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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 |
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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.
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of nations, |
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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.
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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
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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. Balakshin, a Russian, is at
the head of the greatest farmers’
union in the world, a most remark-
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MEYERSDALE, PENN’A.
|
HE discerning housewife will
be impressed by an inspec-
tion of our kitchen uten-
sils. Metal pots, pans, ket-
tles, etc.: also porcelain and en-
ameled ware. Aluminum goods, too,
are now coming into wide use.
The same policy enables us to
supply all varieties of hardware at
rates meaning a saving to our pa-
trons. 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.
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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-
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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
<I apt ful, what
about disappe neces? Chicago
larly, at Poorbaugh & Bowsers.
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