TT — Deore atc Bellefonte, Pa., March 18, 1927. BUT SINGLE SHAKER LEFT IN OLD HOME Pioneers Built Village After 1,000 Mile Walk. Lebanon, Ohic.—A picturesque set- tlement which existed in Warren coun- ty for more than a century has finally broken up, and today there remains here but one member of the Shaker sect, a denomination that had its genesis in 1805. The remaining member of the Shak- ers is Elder James Fennessy, an aged man who has elected to spend the rest of his life in the community in which he was born and raised. In this thriv- ing little town Elder Fennessy mains with his books, clinging stub- bornly to the old traditions of the Shakers. As far as it is known, there is but one other living person who was a member of this colony. Sister Ellen 'Ross, once a leader in the col- ony, is living with relatives in Indiauvs. Arrival of First Shakers. The first Shaker settlement was founded near here in 1805 when in March of that year three men wearing broad brimmed hats and dressed in the fashion of the early Quakers ap- peared at Turtle Creek, four miles west of Lebanon. They had left New Leb- anon, N. Y., the last day of January and bad made the 1,000 mile journey on foot, stopping for a short time ir Kentucky. The Sunday after John Meacham, Benjamin Young, and Issacher Bates arrived they obtuined permission of the pastor of Turtle Creek church te occupy his pulpit. There followed a revival and the pastor and several members of his congregation were con- verted to “the United Society of Be- lievers,” as the Shakers called therr- selves. The popularity of the new sect ‘spread rapidly. Within a month a ‘dozen families had embraced Shaker- ism and had given their property to the church. Many who became mem- bers owned large tracts of land which they all consecrated to the use of th» church, In May, 1805, the society was duly organized at Union Village. As the years sped by the community pros- pered and gradually acquired more than 4,000 acres of some of the most valuable land in Warren county. The village extended about a mile along one street. The houses and shops were large, many of them of brick and all peat and substantial. Curiously .Garbed. The men wore gray’ homespun, wov- | «n at the village. "The ‘little girls dressed like their mothers and their grandmothers. They wore long-eared white caps without ribbon or lace, except two pieces of white tape for tying under the chin. Beads, neck- laces or ornaments of any kind were banned. Their long skirts were full and plain and gathered in at the waist. They wore straw bonnets, made in the village, called “Shaker bonnets” to this day. The people of this quaint village walked to church in single file, the men going in one door and the women in another. Before dancing, which was part of their worship, the men removed their coats. In 1829 Union Village reached its <enith in population with 500 members. Every home was plain and painted brown; the walls white plaster. No ornamentation of any kind was al- lowed. In 1918 the heads of the society in flast Canterbury in conjunction with the remaining elders at Union Village decided to sell the property. Elder: Fenneédsy 1s virtuglly a: recluse and * about ; the only .connection he - maintains ‘withthe world. in - general is through his'radio. " ° River Wilds of Peru to Be Surveyed From Air Washington.—Unknown regions of the Amazon river wilds in Peru are to be surveyed from the air by pilots op- erating a fleet of passenger and mail carrying machines, orders for which soon will be placed in this country by Commander H. B. Grow of the Ameri- can naval mission assigned to Peru. Oommander Grow announced here that he would place orders for six airplanes with American manufactur- ers for delivery in Peru by July. “Aerial mapping of the region,” he sald, “probably will uncover areas of oil, gold and agriculture lands.” Early Summer Predicted by Aged Indian Oracle Hoquiam, Wash.—The Northwest states will soon be basking in the sun- shine of an early summer, according to “Circus Jimmy” Taholah, centena- rian and seer of the Quinault Indian tribe. With the exception of a few rainstorms, no more bad weather is in store, says the aged Redskin. “No more ice, no more snow, no more cold, soon come warm weather, pretty quick,” declared the venerable oracle. “Next month, plenty rain, warm then. Plenty warm—fine.” Announces Own Death Breslau, Germany.~—In an effort to cover her tracks, Elfriede Hencke, twenty-four-year-old secretary, wanted by the police for forgery and swindle, had a conspicuous notice of her death inserted in a local newspaper. re- i Bamboo Acclaimed as | Most Valuable Plant | There has lately been an inquiry into the question, What is the most useful plant in the world? and the prize has gone to the bamboo. It is said that the East, South Africa and the West Indies could not exist with out it. The bamboo is a hollow reed which may grow a few feet high or a hun- dred. Sometimes its stem is round, sometimes square, and the square kind is very useful for ladders or scaffold- delicate, Houses are built of them, and they make water pipes and ships’ masts, beds and tables, prison cages for crim- inals, handles for agricultural imple- ments, penholders, umbrellas and rods for bad boys! The young roots make good food, and so do the seeds, which | may be cooked like rice or used for a beverage, while the leaves can be used for thatching or weaving into clothes ‘and mats. Verily, few plants do se many things for man. . Miles of Thread Used in Clothing Humanity | Statistics show that every inch of i cloth contains about 25 threads run- ning downward and the same num- ber running across it, so that a square yard is composed of 1,800 threads each a yard in length. The average suit or costume needs four square yards of cloth, so that every man or woman wears somethin like four miles of wool. Allowing two sets of clothes a year, | we find that each of us uses 400 miles of wool in fifty years. When we come to linen or cotton { goods, with 80 or 100 threads each way to the inch, the total length of threads becomes appalling. A single i handkerchief may contain 2,400 | strands, each 15 inches long, so that 1,000 yards of cotton thread are re- quired to make it. A shirt represents about three miles of thread. Xerxes’ Mighty Army Xerxes, the Persian king, used an odd method to count his soldiers be- fore the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B. C. He had the greatest army of invasion that ever had been seen upon the earth when he moved against the Greeks. He wanted to know how many fighting men there were, 80 he had © 10,000 of them counted and they were huddled into as dense a mass as pos- sible and a wall was built around the space they occupied. Then the whole army entered the enclosure in detach- ments so that the number of times it was filled, multiplied by 10,000, was approximately the total of the invad- ing forces. . This figure, according to | ‘Herodotus, was 1,700,000 foot soldiers and ‘80,000 cavalry. With attendants and the sailors and soldiers of the fleet added, he brought the total up to 2,317,000. Why Salesmen Age 2+ Kansas City woman bought a compass for a Christmas gift for her husband. Next morning she took it back to the store, complaining that there was something the matter with it. “You see,” she explained, “it points in the same direction all the time, no matter which way you tu*n it.” “It ought to do that, madam,” said the salesman, “it should point to the north all the”— “But I don’t want that kind of a compass. I want one that will point east when we are driving east and west when"— According to Capper’s Weekly, the salesman was reported ‘ late in the day to be “doing as well ' as could be expected.” ddd Things Done at Fires |. dxeitable persons wheat a fire have . thrown ‘valuable mirrors out the win- _ dow and carried out pillows may find _¢ohdolence in the action of an Aus- trallan who braved the danger of a blaze in a saloon to throw several dozens bottles of liquor out the win- dow onto a paved highway. More re- ‘cently a nearby blacksmith shop | ‘burned, and the same fire hero ran to the shop and emerged with a heavy object in his arms. “I had to save it,” he said. “It was the poor man’s living.” Then he dropped an anvil on the ground. Registering Emotion four-year-old Jimmie was fond ot candy. One day, after he had eaten all he should have, his aunt put the gack out of his reach. Jimmie, not liking this, tried to think of some way by which he might receive one more piece. “Uncle Billy, if I cried would auntie give me another piece of candy?” hopefully asked Jimmie. “When Uncle Billy replied that she night, Jimmie studied a minute, then had an idea. “Slap me, Uncle Billy, oy.” so I can Mercury’s Many Uses Mercury is an element sometimes found native, but mostly derived from cipnabar. Normally, by far the greater part of the world’s production of mercury is used in extracting gold and silver from their ores. In 1914 and 1916, owing to the European war, it was used mainly in the manufacture of fulminate for explosive caps. It is also used in the manufacture of drugs, of electric appliances and of scientific apparatus, thermometers, barometers aud for making vermilion. Mercury is found in California and Colorado. ; | : 1 | Hl | ing. All sorts of things, massive or | are made from the stems. | | under “vertical” defines a word which black ome below. tiomary words, except proper names. (©), 1926, Western Horizontal, 1—Alter 6—River 12—Carpenters’ tools 13—High nest 14—A country (abbr.) 15—Strife 17—Girl’s name 18—Thoroughfare (abbr.) 19—Catch 21-—Covetous person 23—Beverage 24—Burden 26—Distress signal 27--Declare 28—Refer to 30—Goddess of youth 32—Hard central part 83 —Wisdom 86—Guide 87—Singer 39—Abel’s brother 41—Organ of hearing 43—An exclamation (Eng.) 46—A fabulous bird 46—A very wealthy man 48—Conclusion 49—Co-ordinate conjunction 50—Age bl1—XKitchen utensil 53—¥Prefix meaning two 54—Begin 56—Set again 68—A cotton fabric 59—Restless solution will appear in next issue. No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dic- Abbreviations, slang, iuitials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indicated in the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1. Sn HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will spell words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is indieated by a mumber, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle. Thus No. 1 onder the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number will fill the white squares to the mext 13 Newspaper Union.) Vertical. 1—A large gun 2—Relating to man 3—Silver (chemical formula) 4—Novel 5—Unit of weight 7—Sign of grief 8—Grain 9—Suffix 10—Narrow passage 11—Instrument for measuring (pL) 16—Ascend 17—Network 20—Rustic 22—Thus 23—Ordinary 25—Sea nymph 27—Over 29—Evening meal 81—Man's name 34—From side to side 36—A college supervisop 37—Let fall 38—Queer thing 40—Large artery 42—College degree 44—Mountain range 46—Short letter 47—Given birth to 52—Term used in golf 55—Preposition 57—Continent (abbr.) 80—Before FARM NOTES. —When pruning fruit trees brace the weak crotches, Your county agri- cultural agent can tell you how to do this job and what materials to use. If chicks are obtained near home one has an opportunity to know the man with whom he is dealing and can see for himself just what sort of stock is used for breeding purposes. —Feed and exercise are two im- portant things to remember in caring for the brood mare. Daily ordinary farm work will give the mare the reg- ular exercise she needs. Clean legume hay and oats form a good ration. —If any changes are contemplated | in the garden or anywhere else about the grounds it is high time to plan for these now. If it is put off much long- er the chances are that it will not be done this year. —Mapping out the fields and plan- ning the crops to be grown in them are two important features of good farm management. Doing these es- sential tasks now is better than wait- ing until field work starts. -- Extension foresters of the Penn- sylvania State College report that the demand for forest trees for the spring planting is greater than ever before. The supply at state nurseries is close to the peint of exhaustion except for a few species. —As soon as severe cold weather is over the peach trees should be pruned. As a rule young peach trees receive too severe pruning while the old trees are not pruned severely enough. Use no wound dressing on peach tree cuts. — Beef cows which will have calves to raise this spring should go through the winter in a thrifty condition. They should maintain fair flesh and get ample exercise. If these conditions prevail there will be little cause {for anxiety about loss. —The seed corn situation is a ser- jous one. Locate the source of sup- ply now and give all seed a thorough test for germination. Time flies and soon corn planting time will be here. Good seed is necessary for a full stand and a bountiful crop. —Look at wheat and alfalfa on the wet spots as soon as possible to see how much heaving has occurred. Com- pare the conditions in these places with fields that are better drained. It will make you think of tiling because the contrast will be convincing. —1Is old Dobbin in good shape for the approaching spring work? Fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and water are the four cheapest essentials required by the work horse in keeping fit. Do not feed heavily when the horses are not working. Save that grain until they are working hard and need it. —The all-mash system is the most sanitary method for feeding chicks. It is a labor-saver. The condition of the grain is more important than the exact mixture. Be sure that the grains are clean and wholesome. Feed both mash and grain in troughs or hoppers. —A good variety of feeds in the grain mixture will be appreciated by the dairy cow. Successful dairymen use corn, oats, bran, gluten feed, oil meal, and cottonseed meal. When a good roughage, such as clover, alfal- Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle. s PIYIX iA siio |{LisllA RR AllIR LIU|F e E TA 2 BE[RIL[I TLIR[E| | 5 INNS | [Dio[LIlD| TIOIN[Y E | PU oT | TT TIAN olL KIA| | E i i | XY fa or soybean hay, is used more home- grown grains, corn and oats chiefly, may be utilized. —Last spring Ernest E. Baker, manager of Arch Spring Farm near Tyrone, ordered a half pound of Penn State Ball Head cabbage seed. From this amount he harvested 22% tons of cabbage, or the equivalent of 27 tons per acre. Incidentally, the land devot- ed to cabbage paid the best return of any on the farm. This year Arch Spring Farm will grow twice as much cabbage, because Baker has obtained a pound of seed. He praises the cab- bage very highly. - Recommended dates of sowing this cabbage seed are May 1 to 10 in cen- tral Pennsylvania, and transplanting should be done June 20 to 25, aecord- ing to C. E. Myers, plant breeding specialist of the Pennsylvania State College who developed the Penn State Ball Head cabbage. The plants should be set 18 inches apart in rows which ! are 32 inches apart. Myers reports | that the variety is now being listed by | several prominent seed firms. —President Coolidge vetoed farm bill because: “It is an entire reversal of what has been heretofore thought to be sound. “Tt is impossible to see how this bill can work. “It will threaten the very basis of our national prosperity. “It would impose the burden of its support to a large degree upon the | farmers who would not benefit by it. “The administrative duties involved are sufficient to wreck the plan. “It will merely aggravate conditions which are the cause of the farmers’ distress. “It is to fly in the face of an eco- nomic law as well established as any law of nature. “It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared. “As a direct tax on the vital neces- sities of life it represents the most vicious form of taxation. “It upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco or wheat and nothing else. “Tt singles out a few products chief- ly sectional and proposes to raise the price of those regardless of the fact that thousands of other farmers would be directly penalized. “The granting of any such arbitrary powers to a Government board is to run counter to our traditions, the phil- osophy of our Government, the spirit of our institutions and all principles of equity.”—Clearfield Republican. the To Holders of the Second Liberty Loan The entire issue of the Second Liberty Loan 414 % converted bonds has been called for payment November 15, 1927. Owners of these bonds may exchange now for 3% % five year Treasury Notes, re- ceiving interest to May 15, 1927 on the old bonds, and interest from March 15, 1927 on the new issue. If not exchanged now the old bonds may be held, bearing interest, until November 15, 1927 when they are called for payment. We shall be glad to arrange for holders of this loan. The First National Bank BELLEFONTE, : PA Little Or Much CRIN IP hether you save little or much depends on you. By depositing regularly with us you will have a bright outlook for the future. 8 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Accounts THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK STATE COLLEGE,PA. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM or rn a a a Ra aaa aT a as SE a CT NCI ERA A AS AN) Qoedocdoatosteiteatocdoideedeadsedsdocfoatoedeadeciosiecdsdeategoatociosds ¢ og ¢ Lyon& Co. 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