Demonic ican.
Bellefonte, Pa., January 4, 1018.
THE NEW YEAR.
Not new, like the coin golden glinting,
Complete as it falls from the mint,—
Nor new, like the broidery hinting
Of splendor in every fresh tint,—
But new, like the child onward gazing
At life all before it unknown,
Like the prince when the vassals
raising
Their banners in love round his throne.
are
Neo word of its words hath been spoken,
No deed of its deeds hath been done;
Nor the bread of its benisons broken,
Nor its battles in bravery won.
Still tarry its songs for the singer,
Still slumber its manifold looms;
Its bells are yet waiting the ringer,
And vacant are standing its tombs.
Even yesterday past groweth hoary,
Allied to traditions of eld,
Partaking the gloom and the glory
The cycles uncounted have held.
And the new year, with breathless
moOrrows,
With raptures and yearnings and sighs,
Defeats and disasters and sorrows,
Hath Eden’s lost youth in our eyes.
to-
Though it bear for us wisdom or folly.
In silence it utters no sign;
Through our garlands of cedar and holly
There murmurs no message divine,—
Save this, that with loyal endeavor,
And heart of all enmity clear,
Who welcomes it gaily may ever
Look forth on a Happy New Year.
UP THE SLIDE.
When Clay Dilham left the tent to
get a sled-load of fire-wood, he ex-
pected to be back in half an hour. So
he told Swanson, who was cooking the
dinner. Swanson and he belonged to
different outfits, located about twen-
ty miles apart on the Stuart River;
but they had become traveling part-
ners on a trip down the Yukon to
Dawson to get the mail.
Swanson had laughed when Clay
said he would be back in half an hour.
Tt stood to reason, Swanson said, that
good, dry tfire-wood could not be found
so close to Dawson; that whatever
fire-wood there was originally had
long since been gathered in; that fire-
wood would not be selling at forty
dollars a cord if any man could go out
and get a sled-load and be back in the
time Clay expected to make it.
Then it was Clay’s turn to laugh, as
he sprang on the sled and mushed the
dogs on the river-trail. For, coming
up from the Siwash village the pre-
vious day, he had noticed a small dead
pine in an out-of-the-way place, which
had defied discovery by eyes less
sharp than his. And his eyes were
both young and sharp, for his seven-
teenth birthday was just cleared.
A swift ten minutes over the ice
brought him to the place, and figur-
ing ten minutes to get the trees and
ten minutes to return made him cer-
tain that Swanson’s dinner would not
wait.
Just below Dawson, and rising out
of the Yukon itself, towered the great
Moosehide Mountain, so named by
Lieutenant Schwatka long ere the
Klondike became famous. On the riv-
er side the mountain was scarred and
gullied and gored; and it was up one
of these gores or gullies that Clay
had seen the tree.
Halting his dogs beneath, on the
river ice, he looked up, and after
some searching, re-discovered it. Be-
ing dead, its weather-beaten gray so
blended with the gray wall of rock
that a thousand men could pass by
and never notice it. Taking root in
the cranny, it had grown up, exhaust-
ed its bit of soil, and perished. Be-
neath it the wall fell sheer for a hun-
dred feet to the river. All one had to
do was to sink an axe into the dirty
trunk a dozen times and it would fall
to the ice, and most probably smash
conveniently to pieces. This Clay had
figured on when confidently limiting
the trip to half an hour.
He studied the cliff thoroughly be-
fore attempting it. So far as he was
concerned, the longest way round was
the shortest way to the tree. Twen-
ty feet of nearl perpendicular climb-
ing would bring him to where a slide
sloped more gently in. By making a
long zigzag across the face of this
slide and back again, he would arrive
at the pine.
Fastening his axe across his shoul-
ders so that it would not interfere
with his movements, he clawed up the
broken rock, hand and foot, like a
cat, till the twenty feet were cleared
and he could draw breath on the edge
of the slide.
The slide was steep and its snow-
covered surface slippery. Further,
the heelless, walrus-hide soles of his
muclucs were polished by much ice
travel, and by the second step he real-
ized how little he could depend upon
them for clinging purposes. A slip
at that point meant a plunge over the
edge and a twenty-foot fall to the ice.
A hundred feet farther along, and a
slip would mean a fifty-foot fall.
He thrust his mittened hand
through the snow to the earth to
steady himself, and went on. But he
was forced to exercise such care that
the first zigzag consumed five min-
utes. Then, returning across the face
of the slide toward the pine, he met
with a new difficulty. The slope steep-
ened considerably, so that little snow
collected, while bent flat beneath this
thin covering were long, dry last-
year’s grasses.
The surface they presented was as
glassy as that of his muclues, and
when both surfaces came together his
+ feet shot out, and he fell on his face,
giening for something to stay him-
self.
This he succeeded in doing, al-
though he lay quiet for a couple of
minutes to get back his nerve. He
would have taken off his muclucs and
gone at it in his socks, only the cold
was thirty below zero, and at such
temperature his feet would quickly
freeze. So he went on, and after ten
minutes of risky work made the safe
and solid rock where stood the pine.
A few strokes of the axe felled it
into the chasm, and peeping over the
edge, he indulged in a laugh at the
startled dogs. They were on the
verge of bolting when he called aloud
to them, soothingly, and they were re-
assured.
Then he turned about for the back
trip. Going down, he knew was even | resting place for his foot.
more dangerous than coming up,
he had slipped half a dozen times, and
each time saved himself by what ap-
peared to him a miracle. Time and
again he ventured upon the slide,
time and again he was balked when
he came to the grasses.
He sat down and looked at the
treacherous snow-covered slope. It
was manifestly impossible for him to
| make it with a whole body, and he did
not wish to arrive at the bottom shat-
tered like the pine-tree.
But while he sat inactive the frost
was stealing in on him, and the quick
chilling of his body warned him that
he could not delay. He must be do-
ing something to keep his blood cir-
culating. If he could not get down
by going down, there only remained
to him to get down by going up. It
was a herculean task, but it was the
only way out of the predicament.
From where he was he could not see
the top of the cliff, but he reasoned
that the gully in which lay the slide
must give inward more and more as
it approached the top. From what
little he could see, the gully displayed
this tendency; and he noticed, also,
that the slide extended for many hun-
dreds of feet upward, and that where
it ended the rock was well broken up
and favorable for climbing. Here and |
there, at several wide intervals, small
masses of rock projected through the
snow of the slide itself, giving suffi-
cient stability to the enterprise to en-
courage him.
So instead of taking the zigzag
which led downward, he made a new
one leading upward and crossing the
slide at an angle of thirty degrees.
The grasses gave him much trouble,
and made him long for soft-tanned
moosehide moccasins, which could
make his feet cling like a second pair
of hands.
He soon found that thrusting his
mittened hands through the snow and
clutching the grass-roots was uncer-
tain and unsafe. His mittens were
too thick for him to be sure of his
grip, so he took them off. But this
brought with it new trouble. When
he held on to a bunch of roots the
snow, coming in contact with his bare
warm hand, was melted, so that his
hands and the wristbands of his wool-
en shirt were dripping with water.
Thus the frost was quick to attack,
and his fingers were numbed and
made worthless.
Then he was forced to seek good
footing, where he could stand erect
unsupported, to put on his mittens,
and to thrash his hands against his
sides until the heat came back into
them.
This constant numbing of his fin-
gers made his progress very slow;
but the zigzag came to an end final-
ly, where the side of the slide was
buttressed by perpendicular rock and
he turned back and upward again. As
he climbed higher and higher, he
found that the slide was wedged-
shaped, its rocky buttresses pinching
it away as it neared its upper end.
Fach step increased the depth which
seemed to yawn for him.
While beating his hands against
his sides he turned and looked down
the lon, slippeiy slope, and figured,
in case he slipped, that he would be
flying with the speed of an express-
train ere he took the final plunge into
the icy bed of the Yukon.
He passed the first outcropping
rock, and the second, and at the end
of an hour found himself above the
third and fully five hundred feet above
the river. And here, with the end
nearly two hundred feet above him,
the pitch of the slide was increasing.
Each step became more difficult
and perilous, and he was faint from
exertion and from lack of Swanson’s
dinner. Three or four times he slip-
ped slightly and recovered himself;
but, growing careless from exhaus-
tion and the long tension on his
nerves, he tried to continue with too
great haste, and was rewarded with
a double slip of each foot, which tore
him loose and started him down the
slope.
On account of the steepness there
was little snow; but what little there
was was displaced by his body, so
that he became the nucleus of a young
avalanche. He clawed desperately
with his hands, but there was little to
cling to, and he sped downward fast-
er and faster.
The first and second outcroppings
were below him, but he knew that the
first was almost out of line, and pin-
ned his hope on the second. Yet the
first was just enough in line to catch
one of his feet and to whirl him over
and head downward on his back.
The shock of this was severe in it-
self, and the fine snow enveloped him
in a blinding, maddening cloud; but
he was thinking quickly and clearly
of what would happen if he brought
up head first against the second out-
cropping. He twisted himself over
on his stomach, thrust both hands out
to one side, and pressed them heavily
against the flying surface.
This had the effect of a brake,
drawing his head and shoulders to
the side. In this position he rolled
over and over a couple of times, and
then, with a quick jerk at the right
moment, he got his body the rest of
the way around.
And none too soon, for the next mo-
ment his feet drove inte the outcrop-
ping, his legs doubled up and the wind
was driven from his stomach with
the adruptness of the stop.
There was much snow down his
neck and up his sleeves. At once and
with unconcern he shook this out, on-
ly to discover, when he looked up to
where he must climb again, that he
had lost his nerve. He was shaking
as if with a palsy, and sick and faint
from a frightful nausea.
Fully ten minutes passed ere he
could master these sensations and
summon sufficient strength for the
weary climb. His legs hurt him and
he was limping, and he was conscious
of a sore place in his back, where he
had fallen on the axe.
In an hour he had regained the
point of his tumble, and was contem-
plating the slide, which so suddenly
steepened. It was plain to him that
he could not go up with his hands
and feet alone, and he was beginning
to lose his nerve again when he re-
membered the axe.
Reaching upward the distance of a
step, he brushed away the snow, and
in the frozen gravel and crumbled
|
but | came up a step, reached forward, and
how dangerous he did not realize till ! repeated
and | he fought his upward way.
rock of the slide chopped a shallow
Then he
the manoeuver. And so, step
by step, foot-hole by foot-hole, a tiny
speck of toiling life poised like a fly
on the face of Moosehide Mountain,
Twilight was beginning to fall when
he gained the head of the slide and
drew himself onto the rocky bottom
of the gully. At this point the shoul-
der of the mountain began to bend
back toward the crest, and in addition
to its being less steep, the rocks af-
forded better handhold and foothold. |
The worst was over, and the best yet |
to come!
The gully opened out in a miniature |
basin, in which a floor of soil had |
been deposited, out of which, in turn, !
a tiny grove of pines had sprung. The |
trees were all dead, dry and season-
ed, having long since exhausted the
thin skin of earth.
Clay ran his experienced eye over
the timber, and estimated that it
would chop up into fifty cords at least.
Beyond, the gully closed in and be-
came barren rock again. On every
hand was barren rock, so the wander
was small that the trees had escaped
the eyes of men. They were only to
be discovered as he had discovered
them—by climbing after them.
He continued the ascent, and the
white moon greeted him when he
came out upon the crest of Moosehead
Mountain. At his feet, a thousand
feet below, sparkled the lights of
Dawson.
But the descent on that side was
precipitate and dangerous in the un-
certain moonshine, and he elected to
go down the mountain by its gentler
northern flank. In a couple of hours
he reached the Yukon at the Siwash
village, and took the river-trail back
to where he had left the dogs. There
he found Swanson, with a fire going,
waiting for him to ‘come down.
And although Swanson had a hear-
ty laugh at his expense, nevertheless,
a week or so later, in Dawson, there
were fifty cords of wood sold at for-
ty dollars a cord, and it was he and
Swanson who sold them.—Youth’s
| Meese’s
Companion.
Origin of Postage Stamps.
It is said that there are more than
21,000 varieties of postage stamps in
circulation throughout the world to-
day. Fighty years ago there were
none in existence.
The most authentic story of the
origing of postage stamps comes from
the Postoffice Department at Wash-
ington. About seventy years ago Sir
Rowland Hill was traveling through
the rural section of northern England
and while staying at a country inn the
postman brought a letter to a young
girl there. She turned the letter over,
looking at it carefully and then sadly
handed it back to the postman saying
that it was from her brother, but that
she was unable to pay the one shilling
postage which was due on it. Hill was
moved by pity and paid the shilling,
thus enabling the girl to have her let-
ter. She afterward explained to him
that while his kindness was appre-
ciated it was entirely unnecessary, as
the letter contained no writing at- all
on the inside. As she and her brother
were too poor to pay postage they had
contrived a code system which they
used on the outside of the envelope,
and in her examination of the outside
of the letter she had learned the whole
message which it contained.
Hill was struck by the thought of
the results of a system which foster-
ed such frauds, and before another
day had elapsed he had planned a pos-
tal system on the present prepayment
basis.
The first postage stamps were made
by Great Britain in 1840, and proved
so successful that they were adopted
by Mauritius, an English coleny; by
Brazil, France, Switzerland and the
United States before 1850. Ther ex-
ample was followed by many other
countries and postage stamps are now
universally adopted as the most con-
venient means of indicating the pre-
payment of postage on mail matter.
The earliest shape of stamps was
virtually the same as it is today. The
triangle, diamond shape, octagonal
and square were all tried, with an al-
most universal return to the original
rectangular form. The size, too, is
generally about the same as that of
the original issue, after ranging from
three-fourths by one-half inch a stamp
of Bolivar, a State of the Columbian
republic, to two and one-fourth by
three and seven-eighths inches, a
United States newspaper stamp of
1865.
The very early stamps were intend-
ed to be cut apart, but in 1854 there
was brought into use a machine for
punching holes between the stamps
which was known as a perforating
machine.
The sale and collection of specimen
postage stamps has attained dimen-
sions little anticipated by those who
watched its origin. About a quarter
of a century ago it was looked on as a
sort of toy for children and as an
amusing aid to early knowledge * of
geography.
The value of a stamp depends not
upon its age, as is commonly suppos-
ed, but upon the number issued and
preserved.
Potato Crop Double that of Last Year
Detroit, Mich.—~The Detroit Free
Press reports that in 1900 the United
States raised 210,926,897 bushels of
potatozs, an average yield of 80.8
bushels per acre, and the crop sold
for an average price of 43 cents per
bushel.
This year according to government
estimates for October, the total pro-
duction in the United States will be
452,823,000 bushels, an average yield
of 104 bushels per acre, and the crop
will sell for close to $400,000,000. To
transport this crop will require 750,-
000 freight cars.
In Wrong Eeither Way.
“I'm in hard luck.”
“I told Belle she was the first girl
I ever loved, and she said she could
not waste her time training amateurs.
Then I told Nancy I had made love
to other girls but that she was my
real passion, and she asked me if she
Thanksgiving Donation to Bellefonte
Hospital.
The Thanksgiving donation to the
Bellefonte hospital was a very liberal
one, considering the unusual demand
made the past year upon the people
of Bellefonte and Centre county, as
can be seen from the following list of
donors and donations:
Mrs. M_ J. Miller—2 quarts pickles, 1 gliss
jelly.
Mrs. Oliver Witmer—1 box corn starch. 1
peck apples, 3 pounds onions.
Mrs. Harry Dukeman—1 quart beans, 1
quart jelly, 2 glasses jelly, 2 qt. pickle-
lilly. 1 quart fruit, 1 peck potatoes.
Mrs. C. M, Parrish—1 box shredded wheat,
1 box macaroni.
Mrs. D. N. Murphy—1 peck apples.
Mrs. N. J. Hockman—3 heads cabbage.
Mrs. S. S. Tressler—one-half bus. potatoes.
G. W_ Rees—one-half peck potatoes, 3 Ibs.
rice.
Mrs. H. C. Valentine—beans.
I.. A. Schaeffer—one-half bus. potatoes.
Mrs. I. B. Shope—1 quart cherries, 1 glass |
jelly, 1 quart pumpkin.
Mrs. Harry Whiteman—1 quart peaches, 1
quart mixed pickles.
Milesburg School—one and one-half
potatoes, bottle grape juice.
Mrs. Charles Kurtz—S8. cans pears.
Mrs. Elliott—1 pound prunes, 3
rice, 2 pounds crackers.
Mrs. Tanner—2 cans corn, 2 cans peas, 1
box raisins, 1 box corn starch, 1 box
maearoni.
Carpeneto’s Store—2
dy, 1 pound nuts.
Store—5 boxes wheatena.
Miss Carrie Harper—5 pounds
boxes cocoa.
Harry Keller—2 1bs. sugar, one-fourth Ib.
tea, lbs. coffee, 3 lbs. rice, 1 box cocoa.
Union Epworth League,
fruit,
Frank Wetzler, Milesburg—1 Ib.
1b. coffee, 2 boxes shredded wheat.
Mrs. George McCullough—1 peck potatoes.
Mrs. Daniel Shuey—1 qt. beets, 1 gt. chow
chow, 3 glasses jelly.
Mrs. Hary Irwin—4 glasses jelly, 1 jar of
pickles.
Mrs. Paul Kerk—1 box corn
rhubarb, 1 can pumpkin.
John Hartswick—1 pumpkin, one-half bus.
apples, 1 head cabbage.
Mrs. Oscar Wetzel—2- glasses jelly, 1
pickles, 1 head cabbage.
James Sprinkler—1 jar dried fruit.
Carrie Baldrick-—3 pounds sugar.
Mrs. John Coakley—3 pounds sugar.
Mrs. A. T. Boggs—6 bars soap.
W. B. Miles—1 quart cocoa, 2 boxes corn
flake, 1 box egg noodles,
Miss Lida Morris—1 case peas.
sugar, 2
flake, 1 jar
qt,
Miss M. Bradley—1 1b coffee, 2 Ibs. sugar.
Mrs. B. Bradley—2 cans peas, 2 boxes
macaroni.
Mrs. Harry Yeager—2 boxes cereal, 1 1b.
corn starch, 1 1b. sugar, one-half peck
onions.
Boys’ Mission Band of Grace Lutheran
Church, State College—serap books and
cards.
Mrs. Michael Hazle—4
peck potatoes.
Mrs, Blaine Mabus—1 can peas, 1 peck po-
tatoes, 1 box spagetti, 1 can condensed
heads cabbage, 1
milk, 2 boxes oatmeal, 1 box post toas-
ties.
Mrs. J. G. Dubbs—2 glasses jelly, 1 head
cabbage.
Mrs. R. M. Kaup—3 lbs. sugar, jelly.
Mrs. Walter Tate—2 glasses jelly.
Mrs. Howard Shuey—2 quarts tomatoes.
Mrs, IF. M. Romerick—one-half doz. eggs,
2 peck potatoes.
Mr. Schreckengast—1 bus. potatoes, 1 bus.
apples, one-half peck beets, 2 heads cab-
bage.
Harry Irvin—one-half peck apples, one-
Lali peck potatoes.
Mrs. Ardery—1 peck potatoes.
Mrs. Ed. Young—2 qt. peas, 2 qt. corn.
Mr. Bardo--1 box corn starch, 1 peck po-
tatoes.
Mrs. Waite—1 head cabbage,
Mrs. Clarence Rhoads—2 pounds rice.
Mrs. Rees—1 qt. tomatoes, apples, turnips,
and potatoes.
John Love—1 1b. coffee, 2 bottles wine.
George Hazle—one-half gallon tomatoes,
2 quarts fruit, 10 glasses jelly.
Mrs. Curt. Wagner—1 quart beans, 1 glass
jelly, 1 quart apple butter, 5 lbs. corn-
meal.
David Bartlet—1 quart grape juice, 1 qt.
mixed pickle, 1 glass jelly, 1 qt. pears,
one-half peck apples, 1 1b. rice, 1 box
corn starch, one-half 1b. cocoa, towel.
Thomas Jodon—1 bushel cabbage, 1 bush-
el potatoes.
David Marks—2 qt. mixed pickles, 1 pint
jelly, 1 package corn flake.
James Harper—old linen.
Wetzler's Store, Milesburg—S glasses jelly,
1 quart peaches.
Pat Hartswick—1 qt. beans, 1 qt, pickles.
William Waddle—1 qt. beans, 1 qt. pine-
apple, 1 box cereal, 1 qt. pickles.
Mrs. Casebeer—2 qt. corn, 1 qt. beans, 1
1b. rice, 3 glasses jelly, 1 qt. fruit.
Mr. Smith—one-half peck potatoes.
Peter Shuey—2 qt. peaches, 2 qt. pears.
Harvey Shaffer—1 peck potatoes, 1 peck
apples.
Mrs. Garthoof—1 qt. grape juice, 1 quart
fruit, one-half peck apples, one-half pk.
potatoes.
A. Fauble—20 lbs. coffee, 10 lbs. cocoa.
Mrs. Harry Turner—3 heads cabbage, 1
peck apples.
Mrs. J. C. Jodon—one-half bus. potatoes.
Mrs. Andrews—1 peck apples.
Howard Bartiey—1 qt. rice, 1 qt. fruit.
R. S. Brouse—2 qt. peaches, 1 pk. apples.
Mrs. Lutz—1 box hominy, 1 1b. coffee, 1
1b. baking powder, 2 qt. pears, 1 1b. rice.
Mrs. Oliver Witmer—1 box corn starch,
apples, potatoes, onions.
Wagner Geiss—1 bushel apples.
Mrs. Ed Peters—6 heads cabbage,
peck apples.
Haag Hotel—3 glasses jelly, 3 qts. fruit.
Mrs. D. C. Hall, Fleming—2 qt. tomatoes,
1 qt. corn, 2 gts. fruit, 2 heads cabbage.
Mrs. Richard—6 towels.
Mrs. Clevenstine—old muslin, 1 box cereal.
Mrs. Mac. Morris—3 heads cabbage, one-
half peck apples, 1 qt. mixed pickle.
Mrs. Lockard—5 heads cabbage, one-half
peck potatoes, 1 box corn starch, 2 cakes
soap.
Mrs. Boyd Vonada—1 pk. potatoes, 1 head
cabbage.
Mrs. Kirk—10 heads cabbage.
M. A. Kirk—1 bushel potatoes,
bushel turnips, 1 1b. chocolate.
one-half
one-half
Dorcas Society of St. John's Catholic
Church—6 night gowns.
Mrs. Ceader—1 dozen napkins.
Mrs. Paul Seanor—1 glass jelly, 2 bottles
catsup.
Mrs. Mott—3 cakes soap.
Mrs. W. J. Miller—2 qt. pickles, 1 glass
jelly.
Mrs. John McCoy—one-half 1b. rice, one
and one-half 1bs. coffee, 1 1b. peaches,
1 peck potatoes.
Mrs. John Bullock—2 boxes cereal, 1 box
raisins.
Mrs. Sarah Wagner—cabbage,
1 qt. cherries, 1 gt. tomatoes.
Mrs. Haines—1 glass jelly.
Mrs. C. M. Parrish—1 box cereal,
macaroni.
Mrs. D. N. Murphy—1 peck apples.
Mrs. 8. 8. Tressler—one-half bus potatoes.
Mrs. Twitmire—1 box corn starch, 2 qts.
peas, 9 glasses jelly.
Mrs. George Garbrick—one-half
apples, one-half peck potatoes.
Mrs. Fortney—one-half bushel
1 pumpkin.
C. C. Shuey—1 box cereal, 2 lbs. sugar.
Mrs. O. A. Kline—one-half peck potatoes,
turnips,
1 box
bushel
potatoes,
was a cultured taste with me or a
forlorn hope.”—Baltimore American.
one-half peck apples, 1 head cabbage.
Sheriff Yarnell-—celery, 1 box spagetti, 4
bus.
pounds |
grape fruit, 1 dozen !
oranges, 1 dozen bananas, 1 pound can-
Unionville—12 qt. |
cocoa, 1
! »
cans peas, 2 cans corn, 1 box raisins,
| one-half bushel potatoes.
Mrs. Deitrich—1 head cabbage, 1 peck po-
tatoes.
{Mrs. L. H. Wian—one-half peck potatoes,
one-half peck beets, 2 heads cabbage.
Mrs. Nighhart—2 boxes cereal, 1 box cocoa
Ralph Mallory—1 peck potatoes, 4 boxes
cereal, 2 quarts corn.
{ Mrs. William Runkle.—2
| 1 dozen oranges, 2
{ Mrs. Robert Cox—1
i potatoes.
| Mrs. Carson—2
| peck potatoes.
C. Furst—1 box
| spagetti, one-half Ib teu. one-half
| onions, one-half bushel potatoes.
| Mrs. T. Harter—1 peck potatoes.
William Gehret—1 glass jelly, 1 head cab-
bage.
| Mrs. Harry Turner—3
! peck apples.
{ Mrs. Eckenroth-—3 heads
| half bushel apples.
Mrs, Willis Grove—1 jar beets, 1 quart
cherries, 1 bottle wine. 1 pk. potatoes.
| Mrs. Robert Roan—1 head cabbage, 1 can
fruit, 1 quart beets.
{ Mrs. Teaman—1 box noodles, 1
i getti, 1 can corn.
{ Rev. Carson—1 can salmon,
! box oatmeal.
i Mrs.
pecks
cakes.
potatoes,
head cabbage, 1 peck
heads cabbage, one-half
o
Mrs. J. boxes
peck
cocoa.
heads cabbage, 1
cabbage, one-
box spa-
1 can peas, 1
Peter Keichline—1 quart fruit, 9
glasses jelly.
i Mrs. Malloy—one-half bushel potatoes. 1
| qt. tomatoes, 1 glass jelly, apples.
Mrs. Frank Wian—3 quts. tomatoes, 1 qt.
pickles, 2 «ts. beets.
! Mrs. Michael Grove—6 quart
! dive, 1 peck potatoes.
I Mrs. J. M. Lieb—3 quart pickles, 1 quart
string beans.
Mrs. George Sunday—1 dozen eggs.
Mrs. Daniel Houser—one-half gallon jelly,
1 pint pear butter.
Rev. Dunn—1 1b. coffee, 1 qt. peaches.
pickles, en-
Mrs. J B. Loveland—one-half peck pota-
toes, 1 quart tomatoes.
| Mrs. Mary Hoy—1 pint cherries, 1 glass
jelly, 1 pint peaches.
E. L. Orvis—1 peck apples, 1 peck pota-
1 toes.
| Mrs. Frank Montgomery—2
flake, 1 can peas.
Mrs. Thad Hamilton—1 box cereal, 3 lbs.
boxes corn
rice, 1 box corn meal, 2 boxes corn
starch.
Mr. McCurdy—one-half peck potatoes, 2
cans peas, 1 box spagetti, 1 box cereal, 1
box corn starch.
Mrs. Hugh Taylor—one-half bus. potatoes.
Mrs. B. FF. Blair—one-half bus. potatoes.
i Mrs. Gamble—1 bag corn meal.
| William Wetzel-—one-half peck apples, 1
i at. pineapple, 1 qt. corn, 1 glass jelly.
| Mrs. George Beezer-—1 lb. chocolate, 1 qt.
pineapple, 2 cans coffee, 2 boxes rice.
M. Barnhart—1 box corn meal, 2 quts.
corn, 2 quts. peas, 1 box corn starch.
Mr. Straub—1 bushel apples.
Mrs. Quigley— 12 boxes cocoa.
Mrs. George I. Harris—1 box corn starch,
1 1b. cocoa, junket, boxes tablets, 2
ibs. prunes, 2 boxes cereal, 1 box moth-
er's oats.
Charles Shaffer—2 qt. peaches, 1 lb. coffee,
1 qt. grape juice, 1 bushel apples.
Mrs. Russell Witmer—cereal.
Mrs. Bigler—1 peck potatoes, 1 qt. fruit.
I. J. Klinger—1 peck potatoes.
N. Saylor—one-half peck potatoes, 1 head
cabbage.
Miscellaneous—old linen,
fruit, 1% bushel apples,
bage, 3 bushel potatoes, 2
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quarts of
heads cab-
quarts beans,
quarts pears, 1 dozen oranges, 2 quts.
peas, b lbs. sugar, 14 1b. tea, 5 boxes of
cereals, 4 quarts pickles, 5 quarts beets,
4 quarts tomatoes, 7 glasses jelly, 2 qts.
corn, 2 cakes soap, 2 cans soup, 3 bags
buckwheat, 1 box macaroni, 1 Ib butter,
145 bushel turnips.
CASH CONTRIBUTED.
F. W. Crider
Mary and Henry
James Herron
Mrs. Sarah C.
Mr. ¥. Potts
Mrs. James Harris
Miss Mary Thomas.
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Many Applications for 1918 Motor
Licenses.
Harrisburg, December 19.— Re-
ceipts for 1918 motor vehicle regis-
trations and licenses already amount
to more than four times the total rev-
enue derived from these sources dur-
ing the entire year of 1907, according
to a statement issued by the State
Highway Department.
The automobile division of the State
Highway Department, to date, has re-
ceived $269,548 for 1918 registrations
and licenses; during the year 1907
these receipts amounted to $59,604.91.
That the State Highway depart-
ment is determined to enforce the au-
tomobile law against individuals us-
ing 1917 tags on January 1 seems to
be understood generally, as applica-
tions are coming in daily in increas-
ing numbers.
J. Denny O’Neil, State Highway
Commissioner, has already announc-
ed that there will be no extension of
the use of 1917 tags, as they are be-
ing received from the manufacturers
in quantities large enough to insure
prompt filling of all applications, so
that tardy applicants for proper reg-
istration cards and licenses need ex-
pect no leniency.
The statement also directs atten-
tion to the fact that, under the law,
no municipality, city or borough, has
the right to extend to car owners and
to operators the privilege of using old
tags or to operate motor vehicles on
January 1 without tags.
Cigarettes.
A most extraordinary development
of the war is the transformation of
the character of the cigarette in the
estimation of what seems to be about
everybody. It is not so long ago that
the cigarette was being denounced
widely as a most deadly foe to health,
and insidious menace to the morals of
youth, the sure underminer of man-
hood’s stability and worth, and even
a stealthy handmaid of vice; a mon-
ster against which the rising genera-
tion was weepingly warned. Yet to-
day we are hearing a call from here,
there and everywhere for contribu-
tions to a fund for cigarettes for the
soldier boys in camp and on the bat-
tlefield! Was the cigarette for years,
then, held up unjustly to scorn and
contumely, to be discovered now, in
our mighty stress, as a cheering
friend and consoler 7—Brownings’s
Magazine.
FARM NOTES.
—A flowering plant, according te
scientists, abstracts from the soil 200
times its own weight in water during
its life.
—We should not be too strong in
our condemnation of weeds. They
taught man his duty before he knew
it. It is thought that in pulling out
or digging out weeds it was acciden-
tally discovered that loosening up the
ground helps plants to grow. From
this we have the evolution of culti-
vation. Even now it takes weeds te
mas some farmers cultivate their
and.
—1It is claimed that there are plen-
ty of suitable horses in the United
States to meet any demands that
might be made for army purposes.
This is probably true, but they are not
available for army purposes at prices
which the army contractors are will-
ing to pay. If the Government wants
army horses it will have to pay prices
that will be an inducement for far-
mers to raise such horses.
—In the work of making the home
attractive, the house yard will cer-
tainly need attention. The fences will
probably need to be straightened and
painted, and the walk to the house
improved. The well water ought te
be examined by an expert, because too
often the drainage from the barn-
yard contaminates it, and typhoid fe-
ver is one of the things the farmer
must watch for and avoid. If the well
is unsanitary, a new one should be
dug at another point.
—It is a good idea to plant a row
of small cedars, to shut off the vege-
table from the flower garden, and in
summer to have several hedges of
hollyhocks, to give color. There may
be flowers of all sorts, too, but decid-
edly not planted in any kettles or
boats, or other curious places, but in
the earth where they belong. The
farmhouse needs one good, generous-
i ly built porch. This may be made by
merely widening one already existing,
but it is best to have it made practic-
ally level with the ground, if possible.
| —Farmers throughout the country
i are being advised by the nation’s Ag-
i ricultural Department to keep sheep.
{ This is based upon the indisputable
{fact of a world-wide depletion in wool
{and sheep. Oklahoma bankers last
year interested farmers in different
parts of the State in the sheep indus-
try, and, from the information at-
tainable, those who were interested
by the propaganda realized handsome-
ly from an industry largely new te
Oklahoma. Sheep values in the State
increased $100,000 in a single year.
Information from the State Agricul-
tural Department is to the effect that
there is a material increase in the
number of farmers who are this year
becoming interested in sheep-raising.
—In these days of high priced feeds
and scarcity of farm products, com-
fort and warmth for the dairy cow
means conservation of food, accord:
ing to Professor Fred Rasmussen,
head of the Dairy Husbandry depart-
ment at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege.
When milch cows are exposed te
cold, inclement weather there is a de-
crease in the amount of milk produc-
ed. A dairy cow uses feed for main-
tenance, for milk production, for her
own growth and for the growth of the
foetus, if with calf.
Maintenance means the amount of
feed needed to keep a cow without
gain or loss in body weight under nor-
mal conditions. The tissues of the
heart, limbs and special glands of the
cow, which perform certain functions,
are constantly breaking down and
must be rebuilt. When a cow walks,
energy is used and tissues are brok-
en down; both must be replaced by
feed.
The normal body temperature of a
cow is about 102 degrees F. The
greater the difference between the
body temperature of the cow and her
surroundings, the greater is the
amount of feed required to keep the
body at a normal temperature. When
cows are exposed to wet and cold at
the same time, an increased demand
is made on feed, as sufficient heat
must be produced to evaporate the
water. Not only is more feed used
for their maintenance, but their dis-
comfort disturbs their normal func-
tions. It is not uncommon to have an
average decrease of two or more
pounds of milk per cow per day un-
der such circumstances.
—A¢t this season of the year farm
animals are likely to be neglected, be-
cause farmers make the mistake of
trying to keep them on pasture as
long as possible. At the first sign of
loss of weight, or if thc asture is
poor, some feed should be given. Pas-
ture will be worth more in the spring
when feed is likely to be higher, and
livestock can be maintained in better
condition and probably cheaper
through the winter.
No particular action, says F. L.
Bentley of the animal husbandry de-
partment of The Pennsylvania State
College, can be proposed for general
use, because of varying conditions,
but a few suggestions are offered:
For horses—In general two pounds
of feed per day per 100 pounds live-
weight. For a horse doing no work,
all the hay it will eat and sufficient
grain to keep it in good condition. For
a horse doing average work, one to
one and one-half pounds of grain and
one to one and one-fourth pounds of.
hay per day per 100 pounds live-
weight. For a colt at weaning, two
quarts of oats per day and all the hay
it will eat.
For beef cattle—In general,
and one-half pounds feed per 100
pounds liveweight. For maintenance,
all the roughage they will eat, a por-
tion of which is clover or alfalfa hay.
In the absence of clover hay, a small
amount of cottonseed meal or lin-
seed meal, one to one and one-fourth
pounds per 1000 pounds liveweight.
For hogs—In general, three to five
pounds concentrates per 100 pounds
liveweight, with larger rations for
younger and smaller rations for old-
er hogs. For fattening, four to five
pounds concentrates daily per 100
pounds liveweight.
For sheep—For fattening lambs on
full feed one pound concentrates and
one and one-half pounds roughage per
day. For pregnant ewes, all the
roughage they will eat up to within
a few weeks of lambing, then, one-
two
half to one pound concentrates per:
day.