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CUMBERLAND VALLEY
thaw|a, ■ • No. >45-248
Friday, April 80. IBIS.
APRIL
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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
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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,