10 Divorce Suit Decided By Specators' Vote Los Angeles, Cal. —A divorce "by acclamation" is what the decree granted Mrs. Elizabeth Seeley, 20 years old, might well be called, since spectators at the trial voted "aye" wheij the nroposition was put to them by 4 Superior Judge Jackson. After the testimony was in, the Judge turned to the crowd in the courtroom, many of whom were •witnesses. "You have heard the evidence," paid the Judge. "Should she get a divorce?" "Sure," said all, as he asked each Individually. She got it. BOX HOLDS LITTLK GIRL Omaha, NeD.—Just before an elec 4|ical storm the 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Peter Bund, who was play ing in front of the house, found a water stop box "with the lid off. The little lass put her foot into the open ing and was unable to extricate it. Then the storm broke, and while the rnin fell in torrents her mother and her sister tried to release her. Fi nally the police were called, who dug away the earth around the stop hox and broke the pipe off below where the foot was imprisoned. Then they broke the iron from the little girl's leg. The little girl stood tjie whole ordeal without a whimper. iija|i||ii|:ii||ll|mil|B|ll|B|ll||ll||ll||lH|l'l.' • *?! itiiti itati itSTi iTSTi iTSTi iTiTi iTiTi iTSTi iibTi la n (o.£ gtl "A Different Kind of =ti a Tewelry Store'' 1 For "Her" J |j A Watch Bracelet | | Is the Ideal |; i Christmas Gift I w I |t| For Mother for |ii §tf Sister —for Daugh- m ft! ter for Sweetheart ft| —one of our high |j§ m grade Watch Brace- §j§ p® lets will solve the ||| Us gift problem for you. §t| its §p =♦= Hi =|= Ijf We've Hundreds fjf fH of Watch Bracelets "ii iit| sTs =l= to show you not a jjjl few styles, but hun- ftf til dreds of different iji styles and makes, in- =2= fb eluding Elgin, Wal- g| M tham, Illinois, Hamil- =}= 5{S I, ifjj ton and other guar- jus ||j anteed imported |j| ij| makes —in short we |j§ if! have Watch Brace- Ijf §jl lets from the cheap- iff ||i est that are best to iff HI the best made and ij| ranging in price from | $2.50 to $300.00 I | Watch Bracelet | Special For Friday Only M WATCH BRACE- [§ lj| LET, exactly as illus- || ||| tratcd Elgin move- = | =i= ment 2O-year gold fill- f | §j| cd case gilt or silver 11 PI dial—can he worn either sjj as a Watch or Watch 1§ bS Bracelet. Special to-mor- 1| 80™;,.. $12.50! |1 Ask For Catalog |jl Open Evenings | || 206 Market Street f| ~.<iaTSi'aiiiiaiii!alii!alii!a!iilalti!aliila!iilaliilalilTii7 Skates Ground Federal Machine Shop Cranberry Street Between Second nnd Court Rts. A Man's Gift From a Man's Store J| |l% l| Wm. Strouse '/n THURSDAY EVENING, Prices Now Almost Same as Those of Thirty Years Ago Yonkers, N. Y. —Looking through some old grocery and butcher ac count books that had lain away in a corner for many years, Mrs. F. M. Morton, of Cecil Park, long a resi dent of Yonkers, was so impressed by the prices she found therein that she called the attention of a reporter to them and asked him to compare the cost of living three decades ago with that of to-day. "It may surprise you," said Mrs. Morton, "to see by these little ac count books with my grocer and butcher how similar some of the prices of 1889 are to those charged to-day. Take kerosene, for instance. In 1889 and 1890 it was fifteen cents a gallon in Westchester county; to day I am paying fourteen cents. "I found in the account book that I paid eight cents a can for con densed milk in 1889, which sounds like the war prices of the present, and here is an item of seven pounds of granulated sugar, seventy cents, bought in the same year, and there was no scarcity of sugar then, either." j But other items in the account j book showed increases of more tllan i one hundred per cent, in present j prices over those of nearlv thirty (years ago. Mrs. Morton in 1889 sup- I plied for a family of eight persons sixteen eggs and two pounds of ba ] con at a total cost of fifty-nine cents, j The same meal to-day would cost $1.22. Butter has advanced from | twenty-eight cents a pound to forty | eight cents or more, and it was quite ■as good in those days as it is now. ! Coffee is very little higher than it was in 1899, but the milk for it is a great deal higher, j No less startling change than in | the price for breakfast of the pres ent and that of three decades ago is |shown in .Mrs. .Morton's comparison of the cost of the Sunday dinner. If the piece <le resistance of the meal I [ were chicken it was purchased for I fifteen cents a pound, and Mrs. Mor j ton's family required seven and three-quarters pounds, $1.17. The | same chickens would bring far more i than twice as much to-day. Potatoes cost the housewife thirty i cents a peck. Xow they are selling for two and two-thirds as much. Two quarts of onions cost twelve | cents. They now sell for thirty i cents for two quarts. Lard costs sixty cents for a three pound pail. Then it was bought for forty cents. Turnips sold for ten cents a pound, sweet potatoes for twenty cents a quart and rice for nine cents. There have been small increases in all these foods, the case of rice being the most noticeable. This, according to Mrs. Morton, was j about the last remaining staple to ••emain cheap, and even it is on the upward path now. Here are the prices of some of the principle-edibles in 1889 that are so high now that, one is tempted to put the foods in the safe instead of the family jewels. Porterhouse steak was then twenty cents a pound, now it is forty-four cents. Rib beef then was sixteen cents, now it is thirty live cents. Lamb was almost given away at eight cents a pound. Now it is scarce at thirty cents and more. Sirloin steak then brought sixteen cents, now it is thirty-eight cents. Lamb chops cost fifteen cents, now they are forty. Veal sold for sixteen onts, now it sells for thirty-five. ' Molasses sold for thirty-five cents a j half-gallon, now it brings seventy two cents. Mackerel was twenty cents a pound, now it is twenty-six. Turkey then was a democratic bird, bought for seventeen cents a pound, now he is an aristocrat and will bi-ing almost up to forty cents be j fore Thanksgiving. DIVINE LAW AS DKFENSE Religious Leader Makes Novel Pica to Charge of Illegal Hunting Atlantic City, X. J. —When Elder W. Robinson, leader of a religious sect, was arraigned before a justice of the peace at Absecon to-day on a charge of gunning out of season, he set up the law of God as a defense. Robinson said that he followed the dictates of his teachings, that the killing of the animals of the forest was a necessity. lie told the justice that the law of God took priority over any law that man had written. When Game Warden Otis Small testified Uiat the defendant had killed a rabbit out of season Robin son was fined SIOO. The dead rab bit was produced in evidence. GERMANS RI'SH AIRPLANES Cablegrams telling of the speed ing up of Germany's motor works in an attempt to produce enough air planes to hold out against the great air offensive expected from the Anglo-Franco-American forces on tho western front are confirmed by items found in Berlin papers recent ly reaching London. The Daimler Company,of Canstatt- Stuttgart, has just voted to increase its capital from $6,000,000 to SB,- 000,000. The importance the gov ernment attaches to the company's plans is shown by the facilities grant ed by the Imperial Rank for flota tion of the new shares. A circular issued by the company says: "We have entered the war with a large reserve for extension pur poses, but this lias been used up to meet the large demands the mili tary made upon us. We an no long er speak of 'expanding' our works, but must consider multiplying them and building entirely new factories." An additional purpose, it is said, is "to strengthen our resources for the duties which industry will have to perform after the war." RUPTURE EXPERT HERE W. S. Rice, the Rupture Specialist of Adams, N. Y„ will send his per sonal representative, DR. E. C. BRANCH TO HARRISBURG to supply the needs of any who re quire home treatment for rupture. Anyone interested should call at the Bolton Hotel and receive free infor mation and examination. It will cost you nothing unless you want to be properly fitted. Dr. Branch will have a full lino of Appliances for all forms of rupture, including special supports for use following operations. If in need of a Special Appliance, call and have your measurements taken and find out what you need. Thousands report having been cur ed by the Rice Method at a verv slight cost. Don't fail to find out just what can be done for you. It will cost you nothing to investigate. Remember the date and place, De cember 14 to 17 inclusive, Bolton Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa., and don't let anything keep you from seeing Dr. Branch while you have the chance. It will mean a great deal to you. "The Light That Never Fails" in the Making • •■* •• PACKINO BIRWTS. The Bible is tlie most "popular" book with the boys in camp, in the field and on the high seas. Thousands of these little volumes have spread strength and comfort among the hosts of Army and Navy boys fighting the good fight for Uncle Sam. Great numbers of these books are being turned out weekly from the great presses and binderies of the Bible House, New York City, for dis tribution among the men in the services. Hundreds of them are also sent to all parts of the world, spreading the light to both educated and ifinorant, to good and bad, to poor and rich. The mechanical production of these Bibles proves most interesting to those not familiar with the birth of these treasure houses of happiness. From the setting of the type to the final wrapping of the book, all is done in orderly fashion, great est attention being paid to the perfecting of the gilt-edged volumes. The photograph was taken in the binding and pressroom of the Bible House, Bible House Square, New York City. It shows the various processes gone through before the book comes out, wrapped and addressed, ready to be sent broadcast to spread the truth. Canadian Challenges Russian Bully Petrograd, Dec. 12.—Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) Klondike methods as exemplified by Lieutenant-Colonel John W. Boyle, of the Canadian militia, who was sent by the American Committee in ! London to aid in restoring the Rus sian transportation system, recently disposed of a presumptuous expon ent of freedom who. questioned Boyle's right to investigate prob lems confronting the Russian army. Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle has been engaged for four months in improv ing the transport conditions along the Russian and Rumanian fronts. At a certain point in the Russian front tho chairman of a soldiers' commission, to whom Boyle was re ferred for necessary information, met him in an uncivil mood, and im pertinently answered one question With another calculated to rouse the Canadian's temper. "Were you sent here because you were the best man they could find on the French front?" queried the nag ging committeeman. "Possibly so," was the reply. "Now, answer me this: Are you the best man in our committee?" "I am." "What is your rank?" "I am a soldier." "It is unbecoming in me to start an argument with a soldier," said Boyle, who saw that he must either subdue his antagonist or fail in his quest. "But this is what I propose to you: I take off my uniform," proceeding in the meantime to lay aside his cap, "harness," and uni form coat, "and meet you man to man. Now you name any job that you think you can do better than I can, from lifting or jumping to fight ing. and I will take you oft." The interpreter, a young officer, in terpreted the words. "Tell this chap," continued Boyle, "that if he falls to best mo In what ever he chooses, he must go away from here and not interfere in my affairs, or I shall give him the best beating he has had since he was a child." The bully held a. brief conference with his fellows and went away. He may have had an inkling that Boyle was once the heavyweight cham pion of the Canadian Northwest. Daily Dot Puzzle x\ '* B r ~" 2o \ *'*!,•<>s # ® *, I <\ 7 • 2 .' 6 . 22 , * I*\£ .53 . 2 . 6 " 2b .51 . 49. 4 48 \ z ' 4 • 20 .44 ' 46 J . 29 - M . 3o a 7 a# ' 3I My Dear Sister Caroline, Ibis furs made from fine. Dmw from 1 to 2 and so on to the end. BARRISBtmO (iSffiAl TELEGRAPH Western Women Pass Up Table Etiquette Kokomo, Ind.—A movement which it is hoped here will become nation wide, to break down some of the rules of table etiquette in the inter est of food conservation, has been started by the women of Kokomo, who are interested in helping Herbert Hoover. National Food Administra tor, reduce the size of the garbage pail. The plan has the indorsement of Mrs. John K. Moore, president of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Casper Butler, presi dent ot' the Kokomo Franchise League and prominent in club cir cles. It is hoped to obtain the in dorsement of hundreds of society women throughout the United States. "I most heartily favor a return to the old-fashioned ways of serving in these war times," said Mrs. Moore, "as a great saving of food. I be lieve we should conserve in every way possible, even to the stirring of the sugar in our cups to save an additional spoonful. us return to the simple meals and the old eco nomical ways of serving them." BE FIRST TO I.F.ARN FRENCH FITS THE ' LETTERED of „ soldiers, sailors and civilians vie with Send One To the Boy —Keep One at Home SPACES UNDATED MAIL- ORDERS You may stas; this diary any day—it never M ||Tl£t S can out-of-date. Other diaries are. M m M vIIC VUUJIVII Filled on terms explained in Coupon in this useless after dates specified. * SECURES -THE BOOK paper 0n pago - Hand Written Copy of Bible Made by Canadian Salesman llugh Russell, of Notre Damo de Grace, is the proud, but reverent pos sessor or what is surely one of the most wonderful and unique books in the world, according to the Montreal Star. It is a copy of the Bible writ ten entirely in his own hand and as now bound, strange to say, not larg er in size than the old style family Bible. It is beautifully written, too. bearing evidence In every word of an inllnite patience and reverence, re calling the work of a medieval monk. It is certainly a wonderful piece of calligraphy throughout. Mr. Russell is very modest about his achievement. "No, 1 am not a minister," he said. "I am only an ordinary commercial traveler u knight of the road—but I was brought m> by godly parents, both of them living still in Montreal, and 11 have love for the Book of Books. I "People should turn to the Bible to-day, and maybe my work may, help a bit in that direction. Yes,' it is a sadly neglected book and some step should be taken to have more attention paid to the Book of Books, in which this great conflict is assuredly foretold." Mr. Russell, who is a Presbyte rian Scotsman, began his work in 1894 and finished it on St. Andrew's Day, November 30, 1916. The work was done in odd mo ments of leisure, although more than half of it was done since the present war began. It is written in what Mr. Russell himself calls "a peculiar handwrit ing, almost half printing." It is per fectly legible, and, says Mr. Russell, "without making any boast, I would be willing, if I had money, to offer SIOO for every error or omission any one could And in It." There are al together 1,987 pages, the .New Testa ment taking up 471 oC these. There are double columns on each page. It was written in sections of twenty four pages each. They Hunted 'Possum, but Caught a Hermit Chicago.—While in quest of 'pos sums in the wooded vicinity of Zion Church, about seven miles from De catur, John Dqdson and Gus Taylor, Wednesday night, discovered the form of a man lying upon the ground. Investigation revealed that the man was alive and compara tively normal. Though he spoke with a foreign accent that was al most unintelligible, lie told with pen cil and paper that he frequently dis ported in the shadows of the woods. His sole request was for the un sought visitors to vacate his do main. A further council culminated with the decision ol' the pair to report the discovery to Sheriff J. F. MeCurdy. The Sheriff, in turn, escorted the hermit to the county jail, where he was held pending an investigation. He was unable to give his name. KXGLAXD COMPIiETKS 8 SHIPS London.—lt was announced in the House ol' Commons that the total number of standard ships buijt, com pleted and put into service up to Oc tober 25 was eight. The tonnage was approximately 5,200 gross each. The number of standard ships ex pected to be completed between Oc tober 2 5 and December 31 .was eighteen, of which sixteen would be approximately 5,200 gross tons each, one of 3,000 tons gross and one of 2,000 tons. Ol.il> GRAY GOOSK DEAD St. l-rouis, Mo. — A goose 35 years old died a few days ago mt the home of its owner, Valentine Pfaff, at Fos terburg. 111., eight miles north of Alton, 111. Pfaff said he knew the age of the goose because it was hatched and raised on his place. It was picked every year, furnishing enough feathers for several pillows, and laid eggs up to a short time ago. The old fowl was known to persons living in the vicinity of Fosterburg as "Mother Goose." No Poor Kiddies in Oskaloosa, So He Goes to New York > ®R IB I i- a® BNHB *w ■■ • FiaEDt-KJCK l< ■ Oskaloosa, lowa, Dec. 14. Frederick Knight Logan, the "waltz king" of America, and composer of the Missouri Waltz, the melody of which has brought him $50,000, has been unable to find any real poor kiddies Jn his home town here. He is therefore going to New York in the garb of Santa Claus to play the role of the merry friend to xhc kiddies. Through the kindly offices of the New York Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor he has been given a list of the very poorest kiddies in the metropolis. Those kiddies, will be his guests on Christmas Day at the Majestic Hotel, New York, at a party, the like of which they have never dreamed. Each of the youngsters will be given a complete wardrobe of clothing plenty of toys, a dinner such as only the chef of the Majestic can plan and a Christmas dinner basket for the folks at home- I Overworked Women I § must learn not to ifjfc iffc I S neglect their health JW\fWL I 8 How Women are Restored to Healtli 'H change loiclho bettrr ami am now wrlf '' H I I hope every user of Lydia Uw w ■ VeßctaW o Compoundwill groatrelicf W ftl! '. I forcd from a femalo trouble o I was unablo I tojvalk or do I pouiui in the newspapers and determined to jI Hi \\ ' n I U l\ i never had better health. y iweigElCs pounds /'/ I s, *" """ ' 1 and am as strong as a man. I think money jl ' H YOU CAN RELY UPON Bp £ I LYDIA EPINKHAM'SH I | VEGETABLE COMPOUND I DECEMBER 13, 1917. Tried to Smuggle Pepper; Is Betrayed by a Sneeze Basel. —Though the Swiss border authorities have sharpened their surveillance of all frontiers so as to put a stop to the petty smuggling that has been going on, principally into Germany, it has been Impos sible to eradicate it entirely. A recent arrest for smuggling, whereby a dishonest official was caught in the act, shows the amus ing features that accompany the work of ferreting out tho smugglers. Cantonal Constable May, charged with watching the smugglers, was about to leave on his bicycle for a tour of a part of the German-Swiss border, when he began to sneeze. His superior oflicer examined May's' knapsack and found in it a quantity of pepper which the constable was about to smuggle into Germany on hih tour of inspection. In his pock ets was a quantity of German j money, "earned," according to his I admission, by similar previous oper- I ations. Girl Is Ready to Kiss 10,000 Men as Recruits New York. —Agreeable stimulant lured twenty-five ardent young men "over tti# top" in the Navy yester day. Miss Marie Antoinette? Elliott, of SO4 West Seventieth street, kissed each recruit at the midday meeting of the Minute Men of America, al i 217 Broadway. And she announced | herself ready to continue kissing re cruits until tho Navy has all the mer it needs. The Navy needs 60,000. Miss Elliott also undertook to be s sister to her recruits, promising t< keep them supplied with tobacce and books.
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