Great Decline in German Birthrate Is Alarming By Associated Press Copenhagen, May 28. A great de cline in the German birthrate, due to the war, continues to produce dis quietude among German sociologists. Official statistics of the Imperial health Inprau for cities with popula tions ol' T?,000 and over and 200,000 and over show a further heary de cline in the birthrate of 1916, as com pared with that of 1915, which itself was some 20 per cent, below that of 1914. Twenty-six German cities in the class of populations of 200,000 and over report a decrease of 98,093 births, or 38.3 per cent, as contrasted with the number of children born in 1911, while the percentage in all cities with populations of 15,000 and over is slightly higher, namely 39H Per cent. The Great Secret of Rejuvenating the Face | She holds the true secret of facial rejuvenation who has learned how to remove the dead skin particles as fast as they appear. It's a secret anyone may possess. The aged, faded, or dis colored surface skin may be gradual ly absorbed, in an entirely safe and rational manner, by the nightly ap plication of ordinary meroolized wax. AVithin a week or two the underly ing skin, youthful and beautiful to behold, has taken the place of the dis carded cuticle. So little of the old skin is absorbed each day there's no inconvenience at all, and no one sus pects you are putting anything on your face. The mercolized wax, pro curable at any drug storo (an ounce is sufficient), is applied like cold cream. In the morning it is erased witli soap and water. It's the best tiling known for freckles, blackheads, pimples, moth patches, liver spots and line surface wrinkles. For tlie deeper wrinkles and crows feet an excellent and harmless recipe is: Powdered saxolite. one ounce, dis solved in one-half pint witch hazel. Bathing the face in the solution pro duces quick and wonderful results. It is fine for saggy cheeks or chin.—Ad vertisement. |l T T T T ▼ T T ▼T : Bakers Music Store : 1319 N. SIXTH ST. K The Only Victrola and Victor Record Store in Harrisburg ► Outside of the Business Center y We arc in the center of tlie biggest portion of the city from Market street to Division and from River front to J eastern city limits, including Allison Hill. J ► 1 ; We Sell Victor Records Exclusively < ► and stock up heavily tu supply all this immediate as well as 1 ► surrounding territory. We ha've sold them for years and H have a host of regular customers. P>ut we can still supply i more. 4 ► ] Try us and we know you will call often. When unable 4 to call personally—just phone your orders and we will de- J liver promptly. J ; Special—Call For It j The Star Spangled Banner, No. 64664, by John McCormack New lists are out the 28th of each month. J Please let us put you on our mailing list. Let us serve you. Yours lor business. J ]: O. F. BAKER j 1 A A A A A A A A A-*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-' Ice Customers Must Help if cost of ice this year is to be kept down to the minimum. Labor conditions are now such that if con sumers demand the service of former years it will mean a further advance in the price of ice over the new schedule that will he put into effect on June 1. Ice delivery is not a pleasant job and work ers are not easy to get. This year it will be worse than ever. We must pay well for men to operate our ice wagons and if these men must rouse peo ple out of bed, to open the doors, and then clean out the refrigerators to put in the ice, and again put the edibles back in the refrig erator, too much time will be consumed to keep prices down. If consumers put their own ice away, in stead of causing a loss of from two to ten minutes, less wagons will be required and cost of delivering will be lowered. Besides, it is unsanitary to permit the ice man to handle your edibles. The ice man begins his work at an early hour each day.. First he attends his horses and does a lot of other work, then he goes his rounds over dusty dirty streets; yet a large number of people thoughtlessly permit the ice man to remove their food products from the refrigerator without a word of protest. One wonders that this unsanitary practice has lasted so long. The men are required to cover a certain territory each day and a minute delay here and there adds much to the actual cost of delivering ice. United Ice & Coal Co. Forster and Cowden Streets. MONDAY EVENING, NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE CAPITOL PARK BILLS ON WAY One in Each Branch Up For Final Passage During the Present Week Meetings Two of the bills to provide for the treatment of the Capitol park exten sion district are on (he calendars of the legislature for the sessions to night and it is probable that action will be taken by the committee in charge of the third measure within a day. No opposition to any of the bills has been heard of. The Woodward bill carrying the appropriation of $350,000 to improve the park in accordance with the Brunner plans, including tlve plant ing of the trees next year, is on the House third reading calendar for to night and may be reached to-mor row as there is a big list of appro priation bills to have the right of way to-night. The Beidleman bill providing that the Board of Grounds and Buildings may arrange with Harrisburg city authorities for the change of street lines is cm third reading in the Sen ate and will reach the House to morrow. The other bill providing for a com mission to have charge of the laying out of the park extension is to be acted upon by the committee on ap propriations very soon. The Harrisburg appropriation bills are all In the Senate, the Beidle man charity bills being on third reading. They will reach the House to-morrow. NATIONAL GUARD BILLS IN HOUSE Important Measures Will Be Passed by the Legislature During This Week National Guard and State Armory Appropriation bills will be in the Senate to-morrow. They are on the third reading calendar in the Hoyse for Monday night and will have right of way. The bill to establish the Re serve Militia to take the place of the National Guard .as soon as the Guardsmen go into the Federal ser vice in July is also on third reading and will probably reach the gover nor this week, having originated in the Senate. It would create three regiments of infantry and a squad ron of cavalry to be located where there are armory facilities. The appropriation bills carry sl,- 000,000 for the support of the Na tional Guard, the naval militia and reserve niilitia with $150,000 and the unexpended balance of the military emergency fund to check riot and in surrection for meeting any disturb ance which may arise or to care for any unforeseen expenses. The Ar mory Board bill carries $1,500,000 for new armories and $290,000 for mantenance and repairs. These bills are the largest of the kind ever re ported out. Other military hills pending are SIO,OOO to pay the difference be tween the pay of State employes in the Mexican border service and what they would have received if they had been in State service and SIO,OOO tor medals for men who served on the border 'last year. The .House bill to appropriate fori permanent improvements at Mt. j Gretna the money unexpended last year for military uses, will be held in the Senate until it is seen what the government intends to do about lit. Gretna. Harrisburg Girl Among Wilson College Graduates Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., May 28.—The forty-seventh an nual cofmencement of Wilson Col lege, Chambersburg, Pa., will take place June 9-12. Miss Rita Mott Jones, of Harrisburg, is a member of the graduating clas. Saturday, June !>, will be alumna day, with the annual business meeting and lunch eon at 2 p. m. The senior class will present "Twelfth Night" at 8 p. m. on the College Campus. On Sunday, June 10, at 11 a. m., President Ethelbert D. Warfield will preach the baccalaureate sermon, and at 6 p. m. the vesper service will be in charge of the alumna. Monday, June 11, the tennis tour nament finals will commence at 10 a m. The senior reception will be held from 3 to 5 p. m. on the col lege lawn. From S to 10 p. m., a reception by President and Mrs. Warfield, at the president's home, to the alumna, sen.ior class and friends of the college. Tuesday, June 12, at 10.30 a. m., i the commencement exercises of the class of 1917, in Thomson Hall. The address by President Cheesman A. Herrick, IX. D.,*of Girard College,! on "The Book of Books." MkCHE SOON DISAPPEARED Could Not Do Housework Till Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Removed Cause. Fort Fairfield, Maine. —"For many months I suffered from backache caused by female 111 LLLiil II! tr ° u i ) i es so i was unable to do my took treatments ed no help what eve>". Then some PJ asked why 1 did ■ -••8gy not tr y Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- Q table Compound. ' 1 examination made at the Harrisbui" hospital on Friday and the leg was discovered to be only badly wrenched instead of broken. FLAGRAISING AT COLUMBIA Columbia, Pa.. May 28. Patrio tic citizens of the Fifth ward have planned a flagraising in the public park, at Fifth and Locust streets this evening. Dr. G. W. Berritheizei will deliver the address. Company C, of the National Guard, and other organizations, will take part. GIRL WILL GO TO FRANCE Waynesboro, Pa., May 28. Miss Gertrude Smith, a frequent visitor in the family of Postmaster Blair at Shippensburg, and who has been'en gaged as a nurse in Germantown has joined the State hospital unit'and will sail for France in the near fu ture for duty. NEIGHBORS PLANT GARDEN Waynesboro, Pa., May 28.—When neighbors noticed that aged Mrs Luther Hepfer, Chamber"-.burg, was too weak to spade her garden,' they took on themselves the work of get ting the garden ready and planted the seed for her. HUMORISTS TO STORM NEW YORK Newspaper Workers to Gath er Around Great Chestnut Tree in Heart of City New York. May 28. —Billy Sun day has made the metropolis gasp, but it is to undergo another attack upon its traditions later on—the last week in June, to be explicit. A hardy mob of newspaper hu morists is to invade it in that week and treat Broadway as if it belonged to them. They are going to spend a holiday in New York and spend money. In fact, some of them don't care anything at all aoout thirty-five cents. It is their fifteenth annual con vention, and, having met In past years almost everywhere else, took the dare of their local membership to meet this time Ui the most awe inspiring place of all. New York. Just to show how overpowered they are with the extreme majesty of New York they are going to plant a rollicking chestnut tree right in the midst of city hall pluza where all the plug-hatted ceremonies take place. The chestnut tree Is to re mind the ponderous city that there is a lighter side of life, and that one need not be rich to be happy if one is but good humored. All that is settled. But one difficulty has arisen. The Mayor, John Purroy Mitchel, let them have a site like a regular fel low. They have the site and the spade, and dedicatory odes. No trouble about odes. But chestnut trees are scarce. It seems that a blight has so bothered the arboreal form of the chestnut that there is no supply in the east, at least none that will pass a 100 per cent, med ical test. The committee, of which Don Marquis is chairman, appeals to a patriotic country. Is there a chestnut tree that wants to come to New York? And grow in front of the city hall? And ne dedicated with odes? And be watered with the tears of a listening populace? Let such a tree hit the trail, via ex press. prepaid. Oh, dear, yes, it ought to be prepaid. Says J. A. Waldron, editor of Judge, secretary of the American Press Humorists. "It should be not over two years old. Well-rooted but not profusely. It shouia not be a horse chestnut, lest it evoke horse laughs. A Spanish chestnut will do if It lias been naturalized or at least has taken out its first papers. It need never have borne a crop. There is a crop of choice chestnuts to drape upon it at the planting. Come of them are 100 years old, and seem never to die. It is sus pected that they are alive inside. At any rate our ceremony will be a dig nified way to get rid of them. All of us are going to bring our ac cumulated store of chestnuts and hang them on this tree for the squir rels in City Hall Park." Always democratic, never snob bish, the humorists have invited the street cleaning department band to furnish music at the planting. An old sweet melody will be rendered: "White Wings." Delegates of hoydenish humorists from Chicago. Detroit, Cleveland, Denver, San Francisco and points I between are coming, especially since the Rotary Club of New York is go ing to dine them. They are to be greeted by a coterie of unblushing Gotham humorists that includes K. C. Beaton, of the American; Roy K. Moulton, of the Mail; Miriam Teich ner, of the Globe; McLandburgh Wilson, Walter Juan Davis and Bob Dean, of the Telegraph: E. A. Oliver, of the Yonkers Statesman: Don Herold, of the George Mathew Adams Syndicate. Ellis Parker But ler, A. Walter Utting. John E. San ford. Maurice Switzer. Elizabeth Sears, of Film Fun; Homer Croy. Fred Schaefer, R. C. McElravy and others, and perhaps seven million human beings. SADDLER DIES SUDDENLY Manchester, Pa.. May 28. Jacob K. Thiry, aged 70 years, a well known saddler, died suddenly while seated in a rocking chair at the home of his sister, Mrs. George Winters. Mr. Thiry was a member of Christ Lutheran Church. He is survived by one sister, with whom he lived. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the house. The body will then he taken to Wrightsville for burial. HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Lewistown, Pa., May 2 B.—Several Lewistown people were hurt in an automobile accident on the Buck horn road near Altoona on Saturday. Mrs. Kenneth Fleck, suffered contu sions of the right knee and lacer ations of the head and shoulders; Mrs. George Thomas was badly In jured about the face, arms and hands. Mrs. F. Wilt, abrasions of the face and laceration of the chests W. T. Wellman, driver of the auto, suffered bruises and lacer ations. COL SHANNON IN HOSPITAL Columbia, Pa., May 28. Colonel E. C. Shannon, Fourth Regiment, National Guard, is in the General Hospital, where he has un dergone an operation. His condition is favorable and it is expected that he will leave the institution within a few weeks. I mprove Your Skin WithCuticura ft is easy, convenient and inexpensive. The last thing at night and the first in the morning, smear the face gently with the Ointment on end of the finger and bathe freely with Cuticura Soap and hot water, using plenty of Soap, best ap plied with the hands which it softens. A clear skin, good hair and soft white hands usually follow daily use of Cuti cura Soap and Oin< nt. For sample each free by mail address post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. 7G, Boston." Sold throughout the world. BOLD ATTEMPT TO ROB POST OFFICE Front Door at Mount Holly Springs Forced Open; Burg lars Frightened Away Carlisle, Pa., May 28.—An attempt was made during last night to rob the post office at Mount Holly Springs. This morning when Postmaster Ira Gleim, who lives in another part of town, went to the office he found that the front door had been forced open with a crowbar and inside a number of tools and carriage robes were scat tered about. Toolmarks on the door of the safe around the combination and knob show that the robbers bad attempted to open it. They were evi dently frightened away, as they left everything lay Just as they had been using it. The tools were stolen from the blacksmith shop of W. 11. Thomas, in another section of the town. As far as can be ascertained, nothing was taken from the office. Post office de partment inspectors have been noti fied. This is the fourth robbery or at tempted robbery at this office in a little more than two years. When the' safe was blown open and rohbed in February last the tools were stolen from the Thomas blacksmith shop. Eby Memorial Fountain Will Be Unveiled With Brief Exercises Tomorrow Formal ceremonies for the unveil ing of a memorial fountain presented to the city by Miss Fanny M. Eby in honor of her the late ex- Mayor Maurice C. Eby, will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the pluza beyond the city pumping station. The program will open with a prayer by the Rev. L)r. Kills N. Kre mer of Reformed Salem Church; sing ing, "America," male quartet; presen tation of fountain to city. John Fox Weiss; acceptance, City Solicitor John E. Fox; singing, "Star Bangled Ban ner," male quartet with audience; benediction, the Rev. Dr. Kremer. The fountain will be called the "Children's Fountain," and is so con structed that the stream comes from a high granite wall, with a beauti ful background of evergreen trees. Ivy will be planted to climb over the wall. POST ATTENDS SERVICE Marietta, Pa., May 28. Lieuten ant William H. Child Post, No. 226, Grand Army of the Republic, attendr ed services yesterday in the Zion Re formed Church, the Rev. Wilbur W. Moyer, pastor. SUNDAY SCHOOI, TRACK JIEKT Members of the Pine Street Pres byterian Sunday School will partici pate in .the annual track and field meet to-morrow at Island Park. En tries represent every department, in cluding the Bethany Presbyterian Sunday School. HEAR DR. IIASSETT Many Harrisburgers atended the memorial services of Lincoln Post No. 140. G. A. R., at St. Edwards Church, Shamokin, yesterday to hear the Rt. Rev. Dr. M. M. Hassett preach. Come and Hear the New Records*^ S * B, *^„')2 i| 10 Beautiful New jf VICTOR I RECORDS Here are ten good reasons why your home should j'B have a Victrola. Come in and hear them today. : m Julia Culp Victor Opera Co. • Auf Wledersehn 74333 Gems from "Eileen"— J i Elman String Quartet Gems from "Eileen"— J 'M ' ° Part 11 55635 • JR. 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Mr. Shoap used for his subject "Ambassadors for Christ." The choir of the United Brethren Church furnished the music. Mary Crabill sang a solo on Sunday morn ing. Miss Alma and Mrs. Ethel Coul son sang a duet. A sextet of young women from the different churches of town furnished special music Sunday morning and afternoon. The sextet consisted or Alma Coulson, Ethel Coulson, Mrs. J. Harold Rauck, Myrtle Mayberry, Gretna Mayberry and Adeline Irrgang. In the afternoon the men's double quartet, composed of Prof. Doner, M. C. Thumma, S. W. McCreary, M. E. Shultz, Hoy Klugh, Clyde Grove, Edgar Wolf and O. M. Beesliman, furnished special music. Prof. Harrison Arnold, of Clear Spring, at Sunday afternoon's ses sion, sang a solo and the orchestra of the U. B. Church assisted with the music. Maud Forry accompan ied with the piano. GOOD PROVIDER Growing tired of having her linen torn by the machinery used in laun dries, a lady gave it to a negro | washerwoman, who, although forty, confessed that she was a "blusliin* bride," the eventful ceremony hav ing taken place just two months pre viously. To date, the bridegroom had failed to go to work, but the lady did not know that. "How do you like married life?" she asked. "Fine! Jus' fine!" replied the bride. "And is your husband a good pro vider?" "He suttingly am, ma'am," de clared the bride. "He suttingly am. Dis week he got me fo' new places to wash at!"— Everybody's Maga zine. The Horrible Handicap of Poisoned Blood The Innocent Suffer Even Unto the Third and Fourth Generations, But Relief Is Now in Sight. It has long been accepted as a matter of course that the sins of the fathers must be suffered by innocent posterity, yet it is hard to become reconciled to this condition. 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