Bellefonte, Pa., June 20, 1919.
WOULD REMAIN ‘UNDER COVER’
Sergeant Had His Reasons for Not
Making at That Time a “Full an’
Free Confession.”
An American colonel in France was
having difficulty with his safe. It was
the headquarters safe. Its lock had
; jammed, and none of his staff could
open it. While they were struggling
with it a negro sergeant came up to
them apologetically.
“Cul’'n’,” he said, “if I ain't intrud-
in’ into dis heah diffickulty, I believes,
sah, dat I might he’p yah.”
“Yes?” said the colonel.
you suggest?”
“Cul'n’l,” said the sergeant, “lI sug-
gests Co’p’l Hall.”
“Corporal Hall?
Hall?”
“Co’p’l Hall,” the sergeant explain-
ed, under his voice, “was fo’ foah years
a bugglah.”
They sent for Corporal Hall and
Corporal Hall opened the safe.
“Well, sergeant,” the colonel said,
“I'm glad to know about Corporal Hall.
I wish I'd known it sooner. It would
have saved us a lot of time with that
safe. And tell me, sergeant!—in case
we may need to call on you some day
—in what direction do your particular
talents lie?”
“Cul'n’l,” the sergeant answered,
“Ah doan’ want to tell no lies. Stand-
in’ as Ah does daily in de presence of
mah Makeh, mos’ doubtless Ah doan’
want to tell no lies. But if de time
comes when Ah kin he’p yah, sah,
Ah’ll make a full an’ free confession,
a full an’ free confession, sah.”—Ben
B. Lindsey in the Cosmopolitan Maga-
zine.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS DUCK
Peggy of Rouen, N. J., Laid 325 Eggs
in a Single Year, and Was Easily
World’s Champion.
“What do
Why Corporal
The death of Peggy, the famous
duck of Rouen, New Jersey, comes as
a reminder to us that we would do
well to follow the principles which
guided the life of this excellent bird.
Peggy was celebrated in two hemis-
pheres as the champion egglayer of the
world, the New York Evening Post
states. Peggy, in one year lald as
many as 325 eggs. Yet, celebrated as
she was, noted wherever eggs were lald
or scrambled, head of her glorious pro-
fession, what was her attitude after
we entered the war? Did she rush into
print, airing her opinion as to what
the president ought to do? Not at all.
Despite numerous tempting offers from ,
fowl fashions and other magazines,
she refrained from utterance and con-
tinued contributing her daily drop to
national victory. Evca when the Ger-
mans opened their recent peace drive
Peggy did not turn hysterical and de-
mand that they at once surrender all
the Strassburg geese. She, still in si-
lence, went on with her lay. It is re
lated of her that on the morning of her
demise she quietly produced an egg,
and, Indicating her satisfaction with
a feeble quack, keeled over and ex-
pired.
Tanks Like a Deck of Cards.
In the open stretch, beyond the last
fringe of wood, we struck the field
where the American tanks attacked
the Huns on flank and rear and fin-
ished the battle of Argonne wood,
Elizabeth Frazer writes in the Satur-
day Evening Post. Later we saw a
complete outfit of these grotesque
monsters go walloping across a shell-
torn field. Their insignia were the
. characters on a deck of cards, and
they always followed suit. Thus an |
ace of spades was always followed by
the king of spades, the king by his
spouse; and so on down to the tray.
As we passed, the knave of hearts
thrust forth a grinning face from his
round armored little turret and waved
a grimy paw. Close on his tail wag-
Re tangoed the ten spot. It was
like some mad scene in “Alice in Won-
derland.”
Grim Jest Pathetic.
Was Poe's tale “The Masque of the
Red Death” prophetic? His story was
that on the stroke of midnight a tall,
red-gowned figure revealed itself amid
revelers as Death by Plague.
A counterpart from real life is re.
ported from Cowestry, Wales. It ia
the report of a masquerade ball, at
which one of the masked celebrators |
simulated Death, in a black robe and
with hollow eye-sockets.
~ There were 140 dancers at the ball.
Of this number, 122 are now suffering i
from influenza. Twelve are already |
dead, including the death masker.
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Italy’s Exports. |
Italian motor car exports showed a |
falling off for the first six months of
1918, compared with the correspond: |
ing period of the two preceding years,
From January 1 to June 30, 1918, a |
total of 2,356 lorries and touring cars |
were exported, having a value of ap |
proximately £1,400,000, compared with !
4,148 vehicles in 1917 and 2,781 in!
1916. The number of touring cars |
exported during the first six months |
of 1918 was 728, this constituting a |
record, for the figures of the two pre
ceding years were 244 and 569, re
- spectively.
Not a Crawl, We Hope.
D. B. suggests that we depose the
dove as an emblem of peace and adopt
the snail.
LED TO RESCUE BY DREAM
Tug Captain's Confidence in Vision
He Had Proved Fortunate for
Two Fishermen.
Guided by a dream, Capt. Adam
Paczocha of a Lake Michigan tug
found two men who had been drifting
about helpless in a broken motor-
launch for four days. The rescue was
just in time to save the men’s lives,
for the feet of one were frozen and the
other's hands were ‘frostbitten and
they were exhausted from cold and
hunger.
Captain Paczocha had his dream ,
while taking a nap at his home in Mil-
waukee one afternoon. When he
awoke he described to L's family how
he had seen a launch drifting about ;
helpless in the storm-swept lake and
how he had swung his boat alongside
and saved two men.
“I'm going to find them,” said the
captain, after telling of the dream vi-
sion.
He set out the next morning and by
midafternoon he had located the |
launch. The two men in the launch
were George Costigan and Joseph Bud-
siecz, Jones Island fishermen who had
met with misfortune while out hauling
in their nets. Driven about by a sud-
den storm that arose on the lake they
sought to make shore until the gaso-
line engine in the launch gave out.
Then they drifted about helpless.
The rescued men’s first request was
for cigarettes. They had been unable
to smoke for four days because their
matches had become wet.
IMPORTANT DATE IN HAWAII!
Modern History of Islands May Be
Said to Have Begun on Oc-
tober 23, 1819.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the departure of the first missionaries
from the United States to the Sand-
wich islands, as they were then known,
will be celebrated at Honolulu, Octo-
ber 23. On that date in the year 1819,
the brig Thaddeus, Captain Hunnewell,
sailed from Boston for Hawaii. The
vessel anchored at Kailua, Kona.
Island of Hawaii, April 5, 1820, and the
missionaries landed that day to begin
their work of civilizing the natives and
converting them to Christianity. Those
who arrived in Hawaii on the Thadde-
us were A-~a Thurston and Hirman
Bingham, ordained missionaries, with
their wives; Daniel Chamberlain,
Thomas Holmes, Samuel Whitney,
Samuel Ruggles, Elisha Loomis and
four Hawaiians—Honolil, Hopu and
Kanui—who had received some educa-
tion at Cornwall institute, and George
Humohumo, son of Kaumuali, the king
of the Island of Kauai. The Hawaii-
ans had been taken to the United
States in trading vessels. Traders and
whalers had been visiting Honolulu for
some years before the arrival of the
missionaries, but it is from the latter
event that the modern history of Ha-
wail dates. ‘
Wonderful Slot Machine.
Most people are familiar with the
machines which sell chocolate and
chewing gum. An interesting develop-
ment in this field is a large apparatus
that dispenses bottled beverages, sand-
wiches and chewing gum. Its cooling
chamber has space for the aecommo-
The stove with the
long blue chimney burner
' a post office.
dation of 96 bottles, while a precool-
ing compartment, in which bottles are
chilled by immersion in the water that
drains from the ice, has an equal ca-
pacity. In order to encourage patrons
to return empty bottles to the ma-
chine a stick of gum is discharged
when a bottle is placed in the receiver
provided for it. A counterfeit detec-
tor rejects spurious coins. A complete
record of all transactions is kept by a
sales-registering mechanism. The only
attention the machine requires is that
involved in stocking and icing it.
Untasted Emergency Ration.
A correspondent, writing from the
front before the fighting came to an
end, said that the emergency ration
supplied to our soldiers still remained
a mystery to them. Few indeed have
even tasted this scientific life-saver of
which the army boards are so proud.
It looks like ground oatmeal; but it
is said to be the last word in concen-
trated calories and protein. It con-
tains the julces and sustaining parts of
all meats and vegetables known to man,
with a little gluten thrown in. Most sol-
diers have not dared to taste it. A court
martial threatens anyone who eats the
emergency ration unnecessarily, and
almost never, so they say, did any sol-
dier find it necessary. Hot meals
from rolling kitchens were virtually
always to be had.—Youth’s Compan-
ion.
Farm Products by Parcel Post.
Wilmington, Del., is to receive farm
products by parcel post truck service.
The service between that city and
Salisbury, Md., began recently, 1wo
large army trucks bearing eggs, baut-
ter, fish, oysters, crabs, berries and
such direct from land or sea to the
consumer. Stops are made at every
town along the route which can claim
Provision has also been
made for acceptance of parcel post
material for New York, transfers to be
made at Chester; ‘and through truck
service from Wilmington to Philadel-
phia will be established.
Real “Pot Luck.”
A stylishly | dressed woman entered
the restaurant. The waiter handed
her a bill of fare written in French,
and said: “Please mark off the dish-
es you wish to order.”
Could a woman, dressed in the
height of fashion, confess that she
was unable to read French? Taking
the pencil, she made a few dashes,
and the order read:
Dinner, 2s.,” “March 20,” “Vegeta-
bles,” “Please pay at the desk,” “No
tips.”
The waiter brought her a beefsteak
and chip potatoes, but she did not
dare to raise a word in protest.—Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Shameless.
“I fear Glithers is a political trick-
ster.”
“His conscience doesn’t seem to
bother him any.”
“Probably not.”
“At least he has no objection to
being known as a practical man.”—
Birmingham Age- Herald.
Dished.
“What has become of Senator
Flubdub? He used to be a small po-
tato.”
“He’s where a small
longs.”
“Eh? 9” :
“In the soup.”—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
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PREDICT $1 EGGS NEXT WINTER.
Shortage of Laying Hens—Farmers
Reduced Flocks to Save High
Feed Bills.
It is predicted by many that the
price. of eggs will reach the dollar
mark per dozen by next autumn or
winter. This guess will perhaps be
the low mark instead of the top one,
in mose centers of population.
The reason is plain. The cold stor-
age eggs decides the price of the egg
market. Eggs are going into the arc-
tic hibernation this year at from for-
ty to fifty cents a dozen. Heretofore
a twenty cent egg emerged from the
“freezing” plant a sixty cent egg, a
forty cent egg will emerge a dollar
egg, and so on.
At this time last year the farmer re-
ceived about 35 cents per dozen for
their hen fruit, at the same time dur-
ing 1917 the price was 32 cents, 1916
the price was 20 cents and 1915 the
price was as low as 18 cents. Today
the farmer is receiving not less than
40 cents per dozen, and all indications
point to a steady advance.
This uncalled for price is due to the
shortage of. laying hens. Last fall
the pullet crop was short, and during
the winter and early spring farmers
sold their flocks at high prices, thus
saving a large feed bill.
There is only one method of com-
peting with the egg trust, and that is
to raise your own pullets. Forewarn-
ed means fore-egged; get twenty,
thirty or say fifty chicks. Find out
what makes chicks grow and hens
lay, and follow a few simple rules
that any agricultural chicken bulle-
tin will give you, and you will surely
have a fresh egg supply next winter,
at about half what your henless
neighbors pay for the cold storage |
eggs.
If the rearing of baby chicks seems
too much trouble, why not purchase a
few pullets a month or two hence. Be
sure however to secure a good laying
breed and provide a suitable place.
You will find, however, that pullets
these days cost real cash, when the
average brood hen brings a dollar or
two.
The high prices these days are
mainly due to the fact that very few
private families assume the responsi-
bility of rearing their own chickens
and hogs, and in many cases even the
truck patches in the rear of their
homes have been converted into
lawns, where different varieties of
flowering plants have been substitut-
ed for the usual rows of potatoes and
other vegetables, that go a long way
toward feducing the living expenses
of the average family.
Years ago, when low prices pre-
vailed—when eggs were selling at say
10, 15 or 20 cents per dozen, ham at
15to 18 cents, lard at 10 and 12 cents,
potatoes at 40 and 50 cents, and veg-
etables at corresponding low prices,
nearly everybody wielded the hoe,
rake and shovel, and tried to encour-
age mother earth to produce the nec-
essaries that are essential in keeping
soul and body in the proper condition.
Many people are continually and
severely criticising the food specula-
tors, when the real cause of the high
prices of everything is due to their
own laziness to help produce the food
that heretofore was raised in the back
yards of the homes of our thrifty
forefathers.
——The Columbian coffee harvest
is the heaviest in the history of the
country, being estimated at 1,250,000
sacks, P. D. Bell, United States trade
commissioner, reports.
Must Be Hungry Indeed.
English Advertisement—“Lady will
exchange clothing, self, little girl, for
farm butter, eggs, jam.”
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trons ceases with the safeguarding of their
funds. It keeps in personal touch with all
of them in such a way as to be of assistance
very often when other matters develop
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