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
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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
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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.''
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