PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From Ail Sec tions of the State. GULLED FOB QUICK READING ———— News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. James De Angelo died at the Oil City hospital from starvation. Efforts are in progress to reorganize the Allentown chamber of commerce. The Ridgway Firemen's Fund, which just closed, netted the firemen $llOO. Johnstown's three daily newspapers will increase their price to two cents, December 1. Eugene Mowrey, of Briggsville, lost his right hand climbing a fence with a loaded gun. Berwick Car Works will hereafter use electrically driven locomotives, supplanting mules. Cutting corn on the cob, Stella Reese, of Fredericksvllle, severed a thumb with a hatchet. The ten per cent wage increase by the Standard Chain company benefits 1200 workers at York. Six hundred employes returned to i work at Mahanoy City colliery after a week's button strike. The nation's daylight savers are to convene with the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce, December 5. Samuel D. Townsend, Hughesville. has been reappointed a trustee cf the State hospital at Danville. The powder strike at the Highland operations of C. B. Markle & Co. has been won by the miners. A total of 2770 hunting licences have been issued at the office.of the Elk county treasurer in Ridgway. Deposits in Reading banks gained j $4,500,000 in one year, and the total deposits amount to $24,000,000. • The guncotton plant of the Aetna Explosives company at Warren closed since August resumed operations. Easton and Phillipsburg bakers will increase the price of bread after De cember 1 to six and twelve cents. Thieves stole $26 from the home of j Alderman Joseph Moody, Hazleton, ' while the family was out of town. Dragged by a train she was trying j to board, Miss Lorena Kilmore, Me chanicsburg, was seriously injured. Hazleton's American Red Cross So- ; clety elected T. D. Jones president, | and Mrs. C. J. Kirschner, secretary.; The various collieries of the M. S. ! Kemmerer Coal company, near White j Haven, will be operated by electricity. West Fairview has raised the sum needed to insure the location of a shirt factory employing sixty persons. Many Blair countians are cutting out exchanges of Christmas gifts as a needless addition to high cost of liv ing. Lloyd Blouch has been rearrested at Lebanon, charged with deadly as sault upon and robbery of E. E. Ar nold. Strausstown women boycotted milk when it was increased two cents a quart, and it soon went back to five | cents. The American Iron and Steel com pany, Reading, will give its employes j a bonus of five per cent on their earn ings. Ellis Kempfer, of Battery A, First j Field Artillery, South Bethlehem, is ill with pleurisy in a Kansas City hos pital. Too deaf to hear warnings, Jacob Bottle, aged sixty, was run down by a freight train at Union Furnace, and killed. Federal authorities have lodged a detainer at Easton against Herman A. Morton, charged with passing bogus checks. West Hazleton teachers who went Joy riding during the recent institute will be docked instead of being dis charged. A class in automobile operation and control sharted in the night school at AQtoona conducted by the board of education. It is announced that the Aetna Ex plosives company of Huntingdon will resume operations in full beginning December 1. Falling with a fifty-foot scaffold at Carlisle, William E. Kitner clung to a house cornice till a ladder was raised to rescue him. Commoners believe they will be able to reduce the high cost of living in Sharon. They have formed a club of 190 members. Harry Bussenger, of East Youngs town, the second victim of the scaf fold collapse at the petroleum plant in Sharon, died. Drinking a bottle of liquid stove polish, John, year-and-a-half-old son of Kerr Sterrett, near Oakville, Is in a critical condition. Franklin county teachers passed resolutions for prohibition, a teachers' retirement fund and a minimum wage of $6O a month. Determined to break up booze par ties on the "meadows in Pottstown, Bxirgess Fritz gave five offenders sixty days in jail each. The state department of agriculture estimates that the acreage sown to wheat this fall is three per cent great er than last year. Gustave Wickenhagen, aged seventy three, a civil war veteran and for thirtv years a resident of Butler, wa? found dead In bed. Surgeons at Fountain Springs hoa pital removed a sunflower seed from the left ear of Mary Zelbon, whose hearing was affected. The Lehigh county Christian Endea-1 vor societies, meeting in Emaus Mo ravian church, elected E. E. Oplinger, Allentown, president. I.ansford's population is oVer 10,000 —by I'ar the largest municipality In Carbon county—and residents are ad vocating city government. Former Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds is said to be favored for public service commissioner over con gressman Lafean, of York. The Aetna Explosives company, of Huntington, has posted notices that thousands of men are needed for the re-opening of their plants. Disappointed in love, Mary Ritter, 1 aged thirty-two, jumped from Market street bridge, Williamsport, and was drowned in the Susquehanna. Jacob Weaver, aged ninety-six, of Washington, attended the golden wed ding anniversary of his son and wile, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Weaver. Raymond Shore, aged fifty-two is dead at Monessen after being found un conscious on the Lafayette road as the result of an automobile accident. Alfred Gohn, of Warren, has depart-! Ed for New York city, driving his car with cheap kerosene as fuel, with a i newly-invented kerosene carburator. ■ Joseph Moschsultas, Alexander j Mantkus and Frank Washell were critically injured in a premature dyna. mite explosion at Shenandoah City col liery. Kidnapping her child from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stople, of Allentown, who had legally adopted it, Mrs. Annie Sepski, of Catasauqua, was committed to Allentown jail, but later released on bail. William H. Williams died as hi* home in Sharon as a result of injuries sustained when he was hit by an auto mobile driven by Dr. V. D. Viets, ol Youngstown. John Stein, aged thirty, was so badly injured when an acetylene tank ex ploded at the Erie shops at Meadville, that he will probably lose the sight of both eyes. Caught under a mine locomotive which jumped the track at No. 11 colliery, Jaseph Murphy, 'Tamaqua, aged twenty, was so badly scalded hi* death is expected. Sustaining a frectured skull by leap ing from an automobile when he thought the machine was about to turn over at Drifton, Ralph Nattress, of Hazleton, has died. Loring L. Gelbach, assistant cashier in the First National bank, and Miss Stella Fisher were married in Ellwood City by the Rev. Clarence C. Fisher, brother of the bride. Supervisors of Rockefeller town ship, Northumberland county, were before Justice A. G. Shoener, at Tre vorton, charged with neglect to keep their highways in order. Ellis Schneebeli, a Nazarene, visit ing Allentown, awoke under a railroad archway with the realization that twc interesting young strangers had knock ed him out and robbed him. In a jitney-autobus collision at Pittston, George Wells, aged twenty four, sole support of a widowed mother, was killed as he stood on the running board of the jitney. The Mahoning Supply company j store which houses the Walston post office near Punsxutawney was entered by thieves and robbed of $l2OO in money, stamps and merchandise. Word was received at Latrobe of the death of Rev. Father Vitus Kratzer, which occurred In Pueblo, Col. He was a member of the faculty of St. Vincent's college for many years.* Quick work on the part of Deputy State Attorney General Horace Davis prevented his daughter from being fatally burned when her clothing caught fire from a gas stove in Sharon. More than 200 employes of the Baker & Adamson chemical plant. Easton, will receive a bonus ranging from five to seventeen and a half per cent of their wages, or an average of ; over $BO each. For a splash of mud, the poison in which cost her the sight of an eye, Mrs. Mary E. Bruggeman was award ed $2500 damages against the city of York and her husband $lOO for the loss of her services. In co-operation with the postofflce department, the Pennsylvania depart ment of forestry has prepared a big forest fire placard which will be placed in every postofflce in Pennsylvania in or near a forested area. Former Councilman Peter S. Holl, of Reading, while passing a school house, was taken as Mr. Hughes, the recent presidential candidate, and it ! took some explaining before the school 1 children would believe otherwise. At the annual session of the Mont gomery county farm bureau, at Nor ristown, Isaiah T. Haldeman, Harleys | ville, was elected president; Harvey Murphy. Centre Square, vice presi | dent; A. R. Kriebel. Worcester, secre , tary. and Warren Schultz, East Green- J ville, treasurer. Rev. D. H. Frederick, a Mt. Airy graduate, was installed as pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, at Beavei j Meadow, by Rev. Wilfred F. Heldt, ol Conyngham, president of the Wilkes- Barre conference of the Lutheran ministerium, and Rev. Franklin Ester ly, pastor of Christ Lutheran congre gation, Hazleton. Many independent iron and stee; companies in the Shenango valley wil' increase wages on December 15. it was announced. The Sharon Steel Hoop company, employing 1300 men will grant an Increase of ten per cent and all blast furnace workers at inde • I pendent plants in Sharon, Farrel! Sharpsville and West Middlesex, nun? Bering about 2000, wil! be granted f similar raise. It Is intimated tha : ' 5000 men outside of thos6 employed by the steel corporation will be affect ed in that vicinity. BACK ON THE JOB. —Lynch in Rocky Mountain News. W. -* For a Pinch Of Snuff By ESTHER VANDEVEER » In 17(>—-Walter Watherspoon, a stu dent at Kings (now Columbia) college, was crossing the campus, situated in the lower part of New York, not far from the city hall, when he met Ger- j trade Springstead, the daughter of a China merchant, going to her home on the Battery. The two were lovers and expected to he married after young j Watherspoon's graduation, which was to occur in the following June. Before seeing his fiancee coming \v> took his snuffbox from a pocket in t!:e volumi nous skirt of his coat and. phving a ; pinch between his thumb and linger. ; crammed it up first into one nostril, then into another, snifing lustily. "Oh. Walter." said the girl when j they met, "if father know you snuff od It.would be all up with us! lie detests | the habit and would force me to break with you." "In that case, Mistress Gertrude," re plied Walter, "I must not let him see me snuffing." "But suppose he hears that you snuff?" "You are right. 1 must drop the hab it till at least after we are married." Taking a lacquered box from his pocket, he handed it to Gertrude, tell ing her to keep it till after the wed ding, at the same time promising her that he would not buy another or more snuff till they had been, man-led. Now, Watherspoon was poor as a church mouse and was obliged to work his way through college, which he did by giving so much of his time as he could spare from his studies to a tal low chandler. Gertrude, on the con trary, was the only child and heiress to what was then a large fortune. Nat urally the young man was loth to lose his sweetheart and did not relish losing the fortune she would bring him. Watherspoon worked hard all winter both at his studies and pouring melted tallow into caudle molds.. After a few weeks he found that he could get on very well without snuffing and assured Gertrude that there would be no trou ble for them on that score. He even declared that taking tobacco Into one's nose was a filthy habit, and he would never resume it, which was. of course, very pleasing to her. A new convert is always an enthusi astic convert. Walter, having thrown off the shackles of a bad habit, called the attention of his friends to its dis agreeableness to others than the snuff er. Why should one pause while chat ting with another to cram a nasty pow dered weed into his nose, making a dis gusting noise through his nostrils and leaving his nose smeared with tobacco? His friends listened deferentially to his protests, but paid little attention to them, not infrequently taking out a snuffbox, offering it to him, then tak ing a pinch while he was speaking. Walter kept his promise to his fian cee, nobly refraining from the habit he had eschewed. In due time he was graduated from college, and his father in-law to be had consented that he should go into his counting room on the street facing the East river and begin preparation to take position as mana ger of the business when Mr. Spring stead retired. While learning the busi ness Walter was to draw a nominal salary. Walter was the envy of all the young men in town. Engaged to a lovely girl and heir to a fine business. Surely providence had favored him. The wedding day opened bright and beautiful. Walter, after breakfast went to the Springstead home and was placed in a front room which faced the bay to await the hour for the cere mony. The sun glittered on the wave lets. The islands to the left, the right and in the distance stood out clear and green. Directly in the foreground was the old fort about which the city had grown and prospered. Walter was su premely happy. The door opened and Gertrude came in bearing the snuffbox he had given her months before. "I can't leave this here," she said. "After I have left mother will go through my room, and it will be dis covered." "Give it to me," said Waiter. "I will take it away with me and get rid of it on our wedding trip." Gertrude handed him the box and hastened away to be robed in her wed ding garments. Walter opened it and held it under his nose. What a deli cious fragrance! How pleasant it would be to take just one pinch! Tak ing a little of the snuff between his thumb and finger, he held it near his nostrils. Then he thought of the risk he would take if he indulged and put it back in the box. But he took an other pinch, and again the aroma greeted his nostils. Mr. Springstead, passing through the hall, heard a violent sneeze. Opening the door of the room from which it seemed to come, there was Walter with an open snuffbox in one hand and his handkerchief in the other. He greeted his father-in-law to be with another sneeze. When, a couple of hours later, guests arrived to witness the nuptials they were informed that there would be n*> nuptials. No reason was assigned. Mr. Springstead put a veto on his daugh ter's marriage, and the groom went t<> his own quarters. For a pinch of snuff he had given a bride, a fortune and a splendid busi ness. Not long after his loss the Revolution broke out. and he joined the continen tal army. He was killed at the battle of Long Island. Strict on the Proprieties. "Now that I have given you some thing to eat," said the benevolent old lady, "will you not saw some wood for me?" "I regret to say, madam," replied the weary wayfarer, "that I cannot saw wood without removing my coat, and I trust I ap too much of a gentleman to appear before a lady in my shirt sleeves."—Philadelphia Record. Danny—l'm doing my best to get ahead. Dolly—Well, Danny, heaven knows you need one. —Puck. % I '|i FaCtS Versus | if ailacies • ;■ ZH==== i FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar cntlv renuine but really illoffical statement or ai yuyyicnt* 5 ' ONE of the many ridiculous charges made by the Prohibitionists is that the saloon is the main cause of poverty. Ifthis were —' TTriirl I true all the "drys" would be riding in automobiles and the wets IAL !, AL Y' | ■ -would not be able to afford mere carfare! ■ ——— } THE "drys" assume that the liquor business is the result of the Th~CJtlliTl II .t saloon. Reasoning from this false premise they say that if it y The USO Ol LIGUOI "• were not for the saloon there would be no liquor business and v . ! therefore no place where the working man couid squander his hara- Ib I tie i earned wages. The Prohibitionists are wrong twice in the same Js p n -r rpr t ir KS place. They have put the art before the horcc. The saloon b the 1 * W result, not the cause, of the demand for liquor. There are two men |T| reS ponsible for the oaloor.—the man in front of the bar and the man 1 ' o, 'l3 behind it. Take the man in front of the bar away and the saloon tH —. keeper will go out of business. Take the salcci away and the man B | rji *in frcr.t of the bar will go behind the barn to £.«t a drink. D jj ,ITIS no more a waste of money to buy beer than it : to ",uy jew- jr Pi JI Workinompn / clr y« diamonds, perfumes, laces, candy, silhs and sat.r.s. It is |£ n Vj O JT J ust a3 f° o^sh to squander the money you need for necessities on p Spend Less Ifl&Tl these things as it is to invest in liquid refreshment. 4 Cents a Da)' 1 v* POOR judgment causes people to spend money for luxuries that for T iounr flfe* they need for other things, but liquor is not the luxury that has iui the pocketbook of the working man. The Federal Bureau \r „■■ r" of Labor Statistics shows that working men spend on an average less than four cents a day for liquors. The "drys" ask you to believe that four cents a day is the difference between poverty and riches If they are right, Rockefeller could mahe all of us rich by giving us , back the wealth he does not need and cannot use. j , p£ DEP A L THE main causes of poverty are poor wages and lack of employ- _ rrr>r , * 7 i ment. The average amount paid to unskilled workers in the //,/} tiUK-LAu 1 United States is less than ?SCO a year. Instead of spending around '/4 \ Sl5 a year for liquor these men could save up for 30 years and juy a v/f of IjAdC/K. Ford." They could then, if they were careful with the gasoline, run • ■' for a month on what they ccu!d save by not indulging in liquo Si_iTlJTltc j. for a year! . p ' '& ! TT IS a FALLACY to say that indulgence in alcoholic beverage* fp ;j W A makes for poverty, when FACTS, given by United States Laboi _ | j . Statistics, show that work jy cents a day for liquor! Pennsylvania State Brewers' Associatis^i |U | S8 ■ _"-IZ —^TffiiTTiM Etching on Steel. In the process of etching one's name on steel nitric acid is used diluted with four to six parts of water, according to depth of etching desired. First cover the steel to be etched with a ground wax composed of equal parts asphal tum, burgundy pitch and beeswax, melted together and thoroughly incor porated; warm steel and apply mixture evenly. When cold, scratch desired name or design through the coating on the surface and touch with a camel's hair brush dipped in the diluted acid. In a few minutes dip in hot water to wash off the acid, and clean off the wax mixture with benzine. Not a Born Forger. The indorsement of checks is a very simple thing; but, as the following story will show, it also has its difficul ties : A woman went into a bank where she had several limes presented checks drawn to Mrs. Lucy B. Smith. This time the check was made to the order of Mrs. M. J. Smith. M. J. were her husband's initials. She explained this to the paying teller and asked what she should do. "Oh. that is all right," he said. "Just indorse it as it is written there." She took the check and after much hesitation said, "I don't think I can make an M like that." Would Be a Help. "Every cloud has a silver lining." "It would he nice if they also had arsenic deposits," said the farmer. "Then the rain would spray our crops as well as moisten them." —Louisville Courier-Journal. ivngnt oe worse. "What do you know about Bill Hot air?" "Why, Bill travels for the same house I do." "I know that, but is he all right oth erwise?"— Exchange. n)niiiiim;tniiiiiii!iimt:i:iii:iiniittmg LIFE'S OPPORTUNITY. +* The man who in life the 3 5 Q 2 opportunity to express himself in g the largest terms; who after as- 3 5 *1 • fi 5t certafhing what faculties he haa § j* determines to develop them to 3 , f* the highest possible efficiency; g m n t* who is capable of seeing the JJ sweetness and joy that lie all g » about him; who, being proud, 3 JJ does not allow his body or mind £1 g to be defiled—he is the one who 2 H obtains the big rewards.—Oppen- g 3 heim. H Gay Birds of the Olden Time. Extravagance in dress prevailed in the reign of Edward 111., who ascend ed the English throne early in the year 1327. Men then wore silk hoods, particol ored coats with deep sleeves and nar row waists, short hose, long pointed shoes, bushy beards and tails of hair at the back of their heads. "The ladies," says a poet of that period, "are like peacocks and mag pies." They were attired in turbans or lofty miters, with ribbons floating from them like streamers, tunics half of one color and half of another and deeply emblazoned rones or belts from the front of which daggers were sus pended. An Armsd Trues. Mrs Knagg—Mr. Knagg and I have been married seven years, and the quarrel we had on our honeymoon is the only one we've ever had. Mrs. Ragg—l congratulate you. I suppose you kissed and made up? Mrs. Knagg —Not yet. Mr. Knagg hasn't yet ad mitted that he was wrong.—New York Globe. Oh, That's Different. "Who was that chap who just said •Hello!' to you?" "That's the man who does most of my bill collecting." "He wasn't very respectful, consider ing that you are his boss." "Who said I was his boss? That fel low is employed by my creditors."— Exchange. Although she had been married hap pily to another, a jury awarded Mrs. Josephine Santa, or TJniontown, $4OO heart balm lor being left waiting at the church by Sigmund Rozorswsky, on June 10, 1914. Five thousand dol lars was asked. Miss Katherine Pardee, (laughter of Frank Pardee] the retired million aire anthracite coal operator, has be come Y. M. C. A. secretary at H:izle ton, and keeps the same hours and performs the selfsame duties as her predecessor, Miss Emily Hill. Fire which for a time threatened the business district of Warren destroyed a three story hrick building and dam aged two other structures, causing a loss of $lOO,OOO. Fireman John Reed suffered a probable fracture of the skull when he fell twenty feet- Edwin Weyel, aged two, son of Wil liam a butcher of Homestead, was strangled to death when he fell from his father's delivery wagon in a stable in the rear of his home, his head and neck becoming entangled in a strap. The boy's mother found him unconscious.
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