“No, but I think you hesitated a lit- When the correct letters are placed im the white spaces this pussie will spell ——1In a town in the west there is a arson said ‘dearly beloved’ I positive- ————————————————————— Et HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZILE Eo EE — Bellefonte, Pa., November 6, 1925. E—— A PLEASANT CONTROVERSY AND RETROSPECT. By Levi A. Miller. A little foolishness now and then, Is relished by the wisest of men. “Do you remember this evening five years ago?” Mr. Rice said half medi- tatively to his wife, who sat gazing Jofeciively into the glowing, yet blazeless fire. “Just what I was thinking about, and was in the very act of asking you the same question in the same iden- tical words. Until you had almost fin- ished the sentence, I was not certain it was not myself speaking. Wasn't that funny?” . “Rather,” replied Mr. Rice, as he changed his position to accommodate Mrs. Rice, who had left the comforta- ble rocker in which she had been re- clining to nestle down beside her hus- band, on an ottoman. “Only rather!” retorted Mrs. Rice, half poutingly. “I think it was real funny. I don’t mean funny to laugh at, but funny to—well, you know what I mean.” “Yes, Flo;” I know what you mean by it, but ‘funny’ is not the word to express it,” said Rice, tenderly. “Oh, yes, now I know; it was a co- incidence,” exclaimed Flo, gleefully looking up into her husband’s face for approval. He seemed to be absorbed in deep thought, and did not appear to notice her until she placed her hand under his chin and turned his face toward T. “Isn’t that it, dear—a coincidence ?” she repeated quizically. “] suppose so,” he replied mechan- ically. “You only suppose so,” she exclaim- «ed, in mock astonishment. “Yer, dear, coincidence is a good ‘word—Dbetter at least than funny; yet it does not express it clearly,” he an- swered cheerfully. “Then my dear, wise, critical Blair, what is the word that expresses it?” said Flo, with the air of one piqued. “I don’t know, my dear.” “Don’t know! Why, I thought from the way you talked you knew some big word that would just fit it. I think I got if right and you don’t want to ad- mit it,” she exclaimed, tauntingly, at the same time snuggling up closely to m. “It isn’t the word I am thinking about,” observed Blair, arousing from the mild state of abstraction into which he had been since the conver- sation began, and, in fact, for some time before. “Then what is it?” she asked be- seechingly, as she drew his face to- ward her again. “Just thinking about New Year's eve, five years ago. It marked a most important epoch in my life, and now, as I recall how narrowly I escaped wreck and ruin, I shudder. It was you who swung the danger signal across my path when I was on the very verge of the declivity bordering the desolate, dismal vale in which misspent lives are dragged out. Oh, no, you needn’t turn your face away, because you did it with your winsome ways. Besides, " "i not a thing to be ashamed of.” Jid I really save you from all 7” intérrupted Flo, her big, round 3 turned full into Blair’s face. “Did you? You know you did,” re- plied Blair, patting her cheek affec- tionately. “Yes, I believe I had something to do with it. And, do you know, I often wonder why I took so much interest in you. Father had you marked down among the utterly worthless young men, and my brothers were ashamed to be seen in your company. They said your family was good enough for anybody, but you, individually, were a black sheep. I knew that you were reckless, wild and dissipated, but somehow there was something about you that interested me, yet I never could tell what it was. Mother used to look so surprised when I would hap- pen to refer to you in connection with anything decent and respectable.” “The dear old soul,” murmured Blair “She thought you didn’t know what you were talking about.” “I didn’t love you then. No indeed, I never thought of it; but somehow I couldn’t help thinking what a great pity it was for a handsome, talented man like you to go to the bad. When I would tell mother so she would look so worried, and all I could say would not convince her that I hadn’t more than a common interest in you. She often told me that you lacked some of the essential elements of manhood, and that you could never take your- self up and be a man.” “Did you think I could?” “No, I did not. Like all the rest, I supposed you would keep ahead unti your money was all gone, and then you would be kicked out of good so- ciety, and like thousands of others, go to the dogs. Yes, indeed, that is just what I thought.” “Then why did you still retain an interest in me 2?” “I don’t know, unless it was because I was a silly goose. That’s what papa used to say.” “Goose isn’t the right word, darling. Angel is better.” “It’s all the same; they are a good deal alike in the guise of a woman. They both have wings, but there the semblance ceases. 1 don’t care now which I was. This night, five years ago, you came to our house with a party of young gentlemen, and father set out the wine, as he always did on such occasions. -He said that any one who couldn’ resist temptation when set before him, hadn’t will power suf- ficient to keep from seeking it. Some- thing prompted me to put you to the test that evening, although I did not expect you to pay any attention to “Then why did you do it?” “I don’t know, but when you handed me a glass of wine and proposed health, I let on that I did not hear you. But asked you to take a pledge with me. You gladly assented, but I thought you would back out when you heard it.” “Put I did not, did I?” tle in repeating after me. Do you re- member them now?” “Do 1?” Scarcely a day passes that I do not repeat them, and bless the inspired tongue that first gave them utterance. Remember them?” “What are they?” Lifting Flo to her feet, and drawing himself to his full height, Blair placed his left hand to his heart and extend- ing his right as though holding a glass, began: : ; ending within the Qepargng shadows of the old year, and looking upon the misty dawn of the new, I join with you in a solemn pledge that I will taste no intoxicating liquor henceforth except that proffered by your fair hands, and this upon the honor of a gentleman.” “Then you started to put the glass to your lips and I took it from you and placed it upon the sideboard.” “Yes, and I said that this one does not count, but you insisted that the pledge was binding from the time it was uttered, and I graciously accept- ed your decision. Something told me that it was right, and, do you know, from that moment forth I saw myself in an entirely different light. Pre- vious to that time I could not bear the least bantering from my associates, nor resist an invitation to drink; but after that I rather enjoyed being ban- tered, as it gave me an opportunity to show that I had some manhood left. The victory was not won, however, without a struggle, because the fiends had a good hold on me, but the thought of you was sufficient to driye them off, even when they came in force. Sublime admiration, then love. I don’t know how, but it did.” “Say, Blair dear, you are squeezing me awfully hard,” exclaimed Flo, be- tween gasps for breath. “Pardon me, angel Flo, but I could not help it.” “Oh, no, put your arms back again, but don’t be quite so energetic. Let's not bother about the past, but look hopefully to the future.” Bang goes the bell—Happy New Year. Another coincidence. It’s a great pity that more don’t low in the footsteps of Blair and 0. WILLIAM PENN HOUSE IN PARK TO WELCOME ALL SESQUI TOURISTS. Visitors to the Sesquicentennial International Exposition here next year will find the little house of bricks made in England, in which William Penn lived after his arrival in Amer- ica on October 27, 1682, among the many objects of historical interest to be seen in a tour of the city. The quaint structure has been removed from its original site in Letitia Court and erected in west Fairmount Park where all visitors are welcomed. Penn Treaty Park, in the water- front section of Philadelphia, known as Kensington, where he bartered with the Indians for the immense territory they claimed as their own, also will atract Sesqui tourists, especially Pennsylvanians. A model of the “Welcome” will be a Sesqui exhibit. Contrary to general belief, Penn did not make his first landing at Phila- delphia, the city he founded and where next year, the Sesquicentennial Ex- position will be held to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but went ashore at New Castle, where the town authorities surrendered their power to him as the new active head of the colony. Later Penn proceeded to the town- site of Philadelphia where he estab- lished his residence in the cottage in Letitia Court, and a short time after in Pennsbury Palace. Material for the two dwellings had been shipped from England with the first colonists to Pennsylvania. Not all the colonists who left Eng- land with Penn on the “Welcome” reached their homes in the new world. Historians tell us “They were so un- fortunate as to have smallpox break out among them a few days after leav- ing England in August, and more than one-third of the company of one hun- dred who filled the ship died from the plague.”—Philadelphia Record. Plan to Force Gypsies to Stop Wandering. Moscow.—A bill providing perma- nent settlement for Gypsies and for- bidding them to continue their wander- ing customs, is now under discussion by the council of commissars. A report by the commissariat of agriculture shows Russia had before the revolution nearly 60,000 Gypsies. The annexation of Bessarabia by Ru- mania, it is estimated, reduced this number to 40,000. Before the revolution, Gypsies had no land and could not live the life of a peasant working in agriculture. Con- 1 | sidering that according to the labor code of the Soviet republic every citi- zen must participate in useful pro- ductive work, the commissariat ni ag- riculture proposes to assign a special area of land in the southwestern dis- tricts of Russia for the settlement of Gypsies. According to the project, all Gypsies in Russia must within three years from the date of publication of the decree, take up a special place of abode, either in the towns or in the villages; failing that, all Gypsies will be deported to the far outlying dis- tricts of the federation, where free land will be assigned to them. Should they desire to avail them- selves of the government’s offer, they will be: afforded similar privileges to those extended to : emigrating peas- antry. The government will bear all the cost of transportation and part | of the initial expenses for homestead- ers. Japanese Thrive on Rice. Any doubt as to what is the staple food-stuff of Japan is swept away by the report of the Transportation Bureau of the Railway Office ‘which reveals that Japan consumes 403,485,- 000 bushels of rice annually, . Of this amount approximately 60,000,000 bushels is imported. ————— A ———————— ——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.” words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is fadle eated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussie. Thus Neo. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a “yertical” defines = word which will fill the white squares te ene below. No letters go in the black number under the mext black spaces. All words used are dictionary words, except proper mames. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indieated In the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLENo. 1. PB C7] EP [© i 3 15 16 17 27 3 34 T 38 39 42, 43 45 46 7 9 50 SI 2 53 55" (©, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) Horizontal. Vertical. 1—Droll person 1—Damp 2—Extent 4—Large raft 8—That woman 3—Allowed 6—Preposition 11—Makes a mistake 13—Also 6—Bird of fable T—Valid 14—Small particle 8—Severe 9—Weeding tools 15—To instruct. 10—Printing measures 17—Beverage (pl.) 12—Heir 14—Astir 19—Negative ion 16—Swine 18—To thwart 21—Openings in wall 22B—Roman senator’s apparel 23—Small, electrified particle 25—Sharp 27—Safe 30—Boy’'s name : 31—Country of south Asla (poetic) 32—Ex-soldier 33—Long, narrow inlet 34—Addition to a letter 35—An appointment to meet 37—Uncanny : 38—Nickname for Beatrice 39—Auditory organs 41—Lyrics 43—Stife 45—Elector 47—Wireless 49—Murmur of a feline 50—To point 52—To allow the use of 58—Answer (abbr.) 54—Officer of a church 20—In England, a laborer on rall- roads, canals, etc. 22—Runs off 24—Kills 26—Printing measures 28—Ancient Roman money 29—To say 30—Atmosphere 33—Dwells 35—General drift of thought 36—Tatters 37—Potential energy (physical term) 88—1Ill-bred persons 40—Atmosphere 41—To ayoid 42—An impression made on wax 44—To partake of dinner 45—Certified public accountant (abbr.) 46—To free from 483—A short poem suitable to be set to music 55—To observe 51—Personal pronoun Solution will appear in mext issue. FARM NOTES. —Think of alfalfa. Then plant it. | —The first step toward securing poor yields is buying cheap seed. _—The best way to hit stumps is not yith your plow but with dynamite, —Certified potato seed is the kind that best growers buy, plant, and de- pend upon. —1It costs no more to feed a good cow than a poor one; the difference all comes in the returns. —Rape stimulates gains in pigs and saves feed, especially the purchas- ed suplements, such as tankage. —It is much cheaper to buy a litle water glass now to preserve eggs than to buy high-priced eggs next winter. | —Rape is ready for pasturing when it has reached a height of eight or | ten inches. From then on it furnishes abundant pasturage. It makes an es- pecially valuable summer forage to succeed blue grass. —Iris may still be planted the lat- ter part of October, but see that the | roots are well spread out and the rhizome fairly well covered. Firm the soil around them but do not allow any manure to come in direct contact : with the roots. —Plan to send your best birds to the State Standard Preduction Poultry Show at State College, November 5, 6, and 7. It will be good advertising with an opportunity to match your birds for some substantial prizes and beautiful loving cups. —Pennsylvania vegetable growers will have four big days of their own on the program of the second annual Horticulture Week at The Pennsyl- | vania State College, November 17 to 20. Those who were not at the first one last year should come; those who were there will be back, too. —The second Horticulture Week will be held at The Pennsylvania State College, November 17 to 20. Last year a large number of the fruit and vegetables growers of the State pro- fitably enjoyed the first event of this kind and enthusiastically asked for a repetition. You will enjoy it, too. —Remove grass from around the young fruit trees. It is now time for the mice to build their nests, and the grass about the trees provides an ideal place for them. Shield the trees from these pests by using galvanized screen- ing, and veneer protectors, or ordinary newspapers. The last named protec- tion should be removed in the spring but the wire may be left on all year. —The Thanksgiving turkeys should be well started on their own private feast by this time if they are to pre- sent the best appearance at the Thanksgiving table. Feed at night and in the morning, and just enough so that the birds will go away still slightly hungry. The quantity of feed should be increased gradually until they are getting all they can clean up three times a day during the week be- fore marketing. —Where there is no storage cellar on the farm, vegetables may be pitted in the field or in a partitioned portion of the house cellar, say vegetable gardeners of The Pennsylvania State College. For small amounts of roots and cabbage a barrel laid on its side is satisfactory. This is covered with alternating layers of soil and straw or leaves, closed by the barrel head, and this “door” covered with a thick coat of leaves or straw. For larger amounts conical heaps of vegetables in the field are covered much the same way as with the barrel. Solution to Crossword Puzzle No. 6. A ATI —Leaf mold or other rich soil should now be placed in a box and ! stored in the cellar before the ground freezes. This will come in handy for repotting plants during the winter. —The prevailing question at the present time in the minds of many Centre county fruit growers is “Shall I plant young trees this fall or shall I wait until next spring ?” This question has been answered Yes and No. Some species of trees are transplanted with the greatest degree of safety in the fall but this group includes the evergreens which function more constantly than do deciduous trees. Fruit trees are in the deciduous class, and they present i a different problem. There are good points in both fall and spring planting but generally spring planting has a slight advantage over fall planting. Trees ordered for fall planting are usually less mature than trees lifted later in the season. The wood is not hardened in many instances, the lenticels have not corked over, and in many instances the nursery man has steamed or sweated the trees in order to remove foliage. The removal of the leaves by force is an indication of immaturity. In fall planting the soil is frequently in a very dry condition; it is more or less porous when packed around the roots. This condition per- mits the air to come in contact with the roots and with extreme tempera- tures freezing causes winter injury and frequently death. Trees delivered in the spring have fared better than fall planted trees. They are permitted to mature in the nursery row. The leaves are not re- moved before they produce the max- imum amount of plant food while in storage. The temperature and humid- ity of the atmosphere is kept under control which favors a greater degree of security than the fall planted tree enjoys when subjected to variable temperature. The soil in the spring is in a better state for vegetation development. The soil can be packed around the roots to a better advantage where climate conditions are favorable. It is true that in some sections fall planting is practiced exclusively, but as compared with spring the losses sustained are greater. From all indications, the present growing season will undoubtedly be the cause of an exceedingly large loss of fall planted trees. Lack of rain will permit deep freezing and an ex- tremely dry spell followed by a wet period will foster secondary growth, both of these conditions favor a large loss from winter injury. The com- mercial grower or even the grower of fruit for home consumption, will be move certain of a stand if he delays planting until spring. church that has a bright young pas- tor, but the attendance is unfortu- nately small. Among the parishion- ers there is an agreeable young wid- ow. One evening, as she was leaving the edifice, she was addressed by a deacon. “How did you like the sermon?” “] think it was perfectly lovely,” was the enthusiastic reply. “But there were so few of us that every time the Lyon & Co. ials. Gorgeous new in all the new Fall This Month Calls for Quality and Value Bring Great Activity in Every Department of Our Store Greater Variety Finer Quality Lower Prices hese are the big factors of our November Spec- y blushed. —XKeep pig pens clean, dry and well ventilated. As soon as possible get the pigs out on clean ground so that they can take a lot of exercise. If pastures are available the sow and lit- ter should be placed in them when the pigs are about two weeks of age. Lyon & Co. Wool Bandings 54 in. wide, shades; handsomely em- broidered, from $1.25 up to $4.00. Brand new Silks just arrived—some figured, some banded, some flowered, many plain—all shades. Linens in plain Linen or Maderia. Useful and unusually attractive Linens —Luncheon, Tea and Breakfast Sets ; some ready to use, others to embroider. Everything Special Prices Winter on Coats Special Low Prices on all Winter Coats and Dresses Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co. When a Man 1s Alive . trol. _ office. BELLEFO e can personally direct his affairs. © When he is dead, his Executor has absolute con- How important, then, that there be a proper choice for this responsible With this Bank as your Executor you may feel assured of a Competent Admmistration of your Estate emi The First National Bank NTE. PA: cool stateroom, a long so in the morning. Steamers “SEEANDBEE”-“CITY Leave Buffalo—_ 9:00 P. M Automobile Rate—$7.50, Send for free sectional puzzle chart of the Great Ship DBEE” and 32-page booklet. The Cleveland & Buffalo Transif . . Cleveland, Ohio Co Fare, $5.50 Your Rail Ticket is A restful night on Lake Erie Makes a pleasant break in Jone Joummey. A good bed in a clean, ) OF ERIE”-"CITY OF BUFFALO” Daily May 1st to November 15th . M. Eastern Arrive Cleveland *7:00A.M.| Standard Time *Steamer “CITY OF BUFFALO?” arrives 7:30 A. M. Connections for Cedar Point, Put-in-Bay, Toledo, Detroit and other points. Ask your ticket agent or tourist agency for tickets via C & B Line. and an appetizing breakfast Leave Cleveland—9:00 P. M. Arrive Buffalo ~*7:00 A, M. New Tourist The Great Ship “SEEANDBEE" = Length, 500 feet, Breadth, 98 feet 6 inches.
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