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Benn aidan
Bellefonte, Pa., August 15, 1919.
FATE OF THE RED TERROR
Bolshevism Will Most Probably Go the
Way That Was Traveled by
French Revolution.
It is a ten-to-one shot that Russian
bolshevism will blow up and blow out
as suddenly as French terrorism van-
ished a century and a quarter ago.
Up to date the Russian revolution
travels precisely the old track laid
down by the French revolution, writes
“Girard” in the Philadelphia Press.
First Mirabeau and his solid type of
revolutionists started the thing and
put the skids under King Louis.
Then along came such ‘blood-letting
terrorists as Danton, Murat and
Robespierre, with their merciless guil-
lotine working day and night behead-
ing kings and queens and nobles.
Then appeared the master, Napo-
leon, who quickly made France one
of the best ordered, best organized
and most prosperous lands on earth.
Russia's Mirabeau phase passed with
the peaceful and practically bloodless
dethroning of the czar. Then fol-
lowed the terrorists, Lenine and Trot
zZKky.
France's reign of terror lasted only
a couple of years. :
It does not seem possible that
‘among Russla’s 180,000,000 people
there is not a Bonaparte to catch the
wild horses and put a bridle on them.
After it was over it seemed an in-
credibly easy thing to turn out King
Louis and Czar Nicholas.
It will be just as easy for Russia
to upset her present masters as to
unseat the Romanoffs.
It is a poor sort of a revolution that
ean't revolve all the way round and
keep the heels of both the czar and
the bolsheviki off our neck,_
HOW HE EARNED HIS CROSS
American Soldier of Chinese Parent.
age Talks Modestly of Deed
of Great Bravery.
Corporal Sing Kee, color sergeant
of the Three Hundred and Sixth in-
fantry of the Seventy-seventh division,
holds, one may fairly believe, the dis-
tinction of being the only American
soldfer of Chinese descent who ever
worn-a Croix de Guerre in France. The
corporal is a modest warrior, not lo-
quacious in the tongue of his fellow
soldiers: and when asked by a reporter
to tell how he won his cross he re-
plied, “What aid I do? 1 did, that's
all.” Others, however, are more ex-
plicit, and what Corporal Sing Kee
really did was to carry messages
through gas and shell fire. He was
one of the twenty runners between
commanders of advanced battalions at
Mont Notre :Dame, and at the end of
the second day the corporal was the
only one still remaining in action. Late
in the afternoon he was gassed by the
enemy, but managed to reach his desti-
nation. After that came the Croix de
Guerre, honorably earned by the Amer-
fcan soldier of Chinese parentage who
just “did, that's all.”—Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
Writes Treaty by Hand.
News dispatches frown Paris report-
ed the old tradition that treaties shall
be written by hand survives, and that
Joseph Carlo of the French ministry
‘of foreign affairs, official caligraphist
end painter, wrote the new peace
treaty.
For 40 years the post of official illu-
minator in the French ministry of for-
eign affairs was held by M. Garapin,
according to the Detroit #News. He
had one love in life—‘the pen,” to
quote his own words, “this simple
and marvelous instrument through
which human thought is transcribed
and forever preserved;” one hate—
“the vulgar and unaesthetic typewrit-
er, which prints without art pages that
time will not respect.”
Miners Appreciated Books.
Officials in charge of Iewa’s circulat-
fng libraries were afraid to trust a
at of books to the people in a certain
Yowa mining district. They were
afraid the books would not be cared
for properly, and thought they could
be placed where they would be used
and appreciated more than in the min-
ing town. Through the efforts of the
home demonstration agent, however,
one traveling library was sent to the
community on trial. The demonstra-
tion agent interested the schoolboys,
who made a case in which the books
were placed. This small library led
to much interest among the people of
the town, and the demonstration agent
‘reports that not a single book has been
Tost or destroyed.
A Great Objection.
“1 don’t take any stock in these
‘ere paytent medicines,” asserted Lafe
Lopp, a languid citizen of Wayover-
behind. “They're an enemy to the
human race. S’pose, now, you are
getting along all right, unable to work
bcuz you're Sick; you're pretty mis-
erable, of course, but people sympa-
thize with you and respect you. And
then somebody persuades you to take
a few bottles of So‘and-So and you
are cured and get your picture in the
almanac. And forever afterward ev-
erybody wants to know why you don’t
go to work, dad-blame your ornery
hide.”—Country Gentleman.
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Use the smallest disk of your
meat grinder for your coffee if you
have no regular grinder.
SMALL GHURCH HAS HISTORY
Many Reasons Why Little North Dev-
onshire Edifice Appeals to the
Tourist of Leisure.
It has an odd sound, “Brent Tor,”
wasn't it? And it is just as odd as it
sounds. Brent Tor is a little bit of
a stone church builf high on the
frowning cliffs of the wild North Dev-
onshire coast in England. The church
is so little that a Devonshire yokel
with a keen sense of humor is said
to have inscribed this cryptic warn-
ing, which puzzled many 2 simple-
minded Devonshire farmer: “If you
get into the second aisle of Brent
Tor, you will never get out again.”
There is no second aisle in the wee
church at all.
Brent Tor was built centuries ago
by a man who was lost among the
steep cliffs and rushing waters of the
wild North Devon coast. The fog
mists enveloped him. In his anguish
as the roar and spray of the cold At-
Jantic assailed him he vowed solemnly
that if he ever came safely out of
the fog without pitching into the
growling ocean he would build #
| church where he landed. Brent Tot
was the result.
The good folk ‘round about Devon-
shire tell how the devil tried to ham-
per the building of the little church.
At last St. Michael de la Rupe, to
whom it was dedicated, grew weary
of having the devil interfere with the |
proceedings and heaved a great mass
of cliff at his satanic majesty. There |
was no further trouble.
A peculiarity of Brent Tor is the
fact that it can be seen from all di-
rections—it is a veritable landmark. |
Before it toss the restless waves of
the Atlantic ocean and behind it
slope the undulating Devonshire
moors.
DID NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND
But Mrs. Smithers Meant Well, and
No Doubt Her Good Intentions
Are of Record.
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On one side of the hall in the new |
apartment building lived Mr. and Mrs. |
Smithers; on the other side of the hall
lived two girls who taught in the pub-
lie schools and who were having their
first experience in “baching it.” Mrs.
Smithers didn't know them very well,
put she took a motherly interest in
them to the extent of hoping that they
had enough to eat and that their neces-
sarily hasty and amateurish spread
would not give them indigestion.
The other day, out of kindness of
heart, she took them a batch of fresh
biscuits she had just baked. And while
she was there, she showed them how
to use the stove, gave them some hints
‘on marketing, wrote down a lot of rec-
tpes for simple viands, and gave them
a lecture on food values and the prep-
aration of leftovers. '
They were very grateful to the degr
lady, and they told us all about it. And
they made us promise solemnly that
we would never tell her that they were
teachers of domestic science.—Cleve-
tand Plain Dealer.
Start of Big Industry.
Upon the invention of a machine for
sewing leather shoes, for which the
patent was issued to Gordon McKay,
April 29, 1862, was bullt the great boot
and shoe industry of the United States. |
McKay purchased, in 1859, Blake's sew-
ing machine, which was one simply
using wax thread, with a stationary
horn attached. While the machine in-
tended for sewing boots and shoes op-
erated well in parts of the work, it
failed in stitching the heels and toes.
McKay changed the feeding apparatus,
introduced automatic contrivances, and
finally was successful in adapting
it to all kinds of work. After the
breaking out of the Civil war, McKay
began to make army shoes, and in
1862 made contracts with 62 firms for
their use. In 1876, 1,500 were in op-
eration. These machines have been
used in foreign countries, and more
than 100,000,000 shoes are annually
made on them in the United Stftes.
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Fashion.
Manners have been somewhat cyn-
ically defined to be a contrivance of
wise men to keep fools at a distance.
fashion is shrewd to detect those who |
do not belong to her train, and sel-
dom wastes her attentions. Society
is very swift in its instincts, and, if
you do not belong to it, resists and
sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
The first weapon enrages the party
attacked; the second is still more ef-
fective, but is not to be resisted, as
the date of the transaction is not
easily found. People grow up and
grow old under this infliction, and
never suspect the truth, ascribing the '
golitude which acts on them very in- |
. juriously to any cause but the right
one.—~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Queer Notions.
It is a superstition that as soon as !
a death takes place in a house, all :
the looking glasses should be covered |
up or turned with the face to the wall |
if they are¥hanging glasses, and must
remain covered or reversed till the
body has been taken out to burial,
and that no person left in the house
must’ on any account look in the
glasses during the time between death
and funeral. It is strange, and some-
what akin to the idea, that it is safe
to cover "looking glasses during a
thunderstorm. I never knew of a
looking glass which was known to
have drawn a lightning “stroke,”
though the same is possible. Queer
notions are often founded on facts.—
Yorkshire Post Correspondent.
HOW ANCIENTS KEPT BOOXS
Development of Comprehensive Sys-
tem Necessary to Merchant and
Wage Earner.
Accountancy, which is the science of
systematizing business, has a history
that runs back at least 4,000 years.
Very early in the development of na-
tions it was found that in commerce,
as well as in the affairs of the state,
systematic and careful account keep-
ing were indispensable. These sys-
tems were at first crude and laborious,
but they at least kept the finances of
the nation and the marts of trade from
being chaotic.
The invention of double entry book-
keeping early in the fifth century by
the merchants and bankers of Venice
gave to the commerce of Europe an
invaluable trade instrument and one
without which the great commercial
enterprises of the later centuries could
hardly have existed, according to
Thrift. And so it has been down to
the present time; there has been a
parallel progress between the accom-
plishments of commerce and the sci-
ence of accounting. and it is known
to every man in business that the
former could not continue without the
latter. Even the most unbusinesslike
people know this much, and we can
hardly imagine any one silly enough
to attempt to carry on any kind of
business enterprise without keeping
| books.
i Bookkeeping, as a formal subject of
| study, is taught in most of the public
| and private schools of this country, but
| it is only that form of bookkeeping
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| that applies to the affairs of the mer-
chant or the shopkeeper. The public
‘has yet to learn that bookkeeping is
' quite as necessary to the prosperity of
the wage worker, the salaried man, the
farmer, and the housekeeper, as it is
to the shopkeeper, the merchant or the
i manufacturer.
CHANCES IN GAME OF LIFE
Must Be Winners and Losers, Since It
i Is Sure All Cannot Hold
i Equal Cards.
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Life is like a game of cards. Some
| must win. Some must lose. It all de-
i pends upon the player and on the
i gambling chances that may favor or
' disappoint him.
All have the same gambling chance,
so the player's ability really deter-
mines whether he shall be a loser or
a winner. Assiduity, persistence, prac-
tice and patience all help to make him
a winner, and the lack of these a loser.
These who win make their gains at
the expense of those who lose. There
must always be winners and losers,
the winners rejoicing and the losers
disappointed, complaining and jealous
of the winners.
How much like the experience of ev-
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i the old Carlyle house,
eryday life! Some succeed because of '
their diligence, earnestness and cease-
less ambition, others.:lose ‘hecguse of
the lack of these winning qualities.
Some live in well-deserved ease and
comfort on the proceeds of their suc-
cess, others in discomfort, proclaiming
that they suffer from injustice.
{ Everybody must play the game of
life, and, like the game of cards, in
the end every gamester must be a
loser. Only the Grim Reaper is sure to
be the winner in the end.—John A.
Sleicher in Leslie's.
Relic of Old Rome.
During plowing operations in a field |
gear the village of Bratton, Westbury,
Wiltshire, Eng., the plow struck what
proved to be the cover of a leaden cof-
tin. The coffin has been examined by !
B. H. Carrington, the curator of the
Wilts Archeological museum, who
states that the coffin, without doubt,
belongs to the period of the Roman
occupation, says the London Times.
The place where it was found is about
a mile from the site of a large Romano-
British village. The coffin is 6 feet 8
inches in length ; its width varies from
1 foot 6 inches to 1 foot 4 inches and
its depth is 1 foot 7 inches. Large
iron nails 41% inches long indicate that
"when interred it had a wooden outer
covering, but that has perished, as
have the bones interred, except the leg
' bones, the pelvis and the lower jaw;
there is no trace of the skull. Two
pieces of lead form the bottom of the
coffin, but the cover is one piece.
To Temper China.
Many a lover of fine china is heart-
broken to discover her choice dinner
or tea set lined with hairlike cracks.
Hot tea or choclate poured into dain-
ty cups cracks them instantly.
A Chinese merchant gave this bit of
information when a rare tea set was
purchased from him: “Before using
delicate china place it in a pan of
cold water. Let it come gradually to
a boil and allow the china to remain
in the water till cold.” This tempers
| the china and it is capable of with-
| standing the sudden expansion caused
' by the heat. There is no need of re-
peating the treatment for a long time.
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Unnecessary Luggage.
A Scotchman who had emigrated to
| America wrote home to his wife in-
| structing her to sell most of their
household property and take passage
| out to him. The good wife asked a
neighbor to help in the packing. In
the midst of theasbusiness they found
Sandy's watch. The neighbor exam-
ined it closely, and then said: “It's a
i grand watch, Janet. Ye'll be takin’ it
| wi'ye?" “Na, na!” was the reply. “It
| wad be o’ nae use oot there, for Sandy
| tells me in his letter that there is some
l100rs 0° difference between the time
here and in California, so I needna be
takin' lumber!”
it any time he wanted it.
CITY’S PRIDE WELL FOUNDED
Alexandria, Va., Has Right to Boast of
Her Present as Well as Her
Past Glories.
Alexandria, Va., is a thriving little
southern city with a historic back-
ground. The city can never decide
of which it should be proudest—its .
prosperous present or historic past. i
As a rule it divides its pride equally
between them. Several times it has
been given an opportunity to become
part of the District of Columbia and
proudly refused.
Alexandrians will show you
equal pride their busy shipyards and
harbor and then escort you to one of
their ancient landmarks, such as
Christ church or the Carlyle house.
Christ church is sacred to the memory
of the south’s two greatest heroes,
Washington and Lee. The Washington
and Lee pews in the church are side
by side, their names marked by silver
plates. Twin mural tablets on the
church's wall are inscribed to thelr
memory. The chancel rail is the one
before which they knelt, the tablets of
the Lord’s prayer and Apostle's Creed
were there in Washington's time. In
the vestry room relics of the heroes
are preserved—the record of their pur-
chase of their pews, the Bible and the
long handled purse used in Washing-
ton’s time for the offerings.
The congress of Alexandria met in
over twenty
years before the battle of Lexington
was fought. It was the first protest
against “taxation without representa-
tion” held in Virginia. It was in this
same old mansion that the Braddock
expedition - was decided upon. Wush-
ington was a frequent visitor to the
house. His diary has often the words:
“Lodg’d at Col. Carlyle’s.”
OLD LAW ON STATUTE BOOKS
If British Judges Were Guided by It
There Would Be Some Confusion
in the “Island Empire.”
Many curious acts of parliament
still remain on the statute book, re-
marks the London Daily Mail. Every
little while these appear in the courts,
but as the British judges decide cases
more by the public interest than by
the law they cause very little trouble.
Three acts have been quoted this
week, One referred to an act of
George II., which allowed the land-
lord to charge a tenant he wished
to leave his premises double rent.
The plaintiff claimed, but lost his
case.
Another was a claim by the admir
alty for freight on bullion carried
from South Africa on a warship. This
claim was decided in favor of the
bankers, who got their freight free
owing to an act: that was passed in|
"1819 for the purpose of stopping the
abuse of the privilege of conveying
bullion in king's ships by the com-
mercial community.
An act that is still enforced is one
of James I. dated 1424, a Scottis]
statute. It reads:
“If any mine of gold or silver be
found in any lord's lands of the realm
and it may be proved that three half-
pennies of silver may be fined out of
the pound of lead, the lords of par-
liament consent that such mine may
be the king's, as is usual of other
realms.”
Weather Signs.
People living near the seashore say
a storm is “brewing” when the air is
salty, caused by the wind blowing
from the east.
A red or copper-colored sun or moon
indicates great heat. A silvery moon
denotes clear, cool weather.
The old Indian sign of a dry month
was when the ends of the new moon
were nearly horizontal and one of
them resembled a hook on which to
hang his powder horn.
Many people troubled with rheuma-
tism and neuralgia usually are ex-
cellent barometers and can predict
changeable weather by “feeling it in
their bones.” :
And the advice of the old weather
sage is “never go out during April
month without being accompanied by
your umbrella.”
As to Punctuation.
With all that may be said about
punctuation its use is pretty well as
much part and parcel of the writer as
are the words of the text. To one man
a comma is merely “a breathing,” and
he puts one in where a reader would
seem to need to pause for breath}
whereas to others a comma is rather
a handy mark for setting off a word
or clause that is to a degree some-
what apart in form or sense from the
direct implication of the sentence. All
of which brings to mind the words of
that very practical schoolmaster who
was the first to say to his class, “The
best rule of all fer punctuation is to
put in punctuation marks only where,
without them, the meaning would be
in doubt.”
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Prevention and Cure.
Jenkins lived in a flat and the man
below was learning to play the trom-
bone.
He was surprised and a little flat-
tered when Jenkins came down to bor-
row the instrument. He lent it will-
ingly, and told Jenkins he could have
Jenkins
took full advantage of the offer. He
was always borrowing that trombone.
“What do you borrow it for?” asked
Jenking’ wife. “You can’t play it.”
«I know,” sald Jenkins cheerfully.
“Nor can that fellow downstairs while
I've got it.”
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