Democrat. | “Bellefonte, Pa., March 31, 1911. GATHERING RUBBER. The Sap Is Coagulated by the Action of Pungent Smoke. The industry of collecting and pre- paring rubber is carried on extensively In the valley of the Amazon. There are districts of many square miles owned and operated by one person. The rub ber trees are scattered more or less plentifully; among other trees that vield uo profit az yet When one has secured a large tract of forest land for the industry he puts up = rough shelter cpon it and en- gages Indian natives of the necighbor- hood to aid him in the work. Early in | the worning they start out to make the rounds of the estate, for they must get back to the riverside before the heat of the day becomes too great. They tap the trees, attach little tin | cups to catch the sap and take home | whatever sap may be coliected The sap of the rubber tree is a white | liquid of the consistency of goat's milk. | It is necessary that it be converted | into a solid. This is effected by the | action of a pungent smoke that coagu- | lates or curdles the milky fluid. For | this use the seeds of two different | kinds of palm are employed. The seeds are put in an earthen jar which has a narrow neck, the bottom of which is perforated with a number of square holes. In this the palm nuts are burned. The holes in the bottom of the jar admit a draft and cause a dense | smoke to issue from the neck. The operator takes n paddie similar to that with which he paddies his eca- noe and holds the binde of it over the jar. Upon it he pours the milky juice, cup bv cup. all the time turning the blade =o as to hring all parts of It into the smoke. The fluid is instantly fixed and adheres to the wood or to the rub- ber already formed. This process is continued until a sclid lamp is formed that will perhaps weigh «ixteen pounds. When the lump has grow large enough for handling a slit is en in it and the blade i= drawn out. mass of rubber i& left rede for ex- portation. It is the smoke used in coagulating the sap that gives erude rubber the dark appearance familiar to avery one. Natives who collect rubber have, cu- riously enough, little nse for the ar- ticle. They do, however, devise play- things for their children by pouring the sap into clay molds of birds, fishes, ete, and then crushing the clay and removing it.— New York Press, MOZART’S UNTIMELY END. Sad Finish of tha Career of the Great Musical Genius. Late hours, unwearied vigils, ever fasting iabor, the effects of chills, damp and exposure, in the hard life he led— a life alternating between hrilliant passages and the most loathsome drudgery. between rosy anticipations of fortune and inevitable and eternal disappointments—had their effects on the vigorous constitution of Mozart. His amp af life burnt out untimely. While still a young man—only thirty- five years oll- lhe fell into ill health, the symptoms of which were a fitful, restless nervousness, n craving for in- ordinate excitement and a rapid decay of the physieal stamina of his consti. tution Unfortunately for him, in the ab- sence of any strong influence at home which might keep him in the path of duty, he was tempted to seek recrea- tion abroad and fell into the company of a dissipated set of men, haunters of the theaters and taverns of Vienna, the chief spirit of whom was one Schikaneder, a iow, coarse man of nei- ther refinement nor talent. In com- pany with this crew the glorions gen @that fis. fus, whose critical «tate of health de manded the utmost care and attention from loving hands, ditied night after night from tavern to tavern in Vienna, deluding himself with vice under the idea that he was gathering the secret spirit of brotherhood for use in his opera, “The Magic Flute,” on which he at that time was engaged. -Row- botham's “Private Life of Great Com posers.” — ——————— Teeth In Their Stomachs. Whatever it may be that the lobster and the crab, rapacious, never dainty are eating they always see something else that they want and ean’t wait un til they have masticated the first be fore nitacking the second. But they don't give up the first, not by uny manner of means. Nature, humoring this rapacious bent, has fitted the lob- ster and the crab with teeth in thelr stomachs, and they swallow their haif masticated food and finish the chew. ing process with their stomachs while they seize and chew the other thing that has attracted them. Lobsters and erabs have no teeth in their mouths They chew with their claws what they have time to and hand the unfinished job down to their stomrchs to do the rest of the chewing. A Disagreeable Reception. Weary Wiggles—1 don't like the re ception I got at that house. Bleating Harry— Who came to the door? Weary Wiggles—The dog. —Judge. Rich and Poor. “There's a difference in children.” “Yes; the poor man's children are assets, the rich man's Habilities,”— Washington Herald. You bave not fulfilled every duty un- less you have fulfilled that of being "a little bicarbonate of soda before re- pleasant.—Charles Buxton. EXPERT PITCHERS. The Curious Way They Serve Bread at Meals In Yucatan. At schogl, if we remember aright, says the author of “The American Egypt,” the bread throwing was an offense punishable with the sixth book of the Aenid to write out and the loss of a half holiday as the minimum penalty. In Yucatan it is all the fashion in the highest circles. No sooner had we taken our places at the table than an Indian maid brought in, holding them in her brown hands. an towering pile of soft white doughy tortillas. each about as big as a large biscuit. These she placed at the =ide of our hostess. who at once began to throw them to us all It was so adroitly done that before you had recovered from the amaze went with which the mere act filled vou, you found yourself ndinising the exquisite dexterity of the gentle thrower. A tortilla whizzed circling across the table under your very nose and land- ed with delicate softness like a tired {dove at the side of your host's plate! | Whiz. whir, here comes another! Why, it's like boomerang throwing, for this last, you'll declare, circled romd you before it sank nestling under the edge of the plate of steaming pork stew in front of yon The air is thick with | these doughy missiles Nobody is the least surprised except | ns, and we become quite absorbed in friendly ns, watching the bombardment. Our host engres ax the news papers say, in “animmied conversa. tion.” inqnires the purposes of our tour. nnd our theories as to the origin of the Mayan people. : It is hard to give him omr whole at. tention, for we feel that ve re losing all the fun The toriillns oro whizzing over the table now and round it just lke boomerangs, and then the host. es’ supply is exhnusted. Bur here is a plump Indian maid with oo fresh supply. snowy white and softly finffy, such ax would fill a London muffin man's heart with envy It is all very fanny MADE THEM REMEMBER. Customs of the Old English Court of Forest Regarders. The great forests of England were for centuries royal property. ‘They were Kept from settiement and en- cronchiment by the strictest laws and the severest penalties. To enforce the laws au great number of officials were appointed. ‘There were warders, ver derers, foresters and regarders, and there were special courts to try cases of trespass, poaching and like offenses. It is of the regarders that Mr. Nor way writes in his Cllighways and Breways In Yorkshire.” He is deal ing with Sherwood forest of Robin ifood fame: “I know not with any certainty what may have been the boundaries of this forest in ancient times, for that ex- celient custom of the court of the re garders has gone out of use, whicl wis wout to impress the bounds so firmly on the memories of those who dwelt in the neighborhood, “The regarders used to take a survey of the forest every third year, and in their teain went a number of boys col lected willy nilly from the immediate vicinity. The boys were chosen be cause it was held that the memories of the young are god. Yet it was found to be desirable to impress them firmly with the actual limits lest any wandering fancy should distract their attention at the important moment, and so the boys were bumped heavily upon the ground whenever the bound- ary was reached, or if the limit wer: a stream that was much better. for the urchins were thrown in and ‘pad- dled about’ until their attention was awake. “Is that steam the boundury? one of these witnesses was asked in his riper age. “Fes,” he answered hastily, Cees, I'm sure o't by the same token that 1 were tossed into’'t and paddled about there like a water rat fill T were haafe deead.”” When Not to Smoke. By exhausting the salivary secretion smoking before meals prevents the physiological action of the saliva on starchy foods. Smoking just before going to bed is often followed by in- somnin, because the stomach contains | a quantity of uunneutralized juice, . which irritates the mucosa and gives | vise to na sensation of hunger. This "distressing consequence may be avert | ed by taking either some light food or | tiring to rest in order to nentralize the | secretion.—London Lancet, Justification. i “You admit, then, do you, O'Shaugh- nessy, that you assaulted your friend?” | asked the judge. “Sure an’ Oi do that, yure honor,” re- plied O'Shaughnessy. “Oi gev him a couple o' good wans. He called me a dommed fool, yure honor.” “And did you consider that an in- sult?” demanded the judge. “Naw, sorr,” said O'Shaughnessy. “Of t'ought it was a gross betrayal nv «~onfidence, sorr.”—Harper's Weekly. Duty. Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning and goes to rest with ns at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life.—Glad- rtone. Predestination. Ted—You know money Is your best friend. Ned—Yes, and the trouble Is that the best of friends must part-- Judge. + century THE GOLD WAS THEPE. Buz Mark Twain Missed It by Just | One Pail of Water. ! With Steve Gillis, a printer of whom be was fond, Mark Twain went up into Calaveras county to a cabin on Jackass hill, where Steve's brother Jim. a lovable, picturesque character (the “Truthful James” of Bret Harte), owned mining claims. Mark decided | to spend his vacation in pocket min- ing and soon added that science to his | store of knowledge. It was au halcyon, happy three months that he lingered there. One day with Jim Gills he was following the specks of gold that | led to a pocket somewhere up the hill when a hill, dreary rain set in. Jim: was washing and Clemens was earry- ing water. The “color” became better and better as they ascended, and Gil- | lis, possessed with the mining passion, would have gone on regardless of the rain. Clemens, however, protested and | declared that each pall of water was ' his last. Finally he sald in his dellb- | erate, drawling fashion: “Jim, I won't carry any more water. Thix work is too disagreeable. Let's | #0 to the house and wait till it clears | up.” Gillis had just taken out a pan of earth “Hiring one more pail, Sam,” he plead- ed. “I won't do it, Jim! Not a drop! Not if 1 knew there wns a million | dollars in that pan!” They left the pan standing there and went over to Angel's camp, which was nearer than their own cabin. The rain kept on, and they sat around the grocery and barroom smoking nnd tell- ing stories to pass the time, Meanwhile the rin had washed awny the top of the pan of earth left standing on the slope of Jackass hill and exposed un handful of nuggets pure old. Two strangers had come along and, observing it, had sat down | to wait until the thirty day claim notice posted by Jim Gillis should ex- pire. They did not mind the rain—not with that gold in sight—and the min- ute the thirty days were up they fol lowed the lead a few pans farther and | took out 820.000 in all. It was a good pocket. Mark Twain missed it by one pail of water. Chicago Post. A LIBERTY WITH TIME. Castelar’s interrupted Lecture In the University of Madrid. In “Home Life In Spain” is a fine story of the University of Madrid, which once had among its professors that Senor Castelar who was for a time president of the short lived Span- ish republic. But when Alfonso XII was brought to Madrid after the fall of the republic Castelar, with his com- panions, was exiled. : Some years afterward an amnesty was proclaimed, and Castelar returned in triumph to Madrid to resume his office in the university. A vast gather- ing attended to hear his first lecture, and the greatest orator in all Spain mounted the rostrum, looked imper- turbably at the sea of eager faces sur- rounding him and began, “As 1 was saying yesterday” (Como decin ayer. Between that yesterday and this day he had fought the battle of the fallen republic and had known the bit. ternes< of years in exile. All memory of this, however poignant in the heart of Castelar, had passed from the pro- fessor of Madrid's university, and he continued his lecture at ‘the very point at which it had been broken off, The Sedan Chair. The sedan chair is named after Se-: dan. the town where it was first used. The earliest mention of it in England occurs in 1381. Barly in the following the Dulce of Buckingham caused much indignation by its use in London. People were exasperated at that nobleman employing his fellow men to take the place of horses to car- ry him. Prince Charlies brought from Spain in 1623 three curiously wrought sedans, two of which he gave to the Duke of Buckingham. A few weeks after their introduction Massinger pro- duced his play, “The Bondman,” and © in it he thus adverts to the ladies: For their pomp and care being borne In triumph on men's shoulders. The reference is doubtless to Duck- ingham’'s sedan. which was borne like a palangquin.- “Bygone England.” The Magnetic Poles. The magnetic poles are not station-! ary. The northern one is slowly mov- ing westward along the seventieth! parallel and in the course of three or. four hundred years will probably have encircled the geographic north pole and returned to about iis present loca. | tion. Of course the southern magnetic role follows a corresponding course about the geographic south pole. In such cities in the United States as Omaha, Sioux City, Topeka. Galveston, etc., the compass needle would point: about in the direction of the north star and the north pole that Com- mander Peary reached. This geo- graphic pole is about 1.500 miles north of the magnetic pole, toward which the needles of all compasses point.— St. Nicholas. i i i i i Earliest Use of Mineral Ink. | In ancient times india Ink, made from lampblack and glue, was used for writing on papyri. but inspection of the earliest vellum or parchment MSS. shows that iron gall inks were introduced not later than the ninth century. The reason for the change was that, although a carbon Ink is more permanent, it has no penetrating power and can be sponged from the vellum, whereas the iron ink bites in. to the fibers and resists the destruc. tive action of hoth air and light To accept good advice is but to in crease one's own ability.—~Goethe The Horrible Rite India Maintained For Over Twenty Centuries. The abolition of the horrid rite of widow burning in India was decreed Ly the British authorities in 1820, The dreadful practice was found there by the Macedonians under Alex- ander the Great 300 years before Christ, and for more than twenty-one long. weary centuries did it repeat its almost inconceivable torture and ago- | ny upon the women of India. The sacrifice, while not actually forced on | the wife. was so strongly insisted on by public opinion that it amounted to a law, and its vietims were legion. Scores of widows were often burned {upon the mueral pile of a single ra- jal. In Bengal, the head center of the monstrosity, thousands were sac- rificed annually, and the figure for all Indin was appalling. The millions of widowed women were completely at the mercy of the remorseless superstition of the times. The ministers of Brahmanism told the widow that her sacrifice was nec- essary ag a means of her own happi- ness and that of her husband in the future state, and oftener than other- wise she consented to be burned along with the dead body of her husband. Unless she did this she was covered with the mn'edictions and curses of the people, was virtually ontlawed and unceremoniously cast outside the pale of human sympathy and consid eration and had to spend the rest of her days in degradation and wretch. edness. Tt was death on the funeral pile of her husband or a living death: of contumelv and shame, of loneliness | and misery. The women of Indin can never dis. charge their debt of gratitude to Eng- land for the abolition of the suttee.— New York American. ON THE TRAIL. .« Didn't Know the Kind of Game He Was Tracking. In the old days a man known as Judge Douglass lived in Helena, Mont. Bu. The judge had met with an accident in| his youth and had lost legs shove the knees. He never would get artificial! legs, but had some big leather pads made to fit on the ends of the stumps and walked on them. both of his Locomotion was slow for the judge | but he managed to cover a good den! of ground and was very fond of walk ing out on the edge of the town. wher! he could take his exercise without be ing the subject of remark from stran gers in the city. One day an Englishman came to Hel ena to hunt. He had some letters and put up at the Helena club. He stayed around for several days. er a light fall of snow, he decided 1 Finally. art! go out into the mountains and sot on sheep or a deer or something. ie left early in the morning. it came nizht he had not retnrned His hosts around the club waited uni S o'clock and then decided 0 go on and look him up, thin’. ing he might have been lost in one of the gulehes or canyons in the hills, They formed a rescue party went out to the edge of the tow: There they met the Englishman, who was wildly excited, “Did yon get anything?” they axed him. “No” he replied, “not yet, but I've heen tracking an elephant for the last three hours.” Philadelphia Saturday Evening Tost. Juries In the Old Days. In olden times when a jury in Ene land remained impervious to the judge « gentie mode of persuasion fine and fu prisonment were resorted to. The jury that morton was condemned to elcht months’ imprisonment in addition io the payment of n large sum of inoney In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a jury, having rednced a prisoner's alleg:d crime of murder to that of manslau:sh ter, was at once sent to prison aud bound over in a large smn to be of zood behavior. Penalties were ice Whe | nah acquitted Sir Nicholas Throck- { ' i 1 i i | wise inflicted upon the innocent wife and children of the offending juryme: |! { Medical. Doubt Disappears NO ONE IN BELLEFONTE WHO HAS A BAD BACK CAN IGNORE THIS DOUBLE PROOF. Does your back ever ache? Have you suspected your kidneys? Backache is kidney ache, With it comes dizzy spells, Sleepless nights, tired, dull days, Distressing urinary disorders. Cure the kidneys to cure it all. Doan's Kidney Pills bring quick relief. ix i | if HE 2k dhe ; j if i : : | i Yeagers Shoe Store Are Children Worth Bringing Up? RUBBERS. This is what appeared in a recent number of the American Journal oi Health: The tamily doctor should din it into the mother's head all the time, that the health of their children lies in the feet. Keep the feet dry. Never let them get wet. No child should be al- lowed to go out in snow or rain, or when walking is wet, without Rubbers. Rememier, Yeager's Rubbers are the best and the prices just a little cheaper than the other fellows. Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, FA. LYON & CO. Special Easter Bargains. Hindu Silk for Dresses, and in the best colors, only 25c. Foulard Silks, all new and the best colors from soc. up. Silk Poplins, Messalines, Jacqnards, in all the new and desirable colors and black. All colors in Marquesetts, white and black, special soc. Rajah Silk, natural color only, regular $1 qual- ity, special price S3c. The largest assortment of Silk-ginghams, Fine Lawns, Organdies and Linens in the town. Roval Worcester AND Box ToN CORSETS. Our Corset line is now complete. All the new m-dels. Royal Worcester from $1 to $3. Bon Ton Corsers from $3 up. Sitk Hose.—Special price on Silk Hose in black only. Regular price $1.25; our price soc. and 75¢- Draperies.—A new line of Window Draperies by the curtain or vard, in the new plain and fig- ured scrims, Swisses and madras. Rugs, Carpets and Linoleums.—New Carpets and rt Squares. new Lincleums, new Mattings, at the lowest prices. Shoes, Shoes.—Our line of Shoes for men, women and children is now complete. Prices the lowest. LYON & COMPANY, Allegheny St. 47-12 Bellefonte, Pa.
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