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Bellefonte, Pa, May 20, 1927.
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PLEASANT GAP.
Mrs. Harry Hockenberry is ill at
this writing.
Mrs. Fred A. Clemens is visiting at
Berwick and Nescopeck.
Joe Favuzza, our popular barber,
is seriously ill at this writing.
John Strunk was taken to the Cen-
tre County hospital on Monday.
The Methodist congregation have
decided to make a number of much
needed repairs on their church.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corl, of Boals-
burg, spent Sunday at T. D. Mill-
wards.
Keep in mind the date of the W. C.
T. U. medal contest, May 24th, at 7.45
in the evening. An interesting pro-
gram has been prepared, with lots of
good music.
Mrs. H. D. Gehret, of Sunbury, is
visiting friends here. Mrs. Gehret
made the trip to attend the funeral
of Harry Jodon, who was a cousin of
Mr. Gehret.
Quite a large number of Pleasant
Gap people are patients in the Centre
County hospital, and knowing that,
the people ought to give their money
willingly in the drive for funds.
H. C. Faust, of Sunbury, who has
been a guest of J. T. Noll, has taken
a job as an officer at Rockview peni-
tentiary. Mr. Faust will move his
family from Sunbury as soon as he
can find a suitable location.
Sunday evening, May 15th, being
the usual time of worship for the St.
Mark’s Lutheran congregation, they
decided to render a “Mothers day”
program. The songs and exercises by
the children were particularly well
delivered, and several solos and duets
were rendered very creditably. Rev.
Wagner then gave a most appropriate
talk.
Television Duplicates Exactly Func-
tions of Certain Human Organs.
Scientific experiments resulting in
the recent successful demonstratien
of television over a two-hundred-mile
telephone circuit have revealed the
fact that electricity is duplicating
functions hitherto performed only by
the human body, says the Pennsylva-
nia Public Service Information Com-
mittee.
The functions of the human eye are
duplicated exactly in television. The
scene to be transmitted is scanned by
photoelectric cells which translate
light and shadows by variations of
electric currents. Those currents are
amplified and sent over telephone
wires or radic waves to the receiving
end where 2,500 pairs of wires trail
back from a large circular disc into
what seems to be a gigantic optic
nerve. The electric current carried
by each pair of wires correspond to
the impulses carried from the retina
of the human eye to the brain through
the optic nerve. .
The. telephone equipment used in
television also bears a striking re-
semblance: to parts of the body, both
in. appearance and in functions. The
telephone: transmitter is a metal ear
drum. Cross. sections of talephone
cable are amazingly like cross sec-
tions of the spinal cord and serve the
same purpose—that of carrying im-
pulses to the brain which is repre-
sented by the switchboard.
Air Travel De Luxe.
Luxury crowds on the heels of safe-
ty in new ways of transportation.
The latest illustration of a tendency
which has been evident in the railway
and the automobile appears in air-
craft. The super-Zeppelin which is
being built at Friedrichshafen for the
Spanish-South American service may
challenge comparison with many an
oeean- liner for contrivances designed
te make passengers forget they are
not on terra firma.
There is to be an electrical operat-
ed kitchen which will be able to pro-
vide a wide array of tempting dishes
for forty persons. The dining room,
occupying a gondola of its own, is to
be capable of being transformed into
a; ballroom. Rich carpets will help to
create. the illusion of a modern hotel
in some social capital instead of a
giant vessel swinging through the air,
while strains from the radio will sup-
ply the dance music. Only the best
limited trains can vie with this type
of airship in sleeping arrangemnts.
Ventilation on the other hand, de-
mands original treatment, for the
Zeppelin will be flying over snow-
eapped mountains and sultry plains
in quiek succession and the mainte-
nance of an even temperature under
these changing conditions is not easy.
Travel, which once was a synonym for
discomfort, has become another name
for ease.—Exchange.
Wet April and Cool May,
The. time honored prophecy among
agriculturists: that “a wet April and
cool’ May bring a lot of wheat and
hay,” is: watched this year by many
of those who: till soil. From present
indications the prophecy will come
true, as the wheat and grass fields
never looked more promising. With
practically little frost in the ground
during the winter, the tiny wheat
sprouts grew during the entire per-
iod, with the result that now they
are far ahead of last year’s growth.
When the winter is severe the
sprouts lie dormant until the spring-
time, when the warm rains rouse
them from the winter's nap.. The
wheat at this time has a good stand
and 'the grass fields appear as if they
will produce one of the heaviest hay
crops in years. With the continued
rains the remainder of the month
those engaged in agriculture expect
these two crops to be far above the
average.
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Too Low a Bid.
“Ill give you a nickel for a kiss,”
anid a visitor to the little daughter.
“No thank you,” said she sweetly,
“I can make more money taking cas-
tor oil.”—Capper’s Weekly.
Standards Vary as to
Man’s Hours of Sleep |
. An older school of moralists, and
possibly an older school of doctors,
would have been gravely shocked by
the suggestion, just made by an ex-
pert in mental diseases, that even
eight hours’ sleep a day is not neces
sarily enough for a man.
“Eight for a man, nine for 8 woman
and ten for a fool,” was given by Sir
Robert Armstrong Jones in his lec-
ture to the Medical society of London
as the old standard, but he added that
he would reverse the order and give
ten to the men.
Even the lecturer’s version of the
old standard seems more generous
than the facts; not eight hours’ sleep
but seven was definitely laid down in
the famous health rules of Salerno,
and enough for either a young man
or an old one, and some ancient au-
thorities were ready to brand as slug-
gard the man who slept for longer
than six hours out of twenty-four.
Indeed, to judge by its proverbs and
precepts the world of three or four
hundred years ago was constantly at
war with the sluggards, and forever
maintaining a stiff fight against tbe
undue claims of sleep.
Here and there an isolated hero
-lke Sancho Panza stands up to praise
sleep and its inventor, or the Vene-
tians produce a proverb which recom-
mends slumber as a sort of medicine,
but in general both doctors of medi-
cine and divinity seem to have agreed
that sleep was the enemy of their age.
Like the Dormouse at the Mad Hat-
ter’s tea party, the public at large
was always being well shaken and
told to cast off dull sloth and joyfu!
rise.
The picture is the more curious be-
cause so little 13: heard of such re-
bukes today; though we are fiercely
warned by. our medical advisers not
to do ‘many things, from overeating
to underexercising, we are hardly
ever expected to refrain from over.
sleeping. It is the one possible ex-
cess which no one bothers to rebuke;
and here one eminent authority boldly
declares that five-twelfths of the
whole day may be spent in sleeping
without reproach. Are we, then, so
active that we need urging to slum-
ber? And were our forefathers so
sleepy that only the constant thunder
of the sages could keep them awake?
Strange as these conclusions seem, the
facts appear to justify them.
Early “Sunday Closing”
The Sunday closing of saloons got
its first impetus from Peter Stuyves-
ant, governor of New Amsterdam.
about the middle of the Seventeenth
century, when he forbade the sale of
intoxicants on the Sabbath day until
after preaching.
In those days the town was dotted
with’ taverns. It has been estimated
that a fourth of the buildings were
devoted to the sale of brandy, tobacco
and beer. Some of the places had be-
come nothing more than fight clubs.
with a.brawl every night. Stuyvesant
bent on cleaning up the town, ordered
that no new: tayerng should be licensed
except by the unanimous consent of
the town’s officials. He also ordered
the proprietors to occupy decent
houses, report all brawls, and stop
selling liquor to the savages, who
were given to getting full of “firewa-
ter” and testing their lung power and
their tomahawks in the publie streets.
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Victoria’ Orators
The marquis of Huntly knew most
of the leading political figure®s of the
Victorian era, and in his recent book
of reminiscences he contrasts the
methods of some of the great parlia-
mentarians. The most successful
speakers, he says, are not those who
wave their arms with perfervid dec-
lamation. Parnell, who never moved
from an erect attitude, and spoke in
measured sentences, with a cynical
manner, was very effective. Dilke, on
the other hand, in speeches crammed
full of knowledge, was too verbose,
and seemed to tire the house. Joseph
Chamberlain, in his clear-cut tones
with a penetrating and incisive voice,
his right arm moving slowly to point
or emphasize a remark, was one of the
most delightful speakers to listen to.
The marquis of Huntly adds that Sir
William Harcourt was fuent and
bombastic.
Strawberries Beauty Aid
Dr. Walter J. Swingle, a field agent
of the Department of Agriculture, has
arrived at San Francisco with specl-
mens of strange and exotic fruits from
the Orient. Among them is what is de-
scribed as a giant strawberry, a straw.
berry wonder said to grow on a tree.
The idea of plucking strawberries
from trees is sufficiently novel in fit-
self, but it is further set forth that
this fruit of the tree has remarkable
beauty-giving powers. Those who eat
of it may, as a result, reduce their
weight, and, at the same time, beauti-
fy the complexion. Its native habitat
is on the Chinese coast, south of the
Yangtse river, but it is believed that
it may be grown in many parts of the
United States.—Boston Transcript.
Largest Loom
At Rodewisch, in Saxony, the cen-
ter of the German textile industry,
there is in operation what is thought
to be the largest weaving loom in the
world. This huge crank loom is 77
feet long and 60 feet wide. It stands
10 feet high and weighs 35 tons. The
shuttle is of corresponding propor-
tfons, and travels to and fro at the
rate of 15 times a minute.
This machine {8 capable of turning
out seamless disks of felt, such as are
used in paper mills, up to 233 feet in
¢lecumference.
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| FARM NOTES.
—Regulating farm practices by the
| “light” or “dark” of the moon is dis-
couraged by the Department of Agri-
| culture. The efficacy of following be-
!liefs surrounding “moon farming”
that have come down from the Middle
| Ages, says the Department, bears no
scientific investigation, as the fac-
tors that do affect the growth of crops
are well known to scientists.
The statement follows:
Moon farming, according to the
Weather Bureau of the United States
Department of Agriculture, has abso-
lutely no support from any scientific
point of view. By “moon farming”
or butchering, singing or shearing,
or butchering, singing of shearing,
or any other farm activities supposed
to be affected by the “dark” or the
“light” or some other phase of the
moon For example, up to the time
of the French Revolution it was for-
bidden to fell trees in France between
new moon and full moon.
Many old sayings bear witness to
the common belief in guiding farm
practice by the state of the moon,
such as:
“Sow peas and beans in the wane
of the moon;
Who soweth them sooner, he sow-
eth too soon.”
The scientist points out that the
chief things affecting the growth of
crops at any stage are: temperature
of soil and air; composition of adja-
cent atmosphere; kind and intensity
of light; presence or absence, and
severity of plant disease; mechanical
condition of the soil, loose or com-
pact; fertility of soil; and quantity of
other vegetation, or weeds, present.
Metereologists can show that the
moon has nothing to do with any of
these conditions affecting crops. It
has no influence on weather or soil.
Even the light of the full moon is not
nearly intense enough to have any
effect on plant growth or plant dis-
ease.
The conclusion therefore is neces-
sarily that “moon farming” is “moon
shine,” and that the only good it ever
did. was through the systemizing of
farm work, fixing a time for all ac-
tivities, and the force it imparted to
that very necessary injunction, “Do
it now.”
—Grazing of grasslands should not
begin until most of the grasses are
about six inches tall, or in the case of
shorter grasses, until the stage when
the flower heads are in the boot. If
this practice is followed there will be
less loss from poisonous plants, there
will be greater production of forage,
a better stand of the most palatable
plants and greater carrying capacity.
When grazing is started too early
the desired plants are stunted and the
root system remains small. When
large amounts of water are needed by
the leaves later in the season the
roots are not deep enough to supply
the demand. Sufficient food is not
stored in the roots. Fewer stems and
leaves are produced with a result that
flowers and seeds carnot form. So
the plants become weakened and re-
production is prevented.
Early in the season the soil is us-
ually wet. Tramping at this time
easily kills many plants, especially
seedlings. Furthermore, many plants
are readily pulled out by the roots.
Poisonous plants such as larkspur,
locoweed and death camas begin
growth early in the spring. When the
plants are much taller and succulent
forming a tempting bunch of green
forage. The grasses at this time are
low in feed value and often fail to
satisfy the hunger of the stock, so a
large bunch of green larkspur or oth-
er poisonous plant is greedily eaten.
Late in the season the poisonous
plants are not so tempting.
When the grasses are given a
chance to start vigorous growth in
the spring they will help prevent the
spread of unpalatable and poisonous
plants.
—Hog quarters arranged to give
the brood sows plenty of exercise
show results at farrowing time, say
specialists at the Pennsylvania State
College. Sufficient protein and min-
eral matter for the maintenance of
body weight also have a telling effect
on the strength of litters produced.
—Septic tanks contribute to better
sanitation about the farm home.
Community forms are quite generally
used in many Pennsylvania counties.
Ask your county agent about the pro-
cedure necessary to obtain the ad-
vantages of a modern sewage dis-
posal plant,
—Stopping the ravages of the Eu-
ropean corn borer will be an import-
ant part of the farm operations
throughout the infested area this
year. Individual farmers will have
opportunities to deal death-blows to
this hungry insect pest.
A number of practical points are
suggested by Pennsylvania State Coi-
lege extension entomologists for the
repelling of the invader. Corn stalks
should be kept out of the barnyard
and pasture, and they should not be
permitted in manure. All shredded
stalks should be plowed under deep-
ly. Unused stover is either shredded
or burned.
These are all spring practices and
should be done by May 15. The disk
harrow is recommended instead of
the spring-tooth harrow because the
latter pulls stalks to the surface, al-
lowing the borers to emerge and lay
eggs in new corn.
Harvesting operations to be used
in the fall include low cutting of corn
and shredding the stover or ensiling
most of the corn. Cutting the stalks
low removes the chief harboring
places of the borers.
—Twenty per cent. of the potato
acreage in Pennsylavnia produced
two-thirds of the State crop last year,
according to E. L. Nixon, extension
plant pathologist of the Pennsylvania
State College. Those growers are
the ones who sprayed their potatoes
consistently.
Ninety-seven Keystone potato grow-
ers became members of the 400-Bush-
el Club in 1926. Their average pro-
duction was 450 bushels per acre and
their average acreage 12%. Produc-
ing within 15 bushels of the 400-mark
were 123 men having an average of
11% acres.
grasses are still short the poisonous.
Then there were 235 oth-
ers who grew over three hundred
bushels an acre on an average of 10
acres each. Through the use of bet-
ter practices all of these growers
have been able to produce bigger
crops on fewer acres, thus cutting
down the unit cost of production and
increasing their profits.
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Best Garden Club Member Gets Prize.
A unique organization is found at
Lititz in Lancaster county. It is a
garden club which meets monthly. At
the last monthly get-together, two
nisiilers joined the 12 already in the
club.
The club follows the plans outlined
in the Pennsylvania State College ex-
tension service vegetable gardening
projects and each member keeps a
complete record of all his operations.
At the end of the year a prize is
ayarded to the best gardener in the
club.
Are You
“Toxic?”
It IsWell, Then, to Learn the Importance
of Good Elimination.
UNCTIONAL inactivity of the
kidneys permits a retention of
waste poisons in the blood. Symp-
toms of this toxic condition are a
dull, languid feeling, drowsy head-
aches and, sometimes, toxic back-
ache and dizziness. That the kidneys
are not functioning as they should is
often shown by scanty or burning
passage of secretions. Many readers
have léarned the value of Doan’s
Pills, stimulant diuretic to the kid-
neys, in this condition. Users every-
where endorse Doan’s. Ask your
neighbor!
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D OA N 60c
Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem., Buffalo, N. ¥.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Meats,
Whether they be fresh,
smoked or the cold-ready to
Exchange.
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ELINE WOODRING. — Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Celiats
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Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business am-
trusted to his care. Offices—No.
High street. B, ford
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market,
We buy nothing but prime
stock on the hoof, kill and re-
frigerate it ourselves and we
know it is good because we
have had years of experience
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prompt attention. Offices on
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and Justice of the Peace. All pre-
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49-5-1y
RUNKLE. — Attorney-at-Law.
n. Office in Criders Exchaafe
Bellefonte, Pa.
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in handling meat products,
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Orders by telephone always receive { Crider's Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
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Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
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every day except Saturday. Belle.
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We Keep a full stock of Feeds on hand
at all times.
Wagner's 229, Dairy $47.00
Wagner's 329, Dairy $50.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil
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SURETY BONDS EXECUTED FOR THE POULTRY.
Sa Wagner’s Scratch Grain per bu...... $2.80
Wagner's Poultry Mash per bu.... §3.00
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