LR SR 000.00 932.25 700.00 236.10 868.35 Cy. 8 T : ail or off cannot L flicker, no iple-refined. ct from our BURG, PA. Boo AE © IK 11 about oil rr re row— Ohio Y 20 5.45 ALE CET OFFICE] PILLS RAND bors Tug, Ubsy,s aly iutag, -TER S ED and 8 Blu ® TERS Fo 3% THE BOY that quiet nook. The farm jay back _ you give them a chance. “old orchards. Why, mother, if 1 was to cut them .down and plant ' ‘ trees it would be three or four years , try them : : he piace ot the ones that are entirely _ piles and burning them. When this ge after a formula given in one of the “1d like to gét some Berkshire pigs.” Sam remarked. “What do you ask for the sow?" \ “Well, right this minute I'd rake $20 for ner [I'be pigs ure sure to be worth twice that much.’ “That's cheap enough.” said Sam. “put 1 haven't the money. How would it suit you to let me keep her? That lit tle pasture down there is hog proof. ‘Phe creek runs through it. and there's FARMER Or a Member of the Corn Club yn By ASA PATRICK Copyright, 1915, by American Press Association SYNOPSIS. Sam Powell, inspired by a government agent, plans to make a scientific farmer of himself and to compete for prizes awarded to the Boys’ Corn club. Sam works hard cleaning up and ferti- izing the wornout farm. Miles Fagan rid- jcules scientific farming, put lets his boy join the corn 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 | He prunes and sprays the old trees of | the orchard, improving them greatly, and | his successful farming astonishes Miles ! Fagan and other slow going neighbors. r CHAPTER IV. T was the 1st ot April when the Powells moved hdck to the littie farm, And there was u look of rea. bappiness on Mrs. Powell's face when she was once more settled in | from the public road and was screen ed from view by a grove of trees in the pasture The weather beaten farm house was also sheltered and shaded by a cluster of wide spreading vaks, But Sam and Florence were no less pleased than their mother to be in the country again. To live in the conntry and to know the vtays of nature is to love it always : Before moving. however. they all | bad made several trips to the old home and done much work in the garden, orchard and field. The old orchard. after receiving special treatment by Sam, surprised Mrs. Powell so that ghe began to look on her son as a very remarkable boy’ When they first look ed at it in February It was an un: promising sight Dead weeds and bri- era stood shoulder high, sprouts had grown up around the trees, and it 100k- ; ‘ed as if there was but little life left in abut § wonth later the Ol sow was roken | &oing about the pasture w ten pretty BE Were the b | black and white faced pigs following. “You might as well chop down the Under Sam s care they grew like weeds old trees.” said Mrs. Powell. “They in wet weather. When they were old ‘are nearly all dead anyway.” enough to wean, which was twelve “Don’t you believe it!” exclaimed : weeks. as the yonng farmer learned Sam. it. 1 through from bis reading. he shipped the four with the a or They Jook mighty | Pigs to their owner. Of the siz ples shabby now, but theyll come to life if’ left he picked out three of the finest. j I've just two gilts und a ‘male, 1 keep. The been reading about’ how. to work over Sam is sure a won- der.” “Look, Florence! plenty of shade and water and no stock that would bother her.” “That's a good place. 1 badn’t thought of it. Maybe we can ‘make a deal. I'll tell you what I'll do, Sam You keep the sow aud look after ber, and when the pigs are old enough you ship four of them to me and you may pave the sow and the rest of the pigs.” “I'll do it.” said Saw. and the bargain was closed. ‘other three be nivertised for sale in the county paper. und. the pigs being ot good <tuek te nad uo trouble inselling. them foi =. «a hi One buyer, coming’ after they naa been sold, tried to get young - before we would get any fruit” = - 2 8am to tn 4 price un the three he had fi and BOW nat 3 » led ie trocy (saved. i ioe Loy retised to sell. In- will bea oH a i deed. he Wn so prond of his pigs that Wa Dear y u an offer 0! ahany times their worth aybe not.” said Sam, “but we ed | w,5,4 not have duced him to part with thew. . ud in this be showed that ‘be was wise al a Bur proud us Sam Powell was of his thoroughbreds, there was. something else to which ne was giving a lot of thought and work. That sumething was the acre of corn that wis to com pete for prizes offered to the Boys Corn club. ; # Miles Fagan had promised his son Bob, that he might join the corn club and enter an acre in the contest if be would clear the tand of stumps Bob did join, but the corn was vot planted this year. For after working with ¢ grubbing hoe and ax from sunup till government bulletins. With this solu- | sundown for many days, clearing tne tion and a band sprayer he went over | gere of the big, deep rooted stumps, the orchard and sprayed each tree from | Mr Fagan told bim upconcernedly top to bottom. Next he broke and bar- | ¢hat he'd just bave to have that patch rowed the ground, and the old orebard | of ground. If Bob still wanted to plant had one more chance to live and thrive. | gome corn he’d have to clear another for it was well pruned. the ground in | gere. fine condition, and the spraying bad It was a cruel, mean trick to play on killed all the insects that were on the ' g hoy and enough to discourage any- trees. ; | body, but Bob set to work on another Sam, like bis mother, felt rather | acre. It was too late, however, to doubtful’ about the, orchard. but when | plant the corn when he bad finished it. they moved there in April they found | and he had to drop out of the contest the qld trees a mass of pink blooms. for this year. i “Look. Florence!” exclaimed Mrs. But Miles Fagan was beginning to Powell when she saw the trees looking | learn that be didn’t know very much go beautiful. "Sam is sure a wonder. 1 didn’t think he could do it.” “Oh, I’m a regular Burbank,” said Sam, smiling. “Who's Burbank?" asked florence. “Burbank.” Sam replied. “is called the plant wizard. He can do anything with plants. He took the cactus and made it grow without thorns. He took two wild berries and made a large ber- ry that is good to eat. He took the lit- tle wild daisy and originated the large Shasta daisy. He has made potatoes and tomatoes grow on one stalk, and he bas grown a white blackberry. That isn’t all. He has done hundreds of wonderful things with plants.” *Well, Mr, Burbank.” said Florence, with a happy laugh, “that's a pretty good job on the orchard” Soon after moving to the farm Sam bad his first chance to get what be so much wanted-—some registered Berk- ghires. A neighbor who was. moving out of the county came by where he was working “When are yon going to leave?’ Sam 1 can plant young trees in ‘S80 be set to work, mowing down pelers and weeds and raking them into was done he took a saw and a pair of pruning shears and began on the trees. All the dead and broken limbs were. cut away. The orchard had been neg: lected so long that there were many dead boughs, and it was a different looking place when Sam finished prun- ing. The next thing he did was to buy ‘some chemicals and make a solution the fence from his was teaching him something. Sam planted his contest acre with the seed furnished by the agent about the middle of March. The rows were four feet apart and the stalks in the rows eighteen inches. He cultivated it the first time when the corn was just beginning to come up by going over it with a harrow. This did not hurt the plants, except one here and there, and it killed all the little weeds and grass that were just starting. How that corn did grow! It sprang up ai most like mushrooms. It seemed to Sam that the dark green stalks fairly laughed in the loose ground that be had made so rich with manure and ashes. : The young farmer cultivated the ground level and never allowed a weed to take root on that acre. He pulled the suckers whenever they appeared and went over it once with a hoe, but most of the work was done with a plow. The first time or two he plowed about growing corn. The patch across i moisture below. He waited to keep all the water he could for the growing | corn, and he kmew that the sun can draw water up through a crust in a hurry. but can’t draw it through a layer of dust—or muich, as it is called. He kept the soil this way. He never plowed when it was too wet, for that makes clods. But after rains, as soon as it was dry enough, or when weeds began to appear he went over the patch with plow or harrow and stirred the surface till it was all broken up and loose. Bill Googe and Miles Fagan had quit laughing at Sam. They and others in the neighborhood often stopped in passing and looked at the corn and wondered. ; “] reckon it’s jes’ an accident.” Bill remarked to Mr. Fagan one day, “but that boy’s kinder got one on us, Miles. I told ’im before he come out here that he couldn’t grow peas on that ground. But, dog my cats, if that ain’t as fine corn as I ever saw. That acre pateb is better than the rest, but I tell you they ain't none o’ his crops to be sneezed at.” - * «I don’t exactly understand it.” Miles Fagan replied. “but jes between vou and me. Bill, | gness they must be somethin’ in the gover'ment’s way o doin’ things. You Ekuow that Eid don’t know nothin' about farmin’ ex cept what the agents told tm But took at that acre of corn and then look at mine across the fence. And it ain't in the land. | know that. This jana © mine, if anything, is better than his Of course it’s pound to be in the fer tilizer he’s usin and the way he's cui tivatin: the ground.” x The comparison snggested by Mr. Fagan was epough to make any one stop and think. Sam’s corn was pearly waist high and bad big stalks, while ‘that of his neighbor in the field across the fence was no more than two feet high and the stalks were spindiing. 1 But Fagan understood the cause of the difference in the two crops a good, deal better after Mr Rurns happened ! {To Be Continued. i WAGES OF RAILROAD ME! Excess Trainman Gots Higher Pay Than Mast Other Railroad employes branches of the service are giving close attention to the relative com: pensation of men in the different s vices as compared to the tralnme With few exceptions, the average pa: ‘of the brakemen, of whom about one in ‘ten forced upon the railroads by the Full Crew—"“Excess Man Crew”—Laws, is higher than that of brother-employes. Some actual figures, covering the Pennsylvania Railroad Company pay roll for the year ended June 30 last show a total of $101,892,355 paid to 110,686 officers and other employes. That made a daily average of $2.82. The average daily pay of the train: man was $3.40. : a The only classes of employes aver aging higher pay than trainmen, of whom there were 10,419, were officers, enginemen, conductors, firemen and machinists. Station agents averaged $8.01 per day; other station men, $2.18; carpenters, $3.03; shopmen, other than machinists, $2.70; section foremen, $2.50; other track men, $1.77; telegraph operators and dis- patchers, $2.59; switch tenders and watchmen, $2.02, and office clerks, $2.83. : : Of the total wage distribution by the Pennsylvania Ruilroad Company during the period, the trainmen, other than engineers, firemen and conduc- @ gineers, firemen and conductors, the opinion is almost universally express- ed in private that there is no ocea- sion for the extra men put on passen- ger and freight trains by the Full Crew I.aw and that it should be re- pealed in the best interests, not only of the public and the railroads, but of the whole body of railroad em: ployes. .CROUP AND WHOOPINGCOUGH.. * Mrs. T. Neureuer, Bau 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 cases. Contains no opiates. Always in- sist on Foley's. Sold everywhere. Hundreds of health articles appear in newspapers and magazines, =e practically every one of them the-s- ular is emphasized. A consfipated condition invites disease. A dependa- ble physic that acts without inconve- nience or griping in Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold everywhere. , While attempting to board a mov- |ing train on Monday night of last asked it tolerably deep, but as the corn grew “Well. I'm about ready now,” replied | larger and the little roots began to run | the neighbor “There's one "thing | out across the middles be plowed very shallow ep from cutting the roots ain’t arrat d vet. though, and its | ang ir corn But there was bot! me. I've got a fine another reason for shallow plowing ! nd she's going to find | plowing in summer causes the ; of these days be vhen the crof put | can't get { r v's worth, and 1 | 8 st i top of the ground ti | there was a layer of dust to no i | ginia, George Secrest, aged 30 yrs. |a fireman on the B. & 0. fell under | the train and was killed. Mr. Secrest | resided at Sand Patch and had been | married about one year. Employes. ‘ | parents. Milt. is nursing a fractured Altoons, Pa, March 17. | in | varlous orsdale to the Spangler farm on last has a job only because he is tors, received $10,704,430. Among en- has a forty years record of similar | portance of keeping the bowels reg-| week, at Harper's Ferry, West Vir-| THE UNIVERSAL TIPPLE Dr. Dixon's Weekly Talk-on Health and Hygiene. _ Coffee and tea are the two bever- ages used almost universally by the adult population throughout the-civil- ized and semi-civilized world It is impossible to say how many tens of millions of dollars are expend- ed upon them annually. Although their use has steadily increased they might be discontinued by the multi- tudes who have formed the habit with out the loss of any benefit and in the majority of cases abstinence would result in distinct physical gain. Neither coffee or tea are to be con- sidered foods. Both are stimulants and it is this which is responsible for their popularity. As with all other stimulants there is a continual ten- dency to over indulgence because a moderate allowance after a time fails to give the necessary incitement to the nervous system. ‘While the mind is often stimulated to good work for a short time by coffee or tea any stimulants which they give is transitory for there is a period of depression following the use of all stimulants. Experiments have shown that over indulgence in both have a tendency in the long run | to dull the working of the mind. | A moderate use may not be fol- | lowed by any noticeable ill effect but | nervousness and disturbances of the digestive system is almost certain to follow the excessive use of either. Tea has an astringent effect which is often harmful. The value which might follow from ! the use of a warm beverage with one’s ! meals, where the majority of the | food is below the body temperature, is ; probably offset by this action. Hot! water, or the cambric tea,(hot water | whole milk and sugar) of our child- hood days is far better. Many people rely upon coffee and tea almost entirely as beverages and fail to drink the proper quantity of pure water. | GLENCOE. . Ralph Poorbaugh spent Saturday in Somerset on “a Ford” business. His boat is in the Stahl hospital for + | treatment. Milton Webreck ‘and family are rusticating this week with the former's ‘rib. i Henry Kraushear moved from Mey- Thursday. | “Bennie” Leydig is acting “Uncle Sam” at present due to the illness of : at F. Milter. Dr. Spicer, of Cumberland, motor- ed to our town, Tuesday, in his new Dodge ear. fa Martha Hosselbrode is spending the week withher grandparents, Mr. lersburg, farewell party to Miss Elsie Shaffer, the pedagogue at Witt school. No need for a Civic League in our Glencoe for every family got the “Clean-up” fever with the warm days and their yards look fine. Miss FHlizabeth Pinell, of Conflu- once, spent the week-end with her | grandfather, H. D. Alfather. Miss Marion Leydig was a Cumb- erland visitr, Monday night. . School in the township closed this week. The band festival on Saturday night was fairly successful. : A IT'S A MISTAKE Made by Many Residents of Meyers- dale Many people in a misguided effort to get tid of kidney backache, rely on plasters, liniments and other makeshifts The right treatment is 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 Kidney Pills in Mey- ersdale. S. W. Bowman, of Meyersdale, Pa., says: “About a year ago I was at- 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 lif anything. A friend recommended Doan’s Kidney Pills to me and I used them. One box zave me relief and 7 used a couple of boxes. They 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- il ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. j AVegetable Preparation forAs- similating tie Food and Regula. ling the Stomachs and Bowels of RN CVT | Promotes Digestion Cheerfi- ‘I ness and Rest.Contains neither ‘| Opium Morphine nor Mineral. |NOT NARCOTIC. | Recipe of ald DeSUAUELPITOEER APA Ny S g i | Aperfect Remedy fc. Consfipe fion » Sour Stomach Diario it Worms Convulsions. Feverisl ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimile Signature of Sat, ee Tue CENTAUR COMPANY, : NEW YORK. At6 months old Bears the Signature LE 0) CORI SCASTORIA For Infants and Children. | Mothers Kaow That Genuine Castoria Always of In Use For Over Thirty Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. and Mrs. Henry Delbrooke, of Wel- Miss Leah Webreck went to Sand | Patch on Thursday last to attend a | 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, Lousekil ler, etc. and you will get results. Our Lake Herring are very nice, price right. Please let us have your Grocery orders. ply ask for a kidney remedy—get { Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that | Mr. Bowmanhad. Foster-Milburn Co., | Props., Buffalo, N. Y. no 3 nd Childr CASTORIA 0 ay en Holzshu & Weimer CONDUCTORS ON FIVE CENTS PROVES IT- . A generous offer. Cut this ad out, en~ close with it 5 cents to Foley & Coq Chicago, Ill, and receive a free trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial and lagrippe coughsjg Foly Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartie Tablets. Sold everywhere. To feel stroug. have good appetite and digestion, sleep soundly and en- joy lite, use Burdock Blood Bitters, ‘he family system tonie. 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 - afflictina. 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. ; ltch! Itch! Itch!—Becraten Scratch! Scrateh! The more you scratch, the worse the itch. ry Doan’s Ointment. For eczema, any skin itching 50c a box. ad How to Cure a La Grippe Cough. Lagrippe coughs demand instant tion of the system and are weakening, Postmaster Collins, Barnegat, N. J. says: “I took Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for a violent lagrippe EXCESS CREWS Experienced Men: Assert That Over-Manning of Trains is Bad Practice. Rockaway, N. J., March L Not a few railroad trainmen are taking open position fur repeal of the extra crew, or “excess man crew” laws. With forty-two years’ experi- ence as a passenger train conductor on the New Jersey Central Railroad, Samuel A. Crook, widely known among railroad men in’ the northern part of this state, says the “excess” man is a hindrance rather than a help in efficient train operation. «I am very much opposed to the law,” says this veteran conductor. “Two brakemen I always considered sufficient, as I could get more efiec- tive work from two than I could from a larger crew. There is not enough work to keep a larger number busy. “We never had an accident at a depot and the passengers always were accorded first class ‘service, despite the fact that my trains sometimes contained as many as seven coaches. I will use my influence with my rep- resentatives to give Mr. ‘Full Crew’ a black eye whenever I can.” Concerning the “excess man crew” in freight service, a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor says: - “My many years’ service with the company as conductor on freight trains convinced me, as it would any reasonable thinking man, of the use such a law and of the ex- or which it provides. Be- acquainted with our all do all I can to the absurdity of FOLEY KI FOR BACKAC KIDNEYS AND B DNEY PILLS | cough that completely exhausted me and less than a half bottle stopped the cough.” Try it. Sold everywhere. State of Ohio, City of Toledo Lucas County, ¢ ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath tha he is senior partner of the firm o 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 CQCatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of + HALL’S CATARRH OURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscrib- ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. ULEASON, Notary Public. Hall’s Oatarrh Cure is taken inter. nally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials. F. J. OHENEY, & Co., Toledo, O Sold by all Druggists, 756 cents pur bottle. Take Hall’s Family Pills for Con stipation. ad Demand for the Efficient. Atert, keen, clear-headed healthy men and women are in demand. Mods 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 Carthartle | Tablets clean the system, keep the | stomach sweet, liver active and bows | els regular. Sold everywhere. { Come in and ask ur many votes | the Hartley-Clutton Piano contes§ you can now get for one year to The Commercial. treatment. They show a serious condf omy a
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