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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-
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| Mothers Kaow That
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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
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results.
Our Lake Herring are very
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Please let us have your
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ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
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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,
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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
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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