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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
BEE KEEPING is DECREASING
United States Department Of Aerleul-
ture Attributes Cause TO Brood
Diseases Of Insects.

The census of 1910 shows a de
crease Of almost 800, 900 colonies Of
bees on the farms of the United
States. There is also a considerable
decrease in the number of farms re-
porting bees. Since bee keeping is
one Of the important and profitable
minor branches Of agriculture, this
decrease among farmer bee keepers
is unfortunate.
Bee keeping is fast becoming the
business of the specialist, and the
number Of men who devote their en-
tire attention to the business is rap
idly increasing. However, there Is no
eason why the average farmer can
not keep a few colonies of bees to
supply honey for home consumption
with perhaps some surplus for sale in
good years.
The United States department Of
agriculture attributes most Of the re-
ported decrease to the brood diseases
of bees which are now found widely
distributed in the United States.
Where disease exists the bee keepers
often lose colonies and attribute their
loss to some other cause. It is quite
possible to keep bees with profit with
disease prevalent in the neighborhood
provided the bee keeper knows how
to treat the disease.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19

WASHINGTON.-Austria has not,
w according to the United States
geological survey, a world monopoly
In the production of radium, as was
stated in a consular report from W. l..
LooWnle of Carlsbad. This report re-
corded the purchase of the only two
mines under private ownership pro-
ducing the ores from which radium
is made. The purchase price was
stated to be 5000, 600, and to complete
the world monopoly in radium by the
Austrian government.
The geological survey announces
that this monopoly is a myth. It is
true that the Austrian mines and the
Austrian government heretofore have
furnished the bulk of the radium salts
existing in the world, but at present
radium is being manufactured in three
other countries, including the United
States.
Sweden is producing radium from
kolm, the English are producing it from
mines in Wales, and it is extracted
also from ores brought from the
United States. There is a large de-
post of radium producing ore in west
ern Colorado, and it is reported that
some is being produced in Australia.
The Colorado deposits produce
uranium and vanadium, the latter an
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19

n UARTERS for the famous African
" collection of Theodore Roosevelt
are to be provided in the National mu-
scum at Washington, and work is pro-
ceeding at a lively rate. The National
museum, together with the Smith
sonian institution, will, in a few years,
contain the most interesting collection
in the world, not excepting that of the
famous British museum in London.
Side by side with the regular prog
ress in this field m the report of
an ancient mummy found in a newly
opened tomb at Abydos in Egypt; and
no sooner had the telegraph news
reached Washington than a syndicate
was formed to bring it on for exhibit
ton in this country, reminding us of
the day when Barnum alone was ready
10 Gxpend money and effort to secure
such curiosities, and discovered the
petrified giant man" Now there is
an association of scientists and ex-
perts organized to secure these val
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
USE FOR ELECTRIC TRUCKS
Boston Terminal Railroad Company
Employs Electricity for Handling
Baggage and Freight.

Small electric trucks are used for
the South station, Boston, for handl-
ling both freight and baggage.
The adoption Of the electric truck
has been brought about by the huge
volume of material handled at this
railway terminal. When the freight
was handled by hand, it was almost
impossible to properly take care of it.
These trucks are built low to the
ground, and have a wheel base of 81
inches. A platform is provided on
which the operator may stand when
the truck is in service. The battery
box is located directly under the plat
form, but In such a position as will
not interfere with the wheels in max
ing the sharp turns to which the truck
Is subjected.
Fol this class Of work the cleo
trio vehicle has been found ideal in
every respect. The simple and easy
control, the reliability, the safety and
lack Of any d~isagreeable odors or
noise, are the reasons why it has been
adopted in Boston.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Test for Acid Soil.

A common, simple and inexpensive
test for acid soil is by the use of lit
mus paper. A piece of moist soil is
taken, broken in two, and a piece OF
blue litmus paper pressed between
the two halves and left for 90 min
utes or half an hour. At the end Of
this time the pieces are again pulled
apart. the paper removed and allowed
to dry. If the paper is red Or nearer
red than it was before placing in the
soil, it is an indication of the pres
ence of acid. This is also a sign that
finely ground limestone will benefit
such a soil. For five cents, sufficient
blue litmus paper can be secured,
from your druggist, to make a thor
ough test for acid on a quarter SEQ
ton.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Simplicity Bee Feeder.

brood rearing, and the first pollen
bearing flowers are worked on by the
bees.
l don't know what a bee could get
out of flour unless it would be some
thing like pollen, but bran, shorts or
-four placed in a box near the hives
will o o be a working mass of bees.
They will continue to work on this
till there is an abundance of flowers,
and l have never known any i'll eff
fects from feeding it to them. After
they have worked on it the bran or
-four appears drier, but is still fit for
animals.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Keeping Bees.

The census shows a decrease Of
almost 100000 colonies of bees on
the farms of the United States. There
is also a considerable decrease in
the number of farms reporting bees.
Since bee keeping is n Of the i'm
portant and profitable minor
branches of agriculture, this decrease
among farmer bee keepers is unfor-
tunate. No returns are available for
bee keepers in towns and cities.
Bee keeping is fast becoming the
business of the specialist and the
number of men who devote their en-
tire attention to the business is rap
idly increasing. However, there is no
reason why the average farmer can
not keep a few colonies of bees to
supply honey for home consumption
with perhaps some surplus for sale
in good years.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19

downward so suddenly it appeared to
be a solid shaft of black, so rapid
vas its flight. Just as the last word
was out of Mr.. Groner's mouth the
hammer smacked against the side
walk. 1t sounded like a rife shot,
and the two men didn't have a chance
to dodge an inch.
The hammer, however, bounded high
in the air and leaped into the street,
where it broke in two.
A few minutes later a scared iron
worker appeared at the front door of
the Munsey building.
You didn't see anything of a ham
mer, did you?" he asked.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Something Dropped" 1t Was a Hammer

A N ironworker, swinging between
"A earth and sky from a steel beam
on the top of the Munsey building.
near Fourteenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, dropped a heavy rivet-
ing hammer shortly after noon the
other day, and then had almost an at
tack of heart failure when he realized
what that hammer would do if it hit
some one on the street below.
Just as the ironworker dropped the
Implement, Judge J.. A. c. Groner of
Norfolk, president of the Benning Sand
and Gravel company, was walking in
front of the building, talking to his
old friend, Judge R. A. Wade of San
Francisco. They were stepping brisk
ly along, about a foot and a half apart.
Mr.. Groner was saying:
"And let MI tell you, judge. that
when that Chicago convention gets
going you're going to hear something
drop"
B-i-f-f!
The heavy riveting hammer shot
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Electricity Cheap as OIL.

To popularize lighting n heating
by electricity, various plans are being
tried by foreign electric stations. In
Bremen a limited current is offered
to small users, making it practicable
for a workman's family to use a spect-
fled number of lamps-say, three OF
sixteen candle power-and no more;
the cost to be about the same as that
for oil lighting. The house may be
wired for any number of lamps, the
current limiter preventing the use OF
more than the contract number at
one time. In Vienna, the municipal
plant is seeking to encourage electric
baking, and provides free ovens for
local bakeries, guaranteeing that the
electric current shall not cost more
than sources of heat hitherto en-
ployed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
MA8HHE88AB M68HANA8HaANHM
When Spring Came
Upright, 1917, by Associated Literary Press
By JEANNE O. LOIZEAUX

He began to shake off winter, and take
on newness Of life. He told himself
that he needed aid and exercise, that
he had been a fool to let a girl spoil
everything for him.
One morning he deliberately left the
office and set off for a walk. He walk
ed miles. First he avoided Betty's
house, and then came back and made
himself pass 1t. The sun was hot, and
little leaves, like a green mist,
beginning to wreathe the trees.
So it was that he came upon her,
as once before. But this time she was
alone, her arm up against a great tree
trunk her face hidden in'the arm. He
came a little nearer. She was mani
fectly crying. Betty crying! He could
not help letting everything but his old
love for her melt away like the win
ter's snow.
He was behind her in an instant,
taking her by the shoulders, turning
her around to face him. She resisted
at first, but did not try to conceal the
tears in her eyes.
"If-he makes you unhappy I'll
shake the life out Of him!" he said.
At best Washburn could never
love you as l always have"
What do you mean, William Fail
ing!" Her eyes were wide with utter
establishment.
Aren't you-engaged to him? l
saw him-kissing your hands-you
don't allow things of that sort for moth
ing" Her look stopped him. Light
had come to her. And the man saw
her love for him. She had to push him
away with both hands.
"You-saw that? The made me
refuse him again. 1 had just told him
there was somebody else. l didn't let
him take my hands-he just did 1t.
That was the instant you chose to see!
If you had waited! And then-never
to come neal me again, or send me a
world" She put her arm up over her
face with the gesture of a child.
"Oh," he said, s~heltering her in his
arms. IF you knew what 1 have been
through"
She gave a queer little laugh.
"As if 1 didn't know" she answered
happily Anything in words, however
crude and commonplace, after the win
ter's icy silence was a Joy to them. 1t
was probably silly, but the whole
world about them had gone silly-if it
is silly to be utterly happy for no par
ticular reason save that spring has
come.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Radium Quest Interesting the Scientists

essential in making some Of the new
for the vanadium, but the ore carries
two OF three per cent. of uranium.
Some idea can be had of the micro
scopic trace of radium in the original
ore from the fact that ten tons of the
uranium has to be handled to get
between 20 or 80 milligrams of radi-
um.
There are no very exact statistics
Of radium available, but the whole
quantity in the world, according to
the geological survey, is probably not
over two or three ounces. AS to the
value, it is largely nominal like that
of the biggest diamonds. 1t is worth
whatever the holders a get for it.
Sir William Ramsey, the head of the
English corporation producing radi-
UNI, said about a year ago that it was
worth $4,000 900 sterling a pound. In
his last report on the subject he had
knocked off 10000, 900 sterling on
this estimate, but a little variation
like that was not thought to matter
when there was no appreciable frac-
ton of a pound Of the stuff in ex-
iStence.
What is more to the purpose in
fixing the value is the fact that there
are now several radium banks in the
world where tubes containing a micro
scopic speck Of radium are stored and
rented out to physicians at $40 a day.
Even then there Is little known about
the medical value of radium. 1t is
known to be of value in treating
lupus, which is a form of tuberculosis
attacking the tissues, usually of the
face.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Witty Remark on Stump Is Credited
With Having Much to Do With
His Election.

When the Democrats of Tennessee
were searching for a suitable candi-
date for the governorship IN their tick
ct, the name of Senator Bob" Taylor
was mentioned. By some the idea OF
nominating Taylor was received with
wild enthusiasm, but one faction of
the Democrats let out this cry:
"Give the state a business governor
and a business government. What does
Taylor know about business?"
Taylor, it may be mentioned, is one
of the grandest performers on the
fiddle since the time of Nero, and he is
not regarded as a deep student of
business.
He was nominated and took the
stump in an effort to convince the
people that he should be elected. In
a little town where he was billed to
speak his attention was called to an
article In a newspaper which claimed
that he was inexperienced in the In
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Bees and ~
FdrmNOfeS

Poultry manure is a fine dressing
for the vegetable garden.
A practical system of rotation can
be worked out for every farm.
Poultry n is particularly
good for forcing the growth of onions.
Sheep-killing dogs and e~gg-sucking
dogs make real nice soft robes and
rugs. Tan their hides,
The size of the farm is of not so
much Importance as the manner in
which the work is done.
Too much care can hardly be taken
in making sure that no weed seeds
are sown with you grain seed.
1t is well to remember that COM
mercial fertilizers should not replace
farm manures, but simply reinforce
them.
H~ollyhocks and golden-glow may be
grown along the fence at the back
or side of the house, and require but
little room.
Squash bugs may be trapped by
laying shingles neal the plants. The
bugs will be found under them early
in the morning.
Rotation of crops is one of the
simple, practical methods of increas-
ing the productivity of the farm and
distributing labor.
There is but little fertilizing value
in coal ashes. but they will improve a
stiff clay soil by putting it in better
physical condition.
There are very few farms on which
additional labor expended in prepar-
ing the seed-bed would not yield
handsome returns.
The life of a bee during the busy
season is very short. Often during
the honey season they do not live
longer than six or eight weegs.
If you are not already practicing
rotation in your farming, now is a
good time to work u a systematic
cropping scheme for your farm
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
She gave a queer little laugh.
NO PLACE FOR IDLE WOMAN
She Must Join the Ranks of Workers
or Be Left to Wither in Utter
Loneliness.

Every one nowadays recognizes the
absurdity Of idleness. For what could
be more ridiculous than the idle wom-
an who can find no M to idle with
her? So strenuous has modern life
become that idleness is completely
shorn of its charm, and the girl who
either by nature or cultivation O
sesses an idle temperament is apt to
find herself an outsider.
She must do something and do it
well if she does not wish to wither of
loneliness. There is no place nova
days for the idle oma Even in the
supposedly idle class of the very rich
she scarcely has a foothold.
Turn where she will, she will find
the woman of her set doing things.
The modern woman is stepped to the
eyes in work; charities claim her
time, new and philanthropic move
ments hold her attention and humani-
ty knocks insistently at her door. She
could not idle if she would and keep
her place in the rush of modern prog
ress.
The fact that idleness has fallen
into %disrepute and is disdained even
by fashionable women is a blessing
to the girl who must work from ne
cessity. She has no longer to explain
and defend her own strenuous atti-
tude. Her friends are too busy them
selves, whether from mere inclination
or positive necessity, to enter into
arguments on the Improperly of
mans work for women.
So it behooves every girl to choose
some congenial work and thoroughly
prepare herself for it, so if the day Of
necessity m she may turn to the
thing for which she is fitted and to
work which is congenial in order to
earn a livelihood.
The young girl of today has every
thing on her side. She is infinitely
better off than the young girl OF ten
years ago, and if she's wise she will
avail herself of her opportunities
Exchange.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
MAKING HEAVY WAGON JACK
List of Material Required Includes
Four Pieces of Wood, Three
Bolts and Two Screws.
BY W. J. GoRDON.3

Four pieces Of wood, three bolts,
two screws and one piece of wire
completes the list Of material requir-
ed for a very simple and handy
wagon-jack.
One piece of 2x4 hardwood, two
feet six inches long, for the main up
right; one piece of 1x4 hardwood, two
feet long, for lever; one piece 1x4
hardwood, with notches.
One piece of two-inch stuff 10 inches
square for the base.
The lever is secured to the upright
with half-inch bolt 31a inches long.
The piece with the notches is fast
ened to the lever with a half-inch
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Chickens In Luxury.

Reginald Van%derbilt's Newport farm
is n Of the best-appointed in the
world. Vanderbilt was showing a
young E%nglishman over his farm re-
Gently. and especial attention was
given to the chicken runs. The hard
wood, brass-mounted roosts, the mar
Bile drinking fountains, the healthy.
airy, inclosed runs for wet and open
runs for fine weather, the spotless
cleanliness of the translucent white
thing of floors and walls, the sanitary
nests-all this impressed the English
man profoundly.
Vanderbilt at the end of the in
spection said; well can you sug-
gest any improvements for my runs 2"
NO" said the Englishman; mo.
can think of nothing-unless." he add
ed, you build them a smoking room
and cafe"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19

IIGIlI[llINNNhM

Under the Sash for Ventilating the
Beds.
elephants, or peppers, the tempera-
ture may run 8 to 10 degrees higher.
1t should be borne in mind that
any covering, whether cloth or sash,
will exclude a part Of the light, and
every precaution is necessary to pre-
vent the plants becoming drawn"
The safest plan is to keep the temper
AZURE a trife low and thus retain the
plants in a strong, thrifty condition.
Where tender plants are being grown
under cloth there is greater danger
of injury from keeping them covered
too tightly than from exposure to
moderate cold.
In the case of ~cloth-covered frames
the covers are left off during bright
weather and the plants subjected to
open-air conditions. When there is
danger Of cold the covers are put on
at night, and during unfavorable
weather they are frequently left on
during the day. While the cloth COW
ers conserve the heat, they at the
same time exclude the sunlight, and
II they are kept on too great a por-
ton of the time the crops will become
drawn and spindling.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Larae Electric Gold predne.

The largest gold dredge in the
world, which has been recently put
into operation on the Pacific coast, is
electrically operated. 1t is at work at
Cal. The dredger is 1876
feet long and requires a motive power
Of 720-horsepower, of which 800 is
necessary to handle the buckets. The
current is transmitted from the shore,
being carried by means of insulated
cables supported above the water.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
WAY OF DISINFECTING BOOKS
Problem Of Preventing Spread of Con-
tagious Diseases is Solved by
Mississippi Man.

Every public library faces the prob
lem Of ~disinfecting it's books SO as to
prevent the spreading of contagious
diseases and in some localities this
has become quite a serious problem.
A Mississippi man has a novel solu-
ton for it, says the Popular Electric
ity. He places the books on a revolv-
ing rack against which small electric
blowers are forcing jets of air. The
breeze not only rotates the whole
rack. but also spreads out and fut-
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
BOB TAYLOR AS A FINANCIER

t~ricacies of finance, and was unfit to
undertake the work of funding the
state debt during his term if he should
be elected. To this Taylor made the
following reply:
This paper says l should not| be
elected, on the ground that | know
nothing about finance or the funding
Of the state debt. My friends, what
Is the funding of the state debt but
taking up one note and putting down
another? l have no hesitation in de-
claring that l am eminently qualified
for that work. l have been doing it
for myself all my life.''-Popular
Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Growing the Cosmos.

If you want to get some satisfac-
ton out of the cosmos sow it early
and push it along as fast as you can.
1t does not transplant readily, there
fore grow it in pots. Shift it along
until it is growing in a nine-inch pot.
Then sink the pot in a border and
from the time the plants are six
inches high until the end of July the
shoots should be pinched out. This
will keep the plants low and stocky.
Long after frost comes your cosmos
will be giving you your beautiful
flowers for the table.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19

by a Swiss oculist, is Of a new and
advanced type. say the Popular Me-
cEanics. An important feature Is the
fo<m given the active pole, for the less
the pole projects out of it's windings
the stronger is its power of attraction.
The field of operation, however, must
not be o~bstructed, so the new electro
magnet is made bell-shaped. The
windings near the pole are of the same
general shape so as to leave the field
Of vision equally free on all surround
ing sides of the operating point.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Infant Industry.

1t is difficult to believe that a bust.
ness which yearly manufactures more
than $3.50, 000, 900 worth OF machinery
and apparatus is but an infant. 1t is
hard to imagine what a child of this
size would develop to when fully ma,
tured, and yet every year shows that
it is growing with leaps and bounds.
In ten years the value of the electrical
products increased by $50 per cent.
and 1t Is still growing year after
year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
VENTILATE H0T-BED FRAMES
Temperature Carried Depends Greatly
on Crop Being GroWn-PreVent
Plants Becoming "Drawn."
BY w. r.

BY W. r. BEATTIE)
The temperature at which the air
OF hotbeds should be carried will de-
pend entirely upon the crop being
grown. Thermometers should be
placed at intervals in the beds, as it
is not safe to judge the temperature
by personal sensation. If lettuce,
parsley, OF radishes are growing in
the beds. the temperature should not
go above 70 degrees F. before venti-
latlon is given; on the other hand, fl
the frames are filled with cucumbers,
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Improve Efficiency of Telephone.

Improve Efficiency Of Telephone.
The efficiency of the present tele-
phone apparatus has been greatly in
creased by a Danish banker. Know
ing that sound is more readily trans
mitted through rarefied air he has con,
structed an apparatus to warm the
transmitter, whereby the air in it be-
comes thinner and the sound is in
tensified. Conversations between
Copenhagen and Nykjobing, a distance
of some Is miles. could be clearly fol-
lowed some distance away from the
instrument.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Electric Railways.

Electric railways have been extend
ed further and further into the coun-
try. linking together the villages and
hamlets, the cities and towns, until it
is quite possible tC travel from Boston
to Chicago via the trolley cars. Steam
railroads have been electrified and
self-contained cars of the gas-electrlc
type o operate On the many short
lines.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
Raising Squash.

A mar who raised a 300-pound
squash says he did it by the follow
ing method. Two wheelbarrow loads
of old hen manure was mixed with
the soil in the hill, being put in quite
deep and over a wide area. Then only
one plant was allowed to remain in
the hill, and only one specimen OF
fruit was allowed to remain on that
plant.