- Bellefonte, Pa., May 12, 1911. Dogs In Harness In Belgium. Dogs that work in Belgium are bought and sold in the open market like norses, and if strong and well broken they bring from $20 to $25 each. In manufacturing towns there is the usual number of horses, but for every horse you will see two dogs in harness on the streets. Early in the morning market women drive them | _ hitched to carts loaded down with veg- etables. The grocer, the expressman, the butcher and baker, all employ dogs to do the work of horses. They are much quicker than the horse, and size for size they can draw a heavier load. will go twice as far as the horse with- in the same time. They are driven in wagons, single, double, treble and four- fn-hand. ‘They are often kept in liv- ery barns like horses, are fed generally on black bread and horseflesh and cost | in board from 5 to 6 cents per day. They are sleek and well kept and ap- pear to enjoy their work.— Louisville Courier-lournal. A Drop of Water. Figures are sometimes impressive simply by being so stupendous that the human mind grasps them with difficulty. An instance in point is af- forded by the illustration once offered to his hearers by an eminent scientist, who. in order to bring to their com- prehension the idea of ultimate parti- cles of water, stated that if he was to empty a tumbler containing half a i Eddystone Lighthouse. ! The Eddystone lighthouse, fourteen miles off Plymouth, England, and ex- posed to the full fury of the south- western seas, was built by Winstanley in four seasons. Begun in 1006 and finished in 1700. it was destroyed in the dreadful storm of 1703. The sec- ond structure was completed in 1709 and destroyed In 1755, after it had faced the wind and the waves for something over forty-six years. The third tower, finished in 1750 and con- demned in 1878. was followed by the present wonderful structure. which since 1882 has been def ‘ve the ele- ments while It flashed oot over the terrible waters its saving h=ht. Since the brave Winstanley bhuint the first | Bddystone lighthouse <imiinr safe- guards have sprung up like magic sen- | tinels along all the coasts of all the great deeps of the earth are forewarn- ed and forearmed against the dangers them.—New York i i It is said the dog in harness | ocenns, and those who sail upon the which threaten American. An Effective Prayer. “Years ago.” says a well known ac- tor. “1 appeared in an amateur per- formance of a play that had a distinct religious flavor. The leading player had studied for the ministry and bad a deep and sonorous voice. In one of the scenes the lights were supposed to be turned down and a raging storm simulated. The accompanying lines were: “+0 Lord, deliver us from the pow- ers of darkness.’ “The leading man spoke the lines, but darkness didn't follow. He spoke them again, snd still the stage was distressingly light. Finally he roared: pint of water, letting out each second +0 Lord, deliver us from the pow- a number equal to 1,000 times the | or of darkness and also give that fool population of the earth. it would re- | gas man sense enough to turn down quire and 47.000,000 years to empty the tum- bler. Lord Kelvin has assured us that | if a drop of water was magnified to | the size of the earth the particles | would be between the size of cricket | balls and footballs. If that statement is correct the drops of water in all the oceans are not many times so numer- ous as the particles, or molecules, in a | single drop.—St. Louis Republic. When Baronets Were Bold. somewhere between 7,000,000 | 0 lights.’ “The gas lights went down, and the nrudience roured.” —Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. The Bible as a Detective. I'he Bible was used until quite re- | cent years for the detection of thieves. Dr. Jessopp told in 1882 how there were still persons living who had wit- . nessed the ordeal to which an East Anglican parson subjected his servants French Foreign Legion a Unique Military Body. CRIMINALS FILL ITS RANKS. It Gathers Recruits From the Social Outcasts of All Grades of All Other Countries—Iron Discipline and Bru- tal Punishments. The French Foreign Legion is unique. There is no other military organization like it on earth. It was then newly conquered colony of Al- geria. The officers are French officers, of course, but the ranks are made up of outcasts of all social ranks of all other countries. It is understood that recruits are simply seeking refuge from the arm of the civil law. The corps has done excellent work against the Arabs and Is always placed in the forefront of the fight. The Foreign Legion exists but to march. To this one end its whole training is devoted. Tv fall out on the march is the one unpardonable sin in a legionnaire. The system of marches is brutal. No matter what the distance, it has to be completed in one stage. Forty miles, fifty, sixty— no matter—it is done straight off the reel, with, of course, brief halts for rest. But there is no general halt until the whole distance is completed. If a legionnsire faints on the march he is tied to a baggage cart which rolls on. He then either has to march or he is dragged along. “Seeing this done for the first time, I thought it stand the reason for it.” sald one who had served in its ranks. The legionnaire who straggles in the desert is lost. Hundreds of men have died a dreadful death in this way. The Arab women pounce upon them, lying helpless in the sand, and, with shrieks of fiendish delight, proceed to torture and mutilate them before killing them outright. A leglonnaire’s pay Is only a balf- | when his cash box was missing. He | penny a day. True, wine In Algeria It ye in the reign of good KINg grgered them all into bis bedroom and | costs only a penny a quart, and tobac- James t nt Sardnsis Seat came into | rapgeq them around the walls. From | co threepence to fourpence a pound. existence. ay you could hardly tell | ¢p0 canter of the celling bung the rope | But—a halfpenny a day! a baronet from a banker. But in the year 1611, when James 1. needed ready money and created 200 “little barons” | to supply him with cash, they swag- | gered about in their baldrics and sash- i spinning round, and the one at whom i es and behaved In the courtliest of | fashion. Each baronet in order to! justify his title had to maintain a small army of thirty soldiers for three years. In thix way tne crafty king not only increased his revenue, but actually lightened his expenses. It is not generally known that the title of “baronetess” has twice been bestowed on women. One of these was the mother of a Dutch general. The other was a Nottingham lady named Dame Maria Bolles, who won her way dnto the good graces of Charles I. and received the title from his hands.— London Tit-Bits. When He Was Bad. It has been said that you never know a mau till you travel with him, and certainly traveling has a tendency to bring out ail the depravity innate in human nature. Out of this test, how- ever, Benjamin Disraeli emerged with flying colors. This is what was said of him by Mrs. Austen, who with her husband traveled with bim when he was quite a young man, as related in Mr. Monypenny's biography: “Your brother,” she says tthe letter was addressed to Disraeli’'s sister), “is 80 easily pleased, so accommodating, so amusing and so actively kind that I shall always reflect upon the domes- tic part ot our journey with the great- est pleasure. Your brother has be- haved excellently, except when there is a button, or, rather, buttons, to be put on his shirt: then he is violently bad. and this happens almost daily.” Whales In Nets. Just south of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. where in a landlocked harbor beautiful Wangamumu nestles in the shadow of Cape Brett. there is | established a whaling station, and here is carried on the unique business of catching whales by means of nets set fn a narrow channel! between rugged rocks. The cetaceans frequent this passage, it is said. to rub off the ac- cumulation of sea growing parasites gained in long journeys through deep water. The Word Vaudeville. The word “vaudeville” sprang from Vaux de Vire, the name of a hamlet in the picturesque town of Vire, in Switzerland. In the fifteenth century this town was the home of Oliver Basselin, the author of witty drinking songs. One of the best known of these songs was a merry dissertation on the author's red nose. He Didn't. The wife of a clergyman warned him as he went off to officiate at a funeral one rainy day: “Now, John, don't stand with your bare head on the damp ground; you'll catch cold.” The Reason. “Why Is that man always grunting so about his business?" “1 don't know, unless it is the force of association. You see, he deals in pig iron.” —Baltimore American. He Was Immune. Morrow—It makes me very uneasy if I owe a dollar to any one. Borrow— Great Scott! If I felt that way about it I'd have St. Vitus' dance.~Boston Transcript. used to lower coffins into the church- yard graves, wound round a Bible, from the leaves of which projected the church door key. This was sent the key pointed when it stopped was proclaimed as the thief. Happily the man thus marked out was able to prove an alibi. But this did not con- vince the servants that the test was a bad one. They only concluded that the thief was not there.— [Loudon Chron- cle. An Unbeliever. “This here paper says as how they've just discovered the remains of a thirty- five foot saurian in Nevada.” “What in thunder's a saurian?” “Blamed If | know. i s'pose mebbe it's somethin’ like a sardine.” “Huh' You Iign'rant chump, they ain't ne thirty-five foot sardines.” “Well, there could be the remains of one, couldn't they?" “Haw-haw! Who'd ever buy a box of them things?" “Darn you, you're just like all the rest of these here smart guys that are upsettin® religion. | think they is re- mains of thirty-five foot sardines In Nevada. | got faith to suppose that they is also remains of men big enough to buy 'em by the box an’ eat ‘em on crackers. You know what you are? You are one of these here atheists!"— New York Journal. Pyramid of the Sun. The most colossal structure of pre- historic man in America, known as the pyramid of the sun, is at Teotihuacan, Mexico. not far from the capital Close to the great pyramid stands the | pyramid of the moon, which the build- ers regarded as the wife of the sun, and surrounding them are nearly 200 mounds of greater or lesser magni ' tude, which tradition says were crown- ed by temples and public buildings. | Two hundred and sixty-eight steps lead to the summit of the pyramid of the sun. which is 210 feet high. Tt is 761 feet square at the base, and the | summit Is 59 by 105 feet.—National Geographic Magazine. A Real One. | His rations, too, are of the scantlest. | Two meals a day only are served— , breakfast at 10 o'clock in the morning | and supper at 4 in the afternoon. Each meal is exactly alike, consisting | of a thick soup made up of meat and | vegetables, with bread, and every oth- er day a small quantity of wine. The discipline is ruthless in its sever- ity; the punishments are cruel in the extreme. For grave offenses, like de- sertion, insubordination or striking a superior officer, death Is frequently in- flicted, or, failing that, the offender is sent to serve in the penal battalion on the edge of the Sahara desert. This nearly always means a slow and pain- ful death in place of a quick and com- paratively painless one. CORPS OF ROGUES first raised in 1831 for service in the brutal, but later I learned to under-! i | i i | | Minor offenses are punished with | from twenty to a hundred days in prison or with “cellule,” which is soll- tary confinement in the dark plus star vation. 1 have seen strong, robust men so reduced after doing thirty days cellule that they have hardly been able to stand, yet they had to resume their ordinary duties nevertheless. Not long since two other dreadful forms of punishment were in vogue— the “silo” and the “crapaudine.” The silo was just a deep hole in the ground ' shaped like a funnel, into which the victim was cast. He was given no ' blanket or other protection from the weather. The sun beat upon him by day; the . cold night mists penetrated to the mar- row of his bones. He could not lie down, for the bottom of the silo sloped | to a point. He just crouched, a hud- | dled heap, until not infrequently death | mercifully relleved him from his suf: ferings. The crapaudine consisted in trussing a man as a fowl is trussed, his hands and feet being tied together on his back in such a manner that they form- ed a sort of semicircle. This resulted in such frightful { i i ‘men mad. Both the silo and the cra- have now been march an offender is still punished by being “spreadeagled” and bound four stakes driven into the ground. To escape from these tortures men mutilate themselves, usually by - ting off one or more fingers, or wil make t g i oH ; 8 B : 2 35 res fish a £3 i lili hpi: [itd fl £8 { { i | cramps that the pain sometimes drove | . The Feminine of It. Teacher—Tommy, what is the fem- inine of the masculize “steg?’ Tom- my (whose mother is a soclety leader) —Afternoon tea, ma'am.—Sphinx. “Thoughts are mightier than the strenzth of hand.—Sophocles. 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. Bring thorough, lasting cures. You have read Bellefonte proof. Read now the Bellefonte sequel. 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