“Bellefonte, Pa., August 29, 1950.
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Why Mention of Thrift
Grates on Auto Driver
Charlie when he had his other car
developed a system that saved him a
fot of pennies—perhaps as many as
200 in the months he labored with it.
Charlie lives in a stPeet off Main
street, in Montello, where it is pos-
sible to coast the length of it beeause
«of the grade, and ride right into his
garage. Faithfully he always turned
«off hig ignition at the head of his
street and saved gasoline the rest of
“the way.
* Recently when fortune smiled on
#him, he traded for a new car. On his
frst trip home with it from the club
at night he turned off the ignition and
«coasted down the hill. However, he
forgot that the new motor was
equipped with a gimmick which auto-
anatically locks the steering wheel wher '
+he ignition is shut off.
_ Just as Charlie was about to turn
#Anto his street the front wheels failed
#0 answer his tug and he rammed a
telephone pole with the right fender
®efore he could bring the machine te
= stop.
“It'll cost at least a sawbuck to
straighten that out,” he moaned, “and
all to save a little gasoline.,”—Brock-
ton Enterprise.
Significance in Name
Clemens Made Immortal
Probably the best known nom de
plume ever adopted by an American
‘writer is that of Samuel Clemens,
“Mark Twain.” Usually it is regarded
as just a proper name, chosen by the
‘humorist from a book or some family
record, as most such names are chos-
en, But the fact is that it wasn't a
proper name at all until Clemens made
it such, says the Golden Book Maga
sine, which tells the story:
“From the carefree days of his life
on the Mississippi, Clemens passed to
getting type on his brother's news-
paper, to piloting a steamboat, and to
‘wandering in the West. Shortly after,
he began writing articles for a Nevada
ipaper—clever, fun-poking skits. It
‘was in 1863 that he first adopted the
mame of Mark Twain. ‘I want to sign
them Mark Twain,’ he wrote. ‘It is an
old river term, a leadman’s call, signi-
fying two fathoms or 12 feet. It has a
wichness about it; it was always pleas-
ant for a pilot to hear on a dark
aight; it meant safe water.”
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3 Women Geographers
_ To consolidate themselves in Argen-
| tle, up the broad Gironde to Bordeaux
i and anchoring off the Calvet wine
. wharf, blazed away a salute to M.
‘The Society of Woman Geographers !
38 a society, organized in 1925, by a
group who felt that there should be
some medium of contact between wom-
=n distinguished in geographical work
and its allied sciences—ethnology,
archeology, botany, natural history,
sgociology, folklore, arts and crafts,
~ete. For active membership in this
~gociety only those women are eligible
“who have done distinctive work where-
“by they have added to the world's
-gtore of knowledge concerning the
~eomniries in which they have traveled.
Corresponding members are those who
<fullill the requirements for active
“membership, but who reside outside
“the United States of America and
Canada. The associate membership
admits widely traveled women who are
finterested in furthering all forms of
sgeographical exploration and research.
¥ Ancient Norwegian Town
‘Voss is situated about sixty miles
‘from Bergen by rail and resembles
very much the ‘“Ostlandet,” as the
-gastern part of Norway is called, be-
dng broader and having many pine
‘woods. Voss is a very old village;
how old is not quite certain, The in-
‘habitants were christened in 1023, ac-
~cording to Snorre’s Heimskringla, by
Olay the Saint. The name occurs be-
«fore that in the old sagas, and is once
smentioned as a kingdom. There is a
famous old stone church in the town
proper and a Finne, a short distance
;from the railroad station, there stands
s¢he oldest wooden building in Nor-
“way, a so-called Finne-loft. The town
“itself is usually spoken of as Vangen,
~and the surrounding uplands as Voss,
-although the latter name is generally
wmsed for either.
i Choosing His Own Name
% At one time it was the custom in
the Shetland islands for a man to
select his own surname, and the last
aan to do this was Gideon Manson.
“The custom followed was for a son
to twist his father's Christian name
and make that his surname, a fact
which explains why Gideon Manson's
grandfather was called Magnus Rob-
ertson and his father James Manson
{Magnus’ son).
According to custom, Gideon should
wave called himself Gideon Jameson
«l. e., the son of James), but he chose
to be known by his father’s surname,
“This ancient custom led to consider-
able confusion and was finally pro-
Aibited by parliamentary enactment.
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Farthest From Land
‘The farthest distance a ship can
wall from land is 1200 miles. This
may seem strange, for the Atlantic
«ocean is more than 4000 miles wide,
and the Pacific even wider than that,
But there are islands in these oceans,
and never can a ship be more than
"1200 miles from some point of land.
“The spot of greatest distance from
Wand, is in the Pacific ocean, half-way
‘between New Sealand and South
JAmerica,
WHY"
Navy of Argentina Honored
French Merchant
How the entire Argentine navy once
steamed across the Atlantic to fire
salutes to a French wine merchant's
warehouse at Bordeaux is told in an
interesting article on wine in Fortune
Magazine.
The first agent sent by the house
of Calvet to Buenos Aires, almost a
century ago, says Fortune, became 50
impressed by the possibilities of real
estate speculation that he squandered
all the sums entrusted to him on likely
plots, and presently returned tov Bor-
deaux extremely penitent, a confessed
embezzler, with nothing to put in his
employers’ hands but the deeds and
tifles to real estate which was then
frozen solid, impossible to liquidate.
Many years later the house decided
to ascertain what it possessed in
Buenos Aires, for, being immersed in
their wine business, the Calvets had
all but forgotten that they owned real
estate in the Argentine. They discov-
ered that the city was developing in
such a way that their property would
soon reach its present enormous vatue.
tine hearts and seize this opportunity
to expand their business in a new
sphere, they gave certain real estate
which the city wished to buy for parks
and boulevards quite gratis. As a re-
sult practically the entire Argentine
navy later steamed across the Atlan-
Jean Calvet. On the day that a mem-
ber of the house lands at Buenos Aires
be receives an invitation te dine with
the president of the republic.
Why Knotty Lumber Is
Used for Wooden Boxes
There is one industry which not only
aas no antipathy for knotty lumber,
but actually welcomes it.
Tests which have been carried om
demonstrated beyond doubt that knot-
ty shooks actually add strength to the
boxes up to as much as 50 per cent,
providing, of course, that the knot is
not too extensive.
In thin material knots should no.
axceed more than one-fourth of the
total width of the shook, but in thick-
er material the knot may be as much
as half the width before it becomes
too large.
The market for inferior lumber pre
sented by the wooden-box industry is
expected to go a long way toward
keeping the cost of other lumber at
lower levels than if the knotty lumber
were discarded.
Why It Is “Calico” Cloth
From North and South, from East
and West, from far and near, does the
English language borrow to feed the
maw of a lexicon that is never sated.
Take for illustration our common
word “calico,” which we know to be
just the ordinary garden variety of
cotton cloth.
At first glance, it seems a perfectly
colorless member of our lingual tribe.
Investigation into its history, how-
ever, reveals the interesting connec- '
tion that it has a story. {
For we have it from the city or
Calicut, in India, it being originaily
known as Calicut cloth, and subse-
quently as Calico.—Kansas City Times.
Why Hot Water Helps
Why is hot water more desirable foi
laundering than cold? As you may
have observed when you cook, solid
matter dissolves much more easily as
the water grows warmer. This prin-
ciple applies not only to foods, but to
dirt. That is one reason why soil and
most kinds of stains are washed from
fabrics more readily in warm or hot
water than in cold.
The same principle applies to soap.
Most soap forms a lather more quick-
ly in hot water than in cold, and the
suds do the work. Save on soap and
hot water and you are taking much
of the burden of washing onto your,
own shoulders. |
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- Why “Dove” Is Not Pigeon
The words “dove” and “pigeon” are
practically synonymous, but in ordi-
nary usage pigeon is a somewhat
broader term and is applied to all
birds belonging to the family Colum-
bidae. Both terms are applicable to
the domestic pigeon and to various
wild species, but some of the smaller
species of the family are specifically
called doves, such as turtledoves,'
mourning doves, ground doves, to dls-
tinguish them from the larger species
more commonly called pigeons.—Ex-
change. ‘
Why One Knocks on Wood |
The custom of knocking on wood ap- |
pears to have originated in the cus-
tom of touching wood upon every oc-
caslon of happiness or good fortune,
in gratitude to Christ, who dled upon
a wooden cross. Through some notion
of the mass mind the custom of touch-
ing or knocking on wood came to be
looked upon as a means of warding oft
misfortune.—Rocky Mountain News.
Why “Siamese” Twins
The original twins were two broth.
ers—Chang and D[ng—born le Siam
in 1811 of a Chinese father and &
Siamese mother, hence the term
“Siamese Twins.” Since that time
any two children similarly Joined have |
been referred to popularly as Slamese |
twins, !
Why Bowlegs
The condition known as bowlegged
is due to allowing a child to walk too
early or to rickets, or, rarely, to mus-
cular contraction before the child ie
put on his feet.
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Gates of Death Never
~. _ Opened for These Two
The prophet Elijah and Enoch mev-
ér saw death, according to the Bible.
1 Kings 2:11 says: “And it came to
pass, as they (Elijah and Elisha) still
went on and -talked, that, behold,
there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, which parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven.” This is un-
doubtedly a figurative way of stating
that the prophet passed from earth
by miraculous translation instead of
through the gates of death. Likewise
Enoch, the father of Methuselah, nev-
er saw death, according to Hebrews
11:5. “By faith,” that passage says,
“Enoch was translated that he should"
not see death; and he was not found,
because God translated him: for be-
fore his translation he had this tes-
timony, that he pleased God.” This
is the basis for the popular but mis-
leading statement that Methuselah, the
oldest man mentioned in the Bible,
died before his father did. As a mat-
ter of fact Methuselah’s father never
died, according to the Biblical account.
Genesis 5:25 simply says: “And Enoch
walked with God: and he was not; for
God took him.”—Pathfinder Magazine.
Much Hinged on Speed
Made by Stage Drivers
Old-time stage drivers were am-
bitious, writes Edward Martin, in the
the United States Daily. A true test
of their mettle was the delivery of the
President’s message. The letting of
contracts by the Post Office depart-
ment hinged on these deliveries, and
if a driver failed to make good time
it meant the cancellation of the con-
tract with his employers and the
transfer to a rival company.
Dave Gordon, a noted driver, once
carried the President's message from
Washington, Pa., to Wheeling, a dis-
tance of 32 miles in 2 hours, 20 min-
utes. He changed teams three times
in this distance.
Bill Noble, who died in the eighties,
claimed to have made the best time
on record. He professed to have driv-
en from Wheeling to Hagerstown,
Md., 185 miles, in 15% hours.
Princeton’s Famous Ivy
The first class ivy at Princeton was
planted by the class of 1877 on its
class day at its graduation in June,
1877, and the ceremony was accom-
panied by an oration, called then and
since the ivy oration. The orator in
1877 stated that ivy had been chosen
as a symbol of the perpetual remem-
ton, striking deep, clinging close, and
always green. The class of 1877 turned
Bee May Give Up Lease,
but She’s Good Tenant
About 8,000,000 colonies of bees
acknowledge human protection in the
United States and return for it’ more
than 140,000,000 pounds of honey a
year. It is a curious relationship that
pxists between men and bees. For no
matter how long domesticated, the bee
remains a true barbarian. Though
she may trace her ancestry through
hundreds of generations of hive
dwellers, she, without a moment’s no-
tice, may take to the woods, make her
home in a hollow tree and revert com-
pletely to the primitive.
The compact between man and bee
is that of landlord and tenant. The
beekeeper tricks his bees into staying
with him by furnishing apartments to
their liking. But the bee never sur-
renders her liberty nor her complete
right of choice. If she is not pleased
with the condition of the new house
offered her at swarming time, she
promptly moves out and takes to tal
timber. -
But the beekeepers have learned to
humor the fickle whims of their winged
tenants. That 140,000,000 pounds of
honey was worth about $23,000,000, a
pretty good rental for the type of
houses and service the hees required.
Historic Old Pepys House
Part of College System
Impington hall, historic home of the
Pepys family, was presented to the
Cambridgeshire education committee
as a memorial to John Chivers, found-
er of the jam firm, says a London dis-
patch to the New York Times.
Impington hall forms the nucleus om
a village college for the area of His
ton and Cottenham, from which vil:
lage the head of the Pepys family.
l.ord Cottenham, takes his title.
The house was begun about the mia
Ale of the Sixteenth century by John
Pepys. It includes a central hall and
xallery and is still substantially what
it has been for the last 300 years,
' though there were additions in 1862
out to be one of the most remarkable '
classes in after years that Princeton
has graduated. The first Ivy was
planted at the new library. Since then
it has been planted at Nassau hall
with a tablet naming the class. Some
of the ivy has been historic, being
brought specifically for the planting,
one spray having been sent from the
castle in Germany of William of Nas-
sau, prince of Orange, after whom
Nassau hall was named in 1756.
Origin of Tile
At the siege of Argos in the year 272
B. C., a tile fragment thrown from
a housetop slew the battling king of
Epirus. Thus tile played an important
. part in history.
Tile is one of the oldest building
materials, having first been made In
the remote ages of antiquity; yet, how
many of us know just what tile ac-
tually is?
Tile is burned clay, or to be more
specific, a carefully proportioned mix-
ture of certain clays and other miner-
als, after being formed into the de-
: gired shape, is heated in a special fur-
nace called a kiln until the particles
become so hot that they partially melt
and stick together. When cooled, tile,
as firm and homogeneous as a piece of
stone, results.
Charta’s Highlights
The Magna Charta’s most impor
tant articles are those which provide
that no freeman shall be taken or im-
prisoned or proceeded against except
by the lawful judgment of his peers or
in accordance with the law of the
land, and that no scutage or aid: shall
be imposed in the kingdom (except
certain feudal dues from tenants of
the crown) unless by the common
council of the kingdom. The remain-
ing and greater part of the charter
is directed against abuses of the king's
power as feudal superior,
Black Hills Traditions
The Black Hills of South Dakota are
rich in tradition. It is the land where
Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Arapahoe,
Pawnee and Mandan Indians fought
savagely for possession of a great
hunting ground which they named
Paha-Sapa, or the Mountains that are
Black. Here are the medicinal springs,
mini-pazhuta, which were believed to
be the gift of the Great Spirit. These,
too, were prized possessions which the
Sioux eventnally won and held until
they relinquished them to the United
States government by treaty in 1876.
Legal
A small boy sidled up to his famous
lawyer father and asked:
“Dad, you don't charge for advice
to members of the family, do yout”
“No,” admitted his father. “Why deo
you ask?”
“Well,” said the small son, “1 wan.
ed to find out, when you were a iittle
boy like me and needed a dollar, what
did you do?”
and 1909.
Allusions to Impington in Samue |
Pepys’ diary begin on July 15, 1661
with, “Rode to Impington, where 1
found my old uncle sitting all alone
like a man out of the world.”
The educational authorities have no.
altered the old buildings, which are
in a good state of preservation and in-
clude many beautiful paneled rooms
with Seventeenth century ceilings.
Famous Frenchwoman
Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Bat
brance the class would have of Prince- | onne de Stael-Holstein, was born at
Paris, April 22, 1766. Her father was
the famous financier, Necker. Her
mother was Suzanne Curchod. She
was a plain child, but a coquette and
desirous of prominence and attention.
Excessive study and intellectual ex-
citement injured her health, which was
Improved by the family’s removal to
Coppet, her father’s estate on the lake
of Geneva. In 1786 Mlle. Necker pub-
lished a novel, “Sophie,” and in 1790,
‘a tragedy, “Jeanne Gray.” Her first
marriage was to Eric Magnus, baron
. of Stael-HolSteln, first an attache of
the Swedish legation and later minis-
ter. She was twenty at the time and
her husband thirty-seven.
Bible in Hopi Language
The American Bible society recently
completed the first publication of the
four Gospels into the language of the
Hopi Indians. For many months the
proofs of the Gospels passed back and
forth between the translator and the
headquarters of the society in New
' York city in order to perfect the type-
- first Beatitude,
setting. The difficulty of the task may
be gathered from the text of the
which follows: “Pas
Hikwsit an ookiwyaquam hahlaypit
epya, pl oveqatsit angw monwatunatya
hapli pumuy himuamniq’o.”—Washing-
ton Star. :
Luray Caverns
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MILEAGE COVERED DAILY
cuit i aii BY, CITY POSTMEN.
Postmen on foot walk an average
of 170,000 miles daily in delivery of
mail to more than 20,000,000 per-
sons in the Nation’s fifteen largest |
cities, according to the Post Office
Department. :
Each foot-carrier walks an aver-
age of about 12 miles a day, it was
pointed out, and delivers mail to
about 1,500 persons, This 12 miles
may be covered in one trip, or sev-
eral, depending upon the length of
the route, it was explained. On a
12 mile route, the postman makes
one trip a day; on a 6 mile route,
two’ trips; on a 4 mile route, three
trips; on a 3 mile route, four trips,
and on a 2 mile route, six trips.
Each postman, however, walks about
12 miles regardless of the length of
his route.
Official postal laws state that a foot-
carrier may not carry more than 50
pounds of mail in his sack on any
single trip.
—Are you reading your own paper
or that of some other person?
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per 100lb
2.20
Wayne 32 per cent. Dairy...... 2.50
Wayne 24 per cent. Dairy...... 2.20
Wayne 20 per cent. Dairy...... 2.10
Wayne 169 Dairy Ration...... 1.756
Wayne Egg Mash................... 2.70
Wayne 189% Pig Meal ............ 2.70
Wayne 289% Hog Meal.............. 2.85
Wayne All Mash Starter.......... 3.90
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Bran ........oenaaid 1.60
A, Midds 1.80
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Corn and Oats Chop .. 2.10
Cracked Corn ............. 2.40
Corn Chop --.....-.. 2.40
Flax Meal ............ 2.40
Linseed oil meal ..... . 2.80
Cottonseed Meal ..... 2.50
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Alfalfa meal ........... 2.25
Alfalfa loaf meal ...................... 3.25
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Oyster Shells ........ ... 1.00
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The caverns of Luray, at Luray, in |
the famous Shenandoah valley of Vir-
ginia, are perhaps the most wonderful
in their beauty among the subterranean
apartments of the world. Luray is a
popular midway stopping point be-
tween North and South. The Smith-
sonian institution says of Luray:
“Comparing this great natural curi-
osity with others of the same class, it
is safe to say there is probably mo
other cave in the world ‘completely
and profusely decorated with 'stalactitic
and stalagmitic ornamentation than
that of Luray.”
Four Canals in Scotland
Scotland has four canals, with a
combined length of about 185 miles.
The Caledonian canal connects the
nearby continuous line of locks in
Glenmore, and is devoted principally
to tourist travel. The same is true
of the Crinan canal across the penin-
sula of Kintyre.
canal, between Bowling and Grange-
mouth dates from 1790. The Union
canal, a branch: of the Forth and
Clyde extends from near Falkirk to
Bdinburgh.—Rocky Mountain News.
Marriage in Old Rome
There were three different modes
by which marriage could be contract-
ed among the ancient Romans. The
marriages of the patricians were cele-
prated in the presence of ten wit-
nesses, and with a varlety of religious
ceremonies peculiar to their order.
The plebians married after two dif-
ferent forms: one was a species of
sale, “emptio vendito;” and the other
simply by the cohabitation of the par-
ties for a year, which by law consti-
tuted a marriage.—Detroit News.
The Forth and Clyde -
Orders for one ton or more de-
livered without extra charge.
We make no charge for mixing
your own rations.
sani.
Your orders will be appreciated
and have our careful attention.
A. F. HOCKMAN
BELLEFONTE
Feed Store—23 West Bishop St.
Phone 938-J
Mill—Hecla Park, Pa. Phone 2324
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in
80 minutes, checks a Cold the first
day, and checks Malaria in three
days.
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consistent with the class of work.
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TENDER, JUICY CHOPS
The quality of chops you get from
our butcher shop are the best the
market affords. You will find them
genuinely good and dependable not
now and then, but every time. If it
is not convenient to come and make
your own selections of meats, sim-
ply phone what you want and we
will select and deliver your order
with the greatest care.
Telephone 668
Market on the Diamond.
Bellefonte, Penna.
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