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Bellefonte, Pa., December 22, 1916.
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“NEW TOLSTOY” IN RUSSIA]
Litterateurs Have Become Excited |
Over the Work of Ivan Alexei-
vitch Bunin.
The May issue of the Russkaya
Mysl (Moscow), a leading Russian
monthly, contains a remarkable re-
view of a story that had been pub-
lished in Russia some months ago, ac-
cording to the American Review of
Reviews. The author of the story is
Ivan Alexeivitch Bunin, a widely
known Russian poet, and its title is
“The Gentleman From San Francisco.”
It is perhaps no exaggeration to say
that no other story that has appeared
in Russia in recent years has been ac-
corded such a warm welcome as “The
Gentleman From San Francisco.” And
this is the more remarkable when one
considers that Bunin is by no means a
young or unknown figure on the Rus-
sian literary field. His reputation as
a poet of high quality was made long
ago. He is now in his late forties. In
1912 the honorary degree of academi-
cian was conferred upon him, and dur-
ing the last twenty-five years Russian
critics have had opportunity to study
Bunin’s literary powers and to learn
their potentialities and limits. This,
however, did not prevent him from
taking the literary world by storm
with his latest yroduction.
The Bulletin of Literature and Life,
a monthly of high literary standard,
was the first to break to the Russian
world in a recent issue the news that
Bunin’s new story is nothing like any
of his former works. As soon as at-
tention was attracted to it, the periodi-
cal press began to write about it, com-
mending “The Gentleman From San
Francisco” in glowing and enthusias-
tic terms. It became clear to the Rus-
sian public that Bunin was just enter.
ing his golden era, that the creative
genius of the poet had just found it-
self and that the numerous literary
productions of Bunin constituted but
the ladder of gradual! self-perfection
that led him to the apogee of his
career. And it is in this spirit that
A. Derman, a noted critic, writing in
the Russkaya Mysl, hails Bunin as a
new Tolstoy.
FARMER AS MODERN ATLAS
Summer Fields Show an Astonishing
Small Number of Toilers Doing
Necessary Work.
Midsummer fields on separate farms
hold the material which later is to
feed and clothe all the people. One
gees farmers cultivating long rows of
corn, sees them putting countless bun-
dles of grain in shock, sees them draw-
ing interminable loads of hay from
the swath or windrow to barn and
| Seven the story of the great war, what
shack; and when one looks at this |
very particular and painstaking labor |
in its separate units there is amaze-
ment in noting how few men and
teams are engaged in accomplishing
the huge work, observes a writer in
the Breeder's Gazette. They are so
few that in a ten-mile stretch of farms,
viewed from the car window or the
highway, they will count up an aston-
ishingly small total.
These men and teams work early
and late, under stress of weather and
the drive of simultaneous ripening.
These men and teams look lonely in
their wide apartness, and yet they are
actually accomplishing stupendous
things for the comfort, for the gratifi-
cation, for the very existence of the
human family. They produce the food
that “strengthens the arms that work
the purposes of the world.” They grow
the cotton and wool which, after giv-
ing empioyment in its manufacture to
incredible numbers, clothes becoming-
ly and in comfort school children,
busy men and women and all the idle
ones.
They are so few in the fields in the
hot days, and so huge is their burden
of responsibility that the story of At-
las bearing the world on his shoulders
appears not a myth but a true pic-
ture of the farmer with his burden—
the farmer carrying the food and
clothing of the world.
Hobby of the Germans.
Tt is a well-established fact that the
Germans as a people are the great-
est stamp collectors in the world, and
hundreds of Teutonic experts constant-
ly are on the lookout for unusual ink
shades, offsets, defects in plates and
other oddities in stamps which appeal
particularly to philatelists. In Bel-
gium there were certain varieties of
native stamps of considerable value
kept in the post offices, and one of the
first things the German forces did
when they invaded that country was to
sack the post offices and take all of
the desirable stamps. No doubt these
long since found their way to the Ger-
man dealers and collectors.
ES
At Last a Use for the Sparrow.
The much-abused English sparrow
may come to be considered as a Celi-
cate morsel of food if public sentiment
be so directed. Ex-Governor Cox of
Ohic gave a banquet recently at which
an important item upon the menu was
a sparrow pie. The guests ate it with
much pleasure, believing it to be either
reedbird or squab. Several hotel pro-
prietors are accused of serving the
sparrow on toast as reedbird and the
most fastidious guests are said to ac-
cept it without suspicion.
——For high class Job Work come to
And in te Picture Glows the Won-
drous Empire of Half a Cen-
tury Hence.
Half a century hence, in Russia, when |
Seventy Years recites to admiring
a chapter will be that in which the,
summer of 1916 is told, remarks a
writer in the New York Sun.
“In 1915, little one, we had been
learning. In 1916, our own lessons be-
ing mastered, we began to teach our
teachers. It was a stern school in |
which we studied; a still sterner one
in which we taught, as they of Austria
and the children of the Turk have not
yet forgot.
“Our Grand Duke Nicholas had been |
sent to the southern army. The gov-
ernment, some said, meant to rebuke
him. We who fought for him knew it
was not so; knew, at least, that the
future was in our hands, that we |
struck straight at the heart. While, |
therefore, our brothers gobbled Galicia |
and conquered the Carpathians and the
brave but misled men of Austria and :
Hungary, we fought the Turks.
“We stormed through the hosts of
the Turks in the land of the Armeni-
ans. Erzerum was ours, first; then
Trebizond, Bitlis, Balburt, Erzingan— |
we took them one by one; we cleared !
the land, and brought joy to the czar
and to those at home.
“So, base after base, we took them.
As we went, we grew stronger. The
spirit of Russia rose invincible. What
could stop us? I was then a youngster
counting not more than a score of
years; but the new strength of Russia
was in me, as it was in us all, as |
we swung on, steadily on toward Con- |
stantinople,”
Half a century hence, what a Russia
there will be!
BUNNY NO WEATHER PROPHET
At Least, Colonel Roosevelt Knows
Nothing of Animal's Cry as
Harbinger of Rain.
Rabbits do not give signals to indi-
cate a storm is approaching. That's
direct from Teddy himself, says a
Charleston, W. Va., dispatch to the
Pittsburgh Leader.
It has long been believed that a rab-
bit gives a purring, whirring noise
when a rain is imminent. There was
an argument over the question among
prominent residents of the state here,
ex-Gov. W. A. McCorkle opposing the
idea, declaring that in his long experi
ence in the woods he had never heard |
anything of the kind.
It was agreed to leave it to either
John Burroughs or Colonel Roosevelt. |
Mr. McCorkle wrote to Colonel Roose-
velt and received this reply:
“My dear Governor McCorkle: It’s
a pleasure to hear from you on any
subject, but I am sorry to say I cannot
help you in this particular matter. 1
i have never heard of a rabbit's utter-
ing the kind of a cry you speak of as
a harbinger of rain. Sincerely yours,
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
Thus is shattered one of the tradi-
tions which has long existed in wood-
craft of West Virginia.
To Get Rid of Marks on Wood.
When wood is badly dented or
scratched it is often a problem to
know how to get rid of the marks.
This is quite easy. First of all fold
a piece of blotting paper at least four
times; then saturate with water, final-
ly allowing the superfluous moisture
to drip away. Now heat a flat iron
until it is about the warmth required
for laundry work. Place the damp
blotting paper over the dent and press
firmly with the iron. As soon as
the paper dries examine the mark.
It will then be found that the cavity
has filled up to a surprising extent.
Where the dent is a very deep a sec-
and, or even a third application on
the lines indicated might be tried.
Sooner or later even serious depres-
sions can be drawn up. Repolishing
will clear away even the slight marks
that might finally remain.
Japanese Life Insurance.
In a few weeks Japan will start a
universal life insurance scheme. Any-
body can take out $124 or more of in-
surance without a medical examina-
tion, Girard writes in the Philadelphia
Ledger.
However, the estate of a policy hold-
er who dies within two years of a dis
ease other than typhoid, typhus, scarlet
fever, diphtheria or plague will be un-
able to collect the full amount of in-
surance,
The insurance is cheap, and the gov:
ernment is the insurer. It is expected
to encourage thrift and reduce the
number of pauperized families.
Some day we shall have big com-
panies in America writing policies in
a smaller fashion as we shall have
sound banks lending $10 to honest men
as they do in France.
ee tle ensenae—
Oh, Really?
Today the main effect of modern ed:
ucation on women has been to compli-
cate, instead of to solve, the econo
mic question. The problem, “What
shall we do with our girls?” is keener
now than ever; and, although con-
scientious parents strive, with many
sacrifices, to make their daughters effi-
cient economic units, as an alternative
to matrimony, it cannot be said that
their efforts are very successful.
el een
His Place.
“The teacher James was talking
about uses shocks from a battery to
punish his pupils.”
“Phen in the field of educational cul-
Numbers of French Artists Withdrawn
From Trenches to Paint Unique
Landscapes.
There are 600 French artists—all the
able-bodied ones, it is said—mobilized
for the carrying on of a vast system
of what, for lack of a better descrip-
tive name, may be called out-of-doors
| scene painting, and they work in enor-
' mous so-called
“studios”—in reality,
open yards—in the Belleview quarter
of Paris, just inside the northeastern
section of the old fortified enciente.
The objects of which they paint are
all of natural size—trees, houses,
churches, towers, villages, towns,
fortresses, parks of artillery, stacks of
munitions, aviation sheds, railway
trains, camps, regiments of men re-
i posing, etc.
For months the French have been
using this outdoor stage scenery near
the hostile front to mislead and de-
ceive the enemy. It is only lately, I
| pelieve, that the German air scouts
have begun to suspect the deception
practiced upon them, and even since
: they have been thus forewarned, it is
not easy for them to distinguish the
| false from the real features of a land-
scape. You can imagine, therefdre,
what degree of skill'is shown in devis-
ing the former.
Since I called attention some months
ago to the number of artists who had
been killed or wounded in battle, vir-
tually all the members of the profes-
sion have been withdrawn from serv-
ice under arms, to perform this other
service which the military authorities
regard, it is said, as of equal import-
ance. Great secrecy has been ob-
served with regard to it. “We hardly
use any brush,” said a celebrated art-
ist to me, “that is smaller than a
broom !”"—American Art News.
PERSONAL WASTE HEAVY TAX
Standard Oil Would Soon Go Bank-
rupt on “System” That Most
Americans Follow.
How many mornings does your cook
spoil the toast? You don’t know.
Nor do you keep tabs on the 50 oth-
er apparently trifling things of every
day.
From the moment you draw an un-
necessary amount of water for your
morning bath until you have touched
the push button and stopped that tire-
less electric meter at night and retire
to rest it is waste plus “don’t know”
all along the line, writes “Girard” in
the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
If Standard Oil was as careless with
its pennies as a man making $10 a
week is with his, it would be bank-
rupt before Christmas. But you know
well enough that you've got to be
And here is President Rea’s rail
road, which has run passenger trains |
3,000,000 miles without killing a pas- |
senger. Why? Because he has made |
in three and one-half years 2,500,000
tests to see that his trainmen observe
the rules of safety.
But, heigh-ho, you never test any-
thing in your smaller affairs to see
how many little spigots are pouring
out pennies needlessly. Just the same
they are taxing you a great deal more
than your church pew.
Statue of Alexander.
News has reached Rome of the dis
covery in Cyrenaica of what are de-
scribed as “the most wonderful arche-
ological finds of the century.”
Perhaps the most interesting is a
statue of Alexander the Great, over
55 feet in height, in a perfect state of
preservation. Among the other relics
unearthed, are a head of Athena, be-
lieved to be a copy of the Greek origi- |
nal of the fifth century, a unique ex-
ample of Eros (love), showing the ex-
act position of the bow and also the
most perfect specimen of a satyr
(sculptured) yet discovered.
Other exquisite specimens of Greco
Roman art found in the tiny Temple
of Isis include a giant statue of Mer-
cury and a group of the Three Graces.
the marble of which is as good as new.
All the three heads are intact. With
such discoveries a great impetus is
being given to the work of exploration
and the Italian garrison troops are
engaged in opening up the Temple of
Jupiter. The masterpieces discovered
will probably be transferred to Rome.
Cow's Variable Thirst.
Somebody rises to inquire how much
water a cow will drink during warm |
weather. Weil, that depends, replies
the Coffeyville Journal. Where a
hydrant is handy, a tubful a day is
plenty for her.
obliged to draw it from a well with a
bucket and rope, she will drink from
half a barrel to a barrel. If the water
must be hauled her thirst increases
according to the distance traveled to
get it. Water brought from two miles
away will be consumed at the rate of
three barrels a day, three miles five
barrels, and above that distance no
practical test has ever been made, as
no means has ever been provided to
get the water fast enough.—Kansas
City Star.
Not a Good Prospect.
Lawyer—Have you been tried for
speeding before?
Motorist—Uh-huh!
times!
Lawyer—Um—that looks bad. You
must be about broke !'--Puck.
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WHEN RUSSIA TELLS OF 1916 SCENERY TO DECEIVE AIRMEN Wide guale HO EEN OT Re
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Start Your Christmas Shopping Early.
Come and See Our Cut Glass
Department.
By a lucky chance we are alle to sell real Cut Glass
at prices that seem astonishingly low. Everything in
the different Fruit Bowls, Flower Vases, Tumblers,
Cream and Sugar, Spoon Holders, Etc., at prices that
will make you buy quickly.
For example, we are showing a 12-inch Orange Bowl
that sells everywhere at $6.00; our price $2. A hand-
led Nappy for jellies or nuts, 6 inch, that sells at $1.25,
our price 80c. Cream and Sugar Sets, regular price
$3.00, our price $1.00. Our limited space will not al-
low us to give all prices. We ask you to come in and
see this new department.
CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS.
BATH ROBES for ‘men and women.
IVORY SETS for the dresser.
SATIN PIN CUSHIONS, SATIN SACHETS.
A large variety of Lace and Stick Pins. Shell Combs, Shell
Barettes and fancy Ornaments. Three-piece Turkish Towel
Bath Sets.
See our large Art Department, particularly Tapestry, Wall
Panels, Scarf Sets, all colors, all prices, from 50 cents to $3.50.
SILKS.—See our new line of Silks for waists, dresses and ki-
monas.
COATS, SUITS AND FURS.—Owing to the continued
warm weather we are making further reductions on all
Coats, Suits and Furs.
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Lyon & Co. -.. Bellefonte.
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The Question What to Give
IF IT'S FOR MAN OR BOY
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mas,
years ago,
Not since this
store’s First Christ-
over Thirty
shown anything
ment in Bellefonte of eve
have we
Let the Fauble Stores Answer it for you.
Come and See Us—You Will Have No
trouble in making your selection.
It's here, every price, and by far the Largest Assort-
rything that Man or Boy wears will be
found here.
Let the Fauble Stores Solve Your Christmas Worries
We will Make it Easy For You.
like our this year’s
assortment of nice
things that men
wear and appre-
ciate.
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tivation he is something of an electric
thrasher.” :
the WatTcHMAN Office.
Brockerhoff House Block
Bellefonte, Pa.
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