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"BEN BUTLER’S BLUFF.
it Was Well Worked and Completely
Fooled General Bingham.
General John A. Bingham was a
member of the military tribunal that
tried Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln as-
-gassination conspirators.
After the trial in the subsequent de:
der frequently charged that the com-
‘gnission had arrived at an unjust ver
dict and had convicted an innocent
In a memorable debate he
®oldly proclaimed that if the contents
of a diary which had been found on
fact that it contained the proof of Mrs.
Swratt’s innocence, which proof had
‘been infamously suppressed by the
<ommission.
When General Bingham made a move
ment as though he would repel suck
an accusation Butler dramatically drew
4a memorandum book from his breast
pocket and held it aloft, but did not
utter a word. Bingham naturally sup-
posed that Butler had a copy of a
diary such as he had spoken of. As
a matter of fact the book contained
mothing but blank leaves. General
Butler was just bluffing.
The diary was in possession of Sec-
getary Stanton, but President Johnson
finally demanded it. It was an inten
esting book, but it threw no light upon
the great conspiracy.
Squeaky Soles In Tune.
Manufacturers of shoes who make a
@pecialty of the squeaky variety should
in harmonisus duets. The squeak,
squeak of the hired girl's high heeled
bronzed number tens would drive a
@aint to cuss words. But we must not
heap our displeasure upon the poor
girl. She is not the author. She is
only the reproducer. She merely acts
the part that the wax cylinder per-
forms for the phonograph. There is
Just as great a necessity for a musical
director in an up to date shoe factory
@s there 'is in grand opera, and no
workman should be permitted to build
4 pair of squeaky suoes unless he can
8s a severe test in harmony.—Car-
ns Magazine.
Horses In Trousers.
When the horses in Nice, France,
ave hitched to tar spreading carts
they wear trousers to protect their
legs from the hot tar. A further pro-
tection for them consists ¢f a curtain
suspended between the cart and the
horse. The trousers are what lend
distinction to the horse, however.
The knees are a bit baggy, but the
horse doesn’t seam #p care.—Popular
fRcience Monthly. i
In repudiation of Congressman
Bailey’s telegraphed message to Pres-
$dent Wilson, declaring Johnstown and
vicinity solidly against war on any
eondition, fifty business men signed &
telegram sent to the president, saying
The Brisk Smoke—*Bull”” Durham
sentence with a puff of “Bull” Durham.
responds to the freshness that’s in the taste of it, and
his senses are quickened by its unique aroma.. A
Durham just fits in with keen
thinking and forceful action.
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the city will be behind the president
‘fm any action he might take.
The nurses im the state health
department began their training in|
first aid emergency work, which Com-
missioner Samuel G. Dixon is arrang (
ing n | line wit} e of fitting !
the d: t sO as possible to
meet ar oY war measures wiich may
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LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Butter—Prints,
41@42c.
421, @43c;
Eggs—TFresh, 57c.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 23.
Cattle—Prime, $10.50@11.25; good,
$9.76@10.50; tidy butchers, $9@9.50;
fair, $8@9; common, $6.50@7.50; heif-
ers, $6@9.50; common to good fat
bulls, $5@8.50; common to good fat
cows, $4@8; fresh cows and spring
ers, $40@86. : :
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10.50@11; good mixed, $9.50@10.25;
fair mixed, $8@9; culls and common,
$4.60@6; heavy ewes, $6@9; spring
lambs, $10@14.65; veal calves, $14.50
@15; heavy and thin calves, $7.60 @10.
© Hogs—Prime heavy, $11.70@11.76;
heavy mixed, $11.656@11.70; mediums
tubs.
and heavy Yorkers, $11.60@11.65;
light Yorkers, $10.90@11.15; pigs.
$10.50@11.15; roughs, $10.50@10.75;
stags, $9@9.26.
Cleveland, Jan. 23.
Hogs—Heavies, $11.30@11.35; medi-
ums, $11.35; Yorkers, $11.25; pigs,
$10.60; roughs, $10; stags, $9.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $9@9.75;
good to choice steers, $8.60@9; fair
to good steers, $8@8.50; fair steers,
$7.60@8; common and light steers, $6
@7; good to choice heifers, $7@8;
fair heifers, $6.50@7; choice fat bulls,
$7@8; bologna bulls, $6.25@86.75;
choice fat cows, $6.50@6.50; fair to
good cows, $5.50@6.26; common
grades, $4@5; old rimmers, $3.75@
8.26; good to choice milchers and
springers, $50 @ 80.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
spring lambs, $14@14.25; fair to good,
$12@13; culls and common, $9@11.50;
good to choice wethers, $8.50@9.50;
good to choice ewes, $850@9.50;
mixed ewes and wethers, $8.50@9.50;
culls, $6@7.
! Chicago, Jan. 23.
Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $10.60@
11.10; gooa neavy, $10.75@11; rough
heavy, $10.66@11.80; light, $10.45@11;
pigs, $8.25@%0.10.
Cattle—Beaves, $7.70@11.85; cows
and healers, $4.75@10.10; Stockers and
feeders, $5.76@8.90; Texans, $8.60@
9.40; calves, $10.25@14.75. .
Wheat—May, $1.867%. Corn—May,
$1.013;. Oats—May, 68%ec,
Why He Got “Licked.”
“I understand you were punished in
school yesterday, Thomas,” said Mr.
Bacon to his twelve-year-old boy.
“Yes, sir,” promptly replied the truth-
ful Thomas. “It was for telling the
truth, sir.”
“Your teacher said it was for some
reflection on her age.”
“That's the way she took it, father.
You see, she drew a picture of a basket
of eggs on the blackboard, and while
she was out of the room I just wrote
under them, “The hen that made these
eggs isn't any chicken.’ ”—Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
Only Way to Know Dogs.
The only true and thorough straight
way to know the dog is to own one. A
common residence under the same roof-
tree, be it animals or humans, is the
sure test of personality. To own the
dog is to comprehend him in his faults
and virtues, to protect his weaknesses,
be anxious at his vagrancies, to catch
the contagion of 1
if it so be that he die—Our D
tmals.
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U-Boat Uff Frencn Guaoi
NUMBER OF SEAMEN MISSIKG
Vessel Carried Crew of Thirty-nine,
Sixteen of Them Americans—8hip
Torpedoed During Night.
The American steamer Aztec has
been sunk by a submarine near an
island off Brest. Some of the crew
were rescued and are being brought
into Brest, says a Paris report.
A number of the men are missing
! and little hope is held that they can
is love and to agonize |
be saved, as the steamer was tor-
pedoed at night while a heavy sea
was running.
William Graves Sharp, the Ameri-
can ambassador, was informed by the
French government of the torpedoing
of the Aztec and immediately cabled
the state department.
Represeniatives of the American
government will proceed to Brest to
take the depositions of survivors of
the disaster.
Crew’s Fate Not Known.
The Aztec, owned by the Orien-
tal Navigation company, the first
armed ship to sail from an American
port, was sunk by a German subma-
rine, according to advices received
in New York by the company from
the United States consul at Brest,
France.
The cable message gave ne infor-
WARNING
The annual warning of the approach
of the spring forest fire season v as is-
sued today by Commissioner of For-
estry Robert S. Conklin. Reports
from tke northern counties state that
but iittle snow remains in the woods
except on the north sideg of the hilis,
and in the southern part of the State
the dead leaves are practically bare.
two weeks more of dry wather will
usher in the series or conflagfations
which disgrace Pennsylvania every
year.
No fire warden system or method
of Wrotectior ean reform the burp xr
Who 10rgets his fire, says the Commis.
sioner. His change of heart must
Come within. Pure carelessness caus-
ed the burning of 150,000 acres of for-
est last year in Pennsylvania, and
over 300,000 acres ‘in 1915;
“Our working force 1s well prepar-
#d as it can be with the small amount
of money left from last year,” said
the Commissioner, “but unless we get
the active help of every man who vis-
its or liveg near the forests we can ex-
DPect nothing better than a repetition
of last year’s record, which was above
the average. The men who take most
from the forest often give least in re-
turn, as witness the fact that the heav-
iest fires usually occur during trout
fishing and hunting seasons. A man
who would not think of burning his
neighbor’s barn will thoughtlessly
allow his brush fire te escape asd burn
over his neighbor's woodlot, which
may contain in embryo building ma-
, terial for a hundred barns.
mation as to the fate of the crew, !
There were thirty-nine men aboard
the vessel, sixteen of them Americans.
The Aztec sailed from New York
March 18, For Havre. She was com-
manded by Captain Walter O’Brien.
Sixteen members of the crew were
native-born Americans.
The Oriental Navigation company,
owner of the Aztec, also owns the Or-
leans, one of the first American ves-
sels to run successfully Germany’s
submarine blockade.
~The Aztec carried a cargo of food-
stuffs and general supplies valued at
more than $500,000.
The Aztec was armed with two five-
inch guns, one forward and one aft.
The crew of naval gunners on board
was in command of a warrant officer.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
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Butter—Prints, 44@44%ec; tubs, 48
@43%c. Eggs—Fresh, 34c.
Cattle—Prime, $11.60@12; good,
$10.50@11.25; tidy butchers, $10@
10.60; fair, $9@9.75; common, $7.60@
8.60; heifers, $7@10.50; common to
good fat bulls, $6@10; common to
good fat cows, $4.75@9.60; fresh cows
and springers, $40@86.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10@10.50; good mixed, $9.25@9.75;
fair mixed, $8.24 9; culls and com-
mon, $4.50@6.50; Lyin, $S@12.75;
spring lambs, $17.22; veal calves, $15
@15.50, heavy and thin calves, $6@11.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $1565@15.70:
heavy mixed, $15.60@15.65; mediums,
$16.56@15.60; heavy Yorkers, $15.25@
16.60; light Yorkers, $13.50@14.25;
pigs, $12@12.26; roughs, $14@14.25,
stags, $12@12.25.
Cleveland, April 3.
Hogs—Heavies and mediums, $15.40;
Yorkers, $15.26; pigs, $12.50; roughs,
$13.85; stags, $12.25.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $11@
11.50; good to choice steers, $10@
10.75; fair to good steers, $9@10; fair
steers, $8.26@9.26; common and light |
steers, $7@7.560; good to choice heif:
ers, $9@10.26; fair heifers, $6.50@
8.60; choice fat bulls, $8.60@9.50;
bologna bulls, $7@8.25; choice fat
cows, $8@9.50; fair to good ‘ cows,
$6.50@7.75; good to choice milchers
and springers, $60@90.
Sheep and Lambs—Fair to choice
lambs, $14.50@15; fair to good clipped,
$11.50@12; good to choice ewes, $10.50
@11.50; good to choice wethers, $11@
12; culls, $9@9.60. ;
Chicago, April 3.
Hogs—Bulk, $15.10@16.30; light,
$14.50@15.30; © mixed, $14.76@15.35;
heavy, $14.60@15.40; roughs, $14.60@
14.76; pigs, $10.60@14.10. :
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $9.10@
12.80; stockers and feeders, $7@9.8C;
cows and heifers, $5.60@10.76; calves,
$9.50@14.
‘Wheat—May, $1.993%.
$1.22. Qats—May, 637%ec.
Corn—May,
Release Men Who Balk at Oath.
- The war department has ordered II-
linois officials to release all national
guardsmen who decline to take the
federal oath. This order intended to
prevent conflict between the national
and state laws, will probably be ex:
tended to all states. Few guardsmen
are Tefusing it to take the federal oath.
1917 APRIL 1917
[SUN] MON] TUE [WED] THUJ FRI] SAT]
Pittsburgh, April 8. |
The usual warning notices are be-
ing posted on the State Forests, and
the following suggestions are offered
to those who are willing to help con-
serve what remains of Pennsylvania’s
| forests:
(1.) If you see a fire, try to put t
out. If you can’t pwr it out, immedi-
ately motify the nearest forest fire
warden. His name will be published
in this paper within the next two
weeks,
(2., Break your match in two be-
fore you throw it away. If you are
one of those who “can’t see no sense
in that,” try it.
(3) Bury your pipe ashes and cigar
or cigarette stubs, or else throw them
into a stream.
(4) Have a cleared spot of at least
ten feet in diameter around your camp
fire, and then be dead sure the fire
is out before you leave it.
(8) If you own or use engines, put
spark plug arresters on them. It may
save you costs and damages later on.
(6) Don’t burn your brush on a dry
windy day. If in doubt, ask your fire
warden,
(7) The Department of Forestry is
glad to have you report on the con-
duct of its officers, but your report
will be immeasurably strengthened if
it can be established that you have
done your own duty in preventing and
extinguishing fires.
Meeting of Livestock Men of Somer-
set County.
At a recnt meeting of the Directors
of the Farm Bureau It was decided
that a project for the development of
more and better livestock should he
carried on for Somerset county. In
order that we may meet the desires
and demands of the farmers and se-
cure their co-operation, a meeting has
‘been called to make some arrange-
ments for the producing, securing
and developing of good livestock for
Somerset county. This meeting will
be held in the Assembly Room of the
Court House, Saturday, March the
31st at 10:30 a. m. land 1:30 p.m.
Dr. H. H..Havener of the Extension’
Department of Pennsylvania State
College and C. G. McBride, Farm Bu-
reau Agent of Mercer county will be
here to address the meeting.
Eyery one ig invited. Will you not
coma and. show your Interest in bet-
ter livestock by your presence at this
meeting?
Heat at the Persian Gulf.
The Persian gulf and its coasts are
In summer about the hottest place on
earth’s surface, a temperature of 120
degrees in the shade being not un-
commen, while a black bulb solar ther-
mometer has registered 187 degrees in
the sun.
When she remembers that the hot-
test room in a Turkish bath is usually
kept at about 160 degrees the appalling
nature of this Persian heat will be
better realized.
The greatest heat ever known in
England was on Aug. 18, 1893, when a
shade temperature of 95 degrees was
registered. But on this day the sun
temperature did not quite equal that
of July®2S8, 1885, when 162 degrees
F. was registered in the sun.
When you consider facts like these
it is difficult to believe that our planet
receives only one two-thousand-mil-
Yionth part of the rays flung out by the
sun.—London Telegraph.
Woodmen Gro
A steam operated 1 machine
fells more trees in an eight hour dav
than thirty wooden. It works close
te the ground and leaves no stumps |
standing.—Popular Science Maonthly.
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THE TEETH AND HEALTH
(By Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, M. D.)
We frequently hear specialists de-
| claring that the health or mankind de-
pends upon ‘the proper care of that
portion of the body upon which they
specialize. * Now, the human orgaan-
organism is so complicated an affair
that nobody is sate in putting such
a sweeping responsibility upon any
one organ; yet there are may who
say the dental surgeon, when ne
mahes his claum that defective teeth
have more to do with physical degen-
eraticu in cumankind any other mem.
ber gone wrong, has more behind biin
than some of hig brother specialists.
His is a claim that cannot be check-
ed off with exactness, but we do know
through gcientific investigation, as
well as from experience in practice,
that defective teeth cause a great deal
of ill health; and I am one of those
who will go as far as to say that care
of the teeth from infancy onwards
brings certainly as great, and possi-
bly greater, rewards than like care
of any other one organ.
It is a wonder men and women do
not take better care of their teeth
not because of the benefit to health,
because that seems to be the last thing
we could hope to have any influence,
but because there is nothing that adds
more to the persenal appearance of
man or woman than a beautiful set
of teeth. If for instance, some wo-
men would pay as mucn attention to
their teeth as they do to putting
splotches of paint on their faces, they
would not only be more attractive
personally but would enjoy better
health.
The mouth and nose are the busi-
est ports of entry for disease in the
human body. The mouth,” particular-
ly when the teeth are defective, re-
taing many germs that would produce
diseases, and the environment will
furnish. that which promotes their
multiplication.
The mucous membrane of the mouth
is in itself quite resistful to disease
germs, yet at times it becomes in-
fected and the pus-forming germs
bore their way into ‘the bones of the
face, producing long suffering, disfig-
urement and sometimes even proceed
until they destroy the life of the in-
dividual.
Pyorrhea encourages the growth
of pus-producing organisms, which
form their purulent matter around the
teeth. This is discharged into the
mouth with every act of mastication,
thus often helping to cause stomach
and intestinal diseases.
Through. the poisons that are pro-
duced by the absorption from these
centers of pus, the vital organs of
the body are frequently disturbed.
Disease of the intestinal tract, which
is often secondary to infected teeth,
even in its early stages ig very dis-
tressing and has a terribly depressing’
effect on the sufferer. It has been
said that no man dies a heroic death
who has a disease of the stomach or
intestinal tract.’
The formation of ithe pus in the
mouth is often long’ neglected, whera-
as if a small scratch on the finger be-
comes infected and pus forms, the
doctor is gemerally called in con-
sultation immediately because of the
fear of blood poisoning.
,Long life, happiness and prosperity
depend much upon a clean mouth full
of healthy teeth.
This talk is only to warn those who
have not stopped to think of what evils
come from neglecting the teeth. Dc
not forget the baby’s first dentition, as
its entire life may be effected by the
habits that are formed at that time
STATE AGRICULTURE NOTES
Poultrymen report breeding cocker-
els very scarce this spring owing to
the large number which were killed
off during the falland winter on ac-
count of the high cost of feed.
Pennsylvania ranked third in the
production of potatoes during the past
year, but only thirty-second in the
average number of bushels produced
io an acre.
Estimates show that seventy-five
per cent. of the farmers of the State
use commercial fertilizers and that
a total of 325,500 tons was used on the
farms during the past year.
The average amuont of commercial
fertilizer used to an acre by the far-
mers of the State is 235 pounds‘and
each farmer purchases each an aver-
age of about two tons.
SPRING COLDS ARE DANGEROUS
Sudden changes of temperature and
underwear bring spring colds with
stuedffed up heads, sore throat and
general cold symptoms. A dose of
Dr. King’s New Discovery is sure re-
lief, ths happy * combination of anti-
septic balsams clears the head, sooth-
es the irritated membranes and what
what might have been a lingering cold
is broken up. Don’t stop treatmen
when relief is first felt as a half
cold ig dangerous. Take Dr.
King's
New Discovery till your cold is gone. |
——
[aNOLD TIME FAR
And the Methods That Were In
Use In the Year 1840,
DAYS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE.
When All Kinds of Clothing Were Made
at Home, When Eggs Sold For a
Shilling a Dozen and the High Cost
of Living Was Not a Big Problem.
In view of the modern day high cost
of living and of the many wonderful
advances made in the last century—the
railroad, telegraph, the ocean cable, the
telephone, the automobile and farm
and labor saving machinery of all
kinds and the amazing changes these
inventions have necessarily wrought in
all directions in almost every walk of
life—it may be of interest to recall liv-
ing conditions on a farm in the year
1840.
The farm I have in mind consisted of
200 acres. The stock was fifteen cows,
a yoke of oxen, twenty sheep, an old
white horse, a dozen pigs, fifty hens,
ten geese, a few ducks and a flock of
turkeys.
The farm produced practically every-
thing the family consumed, both cloth-
ing and food. The sheep furnished the
wool, which was carded at a ‘“fulling”
mill and made into rolls for spinning.
At home it was spun into yarn and
woven on a hand loom. For beds it -
was left white: for clothing it was
dyed any color desired. A competent
housewife could make dyes of logwood,
indigo or cochineal. The white and
black wool were mixed to produce a
gray like the Confederate uniform.
There were no ready made clothes;
sll clothes were made in the home.
There was no woven underwear. Stock-
ings were knitted at home as well as
mittens and tippets. Caps with ear
laps were of rabbit skin. There were
no shoes. In the winter boots came up
to the knees.
Several cows were killed each year.
There was .a tannery near by, where
tbe skins were tanned. A shoemaker
made our boots. They were usually
too small and gave much trouble and
pain,
The flax, cut and laid down until the
fiber loosened from the woody part,
was put through a heckle worked by
hand and then spun and woven. ' This
strong linen cloth was used for sum-
mer clothing, towels, etc. The seed
was saved to make flaxseed tea (a med-
icipe) or poultice for bruises,
Por food we had everything needed—
tresh meat, potatoes, beets, cabbages,
parsnips, pumpkins for ples, apples,
which lasted from fall to spring; cider,
which gave us vinegar or produced a
cider champagne.
Half a dozen pigs killed in the fall
gave us plenty of ham and bacon, lard,
sausages and salt pork. The hams and /
bacon were hung up in the smokehouse,
a small building with no opening ex-
cept the door. A small fire produced
more smoke than heat, but gave the
hams and bacon a very delicious flavor.
There were plenty of chickens for
roasting and potples and eggs, turkeys
for Thanksgiving and Christmas, occa-
sionally a roast goose with apple sauce.
From the cows’ milk we made both
butter and cheese. What butter and
cheese the family did not consume was
sold in a nearby village. Butter usual-
ly brought 1275 cents a pound. Cheese
was also made at home, as there were
neither creameries nor cheese facto-
ries. Cheese was sold at 5 to 6 cents a
pound. All eggs not used went to the
village store and brought 10 cents to 12
cents a dozen.
Who Owns the Falkland Islands?
Few people are aware to this day
‘| that the Falkland islands are marked
in all Argentine maps and geographies
as “unlawfully retained by Great Brit-
ain.” The origin of the dispute was
that -England after abandoning the
Islands in 1774 resumed possession in
1829, The Argentine government pro-
tested and, as A. Stuart Pennington
points out in his book on the country,
is ever today “careful to do nothing
which could even apparently recognize
the rights of the present possessors.”
It was for that reason that it declined
a proposal a few years ago to run a
line of Argentine ships to the islands.
Beautiful Bridges.
Popular love of art may be carried
too far. The author of “Charles Bour-
bon, Constable.of France,” tells us that
on the occasion of the sack of Rome
the citizens refused to secure their
safety by taking the advice of their
captain, Reuzo da Ceri, and cutting
the bridges Ponte Quattro Capi and
Ponte Sisto. The people declined on
the ground that they were “toe bean-
tiful.”
An Ox Hide.
“Thomas,” sald the professor to a
pupil in the junior class in chemistry,
“mention an oxide.”
“Leather,” replied Thomas,
“What is leather an oxide of P* asked
the professor.
“An oxide of beef,” answered the
bright youngster.—Chicage News.
Was Coming Back
“Seemed to sadden old Geldbox when
his new son-in-law said geodby after
the wedding. Is he so feod of Rim?’
“Well, not exactly. You see, the new
son-in-law didn't say goodby; he said
‘Au revoir.’ "—Browning’s Magasine.
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