$ 1 A.oo | if Down - ' I Is All You Need Pay REALIZING that hundreds of families in this vicinity would like a Player-Piano of high musical quality and depend able construction, providing the purchaso terms could be met without financial strain, we have decided to sell for a down payment of only ten dollars, any ANGELUS Kimball Shoninger Marshall & Wendell • / or Frances Bacon Player-Piano . No longer is it necessary to take chances on cheap, un known, inferior instruments. At $395, $455, $550 up to S7OO you may choose from the above guaranteed makes and pay only $lO or more cash. J. H. Troup Music House Troup Building 15 South Market Square Bible Class Convention to Meet at Altoona in March Halifax, Pa., Feb. 2. Halifax will he represented at the convention of Organized Adult Bible Classes of Pennsylvania to be held at Altoona March 15 and 10. The program will be devoted entire ly to adult Bible class work, and will have much in it for the adult class officer, teacher and scholar. Every Organized Adult Bible Class is entitled to. one delegate and one additional TENDER THROATS readily yield to the healing influence of scorn EMULSION It soothes the inflamed mem branes and makes richer blood to repair the affected tissues— to help prevent tonsilitis or laryngitis. SCOTT'S is worth insisting upon. 1W •colt ft BOTH. Bloom field, N. J, 11-M k USED CARS —AT— Winter Prices Make your selection now. Pay a small de posit and we'll hold it till spring. The Overland-Harrisburg Company 212 North Second St. Open Evenings FRIDAY EVENING, j/delegate for each additional hundred | members or fractional part thereof I after the lirst hundred. Entertainment j will be secured for delegates in prl- I vate homes and hotels at reasonable j rates. Full instructions including regis- I tration blanks will be sen\; direct to classes, by the State Department. 1!. j S. Forsytlie, 710 Whitney avenue, Wll ■ kensburg. Pa., is State superintendent. Supt. J. Kelso Green Does Not Agree With Congressman Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 2. —J. Kelso Green, superintendent of county schools and a schoolman of many years' experience, takes exception to j the statements of Congressman L. T. j AlcFadden, relative to the abolishment jof county teachers' institutes. Char acterizing the annual meetings as "one I of fhe greatest educational forces in the State," Superintendent Green says: "These annual meetings of teachers and parents have contributed much to the growth and development of our school system. Public education has I been popularized; an educational in • terest has been awakened nnd main tained; and as a result bur people are accepting and commanding the best | things." v State Firemen to Meet in Butler October 2-4 I The next meeting of the Pennsyl vania State Firemen's Association will bo held in Butler, October 2-4. The j president, Eugene C. Bonniwell, met i yesterday in Philadelphia with the members of the executive committee and fixed the date. Johnstown ap plied for the convention, but as near , ly all meetings of recent years have [ been in tl.e eastern part of the State it was decided to go to a western city. City Solicitor Connelly, solicitor of the association, explained the bill in troduced in the Senate by William C. j to provide for the payment of POSLftM ALL QUALITY AND HEALING ENERGY Would you be surprised nnd pleased to awaken some morning to tlnd that your tortuflng Eczema, your disfigur ing and embarrassing tfkln affection, had wholly disappeared This has been the experlenea vHsny after brief treatment with Poslam, (lie quick-acting skin remedy, wluoh pot), sensed the most highly emncpntratod healing energy, and whloli Is intended and made effective for the very purpose of aiding i'OlJ to have ft better, healthier and more slelitly skin, Sold everywhere, For free sample write to EmerKency laboratories, 32 West Bsth St., New York tisement, the entire two per cent, tax on tl premiums of foreign fire insuran companies to the relief and pensh funds, instead of only one-half of For Philadelphia this would mean a nual appropriations of $90,000 SIOO,OOO. The committee tentatively approved a bill presented by Wilkes-Bacre lire men for the establishment of civil service in the fire department of third class cities. Prohibition Will Be 1920 Issue, Says Knox Washington, Feb. 2. The younger C. Knox. Republican senator-elect from Pennsylvania, who passed through Savannah, exhibited a lively interest in the prohibition situation in Georgia and predicted that national prohibition will be an issue in 1920 and that William Jennings Bryan will be the best ligure in dry politics. "Without attaching any political significance to the statement," Knox said, "1 believe that national prohibi tion will be a keen issue in 1920. Even a blind man can see that from the present trend of sentiment. I believe that William Jennings Bryan, as lead er of the national movement, will prove a powerful factor in national af fairs between now and that time. "Whisky must be recognized as a detriment to the person or the com munity. It causes inefficiency and ir responsibility in the person who uses it even moderately. Consequently, it has been n)ade a moral issue. Mr. Bryan knows well how to present such a subject, and he lias a strong follow ing yet that can be increased when he champions an issue that hap an in creasing support. "Even in my homo State, though I believe prohibition would not get even a Rood vote, much less a majority, a candidate surfers when tho liquor in terest is tacked on to him. 1 believe that the manufacturers in Pennsyl vania would welcome prohibition,' but the voters hardly arc ready for Will Censor Music in Inaugural Parade Savannah, Ga„ Kb. 2—Philander generation—and some of the grown ups are going to be disappointed March 5 If the expected order barring tho drum majors who mako a spec ialty of throwing their batons while leading their bands Is issued. This feature of tho inaugural parade was barred lour years ago, and It looks now as it a similar order would bo issued. General Scott and his associates on the military committee have not yet reached u. decision regarding the drum majors, The epmmltteQ.wUl tilso take up the musical programs pf the bands, until tht last, inauguration nearly every band pausing thq president's review. Ing stand HtniPlr up "Hall to the Chief," "Marching Through Georgia" "Dixie, After about five hours of repetition pf these three numbers It became monotonous and the commit tee will give the bands a list of airs which they are to play, \ HABRISBURG TELEGRAPH OVER $8,000,000 FOR DEFECTIVES f ' Pennsylvania's Tremendous Bill Promises to Grow Larger as the Years Go By According to calculations made from the recommendations of the State Board of Public Charities the sum of $8,315,028 will be required to pay for the care, maintenance and treatment of the defectives of Penn sylvania, including the administration of tho institutions where they are housed. Of this sum $3,585,028 will be for the operation of the State hospitals for insane and feeble minded and $4,- (00.000 is estimated to cover the state's sharo of the pereapita cost oi maintain# patients. The remaider of pereapita cost is borne by the county from which the patient is committed. Two years ago the sum appropriated for the operation of the State's insane hospitals was $2,502,979.98. This vear the same hospital asked $5,078,053.50 including large sums for extensions ot land and building improvements. The State Board of Charities pared the requests down to an aggregate of $3,- 085,028.50. The institulions for the c-are of the insane include the Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic at Spring City; The Institution for Feeblo Mind ed at Polk, Village for Feeble Minded Women at Laurel ton, Hospital for the insane, Allentown; Hospital for the insane, Danville; Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Farvlew; Slate Hos pital for the Insane, Norristown; State Lunatic Hospital, Harrisburg; Hospi- Uil for the Insane, Warren, and Hos pital for the Chronic Insane, Werners ville. ~T ho Spring City Institution go) $(59,436.35 at the last session and asked $1,080,250 at the present ses sion of which only $710,750 was rec ommended by the Board of Charities. The Institution at Polk got $915,- 082.63 last session and asked $1,623,- 928.50 for the next two years. The recommendation is for $1,596,428.50 The Village for Fepble Minded Wo men at Laurelton is a new enterprise and asked $358,000 for the next two years of which $346,000 is recom mended. The Hittersvilie Hospital got $72,161 last session and asked $304,250 for the next two years ot which only $81,500 was recommended The Danville Hospital got $52,500 last session and asked SIOO,IOO for the next two years. Of this $63,i00 wa recommended. The Criminal Insane Hospital at Farview got $358,500 last session and asked $814,825 tor the next two years. Only $320,750 was recommended. The Harrisburg Lunatic Hospital got $15,500 last session and asked for $59,500 for improvements for tlie next two years. Of this s3ti,ooo is recom mended. The Norrlstown Hospital sot $119,500 for buildings and im provements last session and asked $182,-00 at this session. Of this if 100,200 is recommended. The War ren Hospital got $22,500 last session and asked for $327,500 for the next two years of which $238,000 was rec ommended. The. Wernersville Hospi tal got $187,800 last session asked for $221,500 for the next two year.-, and $87,000 was recommended. ORPHEUM To-night "The Girl \Y ithout a Chance.' Saturday, matinee and night, February m ° —'r* rs In "Erstwhile t.usan." Tuesday and Wednesday John Con. presents "Mother Carey's Chickens." MAJESTIC— Vaudeville. COLONlAL—'"i'lie Great Secret." KEGENT—"New York." .The characters and the situations of "The Girl Without a Chance," which comes to the Orpheum to tbe Girl night, aie presented with \vlthout out artlllciality and in a a Chance" manner that is perfectly logical, tense and with a good, round measure oi warm human sympathy, through which the hard hearted police commissioner llads that bad lie been true to the principles taught him when a chiiu, ne woulu never have met the tnd as lie (lid, when at his last moment, he learned that the girl, whose uowntali ne tried to cause was his own Ilesh and blood. Mrs. Fiske, who ia always assured of a warm welcome in Harriaburg, comes to the Orpheum to-morrow Mr*. matinee and night, in a new t''lhke ami highly amusing comedy by Marian de Korest, entitled "Erstwlille .Susan.'' In this play Mra. Fiske returns to a in which she excels, that of light, sparkling comedy similar to that wnich characterized her "Becky* Sharp," Mrs. BumpateaU- Leigh," and "Divorcons." Mrs. Fisko appears under the direction of the new managerial tirm of Madison Corey and Joseph Itlter, who are carrying for ward the traditions of the Mrs. Fiske Company in the matter of excellence of cast and artistry of play mounting. "Erstwhile Susan" has been staged un der the personal supervision of Har rison Grey Fiske. "Mother Carey's Chickens." Kate Dojglus Wiggins popular novel, which iias been put into play' "Mother form by the author and Cure}'* Rachel Crothers, and which ChlekeiiM"' will bo the attraction at the Orpheum, Tuesday and Wednesday and Wednesday matinee, was written in the famous Colonial home, "Quillcote," at Mollis. The writ ingrooin of Mrs. Wiggin is as beauti ful as anything she could recall from the past. It is a white room, full of brightness and fresh air. If at any moment she lacks Inspiration she has only to glance out of her windows up on the panorama of nature to get it in a moment. The Saco river runs past the houso and the long lane of elms form a sight that would tend to inspire anybody. The sensational play, "New York," will be presented at the Kegent to day only. The story u lVw York" ut concerns itself with Itegenl To-day Oliver King, a patri cian, who becomes in terested in a chorus girl, who "woras" him. To-morrow Mary Miles Mlnter will be presented In "The Innocence of Dl zette." Miss Minter portrays the char acter of it little girl, of careful nurs ing. who ia taken from the poorer dis tricts into the home of a millionaire. If a woman has won a place In the business or professional world, does her marriage mean "The Wenker that she must neces- Sex" at Colonial sarily relinquish it to become mistress of her household? That Is the question raised in "The Weaker Sex," Triangle play, showing at the Colonial Theater to-day only, which has Dorothy Dalton, Charles Bay and Olauni as a tri-star combination. The play an swers the question, and the answer, It Is said, will prove satisfactory to most of the women who see the picture. Saturday, ono day only, Benjamin Christie will be seen In a seven-part Vltagraph Blue Ribbon feature, "Blind Justice, a powerful story of the ven geance of outraged manhood against society, whose only god is law. Ben jamin Christie, the star, will be well remembered as the author and pro ducer of "Sealed Orders." Coming next Friday and continuing for four teen weeks. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne In the serial of a thou sand thrills, called "The Oreat Secret." "A Dream of tho Orient." the big spectacle appearing at the Majestic Tlieatep the last half of this The week, Is one of the most Mnjentle f elaborately staged produc -811 l tlona seen thero this season. The whole act centers around it vnung man who smokes a pipe of opium, and what happens after that is supposed to be a dream. If dreams would come true, there would be more opium smokers. The young man finds Now Going February Furniture Sale A Scilc. Surpassed by None. Saving Opportunities on Depeiulable Furniture and Beddinj that Everyone Should Appreciate. We prepared for this sale six months ago by purchasing before the rise in the market. Anyone needing Furniture in the next four months should take advantage of this opportunity. We quote you the lowest prices and have an assortment to sup ply the needs of everyone. Six Floors of our large building filled with Furniture, Carpets and Stoves. Our Liberal Credit System will be at your service. Our terms are so easy that any one can furnish their home by paying small weekly or monthly payments. Dining Room Suites Nine-piece Fumed Oak Dining Room Suite —Buffet, China, Extension Table, six Chairs. 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( Surrounding this attraction are: Macart and Bradford, presenting a laughable j comedy sketch, entitled "Love, Honor ; and Obey:" Gillian Calvert, singing pooulav songs in a delightful manner; Lazar and Dale, two men in blackface, who offer an excellent comedy act with j some instrumental music introduced, | and the Patterson Brothers, in some | clever juggling feats. Tiie interest shown by the music- ! loving people of Harrisburg, as well as by those of surrounding : Symphony towns in tile coming con- Orcliestra cert by the New York Sym- , phony Orchestra, Walter . Damroscli, conductor, with Paul Alt house. tenor of the .Metropolitan Opera Company, as soloist, gives evidence of (he appreciation of the highest class of , music in our midst; and the indications. It is said, are that a large audience will be present, on this occasion. 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