HAS A MYSTERY AND CHARM Stonehenge a Place in Which One Will Ponder Over the History of the Past No sooner had he set foot on the first swell of the plain than I became aware of what looked like a herd of elephants, half a mile ahead. They did not nove, and slowly it dawned upon me that this was Stonehenge. ‘A few minutes later, seated within the circles of these enormous stones, I was asking myself the old question that so many travelers have asked. For worship, at least, these rude masses were erected. That seems fairly certain. And to commemorate a battle, if one may judge from the barrows that crown the neighboring hillocks. Religion and war—the two powers that nave charmed and ruled and tortured the world. So mysteri- ous is the whole of life, alike moral and physical, that the haunting won- der of Stonehenge was neither in- creased nor lessened by what then [ saw. . Lifting my eyes to the north, I be- held almost a whole quarter of the horizon filled with tents and huts, the camp that is to shelter a quarter of a million fighting men. Along the skyline to’ the left, in single file, cut out sharp in black against the azure west, moved a band of horsemen. ‘Tp from the plain behind me burst a pat- talion of Canadian foot and a battery of four field guns halted on my right to give the men a chance to stare at what is perhaps the oldest relic of human life in Britain. A year ago I might have moralized on progress, -on the notable advance we have made over the crude enginery that brought these blocks here and set them in place. Today I find it hard to believe that chemistry and mechanic arts have made men different from what they were. When the soldiers have looked a little and stretched themselves they move on. Stonehenge remains, and the skylarks are still singing the same song, no doubt, that rang above this plain thousands of years ago.—Scrib- ner’s Magazina, Praise Better Than Fault Finding. Praise a boy for his good deeds rather than spank him for his bad ones. Many a parent has tried it, with successful results, as well as pleasant ones for the boy. ; Hardheaded business has made a similar discovery, A Pennsylvania rail- road superintendent found that post- ing in public places the faults of his employees failed to reduce the num- ber of delinquencies. “I'll try a new game,” he said. “The failures I shall keep to myself, but the particularly good bits of work done by the men I shall paste upon a bulletin board where all may read.” And the result of this scheme of heart instead of fist? A quick drop of two-thirds in the number of men who ‘required diséipline. This was bure gain, and a big one, for the rail- road, but the men profited even more. There was a decrease of more than | 70 per cent in loss of wages through suspensions. ree. Medical Quacks Among the Wounded. The exploitation of a great variety of electrical devices for the treatment of diseases has attended the return to London of wounded soldiers from the front. Most of these are absolutely valueless and many have been sold fraudulently. The Electrical Review of London editorially attacks the prac- tice. The writer of the article de- clares that “while he holds no brief for the qualified medical man.” he does hold a brief “against those who, with the aid of newspaper advertisement and pseudo-scientific pretenses, are ready to take unfair advantage of the opportunity to fatten on the earnings of poor and rich alike. . . . We know something of the lengths to which these sharks can go, the profits that. they make, and the receptivity of the easily deluded mind, when we express a hope that the powers in authority will keep a careful watch over this matter.” : Climatic Extremes. People who kick about the climate of the eastern states may give thanks that their lot has not been cast in eastern Washington, but may feel in- clined to move to the Puget sound region. “For the last 19 years,” said Prof. Edwin J. Saunders ir a recent lecture at the University of Washington, “the Sound country has experienced only 16 days when the temperature was above 90 degrees, and but three days when it was ‘below zero. Eastern Washington commonly has a tempera- | ture of 114 degrees and a temperature of from 10 to 20 degrees below zero is often registered at North Yakima, Kennewick and Pasco.” ——— rei on Vegetable Cement, Cement from beets—this is one of the latest discoveries of science. It is said that a French firm is making an excellent quality of this product from the scum which forms when the beets are poiled, and which hitherto has been thrown away. ———————————— A Practicable Suggestion. Chief Forester Cox of Minnesota, has suggested the ase of aeroplanes for rangers on the lookout for fires. Wisconsin has one man so equipped. The idea seems startlingly practi cable. —Springfield Republican. For a Sunburned Baby, Bathe the inflaraed skin with a go | tution consisting of one teaspdontul of bichloride of soda to a pint of wg- | mendations. . He : an amusing tale of himself. DELUGE BEFORE THE FALL Recent Discoveries Throw a New Light on Things of History Long Thought Revealed. According to a translation of a re cently deciphered inscription on one of the Sumeriam tablets, Professor Langdon of Jesus college, Oxford, says the deluge preceded the fall of man. The tablet which has been almost completely restored, contains six finely written columns of about 240 lines. most of which are intact. ; It begins by describing the land of primeval bliss, which it locates at Dil mun, an island in the Persian gulf. “In this paradise dwelt mankind, whom Nintud, the creatress, with the help of Enlil had created,” says Professor Langdon. “After the deluge this king is called Tagtug, the Divine. And this Tagtug lives in a garden, is himself a gardener, and the wise Enki reveals unto him wisdom. “The Greek historians, too, preserve this legend in the story of Oannes, who rose from the Persian gulf to teach men wisdom in primeval times. And so Tagtug, as in the Hebrew*his- tory of Noah, plants a garden, names | the trees and plants, and is permitted | to eat of all but the cassia tree, an herb of healing par excellence. Of this plant Tagtug was not to eat, for thereby he would attain eternal life. “Mankind until this time possessed extreme longevity, but not immortal- ity. . Tagtug, on his own initiative, takes and eats. He.is cursed by Nin- tud and becomes a prey to disease and ordinary mortality. “Thus in the original Sumerian story Noah, the survivor of the flood, is the one who eats from the tree of life. No woman 18 concerned in this disobe- dience, which resulted in our loss of perfect health, peace and countless years.” Dramatists’ Works Published. Foreign plays, the work of Dumas, Ibsen, Sudermann and many others, were obtainable both in the original and in translation twenty years ago, but the play in the English language was practically a ‘forbidden book. Dramatists, whose tongue was English apparently thought that the place of the drama ' cation over great distances. , now, seems absurdly simple. publishers and readers . Induction coil, and send out flashes i in such a manner that the detector ! was the theater, and that to act it and | see it acted was the sum total of its existence. To make a book of a mod- ern play was in the last years of the nineteenth century an unheard-of- thing. With the advent of Ibsen as a answer is, he didn’t do it. Why didn’t world power in the theater came the | change. The controversy raging over | the Norwegian’s head demanded the ' printing and the reading of his plays in English. = Then Bernard Shaw’s plays were published before they were acted; Oscar Wilde's appeared almost simultaneously before reader and theater audience. Pinero’s and Henry Arthur: Jones’ came from the press after they saw the footlights. One after another dramatist followed. Each Man to His Own Work. There is an opinion altogether too "himself. That was in December, 1894. broadcast that some work is delight- . ful and lovable and some work not 80. A certain great philosopher tells sat in his study working he looked out of the window and saw a man breaking up stones in the pavement. Hour after hour, as the philosopher set down words on the paper, the man outside in the street continued to ply his pickax. The philcsopher felt so sorry for the man that finally he could stand it no longer and he has- tened out to him and accosted him. As he . umph in waste saving. Sweden is a re- , cheap water power, and the waste “What do you think of all day as you ' keep on hour after hour breaking stones?” The man stood up, rested his pickax against his hip, spat on his hands and rubbed them together, with a broad grin, and replied: “Breakin’ stones,” and lifted his pick again. The philosopher ‘withdrew to his study a happier and, wiser man, knowing that each man gravitates naturally to the work he enjoys thinking about.—De- lineator. Banana Meal Industry. The manufacture of banana meal or flour as a regular industry promises to be an effect of the war realized in Jamaica. The: diminished sales of bananas have led to careful experi- ments, and a consular report states that in one of these 537 pounds of fruit yielded 138 pounds of flour, the cost being low enough to make selling at four cents a pound very profitable. Mixed with wheat flour, the banana meal makes satisfactory and nutri- tious bread and cakes that housewives are urged to try. For bread the ma- terial may be equal to or somewhat less than the wheat flour, and for plain cake or gingerbread the banana meal may be substituted entirely for other flour, the other ingredients be- ing added. : Corncob Is Useful. A new use has been found for the humble corncob. This time a Kansas farmer is obtaining wonderful results by burying them in the ground be- side his muskmelon patch. The cobs retain moisture for the melons when everything else is dry as a bone. Lots of Room in Russia. Figures show that while Russia is increasing in population twice as fast as Germany, she has four times as much room at her disposal in Europe. Japan, whose population grows rap- idly, has, by ordinary standards, iit- tle or no room for more, He Knows. An experienced employer attaches little importance to written recom- remembers how ter. © Cold cream is alse helpful in | many he has nimself given and how taking out tde¢ burning sensation. little they really meant. FOUND FAME IN YOUTH MARCONI YOUNG IN YEARS—IS GREAT IN RENOWN. Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy Now Is but Forty-One Years Old—How the Great Idea Came to His Mind. It is almost startling to be told that Marconi, the inventor of wireless teleg- raphy, is only forty-one years old. True, all talk of the present as “the age of young men,” and when Marconi broke into fame everyone remarked: “How young he is!” But 80 much has come out of his harnessing of the ether forces, so many big events and developments, that it sees as if Mar- coni could be no longer young. And he is yet hardly over forty. In boyhood Marconi showed ability in mechanics somewhat above that of the average lad, but until he was twenty he knew little more of elec- tricity than most youths of his age. It wads then, however, that he became interested in the work of Prof. Hein- rich Hertz, a German scientist, who, in attempting to discover the nature of electricity, accidentally produced electro-magnetic waves and detected their presence in the ether by means of a wire hoop so broken that the electricity sparked across the gap. Not even Hertz himself realized the tremendous importance of his discov- ery. Meb like Professor Lodge, Lord Kelvin and Sir William Pierce talked of it, but it remained for the young Italian dreamer to jump across the gap of years of scientific study and make practical the most important discovery since Faraday invented the induction coil. The thought came to Marconi that here was a principle which should be applied to communi- The idea, as we look brck on it Hertz detected a spark in a broken hoop, a few feet away from the flash of an induction coil. Why didn’t he get a better detector than a broken hoop’ and a better transmitter than a small would record a message? The only Lodge or Kelvin or Pierce or any one of the hosts of famous scientists util- ize Hertz's discovery? The answer is, they didn’t. : y It remained for a young man, un- known and inexpert, to grasp the pos- sibilities. He expected someone else to do it, he waited for someone else to do it. He did not know when it would be, for the surprising reason that to him the great scientists were unnamable. He was not acquainted with their work or even their names— except Hertz’'s. He was not an elec- trician. He had no academic or scien- tific degree. But génius burned within ‘him, and he began to experiment for Cheap Gas Generation Produces gas electrically at one-half to one-fourth the cost of generation by water power, even in a land of waterfalls, and represents a new tri- gicn of wealth in timber as well as of from wood cutting is estimated to be sufficient for a constant supply of 70,000 to 100,000 horse power of en- ergy in addition to the power required for the sawmills. A new electric plant for Lejusne is expected to yield the equivalent of 2,200 horse power at a cost of less than a thirteenth of a cent per kilowatt hour. The full sup- ply is a mixture of sawdust with ten to twenty per eent of chips, and this costs—in a green state—20 cents per load at the mill. The gas producers are charged with this fuel, arrange ment being made for recovering tar, | wood naphtha, and acetic acid. If ex- pectations are realized, the capacity of the station will be increased to 4,200 horse power, and this will still further lessen the cost per electric unit. Deaths on the Highways. During the first six months of the present year there seems to have been an alarming increase in the number of deaths and accidents in the public highways. This increase is not con- fined to any character. For instance, the fatalities due to automobiles in New York state increased from 183 in 1914 to 241 this year. In New Jersey during the same period there were 48 deaths and this year 83. Popula- tion grows and so dces the number of vehicles in use on the highways, but | neither are sufficient to account for | ‘this unreascnable increase in deaths | on the highways. Drivers and pedes- trians both have their rights, but the observance of ordinary care on the part of the man {in the vehicle and the man on foot would undoubtedly cause a big decrease in the number of avoid- able deaths, the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks. High Cost of Killing. | The $3,000,000,000 subscribed to a| single British lcan is greater by some | hundreds of millions than our entire interest-bearing national debt, after frour years of Civil war. Even faster i than the cost of ving ses the cost | of killing one’s fellow inen.—New York World. ! ————————————— . Business. Madge—Why don’t you tell him frankly that you don’t like him as well as you do Charke? | Marjorie—How can I, dear? = I'm ' not just sure that Charlie will pro- pose. —Jiudge. BELLEFONTE, WORK OF SURGEONS IN WAR | Prevention of Disease and the Cure of Wounds Has Been Something Marvelous. No phase of human activity and progress has been further developed, perhaps, than the work of medicine and surgery during this great war. Doctor Beaumont of the White Star line, tells the New York Times that af: ter a three months’ tour of base hos pitals in Great Britain he finds that surgery has become more conserva: tive through the use of the X-ray. So efficient has the whole hospital serv- ice become that men wounded at Ypres were in London hospitals in 12 hours afterward, From the colleges 4,600 surgeons have joined the serv- | ice, and yet there is need for more. There has been a great decrease .in the number of gangrene cases in Flan- ders and lockjaw in France, where the soil is fertile in nourishing the te- | tanus germs. Antitetanus serum in- jected immediately has prevented in- numerable cases. Inoculation against typhoid fever is also practiced. There have not been three dozen cases of enteric among the British in this war, while in the Boer war there were thousands. The greater number of the dangerous wounds are caused by shrapnel and high explosives and not by rifle bullets, which pass clean through and do little harm unless they : strike a vital part. Doctor Carrel and Doctor Dakin together have discovered a new antiseptic which seems little short of marvelous in its action. One of the most valuable lessons of the war was the discovery of the wonder- ful usefulness of iodine as an antisep- tic dressing. The new discovery re- lates to the addition of carbonate of lime and boric acid to hypochlorite of lime, overcoming the objections to the latter: Only a few months ago two French physicians discovered a “poly- valent” serum roughly described as “a combination of several serums against different varieties of bacteria.” . Recent news is that most gratifying results have followed the use of this serum. The British Medical Journal says that Americans show faint appre- ciation of their medical discoverers. It cites our hall of fame, where poli- ticians head the roll, with authors next and fiction writers at the head of them. This fact is emphasized, the New York ! Sun thinks, by the reflection that the name of Morton, the American discov- erer of anesthesia, is probably not so well known as the names of a thousand mediocrities. Wear Khaki Uniform. The Belgian army is now clothed in khaki instead of the dark colored and conspicuous uniform of the earlier months of the war. It has been a pop- ‘ular change, since the khaki of the British soldier has been much ad. mired by the Belgians as both smarter | in a military sense and more business- ; like than their own. dark blue and ; green 1 The sanitary situation along the Bel gian front is excellent, and the sick report is exceedingly small. The bodies of dead horses and men float ing in the area covered by water have been fished out and destroyed, and the country in general cleaned up back of the lines. Belgian officers have established little chicken yards back of the trenches for fresh eggs, and angling for carp in the canals is one of the chief recreations of officers and men when off duty. ” ——————————— Forge Giant Chain for Panama. One of the largest chains ever made has been produced by the Woodhouse Chain company of Trenton, N. J., for use at the Panama canal locks. The «chain is 900 feet long, weighs 1215 tons, and the links are ten inches long, 6% inches wide and wrought from 1%- inch iron. . It was made at a single forge and completed by three men in three days. | The cost of the chain is $1,000. It is one of five to be made by the Wood- house company for the government. The resistance of the chain is 195,000 pounds, while the government speci- fications called for at least 172,260 , bounds. | each be 700 feet long. The other four chains will JEWELRY. Viake Your Watchword the Hamilton—be- cause Hamilton means accuracy, precision, faithful performance of duty day in and day out—as well as beauty. F. P. BLAIR & SON. Jewelers and Opticians, 59-4-tf A “Big Nose” Is Never Silent. i From the Chicago News. ° i Uncle Jim Hill has been officially de- | clared to be Minnesota's greatest living | citizen. Perhaps John Lind now sees the mistake he makes in keeping so quiet. New Advertisements. | Noe IN DIVORCE. ! Ethel M. Mott) Inthe Court of Common Pleas, ! of Centre County. vs No. February Term, i 1915. i Floyd R. Mott To the respondent above named. Take notice that an application for divorce has been made in the above case, upon the allegation that you have wilfully and maliciously deserted the libellant and absented yourself from her habitation without reasonable cause for and dur- | ing the term and space of two years. By reason of your default in not entering an appearance the i case has been referred to me as master. I have i fixed Saturday the 30th day of October, A. D. . 1915, at 9 o’clock a. m. as the time and mv office | No. 14 “Crider’s Exchange’” Bellefonte, Pa., as ; the place for taking testimony in the cause, when | and where you may attend. ] ; KLINE WOODRING, , 60-40-4t Master. EE —— Excursion. New Adve: tisements. OTICE.—T0 the Stockholders of Whiterock Quarries: : = You are hereby notified that a meeting of the stockholders of Whiterock quarries will be held at the general office of this company, in Bellefonte, Pa., on the First day of December, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock a. m., to take action on approval or disapproval of a proposed increase of the indebtedness of this Company from noth- ing to $175,000.00, at which meeting all stock- holders are requested to be present in person or by proxy. L. A. SCHAEFFER, 60.39-9t Secretary. Goiters Successfully Removed by Non-Surgical Methods. Large goiters that have resisted all other treatment for years have gradually yield- ed to our methods and finally disappear loavids no evidence of ever having exist- ed. e are getting these results daily, and it would be greatly to the interest of anyone having a goiter to get in communi- cation with us at once, : Testimonials cheerfully given. All in. quiries treated in a strictly canfidential manner and promptly answered. Address all communications to THE ALLEGHENY SANATORIUM., 907-909 Irwin Avenue, N. S., 60-38-4t* Pittsburgh, Pa, Reduced fare excursion tickets will : SPECIAL Thursday, October 21 and Friday, burg 12.39 P. M., Biehl 12.45 P. M. Brook Park 6.05 P. M. on Thursday for mediate stations. nemo Pennsylvania Railroad Candyland for the UNION COUNTY BRO OK FAIR OCTOBER 19th to 22nd. be sold to Brook Park on these of issue only, from Bellefonte. Williamsport, Mt. C those from which the unlimited round-trip fare is PARK NEAR LEWISBURG ? > dates, good on date armel, and intermediate stations, except 50 cents or less. TRAINS October 22, will leave Mifflinburg 12.30 P. M., Vicks- Returning special train leaves Lewisburg 6.00 P.M., Bellefonte and on Friday for Glen Iron snl inter- Best. Peanut Brittle, French Nuget, : ' —) OUR FAMOUS (— | Milk Chocolate Covered Nut and Fruit We Make Candy that is Fit to Eat and Enjoy. CANDYLAND STORES. BELLEFONTE AND STATE COLLEGE, PA. Both Phones 60-1-1y. New Kinds Candy Made Every Day New Orleans Molasses Taffy, Peppermint Cream Wafers. Peanut Taffy, Sea-Foam Kisses, Cream Walnut Caramels, EE CE TRY TET The First National Bank. Save Your Money AND PUT IT IN BANK. SRN IE ORE er gee to pre Everyone should have close relations with a well man- aged institution. make no mistake in making us your bankers. You will | The First National Bank 59-1-1y . BELLEFONTE, PA. a Announcement. 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