Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 8

1 1 i'c I PAGE EIGHT WEDNESDAY THE PITTSTON GAZETTE DECEMBER 15, 1915 WHERE TR00P8 WOULD BE AND PROPOSED NUMBERS. Fowler Dru Goods O. TAME THE RIVERS, LANEJKSTS Secretary's Annual Report Made Interesting Document. WOULD UTILIZE ALL WATER The Boston Store For Your Suggestions that are desirable and practical gifts. Each year the idea, of giving useful gifts is growing.

Make it a point to see and share in these specials. Gift choosing is a pleasure among the multitude of articles in this well equip ped Jewelry Store. This is a Year for Silverware Not for many "years has there been such a demand for gift articles in. the line of silverware, and we are exceptionally well stocked for the demand The Nellie Custis Pattern is the very newest in flat silverware. It's a beauty and is the favorite this season.

We carry a complete line in sets or single pieces. Community Silverware Our stock of this popular pattern was never more complete. We invite your inspection. Ladies' Blouses The Newest Effects A shipment of new Waists or Blouses of Crepe de Chine and Taffeta in pastal shades also fancy lace waists that are silk lined. A useful gift that is appreciated.

Prices 1 $6.00 iff? XI flu, Newest Patterns in Honesdale Cut Glass. Sterling Silver Belt Buckles for Men, $3 up. Extra Fine Stock of French Ivory Articles. KIMONAS A gift of a Kimono is one of the most useful gilts to give. Why not look over our new line for the holidays 51.00 1 $6.00 MARABOU INSETS llrown.

black chin chin collar shawl effects and white and new DIAMOND JEWELRY An Attractive Display $2.00 to $300. Stylish Furs When you buy a fur set for service and appearance you want quality and style. This means care must be taken in selection. We have specially selected fur of coney, fox, lynx, raccoon and civit cat, skunk and opposum. Made in the latest style scarf and muffs.

$2.95 $35.00 Lewis Kuschel JEWELERS pnF HOSE Any hose worth qver 25c will be boxed for gifts. See our line of Silk Boot and All Silk Hose 25c $2.00 $7.00 to $15.00 8et Handkerchiefs Linen Handkerchiefs, in all linen initial.hoxed 3 in a box. Always acceptable for gifts. Prices 25c 1 Toyland BOOKS Hooks of the most recent fiction that the copyright has ran out. Rflt SI.

00 kind 311 APRONS Latlies' Aprons of white batiste sheer lawn and organdie, made fancy with lace and ribbon 25c to 95c BATH ROBES That are extra heavy weight, new patterns and styles for vour selection. i GLOVES It wouldn't be Christmas without gloves. Our line is exceptionally complete and give satisfaction. Prices 50c $2.00 Christmas Toys for the children in a large assortment. We have prepared for the rush.

Shop early. thi. epic of American history Willi its 5,000 scenes. 18.000 character, 3.000 cavalry, 20C.000 details the result of eiffht months of tireless lab or and the expenditure of half a million dollars. "The Birth of a Hon" is at the Grand Opera Wlikefbarre, all this week with per formances twice daily at and p.

ni. and seats are now selling all performances. You Want Uant io Pay Children's 50 Arm 1.00 and dents' House Prices. Ilandkcr ry Hands and fiulr per box fji I PERFECTION BEERl Under Secretary rison's plan for increase of the army, the troops would be distributed at the following places in this strength: Enlisted Officers. Men.

Panama canal. 172 Hawaiian islands 60S Philippine 44S Philippine islands 182 Porto Rico 33 Alaska IS 9,490 14,3:4 5.733 441 Total oversea garrisons 47,458 Philippine scouts. In continental United States there would be the following organizations, aggregating the following totals of officers and enlisted men: Unlisted Officers. 11 2 3 regiments of cavalry 697 28 2 3 regiments of infantry 7 regiments of field artillery nv. 308 170 companies of toast artillery CIO Engineer troops 1M Signal 76 Total at home, combatant 2,956 Mobile army, deducting coast 2,446 Men.

11,073 25,512 6,599 3,202 064 48,000 "WATCH YOUR SNEEZE!" IS CRY IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS "Use a Handkerchief." Children Told. "Careless Sneezes Spread Diseases." Twenty four cash prizes have been awarded to pupils in elementary schools for poster designs to be used by the bureau of public health and hygiene of the New York Association For liuprov ing the Condition of the Poor in lis your sneeze" campaign. There were 300 contestants for the prizes. With the slogan, "Sneezes spread dlseuses; coughs fill coffins; use a handkerchief," the health poster con test was initiated as an opening wedge in a novel educational cam palgn against the menace of unguard ed sneezing in the transmission of res piratory diseases. Delicate pastels, strong water col ors, charcoal, crayon, ink and pencil suggest the versatility of the youthful competitors, while in the drawings sur prising originality was shown.

It is in the lettering for the posters that the youthful ingenuity of the school children was most apparent. Typical captions to be read were "A Sneeze Behind (a handkerchief) Saves Nine." "Block That Sneeze! Interference Does it. Use a Handkerchief." "Smother Your Sneeze In a Handkerchief." "A J'areless Sneeze Will Spread Disease, Use a Handkerchief, if You Please." l'hilip S. l'latt. superintendent of the bureau, asserts that iu recent years sanitarians have come to place more and more importance upon unguarded sneezing and coughing as a serious factor iu the transmission of colds, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, tu berculosis and other respiratory dis eases.

This is particularly true, he states, iu any crowded city with its extreme congestion of transportation at certain hours, and it was very largely the health menace of close coa tact of this kind, with its attendant sneezing and coughing, that prompted the health department last winter to undertake the control of overcrowding on certain of the city's trausKrtation lines. If a handkerchief were placed in front of every sneeze in New York ity the spread of these diseases would siirnrislniilv reduced. The most ef feetlve posters in the contest will be used in the proposed campaign. 2,363,872 BOOKS IN LIBRARY. European War Has Slightly Affected Growth of Capital Institution.

The Library of Congress at the close of the fiscal year on June IW last had 2.3tE5,872 books on its shelves, according to the annual report of Herbert Putnam, the librarian. The library also owns 143,553 maps and charts, 727.808 volumes and pieces of music and 385,757 prints, besides many valuable pieces of corresiKUidence and many rare prints and documents. The Euroieuii war, the report says, has served to prevent the growth of the library to. some extent, but the addition of books nevertheless was almost as great as in former years. WED TO DEAD SOLDIER.

Government Will Recognize Ceremony and Grant Pension to Widow. The custom of marriage by proxy, which has come into vogue during the war, has placed a young Parisian woman in a curious situation. She was married by proxy on Nov. 17 to Sergeant Joseph Conduche. On Dec.

1 she was informed officially that Sergeant Conduche had been killed at Souchez on Sept. 28, several weeks before the marriage. Although the marriage is invalid hi' law, the authorities, taking account of Sergeant Conduchc's Intentions, will give a widow's pension to the bereaved woman. Hope For Hairless. Hr.

Hobert B. Clark of Monroe. Insanity expert, snys hairless domes indicate sanity. He said: "I have ex amined several hundred patients as to their sanity. I have had the opportunity of studying ninny hundreds of others, nud iu alt my experience I hnve yet, with slnplo exception, to see tin ine man who was bnldbendcd." FOR ItKNT Dwelllns $7, $8, $9, 110.50, $11.

$12, $12.67, $15, $14. Stores $180. $16. Armory Hnll by the day, month or year. Bakery $10.

I Barn, Shop. Fnctory. O. B. Thompson.

I The wise onee are learning that the Very Highest Grade of Engraved and Kmbossed Social Stationery can be ob 'talned at the Cassette Prlntery. in the Basement Stationery TOYS Asserts That Reclamation Service la Now Working on Problam Keeping Water Until If a Needed and Leading It Into Peaceful Patha of Usefulness Methods of Raising Funds. "Taming the is a subtitle in Secretary Lane's annual report. Secretary Lauo bos a way of making bis report something more than dry details, and be lias not failed to attract attention this year. When be speaks of "taming the rivers" be means to make use of the water of the country.

And he does not mean waters merely that are used for irrigation purposes, hut the floods of. the Mississippi and the rivers of the Atlantic slope. He would bave all the water of the country utilized when this can be accomplished. He wants the government to go into the business on a large scale. At one point in bis report, speaking of wasted water here it could be useful, he says: "We need to catch that water when it is young, soon after it bas been born from the snows.

There, in mountain valleys, it should be kept for a time and, as needed, led into the peaceful paths of usefulness. And on that problem the reclamation service is working. The difficulty is to find large reservoir areas." How to Raise the Money. Like President Wilson, be does not propose to spend large sums of money without suggesting a method of raising it. Me means (lint the country ought to issue bonds and make future generations pay the cost of building these great works.

Secretary Lane says: "How those great works can be carried on calls for constructive thought not merely on the engineering side, but more immediately upon the financial side, as to those ways and means by which the lands reclaimed shnll be made to bear in some degree the burden of the expense. As to the funds which will be needed, they mount into such figure as to be staggering. And I can see no hope that this work will be adequately undertaken without the government advancing its credit and investing directly some of its own funds. We are conducting this government from day to day out of current revenues. Only the richest of people could pursue such a policy.

N'o private enterprise at tempts it. Xo railroad system bas been built that way. But few of the states now construct their highway systems out of the year's revenues. The permanent Improvements "which the whole people undertake are a legitimate charge against capital account, not against maintenance. A commission to devise the ways and means by which the states and private landowners and the national government can co operate in paying for the work done seems to me a more needed body than one which will report upon engineering methods." WOMEN IN A WAR PRISON.

Wivee of Two German Officer Refused to Leave Them. I There is one war prison in France which has women and children among the lighting men who constitute the majority of its inmates. It is the German officers' prison at Le Puy, in the province of Velay a sequestrated Human Catholic orphan asylum which bas been converted to the uses of war. A correspondent of the Journal de Geneve, who visited it recently, tells the story which explains their presence. The two women are the wives of German officers who surrendered to a British force iu Togoland, German Western Africa, with the stipulation that they should not be separated.

The two couples were at first interned in Africa, but later they were removed to France, and it was proposed to send the women to Germany. The wives, however, insisted that thair captors should faithfully observe the terms of the surrender and refused to leave their husbands. The French government has accordingly installed the two women, with their two children both boys, born last July, the eleventh month of their parents' captivity in a cottage on the prison grounds, where the two officers nre allowed to spend two hours a day with their families. MORE BOYS BORN IN WAR. Belief May Be Untcientifio, but Statistics Provide Proof.

Despite the argument that there is no basis in science for the belief that more boy babies than girls are bom in war time, the statistics of thirty six large towns in England and Wales break all records iu that country for boy babies. From January lo March for every 1,000 girl baliles there were thirty two more boys. For April and June there were forty three and for July and September fifty five more. The marriage rnte for England and Wales In the last three months was the highest ever recorded, being 21.8 In every 1.000 population. Best located lots in West rittston.

tin V.nnv Terms, $450 up. Several very fine residential properties for sale at ctrAme'y attractive prices. For Bent Apartments, all modern, IU, $tfl, $1. Dwellings $10 and a. n.

nnowN son, Room 5, Brown In Brewed with great skill, from the best barley and hops procurable, it is rich and mellow, a beverage of unmistakable high HOWELL KING CO. Pittston, Pa. Both Phones. II Writing Paper in Boxes, made up especially Rf)c ior a mas guts box Git WD OPKRA HorSF. "The Uiith Of A Nation" The new theatric art invented by David W.

Griffith in producing "Tne Birth of a Nation" has enabled him to surpass by far any previous stago spectacle. "Ben Hur" and "The Bbie Birtl" were supposed to be the high water mark of such productions. They sink into insignifcance besides The Goods at Prices You Ladies, dents' and chiefs in Xmas P.oxes 10c 25c an1 Suspenders, darters, WD? 1 George BUSS' 7 Tailoring) Establishment I is now located at the I Corner of North Main and Neckties in Xmas ISoxes 25c, 50c $1.00 Ladies' and dents' Hosier in Xmas OUCH! LAME BACK RUB LUMBAGO OR BACKACHE AWAY Hub I'ain Right Out ith Small Trial Mottle of Old. rciicriatliig 'St. Jacob's Oil." Kidneys cause Backache? Xo! They no nerves, therefore can not cause pain.

Iisten! Your back ache is caused by lumbago, sciatica or a strain, and the quickest relief is soothing, penetrating "St. Jacob's OU." Itub it riifht on your painful back, and instantly the soreness. stiffness and lameness Don't stay crippled' Cot a small tri cf "St. Jaccb's Oil" from your druggist and limber up. A moment after it is applied you'll wonder what became of the backache or lumbago pain.

Huh honest "St. Jacob's Oil" wh never you have sciatica, neural gia, rheumatism or sprains, as it is absolutely harmless and doesn't burn he Rktn. Liberty Clothing Co. Special For Holidays Mens' and Boys' Clothing Furniohinco, and Shoco Liberty Clothing Co. 10 S.

Main St. Piltston. Pa. sb I JAM 1. lie loxcs.

2 pair in a 50c Fine Line of Ladies' Mtppcrs at Reasonable hox Lz.ja3m vee atw ALUMINUM WARE Salt and Pepper Sets, Napkin Kinirs. Tea Villian Streets SECOND FLOOR, FRONT II ENTRANCE ON WILLIAM ST. The 'Professor Says; II If "Dont let anY man tell you that there $1 (j is any better BEER than Jarie1 (Jl' It is popular with everybody, every I where." UH I .1 Both phones. jfl and C'ofi'ie Strainer 25c pcr sct Strong Line of Ladies', and Chil ren dloves at 25c 50c Children's Pelt and Rubber Hoots, Hovs' and dirls' High Cut Shoes. Call and Look Over Our Line of Xmas Specialties.

EVANS BROS. South Main Street. i 11111 i ftn ori I LOU JsZT ii I.