_Bellefonts, | Pa., March h 39,1 1915. WILLS MADE IN WAR —- Procedure Must of Necessity | Give Way to What Is Con- venient. Legal War changes many of the laws of | peace. Even the strict laws governing | the making of wills and the inherit | ance of property have had to make | way before the exigencies of military procedure. The German government has pro- vided a special decree which revolu- tionizes the strict demands of the statutes of peace concerning the mak- ing of wills. As a result the German soldiers in the field can now make | their last wills with little respect for | the ironclad requirements that hedge | the making of a testament in time of | peace. Any officer or soldier or even anyone | in any wise attached to the mobile military service, may write his will in his own handwriting and sign it, even | without the presence of witnesses, and | the will is binding. A specicl provi- sion, however, makes such a will in- valid one year after the demobilization of the force to which the testator is at- tached. It becomes invalid a year after the testator has been discharged from such service, or if he has been taken prisoner by the enemy, a year after he shall have been released. In addition to this, provision is | made that where the soldier does not write the testament in his own hand- writing, his simple signature in the presence of one officer or two other witnesses will be sufficient. If for any reason he is unable to do this, or there is no time for the preparation of a formal instrument, he may make a verbal testament before an officer and two witnesses. FOUND TIMES HAD CHANGED Alkali lke’s Attempt to “Shoot Up” San Diego Saloon Received with Marked Disapproval. Alkali Ike, deputy sheriff from the desert, was a visitor in the city, says a San Diego, Cal., dispatch to the New York Sun. Alkali was looking for the white lights. By noon, having failed to discover the excitement his soul craved, he made his way into the U. S. Grant hotel buffet, and, pulling a “forty-five” that looked like one of the koiser’s howitzers, announced that he was going to do some “clean- ing.” As he swung his Krupp around the room heads dropped behind parti- tions, active men dodged into booths and many faces paled at visions of sudden death. Commander in Chief Billie Schuler tipped his c¢igar to a higher angle than usual and, backed by Irish and Germans, advanced on “the bad man from the sand hills.” For an instant visions of carnage flashed before his eyes of the men who had sought refuge, but it quickly passed, for Schuler annexed the can- non and threw Alkali Ike to the side- walk. Half an hour later the fire- eater was back begging with tears streaming down his face for his weap- on. “I'll be on my way to the sand hills in five minutes,” he promised as he got back his gun. | John Muir. The late John Muir was one of those rare spirits who devote a large part of their lives to making men ac- quainted with the beauties and won- ders of nature. Besides being a gift- ed writer, whose words have had a solid attraction for a fine and sympa- thetic type of minds, Mr. Muir was a practical scientist—as a geologist and an explorer he has contributed his share to the world’s intellectual re- sources. The romance of his career and the mystery of that special gift which made glaciers a particular ob- ject of his studies are matters over which the average man may well pore with wonderment. It is not easy for the person of affairs to under. stand the irresistible call which comes to certain natures to make themselves masters of the secrets that lie only half-hidden in the physical world that surrounds us. But that some natures receive this call and respond to it nobly is the testimony of such a career as John Muir's.—Springfield Repub- lican. ibn *” - perme ie Man Is Best After 60. “Investigation by keen men has shown that man’s best work has been done between the ages of sixty and seventy years,” said President E. R. Bryan of Colgate university, Eugene, Ore., in an address before the West- ern division of the Oregon Teachers’ association. “Six hundred of the most important scientists, statesmen and Old World famous men were selected,” he said, “and it was found that only b per cent of them accomplished their world’s work before the age of forty, 10 per cent hetween forty and fifty, 20 per cent fifty and sixty, 35 per cent between sixty and seventy, 21 per cent after they had reached the age of eighty.” Some Armies and Navies. On the basis of vessels completed and vessels under construction, the rank of the following nations in naval standing is: Great Britain, 1; Ger many, 2; United States, 3; France, 4; Japan, 5; Russia, 6; Italy, 7; Austria, 8; Greece, 9. The available fighting force of Italy is around 3,000,000; that of Greece about half a million. i the origin of the strange name borne ' Kipling once called “the city born i with his other jewelry, and it is “good INDIAN GAVE TOWN NAME | i “Medicine Hat,” in Canada, = Peculiar Cognomen From Head- dress of Chief. Not many persons know what was | i by the Canadian city that Rudyard | lucky.” The word “medicine” means more to an Indian than to us. We think of it i as meaning something nasty that is good for us, but the Indian distin-! } i i i | | guishes as “good medicine” and “bad medicine” anything that he fancies | i will change his fortunes for better or : for worse. Imagine that Lo is hunting antelope and meeting with no success. Presently he finds an empty cartridge shell or the top of a tomato tin, and shortly afterward he gets a shot at his | game. Can he doubt that the piece of tin or the shell gave the luck? Not he. He wears that fragment of toma- to tin or empty shell about his neck medicine.” Several years ago there was a Black- foot chief who lived in the vicinity of Seven Persons river, where now stands the city of Medicine Hat. He and his tribe were fond of hunting and of mak- ing war on their enemies, the Crees. This chief always wore a headdress of feathers that he called his “medicine hat,” for he thought that it brought him good fortune. It was a dark day for the chief when he last met the Crees at the place where now stands the growing city. He and his men fell upon the enemy with great bravery, and even put them to ignominious flight. But just then a gust of wind whirled out of the west, caught the magic hat, and tossed it into the swift-running Saskatchewan river. Instantly the poor chief lost all confidence in himself and his cause, and with victory in his hand he fore- bore to grasp it, but fled over the plains toward the Rockies, followed by | his tribe.—Youth’s Companion. | BLOT ON NAPOLEON'S FAME Slaughter of Defenseless Prisoners | After Jaffa Unrecognized as Act of Warfare. No French victory was ever marked by more unbridled license than that which the victorious troops practiced at Jaffa. But what followed was worse. Although the prisoners of war were too numerous for the ordinary usage, yet they should have been treat- ed according to the terms of quarter they had exacted. On the 7th a council of war unani- mously voted that the old rule under which no quarter is given to defenders in an assault should be applied to them. For two days Bonaparte hes- itated, but on the 9th his decision was taken. A ‘few "Egyptians were sent home and the remainder of the prisoners, to- gether with the 800 militia from EI Arish, were marched to the beach and shot. Two eyewitnesses estimated it —one at 3,000, the other at 4,000. “lI have been severe with those of your troops who violated the laws of war,” wrote the author of the deed to Djezzar. All winter long he had been dealing as an Oriental with Orientals and this was but a piece of the same conduct—The Life of Napoleon Bona- parte, William Milligan Sloane. Rides Piano in Storm. A piano is a handy thing aboard ship, even if the weather is too rough for one to play upon it, believes Cap- tain Peterscn of the steamship Karen, which arrived at New York from Ma- tanzas with sugar. On the way up from Cuba, about seventy miles off Cape Hatteras, a terrific gale kicked up a sea that buf- feted the vessel until her steering gear became deranged. Repairs required seven hours. Meanwhile the Karen dropped into the trough of the sea, and a great flood poured into her hold. Mrs. Peterson’s room was frequently awash, but the skipper’s wife sat on tcp of the piano and fooled the flood that swirled about her. fs Cremation in England. At the annual meeting of the Man- chester Crematorium (Ltd.), held ear- ly in December, 1914, it was stated that cremations were still on the in- crease. From a list of 13 centers it was shown that last year 1,299 cre- mations had taken place in ‘England and Scotland. Golders Green led the —r way with 656, Manchester being sec- ond, with 186, and Woking third, with 131. A handbook of the Bradford municipal crematorium may be in- spected at the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce or its branch of- fices, : Self-Lighting Cigars. The German military authorities and the German postal authorities have authorized the transmission by parcel rost to soldiers in the field of cigars equipped with a special chemical prep- |. aration that enables the smoker to light them without the aid of matches. The chemical preparation is applied to the end of cigars, and is ignited by rubbing it against a hard substance, like the ordinary match, but it cannot ignite automatically. The chemicals used, it is said, do not affect the fla- vor of the cigar. Conscription in This Country. The state, whether it be the United States or any other, is sovereign, and can, if the necessity calls for it, com- pel its citizens or subjects to fight for it in war time. The democratic character of a nation is not supposed to deprive it of this right of conscrip- tion. Shoes. Shoes. Yeager’s Shoe Store “FITZEZY” The Ladies’ Shoe that Cures Corns Sold only at Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA 58.27 Dry Goudo, Etc. 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