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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-09
NEW CUMBERLAND
Horse in Oil Wagon Sinks Up to Head
In Cave-in
Special COrresDOndence

DPVVIaI VUTTeSUUHUUHVE.
New Cumberland, Dec. 9.-While H
j. Miller, driver for the Atlantic Re.
lining Company, of Harrisburg, was de.
hvering oil on Fourth street yesterday
morning, the ground caved in near the
new Church of God, sinking one of the
horses in sewer up to his head and
the large wagon was buried several
feet deep in the mud. NJ. A. Hoff, fur.
niture dealer, sent his large motor
truck to pull the team out, and it was
not until | o'clock that the team was
extricated and Mr.. Miller was able to
continue on his route.
Miss Martha Miller, of Newport, was
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der. How to get the pupils to do theiS
pest, Edward KEEPER. Factors in the
learning process, H. D. Carver.
Joseph Garner, of Harrisburg, spent
sunday in town as the guest of George
W. Carr and family, South Wool
street. y
Jacob Fisher and family, of L$-
rain, o., are spending several days In
town, having been called here ON sc.
count of the death of his brother the
late Edward Fisher.
Harry Landis is driving the dray
wagon for his father, J. H. La4dis,
for several days.
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MECHANICSBURG
Union Cottage Prayer Meetings Well
Attended Last Night

Special Correspondence.
Mechanicsburg, Dec. 9.-Notwith-
standing the very unpleasant weather
the union cottage prayer meetings held
in the several districts of town last
evening were well attended. The gem
eral union prayer will be held this
evening in the Presbyterian church.
The Rev. l.. NJ. Dice, of Grace Evan
gelical church, will have charge
The Rev. Fl. d. Flanagan, of Sha-
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Turknit Gift Boxes

An appropriate gft-consists of two Tu' it
bath towels, two face towels one bath cloth I'D
two face cloths, All daintily boxed, at $1.OO box
Turkish face cloths, with your initial in blue {;
border, ..................... ....,............ Sc
Guest towels, scalloped or hemstitched, at 29c
to 59c each.
Table linen sets-beautiful patterns round or
square designs, put up in pretty gift boxes at
$500 to $3.50 set.
Main Floor-BOWMANS.
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o. U. A. M. Fraternal Visit

The several councils of the O. u.
A. M. of this city will pay a fraternal
visit to America Council No. 3, o. u.
A. NJ, Friday evening, December II.
at the latter's room, Kinnard s hall.
303-305 Verbebe street.
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Women's Gift Gloves

Styles and qualities that will please the receiver,
and prices that will appeal to the giver.
Special pair, ..................... 75c
$1S5 cape walking gloves mannish effect; tan with
n
s1.25 lambskin overseam gloves, clasps; black and
white with Paris point embroidery. Pair, 95c
$2Se one'clasp pque gloves, heavy black silk embrod
cred, black, tan and white. Pair, S175
Fownes 12-button black and white French kid gloves;
rows narrow stitching Pair, .............. So. 90
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Human Nature

Eddie-Pa, what s human nature..
Pa-That s the thing that alwa ys
catches it when fellow can't blanb
it on anybody lse.--London Mail. v
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Over a Mile of Genu-
inc Anderson Cling
hams, at 19c Yd.

Everyone knows that genuine VIM Anderson
Scotch Zephyr Ginghams have established price
of 25c yard. Come 80 inches wide. There are
forty-seven different styles in beautiful coorlngs
neat checks and bars, space stripes and double
stripes and bars.
SOC yard-wide Silk and Cotton Tussahs at 25c
yd.-Dobbie design beautiful, perfect shades OF
lilac tan, maise, white, navy royal, black, pink,
brown, cadet, Copenhagen and delft.
24-inch Seco Silk at 15c yd.-60 per cent. silk
and 40 per cent. mercerized cotton; very ustrous;
washabe nearly fifty street and evening shades
to select from
1,5OO yards Bates Dress Ginghams at 91ac yd-
Scotch paids bars checks and strpes all the color com
binations, intending plain shades.
serpentine Kimono crepes at t21ac yd.beautiful
floral designs
25c shirting Pongee at 1919 yd.-plain and twoone
stripes
15c Kimono Fannelettes at 121ac yd.-nea and large
floral designs, 70 zs
3e-nch Wash Silks ;9c yd.-very lustrous two
tone effects
Main Floor-BOWMAN'S
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ChiIdren's Xmas Gloves
Now A'Days Balmacaans
Must Be of Heavier Weight

You will
dos
New
For these 81 so the Others
ST. $16.5O.
Ti Floor
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HERSHEY

George McCafferty Returns From Six
Weeks Stay in Hospital
Special Correspondence.
Hershey, Dee. 9.-Ralph Imboden
spent day at his home in Lebanon.
Mrs. William Stoner and three chill.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09

dist is finished. The dawn of the
political actionist" is at hand. With
neither the rock-bound conservatism
of the old-line american nor the
rock k-hurling fanaticism of the Eng
lish militant, the new type of suf-
fragist is distinctive. Principally
because of her common sense, her
attitude is bound to win respect from
the men who have the power to grant
or withhold the franchise. She is
meeting them upon political grounds
solely, and through the half century
or more of her evolution she has
learned the value of organization.
The knell of the "please, pretty
please" manner of asking for the
vote has been rung. The live-wire
young suffragist calmly announces
that it is POLITICALLY expedient" to
do this. thing, and if Sir Legislator
is still living in the dark ages when
woman was a jest, he's going to
wake up when he reads the election
returns some Wednesday morning
after the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
What's on The Program in
Washington Today

Meetings. evening:
MasuniC-Dawson, No. l6: Stansbury. No. "a
Royal Arch-Mt. Vernon. No. ): Anacostla'
No l.. Eastern SIar-Temple, No. Is; Co.
lumbia> No. 10.
National Union-Pressmen's Council. East
Capitol Council. and National Union Choral
Society.
Maccabees-National. No. 1: Mt Vernon. No
1: AnaCostia. No. :.
Odd Fellows-U Mon. No. IL; Covenant. No
lS: Beacon. No. Is: Iangdon. No. 10. ke-
bekah LodGes-Esther. No 5.
knights OF Pythas-Decatur, No. .: Ca
lanthe. No. II: Equal. No. II
knights OF DEMONSTRATION Temple. No
81.
Socialist Party-German Branch. Sl1 F. street
northwest.
Ladies' night, Washington Centennial Lodge
No. "a. +. \. y. NJ. old Masonic Temple.
s p.
Memorial services. woman's Single Tax
club. Public Library, p. IN.
Concert, Monday Morning Music Club. New
Willard. II II. IN.
Hearings by Interstate Commerce CoinFnis
sion. New Willard.
Buffet luncheon. Miss Mary Temple. New
Willard.
Meeting OF Gaelic Society. New willard. :
y. IN.
Supper-dancc. Mrs Hawksworth and Mrs
Gruner, the New Willard
Central Labor Union. 423-I2J q street north
west, p. III.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
PEERAGES AND PARTY
FUNDS.

While the Liberal party in Eng
land goes on clipping the wings of
the house of lords, it is creating new
peers at such a rate that the Mar
quis of Crewe found it necessary at
a recent session to explain officially
in behalf of. the dominant party that
it had not been Influenced by money
considerations in distributing the
honors. This disclaimer was not
sufficient to prevent Lord Miner
from remarking that the peerages
are poured out in clouds" when
party funds are most needed.
Of course, nothing will be done
about it. The question is almost a
perennial one and an effective check
cannot be put upon the business by
merely bringing charges whose sub
sanitation is practically impossible.
1t is the fashion of opposition parties
in England to seek political capital
by parliamentary f1urries of this
kind, and after little jockeying the
subject is usually forgotten.
It would be easier to get at the
truth of the matter if England had
the new American system of public
ity for campaign contributions.
Even if temporary methods were
found by which to evade the publi-
cation of contributions in the names
of the actual givers, the truth would
be likely to come out in the end, and
the system, if such it be, would fall
Of its own weight.
Still, there would always be the
possibility of coming out in the open
and rewarding generous givers in
the manner made familiar in the be-
stowal of American ambassador
ships.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
THE HUNT FOR FARMERS.

A big convention of land men in
Minnesota organized to boom the
State and bring in outside people to
occupy and raisce things on the vast
areas of undeveloped and fertile land
that the State possesses. James j.
Hill made a speech in which he told
the land agents that there is alto
gether too much farming done with
the mouth and too little done with
the fists. Get busy, he advised, and
farm the land, thereby proving what
it is capable of doing; then people
will come and buy it.
Excellent advice, but rather diff
cult to put into effect. The truth is
that, at the very time when sensa-
tional sories about the counry starv-
ing in the next generation, or the
next century, get big space in the
publicity vehicles, there is more eff
fort than for many years to get peo-
pie to occupy lands and make them
produce.
There is no worse nonsense than
the idea that the supply of land is
running out. There is lots of land,
but there are not enough people of
the kind who want to farm to live
on and utilize it. The trouble is with
the lack of farmers, not of farms.
Back of that lies the fact that a
farmer must also be a capitalist. 1t
takes money to get farm and more
money to keep it and develop it until
it will pay. That is the reason why
there is crying need for development
of better methods for financing rural
enterprise. The man willing to buy
land, and the man willing to rent it,
need different kinds of financial as
sistance. The land mortgage bank
will be facility for the man who
is buying, but it means little to the
tenant farmer, who needs the CO.
operative rural society somewhat
similar to the European oreaniza-
ticns that have been of vast benefit.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
TEXAS AND MEXICO.

Nobody recollects the time when
the Texas rangers didn't entertain a
firm conviction that they could
handle Mexico, single-handed; nor,
for that matter, is there very clear
remembrance of the occasion when
they didn't demonstrate good
grounds for their confidence. Texas
has very clear views of its own
about Mexico, and at times a rather
distressingly direct way of empha-
sizing them.
Texas being already of approxi-
mately the same size as the Ger
man empire, and filled with ambition
to grow into the very largest place
out of doors, there will always be
the danger that some moonlight night
it will move over the border and
annex Mexico. We hope if it de-
cides to do so it will be considerate
of international and interstate rela-
tions. Whether the interstate COM
merce clause of the Constitution
would interfere with any independ-
ent imperialistic projects on Texas
part is question not yet definitely
adjudicated.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
NAIL BAG
(FrOm The Times Readers }

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
/ wish to congratulate The Times
and Miss Edith Lobert on their dis
covery" OF Woodbridge. the story of which
was told in an illustrated article in The
Sunday Times. In doing so. however, l
wish to take exception to the second
paragraph of that story which read:
"Mocdridge's community affairs are
pushed along by the Rhode Island Ave-
nue. Suburban Citizens Association. a
'live-wire' organization which has been
doing things ever since it started in
l90S.''
First let me say that Woodridge's
community interests are now being
taken care of by the Langdon- Wood
ridge Citizens Association. This asso-
citation was organized last Thanksgiv-
ing Day, when property owners and
residents OF Langdon and Woodbridge
were brought to a realization that the
members of the Rhode Island avenue
association were determined to have a
scacol site near Brookland purchased
with $1,000 appropriated by Congress
although the act specifically stated that
It was for the relief of the Langdon
members of the Rhode Island avenue
organization, especially those who live
In the vicinity Of Brookland. are fght-
ing hard to have the money expended
in way that will strain the meaning
OF the appropriation act.
Tie LanGdon- Woodbridge Citizens As
socjation has been instrumental in pre-
venting the purchase OF the site near
I,.,.f IL Ion Tl m vi no
been referred back to the Board of Edu-
cation for a second time. The Commits
siuners have more than once visited the
proposed site as we'll as others.
1t would have been a fine story to
have told who made Woodbridge pos
sible. That person is Henry a. Nieth,
of 2575 Rhode Island avenue, who. sew
eral years ago when Government
clerk purchased farm where Wood
ridge now is. laid out proposed streets,
gave them to the city. and then began
to sell his lots. He did not. ask a
high price. selling them as low as
cents foot, while property on the
other side of Rhode Island avenue was
being sold by mail. | am told. for 2.
cents per foot and upward. As a result
|. Woodbridge grew rapidly and through
the foresight of Mt. Vieth is a beautiful
subdivision
Because Of that beauty and the in
terest of those living there. they were
easy winners IN the lawn ana Sardef
competitions held under the auspices OF
the Rhode Island avenue organization.
Now these residents, with tn" property
owners, have a citizens association 0i
their own, with lG3 members. and will
probably conduct their own competi-
tiOns
The officers OF the Langdon-Wood-
ridge Citizens Association are: VI. w
RothrOck, 29l2 Twenty-fourth street
president: II. NJ. MacLcnnan. 1870 MSs-
sachusetts avenue. vice president; II
A. Donovan 320l Central avenue. sec-
retary. and +. a. Ling"r. 2s40 Twenty
sixth street. treasurer. Robert S. Camp
bell of 2iii South Dakota avenue. Is
chairman Of the school committee OF
the LauCdOn- Woodbridge association
and is directing tn fgNt for the pur-
chase Of a school site in the neighbor-
hood Of Woodbridge.
Il. NJ. MacLENNAN.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
THE AGE OF THE SIMPLE.
TON?

A professor in a North Dakota
college has recently attracted some
attention by undertaking 70 prove
that civilized people are losing the
power to think.
He holds that modern industrial
organization, by centralizing intelli-
gence in management, causes a great
number of human units to work at
small subdivisions of tasks that re-
quire the exercise of little brain
power. Every invention that can be
made automatic is operated in that
way and the "fool proof" machine
reduces the possibility of loss
through individual laundering. at
was never so easy" the professor
remarks, "for simpleton to live"
Still, doesn't it require a good deal
of thinking to think out all these
ways to avoid thinking? Hasn't the
professor overlooked at least one
point in building up his theory?
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
THE NEW SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT.

Years ago when Susan B. An
thony pleaded the cause of votes for
women she considered it a question
cf national importance.
When the Constitution of the
United States was amended to elm
mate color distinctions at the ballot
box she reasoned, albeit with a wom-
rms logic, that to exclude human
beings from political rights because
of Sex was equally unjust.
So this hardy pioneer set about to
bring pressure to bear upon Federal
legislation. The national association
was organized by her to bring about
this desired end. 1t soon kecame ap-
parent to her, however, that it was
necessary to make it a State ques-
ton temporarily in order to secure a
leverage upon Congress.
Year by year the fight went or,
the national and State forces work
ing hand in hand.
There are now ten States in which
women may have voice in saying
Who's Who in Congress. With this
tremendous asset now in hand some
of the advocates of the suffrage
cause have felt that the time is ripe
for change in methods.
The era of the suffrage propagan-
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
CHIEF JUSTICE CLA-
BAUGH.

For fifteen years Mr.. Chief JUS
tice Clabaugh sat in judgment on the
disputes and differences between the
citizens of the District of Columbia,
and before his bar have stood many
who have heard him pronounce SEN
tences in punishment of violations of
the laws of society.
The life of a Judge has little of
the heroic element surrounding it,
which lends encouragement to men
in many other walks of life. His is
a life more or less of isolation from
the impulses of the community. The
guiding star of the judge is to see
the right and do It as he sees it, to
exact justice between man and man,
to administer the law alike to the
strong and the weak, to the rich and
the poor. ever keeping before him
the highest standards of morality
and integrity. These thirgs Judge
Clabaugh did; and the community
summarizes the achievements Of his
life in the simple encomium of the
Gust Judge"
Judge .Clabaugh came to his place
on the Supreme Bench of the Dis
trict of Columbia, q product OF the
legal atmosphere of the State of
Maryland. Having been hoaored by
an election to the Office of attorney
general of that State, he came we'll
equipped to perform the duties in
cumbcnt upon him as judge Of the
Supreme Court Of the District of
Columbia; and as his body is borne
away to his last resting place in the
soil of the State that gave him
birth, the bar and citiZenry of the
District join with the State of Nary
land in the appreciation, well done,
good and faithful servant"
The Washington times., 1914-03-09

Paris is disposed to be cynical in its
view of this matter. 1t declares that,
despite all the talk of originality
abroad, numerous agents are still
sent to the French capital to spy on
the new things in the shops and buy
a few to be taken back home and
initiated. Besides, it is alleged that
the agents have formed an agree
ment and, instead Of buying five or
six gowns each, make one moderate
purchase cover all, syndicating the
supply of models by sending the
whole batch around the circuit.
While the chamber is vexed in
spirit at the turn affairs have taken,
it does not propose to give up the
fight. A plan now in contemplation
is the establishment of agencies in
foreign countries to deal with pur-
chasers direct and put to the test
the theory that other dressmakers
can give the Parisians a hard rub
for honors.
The competition to which this
would lead would also force local
designers to put forth their best ef-
forts and in the end would have a
tendency to hit the Paris monopoly
harder than ever. 1t is inconceivable
that the French have a peculiar
genius in this or ANYTHING else which
would make competition with them
impossible.
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
WAR OF DRESS DESIGN.
ERS.

In New York and every capital
city of Europe there is said to be an
organization of women who are lead
ing the revolt against the tyranny
Of the Paris makers. Their
propaganda is the encouragement of
national designs and the employ
ment of home modistes. They reject
as abhorrept the suggestion that the
Partisan designers have 4 monopoly
of original and fetching ideas in re-
gard to woman's dress. They cry out
against price MARKS whose imposing
array of figures is supposed to rep
resent talent in designing rs well as
the cost of materials and labor.
But the pressmakers' Chamber Of
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
PHONE RATES IN DENVER.

The question of telephone rates
has become acute in Denver, al
though that city does not pay near
ly SO much for its service as many
Eastern towns. Legislation has been
prepared by the business mems or
ganizations providing for general
reductions of from 80 to 35 per cent.
The telephone company is willing to
coneede Is per cent reduction, but
the telephone users refuse to COM
promise, and expect to pass their
legislation, reducing the cost of
service about one-third.
All over the country telephone
rates are under examination, and al
most everywhere the result of in
vestigation demonstrates that they
are unreasonably high. Reductions
have been secured in a great num-
ber of places. OF these actual ac-
complishments, the detailed record
would be highly illuminating, and
it would suggest one of the direc-
tions in which our own public
service authorities have need to turn
their attention. Washington pays
high rates, under contracts which
are frequently peculiarly onerous.
The subject needs attention here,
just as it has had attention in New
York, Chicago, Denver, and scores of
other cities lately. Let's get some
of the benefits of being 4 "model
city,"
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
Tells Secular League
Of the Messianic Age

Prof Charles Newburgh. witc an ad-
dress on The Messianic Age" was tAs
principal speaker at the meeting Of the
Washington Secular League. at Pythiar
Temple, yesterday. He regarded ths
Messianic age as the age when jastics
would obtain, and in order to reali1s
this, reason must be applied to the
laws OF society. he said.
In the general discussion the following
spoke: John D. Bradley. George A
Warren. Prof. Hyland c. Kirk. David
Eccles. Charles W. Pafflow. \. b
johnson. Julian Pierce, and John D,
GILL At the beginning of the meeting
j. W. Nigh gave negro character inter.
pretations. At the next meeting Mrs
Clara Bewick Colby will address the
league on Woman and the Progress
of the Race"
The Washington times., 1914-03-09
Comedy Will Feature
MasOnS' Entertainment

A comedy. The Plays the Thing.
will be the feature of the ladies'
night" program to be given by Wash
inston Centennial Lodge. No. II. =. A.
4. NJ, at old Masonic Temple tonight:
Worshipful Master Leonard p. Steuart
will givo Words OF Welcome" The
Misses Katherine. Elizabeth, Dor
othy, and Helen Parsons, Miss Mir am,
and Edward Redfield will give piano.
mandolin and banjo selections. George
A. Bentley will talk on current events
Miss Mabel T. Roberts will sing. ac-
companied by Mrs. Paul Bleyden. Miss
Alice T. Fowler and William Ham
NETT twill dance. Miss Mar MinniN
will give a dialogue. William A. Nor
sell will sing. accompanied by James A.
White jr. Nathan B. Frank and Mrs
Frank will sing. accompanied by Mr..
White