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THE FOX AS A FATHER.
Among the wild creatures noted for
being good fathers there are none,
perhaps, so faithful and unselfish as
our old friend and enemy, the fox. He
is a splendid husband and father, and
provides food for the mother and her
young, going hungry himself if the
supply is not sufficient for all. In-
deed, he will nearly starve himself so
that the vixen and cubs have plenty to
eat. It is not unusual to see the dog
fox thin and worn while the babies
and mother are fat and sleek.
While the cubs are quite small, he
does not take much part in the home
life except in bringing food to the den
for the mother. Thus provided, the
vixen gives all her time and strength
to the cubs and her life is not in dan-
ger by long trips for food. He is very
careful that the den will remain a se-
cret at this time, and if followed will
go in another direction, trying to cov-
er his scent, or imitate the sounds of
other animals so as to deceive the en-
emy. He keeps guard, too, and at the
approach of an enemy, the vixen is at
once warned so that she can hide or
fight if necessary. 3
The cubs are born in the spring,
helpless and blind for two weeks, but
able at the end of three weeks to play
about the nursery. They are as active
and playful as the pups of our domes-
tic dogs, and their wise mother pro-
vides them with: playthings. It may
be a dried wing of a hen or duck, per-
haps a bone, but it answers the pur-
pose and the little ones play with it,
each trying to keep it from the others.
They roll and tumble and fight for it
with all their strength. Sometimes
the game ends in a quarrel. :
They are now allowed to go outside
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the nursery and play near its door un- :
der the ever-watchful eyes of their
parents. Here their first lessons take
place, for an uneducated fox cannot
take care of itself when the time
comes for it to leave its home and
parents. Sound and scent are the first
important lessons for any wild crea-
ture to learn. The playful little
things now begin to use their noses,
for the wise parents hide their food
and make them search for it. A very
hungry cub soon learns to find its din-
ner hidden away in some corner. Then
they are taught to go through the
grass looking for mice. At first they
miss their prey, but soon grow sly and
successful. 5
They are taught to listen closely to
the different sounds about them and
learn the meaning and danger of each.
If the mother suddenly drops down
and remains very still, the cubs fol-
low her example. Thus all things nec-
essary for a wise fox to know are
taught the cubs. When they are three
months old, their final lesson 1s given
them by their mother. She takes her
cubs with her, some distance away, to
hunt food. This is not always suc-
cessful and is often dangerous, but
after a time they grow as cunning as
their parents and are quite able to
find their own food.
As summer passes into autumn, the
family life is suddenly broken up by
the parents. The good father that
had watched and fed them so careful-
iy, refuses to share his dinner with
them; growls if they try to take it in
the old way. The disturbance contin-
ues and the cubs are driven from the
nursery—obliged to go some distance
away from home. Even mother refus-
es to take their part or follow them.
The breaking of home ties—a law
in the world of foxes—must be rather
bewildering at first. They are said to
go separately and wander around un-
certainly for some time before they
select a new home far from the old
one. :
Father Fox now grows fat and sleek
on the choice bits he once kept for the
vixen and cubs.—By Evangeline Weir,
in Our Dumb Animals.
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Real Estate Transfers.
Joseph Sharpless, et ux, to Harbi-
son Walker Refractory company,
tract in Rush township; $1,900.
John F. Gill to R. L. Weller, tract
in Huston township; $1,100.
Lucy H. Field, et al, to the Boggs
Township School Board, tract in
Boggs township; $300.
A. B. Budinger, et ux, to John
Koshv, et ux, tract in Snow Shoe;
$125.
Independent Ool Co. to the Penn
Confectionery Co., tract in Philips-
burg; $1.
John L. Holmes, et al, to Luther M.
Corl, et ux, tract in State College;
$1,000.
S. B. Stine, Inc., to John B. Pedraz-
zani, tract in Rush township; $1,200.
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Pigeons Get Tobacco.
Twenty-four carrier pigeons will be
carried by the navy section of the
MacMillan Arctic expedition this sum-
mer, and they will have twenty-five
pounds of tobacco to solace them. The
navy announced that 1400 pounds of
pigeon food would be taken along, and
that the tobacco would provide “an
ample chewing ration for the birds
and leave a small amount for use as
disinfectant.”
The pigeons have been trained for
several years for long flights over
cold countries. They were said to
have proved themselves capable of fly-
ing over 500 miles a day with uner-
ring ability.
20,000 Gallons of “Gas” a Minute 1925
Need of U. S..
Twenty thousand gallons of gaso-
line a minute, every hour of the twen-
ty-four, is the estimated rate of de-
mand for the United States for 1925,
according to DeWitt Foster, director
of the American Research Foundation.
“Domestic consumption of gasoline
in 1921 was 4,473,000,000 gallons. In
1923 home consumption was 6,493,
000,000 gallons, and in 1924 the Unit-
ed States consumed 7,800,000,000. Es-
timates for 1925 call for 8.950,000,000
gallons, an increase of more than 100
per cent, in five years,” he said.
THE PRODUCTION OF OLIVE OIL.
The Mount of Olives of the Bible,
with its sacred traditions, holds for
all Christian people an interest in the
fruit of the tree, which forms one of
the three most important products of
Spain and Portugal, the others being
cork and sardines. The olive and the
cork oak are almost inseparable com-
panions in Spain and Portugal, and
also in Italy. The olive tree is per-
ennially green as also is the cork,
both living to a very great age.
Olives are picked during November,
December, and January. As an arti-
cle of food containing important nu-
tritive oil, the olive supplies a need to
the peasants of all the countries of
southern Europe. The production of
olive oil in Portugal, especially in the
neighborhood of Santarem and Tho-
mar, is typical on account of the prim-
itive processes used in extracting it.
The finest oil is obtained by the most
ancient method.
The olives are placed in a large cir-
cular stone, having a trough three to
four feet deep in which a great wheel
of granite revolves, being attached to
a long pole to which an ox is har-
nessed. The beast is then blindfold-
ed to prevent dizziness. In this way
the olives are crushed.
The pulp is put into large sacks
holding several bushels, and placed in
a cement container from which the oil
runs into a tank. The oil is extracted
by the weight of a great log through
which runs a wooden screw some six
inches in diameter. This is compress-
ed by a lever. There are many other
methods of pressure, but this, the
most ancient, is still used because the
quality of the oil is superior. to that
obtained by the more modern way,
where a great pressure is obtained
and where a greater amount of the
acidity is exhausted from the pulp.
The quality of the oil is determined
by the acid content; the finest quality
contains only little more than 1 per
cent. acid.
The first pressing yields an oil suit-
able for table uses, for canning sar-
dines and for cooking. The second
pressing yields an oil which is used in
commerce—for a component in the
manufacture of soap and in adulter-
ating lubricating oils. After the last
pressing the pulp is put in bins and
The adulteration of the oil does pot
take place at the oil press but usually
is practiced by wholesale distributors
of Europe and the United States.
Cotton seed oil is one of the adulter-
ants employed.
_ In Europe olive oil is used for fry-
ing fish and meats, and in cooking
boiled vegetables. But in the latter
way it has little attraction for the
American palate, the taste and odor
being not at all pleasant. The French,
Spanish and Portuguese sardine pack-
ers use the chemically pure oil of the
olive without adulteration, but in the
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northern European States where the
sprat is canned and sold for sardine,
large quantities of cotton seed oil and
bean oils are substituted for the olive
oil.
OUTDOOR GOOD MANNERS.
“Good manners” have always been
regarded as one of our best known
“indoor sports.” But this is a chang-
ing world, and now we find that “man-
ners” are classified. There is the “in-
door” variety and the “outdoor” vari-
ety. And some of the grown-ups are
lacking in the “outdoor” quality.
The careless automobile tourist,
who has left his mark from Harlem
Civil War Veterans Return Flag to
South; Get Sword.
Riddled with bullet holes, and pierc-
ed in two places by cannon balls, the
Civil War Standard of the Tenth Lou-
isiana regiment is home after more
than sixty years in the hands of its
captors, the Eleventh Connecticut reg-
iment.
With it came a clasping of hands of
survivors of the bloody field of Cold
Harbor, where, on June 3, 1864, the
ragged emblem of Louisiana’s “Ti-
gers” was taken by Lieutenant Peter
Ambler’s cousin, Ira R. Wildmon,
Danbury, Conn., returned it to Cap-
tain James Dinkins, who headed a
group of Confederate veterans.
Four fighters for the cause of the
Union, clad in the familiar blue, sur-
rendered it on Tuesday to the South.
The flag will be deposited in Confed-
erate Memorial Hall, and the sword of
Colonel Ledyard Colburn, of the
Twelfth Connecticut Regiment, which
was taken at Cold Harbor, will return
north with the soldiers who brought
the flag home.
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MEDICAL.
to San Francisco, has made necessary
some preachments on the subject of
“good manners.”
The thoughtless camper who for-
gets to put out his fire and leaves be-
hind paper plates, tin cans and the re-
mains of his lunch is the horrible ex-
ample of “bad manners,” and a type
that must be swatted in order to keep
tourists as a class in good standing.
The American Automobile Associa-
tion estimates that six million people
will heed the call of the road this
summer. If one-sixth of them are
careless, an immense amount of dam-
age will be done. Beauty spots will
be defiled, property destroyed and the
way made roough for tourists who
have good “outdoor manners.”
The rights of property owners in
the country must be respected as re-
ligiously as they are in town and city.
This children can be taught. Some of
their elders may be too hard crusted
to admit of teaching. But the coming
generation at least ought to grow up
with the idea that the abuse of out-
salted to prevent fermentation and is
kept and used as fodder for cattle.
The finest quality of Santarem and
Thomar oil sells at the press from
twenty to twenty-five cents a quart.
door hospitality of parks and seclud-
ed spots in the country is as much a
breach of good manners as to mistreat
a home where one has been entertain-
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Back Bad Today?
Then Find the Cause and Correct It
As Other Bellefonte Folks Have.
There’s little rest or peace for the
backache sufferer.
Days are tired and weary—
Night brings no respite.
Urinary troubles, headaches, dizzi-
ness and nervousness, all tend to pre-
vent rest or sleep.
Why continue to be so miserable ?
Why not use a stimulant diuretic to
the kidneys ?
Use Doan’s Pills
Your neighbors recommend Doan’s.
Read this Oak Hall case:
Mrs. Ralph Hassinger, Oak Hall,
Pa., says: “My back was weak and
lame and I tired easily. My kidneys
acted frequently. I used Doan’s Pilis
and they soon strengthened my back
and regulated my kidneys.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Pills—the same that Mrs. Has-
singer had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 70-21
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telephone and mechanical genius.
“All hands to the capstan,” pulling in an
early telephone cable. A tractor placed over
the manhole is the newest method.
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the manhole.
Telephone construgtion, maintenance and operation are
being advanced and speeded in a thousand and one such
Invention and development from within are supple
mented by constant sear
An improved device weighing two pounds will often
contribute more than one weighing two tons. A better
soldering-iron, in the hands of an organization which solders
fifteen million metal connections a year, counts big.
In every department of telephone work more ground is
covered today than yesterday. Little of this work is seen by
the public, except along the highways and on an occasional
visit to a central office.
But the increasing volume of service, and the still faster
increasing complexity it preserss, is more than matched by
countless creations of American
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
ITH the best of modern equipment, more telephone
lines in cable can be “pulled in” to the underground
conduit plant today in 2}4 hours than could be done be-
tween sunrise and sunset fifteen years ago.
In the beginning, it was “all hands at the capstan.” Then
a pair of horses harnessed to the job. Next, a motor
ith winch and power take-off. Last, a tractor placed
in outside fields.
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