SMALLPOX IS CROPPING OUT Large Number of Men Com ing Here Are Bringing Disease Smallpox in Pennsylvania, on ac count of the large number of men who bave come into the state lately from other states is at the present time threatening the public health, according to State Health Commis sioner Dixon, who says that condi tions mentioned in his warning last' week still prevail. Drastic steps are being considered at the Health De partment. whose staff is keeping in close touch with conditions through out the state by order of the Com missioner. Jtoports of new outbreaks received lately are still connected in many cases with the presence of negro la borers recently brought into the state. It was reported by the County Medi cal Inspector for Erie County that four cases had developed in the city of Erie within the last few days. The State Health Department has taken tip with the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads the question of vaccinating negro employes around the yards and docks. The Merchants' Association has also been asked to use its influence toward getting man ufacturers and others to aid the local health authorities in meeting the seri ous situation which the city faces. Dr. Dixon sent Associated Chief Medical Inspector Hull to SasLton Fur nace, where there has been/ a fresh outbreak of cases thought to have originated by contact with member* of a camp of southern negroes, among whom infection was found last week. |WE SELL FOR LESS | Save Money 1111 l 1 11l " lI I AU Styles Great Shoe lIHHi I for Young w. IwGOLDEN RULE DEPT. STORE wll jom On Friday and Saturday We Will Hold The Greatest and CUAF C A I C In the Most Important OIMxJLd unLL Entire City Several Thousand Pairs Marked Way UnderValue The Season's Newest and Most Stylish Models _ _ This is the sale that will be of In |li| " terest to the entire family for we I _J|" _f ■_ ■ lYlen S have marked these stylish shoes at I 9(1 IpC rDIPIIT ° the very lowest prices that have fcOUIVa 1 dICIII l> ti a |H|B been heard of for a long time and _ _ .. —, \A/ 111 f n . \ we are going to show the people of I malLah R„ll ah *o ~— W Illlc hIWo/ \ this city that wo can sell the best LGfllUßr DUIiOII -O / ifllpß and most fashionable footwear to 1 *C) / /"\ V. ' )e had at the lowest prices in the jab -o I Canvas „ e w, P ,ea ß e * Shoes s/ / C 1 ti WlB bear in mind that we carry such Handsome shoes with gray , J?/ I lYTftfflC < 'VH 11111 celebrated makes as W. L. Douglas cloth tops and plain .toes, sizes / „ / \ / ■ M lllf and Lndicott-Johnson & Co. and 3to 5 only. AND you save a /„ / \ / I ■■■■Hl other well-known makes and that dollar a pair. FRIDAY AND / / $ — 70 IHBIBT we are hereto sell shoes for less SATURDAY IN THE SALE /*7 yjßk 1 ,/J lIUBP money than any other store. AT $2.08. / I THE SHOE DEPARTMENT IS ON t THE MAIN FLOOR. *P®#.oß /7 /ZJM&FuB High grade white canvas oxfords with leather \ S* or rubber soles, very stylish and durable. FRI- aoeaa 1 1 • DAY AND SATURDAY IN THE SALE AT 81.73 L3uICS fljiTrr^y . " 77: 71 ]H / Patent and r^MBoyS• Scout J I VelourCalf Ladies' White (\ \\ Shoes Shoes Canvas Boots # Vi: \T\ \\ $2-97 $9- 75 If /I These have cloth tops and you 11 gj[ fit f Xtri ! /ff A I have the pick of button and lace This is a great offer and PV at / >*4 I in urtlw ™ a v mone y will be in demand —white \\ &• / A 111 / on these. FRIDAY AND SATTTR- , . .. VA Jtc* t /I 01/ DAY IN THE SALE AT $2.97 canvas lace boots, button \ \ / k&jf v ' I or blucher styles, high I 77 These are the greatest Scout Shoes you ever heels, less than anywhere / J // S A a i?" £h*y certainly will stand the hard knocks. '. i, ~... , A else. FRIDAY AND SAT- / / / AND°SATCRDAY n iNVH Z E H SALE OAT 0 AT '$l!88. IDAY LadieS White CanVdS URDAY, A PAIR, *2.75. \ Low Shoes J Men s Velour Calf Low Shoes Ladies' Vici Kid Pumps Very stylish low cuts with rub- have high heels. Won bcr or leather soles. Thev are derful values in the jMjKKggKi&F These are Endicott-Johnson make, hand-sewed the niftiest shoes sold at the price sa,e FRIDAY AND soles, English or broad toes. FRIDAY AND SAT- ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SATURDAY, AT, W URDAY IN THE SALE AT #3.45. IN THE SALE, A PAIR, SL7S. PAIR, $3.90. /aMBT l£i 7 V ■ * v Men's Scout Shoes Men's Working Men's Vici Kid Lace Ladies' Gun Metal Ladies' Vici Kid AU solid leather soies. Shoes Shoes Button and Blucher Lace Boots Black and tan uppers, Endicott-Johnson make. DUlton ana $2.75 values. Special Fri- Full double soles of green Broad plain toe; solid Shoes ♦ ne Go ? d y ea , r welts, day and 0 OC leather; tan uppers. Spe- leather- solid comfort o i .^. p i. h heels - Saturday cial Friday and *0 QC 1 , , , IJPIL SoUd leather soles. Low Special Friday *4 aq Saturday Special Iriday AD.BENSOK i With the United States Atlantic I Fleet, May 24. The big ships of I the most powerful lleet ever under | the American Hag, when visited by a J correspondent of the Associated TJ S ATIAKPXIC.TXEKT *okmmt9> i Press, through arrangement with the I committee on public information, | were working day and night to bring I about the defeat of Germany on the I sea. Ready for battle, they are HARRISBU HO TELEGRAPH ><**■> AQ.XOAXO, spejuling the waiting period turning out sailor men. The fleet, temporarily, is a great workshop of war. 'Already it is turn ing out one of its finished products— men who can fight. They are serv ing the guns on American armed merchant ships. Its other product— men who can run the great merchant fleet the United States will use to feed the allies —will be ready as soon as the ships. Five-inch guns, the kind principal ly used against submarines, are there by the hundreds. On the decks great turrets house long fourteen —and twelve-ince rifles—three or two to a turret. On high platforms guns used for defense against airplanes point to the sky. Brass is always shining, steel is always polished, paint is al ways new, decks are always white with scrubbing. Looking For Action The men behind the guns, have lost shipmates in the war—they were guns' crews on merchantmen sunk by German submarines. And other shipmates now are on duty aboard the destroyers operating with the British and French fleets. The men with the Atlantic fleet are work ing to prepare themselves to avenge the killing of their mates. Here's what happened the other day. A crew was practicing with a fi\e-inch guns. A bluejacket about seventeen —he still had down on his chin-—was pointing. He grasped handles on a board brass wheel; his eye was steady at a rubber cup at the end of a long sight, through which he saw the target. His duty was to keep the gun on the target so it might be fired any time. Around this beardless youth were grouped other guns' crews ready to fire when his .crew had completed its period. The breach open, the load was thrown home, the breach was hurled back in place and then a buzzer, operated from the fire con trol station, sounded; there was a flush, a roar, the hiss of a projectile speeding through the air and the louder hiss of compressed air blow ing smoke out of the gun. Miles away the projectile struck the tar get. Hit After Hit "Guess that's bad," said an old man-o'-war's-man looking on admir ingly at the third shot, as the gun's crew got the range and the pillar of white water leaped into the air. "How would that do for FritZy? Suppose that had been a submarine and—" The buzzer, the roar of the gun and the hiss of air interrupted him. "Another hit! Gee whiskers that's shooting." On the after deck latest arrivals aboard thd ship were set to work that day, and every other day, in fact, upon the loading machines. They consist principally of a breach and block and a slide that carries away dummy projectiles and powder bags. • Officers with stop watches in their hands set one crew after another to work, the idea being to develop ex treme loading speed by competition. The newest members of the ships' companies work for days at these loading machines. The next step in their training carries them to tho guns. But they are not yet ready to lire the regular charges. One pound ers, that go off with a sharp crack, are lashed on top of the big guns and the crews go through all the mo tions of firing, but instead of a big shell, a little one weighing a pound speeds for the target when the buz zer sounds or when the turret cap tains in charge of the bigger rifles yell "Fire!" Ileal Battle Practice After a period of firing with the subcaliber arrangement the crews get down to real battle practice. There are few busier places than a turret in action. Concave steel walls are all around, and a steel roof is just above the heads of the gunners. The pointers sit far forward, under neath the barrels of the guns. Little seats like those on a motorcycle are there for them and on every side are instruments. As the turret begins to fire, a lift, bearing the huge pro jectile, bangs up from below, great bags of powder slide from the maga zines into a long brass trough. Husky bluejackets toss the powder into an other brass trough that is slipped into position at the gigantic breach. I The projectile, almost as large as a man, meanwhile has been rolled in to the trough, a long automatic rahj nier lias jumped from the rear and shoved it into the barrel. The powder bags are driven home, a man at the bleach swings a lever, a ton of steel swings up with a hiss of compressed air. The breach block turns and locks, a buzzer sounds, the charge is ignited and with a rush of air the guns recoil about a yard and then jump back into position. There is a loud "swish —swish" as the guns come back and then go forward. In side the turret not much more than that is heard. Outsidei it is much different. There is a flash, a roar, a ring of smoke and the loud whistle of the projec tile rushing through the air. So great is the concussion that every man outside has cotton or some other substance in his ears to save his ear drums from being broken. Fifteen Seconds ' Fifteen seconds from "Commence firing" to "Fire" is considered pretty good time for the big guns in the navy. They have new guns' crews in training now who never saw salt water until three weeks ago who are doing the thing easily in sixteen sec onds. While the guns' crews are being trained on some of the ships, aboard others aro being trained men to run the hundred or more German vessels the United States will operate as soon as repairs are made to their engines, and the fleet of merchant men being built to carry food and supplies to the Allies. The fleet is training engineers, electricians—-men to fill every position. The Atlantic fleet is confident that it will be able to supply a full complement for every ship, for the navy is getting men now faster than ever before, and if the officers are proud of their ships, the guns on the decks and the power of the engines in their hulls, they are doublj' proud of the spirit of the new men who are coming into the navy. A large majority of the new men in the fleet, their officers said, have come from farms, especially In the middle west. On any ship may be found youths who until the war began were following plows. "In the first place," said an officer, "more than ninety per cent of the men are native Americans. There are few foreign-born men here.'" All U. S. Represented On any ship may be. heard the drawl of a South Carolinian or a Georgian, the New Yorkese of the East Side; tho twang that is New England's, the rising intonation of Western Pennsylvania and the tone that only comes from west of Chi cago. So is the enlisted per sonnel of the navy growing that there is no room for the new men at the training stations ashore. A man enlists one day In Kentucky and three days later finds himself at a loading machine on the deck of a dreadnaught. On nearly every ship are men who used to be In the navy .and who have gone back to their old and usually low, ranks because their country needs them. They are regular of ficers. On one of the ships Is a Wall ; street broker. He graduated from Annapolis many years ago, resigned and later came back into the service diirlng the Spanish-American war. He commanded the Hist in several fights in Cuban waters and knows how it feels to be under fire. , " 'The Navy Needs You' was the sign that got me back this time," said he. 'When I read that sign I knew it meant me and 1 fixed it right off so I could come back. I I left the navy at the close of the • Spanish-American war and have | been in fche brokerage business in New York ever since." Grandfather Ensign On another ship is a little man with gray hair"—a grandfather—who wears the unfrom ensign. "1 resigned from the navy many years ago," he said. "I have grand children now. When wo went to war with Germany I knew the navy needed trained men and I offered myself. They accepted me and here I am with the junior officers. I sup pose I am the only grandfather en sign in the navy." Every ship has a mascot. Some times it is a goat; more often it is a dog, or several dogs. One big dreadnaught has aboard a litter of bull puppies, sons and daughters of the ship's chief mascot. When the ship rolls the puppies slide across the decks and into the scuppers, to be fished out and set on their feet again by the bluejackets, their mother all the while watching the proceeding with a critical eye from around the corner of a hatchway. Then there is a god, half fox ter rier and half something else, that answers to the name of "Pork Chops." He follows squads of sailors all over the ship, but he hasn't be come used to the gurs yet. When a five-inch gun went off al most over his head, he lit out for the crew's galley, skidded around the door and disappeared for the rest of the day. Whereupon the crew began to "run" his owner. "A hell of a fine mutt to Ire afloat in this packet." yelled one sailor. The owner, himself, had no reply. The disgrace of "Pork Chop's" re treat had overwhelmed him. Jt Is tradition that the American navy never runs away from anything, and a navy dog shouldn't violate tra dition. School Notes TKCH Dr. J. H. Morgan, president of Dickinson College, addressed the stu dents in the chapel exercises yester day morning. He urged upon them the necessity for staying in school so that they may be prepared for the best purposes when their country may need them. -"Doing one's bit" he quoted as doing better than that which you have been doing. Another Tech dance will be held Friday in Hanshaw's Hall. Members of the four classes are invited to par ticipate. Professor P. L. Grubb will repre sent the school Saturday morning at the meeting of the Pennsylvania In terscholastic Athletic Association that will be held in this city. The officers will be elected and a sched ule prepared for next season. The Tech Athletic Association will hold its annual meeting Friday for the election of managers for next year. The members of the Tech Camera Club are making preparations for their exhibit that will be given in connection with the open house af- | fair June 1. The club will go to the country Friday to secure another set of photographs. Professor A. M. Lindsay, director of music, is preparing a new anthem to be sung at the Memorial Day ex ercises when the Grand Army veter ans address the student body. Stomach Not Helped By Artificial Digestents Doctors ,\o Advliie MnKneala for Arid IndlKCHtloii Just how foolish it is to indiscrimi nately dose the stomach with drugs and medicines is often not realized until too late. It seems so simple to swallow a dose of some special mix ture or take pepsin tablets, or other artificial digestents after meals, and the folly of tills drugging is not ap parent until, perhaps years afterward, when chronic dyspepsia has developed or gastric ulcers have almost or en tirely eaten their way through the stomach walls. Regrets are then un availing. , . .. 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