Mysteries of Rheumatism Practically Solved Atfiw ia flu Tin—« «f « Bwmfctbh Antidaf* 8. 8. S. ia ft Regular Wizard in Driving Ont Rheumatism. Rheumatism Is often the effect of Sv/me | ether blood affliction that has left its Im press In the joints, muacles and mucous roi erin*s of the body. It works Into the tlarue calls, thoae tiny, little bodies In Tfhlch nutrition goes on. And tt Is here •hat a most remarkable medicine known as 8. 8. S. doea its most active and moat effective work. Ita action la marvelous. Bedridden rheumatics get en their feet as if by maeic. That cold, cfimmy sensation that made yon hug a red hot stove in gone in a twinkling. That excruciating pain that made a feather lay as heavy as a ton of coal on the skin is gone. You get up and dance with glee. Tour rheumatism ia gone—absolutely! It is an actual logical fact, that Swift's Sure Specific flushaa your blood, gives your entire blood circulation a fine thorough bath. It just naturally and in a twinkling irrigates every atom la your PERSONAL [Other Personals on Page 6.] RALPH BHIGIITBILL GIVEN A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE The seventeenth birthday of Ralph Briglitbill was the occasion for a gath ering of young folks at his home, 17 31 .Apricot street. Games and contests preceded a supper. In attendance were the Misses Ruth Comp, Marie Steinberg, Catherine Steinberg, Verna Lenker, Katharine Border, Naomi Border. Grace Harper, Agnes Harper, Katharine Klase, Mary Haas, Grace Troy, Romaine Gill, Mina Duey, Rose Troy, Florence Miller, Grace Felker, Elsie Kepler, Susan Schlosser and Elsie Briglitbill. Ralph Brightbill, John Troy. Dewey Bitner, John Miller. Charles Dissinger. Hattie Bishop, Jacob King, Gilbert 54elders. Earl Sherk, Louis Blough, Russell Oberstick, John Hiester, Bowens Hess, J. S. Laid, Charles Green. William Denny, Howard Tay lor, Raymond Meller, Joseph Pope, William Steinberg, Henry Cordes and Russell Brightbill. GUESTS AT HUM.MELSTOWN Among the ladies of this city going to llummelstow n yesterday for a sur prise party to Mrs. Emma Castle were Mrs. Luther AValser, Mrs. Hannah Richardson, Mrs. C. Dav Rudy, Mrs. Edward E. Ewing. Mrs. John X. Quig ley, Mrs. A. A. Herr, Mrs. Emma Sel iiert, Mrs. Annie Bacoi., Mrs. John M. Shelley. Mrs. Ellen Shinier, Mrs. Annie S. Hubley, and Mrs. Frank R. Strcck. MISSION GROUPS TO HOLD FOOD SALK ON SAT I RDAI Two of the mission «tudy classes of the Young Werner's Missionary So ciety of the Market. Square Presby terian Church will hold a sals of food Saturday afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock," in the vacant .--tore room of the McKee Building, Se. ci'i aud North streets. Mrs. F. Roy Croll aud Miss Martha Elmer Fleming will be in charge, ably assisted by members of their groups. Choice cakes, large and small, de licious pies, a variety of candies and desserts will be sold to augment the treasury of the society. VALENTINE PARTY GIVEN BY GIRLS OF R. F. O. M. CLUB The girls of the R. F. O. M. Club, of the Young Women's Christian Asso ciation. are eagerly awaiting the,ar rival of Thursday evening, for there is to be a surprise l'vr them in the Valen tine party, at the association rooms In North Third street. There will bo elaborate decorations and refresh ments —that they know, but what is coming in between is the greatest secret. The committee of arrangements, preserving secrecy, includes the Misses Maude Groce, Hazel Groce, Ruth Eck ert, Jean Moore, Mabel Arnold. Eleanor Craln, Ethel Harbolt and Mary Myers. MRS. SHAUB'S BIRTHDAY IS PLEASANTLY CELEBRATED Cards and dancing, followed by a Dutch lunch, were features of pleas ure at the surprise party given to Mrs, K. J. Shaub, of 1720 Penn street, in celebration of her birthday. Those present were Mr. anS Mrs. Charles Bernhardt. Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Heirry B, Huber, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kline, of Maryavllle; Mrs. George Shaub,Robert Bernhardt, A. E. Hamaker, George J. Moran, Miss Rachel Thomas ami Miss Thrum, of Riverside; Miss Gwendolln Shakespeare, Miss Alva Boyles, Miss Elizabeth Taylor. Miss Ethel Panics, Miss Clara A. Moran, Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Shaub, Harry Shaub, Ittcharo Murphy, Miss Dorothy Murphy, Miss Minerva Bernhardt. Miss Katherlne Bernhardt, Miss Charlotte .1. Huber. HOW, FROM VIRGINIA Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cless and son. Warren Cless, of 2350 North Sixth street, with Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Peters, of 2118 Moore street, have returned to the city after a delightful visit among old friends in Winchester and Mur tinsburg, Va. fVALENTINES \ ■ The newest and most novel con- 1 f ceptions in plain or elaborate de- 1 1 Dennison's Crepe Papers I See our Kpeelal window din- m JUHK play of DennlMon'n decorative pii|H-rit nnd noveltle*. WEDNESDAY EVENING body. It rushes into every cell, causes every bona, muscle, ligament, tendon, mucous surface and every nerve to thrill with freedom, with health, with new found springiness. And beat of ail, S. S. S. though a pow erful searching, overwhelming enemy to pain and the causee of rheumatism is as pure as the dew on a peach blossom, as powerful as the heroic works of nature, as searching as the peremptory demand of the most exact science. Ask for and insist upon getting S. 8. S. the world's cure for rheumatism. For private, personal advice on stub born chronic rheumatism write at once to the Swift Specific Co., 20S Swift Build tag, Atlanta. G«. Their medical depart ment Is famous on all blood diseases, and is equipped to make personal blood tests, approved by the highest medical authori ties. Get a bottle of S. S. S. today. Then away goes rheumatism for aU time. SUPPER A LA CARTE WITH IMM VM KI, AID SOCIETY The Ladies' Aid Society of the Im [ manitel Presbyterian Church, Slx ; teentli and Juniper streets, will serve ! supper a la carte in the social rooms j of the church Thursday evening, Feb ruary 12. from 6 to 8 o'clock. On the menu will be chicken with biscuit, and all the accompaniments to that favorite dish; fruit salad, ice cream and cake. FOK NEWPORT GUEST I Miss Gertrude Ehler entertained j Monday evening at her home, 1923 • Green street, in honor of Miss Ethel | Miller, of Newport, who is visiting in I the city. A supper served to twelve ' guests followed a social time. | Miss Emma Graupner gave a the i ater party at the Orpheum yesterday ; for Miss Millie Heberlie. of Reading. Mrs. John Montgomery Mahon. of the Arcade Apartments, was hostess jut cards yesterday, most informally, eight guests enjoying bridge. Frank Blair, of Mifflinburg, Dies Suddenly at His Home Special la The Telegraph Mitllinburg, Pa., Feb. 11. —Frank P. ! Blair, 62 years old, one of MilHin | burg's well-known citizens, died very suddenly last evening at the supper | hour. Mr. Blair was reclining on a I couch in the sitting room when liis I wife informed him supper was ready. In reply he said lie did not care for any. Later Mrs. Blair went into the j room and found him dead. The dl i rect cause of his illness and death may ; be attributed to the result of an acci i dent a number of years ago, when he I was shot in the back while hunting deer in the vicinity of Sand Mountains. A rifle ball of large caliber entered his i back, shattering the backbone, tear -1 ing oIT several ribs, and passed I through the Hver and kidney. This ' would have killed an ordinary man, | but Mr. Blair was of powerful, athletic j build, with a rugged constitution. lie I was foreman in the smith department ! of the Hopp Carriage Company, until about eight we'eks ago, and since has been confined to his home. In former years he resided at Willlamsport, Har risburg and Danville. At the latter place he was a member of the lire department, and he was awarded medals for bravery. He is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. Oscar Crawford, of Altoona; Mrs. Merrill Jordon, of Lewistown; Mrs. i Samuel Klose, of Tyrone; James Attl ! cus, Robert C. and Franklin E., of ; Mitllinburg. Also the following brotli lers: James Blair, formerly of Wll liamsport; Professor Will D. Blair, of i Wilmington, Del.: Samuel Blair, Wav j erly, X. Y., and Harry F. Blair, mem ber of the Mitllinburg Buggy Co. The funeral services will be held on Thurs day. DEATH OF MRS. THOMAS ADAMS Mechanicsburg, Pa., Feb. 11. —After a lingering illness the last fourteen years of ■which she was bedfast, Mrs. Thomas Adams died this morning at her home in East Main street. She was aged 42 years and a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Ruth, also her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Barnes, and a brother, Harry- Barnes, of New York. The funeral service will be held on Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. O. H. Bridgman, of Harrisburg, assisted by the Rev. Joseph E. Guy, i pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Churcii. | Burial will be made in Chestnut Hill | Cemetery. YOUNG GIRL SCALDED Special to The Telegraph Columbia, Pa.. Feb. 11.—Elsie, the 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Holland, of this place, was badly scalded about the head and face when she ran against a kettle of boiling water that stood on the stove and upset It. The boiling water ran over her head and face and inlllcted frightful burns. A physician was promptly summoned, who relieved her suffering. NEW YORK EXPERT GIVES TREK ON LEIKS Editorial Associations Elect Offi cers; Bressler Heads the State Weeklies O. H. BRESSLER, Lock Haven, Elected President of the State Association of Weekly Newspapers Previous to adjournment yesterday afternoon of the State Editorial Asso ciation, C. Goodwin Turner, of New York, gave an instructive talk on "Office and Circulation Leaks," which gave the visiting newspaper men many an lnskie tip on ways of saving money in the various depart ments. Another address was that of Jason Rodgers, also of New York. Committees were appointed by the Associations of Dallies and Weeklies to act jointly in the matter of Auditor General Powell's reduction of the bills for advertising the proposed con stitutional amendments where such bills were based upon the regular ad vertising rates of the several news papers. Preliminary action was taken in opposition to certain proposed radi cal legislation providing for a mini mum age limit of 16 years for news boys. It is contended that reasonable child labor legislation should be fa vored, but theorists must not be per mitted to write the laws of the Com monwealth. These officers were elected: Pennsylvania Associated Dailies— President. E. J. Stackpole, Harrisburg Telegraph; first vice-president, E. G. Gral'l', Sun, Willamsport: second vice president, Fred L. Rentz, News, New Castle; secretary, Walter Fosnot. Sen tinel, Lewistown; treasurer, W. L. Binder, News, Pottstown; executive committee. R. P. Ilabgcod, Star and Record, Bradford, chairman; C. N. Andrews, Free Press, Easton; Charles R. Long. Times, Chester; J. Denny O'Neil, News, McKeesportr; Walter 1,. Taylor. Dispatch, York; R. C. Gordon, Record. Waynesboro; William Mc- Lean, Bulletin. Philadelphia; John Rauch, Eagle, Reading; J. H. Zerby, Republican, Pottsville. State Association of Weekly News papers President, O. H. Bressler, Times, Lock Haven; vice-president, I. N. Graham, Echo, Ligonier; secre tary and treasurer, George W. WTagen seller. Post, Middleburg; members of the executive committee, In addition to the officers, J. H. Treacher, Dis patch, Jeanette; Dietrich Lamade, Grit, Willlamsport; Eric Hanff, Plain Dealer, Philadelphia, and .Howard Reynolds, Sun, Quarryville. O. H. Bressler, who was elected president of the Weeklies Association, has been identilied with the State Edi torial Association for a long time and his election at this time, in view of the recent stand the Lock Haven Times, Mr. Breseler's paper, has taken for prohibition, in the opinion of his fellow newspapermen, has some sig nificance. Mr. Bressler is strong for the Republican party and a frequent visitor to Harrisburg when State con ventions and other important meetings are held. He Is popular In Clinton county and in his reference to the newspapers of the State to-day highly praised the Harrisburg Telegraph for the manner in which it had stood for a clean city, remarking, "It is the paper the people want; not afraid to take a stand for right." Witnesses Say Murdock Bill Will Be Effective By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Feb. 11. —"Curi- ous and farcical results followed the .Standard dissolution decree; it did not enforce competition," Herbert Knox Smith, ex-Commissioner of Cor portions, told the House commerce committee to-day at a hearing on the Murdock Trade Commission bill. With William Draper Lewis, dean of the law school of the University ! of Pennsylvania, and D. R. ltichberg, j of New York, Mr. Smith favored the Murdock bill, embodying the ideas of the Progressive party, as opposed to tiie Clayton administration bill. The Progressive witnesses declared that nine out of ten dissolutions under j the Sherman law were useless, that i corporations controlling patent rights lor transportation facilities could not | be effectively broken up by the dis solution proceedure, and that leaving ) the administration of the present laws entirely to the courts was too cumber some and inadequate. HOT FROM THE WIRE By Associated Press London. of State for the Colonies, to-day form ally notitled the House of Common that | Viscount Gladstone would cease to be I Governor-Geenral of the Union of South | Africa in June. WnahlnKtou. A very satisfactory I condition of the public health in 1913 is indicated by the general death rate of 13.8 per 1,000 of estimated popula tion In the registration States and cities, statisti«s for which the Census Bureau announced to-day. The rate for the same territory in 1912 was 13.0, and in 1911 was 13.9 per 1,000. New York. To foster and protect the Interest and commercial relations between the United States and Germany and the Chamber of German-American Commerce was incorporated to-day un der the laws of New York. The board of directors consists of prominent mer chants and bankers. UlrmlnKhnm, Alii. Fire early to day destroyed the cotton seed house of the Farmers' and Millers' Cotton Seed Oil Company. The loss on building and stock was estimated at $140,000, par tially covered by Insurance. The origin of the tire has not been determined. New Orleans, l.a. Banking and commercial representatives of several Southern cities to-day gave their views to the organisation committee of the Federal reserve system as to where one lnf the Government's regional reserve banks should be located. •luarex. Me*. Kfl'orts of officials of the Mexico Northwestern ltailroad to ronlirin the report of the capture of Castillo, the bandit, have been fruit less. It was learned only that the re , port was brought into Curnbre by a 1 Mexican. HAFRISBURG ifSSfo TELEGRAPH £ 0 ' TL TTEWS spreads fast—but how fast we never / W knew until we announced the Doutrich Midwinter & Sale a few days ago. Already it seems as if everybody within buying distance of this store has somehow heard about I the great things that are happening here Hosts of friends and customers But, we are not complaining for —keen judges of clothes values—have we figure that there are long profits hastened to take advantage of the clearance in making new friends and holding old ones. Re prices which now rule in this store. At all times, sides these garments simply must be cleared now, it is a cardinal principle of ours that every trans- while they're fresh and new, and we're glad to see action must be mutually profitable—to the cus- people share in the benefits. It's just this sort of tomer as well as to us. Right now, however, it is thing—this sort of service—which makes it im a little lopsided, for customers are getting by far possible for others to "STEAL OUR THUN the bigger share of the profit in these goods. DER" no matter how they try. D E come in now—before I are depleted further. Remember no garments are exempt- - - even Kuppenheimer Suits and Overcoats are included in this remarkable price event. Deep Reductions Suits and Overcoats ySPlSuits and Overcoats Q7C Worth $25.00, Now... I u Suits and Overcoats A7C $20.00, Now... " II 111 Suits and Overcoats (j*l Q 7C I 11111 Worth SIB.OO, Now ... I 0 II M\ Suits and Overcoats (M A *7C llf II Worth $15.00, Now ... «plv* • 0 304 Market Street Harrisburg Pa. Swathed in Antiseptic . Wrappings, Couple Wed; Bride Goes to Hospital By Associated Press Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 11.—Not even s«eing his brido because she and he were swathed in antiseptic wrappings, as was the officiating rabbi, Milton Newman was married to Miss Theresa Peyser last Sunday night, It became known here to-day. Both are resi dents of Baltimore, where Miss Peyser was formerly a nurse in Johns Hopkins Hospital. The wedding date had- been set for last Sunday at the home of a friend in this i'i!y, but last week Miss Peyser became ill with scarlet fever anri was quarantined. Newman insisted that the weddlnir be carried out ass planned and was givtn permission by the board of health. j A health officer and a. nurse were the* only witnesses. Rabbi Julian Mor- I senstero, the bride and groom and the 4 witnesses were swathed from head to foot in the antiseptic wrappings and Immediately after the ceremony the bride was taken to a hospital. To-day she was said to be well on the road [ to recovery. Banks, Post Office, and Schools to Celebrate the Birth of "Honest Old Abe" Lincoln's Birthday to-morrow will bo observed by the closing of banks, the Post Office, exercises in many of 1 the schools and many social events. . At most homes the flag will be dis played. The hours at the Post Office are ! the usual holiday hours. The main [ Post. Office and the Hill and Maelay ! stations will be closed from 10 a. m. until 12 p. in. All carriers will make s their 7.15 a. m. delivery and collection • and the 5.40, 7.30 and 10.30 collec ) lions. FEBRUARY 11,1914. Operators and Miners at Work on New Wage Scale By Associated Press Philadelphia, Feb. 11. —With the preliminaries of organization out of the way, the operators and miners o'f the central bituminous competitive committee to-day began the real work of trying to arrange a new wage scale to take the place of the present agree ment which expires on April 1. While the joint conference has to do with the wage scale to be fixed in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana und Il linois, the result of the negotiations will have an important bearing upon the new scale to be arranged Ln the central Pennsylvania district and other States. , The miners planned to present to the joint conference to-day their list of demands as approved by the Inter national convention of the Miners' Union at Indianapolis last week. This provides, among other things, for a flat increase of five cents o ton on •the mine run basis, a .ten per cent. * Increase on ,1 _ . _ urday half holiday. ? fl ou ' reiterated thut they° -wm reject the demand of tho men for a wage In flSr-thi 0 "^ 0 ",? the Aluminous advance ' not warrant any ACCEPTS CAIJ; TO ASHLAND Columbia, Pa., Feb. 11.—The Rev. Thomas E. Shearer, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Trindle Springs, Cumberland county, and a former resident of this place, has accepted a call to become pastor of St. James' Lutheran Church at Ashland. Pa. CASTORIA For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years Alvrrys bears of 7