Bellefonte, Pa., December 2, 1927.
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THIRD DEATH ADDS
TO KANAGA RIDDLE
Kodiak, Alaska.—Do the deep sea- |P
worn caves of lonely Kanaga island
conceal strange animal-like men who
venture out at low tide to prey on
natives and white fox-farm attend-
ants? For the third time in a year a
Seattle man’s death adds to the north
riddle. Thus far the toll of Kanaga
includes T. Shruger, Tom Marrah and
P. H. Munro.
More than a score of Aleuts have
fallen victims to some mysterious
power at various times in recent
years, yet there has been no witness
of the terrible deeds committed nor
has a clew to the malefactors been
found. Fox-pelt poachers do prey
among the fur islands, but they rare-
ly molest the islanders, fearing dis-
closure of their crimes. The Aleut
natives are peaceful men, seldom per-
turbed to the fighting point.
Kanaga is the home just now of
the largest blue fox farm in the
world, The island lies near the tip
of the Aleutian group, the relic of
terrific submarine upheaval centuries
ago. Besides Aleuts, there are a few
persons descended from the Baranoff
explorers and the Muscovian influence
is shown in their mode of living—low-
roofed stone houses with large fire-
places where the fires seldom die
down as a rule. Pelting of furs is
the occupation, besides fishing and
hunting.
Day after day in autumn and win-
ter Kanaga is veiled with dense fog;
the furious sea beats the rocky shores,
wearing deep caves far into the
bowels of the sandstone formation.
Some of the caves are a mile back
with high vaulted ceilings. In these
natural tombs Aleuts bore their dead,
each body rolled in layer after layer
of long seaweed or kelp. The dead
were mummified and today are in a
good state of preservation.
In spring Kanaga casts off the drab
clothing of winter. Lupines, lilies
and wild celery transfer it into a
great flower garden. Sea fowl by
the million come to eat the wild rice
and schools of fish. The towering
cliffs are covered with spruce and
there is a strange wild beauty all
around. Wild and semidomesticated
foxes overrun the land.
Lured by the natural torpid sur-
roundings, the Aleuts have become
half-dazed, the white settlers morbid,
until all move about as dead living
people. In the mummy caves are
found grotesque masks, ikons and
oriental carvings. The beach receives
a backwash from many shores. Drift-
wood from Asia reaches Kanaga in
terror and superstitions of the
islanders. :
Little wonder the stranger landi
at Kanaga is held at a distance, an
peering eyes watch from secret places
until suspicion is overcome. :
On Kanaga island it is said Irish
turn into Russians, Russians become
Chinese and all finally become queer,
rimitive human beings, lacking am-
bition and imbued with a curious de-
sire to worship the mummies in the
echoing caves of Neptune.
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Grow Food Supplies for Zoo Denizens.
Transportation of food to the ani-
mals is quite a problem in any zoo,
and at the National Zoological park
at Washington an effort is being
made to grow provender right on the
spot.
A large garden is operated not far
from the pens and it supplies kale,
spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, beet
tops and the like in huge quantities.
Even the lawn clippings are fed to
the ruminants and water fowl, and
trimmings from trees—the leaves,
bark and small twigs—are accepted
greedily by the browsing animals.
Recently an orchard was set out
and it is expected that soon all the
apples that can be used will be grown
right in the park.
Bird Societies.
In nearly every country town peo-
ple have bird clubs established and
they have come to be useful inasmuch
as children are allowed membership
and through the efforts of the older
people to train and teach them why
bird protection is necessary when
considering that birds protect the
food that feeds the nation, they learn
a useful lesson that will ever be
brought into practice in their future
lives. It would be a nice undertaking
and a splendid development for our
game protectors to get started. There
is no doubt in the least that that
venture would be a successful one.
The reasons that many do not pro-
tect wild game is because they are not
educated to do so.—Osceola Leader.
Feed for Wild Game Needed.
On Tuesday the season for pheas-
ants and turkeys came to a close.
Perhaps a great many of the hunt-
ers are not pleased with the short
season., But as the saying goes, “All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy.” The next thing the hunters
should turn their attention to is the
providing of feed for the remaining
birds and animals. The proper feed
for wild game is very scarce in the
woods and the sooner this is realized
and action taken in the direction of
furnishing feed before the cold weath-
er sets in the better will be the sup-
ply of birds for the next season.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market
34-34
THAT LEG OF LAMB
Buy one of our tender, juicy leg of
lamb, have it cooked, not too much,
cut it in thin slices at right angles
with the bone, and you will have the
most delicious “meat Gourse for dih- 1
ner you could wish to eat. And do
not forget that cold roast lamb the
next day or for supper makes an
ideal dish. Stew, of course; for the
end of it.
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© FARM CALENDAR.
It is necessary to put off until
spring the overhauling of the spray-
er. On inclement days it should be
taken apart, oiled and worn parts re-
placed.
Now that the frost hos killed the
tops of cannas, gladioli, and other
summer flowering stock, dig the bulbs
and corms so that they can be stored
for the winter.
See that you have good viable and
disease-free seed for use in the
spring. Be sure that all seed is thor-
oughly dried and stored in a place
where it will not get wet or be de-
stroyed by rats and mice.
Many eggs are broken and cracked
before the “shipper delivers them at
the station. A recent survey showed
an average of 7.5 eggs per case dam-
aged when the eggs were delivered at
the station by the shipper.
A cow in thin condition cannot do
her best at the milk pail. The time
to put the flesh on a good producer
is when she is standing dry. A cow
needs a rest of 6 to 8 weeks before
freshening and at that time she should
be put in condition for her next milk-
ing period, says Pennsylvania State
College dairy specialists.
Garden refuse infested with
diseases and insects should be cleaned
up and burned before winter comes.
This practice will eliminate consider-
able trouble with garden pests next
year.
ed with insects may be plowed un-
der at this time or placed in a com-
post pile to be used in the spring.
The San Jose scale is very often
brought in on nursery stock. This is
a small flake-like scale. In taking a
knife and lifting up this scale you
will find a small yellow insect under-
neath. Examination under a micro-
scope will show that this insect has a
sucking mouth part that it inserts
into the tissues of the plant, and in
this way obtains its food. One pair
of these scales is capable in a year’s
time, under favorable conditions, of
multiplying into 10,000,000.
If horses are lousy in the spring at
shedding time it is more than likely
they will go into the winter infested
unless treated to eradicate the pests.
When the animals shed their hair in
the spring the lice seem to disappear,
and the farmer is led to believe that
his horses are free. Some of the lice
usually remain on the animals during
the entire summer, but not in suffi-
cient numbers to cause annoyance or
to be easily detected. The animals,
therefore, usually go into the winter
infested, and during cold weather lice
increase very rapidly.
Since the best remedies are liquid
dips, which cannot safely be used on
horses during cold weather, fall dip-
ping should be practiced whenever
horses have been lousy at shedding
time in the spring, says the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Three kinds of parasites are common-
ly found on the skin of the horse in
the United States—lice, mange mites,
and ticks. All three may be present
on an animal at the same time. The
lice can be eradicated by spraying or
dipping the infested animals twice
days between treatments.
Mange is one of the most injurious
skin diseases that affect horses. Four
or more djppings at intervals of from
five to seven days usually eradicate
the most common form of the disease.
Lime sulphur and nicotine dips are
suitable for controlling mange.
Many different kinds of ticks affect
horses. The spinose ear tick is nreva-
lent on horses in the southwest and
causes serious damage. The ticks en-
ter the ears of animals, where they
may be destroyed by a mixture of two
parts pine tar and one part cotton-
seed oil injected into the ear canal.
Complete instructions as to the
various dips and remedies suitable for
eradicating these three parasites of
horses may be had by writing to the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington.
To learn exactly to what extent
certain birds are aids to agriculture
and to determine whether their good
qualities overbalance the evil they do,
the biological survey of the United
States Department of Agriculture has
for many years been making scientific
studies of their food habits. All that
can be learned out-of-doors by watch-
ing the birds is valuable, but the sure
way of finding out what a bird eats
is to examine the contents of its
stomach and to identify what is found.
W. L. McAtee, a biologist in the
bureau, describes the method of ex-
amining the stomach content of a
bird. “It consists of washing all ma-
5 | terial into a white-lines tray, sepa-
rating the larger particles on white
blotters, catching the more finely
ground food on a bolting cloth, trans-
ferring this to blotters, and finally
identifying the component parts of
the whole under a microscope. Identi-
fication is facilitated by compariscs
with collections of seeds, fruit, in-
sects, snails, and bones of birds, mam-
mals, reptiles, and amphibians; in
fact, of all classes of objects eaten by
birds. A card prepared for each
stomach contains a full inventory of
food items and their relative per-
centages by bulk, and when a suffi-
cient number of these index cards
have been accumulated for any species
of bird the percentages of the prin-
cipal items of food for each month
are calculated, and the average for
the season or year is taken. These
are the figures quoted in official re-
ports on food of birds. From the
percentages and the economic value
of the food items the utility of the
bird can be closely estimated.”
It is on the basis of such informa-
tion that the biological survey has
been able to combat prejudices against
certain birds, such as hawks and
owls. The sharp-shinned, Cooper, and
duck hawks feed largely on birds and
are injurious. The great horned owl
gets only poultry that is improperly
exposed at night, but is otherwise
beneficial. The remaining species of
hawks and owls, more than fifty in
‘all, have chiefly useful habits. They
; feed on a great variety of rodents and
"have a tremendous effect in controll-
ing the number of these pests. The
Refuse not diseased or infest- | pe
with an" interval of from 14 to 16
: barn owl is one of the most useful of
birds. Large percentages of mice,
rats, and pocket gophers are noted
on the feeding cards, showing that
the barn owl is constantly doing work
of great value to agriculture. Owls
as a group have long been persecuted
by man, but never has persecution
been more unjust. When their num-
bers are greatly reduced in any com-
munity farmers will be forcibly re-
minded of the fact by a great increase
in the number of destructive rdoents.
WHAT IS YOUR FEAR BOGY?
Not so very long ago there were
monarchs who lived in constant fear
of being poisoned. They never par-
took of food until their cooks or oth-
some of it.
rulers, even in recent times, notably
of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia
and the Sultan of Turkey.
Most people would say that life un-
der such conditions would hardly be
worth living. Yet there are few
among the great mass of mankind to-
day who do not live in the constant
shadow of some kind of fear. People
do not know just what they are afraid
of, but they are afraid of something.
They have a foreboding of impending
evil, a sense of something hanging
over them, a vague dread of some
coming calamity that they can’t es-
cape. You will hear them say: “Well
I'm sure something is going to hap-
n. I don’t know just what it is,
but I feel it very strongly. I don’t
know whether it’s death, sickness, or
an accident in the family, but some-
thing bad is coming.”
1 have a friend who has always
lived under the shadow of fear, who
is always and forever predicting
trouble ahead. I rarely meet him that
he does not see some impending catas-
trophe just in front of us; we are on
the toboggan slide headed toward de-
struction; we are going to have hard
times, worse failures than we have
ever had before. We'll see bread
lines and soup kitchens before spring.
The Bolshevik philosophy is going to
spread over the entire world; labor
is going to seize capital, and this will
mean chaos and ruin. On the per-
sonal side he is afraid that his health
will fail, and that his wife may meet
with an accident; that his children
will go wrong and disappoint him. In
short, there is nothing in the cate-
gory of human ills that he does not
anticipate. 1 have known this man
for many years and few, if any, of
the dire things he has predicted have
ever come to pass.
Are we not all, in some degree, like
him? Almost everyone I know is
worrying about something, anticipat-
ing some evil or misfortune. It is
estimated that there are more than
5,000 different kinds of fear. In fact
fear, in all its different phases of
expression, such as worry, anxiety,
anger, jealousy, superstition, intol-
erance, greed and avarice, is darken-
ing and crippling the lives of most
of us. Fear:is the greatest enemy
of the human race. It has robbed
men of more happiness and efficiency,
has made more men cowards, more
people failures or mediocrities, caused
more crimes and suicides than any-
Fthing else
Yet this Fear devil, with all its
attendant worries and evils, is the
greatest delusion ever conjured up by
the mind of man. Fear is nothing but
a bogy of the imagination, as unsub-
stantial as a soap bubble or a child’s
toy balloon. No matter how dreadful
the face it wears it collapses at the
first touch of courage and common
sense. But in spite of this the ma-
jority of us travel from the cradle to
the grave, suffering, harassed, or
driven to desperation through fear of
something or other, ill health, acci-
dent, poverty, failure—in nine cases
out of ten, something that never hap-
pens.
If we would only utilize the energy
and vitality we now waste in worry-
ing, what marvels we would accom-
plish!
Quit worrying and work. Fretting
and fuming over what is passed and
cannot be helped, or anticipating ills
that may never come will do nothing
but drain your mental and physical
forces, waste your vitality, and de-
stroy your possibilities of growth and
happiness.—O. S. Marden, in Success.
Dogs Live in Luxury.
The dog team that aroused the at-
tention of the world in 1925 when, it
made a dash to diphtheria stricken,
Nome, Alaska, with anti-toxin, is en-
joying the comforts of a hotel in a
Cleveland zoo.
Balto and his seven teammates of
the heroic dash through ice and snow,
have forgotten their early privations
in walks through the zoo park with
school children, showers, and steam
heat when the weather gets chilly.
On Saturday morning, the huskies,
Balto, the exalted; Fox, Sye, Billie,
Tillie, Old Moctoc and Alaska Slim
go for a walk in the park with school
children. Three times a day they
have their ears sprayed to discourage
flies from using them as a landing
field, and at night they step under
a specially-built shower in their ken-
nel for an evening bath.
The kennel is steam heated, and is
fitted out in a way that would give
credit to the most careful handler of
dogs. These facts were brought to
the attention of the public recently
when complaints were made that the
dogs were being mistreated.
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Christmas 1928.
Eire that, during the past year, put
aside each week a little money for Christ
mas praises our Christmas Club.
~ Next week we shall hand checks, amounting
to a good deal of money, to a lot of people who
look ahead—who will not be bothered this year
about holiday expenses.
It is easy to save a little at a time—and even
twenty five cents each week will produce a com-
fortable check at the end of the year.
Let us enroll you for what you think you
can save.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
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giving Day
e all have much for which to be
thankful and as we enumerate
our blessings, we note the pros-
perity of both our Country and home. We
are thankful that the people have made
such progress in things that count for
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