INQUIRY INTO PLAYGROUNDS State Board Will Issue Inform ation to District Schools. ASKING OPINIONS CN SUBJECT Standard Plans for School Houses Have Been Supplied and the Com missioners Will Now Supply Data for All Adjuncts. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—The first complete in "vestigation of the playground problem to be undertaken by a State has been directed by the new Pennsylvania State Board of Education for the pur pose of obtaining data regarding these important adjuncts to schools which can be issued to the school authori ties of the hundreds of districts in the State. It has been recognized that a playground is as important to school children and to a community as a good schoolhouse and as the board has already supplied standard plans for all kinds of districts outside of the larger cities it is now bending its en ergies to be of practical assistance in another line. The school code pro vides that no school buildings are to be built without a proper playground is included, a proposition which has been generally endorsed and so that information regarding such grounds may be available letters are being sent all over the State and throughout tiie country asking for experiences in laying out and operating playgrounds. The letters sent to people in this State ask f«r opinions of people as to •what constitutes a play ground, this being a point on which it is believed many ideas can be obtained. The in quiries are also as to what people think should be the minimum size for a rural school and the size for schools of various sizes, as well as views or experience on the attitude of the gen era! public toward the playground, the question of school gardens and the conditions coming under notice. Campaign Expenses. J. Ilarry Stroup, treasurer of the Re publican candidates campaign com mittee filed his account in the protho n.otar.v's office. The account shows contribuyons to the amount of $3,736. M. E. Olmsted having contributed SSOO and William Coleman Freeman, sl,- 700, Mr. Freeman having sent his heck for $1,500 to \V. B. Meetch, asurer, and later instructed Mr. ■tch to endorse the check payable to J> Harry Stroup, treasurer. The ac count shows disbursements to the amount of $3,672.15 for printing, news paper advertising, teams, automobile hire, street car tickets, poll workers and watchers in the different districts in the county. There appears to be a balance of $63.85 in the hands of the treasurer, and under the head of un paid bills appears an item of $240 for printing. Control of San Jose Scale. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture A. L. Martin, who has been on a tour of central counties, says that this is the finest kind of planting weather for farmers and that the rains have in sured an excellent crop of everything except wheat. The demonstrations of methods for control of San Jose scale which started in southern counties are to be pushed owing to the fact that blossoms are now commencing to fall from fruit trees. Reciprocal Medical Licenses. A conference was held between Dr. J. M. Baldy, of Philadelphia, head of the new State Bureau of Medical Edu cational and Licensure, and Dr. X. C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent, of Public Instruction, regarding the mak ing of reciprocal arrangement's on medical licenses with New York and New Jersey. The negotiations are now pending. At-Large Aspirants' Expenses Low. Five of the men nominated at recent State conventions for Congressma.n-at large filed their expanse accounts at the Capitol, each showing expendi tures of less than SSO. The men filing were A. H. Walters, A. R. Rupley, John M. Morin and F. E. Lewis, lie publican nominees, aad George R. Mc- Lean, Democrat. John Jl. Nugent, a Republican aspirant, filed a similar paper. Large Payment. Murrell Dobbins, city treasurer of Philadelphia, made the largest pay ment of the month, a check for $209,• $'46.10 being sent on account of the li quor licenses. Increase of Stock. The Joseph lleacock Company, of Jenkinstown, which is headed by Sen ator Joseph lleacock, gave notice of an increase of its stock from $24,000 to $50,000. To Hear Suburban Fare Case. The State Railroad Commission bo pan its May session and fixed a day for the hearing of argument in the cases involving increases of fare on suburban lines in the vicinity of Phila delphia. The Pennsylvania and Phila delphia & Reading companies are the defendants. A hearing will be given to a committee of members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on the method to be adopted in enforcing the fti'l-crew act, but as the constitu tionality of the law Is to be argued it is likely that it will be continued. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. | - REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD , Farmers Busy in Every Locality— | Churches Raising Funds for Many j Worthy Objects—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. i James R. Cooper has planted a I peach orchard of 500 trees on his farm near Taylovsville. Vincent Donahue was jolted from a ! wagon at Girardville, tell headlong to | the brick paving, and was fatally hurt. Lancaster county has the heaviest j hay crop in its history; but its tobac ' co crop is about a montli behind in j j planning. Lansford business men are urging j 1 the Lehigh & New En land Railroad | | Company to extend its line into that j ■ town. Russell Dietrich, of Easton, has j been appointed superintendent of ! | State roads in Northampton, Monroe j I and Carbon counties. Injuries sustained at Edison's ce- 1 ment plant at New Village, caused the I death at the Easton Hospital of John : Phillips. The Chester Board of Trade started j a movement with the view of having j j the Court House removed from Media, j | the county seat, to the former city. "Most every one gets drunk once in 1 a while, at McKees Rocks, your Hon- I or," explained a new constable, grilled | j by a Pittsburgh Judge. The Rev. Jacob Singer, pastor of the congregation of Beth Israel Tern- : pie, York, has accepted a call from Temple B'nai Jeshuuran, Lincoln, ! Neb. As Stanislaw Gulick. a well-known : citizen of Mahanoy Plane, was trying j | to cross the street he was run down j | by a cyclist and his skull was frac- J i tured. William Williams and wife were i driving to Shamokin from Hickory j : Swamp, when the latter fell back ir. | the carriage and died from a stroke of ; i apoplexy. Walter Brookins gave a short flight j in his aeroplane at Vltoona and land- | !ed in a marsh. He to take his ! | machine apart to get it out Brookins | | was uninjured. Stephen Butler, of Girardville. and a j number of companions, rendered idle | | by the coal suspension, were riding j lon a Reading freight train near Sha- j j mokin, when he fell between the cars j and was killed. Over one hundred automobile uwn- i ers have signified their intention of J j participating in the automobile parade and demonstration the first day of the | | Cumberland Valley Volunteer Fire- | men's Association Convention in : Waynesboro. Henry Huber, of Pittston, is making : ■ arrangements to visit his former home J lin Germany. It is thirty-four years j I since he left his native land. Mr. j i lluber came to this country Septem- } i ber 11, 1872. lie remained a couple of ! years and returned again to Germany, J j where he spent some few years, and j ' again came to America. Monroe Cottage, known as the old j Fisher homestead, located midway be- | J tween East Stroudsburg and Analo \ mink, was sold for $7,000 to a Phila- j I delphian, who will make the place a j home for retired Catholic priests. The j j property consists of 126 acres, and is ! along the Delaware, Lackawanna & ! Western Railroad. Emmett fironer, the carrier on Ilonesdale R. I). route No. 1, makes his deliveries with an automobile, and | most of his patrons get their daily j ! mail three hours earlier than hereto ; fore. Mr. Groner leaves the office at < 11 o'clock and covers the 25 miles in J four hours. Formerly with a horse it took him over seven hours to cover his i route. One of the surest signs that Smethport, McKean county, is still on ' the map is the fact that it is impos ■ sible to secure a desirable tenant | 1 house in the borough at the present I time. When the houses nre all occu- ! ; pied, and the rents at top notch, it I j does not look very much like a dead j | community, does it? Gypsies who went to Hazleton from \ Danville and were arrested for getting I S3O under false pretenses from a for i eigner at Sheppton, were ordered j away from "Jeanesville, where they i | had pitched their camp. Seventy-nine residents of Northum i berland county have taken out papers |in the office of Frederick J. Byiod, j Prothonotary and Clerk of the | Courts, preliminary to becoming cit.l - zens of the United States of America. I Tlfis is the largest number m a year j in that county. PLANS GREAT BASS HATCHERY State Fish Commissioner Hopes to Distribute 300,000 Yearly. FORMER EFFORT A FAILURE Largest and Most Efficient Plant in the WorlG —Four Small Lakes of Five Acres Each Designed to Stock State Streams. Pleasant Mount.—ln connection with the. State lisli hatchery that has existed here lor the Just ten yeais Nathan K. Buller, the Penußylvana Commissioner of Fisheries, is now constructing the largest and most elii cient plant lor the production of black, bass in the world. He hopes to dis tribute 300,000 young lish in State bass streams each year. Pleasant Mount was originally designed as a trout hatchery, the site being donated to the Slate of Pennsylvania. Mr. Buller has decided to make it princi pally a bass hatchery, for which the quantity and temperature of the water and natural location are admira ble. To make an ideal bass hatchery the Commissioner has designed four small lakes, averaging five acres each, whose greatest depth will be 12 feet. The first one of these lakes, six acres in extent, has been completed, and it has been stocked with 500 adult ilsh, weighing three pounds apiece. It is the intention of the Fisheries Depart ment of Pennsylvania not to distribute the bass until tliay are from three to five inches long, old and strong enough to enable them to take care of ttem selves in the stream where they will be planted. Formerly bass were dis tributed when still tiny, and tl.is at tempt at increasing tht- supply of these fish throughout Pennsylvania was a failure. The lakes will be so designed that when the time comes lor distribution the water can be drawn oil and the young netted. Confiscates Slot Machines. llazleton. —John Brill, a policeman, took novel means to collect a bill which he says William R. Cantner, proprietor of the Freeland Central hotel, has owned him for years. Brill was in the cigar business at the time and Cantner conducted a restau rant here. Cantner then moved away and later located at Freeland, where Brill says he played two slot machines in Cantner's hotel. Swearing out a warrant for the arrest of Canter on the charge of maintaining gambling devices, Brill went to Freeland and confiscated the machines, which he and Constable Henry Zeigler brought to town, where Brill emptied the slots and obtained sl4. Joy ir> Scrantcn. Scranton. —When the afternoon spe cial editions of the papers and the window bulletins announced that the anthracite convention had ratified the tentative agreement the mixture of pleasant expectancy and mild fear gave way to joy of the most emphatic kind. Everybody greeted everybody else cheerily and discussed the news and what it means for the future. Among the miners the same feeling prevailed. They were tired of the idleness and, being convinced that nothing was to be gained by further fighting, they are glad to have it over with. Wages Raised Voluntarily. Fasten. —Although there had been no demand, the 500 weavers employed at the mill ci the Northampton Silk Company were notified when they quit work, they will be given an increase of half a cent per yard for weaving, amounting to an average increase of 15 cents a day in the pay of each operative, and they will be required to work but 55 hours a week. Dsvn Falls Kill Two. Bethlehem. William Ernst, of Bath, fell to his death from the sec ond story ot Henry Yogel's barn there. Ernst was employed in the barn and, failing to notice an open door, he stepped out into space. While working in the hay loft, Charles Frey, of My ersville, accidentally stepped into a feed chute. He landed several feet below on the hard floor and sustained a fractured neck, death being instan taneous. Bellefonte Plants Resume. Bellefonte. Orders came from New York City to those in charge of the Nittany Iron Works and the Bel lefonte furnace to put both plants in blast and to ship four carloads of iron a day from each. Both have been idle for ten years. A company is also be ing formed to putin operation the Bellefonte foundry and machine shops, which have been idle for three years. Gift by Blankenburg. Norristown. .Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadelphia, has presented to the Norristown Library a large photo graphic copy of the portrait of Major General Louis Libeque Du Portail, which hangs in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The portrait was paint ed prior to 178!) bv '» Wilson Peale and hung in jfn Beum un til 1554, when it nought by the city of Philadelphia. Chevalier I)u Portail was an engineer in the French army and came tol this country as a volunteer iu 177". | OLD AND NEW WORLD BRIEFS FOR THE BUSY E«i\rard Heath, of Brooklyn, tried to ride the trick "donkey" in an amuse ment park on Coney Island. He lost his hold and fell to the floor so heavily that he fractured his skull and died a ; few minutes later. A fire started in the plsnt of a big ; furniture company in Houston, Texas, , and spread to adjoining buildings and ! caused damage aggregatig $1,000,000 before it was checked. The New York Milk Committee I plans a country-wide agitation for pur er milk. It also will try to force the j local Board of Health to raise the { standard of requirement for New i York. Dr. Avery E. Lambert was elected dean of Middlebury College in Yer | inont to succeed the late Walter E. j Howard. Of the 15,000 bushels of bonded i Canadian grain handled by the. eleva i tors in Duluth, there are only 3,000,000 j bushels left. The Titanic inquiry in London re j veals more and more conditions aboard [ British ships that make a profound | impression in England. Johnny Kilbane, the American featherweight champion. convinced | the crowd at His fight with Frankie j Burns that he is a first class boxer but i not a hard hitting fighter of the old \ school. The fund now being subscribed by \ private citizens for a German air i fleet has reached a total of more than i $5,000,000, and about $2,500,000 more \ is promised. The captain and other officers of the I Californian testified at the British Ti | tanic inquiry that they saw lights and rockets on tlie night of the disaster, | but contended that the same could not ! have proceeded from the Titanic; j their Evidence was largely discredited ! in cross-examination. THE MARKETS. (New York Wholesale Prices ) MILK.—The wholesale price is ?.'4O per quart in the J>'.■ zone or $1.61 per 40-quurt can, delivered in New York. Butter. Creamery extras SO ifano'i Firsts 20 ffi22s l a Seconds -8 ifr2B l -fc Thirds 2« Vi 'a 27 I State, dairy, finest 2(*'is ( 40 ivi,4s Fowls, via express 16 it it! ! Boosters, per !i> >}j, 1 .0 | Turkeys, mixed hens and toms, j per «il2 Geese, per lb S lit !• | Guinea per pair r« i,o Pigeons, per pair Vegetables. Asparagus, dozen bunches 7.1 -Tf 2 75 i Artichokes, per drum 2.ou'<(4(io 1 leans— South Carolina 1.00W2.25 Georgia, per basket 1.0>1'k2.00 I Forida, per basket C04r2.n0 : lleets. S C. per 100 hunches .Ji.liO'n ti.oO X (»., per 100 bundles l utmxuu I Carets— Virginia per barrel 1.25@1.50 N. C. per crate l.2.v<;i i; 2 S. C., per irate 1.0062.00 Fla. per crate l.OOffrl 75 Fla., red, per crate 1.00@2.00 | Cucumbers, Fla., per basket ... 2:>«i i.., per 100 hunches..2 OiKi 4an I l.ima beans. Fla., per basket . .1.00(5 4 00 Mint, per 100 bunches 1.0001 50 Unions- Texas, per crate 1.151.35 I Okra, per carrier I soo Parsley, N. <>., plain per barrel 3.00(^5.00 N. 0., curly, per barrel l.F>ot< 5.1m Peppers, bbls. bxs or carriers.. 125 1t 2.60 | Parsnips, per bbl 2.50(q;i.00 ; Komaine, per basket 50f£1,25 Per box I 00 it I 75 ' Itadlshes, per ion bunches .... I.oof110 Southern white per hid Bali 1 :'5 1 Tomatoes, Fla per carrier 1 001/ :mi , Watercress, per 100 bunches . .1.001/ 200 Hothouse. i Cucumbers, No. 1, per dozen .. 75@.. No. 2, per box 2 0(11/3.00 Culls, per box 1 0001.50 ! Cauliflowers, per dozen 2.001C3.00 Mushrooms, 4 -11>. basket 751; 1.50 Muttons, 4-lh. basket 50ic 75 Tomatoes, per lb I0rg) 20 Potatoes. Bermuda, new. No. 1. per barrel Bermuda, new. No. 2. per barrel 4.501/5.25 Fla., new, white. No. 1 per bbl Fla., new. red, No. 1, per bbl ..5.501/6.00 Fla., new. No 2. per bbl 4 501/5.00 Fla. culls, per hbl 3 50(&)3.50 State, per 180 lbs 3.50(® .. State, per bag 3.2tj#3.50 Maine, per 180 lbs 3.50«j)3.75 Maine, per bag '...3.50(jj .. European, per 168 -lb bag 1.25 if/2.50 Sweets, Jeisey. No. 1 per bskt ..1 25,'y 2.25 Live Stock. PEEVES. —Ordinary to choice steers sold at S6.SO©S.!IO per 100 lbs. Hulls sold I at s3.so(fCfi 75, cows at $2.5065 80. Dress ed beef firtim. ('AI.V l'!S —Common to choice ve> Is sold at $76,925 per 100 lbs.; culls at 6.50; a bunch o buttermilks at $5.80. Dressed calves atl1 1 a 15c. for citv dress ed veals, li'iili 12c. for country dressed. SHEEP AND LAMIIS.— Common to prime sheep (clipped! sold at s4l/6 per 100 lbs ; common lambs (clipped), at s7r./ 7.25: prime Maryland spring lambs ft $1025. Dressed mutton at 9iftl2'4c. per lb ; dressed lambs at 146>17 I »|C.; country | dressed hothouse lambs at 146 17',*• c"; ! country dressed hothouse lamb at ?:(if 7 each. j lIOGS. —Market steady lit $7,751/8.20 I per I'm lbs.: piirs s<.!i| at $7,501/7 75 1 HAY AN DSTR WW—May. li.rge bales, i timothy, prime. 1 00 lbs. $1.65; No. 3 to I No. 1. $1.35(rc1.60; shipping. $1..f0; clover, I mixed, light. $1.50: heavy, $1 4061.45; ; straw long rye, sll7 1.10; out. 75c. Spot Markets at a Glance. Wheat No. 2 red elev 1.24 \ Oats standard 62'ji Flour, spring patent, bbl 550 Corn steamer, yellow nom. Hard, prime. 100 lbs 11 00 Tallow, city hi ds 06-i 4 c Pork, mess, bbl 2" 75 Coffee, Rio No 7, lb 14\c Tea. oFrmosa, lb 14 ( > Sugar, fine gran., lb ..5.10c Butter, extras :ioi4 Cheese, specials 16>I Eeg<-\ extra firsts 2m;. Ceiton 1180 Tobacco— Hs-v nt. it. D m Conn, wrapper 112 CO V BACKACHE AND ACHING JOINTS. | Together Tell of Weak or Disordered 1 Kidneys. 1 Much pain that masks as rheuma- ■ tlsm is due to wep't kidneys—to their failure to drive oft uric acid thorough- \ ly. When you suffer achy, bad Joints, "F.vrry puturt backache, too, with i S some kidney disor ders, get Doan's : yBSWfc Opr Kidney Pills, which \WIrK have cured thou \j? A. L. B. Austell, Retired Physician, nrr^T^WlP S. Jefferson St., |!|l jJW Winchester, Tenn., | ■ l! 1,1 ifiV MffTTT sa J' s: "My kidneys 'T iEjwvW OTjEft were weak and se cretions passed ir- ; regularly. My back | " ached and I had rheumatic pains through my hips. ! Doan's Kidney Pills helped me at j | once and it was not long before the j ! rheumatism and other troubles I ceased." "When Your Back Is Lame, Remem ber the Name—DOAN'S." 50c all stores. ! Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. A HOT ONE. | Miss Chance—Sue has a f;ne set of teeth. Miss Caustique—ln her comb? SCALP WAS BADLY AFFECTED "1 am more than gratified by the successful results I obtained by the use of the Cuticura Remedies. For several years my scalp was very btdly affected with dandruff and scales. My scalp itched terribly at times and my hair fell out. My coat collar would be actually white with the dandruff i that had from my head. "My profession being that of a bar- ; ber, I was particular about having my hair in good condition, and was also in a position to try many lotions, etc., for the scalp. These had little or no effect. I had heard so much about the ; Cuticura Remedies that I resolved to : try them. I shampooed m;' head with Cuticura Soap twice a week and after drying my head thoroughly, 1 anointed parts of my scalp with Cuticura Oint- I ment. I was pleased from the outset, and continued to keep up this treat ment. To think that only three cakes of Cuticura Soap and one and one-half boxes of Cuticura Ointment rid my head of this annoying trouble, made me feel quite conten ed. "I have now got a thick growth of hair and I am never troubled with any dandruff or itching of '"-i scalp. There is no question but tt the Cuticura Remedies cured me. fre quently recommend them tort -us i tomers, and they think a jreat ueal of ' them." (Signed) John F. jlliams, 307 Norfolk Street, Dorchester, Boston, Mass., July 2S. 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Oint ment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be traUed free : on application to % 'Cuticurs," Dept. I* Boston. Looking Forward. The husband and wife were making a call on friends one evening. The wifejvas talking. "I think we shall have Marian take ! a domestic science course along with I her music and regular studies when ! at college." "Ah." said a man present, who had been a stranger until that evening. | "you look rather young to have a daughter ready for college." "O!" said the mother, naively, "she | isn't old enough now; she is just eight ■ : months old, but I do so like to look forward!" —Indianapolis News. Exceptions. j "Don't you believe a soft answer | turns away wrath. I tried it the other | | day with my wife." "And she got mad?" I > ' Did she? She asked me what her biscuits tasted like, and I merely said j mush." The Difference. "Pop. will you tell me one thing?" "Yes, son." "Is a mobile countenance the same : thing as the auto face?" V.yc Salve iu AneiHlc Tubea Prevents Infection—Murine Eye Salve In Tubes for all Eye Ills. No Morphine. Ask Druggists for New Size 25c. Val uable Eye Book in Each Package. Some people are congenial not be cause they like the same things, but because they hate the same people. ' 1 To stay young or to prow younc, (iarfleld Tea can he.'p. It rejuvenates both in looks | and energy. J Freedom is won through hard obe dience to the truth.—William James, j The Child, Father of the Man. The late Thomas B. Reed, when a lad, was requested to ball out a small boat that had been leaking badly, and was almost full of water. "I can't do It," replied Tom. "It's unconstitutional." "What do you mean?" inquired the owner of the boat. "The constitution of the United States says," replied the future states man, "that 'excessive bail shall not he required' of any man." —Youth's Com panion. Important to Wlother9 Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria ■ ' 1 The Plain T*uth. "Has that man a irania for oscu- I lation?" "No, he's a plain kissing bug." You may have noticod that about ! the time a shoe begirt) to feel com fortable it looks like a candidate for the refuse wagon. To be sweet and clean, every wom an should use Paxtine in sponge bath ing. It eradicates perspiration and all other body odors. At druggists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by The Paxton Toflet Co., Dos ; ton, Mass. I It may take a lot of cheek to kiss a girl, but most girls are willing to fur nish the cheek. Mrs. Whislcra-'n Soothitiß Syrup for Children teething, softens th" ".j'jis, reduce* inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 20c a bottle. The man who gets gay with a busy i bee is apt to get a stinging rebuke. For liver or kid.iey troubles, r*tbing 1* j quite so reliable as Garfield Tea. Man's favorite brand of love is usu ally the latest. 44 Bu. to the Acre 1$ a heavy yield, but that's what John Kennedy of Kdmonlon, Alherta, Western Canada. 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