PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From Ali Sec tions of the State. GULLED FOR QUIGK READING News of A.l Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. CarLisle Christmas club checks ag gregated $75.000. Hazleton shoe shines have gone to ten cents in price. A prohibition rally, with prominent speakers, was held at Carlisle. Hazleton Street parkways will be flooded for gkating this winter. Pittsburgh butter and eggs have tumbled nicely under the boycott. Pennsylvania bakers, in convention at Harrisburg, favored the six-cent loaf. Farmers in the vicinity of Skippack have to drive their cattle a mile for water. With a buck and doe, C. W. Erb, Pottsville, has arrived home from Maine. Revenue Collector Davis, Lancaster, will reorganize his office force Jauu ary 1. The Denver-Ephrata Street railway, Ave mHes, capital $130,000, has been chartered. Scarlet fever among the children has caused the Gilbertsville school te be closed. Hazleton merchants who observe the Sabbath are waging war on others who do not. The mild weather has brought out snakes, Griffith Jones killing seven neaj Freeland. I Scacciate il Fumo Dalla I I Vostra Casa I Riscaldate la stanza da letto o il camerino da bagno, la mattina in cinque minuti ed abbiate una casa piacevole e calda per l'intera giornata e durante la notte senza accendere il gran fuoco di carbone. I PERFJÉCTION I ! I Pulite —Pronte — Convenienti—lnodore I Sempre pronte per l'uso e facilmente I portabili da un punto all'altro della casa. ■ La compra e l'uso della "The Perfection" I I Venduta in parecchi stili e dimensioni. I La Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater ■ No. 125 e'popolare esi vende per $3.50. I Le ultime innovazioni rendono partico larmente desiderabile la riscaldatrice No. 325; essa si vende per $4.00 presso il vo stro chincagliere e presso tutti i negozi. Guardate per la marca di fabbrica a triangolo. Per i migliori risultati delle stufe ad olio, ri scaldatori e lampade, bruciate. || ATLANTIC 1 1 | THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO. 1 Dovunque in Pennsylvania e Delaware Dr. Andrew Lewis, aged eighty-two, of New Caatle, died of wounda sus tained when his clothing caught Are frorn a gas stove. " More than s.">£,ooo has been spent so far by the Lehigh Coal & Naviga tion company on improvements at the Cranberry colliery. Eari Richards, of Jersey Shor?, a bunter, narrowly escaped serious in jury when attacked by a wounded in a cave near Ilaneyville. After 52% years of service for the Rear 7 ing railway, Jacob Butz, of Read ine-, has rO'*red as freight conducto" and is on the pension roll. Ali but ten per cent of the ra'ne: In the Broad Top -egion have resumed cnr>r°tions, **ni it is expected that the ot.'~ers w!!l follow soon. Farmers in the onion belt in w-st •rr Pennsylvania received frnm $1 te a bushel for their crop this year, th' 1 price in years. >frs. Diana Montanye Vandegrifl Younrr has given the George Clymer Crapter, D. A. A., as a Christraas pres ent the Montanye home in TowaDda as a home for the chapter. Residente of Upper Mauch Chunk unanimousiy favor a community Christmas tree this year, and a com mittee will maka it a success. Blood poisonine developing frem a minor wound sustained one month aco caused- the death of D°lbert M. Ross, aged thirty-seven, of Burgettstown. Sheriff Thomas S. Vanzandt. Lew istown, carries his right arni in a sl'ng. as the result of his automobile bick firing when he attempted to crank it. Thieves stripped pajamas off a dum my in one of the brilliantly lighted show Windows of a Hazleton store, and escaped with this loot and other cloth ing. Delegates to the National Refcrm association. Pittsburgh, declare that Mormon ninnerò in Europe are per suading soldiers' widows to come to Utah. Mrs. Charles Schlimmer, flfty-six, oJ Jackson's, Schuylkill county. fell dead In Shenandoah in the arms of her daughter, who was taking her to a trolley. The size of New Cumberland prob ably will be increased by 1500 persona and the property value raised $300,000 by annexation of part of Lower Alien tow^shin. Because he Hved with his wife after suine .T. Frank Book for SSOOO dam i asres for alienating her affections John M. Lafevre was non-suitel at Larcaster. Walter W. Schultz, cf New York has been e'ected secretary of Hazle ton chamber of commerce, succeeding Harry H. Freeman, who went to Kala mazoo, Mich. The Lehi?h Valley Coa! company will rush it? Jeanesville _No. 5 culm banks through the breaker by the aid of steam shovels to aid in reducing the fuel famine. Claiming that four men from Car itele took a deer from his sons after they had shot it, W. D. Markley, of Harrisburg. has brought legai charges against them. Speakins: at Carlisle, National Pro hibition Chairman O. W. Stewart said that when either old party adopted the prohibition plank his party would cease to exisi. The public service commission has dismissed the complaint of the bor ough of Mount Union on behalf of its residents against the Mount Union Water company. v H. B. Supper, Lewistown, has re tired from active service to the Penn sylvania railroad pension system at sixty-five years, after fortv-four vears' service on locomotives. Washington county's third annual : farm produets show in Washington closed with a revival of the old i "square dance." One of the features was a chicken exhibition. Asserting that 15,000 nickel novels are sold in Easton every year, the Easton Public Library has issued an appeal to parents to join in a campaign against this kind of fiction. A young stranger, known as Louis Berger. is missing from Easton, and four merchants to whom he gave bo gus checks under various alliases have asked the police to locate him. Charles Graver, of Palmerton, hunt ing at Little Gap, shot an owl four and one-half feet from tip to tip of its wings, which farmers aay they had heard hooting for ten years. Prof. J. M. Keefer, aged thirty-one, is under bai! for court in Connellsville, on charges of aggravated assault and battery for alleged chastisement of ! fifteen-year-old Frances Stephens. Firing his revolver in an eff~rt to frighten Paul Waymen. aged twentv six, into surrender, Pa'rolman Himebaugh, of Meadville, fata'ly : n jured the man. He died socn after The payroll of the Pittsburgh Con strnetion company's Dunbar sla°: mi'! WPS stolen from the office of Adams Express company. The pack age contained between S6OO and S7OO. A short time after Samuel Lauru?, of Pottstown, had died in the County home, a letter carne saying that one cf his three sons in the Italian army had been killed and another badly wound ed. Sealer of Weights and Measures H. H. Seltzer reported to Pottsville coun cil that 104 scales and measures have been found faulty within the last month and seized, and flfty of them de stroyed. President A. T. Dice, .of the Read ing railway, now of Reading, will make his future home in Philadelphia. and his son-in-law, Attorney Randolph Stauffer and family are taking pos session of the Dice residence in Read -1 ing. A Grant Richwine, of Philadelphia, was sentenced at Williamsport to eighteen months in jail and flned SIOO for conspiracy to defraud in a transae tion for the Jemey Shore Water £ Gas company, ef which he was a di rector. Wyomissfng club awardèd the oom tract for its SIOO,OOO houae t® A. J Fink, of Reading. Coopersburg teachers have demand ed salary lnereas*e ranging from $lO to sl3 a month. Farmer William Zeigler was run over and severely injured by a load of wheat, near Carlisle. The Christmas pay of workers in the Pittsburgh district wiP go above $16,000,000. Clarence Moore, a Waterville er, pleaded guilty to killing a doe deer and was fined SIOO. I.arrv Zentner, aged nine, died in, Indiana from the effeets of gunshot wounds sustained a week ago. The Reading company is shipping on an average 1600 cars of coal daily from mines and Storage yards. Arthur J. Lans died in Oil City as a result of injuries sustained when he was hit by a Pennsylvania train. Approximately $t,000,000 will he dis bursed to industriai workers in Sharon and Farrel for the holiday season. W. L. Shaffer, of Bluefield, W. Va., has been elected managing secretary of Lebanon chamber of commerce. The state game commission has etehteen wardens engaged in Penn Forest, Carbon county, to protect deer. Pottsville pupils will bave thalr Christmas holidavs, flespite the delav for infantile paralysis in the autumn. Mine workers of the anthracite fleld won't be permitted by their union to form locals for particular nationali ties. Lvcoming County Grange has ex tended an invitation to the State Grange to meet in Williamsport in 1917. Batteries B. E and F. First Pennsyl vania Fleld Artillery, were mustered out of the federai service at Pitts burgh. Falling into a chasm. where he lay unconscious wntil morning, Owen Wal ters. of Audenreid. died at Hazleton hospital. The bread baking contest conducted by the girls of the Petersville public , schools was won by Miss Margaret Lobaugh. The resignation of William J. Wefr er, first lieutenant and assistant sur goen of the First Infantry, kai been ) accepted. - : & i i m Billy Atherton's Christmas Money By WILLIAM CHANDLHR * * When Billy Atherton was about to start home at noon on the day before Christmas from the office of Stuart & Co., he was called luto Mr. Stuart's of fice. "Billy, here's a Christmas gift for you," sald his employer and handed him a check for $25. Billy's face lighted with Joy. He had not been with the firm long, and his salary was meager. He had been hop ing that it would be rnised on the first of the new year, but had not counted on receiving anything besides his ten dollar weekly pay before that time. "NexF year we'll gire you an addi tional $5 a week," added Mr. Stuart. Billy left the office rejoicing. His mother was a widow and poor. There were several little children in the fam ily and nothing with which to celebrate Christmas. Billy's first impulse was to buy a lot of gifts to take home with him. Then he remembered that he must first get his check cashed. While •he was going to the bank he concluded to take the money home and give it to his mother to spend as she thought best He was known at the bank. having often made deposita there for his em ployers, and had no difficulty in getting the money. He rolled the bills to gether and crammed them into his trousers pocket Then, giving place at the paying teller's window to the next person in line, he ran outside and stood waiting for a trolley car to take him home. The first car that carne along was crowded, but Billy forced his way through those on the platform and hung on to a Btrap. Billy was thinking of the pleasure In store for his mother at seeing his roll of bills when a man standing next to him cried out: "Give me my money!" He was looking straight at Billy, and yet Billy was some time getting on to the fact that the man referred to him. "You give me back them bills you took out o' my pocket!" the man reiter ated. "If you mean me." said Billy. "you've jnade a mistake." "No, I haven't. I thought there was somethin' up when you jostled me. When I got my hand down into my pocket my money was gone." Billy protested that he was innocent, but the man was immovable and cried out to the conductor to stop the car at the next corner. The car was stopped. and a trafile policeman called a rounds man, who took Billy and his accuser off the car. There the latter told his story. "Shall I run him in?" asked the of flcer. "Sure!" "Well, you'll have to come along too." Poor Billy was marched to a police station and placed before a sergeant at the desk. When his accu«er had stated his case the aergeant asked him how much money had been take* front him. "Twenty-flve dollar»." Billy turned pale. Th« NrfMDk er I F & C t S Versus \ A M Fall&cies 1 FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar ii ently genuine but recdly illogical statement or argument. ! ! ~ i» ;« a FOR over 65 years Maine has becr» a Prohibi- ____ • tion State. It was the first State to ernbrace ' MAYOR OF RANCOR SAYS HE I ? Prohibition, and is stili in the list of "dry" States. CAFv'OT SALOONS But how "dry" it is is strikingly shown by the Flumahopo in "ProtJbition'W city ' photographed clipping renrodueed to the right, and Cioaed "oy Courteay." I' taken from the Boston Globe. 2~ M !T **", F. v. ooarr.cn explnsn<yl r.he exlatence of ■y U T T-TTTTtf t'ns tV,; r' ' ".3 liquor saloons ir» the city today by <ìt j \\/ n ~ tnirov;. -- zOi r>angor cne -api- ciaring that to attcn ;>l co aboiish them V* tal city o* "drv" Maine wants a drink he «»«*nt the creatina < « rituatioa "worse v,.ly v. uiy inalile .vdn.b d GTiUK ne than exlsta with th< «Soons." He s&id • ! goes to a saloon and ?ets it. And when the mayor 11 is to 'irive th i out. i llj. ri • * . • when asked to explr: *; » ee»rn!r,-'y ij- ; ìc* or that municipality is asked to aboiisii the saloons logicai situation ath t-.- |U k~- .i * , - , . • , manded that. to in- ' . s n c <•- . , » iT" [£ m the city over which ne exercises jt nsd.ction, he saloon., be rw-d a ck, o. •. t calmlv admits y \.O.K LA+..ZI C-.ji j Atmost p\ery raloon In Ih- city ls . i fi with them would be certain to follow without them. • c,c<; * d " n account ot tn . - stri:;*- H H-l The mayor sald the propr>tora E rpWO things are made manifest here: first, that not co"pi?"?ii! ? i saloons exist in "dry" Maine, and their exist- iX'V. fS*TOruS : enee is winked at by the authorities: secondi that today and wer- f.u » sioo ec. <i |! . . cpst«. for illegal saie. li Detter order prevails by havmg the saloon in a h •Mf y<iu *hut up the resprcta!? •. v . , . places m the c!ty, 'Qiiod tiferà' v\'i,l |> { community tnan by not having it. ,pr t n C alt the rendane ; • «ectior .nei tn«re wilf be more law \ ND these conclusions are arrived at by the im- ,ei sne.'i -.hdn ever." sald Mayor t L\ ......... J Wocdman. ."Of course it Is agalnst [| jl u~ partia;, jUGicia! mina cf a rr;?V» called upon to * h6 !?w t ave caioon# urre but ì ■> r_ __ „ , .. r . , they cannot be drlven out. Condì | face a concition—the dry mayor of the "dry" tions worss tìian exl«t wlth them capital cf the "dry" State o ? 1 hcrs wou ' d fc * ccrtaln t 0 re '"'t." - • I GAIN it demonstrates Wx.st has so often been show ; *> f •] ~~ in this series OI ?rl c ' '-nz* it is a FALLACY to sa that Prohibition has ever succe hibited; bot tha -VI THE '£ is a FACT tiiat ali thac rroi- bu; v.\ r--,es is to pr 7: .T«T , (t , V ; "- 4 ' cllt iegalized and regulacta c a !e <. or. ; •. • *TT TT" : Pennsylvania Stateßs2LLie?J .13^ ~ 'titnn'iiin-j< M •" * * 1 1 - 1 —Li. ... | , 'i 1 dered" htnT fo fura out His poclets. He responded by taking ont the roll of bills he had drawn from the bank and handing them to the offlcer. They were counted and corresponded exact ly with the amount the man sald he had lost The sergeant look ed somewhat sur prised. Billy did not look like a thief. "How long have you been a crook?" asked the sergeant of Billy. 'Tm not a crook," replied the boy with a tremor in his voice. "That $23 I have just drawn from the bank. It was given me for Christmas." "What bank?" "The Tenth National." The sergeant took up a telephone and asked if a check had recently been paid to William Atherton. The paying teller replied in the afflrmative. The amount was $25. "I thought so," remarked the ser geant and, looking at the accuser, add ed: "I reckon you're the crook and this young man is the victim. You saw him draw the money, got on the same car with him and played your game." At that moment a policeman entered the station and, seeing Billy's accuser. looked hard at him. Then he sald: "Hello. Tom Flynn! When did you get out?" At this the man owned up. He had stood in line before the cashier's win dow, saw Billy draw the money, felt in his pocket for a check he didn't find and, running out, was in time to get on the car with Billy. He was put back in the peuitentiary from which he had recently come. When Billy reached home he had so much to teli his mother that he scarce ly knew where to begin. "Mother, I've been accused of rob bery," he said. "Great heaven!" "I was taken to the police station." "Oh, dear!" "My salary has been ralsed for next year." "Do teli!" "And Mr. Stuart gave me $25 for Christmas." "Mercy on us! What else has hap pened?" Billy, having got out the main points, settled down to the story, beginning at the right end and ending with his dis charge from custody. Mrs. Atherton at the close of the re cital embraced her son, then hurried out to spend a part of his money for such articles as were n«*ssary to a happy Christmas. Joseph Billingham, watchman at the Lebanon Chain works, was fatally crushed beneath the wheels of a freight car. Farmer Camp's horses, from Ring town, ran away in Shenandoah and perhaps fatally injured Mrs. Frank Shrisnutsky. Larry Zestner. of Indiana, has died from injuries received when his gun was accidentally discharged while he was hunting. Hazleton police lockers are being rifled, a cow has been stolen from the pound and a slot machine from the chiefs office. While riding a wagon from Centra Ha to Ashland, William Derr, of Mt Carmel, fell dead in his seat from heart failure. Miss Emma J. Keating, superinomi ent of the Oil City hospital, and Miss Mary J. Ames, assiatant, have resigned their poeitions. Carpenter Evan Williams, of Foun tain Springs, dted at the hospital there of a fraetured skull sustained in a fall from a scaffold. nnmim»m»nn»mnnnm»;Miiniißm ISELF DECEPTION. Of ali solitaire games the ioon- § est learned is self deception. The |£ dullest mind can grasp it. The 5 wisest have ever enjoyed it. We g ali find solace in ita blandiah- s ments. No sweeter substitute g for courage, conscience and self g ♦j denial is yet discovered. But the 5 g awakening when it comes, if it 5 H does come in time, is humiliating. 5 Javanese Music. The angkwang orchestra la a pecuJ iar Javanese institution. The lnstru ment known as the angkwang is iliade of a Java bamboo tree. Dlfferent in struments have bamboo tubes of dlf ferent tones, apd they are play ed like the chimes one sees in vaudeville or the musical glasses. The aire are slm ple, but characteristic. When Dwlght Elmendorf was in Java he wrote out the music of an angkwang air and brought a set of the Instruments to the United States. This orchestra maket* music for the characteristic "hobby borse" dance of Java. The dancers bestride their paper designs, decorated to represent the head, neck. mane ami tali of a borse, and gallop wildly about- Rossini's Jealousy. Rossini was intolerably jealous of ali bis musical contemporarles and partlc ularly of Meyerbeer. In 1830 he heard "The Hugucnots," and on listenlng to the performance from the bcginnlng to the end he made up bis mind that Meyerbeer had excelled him and deter mined to write no more operatic music. Ile lived until 1808, but produced noth ing for the lyric stage, llis thirty-two years of retlremeut were speut In the pleasures of a voluptuary. He wu partlcularly fond of good eatlug ami drinking and assembled about him the youngest and gayest society he couUft attract to his house. lron In Piante. Iron is the substance whlch give» the green appearance to foliage. It forms a constituent part of chloro phyll and ls the green coloring matter whlch stalns the bodies inside the celi» of leaves, called plastlds. When the first organized food la be ing formed in the leaves from water and carbonic acid gas a certain amount of euergy is required. This ia obtain od from the sun's rays, but the work of absorbing lt ls carried out by the chlorophyll. It requires very little iront for the production of ali the chlorophyll found In a crop, and nearly ali soils contata an abundant supply.—London Standard. Burying the Hatchet. This expresslon, meanlng 'lat by gones be bygones," is derived from a custom once in vogue among the North American Indians. According to a command of the "great splrlt," they were obligcd. when they amoked the pipe of peace, to bury iu the ground their tomahawk», st-alplng knives and war clubs in tokcn that ali enmitjr was at an end. It costa Flolland about $8,000,000 a year to malntaln Ita dikee. Economy la a virtù e, boi wlth rimai peopie lt is also a neceiwlty.
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