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Belletonte, Pa., May 18, 1917.
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“Of course not.
ing.”
‘She stirred restlessly.
“What time is it?”
“Half-past six.”
“I must get up and go on duty.”
He was glad to be stern with her.
‘He forbade her rising. When the
nurse came in with the belated ammo-
nia, she found K. making an arbitrary
ruling, and Sidney looking up at him
mutinously.
“Miss Page is not to go on duty to:
day. She is to stay in bed unti. fur
ther orders.”
“Very well, Doctor Edwardes.”
The confusion in Sidney’s min¢
cleared away suddenly. K. was Doc
tor Edwardes! It was K. who had per
formed the miracle operation—K. whe
had dared and perhaps won! Deal
K., with his steady eyes and his long
surgeon’s fingers! Then, because she
seemed to see ahead as well as back
into the past in that flash that comes
to the drowning and to those recover
ing from shock, and because she knew
that now the little house would nc
longer be home to K., she turned he:
face into her pillow and cried. Her
world had fallen indeed. Her lover
was not.true, and might be dying; her
friend would go away to his own
world, which was not the Street.
K. left her at last and went back to
seventeen, where Doctor Ed still sat
by the bed. Inaction was telling on
him. If Max would only open his eyes,
80 he could tell him what had been in
hig mind all these years—his pride in
him. and all that.
«With a sort of belated desire to
make up for where he had failed, he
put the bag that had been Max’s bete
noire on the bedside table, and began
to clear it of rubbish—odd bits of
dirty cotton, the tubing from a long-
defunct stethoscope, glass from a bro-
ken bottle, a scrap of paper on which
was a memorandum, in his illegible
writing, to send Max a check for his
graduating suit. When K. came in,
he had the old dog collar in his hand.
“Belonged to an old collie of ours,”
he said heavily. “Milkman ran over
him and killed him. Max chased the
wagon and licked the driver with his
own whip.” :
His face worked.
“Poor old Bobby Burns!” he said.
“We'd raised him from a pup. Got
him in a grape basket.”
The sick man opened his eyes.
Please stop think-
(Continued next week.)
——Over one month of the trout
fishing season has passed away and
so far there has not been one real
good day for fishing. The weather
" has either been too cold or rainy or it
was too windy to fish with any expec-
tation of success, and the result is
that the number of trout taken from
all the streams in Centre county this
year is considerably smaller than in
former years. One redeeming feature,
however, is that wheii the weather
does become favorable the streams
will not have been fished to death and
fishermen will have more chance of
making a good catch.
ALCOHOL AND CRIME.
CADELIA ALEXANDER.
Alcohol is the Devil in liquid form.
It ruins not only the body but also the
character. Millions of men who are
honest when sober have been known to
steal and even murder while under the
influence of liquor. Alcohol weakens
the will power until a man under its
influence does not know right from
wrong and in nearly all cases he does
the wrong.
Inquiry concerning thirteen hun-
dred different convicts in our state
prisons and reformatories a few years
ago led to the discovery that alcoholic
drink caused a large portion of these
criminals to be guilty of the crime.
In some counties of certain States
where the law does not allow the sale
of liquor the jail is empty most.of the
time. Why? Because the men can
not get alcohol to drink and do not
make brutes of themselves.
The liquor men try to make all and
do succeed in making over half of the
taxpayers believe that they would
have more tax to pay if there was no
liquor sold. This is not true because
all the revenue received from the sale
of liquor all over Pennsylvania would
not pay for half the building and
keeping up of the great jails, peniten-
tiaries and reformatories that have to
be built because these men commit
such crimes while under the influence
of liquor.
When a case comes up in court and
the county has to pay the costs it is
not the eriminal nor the liquor men
that have to pay for it but it is the
taxpayer. This goes to show that
when there is no alcohol there is not
so much tax. Wouldn’t it be better if
the money spent to keep up these
jails, prisons and reformatories was
spent to make better schools. Nobody
wants to hire a criminal after he has
served his sentence because not any-
body would trust him unless it would
be his own people. So the people who
are dependent upon him for a living
have to be kept and the tax payer has
to pay for this too,
A recent report of Massachusetts
shows that ninety-six per cent. of
those in the jails, prisons and refor-
matories of that State were addicted
to the use of alcohol. This would cost
the people an immense sum of money
because they would not only have to
pay for the keeping of the men who
had committed the crime but also have
to pay for keeping those who were de-
pending on these men for a living. It
is nearly always the man who can not
afford to spend his money for drink
that does it.
Georgia convict camps are being
consolidated says a special from At-
lanta. Consolidation is not due to any
new scheme of efficiency but to the
fact that labor is becoming scarce.
Labor is becoming scarce because con-
victs are becoming scarcer and con-
victs are becoming scarcer because
Georgia has drawn the line tight-
er each year in the enforcement
of the State prohibition law. Sixty
deputy wardens have been laid off
through the decrease in the number
of convict camps.
This is rather blunt testimony to
the relationship between alcohol and
crime. They diminish together.
Liquor men plead that prohibition
throws men out of work. Apparently
it does in Georgia. Scores of convicts
who might be laboring in stripes are
working as free mén and sixty men
who might be watching them are look-
ing for other positions.
Since they have prohibition in Ore-
gon the decrease is apparent in all
lines of crime but particularly in
crimes involving drunkenness. The
man who gets drunk and stabs his
friend in a saloon brawl figures no
more in county jail records. Non-
support cases have fallen off and the
money that used to go for alcohol is
used in the home. Vagrants are rare
in the county jail. A case of drunk-
CASTORIA.
CASTORIA.
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» and has been made under his per-
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY,
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enness is infrequent and highway rob- | Items of Interest About Our Forests.
bery is a crime unknown there. This
goes to show that crime and alcohol
go away together.
Since Russia has banished liquor
she has lost an annual revenue of! ber from fifteen acres of forest.
many million dollars but she has gain-
ed a larger revenue through the mor-
ality and efficiency of her people.
Russia’s drunkards and criminals
are being replaced by sober, efficient |
workmen, happy homes and by well
clad and well fed women and children
whose universal cry is “Don’t reopen
the liquor shops.”
Records of the first month under the
dry regime in Virginia show that com-
mitments to the county and city jails
fell off one thousand, five hundred fif-
ty-four during November from the to-
tal of three thousand, one hundred
thirty-four for the previous wet
month of October.
Not in seventeen years were there
as few prisoners in the Lynchburg
jail as on December twentieth. Two
white men, two negro men and two
negro women constituted the number.
and one of them was being held for
wife murder committed last spring.
In prohibiting the sale of intoxi-
cants in Virginia, the State has taken
one step toward saving the one thous-
and five hundred fifty-four people
who might otherwise not be in jail.
Prohibition seems to have accomplish-
ed what his own will power could not
It has thus far
been a substitute for inhibition. But,
if in October there were one thousand,
five hundred fifty-four diseased per-
sons who craved alcohol and who
when they could get it easily became
lawless under its influence then if in-
terstate shipments of intoxicants be-
comes more frequent, many of this
number are apt to become subjected
to temptation again, and there will be
a corresponding increase in jail popu-
do for the individual.
lation.
The startling effects of prohibition
in Moorhead, Minnesota, were acute-
ly felt on a recent occasion, when for
the first time in twenty years there
was not a prisoner in the county jail.
This ought to be enough evidence to
convince us that alcohol and crime go
away together and that we should
have nation wide prohibition.
—It is estimated that the 1916 po-
tato crop in the United States was
74,284,000 bushels short of the 1915
crop. Germany’s crop was 1,212,530,-
000 bushels short and Great Britain’s
almost 80,000,000 bushels short. The
crop in France was about 15,000,000
short.
—Statistics show that about $4,-
000,000,000 worth of firewood is used
annually on the farms of the State, but
Pennsylvania ranks as one of the
small consumers in the total of $225,-
426,000 worth of firewood used on the
farms of the United States.
——Students from 17 other States
are taking advantage of the school fa-
The enrollment at
the State manual training Normal
now shows 175 students enrolled from
cilities of Kansas.
the other States.
.pers going indefinitely.
“put on the things.”
A single issue of a New York Sun-
day paper is said to consume the tim-
| Pennsylvania’s state forests were ful-
ly stocked, they could furnish eiough
pulp wood to keep forty Sunday pa-
Forest fires in the United States
ssn.
have caused an annual average loss of
seventy human lives and twenty-five
to fifty million dollars worth of tim- |
ber. The indirect losses run close to’
half a billion dollars a year.
If the 25,000,000 trees planted on the
Pennsylvania state forests were set
four feet apart, as they actually are
in the woods, and planted in a straight
line, they would cover almost 19,000
WEDNESDAY
IGHT in the midst of everything—a sudden thought:
“Wonder how the fire is?” Then, it's leave your
sweeping, run downstairs, rake and shake, shovel coal and I
trudge back again. Wouldn't it be fine to go right ahead and _
forget about the kitchen? It certainly would! And you can.
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miles. Planted twenty feet apart,
they would provide shade trees on
both sides of 40,000 miles of highway.
The latest advice is not to char the
ends of fence posts before setting
them in the ground. The charcoal is
said to hold water and thereby hasten
rotting of the post.
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Dry Goods.
Dry Goods.
LYON @ COMPANY.
Owing to the continued cold weather
we are compelled to make greater
reductions on all
SUMMER SUITS AND COATS
LOT 1.—Black and White Checked Coat Suits, all this season’s
style, that sold at $15 and $18, now go for $10 and $12.50.
LOL 2.—Navy Blue and Black Suits, all this season’s styles,
that sold from $18 to $25, now go for
$12.50 to $15.
LOT 3.—Better qualities, including Silk and Jersey Cloth, Serg-
es, Poplin, Poiret Twill, Wool Velours, in Rose, Emerald,
Navy Black, Gold and Purple, that sold at $25.00 to $35.00,
now go at
.. . $20.00 and $23.00.
COATS for Ladies’, Misses, and Children, all this season’s
styles.
Must be sold at the same reductions. Formerly sold
at $8.00 to $35.00, now go from
$5.00 $28.50.
RUGS!
RUGS!
Our Rug Department is again replenished. We have just re-
ceived a big lot of Rugs in Rag, Jap, Velvet, Body Brussels and
Axminsters, at prices that were contracted for before the advance.
Tapestry, Draperies and Curtains.
A big line of Tapestry in Cotton, Linen and Wool, 36 to 50
inches wide, in all the new colorings.
Draperies, Curtains and
Portieres to match any color.
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SHOES!
SHOES !!
~ Do not forget that we can save you big money on Shoes for
Men, Women and Children.
We have them in all colors; black,
tan and white,
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You Can’t Get
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yyirHout style, all good value
counts for naught.
Realize this—
High-Art Clothes
are designed by a master in
his profession—tailored to
the thousands, his responsibility exceeds that of any
custom tailor and the laurels are his.
The new models this spring will please the most fasti-
dious—they will suit many who never thoughta ready-
to-wear suit could carry with it such distinction.
Come now—see these garments and appreciate what
style, supplementing value, fit and wearing quality can
do for ready-made clothes.
time invested.
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Allegheny St. s« BELLEFONTE, PA.