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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
1915 Has Been Notable Year
in Church Life of America
Both Membership and Gifts Have Largely Increased
? Some Reflexes of the World War
(By Religious RambIer)
(By the Religious Rambler)

religious retrospect of the year
1915, while revealing the effect of the
war, shows rather surprising ad
Vances in several respects, as we'll as
a few outstanding events.
In the first place, it seems to have
been a year of recruiting for nearly
all churches, for the figures of the
denominations show substantial in
creases in membership. This notice.
able growth began two or three years
ago. Active evangelistic effort has
been general and has assured the
continuance of the increase. The re-
cent period of business depression re-
acted favorably upon church mem
bership, as is usually the case; and
the serious mood induced by the world
war has had like effect
Instead of a great slump in gifts
to and through the church, such as
many leaders feared. there has been
a really remarkable increase, all along
the line. Especially in foreign mis-
sion receipts has the record been
notable Several of the big boards
have passed their highest marks At
least one reached a total of a million
dollars, for the first time in it's his
tory.
How War Effects Missions
Worldwide missions have been
sadly upset by the war; and many
missionaries of warning nationalities
have been expelled. Thus, all the
German missionaries in Japan and
India and many parts of Africa have
been obliged to leave their posts.
On the other hand, British
French. Italian and Russian religious
workers in the Ottoman Empire have
been exiled, and again the Americans
have had to assume large RESPONSE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
AT THE REGENT

The Beloved Vagabond," a Pathe
Colored Gold Rooster Play, at the Re
gent to-day, features Edwin Arden
The Beloved Nagabond" is an adapta-
ton of the book bv the same name from
the pen of William J. Locke.
Paragot, rising young architect, is
betrothed to Joanna. Her father needs
large sum of money to pull him
through a business difficulty. Paragot
signs a contract with a rival to give
Joanna up for two years, and gives her
the money to save her father.
Then, in despair, he takes up the life
of an itinerant musician, ragged of
panions are Blanquette, a singer, and
little Asticot, ragamuffin. recruited en-
route.
Finally Joan meets Paragot as he and
his band are playing with great enthu-
siasm at a peasants wedding. Her hus-
band, jealous, tells all that happened
between him and Paragot. Joanna
brings Paragot back to polite society.
but he finds that the carefree life OF
the road had untitled him to wear the
yoke of conventions, so he returns to
marry Blanquette, who loves him.
Tomorrow. a New Years treat is
The Forbidden Adventure" a drama
OF love and daring deeds, featuring the
Broadway stars. Louise Glaum and
Charles e. Ray.
Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the
Orient with small caravan. meets and
falls in love with Ameera, a beautiful
Arabian Princess. He is ordered to
leave the country. but disobeys and a
council of high priests sentences the
the Dead. a caVernouS pit in the noun
tains. The thrilling adventures which
attend their escape form the plot of this
exciting play.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

bilities and cares. What this all means
in the way of protecting property and
treasure, as we'll as in doing strictly
religious work, can scarcely be
imagined by one unacquainted with
conditions on the mission field.
In most cases, their work has been
taken over and is being carried
on by the various American missions,
greatly increasing the expense of the
latter. Conscious of this, the Am
erican Christians have risen hand
somely to the emergency by increas-
ing their gifts.
Y. NJ. G. A. Men In the Trenches
out of respect for the wishes of
John r. Mott nothing definite has
been published in the papers con-
cerning the notable work now being
done in the trenches of the various
battlefronts, and in the reserve
camps, by the International Y. NJ. c..
A. There are American secretaries,
able to speak in the language of the
troops. at work In every one of the
nations at war. The fine service rend-
cred in Manchuria by the Association
during the Russo-Japanese war is be-
ing duplicated to-day on a vastly
larger scale.
The Worlds Sunday School Union,
which has this year established it's
headquarters in the Metropolitan
of thousands of New Testaments to
the men in trenches. The plan is to
send a million copies by the gifts of
American Sunday school children.
\ Good Year for United Work
Other interdenominational organ
izations, like the Laymen's Movement
and the Christian Endeavor Society,
have reported 1915 as an exceptional
year. The laymen are at present
conducting a nationwide campaign
across the continent. and the meet
ings have surpassed all expectations.
Christian Endeavor held its greatest
convention for years in Chicago last
summer, and ii has adopted an ad-
vance program of millions. A new
secretary. the Rev. DIR. Ira Landrith,
of Nashville. has been added to the
general force.
=. An entirely new agency to pro-
mote cooperative church work was
established during 1916 - the Com
on Federated Agencies of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
AT THE VICTORIA

Advance press notices claim that the
matrimonial sea will be easier to navi-
gate by husbands and wives who view
"The Bondwomans, five-act photo
drama shown for the first time in this
CITY to-day, at the Victoria. 1t presents
the story of problem faced by the
great majority of American families and
upon it's satisfactory solution depends
in a great measure domestic harmony,
perhaps perhaps thapIa happiness IS "pordwouor" &c
whether husband ought to assume
major portion of the domestic re-
sponsibilities so far as they extend
to the family purse strings Should
he insist on scanning bills for grocer
les. meats, clothing, tc., or ought he
delegate that entirely to his wife, trust
ing in her ability to properly manage
these affairs?
Every wife in the United States ought
to be interested in "Bondwoman" and
husbands will find much in this I<leine
photoplay to cause them some thought.
Tomorrow we present Frank Dan
iels, the inimitable comedian. in five
act comedy drama, What Happened to
Father"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
City Rescue Mission Folk
to Watch in the New Year

At the City Rescue Mission tonight
New Years eve will be celebrated with
special ceremonies. From $40 to $50
Griffith Jones, superintendent, will con-
duct the regular evening service. From
$3.50 to 1890 Ira P. Dean will give an
illustrated lecture on THE Life of
Christ" the pictures being supplied by
Miss Donnelly, connected with the State
Museum. Piano and violin solos will
be a feature of this part of the SER
vice. Following the lecture and musi-
cal program there will be a social hour
lasting until 1870. From 1880 to IL
a devotional program will be present
ed. The meeting will he attended by
all the officers and directors of the
Mission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

Amelia Gardner. one of the three
recognized leading women who go to
presentation of Lottie NJ. Meaney's mod
ern drama, Her Price" which is at the
Orpheum tonight and tomorrow. matt
nee and night, has created numerous
parts in metropolitan productions. Miss
Gardner was the original Louise Low
elf' In Keeping Up Appearances" at
the Comedy Theater; she created the
part of Mrs. Constance Sommers" III
our World" at the Garrick Theater
in 1911; she was. in the cast of a re-
ter in 1912. and played "Portia" in The
Merchant of Venice. at the Harris
Theater in 1913 1913 Last season she ere ere
the New York Theater. A New York
newspaper speaks of the play in the
Like Seven Keys to Baldpate" and
THE Big Idea" il is a piece of fiction
acted out before the audience. 1t is
stage and the scenes change frequent
ly in the three acts. Concerning the
fiction of this singular piece one report
says:
A girl sent up to prison by her false
lover, who induces her to steal for him
and then marries another, comes for
aid when she is released. He is hav-
ing a drunken tiff with his rich wife,
murders her to keep her from altering
her will ''in the morning" and throws
Another sentence. but this time an
escape and very original sort of re-
venge. She inoculates herself with
leprosy, visits his room at the point of
a gun-he is married again. this time
for love-compromises him, bites his
wrist, and sits the night out until. she
bliss together as members of some
South Sea leper colony. After that a
little epilogue to see the hero of the
first scene finish reading the play.
Emma Dunn. who has grown so fam
Gus for her performances of mothers,
varied her usual occupation by playing
the part of a young girl.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

The famous clock of the late John
Muir. the noted naturalist and author,
which not only woke him up in the
morning, but dumped him out of bed:
which delivered his books to him in
regular sequence when he was study
ing, and which lighted his fire in the
morning. has just been presented to
the Wisconsin State Historical Society S
museum at Madison by the Wisconsin
Alumni Association of Northern Cali
fornia. The clock was used by Mr..
Muir during his school days at Wis
consin University and is described at
length in his autobiography, THE
Story of My Boyhood and Youth"
If *" the famous surgeon who so
successfully wells his identity from his
neighbors throughout the greater part
of the novel Mary Roberts Rinehart
has named for him. were real person
and still wished to keep his secret, he
might we'll despair of doing so, for
"K' the book is far past the hundred
thousand mark and still going.
SHOULD WE ALL READ POETRY?
Somewhere in poetry, and best in
poetry because there most concen-
trated and most penetrative, lies crys-
tallized experience at hand for all who
need it, 1t is not difficult to find. al
though no one can find 1t for YOU. 1t
is not necessarily exalted. romantic,
passionate: it may be comfortable,
homely. gentle, or hearty. vigorous
and cheerful; it may be anything but
commonplace, for no true emotion is
ever commonplace. l have known men
of one poet: and yet that poet gave
them the satisfaction they required. l
know others whose occasional dip into
poetry leads to no rapture of beauty,
no throbbing vision into eternity: and
vet without poetry they would be less
alive. their minds would be less young.
As children. most of us would have
flushed before the beauty of a sunrise
or a tropic ocean, felt dimly If pro-
foundly-and forgotten. The poet
like the painter-has caught has in
terpreted, has preserved the expert
ence. so that, like music, it may be
renewed And he can perform that
miracle for greater things than sun
rises. This, perhaps, is the best of all
reasons why every one except the emo
tionally senile should sometimes read
poetry. Professor Henry s. Candy, in
Harper's Magazine for January.
Treasure Island" according to Il
London newspaper. is one English
book which the Germans are not boy
cotting, but which instead they are
bringing out as holiday gift book. It's
German title is Die Schatzinsel. In
this country Stevenson's great story
has been brought out also in holiday
dress, with numerous illustrations by
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
At THE COLONIAL

The current Triangle program at the
of that theater Admirers of well-stag-
ed dramatic plays are taking lSeenly to
pretty Bessie Barriscale, who is seen
Golden Claw" while the same bill has
a comedy side of almost equal import
ance entitled The Best of Enemies
starring Joe Weber and Lew Fields.
Some of the good Triangle plays an
nounced for an early showing at the
Colonial include THE Lily and the
Rose" featuring Lillian Gish. of The
Birth of a Nation" fame, and Roszika
Dolly the thousand -dollar-a-w week vau-
deville dancer.
Coming soon is another play of inter-
est Peggy" featuring Billie Burke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

Federal Council, with Fred b. Smith
at its head This body will promote
team work by denominations and
other religious bodies, especially in
cities, and will prevent the helter-
SHELTER competitive fashion that has
too often prevailed. A federation of
churches will be formed in every city
in the land.
The Row Among Episcopalians
One of the most serious and dis
turbing events in a religious retro
spect of 1915 is the open cleavage
between the high church and the low
church parties in the Protestant
Episcopal denomination over the Pan
American missionary conference to
be held in February in Panama. Five
representatives of the high church
party including three bishops. resign
ed from the Board of Missions be-
cause the latter persists in sending
delegates TO the conference, the
Panama meeting being deemed by
them as an affront to the Roman
Catholic church.
Some conservative commentators
have declared this split to be the be-
ginning of an irreconcilable division
in the Protestant Episcopal church.
Certainly its effects upon the meeting
of the interdenominational commits
I
in Garden City this month, will be
pronounced.
The year also saw the creation of
The Fellowship of Reconciliation,
movement with revolutionary poten-
tialities, which would settle not only
the pending war, but also all kinds OF
strife, by the law of love.
Billy Sunday and Martyrdoms
1t was the year 1915 that put Billy
. 1, IfG ma of
ings in Philadelphia last January and
| February made of him a national
character, giving him front page posi-
ton on the newspapers of the land.
A tremendous impetus was thereby
| impaired TO all forms of church work,
evangelism especially.
Most important of all the years
/ events of a religious nature has been
! the Armenian martyrdoms. More
! Christians have been slain for their
faith in 1915 than in all the preced-
! ing Christian centuries. The horror
| of these atrocities has been slow in
! taking hold of the consciousness of
the church, so stupendous is it, but
the result may be new worldwide
Christian solidarity such as previous
! centuries have not achieved. Just
what will grow from this latest and
! greatest outpouring of "the blood of
the martyrs" no man can yet tell.
! Clearly, 1915 has been an extra
ordinary year in modern religious
| history.
| THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
DAN LOCKER WANTED

Murray w. Hooker. of BraddoclS Pa.
wants his brother. Dan. G. Hooker. TO
come to him at once. A telegram to
this effect was received to-day by the
police department. The officers on day
duty made every effort to locate the
brother.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
"RING IN THE NEW" AT THE MA
JESTIC

NI-NU IN THE NEW nj THE WA-
JESTIC
At the Majestic tonight they will
ring out the old year and ring in the
new" in what the management says
night carnival begins at 1890, and
scores of surprises are in store. Many
contests will be in order and not a few
funny stunts are to occur at intervals
throughout the performance. At the
mystic stroke of 12, a big stage tab
leau comes off. In order to insure
everybody's solid enjoyment of the af-
fair. without the least disturbance the
management has reserved seats all over
the house for this one show alone. The
audience of the second show will be en-
tirely out of the house before the New
Year revelers take their numbered
seats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

Lillian Jewell's manikin production
called The Miniature Review" pleased
in its accustomed fine style at the Ma
Jestic Yesterday. Not only are the dolls
operated in wonderful fashion, but the
that will linger in the memories of
those who witness them. The whole
bill is replete with clever novelty and
includes some good comedians and good
singers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

What do we care for expenses. says
the Selig management. In mo Greater
koVe," the Selig Red Seal play, to be re-
leased through V. l.. S. E.. Inc, on
JanueEy 10, Miss Regina Badet, the
emotional actress who assumes the role
of "Sadunah, the Dancer" wears
large number of beautiful gowns of
Partisan manufacture. In the climax
of the wonderful production. Miss Badet
sacrifices a gown worth hundreds of
dollars when she plunges over a preci-
pice into the water hundreds of feet
below
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

The Orpheum goers of former years
will likely be pleased to hear that
Pietro, the piano accordeonist, is book
ed for an early showing at the Majestic
Theater. Pietro appeared at the Or
pheum twice and each time made a de-
cided hit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

Tonight and tomorrow, matinee and
night-"Her Price," with Emma
Dunn.
Mrs Fiske in "Erstwhile Susan"
Thursday. matinee and night, January
6-"The Charming Widows"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
DIR. sHAW's FIRST SPEECH

Anna Howard Shaw tells in her re-
cently-published autobiography, THE
Story of a Pioneer" the interesting
story of her first public speaking. 1t
was while she was at the Big Rapids
High school that she was to recite a
poem, mo Sects in Heaven When
she faced her audience, she says; Il
was so appalled, by it's size and by the
sudden realization of my own tenn
erity that l tainted during the deIiv-
cry of the first verse. sympathetic
classmates carried me into an ante
room and revived me, after which they
naturally assumed that the entertain
ment | furnished was over for the
evening I, however, felt that II l
let that failure stand against me l
could never afterward speak in pub
lie: and within ten minutes, notwith-
standing the protests of my friends,
was back in the hall and beginning
my recitation a second time. The
audience gave me its eager attention.
Possibly it hoped to see me topple on
the platform again, but nothing of the
sort occurred
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

SUCCESS OF THE THREE ELS
When it comes to a really fashion
able audience in New York, Miss Ethel
Barrymore, who is now acting as
Emma McChesney, is the most power
full magnet of the day. 1t would seem
scarcely credible that anything as pie
bian as Miss Ferber's travelling sales
woman could appeal to this aristo-
cracy. Yet the heroine of Roast
Beef Medium" Personalities Plus,
and now of Edna Ferber's new book,
Emma McChesney & Co" is making
as big a hit on the stage as she has in
fiction. Which only proves what most
of us already know that Miss Barry
more is one of the most democratic
and human of actresses, Miss Ferber
a democratic, essentially human au-
thor, and as for Emma McChesney-
well, we all know Emma. And what
a happy trio Ethel, Edna, Emma!
Individualism or Capitalization; re-
public or monarchy in China? John
Stuart Thomson tells of the fascinating
contest in his travel books, The Chi
nese and China RevolutioniZed. In his
article in the New York American, as
long ago as August 10, 1913, Mr..
Thomson, who knows we'll the chief
figures in the drama, prophesied in
many a detail that Yuan Shih-kai,
though dissenting yet would assent
to the crown and 10 and behold, 1t
has come true and The Chinese" live
again in a China Revolutionized.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
In the Amusement World

The greatest advertisement ever car
ried in the Chicago Sunday Tribune,
and at time when metropolitan news
paper space commands a decided pre-
MUM. appeared on Sunday. December
IS. The Chicago Tribune printed and
issued four-page supplement in all Its
sunday editions presenting to its half
million or more readers in all sections
of the United States the policies and
aims of the SeliP-Tribune.
The Selig-Tribune, to be known as
The Worlds Greatest News Film" will
be released twice every week beginning
Monday. January 5. The news film will
be manufactured and released by the
Selig Polyscope Company and will sup
plement the Hearst-Selig News Pic
torial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
xzOur Library Table,,
Es0|-A> FEW MiNUTEs wirH THE
- >akATEsT Books MAGAziNESl~~ -
SUCCESS OF THE THREE E's

Louis Rhead. and is appearing as a
play on a New York stage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

News Item-"Sis Hopkins" known in
real life as Rose Melville, is going into
the movies. Who does not remember
"Sis?"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-01-08
sUCCULENCE IN THE WINTER
Gives Right Tone to Cows Digestive
System to Bring Its Efficiency
Up to Paying Point.

Corn silage should be a predominant
ing factor in the winter ration. There
is nothing superior to water enclosed
in plant cells to give the ration the
consistency agreeable to the COW, and
best suited to promote her health and
vigor. 1t is not the amount the COW
digests that wholly determines the re-
turns from her feed, but the amount
that is built into body tissues and
made into milk.
Succulent feed gives just the right
tone to the animals digestive system
to bring its efficiency up to the limit of
profitable production. If, therefore,
there is one quality in feed which is
more important than another, it is that
it should be palatable and juicy. 1t
enables the COWS to eat, digest and
assimilate larger quantities of other
feed There is little danger of COWS
going off feed when they are eating
liberal quantities of roots or corn ST.
lage in connection with their grain
feeds
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-01-08

in diameter for shelves. All this is
covered with bleached domestic or
coarse white linen.
A straight strip of the linen reaches
from the top shelf to the bottom and a
funnel-shaped piece is sew0d on top
and bottom to make a smooth cover
ing for the ends, writes a writer in
Oklahoma Farmer. 1t may be fastened
with buttons or with hooks and eyes.
Over the cooler are hung two covered
cans with a tiny faucet or hole in one
side. Each can holds gallon of water.
The water drips down over the cooler
sheet and the evaporation keeps it
perfectly cool all day.
Food of all kinds, cooker or raw
fruit, milk, butter everything, in fact,
may be kept cool and delicious during
the hot summer days. To the woman
who can't afford a refrigerator it
means a saving of time, trouble and
money The cost is about $3.50. 1t
may be hung under tree, in the yard
or in a hallway, where the wind will
strike it, If in the house a pan should
be set under it to catch any surplus
water there may be.