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Bellefonte, Pa., October 14, 1927.
Belief in Witchcraft
Strong in Year 1680
A writer, looking over the amnals
of Newburyport, Mass., dug up a curi-
‘ous case of the witchcraft craze. It
was In 1680 that some very strange
happenings took place in the house of
an old resident; pots and pans rattled
at unearthly hours of the night and
missiles flew through the air in the
most mysterious manner and on one
occasion a brick from the chimney
struck the old man and nearly ended
his earthly existence. His wife was
tried and convicted of being a witch
and sentenced to be hanged. A neigh-
bor suspected a boy, the old man's
grandson, and in telling the aged man
he could determine the cause, hinted
he had a knowledge of astrology and
astronomy. Suspicion of witcheraft
fell on him and he was tried and es-
caped conviction only when another
neighbor testified he had seen the boy
throw a shoe at his grandfather.
Then suspicion fell on the grand-
mother and she was convicted and
sentenced to death, Meanwhile the
grandson went away and the disturb-
ances ceased. A reprieve was granted
-and later the case was dismissed.
Made Arrow Complete
Its Destined Course
In the mountain province of Luzon,
Philippine Islands, where the Igorots
and Ifugaos and Kalingas live by
primal laws duplicated in the Old
“Testament of the Bible, but modified
‘by Christ's philosophy in the New, a
Journeying missionary priest recently
‘was shot in tiie back with an arrow.
He turned back trying to discover his
‘hidden assailant, and when the young
aman in the bushes found out that he
was a priest, he came and knelt before
him and begged heavenly pardon.
‘There was a feud on, he explained,
and he had thought the priest an
«€nemy ; in the dusk of late twilight he
had not recognized the priest’s garb.
All right, but how could they get the
arrow out of the priest's back? Oh,
that would be very easy and would not
hurt much; so the young mountaineer
stepped behind the priest, cut the
feather-end off the arrow and jammed
the point en through the priest’s body ;
and then he stepped around in front
and pulled the arrow out. The wound
healed soon enough, no vital organs
having been scotched.—Exchange,
Setting Him Straight
“Aw, I can't!” whined the young
aephew.
“You can’t?” answered old Riley
Rezzidew sarcastically, “You ain’t
been hypnotized, have ye, or got a
broken leg, or the dyspepsy, or a wife
and mother-in-law to henpeck the en-
ergy out o’ you; you are mot in the
poorhouse or in jail, or bownd hand
and foot with chains. are ye? In this
present Anno Domerni and this Great
Land of the FIree any whole and
healthy man or boy who makes use o?
the word ‘can’t, when referring to any
task or duty of everyday life, ought |
to be arrested for misappropriating
other people's property—stealing a
word that is the rightful possession of
cripples, paupers, prisoners and model
husbands.”—Kansas City Star.
Baseball’s Origin
Baseball was known in various
forms in the Hast for years before |
It ‘received organized recognition, but |
its birthplace is a matter of dispute.
Philadelphia takes the credit as far
back as 1833, and New York claims
that its Washington elub, organized
In 1843, was the first exponent of the
actual game. Baseball as a national
game really came into existence in
1858, with the formation of a Nationai
Assoeiation of Baseball Players, in-
cluding the clubs of New York and
vicinity.
All Pairs at Wedding
At a double wedding held recently
At Traralgon, Australia, the brides,
‘Ivy and Ethel Matheson, were sisters;
rthe bridegrooms, Roy and Lenard
"Battley, were brothers; the best men,
"R. and J. Pudney, were brothers; the
bridesmaids, Misses Matheson, sisters
- of the brides; the groomsmen, B. and
C. Webb, brothers, while the officlat
: Ing clergymen, Reverend Prickett and
| Reverend Craig,” had been fellow stu-
« dents. The traveling dresses and hats
-0f both brides were identical,
Leather Centuries Old
‘Pieces of leather believed to be six
«centuries old, dug up in excavating for
the foundation of a new building in
the city of London, were still in sery-
Iceable condition and were used by
the workmen to repair their shoes.
The find was made in a heap about ten
yards square of waste and manufac-
tured leather in a layer of black mud,
which apparently had been the dump of
a medieval leather worker, deposited
in the Fourteenth or Fifteenth cen.
tury. The wet earth had preserved
the material.
Most Children on Farms
More than half the farm population
of the United States, 50.4 per cent tc
be exact, is made up of persons under
twenty-one. In the cities only 87.5
per cent of the people are less than
twenty-one. Which is as it should be,
for the country is the place to raise
children. And farm-raised boys and
girls are the life-blood of all large
eitles. —Capper’s Weekly,
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
The universe is full of love, but also of
inexorable sternness and severity.—Carlyle.
—This season is ripe for a corn
party. Issue the invitations on corn
colored paper and write in white ink.
Word in the usual formal way.
Decorate the house with ears of
corn, both red and white. When the
guests arrive pass an ear of corn
tied with ribbon to each, and a wood-
en dish, such as grocers use for but-
ter. Request that each person count
the grains on his corn and keep the
number to himself until all are count-
ed; then collect the kernels and put
them into one receptacle. Then pass
pieces of paper, on’ which each one
must write his name and guess as to
the number of grains of corn in the
bowl. The two who come nearest the
correct number are awarded prizes.
The rewards may be thermometers
fastened on ears of corn, suspended
by ribbon. After this, line the guests
in two lines, for a bee or contest, and
give the head one in each line as
large a handful of the kernels as he
can hold. These must be passed
quickly down the line, the side finish-
ing with the greatest number of ker-
nels, also that finishing quickest, re-
ceiving a prize.
Next supply thread and needles and
a quantity of the kernels, letting the
boys make neck chains for the girls
and the girls watch chains for the
boys.
To find partners place a number of
corn colored ribbons between folding
doors, having the boys in one room
and the girls in another. When all
have selected ends, the doors are
opened and partners revealed.
“Blind Nut Seekers” is another
good game. Let several guests be
blindfolded. Then hide nuts or ap-
ples in various parts of the room or
house and award a prize to the one
findine most nuts or apples. An ap-
ple filled with glazed or salted nuts
will be appropriate.
—Don’t be misled! It isn’t simply
the question of how much attention
vou give your hands. It is rather a
question of how much constant and
well directed care you give them.
All the prodding in the world at
the cuticle to show desired half moons
won’t result in well-groomed looking
hands. As a matter of fact that
very procedure is likely to result in
straggly, broken flesh around the
nails and make the hands look uncar-
ed for and ugly.
In washing use soft water, warm
enough to loosen and remove grime
which may be caught in the delicate
tissue.
After washing be sure to dry the
hands thoroughly. In drying the
fingers massage gently upward to-
ward the tips. This will help to keep
them to the desirable tapering shape.
Don’t forget also, to push back the
cuticle on each nail.
All hands require skin food—es-
pecially if frequently subjected to
water—to keep them soft and white.
There: are many creams and lotions
to be obtained for this purpose. Make
it a practice to give vour hands such
care each night before retiring. You'll
be pleasantly surprsed at the differ-
ence it will make!
To a large extent the appearance
of the nails decide the appearance of
the hands. With so many nail pol-
ishes., creams, ete., in drug store and
beauty parlor, there is not the slight-
; est reason for any but beautiful nails!
Five minutes a day is all that is
necessary! Use long even strokes
with a good nail file. Smooth the nail
edges with emory board. Soak the
hands in soany, warm water so that
the cuticle mav be pushed back with-
ont breaking. Use cuticle remover for
‘the obstinate ones. Tha nalish, the
; buffer. And the job is done!
—A woman with a fairly good fig-
ure and a graceful, erect carriage may
: possibly look smart in a modish gown
| that suits her without having any par-
| ticular claim to chic, says a fashion
j writer in the Detroit News.
i But no woman can really wear a
hat well unless she has chic! A hat
1s a hat, but the way you set it on
i your head—just the little twist here
tor the little pull there—shows wheth.-
;eror not you have this impossible-to-
define quality
have no name, so that we must bor-
row it from the French! :
At first glance the millinery offer-
ings for early fall seem not to differ
especially from those of last fall or
this summer. But think back a mo-
ment—where is the African turban
with which a Paris designer so star-
tled the world last fall? Relegated
apparently in innocuous desuetude!.
Crowns. have “piped .down,”. liter-
ally, and although the draped crown
is by no means demode, it is undoubt-
edly second in favor to the close: fit-
ting one. Where a crown is draped
the drape is far mo=e subtle and takes
the form rather of a clever plaiting
or creasing.
Just for that, some women are
wearing fall models of beaver! The
beaver of this season is not at all like
the fuzzy, furry hats that we wore
when we were children. It appears
rather to be just a new type of felt.
Expressing the mode for flat feather
trimmings is a black velvet hat with
the Mephophelas point at the back,
hich is so kind to the clipped neck-
ine.
One white and one black feather
swirl forms the decoration.
A partial concession to the wider
brim is seen in a felt model, garnish-
ed with grosgrain ribbon and trim-
med with an opaline buckle.
The return: of the smaller crown to
favor predicts popularity for the vel-
vet hat. This lovely material is ad-
mirably suited to the brimless hat,
but even the tiniest brim is difficult
for it due to the neccessity of using
an awkward stiffening underneath.
—“Honey, one of the most nutri-
tious and delicate of foods, should be
eaten more than it is,” writes a cook-
ing expert. “Bought in the comb, it
is bound to be unadulterated, and will
keep one free from sore throat and
bronchial troubles.
for which the English |
FARM NOTES.
—Horses will rest better and their
skin function more freely if they are ||
especially | |
while at heavy work. A light brush- |’
groomed every evening,
ing will then be enough in the morn-
ing.
—The daily feed of a 1,600-pound
horse at hard work should consist of
20 to 24 pounds grain in three feeds
and the same amount of high-quality
timothy or mixed hay divided into two
feeds.
—There is considerable danger of
botulinus poisoning (botulism) when
moldy corn is fed. Horses and cat-
tle are most likely to be affected.
Hogs will be less likely to suffer ill
effects.
—Lime is not a fertilizer but a
stimulant or an amendment. It has
a very beneficial effect upon soil, as
it neutralizes acids, causes the soil
to flocculate and pulverize and be-
come “mellow.” Clovers, alfalfa and
other legumes require considerable
lime for satisfactory growth.
—While many Centre County resi-
dents may think that severe destruc-
tion is caused only by spectular in-
sects, such as, the European corn
borer, Japanese Beetle, and Mexican
bean Dbettle, there are many other
pests which cause tremendous losses
annually. Farm clean-up practice as
used for the corn borer also help to
reduce the numbers of insects whose
work is not so conspicuous. Cleaning
up and burning over headlands and
destroying and burning weeds and
trash have gone into hibernation for
the winter in these places will destroy
thousands of leaf hoppers, curculios,
tarnished plant bugs and other forms
which pass their winters under leaves
and in the grass.
—A nice juicy feed makes “Bossie”
a contended cow: “Succulence in
dairy feeding is necessary for the best
results” declares County Agent, R. C.
Blaney. To carry summer or pasture
conditions until winter some form of
succulence must be supplied. A suc-
culent feed with a good legume hay
furnishes a combination of protein,
minerals, and succulence which ap-
proaches pasture conditions.
Unquestionably, corn silage is the
best and most economical form of
succulence for winter feeding in
Penna. It is palatable, a bulky feed
that is beneficial to the digestive tract
and economical as a source of car-
bohydrates. It whets the appetite
so that animals do not go off feed
easily and huge amounts of rough-
age are consumed when dry hay alone
is fed. :
Not only is silage a good winter
feed but it can be used in the summer
when the pasture acreage is limited
or where pastures are invariably dry
the latter part of the season. The
silo for summer use should be smaller
in diameter than the winter silo so
that the silage can be fed rapidly
enough to prevent spoiling. Silage
can be handled more easily and eco-
nomicaly than soiling crops.
—Bees break up housekeeping by
swarming for one of nature’s three
reasons, according to Charles N.
Greene, State Apiary Inspector,
Pennnsylvania Bureau of Plant Indus-
try. First, to replace an old queen;
second, to provide room for rearing
new brood; third, to provide storage
for incoming nectar.
Mr. Green has found that bees ex-
ercise real foresight before they
swarm.: They load themselves with
honey which is taken from open cells,
so that they will not have to go hun-
gry in case they are not successful in
promptly finding a new home. Bees
usually fly only a short distance after
leaving the hive; they have been
known to hang on a limb of a tree
for 24 hours before leaving for a more
appropriate home. By the time they
are ready for their second flight,
they have very little food left and be-
ing lighter, they fly a much greater
distance, often a mile or more.
“The most peaceful way to recover
them is make sure they are not hun-
gry,” Mr. Greene says. “Feed them
all the honey they want and they will
not sting. The best substitute for
the best honey and always available
‘is granulated sugar and water.
“The beets should never be hived in
an old hive. Secure a modern mov-
able frame hive, one that meets all
the requirements of the State Bee
Law, and place it near the swarm.
Shake the bees into a basket and
then place a few of them near the
entrance to the hive. Once a few
have entered, the rest will follow like
sheep. The queen goes with the
bunch but rarely leads them.”
—No better example of the prowess |’
of the female of the insect world
could be asked than that furnished by
a colony of bees. Always the bee col-
ony is presided over by a queen, and
only so long as she is “on the job” is
there peace and harmony and perfect
co-operation in that bee family.
At her command the hive is cleaned
out each spring, just as the human
mother of a brood of youngsters in-
sists upon cleaning her home after
the long dreary winter. The queen
bee searches out from among the
members of her colony those known
to apiarists as “drones.” And there
is but one sentence for the “drone”—
death.
Those skilled in bee culture will
show you, most any time during the
spring and sunny months, bees busily
engaged in rolling from the hive the
many “drones” slain at the order of
their queen.
The “drone” does not gather nec-
tar; he is the black sheep of the bee
family, a loafer and a sponger. Na-
ture does not even provide him with
a weapon for use in his own deefnse;
she does not equip him with a
“stinger.”
And as the queen rules in the bee
world, so she rules throughout the en-
tire insect world, though most of the
hard work falls to her lot. The in-
sect wife knows nothing of divorce
decrees. When her husband won’t
work she puts him out of the way,
and in doing so guarantees her sis-
ters that he won't be around “spong-
ing” on them.
Horizontal,
1—-First letter of Greek alphabet
Long narrative poems
9—Lubricates
11—A lath
12—Bone
14—Perforated sheet for making de-
signs
16—Preposition
17—Sick
19—Dramatic piece with music
20—Preposition
21—An act
43—Poem
24—To make money
25—Common flower
27—Not right
29—To make a kind of lace
80—Girl’s name
31—A fragment
33—Exhausted
386—Those people
36—Rodent
38—To look at
¢1—O01d oriental coin
43—Period of time
44—Spelling (abbr.)
40—Melody
46—Directs 4T7—Note of scale
48—Imprint 49—Consumes
81—Lower part of the leg
53—Male bee
Urges Saving of Every Ear of Seed
Corn.
Frost in northern and western
counties makes imperative the saving
of every available ear of seed corn
in Centre county, says county agent R.
C. Blaney. He warns farmers of the
county that the seed corn situation is
the most serious in years. All corn
that is dented, even though some of
the grains are in the milk stage, will
make good seed if husked as soon as
possible and hung up to dry in a well-
ventilated room, preferably with some:
artificial heat. There is no prospec-
tive supply of seed anywhere else in
nearby States at present. Hold over
a supply of corn good enough for seed
for this great emergency.
Frosts to date have not hurt the
germination power of the corn. How-
ever, the need of picking all the seed
possible from fields not already frost-
ed is urged. This green corn should
not be left in piles, but must be husk-
ed at once and hung where there is a
attention.
| HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
i eokrect letters are pinced in the
both vertically amd horizontally.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
(©, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
Vertical.
1—To sidestep
3—Italian river
3—Belonging to him
4—Range of voice
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group of essays
8—Companion
7—That thing
8—Having little length
10—Indian mercenary so
11—Propellor
13—Snow vehicle
16—Boy’s name
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16—Chinese organization
18—Tanned skin
20—To provide capital for
22—Personal day book
24—Styles
26—Sainte (abbr.)
28—To tear
31—Vessel
32—To imbibe
33—Raised platform
34—Sour
35—Stints
37—A collection of info
39—Ingenuous
42—To peruse
46—S8teamer (abbr.)
48—Mother
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good circulation of air. The ears
should not touch each other and arti-
ficial heat will hasten the drying and
reduce the mositure content below the
danger point before severe freezing
weather comes.
——The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
It May Be the Wrong Shoe
Have you often seen children squirm and
twist when standing—and but one thing in the world is wrong
—their shoes. You can save your children this torture by
selecting their shoes here, where proper fitting is given
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19 Prosecuted for Oyster Law Viola-
tion.
Nineteen oyster dealers have been
prosecuted so far this year for violat-
ing the State oyster law, according to
a report from the bureau of foods and
chemistry, Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture.
The present oyster law requires
that all oysters be sold at retail by
numerical count instead of by the
pint or quart. This regulation, which
became effective in 1925, makes it im-
possible to add large quantities of
water to oysters as was sometimes
done under the old method of sales.
It also makes it impossible for the
dealer to adulterate by adding ice and
selling ice water with the oysters.
During the present oyster season,
special agents of the Bureau will keep
a careful watch on all oyster dealers
and prompt action be taken for any
violation of the law.
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