EE — Demorralic: Watcha Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1912. CLINTON'S SQUAB FARMER. “Accidents are liable to happen in the best regulated families,” bemoaned Mrs. Harvey. “What calamity is distressing you now?” asked Clinton, who was spend- ing his college vacation at his sis ter's suburban home, “Only that we expect the Hancocks €4r dinner and the squabs hawen't come.” “How easily you women are imposed upon. If that butcher promised to de- liver those birds, why aren't they here?” “I didn’t order them from the mar- ket, but from a farm about three miles north which is famous for its young pigeons.” “Not for its punctuality, however! Cheer up, Girlikin, I'll chase down there and bring them back even if I have to have a squabble with some cantankerous old farmer,” said oblig- ing Clinton, who waited only long enough to receive directions, then went at breakneck speed on his com- missien, Clinton arrived breathless at a little piece of land which was an apology for a farm, for it was covered with old-fashioned flowers, a tennis court and croquet arches. “Where's the farmer?” he asked a freckly faced youth. “In the barn yonder,” grinned the boy. Clinton approached the barn intent upon venting his indignation, when “l Want to See the Squab Farmer.” to his surprise, standing in the door- way, a pretty young girl in a pink and white gingham apron looked up to him with questioning, sparkling liquid eyes. “May I be of assistance,” she asked, as he stumbled over a few squabs. “You seem ® be in difficulty.” “Will you help me pack these | squabs?” she replied in a well modu: lated voice. “Gladly! squab farmer.” “Then there is no need for a formal Form of Court Oath May be Changed introductiqn, for I'm that party.” “You!” “Yes,” laughed the girl. of the world.” “Well, I was wondering at your strange vocation,” acknowledge Clin- ton. “These plump little birds that you see here, there and everywhere mean - ¢hat I can continue my college course and probably go to Europe next sum- mer,” said the girl, who seemed to have all the charming attributes that Clin- ton admired. “I'd eat squabs five times a day it that would help!” he exclaimed en- thusiastically. Greatly interested, Clinton hardly realized how the time had flown until he loc:~7 at his watch. “By ....! My sister is waiting im- patient.y for my return. May I come agai. and hear all about the squabs?” asked Clinton, “and you,” he added to himself. Clinton's mind after he had left the charming girl was so preoccupied with thoughts of her that he was rather as tonished to see his sister coming to ward him with the words: “Where are those squabs?” “Where are those squabs?’ he re- iterated. “Mercy! I'll hike back and fetch them.” “It's too late now. The guests ar- rived sooner than we anticipated.” “Clinton,” she said, grasping his arm, “did you have such a dreadful quarrel with the old farmer that you | forgot your errand?’ “Hardly that,” answered her abashed orother. “It would exhaust my vocabu- lary to tell that squabberino farmer what I thought of her. By the way! Jane, why don’t you ever wear pink and white gingham aprons, they're so fetching?” “Is that the reason you didn't fetch the squabs,” asked Mrs. Harvey indig- nantly. “Well, it's the last time ! send you on an errand!’ “You won't need to send me the next time because Pm going there tomor- row on my own accord,” answered + wn ton. ———For high class Job Work come to the Warcmvas Office, J Besides 1 want to see the | “You look as if you had seen the eighth wonder | ASHINGTON.—Steam shovels are eating their way into the birth- place of Nellie Custis, granddaughter of Mrs. George Washington and ward and adopted daughter of Washington. For years the shovels have been bit- ing trainloads of yellow clay out of the flelds of Abingdon—as this estate was named by John Parke Custis, son of Mrs. Washington—and this clay has been molded and baked into brick for the upbuilding of Washington city, Year by year the shovels have dug nearer to the old and battered frame house where the most popular woman of the late revolutionary and the early republican eras came into the world and where her childhood was spent. Now the deep clay pits are but a few yards from the house and probably not many months will pass when the house will be no more. The clay ex- hausted and the level of the fields re- duced about thirty feet, the place may be converted into railroad yards by the Washington Southern rallroade the Washington-Richmond line, Abingdon was a great estate, but the house was never a noble bit of building, according to an exchange. When John Parke Custis married Nel- lie Calvert of Maryland he seems to have caused the erection of this am- ple though plain dwelling with the idea that later he would erect a house in keeping with his wealth and stand- ing in the community. Abingdon, be- ing a Custis home, was directly or remotely associated with nearly all the colonial and revolutionary fam- ilies in Virginia and Maryland. The house was built by John Parke Custis in 1778. It stands about 300 yards back from the Potomac river and about three miles south of Washing- ton. John Parke Custis was descended from John Custis, who came to Vir- ginia from Holland in 1640. The son of this immigrant, John Custis II., built Arlington hours in Northampton county, Virginia, naming it after Hen- ry, the earl of Arlington, who, with Lord Culpeper, held Virginia under patent from Charles II. Young Custis bought from Gerald Alexander 1,100 acres of land, part of which is now Arlington National cem- etery. He built Abingdon House and there in 1779 Eleanor Parke Custis (Nellie Custis) was born. John Parke Custis, an aid on Washington's staff, died at Yorktown in 1781 and Wash- | ington adopted Nellle and her young brother, George Washington Parke Custis. The children thereafter made their home at Mount Vernon, Nellie remained there till she be- came the wife of Lawrence Lewis, Washington's sister's son, and George | Washington Parke Custis remained there till the death of Mrs. Washing- | ton, in 1802. Abingdon House is pow | occupied by the foreman of the bricg- | making company and his family. ‘Chinese to Adopt | 8 HE adoption of the western cal endar was among the many changes ordered in decree issued by the cabinet in China, according to ad- | vices transmitted to the state depart ment through the Chinese charge | d'affaires in this city. The message also confirms the reported retirement of the prince regent and his return to ! the order of imperial princes, and the appointment of Shi-Hsu and Hsu Shih ! Chang as guardians of the emperor. | The message says that Chow Tszchi | has been appointed assistant minister | of finance. The department was also | informed that by a decree issued Chi- | nese subjects are permitted to cut off their cues. . When the Chinese government or- dered that the western method of reckoning months and years be adopt- ed, the date jumped from the 19th day of the tenth month to the third year | of Hsuantung to the 9th day of the | eleventh month of the year 1911 A. D. It was a long jump, apparently, and in reality the change to the use of the Gregorian calendar, used by most of | the great nations of the world, was a | significant step in China's advance to- ward modern civilization. For centuries it has been the cus- | tom in China to reckon the days of the year by the luna calendar, each | year having 360 days, and the months | having twenty-nine or thirty days, as | the case might be. Every third Jear it was necessary to slip in an extra | month so as te keep the season in | place and the years running smooth- | ly. Whenever a new emperor wl cended the throne the Chinese began | to reckon their years all over again. | The day of the year, however, did 1.t change with the coming of a new ruler, but it became that day and’ month of the first year of , and | the new ruler's name was given. { Chinese historians were compelled | to work overtime keeping their dates straight, for it was no joke to reckon the date of an event which happened ten or fifteen hundred years ago when the nistorian had to figure out who was on the throne and what year of his reign the event occurred in. But all this is now to be changed. HE bill recently introduced by Sen- ator Burton of Ohio, which pro- poses to change the form of oath in federal courts and elsewhere under the jurisdiction of the United States, is in the hands of the judiciary com- mittee of the senate and is now be- ; ing considered with a view of early | action upon the subject. The bill, of | Which Charles J. Bonaparte, the for- mer attorney general of the United States, and Dr. Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins university, are the sponsors, does not contemplate to change the religious character of the oath. The principal change which it proposes is the omission of the ex- pression “So help me God” at the end of an cath and the substitution of “promise” or “declare” for the word “swear” in the formula. Since the introduction of Senator Burton's bill the attention ot the judi- ciary committee has been called to the fact that several of the most progres- sive countries of Europe have mate- rially changed and modernized the ancient and antiquated forms of the oaths used in judicial proceedings. No country as yet has gone quite so far as Switzerland. The cantons of Zurich and Aargau took the radical step of entirely abol- ishing the oath several years ago, and the result has been so satisfactory that there is no desire to return to the old system. When the great coun. cil of the Canton of Vaud at its last session considered the draft of a new civil code, the abolition of the oath in any form from judicial proceedings was strongly urged, and, after an in- teresting debate, a provision abolish ing the oath was incorporated in the new code, which went into effect on January 1 of this year, GREAT undeveloped industry, worth millions of dollars annual. ly, lies at the doors of the people of the south and the far northwest in the immense wastes of wood incident to the manufacture of lumber, An amazing statement of these wastes and the consequent loss in wealth and conservation of timber re- sources is made as a result of a two- year government investigation, not yet concluded, by F. P. Veitch, chief of the leather and paper division of the bureau of chemistry, and M. G. Donk, assistant chemist, whose pre- liminary conclusions have just been made public. : “The waste wood of the south and northwest from the lumber industry— Great Wood Waste a National Peril tops, stumps, slabs and sawdust and the dead and down timber from fives | and storms—supplies one of the great | undeveloped resources of this eoun- try,” sey the investigators. “From this wood, by industrially developed rhamieal methods, the entire output SORCES (nl: x of naval stores, embracing turpentine, rosin, tars, pitch, rosin spirits and rosin oils, having an annual value of at least $30,000,000, may be obtained without boxing or turpentining a sin- gle live tree. “It is possible to recover from the wastes of the yellow-pine lumber in- dustry (including dead-and-down tim- ber) as much or more turpentine, rosin and rosin oils as now are pro. duced by the ordinary methods of tur- pentining from the living tree. The profitable utilization of mill wastes in this way would add materially to the wealth of the south and help to conserve its timber resources.” SRDS DED DYDD DSSS SD Rest and Motion In the Universe. The studies of Professor Campbell on the radial velocities of stars and nebulae have led him to some interest- ing conclusions concerning the motions that take place among the bodies con- stituting the visible universe. He finds that stars which the spectroscope seems to prove are relatively old trave! at higher velocities than those which are younger and that the formless nebulae, like those in Orion, appear to be nearly or quite motionless in re- gard to the stars. In explanation he suggests that the rate of motion de- pends upon the time during which the condensation into stellar bodies has been going on. When the matter is widely scattered in minute particles. solid or gaseous. the pressure of radia- | tion, acting from all sides, counteracts | the pull of gravitation, and the nebu- | lous cloud remains at rest. But after i condensation the gravitational force | overcomes the radiation pressure, and | the condensed bodies begin to move, | and their velocity Increases with age. | —London Graphic. EE ———— Wall Street Jokes. A lad of about sixteen years after | wandering up and down Broadway for a block either side of Wall street stop- ped before a policeman standing at the junction of those two thorough- | fares and inquired where he could find | the firm of “I. C. 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But the boy was ahead of her and in a | harangue that for emphasis would have made Captain Kidd or any of the | old buccaneers green with envy told hurriedly and. turning to her eight year-old son, who, dressed like Lord Fauntleroy, sat demurely beside her. sald in a shocked voice: “I never heard such language in my life.” “Oh, that's nothing,” the little fellow told his mother. “You ought to have heard the cook talking to the neighbors about you the other day.”—Kansas City Journal. The Circulation of Oratory. 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