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I Facts Versus I
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FACT is a real state oj things. FALLACY is an appar
ently genuine i.ut really illogical statement or argument
v,
AN able editorial from the Chattanooga Times has this to say of
Prohibition—and remember, too, that Tennessee is a Prohibi- fn..
lion State. Says the Times: 1
JYoitowal
is conic satisfaction in knowing that this is not the only \ fA^*J^cV
* time, or ours the only people, distracted by the proposition to 1 /HamON
control men's appetites by law. Oliver Cromwell, we are told, once \
wrote to the Scotch clergy: 'I prefer that Englishmen should be free
rather than sober by compulsion.' Further he said: 'Your pretended \ I
fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the \ \
wine out of the country lest men should be drunl:. It will be found I rEEn
U an unwise and unjust jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty 1 -yz- \
upon a supposition that he may abuse it. Vv'hen ho c!oth abuse it, i r —-
judge.' This is a very clear exposition of the attitude cf the rational \ ~ l£j
~ opponents of what is known as statutory prohibition." I^J
TNT this very able editorial, the Times goes on to say: "If we are to
lff to have strong men, men who have control over their evil propensi- i
n es
n \f \\ \- have'them se'r-rciirnt, self-disciplined and fully cognizant of their '
own responsibility for their own acts. Men of that quality cannot be
>"y made by Jaws. We have been in the law-making business in this
n'i)' country now for something mere than a century, and we are still at
; ■ •(_ S! J 1 * n cn increasing ratio. Zx-Prcslslent Taft the other day told an
audience in North Carolina that Congress within the past five years
p asse( j 65,000 laws, the tendency of the times being to yield to
' ''i t^le dangerous magic of 'Be It Enacted.' It is the inevitable conclu- •
s i° n °f investigators that every law passed calls for another and
sometimes two or three others; and so we are rapidly becoming a
law-ridden nation, every new enactment being a recognition in form
°f the notion that instead of becoming better, human nature is
steadily growing worse, so much so that the 'righteous' have to in
terfere with regulations in order to prevent an overflow of iniquity."
i T N conclusion, the newspaper drives home this thought: "The most
demoralizing feature of the propaganda in Tennessee is that it is K
made the stalking horse for a lot of politicians who could gain favor ( - nrr\r f/W'T
in no other way and whose presence in the public service has driven i i'ALLiAoY rAD 1
the strong, able and constructive leaders into practical retirement, i «ii \/r p _ * qq .FOF
What Cromwell prophesied has come to pass—it has been found to * Men. JJ UulUl i
be 'unwise and unjust jealousy to deprive a man of his natural lib- Who C&n Every 100 /
erty upon the supposition that he may abuse it.'" Get Liquor MeilWho
ONCE more is shown the FALLACY that because a man has \ Become i Drink AfS
access to alcoholic beverages he is certain to become an inebri- \ !
J ate —when it is a FACT that 99 out of every 100 men who use liquor iDrUllk&rdsl Teinpei*&l»6 ;
rrl do so in a moderate and temperate manner. i * ~ f i_
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IgJ Pennsylvania State Brewers' Asso£
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What He Advised.
A young man unhappily married and j
practically penniless took his tale of
woe to a prominent divorce attorney J
in Chicago and concluded with this: j
"I'm too poor to pay much for a di
vorce, but my wife makes my life mis
erable. After I get home at 6 o'clock
in the evening I get no peace until I
go to sleep. What would you advise?"
"After considering all the facts in
your case," said the lawyer, "I would
suggest that you get a job which re
quires you to work all night."—Ex
change.
A Far Distant Sun.
The star Canopus surpasses the sun
in brightness by more than 10,000
times.
<! i % s
::: KINDNESS. h
When w< consider the results
it brings I wonder why it »s we Si
are not ai kinder than we are.
«| How easily it is done! H-"W in
<| stantaneously it acts! How in- y
fallibly it is remembered!— <
Drummcna.
The Orchid.
The orchid is a peculiar plant, for,
strange as it may seem, there is no
distinctively orchid odor. One smells
like the violet, others like the rose, the
hyacinth, the daffodil. Orchids are the
monkeys, the mimics of the vegetable
world, in odor as well as form and
tint No other flower resembles an or
chid, but orchids are forever aping
butterflies, pansies, roots, spiders, pitch
plants, birds and what not. And they
are not absolutely certain to look just
the same twice in succession.
Throne Jewels.
In the "gold pantry"' at Windsor cas
tle. one of England's chief royal pal
aces. is the gold tiger's head taken
from Tippo Sahib's throne in 1789. It
is life size, and the teeth and eyes are
of rock crystal. Another relic captur
ed at the same time is the jeweled bird
called the uma, shaped like a pigeon,
with a peacock tail. The feathers
blaze with precious stones, and a great
emerald hangs from its breast. Ac
cording to an old Indian legend, who
ever owns this bird will rule India.
Watch Your Pep.
Pep is a slang word invented to con
vey the idea of those who xre always
up and about, who are full of "ginger,"
who never go to sleep at the switch.
When you are full of pep you can go
a long way toward doing almost any
thing. But pep runs out If your
stomach goes back on you because you
don't know how to take care of it; if
you consort with weak minded people,
taking on the color of their weak
mindedness; if you burn the candle at
both ends, then your pep runs low.
Watch your pep.—Life.
Curious Courtship.
In the strange land of the Tarascan
Indians in Mexico the visitor, after at
taining something of a friendly foot
ing, may still witness some of the
equally strange practices which the
first Spaniards observed. In courting
the lover goes to the well where his be
loved is accustomed to fill her water
jar. He holds her shawl until she ac
cepts him, and then with a stick he
breaks the jar which she holds on her
head and gives her a betrothal baptism
of water.
A Skating
4 'Accident"
By OSCAR COX
"Jim," said Charlie Bates excitedly,
"what do you suppose has happened
to Alec Winston?"
"What?"
"Fell on the back of his head on the
ice and has been unconscious for two
hours."
"That's strange. Alec is a splendid
skater."
"It wasn't his fault"
"Whose fault was It?"
"Billie's."
"You mean Wilhelmina Ripley's."
"Yes; she's the liveliest girl in town.
Shs's an imp of mischief. Her princi- i
pal object in life seems to be to make
trouble."
"You mean among the fellows. Why,
they stick to her like flies to *no
lasses."
"The more fools they."
"If report says correctly you are one
of the biggest fools of the lot But
how did Miss Ripley injure Alec Win
ston?"
"You see, they were skating together,
Alec skating backward, Billie forward.
For some time she had been trying to
stir up bad blood between Alec and
Horace Farrar by exercising that dia
bolical smile of hers"—
"You mean that seductive smile."
"Whatever you like to call it Any
way, she first encouraged one, then
the other. She was skating with Alec.
He, having his eyes in the front in
stead of the back of his head, couldn't
see Farrar skating behind him with
Josie Emerson. Both men being back
to back, Billie thought it would be a
fine thing to steer Alec against Horace.
When they struck Alec's feet went up
in the air, and he went down on the
back of his head."
"That's too bad. I hope he didn't
j crack his skull."
"The doctor says not. He says there's
concussion of the brain."
"Was Billie hurt?"
"Hurt! No. Such persons never get
hurt. They are protected by Satan,
whom they serve. Billie went down,
but forward, not backward, and fell
partly 011 Alec."
There was a pause in the dialogue, at
the end of which James Barnet said to
Charlie Bates:
"Charlie, this is a serious matter for
all you fellows who have gone daft on
Miss Ripley."
"What do you mean?" asked Bates,
j looking at his friend anxiously.
"Why, she'll be badly broken up at
the serious result of her innocent play
fulness."
"Call it devilishness."
"She'll inquire a dozen times a day
; after Alec, sending him spoon fodder
and flowers. As soon as he gets well
enough to see her she'll go to him, cry
a little, wonder if he'll ever forgive
her, and the result will be that he'll
take her in with no more resistance on
her part than a jellyfish." >
"He'll be a fool if he does!" cried
Bates excitedly, and, cramming his
hands down into the bottom of his
trousers pockets, he strode up and
: down the floor.
"You seem averse to Alec's beinjs
roped into the meshes of this imp of a
girl," remarked his friend,
j "Naturally. I've been there myself,"
replied Bates.
"Whsre?"
"In Billie's good graces."
"Oh! You have, eh? How long did
you stay?"
"An evening."
"And the next day?" . j
"I was reduced to the ranks and
Alec was promoted."
"I should think that you'd covet re
! venge on Alec."
"Oh, Alec is an inoffensive sort of a
! fellow. He was quite a smart boy be
fore he had that fever. I don't blame
him. My wrath is all for the girl."
"You'd better keep it hot."
"What hot?"
"Your wrath. Suppose it should cool
and Billie should take hold of you
again. Where would you be?"
"Do you take me for an idiot?"
"I take you for what we men all are
in the matter of women. So long. I
must be moving on."
A week later the two friends met 1
again.
"I say, Jim," said Charlie, "you were
all wrong about how that matter be
tween Billie and Alec would turn out" ;
"How is that?"
"Alec was only stunned. He was
up and about the next day."
"How about Miss Ripley?"
"The thing sobered her."
"How do you know?"
"How do I know? Why she told
me so."
"When?"
"Last night."
"At what hour?"
"At what hour? WTiat's that to
you?"
"Tell me the time you left her last
night and I'll explain."
"I didn't exactly leave her last night.
It was this morning. I think it was
about half past 1."
"No explanation on my part is neces
sary. I knew very well when you
were telling me about the accident
that you were fired by jealousy. You
didn't care what happened to Alec, un
less perhaps you hoped death would
take him out of your way. When you
told me you had left your fiancee"—
"My fiancee! How did you know
that? It isn't out yet"
"I guessed it. Lovers just engaged
don't leave their girls at 10 o'clock in
the evening, or 11, or 12. It's toore
likely to be 2 cr 3 in the morning."
"How do you know all that?"
"I've been there."
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PENNSYLVANIA I
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
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News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
Water is so scarce parts of Altoona
have none.
The Danville Morning News goes
up to two cents.
Ice harvesting has commenced up
the Schuklkill valley.
Danville puddlers are receiving $8
ja ton —higher than civil war pay.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Schuylkill
Haven, where two are dead and nine
dying.
The Magee Carpet mill, Bloomsburg,
has divided $5OOO extra among em
ployes.
The National bank of Pottstown has
taken posssession of its new $lOO,OOO
building.
There are nineteen fewer liquor li
cense applicants in Columbia county
a year ago.
Dr. J. C. Laughlin has been installed
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Finleyville.
Three hundred and forty-five per
sons have asked for liquor licenses In
Northumberland county.
The Lawrence Portland Cement
company announces a month's salary 1
bonus for its employes.
Pottstown's four financial instltu- j
tions closed the year with the largest j
deposits in their history.
Lancaster county dairy farms will
receive for their milk, at a minimum,
$2.20 per 100 pounds.
A. J. Gagt, of Kingston, has been
arrested the third time in a week, ac
' cused of violating the liquor laws.
John Jordan, aged forty-five, a bar
tender of Monongahela, was found
dead on the Monongahela river bank
Eminent lawyers will try to throw
out of office mine inspectors irregu- i
larly chosen in thp Schuylkill region.!
Mrs. Elizabeth Burdv, aged forty
five, was instantly killed at Irwin
when she was struck by a B. & O. :
train.
Lancastrians want their poor board
to give up a tract of land as a site
for an armory for local militia com
panies.
A water-back from a stove at the
t home of Robert Halls, Nesquehoning.
blew up, and the house was partly
wrecked. *
Charles Troscavaze was run down
on a bridge at Maizeville by a Schuyl
kill railroad car and so badly injured
I that he died.
A carp thirty-one inches long and
weighing sixteen pounds was caught
by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schell, of
Royersford.
Mount Holly will abrogate Its own
[charter and become a borough so as
to borrow its share of funds for a new
$6OOO bridge.
Reading has a population of 110,-
274, according to estimates compiled
and lately issued by the United States i
census bureau.
The plant of the Guffey Gasoline
; company at Guffey. was destroyed by
fire. The loss was $5OOO. The work?
will be rebuilt.
Russell Klger, three-year-old son of
Mrs. Jennie Kiger, of Franklin town
ship, died in Waynesburg of burns re
ceived recently.
Marriages are decreasing In Craw
ford county. In 1912, 585 license#
were issued, last year 516, and thte
year to date only 462.
The first dog tax to be issued in
Berks county for 1917 was grante 1 to
Miss Louise J. Potter, secretary to
Mayor Filbert, Reading.
Ray Alvlr. Crowe, aged sixteen, son
of J. C. Crowe, died in Washington a«
the result of Injuries from being
struck by a street car.
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Tacitly admitting conspiracy in re
straint of trade, thirty-two master
plumbers were fined a total of $3460
and costs at Pittsburgh.
Absent in Colarado forty-one yeans,
J. W. Bradley was recognized at once
by his sister when he returned to
Ebervale. near Hazleton.
A shortage of water existe at Mill
heim. near Bellefonte, since the pipe
line that carries water from a reser
voir two miles away froze up.
Yuan Tsai, of Hongkong, China, Is
spending three months at
visiting the anthracite coal mines and
Investigating modern mining.
A Christmas check for $lO,OOO has
been received by directors of the In
diana hospital, in Indiana, from Miss
Reorgine Iselin, of New York.
Work has been begun on tearing
down No. 2 stack of the Eastern Steel
company, at Pottstown. which will be
i rebuilt in most modem lines.
The Herald, Titusville's only news
paper, has increased its subscription
rates to twelve cents a week, and ad
vertising rates ten per cent.
Playing with matches near an open
kerosene lamp at Mahanoy City, Jean
ette Janosky, four, was so horribly
burned that she cannot recover.
State Education Superintendent N.
C. Schaeffer told the American School
Peace league at Harrlsburg he op
posed schor' military training.
Asphyxiated through a broken pipe,
Hezekiah Dailey, aged seventy, a night
watchman, was found dead in the base
ment of an Easton trousers factory.
Thieves stole $26 from the home of
Alderman Joseph Moody, Hazleton,
while the family was out of town.
Dragged by a train she was trying
to board, Miss Lorena Kllmore, Me
chanicsburg. was seriously Injured.
Hazleton's American Red Cross So
ciety elected T. D. Jones president,
and Mrs. C. J. Kirschner, secretary.
The various collieries of the M. S.
Kemmerer Coal company, near White
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 Bloucb has been rearrested
at Lebanon, cl urged with deadly as
sault upon and robbery of E. E. Ar
nold.
Strausstown women boycotted mill*
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
a bonus of five per cent on their earn
ings.
Ellis Kempfer, of Battery A, First
Field Artillery, South Bethlehem, Is ill
with pleurisy in a Kansas City hoe
pital.
Too deaf to hear warnings. Jacob
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.
kick of a pet horse.
More than 1000 college men from
all parts of the country attended the
biennial national convention of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, at
Pittsburgh.
Only the fact that hfe had center
fire cartridges in a rim-fire gun pre
vented Raymond Lane, Carlisle, from
shooting John Baldwin, another negro,
at Newville, in a quarrel due to Jeal
ousy.
Bundling their three-months-old SOD
so that he would not take cold while
they were driving a mile to a neigh
bor's, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Shultz. ol
Madison township. Columbia county
arrived to find the baby smothered.
Figures compiled by the national
and state mining bureaus show that
of 518,000.000 tons of coal mined in the
country last year, Pennsylvania pro
duced 247,000,000, while of 767,554
men employed in the nation's mine?
there were 3*55,073 in Pennsylvania
mines.
Figures compiled by the department
of agriculture for 1916 show an in
crease in farm wages in Pennsylvania
The average per week, with board, was
$2.35, some countle# reporting as h!gfc
as $3.25. The monthly average wae
$27.50. Harvest hands received an
average of $1.89 per day, the rate be
ing as high as $2.50 in some countiea