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"Bellefonte, Pa., May 9, 1919,
NO “BEST” MONTH
Time of
Birth Has Little to Do
With Genius.
Statistics Show That Nature Practical-
ly Plays No Favorites in Her
Production of the Gifted
Ones of the Earth.
Astrologers believe that the planets
*reigning” at the time of birth gov-
ern us throughout life, and that, from
a literary point of view certain months
‘are more favorable than others in
which to be born.
Taking the hundred best British
writers since the day of Chaucer, no
less than forty-eight were born in the
four months February, May, August
and November.
In February were born Charles Dick-
ens, Pepys the diarist, and Thomas
Moore, while of more modern date
and fame are George Meredith, Israel
Zangwill, Anthony Hope, Harrison
Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins.
Pope and Addison were both born
in May, as also were Browning, Ross
etti, Moore, Bulwer Lytton, Thomas
Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir
James M. Barrie.
August seems to be the birthmonth
of poets, for in that month were dorn
Dryden, Herrick, Scott, Shelley, South-
ey and Tennyson.
Apparently November is an unlucky
month for literary people, for among
those who were born in November are
Thomas Chatterton, who, in disappoint-
ment and poverty, committed suicide
at eighteen; William Cowper, who suf-
fered from melancholia and suicidal
mania, and finally died insane; Oliver
Goldsmith, continually in prison for
debt; John Bunyan, who spent 12
years in prison, thereby giving us “Pil-
grim's Progress ;” Swift, subject to fits
of passion and ill-humor, died insane;
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from
almost continual ill-health, and died
at forty-four.
So much for the “favored months.”
Of the others, January saw the birth
of Bobbie Burns, Byron and Lewis
Carrol, author of *“Alice in Wonder-
land,” who was also a famous mathe
matician.
March was the birthmonth of Smol-
lett and Steele, as also of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
In April was born the greatest
genius the English language has
known, William Shakespeare,
among others born in this month were
Wordsworth, Keble, Heber, Swinburne
and Herbert. Charlotte Bronte and
Anthony Trollope were also born in
this month.
June is not a very good month,
Charles Reade and Charles Kingsley
being the only two writers.
July gave us Thackeray and George
Bernard Shaw, and those interested
in astrology may find a resemblance
between the two satirists.
September and October were both
poor months, Mrs. Hemans and H. G.
Wells being born in September and
Coleridge, Keats and Sheridan in Oc-
tober.
Finally Milton, Gray and Matthew
Arnold were born in December, as
were also Jane Austin and Carlyle.
So there is hope for most people as
far as birthmonths are concerned.
Reproducing the Talmud.
One of the circumstances due to
the war is that it has been found nec-
essary to reproduce the plates for
printing the Hebrew Talmud, orig-
inally produced in the town of Wil
na, Russia. When this city was cap-
tured by Germany the electrotypes of
the Talmud, it is reported, were used
for ammunition. To reset the work
in Hebrew would take years with an
ordinary outfit.
It was found necessary that the
plates should be made by photo-engrav-
ing, and this work is now being done
in Montreal under the auspices of the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the Unit-
ed States and Canada.
The Talmud contains 9,000 pages, 8
by 14, and it is divided into 18 volumes.
The first volume is finished, and the
second is in print now. It is estimated
that it will take about two years be-
fore the work is completed.
Army Animals Bought Abroad.
Not all of the animals used by the
United States expeditionary forces in
overseas service were taken from this
country. More than twice as many
were bought abroad. The total num-
ber of animals purchased overseas to
January 11, 1919, is 152,836. Pur-
chases of borses in France amounted
to 109,848; in Spain, 1,531; and in
Great Britain, 11,808. The value of
purchases in France was $48,122,004;
in Spain, $589,160; and Great Britain,
$5,314,711, or a total value of $49,
025,965 for 123,277 horses purchased
overseas. The tetal number of mules
purchased overseas amounted to 29,
059, with a value of $11,115,847. There
were 9,341 mules, valued at $2,805,928,
purchased in France; 12,941 myles,
with a value of $5,619,156, purchased
in Spain; and 6,777 mules, valued at
$2,600,763, purchased in Great Britain.
Willie's Joke.
“Pa, what a funny word ‘wholesome’
is.
“What's funny about it?”
“Why, take away the whole of it and
you have some left.”—Boston Tran-
euctipt. :
WHY HE QUIT “THE ROAD”
Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the
Disappearance of Oldtime Boni.
face and Clerk.
“Oh for the old-fashioned hotel
clerk, smiling, accommodating, always
friendly, who never forgot a face,
obliging and always making a fellow
feel lize he was at home,” sald
Frank Whitsell of Portland, Ore., ac-
cording to the El Paso Herald. “What
a difference between the old profes-
sional hotel clerks of 25 years ago,
even up to 15 years ago, and the au-
tomatic, mechanical clerks who never
try to oblige—I might call them auto-
matic grouches—of the present day
behind the hotel registers. If you
ask one of them a question he or
she, nowadays, intimates that you get
your room and meals, just exactly what
you pay for, and not a thing more,
please understand that. I was a com-
mercial traveler for a quarter cen-
tury up to six years ago, and I know.
Why, we old drummers, as they used
to call us, felt at home in those old
hostelries of the western states, just
on account of the clerks. Say, they
were God’s noblemen, those old-timers.
They seemed to anticipate a fellow’s
wants and would go to all sorts of
trouble to accommodate one. The
milk of human kindness flowed in their
hearts. And it made business, too. I
have stopped at an inferior house,
many a time, because I had been treat-
ed so well by the clerk. And I can
say, too, the proprietors were much
the same way in those days. Hotels
were made homelike, not a big box
with compartments, where you are to
be tucked away at so much per. That
was one of the reasons I quit the road,
the chilly, purely mechanical hotels
of the present day.”
CANNOT BE TAKEN ALIVE
Gorillas WIll Fight to the Death, and
Are to Be Feared, Even When
Mortally Wounded.
The most perilous job that any one
can undertake in the jungle is the cap-
ture of a full-grown gorilla. It is said
that no gorilla has ever been captured
alive after he was full grown. He
would be a bold man who would at-
tempt such a feat. Gorillas fear noth-
ing. Even when mortally wounded
they show an agility, strength and fe-
rocity which fs astonishing. A famous
traveler once stated that it would take
150 men to hold down a gorilla with
any degree of safety.
On the other hand, all other apes
are said to be pathetically easy to cap-
ture. The usual method is for a trap.
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per to seat himself where he is certain
| to be observed hy these creatures and
pretend to drink -from a bottle of !
When he is sure that |
| he has been observed, he leaves tha!
| crude spirits.
| bottle and goes away.
The moment his back is turned the
monkeys rush to appease their curios- |
ity concerning the contents of the bot.
| tle. They like the taste of the spirits,
| and quarrel among themselves for it
| till the bottle has been emptied. They
| are soon overcome by the intoxicant,
| and the trapper returns and gathers
i them in.
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: Change of Fashion.
Indeed, so completely have fashions
and materials changed in a century
| that the articles included in the fol
| lowing advertisement of goods to be
sold on Fishbourne’s wharf, “back of
Mrs. Fishbourne’s dwelling,” have
scarcely any meaning for us. Among
the numerous articles to be disposed
of were: “Tandems, isinghams, nuns,
hag and gulixall shirtings, huckabacks,
quilted hum-hums, turkettes, grassetts,
single allopeens, children’s jumps and
bodice, whalebone and iron busks,
men’s Newmarket caps, allibanies,
dickmansoy, cushloes, chuchloes, cut-
tanees, crimson dannador, chained
soosees, lemonees, byrampauts, moree,
maffermany, saxlingham, prunelloe,
barragons,” etc.
Humhums was a sort of towel made
of coarse Indian cotton cloth; cutta-
nee a kind of piece goods of silk and
cotton, also imported from India; bar-
ragon is the barracan of today, a
fabric made of camel’s hair, used wide-
ly in the Levant for robes and man-
tles; but for the most part the ar-
ticles named in the advertisement
have long become obsolete.
Length of Arms and Legs.
According to many measurements
made at the Anthropological labora-
tory in London, the right arm in
human beings is in a majority of cases
longer than the left arm, while, on
the contrary, the left leg is longer than
the right leg.
Sometimes, however, the relative
proportions are exactly reversed but
seldom does perfect equality exist be-
tween the two sides. The tendency
of the right arm to exceed the left arm
in strength is sometimes greater in
men than in women, while equality of
strength in the two, s occurs almost
twice as frequently with women as
with men.
Time to Reform.
The sajlor, returning a trifle fud-
dled from a peace celebration, found
his hitherto respected and respectable
ship newly camouflaged in the most
modern cubist style.
Running his eye over the whole
mess of conflicting squares, triangles,
lines, circles and sundry other name-
less blobs of paint which graced the
sides of his “home,” and blinking stu-
pidly at the hideous screaming color
scheme, he slowly raised his hand
while the tears coursed down his
cheeks and murmured, wearily:
DIDN'T KNOW CURLING IRON
Easy to Understand That Youthful
Member of Chicago Jury Was Not
a Married Man.
Every man knows what a curling
fron is, but does every man know
whether or not a curling iron is a
deadly weapon?
The question was raised in Judge
Guerin’s court in Chicago recently in
the Otto Mathis murder trial. Otto
sgid he stabbed his brother, Edward,
when Edward attacked him with a
curling iron, which he thought a dan-
gerous weapon. The judge ruled a de-
scription of the implement was unnec-
essary, as everybody knew what it
was.
“Sure, I know,” one spectator whis-
pered to another. “A curling iron is
one of those hot things that burn your
fingers when you are fumbling around
among the things on your wife's dress-
ing table.”
“It looks like a pair of scissors with
wooden handles,” s#id the other.
“And it’s deadly, too,” a woman
whispered. “Mazie got hers too hot
the other night and the way it killed
a lot of her hair was a caution.”
“Fortunately,” another woman an-
swered, “the curling iron hath no mis-
eries that peroxide cannot cure.”
Assistant State's Attorney Daniel
Ramsay insisted there might be single
men on the jury. The judge glanced
knowingly at the jurors. The young-
est looked bewildered. So Judge
Guerin ordered a description of the
weapon supplied. The youngest juror
Erpearsy relieved when he heard what
t was,
WORK FOR HIGH EXPLOSIVES
French Scientist Suggests Their Use
in the Reclamation of War
Devastated Orchards.
The vigorous growth of wild plants
about shell holes has suggested to M.
Andre Piedallu a novel plan for quick-
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ly restoring war-devastated orchards.
The vigor of the weeds is attributed
partly to the fissuring of the soil by
the shell-fire and partly to nitrogenous
substances introduced, and in the pro-
posal to the French Academy it is
concluded that an ideal orchard soil
could be produced by breaking up the
rough surface with dynamite in such
a way that fertilizing material would
be driven into the soil. The fertilizer
would be compressed in paper or
celluloid cases around cylinders of the
explosive, which would be fired by a
fulminating charge. Holes for the
cartridges about two feet deep would
be bored with a stick or iron rod, and
in the spherical cavity about 30 inches
deep produced by the explosion, the
young tree would be placed and cov-
ered with the fertilizer-charged soil.
Perhaps some of the enormous stores
of high explosives left over from the
war could be utilized in this way. A
suggestion already made is that the
United States could put to use some of
its 50,000,000 or 100,000,000 tons of
TNT for reclaiming arid deserts, irri-
gating ditches being dug and roads
graded by firing trains of the explo-
sive placed along the surface.
Special Naval Uniforms.
Uniforms having distinctive insignia
have been designed by the shipping
board for the young apprentices now
in training at the various school ships.
An embroidered aiichor under the na-
tional shield. worked into the cloth
of the Hlouse pocket, and two broad
white stripes on collar and cuff, in-
stead of three narrow ones, as worn by
tee navy, will coustitute the insignia
ty which one may discriminate be-
tween the men of the merchant ma-
rine and resembling those worn by
the regular men of the navy.
Right on the Job.
“Dncle Sam is no bully, but Be can
take care of himself.”
“Eh?”
“When they chucked rocks at his
plug hat they soon found him in a
trench helmet.”—Kansas City Journal,
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
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in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and
has been made under his per-
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no-one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and °° Just-as-good * are but
Experiments that trifie with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance.
age is its guarantee.
It is pleasant. It contains
Its
S For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea;
allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
Bears the
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
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Special Prices for May
We expect to make this the banner month by re-
ducing the prices on all wanted merchandise.
COTTON Georgette Waists
Voile Waists from 98c. to $2.50.
Tub Silk Waists now $2.
Georgette Crepe Waists $5 to $7.
Wash Goods
One lot of fine Plaid and Stripe Ginghams, reg-
ular 55c. quality, while they last 25c.
Light and dark 36-inch Percales, best brands
only, 25¢.
5 Fine white Lawns, 50c. quality, while they last
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% Silk and Cotton Crepe de Chine, 36-inch only,
Cc.
Dolmans Capes Coats Suits
We never had as big a season in this depart-
ment, and we are stronger than ever. We are re-
plenishing every week.
~ Rugs and Carpets
All sizes in Rugs. Tapestry, Velvet, Wilton,
Axminster and Rag Rugs—the best values and low-
est prices. Rag and Ingrain Carpets at less than
cost of manufacture.
Shoes Shoes
Men’s, women’s and children’s Shoes at prices
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