r— Boschee’s German Syrup We all take cold some time and everys body should have Boschee's German Syrup handy at all times for the treats ment of throat and lung troubles, bronchial coughs, etc. It has been on the market 51 years. No better rece ommendation is possible. It gently soothes inflammation, eases a cough, insures a good night's sleep, with free —actaration in the morning, Drug- gists’ and dealers’ everywhere, 2 and 75¢ bottles. Don't take substitutes, — a AA TION 5 Boschee’s German Syrup —————————— ——" His Education Assured. “I feel that 1 am not fit to tle shoe lace “Don’t riage she'll that. Also and hooking up her After mar- expert at overshoes worry, my get putting gowns.” boy. you on S00nN at SYRUP OF FIGS FOR it is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a sick child. Look back at your childhood days. Remember the “dose” mother insisted on—castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it's Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realize what they do. The children’s revolt is well-found- ed. Their tender little “insides” are injured by them. If your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only deli- cious “California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle Millons of mothers keep this harmless “fruit laxative” handy: they know children love to take it: that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweet en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful given today saves a sick child tomor- row. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle “California Syrup Figs,” has full directions for babies, ct of all ages and oa each bottle. TWO CANAL COALING PLANTS yf which ldren for grown-ups plainly Ady, ¢ Of Combined Storage Capacity at Balboa and Cristobal 1s 700,000 Tons. . al everal Balboa ragged into th adelphia Record. Doll Caricatures. Dolls resembling in form a ne ire to hand nd Yoature down to © +1 heme ¢ il a portrait of them ible have become a great it b h the cari the form of formed to accentuate of the or people fare portrayed in tl facial resemblance es in dolls with heads the characteristic iginal, Now all having themselves fash The ash is not only reproduced as perfectly as features sorts of HE new jon. material approaching as nearly as pos- of the original's clothing. \ sible that 7 Foods Are Increasing In Price But you can still buy rape-Nuts at the same price. This staple cereal in its air-tight, wax-pro- tected package will keep indefinitely, yet is ready to eat at a moment's notice. Grape-Nuts is full of compact nourishment with a delightful wheat and barley flavor. The Most Economical of Prepared Cereals ‘REDUCE EXPENSES OF DEPRATMENTS | State Finds Appropriations Asked Economy Commission i | Formidable Task. WILL CUT OFF $25,000,000 avnrlntninaran Situation Complicated by Improbabll- ity of Getting Any Anthracite Coal Tax, Which Will Mean Loss of Three Million, —Harrisbhurg Estimates submitted by the heads of the various State Departments of the appropriations which they want for the conduct of their department during the next two years exceed by $25,000,000 the aggregate amount propriated to them by the Legislature two vears ago. The submitted to the State Efficiency Commission gered that body, which Brumbaugh, that i for big in Commission ap- estimates were Economy and and é tag is headed by 0 Governor it relu to 8 the reases The will heads of the various departments summon fore it, for a g»aring on the @ ag0 aggregate Two years the Legislature priated an 000 for the partment by many the next gregate thelr It is said the Commission the amounts ably At an chance for the get through the Appropria mittee With a joint mission striving to e needed m conduct { ! Deficiencies were shown of the departments a 1d for two years sum of $65,000 departments pared rate desired departments has b¢ ddit rw dit a jonal means to nnasth possi meet 1a Sse Ruin in Pound Loaf, ’ fs in thant ’ . 1 ir bakers have f sha HiT anno ppos Wich ing the drafted page Mr five-cent in many parts o ho ich he found tipped the ounces was by Sweeney after he had of bread and at have and Standards weighed nade State wi arales ten bakers not far heard ohiectin 10 mud 0 RO an far m in 8 protest as th has are the posal on the people of the State the price jecrease of from five the weight of nickel Qwooney find pointed out it rease that hakers they must in 11d the price a i rent th anla I a cen he peopis pre fer paying rat He nf ounce for sixteen for ten that out 280 aix centa a the ba make a very fair profit. He also said he had found that gome bakers get 425 loaves of bread {out a of flour and these | at five cents each Mr. Frethofer sald he and a few | other large bakers could sell sixteen ounce loaves at flve centa, but that if the bill passes and bakers cannot soll less than sixteen-ounce loaves the amall bakers will be compelled to go out of business becauwse of the com- petition with the large bakers. Millions in Big Coal Deal | In payment for 14.000 acres of coal | land In Westmoreland. Washington, | Greene and Somerset counties a check | for $2,385.491.79, signed by W. E. | Corey, president of the Midvale 8teel Company, was haaded to E. E, Rob- bins. an attorney interested in the Penn-Manor Gas Coal Company, which was selling {te entire interests (n the enormous property Title to the big tract was taken in the name of the Union Coal & Coke Company, and the full consider ation 1s $9,000,000 six conta than five ounces or centa ounces, a barrel sixteen- contended, however, flour wonld turn loaves, and at kers could loaf barrel sell Ann PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS THI nnne B Martin, of Carlisle, ha THI nuh the tied John '‘Bquire” nuptial Hazl | panicky inquiring for girls with long hair The Cumberland Valley Rallroad has erected practically unbroken stretch of storable snow fence from Harrisburg to Winchester, when winter has passed. Lehigh Valley Coal C that 4140 accidents rad in its mines in 1918, of resulted in the disability the men employed and 36 “Marrying his 1300th knot eton women have been madd by a caller at their doors, a removable The mpany cur which 820 of .035 of ended fatal anaounces ly for .002 of its workmen principal of Hanover Henry T. Murray, Askam ‘hool was killed when a was using to thaw out a exploded. Both his blown from his body s in township steamer tank he fr water Zen pipe, i8 were Phoenixville's Board tangle, growing out of that it Orga another tur Scatterg inspactor, of the all according sgation was not took Joseph 1 that be closed irs broke into A in Spring! clothes, n James Ha gunats window SAW real, the and i ut the robbers es ng she left a barre ons of whisky »l, which chard, returne missing and wat 1zbeth Beam sued 3 er $444 ug ¥ ro, Ww oe r ! Lycoming nt the a Mauch Ci fell on log unk fracturad a Hazleton's and boycott on brought a tumble in prices asked some of whom the ra for $1.86 a bushel anid {fting ashes, Harry Watton haart : Norris fawn from ¥ at Mra atty Mal 52, fell dead Ragentose, of Centerport njured by a tree falling on as died 1 of cows anid yak « ) {i by John K Pottstown, brought from $70 2107 per head he J. O at Mohnton, has New Y 235.000 Eggs dropped from 48 to 40 dozen, and skyrocketed to quart in fac Keesaler & k Co. BH hat tory, pen sold to a ork firm for enis a sanerkrant from 18 25 Mr Pine in thelr home by neighbors by coal gas William Francis, constable of West Pottagrove, Montgomery county, ia putting alot machines in his baillwick out of business George Hover, of West Leesport, was struck by an express train on tha Pennsylvania, near Reading, and his right arm was broken An annex will be added to the Boys’ Home, Reading. so that 50 more boys who figure in the Juvenile Court can be cared for. The Benzo! Products Company, the General Worth Brothers will erect 800 houses in Marcus Hook to accommodate em- ployes Daniel Rodman, a pipefitter, is In the Coatesville Hospital suffering with a knife wound over the heart, and Wal. ter Allan, a structural fronworker, has | boon committed to all, charged with the crime, Mra. Bateman, who carried the mafl between Morriaville and Fallsington many vears, decided to quit, and the contract has heen awarded to Leroy | Wildman. nts a the market and Mrs. John H Forge, found wn Garher were unconscious overcome CENTRE HALL. CANADA'S BOND 10 FARM LABORERS . Offering 160 Acres to Farm Hands. | Canada today, with the great de mand that is made upon it for food- stuffs, finds itself almost in the throes of a labor famine, A means of solving the problem has been evolved by the Canadian Government at Ottawa on Wednesday last, it was de- cided to practically bonus every farm- hand going giving him 160 acres free as a homestead, and to allow the time he would be working out for, the good wages offered, to count as residence duties on the homestead. Western Canada has been a pro- ducer of grain and It is estimated that there is a shortage of over thirty thou sand men, necessary to produce an av. erage crop in 1917. This shortage has been caused many young men having left the farms to go to war, and it is essential to make an unprecedent- ed offer of this kind, to fill their places on the land at once. It has been required in do three years’ to get title, but ment has reducing explained by an farm laborers tional induces to get Once, novel when to Canada, by big by #0) the past to homesteads induce- duties on an additional yy practically As of the Canadi- been offered | this term to an offich two years Government, Canada's need for intense, and excep- offered at en- saat- work- the needed far wor re A In i fa try for one » I rns, gfy the Gover 1 farmer and that time will ap- filed for, was actually ne ng ply Just weidence The Difference. suave the BILIOUS, HEADAGHY, SICK “CASCARETS" Gently cleanse your liver and sluggish bowels while you sleep. cent box acl Get a Sick ness, dizzi ness, coated t« foul ste and foul breath to torpid dl in the A i the in- out the cast into hes the auses con > 111 that dull, gestion and ening headache Cascarets immediately clear the ligested ons out all and ge remove th stomach f 1 ¢ u v a) W SY ¢ food and fo take the eX and waste bile from the liver tha CAITY const pated toatier ’ poisons in the bowels. A will surely straighten you out by morning They work while you -a 10.cent box from your druggist means your head clear, stomach and your liver and bowels regular for months, Adv. Cascaret tonight sleep sweet its Status. tt two agreed “Here ieht el to make in a writ- eso and they've yut ing notes “1 suppose just a then, rreement, Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen- eral Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Eoriches the Blood and Builds ap the Whole System. 50 cents No Wonder She Recalled. “She had to the invitations for that J “Rome domestic « itastrophe?” “Yea, the left.” call in elaborate dinner.’ cook SOOTHES ITCHING SCALPS And Prevents Falling Hair Do Cuticurs Soap and Ointment. On retiring, gently rub spots of dane ment, Cuticura Soap and hot watdr using plenty of Soap. Cultivate the use of | Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every day toilet purposes, Free sample each by mail with Book, Address posteard, Cuticura, Dept. Boston, pld everywhere~~Adv. Doubts the Saying. “1 don't belleve that time is money, | do you?” “No: 1 usually have time to spare” - ———" Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig { inal little livet pills put up 40 years ago. | They regulate liver and bowels. ~Adv, Knowledge may be power, but It takes gasoline to get you anywhere these days, WILSON ORDERS LINERS ARMED Calls Extra Session of Congress to Meet on April 16. TO PROTECT MERCHANTMEN Navy Yards, With Equipment Already Assembled, Will Hasten Prepara tion Of Ships For Sailing. Pre of Washington ident iisor dered the American chant ships against Germany arming submarine warfare tinie 18 extra April 18 The following sued a proclan pession of sider ‘re Bound i DY i Qe] Action To Be Taken Wi [364 5% £ # Might Jeopardize Life best news that “The have,” for mal Daniels statement to press the rights Secretary LOVE Amer | pentatives, "is that will the the freedom of the seas “The publication of | gerve no good purpose jeopardize human life.” Mr. Daniels has determined i reveal any of the department's plan | for carrying out the policy ordered bs | President Wilson. He previously has | ptated, however, that the navy is pre | pared with guns, ammunition, gun crews and all other necessary equip | ment or personnel to carry out the in structions. protect of 1 {1 getalis not American Doctors Stay. Berlin (via London) The Ameri ean physicians’ expedition, under the direction of Dr. Edward F. Nippert of Cincinnati, has returned to its bass at Deutsch Eylau, where It will con tinue its work under the direction o! the New York committee. WOMAN COULD HARDLY STAND Restored to Health by Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, { se— i Fualion, N. Y. — “Why will women pay out their money for treatment and frre TTT iitiiti1111] receive no benefit, i | i when so many have Hl proved that Lydia i. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound will make them well? For over a year I suffered so from female weak- ness 1 could hardly stand and was afraid to go on the street alone. Does tors said medicines were useless and only an operation would help me, but Lydiz E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has proved it otherwise, 1 am now perfectly well and can do any kind of work.’'—Mrs. NeLiie PaeLps, care of R. A. Rider, R.F.D. No. 5, Fulton, N. Y. We wish every woman who suffers from female nervousness, or the blues could see the let- women made well by Ly- , ¢ Compound. If you have t 18 and do not understs yd the write to the Lvdia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for belpful advice given free. Tut's Pills enshle the dyspeptic to est whatever he wishes. They cause the food to assimilate and sourish the body, give appetite, and DEVELOP FLESH,