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Bellefonte, Pa, September 10, 1926.
The Bee-Bird and the Bee-Keeper.
There is many a person who attri-
butes all his ills to his name, believ-
ing that had he been given a name
other than that actually possessed,
misfortune might never have befallen
him. In the feathered world the bee-
bird might fall in that class. That
name has brought the family many
misfortunes, and made many an unin-
formed bee-keeper an enemy.
The bee-bird, known as kingbird by
many, is widely distributed in the
United States. Every country boy
knows it.
Many professional bee-keepers
claim that bee-birds do great damage
to their colonies. Bee-birds do eat
bees, for they are of the fly-catcher
family. But do they damage the
apiary or are they beneficial? Let
facts determine.
A colony of bees consists of drones,
workers and queen. They number
from 25,000 to 100,000. More than 25
per cent of each colony are drones.
Sometimes there are as many as 5,000
drones to each square foot of comb in
the hive.
Drones do not sting. They gather
neither honey nor pollen. They are
destroyed or driven out by the work-
ers whenever the food supply runs
low.
Wherever there is an apiary, bee-
birds gather. Ants, spiders, robber-
flies, mosquito hawks and mantes
gather, too; the ants and robber-flies
to rob the workers of honey and the
others to eat the workers. As drones
have no sting, they are greedily eaten
by the bee-birds. Ants, spiders, rob-
ber-flies, mosquito hawks and mantes
meet the same fate. This accounts
for the large number of bee-birds in
the trees near any apiary. But why
ask what would happen, were there no
bee-birds to aid the bee-keeper?
The Biological Survey has recently
answered the complaint of the unin-
formed bee-keeper. A total of 665
stomachs were collected in various
parts of the United States, but only
22 of that number were found to con-
tain remains of honey bees. In the 22
stomachs there were 61 bees of which
51 were drones, two unidentified and
eight workers. In the stomachs ex-
amined were found 26 robber flies and
an uncounted number of ants, mantes,
spiders and other insects injurious to
bees and vegetation. Surely the rob-
ber-flies, ants and spiders should com-
pensate for the eight workers eaten.
Sixty-two stomachs of the Arkansas
kingbird examined yielded only thirty
bees of which 29 were drones and one
a worker.
Should the bee-keeper kill the bee-
birds ?
There apperas to be but one answer;
that is, no.—By George Ballard Bow-
ers.
Tipping Rate Schedule for the Trav-
elers.
Amounts which may be expended
for tips and’ “fees” are among the
items listed in a comprehensive com-
pendium of travel regulations being
published for the benefit of those who
travel at the Government’s expense
and authorized by the President.
Tips to waiters, the book decrees,
must not exceed 60 cents a day, while
“fees” for bellboys and maids at
hotels are limited to 30 cents a day.
Telephone charges are taboo, but the
traveler may bathe daily at a cost of
50 cents or less, if a bath is not pro-
vided with his room. Laundry must
be held within * $1.40 a week, but
$1.25 additional may be spent for
cleaning and pressing.
Baggage porters at hotels, stations
and residences may be given 15 cents
for the first piece of luggage and 10
cents for the remainder, but those who
carry the traveler's burden at land-
ings and wharves are allowed 25 cents
for each piece. Porters in chair and
parlor cars are rated at 25 cents a
trip, and in sleeping cars at 25 cents
for each 24 hours or fraction thereof.
Stewards on river, lake or bay ves-
sels rank with sleeping car porters,
as far as fees are concerned, but on
ocean and coastwise steamers their
services may be recompensed with a
sum not exceeding 10 per cent of the
minimum first class commercial pas-
sage rate. An allowance of $2 a trip
is made for steamer chairs and $1 for
rugs. Taxicab fare is permissible, if
necessary.
Under recent legislation the per
diem subsistence allowance is increas-
ed from $4 to $6 in the United States
and from $7 to $8 abroad.
Electric Typewriters
Steady advance is being made in
the development of the electric type-
writer. The essential feature of the
latest machine before the public is a
toothed shaft which crosses the in-
strument under the type levers. The
shaft runs by means of a small elec-
tric motor which can be attached to
a plug at 300 revolutions per minute.
As the keys are struck, whether light-
ly or heavily, the type levers engage
the teeth of the rotating shaft, oper-
ating them as the fingers would do. A
method is provided for increasing the
strength of the impression so that
several carbon copies can be taken,
and a simple apparatus prevents two
keys being pressed down at one time.
To Determine What is Cause of Re-
ceiver Noise,
To determine if the noise in the
radio receiver is due to a fault in the
set or is actually interference coming
in on the air, disconnect the aerial and
ground wires, and if there is no re-
duction in the intensity of the noise
while the broadcast music is stopped
by the disconnection, the probability
is that the source of the noise is in
the receiving set, in the form of a
loose connection, faulty batteries, or
defective tube. Also shake the ground
wire near the connection, to make
sure that the noise is not caused by a
bad connection.
AUSTRIAN STILL TALKS
AND SINGS MINUS LARYNX
Surgeon In Vienna Clinic Trains Mus
cles of Throat to Perform Dutles
of Lost Glottis.
Vienna.—A man without a larynx,
who speaks and sings, was presented
at the last meeting of the Society of
Physicians by Dr. Hugo Stern of the
laryngological clinic in Vienna.
Ignaz Scheuch, fifty-seven years old,
an artisan in St. Andrae, in Nether
Austria, had a malignant growth in
his larynx which necessitated the re-
moval of the entire organ. The opera-
tion, carried out by Prof. Marcus
Hajek, was a success, and Dr. Hugo
Stern undertook to restore to the pa-
tient his faculty of speaking by a new
method.
In former years the surgeons used
to replace the natural larynx by an
artificial one of metal, but the ex-
periments made with these substitutes
were not satisfactory. Doctor Stern
has worked out a plan by which cer-
tain muscles in the lower section of
the throat are trained to become »
sort of pseudo glottis.
The new method has been applied
in a number of cases, and it never has
failed to have some success, although
the results have varied and the fac-
ulty of modulation has not always
been the same. The best cures have
given persons voices very near the nor-
mal, but without enabling them to
sing. Scheuch, however, can sing two
octaves quite correctly, although with
a somewhat harsh timbre. In ordi-
nary talk he has reached such perfec-
tion that the listener does not notice
anything abnormal.
Doctor Stern, who now is endeavor-
ing to perfect his treatment, belleves
that close investigation of his cases
will lead to a change of the present
notions regarding the physiological
conditions for the modulation of the
pitch of the human voice.
Aviation Beacons to
Have Own Wavelength
Washington.— The first step in pro-
viding radio direction-finding facilities
for aviators was taken at the Com-
merce department when the interde-
partment radio advisory committee,
representing all government depart-
ments, recommended the assignment
of the frequency of 290 kilocycles,
1,034 meters, for the exclusive use of
aviation beacons.
The committee also recommended
che reservation of the band between
285 and 305 kilocycles or between the
the wavelength of 1,052 and 983 meters
for all forms of beacon service. The
radio beacons now operated by the
lighthouse service for ships on 300
kilocycles will be continued.
The radio beacon is a signaling de-
vice operated from landing fields for
the purpose of keeping aviators on
their course. These signals go out in
two direct lines, permitting the avia-
tor, by calculating the intensity of
the sound coming from each side, to
ascertain whether or not his course is
true. With the perfection of a new
compasslike device it is expected that
aviators can readily keep on course
by following the points of the needle.
The aviation field at Dayton is the
only landing station in the United
States at present equipped to send out
heacon signals. Eventually {it is
planned to transmit the signals from
permanent and emergency flelds lo-
cated at such points all over the coun-
try so as to provide aviators with ac-
curate location information at all
times. The beacon signals should be
particularly helpful at night and in
bad and foggy weather.
China’s First Inhabitants
Probably Not Mongolians
Madrid.—The first inhabitants eof
indo-China were probably not China-
men or any of their Mongolian rela-
tions. Important new facts about the
dark past of this corner of the Far
East are coming to light as a result
of the investigations of the geological
service of Indo-China.
At the international geological con-
gress held here, it is reported that
human remains unearthed in this re-
gion indicate a succession of prehis-
toric races inhabiting the peninsula
that show relations to the early fore-
runners of the Malays, Australian ab-
origines and Polynesians. Further
study of these finds, say geologists,
may yleld important information con-
cerning the origin and distribution of
the different races of the Far East.
Stephen Foster’s Grave
Saved From Neglect
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Discovery that the
grave of Stephen C. Foster in Alle-
gheny cemetery has been neglected
met with quick response on the part
of councilmen, who Immediately di-
rected the cemetery authorities to
spare no effort in making the grave a
beauty spot,
The fact that the composer's grave
was almost among the forgotten on
the eve of a fitting celebration of his
one hundredth birthday, led to quick
work to restore It as soon as possible.
The councilmen stated they will
present a resolution to establish a
fund which will not only assure the
grave of the composer adequate at-
tention, but also will’see that there is
no neglect of the Foster monument
in Schenley park.
Irish Flappers
New York.—Ireland has flapvers,
tike every other country, but they
don’t smoke or drink or use powder
or paint. So says Father Eugene Mec-
Carthy, rector of St. Paul's, Dublin,
.vice operated from landing fields for
HOW TO SOLVE A CRO®S-WORD PUZZLE
When the correcy letters are pluced in the white spaces this puzzle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally,
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pumzle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
fill the white spaces mp to the first black square to the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines a word which
black one below.
tionary words, except proper names.
terms and obsolete forms are indicated In the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 5.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal.
1—Cubes
4—Hasty
8—A girl's name
9—Omit
11—Liquor
13—Hole
15—Assist
17—Tallow
20—Tropical fruit
22—Acts
24—Record
25—A state of insensibility
26—-Hinted
28—Highest price
30—Prefix meaning not
31—Deceitful
32—Fuss
33—Tree
35—Blunder
37—Cargo (abbr.)
39—War horse
43—Corporeal
46—A planet
49—A Norse god
61—Aids in a duel
$3—Capsule of a plant
54—A beverage
55—African worm
57—One who tells untruths
47—Wading bird
b0—Increase
No letters go in the black spaces.
The first letter In each word is
will fill the white squares to the mext |
All words used are dice
Abbreviations, slang, imitials, technical
it
I
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read. He had written it himself
and had named this Bank as
Executor and Trustee. It was full
of errors, for trust provisions must
be carefully drawn by a competent
lawyer. Persons who contemplate
leaving their estates in trust should
consult us.
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trouble by proper advice.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Vertical,
1—An animal
2—A Greek goddess
8—A soldier's flask
5—Wishes
6—Hide
7—Strike
10—Musical instrument
12—A flying mammal
14—Automobile parts
15—F'irst man
16—Eastern state (abbr.)
18—Finish
19—A color
20—Enemy
21—Way of entrance
23—Severs
27—Entrances
29—Fright
34—Highest point
36—Hears again
37—Coddles
38—Tart
40—Trees
41—Barren soil (Scot.)
42—Acceptance (abbr.) -
43—Male child 44—A toy
45—A Russian idol 48—To decay
61—Aquatic carnivorous mammal
52—To steep
58—Quiet
59—Otherwise
54—To fasten 56-—-A dolt
60—Inquires
Solution will appear in next issue
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Aviation Beacons to Have Own Wave-
length.
Washington.—The first step in pro-
viding radio .direction-finding facili-
ties for aviators was taken at the
Commerce department when the in- |
terdepartment radio advisory com-
|
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mittee, representing all Et]
departments, recommended the as-
signment of the frequency of 290 |
kilocycles, 1,034 meters, for the ex- |
clusive use of aviation beacons.
The committee also recommended |
the reservation of the band between |
285 and 305 kilocycles or between the
wavelength of 1,052 and 983 meters
for all forms of beacon service. The
radio beacons now operated ‘by the
lighthouse service for ships on 300
kiloeycles will be continued.
The radio beacon is a signaling de-
the purpose of keeping aviators on
their course. These signals go out
in two direct lines, permitting the
aviator, by calculating the intensity of
the sound coming from each side, to
ascertain whether or not his course is
true. With the perfection of a new
compasslike device it is expected that
aviators can readily keep on course
by following the points of the needle.
The aviation field at Dayton is the
only landing station in the United
States at present equipped to send out
beacon signals. Eventually it is
planned to transmit the signals from
permanent and emergency fields lo-
cated at such points all over the coun-
try so as to provide aviators with ac-
curate location information at all
times. The beacon signals should be
particularly helpful at night and in
bad and foggy weather.—Ex.
Mother’s War Claim Adjusted.
In Paducah, Ky., a mother whose
son died in France recently made ap-
plication to the government for com-
pensation and within three weeks re-
ceived an award of $2,000 accrued
Yom pensation with $20 a month for
ife.
The Home Service department of
the McCracken County Chapter,
through its . secretary handled the
case. The claim was supported by a
letter sent by the secretary to the
Veterans Bureau, Washington, setting
forth the facts in the case.
For eight years the mother had
been told sho could get nothing from
the government. She at length de-
cided to bring the matter to the Red
Cross. She was a widow, living with
her son in an Illinois town when the
war came and her son entered service.
She moved to Paducah and in Novem-
ber, 1918, she received a message
from the War Department that her
son had died in England, and was
buried in that country.
On March 380, 1920, the mother re-
ceived a letter from the War Depart-
ment stating that, in compliance with
her request, the body of her son was
returned to the United States and
buried in the Arlington National
cemetery with military honors. This
letter gave, also, the veteran’s serial
number and Army status. In the let-
ter to the Veterans Bureau, this data
was given, and the response—the let-
ter of award—came in a little over
two weeks, without affidavits or fu-
ture proof being called for.
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Information for Sportsmen.
Section 718, Training of Dogs on
Certain Game.
During the period between one hour
before sunrise and ten o'clock post
meridian, eastern standard time, dogs,
when accompanied by and under con-
trol of their owner or handler, may be
trained upon any game in this State,
excepting elk or deer or wild turkey,
from the twentieth day of August to
the last day of February next follow-
ing, Sundays excepted, so long as no |
firearms usually raised at arm’s |
length and fired from the shoulder are
carried and no injury is inflicted upon
said animals or birds. This section
does not prohibit the training of dogs
on raccoons during the night time.
“Under control” is hereby defined to
mean within call except when actual-
ly on a trail or track of legal game.
Section 411, License to Fur Dealers.
Licenses issued to persons to act as
fur dealers shall authorize the holder
thereof to receive or to purchase and
to resell raw furs for commercial pur-
poses. It is unlawful for any person
to purchase or receive or resell raw
furs for commercial purposes without
a license issued by the board.
It is not necessary to say to the
sportsmen that great care should be
taken in the training of dogs at this
particular season of the year. You
all are aware that there are quite a
number of very small rabbits now.
These should be cared for and not
killed off by the careless training of
dogs, who should use every care pos-
sible that as little game may be killed
during the training season as possible.
Do not forget to bring your dog or
dogs along home with you when done
training them. Do not allow them to
be out and chase game day and night.
New York Man to Oust Slums of
Metropolis.
August Heckscher, real estate oper-
ator and philanthropist, sailed for Eu-
rope with a vow that he would dig
into the tenements of New York on
his return and clean them up.
He intends to study housing for the
poor in Germany, Holland and Eng-
land as an emissary of Mayor Walker
and with the information he gathers
there attack the housing problem in
New York with his own funds and as
much aid from other wealthy men as
he can muster.
Sfp ———
—The European corn borer is
spreading. Help control this pest by
not carrying corn from infested ter-
ritory to clean sections.
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Sport Clothes
A large assortment of 54in. Cloths in all the New
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