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Bellefonte, Pa ts 25, 1919.
MAY HAVE BEEN ERICSSON’S
Inisresting Speculation Arising From
Discovery of Ancient Galleys
Buried in Norway.
A traveler in Norway has been look-
ing at the two ancient ships, in one
of which, though probably in néeiiher,
Lief Ericsson may have reached =
western worid five centuries
Columbus. Nothing proves that either
of them was Ericsson's galley; rei
ing proves that it wasn’t. The ancieat
pagan custom that buried the craft
of the sea-hero preserved the gallers
away in the soil of Norway, thanks
to a covering of potter’s clay, and a
twentieth century farmer recovered
the second one. The savants looked |
it over, and dated it from the ninth
century, contemporary with the ad-
venturous Ericsson, possibly his own
ship. About seventy feet long, the!
vessel is shaped not unlike a double- |
pointed rowboat, flat and low, with
forked uprights for 15 pairs of oars,
and the conventional dragon carved on
bow and stern. Under the floor are
the compartments where the voyages
doubtless stored their provisions. One
can imagine the watcher at the prow, |
the helmsman tugging at the tiller, the |
galley master high in the poop beat- |
ing with his great hammer the rhythm |
for the thirty oarsmen. It is far more |
difficult to imagine how they slept and
ate in rough weather.
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SYMBOL CF BRUTE FEROCITY |
In All Ages the Tiger Has Been |
Famed for Its Strength, Daring
and Deep Cunning.
It is said that the tiger has never |
been made the basis of a royal emblem
except by Tippoo, the famous sultan of |
Mysore. Tippoo himself was as fero- |
cious as a wild animal and kept peur)
him a mechanical toy representing a |
life-sized tiger worrying the bedy of |
a British soldier. When the toy was |
wound up the tiger growled and the!
soldier groaned and Tippoo smiled. |
It may be that the tiger, though the |
ideal of brute symmetry and power,
has never attained unto the dignity of
a royal emblem for the reason that in
every language the word for this ani- |
mal is a synonym for stealthy, cruel, |
strong-limbed ferocity. Nature has,
made the tiger unequaled in the com-
bination of speed, strength, cunning, '
daring and physical beauty. A tiger's
first bounds are so rapid as to bring
it alongside an antelope, and a blow.
of its paw will stun a charging bull.
It has been known to spring over a
wall five feet high into a cattle pen
and to jump back with a full-grown
animal in its jaws. Sportsmen say!
that they have known it to carry away
the bait while they were putting up
the shelters from which to shoot it.—
New York Herald.
No More “Lykerstanes.”
“Lykerstanes,” or stones by the road-
gide for resting coffins on while on .
the way to the cemetery, are now |
things of the past in Scotland. The :
root of the word, which is the old Eng-,
lish of Anglo-Saxon “lic,” means
“a body corpse.” These lykerstanes
were the equivalent of the lichgates,
common in rural England.
Many farms bear names after the !
famous stones, aithough the spell- |
ing is changed somewhat, some being |
called “Leckerstone” and “Liquorich.” '
One stone is still at Falkland, built
into a walk and vuigarly known as
“Liquorstone.”
Two of the lykerstanes were formers
ly in the parish of Addie, at the junc!
tion of the road from the Den of Line
dores to the churchyard, but they were
removed about the beginning of the
last century. They consisted of twe
unhewn boulders of bluish stone, abou
three feet high, and somewhatsquare
on the sides and top.
Daydreams.
Dreams will at times reveal to us
how little we have forgotten; but the
value of dreams as a key to remem-
brance is distorted and diminished by
what seems their lack of selection.
They blend the past with the present,
or with sheer impossibility, in such a
hopeless medley.
At their best our dreams seem fan-
tasies, based upon the real yet wander-
ing from it witk erratic inconsequence,
of which the possible meaning eludes
us. And yet a dream sometimes will
revive so much, with miracle as of
resurrection. But it is in our day-
dreams, when reason still retains the
controlling hand, that we most surely
touch the past; and daydreams are the
poetry of memory,
Chaucer.
His best tales run on like one of our
inland rivers, sometimes hastening a
little and turning upon themselves in
eddies that dimple without retarding
the current; sometimes loitering
smoothly, while here and‘there a quiet
thought, a tender feeling, a pleasant
image, a golden-hearted verse, opens
quietly like a water-lily, to float on the
surface without breaking it into a rip-
ple. He prattles inadvertently away,
and all the while, like the princess in
the story, lets fall a pearl at every
other word. If character may
be divined from works, he was a good
man, genial, sincere, hearty, temperate
of mind, thoroughly humane,
and friendly with God and maf.—
Lowell,
| the morning, Rufus?”
Kisses and Beards.
It is so easy to understand what the
Americans say, because they talk so
loud—it is not the same loudness as
of the French, and one day I have
laughed to hear in a 'bus how girls
of the Y. M. C. A. have talked. There
was one who was not at all pretty, ex-
cept to be young, who has regarded a
French gentleman who wore his beard
long. “Look,” she said, “what a hor-
rible beard. Imagine to be kissed by
any one like that. Then they have
both laughed.
The other one has said then: “I sup-
pose his grandfather wore his beard
long, so he does the same,” and the
first one has replied: “Yes, it is al-
ways like that. What was good enough
for your grandfather in France is good
enough for you.”
I was not angry to hear them speak
so, because, you know, they were very
ignorant. For me, I do not think that
they have known very much the emo-
tion of to be kissed, or they would
have understood that it is not whether
or not one has a beard that makes the
difference.—London Bystander's Paris
Letter.
Why He Doesn't Hear It.
«This is the fourth morning you've |
been late, Rufus,” said the man to his |
colored chauffeur.
“Yes, sah,”
ovahsleep myself, sah.”
“Where's that clock I gave you?”
“In m’ room, sah.”
“Don’t you wind ii up?”
“Oh, yes, sah. I winds it up, sah.”
“And do you set the alarm?”
“Ev'ry night, sah, I set de alarm,
sah.”
replied Rufus. “I did
“But don't you hear the alarm in
“No, sah. Dere’s de trouble, sah.
Yer see, de blame thing goes off while
| 'm asleep, sah.”—Yonkers Statesman.
Hard Luck for Some One.
The monthly assizes were in prog-
' ress at the mining camp of Howling
' Wolf, and the courthouse was crowded
with a motley throng, who took a deep,
if somewhat noisy, interest in all the
proceedings.
The uproar got worse and worse,
and at last the judge could bear it no
longer.
An imposing figure, in a moth-eaten
white wig, he rose to his feet and bel-
lowed out:
“Gentlemen, and also prisoner, 1
must insist on order in the court
house. Here I've tried four cases a'- |
ready, and haven't been able to hear
a single word of the evidence.”—Peaxr-
son’s Weekly, London.
While Food Is Short.
“'Tain’t manners
you're eatin’,” said 3iss Brown.
“No,” answered Miss Jones; ‘an’
wif fcod scaree Kke it is, 'tain’t goo!
Judgment, cither.”— London Answer:
to talk while
Utilizing Apricot Pits.
IF'rom the Popular Science Magazine.
California has an annual by-product
of 7000 tons of apricot pits, which
were formerly sold to Germany and
Denmark at $45 a ton. When the
war closed this market, and the price
dropped to $15, a California chemist
bought a supply and started experi-
menting. He is now marketing a sub-
stitute for olive oil; a meal used in
cooking; oil of apricot, known as bit-
ter oil of almond; American blue,
from which prussic acid can be made,
and a number of other by-products,
which give a total yield of more than
$200 for a ton of apricots.
No beer, no work. No work,
no wife. No wife, no home. No
home—iramp, tramp, tramp, the
bums are marching!—Toledo Blade.
Longest Day of His Life.
A staff officer, noted for his jovial
habits, determined to try the rare ex-
ous liquors for a season. Late in the
evening of the day when he started
he met the staff surgeon, who was a
theoretical temperance man.
“Doctor,” said he, “they say that by
abstinence from stimulating drinks a
man’s days will be prolonged.”
“There’s no doubt of it.”
“That is my opinion,” said our col-
onel, with a lonesome yawn. “I re-
solved to drink nothing today, and it
has been the longest day of my life.”
—— There, little brewery, don’t you
cry; you'll grind sausages by and by.
—Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
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that trifle with and endanger the health of
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What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Ql, Paregoric,
Drops a2d Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance.
For more than thirty vears it has
beer in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ;
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.
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