■THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY meat was black, tough, and had a | horrible strong taste. We never again tried to eat crow. I Yet X have heard German women ay with resignation, "The war won't! he over until we have to eat rats." j Thank heaven I got out of Germany j before that happened! Butter was $2.50 a pound and each ierson was permitted less than one 'fth of a pound a week. Each person I :ot one loaf of bread a week. Bread is 2 marks 50 pfennigs—62 cents —a I af. one lonf weighing a little over wo pounds. The bread is almost >lack. and sour and hard. They say ti Germany It Is imde partly of saw lust. I know it Is neither good-tast ing nor satisfying. Ice is very scarce. Icemen will not rary ice above the third floor. If you live on the fourth floor, as we I lid, you have to go out and buy it. it Is about 25 cents a pound. To keep i our food cool we would put it in ivater. There was no coffee in all Ger- ; nany, a substitute said to be made from roasted barley being used in itead. I could not drink it. Also there was no tea. a substitute beln \ nade of apple leaves. I could not Irlnk that. Birdseed is one dollar a pound. ! >ogs are taxed 415 a year. At that ew dogs are seen, and no cats. The most appetizing thing we had Tor months before I left was a soup 1 n-e made of flour and water and a lit le bit of butter, so our unappetizing neals can be imagined. No Candy nnl Ice Cream We had no milk whatever. It was J iseless to try to buy any. All the nilk was kept for the babies and the | lick people. i We had to use saccharine Instead of 1 mgar and that Is so hard on the svs- ; em that I stopped using it. preferring o go without. Saccharine used as he German people are using it now n such quantities will ruin any con- I ititution. Candy—l forgot what it looked like. The New Reading Fair REDUCED RATES September 18 to 22 •Special Kxcir*lon Ticket* will be good KoInK it ml returning; only on date IftMiied. Special Trnlnw, Thumdnr, Sept. 20 l.v. FROM Fare. A.M. HfirrlNbnnr $1.75 K. 0.% lluninieUtoirn 1.4S VifO llrow iiHtone 1.4,1 SMatnrn 1.40 H.*J5 Herahey 1.35 V-'X Palmyra 1.25 K34 Annvllle 1.10 5.42 l.cbanon 05 K. 55 Heading: <ar.> 9.55 RETIRMXG leave Heading , (Main Station) 7.30 P. M., for ahoTf Mtatlona. Paanenicem Trill change cam at Reading (Main Station > and nxe the shuttle train* In both direc tions between Reading and the Fair Ciroundii.. Pasncngeri should leave Fair Ground* not later than 7.00 I*. M.. to connect with the above npeclal train at Reading I.Mnln Station. Frequent nhuttle trains between Franklin Street Station and Fair (round*, stopping nt Main Station In each direction. Special excursion tickets U*aed . at rates noted, for opeclnl train ! Thursday, will be good only on special train in each direction. Children between 5 and 12 years of age, half fare. Send the Soldier Boy Pictures of Home Events I Let him see familiar faces ' and places. He will en joy them over and over again. It's no trouble to take good pictures with a FILMS SUPPLIES— OUTFITS Printing and Developing STORE OPEN* DAY AND NIGHT Gorgas"Rexall" Stores 16 North Third St. Pena. Station SANPAN DID ME A WORLD OF GOOD ays irrs. M. E. Johnson, 149 Adams treet, Steelton, Pa. "X have been roubled for a long tlxne with a bad tomach and rheumatism. "My stomach would become dls ended with gas after eating, and lad severe pains. Was bothered onstuntly with the rheumatic pains n shoulder and limbs, also In my lack. I felt fev*rlsh and worn out ill the time. Then again, my stom ich would get awful sore, and would tet dreadful pains over my eyes, hen I would get dliiy and weak. "I tried all kinds of patent medl ine, but I had to fall back on San 'an to get well. "It cleaned out my ailments In a apid manner. "I am not bothered with stomach rouble. headaches, rheumatism, iizzy spells, etc, Sanpan surely did ne a world of (rood." Sanpan Is being introduced at Kel t's Drug Store, 405 Market street, farrlaburg, by the Sanpan man In erson. Our sales are becoming very large -merit wins.—Adv. MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. [Continued from First Page.] Chocolates were not to be gotten at any price. Chewing gum of courae wa rot heard of In Gerirflhiy. Ice cream la an American dish and could not he mentioned. There Is no pie. We paid GO cents a pound for peas, and from 15 cents to 35 cents each for eggs. Each person Is allowed three eggs a month. It Is almost Impossible to get beans. I I did not Jest when I said I was, hungry for the contents of our gar bage can at home. I knew, at the very time that I was going hungry, there waa enough left over from every meal at my home table to more than feed me. 1 have learned a les sor against waste. I could not throw away a crust of bread now. I would stop to think of how I wanted It when I did not hava It. Had I not had a generous supply of money with me, I aimply would have starved. But many an extra egg and portion of butter have I managed to get by paying for it what would have bought .0 times aw much In the United States. LOYAL THOUGH HUNGRY. You can see the hunger in the faces of the people on the streets. They are gaunt and haßgard. Beggars who come to your door beg for a bit of bread. They do not dream of ask ing for money. Children watch you wistfully when you are carrying home your portion. It I. heartbreaking to .ee the hungry little face, and eyes. Old men nnd women, too feeble to work, too feeble to atand In line for hour, for bread a. tbo.e nho get It uiaat do. totter along the .treet., fairly faint ing In their track*. The .nlTerlng be cause of hunger I. heartrending. Yet. through it all, though they i murmur against the kaiser, though | they speak wishfully for the days when peace shall cone, though they I speak regretfully of the days when | plenty lay upon their land like a | blanket of comfort and protection, j yet the German people are united In | their loyalty to The Fatherland. Not only food is restricted and high In price, but clothes are, as well, j When I was leaving Berlin I wanted ! a new suit, as I had only one. I went I to the office where I had to get a per- ' mlt to buy every article of clothing I needed and asked for permission to buy a new suit. The woman In charge asked me how long I had had the one I was wearing. I told her. "It looks good yet." she said, "and you can do with it." "But I am leaving- Berlin," I told her. "and I want a suit to travel in." 1 "Will you take oath that this is the only suit you have?" she asked. I said yes. and then she gave me the permit. When I bought the eult I paid 500 marks, over SIOO for It—that is what It would amount to In our money, and, here In Pittsburg, I could have bought it for $25 or less. Blouses which cost sls there could be bought here for $3. A hat which I paid sls for could be gotten here for $5. I was treated no differently than the German women in the matter of permission to buy clothes. PAPER VERY SCARCE. I was allowed two pairs of shoes a year, three pairs of stockings; two nighgowns. three suits of underwear nrd a limited number of handker chiefs and gloves. I paid S4O for a pair of shoeß once, and they were not In style at that. I had to-furnlsh my own bed linen and towels in the boarding houses where I stopped for a short time. And I had to wash them—and that sometimes without either hot water or soap. If a woman wants a white linen •klrt she must get special permission to buy it. And under no conditions i (Copyright. 1917, by Pittsburgh Press) FIVE OF ROBBER BAND ARE HELD Colored Men Charged With Many Thefts Will Come Before Court Five members of the gang of col ored men rounded up last week by Detectives Sliuler and Speece were held by Alderman Landis in the sum of SI,OOO each when given hearings in police court late Saturday after noon. The sixth negro was dis charged, as no evidence was found against him. He had been living with the gang at their shanty in the rear of 512 Walnut street, but claimed that he knew nothing of their activities. A. R. Calder, 2200 Rellevue road, identified the watch, valued at $l5O, pawned at a Market street shop for SB. as his property. The case on which Mr. Calder's name was en graved had been removed. James Harrison, the young negro identified as the man who had pawned the watch, said in court that two white men had given him the watch. One watch taken from the Calder home is 90 years old. A pearl necklace and two or three rings were also taken. Of the loot secured only the one watch has turned up. William H; Heard was wearing a suit made by an exclusive Harrisburg tailor for George M. Whitney, 1605 North Second street, when captured. The Whitney home was entered last week. Several suits of clothing, a handbag and other articles were taken. An effort haet been made to erase Mr. Whitney's initials from the handbag, but without success. The handbag was secured. Other members of the gang were charged with having taken gooas from the Adams Express Company and had been in the emplov of that concern for about a week. One mem ber of the gang was held for receiv ing stolen goods. -|-k I'm sure<■ Kesinol will heal your skin For years and years Resinol has been a favorite household remedy for eczema and other com- mon skin-troubles. It usually stops the itching jHMK]|jpfySlE at once and quickly heals the eruption. Doctors I prescribe it very widely. It also makes an ex cellent dressing for burns, wounds, chafingt, I and sore, irritated places generally. Resinol contains rothln* II u.ed with Resinol Soap. I that could Injure the tenders*! All drumists sell KMinolsnd jMMBMUMKIiiI •kin. It (seven more effective Resinol Soap. can she purchase more than her al lotment of necessary wearing apparel. Here, In America, we have no Idea of the scarcity of thingß there. For Instance, there is practically no paper. We • ne-er got things wrapped up. We would not have ask for paper and string. We took boxes of baskets with us to the stores and carried the articles we purchased In them. Bread was put In the basket without wrapping. When I came away I could not get tissue paper to pack my trunk. I was not permitted to bring with me any paper, soap or metal of any kind—l had to leave even my electric iron there, as well as perfume, medicines, rubber of any kind, or clothes that I had not already worn. There are only four big newspapers In Berlin now and, Instead of a regu lar paper as we used to get. the newspapers now are only two sheets and Indifferently printed at that. The supply of Ink Is low and what they do have is of an inferior quality. One reason for the strict censorship of newspapers I believe la that the officers in charge of the city are only too glad to suppress any newspaper for a short time, as that means a little more paper on hand. TIIE GERMAN BABIES. The little babies in Germany are a puny lot. It Is no wonder, for no woman there can bear a normal child under the conditions in which she has to live. I have seen pregnant women going around with deep hollows In their cheeks and dark starvation rings around their eyes, so weak They scarcely could stand. "The war bride.", too. are a pltlfnl lot. The government .topped these la.t-honr murrlage., a. It wan found that the women and bnble. were too great . charge. Very few women could afford to keep their bablea with them. The bablea all were put Into homes nnd the women worked nlong the beat they could. The "war brides" who really were patriotic In their wtsh to bear sons for Germany, rued their bargain, many of them, for the children they brought Into the world are more of a care than a comfort. Thousands of them will be permanent invalids —few will be strong, healthy, norm al boys and girls. But, even at that, the government Is making a desper ate effort to save all the boys it can. In Berlin there are no young men. of course, only old men, cripples and very young children. The boys are put out on the farms to work. MANY WOUNDED MEN. The city is full, too, of soldiers maimed and crippled in horrible ways. Our own porter had had a bullet go through both cheeks, tak ing the roof of his mouth with it. I saw men every day with noses shot away, half their faces gone, eyes, ears, legs and arms gone, wretched wrecks of humanity. And mnny of the people expect a .even yenrs* war. They do not look for a speedy close, although they profess to believe In an ultimate Uerman victory. The majority now are content to get peace and keep their own coun try intact without adding to Ger man possessions. Just betore I left Eerlin I had be gun to hear many murmurs of a coming war with Austria. One Ger man officer with whom I had a short conversation <",ne day said, "This war—why 'his is nothing." "Well I think it Is terrible," I said. "Yes," he said, "it Is bad enough, but the real war will come when this war is over and Austria and Ger many light—that may be a war which will end only In the extermination of one or the other." And his smile showed his confi dence as to where Germany would be found at the end of it. To be Continued SEARCHING FOR DARING ROBBERS Four Houses Entered During Night; Secure Money and Food It's bad enough to be robbed of one's spare change, but to require a man to search the house for his trousers in his 'nightie" Sunday n orning is adding insult to injury, according to Derry street residents. Saturday night some person or per sons entered four houses in Derry street. Two of the dwellings are within the city limits. These rob beries were reported to the police department. At 2717 Derry street a thief entered the Gilmore home by opening a win dow on the first floor. Sneaking into the second-floor bedroom occupied by the head of the house, he took Mr. Gilmore's trousers, securing thirty cents. The trousers were left in the kitchen. The next haul was made at the Ulrich home in Twenty-ninth street, near Derry. Here tl.lo was secured. The Walters home, adjoining was then visited. Mrs. Walters heard a noise and met the thief In the hall way. She called to neighbors, and the man huriedly left the building. She did not have an opportunity to see the intruder's face, and is unable to furnish a good description of the midnight visitor. At 2530 Derry street, someone en tered the home of Mervin Beam, and took a quantity of potatoes and sev eral cans of fruit from the cellar, without disturbing the family. No clue has been found to the per petrators of the daring robberies, but the police are investigating. PRESIDENT BACK IX CAPITAL Washington. Sept. 17. President and Mrs. Wilson returned to Wash ington shortly before S) o'clock, last night. HOME-READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN-SOLDIERS (Issued by the War Department and ail rights to reprint reserved) This course of thirty daily lessons is offered to the men selected for service in the National Army as a practical help in getting started in the right way It is informal in tone and does not attempt to give binding rules and directions. These are contained in the various manuals and regulations of the United States Army, to which this Course is merely introductory-. LESSON NO. 28 WHY WE FIGHT (Preceding Lessons: 1. Your Post of Honor. 2. Making Good as a Sol dier. 3. Nine Soldierly Qualities. 4. Getting Ready for Camp. 5. First Days in Camp. 6. Cleanli ness in Camp. 7. \our Health. 8. Marching and Care of Feet. 9. Your Equipment and Arms. 10. Recreation in Camp. 11. Playing the Game. 12. Team work in tho Army. 13. Grouping Men into Teams. 14. The Team Leaders. 15. Fighting Arms of the Service. 16. Staff Kranches of the Service—l. 17. Staff Branches of the Service —II. 18. Army Insignia. 19. The Army System of Training. 20. Close Order Drill. 21. Extended Order Drill. 22. Guard Duty. 23. Getting Ahead in the Army. 24. Army Courtesy. 25. Discipline and Respect for Colors. 2ti. Some Army Traditions. 27. The Spirit of the Service.) Every American knows the causes of our war with the German govern ment. Yet this course would be in complete If it did not contain a brief review of the events that finally forced us into war, when at last there remained "no other means of defending our rights." The soldier of an autocratic Kaiser may fight best when he understands least of the true meaning of the war. To tell him the facts would be to chill his enthusiasm. But the citizen soldier of a democracy is entitled to know for what purposes lie enters the struggle. He fights best when he sees most clearly why he fights. The resolution of Congress declar ing a state of war (Apr. 6, 1917) expresses tile immediate cause in these few words: "The Imperial German govern ment has committed repeated acts of war against the government and the people of the United States of Amer ica." Chief among the acts of war were attacks by German submarines on American ships and on unarmed merchant ships of other nations car rying American passengers. "Vessels of every kind " said the President in his address to Congress on April 2, 1917, "whatever their Hag, their character, their cargo, their desti. nation, their errand, have been ruth lessly sent to the bottobi without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hos. pital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the prescribed areas by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle . . . The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against man kind." Gorman Insults and Aggressions There were other acts of hostility in addition to the submarine warfare. In his Flap Day address delivered at Washington on June 14, 1917, the President summed up the events that brought on war as follows: "It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The Extraordi nary insults and aggressions of the Imperial German government left us no self-respecting choice but to t&ke up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government. The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vi cious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and bought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance—and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German government itself here in our capital. They sought by violence to destroy our in dustries and arrest our commerce. They tried to Incite Mexico to take up arms apalnst us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with h er —and that, not by Indirection, but by suggestion from the foreign office in Berlin. They impudently de nied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to ap proach the coasts of Europe." Oiir liberty and Safety Involved Yet even this list of "extraordinary Personal and Social Items of Towns Along West Shore Lieutenant David M. Hupp, of An napolis Junction, Md„ spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Rupp, at Shiremanstown. Mr. and Mrs. I. Alvln Wrightstone and grandson. Junior Stalter, of Shiremanstown, are home from a trip to Warwick, N. Y., and Parkridge, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ensminger, son Maurice Ensminger, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Baum. of Lebanon, motored to Shiremanstown on Sun day. where they spent the day with Mrs. Baum's sister. Vance H. Wolfe, Paul L. Wolfe and Chester Beamer, of Shiremanstown, motored to Carlisle on Sunday. Miss Kathryn Zimmerman, of St. John's, spent Sunday with her mother and sisters at Shiremanstown. Mrs. John W. Wolfe, of Shiremans town, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. George Wolfe, at Mechanicsburg. Miss Sue A. Kline, of Shiremans town. spent Sunday with her mother at Liverpool. Mrs. Walter S. Zimmerman and son, Walter R. Zimmerman and Mrs. D. Y. Zimmerman are home from Shippens burg. where they attended the fu neral of the former's father, Daniel B. Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Strong and family have returned to Hagerstown after visiting relatives at Shiremans town. Mrs. Daniel Wert, of Plainfleld, spent Saturday with her son, Frank Wert, and Mrs. Wert, at Shiremans town. Mr. and Mrs. Leon D. Zerbe and son Keith, of Shiremanstown, spent a day with the former's parents at Spring Lake. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Wentz and daughter, Miss Lucile Wentz, of Plainfleld. motored to Shiremanstown, where they spent Sunday with the former's daughter, Mrs. George K. [ Kshleman. insults and aggressions" does not tell the whole story. Our motives for war go even deeppr. Not only, our rights and self-respect, but our lib erty and safety, are involved. Speak ing on July 29. 1917, at the officers' training camp at Madison Barracks, N. T., the Secretary of State said: "The evil character of the German government is laid bare before the world. We know now that that gov ernment is inspired with ambitions which menace human liberty, and that to gain its end it does not hes itate to break faith, to violate the most sacred rights, or to perpetrate intolerable acts of inhumanity * * Let us understand once for all that this is no war to establish an ab stract principle of right. It is a war in which the fiiture of the United States is at stake." The record out of which grows our deep conviction that it is necessary at once to put a curb on so power ful and unscrupulous an enemy is set forth in an official publication "How the War Came to America." "Judging the German government now in the ll?:ht of our honest at tempt to keep the peace, we could see tho great autocracy and read her record through the war. And wo found that record damnable. • * With a fanatical faith in the destiny of German kultur i\s the system that must rule the world, the Imperial government's actions have through years of boasting, double dealing, and deceit tended toward aggres sion upon the rights of others. And If there still bo any doubt as to which nation began this war, there can be no uncertainty as to which one was most prepared, most ex ultant at the chance, and ready In stantly to march upon other nations • —even those who had given no of fense. The wholesale depredations and hideous atrocities in Belgium and in Serbia were doubtless part and parcel with the Imperial govern ment's purpose to terrorize small na tions into abject submission for gen erations to come. But in this auto cracy has been blind. For its record In those countries, and in Poland and in Northern France, has given not only to the allies but to liberal peo ples throughout the world the con viction that this menace to human liberties must be utterly shorn of its | power for harm. "For the evil it has effected has ranged far out of Europe—out upon the open seas. wher* its submarines in defiance of law and the concepts of humanity have blown up neutral vessels and covered the waves with the dead and the dying, men and women and children alike. Its agents have conspired against the peace of neutral nations everywhere, sowing the seeds of dissension, ceasejessly endeavoring by tortuous methods at deceit, of bribery, false promises, and intimidation, to stir up brother nations one against the other, in or der that the liberal world might not be able to unite, in order that the autocracy might emerge from the war. "All this we know from our ex perience with the Imperial govern ment. As they have dealt with Europe, so have they dealt with us and with all mankind. And so out of these years the conviction has grown that until the German nation is divested of such, democracy can not be safe." Not Hostile to Gorman People One thought which you should keep always in mind is the clear dis tinction between our attitude toward the Imperial German government and our attitude toward the German people. The President said in his speech of June 14, 1917: "We are not the enemies of the German people and they are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they will some day see it. as well as our own. They are themselves In the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched Its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us." Every American soldier In this war fights for objects dearer to all of us than life Itself —for freedom and democracy, for the safety of our own homes .and families, for the honor of our country. You will think often of these objects during your period of training and after you actually enter the trenches. The "more you think about them, the greater will be your pride that you are one of those first chosen to de fend them. "The world must be made safe for democracy." Big American Liner Attacked by U-Boat, But Torpedo Misses An Atlantic Port. Sept. 17. A submarine attack on an American steamship, one of the largest liners In transAtlantic service, was reported by several of the 100 passenger®, which included United States Army officers, on the vessel's arrival here yesterday. The mechanism of a tor pedo fired by a U-boat went wrong Just before the missle seemed about to hit the ship. The torpedo leaped into the air, was deflected from its course and passed to the stern of the steamship. The attack took place two days after the liner had left a European port. NUXATED IRON Rj^Stresf Dr. Jame Louis Beret, for fifteen yea's Adjunct Professor New York Homeopathic *!e --) w dical Collegeaays —There is nothing likeorgsc:c j I iron— Nuxated Iron —co put youthful strength I • and power Into the reins of the weak, run-down. 8 infirm or aged. To be absolutely sure that my patients gr\ rea. organic Iron and not some form of the me'&lHe variety I always prescribe Nuxatrd iron in its original packages Nuxated Iron will Increase the strength and endurance of weak, ner ——> rous run-down folks 100<$ in two weeks time in mj many instances. Diiftnmd ly mil drvtgiiu. My Tobacco Boy By ELMS PARKER HITLER Of the Vigilantes. (Written For "Our Roys in France Tobacco Fund.") EDITOR'S NOTE. —This newspaper will recolve contributions to pay for tobacco for the soldiers. Each dollnr pays for four packages, with a total retail value of SI.BO. an each package is placed a post card bearing the name and address of the contributor. Tho soldier receiving the package agrees to send a message on the card to his unknown friend back home. You get your thanks from an American soldier In. the trenches. I smoke a pipe, and I smoke too much. My wife pays so, my doctor says so. my insurance man says so, and I know so. Hut I keep right on. I smoke after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner, after 1 go to bed. I smoke all the time. Tobacco Is half my life. I could not live without lti someone would kill me. I quit using tobacco once for awhile, and If 1 had not begun again my wife or someone would have killed me, I was so cross and cranky. I use a lot of tobacco. If I was one of the boys in the trenches and did not have my to bacco I would be so blue and cross and ugly that my comrades would hold me up above the edge of the trench and let the Dutcliies pot me. They would be glad to get rid of me. A man must have tobacco. • Well, there is an Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund, to send to bacco to Sammees over there. I have tobacco-adopted one of the Sanuvees. I don't know his name, but he Is my tobacco boy, my own personal nicotine soldier—rrry smoke son. It is HVe this: I wondered what I ought to do about this Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund. First I thought I would give up tobacco and REUNION AT RESERVOIR PARK Marietta. Pa., Sept. 17. —On Sep tember 22 the Reem family, one of the largest in the state, will hold its annual outing at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg. The committee has re ceived word that many states yiU be represented. • Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator, Ag. DEATH FROM PARALYSIS Marietta, Pa., Sept. 17.—The first case of infantile paralysis reported from Pequot township, resulted r'a tally Saturday night in the death of lthodda Hess, aged four years. The child was ill but a day. & ogmariZ REM. aar. VXITED HARRISBURG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 117. FOCXDKII 1871 Store Opens 8.30 A. M. Closes 5.30 P. M. Daily Except Saturdays Time to Choose Black Silks For Fall Dresses Practically every fashionable weave is represented in the most com prehensive exhibit of black silks Harrisburg has seen in many a month. This Is No Ordinary Silk Event It is a big movement —planned way in advance and by virtue of such planning you are privileged to buy the best silks—not at present market figures—but at the old prices. Examples of the offerings 35-igch Black Messalii\e, yard #1.25 35-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard ..$1.25 35-inch Black Peau dc Cygne, yard $1.35 35-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard . .. .$1.35 35-inch Black Pailette de Soie, yard ..$1.50 35-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard ....$1.50 35-inch Black Satin Duchess, yard ....$1.45 35-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard ..$1.65 35-inch Black Satin Duchess, yard $1.50 40-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard ..$1.85 35-inch Black Satin de Luxe, yarn ...$1.85 40-inch Black Radium Foulard, yard ..$1.50 35-inch Black Satin Supreme, yard $1.95 40-inch Black Crepe Meteor, yard $1.85 35-inch Black Peau de Soie, yard $1.45 40-inch Black La Jerz, yard $1.85 35-inch Black Peau de Soie, yard ....$1.75 40-inch Black French Chiffon Velvet, yard, 35-inch Black Peau de Soie, yard $2.00 " $4.95 35-inch Black Moire, yard $1.39 44-inch Black English Velveteen, yard, $3.95 35-inch Black Moire, yard $1.50 32-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, yard . .SI.OO 35-inch Black Gros de Londres, yard ..$1.85 35-inch Black Messaline, yard SI.IC 35-inch Black Bengaline, yard $1.75 40-inch Black Crepe de Chine, yard ... .$1.29 BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. Georgette Crepe The ideal fabric for waists—for trimmings—for combination purposes. We believe the widest variety of shades in H.irrisburg is to be found here. Featuring three great lines in the 40-inch width at $1.85, $2.00, s2.soyd. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. Silk Tulle is very desirable and fashionable now for many purposes. Beautiful sheer material in white, pink, rose, blue, black, mais, gold—comes 72 inches wide. $1.50 and $2 I . BOWMAN'S —Main Floor. H Some Popular Trimmings I Tassels in every size and color including silver and gold—a wide price range at 10£ to $1.25 each. Silk soutache in all colors—l2-yard pieces, 250. Bead medallions in small, medium and large sizes—light and dark combinations 2st to $4.50 each. * 5 BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. I - * > 1 rend the money to tho fund, but I don t want to be murdered for mean ness. Then I hit tho big idea. Every time I smoko my tobacco boy over thero shall smoke. H could not smoke more than X do or he would have no time to bo n. soldier. So this is how 1 am going to give my tobacco boy his smokes: Every time I buy tobacco I put an equal amount Into the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund—a dime's worth of tobacco for me, a dime's worth of tobacco for him; a dollar's worth of tobacco for me, a dollar's worth of tobacco for him. And he will nave some left over to give his bunkies, because I pay 90 cents a pound for my smok ing tobacco, and the fund can buy good tobacco for him at less than a third of that. So there you are! For every cent I spend for tobacco, pipes or cigars while the war lasts, chink! goes a cent into Our Boys In France To bacco Fund. It Is easy. YOU CAN DO IT. If you are n smoker, adopt a tobacco boy and pay for his smokes. Friend, your own old pipe tastes twice as sweet when you know your tobacco boy over yonder is hav ing a smoke on you at the same time. VEGETABLE Ct'HIOSITY Mount Joy, Pa., Sept. 17. Among the curiosities in the vegetable line at George W. Hensel's store, at Quarry ville, is a potato and a bone grown together. The former is quite%i long one and grown Into the bone to the depth of three Inches, or almost half through it. FATTENING BIG HERD OF CATTI.E Mount Joy. Pa.. Sept. 17. Dr. T. C. Detweiler has just made a purchase of 270 head of ydung cattle that he will place on his two farms, at Uni corn and Fairmount. This is one of the largest lots bought by one farmer in this part of the county. It is his intention to help them until they are suitable for butchering purposes. BIG INDUSTRIES HELP BUY SOLDIERS SMOKES [Continued from First Page.] llarrlsburg residents and those of some Central Pennsylvania towns re sponded generously. When the con tributions were counted this morn ing nn even SIOO had been turned in. This will keep four hundred American soldiers supplied with tho brands tliey love for one week. But it is only a drop in tho bucket. Thero are hundreds of "four hundreds" over thero and when it conies to choosing tobacco they are all aristo crats. Got Full Value By an arrangement with several of the biggest "lag" makers in the country every quarter sent in to the fund buys forty-live cents worth of tobacco for a soldier. Tt is a cheap way to earn the oter j nal gratitude of a man at the front and ho will acknowledge your con | tribution with a postcard thanking you for remembering him. i Contributions follow: ; Previously acknowledged . . . $88.75 j Paul Slmitz .25 j George ShenlTer 1.00 | Clin*. E. I'uccy .50 I Charles Shields .25 Isaac Heckert .25 i Jos. Grainger .25 Frank Mailman . . 25 I Harry Hichwlnc .25 | Mervin Hipper .25 i ICdgar I.crew .25 ! Walter Kby .25 ! K. X. Iterulieisel .25 | Henry K. Hamilton .50 Florence \Y. Hamilton .25 ( Hugh K. Hamilton, Jr .25 | Charles 11. Gold 25 A. I. Ferguson .25 Joseph Kennedy .25 I Jos. Fetternian .25 V. Wilt 25 i F. A. Flliott .25 Geo. 11. Sehrelner .25 ; It. H. Vorndran 25 John McCullotigli 50 G .S. Henderson 1.00 I M. W. Allen t.OO I Sirs. M. W. Allen 1.00 H. W. Sillier 25 i Margaret Atkinson .50 j Total SIOO.OO BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes ! Indigestion. One package I proves it. 25c at all druggists. 3
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