12 NEW STAMP TAX LEVIES HEAVILY ON BUSINESS Uncle Sam to Take Extra Nickel on Each Pack of Cards Beginning to-day, a tax of one cent on every parcels post package bear ing twenty-five cents postage, or more, will be levied, according to the new revenue law. Special revenue stamps may be purchased at any post office or substation, for the pay ment of this tax. but the use of reg ular postage stamps is not per missible. The sender of the package must affix the stamp and cancel it by writing his initials across the face, bul g.-eat care must be taken so that Mie sender does not write upon the regular postage stamps. Pack ages upon which the postage is twen ty-four cents or less, will be ex empted from this ruling. Revenue stumps must be affixed to bonds of indemnity or indebtedness, capital stock issues, stock transfers, produce sales cn exchange drafts, promis sory notes, conveyances and deeds, customs house entries, steamship ticket's, proxies, assignments of p'ow er of attorney, playing cards and parcel? post packages. No stamps are required on checks. In addition to the old tax of two cents on play ing cards a new tax of five cents is ini rosed, so that Harrisburgers who wish to play cards will have to pay seven cents tax on each deck of un cut cards. Stock Tnxc against $5,790,687.95 at the close of [ the last fiscal year. The November receipts were $6,- 507,012.39, including a $1,000,000 check from the Pennsylvania Rail road on account of capital stock tax paid late last night, and disburse ments were $3,744,881.93. Receipts for November were in detail as follows: General fund, $6,- 183,886.64; school fund, $7,328.98; motor fund, $1,273.40; game protec tion. $88,444.13; bounty, $88,281.62; insurance, $6,408.03; manufacturing, $5,332.99. t Disbursements in detail follow: General fund, $3,286,920.29; school, $19,385; motor, $363,344.52; game, $17,238.52; bounty, $34,746.18; in surance, $3,062.40; manufacturing, $20,185.02. Balances on hand for the year: General fund, $6,562,382.90; sink ing fund, $651,110.02; school unin vested, $8,352.60; motor, $277,337.99; game, $314,115.47; bountry, $182,- 926.07; insurance uninvested, $99,- 395.03; manufacturing $35,064.03. Two Are Charged With Stealing Auto Tire Frank C.' Smith, colored, who claims he is a railroad man from Pittsburgh, is in jail on the charge of stealing a ninety dollar automo bile tire from the Bowman Store Company and trying to dispose of it for ten dollars. Robert.Connor, who works at the steel mill in Steelton, is also in jail, as he was with Smith when he tried to dispose of the tire. Smith appeared at Feltman's Transportation.Auto Company, at 25 North Cameron street, last evening and offered the tire, for $lO. Sus pecting that something was wrong, Feltman offered him $5 and told him to call at 9 o'cloclt this morn ing for the other five. Smith took the five and left the tire. Feltman notified the police, who promised to be on hand this morning. Shortly before 9 this morning, the Bowman Store Company informed the police that a Kelly Springfield tire had been taken off one of their delivery cars last evening. Officer Parks was dis patched to the Transportation Com pany, and arrested Smith and Con nor, who was with him. The case is being heahi this after noon. Smith says that he bought the tire for $2.50 from a negro. Con nor is a local negro who furnished Smith a place to sleep, and it is not though he is implicated in the rob bery. Miss Martha Johnson Buried at Paxton The body of Miss Martha Alricks Johnson, former resident of this city who died Thursday at Bellefonte, was buried at Old Paxton Churchyard this afternoon, services being conducted in the presence of a number of rela tives by the Rev. Harry B. King, pas tor of Paxton Church. Miss Johnson was the last survivor of the family of Ovid F. Johnson, who was attorney general of Penn sylvania under Governor David Rit tenhouse Porter, and was born in this city, residing here until about twenty years ago. Through her mother, who was a sister of the late Herman Alricks and Hamilton Al ricks, she was a descendant of early Dutch settlers along the Delaware before the coming of William Penn. Mr. Johnson was long a notable fig ure among the lawyers of Pennsyl vania. Miss Johnson had written ex tensively in the short story field. The pallbearers were Henry Mc- Cormick Jr., John H. Alricks, A. Boyd Hamilton and Robert McCormick. MRS. FLORENCE: BRISTLING DIES IX Hi; It 75T11 YEAR Mrs. Florence J. Beistline, who for many years was a resident of Har risburg but who for the past seven years had been living in Lewisberry, York county, died at that place Fri day morning from a stroke of paral ysis. Mrs. Beistline had suffered from a paralytic stroke about two years ago, and was made partially helpless from its effects. She has been a member of the Ridge Avenue Meth odist Episcopal Church for more than fifty yeurs, and was actively engaged in the work of the church up to the time of her removal from the city. She is aged 74, and is survived by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Hannah Ensming#r, Harris burg; Mrs. Eliza Pennington and Frank Foster, of Lewisberry, and the Rev. Dr. M. K. Foster, of Williams port. Funeral services will be held at Lewisberry Sunday afternoon. The body will be brought Monday morn ing to the home of a niece, Mi's. Chester C. Byler, 1511 North street. Funeral services will be held Mon day afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. H. R Bender officiating. Burial will be made in the Harrisburg Cemetery. FUNERAL SERVICES 11101.11 FOR MISS KM 11,1 K LETT Funeral services for Miss Emilie Lett, 218 Pine street, were held this afternoon from her late residence. The Rt. Rev. James H. Darlington, bishop of the Harrisburg Archdea conry, was assisted by the Rev. Rol lin A. Sawyer in th% conduct of the services. The Rev. Mr. Sawyer Is rector of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church. Miss Lett was the daughter of the late James Lett and Theresa Sheffield Lett. She was born in Cathedral Town, Worcester, England, and was educated at Miss Woodward'# School and at Maryland College. Luthervllle. Md. She was a member of St. Ste phen's Protestant Episcopal Church, taking an active part in the teaching of the primary department. She was a faithful worker in St- Anne's Guild. Miss Lett was a life member of the Red Cross Society and as a member of the Harrisburg Civic Club was in terested in all philanthropic and charitable work of the city. She was a gifted musician of great talent, and possessed a very sweet voice, which was trained by Amillo Agramonte, of New York City. Surviving her are one brother, James, and one sister, Gertrude Lett, of this city. SANTA CLAUS IS GIVENA BIG PACK (Continued From First Page) smart Yankees work, and that It was al built of wood. But you would never know It. Eyes, head, every thing but the cropped or curly liair is made of good American wood. And of course the lingerie and the frock—well that is the very niftiest, made in Uncle Sam's land, too. And the demand was for unbreakable dolls, so the American manufac turers tilled that bill. You can drop a 1917 Christmas doll from the fifth story and she will smile at yoil and open her eyes Intact. But it is. in toy inventions that the Rome mechanics have best dem onstrated their enterprise. There is' J • 0 Readm# matter for a whole year for the wliole family Every famliy should take at least three perio dicals—the best newspaper published, the best monthly magazine published in the United States, and the best magazine devoted to woman and the home interests. • ♦ The Harrisburg Telegraph has made arra ngements with two magazines—The Ameri can Magazine and the Woman's Home Companion—to make you an offer which will not only provide your whole family with the very best of reading matter for a year, but will save you money. • • # The American Magazine To read The American Magazine regularly is like talking to a wise, experienced man. Because The American Magazine is made up of what other men have done—how they solved their difficulties, how they achieved success, how they secured good health. It is written by statesmen, doctors, lawyers, business men and by a staff of experienced writers who interview other men, until it is the most valuable publication that any man can read. It is not a mere business magazine, however. It has many bright, entertaining 6tories. It is a magazine for the whole family, but with the special idea of offering helpful suggestions on important questions. Woman's Home Companion If the Woman's Home Companion were a woman about your own age, and came to see you once a month, she would be the most welcome guest and the most remarkable guest that ever set foot in your home. You never knew a woman who could tell such fascinating stories—you would sit up till all hours of the night listening to her tales. You never knew a woman more incpiring. You never met a woman who knew so much about so many different interesting things. You never saw such a hand in the kitchen —so many new ideas, as well as sensible notions about the every-day planning of the housework. You never met a woman, even if she had just come from Paris, who knew so well the proper thing in gowns. You never met a woman who could tell you so well what other women were thinking, and doing, and eating, and wearing, and how they were bringing up children. If the Companion were a woman, instead of a magazine, you would be all a-flutter of expectancy when the time came for her arrival. That is just what the Companion is like. When you know it, you want the Companion as a guest in your home every month. The Big Saving If you bought either one of these magazines by Act Now ! the month you would pay fifteen cents for it. If you bought both of them you would pay thirty cfents. Of course a big special offer of this kind cannot be One magazine purchased this \vay for the year continued very long. The thing for you to do is to would cost you SI.BO. Both magazines $3.60. Our take advantage of it at once. plan will give you the magazines each month by TL* * 11 "f f f mail at your home, promptly on publication date, * HIS IS 3.11 it COStS • for but a few cents more than this paper alone would The Harrisburg Telegraph with All Three cost. It is a big, big saving in convenience and in The American Magazine and Worn- For Only money. , * an's Home Companion $6.50 I HOME the chemlcraft outfits. For five dol lars a boy can perform 250 different experiments, all safe. He can test chemicals, make ink and regular German dyes and all kinds of soap. Educational, well we should say so. And then there's the electrical ap paratus so that a lad can make electro plates, wind his own motors and make lifting magnets. As the German seemed to have a monopoly on springs for construct ing, lifting and swinging cranes some alert American simply adopted the window blind spring and you should see how it works in a crane. And for locomotives we need not go to Germany for them. The most imposing toy of this sort is figged up clear across the Bogar store, the locomotive made of brass and Il luminated like a comet. A whole Pennsylvania station can be had, with station, signal towers, myriad tracks engines run by steam or elec-i DECEMBER 1, 191/. tricity, with even telegraph poles to | give a touch of realism. The toys for girls aro just as! admirable and plentiful. All sorts of art toys have been contrived, nrd don't forget that the Teddy bears this season have electric eyes. There are the cutest little kitchen cabinets and real elctric stoves that will cook a mighty tine doll's dinner and the tintograph with its coloring of ani mals, flowers and birds should amuse in many an idle hour. Military affairs have a place with real soldiers, American, English and French, in paper, and the magic lan tern craze being on once more the firm has gathered in a big collection of instruments which will throw any picture on a screen, even newspaper cuts. There is no room for a hard tl'nes sign at the. toy shops of Harrisburg, and prices have raised in only a few" standard articles. Miss Edna Ehck, Aged 16, Dies From Typhoid-Fever Allen, Pa., Pec. 1, —Miss Edna Enek. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Enck, died at her home yes terday morning from typhoid fever, agd 16 years. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs., Harvey Enck and a sister, Catharine, and a brother Vance. Miss Enck was a member of the senior class of Boil ing Springs High school. The fu neral services will be held on day morning at 10 o'clock. in the Mt. Zion Cemetery at Church- \ town.