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Bellefonte, Pa., October 12, 1928.
THE SONG OF THE BEE.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
Pilgrim. He'll throw up his tail and
swing when I give him the spur.
knew the judges would have their
glasses on me and that they’d sus-
pect a tiny little electric battery up
my sleeve when they saw the Pil-
grim throw up his tail and swing it
and jump so. I knew they’d all be
watching to see if I threw my little
battery away before I came back to
be weighed in, so, just before I came
under the judges’ stand, I spurred the
dog—and he threw his tail up at
them. They could see I wasn't doing
anything to him except giving him
the steel—and that’s legitimate. And
1 was using the bat on him for fair.
So they didn’t ask any questions, al-
though the secretary came down when
1 weighed in and ran his hands all
over my body looking for the battery
just the same.”
“Midge,” Marion announced sadly,
“that wasn’t sporty of you. You have
without my knowledge and sanction
perpetrated a swindle. I must see
Mr. Banfield at once and explain the
situation to him.”
“Just as you like,” the boy an-
swered cheerfully. There was a comi-
cal amused smile on his little old face
as he watched her depart. When she
returned he said:
“Well, boss, what luck?”
‘He wouldn’t believe me,” she de-
clared indignantly. “I explained the
situation fully—and he just smiled at
me as if I wasn’t more than nine
years old.”
«Sure he did. He thinks somebody
else has offered you more money for
the Pilgrim and that now you're try-
ing to kill the deal and get the horse
back by giving out a lot of apple-
sauce about how I trained him. What
did he say?”
“He said he was obliged to me for
the information, but that he knew a
great race-horse when he saw one per-
form, and anyhow, his stop-watch
confirmed his judgment. He said
that if, in the future, he should dis-
cover I was right about the horse be-
ing a morning-glory he'd remember
your magic and have him waked up.
Then he grinned at me and walked
oft.”
“Sure he would. He’s nobody’s
fool. When he saw the Pilgrim’s tail
go up as we came into the stretch he
was suspicious, but when he saw me
go by the grand stand—when he saw
the Pilgrim’s tail protesting at the
spur, he knew the Pilgrim was a great
horse. You couldn’t buy that horse
from him for twenty-five-thousand-
dollars profit. Remember, Pilgrim's
Pride is a stallion. Banfield thinks
he'll win a few big stakes with him, .
retire him to the stud and get many
times his money back out of him in
colts and fillies.”
“T don’t like this sort of business,
Midge. It isn’t quite honest.”
“Miss Marion, didn’t you do your
best to be honest? Angels can’t do no
more. And how do you know the Pil-
grim won't continue to win rich
stakes under the Questa Rey colors?
How do you know he won’t develop
into a great sire? If Banfield re-
members to tell his jocks to sing him
the song of the bee and jab him—
well, who knows? Banfield isn’t the
man who would refuse to try the sys-
tem out.”
“Well, we’ve sold a horse and Sye-
amore Rancho is out of debt with sev-
enty-five thousand dollars in capital
left. You don’t know it, Midgie, but
you're rather rich for a sixteen-year-
old boy. Ten per cent. of the purse
and the bets is yours. Don’t you
think you might have me appointed
your guardian so I can loo after
your fortune for you? We'll invest
it in good bonds.”
“We'll invest it in a good mare or
two,” he retorted. “Thanks awfully,
Miss Marion. Whatever you say
oes with me.” He removed the
orseshoe-nail ring and hurled it
across the track into the grass of the
infield. “It looks like I'd ought to
be rid of the evidence.”
“Tell me, Midgie dear, how you
happened to think of that stunt.”
“Well, a bee and a morning-glory
go well together, Miss Marion. That
must have suggested the idea to my
father. He told me about it, and
while I was with John T. Banfield I
tried it out on Moderator.”
“Is Moderator a morning-giory,
too?”
“He is. And now John T. Banfield
has another in his stable. Miss Mar-
ion, that’s what I'd call a bouquet!”
—From Hearst's International Cos-
mopolitan.
Etna’s “Cloud-Tree”
One of the most striking phenomena
of the last outbreak of the central
crater of Mount Eina was the forma-
tion of an “eruptive pine,” or “cloud-
tree,” directly above the crater. A
famous example of these volvanic
smoke-trees was seen standing over
Vesuvius during the destruction of
Pompeii. But Etna is a far mightier
and loftier volcano than Vesuvius.
The verge of its great crater is nearly
11,000 feet above sea level and the
“eruptive pine” mentioned rose more
than 10,000 feet above the crater. It
was finally blown off by the wind,
hiding the sun as it drifted away in
an elongated black cloud.
Was She Dumb?
A girl, inspecting bargains in a de-
partment store, picked up a palr of
golf gloves.
Examining the left-hand glove, the
girl said to her companion:
“1 wonder why this one is padded
in the palm?”
“Don’t you know?’ the other said
“That is a golf glove.”
“Oh, 1 see,” was the reply, “and
that's the hand you catch the ball
Pyreneean Farms Laid
Out on Small Scale
In the little pocket-like valleys of
the Pyrenees the soil is black and
rich, though it has been in use for
many centuries. The farmers know
the value of their land and they cher-
ish every foot of it. They keep it
built up by constant fertilizing, mulch-
ing, composting, cultivation and cror
rotation.
But what great odds they have to
labor against! Our American farmers
would hardly have such farms as a
gift. Here we come to a little farm
where a man is plowing with a yoke
of oxen and a very crude plow, just
as in Bible times. Again we see an
ox aud a cow yoked together, for this
farmer can’t afford a pair of oxen.
There goes a man who has borrowed
a plow of a neighbor, gpd it is so
light that he is carrying it on his
shoulder.
As we view the slopes from some
height, the country looks like a piece
of patchwork. The farms in the big
valleys of course are much better than
the hill farms. Cow paths and sheep
paths make a network against the
velvety gray-green of the pastures.
Sheepfolds built of rails, and small
barns of stone, are found on the sum-
mits, to furnish the sheep protection
at night or in bad weather. Some of
the shepherds carry a blue umbrella
strapped to their back in case ir
storms.
Women ard children are helping to
bring in the hay. Often it is done up
in canvas so it can be loaded on the
back of a donkey. The fields are in-
closed by walls of stone or fences
made of saplings or twisted -twigs.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Of Course She Could
Have Anything—but
It must have been her birthday.
The young couple stood before the
jewelry counter of a downtown store,
looking over the stock that ranged.
trom diamonds to cuff pins.
“Now, dear,” he was heard to say
to his fair companion, “this is your
present, so anything you want I will
get. You pick it out and I buy it;
that's all there is to it. Just look
everything over and then tell me what
t will be.”
She beamed on him. Could any-
thing in the world be sweeter? Her
' eves left his face and went back to
the trays of jewelry. Suddenly, with
a gasp of delight she held up a fragile
| string of beads.
{ “Oh, Harry, look! Could I have
| this? I just love it,” she exclaimed.
| Harry, thus addressed, looked it over
beneath drawn brows.
| “Well, now I don’t know, Mary,” he
| answered slowly. “I really don’t think
| you would care for that. You would
| probably break it first thing. Those
beads don’t last long. Let's look down
| the line farther and see if you don’t
| find something you would really like.”
| Indianapolis News.
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| Consistency of Nature
Nature is always consistent, though
she feigns to contravene her own
laws. She keeps her laws and seems
| to transcend them. She arms and
equips an animal .o find its place and
living in the earth, and at the same
time she arms and equips another ani-
mal to destroy it. Space exists to
divide creatures, but by clothing the
sides of a bird with a few feathers
she gives him a petty omnipresence.
The direction is forever onward, but
the artist stHl goes back for materials
and begins again with the first ele-
ments on the most advanced stage;
otherwise all goes to ruin. [f we look
at her work, we seem to catch a
glance of a system of transition.—
Emerson.
And There You Have It
“] hear your son has taken up a
profession, Mr. O’Casey,” remarked the
visitor to the house.
“He has indade,” rejoined the host
“He's phwat they call a ‘cross-ex-
aminer.’” }
This was too much for the stranger.
“And phwat’s a ‘cross-examiner? ”
ne asked.
For a minute or two U’Casey was
at a loss, but eventually he pulled
himself together.
“Sure, it’s a fellow who asks you
Juestions, an’ you answer the ques-
tions an’ then he questions the an-
swers,” he returned easily.
Origin of “Candidate”
Here is one aspect of the origin of
the word “candidate” as applied to
a person seeking office. During a
political canvass in ancient Rome it
was customary for persons seeking the
higher elective offices to appear in the
Forum, Campus Martius and other pub-
lic places dressed in white togas, the
white of the natural wool being bright-
ened with chalk. The Latin word for
white is “candidus,” and an office seek-
er so clad was called “candidatus,”
whence our word “candidate.” The
white toga was intended to signify the
candidate’s purity of purpose in solicit-
ing the suffrage of the people.
Who Invented the Wheel?
The discovery of the wheel is lost in
antiquity. Crude forms of it were in
use already at the dawn of civiliza-
tion. Egyptian and Assyrian chariots
usually had wheels containing six
spokes, according to inscriptions on
ancient monuments. The Romans made
wheels with four, six and eight spokes.
Many historians regard the discovery
of the principle of the wheel as the
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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correet letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words: beth vertionlly and hovisentally. The first lel
indicated by a Wumber, which refers to: the definition” listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed «horisontal” defines a word which will fill
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under
“vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one
below. No letters go ia the black spaces.
except proper RAMOS. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obso=
lete forms are indicated in the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
The first letter in each word In
All words used sre dictionary words,
4—A wager
7—An avifauna
9—Glow about the body (pl)
11—To squirm
13—To state
14—Snakelike fish
15—Boats
17-—To shout
18—To place
20—Fish eggs
21—Pig pen
22—Uncooked
23-—Possesses
24—Biting
25-— Evergreen tree
26—'The heavens
28——Part of horse's harness.
29—Condensed vapor
30A—Drunkard
32—XKind of fruit
33—@Girl's name
35—Short sleep
g7—Employed again
39—Artist's workshop
41—A shaft
¢2—Concerning
43—To place
44—Skill
Make Centre County
100% For Amendment No. 2.
Increased interest in the welfare of
the Pennsylvania State College is be-
coming more apparent in every sec-
tion of the State as the November
ers will decide whether or not the col-
lege will receive the benefits of its
proposed $8,000,000 bond issue for
building neglect at State College and
the necessity this
away almost 2000 applicants.
Within the past week has come one
of the most encouraging indications
that the public is taking recognition
of State College needs. It was the
approval of Amendment No. 2, the
college bond issue item to appear on
the November ballot, through a ref-
erendum conducted by the State
Chamber of Commerce. It was in
this survey that 63.4 per cent. of the
local chambers voting declared, in
effect, that the bond issue method for
financing the State College building
needs had their endorsement. That
leading business men should follow en-
dorsements by the State Grange, the
State Education Association, the
American Legion, Retail Merchants
and a score of other business and
agricultural groups is most encourag-
ing to friends of State College. The
State Chamber of Commerce poll also
resulted in approval of the highway,
forest and welfare bond issues upon
which the public will also vote on No-
vember 6th.
President Ralph D. Hetzel, of Penn
State, declares this approval confirms
the belief consistently maintained by
college officers that the people desire
that adequate provision be made for
th support of public higher education.
“The interests of the youth of Penn-
sylvania constitute an appeal that
cannot be denied,” he says. “With
so many of our buildings totally un-
fit for student occupancy, the people
are realizing that State College needs
immediate attention. It is beginning
to look as though the people of the
State will demand relief through
passage of Amendment No. 2.”
Today is “Father’s
State.
Day” at Penn
The Pennsylvania State College an-
nual “Fathers’ Day” observance will
open tonight, October 12, with an
athletic mass meeting in the Schwab
auditorium at which visiting fathers
of Penn State students will hear
something of the advance details of
the Bucknell-Penn State football game
to be played tomorrow afternoon.
Following the mass meeting the visi-
tors will begin a round of entertain-
ment and inspection of the campus
first significant mechanical discovery |
which will keep them busy for two
| days.
| _ A meeting of the Association of
. Parents of Penn State will be held
| Saturday morning. A soccer game
(and a freshman football game will
i precede the varsity contest, at which
fathers will be guests, and a smok-
{er for fathers and students will be
(held in the evening following the
| game.
Sunday morning the visitors will
| attend the regular weekly chapel
| service with their sons and daugh-
i ters. The mass meeting Friday night,
j the varsity football game, and the
election day draws nearer, when vot- =
year for turning
A Bank Advertisement
VERYBODY knows what a bank is for. It
deals in money and credit. It receives
money on deposit which may be withdrawn
by check. It acts as a Safe Depository for what
one is able to save, and on such deposits it pays
interest. It lends to proper persons, furnishing
credit for many uses. It has Safe Deposit Boxes
for the care of Valuables. Some banks may act
as Trustee, Executor, etc. All these things this
Bank does and they are its chief functions. But
it renders service in many other ways, that ac-
quaintance with us would disclose.
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§—Imitation hair
4—Large passenger vehicle
§—=Sets up
6—To loiter
7=-To be indebteil to
§—Crafty
8—Donkey
10—Pigpen
12—Auditory organ
18—Beerlike beverage
16—Kind of cloth
19—Unspoken
21—Bags
22A—Battle
23—Belonging to him
35—To calculate
27—Over there -z
28—Frame on which corpse is placed
(pl)
29—Father
30—Middlewestern state (abbr.)
31—To infect
32—Brother of a religious order
33—To stitch
84—Greeok jetter
36—Cooking vessel
38—Drunkard
40—Girl’'s name
Selution will appear in next issue.
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Country Boys Can Be Scouts.
The department of rural scouting
of the Boy Scouts of America is con-
ducted by the Lone Scout division for
boys living in rural sections and in
communities not served by Boy Scout
troops. It enables the rural boy to
work for merit badges, scout honors,
in fact everything for which the city
lad is eligible. The Boy Scout offi-
cials oversee the rural scouting de-
partment in connection with the Lone
Scout directors.
The tests for which a rural scout
is eligible to compete for include the
tenderfoot or Tepee Lodge honors,
the second class or Totem Pole Lodge
scout, and the first class or Sagamore
i Lodge Scout. He may also compete
for the Star Scout, Life Scout and
Eagle Scout merit badges. The scout
in the rural section must do much of
his work alone but the assistance of
an adult is recommended by scout
officials.
When there are three or more rural
scouts within a community they may
form a Lone Scout Tribe and add
greatly to the interest of the scout
work. It is much easier to pass tests,
and more enjoyable to have hikes,
camping parties, etc., when there are
a number of scouts to do so together.
A tribe chief, sachem, scribe and
wapum bearer is elected and when-
ever possible an adult should be se-
cured to act as tribe guide. This
person would be an advisor to the
Scouts in their degree work.
A rural Scout may also compete for
the booster honors which carries with
it the LSB (Lone Scout Booster)
title and the gold booster button. The
procuring of new members, forming
tribes, and the soliciting of subscrip-
tions to the Boy Scout and Lone
Scout official organs gives a scout
boosting points. Then he may also
compete for the literary medals.
There are many other features of
rural scouting which appeal to coun-
try youths and those interested
should get in touch with Mr. O. H.
Benson at Boy Scout headquarters,
No. 2 Park Ave., New York City.
Any who are interested write at
once to Marion Snyder, Lebanon,
io.
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to hear it rattle over here.
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tive duty for everyone who owns
property, whether much or little.
Have your lawyer draw your Will now and
appoint as Executor or Trustee the First
National Bank. Our Charter is perma-
nent.
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