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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
The Story of a Drunkard
Told by the Sister Who
Secretely Cured Him

l found my brother he did not recoSI =
niZe me and | hardly knew him.
Immediately began to give the rem
edy, without his knowledge. In a
few days he seemed to be losing ms
appetite for drink. He tried dinerent
saloons in an effort to find one where
whiskey would taste right, but IT was
useless. Within month he stopped
drinking. All the desire had left him;
the chains of alcoholic slavery mad
been broken. His health began to
improve and soon he was a new man.
He secured a splendid position ana
the craving for liquor never returned.
After eight years l told him how he
had been cured and gave him the
formula. l was afraid to tell him the
secret before for fear he might re-
turn TO drink.
advise everyone who has a rela-
tive or friend addicted to the liquor
habit in any form TO use TINS pre-
scription. 1t is harmless and marvel
gist for prepared Tescum powders.
drop one powder twice a day in tea
coffee. milk or any food or drink.
Each powder makes q dose. 1t is
tasteless and odorless and cannot be
detected by anyone.
NOTE-The manufacturers of pre-
pared Tescum powders referred to
above by Miss Brown, sell it through
druggists under a steel-bound, money
refund guarantee. 1t has been used
by thousands since the formula was
first made public and has brought inn
measurable happiness to many homes.
1t is sold in Harrisburg by j. Nelson
Clark and others,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
RUN ON CHINA WARE LEAVES
SHELVES. BARE OF DISHES
American Supply Tied Up by Freight Congestion and Ger
man Ware Sold Out Soon After War Began

Next time you become angry with
your husband, Mrs. Harrisburg,
please do not throw a plate at him!
Use the rolling pin or a kitchen
range! Whatever you do. conserve
your crockery. Here's why
You Harrisburgers, watch your
crockery bills! Handle crockery with
care these days, because china has
become a minus quantity and the
supply of crockery is becoming
alarmingly low.
Down in one Market street store,
where crockery department is
maintained, the store manager is
tearing his hair and gnashing his
teeth. A Telegraph reporter came
up to him last night. Heavens"
the manager moaned. II have no
time to talk about theaters and
dances and sugar supply. Tell me
where to get some china and crock
cry for my customers" At this
same downtown store pretty little
lady who has charge of the china
and crockery department was fran
tic last Saturday afternoon. She
wilted like a lily in midsummer as
she faced the stormy crowd of buy
ers in front of her counter. "Gra-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
EXAMINATION OF MEN IN
FIRST CLASS PROGRESSES

The local draft boards are max
ing rapid progress in their physical
examination of registrants in the
first class and the high average of
men for general military service has
been maintained to the end. As an
example, Board No. l yesterday put
through fifty-four men with only
one rejection. Twenty-three went to
the medical advisory board for final
classification. but thirty qualified for
first line service.
The proceedings at local Board No.
8 show that about one-half the reg
tstrants, examinations being held
twice each week, qualify for active
service and scarcely any are reject
ed entirely Board No. is Just
starting in on examinations, the de-
lay being caused by their waiting
for the new regulations which
should arrive any moment from
Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
RAPID PROGRESS
ON PENN-HARRS
Contractors Hope to Get the
Structure Under Roof
in Short Time

With installation of wastepipes
and drains and other work complet-
ed up to the ninth floor, and work
to begin in the near future on the
tenth floor of the new million-do
Penn-Harris Hotel, the building is
progressing just as rapidly as pos
sible. under present weather condi-
tions. The building is to be 1872
feet high. Almost $50 feet of this
has already been roughed in. Car
penters. bricklayers. plumbers,
steamfitters and others are working
full time. "It is impossible" said
E. ~ Johnston, construction man
ager, ito make any forecast of when
the hotel will be finished because
our materials are so much delayed"
Architectural Manager Hawes is of
the same opinion.
Bricklayers have faced the eXte-
rior of the entire third floor, and
have begun to face the fourth with
light brown brick.
To-day steamfitters are connecting
the hotel with the mains of the Har-
risburg Light and Power Company
on Walnut street. The tap on the
main will be eight inches. increasing
inside the hotel to twelve-inch feed
pipe. feeding the IOO-horsepower
motors to be installed in the near
future.
A breakdown on the electric
crane halted bricklaying work yes
terday. An electrical expert was
called and the crane will be put in
operation to-day, it was stated.
Woodworkers, finishers and interior
decorators were assigned no definite
date for operations, because of the
uncertainty of arrival of material.
The circulating icewater tank is eX-
pected in the near future. 1t will
be installed as soon as the tenth
story is completed. Plumbers will
install the piping for showerbaths as
soon as the plastering on the third
floor is completed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
(Continucd)

What, do 1 think of a blinkin'
onscientious objeCtor?" answered
Key Honey from the corner OF the
re bay. We'll, what with this
loomin' war on and blokes goin'
est by the thousands, a pacifist or
Conscientious objector is one OF two
=lings, he's either a blinkin' coward
b a bloody pro-German. But it's
=lnny the way some o them bigh-
Zers. with their West End ideas oack
j BliShty. changes their minds
hen they gets out here in the mud,
md gets their first glimpse of Il
z'ooden cross. It's either a iirin
fuad up against a wall, bloomin
G. (Nictoria Crosse or a rest in
#eace' sign over their nappers for
hem. A strange thing it is, but
zrue. those blokes never go through
he trenches in an ordinary way like
j { do; it's a case of extremes, no in
#ctween stuff.
Next time you're on burial
|arty take a look at the third cross
bonn the left in the fourth row as
ou enter the cemetery. You know
hat path that leads through the
richard just off the entrance of that
9 r. +. (Royal Engineer) dugout;
|ell, under that cross rests a bloke
no back in Blighty professed to be
pacifist. He wouldn't blinkin' well
|olunteer, not likely: they had to
raft him. an when they did he re-
|lsed to fight, so they stuck him in
he y. c. C. (Non-Combatant
|orps) and handed him a pick and
|hovel and put him to repairin'
Pads and diggin' praves. Well it
|idn't take long before he was prop
ply fed up with his job. and he
brew down the pick and shovel and
|rabbed up a rifle an bayonet. oh,
et. he clicked it alright and went
Vest. In fact, he was buried in
he o. the graves he helped to dig.
suppose some O. those college ofii-
ers called it the irony of fate or
bme other blinkin' high sounding
|hrase, but we knows that it was
hly common, ordinary luck. cause
|e all knows that if you're going to
et it, you'll get it, no matter II
pu're a gentleman's son or a bloom
b chimney sweep.
This blighter I'm telling about
las in my platoon when l was in
&" Company. an he used to give
he the proper pip with his argu-
Ients against fighting and the likes
that.
''The first time I met him was tnI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
By Arthur Guy Empey

st. Armand, out bait" was in the
rest billets awaiting new draft be-
fore going up the line again. ou
see we had clicked it pretty rough
at Fromelles an a platoon looked
like a blinkin' squad when 1t lined
up for parade. l was playing house
in that estaminet right across from
that bashed-in church on the COR
ner when his labor battalion came
through and took over billets just
opposite from the estaminet. / was
sitting near a window and watched
them pass. a sorrier bunch of spe-
cimens of men, 1 never saw; it turn
ed my blinkin' stomach to look at
them. what with their pasty faces,
stopped over shoulders and straggl-
ing gait. Right then and there L
admired the Germans for their sys-
tenn of universal military training.
II England had of had a little more
of it, there never would have been d
war and right now we would be in
Blighty with our wives and nippers,
instead of sitting here in these
bloody bitches waitin' for shell
to come over with our name and
number on it.
After the Labor Battalion took
over billets, several of them came
into the estaminet and sat at table
near me. They started to discuss
the war and voice their opinions
about the top hats AT home. This
bloke I'm a talkin' about was the
loudest of the bunch, he seemed to
have a crouch on everything in gen.
eral. l listened to him a few min
utes chucking his weight about until
it bloody we'll got on my nerves.
Chucking up my game of house
and l had paid half a franc for my
board tool leaned over to him and
said:
''You must be one of those
bloomin' conscientious objectors we
reads about in the papers, one o
those blighters who didn't believe
in fightin' but is willing to sit back
in Blighty and let us blokes out here
do your bloody fightin' for you,
while you gets a blinkin good screw
(salary) sitting on a high stool in
some office
He turned to me and answered:
It's the likes o. you who volunteer
ed for this war what keeps it goin.'
If you had all refused to go at first,
there wouldn't be any war;?
Il couldn't see it his way at all,
and went right back at him with:
Yes. and if it. wasn't for us voluteer-
ing the bloody German flag would
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

Orrie writes: "I have been taxing
Halts to purify my blood and cure my
] Iin of itching and pimples, but don't
zet much benefit. Please prescribe for
Answer: 1 advise three grain sui
herb tablets (nOt sulphur tablets), =,
imposed of sulphur, cream of tartar
md vegetable extracts that remove
and purify the system.
Jake this treatment for several
|lonths for best results.
Patient" writes: II want your
Zee advice. l seem to have gone all
p pieces. 1 am irritated and annoy
|d by dizzy moments. tickle appetite.
o strength and life has no pleasures
pr me any more"
Answer: There are thousands who
We too fast and then find themselves
Il your plight. The nervous vigor has
|een deranged. A tonic invigorating
ledicine called three grain cadomene
hblets will afford aid to Nature by
applying more food-energy and give
,hen calm nerves should take the
lace of shattered nerves.
''Laborer" asks: 81 am so affected
Fith painful kidneys that / cannot
FORK regularly. My sleep is disturbed
" frequent calls, only to void small
mounts and follows burning, smart
hg pains. Backaches and often have
mis- and fever. making me real sick
pr a day."
Answer: A good tonic, soothing and
|eutralizing medicine for such COM
Paints is balmworth tablets. TRY
|1em and continue a few weeks and
am sure you will write me of your
hcovery.
Daughter asks: "I suffer greatly
wing to too much fat. Can YOU adj
|ise me of good reduction remedy ?'
Answer: Any well stocked phar-
haey can supply you with 5 grain
|rbolone tablets. packed in sealed
|lbes with full directions for use.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
RED CROSS GETS KNITTED
ARTICLES FROM THE INSANE,

A large donation of supplies was
sent to the Harrisburg Chapter,
American Red Cross, yesterday, by
the State Hospital for the Insane.
Among the articles were ninety-sev-
en- pillows, 774 shotbags, siXty-seven
comfort kits, forty-seven sweaters
and six pairs of socks.
Members of the Catholic Ladies'
Auxiliary will meet in the Red Cross
rooms tomorrow, but they will be
closed in the evening.
All outside typist work being
done for the filing department should
be returned to headquarters as soon
as it is finished. This request has
been made by Mrs. G.. Lewis Brown,
chairman of the filing department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
ROBERT BURNS BANQUET

The usual arrangements are being
made for the annual anniversary
banquet of Robert Burns Lodge of
Masons at the Masonic Temple
Tuesday evening, April 2. The COM
mittee in charge of arrangements
includes the following: John NJ
Mumma, chairman; John Flickinger,
George A. Gorgas, r. Monroe Leon
ard, Francis C. Neely, William S.
Snyder, Charles p. Lusk, John c..
Deem, William Jennings. Charles c.
Schriver, Daniel L. Miller, Andrew
s. Patterson, John n. Kinnard, |.
Birkitt Dickinson and Charles w.
Mitchell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
Shope Selected For
Machine Gun Service

Paul +. Shope, of PerdiX, now in
Company C, Three Hundred and
Fourteenth Infantry, Camp Meade,
was one of the five men selected
from his company for special ma
chine gun training, according to a
letter received here by friends. Mr..
Shopeis a graduate of the Technical
High school. class of 1914. He was
called for service in Perry county.
James a. Shope, engineer in the
park department, is a brother.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
MEETING POSTPONED

Mrs. c. p. Turner. president of
the Shimmell Red Cross Auxiliary,
announced to-day that the weekly
meeting of the auxiliary will not
take place tomorrow afternoon
owing to the fact that it is Wash
ington's Birthday. The meeting will
take place next Friday afternoon as
usual.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
MAJOR sADLER ON TUsCANIA

Major Otis Sadler. of Baltimore,
was one of the survivors of the
Tuscania. He is n brother of Mrs.
John Halliday and Miss Florence
Sadler, who frequently visit Harris
burg. Major Sadler is a West Point
graduate and was recently pro-
moted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
HOLD PATRIOTIC MEETING

Following missionary meeting in
the First Baptist Church, Monday
night, a patriotic meeting was held.
Mrs. John Ray was costumed as the
Goddess of Liberty. Miss Amy Burd
sang, Keep the Home Fires Burn
ing" accompanied at the piano by
her sister, Miss Viola Burd. Mrs.
George Spencer poured chocolate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

pots for you then. But believe me,
it's hard now, turning all these peo-
pie away. Cheer up!" That's the
way the managers look at the situa-
tiorf.
So Harrisburgers, beware, and
conserve crockery as well as food
and fuel. Don't waste!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
TOBACCO IS
BADLY NEEDED
ON FRONT LINE
Americans in France Feel
Need of Smokes From
Home

Said the Plow to the Sword:
II must turn into you,
Till the Hun and his horde
For our mercy shall sue"
Said the Sword to the Plow:
IL must turn into you.
For the battles hang now
on what harvests may do"
So the Sword and the Plow
Are become as one blade.
That the tyrant may bow
And the Furrow be made
-McLandburgh Wilson.
The Hun must be put in furrow
and covered up, at least for a while.
Any talk of compromise is idiotic.
When a nation feels like the clergy
man who has written this in a re-
cent book, il is plain that this ma
tion must be smothered temporarily:
Anyone who cannot briHg him
self to approve from the bottom of
his heart the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. who cannot conquer his sense
of the monstrous cruelty to count
less perfectly innocent victims and
give himself up to joy at this VIC
tpi lbuS eNplOll OF herman ueIenSlNe
power-such an one we deem no true
German"
To set these misguided people
right will cost America many young
lives and the least that. the home
people can do is try and make our
soldiers happy. This is no time for
harping on the i'll effects of nico-
tine. According to the annual re-
port of the controller in Blair coun-
ty, there was expended during 1917
the sum of $3.50 for tobacco provid-
ed the inmates of the county home.
Those who have used the weed all
their life are not deprived of the
consolation the weed affords, and so
it is furnished them at the public
expense. The county officials are on
record as saying that "contentment
plays an important part in the cure
of hospital patients" The same
holds true with wounded soldiers.
on us they depend for this balm, and
no conscientious person need feel
anxious If he sends smokes to SOL
diers who are risking their lives to
keep this nation free.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

6ught against liquor, DuL MS VII
lower was too weak and he sank
|bwcr and lower until he lost his po-
/ |tion. His friends turned him down
|ne after another until he was left.
wreck and alone. Whiskey was the
|ause of II all. He was kicked around
i rom place to place, drunk practical
all the time. He had reached the
|oint where all he wanted or cared
pr was whiskey, a point where he
build not stop drinking of his own
|ccord.
Il former days wrote me telling of
be pitiful condition of my brother.
consulted a famous chemist who
ave me a secret formula and told
pc if l could arrange to put it in his
|offee, tea or food it would destroy
he appetite for alcohol. l took the
|rst steamer for New York and when
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
DON'T SUFFER
WITH NEURALGIA
Use Soothing Musterole

When those sharp pains go shooting
through your head, when your skull
seems as il it would split, just rub alittle
Musterole on your temples and neck.
It draws out the inflammation, soothes
awaythepain,usually givingquickrelief.
Musterole is clean, white ointment,
made with oil of mustard. Better than
a mustard plaster and does not blister
Many doctors and nurses frankly
recommend Musterole for sore throat,
bronchitis, Group. stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheuma-
tism, lumbago, pains and aches of the
back or joints, sprains, sore muscles.
bruises, chilblains, frosted feet-colds
of the chest (it often prevents pneu-
monia). 1t is always dependable.
20c and 60c jars; hospital size $3.50.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
Ind Publishes the Prescription
Which Released Her Brother
From the Clutches OF
the Demon Drink

New York. - For
fifteen y e a + 5 my
brother was a slave
to alcohol. Every
spare penny he got
his hands on was
spent over the bar.
lie earned a good
salary and for a
while disguised his
condition, but final
ly his employer be-
gan to notice and
find fault. Then he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

Inc questions answered below are
general in character, the symptoms or
diseases are given and the answers
will apply in any case of similar ma
ture.
may address DR.. Lewis Baker. College
Bldg, College, Elwood streets, Dayton
Ohio, enclosing self addressed stamp
ed envelope for reply. Full name and
tials or fictitious names will be used
in my answers. The prescriptions
can be filed at any well-stocked drug
store. ANY druggist can order OF
wholesaler.
These tablets have proven wonder
fully effective in reducing abnormal
fat.
Fern" writes: 81 have suffered
with bad cough for some time and
am also weak and tired most of the
time, which | think is due to the
severe coughing. Can you give me a
remedy"
Answer: Yes. your weakness is
be well relieved by using the follow
| ing: Get a 2la OF. package of es-
sence mentho-laXene and make ac-
cording to directions on the bottle
then take teaspoonful every hour
or two until the cough is cured. This
makes a fun pint of the very best
and safest cough syrup. If your
! druggist does not have mentho-laXene
! - htth oluSi IL iOl NOu Oh lne
Mrs. NJ asks: my scalp itches ter
! ribly. is feverish and a great amount
of oily dandruff is present. What j.
good for this?"
| Answer: First shampoo the hair
and then apply plain yellow minyol
about once a week as per directions
/ This relieves the itching, overcomes
! the dandruff and makes the hair
| beautifully glossy and vigorous OH
! tain in OF. Jars of druggists.
NOTE: For many years DR.. Baker
| has been giving free advice and pre-
| scripttons to millions of peopIe
through the press columns. and doubt :
| less has helped in relieving Illness and
distress more than any single indi-
Vidual in the worlds history. Thou
sands have written him expressions
OF gratitude and confidence similar to
the following:
DR.. Lewis Baker. Dear Sir: I feel
| it as duty to write you. -Four years
ago my husband had bad cough and
found no relief from all cough medi-
cines we could try. We finally tried
| the mentho-laNene prescription and
made 1t up as cough medicine and IN
quickly cured him. IT also gives me
great relief from asthma from which
| suffer in winter time, as YOU know
here in Oregon we have it so rainy
instead of snow. / send stamps and
coupon for your great Guide Book
Health and Beauty" Thanking Won
I am. Yours truly.
MRS. NJ. II. VAN WART
Lents. Oregon.
Williston graphic., 1918-12-19
men
N CASUALTY LIST
THREE SEVERELY
WOUNDED, AND FOUR ARE
REPORTED MISSING

The names of 81 North Dakota SOL
diers are contained in the two cas-
ualty lists announced today by the
department of war. :,
Of this number, one is reported
killed in action; three died of dis
ease; 22 severely wounded; eight
wounded, degree undetermined; Is
slightly wounded, and four missing
in action.
Private Sebastian Mischief, Dick
inson, is reported killed in action.
Privates Wilhelm Hanson, Plaza;
Harold Lyster, Marshall, and Eugene
v. Evans, Mott, are reported dead OF
disease. n
The following are repotred severe.
ly wounded: Sergeants George E.
Greenwood, Crystal, and Oliver
Hazard Perry, Minot, and Privates
William A. Hills, K. |. Wheatland;
John Cradle Bismarck; Hans }.
Nelson, Kenmare; Joseph M. Part
ridge, Wener; Marvin Elise Thomp-
son, Dawson; Elmer R. Floodstrom,
Fargo; Joseph Lafash, Portal; Fred
erick C. Mison. Neche; Daniel Pfahl,
CONTINUED on page 81
Williston graphic., 1918-12-19
THE NECESSITY Of
SAVING THE WHEAT
WHEN 1918 CROP WAS HARVEST
ED AMERICA HAD ONLY TEN
s4 DAYS SUPPLY .

New York, Dec. 18.-The necessity
of continued conservation of wheat
was emphasized today in a statement
by the federal food board which de-
tclared that despite restrictions i'm
posed last spring there was less than
ten days supply Of the product in
America when the 1913 crop was
harvested.
Cessation of submarine activities
and the signing of the armistice, the
board stated, released large quantities
of wheat with assurance of a good
crop in 1919, relieved somewhat the
necessity of building up large
American reserve, yet continued elm
ination Of waste was urged to assist
the food administration in keeping its
pledge to ship large quantities of
breadstuffs to hungry Europe.
The board asserted that the Amer
lean public by restricting the use of
wheat early in 1918 to the barest
necessities, enabled the government,
with a surplus of only $1,000
bushels, to distribute 141,OOO,OOO
bushels among the Allied nations.
Williston graphic., 1918-12-19
COMMUNITY COURSE
PltASES PEOPLE

The first Of the four numbers to ap-
pear on the Community Lecture
Course appeared at the Ofpheum
Theatre on Monday and Tuesday of
this week.. DR.. J. G. Duling we'll
known lecturer, delivered-a very
pleasing address on both days and
the Jubilee Singers made the pro-
grams well worth the price of ad-
mission. On Monday evening the
Jubilee Company was handicapped on
account of the illness of two of their
members but Tuesday evening the full
company appeared rendering music
of variety that pleased the at
tendance.
DR.. Duling is a resident of this
state, his home being at Dickinson
and he has had platform experience
which has covered the entire country.
His lecture on Tuesday evening en-
titled Making the Best Out of Life
carried with it message that was a
benefit to all his listeners. .....
The next number on the program
comes some time in January and it is
hoped that at this coming date more
people in the community will be able
to attend the entertainment.