BB RTO RE OR. FOR CURE OF PNEUMONIA LIST OF 100 WORST BOOKS Bemoraair Watcha Bellefonte, Pa., May 3, 1912. KIND PEASANTS OF BRITTANY Will Willingly Share With You Con- | tents of Cupboard and Will Not Ask for Pay. In Brittany all peasants carry their | own knives; and as for forks, they have no use for them. George Whar- ton Edwards tells, in “Brittany and the Bretons,” of a visit to an inn where he met with the proverbial + Breton hospitality, An old withered Breton woman sat ! at the fireside, busily knitting at a | jersey of blue wool, and three men sat | at a table, playing some sort of game with dominoes. i The men gave no apparent heed to | our entrance, but I knew we were be | ing discussed in their patois. We asked for bread, butter and a | pitcher of cider, which was forth- | coming, but no knives were brought. | Noting our predicament, the three | men at once produced their knives, immense horn-handied affairs, and aft- er wiping them very carefully and considerately on their coat sleeves, they opened and proffered them to us. ! “And now, madame,” said I, “what | shall I pay you?” i “Five sous for the cider, m'sieur. | There is no charge for the bread, for is not that the gift of bon Dieu?” | Thus it is throughout this strange | land of Brittany. One may travel | from end to end away from the large cities, and everywhere meet with the same hospitality. The peasant will willingly share with you what he has in the cupboard, and will not ask for | pay. I left an offering of silver upon the | window sill among the balls of wool- | en yarn, | TRADE IN WOODEN SHOES Scarcity of Willow Wood Has Stead- | ied Market, Which Was Unsettied by Overproduction. Last year was unfavorable to the wooden shoe manufacturers in Hol- land owing to the keen competition of the Belgians and a decided over- production here. This year's pros- pects are somewhat brighter, The scarcity of willow wood, from which those shoes were formerly made, has caused the market to steady up a little, Poplar and some Russian woods are also being used more extensively than heretofore. The cost of the wod from which the shoes are made is about $6 per cubic meter, out of which 100 pairs of ordinary size can be made. The wholesale price of these shoes is 12 cents. One workman {is able to make 12 to 15 pairs in a day, from which it can be inferred how narrow is the margin of profit in the industry. Relatively few wooden shoes are produced by machinery for export, but with thissexception all the wood- en shoes are made by hand in Hol- land. About twenty different tools are required in the operation. A year or so ago several German capitalists started factories in this country to make wooden shoes by machinery, but failed. Machine-made shoes, it is said, are not well finished, and some handwork is always necessary to make them satisfactory, Wanted by McGraw. Stone throwing by children is not as common now as when the automo- bile was a novelty, but it still exists, A big limousine, occupied by a well known theatrical man and his wife, was running slowly down Riverside Drive, New York, a few days ago when a good sized rock, thrown by a boy not more than three years old, ‘crashed through one of the windows. . The chauffeur stopped the car and caught the youngster, who made no attempt to escape. The matter was referred to a policeman by the irate owner. “What do yez want me to do?” ask- ed the representative of law and or- der. “Arrest this little lad?” “Something ought to happen to ‘him,” protested the owner. “Aw, well, he's only a kid. Ye can't do much,” counselled the policeman. “Suppose, now, ye take him and turn him over to McGraw. He's looking for this kind of talent.” Expenditure Explained. Question—Don’t you know that the amount charged you for postage by your campaign manager would buy enough stamps to paper the side of the great pyramid? The Answer—By George! Is that what he did with them ?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. . Showing the Englishman. Englishman (patronizingly)—*“Your school faculties are excellent, I am told.” American (suavely)—“Well, I should say. See the Smithsonian In- stitution over there? Think of a build- ing like that, just to educate the Smiths.”—Vogue. Defects That Cause Failure. “Failures which a man makes in . his life are due almost always to . some defect in his personality, some weakness of body, mind or character, will or temperament. The only way to overcome these failings is to build up his personality from within. It is only those efforts the man himself puts forth that can really help him.” —John D. Rockefeller. tp Physician Teils of Successful Use of Camphor in Practice Since 1906. There have been and still are many varieties of treatment for pneumonia. A long list would be required to indi- cate all the medicaments which have been employed against it. Some even | copsider that this affection is an ail- ' ment which has a definite cycle. They are ¢’ the opinion that no medi- cation should be adopted which might act on it and disturb its development. the proper course to take being one of “expectation,” or better, a thera- peautique armee more particularly de- signed to combat complication. Dr. Serbert, in the Muenchner Medi: zinische Wochenschrift, describes the remarkable results which he obtained in the treatment of serious cases of pneumonia by means of strong doses of camphor. He first had occasion to use it in 1906 in a case of double pneumonia, where the patient was also suffering from typhoid fever. He therefore practiced a subcutaneous injection of 12 centimeters of cam- phorated oil (20 per cent.) recently sterilized. The results obtained on the pulse and respiration and gen- eral condition were extremely satis- factory. He renewed this dose every 12 hours, and he found after three days the trouble had disappeared. Dr. Serbert has since employed the same (reatment in 21 cases, one of which was extremely serious, since fit was a question of double complicated pneumonia in a woman seventy-two | vears old. All these cases recovered. It seem certain that the camphor pro- duced these effects, since there was no real crisis, the cure being gradual and slowly effected. — Philadelphia North American. WEALTH OF THE NATIONS | United States Does Not Make Tre- | mendously Good Showing in World's Financial Column, For all its vaunted wealth the Unit- ed States, in so far as per capita ratio | goes, does not make such a tremen- | dously good showing in the world's financial column. The wealth in the United States in 1910 was estimated at $125,000,000,000, by far the greatest amount credited in bulk to any one country. Yet the per capita wealth was only $1,359. Great Britain in 1909 was worth $88.725,000,000, each person, according to the census, thus getting $1,972. France, with $82,000,000,000 in 1910L kad a per capita wealth of $2,070; Germany had $63,500,000,000, with a per capita of $1,000. Russia's total wealth was $60,000,000,000, Lut its enormous population dragged the per capita down to $400, while Swit- zerland, with a total wenlth of only $3,030,000,000, has a per capita rating of $866. The per capita division in Sweden amounts to $402 out of a total of $2,197,000,000. Switzerland, in the last few years, made a 20 per cent. gain in national wealth. The average per capita wealth in the 26 cantons ranges from $1,885 in Geneva to $279 ifn Tessin. Switzerland thus stands very high. The population in 1821 was 1,885,229, so that in 90 years’ time it has not doubled. France, it will be noted, stands at the head of the nations with a per capita wealth of $2,070. That the United States, with its enormous total, does not rank higher is because of the rapidly in- creasing population. France, on the contrary, has reported a diminishing or at the most a very slowly Increas- ing population, so that the money ad- vance has become greater than the birth rate. The Crewless Ship. The German Naval league has just tested the work of an inventor of Nu- remberg, a ship to run without a crew, The transmitter with a mast similar to that used in wireless telegraphy com- mands the ship, which works systemat- fcally during a period of hours. The ship turns to right and left, backs and comes to a stop as if run by a man In the engine room. Multicolored lights show the maneuvers to the men ashore, This practical invention is now under study in the German navy. Pri- marily destined for use in connection with the discharge of torpedoes, it is now under expert consideration as a medium for the control of dirigible bal- loons. Kites provided with phosphoric apparatus and steered by Hertzian waves will be a new accession to the German army. Chance for One-Armed Man. “I'm looking for a one-armed man,” sald the patron of a New York restau- rant. “If you know of a man who has only a right hand I can make him a good business proposition—one that will save him a lot of good dollars and save me the same amount. His right hand, however, must be a No. 7%. “It’s this way: Several months ago I sprained my ankle and for many months was obliged to lean heavily on a cane. To protect my left hand I wore a glove on that hand, but did not use one on the right. The result was that I wore out dozens of left gloves, but the right hand ones I nev- er put on.” One From Papa. “Papa,” asks the litle boy, “why do they say a woman is ‘setting her cap’ for a man when she wants to marry him?” “Because, my son,” explains the father softly, “if she sets her bonne: {or him she knows blamed well the vrice of it will scare him to death.” Judge's Library, Suggestion 1s Offered Tha: Some Wise, Broadminded Man Make Up the List. There are some who have a passion for making lists of the “greatest,” ! the “best” men, books, paintings, musical compositions. There is a fa- mous list of the 100 best books, and | any one reading them night and day | to the exclusion of others would be ! a tiresome prig. i A list of the 100 worst books drawn up by a man of true critical acumen { and catholic taste, a human being, | would be much more to the purpose, | although it would include some vol- { umes now ranked as classic and in- | valuable. Charles Lamb's essay on | books is too familiar for quotation. M. Anatole France alluded to Gabriel Plequot of Dijon as a man who, writ- | Ing volume after volume about books, | Yet wrote no book. Oscar Wilde di- | vided books into three classes—books | to read. books to reread and books | not to read at all—and among the last , he included Thomson's “Seasons,” { all John Stuart Mill except the essay on liberty, Hume's England, “all ar- | gumentative books, and all books that ; try to prove anything.” To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a | question of temperament, not of teach- | ing; to Parnassus there is no primer, | and nothing that one can learn is , ever worth learning.—Philip Hale, in | Boston Herald. SHOES MADE OF SNAKESKIN i Fashionable Women of London Being Tempted to Conquer Their Aversion to Reptiles. From all reptiles the ordinary wom- | an shrinks in disgust. Yet fashion- able women are now being tempted to conquer their aversion to the ex- | tent of wearing snakeskin shoes. One , of the smartest boot shops in the | west end of London is “featuring” these shoes; but up to the present it seems to be uncertain if the fashion will really establish itself on wide- spread lines. | Choice of quite a variety of skins | is offered. There is the dark and | heavily-marked skin of the deadly | cobra, or the lighter skin, with its { more delicate pigment markings, of | the rapacious python. The skins of the viper and the boa-constrictor have | also been made up. Snake skin is very soft, pliable, and | durable. The shoes are expensive, | of course, for the skins are not too plentiful, but this tactor should rather | commend itself to smart people, as it renders it much more difficult to copy | the fashion on cheap lines. Broken-Hearted Dog. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Monticello, N. Y., will exercise its authority by put- ting an end of the sufferings of a little cocker spaniel named Buttons, which has apparently lost its mind, following the death of his master. The little dog for years has been the steady companion of Louis McGrain of New York, who succumbed to tuberculosis here last summer. Buttons since the death of his master has been grief stricken, and has refused to be petted or to take food from friends of Mr. McGrain. After she had roamed the streets for several months the ani- mal’s half starved condition was brought to the attention of the soci- ety. It has been decided that the only way to solve Button’s problem is by taking its life, The pill habit like the opium habit is dan, It means slavery to the burden increasing with the years. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets do not create the pill habit. They cure and a pill isno more needed. They arc very small in size. The dose is small, one being a laxa- tive and two a cathartic. Their effects are permanent. 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