Bellefonte, Pa., December 13, 1912.
PLAN A PERPETUAL CALENDAR
All Nations to Unite in Working Out
an idea Long in Minds of
Many.
A conference of all nations will be
held next summer at Geneva, Switzer-
land, to discuss suggestions for an in-
ternational perpetual calendar. At that
time Leroy S. Boyd will present his
calendar, which has 13 months of 28
days each, making a total of 364 days
in the year. The 365th day is not in-
cluded in any month, but will precede
the first day of January and will be
called New Year's day. A similar ar-
rangement is made for leap years. The
866th day is not counted in any month,
but follows the last day of December
and is called Leap Year day. The ad-
ditional month is called Solaris, and
comes between June and July. As an
{llustration, the year 1916 is used, be-
cause, according to the present calen-
dar the first day of that year will be-
gin on Saturday, which would become
New Year's day under the perpetual
calendar. That would make the fol-
towing day, Sunday, be known as Jan.
1, 1916. Every month would have the
same number of days and every month
and every week would begin on Sun-
day and end on Saturday. That would
make the same date in each month
fall on the same day of the week.
Such a perpetual calendar would make
it unnecessary to have a printed cal-
endar for every month, because the
days of each month are identical with
those of the first month. One of the
benefits expected to result from a per-
petual calendar is that it will facili-
tate business calculations. Under the
new system a month will mean ex-
actly 28 days and not 30 or 31 days,
as at present.
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AGE OF ICEBERGS UNKNOWN
One of the Mysteries of the Sea
There is Little Probability of
Being Solved.
The age of an iceberg is problemat-
fe. The berg that sank the Titanic
may have been forming on the coast
of Greenland when Columbus crossed
the sea, or even before that. Then
again it may have been reared by the
elements since Peary's first expedi-
tion to the pole, but probably it ante-
flated steamships by many years. In
1841, a great berg appeared off St.
John's, N. F. Its pinnacle was fully
100 feet above the sea, and its base
formed a glittering island in the mia-
dle of which, imbedded between two
hills of ice, were two ships side by
aside. The masts were gone, but other-
wise the upper works seemed to be
Intact. Scattered about the decks
were various objects that might have
been the frozen bodies of the crews.
All were covered with snow. Several
old sailors approached the berg as
near as they dared to and scanned
the ships through powerful glasses,
but could not see any name or any-
thing to indicate their nationality or
business on the seas. There were no
signs of life aboard them—nothing but
the motionless masses under their
white coverings. They were believed
to be part of Sir John Franklin's ex-
pedition, and were seen at the mouth
of the harbor almost stationary for
several days. Then one morning the
berg was gone, and the ultimate fate
of the derelicts it carried is still one
of the mysteries of the sea,
Must Do Without Almanac.
It looks as if the Chinese public in
the south will be in a fix this year for
the want of the usual almanac, which
is an indispensable requisite in every
household in order to distinguish be-
tween lucky and unlucky days and the
like. The little kobos are sold by the
hundreds of thousands and the trade
got them ready as usual. To meet
the situation new covers were put on
with the new dates, while the inside
remained the same as if there had
been no change. The sale of these is
strictly interdicted and nothing has
been provided to take their place.~~
Pekin Daily News.
Fireman's Unique Wedding.
A fireman's wedding in a burnt-out
church is certainly something of a nov-
elty. Such a wedding has just taken
place in the chancel of St. George's,
Leicester, the greater part of the
building having been destroyed by fire
last year. It was the first fireman's
wedding in Leicester, and the bride-
groom's colleague, formed a guard of
honor and arranged an arch of axes,
ete., under which the bride and bride-
groom passed cut after the ceremony.
Fireman Sturges, the bridegroom, was
among those who fought the flames at
a George's last October.—London Tit-
ts.
Ruins of Immense Age.
Prof, Hiram Bingham, director of
the Yale expedition to Peru, reports
among the archaeological discoveries
a number of Inca or pre-inca cities, in.
ciuding Macchu Pichu, a city probably
built by the “megalithic race” which
preceded the Incas. The ruins are on
an almost inaccessible ridge, two
thousand feet above the Urubamba
river. They are of great beauty and
magnificence, and include palaces,
baths, temples and about 160 houses.
Carefully cut blocks of white granite,
some of them twelve feet long, were
used in the construction of the walls.
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| Imagination Truly
' ing, among others,
THOUGHT HIS TIME HAD COME
Is a Wonderful
Thing, as Kansas Man Is Likely
to Admit,
Every summer John Fisher, a Lib-
erty grocer, and Frank Cockrell, a re.
tired farmer, maintain a camp at the |
mouth of Shoal creek on the Missouri
river, about 15 miles below Kansas
City and four miles south of Liberty.
Last summer they were entertain-
J. D. Taylor, a
farmer of near Manola, abogt 65 milee
northwest of Alberta, Canada. The
hosts and their guestst were grouped
around a small camp fire, scantily at-
tired and partaking of fried catfish
with relish, when Taylor grabbed at
his leg and arose to his feet with a
howl that sounded like the siren of
the Gunter.
“I'm a goner, boys,” he groaned, as
he hopped around on one leg, grip-
ping the other powerfully with both
hands and imploring someone between
whiles to get a club and get busy.
“There's a snake in my pants leg as
big as my arm and it's squeezing and
biting me to death.”
Fischer grabbed one side of the
trouser leg in question and Cockrell
the other and they ripped with right
good will, but no snake appeared.
When Taylor was sans pants, how-
ever, they té#®k the remnant from his
hands, and closely merged with the
interior was found the stringy remains
of a small frog.
i
“And that's what imagination will
do for you,” said Taylor, as he hunted
up a box and climbed upon it tailor
fashion to finish his interrupted ses-
Sioa with the fish.—Kansas City Jour-
NOT DRAWN FROM FLOWERS
Perfumes Today Are Extracted From
Almcst Everything but Seemingly
Natural Source.
There are few perfumes today that
cannot be made from chemicals,
eynthetically, as the chemists call it.
Formerly all perfumes were extracted
from flowers, fruits, spices, woods or
other vegetable and animal sub-
stances. The first perfume to be imi-
tated was vanilla, in 1876. Heliotropine
followed, but obtained by oxidation
of a by-product of camphor,
Terpinol is one of the most freely
used constituents of perfumes. This is
a near relation of turpentine. With
this a little oil and aquafortis a chem-
ist can produce a perfume that can
scarcely be distinguished from those
exhaled by the lily of the valley, lilac
and Cape Jessamine, varying accord-
ing to the proportions in which the
chemicals are blended.
Artificial violet is a combination of
citrol (an essence extracted from lem.
on), Indian vervaine, or lemon ver-
bena. with common acetone, a sub-
stance very like pyroligneous acid.
No chemist has been able to coun-
terfeit musk, but a synthetic perfume
called musk is made from toluene a
by-product of beneine and coal tar.
This is changed to a complex car-
buret, treated with azotic and sul-
phuric acids, is diluted and sold as
musk,
Most of the cheap perfumes are §m-
itations and they are almost always
inferior to the flower extracts. So it
might properly be said that it is a
wise flower that knows its own per-
fume.
Foeced to Sacrifice Beard.
The Wisconsin farmer whom Judge
Holhand condemned, in lieu of a fine
which he could not pay, to have his
flowing beard cut off, may find consola-
tion in the fact that a similar order
deprived a man in New York of long
and carefully cultivated whiskers a
few days ago. The man is employed
in a manufacturing concern where his
duties bring him in contact with rapid
moving machinery. The proprietor's
little son, in a visit to the factory,
stood near the machine which the
bearded man was operating and ask-
ed: “Don't the hair ever get mixed
up with the silk?” The operator sim-
ply smiled, but the father, realizing a
danger, gave the man then and there
the option of shave or discharge. He
chose the former,
Drew the Line at Cats.
To the list of divorces for seemingly
trivial causes—such as “cruelty in not
taking me out riding,” “cruelty in re
quiring me to sew on buttons,” ete.,
has now been added a divorce granted
to a man who charged his wife with
“cruelty in keeping cats in the house,”
thereby preventing him from occupy:
ing his favorite chair. On the judge's
inquiring, “Why didn't you put the
cats out of the house?” the man an-
swered, “My wife is a member of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, and I was afraid she
would have me arrested.”
Guess at Philanthropist’s Identity,
John M. Longyear, of Brookline, is
now thought by his friends to be pos-
sibly the mysterious contributor of
$2,600,000 to “Tech.” Henry C. Frick,
Thomas A, Edison and Andrew Carne
gle are previous guesses. The list bids
fair to resemble a directory of phil
anthropic multimillionaires. Mr.
Longyear, who thus has greatness
thrust upon him, made his money in
ore and timber lands in Michigan and
elsewhere in the west.
Worry.
“I can remember when you had to
work eight hours a day,” said the old
time friend.
“Yes,” replied Dustin Stax; “things
were different. Now I have to worry
sixteen hours a day"
Life's Autumn.
In Autumn there is a gradual with-
drawing of the vital forces of nature.
The ceases to flow, the leaves wither
and fl) the grass dies. In man's physi-
cal nature there is a ing loss
of vitality in the autumn of life. At
about fifty years, man's vitality is low
and there is need to re-inforce Nature if
health and strength are to be retained.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is
to the body what sap is to the tree; it
medicine, their blood increased in quan-
tity and in richness, men will pass across
life's autumn landscape with healthy step
and keen enjoyment of a season which is
in itself beautiful to the healthy man or
woman.
Whenever a laxative is needed, use Dr.
Pierce cus Pleasant Pellets. They are sure
a e.
Medical.
Deeds, Not Words
BELLEFONTE PEOPLE HAVE ABSOLUTE
PROOF OF DEEDS AT HOME.
It's not words but deeds that prove true
merit,
deeds of Doan's Kidney Pills,
e sufferers,
Hiram Fetterhoff, 282 W. Bishop St..
Belleiqate, Pa., says: “I was annoyed by
es of the kidney secre-
Fil wie ied 5 Wine ppl |
or .
at Green’
I ap me rg now in
much better health. Doan's Pills
are certainly a fine kidney I
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. New York.
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and take
no other. 57-47
The Basket Shop
WILL HOLD A SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS SALE, IN
PETRIKIN HALL, DE-
CEMBER 14th to 2ist
OPEN ALL DAY AND
WEDNESDAY AND SAT-
URDAY EVENINGS. THE
BASKETS RANGE IN
PRICE FROM 25 CENTS
TO $8.00.
THE! BASKET SHOP,
57-46-4t BELLEFONTE, PA.
Holiday
Goods
In Every Line
at
OLEWINE’S
Hardware Store,
57-25tf
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BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Insurance.
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(Successor to D. W. Woodring.)
Fire,
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Feed
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Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
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in the where that extraor-
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Harness Blankets
T. H. H. Robes
You are safe when you deal with
us—42 years in one store room is a
guarantee that our prices and goods
HAVE BEEN RIGHT
and always give satisfaction. Our
goods in Robes, Blankets and Har-
ness is at the present time the Larg-
: est that has ever been placed upon
a Bellefonte market.
You will miss it if you should
fail to call and see us, and examine
our large stock, and get our prices,
as the Tariff is off. This is to your
advantage,
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Dealing we have earned a place in
the public confidence unquestion-
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We are the
imestone and Lime
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AMERICAN LIME & STONE COMPANY.,
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Lime is the life of the soil.
Manufacturers of Lime in Pennsylvania. Ground
all purposes.
Write for literature on lime.
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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Dentists,
DF 550k D. D. S,, office next to
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Plumbing.
Good Health
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
foul ;Sewcragie. of escaping
jas. you cant ve good 1 The air you
poisoned .and invalicvism is sure to come. :
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It's the kind you
ought to have. Wedon't trust this work to
boys. Our wo are Skilled Mechanics,
no an Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Seafarer ari ne
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you poor,
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. Pa.
Oppasite Bush Hous, iv. pellefonss,
EDWARD K. RHOADS
Mercia: "snd Dealer in
ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS
COALS
CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS
and other grains.
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Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand.
KINDLING WOOD
by the bunch or cord as mav suit purchasers,
respectfully solicits the patronage of his
friends and the public, at his Coal Yards
near the Pennsylvania Passenger Station
1618 Telephone Calls: {SS Withee)
Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
ny 2 Sen a
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
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— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
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Offices at TYRONE, PA.
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.