r— Demorralic; atcha Bellefonte, Pa., May 30, 1919. PR —— comamm——— DIDN'T MEAN 7 LITERALLY English Soldier's Expressed Wish That Death Might Come Was Fol- lowed by Hasty Revision. Maj. Gen. John J. O'Ryan, who has Just returned from France, has brought back a number of humorous stories of the battlefield. Here is one he tells about an English sentinel: “The Twenty-seventh division was in Flanders, where it rains almost con- tinuously,” began the general. “There were English troops billeted near by.. One night, after a particularly hard rain, this English chap was on duty. When .he thought no one was around he began to curse everything in gen- eral, the weather, the Germans and his own luck. ‘Oh, I say, this is blawsted weather, dontcha know. I wish I was out of this beastly mud, the English sentry muttered. A few minutes later he was cursing the rain which beat in his face. ‘Gawd, but I wish I was out of this beastly water,’ he mused again. Just then the Ger- mans opened a heavy fire and made things uncomfortable for everyone. ‘Oh, Gawd, but this Is beastly,’ said the sentry, raising his voice. ‘Oh, I do hate those blawsted Germans. I wish 1 were dead.’ Simultaneously with his last words a big ‘Minnie’ dropped almost at the sentry’s feet. When he recovered he was lying in a hole covered with mud but uninjured. The sentry sat up, rubbed the mud from his eyes, and then gazing heav- enward, said, ‘Oh, I say, Gawd, cawn'’t you take a blawsted joke? "—New York. Sun. FAR BEYOND ALLOTTED SPAN Instances of Remarkable Cases of Longevity Which Seem to Be Well Authenticated. The death at Nenagh, County Tipper- ary, Ireland, of Mrs. Bourke, who was reported to have reached the age of 121 years, has led the London Daily Express to make a record of some of the other famous cases of longevity. In 1904 the regimental chaplain of the 18th Bengal infantry was still conduct- ing services in Calcutta at the age of 130. In 1908 Andrei Nikolaievitch Schmidt, a Russian, produced papers which showed that he was. 1368 years old, and had enlisted in the Reval battalion in 1796. The same year Hadji Raouf was 133, and was still earning a living as a saddler in Con- stantinople, but he was a juvenile com- pared with Quo-Ka-Num, an Indian ! chief who roamed the shores of Puget sound at the age of 160. He was gen- erally conceded by Europeans more likely to be 200, and he claimed to re- member the time when iron was un- known to his tribe. He was 2 feet 5 inches in height and did not weigh 50 pounds. A few years ago a Chinese woman reached Montreal. She had left her native land when 70, and had lived in Demerara for 100 years. In 1912 Europe had 7,000 living centenari- ans, of whom 3,888 were Bulgarians. New Canadian Coat of Arms, The Canadian government is con- sidering adopting a new coat of arms for the dominion—one which shall rep- resent all the provinces in the confed- eration. The present coat of arms is representative of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick only, for those were the original provinces; and since it was adopted in 1858 Prin¢e Edward island and British Co- lumbia have entered the federation, and finally Saskatchewan and Alberta have been carved out of what were the Northwest territories. When a de- sign emblematic of these nine prov- inces has been chosen by the commit- tee and approved by the government it will be submitted to the royal col- lege of heralds in England to be reg- istered. A royal warrant declaring it the official arms of Canada will then be issued. Double Bottoms Put to Work. For many years a few steamships from the far east have brought fuel oil back to Britain in the ballast space between their inner and outer hulls. The practice never became general, however, and “tankers” continued to handle the bulk of the trade. But in June, 1917, increased submarine activ- ity and the expansion of the allied fleets’ made immediate additions to tank tonnage so imperative that not a few, but hundreds, of British and American “double bottoms” were fitted for this auxiliary cargo. Apart from its war-time results this new practice has taught marine engineers many les- sons that will guide them in designing the oil-burning ships of tomorrow.— Popular Mechanics Magazine. His First Visit. Mr. Lloyd George would seem, says Liverpool Post, to have had a‘premoni- tion of his future eminence when he paid a first visit to London as a lad of nineteen. “Went to the house of comraons,” he wrote home to his uncle. “Very disappointed. I will not say but that I eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conqueror eyed England. on his visit to Edward the Confessor as the region of his future domain. Oh, vanity!” Their Plight. “The Germans will have to resgrt to wireless fighting.” “How do you mean?” “Hasn’t Foch just ordered them i: stop stringing the Poles?” Pacific Blockade. “Pacific blockade” is a term invent- ed by Hautefeuille, the French writer on international maritime law, to de scribe a blockade exercised by a great power for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear on a weaker state without actual war. The pacific block- ade has apparently established itself as a legitimate means of coercing a weak power to observe its interna. tional obligations without resorting to war for that purpose. It is a modern development and has usually been the act of several powers acting in concert. It was first employed in 1827, when the combined fleets of Great Britain, France and Russia blockaded a por- tion of the Turkish coast. More re- cent instances of its exercise were the blockade of Crete by the powers in 1897, the blockade of Venezuelan ports by Great Britain, Germany and Italy in 1902 and of Turkish ports by the powers in 1905. The Bargee. “American soldiers in London,” said Gen. Samuel A. Ansell, “take a great deal of Interest in the bargees who row enormous canal boats up and down the Thames. “A soldier stood on the Blackfriars bridge one day watching a bargee row his canal boat, or barge. It was an enormous barge; half a dozen oarsmen could hardly have managed it, but the lone bargee wielded his oar undis- mayed, and the barge approached the soldier on the bridge at the rate of about an inch a minute. “The soldier watched the barge a long time, and, when the bridge was at last reached, he took the cigarette from his mouth and shouted down to the plucky oarsman: “‘Well, so long, old timer! Don't forget to bring us a parrot back with you 2 ” What Is Biggest Woodcock? What is said to be the heaviest woodcock was ome shot by Arthur Duane near Whittaker’s, L. I, about thirty years ago. The woodcock was mounted by Bell, the leading taxider- mist of the day, but unfortunately it was later on destroyed by moths. This woodcock was weighed on a druggist’s scales at Southampton and weighed exactly 14 ounces. There are several witnesses living who can tes- tify as to the weight. The naturalists give the average weight of woodcock as ranging from five to nine ounces. Smoking a Cause of ‘Cancer. Cancer of the mouth In civilized countries has been greatly reduced by good dentistry. Righty-five per cent of the cancers of the lip occur in smokers. Formerly clay pipes, which became very hot, were much used, and there has been a notable reduction in the number of cancers of the lip since the clay pipe has gone out of fashion. Smoking, however, is the cause of most cancer of the lip, the tongue and the floor of the mouth.—Maj. W. J. Mayo, War Department Lectures. ~—For high ciass job work come ‘0 the “Watchman” office. A Sure Thing. “Ah always hab mo’ faith in svm- rafy dan in congratulations,” observ- ed Shinbone. “You kniyws fo’ sure dat dar aint anybody gwinter be jeal- ous ob yo’ bahd luck.” emma y | 1 | i | itaian City of Florence Way ~ Claim High Honor. Birthplace of Many of Those Who Rank, in Intellectual Ability and Achievement, Far Above the Rest of Mankind. At first thought one would be apt to claim for London, the great metrop- olis, the honor of having given birth to the greatest number of the world’s geniuses. Among other great Londcaners the following might be cited: Francis Ba- con, philosopher and essayist; Spen- ser, Jonson, Milton and Keats, world- known and honored poets; Hogarth, Turner, Watts, Millais and Holman Hunt, artists whose achievements are acclaimed by all the world of taste; Fox, Pitt and Beaconsfield, statesmen who have influenced the building of empire; Daniel Defoe. the novelist; Faraday and Huxley, the scientists. and many others. All these would stand in the very front ranks of great- ness, some of them, like Milton and Bacon, towering ubove their fellow men like mountain peaks among mole- hills. The Frenchman would undoubtedly stand up for the claims of Paris, quot- ing a long list of poets and painters and novelists and statesmen to justify bis boast. The Italian would probably put the question: “How far back may we go in this quest? For if ancient Rome is to be added to the record of the more modern city, where will you find her equal?” Then Athens would lift up her clas- sic voice in protest, and quote a long list of her sons who have formed the models of all subsequent time in art and poetry and philosophy and archi- tecture. But there is another competitor which can beat them all in this com- bat. Compared with London or Paris, or even Rome, it is a small place. The city is Firenze—Florence—the native city of Savonarola, of Fra An- gelico, of Donatello, of Botticelli, of Leonardo da Vinci. of the mighty Mi- chael Angelo, the glory of his age and of all succeeding ages; Florence, the city of Boccaccio, the father of novel- ists; of Machiavelli, whose very ngme is a proverb, and of the famous Me- dici; yes, and lastly, Florence the city of Dante, the first both in time and position of this glorious galaxy of stars of the first magnitude. How such a small place ever gave birth to so many mighty sons of genius is one of the standing puzzles of heredity and environment and edu- cation. Why does not Glasgow breed geniuses? Nobody knows. During a period of two hundred years Florence was a forcing bed for supreme achieve- ment. During that time the little city broke all records, ancient and mod- ern, and it is hard to see where her competitor is to spring from who shall | take away her crown of laurels. Some War Economies. There is probably nothing that seems s0 useless in the eyes of the average person as an Irish potato . § which has begun to rot, but the de- partment of agriculture in its war-time d experiments has discovered that starch can be made from a decayed potato just as well, if not better, than from a good one, and so the surplus stock of the farmer or dealer need no longer be thrown away or wasted. In like fashion chemists seeking methods to avoid world-wide food shortages have found that sugar can- not only be made from beets, but from sweet potatoes as well. The farmer himself can make good sirup from his sweet potatoes by boiling them until they can be mashed in the water to thick, mushy liquid. To this ground malt is added and the result, after properly cooking for about an hour, is a thick sirup, which is strained through a cloth and used for any sort of sweetening. eer, Modest Hero. My heroic action was this: We were lying close up to their defenses. and for four days had not been able to climb out; we lay like reptiles. There was not a dry spot; one could nor get accustomed to it. And H—, the en- sign, had been caught on the wire when we had started to attack. At first he asked for help, called on the men by name; but one could not show one’s nose without being shot. Then he only groaned and breathed heavily. That went on for four days, and he still lived. It is a sin to grumble at God, but here one says: “Why be careful of one’s soul?” I couldn’t endure it and took him off the wire; but I got wounded. Then these was an attack. and our men captured the post.—Lon- don Times. Fire-Retarding Paints. From tests made at the federal bu- reau of standards it appears that, while practically all paint coatings have some fire-retarding action, none of those so far tested afford very great protection. All the samples in question were materially damaged by applica- tion of flame for a few seconds. Both sodium silicate and whitewash rank comparatively high. These have the ° advantage of cheapness and can both be used on the same surface. However, pccording to a recent bulletin of the bu- reau, no treatment of wood after erec- tion can be expected to serve as an ef- fective fire protection, and the use of such materials should not be made an excuse for omitting any of the usual precautions against fire, Injections of Cane Sugar. Doctor Rosenthal reports to the Presse Medicale (Paris) that he has administered intravenous injections of a strong solution of saccharose in nu- merous cases of tuberculosis. The pro- cedure exerts a manifest tonic action. It raises the blood pressure, augments the body weight, and indirectly pro- duces a favorable effect on the tuber culous lesions. These results are ascribed by the author to an enhance- ment of the functions of the liver. Safety in Debate. “Papa,” said Willie Hohenzollern. “aren’t you worried about what they may do with us?” “No, Willie. There is so much dif- ference of opinion as to what would be a suitable retribution that I think the argurient may easily be prolonged indefinitely * ONT suffer the inconvenience of a coal or wood range this summer. Keep your kitchen cool and clean. Banish the carrying of fuel and ashes. And save money. The New Perfection Oil Cook Stove Will make your summer cooking a delight. 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