parities in the longevity of animals, birds and fishes. Scientists are un- able to say why some species live many times as long as others. They have no explanation, for instance, of the fact that a tiger, a lion or a hip- popotamus will die of old age long be- fore an elephant has reached his prime. An elephant might live to be two hundred years old. A tiger is old at twenty years, a lion at twenty-five years, a hippopotamus at forty years and a bear at fifty years. A swan can survive for one hundred years and an eider duck or a parrot for more than two hundred years. A tortoise might live to be three hundred years old Insects usually have short lives, but some ants have lived in captivity for fifteen years. Queen bees live from four to five years, but the bee work- ers succumb in six weeks. Carp and pike sometimes live to be one hundred and fifty years of age. Diseases, adverse weather, lack of food and enemies affect nearly all forms of wild life, so that few ani- mals die of old age, and thé scientist experiences difficulty in assembling data as to the natural span of their lives. Take Horrible Risk in Parsuit of Sport Savages are as fond of sport as are civilized peoples, but many of their games appear to be unduly risky. One such game is “clam baiting,” played on the Coral sea. The procedure is for a man to swim directly over a giant clam—which may weigh several hundred pounds—as it lies wide open on the bottom, waiting to entrap fish and other food, and drop a stone into it. This causes the clam to bring its tremendous serrated “lips” together with terrific speed, and the danger lies in the rush of water caused by this sudden movement sweeping the man into the creature’s grip, from which there would be no getting away. There have been many narrow | escapes and some cases in which the baiter was caught. But the natives think it great fun and talk delight- edly of how they had made the clam “think he got something to eat when he only got a stone.”—London Daily News. Didn’t Lose His Religion On the first day of school recently, Junior, age five, proudly started off to kindergarten. Junior is usually a rather talkative little chap and his proud mother was a little surprised that he had so little to say when he returned on his first school day. “Did everything go ‘off all right, Junior?” she asked, hoping he would tell her of his experience. “l got into just a little trouble,” he answered. “I got .into one of the grownups’ rooms by mistake. Some one asked me if 1 was a primary, but I told them no, I was a Methodist.”— Indianapolis News. The Old Sugar Bowl In the days when candy was a rare treat, children clamored for sugar on their bread. A slice of home-made bread, generously buttered, with a lay- er of sugar on top, would fill every longing for sweets. The sugar bowl, to meet its occa- sions, was tall, with a roundness that. suggested the girth of an alderman. Always filled, it occupied a place of honor on the table. Behold the sugar’ bowl of today—a thing no larger than a baby’s fist. The candy shop has swept away the large old-fashioned container. What a Question! “Where are you going in such a hurry?” asked Mrs. Bibbles. “Over to John Jagsby’s house,” said Mr. Bibbles. “He has just telephoned to ask if I could lend him a cork- screw, and I'm taking it myself.” “Couldn’t you send it?” “Mrs. Bibbles,” said Mr. Bibbles in cutting tones, “the question you ask me shows why most women are unfit to lead armies and make quick deci- sions in business deals involving mil lions. When the psychological mo- ment arrives they don’t know what to d6 with it.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Hurt by Wrong Training A man should be in his prime phys- ically at thirty years old. If he is not, it is because of a lack of bal- ance in his physical training, declares the bulletin of the Dayton department of health, Overtraining may strain the heart and unbalance the nerves, Under- training is responsible for weakness of muscles and lack of development of the lungs. Dissipation undermines his resistance. One or more of these factors must be present if a man be- gins to look and feel old in his early thirties,~Hygeia Magazine, EINAR HOLBOELL Twenty-four years ago he was a young mail clerk in the post office at Charlottenlund, working far into the night on Christmas Eve distributing holiday greeting cards and letters. He saw that as a rule they would go to comfortable homes, housing happy, vigorous families. But he knew, too, that often to those homes where kind Christmas wishes and good Christmas deeds were most needed, there likely would not come even a brief word of greeting. An inspiration seized him. Perhaps by a tax on greeting cards this could be accomplished, His fertile imagination soon pie- tured a device to encourage the prac- tice of holiday cards and put a volun- tary tax on it, too, and thus in Den- mark was born the idea of the Christ- mas Seal, in 1903. The first sale in the United States was in 1907 when Miss Emily P. Bis- sell, of Wilmington, Delaware, adopt- ed the idea to raise funds to maintain a tuberculosis shack of eight beds on the banks of the Brandywine, secur- ing $3000. She in turn had read a magazine article by the great philan- thropist, Jacob A. Riis, describing the Danish tuberculosis stamp he had re- ceived on the back of a letter from ‘the city of his birth—Copenhagen. Miss Bissell next aspired to extend the work by a national campaign, and interested the American Red Cross. The first national Christmas Seal Sale occurred in 1908, and brought in $135,000. Each year since the sum has increaséd just as it has in Denmark. Christmas: Gree and Good Hea Einar Holboell, the inventor of the Christmas Seal, could not possibly ‘have foreseen its magic health value today, not only in raising funds to continue the work, but in carrying to - millions of people every holiday sea- son the stimulus to guard against dis- ease. These tiny pieces of paper, mul- tiplied a billion fold, have had an in- estimable part in teaching the public that tuberculosis can be prevented— can be cured. The double-barred cross which each one bears is the em- blem of the anti-tuberculosis work throughout the world. The Christmas seal has carried to the farthermost parts of America the news that people need not die from tuberculosis. During the period the seal has been in existence, the death rate in this country from the disease has fallen from 198 per hundred thou- sand population to 83, a saving of over 100,000 lives this year. As a mark of honor, the Danish Christmas Seal for 1927 will bear the picture of Einar Holboell, Begin Your Christmas Shopping With Buying Christmas Seals To buy Christmas seals is to broadcast benevolence, to radiate benefaction, to diffuse hope for health where disease most insidi- ously menaces. It is a simple little action, neither expensive nor diffi- cult of performance, yet assuring its rewards. Buy Health Bonds and Become a Bondholder of Health Arms. no Body by Fisher Make #is Ciiistmas last for thousands of miles Surprise your family on Christmas morn. ing with a wonderful new Buick for 1928. Nothiag could give them greater happiness. \ The liberal G. M. A. C. tine payvicnt plan is avaiable if desired. PATTON AUTO C0. PATTON, PA. lr J. EDWARD STEVENS : oo FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 4 oo Phone Office and Residemce CARROLLTOWN, PENNA oJeefestes] og = og 3. REE nn be? “Flectricity!-- ~~ Says JAMES J. DAVIS Secretary, U. S. Dept. of Labor “The electric light and power companies have performed a not- able service in bringing electric power to every kind of mill and factory, and in adopting it to every phase of industry. It has eliminated unwholesome and back-breaking tasks. It has made for better labor conditions, because it has enable the worker to produce more“ and the em- ployer to pay him more.” CIVILIZATION is built on power in the national income of.. the —the motive enerzy required to country from 1900 to 1925 from dig a hole build a bridge or sweep twenty billion dollars to sixty-five a room. billion dollars, during which pe- To the degree that electric energy riod the earnings of individiual in- is substituted for manual Iabor, dustrial workers more than and man becomes the director of doubled, machinery, instead of the slave of Such widespread benefits have toil, is that power made more use- been made possible only by the ful and the lot of the individual publie-spirited victim of men of and the nation imoroved. the widest knowledge and experi- What the electric energy generat- under the American principal of ed by the electric power compan- individual initiative, and guided at ies of this country means in terms every step by the consideration of of national wealth, is shown by the common =ood. the fact that the lelectric motors The American peple may safely of the United States are doing depend upon these electric power every day as much work as could companies to carry forward the be accomplished by 175,000,000 program of electrical and indus- men, trial progress with the same ini- Translated into terms of dollars tiative, integrity, and courage and cents, this means an increase they have exemplified in the past. 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THIS YEAR we will mount 5 Game heads FREE,—the two largest buck heads, the two most perfect buck heads, and the buck, doe, or bear hav- ing the lucky number, SAVE your deer hides! We will tan them for gloves, jackets, table covers, pillows, etc. Write for our Free Illustrated Cata- log and Shipping Tags. We also in- vite you to visit our new office and Display Room, on Nichols St. at the end of the bridge. Our office will be open evenings and Sundays during November and December, for the benefit of out-of- town customers who wish to drive in. Don’t forget the Free Contest—write for full particulars, CLEARFIELD TAXIDERMY COMPANY Taxidermists - Tanners - Furriers - Fur and Leather Manufacturers CLEARFIELD, PA. “Kn the World over for Quality” WI te H & C Phone-40( Bell Phone—98-M Ship direct or leave your trophies at C. J. CORDELL’S HARDWARE, and our service truck will get them. eating all the ice cream they wanted. the average person can eat and which is making a series of tests to determine how much of the fi Agriculture in Washington have been The dairy division of the department kind they prefer. DON’T RUN THE RISK OF EATING WORMS IN FOOD Don’t eat worms! This suggestion sounds unreasonable but it is nevertheless entirely justified at this season.” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of Health, today. “Of course no one would consciously comsume worms. While some people will deliberately take harmful and even dis- taseful things into their system, worms decidedly are not on the list. However, worms of particular type and breed can be eaten unknowingly. Then there is trouble and usually it is of a most seri- ous character. example, not so many months ago! a college student received a package from home. Among other appetizing articles It contained raw smoked sausage. Illness and death resulted in eating this meat in its uncooked state. And the cause was worms. “Microscopic in size the parasite, tri- chinella spiralis— a round worm that Is curled up like a watch spring__ spends its entire life as the guest of hogs and rats. Man gets his trichinae by eat- ing infested pork. And that is exactly what the infortunate boys got. “There are two things to be emphasiz- ed in this connection. The first is not to be afraid of pork and pork products. The consumption of this food in the Unig. ed States keeps pace with its almost world-wide. And this tendency to eat pork is a most natural, and entirely Justifiable one, when reasonably exercis- ed. On the other hand, too much pork, as with any other kind of meat, is not conducive to best health. “The other thing to keep in mind is that while the vast majority of hogs are free of trichinae, some porkers enter- tain them; which fact calls for caution on the part of all people with respect to pork and its products. “If it were possible to examine and weed out infested swine, caution on the part of consumers would not be requir- ed. But that is exactly where the tro- (uble lies, To find trichinae in a live hog is extremely difficult and it is equally hard to dscover in its meat. Neverthe- less each individual has all the protec- tion against this hazard 4s required. And that pRotection is heat, “It must be understood that it is the live worm that causes the damage—not the dead one. This parasite is absol- utely destroyed by a temperature of 160 degrees. rozen delicacy 4 pan and oven to go way above it. Ther fore, always cook all pork and product before you eat them. Do not take any | chaices of contracting trichinosis. Us fire and plenty of it when it comes to {the porker and his delicacies. at heart |ily— but don’t for your health’s sake [ee the risk of eating worms.’ Funeral services for the late Albert Mi chelbacher, aged 21, whose death oc jeurred on Wednesday morning of last week at his home in Vintondale, wer: held at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon tin the Vintondale Baptist church, and in terment was made in the cemetery at Munday’s Corner, Mr. Michelbaccher was born at Phil ipsburg in 1906. He is survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. | ALBERT MICHELBACHER. | EXECUTOR’S NOTICE In the Estate of Joseph A. Gaunt ner, late of Patton Borough, deceas- ed. Notice is hereby given that Letter Testamentary in the estate of the above named decedent have been gr- anted to the undersigned. All person indebted to the said estate are_re- (quested to make payment and Those Waving claims or demands against the same will make them known without delay to Alonzo D. Gauntner Evaline M. Shuss Executor Patton, Pa. y . Boiling water is much hotter | Reuel Somerville. Attorney. than that, It is easy for your frying ration, Fa. M. H. GARDNER, p— Let Us Help You Make It another ELGIN CHRISTMAS Everybody welcomes assistance in choosing gifts. The service of this store safeguards you against an unsatisfac- tory choice. You profit by this experi- ence with every purchase you make, whether it is Inexpensive Cuff Links, or an Elgin Watch for any member of your family. Our stocks are selected with careful regard to your Lhristmas gift needs, Come in and make your selec- tions now. There's an Elgin Gift Watch Or every member of your family, PATTON Py. nN ’ THE PATTON COURIER - - . Patton Courier | . TT, — —_ Santa Published Every Thursday, THE FATHER 1]3 THE 0 THOS, A. OWENS, Editor & Proprietor. RISTMAS SEAL I Has Ap Entered im the Post Office at Patton, Pa., OK fp , as Second Class Mail Matter. LTC Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in Ad- The opening of the twentieth an- A vance, Single Copies 5 Cents, . ® « . Ro: rE nual Christmas Seal Sale finds the or hristmas oO S 4 i ©4 —l0g D 38, 0 er st sys » ne ror thereof, TF 3 rates festivities of the holidays tempered \ : S arf Manis St; Bienes Locals 199 | among those actively engaged in the BO Display advertising, 30c per inch; Full campaign by the knowledge that the S O position, 25 pet. extra; Minimum charge, a . $1.00. Cash must accompany all orders for | originator of the Christmas Seal has i must reach this office by noon Weduesday | died since the conclusion of last year’s As his off fein} to insure ibsertion, Jasigied, correspon sale. The man who made financially help him supply Jorn Wil Re wre 9c 2 - possible the world-wide war on tuber- ~ X ) SS ; needs of oe pe culosis, Einar Holboell, postmaster at fuedoofoofontosfoofrofenfoofocfoceotocfoofunfocfoofenontesfrofeeoefortinfeefortootrofeegoogeotirtortetsode Quugiopend ofoofootorteoorteofoetootrefocfootieoafefoafectosfoofostosfortostuiortosfontunis fuciontefuntoudeste : ennsy Hard to Get Correct Charlottenlund, Denmark, succumbed a B ter Figures on Longevity | to heart trouble in his sixty-second ; 00S Many and widespread are the dis- | year, on February 28, 1927. 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