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Circulation Exaialnea by TUB ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. ~ telephones' BELL ' Private Sranoh Exchange. ... No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY PHvata Branoh Eaohawf, ..... No. t49M( <^j *!■.« ■ 1 ' ■ - ... i aacssesas Friday, January 8, 1915. JANUARY Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Tliur. Frl. 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— € % Pull Moon, Ist, 30th; Last Quarter. Bth; » New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, U3d. f [ ||FW% WEATHER FOEECASTS it I *r< Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to -Bn<' Saturday. Slightly colder to fight with lowest temperature about Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night, somewhat colder in north and we9t por "u V tions. Saturday fair. Gentle tp mod- VMaaaaaHV erate west winds. » YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 54; lowest, 36; 8 a. m., 46; 8 p. m., 36. SAFETY FIRST FOR THE MEXICAN NAVY Dispatches reaching Washington from sorely tried Mexico announce that the Mexican Navy, or at least a large part of it, has declared itself neutral with respect to the war being waged between the Carranza and Villa factions. It is said further that four gunboats,—and that is about half the Mexican Navy,—"have retired to a quiet cove off Yueatan to await tihe result of the war between the factions.'' This reported move of the Mexiean Navy is the wisest one that we have heard of since the various revolutionary leaders have been shooting things up in the general scramble for the upper hand. Why the deaace should the N f avy get mixed up in the scraps that are going on among the various land forces? What has the Navy got to gain? Unless the Navy becomes divided against itself it can do very litttfe in the way of fighting anyhow. It is tar more discreet for the Navy to do just, what it is reported to have done, anchor in a quiet bay and let the land forces pummel each other until one or the other is annihilated. So long as the land fighting lasts the Navy can just quietly rest on its guns, keep out of range of the bomb-shells and fatten up on hot tamales, chili sauce and the unrestricted wine mess. If the land fighting ever does come to an end all the Navy need do is steam out of that little retreat off Yucatan, remind the leaders of the winning army that it didn't take sides fn the scrimmage and proclaim its allegiance to the victors. In that way the Navy officers will keep their heads on their shoulders and be in an altogether better condition than if they were now to take sides with one faction or the other and thus expose themselves to the danger of losing their heads by the guillotine route in event of that faction ultimately losing. All hail to the Mexican Navy! It has adopted a safety first policy which if followed also by the land forces would bring about peace in the dis tressed republic far more effectively and far more speedily than* intervention by the United States and all the Powers of Europe combined. PREVENTION OP CRUELTY TO ANIMALS The annual report of the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals read at yester day's meeting, pointing out that better conditions exist in this city since the organization of the body, is gratifying not so much because it shows that men have been forced to treat animal* decently,— for it is a pity that interference is at times neces sary,—but rather because it demonstrates that hu mane persons acting as an organization can by their influence so improve conditions in a community. The care of horses has been a big part of the work of the local society, and many an old nag would express gratitude if that were possible,' for relief that has come to it in its weary life, through the S. P. (.'. A. The owner of the horse may not feel so grateful for the interference of the officers, but had he done the right thing by his dumb beast in the first place, or even after receiving due warning, he might have avoided all difficulty. The S. P. C. A. does not consider the feelings of the owners of animals when it goes about fulfilling its purposes and making things lively in aldermen's offices. It considers the animals, and generally it HARRIBBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY a. is the only active champion the poor dumb beasts | ever have in this world. A MAGAZINE'S HUNDRED TEAKS '"This country delights more in the acquisition of foreign literature than in a laborious independent exertion of its own intellectual powers," is the remarkable declaration that may be found in an article on American language and literature in an 1815 issue of the "North American Review," —per- haps not so remarkable at the time it was written, but striking in this year IJ>ls when we Americans have become rather well satisfied with the litera ture which has been resulting from the independent exertion of our intellectual powers. During the last hundred years, which have meant so much for American letters, a force has been steadily operating which has done a great deal to encourage the expansion of the country's dignified literature, —the "North American Review." Born in 1813, this periodical is now observing its centen nial. It is-the first magazine in the country that has had a centennial to observe. As a power which has exerted an uninterrupted influence on American letters for a hundred years, it has our heartiest con gratulations. The "Review" in its retrospection not only re- , minds us of some events that were taking place a century ago, but prompts us to disturb the dusty complacency of its early volumes on library shelves, and to go pleasure-seeking among the brownish pages. The issues of 1815 reveal a notice regarding a proposed pilgrimage to the lioly Lands, signed by Gustftvus Adolphus, formerly (Aistavus IV, king of Sweden; an account of a law suit "had" by liOuis Bonaparte, formerly king of Holland, "with his wife;" a notice of the expunging of Napoleon Bonaparte's name by the French Institute: an obit- , uary of Robert Fulton, and numerous other items which make the rfliest of interest. Throughout the hundred years of the "Review's" existence its pages have shown history in the form ing. yet perhaps at no time with more significance to posterity than now. when the Great. War is the prevalent topic. "When the magazine files for 1913 are searched a century hence by the idly curious or by the diligently studious, there will doubtless be found much to marvel at and wonder about con cerning the conflict <sf the nations, whieh may be so absorbing a subject indeed that the nineteenth cen tury files which are of present interest wilt be undis turbed in their dust of an additional hundred years. KANSAS STILL UNHAPPY? Kansas, proverbial kicker, has no right this win ter to complain about hard luck. Kansas depositors, as shown by the annual report just issued by the State Banking Commissioner, have $118,692,433 to their credit in 939 state banks, and this is an in crease of $17,000,(WO in a little more than five months. \ The swollen condition of Ihe safety deposit vaults of the Kansas banks, it is further explained, is due to the record wheat crops of the last year,—for it will be recalled that Kansas is one of the prin cipal states in the western wheat belt and that wheat-raising is by far the greatest. Kansas in dustry. And yet ever-eomplaiuing Kansas probably is not happy. Who ever heard of Kansas ever being entirely satisfied? The query, ' What is the matter with Kansas?" has been made every year for many years in an effort to aceoimt for the perpetually long face? and ever-present grouches of the Kansans. What if Kansas is $17,000,1)00 ahead of the game this winter? Just think of how much rieher she would have been had she held onto her record breaking crop now that the war threatens to make two-dollar wheat a reality! Still Kansas weeps. Tlie annual Spring flood 'in the Susquehanna river has arrived a few months in advance of the usual schedule. all the horrors are confined to the Kuropean war zone. Take riding in the New York snbwav, for example! The Villa "government" in Mexico wants to borrow $300,000,000. Think of it, when gilt-edged municipal loans are so hard to float! Still they are planning new skyscrapers for downtown New York. Means larger crowds for the many times over crowded snbwav to handle. Heavy rains are reported to have destroyed practically the whole of the Cuban tobacco crop. This means uo Havanas, but there will be no shortage of stogies for the Pittsburgh delegation in the Legislature. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN ALWAYS TRUTHFUL "Does your husband ever lie to yduf" "Never." "How do you know?" 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While some of the ski organizations have white uirforms others have to make use of white blankets to render themselves as nearly invisible as they possibly can. * * * Run Across Russian Scouts A ski patrol's experience of a night is related by the offi.'er in charge. The patrol had left camp ill the evening, and, wrapped in white 'blankets, the men were speeding through a Car pathian forest late at nig'ht when the breaking of twigs cautioned tihe officer to order them to cover. "A second later," ihe said, "I heard an alarm signal given Iby one of my corporals. I decided to Investigate and with three men proceeded in the direc tion Whence tflie signal had come. Near an ice and snow-covered 'bramble bush one of the patrol signalled caution and then informed me 'that near him on the right there was a Russian scouting party. '. * * * Have to Lie in the Snow "There was nothing to be seen, 'however. Though the moon slhone brightly, the tree trunks, snow-covered undergrowth and a shower of powdered silver sent down by the gently moving 'branches of the trees, hampered the view. So we crept under the brambles and saiiv to it that the powdered, cold silver entered Iby our collars. The en suing wait wa« none too pleasant. We were measuring the snow vvitlh the length of our 'bodies, whidh is not the finest pastime I know. Right ahead of me there was an open stretch of snow and T had 'been watching the filigrees thrown upon it 'by the moon as its beams ibroke through 'the 'branches of •tfhe tall beeches and oaks, when a long, black tbadow appeared from t!hc right. * * * Three Fur-Covered Cossacks "The next instant three Cossacks en tered the Hearing. Their horses were small and shaggy and white, and the nwn seemed to liHng in the saddles rath er tihaif sit in thorn. They were wrapped in thick furs. The 'bright moonlight showed they were Asiatics—abroad faces wiMi strong chins, prominent | cheekbones and long black 'beards with the frost clinging to 'the hair. A sign from me and my men were on t'heir feet —another moment and the Cossacks were off their 'horses. They were a most surprised lot.. Abject terror stood in their eyes and t/hey had difficulty un derstanding Mat wo were not evil spir its of the forest. The Cossacks had hardly been taken to the rear Iby one of our men when t'he vigorous tranup of Russian infantry was heard. Back under the bramble 'bush we went. Twen ty yards away from us the Russians marched past." • * • Known as the "White Ravens" 'The officer then told how the ski patrol followed the Russians into a vil lage. Later in the night .he was a'ble to gelt in touch with the commander of a German contingent, which occu pied a quarry on the other side of the village. Toward morning he also dis covered how the Russians, who had taiken Hie village, could be outflanked. With dawn everybody was in his .place and lire was opened. The Russians were forced to retreat in disorder, leaving 'bellinil many killed and wounded in ad dition to prisoners. "We are known as the ' wttiite ra vens,' " the officer added. Feeding the Railroad Cow on Sawdust The annual report of President H. U. Mudge to the stockholders of the Rock Island railroad contains a chapter en titled, "A Twelve Year Review." This will interest not only the stockholders ol the Rock Island system, but of all other railway securities, for it shows that the day is coming, if we keep on as we are now, when only a wealthy government can afford to operate a big railroad. It shows that a railroad in these times is like a cow that everybody wants to milk and nobody is willing to feed. It has been estimated that the en forced reductions in rates and the steady increases in wages anil taxes would reduce the Rock Island's net revenue last year on the basis of the business of 1913 by about SIO,OOO, 000. President Mudge's analysis shows that the operation of these factors on the ibasis of the 1914 business cut the Rock Island's net revenue over $16,- 000,000. This tremendous shrinkage is mainly due to six factors, none of which, let it be observed by critics of our railroads, is subjeet to the control of the railroad management. These factors are: 1. Arbitrary reductions of rates by State aiul Federal commissions. 2. Wage increases demanded and enforced by labor unions. 3. Higher costs of all forms of ma terial and supplies. 4. Increased operating expenses made necessary by State laws. Three hundred of these laws affecting the Rock Islaud system have been euacted in the last five years, most of which are political creations, devised to make "popularity" for politicians. 5. Increased (axes. 6. Increased cost of capital. The figures on which the conclusions are based are taken out of the reports required and accepted by the Inter state Commerce Commission and are. therefore,' incontrovertible. They fur nish abundant food for reflection.— Leslie's Weekly, December 17, 1914. WHALING INDUSTRY DECLINES And Periodical Devoted to Its Inter ests Suspends Publication New Bedford, llass., Jan. 8. —The decline in the whaling industry reached a point where it is no longer profitable to maintain a periodical devoted to its interests, according to the publishers of the Whalemen's Shipping List, who to-day announced that this week's is sue would be the last of that weekly journal. When the paper was estab lished in 1843 the number of vessels engaged in the whale fishery was 675, with an aggregate tonnage of 199,174. Of these abips 260 hailed from New DIRECT ROfltl Go to Your 1915 Christmas Happiness by the Way of the Security Trust Company Holiday Savings Club CLUB STILL OPEN 36 and 38 NORTH THIRD STREET Nitr Posttffici Bedford and its sister port, Fair Haven, and 75 from Nantucket. Three years later the highwater mark in the indus try was reached with 680 ships aggre gating 233,258 tons. To-day only 32 vessels with a total tonnage of 6,(513 are engaged in the search for whales. In 1851 the whaling fleet brought t.o this country 428,070 barrels of sperm and whale oil and 5,652,300 pounirte of Whale bone. In 1914, with the pursuit of whales almost wholly confined to the Atlantic ocean, the oil brought home amounted to but 19,270 barrels. Three vessels brought back from the Arctic 34,000 pounds of whale boue. The highest price for sperm oil, reached during the Civil war was $2.75 a gallon; last year's product sold at 45 to 48 cents. / f N MANHATTAN SHIRTS REDUCED FORRY'S
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