HURT MOST "Why are you crying so bitterly, little manf" asked the kind-hearted old lady, as she patted the tearful youngster on his head. "Bill Jones hit me on the nose." was the boy's reply. 1 "Did he hurt you much!" "Naw, he didn't hurt me at all, but he ran away before I could hit him back."—Biehmond Times-Dispatch. IT CURED HTM During the demonstration of hia new kineatapbone, Mr. Edison said: "With this invention an actor may hear himself speak as well as see himself act. Let us hope he won't be dis appointed—like the piccoli player in a mnsie store, who was urged to buy a phonograph. The dealer, as' a last resort, got the man to ipake a phonographic record of 'The Last Rose of Summer' with his own piccolo. "The dealer then ran the tune pff while the player—a really wretched performer—listened with a strange air. At the end the dealer said: " 'There, isn't that wonderful f* " 'H-m —well —yes,' said the piccolo player. " 'And now,' said the dealer, briskly, 'are you going to buy the phonographf' " 'No,' the player answered. 'l'm goiug to sell tbe pic colo.' " —Nashville Tcnnesscan. HAVE GOOD HEALTH Taka Hood's Sarsapariila, the Old Reliable Spring Tonic Don't let the idea that you may feel better in a day or two prevent you from getting a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla to-day from any 'drug store and start ing at onco on the road to health and strength. When your blood is impure and im poverished it lacks vitality, your diges tion is imperfect, your appetite is poor, and all the functions of your body are impaired. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a wonderful blood tonic. v it will build you up quicker than any other medicine. It gives strength to do nnd power to en dure. It is the old standard tried and true all-the-year-round blood purifier nnd enricher, tonic and appetizer. Nothing else acts like it. for nothing else has the same formula or ingredi ents. Be sure to ask for Hood's; insist on having it.—Adv. [Tongue-End Top ics | Encouraging Brussels Women The German civil government in Bel gium has decided to do something to encourage the Brussels lace trade dur ing the war. A concern called the "Bureau for Encouraging and Promot ing the Lace Industry during the War" has been organized in Brussels under tbe auspices of the Government. Its object is to find a market for Brussels lace iu Germany and thus make it pos sible for the thousands of lace-makers of Western Belgium—mostly elderly women and girls—to find employment. These woiueu have hitherto received but a small part of the profits derived from the high prices paid for laces by foreigners, most of the profits going to agents and merchants. It is claimed that when a lace collar was sold in Brus sels for 30 francs the woman who made it received only 8.50 francs, as maxi mum, for her labor. The German Bu reau proposes now to remedy this dis crepancy. It will not be allowed to make a profit, beyond covering its own expenses ;and by offering lacee cheaply in Germany, giving the buyer a part of the profits that previously went to the middleman, the Bureau hopes to be able to pay better prices to the lace-makers then they have been earning in peace. * • ' Panama to Welcome Mormons Arrangements are being made to bring the former large Mormon Colony that at one time flourished in Northern Mexico to tie Province of Chiriqui in Western Panama. President Porras, of Panama, has signified his willingness to aid in bringing this class of agri culturalists to the republic. It is un derstood that- the Panama Government has set aside a large fertile tract in the province which will be sold to the settlers at the lowest possible price for public lands. Some of the lauds se lected will have to be purchased from private holders but it is said the gov ernment has promised its aid in ob taining them at a reasonable figure. For some time negotiations looking to the bringing of this colony to Panama have been conducted by John Q. Critchlow, a leading Mormon, high in the councils of the church at Salt Lake City. He has recently made a number of trips to the Isthmus and is now engaged in se lecting the proposed sites for coloniza tion in the vicinity of David. La Con ception and Boquete in Western Pan ama. • • • The New Straw Bread The,new straw bread, an invention of Dr. Hans Friedenthal from which much is expected, is thus described by the Berlin "Lokalanzeigcr:" "With the flavor of the finest rye bread, this straw bread is remarkably rich in nutritious elements. Two pounds of the straw-flour contains 700 calor ies, 1.2 per cent, of albumen, and 15 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, Resides a splendid proportion of mineral salts. Prom the same straw-flour may be pre pare>d soups and broths of a delicious flavor, whrich even an epicure will not despise. Here we hav 0 another proof of the greatness of German enterprise. At the very moment when England pro poses to deprive us of all imports, the German provides himself with a new foodstuff." ••• Building Societies Growing Enough property has been acquired through the building societies of the United Kingdom during the last thir teen years to house the entire popula tion of Liverpool, Manchester and Bradford, says the chief registrar of the societies. During this period, he adds, the societies have advanced $600,000,- 000 to members. Reports show a steady increase in membership in these socie ties from year to year. • .* 300,000 Flee East Prussia Governor Von Batocki, of East Prussia, estimates after careful inves tigation that between 200.000 and 300,000 of the population of that pro vince have left during the last si* months. Most of them are believed now to be living in other parts of Ger many. In a recent article Von Ba tocki makes an appeal for the return of these refugees. East Prussia, he de clares, cannot spare this portion of its population, and is apt to suffer from the loss of even a small proportion of its inhabitants. • * 4 Reclaiming Land for Farms The Berlin newspapers state that 30,000 Russian prisoners of war are to be employed in draining marshes and in breaking up waste and moor land between Berlin and Hanover for culti vation. The state is to pay one-third of the cost, and the rest will be ad vanced by agricultural banks. The av erage cost of making an acre of land fit for cultivation by this means is fig ured at from 91.50 to $2, and it is fig ured that the increased yield per acre [will average almost flO. ™ QLOBE v MM^B6s^S9t^ms i ' IIM e^*°^f nAnniversar y LS-ft m \JIfHAT could be more fitting than fer MM * * that the fiftieth anniversary of the surr ender of Appomattox should fall during t^ e week of Easter ? ajjlPfe UW% .Let u&hope that the great influence of this anniversary may be felt among the warring na gr^jr tions of Europe and lead to an early peace jjpStg It; is also flttin g that we at this time introduce ladSES Gold Eagle Serge Suits sOfl "True Blue to the Last Stitch" £ U Woolen mills are getting WAR PRICES for piece goods—and then some. These suits are priced on the same basis as when the PIECE GOODS sold at PEACE PRICES. We say that GOLD EAGLE BLUE SERGES contain all the goodness of the average $25 suit and mean every word of it. ♦ J 1 ? SE^ G ®S are not only of the very highest quality fabric, but are guaran teed to stand the WEAR and the SUN—or a new suit in its place. THE GLOBE WIDOW ASKS $500,000 Sues on Alleged Marriage Contract With Mail of 78 Washington, April S.—iMrs. Ma >l. AlcNaib, 4 0 voars old, of Eso a nab a, Mich., testified yesterday in the Dis trict. Supreme Court in a breach of eon tract ot a marriage suit for $500,000 which she has brought against John S. Kinney, 78 years old, of Milwaukee, Wis. (Mrs. MoJv'ab said she tirst met .Mr. Kinney in May, 1912, and five weeks later he signed a contract agreeing to marry her. The contract sued on, a% set out in t'he declaration, was executed on June 17, 1912, at hscanaba before a notary pu'blic, The contracting parties agreed to marry, and in consideration the de fendant was to build a home for his bride at a cost of $50,000, was to sup port her three children and insure his life for $9,000 for their benefit. Mrs. McNab agreed, according to the contract, to accent in lieu of dower, a one-sixth iuterest in Kinney's estate, in stead of Che lawful dower under the laws of 'Michigan. Several days alter the signing ot' the contract, Mrs. Mc Nab said, the 'bridegroom to be assert ed that he never intended to marry and requested t'hat she agree to a can cellation of the contract. WIFE CAN BE "CHICKEN'• Husband. Arrested When He Applied Term, Freed by Judge St. Louis, April S.—'' My wife's some chicken! " Charles K. Wat kins remark ed to a friend when iMrs. Wat-kins passed his shop, according to his testi mony in Judge Hogan's court. .Then Mrs. Watkins caused his ar rest. Watkin3 said they have been mar ried nineteen years, but lately they have been separated. "Any man has a right to call his wife a chicken," Judge Hogan ruled. "And When a woman gets up in years she should feel highly flattered." The peace disturbance charge against Watkins "was dismissed. DE. SHAW'S 810 CAMPAIGN Will Deliver 30 Speeches for Votes for Women New York, April 8. —'Dr. Anna .How ard Shaw, president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Associa tion, has made plans to deliver thirty speeches iu each of the Eastern States which will vote on woman suffrage this fall. In an announcement to this'effect, it was said that Dr. Shaw's campaign, which will carry her through New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will begin late this month and continue through t'he summer. Each speech will be delivered at a place se lected by the State suffrage organiza tions. TO PRESENT LOVING CUP Committee of Choral Society Will Give Dr. Gilchrist Token The following committee of the Har risburg Choral Society, together with President John Fox Weiss, will repre sent the society at the -benefit concert to 'be given for Dr. W. W. Gilchrist, at Philadelphia, next Wednesday: S. D. Sansom, E. J. Decevee, J. H. Kelker, Jr., Miss Sarah Chayne and Mrs. John C. Harvey. This committee has chosen the president to present the fittingly engratfiji loving eup;w"hie'h will be sent 'by the local organisation to Dr. Gilchrist. ADDRESSES WOH KERB J. Horace McFarland Contrasts '' Good'' and "Evil" Influences • In an address yesterday before the Volunteer Workers at the j<)'hn Y. Boyd hall, J. Horace tMu'Earland quoted sta tastics to show that in this city while churches and allied institutions are ac- Hve 3,195 hours a week, the saloons and [ool rooms are 'bufiv 27,574. He de clared, however, that "good influences" will ultimately triumph over "evil in fluences." j Aged Man Killed by a Horse East Donegal, April B.—Robert Daugherty, 75 years old, was so badly kicked by a horse in the stable on the Meyers farm yesterday that he die'fl within a short time without regaining Consciousness. He wag employed on this farm many years and alwnys slept in the stable, claiming that it was the most healthful. DR. JOHN P. CULP has moved his offices to the Park Apartments 410 North Third Street v ■ New Reservoir for Mt. Gretna Lebanon, April S.-—A contract will shortly bo grunted by the National Guard of Pennsylvania tlirouj»h the Ad jutant .General'» Department' for the FOR SALE jl Imperial German Government 5% Nine Months j; Treasury Notes Denominations—s2so, SSOO, SI,OOO jj Principal and Interest Payable in the City of New York. || Price, 99% and Interest ; FIRST NATIONAL BANK 11 224 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa. f \ I The New and Larger Blake Shop Newest materials as well as the latest in patterns and ideas are i|| i|j here in pleasing variety. I Interior Decorating Wall Paper Rugs Cushions Lace Curtains Draperies Carpets Lamp Shades Upholstery Interior Paiuting 225 North Second Street vv J Mr. C. F. Welzel Announces tliat he has opened a new and thoroughly up-to-date Merchant Tailoring Establishment No. 11 South Third Street | Prices from $25.00 up—Unsurpassed workmanship. The Proper Executor The Executor best fitted to manage your estate effic iently and economically is an institution, such as this Company, which has the knowledge and facilities to provide prompt and, continuous service free from all the drawbacks to which the individual is subject. You are cordially invited to consult us regarding the selection of an Executor for your Will and su6h a con sultation will not place you under any obligation to pro ceed further with the matter unless you desire to do so. iwgpgfppiiuu IUI jj^f|Jhuy iliMliiiiin il nrif iflilllii construction of a new reservoir at the encampment grounds. Alt. Gretna. The new reservoir's capacity will bo 125,- 000 gallons, just twico the size of tho present reservoir.
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