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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
w hite e c hri S t m a S
Bl oW s in to Make
Good Running for
Reindeer and Sleigh
COLD AND CLEAR
FOR TOMORROW
celebration of Yuletide Starts Tonight
With Exercises Around the NUM-
cipal Tree at Front and Market
Streets-Suspension of Business

Snow that began falling before 10
o clock this morning will likely ac-
eumulate on the gronnd in such guam
titles by midnight that Santa Claus
will have no trouble driving behind his
reindeer to usher in the greatest of all
holidays-Christmas
To be sure, the snow was not on the
official program of the Weather Bu-
reau, but that does not interfere with
the plans of old st. Nick when he de-
cldes ON a white Christmas, so he Just
naturally upset the calculations by
sending East piece of New Mexican
stcrm-just enough of it to cause snow
to-day and tonight. 1t will pass off
tomorrow, leaving in its place cold and
fair weather. While the lowest tenn
perature forecasted for tonight is but
twenty-five degrees, the mercury is like
ly to take such diop by tomorrow
night that December temperature rec
ords will be in danger.
There was some probability early to-
day that the snow would turn to rain
by night, but early this afternoon this
doubt seemed to have been dispelled.
The best advance information available
at the local Office Of the Weather Bu-
reau at that time was that the dry,
light snow would continue to be falling
during the celebration this evening
around the municipal Christmas tree at
Front and Market streets.
The snow did not detract one iota
from the Christmas plans of the thou
sands of busy Harrisburgers as they
added a few presents to the already
long list and prepared for the annual
mission of distribution tonight and to-
morrow. On every hand, in the stores
and on the streets, was heard this
CHEEKY greeting:
"Well, it looks as if we are going to
have white Christmas tomorrow,
To Gather at Tree Tonight
Everybody but the confirmed Crouch
believes that the snow is the proper
stage setting for a very merry Christ
mas celebration and, if anything, the
detailed plans for tomorrow are pro-
crossing more rapidly on account of
the snow.
The Christmas evening celebration
in Harrisburg will begin at $50
o clock tonight with the exercises uu
der the city's big tree at Front and
Market streets. During the evening tis-
wrapped and ribbon-bound bundles
will mysteriously appear on the streets
and in trolley cars, each one a bundle
of joy for some one.
County, city and State offices will
be closed for the day and many of
them will remain closed for Saturday.
as some of the employees cannot get
back in time for the regular routine
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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
MELVILLE Store BURNS
Fitee's Sand Cent Emporium De-
stroyed by Flames That for Time
Threaten Business Center
(special to the star-Independent.

Especial to the arIndependent.)
Newville, Pa, Dec. 24.-The 5-and-
10-cent store of S. NJ. Fitee was gutted
by fire which broke out in the second
floor of the three-story building at 10
clock last night, causing losses esti-
mated at $4,000. The building is
frame structure and the fire at one time
threatened an entire block in the heart
of the business section.
Excellent work ON the part of the
local fremen. however, prevented the
spread of the flames to the frame house
of A. NJ. Maxwell, Immediately adioin-
ing the store.
This is the second serious fire that
has visited this town within the last
thirty days. Recently the town council
decided to purchase $4,000 motor
driven chemical wagon.
The origin of last nights fire is
mystery. 1t was discovered by Mrs.
Harry Hoover who lives directly oppo-
site the Fitee store. The loss is part
ly covered by insurance.
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WALL STREET CLOSING

New York, Dec 2l.-Stocks fell
back again in the last hour on stead
lily diminishing volume of business,
Northern Pacific was then at its weak
est, selling within fraction of its
minimum. The closing was heavy. Over
score of stock, active and otherwise.
descended to their established low
prices in the course of to-day's dull
market. There was an absence of de-
mand throughout, except for occasional
short covering.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
A Missile From Hostile
Aeroplane Falls in
Garden and Explodes
Without Effect
BRITISH AIRCRAFT
GOES IN PURSUIT
Obstinate Fighting Continues Along the
Russian Front on the Left and
Right Banks of the Pilica-Petro-
grad Reports Successes

London, Dec. "a, LES P. M.-Hostile
aeroplanes dropped bomb over Dover
this morning and then disappeared ac.
eording to statement made this aft.
ernoon by the official press bureau. The
text of the statement follows:
can aeroplane of the enemy dropped
a bomb while passing over Dover this
morning. The missile fell in a garden
and exploded, but no damage was done
The aeroplane was seen for few sec.
onds only. 1t left Immediately passing
out over the sea. A British air craft
went up but did not see the enemy
again. The weather was cloudy and
foggy."
This German raid from the air on
the city of Dover is the first news of
an authentic character of any hostile
air craft visiting Great Britain. The
machine to-day came from the direction
of Deal and was flying very high. 1t
was not sighted from Dover until it
suddenly emerged from the clouds. APP
parently Dover, Castle was the objective
~sk-<ha raid, for she sson1s ti.rsxn from
the aeroplane fell in the garden in the
rear of st. James rectory which is To-
Gated in front of the castle. The win
dows in the rectory and some of the
houses Immediately surrounding the rec,
tory were broken.
Fog made easy the escape of the hos
tile airship. Immediately after he hae
dropped his bomb the pilot started
straight across the channel. Two Brit
ism aeroplanes Went up in an endeavor
to catch the raider, but the hostile
snip had too much of start and could
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
She Gets BACK LOST s505
Mrs. Filling, Through Detective White.
Receivers Money That Vanished
During Shopping Trip

Mrs. William Filling, 140s North
Sixth street, at noon to-day reported to
the police the loss of purse containing
S505.
Mrs. Filling said she believed she
was robbed while shopping in a store
on North Third street. City Detective
Harry G. White traced the purse to
home in the West End of the city and
recovered it from woman who told
him, he said, that her daughter had
found it,
Nothing had been removed from the
purse. The money was made up of
S1O5 in cash and a $400 certificate of
deposit.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
LITTLE BABY SWALLOWS LYE
Child of MIR. and Mrs. Harry McClain
In Serious Condition at Hospital

Mervin McClain, Is months old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McClain, 542
South Tenth street, to-day is in crit
ical condition in the Harrisburg hos
pital suffering from mouth and throat
burns, the result of eating a quantity
of lye last evening.
When the child screamed the moth
er snatched him up into her arms and
rushed with him to the hospital.
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JAMES A. ANDREWS TO WE'D
Manager of Harrisburg Baking Com
pany to Be Married Tomorrow

Announcement was made to-day of
the engagement of James A. Andrews,
president and general manager of the
Harrisburg Baking Company, and Miss
Josephine Henry, of Chicago, ILL., The
wedding viii take place at the home
of the bride in Chicago, at high noon
tomorrow, Christmas Day.
More than a dozen of the bride
elects school chums will be attendants
at the wedding. The honeymoon will
include trip to the seashore, New
York and Boston. The couple will be
at home. at 80 North Seventeenth
street, this city, after February l.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
HELPS YALE DEFEAT NAVY
E. J. Stackpole, Jr., of This City
Thought Injured Aids in Victory

The Yale basketball team smother
ed the Navy team at Annapolis .yester-
day by score of % to IA, the first
defeat the Academy team has sustain
ed in two seasons, and the second in
five seasons.
E. j. Stackpole, Jr., of Harrisburg,
who had been suffering from a badly
sprained ankle, was in the game for
fifteen minutes with Yale, and then
gave way to another man, the game
being as good as won. John C. Herman,
I'd, of Harrisburg, is manager of the
Yale team.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
German Aeroplane Brought Down

Paris, Dec. "a, 4.30 A. MA Ger.
man aeroplane trying to reach Paris.
says the Journal" was pursued and
brought down by the French air pa.
troll at Pontoise, 10 miles northwest of
Paris, SUNDAY.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
Amber Runs Down and Kills Man

Philadelphia, Dec. 24.-Charles A.
Ambler, of Montgomery county, candi-
date for Speaker of the State House
of Representatives, to-day ran down
and killed man named John Forsyth,
at Noble, Pa, near here, while driving
his automobile. Mr.. Amber gave him
self up to the police of Arlington town
ship, who after investigating the ac-
cident, absolved him from all blame.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
Kaiser's Son for Hungary Throne

london, Dec. "a. 3.5S 4. M.-The
Morning Posts" Petrograd cores
pondent says:
Germany is energetically pushing
the candidacy of Prince Eitel Fred
erick for the throne of Hungary. the
independence of which is expected to
be one result of the war; Prince
Eitel Frederick is the second SON of
Emperor William.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
ESSAD PASHA'S palace is
REPORTED TO BE- On FIRE

London, Dee. "a, $50 A. MA dis
patch from Durazzo, Albania, to the
1" Central News says that the palace
of Essad Pasha at Tirana has been set
afre.
Essad Pasha, always prominent in
Albanian military and political circles,
was named provisional president fol-
lowing the recent retirement of Prince
William of Wied, who had been selected
by the Powers to rule Albania. Essad
Pasha was last reported as advancing
on Scutari and it was said that he had
proclaimed holy war in Albania.
Tirana where his palace is located
is about 20 miles south of Seutari
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
Senator Dupont Under the Knife

Rochester, Mimi, Dee. Ex-senator
Henry A. Dupont, of Delaware, under
went serious operation for abdominal
trouble at st. Mary's hospital here to-
day. His condition this afternoon was
reported as satisfactory.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
Boston Nationals Get Maeee

Philadelphia, Dec. 24.-Sherwoo R.
Magee, the hardhitting outfelder of the
Philadelphia National League Club, was
to-day traded to the Boston Nationals
for cash and some players.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
NO PAPER TOMORROW

Following its usual custom, to-
morrow, Christmas Day, the Star
Independent will not be issued, the
many employees of this newspaper
being given the opportunity of
spending the day with their families.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
DYING, is ROME REPORT

Rome, Dee. PA rumor is IN cir
eulation here that Emperor Francis Jo-'
seph of Austria Hungary is dying. The
report is that the Emperor has received
the last sacraments. -.....
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-24
Coin S. Pocketbooks.
Hatpins and Other
Valuables Are Found
on Tabernacle Floor
COSTLY MESH
BAG UNCOVERED
All These Articles May Be Obtained by
the Owners After Identification
Big Supply of Coats and Um-
brellas Awaits Claimants

II you have, while attending meet
ings at the Slough tabernacle, lost any
coins hatpins, handkerehiefs, buttons,
or perchance poeketbooks, the articles
are now being recovered, for the saw
dust is giving up its treasures.
For the last day or two workmen
engaged in dismantling the big building
have been kicking industriously around
IN the sawdust covering of the ground
floor and the kicks have brought to light
a great variety of lost articles. There
are coins of various denominations
none so high in value as TO cause much
excltement-but sufficient in number to
make up total of many dollars.
And OF hatflnS there is no end. All
women while attending tabernacle meet
lhgs were asked to remove their hats,
and then In the confusion of changing
To make room for the trail hitters, they
naturally dropped their hatpins if they
were not extremely careful. and the
sawdust promptly closed in over the
pms. The harvest OF these hatpins COW
ers period of seven weeks. so there
are enough of them to equip a small
army of militant suffragists.
Many Pocketbooks Found
The buttons, from men S coats as
well as from women's coats, are no
small consideration either. In some
eases they are of no value but il is be-
heved that many of the buttons lost by
their owners, since they are of the
sorts that cannot readily be replaced
and without them the women would
have to wear coats with different but
tons which they do not as a rule fancy
doing.
: Among the pocketbooks there, is n
mesh bag of some yalae i@--sitseff. az
though 1t contains little money. Some
of the poeketbooks are entirely empty.
evidently having been lost after the
collections had been lifted. Others CON
tain few small coins.
Handkerchiefs there are sufficient to
Continued on Eighth Pnge.
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08
SCHOOLS Test Farmers SEEDS.

If Oklahoma has bumper crops this
year it will be due in considerable
measure to the direct aid rendered
the farmers by the schools. Through
out the state the teachers and pupils
have been systematically testing seeds
for the planters in their respective
communities. according to information
received at the United States bureau
of education. Every teacher in the
state has received from State Super
intendent Wilson scoring sheet on
which to record the tests.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08
SAID BY WITS OF THE PAST
Memoirs Of London Merchant Told Of
Many Good Quips He
Had Heard.

The late John Richard Clayton of
the firm of Clayton G. Bell, glass paint
er of London England. had some good
stories of his experiences with the pre-
Raphaelite brethren.
He was once sought out by the paint
ers. He called on Rosetti in his studio
and listened to the brilliant diatribes
of the young men against whom they
called the sloshiness of modern paint
ing Sioshy was the term they applied
to all the art of that day, and they did
not spare Sir "Sloshua" Reynolds him
self Clayton was fond of telling how
he noticed that the studio was hung
all round with photographs of the
works of the great masters; but he
was astonished to see that they were
all either on their sides or upside
down. After q pleasant talk he ven
tured to inquire the reason of the
strange hanging Rossetti affected to
be puzzled at Clayton's discovery.
why" he added. aren't thev
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08

hiA pusn-buttons, ne was as helpless
as baby. Beyond the little stunt he
did in his office or his store. and be-
yond the ability to CROSS crowded
street, he was no good. He not only
didn't know how to do things, but he
was rapidly losing, through disuse. the
power to learn how to do things. The
modern city dweller. bred, born.
brought up on this island. is about as
helpless and useless man. considered
as four-square, self-reliant individual,
as you can find on the broad expanse
of the globe. I've got no use for a
man who can't take care of himself.
who's got to have somebody else to
do 1t for him, whenever something to
which he hasn't been accustomed rises
up in front of him"
His eye was fixed somberly on the
city stretching away into the haze OF
the autumn day.
You blame me for letting this
thing runi" he went on. "Of course
1t tckles me to death to see Eldridge
founder; but that Isn't all. This is
the best thing that could happen to
them out there! I'm Just patriotic
enough 10 WlBn theu uoIc "a IL - o
good medicine! At last every man
Jack of them is up against something
he's got to decide for himself. The
police are useless: the fire department
is useless: the railroads and street
cars are crippled. II man is going
to take care of his life and property.
he must do It himself. He's buying
back his self-reliance. Self-reliance Is
valuable property. He ought to pay
something for 1t. Generally he has
to pay war or insurrection or bloody
riot In the present instance he's get
ting off cheap"
He turned back from the open win
dow. His eye Travelled beyond Helen's
trim figure down the empty hall.
wait right here. Jack" he shot over
his shoulder. and rushed along the
hall and down the stairway before ell
ther the young man or his sister could
recover from their astonishment
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08

Officials swept them out and took pos
session. Hallowell and Darrow con-
ferTed earnestly together.
He has the power to stop heat VI
brations, you see." Darrow said. That
makes him really dangerous. His ac-
tivities here are in line with his other
warnings; but he is not ready to go
to extremes yet. The city is yet safe"
'Why?" asked Hallowell.
81 know 1t. But he has the power
II he gets dangerous we must stop
him"
You are sure you can do it?"
Sure"
Then, for Gods sake. do it! Don't
you realize what will happen when
news of this gets out. and people un-
derstand what II means? Don't you
feel your guilt at those mems deaths 2"
He struck his hand in the direction of
the City Hall.
THE people will buy a lot of expe-
rience. at cost of little fright and
annoyance" replied Percy Darrow
carelessly. It'll do them good. When
it's over. they'll come back again and
be good. AS for that bunch in there
when you look over those papers I
think you'll be inclined to agree with
what the religious fanatics will say
that 1t was a visitation of God"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08
Our Fairy Godmothers.

The world. out of fairy books. is
chary in furnishing Its fairy god.
mothers. yet most of us have friends
at whose touch we become more truly
and happily ourselves than at other
times. They seem able to endow US.
through same magic of their own.
with the beauteous vestments and the
glass slippers that free the spirit
These are our fairy godmothers. We
do well to love them and pay them
good heed, for through them we may
enter into such possession of the pre-
cious gifts that we need have no dread
of the striking hour. This. we must
suppose, is what Cophetua did for his
beggar-maid. At his gl>nce the queen
in her blossomed. which later all the
world could see.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08
SYNOPSIS.

..ares Of 5oS enss4s the see eree
Boss Mccarthy of New York. Nc
Carthy has Just been threatened by an
to Europe He does not take the mes
sage seriously. Darrow goes up the
elevator to try. for a position with Dr..
Knox. Suddenly the electric apparatus
ness. Experts are unable to locate the
trouble. All at once. without apparent
reason. electric connections are restored:
The next evening Mccarthy Is warned
a sign will be sent him at six. Prompt
ly at that hour the entire electric appar-
atus of Now York Is cut Off. Percy Dar-
,S row na, thinks he has clue He n,,sa ensaFs'
lete. They visit Mccarthy and offer to
run down the cause of his mysterious
trouble. Mccarthy has just received an
deaihly stiliness falls on the Alta. build
ing. blotting out all sound. Next day the
whole town is thrown into darkness and
all hearing suspended. Prof. Eldrtdge,
the noted scientist, becomes interested in
the phenomena. Darrow's theory Is that
the man who is sending the warnings has
discovered some force by which he can
light and sound. Mccarthy has disap-
peared. Darrow places Eldridge In pos
session of all the facts In the case and OF
his own theories in relation thereto and
More terrifying messages come. Dar-
row. through the newspapers. treasures
the people. He fears the Unknown will
stop the vibrations of heat which would
animal and vegetable. The Unknown
threatens TO wipe out the city. Thous-
nnds OF people flee. Darrow sits non
chalantly receiving wireless messages in
ments with the purpose OF locating the
Unknown Eldridge's experiments fail.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08

countenance. At a typewriter lolled
his clerk, his hand fumbling among
some papers.
The group was exceedingly lifelike.
more so, Darrow thought, than any
wax figures the Eden Musee had ever
placed for the mystifcation of its
country visitors. Indeed, the only in
dication that the men had not merely
suspended action on the entrance of
the visitors was fine white rime
frost that sparkled across the burly
countenance of the mayor. Darrow
remembered that, summer and winter.
that dignitary had always perspired!
Burns stood by the door, rooted to
the spot, his Jaw dropped. his eye
staring. Darrow quite calmly walked
to the desk. He picked up the ink
stand and gazed curiously at its solidi-
fed contents. touched the nearest
man. gazed curiously at the papers on
the desk, and addressed Burns.
These seem to be frozen, too. This
Is a sweet gang to be getting together
on this sort of job!"
Quite calmly he gathered the pa
pers on the desk and stuffed them into
his pocket. He picked up the desk
telephone. giving a number. "Ouch.
this receivers cold" he remarked to
Burns. Hello. Despatch. Is Hal
lowell in the office? Just int Send
him over quick. keen jump. City Hall.
mayors second-story office. No. right
now. Tell him it's Darrow."
He hung up the receiver.
Curious phenomenon" he remarked
to Burns, who still stood rooted to
the spot. You see. their bodies were
naturally almost in equilibrium. and.
as they were frozen Immediately, that
equilibrium was maintained. And the
color. l suppose the blood was con-
gealed in the smaller veins. and did
not. as in more gradual freezing, re-
cede to the larger blood-vessels. I'm
getting frost bitten myself in here.
Let's get outside
But Officer Burns heard none of
this. AS Darrow moved toward the
door he crossed himself and bolted.
Darrow heard his heels clattering on
the cement OF the corridors. He
smiled.
And now the deluge!" he remarked
The crowds. terrified. inquisitive.
skeptical. and speculative, gathered.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08

is always the case. matters did not
improve in the telling. The only ac-
tivity in the city was that bent on
seeking out the abiding place of Mon
sierJN.
Eldridge had now come to the con-
clusion that he had perhaps been mis-
taken in combining his efforts TO so
small an area. In fact, further exper-
iments rendered hazy the arbitrary
outlines formerly determined for the
zone of danger. At times Monsieur X
answered well within the forty-five-
mile mark; at times somewhat beyond
the end of the ffty-mile radius. FL
bridge Immediately undertook a series
of more delicate experiments by means
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-08
Denver Man Gets unele's Estate.

Laporte. Ind.-Sam Bean, a familiar
figure about Frankfort, Ind, died aft
er a short illness. For thirty years
he sold candy. popcorn, apples and
chewing gum from basket that he
carried on his arm, meeting every
train that came into Frankfort, and
visiting the shops and factories about
the. city. For twenty years he was
the janitor at the First National bank
and 1t is said that he never drew a
cent of his salary, leaving it In the
bank to his credit where it drew inter-
est. A few hours before his death he
made will leaving his entire estate
to his only relative, a nephew. George
l.. Beam, of Denver.