Democrat ald
Beiletonte, Pa., July 25, 1913.
like, for these folks are so very apprecia-
tive of the slightest favor shown them.
When too poor to pay in money, or feel
it “not proper” to offer it, they in some
way manage to let one know their feel-
ings. I have already some very hand-
some pieces of brass—all gifts of patients
for whom I have been able to do some-
thing. But with all I can’t see how any
one should become enthusiastic over In-
dia—as a people, a more sordid, uninter-
esting lot of people would be hard to
find any place. There are very few with
any of the better qualities. Every vice
known, in the worst form, is found here,
and so many besides, I have stopped
locking for them. Their brown skins,
unusual clothes, and silences, give an ef-
fect of interesting undercurrents that to
us, always seeking for the new and
strange, seems well worth a more inti-
mate knowledge.
But the brown skin-~-nature’s proviso
against these too direct sun rays here,
used by the wearer as a shield, on ac-
count of laziness, for dirt and disease of
the worst kind. The unusual clothes—
worn, because easy to mytke, easy to put
on, and worn until they drop off, stiff
with grease and dirt and the mysterious
silence of the general people, covering
minds as shallow and blank as a wayside
mud-puddle and much like it if stirred up.
Truly God is good to give such hot
suns to this land, else famine and plague
would be greater than it now is; the
close huddling, the awful practice of us-
ing the streets for any and all kinds of
refuse, no toilets, little water, added to
much laziness, make a splendid combina-
tion, if one is looking for bacteria, and
as that is my chief occupation in life you
may know here is a wide field in which
to operate. One in my work could never
grow discouraged—too much of the new
for that. But am just telling you of
what is “under” the “beautiful ex-
terior” over which most of the sight see-
ing public rave. All they would have to
do to have their disillusionment com-
plete would be to stop amongst the na-
tives for a month’s visit.
We Americans celebrated the Fourth ' I
of July with a dinner party with our
Pittsburgh friends across the way. We
tried to be patriotic by wearing the stars
and stripes but altogether it was a most
“safe and sane’ occasion as the weather
continues too hot for any but the quiet-
est gayeties.
Later—Heigh oh! A wonderful black
cloud coming out of the east has brought
us relief. We have had twelve hours of
steady rain and oh, what joy it means to
the poor animals dying of thirst and to
some of the natives on 4th water rations.
To give you an idea of how hard it rains
here; of course all the trees, shrubs and
garden truck are planted in trenches to
catch and hold what water does come—
a sort of irrigation system, as it were.
Now the whole compound is filled with
tiny rivulets and at the extreme lower
side is quite a pond in which, I am told,
can be caught many sand fish, if one
cared to try, as these fish live in the sand
excepting when the rains come, when
they appear on the surface. Hard fish
story for you Centre countians to credit
but true nevetheless.
My “Punka walla” is glad of the rest
she is having for I need no fanning this
day of rain, but dare not allow her to
leave the compound, fearing the sun will
break through the clouds and in a few
hours we will be again at burning heat.
You can’t imagine what a few day's
change in the weather will produce in
this country; last week I was fussing
about the intense heat and hoping for
rain, well, we are surely having our lion’s
share of it now. India never does any-
thing by halves as far as the weather is
concerned; when the sun shines, every-
thing else is apt to run to cover, likewise,
with the rain, five and six inches
in a few hours and changing everything
to murky stickiness. One's scissors,
hair pins, etc., rust over night, silver you
would never recognize—looks as if paint-
ed black, clothes will mildew while wait-
ing to be worn, and anything in leather
grows such a covering of mould that it
looks as if badly in need of a good shave,
and with insects eating holes in all kinds
of books, papers, etc., it would seem
that the intense heat would be more
pleasant than what the cooler, wet days
bring. Occasionally, as today, we are es-
pecially favored; this is exactly like an
ideal home April day, the thermometer
registering 78 degrees and the atmos-
phere so clear that the temples miles
away seem as though directly behind our
compound. The boys playing marbles
and flying “hand birds” as they call kites
here, would remind one of home if it
were not for the camels and monkeys
wandering about amongst the vari-color-
ed clad multitudes loafing about the
streets,
We have just come from the English
club where we heard a fine concert by
one of the native regimental bands. One
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can hear good music here every day; |
pianos soon go to pieces from the mil-
dew, so they are a scarce and expensive
luxury to possess. !
I learned today on inquiry, what all |
the natives were constantly chewing. It
may interest you to hear some of it; |
especially if you could see the men,
women and children going about, their
jaws in perpetual motion. The habit
here is worse than the detestable “chew-
ing gum” in the States, only these
people chew the native leaf of the beetle
tree.
This leaf is about three inches long by
two wide, moderately thick and made
crisp by being kept in water. “ It is then
spread thick with a red paste called “Ka”
on top of which is spread a lime paste
over which tobacco is sprinkled in a fine
dust, lastly, beetle nuts are chopped with
a pair of nippers like men sometimes
carry at home to clip the ends off cigars,
the whole is then folded into a triangular
shaped wad and is ready for use. It pro-
duces a red stain to the saliva and when
I first noticed the mouth of one of my
servants thought his gums were bleed-
ing, but soon learned differently.
The taste grows on one, I am told, for
we have had a hard time breaking some
of our native nurses of the habit. The
effect on the teeth is most disastrous for
after a short times usage they become
a brownish black in color. The taste of
the “Pan,” as it is called, is curiously not
unpleasant; I tried it, for my own curios-
ity quite ran away with my better judg-
How to make the most and best of
life, how to
crease the vital powers, how to avoid the
pitfalls of diseases; these are things
know. It is
British Army's First Trousers.
Perhaps the army revoiution of deep-
est interest to the soldier himself was
that effected in 1823, when for the first
time he was put in trousers. The an-
nouncement from the horse guards
took the following remarkable form:
“His majesty has been pleased to ap-
prove of the discontinuance of breech-
es, leggings and shoes as part of the
clothing of the infantry soldiers and of
blue gray cloth trousers and half boots
being substituted.” In order to indem-
nify the “clothing colonels” for any
hardship which the new order might
cause it was decided that these gentle-
men should no longer be called upon
to provide the waistcoat of Tommy,
but that Tommy should himself supply
it out of his shilling a day. To reas
sure him it was pointed out that he
was in a position to do so with com-
fort, because he would no longer have
to buy gaiters.—Loundon Chronicle.
Letters That Wear Away.
The professor was talking of English
words that, originally harsh, had been
softened by a slight change in form
or in the elision of some letter. The
the Latin ‘numerus.’ a number. What
have we done with that word? One
may suppose that originally it was
written and pronounced ‘numberous.’
Why not? But the ‘D’ in the middle of
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Only a Dream.
Wife—I dreamed last night that 1
was in a shop that was simply full of
the loveliest bonnets, and— Husband
(hastily)—But that was only a dream,
my dear. Wife—] knew that before I
woke up, because you bought one for
me.
Floriculture,
“How old Soak does pitch into that
port of yours!”
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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the |
striking of the clock, the running of sand—day |
and night, summer and winter—months, years,
centuries; these are but arbitrary and outward
signs, the measure of time, not time itself. Time
WAIL OF THE DONKEY.
Tremble In Terror. |
in all the east today the doukey is a |
favorite means of transportation both
for travelers und merchandise. It was
#0 in the days of the patriarchs Isaac
nd Jacob. says the Louisville Courier
' Journal, and wo It will probably re-
, ain for ages to cowe.
But nothing in China is just like the
same thing unywhere else in the
world, and the donkey is no exception.
Dr. Chester of Nashville. who while
' evangelizing in Arkansas In his young- |
hats is one of the revivals
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er days had become familiar with the
easy amble of the long eared American
species, was induced to make trial of
the Chinese type during a visit to
China a few years ago. His experi:
| ence was disappointing. The gait was
a rough. insufferable jog. and the
characteristic bray was a painful’
phenomenon in the realm of sound.
Dr. Chester reports his impressions as
follows: |
“The power of heredity. working
through millenniums of isolation. with
no modification from foreizn admix-
ture. has developed in the bray of the
Chinese donkey a quality ail its own.
There are no words in English to de- |
scribe the heartrending pathos of it
‘It was ax if an uppeal to heaven
against the cruelty and oppression of
ages were at last finding utterance in
' ome long. lond, undulating wail. And |
when our party of three met another
' party of six and all nine of the don-
keys began at one time to exchange
the complimentsgpf the day then pa-
thos gave place to terror. and you
CURIOUS PLEASURE.
| Marken to It In China if You Want to Sympathy That May Be Excited by a
Paroxysm of MHysterics.
Some persons derive pleasure from
receiving sympathy, and this often
causes them. especially If they are
women who have suffered some afflic-
tion. to affect a very demoustrative
grief. its puruzysms timed with shrewd-
ly seitish cunniug so as best to attract
the attentivn and secure the sympathy
of those about thew Often from be-
ing shinuluted or exaggerated these fits
becowe real
Aud there ure other persons who de-
rive a struuge sutisfaction from excit-
ing the auxiety und even the distress
of their friends. This is not uncom
won awong small children, who are,
however, eusily cured by ignoring their
outbursts. Petting them makes them
worse. Hysteria in young women is
often simulated. In his work on “The
Influence of Education vn Diseases of
the Nervous System™ Dr. Carter says:
“When vnce a young woman bas dis-
covered her power to produce a hysteric
parosysm ut will and hus exercised it
for her own gratitication without re-
gard to the anxiety or annoyunce it
may entail on ner friends a very re
markable effect is speedily produced |
upon the whole mental sud moral na-
ture. The pleasure of receiving un-
wonted sympathy once tasted excites
a desire for it that knows no bounds.”
—~New York World.
ESCAPED THE MADHOUSE.
Daguerre’s First Photograph Came
Just In the Nick of Time.
TRAITS OF THE TURK
A Friend of the islamite Tells Why He
Admires Him.
| must confess that | am at heart a
friond of the Turk. It may be merely
association. | have known bim maay
years. But there is about him some-
thing which | cannot help liking—a
simplicity, a manliness, a dignity. I
like bis fondness for water and flow-
ers and green meadows and spreading
trees. | like bis love of children.
like his perfect manners. like his
sobriety. | like his patience | ilke
the way be faces death. One the
things | 'ike- most about him is
| has beeu most his undoing—bis lack of
| any commercial instinct
1 ike, too. what no
| noticed—the artistic side of
| not know Turkish enough to appreci-
| ate his literature, and his religion
bids him, or he imagines it does,
guge In the plastic arts. But in
| tecture and certain forms of decoration
| be has created a school of his own. I
| 1s not only that the Turkish quarter
any Anatolian town is more
esque than the others. The old pal-
{ ace of the sultans in Constantinople,
‘ certain old houses | have seen, the
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i You may tell me that these things
| are not Turkish, because they were
| modeled after Byzantine originals or
| because Greeks and Persians had much
| to do with building them. But I shall
| answer that every architecture was
| derived from another in days not so
of !
Josonige oF ! could only sit. appalled and trembling, |
Ammonia | as the mighty reverberation rolled
woolen waists away on its journey round the world.”
HOW TO GROW STRONG.
| The Eight Natural Exercises Give the
| Best Physical Culture.
It is not logical for a man to swing |
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If old Mme. Daguerre had been as! mear our own and that, after all, it
quick to act as she was to suspect, was the Turk who created the oppor-
Louis Jacques Daguerre might bave tunity for the foreign artist and or-
ended his days in an Insane asylum, ' dered what he wanted.—H. G, Dwight
and the world might have waited a in Atlantic.
century longer for a means of preserv-
ing family likenesses on bits of paper | THE CAR OF PROGRESS.
Up to the early thirties of the last
“Yes; he says he likes its bouquet.”
“No wonder, then, that he likes his |
own nose gay.” Judge. ; i
fumes.
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One will be Sle 0 recognize one’s
riends a long way off this summer—pro-
vided one is familiar with the color of
their motor wearables; some of the new |
coats are rivaling the famous hunting |
in pinkness, while others are equal-
3, rong it blue, green or orange tones. |
ugh the natty-three-quarter coats are |
liked for steamer and traveling wear, |
women who take long motor trips prefer :
the full-length coat which better pro- !
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Speaking of sweaters, one comes to a |
most fascinating feature of outing-dress.
No amount of Mackinaws, blazers or
other adroitly devised outing wraps seem
to be able to push the sweater its |
place in favor. Nothing is quite
supreme
. | so reliable as the friendly sweater which
may be rolled, folded, crammed into a
luncheon basket, shoved under the seat |
of a motor boat, or wadded up to make |
a pillow on the sailboat deck without be- |
traying any resentment—as far as ap-
wear. mermaid sweater is a novelty
that will be taken up by young women
who adore and striking ef-
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‘sure you. When | saw the h
' in the air hanging on two rings by his |
hands, according to George Hebert, a
' French naval l!leutenant who has de-
' voted himself to the study of physical.
! culture. Such exercise demands ab-!
| mormal efforts, which must be harmful
because they do not respond to any ne-
cessity.
For the sume reason it is poor gym-
nastics to raise and bold the arm in the
air while holding the rest of the body!
motionless. The result of such action
is incomplete development The arm
should be exercised by throwing some- |
thing, by climbing or by boxing, and
the legs should be exercised by run-|
ning or swimming, because these essen- |
| tially natural movements have a happy |
reaction on the whole organism. |
A particular movement may be inter-
esting in the case of invalidism when
the subject is capable of ordinary ex.
ercise, but when people are in health
and anxious to become strong there is |
only one means of obtaining physical |
improvement and ouly one form of ef-
ficacious physical culture.
That is to carry out such exercises as
were imposed by nature upon the men
, of the forests and such as are in use
now among savages. These are walk-
| ing, running, leaping, climbing, lifting,
Jumping, boxing and smimming. All the
obligations of primitive life have a
place in these eight natural exercises.— |
Harper's Weekly.
How Did She Know?
When the boarders were all gathered |
about the table fussy little Miss
Mac— gushingly stammered to Mr.
no relation: “Oh, Mr, Mac—! You
must pardon me for opening your
mother’s letter. 1 feel awful about it!
But 1 didn't read a single word, I as
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What's happened?’
“We lunched together downtown to-
Boiled Down,
“It used to be forty acres and a
ale.”
“Intensive farming bas the call now
—forty square feet and a hen.”—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
A ——————————
His Last Words,
“Does your wife always have the
last word?” 1
“Um. no. | most always say, ‘Yes,
dear,’ or ‘Very true, dear.’ "—Puck.
A —————
Bach one sees what he carries in his
heart.—Goethe.
century M. Daguerre had behaved as |
any well balanced decurator and scene |
painter and
should bave bebaved, and then he be
gan to experiment with liquids and at-
tempted to fasten sun shadows ca
glass or copper sheets. He talked of
a wonderful day when he could make
portraits of his friends without either
brush or pencil.
In great trepidation Mme. Daguerre
hurried to a doctor and, weeping, told
the medical man these symptoms. To
the doctor's
spelled nothing less than insanity, and
in 1838 they set about preparing M.
Daguerre for a visit to the asylum at |
Bicetre.
But just then the unsuspecting vie:
tim of this plot succeeded in fastening
the shadow on the copper plate. and
the art of photography was bora.—
New York Sun.
The Oldest Book.
The oldest book in the world to
which a positive date can be assigned
is an assortment of proverbs some-
what after the style of the proverbs
collected by Solomon. The work is ac
credited to Ptab-botep. an Egyptian
king, and Egyptologists assign to it an
antiquity of. at least 300 B. C. Abra-
ham was called to. leave his home in
Ur of the Chaldees 1921 B. C., so that
this volume was written 1,100 years
before the beginning of Jewish his
tory. The deluge is placed by most
chronologists at B. GC. 2848, so the
book. if its dating is correct must
have been written before the flood
Methuselah was born B. C. 3817, so
that this papyrus was prepared and
these proverbs were collected when
the oldest man on record was a lively
young fellow of 300 years.
Trousers Forbidden,
Strange though it may appear to the
present generation, it seems that trou-
when first introduced into Eng-
land were regarded as anything but a
ing paper shows to what a pass a
may come in a great city:
“Wanted—A collaborator, by a young
playwright. The play is already writ-
ten; collaborator to furaish board and
steadygoing husband
discerning mind they
| Are You Holding It Down or Helping
to Push (t Along?
The car wus on an up grade. Most
of the passengers bad got out and
: were pushing. Many, with their coats
off, were toiling and sweating bravely.
And slowly but surely they were get-
ting ahead. Some, however remained
in the car. Part of them said there
was no use in pushing, since the hill
was so steep they could never get up
anyway. Others sald they would help
when all those pretending to push
' were really pushing as they ought to.
But the toilers toiled on, pushing the
car and those in it constantly up the
hill
The world 1s on an up grade. Most
of the passengers are pushing faith-
fully, and every year finds it steadily
going forward and upward. The pes-
. simists, however, and the cynics re-
main seated in the car. The former
| say that the problems are so hopelesz
‘and human greed so intrenched that
we are already beaten. The latter say
that when those who profess to be
trying to do right begin to practice
| what they preach. when the “hypo-
| crites” are eliminated. they will help.
| Meanwhile the workers are pulling
i and pushing, and the world is going
{up the hill. But did you ever see a
| complainer or a knocker who was help-
| ing?—Fngene Bernard Smith in Out
: look.
Family Pride.
| “Prisoner. have you anything to say
| why the sentence of death should not
| be passed upon you?”
| “A few words, your honor. I am
| thirty years of age.”
“Well?”
“Your older brother is a physician.”
“This is impertinent and irrelevant.”
“It may sound so, your honor, but it
| means life or death to me. I under-
| stand that you take a great pride in
| the phenomenal success of your broth
er?”
“1 do, but what possible bearing can
that have upon your case?’
“Simply this: Your brother, the doc-
tor, examined me a year ago and pre-
dicted that I would live at least twen-
ty years more. It would certainly un-
dermine his reputation as a scientist
“That's odd. What do you sell?”
“Dynamite.’’— Washington Herald.
What She Wanted.
“These ure all genuine antiques, mad.
am.” said the dealer. “We positively
guarantee that.”
“l haven't any doubt of it,” said
Muggins--What is your favorite
method of punishing the children?
Buggins— Well, 1 consider that spank-
ing takes the palm.—Philadelphia Rec-
ord.
He that would eat the kernel must
| erack the nut.—Persian Proverb.
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