Bellefonte, Pa., March 22, 1929.
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GAMBLER'S CHOICE.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
pis. Then he raised them and brush-
ed them with his lips.
“I am glad,” he said gratefully,
“that you did not carry your resent-
ment too far. You will accept the
roses, I hope, as an inadequate peace-
offering, and think of me as kindly
as you can.”
Then he was gone, and it was not
until after thé train had passed
through the first of the two tunnels
that she remembered the note. She
tore open the nevelope and read:
Dear Lady of Angouleme,
I very much fear that your per-
ceptions were keener than your
brother's last night, and that you
realized the fact that I was playing
with marked cards—part of the
equipment of the professional gam-
bler. The unexepected luxury of a
gualm of conscience has, however,
seized me, and I return your brother's
check for his imaginary loss.
I still hold him, however, to the
conditions of our bargain, and if you
will accept the advice of such an un-
principled person, keep him away
from gambling in any shape or form
even though the odds should seem
level. There are some men who are
born winners. I am one of them.
There are others who are born losers.
Your brothers is one of those.
Fate, alas, deals out other favors
to the latter class, which she denies
to the former.
Which is why I must sign myself,
Unhappily yours,
Andrew Tresholm
Fragments of a torn check flutter-
ed across the compartment. Even in
her dazed state, even under the spell
of that great throbbing joy with
which she waited for her brother's
return, there crept into her mind a
faint, wonderful doubt—a doubt
which sometimes, when she looked
backwards, seemed to color those
hours of agony with a little halo of
romance. Was it altogether by
chance, she wondered, in those mo-
ments of reflection, that the only pos-
sible means by which her brother
could have been induced to return to
England with that five thousand
pounds were precisely those which
Tresholm had employed?
In his sitting-room, Tresholm
found the four packs of cards neat-
ly stacked upon the mantel-piece. He
rang the bell for the waiter.
“You might return those,” he beg-
ged, “to whomever you borrowed
them from.”
The waiter collected them with a
smile, also the fifty-franc note which
Tresholm passed him.
«I porrowed them from one of the
clerks in the office, Monsieur,” he
confided. “I trust that Monsieur had
good fortune.”
Tresholm nodded slightly, but with-
out his usual smile. »
“Yes, I am generally lucky,” he
confessed.—From Hearst's Interna-
tional Cosmopolitan.
FEW ALCOHOL DEATHS
OCCUR IN CANADA.
While deaths from alcoholism de-
clined slightly in the industrial popu-
lation of the country in 1928, as com-
pared with 1927, mortality from this
cause in the States of Florida, Mary-
land, Deleware, New York, Pennsyl-
nia, Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois and
Massachusetts Was copsiderably in
excess of the 1927 average.
+ This trend has been established by
thé Metropolitan Life Insurance
company as a result of statistical
data on deaths among its 18,500,000
industrial population. During 1928
there were 599 deaths from acute.
and chropi¢ alcoholism among these
policyholders. 'This is to be compared
with 608 deaths in 1927. The death
rate was 3.3 per 100,000 last year,
compared with 3.5 in 1927. Deaths
from acute poisoning by wood and
denatured alcohol are not included in
the above.
Of the 599 deaths charged to this
cause in 1928, only seven occurred in
Canada among approximately 1,200,-
000 insured, while 591 occurred in the
United States among approximately
17,250,000 industrial policyholders.
During the seven years, 1922 to
1928, there occurred 3,497 deaths
from alcoholism among Metropolitan
Industrial policyholders. Deaths
from this cause in the United States
numbered 3,459, while they totalled
only 37 in Canada. If deaths from
this cause had occurred at the same
rate among Canadian wage-earners,
as among those in the United States,
there would have occurred among the
former 241 deaths.
There were 1,217 deaths reported
among this class from cirrhosis of the
liver, which is closely allied with al-
coholism. The death rate for 1928 was
6.7 per 100,000 which is identical with |
that of 1927. In fact there has been |
little change in the death rate from
this disease under National prohibi-
tion. The tendency has been slightly
upward, but the mortality is not yet
as high as in years prior to the World
war,
There were 35 deaths, in 1928, from
wood and denatured alcohol poison-
ings as compared with 29 in both
1927 and 1928. This has never been
an important cause of death, numeri-
cally, and before prohibition deaths
from it were so few in number that
no separate record of them was made
by the vital statistics offices. They
attracted attention in the first year
of National prohibition and since then
a record has been kept of them. They
were heaviest in the first year of pro-
hibition and declined up to 1924.
Since the latter year they have
shown a slight increase.
— Guard your weakness from most
men; they are often either unworthy
of your confidence, or in their friend-
ship are very apt to abuse it.
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GIGANTIC TREES O!
THE EASTERN STATES.
Have you heard of ‘mast-trees ?”’
They were the largest trees known
ever to have grown in our Eastern
States. And just recently the fell-
ing of a pine in the town of Cumber-
land, near Portland, Me., one of these
trees, believed to be the last so called
mast-tree, has brought up the old
tale about them. The stump of the
one recently cut was so large that a
yoke of oxen was driven up on it and
turned around. Of the mast-landings
once numerous around the shores of
Casco Bay some slight traces still re-
main.
Mast-trees and mast-landings were
first so designated about 1601, when
in the provincial charter of that year,
under which Plymouth Colony and
the province of Maine were united
Massachusetts, it was provided that
‘all trees of the diameter of twenty-
four inches and upward at twelve
inches from the ground, growing
upon land not heretofore granted to
any private person, should be reserv-
ed to the British crown for the fur-
nishing of masts for the royal navy.
Near the Atlantic Coast all white
pines of suitable dimensions were
marked with an axe in the design of
a broad arrow, made by three cuts
through the bark like the track of a
crow. This was the king’s mark, and
up to no later than twenty-five years
ago these symbols were occasionally
found on some great pine. They were
curiosities then; now they are only
memories to an older generation.
It was a huge task to fell one of
these mast trees, and it was necessary
to “bed it” to prevent it from break-
ing. This was done by cutting the
small growth and placing the sap-
lings across the hollows in the ground,
so that there should be no more
strain upon one section than upon an-
other when the great tree crashed to
earth.
Masts were hauled out of the
woods on strong sleds, one to a
sled, whether in winter or in summer;
and so many oxen were required that
the hind pair were often choked in
crossing a hollow, being hung up in
their yokes by the pulling of those
ahead of them. Great events were
the mast-haulings of those earlier
days. Men, women, and children came
from long distances to witness the
felling, trimming, and dragging away
of the mast-trees from forest to
shore.
This hauling of straight pine-trees
to the waiting ships was the reason
for the establishment of so-called
mast-landings. There were a half a
dozen or more of these at different
points around Casco Bay. From them
the towering pines, royal masts in
embryo, were loaded for shipment to
some of the American colonies. The
disarranged foundations of a few of
these landings are still in evidence.
After the Revolutionary War the
words “mast-landings” were general-
ly dropped, and they became known
as town landings. This was rather
an appropriate transition, because it
was perfectly natural that settle-
ments should spring up at the points
where shipping mast-trees gave em-
ployment to, labor. Several coast
towns had their inception in and de:
velopment through the mast-land-
ings.
For many years after the Revolu-
tionary War men who in boyhood had
been taught to respect the king's
mark hesitated to cut down those
trees bearing the crow’s foot slashes.
But there came a day when vast
quantities of timber were needed for
housing and fire-wood. It was cut
and shipped to Maine and Massachu-
setts points from these town-land-
ings. Doubtless most of the mast-
trees were then felled, for they are
now gone.
RUSH OF PRINTING OF
NEW CURRENCY ISSUE,
Pennsylvanians like the rest of
those who felt that the old time pa-
per money did not go far enough soon
will have an opportunity to try out
the brand printed.
The bureau of engraving and print-
ing is turning out the new bills at the
rate of $1,200,000 a day. The peak of
production in preparation for issuing
the small bills to the public next July
is expected to be reached by the Bu-
reau within the next two months.
The Bureau has piled up at the
present time a total approximately
16,000,000 notes of the small size, and
before the first of July, which is the
beginning of the fiscal year, it is ex-
pected more than 650,000,000 bills
will have been completed.
The entire series of denominations
has not yet been put on the press, but
all of the popular sized notes, includ-
ing ones, two, fives, tens and twenty-
dollar bills now are under production.
Processes for turning out the largest,
$10,000, are under way. The Bureau
‘also is working on plans to turn out
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national bank notes in the smaller
series.
MORE TREES FOR
STATE HIGHWAYS.
The department of highways, al-
ready well started in establishing its
own forestry department, now plans
to branch out a little more under one
DAILY THOUGHT.
“You will find it a good rule not to,
listen to anything a tattler brings you!
against your neighbors. Talebearers have
no rights and should have no standing.
Some wise persons say, ‘We never repeat
what we hear.” But why listen to it? If
scandals or jealousies had no ears to hear
them, there would be fewer tongues doing
the scandalizing, wasting their own time
and yours and mine also.” {
—John Wanamaker.
EYE-VIEW VOGUES OF THE MODE.
The dressmaker suit—characterized
by soft, casual lines.
The revival of checks and plaids in
both silks and wool.
The Prestige of black.
The Gardenia hat. |
Hats with the off the forehead line
and width at the sides.
New length at the back in hats for
spring and summer.
The great importance of scarfs.
The chic of flower-patterned even-
ing gowns. !
Handwoven shoes are growing
handsomer every day and springtime
will probably see them in every smart
salon, according to predictions from
the smart bottiers.
The braided shoes, starting with
the humble but comfortable footwear
of the Serbian peasant, has under-
gone a steady process of refinement.
First, it was only a smart sports
shoe, very popular on the beach and in
the country. Later, it evolved into a
more suitable style for the afternoon
and now the latest development is an
adaption for the drawing room.
It comes in gold and silver kid, pat-
ent leather, suede and multi-colored
skins, braided by hand and often re-
embroidered with thongs of suede.
Matching bags are also offered and
they serve as charming accessories
to even lame and brocaded silk and
satin gown.
The shapes are simple, with a pref-
erence for narrow single straps but
they are not as simple as they look.
There are complicated insets, ap-
pliques, perforations, contrasting pip-
ings, slashing with stitched edges,
bold compositions of materials and
colors, with very decorative heel ef-
fects.
Among the new models, there is a
tendency to give these appliques or
insertions a very modernistic note
and next spring striking color combi-
nations are expected to rival the
more conservative treatments of the
past.
Decorative reptile skins are again
very popular and suede is once more
in the front rank, often combined
with kid. These models will probably
last far into the spring and early
summer. Combinations of black
suede with black patent or silver kid
piping are very attractive.
A putty colored one strap model
has an irregular applique on the
parchment kid. Another with cocoa
colored vamp has inserts of the
parchment kid appliqued with cocoa-
colored discs.
Both feathers and flowers are used
for some of the smart new toques
which are worn to give more formal-
ity to daytime dress and for inform-
al evening costumes. A colorful dres-
sy toque is made of small flat mauve
feathers and is worn far down over
the head. A new toque, which is more
in the mode which shows the brow
and covers the ears, is created of
black and white feathers arranged in
solid sections. Feathers are used flat
around the edge of some late models
in felt, and many of the new shapes
in felt and in straw are trimmed with
a fancy feather ornament. Flowers
are in universal demand for straw, |
felt and the combination hats. A sin- |
gle flower or small tight nosegay is
nlaced on one side of 4 more tailored
shape.
While the felt hat appears to be in-
dispensable for sports, traveling and
general utility, the newer styles of the
season are sombined with straw in a
variety of ways. In the plainer mod-
els of Parisian authorship, the crown
is of straw and the brim of cut felt,
the order being reversed in some
shapes. A hat from Suzanne-Mary is a
skull of black felt with a piece of
ecru straw draped around the crown,
lifted in front and drawn through a
slit in the felt at the back, giving an
effect of the hat being in two sections.
Another is a smart shape suitable for
general wear, having a crown of
black ballibunti and a brim of tan
felt short at the back and with slash-
ed ends in front crossed to form an
ornamentation. The edges are cut in
a modernistic pattern and a felt flower
is placed at one side. The tam is sim-
ulated in some of the new combina-
tions, one of which is eccentric but
chic in all black with crown of fel,
over which is placed a section of
black pleated baku tilted to one side,
giving the effect of a tam.
The ensemble idea still prevails, al-
though milliners endeavor to blend
colors artistically rather than to
create a perfectly matched cos-
tume. Engaging sets are shown in
which toque or other small shape is
made with a scarf to match, and
some chic hats are built of the same
stuff as the gown. This scheme is
effectively presented in some of the
of its own bills being sponsored in the | new scenic prints in crepe, and con-
,senate by Senator Clarence Buckman, | spicuously in
Bucks.
Under the bill as it is written, the
counties will help pay for the cost of
i the plan.
The forestry development of the i; eq with ribbon of three colors
department was gotten under way bY | 3round the crown, and a IL which !
the transfer of John W. Keller from |. ists of three ties like a man’s
the department of forests and waters
to head a separate bureau in the
highway department. Since that time
motor license funds have been used to
plant flowers and shrubbery along the
highway.
Under the present bill the depart-
ment of highways is authorized to
use any funds appropriated for the
activities and maintenance of state
for the purpose of equipping
or maintaining springs, comfort sta-
tions, etc. :
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a washable taffeta
rinted with a pattern by Foujita, the
Japanese artist in Paris.
A novelty in these millinery ensem-
bles includes a hat of dark blue straw
cravat in matching colors, fastened
together at the back of the neck.
CHOCOLATE CREAM MINTS.
Put into the pan one cup of granu-
lated sugar; one quarter cup of water
and two drops of oil of peppermint.
Cook until it crisps when dropped in
cold water; then pour on a platter
and beat until creamy. Drop on pa-
per and cool. When cold and hard
melt a quarter of a cake of chocolate
over the teakettle, sweeten a little
and dip the mints into the melted
chocolate.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. |
‘openers.
“More economical use may be made of
‘each quarter and that the greater
FARM * NOTES. |
—Never mix warm and cold cream.
Cool the warm cream before mixing.
—Cull beans fed to hogs should be
cooked in water that has a small
amount of salt in it.
—Wash the separator after each |
separation. A separator that is not |
clean will not skim clean.
—It’s the last few pints of milk,
bushels of grain, or other units of
production, which are the most prof-
itable.
—You might as well make up your
mind that you have got to fight them
bugs if you get any crop—so arrange
to do it as efficiently as possible.
—When man himself can afford to
do without shelter during winter
months man can then plan to do
without shelter for his animals—and
not until then.
—A few farmers go so far as to
claim that the crow does not injure
the corn crop or if he does chance to
pull up a corn hill he is looking for
worms and meant no harm.
—A rotary hoe is a very good tool
for cultivating corn, soy beans, and
other crops planted on newly plowed
land. It can also be used where the
corn has been planted with furrow !
— Which is smarter? To market
poor potatoes, cut the price, and lose
customers; or to sort potatoes, mar-
ket good ones, keep up the price,
please buyers, and let the hogs have
the duds?
—If the pasture on the other side
of the fence always looks greener
as the proverb has it, maybe it’s be-
cause the man on the other side of
the fence uses lime and acid phos-
phate, with occasional reseeding.
—A few hours spent indoors clean-
ing seed with a fanning mill may
save many days in the hot sun next
summer and will pay handsome div-
idends in the form of bigger and bet-
ter crops.
A farm fanning mill operated at
the correct speed and equipped with
the proper sieves and screens is cap-
able of doing an excellent job of
cleaning clover, alfalfa and other
seeds. Since experiments have shown
that the main object of cultivation
after the preparation of the seed bed
is the eradication of weeds, and since
most weeds are introduced by means
if impure seed, the use of cleaned seed
will save a great deal of future work.
The value of a good fanning mill in
cleaning farm seeds has been dem-
onstrated by hundreds of farmers.
— The first step toward making a
successful garden is the development
of a plan showing the general ar-
rangement, direction of rows and
area devoted to the different crops.
the area available by planning for
succession, companion and intercrop-
ping. For example, a crop of late
beets may be planted after a crop
of early peas have been harvested
or a crop of lettuce may be raised
between the tomato plants and gath-
ered before the tomato plants need
all the space. Fresh peas, beans and
corn may be had over a longer period
by making several plantings at inter-
vals of two weeks or by planting ear-
ly, mid-season and late varieties. The
likes and dislikes of the members of
the family should be considered and
selections made accordingly.
— Important facts have been learn-
ed recently about the cow’s udder. It
had been generally believed that the
milk storing capacity of the cow’s ud-
der is not more than half a pint to
part of the milk obtained at milking
is secreted ‘during the milking pro-
cess. That this is incorrect was dem-
onstrated by slaughtering cows just
previous to the usual milking time.
The udders were amuptated and the
milk drawn. In one experiment the
quantity obtained averfged 61.1 per
cent. of the normal yield by the same
cows. In another test the quantity
obtained was 76 per cent. of that
given by the cows when alive. It was
shown that milk secretion is largely
a continuous process and that the
capacity of the secretory system is
much greater than had been suppos-
ed. This knowledge should help to
lay a more scientific foundation for
the selection of dairy cattle.
—What can be done to save a larg-
er percentage of the crop producing
value of our manure? When manure
canbe hauled fo the field daily as it
is produced the loss of plant food is
reduced to a minimum or to prac-
tically nothing, provided the liquid
portion is saved through absorption
by bedding or otherwise. This can-.
not always be done, of course. How-
ever, an effort can be made to get the
bulk of the manure hauled earlyin
the spring. On many farms manure
can be hauled daily during the winter
season, especially when the land is
not too rolling and subject to erosion.
.One cannot outline any general pro-
cedure, but the subject .of manure
_ conservation is of enough importance
for each farmer to give it his closest
attention and do the best he can un-
der his own conditions. i
The latest thing in grinding feed |
for live stock on the farm is to let
it grind itself. Many farmers are
‘now arranging their feed grinders to
let the unground grain drop from the
bin into the hopper of the grinder, |
and, by attaching a fan to the grind-
er blow the ground feed intd another
bin where it is stored for future use.
Some are even eliminating all 'hand-
ling of the grain and feed by run-
ning spouts from the feed bin to the
feed boxes or mangers where the
animals contentedly munch . their
breakfast and dinner. “Just press a
button and Jet ’er zip!” is the new
| motto in the modern feedyard.
Investing Money
HERE are many things to be considered
in investing money, but the first con-
sideration should be safety.
Many persons look rather to interest re-
turns. A fair return is desirable, but never
at the expense of safety. A high rate always
involves risks that the average investor can-
not afford to take.
Better consult us, if you have in mind
buying securities of any kind.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Avoid Uncertainty
VOID uncertainty in the execution
of your instructions by appointing
the First National Bank your Ex-
ecutor or Trustee. You can always de-
pend upon its faithfulness to duty. The
cost to the estate is no more than that of
the individual Executor. See us about this
important matter now. .
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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the Day of All Days that
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Prices so low that everyone can come out
All New on Easter Sunday.
We have a Surprise for
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