(© by D. J. Walsh.)
HEN Fanny Winn heard
sounds of sobbing, and enter-
ing her daughter's room
found Helena on the bed in
tears, she did not ask what was the
matter; she knew. She merely sat
down on the side of the bed and
patted Helena’s thin young shoulders !
with a hand that hard work had thick- |
. I'anny and Helena led the way. It
ened.
“There! There!” she soothed gently. °
Helena dug her feverish, wet face
further in the pillow.
“I'm ashamed of crying, but I can’t
help it,” said said. “Mother, it Just
seems ag if I couldn’t stand it not to
be able to go on with school. If 1
could go to Normal two years 1 could
teach! I—I can’t bear to go to work
in the mill and then perhaps marry
the way Catherine Scott did.”
Fanny knew all about Catherine
Scott. She tried to say cheerfully:
“Qh, it wouldn't be as bad as that!
You can save your money and g~
on studying after a year or two.”
“1 could never catch up. Nobody
ever does. Catherine didn't. There
was a time when she wouldn't have ;
looked at that fellow, but she lost her
courage. And I'm no braver than she
was to begin with.” Helena sat up
and wiped her face, swallowing fur-
ther sobs. “Mother, there’s no way
out of it. Ill have to go to work.
Father hasn't any money to help me
with my education and you've done
all you can. And—and I've Do faith
in our gold mine.”
Fanny was silent. She might have
4aid that she had long ago lost faith
in the gold mine.
That was when she was young and
first married to Everet Winn. She
had listened then entranced to stories
of the wonderful gold mine which °
Everet had inherited from his father.
Fveret’s father in turn had inherited
it from his father, who had been a
rover and adventurer. Everet’s father
had always intended to work the won-
derful mine, but somehow he had
never found either the means or the
ambition. Everet’s idea was to sell it
outright.
money advertising his claims but the
Baby Giant found no buyer. It's local-
ity was obscure, although Everet had
certain papers to prove his ownership,
and although his hair was growing
gray and he had a daughter who
wanted to go to college, he still ex-
pected to derive a fortune from the
gale of the fabulous mine.
In the meantime Fanny had raisec
chickens. taken boarders and rommers.
turned every honest penny that was
possible in order that her daughter
might be fed and clothed and edu
cated. While Everet followed indif-
ferently a job that yielded an inade-
quate income, Fanny had worked and
worried and planned and prayed. But
the time had come when she could do
no more. She could not get the money
necessary to send Helena to Normal
for two years.
“I've lost faith in the goid mine,”
Aelena repeated dully and her mother
in silence echoed that declaration.
Fanny arose from the bed.
“Now, you lie still, dear,” she said.
“Pm going downstairs to work a bit |
in my garden.”
Fanny's garden was a great help to
#ard keeping the family. Everet
never touched it, but Helena assisted
her mother. The girl sprang up now.
“ll come, too,” she said. “I might
48 well be doing some good as lying
here crying.”
The two went downstairs and ou |
| dilute mixture for such a long period,
! probably from the very beginning, that
‘an increase of the oxygen content, un-
. less by the most gradual of steps and
' stages, would probably leave none of
of doors together. The garden was be-
bind the Winn house and considering
the smallness of the space it occu-
pied, it yielded wonderfully. When
Orlando Winn built his house he had
really covered all the ground he pos-
sessed. It was a large, overtopping
house with a great attic stuffed with
all the castoff belongings of three gen-
erations of Winns.
had to buy any furniture; when she
needed a chair or a table she went to
the attic and got it. She had always
wished that there had been less house
than garden, for unless she kept
boarders they used gnly a corner of
the house, and a garden would have
gone far toward supplying them with
food. For some time Fanny had not
been able to keep boarders, for over-
work had affected her health. She
had grown thin and nervous,
As mother and daughter hoed and
weeded the woman who had the day
before moved into the house next door
watched them from her side of the
fence. She was young, she had come
from a city and her husband was an
expert worker at the mill; he earned
probably more in one week than Ev-
eret Winn had ever earned in any one
month in his life.
“Let's do something neighborly,”
whispered Helena. “Let's offer that
woman some radishes and lettuce.”
“All right.” Fanny caught up a
aandful of lettuce, Helena snatched
another handful of crisp, rosy rad-
ishes and they moved closer to the
fence.
“Wonldn't you like these for your
supper?’ Fanny asked. “Things of
this sort are never so good, I think,
as when they're taken fresh from the
ground.”
“Why, thank you!”
gmiled in surprise.
used to such—such kindness. In the
city one has no neighbors. Why, I
didn’t know a single person in the
apartment house where I lived.”
“1 shouldn’t like that,” Fanny said,
The womar
“You see, I'm not
. cheap.
: interested in these things?
Once it had lured. ;
He had spent much honest |
Fanny had never
| radical modification of our breathing
| apparatus to thrive with even twice
"ag much oxygen as we normally get.
and they leaned on the fence and be
gan to get acquainted.
“] think we're going to like the
country very much,” Mrs. Knox sald,
“except for one thing. I can’t find any
furniture 1 want; we only brought
what we had to have from the city,
and the things they have in that little
shop downtown look so shiny and
I'm afraid we'll just have to
live in a bare house until we can get
to the city again.”
“Oh, don’t do that!” cried Fanny.
She found she liked this frank little
* woman very much. “I'll lend you some
things. Our house is stuffed with old
furniture. But come up to our attle
and I'll show you.”
Mrs. Knox laid her radishes and let-
tuce on the ground and followed as
was close and hot in the attic and the
light was dim, but Mrs. Knox had
good eyes. She went straight to a
forlorn-looking old dresser and laid
her hand on it. Her manner grew
suddenly curious and eager.
“It—it is mahogany !” she exclaimed.
She moved from one decrepit article
to another. “And this—and this—
why, Mrs. Winn! How fortunate yov
are. You've got a gold mine here.”
“A gold mine!” Fanny and Helena
exchanged a stare. “A gold mine!”
Helena repeated after her mother.
“A gold mine, indeed! I know a
man in the city who will buy every bit
of this at a fabulous price. Youdon't
want to give such stuff as this away
You want to sell it.”
“But it’s broken and rubbed!”
“It can be made as good as new.
Why, I've seen Mr. Mahin, that man I
was telling you about, construct a
whole console out of a few pieces of
the original design—and sell it for ¢
thousand dollars.”
“A thousand dollars!” gasped Fanny.
“Oh, do you think you could get him
The house
is full of them. I want to send my
daughter away to school and I can’t
unless—” Her voice broke.
“Pll write—no, I'll telephone to Mr.
Mahin this very day,” promised Mrs
Knox.
The following day the furnitura
maker arrived from the city. He
bought every bit of old furniture
fanny had in her house.
“Well, it looks pretty empty,” Fanny
said to Helena as after the furniture
had been carted away in a big van
she and Helena were looking about,
“but you can buy more some day
when you get to teaching.”
“Mother! Two years at Normal
without skimping on anything for me
and two years of rest for you with
money for everything; why, no gold | 37. Enough. (noeiic)
i 53—Relative (abbr.)
mine could do much better than that.”
Fanny laughed.
Need Be No Concern
Felt for Air Supply
Such as it is, no one has a real kick
coming about the quantity of air that
makes up our atmosphere. There's a
lot of it any way we look at it. Elev-
en and two-thirds trillions of pounds,
if one wants the figures and knows
how to string ‘em out in a row.
There's so much of it that its mere
weight presses down on each of us
to the extent of some fourteen tons,
and we never feel it. There is all the
air likely to be needed for birds, air-
planes and balloons, and when it
moves about as a gentle zephyr or an
unpleasantly rough tornado the sup-
ply is not lessened. But when it
comes to breathing it we have some-
thing else to say.
Normal air contains only about a
! cull fifth, 20.96 per cent, of oxygen,
and it is the oxygen that keeps us
alive and running. The nitrogen,
which makes up the bulk of the re-
. mainder, is a mere space filler and we
breathe it in and out again because
* we must in order to get our broker-
age of oxygen.
But we have been breathing this
us surviving. We can use a little
more oxygen in emergencies, such as
; when we have given a chap rather
too much nitrous oxide or the like to
put him to sleep, but we would need
There is no prospect of any such
nerease, however, and the probabili-
ties are that any change would be in
the reverse direction, which is com-
| forting enough for the deep-breathing
lads with the big chests.—Kansas City
Times.
Gentle Hint
They sat together on the pier, look-
ing across the bay at the white-winged
yachts.
“Sweet!” he whispered.
these people a nuisance?”
“Pity there are so many of them.”
“Wouldn't it be divine to be on an
island, with the blue sky overhead,
feathered songsters in the woods. a
carpet of ferns for our feet, just you
and I?”
“Nobody else?”
“Why, who else would we need,
dearest?”
“Well, *Orace,” she said, “I wouldn't
mind one man with an ice cream stall.
I could just do with a raspberry and
vanilla.”—London Tit-Bits.
Their Mistake
Another wedding anniversary had
arrived but the June bride of 20 years
ago was determined not to mention
the date and see whether her husband
would remember the event. As he was
preparing to leave for his work the
complacent husband remarked: “I'll
be home early this evening and we'll
go out and: celebrate our mistake of
20 years ago todav.”
“Aren't all
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‘ing to age and sex.
i ranges from small
: markings,
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words hoth vertically
indicated by a number, which refers to
and horizontally.
The first letter in each word is
the definition listed below the puszie.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fil
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under
éyertical” defines a word which will all the white squares to the next black one
below.
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obso-
lete forms are indicated in the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
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Who Compose The Army of Savings
Bank Depositors?
F it those who do not pay their bills?
Those who buy things they do not need?
Those who mortgage future earnings for un-
necessary purchases?
We think not.
Rather those who are mindful of the future.
Who prepare now, for thel inevitable hour
when their earning power will end.
Who are willing to forgo present enjoyment
for future comfort.
Who know that there are many accidents in
life that can only be relieved by money.
It is the prudent saver, not the reckless
spender who keeps business going.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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branes
49 Il 50 51 52
53 54 55
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal. Vertical.
1—Sack 1—Part of a harness
4—Toy wagons 2—Extent
8—Nequest 8—Venetian boat
11—Golf club
13—Piece of neckwear
14—Building lot
15—Doctrine
17—A knight-errant
19—Turkish town in Asia Minor
21—Stream
23—Musteline mammal
26—Boy's nickname
27—Night birds
29—-To pierce, as with an animal's
horn
81—Note of scale
32—Serpent
83—Buffalo
84—Vehicle
35—Preposition
36—Misplaces
37—To check
38—Also
89—Number below ten
41—Intoxicating liquor
43—Sylvan deity (myth)
46—Breakfast food
47—Body of soldiers
49—Period of time (pl.)
50—Circumference of a wheel
64—To go In
sacred theology
(abbr.)
b—Preposition
6—To tear
7—To rip
8—Helped
9—To mix, as dough
10—Knowledge
12—Cattle of the ox kind (pl)
14—Conserves
16—Explosive
18—Kind of cloth
20—A shield
22—Kind of bird
24—Flowers
26-—Meadow bird (pl)
28—Conquered
30—Same as 24 vertical
31—Distant
33—Same as 41 horizontal
84—Vailley with high steep sides
(pl)
36—Appears
87—Measure of length in metric
system (var. sp.)
38—Sum
40—Large tub
41—Uncovcered
42—To merit
44—Base
45—Over (poetic)
46—Lighted
48— Public works dept. (abbr.)
51—This person
Solution will appear In next issue.
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BRONZE TURKEYS BEST LIKED. |
The bronze turkey holds the place
of honor gmong its tribe. It is a
cross between the wild and the tame
Its beautiful, rich plumage
and its size have come from its wild
progenitors. To maintain these de-
sirable qualities crosses are continu-
ally made. In this way the mammoth
size has been gained. Their stand-
ard weight ranges from 16 to 36
pounds, according to age and sex.
Probably more of this variety is a
ground of black, blazoned or shaded
with bronze. This shading is rich and
glowing, and when the sun’s rays are
reflected from these colors they shine
turkey.
like polished steel. ;
The Narragansett turkeys are next
in size to the bronze. They are of
black ground color, each feather end-
ing with a band of steel gray, edged
with black. This imparts a grayish
cast to the entire surface plumage.
Mixed with this is the finish of me-
tallic black and bronze luster.
The standard weights of this va-
riety are, for males, from 24 to 30
pounds; for females, from 12 to 18
piunds, Some old males of both this
and the bronze variety weigh over 40
pounds.
The buff turkey is not generally
known throughout the country. In
many localities it is almost unknown.
The standard calls for a pure buff
color throughout, but this shade of
coloring is seldom seen. As bred for
market these turkeys are of a red-
dish buff or light chestnut color mix-
ed with white and some dark shad-
ings. They are highly valued in some
localities for their quick growth and
for their attractiveness when dressed.
Their average weight is several
pounds less than that of the Narra-
gansett.
The slate turkey might be called a
blue turkey. They about average in
size with the buffs and blacks. They
range from 10 to 26 pounds, accord-
e black color
spots to larger
but the less of this the
better for exhibition purposes. It
{ might be surmised that the slate tur-
key originated from a cross of white
and black turkeys.
In America the white turkey is
called the white Holland turkey. The
reason for this is not apparent,
though some think it is so called be-
cause it originally came from Hol-
land. White turkeys were formerly
quite delicate and rather small, but |
now are more generally developed.
The standard of weight is less for
the whites than for other varieties.
They range from 10 pounds for young
hens to 26 pounds for old toms. In
color of plumage they should be white
throughout (except that each has a,
black beard on the breast), with’
shanks and toes pinkish white.
Passing the Buck i
A teacher in a local Sunday school
wanted to reprove a small boy. {
“Johnnie,” she said, quite solemn-
ly, “I'm afraid I shall never meet you
in the better land.”
Johnnie gave her a look of aston-
ishment. i
“Why, teacher,” he said, “whatever !
have you been doing now?”
Solution of Last Week's Puzzle.
J|A[PEIS |
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NEW POSTAGE STAMPS
TO COMMEMORATE AIR MEN
Postmaster General New has given
orders for issuance of a new two-
cent stamp and a five-cent commem-
orative stamp in connection with the
International Civil Aeronautics Con-
ference to be held here Dec. 12, 13
and 14. He directed also that a spe-
cial postoffice station be established
in the building of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, where the
meetings will be held. A special can-
celing machine with a new steel die
will be used there.
The new stamps are to be the same
shape and size as the special delivery
stamp. The two-cent stamp will be
printed in red ink and the five-cent
stamp in blue ink. At the top is a
dark border panel with wording “U.
S. Postage” in white Roman lettering;
a small seroll is at each end, and un-
der the panel in small architectural
Roman lettering are the words “In-
ternational Civil Aeronautics Confer-
ence.” On either side of the stamp
are narrow border panels; within the
borders are shown, on the left the
Washi n Monument and on
the right the United States Capitol;
in the centre is a picture of the
Wright aeroplane as first shown by
fhe Wright brothers at Fort Myer,
a.
In the lower right and left corners
"are rectangular shields with numer-
al two (2) in each. A ribbon appears
between the numerals and below the
aeroplane with the dates “December
12, 13, 14, 1928,” and under the rib-
bon is a base panel with the word
“cents” in white Roman lettering.
The 5-cent United States postage
stamp is similar with the exception of
the Wright aeroplane being replaced
by a globe showing the eastern and
western continents, and a modern
monoplane flying across it. The num-
eral “5” appears in place of “2.”
The new stamps will first be plac-
ed on sale Dec. 12, at the Washing-
ton, D. C., postoffice, and for the
benefit of stamp collectors and deal-
ers they will also be placed on sale
the same date at the Philatelic Agen-
cy, Division of Stamps, Postoffice De-
partment.
—Mother (coming upon her daugh-
ter downstairs): How is it I find you
sitting in the dark with this man?
Daughter: It must be your insom-
nia, Mummy.—Answers.
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and Comfort
UR banking quarters are carefully
designed and arranged for your con-
venience and comfort. We want
to make your banking transactions pleas-
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use our facilities.
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The most wonderful Men’s and Young
Men’s Suits we have ever shown.
Suits that are regularly sold at $32.50 to
$35.00. The materials are strictly all wool
and the tailoring all handwork. They are
in every new and popular color and ma-
terial— blues, greys, tans, brown and the
new Oxford.
They should be seen to be appreciated.
See them,—you will marvel at the won-
derful values, the low price.—a positive
saving of not less than $10.00
Do you think it worth while?
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