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Saturday, May t, 1013.
MAY
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MOON'S PHASES—
Last Quarter, ttth; New Moon, 13th:
First Quarter, 21st; Full Moon. 28th.
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CX WEATHER FORECASTS
• Harris burg and vicinity: Generally
, | fair to night and Sunday, slightly cooler
/l\r# » * I to-night with lowest temperature about
J Eastern Pennsylvania: Generally fair
>w| to-night and Sunday, slightly cooler to-
A, a I night in south portion. Gentle to mod
ijr erate winds becoming northwest.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 68; lowest, 37; 8 a. m., 61; S p. in., 59.
CHINA FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT
Japan's negotiations with China and all other
proceedings affecting the oriental republic are nat
urally of interest to the United States. Although
this country cannot look upon China with quite the
same big-brother feeling with which it regards the
Latin-American republics, it is nevertheless con
c«rne>d about the welfare of that Asiatic country,
partly because it is in sympathy with the demo
cratic form of government there and partly be- \
cause Americans have interests in China that need
to be guarded.
It is with some degree of satisfaction then that
we hear of improving financial conditions in China
which give evidence of the confidence of the people
in the stability of the republic, and of their ability
to prosper independent of alien capitalists.
No more than a year ago China was still borrow
ing large amounts of money from ready foreign
lenders, and the people were still skeptical about
themselves making loans on security provided by
their new government. Since the outbreak of the
war, however, China has found that it can manage
its finances very capably without assistance from
outside its own boundaries.
From a belief that the purchase of Chinese gov
ernment bonds was the worst possible investment
\hey could make with their money, the citizens.of
China seem to have changed to the conviction that
such investment is the best possible. The amount
asked for by the new government in the prospectus
of its domestic loan was $16,000,000. Within four
months the total subscriptions received amounted
to $24,000,000 and a supplementary loan of $8,000,-
000 had to be arranged to satisfy the eager in
vestors. Another issue of $24,000,000 worth of gov
ernment bonds has now been decided upon for
next month. June.
That is not the only encouraging sign in China.
A very important one is the ability of the farmers
of the laud to pay their taxes now for the first time
since the 1911 revolution. Many of the provincial
governments are self-supporting, and the rest are
not only able to meet their own expenses, but to
aid in supporting the central government at Pekin
as well. There is a compliment in such a state of
affairs to the management by its officials of the
newly organized republic.
HELP THE BAND CONCERT FUND!
The popularity of public band concerts at Reser
voir Park in the summer months has been so con
vincingly demonstrated in other years that there
can be no question that the people generally are
in full sympathy with the plan of the recently form
ed Band Concert Association to stage about a score
of free concerts in the pavilion this season. The
association can feel assured that the people want
the concerts and the chief concern of all interested
now is the raising of the $1,500 that will be re
quired to hire the musicians.
It was chiefly for the purpose of raising this
money that the association was formed and we un
derstand its authorized representatives are about
to start a campaign for obtaining funds by means
of popular subscription. The Chamber of Com
merce, which makes a specialty of investigating
plans for obtaining public subscriptions, has giv
en its O. K. to the proposition, and a liberal re
sponse on the part of those who can afford to give
will assure the success of the undertaking.
It is proposed to give at least 17 concerts at the
park, all by bands of musicians from this com
munity. It is the intention to give them every
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v HABMBBTTRG aTAB-INDEPEKDENT. SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 1. 1915.
Friday evening in June, July and August, except
July 2nd and 9th, and there will be concerts
also on th« afternoons and evenings of three holi
days, May 31, which will be observed as Memorial
Day since the holiday falls on Sunday this year;
July sth, as the 4th is a Sunday, and September 6,
Labor Day.
As the first of these concerts is scheduled for the
last day of the present month, there is not any too
much time remaining for the collection of these
funds, and, therefore, those who can contribute
should make prompt response to the appeal for
money to provide this most healthful and inspiring
form of entertainment for all the people of Harris
burg.
WHEN HAIR TURNS WHITE OVER NIGHT
Novelists and poets have repeatedly testified
that because of great fear or grief the hair of a
hero or heroine has turned white over night. De
spite this testimony men of science have recently
declared that it is a physical impossibility for the
hair of any person, be he real or fictitious, grief
smitten or fear-stricken, to change color in one
night.
This is not the first time, of course, that fiction
has collided with science. Generally the collision
has been to the disadvantage of the fiction. It may
be so in this case. The contention of medical men
seems reasonable, that only with chemical assist
ance can hair actually change color in so brief a
period, since there are no provisions made by
Nature for the controlling of the color of hair
merely through the mind.
The explanation has been advanced somewhere
that gray hairs may be plentiful on a head, but
may be covered by the brown or the black, and
that the latter may be shed during times of mental
torture, thus revealing tbe former and giving rise
to the impression that the hair has changed color.
That sounds very interesting, but there does not
seem to be much difference between placing con
fidence in such a statement and believing the de
spised theory of "turning white over night." Both
need proof. Investigators might do well to pick
up a tramp some day, give him a good scare and
see what happens. The chances are that there
would be no white hair at all, but the experiment
-would no doubt be a diverting one, especially to
the tramp.
The unkind suggestion has been made that in
eases where women were locked in prisons and were
reported to have acquired gray hair over night,
the reason was that the women were deprived in
their imprisonment of certain toilet articles which
in their boudoirs had enabled them to subdue the
tell-tale threads of silver. This brutal explanation
may not be without some foundation on truth.
Although it is of assistance to the scientists in
their contention it certainly puts the "white over
night'' heroines in an embarrassing position.
Many speculators are profiting from "war stocks" who
would be afraid to shoulder a gun.
David Lloyd George's pledge "never to politically touch
liquor again" leaves us still in doubt whether he is on the
water wagon.
Commissioner Jackson is confronted with the interesting
problem of making 50 new jobs in the Department of
Labor and Industry go around among 1,500 applicants.
The Barnes-Roosevelt trial, we are told, will run through
a third week of the court's time. We wonder if the libel
suit of one ordinary person against another ordinary person
would be so long drawn out.
The Kolonial Kids band should not be forgotten when it
comes to arranging the summer concerts. The way those
youngsters inject "pep" into the playing of a Sousa march
would make Sousa himself listen with envy.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
MAN S HOPELESS LOT
It is no pleasure for a man to do as he pleases until after
he get* married—and then he can't.—Pittsburgh Chron
icle-Telegraph.
HOW IT WOULD WORK OUT
A St. Louis Judge has ruled that a man has a right to
find fault with his wife's clothes, but a man would be a fool
for taking advantage of the ruling because as a remedy he
would have to buy her more.—Florida Times-Union.
THE DIFFERENCE
Mrs. Bilton—"That Mrs. Jinks is always very well
dressed, while her husband always looks shabby."
Bilton—"Well, she dresses according to fashion, and he
according to his means." —Judge.
BEVENOE AT LAST
Judge—"lt seems to me that I have seen you before."
Prisoner—"You have, your Honor. It -was I who
taught your daughter to play the piano."
Judge—"Thirty years!"— Musical American.
WHAT THE RESULT WOULD BE
An authority on the subject says men should stop eating
for a while and think. Some men, under the circumstances,
would merely stop long enough to wonder whence the next
meal was to come.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
POLITE WAY OF PUTTING IT
"Here's a dealer advertises a sale of hereditary fur
niture."
"Just what does he mean by that!"
"That's merely a polite way of saying second-hand."—
Exchange.
"Darling, lou know our romance started through a pair
of socks which you knitted and sent to the front. I found
a note inside, photos were exchanged, and now we are
married."
"Yes. yes." murmured the happy bride.
"I have one request to make."
"Name it."
"Please never knit me any more socks."—Exchange.
ALWAYS THAT DANGER
"Honeaty," said the ready-made philosopher, "is the best
policy."
"Of is," replied Senator Borghum. "The only
difficulty about that proverb is that a man who is honest
merely from motives of policy is liable at any moment to
get tired of playing a slow but sure system."—Washing
ton Star.
HAVE GOOD HEALTH
Take Hood's S&raaparllla, the Old
Sellable Spring Tonic
fwt let the idea that you may feel
better in a day or two prevent you from
getting a bottle of Hood's SaraapariUa
to-day from any drug store and start
ing at once 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. It will build you up
quicker than any other medicine. It
gives strength to do and power to en
dure. It is the old standard tried and
true all-the-year-round blood purifier
and 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 |
Gives the Senators Chocolates
Senator Frank P. Croft, of Mont
gomery, who resides at Marion, is sen
ior member of the firm of Croft & Al
len, Philadelphia, one of the largest
confectionery manufacturing firms in
the country, with a specialty in choco
lates. Senator Croft, a very modest
young man, by the way, does not for
get that there are a number of bis
fellow Senators who have what is
known as the "sweet tooth." and ev
ery week he has sent to him numerous
boxes of confections from his factory,
which he generously distributes among
his colleagues. There was nioro candy
eaten in the Senate this year than ever
before in its history. Wihenever a
committee, of which Senator Croft is a
member, holds a meeting there is sure
to be a big box of most delicious con
fections at the head of the table and
between hearing arguments on bills
and deliberations there is much munch
ing of sweetmeats.
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Fred Fruit a Son of "Jim''
Representative Fred" T. Fruit, of
Mercer, resides in Sharon and is a son
of James S. Fruit, who served in the
House from ISS7 to 1892 and then in
tho Senate to 1896. Like his father,
the younger lawmaker is the very em
bodiment of geniality, with a keen fund
of humor. He has been described as
'"a live wire with streaks of sunshine."
In the old yuay days Senator "Jim"
Fruit, State Treasurer "Ben" Hay
wood, Major Alexander McDowell, aft
erward secretary of the National House
of Representatives, and Judge "Sam"
Miller, recently elected to Congress,
formed a political quartet in Mercer
that held sway for years and was a
power in State politics. Their county
was called "The Diocese of Messer,"
and Henry Hall, the Washington corre
spondent, who represented it in the
Houso of Representatives, used to say
that the costume in the diocese was
'"a red wammus and gum boots." This
is disputed by former Deputy Attorney
General James A. Stranahan, of Harris
burg, who is one of " Messer's original
sons."
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"Jeff" Smith in House Now
Representative Jefferson W. Smith,
who represents the Eighth Philadelphia
district in the House, was formerly a
resident of Harrisburg, years ago, and
is a printer by trade. He learned the
trade of compositor in the old "Pa
triot" office when it was at Third and
Strawberry streets, and his recollection
of the old-time printer days in Har
risburg, when all of the type-setting
was done by hand, is very interesting.
"Jeff," as he was known by every
other printer, cast his lot in Philadel
phia, where he has prosperecTand be
came a politician of local note.
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At Last a Republican From Lehigh
Lehigh county was organized in 1812
from a part of Northampton county,
and in the entire history of tho county
it never elected a Republican Senator
until last year, when it chose Horace
W. Schantz, Republican, of Macungie.
To obtain the Democratic nomination
for Senator in Lehigh in the last hun
dred years was equivalent to an elec
tion, but Senator Schantz broke the
rule and when he was nominated by
the Republicans he started out to do
some tail work among the voters.
There were two candidates against him,
a Democrat and a Washington party
man, the latter dividing the Republican
vote, but Senator Schantz won out by
168 plurality, the first Republican to
accomplish the feat.
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Catlin's Picturesque Career
Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of
Wilkes-Barre, serving his third term in
,the Senate, is the oldest member in
point of age in that body, being in his
73d year. He served all through the
Civil war as a member of a Pennsylva
nia regiment, and then set out for the
great West. He was one of the orig
inal settlers of Helena, Montana, but
later went to San Francisco, where he
was superintendent of machinery at
Mare Island navy yard for five years.
Then he returned to Pennsylvania, in
vested his spare cash in wild lands in
the Luzerne coal regions, on which the
finest kind of anthracite coal was
found, and now his greatest manual la
bor consists of cutting coupons. De
spite his age, be is one of the young
est men in the Senate, and is noted for
his biting wit. T. M. J.
Arranging New Turkish War Loan
London, May 1, 1.49 A. M.—Tele
graphing from Copenhagen, the "Daily
Mail's" correspondent says that Ber
lin advices received there are to the
effect that Djavid Bey, the Turkish
Minister of Finance, has returned to
Constantinople after having arranged
in Berlin for a new Turkish war loan.
PEOPWSCOLUHN
The Star-Independent doea Ml
make Itself responsible for opinions
•xpreiaed In this column.
Why Ro Amended Censor Bill
Editor of the Star-Independent:
Dear Sir—One of the legislative
news items of the week has been fur
nished by my action in having the Sen
ate moving picture censor bill amended
ao as to strike out the words, "or
prejudice the public mind."
1 was prompted to do this for several
reasons. This phrase is ambiguous, un
definable, unstatutory. The power it
conveys to the censors is wholly dis
cretionary. It creates a (board of despots
instead of a "board of censors. Surely it
is euough power to give this board,
which has not been shown to be neces
sary, the right to prevent the ex|>osure
of pictures that are sacrilegious, ob
scene, indecent, immoral, or which
might endanger the public peace? It is
not wise to clothe any set of persons
with unlimited authority and the elimi
nated n'hrnse does so.
By its power there are but few pic
tures, if any, that could be shown if
the censors said ' no." They need give
no reason for disqualifying a picture
hut that it tends "to prejudice ttie
public mind." Kverv picture is. in some
sense, instructive, as well as amusing,
and every picture would thus be sub
ject to the '/prejudices" in the minds
of the censors. "'Prejudice the public
mind," is elastic enough to be stretched
to fit nnv condition and, until men have
become angerfs and infallible, I shall
tight against giving to oue, or three ot
them, anv such prerogative.
As the 'bill is now, it complies with
all that is religiously and morally neces
sary. Carrying the now eliminated
phrase, we should have had to flgiit
against the passage of fhe act.
James H. Maurer.
Harrisburg, Pa.. April 30, 1915,
SEE Aim MOTOR CAR
View the Historic Points in This Coun
try Keynote of National High
ways Transcontinental Tours
See America is the keynote of the
National highway transcontinental
tours. Mo better opportunity has ever
been offered for those who are desirous
of seeing their country than these
tours, the first leaving the headquar
ters of National Highways Association
at 18 Old Slip, New York City, June
15, over the Old Trails route.
The battlefield of Gettysburg, ST'/a
miles motor road to Harrisburg, the
Old Cumberland Road which served as
the first means of communication be
tween the coast and the settlere in
Ohio and Indiana and then the Old
Santa Fee Trail—a succession of won
der sights. Relics of the past life of
the trail, the excitement and bloody
Indian strife, trappers and trad posts,
the shades of Kit Carson and Dick
Woodin and others famous as early
American pioneers. The peaceful pres
ent day Indian villages, the vestages
of a civilization antidating anything
in America, standing and in good pres
ervation, the oldest house in America
built in 1520. Old, missions, old pueb
los and oldest of all the works of na
ture, desert vegetation, a riot of color
defying even the iuipreesionest school
of art. Sunsets that for vividness and
splendor are unequalled auywhere in
the world. The petrified forest, the
megaphone rock and the grandest of
all the Grand Canyon. Then slipping
down gradually into California's
beauty and the gem exposition, San
Diego, a coast ride along the Pacific
and finally the Golden Gate.
SEVERE TESTS FOR THE PAIGE
Local Dealer Takes Pride in Demon
strating Good Points of Auto
George R. Bentley, owner of the
Riverside Auto Company, and local
dealer in the Paige car, takes pride in
demonstrating its flexibility and pow
er. Without apparent effort he controls
it on high gear by partially shutting
off the flow of gas, so as to reduce the
speed to a pace of from four to five
miles an hour.
Mr. Bentley reports that he has
giveu the car recently some very se
vere tests over rough places and ex
perienced no difficulties whatever.
Adv.*
DELIVER 3 TRUCKS AND JITNEY
International Harvester Company Sends
Out a Few of Latest Models
Tho International Harvester Com
pany motor truck department, 615 Wal
nut street, has just delivered three of
its latest model trucks locally, one to
the Worden Paint Roof Comfiany,
of Harrisburg; o ne to the Steelton
Store Company, of Steelton, and one
to the Herr Hardware Company, of Co
lli m hi a.
During the past week the company
also delivered a Jitney passenger car
to be used between IMt" IHolly and Car
lisle. —Adv.*
King George Sends Congratulations
London, May 1, 12.20 A. M. —King
George has sent to Acting Vice Ad
miral John Michael De Robeck^com
mander of the allied fleet at the* Dar
danelles and to General Sir Hamilton,
commander-in-chief of the Dardanelles
land forces, a dispatch conveying to
all ranks "hearty congratulations on
this splendid achievement."
A palatable pleasing drink. Fink's
Extra Pale Beer.—Adv.
Cora Your Com*
fithout Cutting
Baser** Cora Bot*eotto«
real oorn remedy—<ll siot ree
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without cutting and without
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m. remove* the esuuv gives
Hate and lasting relief.
■ quickly .safety,surely on the
orbanloas no matter wbeth.
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h. Other so-called eorn cure*
nnediee may temporarily lsa>
am wapatn, but Baaer*s Corn A
raat kUls thesorn for all time. H'sgsirwlirf.
Queue bottle win care a dozen of the worst
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MT looter—den'twante jour money on tbe ehlro-
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torn am'Bv a ISO bottle of Baser** Con
ktfnot tad* end be iM of every oornoayoar
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MOTORCYCLE NOTES
Detroit motorcyclists have made a
'bid for the 1916 convention of the
Federation of American Motorcyclists.
Soon the horse-mounted policeman
will bo unknown in Gotham. To this
tnd the (Board of Aldermen recently!
appropriated $25,000 for the pur
chase of motorcycles and bievles.
Eight 'hundred and eighty-five new
memberships and renewals" were re
ceived by the F. A. M. during March
as against 797 during the same month
last year.
If the War Department will grant
permission for the use of the Potomac
Pnik priveways, the National Capital
Motorcycle Club of Washington, D. C.,
proposes to stage a 300-mile motorcycle
race this summer. The club expects to
make this an event of international im
portance, inviting the best riders of the
country to participate. The course is
altout three miles in length, and since
it : s located on a government reserva
tion, the event will be open to the pub
lic tree of charge.
MIDDLETOWN
Silver Trophies of Gun Club Now on
Exhibition
Middletown, May I.—Mr. and Mrs.
Abrani Noll and son arc spending sev
eral days at Philadelphia ani],Lancaster.
Charles Zorgrer, of Alfoona, spent
Wednesday in town on business.
Quite a number of persons from town
will take in the special excursion to
New York City on Sunday over the
Pennsylvania railroad.
The two silver trophies offered by
the Middletown Gun Club, two tine sil
ver cups, are on exhibition in the show
window of Detweller Bros. Several of
the club members attended the shoot
at Elizabethtown this afternoon.
Miss Lola Winters spent Friday at j
Newport, Pa.
Albert Kling moved into the Baum
bach property on Pine street.
The Rev. G. W. Izer, D. D., district
superintendent of the East District of
the M. E. church, will preach in the j
M. E! church Sunday morning and on j
Harrisbv/rg Light
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THE GREATEST ELECTRICAL
BARGAIN EVER
OFFERED
Beginning to-day and continuing for sixty days you
can buy for cash only a $3.50 Electric Iron, guaranteed
for live years, for
$1.85
We have just received a large supply of these irons
and they must go in the next sixtv davs.
BUY AT ONCE
r^nininr^y
Impressions Verified
OUR bank building is unpretentious
in architecture but it impresses one
with the solid character of its construc
tion. For many year* it has been a
Market Street landmark, with its clean
white exterior and its four massive col
umns, proving a familiar picture to all.
This feeling of strength and enduring
service imparted, really typifies the
character of the banking business
within.
"Eighty-three Years of Continuous Banking"
Q213 Market Street
Capital, SBOO,OOO Surplus. fttoo.ooo
Monday evening the first quarterly con
ference will be held. He will also visit
both Sunday schools.
(laude \\ it hauer, of Washington,
, D. C„ is spending several davs in town
> j on business.
The three Are companies will hold
their regular monthly meetings on Mon
i day evening.
Raymond Gilbert is spending some
| time at Williamsport.
The car company will finish the con
crete wall <m the south side of Wood
street by Monday. It will be three feet
high and will be used for the uewr
building.
Markets were well attended this
morning. Kggs sold at 17 and 18 cents
per dozen; butter. 35 and 38 cents per
pound; lnrd, 16 iind 16 cents per pound;
chickens, cleaned. 50 to 90 cents; live,
i 90 cents to $1.50 per pair.
HEADS GERMAN SOCIETY
Dr. William F. Muhlenberg, of Read
ing, New President
Reading, Pa., May I.—Dr. William
1. Muhlenberg, of Reading;, was chosen
president to nil the unexpired term of
the late William U. Heusel, of Lancas
ter, at a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania Ger
| man Society, held here last night.
A. K. Hostettor, of Lancaster, was
elected vice president to fill the vacan
cy caused by Dr. Muhlenberg's eleva
tion. Heading wass elected as the place
of the annual mooting, on Friday, Oc
tober 15. Dr. D. W. Mead, Reading;
Benjamin F. Fackenthal, Jr., Riegels
ville, and Dr. Porter W. Shinier, Has
ten, were named as the Committee ou
Arrangements.
' GALEN HALL '
in the Mountains
j Wernersville, Pa.
Delightful Spring Resort. Dry Air.
Outlook of 35 Miles. Curative and
Tonic Baths. Superior Cuisine. Good
Roads. N. Y. Office. 243 Fifth Ave.
HOWARD M. WING
, GAI-EN MOUNTAIN CO. Manager
K. U YOUNG, Gen'l Mgr.
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