. ". glans and Armenians, the Mexicans ia a — — NEWS IN GENERAL It is reported Russia has made over- tures to Germany with a view of Con- cluding separate peace negotiations. Kanawha, W Va., coal operators are figuring on an order for 1,000,000 tons of fuel for the Italian Government. Floods in California ay scores of lives and milliong of dol- fars in money. Whole towns were in- undated in California. Premier Asquith in a written reply to a request for information says that the total British casualties in all fields of operation up to January 9 were 549,467, of which 24,122 were officers and 525,343 of other ranks. George Carpenter was found wan- dering in the streets of Charleston, W. Va., with a well-developed case of small pox. He said the members of his family had kicked him out doors when they discovered he had the disease Police and health officers are inves- The Ford permanent peace tribun- al, minus several members, held its first formal session at Stockholm, Sweden, last week. It was announced that the commission will first study the causes of the war to enable it to approach with better understanding proposals for peace. Theodore Roosevelt spoke upon “promise and Performance in Inter- national Duty” at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Sunday afternoon to an audience of 3,000 people. “A policy of milk and water on our part en- courages other nations in a policy of blood and iron,” declared the Colonel. “We have been of no use to the Bel- ‘or anybody else. The government's policy has been “Safety First.”It is the motto of the men who jump into the lifeboat ahead of the women and children.” The warm weather of the last week was by no means welcomed by fruit growers, and many of the people who have fortunes at stake in orchards in Maryland and W. Va: have for several days been making use of their mag- nifying glasses to ascertain whether there are evidences of buds. The buds on some of the fruit trees are already swollen, and it is feared they will de- velop unless there is a decided change in the weather. Apple trees, it is stat- ed, have shown no sign as yet of bud- the Mid- dle West have caused ‘the loss of NEW BULLETIN ON LIME-SULFUR SOLUTION CZAR-OF RUSSIAS. Rises Early and Puts In Twelve Hours of Work. MEALTIME IS MADE MERRY. All Governmental Affairs Are’ Tabaoed When Royal Family ls Eating, and Time Is Passed In a Jovial Manner. Always Prays Before Retiring After: Strenuous Day. The last issue of the Bi-Monthly Bulletin of the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania Department of Ag- riculture contains a special’ and com- plete discussion of the subject of lime- sulfur solution brought down to date by Zoologist H. A. Surface. In this Bulletin is discussed the his- tory of the lime-sulfur solution, and methods of making and testing the same. There is a plain diseussion of the subject of the kind of lime and kind of sulfur to use, method of boil- ing, how to keep or store the solution, how to strain it, dilute and apply it, The self-boiled lime-sulfur solution, according to Scott's formula, made for summer spray, is also discussed in detail, as is the commercial lime-sul- fur ssolution. A new feature not before treated in Bulletins or publications is a series of directions for the use of the sediment. It has been found that the sediment for making lime-sulfur is very valuable for many purposes, one of the most important of which is to wash the trunks of the trees and keep them from being attacked by in- sects and rodents. This Bulletin closes with a detailed 7A Petrograd. — The ¢za¥ of Russia, to whom few Americans have had the opportunity of speaking save diplo- matists, is one of the busiest rulers in | Europe. | He rises at 7 o'clock after about sev- | en hours of sleep and then puts in ten | or twelve hours of work, and no fewer than four hours of these are spent | alone. About six hours are given to meals and relaxation with the family. No governmental affairs are allowed to: discussion of the uses of lime-sulfur | po discussed during mealtime, and the: solution, which includes its dilution ; czar, czarina and the children indulge | and application as a summer spray and : in merry talk. oy i also as a dormant or winter spray. It Before 9 the czar has finished his: is also recommended as a fungicide, ' modest breakfast and besun his daily | work. He reads the newspapers, tele- a germicide, a wash for tree borers, a paint for sterilizing freshly cut stubs, | a wash for sterilizing pruning imple- ments for spraying poultry houses and stabels, to kill disease germs and lice and other purposes. As this Bulletin is issued by one of | the bureaus of the Department of Ag- i riculture and is available for the ask- ing, it should be in the hands of every person interested in any subject men- tioned above. The first part of the Bul- letin is devoted to a discussion of the principles of pest warfare, giving all the various formulae in detail that are needed in pest suppression. BRIGHT BACHELOR GIVES LEAP YEAR RULES | M. J. Kebby, of Chicago, who is a ! bachelor given to the study of phren- 4 ology, gives the following rules to ; girls who wish to make good use of | leap year: { 1—Don’t propose to a man who has { i ding; but the growers of that fruit are hoping that the cold weather, which is certain to return, will not be long de- layed, eer? eerste. KEEP YOUR ORCHARD CLEAN Several of our most serious diseas- es, according to a plant pathologist at the Pennsylvania State College, are carried over year to year on the mummies. Black rot, bitter, brown rot and other diseases of the apple live gver winter on the old diseased ¢ruit, Brown rot of stone fruits is one of the most common diseases to live over on the mummies. when the latter hangs on the trees the fungus remains alive, ready t0 1n* | 1ie in his eye, propose to him. You'll by fect the - young fruit next season. When they fail to the ground they develop the perfect stage of the fun- gus which frequently cause consid- erable loss by the blighting of blos- goms in the spring. It is of considera- thin lips. He will scorn you. 2—Don’t propose to a man who has ! just a thin upper lip. He'll scorn you. | 3—Don’t propose to a man whose head ; runs straight up from the back of his | neck. He loves neither home nor wife. OZAR NICHOLAS. grams and other information p sented 4— Don’t propose to a man with a ' to him and makes a note of all inter A taking records of this state were poo more. 0 she has earned $90.- super critical eye. He'll make you ' esting matter The time from 10 io ya Smashed this year as the result of the furtherm ay : is | o'clock is al ned to walking, but enormous number Of eggs obtained | 80a—has ote. the California—nee Al- sory. Iv al £ g,, from the Columbia river and the Grays der cor 20% been chartered to a pow- 5—Don’t propose to a man who has | DEA always ‘rom 10 to half past 10 | pp, gistricts, according to State 000 2 pany at $1,700 a day, or $15- : o'clock he receives the reports of the a restrained, quiet, indifferent man- | ,mea1 of his household or gives spe- ner or a purely selfish disposition. clal dudiences to dignitaries or men 6—Propose to a man who has full, bat | who interest him, and only during the not too full lips. He will love you. ' time until 11 o'clock does he walk 7—Propose to a man who has a good | lone or with his son, accompanied by sized bump at the base of his head. two Scotch hounds. At 11 o'clock he returns to the palace and tests the food 8—If you love a man who has a twin- | in g locked stewpan is brought to him : The. three lar JW 3, uae : hatcheries on Puget sou : Cid eas the chief noncommissioned officer 3 on rT salu ISS FOR A JUDGE ’ = taking eggs, and it is e: Sih K } i - get him. the regiment. After the test of the | a. wil he broken i= ~Pe¢ ae busy 9—If vou 16ve a man who has a frank, i food the Peports of the ministers be- | 1500 to 50.000,000 ¢ 2 tB’ jo we hoc ‘Carpenter's Daughter Gave Him a i y i gin, lasting until luncheon. It i ted 1 “BEST 8 distridt, ‘on a Snack in Open Court open manner, youll probably get him, \ “myo 1yncheon is informal. There he Pr S expected ! sat tp orocured. ob Bivack in Opea Chur. 3 too. meets his family for the first time in er win ave 3° -e hatcheries this Plsthalgs © Conga im Show 10_If you want a moneymaker, get | the day. Sometimes the officers of the AT & for, / 50,000,000 simon | ered on Judge James Mop, Carpenter a nn a a AALS SSP oP BREAKING RECORDS IN 100000 SHIP MAKES MONEY Hope This Year's Fish Run In Puget Sound Willi Increase. Olympia, Wash.—All the salmon egg Fish Commissioner L. H. Darwiz. Unprecedented November storms and | © high water were handicaps, but on the Columbia river the state procured mor than 45,000,000 salmon eggs. On Gre harbor, where the Chehalis hatc last year took 22591.000 eggs, He’s a good family man and loves { of his infantry regiment of of his body- Baye been Drosred his sear pero 1 South America and the Du Pont pow- wife and home. | guard. A sample of the soldiers’ food EL 28% aren hatcheries. young fr will be tS Nothing 1] 72.4 5 ¥en 5S ~ io CHRISTMAS YOU WILL HAVE $63.75. THIS IS A GOOD THIN FOR EVERYBODY. ING FOR BOTS AND IN 50 WEEKS: 1-CENT CLUB PAYS $12.75 2-CENT CLUB PAYS $25.50 5-CENT CLUB PAYS $63.75 WE ADD INTEREST. YOU CAN DEPOSIT 25 OR 5 | EACH WEEK. 9 CENTS, OR MEYERSDALE, PENN’A. mn me IE. YO JOIN OUR mas Banking ow he” © Join DEPOSIT ONLY 5 CENTS FOR THE FIRST WEEK AND INCREASE 5 CENTS EACH WEEK AND NEXT COME IN—WE WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. SECOND NATIONAL BANF, + Ben GIRLS; MORE Lh a J The Old Algoa Has More Than F Her Purchase Price. aid San Francisco.—The old Algr merly hoodoo freighter of th Pacific Mail, has blossomed real war baby. This steamer, which peace used to be tied - bay with cold boilers has earned $300,007 her when she + California. Al SALMON EGG TAKING sa, for- 2 former 4 out as a : 5 x x 2 x x x 2 x x in times of |& ap in the lower |§ 4 for long periods; | & 4 that was paid for | . z 2 x z x 2 % 2 % x x x x - z 2 x y sas rechristened the mor , wronth, or $612,000 a year, or 4 than twice as much as her own- & paid for her. Yt is stipulated in this last charter e, ighat she shall ply only between neutral «yk | ports, which is taken to mean that she ery! will became a nitrate carrier between #0, date | detmills in the United States. and the mumber ‘of | When he took ‘his place ‘on the bench of ler bearing and rubber of the easiest running cleaners on the market. DAUGHTER CAN USE IT Its smooth running, rol- ¥ tired wheels make it one And yet it will take out as much dirt from the 8 carpet as when father § able importance, in controlling dis- eases to collect all of the mummies : behind it, puts his strong muscles # before they are covered up with the soil, Such precaution is about as valuable in the control of the brown rot as any one other practice in orch- chard management. The mummies never should even be left on the surface of the ground after they are collected, but should be either burned or buried at least six inches deep. Cankers and dead wood in the or- chard may harbor diseases, hence their removal also is of great impo tance. Tuey may be removed at any time, preferably before growth starts in the spring. i IG | Fram alf The largest mortgage ever Fscatded i en linoc Toth iE ili Bg in Bomerset county was @ntered of | ol pot Hime to 12 or half past he | 7 record in the office of Recorder JOhR | work again. He never rests during) B. Custer recently by Attorney John | the day, yet keeps cheerful and unwee- G. Ogle, of Somerset, solicitor for the | ried. Sometimes, when be finishes V task earlier than usual, he reads te is Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. in Somerset county. The mortgage is for Sp io Joe evenlag tea. ¥ the $600,000,000 and covers the entire sole hs ove of ay tr -efore Baltimore the. entire Baltimore & to the evening — iy ) at roa Ohio system. It 18 dated Dec. 1, 1916, past 7 o'clock, and om B es at half and means the refunding of the entire goes to mass at ii. T¥ oly days he se rest of the indebtedness of the Baltimore & Ohio. time on holy days he w orks as on week The mortgagee is the Central Trust days. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS William A. Chilcott to Emily Traft in Somerset township $525; William A. Weaver to Andrew Hudak, Pajnti Township, $675; Daniel G. Stahi to Harvey Pritts Somerset township, $12,000; Peter A. Kregor to Trustees of Kirkwood Lodge I. O. 0. F. No. 1010, Upper Turkeyfoot township, $387; Lutheran Church to W. W. Miller, Greenville Township $250; Keystoe Coal Company to Frank B. Black, Elk Lick Township $1; Wm. A Garman’s Trustees to nO White, Berlin, $3,025; Solomon Martz to Harvey Petenbrink, Northamption and Southampton Townships, $225; Central City Realty Co. to Joseph Don- gora, Shade Township, $450; James A. Wright to H. Dalton Cook, North- ampton Township. $775; John Gibson Jr., to Penn smokeless Coal Co,, Cone- | maugh Township, $450; Central City Realty Co. to Georg Boiks, Windber $200; Adam Zerfq to Patterson Zer- en nvereek Townshii 10: Pat Possessing an exe company, of New York. {a clear method. +’ Part of the money realized from the ! o.p..g in a ce bonds secured by the mortgage will. without eraser be used in new construction work | pressed simay’ and other improvements, it is said.— | like long ¥’ _ellent memory and ,f thinking, the czar .ar, hand, quickly and _es. His thoughts are ex- ly and briefly; he does not .nrasSes and foreign words. ar receives thousands of per- p————— t aring the course of a year. His WILLS PROBATED. o 12 hes to deputations are always The will of Noah Lint, “até of } + Art, simple and hearty. “I never pre- Greenville township Was probated ! ee my speeches in advance,” said he, at after a prayer to God I speak as last week at Somerset. He left a 1if o {it comes” interest in his estate to his wife, f 3a. : At the greater part of receptions the Somerset Democrat. Ry rah Lint at whose death the sam o ig ¢ Visitors stand, but venerable persons to be equally divided among : his * are invited to his study to sit down. | children as follows: Josiah N Lint After audiences in Tsarkoe Selo and of Meyersdale; Susanna, wife © » | Peterhof the visitors are treated to : ¢ Hartford, Mic ° of Jno. imncheon. The ministers have special McPhail, ° py Kr Ji; Fran-| days for their reports. the duration of cis Lint of Sand Pate : ate, wife of | each being fixed in advance. The audi- | Frank C. Graham of Fre stburg; Jno. ‘ences of private persons with the em- | calvin Lint of Meyersd ’ peror ordinarily last from three to 3 .ale and Anna Lint, and Clara Lint De ai Bd < namer Er | The executor I {are 1 N. Lm rancis idl anf | was dated Decem? by C! four minutes. The private charity of the emperor is extensive. He gives not only by hun dreds, but by thousands of rubles. The difficult work of the government has no private . C. Lint. The will ger 4, 1915 and was ara Lint and Ellen the « witnessed zar does alone—he Lint i : t are invited. Aft- tured : . oie, Won Drom Hor i Te = i fr receives offi- “Cm the ste’ . the largest ever nur- the ‘common ‘pleas court recently did square and long. He i ad dep 4nd from 4 to 5 Tae entire 7 te’s history. not make nearly BO great ‘an impres- the cash every time. ° | Se he walks, ves, ridés on a bi-