BELGIANS WOUNDED IN THE YSER RIVER BATTLE JS!9DH JI^^BB SHE BARELY LIVED O.N $7,201 Iron Dealer's Daughter, Not Junk man's, Says Mrs. Ducas Now York, Dec. s.—Whether "Ben jamin P. Ducas, a wealthy manufac turing iihenust, married a junk dealer's daughter, who should 'be able to live on $6,000 a year was a question alt issue before Supreme Court Justice Blancbard yesterday, when (Mrs. Rachel N. Ducas asked the court to annul an agreement she made to accent this sum and live apart from her husband. "Mrs. Ducas is a native of Alsace-Lorraine and had been working as a Red Cross nurse in a hospital near IMUelhausen for two months before she came here to testify at the trial. Mrs. Dufcas produced her account books to show that it cost tlier and her 13-year-old son $7,201 for maintenance 'Uhe last year and then she "barely lived." S!ho had to warn her son against accenting entertainment in the homes of other children because he couldn't reciprocate, she said. Ex-Justice Hatch, counsel for Ducas, tried to show on cross-examination that although she had said her father dealt in "irons aild woollens'' he is just an ordinary junk dealer, but Mrs. Ducas replied, "1 don't know what junk means.'' Mrs. Ducas said she accepted $6,000 a year because of her husband's repre sentation that his income was $20,000 a year, but that she had found it is $64,000 a year. The case will go on on [Monday. KAIL WAY MEN TO MEET HERE First Session Will Open Wednesday, De cember O The meeting of the Pennsylvania Street Railway Association, which will be held in the Board of Trade building, this city, December 9 and 10, will be opened by C. L. S. Tinglev, of Phila delphia, president of the association. Legislative matters and public service will probably be discussed. Other speakers will be Dr. Emory R. Johnson, Public Service Commissioner; William A. Hcindle, Southern Pennsyl vania Traction Company, and W. R. Steinmetz, Westinghouse Manufacturing Company, who will discuss the latest developments in street railway equip ment. Among those to speak on the second day are: R. P. Stevens, H. J. Crowley and Gordon Campbell, who will discuss crossings, car steps and voltages, respectively: H. 8. Swift, West Penti Traction Company; E. C. Spring, Lehigh Valley Transit Com pany, and Commissioner of Labor and Industry John Price Jackson. Officers will be elected. LECTURE AT ST. ANDREW'S The Rev. L. F. Baker Will Speak on Missions in the Harrisburg Diocese Services at St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. O. H. Bridgman, of this city, and the Rev. Leroy F. Baker, of Selinsgrove, general mission ary in the diocese of Harrisburg. The Rev. Mr. Bridgman will celebrate Holy Communion at 10.30 o'clock in the morning and preach the sermon. The Rev. Mr. Baker will conduct evening prayer at 7.30 o'clock and will deliver a part of his stereopticon lec ture on missions in the diocese of Har risburg. He gave a part of this talk at (St. Andrew's last spring. The Rev. James F. Bullitt, rector of St. Andrew's, continues to improve aft er his recent illness and will resume his •work some time this month. At the Photoplay Have yoiu ever seen a cool million dollars' worth of jewelry! Would you like to see a three thousand dollar gown made by "Lucille" (Lady Duff- Gordon)? Would you like to see one of tilnidotn's most popular stars wearing this wonderful fortune! Then do not miss '' The Tbetft of the Crown Jew els," a two-act feature o4' the Alice Joyce series, which comes to the Photo play to-day. Among the geins are a magnificent diamond tiara containing no less than eighty diamonds; a pearl necklace, the pendant of which is a huge pear-shaped pearl of world-wide fame; a stomacher of diamonds in the center of which nestles an exquisite ruby; a superb bracelet of li'and-beaten gold, containing a circle of diamonds surrounding a Large ruby, and other pieces of jewelry. adv. Lebanon's Big Charity Fund Lebanon, Dec. s.—Exceediug all •previous contributions in the history of the institution, the cash donated to* the Good Samaritan hospital after it had made its annual Thanksgiving appeal to the people of this county reached to more thpn $4,700. This amount is S7OO more than the greatest previous contribution, which was made last year and amounted to $4,000. The bags of edibles from the school children are valued at S6OO. HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1914. HAUGHTY DUSKY ROYALTY When This King Waved His Toes the Insulted Guest Fled Tlicro was much ceremony observed at the African king's court, says John H. Weeks in his book, "Among the Primitive Bakongo." No one approach es him without first seeking his per mission, and no one is allowed to sit on a chair in his presence except hs sons and nephews. Ordinary men approaching the king had to kneel three times—once just in side the last entrance to the Ring's in closure, then near the door of the "pal ace" and lastly immediately in front of his majesty. And the last time they knelt they put the palms of their hands together, rubbed their little fingers in the dirt and then transferred the dirt from their little fingers to their fore heads or temples and clapped their hands. This ceremony they repeated three times at the last kneeling place, and the king answered by putting the palms of his hands across each other, with the fingers of the right hand well above the thumb and index finger of the left hand, and waving them. If the king did not answer thus or if he thrust out his foot and waved his toes, which was an insult, the sooner the man retreated the better for him. If a man omitted to send or take tho king a share of his trading products he would not be favorably received and might expect to see his majesty's toes wave instead of his fingers. Well to do chiefs who failed to send him occa sional presents were also« coldly re ceived, and the waving toes reminded them of their delinquencies. No writ ten account was kept, but the king, like all natives, had a remarkable GREAT KRUPP PLANT AT ESSEN B » ~Z:_ \ * J«—~ -—* » Z.J* « si-.- * i iHi 1 tr rf-T" iij|MM|i i [T TME KPUPP WORKS halbach WaJI \'\ \»a| % , v > <^J^ AN2mL MAR SHOWING ESSEN AND ITS RELATION TO THE WESTERN BATTLE LINE . An aeronaut of the Allies dropped bombs on the Krupp factory at Essen, the great plant at which are manfac tnred the famous German siege guns, as well as smaller arms and ammunition, according to a despatch from The Hague. This message quotes a despatch from Berlin to the effect that the bombs were dropped on the buildings devoted to the manufacture of cannon. It is said that the airman escaped un injured, and that the extent of the dam age has not been ascertained. The world famous works of the Krupp firm, at Essen on the Ituhr, were founded In 1811-1812 by Frederick Krupp, who started them "for the pro duction of English cast steel and all other products resulting therefrom." A few months later—on April 2C, 1812 the merchant's son, Alfred, was born and he it was who was destined to "make" the firm, to raise It, after his father's early death, from difficulties end almost from failure to the great position It holds. memory for what was owing him and never forget when a debt was to be paid or a present was due. Chiefs and noblemen had to render homage to tho king the same as ordinary men, but not every time they went into his pres ence.—Washington Post. STARTING A LIBRARY A Selection of Ten Books That Might Serve as a Basis Laura Spehcer Porter, seeking to show how the ordinary person can be gin founding a personal library, makes this suggestion of ten good books to ibegin with: "For those who are "beginning a li brary and have little money to spend 1 would suggest that there be bought, say, one book each of ten great au thors. It does not matter who the au thors are so long as they stand high and their books are well known and standard ones. Let us take as an ex ample the following ten, chosen at ran dom from a catalogue of standard writ ers: Emerson, Eliot, Bronte, Ruskin, Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Lowell, Shakespeare, Iveats, and as a select ion of ten of the books of these ten writers let us take in Ihe same order Emerson's 'Essays,' Eliot's 'Mill on the Floss,' Bronte's 'Jane Evre,' Buskin's 'Sesame and Lilies,' Carlyle'B 'Heroes and Hero Worship,' Dickens' 'David Copperfieid,' Thackeray's 'Pendcunis,' Lowells es says 'Among Mv Books,' a complete volume of Shakespeare or auone of the Shakespeare plays, preferably 'Lear' or 'Romeo and Juliet,' and Keats' 'Poems.' ''Here yoai have fen books by ten master minds, books widely varied in subject, style, treatment. Let those ten suffice for a time. Read them."— Woman's Home Companion. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS LIE FAR BEHIND TRENCHES London, Deo. 5. —The "Times" military correspondent gives an inter esting description of Sir John French's headquarters. He says the headquarters are usually out of range of the enemy's guns, and peace reigns where tihe com man iler resides. ' 'tanked up with all his corps and cavalry commanders, our field marshal is in closer contact and quirk or com munication with his subordinates ilhan an old-time general would have been | with an army of similar size, though 'he i lived in the midst of iit. So long as the local defense of the general 'headquar ters is not neglev'ted, there is no dis advantage in the distance, 'be it twenty' or thirty miles between the 'Commander and the army. "It is necessary for the commander of a modern army to keep away froan the It is not agreeable for him, it is true, and often Sir John Frenv.h can net be prevented from dash ing along reals an ler heavy fire to visit distant troops, and even from going up into the trenches to get a close view of the infantry positions. "All day, when the army is fighting for its life and the chief's time is fully occupied, 'the wires which join general headquarters with London are often a great annoyance. We can very easily wear out the strongest man if we do not remember that unless his whole time can be given up. to the command of has troops t'he operations of the army must suffer. His attention cannot 'be dis tracted for ten minutes without preju dice to the operations." Portuguese Cabinet Out? 'Madrid, Dec. 5. —It is reported from Lisbon that the Portuguese Cabinet has resigned. The second portion of the Portuguese expeditionary fonje to Au gola, Portuguese West Africa, which lias boon three times invaded by the Gorman* from the neighboring terri tory, sailed from Portugal yesterday. Seven Zeppelins Lost London, Dec. s.—'A dispatch to the "Standard" from t'aris says: "Cafe has been taken to reckon the German aerial losses as nearly exactly as pos sible, and it is ■believed to be correct i to say that the' Germans have lost seven ! Zeppelins and 52 aeroplanes since tho ! war began, together with 86 officers I and men. Inquiries tend to show that at 'the present time tho Germans do no't possess more than 26 airships and 287 aero'lanes, all told." Italy Buying Horses for Army Aurora, 111., Dee. 5. —An Aurora stockman who has been buying cavalry horses in the United States for the Brit- army, said yesterday that an order had been given Illinois agents of the i Italian government to purchase 15,000 j horses for its moui.'ied soldiers. Austria Confiscates Oil I Venice (via London), Dec. 5.- —Tho I Austrian government has confiscated | the entire out; ut of oil iu Austria-Hun ! garv. Kefiucrs have been forbidden to j supply oil to the trade. The stocks in | the bauds of dealers will be exhausted within ten days, it is said. Austrian General Killed Amsterdam, Holland, Dei'. 5. —The " TcOegraff" says ttha'C General von S'luttefbevm, commander of an Austrian cavalry brigade, has 'been killed on an eastern battlefield. G V. VVE WS LAD ACCUSED OF APPLYING TORCH TO TWO BUILDINGS Police Say William Taylor Confesses to Charge of Arson and Also Impli cates a Companion Whose Name Is Not Known Chanibersburg, Pec. s.—Two fires oc curred in the western part of town yes terday within an hour. About 10 o'clock a firo win discovered in the Miller Hotel stables and a short time after a fire was kindled in the C. Par ker Miller stable, not far from the first one. It is believed that both were set on tire by the same person. Although the supposed incendiarist has not yet been arrested an investi gation by Chief of Police Klenzing de veloped the fact, he said, that William Taylor, North Franklin street, is im plicated in the crime. The accused youth declared to the police, they say, that he was assisted in the work by an other boy. EXTENSION JF BOROUGH Waynesboro Councilmen Asked to Take Over Adjoining Hamlet—Landis Tool Company Sacks Change Waynesboro, Dec. 5.—A new peti tion for the admission of a portion of South Waynesboro to the borough was presented to council Thursday even ing, by a delegation composed of W. B. Stewart, J. A. Bolni and Clarence Croft. , The portion the petitioners want made a part of Waynesboro starts at Gilberton oti the west side and extends to the first alley east of Broad street on the east, and from the borough line on the north to the old mill road and Green Hill cemetery on the south. The petition is signed by 31 prop' ertyholders, who comprise a majority of the property holders of the section and who, in addition, own much more than half the laud and buildings there. Among the signers is the Lan«lis Tool Company. PLAN BKi FRUIT SHOW Adams County Fanners Lay Plan to Begin Event December 16 Gettysburg, Dec. 5. —The Adams County Fruit Growers' Association con vention will open at noon on Wednes day, December 16, and continue until Friday night with five sessions devoted Ito horticultural and agricultural sub- I ject-s, the evenings as usual being de j voted to lectures and entertainments. The day sessions will be addressed '■ by Dr. C. J. Marshall, state veter [ inarian; Dr. Donald McCaskey, ihe I road building expert of Lancaster I county; Professor M. G. Kains, horti | culturist; Professor M. S. McDowell, | director of agricultural extension work, and Miss Pearl McDonald, instructor iu domestic science, all fcom Pennsyl vania State College; Profe'ssor Knapp, of Cornell University, in charge of agri cultural extension work; J. VV, Burk. of Batavia, New York, president of the Genesee Fruit Growers' Exchange, BELGIAN'S LIFESA "iiiiTi rnii'iMi iiiM^n#r>imlifißiiriiniM!!# llMr niiHifs<w . PUQIE_ AMD COIN TAKEN FROM V/OUNPED BELGIAN 30U?1E.12r TOCICtT. When a Belgian soldier, Dederker Benoit, was wounded at Nteuport on October 25 he little thought that his ease would become famous In the annals of array surgical practice. He was sent to Folkestone, still suffering from his wound. When first taken from the field a leather purse was found in his pocket and in it a bent and broken Belgian one franc piece, part of which was missing. The purse itself was badly gashed by a bullet. The surgeons at Folkestone noticed that the man's wound did not readily heal, and on further probing at last found the missirfg part of the coin embedded in the soldier* thigh. It was removed and he speedily recovered. and Professor W. M. Scott, entomologist and pathologist, of Baltimore. To Superintend Farm Chambersburg, Dec. s.—.Tames W. Rice, the well known Antrim farmer, left this week for DuPont, Fla., where he will superintend the planting of the first crop of early vegetables on the lands of the United Farms Company, a locally organized corporation of which! P. E. Mourer, the well known Upton farmer is president, and which owns an extensive tract of trucking land near DuPont. It is Mr. Rice's intention to remove to DuPont in the spring and give his entire attention to the culti vation of the tract. G. A. R. Inspection Held Carlisle, Dec. s.—Congratulating them upon their performance of the various 'evolutions and of their work as a whole, Major Johin H. Kirk, of New Cumberland, Thursday evening conducted the annual inspection of Post 201, G. A. R. About 75 members of the Post took part in the inspection drill under direction of W. A. Moudy, j senior commander. In addition to Major Kirk, the in spection officer, Frank Hoy, deputy senior commander of this district au'd a member of Post 58, of Harrisburg, was also present and congratulated the Post on their showing in the evo lutions which were' performed by the veterans attired in full uniform. . Following the inspection, luncheon was served to the members of the Post and their visitors by the mem ( bers of the Women's Relief Corps and was thoroughly enjoyed. The regular meeting for the election of officers will be held next Thursday evening. To Receive Bids for Elevator Bids will be received by the Super vising Architect's Office, at Washing ' ton, D. C., for the removal of the pres i cut electric, passenger elevator and the ' furnishing of u new electric, passenger ' elevator and a hydraulic freight lift | for the United States Postoffice and j Court Hous ( > in this city. The bids ! will be opened after 3 o 'clock Decem j ber 20. Alfred Krupp died on July 14, 1887, bequeathing his vast properties to his son. I'nedrich Alfred Krupp. The lntter died In 1!M»1> and left the Krupp works in Ihe form of a stock company with a capital of $40,000,000 to his eldest daughter, Bertha, who wag then seven teen years old. She was married on October 15, 190fi, to Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbacb, a Prussian diplo matist, who took the name of Krupp by order of the Emperor. The Krupp works before the *var em ployed 255,950 workers and tho estab lishment consisted of the cast steel and gun works at Essen, the Astbower works in Annen, the Gruson works at Buekau, blast furnaces at Rein hausen, Duisbnrg, Neunled and Eugere, four coal mines and many iron mines in Germany, several Iron mines !n Spain and a proving ground at Meppen with a firing range of fifteen miles, besides operating the Germania Ship and Engine Building Company, of Berlin and Kiel. HELD AS WHITE SLAVER "Blackmail,'' Explains Colonel Charles Alexander, of Providence, Charged With Violating Mann Act Chicago, Dec. s.—Colonel Charles Alexander, a Providence millionaire, in dicted here charged, with violation of the Mann act, has 'been arrested in Providence, according to an announce ment here by Charles F. Olyne, Dis trict Attorney. tile is clharged with transporting Miss Jessie Cope, of Dos Angeles, Oal., from I*os Angeles to Chicago. Miss Cope is unirfer the surveillance of federal officers in Chicago, and it is reported that' the Grand Jury will con sider clharges of extraction, said to have [ been made against lver. Colonel Alexander is a mom'ber of Hie I firm of Alexander Brothers, at Provi- I den'ee ami a director of the Canadian Steel Company, according to a state- I ment issued 'by District. Attorney Ciyne. "Colonel Alexander met itiss Jessie j R. Cope at a social gathering in Dos j Angeles, two years ago," the °t«tement said. "lie explained after Hheii- first meeting that 'he would procure a divorce ! and marry her. Then he proceeded to I make vjolent love to iMiss oOpe. " Tlio Colonel 'built, for her a bunga ! low in the Berkshire hills. On New Vear's Day, 1913, Colonel Alexander I sent hor a 'poem of greeting." Providence, T?. 1., Dec. s.—"Blaek | mail," was the roply of Colonel Charles j Alexander to a white slave complaint on ! whiefli lie was arrested here last night. Colonel Alexander, who is rated as sev eral times a millionire, waive*! prelim inary examination and when ihis bail i was fixed at $7,500 iwas freed on »e- I eurtty offered 'by a friend. Colonel Alexander is a director in the I Union Trust Company of Providence, ! and also is heavily interested in sev eral of the largest manufacturing com- I anies in Dhode Island, and is a direct or of a large stel corporation in- Can ada. He is 'prominent socially and politically, having been colonel of the crack First Light Artillery regiment of Providence and Bopulblican Presi dential elector eight years ago. fiO-YEAR WAIT TO PAY BETS Prof. Starr "Sure" of ISO Years, Count Okuma, of 135 IJOS Angeles, Cal., Dec. 5. —Prof, (Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago, a scientist with a score of foreign decorations, is certain he will live to ; bo 120 years old. He said so yesterday on his arrival in IJOS Angeles, where ho will spend a few days of the first vacation ho has had in thirty years. Prof. Starr is 5G years old. "Another man who feels sure of great longevity,'' said Prof. Starr, '' is Count Okuma, Premier of Japan. The Count," said Prof. Starr, "is absolute ly certain he will reach 125 years. "The Count and I are old friends," said the professor. "He seems jufrt as sure that he is going to ibeat me 'by fivo years as he is that ho is alive to j day. Wo have agreed that, if ho is still alive when 1 reach 120 years, the gets a present. If I am still alive wihen ho gets to be 125 years, I get a present. How's thalt for a wager?" Prof. Starr said tilio secret of a long life is always to smile, never to get angry, and to keep working all the time. ' "The history of man through all tKj, ages," ho said, "shows that those of the sunny temperament have t)he longer life.'' | PEACE 1 18 To promote peace, |g| happiness and good | health it is necessary |3j to keep the Stomach, £3l Liver and Bowels B3 working harmonious -91 ly and at the first sign Q of disturbance you B should resort to ■HOSTETTER'S" ■ STOMACH BITTERS B B It helps Nature re- ® _ store strength and « ® vigor to the entire di- ® Hgestive system. Try m a bottle. ® B ■ H B B CI ■ 9
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