BR agit - > b — cr RR SIS nn ae Lissa rai oah cond 2 — i pn EE —————— i les... X= GENERAL. . PROGRESS OF WAR ! NEWS IN Song and renseLy ovo, WHEN FLIES PLAY POSSUM Missouri has set Sep. 1,’ as Fried Explaiving Why the Campaign for il | Jf] er Chicken Day in that state to empha- size its great poultry interests. The Belgian Relief states that the food stuifs sent from the TUni- ted states and Canada to t! war stricken country amounts in value to nearly $80,000,000. Options for 1300 acres of the best coking coal in Fayette county were given C. H. Bolton, representing Pitts- burg interests on Saturday. The land in question includes practically all of the unsold coal in Luzerne town- ship. The price to be paid is $2,500,000 almost $2,000. A serious problem now confronts the Wilson administration because of the decrees of Great Britain and France declaring cotton contraband of war. The problem confronting the administration is the financing and protection of the cotton crop. Relief must be afforded at home with the closing of foreign markets. At the secret conference of cab- inet ministers, political leaders and influential writers, called by the Ger- man imperial chancellor before the re- assembling of the Reichstag last week in Berlin the Telegraf says Karl Helf- ferich, secretary of the treasury, ex- plained that the new Geman war loan would completely exhaust the em- pire’s financial resources and that the increase in exchequer bonds would cause bankruptcy. Therefore, Dr. Helfferich urged it was needful to prepare for an honorable peace. American children will not be de- prived of their German-made Christ- mas toys and Christmas pictures; neither will American women be de- prived” of German-made hosiery and various other articles that do not gerve purposes of war. This is due tu the insistence of Arthur G. Hayes, a New York attorney, who is acting for importers. The British government has just decided to permit the ship- ment without interference of $600,000 worth of these goods now detained in Rotterdam and in Germany. Mr. Hayes began his work three months ago. CONFLUENCE The schools here will open for the winter term on September 6. Rev. C. W. Hoover and son Leonard of Circleville, who were camping at Flanigan Station for several weeks, are visiting friends in town. Mrs. Karl F. Miller returned to her home in Pittsburg, after spending sev- eral days at Unamis. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. McDonald of the West Side, are visiting relatives at Johnson’s Chapel. L. Lancaster of Connellsville, was here recently on his return from a fishing trip up the C. & O. branch, and amoung other fish had a 20-inch bass. Miss Ida McDonald has gone to Lisbon, Ohio, where she will have charge of a large millinery store the coming season. Miss Mary Nedrow of Somerfield was a recent visitor with friends here. Messrs. Robert Black, of this place, Harry Campbell of Humbert and Miss- es Esther Black and Mary Kate Da- vis, of town, left Friday for Falling Waters, Md.,, where they will visit Mr. and Miss Black’s sister, Mrs. Reeves Hill. Mrs. Hiram Clouse has gone to Bedford county to spend several days with friends. A number of people from here on Saturday attended the Johnson Chap- el picnic. Mrs. J. C. Younkin of the West Side who has been ill for several days, is not at present much improved. Miss Nina Burnworth of Elm Grove is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Ana- bell Burnworth at Johnson’s Chapel. The families of C. R. Berkey and B. C. Pierce of Connellsville have ar- rived here and are camping on the Tissue farm south of town. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bower were call ed to Listie a few days ago on ac- count of the death of Mrs. Bower's father, Jonas Kutzman. Mrs. Lloyd Kurtz and two children are spending several weeks visiting friends in Pittsburg. | Where He Failed There was a man whose knowledge | Made him seera a human college. He could read the oldest hieroglyphics | known; i Be could gi you all the r ons bus changeful seasons And perform a classic tune on the trom- bone. ® made artling calcu 1 and str ons of nations, | 18, a very tiny space. e 80 neatly 1 ly: Each 4 d his pride to take a | were | Somerset, they were Story.... .. ous ocean more; The lightest wave of influence, once in motion, ads and widens to the eternal shore. We should beware then, who go be- fore A myriad yet to be , and we should take Our bearings carefully, where brea- kers roar And fearful tempests gather; one mis- take May wreck unnumbered barks that follow in our wake. : Food and Religion. Naturally the clergyman was an- noyed when the waiter asked at a luncheon party would he be high or low church? “What on earth has that to do with you?” he demanded. “A great deal, sir,” explained the waiter. “If your friends are high church 1 must provide more wine; {if low church, more vittles.” Latest Discovery. One day while Luther Burbank was walking m his garden, and was met by an officious acquaintance who said “Well, what are you working on now?” “Trying to cross an egg-plant and milk weed,” said Mr. Burbank. “And what under heaven do you expect to get from that?” Mr. Burbank calmly resumed his walk. “Custard pie,” he said. What He Meant. Two boys were having ‘a somewhat rough struggle and when one re- ceived an unexpected hard blow, he exclaimed: “If you don’t look out you’ll end up in a place that begins with ‘h’ and ends with ‘I’! A school teacher who was passing on hearing the remark, scolded the boy severely for what he kad said. “Well,” replied the boy after a pause, “I'm sure I don’t know what you're talking about. I only meant ‘hospital.’ ” How, Indeed. The lady in the house was explain- ing things to the new maid. “An’ what’s this, misses?” asked the girl, indicating a metal bottle. “That is a bottle which will keep things either hot or cold, whichever you desire,” replied the mistress. “Well, for the land sake!” ejacula- ted the girl “How is it gwine to knowwhether you want things hot or cold?” Settling the Matter. The two British sailors had secured tickets to the dog show and were ga- zing upon the Skye terrier which had 80 much hair that it looked more like a woolen rug than a dog. “W’ich end is ’is ead, Bill?” asked one. “Blowed if I know,” was the reply. “But ere I'll stick a pin in 'im and you look w'ich end barks.” - Start some kind word on its trav- els, and do it now; there's no telling when the good it will accomplish will stop. It hain’t no use to grumble and It’s jest as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain, ‘W’y rains’s my choice. Men ginerly to all events— Although they're apt to grumble some— Puts most they're trust in Providence, And takes things as they come. In this existunce, dry and wet Will overtake the best of men— Some little skift of clouds’ll shet The sun off now and then.— And mayby, whilse you're wundern who You've fool-like lent your umbrell to, And want it —out’ll pop the sun And you'll be glad you haint got none! —James Whitcomb Riley. Charging that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company’s employees neg- lected to feed and water a carload of horses shipped from Lastant, IIL, to Somerset, resulting in a deprecia- tion of their value, Peter Dumbauld, the well-known Milford stockman, has entered suit to the amount of $600. The plaintiff avers that the horses i should have been fed and watered at or near Pittsburg, but that they carried through to Connells- | ville, being 36 hours without water | and feed. When the animals reached “gaunted” and ed up” and brought a much ler price at the public sale than | they otherwise would have done. “tucl No. 5 Shipping tags on hand ready tc print what you want on them. The smallest bark on life’s tumulta- | Will leave behind a track forever- | most of the crews escaping. Two neu- Russia is considering the removal | of her capital from Petrograd to Mus- | COW. Seven British steamships were | sunk Friday by German submarines, tral shipo were sent to the bottoia the same day. Over a hundred Turkish boats bave been destroyed in theBlack Sea by the Russians. The Germans met with disaster at Riga and lost the batcle- ship, Moltke, three cruisers and sev en torpedo boats. It is reported at Athens that the British forces have dealt the Turks an overwhelming blow by the capture and destruction of the main lines of communication between Constantino ple and the forces defending the Gal- lipoli peninsula. Thus the Turks are ¢ut off from supplies of food and am- munition. Official confirmation is vet lacking. It is asserted if true this great strategic success equals in its military’ effect ‘Le fal' of Warsaw. The White Star . liner, Arabic nf 15,801 tons, was torpedoed by an un seen German submarine at 9:15 o’- clock on Thursday morning while 56 miles off Old Head of Kinsale, Ire- land, on its way to New York. 423 persons were on board—180 passen- gers. It sank in eleven minutes. 22 lives were lost, two being Americans. A grave crisis is caused between the United States and Germany by this ruthless act. $15,000,000 in American securities were lost with the vessel. Soldiers suffering from severe frost bites and exposure to the cold and soldiers suffering from beat prostrations were among the Italisn wounded who arrived at Rome a few days ago. Among the trocgs fighting along the frontier are a number of regiments from central Italy, not ac- customed to the cold of the high Al- pine passes. In marked contrast the temperature on the battlefront a- round Goritz often passes 190 degrees A significant order of the day pre- dicting a resumption by the Germans of a vigorous offensive in the west has been issued to the Teutonic armies in Flanders, according to Amsterdam Telegraf. An extract from this order, telegraphed by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Ex- change Telegraph company follows: “Our work now is practically finish- ed in the east and we are about to begin in the west. Peace is certain in October.” The German government, through Secretary of the Treasury Helfferich, has virtually served notice that she intends to levy heavy indemnities against her enemies, if they are de- feated, at the end of the war. Dr. Helfferich told the Reichstag that de spite their exhaustion Germany in- tends to impose the war burdens on “those responsible for the war.” Tn this connection he estimated that the war is costing all the belligerents 2om- bined almost $75,000,000 a day, more than $2,000,000 a month and abot $25,000,000,000 a year. German cheers for men in the Brit ish navy is an unusual war time inci- dent reported from the North Sea by the captain and crew of the Ger- man trawler Gudrun, belonging in Altona, which arrived at Esbjerg a few days, ago. The captain relating the experience of the trawler, said the Gudrun was stopped in the North Sea by a British squadron.He prompt- ly got his boats ready and distribu- ted life belts, believing that his ship was about to be sunk. When the British steamer reached the trawler the German begged for time to take to the boats and admits that he was staggered at the short and pointed reply: “You can take the whole ship; we shall not harm you.” The captain adds that the British left amid the hearty cheers of the greatly relieved Germans. Novo Georgievsk, mightiest fortress of the Czar, has fat'ea The capture by German troops of the stronghold at the junction of the Vistula Narew rivers was officially announred on Friday. Six Russian generals and 85,000 men were made prisoners by General von Beseler’s troops, who took the fortress. Enormous quanti tiesof war material were also captur- ed. With the taking of this fortress the Germans have taken the last of the Vistula fortresses and have re- moved a danger that existed as long as that stronghold was held by the enemy. The pursuit of the retreating Russian armies can be continued now without any possibility of a sudden sortie. 700 cannon were captured by the Germans at Novo Georgievsk. The reduction of Novo Georgievsk is another victory for the famous 42- centimeter guns. The destruction of Russia mi iest fortress within less than two weeks shows that no works { known to modern military engineeér- ing can stand before these giants of warfare. F resh Sausa *udding, regu- Theii Extermination Should Be- gin at Once. It is not only in the summer that the enemy of the fly should be busy, according to a bulletin issued by the committee on pollution and sewerage of the Merchants’ Association of New York, but in the winter as well. “Kill the winter flies,” is the burden of the committee’s appeal, and it de clares that now is the time to begin aext summer's campaign, says the New York Evening Post. “Most of last season's flies, having completed their life cycle, are dead,” the bulletin reads, “but those hatched late have left their eggs in a favorable place for incubation in the early spring, and these eggs will survive the : winter unless disposed of. They will hatch out during the winter in an ever temperature. “These winter flies will become the progenitors of next summer’s count less billions. At the first approach o* cold weather the flies seek warmth and protection in houses and stables. From cellar to garret they hide in nooks and corners. Keep them out. If any succeed in getting in, kill them. “Don’t trust the cold to kill them. Don’t assume that they are dead when you find them lying on floors or win- dow sills in unused rooms. They are ‘playing possum’ and will revive when the temperature rises. “Clean up the house and give spe- cial attention to every out-of-the-way place where flies may lurk. Make sure there is nothing left which may harbor their eggs. One fly that survives the vvinter will become the parent of hun- dreds of millions nevt summer.” FRAUDS FOLLGCW THE WAR little Doubt That This Conflict Will Be Productive of the Usual The experience of a New York jeweler who was taken in by a brace of swindlers operating as war refugees and a block of tin masquerading as platinum is no doubt but the first of a long line of dupes. The ruined busi- ness man, the haughty aristocrat fall en on evil times, the impoverished widow and the demonetized heiress will become numerous as the birds of prey wake up to their opportunities. The impostors will have remnants of stocks of plausible jewelry, laces that look antique to untrained eyes, armor that might have been worn in old chivalric days, but wasn’t, pictures with the dust of the Renaissance care- fully rubbed into the wet paint and a thousand other priceless treasures of takery. All will be going at bargain prices not exceeding fifty times their real value, and each object will be ‘ rendered more precious by the thrill- ing fable that will account for its es- cape from the debacle of some Belgian or Polish or Gallic or Galician mart or manor house. Even the swagger 2g iovter wilh turn up trying to real ize on his booty and begging secrecy on the part of his victim. The swin- dlers will be of all nationalities, with infinite variety of temptation for gulls and ingenious yarns to meet all doubts. People with long purses, short knowledge and artistic aspira: tions, please take notice, Teaching Art to Children. The Children’s Hour held under the auspices of the department of fine arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, was inaugurated for the season of 1914-1915 a short time ago. J. Taylor, illustrator, member of the faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, gave a chalk talk on illustrations of Interest to children. He was assisted by Norman Kennedy and J. W. Thomp- son, both of Pittsburgh. Many inter- esting subjects have been selected for demonstration to the children during the year. There will be exhibitions of modeling, plaster casting, and vase craft, as well as talks, illustrated by lantern slides, on various periods of painting and architecture. The per manent collections and special exhi- bitions in the department of fine arts will be utilized for the benefit of the children. Russian’s Great Work. A. A. 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Paints, tools, locks and keys, farm implements, nails, screws, poul- try wire, curtain fixtures, etc., are to be had here. Our delivery system is such that we can positively guar antee you against delay. Our Low Prices Make Your Dollar Look Doubly Big. Sehl's Hardware Store MENDING STOVES ~ REPAIRIN LEAKY PIPES tiferous tin roof, or annoying roof leader or gutter may need repairing. Very fre- quently they do. Let us know at once when such an emergency occurs. You will find us ever feady to solve these or any other plumbing prob- ems. TH pesky stove or stovepipe, or that pes- D. P. FORD A Mend In Time Saves Nine able . organization composed of the Russian peasantry covering a vast stretch of fertile land from the Ural mountains to the confines of Mongolia. The chief industry is butter making, and almost the entire output has found ready market England. M. Balakshin assumed the task of organizing the farmers some years ago, and has suc- ceeded to an extent not, dreamed of at the beginning. He is regarded with loving reverence by the 300,000 souls to whose well being he has devoted his life, and by whom he is affection- ately spoken of as “the little grand. father.” Question. Several of the leading directors of tne New Haven railroad retired at the moment when the investigation of the line became most sweeping. Commissioner Whitworth Riggs of the bureau of civics said apropos of these retir in Pittsburgh: “It’s an urrence, we are told, that has no cance. These direc- rors are SY ked They want a rest. Hence they reti “But 1, for g this episode, Ww