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HESSIAN FLY CONTROL
IMPORTANT TO FARMER
Farm Agent Dunlap gives the fol
lowing advice for the elimination of
a destructive pest:
The damage done to the wheat
field by the Hessian fly is a loss
which every farmer in the county has
suffered at one time or another. It
is a loss which almost haunts him
until the crop is in the barn. In Kan-
where a definite investigation
has been made, they have found that
the loss amounts to from five to fifty
Per cent. of the crop. In 1908, forty-
one of the counties in Kansas report-
ed injury and the loss was estimated
at 9,676,000 bushels. It is when losses
of this extent occur that some de-
. finite action should be taken to prev-
ent their recurrence.
The habits of the Hessian fly have ;
been carefully studied and there
have been found methods of prevent-
ing its laying eggs in the wheat. There
are - two egg-laying periods—one in
the late summer or early fall and the
other in the spring. If the one in the
late summer, can be: prevented there
will be practically.no adult insects to
repeat the process: in the . spring,
hence it is the summer
NEARBY COUNTIES.
Interest centers in a suit instituted
in Cambria County last week by J. S.
Hershey to recover $37,500 from Jos-
eph K. Love. The demand is made
man who first promoeed the jitney
business in that city is missing. He
is wanted by various creditors.
The dedication of Cambria County's
Soldiers and Sailors’ monument in
Ebensburg, will take place on Sept-
ember3. The principal address will
be delivered by Judge Harry White,
of Indiana county. Governor Brum-
baugh has been invited but is likely
to be out of the state on that date.
Cumberland is one of the greatest
peach shipping centres of the Ameri-
cas. More of this delectable fruit is
being handled than Georgia, Calis
fornia and Colorado combined. With-
in the ' last few days an , average
of fifty carloads of export peaches
have been sent from Cumberland:
alone over the Baltimore and Ohio:
Railroad, by fast freight and express
trains. These cars have been shipped
to fruit men all over the United Stat-
es.:
~Deyle W. Howard, the Johnstown
upon: an alleged verbal agreement
treatment between the plaintiff and defendani.
that we are most interested in. These | whereby the plaintiff was to formul-
eggs are laid on grass or volunteer
weeds and kindred plants, Hence we
see that all such plants should be de-
stroyed in the wheatfield. :
Early plowing is the first step in
the preventing measures. This should
be followed by thorough cultivation.
The cultivation is necessary in order
to prevent the growth of volunteer
weeds and grass. .
The next step where a bad attack 1s
expected is to sow a trap crop of
wheat or rye. This should be a strip
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of three or four drill breadths along
one side of the field. The trap crop
should be sown here either in the lat-
ter part of August or about the first
of September. A little earlier would
de perhaps better. This will grow up
. and attract the egg-laying females,
and most of the eggs will be laid be-
fore the regular seeding. The time
of seeding however, for the regular
crop should be later than is the case
in some portions of the county.
For this section the maincrop real-
ly should not be seeded until Septem,
ber 25, or later. September 25 or lat-
er. September 25 to October 10 is re-
commended as being the best time
for seeding here. One or two heavy
frosts should precede the sowing of
the regular crop. The trap crop above
referred to will, of course be plowed
under before the main crop is sowed.
The eggs will be turned under with it
and this will prevent the hatching of
the Hessian fly.
Before sowing all weeds and trash
around the fence should be cleaned
up. Of course the fence rows should
be cleaned at any rate but in the pre-
vention of the Hessian fly it is an
important detail.
There should be community co-op-
eration in getting rid of any pest of
this nature. One man in a comunity
't fight a bad weed or insect.
very one in the community should
join hands. The township advisory
mmittee to the farm bureau should
be asked to take the matter up. They
can take the initiative and plan the
campaign for the whole community.
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Our Yearning for the Hills.
How much of the influence of early
environment, of those habituated re-
actions which’ comprise for. each one
of us the iron Tring Of his destiny,
there is in even our deeper attitude to-
ward the external’ world—toward
what we call Nature! Not long ago
1 spent many weeks in the prairie
country of the west, a sense of oppres-
sion constantly increasing In weight
upon my spirit. Those endless, level
plains! Those roads that stretched
without a break to infinity? A house,
a group of barns, a fruit-orchard, now
and then a clump of hardwoods, alone
broke the endless, flat monotony of
snow-covered fields—no, not fields,
but infinitudes where a single furrow
could put a girdle about an entire
township in my home land! My soul
hungered for a hill; my heart craved,
with a dull longing, the sight of a nak-
ed birch-tree flung aloft against the
winter sky. Back through the endless
plains of Illinois the train erawled,
away from the setting sun. But the
next daylight disclosed the gentle roll-
ing slopes of the Mohawk valley, and
before many hours had passed the
Berkshire hills were all about, like
familiar things recovered. The camel-
hump of Greylock to the north was
sapphire-blue and beckoning. The
nearer mountains wore their reddish
mantles, pricked with green, above
the snowy intervals, and laid their up-
reared outlines stark .igainst the sky.
& NW Shadowy ravines let into their flanks,
' suggestive of roaring brooks and the
mystery of the wilderness. The clouds
trailed purple shadow-anchors; the
sun flashed from the ice on their sa-
cred ledges. And a weight seemed
suddenly lifted from my spirit. The
words of the ancient Psalmist came to
my lips unconsciously: “I will lift up
mine eyes unto. the hills. From
whence cometh my help? My help
oometh from God.”-—Walter Prichard
Baten in Harper’s Magazine.
Our wedding Invitations are up-to-
date In form material and type.
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ate the plan for financing the Fort
Stanwix Hotel, which he alleges he
performed. In return for the service
the plaintiff alleges he was to receive
$25,000 of the preferred stock of the
Company and common stock equal
to one-half of the par value of the
preferred stock. Some weeks ago, Mr.
Hershley attempted to have the hotel
company placed in the hands of a re
ceiver. Now he avers that the stock
of the company is above par.
GAME LAWS MADE PLAIN.
The last legislature passed a game
law, introduced by Representative
Phillips, of Clearfleld, which speci-
fically forbids the sale of rabbits and
squirrels killed in the state, and for-
bids the shipping of game except
when accompanied by the shipper.
The new law prohibits the owner-
ship, transfer, sale or transportation
of ferrets except under license which
will only be granted by the game
commission for good reasons. It for-
bids the taking of bear in any way
except by the use of a rifle or gun
shooting only one ball and forbids the
trapping of bear in any way. It pre-
vents hunting for hire, by making it
illegal for any man paid as a guide
or in any other way as a hunter to
give, sell or present game of any kind
to his employer and similarly forbids
the employer receiving game from
such employe or guide. it fixes the
game season as follows:
Squirrels of all kinds, grouse, wood-
cock, quail, wild turkey, Mongolian
or ring-neck or English pheasant,
black birds, Hungarian quail—Octob-
er 15 to November 30, inclusive.
Rabbits and hares—November 1 to
November 30.
Deer—December 1 to December 15.
Bear—October 15 to December 15.
Raccoon—October 15 to December
31.
Ring-neck pheasants raised strictly
in captivity may be killed by their
owners.on their own premises during
the. open: season without regard to
number, {
It is made unlawful to shoot at any
doe or fawn, the penalty being the
same, as that provided if the deer is
killed. and similarly the wounding or
killing in any manner of female deer
and fawns is forbidden.
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fs Vocational Training Enough?’
If man could live by bread ‘alone we
might rest! with” vocational’ edtcation.
But by that very intellectual unvest
that makes for evolution he canmot.
Having eaten, he must learn to use the
life he has preserved: But while suste-
nance is theoretically a very simple
problem being only a question of how
much you can earn and what vou can
buy with it, the use one makes of the
vital energy into which Jife transforms
Is the most complex and difficult of
all questions. Religion, ethies, educa-
tion all bear upon it, intersect and
blend so that it is almost as difficult
to say what teaches one to live as to
answer the question of how to live it.
self. It is enough to observe that edu-
cation has a part here which is not
vocational, and which is enormously
important.
This is the province of liberal edues
tion. Its services are indirect, because
its effects must be transmitted into
the art of living; they are uncertain
in the same proportion as all fife is
illusory and never to be confined in
measures made by man. Neverthe-
less, although these services are defi-
nite in their breadth, at least we can
specify some of them. We know, for
example, that the mind must be abla
to grasp abstractions; and so we ap-
ply mathematics. We know that it
must have perspective and back-
ground if it is to understand the pass-
ing show of brief reality allowed it;
and so we instill history. We know
that it must be able to interpret char
acter, to feel the loftiest eniotion, to
perceive be 7 and enjoy it; and so
we give it literature and the arts. Man
Is to be liberalized. He is to be taught
d Henry 8. Canby
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dances,
Lover's Tragedy
rire tel ieprireleletedeleelede
John Pinheadus resides east of the
river, The smell from the leather
board factory is wafted nightly
through the windows of his chamber
in the wooden block. The incessant
quack of ducks kept him awake. He
works daily pulling tacks, four cents
a case. Sometimes he is a welt beat-
er. Money he has saved, his bank ac-
count running into three figures.
The glamour of romance had not in-
‘terested’ him at all until the other
night. Then he met Mary at the dance
‘in the little hall at the foot of the hill,
‘and his thoughts went back to dear
old Poland, now torn with strife and
bloodshed.
But Peter Flatface basked in the
sunlight of her smiles between the
¢ The battle was om, Mary
would be his. There were a lot of
other girls left for Pete. John played
first cornet in the band for the first
part of the evening, but when the kegs
emitted a hollow sound he was usual-
ly the last one, trailing three meas-
ures behind.
An impression must be made. But
there was one thing about John that
proved his undoing. He thought as
much of a dollar as he did his right
arm. He was down town one night
and saw a man selling Brazilian dia-
monds, a dollar a throw. He was in
the front row of the “Step right up,
gentlemen, toss your money in the till
and take home a gen-u-ine imitation
diamond to your wife, mother or
sweetheart. Guaranteed against wind
and weather. Will not fade or shrink,
pale or tarnish.”
The next dance night rolled round
on leaden wings. The first soft strains
of the tango music rang through the
hall. John and Mary were the first
couple out. Holding his hand so that
the glare of the electric lamps illu-
minated the cut glass on his finger it
looked like a street ear searchlight.
Suffice to say that John more than
held his own with Peter in the bench
warmers’ league that evening. Before
they parted for the night the ring
nestled on Mary’s finger. Next day
she repaired to the store of Lapidus,
the jeweler, and learned that it was
an excellent imitation, worth about
thirty cents on the market. She wend-
ed her way home slowly.
“A guy that would pass a dame such
a phony glim as that,” she soliloquized
in her native slang, “is no good. It
shows him up as a counterfeit.” The
next dance night John sat out about
seven numbers and Mary went home
with Pete. Yes, the preacher linked
them one day last week. The ducks
quack, the leather board factory smell
is still there and John is still a single
man.
A Wonderful Baby.
Everybody’s baby being the most
wonderful kid in the world, one can
easily appreciate a story told a few
days ago by Senator Paynter of Ken-
tucky.
A man named Jones and a man
named Smith met on the street corner
one afternoon, and, after talking poli-
ties, ‘suffragettes and the high cost of
living, the conversation turned to
kids.
“How about that baby of yours?”
asked Jones. “Is he doing any talking
yet?”
“No,” replied Smith. “Outside of
‘Da, da,’ his vocabulary is not very ex-
tensive. Can yours talk?”
“Well, I should say 50,” was the
proud rejoinder of Jones. “Talks like
a parrot. Has got his mother chirped
to a standstill. I suppose yours is able
to walk?”
“No,” rplied Smith, just a little sad-
ly. “He hasn’t taken a step yet.”
“Not taken a step,” exclaimed Jones,
with a life-size expression of amaze-
ment. “Why, he is a good bit older
than ‘mine, and niine is, toddling all
around.”
“I don’t doubt it,” peevishly re-
sponded Smith, who was getting a
trifle wearied; “and by the way
Jones, does he use a safety razor os
one of the old fashioned kind?”
Dancing Men in Demand
“We never knew what to do with
grandpa before.”
“And now?”
“He’ll be a big help to us socially.
We're having him taught all the new
steps.” .
The Opportunist
He—1 love the true, the good, the
beautiful, the—
She—Oh, George, this is so sudden!
Two ounces of fresh white hellebore
steeped In one gallon of hot water,
used as a spray, is the best remedy
for currant and gooseberry worms.
But it must be used early, when the
first worms appear.
Entirely Unnec
It is probubly true that Satan neve:
takes a vacation, put there’s no gooa
reascn why he should be always work
ing overtime.—Washington Post.
To Keep Stoppers From Sticking.
A very glyc smea
around the glass stoppers of bottles
will keep them from sticking for a
long time.
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Tha ews 0
The n
travels much faster than a reduction
which may follow.—Atchison Globe
YHE THREE POLICIES,
Once upon a time there was a bean-
tiful princess who was passionately
admired and loved by everyone who
saw her picture in the leading fashion
papers week after week, as she sat on
a fence looking at a fooiball game, or
was walking with her chow dog in a
high wind.
One day the princess ordered af
proclamation to the following effect
sent out:
“Here are three insurance policies.
The young man in all my kingdom
who can interpret any one of them
correctly can have my hand in matri-
mony.”
The news rapidly spread, and the
‘next morning three young men pre-
sented themselves for the test.
Said the first:
“This means that in case your pal
ace burns down you get 80 per cent of
the difference between what it is ap-
praised at, less what the company
thinks you ought to have, minus what
the last legislative body thought ought
to be conceded on account of a bad
fire that took place in Constantinople
year before. last.” ;
Everybody cheered at this, and the
first suitor began to make calculations
on the back of an envelope as to the
RESOURCES ;
Loans and Investments... ................... $681,064.41
Ui8. Bonds............. ier 75,000.00
Banking House..............:........... .. 29,300.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents. .... coi: . 126,594.25
CaN... rte ii Ba ae vier ART
: Jotal.... $986,697.42
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ......s....0.0.. 0.0 0 oy $ 65,000.00
Surplus..... 2th dransererieiin aera... 100.000.00
Udivided Profite..%.. 10 0a init omen
Ciretlation... .................... saves eradieiaa 1185:800,00
iDeposites.................... A ee. 732,574.41
Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business June 23rd, 1915.
Total.... $986,697.42
cost of a wedding breakfast.
Then said the second suitor:
“Hem! This is an accident insur
ance, covering loss of limb or death or
other injury—provided that the de-
ceased was in good health at the time,
and did not suspect anything. Also,
if the moon was in the third quarter,
or he was lying under a motor car
with the west wind, then everything 1s
null and void, in which case the week-
ly indemnity, if any, is subject to a
fine and possible imprisonment, all
common carriers excepted.”
The second suitor was also highly
applauded, and it really looked as if
be mizht get all the gate money, when
the third suitor stepped forward. Hea
was, as is customrry, mu-h handsom-
er than the other two, and very poor
and honest, and really needed looking
after; but when the princes handed
him the third insurance policy he
shook his head and refused it.
“Your majesty,” he said, “you will
have to pardon me, but 1 didn’t know
what the test was. I am young and in-
nocent, but I know too much, I hope, .
to attempt to interpret any insurance
policy in these days. Sorry to lose
you, but I beg to withdraw.”
Then the princess threw herself in
his z.-ms, while the grand vizier order
ed a couple of underwriters buried
alive.
“ I knew by the blank Took on your
face, darling, that you were a sure
winner,” cried the princess.—From
Life.
Burials Differ.
The modes of burial differ widely
among various peoples, from the rud-
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est ceremonies and methods of the
wandering tribes to the ornate, im-
pressive, reverent services of “the |
heir of all ages, in the foremost files
of time.”
Among some the dead are buried
lying, others sitting, as is the case
with several of the Indian tribes; and
Instances are related where warriors
or leaders in the ‘nations have been
buried seated upon their favorite war
horse, as was done with the famous
Blackbird, the chief of the once pow-
erful Omahas.
But there is a remarkable agree
ment of custom for the practice. of
Every Farmer with two or more
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placing the body e~st and west. Some-;
times the body is placed with the head |
to the east'and sometimes to the west, ;
It is held by certain writers that this '
custom is due to solar symbolism; and
the head is placed to the east or to
the west according as the dead are’
thought of in connection with the sun-
rise, the reputed home of the deity,
or the sunset, the reputed home of the:
dead. a, ¢
There dre, however, some tribes that
lay their dead north and south, and
others bury mien with the face to the
north and women with the face to the
south; while among some of the Afri-
can tribes, if one happens to die away
from his home, he is buried facing
his native village.
Disregar¢ of Truth.
If Orientals have one fault more
than another {it {is a disregard for
truth. In the ear'y days of the Eng-
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lish occupation of India, the English
judges were astounded at the conflict-
ing stories told by witnesses, and they
soon learned to set them all down as
unworthy of credence. In Ameriean
courts it is also well known that Chi-
nese are very penurious of the truih,
and *hat no oath will prevent them
from giving witness. In Egypt it is
alsa very easy to get native witnesses
to swear to anything, true or untrue.
For instance: Ahmed, a native of
Cairo, had a slave who peeped over
a wall into Suleiman’s harem, and the
ladies considered themselves insulted.
Suleiman wanted revenge but he could
not bring his wives into court to tes-
tify, so it was agreed that Suleiman
should accuse Ahmed’s camel of walk-
Ing on Suleiman’s land. A crowd of
witnesses came forward and for two
days testified about the camel and the
land, until the English judge decided
in favor of Suleiman. It was not untfl
a week afterward that he discovered
to his great surprise that Suleiman
had no ground and Ahmed no camel.
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realizes that long use develops no defects,
no poor arrangement of fixtures, no details
overlooked and never that continuous neces-
sity for repairs which accompanies so called
““cheap’’ plumbing.
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best of workmanship, material and “Standard”
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