Bewaiidwan.| STORIES OF LIST
Belletonte, Pa., November 20, 1914.
OUR EASTERN COAST SINKING.
In Time, Thousands oft Years. Per-
haps, the Aflantic Ocean, According
to Geologists, Willi Flow Over’ the
Cities That Now Tower Above Its
Shores.
Government geological experts have
calculated that New York, Boston.
Philadelphia and all the other cities
along the Atlantic coast will eventual
ly sink beneath the ocean. They have
Observed that there has been a steady
sinking of the whole coast, and they
say that it is going on at the present
moment.
Geologists have long recognized the
fact that the Atlantic coast iine was
much farther out than it is now. There
is a line from 100 to 300 miles off the
present coast at which the water sud
denly gets deeper. Out to that distance
the water is generally about 300 feet
deep. Then it plunges suddenly ana
becomes ten times as far to the ocean's
bottom. The men of the coast survey
have traced this line throughout the
length of our coast line and find it
similar all along. The geologists say !
that the continent once reached out |
that far and that there was the coast
line, but a gradual decline through the
ages has caused that line to retreat.
until now it is where we know it.
From a geological standpoint this
has happened in comparatively recent |
times. [t has all been done since the |
glacial period. This brings it into the
present period and makes the action
new. In fact it is positively known to
be going on now.
There is an ancient sill in the Charles
town navy yard at Boston with re
gard to which there is definite informa-
tion as to its elevation. It was put
in place seventy years ago; its eleva
tion was given with relation to mean. |
high and low tide. and also with refer
ence to surrounding landmarks. With
relation to the tide this sill has sunk
seven-tenths of a foot. .With relation
to the landmarks it has the same posi
tion. a positive proof that Boston bar-
bor and the city about it have sunk
seven-tenths of a foot into the sea in
the iast seventy years.
The original mouth of the Hudson
river is now 200 miles out to sea. The
ships follow its old channel in leaving
port even now. It is not known how
long ago it was when the mouth of the |
river was not far out in the ocean. But |
it is almost a certainty that when a
similar time has elapsed the present
city will be an equal distance from the
then lana ea
Similarly will Boston be submerged.
Baltimore will disappear at about the
Same time and great portions of Wash-
ington The great Mississippi is bring
ing down great deposits to raise its
delta und counterbalance the decline.
So low 1s New Orleans that it will be
one of the first cities to sink below the
Sea level and be a wmunicipality high
walled against the enemy, the sea. Gal
veston has already felt the encroach-
ment of the waters and has been forced
to build itself a sea wall
The geological survey makes topo-
graphical maps. On these lines are run i
at given elevations. For instance, a
line may be run about Manhattan Is- |
land at a level twenty feet above the
water at the Battery. It would sub-
merge the customs house and extend up
Broadway nearly to Wall street. From
the east it would invade the financial |
district almost to Nassau street. It |
would overflow half the land between
the city bali and the East river. Far-
ther up it would submerge a narrower
strip, but its intrusion would create
great bavoc. |
A tifty foot rise of water would wipe |
Manhattan Island out entirely. Of |
course. it these depressions came on |
very gradually the water fronts would |
be diked against their intrusions. in
this way New York city might be saved
from destruction for a very long time.
It will inevitably become a city sur
rounded by a high levee. against which
the ocean will beat with an ever in
creasing advantage. It might perpetu-
ate itself by artificial means, but in the
end it will be put in an impossible posi
tion. The waters will follow over the
flats of New Jersey and of Long Island.
They will even beat back through
the Delaware and the Chesapeake and
get beyond the city and cut off com
munication with the main part of the
land. Finally. New York will find it
self a city down in a well far out from
the mainland. Gradually the people
who dwell in it will desert it and re-
pair to the then mainland. The waters
will eventually lap away the great
walls that bave been built to keep out
the sea and will tumble in among the
skyscrapers.—W. A. Du Puy’'s “Uncle
8am. Wonder Worker”
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Presence ot Mind.
Only the other duy a great steel
bean was being brought up to a giddy
height by noisting apparatus. As it
passed a girder on which several men
were at work the beam turned just
enough to push one of them off, says
Harper's Weekly. The man seized the
beam and was swung far over the
street. His weight gradually moved
down the end ot the girder to which
he clung. and in a few moments he
would have #een thrown off, when a
fellow workmap sprang for the other
end. thus balancing it, and together
they were lowered to the ground.
' He who loves not his country eap
Jove nothing -- Byron.
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distinction of being the best and cleanest
county paper published.
tc a Hidden Audience.
A SURPRISE AT THE FINISH.
For a Moment It Filled the Hostess
and Company With Dismay, but
Proved a Case of All's Well That
Ends Well—A Snub For a Tactless
Baroness.
Liszt resented people counting on his
playing. When Baroness K. inveigled
him into promising to take tea with
her, because he knew her father, she,
on his accepting, invited a lot of
friends, holding out hopes that Liszt
would play. She pushed the piano
into the middle of the room—no one
could have possibly failed to see it.
Every one was on the qui vive when
Liszt arrived and breathless with an-
ticipation. "Liszt, who had had many
surprises of this sort, | imagine, saw
the situation at a glance. After several
people had been presented to him,
Liszt, with bis most captivating smile.
said to the hostess:
“Madam, where is your piano?’ and
looked all about for the instrument
‘ though it was within an inch of his
nose.
“Oh, monseigneur! Would you, really
* *= = 9 advancing toward the piano.
triumphantly. ‘“You are too kind. |
never should have dared to ask you.”
And. waving her hand toward it
“Here is the piano!”
“Ah, yes.” said Liszt, who dearly
loves a joke. *1 wished to put my hat
on it.”
Very crestfallen, but still undaunted,
the tactless baroness cried.
monseigneur, you will not refuse, if
only to play a scale—merely to touch
the piano!”
But Liszt. as unkind as she was tact
less. answered. coldly: “Madam. 1
never play my scales in the afternoon.”
and turned his back on her and talked
with Madam Helbig.
On another occasion Liszt wrote to
me that he would bring some of his
songs to try over at 5 o'clock. | in:
close his letter. What a chance. thought
I, for me to give pleasure to some of
my friends who | knew were longing
to see him. Although he had said entre
nous in his letter, and | knew that he
really wanted to look through the songs
alone with me, 1 could not resist the
temptation—though it was such rank
disobedience—and said to them:
“Liszt is coming to me at 5 o'clock
If you would like to hear him, and
consent to be hidden behind a door, |
will invite you.”
They all accepted with rapture and
were assembled in the little salon be
fore the time appointed. The door was
left open and a large screen placed
before it.
Johan fetched Liszt in our carriage,
as he always does. I received him and
the book of “Lieder,” which he brought
with him (Only Johan and Nina were
present.) He opened the book at “Com
ment disaient ils?’ one of his most
beautiful songs, which has an exquisite
but very difficult accompaniment. He
played with fairy fingers, and we went
over it several times. [ could see the
screen swerving and waving about.
but Liszt's back was turned. so he
could not see it.
After we had finished tea was served,
and then he said. “Have you heard my
‘Rigoletto?
“Yes,” | said. and added. **but not
by you.”
“Well,” he said, **I will play it for
you. Your piano is much better than
the one | nave. It is a pleasure to
play on it.” :
The screen. now alive with emotion.
almost tipped over. After “Rigoletto
be played “Les Soirees de Vienne.”
and this time the screen actually did
topple over and exposed to view the
group of badly frightened ladies hud:
dled behind it. 1 shuddered to think
how the master would take this hor
rible treachery
He took it better than | expected—
in fact, he laughed outright The la
dies came forward and were presented
to him and were delighted. | am sure
that Liszt was, too; at any rate, he
laughed so much at my ruse and con:
trition that the tears rolled down his
cheeks He wiped them away with
his pocket handkerchief, which had an
embroidered F. L. in the corner. This:
he left behind and I kept it as a sou-
venir. — Mme. de Hegermann-Linden:
crone in Harper's Magazine.
Behind the Times.
Speeder—Think of it! Here's this
old earth making one rotation in twen
ty-four hours, the same as it did 6.000
years ago
Jinks— Well, what of it?
“Great Scott. man! Can't we devise
some way to speed her up a little?”-
Life.
Either.
You can’t judge a man by bis ac
tions. The fellow who deliberately
walks in front of a quick moving auto
may be a perfectly proper object of
sympathy. and then again he may be a
professional damage seeker. ~ Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
By the Foot. .
“Growing? Why. every time I get
home from a trip I find that that baby
of mine has grown another foot.”
“Gee! She'll look like a centipede
pretty soon.”—Houston Post.
Do be sincere. If you haven’t the
courage of your own opinions you will
never do much.
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| LURE OF THE OPIUM PILL.
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And the Way the Cost Piles Up as It
i Enslaves Its Victim.
In the American Magazine appears
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How the Famous Master Played an article entitled “A Modern Opium
Eater,” written by a former newspaper
man, who became a victim of the
habit and is now a convict in a peni-
tentiary. The following extract from
his article gives an idea of the amount
of money required by an opium eater:
“By this time the cost of opium had
become a very appreciable and perma.
nent expense. From a few pills at first
I increased my allowance day by day
until it took thirty or forty ‘fun’ (a Chi
nese mensure: there are seventy-six
fun in an ounce) to give me the mental
relief | craved. The physical craving—
the body's demand for it—can be satis:
fied with approximately the same
amount each day. The mental craving
—the mind’s demand—increases daily
What satisfies tonight is too little to-
morrow, and so on. To feel even nor-
mal 1 now needed three or four times
the balf dozen pills which at first had
given me snch exquisite pleasure. To
get the exhilaration, the soothed nerves.
the contentment I craved, 1, like each of
the millions before me. had to use more
and more each day.
“Thirty-six fun of opium at retail
costs, at an average. $3. A fifty cent
tip to my ‘cook’ and a quarter for the
privilege of the room in which | smok
ed made my habit cost me about $4 a
day. which made a ghastly hole in even
the good salary | earned | began to
buy my opium by the can. paying from
$25 to $30 for tins averaging 460 fun
The elimination of the retailer's profit
helped temporarily. but the ever in
creasing demands of my habit soon
overcame the saving”
Books Made by Slaves.
{Some publishers in ancient Roine
| could turn out books rapidly ana
cheaply A publisher of the Augus
tan era produced 1,000 copies of the
second book of Martial in ten hours.
! and these. sold at about 12 cents
| apiece. gave him a profit of 100 per
| cent I'his was done by employing
slaves carefully trained to write swift
| ly and iecibly Working in batches ot
100. with an overseer dictating the
book in hand. the task was completed
in a very short time As soon as tbe
copies were written they were revise.
corrected, rolled up and bound He
ing slaves. the men required only
maintenance from their master. and
thus he could afford to sell their pro
| ductions at a verv low rate.
Insulted the Horse
As ap illustration of the veneration
with which the Argyll family was re
garded in Rosenenth parish vears ago
Principal Storey. then minister of the
parish, nsed to relate that one of his
parishioners in detailing to the duke’s
factor some grievances he had sustain
| ed from a neighbor added. *And, mair
| than that, be bad the impudence tae
| strike me in the presence o' bis grace’s
| horse.” — Westminster Gazette.
2 Medical.
Another Belle:
fonte Case
IT PROVES THAT THERE'S A WAY
OUT FOR MANY SUFFERING
BELLEFONTE FOLKS.
Just another report of a case
in Bellefonte. Another typical case.
Kidney ailments relieved in Belle-
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Mrs. Mary Hull, 223 S. Allegheny
St., Bellefonte, says: “I suffered
for years from weak kidneys. I had
a dull pain across the small of my
back and often sharp twinges darted
through my body. I could hardly
straighten after stooping. Dizzy
spells were common and black spots
floated before my eves. Doan’s Kid-
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ache and removed the dizzy spells.
I have had very little trouble since.”
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Speed of Batted Balls.
Ask any fan how fast an average
grounder travels during its first hundred
feet from the base and his answer will
be anywhere from 20 to 200 miles an
hour. Split second timing of many ground
balls established the fact that the aver-
age speed of many ground balls—that is,
those struck by the bat of the batsman
from a fair pitched ball, which strike the
infield before they land in the fielders
hand—go at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. :
Sixty miles an hour is eighty-three feet
per second. The bases are ninety feet
apart.
A man who can run 100 yards in eleven
seconds which is fast running for any-
one, but particularly so for a man with
baseball shoes and uniform on, can run
ninety feet in 3.3 seconds. Is it any
wonder that a ball which is fielded in its
first 100 feet of travel usually reaches
first base just. a second before or after
the runner sets foot upon it?
Every fan knows that the many close
decisions at first base form one of the
fascinations of the game. The speed of
a batted ball, the speed at which a player
can travel from his position to the point
where he can meet and field the batted
ball, pick it up, set himself for the throw,
make the speed across the diamond from
his throw and the speed of the traveling
runners are so evenly balanced that it is
always a question of whether or not the
runner will get there in time for the
crowd to see the umpire’s hands go down
or whether he will face a thumb over
his shoulder indicating that he is cut.
—Technical World Magazine.
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§59-3-tf Bellefonte, Pa.