6 itar-Snbrpfnhtnt ( JSMaMuAerf im IST*) Publish** b- STAJt PRINTING COMPANY, * loath Third Hirrleber*. M, lf> *M Bacopt »und>y. t />».*<—«■■ JMX U U Kcuc. PMMHL WM • U.TIU i Prctkteat * *• I Troasarer. Wm. W. V. Hckmu. Buaum. Jm., i lui|tr. Editor. is should be Ud««fd to Star . Job Printing or Circulation D»p*rtm«n» jtct matter. OBe* in Harrisburg »» MMad-clMajMttar r Company. New l'ork and Chicago R»pr*»«nutiT«a. un-wkk Building, 225 Fifth Ai-«» 1«'I Gas Building Michigan Arena®. mat* ee«t» a wo*. Mailed to subeeriberi real in Advance ____________ HK STAR INOSPCNDCNT e largeei Bom-. Circulation in Harris burg %aa Circulation Bxaalaco by T'.ON OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. reuSSoNEB U No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY thaw|a, ■ • No. >45-248 Friday, April 80. IBIS. APRIL Tues. Wed. Thar. FrL Sat 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 ASES— >rt«r, oth; New Moon, t-ltk; arter, sand; Full Moon. 29th. WEATHEE FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to night and Saturday, slightly cooler to night. Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy to-night. Saturdav fair. Moderate i variable winds. 5 TEMPERATURE IK HARRISBURO iwest, -49; 8 a. m., 50; 8 p. m., 65. *G RID OF THE RUBBISH I that it was the custom of the ins to celebrate annually the "busk" rst fruits," during which the resi nmunity cleaned their houses and tilth, collected this filth, along with othing, utensils and furniture, on a ind set tire to the heap. ■g. too, it is the practice of the aside a clean-up week each Spring ig which they get rid of dirt and rh systematic garbage collections. ?riods of attempted purification be iday. Its purpose will be accorn- Harrisburgers have the good sense ndians did, each individual taking in the community event and con : garbage wagons every bit of trash i premises. :k in this city will not be a real f after it is over there still are some ons in back-yards, in cellars and in ■r with collections of disgusting rub ersons would be better off if they ave no earthly or unearthly use for nk that they have been saving for L it were really of some value. Just ive been holding on to such useless and years, they seem to think that tinue to care for it tenderly, and n destruction. rsons who do not have enough cour ■ven the most trifling of the accumu of long housekeeping. Thoreau in tes with fine contempt an instance d deacon's effects, after lying half le deacon's garret and other dust posed of not by means of a bonfire ion. and were then stored away in t'ter having been eagerly bought by r ell if Harrisburgers were next week imple from the Mucclasse Indians I their rubbish, retaining not even trash that has been in the family ly began. The garbage collectors e to do their entire duty if things sm them which are rightfully theirs. TEST OP GOOD CITIZENSHIP f Pennsylvania citizenship is to have st in the history of the Common- Inesday, May 26. the day set aside Is day in the proclamation just signature of Governor Brumbaugh. ) an exaiH interpretation of that o person who on that day fails to er oldest togs, to shoulder a pick or go out on the highways and byways >ads.—unless he or she hires some or her place,—will, in the estima d Governor, be a good citizen. For art of the proclamation says: le-bodied citizen—note that there is no between male citizens and female eiti ;>atriotic regard for our Commonwealth 9 shall to arrange his personal affairs as day to the improvement of our highways urrent coin to the proper local authority to the wages of a laborer upon the everybody in the State of Pennayl isure up to the Governor's idea of > and to manifest a "patriotic re mmonwealth and its good name," . . . . • *. A < i •«. V * r f , , y - • s t'* " ■ • ' . -* > •* HARRTSBURG ST> R-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1915. all the stores, banks and factories must CIOM on May 26, the street ears stop running, the news papers suspend publication and the mail deliveries be called off. The Governor himself may ba expected to don his Huntingdon county top-boots and overalls and devote eight hours to shoveling dirt from the ditches into the eenter of the road or else to import and pay, at the current rate of wages, a laborer from another state to do the work for him. The Attorney General, the Auditor General, all the other generals, our able-bodied SIO,OOO Public Service Commissioners in particular, and the able bodied heads of all departments, their able-bodied stenographers and clerks, whether male or female, and all the other able-bodied employes of the state must quit their posts on Capitol hill and do like wise, or ever hereafter be classed by His Excel lency. the Governor, as persons without a "patri otic regard for our Commonwealth." Indeed it will be a remarkable outpouring of amateur road builders if the people of the state live up to the Governor's ideals of citizenship. DAMAGE DONE BT "BABY TALK" That period in a baby's life in which it learns to form its first simple syllables, to pronounce its first easy words and to construct its first brief sen tences is surely a very important period. Advice which has to deal with it is plentiful, as is most advice concerning the various departments of a baby's welfare. "Baby talk." in particular, has recently been getting its share of adverse criticism and justly so. If children are to learn to speak well they must be furnished with the best of examples, beginning in infancy. These best of examples certainly do not include such classic phrases as "Whose tootsey ottsey is oo?" "Tome an 'tiss aunty, like a dood boy."- and all the rest of the heinous expressions of alleged baby language. Children who hear only good language will strive to imitate it and will overcome the tendencies to lisp and to make grammatical errors. The innocent little ones know nothing of verb forms, for instance, and depend on their elders for their authority in such matters while speech is still new to them. If that authority is unreliable, they will form habits of speaking which will be hard for them to break later, or perhaps even impossible. "Baby talk" is not suitable for use in giving the first impressions of the English language to inno cent little ones struggling for the mastery of their tongues and willing and eager to learn. What a queer world this must seem to infants who look confidently to the grown-ups who surround them for their preliminary instructions in the complex language which they are supposed to learn, and are treated to nothing but the silly talk over which the speech of savages is an improvement. It has been "clean-up week" for some time for Wall Street speculators who have been on the "inside" of Bethlehem Steel. Instead of digging up all the 20,000 poplar trees in Harrisburg. wouldn't it be cheaper just to move the City to some place where there aren't any poplar trees? Cyrus MoCormiek, 3rd, intends to "begin at bottom" to learn the business of the International Harvester Cor poration that his millionaire grandfather founded. We do not know anything about how intelligent or industrious this voung man is but despite'this ignorance on our part we venture the prediction that one day he will be nearer the top than the bottom of his rieh grandpa's concern. There are about 3,000,000 able-bodied adult citizens of Pennsylvania, including men and women. On the basis of $1.50 a day as a laborer's pay, the State will save $4,500,000 in road repairing funds if all of them, in ac cordance with the plea contained in Governor Brumbaugh's proclamation, go out and mend the highways on May 26, "good roads day." Why not make it two days and save all that $8,000,000 they are talking about spending on road repairs? The $8,000,000 would come in very nicely in the form of needed appropriations for charitable insti tutions. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN ONE KIND OF FLAT TIRE "What's the matter with your wife, anvhowf" "She's got a case of flat tire." "Whaddye mean, a flat tiref" "She's weary of living in a flat.''—Houston Post. * ANSWER, PLEASE! Willie—"Do you know everything, pat" Pa—"Yes, my son." Willie—"What is the difference between a son of a gun and a pop of a pistol^"— Williams Purple Cow. THEY DON'T TAKE THE BAIT Maud —"Don't you think there are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught t" Marie —"I don't know. But they are smarter, anyway." —Boston Transcript. A CONTRIBUTION She was getting the supper for the children on Satur day night when a young woman came to her door. "I'm collector for the Drunkards' Home," she said. "Could you help usf" "Come around to-night and I'll give you the old man," said the housewife as she went about her work.—Bagologv. CONSERVATIVELY PUT According to the president of Vassar College, woman'* brain is just as good as man's. Inasmuch as she is con tinually beating him at his own game, as well as at her«, the statement seems quite conservative.—Kansas City Journal. £>9 f % > ! MUST GO ATTEB IT They gay thisgg come To those who wait. But you gotta dig If you want bait. —Pittsburgh Post. A WALKOUT First Groea^—"My store is full of roaches." Second Grocer—"l've only got one in mine." First Grocer—"One! But you were overrun a month ago. How did you get rid of all bnt oaef" Second Grocer—"When I took my last trip East I brought back a single roaeh in a pill box. I turned this roach loose in the store. He belonged to a different union than the Western roaches, so mine all walked out." Ginger. RASH ON CHILD ITCHEDJOJWRNED Could Hardly See Out oF Eyes. Face Swelled. Perfect Sight. Hair Fell Out. Very Cross and Fretful. Used Cuticura Soap'and Oint ment. In Four Weeks Well. «M Embury Ave., Aibury Park, Weet Grove, N. J. —"My child had a rash so badly to could hardly see out at hie eyes. Bis fbea aad head wwro a mass. It started ! with a ecaly took and his face teemed to ! •well. Water started running out. When I would wash his face and bead he would cry. It waa a perfect right Be could not sleep aad I could not sleep. The rash itched and burned and he scratched and Irritated It. Bis hair Ml out: he lost every strand. Be was very eras and fretful. "Nothing seemed to do him any good un til I heard Of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Fran the first week I could see his face change and in (Our weeks he was well." (Slgnedi Mrs. Edna Conway. June 23, 1914. Besides soothing and healing severe skin troubles these fragrant super-creamy emol lients preserve, purify and beautify the skin, scalp, hair and hands and meet eysry want of the toilet aad nursery. Sample Each Free by Mall | with 33-p. Skin Book on request. Ad . dreas post-card "Cuticura, Dept. T. Bos ton." Bold throughout the world. f Tongue- End Topics | Some Impressions of Brazil Mr. I. W. Copelin, of Toledo. Ohio, brother of Owen M. Copelin, Harris burg V City Treasurer, recently return ed from a tour of South America. When in Manaos, Brazil, on March 8, last, wrote the following interesting observations for the Star-Independent: "I am now a thousand miles in land from the Atlantic, in the city of Manaos, situated on the black waters of the Bio Negro river and about two hours sail from its confluence with the big, muddy Amazon. Coming up the Amazon from Para, whieh required nearly five days on a big ocean steam ship, I found the sights very interest ing. The shores and a thousand islands are densely wooded with a tangled mass of tropical trees and vines. There are giant, white barked trees that tower above all and look sort of ghost like, then the castanha (Brazil nut), and other b*jf trees, many of which are almost covered with a parasite growth, and blooming orchids are stuck in the crotches of others. * • * A Tropical Picture "From the zig-zag limbs of many trees hang ioug, rope-like vines, and with the tall, graceful palms, make a tropical picture worth seeing. Almost the whole of the Amazon valley from the sea to the highlands of the Andes is one continuous forest; and it is the same along the many tributaries of this mighty river; and ae its general course follows close to the equator, the climate is hot. In fact, if your readers ! were to be hare to-day, thay might easily b« convinced that this part of the world had not eoolad off since its formation, and if any of them are in the habit of going home lato and lying to their wive* about being at the club, ete., the elimati* conditions might give them • hint of a poeaiNe hereafter. •«* Breaks In Forest Monotony "There are very many interesting sights along this groat waterway, but time and printer's ink cost money. At times along the north side there are mountains V>ver two thousand feet high and low hille of reddish clay, then an oeeasional little town stuck against a wooded hillside, that looks quite pie- ! turesque at a distance. In places may be seen small clearings of a few acres, walled in by the great forest, and after parsing the mouth of the Tapajos river an occasional Frazenda, where scores of fat cattle grazed. At these larger clearings the owners have built neat bungalows, whose white walls and red j tile roofs, set in a cluster of shade aud (lowers, looked cool and inviting and I felt like I had found that long look ed for paradise where I should stop. Again there are many little thatched roof native shacks, at intervals, built | on stilts to keep above high water, that help to break the monotony of the end less tropical forest. • . • A Brazilian Legend "Brazil, like most other countries, i liae its legends and fables, one of which ! might impress you if on a forest trip : up the Amazon; for at the confluence ! of the Amazon and Rio Negro there is a little, green jungle island named ! Mira|'ata of whieh 'tis said: 'Who | passes further must leave his con science.' And while parsing the islaud the ship's officers will admonish the passengers to 'Be sood while in Mana ! Os and your conscience will be given ' back on your return.' That's cheerful , and well intended, but I fear eveu the 1 solemn missionary, if he remained in I Manaos a week or more, might do as { the Romans do. • . • Customs Men Take This Time "As the steamer approaches Mana os, soon after sunrise. the first build ings of prominence that come in view yellow tiled dome of the municipal are the cathedral's spires, the great, theatre, and the tall, white walls of the brewery, where my friend Briggs rules supreme. At a closer view the red tile roofed eity of a hundred thou sand people, partly hidden by tall, waving palms and tropical fojiage, looks pretty. But my first experience with the customs officials on lauding was one where it required a bit more patience than I had brought with me from Harrisburg. The first day no bag gage whatever was allowed to go ashore, not even pajamas, which are the most comfortable wearing apparel in the equatorial tropics. I was told to call to morrow morning. I called at 9.30 and found my baggage, but for some reason was told to call again at 11, then again at 2.30, when I was politely told to call ' manana '—to-mor- SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF CONTINUOUS BUSINESS. IMO 1915 In May 1840, three-quarters of a cen tury ago Henry Gilbert opened the hard ware store on Market street, Harrisburg, which he carried on during his long life, being followed in its management by the two succeeding generations. This enviable record of long-time busi ness success has been made possible by the loyalty of our customers, our employees, our community, and those from whom we buy. In celebration of this diamond anni versary, we now record our grateful appre ciation of those qualities in the revered founder of our business which have made success possible; and we recognize that this success has likewise depended upon the con tinuous co-operation of our friends. HENRY GILBERT & SON Hardware and Mill Supplies, Harrisburg, Pa* STOKE WAREHOUSE 219 Street South Second and P. R. R. Four floors Our own sidings 26,000 sq. ft. floor space 50,000 sq. ft. storage space THE GLOBE THE GLOBE A Timely and Economical Sale of Ladies' Coats Timely— because now you will need J them most. JJI Economical— because every price rep resents but a small portion of the real \/^y\ £7 7C For Ladies' and Misses' l/j7jj *>9 • f Coata, worth up to $lB. / 7kTj (Q 7 C For Ladies' and Misses' ( / / I H>%J •# %J Coats, worth up to S2O. 01 O y C For Ladies' and Misses' ** Coats, worth up to $25. Many White Chinchillas in this lot. 1/? $3.95 For Little Girls' Coats Worth $6.50 $4.95 For Little Girls' Coats Worth $7.50 Ladies' Heavy Linen Auto Duster Coats In the New Balmacaan Model Special at $4.95 npiltT fADE? Ladies' Coat Section 111 EL VjLUDC Second Floor row. Brazilians are more than profuse with politeness, but at this juncture my patience had spent its full force, and if there is a new brand of anthra cite or bituminous coal iu the Penn sylvania market that will make more smoke and heat than what sprung up in a small section of Northern Rrazil at this time, I would like to have a sample. After 1 had become nearly ex hausted, a man smiled and put a chalk mark on my baggage and motioned me to take it and go. While it was only 3 o'clock or early afternoou, 1 still had strength to ' vamanos.' * * • Manaos Has Charming Plazas "Makaos, while not laid out at right angles, is rather a pretty pjace. The little plaswis and parks are most charming. Many of the streets are well paved with dressed stone, and one day, while walking aimlessly, I heard a voice from a well screened window calling me 'Father.' The principal street is the Avenue, which is a broad one and claims to be modern, and it is so in some respects. Broad, smooth sidewalks are on either side, where in the late afternoon and evening many of the male population sit around little cross-legged, iron tables on the side walk, in front of the restaurants, and sip cooling beverages, such as grape juice. Along this Avenue may also he seen many ladies with escorts promen ading. Then, too, the automobile is driven sort of recklessly and joy rides are quite the same us elsewhere. So that there is no need of becoming lone* BOtne, oven if you are a stranger on the banks of the Rio Negro, • . • American Coal at sls a Ton ''There is a very fair electric street car line operated, ibut no manufactur ing is carried on, to speak of, and but little is grown in the way of food stuffs, so practically everything is im ported from foreign countries, at high rate of freight and the customs duties in Brazil are perhaps the highest of Continued on Twelfth Page JS B. V. D. MANHATTAN / I I'nlon Sulfa J J SI.OO to $5.00 I / Shirt* mill Drawers fjwf 50c to $3.00 II Forry's,
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