Bellefonte, Pa., August 25, 1916. — | LEARN LATIN IN SEVEN DAYS Two Oregon Girls Perform Remark- able Educational Feat Under New System of Training. Betty Schafer, thirteen, and Jane Campbell, fourteen, translated a few days ago a 200-word composition into Latin after only seven days’ instruc- tion. Doctor Berle, national educator of Cambridge, Mass., is employing the services of the two girls to show the pedagogical classes at the university the time that can be saved in teaching. Seven days before neither girl had ever studied any Latin. In the compo- sition submitted there was not a mis- take in vocabulary or position and the other errors were very few. The trans- lation called for the use of the first and second declension. “The secret lies in teaching the pu- | pils to associate,” Doctor Berle said. “I started Jane and Betty by having them learn the vocabularies through looking up ever English derivative. ! When we came to the word ‘magnus’ they went to the dictionary and found ‘magnanimous,’ ‘magnificent,’ ‘magni-- | fy,’ and.so on. Those girls will never forget that ‘magnus’ means ‘great.’ ; “As a result these girls know their ' vocabularies. The trouble with the average person is that they cannot col- | lect together what they already know. | Every subject studied should be made to co-ordinate with what one is study- ing in other lines.” FIGHTING A TIMBER PLAGUE Forest Service Cuts Down More Than a Thousand Trees in Warfare on the Pine Tree Beetle. More than a thousand trees have been cut down and burned during the past three months by the forest serv- | ice on the Lassen national forest in ! an effort to stamp out a plague of timber-destroying beetles. The pine beetle, known to the scientists as the dendroctonus, migrates in swarms from dying to living pine trees and constructs great galleries between the outer and inner bark for its larvae, which seem to live and thrive on the pitch. The beetle-infested tree digs almost as quickly as if girdled by a Iumberman’s ax, and, since the insects usually bore deep into the sapwood, a tree thus killed is seldom fit for lum- bering purposes. Serious raids of these timber-de- stroying beetles occur frequently in the valuable sugar and yellow pine forests of California. Only prompt ac- ' tion on the part of timber owners and the government prevents immense losses, such as occurred in the Black Hills some years ago when more than 3,000 acres of timber were destroyed. She Deserved to Win. Senator Lodge was praising the re- sourcefulness of Serbia in her uneven fight against Germany, Austria, Bul- garia and the Turks. - “Serbia keeps her army intact,” he said. “She reminds me, in the re-' sourcefulness of her retreat, of a cer- | tain gir! at Christmas. “This girl went to spend Christmas in the country, and they invited her best young man down, expecting— and with reason—that under the mis- tletoe’s stimulus he’d propose. “But when she got to the country. she discovered that not a branch of mistletoe was to be procured. “Did she surrender? Never. She fixed some pearl studs to a sprig of apple leaves, and hung them from the chandelier, and the young man— they're married and have five children now—never knew the difference.”’— Washington Star. How War Levels Creeds. In a French hospital a German sol- dier lay dying. He was a Protestant, | and as the pall hung over him he asked : for spiritual consolation according to his faith. The only Protestant clergy- man at the hospital could not speak German, and the German soldier did not understand French. A Catholic priest, who was himself badly wound- ed, heard the request of the soldier and the conversation of the nurse and clergyman. He asked to be carried to the side of the soldier's cot, and there, although in severe pain himself, he translated to the dying soldier, un- til death released him, the words of consolation of the Protestant pastor.— Christian Herald. Rubber Production Booms. The rubber production of the Dutch East Indies, upon which America now draws to a considerable extent, is in- creasing by leaps and bounds. Ac- cording to figures just published by the Batavia Rubber Trade Associa- tion, the crop harvested last year in the island of Java alone was 6,059,.- 098 kilograms, as against 8,260,274 in 1914, and it is estimated at as much as 9,205,825 kilograms in the current year. Other parts of the Dutch East Indies yielded 2,285,380 kilograms of rubber, as compared with 1,321,320 in 1914 while the estimate for 1916 is 3,752,000 kilos. No Contradicting Anyhow. There is-a story of a Highlander, “somewhere in France,” who having talked for an hour with a Frenchman, neither understanding a word of the other’s language, parted with a “Good nicht. We hae had a grand crack togither.” for use in time of war. ——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. VICTORIA CROSS FOR SEPOY Indian Soldier Honored by King for Bravery in Saving His Command- ing Officer Under Fire. The London correspondent of the Medical Record mentions two recent instances of awards of the Victoria! Cross, the first to a surgeon, and the second to a Sepoy who rendered first aid and protected his commanding offi- | cer until he could summon assistance under cover of night. He writes: “The king has been pleased to award the Victoria Cross to Capt. John ' Alexander Sinton, M. B,, I. M. G., for ‘most conspicuous bravery and devo- tion to duty.’ refused to go to the hospital and re- mained as long as daylight lasted, at-. tending to his duties under heavy fire, In three previous actions Captain Sin- | ton displayed the utmost bravery. “His majesty also conferred the cross on Sepoy Chatta Singh, Ninth Bhopal infantry, in the Indian army, for his most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in leaving cover to assist his commanding officer, who was lying wounded and helpless in the open, where Singh bound up the offi- cer’s wound and then dug a cover for him with his intrenching tool, being exposed all the time to very heavy rifle fire. He remained until nightfall—five hours—beside the wounded officer, shielding him with his own body on the exposed side; then, under cover of darkness, he went back for assist- i ance and safety.” brought the officer into - ROME GETS FAMOUS STATUE Dispute Over Valuable Find, in Which Julius Caesar’s Will Figured, Ended in Favor of City. A gift to Rome has finally been , made of the famous Niobide, the dis- | puted ownership of which aroused | much public interest. The statue was discovered eight years ago during dig- ging operations executed on land be- longing to the Banca Commerciale upon the site of the ancient Horti Sal- lustiani. Due notice of the find was given to the authorities, and the ex- pert archeologists sent to examine the statue pronounced it a Greek orig- inal of exquisite workmanship and great value. Ownership was disputed by the mu- nicipality of Rome, which claim was based upon Julius Caesar’s will, among other historical data, and the Banca Commerciale, the actual owners of the | ground. After many vicissitudes, the ! dispute has finally been settled by the withdrawal of their claims, the Niobide : thus becoming the property of the The statue will be added to state. the collection in the Museo delle Terme in Rome. Mobilizing Medical Resources. American manufacturers of medicin- al products recently organized a na- tional association, one of the announc- ed purposes of which is to have ready a sufficient supply of pharmaceutical, chemical and biological preparations That fore- sight in thus preparing for contingen- | cies is desirable may be illustrated by the fact that one of the European na- tions now at war not long ago sought to buy from an American producer of antitetanic serum a definite quan- tity each month and was told that his product was contracted for, and that in order to fill the foreign order 250 ' additional horses would be required, sanitary stables would have to be provided, and under the most favor- able conditions delivery could not begin until six months had elapsed and an investment of $250,000 had been guaranteed. Considerable time is required to produce serums, tox- ins, antitoxins and the like, to say nothing of an abnormal supply of antiseptic surgical dressings and all i the ordinary preparations required by army surgeons and doctors. The newly formed association has memorialized the United States gov- ernment, asking that the nation’s re- Sources in medical supplies be de- termined, and has pledged itself to co-operate in the task of arranging to secure an adequate quantity of necessary aids to medical and surgical treatment of soldiers in case of war. The subject not only is important in itself, but it serves to illustrate once more how complex is the task of preparing for national defense. Fish of the Euphrates. Euphrates “salmon,” to catch which, by way of change of diet and duty for his men, Brigadier General Brook- ing wants “strong fishing tackle,” most probably belong to the carp tribe. They are likely to be cousins of the mahseer, the best sporting fish of In- dian rivers, which sometimes weighs 90 pounds, and may have scales as large as the palm of your hand. But the Euphrates is full of giant fish, many varieties of which are not yet catalogued. These are dried in the sun by the modern denizens of ancient Eden, and then pounded into a kind of flour, which is kept for “war food” during flood time.—London Chronicle. A Soporific Influence. “I recently met a college professor who used to deliver long-winded lec- tures to me in sociology,” remarked the man who is afflicted with insomnia. “Yes?” “The sound of his voice certainly carried me back to the good old days whefi I invariably occupied a back seat in the classroom. Why, I felt more like taking a nap than I have in months.” Although shot through both arms and through the side, he | Much-Maligned Race Shows High i Sense of Honor in its Manner of Conducting Warfare. | When the Red Cross dressing sta- , tions at Suvla bay were shelled by the Turks, writes Norman Wilkinson in | his account of the Gallipoli campaign, ! it was owing to British carelessness | in landing stores and ammunition near ! the stations. | It was not a deliberate act, for no nation could possibly have conducted warfare in a more above-board man- ner than the Turks. The fact was a surprise to me, although naval officers generally have long regarded the Turk as the gentleman of the eastern Medi- | terranean. That is further borne oyt ; by the Turk’s refusal to use poisonous gas when attacking. On the afternoon of the landing the . Turks sent in to say that they would respect the Red Cross stations if no stores were landed in the vicinity. At a later date the Turkish headquarters sent a helio message to the effect that they had seen tows of boats communi- cating between warships and the dressing stations. That they naturally resented, and said that if it did not cease they should feel compelled to open fire, In another case a surgeon told me that the enemy had actually sent to apologize to him for the accidental shooting of one of his stretcher bear- ers. All this is only what one would expect from a chivalrous enemy, but the action of the Turk shows that this : much-maligned race retains a sense of honor that is more sensitive than that of some who regard themselves as su- perior. i \ | MODERN GUNFIRE IS COSTLY | e—— i Greater Part of Immense Sum Euro. pean War Is Costing Is Being Thrown Away by Artillery. This is a war of artillery. Shells and shrapnel are being used on a scale |. far in excess of the calculations of the most far-seeing military experts of Europe. To fire a single shot from our biggest guns cost $5,000, and some idea of the expenditure of naval firing can be gathered from the fact that one fa- meus battleship could use up roughly $100,000 worth . of ammunition per minute if she worked all of her guns ; at full blast, as she would do if neces- sary. And to this huge outlay must: be added the cost of the gun, remem- | bering that the largest weapon has a very shert life, and is soon worn out. | The most expensive gun we use is a 15-inch, though other big guns run up heavy ammunition bills. For instance, $375 vanishes in flame and smoke every time a 13.5 weapon is fired. The guns which expend $5,000 worth of ammunition every time they fire are really wonderful pieces of artil- lery. They shell over a distance of 30 miles with the certainty of hitting any spot they aim at. The power and velocity of the shot are such that on leaving the gun it has force enough to go straight through 57% inches of { wrought iron.—London Tit Bits. Matter of Height. We are informed by an otherwise ‘ veracious friend that he was standing ‘in front of a department store, gaz- ing raptly into one of the display windows, when he heard this conver- sation: “Tell me, Grace,” said a man whose | wife—or maybe she wasn’t—had made | him stop while she rubbered at the I dresses, “when you're getting a dress, | which costs more—the waist or the | skirt?” “Why, that depends,” said the wo- ; man. : “On the season, I suppose.” “How could it depend on the sea- son, silly?” “Well, this season the skirts come | high, but the waists don’t—ain’t I , right?” i The Army Rat Catcher. William Dalton of Southwark, who is known as the king of rat catchers, has been given the job of killing the rats in all the army camps in England. “This year,” says the “king,” “I am | fighting almost single-handed, and the ! menace is really serious. In less than i six months I have caught over 12,000 ‘rats, and cries for help are coming from all quarters. | “The government has come to real- ; ize the necessity for killing rats. At {one camp I have already visited we : caught 1,085 rats, and over 70 of them weighed more than a pound and a half each.,”—New York Sun. Apples Is Good. The young superintendent of the En-* deavor society tried to teach each child to say aloud some prayer, even if it were only a sentence. At first she taught them prayers. Later they were ¢ncouraged to compose their own. One tiny fellow, the son of a poor widow, had his first production ready on a very cold winter day. “Dear Lord, apples is good.” That night the mother of the super- intendent took a basket of apples to the child’s home. The boy smiled ra- diantly, evidently grateful that his first prayer had been answered. Keeping Friends. “This poet speaks about keeping friends with oneself. . That sounds non- sensical for me.” . “Not at all. Didn't you ever call yourself names?” “Ye-es.” “And why? Because you had done something of which you did not ap- prove.”—Kansas City Journal. Pray TURK IS CHIVALROUS ENEMY | | | (of the soil being in good condition, | Cover Crops and Dry Weather. It is sometimes advisable to under a cover crop earlier on account whereas if put off for a few days or a week, dry weather might prevent the work being done as it should be. When the land is to be planted to cot- ton it will be necessary to turn the cover crop undet earlier, regardless of the stage of growth. This will allow a few days for the land to settle dnd to be gotten in proper condition for a good seed bd. The plow should be fol- iowed closely with the harrow, to pul- verize the soil before the wind and sunshine dries it cut. Unless the soil is full of moisture or there are pros- pects of an early rain it is best to run CASTORIA. tirn | the weeder i — a roller over the land to firm it, which will aid in holding the moisture. 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