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. 1 1 Facts i » F allacies 1 FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar» ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument. _ i r 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. 3 Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association n tJ< T """ Notice has been sent ont by h? Cumberland Val'oy railroad that ;ts| telegraph opera 4 noivs 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. < Chance { | ft To Figure | ' - On Yonr < NO Printing. \ TROUBLE | TO Onr Work | ESTIMATE bfcjl == CHEAPEST) ife AND BEST > 1 In This < \ ss. Tom } 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.