Deworrahc Wald
Bellefonte, Pa., March 31, 1922,
WHEN THE TROUT BEGIN TO
BITE.
There's a feelin’ comes to stealin’,
Sort o’ shamefaced-like and queer,
An’ my heart’ll sort o’ startle
Jest about this time o’year
Like a robin that is throbbin’
With the matin’ time delight,
‘When the sun js gettin’ stronger
An’ the days is gettin’ longer,
And the trout begin to bite.
Every willer seems as lazy,
Jest a noddin’ in the sun,
As a feller feelin’ meller
When his evenin’ chores is done;
An’ aknowin’ where he's goin’
With his fishin’ pole, all right,
When the sun is gettin’ stronger
An’ the days is gettin’ longer
And the trout begin to bite.
Ain’t no other feelin’, nuther,
That'll grip you jest like this.
Can't outgrow it, don’t you know it?
Then you don’t know what you miss.
When you're fishin’, well, you're wishin’
Every other feller might,
When the sun is gettin’ stronger
An’ the days is gettin’ longer
And the trout begin to bite.
A NEW SUPPLY OF GASOLINE
FOUND IN OLD SEA BED.
Fifty billion barrels of shale oil
available in this country as a reserve
for future needs! The Secretary of
the Interior says we have that much.
The motorist is eagerly interested.
“How much of it is gasoline?” he de-
mands to know. About 10 per cent.
is the answer given by the experts.
Which means 5,000,000,000 barrels of
the precious motor fluid. But what is
this oil-shale about which we have
heard so much lately? And how and
why does it happen that there is so
much oil in it?
Once upon a time it was mud, de-
posited on the bottom of a vanished
sea. Silt in finely divided particles,
brought from the land by rivers,
formed beds of it, which hardened in-
to rock. In the Rocky Mountain
States beds of shale thus formed are
found over wide areas, rich in oil. The
mud thus deposited contained much
organic matter—plant remains and
debris of molluscan and other aquat-
ic animal life. Usually oil does not
exist as such in the shales; it is pro-
duced by destructive distillation of
this organic matter. Heat, in the ab-
sence of air, decomposes the oragnic
matter, converting it into oils and
gases.
The products obtained by refining
the crude shale oil are motor gasoline,
fuel oils, illuminating oils, gas, lubri-
cating oils, paraffin wax and coke. Oil
shales are found in many parts of this
country. Those of the Rocky Moun-
tain States (says the Geological Sur-
vey) “are capable of yielding a much
greater quantity of oil than we can
hope to obtain from our oil wells.”
All of which sounds quite exciting.
Nevertheless, there does not seem to
be any prospect that our oil shales
will be exploited for oil on an exten-
sive scale for a long time to come. It
will not pay to mine them for oil until
petroleum becomes much scarcer and
dearer than it is now. No oil shale
operations in this country have yet
reached commercial production,
though many plants have been started
on a small scale in Colorado, Utah,
Montana, Nevada and California.
Huge capital must be invested before
the industry can become of commer-
cical importance. It is a kind of en-
terprise that must be conducted on a
large scale, involving as it does the
handling of great quantities of low-
grade material. One might compare
it to the extraction of gold or copper
from low-grade ores. The requisite
equipment is costly and operating ex-
penses are high.
Some oil shale runs as high as nine-
ty gallons of oil to the ton. Unlimit-
ed quantities of it are “in sight” that
will yield forty or fifty gallons. But
it costs as much to get out the rock
as it does to mine coal, and that is
only the beginning. To refine the oil
is more difficult and expensive than
refining petroleum. It differs from
crude petroleum in containing organ-
ic compounds which have a horrible
smell, tend to form gummy deposits
and must be removed before the pro-
duct is marketable.
The oil is there; no question about
that. It constitutes an enormous po-
tential reserve, upon which future
generations will be glad to draw. But
its extraction will not be economical-
ly profitable until the petroleum wells
of the world have approached much
Nearer to exhaustion than they have
ye
In the meantime at least 150 com-
panies have been organized in this
country for oil production from oil
shales. Most of them, however, are
mere stock-selling enterprises.
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STAR FOR EVERY SOLDIER.
More than five million stars, to be
exact, 5,016,832, of which 128,679 will
be of gold and the others blue, will
stud the dome of the gigantic assem-
bly hall in the National Victory Me-
morial building, in process of erec-
tion in Washington and which is ex-
pected to be completed in time for the
inaugural ceremonies in 1925.
This dome will really be an Ameri-
can Service Flag, bespangled with
country’s service during the recent
stars in geographical groups; a gold
star for every one who died in the
war, and a blue one for each other
member of the Army, Navy and Ma-
rine Corps who served.
That their star may be identified by
initials or a name in full, and guided
by a grouping diagram, future visit-
ors will be able with the aid of a tele-
scope on the floor below, to locate a
particular star, are details of the plans
of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, president
of the George Washington Memorial
Association and the guiding spirit
whose indefatigable efforts have con-
sumated this gigantic undertaking.
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BETTER THAN ALL MEDICINE
Oysters Put Artemus Ward on His
Feet When Every Other Remedy
Had Proved a Failure.
When Artemus Ward and Dr. Hing-
ston, who acted as his manager on his
western lecture tour, arrived in Salt
Lake City, after that amusing and
successful visit to California, the be-
loved humorist fell sick. So badly
was he, after his arduous rounds of
the Pacific coast and his strenuous
days in Virginia City, Nev, with Mark
Twain and Bill Nye, that his life was
despaired of.
The lecture Artemus had arranged
with Brigham Young to give in the
theater, had to be postponed. In fact,
so hopeless seemed the case that Dr.
Hingston even tried to arrange to have
the body of his friend and partner
transported to the East on the stage
coach. But the optimism of Artemus
brought him back to safety again, a
very thin and weak man.
But before he was allowed to leave
his room, Artemus had difficulty gain-
ing sufficient strength even to walk.
From Brigham Young to the least
humble of the Mormon “saints,” atten-
tions in the form of fresh eggs, jellies
and other helpful delicacies were
showered upon the convalescent. Ar-
temus enjoyed everything, but nothing
seemed to give him strength.
At last a food was discovered in a
local grocery, So we are told, that
“lifted him from his couch.” This
was nothing more or less than a dozen
cans of Baltimore oysters, put up in
squares of block tin. The first oyster
stew “hit the spot,” and Artemus
chirped up:
“Get out the bills for the lecture!
See Mr. Clawson and arrange for the
date. The show is safe enough, now
we've got on an oyster basis."—Mark
Stuyvesant in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer,
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Woods Flower-Carpeted.
Soon after the earliest blossoms have
lifted their heads to the sunshine the
stately queen of the vernal woods—
the large white trillium—unfurls her
banners of snowy white. In many
woods this species occurs in such
numbers as to give the forest floor
the appearance of a white-starred car-
pet. We are likely to find a white
spider, with the front two pairs of
legs much elongated, sitting close te
the center of the flower. This is the
white crab spider, a species which
thus maintains an attitude of waiting
with its long legs spread like a palr
of forceps over the middle of the blos-
som ready to seize such insects as may
visit it in search of nectar or pellen.
American Forestry Magazine
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Extends War Insurance.
Enemy aliens who served with the
United States during the world war
are entitled to the benefits of the War
Risk Insurane Act under a recent in-
terpretation of the act by the Vetfer-
ans Bureau, according to instructions
issued by Director Forbes.
“According to this decision,” Direc-
tor Forbes said, “any claimant who is
an enemy alien and who volunteered
or was drafted in the army, navy ma-
rine corps, and who was not discharg-
ed from the service on his own appli-
cation or solicitation by reason of be-
ing an enemy alien, and whose service
was honest and faithful, shall be en-
titled to the benefits of the War Risk
Insurance Act.
“As itis well known, the Veterans’
Bureau disallowed insurance benefits
to those beneficiaries residing in ene-
my countries and classified as enemy
aliens. Peace has now been declared
between these countries and the Unit-
ed States, and it is very proper and
fitting to make up these awards and
their payments as soon as possible.”
Many Persons Camped.
About 80,000 persons fished, hunt-
ed and camped in the Pennsylvania
state forests last year, according to an
estimate made by the Department of
Forestry. It is believed that 1,400
deer and 125 bear were killed on state
forests last fall.
Figures compiled by the Bureau of
Lands show 758 camp sites were leas-
ed by recreationists, an increase of
195 over the previous year. Lessees
of permanent camp sites in state for-
ests occupied an aggregate area of
480 acres. The minimum annual rental
charged for these camps is $7, and
they were enjoyed by 20,000 persons.
During 1921, 400 permits for tem-
porary camps were issued by local
forest officers, and it is estimated that
5,000 persons were in those camps.
About 55,000 campers and hikers were
in the various forests during the year.
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Is your wife “all tired out” and
cross and irritable much of the time?
Do the children “bother her to death”
every day, and do the ordinary house-
hold tasks that she formerly per-
formed with ease seem now to over-
tax her? In other words, do you often
come home to a house of trouble in-
stead of a house of joy and happi-
ness?
If your answer is “yes” to these
pointed questions, don’t blame your
wife until she has taken Gude’s Pep-
to-Mangan with her meals for a few
weeks. She is simply run-down and
nervous and needs the kind of iron
that she will get in Gude’s Pepto-
Mangan to give her more vitality and
strength. For thirty years doctors
have recommended Gude’s Pepto-Man-
gan as a first-class building-up tonic.
Sold by your druggist in both liquid
and tablet form.—Adv. 67-13
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Crime Problem a Boy Problem.
The Warden of the California State
prison at San Quentin, J. A. Johnston,
has been looking into the sources of.
the population of that institution and
believes he has found the most prolif-
ic source in neglected boyhood. “More
than half of those at this prison are
under thirty years of age,” he says,
“and about one-third are under twen-
ty-six years, while a great many of
them, several hundred in fact, are in
their teens. When you take such fig-
ures into account in conjunction with
the extreme youth of those in the re-
form schools, it is borne in on one that
youth is the time of leaderlessness,
and that criminal tendencies assert
themselves early in life.”
The observation of the Warden,
who certainly is in a position to speak
with authority, may prove valuable
to the gentlemen who are considering
ways and means to stem the rising
tide of lawlessness. This epidemic of
crime in every form, and breaking out
in every quarter, has become a house- |
hold concern. If its source can be in
any degree localized, the problem will
be by that much a simpler one.
«T.eaderlessness” boys have been
hooked up with the devil before this
still finds work for idle hands to do.”
Warden Johnston has a very positive
opinion on how to attack this prob-
lem. He says:
tance attaches to
the instilling of right ideals as to so-
cial obligations at the
when characters are being formed.
education and correct training, such
as Boy Scouts receive, inculcate hab-
its of industry, initiative, self-reliance
and all of the positive virtues that
make good citizens, in contrast to the
negative vices that so often lead boys
in the wrong direction.”
Our Fifth Avenues
It is the con-
the East Sides.
produce their quotas.
cern of the men who are
Boy Scouts of America to extend the
Boy Scout training to more boys in all
situations of life. It is significant
that at the very time when our great
criminologists are gathering to form-
ulate repressive and corrective meas-
| ures, several hundred representative
men from all parts of the United
| States met at Chicago to devise plans
‘for the extension of the Boy Scout
movement.
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From Saturday morning,
day evening, April Ist, our
all kinds of watches, some
ment) and some only
to the number of complete
receive, for the gentleman,
of 15 and 102.
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Jewelers and
What’s in a Guess?
Guess How Many Complete Watches are in Our Window
and Receive a Gold Watch Free
empty cases.
watches in the window will
a Gold Pocket Watch, or for
the woman, a Gold Wrist Watch.
No purchase is necessary to secure a guess. Open
to every one—the more the merrier—between the ages
Come in and write your number on a
EVERYONE.
Referees will count the number of complete
watches Saturday night, April 1st, when contest closes.
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Our New Vaults
The reinforced concrete work on our
new Vaults is completed. The next step will
be wiring for the Burglar Alarm and the
putting in of the Steel Lining
While for many years we have furnish-
ed Individual Safe Deposit Boxes to our
depositors, our supply
more, been inadequate,
has, for a year or
because we had our
improvements in mind and did not want to
buy until we had more vault space.
We now intend to install a large num-
ber of additional boxes
demands.
sufficient to meet all
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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Easter Specials
From now on until Easter we are making spe-
cial mark-down prices on all coats, suits, wraps and
furs.
LOT 1—12 Silk Dresses in light and dark
shades,, also black; Chiffon Taffeta and Satin; sizes
from 18 to 44; while they last $14.98. ;
LOT 2—AIl Wool Dresses in Serge and Trico-
tine, now $10.00 and $12.00.
LOT 8—All Wool Jersey Jumper Dresses, sale
price $3.98.
Ladies and Misses all wool Coats and Suits
only $10.00.
Tweed and Tricotine Suits from $15.00 up.
GINGHAM DRESSES.
Just received a large assortment of Gingham
Dresses in stripes and checks, from $3.00 up. See
our new bungalow apron dresses. :
WAISTS AND BLOUSES.
Our new spring line is here for your inspection.
Everything in silks, pongee, batiste and organdy.
SHOES.
Men’s fine dress shoes from $3.50 to $7.50.
Men’s working shoes from $2.50 to $5.00.
Ladies’ Oxfords, tan and black, $3.50 to $5.00.
Ladies’ high shoes, tan and black, $3.00 to $6.00.
A complete line of children’s and infant’s shoes
at all prices.
RUGS.
Now is your time to buy Rugs. We have a full
line in all sizes and colors.
New Axminster Rugs, sizes 9x12, at $35.00.
New Mottled Rugs, 27x54, at $3.50.
New Axminster Rugs, 86x72, $5.00.
Tapestry, cretonnes and draperies at marked
down prices.
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