©®®®®©®®®@®®©®®©®®®®@®®@®®@®®@®@ ©@®©@@@©@©@®©©©©. @ , ® I I I Announcement ! j § | Having* just purchased of 4 'THE § | STORE" at a great sacrifice the en- | 1 tire stock of Beds, Springs, Mattres- | I ses, Pillows, Comforts, Tables etc., it I enables me to offer some very choi © ® I ce barg-ains to my customers in fact | I some g-oods at almost 1-2 their real | 4|U igt & ® value. g | Marino Pace | I North Homer City f • 1 f 2 8 I @@®®®®@®®©©©©@®®®@@®®®®®@®®@®®®@ ©®©©®®®©@©®©©©©® pfiiTmirncZ ~ :^== j 'SBiitnri'g M M 1 F&CiS Versus • - F a!l&cies FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument. \ THE FALLACY of Prohibition is very sanely shown by a recent | ODftinDm A M rrticle entitled "An Englishman's Experience of Temperance PROHIBITION Reform," written by Cecil Chesterton. His views are well worth FALLACY the reading —--— Sii nf NO Saloons AYS Mr. Chesterton: "One dogma common to all schools ot 'Temperance Reformers' in England is that the way to reduce |\ V L?rifftK.&ru j drunkenness is to reduce the number of 'facilities for dnnking. It was useless to meet this dogma by an appeal to human experience fa/y as every educated and traveled man knew it. It was useless co f\\ I point out that in those places, which, according to this theory, J . ought to be given over to a continual debauch of alcoholism in lal g Paris, where whole streets consist of nothing but a long row ot |J/ M-l 'facilities'; in the small French country towns, where the inquiring 11 *-*>-4. stranger is perplexed as to how any of the cafes can pay, since 11» # W everyone in the town seems to keep one—that it v.as just in such " pi places that one practically never saw a drunken man. |~| /"ft EN of our European blood and civilization (from which the . " ir~\ civilisation of America also derives) have always regarded fermented drink as a part of the normal food of man. . . . We find the old Puritans, for all the ferocity of their attack on human . nature, never attempting to stop the consumption of fermented drinks. They forbade men to drink "healths, but they never thought °* forbidding them to drink wine or beer, presumably because it I?;' Jhi* ' j had never occurred to them that these things were even luxuries, ft' jf fit] They regarded them as normal to man. <<Y%7HEREVER restrictive legislation approaches anywhere * ■ near the point of Prohibition, which is its obvious goal, it invariably tends to produce another set of evils. It does not sup press drinking, but it makes it secret, furtive and thoroughly un- -JMI 1MIII „ IU wholesome. By treating a normal human habit as a vice it really often makes it one." n II 3 fi SI MR. CHESTERTON concludes his article with a touch of fl n n n n humor that does not lessen, but rather accentuates the "'[Mi ®j jgj § FALLACY of Prohibition in the light of the FACTS he presents. 'lj? He says: "I passed a few days in 'dry' territory, and couid not for- §j|g|Eailg=Ji [r3 bear to notice the number, size, prominence and luxurious appear- • n' p „p ( - Tnß pi ance of the drug stores in every Prohibition city I visited. I sug- (fj- j»r gest that this may be held to point to one of two conclusions. Il"' Either these institutions do not exist solely for the sale of quinine ii 1•' -S1 [Mi K1 fofl V and sal-volatile, or else Prohibition does not appear to improve the CJ * health of tliose on whon it is enforced." u ~ \ Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association == OnUnll. —' —H-lmMmt-U- PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions of the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout th# Keystone State. Newville wants a municipal ligut and power plant. President C. C. Ramsey, of the Cru cible Steel company, died at Sewick ley. The oldest woman in Monroe coun ty, Mrs. Eva Smale, aged ninety-five, died. •rne Allentown Turner and Lieder kranz will build a new hall at a cost of $20,000. A Valley engine struck a deer at Rockport, and rolled it down an em bankment. Carlisle's shoeshining and tobacco store owners have been notified to close on Sundays. Lehigh and Panther Creek miners are working more steadily than at any time in a decade. A five per cent raise, with overtime for holidays, has been granted to Ha zleton brewery workers. The Reading Transit company, on its Reading and allied lines, carried 38,500,000 passengers last year. Berks County Agricultural associa tion elected W. Harry Orr president and Daniel .T. McDermott secretary. In a collision of an automobile and trolley car at Mechanicsburg, Wesle -1 * Miller and the motorman were injured. Lancaster's Penn Iron works, idle ten years, will resume, rolling steel and iron bars, under New York aus pices. Final steps are being taken to pro vide for Adams county its first v<~op tional high school, probably at Arendts ville. Incensed at the removal of their health officer, Altoona doctors want a law giving third-class cities power of recall. The Union Fire company, of Lan caster. has celebrated the one hundred and flftv-seventh anniversary of its or ganization. The Lehigh Coal & Navigation com pany is taking out many short curves along its road between Lansford and Tamaqua. George P. Wilson, Philadelphia, has resigned as chief of the bureau of rates and tariffs of the public service commission. Mrs. Jane A. Kern, of Slatington. dropped dead just after reaching from attending the funeral of a friend at Neffsville. Fully one-third of the twenty-seven applicants for license in Cumberland county face hard fights with the no license forces. Stricken while shaving a patron, Grafton Zirn. a Carlisle barber, died a few minutes later of heart d.seas\ aged twenty-five. " The state treasurer nii' S7»V 500 to members of the le : atur? a first installment on thMr ■*: *:es r the session of 1? IT. SUPER-AEROPLANE CAN CARRY ELEVEN Photo by American Press Association. „ This |20,000 Curtiss air cruiser has two 100 horsepower engines. It Is designed to cany fire persons, bst sisTSO can occupy it It is flftj feet long. • Angered by wholesale "flunkings," Wathington and JefTerson college stu dents, at Washington, Pa., hanged a professor in effigy. Gilbert Greensburg, of Huntingdon, prominent in the State Firemen's asso ciation, has been appointed a deputy state fire marshal. Harry Peters, aged seventy-three, of Marorsville, near Kittanning, was kill ed when struck by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad. With a mill already employing 1500 hands at Hazleton. the Dauphin Silk company will build a four-story ad dition. 68 by 100 feet. Work on the construction of thie Wheeling Coal railroad, from Wheel ing. W. Va., to Marianna, Washington county, has been started. Hazleton has entered into competi tion with Weatherly for the acquisi tion of the proposed new Lehigh Val ley railroad repair Ihops. Mauch Chunk schools tfiis year will get $16,000 from taxes and state ap propriation and $7lOO from the Cum minsrs and Packer estates. Allentown's smallpox scare Is over, as it has been found the victim of the supposed pest is suffering only from a severe case of chicken-pox. Edward Bailey, of Harrisbure:, has been named receiver for the Williams port & North Branch railroad, with general offices at Hughesville. A consignment of 500 barrels of flour, the first of a large order from the British government, was shipper from Martinsburg to London. Charged with complicity In the dy namiting of the safe in Lawler's store, James Thornton was arrested by state police at Frackville and jailed. Union hod carriers at Pottstown adopted an eight-hour working day and an advanced wage scale, from forty to forty-eight cents an hour. Thrown under a train when brake stick broke at Frackville. George Fretz, aged thirty-five, a Reading rail road brakeman. was crushed to death. Thomas F. Smith has been elected president of the Citizens' State bank. Williatfisport, to succeed Charles W Weis, resigned to go into manufactur ing. The Montour county grand jury has returned a true bill against Robert Pursel, of Danville, charging him with the murdor of Mr. and Mrs. Johr Kern. York council reconsidered and in creased the tax rate one mill, to mills, to afford $27,000 additional reve nue for sewer and street improve ments. Enough orders until January, 1918, are in sight as a result of the war de partment giving a contract to the Jeanesville Iron works to supply small shells. Preparations are being made for the opening of the Wilkes rolling mill at Sharon, after being idle for three years. Two hundred men will be em ployed. Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Churchill, of Leroy, celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary with a dinner in the Grange Hall, to friends for miles around. Surrounded by many friends, Miss Hanna Griffith, of Hazleton, and Albert Reese, of Nesquehoning, were wedded In Mahanoy City by Dr. Sorrs, of Phil adelphia. Gas from a cellar furnace probab'y would have killed the family of Wal ter Filing, at Shippensburg, had not the baby's cries awakened Mrs. Filling Just in time. William Daufenbach has resigned as deputy warden and executioner at the new penitentiary at Rockview, Centre county, and has been succeeded by Fred B. Healy. After taking forty-five ballots the Snyder county commissioners have elected P. Scott Ritter, of Middleburg, to the new $lOOO sealer of weights and measures job. Alfred Cathers and Nervin Coombe, of St. Nicholas, crashed into an auto mobile while coasting at Suffolk and were badly hurt. Managers of big coal companies in the anthracite fields welcome the opin ion of Assistant Attorney General Kel ler that nurses have the legal right to administer anesthetics. Fire believed of incendiary origin destroyed the hosiery mill at Middle town of H. A. Bomberger, of Philadel phia. The loss is $150,000, ineluline $40,000 worth of yarn. During 1916, 3820 arrests were made in New Castle. Of these 3308 we-e made since the first of April, when the city an 1 county went "wet" after a "dry" period of six years. Agents representing the Italian government are going through the an thracite fields to induce reservists of that country to return and enter the army. The historic old Gettysburg Presby terian church, used at the time of the battle of Gettysburg, as an army hos pital, is undergoing repairs and reno vation. The past year brought 131 new fac tories to York county for the manu facture of cigars and other forms of tobacco, and now there are 1500 in the county. The trustees of Allentown College for Women, now located at Cedar Crest, have sold the old college build ings in the city to A. D. Gomery for $28,500. An explosion of gas blew a section of the wall out of the Ward apart ments, in Altoona. Mrs. George Slea mond, aged twenty-six, was perhaps fa tally burned. Caught between a tank and shaft wheel, Frank Salinko was crushed to death and Joseph Galinsky seriously injured at Lehigh C. & N. water shaft No. 6, Tamaqua. ' Two hundred and fifty employes of the D. M. Bare & Co. paper mill at Roaring Spring have been notified of a ten per cent increase in wages, ef fective January 1. Josept Pisko. aged seven, son of John Pisko, of Meadowlands, died in the CHy hospital, in Washington of a fractured skull, received when he was kicked by a horse. Drawn into a sand crusher, a hand and arm of Roy Bixler, aged twenty five. of Mount Holly Springs, were caught in the fork and mangled and torn off at the shoulder. Archibald Johnston, of South Beth lehem, has notified the public service commission of his acceptance to the chairmanship of the committee to bridge the Bethleheftis. Caught beneath a fall of frozen earth at the concentrator plant of the Bethlehem Steel company, at Lebanon. Raymond Donhower, aged nineteen, died of internal injuries. Virtually scalped by an assailant with an ax, Wassil Fatalowitch, of Sandy Run. walked into Dr. Richard Truckenmiller's -office at Freeland for first aid and twenty-five stitches. William B. Wilson, secretary of la boT; Congressman J. Thomas Heffiin, of Alabama, and John J. Reardon, of Philadelphia, were speakers at the Jackson day dinner in Williamsport. All the salaried employes of the Le high and New England Railroad com panv who have been in the service one year have received a bonus, the amounts varying according to position. Dr. J. A. Tweedle, of Weatherly, a civil war veteran and Mason for over half a century, enjoys the distinction of having shaken hands with every president from Lincoln to the present day. Allentown merchants have been swindled out of several hundred dol lars by a man who got checks cashed by showing a bogus bank book which indicates that he has a large balance on deposit. Hog cholera has made its appear ance in the Perkiomen valley for the third time within a year, and William Debert, of Zieglerville, has lost eight hogs through the disease and twelve more are dying. Charging that the defendant bea and abused her while serving papers at the farm of her husband. Mrs. Au gusta Redmer. of near Hazleton. started suit for $25,000 damages against Constable John W. Smith. Runaways from an institution near Chambersburg, Hannah Kline, aged eighteen, with her hair trimmed and dressed as a boy, and James Jones, aged twenty-seven, were arrested in Shippefisburg while starting for Cali fornia. Pennsylvania's postmasters recently appointed were confirmed by the United States senate as follows: Frank Clancy, Conneautville; Joseph L. Infield. Fredonia; Edward F. Paist, McSherrytown: Katharvn McCellan. Marienville. Three barns were burned and three residences were damaged, causing ; total loss of $5500 in Applewold, acros the Allegheny river from Kittanning The buildings burned were those o Mrs. t Holtzhauer, Herbert Booher an I M. A. Millron. James A. McMillin, aged seventy eight, of New Castle, died after an ill ness of a week. Mr. McMillin was twice elected county commissioner of Lawrence county. He was a veteran of the civil war. He leaves one sor and one daughter. William Savres, stable foreman at the new penitentiary at Rockview, ha? been missing: 6ince December 26. His pocket book, containing $9.75, and hfs gold watch were found in the barn at his home near Mt. Eagle, though he he has not been seen near there. Fearing arrest in several small thefts, Joseph Macovitch, aged four teen; Michael Gaby, twelve, and George Gaby, thirteen, ran away from Hazleton, but were captured, armed with a revolver, in the storage house of the Weatherly candy factory by ! Chief of Police Auchey. State Zoologist J. G. Sanders, of tlie* state department of agriculture, in an estimate made public, says that re ports show a loss of $25,000,000 a year to farmers, fruit growers and market gardners due to insect pests. The cereals were damaged to the extent of $10,000,000, and fruits about $8,000,- 000. After starting an investigation of the death of Mrs. Mary Ahmer Adon na, who was found murdered in her home on the Three Degree road. Bredesville, near Butler, the state po lice apprehended Tom Ahmer, a broth er of the dead woman, and are hold ing him as a material witness. The police are also looking f»>r Charley Ahmer, another brother, whD has been missing since January 4. * ' In view of the* increased cost of foo.f York court has Increased' the compen sation of Sheriff Haas for feeding pris oners in the county jail from thirty • four to thirty-five cents a day. Philip Leblang. fifteen years old, of Pot tat own, gave twenty-seven square inches of skin from his legs and arm* to he grafted on his first cousin, who was hadlv burned in Pittsburgh. Fire of unknown origin threatened destruction of the business section of Greensburg, hut was finally overcome. , The loss, mostly sustained by L. S. Neish, a grocer, is about $lO,OOO. Charged with stealing the automo bile in which he was traveling, Emmet Resencrance, Binghampton, N. Y., wan arrested by Constable Stevens, Stev ensville. and jailed for extradition. 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 years,, J. W. Bradley was recognized at once by his sister when he returned to Ebervale, near Hazleton. A shortage of water exists 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 Bpending 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 Georgine Iselin, of New York. Work has been begun on tearing down No. 2 stack of the Eastern Steel company, at Pottstown, which will be rebuilt in most modern 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 Harrisburg he op posed schoc* 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. K*NDNEBB. When we consider the i eeulta ;; | it bringe I wonder why it la we I!| are not ail kinder than we are. :![ :: How easily it is done! How in- :!! :: stantaneously it acts! How in- :j| :| faliibly it is remembered!— : Drummono. Professional ffiournere. In ancient times funerals were frt owed by professional mourners, who imulated the appearance of the wlld st grief. The custom survives In the valley of Sondrio, in the Alps. There the women <lo not follow the ftmeral,. but they group themselves at the en trance to the cemetery and burn, in honor of the dead, candles which vary in siaccording to the remuneration. They are as prodigal as were the mourners of ancient times in their siix> illation oi . .vccs.sive grief. London Spectator.
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