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Bellefonte, Pa., October 16, 1925.
GUNSTON HALL HOME
OF GREAT AMERICAN
Built by George Mason, Far-
Seeing Statesman.
In 1750, at a plantation in Maryland
near the Potomac river, a wedding
took place, and to it flocked the plant-
ers and thelr ladles from miles around
in Maryland and Virginia, writes
Mary Mayo Crensham in St. Nicholas.
Jt was the marriage of George Mason,
fourth of the name in this country
and scion of a very ancient family,
to Anu Eilbeck, sixteen years old and
already a great belle and beauty. Ma-
son, then twenty-five years old, was
described by a contemporary as
“young, wealthy, handsome and tal-
ented.”
Soon after the wedding the young
couple began to build their now fa-
mous home, Gunston hall. It was
named in honor of George Mason's an-
«cestral home in England. They threw
themselves whole-heartedly into the
‘task. Mason himself was the archi-
tect. He had woodcarvers come over
ifrom England, and for three years
‘these worked on the classic designs
“which lend such charm ‘to the home,
-and which have been copied by some
«of America’s greatest architects. At
‘the end of this time the stately man-
:glon was finished and a house-warm-
‘ing was held. Scores of guests came
from miles around in their gilded
-chariots and quaint coaches, or In
‘boats from the Maryland side. Two
-of the nearest neighbors, Lord Fair-
fax and George Washington, must
‘have been there to drink the health
-0f the young pair—Washington then
a tall young man eighteen years of
‘age. And we can imagine the pride of
the slender young wife in her beauti-
‘ful new home, and seem to see her in
‘the soft candlelight dancing the min-
uet or the Sir Roger de Coverley.
Mason was destined to become one
of the most famous statesmen of
America. He lived at Gunston hall
during the remainder of his life. John
Este Cooke in his delightful history of
Virginia has said:
“Mason was called upon to drafy
the Virginia bill of rights and consti-
tution, and did so. The former is the
most remarkable paper of the epoch,
and was the foundation of the great
American assertion of right. Jeffer-
son went to it for the phrases and ex-
‘pressions of the Declaration, and it
Temains the original chart by which
free governments must steer their
-course in all coming time.”
All of it found its way Into the
“Constitution of the United States, and
the first ten amendments of the lat-
‘ter were taken bodily from the bill of
rights.
The year 1925 is the 200th anniver-
sary of the birth of George Mason.
‘Proper observances are to be held on
“October 26 at Gunston hall. But there
is a perpetual memorial, not limited
‘by time, not temporary, but unceas-
‘ing, to this great man, in the country
‘he helped so much to found and in
the reverent hearts of a whole people.
No Eggs for the Band
“Once on a western tour,” Mr.
Damrosch relates, “we struck a town
‘where the hotel accommodation was
very, very poor. A dozen members of
‘the orchestra had to put up in a hotel
‘where the rate was $1 a head for din-
ner, bed and breaki'ast. It didn’t seem
to be worth more, either.
“When the men went down to the
dining room for breakfast in the
morning they were led to an untidy
table by a frowzy maid. The maid
was busy taking their orders when the
proprietor put his head in at the door
and called:
“ ‘Lizzie, no eggs for the band!’
- “This speech,” Mr. Damrosch ended,
“spread among the orchestra, and for
the rest of the season, whenever some
demand was made upon me that T
couldn’t grant, the men would smile
and shake their heads and repeat:
* ‘Lizzie, no eggs for the band!" ”
“Stinging Snake” a Myth
The biological survey says that the
“stinging snake” myth apparently orig-
inated more than 200 years ago and
is reported to have been first pub-
lished in an old “Report to Lords Pro-
prietors of the Carolinas.” John Clay-
ton also mentions this myth in a letter
to the Royal society of London In
1688. In the first mentioned report it
is asserted that there lived In the
Qarolinas a snake whose tall was a
poisoned horn or spike. This account
refers to the horn or stinging snake,
which is harmless. The horn snake
is bluish-black with a few red bars
across the belly. The tail of this
snake tapers to a fine point having
the appearance of a horn or spike,
but it is quite incapable of piercing
or stinging anything.
Reason for Joyfulness
‘The day seems to be arrived when
there is really so much to make us
think well of the destiny of mankind;
such fair reason to rejoice in the mere
fact of existence; so large a promise
of ' ever-extending human knowledge
and insight; such general softening
of manners, spreading of intelligence
and enlarging of average happiness,
that it appears more. becoming for
man, the chief at least of animals, to
be singing with the lark in the iA
than croaking with the frog in the
swamp.—§ir Edwin Arnold,
Some of Them Are Worry-
ing Her Many Children.
Queer things have been happening
to Mother Earth of late. Her ague
quakes probably have not been un-
usual, though America is prone to
think them so because 80 many have
happened in this land. But a
new shoal, with rock coming with-
in a few fathoms of the surface,
has been found in a region where the
ocean was supposed to be 2,000 feet
deep; a new island is being bufit by a
volcano in the Mediterranean, and the
Humboldt current that chills the west
coast of South America even as the
Gulf stream warms the west coast of
northern Europe has ceased to flow.
This last is by all odds the most
amazing and important development
recorded. The Humboldt current,
coming out of the Antarctic ocean
with the chill of ancient ice in its
waves, and flowing up the west coast
of South America to the neighborhood
of the equator, has always kept low
the temperature of the whole region.
But that has not been its chief effect.
Thanks to this drift of cold water,
the ocean has been cooler than the
land—therefore, winds setting land-
ward got warmer as they went, and
consequently were never chilled into
rain,
There are places on the coast of
Peru where rain has not fallen for
50 years, but it has been coming In
torrents this year. The cold current
is gone, why or whither no one
knows; wind blowing over the hot
equatorial waters is chilled as it
strikes the coast, and there has beer
one thunderstorm after another.
If this condition persists, a host of
changes will result. The nitrate beds
of northern Chile and southern Peru
have been saved by the absence of
rain. A dozen years like the present
will wash most of the nitrates into
the sea. A thousand miles of coast
land Is now absolutely barren for lack
of water. Rainfall like that prevail
ing for the last six months would
make it a garden. One can under-
stand why special commissions are
heading for South America to learn,
if possible, what has become of the
Humboldt current.
Watch Growth of Embryo
For the first time in history the
development of the embryo of a warm-
blooded animal has been carried on
under such conditions that it can be
watched continuously. This feat has
been accomplished by two scientists
at the University of Leyden, Drs. J. P.
M. Vogelaar and J. B. van den Boo-
gert, who have placed common hens’
eggs, with the shells removed, in small
glass dishes in an incubator, and have
succeeded in Keeping
aliverphy growing for five days. Hith-
erto the" only way in which such em-
bryos could be studied has been by
placing large numbers of eggs in the
incubator and removing and opening
By
them one by one at intervals.
this older method it has been possible
o study closely spaced stages of de-
‘elopment, but not to observe the
wrowth as a continuous process, now
made possible by the new way.
Stealing Peggy’s Act
A man and his trained dog were
apppearing at an Indianapolis vaude-
ville theater. The dog's ability to
count was being displayed and her
master was selecting patrons in va-
rious rows as subjects.
He pointed to two very small chil- |
dren on the front row and said:
“Peggy, how many little boys are
there in this row?”
A hush fell over the audience as
the dog prepared to tinkle a bell by
way of answer. Then suddenly a
shrill, childish voice piped out:
“Hey! I'm not a little boy!”
After the roar of laughter had sub-
sided, Peggy was called on to distin-
guish on her bell the number of little
boys and little girls on the front row.
Too Late! Too Late!
“Years ago, when I considered my-
self quite the debonair youth around
the home town, I always raved at the
shirt of those days that I had to pull
over my head,” said a salesman in
a Detroit hotel. “The operation
mussed up my hair and I was forced
to spend a lot of time recombing it. In
later years, the now prevalent coatshirt
came along, with all its virtues. But
by the time it had arrived my dashing
days had been curbed and I had lost
most of my hair.
grateful for the idea as I should be if
the inventor had gone to work a few
years before and turned out his prod--
uct when it would have saved me a lot
of grief.”
Setting the Date
The stranger rushed up to the cor-
ner, where a group of villagers were
discussing things. He waited for no
introductions or Invitation to speak,
but burst forth with, “What's all the
excitement about?’ The group of
villagers eyed him In silence for a
moment. Finally one native removed
his pipe from his mouth, spat to lee-
ward, anr replied, “’Bout a month
ago.”
. Didn’t Stop in Time
A cshman in London made more
than $1,000 by selling tickets for a
fake concert, which he sald was to
help crippled and aged cab drivers.
Just as he was selling the last ticket
he had printed in his fraud scheme the
police arrested him.
the embryo
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ome below.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this pussie will spell
words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is indi-
eated by a number, which refers to the definition lasted below the pussle. Thus
No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fll the
white spaces up to the first black square te the right, and a number under
“yerticnl” defines a word which will ill the white squares te the mext black
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary
words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and
obsolete forms are indieated in the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLENo. 3.
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1—Possesses
4—To drink sparingly
7—Skating surface
8—To become vapid
10—Head piece 11—That thing
13—East Indian (abbr.)
14—Personal pronoun
16—Part of “to be”
17—River in Italy
18—Man’s title of address
19—Right (abbr.)
20—Confldence man
24—Self-destruction
27—To fasten with a knot
28—Twenty hundredweight
29—Torn cloth 81—Donkey
88—One of a series of ornaments in
the shape of a frustum of a
cone 84—Note of scale
36—Shoshonean Indian
87—Part of verb “to be”
39—Small (Scotch)
42—Conference with African natives
46—Storehouse of ammunition
49—Preposition
50—Printing measure
61—That is (abbr.)
83—Note of scale
86—Highway (abbr.)
§6—Indefinite article
§7—Devour
60—To arrest
. 66—English (abbr.)
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1—Strike 2—Indeflnite article
8—Master of a fishing vessel
4—Ghosts
6—Middlewestern state (abbr.)
8—To work at a trade
7—Overhasty in action
9—A baron
10—Belonging to that man
12—Part of the foot
13—Australian bird
15—Member of American Indian
tribe 21—Preposition
22—Smallest state in union (abbr.)
23—Symmetrioal )
24—Flexible knife for spreading
drugs, eto.
28—Company (abbr.)
26—Preposition 80—Past time
82—Took a seat 34—Two or more
8$6—Perfume 87—Boy’s name
88—8Sun god
40-—Personal pronoun
41—1Indefinite article
48—Small particle
46—Long, narrow inlet
47—Native of Arabia
48—Permit §4—To consume
87—Unit of work
69—Note of scale
61—Prefilx meaning not
42—Equal
44—Finish
Solution will appear in mext issue.
| FARM NOTES.
—Tulips, hyacinths, and any bulbs
for winter forcing should be potted
, during October and placed in a cool
cellar. Allow several weeks before
bringing out to the light.
—Get the poultry flock into the lay-
ing houses. If-any of these birds are
sick, look for worms. In nine cases
out of ten, say Pennsylvania State
College poultrymen, that will be the
trouble.
—Dahlia bulbs should be dug and
stored in a safe place as soon as it
starts to freeze, or they will start new
growth at once. Since this weakens
them it should be avoided. Be sure
the main stake is securely fastened to
_each clump.
| —Such action made it necessary
for the Pennsylvania officials to es-
tablish their quarantine. This State
is an important market for Texas
live stock and poultry products and
likewise all rail transportation of
these products to the important east-
=. parksts must pass through the
ate.
—Weevils in grain show up badly
{ about this time of the year. All grain
to be held in bins over the winter
| should be fumigated with carbon
bisulphide, say entomologists of the
Pennsylvania State College. During
fumigation hold the temperature
above 60 degrees. At temperatures
below this point the fumigation will
be ineffective.
—Ton litters, 400-bushel potato
: crops, tested cows, ton geldings and
, 1000-pound calves are all contribut-
ing toward better agriculture. Penn-
| sylvania farmers are pushing foward
tin all of these practical methods of
| producing more and better agri-
‘cultural products from fewer units or
in a shorter time than by the old way.
It is a good procession to join. Don’t
follow; lead.
| —Since the first outbreak, which
{ was reported in August, the disease
: has occurred on a few adjoining ranch-
"es but the State and Federal author-
ities were making excellent progress
. in the control work, until local inter-
! ests began to block the work and even
‘go so far as to secure a temporary
{ injunction against the authorities,
' preventing them from enforcing their
quarantine and disposing of diseased
animals.
—1It is better to leave the cool crops
like beets, carrots, celery, and cabbage
in the field until danger of severe
freezing approaches. If these crops
are put in storage now, warm days in
October are likely to make them heat
and spoil. Keep such crops in the
field as long as it is safe to do so, but
do not get caught by a sudden freeze
such as ruined much celery last
season. Have a place all ready for
storage of your latest vegetables and
provide a handy covering for un-
expected cold nights.
—Pennsylvania is not taking any
chances with the outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in Texas. The quaran-
possible carriers of the diseases from
Texas into Pennsylvania, made effec-
tive September 21, 1925, was prompt-
ed by the indifference and the lack of
cooperation of local interests in the
, infected area with State and Federal
authorities, and not by any serious
' spread of disease, Dr. T. E. Munce,
tine against the movement of live |
stock, live stock products and other
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Director, Bureau of Animal Industry,
State Department of Agriculture, ex-
plains. ;
—AIll goed dairymen of Centre
county agree that successful feeding
of dairy cows does not begin after a
cow freshens. If a cow is to do her
best and is to respond to good feeding
. she must be put in good condition be-
, fore freshening. Then, too, cows that
| have the ability to give large amounts
of milk often produce this milk at the
. expense of certain materials in their
‘ bodies.
If a cow is to come up to her
normal production during her next
milking period these materials must
be stored back in her body. The time
to do this is during the dry period
which should last from 6 to 10 weeks.
If a cow freshens in a thin condition
or is given no rest period she will not
produce her normal amount of milk.
A cow that is fitted to a good work-
ing condition soon pays for the feed
she gets while dry and also pays a
larger profit on the feed consumed
while milking than the cow that fresh-
ens in a thin condition.
The fitting ration should vary
somewhat from the regular feeding
mixture. With alfalfa or clover hay
and silage 200 lbs ground corn, 200
lbs ground oats, 100 lbs wheat bran,
and 100 lbs linseed oil meal will make
a good ration. If a poor grade of hay
is being fed then equal parts of corn,
oats, bran and oil meal should be used.
If the ration proves a little iaxative,
some of the oil meal can be omitted.
The amount of these grain mix-
tures to be fed will vary from five
pounds per day or more, depending on
the appetite and condition of the cow.
The day previous to freshening
this ration should be taken from the
cow and she should be given a good
bran mash. This will clean out her
digestive tract and cool her system
preparatory to freshening.
Centre county dairymen often
question whether finely ground alfalfa
can take the place of wheat bran.
In analysis, alfalfa meal runs
about fifteen percent crude protein,
seven percent is digestible true pro-
tein and twenty-eight percent fiber,
whereas wheat bran runs about six-
teen percent crude protein, 10.8 per-
cent digestible true protein, and 9.5
percent fiber.
In feeding value, ground alfalfa
meal is very similiar to wheat bran
and can replace a portion of the wheat
bran in most rations. It must be kept
in mind, Lowever, that no matter what
is doné to alfalfa it is still a roughage,
i and in the grain mixture its use must
be limited.
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
October Specials
in Every Department
Ladies Coats Flare bottom, fur trimmed
—in all the new shades, at
REMARKABLY LOW PRICES.
in Flannels and
Ladies New Fall Dresses si. in ail the
The new 54in. flannels, in all the high
Sale prices $2.50
newest touches.
shades, take 174 to 2 yards for a dress.
and $3.00 per yard.
Ladies and Children (in all
colors) included in this sale,
A New Line of Art Needle Work
Luncheon Sets, Buffet Sets, Scarfs,
Doilies, Towels, and many other stamped
articles. :
Childrens Heavy School Hose 25¢ .u
Ladies Silk Hose Silk and Wool Mixed SOC. up
Just Received
A Large Assortment of 9x12 Rugs
SPECIALLY LOW PRICED
Sweaters for Men
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
Quality Work orily done at the Watchman Printing House
Bellefonte
WEDNESDAY
Oct.21
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