EE BRAY... AES . rearers. Further FARMERS COLUMN Some Practical SuggestionsWell Worth Knowing From the De- ‘partment of Agriculture. FACTS FOR DALY USE PENNA. TURKEY CROP DISAPPEARING. The turkey crop of Pennsylvania seems to be slowly disappearing. At the risk of being severely criticised W. Theo. Wittman, poultry advisier of the Pennsylvania Department of interview | Agriculture, in a recent stated as his belief that the reason for this was that the farmers tand growers were generally to blame and that it was not due to blackhead or any other old or new disease. Mr. Wittman points out the fact that the wild turkey the direct and close-by progenitor of our domestin ye was and is a native of this State and that turkeys' should do well and would do well here if handled proper- ly. : The notion that turkeys need hous ing and heavy feeding is the biggest mistake. Any that are so detoriated as to need this or cannot do without it should die and the quicker the bet- ter. If the breeding stock is fat and fed heavily, or does not sleép out- doors and get most of its feed by ranging when laying most of the: little poults are sure to die. Nothing that can be done will save them. Not a few “turkey stocks are tuber- cular, the direct result of housing and feeding. Mr. Wittman further believes that until our turkeys have at least some | of their old time vigor and ability to live, no eggs should be incubated in’! a machine or under a chicken hen, but only under turkey hens and that only turkey hens should be used as that strong, vigor- ous turkey poults cau be fed such im- possible things like hard-boiled eggs black pepper, corn-meal, and cold water and survive but to the aver- age poult, as we now have it, such things are mercly slow poison and end in death. A better feed is wholesome, stale bread and sweet milk, crumbly cott- ge cheese and small quanities of or- dinary good commertial chick feed and free range. Of late years some growers, after trying everything and failing, have in desperation tric feeding nothing at all to poults and have had femarkatie = success: It is suggested that others try this, espec- ially those who year after year by ug- derfeeding lose all or nearly all their young turkeys. They connot possible have any worse results by trying the method : of not feeding at all, but merely giving tthe old turkey hen and her brood free range. Under this method, at least where the range is favorable, they usually all live in stead of usually all dying, and it en- ormously simplifies the growing - of turkeys. Probably, when all is said and done, turkeys will not live now- a-days because they have simply been pampered to death. THE BEST SPRAY FOR POTATOES An unusual number of requests from warious sections of the State for a method of killing off: potato bugs indicates that this pest is more prevalent than for some time. Farm ers throughout the State say that the potato bugs are numerous. Zoologist H. A. Surface recommends spraying the plants and offers the following suggestion for a spray to kill bugs and prevent blight: “There is nothing better than a combination of Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead. Use three pounds of quicklime, two pounds of bluestone and one pound of arsenate of lead, or two pounds of arsenate of lead paste, in eath fifty gallons of water. Dissolve the bluestone in warm wa- ter, in a wooden or earthen vessel, and pour it into your fifty gallon bar- rel or spray tank. Fill this at least half full of water. Shake the lime, which should be fresh lime, and add enough water to make it like milk of lime. Let it settle just enough to al- low the particles .of sand to settle, and pour into the sdme tank or ves- sel with the bluestone. Add more wa- ter and then mash or stir it. with a paddle and pour it into the tans. Mix the arsenate of lead with water ‘by the use of a little paddle in a vessel like a tin can and pour it into the tank containing the mixture. “Keep this mixture stirred and you are ready to go ahead and spray. Spraying should be done once every two weeks, but if the bugs should get especially bad a special spray at any time will no no harm. It will do more than anythinge else toward prevent- ing blight besides killing the bugs. “The fad of dusting seems to be coming up again, apparently as some- thing new but it has to be proven by experience that dusting is not equivalent of spraying. The mater-| the the | vania- steel companies. ' Russia and a no ERE um NAMED AS TREASURER OF DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE 0 ¢ Photo by American Press 4ssociation. HENRY MORGENTHATU. FOREIGN ORDERS RIILE IN STEEL MARKET Franee Onder Jase and ¥ Russia and Ralls in Pittsburgh Bi Foreign orders still a. most of the business booked : by “ Pennsyl Italy. are placing’ the ‘heaviest con- tracts, but France, Great Britain and! Japan are distributing. some orders with additional substantial contracts developing. Russia has virtually closed for | 200,000 ‘tons of 67% pounds rails, and for 200,000 tons of barbed wire. About three-fourths of this tonnage will be furnished by the United States Steel’ { corporation. | Rusgia 1s still in oe market for i cars, locomotives ‘and car wheels. France has ordered 3,000 more cars in Canada and the Dominicn works are asking for prices;on 5,000 tons low phosphorous pig iron to cover .a por: tion of the foreign order. Italy has closed for 27,000 tons more Bessemer pig iron with American in- terests and is still in the market for steel rounds, billets and pig metal. Japan has purchased 2,0000 more tons of low phosphorous iron and 2,000 tons ship plates in this country. Great Britain has placed numerous small orders for skelp and sheet, and. Switzerland has taken a few. more lots of pig iron and. special grades of al- loy steel. Domestic ralltonds are showing a little more interest in equipment or: | ders, there being inquiries in the. market for 13,000 cars, 40,000 to 50,000 | | tons of! rails¢and several substantial inquiries for track accessories. The! merchant -car builders: have taken and for repairs to to 1,500 cars. CBREGON CALLS PATRIOTS Mexican War Secrctary Answers U. S. : Call for Militia. . Mexico's answer to the’ American call for the National Guard to mobi- lize is instructions to ali 'ts citizens to arm and prepare for service in case of an international war. The following message from Gen. Obregon, Mexican minister of war. was received by Gen. Jacinto Trevino! in Chihughuaf*® i “The Mexican government is con: vinced that the greater part of its citizens are desirous of enlisting ‘in the army so that in case of interna- tional war they may defend, with arms in hand, the integrity of: eur sover- eignty. Further, since in the north- ern states, and especially in the bor- der territory, there are being organ- ized bodies of men to be ready to fight. the American army in case of a rupture of relations, and with the object of preventing the further raid- ing of American territory by armed bandits, who seek to increase the present grave difficulties of the gen- eral situation, all patriots should rally to the national standards. JUDGE ADVISES SUICIDE Kansas City Wife Beater Informed as to: Whereabouts of River. “If I evor get cut of here I am going to kill myself,” declared John Seaman in a Kan:as City court, where he had been haled on a charge of beafing his wife. : “Al 'right you are a free man,” Judge Brady announced. “Your case is continued until tomorrow night. Mcantime the police are ordered to let you alone, especially not to inter- fere with any suicide attempt you may make. The river is at the foot of that street out the window, or I'll give you any amount you require to purchase peison. Your wife and baby and everybody else concérned would pe a whole lot better off if you were dead.” offer of Judge Brady. Utah Me “Want Teddy. At a meeting of Utah Progres sives resolutions were adopted declar- ing for complete national, state and local Progressive tickets and declar- ing that the Utah Progressives are “ynalterably opposed to any indorse- ment of the Republican candidatas” ial dusted on the plants cannot he made to slick as it does when applied | as a spray.” | Seaman made no reply te the | WILSON AND MARSHALLNAMED "BY DEMOCRATS St. Louis Convention Closes | MORE TE4SE, SAYS PERSHING | DELEGATES CHEER BRYAN. Commoner Makes Speech In Conven : tion, Lauds President, and Tells of Friday Afternoon et Achievements of Democratic Party. For President—Woodrow Wilson, of New. Jersey. 3 y . For Vice President—Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana. This ticket was nominated by the Democratic national convention in the Coliseum, St. Louis; a few minutes be- fore midnight. Thursday.’ dent was not literally nominated by acclamation. One delegate’ defiantly shouted “No” when Chairman James put the ‘question. This was Delegate at-Large Emmett R. Burke of Chicago. Senator | James wag: obliged: to an- nounce the vote 1092 to 1. The re nomination, of. Mr,, Wilson, was ac complished at 11:56, p.m. after a nominating speech by Judge John *¥. Westcott of New Jersey and, second ing _speeches by. Judson Harmon of Olio and 'G vhrnor Stuart of Virginia. Vice President ®:rzhall ‘was re nominated by: acclamation, "Delegate Burke having no objoction. The for: mality ‘was recorded at d1:57:p. m. All, opposition crumbled away—+the candidacies of Roger Sulilvan of Iii nois, Governor Major of Misssouri and Governor Moreland of Nebraska hav ing failed to enlist sericus support. Mr. Marzhall was placed ‘in renomiza-* tion by Scnator Kcrn of Indiana. There were no seconding speeches. Vance McCormick of Pennsylvania has been selected to head the nationat Democratic committee. The selection ‘was made by President Wilson. The convention met on Wednesday and the first day's proceedings were taken up with. the spegch of foriaor Governor Martin H. Glynn of New | York, and t: e naming of the commit | tees of the convention. place on the principal committee was The premier given to Senator William “J. Stone, of Missouri, that of chairman of the reso lueions committee, which body drafted the party p:atform. Thurs sday's session was short, and the delegates adjourned after hearing the speech of Permanent - Chairman | Ollie James of Kentucky, to meet at | 8.p. m.j | liam J. ‘Bryan the speech nominating orders for 245 cars, 3,000 center sills} | the president to succeed himself was made by.Judge Westcott. Bryan Addresses Convention. “Ladies 'and gentlemen,” said Sen- ator James, ‘I présent one of the most distinguished of Americans.” was a yell, a burst of applause, and Bryan began to speak in the old, fa- miliar voice. : “Every Democratic olrveition is for me a love feast,” said Bryan, and they cheered him. He praised the domes- tic achievements of the Democratic: party—the Federal reserve act, the inccme tax law, especially, and then he turned to a panegyric on Woodrow Wilson. .No man could have spoken more enthusiastically "of the Presi dent than did Mr. Bryan. He dwelt long on the achievement of Wilsoi" “in breaking street,” the power of Wall for he restored to the govern- ment, he said, the power to issue its’ paper money. “He put the axe to the tree of private monopoly,” Bryan. “The President,” he shouted, “will not lack those to defend his conduct— aye, in every home you will find mothers who thank God their boys were not sent to die in Mexico.” The platform as adopted praises the Democratic administration for its pur- suit of a policy of neutrality in the war, : cites the WUnderwood-Simmons ! tariff as a piece of heneficent legis- i lation, declares. for an Americanism that will d. snd its rights and those of the Am rican continent, and ror the integri., of minor states and free- drom from aggression; renounces any aggressive .esigns on Mexico; praises the seamen’s act as a Democratic bill; urges the extension of child labor laws; promises. ultimate freedom to the Philippines, and calls President Wilson the greatest American of his day. Chinese Die in Desert. Four Chinese,” trying to smuggle themselves into the United States from Mexico-met death in crossing the Sonora desert, according to American soldiers patrolling the corder. Three were drowned in the Colorado river and one perished in the desert. Steel Cars Save Lives. Thirty-five persons were injured when the Sunshine Special, westbound on the Texas & Pacific railroad, was derailed west of Putnam, Tex. Four of the steel cars were overturned. The accident resulted from a brake beam working loose. Aviator Killed in Nel Matthew Savage, a tor, was killed ‘while The craft be ta avia- L, practice unmans: flight. able while he was ma glide. a spiral The Presli- ; _when, after a speech by Wil There said Mr.’ MILITIA IS CALLED OUT BY PRESIDENT Force Estimafed nated af 145, 000 ‘920; New Yorkers Go First | S— : i El Paso Report Says Carranza Hae Given United States Seven Days in Which Is te Remove Troops or Fight President Wilson has called out the militia of every state: for service on the Mexican border, A “Ati | Secretary Baker's telegram 10: the: governors of the various states, which: | was identical in form except as.ta HE GIVES U. S. SEVEN DAYS TO EVACUATE the units called out and ‘the mobili- | [§ -gation point, was as follows: “Having in view thé possibility ‘of ' further aggression upon" the territory of ithe: Ufiited States ahd the neces- sity for. the proper protection’ of that “frontier, ‘the President ‘has thought proper to exercise the authority vest ed in him by the constitution and the’ laws and call out. the organized, militia and the National Guard necessary for that purpose. Pp am in. , consequence instrucetd’ by President to cau, into the 86rvice of ' the United States forthwith; through you, ‘the “following “units? for ‘organized’ milttly and the National-Guard of the ‘stétes, of ‘which’ the President ‘dffects shall’ be! assém.’ bled at the' state mobilization’ point, for muster .into: the Hservice of ie United States: i “New, Jerscy—One brigade of ithree regiments iufantry; one, squadron cav- alry; two batteries field artillery; ene company signal corps; one field hos- pital; one aibuiange company, Sea Girt. “New York—One division, including three brigades of three regiments each of infantry; one regiment, one squad- ron and one machine gun troop -cav- alry; two regiments field artillery; two .battalions engineers; one battals| ion signal corps; three field hospital companies; four ambulance, _ compa. nies, New Dorp. “Ohio—Two brigades, three regi ments each infantry; one squadron cavalry; one battalion field artillery; one battalion engineers; one battalioh signal corps; three field ' hospitals; two ambulance companies, ‘Columbus. “Pennsylvania — One division; - in” cluding thr_2 brigades of three reg.:} ments each of infantry; one regire«!t of cavalry; one regiment field .art:l. lery; two companies engineers; .qne | Thursday, battalion signal corps; two field hos: pitals; two ambulance companies, Mt, i Gretna. '®Rhode ‘Istand—Three troops Gav- alry; one battery. field artillery; ‘one ambulance company, Quonset ‘Point. “West Virginia—One regiment - in fantry, Terre Alta.” The: order includes Ryety state in the Union. The order prescribes the condition; under which the regiments will be mustered into the service, and stipu- lates that they will be mustered out “when their services are no longer re- quired. In announcing the President’s de cision, Secretary Baker said the militia would be sent to the border ~ wherever and as fully as Gen. Funston determined them to be needed. The adjutant general of every state “has just been notified to have his troops ready for immediate movement. New York regiments will be among the first to leave for the front. Sec: retary of War Baker has issued a statement, in which he says: “In view of the disturbed conditions on the Mexican border, and, in order "to ‘assure complete protection for all Americans, the President has ealled out substantially all the state militia and will send them to the border wherever ard as fully as Gen. Funston determines them to be needed for the purpose stated. ’ “If all are not needed an effort will be made to relieve those on duty there from tiie to time so as to Si stripuie the" duty.” This cali for militia ‘is wholly un related to Gen. Pershing’s expedition; and contemplates ne: additional entry into Mexico; exgept as may be neces sary to pursue bandits, who attempt outrages on Americans. The militia is being called out so.as to leave some troops in the several states. They will be mobilized at thelr home ‘sta tions, where necessary Permiiing can be ‘done. Brig. Gen. Alfred Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, estitnated the minimum militia. force to be: called out to be: 145,000 men. Advices were. received in El Pasc that First Chief Carranza. has sent an ultimatum to President Wilson ad- vising him that if American troops are not removed from Mexico within seven days a state of war will be con: gidered as existing between United States and Mexico, and that the troops of the de facto government at the end of seven days will treat all armed Americans in: Mexico as invaders. One Kliled, Two Hurt in Auto. Joseph Leland of Butler was killed and two others were injured when an automobile in which they were riding skidded, went over a steep embankment and rolled into a jagged gulley 30 feet below, on the Butler plank road, one mile north of Bakers: town, Pa. ‘have: been HR So chifisn GEN". ARS BY voli ™ rshato dl pe aio! SRR Be Za tat 0 A GENERAL SURVEY oom Tek “THE WAR: w 80 QiE 8 Er The coptudlTor an, additional 100 officers and 14,000 men was announced by ‘the Russion war office. sian sucéeésses’ in ‘the offensive along the southern front arefcontiniuing, Sue statement declares. Berlin claims that Gen. von Linsen- genthas checked the Russians in their advance toward Kovel. Two attacks by the Germans on the east side of the Meuse, in the Verdu region, one against the Thiaumo.i farm Sector and the other against the French trenches on the southern edg: -of tft Bois de la Caillette, southeast of Fort Douaumont, were made. Both attacks failed. .The positions on the slope of LZ Mort Homme, on the left bank of tic Meuse, .captured by the French last by Germans. yesetrday. Although the, “trénches had been subjected to a ter- rific bombardment before the attems: ‘Was thade, and liquid fire was used i: large’ quautities by the . attacking: force, the French repulsed each suc cessive assault and maintained alll’ their positions. - ... German attempts to recapture tne ground taken by the French on the southern slopes of Le Mort Homme "broke down upder the French fire. British forces operating in Ger “man East Affica have made fu-tha. advances, occupying the villge of Kili- ‘manjaro and’ another village near by. A large German force is confronting the: Britisk-in this sector. Further south, near the coast, the British have occupied the important post of Korcgwe and to the northwest have seized positions in the Yanza sector. It is reported from Salonika that in consequence of ‘the establishment of martial law by the entente allies in that district, the Greek military base transferred , to Volo, 100 miles northwest of Athens. A dispatch from Dublin says 300 Sinn Feiners, parading and carrying “Republican’” flags, clashed with ‘the police in Dublin streets. The demon- strators scattered after a fight. Seven arrests were made, RECLUSE LEFT FORTUNE William A. Peters Found Dead in New ' Brunswick, N. J. William A. Peters, an eighty-year-old recluse, who had lived for twen'y years in a room in an office building that he owned in the heart of New Brunswick, N. J., was found dead in the entrance of the building. Heart disease was said to be the cause. Although he had large property ¥ holdings in the city and was worth about $250,000, as shown by bank books and other papers found, Peters did all his own cooking and caring for in his room. No one was ever allowed in the place. Peters was a religious enthusiast, and he wrote many Books and pamph- lets which he had printed at his own expense, and he distributed them free of charge. He was active "in church work, pariicnlany at “experience meetings.” He wore long, Sie hair, Which was jet black despite his age, and which he cut himself. Peters had a ‘daughter in Brooklyn and a sister in Kentucky, but neither had been heard from for many years It has been impossible to get in touch with them.. It is; understood that he left all his property to the First Meth. odist Episcopal church in New Bruns wick. FIRE CHIEF SUICIDES W. L. Held, Vandergrift, Pa.,, Despon dent Over Damestic Affairs. Degpondent, the police say, because of domestic froubles, W. L. Held, aged thirty-eight, chief of the Vandergriii Heights fire department, shot and killed himself in a stable back of his home. 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Tresiser Funeral Director and Embalmer Meyersdale, Penna. - Office =: 12297 Center tree Both Phones. Residence: 309 Korth Street Economy Phone. - —s Notice has been served on pool rooms at Connellsville that boys: under 18 must be kept out of pool rooms and bowling alleys as the law in this respect will be positively en forced. A fine of from $10 to $200 is: the penalty. Mrs. Sidney Benkhardt, wife of A. G. Benkhardt of Philadelphia, died at her home on June 7, following a pro: tracted illness. She was a daughter of Norman B. Penrod, deceased of Somerset township. Surviving are her husband and two sons, Augustus and George. Besides her relatives ' Mrs. Benkhardt “will bé mourned by a very large circle of friends, She fres quently visited at Somerset. The request’ of Samuel Paschke for a re-hearing of his petition for a li- cense at. West Salisbury, has been ar- gued before: Judge Ruppsel, who hag withheld his decision. Paschke’s li- cense was refused because of a re- monstrance signed: by sixty-five men and women, who averred ' that great disorder resulted because of the sale {of liquor in a community where there: are no police regulations.- WHITE OAK PICNIC The Lutherans of White Oak will hold their anual picnic near the church on July 4th, 1916. Refresh- ments will be served on the ground and all are invited to come and have a good. There will be good music. ee ——————— HIS FAVORITE OCCUPATION. Hostess—And a mile from here there’s the cutest little lake with ice that is just like glass. Suffragette Guest—Lead me to it, 80 I can throw a rock throw it! 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