i ah Pa, July 1, 1927. Bellefonte, Beginning to Plan for Annual Grange Encampment. The committee which has in charge the annual Grange encampment at Grange park, Centre Hall, have al- ready begun work in preparation for this year’s exhibition, which will be held the week of August 29th. Im- provements already made this spring include the planting of numerous trees. More than three thousand young trees secured at the State nur- sery at Rockview penitentiary have been planted on the north side of the park. These include 1000 Scotch pine, 1000 white pine and 1000 European larch. One hundred and fifty larger trees, eight to twelve feet in height, have been planted to the west of the present grove. These trees are sugar maple, red oak, American elm, tulip and European plane. Two new buildings will be erected, one to house a complete electrical exhibit and the other an up-to-date stock barn. Improvements will also be made to the auditorium and head- quarters building. For the conven- ience of campers attending from a dis- tance a number of camp stoves will be erected under cover which can be used during the week at a nominal fee. How Willis Reed Bierly Earned His First Dollar. Everybody in Brush valley knows Willis Reed Bierly, born and raised in that locality. The Harrisburg Tel- egraph is publishing stories of how various men earned their first dollar and notes that Mr. Bierly did it in 1859 laboring in the rye fields of Cen- tre county, and here is the gentle- man’s own story: “Jt was a few years after the wee- vil had destroyed fields of blue stem and silver stem wheat,” Mr. Bierly reminisced, “The farmers had to cra- dle their rye as they did wheat but good cradlers were few. : “] was 12 years old. But in those days farmers’ boys had less than four months in the old red schoolhouse and at 12 boys did the work of men and men received one dollar a day and it was work and not play. I had learn- ed to swing the light Leidy cradle, made at Salona, Pa. and to deliver the grain in regular rows, which was an art as well as to reap with the sickle without cutting off my fingers. “A neighbor was in need of cradlers of rye and I responded to the call ear- ly in the morning and we raced that day. As usual, if a mere boy cradled they put him in the middle of a row of four or five and those back of him ‘bored in’ and he was obliged to reach forward the whole length of the scythe or to get ‘cut out.” Oh, it was fun.” “And that was the day I earned my first dollar. Now I am 80, but I rise at half past five and do a day’s work as of yore.” PLEASANT GAP. Mrs. Maurice Yeager spent the past few days with Mrs. Harry Bilger and W. H. Nolls. Fred A. Clemens and family have moved from our town and will locate in Harrisburg or Wilkes-Barre. Wm. Noll and wife, of Pitcairn, with his daughter and husband of Pitcairn, were callers at the J.T. Noll home on Sunday. The Loyal Workers of the Lutheran church were entertained very pleas- antly at the home of the president, Mrs. Harry Ishler. Mrs. Jack Noll and Mrs. Edna Kirk- wood were entertained at the Faust- Leitzel home, on Thomas street, Bellefonte, on Tuesday. The Methodist Sunday school held their Children’s day services on Sun- day evening and quite an elaborate program was well rendered. Keep in mind the carnival to be held by the Pleasant Gap Civic club, July 15th, in Noll’s grove, with all the carnival attractions and every good thing in the eating line. Mrs. Edna Miller Kirkwood, of New Castle, is visiting for an indefinite time with her sister, Mrs. Jack Noll, and on leaving here will make a trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she will spend the winter with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Beulah Clark. JACKSONVILLE. George Ertley is able to be around again at this writing. Miss Lucille Yearick is visiting friends in and about Altoona. The Jacksonville baseball team ex- pect to hold a festival in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. William Resides, of Altoona, visited in this section last week. Callers at the Harry Hoy home on Sunday were Mrs. Nancy Miller and friend, from Howard, Mr. Clark Kor- man and family. Officers elected in the Reformed church, on Sunday evening, were E. E. Vonada, elder for 2 years; Mervin E. Hoy, deacon for 2 years; and Deimer P. Ertley, deacon for one year. tr ee e——— 4 ———————— Straw Once a Waste Product is Now Being Utilized. When the scientist can convert a waste by-product, such as straw, into a “board that is impervious to mois- ture, heat, cold and sound that is highly fire resistant. virtually inde- structible and make it a commercial commodity of primary importance, at the same time giving the farmer a source of revenue that he hardly dared to dream of, the possibilities of labor- atory research and its potential and actual influence on mankind are bare- ly glimpsed by the layman.” Fill, A WHITE MAN’S LAND IN THE TROPICS Many Misconceptions About Pacific Islands. Washington. — A recent prophecy that the Fiji islands will one day be the center of a British “Island Do- minion” in the Pacific seems bizarre to the average reader chiefly because ef misconceptions about Fiji, says a bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) headquarters of the National Geograpb- ic society. “The Fiji are tiny South Sea islets. “They are typical tropical islands, hot and unhealthy. “The Fijians are savages. “These are some of the many errors abroad in regard to the Fijas,” con- tinues the bulletin. “In reality the Fijis are the largest islands situated well out in the Pacific. Only New Caledonia, the Solomon islands, and the Bismarcks, all relatively close to Australia and New Guinea, are larger. The total area of the Fijis is greater than that of the Hawaiian islands; and Viti Levu, the main island of the Fiji group, is almost exactly the same glze as Hawaii, the giant of the north- ern islands. Fiji is, in fact, often re- ferred to as ‘the Haweii of the South.’ “Although Fiji is well within the tropics, having a seuth latitude cor- responding to the north latitude of Jamaica, it has an unexpectedly tem- perate climate. This is due chiefly to the considerable size of the islands, and their mountains which intercept the clouds and cool air currents and bring them to lower levels. Suva, the capital, situated on the largest island, has its tennis and cricket addicts who play in comfort. Most European resi- dents dress lightly as elsewhere in the tropics, but the few who cling to tweed suits and felt hats, do so without in- convenience. Mosquitoes but No Malaria. “On the score of healthfulness Fiji stands particularly high. It is said to be the most healthful tropical land in the world. The rearing of children by Europeans, fraught with difficul- ties in most other tropical lands, causes no anxiety in Fiji. One sur- prise is the utter absence of malaria in the islands. Mosquitoes are pres- ent, but they do not transmit this and other diseases from which Europeans suffer in other tropical lands. Fiji is truly a ‘white man's land. “When first well known to Euro veans, in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries, the Fijians were the most blood-thirsty and savage can- pnibals in all the South seas. Canni- balism was not only indulged in when enemies had been killed. These peo- ple actually slaughtered relatives and companions for meat. They quickly enine under missionary influence, how- ever, and the entire native population became Christianized. “The natives are predominantly of | mat, after asking a number of ques Jdelanesian stock, that is, of the dark, negroid. Kinky-haired type of island- ers. mixture of Polynesian blood (like that of the Hawaiians and Marquesans) which than those of the full-blood Melane- sians. The Fijians are particularly race-conscious; peans have been on the islands for a century, and although East Indians have made up a large part of the pop- | ulation for many years, there are prac- | | the greatest of all the Americans he ! had the pleasure of meeting. tically no half-breeds. “So large is the East Indian popula. Jon that it was thought a few years ago that the islands would eventually become virtually a colony of India. ! There are now about 60,000 Indians, 85,000 Fijians and 4,500 Europeans in Fiji. sugar production has been Fiji's chief industry. The Fijians do not take ' | of events hy an active search for the i females. { by sight or smell or by a combination kindly to plantation work, so thou- sands of East Indians were imported to work in the cane fields. They were brought in on the ‘indenture’ system. binding themselves to work for five years. Only Fringe Developed. “Most of the valleys and hills ana mnountaing of Fiji are blanketed with luxuriant vegetation. As in Hawaii, however, the lee sides of the islands have fewer trees and are covered with long grass. Only the fringe of the islands and the river valleys have been developed. Roads are few, transportation. depending chiefly on boats and launches. A surprising fea- ture of the Fijis, especially to those who have thought of them as small islands, are the many large, broad rivers. The Rewa river near Suva is navigable for 50 miles. “Like most South Sea capitals, Suva i8 cosmopolitan. If one stands on the Victoria Parade of an afternoon the passing show speaks of many lands. There are the young Fijians in ‘store’ clothes, their shocks of bleached hair standing out from their heads. Be- hind them are Indian coolies and trad- ers with their women. The latter are dressed lorfully and jingle with heavy necklaces, bracelets, and ank- lets. Scattered in the passing groups are people of other Pacific lands: Sol- omon Islanders, Samoans, New Cale- donians. Conspicuous, of course, are the Europeans, the men usually in spotless white. In passing automo. biles are the women of the European colony. “Fiji has the distinction of greeting each new day earlier than practically all other lands in the world. Tt lies Just west of the international date line. Sunday is born there when it is etill early Saturday morning in the United States and Saturday in Eng- land.” There has been, however, an ud- | ! Hamilton. | when he was French minister for for- eign affairs Aaron Burr came to Paris | | Woman Fails to Shoot has given the Fijian a better : physique and a handsomer appearance i turned the card with a message that . he had the portrait of Hamilton in and although Euro- | During the past few decades | | them Modern Society Slow to Forgive Criminal Can a crithinal: come back to se slety? No. In all my experience I have sever known a case of a thoroughly successful comeback, when a former criminal was allowed to take his place In society and be received into it. It is not so much the failure of Christianity as the fact that human nature and #o- ciety have not reached the stage of enlightecment or willingness to accept the ex-criminal. Human nature and society, constituted as they are, are such as to prevent an absolute come back, and this is more in evidence be cause of the fact that the modern teachers of Christianity have failed in their mission of forgiveness, and also because it is invariably found that those who profess deep faith and a Christ-like spirit are the first to shun and scorn the really conscien- tious unfortunates, or innocent victims of circumstances, who are genuinely desirous of completely blotting out their hideous past by sincere servic” in the cause of humanity at large But everything is not lost. Many prison workers and deep students of criminology feel that a spirit of under- standing will sooner or later overcome these obstacles in the way of the ex- criminal.—Theodore Dreiser in the Smoker's Companion. Impaired Vision No Handicap to Genius Strangely enough one of the world’s great astronomers had such poor sight that he could not more than see the stars. He was John Kepler, a Ger man, whose fame sprang from the. dis- covery of these three astronomice’ ‘aws: That all the planets travel around the sun in elliptical orbits, with tbe sun at one of the focl That the radius sector joining each planet with the sun traverses equal areas of the plane of orbit in equ?’ veriods of time. That the square of the time of revo- lution of each planet around the sun is proportional to the cube of the mean distance from that luminary. To overcome the handicap of im- paired vision, he obtained the services of Tycho Brahe, who was not a great reasoner, but an admirable observer. It was upon his perfect observations that Kepler, a master generalizer, reached his conclusions. His three laws are included in his book, “The New Astronomy,” published in 1609 at Prague. He died 19 years later.- Kansas City Times. T alleyrand and Burr After James Buchanan gave up his post as minister to Russia in 1833 be made a brief sojourn at Paris before returning to America. In the French capital he was ibtroduced to the fa- mous Prince Talleyrand, then in his efghty-fourth year. The aged’ diplo- tons about America, inquired particu larly about the family of Alexander He told Buchanan that and sent his cara to bim. He re his parlor. It wiil be recalled that when Talleyrand was an exile from France he came to America where he met Hamilton. At that time he came to the conclusion that Hamilton was Courtship of Spiders In the behaviors of courting spiders | recognition and stimulation come into play in various degrees. The males, as in most animals great and small, despite Bernard Shaw, begin the cycle They recognize her finally of these senses. The female recognizes apparently by sight or by gome tactile message. and when recog: nition has taken place. restrains her customary swift ferocity. According to the more recent authors, the antics and ornamentation are not an appeal to the esthetic sense of the females and do not. therefore, come into the theory of sexual selection. First Electric Lights Soon after the first electric light