“Bellefnte, Pa., November 25, 1921.
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LITTLE ALLIGATORS.
“There is nothing much nicer than
food,” said the first little Alligator.
“Nothing that I can think of,” said
the second little Alligator.
“Nothing that I can think of, either,”
said the third little Alligator.
“I love food,” said the fourth little
Alligator.
“So do I,” said the fifth little Alli-
gator. |
“It gives us strentgh,” said the sixth
little Alligator.
“More than that,” said the seventh
little Alligator, “it gives us pleasure.
That is mere important than anything
else.”
“Ah, yes,” said the eighth little Alli-
gator, “but we must be strong so we
will be able to eat lots of food. If we
were delicate and feeble we would not
be able to eat so much. So we must be
strong, too.”
The eight little Alligators were tak-
ing a sun bath. They weren't really
very little, but they were young alli-
gators and they were going to grow to |
be much bigger.
“We have always been greedy,” said
the first little Alligator.
“Something like the pigs,” said the
second little Alligator.
“Food interests us more than any-
thing,” said the third little Alligator.
“And wny shouldn’t it?” asked the
fourth little Alligator. “It is most in-
teresting, most interesting.”
“You're right,” said the fifth little
Alligator. “You are absolutely right.” |
“We have such strong jaws,” said
the sixth little Alligator, “and they are
80 nice for crunching our food whole.”
“We don’t eat daintily,” said the
seventh little Alligator, “and it is bet-
ter that way. For when we don’t eat
daintily we don’t have to eat slowly.
“And why should we do anything
else but gobble our food? We aren't
people who're supposed to eat nicely.
No, we're Alligators and we aren't !
=gpposed to have beautiful manners. |
“In fact, we hardly pay attention to
enything anyone says, but we will al-
ways pay attention to food.”
“You've said a lot,” said the eighth
little Alligator, “but everything you
have said has been quite, quite true.
I agree with every word of it.”
“Ah,” said the first little Alligator,
“we have good teeth. We don’t have
to go to dentists, for our teeth are
natucaily good.” i
“Good teeth are a great help in eat-
ing,” said the second little Alligator.
“We eat more fish than anything
else, now,” said the third little Alliga-
tor, “but we will eat larger creatures
before long.”
“We enjoy frogs and insects, too,” !
said the fourth little Alligator. “But
people needn't be afraid of us. We
don’t want to eat them.” |
“I'm sure they're grateful to us for
not wanting to eat them,” said the fifth
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little Alligator, “though perhaps they
are rather insulted that we don’t think
they would be good to eat.”
“Perhaps they are, I shouldn’t won-
der at all,” said the sixth little Alliga-
tor,
“But no matter, whether they are
or not,” said the seventh Vitle Alliga-
tor. “We have far more important
things to think of than that. We have
square, handsome heads, and great,
powerful jaws and good teeth, and we
love to eat. All of those things are
important.”
“The Crocodile has a long and nar-
row and sharp-pointed head,” said the
eighth little Alligator, “and in that
way people can always tell us apart.
“Yes, that is the best way to tell us
apart, by our heads.
“Jt is the way most creatures are
told apart. People look at the faces of
their friends and then they see who
they are. That is the way they do.
Perhaps they copied us in that.”
“Who knows whether they did or
not?” asked the other little Alligators,
“And who cares, really?’ they added.
“Tt isn’t so important after ail.”
Delbert of Soldier Stock.
Delbert comes of soldier stock and
though only five years old is ready to
fight for what he wants. He pulled
the eat’s tail one day and his father
promised to punish him if he did such
a thing again, A few days later his
father, on returning from the day’s
work, was confronted by Delbert with
the announcement: “I pulled the cat’s
tail and pow I want my punishment,
80 as to have it over with.”
HOW
MACHINE THAT PICKS OUT
DIAMONDS CAME INTO USE.
—When the laborers descend
into the diamond mines at Kim-
berley, they blast and pick out
the hard diamondiferous earth
and place it in wooden tubs that
are hauled on stout wires to the
surface, where the earth is
spread over the ground to un-
dergo. for several months, the
softening influences of heat and
cold. When it is soft enough it §
is shoveled into the washing
machines, where the dirt is sep-
arated from the rough diamonds
and other large mineral sub-
stances. The mixture of miner-
als remaining is known as “con-
centrates.”
It was formerly necessary to
go carefully over these concen-
trates to pick out the garnets
and many other foreign sub-
stances, until nothing remained
but the rough diamonds. This
was a slow and laborious opera-
tion, but it was an essential
part of the mining industry un-
til it was superseded not so
many years ago.
Among the employees in the
sorting room was a youth by
the name of Kersten, who went
quietly to work to find a way
to separate the diamonds from
other stones more quickly and ¢
more easily than could be done
by the slow process of hand
picking. He was not discour-
aged by his many failures to $
find that way. 4
One day by the merest chance §
the boy made the discovery he
was seeking. A rough diamond
and a garnet happened to be 2
lying on a small board on the
bench where he was working.
He raised one end of the board.
The garnet slipped off, but the
diamond remained. He found
that there was a coating of
grease on the board that had
retained the diamond, but not
the garnet.
4 The boy procured a wider
board, coated the side of it with
grease, and dumped a few hand-
fuls of concentrates on it.
Then he found that, by holding
the board in a slightly inclined
position and vibrating it, all the 2
HOW THE ROBIN AND ORIOLE
BUILD THEIR NESTS.
Any one can spend an idle half hour
watching a bird at work on its nest,
but if he is to learn correctly the
bird’s methods from the beginning to
the end of the process, he will need a
great deal of patience and much skill
and observation as well. Professor | gets down inside of it, pulls these ends
Francis H. Herrick of Cleveland has | in, and weaves them into the nest fab-
given accurate accounts of the way ric. The bird watched by Professor
that certain well known birds carry on Herrick took about four and a half
their building. days to finish her nest. Her move-
The female robin does the work of ments were often too rapid to follow,
building; the male keeps guard and and she chattered incessantly at her
cheers his mate by singing. She car- work. Probably she enjoyed it as
ries mud and stubble to the selected much as the male enjoyed his tuneful
site, and moulds it into a cup by idleness.
pressing the curve of her breast hard
against the stuff she has gathered,
while she scratches violently with her
feet against the limb of the tree in
the effort to increase the pressure.
When she has firmly pressed down
the nest material in one place, she
rises, moves a little and proceeds to
mould the next part of the nest-cup
Thus she passes several times round
the nest.
Now follows the mysterious part of
her conduct. When she brings the
next load of material and moulds it
into the nest, she goes through exact-
ly the same process, but always circles
the nest in the opposite direction.
There is nothing about the appear-
ance of the unfinished nest to show
in which direction the robin last turn-
ed; but she remembers, and by turn-
ing in the opposite direction the next
time, she produces in the end a nest-
cup that is even and symmetrical.
The oriole, on the other hand, is not | horse has been bred for speed the hen
a molder or potter, but a weaver. | has been bred for egg production.
Here again the female is the worker, | Within a few years this new blood line
and the male merely oversees and en- | will bring into being very profitable
courages the work. The oriole choos- | chickens.
es the fork of a hanging branch and | A 200 egg a year hen used to be
winds round the two twigs the ends | looked upon as a wonder, now it is
of any long fibers she can find in the common. And there are still people
neighborhood. The other ends of the who are satisfied with the mongrel
fibers are allowed to hang loose. fowl and honestly believe that she fills
Then she selects several other twigs the bill. When the 300 egg a year
and fastens fibers to them in the same hen becomes numerous there will be
way until the rim of the nest is out- mo over-production of eggs, as there
lined. The weaving of other threads will still be plenty of poor laying
into these is done by means of quick, hens in the country kept at a loss or
shuttle-like movements of the bill. no profit. But taken in general a
The bill thrusts the bit of string or gradual improvement in egg produc-
grass through the mass of fibers, and tion among the wide-awake poultry-
then catches either the same or a dif- men is sure to follow, now that a new
ferent thread and pulls it back at a record has been set.
of the bill the weaving is done, irreg-
ularly, it is true, since it is not always
the same fiber that is thrust and puil-
ed, but very strongly, nevertheless.
The ends of the long fibers that
hang down remain undisturbed until
the nest is well along; the oriole then
NEW EGG RECORD SHOWS
WONDERFUL EVOLUTION.
Lady-Egg-a-Day, a Buff Orpington,
has set a new world’s record by lay-
ing 343 eggs, or an egg a day with-
out a miss. Some hen, the people will
say. But it’s the breeder back of it,
scientific mating that produced this
super hen. Previously a White Leg-
horn held the record. It does not nec-
essarily take a show bird to win-egg
honors, but it does take a pure-bred
fowl. The common barn yard fowl
would take many years of breeding to
evolve only a fair egg producer.
Producing a new world champion
egg-laying hen is a real achievement.
i A world-champion boxer may attract
i more attention but this new mark for
| egg production shows progress, some-
sesame
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
concentrates except the dia- 2 |
monds moved to the lower end |
and fell off. while the diamonds
remained in place.
Then the boy invented a ma-
¢ chine by which his discovery
might be utilized. Considerable ¢
study was required to perfect
it, but at last the machine was
completed, and the diamond ¢
magnates were invited to wit- §
ness the new method of separat-
ing diamonds from the rest of
the concentrates.
The invention was an entire
success. A more simple and |
complete device for saving time,
labor, and loss of diamonds
could not be imagined. The § |
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entire work is now done by ma-
chinery, hand-picking has been
wholly superseded, and both the
inventor and the mine owners
have profited handsomely by
the labor-saving machine.—
$ Christian Science World.
TRACED TO PRIMITIVE DAYS
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How the Word “Score” Came Into |!
General Use as Indicating a
Token of Reckoning.
mn |
“The days of our age are three- |
gcore years and ten,” said the Psalm-
ist, showing that our forefathers reck- |
oned by vows, a system of keeping |
account of figures based probably in |
its original form upon the Pratee
of counting upon the fingers and toes.
The word “score” itself comes from
the Anglo-Saxon, being nothing more |
than the word “scoren,” which is the !
past participle of ‘“sceran”’—meaning |
to cut. It indicated a notch or incision |
made upon a tally-stick for the pur- |
pose of keeping a record of financial
transactions.
The “score-mark” was the twentieth |
notch upon these primitive “account
books”—a cut which was longer and
deeper than the others. Hence the
expression, “to pay off old scores,”
means not only the repayment of old
debts, but the revenging of grievances
which have cut deep and left a last-
ing impression.
It is for the same reason, that of
reckoning, that we speak of the
“score” of a game—meaning the rec-
ord of the points made—and the |
“geore” or musical record of an opera.
—London Tit-Bits.
How Power ls Derived From Sun.
A practical demonstration of the
possibility of running a steam en-
gine with heat derived directly from
sunshine has been made in California.
The rays of the sun are focused upon |
a beller by means of a radiator 85
feet in diameter, composed of 1,788
small mirrors which are so adjusted
that they all concentrate the sunlight
upon a single central point. The heat
developed is sufficient to melt copper,
and a wooden pole thrust into the
focus bursts inte flame at once. The |
steam from the suspended boiler is |
carried to the engine through a flex-
ible tube. An energy of 15 horse pow-
er is developed, and used to pump |
water for irrigation. The reflector is
mounted like an astronomical tele- |
scope, and kept facing the sun by a |
driving clock.—Christian Science |
Monitor.
CASTORIA
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
ZT sonal supervision since its infancy.
o “Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and * Just-as-good”? are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you would use for yourself,
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What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natusal sleep.
The Children’s Comfort—The Mothes’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
&
or Over 30 Year
The Kind You Have 0 BoP.
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Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
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