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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE
now IL Game to Be Placed Under the
Treasury Department.

lhe United States revenue cutter
service is military arm of the gov.
eIhmeht attached to and under the di.
pectlon Of the Treasury Department.
Inc service was organized in 1890 and
CONSTRUCTED the original naval force Of
the country. There was at that t;me
no navy department, and the service
was placed under the Treasury Depart
ment, where it has remained ever since,
lt is charged with the enforcement of
the navigation and customs laws Of
the United States, the assistance of
vessels IN distress, the protection of
ehe sealing industry in Alaska. the en-.
1orcement of the quarantine laws tho
destruction of .derelicts and other float.
ing dangers to navigation and numer.
Gus oVher duties appropriate to its class
OF vessels Each winter, bv direction
Oh uhe president, a number of the emf.
tets patroi the coast for the special pur-
pose OF assisting vessels in distress
Ine service co.operates with the
navy when directed by the President
and has co-operated in every war in
winch the United States has been on.
gagged. 1t is sometimes called the revp.
nue. marine service, but revenue cutter
service is the proper name. There are
80 cutters in the service and thev car.
Iy from one to five or six guns each
Philadelphia Press.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Central and STEGLTON
ARE READY FOR Bic CAME
Local Schools Toughest Opponent This
Season Here Tomorrow for Contest
in Scholastic Series-Kickoff at 3
O'clock

Ancient and honorable opponents,
Steelton and Central High, will engage
in football duel on the grounds of the
TriState club tomorrow afternoon. The
kickoff is scheduled for o'clock 1t
will be the first big game of the sea
soE
Both schools are preparing cheering
squads and Central High has engaged
the Commonwealth band to head pa
rade of students and later play at the
game. Cheer leaders will have charge
of the noise. The Central High section
will be on the stands at the east side
of the field while the supporters of the
opposition will be on the opposite. The
island gridiron has been laid out paral-
lei with the left field bleachers, making
it better for the spectators.
Although Steelton fell before Leb-
anon. a team that was roundlv licked
by Harrisburg on Saturday, fans are
looking forward to a close game, Steel
ton S reversal of form in the Tech game
demonstrating that the blue and White
team is not as weak as at first mag
ined. Either Tech is overrated or Steel
ton has a fast coming team.
Central s opponents this season have
been rather weak and uninteresting
games have resulted, but the local
eleven realizes in Steelton foe worthy
of a great effort and that effort is be
ing put forth Light practice marked
the closing preparations in both camps.
Final scrimmage practice was held yes
terday, the players being allowed to
rest up little to-day for the strug-
gle. The game will show in a measure
how Central High compares with Tech.
The teams will start the games as fol-
IowS.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
BLOWN TO SAFETY
curious Incident of an Explosion That
Wrecked Fifty Homes

III happened that in the last month
OF the reign of Charles / certain shin
chandler of London was foolish enough
TO busy himself over a barrel of gun.
powder with lighted candle in his
hand, He paid the price of his folly.
A spark fell into the gunpowder and
the place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish Fifty houses were wrecke /
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the fifty a
mother had put her baby into its era,
die to sleep before the explosion oc.
Cured. What became of the mother
no one ever knew, but what became of
tn baby was very widely known. The
next morning there was found upon
the leads of the Church of Allhallows
young child in a cradle, baby and
cradle being entirely uninjured by the
explosion that had lifted both to such
giddl height.
1t was never learned who the child
was, but she was adopted by a gentle
man of the parish aud grew to woman
hood. She must surely all her life
have had IA peculiar interest in that
church.-Sir Walter Besant's "Lom-
dom
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
HYGIENE IN THE DESERT
our Latter Day Methods Were an Omen
Book to Moses

Nothing under the sun is new. Facts
nave proved that even the pitch which
hygiene has reached a. the present dav
was equaled and in many instances ex.
ceiled under the laws of Moses.
The particular and careful manner
In which animals are slaughtered ac.
cordlng to the laws of the Talmud is
acknowledged to-day to be the most
sanitary method possible.
Professor Koch gave to the world the
VaiuaDle results of his investigations
IN bacteriology, but several thousand
years before that the Mosaic law point.
ed out the danger to humanity from
tuberculosis in cattle, but did not for.
old poultry as food. 1t was not many
years ago that specialists discovered
that fowl tuberculosis was harmless TO
man.
The yearly exodus to The country and
seaside IS no new innovation. Moses
the great lawgiver, prescribed not onlv
'feastlng at certoin seasons of the wear
but the removal of whole families ia
great camping grounds in the open
spaces, where they could live near ia
hature.-Pearson IS Weekly.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
STATE SQUAD EN- ROUTE
Leave for Scene of Battle With Grim
son on Tomorrow

State College, Pa, Oct. 23.-The
Penn State football squad left here
yesterday morning, at 11.50, over the
Pennsylvania lines en- route to Cam
bridge. The party numbered thirty.
Coaches Hollenback, Harlow and
Mauthe; players, Captain Tobin, Half
backs Welty, Edgerton, Dippe, Full
backs Clark and Yerger, James and
Nanoun, quarterbacks; Higgins, Thorn
as, Morris and Barron, ends; Lamb,
Kraft, carney, tackles; Miller, Mellow
ell, F'leck, Locke and Sutton, guards;
Wood and Painter, centre. The first
named of each position will most likely
open the game Trainer Martin, Grad
uate Manager X. II. Smith and Manager
Neal Fleming, with Student Manager
Lord, made up the party.
The team will go by special car to
New York, where they will take sleep
ers FOR Boston. They arrived this morn,
ing and stopped at the Woodlawn Coun,
try Club. The team had light work
out yesterday morning, comprising a
signal drill, and the ends were drilled in
going down under punts. Clark and
Lamb practiced kicking most of the
forenoon. All the men are in fine con
dition, Over 2,400 students gathered
at the station to see them off.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Her Art Not Appreciated

Vanishing day at the Royal Acade-
my is always an important and inter
esting function. Canvases and panels
that have been thirsty enough to alb
sorb the oil from the whole or portions
of the pictures painted upon them
have once more tho luster of their first
painting restored by these pickme-ups.
Members of the year s hanging com
mittee are always at hand on these
occasions to consider suggestions and
complaints about their recent labors.
The chief complaint was by lady who
found her work had been hung hori-
zontally instead of vertically. Unkind
friends cautioned her that possibly it
had been accepted on the horizontal un-
derstanding.-New York Sun.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23

4 II have an end of this I'll have an
end of these foolish imaginations
And she rushed to the door and
threw it wide open. And there JUST
outside stood the butler, with knife
in one hand and candle in the other.
And when he suddenly saw Lady Ver-
non in her white nightdress, with her
hair streaming down her back, he was
so dreadfully frightened that he
dropped the candle on the floor and
rushed off down the staircase and off
to the stables, where there was horse
ready saddled and bridled. on which he
meant to have ridden away when he
had murdered Lady Vernon. And he
rode away without having murdered her
at all. and he was never heard of
again.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
"The World What We Make It"

This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it;
Though whether good or whether bad,
Depends on how we take it.
For if we scold and fret all day,
From dewey morn till even,
The world will not afford to man
foretaste here of Heaven.
This world in truths as good a world
As e'er was known to any
Who have not seen another yet,
And there are very many;
And, if the men and women, too.
Have plenty of employment,
They surely must be hard to please
Who cannot find enjoyment.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
WEIRD DREAM STORY
The Startling Vision That Saved the
Life of I,3dy Vernon

The following dream story is told in
"Phc Story of My Life, - by Augustus
j. c. Hare. The story was told to Mr..
Hare in Rome in 1870.
Lady Vernon dreamed that she saw
the butler, with a knife in one hand
and q candle in the other. crossing the
entrance hall. and she awoke with a
great start After awhile she composed
herself to sleep again, and she dreamed
she dreamed that she saw the butler.
with knife in one hand and a candle
in the other, on the middle of the stair
ease. and she awokc with great
snock. She got mp. She thought she
could not be quite well, and she took
little sal volatile. AT last she fell
asleep again. and she dreamed-she
dreamed that she saw the butler, with
q knife in one hand and a candle in
the other. standing at her bedroom door.
end she awoke in great terror and
she jumped out of bed, and she said.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
THE NAME STUCK
How the Pittsburgh Ball Club Came to
Be Called "Pirates''


The Pittsburgh ball team. commonly
called the Pirates, got that name as the
result of the kidnapping of Louis Bier
bauer, star second baseman, from the
Athletics way back in 1883 or 1889.
At that time there was working
agreement between the National League
and the old American Association by
which neither organization was permit
ted to reserve more than fifteen players
at the close of the season.
The owners of the Athletics, in the
American Association, desired to keep
sixteen of their men, but, as only fif-
teen could be legally reserved, the only
way open was to leave one name off
the list and take chance on no other
club picking up the player. According
ly the Athletic management failed to
name Bierbauer in the reserve list.
looked. But a friend of the Pittsburgh
club noted that Bierbauer s name was
missing and, as Louis was much
sought player, the friend told Horace
Phillips, manager of the Pittsburgh
club Phillips proceeded to Erie, Pa,
where Louis passed the winter months
at his home.
Bierbauer was willing to listen, a
tempting offer was made, and when
Phillips returned he brought with him
the player s signed contract for the fol
lowing season. The whole procedure
was perfectly regular, under the rules.
and Bierbauer played in Pittsburgh
for many years, but the manner of his
capture caused no end of talk in the
baseball world, and one Philadelphia
writer referred to the affair as an act
of "piracy' on the baseball seas. The
Pittsburghers were promptly named
the "Pirates, and the title has stuck.
Kansas City Star.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
THE SONGS OF OTHER DAYS
Selected By J. HOWARD VERT
"The Style in Which It's Done"

Now has it.nev'r occurred to YOU
How strange the mystery seems,
That the girls can dash long Chest nut
street,
Who scarce are in their 'eens
Their pas are poor, but still they dress,
In style that's number one
But | suppose it depends upon
The style in. which it's done.
The politician mounts the stand,
And makes great hurrah;
When another man will mount the stand
And point out every flaw.
He gets the nomination,
And for Congress he does run,
He succeeds and laughs to think he
knows
The style in which it's done.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23

This world were quite pleasant world
In rain or sunny weather
IF people would but learn to live
In harmony together;
And cease to burst the kindly bond
by love and peace cemented,
And learn that best of lessons vet
To answer be contented.
Then were this world pleasant world
And pleasant folks were in it,
The day would pass most pleasantly
To those who thus begin it;
And all the nameless grievances
Brought on by borrowed troubles
Would prove rs certainly they are
| A mass of empty bubbles.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
No. BOG.

[ stand before you once again,
A few words just to say;
The subject of my song, I'm sure,
You meet with ev'ry day
Some live fast and others slow,
AS though this world we run;
But so very much depends upon
The style in which it's done.
Some think it but a simple matter
Just to steal kiss
Now what some consider harmless,
Others reckon much amiss.
Some treat it as an insult,
Some consider it great fun;
But so very much depends upon
The style in which it's done.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
The Minister Was Puzzled

At marriage service performed
some time ago in a little country
church in Georgia when the minister
said in a solemn tone, wilt thou have
this man to be thy welded husband2"
instead of the woman answering for
herself, a gruff man IS voice answered.: ::
~ will'
The minister looked up, very much
perplexed, and paused. He repeated
the sentence, and again the same gruff
voice answered, 81 will -
Again the minister looked up sur
prised, not knowing what to make of
it, when one of the groomsmen at the
end of the row said:
''She is deaf. | am answering for
her. ''-Lippincott's
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Amends

" Would you believe it now, Miss
Sparks?' said the genial stout young
man as he' mopped his brow. "I
weigh all of $50 pounds
Miss 5. (sighing)-''I suspected as
much just now when we were dancing
and you stepped on my foot -
G. S. Y. M.-''Oh, I'm sorry.
Please forgive me. The very first thing
in the morning I'll go on diet. -
New York Post.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
MONARCIIS
shawkex Gets License to Wed

Philadelphia, Oct, 23.-Robert Shaw
key, Connie Mack S young twirler, who
pitched the last game in tthe recent
world series, obtained license yes.
terday to marry Mrs. II. Mason Clapp,
who obtained great notoriety in her
troubles with her former husband Mrs
Clapp, since her divorce, has been liv-
ing under her maiden name, Marie G.
LAX ier,
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Federals, Attracted t.6nn nnn

chicago, Oct. 23.-Clubs of the FeI
eral League played to 100000 per.
sons last season, according to state.
ment made yesterday by James A. Git
more, president of the league, before
ms departure for New York to attend
the annual meeting, which was held to
day. Charles II. Weeghman, president
OF the Chicago Club of the Federal
League; W. NJ. Walker, a stockholder
IN the Chicago Club, and Lloyd Rick,
ert, secretary of the league, planned to
go east with President Gilmore.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Worse Than Retribution

''Pa, is retribution the worst thing
a man can have?'
"No; it ism t half as bad as the feel
ing a man is likely to have after he
has confessed and then become con
vinced that he would not have been
found out if he had kept quiet. =
Chicago Record d-Herald.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Weeghman After the Cubs

Cincinnati, Oct.2 3.-Charles Weegh-
man, president of the Chicago Federal
League Club, held a conference here
yesterday with Charles P. Taft, owner
of the Chicago National League team.
That possible purchase by Mr.. Weegh.
man of Mr.. Taft s interest in the Chi,
cago Nationals was discussed was ad-
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Unbidden Guest

Mrs. Uptyump Ito hostess)-"T That
grizzly faced brute standing over there
at the door had such poor taste as to
refuse TO get me glass of water.
Surely You don t intend to invite such
man to your recepton2'
Mrs. Hostess Don t fret, my dear
/ didn't invite him. He is my hus-
band. &C aumet.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Archer Says 1T Was All a Mistake

Chicago, Oct. 23.-Jimmy Archer,
Cub catcher, and George f. Wolfson,
whom he assaulted at city series game
because the catcher thought Wolfson
was trying to fiirt with Mrs. Archer,
agreed yesterday that "it was all a
mistake Archer said he might have
been mistaken and Wolfson did not
prosecute when the case was called
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Originality

Patienee-And You say she came
near drowning?
Patrice-Oh, yes, but just as she
came up for the fifth time man
But | thought person only came
up three times9''
"Oh, well, you might know she d do
something that nobody else would do,'
" onkers Statesman.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
ATTICKS HELPS MoNARoHs
Sets Three Season Marks in Match OIL
Casino Alleys

The Monarchs won from the Or
pheums in the Casino League series last
evening on the Casino alleys by mar
gin of lis pins. Atticks set three rec
ords, getting seven straight strikes, roll
ing 244 for high game and 627 for
three games. The score:
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Entitled to II

The small boy was seeing, for the
first time, picture of Atlas support
ing the earth. After looking at it for
a minute he turned to his father and
asked, 'Whv doesn't he take his
base!"
What do you meant"
Don t you know the rule, pop, when
man has been hit by pitched
ball ?'-Puck.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Beck Tigers Want Games

7 Tie Beck Tigers would like In ar.
range games with the Fornev and Lin.
com com erammar school team to play for
eIeS honors. Address Charles Beck
1888 Walnut street.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
Flattering

Wag-I like your new play, old man.
Author-I'm glad of that. When did
you see it?
Wag-Oh, | haven t seen it, but the
title looks jolly on the busses-London
Opinion.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-23
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mltted, but further than this no am
houncement was made as to the result
of the conference.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16

rye, 1928, 000 900 bushels, / per cent
decrease; barley, 1924, 900, 900 bushels.
~ per cent increase; oats, 4,57l,-
600, 900 bushels, 2.3 per cent increase:
corn, 3,044, 000,0 600 bushels, 1.8 per cent
decrease.
The countries included are Austria.
Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain.
France, Great Britain and Ireland,
Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Neither
lands, Roumania, Russia in Europe
(63 governments), Switzerland, Can
ada, United States, India, Japan. Rus
STA in Asia (ten governments), Algeria
and Tunis.
Total production of cleaned cotton
was 1926, 600, 600 pounds, 81 per cent
more than last year in the United
States, India, Japan, and Egypt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
DUPED OF 1929, 900, 900.

Washington, Jan. A loss of $780,
600, 900 in two years by the unsuspect-
ing public through fraudulent use of the
mails has stirred the postal authorities
to renew their efforts to deny the mail
ing privileges to pers ms or firms whose
operations may be tainted with get
rich-quick" and other false promises.
Reliance upon the courts has proved
Ineffective, according to w. II. Lamar.
Assistant Attorney General for the Post
Office Department, whose annual report
was made public to-day.
Criminal proceedings are necessarily
slow" says the report, land by means
of appeals and other methods the execu-
ton of sentence is deferred for long
periods, during which the concerns and
individuals engaged in such fraudulent
businesses continue to reap harvest.
In some instances, the penalty being
merely fine, there was nothing to pre-
vent the parties from continuing to con-
duct their schemes except fear of subse-
quent fines. These they could easily af-
ford to pay in view of the large revenues
derived from the business.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
TO BURN CALIFORNIA OIL ALL
OVER WORLD.

San Francisco, Dec. 20. California
oil will be used as fuel by the largest
and most important fleets of merchant
vessels in the world as a result of the
sale of the General Petroleum company
to the Western Ocean Syndicate, ac-
cording to R. Tilden Smith, English
financier, and Andrew Weir, English
shipping magnate, visitors in this city
The visitors have disclosed the fact
that Lord Pirrie, executive head of the
firm of Harland & Wolf, largest ship
builders in the world, is a member of
the Western Ocean Syndicate, and that
his associates control the famous Diesel
patents for crude oil motor vessels.
They also say that the syndicate is seri-
ously considering plans for the estab-
lishment in San Francisco Bay and
some other California harbor of big
plant to build Diesel motor vessels for
the American coastwise trade.
One of the largest Diesel motor YES
sells, the Siam, will save 500, 900 between
San Francisco and England, via Cape
Horn, by burning oil instead If coal.
The Siam. which has tonnage of 10,
600. would consume $420 worth of coal
day, while it can be driven with oil
for sos day.
California oil is the best in the world
for the Diesel motors, according to
Smith and Weir. They predict that a
tremendous market will be created with
the predicted increase in the number OF
motor vessels.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
$4,000 IN JEWELS STOLEN.

Plainfield, N. j., Jan. While the
family of ex-State Senator Ernest R.
Alderman was at dinner last evening
in the Alderman home at West Eighth
and Liberty Streets, Mr.. Alderman
was puzzled at the sound of a door
banging upstairs and, wondering how
window came to be open with such a
gale blowing, he went upstairs to in
vestgate. The open window was one
giving on the roof of the veranda in
front and the disarray of the room told
that thieves had just gone that way.
Mr.. Alderman hurried to the tele-
phone and called the police, but by the
time the search was taken up the thieves
were far away, probably speeding in
the automobile the fresh tracks of which
were found in front. Gone from the
ransacked room were $l5, 900 in Jewels
and several hundred dollars in cash.
Mr.. Alderman was congratulating him
self to-day that his most cherished
possession, his stamp collection, was in
safety deposit vault at the time of the
robbery. This collection, one of the two
or three finest in the world, has been
years in building and has been exhibited
here and abroad. -