SNOW SHOE TIMES
Published on Wednesday of
Each Week at
MOSHANNON, PA.
CLARENCE LUCAS
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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How many eggs have you saved up
for Easter?
This year, it is just 100 years since
the “old elm tree’—Penn’s treaty tree
—was blown down. What a pity. It
might have been made use of at this
time.
Philadelphia does not seem to be
“true to name.” If William Penn
was to name it now, we wonder what
he would call it.
Color some eggs for the children.
You will be greatly repaid. Easter
comes but once a year and the “little
tots” will be more than pleased.
Our township, as a rule, has excel
lent roads, in comparison with some
othed places. However, there is al-
ways a chance to improve, and the
early spring is a good time to take
the road question up. While in some
places the roads are drying up in
good shape, yet there are other
points that are still in a bad condi-
tion, and places too with water run-
ning for some length over them. This
is the time of year to begin work on
the roads, and the worst places repair-
ed before more damage is done.
Are you going to plant any trees
this spring—either fruit or ornamen-
tal? Why not? Every land owner
and tenant should be interested in
tree planting, and this community, we
are sorry to say, has been very neg-
lectful of this pleasant pastime, if it
amounts to nothing more.
are a land owner, you should be in-
terested in the surface as well as
what is underneath. If you are a
tenant, .plant some trees for your own
good, and your neighbor who follows
you. Probably, your best friend will
occupy the place you leave, and you
can do much for him in this way. If
you have a piece of land bordering on
the public highway, plant shade trees
the full length of it. This will ac-
crue to your benefit. The kind of
trees to plant can be ascertained by
consulting some reputable nursery
catalog or an authority on the sub-
ject. The “Orchard Primers” which
are being distributed free by the P.
R. R., are replete with knowledge per-
taining to the planting and care of an
orchard, and can be had by applying
to the agent. Give the tree question
a little consideration, and make an
effort to plant a few trees each sea-
son. If they are in the way when
grown, they can be easily cut down
and used for firewood. And if you
are advancing in years and think you
will not get the benefit of an orchard
planted now, probably, you have chil-
dren and grand-children, who must
live this life, as well as yourself, and
see what a benefit it would be to
them. It is high time to make prep-
aration for this spring’s planting,
therefore, give it your attention.
WHY DO WE HAVE EGGS AT
EASTER?
Easter is observed among all Chris-
tian people as the anniversary of the
great event of the resurrection of
Christ. He was dead, but returned
to life. The egg is taken as emble-
matic of a return to life. It is to all
appearance dead, but we know that if
placed under proper conditions, life
will come forth from it. The use of
eggs at Easter was adopted from a
usage older than our era. It was the
custom in very early times to cele-
brate the return of spring by making
presents of eggs. :
“Why does not Easter always fall
upon a fixed day. Christmas is al-
ways on December 25, why should
not Easter be fixed with equal certain-
ty?’ Easter must always be on Sun-
day. It is not a particular date that
is observed, but a particular Sunday.
How to decide upon the Sunday, gave
the very early churches much trouble,
and there were differences on that
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If you
account, but the matter was settled
at a council held at Nice, in the year
325. The rule was adopted that:
“Easter day is always the first Sun-
day after the full moon, which hap-
pens upon or next after March 21,
and if the full moon happens on a
Sunday, Easter day is the next Sun-
day after. This gives [Easter day a
wide range of date, as it may occur
on any Sunday from March 22 to
April 25.
‘Governor ‘Stuart has named April 8
and 22 as Arbor day this year in
Pennsylvania. It would be an alto-
gether worthy habitude of our citizen-
ship if we should follow up yearly
executive {ree-planting suggestion
with active co-operative work. If the
head of every family in the state
would either plant a tree or procure
the planting of a tree on either or
both the days named by the gover-
nor what a grateful showing it would
make in the years to come! One prac-
tical day’s work of tree planting would
be worth years of talk about pros-
pective conservation, no one doing
anything in the meantime to con-
serve.—Philadelphia Record.
PEACE IN SIGHT.
Peace talk is in the air. The war-
ring parties to the street railway
strike, both beaten to a frazzle, are
evidently on the verge of an adjust-
ment. For so much the rest of us,
likewise ‘a-weary of the strife, are
duly thankful. But—
There are considerations that tem-
per our rejoicing. Nothing has been
done toward a termination of the
strike that might not have been done
with far more beneficial results at
least three weeks ago. Joint meet-
ings, mutual discussion, definition of
essential points of disagreement, give-
and-take concessions — these means
of reaching a thorough understanding,
that have now been found to be so ef-
fective, might have saved losses that
neither side could afford to bear had
they been employed in season. The
Rapid Transit Company and the strik-
ing carmen resemble joint tenants of
a house who, falling into disagree-
ment as to the terms of its occupan-
cy, burn the structure down by way
of argument and then find themselves
obliged to settle the question on its
original merits amid the ruins.
It is matter of congratulation that
negotiation is under way, for nego-
tiation must lead to a resumption of
normal car service and normal condi-
tions in industries affected by the
strike. What a pity it is that
the idea of negotiating did not occur
to the peacemakers just as soon as the
disorders which at first interfered
with steps t8ward a settlement were
put down!—Philadelphia Record.
Recent Deaths
Silas Dixon.
Silas Dixon, residing near Zion, and
for a long time a resident of Pine
Glen, died at his home at 4:30 on
Friday morning, March 11, with pneu-
monia. The deceased was near 80
years old and leaves a family of the
following children: William - and
James, of near Zion; Samuel of Johns-
town, Harry of Philipsburg, and Ald-
en in the West. The daughters are:
Sallie Hipple of Unionville, Annie
Craft of Clearfield, Cordelia Beightol
of Clearfield, and Dollie Mooney of—
not known.
The remains were brought to Gillen-
town and interredin the Askey ceme-
tery on Monday.
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CHARLESTON RICE.
The way an old Charleston cook
boils rice is to wash it until the last
water is clear and then boil it in a
double boiler until it is tender. The
rice is drained, cold ‘water is poured
back into the boiler to dry and re-
heat. In this way ewery igrain will
stand distinct and the mass will be
light and snowy. There is a great
difference in the cooking of different
varieties of rice, as every housekeep-
er knows.—New York Sun.
"150 feet square; its height is about
from organic disease and asserted
Pittsburg’s Notable and Costly Sol-
diers and Sailors’ Monument.
‘ Pittsburg is erecting at a cost of
$1,400,000 a great and noteworthy
memorial hall in honor of the soliders
and sailors of Allegheny County. This
will be, it is asserted, the first soldiers
and sailors’ building erected in this
country in which the purely monu-
GREAT MEMORIAL HALL. 1}
Pencil of Many Hues.
One of the most ingenious little de-
vices recently put on the market is
that shown in the cut. This device,
the invention of a Maryland man, is a
combination marking crayon, lumber
gauge and tally pencil. First, there
is a-long, thin tube with an opening
‘large enough to receive a lead pencil.
At the other end is an enlarged tubu-
lar holder for crayon, the crayon-re-
mental idea has been treated so as to
| ceiver end forming a shoulder, which
MEMORIAL HALL FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF
ALLEGHENY
COUNTY, PA.
It is Being Erected in Pittsburg at a
Cost of $1,400,000. Palmer & Horn-
bostel, cf New York City, Architects.
be practicable for public use. The
architects are Palmer & Hornbostel.
The building is being erected on the
Schenley property, facing Fifth ave-
nue, and will contain an auditorium
of architectural spaciousness that will
be one of the largest in this country
and will accommodate five thousand
persons. The dinner hall will accom-
modate five thousand more. In a
makes a stop when the tube is drawn
across the edge of a board, for in-
stance. Along the tube a scale is
marked, by means of which the thick-
ness of a board may be measured, as
between the shoulder and the marks
on the gauge. The crayon is for
marking boards and the pencil for re-
cording the various necessary data in
the owner’s notebook. For lumber-
large gallery will be inscribed the!
names of soldiers and sailors of Al-
legheny County. | :
"The memorial hall will be specially
noteworthy for its artistic features. |
There will be placed in a Grand Army |
post room, treated in quartered oak,
a mural decoration by T. de Thul-
strup depicting the final charge of the
Pennsylvania cavalry, led by Colonel
Schoolmaker, at the Battle of Win-
chester. Howard Pyle has just finished
sketches for a mural decoration of the
back of the platform in the audi-
torium, eighty feet long and twenty
feet high.
On the exterior of the building,
over the front door, will be placed a
huge bronze sitting figure symbolical
of valor, nineteen feet high, executed
by Charles Keck, the sculptor.
There will also be put in appro-
priate places memorial tablets de-
scriptive of the Civil War, such as the
tablet of the famous telegraph corps,
of which Andrew Carnegie was a|
member. :
The approach to the building will
be treated in a parkway scheme, 600
feet by 400 feet, so as to contain bal-
ustrades, benches and a high flagpole.
A peace monument may be erected
in the place.
The main body of the building is
180 feet, and it is built of sandstone.
Curative Suggestion.
Lecturing in Paris on the ‘“Mira-
cles of Lourdes,” the Abbe Conde
limited the curative power of ‘sug-
gestion” to functional as distinct
that 650 cases of organic disease;
chiefly cancer and tuberculesis,.had
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Handy For Lumbermen.
men this little implement is very use-
ful, as it relieves them of the neces-
sity of keeping the vest pockets
stuffed with a veritable arsenal of
pencils, crayons and rules, and also
saves them the time otherwise wasted
in hunting for each of these imple-
ments as it is required.—Philadelphia
Record.
Religious Teachers in United States.
There are 30,000 religious teach-
ers in the United States giving their
lives to teaching. The pay of these
should average $500 a year, making
a total of $15,000,000 a year. Now,
this sum represents, at only five per
cent. interest, a capital of $300,000,-
000, which the teaching orders of the
church gives to Catholic education.—
been completely cured at the shrine.
Catholic Columbian Record.
Tourist—*I wonder at your allowing people to mount that ruin.”
Native—*“It’s quite safe, sir. It was only built last year.”
in France, are tryin
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. Carl Dinger
Dentist
Philipsburg, Pa.
Painless Extraction "of
Teeth a Specialty
Dr. F. K. White
Dentist
SECOND FLOOR
GRANT BLOCK
PHILIPSBURGC, PA.
R. J. YOUNG, M. D.
Practising Physician
SNOW SHOE PENNA.
DR. J. W. CARTER
DENTIST
BELL TELEPHONE
9TO 12 A. M.
1:30 TO 5 P. M.
OFFICE HOURS
Masonic Temple
ALTOONA, PA.
ONE CAUSE
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of headache is straining
‘the eyes and using them
until they feel weak and
bleary. If the people could
realize the need of proper
glasses, there would be
less sore eyes and fewer
headaches. :
I can fit you out with
the right thing. Give me
‘a trial,
WM. LUCAS
MOSHANNON, PA.
DECLINE TO WELCOME PEARY
Georgia's Governor and Atlanta’s May-
or Turn Down Invitations.
Atlanta, Ga. — Governor Joseph
Brown of Georgia, nd Mayor Robert
Maddox of Atlanta, declined an invita
tion to introduce Commander R. E.
Peary when he lectures here. Governor
Brown said he did not believe that
Peary discovered the North Pole.
Mayor Maddox in declining gave as
his reason that Peary was coming as a
private citizen to lecture for money
and was in no sense a guest of At/
lanta.
Mob Attacks Missionary.
Caracas, Venezuela—Rev. Gerard A.
Bailly, a missionary of the Christian
‘and Missionary Alliance, and agent
for the American Bible society, while
holding services at Guarenas, was at-
tacked by a mob, but escaped uninjur-
ed. An Italian convert was less for-
tunate and was thrown into a ditch.
The bibles used at the services were
destroyed by the assailants. :
Charges Wrights With Monopoly.
Paris—The French ' aviation syndi-
cate has brought suit for the annul-
ment of the Wright patents in France,
setting up the general claim that the
Wright brothers, both in America and
to obtain a
monopoly in mechanical flight.
Railroad people do not so much
dread strikes as they dread the ef-
fect upon net earnings of granting
merely such demands for higher pay
as they privately believe to be rea-
sonable. :