PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
, Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
Burglars raided five Williamsport
homes, and got cash and jewelry.
O. P. Leibenspergei; has purchased
the Washington hotel, in Bethlehem,
for $16,000.
Mrs. W. W. Stout, sixty-five, of
West Berwick, was fatally burned at
a rubbish fire.
Real estate men from afll over the
state met at the capital to form a state
real estate board.
An association to regulate the price
of milk was effected by 200 farmers in
a meeting at Carlisle.
Mifflin county farmers want twenty
five cents each for pumpkins worth
five cents a year ago.
The state has sued Blossburg and
Ridgway for $12,222 and $6995, the*
shares in road-building.
Using gasoline to hasten a fire, Mrs.
Oolbel, twenty-six years old, of Sharon,
was probtbly fatally burned.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Major B. M. Hale. Carlisle,
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Augustus Dill was drowDed, Ralph
Zlegler reseued, after a skiff's upset
la the river, opposite Duncanncn.
Dickinson Law school has bought
a site for the new buildings near the
Carlisle High school, paying $6250.
The scattering of tacks along the
highway at Jeddo proved disastrous
for autoists out for pleasure rides.
Kennett Square asks a $34 hundred
trip ticket to Philadelphia and a rate
of 1.6 cents a mile on family tickets.
The official ballots and lists of can
didates weire certified to the com
missioners of each county in the state.
Seven-year-old Vanda Clay was ter
ribly scalded by hot water poured cut
of an upstairs window at Hazleton.
The large barn on the estate of Mrs.
Richard Coulter, north of Greensburg,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
$lO,OOO/ ' * v
Agents of the soft coal companies
of West Virginia, Virginia and Ten
nessee are in the anthracite fields for
workers.
A course in military science, with a
regular army officer in charge, prob
ably will bts added to Lehigh Univer
sity's curriculum.
Owing to the scarcity and high ]>rice
of ink, due to the European war, t,he
use of stub pens will, be discontinued
in Hazleton schools.
Joel Leininger, a farmer near Weath
erly, has 2100 bushels of potatoes
stored in his cellar, and refuses to
sell at present prices.
Miss Veronica Zimmerman, seventy
four, tripped descending stairs at her
home in Lebanon, and broke her neck
and an arm and died.
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Facts
i » F allacies 1
FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar»
ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument.
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FEW persons realize how important the saloon is, not only as an economic factor, but in provid*
ing, at small cost, relaxatibn for the working man. Without the saloon the already heavy
burden of taxation would be increased. The $100,000,000 war tax demonstrated partially what
that burden would be, but if national prohibition should do away with the jobs of a million men
i as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of tax and license money, it would be a knockout blow
j to the prosperity of the country.
WITHOUT saloons the people would have fewer pleasures, less R
comfort and happiness, 'ij'he saloon is the poor man's club.
It is the chief means of recreation-for the working man. More and — r
more people are beginning to realize that the pc.ce that kills is ( >
pace that has no lei-up—that the work and worry, toil and turmoil
j of modern life are too much for the man who cannot find some 1
•J harmless, inexpensive way of rejuvenating his tired nervous system yj—
~Z O EAL rest and recreation cannot come from athletics. Hugo 1 S
h Munsterberg, of Harvard University, a recognized authority !|
« on the subject, says: "We knoxv, today, too well that physical ILiidM lj
~ exercise and sport is not* real rest for the exhausted brain cell 3. * W
Sharp physical and mental labor, the constant hurry and drudgery It~l
p - produce a state of tension and irritation which demands before the OJ
f Ti. C 1 *I ) n:ght's sleep some dulling inhibition if a dangerous unrest is not to O
1 £( 1 l\e O&lOOTl | set in. Alcohol relieves that daily tension most directly/'
iis the $r saloon is a necessity as well as a luxury. It contributes || ||
T> Aftr \fcvyYS -&1 L -*■ more toward the comfort and happiness of the people than '] j
fvi i Klh j evrc^cr » milliner, the modiste, dance-halls, theatres, pool- j
Club rooms, professional baseball, cigars, cigarettes, art or music. The J f
J®* good it does far outweighs the trifling harm that results from the 11
excesses of a few. Experience and observation show that less than
v three per cent, of the people are harmed by over-indulgence in alco- | J
holic liquors. [ J
HAPPINESS is the real object in life. It takes precedent over all
other things. Wealth, position, religion, are simply means I ' i
toward that end. So is the saloon. It gives the cheapest and best I than P
of material mediums because it gives the greatest amount of pleas- j
ure to the most people for the least money. J[ 0/<3 Us£ LiQlfCfl' / y
JT is a FALLACY to say that which gives so much pleasure at so fg PvpfsoV Vmi
small a cost, and to so many people, is harmful—when FACTS *|[
show that less than three per cent, indulge to excess, and that
| ninety-seven per cent, use alcoholic beverages moderately and tem- ~
JJ perately.
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Notice has been sent ont by h?
Cumberland Val'oy railroad that ;ts|
telegraph opera 4 n<r* are craa.e 7 a
twelve per cent increase.
Easton High s h"*' a
"tag day" movement to further tiie
project of obtaining an athletic field,
and $1008.15 was realized.
Unable to help himself, John Wil
klns, aged seventy, was bnrned to
death in his home on the outskirts of
Castleman, near Somerset.
Richard Maise, Boswell, Somerset
county, was appointed mine inspector
of the First bituminous district, to
succeed W. G. Robey, deceased. x
Mrs. William Ehle, of Lansford, and
Mrs. Mary Hontz, of Summit Hill, arc
the only Carbon county women hunt
ers who have taken ont licenses.
Many of the 1500 bituminous coal
miners in the East Broad Top region
who have been on strike for two
weeks are moving to other fields.
John Strousburgh, aged twenty-four,
of Vintondale, Cambria county, was
kililed by a Baltimore and Ohio rail
road freight train at Connellsville.
A verdict of $3700 was awarded L.
King, of Harrisburg, suing Rlverton
Consolidated Water company on a la
bor and material claim, at Carlisle.
A thousand attended the Altoona
funeral of four Baker's Summit vic
tims of a grade-crossing accident, and
there were 212 autos and 200 buggies.
The Rt. Rev. Regis Canevin, bishop
of Pittsburgh, will on November 19
confirm a cflass of 250 at St. Vitus
Italian Catholic church, in New Castle.
Stephen Covick, driver for McNeal
Miller, a farmer, was arrested at
Shenandoah, charged with selling po
tatoes by the bushel almost a peck
short.
J. B. Scale, of Millersburg, former
member of the legislature, has been
appointed a commissioner to take the
vote of the Eighth Regiment at the
border.
A campaign to raise $15,000 for the
erection of a new Sunday school build
ing for the First Methodist Episcopal
church, Easton, opened with $10,329
pledged.
Charged with the murder of J. L.
Beisser, a railroad detective at Le
moyne, Archie Miller and Joe Fletcher
were held for court by 'Squire Martin,
at Carlisle.
Bethlehem council has instructed
Solicitor G. R. Booth to draw up an
ordinance for a bond issue of $lOO,OOO
as the borough's share toward the ne\i
hill-to-hill bridge.
In a report to the state public serv
ice commission, the Lehighton board
of health condemned as unsanitary
the passenger station of the Jersey
Central railroad, at Lehighton.
Two valuable horses belonging to
Richard Nicholas, a Lower Saucon
farmer, got into a fight in the stable
and one of the animals' legs was
broken, and it had to be killed.
John Stines, of Dunkirk, N. Y., fired
five shots at his nineteen-year-old
wife at Warren and then sent a bullet
through his head and died a few min
utes later. Mrs. Stines wifll recover.
The proposed sale of the properties
of the Thomas Iron company,' Cata
sauqua and Hokendauqua, to a syndi
cate of Philadelphia iron manufactur
ers for $3,500,000 will soon be consum
mated.
Because several employes failed to
wear union buttons, 500 men and boys
at Lehigh Coal and Navigation No. 15
colliery went on strike, swelling the
total to 2000 idle at the company's
operations.
f-FiiNCE LEOPOLD OF CAVAR?;
ConiiuiUKlev in chief of the Austro'
(rerman armies of the central easterr
front. Though seventy years of agt
this veteran soldier is robust and ic
I»erfeet health. Each day he takes a
long swim and indulges in steeplechas
lug to keep in trim.
Overdrawing at Bank of Health.
"No funds."
That's the way your check la
stamped when your bank allowance
gives out.
Every good business man takes care
not to overdraw his account
But how many men give a thought to
their balance In the First Natural Bank
of Health?
Not many. They overdraw when
they oversleep In the morning; when
they overeat at noon; when they orer
work late In the day, and when thej
overdrink and overplay at night
And they keep on overdrawing, day
In and day out because the accounting
system in the First Natural Bank of
Health differs from that of an ordlnarj
bank.
They are not brought to a sudden
stop with the warning, "No Reserve."
So they keep on until the day when
disease draws a big sight draft —and
then they find their body bankrupt and
not a physical asset in sight
Seif-Possession.
The car over which the driver had
just lost control was a big, high-pow
ered one. It mounted the curb at U
;miles an hour, crashed through a plate
glass front and continued its way
leaving wreckage in its path, to the
rear of the store, where it was brouglu
to a stop. The Palm Beached drivel
looked about and perceiving it was e
motor accessory shop, remarked: ")
just dropped In to see if I could gel
a new windshield." "You bet,' replied
the proprietor, "and 1 can fix that
steering gear for you, too, If you'll
wait about ten minutes."
The Alum Rock Natural Gag com
pany's board of directors at Oil City
has declared an extra cash dividend
of $2 a share, in addition to the
monthly rate of $1 a share.
Court Houae Engineer August Hin-
Kal, of Mauch Chunk, was horrified to
see a three-foot copperhead crawl out
of. ooal in the basement of the court
houae, but he killed the reptile.
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"Silk Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri
gade" Off to Invade West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE.
Many Members of Party Traveling on
Train de Luxe Repudiated by Lead
ers of Women's Movement —Paid
Speakers to Do the Talking For
Them.
Wall Street is too busy harvesting
Democratic prosperity to go campaign
ing—but it is sending its womenfolk
The greatest aggregation of wealth
and social distinction ever represented
by fuss, feathers and femininity left
New York Monday, Oct. 2, by special
train de luxe, to tell their sisters of the
West how they should vote. Many o.*
these women, claiming to be equal suf
frage workers, are repudiated by lead
ers of that movement
Stopping at Albany, Utica and Syra
cuse on their first day, the itinerary
takes the women's campaign train
through the principal cities of the
north route across the continent auJ
brings them back through Colorado
Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky, x
tour lasting until Nor. 4. The expends
are paid by and the tour is conducted
under the auspices of the Women's
Committee of the National Hughes A 1
liance.
"Women's Hughes Alliance" sounds
Innocent and harmless enough until
one examines the personnel of the or
ganixatlon and discovers that it repre
sents the feminine side of the organ
ized and Morganixed wealth of Wall
Street
The treasurer of the Women's Com
mittee is Mrs. Mary Rum
sey, daughter of the late Edward H.
Harriman, railroad magnate and "prac
tical man" of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the "crooked business" which po
litical exigencies later led him to de
nounce.
These Provide the Funds.
With Mrs. Rumsey on the Finance
Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose husband war: translated from
the "House of Morgan" to be Roose
velt's assistant Secretary of State, and
later Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber
nard H. Ridder, wife of one of the pro
prietors of the- New York Staats Zei
tung, leader of the German propaganda
against President Wilson; Mrs. W. H.
Crocker, widow of the California min
ing and railroad multi-millionaire.
On the Train Fund Committee are
Mrs. Daniel Guggsnheim, of the Smel
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
representing Inherited millions of rail
road capital; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter of t*ie late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; Miss Maude Wetmore, of
the wealthy Rhode Island family of
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, daughter of Theodore Roose
velt whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, Representative in Congress
from Ohio.
Many of the junketers who are going
along to do the speaking are profes
sional women who have won their own
way in the world —women who could
not afford the luxury of special trains
nor the diversion of campaigning with
out pay. But back of them, with their
money and the glamour that attaches
to their gilded names, are the women
standing as financial sponsors for this
greatest society show that was ever
put on wheels. Some of these wives
and daughters of the super-rich will go
along on this mission, and with their
presence, if not with their oratory, wiT.
warn the women of the West —who
are already voters—that their country
cannot be "saved" unless the women
cast their vote for the candidate of plu
tocracy.
The letterhead from Republican cam
paign headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
as above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
feature of the Hughes campaign.
Others In on the Junket.
On this committee appear, in addi
tion to the foregoing members, the fol
lowing:
Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury. whose hus
band is a Philadelphia partner of J. P.
Morgan & Co.; Mrs. H. O. Ilavemeyer,
wife of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother of William Randolph Hearst,
owner of millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. O. H. P.
Belmont, who has undertaken to raise
half a million dollars to defeat Presi
dent Wilson; Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife of the multi-millionaire
mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier, New
York society leader, of a wealthy Ger
man family with strong antipathy to
President Wilson.
A leading attorney of PocateDo, Ida.,
writing to the Democratic National
Committee, says:
"I read with deep interest of the prep
arations of the Silk Stocking, Poodle
Dog Feminine Brigade that is soon
to start on its million dollar special
across the continent, to awaken the
enthusiasm of the mothers and women
who carry the burden of our national
greatness on their shoulders, to vote
for their idol, Hughes
"It will not be difficult for the rank
and file of the common people to see
the hypocrisy of this movement, fos
tered by an element whose sacrilegious
fingers are dripping with the fat and
sweat that has been wrung from the
lives of thousands. of toilers during
the half-century of Republican control
of this government"
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for particular young men.
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Gums and Health.
Two drop* of camphor on your
toothbrush will give your mouth the
frwhfctff, cleanest feeling Imaginable,
will make your gums rosy an<l abso
lutely prevent anything like cold
>oivs or affections of the tongue. The
gums. by the way, are barometers oi
your condition. If they are clear
bright red. you are In good realth,
while if your blood is thin and want
ing in the mysterious red corpuscles
tlu't make one healthy, the gums will
I>e pule pink, or if you are in a very
!>iid way. Indeed, and much in need
ui a course of dialyzed Iron, they wll)
almost white. —Leonard Keene
LLirsUberg.
The Office a Home.
A young fashionable was graduated
from Yale in June. His father Is set
ring him up in business. This fnther
asked us if we would not aid In the se
lecting of the office furnishing for the
young man. The father said: "Spent}
whatever you like. Not because 1 have
money, but because when a man works
in a place for so many hours it should
be made as comfortable as possible
Many .men spend more catual hours In
their offices than they do in their
homes. Their offices should therefore
be as attractive as their homes. That
Is my theory, and I am going to prac
tice it for my son."
Saloonists of the lower end of Lu
zerne county fear another war againsi
licenses as a result of a visit made
to Hazleton and nearby towns by
supposed "spotters."
Oterbalancing as she leaned out tc
shake some clothing, Mrs. Thomas Mc-
Kinsey fell twenty-five feet from tke
balcony on a second story at West
Fairview and was killed.
Their strike decflared illegal by the
district mine workers' board, many
of the employes of the Rochester &
Pittsburgh Coal and Coke company
have returned to work.
With record prices prevailing for
both coal and coke, operators of the
Connellsville coke region are unable
to take advantage of the situation be
cause of the shortage of cars.
Washington and Jefferson oollege
students who are supporters of Presi
dent Wood row Wilson have fonfied a
Wilson and Marshall club, and will
conduct a campaign among the under
graduate body to influence the mem
bers to support the national Demo
cratic nominees.
Increased cost of tobacco Is given as
the cause for an advance in the price
of tobies, announced by a manufactur
er in Connellsville. Tobies that for
twenty years have sold at four for
five cents will now be three for five
cents, or §even for a dime instead of
eight. Other manufacturers are ex
pected to follow suit.
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The Diamond mine surface property
of the Diamond Coal and Coke com
pany, near West Brownsville, was al
most ccmp'.etely destroyed by Are of
undetermined origin. The loss it es
timated to be $125,000.
On the very first day the Swiss
Cleaners and Dyers had put their new
$20,000 plant in operation at Easton,
William F. Srhneller, connected with
the concern, received gasoline burns
which resulted in his death.
A man who crept into a barn at
Gillentown, near Bellefonte, to sleep
got up in the dark and walked out ot
an open door, falling twenty feet to
his death. Papers identified him as
Charles Ludlow, of Philadelphia, or
Pittsburgh.
In an attempt to board a moving
train at the Pittsburgh & Rria
railroad station at Beaver Falls, Miss
Molly Marcus, twenty-two years old,
slipped and her feet were crushed.
At the Prcvidcnce hospital the feet
were amputated.
Mrs. Carl F. Rudolph, of Chicago,
a daughter, is made the beneficiary
in the will of Mrs. Peter Bloom, the
woman who was murdered at Butler
a week ago. Relatives of Mrs. Bloom
are said to have found the woman's
will after the funeral.
With Mrs. J. O. Miller, of Pitts
burgh, state suffrage chairman, pres
ent as chief speaker, a suffrage con
ference was held in Charleroi. Dele
gations were present from points
along the Monongahela valley and in
terior Washington county.
Hereafter all policemen in the em
ploy of the city of Pittsburgh will
have to stand at attention and salute
whenever the national emblem passes
along the street, according to a new
rule which is incorporated In the new
edition of the polifce manual.
Roy Schulta, eighteen years old, was
fatally injured when his motorcycle
crashed into a telegraph pole at Brad
ford. He died In the Bradford hospit
al. SchultE and Louis Strait were on
the machine when It became unmanage
able, but Strait escaped injury.
Jerome Brody, five-year-odd son of
Herman Brody, of Monongahela, died
from Injuries suffered a short time be
fore when he was run over by an auto
mobile truck. The boy had been to a
store for his mother and was hurry
ing home when he ran directly into
the machine.
G. A. Booth, fifty-six years old, gov
ernment employe, of Panama, died in
the Southsifle hospital, Pittsburgh, of
a fractured skull received Saturday
night in an automobile collision in
Fairhaven. Christ Huber, of Fair
haven, who was also in the accident,
is in serious condition.
The potato crop of Lawrence county
this year was a complete failure.
that has previously produced 150 bush
els to the acre and better has only
produced forty bushels this year. The
dry weather is held responsible. Farm
| ers are receiving $1.75 a bushel, and
this price is expected to go higher.
The almost nude body of Charles
Mortimer, fifty years old, of near
Barnesboro, was found In the woods
between Carrolltown and Ebensburg
by a hunter. Mortimer had been miss
ing for a week. Mortimer, who was
a cripple due to Infantile paraflysis,
had announced his intention of going
to the county almshouse.
By a decision of the court the title
to the old Trinity Protestant Episco
pal church, In Connellsville, reverts to
James A. Veech and seventeen others,
heirs of the late Mary Meason.. In
1833 Mrs. Meason gave the plot to the
congregation. The adverse decision
in court will not halt the plans for a
new church on the West Side, it is
said.
Irwin J. Henry, a blacksmith of Her
minie, near Greensburg, **as drowned
In a bucket of water. Henry went to
hfe shop In the rear of his home, and
when he failed to return his wife In'
vestlgated and found him dead. A
bucket had been sunk in the ground
to catch water flowing from a spring
in the rear of the shop, and it is be
lieved when Henry stooped over to
get a drink of water he fainted and
fell head first into the bucket.