pins athme. Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. Zhe ntre Le BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY AUGUST 16, 1906. oct Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, L. Current Topics. DIVA OF GRAND OPERA. MPLE LIFE FOR MRS. JULIAN STCRY WHEN SEASON IS OVER FOR EMMA EAMES. Noted Singer Flies to Husband at Italian Home as Soon as Last Note uf Contract Scason t alls irom Her Golden Throat. of who, Madame hearing There Fmma her sing know her well her in the trailing the simple gown of skinned as Aida or fair and white as the young bride, Elsa. They will find in her a neighbor, giving plenty of heart and strength and personality to those who weep or thrill as they listen, Sympathy is meat and drink to the singer; but, in the spring when the big theater home of her triumphs is] closed, Madame Emma Eames flies to Vallombrosa where sympathy awaits, As soon as she reaches her Italian estate she be Mrs. Julian Story. It is the beginning of the simple life; | of household duties and dairy superin- tendence; of the friendship of little! chickens, new puppies and old ponies, | of favorite flowers in a personal gar-| den, and the companionship of a husband Mrs. Story was reared land; Mr in a urious house are thousands admirers geason, will think they They will have seen robes of Juliet, Marguerite; dark- Eames’ this or comes in New Eag-| Rome, They have | in Paris, but it is sunny mountain slope in Italy that awakens a responsive throb when the longing is keen and the ap- rlavse of the public fails to reach the | heart : OLD VALLOMEBROSA £0 Story 111 tu home MONASTERY W. Story, | in Italy 1 of land The monas r of the name, founded in the tenth MADAME {like | does not rob those around her of poise { by | history, and the chorus was taken up { that i | heard EMMA “It's simply fine in you to come. Have some seltzer!" cried the lady. A hearty laugh from the group on the terrace broke in upon her greeting and made her call hastily: “Don’t tell any stories about me. Let us go over there,” she sald, rising, ‘one can never afford to miss a good laugh, and Ger- man dialect ig too rare on these prems- ises to be slighted 1 often wish that 1 had one of my own, or that Joe Weber, Lew Fields or Sam Bernard could hear gome of the attempts at English that reach my ears during the opera season, As it is,'] can only enjoy them for a moment and repeat them afterward to some one who can perpetuate the in cident. Oh! we have droll times.” Mrs. Story has a keen sense of hu-| mor, and quite loses herself listens to a group of story-tellers, most strong personalities, as she Un she and ease, but possesses the rare fac ulty of bringing out the very best that veyed these young gardeners and their | tention. It will is in them, After dinner that wonderful even- ing music came in for its share, The last Wagnerian production to the popu lar songs of the season was the range. A fragment of “Tammany” was sung that voice which will go down in many keys by the dinner guests. All had heard the voice before, but it was not Madame Eames of Grand Opera who sang. It was Mrs. Julian singing to her friends a From Above the Clouds, The view of a storm-cloud from above of the most interesting sights er beheld by man. According amous aeronaut, a storm view from position has the appearance of vast sea of bolling, upheaving snow ¢ falling of the rain can be distinct ly heard, making a noise like a water fall over a precipice. The above the storm-cloud flashes of one is loud, and the lightning EAMES, thunder JUVENILE GARDENING. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION HAS A MODEL SCHOOL GARDEN OF A HUNDRED BOYS. Practical Demonstrations by Depart. ment of Agriculture and Various states Landscape Improvements and Beautifications, Among the { the Jamestown Exposition Is the gar- many novel features at den work by school children, One | hundred boys from the public schools of Norfolk, Newport News and Hamp ton, near the Exposition grounds, were selected by their teachers to carry out the for a school garden at Special trolley the plans Exposition, cars con- in | Story | to a| | | THE 1000 YEAR teachers to the grounds, April 16, and under direction of Warren Manning, landscape designer of Exposition, every was assigned a small plot of ground in the garden {and was giveneseeds to plant and in | structions how plant them In these gardens are now growing beans, peas, parsnips, marshmallow, parsley and other vegeiables, They are | attended by their little gardeners and are kept clean and free from weeds, most of the boys taking a special pride | in their gardens. boy to is io CARITols, This is but a preliminary training al | for he gchoolchildren In gardening, trial hed. as it were, for the race next year. The actual work is to be taken up at the Jamestown Exposition next spring PRIZES FOR BEST GARDENS Those who have m a of their gardens this season will be given | preference pext year and will their same gardens Tue Exposition Company will give pri or medals for tha cultivated on | Exposition grounds | gardeners wil Le gble lessons in agri The U Department of Agriculture and of the state departments will have ex perimental stations and gardens al the Exposition as object lessons to | the young as well as older gardeners. ade success 708 best garden and the given some valu ilture which have a bent toward agricultural learn much of value in the way of till ing the soil. They will learn when to plant, what to plant and how to plant, to get the best results. They will also be given an opportunity to study soils and their treatment, and how to enrich and improve them. Tree plant ing and transplanting will constitute another phase of Uncle Sam's object OLD have | the | young | 8 : some | | “Powhatan The young minds among#the visitors | pursuits will have an opportunity to] builder will find worthy of following. This fence is eight feet high, made of several strands of wire, and running over the wire in every direction, com pletely covering it, are vines of honey- suckle, erimson rambler, rose and trumpet creeper, making what seems to be an immense hedge of flowering vines, HOME IMPROVEMENTS, If the Exposition results in imbuing its many thousand visitors with the gpirit of home improvement and with a determination to go back home and make of their own towns, or louses and grounds models of beauty and con venience, it will go far toward proving national . Rustic benches and bridges, under of vines an shady lanes and a thousand other interesting things the Exposition are studies for the peo ple, worthy of the most not be an a success " prefly walks canopies flowers, gireet al 1 1 t careful eX posi i POWHATAN falism, 1} of nature in peace of commer beaut ie science as E RELICS OF JAMESTOWN, Site of Exposition Battleground of Conflicts Between Early Settlers and Indians. Of all the Smiths who have « fre, Captain John Is becoming the most famous, due to the given to hisx doings, hoident to the Jamestown Exposition. The romantic days of Pocahontas and Captain Joun Smith are vividly recalled by the old Indian and frontiersmen’s relics which have dug up In preparing t ground for the Jamestown Exposition The site selected for of the three hundredth ar the first permanent English settiemer in America was once an Indian vill occupied by the Powhatane, the powerful tribe of the early Ame been the celebra TOPUnry +41 I m rican tr Indians, who roamed over the country east of the River several cen turies ago Near the State stands a Ohio majestic live wo Onk.,” estimated nearly 1,000 years old, which favorite camping ground of the dians before America was by the Palefaces Here councils of war when the only in use were stone hatchets clubs, spears with stone points bows and arrows The arrow heads used were made of flint, clipped down to a cutting edge, almost as sharp as a knife, every arrow head representing many hours of hard and patient toil. Scores of these flint ar row-heads are being found on the Ex position ground, in excavating for streets and buildings Some of them In d SOON ord held woe or £ were ons stone war and many } or | prominence | FARM HIGH SCHOOL. GREAT IMPROVEMENT INEDUCA- | TIONAL METHODS IN TURIV « ING KANSAS TOWN, Consolidation of Schoos into a Lquipped high the Large School Sod-House and Weh Students hinubibe the Spirit of Village improv- | cinenl, Actual examples of of things that already have are more convincing plausible arguments to pr sibly can be done, | Agriculture « showing county high much for Nort if faithfully stances, would g petus to any oll state Kansas has tablishment As a result sever: I ely ett counties or there few large uch schools few years school houses, sod dwelling BUCCesBes been done and pos tment of than a thou ve what ite the pra done which her In 0 im A)! WoO in any nool ied are porting ago Oris a4 good county village of Norton, tains an | two re tus and phy chen re exceptiona 1 small high | school. Ther: iy library And a rea urrent news papers and mags The expense 1903-4 hers alny and $f fing $4.43( 158 lentals w tend | buildings, { This ums were spent tus frunn ro idera appara Was a supplies, and ; tional land ng exj the first months in $3.75 Hereto | fore five teachers have been employed ut this year NO FARMING TAUGHT. Previovs this the ON Res were there are ix io Year business ang gen prenaratory, normal, v yuirses | no course re wal selence o« 1 ated in any direct way of the superintendent gtry county =f of arming hools said had been forcibly e curriculum at his attention rected to this lack the high n t} by : young man who came one of the many vicinity, took spent one month, school 0 large Ar: L in four-vear busi Year in a io al con the Course $30 a and then The BiX Norton} = “ounty High School has offered college | to the leading The | the ex’ ence | nw | the country for eight days in the in- of the new course a result, considerable interest was {aroused in the proposed new work, {a tentative agricultural course was out- | lined, and arrangements were made | with the three farm implement dealers f the town H | terests of study. | i I A | 10 open in agricul ish experts to give Instructior hanics, care, and use of hinery | STARTING { The agricultural includes thelr warehouses to the classes ture ne IN AGRICULTURE. work of the course botany, with gpecial re to variatior swwvelopment of # { » vhridizat} the influence ight. heat and ti crops farm oll farm uiture; in¢ of cropping ment, ienler f the OUTS $112 in ontest ountry heen su lothes tinuing I try, and ral story the school ) for ble the Bast: he cultivates three rows of crossing other things an ) scale, Improved farm ma akes ‘his method of farming ble it s therefore of the greatest! importance “at much attention to farm machinery given In the agriculinral convse the Norton County High Schoel. “he cereals (corn and wheat) are the | eading field crops the import. of grain-indging and these orn at one and does on extensive nery mn POSE hence nee rontes'y ther school reat T™ The staples county s has exnressed } io nm } nra | dq ay a 0 f immediate arrionlitur AR the o touting i} tine 1 t ¥ [ —_— Wer lessons, as are done at other govern-| ment experimental stations. At the] St. Louis Exposition Uncle Sam's gar | A Popular Favorite was in the hands of a few | of Grand Opera are broken, perhaps by striking some foe of the Indians in battle or some century, monks. The scattering of the monastic order was the first of innovations. The locality, famed for its health-giving properties, offers peace and immunity from the world, in a few hotels and gnnitorinms Two or three American millionaires have erected sununer | homes on near-by hill tops and several families of the aristocracy of Florence spend hot months here In feudal strongholds The shooting box of the ancient Medicl family, where the American poet lived and died, is occupied by his daughter; and Julian Story, because the spot is endeared to him through his father's memory, has built on a farm of many acres a great square tower and hall. Campiglioni is the farm, and Torre Di Campiglionl is the home, which signifies the happy abode of art and good fellowship. Mr. Story paints pictures, and spends his energy wherever his por trait commissions may take him while his wife is singing. To the visiting friend of the singer the 20 mile trip from Florence was a fitting approach to her beautiful retreat, The road which eventually led up to the terrace of Il Torre was tied in bowknots, and worked out like a puzzle, The puzzle was solved, however, and in the open Mving room or “loggia” Mr. Story gave me hearty welcome ENTIRELY DRMOCRATIC, The girl who had been separated Ly professional etiquette from the great ginger, looked forward with some ap prehension to meeting a divinity In sweeping sunembroidered velvet drap erien, Soon Mrs, Story came out In n white duck skirt and a drawnwork phirtwalst, the pear like streaks of Intensely white light on the surface of the gray-colored vapor. REE HE JOHN WESLEY'S “POEM.” Representative J, W, Gaines of Ten: nessce, Created Roars of Amuse- ment in the House, During Closing Days of Session by Reciting “When Democ- racy Will Die.” “When the lions eat grass like an ox, And th. sherman swallows the whale; When the terrapins knit woolen socks, Aud the hare Is outrun by the snail; When serpents walk upright like men, Aud doodle bugs travel like frogs; When the grasshopper feeds on the hen, And feathers are found on the hogs; When Thomas eats swim In the alr, And elephants roost upon trees; When Insects In summer are rare, And snuff never makes people sneeze; When the fish creep over dry land, And mules on velocipedes ride; When foxes lay eggs in the sand, And women In dress take no pride; When Dutchmen no longer drink beer, And girls get to "preaching' on time; When the billy goat butts from the rear, And treason no longer is crime When the humming bird brays Hke an ams, And Hmburger smells lke cologne; When plowshares are made out of glass, And hearts of Tennesseeans are stone; When sense grows in Republican heads, And wool on the hydraulle ram; Then the Democratic party will be dead, And this country not worth a if ot — In the Friends’ burial grounds, In Salem, N. J., there stands the Iafgest oak tree In the State and possibly the largest In the United States. It is now used as the “trade mark” of the New (A BO) Jersey Forestry Association, | dens and the children’s gardens proved structive to the farmers wise enough to appreciate the bene Jamestown Exposition it is expected the Agricultural Department will broaden its scope of instructions in St. Louis. WILD WOODS BECOME PARKS The landscape gardening which has transformed a wild woods into one of the most beautiful scenic parks, will ers and all who have grounds to beau tify with flowers, shrubs and trees are growing on the grounds, many of which have been transplanted; others are native to the soil. Among the trees were several hundred old trees, some comprising an apple orchard, whose trees were removed and planted around the thirty-acre drill plain on the grounds. These and the pines, not suffered by being transplanted Even trees which were hauled many miles over land and water and plant ed on the Exposition grounds are thrifty under the guidance of landscape engin cers, The work has been done scien: tifieally and skillfully. The results are seen In the fine condition of the trees, The arrangement of trees, flowers and plants of all kinds, In various parts of the Exposition grounds can be studied to great advantage by all landscape gardeners, and the unique fence of wire and flowering vines, Is a study worth going miles to see, a magnificent model which every fenor exceedingly interesting as well as in| who were] | well's Point fits to be derived from them. At the| ! | many ways and surpass its efforts at) i wild animal—in those days the woods about Hampton Roads were alive with deer, bear and other animals. At Se where these relics are found were fought bloody battles be tween the early English settlers and the Indians and, according to old In dian traditions, this was also the batttle ground on which warring In dian tribes desperately contended for the right of domain, long before the occurrence of the historic event which the Jamestown Exposition commemo rates, The valuable fisheries of what are now called Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, tue beautiful hunt also serve as an object lesson to farm-| ;,.. rounds along the water courses | and the many attractions peculiar to More than a million plants and trees] Exposition | transplanted | | region cedars, dogwoods and other trees have] They have all been handled | iat the closing sessions of the Ameri this locality made this particular point of land very desirable, and for its possessions Indian tribes warred with one another. Now, after cen- turles have gone by and the old In. dian nations that once controlled this have passed away, their an- client battle fields have been trans. formed Into a magnificent internation. al exposition ground, just outside the corporate limits of the city of Norfolk, Virginia, ———— Want Industrial Training. Resolutions were recently adopted can Institute of Instruction at New Haven favoring the Installing of In. dustrial departments in every efficient school system. The Institute also placed {teelf on record as holding that in view of recent developments of dis honesty in high places and of the In. crease of crime in different directions, it Is the duty of the teachers to per sistently train the American youth in honesty, integrity, and uprightness. THE LAST SOD SCHOOL HOUSE IN NORTON COUNTY. RANBAS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, NORTON, KANBAS, cluded that he would gain in both purse and pleasure by going back to the farm. Such a young man, there are many like him in the Norton County High School, would have wel comed an agricultural course, and would have gone back to the farm much better prepared for the duties of life than he was with a business train. ing. So the county superintendent of schools and the other members of the | board of trustees decided that an agricultural course should take the place of the general science course, and hired a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College to teach agricul ture and other sciences in the high school. Secretary Wilson of Agricul ture, while making a trip through the | ‘short-grass country,” learned of the! enterprise, became much Interested In it, and In response to an appeal for nid sent a representative of the Office of Experiment Stations to Norton to help start it. The president of the Kansas State Agricultural College also responded to a call for assistance and made one of a party of four that toured and | for smut and potatoes for scab; spray- ing trees and garden crops for insect pests and diseases, and making plans for farm buildings, roads, water sys tems. ete Such work could be done largely by the pupils at school or on the different farms on Saturdays. It would be educational and at the same time would make the farmers feel that they were getting some immediate tangible return for the taxes paid In support of the schon! ——— The Homer Pigeon, The homer pigeon, when traveling, seldom feeds, and if the distance to its home be long, it arrives thin, exhaust ed, and almost dying. If corn be pre sented to it, It refuses to eat, oon tenting itself with drinking a little water, and then sleeping. Two or three hours later it begins to eat with great moderation, and sleeps again immediately afterwards, If its fig? has been very prolonged the pigeon will proceed in this manner for forty. eight hours before recovering its nor mal mode of feeding.
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