__ Bellefonte, Pa., May 16, 1919.
WAS SHIPS HAVEN
Lough Swilley of Tie of Great Value to
Allied Fleets.
Deep-Water Inlet Formed Break in
Towering Rocks That Form the
Coast Line of North Donegal,
on the Irish Coast.
The destroyer guard is gone from
Lough Swilley. The Yankee ships nc
longer round the grim black heights
of Knockalla. The hamlets of Bun-
crana and Letterkenny have settled
back into the undisturbed quiet of the
north Donegal peasant towns.
Before the war Lough Swilley was
little known to the outside world, ob-
serves the Kansas City Times. Few
ships ever entered between the for-
bidding walls of granite that rise on
either side of the inlet. But the war
made it a haven for merchant ships.
a base for destroyers, and the only
home the wandering trawler fleet of
that section of the sea ever had.
The “lough” is pronounced as
though spelled 1-0-k-h. It is the Irish
cousin of the Scottish “loch,” and a
not far distant relative of the English
“lake.”
Sheer and sinister rise the cliffs of
north Donegal. They form one of the
most forbidding coast lines anywhere
in the world. To the steamer tor-
pedoed off this coast there was little
hope, for there was no chance there to
beach a vessel. When the big 14,000-
ton Flavia was hit off the Donegal
coast last August she stayed up three
hours, but was lost because she could
not limp the 50 miles or so to a spot
where there was a break in those
dark walls of stone.
Lough Swilley is such a break in
the towering rocks of the coast line.
It is a narrow inlet of water running
back into County Donegal some thirty
miles. And it is deep enough all the
way for ships of heavy draught. It
was of incalculable value to the allied
fleets and merchant shipping during
the war, because it offered alike 8
haven and well-placed base for oper-
ations against the marauding subma-
rines that slipped around the coast of
Scotland.
Past Bloody Foreland and Tory is-
land, where the legendary Fomorian
pirates made their haven, swung the
convoys on their way to Londonderry.
Belfast and Glasgow. And there, toc.
was a favorite hunting ground of the
U-boats. A seemingly perpetual mist
and thick rain hung over the sea there-
abouts, periscopes were difficult to
glimpse, and the course of the mer-
chant squadrons was constricted and
easy to follow. So it came to be that
many destroyers and trawlers gath-
ered in the vicinity of Lough Swilley.
And Buncrana and Letterkenny form-
ed an acquaintance with the oriter
world.
They are tiny villages of thatched
cottages, with a white, high-steepled
church in each, and they are indescrib-
ably behind in the march of the ages.
But they are proud of their history.
and the old patriarchs between puffs
of their dudheens will tell one that
the story of Donegal begins with Con-
all Noigiallach, the son of Niall Noig-
all himself. And beyond that Irish his-
tory fades away into the haze of time.
Reviving Heraldry.
In the use of devices and weapons
that linked the great war with the
wars of preceding centuries, the adop-
tion of a kind of heraldry by the
airmen revived also the individuality
of medieval shields - and banners.
Sometimes this heraldry turned out to
be a mistaken symbolism, as in the
case of the German aviator who em-
blazoned his fighting plane with a Ba-
varian lion in pursuit of a French
cock. The emblems varied according
to taste; an Indian shooting an arrow.
the flying stork, the Indian head with
which Lufbery decorated his machine;
the winged serpent, an ancient token
of wisdom and speed; a dove, and a
comet. In an older time such insignia
would, no doubt, have become heredi-
tary. In the twentieth century they
served simply to express the brave
gayety and humor of youth.
Artificiality Fled.
The long line of limousines whirling
down the avenue to modistes and aft-
ernoon teas stopped short as a tall po
liceman signaled for a right of way.
Under his care a stalwart lad in khaki
escorted his little gray-haired mother,
timorously glancing from side to side.
to safety and the other side of the
street. In the foremost car sat a
beautiful woman in the sunny thirties,
finished like the car in which she sat
in every detail. The last touch that
marked the lady, of elegant leisure was
the perky little Pekinese she held
tucked away under her arm. And
then she who watched saw the mon-
daine, her eyes on the boy, wipe her
eyes with a half apologetic brush ao
her handkerchief, dropping her toy as
rg! feeling wiped out artificiality.
New York Sun.
Some More to Worry About.
Smith—Did you ever stop to think
that this national prohibition will be
an awful blow to Uncle Sam’s ship-
building program?
Smythe—Howzat?
Smith—Can yov :ragine the sweet
young daughter of the secretary of the
interior christening a new ship with &
bottle of Bevo?—Indianapolis Star.
BALM FOR THE DISHWASHER
According to Writer, Happy Is the
Man Allowed to Help in Cleansing
the Table Utensils.
We have never held with those who
think dishwashing a dreary and sor-
did task, according to Collier's. Give
us plenty of hot water, plenty of
some abrasive soap and a couple of
clean cloths and we will tackle the
debris of the evening meal with keen
enjoyment. After a long day at the
office it is delightful to steep one’s
hands in hot dishwater (which acts
as an excellent febrifuge for the
brain and a tonic for weariness of
the body) and pass through the puri-
fying and homely gestures of ablu-
tion and wiping. These simple tasks
of the hand always induce a pleasant
and domestic train of thought. We
know one poet, and not such a bad |™
poet either, who always says he can
write his best lyrics after a bout with
the evening dishes. And no manicu-
rist ever gives so pink and charming
a glow to the hands as a half-hour
with the dishpan.
How many husbands, we wonder,
have learned the first rule of the dish-
washer’s technique? You must have
plenty of hot water, but always use
cold water on any utensils where eggs
have been broken. Heat hardens the
yolk, and boiling water poured upon
an egg-smeared plate will so solidify
and solder the juices that it will take
sandpaper to remove them.
If any husband shouM ever protest
against being asked to wash the
dishes let his wife refer him to Il
Kings. 21:13.
AVENGED HIS POISONED PET
Mean Way in Which Owner of Ma.
rauding Cat Got Even With
Its Executioner.
A member of a certain national or-
ganization was laughing over certain
attacks on the Institution.
“These attacks,” he said, “are clever
~—clever but crooked. They bring a
story to my mind.
“A man owned a big black cat that
used to sneak off to the butcher's and
steal- meat. The butcher warned the
man to keep his thieving cat at home,
but no attention was paid to the warn-
ing, and so finally the butcher de
clared:
“If that pesky cat steals any more
of my stock I'll poison it.
“Well, a few days later the cat
made off with a leg of lamb, and the
butcher, true to his word, sprinkled
bits of poisoned steak about. The
next morning the black cat lay cold
and stiff hefore its master’s door.
“The cat's owner waited till
butcher shop was crowded with saus
age buyers. Then he tucked the corpse
under his arm and strode in through
the crowd.
‘Here you are. John, he sald.
slamming the dead cat down on the
meat block, beside the sausage ma-
chine. ‘Here you are. That makes
78. I'll fetch in the 22 others in the
course of the day.”
Restoring Mesopotamia.
Under British occupation the fertile
regions of Mesopoiamia are being re-
stored to productivity, for which this
region was celebrated in Biblical days.
This is disclosed in official dispatches
received at Washington from Bagdad.
Under Turkish rule in some places
nothing was produced.
The British authorities, to save a
large part of the population from star-
vation and to provide work, immedi-
ately set about, as soon as the Turks
were driven out, to construct canals
for irrigation and to encourage the
population to plan for the next har
vest. An Arabian labor corps was or-
ganized locally and three Indian labor
corps were employed.
As a result a new irrigation cana!
has been opened .t Mansarich, sev-
enty miles northeast of Bagdad on the
Diala river, by which 300,000 acres
already are being irrigated.
The King Charles Statue.
King Charles I may now breathe
freely once more. Workmen have tak-
en away the sandbags and scaffolding
of the statue of King Charles I in
Trafalgar square. This is the first
time the head of the Stuarts has been
permitted to breathe freely for many
months. All sorts of speculations have
been rife as to the reason for the ex-
tensive protection that has been ac-
corded this statue, one of them being
that there was a Jacobite at the office
of works. The pronable reason, how-
ever, is the undeni~ble beauty of the
statue.—London Mail.
Identification No. 1.
When a soldier gets his identification
disk handed to him and it runs up to
317,541 or 2,783,596—or some such
colossal number, he begins to medi-
tate briefly on the subject of who has
No. 1.
The Stars and Stripes answers his
query with the information that in the
infancy of the A. E. F., No. 1 was as-
signed to Sergt. Arthur B. Crean of the
medical department. Where and what
he is now is not vouchsafed, but by this
time he may be a lieutenant colonel.
Another Star Shell.
By the invention of a new “star”
shell the night fighting efficiency of
thie navy will be increased at least 25
per cent, the war department has said
in an oficial statement. The shell is
suitable for guns of from three to five-
inch caliber. Its value lies in the fact
that its increased illuminating power
tay be used without betraying the po-
sition of the craft using it.—Navy Life
Magazine.
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Ford cars have become such a world
utility that it would almost seem as if
t to have its Ford
Runabout, Touring Car, Coupe,
Sedan, (the two latter have enclosed
bodies), and the Truck Chassis, have
really become a part and parcel of
want one because
its service will be profitable for you.
er at once because
limited, it will be
first come, first supplied.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Trucks Tractors
farming at all.
We aim to carry a full
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Farmers---Gardeners---Truckers
year planting the same land and dribbling a
little cheap fertilizer in the furrow, merely to
get a little/more out of the land than he puts in, is not
The man who is not improving the
land is going backward. Land must be improved in
cultivation or lose its fertility. Good Fertilizers will
produce desired results. We have them for every use.
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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.
COTNeR Georgette Waists
Voile Waists from 98c. to $2.50.
Tub Silk Waists now $2.
Georgette Crepc Waists $5 to $7.
Wash Goods
One lot of fine Plaid and Stripe Ginghams, reg-
ular 55¢. quality, while they last 25c.
Light and dark 36-inch Percales, best Bini
only, 25¢c.
ake Fine white Lawns, 50c. quality, while iiep last
5 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 Kugs—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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