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Bellefonte, Pa., April 14, 1922,
BOON TO MANKIND
Science of Canning Food of Im-
mense Practical Value.
Few Discoveries or Inventions, It is
Pointed Out, Have Been of Great-
er Benefit to Humanity.
Though less spectacular, the science
of canning was a discovery only
equaled in importance by such inven:
tions as the telephone, the wireless
and the airplane. When we stop to
realize that food, shelter and clothing
are man’s most vital needs, and what
a large proportion of our food is pre-
served for us today in canned form,
we better understand the full signifi-
cance of this important discovery.
Pickling or drying were the only
methods of preserving foods that were
known up until about a century ago.
In 1795 the necessities of war prompt-
ed the French government to offer a
reward of 12,000 francs for a better
method of food preservation. The
prize was awarded to Nicholas Appert,
and his method stands today as the
real basis of our present process of
canning—namely, hermetic sealing and
sterilization by heat.
This discovery has added immeas-
urably to the wealth of the world, be-
cause it has meant that at times of
harvest the surplus crops, which it is
impossible to get to market before they
spoil, have not had to go to waste, but
have been preserved for use at other
periods of the year when Nature fis
producing less and when, but for the
science of canning, we would have to
subsist on much less attractive fare.
This is conservation in the broadest
and most economic sense of the word.
But the process of canning not only
benefits the world at large; it has very
definite advantages for each of us as
individuals. For that much-talked-of
Mr. Average-Man-in-the-Street and his
Housewife-in-the-Kitchen, “canning”
eliminates the seasons. In effect, it
“makes summer last all the year
round,” and in midwinter brings us
the crops of midsummer.
And canning also eliminates space
or sectionalism, for those of us who
live in the interior may still enjoy oys-
ters, crabs, lobsters and other sea
foods whenever we wish; and those
of us who live in the eastern states
may nevertheless have access to the
delicious fruit crops of California and
Hawail. And so on the world over.
The pioneer in Alaska, and miner in
the mountains of South America, the
explorer in the Antarctic, men and
women everywhere on the fringes of
civilization, all have at hand—thanks
to the can—the same wholesome ap-
petizing foods that are served to the
most exacting guest in an exclusive
New York hotel.
Because the science of canning has
so done away with time and space—
with respect to food—the can has come
to be known as a modern genie of the
home. The housewife whose pantry
shelves are well stocked with canned
foods 1s able to choose her meal from
whatever corner of the world her whim
suggests.
Sacrifice Worthy of the Name.
The word “sacrifice” gains new
meaning when we think of the story
that is‘ told about the three hundred
children of an Armenian orphanage.
So small amount of food had reached
the American relief workers in charge
of the orphanage that they could give
almost nothing even to the three hun-
dred. Each child got only a small
piece of bread and a few walnuts
twice a day. Of course the food did
not nearly satisfy their hunger, but it
was enough to keep them alive.
When the children learned that
there were hundreds more in the near-
by villages who could receive nothing
at all they voluntarily gave up the
walnuts. Before each meal they
dropped their nuts into a sack in one
corner of the room, and when it was
full some one of them would carry it
to the frantic crowd in the street.
Could there be a more generous sac-
rifice than that?—Youth’s Companion.
Airplanes’ Good Record.
Probably the most remarkable thing
about civil aviation in the past year
has been that not one passenger has
been killed, or even seriously injured,
in a British airplane throughout 1921,
And this, although during the summer,
between 400 and 500 people a week
were crossing the channel by alr, and
although well over 1,000 a week were
being taken up for joy rides In this
country. For this we have to thank
not only the skill of the pilots and
airplane mechanics, but the aeronauti-
cal inspection department and the con-
troller of aerodromes and licenses,
who have made sure that only first-
class men and machines have been al-
lowed to carry passengers.—London
Opinion,
! Easter Egg of Death.
The city of Paris, a few years be-
fore the war, presented the late czar
of Russia with an Easter egg contain-
ing jewels to the value of $10,000. The
same year one of his revolutionary
subjects sent him an egg stuffed with
dynamite, timed to explode at a cer-
tain hour. The weight of the egg
aroused suspicion, and a tragedy was
averted by the secret police opening
the egg and discovering its contents.
The best job work can be had at the
“Watchman” office.
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od Evening,
Fairy Tale
oY MARY GRAHAM BONNER
UNION
WINTER BEAUTY
“I know that the spring is very
beautiful. I know that the Summer
is very lovely. I know that the au-
tumn is very gorgeous. And I think”
Old Man Winter ended, “that there is
a great deal of beauty about the win-
ter.”
“I agree with you,” said the Fairy
Queen, who had promised Old Man
Winter that she and some of the fal-
ries would take a winter trip with him,
They had visited country places and
they had visited sea-shore places.
They had visited some wonderful
mountains and they had visited some
lovely valleys.
They had seen the work Sir Freeze-
the-Ponds had done and also the work
of Mr. Freezing-is-Fun. They had
seen all kinds of wonderful winter
scenes in all kinds of places.
“But,” sald old Man Winter, “I have
yet one place to take vou to before
your trip is over.”
“We have certainly had a wonder-
ful trip,” the Fairy Queen sald, “and
we will never forget it. We are quite
delighted to visit one more place.”
So Old Man Winter took the Fairy
Queen and the other fairies to a place
where there were as wonderful and
marvelous waterfalls to be seen as
anywhere imaginable.
There the Fairy Queen and the fair-
ies went about with Old Man Winter,
and so that they wouldn't be seen,
they wore robes of spray.
There were ice mountains which
had been made out of spray, and be-
tween these mountains great water-
falls rushed down without stopping.
All about were buge icicles, and at
night a crescent moon came out and
the stars, too, and the water dashed
and foamed, and the lights from the
sky danced merrily as if to say how
pleased they were to look down on
so much beauty.
There were rainbows in front of the
great waterfalls in the daytime, for
the sun shone right through the spray
which came from the falls, and the
ice and the snow and the icicles and
the branches of ice on the trees, all
sparkled as though they were made
of dazzling, wonderful jewels.
There were several great water-
falls and then there were rushing,
hurrying rapids, rushing as though
they had to get somewhere on time,
and as though they would be late if
they didn't hurry like anything!
But sometimes they found the time
to twist about and have a game or
so. Some of these rapids dashed on
down over rocks, but some of them
“We Are Quite Delighted.”
were frozen over and the ice and
the dashing water talked together of
the beauty of the winter.
There were falls which were oppo-
site from several other falls, and these
were in the shape of a horseshoe. All
about them were icicles and they
dashed down between great huge
masses of beautiful ice.
The telegraph poles and the trees
all about were covered with ice, and
such beautiful shapes as they were.
The trees were like fairyland, Old
Man Winter tcld the Queen of the
Fairies, which made her very much
pleased.
All about were rainbows and mar-
velous colors and dazzling snow and
ice and rushing green and blue wa-
ter which changed its dress on a
gray day to a wild gray green color
while on the bright days wore a beau-
tiful shade of blue green.
The Fairy Queen and the other fair-
ies stood up on an ice mountain which
looked up at the greatest of all the
waterfalls, and the Fairy Queen said:
“Old Man Winter, I have seen the
buds come out in the spring, and I
have seen the flowers appear. I've
seen the soft green moss and the new
ferns and the lovely green grass. I've
seen the splendor of mid-summer, and
I've seen the glory of autumn.
“But never have I seen anything
more wonderful than the work Win-
ter has done here, whether on the
fine days when the beauty almost daz-
zles me, or on the stormy days when
the beauty is so wild and wonderful.
“I've never seen anything to equal
this.”
And Old Man Winter smiled and
his smile was like a breath of fresh
cold air,
“I'm glad you like some of the work
we do. We get a good deal of abuse,
but we do try to give a great deal of
beauty to the world. We're glad that
you think we have!”
Tree Naughty Boys Dislike.
What tree does a naughty boy dis-
like most of all? The birch,
ANCIENTS HAD WATER GUAGES
F.gyptian River Surveyors Enabicd 19
Foretell Hour of Inundation of
the River Nile.
Nlilometers were among the most an-
cient water gauges, and were used by
the Egyptians many centuries B. C
Stone wells were constructed on the
banks of the Nile, and water entered
these through underground ditches.
This water rose and fell in sympathy
with the river, enabling river survey-
ors (government officers) to foretell
the hour of inundation.
Marked columns on the sides of each
well indicated the maximum, minimum
and middle gauge: the inspectors pa-
trolled the banks of the Nile and in:
formed the people by means of bul-
letins in advance how high the Nile
would rise and when the stream would
probably overflow its banks.
Lake Moeris, in Lower Egypt, was
connected with the Nile in ancient
days by one of the many canals for
which the ancient Babylonian and
Egyptian engineers are now famous.
This canal was equipped with sluices
and gauges. so that the land around
If the Nile]
rose, all that happened was that the |
it was never flooded.
blue crystal mirror of the lake rose
too. If the waters of the river fell,
then the lake filied them up by care-
ful manipulation of its sluices and iss
own waters.
Mining Methods.
In the construction of the Tieton
dam of the Yakima project in Wash-
ington the United States reclamation
service will have added another ncte-
worthy achievement to its already
long list. The dam itself will be one
of the largest earth dams in the Unit-
ed States, having a visible height of
230 feet and a length along the crest
of 900 feet, with a top width of twen-
ty-five feet.
A heavy concrete corewall will ex-
tend through the full length of the dam
and from {its crest into the bedrock.
The excavation for and placing of the
corewall is one of the features of the
work. The following method is being
used: Three shafts are being sunk
from the surface of the ground into
the bedrock. Drifts six feet high and
five feet wide are then driven in both
directions along the line of the core-
wall. After the lower drive is com-
pleted, a second drift is driven imme-
diately above it. The material from
this second drift is broken down into
mine cars placed in the lower drift.
and from there is taken to the shaft
and hoisted to the surface. After the
two drifts are completed the lower
drift is filled with concrete from cars
running in the second drift. A third
drift immediately above the second
drift is then driven, and the process
is repeated until the surface Ie
reached.
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a proper provision for saving.
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placed on a business basis if proper
provision is to be made for the time
when earning power diminishes. Nine
times out of ten the women are the
money savers of the family. They
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know, too, how to make one dollar do
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