PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions of the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Postmaster John S. Leiby, of Marys yille, has resigned. Water continues scarce through the northeastern part of the state. AJtoona has put severe restrictions on the use of Its depleted water sup ply. Carbon county hunters blame the cold, wet ipring for scarcity of pheas ants. Four automobiles have been bought by the state for emergency use by the state police. Allentown school board has decreed compulsory courses in agriculture am physical culture. Samuel Commer has been appoint ed Justice in Rockhill borough, Hun tingdon county. The American Specialty Manufac turers' association held their conven tion at Pittsburgh. William Vitzon, aged thirty-eight, died in St. Vincent's hospital, Erie, af ter taking paris green. Mrs. Johanna Spichek. of Hickory Ridge, was found wandering on the mountains near her home. Stricken with heart failure. John Briner, sixty-five, died at his work at the Duncannon Steel works. Charles Lawrence, aged twenty-two, of Connellsville, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Bettors at Sunbury are excited over the threat of poor overseers to con fiscate $2OO in election bets. High cost of materials in the brew threatens to boost beer to six cents a glass in the anthracite regions. The annual meeting of the Cumber land Valley Federation of Women's Clubs was held in Mechanicsburg. John Fritz and Franklin Fritz, twin brothers, of Oil City, celebrated their eighty-ninth birthday anniversary. At John Fisher's cattle sale in Gratersford, cows brought over $lOO each, the highest price being 143.25. Falling under a train of cars at Centralia colliery, Patrick Lenahan was crushed so badly that he will die. Because the automobile has come to stay, both Mauch Chunk liveries are selling most of their horses and car riages. While excavating for a new sewer age system at the Cumberland County Home, workmen found the skeleton of a man. Mr. and Mrs. John Sholly, of Ann ville, celebrated the sixtieth anniver sary of their marriage with a family reunion. W. J. Graff, of Williamsport, Pa., has been elected director of the Greens burg Y. M. C. A. at a salary of $2OOO annually. Albert Betus has been promoted from sergeant, Sixth Infantry, to sec ond lieutenant in the machine gun company. Burns sustained while playing around a bonfire resulted in the death of Annie Matilda, five, at the Coal dale hospital. Falling into Conococheague Creek while trying to get a drink, Frank Snyder, aged sixty, was drowned at Chambersburg. In payment of an election bet at Pottstown, Daniel Brunnick. of Chick en Hill, must eat a" quart of molasses with a toothpick. Ninety-three citizens of Cokeville. near Greensburg, have petitioned the court to have their charter of incor poration annulled. Woodrow Wilson Claycomb was name given to a boy irorn to H. C. Claycomb. at Altoona, after the presi dent was re-elected. His skull fractured by the kick of a mule, Walter Bair. a Gatchelville farmer, was found unconscious in his barn by a helper. State hatcheries in October sent out 323,500 one and two-year-old brook trout and 24,0000 black bass for dis tribution in streams. When his team ran away at Shamo kin. George Brunstetter was thrown under the wheels and was injured in ternally and will die. Employes of the Pennsylvania rail road in Altoona have completed an eighty-foot locomotive, said to be the largest in the world. Overcome by excitement that caused heart failure, Solomon Stuber. aged Beventy-slx, of Allentown, fell dead while killing a chicken. Hazleton school board will allow the public to use school auditoriums and gymnasinms for social and cultural purposes, but not dancing. Pride, not poverty, prevents many alien parents considering eyeglasses for the defective vision of their chil dren in Hazleton schools. Mushroom growing *as demonstrat ed as practicable, in- Hazleton, by Herbert Hutton, who raised a large crop in beds under his home. David M. Mast, of Morgantown. har vested 3600 bushels of corn from twen ty acres and ten acres yielded at the rate of 200 bushels per acre. The eight-hour limit on hoisting en gineers at the anthracite mines is de clared inflexible in an opinion by Dep uty Attorney General Hargest. county quarter sessions will hereafter be held in February May, October and December, the firs' change in more than a centuTy. Heavy guards now protect the Le high Valley Coal company's paj trains, with their fortnightly distric pays of from $3 r »,000 to $50,000.. Burglars broke into the Peerlc) s Cigar store, Mahanoy City, smashed the cash register and slot machine.' and took goods to the-value of $l5O. Lieutenant Carl Spatz, of Boyer town, an aviator now with Genera Pershing's column in Mexico, has beer promoted to a regular army captaincy j Charles Cominskey, of Springfield missing eleven weeks, was founc wandering in the mountains, having lived on leaves and berries, he said Walking in her sleep Miss Ann? Smith, a twelve-year-old Hazletor Heights girl, jumped from a second story window and was severely injur ed. Thrown from the seat of his wagor when his horses ran away at Ashland George Beldin, a Roaring Creek farm er, sustained a fractured skull and wil die. The drought throughout the Perki omen valley is compelling the farmer* to haul water for their cattle, and s number of artesian wells are being drilled. George Ambler, is probably the old est prisoner ever arraigned at Punx sutawney. He is charged with selling liquor without a license. He is 10! years old. Peter J. Rehig, one of Conyngham'i leading Democrats, held a flag-raising with addresses at his home, in honoi of the re-election of President Wood row Wilson. The Bethlehem Steel company start ed a free night school for its work men in the Quinn public school, anc students of Lehigh University will bt the teachers. With his face badly battered, no«€ broken and otherwise hurt, Williair Monoghan, of Girardville, was found at Big Mine Run, wearing a convict's suit and badly injured. Episcopal educators at Harrisburg have arranged for a complete survey ol Sunday school work and religious education in Pennsylvania, Delaware Maryland and Virginia. Applying the bonus plan, salaries of about 4000 office and other em ployes of the Westinghouse Electric company, Pittsburgh, have been ad vanced twelve per cent. Steps to prevent stream polution bj industrial plants were discussed bj Fish Commissioner Buller and J. A Viquesney, West Virginia game and fish warden at Pittsburgh. Preparing for the coming legisla ture at Harrisburg, tons of supplies and big quantities of paper are being received, and committee oooms are in the hands of the renovators. John H. Gould, aged fifty-six. oii producer and operator of Penn town ship, near Butler, was perhaps fatallj injured when his clothing was caughl in the clutch of a gas engine. Alleging red phosphorus he handlec caused necrosis to develope, Philip H Glatfelter has begun suit for $10,00 C; damages from the American Phosphor us company, Clay, York county. A shortage of natural gas is seri ously curtailing the Pittsburgh indus trial output, and the Glass Trust an j nounces that a continued shortage means a big advance in prices. John Curilla, whose auto ran down and killed Mrs. George Oakes, eighty of Humboldt, was censured by a coro ner's jury for permitting a driver tc operate the car without a license. John Kritzman, who confessed tc the brutal murder of Leo Brett, a nine year-old Uniontown lad, is not believed to have been the boy's slayer. Con nellsville police think the man is in sane and are holding him pending aD examination. The action of the Lehigh Valley Traction company in charging ten cents fare from Norristown to German town has been appealed to court by the East Norristown supervisors, the company's defence being its fifty nickel-trtp book. George Meckes, a farmer of Lime port. Lehigh county, delivered a con signment of 500 bushels of potatoes tc a customer, ninety-two bushels short He was arrested, and in addition tc being compelled to make good the shortage was fined $5O. There will be fewer button strike?' at Nesquehoning in the future, as the union men are determined to put but tonless employes on the shelf or make them pay up. Out of 1400 men em ployed at the colliery, there are only four who make the trouble. Harold Burdett Watson, sixteen years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Watson, of Verron township, near Meadville. has died as a result of a rupture of the bowels, received whi'e practicing with the Conneaut Lake High school foot ball eleven. The gentleman burglar made his appearance in Pittsburgh. He in vaded the room of Anna Levi, seven •teen years old, and when she scream ed. he said politely: "Don't scream I will not harm you." The burglar's hobby is entering hotels, where he is always polite and mannerly with his victims. Shot by an unidentified assailant, who concealed himself along the tracks near Southfork, R. L. Miller, engine?! on a Pennsylvania freight train, stuck to the throttle and brought his heavy train to a stop before he collapses- Police were unable to trace the shoot er: the bullet lodged in Miller's neck but his condition is not serious. The Mercantile Bridge company owner of the Charleroi-Monessen bridge over the Monongahela river be tween North Charleroi and Monessen, will fight the attempt to have it freed of tolls and taken over by Washing ton and Westmoreland counties. A petition signed by 200 citizens of Char leroi asks that the bridge be freed. GIFTS FROM SPACE Wonderfu! Meteorites That Drop to Us Out of the Sky. ONCE REGARDED AS SACRED. In the Early Days They Were Ob jects of Reverence and Worship, as Is the Famous Stone at Mecca To day—Their Fiery Flight to Earth. In considering the wonders of the universe have you ever realized how conspicuous among them are the me teorites, those wonderful messages dropped from the sky for us to wonder at and study? They are the only ma terial objects which come to the earth from the vast outer world. Among the collections shown in the National museum at Washington is a remarkably fine exhibit of meteorites. It includes complete meteorites rang ing in size from the merest pebbles to great bowlder-like masses and casts re producing giant forms like that of Ba cubirito, which has been estimated to weigh twenty-five tons and still rests where it fell in Mexico. The National museum has issued a handbook and descriptive catalogue of the meteorite collections in the mi> geum, written by Dr. George P. Mer rill, head curator of geology, from which the following is an abstract: Although meteorites presumably have fallen since time immemorial, skep ticism was felt at first by both the popular and scientific minds regarding the possibilities of stones falling from space. In the few early recorded cases where meteorites seen to fall were re covered they were regarded as objects of reverence and worship. A stone which fell in ancient Phrygia, in Asia Minor, about 200 years before Christ was worshiped as Cybele, the mother of the gods. Another, which dates back to the seventh century, is still preserved at Mecca, where it is built into the northeast corner of the Ka'a ba and revered as one of the holiest oi' relics.* The great Casus Grandes iron, weighing about 3,000 pounds, now in the national collection at Washington, was found in an ancient Mexican ruin swathed in mummy clothes in a man ner to indicate that it was hold in more than ordinary veneration by the prehistoric inhabitants. The earliest known undoubted me teorites still preserved are those of Elbogen, Bohemia and Ensisheim, Up per Alsace. The first mentioned is Iron, the second a stone. The Iron was found somewhere about the year 1400 of our era. The Ensisheim stone, seen to fall on Nov. 16, 1492, about the time Columbus made his discoveries, was accompanied with a loud crash like thunder. Portions of this stone are to be seen in the National museum ex hibit. The fall of a meteorite is usually ac companied by noises variously describ ed as resembling the fire of musketry, cannonading or even thunder. If the fall takes place during the periods of darkness it is also accompanied by a flash of light and followed by a lumi nous rocket-like trail. These phenome na are due to the rapid passage of the objects through the air and a conse quent rise in temperature, sufficient to produce fusion of the outer surface and even ignition, thus giving rise to the thin, dark, glasslike crust which is found to cover all stony meteorites. The time of passage through the at mosphere is, however, too short to per mit the heat to penetrate to great depths, and nearly all meteorites are quite cool, or scarcely warm, on reach ing the surface of the ground. It Is to the sudden rise in temperature and pressure of the atmosphere that the breaking up of a meteorite and its reaching the ground as a shower of fragments rather than a single individ ual are due. We have little to guide us in estim:>t ing the speed at which a meteorite reaches the earth and its consequent power of penetration. The velocities as given by various observers vary be tween two and forty-five miles a sec ond. The greatest recorded depth of penetration of a meteoric stone is that of Knyaliinya. Hungary, where a GGO pound stone penetrated to a depth ot 'eleven feet. On the other hand, still heavier masses have been found under such conditions as to lead one to Infer that they scarcely buried themselves. All statements relative t<9 the temper ature of meteorites immediately after reaching the ground must be accepted guardedly, owing to their extremely contradictory character. Some stones which fell in Styria in 1559 are stated to have remained in a state of incan descence for over five seconds and for a quarter of an hour were too hot to be handled. On the other hand, the Phurmsala stone is said to have been intensely cold when picked up immedi ately after falling. The largest known meteoric mass is that brought by Commander Peary from Cape York. Greenland. It weigh ed 73.000 pounds. The next largest lies in the plain near Bacubirito, in Mexico, and has been estimated to weigh some 50.000 pounds, while the third is that of Willamette. Ore., weighing 31.107 pounds. These are all iron meteorites. The largest known Individual aerolite of meteoric stone is that of Knyahinya, Hungary, weighing some *550 pounds, now in the Vienna National museum. Dr. Merrill says that all known me teorites were produced by the action of heat and have yielded no traces ot I animal or vegetable life, although parts of their peculiar structures were at i one time mistaken for organic remains. y-M rr-i-i':-iM I-I-111 nmi i>iv | Scientific I Farmingf £, .1 PRUNING FRUIT TREES. If Neglected In Fall Can Still Be Un dertaken In Winter. The pruning of fruit trees if neglect ed in the fall can still be undertaken In winter up to the time when the sap begins to flow and the trees show signs of renewed vitality. It is best, of course, to prune in the fall as soon as the sap has ceased to rise. This gives a dormant tree a much better chance to heal over the pruning wound. The nearer spring the pruning is done the greater the likelihood thai the wound may bleed. Where the sap bleeds from the wound it may attract insects that carry tree diseases, which may work back into the tree. This Is one reason why it Is well to cover the cut with paint where a large branch is cut off. It also is a reason for disin fecting cuts when trees have been sub ject to disease. 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Cisneros, Cavalieri, Fitzin, Cber, Urlus, Weil, Panrs, Georgini, ❖ and many others, sing for Pathe. . y tCall for the Latest Record List £ and Hear Your Favorite. ♦> Geo. D. Ley die § 732 PHILADELPHIA ST. * "AT THE SIGN OF THE RED ROOSTER" ♦♦♦ rrom excessive wood production anu with fruit trees of some classes to thin and distribute the fruit. Where this is properly -done the strength of the tree will be be concentrated on fruit production rather than on growing new sprouts, and the amount of fruit will be so controlled that the tree will ' bring to maturity its legitimate amount of choice fruit instead of bearing a large number of small, low grade ap ples or pears. Pruning, in addition to ! turning the strength of the tree into . proper channels, also aids the produc tion of high quality fruits by eliminat . ing branches and foliage that keep the , proper amount of sunlight from the j fruit. Finally, control of the shape of the tree makes the work of spraying and controlling diseases and gathering ' the fruit easier and less expensive. 1 During the early years of fruit trees 5 a vigorous use of the pruning knife : frequently is necessary. At this time . , the entire life history of the young ; tree may be changed and its future } shape greatly improved or injured. The farmer should prune with the nat ) ural form and habits of the plant with t which he is dealing in mind and should i attempt to promote the development i of a normal tree shape. > The young tree should have a long, j clean trunk reaching from the green sward to the main branches. The branches should be encouraged to dis pose themselves at equal distances about the main trunk of the plant ; ! This will result In a more symmetrical 5 development and a radiation of the ; branches away from the trunk of the tree similar to the ribs of an umbrella, with the difference that the branches will mark an irregular rising spiral around the trunk from the lowest branch to the highest. Such a tree form is much less likely to be dam aged by storms or heavy snow. With pears and apples the main body branches left at planting time should be not more than eight inches long. At the close of the first season, when pruning time arrives, the growth of that year should again be shortened to at least one foot, and each of the main body branches should be allowed to tarry not to exceed three subdivisions, each of which should be eight inches long. The third year the same opera tion should be repeated, and instead of j allowing each subdivision to carry ; throe branches the number should be j reduced to two. The arrangement of | those branches should in all cases be based upon the same principle as the arrangement of the branches on the j main body of the tree. Where the pruning involves the re moval of annual growth rather than large branches the cut should Invaria bly be made immediately above a bud. If made just below a bud or in the middle of the space between buds the part of the shoot above the topmost bud Invariably dies back, leaving a black and decayed stem, which is of no benefit to the plant and may pra vide a mean* of access for disease. • » : Inspiration : Miscellany s « • o « • 0 *» W « MAKE YOURSELF A REALLY FOffcEFUL MAM Charles M. Schwab state* in the American Magazine that integrity an 1 personality are two important things in salesmanship, lie says: "Integrity, incidentally, is one of the mightiest l»Kti ;s in salesmanship if you have a reputation for statins facts exactly, for never attempting to gain momentary advantage through exaggeration, you possess the basis of ail successful salesmanship. "Next to integrity comes personal ity—that indefinable charm that gives to men what perfume gives to flowers. Many of us think of salesmen as peo ple traveling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our energies, our en thusiasms, to those with whom we come in contact. Thus the man of genial presence is bound to accomplish much more, under similar conditions, than the man without it. If you have personality, cherish it; if you ha%e not, cultivate it For personality can be cultivated, although the task is not easy. "Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity. There are more Jobs for forceful men than there are force ful men to fill them. Whenever the question comes up of buying new works we never consider whether we can make the works pay. That is a foregone conclusion if we can get the right man to manage them. "All successful employers of labor are stalking men who will do the un usual, men who think, men who at tract attention by performing more than is expected of them. These men have no difficulty in making their worth felt. The) stand out above their follows until their superiors can not fail to seo them." <S> THE WAY YOU LIVE. ♦ <B> <s> Engage in nothing that crip- <s> <§> pies or degrades you. Your first 3> <s> duty is self culture, self exalta- <s> <?> tion. You may not violate thisi ❖ <§> sacred trust. Yourself is sacred; <s> profane it not Forge no chains <3> wherewith to shackle your own <$ <$ members. Either subordinate 4> <§> your vocation to your life or quit ♦ it forever.—Amos Bronson Al- <3> <s> cott. <s> ♦ ♦
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