Demorraiic Wada
Bellefonte, Pa., January 16, 1919.
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PETS BELOVED BY SAINTS
Dr. Douglas Hyde, in Series of Leo-
tures, Deals Interestingly With
Medieval Irish Lore.
Pr. Douglas Hyde recently delivered
a series of lectures—the Margaret
Stokes lectures—in the Alexandra col-
lege, Dublin, dealing with medieval
Irish lore. He told anecdotes about
the Irish saints and their love of birds
and beasts. He traced the love of ani-
mals by people in different periods
and in different countries. Even the
Irish pagans had their pet animals,
says Our Dumb Animals.
He took the three Irish saints, St.
Patrick, St. Brigid and St. Columcille,
and spoke of their affection for their
pet animals. St. Patrick’s kindness to
the fawn was well authenticated, and
the fawn returned the love to his mas-
ter.
St. Brigid had her pet dog, a most
faithful animal. She also loved birds,
and the birds, especially domestic
fowls, loved her in a remarkable man-
ner.
The crane was St. Columcille’s pet,
although his love for dumb animals
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| Bull Nolan!” he said to his pal. “Don’t
was recorded in the life of the saint
that dumb animals, too, were in love
with him, especially birds, and that
some of the latter followed him from
to “kiss ’em for a five.”
Ireland to the island of Iona. There
was, in proof of the love of animals
for the saint, the story of how the
horse wept on the bosom of the saint
the night before he died.
Dr. Hyde mentioned a large number
of other saints, Irish and Latin, about
whom he told stories, showing their
love for animals, making special refer- .
ence to St. Kevin, St. Comgall, St.
Molna, St. Moling, who had made
friends of wolves, foxes, partridges and
herons.
FELL TO ROOSEVELT’S SPEAR
Big Devilfish a Victim of the Colonel's
Love of Sport, Either on
Sea or Land.
The fame of the late Col. Theodore
Roosevelt as a big-game hunter is well
known, but he was equally as adept at
killing big fish of the sea, according to
Russell J. Coles, noted big-fish killer.
Attracted by one of Coles’ articles
about killing the devilish, the colonel
appealed to him for instruction in the
art. After taking several land lessons,
using a spear with which he saw an
African kill a lion, he finally became
expert, and Mr. Coles formed a party
to hunt the devilfish off the coast of
Florida, in Punta Gorda, March 25,
1917. There the colonel killed his first
devilish, hitting the huge creature,
which weighed many tons, just two
inches from the spot indicated on a
drawing by Coles, and driving the
spear two feet four inches through the
heaviest and boniest structure of the
fish. The colonel was standing on the
cab of a small boat traveling nine miles
an hour, and the fish was coming to-
ward the boat at the rate of 15 or 18
miles an homr, swimming about four
or six feet under water. Had the
colonel missed his aim the fish would
have been able, with one of its side
fins, to upset the boat and drown the
fishermen. An hour after his first
catch the colonel killed a second devil-
fish, which was the second largest
devilfish ever killed. Mr. Coles is a
scientist who has hunted devilfish for
more than 20 years.
Auberge du Pigeon.
Strasbourg, Fremch once more, is
unfolding, like a rose te the sun. The
TIMES “SURE HAD CHANGED”
Doughboys in France Hailed as Friend
Man Whom They Had, When
“Kids,” Feared Greatly.
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The story of how two doughboys
found their old enemy in France is
told by Mike Nolan, former police lieu-
tenant of New York city, who served
as a K. of C. secretary assigned to
the Sixteenth infantry, First division.
Nolan is fifty-two years old and put
in 23 years on the New York police
force. When he changed the blue uni-
form for khaki, he was in. charge of
the twenty-third precinct, the old Ten-
derloin.
On his breast is a victory ribbon
with two bronze major offensive stars
and three silver citation stars. He
has been recommended for the D. 8. C.
by the commanding officer of the Six-
teenth infantry.
He had wandered up to a ‘little
bunch” of doughboys who were “shoot-
ing craps,” and gave each of the boys
a pack of K. of C. cigarettes. The
game was an exciting one, and a sol-
dier who was about “to roll the ivor-
jes” looked up at him and asked him
Nolan did
so, and the dice turned up a two and
a three.
One of the unlucky boys who had
lost on the toss of the dice looked up
at Nolan and recognized him as an
old enemy.
“Holy cat! Look, it's Tenderloin
you remember, he’s de cop who used
to chase us from doorways for shoot-
ing craps when we was kids?”
“Shure,” said the lucky soldier, “and
he pulled us once for smoking butts.
And here he is shelling out packs of
real cigarettes and kisein’ de bones for
us. Damn'd if it ain’t right dat de
war changes de whole woild!” |
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INSIGNIA OF ANCIENT ORDER
That Now Worn by United States
Army Medical Officers Goes Back |
Four Thousand Years.
The caduceus, which was introduced
in 1902 by Col. John Van R. Hoff, M.
C., U. S. A, editor of the Military Sur-
geon, as part of the medical officers’
insignia, dates back 4,000 years, ac-:
' cording to F. H. Garrison, M. D,, U. S.
old life has begun again, as it was '
lived before the interruption im 1871.
Houses are throwing open their shut-
ters and hanging up once familiar
signs. One of them, the Pigeon inn,
one of the glories of Strasbourg with
its painted wood carvings, its old
windows and curious ship decorations,
has reopened its doors. It was built
in 1331 and began its career under the |
sign of “Au Pigeon.”
sign changed to “Au Pigeon Blanc”
and for two centuries the inn was the
rendezvous of the university students.
After 1870 the sign was taken down,
the Pigeon Blanc's hospitality ceased
and the house became the headquar-
ters of a Roman Catholic society. The
days of its ecclesiastical importance
are happily over. The inn becomes
the “Pigeon Blanc” once nore, open-
ing a new chapter of its long history
under true Alsatian management.—
Christian Science Monitor.
Rather Warm in tle Deepest Well.
The deepest well in the world is
six and one-half miles southeast of
Fairmont, W. Va., drilled by the Hope
Natural Gas company of Pittsburgh.
It is 7,570 feet deep. The well had to
be abandoned because the drilling
tools stuck in the drill hole, the cable
parted and left the tools and 4,000 feet
of cable in the hole.
C. E. Van Orstrand of the United
States geological survey, informs the
Scientific American that the tempera-
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Then later the |
ture at 7,000 feet was 172 degrees F.,
and the rate of increase was one de-
gree in 51 feet. At this rate the boil-
ing point would be reached at about
10,000 feet below the surface.
Didn’t Need More.
Lady Jane—“Have you given the
goldfish fresh water, Janet?”
Janet—‘“No, mum. They ain’t fin-
ished the water I give ’em t’other
day yet.”
A., writing in the Journal of the Amer- |
joan Medical Association. For a num- |
ber of reasons the serpent was always :
the symbol of medicine in antiquity.
The Babylonians’ caduceus, which as
the insignia shows today—two snakes
entwined with wings at the top of the
staff—occurs in Hittite remains. It
stands for an actual serpent god, Nin-
gishzida, who as the special messenger
of Ishtar, was the awakener of life in
the springtime, and the Mesopotamian
prototype of the Greek Hermes. The
Romans had a special functionary, the
caduceator, who was a sort of peace
commissioner, The caduceus was used
“on the title pages of books published
by the famous medical printer, Fro-
benius, in 1460 to 1527. The “wand of
Mercury,” as it is sometimes called,
was also carried by merchant traders
in anclent times, on excursions where
peaceful negotiations were desired and
they wanted to be known as neutrals.
Laber Troubles in China.
The $40 a month which the Chinese
coolls with his family drew from the
Chinese government during his period
of enlistment in the army is the basis
for the labor disturbance which is
rocking China at the present time,
says C. C. Thompson of Shanghal in
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mr.
Thompson explains that prior to the
war the average coolie made a menth-
ly wage of $12 to $38, while having
become accustomed to the new stand:
ards of living made possible by ‘ the
$40 allotment he declines now to re-
tura to the old basis. Even household
domestics have become affected bY |
the new unrest and are demanding
more money, he says. Recently be-
cause of the unsettled conditions there
was a strike of dockworkers in Chi-
nese ports which held up all trans
Pacific trafic for a considerable time,
Mr, Thompsoz states.
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Owes All to Uncle Sam.
Building upon his past experience as
an employee in a shoe factory, the
federal board for vocational education
placed a young chap of 24, who was
disabled at Soissons, in a shoe manu-
facturing plant for training. His left
hand and arm were severely injured
by a high-explosive shell, but he finds
he can carry on, in spite of the handi-
cap, and is fast becoming am expert
shoe cutter. The management, finding
his service valuable, are paying him
$1 a day—this, of course, in addition
to his training pay, which comes from |
the board. He is enthusiastic and
writes: “This training is great stuff. |
Everything is going fine. * * * I
wouldn't have been able to do any. |
thing if the government hadn’t given
me this chance.” |
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Movies Set Distance Record.
Two moving picture records were |
broken recently, according to the Pop- |
ular Mechanics Magazine, at the cen-
tenary celebration of the Methodist
church in Columbus, O. An ordinary
projecting machine, equipped with a
special lens, a rapid shutter, and a
150-ampere light, was used to throw
pictures 100 by 75 feet, on a screen
850 feet away from the machine. The
light employed was three times the
strength of those commonly used. It
generated so much heat that it was
necessary to operate the cinemato-
graph at great speed to prevent -burn-
ing the film. The screen on which the
pictures were thrown was 115 feet
square. :
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WORK OF PLANT INVENTOR
His Skill Produces Variations That
Nature Would Require Thousands
of Years to Accomplish.
With a watch glass and a fine cam-
el’s-hair brush the plant inventor per-
forms miracles, He causes more
changes in six generations than Nature,
unaided, would produce in 100,000
years. Two plants may be growing
in his garden, native of countries sep-
arated by continents. Their struc-
tures, habits, hereditary tendencies
and identities have been preserved
through thousands of years. The
plant inventor takes the pollen from
one, transfers it to his watch glass,
carries it to the other, and frem the
glass transforms it to the bloom. The
resultant seed is sown. The new
plants may resemble one plant or the
other, or they may be like neither,
or they may be the veriest monstrosi-
ties. There are thousands of disap-
pointments for one success in the
work.
Luther Burbank chose one seeding
out of 65,000 when he invented the
primusberry. The rest were remorse-
lessly destroyed. The new primus-
berry is a cross between the raspberry
and the blackberry, but has a fruit
much larger and finer than either. Mr.
Burbank has produced 300,000 vari-
eties of plums, 60,000 peaches and nec-
tarines, 500 almonds, 5,000 walnuts,
3,000 apples, 2,000 grapes, 2,000 pears
and thousands of different kinds of
berries, flowers and vegetables in
equal profusion.
WEALTH IN BAMBOO GROVES
Their Cultivation in the Southern
States Is Expected Soon to Be
a Recognized Procedure.
One thinks more readily of an Amer-
fecan farm with a wood lot than of one
with a bamboo grove, but bamboo
groves may yet become common in the
southern states, if the idea of “Iin-
struct the farmer” in the desirability
of planting them makes reasonable
progress. It will be a new idea to the
farmer, and he will have to think it
over. Meantime the country has one
important bamboo grove flourishing in
the state of Georgia, where it stands
in the custody of the United States
department of agriculture, to serve as
an object lesson. The young bamboo
shoots provide an early spring vege-
table, said to have a flavor much like
that of sweet corn, and the stalks
have a wide range of uses which
should make a bamboo grove profit-
able. It is worth the farmer's consid-
eration, for example, that millions of
small canes are yearly imported from
Japan, and fishing rods made out of
them, for which the United States pays
annually about $5,000,000.
Hard to Account for Figures.
Statistics have recently been pub-
lished in Germany which are so strik-
ing that the Medical Record’s Geneva
(Switzerland) correspondent says
they “need confirmation.” It is stated
that fer every 1,000 boys born in the
later years of the war, 1,086 girls have
been born. Before the war the ratio
was 1,000 boys to 1,024 girls. “Noth-
ing,” writes the eorrespondent, “is
known with certainty as to the con-
ditions that determine sex in the hu-
man species, but there is quite a large
amount of evidence in support of the
generalization that during wars and
famines, when the conditions are gen-
erally adverse, especially with regard
to nutrition, the proportion of male
relative to female births increases. If
there is any foundation for this gen-
eralization, then we must conclude
either that the figures are wrong or
that Germany was mighty well nour-
ished during the war, or else that some
entirely aberrant influence was at
wor y .
Keran Breught Up te Date.
It is not surprising that moat of the
Arab population should be illMterate
since the language used in writing and
printing is literary Arabie, the very
same in which the Koran was com-
posed 12 centuries ago. It has been
| preserved intact, while the spoken
tongue has gradually changed, as
spoken tongues will. Literary Arabic
today is about as much like the an-
cient language as Latin is like French.
Ninety per cent of the people do not
understand the language in which
the books are written.
An interesting experiment has been
begun by Rev. Percy Smith, a mis-
slonary in North Africa, who is trans-
lating the Bible and the hymns of the
church into the ordinary speech of
the people, instead of in literary
Arabic.—Christian Herald.
New Power ls Wanted.
In the field of research in connec-
tion with automobile underwater tor-
pedoes, there needs to be developed a
new source of power, said Rear Ad-
miral Ralph Earle, U. 8. N,, chief of
the burean of ordnance, at a recent
meeting of the American Chemical so-
The present source is com-
pressed air and the new source must
be of greater potential per unit vol-
ume and weight and be nearly as safe
to handle and store on board ship.
Oxygen has been proposed but is too
dangerous to handle. :
Quite Henglish, This.
“Hout!” cried the umpire as the
wicket keeper made a catch.
“Look 'ere,” protested the batsman,
“it wasn’t off my bat, it was off my
ead.”
“Oh!” said the umpire. “My mis
take. I’eard the bail ’it wood and I sup
posed it was off the bat.”—Bostor
‘Evening Transcript.
GOT INSPIRATION AT PIANO
Immortal Melodies Evolved by Masters
While Their Fingers “Wandered
Idly Over the Keys.”
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A story is told of Mendelssohn to
the effect that the charming arpeggio
figure in the Spring song of his “Song
Without Words,” came to him on a
day when he played with his children
at the piano, and allowed them to
catch his hands, as they wandered
over the keys; and it is a fact that
many of our most beautiful musical
productions owe their origin to extem-
porizing on the piano.
This is not to be wondered at for
many of our greatest musicians have
poured out their hearts deepest feel-
ings as their fingers have flitted, in a
desultory fashion, over the keys, pro-
ducing corresponding notes and chords
to their ever-changing moods; finding
at the keyboard a vent for their in-
most thoughts and desires, often meet-
ing with that triumphant response that
time can never diminish.
We can see in the works of Chopin
and Schumann a proof that in the
piano is the origin of many of their
most beautiful productions, while in
the great symphonies of the old mas-
ters their shape, form, and color have
been gained at the piano where their
fingers “wandered idly over the noisy
keys.”
Thies is not so hard to understand
when we consider that the method of
composing a melody is, in essence, but
the picking out and assimilating some
melodic tune to which the harmony is
afterward added. From this primitive
{nstinet is ultimately produced the im-
mortal tone pictures of the great mu-
sicians.
FISH LIAR WORKS OVERTIME
Here Is One Concerning a Salt Her-
ring That Is Challenge to the
Imaginative.
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That is the worst of those fish sto-
ries. Somebody always comes along
with a better one.
Recently the Evening News told the
V. A. Ds story of the frozen fish that
came to life in the cooking pot. Then
a correspondent—a naval officer, it
should be said—easily puts that to
shame. ’
“An interesting experiment was
tried some little time ago,” he writes
to us, “with an ordinary herring.
“The fish was put into a large bowl
of salt water and every day a small
quantity of water was removed and
an equal quantity of ‘fresh’ was sub-
stituted, until eventually the fish lived
and thrived in purely fresh water.
“The owner was so pleased with the
success of his experiment that he then
tried removing a very small quantity
of water daily until the bowl was
empty, and found that the herring did
excellently, entirely without water,
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and as he was so lively in the empty
bowl he had to put him in a cage.
“Here he lived happily, hopping |
from perch to perch just like a bird,
until one day some sudden noise star-
tled him and he fell into his water
trough and—was drowned!”
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Words and Music.
The value of words is going up, at
least in Rouen. There the courts
have decided that the artistic values
of the words and music of a poem are
equal. At present in the United
States and Canada the writer of the
words of a song gets only a pittance
of the royalties or a small sum out-
right at the start. In England many
of the most popular ballads have
brought their writers no more than
two or three guineas, while the com-
poser goes on cashing his royalty
checks for years. What measure pub-
lishers apply to the two arts thus |
combined to make words so much less
valuable than music is rather hard te
understand. Verse writers might well
send a little gold medal to the just-
minded citizens of Rouen who have
ruled it a false one.
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Unusual Methods Used.
With the end of the war have eeme |
many revelations of the unusual meth-
ods used by the Germans to spread
their harmful propaganda in the coun-
tries arrayed against the central pow-
ers, and of the clever work which
often frustrated their well-laid plans.
In one case, mentioned in Popular Me-
chanics Magazine, what appeared to
be an old and worn copy of the works
of Homer proved to be a volume of
attacks on British rule in India. Only
the first few pages of the book were
printed withthe words of the ancient
poet. The remainder, though in Greek
type like the beginning, was filled with
the diatribe. The volume was ad-
dressed to an educated Hindu capable
of translating the Greek into an In-
dian dialect.
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< Costly Parking Space.
Tired of being taken into court by
traffic policemen, because at the time
he goes to business his car has to be
parked in the street, as day storage is
at a premium and access to a pub-
lic garage at those hours is difficult,
Philip Rosenbach, art connoisseur of
Philadelphia, has just paid $16,000 for
a stable property which he will con-
vert into a private garuge for himself.
It is near his place of business.
Babies More Plentiful Than Houses.
“It is easier to find a baby than a
house in Sydney now,” reports the
Bulletin of that Australian city, con-
tinuing thusly: “Writer knows a
young bride who went to live with her
mother pending the dscovery of a
suitable residence. She has two in-
fants now and is still living. with her
mother.” ; i
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cluding black, at Clearance sale prices.
Furs
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price. Collarettes—large, medium and
small. B8 Neckpieces in black, taupe and 5
brown. Muffs to match. rife
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