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FIND STEAMER LONG BURIED
Dredging Operations in the Mersey
Disclose Remains of Vessel That
Had Been Forgotten.
For some time past the Mersey
docks and harbor board has been con-
ducting dredging operations in the
neighborhood of the Burbo bank, one
of the huge accumulations of sand
which impede the navigation of the
Mersey entrance, and these have re-
sulted in a “find” of remarkable in-
terest.
It is the remains of a steamer which
have evidently been embedded for
generations. Her date is long ante-
rior to that of iron shipbuilding. Of
sound English oak were her timbers
and framing, to which circumstances
doubtless is due the fact that they
still retain cohesion and shape, and
have so wonderfully resisted the forces
of decay as to supply an abundant
quantity of material for the souvenir
manufacturer. Her beams, in point
of fact, are described as being as
“hard as iron.”
The machinery has practically per-
ished, but the engine bed-plates and
the funnel remain, and relics of pot-
tery and other articles are plentiful.
The vessel, cleared of superabundant
sand, is not only visible, but accessible
at low water, and has been visited and
examined by many interested people.
The prevailing opinion is that she
is the William Huskisson, a paddle
steamer belonging to the City of Dub-
lin company, and trading between Liv-
erpool and the Irish capital, which on
the 12th of January, 1840, was wreck-
ed on her passage to the Mersey. She
had 120 passengers on board, of whom
95 were rescued by the ship Hudders-
field, and the remainder perished.
Captain Clegg of the Huddersfield
subsequently received handsome pres-
entations from the citizens of Liver-
pool in recognition of his good work.—
Manchester Guardian.
REMAINS OF ROMAN SMELTER
Intensely Interesting Discovery Said
to Have Been Made in the
North of England.
A lady member of the Cumberland
and Westmoreland Antiquarian 8o-
ciety of England has had the good for-
tune to discover what is believed to be
a Roman bloomery, or ancient smelt-
ing furnace. Her attention was drawn
to the place by the work of moles,
which recently exposed some of the
remains, and again later by the burn-
ing of the whins formerly concealing
the hearth and other features of the
bloomery, near Forest How.
By some exploration with a spade,
she traced the foundations of a large
hearth, twelve yards in diameter, and
a number of heaps of cinders, slag
and ore; and she also turned up spec-
imens of Roman tiles, with pottery,
slag and hematite. The size of the
hearth of the Forest How bloomery
marks it as quite different from the
ordinary north-country medieval iron
furnaces, which run from seven to
nine or ten feet in diameter, for the
one just found is twelve yards across.
This appears to be worth further ex-
ploration and probably money for that
purpose will be found.
Chinese Curb Tobacco Users.
China’s ministry of the interior has
telegraphed the following circular in-
structions to the Shenchangs and Tu-
tungs all over the country, according
to the Peking Daily News:
“Tt has been noticed that almost
everybody in the country has indulged
in the use of cigars or cigarettes,
which will become a worse curse to
the nation than opium in former days
unless some restrictions are imposed.
It is hereby decided that before taking
up any measure for the total prohibi-
tion of its use, the following restric-
tions shall be imposed: First, no boy
or girl under eighteen years of age
shall be allowed to smoke cigars or
cigarettes; second, any military’ or na-
val man using it shall be punished;
third, the use of cigars and cigarettes
in all government schools and colleges
shall be strictly prohibited.”—Far
Eastern Bureau Bulletin.
Legislators Must Work.
A novel method of forcing attend-
ance in the chamber of deputies of the
Republic of Argentina has been sug-
gested by a member who is out of pa-
tience with those who draw their sala-
ries from the public purse but failgto
fulfill their constitutional obligation of
regular attendance.
The suggestion is in the form of a
bill providing for payment per day to
deputies instead of a lump sum every
month. Failure to answer the roll
call is equivalent to absence, and the
measure provides that no deputy shall
receive his pay for days when he is
absent from the regular sessions. =
Land for National Forests.
The national forest reservation com-
mission. has just approved for pur-
chase 48,581 acres of land for national
forests in the White mountains, South-
ern Appalachians and Arkansas.
The largest tracts arerin the White
mountains, where 31,022 acres in Car-
roll and Grafton counties, New Hamp-
shire, and 1,220 acres in Oxford coun-
ty, Maine, were approved for purchase
at an average price of $7.15 per acre.
These lands include the scenic peaks
of Mount Chocorua and Mount Pau-
gus, mueh visited by tourists and
made accessible by trails maintained
by the Chocorua club.
DIME NOVELS COMING BACK
In Eighteen Months “Nick Carter”
Has Had Sales That Have Been
Record Breaking.
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Nick Carter has come into his own |
again. The king of the “papgrbacks”
has made a record-breaking return to
popularity. About eighteen months
ago his sales began to mount steadily
until the entire supply of Nick Carter
books was exhausted, says the Sun.
His return to fame was unexpected.
It was not the result of an advertis-
ing campaign, for the publishers of
the paper-bound books do not adver-
tise. They depend instead for the
sale of their books on the lists printed
ir the back pages of each volume.
And Nick Carter was not the only
member of the “paperback” tribe to
return. All the old favorites—Laura
Jean Libbey, Bertha M. Clay, Mrs. E.
D. E. N. Southworth and Augusta J.
Evans—have “come back” surpris-
ingly.
Five years ago everyone was will-
ing to predict that the mowies had |
killed the production of cheap: books.
Thrills could be absorbed more quick-
ly from the screen than from the print-
ed page—and the price was the same.
Mrs. Wilson Saves Orphan.
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{ _ New York.—A check for $180 from
{ Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to shelter,
| feed, clothe and educate one of the
| many orphans picked up by the
| American committee for Armenian
{ and Syrian relief in the war-ravag-
ed lands of the Near East, was an-
{ nounced as having been received by
| the committee.
The child, a girl, for whom
“first lady of the land” thus will be-
come a lady bountiful, will be cared
for in one of the orphanages estab-
the |
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lished by the committee in what it.
calls “a dead land.” J
Where an orphan is in a building |
given rent free by the government or |
the community, or is living with rela- |
tives or receives rations from the |
British authorities, the cost of main- : ff
tenance is only $60. i
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Cheap Sympathy.
“Closeman lets his friends’ misfor-
tune touch him deeply, doesn’t he?”
“Yes; without letting his friends |
do the same thing, however.” |
Publishers of the paper books are
uncertain whether their old reading |
public has tired of the motion picture
or whether a new class of readers has
arisen.
though, the demand for the 10 and 15-
cent book has increased fourfold.
production these publishers would be
reaping the harvest of their lives.
Stories of American life—as seen by
Bertha M. Clay and other writers of |
detective stories are
Fortune-telling |
books and letter writers, also have a |
“Dream” books |
class—and
in demand.
her
most
large steady sale.
were never so popular as they are to-
day, their publishers say.
PETE HAD OBEYED ORDERS
Literal-Minded Soldier Came Near Get-
ting His Commanding Officer
Into a Bad Mess.
———,
There is a certain young officer who,
according to his own story, is thanking |
his stars that General Pershing had a |
sense of humor.
“Some of my men were Polish, and |
better soldiers never lived, but I guess
in Poland life has been one long, sad
story,” said the officer. “Anyway, I
pever ran across a bunch who took
things so literally. One night the Ger. |
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Of one thing they are certain, .
If
it were not for the increased cost of |
and winter.
house.
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mans sent out a three-inch shell that |
landed square in the trench.
In the !
morning I told one of my men, Pete,
we called him, to take it away.
“ ‘Where shall I take it? he asked.
kerosene.
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Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rayolight
“ ‘Oh, anywhere,” I answered peev-
ishly,
‘put it to bed in Pershing’s
tent.’ .
“A little later a brother officer came |
along and said: ‘The old man wants
you, and there's something doing.
“I couldn’t imagine what was up un-
til T stood before the chief. He eyed | #
me sternly and then pointed. to his
bunk, and would you believe it, there
was that blamed shell.
obeyed orders. Well, I thought I was
in for it, but Pershing suddenly Dbe-
gan to smile. He said: ‘I just want to
caution you not to order Pete to cap-
ture Berlin until the rest of us are
ready to go with him. He might go
and do it, you Kknow.’”—Rehoboth
Sunday Herald.
All That Affected Her.
That the Empress Eugenie is not
prone to brood sentimentally over the
past is evidenced by an incident that :
occurred some years ago. She visited
Windsor castle, a palace in which in
the golden days of the empire she was
received as an honored guest. Those
who accompanied her on this second
visit hovered near her, fearing that
she would be overcome with the con- |
trast between the past and the present, |
especially when she viewed the apart-
ments fitted up for her use and which |
had not been changed. But it was
merely her artistic sense that was of-
fended. The hangings of the ‘hugs:
bed were of imperial purple with the
green of Napoleon, and the ex-empress'
remarked disgustedly, “Toujours ces
affreux rideaux!” “Always those
frightful curtains.”
No Woman Passenger Pilots.
In England women will not be given
permission to serve as pilots on pas-
senger airplanes. An official of the
air ministry gave the reason for this
decision to a writér on the London
Sketch as “physical disability as well
as nerves,” declaring that women’s
nerves are much more likely to give
way than men’s.
“I think there are no women in this
country capable of passing the air
ministry's test. If one does succeed,
howewer, she will be permitted to fly |
her own private machine, but whether |
she will be allowed to take a friend
with her is a point that remains to be
decided.
“In any case women will be barred
as pilots of passenger-carrying ma- |
chines.”
A Senator's Lunch.
Being addressed by a smirking head
waiter as “Senator,” means nothing
to the gay life of Senator McCumber
of North Dakota.
Instead of dining at the senate res-
taurant, where senatorial dignity and
fitting white-dpron garbed waiters
Pete sure had |
A eG Ce ES TT 2 I SS
CE AE CT SUT J me A SR SS
Don’t light the furnace,
then open the windows
Of course you must have
warmth on cool autumn days.
But that’s no reason for lighting
the furnace in the morning and
then opening the windows at noon
to let the surplus heat out.
PERFECTION
OIL HEATERS
A Perfection Oil Heater bridges
the heating gaps between summer
Its radiant heat
quickly warms a room and you
can carry it to any part of the
It will save a full month’s supply
of coal during the fall and help
reduce the winter’s fuel bill as well.
: Smokeless, odorless and abso-
lutely safe. You can’t turn the
Your dealer will gladly show
you the various models. Don’t be
satisfied with
any heating de-
vicelessefficient,
less convenient
or less eco-
nomical than a
Perfection Oil
Heater.
HE best oil for
your Perfection
Oil Heater is At-
lantic Rayolight.
One gallon burns
for ten hours. Best
for Rayo Lamps
too. Costs no more
than ordinary
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fonte Trust Company #§
Bellefonte, Penna. ;
or more.
your receipt.
count.
January 1st, and July 1st.
vate business.
Trustee, etc.
SOME OF THE THINGS WE DO
CHECKING ACCOUNT
We will start a checking account for you with $5.00
Pay your bills with a check which will be
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
Bring in a $1.00 or more and open a Savings Ac-
Get a little Savings Bank for the children to
save their pennies. We pay 3% yearly, compounded
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT
We issue Certificates of Deposit at six months or
one year and pay 3% interest, per annum.
TRUST DEPARTMENT
In our Trust Department we will manage your pri-
Make your will and name the Belle-
fonte Trust Company to be your Executor, Guardian,
Consult us freely without expense.
President
J L.SPANGLER, C.T.GERBERICH, N.E.ROBB
Vice President
Secy-Treas
tions were true. Wild Cat promoters are very
busy now. Consult a reputable banker be-
fore investing. We have financial data con-
cerning all reputable securities. It is at your
service.
predominate, when night sessions pre- |
vent him from going home, the sena-
tor repairs to a nearby cafeteria, col-
lects tray, napkin, knife, fork, spoon
and other implements of table war-
fare, nestles his liver and bacon and
other seasonal delicacles on the tray,
walks over to a table and lays out
his spread.
$ The First National Bank.
61-46-1y
Consult Your Banker
Do not invest your money with strang-
ers, who offer fabulous profits. They would
not be after your money if their representa-
Bellefonte, Pa.
Yeager's
Shoe Store
Women’s Shoes for Corn Husking
After a lot of persuasion I succeeded in getting a manu-
facturer to make me a large consignment of Women’s and
Misses’ Heavy Shoes. They are designed for the farmer's
wife and daughter who have the pluck to help Dad get in the
Fall crops and do the Fall work. These shoes are just the
kind for the girls who must walk several miles to school, in
all kinds of weather and over all kinds of bad roads. The
average shoe made and sold today for this rough usage, will
not wear more than several days—half paper, other half poor
leather—and the first time they get a good soaking, away
they go. Every pair of these shoes is made of all solid
leather and guaranteed to give good wear.
Just a Word to the School Girls
These shoes are not quite as stylish as some, but they are
the kind your mother wore to school and, if you have a pic-
ture of vour mother on her wedding day. look at it and see
how sweet and healthy she looked. ‘That’s because she wore
the kind of shoes and clothes that gave her good health.
These shoes, as Harry Lauder would say, ‘‘Mind I'm tellin’
you,’ will put the bloom on your cheeks.
Price $6.00
Ask for “Good as Gold” Shoes
Free $1.50 Seli-Filling Fountain Pen with Each Pair Free
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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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yon &Co Lyon & Co.
Coats and ‘Suits
Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats and
Suits—Latest Styles; made of the Most
Demanded Fabrics. Prices unequaled.
Rugs and Linoleums
Tapestry, Velvet and Axmin-
ster Rugs, large and small sizes. These
were contracted for months ago, which
means you can buy these goods at less
than wholesale price today.
Linoleums Inlaid, and others, at prices that
are 20 to 40 per cent. less than today’s.
SHOES...SHOES
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes at
prices less than wholesale today.
Special Sale of Table Damask
We can sell Table Damask as low as 75c. per
yard. Have just opened a big line of
handsome patterns in satin stripes and
floral designs at prices that will sell them
quickly.
Lyon & Co. «« Lyon & Co.