16 COLUMBIA GIRL GIVES ADVICE TO SOLDIERS Promised to Keep Themselves j Clean and Pure While Abroad Mrs. Helen Brown Gibbons, for-1 lierly of Norwood, now and for sev eral year 3 living in Paris, wife of Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, writes' entertainingly to her mother of a risit to the camp of the American; expeditionary force in France. The' ollowing is an extract from the j dosing paragraphs of her letter: j "Next mortr.ng we went to 'A porti n France.' Mother, try to remem )er how excited and thrilled 1 was the tirst time you and 1 went 10 Annapolis, when every midshipman was an Admiral. 1 have quite for gotten the idea that old age is coin ing upon me, because at exactly twice the age i was then, plus two years, 1 was twice as excited and twice as thrilled. The V. M. C. A. people met us with two motors, and tve went to lunch with Lieutenant rommander Poulaillier oi the French Navy. In the afternoon we motored all around the port, and j away out along the shore to t-ee t!>e hydroplanes. At six o'clock we wtre at the American camp, where we ate cur dinner with the otliccrs. Two ot them were Philadelphia boys. 1 had a tin plate of mashed potatoes " ni *, roast beef on it, and on the dusty | ground beside me was a tin mug ot j coffee. A jolly soldier boy brought over tKe huge cottee pot, gray enam el. with not a long spout, but a regular American nose, and gave rae American coffee out of it. After we finished rtnner, we heard music.: it came from the V. M. C. A. build ing. The building isn't finished yet. Just a lloor and a roof, but a huge affair. As we walked over towards the side of the building a big blue eyed boy came up to me and Held cut his arn'. The band was playing i a waltz Say can you dunceV said the RHEUMATIC ACIDS ARE DANGEROUS Suva neutralize ami homli them out l>y drinkliiK Ktroniily alknllae water. Any ilruKKlHt run tell ?ou how Cu make thl* nt home. >o need of * lulling hot alka line mineral spring*. I Chemical analysis and the micro scope both prove beyond any possi- I bility of doubt that rheumatism, gout, sciatica, etc.. are due to uric acid and other impurities in Mood nnd tissues. [When the blood is lid of the impuri ties, the sufferer is rid of the rheu matism. It you are a doctor or a chemist vou know this, also that a drop of any strongly alkaline liquid will melt a uric acid or similar crys tal. just as hot water melts a sugar ■crystal, or as heat melts a snow crys tal. It naturally follows that wnen the tiny, sharp acid crystals in the, blood , are dissolved or melted into liquid form, they cannot grind about in the veins, nor catch and collect in the minute blood vessels of joints or I tissues where they so often cause swelling and acute agony. must reach the kidneys by a cTjK'tfJP itst being ah- T/J _ r blood, and Typical specimens of ■ hat if the wa- uric nebl crystals,' ter is strong- liiehly magnlllrd. ly alkaline it \o wonUe." they hurt! t horou ghly flushes the kidneys when being ex- I pelied. taking with it the acids and impurities it has absorbed while in the blood. This is why the strongly a'kaline waters of famous hot springs are so effective. Kheumatic ind uric acid sufferers can easily prove this to their complete satisfac tion and without stirring a single i slep from their own homes. Simply drink btfore breakfast every other morning, for a week or two. a glass of hot water in which you have dis solved a level teaspoonful of the ordi nary refined alkia saltrates tpowder; form), which any druggist can sup ply from stock or easily order for you. Its taste is pleasant, its cost very , slight, indeed, and it probably is as good as anything you can use for! the purpose. Afterward you will not be likely to have much patience with rheumatic friends if they continue to suffer after you have told them about this. Among local druggists who have been found on Inquiry to carry the Alkia saltrates compound in stocls pre Keller's Drug Store. U. A. Gorgks, Clark's Medicine Store, so it will prove a simple matter for anyone to give this remarkable treatment a trial. I TVTEURALGIA X For quick results rub the Forehead fcatyTQ and Temples with f y Kifp ■ Litt|ftoqy OujLrJ Horn# VICKSVSpoiiygB i | Tells How to Stop a * Bad Cough + SorprUinf remits from Oils home- *•* V made syrup. F.a*lly prepared "j* and costs little. T * 4 If TOU have a severe cough or chest cold accompanied with soreness, throat tickle, hoarseness, or difficult breathing, or if your child wakes up during the [ night with croup and you want quick i help, just trv this pleasant tasting home-made cough remedy. Any drug gist can supply vou with 2 1 i ounces of Pine* (60 cents worth). Pour this into n pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Thus prepared, you have a pint of really re markable cough remedy— one that can be depended upon to give quick and lasting relief at all times. You can feel this take hold of a cough in a way that means business. It loosens and raises the phlegm, stops throat tickle and soothes and heals the irritated membranes that line thu ihroat and bronchial tubes with such promptness, ease and centainty that it is really astonishing. Pinex is a special and highly concen trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, and is noted for its speed in overcoming severe coughs, throat and chest colds. Ita millions of en thusiastic users have made it famous the world over. There are many worthless imitations of this noted mixture. To avoid disap pointment, ask for "2'i ounces of Pinex" with full directions and don't ccept Anything else. It is guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction or money promptly refunded. Tbo Pinex Co., : Ft. Wayne, Ind. THURSDAY EVENING, HERE'S CHANCE TO HELP THE POSTAL EMPLOYES Below is a blank which when filled J out according to instructions Riven in j it. and mailed to Congressman A. S. i Kreider will be of great aid to the employes of the postoflice depart ment in their efforts to secure a re adjustment of salaries. Postal employes have had no in crease in salaries in the last ten Help the Postal Employes I'ILI, IX THIS BLANK AXI> MAIL TO YOUR CQXGRESSMAX ' Honorable House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. De;v Sir:—As one who appreciates the justice of the plan of the letter carriers and postal clerks for a 25 per cent, increase in salary I ask you to support, with voice and vote, the bill that will give these deserving employes an immediate increase in pay. No class of men of whom such special training, intelligence and loyalty is re quired, is so poorly paid, and in justice to them, as well as to main- j tain the high standard of the postal service, the immediate passage j of an emergency measure to meet present conditions due to the high cost of living, is requested; with further action later to place them on the permanent basis of remuneration that equity demands. Very Truly Yours, Name Address I Xote —By clipping the blank form printed above and mailing to 1 your representative in Congress and to the chairman of the House ! j and Senate Committee on Post t ft'ices and Postroads, you can give aid in securing for the postal employes the salaries you know they deserve. The Congressman representing Dauphin. Lebanon and Cum- j berland counties is A. S. Kreider. John M. Bankhead of Alabama, is ! chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee and John A. Moon, of j Tennessee is chairman of the House Post Office Committee. All may j j he addressed to Washington. P. C. Help your friends, the postal ! employes, by sending in your petition. soldier. 'Could 1 help it?' 1 an swered. And away we uanced to a heavenly tune that 1 ne . -i' Heard betore. The audience was growing every minute. W hen 1 eiicitd my dance it was in a circle ot cleared space surrounuea uy at least six hundred men and that was the t/e --ginning oi the evening's perform ance. now they cheered ana clapped when 1 sat down and tlie uance \>as finished! It was a supreme experi ence tor Herbert to address mote boys. He held their attention eveiy second and won wild applause. As his applause dieu away, 1 sprung to my fetjt and said, W .nt u minute, 1 have something to say to you. 1 must tell you that as i ooii at you 1 remember that every single one of you is some mother s hauy, and 1 want to ask you to gove three cheers for your mother.' mother got the cheers all right. Herbert was whisked away in a other hut. i stayed with M. Chau \ not at the Hrst nut, ana he maae a briet lecture to the boys in English and did it very well. The oand played La .Marseillaise and the boys gave Three cheers for our French The experience of my life came when as the last strains of the Marseillaise died away, the soldiers began, tirst softly, tnen shouting: •We want Mrs. Gibbons'.' over and over again until it sounded like a football game. Of course 1 had to make a speech. Being totally un prepared 1 had to gain a little time for reflection, so 1 began by telling them that 1 was not a lecturer. 1 can talk a lot at-home however; that is why my husband has to take to the lecture platform to get a chance. First of all 1 want a song from you bovs. They gave me a touching toldier's tun-; about "Mother. ' Then another tune called "Keep the Home Fires Burning.' These were abso lutely new to me, and from ther.i 1 got my inspiration. 1 referred to the mother and the sweetheart at home who are keeping the home tires, and 1 turned the thing around and asked the boys what ttoey were doing to equal tlie sacritice of their women folks. Then 1 gave them a stiff lecture on sex hygiene. It took courage, but 1 swayed those in.n, and at least twenty that 1 could tsee broke down and wept. 1 feel very humble about it, but Herbert says that 1 probably aid more good than ever before in a single day of my life. 1 must have shaken nanus with one hundred and titty men utter the affair. There were seven hun dred that heard me speak, and when my motor slowly pulled out towards the town wnere 1 was to join Her bert, forty men ran atter it waving their hats and shouting fervent, promises to keep themselves clean and true. They crowded round me, 1 may add, showing tne pictures tney had of their best girls. It was too proiuond lor tears. 1 hardly slept all night, for 1 was so moved myself uy tins wonderful thing tnat had happened. I am temptuu to become' a preacher to the troops, lor 1 was not a oit afraid and tne message got tnere. '-"—Columbia Spy. Vigilantes War Notes Here are some excerpts irom an article written uy Clarence uarrow, tne attorney lor organized laoor, anu issueu uy tne American Alliance tor uiuur and uemocracj: The war won't cost the poor man a cent, it may cost poor mens nves. But more men will be itiileu in industry and by sucn disease as tuberculosis. The toll will be upon land and upon capital. Large parts of big incomes will be taken, 'xney are taking them now. Labor has more to win than any one else. The rich people have been giving up much. They will come out poorer than they went in. The rich man will pay nearly all the cost of the war. oecause he Is tne only man who nas the money to pay. Wall Street never made Germany \ iota to Belgium. Wall Street did not tell ueimany to sink tlie Lusi taniu. Wall street did nut bring on uic submarine warfare. Germany or America must win. No workingman can afford to be neutral! must say what side will nave its full support. The pacifist Is a chaser of shad ows, says The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy. He must have his paper declara tions. He cannot be nappy without them. He will make a great I'usa If he cannot have them. If the pacifist can only have a I years, during which time living ex | penses have advanced more than | during any other period of the J world's history. Any friend you have in the postal service, letter carrier or postoflice clerk will greatly ap preciate your interest in clipping this blank from the paper, tilling in your name and sending it to Congressman Kreider at Washington. declaration on paper guaranteeing to mm the right to do some peculiar thing that he wants to do you can : take away from him all of the essen- i tial liberties in the world and he will not miss them. He would contemplate the com ing of a German army in serene contentment if before you were driven out by the coming horde you would grant to him a license to make a speech calling you names. • The pacifist has something the matter with his eyes. He can see all manner of conspiracies and terrible dangers close at hand, but if you put a few miles between himself and the supreme danger he will refuse *o believe that there is any supreme danger, though you prove it to him by a thousand rules of science. The pacifist is a chaser of shad ows. He cannot see substance. The pacifist can see a rainbow, but he cannot see a blackjack. And it is bad when one cannot see a blackjack soon enough. PUPILS' CHRISTMAS PARTY Liverpool, Pa., Dec. 20.—The bor ough schools will close to-morrow for one week's holiday vacation. In the afternoon the children of the primary school will enjoy their usual Christmas party, their teacher. Miss Puera B. Robinson, being the di rector of the occasion. ■■■ __ ——■■■———— Make This an Electrical Christmas i Everybody Wants—This Year— There's Something Here For Every One | Something Practical and Useful fllY' 4 ? You to Inspect Our Spe- j; Here is a suggestion which fits the circumstances exactly and you can't cial Display or lllectrical Devices j! make a mistake, no matter for whom the gift may be intended Ow irons Give Something et 1 Chafing Dishes cu" 168 THis CHristlTLClS bhowers $ ____ „ Flash Lights Vacuum Cleaners { OUR STORE IS AN ELECTRIC STORE Health Vibrators Washing fi We are specialists in things Electrical. Can tell you the actual (accurate) ■ I-.' | DBI M k* I current cost on any appliance; how it should be used to get the most service. Lanterns lVlacnmes j connections and mechanical parts will be in perfect running order. This ¥* • 1 pi I*o 1 * * s m P ortant where the gift passes on to another home. Hamsburg Electric Supply Co. j Harrisburg Light and Power Co. 24-26 South Second Street £ 2a NORTH SECOND STREET WMWWWWWWmWMHW SSSS ~ WMWWMMWMMMMWWWWWWtWIWWIIWit I —— - 1 WMW VWMUtVtVAttmtMHVVtUMMUVtMMVV MWWt V %WAVWVIHtVmHHmHW\VWtVU\\<. New West End i CHRIS ™ AS . TREE I Jl|a3L At 1603 N. Third Street j; { | ry ALL SIZES—Gas Lights, Hardware, E lectric i| j![ ■ Rcd Seal and Columbia Dry Batteries, Supplies and Plumbing Supplies—Here are |i|j! V *7'~ = \ each $ few of the goods we sell— 1 j j C= Electric Portable, Electric Stoves i 11 * |: E. Bluiienstine, 14 South Court St. , mvwwwwwwwwwwwwwwvww >w w>wvwmwwt%w*w% WWHWMVWVW . HARRIBBITRG TELEGRAPH 1 Good Talks Feature Session ' | of Perry Farmers' Institute! Liverpool, Pa., Dec. 20.—With | practically the entire world looking, ! upon the American farmer to supply! | the greater part of foodstuffs during ! the coming year, more than usual in-J j terest was manifested In the scs-] ! sions of Perry County Farmers' In- 1 I stitute held in Liverpool December ( 18, this week, with County Chairman! i C. M. Bower, of Blain, presiding. (Talks on soil improvement alfalfa I itnd potato culture by William M. I Patton, of Mosgrove; orchards, mar ; keting of fruits, spraying and prun i ing l>y F. H. Fassett, of Meshoppcn; (.and home sanitation and country life | by Mrs. E. G. Grove, of Williamsport,! | were features of much interest dur- I ing the various sessions of the in-1 stitute. SIX MEMBKRS IX SESSION* j Liverpool, Pa., Dec. 20.—0n Blltl ! day the Lutheran Sunday school | floated a service flag containing six ; stars for Harvey Long, Emmett j i Barnes, Norman 1. Wilt, Ralph Wil ' liamson. Wesley DeHaven and James' I House, who are now in war .service, j i The latter .two at this timo are i ••somewhere In France." I Ww Something Electrical? ! numerous appliances per-I leß sca'rceiy 'has 61 disappeared e up I!; For I,iu > or Her—for lias she a mai.l? Docs she do IF YOU WANT to <lo something 'the chimney. Never was such a, U le CU | C Kiddies or her own housework? real right "handsome," give her an mit, make them desirable TheM. n ?utshininK , an > the e other'gifts!' || just the (tear friend Xo matter it isn't Electric Washer lis Her Gift for Every Day oC_the |, > _ possible to make a mis- It just cuts wash-day right and appropriate to every I Etecfrlc Cleaner™ nd Just ; a3 beautiful. '► ELECTRIC will put you as a gift-chooser *!■. „,1 „ . Alreadv the Frantz Premier is at-1 <J W U please by their utility and | V trri'M CI I'*vi lt "over the to|i" of lier list! Home, tlie modest one as i tached to the nearest electric socket. J| sense—suit the sender hy their HiLAALU Tlii.s is America's |At a slight twist of the wrist it 1 5 consistent prices and their in- | All over the country this Is to Electrical Christmas I well as tile more - lK " • AM'cricas Electrical Christ- Everybody Is going to give For Mother it marks the end of, i > Electrical Girts last. Make it n,a '?' , r i'h'ctrical Gifts are practical, us . ( "' u ' prestiiW. An , , • housecleaning drudgery: it foretells J, ... . useiul every day in the year Electrical Gift tills that de tentlOUS. hours of leisure; Her Christmas Gift J> an Electrical Christmas! and for years. scription exactly! is indeed an Everyday Christmas Gift < j.:.. „ .. , We have 'cm suitable —the gift she has so longed for. I|[ " cyc bi S stocks Everything Electrical for habies.up atanv Free Demonstration*. |<[ to choose from for Uic Home and Office price you want to pay. II Dauphin Electrical Supplies Co. J0N 4 marletlt" 3 ' ' Will there be an_Everyday Christmas j| * Gift in YOUR home? , ' Moving Pictures Used to Aid Red Cross Campaign I Mechnnicsburg, Pa., Dec. 20. —Ac- J tlvity in the Red Cross Christmas drive continues in this place and new i members are continually being added jto the list. Many business houses | and families are coming in the 100 1 per cent, class. Solicitors are push ing ahead and hope to reach the j quota. At a meeting of the publicity I committee arrangements were com- I pleted for a community chorus and : music by tile Singer Bund on Christ mas Eve. Work is progressing on 1 the 4.000 surgical bandages promised to Colonel Murphy in France at the i workrooms of the Bed Cross. Last evening moving pictures were j shown near the Square to a large I audience on the street. Another series j will be shown again to-morrow and ! on Monday evening. TREES FOR HARRISBI'RG Liverpool, Pa... Dec. 20. —H. L. Derr and sons, Valentine and John, j of Harrisburg, were in Liverpool ! the latter part of last week buying ' up and cutting Christmas trees. Sev i eral hundred trees were cut by them j and transported by motor truck to I Harrisburg. Boy Punctures Heart in Sharpening Pencil; Dies New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 20. John Brill, 9-year-old pupil at St. ' John's School here, punctured bis i heart while sharpening a pencil yes terday at the school and died in stantlyj The boy was holding the pencil against his brtfast and the knife i slipped as he hurriedly sharpened the ] lead . CLEANING hi:voi,vi:l, is KILLED | Lancaster. Pa., Dec. 20.—Raymond j Simmons, 16 years old, was acclden- j tally killed by a revolver which he I was cleaning. He told his mother ! that he was cleaning his weapons to enlist, and a few moments later she heard a shot and found him dead on the floor. AIIUS RIGHT YEARS TO I.IFE Altoona. Pa., Dec. 20.—The Bible record added eight years to the life of the late George M. Shoenfelt, of Taylor township, who was buried yesterday. His relatives supposed that he was 88 years of age and it was thus published in his obituary. A forgotten entry in the Bible, how ever, disclosed the fact that he was rged 96, and one of the county's pio neers. I DECEMBER 20. 1017. Centenarian Dies From Too Much Work Lewistown, Pa., Dec. :o.—Mri>. Tob bin Krentzman, 100 years old, died suddenly from heart disease Tuesday night following a hard's day's work. Deceased was a native of Bussia and is survived by nine children, tlfty grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. Moses, her eldest son, resides in Petrograd and is 80 years old. Mrs. Krentzman could read without glasses an-j anaid >Io as much housework as any of her granddaughters at the time of her death. MANY HOYS TO ATTEND The reception for Boy Scouts to be held at the Y. M. C. A. Friday eve ning promises' to be a big affair. Acceptances are pouring in from scout troops of the city to Arcli H. Dinsmore, boys' working secretary of the association. HOYS KOU Y. IW. C. A. Officials of the local Y. M. C. A. have evolved a new idea for the Christmas giving season. They sug gest a boy's membership in the Y. M. C. • A. as an ideal Christmas which will lie good for an entire year. Arch M. Dinsmore, boys' working sec- All States Sharing in Federal Road Aid All the states of the Union liavs availed themselves of the opportu nity or participating in the benefits of the Federal Aid Hoad act, which appropriated $75,000,000 for the con struction of postroads and $lO,-000,000 for forest roads, according? to the re port of the Director of the Oflice of Public Koads and Kural Kngineering. United States Department of Agricul ture. That the passage of the act has stimulated roadbuilding is shown by the fact that in 1016 there were approximately $-11,000,000 of state funds expended for all highway pur poses. and it Is estimated that in the calendar year 1917 the aggregate ex penditures of state funds for this purpose will be at least $60,000,000, A number of the states have mado specific appropriations to meet Fed eral aid dollar for dollar. Anions these are New York, Illinois, Michi gan, Rhode Island, Nevada, lowa, Florida and Vermont. retary of the association, is respon sible for the plan, and parents art enthusiastic over it.
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