" Bellefonte, Pa., October 26, 1923.
THE BOY.
By Ann Cobb.
Everything's predestined
So the preacher's say—
Whist I'd been predestined
To be my brother Clay.
He's the only man-child
Mammy ever bore.
Four of us that’s older,
Sev’'ral young-uns more.
Eats with Pop and Grandsir’,
While we women wait.
Has his wings and drumsticks
Waiting, if he’s late.
Rides behind with Poppy,
When he goes to mill,
Fun’ral-meetings, anywhar
Hit suits his little will.
Folks delight to sarve him,
Let him come and go,—
No! he’s not so pettish,
He's a marvel, though.
Everything's predestined,
And hit’s not so bad.
We'd ’a’ been right lonesome
With nary little lad.
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THE SERIOUS SIDE OF THE BOY
PROPOSITION.
By L. A. Miller.
A few days ago I called into our
leading ice cream parlor; a bright lit-
tle boy, the only son of the family,
was enjoying himself by circulating
all over the premises, having a hilar-
jous good time. The mother spoke up
and said: “Boys, as a rule, know of
no trouble; in fact, this is the happiest
day of their existence; the parents
furnish them with their eats, clothes,
and everything that goes for their
comfort, but wait until they grow up
and are obliged to paddle their own
canoe—then they will find more un-
easy sledding.” I told her she did
not view the situation philosophically;
she should remember there are two
sides to every existing proposition. I
was raised a boy on a farm, and think
I am in a position to give my views
intelligently so far as the other side
is concerned.
Oh, ’tis a parlous boy;
Bold, quick, ingenuous, forward, capable;
He's all the mother’s from top to toe.
—Richard III.
I counted it a serious thing to be a
boy. Not that it is particularly an
unfortunate thing, but just merely a
serious, solemn thing.
To whom is it serious?
These are grounds for a wide diver-
sity of opinion on this subject. The
boy files a long bill of particulars, in
which he calls attention to the many
ways in which he is imposed upon and
his life made a burden. He fails to
see why he was created to be thus
jostled from pillar to post and back
again. If he had a stinger like the
hornet, or a battery secreted within
like the electric eel, he would then im-
agine he had been placed in this world
to have a rough time, and nature,
true to her considerate disposition,
had provided him with means of de-
fense. ; ?
The parent comes up to the bar of
judgment and flings a bill of indict-
ments over the rail that is long
enough to startle the court. He says
he has great difficulty in making both
ends meet under the most favorable
circumstances. With the boy in the
field there is no chance to keep even,
because he undoes as fast as is done.
What he cannot undo he spoils, and
what he cannot spoil is of such little
consequence that it would make no
Ebpreciahle difference if it were spoil-
ed.
This parent will sit on the fence, in
the quiet of his office, or behind the
wood-shed and meditate, and cogitate,
all about that boy, who is probably at
that identical time up to his eyes in
mischief. The parent tries to figure
out whether or not it would have been
better had that boy not been born, or
if he had been born a girl.
° That same boy , whose father is
mentally kicking himself, may be on
that seif-same wood-shed fishing for |
the dejected parent’s wig, with a pin- '
hook. The boy means no harm, but
the law of compensation, as he under- |
stands it, fully justifies him in using |
any means for getting even. If not |
on the wood-shed he may be in the |
garage undoing the intricacies of the '
automobile.
The mother has a soft side for her
boy, notwithstanding he sometimes
vexes her soul deeply. She looks for-
ward to she time when his boyish chin
will be hidden by a manly beard, and
‘when his whining, peevish voice will
ring out in clear, shrill notes, com-
manding attention in the councils of
the mation, on the field of battle, or
from the sacred desk. Even when
most provoked she will say to herself:
“Oh, well; he is only a boy.”
~ /As mother sits, aweary, after all
Thave gone to bed, patching the torn
pants, which her spouse would have
paddled had not the shrewd young
~ philosopher studiously kept his face
Wo the front, she may heave a sigh
indicative of weariness, but it is not |
the weariness caused by patching her |
boy’s pants. On the contrary, the |
over-time—if mothers are ever al-
lowed over-time—is restful rather
than weariness.
Say, boy, your mother is your de-
voted friend, and don’t you forget it.
She may welt you sometimes, but
even that is a blessing in disguise. |
You may not realize just at the time:
that it is for your good, but it will |
dawn on you after many years. Only |
too often does she allow her tender- |
ness of heart to save your back. She
may regret this weakness some time,
yet she cannot help pleading with her
own judgment in your behalf, and
making promises for your future con- |
duct. Thus she keeps going your bail |
time after time. Is it better to be
continually going bail for a boy; or
would the effect be more salutary if
he were allowed to stand trial and
pay the penalty more frequently ?
The evidence furnished by the po- |
fice courts tend to show that the wild |
and vicious, who have the means to
promptly pay their fines, or have
some friend handy to go their bail,
rarely profit by being arrested. They
ut up the necessary forfeit and go
Porth on another tour, with no inten-
tion of appearing before the magis-
trate in the morning; whereas, if they
had lain behind the bars all night, or
had been compelled by their sureties
to stand a hearing, they would prob-
ably have had such a realizing sense
of their folly as would have done
them some good. On the whole it is
probably better to have a hearing in
the case even if sentence is suspend-
ed.
The town boy has a good case
against the world, and one that never
fails to arouse the sympathy of the
truly philanthropic. He charges:
That he is grossly imposed upon by
mankind in general; just because he
is little and not provided with the
necessary means of defensse. That he
is made to bear disproportionate bur-
dens, because so few are able to esti-
mate fairly what amount of strength
and energy a boy possesses.
That he is regarded as a nuisance in
general, and a trial in particular, be-
cause at times he gets in the way,
and occasionally does something quite
exasperating. That he is given no
show for his white alley, because so
many so-called men neb in and crowd
him out.
When corn planting is on the tapis
he is expected to drop the pumpkin
seeds and beans. One-half of the field
is to be pumpkins and the other half
beans. He must follow the corn drop-
per and drop one pumpkin or squash
seed in every alternate hill, or two
string beans in every other hill.
is expected to keep up with an expert
corn dropper, whose feet are protect-
ed from the hard clods and sharp
pebbles by leather shoes, while his
bare feet are not yet sufficiently tan- |
ned to be briar and thorn proof.
There may even be cracks on their
soles or under the toes, or possibly
the morning dews may have chapped
the tops of them until they bleed, or
may be a nail hanging by a slender
shred of sensitive flesh—a souvenir
of the first stub of the season—all
combine to render every step painful.
When harvest time comes he is ex-
pected to carry the water for a per-
spiring, thirsty set of harvest hands,
gather al lthe sheaves and fetch the
men’s coats from the other end of the
field at quitting time.
If there is any harder work in the
harvest-field than this let some one
stand up and make it known.
Hoeing corn is always considered
boy’s work, but he is usually yoked
with one man and two bigger boys.
The man takes the highest and best
hoe, and the bigger boys take choices
according to size, leaving the “kid” to
take the old “gander neck” that is
loose in the socket, splintered in the
handle and dull as a country parson’s
sermon.
With all these hindrances he is ex-
pected to keep up with the man and
do his work just as wel.. No wonder
he is discouraged and often looks at
the stars and stumps in hopes of dis-
covering some reasonable excuse for
his having been sent to earth.
This is bad enough in all con-
science, but it is not all. Every time
he steps on a sharp clod and shuts
his eyes to keep from crying out, he
sees saucy, red-gilled chubs leap up
from the fishing hole at the end of the
field and make faces at him, and lazy
shiners turn their glistening sides to-
ward the sun and wiggle their tails
in a manner that says as plain as
words: “I dare you to catch me.”
Every now and then a big, fat cricket,
good for at least three trout, hops la-
zily away from him, and nice white
grubs, curved to the shape of the
hook, beckon him to take them in out
of the heat.
To gather sheaves or hoe corn with
a nice, cool swimming hole within
sight; of a bumble bees’ nest in the
next field, is simply gnawing. A man
may resist the temptation, but the
time was when he could take them in
at the cost of a licking.
No wonder you cry out in your
sleep and kick off the covers Can
good come out of this torture of body
and agony of soul? The boy who re-
He |
fuses to bend to the burden, to blister
his hands on the split-handled rake,
to chop wood with the worn-out axe—
the good one being under the bed—
to ride the sharpest--backed and
| roughest-trotting horse on the farm
. without even a sheep-skin, and to wait
| until the second or third table is
through eating before his turn comes,
i never amounts to much.
Boys, cheer up, our President of the
| United States fifty years hence—is
today a boy, same as you.
| ——Vote for Herr for Prothono-
tary.
Three Biblical Towns Identified.
Scholars report that they have
identified the three biblical towns of |
Shiloh, Bethany and Jeshanah over
whose sites American, British and
Danish excavators have been digging.
Until a few months ago no archeo-
logical work of any kind had been
done over the sites of ancient Jewish
towns in the highlands of Palestine.
Borings over the site of Shiloh where
the Hebrews kept the ark of the cove-
nant disclosed clear stratification, rep-
resenting early Israelite, Saleucido-
Roman and Arab occupation. In the
first stratum a flint sickle-edge was
found, among other relics. This, con-
sidered in connection with the fact
that iron sickles were not generally
used by the Israelites prior to the
11th century B. C., indicates some-
thing of the age of the stratum.
The findings so far are said to
agree remarkably well with Biblical
data. Bethany, the town in which
Mary and Martha lived with Lazarus,
has been identified with the village of
Ananiah, mentioned in the Book of
Nehemiah. The original name, it ap-
pears, was Beth-Ananiah. In much
the same manner scholars have iden-
tified the town of Jeshanah, mention-
ed in II Chronicles, whose site, it is
believed, it now occupied by an Arab
fort at Buri-el-Isannah.
IN
GROSS ADDITIONS TO
BELL TELEPHONE PLANT
so10
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
PENNSYLVANIA
1919 — 1923
,000 $20,000,000 $30,000,000
upward.
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This Year $30,200,000
We started the year with plans for the greatest
telephone constructio
Pennsylvania. :
We expected to add twenty-five millions of ‘dollars
in new equipment to the Bell System in this state.
But the tremendously increasing demands for tele-
phone service have forced us to revise our figures
By December 31, 1923, we will have placed in one
year $30,200,000 worth of new equipment, new
n program ever attempted in
telephones, new wire, new switchboards, new Cen-
tral Office equipment, and new buildings.
And our 1924 construction program «will probably
C. Ww.
run to $40,000,000.
All this in spite of the fact that the three preced-
ing years were greater than any six years in the
telephone history of the state.
We are building—building to keep pace with the
demands of the people of Pennsylvania for tele-
phone service.
The Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
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FOR HALLOW-EEN.
Carve a large pumpkin with initials
and mount it somehow so it will whirl.
Hatpin in hand, each guest must
pierce the whirling pumpkin, and
whatever letter the pin strikes will be
the letter of the one whom he or she
will marry. ;
PALMISTRY.
On the wall tack a large white card-
board hand which has had lines drawn
upon it similar to one’s palm. Num-
ber each line and have a list with cor-
responding numbers to which to re-
fer. Blindfolded, the guests point to
the palm with a long cane, and what-
ever line is struck tells their fortune.
Line 3 may mean a long life; line 8,
money, and so on.
IS HE TRUE?
Bowls of water are brought out and
each guest asked to start two needles
floating, naming one for herself, the
other for some one she loves. If the
needles float away from each other
the loved one is untrue; if they come
together he is true and happiness is
assured.
SHOOTING SEEDS.
Give each guest a dozen soaked
pumpkin seeds and set an empty bowl
six feet away. Ask them to shoot the
seeds into the bowl, by slipping
through the fingers. The number of
seeds in the bowl determines the num-
ber of children to be had.
CANDLE PUFFING.
Set a lighted candle on a table in a
darkened room. Blindfold the guest
and start hi mtoward the candle. Give
him three puffs to put out the light.
If he does not succeed, marriage is
not for him. If he puts it out in one
puff he will be married before the
year is out; if two puffs, he will be
twice married; three puffs, married
after fifty.
——Vote for Hoy for Recorder.
—— Vote for Stover and Condo for
Auditors.
——Vote for Ocker for Register.
Hallow-een Pumpkins.
The more pumpkins the better in
Hollow-een decorations, so the less
they cost the happier is a hostess. In-
expensive and effective ones can be
made from strips of yellow crepe pa-
per cut across the grain and placed
over a ball of cotton. Attach the
strips to the centre of the bottom of
the cotton ball, drawing them up over
the sides to the centre of the top.
Twist the top ends into a stem and
cover the latter with green crepe pa-
per. “Life-sized” pumpkins require
strips about as wide as a newspaper
column.
——Vote for Swabb and Spearly
for County Commissioners.
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——Vote for Taylor for Sheriff.
mene leans
——Vote for Stover ard Condo for
Auditors.
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