oe —— A Demortaic Wada oi Bellefonte, Pa., November 25, 1910. FEATHERS OF SNOW. Old Mother Goose is now shaking her feath- ers— She's nurse to the fairies who dwell in the skies! On her it depends when the nicest of weath- ers Comes down to delight all the little folks’ eyes. She turns from their cradles each wee sleepy fairy So snugly tucked under their covers of blue, Then throws off each counterpane lacy and airy, Just as we've watched often our own moth- ers do! 1 wish from my heart that she were not so lazy, But shook out each mattress of dainty white cloud Every day so the breezes, all sparkling and maizy, Would clothe all the earth in a mantle so | This : ol i ; | There was only one taint of disloyalty about Billy Houck—he kept his money in Sarvis Point Bank. : 5) k i = {Ee 83 i 5 1 Simmons had dow himself, and settled the accounts as deliberately as possible without obvious delay, hoping desperately that something few more of our farmers will just take { would habpen to check run. all their money over to Sarvis Point, it In the first hour two thousand dollars won't be any Time antl we have water. went out over fe Soimear, Zag son fhe ectric lights and street-cars—at | e came. In passi rom the TS Sectric ly Es at a Li ofa 0, from the “Funny, isn't it,” he continued, bitterly, | often 8 fave a quick, nervous glance out of for he had a little stock in the home the side window. bank, “how the very fellow you would | The cashier, following the glance, saw expect to stand by a home institution is that the banker's Jung wife was almost the first one alwa | constantly on the front porch of the new “Billy,” asked . etimes she seemed to be tor, as the farmer looked at a plow in sweeping, again dusting a rug; but with Newton's hardware store, “how's the | One excuse or another, she was nearly Rock of Gibraltar over at the Point these | Slwdvs there, her face turned toward the days?” Billy squinted his eye at the plow and | The money went faster the next hour. did not reply. | At eleven o'clock only four thousand dol- “It is all right to buy things when you lars remained. When that went the can get them handy,” remarked Graham doors must close. Only four thousand to a bystander, “but when it comes to | dollars between Henry Simmons and depositing your money, you can’t expect | bankruptcy, and it was trickling from a fellow to have any confidence in a little | under his fingers like sand in an hour- old town like this—no, siree! Got to take glass. Another hour at most and his it to the railroad, where the bank is as capital, his four years’ work, and the strong as Gibraltar.” "house, would go. ~ Many others gibes and criticisms, both His face Stew a little grayer, the lines direct and oblique, were flung at Billy. deepened, but his teeth shut tightly and Some of them were good-natured, some | his hand and eye were steady as he caustic, but he merely squinted his left A counted out coin and currency to fright- eye inscrutably and went his way with- ened depositors. out a word. Twenty minutes past eleven, and only The fact was, Billy had had trouble two thousand dollars left. The sum with Henry Simmons, the banker—or as would not last until noon. A line had nearly trouble as he ever had. He formed now, reaching from the paying- thought the banker had wronged him in | window through the door and down the a business transaction. Billy stated the ' steps outside. case briefly, but Simmons insisted the Billy Houck came to the door, walking bank was right. Billy withdrew his funds leisurely, a large old leather valise in his and transferred them to Sarvis Point. hand. ‘They let him pass, for they knew The banker offered the public no infor- he had no money here to draw out, and mation concerning the difficulty, and of they craned their necks along the line to course Billy offered none, for he lived up | see what he was going to do. to the advice which he had often gave | , “Windy” Jim Davis: “If you are e nearest the window, "won't you let me with a fellow, quit instead of blowing | have a turn for a few minutes sol can about it; if you aren't, shut up and go get rid of this money? I'm sort of tired on.” | carrying it round, and it’s nearly dinner- One evening in the autumn two years time. later Mrs. Houck remarked at supper: «They gave way, and Billy set the valise “I reckon it's a_good thing you took on the ledge, and began to lay out stacks your money out of that bank; they say | of bills. it's about to break.” ' “I want to make a deposit.” “What?” Billy looked up quickly from | “Simmon’s hand shook slightly as he his plate. “O pshaw!"” he said. “That's reached for a deposit slip. all stuff and nonsense. Henry Simmons ~~ At sight of the bills—it was an en- is good for it.” | couraging-looking pile, looking larger “I guess it’s so,” persisted Mrs. Houck. ' than it really was, for most of them were “Leastwise, nearly everybody thinks so, | five-dollar bills—the line wavered and and nearly all of them were getting their broke up, the men scattered round the money out when I was over to town this office. hey still held their checks, but a oon." watched the transaction at the window Billy finished his supper rather hurried- wonderingly. The word had quickly ly, took his white slouch-hat from its nail passed out at the door and down the by the kitchen door and said he was go- street that Billy Houck was making a de- ing to town for a little while. posit, and the deposit grew with the re- “Well what did you hear?” asked his port. wife when he returned an hour later. “Four thousand?” Simmons looked up “Hear?” He sat down in the hickory from his pad when the last stack of bills rocker and crossed his legs. “It's what | was counted. For an instant his eyes you don’t hear that counts.” He sat for looked straight into Billy's, and said a long time, his eye squinted thoroughly | things that made a lump rise in his throat. at the fire. “All right.” And there was much more “Yes, the securities were good—he in Billy's tone than any guessed but Sim- knew most of the big loans. The deposi- | mons. “Good weather for corn-gathering, tors would not lose, finally, even if the isn't it?” bank failed — but the stockholders| “All right, fellows,” said Billy, as would. It would ruin Henry Simmons. moved away. “Much obliged for the He owned most of the stock—all he had turn." was in the bank, so they said. It would | “But not one a the window. pproached ruin his reputation, too. “Hello, doc!” said Billy, noticing Gra- Billy moved uneasily in his chair. | ham, the horse-doctor, who had been in “I reckon a fellow might really think | line with a check for his balance of six- he was right when he was wrong.” he- | is remarked. | yo Mrs. Houck very rapidly that he isn't it?” might—too rapidly, if Billy noticed. | “And here's Latimer, too!" He got up and took from the shelf the ed his left eye at the dentist. little round-faced alarm-clock. you are getting your m out to build “What are you going to do?” an electric line—to Sarvis “Wind it.” He set the hand at three. | Billy lingered a few minutes, eyeing About Sudnight he got up and looked the crowd one after another Juasically, at the clock. He went back to bed for not one of whom approached paying- i to teller. Those nearest the door Slefp, then gotup began to i drop out. When the hands of “Billy Houck, what in the world is the reached ten minutes of twelve matter witb you?” asked his wife. “What men besides Billy remained in are you going to do?” ! office. One of these approached the win- “Just over to Sarvis Point,” he | dow. “T reckon I won't need this money, casually. “I thought I'd get an i after all, Mr. Simmons.” he rede- early start. You go to sleep; I'll get my | posited five hundred. The other man put breakfast over there.” ‘ back his two hundred. When Henry Simmons came down to i i the bank the next morning, the cashier threw up the sash, and as he put his saw he had spent a sleepless night. The | handkerchief to his face, i cashier had not slept much himself. | little flutter. Simmons was president Gf the bank, its | Billy Houck, who was passing down chief , and transacted most of | the front steps, glanced up the street in its business in time to see a little woman on the front He had 1 bank four years before, and it had prospered far better | exultantly.— Youth's g porch of the new house wave hand Companion. The New Prince of Wales. Young Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, heir-ap- June 22nd, and his old Prince of Wales the day, no doubt with all the tradi- a ring on his a golden staff in his hand, ac- Yo Edward got his sword and golden staff quickly than his father. The latter, though Victoria died January 22nd, 1901, and King Edward mounted the throne at once, did not be- come Prince of Wales until November That was a wait of nine and one- half months. Young Edward had to wait but 43 days. The title of prince of Wales does not belong to the heir to the throne by right. He becomes Duke of Cornwall the mo- ment his father becomes king, but the latter is uncer no obligations, save by an- cient custom, to make him Prince of Wales. The title dates from the year 1284, when it was conferred upon the young prince who afterward became Ed ward II. This Edward was born at Car- narvon castle, in Wales, and was the sec- ond son of Edward I. At the.time he was made ince of the Wash was Jot expected t he would ever sit upon throne of England, but later, the death of his elder brother, Alphonso, made him king, and so the title became merged in the crown. Since then it has been the custom for the reigning monarch to be- stow it upon his first-born son, though in several instances kings of England have ected to do so. e title carries no domination of rev enue with it, but its holder has a seat in the house of lords, and he may occupy that seat and cast his vote even during his minority. But this lege also be- longs to him as Duke of Cornwall, and so he gains nothing by being made Prince of Wales. The late King Edward did not he was 40 years old, and King George, so far as is recorded, never cast a vote there at all. The young prince, it is probable, least 10 years. The fact that no income accompanies his new dignity need not worry him, for the revenues of the duchy of Cornwall are ample for his needs, and it was but a week or so ago that King George informed parlament that there was no necessity for making further pro- vision for him. Chances in Australia. al ! hoya take his seat in the house of lords until will not appear at Westminster for at | A — J i : throne of Great Britain, | Farming the Water. With the increasing acuteness of the food question and the consequent neces- ; | sity of developing new sources of food | supplies the American farmer might profitably undertake a more careful cul-' | tivation of the water areas of his prop- | rding on | erty. If his lands inclose or border on a | and lake,around or along an unpolluted stream | | he should make his water iots yield crops as | i regularly as those he gathers from his’ fields and orchards. It can be done simply | by pianting fish and looking after them ' ! with even less care than he gives to his | corn and wheat. A 10-acre pond proper- {ly stocked with black bass and yellow : perch and carefully attended to ought to | i yield at least as much revenue every year | !as a similar area planted in oats and ! corn. | Many States are encouraging farmers | i to farm the water by supplying them i with fish for planting, cither free of | charge or at a nominal price. Pennsyl- | | vania appears to lead in this respect, and { this State, according to an official re- | port, has this year produced more young | ‘trout for distribution than have been i turned out by the great hatcheries con- | ; ducted by the Federal government, the : i Sumber being estimated at nearly 12,000, | In addition, the Pennsylvania hatcher- | lies have produced 223,000,000 pickerel, | | 426,000,600 yellow perch, 93,000,000 pike perch and 143,000,000 blue pike, besides | + 19,000.000 shad, 39,000,000 lake whitefish | and 120,000,000 lake herring. Unfortun- | ; ately the out put of black bass is not stat- i | ed, but it undoubtedly runs into scores of | millions. The farmer who proposes to | ! farm the water should give first attention l | to the black bass. 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In the first year of his residence in Aus- | tralia he paid all of his living expenses | and placed in the bank, out of his earn- | ings, the sum of $400. He said that he | had lived comfortably and enjoyed all the | pleasures that a reasonable man could | ask for. He spoke highly of the climate | and the character and hospitality of the le. “Australia is practically an undeveloped country. There are hundreds of thous- | ands of acres of good land to be had for almost nothing. The settler there does i not need cash in order to Seguire prop- | erty. If he has no money, the govern | ment will loan him enough to purchase | title toland, and all that is necessary is | thrift and energy. Some of the wealthiest | men in Australia went there as poor boys. I know of a score of men who today are among the leading citizens that had com- | paratively nothing when they landed. “No apprehension is felt among the | citizens of Australia of a Japanese inva- | sion. 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