1 A which variet} for a good farm paper. THE BOY FARMER Or a Acigber > the Copyright, 1915, by American Press Association SYNOPSIS. 8am Powell inspirea by a government agent, plans to make a sclentitic tarmer of himself and to compete for prizes awarded to the Boys' Corn club Sam works hard cleaning up and ferti- lizing the wornout farin Miles Fagan rid- fcules scientific farming. out lets his boy |. join the corm club While blowing out stumps Sam saves Joe Watson's life. Sam plans nis contest acre of corn and other crops and the stocking of his farm with cattle *“} want to try to raise everything we'll need and a lot to sell besides The corh apd cane are tor the stock and the Kaffir corn for the chickens If we donut raise such stuff we'll have it to buy. and that's expensive He sides, most of these crops | speak of will be gathered pretty earfs. and 1 can get a crop or two more on the land When, | ¢ut the cane I'm going to plant Sweet potatoes on that patch. “] know where vou can get some seed Irisb potatoes.’ suggested his mother. Sam smiled = “Did you ever stop to think. mother. be asked. “that what ‘you call seed potatoes are just the lit- tle dwarfy culls and not really fit for anything” “Why. no.” said Mrs Powell. *i never had thought about it, but it ‘seems like there is something in It.” - “Of course thére is.’ said Sam. “A bulletin the department sent me says they've tried all the different ways. and the best way i® to use good sized potatoes and cut them in halves to plant” os “The agricultural department must be a pretty good thing.” observed Mrs. Powell. “It i= a good thing.” said Sam. “It works all the time to help the farmer. but lots of farmers won't let it help them. As for me. I'm not going against anything when | know it wants to help me and can help me if | let it. The de. partment of agrieulture keeps men trav. eling all the tide all over the world collecting new plants and flowers bei fruits and grains snited to our diffe climates and sofls It ey are best suit- “Bofls and the best way ~ cu en RD how! to fight insect ‘pests. It does all this and lots more ‘that it would take me hours to tell you ‘about. I wouldn't want to farm if ‘there wasn’t any agricultural depart- ment to help me. It would be too slow finding out things by myself. I've got a whole lot of bulletins on farming, and I'm going to use the money I get Yor hauling mannre to buy some books ‘that I waut to read and to subscribe A good farm per i8 the next best thing to the ag Itura] department.” “Have you selected the corn and cot ton seed that you're going to plant?’ asked Mrs, Powell when Sam had fin- “ished his glowing account of the de ‘partment. “No, I haven’t yet.” he repited. “But that’s one thing 1 must look after next week. [I'll see the agent and ask him a 7/ 7 i / AY ih pk ne i 7 XN an p 0s a , caruesce “You'll make a farmer if you keep up that lick.” about it, but 1 expect our state experi- ment station can tell me more about the best'seed to use in this part of the country “Hello. Mr Burns!" greeted Sam, coming up to the government agent on the street “I've been wanting to speak to von about seed corp and cot- ton. What varieties wonid vou advise me to get and where can | get them?” “Well, as for the corn seed.’ repiied Mr. Bu i'll order that for you, as I want a kind of s select the boys After t eed. both cotton and corn. ‘Pou’t depend on sending OF Tor seed If you do you'll surely be badly disappointed sometimes Get good va: rieties to start with and you can build them up by selecting seed from the finest and most productive plants “Speaking - about cottonseed.” the agent continued. "as good a plan us any is to get seed from somebody ip your neighborhood. You always find at least vne kind of cotton in every community that is far ahead of all oth- er kinds. Everything seems to suit it exactly. It you can get seed from na tariety like that out your way and then select your own seed afterward ‘you'll soon have the most productive cotton that can possibly be grown in your locality = *1 am wmuch obliged to you.” said Sam, ‘for getting the corn. and | think 1 know where | cap get some good cotton seed close at home A fellow ~ got a kind down there; | don’t Know the name of it, but it is about two weeks earlier than most cotton, and it’s got five long locks to each boll.” - “That's the cotton for you, Sam. said the agent, “the kind that matures early, before the boll weevils get a lick at it. Being a big bolled kind makes it so much the better. How about your iand” Are you getting it in good condition?” “Wel | think the acre for the con test is all richt, Sam replied ‘1 put ‘ ome ton of ashes and two tons of ma nure on t then had it broke deep cross broke nnd narrowed. I'hree tons is a big lot of fertilizer to put on one acre. hut | don’t think | can get too much op that land.’ The agent s eyes prightened. “Good! be encouraged “You'll make a farm ! er if you Keep up that lick That 1and’'= | in tine shape. and it'll soak up all the moisture from the rains and spows that fall from pow until spring The idea is to stere up all the moisture von can for use hy the growing rops ip summer when ram is scarce I'he only. way to «do that is to get the and plow ed deep and thoronghly pulverized Whenever von see a patch of gronnd that's been plowed five or six times to kill out Bermuda or Johnson grass you always see a fine ¢rop growing on 1 when evervthing around it is a fail ure. [It seems as if farmers ought to tearn from such examples : “When is the best time to break iand ?" asked Sam. “Oh, it ought to be done in the fall.” Mr. Burns replied. “Get the land in “good condition and sow a cover crop for winter of rye or oats By plowing the land in the fall vou break up the homes of insects and rurn them out to freeze. A big majority of the insects that work on crops spend the winter the fields and around the fence rows. “if you don't want to be bothered with insects break the land and clean out the fence rows in the tall” Exe made wu litTle estra money hanl ing manure from a stable,” Sam ex- plained, some good hooks Abong the dine I'm stody ing. two geod ches, Mi Barus?” “There. are any nmmber cf good books on ixrming and kindred sub- fects,” said ihe agent. “You should get a caintuune, that yon get bandry’ aud Hook of Altaifa. books are by nn reat furmer. and he knows what nes writing about. [be first. of course, is abont raising hogs The second tells all abont alfalfa from ‘Coburn’s Swine Hus real interesting, too much better read call best sellers. “I'he A ‘B C of Bee Culture’ is a tine work on beekeeping ‘How Crops Grow’ will tell vou a ot about agricultural plants that you don’t know, and ‘Life on the Farm’ is a lit- full of helpful suggestions” “Don’t tell me any more,” Sam ex- claimed. “I want to read them all. and my money won't hoid out. But I'm going to buy those. five and study them, especially the gnes on bogs and alfalfa. “Well. bees are worth studying. too,” said Mr Burns. ; “I don’t know much about them.” re- plied Sam, "but | shouldn’t like getting stung.” . “No peed of it,’ said the agent “Once you understand them they give no trouble, and the honey they make i almost clear profit.” “If that’s the case I think [ll get a few hives.” “One or two will be sufficient to start with. If you take care of the swarms you'll soon have as many hives as you need.” “What I want to get more than any thing else,” continued Sam, “is some registered hogs. Do you know where I could get a sow or some pigs?’ No: don’t believe 1 do,” said the agent. “Yes, sir; it doesn’t take any more to raise them than it does scrubs, and they are better and sell for more.” “That's a good idea,” remarked Mr. Burns. “You're on the right track. | see you've got some plans, Sam. What are you figuring on doing?’ “Well” replied the young farmer “for the first thing ['m going to peg and do the very best 1 can with what I’ve got and with what I know.” “And then what?” asked the agent “Next fall and winter sister and 1 are going to complete the high school course. Then I'm going to make an- other crop. and if things go well I'll take a course at the State Agricultural college and iet sister also take a course there In domestic science.” “And after that what?" queried Mr Burns. “Well, after that [I'll take up the work that | have already started and earry it out to a finish. 1 want to make mother as comfortable and inde Dendent as possible I want to make raat - "the lana | fétices "and buildings. 1 want to have “and I'm going to spend it for onid vou suggest one or : Rat 1 would suggest , These the earliest tines to the present. It is | ing thao sone of the novels that they | tle book that is very interesting and | “Want registered stock, do vou?” - glycerine, etc Adlerika. This remedy ' the most thorough bowel cleaser we : 8 ever sold. It is so powerful that one along on the jitlle farm of mother's | SPOONFUL relieves almost any case ! of constipation, sour or gassy stom- ! ach, Adlerika never gripes, is safe to | prising. L. R. COLLINS, Druggist. ‘and put up good “everything convenient. 1 want to stock the place with the very best there is in évery line—Jlersey cows. Berkshire bogs. Angora goats, Plymouth Rock chickens, Peking ducks, Bronze turkeys and even a collie dog. Of course | don’t mean to say that these breeds &re better than others, but 1 like them and know they are good.” Mr. Burns did not laugh at Sam’s de sire for a shepherd dog. “There is need and room for all you mention.” he said. “even to the dog.” ~ “But that’s not all,” Sam continued. *“1 want théngs around the house to be pretty and pleasant. | want books and magazines and pictures and a big yard full of flowers. Don’t you think a per son can have such things on a farm?’ “I don’t think anything about it,” re- plied the agent. “lI know it. You can have them and should have them. The farm is. first. of all, a place to live, and it should be made as pleasant a place as possible *You haven't named a thing that is out of reach. Sam And it is very thoughtful of you to keep your mother and sister in mind in all of your plans They certainly are proud of you and have reason to be.” “When | get all that work done." said Sam. “I'm going to buy a farm for my self and do with it just as I intend to do with mother’s. After that I don't know what I'll do. | haven’t planned any further. but 1 guess there’ll be new dreams by that time.” “Yes, there will. Sam,” said Mr Burns. “There will always be some thing new calling you to further en deavor. Bur you'll take u delight in it just as you have delighted in this other It's a man's work you have set your self. and it's worth doing.’ Sam Powell went huine with the agent’ 8 last words running through bis mind. He couldn't forget them, nor did he for many and many u day (Tuo Be Continued. ; % HOW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEAD AMASSED HIS FORTUNE Pittsburgh boasts of many promi- nent men, but none occupies a more exalted position than David P. Black, the president of the Chamber of Com- | merce, a man who has done much to pronfote that city’s interest. He ea-ly saw the ;citv’s possibilities; that th» town afforded wonderful oppor uni- ties, so he engaged in the real estate business and made his fortune. He was | DAVID P. BLACK. identified in a partnership way with several concerns and eventually formed the Real Estatq Trust com- pany, one o! the city’s largest banks and trust companies, of which he is now the head. He has always been its president. He was the first presi- dent of the. Pittsburgh Real Estate Board and is a member of the execu- tive committee of the National Asso- ciation of Real Estate Exchanges. He is also vice president of the Western Insurance company, a director of the Monongahela National bank and was one of Pittsburgh's nine councilmen originally appointed by Governor John K. Tener under the new city charter several years ago. He 1s a prominent clubman, being a member of the Du quesne club, the Pittsburgh Athletic association and the Pittsburgh Coun- try club and expects to be a member of the trade tourist party of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh coming here during the week o May 18 to 21. SPECIAL NOTICE TO : MEYERSDALE FOLKS. We wish to announce we are ex- clusive Meyersdale agents for the simple mixture of buckthorn bark, used successfully for appendiritis, is us€ and the instant action is 'sur- ‘which are offered for sale | weak. These headache cures which | areindiscriminately correct the real cause of the distur- | .| may come from constant use and they i has a forty years record of similar | says: “About a year ago I was at- | | lif anything. A friend FSeommenic HEADACHE Dr. Dixon's Weekly Talk on Health and Hygiene. Headache is one of the most com- mon ailments. Almost everyone, even people in comparatively good health are subject from time to time to this malady. Because it manifests it- self in more or less in the same and general locality, the majority of people are wont to believe that the source of the difficulty is located in the cranium itself. This is rarely the case. The causes of headache are nu- merous and cannot be removed by | the use of smelling salts, ice bags, | cold towels and headache powders. Heahache may come from a defective tooth or from the eyes; from acute digestive disturbance, from a slug- gish dction of the liver and intesti- nal canal, long continued irritation of the nasal cavities, high blood pressure or other causes as widely varied as those mentioned. Constant- Iyrecurring headaches may also be manifestations of profound systemic disturbances of some other part of the body which demands medical at- tention. The cause, more serious than the headache itself, should be found and cured. Often the immediate canse of headache is the over stimu- lation of the heart. Undue heart stimulation accompa- nies a number of organic disturbam- ces and results in abnormally high blood pressure in the brain; the ma- jority of the headache remedies contain some powerful heart depressment which brings temporany relief. There is always, however, ..dan- ger in the use by a layman of any drug which is sufficiently strong to have this result when the heart is offered do not | bance. Serious or even fatal results ! cannot effect a.cure. Anyone subject to recurring headaches should con- sult a physician that the cause may be determined before any treatment is given. .CROUP AND WHOOPINGCOUGH.: Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis., says, “Foley's Honey ad Tar Com- pound cured my boy of a very severe attack o croup after other remedies “had failed. Our milkman cured his children of whoopingcough.” Foley's ins no opiates. Always in- oley’s. Sold everywhere. ular is emphasized. A constipated |! condition invites disease. A dependa- ble physic that acts without inconve- nience or griping in Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold everywhere. ; IT'S A MISTAKE Made by Many Residents of Meyers- | dale Many people in a misguided effort | to get rid of kidney backache, rely | on plasters, liniments and other makeshifts The right treatment is} portance of keeping the bowels reg- I 7 RR ee PEE ee IE RE | AVe beclable 3 zionforAs similating tke Food as dRedMa ing the Stomachs and Bowels of ‘| Promotes ne .| ness and Rest. Contains neitter | Opium.Morphine nor Miaczal |NoT NARCOTIC. Recjpe of Old DSAMUELPITCIER ir Seed = \ Alx. Seana + Pochelle Salls~ lie bond * ( A erfect Remedy fo: Consfipe tion Sour Stomach. Diarrhoea Worrs Convulsions. feverish: ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSinile Signature of ki THE CENTAUR * COMPANY, NEW YOR YORK. eT CEL asd 2 eh FE tet! lied Ri Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. : ii Bears the Signature Use For Over Thirty Years —GASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Are you well stocked on flour? We are selling flour for less than we can buy it. Now is the time to use Dr Hess! Stock Tonic, Poul- try Pan-a ce-a, Louse kil- ler, etc. and you will get results. Our Lake Herring are very nice, price right. Please let us have your Grocery orders. kidney treatment and a remarkably recommended kidney medicine is Doan’s Kidney Pills. Meyersdale is no exception. The proof is at your door. The fol- lowing is an experience typical of the work of Doan’s Riggey Pills in Mey- ersdale. S. W. Bowman, of Meyersdale, Pa., tacked with terrible pains in my back. I couldn’t sleep well. The passages of the kidney secretions were irregular and painful. I couldn’t stoop over or Doan’s Kidney Pills to me and I used them. One box f{ave-me relief and 1 used a couple of boxes. 1'hev made me feel all right. I always recom- mend Doan’s Kidney Pills to my friends and keep them on hand. Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim- ply ask for a kidney remedy——get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Bowmanhad. Foster-Milburn Co. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. WILLS PROBATED. The will of Annie M. Frye, late of Salisbury Borough, makes bequests of $100 each to Joseph Patterson, Mary C. Frye and Oliver Knecht. Her husband is given the beds, bed- ding and chairs and the remainder of the testator’s household goods goes to her children. One hundred dollars is to be deposited in the First National Bank of Salisbury to provide a fund with which to bury her husband. Hiram Hoffman, deceased, late of Benson Borough, bequeathed $800 to Mrs. Levi Blough and an equal amount Albert E. Kuehne, of Johnstown, i and Miss Dillie Cober, daughter of Mrs. Lucinda Cober, of Berlin, were married in Johnstown, March 31 and have gone to the Panamsa exposition on their honeymoon. They will reside in Johnstown where the groom is the gsecretary-treasurer of the F. M. Shaf- fer Ice Co. | to John Hoffman to be paid within a i year. Mrs. Hoffman is to have the use fof the household goods; the remainder of the decedent’s estate is to be equally divided between his wife and children. Children Cry | FOR FLETCHER'S Holzshu & Weimer SCHWAB'S GAR AND TRAINMEN To Comply With- Law Feading Had to Put Extra Man on Train. South Bethlehem, Pa. March 24. Specific instances of the arbitrary working of the Full Crew—“Excess Man Crew”—Laws have just been af forded here. They show how these laws work to the burden of the rail roads and, how they are sometimes availed of by trainmen to prevent ef ficient service. . A four-car passenger train was made up on the Reading Railway about to leave for Philadelphia. Under ® hurry order the “Loretta,” private ear of Charles M Schwab, was at- tached to this train at-the last minute. This made it necessary, in order to comply with the Full Crew Law, to increase the train crew from five to six men, although the private car had its own crew and made nothing for the train crew to look after. It so happened that a trainman was in one of the coaches, returning to Philadelphia. He was instructed to take the position of extra man. Thus instead of riding to Philadelphia as a wdead head,” he became a member of the crew and received pay for-the trip. ’ On the Lehigh Valley Railroad =a train of empty cars had been made up| by a yard crew. When the road crew of five took charge a trainman was | skin itehing 50c a box. FIVE CENTS PROVES IT. . A generous offer. Cut this ad out, en- close with it 5 cents to Foley & Coq Chic#go, Ill, and receive a free trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial and lagrippe coughs} Foly Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartie Tablets. Sold everywhere. To feel strong, have good appetite and digestion, sleep soundly and en- joy life, use Burdock Blood Ritters, ‘he family system tonic.” Price $1.00 LIFE INSURANCE REFUSED. Ever notice how closely life insur ance examiners look for symptoms of kidney diseases? They do so becaus weakened kidneys lead to many forms of dreadful life-shortening afflictins. If you have any symptoms like pain in your back, frequent scanty or painful action, tired feeling, aches and pains. get Foley's Kidney Pills to-day. Sold everywhere. itch! Iteh! Itch!—Scraten Scratch! Scratch! The more y scratch, the worse ‘the itch. Toy Dogn’s Ointment. For eczema, ny How to Cure a La Grippe Cough. Lagrippe coughs demand instant treatment. They show a serious condh tion of the system and are weakening Postmaster Collins, Barnegat, N. J. says: “I {ook Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for a violent Ilagrippe cough that compietely exhausted me and less than a half bottle stopped the cough.” Try it. Sold everywhere. State of Ohio, City of Toledo l Lucas County, SS Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS foreach and every case of Qatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL’S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscrib- ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall’s Qatarrh Cure is: taken inter: nally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials. F. J. CHENEY, & Co., Toledo, O Sold by all Druggists, 756 cents pur bottle. Take Hall’s Family Pills for Con stipation. ad Demand for the Efficient. Asert, kefli cicar-headed healthy men and wien are in demand. Mode ern business cannot use in office, fac- tory or on the road, persons who are dull, lifeless, inert, half sick or tired. Keep in trim. Be in a condition that wards off disease. Foley Cartharile Tablets clean the system, keep the | geen to cut out the last car, which happened to be a foreign line box car. When asked why, he replied that they weren't going to take a train lon than required. The effect was to leave a box car in the yard, entailing a per | @iem charge upon the company. stomach sweet, liver active and bows | els regular. Sold everywhere. A A PN AES PI Come in and ask us how many votes tn the Hartley-Clutton Piano contest now get for one year to The Commercial { you can i hr
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