Tins CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1011. PAGE a JjETTEK FItOM UIOHWOOI), WEST V1HGINIA. Dear Editor: Tho rattle of acorns and chestnuts at night on tho roof of pur house and porch with each little gust of wind, interferes with sleeping somewhat, for wo are in tho midst of tho nut trees and they carry unusual burdens of nuts this year. We klndlo our fire with clothes pins and wagon hubs. Fact! For Winter's fuel tho fine splint and steam coal which outcrops In tho West Virginia hills Is ideal. IUchwood Is eleven years old and boasts of G,000 Inhabitants. Several villages of railroad men and wood choppers containing perhaps a couple of thousand more are scattered along tno company railroad which runs 40 miles up Into the timber. The "Cherry Rldco Boom and Lumber Company," with offices at Scranton, Pa., own nearly 200,000 acres of timber and timber land here and operate a saw mill with a capac ity of 400,000 feet In double shift of ton hours each. This Is sufficient to construct a fair-sized town each dav, Tho larger portion of tho output goes 10 njuropo via. Baltimore. Tho com pany owns 13 locomotives and their railroad Is standard guago with 70 pound rail. Fully 100 miles of track will 'be required before the timber Is exhausted. Tho "W. F. Mosser Co.'s" tannery Is one of the largest and best equip ped establishments of the kind to be found anywhere. The Cherry River Paper Co. oner ate an immense plant. The Dodge Clothes Pin Co. boast of the largest factory on earth for the manufacture of clothes pins and but ter uisnes. Add to these the Richwood Hub factory, owned by Mr. Henry G. Sher wood (formerly of Preston township, wayne county and we have an array of industries such as will not be found under like conditions else where. lou wm observe that this ar rangement takes care of all varieties of timber of all qualities and sizes. Richwood Is located at the Junc tion or the Cherry River with the north fork and the south fork of the same and is a most interesting town from every point of view. The bot tom, to say 200 acres, is taken up with the Immense factories described above, together with business houses, etc. Thus most of the residences oc cupy the sides of tho hills which are not quite steep enough to plant on both sides. The streets running up ana aown these inns aro extremely steep and the sidewalks consist of steps or stairs. The view from these residences is grand. It is flue to look out over tho mills in tho night, to watch the hundreds of electric lights and to listen to the throbbing of the giant engines and the noise of the lumber handlers as they stow In piles the tremendous output of this great mm. Richwood has excellent schools. employing iy teachers and a superin tendent. The First National Bank and the Richwood Banking and Trust Co. are flourishing Institutions. We have five churches, the M. E., the and Cathollfi. r.odcps nf Mnanno Odd Fellows, Red Men, K. P.'s, etc. The coal lying In these hills await- 1 1 1 ir iiRVHi ii ii in n r ia novnni nn nn o. tlon worth untold millions. The soil is adapted to tho raising of all Irlnrla nf f?rnln rnntu frnlf ntirl Maw York nnrl Pnnnsvlvnnln nro largely represented. Cordially yours, A. B. TALLMAN. HIGH SCHOOIi NOTES FROM DAMASCUS. The High school is now in good Atlt3 In tho T-TIP'h cihnnl ninnai H. Pfithlr-k. n. A.. nrlnrln.il. MIkq Almn. CI TMnhlrt nnrl Mica Hartriirla nn snr inn ncBiatnnfc 'pim cnhnn lrpp.rnra hfivo nririori itintiv now raf arirn Hhrnrv nnrl n now hamlpnl fthnmfnrv hna hopn Inctnllorl Tin- mtiir rnomHnivoa in rno nrnr mnnnnn jreseiu senior Class consists oi lour- een siunenis wn pn in .a nrottv fnir Yes, we are going to be there at iuo iiuer-uiiin tscnooi contest ana W. H. Bullock, state orchard In- I'llOQrtnV rtf lnor WOQlr At hf nlnnn nnmiftLRn jl n mi Rr nr rno Rpnnmra iirniiurr Jin rirnriiirn linn PYn mnnn he diseases of fruit trees and their 11RO. A few of tho youths about the icademy treated " Shorty " Olver and asnionea sKlmerton Tuesday even- IE. Arter " Shorty " thought that be serenading had gone far enough ivpr jrriri i?Rr vniir nirrnrs wnmn With the editor's leave, we will nlinnl ann f 1. I . V. . ....... t. i home-made product) in order that iLHHr iikh inRnnirinnfl nr nnmini. iictv u ruusuu in liiiiLiirn nnr pirn . ent example. So here goes: O L11U 1J11ID UL (Jill Un 111 flnL II H meet tho eastern Bky. CHOHUS: rn tnv memorv. IT vuu Vlllll,Ui UGCllCUO U VUU (Mill Jn thy western wall. PIjANTING A YOUNG OHC1IAHD. The editor of a prominent news- laper in western Pennsylvania vroto to Prof. H. A. Surface, asking ilm how he could lay out his or hard of eight acres in such a way hat the trees when planted would e a suitable distance apart for the llfferent varieties, and at the same Imo would stand in straight rows, vhlcfc could be cultivated each way. He also asked for a list of fruits of various kinds to plant. Tho reply Is based on practical ex perience, and contains suggestions wnicn may Do helprul to many per. sons who wish to plant home or chards. It is as follows: " Roplylng to your letter asking about planting your eight acres In fruits In such a way as to ' have straight rows throughout when tho planting is finished, I beg to say that your best plan will be to plant your permanent apple trees forty feet apart. Hair way between these, or twenty feet apart, plant your peach, plum ana cherry. Half way be tween these, or ten feet apart, you can grow quince, dwarf pear and grapes. Half way between these again you can plant gooseberries, currants, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. Your fillers in each Instance can extend in each direction between any of the others. I am aware that there is a little difference In au thorities as to tho distance of plant ing, but I am satisfied that the standard distance for apple In good soil should not be less than forty teet, while a very safe and practical distance for planting peach, pear, cherry and plum Is twenty feet. Fur ther than this, I am at present grow ing dwarr pear trees ten feet apart; and half way between the standard trees planted twenty feet apart. Again half way between these dwarf pear trees I have my currant and gooseberry bushes, as suggested above. I am well satisfied with this arrangement. In fact, you can put a row ot gooseberries each direction between the currents and pear trees, n you wish, iiy a narrow cultivator you can keep them all cultivated, which will be best for all the trees and plants. This will also permit you to cultivate them In each direc tion. The varieties of apples that I would suggest for home use for your region are as touows: Yellow Trans parent, Red Astrachan, Summer Rambo, Maiden Blush, Smokehouse, Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Rome Beauty and Stayman's Wlnesan. The Stayman will perhaps prove to be your best winter apple. A few oth ers seem to do well in that region. If you have elevated ground, the Baldwin will thrive there. The Win ter Banana is also planted south ward from you quite extensively. For a commercial orchard I would greatly reduce the number of varieties, holding chiefly to Jona than, Rome Beauty and Stayman's Wlnesap, with some Summer Rambo. For pears the best varieties are the Bartlett, Seckel, Lawrence, and Duchess. The latter is the variety to use as a dwarf pear. The best commercial peach Is the Elberta, and it would be well to plant tho following: Champion, Mountain Rose, El berta, Old MIxon Free, Late Craw ford, Fox's Seedling, Smock, Reeve's Favorite and Wonderful are also first class peaches. For home use I would recommend tho planting of some earlier varie ties than these. For cherries the best sour cherry Is the Montmorency Improved. Ear ly Richmond is also to be recom mended. Among the good sweet cherries are the Ida, Governor Wood, May duko and Bigarreau. CHARLES It. UNDERWOOD. One familiar with the life work of the late Charles R. Underwood pens the following concerning him. Charles Rico Underwood was born at Lake Como, Wayne county, Pa., on February 22, 1857. He was the son of Willard G. Underwood and Carrie C. Underwood. He was educated in tho public school at Lake Como and at Natlck, Mass. While still a boy he obtained a position as clerk in a general store, but in 187G he re moved to Binghamton, N. Y., where ho entered the employ of Messrs. Bean & Co., wholesale grocers, re maining with them for several years. While there he married Mary M. Blandlng, daughter of Jtfhn Bland- lng. While Mr. Underwood was In Binghamton his father entered into partnership with Benjamin Randall, to engage in the blue stone business with quarries at Hancock and Star light, and a stone yard with the main office In Jersey City. In 1889 Mr. Underwood severed his connec tions with the Binghamton concern, removing to Jersey City to take charge of the office of the blue stone business, eventually becoming one or the partners In the firm of Randall & Underwood. Upon the formation of the Erie Bluestone as sociation in 1892, ho becamo sec retary and later the solo proprietor of its business. In 1895 Mr. Underwood removed his place of residence to Bloom field, N. J whero ho remained, tak ing nn active part in all that made, ror the welfare and progress of the town, both In things moral and ma terial. His natural bent was to in crease comfort and happiness of all with Whom he came in contact. Ho helped to organize the Bloomfield Board of Trade which has a mem bership of nearly four hundred and is a power In the community, accept ing me oiiico or treasurer which he retained until the last annual elec tion, giving It up only on account of poor health. In politics Mr. Underwood was a Republican with nronounced views on official honesty and progresslve ness. In 1906 he was elected to the House of Assembly of New Jersey. While a member of that body, ever watcniui or nis constituents' inter ests, ho secured an appropriation for a public park in Bloomfield. With this for a beginning, ho has earnestly and persistently labored. even with considerable personal ex pense, until there has been acquired a large tract of land, which will soon bo opened as a. public park and playground, and which will remain as a monument of his services for the public good. Mr. Underwood also devoted much time to the project of securing im provements of tho Lackawanna rail road stations, etc.. in Bloomfield. This work is Hearing completion and has caused great activity In roal es tate and other business circles. He had been for a number of years di rector of the Bloomfield Trust Com pany, which has almost finished the erection of a large office building In that town, being a member of the building committee. Mr. Underwood attended the Westminster Presbyterian church of which he was for some years a trus tee, resigning becauso of ill health, but still retaining a deep Interest in the affairs of the church. Mr. Underwood had one daughter, Carrie Blandlng, who died at Smith College. He is survived" by Ills wife, one sister, Mrs. Libby U. Miller, and three brothers, Daniel G., of Deposit, Dr. H. Wlnslow, of New York City, and Dr. Horton Fay, Brooklyn. Deposit Courier Journal. WARNING NOTE TO CEREAL DEALERS. Retail Stock of Breakfast Foods Will Bo Examined For Insect Life by Scientists. Harrlsburg, Pa. Announcement made a few days ago from the state food bureau concerning cereal food preparations having called forth many inquiries, Dairy and Food Com missioner Foust thinks it is timely to make a frank statement of the evils discovered by tho bureau in connec tion with this particular trade and to warn dealers of the measures that will be taken to stop the existing abuses. There is no criticism, the commis sioner remarks, of the food quality of the average breakfast cereal when it is sold in a fresh condition to the customer, but it is well known to all dealers that these preparations are very Ha'ble to insect attack unless the greatest care be taken to keep the stock fresh and to store In places where the danger of such attack Is least. Tho commissioner recognizes that confronting the retailer in keeping his stock of breakfast foods fresh: and wholesalers who make a careful comparison of the 100 to 150 brands of such foods on sale In the state will find that In reality there are only 12 to 15 tvnes of breakfast foods that differ at all distinctly dkio from the' other, and yet nearly every week sees community alter community can vassed by agents presenting samples of some new breakfast food, taking orders lor the same and turning them over to t'he local grocers supplying these several families with the da mand that he add this new name to his stock, despite the fact that his shelves aro already crowded with the one hundred other brands. And lm mediately thereafter the same mer chants are Induced to stock largely with this new named variety by rea son ot quantity discounts. The de mand for the goods earlier in stock temporarily, or permanently, stops, but the goods remain on the shelves and are held there for months, or even for years, with the vain hope that the breakfast food fashions may turn and tlie old stock become sal able. Under this condition of affairs "every bug hns his day." The commissioner wants every re tailer handling cereal goods to under stand that the retail stocks In every part of the state are to be thoroughly sampled and sent to State college for a scientific examination and that whenever contamination by hues. slugs and tho like is detected prose cutions will be Instituted in every case and vigorously pressed. This frank note of warning Is given so that the retailer may have a fair oppor tunity to clean up 'his stock and con sign to the dump every package of cereal that Is In condition to bring him into trouble because of Its lack of freshness or Its location near wevllly goods, since even fresh goods may quickly become wevllly if stor ed in the neighborhood of old pack ages containing these insects. De spite tho difficulties of these condi tions the retailers have a remedy In their own hands, and that Is to buy In small quantities, turn the stock often and so (have little left long enough upon their shelves to be in serious danger of insect attack. DO NOT SPARE YOUR PRAISE. Not turning quickly to impute Grave fault; for they and wo Have such a little way to go can be Together such a little while along the way. So many little faults we find, We see them, for not blind is love, We see them; but if you and I Perhaps remember them by-and-by, They will not be Faults then grave faults to you and me, But'just odd ways, mistakes, or even less Remembrances to bless. Wo should be patient, for we know There's such a little way to go. I believe everybody-likes being ap preciated. I have never yet met the person who was sufficiently self-satisfied to be able to do well without a word of pralso now and then. I don't believe that such a one exists. But the number of people Who go through lifo without giving that word of praise Is extraordinary large. Mrs. Smith thinks to herself "What a kind, thoughtful hostess Mrs. Brown is!" Hubby thinks "What a splendid mother Mary is." But they don't say It. And so tho hostess supposes that her thoughtful ness goes unrecognized, and the mother pursues her selfless way feel ing Just a little chilled for lack of a ray of recognition. All my life I have treasured every little word of approval. And beoauso I feel tho need so much myself I early resolved never to let pass by an opportunity of giving encouragement. Breaking Tho Ice. And I have found that giving praise to others is the next best thing to get ting it yourself. It is wonderful what a warm, friendly glow It ignites between you. There is nothing like It for breaking t'he ice of shyness and thawing the stiffness of reserve. When I first did my hair up I spent hours in finding a style that suited me and dressed it in this par ticular way when I came home from school for good. Much to my disappointment, nobody made any remark about my altered coiffure. I felt so snubbed that I took no further interest in my hair dresslng, but colled It up anyhow. And then everybody cried out: "What a pity you do your hair like that! The way it was arranged before suited you charmingly. "Then -why on earth didn't you say so?" 1 demanded. "I never thought of it." "I took It for granted you knew," came the astonished answers. That's just It. People will take so much for granted. And that Is what I try not to do. In fact, I go out of my way to seek out something to ap prove of wherever I am, and whoever I am with. The wheels of life run so smoothly when oiled with appreciation. What Pralso Will Do. A few weeks ago I "bucked up" with a few hopeful words the small and rather stupid son of a gardener. He was working for an examination in a dreary kind of way, convinced that he would never pass. But he did, and the next time I met his mother sfte said that his suc cess was entirely due to me. "After what you said to him, Miss, he made up his mind to extinguish himself, and he succeeded,"ehe told mo proudly, If not quite accurately. We are all of us more or less like the gardener's boy. From the maid to the prime minister none of ub are proof against the subtle charm of en couragement and approval. Don't wait until you know Mrs. Smith better before telling her the nice things you think about herself or her children. You never will know her better unless you take that bridle off your tongue and say agree able things as they occur to you. Don't take It for granted. When hubby makes efforts to break himself of the tiresome habit of unpunctuality at meals; when your daughter at last undertakes some distasteful duty she has shirked hitherto, don't take th pro thlnp-H "fnr granted," but show them their at tempts or successes are appreciated. "I'd get up in the middle of the night to do anything for her," I heard a poor household drudge say of a visitor who had given thanks for Sally's little efforts In her be half. "1 like her because she under stands and appreciates me," said a very great lady whom you might have supposed would be indifferent to the opinion of such a humble Indi vidual, when speaking lately of her newly acquired nursery governess. In every station of life there Is the same craving for that human thing which some give so grudgingly, while others withhold it altogether. Although we love a bit of praise our selves, we often forget others love It, too. "Life Is a Mlfmlf lnaa tnalr " acilrl n weary well-doing friend of mine the other day. More shame to us all If it is said: Praise and encouragement are like sunshine on the way and It costs us nothing to give a cheery word in passing. How can one of us choose to withhold a single beam when the world so badly needs ' every ray of light? Philadelphia Inquirer. CUT WHALE U TWO ON HER MAIDEN TRIP. New French Liner Is First Steamship to Be Propelled by Four Screws. Tho new steamship Roebainbeau of the French line, the first shuttle of commerce to be propelled with four screws, two of which are worked by reciprocating engines and two by tur bines, recently arrived at New York. She is designed to carry only one class of cabin passengers besire steer age and is in tho leviathan class. SUe Is 530 feet long. She has a beam of sixty-three feet and a depth of forty- three feet, drawing twenty-six feet six Inches of water. She Is built to carry travelers at moderate cost with the maximum of comfort. She Is not Intended to be a greyhound. She was built at St. Na zalre. Her quadruple screws will not only give her steadiness, but make It quite impossible for her to break down completely. She has four docks, two of which provide promenades for the 450 cabin passengers. Another deck is devoted to steerage passengers, of whom 1,450 can bo carried without crowding. Thin steamer has wireless sending appara tus strong enough to reach boh shores of the Atlantic nt tho same time. She has electric devices for the closing of bulkheads and all tho other modern inventions for insuring safety as well as for bilge keels to prevent her from rocking. Her maiden voyage, was uneventful save for a reported collision with a whale two days ngo when the ship was off the Grand banks. According to tho passengers who re ported tho demise of the ill fated whale, the cetacean had tried to cross the Rocbambenu's bow and miscalcu lated the distance. There was a soft, thudding impact, Just ns if the vessel hod bumped against a rubber Iceberg. The whale was seen to divide itself In two, the bow of the whale going on 100 yards or so and then dipping out of sight. Tho tail end of the whale backed oif, shook itself feebly a few times and sank. The water was crim soned for a few moments. The Care of the Teeth. Fruit stains may be removed from the teeth by rubbing them with salt or brushing them with a toothbrush that has been dipped in salt. The mouth should be well rinsed after this treat ment. One often finds himself without a toothbrush when spending tho day or tho night unexpectedly away from home. In such nn emergency a rlnso of soda water will provo effective in cleansing tho moufh and teeth. Borax water is also an excellent substitute, and one or the other of these simple remedies is certain to be at hand. For dally use one of tho most pleas ant and beneficial washes Is a weaken ed solution of cologne water. A tablp spoonful of a favorite odor to half a plntof water is tho correct propor tion, and this mixture should be bottled and kept with the toothbrush where it is always handy. ) TO VISIT CANADA. Daughters of the Duke of Con- f naught, New Governor General. C .4-4'' I t.v- it Ottawa, Oct. 5. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught sail on the Empress of Ireland for Cnnndn in morrow. Part of the chief deck has been partitioned off for tho exclusive use of the royal party, and in order to mark the Importance of the occasion King George has ordered that thi roy al standard shall fly from the Empress of Ireland at the moment the duke steps on the vessel. His daiiKhter. 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