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"Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1919.
THE PRAIRIE CROCUS.
By Will Truckenmiller.
While yet the snow in drifts is deep,
And strong and cold the March winds
sweep,
In every slightly sheltered place
The prairie crocus shows its face,
Oh! first brave flowers of the spring,
What promise to us you do bring
Of balmy, summer days to be
With all their floral pageantry.
Sweet roses blooming everywhere,
And stately lillies, tall and fair
While gentians blue and goldenrod,
To passing breezes, wave and nod.
But none, however gay they be,
And sweet and fair, can give to me
The pleasure that you always bring,
Oh! first brave flowers of the spring.
NATURE’S BRIDGES.
The best known of all natural
bridges is that found in the south-
western part of Virginia. This
strange rock formation has been vis-
ited by good geologists and tourists
from all parts of the world. It is not
so very far from a railroad station of
the same name, and a short drive
brings the visitor to it. As the road
winds around over the hills and
through forests of spruce pine, one
comes upon the Natural Bridge quite
unexpectedly. In fact, if one were
not on the lookout, it would be possi-
ble to pass over it and not be aware
of its proximity. The walls are al-
most fifty feet apart, and the arch has
a thickness of forty-four feet. The |
sides of the road adjoining the bridge |
are strewn with spruce pines, which |
find sustenance in the scant covering !
of soil. There is also a beautiful tan- |
gle of vines and creepers growing all
about. : :
Natural Bridge crosses in aa ob- |
lique direction a chasm which is sev- |
eral hundred feet long, and through |
which flows Cedar brook. The walls |
of this chasm are almost perpendicu- |
lar, and they rise above the bed of the
stream about two hundred feet. In
some places they are overhanging. |
but recently been reported by the
United States Geological Survey in
Utah, from fifty to one hundred miles
from the nearest railroad. Several of
these bridges are of almost gigantic
dimensions, among them being the
Augusta, the Carolina or Kachina,
and the Edwin. They are remarka-
ble not only for their dimensions, but
their coloring. Formed of red sand-
stone, they are streaked with other
shades of red and yellow, and have al-
most as vivid coloring as the Grand
Canon. The Augusta, or Shipapu,
bridge is two hundred and sixty-one
feet long at the bottom, and the arch
is more than two hundred feet high.
It is more than three times as long,
and twice as high, as Virginia's fa-
mous bridge. It is the greatest of |
these three bridges, for it combines
massiveness with a gracefulness of
proportions that give a satisfying ef-
fect. It is almost as wide as the av-
erage roadway. The Carolina is one
hundred and fifty-six feet long, and
two hundred and five feet from the
underside of the arch to the water be-
low. The arch is more than one hun- ;
dred feet thick, so that the roadway |
is very lofty. The width on the top |
is almost fifty feet. The dimensions |
of the Edwin bridge are not so strik- :
ing as the other two just described. !
Yet like all of these great stone mir- |
acles, it has a grandeur and a beauty '
seldom met with in nature. i
The Nonnezoshie Natural Bridge,
near the same locality, is another of |
these remarkable ‘formations. It is |
rather an arch of stupendous size, !
since the top is not level, and was first !
reported in 1909 by the members of
an archaeological expedition. It is
more than three hundred feet in
height, and almost the same distance
from abutment to abutment. Its
curve is nearly perfect, its lines arch- !
itecturally beautiful. This remarka-
ble arch has been wholly carved out
of the cliff by wind, rain and water.
The section including this bridge
was set aside by President Taft as
Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
The Indians had given the canon the |
name Nonnezoshieboka, the Great!
Arch Canon. The wild setting makes |
it one of the most attractive places in ,
the United States.—By Nevin O. Win-
ter, in The Forward. i
American Negroes Put Fear in Huns.
Big Grocery Store Plan Starts
March 1st.
Chicago.—It is planned to put the
retail grocery business on a per cap-
ita basis in Chicago, New York, Phil-
adelphia and St. Louis by the Piggly
Wiggly Merchandising company, just
organized with a capital of $2,000,000.
The new company, which is a devel-
opment of the Piggly Wiggly system
of self-serving, cash-and-carry retail
grocery stores operating in seventy-
eight cities throughout the United |
States, plans to open 5000 stores in
New York, 3000 in Chicago, 2000 in
Philadelphia and 1000 in St. Louis.
This number will be at the rate of
1000 stores to every million of popu-
lation in the four cities. The compa-
ny will open its central headquarters
in Chicago March 1.
——Only a few of the things we
want are absolutely necessary to our
welfare.
Why Swift & Company Handle
Poultry, Eggs, Butter and Cheese
Swift & Company went into the pro-
duce business because they saw a
crying need for the kind of service they
were equipped to perform.
The produce business was in chaos.
Collecting, transportation, preparation
and distribution was hit or miss,
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Shoes.
Yeager's
Shoe Store
$8 Shoes Reduced to $5.50
I have an accumulation of sizes---
8,181, 9 and 10--in
Men’s Genuine Army Shoes
These shoes sell at $8.00 per pair.
You can Purchase a Pair at $5.50
Until they are All Sold
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with delay, deterioration and loss on
every hand.
The farmer was at the mercy of an
uncertain, localized market. He had
no way of reaching through to the
people who needed what he was
raising for them. There was no prem-
jum upon improving his stocks, for
The sides are bare. The arch of the | : - i
bridge is two hundred feet above the | With the American Army of Occu- |
stream, which in itself distinguishes | pation—Wherever American negroes |
this from the other natural bridges of | have appeared in the area occupied |
the world. The top of the span is | by the Americans they have attracted
ninety-three feet across, but it con- | great attention among the civilians. ,
tracts considerably near the bottom. |In Treves, Coblenz and other places,
It has been left to man’s ingenuity | during the early days of the occupa- !
to provide suspended roadways, ol | tion, crowds assemble wherever any |
though natural bridges do exist in sev- | 2&0 soldiers stopped in the streets,
eral parts of the world. Their origin | 2nd it was necessary for the military |
is variously explained, but the most | police to enforce the orders prohibit- |
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generally accepted theory is that they | Ing gatherings in the public thorough- |
have been formed by the erosion of
water, whereby an outlet has been
forced through a rocky ledge, thus
forming a bridge. Another theory
states that Natural Bridge, of Virgin-
ia, was once a gigantic cavern, and
that its roof and walls, destroyed by
some convulsion of nature, left stand-
ing the present-day wonder.
Visitors to Mackinack Island see in
the famous Arch Rock a kind of nat-
ural bridge, although it is not so sit-
uated that it ever was valuable as a
roadway. Formerly. people.
over it at will, but in recent years this
has been forbidden, for fear of the .
danger of the arch breaking. At the |
best, it simply formed an artistic |
frame for a beautiful picture. i
In the Jordan Valley, near Pella, is |
found a fine specimen of natural |
bridge across the little watercourse |
known as Wadi Hammet Abu Dha- |
bleh. The banks of this deeply sunk- |
en wadi, which means watercourse or
valley, are very steep. Across it]
stands an overhanging arch of con- |
glomerate limestone which is nearly :
three hundred feet long. It is thirty !
feet in width, and it is about one hun- |
dred feet from the bed of the wadi to
the roadway. The great broad, flat
arch itself is thirty feet high, and
much greater in span. :
In the very heart of the Andes, and |
on the Argentine side, is the Puente |
del Inca, the Bridge of the Incans.
Not many miles away, the lofty vol-
cano, Aconcagua, seems to cleave the
very blue of the heavens, while Cerro
del Mercedario and Tupungato, scarce-
ly less impressive, kiss the clouds
with their snow-covered summits. It
would be difficult to find a scene in na-
ture more majestic or imposing than
meets the eyes from the bridge. is
bridge has a span of one hundred and
fifty feet, with a width of one hun-
dred and twenty feet, and the top of
the arch is fully sixty feet above the
Mendoza River which flows beneath.
At the time of the Incas this bridge
was a station on the great highway
which led across the Andes, and it was
by this road that the tax gatherers
passed annually to collect the tribute
due their sovereign. The last collec-
tion was made in 1585, when a part-
ner of Pizarro in the subjection of the
Inca empire, Don Diego de Almagro,
met officers of the Inca emperor bear-
ing the annual tribute near the bridge
and seized a portion of it. Almago
with his followers crossed it, and in
trying to go westward became lost in
the mountains. Being without shel-
ter from the stormy blasts that swept
down from the peaks of the Andes,
many of his soldiers were frozen, and
others became blind from disease of
the eyes which is caused by constant
exposure to the glare of the sun on
the snow. It was a melancholy and
disastrous march, but Almago finally
succeeded in crossing the pass and
reaching the Pacific. Tens of thous-
ands of persons have crossed this
bridge in the last four centuries since
the feet of the white man first invad-
ed these passes. Many tales are told
in connection with this curious natur-
al bridge. Some of them are proba-
bly true, but most of them have orig-
inated in the fertile brain of some
dweller in these regions during the
past several centuries. One story
tells that the Bridge of the Incas was
at one time the headquarters of a fa-
mous Italian bandit, named Farina,
who robbed the ore trains that cross-
ed the mountains. He was so success-
ful that traffic was practically 'stop-
ped, and after retiring from this bus-
iness he opened a hotel in Valparaiso
with his ill-gotten wealth. ;
Natural bridges are exceedingly
rare. Our great and wondrous West,
however, furnishes a number of such
freaks of nature. The most remarka-
ble natural bridges in the world have
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fares.
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{ gro soldiers, they attract crowds of
Even now in Coblenz and Tre-
| ves, where there are a number of ne-
' German children every time they ap- |
pear in the streets.
The German soldier also regards
the negro with great curiosity. Ac-
cording to a discharged German sol-
i dier in Rengsdorf, the German army,
early in the war, offered a reward of
400 marks for the capture alive of
| each negro. The discharged German
| soldier said that throughout the war,
walked German soldiers lived in great fear
and even terror of the negroes, and it
was in order to overcome this fear
that rewards were offered. :
One evening on the front a scout-
ing party, consisting of ten Germans, !
including the discharged soldier, en-
countered two French negroes. In a
fight which followed two of the scout- |
ing party were killed. One of the ne- |
groes escaped, the other being taken
prisoner. During the fight two of the
Germans left their comrades and ran |
to the protection of their own trench- |
es, but these, it was explained, were |
young soldiers and untrained. The !
reward of 400 marks subsequently |
was divided among the remaining six
Germans for capturing the French
negro.
Zeppelins in the Animal World.
Every mouse in the fields and mead- |
ows, every rabbit that crouches under !
the thicket, every grouse and pheas- |
ant, even fish and frogs and muskrats |
in the waters and the squirrels and
song-birds of the forest, live under a |
menace from above, no less terrible |
to them than the Zeppelins have been
to London, and far less effectively
combated. They live under the men- |
ace of the raptores, or birds of prey
—certain species of which are still
far commoner than the ordinary per-
son supposes, even in the settled sec-
tions of our northeastern States. The
terror comes to them out of the air;
it drops with the speed of lightning
and kills with extraordinary strength
and ferocity. Size in itself is little
protection, for a goshawk will easily
kill a rooster and even carry him off.
That menacing shadow over the hen-
yard which causes such a commotion
on a still summer day hovers in real-
ity over all the land of the little wild
folk, by night as well as by day, and
tragedy falls like the traditional bolt
from the blue in open field and sedgy
marsh and silent forest.—Walter
Prichard Eaton, in Harper's Maga-
zine.
——Immigration into the United
States from Europe has ceased. The
immense station at Ellis Island in
New York harbor, through which the
newcomers used at times to pass at
the rate of 3,000 a day, is put to oth-
er uses connected with the war. Last
year more Europeans left the coun-
try than entered it, perhaps the first
year since 1492, certainly the first
since 1776, that the balance of migra-
tion has been on the debit side. But
according to official figures, Africans
ledsthe list of immigrants in the last
six months of 1917. These Negroes
settled mostly in Northern cities, ad-
ding to the problem already created
for the Christian forces by the large
migration from the Southern fields
and cities to the Northern industrial
centers.
The Statesmanlike View.
Another reason why we are sure of
woman’s grasp of public matters is,
when we asked Sister Smith what she
thought of President Wilson’s going
to Europe to attend the Peace Con-
ference she said she thought it was
grand, as his wife would enjoy the
trip so much.—Houston Post.
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—the eagles, hawks, falcons, and owls |
tral points,
was demanded.
public support.
grading was lax or lacking.
The consumer had to accept produce
that, as a rule, had no known respon-
sible name behind it.
of knowing how long the eggs or the
butter he was buying had been lying
around in miscellaneous lots in the back
room of a country store.
poultry was not properly refrigerated
before shipment or properly protected
by refrigeration in transit.
Swift & Company's initiative brought
system to this chaos.
tion, equipment, and experience in
handling perishable food products were
already adjusted to the task. Their
refrigerator cars, branch houses, cen-
ar-reaching connections,
trained sales force, supplied just what
Now the farmer has a daily cash
market in touch with
iceds with better prices.
zation makes better produce more
profitable. More consumers are served
with better, fresher, finer foodstuffs.
Nothing suffers from this save
inefficiency, which has no claim upon
Swift & Company, U.S.A.
He had no way
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THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
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| FINE GROCERIES
We are receiving fairly good shipments of
Supplies for the New Year
NAVAL ORANGES are in. The
quality is fine and the price
reasonable.
CALIFORNIA WALNUTS and
almonds of extra fine quality.
OUR WHITE GRAPES AND
CRANBERRIES are very fan-
cy goods.
CANDIES. In Candies we have
succeeded in getting a fair sup-
ply of desirable goods.
EVAPORATED APRICOTS,
PEARS AND PEACHES are
very fine this season and we
have all of them.
We Have the Supplies and Will be Pleased to
Fill All Orders,
MINCE MEAT. Mince Meat of
the usual high Sechler & Co.
standard. Positively the finest
goods we can produce. 28c. 1b.
Try it.
FANCY, MILD CHEESE, Sweet
Potatoes, canned Fruits, Olives,
Ketchup, Pure Olive Table Oil,
old fashioned New Orleans Syr-
up and fine table Syrup by the
quart. Much finer goods than
the Syrup in pails.
pope Dopey
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Reconstruction Sale
We are going to have the Largest Marked-
Down Sale in the history of this store. We
are busy finishing inventory, and will have
all prices marked down and reconstructed.
Sale Begins February 8th
All Dress Goods in Silk and Woolen and
Cotton, Sheets and Pillow Cases, Calicoes,
Ginghams, Bed Tickings—in fact every price
in all departments will be reconstructed.
This will Méan Prices Lower than
Wholesale Today.
See our Rummage Table
BETTER THAN EVER
Spring Coats and Suits Here
FOR YOUR INSPECTION
SECHLER & COMPANY,
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Bush House Block, -
Bellefonte, Pa.
Lyon & Co. «» Lyon & Co.