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Belletonte, Pa., September 22, 1916
Czar of Russia is Richest Man.
Not Rockerfeller, Morgan, Roths-
child, nor Krupp!—The richest man
in the world is a mere multimillion-
aire, whose wealth can’t be estimated
by the income tax experts. He is the
Czar of Russia, and no man living
knows his wealth. His income is said
to be a millon or so a day, so that
one could roughly work out a capital
of something like ten or thirty bil-
lions as the sum of his possessions,
but after all it is only guess work.
The Dayton “Daily News” explains
something of the source of this vast
property:
As head of the church, he owns all
the church property of the realm,
amounting to billions. But that can
be left out of the consideration. He
owns in his own name a hundred and
fifty million acres of land, and upon
this land are the most magnificent
timber, the most collossal mines, and
agricultural lands enough te furnish
food for 2a nation of people. The
State, or Government pays him a sal-
ary of ten million dollars a year; and
if he wanted more all he would have
to do would be to sign an order de-
manding it, since he is the State him-
self, in a sense.
The Czar pays his own expenses.
That is, he maintains his own palaces
and royal residences, some one hun-
dred in number, and takes care of the
cost of the households of all the royal
personages of the nation. This in-
volves some thirty thousand servants,
three hundred automobiles, five
thousand horses, and a small army of
soldiers and secret service men. So it
is necessary that he have considera-
ble income.
All the mines of Siberia are owned
by the Czar personally. He gets a
royalty upon every ounce of mineral
"that is mined. The agricultural
lands are rented, and the forests are
being worked up into timber, which
must be accounted for. So no matter
how the war terminates, unless Ger-
many is able to overrun Russia and
take the entire ‘country, the Czar is
not likely to suffer from the heat in
the summer or the cold in the win-
ter.—Ex.
Pennsylvania Ranks Second as Apple
Producing State.
Pennsylvania holds second rank
among the States in the production
of apples for the last seven years,
4,971,430 barrels being the average
annual yield.
“The average Pennsylvania apple,”
said A. R. Mason, in charge of the
horticultural extension at The Penn-
sylvania State College, “does not
take its place with fruit from other
States, because of the comparatively
slight attention paid to the produc-
tion of a first class article. Second
to none in quality and to those of only
one State in quantity, Pennsylvania
apples should, by proper methods of
production,, be made to meet more
largely the demands of all markets
and all cleasses of trade.”
Mr. Mason placed emphasis upon
the fact that no fruit will bear the
expenditure of a large amount of
money in getting it to the consumer
unless it be first grade product. Care-
ful pruning, spraying, even to the
extent of five or six applications, and
all of them at the right time, fertili-
zation and thinning are necessary to
produce fruit of uniform size and
grade. Cultivation for moisture con-
trol and the sowing of a cover crop
have proved to be the best methods
for bearing orchards, he added.
“When it is considered,” continued
Mr. Mason, “that failure in any one
particular may mean a partial or to-
tal failure in the apple crop, the im-
portance of careful orchard manage-
ment will be appreciated.”
Suspect Rat-Borne Flea.
The Commsisioner said the theory
that human beings transmitted the
disease by personal contact was still
consicered the most probable and the
one on which the Health Department
would contiue to act until furthr
proof of any other were obtained, yet,
he admitted, recent developments
point suspicion straight at the rat-
carried flea.
“We have eliminated every other
bug and animal,” said Doctor Emer-
son, “but the flea borne on rats. I
am not prepared yet to admit that we
have found the carrier.”
A doctor in the Health Department
said the Rockerfeller institute has
been working on the rat-flea theory in
their experiments with monkeys.
Prof. C. T. Brues, of Harvard Univer-
gt has been searching along similar
ines.
The Obstacle.
“My dear, our automobile looks so
cheap beside the one our neighbors
have. We ought to have the latest
make.”
“I know we ought, but this is the
only house I have to mortgage.”—
Baltimore American.
Rough Handling.
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First Editor—“Here’s one of the
most learned men in the country,
Professor Swimmerton, just passed
away. What shall I say about him ?”
Second Esitor.—“You migh: refer
«© tim as a tin'ched sea: "—Los
Ap roles Express.
= Reasonable Doubt.
Suitor—“So you told your father
that I was earning $4,000 a year.
What did he say?”
The Girl—“He said he knew you
were getting that much, but he doubt-
ed you were earning it.”—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
‘No Deception.
“They say figures never lie.”
“They can’t very well with the
style of dresses women are wearing
nowadays.”—N. Y. World. :
i A Word for the Country Girl.
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keeping the boy on the farm has been
i thought serious enough %0 arouse
j consicerable discussion. The farmer
; has been told that he ought to provide
| the most modern agricultural ma-
| chinery in order to obviate the hard
labor of farming and keep the boys
interested; that he should send his
boys to a good school of scientific ag-
riculture; that he should set aside a
certain portion of the farm for the
boy and permit him to keep the profit
from his operation; and he has been
told many other things, in all of
which the importance of the boy to
the farm was emphasized and plans
suggested to make his lot a little
easier and more promising. The
county agent has interested himself
in the problem by organizing boy's
corn-growing and other agricultural
contests.
the farm? asks the Indianapolis
News. The girl does not ordinarily do
the heavy field work, but her services
in housekeeping, cooking and mend-
ing, as wel’ as in butter-making, car-
ing for garden and chickens. which
tasks usually fall to her lot, are sure-
ly valuable enough to warrant the
greatest consideration. And, yet,
discussion of the probiem of keeping
the girl on the farm is infrequent.
Consequently, the speaker who ad-
dressed the Bethany Park assembly
on the career of the farm girl can lay
some claim to originality. There was
nothing eulogistic about the address,
however. The speaker merely out-
lined the characterization of the per-
fect country girl and the ideals to
which she should aspire. The farm
girl, said the speaker, “will not hear
the music from famed orchestras and
artists, but from God's choirs—the
birds, the bees and the wind. She may
not see the masterpiece of art or
sculpture, but in the dawn of the day
and the colors of the sunset and the
blue of the sky she will discern glories
the most clever artist can never
depict on canvas.” All of which is
true, but in these days of traction cars
there seems no reason why she should
not enjoy the music and art as well as
the beauties of nature and, in addi-
tion, she might receive other things to
lighten her burden, such as an electric
butter churner, a fireless cooker and a
few days off each month for attending
clubs, or other recreation. At all
events, her brother should not be per-
mitted to monopolize public attention
to her exclusion.
The Most Valuable Herd.
The most valuable herd of animals
that any Government of the world
possesses is that of the fur seals
which roam over the eastern side of
the north Pacific Ocean and return for
breeding purposes to the Pribilof
Islands. After being sadly decimated
by indiscriminate slaughter at sea,
the herd has been rapidly recuperat-
ing under the influence of an interna-
tional agreement, and soon the fur
seals may be as numerous as when
they came into the possession of the
United States Government with the
purchase of Alaska.
The fact that the only land to which
these animals ever resort is two islets
in Bering Sea belonging to the United
States gives our Government a claim
to possossion such as is exercised over
no other wild creatures of water, land
or air.
In the summer of 1916 more than
100,000 young seals will have been
wdded to the Alaskan seal herd, whose
total strength will then be upward of
400,000 individuals of all classes. For
some years only a limited number of
seals have been utilized for the food
purposes of the natives; but after the
present close-time law commercial use
may be made of many young male.
which add nothing to the re-
productive capacity of the herd
and may properly be utilized for
their skins and other products.—Dr.
Hugh M. Smith in the National Geo-
graphic Magazine.
Lime and Fertilizer Pay Dividends
on College Farm.
A demonstration carried out on one
of the farms of The Pennsylvania
State College during the last three
vears gives further proof that lime:
may be applied to the average soil
profitably. The demonstration was
made a part of the regular farm
operations rather than an experimen-
tal project.
One-fourth acre plots were treated
as follows: (1) Nothing, (2) ground
limestone, (3) ground limestone and
commercial . fertilizer, (4) nothing,
(5) ground limestone and commercial
fertilizer, (6) commercial fertilizer,
(7) nothing.
In practically every instance the
plats receiving fertilizer and lime
yielded considerably more than those
receiving either lime or fertilizer
alone. Lime alone gave excellent
yields and profits proportionally.
The general conclusion to be drawn
from the demonstration is that there
is a limiting factor in the productivi-
ty of any soil. In this case lime was
the limiting factor. Considerable
money is lost by applying commercial
fertilizer alone to an acid soil and the
demonstration indicates that a maxi-
mum profit is secured when lime is
used to correct acidity and this treat-
ment is supplemented with commer-
cial fertilizer. Lime and fertilizer
together proved a paying combina-
tion. .
A Lesson on Cowardice.
Evelyn is very cowardly, and her
father decided to have a serious talk
with his little daughter.
“Father,” she said at the close of
his lecture, “when you see a cow, ain’t
you ’fraid 7”
“No, certainly not, Evelyn.”
‘ en you see a bumblebee, ain’t
you ’fraid ¢”
“No!” with scorn.
“Ain't you ’fraid when
ders?”
“No,” with laughter. “Oh, you sil-
ly, silly child!”
“Papa,” said Evelyn solemnly,
“ain’t you ’fraid of nothing in the
world but mamma ?”—Short Stories.
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In recent years the problem of |
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Indians Share $7,000,000.
ed as tribal royalties on coal and
A report by the Department of the
Interior shows the Government has
official care of more than 800,000 In-
dians. In the present month more
than $7,000,000 in per capita pay-
ments is being distributed to the
Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole
tribes alone.
In the last three years under the
administration of Secretary Lane
taw and Chickasaw tribes. Restric-
tions on alienation of 191,644 acres of
land were removed for the years
1913, 1914 and 1915. For the bene-
fit of allottees 159,000 acres of that
land were sold for $1,568,000. The
restricted allotted lands.
But how about keeping the girl on! |B
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YEAGER'S
Shoe Store
$3.00 $3.00
Special Bargains in Men’s
all Solid Leather Working
Shoes.
We have made a special
purchase on
Men's Working Shoes
These shoes are made of all
solid leather. The price on
all shoes has advanced, but
this purchase was made
for less than the old price.
If you are in need of good
Working Shoes
AT A LOW PRICE
you had better purchase
now. Your choice $3.00.
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‘H. C. YEAGER,
THE SHOE MAN,
Bush Arcade Bldg, 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
more than $687,000 has been collect |
asphalt lands belonging to the Choe- |
sum of $5,563,000 was collected in the ,
last three years as royalties for indi- :
vidual Indians from oil produced on |!
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ana our determination to
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Suits and Overcoats
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