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“Bellefonte, Pa., November 17, 1922.
ERIE HAS MODEL MUNICIPAL
PIGGERY.
By George F. Paul.
The city of Erie, Pa., prides itself
on having what is declared by experts
to be one of the finest municipal pig-
geries in America. At present the
1,400 hogs are consuming from 30 to
35 tons of garbage per day. Those in
charge have been able to fatten hogs
for market in from four to four and
one-half months. This fattening is
carried on without the annoyance of a
disagreeable odor, or any other nui-
sance. The hogs that have been mar-
keted have withstood a more severe
physical test, and have shown much
less disease, than the hogs raised by
the ordinary farmer.
The hogs are all treated with a se-
rum to render them immune to cholera
before they are placed on feed. Not
a single hog has been lost from chol-
era at this piggery. The very nature
of the feed in a garbage-feeding plant
is conducive to cholera, and hogs not
so treated would not live in such
plants. The inoculations render the
hogs immune, to the extent of ward-
ing off the disease which might be
produced by such feed, and by feeding
on food of this nature they are daily
setting up additional immunity, so
that it is estimated that by the end of
60 days on such feed the hogs are ren-
dered from 90 to 95 per cent. immune
to cholera, even when subjected to the
most severe exposure. Not only are
the hogs rendered free from cholera,
but they are also treated against
swine plague and other diseases. The
death loss from all causes is a frac-
tion less than 2 per cent.
PIGS REPLACE INCINERATOR.
In 1918 an incinerator was built to
take care of the city’s garbage, but it
cost so much to operate it that the
piggery was built, and the pigs were
bought, and put to work. ‘This mod-
ern hog-house is 360 feet long and 50
feet wide, with walls of concrete block.
It is divided into pens, each pen af-
fording room for 125 pigs. The pens
are bedded with baled shavings, which
keeps the hogs clean and dry at all
times. The sleeping quarters are kept
entirely separate from the feeding
platforms, which are immediately in
front of the sleeping quarters. These
platforms are of concrete and are
flushed daily to keep the pens in a
clean and sanitary condition. Bucket
conveyors bring the garbage to the
feeding platforms. The pigs are
turned into the pens and allowed to
eat at will. They are then driven into
their sleeping quarters, and the feed-
ing floors are thoroughly cleaned.
The hogs are put on garbage feed !
very carefully for the first ten days
after arrival, only being permitted. to
consume a small quantity of garbage
until they have become accustomed to
their feed. No grain is fed at any
period during the hogs’ stay at the
ranch, which ranges from four to five
months.
Every means has been used to erect
a model pig farm. Both county and
State officials have visited the farm
and know that the pens are of the
most sanitary type and can be kept
clean at all times. Plenty of fresh
air and light help to keep the piggery
sanitary. In this respect it is abso-
lutely different from the pig-pen of
the old-fashioned type.
The proposition is declared to be a
successful and profitable one.
Giving a Chance to Every Crippled
Boy or Girl.
This is a new undertaking of the
Rotary Clubs of North America, num-
bering 85,000 business men. They
are engaged in a nation-wide cam-
paign to give every crippled boy and
girl in this country a new chance. Lit-
tle folks with twisted backs and crook-
ed limbs, in every part of the nation,
are to be treated by experts and edu-
cated so they can take care of them-
selves. It is estimated that over 300,-
000 crippled children will be aided in
this way without cost to the child. A
scientific study is to be made of in-
fantile paralysis, with the hope of
discovering the cause of that disease,
and steps will be taken to obtain hos-
pital treatment for cripples in infan-
cy when it is comparatively easy to
effect permanent cures. In order to
carry forward this work the Rotar-
ians have formed The International
Society for Crippled Children, headed
by Edgar F. Allen, president, Elyira,
Ohio; J. M. Bateman, secretary, Cleve-
land, Ohio; Frank L. Mulholland,
treasurer, Toledo, Ohio. The vice-
presidents are Hart I. Seely, Waverly,
N. Y.; H. E. Van de Walker, Ypsilan-
ti, Mich., and E. R. Kelsey, Toledo,
Ohio. Paul P. Harris, of Chicago,
founder of the Rotary movement, is
chairman of the board. Arrange-
ments are being made to open per-
manent international headquarters in
either Chicago or New York. Such
undertakings are most highly com-
mendable.—Christian Advocate.
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Did You Ever Stop to Think—
That the city that gets the publici-
ty gets the business.
That the city that gets the adver-
tising grows. :
That advertising a city is a busi-
ness, not child’s play.
That people will go miles to get to
a good live city to trade.
That your property will increase in
value when the outside world knows
your city is wide-awake.
That people from neighboring cities
will come where there is something
doing.
That the city that does not seek
something better than it now has is
going to lose out.
That now is the time that your city
and business need advertising more
than ever before.
That if you don’t get out and go
after the trade, some neighboring city
will.
That if they do they will get the
business you should get.—Norton
Telegram.
TURK HAD EYE TO BUSINESS
Edhem Said Bey Got Bevy of Circas
sian Girls for Far Less Than
Purchase Price.
Edhem Said Bey, a Turk who was
feeling acutely the servant problem in
Constantinople, tells of going to Asia
Minor and buying half a dozen serv-
ants. He went to the first Circassian
village and asked the chief of the
elders to exhibit the daughters for
sale.
In the evening 15 or 20 girls were
assembled in the town hall with their
fathers. They were dressed to show
themselves off to advantage. The
girls danced to the tune of primi-
tive oriental music composed of a
flute and cymbals. Edhem Said Bey
carefully noted which girls pleased
him the most, motioned them to one
side, and called their fathers.
After long bargaining with the
fathers the bey went to the market
and bought donkeys, buffaloes and
silver-mounted arms for a tenth of the
price he had agreed upon for the
girls. These were then presented to
the fathers as payment. A buffalo
which the bey had bought for 20 gold
pieces, he would offer as a priceless
animal to be credited to him in the
payment for the girl at five or ten
times that price. His object was to
make the father think he had received ;
two or three hundred gold pieces for
his daughter, although the actual
value of the material delivered might |
be only one-tenth of that amount, so:
that the father might boast of a high
price to his friends.
SPEED OF FINGERS DIFFERS |
Those of the Right Hand Quicker and |
More Accurate Than Those
of the Left, |
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The fingers of your right hand are |
quicker and more accurate than those |
of your left, says the Popular Science |
Monthly. The ring finger of your left
hand shows a burst of speed when- |
ever it can work with the forefinger of |
your right hand; and it slows down
noticeably when it must team with |
the middle finger of your left hand.
Two fingers working together are |
faster than one going it alone. And |
a combination of two fingers on op-!
posite hands is faster than two fingers |
on the same hand. !
Practice, while it increases the speed |
of all fingers, tends to increase the!
rate of the slow ones more than the
fast ones, thus overcoming the handi- |
cap of the ones that lag naturally.
If you are a typist or pianist, per-
haps you have alreacy discovered some
of these facts about the workings of
vour hands. They were conclusively
demonstrated by a series of tests con-
ducted at the Carnegie Institute of
Technolegy by Esther L. Gatewood.
Hindus’ Love of Jewelry.
The ruling passion of the natives
of India is an inordinate love of jewel-
ry. Every Hindu as soon as he has'
accumulated any surplus cash, imme-
diately converts the same into gaudy
and often expensive ornaments for |
himself, his wife and children.
Every Hindu wears earrings and, on |
great occasions, as many as half a
dozen pairs. Poor people who cannot
afford gold pass copper wires through
their ears and noses. In some dis-
tricts married men wear silver rings
on their toes, and another fashion is
to have tied on the upper arm a goid
box containing a charm to avert bad
luck. It is the women, however, who
appear in the greatest splendor. It is
not uncommon to see a woman Aat-
tending some festival or other with
decorations in her hair, her ears, her
nose, around her forehead, her neck, '
her arms, her wrists, her fingers, about
her breast and neck, and around her
knees, calves, ankles and toes.
origin of “Fifty-Fifty.”
“Fifty-fifty” originated in the thea- '
ter box office. It developed back in !
the old days before engagements for |
various companies were arranged
from New York by owners of chains
of theaters. Then each company had |
to look out for its own engagements
and made the best deal it could for a
division of the receipts with the owner
of the theater, explains the Detroit
News. “Sixty-forty” was a good deal
the “forty” going to the house. More
often it was a “sixty-five-thirty-five”
basis.
So the adoption of “fifty-fifty” as
an expression to indicate an absolute-
ly even division of anything, whether
in or out of the theater, was a per-
fectly natural development.
Emancipation Days.
There are emancipation celebra-
tions at various times of the year. Au-
gust 4 is observed as a celebration of
the emancipation of Haitian negroes
by the British. August 1 is celebrated
as the anniversary of the proclamation
issued August 1, 1834, by the British
government, freeing slaves in its colo-
nies. More than 700,000 slaves were
set free in the West Indies at that
time, principally in Jamaica, the Eng-
lish government paying several mil-
lions of dollars to the slave owners as
indemnity. The day most widely cel-
ebrated, however, is September 22, the
anniversary of Lincoln's proclamation
issued in 1863.
The Way of Speculation.
The Get-Rich-Quicker (wildly)—You
told me that stock I bought two weeks
ago would take a big jump within ten
days. Explain!
Near-Broker (in an injured tone)—
It did, my frined; but sad to say, it
was a backward jump.—Buffalo Ex:
press.
| without descent, having neither begin
to eonceal them. “Woman does not Be-
| tray her secret,” wrote Inmanuel Kant,
cat and of the Free Masons; and for
| does not tell is how she is going to
© vote.
| members of the sect threw themselves
! Americanism of the most vulgar sort,
AS TYPE OF MONOTHEISM
Melickizedek So Figures in Pages of
Scripture and as Character
in Legends.
Melchizedek is a vague character
occasionally mentioned in the Scrip-
tures, whose name means “king of
rignteousness.” The most definite
references to him indicate that he was
king of Salem, and priest of Jehovah
in the time of Abraham, uniting the
royal with the priestly dignity, and
80 becoming a welcome type for the
ancient writers.
Later on his name seems to have
become more or less legendary, and
was used in a figurative sense as “a
priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek,” and he is placed in the
same category as the Messiah, Him-
self, apparently as a type of ancient
monotheism. Still later he becomes
identified with Shem, the son of Noah,
and the ancestor of Abraham, and is
the subject of an elaborate story in the
Egyptian book of Adam and Eve. In
this story he is represented as having
been chosen of God “from all gen-
erations of men,” to stand by the body
of Adam after it had been brought
bsick to Jerusalem. He is supposed
to have remained with Adam’s body
under the protection of an angei until
be encountered Abraham. He is one
of the four mentioned in Holy Writ
as “without father and without mother,
ning of days nor end of life, but made
like unto the son of God abiding for-
ever.”
WOMAN AND HER SECRETS
Admitting That She Keeps Them Well,
Writer Wonders If She Has
Any to Reveal.
Heaven knows there is ifttle novelty
about woman. Adam was the only man
to whom she was something new. Heg
“elemental inconsistencies” have lent
culor to every page of the world’s his-
tory, and she has shown no disposition
ponderously, and with that truly Ger-
man air of providing food for thought.
Just what he expected her to betray,
Just what anybody expects her to be-
tray, has never been made manifest.
The cat is the only one of God’s crea-
tures that suggests reserve and per-
haps secrecy. I have sometimes
thought that half-shut eyes and the im-
mobility of relaxed nerves may be re-
sponsible for the suggestion, and that
this self-contained little beast is less
mysterious than it looks. Woman does !
not even look mysterious, save in the
veiled East. In the West all her efforts |
tend to revelation. Her secret is as
easily kept as are the secrets of the:
the same reason. The only thing she
This makes her interesting tc
the politicians, if not to the world at
large. The basic principles of party
politics have not taken firm hold of
her intelligence. By-paths and side
jusues seduce her from the main
traveled roads over which the male
voter sturdily trudges.
French “Convulsionnaires.”
The Convulsionnaires were a curious
group who flourished in France in the
early part of the Eighteenth century.
They were in the habit of meeting in
St. Medard’s churchyard, in the
suburbs of Paris, in which was located
the tomb of Abbe Francois de Paris.
where countless miracles were al
leged to have been performed. The
into the most violent contortions,
rolled on the ground, imitated birds
and animals and fishes, and when en-
tirely exhausted fainted or went inte
convulsions.
At length Louis XV issued an order
against them, ordering them to be im-
prisoned if found “carrying on” in this
fashion. But even with these strict
regulations against them it was diffi-
cult to stamp out the fervor entirely
for a great many years.
Word “Bum” Has Dignified History.
The word “bum,” which is consid
ered by nearly everyone as a pure
has in reality a very dignified history.
It was first used in England more
than two centuries ago in the form of
“hummer.” A bummer was a man whe
peddled fish outside the regular mar
kets and these persons were, of course
looked down upon and held in contempt
by the regular dealers. The word
fikally gained a general significance
and came to mean any dishonest per:
son or one of irregular habits. It ap
pears in the English market by-laws
of the Seventeenth century in the
form of “Bummaree.” :
The word appeared in the United
States during the gold days in Cali
fornia and gradually made its way
east.
Pithy Paragraphs.
The world condemns a woman witl
great severity when she goes wrong
Some few centuries later a group of
men played the same cards in the
same way for the life of the world’s
best man, and not one of their names
is remembered. Jezebel can never be
forgotten. She was a woman.—James
W. Valentyne,
The preacher who is sensational ir
the sense of utilizing methods or mat. |
ter the main object of which is to at i
tract may gain attention, but will rare |
lv win a heart, and. after all, hear! |
colture, properly understood, whieh !
according to Proverbs, ‘‘determines
the issues of life.” is the fundament
tud nnest service of a churchi-—Ales |
under Lyons, |
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REFUSED TO HURT BABIES |
Two Stories That Preve Gentleness of
riorses Where Littie Children
Were Concerned.
Are horses pecuiiarly gentle with
Dabies? It seems a fair question. Cer
tainly the horses in this account,
which a contributor sends us, were
almost humanly soiicitous of the wel-
fare of the two young children who
came into contact with them.
Our neighbor, says our contributor,
had a field one corner of which came
up to his dooryard. One day while he
was plowing he stopped when he
reached the corner and, leaving the
horses standing in the furrow, went
to the pump for a drink. As soon as
he returned he took up the plow
handles and spoke to the horses. They
did not move. He spoke again, sharply.
Still they did not move. Astonished
and vexed, he struck them with the
whip. Still they stood immovable:
and then he realized that something
must be wrong. He went to thelr
heads, and there in the furrow in front
of them he saw his toddling baby boy!
The two-year-old daughter of a
friend of mine in Denver had an ex-
perience a good deal more astonishing
than that of the baby boy’s. The little
girl managed to stray away frem in
front of the house where she had been
playing. There was a long search in
which the police and the fire depart-
ment joined; but it was unsuccessful. |
Finally, in a livery stable two miles
away some men who were working
there thought they heard a little coo-
ing voice. They were horrified, for it
seemed to come from the stall of an
exceedingly vicious horse that evem
the grooms approached cautiously and
with dread. The men, looked into
the stall and saw the baby patting the
horse’s hind leg and calling him “nice
horsie,” while he, with his head
turned, watched her benignantly, not
moving a muscle lest he should hurt
her !—Youth’s Companion.
TESTS VIGOR OF BANK ROLLS
Majority Wither Quickly, but Some
Grow Robust When Exposed to
New York's Climate.
New York has long been known in
the provinces as the nesting place of
bank rolls. In this nest either they
grow or they die young. A bank roil
is a sensitive plant, as it were, being
influenced quickly and permanently
by climatic and diplomatic changes.
Nothing can become discouraged more
quickly than a bank roll in New York,
and nothing can gain a satisfied and
| prosperous maturity more quickly if
it gets the right start, attends to its
"own business and keeps away from
strangers.
** Generally speaking, I would recom-
mend this town as the best health re-
sort for bank rolls in the world. Some
bank rolls come here in the full view
of perfect health, with perfectly nor-
mal chest measurements and waist-
lines suited to their age, and immedi-
ately go into a decline which neo
science is able to stem. They seem to
be victims of the old-fashioned disease
known as galloping consumption.
Others come here in a very frail
state of health, puny in fact, and by
judicious exercise take on weight and
require larger and larger belts. Cir-
cumstances alter bank rolls.—Roy K.
Moulton, in the New York Mail,
Polished Shoes Once Decried.
Polished shoes were for a long time
looked upon as a sure sign of effem-
inacy in men, and were often even
ridiculed, says London Answers.
Therefore, “mock me all over, from
my flat cap unto my shining shoes,”
became almost proverbial.
Shoe ornamentation of any Kind
came to us from France. It was of
a Frenchified Englishman that Ben
Jonson wrote in his famous satire:
“Would you believe that so much scart
of France, of hat, and feather, and
shoe, and tye, and garter, should come
hither?”
Now let us look at the other extrem-
ity. Powder for the hair was first
introduced into England early in the
Seventeenth century, and became ime
mediately the mock of the dramatists,
and was severely censured by the
Puritans.
The fashion became very popular
about 1795, when a tax of 1 guinea
per annum was levied on every per-
son who wore their hair powdered.
The hair-powder duty for the first
vear was estimated at £250,000 ($1,
250,000).
Twisted, but Meant Well.
An English newspaper is printing
choice bits of broken English as over
heard by its readers. Two examples
follow, which are considered the most
amusing: A coffee room waiter who
said he was a Swiss, replying to a
guest ordering breakfast:
“Tongue iss no more, schickken
never vos! How you like your eggs
voilt, tight or loose?”
The other concems an enraged
Portuguese who turned upon his op-
ponent and spat out:
“If I did know ze English for ze
box, I would blow your nose, by damn,
I am!”
Memory of Lower Animals.
Elephants and apes have often sur
prised their keepers by the strength
of their memory. It is a saying among
trainers that elephants and tigers
never forget an injury; that they may
retaliate even years afterward.
That ine shark has a memory has
been proved many times, not only by
his detection of the shark-hunters’
schemes, hut by his attention to certain
ships from which he has received spe-
zial food favors.
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THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
7 Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Our November specials are a feast of
values unparalleled. You are cordially in-
vited to come and share in this money-sav-
ing sale.
Ladies’ Misses’ and Children’s La
Vogue Coats and Suits featured in this sale
at remarkably low prices.
One special lot of Ladies’ Suits, Coats
and Dresses at $9.48.
Canton Crepe and Wool Dresses includ-
ed in this money saving sale.
Our new fall and winter line of Ladies’
and Children’s Sweaters complete; all snap-
py styles and new shades.
New Silk Blouses in all the new wanted
shades.
Maderia Luncheon Sets, Napkins, Pil-
low Cases, Handkerchief Holders, Toast
Holders, Center Pieces, Baby Carriage
Covers and Infant’s Dresses. ay
Our Holiday line of new Hand-bags,
Pocket Books, Fancy Baskets, Jewelry,
Gloves, Silk Hosiery. Many other articles
for Christmas gifts now on display.
Make our store your headquarters
when shopping in Bellefonte.
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