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State Gives Aid 10
* Puzzled Farmars.
Steps have been taken by Secretary
of Agriculture N. B. Critchfied to!
- : straighten out.the tangle caused in the |
a fertilizer trade by the cessation of
1 shipments of patash from Germany.
It is estimated that at least ninety
per cent of the potash used in fertili-
zers in this state comes from the war
torn empire and in order to conserye
the stock in this country manufae- |]
turers will be forced to use a smaller
portion than has been done. To faci-
litate matters Secretary Oritchfield
) has issued a circular in which a way
x is pointed out for the marketing of
fertilizers for the fall trade without
» making a new registration with all
‘that such procedure entails. ]
It is estimated that 340,000 tons of
fertilizer are used annually in Pennsyl-
vania and a large portion of this is
potash, so that the effect of the war
can be as cerfained. In 1913 about
three-quarters of a million tons of
potash of various kinds were import-
ed from Germany alone and their
will be very little this year. The im-
ports last year were; kalinite 475,350
tons; mauriate of potash 239,313;
manure salts 111,646, and sulphate of
potash 44,283 tons.
x The letter of the secretary on the
: subject is as follows:
1 ‘This Department recognizes the
fact that with sbheZsharage [‘there is
likely to3be in} theJamount of potash
available this fall ‘manufacturers’ will
: find Tt difficult to prepare their goods
t for the fall trade so as to meet the
Feb. 20, 1900.
made public.
Oct. 19, 1904.
May 23, 1908.
March 3, 1910.
May 16, 1910.
Feb. 2, 1011.
Feb. 28, 1911.
March 1, 1011.
1911.
June 12,
July 22, 1911.
requirements of the registration made
at-the beginning of the year, and to
: fl relieve this situation as far as possible
: this Department shall be entirely sat-
isfied to have manufacturers of ferti-
| - lizers reduce the per cent. of potash
} they put in the goods they place on
the markets for the fall trade of the
eurrent year without making an ad-
i ditional registration of the same, pro-
vided that no change is made so far
as the other elements of plant food
~ are concerned and that they erase the
| figures that are now printed on their
; sacks showing the potash the goods
contain and attach to the sacks with
: good, strong twine or a wire tag on
4 which is plainly printed the revised
i analysis of the goods the sacks con-
: tain and provided further that they
Sah send to this Department notice of any
¥ change made in the percent. of po- |
301 ~ tash, specifying the brands of goods
A] in which such change is made.
4 3 ‘“Where the change made in the
: ; amount of potash is less than one per
i cent. it will be satisfactory. to this
Department to have the decimal or
fi fraction erased, leaving the percent-
‘© age expressed in whole numbers.
“For example, in case of sacks pre-
pared for a brand of fertilizer, te pot-
ash guarantee of which is 2.50 the .50
Jan. '31, 1012
; who work.
March 27, 1912.
senate.
May 6 1912.
May
31, 1012,
government.
June 13, 1912.
Aug. 9, 1012.
“Aug.
13, 1912.
Aug. 16, 1012.
ama Canal.
- Aug. 21, 1912,
penses.
Jan.
being erased leaving the figure 2 stand | | ¥
showing that the potash centent is 2
per cent. ct
“In such case it will not be neces-
Feb. 28, 1913.
sary to attach the tag spoken of.” gi
CITROLAX |
Users say it is the ideal, perfect lax-
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- March 2, 1913.
Boies Penrose’s Record
It Shows He Has Beerra Standard Oil Agent, a Servant
of Special Privilege and a_Foe to the Farmer
and the Working Man
He took the confidential report of the United
States Industrial Commission which was in-
vestigating Standard Oil and secretly sent it
to the Standard Oil Company so they could
pass on it before it was sent to congress and
Standard Oil gave Penrose a check for $25,000
and Penrose thanked them for it. :
Penrose voted against the direct election of
United States senators.
Penrose voted for the financial interests in
their attempt to grab special privileges in the
postal savings bank system.
Penrose voted for the railroad combine in its
attempt to strangle the Interstate Commerce
Commission, which was giving a square deal
to the people against the railroads.
Penrose voted on every roll call for the ship
subsidy bill which was demanded by the
steamship combine.
Penrose again votéd against the direct elec-
tion of United States senators. |
Penrose voted for Lorimer, the corrupt Illinois
boss who was expelled from the senate be-
cause the senate found that his election “reeks
and teems with the evidence of a general
scheme of corruption.” fi
Penrose again voted against the direct election
of United States senators.
Penrose voted for the Canadian Reciprocity
bill which was a free trade bill for farm pro-
ducts, but a high tariff bill on trust products.
Penrose refused to vote for the Children’s
Bureau bill, which was aimed to help children
Penrose voted for Stephenson of Wisconsin,
charged with almost unlimited use of funds in
an effort to “buy” a seat in the United States
Penrose refused to vote for the Workmen’s
Compensation bill. :
Penrose refused to vote for the eight hour day
for laborers employed by the United States
Penrose again voted for Lorimer, when the
final vote came to expel the Illinois boss from
the United States senate.
Penrose voted to allow the railroad combine
to hog the benefits of the Panama Canal.
‘Penrose voted against allowing the post-
office employes to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor.
Penrose voted against allowing -American
coastwise ships free passage through the Pan-
Penrose refused to vote for the bill prohibit-
ing corporations from making campaign ex-
(Remember in regard to this vote that in
1904 Standard Oil gave Penrose $25,000.) +} giggling Georgie MacPrang, who grew |
Penrose voted for Robert W. 'Archbald, a"
corrupt Scranton judge, who had been im-
' peached and dragged from the bench because
he was found guilty of using his position as
judge for his own profit. ; :
Penrose voted for the liquor interests on the
Webb bill which was aimed to prevent ship-
ment of liquor into “dry” territory.
Penrose refused to vote for a bill improving
‘the working conditions of seamen. The steam-
ship combine was against this bill.
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; for your children things never tarn
{ the shade-too-bright heliotrope suit.
| ing and stuff the baked potatoes and
| should lose his head over that silly,
So fond of Lizzie all of a sudden on
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TRE:
THE CASE OF ALFRED
BY AMELIA PRICE,
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The middle aged women with the A
7outhful hat sank into the car seat
vith a sigh of relief. “My, but I got
iired waiting on that corner!” she
said to her companion. “I hate this
standing" around waiting for street
cars when there might just as well
have been an automobile in the fams-
ily! As I was saying to my husband
this morning, it does beat all that
after you slave and plan all your life
out as you want them to!”
“That’s so,” agreed the woman in
“They just do as they please!”
“Not that Lizzie is not a good
daughter,” went on the middle aged
woman. “It’s just that you can’t tell
about men. They can be the blind-
est, most exasperating, contrary crea;
tures! As I was saying to my hus-
band, when he took Alfred Quam for
a partner, who on earth would have
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HOLZSHU & WEIMER,
=221 Centre Street,
Mzyersdale, Pa.
dreamed that such a boyish, pleasant
fellow could have such a will of his
own and be so absolutely deaf to the
call of what are really his own in-
terests? ;
“He has money, you know; and as
his folks did not live here I made up
mind that it was my duty to be kind’
of motherly to him,” explained the
middle aged woman. “I think there
is nothing so pathetic as a nice young
man far from home and a prey to
every designing creature who gets
her eyes on him, especially when he
is a good looking young man like
Alfred.”
“I thought,” said the other woman,
~ JOSEPH L. TRESSLER,
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Residence:
& JC MEYERSDALE, SOMERSET COUNTY, PA.
309 North Street
Economy Phone.
Office: 229 Center Street
Both Phones.
“that he and Lizzie—"
“I don’t believe in trying to make
matches,” sald the middle aged wom-
an, firmly. “I wouldn’t dream of in-
terfering with fate! Lizzie may be
26, but she doesn’t look it, and any
one with taste would realize how good
looking she is—in a quiet way, of
course. I don’t think it is refined to
have the sort of looks that attract
attention, Mrs. Garver, indeed I
don't!”
“The first night that I had Alfred
Quam to a good home-cooked dinner
I let Lizzie stir up the French dress-
if I happened to mention that she
got the dinner I can’t see that there
was any necessity of my explaining
‘just what part of it she got. Alfred
always was glad to get an invitation
to dinner. Afterward I had dizzie
show him her book of photographs.
There's nothing like letting young
people get acquainted.
“Anyhow, Alfred Quam might have
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in quart, half-gallon and gallon cans.” We
guarantee this to save feed and improve
your stock.
F.
B. THOMAS
LEADING DRUGBIST,
9 Both Phones.
+MEYERSD ALE, PA.
considered himself in luck to get a
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nice girl like my Lizzie—not but that
she could have her pick of far better
than he! There's no telling what a
man will like—and to think that he
Bay, Wis., says ‘I have used pills,
oils, salts cte., but all were disagree-
able and unsatisfactory. In Oitrolax
I have found the ideal laxative drink.
. For sick headache, sour ‘stomach,
. lazy live, congested bowels, Gitrolax
Coal Famine in Si
Foreign Coun ries.
is ideal. ,
: With the Welsh and Belgian eoal
or- ped Sold by all DealersjEvery where. 3 ad fields idle and the Russian fields cut
be Epi Ny off from trade, neutral countries all
ly, The Pennsylvania over the world are faced with a fuel
ey ; famine and may have to shut down
nd Potato Patch. electric lighting and heating plants
158 The Pennsylvania Irish potato patch and suspend railway transportation,
8 contains 268,000 acres this year and | IP cODSequence.
rt- the total production will be approxi-| This is due to a paralysis of the
he ¢ mately 22,383,000 bushels, accor trade_routes of the Atlantic Ocean;
to estimates recently made by the |As soon as these are opened up. the
ks, United States Orop Reporting Board. | United States will sell immense .quan-
re, a : The condition of the crop is 87 per [tities of coal at a high price and coal
ne, a “cent of normal and the price at the | OPerators will reap fortunes.
nd present time is averaging around 89 Just at present urgent cable mes-
m- cents per bushel. Pennsylvania ranks [58868 from almost every nation in
we | sixth with other states in the produc. |Oentral and South America and
sh- tion of Irish potatoes, from Italy, Sweden, Switzerland,
ng | In Continental United States there | Norway and Holland are being re-
in i are 3,708,000 acres planted to this pro- | eived here begging for coal at any
De- i duct and this year’s production is es- | Price. ; >
he timated at 360,614,000 bushels by the| Their light, power aud motive
wie \ Federal Department. of Agriculture. | Plants have only a supply for about
ty This year’s crop will exceed the gver- two months in most cases, a promi-
ate i age crop of the past five years by ap- nent coal dealer said here today.
rg. proximately 4,000,000 bushels, The |This is a very narrow margin and it
Ei nation’s production last ‘year was |18 feared manufactories in these
i ; | 331,525,000 bushels, was produced on | countries will be rendered helpless by
Y. : 3,668,000 acres of land and sold for |18ck of fuel.
. | $227,903,000, or an average of 90 cents| The foreign consumer, because of
bs per bushel. high charter and. war risk rates, is
po I already paying double the price to
| | Don't be Bothered domestic consumers. Cual charters
nss 5 : have doubled in price.
! With Coughing. The shippers of coal are hoping
Pes Fo that a naval victory by the British
le, | | Stop it with Foley’s Honey and | will open the seas and that the bill
by | Tar Oompound. It apreads a_sooth: | admitting foreign built bottoms to
an- | ing healing coating as it glides down | American registry will induce Brit-
{ : the throat -tickling, hoarseness _and ish and German bottoms now in
ae nervous hacking are quickly healed. these harbors to become part of the
ar} Children love it—tastes good and no{ American merchant marine.
ity opiates. A man ir Texas walked 15 ———e,
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RESTORE FERTILITY OF LAND
‘ $ i "
Live Stock Farming Is Surest, Cheap-
est and Quiekest
% Few Crops Sold.
Where lands have been “cropped tn.
death,” as some plain people aptly
term it, live stock farming is the sss
est, cheapest and quickest method of
restoring its fertility. In live stock
farming the erops raised on the farm
are grown primarily for the purpose’
of feeding one or more classes of live
stock, and but little is sold except ani-
mal products. On the other hand,’
concentrated feeding stuffs are pur-
chased for feeding the farm animals,
which adds to the amount of fertilty
returned to the land in manure. Since
the animal products scld 2: —% 23
a general rule, contain large quantities
of fertilizing ingredients, it is easy to
rapidly increase the fertflity of land
by this system of farming.
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‘I have}been somewhat costive
but Doan,s JRegulets give just the
results I desire. They act mildly and
regulate ithe bowels perfectly,'’'—
Gov. B.;Krause,; Altoona, Pa. ad
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To convert a small upstairs porch
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brass rods at the top and bottom of
the opening on each side and on these
curtains of light silkoline or similar
material. These can be slipped back
and forth on the rods like sash cur
tains. v
Those who have never had the ex-
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find it a real joy and the improvised
guarters will becomsa .an indispensable
part of the home.
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the evenings she found that Alfred
‘was coming!
| tioned that Lizzie was pertectly crazy
. was her father's office, Alfred would
.What’s her father’s will be Lizzie’s
: Quam, not if he'd begged her on his
| knees!”
Lizzie is so unsus-:
picious. :
“When he got his runabout I men-
over autos and thet he fresh air was
80 good for her health. He took her
out several times whem I invited him
to come early for &lnaew®, so they
could get a ride afterward, but It|
wasn’t a month befors Em Suemgi
MacPrang was driving the. renadout
with her own hands and smiling con-
descendingly when she passed our
house! :
“You don’t know what I suffered at
the hands of that Georgie MacPrang,
Mrs. Garver! I'd ask Alfred out for a
nice little family game of cards and
he’d have an engagement and the
next day Qeorcia would drop in and
tell what a fine time she and Alfred
had at the theater the night before!
and if she dropped into the coal of-
fice near closing time, as it was per-
fectly natural for her to do, since it
usually bring her home. ‘Don’t push
yourself,’ I told Lizzie. ‘Only don’t
be backward about showing him that
he’s popular with you! That flatters
a map—having him think you like
him and are too modest to show it!”
“Just as I had arranged to have Al-
fred take his summer vacation at the
same time we did and be our guest
at the cottage we were going to rent,
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for’ barbed-wite cuts and sores on aninials,
“Ha was perfectly nice to Lizzie |B i
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protection of your health. There is
also the important consideration of
~ beautiful surroundings and the satis-
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reason why. It will be both sanitary
and beautiful. @
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in comes that Georgie MacPrang with
a solitaire as big as a paving stone,
all smiles and applied blushes and
throws herself on Lizzie’s neck and
says she must tell her first, because
it was through her that she and Al-
fred found each other.
“Isn’t that enough to make a wom-
an give up in despair, Mrs. Garver?
Not that I'd have dreamed of trying
to force Alfred or Lizzie in each
otber’s direction—not me—but being
a junior partner and, of course,
some day, and then Alfred would have
had it all—and his nice automobile
and he is so good looking—and to
think that silly Georgie MacPrang—"
“Maybe something will happen,”
said her friend, comfortingly. “Lizzie
may yet be glad she didn’t get him—"
“My goodness!” said the middle
aged woman emphatically. “Why, my
Lizzie. wouldn't have had Alfred
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