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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19

shaped board track while few hundred fans "
are doing away in an atmosphere filled with to-
bacco fumes, willing to be awakened only when the
word is passed that the riders have broken into a
sprint after half days lethargic pedaling to no
effect far as the relative positions of the
testants concerned.
Each team is composed of two men who relieve
each other at will, that there is not the ee-
days when individuals instead of teams pitted
against each other in contest to determine which
rider could stave off insanity for the greatest
period. In the present contest one team, barring
an accident of good or bad luck is sure, through
most of the week, to keep even with the others in
the score and the only element of uncertainty is in
the final few hours when all teams strive to capture
the cash prizes by pulling a lap fraction of a
lap ahead of their rivals.
The race has no glory and little if any physical
benefit for the contestants and the bulk of the box
office receipts go to the management which usually
is far from efficient
But what OF the spectators who pass most of their
time slumbering in many hours accumulation of
foul air? At baseball or a football game even
those persons who go to look on without taking any
part in the contest benefit to the extent of getting
their lungs full of fresh oxygen but to the benefit
that to the spectators at a six days bicycle
grind well, there is none.
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Tongue End Topics
Gettysburg Speech 81 Years Ago.

Fifty-one years ago to-day Lincoln
delivered his address at Gettysburg
that is regarded now as one Of the
masterpieces of American oratory. The
address itself did not seem to impress
the American people to an unusual de-
gree until q long time afterward- in
deed, not until after Lincoln s death
did its full import as wonder word
production strike them with any force.
Then its virile beauty, its tenderness,
its veiled forcefulness, and its patriot
ism dawned on them. This, perhaps,
may be accounted for in the fact that
at the time this country was more in
terested in news from the front and
the fortunes of war than in oratory,
and it had not stopped to consider the
great speech. Time revealed its great
beauty and it is now referred to as
one of the oratorical gems from this
great President.
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Heard the Lincoln Speech

There are several persons in Har.
risburg who heard Lincoln deliver his
address on that memorable occasion,
and throughout the country somebody
who was present occasionally makes it
known, but the hearers are growing
fewer in number and in but a few
years all will have disappeared. Among
those who went from Harrisburg to
Gettysburg on the occasion of the
dedication of the cemetery in Gettys-
burg, was Thomas T. Wierman, special
real estate agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, who accompanied
his father to the battle town on that
day and was fortunate enough to get
near to the great President as he made
his famous address. Mr.. Wierman has
a very distinct remembrance of Lin
coin on that day and the scene at the
dedication.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
PLAN MOVIE CONVENTION
Representatives of Exhibitors League
and the Association Discuss Pre-
liminaries of Consolidation

A get-together" meeting of state
officers of the Motion Picture Exhibi-
tors League, of Pennsylvania, and a
representative of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors Association of Pennsylva-
MIA with view to amalgamation and
the formation of a statewide organi-
zation to include also exhibitors not
now affiliated with either body, was
held in the Commonwealth Hotel late
yesterday afternoon. 1t is proposed to
consolidate at the convention Of all in
terests to be held in this city on Jan
uary 4, ) and G. 1t is the plan to have
the organization. to be formed in Jan
| uary, become a Pennsylvania branch of
the Motion Picture Exhibitors League
of America. The Pennsylvania branch,
it is understood, will fight for the re-
peal by the next Legislature of the
state censorship law and will look out
for the interests of exhibitors general
ly in the Legislature.
Prior to the joint session the execu-
tive committee of the Exhibitors
League convened. Those attending iu-
cluded: Benjamin H. Zerr, Reading,
first vice president; Frances E. Devlin,
second vice president, Wilkes Barre;
Gilbert c. Miller, national vice presi-
dent, Plymouth; J. G. Hansen, secre-
tary, Reading; +. +. McAtee, treasurer,
Mahanoy City; Frank A. Gould, public
ity representative, Reading.
The Association was represented by
Fred j. Harrington, of Pittsburgh, who
has been in the city making arrange
ment for the holding of the convention
The following committee of Harrisburg
exhibitors was appointed to make the
local arrangements for the gathering:
/. Silverman, Anthony George, Peter
Magaro, Clyde D. Klinger, G. Floyd
Hopkins, John M. Lenney and I. Mar
Gus.
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'lesiastical scrap heap" sail Dr.. Full

clesiastical scrap heap" said Dr.. Full
ton.
With all except two of its merabers
present, the committee spent many
hours yesterday wrestling with the
problem of merging the educational in
terests of PresDyterianism. The de-
bates were long, and Mt times spicy,
but without definite results. Late in
the afternoon adjournment was taken,
without coming to an agreement upon
any definite recommendation to be made
TO the General Assembly when it meets
in Rochester next May.
Three propositions were presented
and debated yesterday. The first was
to merge the Presbyterian Board OF
Education and the College Board. The
second, which was vigorously urged by
minority, was to merge these two
boards with the educational and Sab
bath school work of the Presbyterian
Board of Publication and Sabbath
School Work. The third was TO abstain
from recommending any merger.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
ANCIENT cRAcow THREATENED

That the main body of the Russians is proceed
ing unmoested to the attack of Cracow in Austrian
Gahcia reported in to-day dispatches, does not
look promising for ancient Cracow. The city with
its mighty fortress is considered as impregnabe as
Berlin or Paris, yet fire is said to be spreading in
the northern section and the bombardment is GER
tain to do irreparabe damage.
Cracow the capital of Poands glory when
Poland was a leading nation and was glorious. The
national life centered about the city and it was
one of the most important municipalities in Europe
1t is an old town, with its origin like that of
Rome lost in tradition. 1t has suffered its share
OF the hardships of wars which have swept over
Europe. On four occasions it has been in the hands
of foreign invaders and its present experience al
though new to its present inhabitants, has no nov
city in the city annals.
Cracow of to-day, in a peaceful state, has been
the most characterstically Polish of any of the
towns OF the former kingdom. With its partial de-
struction many relics of the Poland of the past are
no doubt perishng. 1t has paid the price of being
an important military outpost in the military
scheme of Austria, position which it has filed
through no choosing of its own.
The one-time capital of one-tme Poland has been
noted for its many churches. with their treasures
OF gold, silver and rare marble. The fate of these
shrines and their precious contents in the city s
present condition can be imagined
One cannot help wondering whether the custom
OF posting in front of the churches announcements
OF all deaths occurring in the city will be adhered
to III these days when the inhabitants of the place
are, perhaps, perishng in multitudes
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$50, 900 ON SUSPENDED ROLL
Presbyterian Clergyman's Report to
General Assembly Committee

Philadelphia, Nov. 19.-More than
100000 members of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States have been
placed on the suspended roll" within
the last five years, according to the re-
port of the Rev. William Fulton 20 the
General Assembly Committee On Edu-
cational Policy, now in session in this
city.
The clergyman gives as the eau 80
1.-The growing love of pleasure, disre-
gard for the Lord s Day and the Word
of God, the increasing craze for amrse-
ments and the influence of worldly
company---in short, the modern ziew of
life which is preached in many secular
organizations"
Presbyterian records show that in
1910 4S,956 were placed on the 'sus.
pended roil;" in 1911, 54,143, 1912,
51,266; 1918, 50,927; 1914, 50,4S4.
"They slipped back into the world,
fell away, were relegated to the &C.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
Unveiling ON Appomattox Day

Gettysburg, Nov. 19.-General H. s.
Huidekoper, chairman of the Pennsylva.
vania Gettysburg Monuments Commits.
sion, was in Gettysburg yesterday in
connection with the arrangements for
the erection of the three new statues
to Generals Humphreys, Hays and
Geary. During his stay at the Eagle
hotel he discussed the probability of the
monuments being debated next spring
He said:
We expect two of the statues to
be here in December and the other in
March. 1T is possible that they may
all be dedicated on April ., 1915. This
is Appomattox Day and the fftieth an,
niversary of Lees surrender.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
CALL THE FIREMEN

An old worthy who in the habit of calling each
evening at the village inn for drop O. the best" found
the landlord one night polishing the taps After few
remarks about the weather he received nightly dram
After he had gone the landlord discovered to his horror
that he had supplied Donald with gill out of the
bottle of suphurc acid which he had been using
ing the taps Every moment he expected to hear of old
Donads death, and his relief great when the old
worthy arrived the next evening
Donald. what did you think of that whskey you got
last night2
"lt fine dram, a warming dram, but it had wan
fault Every time coughed it set fire to my whskers-
National Monthly
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
A Good COMPLEXION
means PURE Blood

Everybody that wants fine, glow
ing, youthful skin, should take old re-
liable Hoods Sarsaparilla, physicians
prescription, which gives clear,
healthy color. When your blood is made
pure, pimples, boils, hives, eczema dis
appear.
Languor, loss of appetite, u. feel
ing, weakness are symptoms of impure,
unhealthy blood.
Hoods Sarsaparilla purifes the blood.
Get bottle to-day. Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
G. y. NEWS
Lad STARTED BIC FIRE
His Playing With Matches Caused Fire
Which Destroyed Barn and Dam
aged Two Houses

Waynesboro, Nov. ia boy of 4
years started fire in the village of
Quincy late Tuesday afternoon, which
required the hardest kind of work by
bucket brigade of about 100 men and
women to extinguish.
As result of the fire the stable of
W. b. Zody, on the main street, was de-
stroyed; together with buggy, some
straw and hay and several barrels of
corn and the Zody residence and the b,
f. Burger house and wash house, on the
opposite side of the street were dam.
aged.
The loss to Mr.. Zody is about $500,
insured, and to Mr.. Burger about $25.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
8 Cents Awarded in Damage Suit

When Mary Pajrich and Paul Low
ranttch, the principals in damage
suit brought b. the Pajrich woman,
which was tried in common pleas court,
make settlement with their witnesses,
counsel and the court in that proceed
ing both will find that their baull
accounts have been depleted by some
thing like So and that neither has
gained anything i'll a material way,
The Pairich woman sued Lovranitch
for damages to reputation, and to her
was awarded Scent verdict. When
the case was called at the October 1erm
of common pleas court counsel for the
plaintiff inadvertently and contrary to
practice told the jurymen that his client
deserved $4,000 damages. Thereupon
the case was dismissed at the cost of
the plaintiff.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
Door Open, Prisoner Flees

Easton, Md, Nov. 19.-Elmer Stan
ford, who had been convicted of lar
ceny and sentenced to one year in the
House of Correction, escaped from the
Easton jail yesterday afternoon. The
jail door had been left ajar by the
Sheriff, who was removing coal ashes.
stanford saw it, and, when the Sheriff
was out of sight, made mis- dash for lib
erty. Sealing the high fence that sur
rounds the Jail, he ran down West
street across fields to the big woods be-
yond, in which, he lost his pursuers.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19

If Captain Decker, of the Tennessee had regarded the
smyrna incident of very serious nature his first report
following the would have some refer
enee to it. Captain Decker made report the shooting
until he called upon do by the Department
in Washington.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
THE sIX-DAY BICYCLE GRIND

Over in New York, in the Madison Square Gar
den, they are holding this week the annual six-day
bicycle race variety of so-called sport that has
In it little if anything that actually appeals to true
sportsmanship. In it dozen or more pairs of
bicycliss are riding around and around bowl
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
Had Foot Amputated

Carlisle, Nov. 19.-Disston Parker.
Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Disston Par
ker, North West street, was taken to
the Todd hospital where his left foot
was amputated by DR.. A. R. Allen. The
lad, who is IL years old, met with an
accident last spring while coming home
from school in which he fractured an
ankle.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
To Rebuild Baldwin Hotel

Hagerstown, Nov. 19.-Hotel Stat
ford, modern and up!to-da hostelry,
Will be build on the site of the Bald
din here, recently destroyed by fire.
Hotel Hamilton, according to pres,
ent plans, will be modernized and from
sixty to eighty more rooms added to
this well known hostelry. The Hamil-
ton estate, which owns both of these
hotels, has decided to erect on the site
OF the Baldwin, modern tireproof con-
crete building, the name of the new
house to be Hotel Stafford to contain
from 100 to $50 rooms.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
INDIANA ELECTION RAID
is Held for Fraud in Senatorial and
Congressional Ballot

Indianapolis, Nov. 19. = Eighteen
men, arrested in Terre Haute yester-
day on charges of conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government in
the recent election for Senator and Con
gressmen, were brought here by United
States marshals.
The United States Commissioner held
them in $4,000 each for the Grand
Jury.
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Autos Flop Dislocates Elbow

Bloomsburg, Pa, Nov. 19.-When
the automobile of G. w. Snyder, of
Catawissa, overturend in climbing .
Hill, Snyder and Robert Levan were
caught in the wreckage of the car,
Snyder's left arm was fractured and
his left elbow dislocated and Beyau
suffered confused wounds.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
When "Hughey Played Ball Here

When Hugh Jennings was here yes
terday in his capacity as lawyer, at
tending meeting of the Board of
Pardons, he met several Harrisburgers
who knew him when he played ball
here almost a quarter of a century ago.
II was under contract to Jim Far
rington,' said Mr., Jennings, land
played with the Harrisburg team in
1890. The grounds were on the island
then, and they were the most beautiful
baseball grounds | have ever seen. The
river on both sides and the mountains
in the distance made as handsome a
setting for recreation grounds as can
be found in the country
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19
THE MINISTER SUFFERED

Rawkins-"Why do you sign your 'J John B. b. B.
Brown?'
Brown-"Because it is my name I christened by a
minister who suffered. Music Trades
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HENRY SLOW ABOUT 1T

Henry-My, my how you've grown since I've been call
ing on your sister Mae
Johnnie-Sure Sis says she guesses I'll be voter be-
fore you git around to propose Boston Record
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TRUELY FEMININE

De Crop-"Gwendolyn is an intensely feminine girl"
Miss Ryder-"More than the rest of us?"
De Crop-"Wel, she asked blacksmith the other dav
if her horse couldn't shoes smaller Kansas
City Star
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Toothache for getting drunk according to
ruling of New York Magistrate who sentenced an offender
to have the tooth pulled This justice not tempered by
mercy.
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CRITICS

Our new neighbors pretty weak in tn use o.
grammar, don't you thnkF
Yes, seen they was IS soons they beginned to talk "
cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Meantime, what are going to do about new High
School building?
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If those Turkish shots actually meant to hit that
aunehfu of American soldiers the Turks very poor
marksmeu.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-19

Who has started fund for the relief of the innocent
sufferers in Poland?
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N o v E M B T. r
WEATHER FORECASTS

Harrisburg and vicinity; Unsettled
weather tonight and Friday, probably
rain. Colder Friday.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain tonight
and Friday, snow in north portion
Colder Friday. Fresh northeast winds
increasing.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE II
Highest, 81; lowest, 26; 5 a. NJ, q
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SANE ATTITUDE ON SMYRNA INCIDENT

Highest, 81; lowest, %; s a. m., 27; p. m, 49,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-01
R. A. KELLER FOR
STATE SENATE
FORMER JUDGE OF LOVE CoUN-
TY SEEKS TO SERVE THIS SEN
ATORlAL DISTRICT.

Judge r. A. Keller of Marietta is a
candidate for the state senate from
this district, composed of Love, Car
ter and Murray counties. Judge Kel-
Ter is a Tennesseean by birth. In that
state he imbibed the principles of
the immortal Old Hickory and came
from there to Texas to round out
his principles in the kind of democ-
racy that appeals to the people on
this side of the state of Oklahoma
He came to Marietta from Texas
about ten years ago, and entered the
practice of law. He was educated in
the best schools of his native state,
and by education and by experience
in Oklahoma he is fitted for the place
he seeks. He served his own county
on the bench as county judge. Here
he had an opportunity to observe
the statutes in all their phases He
has a wide practice of law that still
fits him better for the state senate
This much can be said of Judge
Keller That he always has the cour-
age of his convictions. He is general
ly on the right side of public ques-
tions, and is able to defend his Pvs;-
tion in the court house, on the stump,
or on the floor of the senate. He
is the kind of man that Oklahoma
needs to make her laws. He is a man
whose sympathies lie wholly with the
people. and is deserving or any nonor /
that the people of this district have |
to bestow. Judge Keller will make |
a campaign of the district and the !
greater portion of the voters will have
an opportunity to see him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-01
SOL F. KINDRED
TAX ASSESSOR
MAN WHO LOST LAST ELECTION
BY NARROW MARGIN OF 60
VOTES COMES AGAIN.

Sol f. Kimbrell becomes a candi
date today for the office of tax assessor
of Carter County. Mr.. Kimbrell was
a candidate for this office two years
ago, and was only about sixty votes
behind the winner. He received a
good vote all over the county and was
favored in Ardmore with a good vote
Jim Clarkson who was elected to this
office two years ago is not candidate
this year and Mr.. Kimbrell has been
urged to get in the race. He made an
active campaign the other time and
will do so this year Mr.. Kimbrell has
lived in what is now Carter county
for the past eleven years. He taught
at Homer and at Fox and where he
taught his first school II years ago, he
Feceived almost every vote in the last
election. Wherever he is known best
he has the most friends, which is as
fine a recommendation as a man could
have. He is not without experience
in this line of work He served in a
similar capacity as a township officer
and knows how to do the work He is
an experienced bookkeeper, his rec
Ords will always be in first class con-
dition in case of his election, and he
is Industrious. The office of tax as
SCISSOR requires a great deal of hard
work; it must be properly done or
the tax payers suffer. For this office
q man is needed who has the courage
not to play any favorites but to treat
all alike, and Mr. Kimbrell is a man |
who can be counted upon to do this
very thing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-01
WHERE SPECIAL
I EDITION GOES
ONE REAL ESTATE MAN GAVE Or
DERS FOR FIFTY, MAILED FROM
NEW ENGLAND TO VANCOUVER.

The big special edition of the Ard.
moreite that appeared Sunday is go
ing to do a lot of missionary work for
Ardmore and Carter county. Several
hundred extra copies have already
been mailed out by various business
men of the city, and yesterday Geo.
r. Fish, real estate dealer and farm
loans, sent a mailing list to this office
with an order for fifty extra copies
that were mailed to bankers and loan
men from New England to Vancouver,
covering nearly the entire United
States. This big edition is being rapid
ly exhausted and no doubt there will
be some who will be disappointed at
not getting in their order sooner. The
recent edition of the Ardmoreite is
without doubt the finest effort ever
made by the management of the paper,
and that 1t is appreciated by the busi-
ness men, is evidenced by the fact
that they are sending hundreds of
copies to friends in other states. I.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-01
REGULAR MEETING
CITY COUNCIL
FISCAL YEAR CLOSES AND NEW
DEAL STARTS WITH THE 6USl.
NESS OF TODAY.

The regular meeting of the city
council last night marked the end
of the fiscal year, and business starts
this morning for another year of the
city's affairs. Very little was done
other than routine business and the
auditing of the regular monthly bills
against the city.
The council voted to grant every
fireman ten days leave of absence
each year, with pay. The reports of
the heads of various departments
were submitted and filed, the affairs
of the city make a very creditable
showing and the mayor and board of
commissioners are hopeful for better
things the coming year.