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TEL ■RHONE*' a."^a»«fl Privata Branch Eaohana*. CUMBERLAND VALLEY Mtuta Branoh Exohanio, • - • No.^*s-a*« 'l Saturday, April 24, 1015. APRIL Bun. Mon. Tuea. 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, 6th; New Moon, 14th; First Quarter, 22nd; Full Moon, 20th. WEATHER FORECASTS Vhf X Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to f T _. warm, lowest temperature to-night about 60 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night and probably Sunday. Mild tempera !ture. Light variable winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 73; lowest, 52; 8 a. m., 55; 8 p. m., 67. COMMON SENSE IN PAYING TAXES City Treasurer Reichenbach, of Allentown, re cently made a very remarkable report on tax col lections in that city. It showed that at the close of the last fiscal year there was only $153.12 of outstanding tax due the city. Of this amount $103.36 was due on five dwellings the ownership of which was in doubt, and the rest, $49.76, was due on a group of lots the owner of which could not be found. In other words practically all of the Allen town city taxpayers had squared up by the end of the year. In Harrisburg on April 1, 1915, the official rec ords show, there was city tax remaining unpaid from the year 1913 to the amount of $11,333.11, and from the year 1914 to the amount of $39,559.51, or a total of $50,892.62 still due for the two years, not counting the rapidly accumulating penalties on these overdue moneys. The Harrisburg delinquent taxpayers, for their own good and for their city's good, should make a careful study of the above comparison of the amounts of the back taxes due Allentown and the back taxes due this city. They can learn from the comparative figures something for their own profit. There is an old saying something to the effect that there is nothing more certain than death and taxes. Taxes, like death, have to be met sometime. They can be paid before August 1 in the year they are assessed and if they are paid by that date the man who pays them saves one per cent, of the amount of the bill. They can be paid between August 1 and September 1 at the exact amount of the face of the bill. If payment is postponed until September 1, of the year in which the taxes become due, a penalty of 3 per cent, of the original bill is charged against the property owner. After that one per cent, a month is added so long as the bill remains unpaid. If, at the end of two years, the bill still is unpaid, the city sells the property and keeps from the receipts of that sale the amount of the tax due, plus the accumulated penalties. Thus it is seen that there is absolutely no escap ing the payment of taxes and that the longer they remain unpaid the greater they grow. For instance there was on April 1, last, just 22 per cent, in pen alties due on the $11,333.11 of the 1913 taxes that remained unpaid at that date. In other words these taxes had increased to almost one-fourth more than the taxpayers would have had to pay had they settled up before September 1, 1913. In the $39,- 569.51 of 1014 taxes still unpaid on April 1, last, the accrued penalties amounted to ten per cent., or, roughly, $4,000 in excess of the original amount of the taxes. Thus it is shown that the payment of taxes when due is a plain and simple matter of good business. The people of Allentown recognized that when they paid up all their taxes except $153.12, but the Har risburg taxpayers, who still have $50,000 back tax bills unpaid, have failed to recognize it. We must conclude, therefore, that the property owners of Allentown are endowed with a far greater percentage of common business sense than the property owners of Harrisburg. MAIL CLERKS AND PUBLIC AFFECTED The new Arrangement put into effect by the Post office Department providing for five crews of rail way mail clerks instead of six on the New York and Pittsburgh line, a line which begins and ends in this city, means not only that the mail clerks of the five crews will be unreasonably overworked tout that practically all the patrons on the route j HAFmsnrßO RT A SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1915. will suffer because of impaired efficiency of the service while the arrangement lasts. Five crews on the New York and Pittsburgh line cannot do competently the work of distributing the heavy mails on that route. Six crews were not able to handle it to the satisfaction of busy men who require of the Postoffice Department better service than they have been getting during these years of all too extravagant "economy*' in that particular department. The men on the five crews, if they must do the work of the withdrawn sixth crew in addition to the work which of itself kept them very busy under the old arrangement, will not be as efficient as they ought to be, no matter how hard they strive to perforin their duties satisfactorily and to avoid "demerits." The general public will feel the consequences. Although the Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered the railroads not to work their train men as many hours as they do their shop and office men, because the nature of the trainmen's work is more exacting and nerve racking, the Postoffice Department, it has been pointed out, has persisted in comparing the time put in by its railway mail clerks whose work is more exacting and nerve racking than that of any men of a train crew except the engineer, with the hours spent by comfortably situated employes in its offices at Washington. The duties of the railway mail clerks are unlike those of any other men in government service or in any other service for that matter. These duties are not simple of themselves, requiring as they do the memorizing of lengthy routes. The mail clerks perform them, standing constantly on their feet, while the trains make sudden starts and stops and swing around frequent curves. The men are not even free to dispose of their own time as they want to when they are off duty, for they must ually be preparing slips and labels and commit ting to memory various mail routes. Not the least of their occupations during the intervals between their runs is that of resting themselves after the rigors of their work. The uncalled for and the unwise change on the New York and Pittsburgh line, which the depart ment made without in the least considering the wishes of the men affected, and which has aroused the righteous dissatisfaction of the mail clerks in this city and elsewhere, ought not by any means to be permanent. The people do not want their mail delayed or lost, in order that the Postoffice Department may at the end of its fiscal year be able to display a surplus. They are not so eager to have a more economical service as they are to have a more efficient service. CHINA MAKING HASTE SLOWLY A uniform system of public schools in China, by means of which every citizen may be made capable of taking active part in affairs of government, appears to be the plan of Chinese educators whose odd-sounding names are immaterial but whose ideas are visionary enough to attract some attention. The plan is to pattern the schools after those of western civilization, with the exception that the curricula are to include the teachings of China's wise men of bygone days, teachings which are not so highly respected in western schools as are vari ous other heathen products. Any project so enor mous as one which provides for the uniform educa tion of China's complacently ignorant millions deserves respect because of the daring of the thing, even though the accomplishment of the outlined purposes appears to be a long way off. It seems that the complex written language of the Chinese would retard educational processes to some extent. The language may not be so very complex after students have made some progress in mastering it, yet for its own advantage it might be somewhat simpler. A Chinese student in this country has recently invented a typewriter which it is said writes Chinese very acceptably. Patience would perhaps be as necessary in operating it as skill in finding the required characters on the keyboard, for it is still in a crude stage of development. The inventor says that something like 50,000 characters can be made on the machine. Presumably he has counted them, and knows. His opinions of his native lan guage which he may have been tempted to express while he was struggling with its intricacies in arranging the "radical" characters of the words for the construction of his machine, might be of value to Chinese educators no less than to students of philolog^. "Watch Harrisburg's forest grow! The municipal scales are on the weigh. Mothers are requested not to weigh their babies on the new city scales. The burglar who robbed the store of a former mayor in a building opposite Police Headquarters probably knew Chief Hutchison was out of town. The papers say John D. Rockefeller enjoyed immensely a 200-mile auto ride from Pocantico Hills to Bay Pond. The Oil King's pleasure doubtless was because he didn't have to worry about the gasoline his car waß consuming. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN POETRY FOB TO-DAY War news is scarce upon Page One, E'en*though the fighting's far from done. What chance for Mars a star role when The Colonel's on Page One again? The Allies swat the Dardanelles, But not of it the headline tells. No other dope's of interest when T. R. is on Page One again. The Dove of Peace which used to fly Across five columns said, "Good by!" Away with her, and sword and sheath. The cartoons now show T. R.'s teeth. There isn't room for war news when T. E. jumps on Page One again. —Froth in the Harrisburg Patriot, i BANISH JCROFIM Hood's Sartaparllla Cleanses tho Blood, Skin Troubles Vanish Scrofula eruptions on the face and body are both annoying and disfiguring. Many a complexion would be perfect if they were not present! This disease shows itself in other ways, as bunches in the neck, inflamed eyelids, sore ears, wasting of the muscles, a form of dyspepsia, and gen eral debility. Ask your druggist for Hood's Sar saparilla. This great medicine com pletely eradicates scrofula. It purifies and enriches the blood, removes humors, and builds up the whole system. It has stood the test of forty years, and has received thousands of testimonials of the entire satisfaction it has given. Scrofula is either inherited or ac quired. Better be sure you are quite free from it. Get Hood's Sarsaparilla and begin taking it to-day.—Adv. f ' ' [Tongue-End Topics Woodward's Hat in the Ring Representative Habgood, of McKean County, has brought out, in his news paper, the Bradford "Star," Repre sentative James F. Woodward, of Alle gheny, for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer in 1916. Mr. Woodward served in the Legislature from 1905 to 1911 and missed the ses sion of 1913 through failure of election in the Washington party landslide of 1912. He was elected last year and made chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the House by general choice. He hac made tho matter of State appropriations a study during his various legislative terms. It is cus tomary as tho election for State Treas urer approaches to mention the name of the chairman of the House Appro priations Committee for that office, but only once has such a chairman been nominated, in 1905, when Lee Plum mer, of Blair, was put up and defeat ed by William H. Berry, Democrat. Mr. Plummer was an exemplary chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, but he went down before the popular Ber ry. Mr. Woodward may have his op portunity, but Mr. Plummer, it is said, will again be a candidate for the nomi nation for State Treasurer. * • * Lawmakers Who Have Gone Higher Speaking bf legislators "being caled" to assume State positions of more importance, it is interesting to note that not in the past fifty years has a man who served as a legislator been made Governor of Pennsylvania, although many have had aspirations. And, what is just as interesting, George Wallace Delamater, who served in the Senate, was nominated in 1890 for Governor by the Republicans and was defeated by Robert E. Pattison, Demo crat, who was running for a second term. On the other hand, many mem bers of the Senate were nominated for Lieutenant Governor and elected. Charles W. Stone, of Warren, served in both iHouse and Senate. William T. Davies, of Bradford; Louis Arthur Watres, of Lackawanna; Walter Lyon, of Allegheny; John P. S. Gobin, of Leb anon, and William M. Brown, of Law rence, all served as State Senators and all aspired to the gubernatorial nomina tion, but failed to get it. Of the Sec retaries of the Commonwealth in the last half-century, Matthew Stanley Quay served in the House from Beav er; Jacob H. Longenecker, Bedford, and Da<d Martin, Philadelphia, served in the Senate. Of the Attorneys Geueral in that time, but one served as a legis lator, John P. Elkin, of Indiana, in the House. « * * Records of Auditors General Of the Auditors Generals who were elected in the last half-century, Jerome B. Niles and Robert K. Young, both of Tioga, served in the House, and those who served in the Senate were Har rison Allen, Warren; William P. Schell, Bedford; John A. Lemon, Blair; A. Wilson Norris, Philadelphia; Amos H. Mylin, Lancaster; Edmund B. Hardenbergh, Wayne (both Sonate and House); William P. Snyder, Chester (Senate and House); A. E. Sisson, Erie, and Arch. W. Powell, Allegheny. » * • Others Who Were Advanced Of the State Treasurers, Samuel But ler, Chester; M. S. Quay, Beaver; Hen ry K. Boyor, Philadelphia; John W. Morrison, Allegheny; James S. Bee?om, Westmoreland; Frank G. Harris, Clear field; John O. Sheatz, Philadelphia, and Robert K. Young, Tioga, all served in the House, and Mr. Sheatz was after ward elected to the Senate. Jeremiah A. Stober, of Lancaster, was elected State Treasurer at the expiration of his Senatorial term, but died before he took office. Of the Secretaries of In ternal Affairs, William McCandless and Aaron K. Dunkel, < Philadelphia, served in the Senate, and Thomas J. Stewart, Montgomery, and Isaac B. Brown, Erie, served in the Honse. Of the Adjutant Generals, David B. McCreary, of Erie, served in tho Senate, and Thomas J. Stewart, of Montgomery, in the House, T. M. J. Sculptpr Compelled to Sell Wood Chodzinski, the famous Polish sculp tor, whose statues adorn public places in many of the world's capitals and who made the statue of Pulaski in Washington during the Taft administra tion, for which ho received MO,OOO, has been forced to sell wood to keep his family, so terrible are conditions in Poland since the tide of war swept over it. This information comes from the sculptor himself in a letter to a New York friend. At the time he wrote from Eperjes his property was all destroyed and the country was made so desolate from warfare that he was using 'his remaining horses for hauling and selling firewood, as that was his only means of supporting those dependent upon him. IOF INTEREST ' TO WOMEN STREET CLOTHES TAILORED fINO SEMI-TAILORED 111 CUT Plain Coats and Zouave Jackets Mark the Divergence of the Mode- Boots and Hats of Military Origin New York, April 24. Now that Easter is past history and the smart woman has placed her stamp of approval on this style and that by actual wearing, street clothes resolve themselves into two distinct types, the tailored and semi-tailored suit. Perhaps it is the anticipation of a cross-continent ttip to the Fair that is making the tailored suit so popular or it may be milady on charity bent finds the plain coat and short skirt in keep ing with her mood. Whatever the ir resistible influence is, it has left our suits of frill and fancy and left them for the most part plain creations with coats medium length and skirts short even to the top of the high boot. In the window of a Fifth Avenue shop, a model of dark blue gabardine is attracting the gaze of the never ceas ing stream of well-dressed women who frequent this thoroughfare. Suggestive of a uniform, it boldly stands forth with patch pockets over the seams, a small one above and a large one below the broad belt of white leather that sports a blnck buckle. The collar, A Military Model of Blue Gabardine Trimmed With Wide Hercules Braid notched in the most approved manner, is faced with white broadcloth to match the belt aiul bound with black braid the same as the front and the lower edge. Huge white ball buttons complete the trimming and below the binding on the circular skirt, the cuffs of Russian boots are seen in black patent leather to match the vamp, while the quarter is made of white kid. A small turban of black straw with white wings flar ing on cither side carries out the bal ance of the black and white, marking the skill of a clever modiste. Many variations are seen in this suit. Here it is made without the pockets, and there with a shawl collar in place of the notch. However, if you start in quest of some really new fabric you are doomed to disappointment un less the fabric be a cotton. Invariably as you roam through the racks and models of the cloak and suit depart ments, you see the black-clad sales woman pause in front of the chair of a prospective customer and hear her say, "A dark, blue serge or gabardine, shep herd's check worsted or Dounegan Tweed?" and there the choice ends, un less, as I said before, you want a cot ton for your tailored suit. Here magic has been wrought with the warp and woof. Carraval is one of the interest ing new cottons; it is a material for all the world like a duvetyne that has bor rowed the knots of_ ratine, and there are numberless other good suiting cottons and linens. Feeling the defects in the season's woolens, trimmings outdo themselves, and in no small measure are responsible for the success of the tailored styles, for braidings, binding, pipings, buttons and embroideries ingeniously employed diversify and lend dash to present fash ious. Suits of serges, gabardine or Coras Just t Dissolve Away No pain, no cutting, no plasters or pads to press the tore spot— Baser'* Corn Solvent Just dis solves the corn, without pain and aoti almost Instantly. Put a drop or two on the oorn with a brush at night, next morning you'll have forgotten yon ever baa a corn In your Ufa. Just as good for bunions as for eorns—remotes the cause, thereby effecting a permanent and lasting core. Basse's Com Solvent Is different from any . other eorn cure you have ever used. Does not 1 merely relieve the pain temporarily but Is guar >iitoed to cure the meanest and most painful tern or bunion, no matter how long It baa bothered yon. Get a bottle today and prove It. Deal suffer with painful ooras when you eaa ewe them now and forever for only lie. Get the painless remedy that dissolves the oorns, re> Moves them completely, eats 'em up. Boy of the drngsltt named bolow or send )0B la jgm. p H. Biiiir, Druggist and Chemisy^^g "'or. sale in Harrlsburg by Geo. A. Gortras. STEEL VAULT'S SECURITY TTALUABLES and important papers not safe in the house. Place them in our Safe Deposit Vault where the consciousness of their secur j it£ from theft or fire will be worth many times the slight cost for the protection. If you haven't given this matter any \ thought, do it before you close the house for your Summer vacation. Boxes rent for $2.00 and upward a year Q213 Market Street Capital, «SOO,OOO Surplus, $300,000 ™ checked worsted have edges bound with Hercules braid in black, white, tan or blue. Narrow soutache braid in white makes another smart finish on blue serge, placed in four rows around the skirt above the hem, but if there is a preference it is give nto the new silver tinsel braid which appears in floral bor ders on the bottom of the serge and gabardine coats. So quickly did it come and so smart was the effect, its popu larity was instantaneous—to-day in one shop, to-morrow in another, and by the end of a week the whole Avenue wears it. Nor are these borders confined to the tinsel alone. One of the small spe cialty shops shows a serge coat with the border in white silk braid and the effect is really {etching. There are othor suits, too, with the borders em broidered with blue silk floss. Indeed, variety is endless in these strictly tai lored suits. Their style is even ac centuated by contrast with the silk models cut on semi-tailored lines. Distinctly different in purpose and appearance, the suits with short Zouave jackets in no wise conflict with the vogue of the tailored, but are selected for theatre, afternoon and dress wear. One of New York's most famous houses has on display an attractive model in mouse-gray faille silk, the coat short and boxv and the skirt laid in soft pleats. Fine silk-corded motifs in the corners of the jacket and woven buttons in self-tones make rich trimming. The other day in a theatre party of four young girls, who braved the un certain April weather to wear their best to the matinee, two had the new short jacket suits, one a blue taffeta with silk-covered buttons placed close to gether down the closing and the other a gray silk with frogs of silk-covered cord. In some of the better shops they are introducing these short coats in cloth, but taffeta and faille are used in the great majority of the models. It is like a great naigting, the suits forming the central figure and the ac cessories a background that makes the completed picture perfect. Neckwear is unusually alluring. In the stores, we read small jflainted placards bearing— "Berthas," "Jabots'," and "Fichus" and marvel that such confections of net, lawn, Yal. and filet lace, chiffon and crepe de Chine can so quickly come to enhance the beauty of the silk suits, while high collars with flaring turn overs, dainty flat organdy collars, part blue ami part white, and stiff-starched linen collars cut on the Buster Brown plan grace the counters in grand array waiting to be claimed for tailored suits. Zouave Jacket and Pleated Skirt Made in the New Mouse-Gray Faille Hats equally stunning, appear in tur ban and sailor shape, small sizes be ing favored. There are round turbans and tricornes, all straw or satin faced, ranging from black and emerald green to the sand and putty shades. Often a bow, flower or wing adorns the tip top of the crown and I have heard it said, if one dares to whisper such a thing in a neutral land, that it was copied from the peak of a German's helmet. Others are trimmed around the brim. Resting on the cover of a big hat box with a background of flowers, one store dis plays a putty-colored turban, the sides straw and the ton satin, edged around with acorns, oak leaves and roses. An other shop on a side street has a whole window of flower hats, while a house, renowned for its tailored styles, feat ures turbans and sailors trimmed with wings and quills and natural leghorns, embroidered around the crown with wool in black and emerald green. It would seem, there is a hat for every face, but when it comes to footwear we all must bow to Fashion's will for ties or boots are the only choice. Ti e s of black patent' leather stand side by side with ties of white, #rav or tan, and others are shown with'" the black leather vamp and the upper of tan, white or gray, while stockings in fluenced by the styles in shoes come in matching grays and tans or in vivid hues tor contrast, plain or in moire ef lects, with up and down or crosswise stripes, ribbed or in gav Scotch plaids. However, the immediate present does homage to the high boots with heels curved slightly in French fashion, lacerl at the front, side or back, or with no closing at all. BAHAMA ISLAND SHELLS Pearly Treasures of Many Varieties Line the Beaches The shores of the Bahama islands are each day strewn with multitudes of beautiful seashells, more than fifty va rieties_ of which have a commercial value in the United States anvl Europe. Among these are rice shells, so tiuv in size as to make one marvel how a sufficient number could be picked up to fill a barrel; gold shells, mud shells, cockles, bleeding tooth; pretty decora tive sun shells, eardrop shells, which are exported to Odessa, Russia, to be used as ear pendants; Panama or tent shells, which resemble miniature en campments and sell at S9O a barrel; black snails, which take a high polish; conchs—king, queen, ivory, pinklip ami trochus or iurk's cap, locally termed "whelks." These are but a few of the assortment kept in stock at the leading warehouses at Nassau. The queen conch, which is especially adapted for cameo carving on account of having a layer of brown with a white top and the pinklip conch, which has layers of white and pink, are much sought for. Only the lips of these two varieties are exported, the demand coming from New York and from Torre del Greco, near Naples, Italy. Ordinary conchs sell at 1 cent; pink lip, whole shells, from 5 cents to 25 cents, and queens at 30 cents United States currency in Nassau. The whelk or Turk's cap is particularly valuable, as it has a portion resembling the best mother-of-pearl, from which pearl studs, for instance, could be made. It is estimated that a million shells of this variety could be obtained an nually in this colony. These shells sell for 1 1-2 cents each. Ijabor is cheap, colored women receiving from 25 to 30 cents, ordinary laboring men 60 cents land white engineers $1.50 a day.—ln dianapolis News. "The Drama Upside Down" In the theatre the public permits the r playwright to deny certain tracts be cause it is only by the deliberate de nial of these facts that the drama is possible. In real life rooms have four walls, but in the theatre one of these walls must be removed so that the spec tators can see and hear what is said and done in the room. In real life a whisper may be inaudible ten feet away, but on the stage it has to be loud enough to reach the back of the gallery. In real life our speech is un certain and ragged and repetitious—- we start sentences that we do not finish, and we fail often to make ourselves understood, but in a play every char acter says simply and compactly what he has to say, and every other char acter understands what he has said ex actly as he meant it to be understood. These are all departures from fact, and we permit them gladly in the playhouse because they are for our pleasure. Without these departures from the fact, authorized by convention, by an un conscious contract 'between tne author and the audience, the drama could not exist. In the theatre we are willing to "make believe," as we did while we were playing the games of our child hood, and if we refuse to make be lieve we find ourselves forced to fore go the pleasure which the theatre can provide only by the aid of these neces sary conventions. Other contentions there are not eternally necessary, suited to the conditions of the theatre '* of a certain time and a certain country, and revealing themselves as incon gruous when the conditions are differ ent. On the Elizabethan platform stage a character might soliloquize at .» will, talking directly at the spectators and telling them,' aa lago docs and Richard 111 also, how bad a man he is. On the modern picture-frame stage the characters must tako care not to get "out of the .picture," and, therefore, the soliloquy has been discovered to be incongruous. Temporary and local conventions disappear as the theatre is modified through the ages, but there are certain fundamental conventions which endure and which will never disappear, because without them the art of the ' playwright is impossible, just as the arts of the painter and of the sculptor are impossible unless they also are per mitted to depart from the facts in ac cord with the essential conventions of their several arts. —Brander Matthews, in the April number of the North Amer ican Review. The Difference "The belligerent man who was ex pelled from the audience is very much unlike a burning house." "How's that!" r "He was still full of fire even after he was put out." —Baltimore Ameri can.
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