"CASCARETS" FOR YOUR BOWELS IF HEADACHY, SICK For biliousness, bad breath, colds, indigestion and constipation. Enjoy life! Liven your liver and bowels to-night and feel fine. Your tongue is coated! Look inside your watch cover and gee! That's bad business. What have you been eating? What were you drinking? What kind of a lazy chair did you take exercise In? Now don't -think It doesn't mat ter, because, it's your bowels that talk now every time you open your mouth. That doesn't help your popu larity, nor your earning capacity. Be sides, a person with bad bowels Is in a bad way and a coated tongue or a bad breath are sure signs of bad bow els and poor digestion. Why don't you get a 10-cent box of Cascarets at any drug store and give your liver and thirty feet of bowels the nicest, gentlest cleansing they ever experienced. Take one or two Cas carets to-night and wake up feeling fine and lit. All Headache, Dullness, Biliousness, Bad Breath, Stomach Sourness, Cold and Constipation gone —wake up with your head clear, tongue clean, stomach sweet, liver and bowels active, step elastic and complexion rosy. Oascarets work while you sleep never gripe or sicken. Cascarets act so gently that you hardly realize you have taken a thorough cathartic. They don't bother you all next day like salts, pills, oil or calomel—Cas carets being perfectly harmless is best children's laxative. STATE FUND WILL GIVE BIG REBATE Successful Operation Has Led to Return Which Will Go on Premium Account Befunds of about $90,000 will be given to insurers in the State Work men's Insurance Fund in the form of credits on payment of premiums for 1917 by the board of managers of the State Fund according to an announce ment made here to-day. The refund, which is styled a dividend, wil be ten per cent, for coal operators who in sured their employers' liability in the fund and fifteen per oent. on all com mercial and industrial risks Insured in the fund. The refund will not apply to the $5 policies, which were written at the minimum permitted by the State law. The fund office Issued a statement to-day in which it set forth that the refund waa based on the experience of the fund for the first eleven months of the year. This statement says in part: "During the first eleven months of 1916, the State Fund paid to Injured employes, whose employes were in sured in the State fund, a total of $116,309.74. During the same time the fund set aside as financial reserve to carry these compensation claims of injured employes or dependents to maturity, the amount of $809,597.27: "As an additional safeguard to pro test the fund against the hazards of catastrophes, the fund has set aside from its 1916 premium income, $57,- 917.14. This safeguard has been adopted in addition to reinsuring the catastrophe hazard of the fund. "After consideration of all the necessary items, the statement showed on November 30, a surplus of $122,- 494.71 from which the dividends de clared may be distributed. "The investments of the State fund'B premium income have been made al most exclusively In public improve ment bonds of municipalities, boroughs and school districts in the State of Pennsylvania. These investments ag gregate $492,823.00 from which an income of $17,507.98 has been de rived." The State Workmen's Insurance Board, comprising State Treasurer Robert K. Young, chairman; J. Denny O'Neil, Insurance Commissioner and John Price Jackson, Commissioner of Labor and Industry, has authorized Albert L, Allen, assistant manager of the State fund to send to-morrow the following statement to all State fund policyholders: "The State Workmen's Insurance Board has authorized the manage ment of the State Workmen's Insur ance Fund to announce that the fol lowing dividends will be declared, sub ject to approval by the Insurance Commissioner: Commercial and Industrial Risks— -15 per cent. Coal Mining Risks—lo per cent. "It is impossible for us to declare this dividend authentically at this time as the reserves for the full year cannot be computed until after January 1 and it is probable that the Insurance Commissioner will require a certain period before approving our reserves which are set aside to carry outstanding claims to maturity. "This notice is for the advance In formation of our policyholders as we confidently believe on the basis of our lose ratio for the eleven month period ended November 30 that the total sur plus to policyholders will be more than ample to provide dividends to the amount provisionally declared. "These dividends, considered with the initial premium rate of the State fund which is 10 per cent, lower than that of other Insurance carriers, makes the cost to State fund policy holders from 20 per cent to 25 per cent, less than the cost of casualty companies." CLASS ENTERTAINED West Fairvlew, Pa., Dec. 9.—Mrs. A. G. Wolf's class In St. Mark's Lu theran Cfturch held a meeting at the home of Mrs. Edgar Miller on Thurs day evening. Refreshments were served to Mrs. Edgar Miller, Mrs. A. G. Wolf. Miss Marion Wolf, Mrs. Nel son Shuull, Mrs. Mary Cranfrord, Mrs. William Dell. Mrs. David Wagner, Mrs! Harper Lnntz, Mrs. Katie Swinn, Miss Minnla Lantzyet, Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Joseph Blair, Mrs. Charles Lilly', Mrs. Waltman, Mrs. George Broughter! Miss Winifred Broughter, Mabel Shaull, Frances Miller and Martha Wagner. Liggett's Chocolates Fancy Xmas Packages 80c the pound * GORGAS 16 N. Third St. Penna. Station SATURDAY EVENING, Practical Designs For the Arrangement of Nests Roost a B I ir— ■= - ——— 1 \ "PtLWCH Dnon., wg I | i ■ J7] . """"H... [ i'"'"" Ipj H J a. /HIiaEW * t -F-.Ci 2 > CI_CV*TIOM , : ' T" 1 Linl l—= , ____ , T"uoo-w LinC -r-,<3f t - SECTION n —""""'" i - •i f IS' —I I (I 1 cl "II II I >Ai v > {\ li™i® 1 4^~] W >/], M r-^T l v, Faulty Nest Construction Is Responsible For Vermin, Filth and Other Troubles Ideal Nests Are Easy to Clean, Easy of Access, Convenient and Secluded By Robert Armstrong Expert Poultryman and Writer When considering the comfort of the birds and the convenience of the caretaker, the interior arrangement of a poultry house is almost as import ant as the construction of the build ing. If the interior fittings, notably the nests and perches, are incon venient and of such a character that the performance of one's work is made unnecessarily tedious and lab orious it is quite likely to have a demoralizing effect upon the attend ant's interest and ability. In con sequence, some of the routine chores are very apt to be overlooked or slighted, and in due time carelessness takes the place of thoroughness. In this article we have taken up the subject of nests, their construe-, tion and arrangement, which Is illus trated by working diagrams of a few simple contrivances. Experienced poultrymen appreciate the importance of having nests easy to access and in a convenient position. They should frequently be cleaned and sprayed and the nesting material replenished, otherwise it will be im possible to secure clean eggs, or to keep the birds free of vermin, lice and mites. Furthermore, the nests should be built so that it is conven ient for the attendant to remove any sitting liens, for unless broodiness is promptly broken up, there will be a serious falling off in the egg yield. During the hatching season, especially on farms devoted to egg production, it is necessary to go over all tho nests every night and remove all hens show ing any inclination to sit, therefore, unless tho nests are suitably arranged, this detail In the dally routine will consume a great deal of time and is likely to prove a severe tax on one's patience. It is also important that the nests be protected against the fowls roost ing in them or on top of them, thereby soiling them unnecessarily, which the birds are prone to do, especially if the nests are located higher than the perches. Soiled eggs are very Bother some, and even when thoroughly cleaned they are very apt to bo de tected by the customer as washed eggs and discounted accordingly. Hens Seek a Secluded Spot The hen's views must be consider ed, too. She is vitally concerned in the matter, and her comfort is no less Important than that of the egg gath erer. If allowed to pursue her own impulses, biddy will select an incon spicuous place, usually where it is dark, and where there Is little risk of being molested. She does not like to lay in nests that are exposed to the view of the rest of the flock, or where she is likely to be frightened or in terrupted by the attendant or by an other quarrelsome hen; she wants se clusion, privacy, and those who give their poultry intelligent care will see that these accommodations are pro vided. Frequently, egg-eating habits, egg bound conditions and other troubles result from faulty nest construction. The nest has an important influence on egg production generally. If some are more comfortable and more se cluded than others the hens will fight for the desirable ones, in so doing break eggs, perhaps, or Injure them" J 6 /!: , An< .' when e&Bs are broken, and the fowls get a taste for them the egg-eating habit is started, which is very troublesome and difficult to break up. If the hens are frightened while on the nest and made to lay prematurely, they are likely to run ture themselves, or they are apt to be frightened off the nest without lav- In*. which Induces an egg-bound con- The difficulty is many poultry raisers try to economize in the matter of nests. Instead of building them to order, with due resjiect to space ease in cleaning and comfort to the hen and to the egg gatherer, they use makeshifts • store boxes, orange crates and other devices, and nail the f t° the building as they are needed and whenever there is a va- J hero ls n <> uniformity In this method, and it is virtually im possible to arrange them economic a"n pos . ition ot her than on the tn i whore they are exposed to all the commotion everything that takes place in the house Built-in nests, those which are not portable, are very difficult and tedious to clean and replenish with nesting Zn they ttrc '""tailed along practical lines, whereas a "mix ed collection of soap boxes cereal cartons, broken egg cases, cracker tins and the like should never be toler ated on the well-managed farm. Thoir use Is defended by some poultrymen under the pretext of economy in that they can be removed and burn ed aa soon as they become badly soil ed. A better way is to build nests that will not become unduly denied Portable Sections Under the Itoosts A good location for the nests is under the dropplng-boards, and have the nests suspended from the boardß In light, portable sections or batteries a foot or more from the floor, where they are the least obtrusive, and yet very convenient for the fowls An arrangement of this kind is shown In Fig. 1 of he accompanying drawing The nests are built in units of six or more, whichever is the most con venient size, and arranged so that the hens enter from the side toward the rear wall. A platform or narrow shelf is installed for the birds to alight upon before entering a particular compartment. Each nest should be about fourteen Inches square, with a partition between, to give the struc ture its rigidity, for it is built of very light material, preferably half-inch white pine siding or similar lumber. The side from which the hens enter is left open, except for a strip about three inches high, to keep the nest ing material in its proper place. The side exposed to the interior of the house, and from which the attendant gathers the eggs, consists of a hinged lid as shown, arranged to operate with the greatest facility. Broody hens are also removed through the front. The batteries or seotions, each of which should be light enough for one man to handle conveniently, are sup ported by light wooden hangers, made from 1-in x 2-in. stuff, and hinged to the under side of the dropping-boards. The sections are removed by swing ing the hangers slightly to one side. The advantages of this method are numerous. There are no supports to obstruct the floor area, and nothing to interfere with the distribution of the litter; the nests are located in the darkest part of the house and where there is the least traffic or dis turbance. To clean them, the easiest way is to remove the nests outdoors, dump out their contents, wash or spray them, place them in the sun o dry, refill with straw, excelsior or other nesting material and return them to their proper places. It is impossible for the fowls to perch upon the top of the nests, and if it is found they show an inclination to roost inside, though this is not likelv because the nests are so much lower than the roosts, and we know that perch, lids similar to the fronts can be hinged on the rear side. Frick Coke Company to Buy 12,000 Acres of Coal Land From J. V. Thompson to nn Sbl,r * h ' P eo " 9 —The sale of °J Greene county coal lands, held by J. V. Thompson, Union town banker and coal land speculator, to the H. C. Prick Coke Company will within a few days, the creditors committee announced fol lowing a meeting here yesterday. The price is said to be between $6,000,000 •?ro i, V Other negotiations dr ® under way. The sale will net a i"^nn ent Gq " ,ty above the debt on ~•",000 acres to pay interest charges on the secured indebtedness This is the largest coal land sale re corded in Western Pennsylvania. Thompson, according to the apprais ?n Vs 58,403 acres of coal lands in Greene county alone, upon which they placed a valuation of $32,646,900 The sale of about one-fifth of his / e .?x? e county holdings for one-fifth of the appraised valuation gives the creditors committee encouragement. Contracts Are Let For 96 High Power Hydroaeroplanes Washington, Dec. 9.—Contracts tn r ninety-six high power hydroaeroplanes !5 e o?°? st artillery .stations In the H 1 ' e s,' Hawaii, Philippines and the Panama Canal zone, were let to-dav by the War Department. 1 Immediate construction is to begin on the nlnty-six machines and con tracts soon will be left for tifty-two Companies receiving: awards tn-dnv were the Aero-marine and if°nnn W York City, sixteen mlchlMs SIB,OOO each. The Burgess Company Marble Head, Mass.. 32 machines, $23,- f.TTr. v V i f urtis Company, Ruf j ,'l s, J £ . tee ? machines, $22,500 each, and the Standard Aeroplane Cor poration, Plalntield, N. J., thirty-two machines, $21,000 each. Polish State Council of 25 Members Created London, Dec. 8. German news papers announce that Governors-Gen eral von Beseler and Kuk have issued a new proclamation creating a Polish state council of twenty-five members representing the occupied territories says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. lililDGK WORKMAN IiILLKI) Received in Fall Result in l>oati of Mcrvin Slionler Mervln Shettlcr, a workman em ployed by the Orayce Constructor Company, fell from tho top of th< bridge to the woodwork bolow lat. yesterday afternoon, sustaining In Juries that later resulted In his death. Khealer Is the son of Mr. and Mrs George Sheulor, of Gettysburg. He se cured employment with the construc tion company übout three weeks ago. Yesterday afternoon In company with other workmen he was working on the roadbed of the bridge when ho tripped and fell. •He Is survived by his paronta, a wife and four children. CHARITIES NEED 51.500 MORI] At least $1,500 more than the amount used this year will be needed by the Associated Aid Societies to carry on the work during 1917, according to a report made yesterday at the regular session of the board of man agers. Each month reports by the organized departments show increased work and results in caring for poor and needy people. HARRISBURG <&&£&> TELEGRAPH I (Sk IMPORTANT gm, I VB? NOTICE! I|§7 I Automatic Telephone System In Service Sunday!! I —TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS- When you wake up to-morrow morning, pick up your telephone receiver, and do not hear the sweet voiced operator say "Number, Please?" you will know the Cumberland' Valley Telephone Company of Pa. has '"Cut Over"' from the out-of-date manual to the ultra-modern AUTOMATIC system. Then, instead of waiting patiently, as you have been accustomed to do — I ~ "USE THE DIAL!" I and in a few seconds you will hear your party's bell ringing. Then all that stands between you and safe, secret telephone service is the moment until your party lifts his receiver and answers "Hello!" I HOW to USE the DIAL 1 First and always, Take the receiver from the hook. Second, Put your finger in the hole over the first unit of the number to be called, and pull Dial around as far as it will go. Then take your finger away and repeat with each unit of the number. Third, You will distinctly hear your party's bell ringing. Or if the line is in use, you will hear I the "busy buzz." Fourth, lf you make a mistake, or wish immediately to make another call, hang up the receiver for about two seconds and dial again. A Few Precautions To Call the Suburbs Do not call numbers in the old manual directory as Steelton - Harrisburg and Steelton are merged all numbers have been changed. . . 6 If you have not received your NEW AUTOMATIC under one list the Greater Harrisburg directory. DIRECTORY through some oversight", then dial "In Hummelstown Dial 2311. formation, 293" and you will be givet} the number you .„ TV , desire and a special messenger will bring you a directory. Marysville Dial 2314. Don't force the dial back; take your finger away Mechanicsburg Dial 2316. and let it "run" back. „ ™ ***!,. ... , Be careful you are dialin'g the number you want, Tdl the °P erator at the town y° u ar calling whom H because you will always get the number you dial. There you want and she will get your party, is no "wrong number nuisance" in the AUTOMATIC T telephone system because of somebody else's mistake. make a Long Distance call Dial "O" and tell The AUTOMATIC never misunderstands the number! the operator whom you want. Just a Final Word The installation of the Twentieth century telephone system THE AUTOMATIC has been the greatest elec trical engineering achievement in the history of the city. Our employes have been working night and day for six months to give you this up-to-the-minute service, the finest known to telephony. Naturally, in the throes of such a .tremendous task, something may have been overlooked. If it happens to hit you Dial "Complaint Department, 292," or otherwise advise us at once. ' From now on do not be tolerant of anything but perfect telephone service. And urge your friends to "USE THE DIAL" I Cumberland Valley Telephone Company of Pa. I I "At the Sign of the Dial" | FEDERAL SQUARE CITY BRIEFS Members of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Poster Advertising Association met yesterday at the Board of Trade Building for their twenty third annual session. No matters of im portance were discussed and arrange ments were made for another meeting in the next few months. A lecture ou social work will be given next Wednesday evening in the hall of | the Public Library, when Dr. Carl Arononlci, director of the bureau of ] social research of the Seihert Institute, Philadelphia, will speak on community work, under the auspices of the Social I Workers' Club of Dauphin county. The Bev. Rlnico Nelson, pastor of I the Harris Methodist Church, assisted ■ by the Bev. Mr. Jones, are conducting ! a series of evangelistic meetings in the church, Marlon street. The services to- ] morrow night will be in charge of the I Bev. U. G. Beeper, of this city, who will j speak on "An Appointment With God." I Children in the boys' band and the girls' orchestra, of the Odd Fellows' j Home, Sunbury, gave a concert last , night in the Chestnut street Auditorium before an audience which crowded the hall to the doors. The program show- ' r'd the marked ability of the two musi cal organizations and each number was | well received. The entertainment wat> conducted by the local lodges of the ! independent Order of Odd Fellows. Pre- ! ceding it the Cantons, the uniformed rank of the order, held a short parade. l)r. ,J. B. McAllister, of this city, ad dressed the graduating class of the J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital Nurses' Training School, Huntingdon, yester day. SHARK SKINS FOR SHOES Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—Use of skins as a substitute for leather i is being investigated by the United states Bureau of Fisheries as a pos- j =-.ibie solution of the high cost of ani- | mal skins. Already, says a bureau I statement to-day, an accoptuble leather j is being made from shark skins in some foreign countries, and in the Cnited States there haA been a limited demand for the skins as coverings for mall articles. Florida flshrt-men will supply large shark skins for the ex periments. DUEL CALLED OFF Ix>ndon, Dec. 9.—The projected duel between Deputy Markoff, of the duma, and President Michael Rodianko has I been abandoned, according to a Reuter dispatch from Pctrograd. At a recent session of the duma Deputy Markoff, who is known as a reactionary, called President Rodzianko a "babbling blackguard." ADAMSON DECISION SOON Washington, D. C„ Dec. 9. The Supreme Court is expected to announce next Monday its decision on tho mo tion to expedite hearing in the Mis souri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad case testing validity of the Adamaon act. WORKMAN HURT Terrence V. Palmer, of Lemoyne a workman at the erecting shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad, wag Injured In ternally yesterday afternoon, when a bumper casting fell on him. ! Enclosed Find Check Says Letter; But Alas! No Check is to Be Found Evidently in great excitement, a i man inquired of the night clerk of the | Alvah Hotel, about 1 o'clock on the I night of November z7,* whether he I could get a room for himself and j Being answered in the affirmative, he . and a woman later registered as Mr. I and Mrs. Kernan, Winchester, V'a. The man soon left the hotel and has not been heard 'of since that time. | The woman had not left her rooms un ! ti Ithis morning when Captain Thomp son was asked to investigate the un ! usual case. Mrs. Kernan said that | she was from Winchester but would | give no other information. She was ! without funds but a letter received ! late this afternoon from the Mer chants and Farmers Bank of Win j Chester said a cashier's check for S3O i had been enclosed. The check was I missing, however. The woman will be taken care of by i the local authorities. Progresses Call For Meeting at St. Louis to Discuss Party Principles Washington, D. C., Dec. 9. A call for a conference of those progressives I who are not In sympathy with former i leaders of the party "in asking the Re j publican Old Guard to give us pluces on the Republican executive committee" was issued here last night by Matthew I Hale, of Massachusetts, as acting | chairman of the Progressive national committee. The step lollows the over tures made by Raymond Bobbins. Gif tord Pinchot and others at a meeting in Chicago this week for a voice in the management of the Bepubllcan party affairs. Allies Are Sure to Win War, J. P. Morgan Declares I New York. Dec. 9. —J. Plerpont Mor ! gan, banker and financial agent for the I British Government, who has been away two months In England and Franco on a business trip,*arrived here | late yesterday on the American liner Finland. He was accompanied by Mr. Morgan and Miss Frances Tracy Mor gan, his daughter. He was very opti mistic on the chances of the allies, and said emphatically that "there Is no doubt as to the outcome of the war. It is a certainty that the allies will win. The English people feel that they have won the war. ' RAIN AND SNOW Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday were announced by the Weather Bureau to-day as follows: Middle Atlantic States, unsettled, with j probable rains or snows Thursday or : Friday. Cold until Thursday, warmer i thereafter. DECEMBER 9, 1916. STACK LURES MANSFIELD | Son of the Actor AKIIIH Cut* School to Follow In Fntber'a Fiiolatrp> New York, Dec. 9.—lUchard Mans- j j lleld, son of the late Richard Mans | Held, the actor, left school in Short I Reach, Connecticut, abruptly last Thurs day and came to New York, expecting to follow In tlii? footsteps of his father on the stage. The principal of the school telegraph ed the boy's mother at New London, ; Connecticut, and on Thursday night Mrs. Mansfield, who was formerly Bea trice Cameron, the actress, came to j New York and found her son at Washington Square South. The boy was persuaded* for the time, to give his idea of becoming an actor. He re ; turned to the Manhattan hotel with his mother, who intends to take him to Panama for the winter. This Is the second time the Boy has run away from school to go upon the 1 stage. (IIII.DItEN AT PLAY CAUSE EIRE Children playing with a lighted lamp In the absence of flie parents started u small tire late last evening at the home of B. S. Harlan, 625 Dauphin street. The children moved the lamp to a window, causing the curtains to ignite. A passerby noticed the (lames and sent a lelephone call to the Good Will Chemi cal Company. Los Angeles, CaL —Albert J. Griffith a patrolman on the Los Angeles police force for four years, confessed that he was the robber who held up an ex press wagon on a busy street and got away with about $5,000 in cash and $34,000 in checks and drafts. Most of the money was recovered. ii The New Life and Disability Contract jj 111 Many Life Insurance Companys have put disability clauses i| l|l in their policies, providing waiver of premium and in some ;j |j; instances, allowing optional settlements. The Penn Mutual il ;;; however, has made one more progressive step, by adding a ! j !! clause which, first waives the premium ; .second, pays 10 per j i j | cent, of the face of the policy as an annuity, in monthly instal- !! ]; ments; third, pays the full face of the policy to the beneficiary ! I ; i at death of insured, regardless of the length of time the insured j; ! j was disabled. 11 It is worth while investigating. Penn Mutual Life Insurance Cempany E. R. ECKENRODE, General Agent, jj | * 604 KUNKEL BLDG. AUuwe, Okla. The State bank ot Alluwe wan robbed yesterday after noon by five masked men, who ob |tn"~d $2,500 and escaped in automo - t ■ 9 The Present For Him HUMIDOR MEERSCHAUM— CALABASH- BRIAR PIPE— Cigars in any size box of standard brands! Harry's 3rd and Walnut 9
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