¥ A C0 mI SI 0 5.00 BS Me WR EH 0 PATRAS CTE Gon Sp 8 f 4 i 4 - < ‘ yu CATCHES WOMAN UP A TREE, Papers In Sait, Blizzard, County, en- Sheriff Climbs To Serve Blizzard Divorce Kittaning. Urawford a farmer of Armstrong tered suit for a divorce from [iis wife, Katherine. Whea Sheriff Chambers Frick went to the Blizzard home to gerve a notice of the action on Mrs, Blizzard, he found no ‘one in the house. He was leaving the place when heard a low laugh. Look- ing around he saw Mrs. Blizzard perched in the topmost limb of a cherry tree He called to he her to come down, but she refused. There was nothing to do but to climb the tree, if the notice was to be served. This Sheriff Frick did after much difficulty. And ABSENT AT WIFE'S FUNERAL. Husband Who Shot Woman Not Re- leased For Rites, Altoona.— Frank E. killed allezod admirer, was prevented from attending the funeral by reason of the fact that Judge Martin Bell was attending ball game Assistant District Attorney Claycomb at the importunity of rel- atives gave his consent, but Detective James Spangler jail at Hollidaysburg the warden re- an order from the Court, When Spangler found had gone the game the Judge to it was BRISTOL BOATMAN DROWNED, Cripple Tries In Vain To Save His Brother. After hav upon the river after having ristol life and in this vi- cin acquired a Thomas Swang- Delaware boatman, drowned in man and ler was River. The acc Swangler’s a cripple tae jent was witnessed by brother, Ellwood, who is The latter made an effort to save his drowning brother, but only succeeded in pulling bis hat from his head as he went to the bot- tom The body was recoverasd later, Rockefeller.” happier than Harry Feary, twenty-thrée un- was “Happier Than Sbanon.~— I am kefeller,” declared invalid for was a raliroader ago, when he zed During all not been able to Recently the and for a helpless OTS Feary ¥ Cars paral time he has wenty completely that move a muscle in his body. he was taken to the hospital at banon County Almshouse, fay a nurse (« Cornwail Lim and Lebanon road on which he loved it was decls that the tastes WOK the em He day a 1d his 4 a RAK ellent trade places own affords him that he rith Rocke oN tuer afliic- ite his Charters Issaed, charters were |s- Department: Beth- wiation, Bethlehem; Nolan Coal Com- capital, 15,000 Improvement ity capital, Come 10,000, i Company, t- capital, $15,000, SBtras- phone Company, Strazburg; Sahiin & Puinam, inc. tailors. Pittsburg. capital, $5,000 West Rapid Transit Omnibus Company. Wilkes-Barre; capital, 5.000. Wigman Lugber Company, Piitsburg, $20,000, ollowing ee State Boat Ass capital, $5,0f pan Auburn; igh olonizati and kgon City Punxsutawney niown,. 18, Po- Company, $10.1 pany, Alls Riverside Inc., E burg 1 capital pH F 00 Side $2 Sues Policeman For Arrest Reading. —Alleging that he was arrested without jusk cause, John R. Paine, instituted a damage suite against Chief of Police Auman and Officer Jeremiah Himmelreich. Paine will scek $5,000 from each. The plaintiff alleges that he was taken into custody by Officer Himmelreich, and, without explaining against him was conducted to the police station and lodged in a cell, where he was compelled to remain for thirty hours, when he was dis- charged. Mr. Paine claims that he insisted advice of the chief. Connell Left $2,980,000 Estate. Scranton.-——The late William Con- nell left an estate valued at $2,980,- 000. Nothing new has developed In the proposed contest of his will by two of his grandchildren. Among the investments sare Steel Trust bonds appraised at $114,760. Among the stock investments are Third Na- tional Bank, $316,500; Lackawanna Milla, $151,000. He also held $97. 000 in bonds in the same concern, Seranton Button Company, $180, 0900; Cherry Rua Boom and Lumber Comrany, $241,000; Pennsylvania Railroad Company. $132.000. He also held notes for $349,000, and had $125,000 life insurance. Rain Drowns Forest Fires, Stroudsburg.—A two hours’ rain, the first in six weeks, broke the dry spell in Monroe County and put a stop to forest fires which had as sumed large proportions on the Blue Ridge Mountains. Twice the fire fighters haye left the mountain patiafied that the flames were extin- guished and each time they have heen surprised to find the fire break- ing oul on a new Pyte. Farmérs are aN of the opinion that the rain has prevented much ‘damage to crops. % TRAINS DISTURB WORSHIP. Railroad Commission Refers plaint Of Church To Courts, The State has dismissed plaint of the Marysville Chureh God against the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, on the ground that it 18 a matter for settlement in the courts, The church alleged that since its erection the line of the railroad has been moved up to within a few feet { of the building, the nolse interfering with worship. It is the first case of the kind ever filled with the commission. Harrisburg, Commission Railroad the com. Robin's Nest On Pennsy Express. Altoona. While Pennsylvania { Limited coming East | Pittsburg division, the | lowering the sun shade on the rear end of the observation car, discov. jered in the canvas a mother {and her voung The robins were | brought to Altoona and liberated. It 8 supposed that the bird built on the car while it stand- ing idle at some divisional point and not with any intention of giving her young a fast ride across the State, was over the port r¥. In robin her | nest Woman Shoots Six-Foot Snake. Sunbury. Mrs. J. M. Chamber. of Valley, killed a { foot long snake with a shotgun. { lain, Irish six. The in her chicken yard and 80 vicious that she feared to at- tack it with a club, 80 she hurried to her bedroom and procured the weapon. Returning to the he i she took good aim, she savs, { then shut her eyes and pulled i trigger. The recoil felled her to ground, but when the smoke cleared { She saw the snake was killed by blind shot reptile was In Coap, the the Lie Boy Sleeps Himself To Death. Pottsville Harry i Philadelphia boy, Mrs aint shill Ralph Scholl the son of Mr. and and ly on a visit Moran, at dead He death, despite to Harry School, who strange went to sleep last the family of M Laffes, near here, is literally slept himself every baving been asleeg 8 hours sicians are at a loss for the week, Patriek known eany arouse him ninety-onecontinuot rit 3 v Kills phy count glee D No Friends, Johnstown rs. J« of Walnut her Woman Seeks Death. hn Gilling Grove, attempted life when she slashed her razor Mr Gilling from will probably er says she has no friends and to die ear to ear with a recover Her Brother, Rose ‘oken Stole Money For 1 Easton.~- Miss rested here and $45 from hag conf 1 sent to jail for stealing Harold Huff, the het stole 3 : - brother, of Arthur Coken, to out town, as he was alwavs noying ber for money § ’ From Cremation. Her was hastily Saves Woman Selinsgrove ate! ing fire, while ing a breakfast, ring, ¢f Sunbury, burned over her face and } Was sav from being crem through the timely Lugar tushing into he enveloped the woman of carpet, smothering clothing she Mrs, Joseph was gerionss ed arri the STATE ITEMS. Fiette. N. 79° vears ol oldest member of the Oley Luthe } Church and one of oldest resi dents of the Oley Valley, died at the home of her brother, Dr. A. N. ley, of Oley Levi J. Fegley, the Fe €- Romig, "of Longswamp, Berks County farmer, housed largest wheat crop in.the township, amounting to 23,400 sheaves of the Berks farmers are threésiing their grain out of the fields, and are selling their wheat at $1.15 to $1.25 per bushel Members of the Ladies’ Aid ciety of the Darby Borough Presby- terian Church, who obligated them. selves to raise $1,000 for the mort. gage fund of the church, less than two years ago, pald the last install. ment of the $1,000 last week. They will celebrate with a picnic at Bel mont on Thursday, August 5. | All the old teachers of the Glen- { olden Bchool were reappointed by the | Glenolden School Board, | C. Morley is principal. | Himmelright will teach | sixth grades; . 3 ME Xoat Bo. the fifth and Helen M. Sheots, the | { ler will teach the first grade. | fall term will open September 7. | The Governor has granted a char | ter to the Landsdale Ice Company, i capitalized at $30,000, ham and Abington, the assess hooks that they may proceed with the col- lection of State and county tax, as the County Court has decided they may act, Five generations were represent. ed at the Bauer family reunion, held at Macungie, Berks County, at the home of Charles Bauer, 88 years old, who was the oldest member present. The other members repre- senting the generations were Wi. Ham uer, Mra. James Wieder, Fred Wieder and his child. : All the dogs at Beltzersville, Berks County, are quarantined for the next 100 days, owing to the mad dog scare, - Simon HefMey shot one of the dogs, supposed to have been mad, and all. the dogs that were bitten by the canine have been killed, PROFIT IN GEESE, There i8 no reason why every farms has plenty grass range, not keap geese and Increase his income at very little cost, as they can be kept on grass and water from spring until late in the fall, Nearly every farmer has some meadow pas- near his buildings which could be used to a very god advantage by of time geese require grain is in win- ter, and then very little to keep them in good breeding dition. Feed a few oats, cut and hay or ensilage. Give ster-shelis and plenty of water, and a Httle corn fed at night on real cold days, and the geese will in best of condition the breeding season arrives, not be fat for breeding purposes, must well while they are ing eggs in the spring. No expensive required; a will con- them oy- be when Geese should but be fod ny. yards or houses are foot wire them, and an south for them to netting fence ig pen shed y zo under and mal their ne all that Bary. For than Never use ganders the » v or gts In, is never mate best results, three ona that are relate females are reading purpovs ten vears, but ganders should n over four years Geese generally « start laying In March or April, and need watching, as they will cover thelr eggs with hay. The should up before getting chilled in weather and kept in and place and turned every few d can be hs rh gecgs with Females for siraw 1 cold CO or egRs be picked a quiet ready to set, The egg under geese or hens, When the to hateh, as basket begin soon in a ing this wrap keep watch and a posing comes out near the sist gradually with jafs was onstration Derr's new gaits ture for air $a food Bernthae 1 said tha uitarists sup; Professor the thin ground to nulate the growth nitrates are to the of crops, what are called nitrogen iy the most important is omitted the yield 880 per cent The rotation of crops supplies some of gen to the sof, required, and saltpeler The world's store it has been estimated, at the present rate of consumption can not last longer than from twenty-one to forty<dwo years. Sir William Crookes in 1859 said that the of nitrogen from the greatest discoveries awaiting the ingenuity ¢f chemists’ It was this discovery which Proles- sor Bernthsen was describing. Four4ifths is composed of nitrogen, but the problem 4s to make it combine with oxygen to form what are called nitriz and nitrous oxides. This is brought mere 's supplied nitrate). but A8 is much heat by Chile {sodium of salipeter, extraction “is one of ed to his apparatus, which two Ger. man mechanics and an engineer had erected. It consisted of a long narrow glass tube with a copper apiral running up it. At the sides smaller tubes car riad running water to cool the upper connection of the spiral. From the a stopeock to carry away the nitro gen oxides. A current is sent through the glass tube, and the compressed air which is sent in at the same time carries an arc flame up through the spiral to the other end of the tube. The flame makes the nitrogen and oxygen comb'ne and this is cooled down and carried away. The current employed for the dem- onstration was at a pressure of 5,000 volts, and nearly Ghorse power of electrical energy was used, The gas obtained fs mixed with lmestone, when ealolum nitrate, or alr saltpeter, ts formed. A slightly different method gives calcium nitrate, which being richer in nitrogen, may, 8ald the pro- fessor, become the artificial manure of the future—Londdn . Correspon- deoee New York Sun. NOTES OF THE FARM, The proportion of down-featners on the legs of Aslatic chicks when hateh- ed, indicate the amount of feathers they will have when matured, If you palace your ear close to the body of a fowl while on the roost at night, when all i8 quiet, you can plain ly hear grinding of the food 'n | the gizzard, A mongrel and a | not necessarily the i grel may be a | of pure blood the fowl Tae composite scrub same, are mon. large fowl that {by a cross of pure bloods, or is, be made a Cross ion stock, In removed from a measly, small, i of pure bloods upon comt | either is scrub, which is a mon fowl, without a { blood in its veins my g | dete 18 no case 1t COM trace of good termining sex truthfully eays dot ermine whet! roogier or a under a about a rooster; Every nil bill to keed care $00 Cooling, of shelter fey cleanly of poultry it is a 3 ing from men toasted = along for grants successful | yo patie ginner 1 which h good older an he will do wisely test on a few ing the results nal THE FLEA BEETLE A very small beetle that readily anyone ANpProal very destsuctive in many Colorado last year many garden vegetables beotles often attack the pants thelr leaves were well above the sur face of the ground. This insect is not an easy one to manage We have had the best results our erperiments by uns'ng Inzect (der. It may be obtained at any drug store. 1 found the best time of ap ! plication to be in the evening or very {early morning. The powder should | be used very freely upon the plants. { There is no danger of its injuring foliage or polsoning the plants for | human consumption, If this Insecticide is not available, much good can be {done by a thorough dusting of the plants with either fine road | aghes, soot, or alr siaked lime. These | applications simply serve to make the foliage distasteful to the beetles —(, fumps when was parts of of the would before tn The little in pow. lege. ———— and ship the meat and the butter and the milk and w.e cheese” ig the com. monsence advice of Secretary Wh son. This insures soll wertility. Ev. loses the farm 33 pounds of nitroren, | the fertilizer bags and see how much the way, Uncle Jim says to be sure and haul out and spread your manure as fast as made. ; wis In 40 years (1868 to 1008) foreign trade increased from 24,000, 000 yen to $14,000,000 yen. Sartre vase eres ente ste terl 2 Household Notes # OLSON ANN Biers bbl DBs FOR HAND TUCKS. gives a who wish perfectly she always An expert needlewoman 200d suggestion for those 0 keep hand-sewn tucks straight, She says that wosens one thread and draws It slightly, not enough to pull it from che fabric, but just enough to show the line plainly. Along this line she make a crease, and the tuck is abso mtely stright. —Brooklyn Eagle, PREBSING LINEN FROCKS. When you wish to press your dark tinen frock this summer do not trust that a white ironing board will leave no mark. You may casily cover the board for a dark of 18 moment with some bit frock and kept material-—an id or a tining--and when the pres 1 this may till the next You know gown with upon be removed a dark lint that Also, n the pearance of of white ig these ised. dark own instead 3 Post. materi Boston THE PLECTRIC TABLECLOTH of the fs sr table at loth, which n One of the fads ashi )) an m be wy white of the isk to a glistening favorite trick of the from the sno onventiona! dan er It is & 1 ORE se her guests don ho to surm iascloth gradu: taking shaded hostegs operates Bil spread Hight as Press A HOMEMADE REFR {ttle fre was ¥ yw As wint Very , the quest shor norichal or ter, milk and for the in and any new meth ing things of th a ready a ior Below 1 will giv table ttont i geription how 10 refrigerator found ag 10 Koeed 8 Any- ean quickly build and the only is two hinges as well as a regular iced one thing necessary to bus the lid. Get a ge box for giar fitting wd solid tight box, a will do, put a tight and fasten to the it can Now take a strip ome plexible cloth and tack on op edges of the box so the lid will t down against it perfectly tight This 48 to keep any from crawling in the box under the lid. The lid should be fastened down with a hook, or you can lay a heavy weight upon Now whitewash the box with lime: this Is wood taste and make it ftary. Now bury the box In the ground on the shady side of the house, allowing about two inches of the top to remain above the ground. Now get quite a large box and knock off the top and sides, and set it over fhe top buried like a buggy top over the seat There should be enough space between the boxes so the Id of the buried box can be swung up without striking. Cut some sod and lay on the top and up against the sides of the large box and your refrig erator is ready for use, If you wish you can make a door for the large box which will make a double protection.—8. I. Parker in the Indiana Farmer, ROAD 2 lid on it » box with raised up when of hinges so be desired felt or the insects is inside of the kill any perfectly san to RECIPES, faked Fricassed Chicken. —Take a spring chicken, of 2% or more pounds, cut in pieces, roll in flour as for frying. Put in a bake pan, add about half cover; cover, bake slowly: the water is out add a sweet milk and make a gravy. said to be more digestible, toes, 1 slice of onion, € cloves, 2 small leaf, pinch of soda, salt and pepper enough boiling water if neces MUNYON'S PAW-PAWPILLS The sud Liver Plils known and a jg nnd speedy cure for Con- , Indigestion, Billousnuess, bent Blomach oRitive sluggish cont [Rod tues Muny tonic frou Paw.-Paw frult. 1 unbesitoting tend these pills as betag th tive snd cathartic ever « h-cent ttle » if you are Be satisfied I ‘vill refund your mosey. —MUNYON. ririx-i5iRD and JEFFERSON 81 8. PHILADELPHIA PA Saltsand Castor Os —bad stuff never cure, i only makes bowels move be- cause it irritates and sweats like poking fingerin your eye. The best Bowel Medicine is Cascarets. Salts and Castor Oil user should box of CASCARETS and try them just once. You'll see. =u isza- (ret per them, Every get a week's treatment, Pigoam +r 4 $ iggest seller in the Misinterpreted, entered the Waste Paper Heavy Loss. Hearing of proce for 1 EER Great 1¢ Head. Journal Investigatio of the ww shows ues tubers stand highest HOME TESTING A Sure and Easy Test on Coffee. To decide all important gues tidn of coffee, or not it is really the hidden cause of physical disease, the whether ails and approaching fixed one should make a test of 10 days by leaving off coffee entirely and using well-made Postum If relief follows you may know to a certainty that coffee has been your vicious enemy. Of course you can take it back to your heart again, if you like to keep sick, A lady says: “1 bad suffered with stomach trouble, nervousness and terrible sick headaches ever since 1 was a little child, for my people were always great coffee drinkers and let us children have all we wanted. I got so 1 thought 1 could not live without coffee, but 1 would not ac knowledge that it caused my suffer- ing. “Then 1 read so many articles about Postum that I decided to give it a fair trial. 1 had not used it two weeks in place of coffee until 1 began to feel like a different person. The headaches and nervousness disap- peared, and whereas 1 used to be sick two or three days out of a week while drinking coffee | am now well and strong and sturdy seven days a week, thanks to Postum. “1 had been using Postum three months and had never been sick a day when 1 thought I would experi ment and see if it really was coffee that caused the trouble, so 1 began to drink coffee again, and inside of a week I had a sick spell. 1 was so {ll 1 was soon convinced that coffee was the cause of all my misery, and 1 went back to Postum, with the result that I was soon well and strong again and determined to stick to* Postam and leave coffee alone i= the future.” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellviile,” in pkgs. “There's a Rea te Ever read the above letter? ‘A new ome appears from time to time, They are genuine, true, and full of human interest,
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