2 UNCLE HARRY TELLS ABOUT THE COST OF THE WAR "Joe and I were talkiug about the war this afternoon," said Jimmy, 9s lie climbed into the porch hammock along side of Uncle Harry, "and while we know it is costing an awful lot of money, we were wondering just how much it amounted to; can you tell us ? " [• ''That's almost like asking me how much damage a tire will do while the fire is still raging,'' said Uncle Harry. I "Well, can't you give us some ideaf" inquired Joe. ; "I can give you a lot of figures, that ■ I know will puzzle you almost as much as though I were to ask you how many grains of sand there are along the sea chore of New Jersey. For example: the other day the British government announced that it was planning to spend a total of $5,600,000,000 if the war lasts another year." Both boys whistled, and then Jim my said: ''That's five and a half b-i-1- 1-ion dollars, isn't it?" "And if the war lasts only six more months the British government will have to spend $10,500,000 a day," added l"ncle Harry. •• Remember too, that Great Britain is only one of the • countries. The war is costing Ger many. France, Austria. Russia and Turkey millions and billions of dollars also. The total cost to all the nations is so tremendous a sum that only a .banker or an expert whose business it is to work in figures can form any idea of what it ail means in dollars and cents. But Lean tell you this boys; if half the money that is being spent on the war were spent on building schools, and hospitals for the sick, and helping the world to help all the peo ple who are in need of food and cloth ing an.i the other things that even human being must have to toe strong and healthy and hap;\v, there wouldn't be any need for jails or battleships or big guns or ammunition or any of the other things that bring so much suffer ing and sorrow into the world." •'Where do the nations get all this money f" asked Joe. " \Vlio pays all these costs of the war?'' "The nations borrow the money,',' said I'ncle Harry. "Who lends it to them!" asked Jimmy. SUBURBAN NEW BX.OOMFIELD Memorial Day Exercises Will Be Held Saturday. May 3» tjp.-oinl Corresponttenc- New Blootrfield, May 21. —The pa rade on May which will be ob served here as Decoration Day because Jhe 30th falls on Sunday, will assem ble at lejitre square at 12.30 p. in. Lodges and Sunday schools will be in line and the New Bloomtield band will head the procession. Automobiles will convey the veterans to the cemetery. The Rev. Harry Dover, pastor of the U. B. church, will deliver the address iu the cemetery. "Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works." a play > by local talent, will be given at Blain to-morrow evening. Mrs. Matilda Laird is visiting in 2s~ew York. Miss Elizabeth Barbour is visiting her mother. Mrs. Harry .Smith, at New Cumberland. Mrs. B. F. Hollenbaugh is visiting iMr. and Mrs. R. R. McKahan, of Wash- j ington, D. C. Mrs. I. Potter Hayes is spending this! ■week with Mrs. H. C. Mohn at Myers-. town. Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Allen DePugh. of Dun-1 cannon, spent Sunday with Mr. and { Mrs. Charles DePugh. Miss Jennie Smith, of Harrisburg. Visited Miss Ada Darlington. MIDDLETOWN Public Schools Will Close O Months' Term Next Friday tfnc Inl Correspondence. Middletown. May 21. —H. B. Xeff. of Sunbury, transacted business in town i yesterday. William Beck, who spent the past few weeks in town, returned to Loys- j ville to-day, where he is cobbler for the home. Mrs. Maggie Palmer, who has been ; ill at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Aiiley Shaeffer. for the past few weeks. I is able to be down stairs. To-morrow will be pay-day for the j employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in town and also at the car works. Miss Mary Bowers, of Harrisburg, is •pending a few Mays in town. A <-ar load of maple flooring ar- j rived yesterdav for the new addition • |@ualifyf I • Supeif' I '"The bankers, for the most part, although some of it is loaned by the peoples in the different countries,'' said Uncle Harry. "But the govern ments have to pay interest, and the interest is so great that as a rule nations never pay off war loans; they just keep on paving* interest year in and year out. Do you understand what interest ist" "Yes indeed we do," said Joe. "We have our savings in the snviug fund and every year the saving fund com pany pays us two cents for every dol lar we have on deposit." "That's it exactly," said Uncle Har ry. "But with these war loans, the sums of money that the governments of the warring countries owe the bank ers are so great that the governments are never ible to get enough money to gether to pay back the loans to tbe bankers. Kven to raise the money to pay the interest on tde loans the gov ernments have to tax the people. Aud they keep on taxing them, so that the boys and girls of soldiers who are killed in the wars, when they grow to be men and women have to help pay the interests 011 the money that their gov ernments borrowed to conduct the ,1 "You mean." Uncle Harry that the men and women of our country—like you and father and mother, whose fa j thers and uncles and grandfathers were killed iu the Civil war, 'way back in 1861, have to help pay the interest on the money borrowed to fight that war?" 1 asked Joe. j "Yes. that is right," answered ! Uncle Harry. "I don't think that's fair." said Jimmy. "That's the way a good many other people feel, boys," said Uncle Harry {"and that is another reason why wars are wrong and harmful. Just thiuk; when the boys and girls in England, France, Germany and all the other countries that are in this war. are grown up and have boys and girls of their own, they and their children and I t-h-e-i-r g-r-a-n-d—c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n will ) still be helping to pay for this terrible j war." | Copyright 1915 by The M-C Syndicate. to the shoe factory which is being pushed forward rapidly. The Aid Society of the Church of God met at the home, of Mrs. David Hatz, East Main street, last evening. The public schools of town will . dose Friday of next week after a nine months' term. Superintendent H. |J. Wickey will complete his examina | tions next Tuesday and on the third ; of June the board will meet in special session to elect teachers. The Woman's Club met at the home ; of Mrs. Ira Springer yesterday after noon. The following program was ren dered. Responses, prophecies, concern ing the birth of Christ; sketches, "The Prophets," A. Major. Mrs. T. M. Yost: B Minor, Mrs. Ar H. Kreider: vocal solo, Mrs. George Mish; referred ques tion,.(a) "Who Is Known as the Herds j man Prophet and Whyt" Mrs. D. P. i Deatrick; (bl "Who Is Known as the Prophet of Peace and Why?" Mrs. 1.1 H. Doutrich; paper, "Between the Old' and the Xew Testament." Mrs. George Mish; referred question, "Xame the Books of the Aproeryha and Tell Whv They Are Omitted From th e Bible,". Mrs. Arthur King; music by the club. "My Mother's Bible." ( Miss Mary Peters is spending a few I days at Philadelphia as the guest of (her sister. Miss Minerva Peters, who graduated from the Xurses* Training School of Jefferson Hospital last even j in «' HERSHEY Derry Township School Directors Select Teachers For Next Term Sn* ,; ai C'»rr^?snftn(li»r»o. Hershev, May 21.—At a meeting of the Derry t-ownship school directors the following teachers were appoint- I ed: Supervising principal, Stacy Pet- j t ers; first assistant, Harry S. Everett; | supervisor of drawing, Mabel R. Brown; eighth year. Arthur P. Hocker; i i seventh year, Ira Shenk; sixth year, Sara Foreman; fifth year, George Foreman; fourth year, Edna C. Erb; | second year. May V. Mover; first year, | Mabel Hoffman, Ruth ' Hershey " and Carrie Dressier. May B. Hershev will j supervise the primary work; Walton- i ville primary, Edna L. Hocker; Suu- j nyside, S. S. Balsbangh; Stoverdale, Margaret Long; Gravel Hill, Amos E. ! Hess. The Vian school has been closed j and the scholars will be brought to I Hershev. Tbe Latin and German and ! the music department teachers have not been appointed. _ During the month of August t-he United Brethren denomination will hold four campmeetiugs in addition to the Mt. Gretna, which will be a Bible conference this year. The first camp j will be at Elizabethville, beginning July 27 and close on August 5. The dates of the others are: Stoverdale, August 3 to li 2; Mt. Gretna, August 3 to 12; Mt. Lebanon, August 10 to 18; Hillsdale, August 10 to 19. The Rev. D. D. Lowery, D. D.. of Harris burg, the conference superintendent, will have general supervision of these annual, gatherings. Bishop W. M. j Weekley, D. D., of Parkersburg, W. \a., will be present and preach at sev eral of the camps. The Stoverdale •amp will be in charge of the Rev. Joseph Weirich, of Middletown. The evangelistic services of this camp will be in charge of William H. Friday, Jr.. the hymn writer evangelist. S. L : . G. McCreary, of Franklintown, was tbe guest of James Milliard and family. Roy McKisVtck spent several days at Chester. Walter Broadwelt, of Media, Del., HAKRISBtTRQ STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 21, 1915. CLARK'S 306 Bread stmt "We meet all advertised prices." Absorbent Cotton, lb., -*o* Acorn Salve 8® Alpine Tea Antiphlogestine 17c, 34c, <»Oc Armour's Beef Extract, 2 oz., . .48c I Asafoetida Pills, 2-gr., 100 for 25c | j Aspiriu Tablets, 5-gr.. 100 for 73c , Azurea Cachet, oz .80c Babcock Carylonsis Talc Ctc Bay Rum, imported, pts 30c • Beecham Pills Oc, '7c Belladonna Plasters, JOc Black Flag Insect Powder, Bc, 18c Bland's Iron Pills 100 for 17c 1 Borax Powder, per lb 10c ■ Bromo Litliin 7c, 17c Butter Color, W., R. & Co., 19c, !lßc J California Syrup of Figs 31c I Calomel Tablets 100 for 13c ' Castor Oil,jot* 33c Castoria (Fletcher's) -4c t'hace Blood anil Nerve Tablets, 34c, HOC Colorite Straw Hat Dye tOc Creolin (Pearson), ..18c, 37c, 73c ■ Cuticurn Soap, , Panderine (Hair Tonic), 18c, 34c, 07c Doan's Kidnev Pills 33c ' Kagle Milk 13c Foley's Kidney Pills 34c, 87c • Horlick's Malted Milk, :18c, 73c, $3 CLARK'S MEDICINE 3D6 Ersad Strati HARRISBURG, PA. was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. L. Ed wards. John Mover and Miss Kffie Cooper visited relatives at Plainfield, Pa. Mr. aud Mrs. A. T. Hcilman spent a few day* it Reading. A Fanny Crosby memorial song I service will be held in te Central the | atre on Sunday afternoon at S o'clock. I The Rev. X. L. Linebaugh, pastor of i the United Brethren church, will deliv er an address. DAUPHIN The Rev. F. J. S. Morrow Given Birth day Surprise by Bible Classes ) .1. • Dauphin, May 21. —The ladies and men's organized Bible classes and the ! teachers of the Sun lay school of the j Methodist Episcopal church tendered I their pastor, the Rev. F. J. S. Morrow, | a birthday surprise party at the par -1 sonage on Wednesday evening. After I the prayer meeting service Mrs. Charles I Lyter, president of the Ladies' Bible class, presented the Rev. Mr. Morrow with an umbrella in behalf of the (classes, making tbe presentation speech jto which the Rev. Mr. Morrow re sponded. Following a delightful even j ing, refreshments were served to six i tv-eight persons in the reading room iof their church. The traditional can dle cake graced the center of the table. Mrs. Elizabeth Weitzel, of Harris ! burg, who was the guest of her sister. Miss Clara Poffenberger, returned to i her home on Monday. Charles Biekel, of Selinsgrove, spent ! Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Biekel. Miss Frances A'dams, of Millers- I burg, was the guest of Miss Cora Co ! frode on Tuesday. Miss Etta McXeely spent Sunday with her nephew, John McXeely, Har ! risburg. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Maurey, of Steel ! ton, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. ! Samuel Maurey. Mrs. William Crook, of Harrisburg. was the week-end guest of Mrs. Wil ; Ham Gailer. Funeral services of Jesse McCarty were held yesterday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Conrad. The Rev. R. F. Stirling, pastor of the Presbyterian church, of ficiate!, assisted by the Rev. F. ,1. S. Morrow, pastor of the Methodist Epis copal church. The pallbearers were George W. Heck, John 1. Fertig, Sam uel Maurey, William Bell, William Car man and Charles Cooper. Interment was in Dauphin cemetery. A festival will be held in Market i j square Friday and Saturday evenings j under the management of the Dauphin j A. A. baseball club. MARYS VI JbLE Town Resident Haa~wo Old Papers of 1 Revolutioniky Fame ! C' , rr»*noinl«n<»x Marysville, Pa., May 21.—Dallas D. Deatrich has two old papers, one 100 and the other 114 years old. ,The paper 100 years old tells of the capture of Washington, D. C., by the British. This paper, called the "Xational Intelli gencer, ' was edited at Washington by Gibson brothers. The paper 114 years old is the "Ulster County Gazette," edited by Samuel Freer and Son at Kingston, X. V. It tell of the death and burial of Washington. Miss Stella Whitmeyer and Miss Ellen Gault are attending tile K. L C. E. con vention at Hanover, Pa. 'Mrs. J. A. Sweeney returned to her home in MeConnellsville after spending several weeks with her parents in this place. Frank Opel, of Meversdale, is visit ing his cousin, Mrs. W. A. Liddick. Mrs. L. M; Jackson, of Altoona, is visiting W. A. Fortenbaugh. NEW CUMBEftijAND Erection of New School Building at Bellavlsta Begun PonuspoiHiun'*** Xew Cumberland, -May 21.—The old brick school house at Xew Market is being torn down. The 'School Board of Fairview township, York county, has purchased a tract of land at Bella vista from Baron Bcsticki and is hav ing the foundation -built for a four roomed building. Xew Cumberland baseball team will leave here at noon Saturday for Leb anon where they will play with a team in that town Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Chester Steigerwalt entertained the "Xobbe Daughters," Mrs. W. Z. j Parthemore's Sunday fcchool class of the 'Church of God at her home at Bella vista last evening. The final examination of the Hi£h school is being held. • G. F. Moyer was in Newport on "business yesterday. Misses Annette and Rachel Katz, of 'Harrishurg, called on Miss Hazel Rosen-herder yesterday. Paul Cook, the young sofl of William Cook, who has been at the Hnrrisburg hospital the past eight weeks, is int "proving slowly. The Rev. A. G. Wolf, of West Fair view, called on friends here yesterday, William Shaffner's family moved to South street, Harrishurg, yesterday. Lloyd Brintoq, of Pitcairn, is visiting relatives here. Quite a number of visitors are ex j pected here Saturday evening to at j tend the Hose Company festival to be j held on the lawn of the hose house on I Fourth street. NEWPORT Typhoid Epidemic Curtails Observance of Memorial Day 1 Special Correspondence. Newport, Pa., May 21.—The (Me morial Day services will not be as lairge this year as formerly on account of the i typhoid fever epidemic sweeping over the town. The Memorial Day address will be made by the Rev. J. C. Collins. Arthur Carnes represented Newport ! Lodge Xo. 102, I. O. O, F„ at the I Grand Lodge session at Stroudsburg, ! Monroe county, this week. Miss Carrie Freeland is visiting | friends in Enola. Roy Souders, of Wrightsvillej is vis -1 iting his mother, Mrs. C. B. Souders. I Mrs. Peter G. Jlertz is visiting her i daughter, 'Miss Cora Hertz, of Philadel ! phia. | Mrs. Matilda Ix>ng is visiting her \ffj Ist and 3rd floors will be melted y? m • i ■ Mi solid cash no matter how great I| \\ JPu the sacrifice may be. v li* \ Notice—We are replacing these | ;I|| \\ floors with a handsome line of 11 \ rea dy-to-wear Women's Garments. tjl \ EXTRA!' EXTRA ! M, ft | Surplus stock of A. Hearnian, jjjiSjM « Isaac Waleott & Light & Sehlis singer Men's and Young Men's Sunnier Clothing. Those makes of * clothii\cr will bring us thousands oi —— —•' new friends. $13.50 and $15.00 Suits at $7.98 $16.50 and SIB.OO Suits at .'. $9.85 $20.00 and $22.00 Suits at $11.90 Second Floor. Plenty of Serge Suits, Blue, Black and Orev, includ ing plenty of Worsted and Cassimeres. Most of the garments are hand-tailored. Men's $1.50 Khaki Trousers at 89£ Men's $2.50 and $3.00 Serge Pants at $1.98 500 odd Coats at $2.84 Sale of $5.00 Bovs' Suits, Norfolk and Wash Suits. Second floor. Store Closes Saturday Night at 10 O'clock USE SPOT 6 s - Four,h st ■ S■ mm wH » I J 2 Doors from Market St. JAMES H. BRENNER, Prop. Grand Fraternity will be held in the 1 I'. O. S. of A. hall this evening. Harry L. Miller aiul H. Stewart Pot ter have l>een elected as delegates from i tho Otterbein United Brethren Sunday I school to attend the county convention ! nt Middletown Thursday and Friday,! June 24-25. Mr. and Mrs. William Reese and Mrs. Leon Roberts, of Klmira, N. Y., were I guests of the Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Funk 011 Wednesday. I'ndertaker C. C. Baker is in Elk hart, Ind., where he took for interment the body of Mr. Reifsuyder, who died at Dietrich on Monday. James 1?. Herb, of MeClellan, was a business viistor in town on Thursday. Mrs. Lewis Wagner, of Matamoras, sj ent Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. H. Stewart Potter. Our Country's Defense "I haven't been in physical combat with another human being since i was a boy," says Secretary of War Garri son. "Right now I can say to you that j I wouldn't tight another man; that ij wouldn't descend to a rough and tumble | fight in the street —but I know, and < you know, that 1 might walk out into | that corridor and meet a man who' wolud insult me in such a way that I'd punch him in a minute. There are some insults that can't l>e attended to in j any other way. Besides which there 1 are some assaults upon and threats | against one's life or one's property I that arc made with force and can olily | be successfully met by force. "Now, then, nations are just like! individuals. Wo may say there is noth ing that could force the United States 1 into a war—but down in our hearts we |' know this isn't so. We know the na- I tion might be insulted, just as you or ' I might be, or that its existence or vital ' ' interests might be threateml—and that we would fly to arms iu a minute. * * * And that is why the War Do- ! '• partment is worrying about our army; j ] why it is worrying about our country's! I defenses."—The American Boy. I 1 ' j] Cniisers Coal on the Run The British cruisers which are I guarding the steamship lanes against : German raiders do not dare to relax I their vigilance for an ins'iant. It is : dangerous for them to stop to take on j the necessary coal, and so an ingenious j method has been devised to enabie them to take coal on the run. The collier that is to supply a cruiser with coal gets into touch with her by wireless and meets her at the appointed spot. 1 The collier pulls up behind the cruiser and when about 400 feet astern two hawsers are passed from the warship ! and one fastened on either side to be [ used as tow lines. Another cable is | stretched from the masthead of the j collier to the deck of the warship. The I warship steams ahead at the rate of ten | or twelve knots an hour, followed by ! the collier. Great bags holding a ton of coal are hoisted to the masthead of the collier and attached to a carrier that allows them to run rapidly down to the deck of the cruiser, where the load is automatically released. The carrier is then drawn back to the col lier. By this means coal is loaded onto a moving warship at the rate of sixty tons an hour.— The American Boy. LAWYERS' PAPER BOOKS Printed at this office in best style, at lowest prices and on short notice. Movies of Flying Bullets - Imagine photographing a moving re volver bullet; then imagine, if you can, making seventy-two photographs of it while it was covering a space of ten inches. This is a feat which has actu ally been accomplished with the aid of a moving picture camera. As the pic tures were taken at the rate of one hundred thousand a secoud, and no camera shutter is made which could attain that speed, the pictures were made by means of a series of electric flashes, each spark or flash giving one exposure. The film used was mounted on a wheel three feet in circumference which was revolved at the rate of nine thousand revolutions a minute in order that the pictures should not overlap each other. In photographing a bullet passing through a stick, it was noticed that the bullet passed completely through the stick and was well on its way be fore the wood showed any signs of splintering. Then tiny splinters ap peared, the stick began to split and finally broke after the bullet was some distance from the stick.—The American Boy. You—Or No One Else cares to be bald. Yet that is what will happen if your hair doesnot stop falling out. HairTonie in our opinion is the best hair tonic on the market. Sold only by us—so cents. George A. Gorgas