186,212 FARMS IN PENNSYLVANIA Census Shows Lancaster and York in the Lead. —————— PLAN PARK BIDS FOR SEPT, Interesting News Items, Briefly Con. densed, From All Sections of the State. Harrisburg, Pa. — Completion of Pennsylvania's first triennial farm census showed that the state has 186,- 212 farms, a farm population of 796.- 400 and 14,934,100 acres of land In farms. The census was taken by the department of agriculture, co-operat- ing with county commissioners and township assessors, Of the total number of farms 156, 024 are operated by their owners, the remainder being farmed by tenants. York county leads the other counties in the number of owner-operators with 5758, while Lancaster with 2024 fenant-operators leads in this class, Lancaster also has the greatest num- ber of farms, 8013, as well as the greatest farm population, 38.337. Cam- eron county not only has the smallest number of farms, 176, but also has the smallest farm population. Of its farms 160 are operated by the owners, In many of the counties the farm population almost evenly divided between men and women. The total for the state showed 413.588 men and 382832 women. Philadelphia was the only county which showed no farm land, but In Allegheny 204.345 acres were classed as farm lands. Forestry authorities will give prece- dence in distribution of trees to the state, state property, private property operated in conjunction with the state, municipalities, individuals and corpor- ations. Shipments will be made un- der the act of 1915 and shade tree commissions will given considera- tion. State property department have determined to go ahead with the improvement program for Capitol Park and completion of south office buliding, and there will be no delay about launching preliminary steps the Memorial Grove. Bids will be asked this month on several contracts, it being the idea to open the estimates September 1 and work begun this autumn, The con- tracts will include completion of the south office building, for which some. thing like £300,000 was appropriated ; grading and landscaping for the grove in memory of the soldiers and sailors, which is to be at the approach to the proposed Memorial Bridge: Improve- ment of the plaza and the holiding of the balustrade and grading and landscaping in front of the south office building is be the for PENNSYLVANIA NUGGETS Eizht buildings, yeorgian Hotel, Brownsville, were de- stroyed by fire, with a loss £200.- 000, In West Brownsvilie, Ten guests in the hotel escaped by leaping from windows. None were hurt. Leaving her home In Tamaqua In a despondent mood, Mrs. Gearge Lueczko, aged 30 years, committede suicide by drowning in the dam at the No. 14 col- liery, her body being discovered float. ing on the surface by a watchman. Highest honors in the state scholar. ship examinations held in 339 high gchools last May went to Lonlse V. Eaton, student in the Central High School, Harrisburg, Superintendent of Public Instruction Haas announced. Miss Eaton made 284 points out of : possible 300. Harry Kohler, Doyles. town, was second, with 283 points: Thomas Gallagher, Philadelphia Cath. oMe High, third, with 280: Caroline Robinson, Liberty High School, Bethle. hem, fourth, with 279, and Maginnis, Frankford High, phia, fifth, with 276. Charles W. Russell, burgesd of Northumberland, resigned and B. F. Long, president of council, will act In his stead until a successor Is ap- pointed. Sugar of lead used In mistake for flour In the preparation of a real made [Il six members of the family of Constable Michael Monahan, of Ken- nett Square, near Coatesville. A phy- sician who discovered their plight ad- ministered antidotes apd the victims are on the road to recovery. John, 10-year-old gon of Mrs. Nellie G. Storm, Is in the Pottstown Hos pital suffering from a skoll fracture sustained when a stone was dropped from a 150-foot observation tower at Ringing Rocks, The stone, about as large as a hickory nut, was dropped by a playmate and struck squarely on young Storm's head. Fred Fuhrman, aged 10, of Wil Hamsport, was drowned in the Sus- quehanna river while repairing the dam, Charles B, Bistline, aged 62. of Palmyra, was killed when he plunged through a hole while storing straw in the barn of Henry K. Smith. Frank Hollowiteh. of Beaver Mead- ow, committed suleld: by drowning in the reservoir of the Beaver Meadow Water Company, with his wife and some neighbors as onlookers, There will be an abundance of plums in the vicinity of Waynesboro If all the treeg of that kind of fruit yield as hounteously as the one in the yard of E. B. Stine, from which Mr. Stine hopes to take about three bushels of the finest fruit, including the of Tog gd Li fi Washington. AS es SA A financial member of the € oe it hurls a 1.060-pound debt funding commission now In NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Anthracite Miners’ Strike Is Due Sept. 1—President Loth to Intervene. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LL the signs point to a strike of American anthracite miners September 1. Negotiations between the workers and the operators Dew wage contract, whiel were belng conducted at Atlantic ( last week, and immédiatel y the general scale committee United Mine Workers of An for a . broke down of erica cone six offi cers full power to {(ssue the strike to manage the strike, The mittee also was authorized to with the operators for the en of pumpmen and othe September 1, the mines shall not Into disrepair during Ostensibly the maln reason break at Atlantic C! of the operators their subcommittee Presidents riner of the Lehigh Coal tion company and Richards of Philadelphia and Reading pany. President John L miners had anded this, that the subcommittee was con POSS of minor officials and was without power. When the negotiations c#ased, neither side had fully presented case, but the operators had that they would uot fe increase and the check-off: and the miners had vi tually to submit the in arbitration, pointing to a President Lewis, in which that In a previous arbitratior workers lost 860,000,000 in to acquire the knowledge now possess concerning the operators’ well-known policy of ing close to an arbitrator.” In this letter, written riner, Mr. Lewis said the p sub arr iploymen after be oh t! for the ty was to | and Naviga- Conl com- asserting dem 1 ’ its 1 plainly agree matters dispute to letter by alleged 1 the mine two years that they Mr. War rice of coal to the operators’ vetoed every of the mine workers’ representatives that might reduce the market price of anthracite to the consuming public, Dispatches from President Coolidge would not Inter vene in case of a strike unless the suspension of mining should last jong enough to bring about a fuel famine, He has been assured by Secretary Labor Davis, who Is now in Europe, that there will be no strike, ers tell him the miners will be willing conferees had promptly will is the deduct the hy dues concede system union it the operators check-off, which which operators collections over to uflion officials There are persistent rumors the workers In flelds will strike begins. At trict convention the in Seranton mands for a wage Increase of 10 per cent to contract miners and a dollar a day to day men, Mr. Lewis threat. ened a soft coal strike If large bi tuminous operators continued their al- leged violation of the Jacksonville agreement. : REAT BRITAIN'S threatened coal strike was delayed for two weeks, if not entirely averted, by a conces sion of the operators, who withdrew their shut-down orders. The govern- ment, to help prevent the strike, agreed to grant a subsidy to the coal industry, but when It came to a mat. ter of finding the source of the estl- mated $150.000,000 necessary It was up against it. Rumor sald it had de- clded to add a tax of a penny a point on beer, which would just about raise the sum, but this measure admittedly would arouse the deep anger of the British workingman, So Prime Min. {ster Baldwin and his government are facing something of a dilemma. ELGIUM'S debt-funding commis slon arrived in Washington, nnd negotiations with the American debt eommission have been begun, The Bel met In New York American am! ird Winston ginns were [am Phillips. Belgium. and | sistant secretary of the brought with them perts and a secret France has E ur announced when he de . hy WII Gurr fis- treasury. The four financial ex iry general, adopted a new polley on nnd President it in at Grenochle lared France “wil} debits a speech ¥ pay and according to striet entitled.” Fi inspired this “If I have to g« to sign on the dotiel ‘Amen,’ 1 am to waste justice, to ch Minis nol § £% ; } 10 Washi line and say not going money seq a big there In Sep ing His tember." M Ce impossible for France td pay its debts in full In dol 1 ster Ams ca and Engl either now futur He mmediate future, (£2 ngiand commission aillanx Inrs anc and, ling to intends to ¢ £4006) 00x) LOK (NH) nee of ler the naking up the bala ¥ th ntere - in marks due We France ur nd deliveries of French $ rchandl or nee German m Bk af th the Wasi great importance © trent JOR _hegot! gton conf to the future r ¥ * 1 erence and welfa re ent into effect last of ratif » mignatory x of tl weol cations by They ie Chinese cus the door or equality ‘hina for the trade ry ill nations” This lat. iIct provide there shal bx 1G ind that in td iits as a neutral ng Ww exchange YWers have revision and with main tenance of of opportu and ter p “spheres of influe hina's ri indus! me of war 1 are NTILFOREIGN sentiment In China + is Increasing and the strike sitn- ation is steadily growing worse 1a bor from for elgn to nat troubles are spreading ve industries and silk out, keeping ig Japanese The will ost at Shang- Students and up thelr the houses vacated in Chung workers hint hal walked tarists are razir iritish and and schools probably not be in September ng the students refuse to accept discipline, The stu- union has warned all Chinese | merchants against and Japanese merchandise, king elsewhere able to AR between Greece and Bulgaria Wn among the possibilities of the week, the crisis being brought on by the murder of a Greek merchant In similar. incidents. Greece that precautionary measure her frontier guards, and it was report. ed she was preparing to Invade DBul- garia. This latter was denied: the formerly of the Philippine con. | atnilary put in command ‘A MBASSADOR BANCROFT'S body Is on the way to the United States | on board the Japanese cruiser Tama | At Tokyo the automobile hearse passed eared of raffie thousands of mot and irning of with Japanese to St. Andrew Wreaths from the emperor and the prince regent were placed High officials accompanied body | to Yokohama, lined the proenthe dral were held, where services on the coffin PENING the sessions of the Tae na-Arica plebiscitary commission in Arica, Chile, General Pershing, its president, gave assurance that every voter might cast his ballot and that It would be the forthcoming plebiscite, freely counted in yanocen fopry #14 grat went of world must ation at the acceptance by overnments of C peace foe] the hile and Peru of the rinciple of arbitration for settiement {f thelr long-standing territorial dis pute, ENRY FORD has bought from the United Sta 200 its steel port. His tes shipping board bullt for war trans. of $£1.700.000 of essels, bid the was th Under the terms of the sale the Ford Motor company may In its plants any of the engines aries that may be de others must be scrapped be sold Within 1S pany may, If it desires bo into Diesel and use them for deer This the shipping board glad to bave Mr. Ford more of the be towed to three miles below Quar tice, and bummed, in bunches of 25 to E200.000000 ang sold for $4000 each to a salvage con which stripped them ol tried iy to burn the hulk use boilers or auxill but all none may § the com sired and mont] convert of df the pe 00 18 propelled shi sea service do board's Mallaws Va They were Two hundred to ba Vv. cost huild cern OMMISSIONER REVENUE OF INTERNAL BLAIR has announced that under pew prohibition en forcement program, which goes int September 1. Prohibition Com. will be stripped of ’ the effect | i bility. Most of his powers will be transferred to the 24 district adminis | trators, who will be directly responsible tp Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews. Friends of Mr. Haynes In but It still is believed he will seek the ETURNING to the policy always advocated by the late . Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of murderers, the row peaceably, and It was expected would soon be settled i EPORTATION by Poland of a great number of Germans who re- sided In Silesia caused a lot of dis tress because the German government had not made sufficient preparations to care for them, But the eviction was in necordance with the Versailles treaty and nothing could be done. The German government so far has retalinted to the extent fo order ing out of Germany within 48 hours all Poles, who had voted to retain Polish citizenship. Nationalists In the reichstag moved for the breaking of diploinatie ‘relations with Poland, but got little support after Foreign Minis. ter Ntresemann had explained the sit- uation. He declared Germany would not take the Initiative In reprisals, but would follow Poland's lead in all its measures, MN twelve years United States ma- rines have been encamped in Mann gua and Corinto, Nicaragua, doing guard duty, at the request of the Nica raguan government. Last week this “occupation” came to an end when the little bands of marines boarded the U. 8 8. Henderson to return to their own country. To maintain order down there an new constabulary force has campaign for next year's congressional elections. The re port of the executive cotincil will be City on October 5. Immedl ately after that convention, the execu. tive council stated. “it will enter the various campaigns with the purpose of supporting those who can be depended upon to be true to the people, for if they are true to the people they will be true to labor” “The executive council belleves that as a result of its nonpartisan political policy the launching of third party movements has been proved wasted effort and Injurious to the desire to elect candidates with favorable ree ords. The 1022 and 1924 political cam paigns definitely determined this fact Experience, therefore, bas taught Ia. bor that to be successful politically It must continue In the future ns In the past to follow Its nonpartisan political policy.” Fr many centuries scientists have wught a method of hardening and tempering lead. It Is now announced that two metallurgical engineers of the Western Electric company at Chicago, R. 8 Dean and W, BE Hudson, have solved the problem. With a small per centage of alloy and a special heating process they produce a metal three times ns hard as lead alloyed without the heat treatment, Their discovery. it Is believed, will be of Immense value in industry, especially lo the coating of telephone cable COMMERCIAL | Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. BALTIMORE winter, spot, red winter, $1.56 Corn Wheat--No b domestic, garlicky, spot, domestic, do about Track vellow for mestic delivery is quotable at £1.27 per bushel nominal for carlots on spot. Oats--No. 2 white, white, 53 asked. Hay-——No. 2 timothy, per ton, § @19; No. 3 timothy, $16@ 17.50; No. 1 light clover, mixed, $17.50@ 18 1 clover, mixed, §17@ 17.560; mixed, $14G 15 Straw-—-—No $12@13. City Mills Feed « Western, $34; brown, §36. Eggs-—Nearby, current fered, , no bid; Western, candled, offered, 34, Butter-~Creamery, 5G 45%: good, 40@42; blocks, 46G 4 Maryland @34,; corn, 1 ‘ NO, 2 In bbc asked; No , PR . NO, 2 clover 1 wheat, $11@12; oat, Spring wheat bran Western niddiing of firsts and re ceipts 9p 32 no bids fancy, per 1b choice, 431044, 46 @ 48 do 7 ao and Per Ohio, rolls, 232¢ 33; rolis West packeq, iia and Penns vania, : butter Live YORK 3 te : Hring gPTil NEW tke al nd rail, $1 b. lakes rum do, in bond No York, do, §1.2 No mixed du anitoba «= pot ady i. I. track New %: No. 2 Oats ate nixed, Spot steady 04 ec Butter—§8t than geore) score), teady: creamery extras, 44@ 44%. do, 43%: do, firsts 41%5@ 43. packing Stock, nt make, No. 2, 33 Eggs-Fresh gathered, extra firsts S6@ 38¢: do, firsts, 32% @ 34%; do. se onds, nearby hennery white closely extras, 51@ by and Western {8% cur re 31% G32; selected nearby near nearby he browns, 48. Cheese fresh, 25%c: Live nnery exiras, flats 4% G State, whole fancy to fancy specials, do, average run, 23% Poultry Broilers, by 27@30¢; by express, 26G 31; freight, 23@26; by express roosters, by freight, 15. PHILADELPHIA. — Wheat — No. 2 red winter, $1.60@ 1.62; do, garlicky $1.536G 1.55. Corn—No. 2 yellow, §1.26@ 1.27%. Oats—No. 2 white, 56% @G 57%. Bufter—S8olid packed, higher extras, 4647 40¢c; lots; extras, $2 43%: 950 score, score, 40%; 87 39%. Live Poultry-—Fowls, Plymouth Rock, 28@ 29%; medium, 25 @27c; mixed breeds, fancy, 20627; medium, 24@25; common, 22623; leg horns, 20G 24; spring chickens, Ply mouth Rock, broilers, 2% @3 pounds 33@ 35. LIVE ,STOCK BALTIMORE. —Cattle—S8teers, good to choice, $10.75@ 11.50; medivm to , $9@10.75; common to medium, $7.25G8.50; common, S$55006.75 Heifers, good to choice, $8269; fair to good, $7.26@8; common to mediuf, §550@6.756. Bulls, good to choice, $5.75@6.50; fair to good, $4.75¢15.50; common to medium, $4@G 4.50. Cows, good to choice, $5.5006. Sheep and Lambs--Sheep, $246; lambs, $5@ 16.50. milk, freight fowls, by 29 26 dy score, 45; 91 score, 42; 89 score, 41; 88 score, 40; 86 score fancy, fat ALONG LIFE’S TRAIL By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, Gnivsraiey of lllinois. IRE, Western Newspips r Union.) OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LISTENED to grand: Jean the nother talk morning, ing and narily a I gath- present gen- lered pretty far away in ghie to other her very placid and quiet that thinks the eration has wan ord 1 is i po person ered she ho * gers § ord # ry the straigh narrow path ng people walked when and that they are now rae ars and air uns of rapid and omotion across ihe street WOR ox same his son at breakfos also, ff evening's e ent father used to sentiment to plowing you 5 an an adja OWN week no de young huve wv Aoung canted in were, ar new professional and equ Young RO sell ners not nered as This fe« *naen "nt far ni 1 le do ve jlifferent tom thirty are only { that moral were o wep han we SALESMANSHIP TRMINGHAM 1 ts win out douht good He “1s has me petence fro i for bo When 3 ellows earning their living in around 1 vice about takin ing during the summer to keep the gnawing at the door during the pext year, 1 always tell them that if they are thirsting for experience sell. and If they want they'd better try silk stock- ings. or face powder, or astomeniie ae or fur coats, or mething KE, are Come ad game who college and ask m3 ap the sellin in the sp wolf the most Now if there is anything for which I have no need, it is books and ne is more keenly aware of this fact than Nancy. She has to dust them the and fall and she doesn’t spring orgies of enjoy dusting. Burmingham calls on me at aboot the same time every spring, and know. ing when to expect him, 1 steel my- Nancy warns “Is that book agent due about now? “1 guess 80." I answer In a noncom mittal way. “Well, we don't peed any more she suggests, “and you'd bet. ter tell the boy to announce to him when he arrives that you're in con ference, and that you're likely to stay in until he leaves.” “Al right,” 1 assent humbly, know. ing that I'll have to see the nan wheth er 1 buy or not. He's no ordinary agent—he's | very Interesting gentie man whom 1 am really glad to meet. 1 came home one evening a few dags Inter feeling guilty, and | suppose, as is usual, looking the part, Nancy sus pected something at once, in spite of my efforts to act cheerful “Did anything happen today? she inquired. “Oh! nothing especial,” 1 answered Bhe looked at me curiously, and then went on “Was that old book man there? “Eb, heh.” 1 said shamefacedly. “And you fell again?” “Yeh” “Why didnt you turn him down when he asked you to buy?" “That's the trouble. he nbver asks me to buy. He just shows to met As 1 sald at the dosuding urming- bam is an excellent salesman
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