6 ( JiilabUshed m 18761 Published b* THB STAR PRINTING COMPANY. ' f Star-lndepe-tdent Building, IMO-U South Third Stroat. Harrleberg. Paw Bvery Evening Eaeept Sunday Offirtrl .• lhnet«T» ; BHMAMIM F. MITMS. JOBN L,. L. KUHK. President. WM. W. WAIXOWSK, V Vita President w "' * «««■•■ 1 WG. K MITIM, Secretary and Treamrer. WM. W WALLOWS*. W* H. WAIWCR, V. HWHIL BIBGHALS, It.. Busmen Manager. Editor, Alt coioraiinloa'ions should be addressed to STAR-INDKPBKDKXT, Busines:-. Editorial, Job Printing or Circulation Department according to the subject matter. Entered at the Post Office in Barrisburg as second class matter. •eajamin 6 Kentnor Company. New York and Chicago Representatives New York Oflee, Brunswick Building. 22b Fifth Avenue. Chicago Office, People's Gas Building. Michigan Avenue. Delivered by cerriers at ft centa a weak. Mailed to subscriber; tor Three Dollars a /ear in advance. TM £ STAR INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harris burg and •esrhy towns. Circulation Exaatnea by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES- BELL Private Branch Eiehangai - No. 3250 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Private Branoh Enohawge. No. f45.24i Saturday, December 19, 1914. DECEMBER Bun. Mon. Tties. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 1 2 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, 2nd; Last Quarter, 10th; New Moon, 16th; First Quarter, 24th. WEATHER FORECASTS -Tjtl "_l | weather to night and Sunday, probably "" I !i,rht TS ' n or snow - Colder Sunday aft- I ernoon. Lowest temperature to-night I about 35 degrees. I Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy to yCr*?r I night and Sunday, probably with rain or snow. Colder Sunday afternoon. Fresh to strong south and southwest winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 28; lowest, 5; 8 a. m., 6; S p. m.. 23. WISE RATE INCREASE The increase in freight rates finally granted to the eastern railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission should be gratifying not only to the railroads themselves but to that large part of the public that believes that these great corporations are entitled to a chance to earn a fair profit on the millions of the people s money that are invested in them. It will be recalled that just before the war started in Europe the railroads' application for a five per cent, increase in freight rates east of Pittsburgh was turned down by the Commission. The fact that a similar increase is now granted cannot be inter preted as an admission by the Commission that it wgs wrong last summer in refusing to grant the increase. Conditions have changed since then,— changed very materially. The war is what has changed them. There is no denying that the effect of the war on the financial interests of this country has been a handicap and when the financial condi tions are unfavorable the railroads are bound to suffer. The advantage of the increased rates lies not only in the fact that the roads are now in a better positiou to earn a fair percentage on the capital already invested in them, but in the fact that it will encourage the investing public to look more favorably upon future issues of stocks and bonds that are necessary for extensions, improvements and renewals of railroad property which have so long been deferred. In brief, it should make it easier for the roads to obtain new capital where needed. I his is likely to result in these companies putting more money into circulation in buying rails, rolling stock and so forth, which in turn will mean that the industrial establishments will find more work to do. That is what everybody wants. FROM EIGHTH GRADE TO HIGH SCHOOL The abolition of the ninth grade in the Harris burg schools, by unanimous vote of the School Board last night, will make the grading of the local schools uniform with the systems in other cities of the state and will give the children of Harrisburg an equal opportunity with children in other communities to get their public schooling with the least possible waste of time and effort. Nothing except the erecting of the badly needed new high school building could be of as much bene fit to the public school children of this city as this readjustment of grades, with semi-annual promo tions, and the latter improvement will no doubt hasten the former. Much that is useless, such as drills in complex arithmetical and grammatical problems which are now given merely to fill in the time, will be dis pensed with, giving the pupils opportunity to eon t-entrate their minds on really helpful school work. Then, too, really brilliant children will not be held back and forced to study side by side with their intellectual inferiors, but will be promoted according to their merits and be enabled to finish high school work before they have passed into man hood and womanhood. The transition from an elementary course of nine years to one of eight, cannot be accomplished in a day. It will be perhaps two years until the new order of things will be established in all details. Before that time comes, provisions will have to be wade for properly accommodating the large num HARRTSBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19. 1914. bcra of new high school students that will then de mand attention. When the ninth grade passes away shortly, boys and girls numbering practically as many as those now doing ninth year elementary work in the grade school buildings of the city, will be in first year high school. The hundreds of these students at Central high school will be additional to the usual number of students at that institntion, for the present ninth grade pupils will not yet be gradu ated at that time. The abolition of the ninth grade can have no possible disadvantages for the city's school children, unless conditions remain such that the move will force hundreds of them to enter a jammed, disor ganized, double-session high school such as Central will be if proper accommodations arc not provided for the increasing number of boys and girls that the eighth grades will shortly be sending there. REALISTIC DOLL BABIES There are dolls peeping mischievously out from behind counters in the stores these days that are attracting even impassive grown-ups whose doll days were long ago. or who never had any such days at all. Something about these dolls is differ ent from what the usual conception of dolls has been. They look real, —almost alive. Intelligence seems to come out through their eyes and they ap pear to be ready for a romping good time. "Char acter dolls" is what thev are called. These new sorts of dolls have apparently been modeled from life. Some of them look rather naughty, it must be admitted, but they look nat ural. The more conservative one look natural too, and the only choice is whether a girl wants a bad little baby or a goody-goody one. That is, it is the only choice other than that of race, for best of all there are black babies as well as white ones. Xo distinctions of color were made in the production of the character dolls. The recent revolts against beautiful, pink, un natural doll faces excited by the efforts of young women artificially to acquire such features have perhaps been responsible for the innovations in doll manufacture. At arty rate, it is refreshing to look at the realistic doll babies of the new order, after the eyes have tired of seeing so many of the stiff and prim creatures of the conventional type. There is less than a week now in which the late shopper can get busy. Lion huuting in New York City is a novelty that does not appear to be much relished by the populace. There is more than one police department breathing easier since the bandit. HohJ, has been put out of the way. Xow that the railroads have gained an increase in both freight and passenger rates, let us hope they will be able to buy new equipment that is needed and give the steel mills more to do. The belligerent nations seem able to buy all the food they want in this country and there appears to be plenty to sell so long as the European money holds out, notwith standing that scarcity of food in this country has often been given as the excuse for the high cost of living. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN HOPEFUL Fred —"My dear Dora, let this thought console you for your lover's death. Remember that other and better men than he have gone the same way." Bereaved One—"They haven't all gone, have thevf"— New York Sun. CRUEtr FATHER "Sir, your daughter has promised to become my wife." "Well, don't come to me for sympathy; you might know something would happen to you, hanging around here five nights a week."—Houston Post. THE REVERSE "Mirandy fo' de Lawd's sake, don't let dem chickens outer dis here yard. Shut dat gate." "What fur, Aleck; dey'll come home, don't dev!" "Deed dey won't. Dey'll go home."—Columbia Jester. TOOLS, NOT TOYS Flimmer—"Met Unison downtown to-day. He'd just bought a tin horn, a triangle, some blocks, a rattlebox, some sleigh-bells and a popgun. I didn't know he had a baby." Flamson —"He hasn't. He's a vaudeville tTap-drummer. Those things are part of his outfit."—Puck. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS Teacher—"What is the elephant hunted for. Emerson f" Bright Pupil—"Magazine articles."—Puck. VIOLATED PRECEDENTS Anyway. Carranza did not say his retreat from Mexico City was strategic.—Cincinnati Times-Star. HE HAD TO Ping l —"The Christmas season must be having a mel lowing effect on old Fyles. I jnst saw him get up and give bis seat to a woman." Pong—"That's his wife."^—Cleveland Flain Dealer. OPPOSITE EFFECTg Bhe—"The mere thought of the furs you have promised me makes me feel warm." He And the mere thought of their cost makes cold shivers ran down my back."—Boston Transcript. LET IT ALONE "Shall 1 put a little more brandy in the punch?" asked the host. "No," replied the hostess. "Be content to leave it as a punch. Don't make it a knock-out."—Washington Star. ENOUGH OF IT AT HOME "It says here that the recruiting stations in England refused to accept married men as volunteers," said Mrs. Gabb, as she looked up from the newspaper. "I wonder why that is?" The married men have had their share of war, I sup pose," growled Mr. Gabb.—Cincinnati Enquirer. EXPERIENCED Recruiting Sergeant—"Want to join the cavalry, do you? Know anything about horses?" Applicant—"Wot! me? Three winners and a second yes terday! Lunune, Guv'nor! Wot do you think t" —Punch. MTYT.FI Vicar (bis mind full of the recruiting posters)—" Wilt thou take this woman to thy wedded wife—for three years or the duration of the war?"— Punch. % Tongue-End Top ics| Soldi en' Mail Must Be Cheerful Only letters tlhat are devoid of all gloomy now or utterances are permit ted to reach the hande of French sol diers. Thii is in accord with an irre vocable rule of the military authorities. They also insist that all •communica tions must be either unsealed or written on postcards. One family complained that it received letters from a son al nioit daily, but after a month of war he had not received a single word from home. Investigation showed that each one of the letters written by the boy's motther contained such words as "deso lation" and "despair." Srtie was tola that her son wns seeing enough desola tion at the front and did not need to near aibout the despair at 'home. The style of the letters changed, and now they are arriving promptly. * * * Letters to Front by Auto Cold weatther and the shipment of warm clothing and other comforts to the soldiers tended to delay the de livery of letters. The automobile club of Paris volunteered its services and hundreds of automobiles carried pack ages to the trenches, until the Germans became aware of the arrangement. They captured ton motor cars filled with packages of heavy underwear, jerseys, sweaters, tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes and cigarette lighters. Some fond mothers sent preserves, cakes, cold chicken and pate-de-fois-gras. One pack age that met with an accident en route was found to contain even a bot tle of perfume. * * * Odd Suit as Result of War A peculiar case was decided in the Orimsbv county court, England, ia a claim brought under the workmen's compensation act against the owners of the Grimsby trawler, Kilmarnock, by John Kisdale, chief engineer of the ves sel. The Kilmarnock left Grimsby on September 22. on a fishing expedition, sighted some floating mines and went in search of a warship to warn naval vessels. In so doing, the Kilmarnock struck a mine and blew up. The skipper and five men were killed, and John Ris dale was so injured as to 'be tot-allv in capacitated. It was urged by the own ers that Risdale could not recover com pensation as his injuries were caused by the vessel striking the mine of an enemy at a time when the vessel —toy diverting its course to act as a mes senger to the navy—had ceased to fol low its ordinary occupation. The court upheld the defendant's contention. # * * Soldiers Fighting on Skis With the arrival of deep snow on IV: French-German frontier, especially in Als&ce-Lorraine and the Yosges, the Alpine regiments on both sides are now fighting on skis. The Chasseurs Alpis, whose headquarters in peace time are av Ohawpnix and Grenoble, are at home on skis and can travel long distances with out fatigue. List winter a whole regi ment. fully equipped, climbed the Mont Blan- on skis, not a man falling out of the rnnks. * . * English Shipyards Busy The various shipbuilding; yards ot Kngiand now are as busy as though there was no war. The loss of many ships, due to being bottled up or sunk, made freight rates high, creating an in creased demand for new tonnage as well as hastened repairs on old or captured craft. The repairing yards are full with orders, and uew steamers are not being guaranteed for early delivery owing to pressure of work. A suggestion has been made by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce advisory committee that some of the Austrian and German steamers are tied up iu British harbors should be employed to relieve the pres ent shortage of tonnage. Merchants, especially iu t'he coal trade, are suffer ing inconvenience through this short age, which was caused partly bv their vessels being requisitioned by the gov ernment anil by delays and congestion at foreign ports. It is said the Ad miralty is seriously considering the proposal. Birth Announcements Mr. aixt Mrs. Jesse F. Reese, 1845 Regina street, announce the birth of a daughter Friday evening, December 18. Mrs. Reese was Misg Fannie S. Keet, prior to her marriage. Mr. and 'Mrs. A. R. Stine, 1 909 Wood street, announce the birth of a daugh ter. Elsie Naomi, Wednesday, Decem ber 16. Mr. and Mrs. William N. Miller, 1501 street, announce the birth of a daughter, Maud Elsie, Wednesday, December 16. Mrs. Miller was Miss Margaret E. Beidenmiller prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Billett, 438 Ppif fer street, nnnounce the birth of a son, Paul Cyrus Billett, Wednesday, Decem ber 9. Tiger-like Cat Although he's no bigiger than an or dinary hojse eait, tihe dasyure of the Soutih American jungles is strong and fierce. He has the temper of a tiger pent up in a soft coated, speckled body of tomcat size. Good tighter that he is, the dasyure never fights for his food, for his chief subsistence is the ant and other small insects, but when attacked by a man the latter very often gets the worst of it.—Wisconsin State Journal. CLEANSE THE BLOOD UNO AVOID DISEASE When your blood is impure, weak, thin and debilitated, your system becomes susceptible to any or all diseases. Put your blood in good condition. Hood's Sarsaparilla acts directly and peculiarly on tke blood—it puri fies, enriches and revitalizes it and builds up the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla has stood the test of forty years. Get it to-day. It is sure to help you. Adv. C. V. NE WS TURNPIKE COMPANY GIVEN $40.033 BY COURT JURY This Allowance I* to Cover Damages Sustained by Plaintiff When State Took Over Turnpike Between Chambersburg and Fulton County Chamlbersburg, Dee. 19.—The jury in common pleas court yesterday morning returned a *>ealed verdict, giving the Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Company an award of $40,033 in its suit against the Commonwealth. It is believed the turnp'ike company will take an appeal. The State recently took over the turnpike between Chambersburg and the Fulton county line, a distance of IS 1-3 miles. Viewers awarded the turnpike company $23,580. This was not satisfactory to the company and saiit was brought, with the result that a verdict giving the company $16,453 more than the viewers allowed was reached. Witnesses for the turnpike company placed the value of the highway at from $60,000 to $120,000. It* was shown that in 1912 the turnpike's net earnings were $3,000 and the estimate for 1913 was that the profit would reach $4,000. SAYSERVANTFORGEDCHECKS Colored Girl Disappears Aftei Police Say, She Had Fleeced Mer chant Out of $lO I» Chambersburg, Dee. 19. Evelyn ■ljunes, colored, 19 years old, is missing from her home on South Water street. She had been employed at the home of R. E. Robertson in the Glen apart ments. Yesterday morning she asked Mrs. Robertson if she could go to the postoffice to mail a speial delivery letter to Ovepbrook. Permission was given her. She did not return. In stead. it is said, she went to the shoe store of Charles E. Heintzelman, South Main street, and purchased a pair of stockings for 50 cents. In payment, the police say. she presented a check .for 510 bepring the signature of Mr. Robertson. The check had been forged, so Robertson told the detectives. LAD WOUNDED IN THE SIDE Playmate Thrust Knife Into Him While Enjoying School Recess Carlisle, Dec. 19.—Charles Hoy, 10 j years old, a son of J. M. Hoy, freight I agent at the Cumberland Valley sta tion, sustained a serious knife wound in the side just below his heart when in ; a playful scrap that occurred before j 9 o'clock in a schjol room in the Ham- | ilton building yesterday morning 12- i year-old Olin Rone/ attempted to push j the Hoy lad away with a hand in which | he held a knife blade. Investigation of the occurrence on the I part of the school authorities leads to the belief that the matter was purely i an accident. The knife blade fortu- j natelv struck on a rib and probably! prevented the lad being fatally injured, j Gettysburg a Healthy Place Gettysburg, Dec. 19.—Since August j first there has been only one case of a j communicable disease in Gettysburg, ac cording to the records of the local | Board of Health. This breaks all pre- j vious records and shows the town to be | in an exceptionally healthful condition, j During the months of August, Sep- | tember and November not one case was j reported to the Board. During the lat- j ter part of October one child was re-1 ported to have chickenpox, but the ! modified quarantine placed on the house j apparently had its effect, for'no fur- j ther cases appeared. Shot Through Hog Wounds Boy Chamberstmrg, Dec. 19.—'Harry, 9- j year-old son of Charles Brendle, living j on a farm near Merceraburg, was shotj through the head yesterday morning i and fatally injured. The annual butch- i cring was on and Charles Hoover was killiug hogs •with a rifle. As he fired ! at one porker the bullet went through i the animal and struck the lad" above j the ear, penetrating his brain. Award Y. M. C. A. Contract Waynesboro, Dec. 19.—The contract j for the erection of the new Y. M. C. ! A. building has been awarded to A. R. j Warner, this place, at his bid of SSO,- j 699.41. This is exclusive of the heat- i ing and plumbing and electrical work. ; It is expected that the heating, plumb- j ing and electrical work can be put in ; the building for $12,000. E. G. HOOVER S ANNIVERSARY Business Established Twenty-four Years Ago Grows to Large Proportions E. G. Hoover, jeweler, 23 North Third street, is celebrating the twen ty-fourth anniversary of bis store. Twenty-four years ago Mr. Hoover, who was formerly from this city, returned from Philadelphia, where he held an important position in one of the largest and foremost jewelry stores in that city, and started in business in a mod twt way at his present location. From the beginning his business was conduct ed in accordance with the highest ideals and as the public learned to know the higli character of the store the business has grown to proportions, highly complimentary to Mr. Hoover and his store organization. The growth of the business has been both steadily and substantially built. Mr. Hoover owes much of his success to the sterling quality of his merchan dise. His assortments are noited for elegance and exclusiveness. The stock is selected with such care and judg ment that it is distinctive. For this reason his store has btcome a favorite shopping place for those who are dis criminating in making selections. Mr. Hoover is receiving the congratulations of many friends on this occasion. BANS SMOKING AT COLLEGE Muhlenberg President Takes Action When Cigarette Starts Blase Allentown, Pa., Dec. 19.—Dr. Joton A. W. Haas, president of Muhlenberg College, yesterday prohibited the use of tobacco in any of the college buildings or on the campus. A cigarette stub, discarded by a stu dent, started what would have been a serious blaze had it not been for the •prompt action of other students who were aroused at midnight by the smoke. Ir 1 "The Quality Store" |j , Give Gifts p | of Quality | Sj OTHER store hereabouts shows such wonderfully p rk 1N varied and comprehensive assortments of holiday Q £ stocks of exceptional quality for which this store has M T long been noted. Your gift problems arc easily solved k"j here—there are suitable and appropriate gift-things for n $ all your friends and relatives. This appended list may 8* probably be of assistance to you. Jjs !jj MEN'S AND LADIES' DRESSING CASES AND ROLLS -nil T| solid leather cases ami best fitting, at $2.50 to (17.50 JL MANICURE SETS, in pretty leather cases ami boxes, at M \i sl.fW to 94.00 K rt MUSIC ROLLS of the beat grade leathers, 50c to 91.50 vj rf- MUSIC CASES, highest quality leather—well made at Q Wj SI.OO to $3.50 ifi ft Bridge Sets, Jewel Cases, Playing Card Caseß, Drinking Cup H L* Caaes, etc., all modestly priced. f,> a MEN'S AND LADIES' TOILET SETS in the fines! grade of LY celluloid, at $2.25 to $7.50 if* 3 FLORENCE WHITE ENAMELED TOILET SETS, all beauti E fnllv boxed, at $2.00 to $0.50 {f TOILET SETS in a variety of new novelties in Blue, White and jA Gray, at $,-{.50 and 95.75 W 05 MIRROR AND PHOTO FRAMES, in an allu ring assortment of T&J fi new aud pretty finishes at 09c to $2.50 T sS PICTURES, an exquisite showing embracing many new nnd 7j W interesting subjects, at 25c to $4.00 $ DOLLS! DOLLS! DOLLS! An extraordinary line of domestic [I character Dolls, at 50c to $2.9H V J 1 ! IMPORTED DOLLS in a large assortment at fcj i v( »9c, 09c, $1.15 and SI.OB and upward > IMPORTED TEDDY BEARS, the "Kiddies' " delight at & f «»c, sl.lO and 92.00 H KEWPIES AND KEWPIE ORNAMENTS, n large collection of these at .19c to SI.OO | L. W. COOK HI The custom of smoking in the admin-J istration building between classes and in the dormitories at nil hours has been prevalent, but Dr. Haas has threatened to expel any student caught in t'iie act. The facult must suffer along with the students. Prominent classmen have frowned upon the edict and appear out of sympathy with it. The mortally wounded man WHS re moved to the City Hospital, whither the injured policeman hail preceded him. As soon as Receiving Physician Mc- Carthy glanced at the m&n he stated that he was doomed. Because it was so evident that each breath might be Wllmot Goodwin Song Recital Under the auspices of the General Old Circle, Ladies ot' G. A. R. FAHNESTOCK HALL S. W. Corner Second and Locust Streets First Cycle, Monday, December 21st, 8.15 I*. M. Second Cycle, Tuesday, December 22nd, 8.15 P. M. ❖ •> •> <• •> *:• * <• *> <• I r HARRISBVRG LIGHT LL 1 &POWER-QO. J <♦ | Are You Prepared to Enjoy the f | Electrical Gift You Are Going | •5* _______ ♦> •> ! To Receive This Christmas? ! *****,J, t 4* | If your house is not wired, place your order £ % with us at once so that you will be able to enjoy * * the sun's only rival, pure, clean and brilliant * % lighting, and make use of the many Electrical % t Appliances Sauta Claus is going to distribute | * this Christmas. * * •> * Let us quote you prices at once. * •> -J <.<• ,}.<. <. Y THE PROPER SIFT OF MONEY 7 • WOULDN'T a Certificate of Deposit, issued for $5.00, SIO.OO or any amount, and deliv ered in the Christmas mail, prove a genuine surprise and a most acceptable gift? Such a gift of money could not be spent—on the other hand it might encourage the saving habit. If you have anyone that you wish to remem ber in this substantial manner, we will be pleased to have you favor us with your patron age, and assure you of the prompt delivery of the certificate, which will pay the recipient 3 per cent, interest for a period of 4 months and longer. a 213 Market Street iX, Capital, $300,000 Surplus, $300,000 ! Open for deposits Sat. evening from 6 to H the bandit's last, there was no effort, made to probe for bullets. It wn< found, however, that he had been idiot four times, the most serious wound be ing a penetration of th e lung through the right shoulder. Huh] was unable t•» say a word from the time he was brought to the hospital until he ex pired, about halt' an hour later. Patrolman Kuaul, in spite of his seven wounds, was cheerful, anil joked with hospital attendants. He also asked that his wife be sent for, and a fast auto was dispatched for her. Knaul said: "I had 110 chance. As soon as I opened the door the follow shot at me."
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers