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Mailed to aubacriber; tor Three Dollars a /ear in advance THESTAR-INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest: Homt Circulation in Harrisburg ana Marby towns. Circulation Examines by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. ~ TELEPHONES BELL Prlvato Branch Exohanf*. - ■ No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Prlvato Branoh Exotiango. No. 148.248 Tuesday, December 22, 1914. DECEMBER Sun. Mon. Tues. 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, lfitli; First Quarter, 21th. f 1 ' I HMJWk WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg nud vicinity: Fair to ■ night and Wednesday. Colder to-night * with lowest temperature about to de- Kastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night ~ and Wednesday. Colder to-night. Fresh westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 40; lowest, 28; 8 a. in., 32; S p. m., 36. MORE COUNTRIES IN THE WAR? That Greece and Rumania will enter the war lias been foreshadowed, it seems, by the guarantee which has now been given to them by Great Britain, France and Russia that in the event ol' their active participation they will not be attacked by Bulgaria. The declaration of its neutrality by Bulgaria, ap parently brought about by the careful diplomacy of the Allies, may decide Greece and Rumania as noth ing else could, to take up arms against Germany, Austria Hungary and Turkey. Duritrg recent months it has been generally re ported that the Rumanian people have been eager to .join the Allies and the sympathies of Greece have been known to lie on the same side. The posi tion of Bulgaria had been open to question, and that it might join Germany to avenge itself for the humiliation it underwent in I!U3, had even been suggested. Now that it has declared its neutrality, however, Rumania and Greece have been assured by the Allies that they need not fear Bulgarian armies if Greece and Rumania enter the conflict. With these two countries entering the game of war, there would be almost a million more men op posing the Kaiser. Now that the Bulgarians are pledged not to take sides, it may be only a question of time-before Rumanians and Greeks will be fight ing side by side with Englishmen, Frenchmen and Russians. Of greater import than the entrance of Rumania and Greece into the war would be active participa tion by Italy. 1 hat the latter nation, now avowedly neutral, will soon be 011 the side of the Allies, has been accepted as highly probable. A dispatch from Rome to-day says that soldiers of the 1892 class in the Italian army, which would have shortly been dismissed, have been retained under the colors by royal decree. Then, too, the country's national loan of $200,000,000 is not without some significance. It would seem that the game of war has just begun; that the combatants are only getting in line, a'nd that the actual conflict has not yet started in all earnestness. Additional entries in the game are still to be expected. HOHL AND THE DRUG HABIT 1 he parole officer of the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia, who kept track of Frank G. Hohl for a time after the Harrisburg desperado was released on parole from that institution, says that the last time he visited Hohl was after the bandit's marriage in Harrisburg, and on that occasion he took supper with Hohl at the latter's home in this eitv. Hohl was a drug user, according to the parole officer, but when not under the influence of a drug was one of the most inoffensive fellows the officer ever met. When the. "dope" was working, how ever, Hohl was a fiend and the officer maintains that the young bandit, who was shot to death by the police after fatally shooting a blueeoat and looting two bants in Cincinnati last Thursday, never would have performed deeds of violence ex cept under the drug's power. So flagrant has become the disregard of the law regarding the unauthorized sale of harmful drugs in this state, that the State Pharmaceutical Society, in its meeting at Buena Vista last summer, ap pointed a comijiittee, of which Senator-elect of Blair, is a member, to draft a new law regulating the sale of narcotics, including morphine, opium, cocaine, etc. It is held to be a fact that these drugs have been peddled 011 the streets in some cities of HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1914. the state, including Harrisburg, and that "mor phine tiends" and "coke snuffers" are the result. It is tiuie something was done to punish more severely the people who dispense these drugs in vio lation of law, and the State Pharmaceutical Society, composed of the representative druggists, should be encouraged in the'stand it is taking in the matter. STANDARDIZATION OF MODERN DANCES A paragrapher in the New York "World" asks: Will not standardising the fox-trot and tango, as Phila delphia dancing-masters propose, increase the incentive to diversify these dances with new steps? We think not. The fact is that is just what standardization will prevent. There are enough dancing steps now, —too many in fact for the ordi nary person to master, —and that, doubtless, is why the Philadelphia instructors propose standardiza tion. We believe it is what a majority of the dan cing people want. They have been longing for something of the kind and we do not believe that, now that there is a prospect of it, they will counte nance the introduction of anything new in the form of foot-tanglers. The fox-trot and the tango now are danced with so many variations that only experts, —those few persons in whom the ability to dance seems to have been born and who can improvise steps to tit almost any dance music and dance them without treading m ou their partner's toes or tearing the trimmings from the trains of their partners' dresses, —are able to appear with any degree of grace on the ballroom floor. The chief trouble with so many different varia tions of the modern dances is that nobody save the experts or partners who have practiced together industriously, can dance them without the danger of conflict in their movements. For instance, when a man with only an average education in the mys teries of the tango, the fox-trot or the hesitation, asks a woman with whom he has not previously practiced the steps, to dance with him, he is almost certain to make both his partner and himself look awkward on the floor. To avoid this a man must be one of those all around nimble-footed youths who can make his feet move in any direction at any instant to avoid a collisiou with those of his dan cing partner. All the men who dance, —or try to—are not Ver non Castles and that is why standardization would make the ballroom floor a safer place for dainty feet. A CHEMIST'S HIGH PLACE In the recent death oh' Herman Fraseh, chief chemist of the Standard Oil Company, for which, it is said, he "earned more dividends than John D. Rockefeller himself,'" the world loses another wiz ard of science who has done much for its material progress. By his invention of new chemical pro cesses. through untiring investigations of chemical actions and reactions, he not only earned great amounts of money for a big corporation's stock holders, but he made possible new products and by products and added to the world's scientific knowl edge. . Industrial chemistry had its growth during the lifetime of Herman Fraseh. He made it his business when he was a poor boy. and in later life la* saw it develop into the force it is to-day. It has earned him a fortune and it has indirectly earned fortunes for captains of industry in all fields. Yet the great est days for industrial chemistry are, perhaps, yet to be seen. How amazingly willing to be accommodating is the otlice boy those days! The "Froth" column in the "Patriot" reads just now as though "Froth's" understudy was on the job. Whether Thaw "won" or "lost" as the result of the Supreme Court decision in his rase depends oil which news paper you read. If every person who can give intends to give more than he expects to receive in the Christmas season, no person will be disappointed after the visit of Santa Claus. We thought Mr. Demain would hand out a little sun shine from the Weather Bureau for jthe Yuletide. Unless he plans to give us a real, white Christmas,—without any slush, —here's hoping he keeps the sunshine turned oil at least until after Friday! TOLD IN LIGHTERVEIN HIS QUALIFICATIONS She was about to engage a butler. A very correct person presented himself —stiff, cold, thin-lipped and clean-shaven save for a pair of handsome muttoncbops. After examin ing him about wines, service and so forth—and very satis factory his examination was—she said, remembering her seven little ones: "And have you had any experience with children f" He drew himself up. He pressed his thin lips tighter together. "Oh, no, ma'am! I've always worked in the best families."—Exchange. LOWER MATHEMATICS Teacher —"Now, children try to figure just this once without counting on your fingers. How much are three and four!" Pupil (looking under the bench after a long wait)— "Seven." Teacher—"Right. Four and six?" Pupil (again peeping under the bench) —"Ten." Teacher—"Hold up there, you little raseal! I'll teach you to count on your fingers! (Takes pupil's handstand clasps them behind his back.) Now, then, five and threef" Pupil (alter another long look under the bench) "Eight." Teacher—"Well, how did you manage to do that?" Pupil—"With my toes, teacher."—Exchange. GOING THE LIMIT Grubbs —"Have you done your Christmas shopping earlyf" Stubbs—"You bet I have. And late. And long. And expensively. And disastrously to my pocketbook. In fact, I have followed every rule ami am going to be happy next Friday if it bankrupts me."—Richmond Times Dispatch. THE STUDY OF GOZINTEB What are you studying now. Tommy?" "Gozinter, chiefly." "What's that, a new language?" "No, just gozinter, one gozinter two, two goziuer four, three cozinter six. and »o on." —National Monthly. /■ N [Tongue-End Topics); Ambler Is Young for Speaker Should Representative Charles A. Ambler, of Montgomery county, be elected Speaker of the next House of Representatives, he will be forty-one years old the day after he assumes the Speakership, having been born in Jenk intown, Montgomery county, on Janu ary 5, 1874. He will be one of the youngest Speakers that ever occupied the chair, it having been the custom for years to place men verging on fifty at the head of the House. But Mr. Ambler is not inexperienced in Legis lative matters. He is a grocer at Abington, and has been in the political game for years. He was postmaster of his town when he was twenty-three and a member of the Republican's Coun ty Committee, resigning both to come to the Legislature in 1903, being re elected five times. He missed in 191CT, but came up smiling in 1912 and again this year. He served on a number of important committees, and was second on the Appropriations Committee in the last session. Mr. Ambler, al though he was his class valedictorian at school, has seldom occupied the time of the House with oratory, and is a plain, practical man who is for pushing business all the time. * . * Deer Invades a School 'Former Representative Marvin, of Pike county, the only Republican, by the way. who was ever elected to the legislature from Pike, ami whose ac tivity as a law-maker put Pike on the ma-p again, has written a letter to a Capitol Hill friend telling of some queer happenings in his bailiwick. Not long ago while school was in session in the Westbrook school house, in Bloom ing Grove township, the school house door was let't open temporarily. Miss Josephine Cawley, the teacher, was sur prised to see a large buck deer walk leisurely into the room. The deer's head was lowered and as it walked down the aisle toward the teacher's desk its antiers caught the clothing of one of the pupils, who quickly released it. The children were all badly fright ened and pandemonium reigned for a short time, but the deer did not pay any attention to the racket and was not the least bit frightened. * • She Tries to Shoo the Deer Miss Cawley, who has lived too long in Pike county to be frightened by a deer, approaehed the big buck and tried to shoo it out of the room by waving her ruler, but the deer paid no attention to the plucky school ma'am. Miss Cawley finally got close enough to the deer to grab one of its horns and she turned the animal about and head ed it for the door after much effort, succeeding in getting it out of the room. Once out of the building the deer walked quietly down the steps, looked about a while and then amblei away into the woods. A mail carrier who was passing saw the incident, but of fered no assistance. « Snakes Frozen Stiff The buck is a big one that has been in the Blooming Park grounds for some years and is quite tame. Former Rep resentative Kipp, who was in vi cinity shortly after the deer visited the school house, vouches for the story. Mr. Marvin says that the bucks are not the only strange school house visitors, as a whole herd of does surrounded a school house recently and frightened the male teacher. He also a Ids that the weather is so cold up in Pike that the snakes are frozen stiff and are used by the infirm for canes, but they have to let them outdoors at night to prevent them from thawing out. Queer things in Old Pike since Ed. Mott left the county. DONATIONS DISTRIBUTED Committee of Stevens Memorial Church Is Visiting Homes of Needy Beginuing to-day and continuing to morrow the big Sunday school donation of Stevens Memorial Methodist Epis copal church, given last Sunday after noon, is to be distributed in many poor homes of the city. Al. K. Thomas of the East End Bank is the chairman of the social committee. To-morrow evening, at 7.30 o'clock, Dr. Clayton Albert Smueker will meet the members of his church and all the new converts in a special prayer and social service. The Stough converts and all other are requested to attend this meeting in the Stevens Memorial Methodist church, Thirteenth and Ver non streets. Services commemorating the birth of Jesus will be held in the Stevens Me morial Methodist Episcopal church, Thirteenth and Vernon streets, Friday morning at 6 o'clock. The Epwort'h League and the young folk of the church will have charge of the service. Ross K. Bergstresser will lead the serv ice of song. The service will be open GET RIO OF RUMORS AND AVOID SICKNESS Humors in the blood cause internal derangements that affect the whole sys tem, as well as pimples, boils and other eruptions, and are responsible for the readiness with which many people con tract disease. For forty years Hood's Sarsaparilla has been more successful than anv other medicine in expelling humors and removing their inward and outward effects. Get Hood's. No other medicine acts like it. Adv. Take Care of Your Eyes and They'll Take Care of You For advice, commit " ""llrfllHiiP Uilh H. C. CluKr CALENDAR & BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT Our Motto "SAFETY FIRST" Patrons and Friends: ' I, I). K. Brightbill, hereby wish to thank most heartily the people who have made it possible t'or me to establish in their midst during the past seven years a large insurance business. Upon your patronage and many kind recommendations of me to your friends has the business been built. Devoting nearly all my time to the insurance business which has steadily and surelv increased, I could not give tho Keal Estate business the attention that it needs in a dtv like llarrisburg aud in order to render service to the public in the Real Kstate realm as well as to render the best service possible in the field of insurance, I have entered into partnership with Harry K. Rough aud Joe Klines both well known young hustlers of this city. By this combination you will have the services of three men to'those desiring to buy or sell Real Kstate and also continue the efficient aud prompt service to the insuring public that has Characterized my business in the past. Persons desiring to buy homes, investment properties or business properties, will find it to their advantage to see some of the 140 city and suburban properties alreadv listed by the new firm; alsu a number of farms, one 55-acre exceptionally good fruit farm and several country lioints; and we wish to assure you that your Heal Estate aud Insurance needs and inquiries will be given our immediate attention. As a token of remembrance and appreciation to patrons and friends, our Art and Business Calendars for 1915 have been prepared and are ready for distribution, and all persons who have had business relations with D. K. Brightbill or "the firm of Rough & Kline are invited to call at the new Real Estate and Insurance Office, Sixth and Reily streets, for a 1915 calendar. •.'all for your calendar before December 30th because what are left over at that time will be generally distributed. If you cannot call before December 30th, please phone or drop us a card and calndar will be laid back for you. Wishing you one and all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year, we are, Very sincerely yours, x Kough, Brightbill & Kline, Successors to D. E. Brightbill. — to the public. Everybody invited to • attend. Ou Sunday at 10.30 a. m. ami 7.30 j p. m., Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker | will welcome into the membership of j the Stevens Memorial Methodist Epis copal church all who have an honest j desire to lead 1 a Christian life. The! Stough converts and all others arc re- i quested to come to the church and be i regularly received into fellowship. The! sacrament of baptism will be admin- 1 istered at both services. PACKAGES IN PORTUGAL Messengers Carry Them, as Stores Dp Not Use Delivery Wagons Light delivery in Portugal is done ; almost entirely by men and women. Dp- j livery wagons, such as are used in \ American cities, are unknown here. ! Some of the large department stores 1 are now using motor trucks, but none has introduced a special parcel carrier. Lisbon and Oporto, the only large cities in the republic, are built on hills, and most of the streets are very steep, attaining a grade of 17 per cent. They are paved with stone and generally are j in good condition. The roads immedi ately about these cities are fair and the grades are easy. County highways are a mixture of very good and very bad. They are not kept up as they should be and for short distances are apt to be extremely rough. Nearly all articles such as are de livered in the United States from a light wagon or motor vehicle are sold here by men and women, who go through the streets crying their wares. Fish, fowls, vegetables, bread, oil, fruit, etc., are nil carried on the head or shoulders of the vendor. Delivery of goods from small shops is made by boys or by the "galego," who is found at every street corner. These men also transport pianos, furniture and other articles of a similar character. —Con- sular Report. Married Twenty Years Mr. and Mrs. Jacoib Bckinger, of the Lincoln apartments, North Fifth street, celebrated the twentieth anni versary of their wedding last evening by entertaining a number of relatives and fHands in a mo#t delightful way. Mr. and Mrs. Eckinger were the re cipients of many beaoitiiful gifts of china, silver, cut glass, linen and the like. Married at Baltimore, Md. Announcement is made of the mar riage of Miss Erin a Naomi Dkkev, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Dickey, 1519 Berryhill street, to Eugene P. Prey, 107 Chestnut street, which took place Thursday, December 17, at the First Presbyterian manse, Baltimore, the Rev. J