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Bellefonte, Pa., October 5, 1923.
HER TOOL SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE
Mrs. Dorgan Tells Husband How She
Accomplished Various Reforms
in the House.
Dorgan on his return home sat down
to hear the family happenings during
his absence, says the Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger. The wife was laying par-
ticular stress upon the reforms she
had successfully introduced.
“You know,” said she, “that closet
that was locked for more than a
month? You said it couldn't be opened
except by a locksmith, Well, I opened
it"
“How on earth did you do it?”
“With a hairpin. And the furnace
door has been sagging around on one
hinge for ever so long, you know;
but it’s all right now.”
“Well, I am glad you had it fixed.”
“Had it fixed! I fixed it myself with
a hairpin. And there was that pic
ture of your mother that stood on
the floor for six weeks because you
hadn't brought me any picture
hooks—"
“Well, I intended to, but—"
“Oh, it doesn’t make any difference
now. [ made a hook myself out of a
hairpin.”
“No i"
“And there’s Tommy. You've been
coaxing and bribing kim for a year
to break him of the habit of biting
his nails, and I broke him in a week.”
“With a hairpin?“ inquired Mr. Dor-
gan.
“No! Don't be a goose! With a
hairbrush.”
HUGE TREE IN NEW ZEALAND
Kauri Is Found That Is Estimated te
Be at Least Two Thousand
Years Old.
One of the largest trees in the
world, if not the largest, has been dis-
covered in the bush at Walhou, Hoki-
anga, New Zealand. It is a huge kauri
tree, the vast trunk rising te a height
of seventy-five feet before being
broken by the first branch, and meas-
uring twenty-two feet in diameter and
sixty-six feet, or approximately a
chain, in girth.
A well-known bush expert estimates
the tree to contain more than 195.-
000 superficial feet of timber, suffi-
cient to build three double-storied
hotels of twenty rooms each from
floor to ceiling.
It is to be hoped that this remark-
able tree will be zealously guarded
from destruction and preserved to
show future generations what the
lordly kauri at its best was like. From
a marketable point of view it would
be impossible to fell it, much less
break it down, no mill possessing saws
big enough’ to tackle it.
The age of the giant is estimated to
be at least 2,000 years, and, carefully
preserved, it has another thousand
years of life before it.—Forestry Jour-
nal.
Century of Long Trousers.
This year marks the hundredth an-
aniversary of the official adoption of
long trousers as the male garment.
Although Beau Brummel had worn
them half a dozen years before, and
they had become an accepted “fashion”
in 1821, it was in 1823 that they re-
ceived official sanction, replacing
breeches and leggings in the British
infantry, The Irish had worn a sort
of trousers in the Seventeenth cen-
tury, but they bore but little resem-
blarce to the modern garment. Even
Beau Brummel’s trousers would be
counted a curlosity today, for they
buttoned at the ankle, Yet they un-
doubtedly are the garment from which
the modern “long pants” has been
evolved,
A New Element.
The teacher was piloting a class in
general science through one of the
early lessons in the textbook.
“What were the four elements,” she
asked, “into which the ancients divid-
ed all natural objects? William, you
.may answer.”
“Earth,” began Willlam slowly.
““Earth—and — and — air — let's see,
~there was earth and air and—water—
zand—and—"
“Well, well,” said the teacher brisk-
¥ly, ““swvhat causes more accidents than
anything else?”
“Automobiles,” cried William, grate-
ful for the teacher's help.—Youth’s
Companion,
Eating for a Purpose.
The hired man was unhitching his
team at noon. “Boss,” said he, “do
you want me to pitch or rake this
afternoon?”
“Oh, rake, I guess,” was the reply.
After dinner while getting ready
for the field again, the farmer said,
“Jake, I guess you'd better pitch this
afternoon, after all.”
“Can't do it, boss,” returned Jake.
“Why not?”
“Cause I didn’t fill to pitch.”
Cable of Human Hair.
in the great Buddhist temple at
Kyoto, Japan, is to be seen an im-
mense hawser of human hair, This
anique rope measures 300 feet in
length and three inches in diameter,
and is made up of contributions from
the heads of millions of Japanese
women, Long ago it was used to
drag the timbers to the building and
to hoisf them into place, and now it
is carefully preserved as a sacred
relic.
HECALL EVENTS OF .
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Documents Presented to Massachu-
setts Historical Society Are of
the Highest Interest.
One of the important gifts to the
Massachusetts Historical society with
associations of the anti-siivery period
of the last century is from Dr. Vin-
cent Y. Bowditch, says the Boston
Transcript. It is a large volume con-
taining letters, posters, clippings and
other pleces relating to the famous
case of George Latimer, the first fugi-
tive slave seized in Boston, October
21, 1842. With these is a complete
file of the Latimer Journal and North
Star, in seven numbers, published be-
tween November 11, 1842, and May 18,
1843, and edited by Bowditch’s father,
Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, and
William Francis Channing and Fred-
erick S. Cabot.
The seizure caused great excitement
in Boston, apd steps were immediately
taken to defend Latimer. The ed-
itors say at the outset that its great
object will be “to give utterance to
the alarm and indignation of Massa-
chusetts at the encroachment of slav-
ery on her soil.”
The letter which Latimer, on Octo-
ber 22, 1842, sent to the Boston minis-
ters asking that prayers for his re-
lease might be offered on the follow-
ing Sunday, was recently given to the
society by Grenville H. Norcross, and
is now with this collection. It is in
the handwriting of Samuel E. Sewall,
and the signature of Latimer (by his
mark) is witnessed by him,
PRANKS OF THE LODESTONE
3ems Glued to the Ground and Nails
Drawn Out of Boots Are
Among Stories Told.
Swedish sailors tell queer tales about
che country near the Aretic circle
where lodestones are found. Hunters,
they say, have laid their guns down and
found them glued to the ground when
they came to pick them up again. Men
have have had to take off their boots to
get home again, when the nails in them |
have stuck closely to the ground, says |
the Detroit News.
There is the tale of the Lodestone
mountain in the Arabian Nights, where
a vessel was drawn toward it and
toward it until, when it approached the
fatal shore, all the nails were drawn
out and flew toward the mountains
and the ship sank to the bottom of the
sea.
The Viking sailors used a raft as
their compass. They put a lodestone
on a little raft and it floated always
with the one end towards the Lode
star. By this fashion they could tell
in the daytime as well as at night in
what direction they were sailing, pro-
vided the water was still enough to let
them float their little raft.
* "Tennis Ball Scales.
Few tennis players know how tennis
oalls for the tournaments held under
the sanction of the National Lawn
Tennis association are tested. It ap-
pears that the machine that one ex-
pert uses to weigh tennis balls is simi-
lar in appearance to an instrument
used to find the specific gravity of a
liquid. It consists of a long glass tube
in which water is placed at 75 degrees
Fahrenheit. A second tube, on which
fractions of ounces are marked, with
a certain weight of buckshot in the
base and a holder for the ball on top,
floats in the water.
A ball must weigh no less than two
ounces or more than two and one-six-
teenth ounces to be accepted, and
when it is placed in the holder the
tube reveals the slightest irregularity
in its weight.
Great in Many Ways.
Both Washington and Lincoln were
of large build. The former, accord-
ing to the letter which he wrote when
ordering a suit of clothes from a
London tailor, was “six feet high and
proportionately made—if anything
rather slender than thick for a person
of that height.” The “best weight of
his best days” was 220 pounds. Lin-
coln was four inches taller and weighed
180 pounds, was of narrower chest and
less erect. Both lived in youth much
the same out-of-door life—Lincoln hav-
ing the ruder existence. Both were
very muscular, being the champions
of sport in their respective days and
localities. Both were robust in men-
tal qualities as in physical strength
and endurance. Both Washington and
Lincoln were temperate in all things
No Question About That.
“Why should I boost your salary any
more? I'm paying you a thousand a
week now.”
The danseuse executed a pirouette.
“See that step?”
“I see that step,” returned the man-
nger,
“I invented that step,” insisted the
dancer.
“1 know you did, cutie,” snorted the
manager, shifting his cigar from left
to right. “You invented that step and
a lot more. But lemme tell you some-
pin you need to know.”
“What is that?’ she asked.
“You didn’t invent dancing.”
Chose His Mother's Portrait.
When the collection of paintings
and other art gems that adorned the
St. Paul home of the late James J.
Hill came to be divided among the
heirs, following the death of the
widow of “the empire builder,” lots
were drawn to determine who should
have the first choice. One of the sons,
Walter J. Hill, proved the lucky one,
and from the collection of master-
pleces of almost fabulous value he
psomptly chose the portrait of his
mother.
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—Never hoe beans or cultivate
them when the vines are wet, unless
you want “rusty” plants.
—Celery may be bleached by means
of boards, paper or drain-tile. Earth
is likely to cause decay if applied
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—The “fore-milk”—the first few
streams drawn from the cow at milk-
ing time—should be thrown away, and
not be allowed in the pail. It is
claimed this fore-milk is full of bac-
teria.
—The total area of land in farms
in Pennsylvania has decreased by
more than a million acres during the
last ten years and the number of
farms in the State has fallen from
about 220,000 to 200,000 according to
the last census report. These facts
might indicate that agriculture in
Pennsylvania is on the down grade
but agriculture economists at State
College think differently.
“Many of the farms that have been
abandoned because they were unprof-
itable should never have been clear-
ed,” say the economists. “Forest land
is all they are good for. The reduc-
tion of acreage and number of farms
will give to the good land and efficient
farmer the returns they deserve.
As proof of this statement they cite
the fact that in spite of the smaller
; acreage farmed, the total production
and yield per acre of the ten princi-
pal crops of Pennsylvania has greatly
increased during the last decade.
This. they point out, is due to better
live stock, more efficient machinery,
and better methods of farming.
“Work the good land and do it
well,” is the advice of the experienced
farmer. “The loss of low grade land
and poor farmers from the agricul-
tural industry is a hopeful sign that
those who remain will make more
profit and be able to live better.”
—Land that is in a poor condition
and unproductive is, as a rule sour.
Soils become sour when the lime is
being constantly leached out. In har-
vesting crops lime is removed, decom-
position of organic matter produces
acids, and some fertilizers leave acids
in the soil. Unless lime is applied to
such conditions, only a few crops will
thrive or give full returns for the ma-
nure and fertilizer expended. The
| New Jersey State College of Agricul-
ture says manure, organic matter and
animal fertilizers, such as tankage,
must be acted on by soil bacteria be-
fore their plant food becomes availa-
ble. These bacteria, as well as those
which supply legumes with the atmos-
pheric nitrogen, are unable to work
efficiently in a soil that is sour. Most
clover failures are due to soil acidity
and without clover soda or legume
cover crops the nitrogen supply of the
soil cannot be economically held under
average conditions. When there is
sufficient lime in the soil potash and
phosphoric acid are more available.
Lime lightens a stiff, clayey soil, es-
pecially when applied in a caustic
form, and makes light land more re-
tentive of plant food.
Professor Dickey says when a ton
of pure limestone or shells (calcium
and magnesium carbonate) is burned,
about 1100 pounds of actual lime, cal-
cium and magnesium oxide is left.
gWhen this is slaked or “hydrated,” it
takes up water until it weighs about
1350 pounds. When it becomes air-
slaked it goes back to the original
carbonate form. All lime quickly re-
verts to carbonate in the soil so that
the kind applied is important chiefly
as regards physical condition and con-
centration.
It makes little difference in which
form the lime is applied, but ground
limestones or shells have only about
three-fifths the strength of burned
lime and two-thirds the strength of
hydrated lime. Fineness in lime is
desirable, but it is not necessary that
it be very fine. Limestone that will
not pass a 50-mesh screen requires
Sms time to become entirely availa-
e.
The value of any form of lime de-
pends on the total percentage of eal-
cium and magnesium oxide (total ox-
ide) contained. In buying lime it is
as important to have the analysis
with each shipment as in fertilizer.
; Ground limestone or oyster shell con-
j tains about 50 per cent. total oxide.
Hydrated lime should contain 70 to
80 per cent., and lump lime or ground
burned lime about 90 per cent., of un-
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adulterated with core, ashes or slaked
material. :
By-product limes, so-called ‘agri-
cultural limes,” and lime fertilizers,
such as wood ashes, should be pur-
chased strictly on an analysis basis.
The amount of actual lime is often
very small, and the price asked is sel-
dom economical. It is generally
cheaper and better to buy and use
lime and fertilizer separately and in
standard forms.
Potatoes, tomatoes, corn, buck-
wheat, berries, red-top grass, carrots
and watermelons are usually less de-
pendent on lime than are other crops,
and will grow on moderately sour soil.
Almost all other crops are benefited
by lime, but those most responsive are
alfalfa, clover, soy beans, oats,
wheat, cabbage, cauliflower, celery,
beets, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, pep-
pers, spinach and sweet potatoes. Ap-
ply lime for the crops which will give
the greatest response. In general
farming the best place to put it is on
land prepared for grain, in which clo-
ver is to be sown. :
Where plants make their tender,
early growth lime should be kept in
the surface soil, and never plowed un-
der, as lime will be washed down, but
never up. Spread it evenly, and mix
thoroughly with the surface soil by
harrowing. This will increase its effi-
ciency by direct contact with more
soil particles, and prevents caustic or
hydrated lime from crusting and ce-
menting together on the surface.
Avoid waste. of nitrogen and organic
matter by keeping lime and manure
apart.
well before applying lime. Lime will
materially help the clovers and desir-
able grasses to crowd out the sorrel
and weeds which are apt to take pos-
session of sour meadows and pastures.
Lime promotes the development of
potato scab if the disease is present,
but moderate applications of hydrated
lime to the vines during the season
seem safe, help keep off the flea beetle
and sweeten the soil for the clover,
grain or clover crop to follow.
Caldwell & Son
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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A New Assortment of
Silverware
Brass, China, Novelties e+. and
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HERE ARE 26,000,000 people in the
United States who have saving ac-
counts. They have saved and own the
vast sum of $17,300,000,000—an aver-
age of $655 each.
Does this money belong to the rich ? Oh,
no; most of these people are in very moderate
circumstances. Many of them are poor. But
they realize that it is better to practice a little
self-denial now, than to suffer and possibly be
humiliated later on.
You one of These Wise Ones ?
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The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
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