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Bellefonte, Pa., September 5,
106 YEARS OLD AND URGES ALL
TO CHEW BEECH NUT.
The New York World recently pub-
lished the following story of remark-
able longevity of “Uncle Jake” Cable,
of Butler county, who has chewed to-
bacco all his life and ascribes part of
his many years of good health to its
use. :
“Chew tobacco moderately, eat mod-
erately and exercise moderately if you
wish to live to be one hundred,” is the
manner of living recommended by
“Uncle Jake” Cable, of Connoquenes-
sing township, Butler county, - Pa.,
now living at the county home. “Un-
cle Jake” will be 107 years old if he
lives until October. ¢
Lable is the oldest resident of But-
ler county of whom there is any-rec-
ord. His father, John Cable, lived to
the age of 104, and his mother, broth-
ers and sisters also lived to advanced
ages. He has a brother living, Albert
Cable, of Butler county, who is eigh-
ty years old.
“Uncle Jake,” with the exception of
the last three years spent at the coun-
ty home, has lived on a farm near
ns
924.
-
~ Whitestown, where he was born. He
has been outside Butler county once,
when he visited Pittsburgh to enlist
as a soldier during the Civil war. Be-
cause he was barely five feet tall, Ca-
ble was rejected.
Today Cable enjoys good health.
His hearing is slightly defective, but
he still reads a newspaper and shaves
himself with a straight blade razor.
. The centenarian began chewing tobac-
co when he was sixteen years old and
has continued this habit since. He is
moderate in its use, however. Bread,
potatoes and fruits compose his meals
for the most part. He has never had
a serious illness. His photograph has
been placed in a collection of cente-
narians being made by the Research
Department of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, Baltimore, Md.
Keen Interest Manifested in State
Sabbath School Convention.
Enthusiasm and keen interest is
manifest on the part of Sunday
school leaders in Washington county
over the coming of the annual con-
vention of the State Sabbath School
forces to be held there October 8 9
and 10.
Mr. Walter E. Myers, general sec-
retary of the State association, has re-
cently met with the local committees
and reports that local arrangements
have been practically completed and
that they are most enthusiastic over
this gathering of Sunday school forces
from every county of the State.
. Mr. Geo. E. Penniman, general sec-
retary of the Allegheny county Sab-
bath School association, reports that
western Pennsylvania will send an un-,
usually large delegation.
Hon. J. W. Vickerman reports that
the O. A. B. C. Federation are at-
tempting a demonstration at the same
time, something new and novel and of
greater size than has yet been put on
by that body of organized classes.
On the printed programs for: this
great annual convention, among others
is to be noted that the music is to be
in charge of H. Augustine Smith, di-
rector of pagentry and music of the
Boston University. Many Pennsylva-
nians will recognize Mr. Smith as hav-
ing put on those wonderful pageants
at the world’s convention at Tokyo,
and again at the international conven-
tion at Kansas City, and will welcome
this part of the program. He will in-
troduce throughout the convention,
“interpretations of Sunday school mu-
sic and art in religious education. He
will bring with him many beautiful
reproductions of world famous reli-
gious paintings and thousands of dol-
lar’s worth of costumes for the pa-
geant, which closes the convention on
Friday night.
Prof. Smith is in such constant de-
mand that, though Pennsylvania has
been trying to get him for three years,
Jet this is the first opportunity he has
ad Pennsylvania Sunday school
leaders will find much of instruction
and interest in Prof. Smith and the
State association is to be congratulat-
ed in securing men and women of such
exceptional merit.
Old Virginia Seventh State to Restore
Daily Bible Readings in Schools.
The Virginia House of Delegates,
by a vote of 83 to 5, has passed a bill
requiring the Bible to be read in the
public schools of the State. There
are eleven States, with a population
of 70,000,000, that prohibit Bible read-
ing in the public schools; thirty, with
a population of 14,000,000, where the
Bible may be read in the schools; and
seven States providing by law for Bi-
ble reading in the public schools. , We
have yet to hear of a single instance
where Bible reading in the schools has
ever been twisted into the teaching of
creed, church or formal religion.
Every Protestant church in America
opposes the teaching of creed or sec-
tarianism in the public school; but
what has that to do with the Golden
Rule or the great law of love to man;
the judgeless life or merciful conduct ?
Who puts the Bible out of public
schools, and why? One of the earliest
acts of Congress was a move to im-
port 20,000 Bibles, for distribution in
the remote places of the sparsely set-
tled parts of the colonies. Don’t be
afraid of the Old Book—the book of
our Pilgrim and patriot fathers; the
book in the hearts of a free people,
that gave us a free church, a free
school and a free State.
First Printed Bank Check.
With the passing of Child’s Bank in
London, says the Chronicle, of that
city, is written the concluding chapter
of one of the most interesting stories
of the romance of business.
Absorption of Child’s into one of the
large London banking combines not
only marks the.disappearance of one
of the last surviving private banking
institutions in the British Isles, but
that of the oldest bank as well.
In 1762 appeared the first printed
check on record, and it bore the name
of Child’s. Ct india ag]
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PARKING OF CARS. ~~
Parking automobiles on public
highways is strongly condemned as a
public nuisance by the American Au-
tomobile Association, according to a
bulletin just released through the or-
ganization’s touring and transporta-
tion board at Washington, D. C.
numerous complaints received .from
tourists . who have been both, incon-
venienced and endangered by persons
who park their cars “on the main
highways when they could just as well
drive on to a cross SE or open
space, it is stated.
In its bulletin the board states that
it does not sympathize with the mo-
torist who thinks he would forfeit a
privilege if forbidden to park on
highways because it cofends that he
is not safe in parking where there
is high speed traffic and that he
really would benefit by being com-
pelled to park in safer places.
Thomas P. Henry, pfesident of the
A. A. A. says that the number of ac-
cidents resulting from parking cars
on heavily traveled highways offsets
The basis for the A. A. A. action is | Th
"FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
But evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of heart,
—Thomas Hood.
MOTHERS.
In the first set of teeth there are 20.
ey appear, usually, in the following
order: The two central lower teeth
being first to appear and come from
the sixth to the ninth month. Next
are the four upper central teeth, which
come from the eighth to the twelfth
month. The other two lower central
teeth and the four front double teeth
come from the twelfth to the eigh-
teenth month. Then follow the four
canine teeth, the two upper ones be-
ing known as the “eye teeth” and the
two lower as ‘the ¢‘stomach teeth.”
They generally come between the
eighteenth and the twenty-fourth and
the thirtieth month.
At one year a child usually has six
teeth; at one and a half years twelve
teeth.
At two years sixteen teeth.
At two and a half years twenty
any possible advantages and that if | teeth
the motorist does not appreciate the
importance of parking safely legisla-
tion must step in to produce desired
results.
“It is hoped that this appeal to the
motorist, however, will obviate the
necessity ‘of adding another law to
the - already overcrowded statutes,”
Mr. Henry explains. “If each mo-
torist would act upon the recommen-
dations of the A. A. A. board the
highways would be safer for all who
use them and the nuisance of unsafe
parking would be minimized.”
The following suggestions have
been offered by the A. A. A. board:
“Do you seek main highways for
pie purposes. Use the secondary
ads where there are pienty of op-
portunities for parking off the road.
“In event of puncture try to get
the car as far off the road as possible
before changing the tire, and in no
case stop on a curve or near the top
of a hill.
“Never stop opposite a car’that has
parked alongside the road. If you
want to ask your way stop your car
at least 150 feet beyond and walk
back and inquire.
“You are not safe sitting your car
while it is parked on a highway. Fur-
thermore you are a source of danger
to those who are obliged to turn out
to pass you.
“If you turn into a blind driveway
to park have the back of, the car to
the main road. When your car is fac-
ing the road motorists may think you
are just driving into the road. They
may make a sudden stop before dis-.
covering that your car is not in mo-
tion, and cars following them may be
thrown into a series of rear-end col-
lisions. :
“Parking a car at night on a main
highway is" doubly dangerous. You
never know what minute the tail light
may burn out.
‘JACKSONVILLE.
Most wd folks are attending the
Granger picnic this week.
John Dietz, who hurt his arm last
week, is now- able to use it a little.
Miss Beatrice Hoy, of Blanchard,
spent a week’s vacation with friends
here, returning home Friday evening.
Harry Hoy and son are building a
large meat house, packer and cooler
combined which, when finished, will
enable them to handle more products
at one time, making business more
profitable for both farmer and buyer.
James Bartley was thrown from a
load of oats, last week, spraining his
ankle and also sustaining some bad
bruises but is now recovering nicely.
Many people from our town attend-
ed the funeral of Mrs. Emma Harter,
of Upper Marion, on Sunday.
A real weiner roast was held at the
Elmer Swope home, last Wednesday
evening, under the supervision of their
eldest daughter, Kathryn. Everybody
had a fine time, with lots of dogs to
eat.! Those present were: Misses
Relda McClosky, Viola Boone, Violet
McClosky, Geraldine Swope, Sarah
Vonada, Blanche Orr, Myrtle Boone,
Helen Vonada, Nora Weight, Beatrice
Beightol, Jane Yearick, Luretta Con-
do, Kathryn Swope; Messrs. Hogan
Long, Leon Aley, Charlie Robinson,
Leonard Boone, Melvin Dixson, Geo.
Swope, Harold Betz, George Weight,
Willard Markle, Deimer Ertley, Clar-
ence Weight, John Vonada, Clifford
Swope, George Boone, Leonard Rob-
inson, Ira Robinson, Harry Swope,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Neff, Miss Bea-.
atrice Hoy, of Blanchard; Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Swope. ,
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New Licenses Cause Nimrods to Com-
. plain. :
Strong complaint has been register-
ed by the hunters against the new .i-
censes they must carry during the
hunting season of 1924, the nimrods
claiming it is necgssary to fasten them
on their coats by wire, or by riveting
them.
As they are aluminum plate and be-
cause of this are sharp edged, cutting
a thread right off, hunters contend
they have a just complaint. The for-
mer hunting licenses were canvas and
were easily sewed on by a sewing ma-
chine or needle and cord.
Perfect Husband.
First Flapper.—Dick’s a perfectly
adorable husband to Marie. He gives
her anything she wants.
Second Flapper.—What did he give
her last?
First Flapper.—A divorce.—New
York Sun.
——In proportion to the number of
‘| inhabitants, Alaska has the most in-
tensive radio development of all lands.
It seems to have been especially deyis-
ed to fit the needs of these people; Be-
cause they are cut off from many set-
tlements for six months of the year
by the snow, the icy blasts are no ob-
stacles to the, electromagnetic waves.
——The value of the products of all
the States’ prison industries during
the past year was $69,000,000; of this
prison-made work, clothing was val-
ued at $19,000,000.
same nm—— rer —
——Read your own “Watchman.”
“and here’s your list.
The appearance of teeth varies in
different families. In some they come
very early, in others much later. The
teeth may come late as a result of
prolonged illness and also from rick-
ets. g ;
In healthy children there is very
often fretfulness and poor sleep for
two or three nights. There may be
loss of appetite, so that only one-half
the usual amount of food is taken.
There is salivation or drooling and
often slight fever. There may. be
some symptoms of indigestion, such as
vomiting or the appearance of undi-
gested food in the discharges from the
bowels. In delicate children all these
symptoms may be much more severe.
Usually the symptoms last but
three or four days, but there may be
no gain in weight for two or three
weeks.
Most of the other symptoms attrib-
uted to teething, nearly all of them,
come from indigestion due to bad
feeding.
A young baby should be lifted from
its bed by using the right hand to
grasp the clothing below the feet and
the left hand slipped under the in-
fant’s body to'its head. It is then
raised upon the left arm.
The entire spine is supported by do-
ing this and no undue pressure is
made upon the chest or abdomen, as
often happens if baby is grasped
around the body or under the arms.
Lift the child who runs about by
placing the hands under the child’s
arms and never by the wrists or
hands, as often serious injury is done
to the elbow or shoulder joints.
In any acute illness the amount of
food should be much reduced and the
food made more dilute than usual.
If there is fever, no solid food
should be given. If the child is al-
ready upon a milk diet, this should be
diluted and in some cases partially
reptonized.
In very hot weather treat a child
as if it were ill by giving less food,
particularly less solid food and more
water.
I never could see much difference
between the person who devoured a
pound of candy at a sitting and eom-
plained of a headache the next, day,
and the one who consumed a quart of |
whiskey and groaned likewise on’ the
morning after. Both were satisfying
a craving for something they believed
they wanted, and did it a little too
much, whi¢h is what most of us do one
time or another.
A child is born with a desire for
sweets, and the desire lasts through
the years until the worn-out stomach
refuses the burden. Then sorrow is
that child’s portion, for when the
stomach strikes, it has no reason
about it, but strikes against food in
general rather than candy in particu-
lar. “No sweets,” says the doctor,
Stick to that
diet until we see what’s going to hap-
pen.”
Yet children need sweets. They
have to have sugar to keep the health
in their bodies. It is hard to teach a
child moderation in the use of candy,
but it is harder still to see him sick
and suffering because his sweet tooth
has outraged the other 31.
Even when the candy ration is re-
puced to the piece after meals there is
trouble. There is scarcely a child in
a hundred that is going to be satisfied
with the amount of sugar a careful
parent, advised by the careful doctor,
allows him. He has to have more and
he’s going to get it some way, some-
how. Better see that he gets it.
He doesn’t have to have it in the
form of candy and frostings. If he
gets honey spread on his bread and
butter, his appetite for sugar for that
day is about satisfied. The sugar in
the honey won't burn out the flues as
the candy will.
Ripe fruit is full of sugar, and there
never was a child born yet that would
not sing for his supper if it consisted
of peaches, whose beauty alone al-
most feeds his hunger, to say nothing
of the honeyed golden sweetness that
lies under the tawny velvety skin.
When did you see ‘the time that a
child’s eyes wouldn’t dance at the
sight of a big red and gold apple? It’s
full of the very best sort of sugar,
and health and beauty for the grow-
ing youngster. Raisins are the es-
sence of sweetness, with a dulled rich-
ness supplying the undertone that
lingers in the memory as a treat from
the gardens of ensnared sunshine and
dew and wild honey.
" Fruit is so much lovelier to look at
and to touch and to smell than candy,
and so much less troublesome after-
ward. It was made for the sweet
tooth of the child. Let him have it.
Perhaps the sugar cane was made for
the more testy tongue of the adult,
who needs a bit of ferment to make
his dull soul sing. Children’s souls
sing and their bodies grow best on
Nature’s sweets. They best satisfy
the sweet tooth of the youngster.
One of the easiest ways to be sure
of getting sufficient amounts af vita-
mine C, the scurvy-preventing sub-
stance, is to eat tomatoes rather reg-
ularly, perhaps every day, or to make
it a practice to put tomato juice in
some of the dishes that we are pre-
paring for the family, says the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture.
JAPANESE BEETLE IS
ee v—eaar— rs — —
SLOWLY LOSING BATTLE.
| After a month of intensive warfare
during which it played havoc with the
crops and gardens through southeast-
- ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the
j army of Japanese beetles is making a ||
slow and orderly retreat .to its winter
quarters. :
‘And it’s not the cold weather, either,
according to
that has prevailed on.the pests to fold
their wings and declare the present
campaign of destruction at an end.
The beetle, they explain, lives about
a year on the average, eleven months
of which it spends in quiet repose.
However, during its month of activi-
ty it manages to do enough damage
to make it the most obnoxious pest
known to farmers. :
The scientists pin great faith in the
ability of the little Dexid wasps, im-
ported from Japan, to make the S0-
Journ of the beetles much more trying
when they reappear in these parts
about a year hence. About 3,000 of
the wasps have been freed for the pur-
pose of making war on the beetles
whenever and wherever they can,
The Tachinid flies, also hereditary
enemies of the beetles, are expected
to take a great part in the general of-
fensive planned to take place during
the winter and early spring months. .
Charge Coal Price is Raised Monthly.
Retail coal dealers are advancing
the price of coal ten cents a month,
officials of the Bureau of Mines have
been informed.
- On the first of each month the coal
men increase the price ten cents a ton.
This is done, the dealers claim, to en-
sure that those who can just as well
buy their’ coal in the early summer
will do it then and not wait until cold
weather comes.
This policy of cutting the price fifty
cents a ton in the early spring will be
followed out in the future, the retail-
ers told State agents. Then the price
will increase from ten cents a month
during the summer until it gets back
to its original price by the time cold
weather comes.
Incidentally reports from the an-
thracite. districts indicate there will
be no coal shortage this year. Many
of the mines have been working
throughout the spring and summer
and huge coal piles are being stacked
at vantage points for winter shipment.
There has been a number of strikes
in the mines this summer but few of
them have continued for any length
and hence the larger coal companies
have been enabled to lay in thousands
of tons of coal this summer.
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State Farmers to Cut Down Wheat
Acreage.
Farmers in Pennsylvania are going
to reduce the acreage of winter wheat
seeded this fall, a survey of the State
indicates. The planted area will be
only 97 per cent. as large as last year.
This survey shows only what the
farmers have in mind at the present
time. They may change their plans.
The intentions to plant winter
wheat in the entire United States,
however, indicates an acreage seven
per cent. larger than the past season,
or 42,919,000 acres. .
Always ‘Worry.
I suppose you find everything so
different now you are married ?
Not very. I used to sit up half thy
night wondering when Arthur would
night wondering when he'll come
home.—London Mail.
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