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Bellefonte, Pa., November 17, 1922.
Forest Trees for Spring Planting.
Applications for trees for the spring
planting season now coming into the
Department of Forestry indicate that
the movement for the reforestation of
waste and denuded lands in Pennsyl-
vania is growing steadily. 0
To date the number of applications
for young forest trees is far more
than for the corresponding period last
year. Land owners in all parts of the
State have applied for trees In large
quantities that the entire supply,
about 4,000,000 trees, of white pine,
Norway spruce, Japanese red pine,
European larch, red oak, catalpa and
black walnut has been allotted.
The Department of Forestry has,
however, about 3,000,000 young trees
of the following kinds available: Pitch
pine, Scotch pine, Japanese black pine,
white ash, green ash, rock oak and
American elm.
These trees are from five to twelve
inches in height. They are distributed
free to land-owners by the Depart-
ment of Forestry, and they are to be
planted for wood production. They
are not suited in size and shape for
shade or ornamental planting. :
In addition to applications from in-
dividuals requests for trees have been
received from cities for municipal
parks and for watershed reforesta-
tion. More applications have come
from sportsmen’s clubs than ever be-
fore, indicating a wider interest
among outing organizations in co-
operating to protect and preserve the
natural resources of the State.
Water companies and coal mining
companies are among the applicants.
The former are planting to conserve
their water supplies, and the mining
companies are planting their surface
lands to provide a
future supply of
timber for their operations.
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Cocoa or Cacao.
There is a considerable degree of
confusion in the minds of many peo-
ple as to whether fruit cocoa and or-
dinary breakfast cocoa are products
of the same tree. An article in the
Scientific American explains the dis-
tinction, giving as the cause of con-
fusion the change in the English
spelling of the original name of the
cocoa tree. The French, Spanish, and
German languages retained part of
the botanic name of the tree, theo-
broma cacao, calling the product ca-
cao. :
This tree, which is a native of
South America, yields the cocoa or
cacao. The Mexicans call it chocolate,
which is one of the names we use.
The tree is an evergreen, bearing fruit
and flowers all the year, though the
chief times for gathering the fruit are
June and December. The seeds of the
fruit are the original of our choco-
late and cocoa.
Cocoanut, the fruit, is the product
of the cocoanut palm, which is a lead-
ing feature of any pictorial illustra-
tion of tropical landscape. The nu-
merous uses of this tree are mot so
well known. The roots are chewed;
gutters and posts are made out of the
trunks; the young duds are prepared
and eaten much after the manner of
cabbage; the leaves are made into
baskets, matting, and many other ar-
ticles; the midribs of the leaves form
oars, and the bruised ends are used for
brushes; the sap produces a sugar,
which mixed with lime forms a pow-
erful cement; the fibrous cover of the
shell is used for cordage; the shell is
used as a drinking cup, and the white
meaty inside is a wholesome food as
well as the source of cocoanut oil,
while the milk is a nourishing and
couling drink.
Channel to Ocean from Great Lakes
Declared Possible.
“There are only 34 miles of physic-
al obstacles to be removed to provide
a 25-foot channel between Chicago
and Montreal, through which 80 per
cent. of all the ocean vessels now
sailing from American ports could
come into the Great Lakes,” Charles
E. Townsend (R.) United States Sen-
ator from Michigan, told Chicago bus-
iness men at a luncheon of the Chi-
cago Association of Commerce.
Michigan’s interest in the water-
way, manifested in a constitutional
amendment relative to port facilities
which was voted on last Tuesday, was
illustrated in Mr. Townsend’s address
which he had taken time to deliver
out of the closing week of his cam-
paign for re-election. 4
«The Welland Canal already is in
process of completion in a plan which
will accommodate ocean-going ships,”
Mr. Townsend pointed out. “Some
short stretches in the waterway be-
tween the lakes will need improve-
ment, as will the harbors, which ocean
* ships will require on the lakes.”
T¥i. An Eye to Business.
One morning little four year old
Elwood was in the berry patch with
his father.
“Elwood,” said his father, “T’l1 bet
you a penny that I can pick a quart of
berries quicker than you can.”
In a few minutes Elwood was quite
encouraged to find that he had finish-
ed picking his quart first.
“Well, Elwood, do you want to bet
a penny on another quart?”
“Na,” replied his business-like son,
“let’s bet a nickle this time.”—Roches-
ter Democrat and Chronicle.
Not What She Thought.
It was a secluded corner, hemmed
in with palms and fairy lights, calm,
cool and restful.
“Do you realize what it would mean
if I were to give you a beautiful dia-
mond ring?” Charlie asked softly.
Sybil thought she knew, but instead
of saying so—for she wished to hear
him say those sweet words himself—
she cooed gently.
“What—what would it mean?”
“It would mean,” he said, “that I
should have to live on ten-cent lunch-
eons and wear my old clothes for a
year!”
MODERN DEBI TU THE FAsi
Present-Day Civilization Apt to Forgas:
Whence Came Much of Art and
Literat@ve.
So accustomed are we to our own
art and civilization that we scarsaly
realize how varied are the sources
froma which they sprang. We ac-
knowledge a great debt to Rome. But
dv we often remember that our 2lpha-
bet. goes back at least to the Egyp-
tians? Do we appreciate the meaning
of the fact that nearly half the words
we use have a Latin derivation? That
we owe our numerals to the Arabs?
i In our literature, what is the
debt of the Elizabethans to Theocri-
tus, who first sang that pastoral they
in turn learned from the Italians?
Through all our lives run strange
threads of the past, but we are too ac-
customed to them even to recognize
them as strange and thrilling, too.
Often influences work in the most un-
expected ways. To take a recent and
unexpected example, one may quote
the color prints, especially those of
Utomaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige, art-
ists of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth !
centuries, who have been a deep iniln-
ence upon the use of line and the com- :
position of the modern European post-
er school. The simplification of lines
till only those essential to the central
idea remain, was a heritage to the
school of color prints from earlier arf-
ists.—Elizabeth J. Coatsworth, in the
North American Review.
“MARRIED TC THE ADRIATIC”
Picturesque Ceremony That Was Heid
of Great Importance in Old
Venetian Days.
A picturesque ceremony performed
annually in Venice in the time of the |
doges was the “Marriage of the Adri-|
atic,” a rite symbolizing the dominion
of the city over the neighboring se:.
It was instituted in 1177 to commemo-
rate a great naval victory by the Vene-
tians over Frederick Barbarossa, it is
recorded. Pope Alexander III in this
year presented a ring to the doge of
that day, and ordered his successors,
every Ascension day, to cast a similar
ring into the Adriatic, promising that
the bride so espoused should be as du- |
tiful as a wife to her husband. The
first ceremony was performed on As-
cension day of that year.
The doge and his suite, accompa-
nied by many citizens, proceeded to
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riving there the doge first poured holy
water into the sea and then, taking
the ring from his finger, dropped it into
the ocean, saying: “We espouse thee,
a sea, in token of our just and perpet-
ual dominion.” Solemn high mass was
then celebrated, and the ceremonies
concluded with a great feast.
Reached His Destination,
The steep stairway called “Break-
neck Steps,”
and lower towns of Quebec, has been
the scene, according to old inhabitants,
of incidents both tragic and ludicrous.
One approaches this stairway (even
with its Twentieth century improve-
ments) in tight-lipped apprehension,
writes a recent visitor to the French-
Canadian city. But in the old days,
at the height of its dangerous career,
to reach the bottom without accident
was an achievement. |
The tale is still being told of the
gentleman who tripped on the sec-
ond step, fell, but slid to safety,
bearing on his back a lady, who at
his tripping had also tripped and |
in her plight clutched the gentleman's |
knotted tippet. At the bottom of the '
stairway the gentleman politely doffed
his hat and said: |
“Pardon me, madame, but this is
as far as I go!”
Peculiar Indian Custom. :
It is an inviolable covenant within
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the Navajo Indian naticn that after
the marriage a son-in-law must never
set eyes on his mother-in-law, and vice
versa, a mother-in-law must never see
her son-in-law. The daughters-in-law
are not mentioned.
According to Navajo traditions, a
Navajo girl is considered the property
of her parents until she marries. Prior
to her marriage a contract is made be-
tween the father of the girl and the
destined bridegroom. When a Navajo
woman marries she becomes free and
may leave her husband for sufficient
cause. A warrior of one clan must
marry a maiden of one of the 51 oth-
ers, and vice versa. The descent of
the clans is passed along by the fe-
male line.
Mason and Dixon Line.
The Mason and Dixon line, in Unit-
ed States history, is a line popularly
regarded as dividing the slaveholding
from the non-slaveholding states. In
reality, it ran for more than one-third
of its length between two slave States,
Maryland and Delaware. It was run
by two English engineers, Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, between
the years 1764 and 1767, for the pur-
pose of settling the disputed boundar-
ies between Maryland on the one side
and Pennsylvania and Delaware on the
other. The work was done with such
skill and accuracy that a revision In
1849, with instruments of much great:
er precision, disclosed no error of im-
portance.
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All Must Make Sacrifices.
Would we codify the laws that
should reign in households, and whose
daily tracsgression annoys and morti:
fies us and degrades our household
life, we must learn to adorn every
day with sacrifices. Good manners
are made up of petty sacrifices. Tem
perance, courage, love are made up of
the same jewels.—Emerson,
connecting the upper |
“LADY LUCK” STILL AT WORK
Mctor Drivers Continue te Com-
mandeer Her to Guard Their
Vires and Cut Gasoline Price.
Have you ever seen Lady Luck?
Iiave you called on her and had her
sowie? Half a dozen sculptors say
ciey have seen her and have modeled
from memory the pose, the look and
the lines of the lady. But their ver-
sions vary. True accounts of the same
thing always do. But the sketches
they did in clay which have now be-
come casts of metals have certain sim-
ilarities.
The truth of these sculptors’ phan-
tasies has obtained strong popular
support. Without any complete plebi-
cite the idea has been accepted en-
thusiastically by that enlightened por-
tion of the population which buys tires
and gasoline.
So Lady Luck has become the fa-
vored mascot of the 1922 car, declares
the New York Sun. Wherever it fol-
lows the road she rides ahead, as her
ancestress rode ahead on the prow of
a Genoese ship. Both of them face
the wind.
One favorite of these figures is
poised for a leap like a girl on the
end of a springboard. But she stands
on a couple of wings and she holds the
pose.
Another is the Indian maid. Hair
bobbed, arms crossed, face immobile,
she stands straight and still against
the wind. Her rival is a tiny creature
of the type of a French marquise—a
lovely little doll with a Watteau face,
with a crinkled bit of pompadour
pulled close to tiny ears, who wears
for further charm a drapery that cov-
ers her very heels.
Way along at the last of the pro-
cession comes the screaming eagle.
Five years ago the eagle led, said the
dealer. After the war it gave way
to others, and most of the owners of
cars have gone back tu the ancient
faith. They .arry a modern version
of the same old Lady Luck.
UNITED STATES NOT GREAT?
in a Spiritual Sense, According to
Magazine Writer, Country Does
Not Rank High.
Are the people of the United States
truly great? Great we are in material
things; great in world power. But
what when, like the other great po-
litical entities of the past, our na-
tion, too, ‘goes west”? What will
have been our national contribution to
the sum total of human happiness,
which, in tne last analysis, means
“spiritual” happiness? asks Lindsey
Blayney in the North American Review.
With the eyes of the world centered
upon us, the mighty colossus of mod-
ern political history, can we point to
any nonmaterial achievement which
will be termed by a grateful poster-
ity the spiritual bequest of the
United States of America to the sum
total of highest- human good? - In
art, literature, law and science our
achievements, while commendable,
have not been outstanding. In none
of these fields of human endeavor have
we assisted man to take a great on-
ward and upward step on the slow and
toilsome journey towara his ultimate
destiny ; in none of these departments
have we given to man a spigitual as-
set which will go far toward lifting |
him above the commonplace realities
and sordid selfishness of everyday life.
In a word, the highest idealism of the
United States has not yet expressed
ftself in immortal terms in any or
these fields.
To Ssarch Croesus’ Tomb.
Was King Croesus rich as history
declares? A group of archeologists
have left for Asia Minor to find out.
Near Sardis is a mound which covers
the tomb of the Croesus family. The
archeologists have received permis-
sion from the Greek government to
excavate this tomb, and they expect to
discover gold ornaments and other
evidences of the financial standing of
the fabulously rich king. The treas-
ures, which would have a great art
value aside from their antiquity,
would become the property of the
Greek government. Some preparatory
work of excavation was done before
the war by Dr. L. T. Shear, who has
just left Rome with his wife for Sar-
dls. Mrs. Shear is a trained arche-
ologist and has accompanied her hus-
band on several expeditions.
Case to Beat the Highwayman.
A money carrying case for bank mes-
sengers and others sounds its own
alarm if the bearer is held up. The
case has in its lid a good sized gong
and two circuits operate it by means
of triggers in the carrying handle. If
the unlucky messenger wishes to
sound an immediate alarm a slight
pressure on one trigger is all that is
required. If he should consider It
expedient that the holdup man be
some distance away when the alarm
rings, another trigger sets a plunger
which starts the alarm after a prede-
termined interval. The alarm will
ring for six hours continuously. As a
consequence so much unexpected at-
{ention is attracted to the thief that
he is apt to discard his noisy loot and |
run.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. |
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Use for “Scrapped” Warships.
Instead of entirely scrapping 12
of the warships that have to be de-
stroyed in accordance with the
terms of the armament conference, re-
cently held at Washington, it is pro- |
posed to turn them to profitable use |
by taking them to Los Angeles and |
sinking them so as to form an ex- |
tension to the San Pedro breakwater. |
1t is claimed that in this way shelter |
would be provided there for eight ad- |
ditional active battieships.—Popular |
AMochanics Mam zina i
The First State Sheep Show.
enth annual State Farm Products
show at Harrisburg, the fourth week
in January. Plans for the sheep show
have been practically completed and
the project is being enthusiastically
supported by the various Sheep Grow-
ers’ Associations, the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture and Penn-
sylvania State College.
Six breeds of sheep, including at
least 125 head, will be entered in the
show. Suitable prizes will be offered
for the best of each of the breeds as
well as the champions of all breeds.
Pennsylvania at the present time
maintains on its farms more than half
a million sheep. The wool clip from
these sheep amounts to more than six
pounds per head, so that this State
produces annually at least 3,000,000
pounds of wool. Strict enforcement of
the new dog law is assisting material-
ly in making sheep raising more prof-
itable and the industry is on the in-
crease.
In former State Farm Product
shows cattle and swine have been ex-
hibited, but this year marks the first
competitive showing of sheep.
The premium list for the coming
show will be delivered within the next
week and these will then be distrib-
uted throughout the State. Farmers
may secure copies of the premium list
from their county agents or by writ-
ing the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Harrisburg.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas, H.Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Poor Men Whistle.
The late United States Senator
Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia,
once said: “Although money is a
great power and is never unfashion-
able, yet we must not fall into the er-
ror of thinking that it brings happi-
ness and every good thing in life. Far
from it.
“A clever man once said to his son:
‘John, when you chase the dollars, all
right; but look out my boy, when the
dollars chase you.’ The trouble, wor-
ry and anxiety will dwell with you.
After a certain point, wealth becomes
a burden, robs its owner of ease and
repose; yet I have observed how ea-
ger and willing people are to struggle
along through life with the burden of
wealth upon them.
“Very rich men never whistle; poor
men always do. Bird songs are in the
| heart of the poor yan, Fs is well.
would not right that only the
The first State sheep show in the | rich or moderately rich should Rt
history of Pennsylvania will be held i py. This would be a fair adjustment
in connection and as a part of the sev- { of things. In every condition of life
A EE PERE Ray
there is compensation. Emerson, one
of the greatest Americans, makes this
plain in his essay on ‘Compensation,’
the best, I think, he ever wrote.”—
National Republican.
GRIFFON
CLOTHES
Making
you look
as you ought
SOMEONE once said to Turner: ‘‘Sun-
sets never look as you paint them.”
And the great artist replied: “No, I
paint them as they ought to look.”
GRIFFON CLOTHES
are not made to make men look as
they are, but as they ought to look.
They build a man up. They often give
him a grace of carriage and shapeli-
ness that nature failed to provide.
Their wonderful styling has played no
small part in their success.
Fall styles await your inspection.
A. Fauble
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