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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.
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tiomary words, except proper names.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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