8 Chemical Engineer Is Commissioned a Captain in Ordnance Department John S. Spicer, a chemical engi neer In the State Department of La bor and Industry has been commis sioned a captain in the ordnance de partment of the officers' reserve by the War Department. His commis sion arrived this morning. Captain Spicer has been In charge of the inspection of explosives throughout the state. He also draft ed the explosive code of the Indus trial Board. Before coming to the department, Captain Spicer was a chemist at the DuPont Powder Plant. His exten sive knowledge of explosives caused him to be sought after by the War Department. Pennsy Auditor Is in City; Was Former Harrisburger George Moorehead, of the depart ment of auditors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is in Harrisburg. His head quarters are at Broad Street Station. Philadelphia. His duties take him over the entire Pennsylvania Railroad system. Mr. Moorehead is a former Harrisburger, this being his native city. He entered the service of the company soon after he graduated from the high school, and was first employed in the passenger depart ment. nis rise has been rapid. He is auditing the books of the local real estate department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and will be here for several days. ' t QFF for a trip !n the motor car— j-j :<**" i Away over hill and dale j ® H ISB Ml With Sheboysan Ginger Ale. Put*it on Your t • Picnic \- Besides the sure "enjoyment to be gotten yn n VJ from drinking lively, nippy, refreshing Qheboygan M Ginger Ale A ;k\ it is good common sense to take a plentiful supply [///// ft I H \u\ for the picnic. Cool the bottles well before start- n II I I II ing, wrap in paper and they will retain their re- ! I i ' | freshing coolness. Everybody—young and old —is liable to drink too copiously of iced drinks on a pic- (I I I. nic. 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Special at . A MORROW ONLY ______ 4"C 69c famous J. E. Day-J vl *.49 I B Ladies' shoes, all ton Railroad Shoes > Men's trousers, in IE sizes, $3.00 values, again reduced to $3, j cout wide variety, at 79c B £?y eIK,i ° n - ** *• and tEtUf | $1.69 $4.00 $1.98 $1.79 | Everything in Our Stock Has Been Correspondingly Reduced! Eli Goldstein, 323 Broad St.j Formerly at 6th and Broad Sfts* 17 Years. Now Opposite Broad St. Market 1 FRIDAY EVENING. CANNING R ARE EXCHANGED BY HOUSEWIVES YOU with hundreds of other housewives have successful methods of canning, preserving mid drying foods and fruits which have either been handed down to you from generations of cestors or which you have evolved. Ths feature of the HARRIo- BURG TELEGRAPH Is designed to help you exchange your ldeao with other housewives Send your favorite receipts and methods to the editor and they will be placed before thousands of other .house wives. In this way they can be placed before the public and do the maximum amount of good. REASONS FOn DRYING One of the most prominent features of the food conservation program of Dauphin plays ' Halifax at home, versal drying of fruits and vegetables. The surplus vegetables in the city markets were forced by the govern ments In large municipal drying plants. Community driers were es tablished in the trucking regions and even itinerant drying machines were sent from farm to farm, drying the vegetables which otherwise would have gone to waste. In addition, large quantities of dried vegetables from Canada and this country were shipped to France during the last two years, and there is a possibility that dried fruits and vegetables may continue to be shipped abroad in considerable quantities to supplement the concen trated food diet of the men In the trenches. The drying of vegetables may seem strange to the present generation, but to our grandmothers it was no nov elty. Many housewives even to-day prefer dried sweet corn to the prod uct canned by the old method, and say also that dried pumpkins and squash are excellent for pie-making. Snap beans often are strung on threads and dried above the stove. Cherries and raspberries still are dried on bits of for use instead of raisins. In fact, many of the everyday foodstuffs already are dried at gome stage of their preparation for market. The common dried fruits, such as prunes, raisins, figs, dates, and apples, are staples in the world's markets, while beans and other legumes, tea, coffee, cocoa and various manufactured foods like starch, tapioca, macaroni, etc., are dried either in the sun and wind or In specially constructed driers. Much Perlshnhle Food Even though the drying- of fruits and vegetables as practiced a few decades ago on many farms has be come practically a "lost art," as a means of conserving the food supply, this country is producing large quan tities of perishable foods which should be saved for storage, canned or properly dried. Drying Is not a panacea for the entire waste evil, nor should it take the place of storing or canning to any considerable extent where proper storage facilities are available or tin cans or glass jars can be obtained readily and at a low cost. The advantages of drying vegeta bles are not so apparent for the farm home as they are for the town or city household, which has no roof, cellar or other place in which to store fresh vegetables. For the farmer's wife the new methods of canning probably will be better than sun drying, which re quires a somewhat longer time. But shorter methods of drying are availa ble. and the dried product holds an advantage in that usually it requires fewer jars, cans or other containers than do canned fruits or vegetables. Also dried material can be stored in receptacles which cannot be used for canning. Then. too. canned fruit and vegetables freeze and cannot be shipped as conveniently in winter. Dried vegetables can be compacted and shipped with a minimum of risk. To the housewife in the town, the drying of fruits and vegetables pre sents special advantages. During the season when the market is oversup plied locally and prices are low she can lay in a stock, dry it &nd put it away for a winter's with out its taking up much of the needed small storage space In her home. If she Is accustomed to canning her fruit and vegetables and finds she cannot secure jars or tin cans, she can easily resort to drying. HAKRISBURG TEKEGRXPH DOES HE CARE MUCH FOR YOU? The Average Girl May Be Sure the Average Man Will Be Won by Real Worth By Beatrice Fairfax What does he mean by his atten tions? Is he In love with ire and too shy to say so? Does he like me and never think of love? Are we Just good friends? How am I to know whether he really cares for me? Piter patter—with the vague soft ness of Spring rain or the stubborn pelting of an Autumn storm, these questions fall upon me and about me. If only I had a touch stone of truth so that I could make sure Just how much of what he says "Larry" means—or Just how long what he means shall be true! But I haven't—the only equipment I bring to meet the situation In gen eral Is a little sadly uncommon com modity: common sense! Some time ago I met a young man at a party. We were the only young people there, so he suggested we go to a theatre. We had a very pleasant evening, and I found him a real gentleman. On returning home I asked him to phone me sometime (I am a switchboard operator); he promised to call me In a day or two but failed to keep his word. One day I had to call his office on business, and he answered the telephone. I talked to him and made an appoint ment, which he kerpt. Again he promised to call me In a few days, and after weeks I had not heard from him, so I telephoned him. This has occurred over and over again. When he is with me he says he cares for me, but he never bothers about me unless I phone him. "Do you suppose he treats me this way because I am a poor girl? Can it be that he only comes to me when he has nowhere else to go? Should I wait and see if he comes of his own accord or try to forget him? I refuse other Invitations beacuse I am wait ing for this young man. Shall I aak him what his intentions are, or go on waiting or trv to forget him?" writes "Puzzled." Like Many Other* Though differing in substance, yet slmiliar in thought, are dozens of the many letters I get each day. And so I am going to try to handle the situation for all similarly "puzzled" girls. Don't say that your case is a litle bit different and that you must have a separate answer. We all fancy that our situations are unique —but they aren't. Everbody goes through about the same difficulties you are facing and slight variations do not alter the basic similarity. Very often when a boy meets a girl at a party where he is bored, the slight interest which she Arouses in him stands out prominently enough byway of contrast to (make him very glad to seek her society as a means of arelief from the stupid annoyance of the situation. Very often a bov likes a rlrl rather well In a passing Bort of way. If she seeks him out now and then, he Is rather glad to hear her voice and Is stimulated by It Into Imagining that he wants to see her. He enjoys his occasional meetings, but he enjoys them as mere episodes; they never become part of his life. The girl con cerned never seems vital or necessary to his happiness. Frequently a man who is Indefi nitely interested in one girl likes little excursions Into the land of romance in the society of other girls. He likes a bit of variety. He enjoys change. And it Is not wanton self ishness but a lack of thinking which causes him to let himself grow Im portant to a girl who Is little enough or nothing to him. The average young man meets a great many girls, all more or less attractive, bu tnone of them suffic iently Important to him to seem necessary—to inspire him with the Idea of giving up his freedom for their sakes. Men now-a-days don't like to be bound down. Women have long been called "the restless sex," out as a matter of fact we are rest less because we are continually striv ing for the unattainable. We want what we can't have. The men of to day have taken over our restlessness as if It were "something catching." The trouble is that they don't want anything they oan have. Men enjoy the chase. This is a primitive fact of human nature and there is no way of evading it. Some clever women know how to mark down the hunter by whom they de sire to be pursued and then to., let him have all the fun of fancying that he chose to pursue. Most of us are not clever coquettes—we are Just loving human souls who desire to give freely of our affections to the man for whom we care. Now the girl who is attracted by the man who treats her even as tho hero of our letter had better give the thing up as a bad job! If she has to do all the telephoning and has to combat indifference and broken (promises, she has nothing at all on which to depend. Boys and men— under the lure of propinquity—often fancy themselves Interested and say 80. But girls must take a more "from Missouri" attitude in matters of the affections. Saying to a girl whose sweet nearness moves him that he cares Jor her Is Just what can be expected of almost any man. And the proof of .he declaration of fol lowing it up next day or the day after with another declaration—l. e.: that you want to see her again. Nine men out of ten go after what they want. If they don't want, they don't go. If they don't go, they don't want (to write the obvious "converse of the proposition"). FIVE MILLION ILLITERATES In various ways, there were gath ered into this country in 1910 five and a half million illiterates. Were these segregated, they would make a nation larger than Switzerland, or as large as Denmark and Norway combined. It would be a nation without Bibles, without songbooks, without magazines or newspapers, without banks, without railways, without pens, pencils or writing pa per, and one supplied with only the coarsest commodities of trade. I heard an illiterate woman say that she couldn't recognize a two-dollar bill until she was twenty-five years of age. "Square money," with Its printing, is not as popular with them as "round money." When the censu* takers were tak ing the list of illiterates In 1910, the "moonlight school," as a remedy for adult Illiteracy, was being evolved. In 1911, the experiment was tried first In all of the schools in Rowan, one of the mountain counties of Ken tucky. None Is better prepared to witness the result of that experiment than the United States Bureau of Education, which heralded to the world Its success In a bulletin en titled: "Illiteracy In the United States and an Experiment For Its Elimination,"—Cora Wilson. Stewart, In The Christian Htrald. GRADE CROSSING MISHAPS GROW Investigator Dohoney Makes Report on the Situation in the Last Year Two hundred and one persons were killed in accidents at grade crossings in Pennsylvania during the year ending with June 30 last, according to <a report made to the Public Service Commission by John P. Dohoney, investigator of acci dents. In the same period 439 rail road employes, 37 passengers, 616' trespassers and 54 others met death on railroads, making a total of 1,347. On street railways there wore 188 persons killed, making a grand total of 1,535 fatalities on the transportation lines. The commission has been giving close attention to grade crossings and finds that In the report period 236 automobiles, 171 wagons and 130 pedestrians were struck at grade crossings, resulting In 201 deaths and 395 persons not fatally injured. Eighty-five of the persons in auto mobiles struck were killed; 216 in jured, 36 occupants of wagons were killed and 129 injured and 80 ped estrians killed and 50 Injured. The accidents according to cross ings show notable increases over the previous years as follows: No. of accidents Unprotected Protected Per. Cent. Per Cent. Number of accidents 3 4 31 Number of killed 21 32 Npumber of injured 6 20 Approximately 15 per cent, of the public grade crossings are protected by 736 gates; 636 watchmen and 475 bells. Two hundred accidents occurred at these places and the reports show that 88 per cent, of hte pedestrians killed and injured at crossings protected by gates brought about the accidents by crawling under the gates. Including the collisions at grade crossings there were 11,971 accidents on the ste&m roads, an increase of 1,040 over the previous year. As a result of these accidents the fatali ties were as follows; „ , Increase Employes 489 fig Passengers 37 23 Trespassers ,616 48 Travelers over crossings 201 40 Miscellaneous 54 32 Total 1347 209 The hazard of the occupations of the employes is shown by the fol lowing: Killed Injured Yard crews 88 3236 Road engineers 23 542 Road firemen 21 1441 Road conductors .... 26 631 Road brakemen .... 69 2294 Flagmen 5 282 Sectionmen and work train laborers .... 84 538 Track walkers 15 9 With Germany Powerless or Germany Free—Which? As the War enters its fourth year, the German Emperor proclaims that the thoughts of the German people '"stand resolute in the determination to prosecute this righteous war of de fense to a successful termination," and tells his soldiers "we are invincible. We shall be victorious. The Lord God will be with us." But while the thunder of British guns in Flanders and the shout of advancing German regiments in Russia seem to be the loud echoes of these con fident assertions, representatives of both sides were at the same time contributing to a sym posium of peace. Mr. Balfour declares that Germany must be "either powerless or free" be fore peace can come. German peace-hints are prefaced with assertions that German armies in Belgium and Roumania are fighting a purely defensive war. Chancellor Michaelis denies imputation of cold ness toward the Reichstag declaration for a peace without conquest, while Count Czernin, Foreign Minister of. Austria-Hungary, admits that his country is quite ready for an "honorable peace.' While Austria's readiness for peace has long been evidenced by American editors, they suspect that Germany's outgivings and the firm grip of the military regime conceal an almost equal longing. The leading article in this week's LITERARY DIGEST, (August 11th,) is a review of all the peace talk from various quarters, arranged so that the reader instantly grasps its full im port. Other articles in this number of the DIGEST sure to interest you, are: Insurance Instead of Pensions For Our Fighting Men How the Government Proposes to Protect the Country Against an Increase of the Pestiferous Pension Graft of the Past, by a Straightforward, Business-like Indemnity. The Allied Drive in Belgium Rubber Soles Up-to-Date To Make Labor's Americanism Safe A Car That Will Not Telescope A New National Party A New Way to Find Steel Flaws The Battle of Craonne—the Second Interning German Science Verdun Disease Revealed Through Speech The German Shock Absorders The \V orJd's Most Famous Cartoonist 1 he Irish Convention Music and Movies as Allies Land Hunger in Russia How the Trench Outranks the Pulpit The Value of the "Eye" in Designing Can You Love Your Enemies? News of Finance and Investment Current Poetry An Unusually Good Collection of Illustrations, Including Cartoons, Etc. Dependable Facts Yours in "The Digest" at a Minimum Cost When you buy a suit of clothes, an automobile, a preachments, for colored or distorted accounts of home, or anything else that you need, your thought things, but for facts—clear, concise statements upon is always to get exactly what your requirements call which y° u can de P end and which will kee P y° u for,-nothing more, nothing less This holds rood thoroughly posted as to what the world is doing, , ~ , ... " . £ ooa > saying and thinking. This is exactly what we or sou o so, in tle case of your reading matter. all need and exactly what you will find each week You want, if you are a normal, healthy-minded per- i" THE LITERARY DIGEST, and that is why son, the one periodical that gives you the most 700,000 leaders of thought throughout the nation buy reliable, up-to-date news. You are not looking for it and read it every week. Better buy a copy to-day. August 11th Number on Sale To-day—All News-dealers —10 Cents fix The T\ , Jiteraij Digest FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publisher! of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK Freight handlers 848! Baggagemen 3 61 Crossing watchmen . 9 7 Signalmen 3 13 Car cleaners 1 5 5 Car inspectors 11 51 Car repairmen 7 27 rummtrnmnuw wmmrnttrnttmrnm*'- nammmmmt Alteration § Real Bargain g For men who appreciate the opportunity to buy XX clothing and accessories at a distinct saving, these are XX notable days—a clothing economy event. || Tfiis is their one great chance to clip the wings of ♦i mounting expenses and still secure the quality they ♦* 55 ' have been accustomed to. H xt Note these specimen bargains. They are IX +X typical of the price reductions that hold sway while H || alterations at our store are in progress. . * XX | Hart ScHaffner and Marx | If and Society Brand Suits I & *lß=2 ( W CS"') I XX Suits that sold as high as $22.50; sizes <£l OCA H XX mostly 35, 36, 38 ,at p I£. DU || $1.50 and $2.00 fr 11 C $3.50 and $4.00 fro QC Shirts, at Silk Shirts ♦♦ XX SI.OO Athletic All Straw <M A A XX t| Union Suits Hats pIUU $$ || SI.OO Pure CC„ SI.OO S ♦♦ Silk Ties Caps , DDC ♦♦ H Soft Collars, All Sizes, 10c H |H. Marks Son | ijj --4 tH and Market Sts. "AUGUST 10, 1917. ! Carpenters 2 281 Miscellaneous 38 3 83; Employes not on duty 34 118 Total 439 10064 1 On the street railways of the State I for the year ending June 30,. 1917,1 188 people were killed as against 174 the year previous, and 3219 were In jured as against 2868 for the year before. The great. Increase in the number killed came from passen gers, because of the accident near Johnstown several months ago.
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