6 THE STAR-INDEPENDENT ( Eitabluhrti in ltiTH) Published by THE STAR PRINTING COMPANY, Star. Independent Building, IS-20-22 South Third Btr*«t. Harrisburg, P»- Every Evening Except Sunday. Chart: IHrtclors. •cnjauin F. METERS. *"• j ollN L L kchk, President. W». W. Wallowek. Vice President. k .meters, Wm. K. Meters. ... ... ... Secretary am! Treasurer. Wm. ™ " allowkr. WW H. Warner. V. Htmmkl Kir<;hai s, Jr . Business Manager Editor. All communications should be addressed to Star Independent, Business. Editorial, .lob Printing or Circulation Department, according to the subject matter. Entered »t the Post Office in Harrisbunc as aeconil class matter. Benjamin & Kent nor Company. New York and Chicago Representatives. New York Office. Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenue. Chicago Office. People's Has BuilfTing. Michigan Avenue. Delivered by curriers at 6 cents a week. Mailed to subscribers lor Three Dollars a year in advance " THE STAR INOEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harrisburg aud nearby lowna. Circulation Examined by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES: SELL Private Sranch Exchange. .... No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Pri»a."•; lowest, .">6; 8 a. m., 61; 8 p. in., 56. THE SANE COURSE Setting aside all consideration of the moral phase of the question of the right of any belligerent nation to slaughter citizens of a neutral nation as the Anierieaus were slaughtered on the Lnsitania, there appear to be sufficient legal grounds to justify this nation to refrain from entering into a war as a result of the killing of her people even if 110 reparation whatever is made by the nation which may ultimately be shown to have been responsible for the sinking of the great liner. Every sane person in America wants to avoid war. The question that all are asking is how can we do it with honor and without sacrificing our national prestige as the defender of our own people, in view of the Lnsitania incident ? Everybody knows that if we do go to war about it the results to the nation, win or lose, would more than likely be far more terrible than a score of "Lnsitania dis asters. There appear to be a number of grounds on which United States could with honor abstain from enter ing a war even it' the nation that may be shown ultimately to have been responsible for the Lusi tania deaths declines to acknowledge that responsi bility. Call them technical or legal grounds if you choose but if they permit this nation to escape the scourge of bloodshed that is now devastating Europe they should be resorted to. Persons who would urge the sacrifice of possibly millions of lives to avenge an act that cannot be undone, when such a sacrifice could be avoided without stultifying the nation, have a false sense of national honor. Although the full facts of the case are not yet in the hands of this Government, enough is known, even by the public, to indicate that, all moral con siderations set aside, it is at least debatable whether one belligerent nation has not the legal right to blow up a vessel of a nation with which it is at war in the territory of the latter nation. In the light of sanity it would be better for United State* to recog nize that legal,—call it technical if you will,—right of the nation that made the attack rather than to plunge this nation into the horrors of a world-wide «ar. FOOD SOLD BY THE CENT 'S WORTH There are at present twenty public schools in New York ( ity where one-cent lunches arc served to poor children. The work is being carried on by the school lunch committee of the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, which went into the lunch business in I!X>7 after the alarming fact was disclosed that thousands of. children had been going to school in the mornings without their breakfasts. For a cent or two these children now can buy necessary nourishment, more than could possibly be provided for theiu in their homes for like amounts. There are several obvious reasons why preparers of school lunches, operating scientifically, tan sup ply better and cheaper food to poor children than can the children's parents. There are dieticians who know how to arrange food with all due regard to palatabilitv, purity and nutritiousness, selecting it with the latter quality especially in view, rather than flavor and attractiveness merely. Then, too, they buy food iH large quantities, at reduced cost, and make use of all scraps according to rules of domestic economy which ought to be familiar ones in all kitchens, but which are not. The one-cent lunches have been provided at a loss, it must be noted, since the cents received in • ' v I > • HARftfaBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING,' MAY 10, 1915. payment for the baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, sausages, peas, peanut butter sandwiches, beans, cheese sandwiches, rice puddings, oranges, ice cream sandwiches, cakes, pieces of pie or candies, do not completely cover the costs of the articles of food. Even with the losses taken into consideration, however, the lunches in the schools have been found to be cheaper than food,in the homes. That the lunches are wholesome and nourishing as well as very low in price is evident from all re ports. and they surely are keeping many school chil dren from being hungry during school hours and thus from being handicapped in the pursuit of their studies. Large numbers of children have been found to be suffering from malnutrition, due to lack of food, as well as to want of hygienic conditions in their homes. In poor families economy is often practiced first of all on the table, and then uot often practiced wisely. Providers of families have things to learn, ap parently, from the preparers of one-cent lunches, among which are the facts that even cheap food may be nourishing if carefully selected and that the more palatable food is not necessarily the more nutritious. ANTI-MILITARY IDEAS IN SCHOOLS It is to be expected that the heads of military or ganizations in this country should differ in their opinions from ardent persons having anti-military sentiments. The former object to the latter's ac tions, which they say tend to put soldiers in dis repute in this country during times of peace, al though they have not yet shown that such actions really affect the soldiers. A major in the New York National Guards, for j instance, does not like the popular song, "I Didn'ti Raise My Hoy to He a Soldier,"' nor does he ad-l mire the familiar painting in which a little girl is ! represented as piteouslv asking her soldier-father if he is going away to kill some other little girl's pap>. He has found that hoth the song and the' painting are being used in a Brooklyn public school I building for the purpose of prejudicing pupils' against militarism, and has reported the matter to; the Hoard of Education, protesting against the anti-military propaganda in the public schools in j general. i The principal of the school in which the objec tionable song and painting are used for the forming | of pupils' opinions 011 matters military admits that he has made the song a part of the regular singing; exercises. He frankly asserts that his object is to teach the children the honors of war. llis activi ties in this direction happen to have come to pubic notice, but he is only one teacher among many who are these days imparting to their pupils anti-mili- j tary ideas, in hope that they may do their part in preventing future wars. The National Guardsman contends that the agi tation against militarism will discourage young men from enlisting in the State militia which, accord ing to the State constitution, shall consist at all times of ten thousand armed, equipped and trained soldiers. He is surely giving the teachings of the anti-military faction credit for plenty of effective-j ness. In case the influence of the lovers of peace is as great as he considers it to be, he has cause to 1 worry. It is almost too much to hope, however, that that influence could be so powerful. One of the host "safety first" precautions that we can recommend is for neutrals to keep out of the war zone. They're off 011 the three dav publicity run which will help ! remind the other cities that Harrisburg is on the map. The American people are proving they are possessed of; sanity and self-restraint when such qualities are most needed. Perhaps, after all, if we are honest enough with our- ' selves to admit it, our lack of preparedness for war is one ] of the reasons for our great desire to maintain peace. j To avoid the extreme of a panic the officers and crew of the sinking Lusitania appear to have gone to the other i extreme and told the passengers there was'no danger, with 1 the result that some of the passengers failed to realize their ' peril in time and go perished. The difficulty in such ter- J rible circumstances seems to be in the necessity of getting the people frightened enough to seek escape without their ' becoming too much frightened to seek escape in too pre i cipitate a way. ■ TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN UNDER PROTEST First Waiter—"Pat mean guy I just waited on insulted | me wid a dime." Second Ditto—"What did ver do?" Firs *—"l accepted it wid indignashun."—Boston Trail- i script. KITCHENER GROWS CAUSTIC A good story is going the rounds about what Lord Kitch ener said the other day after he had inspected some defense ! works on the east coast. It is short and sweet. The War ' Minister motored from point to point, walked over the ! ground, but never said a word all afternoon until the mo- j inent he was leaving for London. Then he openel his grim j mouth. "Those trenches of yours," he said, "wouldn't keep out the Salvation Army."—New York American. SALUTING THE MAJOR A new Territorial, who had not quite learned his busi ! ' ness. was on sentry duty one night when a friend brought !' a pie from the canteen. As he sat on'the grass eating pie ! the major sauntered up in undress uniform. The sentry,!' not recognizing him, did not salute, and the major stopped I and said: "What's that you have there?" "Pie," said the sentry, good-naturedly. "Apple pie. ! Have a bite}" The major frowned. "Do you know who I amf" he asked. "Xo," said the sentry, "unless you're the major's groom." ( The major shook his head. "Guess again," he growled. "The barber from the village?" ( "No." "Maybe"—here the sentry laughed—"maybe vou're the ( major himself!" ! "That's right. lam the major," was the stern reply. < The sentry scrambled to his feet. "Good gracious!' he exclaimed. "Hold the pie. will you, while I present arms!"— Philadelphia Record. •* BABY FRETFUL mmm i Had To Be Carried At Night. Could Not Let Clothes Near It. Applied Cuticura Ointment Then Washed With Cuticura Soap, Eczema Gone In Few Months. 5702 Kaorr St.. Tacouy, Philadelphia, Pa.— "My baby had ecxema. It was like deep crack, and then It would weep and get a hard surface on It. She was awful to look at. Every place where there was a crease, like the back of her ear and in her < neck. It Was awfully bad. The child bad to be carried at night. We could not let her | clothes be near It. She was fretful. I "She was a year old before I tried Cuti cura Soap and Ointment. I applied tkie Ointment and left it on Ave minutes, then washed with the Soap. The ccsema was gone In a few months." i,Signed! Mrs. M. j Pagan, November 7, 1914. I Do you realise that to go through life i tortured and dlsßgured by itching, burning, scaly and crusted eczemas, rashes, and other | skin and scalp humors is, in the majority | of cases, unnecessary? Cuticura Soap and i Ointment afford immediate relief and prove 1 successful in the most distressing cases. 1 when the usual methods fail. Sample Each Free by Mail With .12-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress post-card "Cuticura. I>ept. T, Bos- I ton." Sold throughout the world. I —— " -\ IT ong ue- End Topics | Balls Held Years Ago The late Levi Wolfinger, for years prominent in Harrisburg municipal af fairs, was for fifty years the president of the Washington Hose Company, from 184 1 to 1891. In that time Mr. Wolf inger was foremost in all ot' the com pany's social affairs, which were, in those days, more frequent among the firemen than at present, especially the holding of public balls. .Mr. W'ollinger was noled as a collector of data and at his death left a great many papers of value bearing upon the history of Har risburg, among them being a number of diaries containing much of interest re lat.ng to the residents of Harrisburg who were personal friends of Mr. Wolf inger. He also collected in his time a number of invitations to firemen's balls, some of which have been pre served to the present and are now in possession of B. E. Cummings, North Fourth street, Mr. Wolfinger's grand sun. Washington Ball in IK.VJ These old ball invitations are very interesting, containing the names of many of the older residents whose de scendants are still "in our midst.'' One of them is that of the ninth annual ball of the Washington Hose Company at the Shakespeare hall, February 20, 1852.. The committee consisted of William H. Bell, J. W. CNover. .). L. Speel, John R. Boyd, F. K. Swartz and John Shock. A "grand inauguration ball" was given by the Citizens' Steam Fire Kngine Company at Brant's hall January 15, 1567, when Governor Geary was inaugurated. The committee was F. R. Mather, F. B. Kinneard, T. S. McDevitt, W. H. Hippie, G. W. Krause, S. M. Myers and C. W. Maurer, the latter still living aud residing in Philadelphia. • • *. Good Will Affair in 1870 The Good Will Fire Company gave a ball in Brant's hall on November 23, j 1870, when the committee of arrange- I inejits consisted of A. Roat, James | Kautz, William H. Crook. R. Hamill and William Groff. A ball of the Hope Fire Company was held at Barr's New hall, Second and Locust, on January 8, 1569.' An anniversary ball of the Pax ton Fire Company was held in the com pany's engine house on November 22, 1865, when the committee was C. F. Vollnier, John A. Halier, Franklin Rhine and B. J. Slioop. Charles A. Wilhelm, the veteran who still survives, was the master of ceremonies on the occasion of the annual ball of of the Good Will Fire Company at Brant's hall on Easter Monday night, April 13, 1868. The Paxtou company also gave a ball on January 15, 1869, when the cimmittee consisted of John A. Hock er, Aaron Greenawalt, Henry Opper inan, Peter Stucker, William H. O'Brian, John Carichner, W. F. Pee bles, Adam Fisher, Joseph C. Fries, Al bert boy, Franklin Rhine and Wm. H. Ettcr, Jr. • \* ♦ * Well-known Names on Committee One of the big balls of the Wash ington Hose Company was that given j in Brant 's hall on December 16, 1868, when the following composed the com mittee: Frederick Trace, George W. j Simmers. Samuel McFarland, William L. Haber, Samuel Shearer, W. J. Hughes, John J. Keller, William K. Al ricks, Henry Kettering, James Hantz, John Koser, Thomas Peoples, Lem. Dun can, James Boyd, Ehvood R. Croll, T. 0. » Zimmerman, Irvin Boas, Francis Hoy. Henry Brubaker, Samuel Wenrick, Mordecai Felix. George Sponsler, D. L. Jauss, Henry Young, William Brodbeck aud W. B. Jones. • * * In Honor of Governor Curtin On January 14. 1861, when Govern or Curtin was first inaugurated, the Hope Fire. Company held "a grand in auguration ball" or "Hivers at home," at Brant's hall, when the following committee officiated: G. W. Geety, P. Finnegan, J. Sprucebanks, W. J. Putt, H. Hummel, J. M. Barr, S. Cline, J. Cuukel, H. Colestock, G. McAllister, J. Hiuunclright, R. R. Barr, John Me- Comas, James Hughes, W. F. McCoy and William D. Earnest, as master of ceremonies. * • * Friendship Ball in IHAB It was on December 31, 186S, that I the Friendship Fire Company gave a New Year ball in Brant' hall. On that occasion the members composing the ball coniihittec were Harry C. Shaffer, James B, Floyd, J. W. Lescure, George V. Corl, William N'. Brown, A. Schlayer, Levi A. Weaver. John H. Corl, Jacob ! Rupp. Charles Orth, David Fisher, I Christian t illey, Owen Millhousc, James j K. Dumars, John H. Caslow, John Senr fauss, William 'Hock, James McCloskev, John C. Fox. Alexander Marshbank, Robert S. Hnlbert. Theodore L. Rogers, John Stormfeltz and James A. Jack. All of these invitations arc'beautifully and artistically printed in colors, gold and silver, and at the time were con sidered the very top-notch in style of ball invitations. T. M. J. MEASURED BY INCHES Tiny Things Sway Calamity or Success in Human Affairs Everybody knows what a little thing an inch is, but few realize what a hig thing it is. Few stop to contemplate what the difference in an inch really means. A tailor knows when an inch too much or too little has cost him any where from $lB to SBO. A dressmaker knows when an inch 100 little of the goods on hand may cause her, after an arduous day of planning, to abandon a chosen pattern for another. An engi neer knows when his train, with its carload ol human freight, has gone one inch off the track over a precipice. Some men have minds one inch off the judgement track, and that causes I all their schemes, gigantic and bril jliant as they may be, to ru'u amuck. Every calamity and every success in I life is controlled bv inches. 1 Men rarely go to their doom in an I hour. It is inch by inch. All successes are won inch bv inch. As inch by inch the waters' of life I creep in to engulf us, so inch by inch ; the obstacles that impede °u r progress 1 move aside. j The man who attempts to leap over the inches to reach his goal gets there with a broken leg. The word inch has n forbidding sound. It is because it holds us in its clutches. We cannot ignore an inch or it immediately thwarts our intentions. Every simple thing is performed by man, as the saving goes, "within an inch of his lile." All diseases move inch by inch. Be fore the scarlet fever breaks out in a child it has been developing inch by inch for nine days. flie overstepping of an inch in the proprities of life brands us. if a girl in a theatre laughs an inch too loml the audience looks around and puts upon her the stamp of "not a lady." Deportment is measured by inches, and woe unto the man who fails to ob serve its dictates. Even in the deep est grief if one goes too far in his wail iugs the grief is questioned, if not rid iculed, and sympathy turned aside. An inch ton far in the poet's flight to imagination's realms and the world laughs at his best efforts. A single inch in any direction may throw awav a man's chances for the w orld s approval, and yet some men do not even consider the yards. It is the man who considers life within an inch of every detail present ed who succeeds.—New York Ameri can Mrs. A. Bierbowor The funeral ot Mrs. A. Bierbower, wife of Lewis H. Bierbower, who died Saturday, was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from her home, 231 1-2 South street. The services were in charge of the Rev. Dr. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of Reformed Salem church. Interment was in Prospect Hill cemetery. CURRENT COMMENT. Automobiles and Baseball. Somebody has discovered that the number of automobile owners in our ! country is nearly equal to the number j of baseball patrons. In this eonnec-1 tion It is suggested that, while the fans haven't the same cause for pride, they j don't worry any over tire trouble. On i the other hand, the ear owners are not anuoyed by outlaw leagues and um pires.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sadly Beautiful. Some of the courtesies Imposed upon : armies and navies are at times beauti- [ ful in tbeir expression. For instance, j a Japanese warship the other day j steamed about the spot where the F-4 went down. Its crew was drawn up! iu salute, aud its flag was dipped In honor of the men entombed below.— j Rochester Union and Advertiser. A Seasonable Explanation. Every woman wants a new hat that ; makes her look better than she looked in her old hat, which was more fasci- i hating than the one she had before, and so on, back to the time she was an angel in appearance; hence the diffi culty of flndiDg a hat to suit—Toledo Blade. The Irish Tongue. Seumas McManus declares that the Irish language Is "the most forceful to | curse, pray and make love in. as It Is j the most expressive," and he adds, "It i has 3(15 terms of endearment for a j girl." In that respect it runs a close | race with Spanish.—Boston Globe. $3.00 TO New York AND RETURN Via PHILADELPHIA & READING RAILWAY SUNDAY, MAY 16 SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAIN From Lv. A.M. I HARRISBURG 3.35 j Hummelstown, 3.50 i Swatara 3.55 Hershey 3.57 Palmyra, 4.04 Annville, 4 13 LEBANON 4.24 NEW YORK (arrive), 9.30 RETURNING—Leave New York from foot West 23rd Street 6.50 P. M., foot Liberty Street 7.00 P. M. same day for above stations. rS DAHLIAS FROM THE PEAOOCK DAHLIA FARMS, PRODUCERS of THE WORLD'S Hest Dahlias. One hundred—l(K)—of the latest varieties TO SELECT FROM. Remember we do not sell little bits of roots: —but large clumps having two to five tubers. Everyone who has had our DAHLIAS say "they are the finest they evi»r saw." All kinds and varieties of the following: NEW PAEONY, NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM SHAPED, CAC TUS, DECORATIVE, SHOW, FANCY, POMPON, CENTURY, COLLARETTE AND QUILLED. The Dahlia is the coining flower and very few have the least conception of the beauty of this Into summer and fall flower. Large clumps, 10c to 23c each. This is the flower that will capture some of the prizes offered for fine yards. Every thing at Holmes' for the Garden. IIQLMEB CEED POMPANY ■ ■ AVE W ATISFIED W USTOMERS 106-108 South Second St., Near Chestnut, Harrisburg. FIRST (UNDER AN ARRANGEMKXT WITH, 'i'HIC DEPARTMENT OK EAROK AND; INDUSTRY THE STAR-INDEI'ENDK.NT 1 PRINTS EACH MONDAY \ PRACTICAL AHTICEE REARING ON THE "SAKKTY FIRST" MOVEMENT OU KINDRED' SUBJECTS. PREPARED BY THAT j BRANCH OF THE STATE GOVERN MENT, OK WHICH COMMISSIONER JOHN PRICE JACKSON IS THE HEAD.) DAMAGE FROM LltiHTlNti FIXTURES In many oases an inspection of light-1 ing fixtures often reveals that ver«» ••• tie attentiou has been paid concerning t+ieir location in unsafe places. Fre quently gas or electric light fixtures are placed in such u position that persons deriving illumination l'rom these lix tures are accustomed to sit directly un- ' der them. Especially is this trno where ! lighting fixtures of the indirect tv;e are used. The globes of these lights are usually of very heavy material, and are! (kept in position by bolts running! through the glass or being bound around the edges. Persons who frequent the rooms in which heavy globes are placed seldom give attention to the fact that ] there is a possibility of the globe or I shade cracking and falling down upon i them. In barber shops the electric light or i lighting fixture is frequently hung di rectly over the 'barber's head. If the globe should crack or the rhadc become loose, a serious accident to a |«tron sitting in the chair directly underneath could scarcely be avoided. An example 1 of this happened a few years ago. A shop of this character had been com- ; pletelv renovated and among the im-1 provements which were installed were ! large acetylene gas burners with heavy j porcelain shades. Has of this kind pro- | duces an extremely hot flame, and, I owing to the fact that the shades were: not the proper kind, but were intended | for use as electric light fixtures, they j became cracked through the intense j ) heat. A large piece fell down on one [ of the patrons of the shop and, fortu- ! nately, instead of striking him in the j head, hit him on the arm. The injury I was only slight, but it showed the! necessity of safeguarding people from t'he danger of the more serious acci- ! dents which might result if glass would fall 011 the head. Gas and ele.'tric fixtures are fre- < | quently found in homes, so situated that i j those using the light from them are i | forced' to seat themselves directly un i derneath. In some instances fixtures so 1 located have contained cracked or broken shades. Such a condition is un- i questionably one which may cause con- i siderably injury to those unconscious of I the danger. It is only within the last few years j [ that the source of danger has been re- j | ceiving some attention, and the neces- j sitv for it became apparent as soon as i the large type of shade reflectors came ! j into use. This new type o>f shades is i I usually made of extremely heavy glass, j 1 and naturally becomes a very great j i source of danger if it is cracked. The Department of Eabor and In-1 j dustry is glad to call attention to the j ! work of accident prevention along this j j line Which has been accomplished by! I various manufacturers. Especially is j this true of a large electric fixture man- I ufacturing company of Pittsburgh. This j company has recently inaugurated a j practice of placing a wire netting! around all heavy shades on lighting I fixtures. If the shade should break from i any cause, the particles of glass are i prevented by the wire netting from I falling on a person who might ha.ppen j to be underneath. The company has i shown at some of its various safety' exhibitions, pictures of the particles of I glass from broken shades being held in ! position and prevented from falling by the use of wire netting. Attention is, therefore, directed to this hnzard which may exist in fac tories, homes, hotels, apartment houses, department stores and various other j shops. The department urges that ail i proprietors of such places make pro- j vision so that persons who frequent j them will be prevented from being in- j jured by falling [(articles of glass from I fixtures which have been placed direct- ! ly overhead where iiersons are assem- j bled. Mrs. Susan Slegel Mrs. Susan Siegel, widow of George I A. Siegel, died at her home, 1421 James street, aged 80 years. Surviving | are three sons and one daughter, Wil- I liam, John and George Siegel, and Mrs. I Eipma Greenour. The funeral will tie | held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock j from her home, the Rev. C. H. Grove, ! pastor of the Green Street Church of j God. officiating. Interment will be in ! the East Harrisburg cemetery. Re.-dy For Carnival Everything is now in readiness for the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's car nival, to be held here the week of May 17. This morning a number of auto mobiles left Harrisburg for the sur rounding territory announcing the car nival. Invitations will also bo extended to the nearby fire companies for the week. The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensary will be open daily except Sunday at 3 ,p. m., at its new location, Front" and Harris streets, for the free treatment of the worthy poor. I DEISS' ECZEMA LOTION I Cures Eczema, Gnlls, Dandruff and all skin eruptions. WM. DEISS, 920 N. 2nd St, Formerly j FOURTH and WALNUT STREETS A LAND OF MURDERS. Papua, a Cold Blooded Country, Where Life Is Held Cheap. Fapun h:>s long been known as a I bloody land. It Is n bloody land stiii. But the blood of white men is rarely let. aud the wanton slaughter <>f na tives. the one by the other—at leasl j In those fust widening regions which i lire within the sphere of the law—is fast diminishing. All this being so in one year, nevertheless, when there were. 210 prisoners committed for trial, 118 of them were charged with murder, I nine with manslaughter and live with i attempted murder. To the civilized mind the motives to 1 murder, shocking enough, to be sure, nor wanting an aspect of grewsome humor, are upon occasion incredible. As they are matters of record, how ! ever, disclosed on painstaking investi gation. they are to lie accepted, not na j irresponsible tales, such us wandof | about the eastern seas, but as substau i Hal facts, however singular and incoui j prehensible they may appear. It is a matter of court record, for ex -1 ample, that certain natives of what is ! called the coast range, being upon trial | for the murder of two carriers, whoso J throats they had cut, admitted the deed j without, the least hesitation and sougtit to justify the ghastly business upon j the ground that the carrier bad appear* I ed to be "cold and hungry"—dejected fellows, far away from their village. ! The prisoners had not eaten the car riers. They had merely—with the most j considerate expedition -cut the throats j of the carriers, who were strangers, at any rate, and therefore of no great con i sequence, and uo ingenuity of cross | questioning could elicit a motive ul* ! terior to the one so ingenuously ad vanced—that the carriers, appearing to ! be "cold and hungry," were, in tin) | opinion of the gentlemen, who had in j continently cut their throats, much bet- J terdead. A similar case of raereif l extenuina j tlon concerned a young na..ve employ j ed to shoot game for a white planter, i who encountered a sick man (Papuan) on the road near a river and strau ! gled him to death. Upon trial he ev j plained that the sick man had created annoyance and a considerable embar rassment as well by insistently re | questing to be carried across the river 1 to the other side, whence his way lay j forward to his village. "Quite so." said the presiding oflicer. "Why, then, didn't you carry him across the river?" "lie was too heavy." replied the na ( tlve. "It would have put me to a great ; deal of trouble." "Why did you kill him?" "What else could I do? The man I was sick." It was out of the question to endure i the labor of carrying the sick man j across the river. It was equnlly out of the question to abandon the pitiable object. Therefore the bewildered fel low had strangled him-the most ob tious way out of a dilemma which bade fair to distress his feelings.—Har> i per's Magazine. A Sailor'* Compliment. I Through all the years they were to i gether Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont | lived for her husband, as before her : marriage she had lived for her father, j Her brilliant mind, her heart and her i hands were constantly busy In her hus -1 band's service, and a gallant sailor's compliment shows that her devotion was widely recognized. During the war, when Admiral Porter had com mand of the Federal fleet on the Mis sissippi. his flagship was the steamer Benton, named after Mrs. Fremont's father. The admiral named the little j tender of the flagship Jessie Benton Fremont, and he wrote to Mrs. Fre j mont his explanation: "You have alw-ays sailed close to your husband and your father." Poor Literary Pay Dr. Johnson is commonly reckoned ai a successful author, yet lie re ceived for many of his compositions a comparatively small rum. His most profitable undertaking was the dic tionary, for which he asked 1,57 pounds and he received more. But the task occupied his time for seven years. —Pearson's Weekly.