■ ©©@@@©©@©@®@©®©®©©@©®®@©®@©®®@©© ®®®®@@®®®®@®@©®®. ® © I ! Announcement S © f ® © | Having* just purchased of "THE § I STORE'' at a great sacrifice the en- J 1 tire stock of Beds, Springs, Mattres- f © ses, Pillows, Comforts, Tables etc., it S I enables me to offer some very choi- I ce bargains to my customers in fact I I some eroods at almost 1-2 their real I | value. | I Marino Pace | 1 I I North Homer City S i S i « —= i -^"gopa | ' Facts Versa* r « I 11.I 1 . 11 :■ rSp. ■ ill I FACT is a real stale of Liinrj; LLACY is an appar- \ ently genuine bvt really' illovr ' ' 'cnt, or argument.- A MONG the several States that were deluded by FAT '' CIEC into going under Prohibition law last year were Colorado ! and lowa, and the daily newspapers supply ail-sufncier.t c r . - : . r | conditions within those boundaries to prove the FACT ct "dry" $1 |J O 1 failure. For instance, the Trinidad (Col.) Ciironicle - A h>>r~ ov |\(Q O-&10OJ1S { h recent date said: 'Jt* j 6< l S prohibition prohibiting in Colorado? Police rr~' -• 1 s at thH . -I writing are indicating clearly that there is fv>; mnc.h, if |V' 1- U not r.ore. drunkenness/and use of liquor with the ;: Jc of iiquo * ! liivl v iJi *7 prohibited and all drinking establishments closed than there was _J Hi C 3 in corresponding periods prior to the time the ]?\r cent into J* iii lIWI I P I, . II . W -'j effect, and this condition does not mean that there has been any Ef less energy manifested by officers of the law to enforce the law. Drunkenness and the use of liquor is steadily increasing. Trini- - -> -* Y\'.. : = pj dad police records show twice as many arrests for drunkenness 2 |]jj this month than in Anril last year when the saloons were open.' « n® * [ ny y II ; ' "~fj T.OWA became officially "dry" on January i, igi6,and the results Syy S/s . of Prohibition in that State are described by the Des Moines Tribune as folio*,vs: !'V '■> r "H R . J. EDWARD KIRBYE, 'the Des Moines workwoman's x. friend,' declared today that in his five years in Des Moines / | he had never seen more drunken men on the streets here than ! ' drunkenness M there were las. night. Dr. Kirbye ?.ted: 'Something should surely ' onc about it. If a mass meeting is called, I for one would be o/// g*ad to go before the people and tell them of the conditions now I : 3 sec '"-h 2lll - I would like to tell them of the facts I have dis- : J . ) ere i at the Workingmen's Home, and let them know how • v.i enness has increased among the workingmen.' Finance Superintendent Tom Fair weather asked for armed detectives to guard the city treasurer's office today because of the criminals and robbers in the city!" . . /^V7SZ / 7/) THE aforestated additional FACTS, of how Prohibition tails in L///,-. , //, Western States, as testified by leading newspapers, ought to \ convince Pennsylvania Prohibitionists that their "dry" doctrine is Y////1&J) vv, ) FALLACIOUS and leads its adherents only down a blind alley. X/ Ab "Weiter"/y/- ' Xfrri unc^er U Z. Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association J S 100 PVinMin'l-V =>nm?.Ti»R|< —)UhiillinC! Napoleon's Tirst Love. The little French town of Auxonne Is not associated in the popular mind with Napoleon; but, as Miss Bethain- Edwards reminds us in "Unfrequented France," he spent some years of his cadetship there. "In the Saone he twice narrowly escaped drowning, and here, too, as narrowly, so the gtory runs, marriage with a bourgeoise maid en called Manesca. Two ivory counters bearing this romantic name in Napo leon's handwriting enrich the little mu seum." What He Advised. A young man unhappily married and practically penniless took his tale of woe to a prominent divorce attorney in Chicago and concluded with this: "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. Iron In Plants. Iron is the substance which gives the green appearance to foliage. It forms a constituent part of chloro phyll and is the green coloring matter which stains the bodies inside the cells of leaves, called plastids. When the first organized food is be ing formed in the leaves from water and carbonic acid gas a certain amount of energy is required. This is obtain ed from the sun's rays, but the work of absorbing it is carried out by the chlorophyll. It requires very little iron for the production of all the chlorophyll found in a crop, and nearly all soils contain an abundant supply.—London Standard. Things or the Past. Betty had been punished. Her aunt did not know that, and when she came into the room and found Betty sitting disconsolately before the window she said: "Why, look at our little Betty. She looks ready to cry. What is go ing to happen, I wonder?" Betty looked up and then said sol emnly, "It has happened."—Exchange. Watch Your Pep. Pep is a slang word invented to con vey tiie idea of those "who are 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.. Throne Jewels. In the "gold pantry" at Windsor cas tie, 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 breait. Ac cording to an old Indian legend, who ever owns this bird will rule India. TO BUILD SHIPS AT COST PRICE Bethlehem Stee! will Make Of fer fo Uncle Sam. BIDS ON 16 INCH NAVY SHELLS No Chance For Profit In Them Under Present Teste, Grace Says—Possible Explanation of the Prices Made by an English Firm Which Bide Under All American Manufacturers. Speaking recently before the Terra pin Club ef Philadelphia, Eufene O. Grace, President ef the Bethlehem Stee] Gompanj, said is part: T n a peculiar sense Bethlehem Stee! serves the America* people. For example, though we hare been able te obtain in Europe almost any price, we hare adhered, in our charges to the United States Government, to the baa 1b ef prices established before the war began. We agreed—if the Government would abandon its plans for a Federal plant to make armor for our Navy at anp prie• the Government itself might con sider fmir. Our ordnance plants are at the dis posal of the nation at a fair operating cost, plus a small margin, thus saving the Government investment and de preciation. One ef the special needs ef the new navy is sixteen-inch guns—guns sixty feet long and capable of hurtling a 2000 pound shell with such power and accuracy as to hit a 50 font square tar get fifteen miles away. We have undertaken voluntarily to construct, at a cost of $4,500,000, a plant fitted to build sixteen-inch guns. Under no conceivable circumstances can orders which we may receive for this plant pay even a fair return on the investment. Considerable comment has been made upon the fact that a British manufac turer recently bid less than American manufacturers for sixteen and four teen-inch shells for the navy. I am unable to state the basis upon which the English bid was made. It should be remembered, however, that this bid was for a specific shell, sam ples of which are being sent over for test—a test not yet made. Two years ago we took an order for 2400 fourteen-inch armor-piercing shells at a contract price of $768,000, to be delivered within a certain time or we had to pay a large penalty. The only specifications for making these shells are that they shall be of a certain size and must pierce armor-plate at a certain velocity on im pact. It is impossible to foretell the exact conditions of the tests. We had made large quantities of shells in the past which had been accepted. But in placing this particular order the Department altered the angle at which the tested shells must pierce armor plate. The result, however, has been absolute inability on our part to pro duce in any quantity, shells which will meet these novel tests. In fact, we know of no process of projectile-mak ing through which it is possible to pro duce in quantities shells which will conform to the requirements. The result is that up to now on that ; contract of $768,000, we have put into actual operating expense $447.881.. and have been penalized for non-delivery $495,744., a total of $943,625.. with no receipts whatever. Such was the experience in the light of which we were»called upon recent ly to bid for sixteen-inch shells. We bid on these shells at approxi mately the same rate per pound as that of a fourteen-inch shell contract of one year ago upon which the Gov ernment awarded contracts. We have not the slightest idea what profit there will be in the making of these shells. We do not know that there will be any. There is no certain ty that it would be possible for us to deliver a shell to meet the test. For officers in the Navy to assume that any bid made under such condi tions is "exorbitant" is utterly unfair. We bid on the new battle-cruisers sums which Navy department experts, after examination of our books, found would yield a profit of less than ten per cent. We agreed to assume risks for increased costs of materials and la bor. that made it possible that these contracts might yield no profit what ever. The costs run beyond the amount ap propriated by Congress on the basis of the cost estimates made a year ago. And because shipbuilders could not alter the inexorable cost facts and re duce bids to early estimates of the Navy Department, the prices are called "exorbitant." It would be a real advantage to be relieved of this naval construction. The profit from it cannot possibly amount to much, and the responsibility is enor mous. We have determined to make this offer to the American Government. "If you will build two of the battle cruisers in Government navy yards, we will build the other two at the as certained cost of building the ships in the Government yards, without addi tional expense or commissions of any kind. We will also contract to have our ships ready for service ahead of the Government ships." „ PENNSYLVANIA' NEWSJN BRIEF interesting items From All Sec tions of tie State. CULLED FOR QUICK BEADING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone Stat*. Lewlstown has been raising munici pal salaries. Carlisle observed the blue law Sun day, as per warring. Hazleton is alarmed over the pres ence of a "Woman in Black." The state employment bureau found jobs for 1590 persons in December. Fifteen cases of whooping cough are under the care of physicians at Dela no. Gasoline fumes igniting, Lester Sp&hr is In Carlisle hospital, badly burned. Altoona is advised to hire a city manager and provide for a better water supply. The Sunbury Daily and Sunbury Daily Item have increased their price to two dents. Northumberland county court will bar saloon side rooms and order eleven P. M. closing. On his way to work, near Lancas ter, Jacob A. Greenberger fell dead ot heart disease. Farmers in the valleys near Hazle ton are refusing $1.50 a bushel for po tatoes in their bins. Pittsburgh council sustained Mayor Armstrong's veto of a $lO,OOO gift to the Lake Erie canal. Reading Freight Conductor John Buehler was run down and killed in the yard at Tamaqua. Attendance at farmers' institutes in the state this winter is greater than ii has been for years. The Easton Lodge of Moose will erect a $50,000 clubhouse on the site of its present quarters. AHoona dealers are retailing pota toes at $2.40 a bushel, the highest price ever charged there. The Barnes Coal company, Bnrne~- boro, has elected A. R. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, vice president. Leaving home to go to a dentist's, Mrs. Louise Honat, of Hazleton, has mysteriously disappeared. Shippensburg has the youngest bar ber in the state —John, ten-year-oil son of Charles E. Shepherd. Coming in contact with a stove, Jo seph Navitskv, three years old, was fatally burned at Shenandoah. Allentown has 10,645 pupils in its grade schools and 1006 in the high school, a gain in a year of 1891. John F. McConnell has been ap pointed treasurer of Mercer county, to succeed Uriah A. Hanna, deceased. The Savre Daily Times-Record as been purchased by Dana R. Stephehs, prominent in Bradford county politics. The State Leasrue of Boroughs wi'l ask for a law giving larger sieasu r es of home rule to small municipalities. The Tamaqua school board is con sidering a proposition to erect a hig'i school building to cost about $lOO,OOO. Allen workmen's holidays cut the coke output of the Connellsville region down to sixty-five per cent the past week. Franklin Sauders was instantly kl'l ed when a locomotive on a narrow gaugt road near Renovo jumped the track. Lutheran Orphans' Home, Toptor, received a bequest of $5OO through the will of the late Miss Kate Howed, of Northampton. Young men are continually leaving the lower anthracite region to engage in other industries that pay better than minine. Regardless of the high cost of liv ing, prisoners at Berks county J*ul during 1916 fed at a cost of four teen cents a day. A shirt factory will be opened soon at Sheppton, a small mining town near Hazleton. dependent up to this tim on the coal mines. Her clothing igniting at play. Mary Klusko. aeed five years, of was so badly burned that her recovery is not expected. Freeland people threaten an appeal to the public service commission charging that they are being served with condemned coal. Morea, "spotless town" of the an thracite coal fields, has been presen'ed by the C. M. Dod?on Coal company j with a skating pond. About forty per cent of the scales and twenty per oent of the measure used in Perry county last year were condemned as Inaccurate. Estimates that 5,000,000 acres of barren land in Pennsylvania can be reclaimed by reforesting on a system atic basis have been made. The Tamaqua Manufacturing com panv has started its large plant, wo'b !ng nine hours instead of ten hours ? dav -with no reductions in pay. An association of York propert7 owners to legally contest the city'- right to compel connection with th - i new sanitary sewerage system hi been 'ormed. A, H. Christian. Y. M. C. A. physi : cal director, at Hazleton, has been zp j pointed general secretady to succeed P. C. Messersmith, who goes to Den ver, February 1. ! Demand* for additional teachers in j the continuation schools o' this st?te h*"? led the estaMi°hment of a t ers* training school at the Pennsylva ! nia Stats collage. Laffcyette Short? a wall-known' rail road man of western Pennsylvania, dropped dead at the P. & L. E. round* house at New Castle. He was general roundhouse foreman. Members of Company L, Fourth regi ment. Easton, brought back from the Mexican border thirty prairie dogs, a trained raccoon, numerous horn ad toads and other curios. Employes of the hot mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plate com pany at the Farrell works at Sharon have been granted an increase of wages of about six per oent. Mrs. Mary Jane Williams, aged seventy-four, of Ohio Pyle. near Con* nellsville, has filed divorce proceed ings against her husband to whom ahe was married forty-eight years ago. That farm laborers are very scfarce in Berks county was demonstrated when a farmer vainly offered $1.25 a day the year round, including board, washing, mending and social equality. Exploding gasoline at Carlisle caus ed the serious injury of Lester Spahr, a garage employe, and started a blaze which destroyed three automobile* and a repair shop, at a loss of $5OOO. Agents for English and French flrmi are still touring the Lehigh Valley and the lower anthracite region te buy out entire stocks of shoes at prices thirty 5 per cent above their local valuation. Foxes are so numerous In the vicin ity of Trochsville, Carbon county, that farmers are at a loss as to what to do with them. Heretofore they poisoned them with strychnine, but this is pro hibited. The Lehigh Machine works, at Le highton, which is manufacturing muni tions. is working day and night, and even so it is unable to fill all its order* promptly. New men are being em ployed daily. The commissioners of Montgomery and Chester oounties will build a $lOO,. 000 concrete bridge to replace the old iron structure over the Schuylkill river, connecting Royersford and Spring City. Over $13,000 was paid into the treas ury of Woatherly in 1916 in receipts from the municipal electric light plant, a good paying proposition, and is very largely instrumental in keeping the taxas down to a minimum. "Goodby, Joe." laughed Joseph For chla, acred 37, of Johnstown, as he plac ed the muzile of a pistol in his mouth and killed himself. The shooting took place in a grocery store, of which Forchia was the proprietor. When Charles Lowen, arrested for stealing pig lead from the stereotvp Ing room of an Easton newspaper, was weighed at the county prison he tip ped the beam at 145, but after the searching process had been completed he loßt thirteen pounds. A compensation referee has award ed Mrs. \lma Johnson and her infant daughter $4296 for the death of An drew Johnson, husband and father, em ployed by the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company, at Patton, and killed while pushing a mine car. John Ponti. aged seventy-three, an Italian musician of Mill Run. neai Connellsville. died at his home. He had played several limes before the king of Italy and the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. He came several years ago and engaged in farming. Ouster proceedings have been instl tuted by the district attorney against W. J. Hauser, president of White Ha ven school board, on charges that he signed orders for payment to himself of bills rendered by him to the school board for writing and lighting the. schoolhouses. Independent coal operators of the Monongahela valley will fight the plan of the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany, made known in a notice of ap/ plication filed before the Pennsylvrf nia public service commission, to make rates and to furnish cars only for pro ducers with tipples. Edward Fahl, thirty-seven, walked into an Easton hotel, and, after being refused a drink, sat In a chair. A short time later, when an effort was made to arouse him it was found he was dead. Recently he was found in the shed of a brick yard nearly dead from starvation and exposure. The state public service commission has changed from Harrisburg to Al lentown a hearing on February 8 of applications of citizens of Catasauqus for a five-cent trolley fare, for a muni cipal electric light plant and for a permit to build a bridge over the Le high & New England railroad. Meadville will be "dry" for at least another year. In the list of ten ap plications to sell liquor which will come before the Crawford county li cense court in Februarv none from Meadville appeared. There are si* from Titusville and four from Cam -1 bridge Springs. The "dry" forces are already at work fighting the appJlca tions. Fire broke out in the eighth grade room of the Glade School, at Warren while the teacher. Miss May Mooney, was absent. Edward Nicholson, aged fourteen, rose and commanded the other children to form the Are drill They did so and emerged in safety from the building. Aided by other boys, Nicholson then formed a bucket brieade and extinguished the flames before the firemen arrived. The Are was caused by extra gas pressure. The damage was small. For the second time within two years, at the risk of his own life, Oliver Grincs, a negro of Beave: rescued per.-ons from their burn- In/ home-. With the aid of a ladder. !v e carried Nicholas Foranzo, aared | thir*y-fiv«\ *>nd 111 In bed, from a ?eo l ond-story window of the letter's burn | ing horne r id then returned through smoke and f.ames to rescue Foran?o's tvo etna!! children. The children, sligl tly r by smoke. were can | ried to safety. The dwelling was de stroyed.
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