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COLONY HAS FEW INDUSTRIES
Belgian Congo, After Thirty Years, Is
! Still in the Early Stages of
| Development.
Belgian Congo, founded thirty years
ago, is still in the early stage of de-
velopment. So far practically no
manufacturing industries have yet
been established and, aside from the
important copper mines in the Ka-
tanga district, the only large indus-
trial enterprises are the railways and
river transportation services. It
may be said that all business activi-
ties in the colony are devoted to the
collection of tropical products—rub-
ber, ivory, gum copal, palm oil and
kernels, cacao, etc.—and the railway
and river services are in reality only
accessories to these activities, having
been established primarily to aid in
the transportation of these products
to the seaports. The gathering of rub-
ber in Congo has never recovered its
former activity, and in all probability
will never again be so rich a source
of income to the colony as it was pre-
vious to 1912. The cultivated product
from the plantations in the East In-
dies is superior in quality to the wild
rubber of the Congo, and, owing to
the active competition of the larger
plantations and better location as to
shipping facilities, it may be placed
upon the market at lower rates.
RECOGNIZED VOICE OF THIEF
Blind Pencil Seller Able to “Identify”
Man Who Had Stolen Small Sum
From Him.
“Jimmy” Moriarity, a blind pencil
seller, identified by a voice a man
whose face he coulG not recognize. A
few weeks ago John Reggioni went to
the blind man’s little room, offered
to sell him two chickens and discov-
ered he was really blind. He con-
cluded Moriarity was a miser, too.
New Year's eve he came to collect.
He did not knock at the door, but
when Moriarity approached he sent
the old man to the floor with a blow.
Reggioni, accompanied by seven oth-
ers, was taken to the blind man. Mo-
riarity, after the fourth man had said,
“Any chickens today,” shouted:
“That’s him.”
Reggioni then confessed he had
stolen 17 cents.
The blind man said later that after
hearing Reggioni’s mother speak he
would not prosecute.—New York Dis-
patch Philadelphia Ledger.
The Ruffed Grouse, Too.
The pinnated grouse, or prairie
chicken, is by no means the only de-
sirable game bird whose extinction is
threatened in Minnesota. The ruffed
grouse, or partridge, is in even great-
er danger. Its growing scarcity has
been noted by many travelers along
country roads, who are accustomed to
seeing many of these birds feeding
along the way, especially in August.
This year very few were seen, where .
heretofore they have been numerous.
It is probable that the automobile
is in large part responsible for the
rapid disappearance of the ruffed
grouse, for the automobile has com-
pletely changed the conditions under
which the bird is hunted. In former
days hunters went out perhaps once
a week, where now they can go every
afternoon. The radii s. of their activ-
ity has also been greatly increased,
go that places that were once beyond
their reach are now within easy motor-
ing distance. Thus what were prac-
tically game refuges are no longer
such.—Minneapolis Journal.
War Causes Birds’ Suffering.
That birds have suffered from the
devastating fire of the opposing hosts
in Europe there can be no question.
Captain Crawshay bears testimony of
this in a letter to the Royal society
for the Portection of Birds. Harriers,
he has noticed in France, have come
in for “hot times” when gun positions
are located in low bottons which form
the favorite hawking grounds of these
birds. “Partridges,” he adds, “I some-
times see scared by the bursting
shells.”
Another relates the distress of a
pair of swallows that returned in the
spring to the cottage which had hith-
erto afforded them harborage, only
to find it a heap of ruins. After dis-
consolately flying round and round,
as if unable to believe the evidence
of their own eyes, they eventually
discovered a suitable site for their
nursery in a small military hut. A
great number of such huts, it is pleas-
ing to learn, have been used for this
purpose.
“The Sins of the Fathers.”
Mr. Lloyd-George’s son, Capt. Rich-
ard Lloyd-George, whose sudden pro-
motion to a lieutenant colonelcy was
officially denied recently, has inherited
a fine gift of oratory from his famous
father.
‘When he was little more than a boy,
he once deputized for his parent at a
public meeting and convulsed the audi-
ence by the manner in which he ac-
counted for his presence there.
Responding to a vote of thanks,
young Mr. Richard said that Mr. Lloyd-
George was unavoidably prevented
from speaking that day, and he added
gravely:
“There is a verse which states that
the sins of the fathers are visited upon
the children, and—that is the reason
I'm here!”—Pearsons.
GOT SAILORS’ “GOATS” I i
REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE UN-
NERVED BRITISH SEAMEN.
Men Refused to Stay on Ship That in
Their Opinion Had “Seen the Bot-
tom of the Sea”’—Vessel Held
in Thick Mud.
Not so very long ago the appear-
ance of a new island off the coast of
Alaska brought to mind other rapid
uprisings of land on the ocean.
An island suddenly came to light off
the coast of Sicily, remained for two
months and as quickly disappeared.
Sabrina, near the Azores, retired from
public life before it had been fairly
charted. The Gulf of Mexico has wit-
nessed the advent and subsidence of
small islands. These upheavals of
the bed of the ocean suggests all sorts
of mysteries connected with the un-
known depths. A British vessel once
had an uncanny experience in this con-
nection.
The vessel was out twenty-three
days from Manila to the Hawaiian is-
lands. It was a silent, dead-black
night. The lead showed a deep sea.
Suddenly those on board felt as though
they had grounded.
Daybreak revealed a low and misty
sky. The Britisher lay as if becalmed
in the midst of an oily sea strangely
discolored in patches. Suddenly the
water, to use the words of the mas-
ter, “trembled.” The ship rolled, and
in the distance rose a huge balloon-
shaped mass of vapor, steam or smoke.
There was not the slightest sound,
but a long line of chafing water
stretched across the streaky calmness.
Then the vapor settled over all, and
the ship’s company could hear but not
see the seething and pouring water all
about them. The captain ordered a
bucketful to be drawn up. It was hot
and smelled like the product of a gas-
works. Whereupon the captain re-
marked that “a new continent was be-
ing poked up,” adding that he wished
himself well out of the way.
The air grew more oppressive every
moment. The vessel gave a gentle
side roll and word went round that the
ship was aground. Over went the
lead and came up covered with blue,
oozy mud. The Britisher was wal-
lowing in sludge, the darkness was
palllike and the atmosphere suffocat-
ingly close. Then the air was rent
with reports dreadful tc hear in that
darkness. There were three of these
blasts and all was still again.
When the light came, red and un
natural, a strange sight met the eyes
of those on board. It was as if the
bottom of the Pacific had been laid
bare. They were helpless in a sea of
thick mud. The sulphur fumes were
choking and all had to take refuge be-
low. Hour after hour they gasped,
facing the probability of a death by
suffocation. Suddenly they felt that
they were afloat. The bank of mud
that held them had disappeared and
after a time the Britisher made her
way out of the gruesome spot.
When Honolulu was reached the
crew deserted, for they held that there
was no luck in a ship that had “seen
the bottom of the sea.”
Cape Cod Canal a Success.
The government test of the Cape
Cod canal has been declared a suc
cess. Two submarines made the trip
from Boston to Newport at the rate of
eleven miles an hour, and at a great
saving of time, as compared with the
outside route. The eight-mile trip
through the canal was made in forty-
five minutes, and by using this pas.
sage the submarines saved six miles
of distance and avoided much rough
weather. The Kiel canal was built
by the Germans at a cost approaching
$100,000,000, mainly for strategic pur-
poses; yet it is a fact that the reduc:
tion of distance between the German
base in the Baltic and the North sea
by this canal is little greater than the
gain to the American fleet, which
would result from the enlargement of
Cape Cod canal to accommodate our
battleships between those two impor-
tant stategic centers, Newport and
Boston.
Shocked by T. R.s Informality.
Harry A. Franck, famous as a world
wanderer, who has just returned from
a four years’ hike in South America,
tells the following about the impres-
sion left by Colonel Roosevelt with
the natives of Paraguay:
“I got near the trail of Colonel
Roosevelt, though not nearer than a
couple of hundred miles. He was on
his trip to the River of Doubt and I
heard much about him from the na-
tives, and from two men who had been
with him, Father Zahm and Mr. Sipp.
I heard many yarns about Roosevelt.
At one village, in the wildest part of
Central South America, hundreds of
miles from civilization and peopled
only by a few Indians, the inhabitants,
I was told, had been greatly shocked
because the colonel walked about their
streets without his coat on!”—New
York Times.
Chinese Minister Long a Diplomat.
Dr. Wellington Koo, who has beeg
appointed Chinese. minister to this
country, in succession to Kai Fu-Shah,
was until his appointment, minister to
Mexico, Peru and Cuba. Doctor Koo
was an undersecretary in the Chinese
foreign office until recently, and as
such was a member of a diplomatic |!
commission which conducted the nego-
tiations in Peking with the Japanese
minister. He speaks English perfect-
ly, and is a graduate of Columbia uni-
versity, where he received his doc-
torate.
| Bush House Block, - - 57-1 - .
F.P. BLA
& SON,
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS
Bellefonte, Pa.
We use no medicine or drops in the testing of the Eyes.
All corrections made under normal conditions.
Eye Glasses and Spectacles
of all descriptions Fitted Promptly and Corrections
Guaranteed. We do not advertise Cheap Glasses.
All Examinations Free of Charge.
F. P. BLAIR & SON.
59-4-tf.
FINE GROCERIES
Fruits and Confectionery.
We have a few items that you may find worth
looking after.
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A small lot of those 1914 crop Mixed Nuts at 10c. per lb.
Fair sized Oranges at 15¢ and 25c per dozen—fine fruit.
California pillow Figs at 15¢c per pound.
Fancy Wisconsin Cheese at 22¢ per pound—now worth at
present market rate 25c.
New crop California Walnuts and New Nuts at 2oc per lb.
Fine Nut Meats—Pecans, Walnuts and Almonds—all full
pieces, none broken—Try them.
California Naval Seedless Oranges—all sizes— fancy fruit.
Fancy Cranberries, 15 cents per quart—dry measure.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bellefonte, Pa.
mass
The First National Bank.
BANK ACCOUNTS
‘Are necessary these days. Modern
methods demand them. Put your
money in a good bank and draw
checks against it when necessary.
We thing our bank is a good one.
The First National Bank
59-1-1y BELLEFONTE, PA.
MEN'S SUITS
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At $10 and $12
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THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
56-6 BELLEFONTE PA.
Bush Arcade Bldg, 58-27
$3.50 SHOES
educed
to $2.25
NOW ON SALE
Ladies $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes
Reduced to $2.25 Per Pair.
ALL NEW GOODS,
Latest Styles, Good Sizes and
Widths. This sale is
For CASH ONLY.
Shoes must be fitted in the
store, as they will not be ex-
changed.
H. C. YEAGER,
THE SHOE MAN,
BELLEFONTE, PA.