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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

The annual report of the local Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals read at yester-
day meeting, pointing out that better conditions
exist In this city since the organization of the body
Is gratifying not so much because it shows that
men have been forced to treat animals decentIy--
for it is pity that interference is at times neces
sary,-but rather because it demonstrates that hu
name persons acting organization can by their
influence SO improve conditions in community.
The care of horses has been big part of the
work of the local society, and many an old nag
would express gratitude if that were possible for
relief that has come to it in its weary fe through
the S. P. c. A The owner of the horse may not feel
so grateful for the interference of the officers but
had he done the right thing by his dumb beast in
the first place, after receiving due warning
he might have avoided all difficulty
The s P. c. A. does not consider the feelings of
the owners of animals when it goes about fulfilling
Its purposes and making things lively in aldermen
Offices 1t considers the animals. and generally II
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
KANSAS STILL UNHAPPY

Kansas, proverbial kicker, has no right this win
ter to complain about hard luck Kansas depositors.
as shown by the annual report just issued by the
State Banking Commissioner, have $118.692455 to
their credit in 939 state banks and this is an in
crease of $17,000,000 in little more than five
months. \
The swollen condition of the safety deposit vaults
OF the Kansas banks, it is further explained is due
to the record wheat crops of the last year.-for
it will be recalled that Kansas is one of the prip
cipal states in the western wheat belt and that
wheat raising is by far the greatest Kansas in
dustry.
And yet ever-complaining Kansas probably is
not happy. Who ever heard of Kansas ever being
entirely satisfied The query, What is the matter
with Kansas" has been made every year for manv
years in an effort to account for the perpetually
long faces and ever-present grouehes of the
kansans.
What if Kansas is ST. 100000 ahead of the game
this winter? Just think of how much richer she
would have been had she held onto her record
breaking crop now that the war threatens to make
two-dollar wheat reality
Still Kansas weeps.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
A MAGAZINES HuNpRED YEARS

IhlS country delights more IN the acquisition
OF foreign literature than in laborious independent
exertion Of its own intellectual powers,' is the
remarkable declaration that may be found in an
article on American language and literature in an
1915 issue of the North American Review, per
haps not remarkable at the time it was written,
but striking in this year 1915 when we Americans
have become rather well satisfied with the litera-
ture which has been resulting from the independent
exertion of our intellectual powers
During the last hundred years. which have meant
so much for American letters force has been
steadily operating which has done a great deal to
encourage the expansion of the country's digniied
literature the ''North American Review" Born
in 1915, this periodical is now observing its centen-
NAL 1t is the first magazine in the country that
has had a centennial to observe. AS power which
has exerted an uninterrupted Influence on American
letters for hundred years. it has our heartest con-
gratulations.
The Review i'll its retrospection not only re-
minds us of some events that were taking place a
century ago, but prompts us to disturb the dusty
complacency OF its early volumes library shelves,
and to go pleasure-seeking among the brownish
pages. The issues of 1915 reveal notice regarding
proposed pilgrimage to the Holy Lands, signed
by Gustavus Adolphus, formerly Glstavus w, king
of Sweden an account of a law suit had by
Louis Bonaparte, formerly king of Holland, with
his wife; notice of the expunging of Napoleon
Bonaparte S name by the French Institute; an obi-
uary of Robert Fulton, and numerous other items
which make the quest of interest
Throughout the hundred years of the Reviews 81
existence its pages have shown history in the form
ing, yet perhaps at no time with more significance
to posterity than now, when the Great War is the
prevalent topic. When the magazine files for 1915
are searched century hence by the idly curious or
by the diligently studious there will doubtless be
found much to marvel at and wonder about con-
cerning the conflict Of the nations which may be SO
absorbing subject indeed that the nineteenth cen
tury files which are of present interest will be mdis
turbed in their dust of an additional hundred years
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

Bedford and its sister port, Fair Haven,
and rs from Nantucket. Three years
later the highwater mark in the indus
try was reached with $50 ships aggre-
eating 233,25S tons. To-day only 80
vessels with total tonnage of 6,613
are engaged in the search for whales.
In 1851 the whaling fleet brought
to this country 42S,O70 barrels of
sperm and whale oil and 5,652,30O
pounds of whale bone. In 1914, with
the pursuit of whales almost wholly
confined to the Atlantic ocean, the oil
brought home amounted to but 1920
barrels. Three vessels brought back
from the Arctic $4,000 pounds of whale
bone. The highest price for sperm oil,
reached during the Civil war was $2.75
a gallon; last years product sold at
10 TO As cents.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Feeding the Railroad Cow on sawdust

The annual report of President III. U.
Nudge to the stockholders of the Rock
Island railroad contains chapter en-
TITLED, "a Twelve Year Review This
wll' interest not only the stockholders
Oh the Rock Island system but of all
other railway securities, for it shows
that the day is coming, if we keep on
as we are now, when only wealthy
government can afford to operate big
railroad. 1t shows that railroad in
these times is like COW that everybody
wants to milk and nobody is willing to
feed.
1t has been estimated that the en-.
forced reductions in rates and the
steady increases in wages and taxes
would reduce the Rock Island s net
revenue last year on the basis of the
business of 1913 by about 100000
600. President Nudge s analysis shows
that the operation of these factors on
the basis of the 1914 business cut the
Rock Island IS net revenue over S16,-
100000. This tremendous shrinkage
is mainly due to six factors, none of
which, let il be observed by critics of
our railroads, is subj to the control
of the railroad management. These
factors are:
l. Arbitrary reductions of rates by
State and Federal commissions.
2. Wage increases demanded and
enforced by labor unions.
3. Higher costs of all forms of ma
terial and supplies.
4. Increased operating expenses
made necessary by State laws. Three
hundred of these laws affecting the
Rock Island system have been enacted
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Run Across Russian Scouts

A ski patrol S experience of a night
is related by the officer in charge The
patrol had left camp in the evening,
and, wrapped in white blankets, the
men were speeding through Car
pathian forest late at night when the
breaking Of twigs cautioned the officer
to order them to cover.
'HA second later he said, ~ heard
an alarm signal given by one of my
eorporals. 1 decided to. Investigate and
with three men proceeded in the direc-
tion whence the signal had come. Near
an ice and snow-covered bramble bush
one of the patrol signalled caution and
then informed me that near him on the
right there was Russian scouting
party.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
WHALING INDUSTRY DECLINES
And Periodical Devoted to Its Inter
ests Suspends Publication

New Bedford, Mass, Jan. S.-The
decline in the whaling industry reached
point where it is no longer profitable
to maintain periodical devoted to it's
interests, according to the publishers
OF the Whalemen's s Shipping List, who
to-day announced that this week Is is
sue would be the last of that weekly
journal. When the paper was estab-
lished in 1S43 the number of vessels
engaged in the whale fishery was 675,
with an aggregate tonnage of 199,174.
OF these ships 260 hailed from New
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Tonque.End Topics
Ski Soldiers Wear White

Use of the skis in the war in Europe
has been developed on large scale out
in the Carpathians and on the mills
and dreary plains of Galicia, where
thousands of Austro-Hungarian soldiers
move about rapidly and noiselessly by
use of these devices. Their first duty
is scouting, but now and then they are
obliged to fight and fight hard. While
some of the ski organizations have
white uniforms others have to make use
of white blankets to render themselves
as nearly invisible as they possibly can
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Have to Lie in the Snow

"There was nothing to be seen,
however. Though the moon shone
brightly, the tree trunks, snow-covered
underground and shower of powdered
silver sent down by the gently moving
branches of the trees, hampered the
view. So we crept under the brambles
and saw to it that the powdered, cold
silver entered by our collars. The en-
suing wait was none too pleasant. We
were measuring the snow with the
length Of our bodies, which is not the
finest pastime know. Right ahead of
me there was an open stretch of snow
and I had been watching the fligrees
thrown upon it by the moon as its
beams broke through tine branches of
the tall Ibeeches and oaks, when a long,
black shadow appeared from the right.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
ALWAYS TRUTHFUL

docs your husband lie to y6uf'
Never"
How do you knowT
He tells me that do not look day older than did
when he married and if he doesn't lie about that
don't think he would about less important matters -
Houston Post.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
WHY FARMING Is EXPENSIVE

Farm products cost more than they used to-"
eyes," replied the farmer "When farmer is supposed
to know the botanical of what he's rasin an the
chronological name of the insect that au the
pharmaceutical name of the chemical that will kill it,
body's got to pay"-Anderson On. o. Intelligencer
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
MUCH DEPENDS ON THE corrAaE

do you think love in cottage could be lasting7"
Oh yes, if it's the white kind of cottages thew
have at Newport" Baltimore American
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
HAD TO CUT IT DOWN

Mistress-"Goodness, Bridget, where our telephone
Brdget-Mrs Jones sent over mum, askn' for the use
av it, and sint it but had the divvPs own tonne
gittin it off the wall, mum. "-Washin gton Herald
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

Heavy rains reported to have destroyed practically
the whole of the Cuban tobacco crop. This means no
Havanas but there will be shortage of stoges for the
Pittsburgh delegation in the Legislature
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
PROOF OF 1T

Motorist-"Have you driven for good peopIeP'
Chaufeur-"Gee! You should have seen the obituaries
of some of 'em"-Puck
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

The annual Spring food in the Susquehanna river has
arrived few months in advance of the usual scbedus
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

Still they are planning yscrapers for dow ntown
New York Means larger crowds for MANY times
crowded subway to handle.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

Not all the horrors confined to the European war
zone Take riding in the New York subway for example
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

The Villa government in Mexico wants to borrow
$30O,oOO,000 Think of it, when gilt-edged municipal
loans hard to float!
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Three Fur.covered cossacks

"The next instant three Cossacks en-
tered the clearing. Their horses were
small and shaggy and white, and the
men seemed to hang in the saddles rath-
er than sit in them. They were wrapped
in thick furs. The bright moonlight
showed they we're Asiatics-Sbroad
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

faces with strong chins, prominent
cheenbones and long black boards with
the frost clinging to the hair. A sign
from me and my men were on their feet
another moment and the Cossacks
were off their horses. They were a
most surprised lot. Abject terror stood
in their eyes and they had difficulty un-
derstanding that we We're not evil spir-
its of the forest. The Cossacks had
hardly been taken to the rear by one
OF our men when tine vigorous tramp
of Russian infantry was heard. Back
under the bramIble bush we went. Twen-
ty yards away from us the Russians
marched past"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08
Known as the ''White Pavens,

The officer then told how the ski
patrol followed the Russians into a vii
lage. Later in the night he was able
to get in touch with the commander
OF a German contingent, which occu,
pied a quarry on the other side of the
village. Toward morning he also dis
covered how the Russians, who had
taken the village, could be outAanked.
With dawn everybody was in his place
and fire was opened. The Russians were
forced to retreat in disorder, leaving
behind many killed and wounded in ad-
dition TO prisoners.
1--WE are known as the 'wthite ra.
vens, " the officer added.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

is the only active champion the poor dumb beasts
ever have in this world
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-08

in the last five years, most of which are
political creations, devised to make
popularity for politicians
D. Increased CAKES.
6. Increased cost of capital.
The figures on which the conclusions
are based are taken out of the reports
required and accepted by the Inter
state Commerce Commission and are.
therefore, incontrovertibe. They fur
nish abundant food for reflection
Leslie's Weekly, December II, 1914.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
DUCHINE AND WIFE
HELD UNDER BAIL
Former Charged with Statutory Of
fense-Mrs. Duchine Charged with
Attempt to Kill Husband

Henry Duchine, a foreman in the en-
ploy Of the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins
corporation at Turner's Falls, who went
there from Brattleboro when the con
ccrn completed work on the Vernon
street job, was held yesterday under
$500 bail on a statutory charge after
a hearing in the district court III Tur-
ners Falls Yesterday. Mrs. Duchine
who is charged with an attempt to
murder her husband, was held under
|$1.5O0 bail for hearing at the next
term of the superior court.
Duchine has admitted, it is claimed
that he and his wife had lived togeth.
er fer several years. but were not
married until last January. \ few
weeks ago during quarrel it j
charged that Mrs Duchine attempted
to shoot her husband and then tool
lpoisou. She was removed to the Far
rem hospital. where she recovered
lDuchine was not hit by the bullet.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
PROF. HENRY JONES.
Windham Native Formerly Supervisor
of Music in Northampton.

Pref Henry Jones, 70, known to all
those who were pupils in the North
ampton, Mass, pubhe schools between
1907 and 1900, because of his long pc
riOd Of service as supervisor of music,
died Sunday in Northampton Of an APP
opIectic shock, sustained January IS.
Prof. Jones was born in Windham III
June, 1885 son of Jason and Laura
Woodburn Jones. He was a broth-in-
law Of Mrs. Julia Y. Barrett of Brat
tleboro, who attended the funeral. He
attended the schools Of his native
town and studied vocal music III Bos-
ton under c. w. Wheeler and Wealthy
Adams. He went to Northampton IN
1867, and during his active life was q
teacher of music there, being in charge
of the music ct the public schools from
that year to 1900. During that period
Prof. Jones not only trained the youth
of the city III vocal music, but was
prominent in the musical organizations
of the city. He sang at various times
in most Of the church choirs of the
city.
Prof. Jones was a member Of various
| Masonic bodies and had held various
offices in them. He married in 1867
| Angie Barrett Of Windham, who died
in 1899. Five children were born tx
| them, OF whom only one, Miss Laura
5. Jones. well known as violinist, sur
wives. The funeral was held this after
noon at ESQ at the house, s Washing
ton avenue.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
TREMENDOUS LEAP
BY WOUNDED BUCK
Jumped from Highest Point of Vernon
Street Wall-Had Been Wounded
by Dogs-Died Soon After.

\ large buck that had been pursued
and badly chewed by dogs, in a des-
perate effort TO escape the dogs early
this morning jumped from the highest
part Of the stone wall above Vernon
street to the roadbed, some 30 feet. Al
though badly torn and with broken
leg the animal managed to make his
way to the ice on the river There
he fell and was taken to the barn of
Richard Pollica on the Hinsdale road,
where he died in d short time.
Dogs We're heard Yesterday running
deer and soon the buck came across
the river and ran up the road leading
to Mcrningside cemetery. A few min
utes later smaller animal appeared
Oh tile opposite shore Of the river, but
instead Of crossing the river it turned
into the woods en- the New Hampshire
side. The buck that made the desper-
ate leap doubtless was the same one
that managed to escape yesterday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
WAR NEWS SUMMARY

The battle of the Carpathians, which |
is to decide whether the Russians will
be able to force way over the noun
tains and invade Hungary or will be
driven back to the northward, appar.
emily is as far from a decision as at
any time since the Austrians, with
their reinforcement of Germans, launch
ed the attack Each of the OPP
posing armies has won its minor vic
tories, but neither has been able to
gain sufficient headway to place the
other definitely on the defensive
The correspondent of a Berlin news
paper states that no speedy successes
must be expected rs movements are
slow on account Of the heavy snow in
which the operations are being carried
out The most that can be looked for
by Germany is the forcing back of the
Russians step by step. Although the
Russian forces along Warsaw front
have undertaken an attack they appar-
emily have been no more successful
than were the Germans in their last
onslaught. So far as has been reported
there is no important shifting of posi-
tions.
In Northern Poland another impor-
tant battle is under way with the is
sue still undecided.
1t is reported from Geneva that an.
other Zeppelin has been lost 1t is
said to have been wrecked in storm
lduring flight over the North sea.
4 battle which the Russian war Of
flee describes as without precedent in
history has occurred in Galicia in the
course of the campaign for mastery Of
the mountain region which screens
Northern Hungary from Russia. In a
single day the German troops charged
- times on q Russian position. They
made their charge up u hill in the face
of artillery fire. Twice they gainec
possession of the height but, accord
ing to the Russian statement, they
were finally driven out.
The German losses are described a.
exceedingly heavy" There is no in
formation on this phase Of the situa
tion from German sources. In the re
feent attacks on the Germans on thi
Warsaw front the Russian statemen
says their losses amounted to "ten
of thousands Another Russian vic
tory, it Is said, has been gained in Pc
land where the Petrograd atlice assert
. that the Germans were driven bac
and that one Of their battalions wa
. almost annihilated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
coUNTERMANDs BIG ORDER.
Woodbury. Granite Company Lays Of
Third of Quarry Force.

BETHEL. Feb. 10-The Woodbury.
Granite company has laid eff 50 men,
onc-third Of the force at the quarry,
on account of the countermanding of
100000 order by the state Of Wiscon-
sin. I'm addition to the contract for
the new capitol ut Madison the com
pany had a 100000 order for the APP
breaches to the capitol.
On account of the stringency III the
money market the order was counter
manded for the present at least, but
it may be renewed the coming season.
The Woodbury. company has been
awarded the contract for Bethel white
granite for the memorial to be erected
in Nicksburg by the state OF Michigan
in commemoration Of the part taken by
her soldiers in that memorable seige.
The memorial viii be statue Of nine
pieces and will weigh 81 tons. The
sculptor is Herbert Adams, the noted
artist Of New York and Cornish, n. IT
The carving will be done either in
Bethel or Hardwiek
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
.U.S.FLAG USED BY
ANOTHER VESSEL
Passengers on Cunard Liner 0rduna, Which Arrived
in New York Today Report That Stars and
Stripes Were Hoisted During Passage of Irish
Sea Jan. 81

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. - Passengers
on the Cunard line British steamer
Orduna, which arrived here today from
England, said that the steamer flew the
American flag nearly 24 hours on Jan.
81 while passing through the Irish sea.
The stars and stripes, they said were
hoisted Sunday about AN hour after the
Orduna left Liverpool and not hauled
down until early Monday. The Orduna
was scheduled to sail from Liverpool
Saturday, Jan. so, but did not depart
until 1890 the next morning. Passen-
gers heard that the reason for the delay
was that a German submarine was
lowering III the vicinity. The Ameri-
can flag was raised, they said, shortly
after the Orduna cleared the Mersey.
The steamship touched at Queenstown
the same day and was flying the stars
and stripes when she entered and left
the harbor, they said.
The explanation which the passcn-
gers said they received from some of
the Ordunu S undcroliiccrs was that
the American flag had been raised for
the purpose Of protecting the American
citizens among the 2IO passengers
aboard. H. 4. Strong OF this city and
James Ford of Lynn. Mass, were two
Of the passengers who said they woult
vUuCh over their names that the Ameu
can flag was flown by the ship. They
said it was not until she had cleared
the Irish sea that it was hauled down
Capt. Thomas NJ. TAYLOR, commando
of the Orduna, refused to discuss thu
matter, saying he was under order
from the British admiralty not to talk
The other officers also were silent.
Charles p Sumner, general manage
of the Cunard line in this city, denie
today that the Orduna had flown tn
American flag except at her fore mast
which, he explained, is customary o
all ships to indicate the country fo
which they are bound. Passengers il
sisted, however, that the flag was fl,
ing aft, indicating the nationality c
the vessel.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-10
CAUGHT 17-POUND
PIKE THROUGH ICE
Landed by DON Beueville Without Gaff
Was 40 Inches Long Taken
Yesterday i'll Broad Brook.

Don f. Bellcville caught yesterday
through the ice on Broad brook a pike
that measured 80 inches in length and
weighed exactly II pounds Mr.
Belleville managed to land the biz fish
without the aid Of gaff When he
first hauled him to the hole and saw
what a monster he had hooked he tried
10 use his short handled gatf, but as
the ice was 2+ inches thick he was
unable to reach him with the gaff.
Finally he took the chance and hauled
him out on the line. The hook was
bent nearly straight, but it held long
enough to flop the fish on to the ice.
The pike was on exhibition in the win
dow of the barbershop of Charles H.
Oakes last evening.