TOBACCO AIDS SOLDIERS DO A MAN'S WORK Letter From "Over There" Shows Need of Smokes in Trenches 1 1 1 Sublime tobacco; which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turk man's rest. Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapplng or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe. When tipped wtth amber, mellow, rich and ripe. This from Lord Byron and we wager that If this great poet were alive to-day he would be in a hurry to contribute to the soldiers' smoke fund. He sings of the delights of the fragrant weed, principally as they render contentment to the sea faring man who had "wafted smoke l'rom Portsmouth to the Pole." But his sentiments would apply even more nearly to the soldier in the trenches. Strange to say, some are blaming the fighting boys for their tobacco craving, and yet sailors have been smoking, as a unit, ever since tobacco was discovered. No one ever jumped on them. And speaking of this feature of the smoke benefac tion here is a letter just from "over there" on this very topic: X have been reading the articles about tobacco. ***** I have smoked for years. I have served my country for a number of years, but the service did not teach me to smoke or any other bad hab its. I smoked long before 1 joined. And as for any one handing us clgarets, the ones that did so did it out of the goodness of their hearts, and we thank all who did so. In old Company H there are no hoys any more. They are all men and ready to do a man's part in this great war. With but few exceptions Railroad Men These men know from experience that Sloan's Liniment will take the stiffness out of joints and the sore ness out of muscles —And it's so convenient! No rubbing required. It quickly penetrates and brings re- 1 lief. Easy to apply and cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments. Always have a bottle in the house for rheumatic aches, lamo back, sprains and strains. Generous sized bottles at all drug* gists, 25c., 50c., SI.OO. TITTY Elastine- W. X 3 Effect an Astonishing KjEjMVQSNtK Transformation in Stout Figures. Vj r Oft . 'yus I Wearing a properly fitted W. B. I Reduso Corset you appear a MlTyWil younger woman —hips, bust and JM \ 111 yi \\V A 'j3 abdomen reduced Ito 5 inches, /I x 11/ \ 1 '° U '°°k ®*° 20 pounds lighter, I ou can wear more fashionable Mil\] iTl't'f styles; you are no longer STOUT ■ II 1 \\ £nß ' 1 \V[ J Value at most moderate price. ■ You never wore more comfort ■ ' r Ky a ble or "easy feeling" corsets. 1 f I Lace Back Reduto Stylet. No. 721. Low Bmt, Brocade, price $5.00 No. 703. Medium Butt, couiil, price 3.50 No. 711. Short Stout Figure*, ow üßt * Couui. price 3.50 J Lace Front Reduao Stylet. The Corset illustrated, No. 720 No. 0741. Low Bus:. Coutil, price $3.50 price $3.50, shows how it reduces No. 0731. Med. Bust Coutil. price 3.50 a stout figures to youthful lines. No. 0740. Low Burt. Coutil. price 5.00 f A7"D NUFORM Back and Front.Lace for CORSETS Slender and Average Figures ■ "• give the "new-form"; the figure vojftte of the moment. Inexpensive, faultlessly fitting. W, B. NUFORM CORSETS are unequalled for Comfort, Wear and shape-moulding. Model* for all figurea. Price sl. to $3. All Dealer. WEINGARTEN BROS., IBC., New York Chk^ I SKATES GROUND I While You Wait * Federal Machine Shop Cranberry Street Near Court THURSDAY EVENING' I La Follette Expelled From His Home Club ' ECHIIW ,i •• ' a ' '' t • I M | .; . '- : r : tri -~ ' •itNATOR ROBT rVLArOLLtTIt. United States Senator Robert M. La Follette has been expelled from the Madison Club at , his home in Madison, Wis., on the charge of "un patriotic conduct and giving aid and comfort to the enemy." The action was due to his recent course in the United States Senate and addresses he has made in other places. they all smoke tobacco in some form or other, and I think they are all pure and clean. Some of the great est men in the world used tobacco and seem to carry on their interests just the same. Tobacco may be classed with booze by this lady, but I do not agree with her. Has she or any one else ever heard of tobacco ruining homes, or making men or women commit crimes, like old John Barleycorn does? I never have heard that it has. I know thatno one in this company has coaxed any one, or tried to learn them to use tobacco in any form. And as for any donation that this lady will hold from the tobacco fund, it will never be missed, as the soldiers have lots of friends who can make up the little difference. Hoping to see this letter in your | paper, I will close. A friend of tobacco and all who use it, SERGT, H. E. CRAMER, Co. D, 134 th M. G. Bn. WOMAN LOVED HER CANARY Charges Brother Witli Theft or Bird; He Narrowly Escapes Prison ! Mrs. James Farmer was the com plainant against her brother, George | Clark, in special sessions recently, writes a New York correspondent. ; She lives at 302 West Fifty-ninth ; street, in excellent style and on the ; witness stand was fashionably ! dressed and cultured. "My brother called with a friend," she said, "and stole my pet canarl ! —the best one of the thirteen I keep, ; and the sweetest singer you ever ; hard." "Do you want me to send your I own brother to the penitentiary?" I asked Justice Bixby. "Well, he is in bad health," sh I replied hesitatingly; "he's had chills ! and fever for a long time; but —" "But you think more of the bird I than you do of your brother?" sug j gested the justice. "Well, your honor," said the lady j half-reproachfully, "this canary was | a special pet." The brother escaped, however, j through a technical error in the II complaint. T/fcST SHORE HEWS "SAMMY'S BROTHER" RAISING MONEY J. C. Thompson, of Lemoyne, Receives Grateful Letter From Soldier in France and Issues 7,000 Appeals to Friends By the distribution of 7,000 ap peals to residents of Cumberland and Dauphin counties in the im mediate vicjnity of Harrisburg and the West Shore, J. C. Thompson, electrical engineer of the United Electric Company at Lemoyne, hopes to carry out his new plan o£ send ing smokes to soldiers during the "war. The name of the new club will bo "Sammy's Brother/' The appeals which will be sent out by Mr. Thomp son will be addressed "To Sammy's Brother at Home." On the interior of the envelope is a leaflet includ ing the story of "The Bloke Who Went West," by Arthur Guy Km pey. Empey Endorses Work Ou the cover of the phamplet is a photograph of Mr. Empey in uni form. Air. Thompson has been given permission by the author to use any of his articles for the purpose of impressing the people at home with his plan for spreading cheer among the soldiers. The story in the leaflet tells of a soldier who - was wounded in the trenches and died in the hospital! smoking a fag. This, by the way, I was the only tobacco in the ward,! containing sixty-nine patients. Thej story is unusually interesting and Mr. Thompson believes It will reach the hearts of the men who receive the message. On the back of the folder Mr. Thompson has written a letter which is endorsed by Robert L. Myers, president of the Lemoyne Trust Company, and by George L. Cook, of Camp Hill. The letter, in part, follows: "X personally saw Mr. Empey, the author of 'Over the Top,' and re ceived his permission to publish the letter for this purpose. We have the Sammy's Brothers Fund in existence now for three months, and we have remembered about fifty of our boys each month. But this list of boys, going to the front is constantly in-| creasing and it can only be kept up with your help. If it were possible | for me to let you read all the letters j of appreciation I have received in the past three months, I know noth ing could keep you from becoming a contributor to Sammy's Brothers Fund. We people, members of the army who stay at home, must back tip every soldier all we possibly can. We must encourage him. Can you j picture one of our own dear boys sitting in a cold, muddy trench, un- j <ler fire, receiving a gift from his! home across the sea? How proud; it will make him to exhibit to his comrades and show them that we are with him, heart and soul. Prob- j ably your bit will be the cigaret that! will give him so much consolation in his last few minutes of life." Each envelope includes two ap plication cards for membership in-j to the club. The maximum sub- j scription monthly is $1 and the minimum one cent. To Send Appeals Everywhere In explaining the plan Mr. Thompson said that he will dis- ( tribute the appeals to residents in | al! West Shore towns, including for the present, Mechanicsburg and Harrisburg. After the system is in ] operation the boundary lines for the drive will not be limited, he empha sized. Mr. Thompson plans to appoint a businessman or prominent resident in each town to take care of the) distribution. The' money received! will be turned over *.o this represen tative in the district from which it I comes and will be used to purchase! tobacco for soldiers from that town. ■ By following out this plan the ori-1 ginator hopes to collect enough | money from each town to supply; ' smokes" to the boys in the serv ice every month. The distribution of the appeals j will be completed in about twoi weeks. Approximately 2,000 of these j will be distributed in the city of Harrisburg. There is a little story back of Mr. Thompson's latest move. Three months ago, when the boys started to leave Lemoyne for service in the j Army, he did not think it was alto- j gc-ther right for the men at home to! forget the soldiers who had gone in order that they might remain I with their families. Few Contributors at Eirst I Thinking along this line he got; an idea and at once worked it out j among a few friends and circulated ! a petition among a small circle. The j signers pledged themselves to con tribute monthly to the smoke fund! an amount not to exceed fifty cents, j In a few weeks he found that it j was not necessary for him to ask for] signers, they asked him to be allow-1 eel to place their signatures to the! petition. Funds from the first l month's subscriptions were sufficient; to purchase more tobacco and ciga- 1 rets than was needed for the list of j boys he had on the honor roll. Honor Roll Largo He enlarged the honor roll to in-! elude residents from Lemoyne, Camp t Hill and lower East Pennsboroj township. To-day, at the end of three months, there are fifty-nine boys on the roll, with 150 contribu tors. How the monthly presents are ap-1 predated by those who receive them is shown in a letter from Edward L. Wanbaugh, formerly a resident! of Wormleysburg, now with the: Medical Department "somewhere in France." The letter received by Mr. Thompson is as follows: "In reply! to your letter of November 2, 1917,! I wish to say that after the feeling [ of surprise has passed away, another j feeling, that of thanks and gratitude, > presents itself. Glnd to Hoar From Home | • "A soldier in France has many] thoughts both pleasant and unpleas- i ant. Among the pleasant are those] of his friends at home. How much i more pleasant these thoughts, howj much his spirits are raised, how] much more energy he uses to reach the goal of his ambition from the fact that he has received news from them, can only be felt by one in this position. "This undertaking of the people of the West Shore is a largo one. They will no doubt meet with many difficulties and obstacles, but the re sult of their work, if the object isi jpbtained, will mean more to themj than all labor extended. Surely, the, soldiers from that locality have just cause to feel proud that they come from a section which thinks so far for the pleasure and comfort of their boys 'over there." " Colli* C'mimc Headache nnil (irlp LAXATIVE BIIOMO QUININE Tab lets remove the cause. Tliero Is only i one "liromo Quinine." E. W. GItOVK'S I signature on box. 30c.—Advertise ment. TELEGRAPH! ZOO SNAKE SWALLOWS MATE A snake's method of swallowing is almost automatic; the internal mach anism begins its work as soon as the reptile takes the food into its mouth. In his book, "Of Distinguished Ani mals," H. Perry Robinson relates an extraordinary incident that occurred a few years ago at the London zoo logical gardens. Tho attendants put some pigeons into a cage occupied by two boas, one ten foot long, the other a foot shorter. In the night the larger snake seized a pigeon, and his mate unfortunately selected the same bird. The tip of the smaller boa's nose was drawn into the mouth of the other together with the pigeon, and after it the rest of the snake continued to go. although the eater must have been surprised at the almost intoler able length of what it had believed to be an ordinary pigeon. HENRY GILBERT & SON 219 Market Street Opposite the Court House ANNOUNCEMENT I WE announce our new ve improved, built sidings and expenses, insurance, handling change of policy and furnished with complete machin- and storing, will be so much less the new location of ery for hand mg our heavy hard- that we will be able to serve you our business. wa re and mill trade. The quick- better and at lower cost to you ness and ease with which we than ever before. The stock will On January 14th our Market could load and ship our carload be practically on the same lines street store will be closed for one business as well as the vastly in- aS now except that we will dis week for the purpose of stock- creased stocks we could carry continue the novelty specialties taking and to allow us to move caused us to enlarge our plant and concentrate instead on most of our extensive stock and ' . ere yearly. Large, fast Builders Hardware, Contractors main offices to our new ware- P*P e " cutting iriachines, drill and Mill Supplies, Heavy Hard houses, 400 South Second street, prfesses, etc., were added and ware, Paints and Tools, Pipes at Vine street and the Pennsyl- storage capacity enlarged so that and Fittings, vania Railroad. this year we found it necessary to purchase the entire frontage Our business will be retail as The vacating of our Market on Vine street (thus making our well as wholesale and we solicit street location, after over three- holdings cover the whole block) especially telephone and mail quarters of a century of business and on this plot we have erected inquiries, on this thoroughfare, will be con- a large additional warehouse of sidered a most radical change and slow burning type, offices, stor- The st °re at 21 9 Market Street requires an explanation the age sheds, garage, powerhouse open about January 22 and reason for this announcement. for heating, etc. making a remain open until such time as o , plant so complete that we doubt we have disposed of discontin- Some six years ago we acquired if it can be Hed here in ued lines. as a warehouse the property for- f7 as |. merly known as the Boas Plan- ' . During the week of Tanuarv ing Mill bounded by the Penn- Our intention is, in time, to 14 all mail or telephone orders sylvania Railroad tracks, Second, conduct our entire business from will be promptly attended to and Paxton and River streets. This 400 South Second street. Our delivered. , * Announcement of the Formal Opening of our warehouse will be made later a 1 | f Just 4 Blocks South' IL® 1 ' • of Market Square %SpJ| On Second Street m § £ s ——= YOA\Y®k 1/1 ? u z mapkCT \vvvs\%lK W'h £ J 5 . souare wt lip % \ I . second st * Our New Address . m IPn 400 South 2nd St • \ Telephone and Mail Inquiries Especially Invited Wholesale HENRY GILBERT & SON Retail - w Mrs. Sam'l Z. Shope Heads Women's Aid Auxiliary At the monthly meeting of the ladies' Auxiliary, of the Polyclinic Hospital, yesterday afternoon, the following officers were elected for the year: President, Mrs. Samuel Z. Shope; first vice-president, Mrs. I. A. Snave ly; second vice-president, Mrs. Alvin 1. Miller; third vice-president, Mrs. J. A. Warner; secretary, Mrs. G. A. Zim merman; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Charles McEnroe; treasurer, Mrs. Edward Kirby Eawson; assistant treasurer, Mrs. Robert Holmes; finan cial secretary, Mrs. Bellett Uawson. The auxiliary has been doing splen did work for the hospital, and excel lent reports were turned in for the year from the sewing, membership and hospital committees. The treas urer's, report was encouraging; many donations were sent in during the year, ajpd. the balance in the treasury is the largest it has beun in years. SAVING OF COAIi Fifteen million people in this country are shoveling coal to-day, of whom 250,000 are firemen in power plants and on railroads. By midnight they will have converted 2,300,000 tons into ashes. With these ashes will be thrown away thousands of tons of coal only part ly burned. Other thousands of tons will have been wasted in careless burning, or unnecessary heating of unoccupied rooms; in the making of electric light whlcn illuminated empty rooms and needless places. In twelve months we have burned 600,- 000,000 tons. Of late we have Increased our consumption of coal much faster than it can bo delivered; our mines are adequate—with sufficient labor —to produce what wo need, but transportation is limited. During the past j;ear the steel industry has used 40,000,000 tons more than tho pre vious year; our cotton mills, 40,- 000,000; our railroads, 40,000,000 tons—while other industries bring the increa&e up to 100,000,000 tons. A single new munitions plant alono takes the entire output of two large mines. Our own Navy and our al lies' constitute a new and largo de mand for fuel. Coal has always been so abundant here we have given little thought to saving it. We must manage some way to save at least 50,000,000 tons. The damper in your stove, furnace, or heater can help win the war; a door in your ash pit which leaks air, and soot in flues, pipes and chimney are all aiding the enemy. Weather strips, storm sash, ash sifters, care ful firing, a curtailment of coal fuel just as much as possible, are all In struments of tirst aid to the great cause. Shall we force our govern ment to take over the coal indus try as England, France, Italy, Rus sia and Germany have already done, or shall we relieve the administra tion of this extra burden by taking the situation seriously? Every own er or manager of a plant using coai can do a lot. How long, Mr. Man ager, since you inspected your boiler room, and do you know of your own knowledge whether the utmost fuel economy exists there, or not? It is of very great importance to save every pound of coal possible, for if we don't a lot of factories not absolutely essential to war supplies will have to close down. How much better we should all, large and small users alike, exercise economy and prevenjf embargo.—H. H. Windsor, in the January Popular Mechanics Magazine. JANUARY 10, 1918. NEW DEMANDS FROM RAILWAYS Director General McAdoo to Submit Wage Scales to Investigators Washington, D. C„ Jan. 10.—Rail way executive boards are working on new wage scales for consideration by Director General McAdoo. It is prob able that ho will deal with them through Investigating boards. Strikes are not contemplated by any organization, it Is said, and wage questions will not be put up to the director general as demands. Rail road labor leaders are represented as not taking advantage of Government operation to press for more pay, but rather as pointing out the necessity of wage increases to keep employes from being attracted to other indus tries. ' Up to the present, the only general demands for wage increases consid ered by Director General McAdoo are those presented by the four railway brotherhoods and the switchmen's union, whose president, S. E. Heber ling, conferred with Mr. McAdoo to day. The brotherhoods' case will be investigated by a board of four to be named by the director general to morrow, and he also may ask this body to inquire into the switchmen's demand, which now is being consid ered by a committee of railway exec utives representing all roads. The director general announced that ho expected to name railroad i directors for certain sections of the '■ country to assist him in administer- ' ing Government operation, but said he had not determined how many would be appointed nor what terri- v tory each director should supervise. It Is considered probable, however, that not more than six or seven will be named. Mr. McAdoo said specific ally that he did not plan to name state directors. Thousands of appli cations for positions as state rail road supervisors have been received' within the past few days. The Senate and House interstate commerce committees continued their hearings on tho railroad bill. Before the House committee Interstate Com merce Commissioner Anderson reit erated that It seemed impracticable to change the bill to provide for ter mination of Government control at a specific time after the war. This would bring, chaos in railroad affairs, he said, und the proper procedure should be to leave the question of return of the roads to private control to future determination by Congress. Representative Moore, of Pennsyl vania. asked the committee to amend the bill to provide specifically for Government control of canal trans portation facilities. Members of the United States employes compensation commission advocated that railroad men should be regarded Government employes. Absolutely Nothing Better than Cuticura for Baby's Tender Skin Soap 2Sc. 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