Bellefonte, Pa., April 25, 1913.
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RISKED LIFE FOR SEEDS
Man Responsible for Starting Rubber
Industry in India Now Living
on Pension.
Living on a pension in London is
W. Ii. Wickham, the man responsible
for the introduction of rubber trees
in India at the risk of his life. He is
said to have received from the pro-
moters of the enterprise $5,500 in
cash, the remainder being put out at
interest to furnish him with a life in-
come. The agricultural department of
East India, which was approached on
the subject, took kindly to it, and
sent Wickham to gather the seed of
the Para rubber tree in Brazil. Wick-
ham lived in the jungles with the na-
tives and won their confidence. Slow-
ly he collected seeds until he had 75,
000 of them. He put them in bags
and smuggled them aboard a ship,
which was short of cargo and funda.
The government of India stood all the
costs. The seeds were cultivated in
the hothouses of Kew Gardens. Some
2,000 Para plants developed, and these
were sent to Ceylon for cultivation.
That was the beginning of the rubber
growing industry in India, and now
millions of dollars are made annually
from the rubber plantations in Ceylon,
Malaya and other East Indian prov.
inces. From Wickham's seeds much
purer rubber was grown than Brazil
liad ever seen. He ran the risk of a
long term in prison, for a Brazilian
law prohibited the removal of the
seeds from the country.
TAXICAB SERVICE IN PANAMA
Will Run on Regular Schedule Be-
tween Colon and Panama and
Carry Mall.
Consul General Snyder of Panama
learns from tue local press that a comn-
cession has been granted to Francisco
Arias, Sr., for establishing a taxicab
automobile service on a regular sched-
ule in the cities of Panama and Colon
and neighborhood where the condition
of the highways permits. The vehicles
must carry mail matter from govern-
ment post offices along the route and
give free transport to policemen. Au-
tobuses to accommodate eight persons
are also to be operated. At least six
taxicabs must be in service within a
year, this number to be increased un-
til, at the expiration of three years,
not less than twenty-five are in serv-
ice. Mr. Arias is also authorized to
establish a motor truck freight serv-
ice.
Europe's Largest Grapevine,
What is said to be the largest
grapevine in Europe is to be seen in
the great conservatory of Lord
Breadalbane, at Killin, Loch Tay,
Scotland. Planted in 1832 in a mod-
est conservatory measuring only
fifteen feet, its glass house has now
grown to large proportions, the outer
branches being scme eighty feet off
the main stem, and both vine and its
little crystal palace are still adding).
to their inches, the latter having
been extended twenty-eight years ago.
The 1912 yield numbered 2,075
bunches, but it was thought best to
allow only 500 of them to mature.
They have a delicious flavor and are
of the Black Hamburg variety.
Hit by His Own Law.
There are worse perils than wild
animals in Central Africa, says one
who has just returned. Among the
natives there are terrible diseases.
Some of them are lepers; and sleep-
ing sickness has laid a hold on many
of the villages. In one village the lo-
cal chief had given orders that all suf-
fering from the sickness were to be
taken out into the bush and left there,
but the people had carried out so
many of their relations that they re-
fused to take any more. A few days
later the medicine man of the tribe
diagnosed that the chief himself had
the disease, and immediately the ruler
annulled his law so that he could be
kept in his own hut.
Balkan Ballads Are Long.
In the Balkan countries the ballad
makers have certainly been at least
as important as the makers of laws.
Servia’s national ballads, commemo-
rating the glories of the Servian Em-
peror Dushan, the fatal battle of Kos-
scvo, and the legendary exploits of the
hero Marko Kralyevich and his horse
Sharats, are of Homeric proportions,
and, sung to the accompaniment of a
guitar with cords of horsehair tails,
have kept national feeling warm for
centuries, In recent years the Servian
government published a popular edi-
tion. In Macedonia, Sir Charles Eliot
heard a schoolboy recite a Bulgarian
poem which took an hour and a quar-
Toni
Small for Its Size,
An admiring constituent gave Con-
gressman Legare of South Carolina
jone of those vest pocket edition Lili-
,putian Mexican dogs to take home to
ithe children. ced
.Leg-ree, by the way—was leading the
‘dog along by a cotton string, when a
3a veglar dog!” tho munioni
“Yes, it's a Ch——, Well, I can’t
pronounce the name of it,” sald Le-
gare, “but it's some kind of a Mexi-
can dog.”
“Just a pup, I reckon.”
“No; it’s full grown.”
“Well,” opined the mountaineer,
“that's the least dog I ever seen at
one time.”—Philadeiphia Telegraph.
LIVING TOWER IS UNIQUE
Captain Meeker Bulit It on the Tops
of Four Redwood Trees in Cal
summit of a high hill near
and while looking around one day for
a suitable site, he found four young
redwood trees standing about twelve
by the workmen to t
branches growing on the inside of the
square, and the trees were
ped, mutilated, or weakened any more
than could possibly be avoided. Lead-
ing up from each story are broad
stalrways, so that one may ascend
and descend with ease and perfect
safety, while around the edge of each
fioor are strong railings to prevent ac- :
pleted, the trees have grown and
flourished just as well as before. This
living tower is claimed to be the only
one of its kind in the world.
GREAT IS THE BUCKWHEAT!
Only Pumpkin Pie May Be Likened to
the Tasteful Cereal Cakes,
Says Rhapsodist.
This modest flowering plant makes
but a poor showing in our annual
crop returns—some 10,000,000 bush-
ols, perhaps. As a grain it figures
insignificantly, outside of New York
and Pennsylvania. But it is to be |.
noted that the honey bee is aware of
its peculiar virtue, preferring alone
the white clover to the buckwheat
blossoms. Farmers who keep bee-
hives know this and plant patches of
the grain.
Wise as the bee is the man who
awaits the honey from the hive, the
flour from the buckwheat; then fol-
lows the griddle cake.
Its time is at hand.
sausage or Philadelphia scrapple.
There are such distinct American
products that one reads with keen
sympathy in the latest life of the ex-
patriated genius, Whistler, how he
was so devoted to buckwheat cakes
that “he insisted almost at the price
of friendship that others share his
enthusiasm.” How could others be
ex to do so born outside the
buckwheat belt? Wretched, homesick
artist.
Other countries are blessed with
special foods, from the caviare of
Russia to the macaroni of Italy, but
they are beyond the pale, pitiably
ignorant of what they miss and of
what we are about to enjoy. In Amer
fea there is nothing sectional about
the buckwheat cake; it springeth up
as a lowly flower, and, in the common
taste for it, is to be likened only tc
the unpretentious pumpkin ple.—Phila-
delphia Press.
Interesting Facts About Oysters.
An oyster is wonderfully prolific.
A single oyster in a single season
will produce 30,000,000 eggs. If these
all survive and in turn had normal
families, in a few years many great
bodies of water, such as Long Island
Sound, Peconic, Gardners, Narra
gansett, Great South and Chesapeake
bays would become filled up. Navi-
gation would have to be suspended.
The oyster shells would form solid
land, as do the houses of the coral
insects of the South Pacific. But in-
stead of increasing, the destruction
of the young oysters by their ene-
mies is so great, together with the
depletion of the natural beds by the
demand for this delicious food by
mankind, that far from increasing, in
past years the supply was greatly de-
pleted. In many cases it has threat-
ened to become extinct. This was es-
pecially true in Great Britain and
some places on the Atlantic coast.
In recent years, however, a vast
industry has been established for the
artificial propagation and cultivation
of oysters. Now hundreds of thous.
ands of acres are employed in oyster
farming in the great bays and sounds
of the Atlantic seaboard. Here
oyster farming under from 30 to 60
feet of water is conducted upon an
enormous scale, at great expense and
labor.
Good Model.
He was somewhat eaten up with a
mistaken consciousness of his own|’
importance, and when he was making
his great speech in the Muddlecombe
mock parliament, he noted that one
of the local pressmen appeared to
be sketching him, When the “house” |
adjourned he buttonholed the artist.
“I belleve—aw—you were—aw— | !
sketching me; isn't that so—aw?” he
inquired.
“That is so,” replied the artist,
“Well—aw—would you—aw—tell
me what noospaper you—aw-—repre-
sent—aw?"”
“I don't represent any newspaper,”
answered the artist. “I design comic |
postcards.”—Tidbits.
It goes with |:
NEW WAYS OF EVANGELISTS
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noon hour is over they ride to
homes in the taxi. It is a de
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BAR THE FIT FROM COLLEGE
Traditional Requirements Are Un-
fair to Many Persons Who Should
Be Sought and Welcomed.
I suspect we are likely to underesti-
mate the number of naturally fit men,
now barred out of college by the tra-
ditional requirements, who could
readily enough prepare themselves to
state universities should
es in the search. It is a
conservation which trans-
importance the conservation
forests, the water powers and
Why should there not be
surveys” for this higher ob-
something after the plan pro-
by Jefferson for the discovery
geniuses in Virginia?
ot all naturally brilliant youth
desire to enter the professions,
this is well, for they are needed in
e other walks of life also and will
be found in goodly numbers, as
in business, in the trades, on the
. Those preferring these occu-
pations ought to prepare for them at
e vocational schools or in other ef-
ways. The college course
be open to them for the pur
but they would be expected to
it under the severe intellectual
regimen prescribed for those looking
forward to the professions.—Joseph
‘Schafer in the American Review of
Reviews.
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Long and Honorable Carer.
Sir Ralph Willlams, who has re
signed as governor of Newfoundland,
has had a long diplomatic career,
during which he has been in many im-
portant situations. For a time he
‘was treasurer of Gibraltar and sat on
the gate to the east. Then he was
secretary at Barbadoes and saw a
quarter of the population swept off
the earth by a hurricane. But fit
was in Africa that he had his largest
experience, ruling over blacks and
‘Boers. He first saw the Dark Conti-
nent in 1882, during a hunting trip.
In 1901 he was made governor of
Bechuanaland, with C. M. G. as a
decoration of merit. Sir Ralph was
appointed governor of Newfoundland
about three years ago. He is sixty-
four years of age, and in retiring does
iso to spend the remainder of his life
‘in leisure.
Money to Loan.
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CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
WATCHMAN OFFICE
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High St, Bellefonte, Pa.
Meat 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.
and with the fresh After Forty-two Years of Honest
Bn i Sd a muscle mak- Dealing we have earned a place in
higher poorer meats are the public confidence unquestion-
I alwavs have ed.
~ DRESSED POULTRY —
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§ Smsing 5532 Bellefonte, Pa
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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assuring you of every courtesy and attention.
We pay 3 per cent interest on savings and
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cc RE Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
material, our te
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than many who give you ,
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