10 I ONE FREE I CERTIFICATE i jfl And the stated imnHct specified therein to cover the EXPENSE *, "*' item« of this great distribution (fl when presented at the office of th* 0* J§|| Parristiurg H or 7 | ,h * rerttnc" 4 | amount to include for 3 pounds. ~*'o> * DOEHNE BEER j s A Beer brewed with a double purpose— "I > To please the palate as a beverage; A liquid food in the truest seuse of the words. !; | Made from the best selected hops aud malt. ;! I Brewery unexcelled for Purity and Excellence of -! | Product. !; * DOEHNE | Sell 836 L Independent :518 V LAST CIVIL WAR OFFICES Admiral Nicholson s Retirement to Mark Epoch in Navy War Yort, De . 14.—At one min ute after • to-night the last offi cer of tie I • .:eil Sv:e« navy who wrved in any capa.-v i n the Civil war. will be retire! from active service. Kea- Adn.ira Res naM Fairfax Nichol son. t . S. N.. now a member of the /pHE super excellence of Moja quality is due to the A knowledge gained through 50 years' experience in cigarmaking. Ability to discriminate in leaf selec tion—to discard as well as accept—to blend the Choicest Havana to best please the tastes of the smoker who demands all that goes with a 10c smoke. M° J A ITI 10c CIGARS JL \ are all Havana—rich and fragrant—and safest to give the connoisseur. Made by JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. General Board, will be 62 years old. the age fixed by Congress for the re tirement of officers of the navy. The army retiring age is 6 4 rears. It was iu 1864. at the age of 12, • oung Nicholson enlisted in the navy as apta.n s messenger on the old warship >ta:e of Georgia. Immediately after the Civil war ended young Ni'ehoison left the service and went baok to gram mar school. Five years later, in I $69. he won his appointment to the Naval Academv. HARRTS.BURQ ST AR-TNDEPENPENT, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14. 1914. iwwmm | *TT CAMPBELL HALL A Novelized Version of the Motion Picture Drama of the Same Name jHHHB Produced by the Lttbin Manufac- taring Corapanv. Illustrated With iH Photographs From the Pictur* Pro- LtSIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY Continued "Probably wouldn't believe It." he 1 reflet-ted. ••Besides, he must learn his j own Iwison. and tlint name isu't stift enough to nilu him." With .1 alight shrug Cecil strolled away. and a few moments later Harry ! sat staring dazedly ut his friends ' grown suddenly contemptuously iiidl.' j fereut "Broke. litih?" Mr. Marks com men t-! ed. -Say. you pack a roll most as bia as a kid takes to Sundn.v school ] Course I was foolish, hui I thought j you had enough to sit in a man sized , game." With a yawn he turned away Mr Badger followed without deem ng their late opponent worthy or aay remark whatsoever For some minutes Harry sat still his fever steadily mounting, as hi* bruin no longer concentrated on the game. felt the full effect of his drinks A furious reseutmeut began to boil in : his breast. Took all his money and j then laughed at it. did they'! Couldu't sit in a niau sired same, couldn't he? He'd show them a thins or two! He'd flash a roll that would scare 'em tu death, then he'd win back his own I money and every cent they had Why. if it hadn't l>een for a streak of fooi 'wok that was iust due to break they wouldn't have svon H pot! He'd make 'em siug small! Hurrying to his stateroom. Harry tore open his shirt and from a conceal ed money belt took u thick wad of bills i hts movements furtive. The clay was j crumbling. There would he cast out from the furnace a distorted, ugly j thing—a criminal. Suddenly the door i opened and the boy shrank hack with j i cry as F!?:iel entered In one swift glance the hid.-oiis truth was revealed \ "o her. and • ,;li a ctv of horror she H! :!:t at his arm Kor iNMI'S \e. Hurry, don't!" sh» i" 1. ai. l then Jj'l' vv.sl a wild jumbli j prayers. acc'.'vM ions and eii treaties Think what you :: re doing! You wil' e an ernl>ez?ler a thief!" Sobbingly she paused for a moment the boy was swayed by reason and conscience, and all triihr yet have ; lieen well had the distracted girl not gone on. "You will be disgraced. I will be the wife of a couvict. No. I wlil not; 1 will leave you! If you go ont of that door I wil! leave you—despise you i —leave you'" she gasped. His anger flared blindly. "Leave me! I wish to God you j would—good riddance!" he snarled and brutally throwing her aside, dashed j from the room. For a few moments the girl remain ed as though frozen, the sobs choked ; hack. Tlten with white face and tragic eyes she hurried out It was already late, and Cecil was the only passenger remaining on the! moonlit deck Suddenly he started up, leaped forward and grasped the form of a girl as she poised on the rati, j With gentle firmness |j«- drew uer to a chair and sat down beside her. "Oh. why did you stop me? It would have been over now'" Ethel cried and buried her face In her hands Cecil placed a soothing hand upon! her arm "It probably isn't so bad as all that." ! be said gently. "Just yon tell me the whole story." And presently she had done so. Cecil's face was very grave and tron i bled, but her head was bowed and she I did not see. He. sjwike with tirm and convincing ."nennragement. "I'll straighten this tip some way. 1 give you my word I will." he said. i "Yes." she answered, with tile faitb cf a child and. being utterly worn out. slept. Meanwhile Harry had found Messrs Badger and Marks, ami those gentle ! men bad exchanged glance* of delight j «s thev observed the denominations ot the bills the hoy ttstvntatiousl; dis played. And even as T.ord Cecil was cently drawing a rug over the girl asleep on deck Harry, with starting eyes and reeling brain, stumbled Into bis stateroom and fell In a stupor upon j the floor. Messrs Badger and Marks i bad made a cleannp. At dawn Cecil sent the girl below, t and her coming roused Harry to a full realization of all that he bad done The boy was ntterly crushed and cow Hi. and the girl forgave biro, but she; realized, as lie knelt ;:t her feet aob i Dine out bis shame and repentance. : that unless by some miracle he cou'd ! •gain appear before her as a man her love and the Joy of life were done and 1 dead . Cecil at the earliest opportunity ob tained from the «"noklng room steward a (VTVC of card* and with them retired to his stateroom. He had previously sodced that all the cards carried In stock had hacks of similar design and color. He now proceeded to carefully mark the deck he had purchased. His intent was to meet the enemy with the enemy's own weapons, and be felt no stain upon the honor beside which life was to him a trivial thing. It was a matter of slight difficulty to engage the complacent swindlers ID a game, very early in which Cecil sub stituted hia marked cuds for the deck in play. At the end of that game Cecil had iu bW possession the three times stolen SIO.(KRI. jlikl the professional crooks were Hturlng at each other in s««dden date. "What happened?" Mr. Marks Rasp ed, when their tuiexcited opponent had departed. "Ask me!" Mr. Badger replied scorn fully His gloomy glance rested upon Cecil's chair, and with a snarl of fury he seined upon the deck for which Cecil had substituted his marked cards. "He done us. the cheat! He swltch -h1 the deck on us!" Mr Marks hissed. His features grew livid, and he leaned forward to whisper with venomous "Oh, Harry!" she cried and nestled In his arms. emphasis. "Hut we will get the money liack. and maybe Mr. Englishman won't get well of wliat will ail him!" Quietly Cecil returned the money to Harry Allium. who was too complete ly stink in misery to feel any emotion, even surprise. Any thanks* that he might have attempted to utter were cut short by Cecil's cold comment. "You have lieen a silly child and » brutal cad. y' Know," he told him for his soul's good and left him. Cecil soon understood that his self assumed duty as special providence was not yet finished He chanced to overhear, as she unconsciously spoke them aloud, words which revealed the acbe in Ethel's heart. "His folly ;;nd crime my love would forgive," she bad manned, "if I could again think him a man!" And Cecil went away troubled. Long pondering evolved but one possible plan, and he sighed. "It's a beastly job. but I've got to see the thing through.*' be thought "It will mean happiness for the little girl if be has a spark of manhood in him. It's worth the chance." Suddenly he smiled with gentle whim sicalness and spoke aloud "You would want me to do It, Betty, wouldn't you?" On deck Cecil found Ethel Ashton and Induced her to walk with him, though the girl seemed listless and weary to the point of exhaustion. In n deserted spot lie had located Harry, sulking bitterly, and toward this spot he led the way U'hen near and lu plain view of Harry he suddenly caught the Elrl In his arms and. despite her amazed •nd angry struggles, kissed her passionately In a moment Harry bad covered the distance between tbem and furiously jerked Cecil away. "What do yon mean, yon"— he be gan savagely, and Cecil laughed mock Ingly. "Oh. von." he said. "Don't bother me —or, what are you going to do abont it?" "This;" Harry raged. and struck straight for Cecil's face The Wow staggered him. and a dark blotch appeared on his cheek, but with out a word Cecil turned und hurried crlngingiy away Ethel stared won der!ugly: then a great Joyousnes* ■wept over her face "Oh. Harry!" she cried, and nestled ID bis arms In bis stateroom Cecil gravely In spected his bruised cheek Suddenly the pupils of his eyes contracted. Re flected in the glass be had seen the door behind htm silently open, two crouching figures glide in and the door cloae. The figures crept toward him In the hand of one was a vicious knife, and the secoud man was raising a blackjack for * stunning blow Cecil's hand shot out. and Ue stepped aside and turned at the same iostant. A second later Messrs. Marts and Badger were looking Into the muzzle ot an un wavering revolver Without a word Cecil disarmed the would be assassins, locked the door, pocketed the key and snapped »hut the lid or a steamer trunk. In which he bad placed knife, blackjack and bis owu revolver. A look of savage Joy came over the faces of the crooks as they realized that, two to one. they were locked tu the room with Cecil, unarmed They crouched BDfl Pr»nt fnrwi»i*t "All ready!" Ocll Mid grimly. Twenty minutes inter Cecil unlock ed the door and allowed to crawl out two bloody, buttered wmfH* too tick to even wonder at the meaning of hi* parting remark. Ms almost apoioßede. •*1 think I really owed myself that, y' know." CHAPTER X. * Lard Caoil K««p« Hl* Word. MK. MONTE CARSON, bis right arm in a sling, sat iu the coil venieatly amalgamated otMce lobby-bar of the I'alace hotel and Indulged In gloomy reflection*. "It makes me plumb ashamed." he growled aud rolled a challenging eye toward the excellent Mr. Baylor, land lord "Me—to be done by an English man! Yah!" "It was luck —Just fool luck. Monte." Mr. Baylor asserted coni illatlugly. "You done the tirst trick beautiful—an' $25,1X10 is a pretty good pot. after all." Mr. Carson cast upon him • look of contempt. "Yes, mighty good pot to have sold a million dollar mine for." he sarcnstl cally agreed. "But 1 ain't out of tbe game yet, not by a long shot!" he add ed with sudden fury. "I'll get that uiine back if I have to twist his neck! I'm a curly haired old he wolf, I am! Hear lue howl!" Mr. Baylor did not seem vastly im pressed. He regarded his own ban daged right arm and shook his bead. "I reckon this here Lord Cecil person Is a rtgbt good party to let alone. Monte." be optued Mr. Canton merely grunted wmthful ly nnd. slipping Ills nrui from Its sling, moved it np aud down tentatively. "Bab! There won't lie any shootln" Irons In this." he said. "Most any fool can sboot. This here game is go in' to be played with hrslns." he explained loftily and tramped heavily up the stair. "At that. I ain't barken' your game, none to speak of," Mr. Baylor com mented luntidihly. Mr. Carson entered Betty's room with frowning aggressiveness, but the look of cold deli: uce which flashed into the girl's eyes warned him that he had no longer to deal with an unformed child. "I never would ha' thought it of you. Betty." he said slowly. "Ain't I «l ways done the best 1 conld for youV Have you done forgot how 1 took you when you was a baby and noltody else would aud raised you like you was my own child? And then, when 1 was just tryin' to get back the mine that I'd been swindled out of. you turn against me an' put into the hands of the man that had robbed me the gun I had given you! I wouldn't ha' thought it, girl." Betty's eyes were cold, however, and he knew bis appeal had failed. "Monte." she replied, and her smile was bitter, "It isn't any use to keep up the preiense. 1 know now jnst what you are—« cowardly, cheating thief. It W true you reared me as a speculation—to serve as your decoy and the investment has returned a profit I saved your life when it was forfeited to OH vis' knife and squared accounts, I owe you nothing." To Be Continued. ]C. L AUGHINBAUGH 1 THE UP-TO-DATE PRINTING PLANT J. L. L. KUHN, Secretary-Treasurer p)j 1 PRINTING AND BINDING Now Located in Our New Modern Building A | 46 and 48 N. Cameron Street, Near Market Street | fo BELL TELEPHONE 2012 M I ===== 8 @ I fP Commerical Printing Book Binding Llj m We are prepared with the necessary equipment Our bindery can and docs handle large edition W Iky 40 ta^e care of any work you may want—cards, work. Job Book Binding of all kinds receives D) stationery, bill heads, letter heads, programs, our careful attention. SPECIAL INDEXING ffS legal blanks and business forms of all kinds. and PUNCHING ON SHORT NOTICE. Wa f!1 kU LINOTYPE COMPOSITION FOR THE TRADE. mako BLANK BOOKS THAT LAY FLAT AND M IU) STAY FLAT WHEN OPEN. 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Cameron Street 1 Near Market Street HARRISBURG, PA. || A Bell Telephone call will bring one of our solicitors. m I HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel The Case Against the Rat After all are present day cities so fnr in advance of ancient cities in point of sanitationf .lailet Nichols presents the case against the rat in the House wives I .eague magaxiito and says that l)lil Hameliu Town is no more to be pitied than our own great cities. To be sure we do not have them biting our babies in their cradles or chasing our phlegmatic mayors about the streets but an average of half a million dollars a vear is charged against the depredations of rats in every one of our large cities. "(ireat rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Black rats, brown rats, grey rats. tawnv rats Out of the houses came tumbling. And step by step they followed dancing 'Till they came to the river Weser," writes Browning, and if we had a Pied Piper no doubt great armies of rats of every kind could be found in our old buildings Because we have rid our houses of the rodents, or do not see them, we are inclined to forget they still exist ".lust us far wrong is the housewife who im agines she sustains no loss from the troublesome rodent because they do not reach the provisions in her cupboard. No one escapes paying full shore of the enormous bill of expense incurred in keeping up our army of rats," says Miss Nichols. Hats are great travelers but so stealthy are they that few per sons know of their migrations. If one storekeeper wages determined war against them they use their cleverness .in avoiding his traps and poisoned food and leave the promises until the war fare against them is discontinued. TWO MURDERED AND ROBBED Fayette County Scene of Crimes Com mitted Within an Hour Uniontown, Fa.. l>ec. 14.—Two mur ders, each with robbery as tilie motive, occurred within an hour in Fayette eouny yesterday Andrew Lamar, of Whvtsett, and a BUSINESS COIiEQEI t —\ lißii,, BUSINESS o-'J Market Street Fall Term September First OAY AND NlttflT ' Stenography, Stenotypy DAY and NIGHT SESSIONS Enroll Any Monday SCHOOL of COMMERCE 15 S. "'arket Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. Hats and mice cause many fires, ex plosions and, bv nibbling paratline cov ered electric wires, telephone and elec tric light troubles. Hut all *his and the terrible losses to grains mid veg etables throughout tlic country, are as nothing, to the dangers of disease that ! rats expose us to. In this terrible foot and mouth plague that is now devasting our cattle the rat I was the first to Vie accused of carrying the germs of the disease. The first in structions from Washington were to "destroy all rodents in the stock yards." Unpleasant as the investigation of the rat's part in the contamination of our foods is. it has called our attention to existing conditions. Our government is issuing instructions for eradicating rats |and mice through its bulletins. We are |advised that traps and thorough clean i liness are better than poisons and the I ineffective cat. Some cats are excel I lent mongers and kill for sport and for ] food hut few cats have the courage to attack a full grown, vicious, fighting rat. Moreover, cats seldom eat rats. A fox terrier will destroy rats when they are pointed out to him but dogs that will hunt rats of their own voli tion are seldom met with. The danger in using poison is that so I many times the rodents die in the house Iwalls or that household pets are also j poisoned. The Farmer's Bulletin on destruction lof rodents is number 297 and can be jliad from the Agricultural department, Washington, I). O. It contains full in struetions for ridding any premises of I these dangerous tenants. companion wore confronted by three i masked highwaymen near Banning, No. |l. shortly after midnight. Lamar was shot in the hip when he refused to throw u|> his hands. His companion I ran, and when lie returned with help Lamar was dead from loss of blood. His inoneiv nuil watch had been taken. About the same time the body of George Konuvu, of Brownsville, was found near that town. Roman's throat had been cut and his pockets had been rifled. Artistic Printing at Star-Independent. Cumberland Valley Railroad In Effect May 24, 1814. I Train* la-ave llurrUburi;— | for Winchester and Martlnsbure at 5.05, *7.00 a. ill., *3.40 p. in. ; For Hagerstown, Chanibersburg and I intermediate stations, at *0.1)3, *7.Jo, •11..>3 a. ill.. *3.40, 3.32, •1.4 U. Jl. UV p. in. Additional trains for Carlisle and llechanlcsburg at a.4S a. in., 2.15, 3.27, o 30, 1t.30 p. m. For Dillsburg at 5.03, •7,50 and *11.63 a. m., 2.18, "3.40, 5,32, 6.30 p. in. •Daily. All other trains daily except Sunday. J H. TONGE, H. A* RIDDL.K, G. P. A. Supt.