Bema Fda
~ Bellefonte, Pa., September 29, 1911.
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ZEBRAS IN AFRICA.
They Are a Fearful Pest and a Menace
to Civilization.
Zebras in Africa are a nuisance and
a menace to civilization, according te
John T. McCutcheon in “Hunting Ad.
ventures In the Biz flame Country.”
He says:
Then there's the ubiquitous zebra,
almost as numerous as the koangoni.
You see vast herds of zebras ot many
places along the railway, and there
after. as you roam about the level
spots of est Africa, you are always |
running into herds of them, At first
the sight of a Lerd of zebras is a |
surprise, for you have been accus-|
tomed to seeing them In ihe small
numbers found in eaptivity. It is al
source of passing wonder that these |
rare animals should Le reaming about
the suburbs of towns in hundred lots.
You decide that it would be a shame
to shoot nn zebra and determine not to
Join in this heartless slanghter.
Later on your sentiments will un-|
dergo na change. Everybody will tell
you that the zebra is a fearful pest
and must be exterminated if civiliza-
tion and progress are to continue. The
zebra is absolutely useless, and efforts |
to domesticate him have been without |
good results. He tramps over the
plains, breaks down fences, tears up
the cultivated fields and really fulfills
no mission in life save that of supply- |
ing the lions with ford. As long as |
the zebras stay the lions will be there,
but the settiers says that the lions are
even preferable to the zebras.
Under the old game ordinance expli-
ing December 15, 1909, a sportsman |
was allowed two zebras under his |
license. Under the new one he is al-!
fowed twenty! That reveals the atti- |
tude of east Africa toward the jaunty
little ped pony.
THE TONIC OF VICTORY.
Army Surgeons Say it Acts Almost as
an Anaesthetic,
Bonnette, a French army surgeon, |
writes in the Presse Medicale of the |
extraordinary Indifference to the pain |
of operation manifested by the soldiers |
of Napoleon while the great conqueror
was sweeping victoriously over Europe.
While the defeated soldier is full of
imaginary terrors, subject to panic, |
madness and treason, tle conqueror, on
the other hand, is intoxicated with sue-
cess, says the New York Medieal
Journal, Nothing, not even the morbifie
microbe, can resist troops who believe
themselves to be invincible.
Victory is the most powerful of re
storatives nnd deepest of anaesthetics.
Legless members of the old guard
crowded into an ambulance would at
sight of the emperor rise on their
stumps to salute him. After Eylau
Larrey operated uninterruptedly for
thirty-six hours, and he reports how
the soldiers seemed unconscious of their
own troubles, lost in thought of the
glory of their leader, and, maimed as
they were, lending their best aid to fel-
low patients,
At Borodino Larrey disarticulated
the shoulder of a colonel, who immedi-
ately set out for France on foot, where
he arrived after three months walking.
After fording the Beresinn, a river in
Russia, General Zayonchek, seventy-
five years old, had his kneecap shat-
tered by a bullet. Amputation was per-
formed in three minutes in a violent
snowstorm and in bitterly cold weather,
yet the white haired officer was placed
in a sledge and taken to Vilna, where
he died at the age of eighty-six years.
Many similar anecdotes ure told by our
civil war vetermns,
Stupid Fish.
Professor Uaro.d [iussell, the Lon-
don zoologist, will have none of the
popular yarns about the wonderful
things fish will do when put to it.
He says they are deaf, dumb and vir-
tually color blind. When the ealcare-
ous stones are taken out of the ears of |
fish they lose all sense of equilibrium |
and roll about as If crazy. Most fish |
hunt their food by only defective '
sight, but the eels by even more de- |
fective smell. A conger eel with I
which Professor Itussell experimented
devoured with the same avidity fish
dosed with clieese, anchovy, camphor
spirits, turpentive and iodoform.
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Where We Aim.
William Dean Howells in one of his |
talks about literature said: “Good lit- |
erature is always condemned on its first |
appearance. ‘That ix because, being
original, it is new und strange. Shel-
ley’'s work was bitterly condemned ut
first. So was Coleridge's. So was Words-
worth's. So was Stephen Crane's.”
Mr. Howells paused, then added Im-
pressively, “Stones are only thrown nt
those trees which are heavy with
fruit.”
The Fertile Rock.
Gibraltar is often called a barren
rock, yet it has 456 species of indige-
nous flowering plants, Castor oil planes,
daturas and daphnes attain the dig-
nity of trees and gernniums and helio-
tropes the proportions of hedges.
“These floral delights often conceal ca.
non and other armaments. The few
snakes that are found are small and
harmless. Tizards several inches ‘emg
are often seen.
One of Them.
Figg—As a talker Brown's wife is
certainly a wonder. Fogg—Right you
! the skin.
| hotter climates the increased activity
| of the liver and the presence of great
' light favored a dark skin. i
| The mountaineers of Asin and the
are! Wonders never cease.—Boston
Transcript.
| sup.
THE HUMAN SKIN.
Changes In Its Hues That Have
Come With the Ages.
COLOR A MATTER OF CLIMATE.
Man's Original Shade Is Believed to
Have Been a Brownish Yellow—The
Same Forces That Made Men White,
Black and Yellow Still Operating.
Man's original color and the cause of
the changes in that color to the various
hues that mark the skins of the differ-
ent races bave long been a study
among men of science.
The theory of Professor Lionel Lyde,
an English scientist, is that, whatever
the color of primitive man in the be-
ginning, the conditions of life during
the glacial period were such that uni-
formity of results must have been pro-
duced. Nearly every anthropologist is
ready to admit now a common origin
for all mankind. Where man origi-,
nated is not kmown—very likely in
southern Asla, possibly in Africa, cer-
tainly not in Europe. they say. His
original color Is supposed to have been
a sort of brownish yellow not like any |
of the colors of mankind today. and
scientists call him, for the sake of |
calling him something, a Condwana.
He lived in southern latitudes. This, |
they think. is certain. Then came
migrations, and then, Professor Lyde
believes, the variations of color began.
Some turned white, some tnrned black,
some brown and some yeilow, all ac-
' cording to the climate in which they
found themselves,
Climate influences worked directly
| and Indirectly. In the tropics the skin
and the intestines perform work which
in temperate zones is thrown on the
Jungs. So when man found himself in
cooler lands the increased activity of
the lungs. together with the lessened
light and heat. favored lightening of
When he found himself in
The old theories of race are pretty
. well discarded, for men of the same
i race, under differing conditions, would
come to be outwardly very different.
Thus even in Africa, which everybody
thinks of as the land of blacks, black '
is not at all the universal color. In
' the Sudan, where there are great light
| and little humidity and no shade, the |
men are very black. Elsewhere in
Africa, where there are forest, more -
humidity and less light, though about
equal heat, the color is brown and even
yellow.
As primitive man went on his way
over the globe he adapted himself to
the conditions he found. Professor
Lyde thinks that it is light and not
heat which is injurious. There are
in the tropics dangerous X-like rays
which must be stopped, and they were
stopped by the darkening of the skin.
Since lack of moisture also tends to
give n tawny color, it is found that in
rainy countries the people are fairer
than in places where there are long
and frequent droughts,
The race, then, that found a home in
moderate and damp climates turned
whiter and whiter. It is only in such
climates that white skins ean endure,
and presumably, if the present white
race was turned into a different part
of the world for many hundreds of
years, the whiteness of skin would
gradually be lost. Perhaps, since the
white man is spreading over the world
to-day, it would be fair to say it will,
in such cases, be lost, the whiteness
being retained only in climates that
have the conditions under which Re
race was first bleached.
Intensity of light and little humidity |
made black. Trade winds and little |
humidity gave the tinge of brown to,
the subtropical Mediterranean peopie. |
Then comes yellow, which Professor
Lyde puts down as the result of “vast
desicenting grass lands” in intemper-
ate latitudes.
The yellow man is the product of
the grass lands, with lack of humidity
and seasonal extremes of temperature.
The color n man exposed to such con-
ditions would naturally take would be
| one which conserves heat nearly as
well as white, but which also protects
| frem light, for which combination yel-
low was the hest, or red. The nor-
' mal color of these folk of the grass
! lands would be changed by special
local conditions, such as the presence
of mountains or proximity to the sea.
| maritime Mongolinns are lighter in
! color than their brothers of the inland
plains.
uo Professor Lyde, therefore, skin
color is entirely a matter of climate.
It is a well established phenomenon
now because the different portions of
the human race lived segregated for
thousands of years in special areas,
but the same forces that made men
white and black and yellow are oper-
ating today, slowly, but surely. Men
who change their dwelling places will
still, after hundreds of generations,
change also thelr skins as they did in
the epoch of the first migrations.—New
York Times.
Not Consistent.
“You are very foolish, Mary, to
think of geiting married. If you will
give up the idea 1 wHl raise your
wages a dollar a week.”
“Huh—a dollar a week! That's a
fine argument ag'inst marridge to be
put up by a lady that's drawn $400
a month alimony.” —Judge.
The soldier is the only wild animal
that does not eat what he kills.—Jes-
| mons.
“Jim,” says Mrs. Mann, “1 see that
the best butter is 3 cents cheaper at the
market than it is out there at our
store. This Is market day.
you mind going down there
on your way home and getting me two
dozen eggs and some corn and a few" —
“Oh, I'm awfully sorry, dear,”
breaks in Mr. Mann, “but this Is go-
ing to be my busy day. | won't be
home till pretty late, and there are a
lot of extra things that 1 simply must
attend to, and” -
“Never mind. dear,” says Mrs. Mann.
“I'd just as soon do it myself, but I
haven't any money, and if you will
leave me a ten dollar bill I'lI"—
“Come to think of it.” breaks in Mr.
Mann right there, “1 won't be so very
busy today. 1 was thinking about
next week. I'll go to the market for
you very gladly. "Cleveland Plain |
Dealer.
The Gulls and the Black Crickets.
When the Mormons first settled in
Utah black crickets came in myriads
from the mountains and would have
destroyed the crops had it not been
for the gulls that came by hundreds
and thous: uds from the surrounding |t
lakes. At that time the settlers at
Salt Lake regarded the advent of the
birds as a heaven sent miracle. and
ever since the gull has been esteemed
almost as a sacred bird by the Mor
About the beet and alfalfa
fields when they are being Irrigated
the gulls still collect and feed largely
on field mice that are =o destructive
to crops.—Success Magazine.
ER ibp
Saving Him.
“Why have you and Miss Sweet
broken off your eugngenent
“Because shi loves me so"
“That's n queer reason.”
“Not at all She believes in fortune
telling. nnd when she went to have her
future revealed not long ago she was
informed that she would be married
three times. That settled my case, for
the time being at least. She said that
she was determined that I should not
encounter the danger of heing first on
the list.”"—Pittsburg Press.
Looked Ominous.
“Mabel, what are that young man's
intentions?’
“1 don't know, papa. He is keeping
me in the dark.”
“That is the reason | am asking.
Tell him he need not mind turning |*
down the light any more when he
ealls.,"—Houston Post.
Medical.
The Only Way
MANY BELLEFONTE CITIZENS HAVE DIS
COVERED IT.
Just what to do when the kidneys are
affected, is a question that concerns both
young and old. Weak kidneys neglected
in childhood lead to life-long suffering.
People of advanced years, with less vital
ity, suffer doubly. In youth or age, lan.
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There is one remedy that acts directly
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Doan’s Kidney Pills owe their world-wide
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Mrs. James Rine, 239 W. High street,
Bellefonte, Pa., says: Some years ago 1
procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at Green's
Pharmacy Co., and their use cured me of
kidney complaint and backache that had
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—r waiter in a restaurant went to
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Coustitutiona! Amendments.
POSED AMENDMENTS TO -
H St ION SUBMITTED Ri THE
S OF THIS COM DoALTH
R THEIR APPROVAL OR EIECTIO
he ha TASSENIELY THE CoM.
SYLVANIA. AND
oF THE COMMONWEALTH 5 IN PURSUAS A&E
| OF ARTICLE, i OF THE. CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
| Proposin aX an amendmen: to the Constitution of
Common ivania, t
wealt Pennsy so J» Io
ie the courts of Common
legheny Count
Section 1. Be it Tesolved bY the Senate and
House of Represen! of the Commonwealth
of Peli lvania in eral Assembly met
the fol amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsy be, and the same is , Dro-
Posed, in accordance with thane eighteenth article
That section six of article five be amended, by
sriking out the said section, and inserting in
reof the following:
Section 6. i the county of Philadelphia all the
jurisdiction and powers now vested in the dis-
trict Soutts and courts of Common he
0 such changes as may be made by this ho
tion or by law, shall be in Phil phiz vested in
five distinct and separate courts of equal and co-
ordinate 2 Jurisdiction , composed of three Judges
each. said courts in Philadelphia shall
Sa respectively as the court of Common
Pleas number one, Pour two, number three,
number four and number five, but the number o
said courts may be by law increased, from time to
time, and shall be in like manner
iceesive numbers. The number of jud
y of said courts, or in any county where 2
tablishment of an additional court may be author-
law, may be jncreased from time to time,
rr w er such increase shall amount in the
whole to three, such a. judges com
a dist} inct and sep.rate court as aforesaid, which
be numbered as aforesaid.
all suits shall be instituted in the aid courts of
Pleas without designat!
Common ing the number
of the said court, Os
business amon
ary hi
tribute and apportion the g them in
such manner as shall be Bs of
court, and each court, to w an, be
thus have exclusive jurisdiction
thereof, subject to change of venue, as shall be
In ad SY dn of Allcuhen all the jurisdiction
and powers now vested in he several numbered |
courts of Common
court of DON Flom A of all the
judges in Con in said courts, Such juris-
diction and powers shall extend to all
at law and in equity which shall have been insti-
tuted in the several numbered courts, and shall be
sul to such chiaites as may be made
sul to ¢ pane of venue as by
e president udge of said court shall be
Judges i rt eg
ges na court may w Jom
time to time. This amendment shall
on the first day of January oh its —~
A true copy of Resolution No. 1.
law.
MCAFEE,
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
P an amendment to section eight, artic
Eu Si, snide
Section 1. Be it readived by the a an
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth
- of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. That
the following is as an amendment to the
Constitution of t ommonweaith of
nia, in accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth articie thereof: —
Amendment to Article Nine, Section Eight. |
Section 2. Amend section sight, articlenine, of |
the Constitution of Pennsylvania. which reads as |
follows: —
“Section 8. The debt of any. county, city, bor.
ough, township, schogl Sistrice or other munici
for incon rated district, except as herein
never Stel seven per centum
provid assessed value of the taxable property
ig nor Msetsei] any such m iy
drict incur any new debt, or increase its indebted-
ness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon
such assessed valuation of property, without the
assent of the electors thereof at a public
election
in such manner as sBalt be ovided by by Jaw: but
any city, the debt St whic!
per centum of such PO exeieds may be
authorized by law to increase the same three per
centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon
such Yajuation $0 as to as fol
The debt of any county, “city, bor-
ough, ok chou) district, or any municipal-
ity or incorporated district, except as herein pro-
vived, shall never exceed seven per centum upon
the value of the taxable property therein,
nor shall any such municipality or district incur
any new debt, or increase its indebtedness oan an
amount exceeding two per centum upon such as-
sessed valuation of property, without the assent
of the electors Sheen] ata a pubis election in such
manner as shail be provid, aby law; but any cy: city,
the debt of which now exceeds
of such valuation, may be I by
law 10 increase the same three per centum, in the
aggregate, at any one Hime: upon valuation,
except that anv debt o) incur-
red by the city and countv of Philadel a for the
ruction and deve! ys for
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