GRE Bemorratic: atom Bellefonte, Pa., May 9, 1919. THE BETTER WAY. XI ask not wealth, but power to take And use the things I have aright; Not years, but wisdom that shall make My life a profit and delight. I ask not that for me the plan Of good and ill be set aside; But that the common lot of man Be noble borne, and glorified. I know I may not always keep My steps in places green and sweet, Nor find the pathway of the deep A place of safety for my feet; But pray, that when the tempter’s breath Shall fiercely sweep my way about, I make no shipwreck of my faith In the unbottomed sea of doubt; And that, though it be mine to know How hard the stoniest pillow seems, Good angels still may come and go About the places of my dreams. XI do not ask for love below, That friends shall never be estranged; But for the power of loving, so My heart may keep its youth unchanged. —Phoebe Cary. HE ALWAYS HAS HOPE. Prospector for Gold One of Fortu- nate Men. The typical prospector for gold, still met with in the far hills and deserts, may well be taken by all men as an example and an inspiration as far as the blessings of staying hopes are concerned, says the Los Angeles Times. “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” says the proverb. But it is not a good proverb. No matter how long deferred a hope may be it should never be abandoned. It should never be anything but an inspiration and an incitement. Take this nomadic tribe of prospec- tors, for instance. The typical pros- pector is a man who has spent per- haps the most of his life pursuing a hope that has never been realized. Yet we never find them discouraged. We never know them to end their days in despair. No matter how many their years of failure may be they will tell you that just beyond the next chain of hills or in the heart of a still unex- plored desert the treasures they seek are surely awaiting them, A most sincere and persistent man i8 the prospector. He believes in his quest and respects it. The little or | the much that he wins by spasmodic toll he invests in his dreams. He braves the solitudes and the lonely wastes of the world to reach the goal for which he strives. Hunger, thirst and other hardships and sufferings he endures with a willing heart. And he never despairs. That's the glory of the prospector—he never de- ! spairs. looks upon the prospector as a queer and somewhat demented individual. i8 pictured to us as plodding along in the wildernesses and the sandy deso- lations with his pack and his burro, following the will-o’-the-wisps of for- tune. But the prospector is only doing in his way what we are doing in ours. as the prospector is following his. ceed in safety and without adventure. Otherwise we are. the same as the wanderer of the desert and the hills. And also we are soon discouraged and | we are easy prey to defeat, while it is death alone that can defeat the pros- pector. It seems to us that of all the mis- fortunes there are in life—and heaven knows there are many—the misfor- tune of hopelessness is the worst. “Only for hope the heart would die,” said a poet. It was a true thing to say. And about this wonderful thing of | tors and nurses. | sists of two containers, one to ac- i commodate the instruments to be | treated and the other for the gauze, hope there is another way to look at it and that is that we should always have at least one hope ahead. That is to say, we should always have some- thing that we look forward to. Then, other thing that we look forward to will stay us, Hope is something to be busy with. It is something of which we should accumulate a store. Always have plenty of hopes and have them so that they will reach out and last away into the years of the future. There is really something mysteri- ous about a hope. If you will cherish it faithfully and keep it warm in your heart you will be almost sure to some- time realize it. It is said that we are are what our hopes are, Since then a long-cherished hope is most likely to be realized, surely it were foolish of us to harbor hopes that will not bring us comfort and Joy. Hope for the best there is—not great riches, not any material possession, but peace for the heart and a serene path for the white years of old age. Cotton Growing in China. Now that China has decided what kind of cotton seed does best in that country, and is distributing it by the ton to farmers, cotton growing starts an a new geographical development. The time may yet come when the 'Chi- pese laundryman, far from home, will croon over his collars that he is “still longing for the old plantation.” Work done during several years in four ex- periment stations indicates that out of forty varieties of seed the kind known as “Trice” is best suited for Chinese I ————-~ aa... and to insanity, especially moral in- i growing from the forehead. We laugh at this strange fellow who | ' the most convenient forms of fuel, and , are many forms of cookers making i use of this fuel, and the latest de- . vice of this character is a sterilizing ; Small quantity of water in the lower if what we have in hand fails us, the | chamber is heated by the flame from i the alcohol and the steam therefrom ; basses around the instruments, thor- : ple is made use of in the construction of a food kettle for the use of aero- keep the food hot for several hours. what we believe ourselves to be. But | perhaps we might better say that we i ' the two sides. cultivation. It appears that “Trice” yields 141 cattles to the moe, which 1s | JAY HONORED BY WELSHMEN | the Chinese way of saying something more than 141 pounds per one-sixth | of an acre, for the catty weighs about | one-third more than the English pound. The Chinese pound, for that matter | is called “kin,” but for some reasom foreigners prefer to call it a “catty.” Those Whom the World Has Recog- | nized as Men of Genius Remark- able for Precocity. One character common to genius = LL x m = > = = m ~ , = oO = r~ oo Te Q oo oo sanity, Js precocity. Cesare Lombroso, professor of legal medicine, University of Turin, relates that Dante, when ! nine years of age, wrote a sonnet to | Beatrice; Tasso wrote verses at ten. | Pascal and Comte were great think- | ers at the ages of thirteen, Fornier at fifteen, Niebuhr at seven, Jonathan | Edwards at twelve, Michel Angelo at nineteen, Gassendi, the Little Doctor, | | i at four, Bossut at twelve, and Voltaire at thirteen. Pico de la Mirandola knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic, in his childhood ; Goethe wrote a story in seven languages when he was scarcely ten; Wieland knew Latin | at seven, meditated an epic poem at thirteen, and at sixteen published his | poem, “Die Vollkommenste Welt.” | Schiller was only nineteen whan he wrote “Rauber.” Victor Hugo com- posed “Irtamene” at fifteen. Pope | wrote his ode to solitude at twelve, | and Byron published verses at eight. | een. Moore translated “Anacreon” at thirteen. Meyerbeer at five played ex- cellently on the piano. Claude Joseph Vernet drew’ very well at four, and at twenty was a celebrated painter. At father with a Latin dedication. | Raphael was famous at fourteen. | thirteen. Eichorn, Mozart and Eybler | gave concerts at six. Weber was only thirteen when his first opera, “Das Waldmarchen,” was presented. Bacon ! conceived the “Novum Organum” at '! fifteen. Charles XII manifested his great designs at eighteen. RIDICULOUS FAD OF FASHION | Description of Head-Dress Worn by | Women Some Centurics Ago Ap- pears Almost Incredible. Fashion plays constant pranks with ! a woman’s hair. Addison says in the Spectator of 1718: “There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s | head-dress; within my memory I have | known it to rise and fall above 30! degrees.” In the reign of Henry VI, | ladies wore horns, having cn each side ears so large that when they would pass through the door of a room it | was necessary to turn sideways and | : stoop. It was judged necessary to en- | The average man, hedged in by the traditions of towns and cities or set- ' tled in the humdrum of the country, | large the doors of the Chateau de! Vincennes. The correct angle for the hair was 45 from perpendicular, which | entailed: great strain upon the hair! Little | thought of what we call cleanliness | | or even decency was present at the | . hairdressing of that day. Not only | ; was the hair left untouched for a most | suffered from a temporary fit of mania ; revoltingly long time, but materials | ‘ , Were used in the dressing of the hair . and making the rolls (as Anna Green | ; Winslow related), which were most We are following each our own dream incredible. The Boston Gazette of . May, 1771, tells of a young woman | The only difference is that we pro- driving in Boston streets who was thrown from her carriage and her high | tower partly torn off. It proved to be stuffed with yarn, tow, wool, curled hair, and even hay. Solidified Alcohol. Solidified alcohol has proved one of ! is largely made use of at the pres- ent time for many purposes. There apparatus to be made use of by doc- The sterilizer con- bandages and similar material. A oughly cleansing them and then pass- ing to the upper chamber, where it has the same effect on the contents of that compartment. The same princi- nauts. The food is packed in the in- terior of the kettle and a small alco- hol burner stowed away in the bottom is ignited and the heat from it will Explaining Knockout Blow, When the lower jaw is struck on its point, especially with an uppercut, the bony portion of the ear inside is driven forcibly upward into the glen- old cavity of the skull, above and be- hind which is situated the delicate labyrinth of the inner ear. The jawbone strikes hard upon the thin plate qf bone that supports these sensitive organs and gives a shock to the semi-circular canals that is in- stantly transmitted by them to the bulb, producing dizziness, nausea and momentary paralysis, This explains why a sideways blow on the jaw is more effective as a knockout than ome delivered directly upon the point of the jaw. For the shock of a sideways blow is received in one glenoid cavity, thdt on the side opposite the one on which it is struck, while the shock of a blow In the cen- ter is divided between the cavities on { March the First Known the World { observed as a special day by the peo- | ple of V7ales and is called St. David's | day in honor of the good St. David, i patron saint of the Welsh, who lived 1 Over as Anniversary of the - Country's Patron Saint. The first Gay of March has long been in the sixth century. St. David was said to have been the son of a prince of Cardiganshire, Wales, and is accredited with the working of many miracles, especially : among the poor of the country. It was | said that when the saint first went into the fields to preach to his follow- ers the ground on which he was stand- | ing began to rise until it assumed a i goodly height, and henceforth was his | pulpit. i For hundreds of years the Welsh | wore sprigs of leek—a plant with broad bluish-green leaves and yellow flower clusters—in their hats as a sym- i bol of recognition of the day. This cus- | | i i tom was breught about, some say, from the fact that in a battle of the Welsh against their old enemies, the | Saxons, St. David had ordered all | Welshmen to go into battle wearing their native leek, not only to distin- i guish them from their enemies, but to bring them good luck. Other writers argue that the badge | was worn more as a fraternal sign and because leek was grown in every Welsh garden and was the favorite vegetable of a true Welshman. Writers of the last century depict a typical Welsh garden as a garden of onions, garlic and leek. Homely inci- dents are told of Welshmen assisting each other in farming and eating their leeks together, a ceremony symbolic of | hospitality and good fellowship. NOT ALWAYS PROPERLY SANE : | Scientists Assert Few People Have at { All Times Full Command of Their ! Mental Facultles. — 1 Many people think that the expres- | sion “temporary insanity” is merely | used by a jury wishing to save rela- i tives pain, but numbers of doctors | who have made a study of mental dis- i orders emphatically declare it is no | idle term. : One doctor has stated that tempo- | | rary insanity is a condition of double consciousness, not dissimilar to ep- ilepsy. A person normally quite sane | may have attacks of temporary aber- ration lasting little more than a few minutes, especially after long bouts of hard, continuous mental work, be- ing particularly liable if insomnia su- ' pervenes. Crimes have been committed in the early morning when the perpetrator has not really been properly awake, and has been horrified to find what he has done. This is a true case of temporary insanity, but it is compara- tively rare, and a man in normal health would not suffer in this way. A specialist in mental diseases has stated that he knew a case in which a person was insane during a certain time of each day, and that others have been known when the patient was quite normal at ordinary times, but regularly once a month. Forming Artificial Pearls. Pearls were valuable as gems in China as early as twenty-two centuries before our era, and the Chinese had worked out a plan for the artificial formation of pearls about 700 years ago, which they have carried on ex- tensively. Large numbers of oysters are collected and the shell gently open- ed to allow the introduction of vari- ous foreign substances which are in- serted by means of a forked bamboo stick. These pellets are generally made of prepared mud, but may be bone, brass or wood. The oysters are then placed in shallow ponds connect ed with canals and are nourished by tubs of night soil thrown in from time to time. Some time later, from several months to two years, depending upon the size of the gem desired, these oys- ters are taken out of the shell, the pearls removed and the body of the animal eaten as food. Millions of such pearls are sold annually in China. The | most valuable are either round or pear ' shaped. Few Old People in New Guinea. The average duration of life is short- er in New Guinea than in any other country, owing to the peculiar diet of the natives, who devour with gusto the larvae of beetles, dug out of decay- ed tree trunks, and habitually drink seawater when near the coast. “The | ‘people die off at about forty,” A. E' Pratt says in his “Two Years Among | the Cannibals of New Guinea.” “We |! saw one very old man, who may have | been about sixty years of age—the | only example of longevity that we came across. He was bent almost double, and had a long, white beard. | His fellow tribesmen regarded him as ' a great curiosity, and brought him to see us. Despite the decrepitude of his body, however, there was no trace of senility; his senses were unimpaired, and the poor old creature showed great | gratitude for a gift of tobacco.” Hence the Congestion. | “You have plenty of room in Amen | ca,” said the foreign visitor. . “OR, yes.” “Then why do you build so many sky-scrapers?” “I guess that’s because the average American thinks he can't transact business unless he's within distance of the post office."—Birming. | ham Age-Herald. : ; | of them was called a “cabinet maker.” i scapes the size of an ordinary sheet | i of drawing paper. He would surround | : tests, that anger is a poison in the poisoning. ART DEVELOPED AS NEEDED ' Makers of Cabinets Fitted Themselves | to Demands of Increasingly En- lightened Generations. — Cabinet making, as all arts, began : , with the human needs of people. War and the necessity for hastily moving ; from place to place during the semi- i civilized periods gave place to the making of homes and the effort to . furnish them comfortably—one of the | strongest impulses in nature and the | surest sign of civilization. : The old chests in which they kept their belongings were at last allowed | i to remain stationary and were used as | | seats. The name of these chests in | England was “cabins,” and the maker | As soon as might be, the cabinet maker provided the old chests with backs and they became settees. while others were | raised on legs and became cabinets, | : : . i i or, being provided with doors and! i drawers, became cupboards or “chests ! of drawers.” Tables and beds were | | also devised, together with wainscot- | ing for entire walls. and people really began to live. The workmen who made these! things were capable of designing and executing an entire department with | its furniture. Great skill was required, | ' and notables and royalty prided them- : selves on having somg artist-artisan to do their bidding. In the establishment : of these men different degrees of skill were recognized, and the system of ' apprenticeship obtained. A youth en- | tering one of these studio workshops, : having passed all the grades, became ! a “master.” To attain this degree was | to be worthy of the respect of the! world. : ART WORKS IN ANY LENGTH Method of Getting Things Done Quick. | ly le Not by Any Means an Idea to Be Called New. Hurry is not characteristic of the | i present century alone; our ancestors | | were not always immune from the | ten was a master in scheming out short cuts and saving time. - Vanderstraaten had little difficulty, | it Is said, in painting in a day 30 land- | habit. The Dutch artist Vanderstraa- | | i himself with pots of paint, each of | which had its particular purpose—one ! for the clouds, one for the grass, one | for the shadows. When he was ready | to begin painting he called his assist- | ant, “Boy, a cloud!” and the lad speed- | ily brought the desired pot. | Vanderstraaten, with a thick brush, | quickly transferred the clouds to the | canvas. With the finishing strokes he | calied, “There are the clouds; bring | the grass!” And so it went, without | a moment’s waste of time, until the 80 landscapes were finished. : On occasions Vanderstraaten would | paint in the manner described a land- scape upon a long piece of canvas. In filling the orders of customers he | would cut the strip into pieces of va- ; rious lengths. A purchaser could buy | two, three or four feet of landscape, ac- cording to his fancy or according to the size of the space he wished to dec- orate. Pugilism in 1725. { Jack Broughton, the father of pugil- | isa, fought his first fight over 193 | years ago; to be exact, it was on July 9, 1725. He was engaged in many rough-and-tumble fights with other lads, but at that time he knew noth- ! ing of boxing, which was just being in- | troduced by James Figg. While attend- | ing a fair Broughton was attracted by | a boxing booth kept by Figg and was | much incensed by the foul tactics used | by a big man in boxing a much smaller | one. He remonstrated with the big bruiser and an altercation ensued | which had reached the stage of fisti- cuffs when Figg interfered and invited the two men to the stage to settle their differences. Young Broughton, | after ten desperate rounds, completely triumphed over his older, bigger and | { 1 i more experienced opponent. That was Broughton’s introduction to the ring. | After Figg’s death he became cham- | pion and by formulating a code of ; entitled to rank as the founder of | . rules to govern the game he became | | modern pugilism. TOILED HARD FOR SUCCESS Great Sculptor Knew Many Vicissi- tudes Before His Genius Compelled World's Aeknowledgment. The old. old story of genius toiling ‘against adversity and winning the struggle is ever repeating itself—and is ever interesting. Rodin, the great French sculptor, elimbed the ladder latoriously, but with such a persist- ene that fame could not escape him. In “Rodin, the Man and His Art,” Miss | Judith Cladel tells how the young ar- | tist, in order to live, applied himself to varied occupations. He chipped at stone and marble, he drew sketches for the fashionable jew- | elers of Paris, and he made articles of decorative art ordered by manufac- turers. Despite a considerable loss of time he obtained by that means a true ' apprenticeship in art, and finally was able to realize his first dream—to have an atelier of his own. His atelier! It was a stable in the Rue Lebrun, in the quarter of the Gobelins, where he was born. It was a cold hovel-cave, with a well sunk in i the angle of the wall that, at every season, exhaled its chilling breath. It did not matter. The place was suffi- ciently large and well lighted. There Rodin accumulated his stud- ies and works until the place became 80 crowded that he could hardly turn himself about, but, being too poor to have them cast, he lost the greater part of them. Sometimes the soft clay ; settled and fell asunder; sometimes, : becoming too dry, it cracked and crum- bled.—Youth’s Companion. NEVER WORE ROYAL DIADEM Seven Queens of England Who Re- mained Uncrowned on Account of State and Religious Reasons. There have been seven uncrowned queens. of England. The first was Margaret of France, the second wife of Edward I. Money was scarce in the government coffers at the time, and Edward could not afford the ex- pense of a coronation. The four later wives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn’s successors—Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Oatherine Howard and Cather- | ine Parr—were never publicly crowned as queen consorts. Perhaps it was be- cause Henry thought it would cause ridicule to have coronations occur as frequently as his marriages. Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, being a | | strict Catholic, refused to take part ! in a state function which would com- pel her to partake of the sacrament ac- cording to ihe rites of the Church of England. Sophia Dorothea, the wife of George I, and mother of George II, was never recognized as queen of Eng- land, and therefore cannot be classed ; ts one of Britain’s uncrowned queens. ! Caroline of Brunswick, the wife of George IV, was not permitted to be present in Westminster hall at his coronation. Lone Tree of 1849. There was an immense cottonwood, four feet thick and very tall, which stood in Nebraska almost in the cen- ter of the continent, half-way between . New York and San Francisco, which | was within one mile of that center. Under its branches rested thousands of forty-niners en route to the Eldo- | rado of the Pacific coast. It was the best known camping ground on the old California trail. From 1849, when the gold seekers rushed across the great plains down to the completion of the Union Pacific railway, the great tree was a guidepost to the wagon trains going West. After the railway was completed there was no further use for the old | tree and it eventually rotted away { and died. In 1910 a monument was erected on the spot that the tree had occupied. It represents the trunk of a giant cottonwood and bears this in- scription: “On this spot stood the original Lone Tree on the old Cali- fornia trail.” Remarkable Women Rulers. Remarkable in many ways was Eliz- abeth Petrovna, empress of Russia, and daughter of Peter the Great. She died 157 years ago, after a reign of 20 years. While history knows her chief- i ly for her immorality, she eft behind Stones of Remarkable Power. ; Lovers of the occult will be inter- | ested in a story told by Lady Blunt in ! her remarkable volume of reminis- cences. Her husband was sick unto death in Constantinople, and the Turkish government loaned her two small stones which had been in its posses- sion since the Conquest, telling her to apply them where the pain was most severe, Lady Blunt used them as directed with the result that the sick man speedily recovered, although four doc- tors had previously decided on an im- mediate operation. i “These wonderful stones,” adds Lady | Blunt, “are found at rare intervals in | the veins of a donkey's neck; per- haps only one stone in a million don- i keys.” Anger's Poison. Biologists have proved, by laboratory blood; that a person who loses his temper is actually selfpoisoned. Tdke a few drops of blood from a man in & violent rage, they tell us; them on the tongue of a guinea and it will probably make the ]ittle beast sick, Yet we hear people brag, “I gave him a good going over,” “I got goed and mad,” as if ene bragged of deliberately Jontracting a dangerous case of blood ' her monuments to her better nature, { the University of Moscow and the Academy of Fine Arts in Petrograd. Empress Elizabeth’s mother was the | Empress Catherine, who had been the wife of a Swedish dragoon, and be- came the mistress of several men be- fore Peter the Great married her. Her daughter, Frederik the Great that she made war on the witty Prussian king, and until her death Russia was one of his most dangerous enemies. Ant’s Sweet Tooth. One of the greatest pests that haunt our orange groves is the Argentine ant, and yet it never goes near the trees. Every bit of the damage it does indiré®tly. It seems that it has a very sweet tooth and is abnormally fond of a honey dew that is secreted by certain mealy bugs and scales that are most injurious, and it will go te any lengths te protect them from be. ing destroyed or harmed in any way. In Louisiana they have discovered a way of trapping these ants. They construct @nests and when they, all congregate there, as they will in rainy weather, they can destroy them, In California they poison them with poison syrup. When they are once gone it is easy enough to deal with their friends. - i e- ta e— Elizabeth Petrovna, when she ruled Russia, once became ' so mortified by one of the jests of HOW SAILORS “LAY GHOSTS” Men of the Sea Give Short Shrift to Matter-of-Fact Spooks That Annoy Them. The first lieutenant had just been relieved, writes “I. S. T.” in the Lon- Hon Mail, and was wending his way from the destroyer’s bridge to his cabin. It was fairly calm, but very dark, and there was little to be seen but a line of waves on each side and the dim form of a second destroyer | in station astern. Even for this “No. : 1” had no eyes, for he bad had a \ . Weary middle watch and bed was his | only interest. But he did notice a ! weird figure, apparently human, | erawling about near the “bandstand” | of the after gun. He went to investigate and found the surgeon probationer, clad in a chamois leather overall suit, in which ; he had been sleeping on the ward- room couch below—for every one must sleep more or less clad, ready to turn out at a moment's notice. He was feeling about in the dark, ap- parently in search of something. “What on earth are you doing, Doc?’ he asked, and got the brief an- swer, “Laying a ghost.” The first lieutenant grunted and disappeared below, leaving the doctor to insert a paper wedge between a loose rattling shell and the side of the stand in which it was placed. A ghost, in naval language, is a noise which cannot be accounted for. In a destroyer one becomes a con- noisseur in noises. The steering gear clanks heavily at intervals and the rhythmic beat of thé engines is always there, changing only when the speed is altered. In heavy weather the washing and beating of the water makes a hundred noises. But ghosts are extra noises and should be avoidable. Some misplaced or ill-fitting article or a loose screw may cause the noise, and with the ship’s vibration it will knock or rattle with a regular persistency that will drive the most placid mind nearly to frenzy, and sleep will rarely be the victim’s portion until he has left his warm bunk and found the cause of the trouble and the ghost is laid. COIN TOOK FANCY OF ARABS Austrian Maria Theresa Dollar Has Long Been the Principal Money of That Region. The only coin in general circulation In Abyssinia is the Austrian Maria | Theresa dollar, of silver. It is also the principal money in Arabia, and ! the story of its introduction in those regions and all the neighborhood of the Red sea is quite interesting. More than a century ago trading | Arabs got hold of some of these dol- lars and found the effigy of the queen (which they bore on one side, the re- verse showing the Austrian double eagle) so attractive that they sought , to obtain more of them, for sale as i Jewelry. Later on they became highly { popular as a medium of exchange in ‘ mercantile transactions in Arabia; and when at intervals the Turkish | government prohibited their importa- {tion a large and profitable business ‘was done in smuggling them through Aden and other seaports. They are all dated 1780, being even | now minted from replicas of the orig- inal die, which is of rather crude workmanship. Any change would not {be understood by the Arabs and | Abyssinians and would render them less acceptable. Bankers and merchants in the Red sea region import the Maria Theresa dollars in bulk from Trieste, selling them at a good profit or exchanging them for native merchandise. They are somewhat larger than our silver. . dollars, but weigh less than an ounce and are only a little over four-fifths silver. ' : Wrought Iron From Ore. i Wrought iron is not commonly pro- ' duced direct from the ore, but a Cali- ‘fornia metallurgist, using petroleum { as fuel, claims to avoid the usual trou- bles and to obtain pure iron at'a much 1educed cost. The ore, after grinding to pass through a sixteen mesh sieve, : is mixed with some heavy oil, such as asphaltum. The mixture is made into cylinders, each of a size to yield about 150 pounds of reduced iron, and these cylinders are placed in the furnace and gradually heated to the welding point of the iron, then taken out and compressed into blooms. A little sill- cate rock is added to give slag enough to hold the semifluid mass together. To avoid reoxidation—the great diffi- culty in previous processes—a reduc- irg atmosphere is maintained in the | furnace, and the bloom is compressed before entirely removing from the fur- | nace. The time required for heating | through and reducing Is given as four | or five hours. : Generous Royal Gambler. i One of the most romantic gambling , stories is told by Mr. Thiselton-Dyer of a plainly dressed stranger who once | took his seat at a faro table, and after an extraordinary run of huck succeed- ed in breaking the bank. “Heavens!” , exclaimed an old, infirm Austrian offi- ! cer who sat next to the stranger. “The “twentieth part of your gains would make me the happiest man in the world I” “You shall have it, then,” answered the stranger as he left the room. A servant speedily returned and pre- sented the officer with the twentieth part of the bank, adding: “My mas- ter, sir. requires no answer.” ‘The successfal s was soon discov ered to be no other than the king of Prussia In disguise. t ——r.o wp,
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