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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
FIND CURE FOR DEAD BEATS
New England Residents Card Indexed
As to Paying Proclivities

Boston, March 19.-New England no
longer will be a profitable field for
dead BEATS when the commercial or
ganizations complete work they al
ready have well in hand. The boards
of trade and chambers of commerce in
many cities of the six States have quiet.
~ worked up system showing the H.
naneial status of hundreds of thou
sands, of persons, classifying those who
pay, who get credit and neglect to pay.
The Boston bureau has more than 100,-
600 names, Lynn's Chamber of Com
merce has $4,000, and in other cities
the bureaus hold name and address
cards in proportionate numbers.
These cards show whether John Doe
pays his bills promptly, slowly, or not
at all, and keep track wherever he
moves. If he contracts bills at several
stores simultaneously he is caught at it.
The system tends correctly but simply
to classify every household head and in
dividual purchaser on credit in the six
States. The records are to be turned
over to all retail merchants identified
with the commercial organizations.
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Born Organizer an. Also Successful
Squab Raiser

SQuab Raiser
Kansas City, No., March 1s.-The
smallest Boy Scout in the world lives
at Blue Springs, No., just little way
from Kansas City. His name is Arthur
Portwood. He is exactly 80 inches
high and weighs So pounds.
Arthur is IA years old and in the
sixth grade in school. He is the Tiny
Tim of the Blue Springs Boy Scouts
and goes with them ON all their hikes.
''Course, sometimes they carry me,''
he explained gravely. ''my legs are so
short | can't keep up with them when
they go fast; but they always take me
with them, and l attend every meet
ing
His size does not bother Arthur
bit. He is not at all sensitive about
it. When visitor entered the room
where he sat in baoy s rocking chair
by the fire Arthur Immediately stood
up.
Il expect you want me to stand
mp, he said sedately. and rose from
the little chair .'Nost folks want to
see how big am when l stand up, you
see.
Several years ago Arthur went into
the squad business. He has several
hundred pigeons in the yard behind his
house and takes all the care of them
himself. He sells his squads TO res
taurant man in Kansas City at a good
price and every penny of the money
goes right into his bank account. He
likes the study of agriculture better
than any other school course and wants
TO be farmer when he is old enough.
Arthur is a leader in boy society in
his neighborhood. He is a born organ
izer and can arrange entertainment and
trips for the Boy Scouts faster than the
other boys can carry them into execu-
tion. He is exceptionally bright in mis-
school work.
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MOTHER AND BABE AFFECTED
Physician Finds Lockjaw Case Without
Precedent in Medical History

Allentown, Pa, March 19.-Dr. Y.
Q. E. Guth, Allentown g health officer.
last evening discovered one of the most
extraordinary cases in medical annals,
when he found that both Mrs. Grover
Glase and her week-old infant are suf.
fering with lock- jaw
Three weeks ago Mrs. Glase, while
performing household work, stepped on
rusty nail. Ordinary treatment was
resorted to and the wound healed. but
day or two after the birth of the
baby her feet began to SWELL The
mother cannot talk nor the child cry.
Antitoxines are being used, but their
lives are in danger.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
HAS BOOTHS AT BOTH SHOWS
City Auto Supply Company's Exhibits
Attract Much Attention

The City Auto Supply Company is
exhibiting at both auto shows this
week. Its display covers about every
thing new in auto specialties and sup
plies.
. Attractive booths display the spe.
cialties in accord with the characterist.
ic enterprise of the firm E. l.. Lein.
bach and his assistants are extending a
hearty and generous welcome to all
their visitors, and have received many
congratulations on their exhibits.
Adv
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
NEVADA GAMBLING KILLED
Bill Fails of Constitutional Majority in
the Senatesat Reno

Reno, March 19.-The Nevada Gam
bling Bill was killed yesterday after a
bitter and prolonged fight in the Sen.
ate by the faction representing the ele-
ment throughout Nevada determined to
regain open gambling with cards.
Amendments galore to the original
bill marked the efforts to revive in part
at least the former days of gambling.
The pari-mutual racing and the H.
voree bills had finally gone through.
and hope was held out for the success
of the gambling bill, but it was doomed.
The final vote was short one of a
constitutional majority, showing II to
10, with one member absent on account
of Illness
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Two Dresses in 30 Years

Findlay, Ohio, March 19.-George
Griswack, farmer and horseman, is
defendant in an action for divorce
brought by his wife, Mrs. Mary ]. Girls
wack. She alleges that in the thirty
two years of her married life her hus-
band has purchased only two dresses
for her. and that she has been COM
PEELED to work in the fel1s with men.
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Lancaster Hotelkeeper ARRESTED

Lancaster, Pa, March 19-W. F.
Donnel, proprietor of the Stockyard Ex-
change hotel, has been held under bail
for hearing before Alderman C. F.
Stauffer to answer the charge of selling
liquor to John Habecker, of Lititz,
while he was intoxicated. District At
torney John NJ. Croft directed the local
police authorities to bring the charge.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
P. R. R. Y. M. G. A. LEAGUE
Camp Hill High School Nine

The Athletic Association of the Camp
Hill High school organized baseball
team. Among the most prominent of
the candidates are: H. Armstrong, If;
H. Cooper or Fry, eff; Bell, rf; Sutton,
3b; Good, IS; C. Beck, 2b; Bigler, 1b;
F. Armstrong, c; Stevenson, p; Ston-
lias, p.
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can Upon the Governor

Republican County Chairman Wer-
ley, former Judge Stevens and Colonel
Trexler, of Reading, were at the capi-
tol yesterday and paid call on
Governor Brumbaugh. The Governor
has promised to attend the dedication
of an addition to home in which Mr..
Werley is interested next August.
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No Hearing on Thav Writ

New York, March 19.-The hearing
on the writ of habeas corpus sworn out
in behalf of Harry X. Thaw will not be
held to-day, as had been planned. An
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19

He who cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass him
self, for every man has need to be
forgiven.
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NEWS OF THE SPORTING WORLD
BOWLING RESULTS
CASINO LEAGUE

Alphas win from Nationals by 80
Dins-
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Yesterday. No date was set.
vetoes Utah Prohibition Bill

Salt Lake City, March 19.-Gov.
ernor Spry vetoed the Statewide pro-
hibition bill yesterday.
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Remember Too

Automobile insurance is not
the only thing that we write
Look Here
Life
Accident
Health
Burglary-Residence
Burglary-Bank
Burglary-Mercantile
Plate Glass
Employers Liability
Public Liability
Elevator Liability
Elevator Property Damage
Physicians Liability
Dentists Liability
Teams Liability
Teams Property Damage
Fly Wheel Liability
Sprinkler Leakage
Residence Water Damage
Residence Loss Of Use
Baggage Cen route)
Bonds-Fidelity
Bonds-Surety
Live Stock
Boiler
If your policy is stamped at this office
are insured
Order of any broker, but
require AETNA contracts.
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DR.KLUGH, Specialist
Physician and Surgeon

Omccs: zoe Walnut ST.. Harrisburg. Pa.
Diseases of womeB ana mcns special.
private, specific. nervous and chronic
diseases. General Office work Consult
tation free and confidential. Medicine
Furnished. Work guaranteed. Charges
naderate. 2B years experiences.
DIR. kLUGH. the well-knewn Specialist
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
The Familiar Unknown.

Things you see every day and never
notice form a favorite topic with those
who probe curiOusly into our defcien-
cies. The watch trick is perhaps an
open secret by now, and yet you may
fail in reproducing the Roman figures
that you confront i'll all moods many
times a day. Can you describe the as
pect of a shilling, which l hope you
see as many times a day, or penny
postage stamp? l am sure that any
postal maiden could sell me dozen
penny stamps with the wrong head on
them and send me away cOntented.
And yesterday / met a man who had
lived for years in happiness on Haver-
stock hill and couldn't tell me the
number of steps that led to the front
door Of his own house.-London Spec
tatOr
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Holland and Herrincs.

10 the sea the Dutch eve most OF
their wealth. The art Of curing her
ring was discovered by a poor Dutch
fisherman, William Beukels. in 1850,
who found that the fish which they
caught in great abundance could be
smoked and salted away in kegs and
then transported to the ends of the
world III good condition. Such a trade
resulted that it was said that "Amster-
dam is built on herring bones" Sew
eral hundred years after the death Of
Beukels the emperor, Charles V. went
TO the tomb of the fisherman and there
ate herring in gratitude for the in
ventiOn. And in a church in Biervllet
today may be seen q stained glass win
dow in honor Of this man. Herring
have been one of the chief means Of
trade to the Hollanders, so that even
at the present day the first catch is
taken to the royal palace in a coach
and six.
The fact that the two dominant DO
lttical parties of Holland for hundreds
Of years were called the Gods" aud
the "FishhOOks" shows that maritime
matters were the uppermost in the peO-
ple's Notwithstanding
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
The Rise Of Newfoundland.

Newfoundland has had curious his
tory. Cabot, sailing from Bristol, dis
covered it in 1897, and in 1888 Sir Hum
phrey Gilbert annexed its wild and
rocky shores for Queen Elizabeth. Yet
until 130 years ago it was illegal to
build a permanent house there. The
island was held by merchant adven-
turers" for the sake of the fisheries.
They hired their fishermen in England,
took them across the Atlantic each
spring and brought them back at the
commencement of winter.
Newfoundland's Importance in the
cod fishery arises to a great extent
from the fact that it is only within her
waters that the small fish desirable as
bait can be obtained in the necessary
quantities. Telegraph.
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Concerning the poIomites.

The fairyland about Cortina is ia
miliar to thousands of tourists as "The
DolOmites." DOlomite, a rock COM
pounded of carbonate of lime and car
Donate Of magnesia, takes its name
from the French geOlogist Deodat de
Gratet, Marquis de Dolomieu, who
spent his time in 1889 and the follow
ing years, while his cOuntrymen were
busy with revolution and war, in visit
ing this and other Alpine districts. He
first mentions this kind of rock in
1871, and the word "Dolomite" first
occurs in pamphlet of 1902 describ-
ing tour of his in the Alps about the
st. Gothard and the Simplon. The
curious point, noted by Mr.. Coolidge,
is that the marquis seems to have
paid no attention to the dolomite rocks
in the neighborhood Of his own home,
Dolomieu, near Grenoble. - London
Mirror.
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Teutons RepuIsed on French Front.
WOULD LIMIT LEGACIES


Chicago, Aug. 23.-A limit Of $1,000,
900 on the fortune that any man may
leave 10 his hers is the remedy sug-
gested by Chairman Frank p. WASH
and three OF his associates in the
federal commission on industrial re-
lations for the social and industrial
unrest in the United States.
The unjust distribution of wealth
is given as the first of the sources Of
industrial unrest and a considerable
part of the report is devoted to setting
forth the existing inequalities.
The other five members of the com.
mission do not hold to this specific
limitation Of large fortunes which
pass by inheritance to the heirs OF
the men who created them. Nor do
they hold that the present social and
Industrial unrest are primarily due tc
the unequal distribution of wealth, but
rather that it is due TO the failure 10
administer the labor laws and the dis.
trust of the people for municipal,
state and national government.
= o remedy these conditions, Mrs.
Florence ]. Hartman, Professor Com
mons and Commissioners Weinstock,
Ballard and Ashton would establish
permanent industrial commission
which would be supported by an in
heritance tax on large fortunes, this
tax to be graduated from l per cent
on the excess of $4,000 fortunes left
to direct heirs, 10 Is per cent on
fortunes over 81. 600. 600.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
Poisonous Gas Gevser.

In the midst Of the great faunal viii.
derness near Nairobi, Africa, is a big
blowhole in the earth issuing poison
Gus gases. Surrounding this hole for
many yards are piled bones of dead
animals, poisoned by this gas geyser.
Dogs dragged by ropes over the hole
were killed in less than a minute. The
gas has been found to be hydrochloric,
coming from some volcanic depth. The
death trap has been fenced and billed
all around with warnings.-New York
Press
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GastronomieaIIY Speaking.

Simply because gluttony is a vice it
does not follow that dyspepsia is a
V1rtue.-Philadelp Ledger.
Th9 Popular Craze.
"Sir," said the young man, "I want
DO marry your daughter"
''You do. eh? What have you got to
ofrerT
Myself, which includes q fair edu-
cation, good state Of health, a rea-
sonable amount of ambition, a credita-
bic appearance, modest salary and a
strong desire to come into your office
and get useful
The older man shook his head
mot enough. Times are too hard.
can't afford a wedding"
The young man smiled.
"Now for my trump card" he said.
Everybody is eloping. We will elope
and save the expense"
The old man caught his hand.
She's yours, son; she's yoursr'-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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WEEKS EXPORTS S31 300, 900
Greatest GAN In Shipments Is In
Foodstuffs

New York, Aug. 23.-The current
statement issued by the foreign trade
department of the National City bauh
shows that the exports from the port
of New York for the week ending Aag.
II were S31, 100000 against $1O,725,-
600 for the corresponding week of last
year, or nearly three times as great.
For the full month of June tie
same compilation shows the export
trade from all ports of the United
States was 70 per cent greater then
in June OF last year, manufactures
exported IN June amounting to S15C~
OO0,00O against $4,000 900 in June or
last year and foodstuffs TO $4,000, coo
as against $31 100000 in June, 1914,
the percentage of gain in foodstufFs
being greater than in manufactures.
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fragists that these figures are i'm
portant and worthy of study and dis
cussion by every thinking citizen
We feel that they should be of espec
ial interest to the voters of PennsyI
vania, who are to decide this Novem
ber whether their women are to have
a voice in deciding what presidential
candidate is to receive Pennsylvania
SO electoral votes next year.
1T does not seem fair to us that
the women of this State should be
denied the right to share in the elec
tion of the next President, wher
100000 other women, from California
to Illinois, will have the power to vote
against candidate that we possibly
might favor, providing, of course, thai
he believed in equal suffrage
1--WE want to bring these facts home
to the men of Pennsylvania But to
bring facts home forcibIy, one must
be specific. With the lively interest
that is already being shown in the
coming presidential campaign, we
know of no better way of being spe
cific than to show in concrete form
just what power can be and will be
exercised by the women of the West
In determining who is to be our next
President
Miss Patterson then submitted the
table of Electoral College statistics
that accompanies this story
Western Voters Watching.
"As the table indicates she said,
"the States where women vote con-
troll among them 81 electoral votes, or
more than New York and Pennsylva-
mia combined. Western voters are
watching these two Eastern States
this year and if, by any chance, the
suffrage amendments should be de-
feated in the Empire and keystone
States, no candidate from either of
these States need expect to gain the
81 electoral votes which the suffrage
States control
"This is simply a plain statement
of fact based upon the preparations
which the voting suffragists of the
West are making for the 1916 presi-
Dental campaign The women have
learned the power Of the ballot and
the vote which they will turn out in
next years presidential election will
be as big surprise to some folks as
their vote in Chicago was in the
mayoralty campaign this year, when
more than a quarter Of a million
women voted and incidentally gave
Chicago the cleanest and most intel
ligent city council ever elected.
Have Faith in Men.
Meanwhile, we are confident that
the men Of Pennsylvania will prove
to the satisfaction of the Western
voters that they are just as patriotic
to-day as their forefathers were when
they signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence in Philadelphia, and that
the same spirit of Patriotism which
prompted them to make PENNSYLVANIA
the birthplace. of Liberty in this
country will inspire an overwhelming
vote for the suffrage amendment here
this November"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
WOMEN'S VOTE
May ELECT OUR
NEXT PRESIDENT
Western Voters Say No Eastern
Candidate Who Opposes Suf-
trage Can Expect to Gel
Their Vote

Harrisburg, Aug ga brief but
vivid analysis of the political power
which 100000 women of this country
already possess, and the effect which
1t will have on next years presiden-
ual election, was given out at the
State Headquarters of the Pennsylva.
MIA Suffragists here to-day by Miss
Hannah ]. Patterson, State Chairman
of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage
Party.
Two interesting and significant
points are emphasized in Miss Patter-
sons statement:
Q) That the IL States in which
women now vote control 81 of the
266 Electoral College votes necessary
for choice in determining who is to
be President of the United States in
1917.
(2) That no candidate for Presi-
dent can expect to gain the 81 votes
controlled by the Suffrage States un-
less he stands unqualifiedly for woman
suffrage.
In presenting her statement and
analysis of the nationwide power of
the women voters in the twelve suf-
frage States, Miss Patterson explained
that it had been prepared in response
to repeated requests from the West
as to whether the men of the East
really appreciated the voting strength
of the Western women in national
elections
Woman's Vote Increases.
Almost every day." she said, 1--WE
receive letters from Western suffrag-
lists, both men and women, asking us
If our menfolk understand that six
additional States-Arizona, Kansas,
Oregon, Illinois, Montana, and Nevada
have granted their women the right
to vote for the President of the
United States since the 1912 election.
None of these women had the right
to vote at the last presidential cleo
ton and only 81 electoral votes were
cast in which women had a voice.
But the women of the six aforemen-
toned States will vote next year
bringing the total electoral vote of
the suffrage States up to 81, or a lit
tie more than one-third of the Elec-
toral College vote which the success
full candidate must poll.
I'VE agree with the Western suf-
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
Ypres In ENGLAND

We have the name of Ypres in Eng
land-in that of the Ypres tower at
Rye, in Sussex. though local talk
knows nothing of its proper pronunci-
alton and broadly calls it the "Wipers
tower" 1t is a twelfth century build
ing, the oldest secular building of all
the Cinque ports, and was at one time
the only stronghold of the town, though
later walls and gates were built The
reason for its name is to be found in
the commonly accepted statement that
it was built by William des Ypres,
earl of Kent.-London Globe.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
DANCER DON'T LIKE u. S.

Perhaps, Though, She Didn't Draw
Here as Well as She Expected.
Paris, Aug. 24.-Isadora Duncan
the dancer, writing for a Paris news
paper, delivers the following TRADE
against American women and present
day fashions:
Fashionable gowns are for flal
chested, hipless women given tc
wearing short skirts. No French wo
man would wear such a gown. The
are made for New York women and
harmonic with the architecture OF
New York and the vulgar snobbish-
ness of Newport society,""
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ais II PossibIe 7F

Prince George of Denmark was nick
named Est-il-possible by James II. 1t
is said that when the startling events
Of the revolution of 1858 succeeded one
another with breathless rapidity the
emotions of Prince George found vent
in the repeated exclamation. "Est-il-
poSsible?" King James. enumerating
those who had forSaken him. said,
"And Est-il-possible has gone too"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
A Curious RoxaI Custom.

When any Spanish sovereign dies
the body is at once submitted to the
process of fossilization, nor can it be
placed in the royal pantheon until the
body has been absolutely turned into
stone. CuriOusly enough, the period re-
quired for fOssiliZation varies consid-
erably. Some royal bodies have be-
come solidifed in very short period
while others have taken years before
the fossiliZation took place.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
VedetabIa Chat.

II see that some college professor has
been saying that he believes that vege-
tables can see and hear while growing
IN the garden"
as that so?''
"Yes; not only that, but he believes
that ages hence they viii be able to
converse with one another"
"Oh, that's oldr'
whats old %
Vegetables conversing. I've often
heard Jack and the Beans-talk?
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
Child Dies In Eather,s Arms

Pittsburgh, Aug. PA year-o. q
child of John Gotta of Butler Jun
tion died suddenly in the arms of its
father at Springdale. The father hal
been visiting relatives in Pittsburgh
and was en- route home on a train.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
EarIy BaIloonino.

AS early as 1876 the French govern
ment granted a sum of money to es-
tablish balloon service between Par
Is and Marseilles with what were
known as the Montgolfer air balloons.
though the project never became more
than a project.
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Knew His Business.

Mrs. Platt (angrily)-Oh. you think
you know a lot. don't you? Mr.. Plat
(calmly)-Well. l ought to- my dear.
I've been in the real estate business
for nearly thirty years.-IndianapoIis
Star
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
Hiaher Salary; More teachers.

Charleston, w. Va, Aug. 24.-More
than 200 school teachers will be Job
less in West Virginia when schools
reopen next month. Many teachers
who had given up their profession to
engage in other work are trying to
get back in educational work because
the last legislature provided for an
increase in teachers salaries.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-27
Not Much

rs it true, mamma asked Ethci
that the ostrich hides its head in the
sand?'
"Yes. dear; they say that is the
case"
''Well, mamma, when you wear an
ostrich feather you never hide your
head, do yOu?'-Yonkers Statesman