FRENCH SOLDIERS OFF FOR THE FIRING LINE . ** "*** - . *-■«*• ■ ■ v This photograph shows ■ group of French soldier* just before starting for the firing line. UIK is seen wearing a German helmet. GERM ATTACK PS U. S. FR-DIETED BYJ. R.DREXEL New York, Nov. 21. —'' Gem.any has 300,000 officers and men in this coun try already, an i if she wins the pres ent war. it will be our turu next.'' This statement was made bv John R. Drexel, of this city, when he re turned from Europe yesterday on the White Star liner Adriatic. lie has spent most of the last two months in Vichy, France, and declared he had a splendid opportunity to see the German fighting machine at work. "It is a wonderful machine, and is being very cleverly handle 1 by the most astate group of men in the world, the German General Staff." he contin ued. "It is up to this Government to take immediate steps to increase the strength of our standing army and to double our fleet. "My brother. Anthouv J. Drexel. is fighting with a Freuch regiment. He was in lhe University of Pennsylvania and left this afternoon from New York for llavre. France, where he will join the IVeiK-h forces. He has been assigned to 'he hospital corps, driving an automo bile ambulance being his special duty. This I'euu junior is the son of Ernest Ij»w. of St. David's. His brother, "Buzz"' Law, was one of Princeton's jcreatest football men. Law was popu lar among his classmates and stool well -in his classes. He made his ne gotiations direst with the War Office in France. Zeppelin on English Coast London, Nov. 21.— A dispatch to the Central News from Dover says that an airship was seen last evening over Dungeness, a headland on the Kentish coast. Another dispatch says that the •irship is a Zeppelin heading toward JL>ondon. British Insist on Pilots London, Nov. 21. — The British Ad miralty last evening announced that, owing to the extension of its mine sys tem, after November 27 pilotage will b«; compulsory in the Humber and on tfce Tyn e river, in the Firth of Forth and the Moray Firth and in the Scaipa Flow. It will be highly dangerous, the Admiralty statements adds, for vessels to be without a pilot in these waters. 8 British Officers KiUed London, Nov. 21.— Casualty lists is sued last night show 8 officers killed, 44 wounded and 6 missing. In the In dian force 2 British officers and 1 na tive officer were killed and 7 British and 10 native officers wounded. Three British and 2 native officers are re eorded as missing. German Generals Suicides Is Report Petrograd, Nov. 21.— A dispatch: from Warsaw to "The Russky Slovo," says the German Generals Von Bredow and von Bromel committed suicide at Ozenstochowa. Russian Poland, after a' German defeat. Snider Held for Treason Niagara Falls, Ont., Nov. 21. —Jo-: seph Snider, who was arreste-j by mili tary authorities on a charge of treason for an alleged attempt to smuggle Au strian reservists from Canada to the United States, was held for trial by a police magistrate here yesterday. Sni der's two sons, who wer e arrested with him, were honorably discharged on agreement between counsel on the, ground that there was no evidence i against them. ' ALLIED WAR-HIPS MEETING OFF LOWER CALIFORNIA San Diego, Cal.. Nov. 21. That Br'.t-j ish. Australian and Japanese warships j are mobilizing off the coast of Lower, California was the word brought to this port yesterday, by Captain Robert Is rael, of the ocean-going launch Non such. According to Israel, the British protected cruiser Newcastle and the Japanese armored cruiser Idzurno were coaled off the Guadaloupe Islan Is last Tuesday by tho British liner Protesilaus ami another commandeered merchant vessel. Israel d ** \ C ** tS \ T ODAMA6CUS U I W 6 K>o be 111 1 ™?oo Miies , ♦ RUSSIAN TROOPS FIGHTING ON CAUCASUS FRONTIER. ♦ t . 1 i ♦ ♦ ♦ The Russians, whose advance cavalry soon after the entry of Tur- I J cey into the war had crossed the Caucasus frontier and penetrated to ♦ ♦ -he Khorassan-Dyadin-Bayazid 1 ne, subsequently retiring within the t ♦ Russian frontier, are again assu niag activity. It is officially an- ♦ ♦ nounced from Pefrograd that skirmishes have taken place with Tur- 1 ♦ £ lsh reinforcements sent to the frontier of the Russian province of t ♦ Batoum, and that Russian troop s are again pushing forward toward « 4 Erzeroum and the Euphrates valley. ♦ HARRISMTKd STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1914. 11; TO SB L! USURIES I OF PARLIAMENT MM, i London. Nov. 21. 7.20 A. M.—J. P.j P. Rawlinson, Unionist member of Parliament from Cambridge University, has given notice of his intention to; move in the House of Commons a reso lution providing that the salaries of members of Parliament be discontinued while the salaries of ministers are to be reduced to the basis of those given in 1906. The resolution recites that this action is taken in view of the drain on the finances of the country. Members of Parliament get a salary of 4 00 pounds < $2,000). Such payments was provided for in August, 1911, when a resolution to that effect intro luced by David Lloyd George, the ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, was adopted. Previously members ha.l served without | ay. The salaries of members of the Cabi net range from 2,000 pounds to 10,- 000 pounds. The latter suui is pa d to | the Lord Chancellor. Tba premier and | the Lord of the Privy Seal serve with out pay. I OCOD LIFE OR GOES 10 JAIL Court Orders Prisoner to Improve on Neighbor's Conduct Wilkes Barre, Pa., Nov. 21.—Unless Andrew Hulball leads a better life than his neighbor, Vincent Spinell, he ' must go t« jail for assault and bat ■ tery. | Spinell had Hulball arrested for at tacking him. The Luzerne county court , adopted a novel means of settling the case by telling the defendant that, re gardless of bow good a life Spinell may lead, he must live a better one for the next three months or go to jail. Hulball was charged with attacking Spinell after the latter'» cow had tram pled down Huiball's garden. Four Men Nearly Drowned Sunburv, Nov. 21.—Four men were nearly drowned in the Susquehanna river here yesterday, when their boat upset. They are Lloyd Berkheiser, Har old Zeigler. Samuel Huck and James Hos, all of Sunbury. They clung fast 1 to the overturned craft until it floated into shallow water. AMUSEMENTS « I .. ■ ■». 1 / I MAJESTIO Monday, matinee and night,. Nov. 23, "The Shepherd of the Hills.'' j W'nMlav evening, Nov. 26, Fritzi-Scheff ia "Pretty Mrs. Smith." Friday afternoon aud evening, Nov. 27, Burlesque. Saturday afternoon and evening, Nov. 28, "The Yellow Ticket." OEPHEUM Every afternoon and evening, high rlast vaudeville. COLONIAL Daily continuous audeville and pic tures "The Shepherd of the Hll's" "The Shepherd of the Hills,"' a dramatisation of Harold Bell Wright's novel of the same name by Mr. Wright and Eli'iery W. Reynolds, is announced for production at Jhe (Majestic Monday matinee and night. Never in the history of publishing ef books has a novel at tained suc'h a wi-ae-sprcsd popularity in the short space of four years. It has exceeded bv one hundred tiousaud copies the sale of tie previous biggest seller," "David 'Hariun. ' In making a play ctf his story the author, in collaboration with IMr. Reynolds, lias retained the big dramatic possibilities of the book, nmking the love story of "Young Matt and Sammy Lane" his big t'heine. The lay would be interesting even if it only depended upon its excellent -char acter-drawing to entertain, as I'he char acters of the mountaiueers of fae Ozarks are indeed unusual upon the stage and lend a pieturesqueness that is really worth while. Adv. Fritzl Scheff Miss Fritrj Scheff will be seen at the Majestic Wednesday evening direct ; from the Casino theatre, Xew York, in a new comedy entitled "Pretty Mrs. Smith. Oliver 'Morosco wrote the libri'tta in collaboration with Elmer Marris. The music is by Messrs. Henry Inmes and Alfred Robvn, the lyrics by Mr. Kail Carroll. "Pretty Mrs. Smith'"' j is in three aets, the settings re< resent . iug beautiful Palm Beach at the height oi the season. The prima donna is sur ■ cuntied by a company headed by Miss t harlotte Greenwood and Svduev j tirant, formerly of the Winter Garden, George Anderson, Charles Purccll, Theo ! do re Babeoek, Lilian Tucker, James A. : Gleasou. Misses iirae fjbaw, Daisy Burton, Oeie Williams, Dolores Pftr quotte, Louise look, Marie de Marquis, .1. Richard Ryan, J. H. Childs. Harold i Proctor, J. Van Ryan and Mile. (Mar ; cclle. There is a large beautv chorus j elaborately gownoil. " Adv. "The Garden of Olrls" i The new show on the Columbia cir cuit. scheduled at the Majestic theatre ' Friday afternoon and evening, is called I The Garden of Girls,'' a straight mu i sical farce iai two acts, designed on the program as an "inconsequential : medley" with burlesque features added. There is action and ginger from the ! ris >' °f the curtain to the final drop. It is said to be a erackerja *k singing | show, from all advance accounts, and ! there is a chorus that can siug and j dance and will be one of the big sar j prises of the entertaimrent in |>olnt of class and beauty. The presenting com pauy names such well known artists as Snitz Moore, George B. S'anon, Alva McGill, Martha Edmorol, Heloise Hor i ton, Beatrice La Due, Edna Lee, Flor i ence Fletcher, Harvey Greene, Shaw j and Lee and others. " Adv. At the Orpheusn To-day witnesses the close of Nat Wills' engagement at the Orpheutn as well as the manv noteworthy attrac tions that appear on the same bill, sup j porting this unusual star of laughter. | For the coming week the management i is announcing a bill of Keith hits that j look to combine into a very appropriate ■ and uusual bill to be presented during the Thanksgiving festivities. While | there hhve been weeks at the Orpheum that the headlincr was jrobablv more conspicuous, yet the general strength of the bill from the opening act to the i lose looks to be unequaled. Light eu ! tertninment in almost every shade and i hue known to vaudeville is" included in the week's layout. To this there is just one exception and that is the preten tious heatlliner, which is a marvelous dancing and vocal production to be pre sented by the Golden troupe. Twelve artists are required for the presentation of this latter attraction, which is dis j tinctly Russian. Gorgeous staging and ! elaborate costumiug makes their offer ing a wonderful "sight act" while t'he efforts of the artists are said to outdo anything in their line in present day vaudeville. Their act is described as being a whirl of light, song, dance and splendor. The laughing dish of the bill will be served up by IMksDevitt, Lucy and Kelly, in a comedy sketch called "The Piano Movers." Other big names of the bill will include Moore and Yates, Burr and Hope, Will Morrissey and Dolly Hackett, Those Three Girls and Lynch and Zelier. Adv. At the Colonial John P. Wade and company, present ing a fine Southern comedy ealled " Marsa Shelby''s Chicken Dinner," and the varied Keith turns supporting it, will appear at the Colonial for the last time to-night. "The Lure of the Sawdust," an excellent feature film, in two parts, that has delighted "movie fans'' immensely, will also be a part of to-day's performance. The feature act o-f the bill that comes to the Busy Corner for the first half of the week will be a comedy playlet that will make a Ktrong appeal to young Harrisiburg. This is the dramatization of that well known fairy play ealled "Jack, the Giant Killer, ' introducing George Auger and company to patrons of that playhouse. Tom Williams and company will present a rattling comedy playlei called "My Boy's Wife'' on the same offering. Mary i'ic-kford in "The School Teacher and the Waif" will be among the moving picture features to be pre sented during the first half of the week. Adv. Paralysis Kills Hunter Williamsport, Nov. 21.—Although he waa just recovering from a serious illness, James Kaster, 73 years old, of Nippenose Valley, shouldered his rifle yesterday and went to the woods in search of game. He was stricken with paralysis and died after his sou found him. SUBURBAN MIDDLETOWN Th« Rer. Fuller BergKrenaer Will De liver a Lector* Monday Evening Special Correspondence. Miildletown, Pa., Nov. 21.—Frank House r transacted business at York to day. Several men employed by tbe Trac tion Company were iu town yesterday laying out the line of the company from Wood and Main streets to Cath erine, and down Catherine to Water street. Work on laying the tracks will be started shortly. The Wincroft stove works are hav ing new steps placed in front of the store room where John Kurtz has open ed up a barber shop. 'Miss Tillle Nissley is clerking in the store of H. A. Linhart for several weeks. Mrs. C). O. Schaoffer has gone to Philadelphia, where &he will visit rela tives for some time. Arthur King and daughter. Mrs. George I). King, are spending several days at New York City. K. K. Demmv and wife have gone to Freeland where thev will visit their daughter, Mrs. H. A. Bell, for some time. Edward Shiremau and F. Ilaesler have returned home from a several days hunting trip to Perry countv, and succeeded in shooting quite a num ber of rabbits and quail. George Mish end force of men are repairing the State road on Main street from Lawrence street to Wood street. Miss Mary Arnold has returned home from a week's visit to her sister, Mrs. Harvey Overdeer, of Columbia. The Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the St. Peter's Luther an church at !> o'clock. The Rev. W. R. Ridington will preach the sermon. The Rev. Fuller Ber.jstresser, pastor of the St. Peter's Lutheran church, will deliver his lecture, ''The Vinegar Peddler,' - in the Presbyterian church on Monday evening. Alex. Campbell spent vesterday at Columbia. The Rev. Joseph Weirich is holding revival meetings at BVoverdale and are largely attended. Amnion Kreider, wlio had been ill for the past several weeks, is able to be out again. Mr. Kreider was hurt in an automobile accident souie time ago and has been housed up ever sinee. Water connections were made to the C. Strauss property on Main street, near Wood street. A smoker was held in the rooms of the 1 regressive Club last evening and a large number were present. Edward Fissler is ill at his home on Brown street. Maurice Hippie aud wife are visit ing relatives at Dillsborg, York coun ty, for several days. NEWVILLE Contributions Will Be Solicited for the Suffering Belgians Special Correspondence. N'ew\ille, Nov. 21.—Among the plans which have been adopted by the executive committee to secure relief for the Belgians will be the placing of •boxes for contributions in tho various buisness places. The situation will also 1 e presented in the churches to-jnorrow. The organization will receive aid, in cluding money and grains. This effort reaches to the outlying districts as well as the town. The Rev. V. \. and Mrs. Par son, the recently-appointed pastor ol' the church of God, and his wife, were guests of honor at a gathering of mem bers and friends of the church, which was held iu the church on Thursday evening. The affair was under the di rection of the Ladies' Aid Society. A short program was enjoyed, after which the evening was spent socially and re wish men ta wero served. D. H. Heller welcomed the new pastor and wife in behalf of the church, to which the Rev. Mr. Parson responded. The Rev. A. P. Stover, D. D„ of Carlisle, a former pas tor, was present and made a few' re marks. Miss Lolita Borst is in Smyrna, Del., attending the funeral of a relative. "Miss Lydia Harlan is home from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Raymond Myers, New York City. Mrs. John Kost, daughter, Mrs. C. V. Ilefflefinger, and the letter's little daughter, Catherine, have roturned from a delightful visit with relatives in the West. On Sunday the Rev. Mr. Richards, of Gettysburg, will prea h in St. (Paul's Lutheran church, morning and evening. WICONISGO H. G. Day, of Harrisburg, Was Here on Business Sp«"*>al Correspondence. Wiconisco, Nov 21.—John E. Buck ey spent Wednesday in Harrisburg. H. G-. Day, of Harrisburg, made a business call here Tuesday. Mrs. Samuel Miller and sons spent a few days with the family of Henry Maurer in Steelton. Miss Dorothy Acaley spent last week in Lewellyn. Mrs. Joshua Evans and daughter, Ttelma, spent last week in Reading. Beatrice Stuppy spent Wednesday in Williamstown Miss Miriam Alexander, of Port Carbon, is the guest of Miss Anna Kerr. ELIZABETHTOWN Prof. Robert C. Gingrich Will Give a Musical Concert Special Correspondence. Elizahethtown, Nov. 21.—0n Sun day afternoon Prof. Robert C. Gingrich will give a grand musical concert in the chapel at the Masonic Home. Among those who will participate in the rendition are the Rev. E. O. Bitner, men's chorus of 16 voices and Prof. H. C. Witmoyer, all of Palmvra. Attorney John E. Snyder, of the 131izabethtown and Deodate trolley line, stated the work at this end of the road could not be started before next spring. Thaddeus H. Pierce, an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad at this place, and Miss Nora E. Seiler, of Lockiport, Perry county, were married Saturday, the Rev. Mr. Hoverter officiating. Aft er the ceremony they went to house keeping in this place. The Borough Council have purchased a Brockway motor truck and chemical apparatus for the use of the borough for $3,000. The five head of cattle in B. :L. Gei ger's stock yards in this borougto re main quarantined and, being affected with the mouth and hoof disease, will be killed this week. J. A. Ulrich is the executor of the FRITZI SCHEFF AND HER GOWNS A T THE MAJESTIC ON WEDNESDA Y ■R|^^B9H^yJ|mßMfenP^^ ;V wi|HBHHH|| ; ' : 1 f§Mfi BOHhbk |HHyHBHHranfIHHFjgHBH|MH^KraUBm| To juggle three husbands, —two "ex" and one "semi-detached"—to wesr five ravishing gowns, trimmed with pecks of brilliants, and to sing four songs embellished with innumerable trills and thrills, is no small task I'or one wco woman. Mrs. Fritzi Scheff accomplishes all this in "Pretty Mrs. Smith," with out turning a hair of lier carefully arranged coiffeur or making a v.rinkle in ouo of her gorgeous gowns. Lucille gowns they are—typical Lucille gowns, graceful in lino and clev erly draped; typical Fritzi gowns, too. displaying tastefully and effectively the exquisite, slender figure and beautiful throat and arms of the popular "little devil of comic opera."—Adv. estate of Mary Ferry, deceased, of this borough. Several of our young; men will go to New York City on the excursion to morrow morning. I'. (J. Sweigert, the West High street grocer, has solo out his bread route to Witnter Brothers and will remove to Palmyra. The Crescent <'lub will hold a fornval opening of their refurnished rooms in Ilorft's building on the evening of De cember 2. FOURTEEN CLERKS NAMED L'jzorno County Assessors Leave Three Republicans in Office Witkes-Barre, Pa., Nov. 21.—The newly appointed Board of County As sessors yesterday announced the ap pointment of fourteen cerks, who take office on January 1. Three Republicans will coutinue in office. The fourteen clerkships were distributed as follows: Republicans— Reese Lloyd, chief clerk, salary $2,000; Samuel Block, as sistant, salarv $1,5-00; Janies Quina, eerk, salary $1,200. Democrats —Thomas Gorman, assist ant, salary $1,500, and the following ollhers at a salary of $1,200 per year; W. J. Barry, Joseph Agbburger, E. J, Keating, John F. Roskoe, Thomas Mic- Groarty, Robert Jones, Michael Koselar, Edward A. Nolnn and Bernard Gal lagher. v Not a Cent on Senatorship Altoona, Pa., Nov. 21. —(Nicholas Gansz, of Altoona, Democratic candi date for State Senator, did not- receive nor sipend a penny in 'his campaign, according to his statement filed yester day. Senator-elect Plymouth W. Sny der spent $395.89, not one cent of which went to disseminate information. B,(MM) Saw Safety First Exhibit The safety first exhibit held in con nection with the Welfare and Efficiency Conference closed last night at 10 o'clock. The exhibitors made every haste to leave the city, as a show simi lar to the one in this city will be held next week in New York. Dodged Jones' little boy c#me home from schol one day very boastful of the fact that he "could spell dog, but when he was asked by his father to do so he hesitated. "What kind of a dog!" he asked. "Why, any kind of a dog," said 'Fa ther Jones. "A dog like Blank's dog?" "Yes.'' "Well, Blank ain't got any dog."— Woman's Home Companion. Typhoid and Oocoanut Milk An English writer tells of a colored woman in Tritidad who was dying, be yond all hope, of typhoid, anil pleaded to be allowed to drink of cocoanut juice. She was beyond* the reach of good or harm, so she had her cocoanuts and drank the juice, not of one but of eight in succession—perhaps a gallon of liquid, and the orgie indisputably saved her life. An Ornithological Curiosity Jane Ann had called, on her after noon out, to see her friend Matilda. The latter's mistress had just pur chased a parrot, and Jane Ann was much interested in the bird. "B.rds is very sensible," she said: "you kin learn them anything. I used to work for a lady that had a bird in a clock, an' when it was time to tell de time of day it used to come out an' say 'Cuckoo' jest as many- times as the time was!" "Go 'long! You don't say so!" said Matilda incredulously. "Yes!" replied Jane Ann. "And the most wonderful part was that it was only a wooden bird tool"—London Globe. JUDGE SELECTED FOR SHOW J. W. Andrews to Pick Prize Birds at Joint Poultry Show " «T. W. Andrews, of Dightioii, Mass., will .judge the White Wyaudottes at the joint, show of the Central Pennsyl : vania Poultry Association and the Na- I tional White Wvanaotte Club, in Chest | nut Street Hall, December S to 12. Ne ! gotiations for his servicos were closed > yesterday by Secretary Smith of the j local association. The selection of this : noted White Wyandotte specialist is sure to meet with the approval of ; every exhibito'r ol' birds of this popular breed. Indications point to an entry list double that of last year. There will be gains in every class but perhaps the largest gain will be in bantams. It is the ambition of local bantam breed i ers to build up the bantam class from year to year in the Harrisburg show. The work done along that line this year will show results at the forthcoming exhibition. This year the show will run five full days as against four last year. The doors will not close until 10 o'clock Saturday night. GIVES LECTURE ON SNAKES Live Battler Permitted to Crawl About on Stage A novel and interesting lecture waa given last night by M. B. Foster, of Cold Springs, before the Harrisburg Natural History Society, in the Tech nical High school auditorium. A live rattlesnake with its poisonous fangs ready for immediate use crawled about on the stage. To show that the snake was harmless Mr. Foster carefully drew its fangs out with a pencil. Fifteen varieties of snakes were car ried with the lecturer, each snake hav ing its owii home in a bag." A big rat tlesnake was passed out among the au dience, which was invited to becomo acquainted with the reptile. The first half of the lecture was il lustrated with colored lantern slides and showed the snakes in their native haunts. Mr. Foster ridieuleiM many popular snako guperstitions, tmo heing that whiskey is cure for Ho explained that the reptiles immense value to farmers because tnfcy eat field mice and insects. MECHANICS HOLD BANQUET Penbrook Benevolent Society Was Two Tears Old Last Evening A banquet attended by a majority of the members marked the observance of the sfcond anniversary of Penbrook Council, No. 328, Junior Order United American Mechanics in council room last evening. Harry E. Hoerner, the financial secretary,* presided and acted as toastmaster. Toasts were offered by A. L. Shope and John Hoerner as well as other prominent members \vho confined their remarks to the "good of tbij order." pointing out the splendid progress made by the council since its inception. Hearing Heart Beats If you hear your heart beat in one ear, as many persons do, it is no proof of anything wrong with the heart. It is much more likely to be a local defect such as chronic catarrh of the m.ddle ear or stiffness and retraction of the drum. This on the authority of Dr. Kobert H. Babcock of Chicago. Thanks for His Money VVeekle —So Slippsv is a defaulter, ehf Deekle —So they say. Weekle— By George, I always wondered why he said - 'Thank you" so pleasantly every time 1 made a deposit! 9