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Bellefonte, Pa., July 31, 1925.
A FABLE. ©
Even fables may inculcate the les-
sons of honesty, and set the standards
of conduct ruling the lives of the
“hill hawks.” There’s no question
whatever that the deathbed “will” at
once cost the family $5,000. The
mother of seven surviving sons and
daughters was dead, venerable in her
82nd year. The four younger ones
who had free use of the “old farm”
for just thirty-three years, now owned
all, according to the “will.” The eld-
est of the family, a world-traveled
man known wherever science is stud-
ied, was cut off with a dollar. The
second eldest son, Robert by name,
who helped clear away the stones
from the fields in the hard years fol-
lowing the Civil war, and who had
about the same ‘Chinaman’s’ chance
that 6,000,000 other boys had had,
also contrived to get through Penn
State, and was a mining engineer in
California. Robert, according to the
death bed “will” got two dollars. The
sister, Katherine, once surely a
sprightly and beautiful girl, had mar-
ried, and worked hard on a little fruit
farm in Delaware. She surely was
the golden soul of the family; she got
four dollars. She did not wish.
The facts came out little by little,
and one by one. Euretta had little to
say. She couldn't be troubled explain-
ing ‘thus and so’ to the suggestions of
older heads, and needed an automo-
bile and a chauffeur, which, being a
quite set person in her own particular
way, she presently got. Herman bab-
bled about there being more sides to
the law than a good many folks off the
farm understood, in which he was en-
tirely right. Helen’s heart was said
to be weak, but she did the heavy work.
Paul thought over his new status and
of his savings on the old rent-free
farm, and then he blew in to “little
old New York” to see “how the old
town was run,” and incidentally to
long-distance phone the brother (who
had failed to accept that dollar) that
he ought to buy in Sara’s sixty acres,
so as to “round out the old farm.”
This is the first mention of Sara, a
. sister who passed before her mother,
leaving somewhat encumbered what
should have been held now as a very
important addition to the farm for
many reasons. That is, the affairs of
this devoted family of ‘hill hawks”
had suddenly go rather complicated
for simple, well meaning minds. The
elder brother as he answered Paul
over the phone, felt a sense of inse-
curity as he sat in the home he had
built on the rock-ribbed New England
shore. The deathbed “will” faced him.
He was perturbed. He begged Paul to
go home and keep the property in-
tact. The means were there. The
tangle could be straightened out later.
But no, Paul thought he might take “a
little run out to California,” and “look
up Robert.” The elder brother again
urged Paul to go home and see things
were held together. However, as the
items now come in, Paul started on his
“little run out to California;” but
“ when he got to Truckee, he suddeniy
bethought himself that he’d sort of
. forgot Robert's address, which he
then telegraphed for on his waning
funds(!). Of course Robert was a
fairly well known mining engineer,
though not quite so well known as the
brother down East, whose address can
be found in five minutes by any sensi-
ble person who knows how to use the
. directories. There was some little
difficulty about Robert’s last “direc-
tion.” Paul got it, and then suddenly
remembered it was “about haymaking
time.” He wrote Robert “he couldn’t
stop to fool with him,” and then as
Robert later expressed it ‘“hurtied
back across the continent to make
hay.” Great nuts those farmers down
in old Centre!
THE APPLICATION.
There are in this world those who
will for a fee write and witness death-
bed wills, and those who think to ben-
fit from them. But no one ever does.
There is only one principle at stake in
this world, and that is a seeing fear-
ness and kindness. That makes fam-
ilies great. Its absence makes them
small, and finally contemptible. In
this fabulous instance there is no wor-
ry for any one about those now living,
not even for the sole grand-son of the
“testator.” But there may be a mark-
ed difference in the fate af the great
grand-children. When families go
down they go down forever. Although
if people are childless, and yet hold
themselves well, they are sure of the
best in this world. It is worth the
while of every one who lives, first to
be honest, and next to keep that which
justly belongs to him intact, and then
to further some great or some noble
cause.
By SOLON SILONIS.
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24,837,000 Bushels is Potato Crop
Forecast.
The forecast of white potato pro-
duction in Pennsylvania indicates a
crop of about 24,837,000 bushels as
compared with 28,792,000 bushels in
1924 and a 5 year average of 25,371,
000 bushels.
The estimated acreage of 234,000
planted to potatoes in Pennsylvania is
about 10,000 less than a year ago and
13,000 below the 5 year average. Tak-
ing the United States as a whole, the
acreage is the lowest since 1907, and
the estimated production the lowest
since 1919. -
The production estimates for all the
leading potato producing States indi-
cate a smaller crop than in 1924. The
Maine crop is forecasted at 33,088,000
bushels as compared with 41,175,000
bushels a year ago, and the New York
crop at 37,184,000 bushels as against
46,620,000 bushels in 1924. The New
Jersey production is placed at 5,760,-
000 bushels or less than half of last
year. :
In Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne-
sota, the crop in each case is estimat-
ed from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 bush-
els less than in 1924.
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——Get the Watchman if you want
the local news.
CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO,
CAVERN VAST IN SIZE.
The National Geographic society
has announced the sending of an ex-
pedition to explore Carlsbad Cavern,
New Mexico, which may be America’s
largest and most beautiful cave, and
to seek further remains of the ancient
inhabitants of this continent.
Partial explorations of the Carlsbad
Cavern revealed a corridor, along
which an inaugural parade might
march farther than the mile route
from the capitol to the White House,
and through most of the course
would have much wider maneuver
space iLnan Pennsylvania avenue af-
fords.
A chamber of more startling mag-
nificence than any artificial structure
would provide an inaugural ball-room
half a mile long by many hundreds of
feet wide. .
The ornamentation ranges from
bamboolike mazes of slender forma-
tions, which a brush of the hand will
crush, to stalagmites 100 feet high
and double that figure in base diam-
eter.
Plants and bats will be two other
subjects of the expedition’s study.
The natural opening of the cave
now is used exclusively by bats. At
dusk, each evening, they begin to
leave and for three hours the wingd
stream pours forth like smoke from
a smokestack.
Dr. Willis T. Lee, who made the
preliminary exploration of the cavern,
and who will head the National Geo-
graphic society’s expedition writes:
“Repellent as these little mammals
are on close acquaintance, it is fas-
cinating to watch the countless thous-
ands of them leaving home, and to
speculate on their destination and to
nocturnal adventures awaiting them.
“It is equally fascinating in the ear-
ly morning to watch these same
countless thousands returning home;
to see each little creature fold its
wings in midair and dart downward
into the cave with incredible speed.
Within each individual seeks its own
chosen nook or crack in which it may
hook a tiny claw and hang at ease un-
til darkness again calls it forth.”
The cavern now is remote from
beaten travel routes, and after arrival
the visitor is precluded from the nat-
ural entrance, at which there is a ver-
tical drop of 170 feet. Only the more
intrepid would venture into a guano
bucket to be lowered into a bat-inhab-
ited chamber.
An interior survey which will be
made by the National Geographic sov-
ciety expedition, taken with a topo-
graphic survey of the region, will
show the thinnest places in the rock
shell covering the cavern and thus a
favorable point for an artificial en-
trance will be selected. *
Even the small portion of the cav-
ern traversed revealed that it is a nat-
ural wonder of foremost rank and it
has just been set aside by order of
President Coolidge as a national mon-
ur “ent.
The plants near Carlsbad Cavern
,add picturesque quality -to the land-
scape and invite scientific study. There
are thogn brushes and thorn trees,
Spanish bayonets and Spanish dag-
gers. The predominating characteris-
tic is thorniness. There are prickly
pears and cat-claws, sagebrush and
greasewood, thorny mesquites and
screwbeans.
The sotol grows near Carlssad Cav-
ern. Formerly the natives roasted
the heads for food, after removing the
sawblade leaves. From the fermented
trunks is distilled the intoxicating
“sotol” drink. The long, tough leaves
are used for thatching and making
baskets, mats and rougi: cordage.
The cavern itself is exceptional;
and it is surrounded by features
which enhance its future scenic value.
Southeastern New Mexico, little
known and seldom visited, has moun-
tains nearly 10,000 feet high.
Carlsbad Cavern is one of a dozen
or more caverns in Guadeloupe Moun-
tains, others are known to be of phe-
nomenal size, and it may be that
Carlsbad is connected with some of
these by underground passages.
25,000 JOBS FOR VETERANS.
There are now 25,000 rehabilitated
world war veterans who need jobs. A’
drive to find places for them in indus-
try has been started by the National
Association of Manufacturers.
No undue consideration is asked for
these men. They have been so trained
ability to stand on their own feet and
render a service fully equal to the
compensation they get.
It would seem as if the business
concerns that get these men would be
fortunate. Much money has been
spent on their training, and they
ought to know the most modern ways
of performing various kinds of work
and exercising management.
The hard experiences they have
been through ought to make them a
very determined type cf fellows. They
have fought a war successfully, and
they should be equally able to fight
the battles of peace. They would take
their duties seriously, and have the
same spirit of earnestness that they
showed as soldiers.
It is very common for workers to
take their jobs in a trifling way, look-
ing at them merely as a method of
earning spending money, and they are
anxious all day to see the clock hands
move round so they can quit and go
in for the sports. The business men
all know that type, and they have had
to employ too many of them.
These veterans’ firet anxiety will be
to make good and make themselves
useful to their employers.
It would seem a lasting reproach on
this country if these men are allowed
to remain idle long. They gave us
everything they had, and went into
battle so that our country could main-
tain its ideals safe from interference.
We now owe them a great debt. That
can never be repaid by money. But
we can see to it that the doors of in-
dustry open to them and they are giv-
en a chance.
Hoped it Did.
Kindly Old Lady (whispering)—
- Dearie, one of your garters is show-
ing.”
__Flapper—‘Well I hope it does.”
that they have a distinct pride in their |
‘Japanese idea of cleanliness is.
Bathing by No. Means
a Universal Custom
In Japan we would learn what the
In
this quaint country of beautiful sun-
sets and colorful costumes people
bathe twice daily. And there is no
question that many Cf them have no
convenient hathroom as we do. In
China the family has a large stove
which is used for a bed at night so
they can keep warm. :
Between this picturesque empire
and India, separated by miles and
miles of lonely country and ocean, a
great change of customs would be
seen. In these out-of-the-way places
we find people living in mere hovels.
They enjoy no running water systems
and other conveniences a3 the most
segregated parts of our country enjoy.
In India, where plagues continually
cause the death of thousands of fam-
ilies, you will find towns that have no
water and sewerage systems. You
can see the Indian women balancing
on their heads huge jars which they
have filled with water drawn from the
town well or the sluggish and muddy
river.
. From Calcutta to Bagdad, thence to
Constantinople, you will see that bath-
ing is considered only for the white
man and the native aristocracy. On
the deserts of Arabia, where water
is necessarily used only for drinking,
the desire to keep clean is accom-
plished in a rather “rough” manner.
Instead of using water for the bath
the Arab vigorously rubs himself with
the sand of the desert.
Long and Short Lives
in Scheme of Nature
One of the most wonderful things in
Nature is the manner in which things
are balanced up. The long-lived things
propagate their species slowly; the
short-lived, rapidly. For instance, ele-
phants, whales, tortoises and carp
have been credited with lives of any-
‘thing from four hundred years down-
ward. And at the other end of the
scale we find insects which have a
life of hours only. Many theories
have been put forward to account for
these remarkable distinctions, but the
one now most commonly accepted is
that the slower the creature is in
‘reaching full maturity and the less
its powers of reproduction, the great-
er will be its average longevity or
length of natural life. Nature's object
in such an arrangement is fairly plain
even to our limited human intelli
gence. For If such creatures as
locusts, breeding with incredible rapid-
ity, had themselves a life of centuries,
the world would be within a little
while impossible for other existence.
And the same result would occur did
an elephant with a life of perhaps a
couple of hundred years, breed like a
locust. In some way, which as yet we
may not fully undeistand, the princi-
ple of Nature is to maintain a bal-
ance of power in our world.
Explorer's Ruling Passion
When Columbus landed for the first
time in the New world he found the
Indians. who greeted him “a very poor
people.” His friend, Las Casas, who
wrote the abstract of the Journal of
the First Voyage to America, gives
the admiral’s own account of his in-
terview with the natives as follows:
“1 was very attentive to them and
strove to learn if they had any gold.
Seeing some of them with little bits
of this metal hanging at their noses, I
gathered from them by signs that by
going southward or steering: around
the island in that direction there
would be found a king who possessed
large vessels of gold and in great
quantities.” The first thought, even of
the man who had just discovered a
new world, was of gold!—Youth’s
Jompanion,
Reference in Advance
The prospective maid of all work
was stating her terms: “I want $15 a
week paid in advance, and I don’t
wash nor scrub floors, nor—"
“But,” began the mistress of the
house feebly.
“Or work after six o'clock,” went
on the woman steadily, “and I want
every evening off and a fine referénce,
and—"
“But surely the reference can wait
till you leave us?” broke in the mis-
tress, nervously. .
“No, I want the letter now,” re-
turned the domestic firmly. “I've tried
getting them when I leave, and I've
never got a good one yet.’—Minne-
apolis Tribute.
English at Home
“When I was cycling through Ing:
land,” writes R. B. W., “I started off
one morning to ride from Clacton to
St. Osyth. After a while I became un-
certain about the road and meeting a
laborer I inquired, ‘Am I right for St.
Osyth? The man looked puzzled and
said he never heard of any such place.
“A second wayfarer whom I asked
was equally ignorant. Then came a
third. This fellow scratched his head,
but presently a look of comprehension
dawned upon his face. ‘Ay, to be sure.
I have it now—it’s Snosey ye mean!’ ”
—New Haven Regisier.
College and University
The college has about the same re
lation to a university that a state has
to the federal government—that is,
as a rule, many colleges go to make
a university. The term unlversity,
however, has been used loosely in the
United States, sometimes applied to
an institution offering non-professional
instruction beyond the bachelor's de-
gree and having affiliated professional
schools.
DEPUTIES ARE NAMED FOR
VACCINATION IN CENTRE
COUNTY.
Dr. J. L. Seibert, of Bellefonte,
county medical director, has been no-
tified by the State Secretary of
Health, Dr. Charles H. Miner, that
the following county physicians have
been appointed as official deputies to
re-vaccinate, free of charge, school
children who have undergone two or
more unsuccessful attempts at vac-
cination against smallpox. The ap-
pointees are:
Dr. George H. Woods, Pine Grove
Mills.
Dr. H. S. Braucht, Spring Mills.
Dr. E. H. Harris, Snow Shoe.
Dr. L. E. Kidder, State College.
Dr. W. J. Kurtz, Howard.
Dr. David ale, Bellefonte.
Dr. Robert Jackson, Osceola Mills.
Dr. G. S. Frank, Millheim. :
School children living in the rura
districts who have been twice unsuc-
cessfully vaccinated, or those who
had been admitted to school last term
on an official temporary certificate
must be re-vaccinated by the county
medical director, or one of the official
deputies, who will grant a temporary
certificate which will admit them to
school for the current school year. In
cities, boroughs or townships of the
first class having organized boards of
health, this official re-vaccination must
be performed by the board of health
physician.
~ Teachers or school principals may
not admit children the first day of
school unless they present, or have al-
ready filed a certificate of successful
vaccination, or in the case of unsuc-
cessful results, present the official
temporary certificate, which must
have been issued since July 1st of the
present year. Temporary certificates
issued during the previous school term
are void. The State Secretary of
Health states that teachers must ab-
solutely observe this law the first day
of school or be subject to prosecution
by department inspectors.
It is of vital importance that every
school child should be protected
against smallpox by vaccination. The
Pennsylvania law requiring success-
ful vaccination for school attendance
was enacted in 1895 and consequently
: the younger generation of native in-
habitants is more universally vaccin-
‘ated than in any other State of the
Union, and the State has had the low-
est smallpox record in the Union for
a number of years. Of the 238 cases
of smallpox in Pennsylvania for 1925,
all but three of them have been on the
western border of the State and in the
city of Philadelphia. The border cases
have been traced to infections from
the State of Ohio principally, where
vaccination is not compulsory. Three
cases reported from the northeastern
section of the State have been brought
in from a neighboring State. Not a
single case of smallpox has occurred
in the central or interior sections of
: the State during 1925.
School inspectors are directed by
the secretary of health to see that the
vaccination law has been fully enfore-
ed by every teacher, and to pass upon
the validity of vaccination certificates
filed. Teachers may not accept cer-
tificates issued by the family physi-
cian or by the school medical inspector
exempting pupils from vaccination be-
cause of alleged physical disability.
“Shake Hands with” So
and So.”
When strangers are present, a host-
ess’s first duty is to put them at ease,
to make them feel they are not out-
siders, but old members of a charmed
inner circle gathered in her home.
Introductions, of course, are a stum-
bling block over which many a wom-
an, socially inclined, has fallen.
Yet the introduction is a very sim-
ple ceremony and when done well is a
very charming one. The great difficul-
ty is that most people do not take
time to do it well. Unfamiliar with
the proper form, they hurry over the
opening sentence, feeling frantically
for the names and mumbling a few
useless banalities. Every one is em-
barrassed and disconcerted.
The purpose of an introduction is to
bring together two people who are
strangers and to give each the name
of the other. The first thing to be re-
membered, therefore, is to pronounce
both names quite clearly, saying,
“Miss Jones, may I present Mr.
Brown ?”—the gentleman should al-
ways be presented to the lady—or
“Miss Jones, Mr. Brown.” There is
no set phrase to use; simply express
gracious consideration toward all the
people concerned.
But there are, however, several
forms of introduction to be avoided.
Some of these are provincial, even
rude.
If the hostess should forget the
names of the persons she is introduc-
ing, it is no disgrace to say quietly,
“Forgive me, but I can not recall your
name,” or “I am sorry, but your name
has escaped me.” Then, having re-
ceived the desired information, she
can proceed unruffled.
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Don’t Say::
Deer are Not Increasing in Numbers.
The belief that deer are more plen-
tiful than they ever have been, is de-
nied by a prominent farmer living be-
tween Salladasburg and Brookside,
who contends that because deer are
seen more in the open fields is no in-
dication that they are on the increase.
He says that the deer are driven to
the fields because of the scarcity of
food in the forests. “The second
growth timber has reached such a
height and spread that the under-
brush has no chance to grow,” he said.
“Deer are unable to find food in the
forests and they come out into the
open, grazing in the fields. The fact
that numbers are seen at one time
means nothing. You might see a herd
in a field but there might not be one
left ‘n the nearby forests. Folks are
apt to think that the ones in the fields
are the overflow, you might say, from
the forests, but this is not the case.”
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Lacking Clearness.
Doctor—It's a boy, professor.
Absent Minded Professor—What
is?
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