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Mailed to subscriber? tat Three Dollars a /ear in advance * THE STARTKDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Honu Circulation in Harrisburg anu *earby towns Circulation Examinee by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES BELL"" Private Branch Exchange, No. 3280 _ . _ „ CUMBtKLAND VALLEY P™w«toßranchExclianga, ... No. Z4S-246 Thursday, February 11, 1015. FEBRUARY 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 MOON'S PHASES— Lasf Quarter, 7th; New Moon, 13th; First Quarter, 21st. r WEATHER FORECASTS /" Harrisburg and vlnicitv: Fair and GjTKgj warmer to-night and Friday. Lowest temperature to-night about 40 degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair and warmer to-night and Friday. Fresh d south winds. I » V YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 32; lowest, 14; 8 a. m., 14; 8 p. m., 27. » SPARE THE POOR BRIDEGROOM! Perhaps Representative Lee Smith, of Fayette county, has a good reason for wanting to make it cost more for couples to get married in Pennsyl vania, but, so far as we have learned, he has not as yet confided it lo the public. Perhaps he will do so when—or if—the House gives serious considera tion to his bill requiring the Clerk of the Orphans' Court to receive S'2.(JO for every marriage license issued instead of SI.OO as now, but until he does trot out some convincing reason for increasing the high cost of getting married we must conclude that he wants to put an unfair handicap on the operations of the little god of Love. Of cnurse a dollar more or less will hardly stand in the way of a youth contemplating matrimony. When a fellow gets his heart set on marrying he generally goes ahead and does it, whether it costs one dollar or two. Our American youths, especially in the happy state of bridegrooms-about-to-be, are just that earnest about getting married that they don't care how much it costs. Or, even if they do figure the expense, they can go to Hagerstown, get the knot tied at bargain rates and enter the cost of the railroad trip on the debit side of the honey moon expense account. Yet while an extra dollar may not reduce the number of marriages, is it fair to take advantage of a youth, in the blissful state of love, who doesn't stop to think of expense? Prospective bridegrooms are a helpless lot. They are living in a carefree state up among the clouds where things financial never enter their brains. Yet they are a noble band who deserve protection against financial im positions during their temporary state of love-sick irresponsibiliy. Indeed this is if time when the State, rather than to force prospective*"husbands to dig further into their pocketbooks, should pass a law to help them conserve their funds. Those dollars will come in very handy in a couple of years when the bills begin to come in for pasteurized milk and pacifiers. If the idea of Mr. Smith's measure is merely to increase the public revenues, —which we are told will not be sufficiently large to meet the various law-makers' demands for their pet appropriations, •—he ought to find another way of doing it. For heaven's sake don't let us take that extra dollar out of the poor defenseless bridegroom! Just to show just how unselfish we are in this mat ter we are willing, if Mr. Smith will withdraw his measure, to advocate that a per capita tax of ten per cent, be placed on the salaries of editors which exceed SIO,OOO a year. OPENING OF RUSSIA'S GRANARIES There is promise that the Allies will be able to relieve much of their own privation in the report which came yesterday from London that it was decided at the conference in Paris of the Ministers of Finance of Great Britain, France and Russia to sell and convey to Western Europe the great sup plies of cereals now stored away in Russia's gran aries. The plan is to carry the food by rail to Arch> . angel; on the White Sea, and to Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan, from which ports it can be shipped to Western Europe. The supplies will have many miles to travel over land, but the Russian govern ment has promised to make bargain rates for the occasion. The crops in Siberia are abundant, and the low cost of food in the Empire, together with reduced, rates for transportation, should be the / s _ 1 ■ II II I S \ ••' ' ." ' • ' ' ' ' V' \ * x ' . •v- "*'■■' • .. ■•' ; ■ v " v; ;"v ■■;" • > /}. \'* * ' --; v •; \•; .. HAttPTyRTrrm STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1915. means of providing England, France and Belgium with grain at very reasonable prices. The ports from which it is proposed to ship the food are icebound at this fieason of the year, it appears, so that the Allies cannot expect immediate relief through Russia by the suggested method. The grain can be transported to the seaboard towns, however, and be held there in readiness for ship ment when the ports open at the approach of warm weather. Wheat has been in abnormal demand in Europe because the usual supplies from the Black Sea ports have been cut off. There is plenty of the grain in Russian store houses, however, for Russia's crops of wheat are larger than this country's. The trou ble has been that the food has been kept in storage while multitudes have tyeen in waut. The release of the grain, even though it may not at once benefit the war sufferers, will no doubt be the means of preventing starvation in the future. And, of course will relieve this country of some of* the responsi bility of the feeding of Europe which it has been undertaking. The statement from Rome that Italy's military preparations may now be regarded as terminated, points to the unlikelihood of that country's inter vention in the war, unless of course a contingency not yet anticipated arises. The season is not favor able for an Italian entrance into the conflict, and certainly the present war situation gives no prom ise of changing very suddenly. What may happen later depends largely on whether fti.v of the bel ligerents tread on the toes of Europe's boot. The disinclination of Italy to plunge into the fight has surely changed the aspect of things some what. The German Admiralty had been led to hope for the aid of Italy's fleet in the Mediterranean, judging from the assurances of the Berlin foreign office before the war that the co-operation of the kingdom could be expected if hostilities broke oiit. It is not clearly explained how Italy's hostile atti tude toward Austria was reconciled at the time with the expectations of the German foreign office. Italy evidently is partial, but it had better, for its own good, remain peaceful. It is not being compelled to fight, and had better rest its interests with diplomacy than with war. It has had enough of trouble with its earthquake. It is easy enough to introduce an appropriation bill but not always so easy to have it passed. It looks as though the anti-junket bill will be buried in committee, at least until the junkets are over. Instead of making it cost more to get married, as pro posed by a bill before the Legislature, they ought to pass a law make it cost more to remain a bachelor. The Legislative committees that are to handle the ex travagant charities appropriation bills will have an oppor tunity to swing the axe on them and save Governor Brum baugh the trouble. < Those inclined to criticise the national law-makers for all-night filibusters at least must concede the Washington solons put in longer working hoofs than the recess-loving members of the Pennsylvania Legislature. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN ON THE CORNCAKE LINE If wheat keeps on soaring, the bread line may presum ably have to be changed to the potato line, or to the spa ghetti line, or the bean line. —Kansas City Journal. THE HAEPOON IN THE DRAWING ROOM "The whaling industry is dead." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "Throwing the harpoon! is now classed as an indoor sport."—Washington Star. ADVANTAGE OF HAVING WINGS "I would I were a bird," she sang. "I would you were," said her husband. "You would go south for the winter without its costing me anything." I —Life. HOW HE DOES IT "Jones is making money fast these days. How does he | do it!" "The time he used to put in kicking about being poor he's now putting in working to get rich."—lndianapolis I Star. BY WAY OF SUGGESTION Jack —"You and Kitty seem to prefer billiards to I bridge." « Tom —"Yes; every time the balls kiss we follow their example."—Boston Transcript. * LIBERALLY INTERPRETED Teacher —"Katherine, what do you know about the orchid familyt" Katie —"Please, miss, mother has forbidden us to in dulge in any family gossip."—Boston Transcript. THREE THINGS IMPOSSIBLE "Just a word." "Weill" "Bo you think you could ever learn to love met" "No,' said the girl, "nor limburger cheese, nor spa-1 ghetti."—Louisville Courier-Journal. WOMAN'S ADVANTAGE "Women have all the best of it." "How now?" "A woman will drink two coojitails, cat a lobster and a hunk of plum pudding, and then blame her headache on her nerves and get away with it."—Pittsburgh Post. CHANGE IN PETTICOATS Fashion certainly does go from one extreme to the other with the most astonishing celerity and we learn from an authoritative source that the girls are even now engaged in leaping from their present' meagre surroundings right into three petticoats apiece.—Columbus Journal. THE MUSICIAN'S TASK ' "I call your attention to a most exhausting performance over near the piano." "What do you mean J" "One lone man is trying to hold up his end of the con versation against three women."—Birmingham Age-Herald. LEGACIES Lives of famous mon remind us We may make our lives sublime. And departing leave Behind us Coat tails up which they may climb. —New York Sun. ITALY'S INTERVENTION UNLIKELY Tongue-End Topics] More Game Wardens Asked tiy a bill recently introduced in the Senate tihe number of game wardens in the State is to be increased from thirty to sixty—or just doubled. The ad ditional men are needed,.it is contended, to keep watch over the game, that it is now conceded is rapidly increasing in this State. This is tlttribijtcd to a num ber of things, but chiefly to the vigor ous way in which tihe laws are enforced, particularly those forbidding the killing of any but buck deer, the forbidding of unnaturalized foreigners to carry guns and tihe closed season for game birds. Elk Increasing in State Secretary Kalbfus, of the Stato Game Commission, say« th'at t'he elk intro duced in tiliis State several years ago appear to be increasing in numbers. Four calves were reported as bom last year ami fully twice t'hat numiber are reported as iiaving\been seen. A cow elk was shot bv a Centre county farmer in his grain field and was found to be with calf. Seven elk were reported to have been killed last year. Possibly some of them were destroying crops. It is held that wild deer and elk found destroying crops may be driven off with guu« and dogs, if necessary, so long as no permanent injury is inflicted, but an irate farmer with a gun who sees wild anmiaJs destroying crops is not always going to be too careful when he shoots at the destructive animal, and he doesn't care very much whether he wounds it or kills it. * • * Reimbursing the Farmers In an orchard near Alexandria, Hunt ingdon county, wild deer ruined a thou sand trees, and the owner had no redress at law. It is proposed to use the hunt ers' license fund to reimburse farmers for damage thus done. Work of Huntingdon Reformatory The thirteenth biennial report of the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory in Huntingdon, submitted by T. B. Patton, general superintendent, is a most in teresting document concerning the workings of an institution that has done a world of good for younger crim inals in the way of working a reforma tion and fitting them to become useful citizens. At the close of the year 1914 there were 751 inmates of the Reform atory, but 1,210 had been eared for during the twelve months. Dauphin county had forty-three representatives during the year who cost tihe county $3,704.05, and Cumberland county had three at a cosii of $277.20. * »-*, Causes of Juvenile Crime Of the many reasons given by the inmates for the commission of crime.* that caused their incarceration, fifty five give no employment; 578, bad company; one, reading bad books; eigh ty-six, intemperance; five, home en vironment, and 195, ha I no excuse to offer, lu the two vears embraced in the report 35'/!. per cent, of the in mates received have served time in other institutions, and 694 of them were born in Pennsylvania. Regarding t'heir nativity, almost every country in the world is represented. There are 23S out on parole, four fi*oln Dauphhi county. All but forty of tie inmates had attended school ait some time. Of the paroled ones 117 were returned for Various causes and 476 were absolutely released by the courts. The cigarette users numbered 579 and 300 of them indulged more or less in intoxicating di inks. Restrictions on Eel Fishing Fishermen along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers are much interested in a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator McConnell, of Northumberland, regulating the use of baskets. The bill makes the open season for the tak ing of eels in such baskets from Sep tember 15 to November 20, from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 7 o'clock the next morning, and 110 eel basket shall be set in a stream known as a trout stream. No wing walls of any two eel baskets shall be within twenty feet of each other at the upper end, when side by side, or extend beyond each other at the upper end, or reach from main shore to main shore, or extend over more than three-fourths of the width of a stream, or occupy so much of the stream as to prevent the passage of canoes or boats or fish at either side of the stream, or be constructed of any other material than .loose stones. Must Destroy All Baskets No basket shall be set within a quar ter of a mile above one already legally For Pile Sufferers Holds tal troubles. In the privacy of your own home. 600 a box at all druggists. A single box often cures. Froa Mmpls for trial with booklet mailed free In plain wrapper, if you send us coupon below. FREE SAMPLE COUPON rYRAMID DRTTO COMPANY. 619 Pyramid Hldg., Marshall, Mich. Kindly send mo n Frco sample of Pyramid Pile Rauady, In plain wrapper. Name Street City State DO YOU SUFFER -FROM BACKACHE? When your kidneys are weak and torpid they do not properly perform their functions; your back aches and you do not feel like doing much of anythirg. You are likely to be dospond ent and to borrow trouble, just as if you hadn't enough already. Don't be a victim any longer. • The old reliable medicine. Hood's Karsaparilla, givos strength and tone td the kidneys and builds np the whole 3ystem. Get it to-day. Adv. located. The bottom of the basket must be made of well-rounded wooden slats. All baskets must be destroyed within one week after the closing of the legal season. No person shall operate such baskets except the owner or a member of his family or a bona fide em ploye. Besides eels the owner may catch carp, suckers or mullets, but no other fish. No basket shall be erected within a quarter of a mile-'Of any fishway, chute or opening in a dam, all raceways and mills excepted. A license must be taken out before such eel basket is con structed, the county treasurer issuing the license, but the bill does not state how much the license shall cost, if any thing. A violation of the law subjects the offender to a ifine of SSO and for feiture of all his fishing appliances and boats. PEOPLE'SCOLUm The Star-Independent doea not make Itself responsible for opinion* expressed in this column. / Lines on a Stray Kitten Editor the Star Independent: Dear Sir—After reading an article published in your journal a few days ago, in which you recited a lit'tle inci dent t'hat. occurred in my vicinity in relation to a poor, stranded little kit ten, J sat down an.d wrote off the fol lowing few stanzas: JUST A LITTLE FELINE WAIF Just a little kitten, who perhaps had strayed away. Was chased by a cur dog and ran up our alley way. She quickly climbed a pole, just fortv a j ~_f ept in height, And then that cur looked up and bark ed with all his might. He tried to climb that slippery pole. Ori mischief he was bent, kvery time he got part way up, kerflop that old cur went. i hen kitty crawled up higher and sat on a long arm That dug he oould not reach her and ®ne was free from harm. The rain came down in torrents and the sleet began to fall. When a man came walking by and lie aid poor kitty's squall. She had braved the wind and rain, just one whole day and night. In the morning she was rescued, just in a tearful plight. Then Constable Harry Emanuel soon hove in sight; Said he: "That kitty must come down, to leave her 'tis not right." They called up Mayor Royal and thus to him did say: "Please send a good pole climber and that without delay." t "He need not come on horseback; Just wear his boots and spurs. Poor kitty seems played out; they say she never stirs." Then Crozler, being an expert, soon vol unteered to go. The pole was very slippery and that lineman sure climbed slow. At last he reached poor kitty and took her in his arm. They both came down in safety and kit was saved from harm. Now all you little kittens, sure this to you I say, Just play in your bax?k yard and never run' away. MORAL That was a sad catastrophe. N'ow this you surely know. If yq*i want to climb a pole, just go a little slow. Vessels large may venture more, but little boats must keep near shore. This little kit is satisfied and sne will roam no more. Composed and written by J. R. Miller, aged 82. How to Become Rich '"My early difficulties taught me some thrift," said Mark Twain once, "but I never knew whether it was wiser to spend my last cent for a cigar to smoke or for an apple to devour." "I am astounded,'' observed a friend, "that a person with so little decision should have met with so much worldly success.'' Mark Twain bent his head gravely. ''lndecision about spending money," he said, "is worthy of cultivation. When I couldn't decide what to buy with my last cent I kept it and so be came rich." i Botanically Speaking Do you think a woman should re gnrd her husband as an oak and 'herself as the clinging ivvt" "Well," replied Miss Cayenne. "I'd rather take a chance 011 being a cling ing ivy than a wall flower."—Washing ton Star. OUCH! LUMBAGO! RUff PAINS FROM SORE, LAME BACK Rub Backache Away With Small Trial Bot tle of Old "St. Jacob's Oil" Back hurt you? Can't straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp aches and twinges? Now listen! That's lumbago, sciatica jh maybe from a strain, and you'll get relief the moment you rub your back with sooth ing, penetrating "St. Jacob's Oil." Nothing else takes out soreness, lame ness and stiffness so quickly. You simply rub it on your back and'out comes the- pain. It is harmless and doesn't burn the skin. Limber up! Don't suffer! Get a s/nall trial bottle of old, honest "St. Jacob's Oil" from any drug store, and after using it just once, you'll forget that you ever had backache, lumbago or sciatica, because your back will never hurt or cause any more misery. It never disappoints and has boen Rec ommended for 60 years,—Adv. "THE QUALITY STORE" RARE BARGAINS FOR FRIDAY EXTRA SPECIAL Our entire stock of Ladies', Misses' and Chil dren's Coats—all this season's styles are offered, without reserve—Friday at ONE-HALF PRICE. An extra lot of this season's Coats for small Ladies and Misses—regu larly $lO to sls values. Special for Fridayat $5.00 One Marmot Fur Coat—4o inches long—size 40—an elegant coat and was SBS. Special for Friday at Children's and Ladies' Sweaters— Angora and knitted styles—fine line of colors to select from. Special for Friday at ONE-FOURTH OFF. Ladies' Waists of black taffeta and brown chiffon—splendid quality and nicely made—were $3.50 to 95.00 values. Special Friday while they last at 20,000,000. Trimming The old fashioned woman who used to trim her own hat now has a daugh ter who trims her husband for her hats. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Large size double gray Cotton Blankets with neat blue, pink or gray borders—perfect in every way. Special for Friday— SI.OO values at, per pair, $1.25 values at, per pair, values at, per pair, $1.17 81x00 Bleached Seamless Sheets of medium weight—3-inch hem— even cloth—good, serviceable sheets —worth UOc. Special for Friday at Good staple Apron Ginghams In all the best styles and colore—colors absolutely fast splendid, even cloth—regularly 7c. Special for Friday at, per yard, HB-inch Unbleached Muslin, fine even cloth of medium weight. Spe cial for Friday at, per yard, 411-inch Bleached Pillow Tubing— a splendid cloth for general wear— worth lfic. Special for Friday at, per yard ll 1 /^ Men's Stiff Bosom Shirts with de tachable cuffs—neat striped and fig ured effects—an odd lot in sizes 14, and 17 only—regularly SI.OO. Special for Friday at, each, Men's 50c Colored Negligee Shirts in sises Mi, l«»g and 17 only. Spe cial for Friday at, oath, . . . 19^ Ladies' Boutounieres, little but tonhole novelties and an odd lot of neckwear—'Jsc values. Special for Friday at, each, . , 12*4* Ladies' All-Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth from '2~>c to 50c. Social for Friday at, or S for 50c. ' ' Ladies' Oh?mois-Suede Gloves in white, gray, tan and black—all sizes but not in every color—regu larly :50c. Special for Friday at, ® er pair 25c An odd lot of Corsets of such well knovai makes as Warner's, Royal Worcester, C. B. and also Ferris Waifts—regularly SI.OO to $:!.()(». Special for Friday at ONE-HALF PRICE. An odd lot of Waruer's Brassieres, worth 50c. Special for Friday at Ladies' low neck lace trimmed Chemisettes—all white, also plain tuck with flare collar—a good 25c value. Special for Friday at, each, I The Daily Fashion Hint. A smart straw hat, witli accompanying white bordered black veil. The hut is of j Milan hemp, the white flowers are of kit); ; narrow white hand and facing. Beauty I spot embroidered on veil. White crfpe de j Cliiuc tailored blouse. Not the Place "Why don't you write to this paper ; for what you want to know? The od i itor says his columns give a few wrin [ kles on every matter." "Not for mine. I want to know how to keep my complexion youthful." —Exchange. Willie—"Paw, what is flattery?" Paw —"Flattery is tolling a woman the nice things she has always thought, about herself, my son."—Cincinnati Enquirer. HEADACHE STOPS' NEURALGIA GONE Dr. James* Headache Powders Give Instant Relief —Cost Dime a Package Nerve-racking, splitting or dull, throbbing headaches yield in just a few moments to pr. .lames' Headache Pow ders which cost only 10 cents a jiackage at any drug store. It's the quickest, surest headache relief in the whole world. Don't suffer! Relieve the agony and distress now! You can. Millions of men and women have found that headache or neuralgia misery is need less. Get what you ask for. —Adv.