SNOW SHOE TIMES
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Entered as second class matter,
March 9, 1910, at the post office at
Moshanon, Pa., under the act of March
3, 1879.
Those who expected something par-
ticularly astonishing ‘from Halley's
comet on last Wednesday night, and
staid up all hours to see the phenom-
enon, must surely have been “stung.”
However, it was well to be ready and
have the lamps trimmed and burning
for whatever might have taken place,
and we think much better to be
“stung” than to be “stunned.”
Halley’s comet travels at the rate
of over 1,600 miles a minute. That
is as far as from New York to Omaha
in 60 seconds. Going some, eh? Al
most as fast as the red heifer around
the strawstack.—Keystone Gazette.
Will you attend the Decoration Day
exercises on next Monday? A pro-
gram is being arranged and a very
pleasing time is expected. Do not
fail to be at the cemeteries to take
part in the exercises, and show your
respect for the departed soldiers and
friends.
While this day is, in a way, one of
solemnity and sadness, yet it may be
made a very pleasant one without los-
ing any respect for the occasion. It
is the day for the living to commem-
orate the deeds and patriotism of those
who imperilled their lives for the pre-
servation of our country and encour-
age the rising generation in patriotic
valor. It is a day for the greeting of
friends who you may not have seen
since the last Decoration Day. There-
fore come out ‘to the cemeteries on
- that day and have a pleasant time
among your friends and neighbors.
The Boston man who lately wrote
a book to show what disreputable
* characters the Revolutionary fathers
were has brought upon himself a va-
riety of criticism. This he
stand, avers the Philadelphia Ledger,
for much that he wrote was a rehash
of old stories, and his opinions were
not of great importance. But some-
body has now discovered that whole
paragraphs of his book were conveyed
by scissors and paste, without ac-
knowledgment, from a lecture deliver-
ed some years ago in a church in
New Jersey and printed for a charity
fund. It is the rector of the church
that impales Mr. Stark with the dead-
ly parallel.
‘While the meat supply anc the most
of living are under consideration we
may as well take notice that according
to the Department of Agriculture there
were in the country of cattle other
than milch cows on January 1, 1900,
27,710054 head, but exactly one year
later there were 45,500,213. We can
believe a good deal of official infor-
mation when none other is avdila-
ble, admits the Philadelphia Record,
but we cannot credit an increase of
18,000,000 head in one year. We pre-
sume that the figures for 1900 are the
estimate of the department, and the
figures for 1901 are the result of the
census enumeration. The farmers
are as prone, we presume, to under-
estimate the amount of livestock as to
underestimate a crop of cotton or
wheat, and we doubt greatly if the
number of cattle other than milch
cows decreased 10,000,000 from 1892 to
1899. In the case of sheep there ap-
pears to have been an increase of 18,-
000,000 and of swine almost 20,000,000
in the calendar year 1900. We decline
to believe that that was a year of phe-
nomenal fertility in livestock, and in-
cline rather to believe that the farm-
ers had not been reporting all the cat-
tle they had and which the census
disclosed. But the figures show no
such sudden jump in the number of
milch COWS.
could '
PENNSYLVANIA
Interesting Items from All Sections of
the Keystone State.
LOOKING OVER ROUTE
i.
Figuring on New Section of Western
Maryland Railroad.
Connellsville—iIn charge of L. T.
Herndon, chief engineer of the Car-
ter Construction Company, which has
the contract for building the 87-mile
connecting line between the Western
Maryland and the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie Railroads, a score of contractors
are going over the proposed route
from Connellsville to Ohiopyle. The
men are sub-contractors, figuring on
the work to be sub-let.
Rights of way are being secured in
the vicinity of Ohiopyle, confirming
the report of the building of the line.
It is understood the Western Mary-
land Railroad will construct a viaduct
over the Baltimore & Ohio and Penn-
sylvania Railroads and West Penn
trolley lines just south of the West
Penn power house in Connellsville,
landing on the bluff overlooking the
Pennsylvania tracks.
HOLD SPECIAL ELECTIONS
Freeport Votes to Increase Bonded In-
debtedness After Hct Contest.
Freeport—By ‘a majority of nine at
a special election held in Freeport, it
was decided to increase the bonded in-
debtedness of the town to the extent
of $13,000. Of this amount, $2,000 is
to be spent for street improvements
and the balance for the erection of a
new borough building. It is probable
that the legality of the election may
be contested in the courts.
Ford City—For the second time in
two years the voters of Rural Valley,
near this place, at a special election,
defeated the proposition to increase
the indebtedness of the town by $6,000
to erect a new school building.
Real Test of Bridge.
The freight department of the Pitts-
burg & Lake Erie railroad gave the
new bridge over the Ohio river at
Beaver the real test. After the chris-
tening ceremony, when the crowds
had departed, seventeen freight trains
lined across the structure within five
hours. These trains totaled 1,112
cars and carried: 62,533 tons of freight,
about ten miles of commodities all
told. Until the old bridge is torn
down, all southbound traffic will pass
over it, while the northbound trains
will cross over the new bridge. The
new bridge has been in constant use
since the opening and has stood all
the tests well.
Reunited After 50 Years,
Butler—Through a chance remark
of a Butler attorney, who met her son,
Charles Hartley, in the Union station,
Pittsburg, recently, Mrs. Ellen Hartley,
of Sistersville, W. Va,, met her broth-
er, former Sheriff H. D.“Thompson, of
Center township, whom she had not
seen for 40 years and whom she sup-
posed was dead. The reunion took
place at the home of her brother near
here. Mrs. Hartley left here 50 years
ago and went to West Virginia. She
lost trace of her brother and did not
know he was alive.
Cooper Will Quit Congress.
Uniontown—Congressman Allen F.
Cooper, who represents the Twenty-
fourth district, comprising Fayette,
Greene and Somerset counties, offi-
cially announced that he will not be
a candidate for another term in Con-
gress. While he was in Washington
friends filed a petition at Harrisburg
asking that his name be placed on
the ticket.
Charged With Embezzlement.
Uniontown—Leslie A. Howard, an
attorney, of Connellsville, is charged
with embezzlement here, an informa-
tion having been drawn and a war-
rant issued from the office of Justice
of the Peace John Boyle. He is al-
leged to have taken $140 belonging to
Mrs. Mary J. Cooke, of Connellsville,
for whom Howard had acted as attor-
ney.
Increase Capital Stock.
Sharon—Stockholders of the Mahon-
ing & Shenango Valley Railway and
Light Company have authorized an in-
crease in the capital stock from $10,
000,000 to $11,000,000, the added stock
to be preferred. The increase is to
be used to take care of growing needs
of the company. The directors have
authorized the sale of 750,000 shares
of the capital stock.
Miller Denies Kidnaping Story.
Beaver Falls—Chief of Police George
Woods returned with Hugh Hare, the
local boy alleged to have been kid-
naped a month ago, and his alleged
abductor, Charles Miller, from Zanes-
ville, where the two were taken into
custody. The boy, who was taken
to Chief Woods’ home, said he had
been gagged and put into a wagon by
Miller and taken away.
Labor Camp Quarantined.
Kittanning—United States immi-
grant inspectors from Philadelphia
traced two of the immigrants who
came to that port in a smallpox in-
fested ship to this place and found
them in a labor camp on the Pitts-
burg & Shawmut Railroad. They
found one of the men with a fully de-
veloped case of smallpox. They quar-
antined the entire camp of 200 men.
DEPUTY SHERIFFS HELD
Must Answer for Yukon
Striker’'s Death.
Eighteen
Greensburg—Justice Jacob Truxall
held for court eighteen deputy sher-
iffs who figured in the riot at Yukon
last Sunday night. They were held
for the murder of the foreign striker
who was shot. L. C. McWhorter, F.
R. Fee and Arthur Thompson waived
a hearing and gave bail for court.
Samuel Pratt and C. L. Brody are fu-
gitives from justice and are being
traced by detectives. No evidence be-
ing produced against Harry Ben and
M. Campbell, the two men were dis-
charged. Fifteen were unable to
furnish bail and were sent to jail for
the August term of court.
FIRED FOR FIGHTING
Students Who Rioted at Ball
Dismissed.
Indiana—Four students of the Indi-
ana Normal school have been dismiss-
ed indefinitely and three others pro-
hibited from attending the remainder
of the base ball games here this sea-
son as the result of the attack upon
E. C. CcConahy during the ball game.
Those dismissed were Mike Casten-
ada, Newell Douglass, Eugene Ham-
mitt and William Caldwell. Louis
Brown, Ray Little and Julius Duenas
were directed to/ stay in their rooms
during base ball games.
Game
~ Tidewater Coal Co. Chartered.
Butler—A charter has been granted
to the Tidewater Coal Company, which
has 600 acres of coal land in this coun-
ty. When the company has a tipple
and mining machinery it will ship
coal. The capital stock is $50,000.
The officers are William Leslie, presi-
dent; Thomas Leslie, secretary and
treasurer; J. H. Young, general man-
ager; Edward Menges, field manager,
and Thomas Minford, engineer,
Admits Trying to Wreck Train.
Huntington—Charles H. Burnshire,
aged 18 years, of Wallaceton, is in
jail in default of bail charged with try-
ing to wreck a train on the Peters-
burg branch of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. Just before the west bound
passenger train reached Waterstreet a
piece of iron was feund fastened to
the track west of the station. Burn-
shire admitted the charge but would
give no reason for wanting to wreck
the train.
Guardian Named for Woman of 99,
Harrisburg—Jesse Shallcross, Bur-
gess of Coatesville, was named as
guardian of Miss Maria Bender of
Harrisburg, who is 99 years old. Miss
Bender has property worth several
thousands of dollars, which she is un-
able to administer. Miss Bender is
the oldest person for whom a guar-
dian has ever been named in this
county.
Veterans of “98' Organize.
Latrobe—A temporary organization
of the ex-soldiers of the United States
service, was effected at a meeting in
the office of Major John A. Metzger,
a veteran of the Spanish-American
war. The organization will include
veterans of the United States army,
regulars and volunteers, and the navy
and marines.
Cochran Acquitted of Murder.
Greensburg—John M. Cchran of
Grapeville, charged with the murder
of Charles C. Doran of Youngwood last
February, was acquitted. Tesse Rai-
mando, an Italian merchant, who shot
and killed Marino Hermi near here
April 4, also was aoqditied. of the
charge of murder.
Found Dead Beneath Trestle.
Butler—The body of an unknown
man was found underneath the trestle
of the Pittsburg, Harmony, Butler &
New Castle railways line at Lyndora.
The chest was crushed. The man is
supposed to have fallen from the tres-
tle itself, or from a car passing over
the trestle.
Board of Trade DrGanizad.
Clymer—At a meeting of the busi-
ness men of this place the Clymer
Board of Trade was organized with
the following officers: President, W.
E. Oakes; vice president, Dr. L. E.
Ackerson; secretary, J. M. Sweitzer,
and treasurer, J. C. Davidson.
Altoona Man Killed by Train.
Altoona—Falling asleep on a track
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near |
: : sh
Myersdale, Charles .V. Stains, aged
| 24, of Llyweson, a suburb, was killed
by a shifting engine... His mangled
body was found by the tracks. He
was a bricklayer.
Despondent Man Kills Himself.
Charleroi—Despondent from {ll-
health, August Kirchner, 31 years old,
a decorator at the Macbeth-Evans
glass plant here, ended his life by
shooting himself through the right
temple.
Franklin—Five hundred employes of
the Eclipse Oil works, a Standard Oil
concern, were notified of a 6 per cent
increase in wages, effective May 1.
Grove City—John Perry, 18 years
old, a mute, was killed by a Bessemer |
passenger train at Pardoe. He lived
at Pardoe.
Cows Spread Consumption.
To show that there is danger of
contracting tuberculosis from using
milk from tubercular cows, we cite
the statement of Health Officer Wood-
ward, of Washington, who says that
about fifteen per cent. of the people
who die in the District of Columbia
from tuberculosis contract the dis-
ease as a result of drinking milk from
dairies in and around Washington.
It has been found that an unusually
large number of cows around Wash-
ington have the disease. This is a
serious situation, and if this is true
around Washington it is true in other
large cities. The only safe way is to
give the cows the tuberculin test.—
Farmers’ Guide.
Cheap Horse Feeds.
The Michigan Agricultural Experi-
ment Station has published a bulletin
on comparative horse feeding. It
states that six horses at work re-
ceived a regular ration of timothy
hay and oats at an average expense
of 29.6 cents per day, estimating the
feed at current prices. The horses
lost an average of eleven pounds
each. Six horses were fed a cheaper
ration consisting of shredded corn-
stalks, oat straw, hay, ear corn, oats,
beet pulp, bran, oilcake and a few
carrots, the average cost of which
was 17.7 cents per day, and the
horses gained on an average four-
teen pounds each. Four horses were
also fed the cheaper ration, but as
they were at rest part of the time
they were not fed as heavily as the
other lots. The average cost of main-
tenance in this trial was 12.9 cents,
and the average loss in live weight
for each horse four pounds.
Horse Holidays.
The Federal Government is acting |
on the old saw that ‘‘all work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy,” and
has adopted a rule for a holiday for
horses employed in the public service.
The first example of the new law was
tested in the case of all horses used
in the service at Washington. The
horses employed in the Postal De-
partment are to have a thirty days’
vacation every year, the same as Gov-
ernment employes. The chief of the
department believes holidays will add
to the efficiency and durability of the
horses in the Government service.
Every summer all the horses em-
ployed in the Postal Department at
the capital will be sent to the Gov-
ernment pastures of Maryland. A
change to the rich, tonic grasses of
the country and the opportunity to
repose in the shade of the stately
trees will not only be appreciated by
the horses, but will greatly add to
their efficiency.
Feeding and Training Colts.
Feed is high, but so are horses, and
even the chronic grumblers have
stopped saying that it does not pay to
raise colts. There is no denying that
it pays better to raise the heavy
breeds than the trotting-bred colt.
Nine out of ten of the former" are
prizes, where only now and then a
trotter is developed. The trotter re-
quires special training; the drafter
needs only use to make him saleable
at a good price. Somebody asks if it
is true that at present prices for feed
a colt will “eat his head off’ in a few
months? It all depends upon how he
is fed.
A yearling may be kept well, which
means kept growing, at not to ex-
ceed from $2 to $2.50 per month
‘1 while in stable, and for much less
when at pasture. A favorite ration
is a pint of ground oats, the same of
bran and half a gill of oil meal,
twice a day, made into a thin gruel
with water and spread on the hay
feed.
in its place if bright and clean. Do
not give the colts any dusty food, and
see to it that they do not become con-
stipated. Linseed meal, roots, corn-
stalks and apples are useful to pre-
vent this danger.
The main thing is to keep the
youngster growing, and to see that he
has no backset. Stunted colts, like
stunted children, will carry the ill
effects of early malnutrition as a
handicap all through life.
Next to sensible feeding is intelli-
gent handling of the colts. This
uld begin early and be carried on
with patience and good sense. Kind-
ness allied to firmness is the great
essential in the training of a colt in
the way you want him to go. A
brawling, impatient, headstrong man
can very soon turn a likely colt into
a vicious and worthless imitation of
himself.—Weekly Witness.
Determine Vitality of Seed Corn.
There is serious danger that this
year’s corn crop will be limited by a
poor stand of plants.
Many growers will be compelled to
buy seed. In such case do not risk
purchases from a different latitude.
If good seed of a productive variety
cannot be bought near home, then
make sure that the seed has been
National
and tying it arcund the ear.
If hay is high, feed oat straw!
grown in a section having a similar
growing season, advises a writer in
Stockman and Farmer.
Even if the corn is sold as tested seed
buy early enough to enable you to
make a test for yourself before plant-
ing.
The first thing to do is to test the
corn that one is planning to use. It
will pay to do this right. Make some
boxes three inches deep and, say,
eighteen inches square. Partly fill
with sawdust or any other material
that will hold moisture. Place on
this a square of muslin that is
marked in one inch squares and
numbered. On each square place four
kernels of corn taken from different
parts of the ear, one square for each
ear that is to be tested. Give the ear
the same number as the square by
writing the number on a slip of paper
Cover
the corn in a box with a pad that.
will hold the moisture, and keep the
box in a warm room. Select for
planting only the ears whose kernels
have shown strong germinating
power. If one kernel in four fails to
germinate, or if the germination is
slow and weak, reject the ear. The
task of testing is not nearly so great
as these directions may indicate, and
in this way one may know that all the
seed is capable of making a strong
growth of plants.
It pays every year, but this year:it
will be unusually profitable. : Much
corn will not grow at all, and very
much will germinate only under most
favorable coundtions, and some cold,
wet weather after planting will rot it.
Make sure of the'rejection of all seed
that is not full of vitality, aad this
method of testing will enable anyone
to do so.
STEEL TOYS.
Made Now in Large Variety in Place
of Cast Iron or Tin.
Steel is used nowadays not only
in the frames of tall buildings, in rail-
road tracks, in bridges and such large
ways, but also in the manufacture of
toys. Many toys that once were
made of wood, of cast iron, or of tin
are now made of steel,
Steel toys include, for example, toy
carts and wagons stamped out of thin
sheet steel. A toy steel dump cart,
painted in bright colors and provided
with a twisted wire handle, is made
to retail for five cents. There are
other toy dump carts and four-
wheeled toy wagons of various sizes
and sorts, including ice wagons, mail
wagons, express wagons, milk wag-
ons, all decorated in colors, and some
without and some with horses and
wagons and horses all of steel, these
larger toys ranging up to a retail
price of twenty-five cents.
Among the steel toys are toy safes
in various styles and sizes and made
in very safelike appearance, and there
are steel toy money banks of various
designs and toy steel furniture and
horns and flutes. In fact steel toys
are now made in large variety, not
the least interesting thing among
them being the steel toy drum, which
is made not only with its shell and
hoops of steel, but with heads also
of steel, painted to imitate sheepskin.
There is an all steel toy drum that is
retailed for as little as ten cents,
“Palm Trees on Long Island."
I read once a prophecy by a well
known scientist to the effect that
“the child is now living who will see
palm trees growing on the southern
shores of Long Island.” In other
words, that the Gulf Stream is slowly
changing its course so as to make
New York as warm a place as Italy.
I think there may be some truth in
it, for ‘‘the good old-fashioned win-
ter’ seems to be a thing of the past.
Yet I can remember the winter when
ladies in New York carried parasols
in January. Also. the July when
crops froze in the ground. Does any
other reader’s memory go back so far
as that, I wonder?—Grandmamma,
in the New York Evening World.
Popular Fiction.
“I Just Adore Grand Opera!”
“I Don’t Care For the Nickel; It’s
the Principle of the Thing.”
“Yes, Mabel; I'd Love You Just
the Same If You Were as Poor as a
Church Mouse.”
“No, Sor, the Young Lady Isn't at
Home."
“I Haven't the Money With Me
Now, but I'll Pay You Next Week,
Sure.”
‘‘He’s Not Five Years old Yet, Con-
ductor.” .
“I Don’t Want It For Myself, You
"| Know; I'm Buying It For a Friend.”
“I Detest Liquor, but the Doctor
Advises Me to Use It.”—Chicago Tri-
bune.
The crude rate of mortality last
year in the seventy-six largest Eng-
lish towns, having an estimated pop-
ulation of 16,500,000, did not exceed
14.7 a thousand,