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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
East End Republican
Club Has Xmas Tree
Party and Supper

The members of the East End Re-
publican Club had a Christmas party
at their rooms last evening. A big
Christmas tree with Santa Claus pres
ents for all made the evening lively.
An oyster supper was served.
The members have not forgotten
their effort to have the county COM
missioners adopt the mothers pension
law, resolutions for which were adopt
ed at recent meeting. The commit
tee will get in touch with the new
commissioners and advocate the adop.
ton of the law in this county. The
committee is as follows: John S
Hopes, chairman, George w. Ho.
verter, Harry c. Owes. George w
Shuler and Thomas j. Bell.
The meeting night of the club
which since the organization of the
club, only short time ago. has beer
held on Wednesday night, was changed
to Tuesday of each week
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
DAVID HARUM STORY
But It's I'm Stores Instead of in
Horseflesh

But It's I'm Stores Instead of In
Horseflesh
An action that has some of the ear
marks of an old-fashioned horse trade
except that the transaction in question
was in stores instead of horseflesh,
was begun in the Dauphin county
courts this morning when Charles
Kohn brought suit against Joseph
Hoffman, a Lykens haberdasher, to re-
cover damages for failure to complete
the store deal.
Kohn contends that he offered Hoff-
man $4,000 for his store and paid $500
down to bind the bargain. Before the
sale was closed, however, Hoffman
made an inventory and found that the
stock he believed worth but $4,000
was really worth $1,000. Consequently,
Kohn claims Hoffman refused to sell
the store at all-and frankly declined
to return the $500, so Kohn began the
action to recover the $500 and what
ever additional sum a jury may think
he is entitled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
Department of Labor
to Have Governor as
Xmas Party Guest

An informal Christmas celebration,
which Governor Brumbaugh has been
invited to attend. will be held in the
House caucus room tonight by the
members of the Department of Labor
and Industry, including the Work
mems Compensation Bureau and the
State Workmen's Insurance Fund. The
members of the Executive Depart
ment have also been invited to this
celebration.
Commissioner John Price Jackson
will preside. A decorated Christmas
tree will be feature of the event and
remembrances and small gifts will be
exchanged among the members of the
participating branches of the govern
ment. F. F. Unger is chairman of the
committee of arrangements for the
Department of Labor and Industry
and Allen l.. Allen, assistant manager
of the State Workmen's Insurance
Fund. is the chairman of the COM
mittee from that denartment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
Surgeons Knife Saves
Boy From Life of Crime
Special to The Telegraph

Philadelphia, Dec. 23.-Saved by a
surgeons knife from a life that SEEM
ed destined to wrong doing, 16-year-
old ]. Willard Borton, of 339 East Wis
ter street, Germantown, will spend
Christmas Day at his home after a re-
covery believed to be unparalleled in
the local annals of medicine and de-
Ilinquency.
A year ago Willard spent the holi-
day season at Glen Mills Reformatory,
a boyish wreck, sullen. cunning and
morose. To-day he looks out upon the
world youth with hope and conf
dence, ready to turn a dormant talent
for music and mechanics into service
to society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
MAN. AGED 9s. DIES

John A. Walzer, aged SO, died this
afternoon at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. K. r. Scheele, of 1855 Wal
nut street. Death was due to compli-
cations. Mr.. Waller formerly resided
in Charles street, but for some months
had been making his home with his
daughter The funeral arrangements
will be announced later
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
MILITARY TRAINING AT
HARVARD ADVOCATED

Cambridge. Mass. Dec. 90. - Ex-
President Roosevelt has written an ar
ticle for the Harvard Advocate of De-
cember entitled Harvard and Pre-
paredness," in which he advocates the
establishment of an efficient system of
thorough military training at Har-
ward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
WILL PAY OUT DIVIDENDS
Special to The Telegraph

waynesboro. Pa, Dec. 23.-Three
of the Waynesboro banks declared
dividends yesterday, the total amount
of the sum to be paid the stockhold-
ers on January l as result of this
Bank will pay out $4,000, Bank of
Waynesboro $4,000 and Citizens Bank
$4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

/ N
S=='uzzzz-.zzzzz.S schedule at 10
| o'clock tomorrow morning in the
City Council chamber.
The program of benefits and dam
ages was exhibited Monday but since
that hearing at least one of the inter-
ested house owners mentioned that he
understood his residence was not
| erected prior to 1871 but had been
moved from a site few blocks away.
TO the west side of Front street. If
this be true the property owner in
question will come within the time
| limit prescribed by law which re-
stricts the board of viewers from al
! lowing damages on any improve
ments, including dwellings, boat
! houses. etc, placed on the ground on
the west side of the street between
| Herr and Calder streets after 1871.
| The viewers had allowed the property
owner in question $3.50 damages but
! If 1t is proven that his house was
placed on the affected district since
the act became operative, this sum
will be deducted and he will be
awarded only the ground value of his
property. The hearing, it is believed
will lead to other developments of
similar character. The city yester-
day filed its bill for experts and other
witnesses. This totals s711.
Tax Collectors to Meet Tomorrow.
ALL the county tax collectors will
meet tomorrow with the county COM
missioners to present their tax ex-
oneration list for 1915. The commits
sioners who are clearing the decks
for their departure from office at the
end of next week will put in a busy
day with the lists.
Preparing Final Court List. -
Work has been started by Prothono-
tary Harry f. Holler on the prepara-
tion of the final argument list for
1915. The last argument court of the
year, and incidentally the final regu-
lar session of court is scheduled for
Tuesday, December 2S.
Grip Postpones Sale. - The sale of
some of the properties of the w. P.
hartman Lumber Company which was
scheduled to be held yesterday on the
courthouse steps was postponed until
January because of the illness of
both F. A. Wilmer, the trustee, and
H. S. Knight, his attorney. Both, it
is understood, are suffering from at
tacks of grip"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

satisfied with it."-MRs. d. Fl. LUPFEG
800 Franklin Street, Reading, Pa.
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Sick women are invited to consult
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
THIRD TEETH AT 94
Nonagenarian Shows Physical VigOr
in Trip to Seashore

in Trip to Seashore
Ocean City. N. J., Dec. 23.-Jona-
than Fisher. "a years old, came from
Vincentown, Burlington county, to-day
to spend the holidays with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. l. l.. Wallace, of this city.
Despite his extreme age he made the
trip unaccompanied and stood the
journey we'll.
Mr.. Fisher is cutting his third set of
teeth. He has had his second sight,
but now is compelled to wear glasses
when reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
BEAUTIFUL XMAS PRESENTS

at Blacks Art Store, III Market St.
Framed pictures in water colors and
OIL Oil, water-color and china out
fits. We do the finest picture framing
in the city, and will fill all picture
framing orders up to the day before
Christmas. There will be no disap-
ts.-Advertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
BEREHARDT NOT DYING,
PARIS DISPATCH SAYS

London. Dec. 2S.-The report that
Sarah Bernhard is dangerously i'll is
characterized in a Havas dispatch
from Paris this evening as unfounded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

London, Dec. %. - Arthur Hughes,
last of the pre- -Raphaelite painters,
died at Kew yesterday He was a friend
and fellow-worker of John Millais,
Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman
Hunt, John Ruskin and William Nor
ris
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
PERFECT HEALTH Is EVERY
WOMAN'S BlRTHRIGHT.

When a girl becomes a woman, when
a woman becomes a mother, when q
woman passes through the changes of
middle life, are the three periods Of
life when health and strength are most
needed to withstand the pain and dis
tress often caused by severe organic
disturbances.
At these critical times women are
best fortified by the use of DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, an old remedy
of proved worth that keeps the entire
female system perfectly regulated and
in excellent condition.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23


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ago. l was in q
tired out, worn .
out con d i t | on.
After taking two
b ottles s of DR..
Pierce's Favorit6
Prescription l felt
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
OWN ADMISSION
MAY COST $3.50
"Hardscrabble" Property Own
er's House in Question at
Tomorrow's Meeting
The admissin of

L he llSbih VI
q "Hardscrabble"
property o W II g r
that he believed
his house had been
moved to Its pres
ent location since
1871 has led the
board of viewers
to issue supenas
for a supplemental
hearing on the
schedule at 10
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

eenth century. Taxation without repre-
sentation," women are people" "a gov
ernment derives its just powers from the
consent of the governed" etc, are hoary
with age. and were not even originated
in the first place 18th any reference TO
vote for women" On the other hand,,
the only logical arguments they might
use to prove woman suffrage OF beneht
are repudiated by their highest officers
as having no bearing on the question. DIR.
Anna Howard Shaw, president Of the
National Suffrage Association, in sign
ed article in the November annals of the
American Academy of Political and So
ciaI .,cience, blandly announces:
Facts az to the results of equal suf-
Irage, or the number OF women who
want suffrage, or the reason they ought
to want it. have no bearing on our ques-
tion.''
l.. She also tells US: Il contend that we
mould no. answer our opponents when
they argu, along these lines"
what Else to Argue.
Now, this was a welcome admission of
the anti-suffrage arguments as being un-
answerable when woman suffrage is
Judged by the facts, its results. the num-
Der of women who want II, and the rea-
sons they should or should not want it.
II suffragists cannot argue with the
antis along t..-se lines, how are they to
argue at all?
There are no reasons why women
shouldn't vote, or the antis would have
found them long ago" the suhragists
say-and in the same breath admit that
they must disregard facts, results and
public demand as well as reasons in
order to plead votes for women" Out
side OF taxation, which a suffragist more
advanced than her sisters told US year
ago no up-to-date suffragist now uses,
and the old human being argument
from the French revolution. and the suf-
frage slogans lifted from the Declaration
of independence, the Constitution. etc
where they didn't refer to votes for
women in the widest dreams of their
originators-what other reason can suf-
fragists advance than those covering the
facts as to the results" or the reasons
why women Ought to want suffrage"
''Of course" a feminist debster re-
Gently declared, the majority of women
don't want to vote, but they ought TO
want to vote. and We are not going TO
have much progress I'm the next hundred
years unless they do
And yet these women who ought TO
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

want to vote, are excluded, according
to DR.. Shaw Nom acquiring any reason
they ought to want it." The net outcome
Is that suffrage. as most persons know,
is simple fanaticism and blind faith in
a theory that has never worked out in
practice well enough to justify itself on
facts aud results.
If DIR. Shaw, who is admitted by the
sufragists as their greatest exponent,
cannot argue with her opponents on the
results Of votes for women" after forty
fve years of it in Wyoming, twenty-one
years of it in Colorado. and eighteen
years of 1t in idaho and Utah-what is
the matter with woman suffrage?
Difference of Opinion.
At the bottom, the difference between
informed suffragists and informed antis
Is simply this: The suffragist has been
led TO believe that she Is partly Grip
Piled in her social status by lack of the
vote. whereas the anti knows that she
has precious privilege in not having TO
become partisan and politician.
The suffragist wants her vote-no, not
to do anything in particular with ii, as
the suffragists ''straddls'' practically
every advocated reform. Even human
itaTian measures were voted down at
the Nashville convention of the National
Suffrage Association, because these
would-be feminine politicians don't want
anything but piece OF paper in a bal
lot box" TO play with as they please,
without responsibility for the execution
or enforcement of the fads they attempt
to leGislate on the people, and without
regarding it as anything more than a
toy.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

Prohibition the suffragists wouldn't Of
ficially advocate for anything under the
sun-instead they seek to appease the
temperance people by singing mud at
the ''antis'' as allied with the liquor in
terests,'' and no matter how much
sworn testimony to the contrary the
antis present, the charge goes on just
the same as the old human being and
women people argument from the
eighteenth ccntury GOES on. But your
typical ant!-sIffraSist. DIR. Shaw not
withstanding, sincerely wants to know
reasons why she should want suffrage"
And IL she finds no reasons except
vague belief in misapplied slogans Of
the last century, she begins to investi-
gate the reasons women should not vote.
Here, she doesn't need to depend, on
belief in what the next century might do
with or without votes for women-she
can look right across the country and
find out what Colorado. Wyoming and
the other States have done, and compare
them with what women have gotten
where they don't vote. And when she
finds more and better legislation to pro-
tect herself and her children in States
where women do not vote, and learns
that public opinion, in direct relation to
its nonpartisanship, is the most direct in
fluence On the enactment of sane and
constructive laws. she becomes con-
vinced that political nOnpartisanship Is
not only a blessing to woman as wife,
mother, or worker outside of the home,
but a more effective lever to get what
she wants and needs from the govern
ment
If you ask suffragists why Wyoming
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

makes no mention whatever OF numerous
good laws on the statute books Of New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey, etc, all male suffrage States,
they will reply:
Well, yoT know there are so few
women in Wyoming to men that they
cannot get all the laws they want" One
suffrage speaker declared that there
are five men to one woman in Wyoming"
OF course, the census gives II 2l9 men to
100 women, but a suffragist cannot be
expected to worry about little thing
like that.
However. it goes to Illustrate two
pretty propositions to the antis-namely.
that when women are outnumbered or
opposed by men at the polls, they can
not do any moro with their little piece
OF paper than the men will let them do
anyhow, and every woman knows how
much easier it is to get men 10 give her
the protection she must have to lead
a normal woman's life than il Is to at
tempt TO wrect II from them with their
own weapons. Second, it shows that after
forty-five years of suffrage, the appeal Of
the franchise for women has not caused
the colonization of wyoming.
Just think Of il, every woman in Amer
ica-since there are hardly any over
forty-five-might have been all her life
the absolute political equal of man
in Wyoming had her slavery" affected
herself or her mother as much as some
suffragists pretend to believe! And yet
this whole State, with over twice the
lrca OF Pennsylvania, State that would
extend from Norfolk to New York and
from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, State with
some of the finest scenery. great re-
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

suffragist lecturer. and says that she is
really on the affirmative side, though
has not yet discovered the fact" and is
large part suffragist."
Reformed SuffraEfsts.
This would be rather impressive were
it not for the fact that Mrs. George, like
Mrs. Dodge, president of the national as
soCiation; Mrs. Goodwin, and other
prominent antis. formerly was a suf-
fragist! Likewise. there are prominent
anti-sufsragists who were formerly So
cialists. When the suffragists see per-
sons entirely familiar with their whole
series of arguments from A TO z they
believe that these women are almost
suffragists and don't know it-that they
are just getting on 10 suffrage.
The fact of the matter, that the per-
son might have gone through and beyond
suffrage, doesn't occur to suffragists as
possible. 1t is the same with the aver
age theorist-if you are familiar with his
theory, he thinks you believe it because
he does. not dreaming that you might
have shared his whole scheme once until
you learned better.
Antis Mostly Converts.
Most antis who are going to the trouble
and expense Of organized opposition to
the votes for women stage OF develop
ment-that is the reason they are antis!
Your average suffragist. on the contrary.
is afraid to read, think or talk of the
anti-suffrage arguments. Few are IA
miliar wit. them-or the would be antisi
They must close their minds to the rea-
sons why women should not vote in
order to maintain the belief that they
should. Some Of them even maintain
that reasons havs nothing whatever to
do with it, and blast their own cause"
without any assistance from the antis.
There are many suffrage arguments the
antiS know that have never occurred to
the suffragists. it seems, and the con-
slant unfamiliarity some or them exhibit
about the most elemental facts and fig
ures connected with their movement f.
astonishing
For instance. an anti duestiOner in New
York the other day had 10 inform a suf-
frage speaker who was supposed TO an
swer practically anything. that Wyoming
got votes for women before Colorado.
another thing the s:iffragists do, which
to us seems so useless and monotonous,
is to ,eep on using the same old slogans
that were in use sixty years ago, and
some OF which originated in the eight
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
anti ANSWERS
SUFFRAGE DATA
Their Arguments Turned
Against Them by Pitts
burgh Woman.
ANTS MOSTLY CONVERTS
They Have Gone Through Votes for
Women" Stage, Miss Eliza D.
Armstrong Says.
By MISS ELIZA ID. ARMSTRONG.

BY MISS ELIZA ID. ARMSTRONG.
Registrar Pittsburgh Association OpI.osed to Woman
Suffrage.
1t is amusing TO note how some per-
sons assume that every one who does
not agree with them has not developed
10 the same extent as themselves.
Your average Socialist. for instance.
who thinks the whole world could be run
like a watch il it were turned over to
an industrial trust controlled by poll
ticians, promptly assumes that you are
not enlightened because you do not
agree with his or her theory. And your
average suffraEist, who believes that
women are Slaves unless they are
voters. as promptly questions your in
telIigence when you presume to doubt
her dreams.
Recently, suffragist stated patron
izingly that President Wilson had prob
ably never heard the woman suffrage
question discussed before entering the
White House-withOut in the least SEEM
ing 10 realize that she was trying to
make persons believe that one of our
greatest statesmen and scholars, as we'll
as an historian and student of politics.
had never become familiar with the
votes for women argument that has
been before the country since lS4S, An
other suffragist as patroniZingly rushes
in TO shower compliments on the clever
ness of Mrs. y. ]. George, the noted anti
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
EXPECT NEWMAN DECISION.
Ruling in Case of COmmissIoner May
Come Tomorrow.

A decision in the appeal OF Oliver =.
Newman, chairman of the Board of Dis
trict Commissioners, against whom custer
proceedings were brought by William
FrizZeIl, Is expected in the Court Of Ap-
peals tomorrow or Tuesday.
Regardless OF the decision, the case
will go to the United States Supreme
Court.
The District Supreme Court by Jury
decided that Mr.. Newman illegally held
office. but the Commissioner through his
counsel, Attorney Ralston, decided on an
appeal
By the time the case finally is passed
on by the United States Supreme Court
Mr.. Newman will have been in office three
years, and. OF course, will have lived IN
Washington that long. and II Is probable
that, should the decision go against him,
President Wilson would reappoint him.
Attorneys for both Mr.. FriZzelI and
Mr.. Newman plan to fight the case to
a finish and give assurance of having the
United States Supreme Court TO finally
pass on 1t.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03

sources and the magnificent Yellow
stone Park besides. hasn't acquired In
forty-five years Of woman suffrage as
many women over twenty-one as the
city of Harrisburg Think what might
have been done had the suffragists gone
to Wyoming and accomplished something
with the ballot, instead Of talking about
when women vote
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-26


Rome, May 26.--The War Office
las, night announced that Italians had
won successes in occupying Austrian
territory along the frontier from Ier.
hardy TO the Adria,ie. Tire Italians
have seized various towns in the
1ren'ino and forced their way
through mountain detles.
The Italians are trying to gain pos
session o. the lower osonzo river.
wnere Il is reported the Aus,rians are
fleeing and burning the bridges.
Italian aVistors are in advance Of
this Invasion and bombaroed Monfal
cone, which is about one-third the dis
tanee from the Italian frontier 10
Trieste.
The Italians have captured a dozen
Austrian towns.
The Italians captured the frontier
pass known as Val d'lnferno by
nigh, bayonet attack.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-26

House made no Comment en- the tor.
pedeins Of the Nebrsskan and will
await the official reports.
The Nebrssksn was on her way TO
MI a contract with the United States
Navy Department, to carry coal Tor
the American navy from Newpor,
News TO San Francisco.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-26
SHOT To DEATH
RIDING WITH LADY
Unidentified Person Killed Josh
saperwhite Near Mar, and
Wounded Mrs. Kester.

Mart Tex May Co Sunday nirh.
about 1880 o'clock Josh saperwhi,e.
a young farmer aged about % years.
was shot and killed and Mrs. Kester.
widow, vas seriously wounded By
some unidentified person. The couple
had gone FOR a buggy ride and the
shooting occurred about two miles
from town.