THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. ~ 79 [Poison Gophers During Autumn Look for this package It contains the original aD Og Best Time to Apply Preven- tive Measures to Keep " Pests Away. . Wg YY; A ” cA of Agriculture.) The attitude of many farmers to- rurd pocket-gopher control is much like that of the man with the lenky coof: In dry weather the roof didn't need repairing, and when it was rain- ing it was too wet to fix it. Pocket gophers damage such cultivated erops Ci Prepared by the United Hiatées Departigfiot A » 8 IN mi gibi it 1 7 i bh) ounces full-size 12 biscuits The whole wheat, nothing added, nothing taken away-made digestible and ready-to-eat with milk or fruits. On the Level Molly WW hy do you fix ap your eye brows like that? 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JIE CF THE LAIDNTTG QF COLD US : returned thanks 304 th tears of joy. His | 12 is a day 1 ollowed by the rest, | which Americans set whos wearts indeed overflowed with stitude Colu aside for honoring the : en memory of the sailor who is universall being the “discoverer” of the New World und In twenty-three states the Union—Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, By ELMO SCOTT WATSON CTOBER sword Genoese How many people you know end their colds with Bayer Aepinin! And how often you've heard of its prompt relief of sore throat er tonsilitis. No wonder millions take it for colds, neuralgia, rheumatism ; and the aches and pains that go with them. The won- der is that anyone still worries through a winter without these tablets! They relieve quickly, yet have no effect whatever on the heart. Friends have told you Bayer Aspirin is marvelous ; doctors almost y credited with California, Kentucky to take the o Michigan :, New Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Washi ton— Columbus day is a legal Most of us know Columbus, for the story with the record of its Jersey somethi dauntiess am many disappointments and discourage ments until success came to nim, only te end In poverty and fallure, Is one of the most romantic and at the same time one of the most tragic In the an nals of mankind. Jut what of the history-making event the an miversary of which we are about to celebrate again? How clear a picture de we have of what took place on that October day, 436 years ago? For all of the millions of words that have been written about Christopher (ol umbus and his voyages of discovery In the past four centuries, there is none which paints the scene more vividly than do the words of an Amer fean historian who wrote of it more than a hundred years ago, and modern scholarslip has found but little to correct In the record as It 1s ret down by Washington Irving In his “Life and Voyages of Columbus. ™ Here Is the story of that historic day as Irving tells it: It waa on Friday morning the 12th nf October, that Columbus first beheld the New World As the day dawned he saw before him a level island. sev. eral leagues In extent, and covered with trees like a continual! orchard Though apparently uncult vated, it wos populous, for the inhabitar ts we Issuing from all parts of the woods and renning to the shore. They were per. fectly naked, and, as they stood gag. fng at the ships, appeared by their attitudes and gestures to be lost in astonishment, Columbus made signal for the ships to cast anchor, and the buats to be manned and armed He entered his own boat, richly att red in scarlet, and hiding the royal standard while Martin Alonzo Pinzon, and Vi. cente Yanez, his brother, put off in company in their boats, each with a banner of the enterprise emblazoned with a green cross, having on either side the letters F. and Y. the initials of the Castilian monarchs, Fernando and Ysabel, surmounted by crowns Ar ne approached the shore Colum- bus, who was disposed for all kinds ¢f agreeable impressions, was delight- ed with the purity and suavity of the atmosphere, the crystal transparency of the sea, and the extraordinary beauty of the vegetation He beheld, also, fruits of an unknown kind upon the trees which overhung the shores On landing he threw himself on his itself, re seen Columbus’ Story Lost — When Columbus returned to Spain fgom the New World, he stopped on February 14, 1493, at Santa Maria, one of the islands of the Azores, probably to take water. Four days before this he had encountered a most terrific storm and was convinced that he, his men and his vessels must perish, Now Columbus realized in his heart that he was going back to Spain with news of a discovery second In im i they themselve ns favorites and most unb Phey around the with ov zeal, some eo 3 g him, others Kise. ing his ha Those who had been most mutinous turbulent during the voyage were most devoted and enthusiastic. Boome begged favors of him, as if he already had wealth and honors in his gift. Many abject spirita, who had outraged him by thelr erouched at his faer, begging pardon for all the trouble they had caused him and promising the biindeat obedience for the future The island, when, at the dawn of day, they had beheld the ships hovering on their coast, had sup. posed them monsters which had issued from the deep during the night They had crowded to the beach and watched their movemants with awful anxiety Their veering about, apparently with. out effort, and the shifting and furling of their sails, resembling huge wings filled them with astonishment When they beheld their boats approach the shore, and a number of strange be. ings clad In glittering steel or rail. ment of various colors, landing uapon the beach, they fled in affright to the woods Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue or molest them, they gradually recovered from their terror, and approached the Span. iards with great awe. frequently pros. tratirg themselves on the earth, and making signs of adoration. During the ceremonies of taking possession, they gazing in timid admiration at the complexion, the beards, the shin. ing armor, and splendid dress of the Spaniards. The admiral particularly at. tracted their attention, from his com. manding heigat, his air of authority, his dresa of scarlet, and the deference which was pa.1 him by his companions: all which pointed him out to be the commander. When they had stil! furth. er recovered from their fears, they wppronched the Spaniards, touched their beards, and examined thelr hands and faces, admiring their whiteness Columbus wan pleased with thelr gen- tlenesx and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his be. nignity They now supposed that the ships had salled out of the erystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvel. ous beings were Inhabitants of the skies The natives of the Island were no less objects of curiosity to the Span- ards, differing, as they did, from aay race of men they had ever seen. Thelr appearance gave no promise of either wealth or civilization, for they were entirely naked, and painted with a variety of colors, With some It was themselves ur tune, now insolenre, now natives of the remained portance to no other, And when it seemed that his ship would sink at any moment he set to work to make a record of his mighty undertaking. hop ing that by some will of the Fates It would not be lost to posterity. So he carefully prepared as com plete an account of his marvelous voyage as was possible under the cir cumstances, He wrote the details of his Journey on a stout plece of parchment, wrapped It carefully In a piece of waterproof cloth, then placed it in an troubound barrel and threw A unique engraving made to Illus. trate an Italian poem by Guiliano Dato, printed In Florence in 1493, shortly after Columbus’ return. From a facsimile of the original in the Brit. ish Museum, reproduced in the Yals University Press “Pageant of Amer ica” ko » confined merely to a part of the face the ne thers y and gave ppearance, ae or around the eyen: with « it extended to the whole bods a wild and fantastic a complexion was of a tawny or hue, and they entirely destitute of beards Their hair was nat srisped, like the recently discovered *riben of the African coast, under the same latitude, but straight and coarse, partly cut short above the sars brit locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders Their features, though obscured and disflg- ured by paint, were agresable they had lofty foreheads and remarkably fine ayes. They were of moderate stat. ure and well-shaped. most of them appeared to bes under thirty years of age. there was but one female with them, quite young, naked like her com. panions, but beautifully formed As Columbus supposed himself to have landed on an island and at the extremity of India, he called the na- tives by the general appellation of In- dians, which was universally adopted before the truss nature of his discovery was known, and has since been extend. ed to all the aboriginals of the New World The islanders were friendly and gen. tle Their only arms were lances, hardened at the end by fire, or pointed with a flint, or the teeth or bone of a fish. There wan no iron to be seen. nor did they appear acquainted with its properties. for, when a drawn sword was presented to them they unguarded. Iv took it by the edge Columbus Jdistributed among them colored caps, glass beads, hawks’ bells, LSnd other trifles, such as the Portu- guess were accustomed to trade with among the nations of the gold coast of Africa. They received them eagerly, hung the beads round their necks, and were wonderfully pleased with their finery, and with the sound of the bells The Spaniards remained all day on shore, refreshing themselves after their anxious voyage amid the beautiful groves of the island The island where Columbus had thus, for the first time, set hia foot upon the New World was called by the na- tives Guanahane., It still retains the name of San Salvador, which he gave it, though called by the English Cat Island. The iight which he had seen the evening previous to his making land may have been on Watling’'s 1Is- land, which lies a few leagues to the sast San Salvador is one of the great cluster of the Lucayos or Bahama Is- lands, which stretch southeast and northwest, from the coast of Florida to Hispaniola, them Their copper were some It Into the raging ocean, But the Fates were kinder to Columbus than to this account made In a time of stress, Certainly this, the first record of America, written by the brave hand of Columbus, would be the most pre- cious relic in all the chronicles of our country, Alas, that it never has been found! And if I thought there were one chance in a million of finding 1t I would take my power boat, the First Follo, and ecrulse In the neighborhood of the Azores forever!-—8 W, Rosen. bach in the Saturday Evening Post prevent Corn slover, coarse throuch cow, Thi: class of roug however, and used the grain mu in protein, in protein Fall Sowing of Alfalfa Will Give Good Results Where alfalfa patches are cultivated ind they can obiain the best results by sowing early in the fall 20 the crop may get f start before the frost sets In or In the spring after the frost has passed, George P. professor of duiry hurbandry. A. and M. college of Texas, has pointed ont. In this connection, Professor Grout cited results obtained In the cultiva- tion of alfalfa on the college dairy farm, a project conducted in coopera. tion with the experiment station. Fol. lowing recent inspection of the two. acre fleld given over to this project, Professor Grout reports a fine yield of alfalfa. It was planted last Janu- ary. For the dry-land belt, sowing in rows to permit cultivation so that all measures possible may be taken to retain moisture and to keep the grass from choking out the crop, is recom- mended, for dairy cattle, farmers will Grout. SDLP PP PePePLe POOL ple Agricultural Hints PUPP PPPOE OOP Lil When the lambs have reached the age of four or five months, they should be weaned and separated from the ewes, . "0 demsnd, and bodies, and the market Fat chickens are in those with full, pluwp limbs do not remain on very long. . » »* It is advisable to feed the lambs at certain definite times daily, The lambs soon learn to look for the grain at definite times » * * It is very important ing prime lambs that the ewes be heavy milkers and that they be fed 80 as to produce to their full capacity. . * * in produes Since the ewes milk is the most Im. portant item In the food supply of the young lambs It Is easy to see that a very definite relation exists between the milk producing capacity of the ewes and the rate of growth of the Inmhs, * » . I'he lime that Is In the soll Is sub. lect to an continual loss through leach. fng out In the drainage water. The rapidity with which It leaches ont va. ries with the amount In the soil, the amount of rainfall, the soll texture, and the kind of covering on the soll, tions. No Sale! 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