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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.
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ON UNCHARTED RIVER
VESSELS’ CAPTAINS HAVE TO
TRUST A LOT TO LUCK.
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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.
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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
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awakened conscience, the result
conversion, ceused a woman .in
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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.
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SHERIFF E
On guard a
plants, Bayonn
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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.
Italian gains
Carso front, w
is pushing tow
ted by Vienna,
ress for, the I
chiasella and tl
of Novasvas.
they are decls
their attempts
lost a tetal of
oent engageme
An air raid
French and Bi
Mauser works
during which |
were dropped
chines shot dc
to defend the
Paris.
Progress fo!
Somme front
official statem
vances were 8
| court and Lesb
Gueudecourt. S
made prisoner:
Some activit,
northern front
been quiescen:
Germans attacl
sian trench. ¢
river, near Gol
to Petrograd
drivem out w
heavy fighting
Volhynia or G¢
ficial bulletin.
East of the
denia, the B
thaking ready
against the Bu
patrols have
their armored
cessfully empl
according to 1.
were found to
Demir-Hissar 1
The entente
recognized the
of Greece in |
up by former
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Naval officia.
ships authorize
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guns to be put
will be cpenee
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favor of radic:
in order that f
in gun power
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been roughly
would require
ably 38,000 ton
tecnnage of the
down next ye
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000-ton vessel
guns each, for
decision of th
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