Baking Powder Absolutely Pure i > Avoid All Substitutes MAGIC POWDER TOWN IN HEAP OF ASHES [Continued From First Page.] ty-flv® thousand persons hardly a building remained, though the great explosives plant nearby and company villages at either end of the town escaped undamaged. The loss is put at $1,000,000. Thousands of refugees who through out the afternoon had stood helpless as their homes and places of business mimed were housed during the night in Petersburg and Richmond. Many of those who saved their household goods stood guard over their effects with repeating rifles all night. Mili tiamen from Richmond and special guards from inside the DuPoint plant helped the Hopewell police force to keep order. looter is Hanged Although many were injured, only »ne death is reported. A negro, caught looting, was said to have been strung up to a tree at the edge of tow n. The fire started in a restaurant when in oil stove toppled from a box in the kitchen. A hotel caught fire next and i noon the flames, driven by a stiff wind, j were eating their way through banks, 1 stores, hotels and dwellings. The only j hurch in the town was one of the! irst buildings to go. An eleven-year-old boy was the hero j nf the flre. Twice he rushed into a. building and each time reappeared! with a baby in his arms. The explosives plant, which works; •lay and night at top speed, ceased i • perations only long enough to make sure none of its buildings would burn. | 'nee when the fire got close all the iiands were turned out to pour water >n the building, but a shift of the wind turned the flames in another di ection and the plant started up again. There was little insurance, it wasj said, on the buildings, which were lammed together, wpod and brick, in a space covering about sixty acres. Department of Justice Is Investigating Fire Washington, Dec. 10.—Chief Ble laskl, of the Department of Justice, , Bureau of Investigation, to-day in structed his agent at Norfolk to pro eed to Hopewell. Va., and make a horOugh Investigation of yesterday's disastrous fire. A report within a few days is expected. Federal .agents investigating fires n powder plants and munitions works have failed to find basis for govern mental porsecutlon and officials doubt ed if the Hopewell Investigation would -eveal anything upon which the fed ;ral government could take action. TO SKXD RELIEF Richmond. Va., Dec. 10.—Governor Stuart Is awaiting reports from agents he has sent to Hopewell to Investi gate the necessity for State relief measures. A joint session of the city •ouncll here will tske up the subject o-day and the Richmond Chamber of 'ommerce will meet for the same pur pose. Newspaper relief funds have been opened and Richmond expects to halve organized aid In Hopewell be fore night. Petersburg and Norfolk f structure. Tents are being sent by the State military authorities to are for the homeless and sheds have :>eeti built in which they can prepare ;helr food. Battalion of Troops Guard Smoking Ruins Petersburg, Va., Dec. 10.—A bat talion of Virginia troops is guarding the. ruins of Hopeless and no dis order of any character is reported. A meeting of citizens to-day began ef forts to have all new buildings of brick. Three fire insurance men es timated the total loss at $2,000,000. The Du Pont po-.vder plant is op erating as usual and there have been no developments In the case of the man arrested Wednesday afternoon with nitroglycerine In his possession. The arrest was confirmed today by the Du Pont police force, although officials of the company refuse to talk. The city council of Petersburg has ap- -Doooooc2ooooQaoda^^ ', fgj On this modern plan you can draw a part of your money PQ without disturbing interest on tho balance, and if your i money has been here three months, you will set 8 per fef i Wg? cent, compounded semiannual)}*. hQ :jj§ One of the strongest and oldest banks in Central Penn- JSS sylvania. rsf- Capital Stock 5100,000.00 ; Surplus *500,000.00 First National Bank 224 Market St. Ba, HARRISnCRft. PENNA. * <; Popular Singer at the Majestic Says It Is Now Being Adopted by the Schools 'Most every vaudeville fan in Harris liurg has grown to like Ed Morton, the popular singer, who Is again warbling his way into favor at the Majestic dur ing the last half of the week. Tt is interesting to note that Mr. Mor ton Is Including in his songs a number that lie says is going to be adopted as DANSEUSE NEEDS REAL LIVE SNAKE Miss Xoland, Baltimore, Insists on Writhing Serpent For Dance Before Miss Katherine Noland, of Baltimore, can do the weird Egyptian "dance of the vases" at the charity ball she says she must have a real live snake! This wasn't to have been publicly known until it was definitely settled whether or not a papier-mache snake wouldn't do as well: somehow the fact leaked out. The "dance of the vases" is to be the opening number of the gorgeous pageant of dancing that is to precede the big ball in Chestnut. Street Audi torium Thursday evening, January 20. Tlic Dance of the Vases The story Miss Noland wishes to portray is that of a captive maiden — so the synopsis has it, anyway—who wishes to obtain her release from bondage when she dances before one of the old Pharaohs of Egypt. It's a very snakey-like, weird enough dance. One can scarcely help associating it with creepy thoughts of tiger skin cov ered courtyards and a lot of coal-black slaves and an only seemingly inter ested king lolling lazily back on his couch and the languorous swaying rhythm of the "dance of tho vases." The orchestra adds Its share to the pic ture with some of that "Salome"-llke variety of music. However, to tell the story properly, Miss Noland Insists that she must have a real live snake. Down to the Fox-trot Tho "dance of the vases" Is only one of a whole lot of numbers which will make up tho most colorful spec tacle of its kind ever seen in this city. For just forty minutes scores of Ilar risburg's prettiest girls and best danc ing youths will tell the tale of the years by the (lances of the various periods. And the history will cover from the days of old Egypt all the way day to these nights of the foje-trot. Every period will be realistically inter preted in costume of the time as well as in the way the dancers step. The tale, period by period, will be unfolded in rhythm across the big floor with all the vividness of a moving picture film. After the pageant, of course, there will be the big dance, in which every body can join. The bir*» will bo twit tering a greeting to another day before the "home waltz" is finished. Nor will the dancing be all; the decorations will be something to make tho hun dreds of guests sit up and gasp about. The great hall will resemble a real tea garden of old Japan. And when you're through with the dance you can step Into the adjoining hall for supper. And Still the Snake! The proceeds of the bl? ball, as you probably know, are to boost the fund of the Associated Aid Society to per mit the continuance of this excellent work among the needy. The Aid So ciety includes the jurisdiction of the Children's Aid work and the social service bureau formerly handled by the Associated Charities. Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert Is president of the Asso ciated Aid; Mrs. Marlln E. Olmsted is chairman of the finance committee, which is arranging the ball, and serv ing with her arc Miss Anne McCor mlck. E. S. Herman. Frank J. Brady and Carl B. Ely. Incidentally, if Miss Noland MUST have a snake, It will be for the committee on arrangements to produce the snake. Aren't you going to the charity ball? WAI.TER GEK Funeral services for Walter Gee, who died yesterday morning at the County Almshouse, will be held to-morrow af ternoon at the Hooper funeral parlors, (501 Forster street. Burial will be made iat Lincoln Cemetery. (i national air. At the present time lie declares tnnt the schools are tnking up the number in New York State and that it is also being popularized in Other places. It's a tuneful SOUK with clever lines and is written mostly along' the lines of America's growth.—Adver tisement. j Theaters Do Their Part in Red Cross Seal Sale | Pretty girls who will feature a I vaudeville act in the Majestic next j week will do their share in boosting j Harrlsburg's Red Cross Christmas seal ! campaign for 1015 by selling the tiny ! Yuletido "stickers" in the audience. At the Colonial and at the Regent moving picture playhouses pretty booths, presided over by just as pretty girls garbed ns Red Cross nurses, will sell you all the seals you want. And stories of the fight against the white plague will be thrown upon the screen so realistically that you Just can't help stopping at the booth in the lobby anil purchasing lied Cross seals. The moving pictures and tlio booths will be part of next week's program at. the theaters —December 13 to 18 are the dates. This display has been ar ranged through the co-operation of Manager C. Floyd Hopkins and Peter Magaro. While arrangements are being made for the theater demonstration tlio se cret societies, business houses, manu facturing concerns, department stores, etc., are selling the seals by the thou sands. More than 11,00 ft have already been distributed among the fraternal orders by Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city director of health. Another 4,000 hav« been taken by Shirley B. Watts, local manager of the Bell Telephone Com pany, for distribution among the vari ous departments. ERIK WILD DROP STEAMSHIP HOLDINGS New York, Dec. 10.—The Erie rail road. it was announced to-day by President Underwood, has taken steps to comply with the Interstate Com merce Commission's ruling that rail roads must not operate steamships on the Great Lakes. The ruling, made last summer, goes into effect this month. TRUCK HIT? THOLI.KY An Adams Express Company truck collided with a second strtet trolley car at Second and Locust streets, eariv this afternoon, fortunately with no resulting damage to either, with the exception of a broken Window In the car and >«,. twisted axle for the truck. The driver of the machine attempted to cross in front of the street car in order to turn up Locust Htreet and was struck In the rear and whirled around so that tile front of the truck smashed the window of the car. SOUR STOMACH When vegetable food ferments it causes sour rlsinff in the throat, the formation oC gas in the stomach whtcli distends It and causes pain often ex tending to tho region of the heart and arousing a fear of heart disease. Thin condition is called acid dyspepsia. Heartburn, a name applied to a pain In the pit of the stomach, with palpitation of the heart, results from acid dyspepsia. It is a condition that can be cor rected by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to tone up the digestive organs and by a proper selection of food. Send to-day to the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, Y„ for the diet book "What to Eat and How to Eat." It contains infor mation about the diet In health and sickness and is free on request. It gives complete information regarding the tonic treatment of many forms of stomach trouble with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. There cannot be perfect digestion without a sufficient supply of red blood and there Is nothing bet - ter than Dr. Williams' Pink Pillt to enrich the blood and tone up tl.e stomach. Your own druggist sells Dr.' Wil i Hams' Pink Pills or they will b* sent by mall, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, si* boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y. —Advei tisement. 25