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Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart
Pictorial Review Patterns for March Are Now on Sale.
Spring's Most Favored Silk Dress
Weaves Include Taffetas in
Rich Color Schemes
It is to be a season marked by beautiful stripe designs, so no matter whether
your frock be for sports occasions or for street wear it has been decreed that you
adopt a weave with a lovely stripe.
Rich color tones are wonderfully brought out in the new stripe taffeta suitings. The grounds
arc of navy, Copenhagen, brown, tan, grey, taupe, Belgian, reseda and midnight blue; 36 inches
wide. Yard > 82.00
Novelty stripe and over check taffetu; 36 inches wide. Yard #2.25
New taffeta suitings are shown in several navy blue shades and different combinations of
gold stripes; 36 inches wide Yard $2.25
New shower-proof foulards in all sport designs and stripes; 40 inches wide Yard .. $2.00
New Shantungs imported from the Orient; all Japan and Chinese shantungs; 33 inches wide.
Yard 89c, SI.OO and #1.50
Crepe de Chine in new street shades; 40 inches wide. Yard $1.50
Satin Royal, the new costume satin; 40 inches wide; extra heavy weight; especially for tail
ored suits. Yard $4.00
White Shanghai for tailored suits in sport styles; 36 inches wide. Yard $1.75
Black Shantung; 36 inches wide. Yard $2.00
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor.
An End-of-the-Month Clearance
in Footwear
100 pair of men's house slippers; values up to 75 pair of girls' shoes; sizes 2'/ to 5; regular
$2.00. End-of-the-Month price 95? $?.00 value. End-of-the-Month price, $1.25
25 pair of men s sample shoes; regular $4.00 40 pair ot misses patent colt lace shoes; reg
value; size 6/ 2 , B widths. End-of-the-Month u|ar $2 0Q yalue End _ of _ the _ Month pricc>
price . jp
50 pair of women's felt slippers; regular " I "* J
$1.50 value; not all sizes. End-of-the-Month Children's 50c rubbers; all sizes End-of-the
pricc 85? Month price 35£
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor, Rear.
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TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS) YOU EAT
ff°& ri £ h y e c>n, b f By ALFRED W. McCANN
As a Specimen of the Manner in
Which Traffickers in Diseased Meats
May Be Driven to Respect the l.aw,
the following Diseased Hog Incident
is Eloquent.
Jan. 7, 1915, terror stalked through
West Washington Market, New York
City. That wholesale institute was
maintained largely for the purpose of
issuing certificates to venders of dis
eased and tainted beef and pork.
The convictions of two of tho re
ceivers of meats unfit for human con
sumption and the piV>mise made by
Justice Collins that he would send the
next diseased meatmonger who ap
peared before him to jail had thrown
the whole market into a panic.
A half dozen messengers represent
ing as many dealers were running
across each other's tracks hunting
anybody that might look like an in
spector. They actually wanted an in
spector to come to their coolers and
exaipine certain old cows and hogs in
t heir possession for the physical con
dition of which they were ready at
last to disclaim all responsibility, say
ing they would not dream of selling
them—no, not for all the money in
the world until the Department
of Health might pass judgment upon
t hem.
The sudden outburst of the meat
men was more than seri-comic. It
MEDICINE
No Alcohol or Dingeroui Drugs
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service -*■ By McManusl
STHE NOV TELL ME ANSWER ME ?DO TOO ] TVELL-HE t)MD-THE
TIME DID TOO MEAN REALIZE HE , —> ~ LEADING MAN OOt>T
P4ET APPLAUDING 1 vV FRENCH ANO whatJ m, I DIED-SO THE t>HOW
ICE TO VvHEM THE 4EMTLE- ( HE SA10? j t VOULD — \l
-I ATE J j" IT TOU APPLAUDED
MONDAY EVENING,
was a combination of tragedy, farce
and minstrelsy, in which everybody
talked at once and all about suspi
cious carcasses.
1 caled Health Commissioner Dr. S.
S. Goldwater on the phone and asked
him to send veterinarians to the mar
ket as quickly as possible. Within a
half hour Dr. Marion B. McMillan,
chie£ of the Bureau of Food and
Drugs Inspection; f>rs. Kent and No
back, Johnson avenue veterinarians,
and Inspectors Taylor, Salthe and
Cooney appeared. In a group we
made the rounds.
In one establishment we discovered
the carcass of an emaciated cow, the
hones of which were protruding
through what once had been a thin
layer of flesh. The pleura (chest
cavity), had been stripped to conceal
the evidence of disease in that quar
ter, but all the glands still remaining
in the carcass were diseased. The
spinal bones were also diseased.
This specimen, destined for the hu
man stomach, had been shipped from
Hobart, N. Y., a famous dairy center
which supplies milk for children. The
carcass had been expressed through
Jersey City, but I.ad not. been de
tected by the federal officials.
In another establishment was found
the carcass of a boar in such an ad
vanced stage of generalized tubercu
losis that tho shipper, like the ship
per of the diseased cow, at once be
came a marked man. The boar had
been killed by a so-called farmer who,
after signing his own certificate, ship
ped tho carcass into interstate com
merce.
In another establishment was found
the carcass of a tubercular hog that
had been shipped by a so-called
farmer from Middletown, Del.
In a fourth establishment was
found an entire rack of skinny gld
cows on exhibition. Some of them
had been shipped from Cadyville,
N. Y.: some from Centerville, N. Y.,
and some from Monticelio, N. Y. So
called farmers had dressed them all.
In another establishment were
found three tubercular hogs that had
been shipped from Kennedyville, Md.
All the carcasses were cut down, of
ficially condemned, hacked to pieces,
denatured with' methylene blue a 1
sent to IJarren Island,to be converted
into tallow and fertilizer.
It was just two years to the day
since 1 had begun an unofficial clean
up of this market. The change that
at last had taken place was little
short of uncanny.
At the beginning of my activities
the health commissioner, aided by his
entire inspection force, did all he
could to Interfere with my efforts,
even going so far as to throw one of
my witnesses into jail.
During all this time I had been la
belled by commercial scientists, po
litical scientists and other friends of
the inner circle of privileged and pro
tected businessmen a muck-raker, an
official scandal monger.
Here, Jan. 7, 1915, the naked facts,
hammered at for two years, stood up
and voluntarily placed themselves on
exhibition. Instead of attempting to
conceal their contraband meats the
dealers were slapping tags upon the
carcasses in order to give themselves
some sort of protection for having
them In their possession.
' These tags home-made and
bore, the initials "B. of H." and the
words "Held for Inspection." The B.
and H. meant Board of Health. It was
a pretty subterfuge.
The owner of such a carcass in the
event of its discovery by an inspec
tor, could point to the tag and say,
"See, I have been saving this speci
men for you. I had doubts about it
and did not intend to dispose of it
until you could pass upon it."
One of the curious features of the
Jan. 7 episode lay in the fact that the
officials of New York State, under
whose jurisdiction many of the dis
eased carcasses originated, refused
point blank to Interfere. They were
not interested in the situation and,
although I notified them of the facts,
they did not appear upon the ground.
It was quite evident then as now
that the so-tailed farmer is immune
when it comes to shipping diseased
meats to city markets.
Were such charges uttered in the
form of general or sweeping state
ments they would excite no interest.
It is for thai'reason that I offer spe
cific instances of the truth and pro
vide the proofs.
The conditions described here are
common. They will never be changed
until the people themselves become
familiar with them.
In the -mean time we shall review
briefly a number of typical .crimes
against public health which, in their
many damning details, should have
inspired city, State and federal offi
cials to action, but which had no ef
fect at all upon the monstrous
crime, now commoner than ever, of
preparing thtf flesh of diseased ani
mals for human consumption.
HARRISBURG CfiKk TELEGRAPH
NEWS OF THE LEGISLA TURE
BRANCH CAPITOL
IDEA BLOWN UP
Senator Penrose Says That the
State Government Should Be
Kun From This City
The Idea of establishing branch
capitols about the state, tho first to
be located in Philadelphia, with others
to be located In Pittsburgh, Scranton,
Erie and other places, was given a
terrific rap by Senator Botes Pentose
In speaking about legislation which
lie favors in the course of a talk at
Philadelphia on Saturday. The branch
capitol idea is nothing new. It grew
up right after the Philadelphia scheme
to take the Capitol away from Har
risburg was defeated in 1901 and has
appeared periodically. Last session
what was intended as a joke was
seized upon as an occasion for flaming
a commission, which morked without
pay, and secured a lot of "evidence" In
Philadelphia to the effect that a
branch capitol was needed to concen
trate State offices in that city and that
a site along the parkway for a pre
tentious building to be erected by the
State might be-secured.
Senator Penrose on Saturday de
clared that Harrisburg was the Capitol
and that the multiplication of State
offices in Philadelphia especially and
in other places on one excuse or an
other should stop. The senator also
said that he thought a bill should be
passed to make the Attorney General
give all of his attention to Slate busi
ness and to have the city of Philadel
phia handle Its own street cleaning in
stead of by contract.
In liis remarks the senator said:
"The practice of having State de
partments and bureaus located In
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and
other places away from the State Capi
tol has been carried to scandalous ex
tremes and has led to grave abuses.
This practice leads to needless ex
penditure of public money and permits
inefficiency. This criticism is par
ticularly true of the Workmen's Com
pensation Board, whose Philadelphia
offices are really an abiding place for
more than a hundred Philadelphia
ward workers. It Is proposed even
tually to require all bureaus and de
partments to lie located at the State
Capitol, where they properly belong,
and all the heads of departments and
employes shall be required to reside in
Harrisburg except when absent on
official business.
"There has been gross abuse of
automobiles used by department heads.
They have been employed in junket
ings outside the state and in joy rides
within the staet. The automobile
proposition has been carried to lavish
extremes and should be curftiiled. The
| automobiles purchased by taxpayers'
I money ought to be conspicuously
| labeled as belonging to the State and
| only used on official business.
"Of course contingent funds will be
carefully safeguarded hereafter and
radically curtailed in amount. I chal
lenge contradiction to the statement
that in the case of every contingent
fund at Harrisburg the same abuses
exist as prevail in the Governor's fund.
"When the exposure takes place, as
it will, of the Auditor General's office,
the people will be astonished at the
way in which the State's money has
been spent.
"Veiled suggestions have been made
that the resolution related only to the
Governor. No one's name is mentioned
and the resolution comprehends all
public officers in the Staet. So far as
I am concerned, I am amenable to
questioning before the State corrupt
practices act, and I will be glad to ap
pear before the commision, if called
for. and answer any and all questions
as far back as they desire to go. There
Is no factional tinge in this resolution."
BACK AT THEIR LOOMS
Strikers at Silk Mills Assured Increase
Is Heal
Officials at the Harrisburg Silk Mills
have assured the strikers that they
will get the 1 cent per yard increase
without any proviso clause being
added. The 300 strikers have returned
to work.
The break came on Saturday as a
result of a proviso made that they
would get an increase "Provided they
did good work." The girls insisted
that the proviso was made by an
official of the company, while tho
superintendent. Gustave Koster, de
clared the addition to the notice had
been made by a miscreant without his
knowledge. The strikers were assured
that it had all been a misunderstand
ing and this morning they were all at
their looms.
AND THIS FROM THE LAND OF
UNCHANGING FASHIONS!
When a middle-class Japanese lady
goes out to any little function, her
clothes, exclusive of pearl hair orna
ments and any other jewelry, of which
the Japanese women wear little, are
worth from S2OO to S3OO. If she is of
the wealthy class, her obi, or bright
belt, or sash, or surcingle, or what
ever is the translation for the over
grown necktie which Is to the Japan
ese woman what a bright scarf is to
a quietly dressed man her obi is
worth probably SSOO. It will interest
all women to know that, each year,
new designs .for the Inner kimono are
drawn by recognized artists, and that
a Japanese woman of society would no
more wear a last year's kimono pat
tern than you would wear balloon
sleeves or a wasp waist. Maynard
Owen Williams, In the Christian Her
ald.
SPEAKER URGES
A WORKING PLAN
Would Have Hojise Remain in
Session Most of the Week to
Advance Bills
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RICHARD J. BALDWIN
Speaker Richard J. Baldwin says it
will be possible for the House of
Representatives during possibly the
first two months of the session to take
I nine-day recesses every other week
I and at the same time accomplish more
i In the way of advancing bills on the
House calendars than has been done
In some past sessions when the House
was in session two or at most three
days a week.
The Speaker told friends here that
he wants it understood that this is
merely a suggestion on his part and
not a plan that the lower branch
necessarily must follow. It is a sug
gestion which can be made a reality
if the movement is started on the floor
of the House, because, once started. It
would meet with his support and ap
proval. Incidentally, he is again look
ing after the interest and convenience
of the rural members of the legis
lature. The Speaker is desirous of
helping the country members in ways
that have not been practiced in recent
sessions of the Assembly. He says that
many of them have to come a long
way to Harrisburg and can not return
each week to their homes like the
members living in the big cities be
cause of the lack of convenient trans
portation facllitle and the expense of
traveling. His plan is to have the
House meet on Monday and continue
in session until, say, Friday noon, as
was done in 1905 and 1907. By so
doing the calendars can be cleared and
the bills introduced and referred to
committees can be either reported
back to the House or at least a good
start obtained in giving them the con
sideration that is their due. lie is
very keen for having bills properly
drawn and then analyzed in commit
tees so that, they can be readily ex
plained In case questions are raised on
the floor of the House.
This plan would also permit tho
House to dispose rapidly of any bills
which may come over from the Sen
ate and at the same time keep the
upper branch acting on the House
bills. He thinks it is possible and good
legislative practice for the House at
its adjournment on Fridays to vote
not to reconvene until the following
Monday a week and still know-that
the lower branch is doing Its full duty
to the people' of the state. Contrary
to the thought that anight arise from
a superficial consideration of this Bald
win suggestion, the Speaker says that
it will positively result in a shorter
session of the Legislature than is the
outlook at this time.
Speaker Baldwin is not. satisfied
with the appropriation that is bien
nially given to the country
houses. He wants a greater sum for
what he calls "the litte red school
house" set aside by the session of 1917
for the upkeep and maintenance of
the common schools. At the present
time where there are no high schools
in rural communities, tho Speaker
says, the common school appropriation
is drawn upon to maintain the com
mon school student in the higher
grades, and by the analysis he offers
he declares that the common schools
are really receiving less money all the
time because of the drains due to in
creased population.
l\ O. S. or A. CALENDAR
To-night-—Meeting of Camps 639,
716 and 16. Quoit game between
Camp 639 and Camp 522, at Harris
burg.
Tuesday night—Meeting *>f Camp
102 and quoit game between Camp 8
and Camp 102 at Steelton.
Wednesday night—Meeting of Camp
477 and quoit game between York and
Harrisburg at Camp 8.
Thursday night—Meeting of Camp 8
and Camp 522 and past presidents'
meeting at Camp 522, Enhaut.
Friday night—Meeting of Camp 505
and quoit game between Camp 477
and Camp 505 at Highsplre.
JANUARY 29, 1917.
NEW FOOD BILLS
FOR THE ASSEMBLY
They Will Be Presented With
Administration Backing
During This Week
The bills prepared by the State
Dairy and Food Division to require
dealers in rotten eggs to take out State
licenses, to prohibit misbranding and
adulteration of liquors without notice
and to take out the kinks in the cold
storage act, will' be presented to the
Legislature this week. The rotten egg
law will make it unlawful, under pen
alty of fines or imprisonment, for
anyone to engage In the justness of
separating good and bad eijgs and the
candling of decomposed eggs without
having, secured a $25 license, which
will be for a specified location.
The cold storage act will provide
that cold 'storage food shall be food
which has not been "stored at a tem
perature of 4 0 degrees Fahrenheit or
less in a cold storage warehouse for
fifteen days or more." The use of
spices and similar condiments would
not be considered as used for preserva
tion provided the use is as ordinary
in the food business. Hides, feathers,
etc., not removed but in a clean con
dition would not be considered as
"offensive parts." The jail penalty is
changed to read not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days instead of
not more than ninety.
The liquor bill would make it un
lawful, under penalty of fine of from
SSO to S2OO or Imprisonment for from
thirty to sixty days, to manufacture,
sell or offer or have in possession with
intent to sell liquor which is adulter
ated or misbranded.
State College Needs Armory
to Obtain Goverment Aid
State College, Pa., Jan. 2 9. —Lack of
a suitable armory in which to drill the
1,200 students now under military
training at the Pennsylvania State Col
lege and the need of quarters for stor
ing their arms and equipment has de
prived the institution of the privilege
of establishing an officers' reserve
corps as provided for in the national
defense act, recently passed by Con
gress.
Major O. W. Bell, of the Fourteenth
Cavalry, United States Army, detailed
at the State College as professor of
military science, has reported to the
board of trustees that without these
accommodations it is impossible to
begin the work of training officers for
the reserve corps.
To provide the required armory, as
recommended by Major Bell, who also
serves as commandant, of the college
regiment, the committee is planning to
ask for a State appropriation for that
specific purpose. It is generally be
lieved that $500,000 will be needed to
build such an armory as will meet the
requirements at. State College and
compare favorably with the armories
supplied to other state colleges by the
legislatures of the states in which they
are located.
The authorities at Penn State want
an armory that will take care of in
fantry, cavalry and artillery, as well as
the specialized branches, such as hos
pital, signal and engineer corps, and
machine gun companies. The Uni
versity of Illinois and Cornell Univer
sity both have armories such as State
College needs.
Says Man Existed
50,000 Years Ago
Chicago, 111., Jan. 29.—"Man has
dwelt upon the earth as a thinking
being at least 50,000 years and prob
ably four times that period," asserted
R. Watte Joslyn in the third of a series
of lectures on evolution he is giving
before tho Society of Evolutionists at
£430 West Jackson Boulevard.
"From birth to two years of age
every human'being is an animal, with
tho instincts and demands of an ani
mal. From two to sixteen years- every
child is a savage becoming civilized.
It is only when reason awakens and
thought becomes active that the child
enters into Its heritage as a human
being.
"The impulse of every boy is to dig
caves; to hunt and fish and light is an
inheritance from our savage ancestors.
The tendency of girls to deck them
selves in brightly colored ribbons is
the habit of the savago grandmothers
showing itself in them. A child's fear
of the dark is the remnant of the time
when the dark places were filled with
wild animals and the enemies of men."
Japan Turns Chinese
Coin Into Silver
Pekln, Jan. 29. DurinK the six
months from July to December. 1915,
Japanese firms are said to have
realized a profit of $60,000,000 silver
from Chinese brass cash bought in the
northern provinces of the republic.
This cash Is the old-fashioned Chi
nese money, with square holes in the
center. Much of it is very old and its
value as a circulating medium is so
far below the market value of the
metal it contains that there is a profit
of at least 200 per cent, in buying the
Qld coin and melting It down.
TONIC FOR 6ROWIN6 GIRLS
Most growing girls need & tonic,
especially during the years when they
are springing up most rapidly and
when their appetites are most tickle.
A diet of tea and candy will ruin any
girl's chances of future happiness. A
plentiful and scientifically correct diet
might meet all requirements but this is
next to impossible. Hence the need
for a tonic. Almost every doctor's
daughter is given a tonic during her
period of rapid growth but because your
daughter does not actually break down
you do not call a doctor' and sho gets
thin and pale, fidgets so that she can
not sit still on a chair, eats the wrong
things, eats too fast, gets too little out
of-door exercise and perhaps faces St.
Vitus' Dance, or a nervous breakdown. *
A great responsibility rests on parents
and Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the
best and most convenient tonic to aid
them in bringing their daughters to
healthy and happy womanhood. They
supply needed elements to the blood,
and enable it to meet the unusual de
mands upon it and help to lay a founda
tion for future health.
The price of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
is fifty cents per box. Your own drug
gist sells them or they will be sent o't
receipt of price by the Dr. Williania
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
OUCH! PAIN! RUB
OUT RHEUMATISM
Stop suffering! Relief comes
the moment you apply
"St. Jacobs Oil."
Rheumatism is "pain only."
Not one cuse in fifty requires Inter
nal treatment. Stdp drugging! Hub
the misery right away! Apply sooth
ing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" di
rectly upon the "tender spot" and re
lief comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Oil"
conquers pain. It is harmless rheu
matism liniment which never disap
points and can not burn the skin.
Limber up! Stop complaining! Get
a small trial bottle of "St. Jacobs
Oil" at any drug store, and in Just a
moment you'll be free from rheuma
tic pain, soreness and Btiffness. Don't
suffer! Relief awaits you. "St. Jacobs
Oil" is just as good for sciatica, neu
ralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains
and swellings.
Former Academy Student
Gets Hospital Appointment
W. J. Basler, Jr., now a senior
medical student at the University of
Pennsylvania: and a graduate of the
Harrisburg Academy, class of 1913,
was given the tirst appointment at tim
Pottsville Hospital for the year be
ginning July 1 next. Mr. Basler, be
sides being treasurer of his class anil
secretary of the Fox Opthalmological
Society and Mann Orthopedic, is a
member of the Meeker Bio ("hemic
and Ppolerny Societies and a member
of Omega Upsllon Plil fraternity.
While attending the Academy he
played on all athletic teams and was
a member of the Greek society.
ROBBED WHILE AT CHURCH
To have one's valuables stolen while
attending Sabbath devotions seems
mean turn of fate to P. 11. Rudolph,
221 Emerald street, who lost between
$2 and $3 cash last evening. The
entire family had gone to church when
the thief took advantage of the ab
sence and entered the back door. The
detective department is investigating.
PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN
FOR INDIGESTION
OR BAD STOMACH
Relieves sourness, gas, Heart
burn, Dyspepsia in five
minutes.
Sour, gassy, upset stomach, indiges
tion, heartburn, dyspepsia; when the
food you eat ferments into gases and
stubborn lumps; your head aches and
you feel sick and miserable, that's
when you realise the magic in Pape's
Diapepsin. It makes all stomach mis
ery vanish in five minutes.
If your stomach is in a continuous
revolt —if you can't get it regulat
ed, please, for your sake, try Pape's
Diapepsin. It's so needless to have
a bad stomach make your next
meal a favorite food meal, then tako
a little Diapepsin. There will not be
any distress eat without fear. It's
because Pape's Diapepsin "really
does" regulate weak, out-of-order
stomachs that gives it its millions of
sales annually.
Get a large tlfty-cent case of Pape's
Diapepsin from any drug store. It is
the quickest, surest stomach relief
and cure known. It acts almost like
magic it is a scientific, harmless
and pleasant stomach preparation
which truly belongs in every home.