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THE STAR INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Hone Circulation in tiarrisbnrg aao •earbv towns Circulation Examined by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES- BELL ' Private Braneh Knehanf*. No. 3280 VALLET Private Branch Exchange, . No. >45.346 t Friday, January 15, 1915. JANUARY 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 3Q 31 MOON'S PHASES— Full Moon, Ist, ;50th; Last Quarter, Bth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, 23d. I jJ/iS JSSN * WEATHER FORECASTS '<Vv v | Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to ' (jty, I nipht and Saturday. Slightly colder * to night with lowest temperature about llwH Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair tonight an d Saturday, slightly colder to-night, W* .. north and west portions. Gentle shift ing winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISRURG Highest, 42; lowest, 30; S a. m., 30; S p. m., 36. WHERE CAN A PRIZE FIGHTER FIGHT? Even Mexico is balking at prize fighting! There was a time within the memory of man that almost any one of the I'nited States would permit a pugilistic encounter to a finish to be held j on its territory. Fight promoters had merely to ! find a place with a hall large enough to seat the crowds sure to attend a big fistic encounter and turn the fighters loose to pummel each other till one of them took the count. Recently, however, sentiment has changed to such an extent that it is doubtful if a championship fight for a "knock out" could be "pulled off" anywhere in the I'nited Slates. Occasionally a "knock out" does occur, but it in list. in most states, be within a prescribed and very limited number of rounds and come as a "surprise" both for the contestants and the police authorities. New York state has even gone so far as to have a boxing commission whose powers extend even to barriug a tight if the commission believes one of the would-be contestants stands a chance of failing to survive a few brief rounds. So closely have the restrictions on prize righting been drawn in the I nited States that when it came to arranging for the proposed mill between Jess W iilard and Jack Johnson/ for the heavyweight championship of the worlfffto be held on March 6, the promoters found it necessary to select Juarez, on Mexican soil, as the place for the encounter. But there seems now to be some doubt whether it will possible to hold it even in the territory of the belligerent, fight-loving and not ©ver-civiliied Mexicans. Dispatches from El Paso state that if the Car ranza faction of the Mexican revolutionists has control of all the Mexican ports,—as it now is reported to have,—at the time when Johnson at tempts to land on Mexican soil, the big fighter will be seized and held on the ground that he is a fugitive from justice from the I'nited States. But do not get the idea that it is any moral awakening among the bull-fighting and man-fight ing Mexicans that seems thus likely to interfere with the fistic battle proposed for Juarez! It is nothing of* the sort. The Carranza adherents haven't any objection to the fight on the ground of morality or on the theory that the bout might develop into an exhibition of brutality. Their plan to interfere simply is based on the theorv of "military expediency." They don't want the - • -fight simply because Juarez is in the territory con trolled by the opposing or Villa faction of revolu tionists and the box office receipts would swell the Villa treasury. As things stand now the fight will probably not take place in Juarez unless the Villa crowd suc ceeds in capturing a seaport between now and March 6. Consequently the main issue between the two revolutionary factions in the next few weeks is likely to be whether or not there is to be a prize fight. THE QUEEN OP SHEBA'S GEMS Since tie outbreak of the war diamond merchants of Europe have been flocking to this country and endeavoring to dispose of the gems in which Euro ' peans no longer are so much interested. Whether they have found the I'nited States field , r ' np— * —, — 11 i \ . - "« ■» ' v * " : , ■*' y » . ** ■ * • •, \ HARRIStitTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 15, 1915. at this time is not reported, but probably they have, for they continue to come. Two diamonds in possession of a speculator from Constantinople were seized in New York yesterday by customs officials because he had failed to declare them upon his arrival there. They are not ordinary diamonds by any means. They weigh 18.6 carats each, and are of a shape never before seen at the custom house. What is more, says the man from Constantinople, they once belonged to the Queen of Sheba. It is this latter feature which is causing all the trouble, for the owner asserts that he did not de clare them for the reasos that they are art antiques, being "more than a hundred years old," and there fore. under the tariff law, are exempt from duty. Pending further investigation the diamonds are safe in a custom house vault where they can hold forth no temptations to possible purchasers. That these particular gems, as the owner asserts, were included in the presents when Solomon "gave to the Queen of Sheba all her desire," seems to be open to question. It is a statement at least which lacks proof, thus far, and perhaps nobody believes it but the owner himself, if even he does. Even though the work of cutting precious stones in Amsterdam and Antwerp lias ceased because of the war's interference, there is no necessity for speculators to come Over to this enlightened coun try these days and try to start a business in antique gems having historical connections that are unusual not to say open to suspicion. USEFULNESS OF THE NOSE Now that a New York doctor has called atten tion"to the matter, it does seem somewhat as though the nose were a maltreated part of the face. That it is clamped with eye glasses and burdened with heavy spectsyles, as he points out, is eertaiuly very often the case. That it is seldom scrubbed like other parti of the countenance, as he further asserts, may also be true, —although this statement cannot be generally proven and had better, be dis- regarded in the present discussion. The nose is abused, if at all, because of its use fulness. It is employed to support eye-glasses and spectacles because it is so convenient a projection for that purpose. As the logical place for glasses to rest, it has been utilized as such a resting place because there is no alternative. When the eyes arc weak the nose must help them by sacrificing some of its own comfort, and in the case of specta cles the ears too must take a share in the responsi bilil v. In the case of persons forced to aid their ab normal visions with lenses, the nose on which the lenses depend to be held in position, can hardly be a thing of beauty, for the glasses invariably leave their marks on it. Utility is so far preferable to beauty, however, in a matter-of-fact way. that the nose should have no sneeze coming because it is not perfect so long as it is fulfilling what is probably one of its intended purposes. At any rate, a person who uses the nose with which to support glasses is more estimable than one who uses it through which to talk or sing. Governor-elect Brumbaugh's popularity is not confined to the hordes of office-seekers who are pursuing him. They are trying to make it look now as though some body bought "Uncle Joe" Cannon's re-election. Perhaps his constituents were a bit too eager to give the old man another lii.ng before he dies. Cole Blease terminated his career as governor of South Carolina by an act for which he deserves more credit than for anything else he did during his entire administration. Me refer to his decision to resign five days before the expiration of the term for which he was elected. Princeton is not likely to let the "string" attached to Mrs. Sage's gift of $250,000 operate in a way to prevent the university getting the money. The "string" is the requirement that a like amount be raised by the university by July 1, and already $75,000 of it has been produced. At last Colonel "Bill" Fairman. of Punxsutawney, Pa., has "got there," —at least part way. His name has been sent to the United States Senate to be postmaster of his town, albeit it has been hung up in the Senate. When President Wilson went into oflice two years ago Colonel "Bill," posing as the Wilsonian champion in Pennsylvania, set sail for appointment as Minister to Panama, Dahomey, Bagdad or some other place on or off the map, but failed to land. Two weeks ago the Colonel was in Harrisburg at tired in his SI,OOO mink pelt overcoat on his way to Washington to "get that job." He now has the appoint ment, subject to confirmation, to hand out the mail in Punxsutawney, and advices from that village are that half a dozen aspirants for the place are just "hoppin' mad." TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN AS USUAL True enough, but Mr. Huerta, who refused to fire +he salute, was fired. —Life. WOETH A TRIAL Perhaps if Senator Lodge wouldn't worry so much about Mexico's future he would have more time to give to sub jects that are before the Senate for consideration.—lndi anapolis Xews. WHY HE SIGHED Husband —"What has become of my meerschaum pipe!" Wife—"Well, my dear, it was getting awfully discol ored, so I gave it a coat of white enamel."—Exchange. MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS Mrs. Newlywed—"l want a cook, but she must be capable." Head of Employment Ageney—"Madam, I have several on my books capable of anything."—Judge. MAKING HIM "Mr. Moneybags, what are you going to make of your son?" v "I can't make anything of him, but he's got a girl who's making a monkey of him."—Buffalo Express. FIRED, ALL RIGHT The critics of President Wilson's withdrawal of the troops from Mexico remind us the demanded salute which was to wipe out the insult to the flag has never been fire. "Yes," replied the man with the ancient silk hat. "I'm ready to vote for it. But I can't help hoping that there'll be a deadlock or an investigation or something to caused the usual delay."—Washington Star. CHILDREN STRONB Saae children catch we aikaeat after another, kare celds after colds, while other children are seUaai sick If yoar children are pale or frail, if they catch caida easily, lack am. bitioM or are backward in achool, they need SCOTTS EMULSION which is rich in the food dements t* create food blood to strengthen their bodies and brains—SCOTT'S EMULSION is free from al- Ax cohol or habit forming drags. CHILDREN RELISH IT. REFUSE SUBSTITUTE* A '// | Tongue- End Topics | When New York Banned Masquerades One hundred and five years ago to day the New York City Common Coun cil parsed au ordinance prohibiting mssked balls on the ground that they would tend to a ' 'subversion of all just and honorable discrimination of character and wcro calculated to en courage the profligate to seduce the youth of both sexes and promote li centiousness and disorder." The Com mon Council was moved to this act be cause a report had come to its ears that a certain tavern was about to give a masked ball—the first in the citv. In the Days of the "City Assembly" There was at that time a celebrated dancing club called the "City Assem bly," which danced at the City hotel. Broadway and Cedar street. A very exclusive social organization, a remote predecessor of the "Four Hundred," it expended its energies on the cotillion, the "pigeon wing," the "double shuf fle" and the ''Highland fling;" but the now French influence that had be gun to invade the staid Knickerbocker spirit had put new ideas in the heads of the "City Assembly." Of all oc casions, a masked hall to be a success, according to the Common Council then, demanded a clever company so cially. The participants should be gifted in conversation and witty and humorous oi there was great danger that such an occasion would degenerate into an "brgv. The Anglo-Saxon was not by nature a conversationalist, it was contended, and for that one reason the masked ball would never be a so cial success. 700 Dance Hails in New Yofk To-day To-day the American people are the greatest dancers in the world. Accord ing to estimates by sociological investi gators, 80 per cent, of the men and women who get married are first at tracted to e.ai-li other' through the dance. In the winter of 1913-11 m®e than 700 public dance halls were li- censed in New York and 011 their floors an nverage of 70,000 persons danced every night. In every city, town and hamlet in the country an almost equal interest in dancing was manifested, for more than a million people spend their evenings on the dancing floor. Trying to Standardize Dances In C'le\ciand. Chicago, Detroit, St Louis and Milwaukee .the licensed dance hall has become a source of reve nue to the cities. This dance craze is attributed to the growth of cities with their intense social hunger and to the evolution of stage dancing as exempli fied in half a dozen dancing stars of genius. Within the last year co-opera tive efforts have been made to stand ardize the dance throughout the coun try by means of moving pictures. The etiquette of the dance, with all of its proper evolutions, its clutch, the space between the partners, as practiced in West Point, Annapolis, Newport and in many church societies, is being thrown on the screen before the eyes of every social class. In many places the danc ing inspector has become a most re sponsible officer of the law to see that dancing is conducted with proper de corum. Special for January Only A beautiful Hound Lace Table Cover with your purchase of one pound of Baking Powder for 50 cents. Free dem onstration Saturday. Come in and en joy a cup of the world's best mountain grown coffee, Flarrona. Grand Union Tea Co., 208 N. Second St. GETTYSBURG VS. MIHLEXBIRG Former Initiates Basketball Season With a Victory Gettysburg, Jan. 15. —Gettysburg opened her basketball season in her home floor last night bv meeting the conqueror of Penu, Muhlenburg. By the score of 40 to 22 defeat was admin istered to the Muhlenburg quintet. The contest wad fast and ex.iting, many fast play 9 being pulled ofT which brought the house down. At the end of the first half the score stood 22-8 in favor of Gettysburg, but Muhlen burg came back strong and tried haTd to overcome the lead, but unsuccess fully. For Gettysburg, Campbell was the shining lignt. while Hubbard was the chief scorer for Muhlenburg. The nert game at home will be with Al bright on January 21. The line-up: Gettysburg. Muhlenburg Mabaffie F Hubbard Williams P.,,. l>iffenbauch Campbell <J Ritter Turinbull G Gastin Heler G . . Detling Substitutions Montgomery for Campbell, L. Steheffer for Williams, Bos tock for Mehaflie, 'Hayes for Gastin. Goals from floor—Mehaflie, 3; Wil liams, 3; Campbell, 9; L. Scheffer, Montgomery, 1; Bitter, Gasin, 2; Det ling. Foul goals—iMehaffie, 6 out of 11; Hubbard, 14 out of 27. Referee, McConnell, Time of halves, '2O minute*. EVANGELIST MILLER TELLS HEARERS ABOUT 4EHEIIH Exhorts Christian People to Imitate Example Set By Biblical Hero in Rebuilding Walls of Jerusalem in Face of Opposition Mechanicsburg, Jan, 15.—Again a lajigo congregation gathored in the tab ernacle last evening, the fourth night of tho meetings. The opening prayer was offered by W. F. Whiteonfb, ot Harrisburg, and the Rev. F. B. Km menheiser, of Shireuianstown, read the scripture lesson. The special music in cluded » trombone solo by Prof, lioh gatt, a vocal solo, "When He Died Foir Me," by Miss Oreo. Mr. Miller preached on Nehemtah, likoujng his great work in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, in spite of indifference aud opposition within and without, to the work of the Christian in such a cam paign as the present one. He urtged the Christian people of Mechanicsburg, when asked to do other things in place of this work of leading the lost back to God, to give Neliemiah's answer: "I am doing a great work and 1 can not come down.'' He said in part: "You -will get the hundreds or thou sands of sonlq you have been praying tor when you have the spirit of Ne hemiah, and of the people of Jerusalem who 'had a mind to work.' The fact that there were 7,500 churches in the United States that did not have oue convert last year is an insult to God. It there were only one Christian in the world to-day, and that Christian would save one soul in one year, and caeh soul so saved would save one other soul in one year, and so on, in thirty two years all the sinners would be swept into the kingdom." Evangelist Miller closed with the story of the collie dog who, at her master's word, left her babies and went out to 'battle with the storm for hours to And the one lost sheep, and caine home to her babies at last to die —but' bringimg the lost sheep home. In the perfect silence which followed"tho clijnax of this story, the evangelist a.p pealed to all Christians who would go out after the lost to rise and many te spouded. The congregation was then dismissed, and the Christians present remained a few minutes, for a last heart-to-heart talk from Mr. Miller. Yesterday moruiiig Evangelist Miller and party visited the high school. They were accompanied by several clergymen of the town. The chapel exercises were Conducted by the visitors. After Scrip ture reading and prayer by the local IMr. Miller introduced his assistants. Prof. Hohgatt played a solo on the slide trombone, accompanied by Miss L'ree on the piano. Prof. Hohgatt and Miss Cree also sang with great fervor and beauty, two sacred songs. Mrs. Bowman recited a poem encourag ing to high endeavor, iir. .Miller made a short address. It was heard with attention by the ctudents. He im pressed the fact that our young people are just entering upon life and that an eternity of happiness or misery will be theirs," as they shall choose. He invited all to attend tiie taber nacle meetings as frequently as uey can and suggested that next Friday be High school night when the s uool shall attend in a body. He said they may decorate in school colors, siug school songs and give school yells. Prof. Hoh gatt then taught the schawl a spocial veil, during which there was some mer riment. It is understood that the school will accept the invitation to attend in a body next Friday. They will prob ably follow the suggestion that they invite the Dills'burg High school to ac company them to the tabernacle. To-morrow afternoon a great chil dren's meeting will be held in the tab ernacle, preceded by a parade of the children. To-morrow evening the chil dren "booster chorus" will occupy the places of the regular chorus choir and lead the congregational singing. WARSHIP GROUNDS. SAVES BOAT Louisiana Runs Ashore to Avoid Strik ing Crowded Ferry Norfolk, Va., Jan. 15.—The battle ship Louisiana stuck her nose in the mud flats off Berkley in Norfolk har bor early yesterday to avoid a collision with the crowded ferryboat Kockawav. The two vessels met almost in mid stream in the Elizabeth rivA- and ex changed signals. They were misunder stood and passengers on the forward end of the ferryboat rushed to the oth ed end, believing a collision was immi nent. The Louisiana suddenly changed her course and headed for the Berkley shore. The Rockaway escaped unhurt. The Louisiana struck bottom, but got off without any damage with the assist ance of one tug. She is now at the Norfolk navv vard. RAILROAD'S DEFICIT GROWS Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton's In-1 creases to $3,814,491 New York, Jan. 15. —The reiport oft the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton ' Railway Company, for the year ended ! June 30, 1914, shows that the deficit of the company during the fiscal year , was increased from $1,643,066 to $3,-j 814,491. Operating revenues for the year were $ 10,0(84,217, as compared with $lO,- 071,297 in the year previous, with net operating revenues of $346,376, against $2,009,307 in 1913. The oper ating deficit was $118,232, as compar ed with an operating surplus of sl,- 578,887 in the year previous, while the net income of the conitpeny was $94,- 260, against $1,736,324. MRS. T. J. DILLON DEAD IN FIRE Widow of Irish Leader in America Perishes in Ireland London, Jan. 15.—Mrs. Dillon, widow Dr. Thomas J. Dilloh, of Bos ton, who was a leader of the Irish Na tional movement in the T'nited States, was burned to deat'h Wednesday night at her home in County Kildare, Ire land. Mrs. Dillon's eldest son found his mother lying across the open kitchen fire. Morton to Oppose Lanuis Harry G. Morton, a former member of Common Council, has announced that he will oppose Alderman A. M. Landis of the Sixth ward, at the Republican primaries this year. Many People In This Town never really enjoyed a meal until ,we advised them to take a tablet' 3 | before and after each meal. Sold only | by us—2sc a box. lieorge A. Gorgaa. II UADIfC fL Cny Fourth and v Vlb IvlAnlw ft vUll| Market Sts. CLEARANCE SALE $12.50 Balmaccan Overcoats. $8.75. (Only 2to sell.) $16.50 English Model Suits, $lO. (25 to sell.) i sls Black Silk Paced Overcoats, $9/50. (3 left to sell.) $25 Tartan Check Hail Scliaffner & Marx Suits. sls. (4 patterns, 20 in all to sell.) . , S4O Marmot Lined Overcoats, Persian Lamb Col lar. $23.50. (Only 2 left.) ! $lB Sunproof Blue Serge Suits, $11.50. (14 to sell.) S3O Silk Yoke Double Breasted Hart Scliaffner & Marx Overcoats, $16.50. (2 to sell.) $5 to $7.50 Short Storm Pea Jackets, $1.50. (Only 7 left; sizes 35, 36.) $75 Musk rat Lined Overcoat, Persian I jamb Col lar, $37.50. (Only Ito sell.) ! S3O Braid Bound Suits (Hart Scliaffner & Marx), $16.50. (Only 2to sell.) S3O and $35 Quilted Satin Lined Persian Collar Over coats. $18.50. (8 to sell.) Any Shirt in the house including Full Dress Tango, Plaited, 1 •> stiff fronts (silks excepted) 95^ Imported Silk Ties, very swell sjtvles; fomier price SI.OO, now " 55^ $5 to $6.50 "Jumbo" Knit Sweaters, now $3.50. R (Only 9 to sell.) About 100 Fancy Vests, $2 to $5 values, at 99^ LADIES' FUR DEPARTMENT 1 1 Beaver Set; former 3 Red Fox Sets: former tj price SOS, now . . .$35 price $25, now $12.50 ■ 2 Black Wolf Sets; for- , Alolo Sot . fonnn . prit . o mer price $lB, jimv SSO, now $28.50 1 Black Lynx Set; former 1 ~k Sot: fornipr l"" 1 '^ I price $75, now .. $45 u,nv S 4B § 1 Hudson Seal and Er- 1 Pointed Fox Set; for- E mine Set; former price mer price $75, now S7O, now $39.50 ?f5 13 Black Fox Sets: former | Many Sets to close out H price $25. now $13.50 II regardless of cost. BARGAINS ALL OVER THE STORE | .■!U!_■ im _ . : RECEPTION ON HER 101 ST BIRTH DA Y .. /M mm, f JULIA A CONK LINO AND liEl? NEIGhBOKMOOD , DECORATED FOf? '' HE IS lOI'J BIRTHDAY PASTY Herewith is shown Mrs. Julia A. Conkling. of New York, who had a birth day party recently. It was given by the immediate members of her family and hundreds of the neighbors. One hundred and one candles were on the cake made by Mrs. Conkling's great-granddaughter, Miss Edna \\ Colliding. Mrs. Conk ling, in full possession of her faculties, had a smile for ail who went to shako her hand and greet her. Iler husband and all her children are dead. There were four generations at the home of Mrs. Adelina Conk ling. Mrs. Conkling's daugh ter-in-law, where the birthday celebration was held. The houses in the neigh borhood were decorated with the Stars and Stripes, the occupants anxious t<> pay homage to the centenarian. All day a stream of callers paid their respects to Mrs. Conkling, who, seated in an armchair, seemed less fatigued at the end of the day than did others of her family. 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