Delletouts: Pa., August 13, 1915.
GUNPOWDER IN WAR.
Wor Centuries Its Use Was Opposed In
the Name of Humanity.
There was a period when any kind of
“explosive” fighting in war wds con:
sidered barbarous. The discovery of
gunpowder put a stop to the old fash-
doned methcd of attack, in which only
missiles and sharp edged weapons were
considered cthical, but gunpowder did
pot come into approval without a
struggle. In fact. it was under the
“humanity” ban for almost three cen
-turies.
This remarkable compound of salt
peter, stiphur and charcoal, which was
given its first tryout at the siege of
Constantinople in 1453, had been
known to both the chemist and the
soldier for a hundred veai's or more.
It is said to have been discovered by
Roger Bacon in England alouat the
year 1290 and by a German monk
named Schwarz twenty years later.
Another independent discoverer <f the
same dangerous mixture was an un
known and uncelebrated Moor, whos:
secret was ultimately carried into Eu-
rope in the fourteenth century. Even
he was not the first to make an ex-
plosive compound. The Chinese “beat
him to it,” having used this same Kind
of mixture for rocket signals before
the Christian era.
The fali of Constantinople was
brought about by the use, the wholly
unethical and altogether barbarous use,
of cannon balls, and it was not until
about a century later that the world
gave its full sanction to the killing of
men by means of gunpowder.—St. Louis
Globe-Demniocrat.
WHISPERING GALLERIES.
Old World Churches With Remarkable
Acoustic Properties.
The most celebrated whispering gal
lery is that which surrounds the base
of the interior of the dome of St. Paul's
cathedral, London. A person speaking
near its surface can be heard distinctly
by one listening near the smooth wall
at the other extremity of the diameter.
but not elsewhere.
In the cathedral cf Gloucester a whis.
pering passage leads from one aisle to
the opposite behind the east window of
the choir. It is seventy-five feet long,
six and a half feet high and three feet
wide in the form of half an irregular
octagon. The walls and ceilings are of
freestone, and the slightest whisper
travels from end to end.
The cathedral of the Taj Mahal in
Agra, India, has most marvelous ech:
-oes and reverberating qualities, but is
scarcely a whispering gallery. The
‘whole cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily.
‘has this character owing to the pecul
iar structure of its walls. These re:
markable properties also belonged to
the “Ear of Dionysius,” cut in the rock
at Syracuse in the shape of a parabolic
curve, ending in an elliptical arch. It
is said that the tyrantseated in a small
chamber over a hundred feet from the!
spot occupied Ly his captives by this
means could hear every word spoken
by his Dispur Yangon Answers.
If Animate Could Speak. |
1t is a startling fact that if some ani |
mals could tell their life history they,
would be able to recall events which
happened hundreds of years ago. A
Russian eagle, for instance, would be
able to remember watching with
greedy eyes as one by cue the I'renck
soldiers under Napoleon fell exhausted
out of the ranks in their awful retreat
from Moscow in 1812. There are croc’
odiles alive in India teday which saw
the first English traveler set foot there,
while there are whales in the sea which
may have skirted the coast of France
when it was invade! in 1415. A great
many elephants cc: id recall historical |
events of a hunai od years ago, whilg'
there are raven still living whose
memory could go back twice that ve |
riod.—London Answers.
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r Plenty of Room. i
The young man who writes ors)
was standing out in the night gazing
at the sky when a friend ran across
him, |
“YWhat are you doing—studying as |
itronomy ?”’
“Go away and don’t disturb me. I
sam gazing into infinite distance.”
qd it see what satisfaction yeu,
Hud in (0
“Phat’s because you never had any
experience with editors. You don't
know what a comfort it is to find some
place where nothing is crowded out
for lack of space.”—London Tit-Bits,
The Amethyst.
A good example of one of the ways’
in which magical properties became
attributed to natural objects is the]
stone known as amethyst. The an.|
clent Indian name of this stone had,
the sound represented by its present,
name. In Greek this sound happens to
mean “anti-wine;” hence, without more
ado, the ancients declared that the
amethyst was a preventive of and a
cure for drunkenness!-—London Mail
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Idle Drears.
yield from vineyards and cornfields. |
| a lowbrow shade.
- SAVED HIMSELF. UNAWARE.
Showing How the Eye Sees More Than
One Thinks It Dces.
Writing on psychological subjects in
the Ladies’ Home Journal, H. Adding-
ton Bruce says:
“From Dr. A. H. of Pennsylvania,
one of our well known psychologists,
I have received this impressive piece
of testimony to the power of the eye
to see more than one consciously ap-
prehends:
“ ‘Three summers ago, when I was
on a visit to my old home town, I
took a short cut across familiar fields
where a fair growth of weeds covered
the ground. I was going along at a
rapid gait, with my mind wholly oc-
cupied with matters other than my
path, when suddenly, quite reflexly,
my left foot, instead of going down on
the spot where it shoulll, jerked itself
over to the left, and I went on fully
ten steps before I realized that I had
made the sharpest kind of an offset in
my path. I wondered what made me
do it, turned, retraced my steps and
found an adder still coiled and ready |:
to strike, exactly, as I judged, where |
my foot would have gone. {
* “pr. A. H., recognizing the correct |
explanation of his fortunate misstep,
adds:
“ ‘During my
used to go barefooted much of the
time. Through sad experiences with |
stubble fields, brier patches and stony
paths I learned automatically to pick
my way without giving thought to the
matter. As a result, T find myself
frequently in my walks avoiding ob-
stacles which at the moment I do not
consciously discern.” ”
A LESSON FOR THE NURSE. -
She Didn’t Like It When She Was Paid |
In Her Own Coin. :
A mother overheard her nurse girl
talking to the child she was putting to
sleep, and among other legends of the
nursery in which she was indulged was
this: “If you don’t go to sleep this very |
minute a great, big, awful, black bear,
with eyes like coals of fire and sharp, |
white, cruel teeth, will come out from
under the bed and e-a-t-y-o-u-a-1-1 up!”
The poor little thing nestled down un-
der the clothes to dream of horrid
bears eating her up. .
That night when the stolid nurse had
composed herself in her own comfort-
able bed and had put the light out
there came a sudden rap at the door, |
and the voice of the mistress called
loudly through the panels: “Maggie!
Maggie! Get up as quick as you can!
There’s a burglar under your bed!” At
the word “burglar” the girl sprang |
screaming from the bed, tore open the |
door and fell into hysterics in the hall.
The lesson was more instructive than
the mistress designed, but when the,
girl's fears had calmed she said to ber:
“You did not hesitate to tell my deli- |
cate child, who could not possibly |
know that it was a lie, a cruel story:
about a bear under her bed. Now,
when I treat you to the same kind of &
story, you are nearly frightened to
death, Tomorrow you can go into the |
kitchen ‘and work there. You are not.
fit to care for little children.”—St. Lou- |
is Globe-Democrat.
A Curious Experience.
Lombroso, the famous Italian cHimt i
nologist, once had a curious experi-
ence. He was in a printing office cor-
recting the proofs in his “Delinquent |
Man” with the chief reader when on
reaching a page which dealt with da!
young man who, impelled by jealousy, '
had stabbed his fiancee he made a sur- |
prising discovery.” The proofreader !
was this man.
“Suddenly,” Lombroso said in telling |
the story, “he threw himself at: ‘may |
feet, declaring that he would commit |
suicide if I published this story with |
his name. His face, before very gen-!
tle, was completely altered and almost
terrifying, and 1 was really afraid that
he would kill himself or me on the spot. '
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I tore up the proofs and for several!
editions omitted his story.”
Thunder.
Winter thunder is considered through- i
out Europe to be of very ill omen, but
April thunder is considered to be very |
beneficial. In Devonshire and other |
cider counties of England there is a |
saying that “when it thunders in April |
you must clean up the barrels”—in |
readiness, that is, for a plentiful crop ;
of apples. The French consider April |
thunder to be indicative of a good
Getting It Straight.
1t was in the Elysian fields. i
“I am gratified to see that Shake- |
speare is more sought after than the
military heroes,” declared a highbrow
shade. “I consider this a tribute to
the peaceful arts.”
“It isn't that so much,” pointed out
“Every new ar-
rival wants to ask him if he reall”
! wrote those ‘plays. Kansas City Jour-
nal.
Ange! Coins.
An “angel” was an ancient gold coin
weighing four pennyweights and val-
ued at 6s. 8d. in the reign of Henry
VI. and at 10 shillings in the reign of
|. surance law
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boyhood summers I .
! Garcia’s Method.
Mesdames Viardot-Garcia and Mali
bran, the wonderful daughters of Man-
uel Garcia, v-ho was perhaps the great-
est vocal teacher of all time, literally
“learned in suffering what they taught
in song.”
The discipline of the Garcia home
was extremely severe. According tu
Henry T. Finck, who writes in the
Musician, it was said that he used tc
beat his unfortunate daughters till they
screamed.
The neighbors, however, did not eon:
fuse methods with madness, and on
such occasions they quaintly said.
is only M. Garcia teaching his girls to
sing.”
First Life Insurance Policy.
William Gibbons, who deserves to be
better known, was the first man to in-
sure his life. This policy was made in
June, 1583, and was for the sum of £38
“6s. 8d. for twelve months, sixteen un-
derwriters dividing the risk. And this
first policy also produced the first in
case, for when William
died in the following May the under-
writers attempted to maintain that
| twelve mouths meant twelve periods
of twenty-eight days and had to be
taken into court before they would pay
up.—London Graphic.
KNOW THYSELF.
The highest purpose of intellec-
tual cultivation is to give a man a
perfect knowledge and mastery of
his own inner self, to render our
consciousness its own light and its
own murror; hence there is the less
reason to be surprised at our in-
ability to enter fully into the feelings
and characters of others. No one
who has not a complete knowledge
of himself will ever have a true
understanding of another.—Novalis.
“It |,
an SERRATE TES,
Trousers? That's Different. Etc.
Would meu ever get anywhere, dc
you think, if they fussed around with
as many disconnected things as most
women do? We have all seen the
swelling satisfaction with which the
comely young schoolma’am, compli
mented upon a pretty gown, announces,
“] made it myself.” But really, view-
ed in the light of reason. what is there
about the feat upon which she should
so plume herself? Suppose that a man
should point proudly to his nether gar
ments and say, “Lo! I made these trou-
sers.”—Mary Leal Harkness in Atlantic.
Dry Goods,
LYON & COMPANY.
Clearance Sale of All
Summer Stuffs
Will be Continued.
Prosaic Poetry.
love but thee alone!” Thus
sighed the tender youth. “Oh, dear
one, then, my precious own! With
. trembling lips and earnest tone, |
swear | speak the truth!” He paused.
A blush o'erspread her cheek. She let
him draw her near. Scarce for emotion |
i could she speak. Yet she did ask, in
| accents meek. “How much have you a |
year?”
“Ellen, §
All Summer Goods must go now to
make room for early Fall Goods.
Cheap Wives.
Among the Ainus the price of a wife
is a bear ham. The Kaffir price varies
from four to eight oxen. In Uganda a
wife can be obtained for a score of
| cartridges. The Australian black ob-
i tains his helpmate for her weight in
i butter. and in Turkestan the Tartars
.can buy as many wives as toey please
' for a box of matctes each. i
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We are showing advanced Fall Styles of
Dress Goods, Clothes, Silks, Corduroy, in
all the new street and evening shades;
trimmings to match.
SERVING OTHERS.
It is a beautiful and salutary ar-
rangement, which we seldom re-
flect on as we should, that as a rule
men only can become rich and
great by supplying some want of
their fellow men, by doing some
work for others which others need
and are willing to pay for, be that
work moral guidance or maternal
provision. We cannot rise to com-
mand except by stooping to serve.
‘Shoes. Shoes. Shoes.
All Men’s, Ladies and Children’s Sum-
mer Shoes at greatly Reduced Prices.
COATS and SUITS
We are showing advanced styles in early
Fall and Winter Garments. La Vogue
CASTORIA.
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Similafing ie Rod gu Rotets i
ting the Stomachs
INFANTS a 8118):
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-| Opium Morphine nor Mineral, |
NOT NARCOTIC.
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iit} | Worras! Convulsions. Feverish
Pa 1 ness and LOSS OF SLEEP.
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flitdon.
= CENTAUR ComPaNY,
THEVEW YORK.
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: BH Doses —35 CENTS
* 7 deta ) Adele
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
Coats and Suits are always in the lead.
CASTORIA.
1 Mothers Know That
We Extend an Invitation
to all to visit this department and be
convinced that we are leaders and al-
ways have the first showing of the new
up-to-date models.
For Infants and Children.
Lyon & Co. .... Bellefonte
Genuine Castoria
Always
| Bears the
Signature
The Centre County Banking Company.
“STOP, LOOK, LISTEN?!”
A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these
words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis-
ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars
in damages. It’sa good sign. It’s worth $10,000.
Wise people are often warned bya similar sign on
the road of extravagance. They stop in time.
How about yourself? Think this over seriously.
A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at
any time. If you haven't a bank account now,
start one at once. Any account, however small
you are able to begin with, will be welcomed and
carefully conserved at
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
GASTORIA
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
56.6 BELLEFONTE PA.
Announcement.
Groceries. Groceries.
The Farmers
Supply Store
FOOD SUPPLIES
Weard Reversible Sulky Riding
We are Headquarters for the Dollyless
Electric Washing Machines
Harrows, Spring-tooth Harrows, Spike-tooth Lever Harrows,
Land Rollers; g-Hole Spring Brake Fertilizer Grain Drill—and
the price is $70.
POTATO DIGGERS,
Brookville Wagons—all sizes in stock. Buggies and Buggy
We have just received a shipment of new caught Blue Back
Mackerel, messed and boneless ;
Canned Salmon and Tuna Fish are both very satisfactory hot
weather goods. Our brands will fully satisfy your desire.
. Our fancy new American Cheese are now at their very finest.
you want the highest quality, give us your order.
Asparagus tips, new pack, Nabob brand, just received at roc per
can. Elite brands, large can, fancy, at 25c.
We have a blend of TEA that has proved very satisfactory for
making iced tea and for regular use at 6oc per pound.
The new crop of California Summer Valenica Oranges are now
Plows and Walking Plows, Disc If
Poles, Manure Spreaders, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast Iron
Hog and Poultry Troughs, Galvanized Stock Chain Pumps,
Force and Lift Pumps for any depth of wells, Extension and
Step Ladders, Poultry Supplies and
All Kinds of Field Seeds.
SAREE 2
Nitrate of Soda and Fertilizer for all crops, carried at my ware-
house where you can get it when you are ready to use it.
Elizabeth in 1562. It took its name
I from the effigy of an angel embossed
dn one side.
just at their best. We have fancy stock at 25¢, 3oc, 40¢, 50C
and 6oc a dozen. Also fancy California Lemons.
Our Sliced Dried Beef is all full slices, cut only from the tender
part of the meat. Comes in clean wax paper envelopes. Some-
thing new and desirable.
We take special care in the selection of Bananas and can give you fancy fruit.
MEADOW GOLD BRAND CREAMERY BUTTER
Is a Strictly Fancy Grade. We get it in frequent orders so that you can de-
pend on it having that New Sweet Flavor. Try it and be convinced.
“Poor dad! Sister told him that the
girls of her class are going to grad-
wate in dollar gowns.’
“Well, what about poor dad?”
“He thinks a dollar Is all he will be. Desperation.
called upon to give up.” —Kansas City ' Lady Visitor—My poor man, what
Journal. first drove you to a career of crime?
pi | Desperate Criminal—Trying to match
Two Sides. | samples for my wife. ~Baltimore Amer-
Willis—Why don’t you go to churchi, fcan.
Gillis—Too far. Why don’t you gol|
Willis—We live next door to one, and
Soliciting a share of your wants, I am respectfully yours,
JOHN G. DUBBS,
There never was an excuse as inter
SECHLER & COMPANY,
1 hate to get all dressed up just to o estin duty well done.—Toletlo
g gaa iy we he Bush House Block,
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that little way.—Boston Journal. 60-14-tf. Bellefonte, Pa. * 57-1 - Bellefonte, Pa.
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