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The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
MORE ELECTRIC LINES
NEEDED IN COLORADO
State Will Be Retarded in Growth Unless
Transportation Facilities Are Better

go about with expanded chests these
days
Talk about agricultural wealth.
Why, the Arkansas valley alone adds
5 100000 every year toColorado's
treasures of hard cash. or about as
much as the world-famous Cripple
Creek gold camp. There. certainly,
is productiveness for you, and no mis-
take. And to think that all this
wealth is grown on land that coyotes
and prairie dogs called their home
years ago! If Gift Pinchot had been
lording it at that time in Washington
he would have established forest
reserve in the Arkansas valley.
'Manzanola, located in the same
valley of the blessed, triumphantly
asserts that its apple area of 900
acres gives assurance of 500, 900 box
es of those big red apples the mere
thought of which eXcites the irrigat-
ing capacity of> the salivary glands
and causes gourmets TO perpetuate
poems. The only full apple crop in
Colorado this year is fast ripening or
those 1000 acres.
There should be a very profitable
market for those lenociniant and lus-
cious Jonathans. For the nation S
apple crop'will be short and very de-
eidedly so. while demand will be
wider and keener than ever. Man
Zanola and the other fortunate apple
regions of Colorado are assured of an
exceptionally fine harvest of shining
simoleons this year.
Agricultural Wealth.
In the production of real and per-
l. =.
main, subsidiary and affiliated
branches holds first place among the
worlds industries. And this in spite
of them being the oldest of them all
Age can not wither it. The cycles of
time automatically increase its prizes.
Truly in the words of George Wash
ton, it is the most useful and the most
noble of occupations.
The products of American agricul-
ture in 1910 will have value of
about $4,000. 100000, This is five
times as much as the total output of
the country's mines. This years
wheat crop of the United States alone
will have value of $50. 1000, 900. or
S240,000,000 more than the worlds
annual production of gold The an
nual output of our coal and iron
mines this year is not equal, in value.
to that of our corn fields, which is
estimated at $1,000, 100000
Agricultural wealth is the basis
of all other, even of that of our mines.
The precious metals are, in the main,
solely measurements of wealth. To
a sailor shipwrecked and starving on
lonely island of the South sea. heaps
of gold would have absolutely no
value, because they would be useless.
He could not oct or drink them
He would gladly exchange all his
glittering wealth for square meal
and a bottle of fresh water. The
mytholoeic story of King Midas
graphically illustrates the intrinsic
uselessness of the most precious
metals.
n,, l.,
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
P1CKLING VINEGAR.

Malt and Pure Cider Vinegar.
Fruit Jars.
Jar Rubbers and Caps.
Jelly Glasses and Tumblers-
A Splendid Assortment
of Fruit and Green Vegetables this
week. including California Pokay
Grapes, Coneords and Muscatels.
Cheaper Flour.
Star ---------------------------sl.Ap 40
Imperial 1.5O
Pride of the R5
Celery, Lettuce, Green Peppers,
Pumpkin, Parsley and Sweet Pota-
toes
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
Development in the North.

Along the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern railway line, things are
on the hum. Towns are springing
up. Stores and homes are a-building,
postoffices are being established, and
homeseekers arriving every week.
Town lots and agricultural tracts are
In good demand. and prospects are
that within few years the railway
company will have very gratifying
volume of freight and passenger traf-
fic. The company is opening up a
most promising region in northern
Colorado. Its promoters have good
reason TO be satisfied with the pro-
gress making, and to be hopeful in
regard to future developments.
1T is reported from Oklahoma that
the farmers of that state are holding
100000 bushels of wheat for high
er prices. 1t is to be surmised that a
similar reluctant disposition to sell
prevails among Colorado wheat grow
ers. And, considering present condi-
tions and prospects in the world s
wheat markets, the popular impress
sion that prices should go higher ap-
pears anything but fanciful. France
is face to face with serious short
| oSV III ITO Whtdl clop, ana already aT
eager purchaser in foreign countries
Germany and England are preparing
to import considerably more wheat
and flour than they did in 1909. A,
the same time, our own crop is about
100. 100000 bushels below that OF
last year.
Hence, it is rather difficult to sec
how sharp enhancement of values
can be avoided by next spring. The
only thing that could prevent violent.
ly soaring prices would be an ampli.
tudinous crop in Argentina But
nothing can be known about that un.
| til February, In the meanwhile, the
/ wheat market should be extremely
sensitive to multiplying reports of q
deficit in the worlds supplies OF
| breadstuffs. 1t would not be sur.
| prising at all if one or the other re,
sourceful manipulator were to take q
dominating hold before long and re,
produce on the floor of the Chicag
board of trade the turbulent scenes
which have so frequently been wit
messed there in previous years of pre-
carious stocks of wheat
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31
Our Market and Bakery

are full of good things.
Good Boiling Beef. Roasts and
Steaks at low prices.
Ham. 20c per pound
Grand Valley Eggs, 25c.
The daily sentinel., 1910-08-31

Rocky Ford has just risen to a
point of order and impressed it upon
plastic minds that ii forwards some
thing like 1,500 carloads of cantal-
oupes every year to the expectant
cities of the East. and that the 1910
crop is the finest ever. Bully for
Rocky Ford! That number of car
loads should be sufficient to necessi-
tate the establishment of new bank
every twelve months. Wonder what
these cantaloupe-growers are doing
with all their money. anyhow? They
should be careful not to get any of
those fake $1,000 bills said to be
floating about in wicked Eastern
towns. Surely they have reason to
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
A Disappointment.

Such a dreadful disappointment as
the ladies' of the Main street church
had in the new minister" sighs the
caller.
Why? What was wrong? Wasn't
he orthodox" asks the hostess.
20, his principles were sound
enough, but you know they had been
without pastor all fall, and engaged
this man without seeing him, and"
BLESS me! What could have been
the matter?"
I'm coming to that AS he was to
arrive the first Of December, they
thought they might as we'll have his
Christmas presents prepared and out
of the way of other things. And when
he came, he proved to be man who
had both legs amputated after "a rail-
road wreck, and now all the ladies'
who made carpet slippers for him are
terribly put out over It,"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
snake-skin Gowns Next.

Paris.-During the fall an attempt
is to be made to bring snake skin into
use as fashion fabric. Society WON.
en- on the lookout for novelty will be
sure to welcome the innovation.
Marvels can be achieved by the
python's skin in the hands of clever
designer. for this skin never pulls or
gives. 1t is both waterproof and pill.
able, and 1t can, by skillful manipula.
ton Of its wonderful scale marking;
bring into prominence pretty point
or hide defect.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
SEND POTATOES TO MARKET
Crop Should Be Graded and Packed
In Barrels as Soon as Possible
After Dug.

Potatoes, although one of the most
important of our truck crops, are
usually badly handled by the average
grower. Instead of being sent to
market in bulk by the wagon load, po-
tatoes should be graded and packed in
barrels. The packing should be done
as soon as possible after they are dug,
for If exposed too much to the sun
they will become soft and the skin will
turn green.
1t is very good plan to grade and
pack potatoes in the field as they are
lifted, although when very large crops
are grown and 1t is desirable to grade
them more carefully, this can be done
better by first sending them to the
packing shed, where they can be run
through graders and the work done
more rapidly. 1t is just as important
to grade potatoes as fruit or any other
vegetables.
Early potatoes should be shipped In
barrels with holes cut in them for
ventilation, and covered with burlap.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
Proposed New Half-Cent Piece
Would Be of No Aid.
Chicago Bankers and Business Men
Deprecate Proposed Plan Of New
Yorker to Aid Americans
See No Advantage.

Chicago.-The American people do
not have half cent" tastes.
They couldn't be educated to use
anything smaller than a cent.
The dollar has spoiled the sense of
proportion of the people of this
country.
All articles are sold on a cent ba-
sis, and people cannot lose something
they never had.
These are some of the answers of
Chicago bankers and business men to
statement given out in New York
by William H. Short, banker Of that
city, In which he urged the coinage of
a two and half cent piece by the
United States government.
THE use Of such coin,' asserted
he, would mean a saving of $39,000,-
900 yearly by the consumers.
"The absence Of such coin," con-
tinued the New York banker. has
resulted in the universal custom of
sellers taking the half cent whenever
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
NEW TEST FOR PRUSSIC ACID
English Scientist Gives Additional Par
ticuIars of His Latest Chemical
Discovery.

London.-Dr. A. D. Waller, F. r. s..
professor of physiology at the South
Kensington laboratory OF the London
university, has given additional par
ticulars of the wonderful discovery. al
ready announced to the Society of
Arts, by which the presence of prussic
acid can be detected, even in the
most minute quantities, not only in hui
man bodies, but in any other sub
stance.
The discovery is likely to have a
great effect upon medico-legal juris-
prudence. Hitherto, as explained by
DR.. Waller, analysts have relied chief
ly upon their sense of smell to detect
the presence of prussic acid. But
the new method is one hundred times
as acute as any of the old methods,
and SO microscopical portion as one
sixty-five hundredth Of grain can be
discerned by it. The article to be
analyzed-perhaps part of hui
man body-is distilled in a solution Of
picric of soda. This has the effect Of
turning the article red, and the. de-
gree Of redness determines the amount
of the poison present.
DR.. Waller anticipates that the new
test will be highly appreciated oy COM
mercial analysts.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
LIGHTNING RODS ARE CHEAP
It Is Mistaken Idea to Think That
They Do Not Protect Buildings
Wire Fence Danger.

1t is a mistake to believe that
lightning rods do not protect build.
ings. They do when properly put up
and no farmer can afford to go with
out them unless he chooses to carry
his own insurance. In any case the
cost Of lightning rods is so small com
pared to the protection they give that
1t is doubtful whether it is good poll
cy to take any risks without them.
OF course we cannot put lightning
rods on hay and grain stacks but we
can put the hay and grain in oui
barns and protect the buildings with
lightning rods.
Speaking of lightning, all danger
of death to farm animals coming in
contact with fence wires heavily
charged may be avoided by attaching
wire to the strands of the fence for
two or three hundred feet, running
one end of it into the ground about
four feet deep. This will afford an
outlet for the electricity and render
the wire fences as safe as any other.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21

Abou Ben Pusher may his tribe increase
Awoke one night from a sweet dream Of
peace
And saw an angel standing there beside
his bed.
"Who are you. Stranger" Abou Pusher
said
Are you the tax assessor or the census
man,
Or one who takes straw ballots II he
can?"
NAY, nay" the figure at his bed then
"a simple little record of good men I
And If you please, I'd like fact or two
To work up In little sketch Of you"
Abou Ben Pusher did not weakly blush
And beg the mystic stranger, with the
book, to hush,
He rose from off his couch and sat him
down
Appareled in pajamas and in dressing
gown,
And ratified off a lengthy lot of things
So rapidly the stranger tapped his wings
And sails: GO slow, good friend, I beg
of you
You talk SO fast know not what to do"
Abou Ben Pusher smole knowing smile
And seized the pencil, then with crafty
guile.
He took the book and spread It on his
knees
And said 81 write my own biographies"
He wrote and wrote until the night was
gone
The stranger vanished in the paling dawn.
Abou Pen Pusher, on the morrow night
Awoke again-as well he knew he might
And saw the angel standing there beside
his bed.
your book is ready for you, friend" he
said,
"Also you'll find cigars, and drinks and
lunch,
Upon the buffet-you may have the
bunch"
The stranger thanked him, took the book,
and ate,
And slapped him on the back with smile
elate
"Abou Ben Pusher" then the stranger
said
1.-THE way to get ahead Is keep ahead"
Ben Pusher's book holds honor on the
shelf
Because Ben Pusher wrote the thing him
self.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21


But off hand" said he, 81 would
say that our present money takes care
of the situation pretty well. | don't
think such coin would effect much OF
a saving"
Henry H. Hart, Chicago merchant,
said he would have to give the mat
ter consideration before expressing
an opinion, but believed the smaller re-
taller would profit more under the
present coinage system than does the
larger store.
Il can see no advantage of such a
coin" he added
The mere coinage of two and
half cent piece, or twelve and half
cent piece, will not remedy the trou'
ble," averred B. M. Chattell of the
Illinois Trust and Savings bank. at
is deeper seated than that.
''In America we have become accus-
toned to two for quarter three
for q quarter and three for a half
and our manufacturers have govern.
ed themselves accordingly. No cigar
maker in the United States would
think of selling sigars for four, five,
six, seven or eight cents, and yet that
is what is done in European countries
on corresponding scale of their
money.
"The trouble is, the people of this
country, starting in primitive way,
became accustomed to the larger value
of coins If, instead of having dol
lar, we had something akin to the
German mark or the French franc we
would accustom our people to a more
economical manner of living"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21

drain tile and covering up the top with
coarse cloth or litter.
Persons contemplating growing eel
cry for the market should not attempt
to do so until they have visited one of
the large commercial celery gardens
and learned from observation exactly
how the work Of seeding, transplant
ing, cultivating and marketing is done
But the farmer who simply desires to
grow enough celery for his family
use, may, if he follows instructions,
grow good crops, always providing
that his soil is very rich and well
drained.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
DOOM SMALL COIN

transaction does not result in even
money"
He said he thought the public lost
yearly from this cause 1.-The approx
mate sum of s39,00O,0OO"
Here's what Chicago things of this
financial question:
George E. Roberts, director of the
government mint before he became
president of the recently merged Com
mercial National bank, thought the
American people too extravagant to
appreciate a two and a half cent piece
if they secured it.
I'VE have one cent piece, and judg-
ing from the freedom with which the
American people spend money, don't
think they could be educated to use q
coin that would give them smaller
unit of exchange" said Mr. Roberts.
in this country all our units are
higher than they are in Europe. Our
wages are better; our standard of liv-
ing Is different. can't see that we
need two and half cent piece, be-
cause we have coins enough, and |
don't think the proposed coin would
be an advantage in trading"
Len Small, recently appointed
United States subtreasurer at Chi
cago, declared over the long distance
telephone from his home in Kankakee
that he had never given thought to
what would happen If we had a two
and half cent coin.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
SOIL SICKNESS IN GARDENS
Liberal Dressings of Freshly Ground
or Slaked Lime viii Prove an
Excellent Tonic.
(By w. r. GILBERT.)


Complaints are common from COM
paratively small and constantly crop
ped gardens anent the poorness of the
produce. Even such thing as a cab
bage is so fainthearted as to run
away on lanky legs as no well-behaved
cabbage should
All this is very annoying to those
who take infinite pains with their gar
dens and go to some expense In get
ting reliable seeds. All this may
occur, and does occur, where ample
manure of the barnyard is applied
to keep the soil In fertile condition
1t is in fact kind Of soil sickness
which ordinary manure cannot over
come, but actually aggravates.
One sees far less of this in large
gardens for the simple reason that the
larger area gives much wider range
and rotation of cropping, yet even here
comparisons may often be drawn be-
tween the produce of the large areas
and vegetables under field cultivation
to the distinct advantage of the latter.
There is fortunately an antidote, for
freshly ground or freshly slaked lime
is an antidote for this. In liberal
dressings it will prove a quick and
lasting tonic to the sick soil, and not
only should this be administered when
spring opens, but as far as possible
dressed through crops of cabbage and
similar things during dry day and
lightly hoed in.
When lime can be readily obtained
In the best condition there is really no
excuse for the bad state of things de-
picted. and even If an extra price has
to be paid 1t is still the cheapest be-
cause the only satisfactory thing for
the purpose, and whatever may be
spent in ordinary manure, If expended
on time for several seasons would
work wonders.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
I,et nosteritx helm nav for the road

Let posterity help pay for the roads
The log drag is the best dirt road
maker.
For successful rotation clover should
be one of the crops.
Careful breeding is the foundation OF
the best results in bee keeping.
On the farm, the best time to do
a thing is just before 1t is needed.
Letting weeds go to seed means that
you are laying up trouble for next
year.
II dry weather sets in do not neglect
to stir the soil and mulch. This is i'm
portant.
Curing honey simply means a
proper evaporation of the water 1t
contains.
Adjust the knives of the lawn now
er to cut within two inches of the roots
of the grass.
Although the watermelon is a sue
culent fruit, wet is more damaging to
it than drought.
Half the plants which refuse to
grow for amateurs are starved to death
or killed by kindness.
Manure will not waste as much
fertility in the field as 1t will in the
average farm barnyard.
Cabbage and all other plants of the
cabbage family require a very fertile
and cool, moist soil for good growth.
Carrots are splendid for folks who
need iron in their blood. One of the
best ways to get it is to eat these nice
roots.
Sunshine, rainfall and temperature
are three important factors In canta.
loupe culture beyond the control of the
grower.
If your beet rows are too thick, pull
out some and boil them for greens.
Nothing better in the world for this
purpose.
Never save beans for seed from
rusty or diseased pods, and do not sell
them for seed. This same rule applies
to some other seeds.
After the ground is plowed for
wheat it is a good time to haul out
and scatter all of the manure that IT
is possible to gather up.
Many growers do not attempt to con.
troll the melon aphis, but leave 1t to its
natural enemies, of which the lady
beetles are the most important.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
Secretary Birds From South A.
RIGA Do Tricks at Zoo.
Reptiles Destroyed With Neatness
and Despatch by Feathered Flying
AnlmaI-The Keepers Are
Astonished.

New York.-Two official snake kill
ers, who have been added to the col
lection at the Bronx Geological garden,
gave an exhibition of how serpents
can be slain with neatness and des-
patch. The snake killers are known
to ornithologists as secretary birds.
They hail from South Africa. These
two got here on Saturday. They are
the first ever acquired by the zoo man
agement. .s
The zoo keepers had read a lot
about the way in which the secretary
birds kill snakes, but they had never
seen the birds in action. Keeper
Riley, of the monkey house, was a
little skeptical about their exploits.
We'll" keeper Charlie Snyder told
him, there are several no-account
snakes lying around loose in the store
room back C, The reptile house. Let's
give the secretaries chance to show
u.s."
They did. Snyder gathered up a
small bundle of snakes, put them in
a bag, and call was made on the
newcomers.
Snyder opened the bag and pulled
out three-foot water snake. The mo-
ment it touched the floor the snake
darted toward the closed window, and
both secretary birds made dash for
the snake The male reached the rep
tile first. Down came the foot of the
secretary bird on the snakes back
just behind the head, and in an in
stant about two feet of tail was twist
ing around the birds legs. There was
a severe peck or two, and little was
left OF the water snakes head.
The tail slowly unwound itself, and
both the male and female began to
make meal Of the dead reptile.
That's about the quickest work
ever saw" said Snyder. and Riley ad-
mitted that his doubts had been re-
moved.
When the birds had finished their
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
A Rock for a Stone.

"Quit that!" screams the wife of the
man, when he begins rocking the boat.
Il never thought | was married to a
ck-the-boat-idiot."
You're not, Maria" explained the
man, earnestly. I'm simply paying
you in your own coin.''
What do you mean?"
Didn't you bake cherry pie for
me, and didn't break tooth on g
seed found in it?"
"Yes, but"
well, if thereafter you'll stone the
cherries I'll not rock the boat
But the wretched woman, realizing
that she was linked for life to pun
ster, began rocking the boat herself In
desperation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-21
WlNSTED FISH YARN IS GOOD
Haul in Finny Thief and Rec.
ognlze Tackle 1t Stole Five
Years Ago.

Winsted, Conn.-Moses G. Butler Of
West Cornwall, while fishing in Cream
Hill lake, five years ago, rested his
rod across the bow of the boat to
light his pipe. A large fish seized
the bait and the pole disappeared.
John Patterson. w. n Bosler, E. D.
Cartwright and w. H. Tully were fish
ing on the same lake recently when
Mr.. Patterson had bite. After half
an hour the bass, which weighed six
and one-half pounds, was landed.
A hook was found fastened through
the roof of the fish's mouth. attached
to q second line. The line was drawn
In and at the end was found a rod,
which Cartwright readily recognized
as the rod which Butler had lost five
pears ago