Dewar Watcha.
"Bellefonte, Pa., Februsry 2, 1912.
MAKING RAIN WITH ROCKETS
Experiments Triad With Considerable
8Buccess on a Coffee Plantation in
Southern India.
Experiments made
during cloudy weather produces rain-
fall are described in a letter from
James Stanes,
“Some years ago,” he says, “an ex-
periment was (ried in the Cuddapah
district of southern India with con-
siderable success. | am part owner
of au estate in the Seramully hills,
which is situated in a particularly
dry zone. For several seasons poor
coffee crops withered away from lack
of rain during July and August.
“When I was visiting the estate in
July, 1905, I noticed that heavy clouds
gathered every afternoon and
thought that if we had been in a
position to fire explosive rockets from
the highest peak of the hills, about
4,500 feet, a shower of rain might
have been produced.
“I therefore arranged t© have a
" supply of rockets kept on the estate
and fired off every afternoon at the
rate of one rocket every five minutes,
but only when the condition of the
atmosphere was such that heavy rain
threatened on all sides.
“Whether rain has fallen in re-
sponse {0 these explosives or not the
fact remains that ever since we first
tried the experiment we have been
fortunate enough to catch sufficient
moisture to enable the crops to sur-
vive the drought.”
Firing into the clouds with the ob-
Ject of causing rain was practiced for
several years in southern Germany,
Switzerland and France, but seems to
have been abandoned some time ago.
The idea was to protect the vineyards
and other cultivations from damage
By hailstones, it being thought that
by the discharge of large guns rain
would fail and that the danger from
hailstorms would be averted. —London
Daily Mail.
"REAL MADAME “SANS-GENE”
Story of Adventurous Career of Marie
: Therese Pigueur in the French
Army.
Everyone knows the washerwoman
who was so familiar with Napoleon
in Victorien Sardou’s play, “Madame
Sans-Gene,” but the real “Sans-Gene" |
+ who lived at that time was a dragoon
- in one of the great Corsican’s armies
and spent twenty years i® camps and
barracks, in campaigns and battles
over Europe. In the Musee de L'Ar
‘mee in Paris a special case has just
been installed inside which stands
her equestiian statue.
Her real name was Marie JThergse
Plgueur aad she was born in Dur
gundy iu 1774.
end of the reign of terror, she
rolled in a cavalry » giment command:
ed by one of her uncles and soon ac
quired the nickname of “Sans-Gene.”
Mme, Sans-Gene fought in Germany |
with the French and Batavian armies,
charged at Hohenl'nden, took part
in the siege of Toul 1, was in the Ital
fan, Spanish and Austrian campaigns
and fought at Austeriitz and in Rus.
sia. During the Hrndred Days the
emperor conferred the Legion of Hon-
or upon her and she charged at Wa- |
terloo for the last time.
With tlie Restoration she left the
army to gel married. She was then
thirty-nine. Iu the course of her mar-
tial career Sans-Gene had five horses
ghot under her and was wounded
eight ¢lmes in different engagements.
She died in hospital in 1861,
Both Delighted.
Two elderly gentlemen, both de-
cently clothed in sober black, were
sitting side by side in a Euclid ave-
nue car, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. Fach was reading a morn.
ing paper. Suddeniy one of the men
uttered an exciamation of pleasure
and the other peered at him over his
glasses,
“1 see here,” evplained the first
with a beaming f ce, “that Mr. B.,
who died last week, has left his en-
‘tire fortune to various charitable
-enterprises. This will be a surprise
to his many relatives. It is to me a
glad surprise in my case, for I am
the pastor of a churck to which he
has left $10,000.”
The gecond man looked at the arti
cle and his face, #00, became wreath-
ed in smiles. “God bless him!" he
rxclaimed heartily. “All to charitable
iastitutions in spite of his relatives!
Ah, sir, I like to sce money left like
- that. I do, indeed!”
“Are you als® a «‘ergyman?”
“No, sir, I am a lawyer.”
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The Ghost Walked.
The mistakes 8 a that one's trou-
des end with desdii was set aside in
tarwich v. Washia ton Cut Glass Com:
any 21 Wash. Dec. No. 12 (Adv.
heets), in whish the supreme court
f Washington fir't announced that
he defendant eor; ration “gave up
‘he ghost.” How it died is not fully
. pparent, but having yielded its spirit
(0 the one who made it, it still retain-
#d its worldly cares, for in the next
:antence the court said: “But that
id not deliver it from the burden of
s contracts.”
Evidently, in this case, the ghost
alked, being “Im torment” Who
1all hengeforth sa that corporations
ave Bo souls ?-~Case and Comment,
to. ascertain |
whether the discharge of explosives
When pineteen, at the |
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| DEEP MYSTERY OF THE LAW
| Man Who Won't Support Family ls
i
imprisoned and Wife Really
Pays Penalty.
| Mysteries, far beyond the compre-
| hension of the average mortal, are
! constantly revealed in the law and its
i administration. The other day a
{ much-harassed woman appc red in a
| Boston court and compiained to the
| judge that her husband refused to
support their two small children. She
could get along without him, she said,
but she demanded that he be com-
pelled to go to work and help support
his offspring. Her story was corrobo-
rated by witnesses.
So the judge found the man guilty
_ and sentenced him to one year in the
house of correction.
Here was what seems on the sure
face to be an easy problem. A huse
' band and father, either through disin-
clination or through inability to find
work, is brought into court on a
| charge of non-support. In order to
, relieve the situation, he is sent to the
: house of correction, where he will be
kept at work. That he is not able
: to send his pay envelope home to his
| family every Saturday night—because
. there is no pay envelope in such
cases—Iis, in the eye of the law, a
- minor circumstance, The main thing
| seems to be that the man has been
: guilty of an offense and that he is
| punished for it. He is punished, but
{it is his wife and his two helpless
| children who pay the penalty.
The law may be ironical, but it has
no sense of humor. “You have been
| found guilty of not supporting your
| children,” it says, “and therefore I
will send you where you cannot sup-
| port them.”
ELECTRIC POWER FROM WIND
Economical Lighting Plants Can Be
Based on It, With Gasoline
Motors to Help.
There has never been a time whca
the forces of nature were subjected
to such searching scrutiny to deter-
mine their availability for the devel.
| opment of mechanical power as they
| receive at present. This arises main.
| Iy from the progressive use of elec-
tricity.
| Among other things it is believed
, that the wind can be utilized to a far
| greater extent than in the past, espe-
cially for electrical tighting. With this
, object in view the average state of
| the wind has been investigated in Eng-
| and. It is found that for approxi.
{ mately half the time the mean wind
! velocity is ten miles an hour, and for
about one-third of the time fifteen
| miles. In the winter the average is
; higher. The great difficulty arises
{| from the calm periods, which may
| last days, or even a week, but it has
' been shown that economieal-lighting
! plants can be based upon wind power
. by providing gasoline motors to take
. up the work whenever the wind fails,
. Vanity.
A real friendship with a vain wom.
(an lacks comfort and sincerity.
Wound for a second her vanity and
| the friendship snaps. Many people
wonder at the attraction of women
who are undeniably plain, but it
! often has its root in the fact that
| they are lacking in vanity. They are
not constantly absorbed in their own
charms, so have time tc admire those
| of other people, consequently they
| are seldom lacking in friends.
Vanity is not altogether an attrfe
| bute of the grown-up. One sees it
| frequently developed to an alarming
! extent in young children. Nor is it a
matter for amusement. Rather should
every mother strive to uproot this
tendency, Ridicule is one of the swift.
est ways of extinguishing it,
Children should be taught not to
attach importance to whatever physi
cal charms they may possess. Beau-
tiful eyes, a lovely mouth or a de-
lightful nose should not be subjects
of comment, but if commented upon
at all should be lightly done, for no
child should be started in life with
the handicap of vanity.—Exchange.
Children and Firearms Again.
Little Anna Quinn, fourteen years
old, was instantly killed the other day
at Lowell, Mass., by the explosion of a
ma Borg, aged twelve years. The two
children, with Sonia Borg, a sister of
Thelma, and another play-fellow, were
playing about the Borg ome when
they discoverc® the revolver. After
all had looke: at it, Anna playfully
held it against the heart of Thelma
Borg. “I'm going to ki" you,” she
said, smilingly. The trige - was rulled,
but the revolver failed explode.
Once more the weapon w. examined
by the children and then Thelma Borg
took it and placed it close to the
Quinn child’s hea Playfully she ex-
claimel: “You killed me; now I'm go-
ing to kill you.” She fired. This time
the weapon exploded.
Odd Sentences.
“Break rock for 100 days or go to
church every Sunday for six months,”
wos the sentence imposed upon three
Kansas City (Mo.) boys, after they
had been convicted of throwing eggs
at pedestrians.
“1 sentence this boy to a whipping
every morning for a month. Not the
namby pamby kind, but good, real
bard ones; ones that'll make him eat
off a mantelpiece. You'll find then that
he'll develop Into a good boy.” This
was the remedy prescribed by mag-
istefal wisdom in the case of an eight-
year-old boy who, his mother said,
#ad a mania for rmnning away from
home. —-Case and C) mment.
revolver held by her playmate, Thel- |.
WORST PENMEN IN CONGRESS
Sparkman of Florida and Adamson of
Georgia Share That Honor
Between Them.
“I'll bet you a dinner for ten peo-
ple,” said Representative Frank Clark
of Florida one day last spring, ac-
cording to the Popular Magazine, “that
the worst penman in congress is
Sparkman of my state.”
“I'll take that bet,” replied Hard-
wick of Georgia. “The man who
writes the worst hand in the world is
Adamson of my delegation.”
Sparkman is chairman of the com-
mittee on rivers and harbors and
Adamson is the head of the commit-
tee on interstate and foreign com-
Her Anxiety.
“Could you wait cn me before the
others?” asked the woman in the
drug store. “1 am in a great hurry.”
The drug clerk complied and filled
her preseription immediately. “Thank
you so much,” ske said. “I am afraid
that Fido will awake before I return
and miss me.”
» BRT BTV BTNT JV AV AY,
merce. The two congressmen who
had made the bet selected a commit-
tee to pass on the handwriting in
question, and then secured letters
written by Sparkman and Adamson
in their own penmanship. Those let-
ters were something horrible to see,
and the judges decided that the writ
ing of both was so bad that the writ-
ers, not the men who had made the
bet, must pay for the dinner.
While the banquet was in progress
Adamson told this story:
“Last winter a constituent of mine
wrote to me and asked for a speci-
men of my handwriting, explaining
that he had heard it was the worst
in the world, and that he was making
a study of bad penmanship. I com-
plied with the request. In a few days
he returned my letter to me, with this
note:
“‘Fine! Am enthusiastic. Didn't
know such handwriting was possible.
Please send me a typewritten copy of
the inclosed. I need a key to it.”
EXERCISE ON THE DECLINE
Medical Journal Says That Automo-
biles and Motor Boats Are Mak-
ing People Lazy.
Anyone who takes an outing, par-
ticularly at the seaside, can hardly
fail to notice the revolution that has
taken place during the last decade in
the methods of enjoying a vacation,
pays the New York Medical Journal.
The automobile whizzes by on the
roads and the motor boat sputters
noisily within sight of the shore, each
bearing its crowd of pleasure scekers,
while even the swimmers are support-
ed, a large proportion of them at
least, by an artificial contrivance de-
signed to keep them afloat without
exertion.
Rowing, walking and swimming are
the three ideal exercises, all demand-
ing the open air and all having defi-
nite objects apart from their excellent
effect on bodily health. But the mod-
ern amusements, such as motoring
and motor boat racing, have nothing
to recommend them save that they
too require outdoor space. rom
Golf seems to be increasing the
number of its devotees, even if the
latter go to the links in high pow-
ered cars. But the writer would like
to see the immense audiences of base-
ball and football games playing on
numerous diamonds and gridirons of
their own, and would welcome a regu-
lation that prescribed a playground
ten times its size to adjoin every new
library. It is not only the rich who
become lazy; the omnipresent trolley
car embodies the favorite recreation
of the poor
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Terrible Suffering
ECZEMA ALL OVER BABY'S BODY.
. my baby was four months old
his face broke out with eczema, and at
sixteen months of . his face, hands
and arms were in a dreadful state. The
eczema spread all over his body. We had
to put a mask or cloth over his face and
tie up his hands. Finally we gave him
's Sarsaparilla and in a few months
he was cured.” Mrs. Inez Lewis, Baring,
e.
Hood's Sarsaparilla relieves blood dis
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ood's. ‘
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colors; must be sold now regardless of
cost.
5 Plush Coats, all handsomely
lined and strictly tailor made; must be
sold.
All our Coat Suits in black and
colors, all sizes, will have to be sold in
this big clearance sale.
Blankets, Comfortables, and all
winter Underwear at clearance sale
prices.
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