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Why Jecause Prodmonts pay no duty, ne expensive 10 for 5¢ cAlso Packed 20 forlO¢ Virginia tobacco pays no duty — all the value is in the cigarette 3 & il PO #04040 4+04+0%0 +0+0+0 OUR BOYS and GIRLS OFOFOFOFOFOF THE SCARECROW’S STORY All summer long IWwe stood in: the @ornfield and did my work as best 1 knew how. It was not hard. The er made me along in May, just r he planted the corn. He made e of two poles, an old coat, a hat, nd enough straw to stuff the coat. ®The upright pole, which he stuck in ithe ground, held me up. The shorter ole, which he fastened crosswise on the tall pole near the top, gave me amy two arms. Then when the coat swas buttoned over the straw and the lcap was in its place, I felt that I was ‘a fine scarecrow. My work was simply to stand there and frighten away the crows by mak- ing them think I was a man. I could not move if I wanted to; but the grows, which are very wise in some things and very foolish in others, al- ways seemed to be afraid of me. They pulled up hills of young corn on the far edge of the field, but they kept well away from me. Sometimes a whole flock of them gathered in a tree pear the field and scolded me for an tour at a time. What a chatter they made! But I never let them worry me @F turn me from my duty. The farm- er trusted me to guard his corn, and there I stood at my post, day and night through the long summer months. When the corn was well grown the erows could do no more mischief, but still I stayed at my post. It was pleas- ant, when the corn stood in long ranks up and down the field, to hear the #Hght wind rustle in the leaves, and to watch the ears, soft and white at first and covered with long silk, grow full and yellow. One moonlight night a family of rac- eoons came and had a feast on the corn. I tried to frighten them away, hut they paid no attention to me. At last, when the nights were getting cool, the farmer gathered the corn and cleaned up the stalks; but still he jeft me standing there to watch over the bare field. I began to get lone- some and to long for a more comfort- able job for the winter. All through | the summer and the fall I had found | no fault, but it did not seem fair to expect me to stay at my post all win- | ter. But one day something happened | that made me contented and happy | again. A flock of ATTOWS came to | call on me and made themselves quite | Sr at home. People say that sparrows aie foolish birds, but those sparrows knew better than to be afraid of me, as the crows had been. They were glad ot the shelter that they found inside my coat and under my hat. They even found food by pecking away the straw that stuffed my coat. They were very sociable birds, too, and told me many things about the far away world that I had never known before. We be- came great friends, One day a boy who was passing in the highway, just beyond the fence, stopped to watch the sparrows that were visiting me. After he had gone along some of the sparrows followea him home. Later they came bad to tell me that he had placed boxes in the apple trees near his home as shelter for the birds, and had thrown out fou. for them to eat. So, after all, I am happy. I guaraec the young corn from the crows, I have sheltered and fed the hungry spar- rows, and I have set a good exampie for those who pass by. Is not that something for a ragged scarecrow (c be proud of?—Youths Companion. Making Hoods and Scarfs for Dolis It’s lots of fun to make dolly imitations of the things you wear yoii: self. Have you ever tried it? A great many of you have litile tight fitting caps and pretty scarfs i match, and these are things that yov can make quite eesily for dolly, says the Philadelphia North American. Canton flannel is the very best mu terial you can use, and can be had iu many pretty colors, rose pink and aelft blue and yellow and orange and old gold. Since dollies vary as much as little girls in size, it is impossible to teil vou just how much flannel to get; but mother can tell just by glancing at your doll, if you ask her. An easy way to make the little cap is to take a round piece of materia and gather it all along the edge, su that it will exactly fit dolly’s head Next, take a straight piece of canton flannel, double. it and whip it along the edge with silk, then press it flat with your hands and fit it on to the little round crown which you have made. Join it very neatly in the back. For the scarf, a straight piece of canton flannel hemmed all round is required. Do not make it too long or it will be awkward looking. You can put fringe of another color on the end if you wish. Sometimes this makes a very pretty finish for a scarf. When vou do this, make also little rosettes of ribbon for the sides of the cap. Every little girl should see that hap best loved dolly has such a seazf and cap. tin) ON UNCHARTED RIVER VESSELS’ CAPTAINS HAVE TO TRUST A LOT TO LUCK. © Navigation on the Skeena, in North- western Canada, by No Means a Matter of Skill—Man Tells of Experience. The frontier is the place for make- shifts and stop-gaps. Something that will serve must be made to do. Thus when you take a steamboat on the Skeena river in northwestern Canada you must expect neither the comfort | nor the safety you take for granted on the Hudson. The author of “The New Garden of Canada” writes: 1 The bronzed captain standing on the bridge nodded his head significant- | ly at the waterway boiling and rushing at out feet. “We don't navigate this river; we juggle our way down it!” he said. “And if you don’t do the trick neat. ly, what then?” ‘Oh, we just go to the bottom, that's all. We manage as a rule to plump | her nose into the bank and give the | passengers a chance to get off.” | “What happens if you lose the | boat?” { “They give us another in double quick time. We have no board of trade inquiries out here. What’s the use? No one has a chart of the river; it never runs two days alike; captains are few and far between. If you lose the boat, it’s just hard luck. That’s all there is to it.” Such is the Skeena river steamship captain’s happy-go-lucky philosophy. It is typical of those who have to steer their way up and down this fiercely moving channel of water. These men have to learn from experi: ence where the innumerable dangers furk unseen, and knowledge of the position of a great many rocks has been gained in the Irish pilot’s man- ner, by scraping the boat’s hull over them, generally with no benefit tc the boat! down. Why, in one year the whole traffic between Hazelton and the coast was tied up, just because every vessel had hit hard luck, and was either a rusting, shattered hulk at the bottom or lying a wreck on the bank. The Indian canoe was for months the only available vehicle of transportation. We soon came to close grips with the foe. We had cast off the last Pope, and the speeding waters picked #ip our little vessel and hurried her ciously. On each side the i gone, and the captain just managed to | get the eripple beached. | ance. Numberless boats have gone | fiver bubbled and frothed. with mT Bl — tb “INGER mringes of combing foam fhdicatng the presence of sharp rocks just below the surface ready to give a savage snap at the boat if she ventured too cloge. The captain’s telegraph rang continuously; the - engineer never left his station for an instant. (lang followed so hard after clang that it was strange that the engineer could interpret the Instructions cor- reetly, and without hesitation. In this upper stretch the worst place is the “Hornets’ Nest.” Cer: tainly no band of yellow jackets was ever readier to sting the interloper than are those jagged rocks. The sur face is merely an expanse of short, choppy, milky waves tumbling and tossing in all directions. The steam- er passes through strange contortions to steer clear of this, that, and some thing else. It is a fortunate circum- stance for the passengers that the boats are of shallow draft, for oftea there is only an inch or twa between a granite tooth and the bottom of the boat, particularly late in the year, when the water is low. A few seasons ago one boat was. pulled warily up, hand over hand, by means of the line, when there was a jar and a scrape. Half the hull had Another graft, lower down, heard of her sis- ter’s fate and hurried to her assist- But she had not gone far when there was another greedy snap and shiver. Her captain had to make A quick turn for the bank. Both lay pn the mud within a few feet of each pther all the winter, showing their Zaping wounds, until the season broke and a third vessel came up the stream with a gang of repairers om board. They strapped up the injuries temporarily, and towed the disabled craft down to Prince Rupert, wher they were propped on the slips an equipped with new hulls. Soon both were wrestling with the river once more, but a short time before our jour- ney one of them got trapped again. On the Skeena, hull patching is one of the busiest of occupations.—Youth’s Oempanion. —— rruAU TO BE SOLD AS JUN Purchaser of Ohio Railroad Discon- tinues Service. Henry H. Isham, who two mon hs ago purchased at receivers’ sale the Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland railroad, announced in common pleas court at Marietta that the road will be abandoned and all equipment will be sold as junk. Freight service has been discontinued and passenger serv- fce will be stopped Oct. 10. = = =n E IN £ LRYONN ink | b { ot J ritchad Battle ls Four Between Police and SIrikers 12,000 MEN OUT ON STRIKE Men Draw “Dead Line” Across Ap- proaches to Plants In Constable Hook District; Police Inside Line. Rioting broke out among striking employees of the oil refineries at Bay- onne, N. J., and in a clash with special police at least three men were shot and killed. There was a pitched battle between the officers and the strikers and their sympathizers, in which bullets flew freely, Several on both sides were reported wounded. The, streets approaching the ‘Con: | semble in armed camp. Thousands, ‘of “Strikers front thé plants of of Standard '0il éonipany; Tidewater Of company, Vacuum "Oil ‘company, cific’ Coast Bgrax company" and’ = General Chemical company maintain’ a “dead line” across, the approaches Bo those plants, Inside this line, be- pearly 100 policemen ‘have Been sta- the plants ‘from attack, while a few, other policemen and seventy-five depu- ty sheriffs hold possession of the main police headquarters, vailed, with mohs attacking a railroad | station and police, headquarters, the. city ‘and’ ‘state authorities decided there ‘Wds 10’ need of calling out the national guard. ° About 12,060 men have quit; work in various plants of Constable Hook and virtually have besieged the police ‘in headquarters and fire station. "The police were able to move about the city only in groups, generally making: sallies in automobiles and returning immediately to suppress minor out- breaks. PIG IRON ADVANCING Three Weeks Ago $3, Selling at $5.50. Sharp advances are occurring in the pig iron and coke markets and it is generally recognized that when Lake Superior iron ore prices are an- Ccke, Now 1 nounced for 1917 they will represent an advance «f about $1 a tom over prices for the season now closing. Sales of Bessemer pig iron were made at $24, valley, or $1 a ton above the recognized market of earlier in the week and the transactions did not exhaust the inqu.ries in the market; so further advances are presaged for the next few days. A valley interest, usually a seller of Bessemer iron, has turned down an offzr of $24. There are imdications that $20, valley, can no longer be done on basic iron. Four weeks ago basic ircn was $18, valley, and Bessemer $21, so that the advance is decid~dly svdlnm, The, Conncil w'le been advancing wildly. “go tha top price for furnace cok» {or spot shipment wes $3. and. sires then the market has been rising more and mare rapidly. Last Saturday sales were made at $4.25, while $4.40 was reached on Tuesday, $4.60 a day later rnd $4.86 Friday. Spot foundry coke, which was going at about $3.50 three weeks ago, stood at $4 to $4.50 at ‘he beginning of this week, while itis well authenticated that $5.50 was paid Friday and there are rumors that $6 was done on a carload. PHILIPPINE CONGRESS First Session of New Body Began In Manila Monday. The first Philippine congress, con sisting of a Senate and a house of rep- resentatives,.created by the Philippine bill, passed at the last session of the American congress, convened in Manila on Monday. For the first time in the history of the Philippine Islands, the non-Chris- tian tribes are represented in the legislative branch of the Philippine government, Governor General Harri- son having confirmed the appoint- ments to the senate of Hadji Butu, representing the Moro province, and Joaquin D. Luna, a Christian Filipino and ex-assemblyman, representing the Mountain province. The governor general also has confirmed the ap- pointments of one Igorot, one Ifugao, two Moros and five Christian Filipinos to the house of representatives. 100 GIRLS FLEE FROM FIRE Hoboken Blaze Destroys Candy Fac- tory; Boiler Explodes. More than 100 girls employed in a chocolate factory in Hoboken, N. J. were driven from their work when fire, starting in the J. C. Farr Lumber company yards, spread to the candy works. The entire plant of the chocolate company was destroyed with an esti- mated loss of $200,000, and the lum- ber yard with a loss of $25,000. Explosion of a 500-gallon gasoline tank near the lumber yard hurled frag. ments of lumber and other debris in all directions, but no one was hurt. coke market has Three week= The boiler in the chocolate plant also exploded, blowing out one side of the structure. A row of tenement houses was scorched. stable "Hook section of, the city. res |. tween the strikers and the oil plants, |, tioned ‘ins fire engine ‘house guarding Despite . the , disorder, which pre BR I 0 awakened conscience, the result conversion, ceused a woman .in An of a So re awie sixteen years ago stole and purse and $12 from Mrs. T. D. O'Neil of New Castle, to return the stolen property and ask for for- giveness. Mrs. O'Neil returned the check, requesting that the money be given to the poor and granting the desired pardon. Sling shots, which have been very popular with the youths of West Pitts- burgh, are under the ban and have been confiscated by Police Officer Tur- by. He raided the school house and homes following the breaking of the windshields ef several automobiles and the serious injury of the four- year-old son of Dr. William Henry. Mrs. Raymond Jointo of Pittsburgh, finding a man sitting. on her ont doorstep, eovered him with a revol- ver until @ “policeman , passed. In police court he gave his name as Dominick Goodman and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or spend sixty ‘| days in the Aliegieny Soiiy work- house. " Fire starting Fon a a, “de ae flue in the home of Bdward Warrick, fa Indian ‘Creek,’ near, ‘Co sreNsville, | cused the destruction’ of ‘ive dwell ings. d Zeneral’ ‘stére” Kad ‘péstofliee, ‘the “office ot a'limber company and five box cars on a railread siding. The damage is estimated at $25.000. Brooding over i ot His inabitity to get ott of ‘bed owing to a ‘Broken back, Joséph Juhis, ‘dged “thirtyeipht. am ‘Austrian, ‘committed “silctds’ at the hospital of ‘the Cambaia. Steel eom- | pany in Johastown, where he had beea confined for fifteen years, by cutting his throat with a rasor.. . ., = After ‘thugs had Poatia’ dnd robbed him of $15, ‘Jehan Putrick, ‘a Pitis- burgh negro, pulled a fire alarm box to call the police... The firemen ar riving found him suffering lacerations on the head and face. Me was arsest- ed on a charge of violating a oity ordinance. ‘When Harry Coodlin of Co L, Tenth regiment, reached his in Blairsville, he found that his fant son, John Harry Coodlin, aged six months, born a short time before the company was called to the border, had died while the father was on his way home. Joseph Merrifield, aged twenty-six, of West Virginia, a member of the state constabulary, was shot and seri- ously injured by Wilmer Albright, aged twenty-four, of Roaring Springs, near Altoona, whom Merrifield was trying to arrest for an alleged robbery. A $200,000 fire in McKees Rocks de- stroyed the pattern shop and coach and cab erecting departments of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad, set fire to homes of workmen nearby and caused the explosion of a 200- gallon tank of benzine. Banks in western Pennsylvania have been notified to watch for a counter- feit $10 bill which is being circulated and which is so perfect that several of them have been accepted without question by some of the leading banks of the country. After Steven Simon, aged fifty, had remaided in a bath room of a New was broken open and Simon was found sitting in a chair, dead. Heart disease is supposed to have caused death. Believed to have crawled into a car on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in Pittsburgh, to sleep, Thomas McGin- ley was crushed to death when logs in the car were jolted by a shifter and rolled against the man. Crazed by liquor, Tony Sorgurill, twenty-nine, of Arrow, near Windber, shot and slightly injured his wife, seventeen, probably fatally. injured his four-month-old son and then killed himself. Because coal brokers are buying up all soft coal in the Altoona district the prices from 75 to 100 per cent above peace quotations much suffering is anticipated there the coming winter. Westbound train No. 3 on the New York Central struck an au.cmobile six miles east of Erie and killed Harry Schurr, aged thirty-two, and injured Carl Beers. Bears are reported to’ be more plentiful in Elk county this year than for many seasons. Over 1,000 hunting licenses have been issued by the Elk county authorities. Fire of unknewn origin destroyed the plant of the California Foundry and Machine company at California. COAL CO. BEATS PENNSY Awarded $49,711.20 For Discrimination In Car Distribution. Damages of $49,711.29 for unjust dis. crimination by the Pennsylvania rail road company in the distribution of its coal cars have been awarded the Bulah Coal company by a jury before Judge Dickinson in the United States district court in Philadelphia. : The award is $15,472 less tham the amount allowed the coal company, in- cluding interest, by the interstate eom- merce commission, and $25,841 less than the total amount claimed by the Coal company, including interest from June 28, 1907. The Bulah company operated a bituminous mine in Bigler township, Clearfield county, Pa. a A i SE FES A AEE eo Castle barber shop an hour the doer HAS 2¢ READ i Photo by Amel SHERIFF E On guard a plants, Bayonn A GENER! I ‘While the. er ern France a war theater heavy blows on tonic foe, the counter heavil ing strokes « front. The Rumani back in northe w cll as along t Hermannstadt &ccording to | reports. 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