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THE STAR-INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Homi Circulation In Harrisburg and nearby towns Circulation Eiamlncu by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES: BELL~" Private Branch Eiohan|a. .... Mo. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Branch Exchange. . . No. 345-246 Saturday, October 24, 1014. OCTOBER Sun. MOD. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MOON'S PHASES— , Full Moon, 4th; Last Quarter, 12th; New Moon, 19th; First Quarter, 25tb. WEATHER FOECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity:: Unsettled weather, probably light rain to night, or Sunday. Somewhat cooler Sunday. r \ - Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled to night and Sunday, probably local jifatjfZ' rains. Somewhat cooler Sunday. Gestle to moderate southwest to north west winds/ *- f-\p/ YESTERDAY S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 62; lowest, 46; 8 a. m., 46; 8 p. m., 67. BE CAREFUL, MR. BRYAN! The Baldhead Club of America is going to hold its animal banquet in Winsted, Conn., on Thursday of next week, and William Jennings Bryan, Sec retary of State, has been invited to be the guest of honor. Whether Mr. Bryan is a member of the club is not made clear in the formal and dignified invita tion which announces that "unencumbered domes will reflect back the glare and glimmer of the elec tric lights and throw upon the ceiling of the ban quet hall a hundred and fifty glittering reflections to dance and dazzle in a way that will put your eye out." . Even if Mr. Bryan is not a member of the club he undoubtedly is qualified for membership so far as having an unencumbered dome is concerned; and, we believe, lie also is a good enough sport to risk having his eye put out, but there is another thing lie must consider. Whether Mr. Bryan has accepted the invitation was not told in the dispatches printed in the news papers yesterday, but if he still is holding it under advisement, it might be wise for the distinguished Cabinet member to consider well a few not very carefully comealed hints conveyed between the lines. For instance, to quote further from the dispatch: '-'Fearing the change of climate may affect baldheads coming from other states and not *ecliinated to the hair-killing weather here, J. Mar tin Sauter, who runs the hotel, has appealed for the use of 201) night caps for one night only." Baldheaded men in Connecticut are not ordinar ily given to holding banquets without "night caps'' or indeed without other "caps" before the "night caps." and it is rather strongly indicated that the dinner next Thursday will not be lacking in "caps" of one kind or another. If, therefore, the Secretary of State desires to avoid a dinner that is not to be run strictly along the lines of some of the principles he has frequently advocated with vigor, he will accept a word of timely advice in the kindly spirit in which it is tendered, and ascertain, before accepting that invi tation, whether those "night caps" are to be drunk in grape juice. THE SMALL BOY AND THE FRUIT TREE The average small boy does not regard fruit on a tree as private property. His conception of an orchard seems to be that it is a place where he can help himself to all the fruit he can get, as long as ' he nominal owner does not intrude on the scene and discourteously demand his departure. He takes great delight in invading a fruit orchard, does not consider the fruit'lie gets as stolen goods, so thor oughly convinced is he that he has a rightful share in all things that grow. During the present fruit season there has doubt less been the usual stealing of fruit, providing pleasure for the thieves and annoyance for the owners. I lie temptation is great and human nature, in its weaker forms, cannot resist it. Boys who would not have the nerve to take apples from a fruit stand on a city street do not lack courage to go into an apple orchard in the country and help themselves. They find what they think is an ele ment of sport in the latter procedure. Stealing fruit is not true sport in any circum stances. The despoiler of an orchard is a sneak, and no sneak is a good sport. There is an element of chance in attempting to make a haul from an orchard, and this feature has its attractions. True HABRISBURQ STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 24, 1914. sport has no place, however, iii the invasion of un orchard. It is strange how a boy's ideas of property values differ. If he has a treasured collection of marbles, for instance, and another boy makes away with one of them by a thievish method, he feels as though he-could overturn the world to recover his property and punish the culprit. On the other hand, he may regard merely as sport a juvenile expedi tion into a farmer's apple orchard or an amateur agriculturist's garden. He is nut consistent, (o say the least. Boys are not the •only fruit stealers, but are merely the most nearly innocent ones, because they are nol aware of the seriousness of the offense which they call fun. Men often go about stealing fruit, and vegetables with deliberate intent, know ing very well that they are confiscating property to which they have no legal right just as though J they were looting hanks. , There are times, to be sure, when farmers have | an overabundance of fruit, and when the bounties of nature would only be wasted if they were not taken from the trees. In such cases, fruit can be legitimately obtained for the asking. In Missouri the plan has been suggested of lining the state high ! ways with fruit trees, thus giving fruit-seekers free access to trees not on private property. The plan might he a good one in actual practice. As long as fruit trees bear their products in private orch ards, however, no other persons than the proprie tors have any right to appropriate the fruit. Tlie season for straw votes is here. And still they haven't found the Farnsworth Cup! Again the greatest battle of the war is being fought. Perhaps those Zeppelin airships can be appropriately de | scribed as 'force bags." Both the parties are parading now, but only one will be marching after November 3. The voters are going to try to make it unanimous for Judge Kunkel in Dauphin county. It will be interesting to note how l)r. Stough will be able to make "non-partisan" attacks on politicians. It remains to be seen whether political "wind bags" which have been heard from in many parts of the State are any more effective,than non-political "force bags." TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN THE LAWYER'S WAY "Before I agree to undertake your defense," said the eminent criminal lawyer, "you will have to tell me the whole truth. Did you embezzle the SIOO,OOO you are accused of having taken?" es, sir," replied the accused mat). "I'll not attempt to conceal the fact from you. I stole every cent of it." "How much of it have you still?" 'lt's all gone but about a couple of dollars." "Young man," said the eminent lawyer, buttoning his coat about him and putting on his gloves, "you'd better j plead guilty and throw yourself on the mercy of the I court." » "I'll do it if you say so, sir. What are you going to charge me for the advice?" "Two dollars."—Kansas City Star. THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS Master—"Can a Leopard change his spots'" Freddie-—"Ves, sir." Now, that's quite wrong. Yon know that a leopard cannot change his spots.' 'Oh, but he can, sir, really.' "Well, tell me how, then!" - "When he's tired of sitting on one spot he can change | to another."—Kansas City Star. GETTING IT DOWN FINE "The graspin'est man 1 ever kuowed." said Uncle Jerrv 1 eebles, was an old chap named Snoopins. Somebody | told him once that when he breathed he took in oxygen and gave out carbon. He spent a whole day tryin* to find, out which of them two gases cost the most if you had to buy 'em. He wanted to know whether he was makin' or losin' money when he breathed!"— Exchange. CHANGEFUL "You never use slang." "I dislike the mental effort," replied Miss Cavenne. "A picturesque bit of slang is all right while it lasts. But it goes out of fashion so quickly!"— Exchange. DEFINITION "What do you understand by the term 'poetic license?' " "A pull with a magazine editor."—Exchange. AMENDMENT ACCEPTED ".rack thinks it's foolish for girls to kiss." "You mean he thinks it's foolish for them to kiss each other."—Boston Record. DARLING IS PRACTICAL "Darling, I think of you every moment in the dav." "Law sakes, Tom, give some attention to your work or you'll get fired."—Baltimore American. JOHNNIE'S OBJECTION "How is it, Johnnie, that you have such a dislike for me?" said Johnnie's sister's caller. "[ have never done I anything to deserve it." "Yes, you have,' replied Johnnie. "When you come to sec our Cora she always puts the clock back, and it makes me late for school."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. HIS SAND "Has he plenty of sand, do you thinh?" "About enough to build false hopes on."—New York World. JUST SO HE CAN PASS—THE BALL Alice—"l hear that the new quarterback on your college ! team is quite homely." Dick—"Oh, he'll pass in a crowd; that's nil we care." I Boston Transcript. HOW HE CRACKED THEM "You should have heard Smith cracking up his wife's' biscuits this morning.' "I believe I did hear him. I thought at the time he was chopping wood."—Hartford Times. DIDN'T REFER TO PRICE Mrs. Wyse—"l bought a nickel coffee pot to-day." Mrs. Green—"Mercy! It can't be any good for five cents."—Button Transcript. . I [Tongue-End Topics | First Tranrcontlnental Road Fifty years ago, in the latter part of October, 1884, the first link in a trails ■continental railroad was completed, from Sacramento, California, into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada moun tains. T. 11. Judah, a civil engineer, aft er threading the mountains for months and pleading in vain with capitalists to back him met 'by chance at. Sacramento one day four small merchants—Collis 'P. Huntington, belaud Stanford, 'Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. Ou't of t!hat incidental meeting grow the organ isation of the Central Pacific railway. Judah died before his project was wetl under way, but the other four men, witlh a capital then of only a few thousand dollars and a few inconspicuous associ ates, succeeded in building to the foot hills of the mountains in the fall of '64. By 1867 the Sierras were sur mounted largely 'by the labor of Chinese coolies brought by the shipload from China, and in 1869 tho road was joined to the Union Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah. The first transcontinental railroad was then an accomplished fact, and Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker ibuilt adjoining mansions in the most aristocratic part of San Francisco, shortly to 'become millionaires many times over. * a * Nine Railroads Span America To-day there are nine railroad lines in North America known as transcon tinental. Tho latest is the Grand Trunk Pacific, of Canada, known as "The Farthest NortJi Line," which is nearly 'completed. Without counting the east ern connections, tho lines now operat ing through to the Pacific coast have an aggregate main-line trackage of over 30,000 miles, over whie'h some 200 through (.aseengcr traius are constant ly in motion. "The Farthest North Line" extends from 'Halifax on the At lantic to Prince Rupert, only a few miles below the southern • point of Alaska. Through Snotv and Ice •Miuch of the line is a.bove the 52d degree, and traverses a land locked in snow and ice through long winters. The road has been over ten years in build ing. Three years were devoted to search for a low summit, the engineers finally falling upon Yellow Head Pass, with an altitude of 11,712 feet, as against 5, 691 feet which -Judah accepted as practicable in the Sierra Nevadas. The original transcontinental line and many other western roads have 'been practi cally rebuilt on the mountain divisions in recent years to conform with the present policy l.nhor I 0 f p rnnm yi v Qui,. 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