Bellefonte, Pa., January 28, 1916.
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THE [DEAL HUSBAND.
Some Observations on the Side and a
Dogmatic Conclusion. I
You are probably a woman. Few |
men would pause to read an article |
headed “The Ideal Husband.” Man
knows his fellow men too well. |
Of course it is true that nearly every |
married woman has at some time in
her life claimed to have found the one
ideal husband, but not for long. He |
is not a stable article; he is only a
fleeting glimpse.
Shortly after a young married wom-
an declares hers to be the ideal hus-
band he exhibits a tendency to crum-
ble his crackers in his soup or to place
a slice of bread in his empty dinner
plate and submerge it in gravy. These
things “are not done.”
‘While a man is still engaged—held
under option, as it were, but not defi-
nitely contracted for—he is for a short
while considered ideal. However, Le
just begins to enjoy his perfection
when it is discovered by his general
manager elect that he rests his knife
and fork half on the tablecloth and
half on his plate, while they should be
draped artistically across his plate
midway between meat and potatoes.
To save time, probably he also cuts
his meat into small pieces before start-
ing to eat it.
He has good reasons for doing as he
does, but they do not excuse him. His
sort of conduct and perfection simply
do not walk hand in band.
No young couple should be engaged
long enough for either one to discover
the other’s shortcomings. So long as
a man and a girl are so mutually mes-
merized that the eyes of one never
leave the eyes of the other he is per-
fect, but the moment he allows her
glances to stray below his Adam's ap-
ple. the moment he loses control, he
loses also perfection. She realizes that
his knowledge of esthetics was glean-
ed from an abridged edition; that his
tie is not in vogue, that his collar is
too loose and too low and therefore too
comfortable.
Ah me! 1 have strayed from my
subject—the ideal husband. Let me
return to it and proceed.
There is no such thing.—Paul Wing
in Century.
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ANCIENT BAGDAD.
Bits About the Enchanted City of the
“Arabian Nights.”
Immortalized by Haroun-al-Raschid,
in the story of the ‘*Arabian Nights.”
Bagdad, which has a population of
about 150,000. was built on the ruins
of an ancient Babylonian city dating
back to 2000 B. C. Records have been
found on ancient bricks establishing
its early date.
Ever since the days of Haroun-al-
Raschid the Jews have been the lead-
ing figures in the commercial world of
Bagdad. There are 50,000 of them,
with about 8,000 Chaldean (or hereti-
cal) Christians. The remainder of the |
population is made up of Persians,
Turks, Armenians, Arabs and Kurds.
Sindbad the Sailor was born at Bag-
dad, and all his marvelous adventures
begin Ly his going down the Tigris to
Bussorah (the modern Busra).
‘The city stands on both sides of the
. Tigris, the two parts being connected
by the famous bridge of boats, 220
yards long. A brick wall, five miles in
circumference and forty feet high, sur-
rounds Bagdad.
The city contains upward of
mosques, though barely twenty of
them are in use. The houses generally
are old, dirty and ugly outside, but the
vaulted ceilings, rich moldings, inlaid
mirrors and massive gildings bring
back to the recollection of the traveler
*‘the golden prime of the good Haroun-
al-Raschid.”
The streets are narrow, crooked. un-
paved and dirty. full of ruts and
strewed with garbage, which, however,
is for the most part removed by dogs.
the public scavengers in the east.—
Pearson’s Weekly.
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L
ot An Exhilarating Bath.
“Many doctors are now discarding
the stronger alcohol in ordering baths,”
says the Farm and Fireside, ‘‘and are
prescribing the more agreeable bay
rum, which is made in Japan from the
distillation of rum and the leaves of
the bayherry tree. If you want a
pleasant, exhilarating bath use this
in dilution suiting to your condition.
For bathing the sick it seems to have
a longer and more stimulating and
tonic effect than whisky or alcohol.”
Domestic Joys.
“Whenever Mr. and Mrs. Twobble
quarrel Mr. Twobble threatens to see
his lawyer.”
“Well, does he ever go to his law-
yer?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“I think it’s because Mrs. Twobble
dares him to.” —Birmingham Age-Her-
ald.
Calling His Bluff.
“I’m awfully sorry that my engage-
ments prevent my attending your char-
ity concert, but I shall be with you in
spirit.”
“Splendid. And where would you
like your spirit to sit? I have tickels
here for 1 mark, 4 marks and 10
marks.”—Fliegende Blaetter.
The Kind.
‘There is one class of men who are
always ready to help another at a
- pinch.”
“I know.
American.
Policemen.” — Baltimore
i of the country is that every one should
; member that with as little as $5 or $10
| ilies in one season.
. only one family or brood both the par-
MAKE YOUR MONEY WORK.
And the Lesson the Small
Needs to Learn.
The advice of one of the large banks
Investor
invest his surplus, whether large or
small, in dividend securities of the best
class, whether railroad, real estate or
farm mortgages or public utilities, for
“To keep money idle is a costly ope:-
ntion.”
Let every reader of this article re-
he can make first payment on the pur-
chase of a first class $100 bond. Let
every reader who has a few hundred
dollars to spare put it in a good $500
or $1.000 bond on the partial payment
plan. and let it earn somet@ing. Five
hundred dollars invested in a 6 per
cent bond (with the income deposited
in a savings bank at 4 per cent) will
double itself in twelve years—that is,
the $500 wiil have become $1,000 in
that time. This $1,000 at 6 per cent
will earn $60 a year or over $1 a week
for its possessor. Even at 5 per cent
it will double in fifteen years and at 4
per cent in eighteen years. 1
The lesson the small investor wants
to learn is that his money is just as
good as that of the larger investor.
The former has greater need of being
careful because he has less to spare.
Learn to be a careful investor. The
first thing the careful buyer does if he
wants to buy a horse, a cow, a house
or a farm, a bond or a share of stock
is to make a careful investigation.
Schoolboys may swap the jackknives
they hold in their closed hands, but
grownup men ought to know better.
The humblest investor can buy with as
great safety as the proudest, for both
can deal with the same bankers or
brokers in these days when small lots
are popular with firms of established
character.—Leslie’s Weekly.
BIRD ROOSTS.
Safety First as It Is Practiced by the
Feathered Tribes.
One of the best ways to prepare for
a long journey is to make a short one.
So we find that many birds. before
they embark on their great air voyage
which is to take them from their sum-
mer to their winter home, first make
daily trips between their sleeping quar.
ters and their feeding grounds.
This is the habit of our robin. Rob-
ins raise two and sometimes three fam-
When the first
family leaves the nest early in June
it is taken by the father robin to some
dense, leafy growth of young trees to
pass the night. To this place they re-
turn every night. Many other robins,
sometimes thousands of them, come to
the same woods. Such resorts are
known as robin roosts. In flying to
and from them the young birds learn
how to find their way.
Meanwhile mother robin is patiently
sitting on her blue eggs, from which
In about two weeks’ time another little |
family will appear. In two weeks |
more they also will be large enough to '
leave the nest and can join their broth. :
ers and sisters in the roost. |
Grackles, or crow blackbirds, have |
the same habit. But since they have
ent birds go to the roost with their
young.
Sometimes the robins are joined by
the grackles and both by the European
starlings, which, brought to this coun-
try and released in Central park, New
York, in 1890, have since become one
of the most abundant birds in our mid-
dle Atlantic states. Such a roost is
visited nightly by many thousands of |
birds.—Frank M. Chapman in St. Nich-
olas.
Hungarian Faces.
1 have never seen such interesting
photographer’s show windows as there
are in Budapest. Partly this is because
the photographers are good, but partly
it must lie in the Hungarians them-
selves—such vivid, interesting, uncon-
ventional faces. These people look as
if they ought to do the acting and
write the music and novels and plays
and paint the pictures for all the rest
of the world. If they haven’t done so
it must be because, along with their
natural talent, they have this indolence
and tendency to flop and not push
things through.—Arthur Ruhe in Col-
lier’s Weekly.
London’s Big Bell.
“Big Ben,” the bell in Westminster
clock tower, London, is known the
world over, but it is incorrectly named.
Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commis-
sioner of works, during whose tenure
of office the clock was erected. had far
less to do with it than Lord Grim-
thorpe, who designed it and was the
moving spirit in its erection. In jus-
tice to him it should be known as “Old
Grim.”—London Mirror.
No Novelty to Her.
Miss Gigglegum (single and romantic)
—The shower of soot and ashes from
Vesuvius must be an awe inspiring
sight. Would you not like to witness
it? Mrs. Pottson Pans (married and
prosaic)—Oh, 1 don’t know! I've seen
my husband take down a stovepipe.—
Judge.
Going Down.
Redd—He started out with a $6,000
rutomobile.
Greene—And what car is he using
Aow?
“A street car.”—Yonkers Statesman.
Liked Variety.
Judge—No two of the witnesses tell
the same story. Lawyer—I arranged
it that way, your honor. I didn’t want
the trial to be too monotonous for you.
—Boston Transcript.
However mean your life is, meet it
and live it, not shun it and call it bad
names.—Thoreau.
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FARM NOTES.
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—Wagon roads, good every day in the |
year, between principal centres of popu- !
lation, have become a necessity.
—Nothing will go so far toward im-!
proving farm life conditions and build up
the rural districts as good roads.
—The chronic “grouch” has no busi- |
ness around the dairy barn. The cows!
will show their dislike for him by reduc- |
ing the milk yield. I
—Treat the stock right. The man |
who kicks dumb brutes kicks brutally in- |
to his own heart. = Animals have ability |
to realize pain and pleasure and love of
life and offspring.
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—Success will come in the largest |
measure to those farmers who adopt |
rotation system of farming, the diversi- |
fied system, and who supplement this |
with the best of tillage methods. |
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—The best way to “swat the fly” 1s
before he is born. Allowing piles of ma- |
nure to accumulate in the stables and
yards for flies to breed in, and then ap-
plying some kind of “dope” to keep fiies
away from the animals, is inconsistent,
to say the least.
—The importance of including grain
crors in the rotation for the farm ths
year is well worth considering. For eco-
nomical feeding grain is a necessity
where animals are kept for work and for
their products. While it is true that
grain can be purchased, it is equally true
that feeding is seldom profitable where a
considerable portion of the grain must
be bought.
—Where crops are marketed grain is
better than some others. While grain
contains considerable plant food, and
when sold has a tendency to impoverish
soil, yet it is staple, and usually not dif-
ficult to market. Besides, it keeps well,
and may be held when deemed advisable.
Hay is bulky, and often expensive to
hold or’deliver, and neither is it as easi-
ly sold as grain.
—When the cows were fed ensilage,
alfalfa hay and oats in a fairly well-bal-
anced ration the food cost of producing
butter fat was 11 ceats per pound. When
no ensilage nor alfalfa was fed the cost
went to 20 cents. These results were
secured by the farmers in the Dairy Test-
ing Association of Barnes county, under
the direction of the North Dakota experi-
ment station field agent.
—On the farm were two teams are re-
quired it is undoubtedly a good plan to
have at least one team of geldings that
are always ready for any kind of work,
but the other team should be composed
of mares. It is expensive to keep a horse
a year for what he can do during the
working season, and the majority of |
farmers have found breeding mares en- !
tirely satisfactory and far cheaper.
—Take the case of feeding hogs. Suc-
cessful growers have learned that for,
best results some grain is needed the
entire life of the animals Pigs will eat
soaked corn, corn chops, kaffir, milo or
ground oats when 3 or 4 weeks old. With
plenty of pasture little grain may be
needed in the daily bill of fare 'til finish-
ing time, but some will. be essential for
rapid growth and development. Grain
is indispensable for finishing hogs, to
harden the flesh, and thus give the car-
casses that finish so desirable in prime
hogs.
—It has been quite generally believed
that a small potato seed will yield just as
large a crop as large tubers. Extensive
tests mtde at the South Dakota experi-
ment station, however, prove quite con-
clusively that this theory is not true in
practice. In these experiments the use
of sizable seed produced a greater pro-
portion of potatoes of desirable size than
the use of culls. The type of potatoes
produced from culls used as seed is meas-
urably smaller, in the first generation
than those produced from selected seed
tubers. The results of this experiment
furnish quantitative evidence that the
use of culls for seed causes potatoes to
Not only is the type of tubers
produced from selected seed larger than
from culls, says the experimenters, but
also the average weight of tubers pro-
duced is greater.
—Country roads should be kept in such
condition that they will shed every bit of
water that falls upon them, says Profess-
or Kelly, of the University of Missouri
College of Agriculture. Be especially
careful not to let anyone use a plow,
grader or scraper in such a way as to
loosen the roadbed so that it will hold
water instead of sending it off into the
ditches and streams. It is a good thing
to open up ditches, but aside from that
and dragging, no use of any implement
should be permitted so late in the season.
The men and teams should be in the
cornfields, or at work anyhow,and should
there be time for road work it would be
much better to haul gravel to parts al-
ready graded and wait until nezt spring
to do more grading. Some work will be
necessary at various times during the
winter to keep the ditches open and the
surface as smooth as possible, so that
the snow will blow off, or if it does stay
long enough to melt, will run off readily.
If every man wiil drag the road abjoin-
ing his land the roads will be better this
winter than ever before at the same ‘time
of the year. The man with a good team
and drag can keep amiie of road in good
shape with surprisingly little effort.
—With some farmers the idea seems
to prevail that grain is not a necessity
with milch cows. The error of that be-
lief has been proved by the experience of
some of the best feeders. Cottonseed
meal is a rich concentrate, and where it
is judiciously fed, little grain will be
needed; but for maintenance in body fat
nothing seems to quite take the place of
grain—such as corn, oats, rye, barley,
milo, kaffir and their various products.
Grain serves as a most important factor
in securing a normal milk flow and en-
ables tlie cow to maintain her bodily
flesh and be healthy and vigorous.
Nothing can take the place of grain for
work animals— horses and mules—as it
gives the needed strength to the body’
True again, cottonseed meal may reduce
the quantity of grain required, and it is
an economical protein supplement; and
certain legume hays may reduce the pro-
tein and the carbohydrates needed in
grain; but, nevertheless, some grain
must be fed for best results.
Fattening sheep must have grain.
While lambs are being grazed they will
secure most of their living, if the pasture
is good, but when it comes to finishing,
some grain must be given.
So it can readily be seen that every di-
versified or livestock farm must have
grain in some form. The farmer cannot
aftord to neglect grain for his livestock,
and for bread for his family.
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Courtesy is the eye which oves-
way, but sees the rose which bles-
soms in his garden.—Anon.
Meat Market.
(Get the Best Meats.
You save nothing by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats. I use only the :
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak-
1g Steaks and . My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I alwavs have
—— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP,
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa
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CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
and feed of all kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
xchanged for wheat.
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Dry Goods, Etc.
LYON & COMPANY.
White Sale
Our White Sale will close
JANUARY 81st.
We are adding new bargains all the time.
SHOES. SHOES.
Special sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’
Shoes at big reductions.
Ladies’ Gun Metal laced or button Shoes,
value from $1.50 to $4.00. Sale price $1.25
to $1.95.
Men’s Shoes that sold for $2.50 now $1.75.
Boys’ Shoes from $1.25 up.
SPRING GOODS.
- We are receiving daily new arrivals in Spring
Goods, and have on display all the most up-
to-date materials with the gold and silver:
binding and edging to match.
LADIES’ SUITS.
For the next ten days we will make sale of
one lot of Ladies’ Suits at $5.00. These gar-
ments must be seen to be appreciated. Come
early and secure your bargains.
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte
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