Bem Mtn
Bellefonte, Pa., November 20, 1908.
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SWEEP ON A MILE A MINUTE.
Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattle
of a Great Battle Is the Noise of the
Exploding Stalks That Sometimes
Shoot High Into the Air.
When the forests are afire, when
the smoke makes dusk at noon and
reddens the harvest moon a thousand
miles away, there is the measure of a
conflagration. When the prairies burn,
as they used tc before farms had crept
in upon the endless miles of grass,
there was a fire which ran like mad
and left behind it a blackened trail of
death. If one could combine the speed
of the prairie fire with the tumult of
the blazing forest, that would be a
fire indeed.
Such a combination is effected when
the bamboo groves catch fire. The
bamboo Is but a grass, a grass with
the height of a tree, swaying stems
reaching 100, even 150, feet in air.
In Cambodia, where the bamboo
groves along the rivers cover the space
of forests, it is no unusual thing for
fires to break out and sweep all before
them for many miles. If the summer
has been dry the bamboo turns sear
and inflammable as any grass.
All that is needed is a spark; then
ruin runs red. It is not necessary to
rely upon the carelessness of the
woodsman to start the blaze. The
bamboo can kindle itself.
Let two swayirg stalks of dry bam-
boo be set in motion by the breeze, let
one rub across the other long encugh,
and the friction will set the spark, and
the long dry leaves will feed the flame.
It is known that many fires of the
bamboo forests thus originate. Per-
haps it was from observing such a
sight that primitive man learned the
Promethean secret. That theory has
been advanced.
As soon as a flame in the bamboos
has crept to the level of the tossing
tips it spreads likv wildfire. The wind
carries a sheet of flame along the grove
at tremendous speed. Some observers
say that such fires have been seen to
move forward at the rate of more than
a mile a minute. Seen from below, it
looks as if she sky had burst into an
instant flash of flame.
From such a burst of fire there could
be no escape. Fortunately it passes
high overhead at the tops of the bam-
boos. It serves as a warning to the
traveler who may be making his way
along some one of the water courses
by which the forest is intersected. The
bamboo itself is almost an obstacle to
travel of any sort. It is well nigh im-
possible to force a way through it ex-
cept by the slow and toilsome labor of
hewing out a path.
The fire in the great trunks moves
more slowly, and if warning be taken
it may be possible to sink one's boat
and throw up wet herbage and clay
against the bank of the stream to pro-
vide shelter until the furnace blast
has blown by. Such a fire in the bam-
boo has not only the speed of the pral-
rie fire on its sweep overhead, but it
has the same volume of fuel as is
found in any forest fire. It combines
the two types,
Bamboo forest fires have another
quality which is all their own. They
bang and rattle with thunderous
crashes, as of artillery fire, without
cessation,
The stalks of these tree bamboos arc
frequently more than a foot in diame:
ter. Near the ground the joints are
close together: in the younger growth
the nodes may be several feet apart.
But, long or short as they may be, each
joint of the sun dried bamboo is a
tightly sealed chamber filled with air.
The partitions between the cavities are
singularly tough; the outside rind of
the stalks is almost pure flint.
When the blast of the flame sweeps
onward the alr in the stalks upon
which it is driven is suddenly heated
to a very high temperature. The resid-
uum of moisture which may be in the
stems is immediately transformed into
steam and at once subjected to super-
heating, thus becoming a violent explo-
sive. As the hot breath of the flame
becomes hotter these joints burst with
loud cannon discharges.
Sometimes the force of the explosion
near the roots is so great as to shoot
the stalk like a javelin high into the
air, where it flashes inte torchlike
flame and is carried by the wind to
spread wider disaster. The bursting
of the smaller joints is like the roll and
rattle of rifles and machine guns. The
effect is that of a battle hotly contest-
ed.— Washington Post.
Still Molds Good.
“There was a time,” exclaimed young
Spenders, who had gone through a for-
tune, “when people used to say I bad
more money than brains. They can't
say it now.”
“No? queried the caustic cad.
“No. I'm down to my last penny.”
“Ah, but you have the penny.”—Phil-
adelphia Press.
Awkward.
A pretty schoolteacher, noticing one
of her little charges idle, said sharply:
“John, the devil always finds some-
thing for idle hands to do. Come
here and let me give you some work.
—Judge's Library.
A New Sensation.
Mrs, Bullion—I wish I knew some-
Shing to do that would provide me with
an absolutely new sensation. Mr, Bul-
lon—{io out and pay cash for some-
thing. —Life.
Windmills.
Windmills were invented and used
by the Saracens.
Ail INGENIOUS SWINDLER.
The Daring Scheme That Was Worked
by a German Doctor.
Near a small village in one of the
lake states lived a western millionaire
In seclusion with his little daughter
and a few servants. The child was af-
flicted with a rare cerebro spisal com-
plaint, a most unpleasant manifesta-
tion of which was a frequent hic-
cough, and eminent physicians, both
in America and Europe, had pronounc-
ed the case organic and incurable.
Later there came to live In the vil-
Inge a widow with a little girl affected
similar to the millionaire's daughter.
This child was a delicate, flower faced
creature, wistful from the isolation
that must have been her sad lot, and
the peculiar bark-like hiccough which
she made at once attracted the mil-
lHonaire's attention, and, being a big
hearted If rather ignorant man, he
gave the mother employment about his
home aud showered the afflicted child
with presents.
Perhaps four months after the wid-
ow's advent an eccentric German doc-
tor settled in the village, and, his serv-
feces being sought by the widow, he
gave her child treatment, with the re-
sult that it was completely cured.
The milionaire immediately sought to
place his own daughter under the
German's care, but the latter flatly re-
fused to take the case. He was a
Socialist of a violent type and would
have nothing to do with a man whose
wealth exceeded the sum that he had
fixed upon as the lawful limit of ma-
terial possession.
Finally, however, after the father
had patiently borne the grossest in-
sults the German agreed to give the
affiicted child treatment on condition
that the other would first deed over a
large tract of land in Texas for a So-
cialist colony and pay bim for his fee
a sum little short of $50,000. This the
millionaire did, but as soon as the doc-
tor had cashed the check he disappear-
ed with the widow and her child, and
the wealthy man realized that, blinded
by paternal love, he had been made the
victim of an ingenious swindle.
The flower faced girl of the widow
had been taught to simulate a disease,
and the German was no doubt her
father. He was subsequently located
in Buenos Alres, but he injured man.
not wishing his daughter's affliction
published broadcast, dropped the pros-
ecution.—Don Mark Lemon in Bohe-
mian Magazine.
EXECUTING MAZEPPA.
Peter the Great's Odd Way of Punish-
ing a Deserter.
Peter the Great, czar of Russia, pun-
ished a traitor ou a notable occasion in
a way that the numerous victims of
the present czar's wrath might well
wish were still in vogue.
Mazeppa, chieftain of the Cossacks,
had deserted to the king of Sweden,
with whom Peter was at war. Ma-
zeppa was at once tried by court mar-
tial and found guilty of high treason.
Sentence of death was passed upon
him,
Mazeppa, however, was safely in the
camp of the Swedish king, but this
fact was not permitted to stand in the
way of the carrying out of every part
of the sentence. A wooden efligy of
Mazeppa was made, and the punish-
ments were inflicted upon the Cossack
chieftain's substitute.
The effigy was first dressed in Ma-
zeppa's uniform, and upon its breast
were pinned all of the medals, ribbons
and other decorations that the real cul-
prit had worn.
While the commanding general and
a squadron of cavalry stood near an
officer advanced to the wooden man
and read the sentence. Then another
officer wrenched off the efligy’s patent
of knighthood and his other decora-
tions, tore them up and trampled upon
them. This done, he struck the wood-
en gentleman a powerful blow in the
pit of the stomach, knocking him over.
Next a hangman appeared. While the
soldiers shouted he threw a noose over
the imitation Mazeppa's head and drag-
ged the effigy to a nearby gallows,
where it was “hanged by the neck
until it was dead.”—Scrap Book.
Could Handle a Shovel.
The foreman 6f a Chicago iron mill
once employed a tramp who had been
a college baseball champion. Their
acquaintance began in a way that
showed the tramp still to be game and
cheery. It was a cold autumn dawn,
and the tramp had slept in front of a
furnace on a warm stone. The fore-
man, being short of laborers, on his
morning tour of inspection spied the
fellow and thought he would give him
a job.
“My man,” he said, “can you do any-
thing with a shovel?”
“Well, I could fry a piece of ham
on it.”"—Minneapolis Journal.
The Pompous Man.
1 do not like the pompous man. I do
not wish him for a friend. He's built
on such a gorgeous plan that he can
only condescend, and when he bows
his neck is sprained. He walks as
though he owned the earth—as though
his vest and shirt contained all that
there is of sterling worth. With sa-
cred joy 1 see him tread upon a stray
banana rind and slide a furlong on his
head and leave a trail of smoke be-
hind.—Emporia (Kan.}) Gazette.
From Limb to Limb.
Housewife—-Why don’t you get a job
and keep it: Hobo—I'm like de little
bird dat keeps fiyin’ from limb to limb.
Housewife--G'wan, you're only a bum!
How could you fly from limb to limb?
Hobo—I mean de limbs o' de law,
mum! -Kansas City Independent,
Criticism often takes from the tree
caterpiilars and blossoms together.
Richter.
( IREEERERREREESOEDEDSNEns,
An Aquatic Outfielder.
One day a ship was lying at ancho:
at Boca Grande when the crew ob-
served a dolplkin chasing a fiying fish,
both coming directly toward the ship
On pearing the vessei the flier arose
in the air and passed over the bow
just abaft the foremast. As it did so
the dolphin went under the ship and,
coming up on the other side, sprang
from the water and caught the flying
fish ou “the fly” just as it was curving
gracefully down in its descent to the
water.—Punta Gorda Herald.
Missing Opportunities.
“1 have no patience with a man who
makes the same mistake twice,” said
Armes, rather severely, in speaking of
=n unfortunate friend.
“Neither have 1,” agreed his wife.
“when there are so many other mis
takes to make.”—Youth's Companion.
With Honors.
Mis’ Blivens—My, but awn’t thet a
hast'eume oragy quilt! Where'd you git |
* sis? Shaggs — Wal, you see, my dangh- | !
ter, Lucindy, took a course in fanoy work | |
in a correspondence school, an’ shat was |
her valediet'ry.
People who are troubled by fermentation
in the stomach, sour or bitter, irregularity
of the howels or sluggishuess of the liver, |
will find no other medicine so good as
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They do not !
simply relieve bat absolutely cure.
——Wigg of have a noiseless
writer. Wage 1 she a deal mute ?
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OW IS YOUR BLOODY?
If you lack strength, are nervous, have
no appetite, don’t p well, get tired eas-
ily, your blood is in bad condition.
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J. H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at
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The Young Men's Business
WE WANT IT
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Because we are Equipped for it.
The Fauble Stores Clothes
for Young Men are drafted by special designers who ap-
ply themselves exclusively to the study of Young Men's
Tastes and Fancies. The clothes we show this season
ment.
It’s not an easy task to please the young men of this
community. They know style, are critical as to fit
and demand the BEST. But we are it this season on
Young Men's Clothing
when it comes to Style, Patterns, Values and Assort-
;
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are full of snap and ginger, carrying out the young
fellows ideas in every respect. Natty departures in
pockets and cuffs.
YOU SHOULD SEE THEM
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