Bellefonte, Pa., March 6, 1631. “THE MAN LAND.” Little boy, little boy, would you go so soon, To the land where the grown man lives? Would you barter your toys and your fairy things For the things that the grown man gives? Would you leave the haven whose doors are set | With the jewels of Love's alloy For the land of emptiness and regret? Would you go, little boy, little boy? It's @ ‘and far off, little boy, little boy, And the way it is dark and steep; And once you have passed through its doors, little boy i You mayn't even come back to sleep. i There is no tucking in, no good-night | kiss, | No mornings of childhood joy. i It's passion and pain you give for this, Think well, little boy, little boy! Little boy, little boy, can't you see the! ghosts That live in the land off there; The ‘‘broken hearts,’ ‘‘fair hopes,’ dead; “Lost faith” and ‘‘grim despair?’ There's a train for that land in the af- ter years, When old Time rushes in to destroy, The wall that stands "tween the joy and the tears— So don't go, little boy, little boy! i A —————— THE LITTLE WEAVER. “If you please, Mr. Avery, I shall have to run father’s looms while he | is out.” The overseer looked over his desk in surprise at the diminutive figure standing just within the office door, | with a tightly rolled check apron! and a weaver's belt in her hands. “Who is your father? and why isn't he doing his own work?" he questioned sharply. | ’ Weeden, sir, and he sent—" “He's drunk again, I suppose; and what kind of substitute are you to send into the shop? You can't see over the breast beam of a loom. I told him the last time he went on | a spree that I would not bother with him any more. You can tell your father— | Just then one of the loom fixers! claimed the overseer's attention and the child, for she was little more, | Shea swiftly down the long alley of | weaving shed to her father's! looms. In another minute they were clattering and banging as hard as the rest; and she was flying all about them, changing the shuttles and mending broken threads, doing the work as handily as the oldest weaver in the shop. It was nearly noon before the overseer again thought of Weeden's looms, and then he went in search of his second hand, working him- self into a passion all the way down the. Joom, i “How have you managed about Weeden's work, Mr. Morse? Have any spare hands come in? I want you to give those looms to the first one who is capable of running! them. : Having given his order Mr. Av-, ery turned to go back to his of- fice, ting no reply; but his adjutant detained him with a light touch on the shoulder. “Come down to Jack's bench,” he said; “I want your opinion of the weaver who is work. I can't send her out, as things are. If she goes, you must’ tell her so yourself.” i The two men were accustomed to stand by that particular bench for’ many of the conferences which the work made necessary; so little Annie Weeden did not know that she was being observed. She stood! with a shuttle in ner hand watch- | ing the flying one in the loom nar-| rowly. As it laid in the last thread that it carried, she stepped on the | frame of the loom, crove the shut- tle that she held into its box, and cal the empty one out of the. warp in its flight across the web, dropped back to the floor, where she quietly removed the empty bob- bin, and replaced it with a full one. Then she turned to repeat the pro- | cess as the filling ran out on the other loom. This she did again and | again, executing the series of mo- | tions with incredible swiftness and skill in the brief instant while she balanced on the bar of the loom, not being tall enough to do the work standing on the floor, The looms were thus kept busy without losing a single beat till a warp thread snapped or some other accident occurred. If she had allow- ed the loom to stop, changed the shutties, and started it again. a large fraction of time would have been lost; and she would have got- ten a lame side and swollen wrists by wrenching at the heavy bar that! shifted the belt eight times in ev-| ery ten minutes; for the shuttles on- ly ran two minutes and a half. Annie's slight of hand trick of changing her shuttles without stop- ping the looms arrested Mr. Av- i ery's attention at once. He stop- ped grumbling about Weeden's in- temperance and watched her with interest. The looms were large and low speeded, weaving a double width of heavy flannel; and the thing was quite possible for any one with sufficient quickness of eye i al i i i and hand. But not half a dozen ap weavers in the whole shop had caught the knack of it; though it saved muscular exertion equivalent to the lifting of * five or six tons’ weight in a day. “She may keep the work up fora day or two; but a child like that |W can't run those two looms for ai! steady job. When did she learn?” “Oh, she’s been in here hits for ever so long, helping A Stops on her way home from school, and works till speed goes down. Then | the looms.” loons on the way home. I thought their simple friends would admit it, you had io her.” ‘she knew the terrible truth. Her “She didn't steer Weeden by the mother's life was spared, She would rum shops this time, it seems.” get well in time; but she would al- The overseer smoothed his beard ways be a helpless imbecile. When to hide a smile as an ingneious device this became a certainty, Annie's soul | of the little weaver to overcome the was filled with a smouldering disadvantage of her short stature of grief and tion. The months caught his eye. He liked effi , were slipping by; and in two more and enjoyed seeing Annie promptly the man whose insane brutality had invent a way to do things when reduced her mother to this pitiful she was not tall enough or strong state would return, and again rule enough to follow the usual methods. the house with absolute authority. Presently he discovered that the How could she endure to see her child was crying, though she did not mother once more in his power? for a moment neglect her work. If How could she bear his hulking she had time, she darted behind the presence in the house? He would reat looms, and wiped her eyes. drink harder than ever, not only to both hands were busy the tears drown the memory of his crime but fell unheeded, dropping down on the to put himself beyond the reach of cloth as she ed over to draw such expressions of disapproval as broken threads into place, or run- would inevitably be given him in down her ch when she the neighborhood. The feeling against was changing the filling. him was strong; and he would un- Morse answered the quick change doubtedly encounter it at every of expression in his superior’s face. step, éxcept before the bars of the People never wait to say eve rum shops, where he would natural- in words in a mill. They haven't ly take refuge, When he came time; and they save their voices on home—a sullen growling brute— account of the noise, and WrguEht himself into a fury, “Probably she’s worrying about how could she protect her mother her mother. Mrs. Weeden is in a from his fist and foot? bad state. My wife was there all Day after day as Annie worked night, after it happened. It came with superhuman energy to provide near being a murder. He'll get six shelter and food for her charge, months at the very least.” | this storm raged within her; ti “What are you talking about?” sometimes she felt that anything interrupted the overszer. {would be welcome which would rid Morse looked at him in astonish- them of the monster once for all. ment. “Weeden is in jail for half The storm raged itself still at killing his wife in a fit of drunken last. No greater victory was ever fury. Didn't you read the account won than that of this slight girl in the Bulletin?" who fought her battle out all alone The elder man smiled. “I don't amid the din and roar of the clash- read every word of every paper,” he ing machinery and came to the quiet said: “life is too short. And I've resolution to make the best of the seen no one this morning, Came dreadful situation. straight to the mill from the train. The watched for time approached I was in New York yesterday, you and passed, by several days. Annie recollect.” began to breathe more freely. He “I've got a paper in my coat might have gone away to some oth- pocket, and I'll leave it on your er manufacturing town, Perhaps he desk. Max laid it on pretty thick, would never come back. seeing that nobody knew but the One day the looms were stopped woman was done for. Annie isfour- for lack of yarn; and as it would teen and quite mature enough to be two hours at least before any ! feel his peculiar style. I hope she more could be distributed, she ran hasn't — it; but she will, of out through the pack and | course.” | climbed the steep bank littered with the fulijish behind the row of tenements. | overseer got back to his office, he was a much nearer way than go- found ne paper on his desk, and ing around to the front; and she read the report of the tenement could always unlock the basement row through to the end. This man goat @ by slipping a broken panel sedulousl cultivated indifference, s and rided himself on being “busi- Through this small opening she ness-like"” The men separated; and when on all occasions. Now, could look through into the kitchen; however, when the coarse hand of and what she saw made her pause a professional sensation monger tore With a sick feeling of despair. Sam | aside the last shred of privacy that Weeden had returned stealthily, for veiled that brave young girl kh her | he had not wakened his wife, who stricken home, and used her shame Slept ly in the chair, and grief and horrible suffering as 8s was her habit in the afternoon material for amusement, trying with When the house was Still. He was all his might to turn a penny by carefully searching the little corner holding it all up to ridicule, and set and presently brought out the town in an uproar, Mr. Avery a tin baking powder can. From found it hard to maintain his favor- this he poured a quantity of speck- ite mental attitude. He had laughed led beans on a red tablecloth and heartily, times without number, at then pulled out a wad of paper which | just such clever indecency; but | this somehow made his gore rise. Jape down just as | the office with He laid the Morse re-ente ® a some report connec! with e work.. po food, fire and rent. “The neighbors will look out for She ched her hand hard and her through the day; and Annie can wi : herself from manage to get along after working loudly anu bitterly 1 | hours. That's a very Sugible girl. thief. But a loose bundle of clo Mrs. Weeden is pretty y hurt; | ' of silver-—all her hard-won savings. Annie had hoarded, a dime or a. | quarter at a time, for other necessi- ties besides ‘the weekly bills for i | i ne on a chair caught her attention. but she will probably be about again | Weeden was dressed in the rough, in a few weeks.” “Is she a weaver?” when arrested; and a thick, shape- orse and then added: | le cloth cap was on his head. It top. I worked with her in the looked as h he had come for | Borden before she was married.” | his and jenied to £0 away | “Well, we'll worry along with the God! Let him go. It would | child till her mother can work. be a price to pay for the Perhaps, between them, they can blessed deliverance. only her ” form in the storeroom? Shorty | was not to be. Weeden put the Briggs used one, didn't he?” (money in his pockets, and returned “That's only four inches high,” the box toits place; butin doings: said Morse. ‘Annie needs one at pe rat some of the dishes. , en ope least eight.” he Sian yrprie. lh | i “See tley about it, right away. at him ut She'll get hurt climbing all over “Are you hungry, led, the man whisked around, Morse nodded again, and with- confronting her with a threatening drew. It was a much easier victory | look. than he had anticipated. | “I ain't no thief. Late that afternoon, when three me. Whatever you men bore a long, narrow LL down the alley, and laid it L the looms so that she could reach her work at all times as easily as the grown up weavers, Annie let the filling run out, and stiting on’ the end of it laid her on a at soft roll of nel, cried or joy. She knew then that she would be allowed to keep her fath- er's work. she was so tired Annie ran all the way home that tell her re on iy : . he neighbors had ‘very helpful, and there was beside holding the poor titan head and weeks the in str : . e feast of batter cakes to cele the event when she So d sit up and be made comfortable in the rock- ing chair. Her mother ate cakes, and after a while ] feebly to. the kitchen door, and look- ed about the room as if in search| Hae of some one. at Ther, was pale, _ Annie been cautioned not to three days’ stubble on his R% x ee till she asked uy , and her heart gave a throb of SpA n. Was ry returning? Would she have to teil where he was and why? Could her mother bear it then? It belongs to mine earn is ! I can do what I please with it. ut why ain't y the mill? ou ? youd both be Working." | - 2 g 258. Ir hot ; g iL 5 fh = - i : : TEES i ts hit 4 5 g i if the face look- nats wrong with h og. had thrown himself in she goes nome with her father, She and her mother put up the job on the old man to get him by the =a-| But no questions were asked and! for him. the invalid returned to her chair in| “You her head a little ent content. A e, placid |one I Jast winter,” said Annie, fu : oad. on her. Ciirios. hoetnd, she has Deen a fool y, surprise, $ n the ever 't know kapheniugs at a mill, at hotae, or comp Her ow. ai It a “pretty to . along; which Daa CORA aa s | seed the ioney you swiped to buy world, there was none. She’ Shuty Jule widdhe Xf . TI have when Aunie came in fromyher work, | to plan and work every way to RE NR LE m a vague y ha ’ 3 ’ and lapsed into a sort of cheerful | Searc Puce Ma ee impassi : .| face T) with some strong emo- ‘Annie ‘watched ever se of her |tion : QF tried. to mother's convalescence with an anx- Tephéss, his jaw hard. fous and burdenéd heart. She was . far too courageous to practice the| Annie gave him back a half dol. | least self deception, and long before | lar. “Go and get shaved after you've | c ‘will H the RFE hanged your clothes, pa. Things be better perhaps, now you are home again.” There was a note of let by-gones go, and begin anew the relenting in this, and a promise to broken family life, Then Sam fury Weeden broke down completely, and sobbed with his head on his arms on the kitchen table. Mrs. Weeden caught Annie by the arm, and drew her away. “He's go- ing to be awful this time,” she whispered. “Keep out of his way. I'm never afraid of him till he be- gins to cry, or starts to praying.” “I'll be careful, mammy; he won't hurt us , 1 guess.” Annie watched these evidences of renewed mental activity with a keen joy of hope trembling within her. There was a possibility that her mother might get well; nay, she felt sure of it ‘Weeden moved and sat up, mop- ping his face quite frankly with a , handkerchief. “I guess I'd better light out before the crowd comes out of the mill,” he said, Annie sprang to his side as he | stooped forward to lift the bundle which had fallen on the floor, and caught him firmly by the shoulder. She jerked him back in the chair with surprising strength, and shook him so that his head waggled, which punishment he submitted to like a lamb. “Of all the stupids! Talking about lighting out! Where? I'd like to know! And how long do you mean to stay? Don't you see that she is beginning to think, and do things without being told? 'Stead of light- ing out, go down on your kneesand thank God for giving you the chance to undo what you've done.” “Do you mean that, Annie? can I make her right again, as she was before?” How same By staying right here and going to work, and acting just as if noth- ing had happened. Do you mean to say that you ain't man enough to do that? Of course some of will guy you; and some of ‘em will try to get you to drink up every cent of your pay, but what's that side of this help you can be to moth-' rm Annie had spoken rapidly and in- tensely, but she almost whispered the words in her father's ear. Weeden had made no effort to talk to his wife, and he shrank visibly when she again approached to draw Annie away from him. He had the popular repugnance and fear of the e to an unusual degree. “Dad won't hurt us today, moth- er. See how good he is,” said Annie. Then she put her palm un- der his stubby chin, and, holding {her breath, stooped and kissed the half of one tobacco stained lips. Then a new and un ted feeling began to as- sert | . Annie stepped away and the chair with a man's soul im trying to reveal itself through he unrolled and disclosed a handful the coarse, criminal face, and meagre, while not poisonous to jStiorait language natural to his “You look like a hobo,” she said candidly, “and I ought to hate you, but I can't. I've been to get you to stay, and let the sight of you around the house bring back mother’s senses if they ain't com- pletely gone. But there's some- - thing else. I want you to stay; and if mother was all right, it would be just the same. Look here, dad! cl that h | Y ; g | heavy winter clothing e wore | You half killed mother, but you You 2 All between the ages of 21 and drunk, and didn't know what was about. now; and if you kill the decent man that you always wanted to be, and turn hobo, that'll be a thousand times worse.” Something like superstitious dread ng Weeden's run the looms. Isn't there a plat- mother would not waken. But this seized Weeden as he listened to interfere Annie's argument. He did not ow that she had been learning to think in a very superior school for years and years. Who told her that he loathed him- i ask. | 36if, and that be always meant tobea ed but ome meal, either at noon or man, and win numbers of | | sometime ? e saw t was unable to ply in words of own ch “Don't you want mother to get all well, just as she used to be?” “I'd give my right arm,” he be- gan, at a convenient cur- genuir . . your ye king up the greats on fo Bo and indle into the bedroom. change your horrid old Sa & = « i; He ; f men- day impassive r com nding nothin, RO 8 ; 5 on S # Harrisburg, Surveys made by field officers of the state game commis- sion since the close of the hunting season show sufficient wild turkeys escaped to assure good hunting next season unless the weather condi- tions during hatching season are unfavorable. ‘em | But you ain't drunk n, and the NEW TEST WITH DEER WILL GET SEX RATIO. Game Commission Begins Experi- ment to Settle Long Debated Question. Determined to learn the exact facts 'about what has been a much de- | bated question the Game Commis- sion has inaugurated a large breed- ing experiment to determine the proper sex ratio for whitetailed deer. In a ten acre enclosure near Pine Grove Furnace formerly known as the “deer traps,” seven doe fawns three yearling doe and one yearling buck are now confined. About five acres of adjoining woodland thick with young sprouts of aspen will be added to the enclosure after spring opens. Additional individual deer will be added to the herd during the pres- ent year, and probably still others next year. Those in charge also may make exchanges of deer from time to time, as the progress of the ex- periment may suggest. The extent of the enclosure and its location away from residences where the deer will seldom see any- one except the keeper provides a setting for the experiment as nearly 'like the conditions of their life in the wild as it is possible to secure, Commission attaches believe. Commision officials intend to con- duct the experiment until the data sought has been learned regardless of the lengih of time necessary to cstablish the actual facts. Atleast live years and possibly ten may be necessary. The need for accurate data on the proper ratio of the sexes to propa- gate a strong, healthy race of deer has been a much debated question since Pennsylvania's deer herd has become so large, At hearings held in- cident to the open season for female deer wide differences of opinion were | registered by sportsmen and biolo- | gists. The opinions were based large- ly upon personal observation and deduction of conditions in the wild and not upon carefully conducted | experiments. The Pennsylvania Commission in conducting the experimentis follow- ing its policy of obtaining facts re- gardless of how difficult the experi- ments necessary, officials said. The deer feeding experiments conducted at State College were cited as an instance of the best way in which | to settle a controversial question. In that experiment observers learn- ed the results to deer when confined | | solely to a diet of laurel and rhodo- 'dendron. It was known that the ‘plants were poisonous to domestic | 'hoofed animals, one third to one per cent of the animal's gross weight being a fatal dose. No | eperiments ever had been made to! |learn what happened to deer if con- : | - looked at the tramp-like figure in fined to such a diet. prisoned, The tests proved to the satisfac- Kj | mended cauliflower. — FARM NOTES ACCREDITED DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN THE SAME —In describing the quality of baby chicks there are some terms which have numerous meanings, according to county agent, R. C. Blaney. The word accredited has various mean- ings in different States. If baby chicks or hatching cggs come from accredited flocks in Penna, New Jersey, New York, and the New England States, it means that the breeding stock was tested for bacil- lary white diarrhea and for the last two successive years there was no- tone reactor or of this dis- ease in the breeding , In Ohio other does not apply that the birds have been selected with a reasonable amount of care for good egg pro- duction, breed and variety charac- teristics. Whenever buyers of baby chicks see the word accredited, itis well for them to note which State these chicks came from and what the term accredited means. RECOMMENDS VARIETIES OF CHOICE VEGETABLES ~For the information of Centre County growers interested in the commercial production of vegetables, county agent, R. C. Blaney, gives a list of recommended varieties. These are not brands handled ex- clusively by a few seed houses but are varieties available from a large number of reliable sources, he ex- plains. Yellow sweet corn varieties in- clude Golden Early Market for first early only; the Burpee and Harris Extra Early Bantam for early; Whip- ple’s Yellow and Golden Bantam for second early. White varieties are represented by Early Market for first early only; White Cob Corn and Whipple's Early for early crop; Howling Mob and Vanguard for second early; Country Gentleman and Stowell's Evergreen for main crop. —Recommended tomatoes are Penn State Earliana for first early only; Bonny Best and John Baer for sec- ond early; Marglobe and Greater Baltimore for main crop. -—-Cabbage varieties include Golden Acre for first early only; Copen- Market for second early; eT Glory for mid-season or kraut; Short Stem Danish for fall and winter use. -—Siper snowball is the recom- Among the - pers Early Glan t is best for early use; World Beater for mid-season Id late, and California Wonder for e. —Cucumbers for slicing include rby, Early Fortune, and Davis tion of those supervising them that perfect. lettuce varieties amount they would likely Et ary | are New otk «Rei? wand New ONE | ent in nutrition values! __garl are ¢ |to maintain life during an entire | Improved. Besptian any 4 | winter. Ider, th oit Dark best | variety for the main crop. Chan- LENTEN REGULATIONS, 1981. 1. All the days of Lent, except | Sundays, are fast days. The Lenten fant ends at noon on Holy Satur- y. are obliged to fast, except the ‘sick and convalescent; women in del- | 'icate health and condition; those to | whom fasting would cause grave in- | jury to health, or would produce | such illness or exhaustion as would | with their daily duties; 0se occupations are of a very laborious and exhausting na- | ture. Those who doubt whether they are excused or not should con- sult their confessor. | 3. Those obliged to fast are allow- ‘and those } !in the evening, 4. During Lent every Wednesday | |and Friday are days of abstinence.’ However, by s privilege of the 'Holy See, working people and their Jer abe to from i obl] meat only oliged, y | Fridays. On all otner "days of ab- | stinence those of the family who are |obilged to fast may eat meat at | their principal meal; those not | obl to fast may eat meat at any jot} i meals, : i | . The use of meat and at the same meal is no longer EL a Xho Je excused from asting during Lent ould practice | self-denial in some other ‘Way. | 7. The usual Lenten devotions will | be provided in all the churches of the Diocese, and the faithful should endeavor y earnest yer, heart- felt contrition iy hy receiv- | ing of sacraments to profit by the special graces ry Wo Hol Season. | 8. The time for com; ‘with | the precept of Paschal nmunion extends, as heretofore, from the first Sunday of Lent, February 22to | to Trinity Sunday, May 31st. : i i i ENOUGH TO EAT? : A family of five in North Lenoke County, Arkansas, dependent on the | Red Cross for food, gets $4.20 worth |of rations every two weeks. Afam- ily of 13 gets $8.65. we learn from the / of the county's’ Red Cross cha) in a letter to! | Senator Robinson. There is, in addition, a shortage of clothing. The chapter collected | discarded garments in the towns, and spent $1,365 for shoes, clothing, underwear and stock in two weeks, mostly for children, who were cared for first. Here's the ration for a family of nine, presumably for two weeks, which cost $6.25: Flour, 48 pounds, $1.15; meal, 24 pounds, 65 cents; lard, 8 pounds, 95 cents; beans, 50 cents; rice, 75 cents; sugar, 75 cents; baking powder, 50 cents; four cans salmon, 50 cents; six cans iomatoes, 50 cents, The salmon and omatoes apparently are to halt the spread of Bitagra . | Nine persons may be able to sub- | sist on such a ration for two weeks but certainly they won't overeat. { r, f . -——A spray applica ‘and lead’ sity Eau blossoms | diseases -—In the celery group Plume for sand and muck soils and Easy Blanching for heavy in the recommended c are four onion varieties: Yi Globe for seed, white sets for bunch- ifig, yellow sets for ‘maturity, Riverside Sweet Spanish for trans- P —Commercial fruit growers of- | fer bee keepers a great opportunity for service. me t transplanting is . glally d ible when tip nla or black raspberries are being planted. i ott Ham. pons rather new 0 Mi where it yh been rathe widely planted. = Ee bE : §v shatter or as after as the weather permits. -—The apple 1 uptl later on, the date val depend on the season. e fruit grower sprays so as fill the cal ups no worms enter at’ that ‘ —Check over the entire outfit and see what is going needed in order to start off and in good shape, —Any one of a number eases can cause TeSpietios : f worms do not & gr £ i °c £4 g g § g® 2 ES 11 -—Some ag pers have reported looming To tr ree ne , rs spray just before tme trees a and never when in full bloom 8 ~—Lime usually is the first sential in improving pasture that are poorand weedy. also should oy re 3s phosphate t pi rate of 400 pounds or more per acre. On soils of deficient ti, at least 100 pounds of muria : : may well be added, or an 0-12-68 or 01-10- 10 mixture applied liberally. WT ng) Bl Chief other flowers req y hie among these are dahlias, campanu- las, certain phloxes, asters, chrysan- themums and gypsophylla. The stakes are most inconspicuous if painted green. --The coldframe is indispensable for growing early plants and small vegetable crops to maturity. The plants will have to be started in the Tostrictons for ANE ad oper. Instructions for i - ating these are found Sin CH 120 and 135 which ean be obtained from the Agricuttural Publications Office, State College, Pa,
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