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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 12, 1919.
CITY HAS LONG BEEN DEAD
Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, Collection of
Ruins of Which Even the Incas
Knew Nothing.
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One of the numerous cities claiming
the title “oldest city in the world.”
is Tiahuanaco, near Lake Titicaca in
Bolivia. A thousand years ago, say
the scientists, Tiahuanaco was as dead
as it is today, and that is practically
all that anybody knows of its history.
Even the Incas, who hold a record for.
antiquity in South America, admitted
to their first Spanish visitors that they
knew nothing about Tiahuanaco, ex-
cept that it was very probable that
the stone images seattered over the
ruins were the people of the city turned
into stone by some @ngry god.
There would be nearly as much of
the old city visible today as there was
in the time of the Incas, had nat the
stones been so attractive tn the In-
dians of nearby villages. 4s it is,
beautifully carved idols have gone to
decorate the door fronts of humble cot-
tages, and polished stones to prop up
chimneys and pave floors. The little
modern village of Tiahuanaco, near the
ruins, is full of stolen souvenirs. Whole
houses and churches are built of them.
After several centuries of this plun-
der the government of Bolivia put a
ban on removing stones from the ruins,
but there was then little left of old
Tiahuanaco. A few stone gods as
huge and angular as any deities of
Egypt, the sites of a fortress, a palace
and many tombs, all vaguely marked
by worn carved stones are scattered
over a great desolate plain. Yet from
these battered relics with their cryptic
carvings the archeologists hope some
day to reconstruct the story of a mys-
terious people.
SURELY HAD GREAT FAITH
Or Else It Was First Time This Man
Had Ever Gone After For-
gotten Umbrella.
Oh, ye of little faith, listen, for I
would a tale unfold. A man came fly-
ing down the street the other day. He
looked like Atlas with the world on his
shoulders. He seemed bent on go-
ing somewhere and getting there
quickly. A friend met him and said:
“Why this haste? There must have
been a still alarm, as I didn’t hear any
whistle. Where goest thou?”
The Marathon pedestrian said: “Yes,
I am in a little hurry. I was down
street shopping a couple of days ago
and went into a department store, and
when I got home I found I had left
my umbrella. I know just where 1
left it, on the south side of the store,
standing up against the counter. I
thought I would run down and get it
before another shower came up.”
Just think of it. Why, if I had that
man’s faith I could nét only turn a
mole hill into a mountain and sell
the gravel to the government to make
concrete ships, but I could move the
mountain with a broom handle.
After parting with that old rain shed-
der he had blind faith that he would
feast his eyes on it again. Forty-eight
hours of golden moments had flitted
by, and he had the idea that all he had
to do was to stand in front of the
store and whistle, and that umbrella
would come to meet him, bringing a
flock of little umbrellas with it. I don’t
wonder the gold-brick factories are
running overtime. Why that innocent
mortal must have at this writing
enough nice, shiny bricks on hand to
top out a chimney.—Kennebec Journal.
The Lucky Horseshoe.
It was about the middle of the sev-
enteenth century that the superstitious
use of horseshoes as emblems of good
luck originated in England. They were
at first deemed a protection against
witches and evil spirits, and were
nailed on doors of houses, with the
curve uppermost. It was the belief
that no witch or evil spirit could en-
ter a house thus guarded. cus-
tom of nailing horseshoes to ships and
other sailing craft is still in vogue in
all English-speaking countries. To find
a horseshoe with an odd number of
nails attached to it is considered the
forerunner of good luck, and the more
nails the greater the good “fortune that
is likely to attend the finder. A per-
son about to be marrfed who finds a
horseshoe believes that a happy mat-
rimonial career awaits him.
Joy in Conquest.
Life’s master-key does for its pos-
sessor what is impossible to these who
do not have it. No future is too for-
bidding for men ofthe right mental
fiber to fear. Weaklings falter and
turn back. Men of talent turned to
right channels delight in meeting what
has brought failure to the many. It
offers to them a chance to try the real-
ly hard things. They alone test the
skill and prove the mettle. Such men
bring wealth out of defeat, and re-
yjjoice in the strugle. I's no won-
der they step forward and try what
has brought failure to others. It's the
mental sense of conquest that crowns
effort with success and makes man
king in the world. It's your right.—
Exchange.
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France's War Expenditure.
In a speech before the chamber of
deputies at Paris on March 12, Louls
Klotz, minister of finance, gave some
figures on France's war spendings.
Among other items were $2,225,000,000
for pay of the troops. The total ex-
penditure of the ministry of war was
$23,800,000,000. The navy cost was
$1,125,000,000.
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'B0RN OF EMPRESS’ DREAM
Persian Legend Concerning the Design
and Construction of the Beau-
tiful Taj Mahal.
A beautiful story, which is not gen-
erally known, of the creation of the
Taj Mahal is hidden away in the
pages of the Persian manuscripts. The
emperor wished to commemorate his
undying devotion and esteem for his
beloved consort, but ndthing satisfied
his ambition, until one day Arjumand
told him that in a dream she had seen
the noblest and most perfect of
monuments, which if actualized, would
be unparalleled in the whole world for
its matchless beauty. The emperor
sent for experts from all over the em-
pire and commanded them to design the
architecture of the dream. They Ia-
bored to no effect; they could not vis-
ualize the dream. At last one day an
old venerable Pir ascetic presented
himself, who said: “I can help you to
obtain what you seek.”
He then presented a mysterious po- |
tion to one of the architects, before
whose dazed eyes the lovely monument
in all its glory was revealed. The
magic of the potion lasted while he
drew the plan in all its detail, then
he fell back exhausted. The empress, |
seeing the design of her vision real- |
ized, was full of joy and the emperor |
at once set to work to have this edifice
constructed. The impossibility of lay-
ing a firm foundation next presented
itself. The swampy character of the |
banks of the silvery Jumna made it |
impossible to erect any construction
that
dream, it was revealed that the basis ‘ | aE
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Today the Taj ' eir to British Throne Had One Qual
must be of silver.
stands, like an ethereal drop of flaw-
less pearl, on its foundation of solid
silver—breathing forth the poetry of
its conception:
“Sweeter to rest together dead,
Far sweeter than to live asunder.”
—Asia Magazine.
COURT AT LEAST CONSISTENT
Judge Remitted Fine When He Com.
mitted Indiscretion for Which
He Punished Lawyer.
Our famous president, Abraham Lin-
coln, during his early career as a law-
yer, traveled a circuit in Illinois. Judge
David Davis and Lincoln were close
friends, says the author of “Lincoln’s
Own Stories,” and the judge always
showed a keen appreciation of Lin-
coln’s stories.
“I was never fined but once for con-
tempt of court,” said a man who was
a clerk of court in Lincoln's day.
“Davis fined me five dollars. Mr.
Lincoln had just come in, and, leaning
over my desk, had told me a story so
irresistibly funny that I broke out in
a loud laugh. The judge called me to
order, saying—
would stand, until, in another
. an engineer and
« oThis must be stopped. Mr. Lin- |
coln, you are constantly disturbing
this court with your stories.’
“Then he said to me:
“You may fine yourself five dollars.’
“I apologized to the court, but told
the judge that the story was worth the |
money. Shortly afterwards the judge
called me to him.
« ‘What was that story Lincoln told
to you?” he asked.
“T told him, and he laughed aloud, io
spite of himself.
“ ‘Remit your fine!’ he ordered.”
Skeletons of Extinct Bird.
Of the ten known existing skeletons
of the great auk in the world, the
United States is the only country pos-
sessing two. Greater Boston has these, the Foraminifera are the only shells
one being in the museum of the Bos-
ton Society of Natural History and
the other in the Harvard university
museum.
The Boston museum contains also
an egg of this extinct bird. In view
of the fact that a single egg has
brought as high as $535, this is con-
sidered a most valuable relic.
This flightless sea-bird formerly was
distributed along the northern coasts
and islands of North America. In its
coat of sober coloring with a vest of
sh. -y white it resembled nothing so
much as a short man in evening dress.
Since it was flightless, the bird was
easily exterminated, the natives relish-
ing it as a food. It probably was
wholly exterminated by 1844.
Havana's High-Sounding Name.
The full name of the capital of
Cuba is San Christobal de la Habana.
In 1834 a royal decree conferred upon
the eity the sounding title, “Llave del
Nuevo Mundo y Antemural de las In-
dias Occidentales,” which signifies
“Key of the New World and Bulwark
of the West Indies.” In emphasis,
the coat-of-arms of the municipality
bears a symbolic key and representa-
tions of the fortresses of Morro, Punta
and Fuerza.
In 1650 the city rose to be the com-
mercial center of the Spanish-Ameri:
can possessions, and the principal rens
dezvous of the royal fleets: that car-
fied on the trade monopoly between
Spain and America.
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First Malleable Platinum.
The first veritable platinum ingot
was made by a French chemist, Ca-
baneau, in 1783, Charles III of Spain
had called him to Madrid and created
a special chair of’ mineralogy, physics
and chemistry for him. In his labora-
tory he found the. secret of rendering
the new metal malleable, and this is
the way he revealed the fact to one
of his patrons: “Three” months later,
at the home of the Count of Aranda,
there appeared upon a table an ingot
some 10 centimeters cube (about four
inches), with a beautiful metallic lus-
ter; it was malleable platinum,”’—~New
York Herald.
SAHARA MAY BE RECLAIMED PLANE FOR BUDDING AVIATOR
Good Possibility of Its Being Made
Into a Reasonably Productive
Agricultural Country.
That the Sahara will some day
“blossom like the rose,” or at any rate
like a reasonably productive agricul
tural country, is the gist of an article
by J. Nicholas Brusse in La Nation of
Paris. For more than a quarter of a
century, Mr. Brusse declares, although
people in general have thought of the
Sahara as an enormous, permanently
hopeless expanse of sand, those ac-
quainted with the results of a geo-
graphical survey conducted about 1893
have known also that the Sahara is
Well Called the Penguin, Since
Moves Fast on Ground, but Is
Unable to Fly.
Do you know what a penguin is?
You may have read of it, but probably
never have seen one. The penguin is
an aquatic bird found in the polar re-
gions. It is remarkable for its pe-
* culiar structure. It has only stumps
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not absolutely unfit for either plant or :
animal life. Rain falls sometimes in
the great desert and there are under-
ground streams that could be made
available for water. The present oases
could be developed and others created,
provided a beginning were made by
establishing strategic roads and intro-
ducing a sense of law and order among
the desert tribes for the security of
those who were trying to develop the |
country. In its entirety the region in- -
cluded in the Sahara contains already
a good deal of spontaneous vegeta-
tion; it grows a number of forage
plants and shrubs that serve as pas-
turage for caravans, and could doubt-
less be improved and made valuable
by cultivation. Fig trees, apricots,
peaches. ¢rapes and various cereals
have be: grown in the oases.
PRINCE'S MEMORY WAS GOOD
ity That Is Indispensable
to Politician.
On one occasion Mr. Louis Sterne,
inventor, and a
friend of Charles Dickens, showed the
late Edward VII, then prince of
Wales, his exhibits at South Kensing-
ton and the Crystal palace.
“The next time I met the prince,”
said Mr. Sterne, “I was crossing
' Picadilly, at the top of St. James
street. In trying to escape being run
down 1 ran directly into the arms
of his royal highness. He at once
recognized me and sald: ‘Mr. Sterne,
you should give this traffic time and
never cross the bows. I expressed
surprise that he should recognize me,
to which he replied that he never for-
got either face or name if associated
with any matter of interest.”
Mr. Sterne met the prince again
at a picture exhibition where a por-
trait of the late W. H. Smith was
hung. Turning to the princess, his
royal highness said:
“Hallo, there’s Smith!”
At once a man standing near turned
around and acknowledged the recog-
nition, offering his hand, which the
prince unhesitatingly accepted. When
this man, whose name happened to
be Smith, recognized the prince, he
became embarrassed and, with the lady
who accompanied him, made his exit
as soon as possible.
Shells Help Oil Geologist.
The little jellylike animals which
the scientist calls Foraminifera swarm
so abundantly in the sea that their
tiny cast-off shells in some places
make up a considerable part of the
| sediments which are laid down on
the sea bottom and which in time |
, may become beds of rock in a land
| area. The small size and the com-
pactness’ of these shells protect them
from some of the accidents thgt be-
fall the remains of larger animals, So
that in many samples of well borings
that have survived in recognizable
form the vicissitudes of drilling.
identify fossils,
the Foraminifera
may furnish the only available clue | Caroline of Brunswick, the wife of
to the age of rock inclosing them
and consequently to the existence of
strata or structure favorable or un-
favorable to the accumulation of oil,
gas or water, according to the United
States geological survey.
How Word “Booze” Originated.
In the Pennsylvania museum, Memo-
rial hall in Fairmount park, Phila-
delphia, can be seen a collection of
highly decorated old bottles, and the
one which attracts most attention is
the log cabin whisky bottle, molded in
the shape of a house. On one end is
the inscription “120 Walnut street,
Philadelphia,” together with the date,
which is “1840,” on the front of the
roof. On the back is stamped in bold
letters, “E. G. Booz’s old cabin
whisky.”
This erstwhile vendor of spirituous
liquor is said to be responsible for
the use in America of the slang ap-
pellation “booze,” by which all kinds
of intoxicating drinks are known. to-
day. Although some etymologists give
it as being derived from the Hindu-
stani word “booza,” meaning to drink,
while others claim it is from the
Dutch “buyzen” to tipple. The term
was good English in the fourteenth
century.
Confectionery of Ancient Egypt.
The invention of confectionery, an
English writer guesses, is due to Noah,
who “first hit on the idea of boiling
down the starch of the wheat and the
juice of the grape. The result was
a paste, sald to be the original of
our present day ‘Turkish delight.
Among the ancient Egyptians whole
fruits, particularly figs and dates,
were used for flavoring purposes, the
latter especially for preserves and
cakes. In old tombs date sweet-
meats have been found, also records
of honey jellies. The making of con-
fectionery, in Tact, goes bdek 3,408
years; proof of which is to be found
on the walls of Egyptian tombs.”
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the hands of the specialist trained to |
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in place of wings and, for that reason,
is unable to fly. But it is a good
walker and an expert swimmer and
diver. The name of “penguin” has
also been given to the training ap-
paratus employed to teach prospective
aviators the control of the airplane or
seaplane. The name is well chosen.
The penguin used for training is as
unable to fly as its arctic namesake.
It consists of an airplane with wings
so very small that the power of the
motor is unable to lift the airplane off
the ground or water. It is supplied
with ailerons, elevator, rudder and
wheels exceptionally strong for run-
ning on the ground. The apprentice is
encouraged to run this “penguin” to
his heart’s content; there is no danger
that it will take to the air. In a short
time he graduates to a real airplane
that can and does fly, and then he
can give all his attention to the flying
part without having to worry over the
handling of the various controls. The
sense of safety he enjoys while learn-
ing is a great nerve sedative to the
inexperienced aviator.
REMEDIES CALL FOR FAITH
Truly Weird and Wonderful Are Some
“Cures” for Various Ills of
the Human Body.
Weird and wonderful are the reme-
dies advised in different parts of the
world for diseases which affect hu-
manity.
Sufferers from rheumatism may be
pleased to hear that there are people
who claim to have found a sure cure
for their malady by binding split
mackerel around the affected part.
The town of Lee, in England, still
has on record the famous cure known
as the “Lee Penny.” This coin was
brought from the Holy Land by a Cru-
sader. On many occasions when the
health of the people has been threat-
ened this penny has been used. “Three
dips and one swirl” in a bucket of wa-
ter were supposed to endow the liquid
with healing properties.
In many parts of Europe it is
thought that passing under an ass a
child suffering from whooping cough
will bring instant relief.
Almost every one has heard of the
curing of warts by touching them
with a wedding ring. This “cure” is
perhaps not so well known: Make the
sign of the cross on a wart, at the
same time chanting: ‘What I see, that
I wish; what I wish, that disappears.”
Uncrowned English Queens.
There have been several uncrowned
queens of England. The first was
| Margaret of France, the second wife
of Edward I. Money was scarce in
the government coffers at the time,
and Edward could not afford the ex-
pense of a coronation. The four later
wives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn’s
successors—Jane Seymour, Anne of
Cleves, Catherine Howard and Cath-
erine Parr — were never publicly
crowned as queen consorts. Henrietta
Marie, the wife of Charles I, being a
strict Catholic, refused to tafe part in
a state function which would compel
her to partake of the sacrament ac-
cording to the rites of the Church of
England. Sophia Dorothea, the wife
of George I, and mother of George a,
was never recognized as queen of Eng-
land and therefore can not be classed
as one of Britain's uncrowned queens.
George IV, was not permitted to be
present in Westminster hall at his
coronation.
Original “Lone Tree.”
There was an immense cottonwood,
four feet thick and very tall, which
stood in Nebraska almost in the cen-
ter of the continent, half way between
New York and San Francisco, which
was within one mile of that center.
Under its branches rested thousands
of '49-ers en route to the Eldorado of
the Pacific coast. It was the best-
known camping ground on the old !
California trail. From 1849, when the
gold seekers rushed across the great
plains down to the completion of the
Union Pacific railway, the great tree
was a guidepost to the wagon trains
going west.
After the railway was completed
there was no further use for the old
tree and it eventually rotted away and
died. In 1910 a monument was
erected on the spot that the tree had
occupied. It represents the trunk of
a giant cottonwood and bears this in-
scription: “On this spot stood the
original Lone Tree on the old Cali-
fornia trail.”
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Australian Water Holes.
A curious form of water hole is
found in the deserts of western Aus-
tralia, dry by day but yielding an
abundant supply of water by night.
The flow of water is preceded by
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weird hissing and sounds of rushing
air. On examining one it was found
that the water supply occurred in a
long narrow trench, at the bottom of
which was a thin plate of gneiss, sep-
arated by a cavity from the main rock
mass beneath. Apparently the heat
of the day causes this plate to ex-
pend in the form of a depression, in
which the water retreats. When it
cools and contracts at night it forées
Shoes.
Shoes.
Shoe Store
Shoes at.....
Half Price
I have purchased 100 Pairs Men’s
Sample Shoes, all of them worth
$10 per pair, and some worth $12
and more, at the price of shoes to-
day.
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Sizes 6, 6 1-2, 7, 7 1-2, and a few 8
You can have your choice for
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Shoes now on sale. If you can wear
any of these sizes, and need shoes
Come Quick
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Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
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Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Fa ShwiE.
OF COATS AND SUITS
We extend a cordial invitation to all who
want to see advance Fall Styles. These gar-
ments were bought months ago, which enables
us to sell them at a phenomenal saving to you.
NEW FLOOR COVERINGS
are here. Buy early at our prices; it will be to
your advantage.
NEW TAPESTRIES AND
CRETONNES
: A most complete line of Tapestries and Cre-
tonnes in the new dark designs, from 25c. to
$3.50 per yard. This means new goods at old
prices.
SHOES
We have School
SHOES
£2 School will soon be here.
Shoes for children in all sizes.
Men’s Work and Dress Shoes
Ladies’ and Misses’ Shoes at prices
lower than wholesale today.
Attractive Fall and Winter Offerings
Every department is now complete
with new merchandise.
Lyon & Co. ww Lyon & Co.
first air and then water back into the
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