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~ Bellefonte, Pa., April 23, 1926.
Pirate Perch Turns
Sunfish Out of Nest
Sunfish are troubled with what may
be called a marine cuckoo—the pirate
perch. This fish, which is either too
lazy or else incapable of making a
nest of its own, waits until the sun-
fish have completed their nest and
then turns them out, installing itself
in their place. Its eggs are frequent-
ly laid among those of the original
occupants. These, however, are not
disturbed and hatch out in due course
says the Vancouver Province.
Perhaps the most Interesting nest
found under water is that of the
black-nosed dace. The fish clears a
space about two feet in diameter
and the female deposits a layer
of eggs. Then a layer of stones
is gradually placed over the eggs,
the stones being brought to the
nest in the mouth of the dace.
On these another layer of eggs Is
placed and then comes another layer
of stones. These alternate layers of
eggs and stones are slowly built up
until the pile reaches a height of eight
inches or so.
The black goby forms a home for its
<ggs like a ball. This is constructed
of pieces of weed interwoven and
bound together, the eggs being placed
inside. As is often the case, the male
builds the nest and, after the eggs
‘have been deposited, takes it in turn
to guard it.
Hardly Draw Breath
During Winter Sleep
The mild weather sometimes ob-
served during winter occasionally
wakes before their time animals which
have been spending the winter buried
in the ground or in trees. While these
creatures are asleep, often for months,
respiration seems to be totally sus-
pended.
A hedgehog was recently immersed
m a pail of cold water, and though
the ducking was continued for thirty
minutes the animal was taken out
unhurt. So slight was its breathing
that practically no water entered its
lungs. y
Marmots and bats have been placea
mn glass chambers filled with carbon
dioxide. In their normal state they
have expired almost immediately ; but
in their winter sleep they have sur-
vived after four hours in the gas
chambers.
Extreme cold will sometimes kill six
_aonths’ slumberers, but there have
been notable exceptions in the case of
animals with cold blood. Occasionally
fish have been brought to life when
taken from solid blocks of ice; frogs
have been known to recover after ice
has formed in their blood.
Tribute to Franklin
for G8 years Benjamin Franklin
served his country and mankind, and
history affirms the judgment of his
contemporaries, expressed most not-
ably in the tribute adopted by the
national assembly of France upon an-
nouncement of his death. Offering the
resolution. which was seconded by
Rochefoucauld and Lafayette, Mira-
beau declared:
“The sage whom two worlds claim
4s their own, the man for whom the
history of science and the history of
empires contend with each other, held
without doubt exalted rank in the hu-
man race. Antiquity would have
raised altars to this mighty genius,
who. to the advantage of mankind,
compassing in his mind the heavens
and the earth, was able to restrain
alike thunderbolts and tyrants. KEu-
rope, enlightened and free. owes at
least a token of remembrance to one
of the greatest men who have ever
been engaged in the service of philos-
ophy and of liberty.”
Horses “Inside Out”
According to a French technical pub-
lication devoted to the horse breeding
industry, a Chinese visitor was re-
cently taking notes at a prize stock
farm in France. When he reached the
stable where 20 fine horses were
standing in their stalls, the celestial
turned to the owner.
“I cannot understand,” said he,
“why you Europeans always put your
. animals in their stalls inside out.”
“Inside out!” exclaimed the breeder,
“Exactly, You stable them with
They cannot
see anything, are easily frightened
and are apt to kick. In my country
we turn them around so that they
can see what is going on and who is
. approaching them. You westerners
. always start at the wrong end of
. things."—From La Bulgaria,
Sofia,
(Translated for the Kansas City Star.)
Churches in Business
‘An old Jewish synagogue in Maiden
Jane, London, is now used as a theater
for rehedrsals, and a Methodist chapel
in Southwark, where Wesley preached,
is used as a paper warehouse.
The famous Surrey chapel, where
Rowland Hill preached, is today the
great being rendezvous known as the
Ring. : t Willesden an old chapel has
been converted into a draper’s estab
lishment, the pulpit being used as the
cash desk; enother, in the Hampstead
road, has been turned into a picture
palace.
The Union Jack club, opposite Wa
terloo station, stands on the site of a
Methodist chapel which had lost its
worshipers, while St. Andrew’s, Tavi
stock place, was once a fashionable
church, but has been in turn a cycle
gtore and a club.—London Answers.
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PRISCILLA IN SPITE OF HER-
SELF.
(Continued from page Col. 5.)
“Yes, I know.” Larry’s voice was
soothing, he tightened his hold upon
the hand he held. Through his mind
drifted a vagrant memory of a ner-
vous horse he had once owned and
eased over hurdles. There were mo-
ments when he hated this thing he
was doing; but what chance did the
child have here at home? Society
had gone rotten. In the crowd she
trained with, there wasn’t one chance
in a thousand of normal life, of any
real happiness. He could give her
love and the clean, free, decent life of
the big, primitive, unspoiled places.
What was she giving up? Jazz and
sensation-mad friends and a home
that seemed to be more of a luxurious
lodging-house for her than a real
home. ]
The old people would take it hard;
but youth had a right to its own life.
Old people hadn’t made such a suc-
cess of running the world, with their
laws and traditions. He could make
Jean happy, teach her meaning of life.
The devil could take any laws that
stood between. Those laws were
broken every day, right there among
the folk her family called nice peo-
ple, and their social world winked.
It was a decenter thing to take one’s
happiness openly.
He tightened his grip on her hand,
painfully, but she liked it. Some way
or other, most of the world seemed to
be loosening its hold upon her. She
was glad to have something hold fast.
Chimes, somewhere, were sounding
half past two as Jean slipped her
latch-key into her front door. A
memory of the battle she had had
with her mother and father over that
latch-key when she had first demand-
ed it came to her mind. There were
hosts of memories afloat that night.
She stole up the staira to her room.
A rose-shaded light was burning on
the bedside table, the bedcovers were
turned down, a vacuum jug of hot
cocoa stood beside the night-light.
Her mother had been sending it up
lately, since the unruly daughter had
been looking fagged but wouldn’t see
a doctor.
The unruly daughter stood in the
middle of the room and looked about
her. Such a pretty room! She had
never before realized how pretty and
comfortable it was.
She could reach the low book-shelves
without getting up. Not that she
had much time for reading. The
things one had to read if one didn’t
want to be a back number weren't
very amusing—stuff like Freud and
D. H. Lawrence and free verse. She
hadn’t understood much of the high-
brow patter and hadn’t liked Yauch of
the fiction or poetry. Of course it
was old-fashioned, but she liked
poetry that sang itself in her ears—
poetry about dusk and amethyst
mists and summer rain and wind and
love and pain. There was a shabby
volume of Tennyson on the lowest
shelf; but she’d have died rather than
admit it to any of the crowd.
She shook her shoulders as though
shaking off a hand, and went over to
her dressing-table. There were the
painted ivory boxes dad bought her
in Paris. Horribly extravagant, but
he had been such a duck about sur-
prising her with them. She handled
them a moment, and laid them down.
Her bags were full and reminders
would be heavy excess weight on the
road she was taking; but she would
take the picture of Granny, in the
old silver frame. It had been a birth-
day present. Granny’d be hurt if she
left it. Granny’d be hurt! Oh, yes;
Granny was going to be badly hurt.
The picture might as well be left.
A little more or a little less wouldn’t
mean much, in the hurt Granny was
going to have. She pulled her dress-
ing-case and bag from the closet,
opened them, put in some toilet arti-
cles, a trinket or two. The clock on
the mantel said a quarter to three.
She must hurry.
o
ry
She stripped off her evening frock
and hung it in the closet. How good
| that closet smelled. It had always
smelled like that—all the hangers
and covers sprayed .with lavender-
water once a week. Horribly old-
fashioned. The girls all made fun of
| her; but there was something so clean
and fresh about just the merest whiff
| of lavender. Granny had taught her
that when she was a little girl. Gran-
ays things always smelled of laven-
er.
| Hurriedly she shut the closet door,
| got into a dark frock and hat, closed
| her dressing-case. Five minutes of
' three! Lary had said it would take
'a half-hour to drive to the boat and
| the gang-plank would go up at half-
| past three. She turned out the rose-
| shaded light and drew the window-
curtains aside. There, far away
| against the sky, was the Metropoli-
| tan tower. How often she had looked
| at it as she opened her windows for
the night. She needn't leave the
windows open tonight.
The big, bare maple-tree, in the
little yard aeross the street, was
etching queer shadows on the moon-
lit ground. She had always liked
those shadows. One could see almost
anything in them. She wondered
what the trees in Africa would be
like. Queer, tropical things probably.
| No maples. No; not any maples. She
' was sure of that. And, suddenly, she
| felt that she needed maples in her | —
‘life, that she eouldn’t go on living
without the familiar comforting shade
and shadows of maple-trees.
Three o'clock rang the relentless
, chimes. g
| The girl turned from the window.
The moonlight was flooding into the
room, silvering all the familiar lit-
tle things that had been a part of the
old life, blanching the sheets of the
waiting bed, throwing high lights on
the jug of cocoa, gleaming on the
frame of Granny’s picture—Granny’s
picture! ; :
| There was no time to think, to re-
gret—she must go. She picked up
the bag and dressing-case. They
were heavy, unbelievably heavy, or
was it that she was very tired?
Without a backward look, she went
out through the door, closed it gent-
ly behind her and stood in the shad-
owy hall, looking down at the night-
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puszle
spell words both vertically and horizontally.
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pusszle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal”
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right,
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The first letter in each word
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her purse the night-key for which she
had fought so furiously. She should
have left it in her room—still, it
didn’t matter. All of the family had
night-keys except Granny. Granny
didn’t need one. Funny that one
could come to a time when one
wouldn’t want a night-key— when
one could sit and remember. All the
more reason why one should live
while one could—and yet, to have
to live with oneself, when the time
came— Of course, Granny had her
children and grandchildren—children
and grandchildren!
Outside a car honked cautiously.
With a stifled cry, the girl dropped
her bags and fled down the dark hali
to where a dim light showed through
a transom. She opened the door,
slipped through it, ran across the
room to the bed, where an old lady
lay sleeping, her wrinkled face serene
against the pillow.
The horn sounded again,
more insistent this time.
Jean dropped on her knees beside
the bed.
“Granny!” she sobbed, “Granny!
For God’s sake, wake up and show me
how to pray!”
Dawn was stealing in at the win-
dows when Jean moved from Granny’s
arms, where she had laid, close held,
unquestioned, sobbing her heart out.
She managed a twisted, tremulous
smile as she looked with her swollen
eyes into the old, wise, loving eyes of
the woman who had crossed all of
her own Rubicons save one.
“Well, old Ezra was too much for
me,” said Grammy’s granddaughter,
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fill in small cuts and scratches as well
as to add to the appearance of the
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41 49, 43 44 45 46 you in Vendome Table Silver—unusual beau
coupled with marked utility—at an y
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silver sectional plate on all parts most exposed to
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6—Vessel 2—Note of scale prompts us to repeat it for the benefit of folks who didn’t “get in
12—Native of Iowa 3—To cry on it.” Vendome Silver is one of the most popular products of the
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24--Juice of a tree 14A—Pair T $1.95
5—Nevada city 16—Part of stove for bakin L) ‘ea Spoons, Set of Six .... $1.8 Medium Forks, Set of Six . . . $3.78
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29—Mother 19A—E ntr Table Spoons, Set of Six . .. $3.75 ~Solid Handle, Set of Six . $5.00
a ~—Furopean county Soup Set of Six .... $3.75 —Hollow Handle, Set of Six $8.28
30—Arrests 21—Plant of celery family Ind. Salad Forks, Set of Six . $3.75 Cold Meat Forks, each . . .. . $1.10
32—Torn off piece 23—Rotates Butter Spreaders, Set of Six. $3.40 Gravy Ladles, each ........ $1.30 H
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likes to do his own tinkering in so far
as possible, it might be added that a
satisfactory compound for coating
both the inside and the outside of the
shoes can be made by stirring five
pounds of whitening into a quart of
gasoline, and after a thorough mix-
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Studebaker Pledge to the
on Used Car Sales
1 AH used cars offered to the public shall be honestly represented.
If a car is suitable only for a mechanic who can rebuild it, or for some one who expects
only a few months’ rough usage on a camping trip, it must be sold on that basis. Each car must be
sold for just what it is. :
All Studebaker automobiles which are sold as CERTIFIED CARS have been properly recondition-
ed, and carry a 30-day guarantee for replacement of defective parts and free service on adjustment.
This is possible because tremendous reserve mileage has been built into every Studebaker, which
it is impossible to exhaust in years.
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3 Every used car is conspicuously marked with its price in plain figures, and that price, just as the price
of our new cars, is rigidly maintained. ;
The public can deal in confidence and safety only with the dealer whose policy is “one price only
—the same price to all.” For to sell cars on this basis, every one of them must be honestly priced to
begin with
Every purchaser of a used car may drive it for five days and then, if not satisfied for any reason,
turn it back and apply the money paid as a credit on the purchase of any other car in stock—new or
used.
1t is assumed, of course, that the car has not been smashed up by collision or other accident in
the meantime.
Only a very small down payment and one of these fine used cars becomes yours. Balance can be
Come in and see these values.
Beezer’s Garage
arranged at the most liberal terms available.
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