Bellefonte, Pa., September 5, 1924
URGES NO CHANGE :
IN GAME LAWS.
The Pennsylvania State Game
Commission in its biennial report sub-
mitted to Governor Pinchot urged that
no change be made in the laws cover-
ing the hunting of game in Pennsyl-
vania. The members of the commis-
sion stated that the two year period
which ended on June 1, 1924, was the
most successful in the history of the
commission and that tinkering with
the existing game code would lead to
confusion and trouble.
“The game code in its present form
should be given a thorough trial,” the
game commission report reads, “and
we are strongly of the opinion that
no amendments should be recommend-
ed for consideration at the present
time.” : }
Considerable space in the report is
devoted to discussion of the damage
wrought by deer raiding the crops of
farmers for food. Trapping female
deer, the game commission report
states, has proved ineffectual and the
commission recommends the opening
of the season on female deer in those
portions of Pennsylvania where the
problem is acute. That process, the
commission states will not -only
largely eliminate the evil but in ad-
dition would better balance the sexes
as the female deer have enjoyed a
long period of immunity from the
sportsmen’s rifles. ;
The report pays a high tribute to
the attitude of sportsmen’s organiza-
tions throughout the State toward
enforcement of the game law. :
“Sentiment concerning wild life
conservation has immeasurably im-
proved, the report states,” and the
law in general is being observed far
better than ever before. Such in-
terest and support is invaluable and
augurs well for the future of wild
life conservation in the Keystone
State.”
A total of 600,000 persons hunted
game last year, the commission re-
ports. Hunters’ licenses issued by.
the commission totalled 500,000 while
another 100,000 persons hunted game
on their own lands as permitted by
the law. Thus 6 2-3 per cent. of the
population of Pennsylvania was in
the field at some time during the sea-
son while there were 13 1-2 persons
hunting to the square mile in Penn-
sylvania. ;
The number of accidents during the
hunting season continued to be too
high, the commission reported as
there were 37 fatal and 125 non-fatal
accidents during: the 1922 hunting
season and 53 fatal and 105 non-fatal
accidents in the 1928 season. Thus,
90 persons lost their lives during the
biennium as a result of carelessness
and nervousness on the part of the
bynters while 230 others were injur-
ed.
The actual kill .of game in Pennsyl-
vania, the commission repo , Seems
to be increasing each year. That is
particularly true of large game.
“The figures for the kill during the
1922 season indicate that 6,700 tons
of game of various kinds were taken
in Pennsylvania. This included 6,115
legal buck deer, 563 black bears and
5,400 wild turkeys. The figures on
the kill for 1923 have not yet been
fully tabulated but will include 6,452
legal buck deer, 23 large bull elk, 500
black bears and over 6,000 wild tur-
keys of which we have records.”
Every effort is being made to extend
the Pennsylvania system of game ref-
uges and public hunting grounds, the
commission stated. At present the
game commission has under control
for that purpose approximately 150,-
000 acres, most of which is wild land
divided into tracts of reasonable size
and scattered throughout the State.
Of that territory, 75,000 acres have
been set aside for refuge purposes on
which no hunting is permitted at any
time.
The securing of game for stocking
Purposes is becoming increasingly dif-
ficult, the report states. The quanti-
ty of desirable game available for
that purpose is rapidly growing less
in all parts of the country while sev-
eral States that formerly furnished
much of"the game used for stocking
purposes have passed laws prohibit-
ing exportations. With a view to
solving the problem of restocking, the
game commission stated that it has)
undertaken a study of game conditions
in the United States, Mexico, Canada
and Europe.
The final portion of the report is
devoted to a discussion of the finances
of the game commission. During the
1922 fiscal year, the revenue from
hunters’ licenses totalled $503,600.53
while: deposits for penalties, ete.
brought the total of $562,115.09. Ex-
penditures for the same period
amounted to $461,272.68. During the
1923 fiscal year, ending on June 1,
1924, the hunters’ license revenue
totalled $613,007.75 with the total rev- |
enue from all sources amounting to
$673,258.24. Expenditures for the
1923 period totalled $608,168.04.
Hunters May Now “Work Out” Dogs.
Many local hunters have grasped
the opportunity given recently of tak-
ing their dogs into the woods for the
first workout of the present training
season. The State game laws permit
the training of dogs, with certain re-
strictions, from now until the last day
of February next year.
The law states that dogs may be
trained from one hour before sunrise
until 10 o'clock at night, but they
must be within calling distance of an
owner or attendant unless they are ac-
tually following a trail. The law per-
mits the training of dogs on all do-
mestic game except elk, deer and wild
turkeys.
Presence of Mind.
Shoeless, he climbed the stairs,
opened the door of the room, entered,
and Sloea it after him without being |.
Just as he was about to
into bed, his wife half * aroused
ro slumber, turned and sleepily
said: .
“Is that you, Fido?” :
“For once in my life I had real
presence of mind. I licked her hand.”
EAST INDIAN BARBER
RETAILER OF GOSSIP
One Reason for Calling Ir
Land Without Secrets.
“Sahib! Sahib! Six o'clock whistle”
A faint knogk on my door wakens me
as the last booming note dies away.
The “boy,” barefoot and freshly ar-
rayed in white, with a dash of red in
his voluminous turban, comes quietly
into the room with a salaam for my
“Good morning.” I hear the splash of
running water in the ghusl-khana, and
in a moment he returns to assure me
that the water is “Just as master like.”
While left to his own devices, he
brings in the shoes that he has been
polishing for the last half heur and
lays out an assortment of clothes,
from which later I may make a selec-
tion for the day without the trouble
of delving through the many drawers
of the almari, which he has carefully
arranged on a plan of his own that
no one else understands. This done,
he hurries away to the cookhouse to
see that Mussa, the cook, is doing his
work as I would have it done; for in
India the “boy,” or bearer, is not mere-
ly a personal servant, but a butler as
well, and as such assunies charge of
the other servants.
Already a slender little man, dressed
in white, with a small round hat and
carrying an umbrella, has arrived. It
is Lalla, the barber. In front of Mim
and hanging from his shouldér is a
leather bag of many compartments
containing the instruments of his art.
Each morning he is at my door; for
in India it is not good form to shave
one's self. If everyone did so, how
could the man who is a barber born
fill his stomach?
The ayah, or lady’s maid, is the dis-
penser of “society” news, but the bar
ber is the one upon whom we depend
in the small stations for knowledge
of a more general pature. So, when
Lalla has become interested in his
task I ask, “Any news this morning?”
“Not any today, sahib.”
But that is only an indication that
he has mot yet decided with which
particular happening to regale me.
After a few moments ‘he remarked:
“Burra Sahib give Esmith Sahib two
month leave.”
“You mean vacation?”
“No, he give leave without rupee.”
“Why?”
“I not know.” After a moment he
goes on: “He too much drinking, not
do proper work. Some time beat na-
tive. Indian very ’fraid. Burra Sahib
get angry, say, ‘You go!” Then, after
a long pause, “Magistrat Sahib tomor-
row coming.”
“But court opens next week.”
“This time ‘coming early, quietly
roming, not telling any one. Last night
Kall Das arrested. Everyone say he
give dipety 200 rupee.”
“Does deputy take bribes?”
*God knows.”
Thus I start the day in the effete
Hast, where there are no secrets.—
John V. McCarthy, in Asia Magazine.
Assassin Was Game
King Milan of Serbia, after he re
signed his throne, took with him into
exile a personal attendant who in-
variably attracted a good deal of at-
tention, being a perfect giant of a
man, with 50 inches of chest measure-
ment and a marvelous voice. Con-
cerning this man, and the reason for
his attachment to him, Milan once
told the following story: “At a state
banquet in Belgrade my favorite aid-
de-camp was to poison me. The, poi-
son was actually present in my full
glass. This devoted attendant touched
my shoulder, told me in a whisper of
my danger, and which of my guests
sitting at my table had done fit. I
pulled myself together, stood up, and
said: ‘Gentlemen, a toast—Serbia. I
honor X by sending him my own
glass!” The miscreant took it, said,
‘Long Live Serbia,’ drank it te the
dregs, and died on the hearth rug!”
Town Result of Mistake
The founding of Fairbanks, Alaska,
in 1902, was due to a mistake in tak-
ing a water route by Capt. John Bar
nette, according to a relative at Se-
attle.
Captain Barnette sailed up the
|| Tukon river tp investigate the Tan-
ana river. Furnished with some of
the inaccurate maps of the period,
he mistook the Chena slough for
the Tanana river snd sailed to the
present site of Fairbanks before
discovering his error. He was forced
to discharge the greater part of his
cargo of trade goods to lighten the
boat in maneuvering it back to the
main stream, When he discovered
the possibilities of the place, he built
a log store. ;
Wealth of the Indies
“He who would bring home the
wealth of the Indies must take the
wealth of the Indies with him,” was an
old Spanish proverb. It was popular
ized "in England by Samuel Johason
in the following sentence: “As the
Spanish proverb says, "He who would
bring home the wealth of the Indies
must carry the wealth of the Indies
with him,’ so it is in traveling—a man
must carry knowledge with him if he
would bring: home knowledge.” The
sentence is recorded in Boswell's Life
of Johnson.—Pathfinder Magazine.
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His Motive
| “You do’ not seem suited to each
other’ at’ all. How did you come to
marty her?
“Oh, she seemed to take a afsike
6 me when we first met, and I wanted
te show her she was mistaken
Boston Transcript.
Traces Weaving Art
to Neolithic Woman
Neolithic woman's crude efforts to
| construet a roof for her primitive hut
gave rise to the manufacture of gilk
stockings for modern girls. Prof. Har
ris Hawthorne ‘Wilder of the depart
ment of zoology at Smith college,
Northampton, Mass, has traced the
history of weaving back to the Stone
age shelter and even suggests that the
apes started the practice which is re-
sponsible for Twentieth-century drese
goods.
“The chimpanzees and orang-outangs
of the present day,” he says, “construct
for themselves serviceable nests and
twine above them the smaller
branches, interlacing as well ag their
thick fingers and inferior brains will
permit. But the primitive woman was
far above this, and, in her twig-twining
there soon grew beneath her supple
fingers a definite system, by which,
perhaps, one set of twigs interlocked
in a fairly regular fashion with a set
in the opposite direction. Next she
made baskets, constructed like the hut,
but made small and fastened to her
back, they greatly facilitated her work
of burden bearing. !
“She then developed the new-found
art still further and applied it to the
construction of large nats, with which
to cover the ground of the hut. In
searching the forest for plant stems
she discovered the characteristics of
the fibers of flax. In some way, too,
she noticed the peculiar virtue of
sheep’s wool, which was at first left
upon the hide and employed like other
furs. Twisting small tufts of wool
between the thumb and finger draws
them out readily into threads and this
perfectly natural motion was prob-
ably often indulged in in idle moments
before the idea was seized upon and
definitely applied. A fairly good yarn
can be made by the fingers alone, but
the twisting can be more rapidly and
easily accomplished by the use of
something that can be made to rotate
after the principle of a top. Thus
‘came the spindle and spindle whorl.
“The simple stitches learned In
basket making were undoubtedly used
first in weaving with the more pliable
materials. But soon the greater pos-
sibilities were taken advantage of and
the fabrics and colored patterns that
were achieved in the valleys of the
Danube and Rhine before the horse
was tamed ‘or the use of metals
learned, rivaled in beauty the cos-
tumes of modern peasantry in coun-
tries where primitive methods are
Still used.
“The native inhabitants of the two
Americas often use in their weaving
exactly the same process that the
women of the Neolithic age employed.
Studies of the American Indians are
one of the profitable ways of tracing,
the evelopment of textile industries.”
Glass Hospital Walls
Glass walls in hospitals are the lat:
est outlet for potentially large quan-
tities of that product. Glass has
been used for walls and partitions in
the children’s wards of a new $4,000,-
000 hospital, Beth Israel, New York,
so that patients with contagious or
infectious diseases may be seen by
their parents and relatives without
danger of spreading the infection.
It is often the case that education
authorities will realize and advocate
new economic opportunities some
time in advance of their industrial
application. Science and medicine
have long since pat the stamp of their
approval on glass for its strength,
safety and sanitation ard visibility.
Packers and bottlers are now begin-
ning to realize to a greater degree
how existent these qualities are in
the glass container.
Charon the Ferryman
“fn classic mythology Charon was
the son of Erebus and Nox. It was
his’ duty to.convey the shades of the
buried dead across the rivers of the
lower world. For this service he ex-
acted an obolus; and, accordingly, a
coin of this value was always placed
in the dead person's mouth. To neg-
lect this rite was to doom the unhap-
py shade to wander restlessly along
the shores of Acheron, since Charon
refused to ferry any one across who
did not pay the fee. Charon is gen-
erally represented as an old man, with
unkempt beard and filthy clothes.
All Explained
The mistress was attracted to the
kitchen by a terrible clatter and evi-
dent sounds of scu€iing. When she
arrived the room was deserted except
for the cook.
*My, Nora, what was all that noise
f heard out here?" anxiously ques-
tioned the lady.
“You see, mum, the policeman just
cried to kiss me.”
“Oh, and you were compelled to use
force to prevent him?”
#*Well, not exactly, mum, but you
see, the iceman! , , .”
Safer That Way
Young Man—I want a word of ad-
vice.
Mr. Wader (grimly)—Well ?
®What is the best way to approach
you for a loan?”
“If you are sensitive you hid bettex
write for it, and when you get my
reply tear it up without reading it.”
—Stray Stories. ;
Retort Conjugal
(with great : irritation) =
lost" the train. Your un-
Hub
We've
punctual habits will drive me out of
my; mind. . 4 (150
Wife (sweetly) — At least, dear,
such a ride would not fatigue on ac
count of its length, would it Boston
Transcript.
Brainy Children Come
From Small Families
Do pot pity the only child. He has
more brains than children with many
brothers and sisters, according to con-
clusions reached by Dr. Hornell Hart
as a result of a study of 600 families
have been reported to the Iowa child
research station at Jowa City, Iowa.
Children from largé families are handi-
capped mentally, morally and socially.
Doctor Hart declares.
In a representative sample of chil-
dren from practically completed fam-
flies in Davenport, Iowa, the ability of
the children, as determined by mental
tests, was found generally to run high-
er the fewer the number of surviving
children. Children with no living
brothers or sisters tend to have nien-
tal test quotients about 15 points high-
er than children with 11 living broth-
ers and sisters, and the average men-
tal test ability decreases fairly stead-
ily as the size of the families in
creases:
“School progress, that is in excess
of the amount to be expected from
mental test ability, is at a maximum
in families of four or five living chil-
dren, and at a minimum in families of
ten children or over,” Doctor Hart
says. “The difference between the
progress in school of these two groups
is such that the average child in the
very large family loses about one-third
of a year through conditions other
than mental test ability associated
with large families.
“The larger the family the greater
the tendency is for the children to
leave school at the earliest possible
age. %
“Of families with seven or more
living children, 14 per cent are chron-
ically dependent, as compared with 3
per cent among families with six chil-
dren or less.
“As far as can be ascertained fromi
ceacher’s ratings, children in large
families are less energetic, less kind,
less sincere and less honest than chil-
clusion is fairly certain for energy,
but not so decisive for the other thar-
acteristics. x
“Contrary to general impression
¢hildren without brothers and sisters
compare very favorably with children
having brothers or sisters. Birth or-
der, as far as it was studied in this
inquiry, appears to have very little
significance.”—Kansas City Times.
perntiuncismerm dr
Man of Mystery
In Major Beaufort’s enforced ab-
sence his old black servant Lem was
under instructions to welcome the ex-
pected guest.
fortably before the library fire, Lem
asked as a matter of course, “Can 1
mix you a highball, sah?" .
“No, thanks, Lem.”
“Take it straight, sah?”
“No, thanks.”
This guest was going to be hard te
entertain. Bringing in a humider,
Lem urged:
“Try one of Mistah Jim’s cigars,
sah. They's ve'y fine!”
“No, Lem, Thanks just the same,
but I don’t smoke.” :
Lem looked puzzled; then: “Beg
yo’ pa’don, sah, but would: you min’
tellin’ me what you does to make®you
smell like a gen’leman ?’—Everybody’s
Magazine. :
Took Name From Crow
In using the ordinary crowbar few
of us connect that heavy implement
with the crow. Dictionary research
is needed to explain the relation of
the two words. Investigation shows
that a crowbar is defined as “a bar
with a strong beak, like that of a
crow.” The beak of a crow is one
of the bird's most powerful tools and
that .the makers should see the re
beak of the bird, and the use of the
name “crowbar” was entirely logical.
The bird itself, incidentally, took its
name from the nature of its cry, sug-
gesting the old Anglo-Saxon werd
“crawan.” In the Anglo-Saxon tongue
lish verb “to crow.”
Famous Work of Art
perb fragment of ancient sculpture
sists of a colossal winged statue, with-
oration of the naval victory of De-
metrius Poliorcetes, 305 B. C. This
figure, which is represented as alight-
ing on the prow of a galley, is remark-
able for its “noble proportions and
grand vitality, making it one of the
Kansas City Star.
Vital Statistics
Among facts regarding health
prought out In analysis of recently
issued census bureau figures are that
cities show a more rapid decline in
that persons of mature age show an
there has been a continuation of the
on of life at birth, with colored per
sons showing greater improvement
than the whites.
Changed His Mind
Jack—Then you didn’t ask for hex
hand? - b
Fom—No: when I went to inten
view her Bives he was busy with the
furnace, He
down and
for half an" hour par
he sald about coul, I decided mot to
get married. —Boston Transcript.
in a typical Iowa city. The results
dren from small families. This con- | |
When Mr. Allen was settled com-:
weapons. When the first crowbars
were fashioned it was only natural
semblance gf it prying end to the | [Jf
“crawan” was equivalent to the Eng- ||
The victory of Samothrace is a su |
now in the Louvre at Paris. It con- |
out head or arms, carved in commem- |i
masterpieces of the majestic style.— |i 4
mortality than do thé rural districts; | 5
increase in length of life, and that |.
eneral improvement In the expects- | [f
2 Yeagers Shoe Store ¢
Hl THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN if
called out to me to come
after watching bis struggles
dnd hearing what’
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Clearance Sale
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Every Week we Add
New Special Bargains
men.
See our Coats and Coat Suits—some Silk-
Lined ; values up to $30—special sale price
Shoes—One lot of Childrens Shoes and
Tennis Slippers—special - - - = 75cts
- $1.50
Corsets—One lot of Corsets—values up 1.25
to $5.00; sale price - - - - - $ .
$9.98
One lot of Ladies White Oxfords, only
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These are only a Few of the Special
Reductions in Every Department
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0 We have made a Very Liberal Reduc-
gi tion on the price of Ladies Pumps and
x Sandals. J
y This season’s goods—not old styles. ST
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