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THE DETECTIVE OF THE WOODS ——
REATER than Sher-
lock Holmes is No-
vember Joe, the hero of our
new sernal.
READ about how he
solved the mysterious murder
at Big Tree Portage.
READ about the seven
lumberjacks and the trapping
of the lone highwayman who
robbed them.
READ about the theft
of the black fox skin, the
abduction of Miss Virgima
Planx, the hundred thousand
dollar robbery, and the other
forest mysteries the woods {-
detective
come to
November Joe Traps the
Highwayman
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will be glad that you have
NOVEMBER
— JOE =
JOE
solved and you
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Some of the farmers in Nebraska |
have been making a specialty of feed |
ing horses for the market. One feed- |
er made a gain of four pounds a day
on a 150 head fed two months. They
each consumed twenty-one pounds
of alfalfa daily. The buying element
at the public auction ring demands
fleshy horses and pays well for them,
Hence, it is purely a dollar and cents
proposition with the feeder, and so
long as buyers insist on fat there will |,
be someone that will fill their de-
-
mn 'd yard a drove of
200 horses iished on thelfollow-
ing daily r... _.. Five pounds of oats,
eighteen pounds of coarse ground
corn, three pounds of cut alfalfa and
ten pounds o: sugar beet sirup. [This
was fed mixed in troughs twice a%day
and in addition the horses had access
to alfalfa hay in racks. These were
large horses, many of them exceeding
1,800 pounl:i. The heaviest horse
was a sound dapple gray of goodlage
which sold out ofthe yard for $350
and tipped the scale at 2,100 pounds.
Ten cars of these horses went through
the Chicago stock yards and much
newspaper comment was created by
their splendid appearance.
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FATTENING HORSES. | WASN'T LOOKING FOR FREAK
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Young Man Realized That Girl of His
Choice Was Much Like Rest of
Her Sex Today.
A proposal was imminent and they
both knew it. He talked politics for
2, while, but that topic was soon
exhausted. Finally he reached for her
hand.
“Dearest!”
She said nothing.
“You know that I love you.”
More silence.
“I want you to be my little wife.”
Her silence must have given him a
slight chill. He switched off to prac-
tical talk.
“I get $25 a week, Mabel, and I
feel sure that you think well of me.
How about it?”
The girl looked at him steadfastly.
“George,” said she, “I like you well
enough, but I'm going to talk to you
frankly. Listen. You want me to
marry you on $25 a week. I have no
interest in the home. I play bridge
for money. I smoké cigarettes. I
require expensive clothes and con-
tinual excitement. I can’t cook. I
won't learn. I know very little that
would be useful. Now, under these
conditions, do you still want me?”
The young man smiied indulgently.
“Certainly I want you,” he an-
swered. “Why should I have a wife
any different from So many other
men’s wives?”
Prevents Electric Fraud.
An interesting method of prevent-
ing fraud in the use of electricity
has been devised by an Italian engin-
eer. The practice of offering heating
and cooking devices for current used
in power is becoming more and more
general, but with the ordinary con-
stant potential current it is diffi-
cult to detect the use of lighting de-
vices on circuits intended only for
power and heating purposes. This
engineer advocates the use of special
circuits on which the current is sub-
Ject to extreme fluctuation of voltage
at rapidly recurring intervals, which
would make it practically impossible
te use lamps, because of the flicker
in the lights. As the current is not
entirely inter: ted and the normal
voltage is almost immediately re-
stored, the proper operation of power
or heating apparatus is not interfered
with and the rightful use of the cir-
cuits for their respective purposes is
assured.
Father's Good Point.
Little Elizabeth had been offended
some way. She went off into a cor-
:r and turned her back on the fam-
“I'm mad,” she exclaimed sulkily.
“I wish I didn’t have any father or
mother.”
“That's wrong, dear,” said her moth-
er. “We are the bes ri 5 you
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EASY TO TELL REAL GENIUS
Man With Capacity for Infinite Toil
Is. the One So Gloriously
Endowed.
mv See we ae
Genius is always nine parts gift
of God. A gifted person may learn
something at school, but he becomes
great, as Ruskin says, only when he
develops that peculiar capacity within
himself which he can learn from no-
body.
How is one to know whether he is a
genius or not, whether those strivings
within him are the ferment of medi-
ocrity or the first push of superior
talent? The woods are full of young
people who think they can write |
stories or poems, or paint, or sing, or
perform upon musical instruments, or
act. How are they to know if they
be real natural-born geniuses?
Perhaps the best test is this. A
real genius usually has such a passion
for his work that no power on earth
can keep him from it. In other words,
Carlyle’s dictum holds true, that gen-
ius is the capacity for infinite toil. If
you are a God-endowed one, therefore,
you will know it by your unconguer-
able joy and courage. If you are a
second-rater you will give up, and be
easily turned away into money-mak-
ing.
Evolution In Professions.
George II in 1745 spilled the beans
for the surgery-barbery corporation.
Several obnoxious individuals who
had been doing surgical operations in
competition with the barbers did some
new stunts with the surgeon's knife
and got George's ear. They knocked
the barbers’ work, said their opera-
tions for the removal of corns were
crude stuff, and that George ought to
get hep to himself and start a new
profession of surgery in distinction to
barbery. George fell for it and dis-
solved the combination. The surgeons
got it back on them for being so
fresh not so many years afterward,
when fellows calling themselves chir-
opodists sprang into existence and
declared that no man should have his
corns removed by anybody except ex-
perts at the business.
Wisdom From Thomas.
The thoughtful look on young Thom-
as’ face betrayed that he had a few
questions to ask. As soon as Mrs.
Boardman had gone, he asked them.
“Mother,” said he, “do you like to
kiss Mrs. Boardman?”
“No, dear.”
“Do you think Mrs. Boardman likes
to kiss you?”
“I don’t think she does.”
“Then why do you and she always
kiss when you meet?”
“I don’t know, dear.”
“Don’t you think Mrs. Boardman
would rather you didn’t kiss her?”
“I have no doubt of it.”
“Wouldn’t you rather Mrs. Board-
have.”
‘Well! said
1 n't
man didn’t kiss you?”
“Oh, very 1
hen,’
THE RURAL
* CHUReH
THE FARMERS THE CUSTODIANS
OF THE NATION'S MORALITY.
Co-operation of Church, School and
Press Essential to Community
Building.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers’ Union.
The church, the press and the school
form a triple alliance of progress that
guides the destiny of every commun-
ity, state and nation. Without them
civilization would wither and die and
through them life may attain its great-
est blessing, power and knowledge.
The farmers of this nation are greatly
indebted to this social triumvirate for
their uplifting influence, and on behaif
of the American plowmen I want to
thank those engaged in these high
callings for their able and efficient
service, and I shall offer to the press
a series of articles on co-operation
between these important influences
and the farmers in .the hope of in-
creasing the efficiency of all by mu-
tual understanding and organized ef-
fort. We will take up, first, the rural
church.
The Farmers Are Great Church Build
ers.
The American farmer is the greatest
church builder the world has eyer
known. He is the custodian of the
nation’s morality; upon his shoulders
rests the “ark of the covenant” and
he is more responsive to religious in-
fluences than any other class of cit-
izenship.
The farmers of this nation have
built 120,000 churches at a cost of
$7650,000,000, and the annual contribu-
tion of the nation toward all church
institutions approximates $200,000,000
per annum. The farmers of the Uni-
ted States build 22 churches per day.
There are 20,000,000 rural church com-
municants on the farm, and 54 per
cent of the total membership of all
churches reside in the country.
The farm is the power-house of all
progress and the birthplace of all that
is noble. - The Garden of Eden was
in the country and the man who would
get close to God must first get close
to nature.
The Functions of a Rural Church.
If the rural churches today are go-
ing to render a service which this age |
demands, there must be co-operation !
between the religious, social and eco-
nomic life of the community.
The church to attain its fullest meas- |
ure of success must enrich the lives
of the people in the community it
serves; it must build character; devel-
op thought and increase the efficiency
of human life.
cial, business and intellectual, as well
It must serve the so- |
as the spiritual and moral side of life. |
If religion does not make a man more |
capable, more useful and more just,
what good is it? We want a practical
religion, one we can live by and farm
by, as well as die by. .
Fewer and Better Churches.
Blessed is that rural community
which has but one place of worship.
While competition is the life of trade,
It is death to the rural church and
moral starvation to the community.
Petty sectarianism is a scourge that
blights the life, and the church preju- |
dice saps the vitality, of many com-
munities, An over-churched commun-
ity is a crime against religion, a seri-
ous handicap to society and a useless
tax upon agric ‘ture.
While denor itions are essential
and church pride commendable, the
high teaching of universal Christianity
must prevail if the rural church is to
fulfill its mission to agriculture.
We frequently have three or four
~hnrches in a community which is not
alle (u adequately support one. Small
congregations attend services once a
month and all fail to perform the re.
iigious functions of the community.
The division of religious forces and
the breaking into fragments of moral
efforts is ofttimes little less than a
calamity and defeats the very purpose
they seek to promote.
The evils of too many churches can
be minimized by co-operation The
social and economic life of a rural
community are respective units and
cannot be successfully divided by de
nominational lines, and the churches
can only occupy this important ield
by co-operation and co-ordination.
The efficient country church will
definitely serve its community by lead:
ing in all worthy efforts at community
building. in uniting the people in all
co-operative endeavors for the gen
eral welfare of the community and in
arousing a real love for country life
and loyalty to the country home and
these results can only be. successfully
accomplished by the united effort of
the press the school, the church and
Arsanized farmers
They Were Connoisseurs.
Many years ago, on our return from
a wedding, we found the house rifled.
Mother had put out furs, her wedding
gown, and other things to air before
storing them. These were gone; the
solid silver also, and the plate broken.
The burglars had ransacked the ice-
box and fixed themselves an elaborate
pread. Upon the table was an empty
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Largest Shoe Repair Shop
In Somerset County and the most finely equipped, with
modern machinery, is that of Angelo Vitale, 322 Main St.
All work quickly done and guaranteed by us to be
satisfactory.
O’Sullivan’s Rubber Heels Used in This Shop.
Have them put on your shoes as they are the best
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NEW LINE OF SHOES.
Have recently put in a good line of dress and work
shoes at the right price. Call in to see us. If you are in
a hurry we can repair your shoes while you wait,
We maintain an up-to-date Shoe Shine Parlor Gents and Ladies.
ANGELO VITALE,
322 Main St Meyersdale, Pa.
Every Farmer with two or more
cows needs a
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the air is full of ozone and you
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Then it is that you want to
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= that’s an end to footwear trouble.
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