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Bellefonte, Pa., September 26, 1919.
Savannah Newspaper Asserts That
Elias Howe Was Not Inventor
of the Sewing Machine.
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. #I1BLES THAT ARE PRICELESS
CLAIMS HONOR FOR GEORGIAN
Four Copies of Sacred Book Regarded
as Treasures by Their For-
tunate Owners.
The largest Bible in existence is in
the royal library at Stockholm. The
. covers are made of solid planks, four
inches thick, and the pages measure a
vard in length. It is estimated that
190 asses’ skins must have been used
The centenary of the birth of Elias |
Howe, the modest Yankee who invent-
ed the sewing machine, took place on
June 9.
servance of the day, observes Hart-
There was no extended of-
ford Courant, yet it was Howe who
took a good deal of the drudgery out |
of the lives of millions of American
women.
of his fellow men to produce garments
and other material that
viduals.
formerly he Th
needed the patient handwork of indi- & e page 2
But it is interesting to observe, in
connection with the anniversary, that
the Savannah News undertakes the
rather hopeless task of trying to con-
vince its readers that it was not Howe,
but a Georgian, Francis R. Goulding,
who constructed and operated the first
sewing machine. This paper says
that this man, a Presbyterian preach-
er living in Liberty county, married a
Savannah girl and then began work on
a sewing machine in order that he
might save his fair wife much hard
work.” Alleging this was long hefore
Howe patented his machine, and also
that Goulding never patented his, they
try to show his motives were purely
altruistic and not commercial.
It all sounds good, but it will take
considerable “space” in the Georgia :
. WHERE BEDS ARE UNKNOWN
newspapers to convince the world that
. Goulding takes the prize.
He also increased the power | complete his task.
to furnish the 300 parchment leaves of
this colossal book. It is considered
priceless.
A well-to-do New Yorker is the
proud possessor of a manuscript Bible
written by his only son, a cripple. He
could only work about two hours a
day, so he took over two years to
It does not contain
slip, for if error or
youth discarded the
verses and headings
are all in red ink, and the whole is
beautifully written.
In a house in Grafton street, London,
a single error or
slip occurred the
| there is a shorthand Bible which was
written at least two centuries before
Pitman was born. It was written by
an apprentice in the day of James II,
when to possess a “common” or
Yoenrden” Bible was rather dangerous.
An American lady cherishes a Bible
probably as old as the one written
in shorthand, which an ancestress
haked in a loaf of bread when a house-
to-house search was being made for
stray copies of the scriptures. The sol-
diers came to search the house, but it
is not a matter of wonder that they
failed to find the book, which now,
looking pretty old, is the lady’s chief
i treasure.
MONKEY CHAIN CALLED MYTH |
Recent Travelers in South America
. Explain Probable Origin of Story
Once Implicitly Believed.
An interesting article by Prof. B. W.
Gudger, in a recent issue of Natural |
History, deals with the time-honored
story on which most of us were
brought up that South American mon-
keys are in the habit of crossing alliga-
tor-infested streams by linking their
tails and legs to form a living bridge.
Pictures of this feat once figured ex-
tensively in the school geographies,
and Professor Gudger reproduced such
a picture from a Fourth reader pub-
tished as late as 1897. The story was
first told, so far as known, by the Jes-
uit priest Padre Jose Acosta in a
work published in 1589. Several later
writers have repeated the tale. The
first person to dispute its veracity was
Baron Humboldt. Recently
Residents of Merida, Yucatan, Enjay
Repose in Hammocks Which May
Be Slung Anywhere.
In Merida, Yucatan, the majority of
i the people do not use beds, in fact
very few of them have even seen one.
i They sleep in hammocks, which are
swung across the rooms at night and
with no fuss of bedmaking; the per-
son just goes to bed and is gently
rocked to sleep by any passing breeze.
The climate is so hot that it is only
during the months of January and
February that a light sheet may be
required as covering.
These hammocks are usually made
by the mother of the family, writes
Lilly deG. Osborn, in St. Nicholas, and
consist of thread, more or less fine,
woven together on great frames with
a kind of shuttle or needle. Some of
the designs are wonderfully intricate
i and the colors beautifully blended. 1
explor- |
ers of South America, when they men- |
tion the story at all, express skepti- | x
{ art, made of the very finest mercerized
cism. Finally, Messrs. Leo I. Miller
and George K. Cherrie of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, who
have done so much traveling and col-
lecting in South America, have sug-
gested te Professer Gudger a plausi-
ble origin for such tales. They think
that the story of the “monkey bridge”
has come about through observation
of a precession of monkeys crossing |
a ravine or stream on a pendent liana.
-—Scientific American.
Why Americans Lost Contract.
“Speaking of Chinese railroads re
minds me of the failure of an Amer-
ican manufaeturer to obtain a con-
tract for locomotives because his Eu-
ropean competitors made a more care-
ful study of Chinese peculiarities,”
writes Lynn W. Meekins in the Scien-
tific American. “One locomotive was
ordered from each of the competing
companies. In every respect save one
the American product was unmistak-
ably superior. However, it had been
painted black before shipment from
the works, and on the way across the
Pacific it became more or less rusted.
“Its appearance, therefore, was far
less attractive than that of the Euro-
pean locomotives, which were painted
in accordanee with Chinese preference,
and had been touched up by the manu-
facturers’ agents after arriving in
China. Don’t get your colors mixed
if you want to sell goods to the Chi-
nese.”
No Flattery Intended.
“Is that a portrait of your grand-
mother when she was young?’ asked
the awkward visitor. “How it resem-
bles you, Miss Ugleton!”
“Now you only say that to flatter
me. Grandma was quite a beauty,
and everybody knows that I—ahem—
I make no pretensions of that kind.”
“] assure you, Miss Ugleton,” ex-
claimed the A. V. “flattery is far
from my thoughts. The family re-
semblance is striking. . I've often
known cases like that. There were
two sisters I knew when I was a boy.
They were wonderfully alike, like
that portrait’s like you, and yet one
of them was as beautiful as a poet's
dream, and the other was dreadful—
that is, I mean, she wasn’t at all—or,
rather, she was lacking in that—that
attractive quality, you know, that con-
stitutes—what a lovely frame’ this por-
trait has, eh?’—Edinburgh Scotsman.
India Again Importing.
All restrictions on the importation
into India of any.American manufac-
tures or products, with the exception
of gold and silver coin or bullion and
cocaine, have been removed. Impor-
tation of cocaine and allied drugs is
forbidden at all times except under
a license granted by the chief cus-
foms officer at the place of import.
The importation of gold and silver
coin and bullion is restricted in that
the government of India reserves the
right to purchase all importations of
game.
saw one very large one, made in the
colors of the United States flag, which
was to be sent up to the United States
for a gift. It was certainly a work of
thread; and yet the hammock could
easily support a weight of 300 pounds.
A servant always brings his or her
' stems in a compact bunch.
' ture.
"and shock them in the garden.
corn will probably not remain in good |
| on it in a conical
FARM NOTES.
Pumpkins and squashes may be
kept for winter use in a dry storage
room in the basement.
—A similar pit may be made for
celery, though the dirt should be ex-
cavated to a depth of about 14 inch-
es. However, celery may be kept un-
til extreme cold weather in the posi-
tion where it grew by banking encugh
earth about the plants to hold the
Just be-
fore freezing occurs bank the earth
up to the very tops of the plants, al- |
| most covering them.
As the weather
becomes colder, cover the ridge with
straw, corn fodder, or pine boughs
held in place by stakes or hoards.
—There may be beans and peas not
quite fully matured. If you have
space in which to keep them under
cover, pull up the vines by the roots,
hang them up and let the pods dry
out. Then shell the beans or peas,
put them in bags, hang in a well-ven-
tilated dry place, and keep them for
winter use. This, of course, can not
be done if the beans are too imma-
Canning is the only means of
saving them under that condition.
The curing on the vine method, how-
ever, is the best plan for curing na-
vy and other bush beans even when
they are fully mature.
—The cellar, if there is one, othei-
wise a pit in the garden, may
Onions that are mature
and thoroughly dried may be kept in
the attic or in any dry, well ventilat-
ed place where they -
A pit in the garden ma;
serve as a storage for potatoes, late
beets, carrots, turnips, iale cabbage,
celery and salsify. 'If there is no cel-
lar available the earih »
garden can be made to
the winter.
bles for winter eating
—The late corn patch also, is like-
ly to have a week or ten days of ta-
ble service in it when the frost warn-
ing comes. It is not nccessary to lose
the green corn. Pluck the ears, leav-
ing the husks on, and place them on
the cellar floor with no two ears
touching. The corn will remain in
good condition for ten days or long-
er. Even if you have no cellar or oth-
er place where the ears can be spread,
it is not necessary to lose the corn.
Cut the stalks, leaving the ears on,
The
condition so long as if properly stor-
ed on the cellar floor and it becomes
toughened, but the season for using
it can be extended several days.
—All that is necessary in making a
vegetable storage pit is to place
some straw, hay, dry grass or fodder
on the ground, place the vegetables
pile, cover them
' with the same material used at the
own hammock, which is very conven-
ient.
Quoits Really Ancient Game.
The quoit is a flattish ring of iron.
used in playing. It is generally from
eight and a half to nine and a half
inches in external diameter, and be-
tween one and two inches in breadth,
convex on the upper side and slightly
concave on the under side, so that the
outer edge curves downward, and is
sharp enough to cut into soft ground.
The game played with such rings re-
quires two pins, called hobs, driven
part of their length into the ground
some distance apart; and the players,
who are divided into two sides, stand
beside one hob, and in regular suc-
cession throw their quoits, of which
each player has two, as near the other
hob as they can. The side which has
the quoit nearest the hob counts a
point toward the game, or, if the quoit
is thrown so as to surround the hob,
it counts two. The game slightly re-
sembles the ancient exercise of throw-
ing the discus, which has, however,
been often translated by this English
word.
First Wheat Grown in Canada.
The first wheat that ripened in Ca-
nadian sunshine was grown in 1607
at Port Royal, now Annapolis Basin,
Nova Scotia. Here Champlain and de
Monts founded a post and built a fort.
They were joined by Mare Lescarbot,
a lawyes of Paris, a poet, and the
earliest writer of Canadian history.
Love of adventure drew him to Port
Royal.
Outside the palisades of the |
fort he cultivated a plot of land in |
part of which he sowed wheat,
brought, of course, from France. His |
It
sowing was fall or winter wheat.
grew well, ripened pexfectly, and with
sickles Lescarbot and his associates
cut the crop. That was the first wheat |
crop harvested on land now within the
Dominion of Canada.
The Income Tax.
The English income tax, first im-
posed by Pitt in 1798 as a war tax,
was abolished at the Peace of Amiens
in 1801, and again imposed on the re-
sumption of hostilities in 1803. At
the downfall of Napoleon it ceased to '
be levied for twenty-six years—1816-
1842—when it was reimposed by Sir
Robert Peel, in June, 1842, at seven
pence in the pound, and produced
about five million pounds. As show-
ing the rapid advance of the country
in prosperity, the tax which produced
about seven hundred and ten thousand
|
pounds for each penny of tax in 1842 !
yielded two million six hundred and
ninety-one thousand four hundred and
twenty-two pounds per penny in 1909-
1910, and at the present time consid-
erabiy over three million pounds for
each penny.
bottom and then cover with twe or
three inches of earth. The hay, or
whatever material is used, should be
allowed to extend through the dirt at |
he cone, thus providing |
the necessary ventilation to keep the |
the apex of
vegetables in good condition. Place
a board or piece of tin uver the hay
at the apex of the cone and weight 1t
down to keep it in place. If the earth
be |
made to care for most of the other |
vegetables well into, if not through, |
11 not freeze. |
be made to |
ound in the |
crve admir- |
ably, saving a lot of money by keep- |
ing certain of the late garden vegeta- |
over the entire surface of the mound
| 18 firmed down with the back of the
| shovel and a shallow trench dug
| around the base of the mound with
an outlet so that the water will drain
| away, the vegetables may be kept
practically dry for any length of
time. As the weather becomes cold-
er, it will be necessary to put on more
earth, increasing the thickness of the
earth covering to six or eight inches.
to put on an additional covering of
straw, fodder, manure or other litter.
—For cabbages and turnips the
earth mound is a better storage place
than the cellar. Both turnips and
ed in the cellar, will
or mound.
then cover lightly with straw and a
layer of earth. A few heads may be
removed from time to time without
disturbing the remainder of the pit.
Another good method is to pull the
heads, roots and all, and set them
side by side with the roots down, in
whatever size may be
Around the bed erect a frame of rails,
boards, or poles, or by driving down
a row of stakes so that an enclosure
about two feet in height is formed.
Bank the outside of this frame with |
dirt and place poles across the top, |
| covering them with straw, hay, corn |
fodder, or pine boughs. Make pro- |
vision for cutting off the cabbage
heads from one end of the pit as
heads
needed. When the
spring these roots will sprout and
supply an abundance of greens.
— Farmers and the keepers of
ing on early frost this year on ac-
count of the present cool nights will
U. S. Department
the first frost is coming get their
crops under cover. Much food stuff
is wasted annually by being destroy-
ed by frost. Tomatoes are late bear-
ers and, as a rule, many are still
green or partly ripe when the first
frost comes. By observing the fol-
lowing suggestions you will have
vegetables far into the winter, where
otherwise they would rot in the gar-
den.
the best way is to pull up the vines
with the green tomatoes on them and
hang them in the cellar or other shel-
tered place or pick the tomatoes and
place them in a sash covered cold
frame, and cover them with straw or
leaves, to ripen. Even tomatoes that
appear to be perfectly green will, if
of good size and seed mature, ripen
sufficiently for use as fresh tomatoes.
The quality of the tomatoes will
probably be better if they are left on
the vines and they will continue in
usable condition for much longer
time, but they may be ripened suc-
cessfully by putting them in a sin-
| gle layer on a shelf in the cellar.
This may be the better plan for some
back yard gardeners who have not
sufficient space to hang up the vines.
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In very cold weather it is advisable |
cabbages give off odors that, if stor- |
permeate the |
house and become very disagreeable. |
The method of storing cabbages may |
vary somewhat from the regular pit |
A very satisfactory meth- |
od is to pull the plants, roots and all, |
and place them in a long pit, either |
on their sides or with the heads down. |
shallow trenches, making a bed of |
necessary. |
are cut, |
| leave the roots in position, and in the |
small garden plots who are anticipat- |
do well to heed the warning of the |
of Agriculture, |
through the weather bureau and when |
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