Bellefonte, Pa., March 4th, 1927.
Feeding Game Birds During the Win-
ter.
Many game associations of the
State are sending out appeals to
sportsmen, farmers, school children
and others, to co-operate in the work
of feeding the birds during the winter.
There is now in operation a first-
class piece of machinery for feeding
birds. It has two major elements
working in harmony; the game war-
dens and the various county associa-
tions. These are aided by the land
owners, the school children, the rural
mail carriers, the Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and civic bodies.
Food is provided free by the State
Game Commission but in order that
the highest results may be accom-
plished it is essential that reports be
made to the game wardens and county
game associations of the locations of
covies of quail.
Once feeding places are established
quail and other birds will visit them
regularly. About as effective a shelt-
ered feeding place as can be made is
placing corn shocks against a fence
and scattering the feed nearby. In
severe winter weather as many as 100
quails lave been seen at one of these
feeding grounds.
Ringneck pheasants and Hungarian
partridges are better able to scratch
for themselves than the Bob White.
The quail cannot break through a
deep snow and should a crust form,
the brids are imprisoned.
The State Game Commission is
hopeful that a shipment of Hungarian
partridges will be made from Europe
in time for liberation this spring. Last
year nearly 4,000 were distributed in
several parts of the State and a check-
up made during the past month shows
that they have increased. There is
hardly a place where they have not
done well. In one county in the
northern part of the State, five covies
of young birds were seen in a small
area.
In five years, if they get the birds
for stocking, Hungarian partridges
ought to be abundant. They can sur-
vive extremely cold weather and are
as hardy as the ringneck. The chief
difficulty in procuring them is due to
export restrictions made by the gov-
ernment of Czecho-Slovakia, but
through the aid of Washington it is
believed that the Pennsylvania allot-
ment will come through.—Robert Vale
in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Poorhouse Inmates Paid $750 a Year.
London.—Britain’s most luxurious
almshouse has two vacancies. The
almshouse is Morden college, Black-
heath, and each resident is provided
with a self-contained flat of two fur-
nished rooms and a small kitchen;
free light, coal and attendance, free
medical treatment; $750 a year and
$50 extra for laundry.
There are beautiful gardens, bowl-
ing green, billiard rooms, library,
recreation room and dining hall. The
old men inmates are subject to little
or no discipline, wear no badge or
uniform to advertise their position,
and can stay out as late as they like,
and may stay away for weeks at a
time without losing their pay.
They must be old merchants, manu-
facturers or traders, who, through no
fault of their own, have fallen on
evil days. Morden college has rcpym
for 40 unsucessful merchants, and 2
the present average age is seventy-six,
changes are fairly frequent.
Morden college was founded by Sir
John Morden, a prosperous London
silk merchant of the Seventeenth cen-
tury. When three of his ships were
reported missing, he considered him-
self ruined, and sought service as a
clerk with another merchant. He
vowed that if fortune returned to him
he would make provision for aged
merchants who had fallen on evil days
by losing ships at sea.
One day he heard that his three
long-lost ships had arrived in the
Thames, richly laden with eastern
merchandise, and found himself a rich
man once more, able to carry out his
VOW.
Bath Tub Had Strenuous Fight for its
Existence.
The first bath tub in the United
States, so far as the printed records
show, was put into = operation on
Christmas Day 1842, comments the
Pennsylvania Public Service Informa-
tion committee. It is generally con-
ceded that Christmas Day of that year
must have fallen on Saturday. The
event created a great deal of discus-
sion, most of it unfavorable.
In spite of opinions from doctors
that sudden shock from water would
be disastrous, the bath tub idea con-
tinued to spread. The Virginia law
makers promptly laid a tax of thirty
dollars per tub. Boston passed an
ordinance prohibiting bath tubs ex-
cept on medical advice. Philadelphia
defeated by only two votes an ordin-
ance that would have made bathing
illegal between November and March.
These obstructions to the progress
of sanitation were however but tem-
porary. At the present time it is es-
timated that the per capita daily
consnmption of water in six large
cities is as follows: Chicago, 278 gal-
lons; Philadelphia, 165 gallons; St.
Louis, 140 gallons; Cleveland, 137
gallons, New York, 135 gallons, and
Boston, 111 gallons.
Helpful When It’s Wet.
Late fall and early winter are pro-
ductive of a brake problem that can be
excessively annoying and dangerous if
car owners do not know the simple
solution. When your brake linings
get wet, their efficiency diminishes and
it invariably happens when brakes are
most needed, on wet and slippery
roads. You can “burn” them dry by
running for a short distance with the
brakes set. It is the easiest and
quickest way out of the dilemma.
Chop Suey, Invented in America, is
Introduced in Chinese Capital.
Peking, Feb. 19.—The young bloods
of Peking are having their first taste
! of chop suey—and they pronounce, it
! good.
When Americans go down into
Chinatown, San Francisco, Los An-
geles or other cities which can boast
Chinatowns they think they are hav-
ing “Chinese food” when they order
chop suey. As a matter of fact, the
dish is unknown in China save in a
few semi-foreign restaurants. It was
“invented,” so to say, in the Southern
Pacific railroad camps in America
more than half a century ago and
named there. Some cook for Chinese
workmen threw in a little of every-
thing and gave the dish a new name.
Peking, however, takes kindly to
chop suey. The new restaurant which
serves the dish is on Morrison street
about two blocks from the Legation
Quarter and less than a half a mile
from the Forbidden City. There, at
the tea hour and at night, may be
found a motley assortment of “Young
China;” that is, students returned
from abroad, their playmates and
wives and sisters.
Young Chinese blades of Peking
Charleston there, with Oxford bags
flopping around ankles and knees.
Pretty Chinese girls with unbound
feet, bobbed hair and short skirts are
their partners. They eat chop suey,
laugh over the idea of America call-
ing it a Chinese dish and have gay
times similar to the times which
“Young America” enjoys in its cab-
arets.
Witty Professor Gave
Nickname to Students
Law students of the freshman class
in the University of Texas are desig-
nated as J. A's. The term is used by
all students on the campus, but few of
them outside the law school know ite
import and origin.
When Judge W. S. Simkins was a
member of the law faculty, he was ex-
plaining one day to a large freshman
class some of the weightier matters of
the law. It was springtime and the
students apparently were thinking
more of napping on the grass in some
shady nook than of what the professor
was saying.
Suddenly upon the clear air there
came the discord of a donkey's bray.
Simkins paused in his lecture while
the students giggled over the animal's
“hee-hawing.” When the noise has
subsided, Simkins remarked:
“Some poor jackass is calling his
long-lost brother, so I'll let all of you
out to go comfort him.” Since then,
every fledgling lawyer in the school
has been designated as a J. A.—Kanr
sas City Star.
Mandy Speaks
When OI’ Mandy, rated as a treas-
ure by the white folks she washes
for, first came to the neighborhood
she let fall the remark that “if folks
hasn't got eddicatipn dey jes’ got tr
use dey brains.”
So anybody might have known she
would have her own views on this
business of Christmas presents. The
other day, when the holiday demands
of the fine fat and shining little picka-
ninnies loomed up mountain high, how
do you suppose she settled them?
Simply informed the five that Santa
Claus was dead! “He daid, do you
hear?" says Mandy, “and what's mo’
he ain't goin’ to come to life again,
nuther!” How many other heads of
families would have followed her ex-
ample if they dared?—Philadelphia
Record.
Papua or New Guinea
Sritish New Guinea, now known as
the territory of Papua, is one of the
territories of the commonwealth of
Australia. It consists of the south:
eastern part of the island of New
Guinea, with the islands of the D’En-
trecasteau and Louisade groups and
all islands between 8 degrees and 12
degrees south latitude, and 141 de-
grees and 155 degrees east longitude.
The area of the territory of Papua is
00,540 square miles, of which about
87,786 square miles are on the main-
land of the island of New Guinea, and
2,754 square miles on the smaller is-
lands. The estimated population is
about 276,000, most of which consists
of native Papuans.
Scott’s Best Novel
Which is Scott’s best novel? This
yuestion was once discussed by Sir
William Fraser and Bulwer-Lytton.
The¥ agreed each to write his choice
on a separate slip of paper and com-
pare. Sir William announced that he
knew in advance they would agree.
They both wrote “The Bride of Lam-
mermoor.” Mark Twain hated the
novels of Scott. He regarded him as
one of the world’s worst writers.
Then some one persuaded him to read
“Quentin Durward,” and he was so
captivated that he declared Scott
could not have written it.—William
Lyon Phelps in Scribner's Magazine,
Frost and Humidity
«he weather bureau says that the
occurrence of frost is determined by
temperature and humidity. If the
temperature of an object falls below
the dewpoint for saturation temper-
ature of the air, dew will gather on
it if its temperature Is above the
freezing point, or frost if its temper-
ature is below the freezing point.
However, exposed objects are not like-
ly to cool below the dewpoint when
the sky is clouded. Hence frost sel-
dom occurs on cloudy nights, and nev-
er in great amount.
——The Watchman publishes news
when it is news. Read it.
{ nunity
Many Kinds of Bark
in Use as Medicine
The United States Pharmacopoela
lists 17 kinds of bark used in medi-
cine. There are, however, no less
than 35 kinds of bark altogether grown
in America which are more or less
widely used for preparing simple,
homemade remedies, although only 17
are classed as “officinals.”
Some are valued, for example, as
febrifuges, chief of which, of course,
fs the Peruvian bark or cinchona, to
which the world owes the priceless
boon of quinine.
A seccnd class includes those which
exert a cathartic or laxative effect,
and of these the most highly prized is
the bark of the graceful little buck-
thorn tree found in California. and
known by its Spanish name of cas
cara sagrada (sacred bark).
A third class includes those which
stimulate the flow of one or another
of the secretions of the body, such as
the saliva, gastric juice, perspiration.
mucus, etc.
Others are soothing in nature, such
as an infusion of slippery elm, and
many may be used for preparing
soothing drafts in cases of sore
throats, etc. Still others are said
somewhat vaguely to possess “tonic”
properties.
Odd Inspiration Ideas
of Masters of Music
Haydn, when he sat down to com-
pose, always dressed himself with the
greatest care, had his hair nicely pow-
dered and put on his best suit. Fred-
erick II had given him a diamond
ring, and Haydn declared that, if he
happened to begin without it, he could
not summon a single idea. [le could
write only on the finest paper, and
was as particular in forming his notes
as if he had been engraving them on
2opper.
Gluck, when he felt inspired to com-
pose, had his piano carried into a
beautiful meadow and, with a bottle
of champagne on either side of him.
composed divinely.
Paesillo composed his “Barbiere JF
Siviglia” and “La Molinara” in bec.
Sachini declared that he never had
a moment of inspiration, unless his
two favorite cats were sitting one on
each shoulder.—Market for Exchange.
He Doesn’t Call Now
fhe thrifty young man often called
on a certain girl, but had never taken
her to a theater, or movie, or even
out to tea.
The family had noticed and often
commented on what they termed his
“stinginess,” and all before the girl's
ten-year-old brother.
One chilly night the youngster was
n the drawing room when the thrifty
young man was present. The caller,
who was sitting close to the fire, sald
suddenly: :
“Oh, how I love to sit before your
dre and think, think—"
Like a flash came an interruption
rom the ten-year-old:
“Think—think of how you are sav-
ing money by sitting here.”
Monkeys Sing in Chorus
Jolobus monkeys indulge in com-
singing. Very early in the
morning and at intervals during the
day these denizens of the jungle start
their song fests and as soon as the
whole troop gets going good, other
troops in different parts of the forest
join in and the green rafters ring
with the remarkable sounds they
make, according to Delia J. Akeley, a
naturalist. There is a leader of each
troop who directs the nature of the
emotional expression by raising or
lowering the pitch. Some of them
sing in a different pitch, much like
the bass and contralto of human sing-
ing organizations.
Joseph Conrad’s Baby
foseph Conrad, the famous writer
of sea tales, wrote a letter to a cousin
January 21, 1898, three days after the
birth of a son. The letter is included
in a group of Conrad's letters pub-
lished by World's Work. “The doc-
tor says it is a magnificent boy,” he
wrote. “He has dark hair, huge eyes,
and he resembles a monkey. What
pains me is that my wife pretends
that he also resembles me. Enfin! Do
not draw too hasty conclusions from
this astonishing concurrence of ecir-
cumstances. My wife is certainly
mistaken.”
Not to the Manner Born
+ ASrown was going South to visit his
son and wife for several weeks and
was being drilled by Mrs. Brown in
preparation for the visit. Table man-
ners was one subject in the curric-
ulum and one on which both pupil
and instructor worked hard. One day
at dinner as Brown poured the con-
tents of his coffee cup into a saucer,
he remarked comfortably: “Well, I'll
drink you out of the saucer now, but,”
with a dismal shake of the head,
“when I get down South, I'll drink you
out of the cup.”—Indianapolis News.
English Sparrows
The first English sparrows wera
orought to America in 1850. They
were imported by Nicholas Pike and
the other directors of the Brooklyn
institute to protect the shade trees
from damage by caterpillars. Eight
pairs were released the next spring.
but none of them survived. In 1858
another shipment was made. During
the next twenty years fifteen ship-
ments of English sparrows to the
United States took place.—Pathfinder
Magazine, x
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Employment in Pennsylvania Unim-
proved.
Employment conditions throughout
the State have not improved during
the past two weeks, attaches of the
State employment offices said. A con-
tinued surplus of labor was reported
in many lines of industry. Detailed
reports from the fourteen State offic-
ers were made public today.
Although ' conditions generally are
reported as no worse than in former
years at this time there is much idle-
ness in practically all lines of indus-
try in the State. The Pittsburgh of-
fice in its report stated unemployment
during January always seems more
marked because of comparison with
the Christmas season when most lines
are at the high peak of the year.
The metal product industries and
the mines, both anthracite and bitum-
inous, were reported as generally in-
active. Expected resumption in the
metal lines has not developed. De-
mand for coal has been less than an-
ticipated and many miners in both
fields are seeking other employment.
The transportation industries have
continued to lay off men both in the
shops and on the road. Those cities
depending in a large measure upon
the railroads reported resultant de-
pression in other lines.
_ Laying off men in industries of var-
ious sorts has served to swell the
ranks of unemployed common labor.
The Altoona office said the present
demand for such labor is lower than
it has been since the opening of the
bureau there.
Textile and clothing lines were re-
ported operating below normal with
no immediate improvement in sight.
Recurrent periods of unusually cold
weather during January caused com-
plete suspension of many building op-
erations which are not expected to re-
sume until spring.—Exchange.
Favor Cutting Length of Rabbit Hunt-
ing Season.
One of the few changes in the game
laws favored at Harrisburg is said to
be the proposition of Senator Horace
W. Schantz, to shift the date of the
opening of the rabbit season from
Nov. 1. to Nov. 15. He has evolved
the idea from his experience both in
politics and field shooting. Nov. 1
is so close to election day that a
county chairman finds it difficult to
break away from headquarters to go
gunning, all the more so if he be
on the ticket, and in this respect hits
every Senator and Representative fond
of shooting. Then always a day or
so in advance of the season a consider-
able number of hunters go away for
a week in the mountains, and their
votes are lost. In this section the
gunners endorse postponement of the
open season until the middle of No-
vember, and as a conservation measure
they. would not mind, on account of
the increasing scarcity of quarry, if
the small game season were cut down
to two weeks.—Lititz Record.
renee sent fp ene sarees
Does it Presage an Early Spring.
While cleaning out his ice house a
few days ago Clark Magee of Edin-
gor Hill, found in the saw dust five
or six snake eggs about one inch long.
One egg had hatched a snake which
was about five inches long and the
most of the shell still clung to its
dead body. Another snake about the
same length was clear from the shell.
Both snakes were frozen.
Some of the eggs had long slits
which had been made by the mother
snake along one side of the shell, evi-
dently to facilitate hatching.
January is a rather early month for
snake eggs or, for that matter, any
other eggs to hatch except by the in-
cubator process and we want to assure
our readers that this is no Ulysses
Grant Baker snake story—its straight
goods. Mr. Magee brought the eggs
and the little snakes to town and ex-
hibited them to several who will vouch
a
for the truthfullness of the above.
—Wyoming Democrat.
am
Ninety Below Zero in North Siberia.
The coldest known region in the
northern hemisphere, where a temper-
ature of 90 degrees below zero has
been reliably recorded, is on the very
edge of cereal farming in Northern Si-
beria, says Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
leader of several expeditions to the
Artic, well-known explorer, in an ar-
ticle on Arctic regions in Encyclopae-
dia Britannica.
This region is the province of Ya-
kutsk, in Siberia, near the Arctic Cir-
cle, colder than any known region in
Canada or Alaska. It is colder than
the North Pole, according to the arti-
cle, where it is thought the tempera-
ture does not drop lower than 55 de-
grees below zero.
The highest temperature recorded
in the Arctic regions, Stefansson con-
tinues, is 100 degrees in the shade,
something very much like other local-
ities of the earth’s surface which was
recored at the Weather Bureau sta-
tion at Fort Yukon, Alaska. Eighty
degrees is not at all unusual in the
Arctic regions in summer.
“The reason for great midsummer
heat in the Arctic lowlands,” Mr.
Stefansson continues, “is that the sun
delivers ‘adequate heat units per day
to account for it. The accepted fig-
ures are 3 or 4 per cent. more at the
North Pole than at the Equator at
the top of the atmosphere and 38 or 4
per cent. fewer at sea level. This
means that there is tropical heat any
place in the Arctic where the sun’s
rays strike a dark surface and where
there is no local reservoir of cold to
neutralize it. Places within the Arctic
regions that do show tropical heat are
on lowlands that are sheltered from
ocean breezes and frozen winds from
ice-covered mountains.”
If the Arctic summer may be meas-
ured by the period of the year when
the streams flow unfrozen and the in-
sects are alive, then the Arctic sum-
mer may be said to range in length
from five and one-half months in some
places to two months in others.
One of the beliefs about the cold re-
gions of the earth which Stefansson
has helped to explode is that Arctic
vegetation is mainly lichens and
mosses. There are varieties of ferns
and many flowering plants, and some
regions in the Arctic cereals can be
profitably cultivated and still others
where garden vegetables will be of
some value.
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How Bees Dispose of Drones When
Useless.
Grim is the yearly murder of the
drones in a hive of honey bees. The
worker bees told off to this most
socialistic job give one the impres-
sion that they dislike the duty, but
obey a categorical imperative. It was
not till last year, while observing a
very strong swarm of crossed Ital-
ian and English bees, that I discov-
ered how—in many cases—the death
is compassed.
The small worker attacks; as‘every-
one knows, the base of the wing, just
above the hinges, and continues to file
away at it, however violently the
heavy drone hauls her hither and
thither over the alighting board or
among the grasses.
But very often the work is not com-
pleted. The drone shakes himself
free and sets out triumphantly on
wings more powerful than any work-
er possesses. He enjoys a last ecstasy.
The filing has so weakened the shaft
that of a sudden it breaks, and the
drone crashes like a broken airplane
—the most saddening sight the eyes
can behold—or a bird shot in mid-
flight. The fall even of this little and
now useless insect is depressing to
watch; but there is certainly no pain,
as we understand the word, either in
anticipation or in fact.—Sir W. Beach
Thomas in the Atlantic Monthly.
rsemsiemman
from lather to
towel — that |
speedy shave |
means a super-
keen blade.
Only one razor
sharpens its
own blades.
Valet
Auto-Strop
Razor
~Sharpens Itself
—$1 up to $28
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING. — Attorney-at.
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
Office, room 18 Criders
Excbnge.
K NNEDY JOHNSTON — Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business en-
trusted to his care. Offices—No. 5, Hast
High street. 57-44
J M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
all courts.
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional business will receive
prompt attention. Offices on second floor
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE. — Attorney-at-Law.
Consultation in English and Ger
man. Office in Criders Exchan
Bellefonte, Pa.
PHYSICIANS
D R. R. L. CAPERS,
Eolietont OSTEOPATH. 5
onte tate Colle
Crider’s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Blige:
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his resi-
dence. 35-41
D. CASEBEER, Optometrist, Regls-
tered and licensed by the State.
Hyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames repaired and
lenses matched. Casebeer Bldg., High 8t.,
Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-tf
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist. Licensed
by the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday. Belle-
fonte, in the Garbrick building opposite
the Court House, Wednesday afternoons
from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9 a. m. to
4.30 p. m. Bell Phone. 68-40
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COW CHOW 24% DAIRY FEED
$50.00 per Ton
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$45.00 per Ton
We can make you a 30 to 32%
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Meal, Oil Meal, Gluten and Bran at
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Why pay more for something not so
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Ve Have Taken on the 82 per cent
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Our Poultry Feeds Can’t be Better
Scratch grains........... $2.40 per H.
Wagner's poultry Mash,. 2.90 per H.,
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Oil meal 84%.......000000000e 56.00 per ton
Gluten feed 23%.............. 42.00 per ton
Alfalfa fine grade......... 45.00 per ton
BRAN fra vac ssn desness visor 36.00 per ton
MiQQlings ..........s.vs. 88.00 per ton
Mixed Chop.......ccoenune 38.00 per ton
(These Prices are at the Mill)
2.00 per Ton Extra for Delivery.
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1916. It makes insurance compul-
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