MANY PLAN FOR ! WAR GARDENS llarrisburg to Have Compe tent Instructor For Amateurs Tl\e Keystone State is going to hang up a big war garden record this year according to reports com ing in to P. S. Ridsdale, sec retary of the National War Gar den Commission. From all over the state, banks, chambers of com merce, and business houses are get ting some requests for tho Com mission war garden primers and or ganization literature. "Pennsylvania will show them something this year I am sure," said Charles Lathrop Pack, the president of the Commis sion to-daV. From Harrisburg comes a re quest for data on gardening by Don ald McCormick, chairman of the committee of agriculture of the Chamber of Commerce. He reports a competent instructor has been placed in charge of the work. The People's National Bank of Norristown of which B. B. Hughes is the cashier has ordered 1,000 primers for distribution to the cus tomers of the bank. A. G. Reiff, president of the Union National Bank at Souderton has ordered 1,500 copies to help the campaign along there. H. E. Bodine, of the Altoona Chamber of Commerce, writes that his organization is behind the move ment to cultivate vacant lots there. "Warren R. Jackson, of the Board of Trade of Washington, Pa., writes that the members are behind the movement there and the Committee has sent along war garden primers and organization suggestions. Throughout the state the real es tate men are getting behind the war garden movement in connection with their "own-a-home" cam paigns. The National War Garden Commission is also sending war gar den primers to thousands of Indivi duals. Russell T. Edwards, representing the Commission, will make a trip through the state next week in < onnection with the work and at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia will confer with organizations that are making garden plans on a big scale. "SBOSwk ' #wifticuiicura s ///and Ointmwit 25'*aeh lvfnjv.bfrf\\ Shoe Specials For Economical Buyers ' We must make room for our Spring stock which is now on its way. To do so we must clean out our pres ent stock of odd lots, and broken sizes in Men's Women's, Misses' and Children's Footwear re gardless of former selling price. Ladies' Gray Kid high cut lace Shoes, full Louis heel. 56.00 AC value. Special Ladies' Brown Kid Eng lish lace Shoes. $4.00 value. QEi Special .... Ladies' Gun Metal Calf and Patent Leather Button Shoes. Regular $3.00 and • $3.50 value. *| Q Q Special .... 1 i7O Men's Scout Shoes. Reg ular $2.50 val-d -I An ue. Special, Men's Work Shoes Extra heavy soles. 1 Q Q $3.75 value, JL *7O ————— — Misses' Gun Metal, high cut Lace Shoes. $3.00 value 4C Special Factory Shoe Com 16 N. Fourth St FRIDAY EVENING, DOWNFALL NOT ALL HIS FAULT Touching Incident Shows the Perils of Loneliness in Big City The warden of L street jail in New York City sat at his desk busily working on some records when there walked into the office David Bascom from a little rufal community tucked away in the far hills of Vermont. He was a pathet ic. wizened figure as he stood there in agony and embarrassment twirl ing his hat and waiting for the war den to look up. There was heart hunger in his. eyes that sinote the man at the desk with pity. "Is Joseph Bascom a —a prisoner here?" he finally stammered. He could hardly bring his tongue to say the word. "Yes," said the warden prompt ly. "We had a young man by that name brought in night before last for burglary. Struck me as the wrong kind of fellow to be in that business; too innocent-looking and too straightforward-appearing. Are you his father?" "Yes," said the old man as he dropped wearily into the proffered chair. "I don't see how ho ever came to do that sort of thing. It isn't accordin' to his bringin' up. Me and his mother never had no education to speak of, but we was always honest, and brought the children up strict like. He's been m New York less'n six months." "Wait a minute and I'll call him in and see what he has to say for himself," said the warden as he touched a button on the desk. In a few moments a clean, open faced young fellow was brought in by a guard, and one of those agon izing scenes ' that only jails behold ensued. When the first shock of tbe meeting was over the warden said to th& young man: ' "Now tell your father and me how you, got into this scrape. Nothing you say will be used against you at your trial." "When I first came to New York,' 1 the young - man began, "everything went all right. I got a job and found a good boarding house. 1 didn't feci homesick at first, be cause I was so interested in my work through the day, and at night it was interesting to go out and see the sights. But after I got used to my job and had seen most of the sights I had more time to think and to get homesick and lonesome. The folks at home didn't write, and 1 didn't know anyone here. I used to sit In my room evenings and pic ture the tomatoes ripening on the window sills at home, and I could 'see my mother moving about the yard in the sunshine and dad plow ing in the back forty. I could al most smell the apples in the orchard and hear the dry corn leaves rust ling, and it all made me so liofe sick and lonesome I just had to go i out and walk the streets. That was the way 1 ran into the gang 1 was caught with. I guess they used me as a tool. Anyhow, I got caught at the llrst attempt." "That sounds straight, and if I'm any judge of fajces I guess it is straight," said tha warden. "I want you to get your story before the judge through your attorney. Your record has been clean till now, and I think it will make a difference In tho sentence." The trial was held and the facts presented to the judge. "Sentence suspended," he announced at the close, with a gruftness of voice to hide his emotion. Then he added, looking at the father, "if I had my way I'd impose a jail sentence on parents who let their boys and girls come to .this city and don't write them at lfcuist twice a week to let them know . that some one In the world cares for them and is think ing of them. JMore young people go wrong in tliijycity from lonesomeness than we shall ever know. You should have had backbone to stand alone, young man. But as your parents are particeps criminis, and I can't sen tence them, I'll suspend your sen tence. Next case!"— Youth's Com panion. Gen. Grossetti Was "Too Fat" to.Retreat j Paris.—General Grossetti, who has : .iust died here of illness contracted in Saloniki, was one of the heroes of the battle of the Marne, and is the hero of many odd anecdotes told by the French veterans of that struggle. Here is one of them; Grossetti, who was very stout, on one occasion found his men waver ing. "But if you men rptire," said | the general when he was Urged to I draw back his line, "what will be come of me; I am much too fat to keep up with you, I must sit down." I So a eampstool was brought, and he sat down in the middle of the road under German sheilfire and groaned about his stoutness, which prevented him from moving. Sol diers in retreat passed down the road. "Where are you going, my chil dren?" the general called out. still sitting on his eampstool among the bursting shells. here, you can't leave your general like this.' He is much too fat and blown to follow you." The men stopped, surprised, looked at the fat general on the eampstool, shouted, "Vive le general!" and went I back to fight. Later, when a staff officer from headquarters came to inquire wheth er Grossetti's division was holding its ground, he found the general still sitting on his eampstool, and the re port which he sent back to head quarters was merely: "Grossetti begs to inform the staff that he is too fat to retire." Mayor Hylan Booming Sale of Alarm Clocks | New York. Noticed the way alarm clicks are being advertised lately? Seen those page advertise-1 ments in weekly story papers? Do I you know they cost from $2500 to S3OOO or S4OOO an insertion? Well, they do. Know why it pays to spend all that money to advertise alarm clocks? The answer is simple: Mayor Hylan is on his job. He has started a boom in alarm clocks, and the boom is not confined to New York City either. It Is na tion-wide. Not since the days of Benjamin Franklin has there been an incum bent of a great public office who so realized the value of time, of promptness, punctuality, as does the present Mayor of New York, "The B. R. T. is the thief of time" is one of his favorite proverbs, and "Early to business and early to tea makes a man swear at the B. R. T." is an other. And this vigilant / prompti tude of the Mayor is having its effect throughout the nation. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. I "The Live Store" v - "Always Reliable' I Get It Off Your Mind— For time is getting short—and herein lies your one great and unequalled opportunity of the season to save money on high grade dependable merchandise a chance to choose from our mammoth stocks so low in price that they cause widespread comment among the trade But years ago we established a custom of having a complete clearance at the end of each season so come to our greatest Semi-annual I Where Everything in Our Entire Stock Is Reduced CExcept Arrow Collars, Overalls and Interwoven Hose) By so doing you will be helping YOURSELF in I keeping DOWN the cost of YOUR wearing apparel few stores have ? 2J&HgL the courage to reduce the best merchandise in the store, but at this "Live Store" if / , you can buy (at reduced prices) the finest Suits and Overcoats in the land such as ff ' iBSf Kuppenheimer Clothes j I There are no strings to this Mark-Down W1 sale Although we know we could make more money by Vi holding the vast quantities of merchandise we have on hand for we have been busy investigating conditions for next fall and winter and we know prices are going to be much higher than you even f) j. l*j§ o, j/j anticipate—We are bending every effort to protect your interest as I well as our own and our advice to you is this: Buy all you can now I I , v, jj I il -—"Shirts," "Underwear," "Hosiery," "Pajamas," "Night Shirts," W"" I "Sweaters" and by all means include in your purchases a good - I "Suit" or "Overcoat" I AD sls-00 "Suits" and "Overcoats" .' ' . sll-75 '%' j||ji\ :• ||§r || J 1 All *20 00 "Suits" and "Overtoils" .. . . sls-75 JB I All s2s*®® "Suits" and "Overcoats" . . ♦ . $19*75 [jjjjl All s3o*®® "Suits" and "Overcoats" .. . . S fi *0? | All $35 °° "Suits" and "Overcoats" .. . . $27-75 mf gM/ I I I All S3B 00 "Suits" and "Overcoats" .. . . $29*75 I All Boys' "Suits/' "Overcoats" and "Mackinaws" Reduced 1 Shirts au 95c All SI.OO Shirts 79c \ All $1.75 Underwear $1.39 All 50c Gloves 39c All $l5O Shirts ' $1 19 All $3.00 Underwear $2.39 7 r pi - . • a!! scu ! !!*: All $4.00 Underwear $3.19 AU 75c Gloves 59c All $1.85 Shirts $1.59 All $5.00 Underwear $3.89 ' AH S L7S Gloves $1.59 All $2.50 Shirts $1.89 ———: , All $3.00 Gloves $2.39 All $3.50 Shirts $2.89 , c u . llosiery , ft All $3.50 Gloves $2.89 aii aa oi . ™ All zsc Hosiery 19c All $5.00 Shirts $3.89 30c Hosiery . 24c All Brighton Garters and Signal Shirts, 2 Loose Collars. .$1.39 All 50c Hosiery .39c Pioneer Suspenders Reduced I This Is the Store Everybody I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! t FEBRUARY 15. 1018.
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