- neni a aa THE CENTRE REPORTER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1914. PALMER AND MoUORMICK, Y 5 Mr, His Penrose's Immediate Attack Upon Falmer Indioates Senator Fears Undolog. Senator Boies Penrose is an old political observer, and he shows his fear of the candidacy of A. Mitchell Palmer for senator by his immediate attack on him. Nothing could be more complimentary to the eandidacy of Mr. Palmer for the Benate and of Vance McCormick for governor than the instant outbreak of the Republi. ean boss against them. He recognizes the fact that he has a losing fight op his bards, and has begun without de- lay to do the best he can. Io the selections of the conference st Washipgtou there has been due re- gard for the fitness of things. Mr Palmer is a Natiopsl figure of note, and his continued services in Wash- jongton are needed, Mr. McCormick is un ideal candidate for governor of Pevnsylvania, where his ancestors were among the pioneers. The warm gupport of the President ia an ap- preciation of the character and ser- vices of the men, In all this there is no disposition to shut anyone out, for the primaries will be open, and if I’ should happen that any other men bs chosen they will have the enthusiastic support of the Democratic party. By contrast is the difficulty of th: Bull Moose in making a selection for governor, There are tnany aspirants, but none measures up to the require ments of the gitustion. The selectior of Giftord Pinchot as candidate for genator, dictated by other considers- tions than political strength, is » handicap, and the wily leaders are aware that unless they can get a mar for governor who is stronger they wil not be in the running at all. The ou look is for Democratic success, and the men 10 be chosen are certain to be of character that will cause the people to congratulate themeelves, met —— Forestry Facts, I'he original forests of the Unite States covered 45 per cent of the total area of the country or 850 millio: acres, and contaiped 5200 billion board feet of lumber. The area varied fron one per cent in North Dakota, thres per cent in Kansas to 90 and 85 pe: cent in most of the east and soutl Atlantic states, gu Tuve forests of the country now cove but 550 million acres and contain Z500 billion board feet of timber, This i» 65 per of the original forest ares aud but 48 per cent of the origins stand, Alsskas has timber of good quality, Bay Hd comparatively litth Dr. Fernow Caonds’s timber supply would ouly last the United Btates te: years, The Ucited States uses 235 cubic feel of timber per capita, Norway 128, Japan 43, Germany 37 and Italy 18. Ihe United States has 7.6 acres of forest land per capita, Germany, .6 snd Great Britain, .07 acres, we There are 100 million acres of wooo land in the United States producing pothing, the result of fire and destruce- tive lumbering. The United States is using he timber three timea faster than she grows it, the present tupoly will las fifty-four years yet, What is she go- iog to do then? Grow some. That's all forestry ia, it is the scientific farm- ing of our woods, When one crop is ripe and cat, start another, Will the price of timber go up? Wheat brings what it costs to raise it, Timber will have to be raised, and it must in time go up to the price where it pays to raise it, Is the virgio timber ipexhaustible ? If so then why is the output falling off vo faut, in the face of high prices, everywhere except in the Pacific const states, the lasc stand of the virgh forests of the United States. Over haif of the virgin forests of the sodth are cut, Lat —————— Portion of L, & T, Seid. Tobe portion of the Lewisburg and Tyrove Railroad lying between Heotis sand Tyrone was sold io Robert KE, Mer. shall snd by him transferred to the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railway Come pauy. ‘Ibis line was operated under » lease by the Pennsy, snd in reality was owned by that company. This is & part of the line between Lewisburg aud Tyrone built during the seventies, and it is the open link in the system between Lemont and SBeotia that is so very much desired today by State (ol. lege und all the others interested ip the development of southern Centre county. It ie generally supposed that the L. & T, proper and the section re ferred to sbove will be connected with io a reasonable time. ——— A ———— Bheatz a Second, From the Altoona Tribune, | Lalo the event that Governor Htuart declines to consider the Republican nomination for governor, we know another Philadelphian who has a slaivliws record, His name Is Jobn O. Bheatz, former state treasurer, now state senator, —————— A —————— Home people never succeed because they have too little confidence in themselves and too much in others, # Prof. Shaw of the University of California Uives Impressions of the Western Cost State. Editor Reporter : Unclosed find check to pay for my subscription to the Centre Reporter. From the enclosed address slip I believe that I am in arrears since March, 1913. and am sending money to cover last year’s subscription and a subscription for the ensuing year. When I left the east I promised to give you some information concerning the conditions in this state. During the past year, I have been over a great deal of the state, visiting every section ex- cept the Imperial Valley and the Owens Valley. It is impossible for one who has never been here to appreciate the tremendous difference in ° climate, character of the country, and crops. that are found in the state. California has an area of about 165,000 square miles. This does not mean that there is any where near that area that is available for agricultural purposes, however, as at least half of the state is occupied by mountain ranges some of which are too rough for agriculture and others are too dry to produce anything but sparse growth of sage brush. All agricultural operations are found in the valleys, in the most cases representing the bottoms of ancient lake beds or arms of the sea. The largest of these is the valley of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers, ex- tending from Red Bluff on the north to below Bakersfield on the south, a distance of over 400 miles. This valley has a width ranging from 40 to 60 miles. In the southern part of the state there is a broad stretch of approximately level country extending from the ocean east to Redlands and from Pasadena south a distance of about forty miles, with a southern extension from five to ten miles wide along the ocean south to San Diego. These are the two largest compact areas of agricultural land. In the Imperial Valley there is a large area of triangular shape, with its base on the Mexican line extending north about 100 miles, a portion of which is irrigated and farmed. Throughout the Coast Range mountains there are numberless valleys most of them relatively small, although some may be sixty to seventy miles long and five to ten miles wide, all of which are adapted to farming. In addition to these areas, there are a number of small- er valleys of from 100 to 400 square miles each, lying in the Sierra Nevada mountain region and a region of hilly country along the west coast north of San Francisco that is adapted to fruit growing and dairying. With the exception of the last named re ion, and a few of the Sierra Valleys, it is necessary in almost every case to bave water for irrigation, in order to be successful with crops. The rainfall varies very greatly, but, in most of the valleys that have been mentioned, will be less than twenty inches per year. Most of the rain fall is during the months of December, January, February and March, with the balance of the year almost wholly dry. During the summer months, from June to September, it is most unusual indeed to have rain in any of the larger valleys. The temperature ranges are wide, and vary with elevation. suminer's temperature in the Sacra- mento and San Joaquin Valleys fre- juently went weil above 100 degrees, aud 115 and 120 degrees were frequent. ly reached. The temperature along the Paciic Coast is uniformly very much lower, ranging about 60 and 80 degrees during the summer, It was rather op- pressive to work during the week in the Sacramento Valley, with the tempera- ture ranging about 100 degrees and then, on ny way back to Berkeley, to tind ss soon as we passed through the Carquinez Straits a decided change in temperature, with the thermometer about 70 when I would reach home. About San Francisco, it is necessary to Carty an overcoat almost any day in the year. The evenings are almost uniforms- ily cool. I have often feit foolish when I started out of Berkeley with an over- coat to spend the biggest share of the week in toe interior valleys, where or- dinary coats were decidedly too much clothes. When an easterner thinks of orange growing, he thinks instinctively of the Los Angeles section but as a matter of {act oranges are grown in not only that section, but also in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, as far north as Red Bluff, being produced along the east and west side of the valley, be- tween elevations of 500 and 1500 feet above sea level. In this belt frosts are rather rare, although below 500 feet or above 1500 feet during the winter, frosts are liable to be sufficiently severe to seriously injure, or even kill, the trees, Land prices are uniformly high. There is very little desirable land open to settlement under the homestead acts, and the land that has been taken up is being held at figures that are fully as high as their productivity warrants, Land that has water for irrigation can rarely be purchased for less than $100 per acre, and frequently is held for as much as 250 or more, in the regions where citrus fruits caonot be grown, and usually for $400 to $1000 per acre where oranges and lemons do well, Alfalfa land is frequently held as high as $300 or $400 per acre, al- though I do not believe that one can profitably grow alfalfa on land valued at much over $200. The most striking instance of land values that | struck in all my travelings last summer were in Humboldt county, on the northwest const, where land used for pasture and hay had a value of $300 and was giving an income that paid a good interest on that valuation. Climatic conditions were such that the grass grew quite uxuriantly throughout ten months of the year and cattle were kept on pasture during that entire time. The grass, supplemented by some alfalfa hay or sugar beets, enables the cattle to pro- duce large quantities of milk and the average butter fat production of al the cows of that county good, bad and in- different, is somew in the neighbor« hood of 230 pounds per year, while the average production of cows for the United States is somewhere about 160 or 170 pounds. I do not know what it is that enables cattle to produce the unntities of rich milk that they do in t section, but the results aro astonish- ing and prove that the land is ss valu. able as he owners claim very Last fterenting things that eastern as can sce in this western country, but feel Shalt 1 din Dot justified it up soy With best wishes, 1 am nn Very truly yours, Cuas, F. suaw, Tapped the Church Sleepers. Nowadays uo protest is made or any potion taken against the sleepy man or wouian who falls into a doze in the aidet of minister's sermon. In Kugland 300 years ago the gullty of- ter would have been severely the head by men espe- yv appointed tg the task of keeplug » congregation awake, For instance, parish in Shropshire, 28 shill- ings a yeur wis regularly paid to a poor man te go about the church dur- ing the sermon and keep the people awike. He carried a thin, long wand hand, which be could conve stretch out over considerable ul rap offenders on the Head the shoulders. With women as always instructed to be gen- *, to tap softly, but persistently, un- ¢r was broken. For wo- lenrned, were not so men on being aroused mfortable nap, and, If gentle ere not employed, were likely get up gud leave, causing no little the HE ol over he slumti Wis ng Newton's “Observatory.” ‘here is an interesting mystery as- ated with 35 St. Mary's street, once wine of Sir Isase Newton, which w property market. On ¢ used to be a curious le almost entirely of many years this was Jdleved to have been Bir n's observatory. Fanny ¢ father, the noted musi- harles Burney, Was at one plier of the house, occas the erection as a study, moirs of her father she it ns Newton's observatory. 1bt was cast upon the story bs in his “Curiosities of Iie asserts that the obsery- ullt by a subsequent ten- 11a) It has been fur that this Frenchman not room, but also equipped ns instruments and then, it was the observatory harged a fee for admis Westminster Gazettes, He Were Knighted, wus known as Professor genial, nice old fel- in fact, he was a re- ontrast to most of these t old gentiemen and would luce Into his lecture inter. : concerning the manners ns of the countries he had VOrY particular moming his sub- nish history, and he felt it ry to flluminate his dis- t you know, gentlemen,” nn man attains to emi in he is knighted, but then not ns ‘sir,’ bot as don." ™ pose, sir,” gravely sald 1 who always insisted on “if they knighted you, ne a Don-Key ™—Lon- Profitable Beauty, beauty of beauties” Mme onid sometimes become a the poor, and it was good r. At the Easter fetes of rated in the Church of St : priest asked Mme. Recamier g tor, She accepted. ned emigrant, M. de Thiard, cavalier, The task was no To walk around the church he enormous crowd oocupled 1 hour. Anether hour was n counting the receipts, which 20,000 francs. From each a cry of admiration at the 18 beauty of the young collee- she advanced step by step throu the church these cries were translated into pleces of gold for the poor and many pleces of verse to offer to the fair collector.~*A Great Oo quette.” allen ol to velo As Laughing. Laughing is a series of short expirs- tory Lilasts which, acting upon the vocal chords. held tense for the purpose, cause certain sounds of various pitch. The differences In the sound of the langhter of different individoals is largely due to the varying vibrations of the Iaryng and pharynx. It has been noted that many in a family “have the possibly because of simi lar throat formations, It glso is an imi tative process.—New York World, same lavngh” A Tale of Tips When Guizot, the great French his torian, was staying at Windsor castle in 1840 he wrote to his daughter that he had won over £20 at the Ascot meeting: “Twenty-three sovereigns for me, which will balance the £20 I had to spend in fees to the servants at Windsor castle.” Selfish Rejoioing. “1 rejoice that the world is filled with sunshine,” said the fat man. “Ah, you are an optimist” remarked the thin man, “No.” replied the fat man, “I am an awning manufacturer.” Cincinnati En quirer, a—- Hopeless, “He's no good at an argument, is he? Not at all convincing ?™ : Well, 1 should say not. Why, that man couldn't convince a woman that she was pretty "Cleveland Leader, Nell-8he's n woman of Hberal : len't she? Relle-~Well, I notice always giving others a plece of mind. — Philadelphia Recogd. —————— A man who dares waste one hour time has not discovered the value Hfe Charles Darwin, Don't ACOUSS & man of dumb who hes sense to math shat, Mechanism Comparatively few people thoroughly realize what a delicate and sensitive structure the human ear really is. That which we ordinarily designate so ls, after all, only the outer porch of a series of winding passages which, like the lobbles of a great building, lead from the world without to the world within, Certain of these passages cor- tain liquid, and their membranes are stretched like parchment curtains across the corridor of different places and can be thrown into vibrations or made to tremble like the head of a dram or as the surface of a tambou- rine does when struck with a stick or with the fingers. Between two or three parchment-like curtains a chaln of very small bones extends, which serves to tighten or relax these membranes and to communicate vibrations to them. In the innermost place of all a row of white threads, called nerves, stretches Hke the strings of a plano from the last point to which the tremblings or thrillings reach and pass inward #0 the bralm. Keeps Tab on the Shipowners. The captaing’ register at Lloyd's, the great English Insurance concern, has aptly been described as the blograph- fecal dictionary of the whole of the certificated commanders of the British mercantile marine. In the register are entered the date and place of the worthy skipper's birth, the record of his progress at sea, the ships he has commanded and the ships, If he has been unfortunate, that he has lost There is also another register, a con- fidentinl Index of British shipowners and the history of their ships, the num- ber of shares held by the owners, the trade of the ships during the year, the accidents which have befallen them and other Important information. If a firm loses ship after ship, If the en tries “foundered,” “wrecked” and “missing” appear in succession against the names of their vessels, here is a moral to be drawn by the broker and underwriter, Medical Ethics In China. In an article in the Journal of Race Development on the practice of med! cine in China, Dr. C W. Young of the Union Medical college of Peking quotes this from a work on medical ethics: “When a patient is severely {ll freat bim as thou wouldest wish to be treat. od thyself. If thou art called to a con- tation go at once, and do not delay. If he ask thee for medicine give it to him at once, and do not ask If he be rich or poor. Use thy heart always to gave life and to please all. Bo will thine own happiness be exalted. In the midst of the darkness of the world be sure there is some one who Is pro tecting thee When thou art called to an acute and thinkest with all thy might of nothing but making mon ey out of the patient. if thy heart be not filled with love of thy neighbor, be sure that in the world there Is some one who will punish thee” ness Early New York. New York city bad become one of the most important places on the coast before 1750 its great advantages were its fine harbor and the noble riv er which emptied into It. The other towns on the coast were shut off from the far west hy the Appalachian mountains or the Allegheniesx, which follow the Atlantic coast at a distance of 100 to 200 miles from it from Geor gla to Maine, But the Hudson river broke through this barrier and gave New York egsy access to Canada and the profitable Indian trade. In 1005 the city contalued about 4.300 inbab ftants, about one-third being slaves It extended from the Battery to a pal lsaded wall, where Wall street now rune, All above Wall street was In the country. The population grew to about 8500 in 1730 and about 12.000 in 1750. Test For Silk Goods. There Is a simple method of finding out whether a plece of silk goods has been adulterated or weighted, as the manufacturers call it. with tin, and that Is to cut off a small sample and burn it. Pure silk is animal matter, just as feathers or halr. made, as every one knows, by the silkworm. Now, if pure silk Is burned it will instantly curl up into a crisp mass, just as a burnt hair or feather will do, but if the silk goods has been adulterated with from 60 to 75 per cent of tin it will not do this. It will leave an ash in the semblance of the fabric, much as a burned plece of newspaper will leave an ash that still shows the print ing. The harder and more firm this ash the more tin there was In the silk. ~New York American. Painless and Portraits. “A famous artist has it so much eas fer than an unknown painter.” “How so? “The unknown painter has to make his portraits look like the people he paints. The people a famous artis! paints are willing to try to look lke their portraits.” Pittsburgh Post, An Oversight. “I want to pay this biIL"” he sald at the hotel Lar. “but | think you have made a slight error here in my favor. I've been reading over the extras, and § cannot find that you have charged #nything for telling me you thought it might rain.” Secured. Bellboy~Guy in 18 wants to know where the fire escapes are! Clerk Well, show him-—he's paid in advance’ The Word Cocoanut. It realy should be “coconut” but custom compels the inclusion of that superfluous “a.” The term coco or Co con by which the nuts are known Is sald by several authorities to be of Portuguese origin, and the derivation is quite out of the ordinary, Accord ing to Bauhin, cocon or coquhien is de rived from the three holes at the end of the nut, giving it the resemblance of a specles of monkey. Another writ er, Piso, would have us believe the the nut, it being llkened unto the volce of an ape. The monkey is macaco or haps the best explanation Per- offered MACHO, for the three ¢yes of the nut certainly convey the Impression of a hideous laugh. For the unnecessary “a” the caroless proofreader, who name in its present form to creep into Johnson's dietlonary, although learned doctor had used the spelling. ~London Telegraph, Good Discipline, “Our American militia is the best the world,” sald the Descendants of the Sligners. “How strict it is! During the riding one hot day Iitia a private was 3 on a trolley car with unbuttoned, This caused a on the smokers’ seat behind to say: all? “But here a gentleman on the interfered, saying to the sergeant: a cigar in mouth? I'm Fitzhugh Calhoun.’ your with a white military over and murmured Brewstec to remind you, sir, tha geant in the presence military offense hs Washington Star. Hens That Swim. “ Colonel ~Can a hen swim? “Yes,” says Maggie, cant nod of the head. “What! Do swim? “Yes,” with repeated nod. The infant mistress is appealed to re garding the instruction imparted to the class. “Maggie,” says “surely you are not th say a hen can swim?" With persistent n« “Yes.” Head master enttrs room. In- spector calls his attention to Maggie's repeated answer Head Master (to mean to say a hen can swim? “Yea™ “Did you ever see a hen swim?” “Yes: n water hen” Inspector confesses he has still some- thing to learn. —J.ond A —— IT SAVES YUU MONEY. with a witli a you say a hen c¢ the infant mistress, king. Do you wd th the Maggie) Do you gays M aERie i Answers Or, Howards Dyspepein Fpes fic; Regular Frioe 50 , Furey and Biteer R8¢, The especial half price sale «f Dr, Howard's specific for the cure of con- dipstion and dyepepeia by Murrs: stud Bitner means the saving of a few dollare on every family’s yearly bil for medicines. Esch 50 cent bottle ( Murray and Bitner reils 1t for 250. ) contains sixty doses of a medicine that is pleasant 1« take and which can be depended upor to cure the worst case of coustipstion dyspepein or liver trouble. This remedy is not an ordinary medicive, Itis the favorite formuls of a well known physician, and bas the endorsement of bundreds of emi gence in their profession, who pre scribe it in all cases of constipation, dyepepeis or liver trouble, knowing from experience that it wili make » complete and Inslir g cure, pp Any womsn can manage 8 map, if «he can only prevent him from know fog it. Fries CCOvuRT PROCLAMATION, Whereas the Honorable Ellis 1. Orvis, Pres: dent Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Forty-ninth Judicial District, consisting of the county of Centre, having sued his precept beart date the Sist day of December, 1913, to me directed for holding a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans Court, Cour! of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, in Bellefonte, for the county of Centre, and to commenos on the FOURTH MONDAY OF FEBRUARY, being the 28rd day of February, 1914, and to continue two weeks, Notice is hereby given to the Coroner, Justices of the Peace, Aldermen, and Constables of said county of Centre, that they be then and there in their proper persons at i0 o'clock in the forenoon of the 23rd, with their records, inquisitions, ex- aminstions, and their «wn remembrances, to do those things which 10 their office apperiains 10 be done and those who are bound in recognizmnoes, 3 J Gert against the prisoners thal are or ibe in jail of Centre county, be then and there to prosecute against them as shall be just dayol) under thy hans 8% Denstunie, he md AnGAry, in year our Lord, wi the one hundred and thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, ARTHUR B. LEE, Sheriff's Office, shen, Bellefonte, January 28, 1914, EE — AGENT WANTED We have just received in. that the First National Noiseries of RBoohester, N. Y., wants lady or tiemen rep rescnatives in this section 10 sell all kinds of Roses, Bhruts, Trees and Seeds. They inform wa that wi 1 previous ERT. it is pose bie , Any one out for terms aud enclose Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Tonic and alterative. Increases strength. ! Restores healthy functions. No alcohol Sold for 60 years. Ask Your Doctor. AT he Ans COURT ©} {431 COMMON RO. 11 PLEA FEB! y ho NOTICE ~ IN i} NY ¥ the Bh day Hayes 1 reneny erring that she FE, ONE Jear old, i and wi one year old Mi Das pound Miers, two will be Ors Mock and well Ig ain iH aile Wood sows sae Also farm WE harrow, Hex bie sow god as 1 oeRLher team Barts AR HOMAN, KuCiloneen AY. MARCH 11, 12 o'clock, two and wes west Of Uetiire Hall, by Chas, 8 Faria stocs t3d fev ve * y g ps AIG MOCK ALG Impleenis THURSDAY, MARCH 12, ten o'clock, ene hall mile west Jf Penne Cave, by Emaune! Fungend t horwes, thirteen cows, 8 tal #4 heifers, jot os, | it Plymouth Bock chickens, Mies UwClion eaxibe, thresher and ¢ HOW. T, thampion hay press, Ross fodder shreds « WOOO saw, Deis, and Sx ures, eversthine compiete, Also all the arming Impicioents and tools, and sotoe household goods, MONDAY, MARCH 16, all day sale, onehs. mile wouin-cast of Linden Hall hy 8. EK. Sharer: Farin stock a 4 implements. LF, Mays, auc voueer, > hoster white ITO sient EGG oe uy Johns « set BOR MOL wh Hu COLIRIR, vi Ont spre Wise and Hubler, WEDNES hail Burris is si $5 hoe, TUESDAY MARCH 17, at 014 Port, by Wiliam Braalord. Large tay stock and implements, L. F. Mayes, auct., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, ten o'clock, two and one Dail wiles east of Centre Hall, by Henry § Homan © I bree work Horm s, two Site colts. Sine good mich cows, botstein heifers, 8 shit + Duilis, 5 young catile, 12 ewes, tam, 2 rood sows boar, Jot of shouts, also a fall lise of Impicments, Wels, ete. LF. Mayes, auctioneer. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, ten o'clock, three mi‘es want of Uetitre Mail, by W, K Tete and G. Kaleton : 7 norses, 11 cows, § young cate short horn bail, about 2 hogs © aise fuli Hoe of rin. ing implements. Hairy Grove, secuonser. BATURDAY, MARCH 21, ene tv'cloe Lingie larm, one and one-half miles west og —_ tre Hall by John D. Moore: 1 home, § cows. 5 Jong Sntile, brousd _—. ? shouts Ales some ATTIGE Hn planets, soe household Harry urove, avet oneer, oid goods. MONDAY, MARCH 25, ten o'¢ Tosser. ville, vy Acam F. Heckman ; Thar aly ie COWS, We Ven § vaitle, 1.0 sheep, sud somo hogs. Also a fuil line of farmi Tm ples and a ..0t of ng mpl = WEDNESDAY, MARCH = one ball mile east of Old Part, by Jobs PRT re, ol Inrmin eR eto. H. FV. Grove, auc. " r ny hh THURNKDAY, MARCH 26. one o'clock, mils wate Old Fort on Comming homestead by Mrs, Reboes 2 Cannings Woll | Lot of hotsehold 12 o'clock sharp, George W, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, all day, W linden ‘Hall. Term sock and , hear vinous, MONDAY, MARCH 80, ton o'clock, om the Grove farm on Sinking Creek two miles west of | Spring Mills, by George A. Hettinger: Four BOTs, one colt, cows, thitteen you Lon thle, thin, hee. Tw. Brod BOWE, Bik, oy ni Jin ng implements, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, one mile ast of OM ort, by Wi F, Colyer; Stock of all kinds,
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