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After negatives are developed, they
must be thoroughly fixed. The function
of the fixing bath is not merely to
clear the negative by dissolving those
particles of silver bromide which the
developer has not converted into met-
allic silver, but also to produce such
changes that the negative can after-
ward be made permanent by thorough
washing, says Kodakery.
There are two equally important
stages of the fixing process. During
the first stage the creamy colored (un
altered) silver bromide is dissolved.
When this had occurred the negative
is clear, but it is not yet thoroughly
fixed. It still contains an invisible
“ Couble salt which water cannot dis-
solve and which, if left in the nega-
tive, will ultimately ruin it. This invis
ible salt can, however, be dissolved by
the fixing bath, and it is for this rea-
ron that negatives must be Ieft in the
fixing bath at least five minutes long-
er than it takes to clear them. They
can, when convenience requires, be
left in the bath all night without in-
Jury.
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Bill Heads
Posters or
Dodgers
Envelopes
Letter Heads
Statements
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When negatives are in the fixing
bath they should be kept fully immers-
ed, 80 no parts are left above the sur-
face of the solution. They should not
be piled one on top of another. The
bath must have obstructed access to
the emulsion side of every negative,
Neglect of these precautions will
cause uneven fixing and may cause
stains and other needless troubles.
Look over your collection of nega-
tives. If, when holding them at any an-
gle you detect streaks or other shaped
areas that are in any way discolored,
place them in water for half an hour,
then in a fresh acid fixing bath for
one hour, after which they should he
thoroughly washed and dried.
This treatment cannot injure any
negative. While it will not remove old
stains, it wil usually prevent recently
made negatives that were imperfectly
fixed from becoming stained through
such imperfect fixing. »
Tales of a Goose
This much laughed at bird is the
clown of the bird circus. He goes about
with his long neck stretched to its ul-
most, gabbling, cackling, hissing, wad-
dling and hobbling along in a fool¥sh-
looking way. All the time he is sensi--
ble and knowing enough—content to
make a goose of himself when he secs
how much it amuses his friends. Like
A SPRINKLING DEVICE.
hglds as a Flre
HEN it comes to selecting
W plumbing fixtures the !
. woman who has a hobby 77
for appropriate and graceful desi. n
inall furnishings will have a new and
sbsorbing interest, for the up-to-
date plumbing fixtures now offered 7
inan extensive number of designsfor 2
her approval are all ful, beau- 77
tiful and yet correctly fashioned
for their purpose.
These fixtures of “Standard”
manufacture and guarantee when
installed by us make the
satisfactory equipment.
TT Kitchen Sink
needs a
ELAVAL
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J. T. YODER, ioinstown, ea.
VERS BORCECRCEA0ERNNA RRO BOOB BCRC ECE BEBO BCECaCE08
Every Farmer with two or more cows =]
:
The. payrotl of the Pittsburgn Lon-
| struction company’s slag mili,
amounting to between $600 and $700,
| was stolen from an express company ’
| office in Dunbar while the agent-was
at lunch. No trace of the money has
been found.
Let us drive home to you | If a sufficient number of the stu-
the fact that no washwoman dents at Washington and Jefferson
can wash clothes in as sani- | college express a willingness to take
tary 2 manner as that in ' such instructions, plans being con-
sidered now for giving military train-
which the work is done at § ing in the college may be adopted.
our laundry.
Driving if Home
aa ©
|
gf! From a bullet wound in the mouth,
accidentally licted when a revol-
1 d aniong a crowd of
ver was dis d a1 g a cro
N 2 Cohn,
We use much more water,
landreape with surprises. You . have
"THe
many another .clown he is willing to
put agide his dignity and good sense
«for the saké of winning a laugh.
Both the tame and tbe wild goo:
are more than a match for the crow
in intelligence and wit. All the bird
world knows this, but few people do.
The goose is really remarkable for
Loumge, careful forethought for tom-
Bevel © abvedmurance on the wing
Newspaper Representatives of. SON Bday
ern Pa., Meet In Pittsburgh.
The Doati*ful Charm of the Supurus
Walking fin (he outer suburbs is a
fascinating exercise because of the
real estate operator who has fillea the
€@i.annizkirts of the city. Be
statement in explanative. ..iora fields
tion of the transfer of Belgian abo
ers to Germany. It says the measure |
is by no means a hardship for the
laborers, but is a social necessity. |
Owing chiefly to the British em- | An organization to be known as the
bargo against Belgian overseas trade, | Publishers’ Association of Western
which before the war supported a ' Pennsylvania was formed Tuesday
large part of the industrial population. when the newspaper publishers of the
large numbers of Belgian workers are western end of the state came toO-
idle, the statement says, and condi- | | gether in Pittsburgh. Thirty-five mem-
tions are growing worse. Many fam- | ' pers were enrolled either in person or
ilies after spending all their savings . i | by proxy. The following officers were
have become objects of public charity. | elected: President, J. L. Stewart,
This state of things is not due, as | Washington Observer; vice president,
asserted in Belgium, to German re- ! A. C. Dickinson, Sharon Telegraph;
quisitions of raw materials, it is ex- secretary and treasurer, A. W. Mec-
plained, for these requisitions oc- ' Dowell, Sharon Herald.
curred as a rule only where factories Paramount among the purposes of
were unable to continue operations. | the organization is to consider the
Of 1,200,000 employees engaged in conservation of publishing interests |
Belgian in‘ nstries before the war, in this part of the stale, as well as
505,000, including 158,000 women, are periodically to discuss measures that
now wholly without work, and 150. | will improve conditions and matters
000, including 46,000 women, are part- of general interest to the business.
ly without work, making a total of | COAL LANDS TRANSFERRED
655,000 per-ons dependent on public
aid. In addition to these there are |
298,000 wives and $12,000 children of | H. C. Frick Coke Co. Buys 12,000
Acres of J. V. Thompson's Holdings.
Sale of 12,000 acres of Greene coun-
ty (Pa.) coal land, held by J. V.
men without work, =o that 1,560.000 !
perscns, or ‘ne-fifth of the total Bel-
gian popula o require assistance.
The Wrong Man
PEER eb hd
“In the stories that people write I
notice that dead people are always
turning up again,” said the school-
teacher. “That’s not true to life!”
“Well, I don’t know,” returned the
bos’n, “how untrue it is to life, but
it really happened once that I know
of.
“Slick Dick Peterson was a reform-
ed pirate who lived in a little town
called Oswego-by-the-Sea. One day
Slick Dick was run over by a train
and his head was cut off. We all
identified him and he was buried. We
gave him quite a send off in the way |
“One day not long after that event
Slick Dick knocked at my door and
wanted me to cash a check. It hap-
pened to be in the day time, so there
wasn’t much excuse for pulling any
kind of stuff about ‘shaking gory locks
at me,” but at any rate, I was glad my
wife didn’t happ.n to be at home to
see him.
“I told him not to go prowling
around town, that too many people
had been to his funeral. He said he
saw in the paper where they had him
dead and buried, but it certainly was-
n't him. There must have been a
mistake &bout the identification, he
said.
“ I said, ‘Well, somebody's dead!
Who {is it?’ :
“Slick Dick said that this wasn’t
the point. His idea was to raise
some money by getting somebody to
cash a check for him. I told him that
I would do my share toward cashing
it, and that I thought that all the men
who had attended the funeral would
help raise money for him if he would
only spare the women and children.
“He agreed to spare them and re-
tired into my barn. I went to the
other men, and as fast as they con-
tributed I let them get a squint at
of a funeral. }
MENTICNED AS SUCCESSOR
TO GEN. JOFFRE IN FRANCE
Photo by American Press Association.
GENERAL PETAIN.
LARGER COMMUNITY INTEREST:
Time was when roads were bad, the
means of travel limited, and the aver
age community did not include more
than four square miles of uncleared
Slick Dick thru the baen door.
“I kept him in my barn for several |
days and I had just about enough
money to get him out of town and
away when he had the jimjams. You '
see, the ‘only way I could keep him
satisfied with life in the barn was to
keep him drunk.
“By the time he took the jimjams
thers had been so many people pass- '
ing through the yard that some of the
kids got suspicious and took a look
through the crack and saw Slick Dick.
Then the women got onto it and ev-
was alive and was kicking the boards
off my barn.
“But the point I wish to make is
that in life as in books and plays
there are cases of men coming back
to life and mistaken identity. The
man had lost his left leg and Slick :
Dick had lost his right one. That was
RHHEUMATISHM
In wiiter, when the snow is slushy,
and when the rain is wet and cold, the
giiivaie soggy, soft and mushy, the
of The Te State “hae the old.
loaf of bread be incrédBeatll®, wintey
that small rolls, which heretofore have
sold for 6 to 8 cents a dozen, be sold
at 10 cents. They recommended that
the 10-cent loaf of bread remain at
that price.
A jury in the United States dis-
trict court in Pittsburgh placed $6,000
as the price of one foot. The
case was that of Arthur Kelly versus
the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
Kelly was employed as a brakeman
and was thrown from the top of his
train when the brakes refused to
work. His right foot was severed.
A 10 per cent ingrease in wages,
affecting the men employed by the day
and tonnage men, has been an-
nounced by the Jones and Laughlin
Steel company in Pittsburgh. The in-
crease will go into effect Dec. 15. Be-
tween 8,000 and 9,000 workers, it is
figured, will be benefited by the in-
crease.
Forest fires are chasing the deer
hunters out of the woods north of
Clearfield. Several camps were locat-
ed in the region where the fire is
burning fiercely. In some places it
was with difficulty that the hunters
saved the deer that they had killed
and hung in front of their cabins.
More tha: 300,000,000 francs already | Thompson, former Uniontown banker
has been s ant in supporting these and coal operator, to the H. C. Frick
persons, and 20,000,000 francs month- Coke company, was announced by A.
ly will be wired henceforth. These ©. Robinson, vice president of the
masses of idle people, the statement Peoples Savings bank, Pittsburgh, the
says, are d-zenerating and drunken- chairman of the Josiah V. Thompson
ness and social depravity are result- creditors’ committee. This is the
ing. | largest coal sale ever recorded in west-
ANDITS KILL AMERICANS
Two Executed by Villa's Men—One |
{ ern Pennsylvania.
Ms Thompson, according to the ap-|
| praisers, owned 58,403 acres of coal!
! land in Greene county, upon which !
Rurned at Stake. | they placed a valuation of $32,647,000.
Government agents in El Paso, Tex, | The sale announced by the creditors’
gent a report to Washington saying committee comprises approximately
an American named Foster had been { one-fifth of the Greene county hold-
mutilated, then burned at the stake ings for about one-fifth of the ap-
by Villa ba dits operating near Tor: | praised valuation.
reon. The report was said te have |
been brought by refugees coming to
the border from Torreon.
These reiugees reported also that |
they had secn sixty Carranza soldiers
near Torreo. whose ears had been cut
off by Villa »ndits. Foster’s son was | brought to
forced to witness his father’s execu- | Pennsylvania
yvter many
change the w ®
times, ruse purer and more |
costly soap, and keep all the
clothes in constant motion
during the entire process.
ner-
It's simply a matter of
having proper facilities.
inspectors allege o1
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pi
| anes; which the gov
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Tabulation oi
sylvania supreis
Meyersdale Steam Laundy Ee 0055 ¥s
i 250.923, and 77 sc ed.
A wage increase of about 10 per
cent, affecting nearly 40,000 men em-
i ployed in Bethlehem Steel com-
, pany’s pls \t South Bethlehem and
! Steelton, Pa., and Sparrows Point,
| Md., was announced t week by E.
G. Grace, president of that company.
The increase is effective Dec. 16.
Fire swept the village of New Oak
{ Hill, in Nor th Versailles owas 2
1 houses, dame
erybody in town knew that Slick Dick | schools.
only difference between Slick Dick '
and the dead man was that the dead | ural and not due to
forest lands with their. mud roads.
Then the church and the school at
every other mile was a convenient
| necessity and marked the center of
tlie neizhberheod’s social and reli-
gious activity. Those were small coms
munities with local interests. Those
| were days of independence, when
_ close neighbors had to pool their in-
terests in order to hold their own
dgainst the natural impediments te
rural progress. As travel was limited
they had their places of worship -
right in their midst as were the -
But we are beginning to feel .
that we have passed that state.
From all over the land there is go-
ing up a continual cry of “Save the -
country church,” “What can we do to
get it back to its former place in the -
communal Jife?” But it can never be -
resurrected. Its decline has been nat-
any artificial |
means. Plainly we have outgrown it.
The little country church has served
*
all.” { the purpose well in its day, but we
feel that we nced a larger, more cen-
tralized church »nd a banding togeth-
er of communities for better mutual
advancement and social welfare. §
We want to get in touch with better
social and religicus instruction. Our
greatest strength lies in unity and by
uniting a greater number of workers
be %nn cause we secure better
ject with Pr rantxalized school is
structions that he read it to the woe
man chancellor personally. In making
it public, the state department an-
nounced that the interview had take:
place, but said nothing about results,
The decision to protest formally,
against the treatment of the Belgians
followed unsuccessful informal efforts
by Charge Grew, under instructions
that he say informally to the Berlin
foreign office that the deportations
were having a most unfavorable effect
upon neutrals, particularly the Unit-
ed States. The charge was informed
in reply that the policy was a military,
necessity and that Gei.aany regarded
it as legal.
The note, with the department's
statement making it public, follows:
“On Nov. 29, Mr. Grew, our charge
at Berlin, was directed to obtain an
interview with the German chancellor
and read to him the following:
“The government of the United
RBrates has learned with the greatest
concern and regret of the policy of
the German government to deport
from Belgium a portion of the civilian
population for the purpose of forcing
i them to labor in Germany and‘is con-
strained to protest in a friendly spirit,
but most solemnly against this action,
which is in convtravention of all prece-
dents and of those humane principles
ot international practice which have
long been accepted and followed by
civilized nations in their treatment
of noncombatants.
“Furthermore, the government of
the United States is convinced that
the effect of this policy, if pursued,
will in all probability be fatal to the
Belgian relief work, so humanely
| mile and a half from East Pittsbur
| )
ring the lives
The C
planned and so successfully carried
out, a result which would be generally
: | deplored and which, it is assumed,
“| would seriously embarrass the Ger-
man government.”
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tion, the refugees said. Foster was | t for the | yok has appr r Tripping on & tug, Mrs. Gor
hacienda superintend | >Y | use of the C: u Pitts- | St 3 Twenty: or Jo
| 'y, an American mining ‘| burgh. : 12 | goll and struck her head a
| man at Par: il, Chihuahua, was killed total of neiac- | oo rner of a table, fracturing her s
| by Villa be dits when they eatered | and the act fiions for this purpose $28,000,000. The | d dying inst tantly
| the town N -. B, according $9 & tele- | reducing thes 1der Carnegie Institute of Technology re- | 2Re. oF a
H gram received by the Alvarado Min- | will result in a two thirds Sonreass, ceived $956,000. Charles W. Voitls, aged t v-
| ing and Milling company. A messen-
ger who an ved fram Ramel sertly
after the telegram wes made public
said Gray was baaged dy owrder of
Villa,
Sawmill, Engine, & Boller for sale.
Outfit ready for business $550.00 See
H. Phillipe, Clay 8t. Meyersdale, Pn.
were statements made by John Price
Jackson, commissioner of the state
department of labor and industry, in
{ an address at the Coal Mining Insti-
tate of Americs ta Pittsburgh.
The cpeaker eaid the mmmber of ac-
eidents reported up to Dw. 1 was
ame
Ssdiunctbmdisiidineind Ao
RTE
nine, of Moundsville, W. Va.,
of the Washington (Pa.) News, diec
in the Ohio Valley General hospital.
Emery A. Walling of Erie, elected
supreme court judge in November,
spent $9,041.79 in his campaign. His |
election expenses filled here show he The Chic: go Bridge and Iron Works
gave $1,000 to the Democratic state | company of Greenville announced an
committee and $2,600 to the Republi- | fmerease of wages of 10 per cent to
can state committee. He received no over 1,000 employees.
contributions. |
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