CEMENT TAKES PLACE OF WOOD.
During the past five years the p#
duction of cement has doubled, in-
ereased from 25,000,000 to 51,000,000
barrels, due largely to the greater use |
made of it on farms and for rurel
dwellings. The relation of the in
creasing use of coment to the dimip-
$shing timber supply has been the
subiest of some interesting corres
pondence between the Geological
furvey and the Forest Service at]
Weshington. Director Smith of the |
Survey in a letter tn Forester Pin-
chot quoted {from a
statement of a
large Philadelphia firm
to the effect
that it would be difficult to estimate |
what the additional drain upon the |
Jun:bher supply of the country would |
have been, had not cement of late
rome into such general use. Mr |
Pinchot replied in part as follows:
Forest Service is watching |
wih a great deal of interest the |
fncy ~asing use of cement and other |
eu titutes for wood They are un-
doubted having some influence upon
the price of lumber, thought I do not
think that up to present time
they have greatly retarded the ad
vance in lmmber prices. The fact |
is, that our industr! progress has
been so great that our requirements
for every kind structura. material |
has increased tremendously. We are
using the present time more lum-
ber per capita than ever before and |
probably twice as much we did
fifty vears ago. The can-
not be escaped therefore
future
he past
The
the
11
*
2
at
as
conclusion
in the
than in
than
that
we must and more
upon
wood for least,
As to the
place in the prod
you are of oour
judze
that
H the
ment
years
fox
the
ertain
increase h will take
cement,
abla to
Iression
peti
se better
than I. but it is my im
this increase will great
¢
in of re.
the nse
States
rease in
past
in
of
in
any
re conclusions
well ground.
the production
show that
more
{inited
regarded
th
the
to be
future
Forester
in
is as
to the
Chief
ed The
of mineral
ment production
doubled in the last five years and it
is a well known fact that its use
fs being véry widely extended. This |
is due to two conditions, first, that
excellent cement materials are com
mon in almost alli sections of the
country and second, that reinforced
concrete for heavy building material
fs coming to brought into in.
ereasing favor with engineers, while
in the country sections largo’
amounts are being used for building |
blocks for smaller structures. —Guy FE
Mitchell in the Farmers’ Home |
Journal, i
are
statistics of
Cf
than
reanpurces
has
ye
FARM NOTES i
Much has been written about aiding
and hastening the molting of the
fens. Some successfully practice the
fasting giving no for
shout if they have wide
range no food ix given; I confined
to a pen just a little is given
a day. after feed them well
such food as linsesd meal, bone and
anima! meal, and a mixture of grain,
keeping the materials before the hens
all the time.
By this process
eompieta the molt
hreeds
time on the average
Clean water and grit are
handy all the time, and after
fasting period, a vessel of fresh milk |
will be found to be a great help.
While the feathers are dropping oat
keep a dust box well filled with fina
dry dust, and have a sprinkling of
fresh insect powder in the dust all
the time. They will come through
the molt comparatively free of lice,
Process, food
ten days
once
this of
large hreeds will
in six weeks tha
two weeks less
smaller in
2 kept
the
The good advice as to having farm |
stock go Into winter quarters in|
good flesh, applies with equal force
to the hens: they should not be over |
fat but shou he in good flesh, and |
in vigorous health |
The Hens that do not appear live'y
would much better be disposed
¥ as dry, there will be no trouble
ss gathering dust for the bath, bul;
don't put off the dust storing until ;
too late; the dry weather will change |
one of these days. |
If there is no chance to store the |
barrels or boxes or dust in the dry!
pie. a quantity of it in & corner of
the hen house as soon as the clean
ing up is done.
Wille on the storing subject don't
forget to gather a supply of forest
leaves for scratching purposes, un.
tess there is straw or clover shatter.
ngs.
Clover shattering are the best of
seratching material, because the hens
will get gaite a lot of excellent feed
out of them, :
No better roughmess for the form. |
ing of eggs can be obtained than
clover shatterings.
Treat your hens with respect and
they will look and feel respectable;
if right care is given, they will re
fnrn good profits —From “Moulting
Period Notes” in the Indiana Farmer,
PROPER WRIGHT OF GILTS.
Much has been written regarding
the proper size and welght which the
young sows that are to be retained
for breeding purposes should weigh
at one year of age. 1 know breed
ers who make the claim that 4100 to
$00 pounds is nothing startling fer a
glit to weigh at one year of age.
of. |
i
i
the achievements of men and breed
ers who are much older and more ex |
perienced than myself, vet it is a |
question in my mind if that Kind of
gilts would prove very successful in
the hands of any but an experienced
man, who has every convenience for
caring for them to the best possible
advantage and also had a large
amount of experience in caring for
this class of highly fitted stock.
To speak from the standpoint of
the average farmer, who finds it part
of his farm economy to grow his
gilts on pasture and a less concen-
trated grain ration, 1 would say that
a weight of 300 pounds at one year
of age is about all that could be
made without feeding an excess of
fat-producing foods that would be apt
injure the future usefulness
the young sows.
Another matter for
to consideration when we are admir-
ing sensational gilts at the
expositions is the fact that every one
of highly fitted individuals is
and in many cases
hardy
been
breeder
of
us to take in
these
age
eption, ten
and vigorous
ruined in ordex
might have the
one winner
less
may have
their
ones Or
honor
—W,
of showing
M. K. In
prize
the Epitomist.
HOW TO TREAT THE GARDENER.
Country gentlemen are always com-
piaining that cannot get and
gardeners and other em.
ployees that are necessary on a great
that they
Keep 200d
estate is that eam-
enough
tho
The chief trouble
ployers not willing to pay
first men,
¥
h - i! :
other facilities
are
to gel really class and
cottages which
they
CO
Mrs
daigua, N. Y., who employs
twenty men the round,
has any trouble in keeping
The secret of it is explained by
havisg built a clubhouse for the
It stands in midst
tegere (a combination cut
vegetable garden) of perhaps ten or
fifteen The lavatory
are excellent, and, In addition to oth
conveniences, each man has a
locker for his clothes which In well
ventilated. The men also have a
small cook-stove on which they can
make coffee for their luncheon, and
have tables where they can read the
and
supply for their men are not
ortabl attractive
‘anan
about
never
men
her
Wpson at
year
good
men
th a pro
16 of
flower and
facilities
acres
er
This may seem like a consider
able expense. but [ have no doubt that
it is warranted, because [t makes
such a great difference in the health
and good nature of the men and
consequently in thelr efficiency. —
Thomas McAdam, in Country Life
ASHES FOR SWINE
ashes is a good correction
at a disposal of the
upon it they will not
it than their system
mands Salt is another article that
shouid be supplied Corn and
water for hog feed is cheap in price
but a dear feed after all when gaines
are counted
When you
Wood
to keep
Depend
of
swine
eat
1
more de.
freely
gee a hog literally
standing on his head rooting in the
dirt in his pen you can depend on
it that his system demands something
that you have not supplied him with.
found
page —
to be
the
balance is sure
wrong side of
Home Journal
CHEAP FEEDING
Grit is cheap, water is cheap, so is
cheat. but hens often suffer for these
three things that cost nothing but
a little labor to prepare. Now that
coal is the main fuel, the hens will
get quite a lot of valuable “teeth.”
ledger
on the
Farmers’
ashes are emptied. Wake up and
make your gold mine pay —Indiana
Farmer.
TOO FAT FOR PROFIT.
There is mich sald about over-fat
hens, and the heavy breeds, careless
ly handled, will gét too fat to De
profitable; but it seems there are
as many too poor hens as too fat
ones, at least, that is the complaint of
the buyers when dressing time comes, |
~—Iindiana Farmer.
GARMENTS OF SKIN,
Great Quantities of Leather Now
Tanned for the Trade of Tailors
ments is now extensively carried on |
in Lynn, Peabody and Salem and in
are making
of leather for gamments, g
One sheepskin tanner of Peabod
gays that the purchase of leather by
tailors is now surprisingly
Sheep and goat are the skins chiefly
tanned in the North Shore district
According to the Shoe and Leather
Paper, the sheepskins are made into
fine silky white or colored fur skins
for baby robes and rugs, and also for
muffs, collar pleces, and even whole
coats for children. Another grade is
tanned with the wool on for costs for
motormen, expressmen, milkmen and
others who are out of doors In cold
weather. .
Munch chamois leather is sold for
vests and for Hains of Py
Chamols skins b @ Way, are
oly Tor a Gout
skins are tanned with the hair on In
1 is pot my purpose to belittle
imitation of bear skins,
a
¢
Y
a»
2
>
RESCUES AGED COUPLE. |
From Bed Of Fire.
Selinsgrove.
mal strength
ents
of abnor-
fU-vemr-!
Possessed
for his years,
Joseph Hoch, teeing his aged
grandparents slowly roasting to
death, dragged Mr. and Mrs. Josep |
i
ing wood fire. 1
Ar. Hoch was making soap om his |
farm just beyond the borough lHmits |
Selinsgrove. As the zged man
was anxious to discont nue his work |
he drew from under the kettle the |
large pleces of wood Then as he
was lean ng over the wind shield, he!
his balance and fell into the
embers,
Realizing
i ’
lost
his plight Hoch ealled |
frantically for he'p, and his screams
we:e aniwered by his aged wife. She
trudged across the lawn, and reach- |
ing over fender to grab her hus
tand, fost her balance. Canaght In
thiz heated death-trap, they remain
ed for an hour, as a st'rring breeze
drove upon them the heat of the fire.
Apra'led by the sight he beheld
the youth threw down his sebhool
and pulling desperately at
‘Grandma’s’’ waist, extir'cated her,
then lifted up hiz grandiather,
the
$ 1
WOOK 3
and
LOO
§
JUMPS FROM EXPRESS.
Woman Turns Somersanit But Lands
Feet Donn Twice.
Mister Condfine
off here and if you
jump of,” deciared
“Sure,
ret
i'n
, a domestic, who is em-
Prospect Park family
ned that the train wpon
riding from Chester
did not stop at
Mary Har
ployed in a
when she lear
which
that
\Vioore Stat'en
The condur’ or
irl she wou'd
was
to borough
smiled and told the
ave to go on to Phil
1¢ WAS On An OXPress,
her "Bat
back.” he sald
nothing.” exclaimed
made a break for the
and before the con-
brakeman could stop her
ped from the train upon
platform. She lighted
feet, turned = complete
but was om her fe
again in an instant The train was
topped and backed to the station
the conductor thinking the girl had
injured
“You m ght
topped for
angrily
trainmen Innnise
whe
car platform,
uctor
giri jur
giation
upon her
gomersanlt
Of
the
the
been
just have we'l have
in the first place. ™
cried Mary when one of the
i=et If at « wan hurt
me
REPEAL 61-YEAR-OLa LAW.
Lebanon Will Have Real ©dd-fash.
ion Fourth Of July.
City Councils paved the
of the olidime
ce ebration by pass
repealing the old
borough ordinance of 184%, whirk
prohibiis the sale and discharge of |
firecrackers within the city limits
It was under this law Mayor Mar
quart last year compelled a “male
and sane” celebration and aroussd
the {re of merchan:s by proll biting
from selling explotives. The
Mayor said that if the people d'd mot
want their laws enforced they should
repeal them The merchants have
been ag! ating the repealer ever
gince and it has now passed Conmnecils,
hanon
a return
July
ng an ordinance
them
ENTOMBED MINERS ESCAPE
Rut Two Dead And Fourteen Serie
ously Burned In Colliery.
Wilkes-Barre A terrific explo-
sion followed by & fire in the colliery
of the Pennayivania Coal Company at
Port Blanchard, near hese, caused
the death of two men, severely barn
ing fourteen others and shat in BRy
workers who, for five hours, if was
believed had little chance for esCtap-
ing That they finally made their
way out through a maze of old work-
ings heavy with smoke and the dead-
ly fire damp, Is considered almost
miraculous, gnd ther escape caused
rejoleing among the anxious hun
dreds gathered at the mouth of the
ghaft and who expected ench moment
to be informed that all were dead.
i
ADMITS KILLING HIS FATHER. |
— i
Man Makes Startling Confession,
Escapes, And Is Canght. i
Clearfield. — After admitling his |
name wag Alexander
Rosenbloom, |
body to New Jersey, |
where he buried it. a man ap |
swers the description of the tive, |
the police after a desperate struggle.
He is being held to await the arrival
of the Windber authorities.
Tee Famine Fearwd,
Stroudsburg. ~The mild and we!
weather has brought the ice business
in Monroe County Jo a and an
s 13 feared. ,
od amine more than half filed.
As the season is growing late, the
chances are that no more ice can be
cut,
The man later was captured by |
|
SHRI URE Afr at meat
Give Bridegroom Wild Ride.
Chester. —Harry Clendenning, who
was quietly married several evenings
ago to Miss Mae E. Marshall, in Wil
mington, was taken fn hand by
friends, placed in a wild animal cage
ng to the Hargreaves Circus,
and headed by a number of his fel.
low employees of the American Ste
youndry, was hauled through
ye marl ta.
ti he I rad home and found his
MINISTER'S SON A SUICIDE,
Despondent Over 111 Health Wilmer
Beyer shoots Himself,
Wilmer Beyer, 23
years old, a son of the Rev, George
John Beyer, the well-known evange-
list, committed suicide here by
shoot ing himself in the head with a
32-caliber revolver at his father's
regidence or, Barbadoes Street.
The young man had been despond-
ent over his poor health. His mothe;
heard the report of the revolver and
when she reached the bedroom,
found her son a corpse He haa
placed the muzzle of the revolver in
his mouth and pulled the trigger,
Norristown,
HUGGER GUILTY OF ASSAULT,
Youth Embraced Young Girl Who
Had Been “Skirt Dancing."
Media
of
his arm around
Schutt,
Michael Curry was found
guilty for
the
the 13-year-old
Schutt, of Leiperville Judge
Johnson sentenced Curry to pay a
fine and did not inflict a jail sentence,
The defendant and Mrs in
whose house the assault occurred,
both testified that the voung girl had
taunted Curry by a “skirt dance.”
admitted that he had hugged
the girl after had gone through
the performance he denied in-
tent to commit a crime
assault having placed
wa'st of Hebecca
daughter of
jeebe,
but
RILLED IN FOLDING BED.
Pigtsburger Loses His Life And Wife
Is Seriously Injured,
ries Murray, 29
and his wife
was when they
were cauginl in a {
cidently closed
alee)
The couple : ! went
sleep in a folding bed that is said
A
he room found
that ac-
were
»
to h been set up hurriedly
daughter entering
her mo ap } ather
their
enclosed in
Increase
York
Yark Sib
Wages Of Silk Weavers,
When the
Mil
their
sf $3
Weavers oil 1
¥s
Ik threatened to strike
un bess wages were increased,
the company conceded in part
their demands and the young
and women returned to work
the financial depression
he ght the weavers were
per cent A strike was averted when
Superintendent John Guyer promised
that an additional 43% per cent, had
taken off the cut in wages
to
men
When
was at
cut 12%
its
MA
“Salome” Outdone
Allentown in
Philadelphia detectives,
emploved by the
TO
In Saloon,
license Court here
who were
State Anti-SBaloon
evidence
and
gather
wine Jocal hotel
against whom remonstirances were
filet testified that in one of the
places that they vis ted a young wom-
an did the “Salome” dance that best
Oear Hammerstein's star's dance *
a frazzie.” Other orgies equally
sheacking were testified to
agains
saloonkeepers
1O
Aas
Crushed Robbing Coal Pillars,
Potisville in dan-
robbing pil-
in removing coal
Engaged the
eccupation of
Berous
lars, shich consist
anthracite
support thé roof of a
Michael B'sintain, aged 3
of Minersville, was caught b
fall of coal at Pine Hill col.
and his instantly crushed
from the solid columns
mine
i
¥
0
life
out
Mow For Scranton Saloon Keepers,
Scranton In the Tripp Park sec-
tion of the Twenty-first Ward it has
been discovered that a reservation in
the deed forbids the sale of liquor on
As there are seven
saloons or hotels located there and
detiring to en‘er, gioom
settled upon the countenances of the
STATE ITEMS.
Trying to board a Philadelphia &
Reading train near Potisville, Harry
Mertz, aged 13, fell beneath the
wheels and was erushed to death.
Captain James Boyd Rob'son, for-
mer Columbia County Solicitor, and
a war veteran, was found dead In
bed at his home at Espy, of paraly-
ais of the heart. He was 71 years
old and Is survived by a wife and
teven children
Thomas Corcoran, the oldest man
fn Chester County, died at his home
th Bik Township, near Oxford. He
was 103 years old and ‘had lived
sixty years in this locality.
THIS AND THAT
Cuba's population 1s 60.7 per cent
white,
London's newest fireboat
pump 900 tons of water an hour.
Gasoline can be used as a solder.
ing flux for very neat work on tn.
A German life preserver consists
can
attached a #mall metallic cylinder
filled with carbon dioxid ligquified.
This may be turned by a ta
belt where it volatil zes, inflating the
belt.
Lace dressing, the process between
weaving and finishing, loug was con:
gidered an unhealthful occupation be-
enuse carried on in a hot, humid at.
mosphere, until the British govern.
workers enjoyed better health than
those employed in other branches of
the lace industry.
The M Herald announces
that a movemekt is on foot for the
erect'on of a in elevator at Mexi-
eo City. At present the only one in
ublic is the small elevator on
that Soatzacoaloos River, near Banta
the Coatzacoslc
Lucretia, in Vera
rr
“J Qo 0 2
AN ART OF SMILING
What charm there is in a
yet what a rarity those days!
of us, especially women, have
the art. We have smiled so much
and so often to order, from a sense
of duty, that now the charming apon.
taneity of the act has entirely
appeared.
smile,
not be a continuous performance. The
habitual smile of society
devoid of charm from its
ing and unbroken quality.
more meaning than a mask,
which it may be removed at will
What do society maids know, those
who are called bright, animate],
sparkling, of the genuine, the uncon-
strained smile? When the sun
out of a cloudy sky,
brighten S80 the
diating grave
the glow that
is irresistible
Many
woman
is
upnchang-
it has no
breaks
sudden light
and tender
counts, flash
irra-
is
that
a face
the
i . 41 Hae
demure tlie mouse
“a
receives love where the
lant favorite
fled
nan
society mus
with admiration, al
been
has
soul-amile
just
Of
gods
tie
as beauly
pression
aimos
irritates whil
The rainbow sn
“With a smil
in
brings
her eye
to min
brave
uieite
=
a meaning asped
ing
the
fr
understood ang
answering gow
face of
yn the
AlWAYE welcome
tén It sows the
How GXQuUiInits
passes between
between
only for
smile is
£m y
TO
MAD And wWOoms rho Jive
each other! he genuine
A sure passport Coming
the heart fascinates man and
Woman
It
alike
onaxes the =
softens i(li-temper
far as servile
This is the
cannot be achieved
outcome of
nost unrelenting,
twice a
command
amile It
it
and goes Q
tip or lordly
heaven-sent
o by is the
an
fa AWeae! SURLY
New York Sun
NEW YORK WOMEN'S DRESS PRO-
VINCIAL
There
Yorker
matter
as that of provincialism
ethics and
heartless,
we will compiacently,
en whisper that
cousins of the Paris
fenne--gnd you wound us at our most
vulnerable point There is
that hits home quite unerringly
as the “Wedo-these-thingsso-much-
better-on-the-otheraide don’t-you.
know” with which foreign visitors
sbmetimes mee! our most strenuous
efforts toward cosmopolitanism
A single visit to one of our restau.
rants or theaters will convince you
that the conventions of evening
dress are either shockingly misun-
derstood or deliberately defied hy the
average woman of means and posi
tion. She wears a hat and a high
necked dinner gown-—a costume as
inappropriate for an evening affair as
a bright red frock at a funeral
Of course, | am speaking primarily
of city life and of women who fre-
quent restaurants and theaters, and
is that
American for
no
Any
charge
Or other
that dislikes a y
Attack
call
loving, v
our morals;
pleasure
smile
and
but ey
we are the country
Londoner or the
no
®0
tollet for semi-formal wear.
I was very much interested, a short
time ago, in hearing a discussion on
the subject of evening dress among
women of moderate means. The chief
reason that was advanced for its
general disregard--oconomy-—did not
seam convincing. An evening gown
need not cost any more than any
other kind of a dress, and if a wom.
an grumbles at its limited useful.
there are all sorts of clevor
makeshifts of collars and chemisettos
that will let an evening gown see
the daylight.
No; the true reason is that the
to it. She feels self-conscious
provincial in anything else.
the time will soon come
1 hope
that she
we outgrow the last of our gaucher
fes-~the high-necked evening frock.
Delineator,
FULL TRAINS IN PARIS
In trains, the rattail variety is no
longer being made in Paris, save by
Sposa order. It ls quite the style
The new models shown in Paris
have trains gracefully full, and, ins
decd, the skirts of nearly every one
of the evening gowns now shown
show
pure
and
the
there are gracefully full
none of the skimpiness
Directolre model.
it must also be admitted that the
majority of the evening gown models
of
between bodice and skirt
The robe may be in a. one-plece
garment, or & skirt and corsage joined
tv hooks, but in many instances the
shows a swathed effect
f around the figure to the point where
| the skirt iz attached, while the lat
{ter hangs in lengthwise folds
Often, however, the corsage
| without the swathing folds,
built like any
where the skirt joined to
are plaits of the gown
pure and simple
robes, on
| in tunics,
vestige of a girdie or
waistline, hi
but
4
but is
and
there
or
other corsage,
is it
materia,
sash
Other
one-piece
¥
a
the contrary, are
showing not a
drapery at
the
whether gh or natural,
10 wicen it
ine, ont
being the
Narrow
without
shaped
in
touching,
bust, at the waistl
at the
man herself, or
4
ne
trusis
EOWnHs
¥ Bos
uu
nd run. The real
handbag. however
the average woman burdened
an umbrella
As
cutting 16
ne off
Reports
with a package, ¢
her wrist result
+
hangs it on
there is little danger
mn
soft leather handle walk
ihdetected with the g
! of such thefts have
the
0 BOOTOR hoen
made to the last
few
police within
weeks, almost of them by
women rhoppers. These losses, how
Women
nd they
oan a
r nat
theasa
off
§
wil jemson
cannot change the
win
ever not m
ires, 3
handbags
til fashion
the
buying
Dik
yy
go on
thieves to carry
absurdity
pocketbook
tO some oLher in
rans
handbag
York Press
or
JAN WO
of
ALL
The
are
ATUSTRAI
women
receiving
all parts of their
in the ballot
straliap
to
Victory
is the
extend
and the the
Parliament through
after a desperate and protracted
struggle. Fourteen bill was
th“own out by the legisiative council
after had passed low
house. But each the hostile
majority diminished the women
pushing the measure thereby found
renewed hope. The finally went
through by a majority of four to one
scat
tering in dismay. The Suliragettes
England are planning to make the
best of the victory he details of the
ficht also are to be sent to the Sal
in this country, to
gether with facts of the part women
play in the government of Australian
Since women received the
in Australia it is asserted the
Joverpment has gained in purity, and
factor in the
Victoria
states tO hise
women, before
State was put
ony
times the
it been the
time
and
er
bill
in the Victoria Parlia
Whether for better or Wworssa
suffrage is on
the way for all the civilized world. —
New York Press,
ment
FASHION NOTES
Skirts stil grow narrower.
Shot materials are popular,
A variation of the manner of wear
ing the fur stole is to twist it ser
pentine fashion around the figare
from throat Yo wmist,
A beautiful new hair ornament is
the laure! leaf in enamel and frosty
jowels.
Latest turbans are not so engulfing:
they allow part of the front hair to
be seen,
The latest French fancy in shoes
is patent leather with tan color tops
and pear! bultons
The deep cream color called cafe
au lait and a pure chalk white are
colors of the moment.
The separate waist has been mak
ing a desperate fight for life against
the growing popularity of the three
plece sult,
For morning wear about the house
nothing Is more attractive than the
freshly laundered shiriwalst dress of
linen or lawn.
Fashionable women are geen at the
theatres and restaurants wearing a
scarf of black tulle wound around ths
shoulders. TAY tulle Smet
mented or
thread or precious