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Pittsburgh Firemen Have Trouble With "Varmints"

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ITTSBURGR. North side firemen are having their troubles with river r.mhs. leeches, rats and other such pests. The rats are especially bold

and pestiferous about old Allegheny city hall, the engine houses and patrol

stations. The fire alarm omce on tne third floor of old Allegheny city hall has a tribe of rats which the operators there declare are the boldest rodents they ever had dealings with. One old rat, the operators say, has a strong liking for soap and carries off every cake of that necessary article for cleanliness that is left in the bathroom. "We have set all sorts of traps for that rat," said Operator Heer, "and left, the most tempting of

CEDAR RUST DISEASE

Trouble Is Very Abundant in Some Eastern Sections.

Orchards in Vicinity of Cedar Thickets Usually Suffer More Severely 1 Than Those Which Are Situated Some Distance Away.

RAISE BIG TOULOUSE GEESE

Fowls Can Be Fed Almost Entirely on Grass Not Subject to Disease Like Chickens.

poisoned oaits for nim but ne actually laughs at our attempts to catch or poison him. Piukerton, who has the night turn here, says the rats gambol

all around him nightly. He says an old rat brought her whole litter or young into the operating room last night and put the litter through a regular gymnastic turn." The firemen at No. 43 engine house say they can't keep an egg overnight there because of the raids of the rats. The firemen say the rats carry the eggs off to their nests without breaking them. They kept watch over a -basket of eggs set on a high shelf one night and saw an old gray rodent -steal an egg from the basket, carry the egg to the edg of the shelf in it3 front legs, then drop on its back to the floor in such a manner as not to -break the egg, and scamper away on three legs to its hole, deftly holding it3 plunder with one front paw. One night recently when the firemen of No. 46 engine company reached . the Hack residence fire in Sherman avenue they found they could get no water through one of the nozzles, although there was notr'ng wrong with .the water supply. Unscrewing the nozzle from the hose they found a .huge river crab in the nozzle. Operator Heer had an experience with a denizen of the North side water supply that gave him quite a fright. He was taking a bath in the fire alarm -bathroom. When he was completing his bath a leech, four inches in length and hungry looking, came wiggling through the water at him. Heer gave -a yell and leaped from the tub as though a tarantula were after him. St. . Louis Dog Objects to Singing of "Tipperary" ST. LOUIS. When a dog his lived nis whole life in Teutonic surroundings, living on sausage and discipline and trying' to keep his place in the sun, despite the passing brewery yachts, it is not essential to his welfare that his neatly cropped musical ears be as-

' sailed with "Tipperary." This is illustrated by the fact that Dick Goepp-' ner of this city, who burst hito the wrong song at noon in the presence of his bulldog Stein, was entered at '.St. Luke's hospital before lunch time had elapsed. Although Stein had not been seen - harking in front of the bulletin boards or growling over any late dope from the eastern theater of war, it appears

that deep in his soul he has been harboring the instincts of a dachshund. Mr. Goeppner, who is the owner of the Park hotel at Salem, had no hint of the dog's military leanings and ihad always considered him a perfectly harmless and reasonably neutral .Boston bull. The attack, the revelation, and the quiet ride to the hospital happened t3Q quickly that Mr. Goeppner even now is not sure that the dog has established himself as a faithful and untrammeled supporter of the kaiser. He is -of the belief that if Stein is to support the German principle in the future it will De necessary to wear a suit of armor while slipping him his meals. It was just after twelve o'clock when Mr. Goeppner, with his feet propped up on a steamer chair on the porch of his hotel, puffed a cigar slowly and then in a powerful barytone sang: "It's a long way to Tipperary; it's a long way to g-oup-ow-fpi-lpstk-rpu-r-f ' Neighbors rushed to his assistance, removed the cigar from his windpipe and dragged Stein to the back yard.

The cedar rast of apples is more or less widespread in the eastern and central portions of the United States. It is reported from New Hampshire to North Carolina on the Atlantic seaboard and westward as far as Iowa and Nebraska. The disease is not found except in regions where both apples and red cedar grow. The red cedar is very abundant in some parts of the eastern states, and in those sections there is a great deal more of the disease than in any other portion. The nrincinal reason for this lies in the

fact, that, along with the abudance of

cedar trees, the large commercial apple orchards contain many varieties which are particularly susceptible to the disease. Orchards in the vicinity of cedar thickets have usually sufferedVmore severely than those which are situated at some distance. The injury is more marked if the orchard is on the leeward side of the cedar thickets, where the spores of the disease may be continually borne in by prevailing winds, but all orchards of susceptible varieties of apples suffer more or less from the cedar rust. Two years ago, the financial loss to apple growers in the state of Virginia alone was estimated to be upwards of onehalf million dollars, and this did rot take into account the loss due to

weakness of the trees and to impairing ;

the vitality of the fruit buds for the fnllowinir vear. which would surely !

- . t, j r r diminish each succeeding crop. The cedar trees in the vicinity of apple orchards develop, during the winter and early spring, a large number of corky galls, which are commonly spoken of as cedar apples. These

We raise the large Toulouse geese and find them very profitable. They can be raised almost entirely on grass and are not subject to disease, like chickens. They commence to lay about the middle of February and will lay from twelve to fifteen eggs before wanting to set. They will lay three clutches of eggs if they are broken up when they want to set. One gander should be kept for every three or fourgeese and if they have access

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Pair of Toulouse Geese. to a pond of water in the spring, almost every egg will be fertile. Tho sooner the eggs are set after they are "laid the better they will hatch.

We set the eggs under hens giving

seven e

to each hen. If the

weather is very dry we moisten the eggs with lukewarm water about the middle of the hatch and again a day or two before they are due to hatch. We nearly always have good luck hatching the eggs, says a writer in an

exchange. We give the goslings their first feed and water when tney are fortyeight hours old. The water should be kept before them all the time in something that they can drink out of easily, but can't get into. We keep green feed such as lettuce, mustard or tender grass before them all the time, and give them bread moistened with milk, pot cheese or wet corn meal, three times a day until they are three weeks old. After this we give them a good feed of wet corn meal

every night and morning and all the green feed they will eat until they are about seven weeks old. Then they are turned out in the pasture or in a rape patch and do not receive any more grain until fall. The goslings do not need a pond of water to swim in.

NOT GLAD TIME FOR WHALES

Resemblance to a Submarine Already Is Known to Have Meant Death to One.

"In the North sea lived a whale." That was long ago. Olivette in Audran's long popular operetta told about the luckless end of that marine mammal in melodious fashion. That whale met a torpedo, and, mistaking it for another and undesirable fish of strange shape, gave it battle with dire results. Nov from the same region we have authentic information of a whale which was mistaken, not by another whale, but by a warship, for a submarine boat. The body of that whale has been cast up on the Dutch coast full of holes made by three-inch shells. Perhaps a whale resembles a submarine more closely than it resembles a torpedo. There are architectural differences, to be sure, which would be noted except in moments of extreme excitement. On and near the North sea today, however, there is a great deal of excitement, and this doubtless perfectly neutral creature has suffered in consequence of it. There is no evidence that this whale, like his predecessor, "loved to swagger and bully," or that "the ladies loved him so." Not being m comic opera, he, or she. presumably had no characteristics unusual to the whales of sober natural history. No record of the incident except the stranding of the mortal remnant exists. One who would describe the encounter must use his imagination. A Kipling or a Bullen might be moved to splendid utterance by contemplation of this tragedy, but in a daily newspaper we- must stick to facts, and the ascertained facts in this case are scant.

NOT THE DESIRED HAVEN

Place Described Filled the Bill in Some Respects, But Also Had Its Disadvantages.

PREPARING FOR DEAR EGGS

Hatches From Which Early Pullets

Are Derived That Are Largest

Money Producers for Farmer.

Salt Did Not Make Miss Connelly's Money Grow NEW YORK. Because salt sprinkled on a $2 bill failed to make it grow to great riches-, Margaret Connelly, a maid employed in the home of Mrs. William Strauss, on East Seventy-fourth street, pursued an alleged fortune teller in Fifth avenue until he was

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CIT vested. In Yorkville police court Maggie told Magistrate Breen that the accused, Robert Noble, had prom

ised marvelous alchemy in transforming her $2 bill into untold wealth by a

magic process.

Maggie said he offered to toll her fortune for 50 cents, and then asked her if she wished to bo wealthy.

tPRSll Maggie did. and the man then asked

her for a $10 bill. Tho maid related that, after she

told Ulm she had only a $2 bill, the "fortune teller" graciously took it, put it, in an envelope and called for a salt cellar. He sprinkled the bill liberally with the salt and then handing tho shaker to Maggie, ordered her to shut hur eyes and shako salt on her money, while he solemnly intoned, "Abracadabra boobisslnius fondoo." Having completed this magic formula, he ordered the maid to open her eyos while ho was scaling the envelope. Ho handed it to her and sho could foal the crackling paper and the scratchy salt inside. The fortune toller told her to put the envelope under her pillow that night, and whoii sho opened It In th morning sho would find that sho was wealthy. Well, she was wealthy, iu experience, for the envelope, on examination the next (toy, was found to i ntaln tissue- paper and starch grains, the fortune teUer having switched Uu envelopes while Maggie's eyes woro shut.

A "Cedar Apple" in the Gelatinous

Condition. It Is Usual to Find This

Condition After a Warm Spring Rain. When These Masses Begin

to Dry Out They Set Free Millions

of Sporidia Capable of Infecting

Apple Foliage.

galls contain the winter spores and slowly mature during the warm days

of late winter and early spring. When

the weather becomes warm enough

and there is abundant moisture pres

ent, the cedar apples thrust out many

gelatinous tendrils. So long as the gelatinous material is damp the spores

do not' escape to any extent, but, if bright, sunny days with brisk winds follow, the watery tendrils are dried

and the spores are blown away from

the cedar apples. Tho wind, of course, blows these spores where it

lists, but only those which are carried

to apples trees find cond'tkms which

are suited to their germination and

future development.

How far these spores may be car

ried has never been definitely deter

mined. Our observations and studies

go to show, however, that if an orchard Is one-half milo from tho cedar, the

amount of rust infection is usually not great enough to bo a sorious injury to tho orchard. Any codar trees which

:iro cut after March first should bo

burned, since they retain the ability

to causo infoction for two months.

Baltimore's Police Dogs Busy Catching Thieves BAIH. MORE. Following tho lead of the great cities of "Europe. Baltimore now ha added dogs to Us poli'co force. Thoy aro two in number, tawny Airedales, not especially beautiful, but well trained and. as they already have demonstrated, competent guar-

THE PERIODS OF GESTATION

Approximate Figures Given for Com-

mon Farm Animals Considerable Variation Is Likely.

If the farmer wishes to benefit by

the high prices that eggs are cer

tain to bring next fall and winter, he

should begin to get ready for them

say the poultry specialists in the department. The way to have eggs

late in the year is to hatch pullets early. It is the early hatches from which the early pullets are derived

that are the largest money-makers

for the poultry producer. The early hatched cockerels can be marketed in almost any market in America when

they attain a weight of three-fourths

of a pound and a pound to a pound and a half each, which they should reach at about six to ten weeks of age,

respectively, at a greater profit to the

producer than at any other time of

their lives. The early hatched pul

lets, if properly grown, should begin

to lay in the fall at the time when

eggs aro scarce and high in price.

Pullets must bo well matured be

fore they will lay many eggs.

Pullets that start to lay in the fall

before cold weather sets in will, as a

rule, lay all winter.

It is the early hatched pullets that

produce eggs in tho fall and early winter, when prices aro high.

February, March and April aro tho

months to do your hatching in order

to seouro early hatched pullets.

Yearling and two-yearold hens do

not lay many eggs in tho fall, as they

aro molting at that time, and tho feed they consume goes not only to keep

up tho energy and life of tho birds, but

also to put on or grow a now coat of

feathers.

In properly matured pullets all sur

plus energy beyond that needed to meet tho requirements of tho body

Is available for tho production or.

OggS.

"Well, brothers," said the jmber visaged man, rising in their midst, -this is my first attendance, but I am a Socialist almost by nature, and 1 think I can understand, from the previous speakers, what you want. In the first place, you want a realm where everyone has to be good by law." "We do, we do!" cried half a dozen long-haired young men in turned-down collars. The speaker continued. "Where food and clothing give no trouble, and money does not exist." "That's it! That's what wre want." "Where everyone goes to worship on Sunday, and regular hours are kept, week in, week out." "Yes, that's it." "Well, I myself have just come from such a place."

"Where? What's it called?" "It's a place called prison," he said, and resumed his seat. London Tit-BitS.

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FOR THIS WOMAN The Price She Paid for Lydia E.PmkhamWegetableCom. pound Which Brought Good Health. Danvilte, Va. "I have only spent tea dollars on your medicine and I feel to

mucn Deuter uu did when the doctor

was treating me. I

don't suffer any bearing down pain at all now and I sleep well. I cannot say enough for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as they have done so much forme- I am enjoy

ing good health now and owe it all to your remedies. I take pleasure in telling my friends and neighbors about them."-Mrs. Mattib Haley, 501 Colquhone Street Danville, Va. No woman suffering from any form of female troubles should lose hope until sho has given Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound a fair trial This famous remedy, the medicinal ingredients of which are derived from native roots and herbs, has for forty years 'proved to be a most valuable tonic and invigorator of the female organism. Women everywhere bear walling testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound If you have the slightest doubtr that Ijydia JG. Pinldiam's Vegetable Compound rill help you,ivrite to Iiydia E.Piiikham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will he opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence.

The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day.

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Soissons. Soissons, whose ruined cathedral now takes rank with Reims, has a religious and a military history unparalleled among French towns. More than one great abbey took root in the town, but tlie greatest of all was that of St. Medard, whose abbot, in the thirteenth century, lorded it aver 220 villages, with innumerable manors and vassals. St. Medard drew in 1530 over 300,000 pilgrims to the famous shrine. One or two of the early kings of Franco are buried in what remains of tho crypt of tho old abbey. Every war that France has suffered from has visited Soissons with intense severity, sacking and bombardment following fast and following faster. A century ago, in ISM, the town was twice captured by the allies and retaken by tho French, to become, in

tho following year, a- cockpit for tho.

contending armies.

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WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Props., Cleveland, O.

MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN Relieve l'cverishiiess, Constipdisorders of

the st nach and bowels. Used by Mothers for 2b years. At all Druen:ela Cnmnlp mailed FRKE.

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CTiCt A niHJIir Iscnlyoul6wayslKw i V rt f Wmß S IWI Ei to earn money In spar tlnio. M. Strauss, WJ Taylor Avonue, Newport, Ky.

Dl,.;..,? You need notsulTor. Bond for & l(Ki KneuItiatlSIIU Kamlo Klnir's California Ubounift-

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Hilly aud Rover, as thoy uro

na mini, huve hemi assigned to out- -v Jrfh uni. WVl 7f7kV

ivniE puhrn aim iiuv-i uum mum ijl

formed men. They "sleuth" up dark alley and U the shrubbery and havo been taught to eat only food given

them at the police station in oruer Wjj -

to preTent their being poisoned.

They live ni the homea of tho patrolinon with whom they work, and havo

paKKes on the street cars, just Uko Iholr human colloague. Tho dogs woro Imported from England and cost, including transportation, $IS2. Thoy wore trained by Major Richardson of London, who trained tho pollco dogs of Groat Britain, Paris and Berlin These dogs search out tho undorbrush, aud do a turn around all of tho houses that are in tho suburban section in search for night marauders, if auy are found, or anything arousos their suspicion, thoy immodlatoly attract the attention ot tho policemen with whom thoy aro working, and a further investigation is made. One of tho principal tricks to which thoy havo been trained Is tho chasing and capture of persons running from the police. When .a prisoner begins to run, tho policeman turns tho dog loose with a MC.o got him," and tho dog darts In and out between tho legs of the runner and throws him to tho ground. Then ho tries to hold the man down until th .policeiran arrives.

So many inquiries havo beon' re

ceived relative to tho period of gosta

tion for common farm animals that we give tho following brief statement of

tho approximate periods: Maros, 11 months; cow, 2S5 days; sheep, ß months; goats, 5 months; sow, 4 months; dog, 03 days; cat, 50 days; rabbit, 30 days; squirrel, 2S days; rat, 2S days; turkoy, incubation, 20 to 30 days; guinea-hen, 25 to 20 days; goose, 27 to 33 days; ducks. 24 to 20 days; hen, 19 to 24 days; canary birds, 13 to 14 days. It must bo romembored that tho nbovo figures are only n.ppioxlmato and that considerable variation will bo experienced. For example, a record of 7G4 cows showed a shortest period of 220 days and a longest period of 313 days, with an average of 2S5 days.

A record of 25 sows showed extremes of 109 and 123 days while a record of another ten sows showed periods varying from 101 to 110 days. Tho age, breed, condition, care and feed of animals affect the length of their period or gesUtlon.

Write the secretary of agriculture,

Washington, D. C, for bulletins on

poultry management.

Worked Both Ways.

A. story is told by President Poin-

caro of an old peasant who was very

superstitious. A. neighbor said to him

one day:

"That potato yoi gave mo to carry

in liiv pocket as a euro for rheuma

tism has had a wonderful effect. I

haven't had & twingja since you. gavo

it to me."

"There!" exckilmed the peasant.

triumphantly, "I told you a potato carried in tho pocket was a cure for rheu

matism, and you wouldn't hellevo me.

"Yes," tho other admitted, "and tho

really strango thing is that it mv t

havo been exorcising its influence on

mo before you gave it to me, for I

never had a twingo before I began car

rying it."

TJFMTC BIr money selllnK our now line. fvll-ll I tfend cllino forsatnplo nd proposition. IL J. JUowman, 125 1'l no, FU Lcuvonworta.ua

Really Wasting Time. Plaintiff's Counsel- My lord, unfor

tunately In this caso 1 am opposed by

the most unmitigated scoundrel

Defendant's Counsel My learned

friend is such a notorious perverter

Judge Will counsel kindly confln

their remarks to such matters sis art

in, dispute?"

When It Broke. Bill Did you ever try to. stand on.

an egg;

a 111 Oh, yes. "And what did you learn?"

"That tho inside of the ogg wi

stronger than tho outside."

Appropriate Place. "1 hear an aviator's society 1

ing a meeting in this hotel."

"Yes, sir; in the sky parlor, sir.'

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TESTING SEED BY INCUBATOR Tray Made of Light Wood, Filled With Sand, Will Prove Efficacious Keep Temperature Right.

Whllo not in use for hatching, tho incubator may bo used for testing seed by making a false tray of light wood

which is niled with sand. The seed should bo placed In tho sand, covered and kept moist. Keep tho temperature up to, or above So degrees, and tho seed will germinate in a short time. Even when It is in uso for hatching, seeds may bo tested by placing them between damp cloths in a plate, sotting tho plate under the egg tray in what is known as tho "chick nuraery." Plants thus germinated in sand may bo transplanted to the hot bed, not only testing the seed for vitality, but utllizinc thoie o tested.

Crystal Palace.

Tho Crystal palace, which is to be olosnd In order to provide Quarters for

10,000 recruits, is not without other

connection with tho war. Had there

been no Krupps, there might havo

boon no war, and tho pahico helped to make tho groat gun ilrm famous. Tho Krupp establishment at Essen was quito a small affair until a two-ton ingot of. cast steel shown by tho enterprising Alfrod Krupp at tho groat exhibition of ISol attracted shoals of orders, and led to almost fabulous prosperity. London Chronicle.

Dread Year of the Tiger. Tho Year of tho Tiger 1914 was so called In the Japaneso calendar forboded calamity in tho prophecies of that people. The Japan Chronlcto notoa that tho anciont superstition ia confirmed by the European war, beside which the volcanic eruption at Kagoshlma was of trifling consequeuco, .

Uric Acid in Your Food

Even cWs can cat too much meat

Certainly, many people "dig their graves with their teeth" Few get enosgk

exercise to justify a meat aiet, xor

moat brings uric acid. The kidneys

try hard to get rid ot tteat poison, often a backache, or sonw othor slight

aymotom will show that the kidneys

need neip. ihu uiwiubu ivurwjt then, is Doau's Kidney Pills.

An Indiana Case

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