Bellefonte, Pa., May 17, 1912. “POR EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST.” “What in the world has gone with that Mars, papers informed us was a ance | of wide-spread interest. However, our | wonder at the disappearance of the star was merely in passing, our conversation tion kept touch with the great world without by means of those magazines and ac- commodating Jotiodicals hick ; t the of thespherein orm for og nt of the busy and the re- mote, and with stories reflecting the manners and morals of the day. Even with these aids there were wide gaps in their knowledge of the outer civilization, missing links, new coinage of words, inverted meani inexplicable changes in customs fam in their girl- hood, still greater changes in the spiritual and ethical outlook of the day. They went to town to vote at the appointed season, but this was all in the day's work; as to that creature, the new wom- an, of whom had read so much, they were sorely perplexed. Thus there was an infinitude of talk as we endeavored to bring our two diverse civilizations within one another's comprehension. ; For their environment was as inexplic- able to me, just out of the whirlpool in which I had so nearly been engulfed, as mine to them. I had come from seething centre of things, days and nights of bridge and other lady-like dissipations, of breathless runs in motor-cars to keep pace with my kind; this on my part. On the part of my family, the see-saw of the Je ] Jas uosed Low now low by forces my con- trol. One day we were rolling Bh the wealth of the sanguine, the next buried by the woes of the male Cassandras of the household, who saw the country on Ee gratifying ca 0 moment, and now, despairing before the heaping up of the monthly bills. When the warm days came a friendly young doctor took me in hand. “Yournerves are fiddle-strings. Beat it. You for the simple life. Three months at least, better six.” I took it as all medical advice because it fell in with my inclinations. I came to San Chri here except in emergencies we did nothing but eat, sleep, and talk; and talk like a rivulet overflowed the islets of eating, and even the longer straiciies of loop. This even- ing it lowed Salina had begun y enough. Do nice women smoke cigarettes?” “Well, yes.” “You don't.” “Thanks for the implication. I can't. The tobacco always gets in my mouth.” “It seems incredible that women who wear lingerie gowns should smoke like men.” “She's thinking of her latest heroine,” Elena suggested. Saat aye lingerie gowns to do with it, Salina?” I “They seem to me to lack the dramatic : 5s i NE : : : | 3 : J spe 5 li t : Elena. “Not at all,” Maria whispered back. “She is for the ether.” “Cocktails, an artificial stimulus to the te, and are taken by women as well as men,” Salina went on in her Johnsonian man- ner. “Certainly. Handed about before din- ner,” I admitted. “Tossed down not drank—not a mo- ment for wit or repartee,” she supple- mented. “Of course, in a healthy state of society such an artificial stimulus not be needed. Compared with cigars and toddies, cocktails and and istications all indi- 2 3 8 “Both cigarettes and cocktails are brief,” I teasingly pleaded in extenuation. “Yes, they belong to a hurried, breath- less age, the age of get-rich-quick Scheines, the success of the short story, and the day,” she sighed. “Culture?” I protested. “That's another pair of shoes. Nowadays one only thinks | of culture in connection with bacilli.” “There it is n. Liberties with the open | very language. constant perversion.” ‘What do you mean?” Elena, who was | the student and read book reviews, broke in. “I always thought culture was such a decent word, Out here we lower our voices when we utter it.” ; “Then don't do it again. Scream it. Toss it to the heavens.” “What then we say?” she and Maria chimed ther. toge “Forget it,” 1 cried shamelessly, in what was to them an unknown tongue and with insane gesture. By these tokens I knew that the crys. talline air and ranch life came so much nearer things elemental than I had ever encoun had laid hold on me—aided, I confess, BY something of the hysteria of alti high gi had left her chair to suggest to a wandering young rooster that it was time for ens, at least, to be in bed. When she had settled herself I continued: “Life with you is a return to simple elements. Here there are no programmes. You meet things when you come to them. Each event is the result of a new combi- nation of circumstances and must be dealt with accordingly. If you have any standards to which things may be re- ferred, I haven't encountered them. It means a lot of responsibility for the indi- the | vidual. The individual is not important with us. Here everything must be de- Sided on the Spot, ald 38 u it had never happened before. There are no prece- dents. Half the time since I have been here I haven't known where am at. That's all right. Never mind the gram- mar; it's congressional.” “I haven't an idea of what you mean. Hlustrate.” “I will. The other day when we had visitors fram town you brought in the lady who does the washing and cooked the dinner, and said: ‘Ladies, this is our friend, Mrs. McPhail, who is kind enough to look after us,’ and we made a place for her. I must say she was very shy about it.” “Yes, Isee. She was born a Scotch peasant. What else?” i explana- tion. “Your guests last week were a well known cattle rustler—" “Yes, who scoured the country one en- tire night to get a nurse for me when I had the pneumonia. Go on.” “A judge, one of Quantrill's men, who sought seclusion in the valley below many years ago. fy sched) board.” “And Uncle Henry Jacobs, important member of a family of bandits, and has rustled your cattle many a time.” g : FE 3 gs 7 & : : 7 ; fei 1 | : g g i 55. | i Big i =F ggs ] 3 Z g 5 £2 3 9% ] | i ¥ g : § 2 g i £ g £ ; g 3g Pais £5 is : g : g ! i iH g E ik | £ sid Hy ji | | : g f 8 | 3 i i ist SEES i FEES iit | i Bed Bim EEE #885 i i $ i § 5 : i: sf g i sf g : $18 g g 5 : | f i il : ! : : Ef af ie I f gi if jit & i F588 it i { 2s 23 1] i; i TF 1 i i F : 1 E | 2 the stories I read, are | Pedro. ed it. “Pedro has killed somebody,” she said unwittingly, a tribute to his skill. “Si,” he w "Who? arroya. We dared not uke gother how ad ue t to climb in order t we gathered our about us and crept beneath. i i i g | £ i : 2 7 g 5 : ! § 2 5 } : could ¥ 25 id i his | | | pl . ne erecipitately until it shevpened aod ~~ BROKE HER PROMISE. Bhe Hated to Do It, but Then She Felt That She Was Justified. A widely known motor racer was asked by u (.iend If he would be so kind as to allow three young women to accompany him while he was trying out a new racing car, “Why. | can’t be bothered with pas- the soft cropping of a! sengers at a time like that, and espe “ quiet everybody,” Salina com- | bunch of greedy cattle and the stirring | cially with women. They always talk { map “When : i all about it. ou've been drinking, {" "Si, ma'am,” he breathed. “John Bucks | too.” | “The Dutcnman, your sister's man?" i “Si.” | seemed to come back to him, su! by friends. We were only four women, but we represented to Pedro the dominating Americanas. Elena had | left us; we heard her moving stealthily inside. “Don’t make a light, Elena.” ; “I'm not such an idiot. Where did you put that cold tea?” is “On the pantry window,” Maria inter- Pedro, half-breed Apache and Mexican, when the fencing of the ranges and the | reduction of the herds made him no | longer necessary. Since then he had | worked in a mining camp. But his devo- one sees it in the culture of | tion to the Americanaswas like the fealty | and were filling it. . of a dog. | “Pedro, they told me you had become ‘bad hombre.'"’ “Sj, ma'am,” he said humbly. “Elena, stop making that noise.” | “Drat that footstool,” we heard Elena | muttering in the dark. | Pedro swallowed throat, and sank back in his chair. exhaustion was the more Prev now | that he had found friendsand could vield to it. ! “John Bucks lick Juana, one, two times. i Then I lick John Bucks, and we have blood together. Today we both drink, mucho, and we make names een us.” Elena interrupted him with her strong, cold tea, and Pedro gulped it down. The tea tightened up his quivering nerves, and he sat up again. “Then we fight, and John Bucks knock me down and put foot on me. I bite his leg, and he make for knife on table. Then I get gun, but I can't get John Bucks until I make so far.” Pedro took up his rifle and brought it to his eye, to indicate that he had to have sufficient distance. “Then I catch John Bucks.” “Perhaps you did not kill him, Pedro,” Maria s! 4 “With gun I miss no man. He no move. | saw people run and I hide in hill. When everybody run to John Bucks, I go other way and get street car to Ter- tio. Then pone to Jose to bring horses to od bling, aul I Rear that boy cry loud, very lo e say officers watching horses—officers there already. Then I run to hills and hide until I find horses.” “Who gave you the horses?” Elena asked. “I took horses,” he r ted. “One already saddled?” doubt in her tone. “I took horses.” Evidently he did not mean to tell, “What difference does it make where he horses, Elena?” To Salina that he horses was the salient fact, not where he got them. "My horses better.” Pedro added. “You let me have short gun. My gun too long, if men get me.” "No, dr One dead man is enough,” said Salina. Elena inside and I heard her take the six-shooter from its place on the table and move away. Pedro heard too. “You afraid ot me, Mrs. Allen?” he asked. “No, indeed, Pedro. But, do you know, 1 think you would off. If yeu would like to give yourself up to the officers, I will go to town with you,” Elena sug- Pedro sank back tened in his chair and threw up his “Never. No, I die first. Never they get me alive. , Jai too long. Court too ever. “Sit down, Elena, and lower your voice. I j i ish a] 3 g= J i ceils iF EEFss : i E E i £ dbs 2 3 £ 8 g i : g i 35 8 8 i 53 5 i i g i i ; | | Hh 8 g i it 2 § f i I il 3 ; i : I | | § : g 82 ! sound of our movements which | painfully loud. | "Lie down,” whispered Elena. Prone on the earth we drew ourselves | up and peered over the ridge, | | | breathed into my ear. i "Watch that deep black blotch on the i other side of the rincon. I am sure itis | a horse and buggy.” We lay some mo- | ments watching it resolve into definite- | ness. | “I am satisfied they are there. Come.” | We crept down the slope again and | sped quickly along the smooth vega. "They are watching for some one to | light.” | We ran light-footed to the house. There { Salina and Maria with practised hands in i the darkness had secured a flour sack Around them were a | can of salmon, the half of a boiled tongue, i a Joaf of bread, and some potatoes. "Pedro, have you any matches?” Pedro, i with a tray on his lap now being fortified | by food, shook his head, and a box of | matches was added. | “Salina, there is a buggy around the | possible.” Elena took the little pistol from her pocket as she came up the step. | Pedro reached out his hand. “You will let me have the leetle gun?” he pleaded. “No more gun-play, Pedro.” "Let me see, Pedro.” Salina st up and fingered his catridge belt “Thirty-five steel bull-noses. Those ought to see you through. Pedro, get over into New Mex- ico as soon as you can. A clear twenty- four hours and you are safe.” “Where did you leave the horses, Pe- dro?” Maria asked. “Under the toby tree,” he answered, steer, had been struck by lightning, and was one of the ranch landmarks. the house while you finish eating. Have you any money?” Elena began to look for her purse in the darkness. He shook his head. “I can scratch together a dollar for you. You know we keep no money here.” “Your coat is in rags. Anybody would know you had been in a scrap. Elena, sweater. Yes, it is there. There, put that on, Pedro. That's better. Pink. Somebody will step on her, and she has the voice of a steam whistle. | Come, Pedro. Have you your rifle?” . Rollie and Thomasita seemed to realize the gravity of the situation and followed ria stood with the horses, where we joined her. “Make for Old Mexico, Pedro,” Salina counselled as they gained the horses, “change your name, stop drinking, and behave yourself. When it is safe to write let us hear from you, but don't write until it is safe.” back to the house. "Elena, run light the lamp. Is there any of that cold pork left, Maria. I'm as h as a hunter.” § 5 | i i HH i iil 11: i 1 : § g i 7 I i : 2 E : i 2 8 \ i i g i | s¥ 32 i a g i | | i 2° 5 3 : 3 3 8 g : : : i | i g t i : i : ; : : § g he il by ih i hE iii eiosld ii f i ; i gs £ hi | : i ; I : ; : § i i if i i 7 i i —(Go to the Bellefonte Academy * | minstrels on the evenings of May 17th and 18th and enjoy a good laugh. ————————————————— ~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. “I'll bring them round to the back of | | i i i had been on the ranch at intervals since | come for the horses. They suspect Pedro | he was a small boy. For three years he | is here. He must leave as quickly as | had been the cowhoy, and had only left | possible and get over the Divide before | attention. can, let me know | of the horses. These helped to effacethe | to me, and 1 can’t have my mind dis- tracted. It might prove dangerous. “Flat.” | You know.” “But these girls won't bother yvu. where we | I'll tell them not to. One of them is i could see the dusky forms of the broncos, | my sister. They are crazy to go; want but nothing more. We lay some time | to say they have ridden with you. | gazing into the darkness, when Elena | You know how girls are.” “Well, if you will tell them they mustn't speak to me while I am driv- ing they may go. They mustn't move around or do anything to distract my You impress this upon them. If they are willing to do this they can go.” The promise wus made, and they FARM NOTES. —Work horses shouid be allowed to run out in the pastures at nights in all weather except during very severe cold and storms. —Stuffing the colt with hay or straw,or any very coarse feed, will spoil its looks. Keep this ration down by the use of some grains and less coarse feed. —The horses standing in the barn in stalls on stormy days need currying more than in warm weather. A vigorous appli- cation of the currycomb and brush on the frosty mornings adds greatly to the comfort of the horses. —The color of honey is lighter on high lands than low; in the north than toward the equator; on calcareous than on ferru- ginous soils; in a wet than in a hot, dry season. A peculiar fact is that a mix- ture of two honeys is darker than either kind separate. —Texas raises more turkeys than any other State in the Union, and, where it is possible, turkey raising is the most profit. able form of the poultry business. The Federal census of 1900 placed the total number of turkeys grown in the United States at 6,500,000, with Texas supplying started. At one place the driver ran ! 650,000 over a water guard and there was a tremendous bump. He did not try to look around. as he was going at a rapid rate of speed. but presently he felt a timid touch on his shoulder. “What is it? he growled. A weak little voice answered him: | “Really, 1 hate awfully to bother you. i ' | | the lumps in his | Point. They are watching the horses. You | His | had better get Pedro away as soon as | | | | | | | meaning a tree under which Toby, al i i i i i : | i i ' I know 1 shouldn't und promised not to. But I feel | must tell you Helen isn't with us now.” — Harper's Maga- zine. ———c— A TCMB IN TOKYO. Luck In Chips From the Headstone Over » Famous Thief. Behind the temple sacred to the nameless dead and close to the wres. tling amphitheater in Tokyo there is to be found the crave of the celebrated robber Nezumi Kozo, who stole from the daimios long ago in the old Yeddo days that he might relieve the suffer ings of the poor. There is a superstition connected with this grave which has made it a much frequented spot. If a portion of the headstone is carried away it acts as a lucky talisman, particularly to these who speculate or are otherwise engaged in games of chance. It is usu. al for a person breaking a plece from the stone to make a vow that in case he is successful he wiil buy a new headstone to repiace the one he has mutilated. Many prayers must have been answered, for the stones are piled look behind the door and get my old gray | high on either side of the grave. and I knew it was. | an enterprising individual near by has the stones already for sale and only Elena, take the flour sack; Lucy, pick up | waiting the name of the donor to be engraved and then set up. A shelter has been placed over the spot, and from the roof hang gray lan- terns and pilgrims’ banners. A large us quietly through the house. Pedro, like | money box catches all the stray sen ‘an automaton, appeared to have no voli- | which go for the upkeeping of the Under Salina’s command he obeyed | grave. Gamblers and geisha are of- a soldier. Behind the garden fence ton visitors. Students before their ex- aminations ‘eel more assured of suc- cess if they have a chip of Nezumi Kozo's headstone in the sleeve of their kimono.—Argonaut. On Safe Ground. Whenever on one of his rare helidays Captain Goldby went to the city he took some young relative with him as a special treat. On one such occasion he told his seventeen-year-old grand- son, whom he had with him, that they would “dine at a real rest'rant and get a taste of fancy cooking.” ‘When they were at last seated in the great dining room the grandson waited impatiently while the captain read the bill of fare completely through with- out omitting a single article, whether domestic or foreign in title. At last he sighed and handed the card across the table to the boy. “You choose what you like, sonny.” he sald, with a sigh. “As for me, | reckon as I've already eat more herrin’ than any other man livin’ I might as well stow away a little more. It" al’ays agreed with me so far.”—Youth's Companion. Talleyrand’s Brevity. A single word was often sufficient for Talleyrand to make his keenest re- tort, says t'~ Kansas City Star. When a hypochondriac, who had notoriously led a profligate life, complained to the diplomatist that he was enduring the tortures of hell Talleyrand simply an- swered, “Already?” To a woman who had lost her hus- band Talleyrand once addressed a let- ter of condolence in two words: “Oh, madame!" In less than a year the woman had married again, and then his letter of congratulation was: “Ah, madame!” Conquered a Crocodile. An old traveler tells a tale of a young African gir' with great bravery and While fetching wa- : : : fit fe: § fe “Oh, in varying quantities.” “Well, that may account for some girls making better matches than oth: ers.”"—Pitteburgh Post. ignorance. His Wife {who was unable to attend) —Did the congregation agree to your utterances on the criminal rich? New Clergyman (proudiy}—I am sure they | @id. They were all nodding.—Judge. ~ —There is no section of the country immune from plant diseases and trouble- some insects. The orchardist and the gardener should provide spraying ma- terials and be ready for any emergency. Some seasons may not require severe fighting. but others will require vigorous assaults. —Phosphoric acid is the constituent of plant food that promotes the maturity of the kernel in grains. If the soil seems to be lacking in this constituent, acid phosphate should be applied as a fertilizer. From 200 to 500 pounds to the acre, ac- cording to the needs of the soil, is recom- mended. —Arkansas and Louisiana produce corn and cowpeas, and the hog growers in these States have found good profits in fattening hogs on peanuts and sweet pota- toes, letting the hogs harvest the crop. Central Texas grows for hog feed corn, Kaffir corn, milo, peanuts, alfalfa and cowpeas. _ —Commercial fertilizers, when intel- ligently used, revive thin and worn soils and enable the manager to start a pro- gressive system of rotation, which brings larger crops. Money can be made by using commercial fertilizers, but intel- ligence is necessary, as in all methods of farm management. ~The dairy cow has a wonderful capacity for consuming coarse foods and converting them into butter fat. Every farmer should keep dairy cows to con- sume the hay, grain and forage crops on the farm. e manure returned to the farm will build up the soil and increase the profits from it. ~The ration of the driving horse should be different from that of the average work horse. This is due in a large meas- ure to the peculiar demands of such an animal. It should be fed with much less roughage in proportion to its size than a horse at ordinary work The roughage should be of a different nature. —The horses’ feet should have atten- tion from birth. Trim them into shape with pincers provided for the purpose, using a rasp to finish up with. hen the colts are oid enough to be shod don't let the shoes stay on too long. No shoe should stay on a horse over eight weeks, and it should be reset once during that time. —A successful grower of swine says that he finds corn for growing pigs, in connection with milk and shorts, better than corn at any other After his hogs have passed the “pig” age he re- duces the corn allowance until finishing time. He considers skim milk the best conditions. Milk gives swine appetite for more feed, as well as furnishing valuable nutrients. —There are hea clay soils, soils and muck ing of 3 too-wet lay sol wil show & bad for a number of Itisi - ant that there a Igor, table matter near the surface. ig Z Hil | irl i i sp i sfc fi Se i 5 = hi 1 : ih 7] : I Lt i Hi ili i i z Hh ! : 5 : Lil it! ili i tit i § i i ; fi 2 | E : g £ 3
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