MANY WEIGHTS AREDEFICIENT Secretary Houck Tells Sealers of Measures of Fraud Practices MEET FOR ORGANIZATION Plans to Reduce High Cost of Living —Buyers Must Get What They Pay For—Association of County and City Officials. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—Plans were formulated here to decrease the high cost of liv ing by seeing that consumers get, in quantity at least, what they pay for. The matter was taken up at the first session of the sealers of weights and measures of the cities, counties and boroughs of the State that have so far availed themselves of the provi sions of the sealer act of 1911. There are now 40 sealers in the State, and half of them atten<ted the opening session. The fact was pointed out during the discussions of the day that the sealers have no authority to do anything but standardize weights and measures, and that where they find deale-rs who purposely or unconscious ly sell underweight or undermeasure they cannot be brought to book for It. As a result, additional legislation will be asked of the next session of the Legislature. Chief James Sweeney, of the Bureau of Standards, of the De partment of Internal Affairs, opened the meeting, and Governor Tener and Secretary of Internal Affairs Houck made addresses. The Governor spoke of the importance of the work of the sealers, and said it is necessary that the housekeeper be protected from fraud through their work. Secretary Houck said that during the 11 months since the bureau was created 1264 weights and measures had been stand ardized for local sealers. He advocat ed monthly reports to the bureau, say ing that a few of the most active men in the service are now making reports to Chief Sweeney, although such re ports are not compulsory. The seal ers making these reports have tested, he said, 47,967 weights and measures in their districts and found 11,788 de ficient. A number of short dry and liquid measures and short weights were exhibited by Chief Sweeney, and he demonstrated how a huckster, in selling potatoes, measured by a one peck measure, which really contained but three-quarters of a peck, could make an illegal profit of s7o© annually. Spread of Smallpox. State Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon, after getting In touch by telephone with his representatives at Pittsburgh and Carbondale, made the following statement of the spread of smallpox in these places: "The state is advising with Dr. Edwards, who is acting as director of the public health department of Pittsburgh. All cases not in the hospital are now being guarded both day and night. The dis ease is of a virulent type. Chicken pox is now being reported, as the law requires, and the diagnosis is being checked off by the city authorities. There are several nucleii of infec tion, therefore we must expect more cases. The spread at Carbondale was because of failure of dlffentiation between cliickenpox and smallpox and an absolute disregard by the lo cal authorities of the state law which requires the quarantine of chicken pox. The state has taken charge be cause of a disagreement, and wants a united action between the Board of Health and the City Council. We be lieve we have the epiemic well in hand." Reading Company Answers. The Heading Transit Company has filed with the State Railroad Commis sion an answer to the complaint of Z. L. Spangler, of Wernerrsvilie, concern ing overcrowding of the first morning car from Wernesville to Reading. The company admits that the car is crowd ed and in relief thereof has added another car from Wernersvillle, leaving at the same time as the one com plained of. It is denied that the fare of 15 cents is excessive, as it will car ry a passenger about 11 1-2 miles il he desires. The same company, in answering the complaint of B. Frank lin Brosman. that cars #> not s:op on the Wome.lsdorf division between Trent avenue and Reading boulevard, says that the distance between these points is about 570 feet —all on a 7 per cent, grade,—and this makes frequent stops undesirable and impossible if the schedule desired by the suburban residents is to be maintained. Perry Centennial 1914. Auditor General A. E. Sisson, who has returned from a visit to Lake Erie with members of the Perry Centennial Commission, says that plans are be ing rapidly worked ouL Spanked His Wife. hdward Miller, a foreigner, who is employed about coach and wagon shops, was before Alderman Spayd at the police station, charged with spanking his 25-year-old wife, a come ly German girl. According to the wife, the husband did not go to work In the morning, but bought a pint of whiskey and drank it, and then went out and got another pint, and almost finished that, when she interfered, and was seized by her husband, thrown across his knees and spanked wirb a slipper. He was fined $lO. THEATRE SINKS PEOPLEISCAPE Mining Cave-in Under Scran'on Unsettles a City Square MUSICIAN GIVES THE ALARM Ominous Cracking Sounds Heard Un der Building Containing Audience of Five Hundred House Emptied Quickly. Bcranton. —While an audience of about five hundred persons were en- Joying the vaudeville performance in the World theatre on North Main ave nue, this city, ominous cracking sounds frightened the piano-player, who gave the alarm that a mine cave was In progress. The theatre was emptied In a JifTy, and within fifteen minutes the entire rear of the build ing, including the stage and dressing rooms, was completely wrecked, by the caving in of the surface. More than two dozen buildings In the centre of the business section of West Branton were badly damaged, and the police refused to allow the people occupying them to use their homes for fear the structures would collapse during the night. The cave in, which covers almost one city block, pulled buildings apart, while several three and four-story brick structures have five and six-inch fissures run ning traversely from foundation to roof. Located in the block affected are the World theatre, the West Scranton postal station, which has also been forced to close; Pepper's dry goods store, Jones' meat market, Myran Evans' drug store, Barush's notion store and several smaller busi ness places, tine of the buildings so damaged that it will have to be pulled down is the West Scranton Masonic Temple. The Simpson Methodist Church, one of the largest edifices in that part of the city, is but twenty feet out of the cave zone. The cave is caused by the "robbing" of pillars in the top vein of the Oxford colliery. Bees Sting Horse to Death. Lancaster. —Amos Fland's horse was killed by bee stings. Mr. Fland drove to the farm of Christian M. Umble to assist in raising a barn, and tied his horse to the fence at the lane leading to the farm. At the other side of the fence were 100 hives of bees. As tho animal pressed against the fence the bees were disturbed, and thousands of them alighted on the horse. Its fcead was covered and its nostrils filled with bees. When the discovery was made the bees were dislodged with several buckets of water and the horse was taken to the stable, but be fore the arrival of a veterinarian its bead had swelled to double size. The fcorse could not breathe, its nostrils being closed, and an incision was made in the neck and a tube inserted. The horse died a few hours later. Raise Cement Again. Allentown. —On account of general ly improved business conditions an other rise in the price of cement was announced, this being the third of 10 cents each within six weeks. The mills are running to the utmost ca pacity of the number of workers em ployed, but the Lehigh region is 4,000 to 5,000 men short, owing to the Ital ian and Turkish war and the extraor dinary demand for labor on the rail roads and In the coal regions. Bnake Colls on Straightedge. Reading.—While County Bridge In spector Calvin Miller, County Con troller Daniel K. Hoch and County Commissioners Eugene I. Sandt and Nicholas Kutz were inspecting a bridge near Hamburg they came in contact with a nest of snakes. At an other place a black snake wound itself around a straightedge carried by the Inspector. The keen edge of Com missioner Sandt's knife settled the snake. Mine Kills. Indiana. —A few hours after United States mine experts had declared the mine non-gaseous, one man was killed and two othors were seriously injured by an explosion of a gas pocket in a mine of the Wharton Coal Company at Coral. The dead man is Frank Scheelt of Indiana and the injured are Harry Walker and Adam Clawson of Graceton. The three men were at work on a wall in an exposed part of the mine when the explosion occurred. 6aves Her Babies, and Faints. Allentown.—On discovering her new home afire Mr. Harvey Sepman, of Northampton, rushed upstairs through blinding smoke and rescued her three babies, after which she fell exhausted. Firemen and neighbors saved part of the house, but the furniture was burned. Saved from Sei Death. Reading.—Una* ater seven min utes, unconscious and so close to death that It was believed he had no chance of recovery when he was fished from the bottom of the Schuylkill river; revived and safe after twenty minutes of the hardest kind of work by a crowd of men and a doctor —this was the adventure of George Nolde, IS, of No. 850 North Eleventh street. He i.s a son of Jacob Nolde, a wealthy hosi. ry manufacturer and patron of Mercersberg Seminary. It was a cass of rocking the Swat tnd cramps. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmera Busy In Every Locality— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. Ten cases of typhoid fever have been reported In Norrlstown. The triennial assessment of Read ing real estate will total $57,000,000. Harrlsburg has opened a new pub lic school for tuberculosis patients. Lehigh Valley Braksman J. H. Tay lor, of Sayre, was killed in a freight wreck at Sayre. On his 83d birthday anniversary Daniel Henne of Centreport made an automobile trip of 163 miles. The enumeration of school children in South Bethlehem shows that there are 3,100 of school age. Two hundred delegates to the Inter national Congress of Applied Chemis try vißited Pittsburgh's mills and mines. Chambersburg's ministerial associa tion has asked Burgess Alexander to enforce the Sunday laws and to close the Sunday shoe-shining parlors. While waiting for a train at Harris burg, two Indian girls, on the way to the school at Carlisle, were robbed of S2O and their trunk checks. Solomon Wambaugh, a York county school director, has been held for court for flinging out old school desks, to the presence of which he objected. Excavating for a new gasholder at Chambersburg, a cave eighteen feet deep was discovered under the breast of the old Sierer dam. Agents of the State Live Stock De partment have been called to Red Lion, York county, by a fresh out break of hog cholera. Out of the Huntingdon reformatory only a few weeks, Harry Baublitz, a 17-year-old York boy, is under arrest again for larceny. While picking apples from a tree on his farm, Samuel Hannum, Tax Col lector of Concord township, fell and broke several ribs. Joseph Dunn, a young farmer of East Marlborough, was fined $lO for cruelly driving a horse in a so-called joy ride. At a service held by the Mennonltes in Heading, the feet of 350 brethren and sisters were washed by each other. Tomatoes are so plentiful In West Chester that they are a drug at the stores, and housekeepers are busy converting them into catsup. Because she refused togo to school, Dorna Menna, a 14-year-old South Bethlehem girl, was taken to a house of refuge. While' fishing in the Delaware at Poul Rift, George W. West, of East ton, landed the largest black bass of the season. It weighed 5 pounds 5 ounces. Leo Ritter, an Easton teamster, was thrown from a wagon in front of a trolley car, but rolled off the tracks a moment before the car reached him. Charles H. Sleichter was awarded $2,150 by a jury at Chambersburg be cause the town's gravity system had reduced his water power at his mill at Scotland. Running his motorcycle into a pile of loose dirt to avoid hitting pedes trians, J. George Lutz, a Pottstown merchant, was thrown ofT and frac tured his collar-bone. While out driving with her brother, Paul Gumpert, of Pottstown, Miss Anna Gumpert, of Philadelphia, was thrown out of the carriage in a colli sion and badly bruised. A box weighing 150 pounds tum bled from a Reading express wagon, on which Robert E. Dletz, 9 years old, was sitting, and the lad .supposedly killed, did not have even a scratch. Ira J. Funk has bought Green Cas tle's town hall for $7,600. Frank S. Benedict could not be heard in the Lancaster court for de sertion, as he is in jail in Montgomery county for an offense committed since he deserted his wife. While digging a well near Newtown Square, Ernest Dapner sustained a broken arm and other injuries when the eartn caved in upon him. He was dug out and taken to the West Ches ter Hospital WOMAN WORKS OUT PROBLEM Mr*. Sarah Erlckson Declares the Hen Lay* an Egg at the Same Hour She Was Born. What time o' day Does a hen lay? That question has puzzled poultry fanciers for unnumbered decades, but now, It seems, It has been satisfacto rll solved by a woman. She Is Mrß. Sarah Erlckson of Falconer, N. Y. Having kept chickens for 37 years, she believes she qualifies as an expert in this line of effort. "L have worked out the problem," she declares. "By using marked leg bands, trap nests and alarm clocks at tached to the nests I have determined that a hen lays an egg at the same hour, minute and second that she was born, or, rather, hatched. For In stance, if the hen happened to be able to peck its way through its shell at 7:43 a. m., she will lay an egg at pre cisely 7:43 a. m. And she will do this without variation- every time she Is In clined to lay. I have kept close, sys tematic watch on my hens for five years, and I have never known til* rule to fall." RED SCALY SPOTS ON HAND 672 Walnut St., Columbia, Pa.— "Early in the spring of last year I noticed small red scaly spots appear ing on the palm of my left hand and on several fingers of my right hand. They Itched and burned and when scratched or Irritated in any way they formed into sores. The spots spread constantly and In a short time both hands were affected causing them to be very unsightly. After a time they became so raw that I could not even put them in water. It waß pronounced eczema. "I tried various remedies but with no relief. I noticed the Cuticura Soap and Ointment advertised and decided to try them. Every night before retiring I washed my hands with Cuticura Soap and warm water and applied a thin coat of Cuticura Ointment In three months I was completely cured of my trouble." (Signed) Miss M. Katherine Carter, Apr. 20, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Add. post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv. QUITE A DIF First Comedian —What is the differ ence between a beautiful girl and a codfish? Second Comedian —Give it upr First Comedian —One has a chance to become a fall bride and the other to become a ball fried. Matrimony In Australia. Bridegrooms in Australia last year ranged from sixteen to ninety-nine years of age, and the records show the youngest bride was fifteen, and the oldest eighty-two. One man of seventy-seven married a girl of eight een. It Is not surprising to learn that more marriages were reported from the country than ever before. Important to Mothers 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 Hard to Manage. "I never see you eat corn on the cob." "No. I always_uvold laborious food." Mrs. Wlnslow'a Soothing fiymp for OhlMrru teeth lug, softeus the guma, reduces InMaiuina* tlon, allays pain, cures wiud colic, HSc a bottle, ▲dr. Babies and grievances grow larger with nursing. WsLDOUCLASiTI* SHOES iftefi <3.00 *3.50 *4.00 *4.50 AND *5.00 ILc W FOR MEN AND WOMEN Lfeffib,-''. TVS Barm map NT. L. Douytmm #2.00, 1 '''iliTlfr , / Mom, bmamumm onm pair wUI poalthrely outwmr two j Italrm of ordtnmry mhomm, ommo mm thm mon'm mhomm. ■'* A W.LDouglas makes and sella more $3.00,53.50 & $4.00 shoes ! 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Kulin, the Pittsburgh bankers, are £it doing elsewhere for the people. rT'C" J There is ten times more ret profit per acre in California 3BSB jftzMpyrl irrigated land than in the East and with lets labor. |§9ppl9 Let ut take you where there is comfort and happiness besides profit, climate equal to that of Southern Italy, no ' ros,s nor sno **> no thunderstorms nor sunstrokes. Hmbv| Let us take you where big money is nozv being made, markets are near, demand for products great and income fs V \ Let us take you where railroad and river transportation H' i* near, where there are denominational churches and graded schools. Noiv is the time to buy this land—get in with the winners, -ffirgflc| the great Panama Canal will soon be ready and you can share in its triumphs; farms are selling rapidly, and we ~ strongly urge you to purchase as soon as possible. You can buy this land on very easy terms— sls.oo an acre now ana the balance in ten yearly payments. 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It Is of cours* impos sible to tell sufferers sll we should like to tell tnem In this short article, but those who would llko to know more ahont this remedy that hss effected so manr—we might almost say, miraculous cures, should send addressed envelope for FRBI9 book to pr. LeOlerc Med. Co., Haverstock KoadTHampatead, London, Hng. and decide for themselves whether tho New French Remedy "TNBR APION" No. 1. NoV» pr No. 8 Is what they require and have been seeking in vain during a Ufa of misery, suffering. 11l bealtS EARN MONEY NURSING BivKBS PHILA DICI.I'IIIA BCUOOJL FOK NUIISBB BR Cbwuiut threat Philadelphia, IOHK L. THOMPSON BONI M». Troy. N. Y i W. N. U., NEW YORK, NO. 38-1912.
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