Bellefonte, Pa., April 18, 1919. BETTER THAN ANY MEDIUMS Mince Pie That Brought Vision of Home Caused Wounded Soldier to Long for Life. Ple is not among the articles treated of in works on materia medica, but a recent incident shows that it may have therapeutic value. In a hospital lay an American sailor, for whom ev- erything had been done by surgeons, doctors and nurses, and yet something was lacking. He was homesick; his mind was ever away in a little At- lantic coast town. One day, in the midst of his bodily pain and soul-suf- fering, there flashed upon him the ob- ject of his quest, and he murmured excitedly: “Oh, if I could only have a piece of mince pie.” It was not that he wanted to eat a piece of pie, for he was too ill for that. His hunger was for what the pie represented. An American nurse who heard the wish managed, with some difficulty, to find all the ingredients for a real New England pie. When she took it to him she put with it a bit of cheese, also hard to procure in these times, so that nothing would be lacking, and in the cheese she planted a miniature Stars and Stripes. The poor boy could eat neither the pie nor the cheese, but they contributed just the home touch needed to improve his condition. When the wife of the American consul general visited him later she remarked upon the improve- ment in his condition, and he said: “Two days ago I was In such misery that T could have welcomed death. Now I feel that America is not so far away as I thought and that I have got te hang on.” GENERAL BELIEF IN HONESTY Something Very Like the Millennium Seems to Be Near in Great British Metropolis. How is the sudden trust Londoners have come to exhibit for each other to be accounted for? There is an ex- treme shortage of copper coins for small change in London, and one man says of his experiences: “On several occasions lately news vendors who have been unable to change silver have said to me, ‘Never mind, pay me the next time you are this way.’ Only one of them knew me as a regular cus- tomer. NHven more unexpected credit than this was offered me at a railway booking office where I tendered a shill- ing for a two-penny fare. ‘I'm short of coppers,’ said the girl booking clerk, ‘pay me tomorrow.’ ‘But I shall not be here tomorrow,” I replied. ‘Then pay me the next time you are here, when- ever it is,’ she said. ‘But supposing I forget, I expostulated. “Oh, T know that you will come and pay me some day, she answered. ‘I've never known people fail!" Similar testimony is of- fered by others, who tell of copper credit thrust upon them by strangers, and often very poor and humble stran- gers.—London Mail. Clearing Up After War. - On the hanks of the Thames, less than twenty miles from London, there is an American town of the mush- room kind such as you might find in a new California oil field. Its popu- lation consists of more than 200 white men and about 150 negroes. It covers twenty-five acres which nine months ago were fallow grass land. The business of the town is to re- ceive, sort and store war material. There is a street of wooden huts, an- other of corrugated iron huts, huge iron store sheds a quarter of a mile long, office buildings, water supply and electric lights. the whole sur rounded by a hedge, a few armed sen- tries and much mud. All day long the khaki-clad negroes push and haul railway trucks full of war material. War material coming back from Russia is being stored at this camp, also the fittings of the dismantled hos- pitals which the American army es- tablished in England. Warmth Increases Oil Flow. An clectrical method of carrying warmth to the bottom of oil wells has been found in many cases greatly to in- crease the flow of oil. The heating process, says Popular Mechanics Maga- zine, decreases the viscidity of the oil, usually occasioned by the admission of air to the well and the cooling of the rock bed. Minute crevices and capil- lary channels which afford easy pass- age to warm, thin oil become quite im- passable if the oil gums. The electric heating method not only thins the oil but often generates gas whose pressure helps the oil to the surface. The sys- tem found military use in the aban- doned oil fields of Roumania and Galicia. 1 What's in a Name? Most readers are familiar with the story of the German bank in a United States city which, finding its name un- popular, changed it to the “Sherman bank.” Here is another example on the same lines: A popular New York city German restaurant was called the Kloster Glocke (Cloister Bell), and its front was decorated with a large bell as a sign. The name has been changed to the “Liberty Bell,” and the bell of the old monastery now does duty as a replica of the one which rang out independence to the colonies, ——For high class Job Work come to the “Watchman” Office. re —— FELT HER EXALTED POSITION Empress Theodora, Though Not Born to the Purple, Was Every Inch Royal Ruler. The name Theodora has been borne by more than one lady of distinction in Rome and in the Orient. The most picturesque of the group was the Em- press Theodora, wife of Justinian, Byzantine emperor, who lived fourteen centuries ago. She was the daughter of the keeper of wild beasts and was an actress in pantomime, “living movies” one might call the perform- ances, for without speaking a word she could make her audience hold its sides with laughter. But as soon as she became empress it was as if the blood of all the Caesars coursed through her veins, for none was more arrogant than this high-stepping daughter of the people. Here is one of her orders to a messenger: “If you fail in the execution of my commands I swear by Him that liveth forever that your skin shall be flayed from your body.” And the messenger knew that she meant every word of it. One may wonder if some of the mon- archs who recently have faded from their thrones would have gone so read- ily if a Theodora had been present. There was an insurrection in Constan- tinople and Justinian and the royal household were about to escape on vessels waiting at the stairs of the palace gardens, communicating with the sea. Then spoke Theodora: “If flight were the only means of safety T should yet disdain to fly. Death is the condition of our birth, but they who have reigned should never survive the loss of dignity and dominion. I implore heaven that I may never be seen, not a day, without my diadem and purple.” So she restored the waning courage of Justinian and his generals, and the day was saved. NEW WEST INDIAN INDUSTRY Exports of Divi-Divi, Product of Tree of That Region, Will Grow Now War Is Ended. An interesting product in which | Curacao, the important port of the Dutch West Indies, deals is divi-dlvi, which is the trade name for the curved peas of a small tree with a character- istic winding form, indigenous to northern South America, Mexico and a few of the Netherland Antilles, says the American magazine. The plant- ing is done by sowing only, and the chief dispensers of the seed were for a long time the goats. The dried peas are very much sought after in Amer- ica and Europe because of the high percentage of tannin they contain— : varying from 30 to 50 per cent. Cu- racao exported $46,352 worth of divi- divi in 1916; $28,788 worth in 1917. Aloes, another product of the col- ony, is exported from Curacao, but is cultivated chiefly in the island | Aruba, which is one of the six com- posing the colony. The gathering of the aloe leaves takes place during the dry season, after a part of the mois ' ture they contain has been allowed to | escape. They are cut and the brown- ish yellow, ill-smelling sap they con- tain is intercepted as it leaks out. Then the sap is placed in an oven to evaporate its moisture, and the resi- due is packed for shipment either in calabash shells or in specially pre- pared boxes. New York takes most of Cluracao’s aloe resin. It is chiefly used in the preparation of dyes and medicines, generally prescribed purgatives in veterinary practice. In 1916 Curacao exported $114,385 worth of aloes, $46,430 worth in 1917. Precious Stones in Nebraska. A man from Nemaha county, Ne- braska, went hunting moonstones in Californin and found two good speci- mens. seen rocks of similar formation on his farm, and when he came home began looking for moonstones along the cow- path. When he had made a collection, as he thought, he sent them to the state geologist, who pronounced them ‘agate, chalcedony, topaz and tourma- lines. From these a jeweler cut 28 ovals of moonstone, mocha, sardonyx and moss, and carnelian agate, and 35 diamond cuts of others, including ame- thysts and rubies. These gems, which have been named the finest of the kind in Nebraska, range in color from very | dark red through rose, purple, green, blue, orange and golden opal to marine blue, Coconut Palm Tropical Cow. Copra consists of the dried meats of coconuts. 63 per cent of oil. In India, Cochin China, the South Sen islands and elsewhere the oil has been used as food since the dawn of history, for the fats contained in it are singularly like the milk fats of mammals in most respects. It is al- ready in wide use in this country as “put margarine,” which is coconut oil into which some butter has been melt- ed and the whole churned with skim milk—that is milk with the fats re- moved—and worked as ordinary but- ter. Few Animals Lost in Transit. In a statement made by the war de- partment it apears that since the Unit- ed States entered the war and to Jan. uary 11, 1919, this government ship- ped overseas from this country 67,948 animals, which included 5,489 cavalry horses, 33,396 draft horses, 28,088 draft mules, and 975 pack mules. The total number of animals lost en route over- | seas so far reported is 600 horses and | meules, or less than 1 per cent of the total number of animals shipped. rere and is one of the most : He remembered that he had ! It contains from 50 to: HE KNEW WHG CRACKED SAFE | Log-Hauler’s Suspicions Basis of Good i Jokz on One Popular indian. apolis Citizen. | The return of Major Fred Bates ' Johnson to civilian life in Indianapolis recalls a story about him that has | been bottled up long enough. In the days before he was a major or a captain, or even a private, he used to go down to Salem for week-end visits with Walter Crim, particularly in the seasons when the strawberry or the fried chicken or the sassafras crop was ripe. His comings were frequent- ly, if not often, unannounced, but he knew all the signs and pass words into Crim’s office and lumber yard, and he would go in and wait for the coming of one or the other member of the firm, or telephone to see whether there was room for him up “at the shack.” One Saturday morning he came in in this way, and it happened that while he was down on his knees trying to put back a roller that had slipped from the legs of one of the office chairs a log-hauler arrived on the scene. Being of an inquisitive disposi- tion, the log-hauler tried to find out what a stranger was doing down‘®on his knees in Crim’s office, but, as all who know Major Johnson will easily believe, the information which he re- ceived was not wholly satisfactory. And on Sunday night Crim’s safe was cracked! Early Monday morning, as soon as the news of the robbery became known, the log-hauler came rushing down to the lumber yard. “Say,” he called, excitedly, “I can tell you who did that! There was an awful suspicious looking fellow in here Saturday morning when nobody was | around, a little chap with yellow hair and great big glasses. I'll bet he was the guy that cracked 'er.”” But the in- formant left the office somewhat crest- fallen when he was told, in no uncer- tain language, just who that “suspi- cious-looking fellow” was.—Indian- apolis News. HOW INDIANS FIGHT “FLU” Heroic Remedy Which Unfortunately Does Not Always Seem to Have The Desired Effect. } While Americans of convention and ! medical knowledge are bundling them- i selves up and conducting a civilized | fight against influenza throughout the nation, other Americans are discard- ing convention and clothing for the same purpose out where homes of men are far apart. On the Flathead reservation in Mon- tana when a descendant of warriors feels the symptoms coming on he flat- foots it to his tepee. He grunts terse orders and a squaw squats before the fire and hashes up a concoction in a five-gallon can, which is a brew of | balsam fir boughs mixed with one pint of more or less illegitimate whisky. : i Then he saunters to the “sweating ' tepee.” A large vessel of water is | placed in the center of that rag house | and into the vessel are dropped red- ' hot stones. The medicine is then ready. The Indian who sneezed drinks the brew, inhales the steam, whoops with gusto and races for the creek. Neither the ward nor the govern- ment has anything on him as he plunges into the cold creek water. He crawls out, dripping, shivering and i “cured.” The funeral usually is held on the following day. | Monument to Mrs. Eddy. IA pyramid of granite, weighing ap- ! , proximately seventy-five tons, has been | placed on the old Mark Baker farm at 1 3ow, N. H,, as a memorial to Mary | Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, says New York Evening Post. The block was quarried ' at North Concord, and is said to be the largest ever cut. In the rough it weighed more than 100 tons. It will be anchored on a concrete base on the Bow plateau overlooking the Merrimac valley, and will measure seven feet nine inches in height, includ- ing the base. The base is ten feet square. The pyramid is placed in ex- act orientation. Four bronze tablets affixed to each face of the pyramid bear suitable in- scriptions. Balkan Whiskers. Prof. Clive Day of Yale, who is a specialist on the Balkans, said in a recent interview: “There is a Balkan story in praise of cleanliness. The scene is a brig- and’s camp. “That prisoner there,’ said a brig- and, pointing his knife at a young Turkish captive, he combs his whisk- ers evely morning.’ “The other brigands listened In as- tonishment and the captain said: “¢] don’t see how the fellow stands it. Why, I only comb my whiskers i once a month, and then it nearly pulls my chin off.” Sentry Box on His Farm. A Cook county farmer whose farm is not far from Chicago has built a sentry house in the corner of his place from which he can see what is going on near any part of the farm. He oc- cupies the upper room every night and, aided by a dog, knows when anyone is sneaking around the premises. The lower part of the sentry house he uses as a workshop. A row of windows in the upper part gives him a wide view of all the surrounding country. Excepl for these precautionary measures, he says, stragglers from the city would steal him poor or by carelessness set fire to the farm buildings.—~Capper’s Weekly, Cn ———————— toni 2 —————— I — 411 | ASK ONLY FOR FAIR CHANGE Crippled Soldiers Are Eager to Prove They Have Lost None of Their Good American Grit. A West Virginia private soldier who lost a leg in the war and now goes on crutches was visiting the national capital, and while inspecting the Washington monument requested a po- licemarn to act as a witness for a short time. The cripple then proceed- ed to climb to the top, 500 feet abave the ground and reached by 800 steps. It is clear that this athlete was not in Washington to claim a pension on the ground of physical disability. In fact, he asks no more than a fair chance to show that he is fit to hold a job, and is ready to prove it. In the main mili- tary hospital in Washington the pa- | tients are publishing a paper called the “Come Back,” whose main pur- pose is to promote the industrial wel- fare of crippled soldiers and sailors. It gathers information on useful work for men who recover from amputa- tions or serious wounds, and wants to ascertain how much they will be able to do, not how little, and to en- courage ambitious efforts as far as possible. Such endeavors, for one thing, add to the happiness of those who often are merely classed as un- fortunates. A crippled condition does not necessarily mean a crippled life. The privilege of being independent | that appealed to Burns as glorious is | dear to every healthful nature and | earnest participant in the duties of life.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. MAY AGAIN BECOME NATION Possibility That Arab Tribes Will Be | Reunited as One Result of the Great War. One of the most interesting figures at the opening of the peace conference was Prince Emir Faisul, son of the king of the Hedjaz, the latter known as “the grand old man of the East.” He is very handsome and his picturesque headdress was well suited to his style, As the prince strode ap and down the room before the opening of the session he was a perfect type of Arab beauty and dignity. The representation of his fine race in the peace conference and their present effort to establish their ancient kingdom recall the general opinion which, I believe, is held among orientalists that the Arabs are des- tined ultimately to play a big part in the world. I have seen them in the districts around the Suez canal and the Red sea and have wondered wheth- er they would not again become a great people. Individually, it seemed to me that they were finer than any other orientals. As a wandering race they have lacked the co-operation and cohesion which enable a nation to make headway. world war the Arabs emerged as an organized people prepared to assume heavy responsibilities in the near Hast. —New York Times. Grain for Alcohol. Obviously nation-wide prohibition will cut sharply into the use of the ce- reals in the manufacture of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes. At the same time it is regarded as assured that more alcohol will be manufac- tured than ever before for use in the liberal arts and in manufactures gen- erally, this to be denatured and thus absolutely unfit for drinking purposes. Plans are under way, however, for greatly increased output of alcohol as above noted, some of this undoubtedly to be made from grain, while large quantities it now appears will be pro- duced from cheap molasses brought from the West Indies. Official chem- ists have been abie to secure from this not only alcohol but also the use of residue for the production of glycerin, something of increasingly large con- sumption. Glycerin is very largely used in making nitroglycerin, transpar- ent soaps, lubricants, printers’ inks, ete. Death Brings Joy. The reports from many parts of the United States that some women of an adventurous nature married sol- diers in the high hopes that the hus- bands would be killed and that they would collect the insurance money are based on fact, it is believed. A young woman, well dressed, went to the post office at Vancouver, Wash., recently and received a letter. She opened, read, and laughed loudly. A man driving a machine in which she rode downtown asked her what was the good news. She astonished him by replying that her husband had been killed and she would get the $10,000 insurance. Origin of Famous Dyes. The famous blue and purple dyes of the east, frequently mentioned in his- tory, were in all probability extracted from the Roccella lichen, which has been extensively used in France in re- cent years when gorgeous colors were desired for silks. These dyes are se- cured by pulverizing the plant body, termed the thallus, and extracting the coloring matter by applying alkali, Litmus, one of the lichen dyes, is wide- ly applied in the science of chemistry. —Textile World Journal. Production of Quicksilver in 1918, The domestic output of quicksilver in 1918, according to statistics com- piled by F. L. Ransome, of the United States geological survey, department of the interior, was 33,432 flasks of 75 pounds each, valued at about $3,- 942,301. 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