Bellefonte, Pa., June 27, 1919.
STRONG SENSE OF HONESTY
Of Course It Was That, and No Other
Reason, Which Caused Vol-
unteer’s Action.
Loton Horton, the milk magnate,
was talking about the terrific New
York milk strike.
“Oh, well,” he said, apropos of an
opponent’s honesty—*“ch, well, we're
all honest when it pays to be. We're
all more or less like the volunteer.”
“The volunteer?” said the reporter.
“It's a story,” Mr. Horton explained.
“A movic actress, the prettiest movie
actress in Los Angeles, was conduct-
ing a recruiting campaign at a buzar,
and she guaranteed to Kiss every
young man who would volunteer to
fight for Uncle Sam.
“Well, there were lots of volunteers,
of course, and the actress permitted
each of them to kiss her, and they did
80, while the crowd laughed and ap-
plauded, in a polite, gentlemanly man:
ner.
“But one volunteer seemed to lose
his head. He threw his arms about
the lovely actress and kissed her with
such abandon that she was almost
suffocated, and had to push him away.
Yes, she pushed him away, her eyes
blazing, but he stalked off to the re
erniting office without a word of apol-
ogy.
“An hour later the fellow dashed
into the hall again, seized the actress
once more in his arms, and pressed
his lips to hers in a kiss more passion-
ate than before. Again she pushed
him off.
“You fresh chump,’ she hissed,
‘what do you mean? You had your
kiss ap hour ago!
“But the recruiting office turned
me down,’ he said, ‘and so, like an
honest man, I had to give it back to
you, didn’t I?"
DRANK TOAST TO WILHELM
Field Marshal Hindenburg and Army
Staffi Observed the Birthday of
the Former Kaiser.
From a report of the Cassel Alil-
gemeine Zeitung, as cited in the Vos-
siche Zeitung, it appears that, despite
all denials, the ex-kaiser's birthday
was celebrated at the Germany army
headquarters. The journal says that
Marshal von Hinderburg referred to
the ex-kaiser as follows:
“Even people of different views
would consider it cowardice and dis- |
loyalty if we should hesitate to admit i
frankly that we are thinking today
with love, gratitude, reverence and
great sorrow of the kaiser, to whom
we have hitherto devoted our lives and
our actions, and for whom we were
ever ready to stake our blood and our
treasure. for the welfare of the father-
land. May God bless him and give
him strength to bear the heavy bur-
den which God's inscrutable will has
placed upon him. Let us drink a si-
lent toast to his health with this sin-
cere wish from our loyal hearts.”
Where Huns Were Inferior.
There is a noteworthy example of |
the preservation of valuable military !
secrets in the interesting article writ-
ten by the secretary of the British
Geographic society entitled “German
War Maps and Surveys.” British
methods of survey and mapmaking
were far superior to the enemy's, and
one conspicuous success was scored in
the scientific development of sound
ranging for artillery. They used a
self-recording apparatus, an ingenious
and delicate piece of mechanism,
which was used during the battle of
Arras in April, 1917. The idea upon
which it was based must have been
known to a great many persons, both
soldiers and civilians, but it never
reached the enemy, though how much
he desired to obtain it was revealed by
Ludendorf’s issue of an order in which
he insisted upon the irrportance of cap-
turing a set of these instruments. Un-
til practically the end of the war Ger-
man sound ranging was done with
stop watches, a hopelessly crude and
inaccurate arrangement ir comparison
with the scientific British system.—In-
dianapolis Star.
Find a Moth Exterminator.
Experiments .of the bureau of ento-
mology, United States department of
agriculture, have demonstrated that
naphthalene is uniformly effective in
protecting woolens from clothes moth
infection and in killing all stages of
the insect, says the Des Moines Reg-
ister. A red cedar chest readily killed
all adult moths and showed consider-
able killing effect upon young larvae.
It did not prevent the hatching of
eggs, but killed all of the resulting
larvae almost immediately. Red ce-
dar chips and shavings, while not en-
tirely effective in keeping the adult
moths from laying eggs on the flannel
treated, appeared to protect it from
appreciable damage when used lib-
erally.
Not New to Her.
Beatrice was invited to a birthday
party and, womanlike, she wanted a
pew frock. Her mother, finding the
child’s party dress in good condition,
refused to buy another. Her father,
trying to console his little daughter,
said: “Let me see the dress, Bea-
trice.”
She brought it and he said:
Beatrice, it is very pretty!
‘seen it before.”
“Why,
I've never
“Well,” responded the child, ‘T'se
seen it offin.”
PLAYED JOKE ON THE HUNS
Sioux indians Had Fun for Three Days
Talking Over a Tapped
Telephone Wire.
Because of the nature of the coun-
try over which American troops fought
in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the
Germans found it easy at times to cut
in on our field telephone wires.
The commander of one brigade of
artillery attached to an American di-
vision was particularly annoyed by
enemy wire tappers in a heavily wood-
ed section of the Argonne. Code mes-
sages from artillery observers were
being intercepted by Boche listeners-
in, and the commander knew, as all
armies know, that no code is impreg-
nable when experts get working on it.
The artillery commander took up
with the colonel of one of the line reg-
iments the question of the Huns’ wire-
tapping activities. And the colonel
hit upon an idea.
Two “Indians, both of proud Sioux
lineage, members of one of his com-
panies, were assigned as telephone
operators. One was to go forward
with the artillery observer, the other
to remain at the brigade receiving end
of the wire which the artillery com-
mander was certain the Germans had
that day tapped somewhere along the
line.
Now, when two Sioux Indians get
talking together in their own tongue,
what they say sounds very much like
code, but isn’t. Anyway, it raised hob
with the code experts of certain Prus-
sian guard units. :
The Sioux stuck on their jobs for
three days and nights. They and the
artillery commander and their own
colonel enjoyed the situation immense-
ly. If the Germans got any fun out of
it they kept it to themselves.—Stars
and Sripes.
OLD LONDON BELL FOUNDRIES
Relics of Many of Them Are Still to
Be Found Scattered Through
the British Capital.
In the days before clocks, to say
nothing of watches, were common the
bells of London occupied a much more
important position than they do to-
day. 'Prentices depended on this bell
and that to call them very unwillingly
to work of a morning and release them
very willingly from work of an eve-
ning, whilst bells were requisitioned
for all manner of special purposes.
And so there were many bell foundries
in the city. Relics of them are found
in many places, even if it is only a
street name, such as Bilitter street,
which, as Mr. Landfear Lucas points
out, was undoubtedly Bell-sitzers or
Founders’ lane. Then Belsize probably
| owes its name, he declares, to a bell
foundry on the lower part of Hamp-
stead hill. Something of this sort is
all that remains of many of them, but
others, like the Whitechapel Bell
foundry, which has been charged with
retuning and rehanging: the bells of
Westminster abbey for the peace re-
joicings, have continued to do business
through the centuries. The foundry
commenced business in 1570.
Timely Suggestion.
A Brooklyn lady who bought some
get-rich-while-you-sleep oil and min-
| ing stock recently, is now just too pro-
voked for anything because she didn’t
examine the shares more closely. Some
of them are red, some yellow and some
green. She tried to paper her kitchen
walls with them after the president of
the company disappeared, but the artis-
tic effect was not satisfactory.
In doing your spring shopping for
worthless securities, insist on getting
stock certificates that harmonize in
color. Then you can use them for
decorative purposes after the com-
pany goes to the wall.
An old piano box covered with the
shares of deceased corporations
makes a pretty good clothes press,
provided the stock matches nicely in
shade and texture. Persons swvho are
eclor blind should be extremely cau-
tious with their wild-cat investments
these days.—Thrift Magazine.
Predictions Near Fulfiliment.
Napoleon prophesised at St. Helena
that there would be no kings in Ger-
many a century after his death. Ten
years before the Huns broke loose,
Lord Roberts predicted that if a great
European war came in our days, Fer-
dinand Foch, who was then an un-
known officer, would be one of the
most famous actors in it.
A rather neat prediction was made
as far back as 1896 by the redoubtable
Frenchman, Henri Rochfort, marquess
and anarchist.
“We cannot get Alsace-Lorraine
back by ourselves,” he told an inter-
viewer. “But one day the German
eagle will get drunk with pride and
will annoy the British bulldog. Then
the bulldog will form an alliance with
us to kill the eagle, and we shall re-
cover the lost provinces.”—London
Answers.
Good Pipes From Paper Material.
“Pertinax,” one of the most impor-
tant of substitutes for metal, is a com-
pressed paper material, which has been
used in place of lead and copper for
pipes for gas, oil and other purposes.
From a British war trade report, it ap-
pears that these pipes can endure
three or four times as great a pressure
as lead, while their weight is only one-
ninth as great, and they are water-
tight, insoluble and unaffected by tem-
peratures up to about 200 degrees Cen-
tigrade. The tensile strength of the
material is 14,000 pounds per square
inch, nearly equaling that of the best
stamped, sawed-out and drilled, and as
an electric insulator approaches porce-
lain in effectiveness.
HELD PASTORATE IN OHIO
Old Church Records Tell of the Work
of President Wilson’s Maternal
Grandfather.
The coming of Thomas Woodrow,
maternal grandfather of President
Wilson, to Ohio to preach, is noted
briefly in the reccrds of the Chilli-
cothe presbytery. At a meeting held
at Bloomingburg September 12, 1837,
“Thomas Woodrow, a member of the
Congregational Union of England,” re-
quested to be received. His case was
referred to a committee. At the next
meeting of the presbytery, held at Rip-
ley in 1838, he was accepted and im-
mediately received a call” from the
church at Chillicothe, which, being ac-
cepted, he was-installed the first Fri-
day in November of that year.
The next entry of interest in the
history referring to Rev. Mr. Wood-
row is in the records of the presby-
tery held in Red Oak in 1847, to the
effect that because of feeble health he
had resigned his pastorate with the
church at Chillicothe and the relation
was dissolved. He died at his home
near Columbus in April, 1877.
It was his grandfather's church and
his old home in Carlisle, Eng. that
President Wilson visited the first Sun-
day he was in England last December.
He was born at Paisley, Scotland, in
1791, educated at Glasgow university,
did missionary work in the Orkneys,
settled as the pastor of the Independ-
ent church of Carlisle, came to Ameri-
ca in 1835, locating first at Brockville,
Can. It was from that place that he
went to Chillicothe.
PRETTY TRIBUTE TO YANKS
Welsh Girl Enthusiastic Over the
Good Qualities of the Boys
Fighting in France.
Testimony to the qualities of some
of the American troops in France is
given by a girl member of the wom-
an’s auxiliary army corps in a letter
to her home folk at Cardiff, Wales.
She says:
“We are stationed inside an Ameri-
can camp in a huge old French cav-
alry barracks. We are doing clerical
work with hundreds and hundreds of
Americans in the Central Records of-
fice. We deal with the whole Ameri-
can army reeords and, excepting the
cooks, waitresses, etc., all we odd 400
girls are really the ‘Waacs’ of the
American expeditionary force.
“We love the work, we love the
camp and the boys look after us well.
They are splendid fellows. We have
comfortable rooms, a recreation room
and hockey and are as happy as pos-
sible. And now we are getting up a
grand revue called ‘The Battle of
Bourgas.” I am to be a French girl
The chorus is one of the best and the
music truly American. I'm afraid
your music over there when we come
back won't have enough ‘pep’ in it.
Honestly, the boys can play. Even
those who are doing scavenger work
in the camp can play the violin and
piano.”
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Men’s Full Dress.
Will the returned soldiers who are
said to be ordering colored evening
suits be strong enough to overthrow
the black tradition established by Lord
Lytton?
Very few, perhaps, of those who
for 90 years have meekly bowed to
that tradition, have known its origin,
says the London Chronicle. Until the
publication of “Pelham” coats worn
for evening dress were of different
colors, chiefly brown, green or blue,
but the novelist makes one of his fe-
male characters tell the hero a blue
coat does not suit his complexion.
“You look best in black,” she says,
“which is a great compliment, for
people must be-very distinguished in
appearance to do so.” And forthwith
all men chose to take the cowipliment
to themselves.
Some Doubt About It.
One of our good housekeepers knowe
she has no ear for music, but when
ghe is hustling around her pots and
pans and scrubbing and washing out
tea towels she cannot constrain hum-
ming a bit just out of her cleaning-up
joy. Now there is also a little neigh-
bor boy who plays under her window.
Once, while the process of scrubbing
was going on above, the little fellow
looked up to the window with a face
all puckered and serious, as if some
question had been troubling him for
quite a while.
“Well, Toby, what's the matter?” in-
quired the housekeeper.
A long pause—then. “Please ma'am
is you singing ?’—Indianapolis News.
Loaded Cigars.
Around the hotels of San Francisco
patrons are warned to be on the look-
out for the old trick of the loaded
cigar. Some inventive genius has put
out one that contains fireworks and
when it begins to shoot the air is
filled with set pieces representing
men on horseback, French trenches,
and the retreat of the Huns. W. H.
Harl, financier and investor of Helena,
Mont., avers that these things are
true and that he saw a parade of won-
derful pictures when a friend slipped
him qpe of the cigars in the lobby of
the Palace last week. He says that
cigar produced the entire battle of
Chateau-Thierry before he could
smother it.—Oregonian.
Incomprehensibility.
“There’s some misunderstanding
about bolshevists.”
“They discuss their affairs largely
in the most difficult language on earth;
Russian, and illiterate Russian at that,
Misunderstanding is inevitable.”
CITY OF MYSTERY
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cipher the P.cture-Writings
Left in Copan,
Copan is a city of mystery. The
people who once thronged its streets
and bowled at its altars are long since
gone, leaving no record of their ex-
istence save the hoary stones of their
city. These stones, built into pyra-
mids, walls and monuments, bear their
story carved in the Maya characters.
But no descendants have survived to
interpret the stories, and no scholar
has arisen wise enough to read the
picture-writings of Copan.
Ruins of this oldest city of the
Maya Indians may still be seen by
those sufficiently persistent and en-
thusiastic to seek them out. A lit-
tle Indian village in western Honduras,
and the river on which it lies keep
the name of Copan alive today. To
visit the ruins of the great Copan you
must seek out this village by train
and then go a long journey on horse-
back. Just beyond the village lies
the old Maya metropolis.
The only inhabitants of Copan to-
day are queer figures of the Maya
gods, that peer out of unexpected
hiding places like the creatures of a
bad dream. Wonderfully carved many
of them are, grotesque in attitude and
expression, according to the artists’
conception of the beings of the other
world.
When Copan flourished, how it fell,
and what became of its last people,
no one knows. The city is as deso-
late as only a deserted city can be,
oppressive and sad even in the bright
sunlight of a tropical midday.—
“Niksah” in Indianapolis Star.
FIRST TO WEAR FINGER RING
Legend Makes Prometheus the Pioneer
of Custom That May Now Be
Called Universal.
The first finger ring is supposed
to have been worn by Prometheus,
who stole fire from heaven that man
might warm himself and cook his
food. This act so incensed Jupiter
that the king of gods condemned him
to be chained upon a rock where vul-
tures could constantly feast upon him.
The sentence was carried out, but
Prometheus was released. Then Jupiter
ordered that Prometheus wear a link
of chain about his finger as a remin-
der of the punishment. A fragment
of the rock to which he had been
chained was set in the ring, so that
he might still be regarded as being
bound to the rock.
The custom of wearing an engage-
ment or wedding ring upon the third
finger is due to an ancient belief that
a nerve or vein directly connected
this finger with the heart, according
to a writer in the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. Macrobius said: “Because of
this nerve the newly betrothed places
the ring on this finger of his be-
loved, as though it were a representa-
tion of the heart.” And just to show
that the practice is a very old one,
Macrobius admitted having obtained
the facts from an Egyptian priest,
thus linking the belief with the dim
reaches of the past.
“Junior” Resembles His Papa.
His friends sald it was excusable
because it was his first boy. He ex-
hibited the photograph at the bank
where he was employed.
“Isn't he a wonder?” the young fa-
ther would say, passing it through the
window.
“You bet he is—really good looking
and intelligent; yes, he does resemble
hig father.” And papa would beam
and act as though he had not noticed
the flattering smile. All day the same
thing was repeated as friends entered
the bank.
He was “real tickled” with himself
when he went home that night and
handed the package of photographs to
his wife. As she opened it the much
flattered papa told her how his friends
had admired “Junior,” and did she
think the little fellow looked as much
like him as people had sald?
Mrs. Bank Teller took one look at
the contents of the package.
“Why, dearie, the photographer has
made a mistake; he gave you the
wrong pictures.”—Kansas City Star.
Clock Tower of Jerusalem.
Since the occupation of the holy
city of Jerusalem by the British it
is gradually becoming more western-
ized. For the first time in its history
its streets are properly cleaned and
it has been given a fire brigade ser-
vice and now an efficient water-sup-
ply. Hitherto its inhabitants de-
pended upon a few wells and water
collected in overhead cisterns. The
telephone, too, has been introduced.
Its most striking improvement—
though it is one that was carried out
just prior to the war—was the erec-
tion of a fine clock tower at the Jaffa
gate. It is built of white stone obtained
from Solomon's quarries, of which the
temple was constructed. The clock,
which was supplied by a London
watchmaker, shows both European and
Arabic time. Opposite the tower a
drinking fountain has been erected,
and the roadway which leads through
the old walls into the city at this
point has been entirely rebuilt.
Vary Your Garden.
Remember that plant diseases and
insects thrive where they have become
established. Therefore, gardeners this
year should take care not to place the
individual crops where the same crops
grew last year. Varying the arrange-
ment of the garden reduces the danger
rom disease and insects. The same
vegetables in the same place each year
exhaust certain food elements, and re-
duced yields are sure to result.
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