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The Dickinson press., 1916-03-04
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MULcHING.

+ Nitrate of soda can be used i.
+ with benefit on all crops. It i.
+ is Immediately available and j.
+ should therefore be only employ +
+ ed in connection with plants in +
+ an active stage Of growth. +
+ There is far too little mulch i.
+ ing done. Small fruit trees and +
+ garden crops are given most i.
+ favorable opportunity for attain +
+ ing the highest perfection and +
+ development when their roots +
+ are covered with a thick mat of +
+ leaves. hay or other suitable ma +
+ terial i.
+ A good mulch keeps down +
j. weeds and renders the soil loose. +
i. moist and porous at all times. +
!. and that, too. with little labor j.
i Of cultivation. i
+ i
4 4 + i 4 4 4 4 X 4 Il 4 4 Il 4 4 4 i
The Dickinson press., 1916-03-04
Dirt In the Milk,

Much Of the dirt found in milk gets
there during the milking. Any pail
that will keep out COW hairs, dandruff,
dust, pieces of dried manure, chaff and
hay is q good pail. The difference be-
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
THE SCENT LOAF OF BREAD

The scent loaf Of bread is just
enc Of many testimonies that the
day Of small things is an expensive
occasion. The master bakers Of the
country in convention assembled
have recommended that It be discon-
tinued and a 10-cent loaf made the
standard.
It costs more to produce the same
amount of bread in two Scent loaves
than in one 10-cent one. That is
the basis of the recommendation,
and it doesn't particularly require
slucidation.
Likewise, it costs more to sell po-
tatoes, and deliver them, by the half
peck than by the bushel. Who buys
Q wagon-load of potatoes nowadays
and stores them away in the cellar ?
Who has a cellar? 1t costs more to
buy all sorts of food supplies in tins
and pasteboard cartons than it used
to in bulk. The temptation is to
buy in very small quantities; and
that temptation is accentuated by
the. fact that present-day architec-
ture maksssthe pantry and the ice
box the ,containets of family sup
plies, instead of The cellar, the bin
and the vegetable cave.
In the case of the scent and 10
cent loaves, there seems no great
difficulty in changing the standard.
Almost any kitchenette apartment
has room enough for 10-cent loaf,
by squeezing a bit and putting the
graphophone, on dancing evenings,
a the stairway.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
THE MAINE ELECTION

Maine will vote on Monday, and
will give altogether the best test Of
popular trend, as between the candi-
dates and parties, that has yet been
afforded. But IL will be, as usual,
necessary to subject the returns to
acute analysis in order to make them
mean anything.
The "rule" has been that the Re-
publicans must carry Maine by co.
600 or better, in September, If they
are to carry the country in the sue
ceeding November. In 1875 the Re-
publican majority fell under 10000;
but in the succeeding November the
Republicans got away with a Presi-
dent, though they didn't elect him.
This is one of the apparent excep-
tons. Another was in 1880, when
the combination Of Democrats ana
Greenbackers carried the State in
September. General Hancock made
the mistake of congratulating the
governor-elect--a greenbacker nomi-
mated by the fusion-and for it he
was defeated.
Again, in 1908, the Republican
majority in September was under
5000; yet the Republicans swept the
country for Mr.. Taft. In that year,
however, the liquor question was SO
acute in Maine that the utmost eff
forts of the national organizations
to get attention concentrated on ma
tional issues failed. This year
Maine once more has the Liquor
issue at the front, and the result is
/ liable to be misleading as it was in
1908.
Maine is now the only September
State, and this year is the last in
which it will vote in September. Yer
mont used to be regarded as a bet
ter September barometer than Maine
because Vermont had no liquor
P! issue to muss matters, and its Sep
TENDER election ran truer to form on
| national issues than did that OF
Maine.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
RAILROAD MAGAZINE
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Recent Strike Situation Adds to At
fractions of Publication.

In view OF the recent strike situation,
the October issue Of the Railroad Mans
Magazine Is OF special interest to every
class OF readers.
big Railroading" Is the title OF an
article by Charles Frederick Carter.
which tells how science boosts the rail-
roads revenues by seeing that the COM
pany gets what 1t has paid for.
George w. Foster has written Of the
troubles which must be overcome by
the civil engineer In laying out a new
line OF railroad.
How the Government Is cooperating
with the railroads In reducing to mini
mum the danger OF travel Is told by
olin l.. Lyman in an article. Uncle
Sam for safety First"
THE Story OF the Passenger Train. y
In Ave parts. begins In this issue. The
author, Claude Washington. tells Of the
intricacies Of raiiroading: why 1t 10 nee
essary that train should start at n:0
and not Oil; what the causes are which
make for speed. and how the train j:
protected from danger.
The magazine contains complete
novelette,. MIR. Tom I'm Assists" a de-
tective story. by Charles Wesley san
derr.
other fiction stories are by Emmett +
Hale, William IL. Seymour. j. w. carp
and John n. Burns. The magazine goes
on sale today
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Hooray for the sir-cent loaf!
Maybe zen haze a s:I-cents
beer soon, too.
To Get Nowhere.

The tiny stints that get nowhere
Washing the dishes scrubbing floors
Replacing rug or stool or chair;
The endless trips through swinging
DOORS
These and a thousand other tasks
or equal import. day on day!
What knows she OF their irk, who basks
In stated leisure. tired OF play?
The floor so swept at early morn -.
VIII be to sweep again tomorrow:
The garments mended soon as torn
VIII tear again. No need to- borrow
From other lives In other spheres
The daily complement OF care.
IT'S love alone keeps back the tears
While chained to tasks that get no.
where.
You who can toll with high ambition.
You with your hope OF gold or fame.
You have your dream OF changed condi-
ton.
New luster for your tribal name.
But she-hefs is the part herioc!
No crown too bright for her to wear
Who toiling, aye. with courage stole.
Does little tasks that get nowhere.
strickland Gillian. in st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
!.SUFFRAG|STS LIKE.
SPEECH OF WILSON.
Touched Our Hearts and Won
Our FeaIty," Says Mrs. Gait.
Off for Shadow Lawn.
BY ROBERT J. BENDER.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Sept. g.
President Wilson left Atlantic City for
Shadow Lawn early today. weil-pieased
with the reception accorded him by tine
National American -Womsn's Suffrage
Association. s.. ,t.-
For their part. the suffragists, openly
were delighted with the things the
President told them. II was the first
political national convention the Presi-
dent ever addressed. but suffrage
made a hit.
1T was happy moment In my life
when the President said he had come
here to fight with u.s." Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president Of the associa-
ton. said today. Previously she said
to PRESIDENT Wilson: /.
You have touched our hearts and
Although the President. In his speech
last night. made no promise as to how
he would fight with the suffragists for
the cause" the leaders seemed salts
fed that he would tight. and were con-
tent with this assurance.
The President had breakfasted in his
room at the hotel this morning and at
3 o'clock rode away In n big automobile
for the Summer White House." The
party planned to make the trip without
a stop. and carried a light lunch with
them.
Acres OF flowers. which damned the
hotel halls and corridors. were sent To
Mrs. Wilson this morning. So numer'
GUS were> the floral tributes that the
First Lady Of the Land" was quite
unable to handle them all. and score,
Of hotel guests profited when she had
the flowers sent to different rooms
throughout the hotel
The Washington times., 1916-09-09

interdependence OF nations, peoples,
continents, was so well understood as
IL has been since this war compelled
attention to some of the details.
Craftsmanship Of the future Is
going to devote itself to building
permanent peace on the foundation
Of this social intimacy and inter-
dependence. No country is better
postured to hold It's own in COM
mercial war to the knife than the
United States; but no country has
less stomach for such a contest. The
British, long habited to the idea Of
free trade, understand this mutual
economic dependence Of nations bet
ter than do any other people. They
are not going into a warfare in
which they, and every other nation,
would have to be losers even IL they
won.
1t is extremely doubtful whether
the provisions for commercial re-
taliation, that were written into the
revenue bill in the last hours Of the
session, were sound business or safe
politics. 1t is a pretty safe guess
that il the British vote and the
French vote in this country had been
as important as the German vote,
those provisions would never have
been brought forward. They aim at
nobody but the allies. The men who
wrote them into the law would not
for an instant have considered such
proceeding II they had believed
seriously that our trade with Britain
and her allies would thereby be
jeopardized. 1t looked like an easy
way to shake q finger under the
nose of the allies, and thus please
the other element, without doing
any particular injury. ...E
The allies restrictions against our
commerce have been imposed with
all the consideration possible under
the circumstances Of war. No
blockade, no scheme OF commercial
reprisals and economic pressure, has
ever been carried on as an incident
to war, with as little interference to
normal and legitimate business, as
in the last two years. There have
been exasperating incidents, bone.
headed plays" unfortunate mis-
takes; but the big fact stands tina,
our commerce has increased by
leaps and bounds, that our best Gus.
toners are those against which re.
prisals are aimed, and that we are
the one nation that has piled ur
wealth in unprecedented measure By
reason of the commercial situation
that the war has produced.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Program of Catholic
Charities Completed

Announcement has been made that
the program has been completed for
the Fourth National Conference OF
Catholic Charities. which opens Mt the
Catholic University September IL. ana
closes scpteml,cr 20 Bishop Henry
Tihen, OF Lincoln. Neh., will deliver
tho opening sermon. Bishop Thomas J.
Shahan will deliver the address of well
come. following the opening services.
An informal reception will be held by
Archbishop Bonzano. apostolic delegate,
in the parlors of Trinity College. on
Sunday. september Il.
A meeting OF the woman's section of
the conference will be held on Sntur-
day, September l6. al $3.50 o'clock. a
special meeting of the St. Vincent de
Paul Society will be held the next day
to elect the president OF the Superior
Council OF the United States. to sue
coed the late Thomas NJ. Mulry.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
A SQUARE DEAL FOR PEARY

1t is pretty we'll settled by the
report from the Mcmillan expedi-
ton, that there is no Croker Land.
Admiral Peary reported that he saw
1t, and it was put on some of the
maps. 1t turns out to have been a
mirage, such as the desert places of
the earth, both north and south, fire.
quently produce. -.
Doubtless this development will be
made the pretext for renewal of
assaults on Pcary and his exploits.
He has been the object of attacks
unjustified by any reputable testi-
mony against him, and of efforts to
deprive him of the distinction at
taching to his success in first reach
ing the north pole. The fact that an
SAmerican brought that credit to this
country and that the scientific world
has accepted his claims and proofs
without uncertainty, has been of no
account to the persistent detractors.
Peary has been acclaimed by the
learned societies of the world as the
con1ueror of the pole; but his hon
ors have been questioned, his very
integrity assailed, by people who
ought to have united in claiming for
their countryman the credit due ia
him.
Peary, fortunately, had record OF
especial sincerity and honesty, long
before he won to the top of the
world. He had given the effort ant
enthusiasm of the better years OF
his life to that quest. He had come
back repeatedly from trips that hat
failed, and told a story that none
could doubt. He never pretended
faxed, or bamboozled. His failures
taught him the way to success, ant
like many another he built hi
achievement on his misfortunes.
1t will be charged that 'Peary in
vented Croker Land. Why shoult
he have done that? The very fac
that he made and published such al
error is really proof of his straight
forwardness. If he had invente,
this new land of the north, an,
charted it on maps, he would hav
been perfectly certain that soone
or later the truth would becom
known, and he would be discredited
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
ROUMANlA AND "0AS"

Your "gas" is cheaper now. At 20
ssnts it feels easier to buy a new
ksnkful than a while back it felt at
10 cents. Of course, it isn't; but
you've been thinking about 2s-cent
motor spirits, and there's a differ
Rnce.
/, One Of the reasons why it may be
hoped that "gas" will go still lower
10 the entrance Of Roumania into the
war. That country is one of the big
petroleum producers, outside the
United States, which overshadows
livery other country. The Roumanian
petroleum products have been 60
ing mainly to Germany and Aus
tria. It's hard on them to los, a
supply they SO sadly need, and it
really constitutes one of their great
misfortunes incident to the entry OF
that country into the conflict. But
1t helps the joy riders in this coun.
try. Roumania gasolene will displace
. part of the supply which the allies
have been getting from this country
and Mexico, and our visible supply
will increase while the demand goes
down.
There will not be any more 13-cen,
gasolene, at least not for long time
But 20 cents is likely not to be the
minimum price of the next year.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
HOmesick.
Turnbuli.

It's tough when you are homesick In a
strange and distant place:
It's anguish when you're hungry for an
old. familiar face.
And yearning for the good folks and the
joys you used TO know
When you're miles away from friendship
is a bitter SOFT OF woe.
But IT'S tougher. let me tell you. and a
stiffcr discipline
To see thep, through the window. and
to know you can't 60 In.
o, I never knew the meaning OF that red
sign on the door,
Never really understood II; never
thought OF II before:
But I'll never see another since they've
tackled one up on mine.
But I'll think about the father that Il
barred from AL that's fine.
Aud I'll think about the mother who u
prisoner In here.
That her little son or daughter shall not
miss mothers care.
And I'll share fellow feeling with the
saddest OF my kin,
The dad beside the gateway OF the home
he can't Iet In.
o, we laugh and joke together and the
mother tiles to be
Crave and sunny In her prison. and sh'
thinks she's foclins ne;
And ! do my hravest smiling and feigr
merry air
In the hope she won't discover that In
burdened down with care.
But it's only empty laughter. and there
nothing I'm the grin
Wien y1n're talking through the win
dow Of the home YOU can't go In.
Edgar A. Guest, In st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Married in Trance, She
Says, Sues for a Divorce

READING. Pa, Sept. a.--Asserting she
was In n trance. produced by her hus-
la nd-to-be when she went through the
ceremony at Capt May court house
making her the third wife OF Charles S.
Mead, then of Stone Harbor. N. j.. a
year ago. Lottie Mead. OF this city
brought suit for divorce.
She said she married Mead involuntar-
lily. and tina ne later told her that he
ma rried her as a joke. Mead's residence
Is unknown.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
THE CROP SEASON OF 1916

Something like a decade ago
"Uncle Jim" Wilson. then Secretary
of Agriculture, INDUCED the broad
generalization that the day had
passed when such a calamity as a
crop failure would be possible in the
United States. Better agricultural
methods, the wide variety of prod
ucts. the great range Of climatic
and soil conditions, would insure
against anything like-a national dis
aster; the deficits of one region
would be made up by the production
of another.
Mr.. Wilson was correct. There is
no crop failure this year 1916; but
there is just about as near to it as
the country is likely ever to know.
The wheat crop is now placed by
the Department of Agriculture at
GIL 900, 900 bushels, which is 40l,-
000, 900 less than last years. This
immense loss is not so serious as first
glance suggests, because last year
broke all records for large produc-
ton; but it is so serious that the
crop this year will hardly meet the
requirements of this country for
seed and home consumption. There
is fortunately a considerable surplus
carried ever from last year.
Corn, the basis of the meat sup
ply of the country, shows a serious
decline, though not nearly SO great
as that of wheat. Hay is, however,
very large crop. which is very i'm
portant in the circumstances. Po-
tatoes will be a small crop.
There has been curious story in
Germany, received with much salts
| faction there, that the Crop failure
of this year in the United States
was caused by the lack of COM
mercial fertilizers based on potash
which comes from Germany. This
however, is rather coincidence
than a fact. A study of the CROP
distribution of this country shows
in a general way and with some ex.
ceptions, that the best cereal pro.
duction has been in territory where
the largest amounts of potash
fertilizer are commonly used; the
poorest cereals have been shown ir
territory that has never used com
mercial fertilizer extensively, anc
therefore in which there has beer
no deprivation of it. 1t is probable
however, that in series of year,
without the normal supplies of pot
ash the lack of that element woult
have a most unfortunate effect OF
production.
From the standpoint of the farm
err, this years crop would be dis
aster were it not for the compen
sating effect of war prices. Every
thing is high and the farmer come
out reasonably satisfied. Wheat. a
$1.4O, is fairly remunerative ave,
when the yield is small; but il tn
} war demand had not interviewed t.
make an extreme demand, the farm
ing community would have suffered
The Washington times., 1916-09-09

Oft when sit by the glowing CRATE
And gaze at the burning Goals
II brings to my mind picture OF hell
Where suffer the poor damned souls.
Methinks ! see In the simmering heat
The faces of demons and ghouls,
Old Beelzebub sitting on a fiery throne
Surrounded by imps on stools.
And then as the back log breaks in TIVE
And the sparks up the chimney ny.
They seem to be souls who have
served their terms
And are tourneying up to the sky.
oh, tbs hard to believe that after this
life.
Men should be sentenced by Fate
To this region of torture and sorrow
and pain,
To be roasted like birds on a crate.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
SMALL CHANCE OF TRADE WAR


plication of common sense to con-
sideration of the commercial situa-
ton as between the United States
and the entente allies, to bring con-
viction that the latter do not de-
! sign or want a commercial war with
this country. That general state
ment is true both of the present and
of the epoch after the war.
Trade rivalries, indeed, there will
always be, as Lord Robert Cecil,
minister of war trade, said yester-
day. But his lordship might have
stated even more strongly his assur-
ance that Britain and her allies want
no unfriendly contest, no political
aspects to their rivalry.
The recent economic conferences at
Paris have occasioned discussion of
possible commercial war after mill
tary peace shall have been made
Suppose that the entente powers
actually consider such a program. II
would be utterly impossible for them
to carry it out, if they should mean
while have incurred the commercial
enmity of the United States. At the
very outset, their textile industries
would be dependent on the United
States for supplies of cotton. II
commercial war were directed
against both Germany and the
United States, these two countrie.
would inevitably be pitched into
each others arms-and Germany
would get our cotton. 1t is sense
less to point to constitutional pro
hibitions against export duties, OIL
to treaty inhibitions of commercial
favoritism as between nations. Tn,
fact is that anything like a com
mercial war would compel extreme
measures, and means would b.
found to fight with our friends ant
against our enemies.
| Again, take copper. Germany i
one of the greatest consumers o
copper because she is one of tn
worlds headquarters for the manu-
facture of all kinds of electrical sup
plies. The United States is cope
headquarters. Germany suffers to
day because she cannot get copper
Suppose after the war, because o
commercial reprisals, our cope
should suddenly cease moving to tn
allies countries, and should go t
Germany? What would happen t
the varied industries in France
Italy, Britain, in which copper is al
solutely necessary?
German looms, dyes and shipping
in combination with America
looms, capital, and raw cottol
would make short work of a cor
, test for the cotton textile market
II is needless to go into example
5 to show how absurd would be sue
trade rivalry; how mutually d,
> structive. If this country ha
power to dominate in some dire,
= tions, Britain and her associate
d could punish us IN others. W
t could be cut off from the big ar
n increasing proportion of wool thu
: we must import. Rubber would I
d taken from us, and nickel, so abs,
d lutely necessary in moredn meta
e lurgy, would be withdrawn, for Il
r original supplies are controlled |
e France and Britain.
|. There never was a time when Il
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Man Hangs Self, Fights
When Sons Cut Him Down

ALTOONA. Pa, Sept. 9.-Learins his
home on Brush mountain In an angry
mood last night. Harry Forester,
fifty. went into the woods. and when
his sons followed him few minutes
later they found him hanging by
rope to the limb of a tree.
When they cut him down he put up
stiff fight and il was necessary to
summon an officer and have him jail
ed to prevent him from taking his life.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09

Croker Land was no essential part
Of theory to sustain his claim that
he found the pole. He never claimed
TO have gone to or stood on Croker
Land; he merely reported seeing it.
1t can be taken out Of his accounts
Of the journeys in the north with
out detracting one iota from the
proof that he did 60 to 80 degrees
north. ---.t.-..- -
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON TODAY
Today.

Community carnival. Petworth wonen's
club. in school yard, Eighth and shepherd
streets.
Meeting In celebration 81 seventy seventh
anniversary OF birth OF Henry George,
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Thirteenth ana
Fairmont streets, s y. m.
Concert Georgetown Playground Band,
Georgetown Playground.
Tournament and athletic program, Berwyu,
Nd.
Excursion to Chesapeake Beach, Washing
I'm plate Printers Union, No. 9
Odd Fellows, Canton Washington, No. /. Pa
trIarchs Militant.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Sandy in Doubt.

Sentry Ito McDougal returning from
wedding Neutrality-suspicious., friend. ais
well.
McDougal-Thank We, iaddie. But We
dinns ken the guild wife or ye wouldna
be so sure.-London Opinion,
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Hungry Goats Raid
Houses, Eat Doormats

READING. Pa, Sept. s-Hungry
goats are causing a reign OF terror
in southeastern Reading.
Eight In a herd today were reported
to the police as wrecking garbage
cans. eating doormats and even en-
tering open house doorways and
chewing up carpets and clothing in
Railways
The Washington times., 1916-09-09
Effort.

He thought
To set the world on hre with MS pen. 10
search Its mysteries
And cure Its foibles.
He wrote
The same that hundred men had writ
ten before him, what oft
Before had been thought. but ne'er SO
poor expressed
And he wondered why the world did not
acclaim him,
And was discontinued.
The Washington times., 1916-09-09

what are the wild waves saying
Willie?"
She whispered to her beau:
But he replied, Now. don't be silly,
Its ju,t the undertow."
Turnbull.