THE OENTRE REPORTER. Er ———————— THURSDAY, OUTOBER 4, 1017 . mp Thirty-five Years Ago. October 26, 1882.—The Pattison Club, of the Loop, had & rally at Tus- seyville, on the evening of the 17th, and were addressed by J. IL. Bpavgler and KE, L. Orvis, The new Reformed church, at Belle- fonte, will be dedicated mext Sunday. The following persons from Centre Hall have gone to the centennial at Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs, William Wolf, Mr, and Mre, Dantel Fleisher, Mrs. Wes. Henney, Myre, Bamuel Bhoop, and D. J, Meyer. On Tuesday morning, J. T. Hagan, of Farmers Mills, shot an owl in Wm. Homau’s woods, measuring four feet, eight inches, from tip to tip. — A ——— Jail Must Be Repaired, Centre county officials have been formally notified by the State Board of Charities and Corrections that the jail in Bellefonte must be repaired and placed in a modern sanitazy condition, The notice sets forth that the much- needed and long-delayed repairs must be begun within the mext three months, Aaronsburg, Mr, and Mrs, Walter Orwig spent Bunday with relatives im Hartleton. Miss Cora Hsines- spent Friday with friends in Millheima. Mr. and Mrs, Cornell XEerstetter, of Logantop, visited relatives here ob Sunday. Mr. and Mre, Freemnan Luse, of West Fairview were guests of A, 8B. Btover. R. W. Mensch and W. A. Guise wite brought home a big load of peaches from Middleburg last week. Mrs. Anna Btover, after a month's visit amoung filénds in Akron, Ohlo, returned home on Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Frank Forster, of Miff- linburg, returned home after spending some time with relatives here, | Mrs. Ralph Btover and Miss Maude Hosterman were delegates to the mis tionary convention held at Lewistown last week, W. A. Guisewite took Mr, and Mre, A. B. Btover, Mr, and Mrs. Freeman Luce, in his car to Potters Mille on Bunday where the parly wisited at the Perry McKinney home. Mre. George McKay and daughter Florence, of Philadelphia, are paying their annual visit to the home of the former’s mother, Mrs. Katherine Phil lipe. Dr. and Mm. D. F. Bowersox, daughter, Mn. T. C. Weaver, and granddaughter, Esther Bradford, at ‘ tended the fuveral of the doctor's grand niece, who died at Altoona and was buried st Mllesburg ou Tuesday, Mre. Lavins K. Lenker and dangh- fer Bue, in company with Mrs, Carl and daughter, of Oregon, Xil., motored to Mifflinburg on Wednesday and tpent a few days at the Mrs, Ellen Kurtz home, Miss Blanch Zieber, of Reading, field worker of the Sundsy-schon board of the Reformed church, spent + few days with Rev. W. D. Donat. On Bunday the held conferences with workers in the Aaronsburg, Salem snd Coburn Bdnday-schools., Georges Valley Mre. B. F. Confer and Mre. W..F, Gingerich spent Saturday st the home of Mrs. 8, E, Gobble, « Mr. and Mrmr, J. B. Ripka spent Bunday with Mr.'sod Mrs. W. P, Lin- gle. Mr. and Mre, V, A. Aumar, of Cen- tre Hall, spent Sunday with the form. er’s father, P, A. Auman, Mre. James Foust returned home on Tuesday after spending a week with friends in Unlon county. Mre, J. E. Sheliey of Mercer county is spending this week at the J. W. Gobble home, Miss Carrie Barger returned to Philadelphia on Saturday, where she is employed, after spending a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Barger. ————— fn —————— ‘whe Amish are Exempted, The Birdsboro, Berks county, draft board has exempted all drafted Am- lshmen within thelr jarisdioctiop. The Berks counly Amishmnen were the only members of a religious sect who were exempted fromm service on sccount ‘of their covselemtious serup- les against taking bumsn life and in eogsging in avy form In the waging of war, Mennonites, members of the church of the Brethren and other sim- ilar secte, were not exemnpted by the down state board and the favorotiem bas brought downs storma of protest upon their heads, The Amish colony in BM iffin coop. ty bas determined to pay mo attention tothe draft law and in Mime with this policy two young Amishmuen whe were ordered tp camp with the first draft contingehit refused to report, Mennonites and other maembers of religious sects opposed to war who aot ing upon the advice of their elders de- cided to go camp but to refuse to wear army uniforms, have been forced by the commandiog officer at Osm ¥ FEW REAL BOOK STORES HERE Ceunt Tolstoy Struck by Lack of Op- portunities for Obtaining Good Literature in United States. In my country, as in the other parts of Europe, nobody need have any diffi culty in finding book stores in small towns or in large cities, Count Ilya Tolstoy writes in the Century maga- zine. Here one can find a cigar store, a drug store, all kinds of shops where luxuries can be purchased, but the ‘seeking of a bookshop is often a very hard quest, Even In New York it is hard to find a real book store, where the attendants know their authors aud can help one select the books that one needs on any subject, There are some, but none too many. They can be counted on the fingers of one's hands. 1n smaller cities the task of finding books is a hopeless one, There are a few stores where books are sold; but what books? Novels mostly, the aver- age ephemeral romance; magazines with too many {V-concelved articles containing. little upbuilding criticism of public life, much ill-digested infor- mation, ad newspapers which afford little of intellectual value, being most- ly mediums of@advertising. American literature is yet poor. The good mag- azines are few compared with Euro- pean reviews, The inheritance of man- kind, the universal literature, is hard- ly known here, There are translations in sets, richly bound, but cheaply pro- duced, and too often done by hack writers, who do not even understand what they translate, They are bad translations, as a rule, but costly. Poor people are not able to buy them. Even in Russia, in the country which Americans thinkjuncivilized, we have translations of &ll the world's great writers, These editions are ap- propriate to the means of the people. They can be bought for prices from 1 fo 5 cents. It is the same in England. The result here Is that the people read only newsfupers and magazines, In Crowds In RimostEIwayy, CC ! “Roast chicken in small cake tin; sweet potatoes peeled and sliced, sea- goned and covered with milk in pud- ding dish; macaroni and cheese in a bread tin. Time about one and one- half hours, oven moderate.” A Star's Light Year. A star's light year means the length of time as measured by our years that a particular star's light takes in reach- ing the earth, Light travels at the rate of about 186,000 miles a second, yet even at that. speed some of the fixed stars are so distant from the ‘earth that It takes thelr light several years to reach us, The sun is 93,000, 000 miles from the earth and its light reaches in less than nine minutes, but the light from Sirius, sometimes called the Dog star, is eight years in reaching us. The Pole star or North star, has a 40 light year, that is, its light is 45 years In reaching the earth. If one of these inconcelvably distant fixed stars should be blotted out of existence to- night we should continue to see it for years to come from its rays of light already on their way to the earth, Big Food Crops. It looks as If nobody in the world need lack for something to eat next year, if the crop promise of the United States for the coming harvest is ful. filled. According to the forecast of the department of agriculture, food crops this season will be greater by a billion bushels than last year. This does not take into account the thousands of home gardens that will produce thelr millions of bushels of potatoes and other vegetables, ‘The government's crop report is probably the severest blow that has been struck at Prussian. ism in several days, at least.—~Chris- tion Science Monitor. ————————— er ————. ALASKA BUGS BUSY AS BEES Mosquitoes Also Are Numerous and Make Life Unpleasant for Farm. a library of great books. The best works of Pushkin, Dickens, Shake- speare, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Tol- stoy, Heine, Victor Hugo and cotnt- less others are at the disposal of the poorest, ECONOMY WITH GAS STOVE Woman Tells How She Saved Money by Making Plans Ahead for Her Baking Day. A woman has written in to the Wom- an's Home Companion about her gas stove and she says: how to economize time and money in on hearing a young housekeeper tell about baking a pudding, or just one thing, in a gas oven as large as my own, which struck me as amazingly ex- travagant,” writes a woman in the Woman's Home Companion. “When planning to have a baking day with the oven, I sit down the day before and think out just what is need- ed for several meals ahead which must be cooked. For instance, I place a roast in a pan just barely large enough to hold it, thus economizing on space as well. Then, if possible, I cover the roast with a pan which can be made to sit quite level, into which I put several potatoes; or, if this ar- rangement isn’t practicable, I put the potatoes on the grate. Beside the roast I place a small pudding dish con- taining a bread pudding, on a small asbestos mat beside the pudding dish small pan of biscuits, A vegetable og sometime be baked in a napple with™nll these things as well, “The following, all of which I have tested, will be found good combinations for any baking day: “A meat loaf, covered, in a bread pan ; escalloped tomatoes in a pudding dish ; a pan of corn gems. Time about po hour, Baked potatoes may be ers in the Far North. {| Reports from every corner of the { town, where the little garden has { been nurtured into healthful life by i master, maid and milady, are constant- | ly appearing to the effect that the gar- dens are being completely wiped out, { or rather cut off, by a diminutive in- | pect, apparently, at first blush, harm- | less, the Anchorage Democrat states. {| The lettuce and cabbage seem to af- | ford the best food for the pestiferous | ttle bug and the only barrier that | will stop him is a quantity of lye wa- | ter sprinkled around each individual plant. The homesteaders, too, are | troubled mich in the same way, and | unless some means may be developed, hand vne more practical than the lye water for big crops, the season's re- turn will not be as ample as expected. i" And the bug is not alone proving a pest to the farmer. The mosquito this year is making life on the farm any- thing but pleasant, and, in fact, the pwarms of them appearing day and might not only retard much of the nec. essary farm work, but practically, make some of it impossible, This year more than any other in the last three years the mosquito has proved a most harassing little winged devil, aR It Import Mosquitoes for Birds. |! The delicate vocal organs of song | birds respond magically to special care | jpestowed upon the diet. For this rea. {#son, says Popuiar Science Monthly, |ibirds that are cultivated in captivity ‘are fed specially prepared foods dee signed to furnish maximum nourishes iment with minimum labor of the di- gestive organs. i! A food which has been found espe. | /clally valuable to bird breeders has for its principal ingredients Japanese mos. quitoes snd ants’ eggs. It is prepared i 'by an expert on the care and feeding of birds. The reason the Insects are imported from Japan is that the Japa- nese have a method of catching them in large quantities which as yet Amer 'dcans have not discovered, view of maze of wires linki ficati ants ALE men, lemen and i Sytem im is. doi Ay Toquired for and private sources. Join us in this the more caref are necess ry a possible, to the less the country today would a ese vast forti- the camps, yard line- EE ————— A — —— ————— ——————— - 3 that the day, the better i ——————————— going to get for i, somewhat cheaper, are not economy, service, more satisfaction. It's worth the price, have supplied the wool goods for these clothes. A BELLEFONTE oo L Does Your Lamp Smell? Don't put up with it ag a sort of necessary evil. 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