. ===3teUinillliMr- ■ I I 1 'llltiL 1 Facts' Versus, | ''Fallacies 1 (TACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar- j j ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument, J - ' IN the course of an excellent article on the influence of alcoholic beverages on the human brain the Rochester Herald says: iIH ** jOTAL abstinence propagandists have placarded various I 1 American cities with notices to the effect that 'science says* that even moderate indulgence in alcohol retards thinking for . . J x hours, and they sloganize their placards with 'safety first/ *"? * ' our total abstinence friends are committing an act of .4 x intellectual dishonesty when they put out these placards, trl/sT MJLJ illi' because science does not say what they assert that it says. Of I'-nrih yf' course, certain men of science do, and if they were content to put f| JLt' 33£f< /j the matter thus, there would be no complaint to make, but in their • —fT ; -jjg desire to be impressive these total abstinence advocates declare 'f' jj I U that 'science says' so, although there is no consensus among men Jj of science in regard to what the effect of alcohol upon *he human V Q §§ —mind and body is, and until there is such a consensus it will be f4J >—s. advisable for people who respect intellectual honesty to be more ogl (Z, V modest in their assertions. /r —— p^i \ Moderate Drinkers kesrs every day that even moderate drinking shortens j3 ji T . * ' _ r . v human life, but there are men of science who believe tha fl ( I Live Longer 1 nan cx2ct contrary to be true. One of them wrote a book only a few' K l! T f 1* A L k ' ' years ago to prove that while the total abstainers lived longer, on I j j IOIAI ADStdIRGrS the average, than the immoderate drinker, the moderate drinker, If I " i' cn the average, lioed longer than the total abstainer, I . "THE overwhelming number of scientists whom we have • known have been moderate drinkers, and we have heard 11 cora e cf their discourses after they had been drinking; and if it be || v true that their drinking did retard their thinking while discoursing, || r ."•p doubtless a blessed thing, for otherwise we might not have || been able to t~I:e in all that they had to say. It is a fact well known to all but total abstainers that some pcrcor.s seen to be able to do , better work after moderate indulgence in alrchol than without II such indulgence. Addison lias come down to r~. in history as the ™ 'l II finest conversationalist of his time, bu'; it b jcrl'J that without the Thp MftfJprAfi* 11 gentle stimulus of v/ine he was quite unable to speak interestingly. j IUUCicHt, -, |1 And one need have no hesitation in saying that if all the intellect- DHnkpr AHffc & II * ual products of the world's totsl abstainers ccuM be put into one ' A 9 " II scale, and all the products of the world's drinking men could be Most To Thft * I put into the other, we should be amazed at the of the j -.. r ~7 T II total abstainers'product." ~ Worlds KnOVdcdgC 17 ROM the above article it JS once more clearly shown that it is ja 1 a FALLACY to say that the moderate indulgence in alco- | holic stimulants is a deterrant to intellectual endeavor. And the ' J ' y '" [j best proof of this FALLACY is the FACT that many of the 1 :i world's greatest thinkers have been temperate users of alcoholic □ La 2 Pennsylvania State Brewers 9 Association fel 5 J PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From Afl Sec tions of the State. CULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kindt Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. The price of ice in York has ad vanced fifty per cent. Twelve blue law violators were fined $125 by Altoona's mayor. Swimming will no longer be permit ted in the canal at Spring City. A band of gypsies in two automo biles was driven out of Bernville. Lewistown council will increase li cense fees on public service corpora tions $2O. Court at Somerset has granted an injunction against striking miners %t Hoovers ville. Three thousand dollars is the sum raised for soldiers' dependents in Blair county. Thieves who .broke .op -ft fiX Motor-Wheels still going fast—Also real bargains in the Used Motorcycles. 3 TWIN INDIANS, $4O, $9O, $ll5 1,2-SPEED EXCELSIOR, 'l5, $125 1,2-SPEED INDIAN, $l5O I HARLEY DAVIDSON, $45 These Prices for TEN DAYS INDIANA CYCLE COMPANY Indiana, Peim'a. Thomas Kemmefry's residence, Tam< qua, stole $3BO. Tripped by a loose board, Miss Ha zel Jenkins, aged sixteen, Lewistown fractured her left arm. Spring City proposes to submit to voters a proposed $20,00 l9an foi street improvements. The state highway department has put a coating of tar and crushed stones on the Eagleville pike. Falling under a moving automobile truck, near Waterford, William Fletch er, aged forty, was killed. Getting beyond his depth, Harry Zimmerman, aged thirty, was drowned in the Susquehanna, at Milton. Reading has taken up the problem of motoring every fire company, so as to save $7OOO a year on horses. John Matti, of Kelayres, a miner in the Green Mountain colliery, was caught under a fall of rock and killed. Drinking lye from a can, four-year old Lester Beers, of Bailey, was saved by the timely appearance of his pa rents. Rev. Charles F. Raach has resigned as pastor of the Mechanicsburg church of God, to take up evangelistic work. Hazleton has put up a recruiting tent and the Liberty Band plays to draw recruits for Battery A, state guard. Pottstown council has turned down petitions to use wooden blocks instead of bricks for street paving in certain streets. The Lehigh C. & N. Co. will con struct a road along Panther Creek be tween Nesquehoning and the big dam at Hauto. General orders issued from the ad jutant general office announce that there will be no state rifle matches this year. As a result of injuries received at Shenandoah City colliery, Bernard Olovick, a former well-known athlete, has died. Directors of Norristown Young Men's Christian Association are visiting cities and towns to get an idea for a new building. The Jeanesville Iron works has em ployed two girls, trained nurses, to look after the Injured among its 800 shrapnel makers. David Gaston died at the Coaldale hospital from a broken back sustained by falling from a hay wagon in West Penn township. Injuries due to a fall from a ladder, July 27, caused the death of William Seitzinger, thirty-three years old, a Frackville painter. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Pye, of New Cumberland, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with an informal reception. The Gary Silk company, Paterson, N. J., has leased a large factory build ing at Columbia and will open a plant there September 1. Dr. H. E. Ruffner, a dentist of In diana, Pa., was killed near Blairsville, when his automobile skidded over a steep embankment. While trying to board an auto 'bus St Mahanoy City, Charles Igo, eight, fell under the rear wheels and was crushed in the chest. Seized with cramps, Wilmer House bolder, York, aged thirty-five, was drowned in the mill race of the York Haven Paper company. Fire of the eighty-five Mexicar.s brought feo Readins -to 4vork on the Reading raiway failed to pass the physical examination. • Montgomery county's available mili tary enrollment is 22,779, a little more than half being borough residents, and 800 fewer than last year. Stepping in front of a binder, Clara, eleven-year-old daughter of John Hand work, Ridgewood, may have to have a mangled foot amputated. Policeman Potmeyer, who killed Starr after she had barricaded her home and fired on Pittsburgh pedes trians, has been exonerated. Former teachers and students from nearly every city in the state attended a reunion of the Chester Springs Sol diers' Orphans' association. The general shortage of labor in the anthracite region, and the small sup ply of coal on hand, will make it diffii cult to supply the market next winter. Corn, which was away behind time throughout the Lehigh valley, is com ing along very nicely, and farmers think the usual yield will be harvested. W. H. Taylor & Co., Allen town, feave a contract from the South Reth.l»hem school board to erect a plant in connection with the new $235,000 high school. Falling sixteen foot from a porch rail, John Von Ovich, fifty-three years old, of Farrell, near Sharon, suffered a broken neck and died within a few minutes. A company of Sons of Veterans Re serves, to become a part of the Second Regiment of Infantry, under Colonel S. S. Horn, Easton, is being organized at Lehigh ton. * Neither of the three Montgomery county commissioners will attend the annual convention of commissioners of the state at Meadville, because of press of business. A large number of young men and women in Allentown are out $lO each, which they paid to a fakir, who prom ised to develop them into movie actors like Charlie Chaplin. The Dick Construction company started the building of railroads at Beaver Brook, where they will strip large veins of anthracite coal for the C. M. Dobson Coal company. Recent rains and consequent high water in the Lehigh river deposited so much debris in the Lehigh canal that it may not be possible to run canal boats again this summer. On summer's hottest day a young woman, fur-clad, stood waiting for a Collegeville car in Norristown, and on inquiring of a passerby, was told: "Oh, you want the car to the asylum." Examinations will be held Septem ber 1 to fill fourteen vacancies in the state police. Seven of these were caused by reserve men of the United States army called to the colors. Within an hour after reaching his seventy-seventh birthday, Henry K. Smith, prominent citizen, merchant and fifteen years secretary oif the Mahanoy City board of education, died. Groundhog hunters from the Hazle ton region who go to the Neseopeck mountain every week, report that rat tlesnakes are more numerous t>ils year than at any time before in their ceeo lection. Dr. S. S. Seilew, sixty years old. of Oil City, was drowned at Henry's Bend He was diving aloce. and It k baXev ed he was stricken, witfi haait troabto. H_a was. taken frcan fhe ntt to tre minutes. ■• *■* - Passengers on a Lehigh Traction company car were panic stricken when the wheels set off a. dynamite cap c.i j the tracks near Tresckow, where the trolley station caved into the mines last week. In a motorcycle-bicycle collision near Carlisle, Lafevre Mentzer, age! eleven, suffered a fractured leg; Alber; Harlev, aged sixteen, a broken collar bone, and Usker Sharpe, aged four teen, sprains. of storage at tidewater points for munitions since the Black Tem Island" explosion has resulted in a portion of the Bethlehem Steel com pany's Redington fuse plant being closed down. The Mauch Chunk Rod and Gun club awarded Walter E. Boettscher and Bert Kneal $5 prizes for catching the largest native brook trout in Carbon county streams, the former landing one measuring 10% inches. Supreme Court Justice Brown, r t Lancaster, refused to seat School Di rectors Frank Donahue and Edward McCoy, ousted by Judge Brumm, be cause of fraudulent practices at Lost Creek poll, Schuylkill county. Under the will of the late Mrs. Jo seph Bosler, Carlisle, her estate o' about $900,000 is divided in equa. parts among her six surviving chil dren, including Mrs. C. T. Ashcra-'t and Newton L. Bosler, of Philadelphia. John T. Parks, seventy-two year* old, a farmer, of Marion Center, four teen miles north of Indiana, was killed by electricity in his barn. His hand came in contact with a live wire when he attempted to switch on lights in the barn. South Bethlehem's efforts to estab lish a police pension fund were further blasted when council recommended i that the fund, which now ammounts to $2593.19, be returned to subscribers, as j the police balked on paying a propcr i tion toward it. Monroe Smith, twelve, was shot by a revolver he was playing with at Summit Hill; a four-vear-old pon of Moses Frantz shot himself in the leg, and Lorenz Arner, fourteen, had a nar row escape from shooting himself and friends with the rifle. Descendants of James and Jane Weakley held their reunion at Mount Holly Park and elected Charles S. Weakley, of Harrisburg, president; Frank Weakley, Carlisle, secretary and historian, and J. Kink Weakley, Boiling Springs, treasurer. When Harry M. Fromlont, eighteen years old, ropped from $5O to $5 in trying to sell a horse to Joseph Good man, of Mount Clare, an investigation revealed that the animal had been stolen from Miss Eliza Murray, at Parkerford, and Fromont was sent to Norristown jail. Labor unions of the Beaver valley are planning to hold a parade and cele bration at Junction park, New Bright on, on Labor day, September 4. Allied unions of the Beaver valley will par ticipate in the movement. A band concert, athletic events and dancing will be features. B. F. Kross and Daniel McKenna are on the committee of arrangements. Two car loads of oxide iron ore are being shipped out of Halls Run, Ve nango county, daily, following the find ing of a vein of the ore there by D M. Farran and H. D. Beiry. The vein now in operation produces yellow ochre and Venetian red ores, and con tains a large percentage of body far mineral paint. The vein is six to eight feet thick, ANCIENT COMMUNITY HOUSE. R«t ic Discovered Near Santa Fe Said to Be 1,000 Years Old. • Fe, N. M.—The discovery of a hitherto unknown community house, estimated to be a thousand years old, at Otowi, the prehistoric settlement thirty miles west of Santa Fe, was an nounced recently by Mrs. L. I. Wilson of Philadelphia, in charge of an ar chaeological expedition of the Phila delphia Commercial museum. Pottery of an unknown design and an immense sacrificial altar are among the relics found in the newly unearth ed ruins. I # GETS FIRST CHICAGO PENSION.. John Agnew, Eighty-five, Had Been City Employee Since 1852. Chicago.—John Agnew, eighty-five years old, who until July 1 this year had been a city employee since 1852, received a check decently which was the first payment by the municipal pension board under the pension act passed five years ago. The presentation was made by May or Thompson. Mr. Agnew's sixty-four years of municipal service began with membership in the volunteer fire de partment. Yarmouth's Naval History. Yarmouth has never been a naval base, but played a strange part in a sort of civil war with the barons of the Cinque ports during the middle ages. The barons attempted to annex the great herring metropolis, but Yar mouth, with characteristic independ ence, fiercely and continuously resisted their control by force of arms. A des perate sea fight took place off the har bor between a Yarmouth squadron and a fleet from the Cinque ports, in which twenty-five ships were sunk and thir tv-seven damaged.—London Mail- Stops Before Thirty. Bacon—They say a man is generally heaviest in his forty-fifth year. I won der if that rule applies to women? Eg bert —Oh, well, a woman never gets quite as heavy as that! Yonkers States n«i i Other Things Immaterial, bat xßizmt a man do, doctor, to at fcda a rip* old aceT ' i Huge Austi.iQ guns wbicii weie used against the advancing Italian foiceff. ENVY KING'S SON. n * to n V •: Italian Boys Would Like to Visit Front Like Prince. # IS LOVED BY THE SOLDIERS. Heir Apparent to Italian Throne Hae Had Gome Remarkable Adventures. Hae Ridden In Aeroplanes and Sub marines and Shot Wild Boars. Rome.—The most envied boy in all Italy is Humbert Nicholas Thomas Jean Marie —envied not because be is beir apparent to tho Italian throne, but because he Is the youngest boy who has been officially permitted to see the Italian front. This only eon of King Victor Em manuel Is but twelve years old and has had some remarkable adventures. He Is head of the young explorers of Italy, a body that corresponds to the boy scouts in America, and he has done a lot of things that any boy would like to do. He has gone up in flp£-v' » WHHI Photo by American Press Association. CBOWN PBINCE HUMBERT. aeroplnjieg. submarines. efeeTetT warships," sailed boatsTshofTat wild boars and ridden cavalry horses. But the things he is proudest of are his visits to the front, for he has been there not once, but many times. Hi# first visit was a matter of considerable family discussion. In the royal family of Italy all such matters are talked over in the same fashion that they would be in any large American fam ily. At the front young Humbert dis played the same fearlessness that has characterized his father during his stay there. He went practically everywhere r fell in love with the soldiers, was pet ted by them in return and. all in all, had a fine time. Brought up in the tolerant manner ofr his father, Humbert is all boy, through and through, and is not averse to some of the mischief that characterises the American boy. OLD WOMAN MAKES HAY. Although Eighty-four Years Old, BHe Can Mow and Has a Fine Garden. Cookeville. Tenn.—Mrs. Nellie France, aged eighty-four, who lives near Beavdr Hill, mowed hay recently. "Aunt Nel lie" enjoys remarkably good health. She has a splendid garden which she has made herself, doing all of the hoeing. # While her hay was being mowed she went to the hayfleld and asked per mission to drive the mower, which wu being pulled by two large mules. Her request being granted, she made sev eral rounds in the large hay field. She did the work with steady nerve and Insisted upon driving longer, but the overseer, fearing that she would over exert herself, prevailed upon her not to do so. The day following, however, she donned her sunbonnet and went back to the hayfleld and raked all day. She frequently rides horseback from her home to Monterey, a distance of eight miles. A Probable Contingency. "What do you think woold have hap pened if the ancient Romans * known anything about baseball?" "Why, they would have had lots of fun killing the umpires." Baltimore American. Iron. The only metal that is found ii» more than one color is Iron, which appears in almost every shade. == HARTSOCK'S == Un'Arrivederci alle scarpe diStagione Agosto 12,14,15 r E* uso di questo magazzino di pulire la casa due volte ogni anno e conoscere lo scoffale di ogni paio di scarpe secondo la stagione vendendole a prezzi di sgombero. Per soli tre giorni qualsiasi paia di scaipe basse di tela bianca, le vendia mo meta prezzo. Hartsock's Shoe Store 668 Philadelphia St. Indiana, Pa.
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