XfcfoMen "The Deadliest Weapon of All" SOME months ago an. artit'le ap peared in this oulumii sarin* lawa should be more stringent regarding the sale of the hypoder mic syringe* It Was Written after the discovery of four reuses where young people with weak wills, alt tnembers of good families, had been found by their parents in posses sion o i this Implement. Ail had Used it with disastrous efteetj an effoet Which necessitated their being sent away to sanatoriums for Orug sure. These four oases Were scattered •ver a large circle, and the Victims Were not acquainted with one another. None of them had been ill, Yet each one had obtained the deadly lit tle weapon. The four represent only a quartet of the wretched army of drug victims In our land who use this Implement. The following letter came In reply to the article: 81 Halsey street, Brooklyn. N. Y. Referring to an article entitled, •■The Deadliest Weapon of All, written by you and printed in the New York Evening Journal, I would say that your knowledge of drug laws is, indeed, limited, because at the present time there Is a law, very much In existence and rigidly enforced, prohibiting the sale of a hypodermic syringe or its parts ex cept upon a written orde rfrom a reputable doctor of high standing. In fact, this law Is so farreachlng that even a trained nurse cannot, without a written order from a doc tor, obtain even so mutfh as a washer for a hypodermic syringe. I am a druggist employed by a well-known drug company, and fully understand what I am talking about. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX The following tear-stained letter tells its own story of the insurgent heart of a girl, an Insubordination that Is incited and strengthened by the too apparent fact that her mother is mother to her sons only: "I am fifteen. I have two brothers, eighteen and nineteen. Igo to gram mar school, and have no one to con fide in but you. My mother always pets my brothers and speaks so kindly to them, and if anyone talks about them she is insulted. But me! I get picked at all the time. I ask her why she doesn't pet mo, and she says I don't work yet ;*id can't expect any kindness. I go to a party about once a year .and my mother scolds mo so much before I go I can't eat or talk natural when there. I have to sit and watch the others play kissing games, because my mother won't let me play them: and the boys only kiss them on the cheek. Then .at nine, my brother comes for me, and it breaks up the party, and 1 am always looked down on because I break up the partj*. (Please excuse this writing, but I am very nervous.) "I never bring my girl friends home, because mother makes fun of them, hut my brothers have all their friends, and when their friends come I have to Bit out in the kitchen. I can't re member the last time my mother kissed me, and she tolls me every day J am getting homelier, and no girl likes to hear that. My brothers tease DOOR SIDESWIPES TRAIN Special to The Telegraph Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 25.—A door of a refrigerator car swinging open as the train passed the Wilkes-Barre-Phila delphia "fiyer" on the Sunbury di vision of the Pennsylvania railroad near Retreat yesterday morning side swiped the cars of the flyer and broke the glass. Passengers were greatly frightened, but were unharmed. AVOID THE POSSIBILITY of your new Spring Dress being out of fashion as soon as it is fin ished, by selecting your Spring outfit from The SPRING FASHION BOOK PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS JyP Patterns of the "MINA- (\j£SH if Ifill f A RET" style were shown by /// Ji7 I jJ? /(. 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Get a small bottle anyway, just to try It—Apply a little in the nostrils and Instantly your clogged nose and ■topped-up air passages of tho head will open; you will breathe freely; dullness and headache disappear. By morning! the catarrh, cold-in-head or catarrhal sore throat will be gone. g End such misery now! Get tlie small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" wt any drug atore. This sweet, frag WEDNESDAY EVENING By Ella Wheeler Wi cox 1 consider your editorial to far fetched and a slur upen the druggist. Re speetfull/i HERBERT E, CROSS. Pi B.—Should you doubt the verac ity of this statement, try and pur chase a hypodermic syrlnge> In a shop window of a famous col lege town In a State adjacent to New York, last week, was displayed an en tire case of dypodermic syringes, with a large card announcing, "Special Sale, Only One Dollari" The criticism dt the law was not meant for New York Btate only. There are other States in the Union! And victims of the hypodermic habit exist outside of New York. Mr. Robert Lehmen, a New York chemist, welt known in the fraternity, was asked for his opinion on this subject, and re plied! "As regards the h/podermlo syringe, there is a law in force which prevents the sale of the same except upon a physician's order, and as a result the sale (in New York City) has fallen off Immensely. Perhaps the folks who want them go to New Jersey or any other neighboring State where the law against them is not so strict! "However, the hypodermic syringe without the necessary drugs is like a pistol without cardridges: in fact, the hatpin Is more deadly, and the friends who can't buy a syringe will take the drugs by the mouth. "The law in regard to the sale of cocaine Is defective, as it allows the repetition of prescriptions which con tain one grain to the fluid ounce, or about one-fifth of one per cent, which permits a habitual user of the drug to buy a solution or have a prescription refilled containing such a quantity and drink the same tnstead of injecting it. If we can get the objectionable clause me all the time, and if I answer back my mother punishes me. "Isn't it true every girl who is treated as I am. and can't have friends, becomes the worst kind of a girl? I am speaking to you, hoping I will have some friend. I am not a bad girl. I come honW straight from school and do housework tilt supper time and never get out. "When boys whose families are de cent ask me to go to picture shows, mother won't let me go, and she won't let any boy come to the house. I think that is why so many girls go wrong. Their mothers won't let boys coine to the house, so they meet them on street corners. "I always act decent, and would liko some innocent fun. but mother r ikes me stay home, and then makes nome unpleasant by finding fault with me. "I have black hair and brown eyes, and I don't think I'm so awfully homely. What shall I do? I can't help it because I was born." The letter is published in the hope that those mothers who are mothers to their sons only will read it. There are such mothers; the world is full of them. Mothers who are on bended knee before a man child, and who are fault-finding and unjust, and harsh to the point of cruelty to their daugh ters, with the inherent longings of whose hearts they have neither under standing nor sympathy. lIARVESTiXG ICE AT NEWPORT Newport, Pa., Feb. 25.—The present cold snap, although It is a great hard ship to the poor and is hard on the coalpiie, yet T. H. Buttorf is smiling and thankful. It means a crop of ice for next summer. Mr. Butturf has a large force at work and is harvesting a fine crop of ice abcut eight Inches in thickness. rant balm dissolves by the heat of the nortrils; penetrates and heals the in flamed, swollen membrane which lines the noae, head and throat; clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes Immediately. Don't lay awake to-night struggling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless. Put your faith—just once—in "Ely's Cream Balm" and your cold or ca tarrh will surely disappear.—Adv. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH allowing the one-fifth of one per cent repetitions) eliminated, much will have been accomplished. "Any agitation which will result In tue elimination of the clause In Bec tion A of the law and alsos the en actment of a strict antlnarcotlc law In the neighboring States (especially New Jersey) will be welcomed by every right-minded physician and phamracißt, and, In fact, by every hon orable individual.' 1 Months before any mention had been made in the newspapers re garding the use of the hypodermic needle bv "white slave agents" a respectable young married woman living in New Jersey came to New Yor kto be fitted to a gown in a large dry goods house near Thirty fourth street. As the fitter was not ready for her, the lady decided to go across the street and visit a moving picture theater. While there her shoulder was made uncomfortable by what she supposed to be a pin In her dress. Presently, feeling dlzgy. Bhe hurried out and over to the gtting room, where she fell In a dead faint. Whe nshe recovered she told of her experience, and the physician who ex amined her shoulder found it had been pierced by a needle of some sort. The wound showed evidences of poi -8011. The woman shunned publicity, so the case was never known outside of her immediate circle. Something like two months after thlß occurrence the newspapers were teeming with similar cases. The existence of "needle men" has been attributed to female hysteria: but this one case absolutely occurred, and no doubt many other cases report ed have been genuine. Surely, there needs to be greater caution used 1 nthe sale of the "dead i liest weapon of all." Madame Mali Says Increase et \ oz. Daily Means 57 lbs. In Ten Years LESSON XII—PART IV. Obesity (Continued). Joine systems can take care of more food than others, due to some peculiarity of assimilation. Some natures work off fat easily. The dangerous cases, how ever, and, unfortunately, the most com mon are those that gain flesh slowly but surely, the first gain being so small that the subject is hardly alarmed at it. It is stated by specialists on this sub ject that the deposit of one-fourth of an ounce of fat daily will Increase the . weight fifty-seven pounds in ten vears. ! So, it is easy to see that, if you start in | with this little Increase at the age of forty, fifty will probably find you a very stout person. It is far easier to get rid of the excess flesh at forty and by a Judicious diet and system of exercising keep the weight at the same figure than it would be to reduce fifty-seven pounds ten years hence. That would require really heroic treatment Banting. As I have stated before, the kind of food eaten as well as the amount governs the increase of fat. Some years ago when tills Idea obtained general recognition those who wished to reduce lived on a diet entirely devoid of flesh-making foods. This was called "Banting" after the name of the Kngllsh doctor who advised It for his patients. The regime recom mended by Dr. Banting and his followers Is as follows: For breakfast two boft boiled eggs, toasted, unbuttered bread, weak tea with out sugar. For luncheon lean meat, either beef, mutton or chicken, green vegetable served without butter, cheese and fruit. Dinner the same as the noon meal with, If desired, the substitution of a salad in place of the vegetable. This regime excludes any liquid at all from the noon and evening meals. Fresh water or unsweetened lemonade may bs partaken of freely between meals, prefer ably an hour before or an hour after eat ,n£~on XII to be continued. Miss Mercedes Helen Power Bride of Joseph E. Stock Special to The Telegraph Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 25.—Miss Mer cedes Helen Power, daughter of Mrs. Mary Power, and Joseph J. Stock, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Stock, were married at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing In St. Francis Xavier Church. .Father Mark Stock, of Carlisle, a brother of the groom, performed tjie ceremony and celebrated the nuptial mass. As the wedding party entered the church the "Lohengrin" wedding march was played by Miss Mary Ramer, while a male quartet, three of whom were brothers of the groom, sang "Faithful and True." Miss Eileen Power, a sister of the bride, was bridesmaid, immediately after the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served at the bride's home. Mr. and Mrs. Stock left on a honyemoon trip, after which they will reside in Pitts burgh, where the groom is a member of a prominent firm in architecture. A large number of out-of-town guests were present at the wedding. Penbrook Burgess Issues Order Against Snowballing Special to The Telegraph Penbrook, Pa., Feb. 26.—Following complaints made by women and girls who declare that they are afraid to walk along the streets because of the snowball fussllades which are In prog ress most of the day time and early evening, Burgess MoClellan J. Koomes issued a statement declaring that un less this was stopped the offenders would be arrested and fined. Several girls were slightly injured last week by the snowballs. Work men on wagons are greatly annoyed by the snowballers. SURPLICE BLOUSE FOR SMALL WOMEN Loose and Youthful in Effect With New and Smart Lines 8157 Blouse for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 years. WITH LONG OR THREE-QUARTER SLEEVES. Every variation of the surplice blous# is welcome and never was there a prettier style. This one is designed for young girls and 6mall women and is charmingly youthful in effect. The full fronts pro vide becoming fullness and the little crossed over chemisette allow# the use j of dainty net, lace or similar material j while the high collar at the back gives j a becoming touch. Such a blouse can be | made with skirt to match to form a gown 1 or it can be made of crSpe, net or some material of the sort and worn with the tailored 6uit. The lines are the smartest possible yet the blouse is so simple that It means very little labor. In the picture, it is made of the new, soft taffeta with a little chemisette of lace. For the 16 year size, the blouse will require yds. of material 27, yds. 36, 2 yds. 44 in. wide, w?th yd. of lace 3 in. wide for the chemisette^ The pattern 8157 is cut in sizes for girls of 16 and 18 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten centa. Bowman's sell Muy Manton Patterns. IA(Y)UtS6OfI6DT\ MataV*BuHaio° NewVariL.* c *' *"** and had pain* all over my f \ wiiWele, Mew York. body and waa so nervous that / m A \ I could scream if any one / \ Jk talked to me or even looked at / \ Eyery mother-every woman—should avail herself of the W SJrta na™« d iho ft'Sd / 1 opportunity to secure free a copy of Dr. Pierce's great book, by using Dr. Pierea'a medicines. / 1 The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser. This will She had practically the same ail- I I srive you information and advice of vital importance ment that I was Buffering from I «BLl|||| J to yon—certain to save you suffering and pain, bend W 1 Ir4 W J II onKent sumps to pay just the cost of mall- W en siothe V\ W i-' if iHfr^ r iPP' n «, the „ l ,°9 B „ pa, J e, „ C U l d f 'fteasant PeVlete,' which 1 took VV Mil book to Dr. Pierce, Invalids Hotel, Buffalo* N, Y. for six months. /have never had Y\ v wBSr an occasion to consult a physician aince—am in excellent health but fy always keep some of your mod tcinee on band." \jfc l ll ill —*———^— then a continuous gnawing and grind ing sensation. From a strong, robust and healthy woman she was growing prematurely old —sick day after day— in misery all the time, short of breath, palpitation and dizziness. So pitiable became her condition at times that she actually wished for death. She applied to the best possible medical experts, spent money for years, en deavoring to be cured, but, alas, all was for naught—she grew steadily worse. Her neighbors, her friends and acquaintances all realized her serious condition. She was told by numbers of people to call and try Quakor, but she had no faith in either. As she FEBRUARY 25, 1914. FRUIT mm FOR MAMMA, DAD, BABY. "CALIFORNIA SYRUP UF FIGS" Better than calomel, oil or salts for liver, bowels and stomach Mother, daddy and the children can always keep feeling line by tak ing this delicious fruit laxative as oc casion demands. Nothing else cleanses the stomach, liver and bowels so thoroughly without griping. You take a little at night and in the morning all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and fermenting food, delayed in the bowels gently moves out of the system. 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This had been the cause of all her trouble and suffering, and after failing to be touched by doctor's reme dies Anally yielded to the wonderful power of Quaker Extract, the great zineGs is gone; your stomach ia sweet, liver and bowels clean, and you feel grand. "California Syrup of Pigs" la a family laxative. Everyone from grandpa to baby can safely take It and no one Is ever disappointed in its pleasant action. Millions of mothers know that it is the ideal laxative to give cross, sick, feverish children. But get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a DO cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups on each bot tle. Rofuse with contempt the cheap er Fig Syrups and counterfeits. See that it bears the name—"California Fig Syrup Company."—Advertise ment. "I ii ——i— picture of "Our Mutual Girl."—Adver tisement. A two-day motorcycle meet is being arranged by enthusiasts of San Angelo, Texas. 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