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Hibernation of Animals Mystery to
Science.
Nature has many interesting ways
of providing for the survival of
her children during the winter, and
in Britain we can find illustrations of
all the different methods, says T.
Bridges, in the Londen Mail.
Some creatures, such as the fox,
the rabbit, rat and hare, carry on as
usual, for even in the worst of weath-
er they can find food. Others, such as
the bat, the doormouse and the hedge-
hog, fall into a kind of a torpor at the
approach of cold weather and usually
remain in that condition until the
spring. :
Hibernation, as it is called, is not
sleep. It is a state of suspended ani-
mation, a kind of trance. The bodily
temperature of the animal falls to
that of its refuge, and the creature
hardly seems to breathe. You can seal
a hibernating doormouse in a glass jar
yet it still survives. A torpid mar-
mot has been immersed for hours on
end in poisonous gas, yet eventually
awoke none the worse. A hibernat-
ing hedgehog has been placed for 20
“minutes under water without harm-
ing it.
Yet the life processes do continue
for the animal, which is fat as but-
ter when he retires, is thin as a rail
when it awakes in the spring.
_ All reptiles and snakes. including
frogs and toads, become torpid in cold
weather.
Some animals, such as the red
squirrel, sleep only during the coldest
weather. The badger sleeps for most
of the winter, deep in its inaccessible
earth, yet like the squirrel, rouses at
intervals, to move about and feed
Even the doormouse, a very sound
sleeper, wakes occasionally and visits
its store of feeds.
Hibernation is still a good deal of
a mystery. All hibernators do not
retire or rouse at the same time, and
members of the same species vary
atly in their habits of winter sleep.
Tn the colder parts of North America
the skunk sleeps all winter, but far-
ther south does not hibernate at all.
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Japanese Beetle Fight to Begin in
Earnest on July 1.
Agents of the State Department of
Agriculture co-operating with the
Federal government recently began
initial steps in the establishing of the
quarantine against the Japanese beet-
le. Although the uniformed patrol-
men will not take their posts until
after July 1 when the beetle is expect-
ed to become active, other restrictive
measures were imposed today. The
quarantine affects all southeastern
and central counties. .
Transportation from the infected
area of vegetables of any kind known
as beetle carriers is forbidden except
after inspection and proper certifica-
tion. No restrictions are placed on
the movement of Irish potatoes and
sweet potatoes when free from soil,
watermelons, dried fruits and vege-
tables and mushrooms.
Guards to prevent the movement of
banned vegetables will be placed at
several points near Harrisburg, Sun-
bury, Lewisburg, Muncy, Pittston,
Clark’s Summit, Clifford, Carbondale,
Gouldsboro and Bushkill Falls.
The guards on the highways will
not be authorized to issue inspection
certificates. Officers for inspection
will be maintained at Milton, Scran-
ton, Holmesburg, Harrisburg, Lan-
caster and Norristown.
Officials who are directing the drive
against the beetle said that more at-
tention will be directed this season on
the use of sprays to fight the insects.
One of the largest community spray-
ings is planned for Jenkintown.
wwe Abolishing Bill Boards,
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The practice of abolishing sign
boards and other large signs along
the highways, is increasing in many
communities, and it is predicted that
the time is not far away when nearly
every State will have legislation that
will compel the advertisers to seek
elsewhere to spend their money in ad-
vertising their business. Many States
and counties have laws that forbid
the placing of the sign boards along
a public highway. Back there a few
years ago when “Old Dobbin” was
used, a person had time to read these
signs, but in this day, the average
motorist can’t take time to catch the
first line. Advertisers of national
prominence are beginning to learn
now that outdoor advertising of this
nature is spending money foolishly.
In the last few months several nation-
ally known concerns have placed in-
creases in advertising for newspapers,
indicating that the preference in that
direction is growing, because a news-
paper is the place for such advertis-
ing. The outdoor signs along the
highways not only detract from the
value of the official highway markings
but divert the attention of drivers
of motor vehicles away from their
duties as well as marring the road-
side beauty. The money that is spent
on a single billboard would place that
same advertising message in many
newspapers, which in turn would be
taken into thousands of homes and
read. In a few years it is highly pos-
sible that billboards along our high-
ways, will be gone, because no one
reads them any more in this mile a
minute age.—Port-Allegheny Report-
er.
$121,860 in State Bounties.
The State Game Commission dur-
ing the fiscal year ended June 1 paid
out $121,860 in bounties for noxious
animals killed within Pennsylvania.
The smallest amount went to 11
hunters in Philadelphia, who received
$39 for four gray foxes and 23 wea-
sels. The largest amount went to
1,057 persons in Lycoming county,
who received. $4,499 for 27 wildcats,
518 gray and 824 red foxes and 1,374
weasels. :
C. [173,841
Triennial Census Shows 2,301 Farms
+ in. Cambria: County. == .
‘The second triennial farm census,
recently completed in Cambria coun-
ty, shows 2,301 farms, 2,016 of which
are operated by owners, 207 by ten-
ants, and 78 by managers, according
to L. H. Wible, director, bureau of
staitstics, Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture.
The covnty has a total farm popu-
lation of 12,269, according to the cen-
sus, and a total acreage in farms of
of which 65,221 is used for
the principal field crops. The acreage
devoted to these crops is as follows:
Corn for grain 4,141; for silage and
fodder, 1,789; wheat, 3,283; oats, 14,-
272; rye, 1,258; buckwheat, 5,011; po-
tatoes, 3,676; alfalfa hay, 272; all
other tame hay, 31,619.
The extent of fruit growing is indi-
cated by 69,088 apple trees of bearing
age and 14,307 of non-bearing age,
18,003 peach trees of all ages, anu
17,602 pear trees of all ages.
The livestock industry is represent-
ed by 3,635 horses, including colts, 195
mules, including mule colts, 6,22:
milk cows and heifers two years old
and over, 1,524 heifers one to two
years old, 2,094 other cattle anc
calves, 1,626 sows and gilts for
breeding, 7,350 other swine, and 1,-
803 sheep and lambs.
The count shows 101,050 hens and
pullets of laying age, 80,555 othe:
chickens, and 1,567 hives of bees on
the farms.
Modern equipment and conveniene
es on farms are as follows: 573 farm
homes have running water in the
kitchen and 578 have furnace heating
systems. The farms have 29 milking
machines in ‘use, 1,459 automobiles,
537 trucsk, 366 tractors, 634 gas en-
gines, 625 telephones; 286 radios and
312 silos. Ninety-one of the farms
have their own electric plants, and
353 receive electricity from a power
station.
Indian Contempt.
Troops on the plains always en-
deavored to give a fitting funeral to
such soldiers as died or were killed
while on a hike. But at times this
was impossible and bodies were left,
to be scalped by the hostiles and fin-
ished by crows and wolves.
On several occasions trenches were
filled with the bodies of the deceased
and horses picketed thereon to dis-
guise the place of concealment, a trick
not always successful.
In the beginning the Indians would
not violate a grave, but seeing the
whites molest every Indian grave they
found, the war-whoops adopted the
white man’s customs in this respect,
more to show their contempt for the
whites than for any desire for “cold”
scalps. The latter brought them lit-
tle honor, and no entertainment, but
their resentment was deep.
When Spotted Tail, Red Cloud and
other chiefs were in Washington in
1870, Congress was called upon to
pass a bill for providing funds for
their entertainment; one of the items
being thirty dollars for candy.
While at the White House the dele-
gation was served with ice-cream in
cut glass bowls with gold spoons.
Red Cloud remarked to Grant that |
he was glad to see that his white
brothers were not suffering from pov- |
erty and obliged to live on roots and
corn mush and that it appeared the:
whites had many kinds of food which
they did not send to the agents for
distribution to the red men; adding
as an afterthought—
“Perhaps the warm hearts of the
agents melt this sweet snow before it
can be given to the Indians.”—From '
Adventure Magazine.
Urges Hot Water Equipment. |
An ingenious suggestion that the :
royal air force be equipped with hot- !
water, and hot-oil motor trucks for |
the purpose of speeding up the warm-
ing of airplane motors in cold weath-
er has been advanced by Flight Lieu-
tenant R. E. H. Allen in a paper pub-
lished by the Royal Aeronautical So-
ciety.
According to Lieutenant Allen, the
adoption of such a scheme would do
away with the present need of wait-
ing fifteen to twenty minutes while
the airplane engines slowly “tick ov-
er” until they are warm enough to
run wide open. The warm water and |
warm oil, he says, would also simplify
the process of starting the engines.
Under his plan a motor truck would
be fitted with an ordinary boiler heat-
within the water boiler would hold
the lubricating oil for the airplane
engines, and this would be heated by
contact with the hot water. In ope-
ration the truck would drive down the
line of waiting airplanes and the hot
water from the truck pumped directly
into the radiators of the airplane en-
gines, and the oil into the oil tanks.
Thus many valuable minutes would be
saved in warming up the engines, and
there would also be a considerable
saving of gasoline as now used in
gradually warming up the engines un-
der their own power.
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“The Twist,” New Dance Accorded
First Prize by French Experts.
“The Twist” new dance step creat-
ed by Camille de Rhynal, has just
been awarded first prize at the Inter-
national Dancing Federation which
met in the famous old Bal Bulier.
In sharp contrast to the late
Charlestons and Black-bottoms, the
striking feature of this new step is
that the feet never leave the floor.
While by no means returning to pre-
jazz figures, it has something of the
classical about it, substituting a turn-
ing, gliding motion in place of rapid,
jerky movements.
“The Twist” is made up of six fig-
ures, danced to gavotte time. “Blues”
music may be played at slow tempo
to serve for the new step, but the
creator is now composing a music of
its own.
The French who were never very
fond of jazz, are delighted with “The
Twist.”
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news while it is news.
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Properly organized Cemetery Associations have a fund,
the income from which is applied to the perpetual care of
certain lots. The Union Cemetery of Bellefonte has such
a fund, all of which is invested in government securities.
By the payment of a moderate sum to the Association,
it will engage to care perpetually for the designated lots.
There are few sadder sights than a neglected grave. It
tells the tragic story of the transient nature of life—how all
things pass away. For a few years loving hands care for it,
one by one they, too, join the great procession. Soon none
remain and weeds and brambles replace flowers and turf.
An endowment paid to the Association or a sum left in
Trust with this bank will insure the perpetual care of your
lot. Do this while you live or provide for it in your will.
The First. National Bank
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Solution will appear in mext issue.
Auto Adjusted to its Driver.
Making automobiles that ar: ad-
justable to the individual driver, m-
stead of compelling the driver. to ad-
just himself to an uncomfortable posi-
tion in the car, is.one of the newer
trends in motor-car construction, both
in America and abroad.
More than comfort is involvad in a
correct position. Sitting in proper
relation to steering wheel, clutch
pedal, brake pedal and controls, means
freedom from fatigue and, even more
important, safety in driving—for on-
lv when the driver is in proper posi-
tion can he quickly and efficiently ope-
rate the controls. ;
Means of effecting a comfortable
driving position formerly was avail-
able only in the costlier cars; now a
new brougham offers an example of
, What has been done in the lower-price
class.
A total variation of five inches in
the position of the driver is provided
by adjustments in the clutch and
brake pedals and also in the front
seats. The rubber pedal pads are
mounted on substantial bars that are
clamped into the clutch and brake
levers proper, and these clamps al-
low a variation of the pedal position
totaling two inches.
The adjustability of the front seat,
in a fore and aft direction, totals
three inches. The two adjustments,
in combination, thus allow a total
change amounting to five inches. The
driver having unusually long legs can
drop the pedals two inches and move
the seat back all the way, and have
five inches more room than a man of
opposite build, who will raise the
pedals all the way and adjust the
seat in its extreme forward position.
A combination of adjustments can
be made to suit the stout driver. He
can move his seat back to give him
ample space between steering wheel
and cushion, and raise the pedals to
keep them in easy reach.
Relative position of front seat and
pedals is of prime importance. If
there is too little room, the driver will
be sitting in a cramped position and
will be unable to operate the brake
pedal with maximum effect.
When the brake pedal is fully de-
pressed, the driver’s leg should not be
extended to the utmost—there should
be additional thrusting power in re-
serve, to exert greater pedal pressure
if required. :
Over Niagara Falls in Giant Rubber
Ball is Planned for July 4th.
amet:
Jean A. Lusier, Springfield, Mass.,
a former parachute artist and motor- |
cycle racer, seated in a 600 pound rub- |
ber ball; eight feet in diameter plans
to “ride Niagara Falls in safety and
be one of the few to live and tell the
tale.”
Lussier after planning for the
“stunt” for more than year is in
Akron, Ohio., negotiating with a rub-
ber company for the construction of
his unique sphere to be completed by
July 4 when he expects to “bowl
across the Falls.”
The Springfield, Mass., man intends
to “go over” in a somewhat different
manner than the four successful Ni-
agara “Navigators.” Lussier says he
will ride in his ball on an airplane
and be tossed from the airship into
the Niagara river just above the
American Falls.
The ball is to be weighted down in
order that “the man inside sitting in
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America’s Wealth is Now 320 Billions.
The United States is worth $320,
000,000,000.
Its wealth has increased 4,400 per
cent since 1850 and is still on the rise
according to data compiled by econ-
omists of Stone & Webster and Blod-
get, Inc., survey, to be published of
American investment situation. -
In popular form the survey con-
tains this information by the presen-
tation of such facts as the following,
comparison being with 1890:
Railroad mileage has increased
from 93,296 to 250,000.
Morse’s primitive telegraph instru-
ment has been augmented with 18,-
500,000 telephones, wireless teleg-
raphy, radio and television.
The value of American manufac-
tures has increased from $9,372,379,
000 to $62,700,000,000.
Short tons of freight carried by the
railroads have risen from 77,200,000,-
000 to 444,000,000,000.
Farm products have moved in val-
ue from $2,460,000,000 to $19,700,000,
000.
Primary horsepower has climbed
from 5,900,000 to 35,800,000.
Exports have risen from $850,000,-
000 to $4,870,000,000.
Individual deposits in all banks
have moved up from $4,060,000,000 to
$48,880,000,000.
Population has increased from 62,-
000,000 to 117,136,000.
And, in the same time, the people
of the United States, riding in 23,-
000,000 automobiles, have wiped out
a debt to Europe of $600,000,000 and
built up a credit abroad of approxi-
mately $14,000,000,000.
Chicago’s Next World’s Fair.
Chicago is planning for another
world’s fair in 1933 that will beat
the Chicago “World's Fair of 1893
«10 times over.” Millions of people
will visit this fair in airplanes and
automobiles, something not in exis-
blossomed on Chicago’s lake front in
1893. Chicago has changed some,
too, in 85 years. Its population,
wage-earners and factories have trip-
led, its foreign trade has increased
five times, its assessable wealth 20
times. Chicago today is 10 times the
city it was in 1898, and it will turn
this exposition over to the architects
and artists as it did the old one. The
result may well be another vision that
will last its beholders a lifetime.
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The Fauble Stores
$22.50 SUITS
For Men and Young Men are the
Biggest: REAL VALUES in
Men's Clothing Ever
Offered in Centre County
These Suits are All Wool, Hand-Tai-
lored throughout. Styled by one of
New York’s Foremost. Makers.
They were all made to retail from $30
to $35. Backward season torced the
maker to sacrifice. We, in turn, are
passing the Big Saving on to you.
See them—compare them with what,
other stores are asking $10 more for—
IS ALL WE ASK.
You will Buy Ours---you
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