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The Washington times., 1917-02-26
PULPIT EXCHANGE UNUSUAL
Richmond EpiscopaIian Conducts
Presbyterian Services In N. Y.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-An exchange
of pulpits of a nature almost with.
out precedent in American ecclesIas-
tical history took place yesterday
when the Rev. DIR. Henry Sloane Cof-
fin, of the Madison Avenue Presby-
terian Church. delivered a sermon in
st. Paurs Episcopal Church, Rich
mond, Va, while his own pulpit was
being filled by the rector OF the
Southern church, the Rev. DR.. w.
Russell Bowie. 1t was necessary to
get from the Bishop of Virginia a
special dispensation to permit DR.. Cof-
fin to conduct the services there yes
terday and through the remainder of
the week.
DIR. Bowie wore yesterday. not Epis-
copal vestments. but a Geneva gown,
and conducted the services after the
Presbyterian manner.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged
Nostrils and End Head -ColdA

You feel fine in a few moments. Your
cold in head or catarrh will be gone.
Your clogged nostrils will open. The
air passages OF your head will clear and
you can breathe freely. No more dull
ress. headaches; no hawking, snunrling,
mucous discharges or dryness; no
struggling for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want a small
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a
little OF this fragrant, antiseptic cream
In your nostrilS. let II penetrate through
every air passage OF the head soothe
and heal the swollen. infamed mucous
membrane. and relief comes instantly.
1t Is just what every cold and catarrh
sufferer needs. Don't stay stuffed up
and miserable.-AdYt-
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
U. S. WITHOUT sHAMRocKs
Submarines Cut OF Supply From
Emerald Isle.

NEW YORK. Feb. 2e,-There IL sor.
row among the sons of Erin In
America Usually at this time OF year
boxes of sod from the old country and
letters and packages containing phan,-
rocks begin to fiow through the post
office to bring JOY to many an Irish
heart, but the deadly work Of the sub
marines has cut on the supply this
year.
The consignments OF shamrocks In
damaged boxes which have to be re-
paired usually make the postofflcs
look like a garden, but so far the
clerks have looked for the damp,
crumbling packages in vain. 1t Is an
old custom of the mail service for the
Dublin clerks to send q box OF tho
green TO the New York clerks. and
there IL a regular Donnybrook scran1-
BILE to get them. but this also seems
to have been banned.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
ST. PAUL'S FUND
REACHES $4,000
Pastor Confident That $50, 900
viii Be Contributed With
in Time Limit.

The nnal half Of the $4,000 In nfty
days campaign OF st. Paurs Catholic
Church began today with the ther-
mometer on the church hall register
ing more than $4,000, bringing the
result Of the canvas thus far slightly
over the 81 900 q day mark.
Assurance that the full amount OF
$50, 900 will be procured in the. hfty
days was expressed last night BY
Mgr. James +. Mackin, pastor OF the
church, when he announced that
work on the improvements to the
church building will be commenced
next week.
May Double Donations.
The men OF the church met last
night in the hall. and voluntary con-
trfbutions amounting to several
thousand dollars were made Some OF
the largest contributors signifed their
intention Of doubling their first do
nation.
The committee plans to announces
from time to time the names Of the
contributors to the fund The initial
list of donors includes the following'
Contributers' List.
Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs. John
cammaek. J. Maury Dove, and James
o'DonneIl, $1,000 each.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Golibart, $500.
Mrs Frank p. May, $500.
B. N. Bridget. James A. Cshiii,
James 8. Easby-Smith, Dr. NJ. darcy
Magee, p. +. Nelligan, and Daniel w.
o'Donoghue, $3.50 each.
ID. J. Callahan, Miss Elizabeth
Shea, $500 each.
Mrs. H. T. Donovan. Rear Admiral
R. s. Griffin, and Patrick J. Haltigan,
$3.50 each
Miss Corinne N. Beavans, $1-50..
Mrs. Z. N. Alexander, William d.
Barry, Mrs. Joseph Beardsley, T. p.
Boland, Mrs Margaret Buckley, CapI
ital Construction Company, AeneaS
Collins, Mr.. and Mrs. II. N. Crutchet.
C. ]. Cusack, W. J. Dante, A I.
Hickey and mother, Dennis Kerr, Mrs.
Cecilia Hill, John J. Hamilton. MO.
sabina Davitt, Richard l. Lamb, John
s. Larcombe, ]. d. Leonard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Austin Lotus, Brig. Gen. Frank
Mcintyre, Miss Mary c. McSweeneys
Arthur ]. May, William W. Nelligan,
Mrs. Margaret A O'Brien, d. J. Ocons
nell, Miss Mary J. Driscoll, Louis r.
Peak. Mr.. and Mrs. William Phelan,
Miss jamie A. Riggs, Mrs. NJ q.
Schaefer, grandchildren Of Annie d.
Shea, N. P. Sullivan, United States
Savings Bank, James ]. and John
welsh, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Yeager
and Lieut.. Csmdr. Francis r. Skunk,
500 each. -
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
"HoSPITAL" FOR SPELLERS
California Educator Adopts New
High School Method.

PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 26.-There is
a decided improvement in orthog-
raphy among the pupils OF the South
Pasadena High School as a result Of
the hospital Glass; established by
Superintendent G. c. Bush. The re-
markabIe quickness with which stu
dents of the Institution now reel on
"procrastination, "chrysanthemum,"
and other sticklers is causing other
high school boards to consider adopt
ing similar measures.
Finding high school students were
very deficient in spelling, and really
poorer spoilers than pupils in the in
termediate grades, Bush established
the Hospital class" for students fall
ing below a certain average in spell
ing
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
NEW BILL WOULD
UPSET WALLSTREET
New York AssembIyman De-
mands That Millions in "War
Brides" Be Recalled.

ALBANY, Feb. ga bill that Ii
expected to do more to upset Wall
Street than any other bill introduced
In the legislature In q decade has
just been offered by Edward Everett,
member OF the assembly from ST.
Lawrence county. It would compel
nearly all the million-dollar corpora
tions that have sprung up since the
beginning OF the war to effect COM
plete reorganization OF their finances.
The measure wipes out the law un-
der which the Rennecott Copper, Gu
ban Cane Sugar, the Marlin Arms,
and many war brides" launched by
the Morgan and other Wall Street
houses were incorporated. These cor
porations, estimated at more than
ZOO, Will be required, IL the Everett
bill becomes a law, to call In all
their outstanding stock.
None Of this stock has any par or
pominal value. It was issued under
a law enacted several years ago,
through the activities Of Francis
Lynde Stetson, the late Edward N.
Shepard, and Victor N. Morowitz, a
committee OF the bar association.
DCuGuL 10 StOcknOAuGT1.
The purpose Of permitting corpor-
atiors to issue stock without par
value is to relieve the stockholders
Of personal liability, The corporation,
however, is required to keep in its
treasury capital sufficient to meet
this liability. Stock issued under
such conditions may be sold more
readily than stock having a par value
Of 500 or $50, for which sum the
holder Is personally liable in case
the corporation becomes insolvent.
The arrangement also facilitates
the issue OF large blocks Of stock IN
the form Of bonuses, for which the
recipients pay nothing and TO which
no personal liability attaches.
The several hundred millions of
stock of no par value, now In the
hands OF investors and SPECTATORS,
would have to be turned in and ex-
changed for stock having q par
value, IL the Everett bill is passed.
Provision of the BILL
The provision requiring this ex-
change reads In part:
within six months after this sec
tion takes effect the directors of q
stock corporation which shall have,
heretofore, issued shares of capital
stock Of such corporation without
nominal or par value. cause all the
property OF such corporation to be
appraised at its cash value and shall
deduct therefrom the secured and un-
secured liabilities of the corporation.
The net assets OF the corporation
SO assessed shall be divided into
shares OF the par value of 81, $40, or
some multiple OF SO, as the board
of directors shall determine, and shall
be issued to the stockholders in ex-
change for the outstanding shares, SO
that each stockholder shall have the
saman proportionate interest In the
propSfty OF the corporation as before
such issue. The shares, IL old stock
shall be surrendered to the directors
and cancelled"
Two bills to extend the scope of
the law promoting the issue OF stock
with no par value have been intro
duced by Senator J. Henry Walters,
chairman of the senate finance COM
mittee.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
NEARLY 1000 IN FAMILY.

HIAWATHA. Kan. Feb. 26.-The big
gest family in this country has almost
1000 members. 1t is at Reserve. nine
miles north Of here. Reserve is a small
town Of 200 or more people with an
average Kansas population In the coun-
try surrounding for an area OF six miles.
Yet in the town and the entire area Of
country within six miles OF the town
there are not more than ten families who
are not related to each other b. tIas es
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
CONGRESS TO DITCH
PRESIDENTS BILLS
Legislative Jam Makes Certain
Sidetracking of Admins
tration Measures.
WHOLE PROGRAM IN PERIL
Unfinished Business May Force
Calling of Special Session
After March q.
WHOLE ! PROGRAM IN PERIL

With Congress entering on the last
week of the short session, and with
legislation in one of the worst jams
the Capitol has seen in years, it be
came certain today that a long list
of important bills would be side
tracked.
When noon of March rolls around
next Sunday, there will be a large
part or all of the Administration leg
islative program unfinished.
At the outset of the session, Pres
ident Wilson urged a number of bills.
Among them, he was insistent on sew
eral railroad measures, including
bills to provide for Incorporating the
Canadian disputes principle in the
law of this country, to enlarge the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
to give him power to commander
the railroads in time of war or pub
lie emergency.
All Seem Doomed.
Today it looked as If none OF these
bills would pass, though there is, a
bare possibility that IL the German
crisis grows more acute the bill will
be put through to allow the Presi-
dent, in the event of military necess-
ity, to take over the roads and oper-
ate them Temporarily.
The Webb export bill was another
of the measures recommended by the
President. This will fail. The Porto
Rico bill, which the President urged,
is in jeopardy.
President Wilson is said to be ex-
tremely anxious to have railroad leg
i5lations along the lines laid
down in his message, but leaders have
told him it will probably be impos-
sible.
Exporters are sure to be grievous-
1y disappointed over the failure to
pass the Webb bill. They had hoped
for il in the short session, taking the
view it is necessary in order to pre-
pare for conditions after the war.
Corrupt practices legislation was
one of the recommendations Of the
President last December. 1t stands
no show of enactment.
Extra Session Possible.
In other words, practically the en-
tire list of things the President urged
on Congress in the annual message
will fail of enactment. Many believe
there is ample reason for an extra
session in this fact, but the President
will not call one unless it Is unavoid-
able oa--aceoURt of appropriations or
the foreign crisis.
Conservation measures, including
the bill for the leasing of mineral
lands, will be among those left on the
side track when the session closes.
Proposed amendments to the Federal
reserve act will fail, and SO will the
bill to enlarge the powers of the
shipping board.
What might be done with some of
these measures IL the German contro-
Versy should suddenly verge on war
Is uncertain. One or two of them
might be jammed through.
If there is an extra session, a num-
ber of the bills which will fail this
session will be passed.
Along with important bills, it looks
as If a lot of Nominations would fail
of confirmation unless the attempt of
Senator Chiffon to hold the DR.. Gray
son nomination before the Senate, to
the exclusion of all other nominations,
is blocked.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
eARTENDERs ABSTAIN.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 90
a lLiquorless punch featured the ball OF
the Sacramento Bartenders' Union
yhere. No booze was allowed on the
premises. This information was con-
tained in the invitations for the
event. The average bartender never
A4lses q drink, the banQueters said.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
$50 A POUND FOR CHICKEN.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2e.-Thirty dol
lars a pound offered for live chickens
was rejected today by the Humane
Society, custodian OF thirty-seven
birds taken in a raid on a cockpit.
The hghting birds were gently killed
and sent to hospitals.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
PROFITS FROM CHEAP LAND.

PoMERoY, Wash. Feb. 26.-Dr.
John Gilbert of this city has been
handed a check for s2,517.22 for his
share of the Marquis wheat crop
grown on seventy acres two years
ago. The land, before he purchased
IL pas used TO Craze sheep.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
HE SAVED A LIckIN'.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-'Temms
down again" yelled Herb CsBkl,
eight, being rescued from q well with
a rope. what forr called his res
cuers. me cap" said Herb. "Afaw'd
lick me II I lost It"
The Washington times., 1917-02-26

blood or marriage. or these ten fami-
lies nearly all are strangers who have
moved into the community in recent
years.
The Washington times., 1917-02-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HOTELS
A Daily Record of Visitors to the National
Capital From Every Section of the
Country and From Canada, and
Other Countries as Well.

Following
of
method Of touch
quickly heir ends
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
NEW YORK STOCKS

Chandler Bros. & Co.. members New
York and Philadelphia Stock Ex-
changes, North Market Square, Har-
risours; 1888 Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia; "a Pine street, New York.
furnish the following quotations.:
New York, March 21.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
Mrs. Samuel c. Miller
Dies in City Hospital

Mrs. Henrietta Zahm Killough, wife
of the late Samuel C. Miller. of this
city, died this morning at Gas O'Clock,
in the Harrisburg Hospital, where she
wass taken for treatment two weeks
ago, after fall resulting in broken
arm anr severely sprained ankle.
The funeral services will be announce
ed later after the arrival of relatives
from the west. The burial will be
made in the Killough- Miller plot of the
Lancaster cemetery.
Mrs. Miller. a daughter of the late
John Killough and Eve Maria Zahm,
his wife, was born in Lancaster, Pa,
January 2S, 1S4S. She married Samuel
c. Miller. for many years an editor of
the HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH,
March "a. 1858, and lived here until
some time after his death. Later Mrs.
Miller made her home with her daugh-
ter. Mrs Kingsley, in Northampton.
Mass, and Evanston, Ill.
She is survived by two children, John
S. Miller, of MarsvilIe. Calf and Mrs.
Frank Warner Kingsley, of Evanston.
Ills, and sister. Miss Mary Killough,
621 North Second street. with whom she
lived for the past two years. Mrs. Mil
Ter was lifelong member of Market
Square Presbyterian Church, and a
teacher of the Sunday school and sew
ing school for a number of years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
Motorcycles and Bicycles

HOUSECLEANING TIME is HERE
We will buy for cash unat old bike.
motorcycle or parts that have been
stored away in your road. Drop us a
card, or call Bell phone 3S5-J. Dayton
Cycle Co., 912 North Third street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
CHICAGO CATTLE

bV FSSOCIuTcu fT9SS
Chicago, ILL.,, March 81. - Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 1900; firm. Native beef cattle,
1925 a 1855: stockers and feeders. $3.50
a $50; cows and heifers, $5.75@10.S5;
calves, $10.5O@15.00.
Sheep Receipts, $4,000; weak
Wethers, s11.20Q12.70; lambs. $12.75
@15.25.
Hogs = Receipts, 32,OOO active at SC
sales, $14.9Om15.15; light, $14.30@15.1O;
mixed, $14.65 @15.20; heavy, $4,000
15:15: rough, $14.6OQ14.75; pigs, $1,000
@13.75.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
F Feebleminded Exhibit
Will Be DismanteIed

The formal program of the Feeble
Minded Exhibit which has been open
in this city since March 8, was closed
last night. The exhibit was open to
the public to-day and tomorrow it
Will be dismantled and shipped back
to Philadelphia.
Last nights session was presided
over by DR.. Charles II. Champion and
the principal speaker was DIR. Leslie
p. Hill of CLANCY University He
spoke on the retardation of pupils in
school. He censored the lack of
facilities for colored boys and girls
in several districts of the State.
DIR. John NJ. ]. Raunck, S. ]. Lewis
and r. j. Nelson, endorsed Mr.. Hills
talk and told of the migration of the
Southern negroes to the North. Prof.
Charles Howard, Steelton, described
poor housing conditions, which he
claims has much to do with increas-
ing cases of feeble -mindedness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
TAKES HUSBAND
ASSTAR BOARDER
Western Woman Gets Divorce,
Then Takes Him In; Are
Living Happily
BY Dorothy Dix


A Western woman got a divorce
from her husband on the grounds of
mental cruelty and non-support."
She has now taken him in to board
with her, and report says that the
plan is working admirably, and that
the dove of peace has taken up it's
roosting place in that once discor-
dant household.
Many women don't get divorces
from niggardly and abusive husbands
because they are bound to nave what
money they can screw out of the said
husband to support them Many
men remain tied to hateful wives,
who fret and aggravate them almost
to death, because, with all their faults
their wives are still superlative cooks,
and they can't bear to tear them
selves away from the creature COM
| forts to which they are accustomed.
This Western woman has cut the
Gordian knot of these difficulties and
showed the unhappily married how
to eat their cake and have it too,
as it were; how to hold on to hus-
bands money and wife's pies, and
still be free. 1t is to exchange the
uncongenial roles of husband and
wife for landlady and boarder.
The advantages of the situation are
manifest at a glance. Let husband
become a boarder and he at once as
sumes company manners, for no
boarder would feel free to talk to his
landlady in the tone of voice in which
the average husband addresses his
wife. Nor would he feel at liberty
to knock the food and the general
way in which the establishment was
run.
AS a boarder a man would not, of
course, assume the right to dictate
to his landlady about her private af-
| fairs.
On the contrary, realizing that all
boarding house chickens have as
many legs as a centipede, and only
an infinitesimal portion of white
meat, also that there is real-cream
and near-cream, and likewise skim
med milk that masquerades as cream,
and that the helps of the pudding
differ as one star differeth from an
other star in glory, and that it rests
with the landlady which of these
boarder gets, he would exert all of
his arts and wiles, and Establishments
and cajoleries to stand ace high with
the arbiter of his destiny.
1t is equally easy to see, too, how
many a man would find his wife
much more agreeable as a landlady
than he does as a wife. Undoubtedly
too many women take advantage of
the fact that their husbands can't
give notice and leave at the end of
the week to treat the poor men as
they'd never dream of treating a star
boarder. They think that anything
is good enough for the man who does
nothing but support the whole estab-
lishment. No tidbits are cooked up
for him. No pains are taken to see
that he has the little comforts that
he especially Graves. Nobody bothers
to cater to him.
1t makes one positively shudder to
think how different is the status of
Mr.. Smithkins, husband, from what
would be the status of Mr.. Smithkins.
boarder, who had the second floor
front with bath. And, morally, the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21

NOTICE is hereby given that Letters
of Administration have been issued to
the undersigned in the estate of Alice
70. Dougherty, late of Harrisburg, Dau-
phin County, Penna., deceased. All per-
sons owing the said estate will please
make settlement at once and thise
having claims are requested to present
them without delay in proper form for
settlement to
HARRISBURG TRUST COMPANY,
Administrator,
No. 16 South Second Street,
Harrisburg Pa,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21

NOTICE - Letters of Administration
on the Estate of George Roush, late of
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa. de-
ceased, having been granted to the un-
dersigned residing in said city, all per-
sons Indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment,
and those having claims will please
present them for settlement.
GERTRUDE II. PATTON,
1916 Susquehanna Street,
Harrisburg, Pa,
Or Administratrix.
PAUL G. SMITH.
Harrisburg, Pa,
Attorney.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
STOCKS CLIMB UP
AT CONGRESS CALL
Rse Met by Considerable Profit Taking and Short Selling
by Traders Causing Material Recessions

New York, March 81 (wall Street).-
The stock markets response to the
latest news from Washington Indicating
a more acute phase in the international
crisis was an opening advance of one TO
three points, war shares and shippings
showing greatest strength. Trading
was teverishly active and broad, ex-
cspt in rails, where few noteworthy
changes were recorded. Large blocks
OF speculative favorites, especially
United States Steel and other indus
trials as well as metals and prominent
specialties, changed hands at gains
ranging from fractions to over q point.
The rise was met by considerable
profit-taking and short selling by trad
ers, which caused material recessions.
Before the end of the first half hour
many stocks had relinquished all their
more under yesterdays closing quota
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21
U-Boat Campaign Cuts
Down American Exports
to the British Isles
BY .4ssocintc6 Prcss

New York, March 81. = During Ger
many's first month of submarine block
ade around England and Scotland and
New York to those conptries drnDnsd
$4,000, 600, as compared with thta in
February of 1916. according to figures
made public here to-day by the Col
year this trade aggregated $91, ,4S2, 600.
Last month the total was $52.057, 600.
The comparative figures of exports to
all of Europe show an increase of
about S1,072, 900.
Exports through New York to all
foreign countries last month totaled
1892, 1852 900, an increase of nearly SS,-
1000, as compared with the previous
February. Trade with Russia increas-
ed about $50 per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21

change would even be greater, for no
landlady with a good-paying boarder
who acts like a perfect gentleman
ever feels called upon to disagree
with his opinions, or call his atten-
tion to his little weaknesses, or to
keep rigorous eye on his comings
and goings.
The moral of all of which is that
it would be a good thing if every
wife would try to treat her husband
as If he were her star bcarder, and
every man would look upon his wife
in the light of his landlady as well as
a wife,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-21

NOTICE - Letters Testamentary on
the Estate of Harry +. Bowman, late
deceased, having been granted to the
residing in Harrisburg, all
persons indebted to said Estate are re-
and those having claims will present
them for settlement.
E. A. HEFFELFINGER,
AL. X. THOMAS,
REBECCA MINERVA BOWMAN.
Executors.