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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
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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
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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
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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- <his winter oroduct of ¢he hatcheries sion ‘on ‘the ‘throng ‘of well 'wishers as a | &
—_—eee : 3+ { seund will rel in P resounding kiss implantéd fairly ‘and |
| cycle or canoes and goes boating Win ney 1 be released uget or Sit 4
LARGEST MORTGAGE | his Son or with Nis daughters and the hoped tr .t fall. By so doing it is squarely n ‘the jurist’s lps. i
IN BBUNTY'S HISTORY. | émpress From 6 to 8 o'clock Hie works) Altre , increase the tun of salmon | Judge ‘Carpenter, ‘who was ‘elécted
in his study. SI amr. spite of the Menvy ‘indérease ‘of | last November ‘for ‘a full term ‘of ten
: : :
Dry River Bed Will Be ‘Made ‘to Yield | 4;
‘years, had been sworn ih‘'and had step-
iped' down 'to 'shalke'hands with the pol-
% ne maig, |Htiéidns ‘in ‘the ‘courtroom. As he left [4%
B 4 y { y : Se \ \ hs
10 TAP GILAS YUNDERFLOW. the bench his daughter. Miss Alice T.d- |g
= zéar' Carpenter. stepped ‘up. thréw her
a taken in recdit yedrs.
drms around his'neck’'and kissed him.
«Oh, ‘I’m so Proud” Miss Carpenter
exclaimed ds 'the 'Judge 'diséntangled
Himself. :
“Ph, mph! And so am'l” her father
replied: as he reached for'a dozen Hands
stfetéhed in’ his direction.
Water For ‘irrigation.
Palomas, Ariz.—S. H. W oodruff of Los
Angeles and asseciates plan ‘to utilize
the underflow of the ‘Gila river, 'near
here, for the reclamation ‘by 'ifrigation
of a big tract of land. .
A number ‘of ‘caissons will ' be -stirk
in the dry bed of the'river to the'water
level, and large pumps will be nstailed
to lift the ‘water ‘to’ thie surface'and de-
Mver it into the irrigation ‘ditches, ‘The |
pumps will be operated by electricity.
Formal ‘application for the withdraw-
gl from public entry of 14,000 acres
that are ‘embraced in’ the proposed ie-
rigation scheme’ has been filed in the
United States land office here by the
state land commission, as required by
the ‘Carey ‘act.
'ITeH1 ITCH! 'ITCHI .
"SCRATCHISCRATCH! SCRATCH |
The more you scratch, the worse
the itch. Try Doan’s Ointment. For
eczema, any skin itching. 50c & box.
Our Job Work
HAVE YOU TRIED THE
JOB WORK OF
THE COMMERCIAL
OUR WORK [8 OF THE BESY AN:
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
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‘DEAD LETTER LIST.
R. R. Covert, Mrs. Sarah Coleman,
C. H. Elbridge. Cards R. R. Covert.
College Romance Revived.
Marysville, O.—A romance dating
back to college days at Ohio Wesleyan
aniversity culminated recently when
Miss Alice M. Goode, aged forty-three,
of Cincinnati, was married to James
W. Magruder, forty-five years old, of
mm
a
General George W. Goethals, Gov-
ernor of the Panama Canal Zone, ar
rived In New York on Monday. He |
§ sweeping with the old
Strength isn’t necess- &
ary to operate one of these
apd get good results. 5
That's why hundreds of J
women who never could
stand the hard work off
fashioned ‘broom, have'$
been able, with the use 8
of a Torrington Superior g
to keep the carpets and. {
rugs in apple pie condition: &
the year round :
Made by
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