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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-19

Rankin Houston, a prominent citi.
zen of ,Mechanicsburg.
27-Death at Harrisburg hospital of a
runaway Reading boy crushed be-
Meath a freight train in the Har-
risburg yards few days before.
2S-Commencement exercises of the
Steelton High school,
2S-Death of Jacob HI. Brown, Of New
Cumberland, a veteran of the Civil
war.
2S-Sudden death of Henry Sourbeer,
716 Capital street, Harrisburg,
long a prominent merchant of the
city.
29-Death at Gettysburg of DR.. Har-
vey w. Mcknight, for many years
president of Gettysburg College
and veteran of the Civil war
well known in Harrisburg.
29-Death of Selena Augusta Robins
Bear, 217 PETER street, Harris
burg, for some years teacher in
the city's public schools.
29-Death of Leander l.. Sanders, of
Hummelstown, veteran of the
OWL war, aged 50 years.
30-Memorial Day ceremonies impress
sively conducted in Harrisburg by
the veteran and military organiza-
tions of the city.
so $4,000 fire destroyed large
mill and warehouse at Swatara
Station.
3O-'Death at Harrisburg hospital of
Mrs. Mary Stalnau, of Duncannon,
who had been crushed few days
before by log, her death being
one of the most horrible, in pa.
thetic suffering, ever witnessed at
that institution.
30-Death of Sylvester Mckay, for
many years a puddler at the Bal.
ley plant.
oO-Death of Peter M. Hummel. of
Steelton, veteran of the Civil
war, aged SO years.
To Be Continued Monday
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Checks Group Instantly

You know Group is dangerous. And
you should also know the sense of Sc
eurity that comes from always having
foley's Honey and Tar Compound IN
the house. 1t cuts the thick mucus and
clears away the phlegm, stops the
strangling cough and gives easy
breathing and quiet sleep. Take it for
coughs, colds, tickling throat, hoarse
ness and for bronchial and la grippe
coughs. Contains no opiates. Every
user is friend. George 4. Gorgas. 16
North Third street, and 2. r. R. Sta.
tion. ody
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To Be Continued Monday
PosTMASTER'5 FUNDS SHORT
Cherry, East Altoona, Arrested
for $7OO Embezzlement

Altoona, Pa, Dee. 19.-William R.
Cherry, aged 35, postmaster at East AL
toona, was arrested yesterday by Post
office Inspector Calvert on the charge of
embezzling $500 in postal funds. He
gave bail for an examination.
Thursday it was reported that
Cherry's Office had been robbed and
$500 stolen from an unlocked safe the
night before. Investigation showed
that funds had been taken during the
last three months. The bulk of the
money was taken from the money order
funds.
The Office is now in the hands of his
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-19
MAY

Death of John Vincent Logan,
210 Rely street. Harrisburg.
S--Death, at Harrisburg HOSPITAL. of
Brakeman Herman Wengle, who
was crushed between two cars in
p. R. r. yards, two days before.
death of Lyman J. Gilbert, 203
North Front street, Harrisburg, a
leader of the Dauphin county bar,
and for many years Deputy Attor-
ney General of the State.
4-Death of Mrs. Charles E. Ripper.
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Third and Market streets, Harris.
burg.
1.-Two foreigners crushed to death
in fall of stone in a quarry near
Hummelstown.
death of David Weaver, of Me.
chanicsburg, aged 80 years, vet
eran of the Civil war.
Harry +. Kelsey, 1719b North
Fourth street, Harrisburg, missing,
after leaving indications that he
had committed suicide by jumping
into the swollen river from the
Market street bridge.
1.-Two days. convention of State No
License League began its sessions
in Harrisburg.
2-Alvin "A. Longsdorf, of Williams,
port, committed suicide in the
Globe hotel, Harrisburg.
death of Mrs. Eliza Coover, 1921
North Second street, Harrisburg,
aged 81 years.
death of Thomas Harkinson, of
Enola, veteran of the Civil war.
3-Death of Robert Atkins, Paxton
and Cameron streets, Harrisburg,
for Al years an employe of the
P. R. r.
death of Maurice c. Eby, former
Mayor of Harrisburg and for years
prominent in it's civic and philan-
thropic movements.
death Of Pierce J. Bradley, ST.
42S Boss street. Harrisburg, aged
S4 years.
Death of Joshua w. Jones, 214
North Third street, Harrisburg,
formerly superintendent of State
Printing and prominent in
ventor.
6-Beginning of three days session
in Harrisburg of the Pennsylvania
Housing and Town Planning AS
socistion.
6-Death of Cassius Mars, North
Fourth street, Harrisburg, vet
eran of the Civil war.
6-Death of Mrs. Turie Slichter, 1907
North Third street, Harrisburg.
6-Death of Mrs. Caroline X. Hal
bleib, 1915 James street, Harris
burg, aged so years.
6-Death of Herman l.. Lampas, a
machinist of North Sixth street,
Harrisburg.
7-Destruction by fire of an Office
building at Twenty tyfourth and
Derry streets, Harrisburg
death, at Columbia, of John P.
Ripper, for many years promi
nent printer in Harrisburg.
First State convention Of the
threshermen of Pennsylvania, be-
gan its sessions in Harrisburg.
Death of Mrs. Lydia Bickel, 403
Reilly street, Harrisburg, eyed IA
years.
First thunderstorm of the season.
7-Daniel r. Page, 226 North Fiji
teenth street, Harrisburg, mel
ancboly over death of a daughter,
commit+ed suiside IN Hafrisburg
Cemetery.
S-pestruction by fire of the StafeN
printing Office, on Court street,
Harrisburg, Involving q loss OF
S150,000 and the destruction of
many valuable State documents.
One veteran fireman, William H.
Harris, of the Hope company, died
Nrom asphyxiation whilst tighting
at the age of "a years, of
Andrew j. Dull, 101 South Front
street, Harrisburg, a prominent
citizen who had been extensively
connected with the iron industries
of the State.
of James B. Zimmerman,
$50 Cumberland street, Harris
burg, from poison taken by mis-
take for medicine.
at 1926 James street, of
Emma Sheesley, from the effects
of a fall down stairs a few days
before.
11-Death of MRS. Caroline Fickes,
1112 Bartine street, Harrisburg,
aged rs years.
of Frank d. Lego, sos
Cumberland street, Harrisburg,
following fall ON the street, the
evening before.
1S-Death of John Quincy Adams
= Wolfe, 1O1 South River street,
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GETS 12 YEARS FOR ROBBERY
Herbert Hixon Sentenced for House.
breaking in Easto,

Easton, Pa, Dee. 19.-ierbcrt Hix.
on Oh TINS city, was yesterday SEN
fenced by Judge Stewart to serve from
IL to 16 years in the Eastern peni-
tentiary for robbing four houses on the
outskirts of Easton.
He was released from the penitenti-
airy only few months ago after serv.
ing II years for burglaries.
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APRIL,

$4,000 worth of automobiles de-
stroyed by fire in the garage of
the Fink Brewing Company, Har-
risburg.
of the Kunkel building,
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Directory of
Leading Hotels
Of Harrisburg
THE BOLTON

Market Square
Large and convenient Sample Rooms.
Passenger and Baggage Elevator. Elee
tric Cars to and from depot Electric
Light and Steam Heat; Rooms en- suite
or single with Baths. Rates. $2.50 per
day and up.
J. H. q M. s. Butterworth. Props.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
No Cut Prices in Society

New York society has become a
pay-as-you-enter affair." says the
Kansas City Star. It's easy to get in
If you're sufficiently loose with your
bank account. The only objection is
that the exit Is precisely opposite the
entrance. The green millionaire he
goes right In and turns around and
falls right out again.
Anyhow" said Mr. Jason Andrews,
OF smoky city in the middle west,
that was my experience. l am
through being a social butterfly. From
now on | will appear only in my we'll
known impersonation of the human
crab. 1 wasn't in society long enough
to get over shaking hands with the
butler"
Andrews Chat isn't his real name
though the story is true) was
approached by one of the social in
PRODUCERS" who have recently ap-
peared here, following the example
long ago set by London. 1t was ex-
planned that he could take his choice
OF four well-known members of New
York society as sponsors. They are
regarded by the coTnmonalty as mill
! ionaires, but their cash boxes sound
like a baby's rattle. Any one inter-
ested will have no difficulty in learn
ing the identity of the quartet.
"a dinner for twenty-five persons
at which real leaders of society will
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL "a, 1914.
THE COLORADO HORROR.

Diverting attention from the happenings incident
to the Mexican troubles scenes of riot bloodshed
and savagery Colorado that blots on civilization
a reflection upon a great States ability to preserve
order and barbarous to a marked degree. Southern
Colorado is In condition of 1awlessness, owing to the
strike of the miners civil authorities have met with
rout and the militia has only been defed but at
tackled Nine mines have been fired and are reported
as still burning; property estimated at 1000 900 has
been destroyed all work has been suspended striking
miners armed and desperate, roaming the hills and
mobilizing for battle with police sheriff forces and
the National Guard; men and women are among the
alain; privation and suffering confront all
Colorado is in state of lawlessness unparalleled
In the history of strikes to judge from dispatches
received from the riotridden sections. Appeal Is to
be made to President Wilson for federal aid to que
the uprising, 1t is said.
Men women and children imprisoned In the shaft
houses of Mines persisted and their bodies been
incnerated 1t charged that to make certain of the
destruction and humiliation of these unfortu-
nate persons, dynamite was thrown into the shaft
houses with the frghtfu consequences that inevitably
follow.
The work of devastation Is In progress and the
frenzy of the miners Is intensifylng
To read of atrocities In sem-barbarous countries
arouses feeling of horror; to read and know of
lamentabe situation in our civilized land stirs
sense of both horror and shame
The mine may have been overbearing
oppressive unjust in their treatment of the miners
thereby forcing the stre the miners themselves may
have encouraged to take drastic steps because OF
starvation wages paid them and long working hours
or the counsel of trouble-making leaders; but the
plain indisputable remains that cruel shameful
and degrading situation has been created The remedy
should be applied without delay.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
THE NATIONAL GUARD NOW AND IN 1898.

In 1898 it was necessary to break up the National
Guard regiments, enroll them into new organizations
and appoint different officers, for the reason that
nearly all the regiments unfit for service They
contained inexperienced officers and unframed men
and organization did not correspond to that of the
regular army. This will not be needed now The
regiments brigades and divisions now constituted
will go into the field intact and with their officers
The sixteen division commanders will probably mostly
be taken the retired list OF the regular army but
they will all be regular army officers.
In the Spanish American War the volunteers were
armed with the Springfield rifle burning black pow
der. The they have is the United States
service rifle the finest small arm In the world. In
1898 our State Guard had signal corps, and prac
tically medical hospital or ambulance outfit,
and the doctors did not know that typhoid fever
conveyed by flies to the food. Hence the deaths at
Camp Alger. They know these things now and.
moreover, there has since been discovered typhoid
serum which makes the soldier immune So the
National Guard in going into the this time is
far better organized better equipped better disci
pinned, better protected and altogether better pre-
pared than it was in 1898
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
APRIL "a
Hannah Smell
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.


Hannah Smell was born 1888 years
ago in England. Although a slight
little woman, she has always been
remembered as the female soldier
the great English woman warrior.
Hannah Smell could claim no Illus
trious forebears. Her grandfather
was a hosier and her sister married
carpenter named Grey. Hannah's
mother and father died when she was
young and she went to London to
make her home with her sister and
brother in-law. When she was twenty
she married a Dutch seaman named
Summs. From the point of view of
Hannah's happiness this was an I'M
fortunate step. From the point of
view of her future distinction it was
a turning point. For II she had not
married this worthless soldier named
Summs she would not have had the
incentive for her brave achievements.
Summs was a worthless sort of
husband and soon deserted his young
wife. But she was not content with
staying home to lament him. She de-
termined to follow him, so she donned
borrowed clothing from her brother
in-law, Grey, and started out. She
felt that she could follow him over
sea better as man than q woman.
Her first move was to Coventry,
where she enlisted in a regiment, as
Stunning the name of James Grey. She
marched with her regiment to Car
Isle, where for some failure in her
duty she was condemned by the ser
geant to 500 lashes Rather than en-
dure this punishment, she deserted
and, still in her disguise, she went to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
AN INCAPABLE SECRETARY OF STATE.

newly elected President assumes very serious
responsibility when he selects man to conduct the
foreign affairs of the government That fact has been
brought home to the American people since the ap-
pontment of William J. Bryan as secretary of state
in recognition his services in the Baltimore national
convention.
Mr.. Bryan had had experience In foreign affairs
and temperamentally not fit for the great duties
of office that forbids sentmentaity, that calls
for the closest attention and study and for definite
line of policy with irmness in carrying 1t out. What
have we had in the secretary of states office?
Frequent and prolonged absences on private
money making lecture tours, the negotiation of worth
less peace arbitration treaties, the substitution for
trained ambassadors and ministers of politicians as
reward for campaign services, and general inatten
ton to duty at times when the national affairs were
In critical condition.
How far all this has contributed to bringing
war upon country and how far 1t made necessary
the plea by the president rightly or wrongly" to
Congress to practically surrender the Panama canal
England for It's support in retrieving the plumbers
in foreign policy who shall affirm? Secretary
Bryan fidded while Rome was burning. AS states
he is the failure in American politics and
the most unfortunate selection of any President.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
April Has Queer History

Maybe the month of April is to be
taken seriously and maybe 1t isn't.
If one searches through the volumes
of classical lore on the subject one
finds that April is invariably treated
as a good deal of joke, says the San
Francisco Bulletin.
Chaucer is decidedly irreverent
about "Aprille." He says that when
April has given everybody the wan
derlust people start to go on religious
pilgrimages. Maybe the religion is
the motive, he hints. and maybe the
wanderlust; the pilgrims are likely to
be April-fooled on their own inten-
tions.
Nothing about April is to be taken
seriously Even its weather, accord
ing to tradition, never brings any
thing but good. April showers bring
forth May flowers" says one rhyme;
another proclaims that can April
flood carries away the frog and his
brood" while as to the winds, when
April blows his horn tits good for
both hay and corn"
People don't even know why II IS
called April. There Is a Latin WORD,
aperire, to open: and some say That
April comes from that, being the
month when the buds open. But 9TH
ers declare that it comes from Aphro-
dite. the Greek name for Venus, god
dess of springtime and other foolery'
and maybe that is so.
AS to April Fools Day, everybody
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
FINANCING A WAR WITH MEXICO.

There need be apprehension in regard to the
financing of with Mexico, but 1t will neverthe-
less be a strain the nations resources The cost
of the Civil War s6,187 ,223385. and that
lasted four years and conducted without any
gard for expense. The credit of the country
low during the that the national bonds were sold
great sacrifice Today the national credit stands
highest in the world and there would be market
for hundreds of mlons of bonds at low rates of
interest.
The sale of government bonds in large issues
however would have bad effect upon large private
enterprises and also the sale of State and municipal
bonds. With the government a competitor in the
market railroad issues would not find ready sale
they have. These among the consequences of a
protracted war, which eats up the substance of a
nation swells it's debt and entails large permanent
obligations for posterity, such the pension roll
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24

Occasionally bank managed py
men of enterprise puts out booklet
of very great interest to people VINO
don't know the technique of banking.
I wish that more of them would do II!
One of these booklets explaining the
simplest facts about making money
and then making money earn more
money has this catechism:
"How do people make money!
Through their labor and the products
of labor.
How do people save money? BY
spending less than they earn.
"What is the secret of money max
ing? The real secret is the saving OF
money, for saving money is the hrst
step toward making money
what is essential to saving money
Making a start, no matter how small
Every penny saved helps to save an
other.
rs 1t the duty of every one to save
money? Yes. BY doing this one need
never be dependent upon others for
food or clothing and in time OF SICK
ness saved money will be a great
comfort.
"Why should children save money!
Because it teaches them the value OF
money; its care and uses.
"Why should parents saver In al
dition to always having ready money
for emergencies, by this means the
children may be educated or later
started in business.
What Is the lesson for all? To
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24

non-possession worked financial harm,
made money tight" or did anything
else dire or to the disadvantage Of
every town except the ones that have
the regional banks. Money is not
local or fixed, like the population of
town. 1t is fluid, and the very pur-
pose of these regional banks is to
render it fully so.
The objection to our unelastic form
of currency and banking was that it
failed to respond to monney needs in
various parts of the country. This
worked harm and distress. The very
quality of tluidity of resources will
render Of less account the location of
any reserve bank. With the obstacles
to free flow removed the full quality
of money will appear, hence no city
can be deprived of it's natural adj
vantages because it happens not to
have one of the banks. 1t will get all
the money that 1t can command, and
if ii had two of the reserve banks ii
could not get any more.
Money goes where there is n busl-
ness demand for it, The mere possess
sion of a reserve bank will cut little
figure. Baltimore, for example, feels
Itself actually insulted because Rich
mond got a bank. 1t is deeper than
rivalry. 1t is modification. There is
apparent a personal note of deep and
inward disgrace. 1t is all very funny.
One consolation is that the country
will soon forget all about It. No city
| is hurt in its prosperity or money adj
vantage because it is not one of the
| chosen
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
THE SITUATION AT VERA CRUZ.

1t is quite unlikely that the forces of Huerta near
Vera Cruz would make attack upon the city, now
In possession of bluejackets and commanded by
the guns of warships. Such performance would
be farcca and most disastrous But Mexican fanatics,
in the spirit of the Russians at Moscow, might burn
the city or off and food supplies to
famine among the population.
We cannot repeat the feat of General Scott, who
with the same small force fought his way from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City To the sailors and marines at
Vera Cruz there must be added large military
force, and infantry brigade has already been
dered there. A show of overwhelming strength is
moral as well as military factor in Mexico. 1t
resistance and compels open DOORS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
Useful Sons of Mllliona,res.

From the New York Evening Post. =,
The process of deterioration which
is supposed to set in with the second
generation of great fortune owners
in this country is not really So wide
spread as one is led to imagine. The
victory over England's professional
tennis champion by q rich young
man argues rather exceptional physi-
cal stamina and a clean outlook upon
life. The heir to Americas largest
fortune has devoted much of his time
and means to useful work in the field
of social service. The young heir to
one of the great landed fortunes in
New York city has displayed a COM
mendable interest in matters of social
and civic progress. The heir to one
of the largest railroad fortunes in the
country has given a great deal OF
time to coaching the university crew
of his alma mater. 1t may be that
amateur rowing or tennis, or even the
management of campaign against
the social evil, is not an exercise con-
duciVe to the conservation of great
wealth. The three generations from
overalls to overalls, literally inter-
preted, might still hold. But that
other form of decline which we as
sociate with the Pittsburgh school of
millionaire ethics, as brilliantly ex-
emplified in the person of Harry X.
Thaw, is apparently far from uni
versal among the children of the very
rich.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24

admits that it exists, but nobody is
certain why. Some go back to Noah
and the ark and say that it was April
! when Noah sent the dove out over
the face of the waters; which was
surely an April Fool errand for the
dove. Others put the custom on a
religions basis and say that the day
commemorated the passion of the
Saviour, who was sent back and forth
by his tormentors, from Annas to
Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to PLATE,
from PLATE to Herod, and back again
to PLATE. And these same people say
that the French name for April Fool,
Passion d'Avril,' means Passions
OF April"
Another funny thing about April
Fool is that various nations have the
custom in different forms. Long be-
fore Christ the Roman feast of the
Saturnalia was the same sort of
thing, when everybody tried to fool
everybody else. The Feast of Hull
in Hindustan, eliminates in a revel
of "fooling" on March 81. For us
probably the custom started with the
French the French were the first
people to hold New Years Day on
January / instead of March 25, and
when the change was first made lot
people would forget it every year. A
week of merrymaking, with visits and
presents, was always held at New
Years, and so April Fool Day, the
climax of this week, came to be the
day for testing those who had forgot
ten,