fße Sure »|!k It's pure guess work to buy a NNftuk tire for your car without finding YMYjfo out the type of tire that wears \vßk 11 best on your type of car. \v(l \fitn rtot>oy lreM There are five United States KB 'Balanced' Tires for you to choose 9 O descriptions is to be found in this big Rem- i | -™- ■*■ nant Sale at prices that are lower than ever (( 25nl lc to 25c Dept. Store before in order to insure quick moving and j i \\oEP*RTMEKT JJ Where Every Day Is Bar gain Day rapid adjustment of stocks. J 2 lsMarketSt. Opp. Courthouse "WEDNESDAY EVENING, have captured Panker mountain in i the Carpathians on the Hungarian i border, the War Office announced to day. Paris, Aug. 30.—The French j launched another attack on the Ver dun front east of Fleury last night and made further progress, the war Office announced to-day. Von Hindenburg Is Made Chief of Staff of German Army to Succeed Falkenhayn Berlin. Aug. 30. The Emperor has dismissed General Erich von Falken hayn and appointed Field Marshal von ! Hindenburg chief of the general staff, j Copenhagen, Aug. 30.—The Ritzaus j News Agency publishes a dispatch giv- | ing the official announcement of the appointment of Field Marshal von i Hindenburg as German chief of staff, I and adds that General von Ludendorf, ! Von Hindenburg's chief of staff has j been appointed first quartermaster i general. General von Falkenhayn was the successor as chief of staff of General ' Helmuth von Moltke. SCHOOL WILL NQT OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER [Continued From First Page] modified order would permit the open- ) ! ing of schools any time to children 16 ; years or older. The Modified Order Dr. Dixon's statement in full fol ; lows: "The Department of Health's deci sion on the closing of the schools was ! to prevent the the spreading of infan- I tile paralysis in our State and spare | the lives of our little children. Be fore deciding this question numerous experienced educators of our State j were consulted and it was made clear that our school system in Pennsylva nia—both public and private—repre sents a beautiful piece of educational machinery, each upper grade or each ] wheel dependent upon another. "With this in view the State Depart- I ment of Health decided not to close the kindergarten and elementary grades alone but instead to move the ! entire piece of machinery out of the I range of the enemy (infantile paraly sis )so as to extend its action over into ■ June or well away from danger. | Otherwise we would berak up the | classes and grades until the beautiful i school systems would have been like a smashed automobile on the wayside. "No sooner was the decision made by the Department than ministers and Sunday school teachers became j abusive. Its object being, primarily, to save the lives and prevent the life j long crippling of our children, the ! Department of Health listened to and j considered the protest, for all It was put In a way that was not suited to : make angels of those who had bgen | 'sleeping in their boots' for three weeks to make the new emergency rule work smoothly. "The Board after carefully consider ing the protest against the decision to close the schools including all grades, which was intended to preserve their organization, has rendered a decision that all classes, schools and colleges may decide whether or not they open as usual, providing that none admit children under sixteen years old, be fore September 29, 1916. "This new ruling puts the State up to the difficult task of policing each school. "The period of exclusion from mov ing picture shows and public enter tainments shall be extended to Sep tember 29 for children under 16." "Schools" in the above order is to be interpreted to mean Sunday schools as well as public and all other kinds of schools. N'o Action Here as Yet Dr. Downes, city superintendent of schools, was informed of the modified ruling of the Health Board but said that before he could say what would be done about It in Harrisburg he would have to take the matter up with the school board. As many of the high school students are under 16 it is not likely that the schools will be opened until after September 29, ac cording to the belief of several teach ers consulted who thought that the opening of school to upper classmen would only add to the confusion. Crosses Border to Keep His Sunday School Record Hanover, Pa.. Aug. 30. J. Emory Renoll. of this place, who has not miss ed a session of Sunday school for nine teen years, traveled sixty miles last Sunday in order to maintain an un broken record. Renoll is secretary of Trinity Re formed Sunday school and when be laarned of the edict of Dr. Samuel Olxon closing all Sunday schools in Pennsylvania he decided to go to Mary land. Arriving in Baltimore on an early train he found all the city schools closed, but undismayed he went to the country and after searching for hours found a school in session six miles from Baltimore, which he attended. Renoll Is preparing to go out of town next Sunday, probably Into West Vir ginia, as he is determined to uphold his unique record. WEALTHY rt. ». GIRL MES Narragansett Pier, R. 1., Aug. 30. Miss Lyra Brown Nlckerson, of Provi dence, one of the wealthiest young wo men in New England, died at her summer home here to-day from typhoid fever. On August 1 announce ment was made of Miss Nickerson's engagement to Henry G. Clark, of Providence, assistant director of athletes at Brown University. The wedding was set for October 4. Miss Nickerson was active in athletes and was a proficient tennis player. She had given largely to Rhode Island charities. She recently presented a hydroaeroplane to the aviation corps of the Rhode Island Na i tional Guard. fiXRRTSBUKG Sffrjjftii TELEGRAPH Silver Sandals A Detective Story of Mys tery, Love and Adventure. By Clinton H. Stagg Copyright. W. J. Watt & Co., International News Service. The puzzled official agreed that it j was. "If it's that clean," smiled Colton. j "get around the corner and roll in the gutter. Then slide down the alley to 1 our right. You'll find a small gang j of Irish kids playing there." He added : a word to clear the lines of bewilder- | ment on the district attorney's face, j "My ears are three times as sharp j as yours. I can hear them plainly, j though you can't hear a sound. This used to be a great Irish district, you , know, and several of the old families ; refused to be chased away by the for- j eign invasion." He spoke again to , Shrimp. "Get that?" "Yuh bet I did!" The boy's eyes were aglow with joy. He knew that he was going to do some of the work he loved; real detective work, help ing the blind man. "Fall in with them, and find out the name of the man who guided us here. I Don't do anything else. Don't attempt | to locate him alone. If you do, I'll never let you work on another case!" j There was no mistaking the severity ! of the tone, and the boy agreed sob- j erly before he darted away gleefully to get himself as dirty as his boy's heart desired before doing his share of the work. "Mind telling me what that means?" asked the district attorney when the boy had disappeared from his sight. "Did you see the man who was with us as you came?" "Merely as a type of panhandler, who had apparently been turned down , when he asked you for the price of a j drink." "You only heard the end of It. He seemed to tie an official guide to Sil ver Sandals' place. It was when he recognized you that he ran away with out getting his quarter." "Recognized me!" ejaculated the district attorney. "I never deal with his kind. There isn't one case in fifty on which I ever go out. and Silver Sandals never sees any one without an appointment." "He was waiting for some one," de clared Colton. "I was the first to ar rive. or " The words trailed off thoughtfully. "That's a queer one," mused the district attorney. "There are several queer ones. Why should he fear you. if Silver Sandals has been wonderful enough to keep beyond the law for a quarter of a cen tury? And, speaking of queer ones, here's another." He stepped from the rail against which he had been leaning while the fingers of his right hand idly rubbed the rusty iron behind him. His fingers touched a spot on the metal that seemed darker than the brown rust. The other bent down to examine it, then straightened, with a sudden whistle. "Blood, by Jove!" "Yes. My finger tips felt the un mistakable silk hardness of it when there should have been nothing but the flacky corrosion of the iton." "It's all up the rail," discovered the official, as he walked up the steps. "Down the rail, you mean," Coiton corrected. "It was made by a person coming down." "Where do you get that?" "Becausu it is on your left, and would be on the right of one descend ing the steps. The blood come from th« right hand of the person who left It." The district attorney shook his head helplessly. "That Sherlock Holmes stuff is too much for me," he admit ted. "Nothing of the holmes type of de cUiflicn in that," Colton deprecutou. "£ n.erely happen to know that the per sen who mad: it had blood on her right 1 «nd!" "Her?" broke out the. official quick ly. "You mean Silver Sandal??" Colton shook his head. "No. Golden Locks!" "Golden Locks?" The district at torney's tone was a combination of surprise and sudden recollection. "I aw that name in the reports on the clairvoyant. Golden Locks is sup posed to be one of the spirits she con trols. "A spirit of very healthy llesh and blood," averred Colton. "She was sitting at the next table to the dead man at the Beaumonde." I "What?" There was distinct ghock ! in the district attorney's tone. "True," the blind man said quietly. "My secretary followed her to this place when she left the diningroom. She came here in a car like the one you own, and which bore the same license number." i "My car?" The exclamatory ques tion fairly popped from the lips of the ! official. j "The same kind of a car, with the | same license number," repeated the 1 blind man. | "Certainly! Certainly! Of course!" There seemed almost suspicious hasti ness in the staccato sentences. Ap parently the district attorney realized it, for he veered quickly. "What did your secretary discover?" "I don't know." Colton spoke sob erly. "Don't know?" "He has never returned." "Never returned?" In the repetitions the blind man recognized sparring. But why should the district attorney of New York spar in a case like this? How could his automobile be connected with the murder? "You mean he is there yet?" asked the attorney eagerly, with a flirt of his hand toward the green-painted door, with its heavy brass knocker. "No. He has gone." "sfou don't know! You haven't looked!" "Diagrams aren't necessary in a case like this," the blind man said grimly. "A few blood spots on a rusty The End of Our August Sale is bringing a larger number of buyers than we anticipated. This August Sale has been an event which we are proud of. We have made many friends. We want you to come here now and share in the benefits of the many savings that you will make by purchasing during this sale. j| 1 Mahogany or Ivory fin ishes. FOUR-PIECE sQfi.so SUITE CfO= These suites are made up of 4 pieces, including a Dresser, B size of top, 21x42, with a 24x31 mirror; Chiffonier, size of top 20x34, with 16x20 mirror. Full size Wood Bed which matches ■ rest of pieces in every detail. A Bedroom Table with 20x24 top. Good .size drawer in table. THE MOST LIBERAL TERMS WILL BE UIVEX M O.N 018 EASY PAYMENT PLAN KOTMEKT I "H rj -g 11 1 '.4 Clj A Dressing: Table to match all of 1 ]\larßet iJIFGGI the Jifferent finishes; with triple I rail and a little knowledge of fem inine human nature are sufficient." "I don't quite follow." Real be wilderment was in the voice. "You know that a woman is instinc tively careful of beautiful clothes, when she wears them." The official's nod told that he did, but it also told that he didn't see *he connection. "If she cuts h*ii hand, she is mighty careful to hold It so that it won't touch any part of her wrap that can be seen. She wouldn't use it for fear of spot ting the cloth. That's an inborn something in a woman that a man lacks When a girl t'orgtts thai, as shrf did when she put her hand out to touch this rail, and leave the evi dence of her forgetting, then some thing has happened to drive away the deepest ingrained instincts of her sex. No ordinary thing would do it." "You mean that something happen ed to your secretary, and she knows of It?" "She saw it!" Colton spoke posi tively. "She knew of the dead man at the next table, yet she did not for get to hide her hand when she had cut it on the broken wineglass. If she had. my ears would have caught the whispered comment of the other diners who had seen the blood. She saw what happened to Sydney, and she left this house before she recovered from the shock of it." "You don't suppose he was murder ed?" The blind man shook his head slow ly. "No. I am working on a strange theory here. What it Is you'll know later if it's the right one. But I am positive Sydney is not in that house." The district attorney had no answer for this. He stood on the lower step without speaking, mis head lowered in thought, his hands deep in his trousers pockets. Colton stood on the step above him, idly swishing his trousers leg with the thin, hollow stick he always carried, and which gave to his supersensitive finger tips its mes sages. Suddenly the official looked up. "Do you know where my car was last night?" "Naturally not," the blind man said, a trifle dryly. "I loaned It to a friend of mine." The statement was lame, and the at torney knew it. "Bracken," he added. "The owner of the Beaumonde?" "No. His son." The district at torney walked from one end of the steps to the other. Down the street stolid-looking foreigners were going about their business, children were playing in the streets, but none came near. The fear the old woman and her house had inspired kept them at their distance. Even the presence of the automobile and the two well dressed men would not lure the star ing children from the places of safety a hundred yards or so away. The two men were as much alone as if they had been miles from the teeming city. "Bracken and I were college room mates," the district attorney went on. "I'd do anything in the world for him. His son has always been a little wild, and hasn't been around New York for nearly five years. Day before yester day he came to see me. He'd been working up State somewhere, and he'd fallen in love with a girl, he said. (To Be Continued.) AUGUST 30, 1016. SUSPEND PROPOSED RAISE IN CROSS COUNTRY FREIGHT RATES UNTIL DECEMBER By Associated Press Washington. Aug. 30.—Proposed in creases in transcontinental freight rates from the East to intermountain territory and from the Pacific coast to the East, which it was estimated would bring the railroads about twen ty million dollars a year additional revenue, were suspended to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commission for further investigation. They were to have become effective at midnight. The commission suspended the rates until December 30 pending the in vestigation to determine their reason ableness. They would have been ef fective September 1. The increases EXPLOSION ADDS TO LIST OF DEAD [Continued From First Page] burst. Cause unknown. Those near too seriously injured to be questioned. Two officers injured but will recover. One enlisted man dead, five very ser iously injured and 6 7 slightly injured mostly in engineers' force. Several men missing, probably drowned." Complete muster of the Memphis crew and a full report on the loss of the cruiser are exjected at the Navy department to-day. The navy tug Potomac which left San Domingo City for Port Palenque at 1.30 p. m. yesterday just before the storm broke is thought to be safe al though there is no word from her. The gunboat Castine which was in the harbor at San Domingo City, put to sea when the storm broke and still is out of the harbor. She lost all but one of her boats and had her steering gear disabled but the ship is under control, according to dispatches. The sea was perfectly smooth in the harbor until after 3 o'clock p. m. when the Storm suddenly broke' and the heavy seas drove the Memphis ashore at 4.30 p. m. The United States cruiser Memphis formerly was the armored cruiser Tennessee. Her name was changed LEGISLATION HEARINGS TO BEGIN TO-MORROW Washington, Aug. 30. The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee adopted a resolution to-day providing for hearings on proposed railroad legis lation in the impending crisis, begin ning Thursday at 9.a. m. Railroad officials, brotherhood offi | cers and representatives of shippers were invited to appear. Each side will be given three hours in which to discuss their views on legislation proposed by President Wil son to prevent the threatened strike and to provide for operation of trains in the event of a strike. -Tomorrow^ Thousands have profited during the first two days of the sale. Only one day re | mains—to-morrow—in which you have op portunity to secure much needed merchan dise at liberal savings. proposed were on fruits, vegetables, dry goods, and many other com* modities. More than 600 shippers were represented here recently and protested against the increase. The increases were proposed after the commission had held several months ago that trans-continental roads did not now have to meet the competition of the Panama canal and that lower rates than those now in question could not be justified for this reason and for the reason that this transcontinental traffic should pay its share of the total burden of transpor tation. The higher rates were pro posed after this decision. May 25 last. Recently she has been' doing duty in San Domingo waters in connection with the revolution. The Memphis is of 14,500 tons and has a horsepower of 23,000. Her com plement is 990 men. She is the flag ship of the cruiser force of the United States Atlantic fleet. The Memphis was launched In 1904 at the Cramp Shipbuilding Company plant in Philadelphia. She had a speed of more than 22 knots an hour. She is armed with four 10-inch, six teen 6-inch, twenty-four 3-inch and four 6-pounder guns, and carried four torpedo tubes. She was 502 feet lonff on the water line, 7 5 feet beam and had a maximum draft of 26 V 4 feet. Memphis Still on Rocks in Dangerous Position By Associated Press Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub* lie, Aug. 30.—The United States crui ser Memphis is still on the rocks of the outer harbor and is In a danger ous position. An explosion In the boiler room resulted in a large num ber of casualties. It is feared the loss of life is heavy. Rear Admiral Pond was ashore at the time of the explosion. The weather continues bad. No news has been received here of the United States gunboat Castlne, which put to sea when the storm broke. The committee has under considera tlon tentative drafts of three bills. One covers the proposed eight-hour day and creating a wage commission ot three members, two to be recom mended respectively by the railroads and the brotherhoods which shall ob serve the administrative and financial effects of the institution of the eight hour day. Another amends the New lands Act to make arbitration more effective along the line of Canadian principles. The third provides for government operation of railroads toit military necessity. 5