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Bellefonte, Pa., February 22, 1924.
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More Soft Wood Trees
Are Now Being Planted
Tre people of the United States con-
sume twice as much softwood lumber
as they do hardwood lumber, according
to the New York state college of for-
estry at Syracuse university. The soft-
woods are cut off more rapidly because
of their better adaptability to man’s
needs and their lighter weight.
The pines, hemlocks and spruces
float easily and this facilitates trans-
portation to the mills. They are
hauled by bobsleds or sent by flume or
chute to a stream or lake and floated
to the mills. Maples, beeches and
birches will very often sink, which ne-
cessitates artificial means of transpor-
tation such as motortrucks, tractors
and railroads, or expensive rafting.
Even where such costly transport is
required for softwoods the greater
value of the product has made lumber-
ing profitable. But with hardwood this
type of logging is too expensive except
where tre hardwoods are especially
fine and the demand is good with a
near market,
The dwindling supply of softwood
timber is making it more profitable to
plant evergreen trees than ever before,
says the college. Today many hard-
wood forests and farm woodlots are
being converted to the more valuable
softwoods. It often pays on such wood-
lots to girdle unmerchantable hard-
wood trees so the undergrowth of soft-
woods that have been artificially plant-
ed or naturally reseeded will not be re-
tarded by the shade of their older
hardwoods. By cutting the bark
around the hardwood trees, their foli-
age will disappear and the trees will
die, thus allowing enough light to fall
upon the young softwoods to give them
tkeir natural rate of growth. In the
average forest such elimination of
hardwoods allows the coniferous or
softwood species to take on additional
volume of about one-fourth cord annu-
ally for twenty-five to thirty years, de-
pending upon their age. This increase
in growth will offset the expense of
girdling and keep the forest on a prof-
itable basis,
Grand Canyon Supplied
With Water by Train
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any
drop to drink.” This famous expres-
sion of Coleridge describes quite. accu-
rately the situation at Grand Canyon,
where an abundance of clear water
may be seen rushing down the Colo-
rado river in the depths of the canyon,
but beyond reach of visitors and resi-
dents of the village itself.
All the water used at the canyon is
hauled in by the Santa Fe, and is ob-
tained from Jack Smit and Flagstaff
springs, which are about nineteen
miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz. This
cold spring water has its origin in the
snows at the top of the San Francisco
peaks, and is absolutely free from con-
tamination. It is carried from the
springs to a 50,000,000-gallon reservoir
about seven miles north of Flagstaff,
whence it is conveyed by pipe lines to
the station. Steel tank cars of 10,000-
gallon capacity each are used in trans-
porting the water from Flagstaff to
the canyon, tbe ordinary needs requir-
ing ten carloads of water daily.
This means that the Santa Fe hauls
approximately 100,000 gallons of fresh
spring water from Flagstaff to Grand
Canyon, a distance of 99 miles, each
day.
Numerous investigations and surveys
have been conducted with a view to
utilizing the clear water so abundantly
available at the bottom of the canyon,
but so far no feasible method of doing
this has been found.—Santa Fe Maga-
zine.
Roads Built 2,000 Years
The Roman empire was intersected
by roads, constructed principally be-
tween the Second and Fourth centuries
after Christ. These highways varied
in width from eight to fifteen feet,
and were almost universally built in
straight lines without regard to grade,
probably because the use of beasts of
burden as the chief means of transport
made the preservation of the level an
affair of minor importance. Soldiers,
slaves and criminals were employed
in the construction of these highways,
the durability of which is shown by
the fact that, in some cases, they have
sustained the traffic of 2,000 years
without material injury.
The Roman forum is said to have
been the point of convergence of 24
roads, which, with branches, had a to-
tal length of 52,904 Roman miles. The
Romans are said to have learned the
art of road building from the Car-
thaginlans.—Adventure Magazine.
Black and Green Tea
The difference lies in the process of
curing. All varieties of the plant can
be made into either green or black tea,
but some varieties are better suited
for making one or the other. In the
manufacture of green tea the freshly-
picked young and tender leaves are
gubjected to live steam or heated alr,
‘or are placed in contact with a hot
surface whick destroys the oxidizing
properties in the leaf. After rolling
and drying, the cured product gives a
green or greenish yellow infusion. In
the manufacture of black tea, the ox-
idizing process is done during the with-
ering, which lasts from 12 to 24 hours,
and Is continued after the withered
leaf is rolled by allowing the teas to
oxidize or ferment from two to six
hours before they are finally dried.
ER
Dicyeles Great Peril to
Pedestrians in Denmark
Denmark is a flat country, and
therefore an incentive to bicycling. As
soon as children are out of swaddling
clothes in Denmark they are lashed to
the handlebars of their parents’ bicy-
cles, or strapped in rumble seats, and
taken on long trips. Thus bicycling
becomes second nature to the Danes.
Danish cities encourage the use of
bicycles by constructing special bicycle
paths along the roadside so that the
bicyclists may not be annoyed by traf-
fic. This gives the bicyclists a false
sense of security, so that the motorist
in Copentagen and other Danish towns
is constantly being confronted by a
serene bicyclist who sails with blissful
recklessness directly into the motor-
car’s path.
The Danes are confirmed wabblers
while bicycling, due to their habit of
guiding the bicycles with only one
hand, the other being used to lead
dogs, hold large bundles, convey open
umbrellas, valises or other impedi-
menta, or to restrain the tendency of
skirts to rise to the riders’ waists. The
inventor who evolves a contrivance for
holding down the skirts of lady bicy-
clists should reap a fortune in Copen-
hagen alone,
Everybody in Copenhagen rides to
work on a bicycle every morning, so
that the person who ventures on the
streets afoot early in the morning or
late in the afternoon is constantly in
peril of being knocked down and hav-
ing his features enmeshed in a sprock-
et wheel or tangled in a welter of wire
spokes.—K. L. Roberts, in Saturday
YWvening Post.
George Meredith Ordered
All Manuscripts Burned
George Meredith placed no value
whatsoever on the manuscripts of his
novels. Once when he said so to Miss
Nichol she answered teasingly that it
was mock modesty on his part to say
such a thing.
To this Meredith merely gave her
an instruction: to make a bonfire of
manuscripts at the end of the garden!
“And he was set on it, too,” she
told us.
“But,” she pleaded, “can’t I have
some of them as keepsakes?”
“Yes,” he answered carelessly,
“take whichever you like.”
She selected several of the precious
documents—single sheets on which he
had written out his short poems. Miss
Nichol led Mr. Brooks and me down in-
to the vegetable garden, and there, a
black little heap of ashes, lay all that
remained of manuscripts worth who
knows how much !—From “Forty Years |
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in My Boookshop,” by Walter
Spencer.
Unkind
They were very much in love, but at
last came the day when they had a
bitter quarrel and they parted, each
resolved never to see the other again
as long as they lived.
Years passed, and they had almost
forgotten that little love affair, when
one night they came face to face with
each other at a dance.
The man felt rather embarrasc<ed,
but he went eagerly up to her, nev
ertheless, and said softly:
“Why, Muriel !”
She looked at him indifferently.
“Let me see,” she said, calmly. “Was
it you or your brother who used tc
be an old admirer of mine?”
He was snubbed, but he rose to th”
occasion.
“I really don’t remember,” he re-
plied affably. “Probably my father.”—
London Answers.
He’d Done It Before
“Now dear,” remarked Mrs. Subbun
to her husband, as he was getting
ready to go to the city, “I want you
to do a little job for me while you
are in town today. Will you go to
Goose's and get me a house robe?”
“Very well, dear,” he replied, and
went on his way.
Entering the store some time later,
Mr. Subbub gave his order.
“Here are some very pretty ones,”
sald the salesgirl. “What color do
you prefer?”
“Doesn’t make any difference!” was
the answer,
“Doesn’t make any difference!”
echoed the girl. “But don’t you think
your wife would like a certain
color?”
“No, it doesn’t make any difference
what color or size I get,” said Mr.
Subbub, sadly. “I shall have to come
back tomorr 'w and have it changed”
For Office Men
“Sedentary work,” said the lecturer,
“tends to lessen the endurance.”
“In other words,” butted in the
smart student, “the more one sits the
| less one can stand.”
“Exactly,” retorted the lecturer,
“and if one lies a great deal one’s
standing is lost completely.”
Truthful
“You've been out with worse-look-
mg fellows than I am, haven't you?”
(No answer.)
“I say, you've been out with worse
looking fellows than I, haven't you?”
“I heard you the first time. 1 was
just trying to think.”
His Excuse
A newsboy took a handful of pea-
auts from a peanut stand and was ar-
rested for it.
“Well, what are you here for?” the
mgictrate demanded.
“y t know, your honor,” the cul-
«1, “unless it's ‘Impersonat-
or Ld
Bride Advised on How
to Be Boss of Husband
Don’t wear curl papers the first two
years—after that it will not matter.
Keep a set of Walter Scott in your
apartment to occupy you in the hours
when you are not on speaking terms
with your husband. Some brides have
been able to finish Dickens and “The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-
pire” as well.
Teach him to cook before you are
married; he will be unsuspicious then,
and they learn easier before than after
marriage.
Don’t believe him when ne says he
will take up dancing next winter.
Make him sign a contract to this effect
before the ceremony.
Don’t start him in on sweetbhreads
and creamed mushrooms; this will
make the contrast too marked when
you begin to feed him or potato chips
and cold ham. A hungry man will eat
#ything if you give him time; and he
will be less likely to talk about the
way mother used to cook if you train
him in the first six months.
Always be taken ill when your
she has done all the work for a day
or two she will be glad to go back to
her own home again.
British Officer Found
Townships Too Big
For nearly a year the British prison-
came from congress the order to march
them to barracks in Virginia. The
officers traveled with considerable lib-
erty. Thomas Anburey, a British lieu-
townships in Connecticut in his rem-
iniscences, first published in 1789, and
recently published. “About the center
of these townships stands the meet-
I ing house, or church, with a few sur-
rounding houses; sometimes the church
stands singly. It is no little mortifi-
cation, when fatigued after a long
day’s journey, on inquiring how far it
are there at present; but on inquiring
for the church or any particular tav-
ern you are informed it is seven or
eight miles farther.”
Anburey observed that most of the
Connecticut houses were only half fin-
ished, the other half having only the
rough timbers that supported the
building. “Upon inquiry T learned that
when a man builds a house he leaves
It in this state until his son marries,
| when he fits it up for his family, and
: the father and son live under one
'voof.”—New York Herald.
Wine for Codfish
Spain and Iceland have made a trade
treaty. The document specifies that
Spain is to grant most-favored nation
| treatment to dried codfish from Ice-
| land and Iceland is to exempt Spanish
| wines of not more than 21 per cent
alcoholic content from prohibition,
| What a standoff! Now the Spanish
internal economy may be lubricated
and padded with portions of cod-liver
, oil and the cockles of the Icelandic
- heart may be warmed with drafts of
Castilian vintage.
The elevation of Bacchus to equality
with the sacred cod is like to seem
! heresy to folk up Gloucester way. Wine
for codfish. We lean for explanation
jon the ancient aphorism that there's
‘no accounting for tastes. But were
! we to choose? Well, the thing doesn’t
seem real.—The Nation's Business.
|
Way Out of It
The little boy was fond of nursery
rhymes and fairy tales, and was al-
ways asking questions about them.
One day he asked his mother: “Why
didn’t the man in the nursery rhyme
put up a notice to ‘Keep Off the
Grass’? Then he wouldn't have been
cruel to the maiden.”
“Which man, dear?’ sald his moth-
er; “and to whom was he cruel?”
“Well,” said the little fellow, “nurse
often tells me about the man all tat-
tered and torn who kicked the maiden
off the lawn!”
Kills and Cures in Coal
Healing medicines and deadly explo-
sives lie latent in every lump of coal,
and science is extracting one or the
other in a thousand laboratories over
the world each day. Half the drugs in
the pharmacopia probably are coal-tar
products. While one laboratory may
be extracting salicylic acid, for gout,
for instance, or aspirin for congestion
and rheumatism, another chemist will
be distilling the products from which
TNT is made or even lyddite, the pow-
erful explosive first used in the Sudan.
Worth It
A newly rich woman, giving her first
dinner party and anxious to make it a
success, was engaging the services of
a certain well-known singer.
“My fee,” said the latter, “is $50.”
“] agree to pay that,” answered the
hostess, “but you understand that you
will not meet my guests, don’t you?’
“Oh,” came the quick reply, “then
I will take $25.”
The Blunder
“Gentlemen of the jury,” said a
plundering barrister, in a .suit about
a lot of hogs, “there were just 36 hogs
fn that drove; please to remember that
fact—36 hogs—just exactly three times
#8 many as there are in the jury box.”
That counsel did not win his case,
tions accurately can have as many !
husbands as she wants.—New Yor»
Sun and Globe.
tenant, complained of the size of the | SRE6zes
is to such a town to be informed you |
mother-in-law comes to visit you; after .
In the mean- |
time you can have a good rest in bed. !
Any bride who follows these direc- |
ers taken after Burgoyne’s surrender
were held in Massachusetts, and then :
Device to Facilitate
Instruction in Writing
Electrograph is the name of an in-
strument invented in Spain to facili-
tate instruction in writing in schools.
The apparatus is designed to educate
the hand to move in accordance with
the will. First of all, metallic sheets
are cut in such manner as to afford
graphic designs most difficult for the
untrained muscles—angles, loops,
straight lines, crooked lines, vertical
and horizontal lines, etc. The sheets,
when used by the child, must be so ar-
ranged that they may easily be
brought together or separated, as de-
sired; and this is necessary also in
order to make the lesson difficult or
easy, as desired by the instructor.
These sheets, consequently, are fas-
tened down with screws so peculiarly
made that a certain pressure may
cause them to give a bit to one side
or the other. Under the desk is an
electric bell connected with the sheets
above by a copper wire. Below these,
and entirely isolated, is another sys-
tem of sheets. The child is brought
before the instrument and told to
place his paper between the free
spaces of the sheets, mark his outline
and then punch a key. This contact
will open the electric current and
make the bell ring. If the pressure
he exerts does not make the metallic
outline precisely cover the one on his
penciled paper, the bell below rings,
giving immediate notice of his error.
The child enjoys the “game,” and is
stimulated to make his loop or curve
exactly match that of the metallic
sheet.
Sneeze Greeted in Many
Ways in Various Places
“A vos souhaits!” (God bless you!)
Now is the season when you hear
the expression very frequently. With
these words we apostrophize one who
Among the Indian tribes of North
America, we understand, a polite ques-
tion is elicited by the sneeze of one’s
companion: “Who calls me?” When
an Eskimo sneezes he says to him-
self: “Come back to me!” for popular
belief has it that the sneeze indicates
an escape or fiight of the soul.
In :ne British East Indies it is also
believed that part of the soul flies
forth at each sneese; and when the
natives hear a friend sneeze, they
say: “God protect you!” to which the
sneezer’'s response should be: “And
you likewise!” The Siamese believe
that a person sneezes because God,
turning the pages of the Doomsday
Book, has paused at His name.
In Portugal, when anyone sneezes,
vou raise your hat. The Irish and the
Russians, like the Hindus, exclaim:
“God protect you!” The Italians says:
i “Felicita!”
As for the English, they don’t say
anything at all, but they immediately
take precautions against a cold in the
i head, of which the sneeze is supposed
to be a warning.—Le Petit Parisien.
A River of Romance
What a stream of romance and story
the Missouri river has been! This
wonderful river with its broad
stretches of lake and bluff, its bird-
haunted islands and bayous, its chang-
ing moods, its varying climes and
vegetation, its Indian and white popu-
lations, its song and story, has built
itself into our national structure, and
the end is not yet.
The story of the Mississippi has not
yet been written. It is liquid romance.
It has been flowing down this central
valley as long as water has flowed
anywhere on this continent. The geol-
ogist speaks of it as “hoary with an.
tiquity.” And it will flow here when
the last man has vanished from the
scene of desolation, and so long as
water can flow on a parched and
4esolate globe.—Indianapolis Journal
Hunting Cheeta
For short distances the cheeta is sup-
posed to. be the swiftest quadruped.
However, it is not possible to ascribe
the honor definitely to any particular
animal. The cheeta, which is found in
Asia and Africa, is a large tropical cat,
slender of body and limb, It is from
three to four feet long and of a pale,
tawny color, marked with numerous
dark spots on its sides and back and
almost white beneath. It resembles
the leopard, and is often called the
hunting leopard. The animal resem-
bles tte dog in docility. Its fur is not
sleek like that of typical cats. It has
a long tail, which is somewhat bushy
at the end.
A Suggestion
“Well, law suzz!” ejaculated Mrs.
Johnson in the midst of her reading.
“This is shore funny: A professor, up
there in the East some'rs, is going to
try to larn young apes to talk.”
“Hum!” returned Cap Johnson of
Rumpus Ridge. “If it don’t cost too
much we mought get him down yur to
try his scheme on our baby. The lit-
tle feller don’t do much now but cuss.”
No Consolation
The vicar, after a heavy defeat, was
returning disconsolate from the links.
“Cheer up,” said his opponent,
“you'll win at the finish. Why, you'll
be burying me one day, I expect.”
“But even then,” sald tke vicar, “it
will be your hole!”
Described to a T
“Can you give me a good description
of your absconding cashier?” suavely
asked the detective.
“We-ell,” answered the hotel pro.
prietor, “I believe he's about five feet
five inches tall and about $7,000 short.*
—American Legion Weekly.
Clean-Up Sale
of Satin Pumps
RERERERERE
Now on sale—my entire stock of
Ladies Satin Pumps, including all
styles and prices. We do not have
all sizes in the different styles, but
you will doubtless be able to fit
your feet out of the many pairs
on sale.
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Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building §8-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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