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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.
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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
<ystem was built in New York city in
1882. the idea of lighting by elec-
tricity became so popular that the
shares of the Thomas A. Edison
company, whose par value was $100.
were quoted at $3,500. However. the
aew enterprise required a great deal
of money. The cost of sinking cables
underground along the streets was
cne of the heavy expenses. In those
days many people insisted upon pole
lines even though they did destroy
the heauty of a street. Mr. Edison's
net remark to them was: “Why don’t
vou lift water and gas pipes up ep
stilts too?”
Albino Types
An albino is deined as a person
naving a congenital deficiency of pig
ments of the skin, hair and eyes. Al-
binos occur among all races of men;
in extreme cases they have skin of a
milky color, extremely light hair and
~yes with a deep red pupil and pink
or blue iris. The lack of dark pig-
ment in the eyes admits light in exces-
sive amount, and through other parts
reside the pupil, and their vision is
aonsequently poor. especially In strong
light. There might be an albino: type
in any kind ef an animal,
| sent out.
CUTS TELEGRAPH
LINE TO SAVE LIFE
Trapper Loses Right to Hunt
by Act.
Ottawa, Ont.—Old Benny, who has
roamed the northern marshes of Brit-
ish Columbia for fifty years, setting
‘his traps and tending his nets, will
trap no more.
The remote and inaccessible deflles
of the northern Rockies will never
again echo and re-echo with the crack
of his rifle.
Old Benny will not hunt or trap
again because the Indian department
will not permit him to tramp the for
ests alone. When the plercing north
wind drove even the wild animals to
shelter Old Benny, stricken with a
sudden illness, came face to face with
death. Without strength to reach
hig log cabin and with no human be-
ings within a hundred miles, he strug-
gled on until he came to ® narrow
ravine—Telegraph creek—and there
he collapsed.
However, Old Benny was not yet
through. Lying in the snow, he saw
a thin strand of copper wire—the tele-
graph line maintained by the Cana-
dian government between British Co- |
lumbia and the Yukon. Summoning
his remaining strength, he cut the
wire in the hope that the federal gov-
ernment ‘‘trouble shooters” would find
the break and come to him before he
perished.
Last Christmas day the trouble
party set out with a dog team. Christ-
mas night they found the break and
Old Benny. He was badly frozen and
semiconscious, but was carried back
to civilization and now hag fully re-
covered.
The Indian department has ruled
that Old Benny's trapping days are
over. He must live on a reserve with-
in reach of medical attention and will
be maintained out of government
funds.
Dog Does Vanishing Act
When Census Time Comes
Biddeford, Maine.—Fidus Achates
1s a canine with a name, though he
fails most lamentably to live up to it.
The reason, perhaps, is that his family
“wasn’t much.”
Iidus Achates—Fidus for short, but
ever Fido—came to the home of Po-
lice Chief Ernest H. Robbins looking
like anything but a faithful companion.
He was a little nobody from nowhere.
Chief Robbins’ daughter, then a high
school girl deep in her Vergill, took
him in and named him after the Fidus
Achates, who was the loyal comrade
{ of Aeneas,
But she might as well have called
nim plain Fido, for all the effect the
name had on him. Every year, about
ithe time the dog census is taken,
“Fidus Achates succumbs to his old
wanderlust and is nowhere to be
found. A general alarm has to be
By the time he is returned
the chief is a dollar ahead in taxes,
I'though the Robbins family agrees that
: the financial gain is more than offset
by the mental strain of their little
mutt’s disappearance.
Bandit; Aid Is Killed
dan Diego, Calif.—Assigned to a
wan’s job—that of shooting a holdup
man after he had been lured into a
| death
| policewoman, failed to carry out her
. part as scheduled at the critical mo-
' ment and Charles R. Harris, a poiice-
trap—Mrs. Rena Wright, a
man, her coworker, fell before the
| bandit’s gun as a result.
The two officers “planted” them-
-elves in a park to bag a holdup man
: who had been using that part of the
city for his operations. It was agreed
| that Harris would throw up his hands
and the wo®aan would open fire.
Mrs. Wright's story was that nei-
«ner she nor her colleague had a
‘fighting chance. Contrary to expecta-
tions, the holdup man approached
from the rear of the car. ‘He flashed
a powerful light in her ‘face: and,
glimpsing Harris, opened fire instant-
ly. The blinding light prevented Mrs.
Wright from seeing him. In spite of
the turn of things, Harris managed to
whip out his own gun and fire five
shots in the direction of the blinding
light. Then he died at the side of
Mrs. Wright.
Traffic Suggestion
New York.—A boulevard on the
nousetops is the latest suggestion to
relieve traffic. The project would
cost $660,000,000.
Etiquette Problem
London.—There’s quite a discussion
as to whether men should tip thelr
hats to women in these emancipated
days.
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Cat Comes Back and
Saves Lives of Couple
Washington.—Whitey, a large
Angora cat, returned home after
a week's absence and saved the
lives of his master ang mistress
from a fire which destroyed their
dwelling.
The cat, which had teen given
by its owners, Mr. and Mrs,
George F. Baxter, to a friend,
returned in the early morning
hours, and, jumping through a
first-floor bedroom window,
clawrd at their bed covering
when the flames were sweeping
through the house.
EXPERIENCE
ike country doctors and country lawyers,
L country banks have a much wider range of
experience than the usual city institution.
All branches of banking are done here, and
the wide and varied experience gained by our
officers, especially fit them for the important
work of caring for estates.
Do not delay making your will, and you
may make this bank your executor, confident
that your estate will be promptly and effi-
ciently settled.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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ears the inscription: “Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land to
all inhabitants thereof.”
Money
deposited at interest in this Bank
proclaims liberty from anxiety to its
owner wherever he goes.
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