Demorai Walcn,
Bellefonte, Pa., June 9, 1922.
FARM NOTES.
—Feeding mash to laying hens dur-
ing the summer months cannot be
overlocked. Remember that a suc-
cessful job of culling cannot be done
on a poorly fed flock.
—NMite infected houses in which the
young stock roost are very often the
cause of unsatisfactory pullets. Clean
the mites out thoroughly by painting
the perches with carbolineum or some
coal-tar preparation.
—Men handling sheep should put in
rape, oats or peas for forage at this
time in order to have a supply of
green feed available at a time when
the pasture becomes short and dry.
—A sheep is a small animal and one
may be slaughtered for family use
without waste, even in warm weather.
Sheep ought to be raised for fresh
meat, if not for wool and for breeding
stock.
—Many people who live in town
and have a small garden, as well as
shrubbery and trees, are not equipped
to fight insect pests. A small, com-
pressed air sprayer which holds three
or four gallons and can be thrown
over the shoulder will serve the pur-
pose. Inquire at your seed or imple-
ment store.
—No breeder or farmer can afford
to harbor tuberculosis in his herd. It
can be eliminated by the application
of the tuberculin test and careful
handling of the herd. Write to the
Bureau of Animal Industry, Harris-
burg, Pa., concerning the State and
Federal Accredited plan for eradicat-
ing tuberculosis.
— Milk sometimes assumes a slimy
or stringy condition. This ropy fer-
mentation is due to bacteria. It is
necessary to sterilize utensils in steam
to get rid of the trouble. It is also
advisable to wash tables, benches and
utensils with some disinfectant, such
as a solution of bleaching powder
(chlorde of lime).
— Considerable profit can be deriv-
ed from fattening the broilers that
are to be marketed. This should not
be attempted if the birds are to be
shipped alive to any great distance.
A good fattening ration consists of
two pounds of corn meal, one pound of
ground oats, one pound of wheat
shorts and eight pounds of butter-
milk.
— Tests carried on by Iowa State
college foresters with fence posts that
have been charred before placing them
in the ground shows that these posts
do not last a great deal longer than
those uncharred. Although the char-
ring places a surface of charcoal on
the post which is not pleasant for in-
sects to penetrate, the post is destroy-
ed and weakened so that the outcome
in the end is doubtful.
—It is the tendency after a good
year of crops on the farm, to add live
stock in sufficient numbers to consume
the extra crops produced. Then when
the poor year comes along, high-pric-
ed feed must be bought or some of the
stock must be sold. It would be bet-
ter to keep the amount of stock which
will consume the crops produced on
the land in a lean year rather than
buy feed for excess stock when the
cost is high.
—Off flavors in butter are largely
due to the care which the cream re-
ceives after separation. Cream should
be cooled immediately after separat-
ing and held cold until twenty-four
hours before it is to be churned. The
temperature should then be raised to
70 degrees F. and the cream allowed
to become slightly sour. Three hours
before churning it must be cooled to
the churning temperature.
—Grasses and weeds are enormous
consumers of soil moisture, to say
nothing of available plant food. The
moisture content of the soil plays an
important part in fruit production, an
all-important part in fact. Unless
there is an abundance of moisture,
the quality of the fruit is certain to
be affected, even though all other con-
ditions are favorable. There are oth-
er reasons why the orchard soil should
not be expected to maintain an inter-
crop to any large extent. Weeds and
grasses often afford a hiding place for
orchard pests at certain seasons of
the year. Some forms of diseases
may be propagated on them, even
though kept off the trees during a ma-
jority of the year.
—Too many Pennsylvania poultry-
men are practicing a hit or miss game
in selecting breeding cockerels, said H.
D. Monroe, poultry extension special-
ist of The Pennsylvania State College
in addressing the meeting of the Penn-
sylvania Poultry Association at Har-
risburg on January 25th. There is a
great demand in this State for breed-
ing cockerels of standard breeding
and from high producing hens, he
pointed out, for many poultrymen are
buying from flocks no better than
their own.
“The remedy for this is a specially
selected small pen of outstanding good
hens from which the breeding cock-
erels for next year could be raised,”
says Mr. Monroe. “Any farmer hav-
ing two hundred or more hens can
well afford to have such a pen.”
—Comparatively few gardeners
give the question of the selection of
seed the attention its importance de-
mands, declares Dean R. L. Watts, of
The Pennsylvania State College agri-
cultural school. The average garden-
er is too much inclined to accept cat-
alogue descriptions of varieties and
be content with the varieties they
have been growing for years. He ad-
vises that if there is anything better
to be obtained, to be constantly on the
lookout for it and grow it.
“If a man is able to grow five tons
or more of cabbage per acre by using
the right seed, even if it does cost
more, is it not an important factor in
lowering the cost of the production
and raising our profits per acre?” isa
question that Dean Watts applies to
the problem. “Don’t be too certain
that you have the best, or that you
know exactly where to get it. Take
time to make a thorough investiga-
tion of the whole question.”
1 STERY.
By L. A. Miller.
There are mysteries and mysteries—
Some may be solved, while others will
remain a mystery until the end of
time. A friend complimented me on
my previous views on presentiments,
and was insistent on me giving my
ideas on somnambulism; another dif-
ficult problem.
It is a fact that sleep has its own
world, and a queer world it is. Its
mysteries are fathomless and its won-
ders marvelous. It seems more a
world of chance than anything else,
yet there is perfect method in much
that is found therein. Books have
been written on the oddities and pecu-
liarities of this land of woe, yet its
mysteries remain. How often does a
lovely face shine forth through the
dark, filmy tapestries, filling the soul
of the sleeper with delight, and as
quickly grow old, haggard and shriv-
eled, changing from angel to imp, or
melting into formless cloud. The wak-
ing mind may recall the face and form
but no amount of coaxing or pleading
will induce morpheus to reproduce the
picture. Scarcely is it possible to find
in the realms of nature such delicate
tints, exquisite delineations and mas-
terly groupings as in the art galleries
of shadow-loving somnus. This ca-
pricious god of sleep, with his brother
Mors, and their constant companion |
Nox, delight in defying the fixed laws
of the natural world, setting at naught
every doctrine of philosophy, driving
artists and poets crazy with his di-
vine conceptions, inimical touches of
color, marvelous designs and thrilling
revelations.
He plays with the fancy, toys with
the passions and laughs at reason.
There are times, however, when there
is a method, or at least a seeming
method, in his antics, as though he
had condescended to reason or to step
within the bounds of common sense.
At such times the human soul is per-
mitted to wander at will through fa-
miliar paths and breathe the atmos-
phere of reality. Faces and forms,
events and seasons occur in their prop-
er places, and to all appearances are
as orderly as when under the strict
laws of physical health. Somnambu-
lism is perhaps one of the most com-
mon pranks of the restless young god
who goes around with his torch turn-
ed down as though afraid of being
seen. As the doctor says of Lady
Macbeth’s sleep walking: “A great
perturbation in nature, to receive the
benefit of sleep; and to do the effects
of watching.” There are but few who
have not, at some time in their lives,
walked in their sleep or indulged in
pranks of the time, or having any
recollection of it afterwards. The
fewest number, however, have a hab-
it of so doing or indulge in it to such
an extent as to make it a source of
annoyance to friends or an inconven-
ience to themselves. The disposition
toward somnambulism usually passes
away in the course of a year or two,
and that ends it.
Before Somnambulism was under-
stood, it was supposed that a differ-
ent Soul had possession of the body.
The ancients imagined that the Soul
of some departed person having need
of a material body to enable it to ac-
complish certain ends, simply crowd-
ed the soul out of some quiet sleeper,
and went about its errand, leaving the
other soul to roam around at will and
patiently await the return of its body.
_ It is not safe, or at least good pol-
icy, to suddenly arouse a sleep-walker,
or even one who is dreaming. The
usual manifestations in somnambu-
lism are merely those of getting out
of bed, going about the house in the
dark without the aid of a light, sing-
ing songs that are new to the individ-
uals, delivering sermons and address-
es far above their waking capacity,
solving problems and divining puzzles
entirely beyond their every-day knowl-
edge. The greatest trouble about all
this is that the results can rarely be
recalled when the person awakes, so
that sleep-walkers are not much ahead
of those who sleep quietly in their
beds. There is usualy very little reli-
ance to be placed in the revelations
made by somnambulists. About the
only difference between them and a
common dreamer is that the one lies
still in his bed and thinks, while the
other gets out and acts. In the latter
case the motor and sensory systems
of nerves are both affected.
Somnambulism is certainly a dis-
ease, or rather a symptom of a dis-
ease, and one that should receive in-
stant and careful attention. It gen-
erally manifests itself in young peo-
ple at about the age of fourteen, but
it is ¢nly in rare instances where it
is notably bad. No matter how slight-
ly, however, you may depend upon it,
that there is a disturbance in the ner-
vous system and one that will make
serious trouble if let alone or encour-
aged is evident.
Among the most prominent som-
nambulists, as well as believers in
dreams and patrons of spiritualism,
was the late General Gordon, of
Egyptian fame. He was free to say
when he left home that he would nev-
er return to it alive; but he was too
good a soldier to refuse to go, or even
to say the expedition would be a fail-
ure. He knew not the time nor the
manner of his taking off, but he had
every reuson for believing it would be
as painful and cruel as those half civ-
ilized and bloodthirsty Africans could
manage to make it.
There is no denying the fact that
we are all touched with superstition.
It seems to have been born in us, and
no amount of schooling or training
will thoroughly eradicate it. Compar-
atively few believe in ghosts, yet none,
or at least very few, can honestly say
they are not afraid of haunted houses,
graveyards and places where strange
lights have been seen, or peculiar
sounds heard.
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CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Without friendship this life is but mis-
ery, and it is so difficult to find a true
friend that the search is almost needless;
but if you ever do it ought to be cherished
as an exotic plant.—Nelson,
Simple Sunday School Tableaux.—
Nothing is more generally attractive,
both to children and to adults, than
tableaux, or living pictures, as they
are frequently called, and with the
limitless possibilities of crepe paper
it is now very easy, with comparative-
ly little expense or trouble, to arrange
effective costumes. Scenery may be
more or less elaborate, but it can even
be dispensed with entirely, substitut-
ing portieres of any rich dark color
for a background. If these cannot be
had, paste paper or cambric, prefera-
bly dark red, over clothes-horses. If
possible, have in front of the pictures
a large wooden frame, across which
tarletan is stretched, or mosquito net-
ting without the plaid will answer.
Give the wood a coat of gold paint.
If that cannot be had use yellow. The
frame should, of course, be large
enough to enclose the largest of the
tableaux. Place it from four to six
feet in front of them.
Choose from the Scriptures scenes
in which one or more children appear,
as many as the time allotted for the
tableaux will permit. For instance,
Hagar departing with Ishmael from
Abraham’s home. The tent can be
made of two clothes-horses covered
with gray or white blankets, or
sheets, or white coverlets may be
stretched over it. At the opening ap-
pears Sarah’s figure in a loose white
robe. Hagar, holding in one hand a
brown jug and leading Ishmael by the
other, stands with her head turned
slightly back toward Sarah, while
Ishmael, as if reluctant to leave the
tent, drags behind, pulling at her
hand. Hagar and Ishmael both wear
lead-colored costumes and sandals.
The daughter of Jeptha, coming out
with her maidens to meet her father,
all the young girls dressed in white
robes with garlands of flowers, and
holding aloft musical instruments
while standing in the attitude of
dancing, would be an admirable group.
The Egyptian princess and her
maidens watching the cradle of Mo-
ses is a very effective tableau. Green
crepe paper can be used to represent
the bank of the river, and a large
shallow basket, in which is a doll
nearly covered by its long white robe,
should be placed at the back of this
picture, the princess and one or more
attendants standing in front nearest
to the audience.
Joseph about to be thrown into the
pit by his brothers can also be given,
the boy in his “coat of many colors,”
which may be represented by a white
robe striped with crepe paper in dif-
ferent colors and girdled at the waist
by a long sash which may be of
cheese-cloth if silk is not at hand. Or
the upper part of the robe may be
white and the bottom trimmed with
four or five bands, each a different
color. The brothers—of course much
older—wear plain gray or brown cos-
tumes.
- David in a white robe posed with
his sling, in which he is just fitting a
pebble to hurl at Goliath, is excellent
for a picture containing a single fig-
ure. He may also appear a second
time seated with his harp outside the
tent in which Saul is supposed to be.
But it would be far more effective to
represent the interior of the tent,
which can be made of white sheets. A
rug on the floor piled with cushions,
on which sits Saul in an Eastern cos-
tume that can be made of gay-hued
shawls of Bagdad couch-covers or por-
tieres. He wears a gilt paper crown
and leans his head on his hand, the
elbow resting on his knee. David
should be in white, standing with his
harp before the king.
The figure of the infant Samuel at
prayer can easily be represented—the
little white robe made of white cheese-
cloth. Have a fair-haired child, if
possible. If the hair can be powdered
perfectly white to give this tableau
the appearance of a statue it will in-
troduce variety.
The closing tableau if the enter-
tainment is given near the Christmas
season, might be copied from any of
the paintings representing the man-
ger, or the adoration of the Magi; or if
this is desired, let it end with a group
of shepherds, one or two of them
mere boys, in robes of brown or gray
—the boys may be in white to render
the tableau more effective—all with
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ed and turned in the same direction.
Call this tableau the “Star of Bethle-
hem,” especially if the star cannot be
represented; but in buildings lighted
by electricity this can be done without
difficulty.
“A successful guessing game for a
children’s party played out of doors
was called a ‘Seeing-the-Town Trip,’ ”
says a writer in the Woman’s Home
Companion for April. “A large col-
lection of local postcards was pinned
about the lawn on the tree trunks and
other places. The cards were number-
ed, and, of course, the names of the
views cut off. The children were fur-
nished with pencils and paper and told
to ‘travel around town’ and write
down what they saw. It was comical
to see how some of the most familiar
scenes puzzled them. The prizes were
a postcard album for the most suec-
cessful guesser and a collection of
cards for the one who recognized the
fewest number.”
To wash colored ribbons make a
lather of either cold or luke warm
water and fine soap. Wash the rib-
bons by “sousing” them up and down
and squeezing. Do not rub, pull or
twist them. Very soiled places may
be cleaned by rubbing in a good suds
with the palm of the hand. Rinse
them several times, always in soapy
water, not clear water. Rinse as many
times as necessary in water of the
same temperature as the wash water.
There is no advantage in adding soap
to the rinse water. White silk ribbons :
may be blued, but the blueing water
should be of the same temperature as
all the other water used. Squeeze the
water out.
Penn State to Admit None Before
July.
While many applications for admis-
sion to The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege have already come to the office of
Registrar A. H. Espenshade, no stu-
dents will be admitted until early in
July, according to information from
the college. This action is taken to
give every applicant an equal chance.
It postpones the actual admission un-
til all of the high schools of Pennsyl-
vania have graduated their Seniors
and the principals have had time to
fill out and send in the usual certifi-
cates of entrance credit. Entrance
will be based upon scholastic standing
and not upon priority of application.
Registrar Espenshade announces
that foreign language credits for en-
trance are no longer required in the
schools of agriculture, engineering
mining, and natural science, or in the
department of home economics. Prep-
aration in a foreign language is re-
quired for liberal arts courses, how-
ever. Students in the agricultural
courses at Penn State are no longer
required to study any of the foreign
languages.
em — Aine.
——The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
Deficient Vitality a Great Misfortune.
Persons who can. rarely or never say that
they feel full of life, are really among the
most unfortunate, They do not live, but
merely exist; for to live implies more than
to be. To live is to be well and strong—
to arise feeling equal to the ordinary du-
ties of the day, and to retire not overcome
by them—to feel life bounding in the veins.
A medicine that has made thousands of
people, men and women, well and strong,
has accomplished a great work, bestowing
the richest blessings. Such a medicine is
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The weak, run-down,
or debilitated, from any cause, should not
fail to take it. It builds up the whole sys-
tem, changes existence into life, and makes
life more abounding. It is simple justice
to say these words in its favor.
Hood’s Pills very effectively supple-
ment it in cases where a cathartic or lax-
ative is needed. 67-23
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. that we can not do in the most sat-
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consistent with the class of work.
Call ‘on or communicate with this
office.
noticed concrete was in coxacrete side-
are measured” Paar the first place you ever
walks. This was only about twenty.
five years ago. Today hardly any other
kind is built.
Concrete has proved its economy, its
suitability, its permanence. Even though
most of those first walks were built before
concrete construction was properly under-
stood, some of them are still giving good
service.
Today your dealer is able to give you the same
cement that has stood the test of over twenty-five
years’ use on all free of work. For more than a
uarter century
Portland Cement has been
“the Standard by which all other makes are
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Five Cents per Pair
We have placed on tables every pair.of La-
dies High Heel Pumps and Oxfords, white,
black, tan, and patent leathers.
are of the very best quality, but{for the reas-
on of high heels we have reduced the price
to $1.95 a pair and an Extra Pair for
5cts., or in other words you get two pair of
the best shoes made for $2.
We have good sizes and widths in the blacks
and tans and all sizes in the white.
These shoes
Yeager’s Shoe Store
Ladies Pumps and Oxfords
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Lyon & Co.
Lyon & Co.
Specials For Economical
Buyers
One-yard-wide Percales -
27 and 32-inch Ginghams and Voiles, all
colors, now - -
36-inch, all colors, Linen, now
36-inch Unbleached Muslin
Good Heavy Toweling -
Scrims and Cretonnes, only
75c Table Damask, now -
READY TO WEAR DEPARTMENT.
17c
25¢
$1.00
10c
10¢
15¢
50¢
All summer Coats and Suits for Ladies, Misses
and Children, re-priced lower for this special sale.
Ladies’ Gingham and Percale Dresses from
$1.75 up.
¥ laa
Shirt Waists and Over Blouses in all colors.
Voiles, Organdies, Crepe de Chene and Georgettes
at less than cost of material.
SHOES.
See our Ladies’ and Misses’ two-toned sport Ox-
fords in black and white and brown and white, val-
ues $4.00; special price, $2.75.
Children’s White one strap Pumps now $1.00.
Men’s fine Dress Shoes and Work Shoes at
special low prices.
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.