“Bellefonte, Pa., November 13, 1925.
“Big Game” Increasing
in the United States
The rangers In the forest service
took a census last year of the big
game In the federal forests, and the
recently published report allays the
fear that such game is succumbing te
the onslaughts of sportsmen.
“Big game,” as technically used, in- |
cludes antelope, bear, buffalo, elk,
moose, mountain goat and mountain
sheep. The census covers 159 forests,
and for the first time enumerates the
bear as big game.
The buffalo, as Americans miscall
the bison, was for the first time
dropped from the census, as bisons in
the United States no longer are
“game,” being in guarded herds. Nor
did the rangers reckon game outside
of parks and forests, though such api
mals are numerous.
There are about 5,000 antelope, or
prong-horns, chiefly in Arizona and
Idaho, though Nevada and Oregon
Jointly have a great herd not in a fed-
eral forest. The bears comprise 5,600
grizzlies, virtually all in Alaska, |
though Montana has a few, and 38,700
black or brown. Deer number 550,500, '
increasing by nearly 40,000 in the
year. Every forest boasts an increase
of elk, the number being 52,600.
Moose, however, numbered only 5,100
4n 1924, whereas in 1923 there were |
8,000. Wild goats and wild sheep
numbered, respectively, 17,200 and 12,-
400, each Increasing slightly. The
total of big game was 687,000 animals
under protection by the national gov
ernment,
Wild animals left to themselves in
protected reserves steadily multiply.
The bear is a costly nuisance to farm-
ers and stockmen, but all other big
game is harmless and an ornament.
It should be given every protection.
Millions of Idle Money
There are, it is estimated by the
actuary of the United States treas-
ury, Something more than 8,000
misers in this country, who are hoard-
ing and keeping out of circulation
more than $400,000,000, none of which
{s earning a dollar.
Contrast the miserly waste of money
with the good which is being done
with the $531,000,000 owned by the
85 leading colleges of the United
States,
From thelr investments these col-
leges derive an annual income of |
about $27,000,000. Assuming that the |
gmaller colleges not included in this
list of 65 larger centers of education |
have an annual income of only $13,-
000,000 from their invested funds, we
arrive at the annual educational fund
of $40,000,000. This divided among
the 380,000 students of both sexes in
all the universities and colleges allows |
about $106 a year per student.
Ry making this money work, still
r contributions are made to the
'th and progress of the country.—
+.a.ft Magazine,
Lady Hypercritical
Miss Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster
gave as one of her reasons for oppos-
ing the adoption of the Winston primer
the fact that one of the pictures in
the much discussed textbook shows a :
pair of billy goat horns attached to
the head of a nanny goat. We have
been quite a consistent supporter of
Lorraine Elizabeth since our acquaint-
anceship was formed in a Salina
boarding house in the dear, dead days
beyond recall when we were both
twenty-one, but this particular objec-
tion to the Winston primer appears to
us to be rather far-fetched. Assum-
ing that during the period of our ac-
quaintance with Lorraine Elizabeth,
the nanny goat has undergone the
same wonderful changes as the female
of our species, we see nothing wrong
in a picture that represents a nanny .
goat with a pair of horns attached to
her head.—Jack Harrison, in Beloit
(Kan.) Gazette.
Warning Him
“Hey, there!” yelled old man Sock-
ery, addressing a motorist who was on |
the point of passing by. “Dot-rot your
ornery picture, you're about to run
over one of my dogs there in the
voad!”
“What of it?” returned the offender |
“A dog is a dog, and—"
“Yes, and a gun is iron, and if you
harm a hair of that dog's body I'll |
ghoot you so full of holes that your :
hide won't hold nothin’ finer than hazel
brush. Outside of that there hain't
nuthin’ in pertickler of it.”—Kansas
City Star.
“Safest” Airplane
Equipped so that it can land at a |
slow speed, a new airplane is being |
tried out in Fort Worth, Texas, by L |
B. Sanders, its designer and builder,
who hopes to prove it 1s the safest
type yet put into operation. Low land-
ing speed has been a quality long
sought by airplane designers. The new
model has a maximum speed of 85
miles an hour, considered sufficient for
many purposes.
The “Long Fellows”
“The Long Fellow club” has been
Jormed at Marshfield, Ore. with the
object of “making life longer and more |
comfortable for tall men.” The aims
of the movement include the provision |
of longer beds In hotels, longer berths |
in sleeping-cars, longer baths, more
comfortable seats in theaters, and shop
SWBIES high enough not to damage |
ats,
“POPE JOAN” CENTER
OF MANY LEGENDS
Fantastic Tale Embellished
by Chroniclers.
Of all the crabbed, querulous, ecstatic
tales of the Middle ages, none is more
medieval, and none more provocative
to doctors and sages, than the history
of “Pope Joan,” says John O’London’s
Weekly. About her and about her they
have argued. She was a man, say
some; a devil, say others; she oc-
cupied the throne of Saint Peter for
any period of time from two and a
half to nineteen years; she was named
alternately Agnes, Gilberta, Gerberta,
Margaret, Isabel, Dorothy, or Jutta;
she did not exist at all, Probably not,
indeed ; she achieves but a small meas-
ure of verisimilitude in the hands of
her chroniclers, and their differing
stories do not help her. On one point
only are they agreed; with one accord
they wag their heads over her moral
delinquency, and brand her as hav-
ing, at a peculiarly inconvenient me
ment, given birth to a child.
It is between Leo IV, who died on
* July 11, 853, and Benedict, consecrated
on September 29 of the same year,
that legend endeavors to sandwich its
woman pope. By the end of the Thir-
teenth century her story had won gen-
eral credence. At the beginning of the
Fifteenth century her supposed bust
kept company in the cathedra! at
Siena with the busts of all authentic
popes; and at the Council of Con-
| stance John Huss supported his claims
by appealing to the case of “Agnes
who became Pope Joan.”
The tale swells in extravagance as
it grows in years. Stephen of Bourbon
says simply that the woman was a
clever scribe, who became notary of
the Curia and rose to be cardinal and
pope. A later version sends her first
on a visit to Athens, where by her
diligence she becomes a subtle rea-
soner. The fame of Rome reaches
her ears; straightway she packs up
her books and journeys thither, to be-
come a professor at whose feet the
greatest teachers are eager to sit.
Celebrated for her mode of life no less
than for her learning, she is unani-
mously elected pope; but alas! fine liv-
ing makes her voluptuous, and, yield
ing to temptation, she falls.
A monk of Malmesbury, writing in
1366, says that, born in Mayence, Joan
was sent by her parents to receive in-
struction in the sciences from male
teachers. On one of them she came
to look with more affection than be-
came a pupil, and when he went to
Rome, she donned man’s dress and
went with him; and there, because she
surpassed everyone in learning, she
was made cardinal by Pope Leo.
As to the punishment meted out to
the disciple of Satan, when the birth
of a child betrayed her, the authori-
ties differ. One of them will have her
. discovered before her election, tied to
the feet of a horse, dragged out of the
city and stoned. Another allows her a
two years’ triumph and a natural
death. A third merely deposes her;
while Boccaccio (who, the wicked fel-
low, rather enjoys the tale) permits
her to shed a few tears and retire intr
private life!
Childhood
Adults, whether parents or govern-
esses or teachers, are phenomena of
nature which children unquestionably
accept. Unworried by philosophies
which rend the souls of adults, to
them today is today and yesterday
was not, and tomorrow shall not be.
Living in the moment, with the mo-
ment thus becoming eternity, to them
we adults are as the rocks, the trees,
the sky, the sun. We are neither to
be liked nor disliked, loved nor hated.
We just are. We have reality, but it
is a sketchy sort of reality, bearing
slight relation to important things.
Yor we adults forget: food and
drink and sleep are the realities to us,
but not to children. Play, the words
or deeds of their coevals—these are
the true realities. And how can we,
benevolent autocrats seated upon the
throne of middle life, understand the
vital things?—Arthur Somers Roche,
fn Hearst's International-Cosmopol-
itan,
Suiting Action to Word
The accused man appeared before
the justice of the peace, accompanied
by his attorney. After the defendant
had told his story, the old justice of
the peace cleared his throat, spat a
stream of tobacco juice on the floor,
and, looking sharply over his reading
specs, said in a commanding voice:
“Young feller you are sentenced to
a year in the pen.”
“But your honor,” objected the de
fendant’s young attorney, “you have
no authority to sentence a man to the
penitentiary.”
That was something the justice haa
failed to take into account. “I know
I ain't,” he replied, “But I've al-
ready done it.”—Indianapolis News.
Bulgaria Bars Bobs
Bulgaria is a country in which the
regulation of the affalrs of the people
is. distinctly In. evidence, especially
in so far as the feminine sex is con-
cerned. For instance, a recent decree
of the state educational authorities
forbids school girls to shingle or bob
their hair.. Another decree provides
that skirts must not be too short. In
one or two. of the provincial. towns
the rules are even more strict and
silk: stockings and.canes are regarded
as quite unnecessary articles in =
woman's attire. In general Bulgarian
women dress soberly, but neatly, and
prefer good, lasting textures to cheap
end. frippary goods. :
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLER
eorrect letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle
words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is
eated by a number,
No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word
white spaces up to the first biack square te the right,
al” defines a word which will fill the white squares
No letters go Im the black spaces.
words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang,
“yertical”
one below.
which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
which will all
and a number
te the
All words used are dictionary
technical terms and
obsolete forms are indieated in the definitions.
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S—-Qaiment fo the upper part of 2 Sneaker casing 3—Girl’s name
l0—Land measure 11—To assist
|3—Passageways
{4—Sun god
l5—Business intrusted to a mes-
senger (plural)
(7—Consumed 19—Uncanny
30—To prohibit
22—Related 24—Bronze
25—Cooking dishes
26—Kingdom
28—An abrasive
30—Marble (colloquial)
31—Torn cloth
34—Mohammedanism
36—Numerous
37—To hang behind
39—Kingdom of southeast Asia
é1—Insect
42—Cries of distress
44—Point of the compass
45—To express BOrTow
47—Southern state (abbr.)
48—Announcement intended to fool
the public 51—Cereal
52—Light (abbr.)
53—Perceived by the ear
f4—Leaves of a book
82—Poetry
Solution will appear in next issue.
b—Having great horizontal extent
6—Donkey
7—Assimilated form of “in,” mean-
ing “not”
8—Point of compass
9—Former Russian rulers
12—Vision
13—Plant of the celery family
16—Part of “to be”
18—One of the constituent parts of
anything
20—Something bought cheaply
21—Some 28—Creamery
25—Sounds of bells
27—Pounds (abbr.)
29—Married woman's title
32—Large moving vehicle
83—African antelope
34—Eskimo house
36—To bruise with repeated strokes
36—Month early in the year
38—To assist
40—Flesh of animal (pl)
42—Combination of letters
43—Blow with hand
45—Vehicle 46—QGreek letter
49—Of age (abbr.)
50—Continent of western hemi-
sphere (abbr.)
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FARM NOTES.
—Leaves make a good fertilizer
when spaded into the garden soil,
They also make a good mulch and pro,
tection to rose bushes and shrubs from
damage by frost.
—Keep the body weight of pullets
up during cold weather by feeding lib-
eral amounts of scratch grain, say
poultry specialists of The Pennsylva-
nia State College.
—The second Horticulture week for
Pennsylvania orchardists and vegeta-
ble gardeners occurs at The Pennsyl-
vania State College, November 17 to
20. Go and take your neighbor.
—If you begin early enough in the
fall you may bring birds to your lawn
for winter feeding. Commence to feed
regularly and even the birds which
migrate each year will be tempted to
Yoral around your place longer than
usual.
—Pennsylvania was placed third
among the nation’s great dairy States
when 261 Keystone dairy herds won
places on the National Three Hundred
Pound Honor Roll for performances of
the past year. Many other herds by a
little weeding and better feeding can
win a place in this honor roll next
year.
—Many of the county farm pro-
ducts shows offer substantial premi-
ums for exhibits of fresh and canned
vegetables. Consult the premium list
of your local show, then pick some
canned goods and some stored roots,
cabbage, and celery to help make the
exhibit interesting and the competi-
tion for prizes keen.
—Portable sawmill owners and
operators will find a profitable time
awaiting them at the Pennsylvania
State College, October 19 to 24. The
occasion is the second Sawmill Week.
Talks, demonstrations, sawing and
chopping contests, and recreation will
provide a full week for the lumber-
Den. Write for a program if interest-
ed.
—Fall colds and roup in the poul-
try flock are usually brought about by
faulty ventilation. Three sides of the
poultry house should be tight, with a
liberal opening in the front for fresh
air. This should be covered with a
muslin curtain only when it is stormy
or on extremely cold nights. Frost or
moisture on the ceiling or side walls
and foul air in the poultry house are
positive indications of poor ventila-
tion.
—Experimental work designed to
test out existing controls for parasites
of sheep and to develop new methods
which will be applicable under actual
farm conditions, has just been started
by the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Indus-
try.
A flock of forty-five sheep was re-
cently purchased from the western
section of the State and placed on the
experimental farm near Harrisburg.
Most of these sheep are infested with
intestinal parasites.
Parasites are one of the worst ene-
mies of the sheep industry, states Dr.
T. E. Munce. Effective and practical
methods for preventing and eradicat-
ing them will make it possible to
greatly reduce, if not eliminate en-
tirely, this menace to sheep owners.
—Now-is the time to make final
preparations for wintering Centre
county's honey producers, according
to an announcement received by coun-
ty agent R. C, Blaney iron Gu. Ii. nea,
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extension bee specialist of The Penn-
sylvania State College.
Colonies short of stores should be
fed a thick syrup to make up for the
deficiency in food. This syrup is
made of 50 per cent. granulated su-
gar and water, brought nearly to the
boiling point but not boiled.
At this time packing cases should
also be gotten ready. In the southern
and central portions of the State, the
packing cases should have four inches
of insulation on the bottom, six inches
on the sides and eight inches on top.
In the cooler parts of the State the
space on the sides and top should be
increased at least two inches. Some
good insulation material, such as dry
sawdust, chaff or planer shavings is
generally used. In order to conserve
the bees’ energy packing must be done
before the ground freezes.
—Fall colds, now prevalent in many
Centre county poultry flocks, are usu-
ally caused by drafty houses, poorly
ventilated quarters and sudden chang-
es'in temperature. If the housing
conditions are at fault, the necessary
changes should be made. Do for the
birds as you would do for yourself.
Keep them out of the drafts, provide
dry quarters, give plenty of fresh air,
and keep the bowels open.
It is wise to have three sides of the
house tight, with a liberal opening in
the front for fresh air. This opening
should be covered by muslin only when
it is stormy or on extremely cold
nights. Frosts or moisture on the
side walls or ceiling and foul air in
the poultry house are positive indi-
cations of poor ventilation.
Epsom salts, given in a wet mash
at the rate of one pound to the hun-
dred mature birds, is the usual laxa-
tive for flock treatments. With small
flocks where individaal treatment can
be administered use a few drops of
tincture of iodine in the nostrils. A
medicine dropper will prove useful in
this application. When the discharge
collects in the nasal passages, it caus-
es the head to swell. This effect may
be prevented if the colds are checked
in time.
—A recent round-up of violators of
the State’s fertilizer and feeding
stuffs laws has revealed many firms
and dealers who are selling brands of
fertilizer and feeds which are not reg-
istered as required by law. Prosecu-
tions were recently ordered against
142 parties and of this number 96
were. for selling non-registered
brands. In a few cases the material
being sold contained less of the con-
stituents than the displayed guaran-
tee specified.
The law is specific in requiring
every brana of fertilizer and teed sold
in the State to be registered with the
Department of Agriculture. There is
no excuse for selling or handling
non- goods, according to
James W. Kellogg, director, Bureau
of Foods and Chemistry, and no ex-
cuse for manufacturers not having
goods properly registered in order to
protect their agents and dealers with-
in the State. :
While the prosecutions for not hav-
ing the brands properly registered are
greater than for several past years,
Lyon & Co.
the feeds and fertilizers offered to
Pennsylvania farmers are, more
ever before, meeting the guarantees
as shown on the tag or bag, and far-
mers can therefore be assured that
they are not being cheated.
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—__1t is hardly possible to make a
national issue out of the question of
extending Marine General Butler's
leave of absence.
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in Every Department of Our Store
Greater Variety
Finer Quality
Lower Prices
hese are the big factors of our November Spec-
jals. Gorgeous new Wool Bandings 54 in. wide,
in all the new Fall 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
Useful and unusually attractive Linens
—Luncheon, Tea and Breakfast Sets ;
some ready to use, others to embroider.
in plain Linen or Maderia.
Everything
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